Show GOLDFIELD BUILDING TIED UP BY STRIKE I GOLDFIELD Aug 23 BuIlding Building operations operations opera opera- In Goldfield ceased at 5 o'clock last Tuesday afternoon after the master builders notified their employees that their services were no longer needed The lockout Is the direct result of the strike of the plumbers who walked out last week when they made a demand for an increase In wages from 8 to 9 for eight hours' hours work worl worland and It was refused The employers employers em em- emI I and master builders appealed to the Trades d Council U to order the plumbers I rg f Eb back to work o but the central t body de declined de- de dined to Interfere te The building di c contractors contractors con con- tractors then held a c conference r with fth the owners of buildings under construction It was decided ed that to grant the demands of or pay of plumbers who recently secured a false taise In wages would be simply an Invitation to the building trades to de demand demand de de- mand an Increase In wages Work therefore there fore was suspended |