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Show FIFTY- TEOOS Ai LI AY : ; ' 60 ON STRIKE -FRIDAY Prcspccts for TrouMc With Italian Subway Laborers r In Greater Hew York. NEW YORK, April 29. Unless the contractors surrender before Friday morning, fifty thousand laborers employed on the subway and In the excavations excava-tions for buildings in Greater New York will lay down their picks and shovels. At a meeting of the Contractors' Protective association last night no decision was reached and it . was said that another meeting would not be held before .May 1st, the limit of time set by the workmen for an answer to their ultimatum. More than 95 per cent of the men employed are Italians and few of them can speak English. The laborers demand a uniform pay for all workmen. They receive at present from $1.60 to $2.50 a day, according to their skill and the location of the work, the higher sum being paid for work In the lower part of Manhattan. The men demand $2 a day for earthwork and $2.50 a day for rockwork.' |