Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-05-18 | Page 2 | Seven Thousand Announce Strike

SEVCNTlIOUSnND flNKOUKCE STRIKE Pcinters end Pcperhcntj-crs Pcperhcntj-crs of Uti Ycrk to Go Out oa'Mcnfcy. NKW YORBC May 18. 8even thousand painters ana paper-hangers will. It is announced, an-nounced, strike on . Monday, - tying up work of this kind t to New York : City. The strike was ordered last night at a meeting of ths Greater New York Council Coun-cil of the Brotherhod of Painters. The strike. It Is said, grows out of the decision by Charles Stewart Smith, former for-mer president of the Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, 'who waa named to pass upon the demands of the painters, referred to him as an umpire. These demands were mads upon the Master Painters, Interior Decorators and Cabinet-Makers' association.. associa-tion.. Ths plain painters were making &60 a day, and the decorative painters Thev asked an increase of 60 cents a da each. - . ' , Mr. Smith made an award reducing the wages of the decorative painters to those of the plain painters. The matter of paper-hangers' wages was also Involved. His award did not change this scale