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Show I OF LOS I ANGELES I LOS ANGELES, May 2. That 200 more union carpenters of this city walked out today because their em-ployiers em-ployiers would not grant their demand de-mand for a uniform wage of $4 a day, making the total number who have quit work In the last two days 700, was the declaration of the union labor leadors, who have charge of the strlko campaign for the men. J. A. Gray, general organizer of the i carpenters, "said that there probably would be more carpenters quitting work for the same reason, 9aylng that thoy all did not go out at tho same time because of a misunderstanding as to the day when the walkout was H to begin. He declared that non-union H 1 men also are quitting their work and H ' that since the walkout began forty H new members have been taken Into H l tho carpenters' union. The men are H ' receiving strike benefits. H Small Contractors Busy. H Joseph T. Campbell, secretary of H tho Builders' Exchange, viewed the H strike optimistically and said that the H small contractors havo all tho carpen- H ( tors at work that they need and that H there were no calls whatever from tho H employers for workmen today. On H tho contrary, he asserted many men M are applying for work, among them H being union men who are anxious to M be employed, but who will not work M , for any contractor who does not pay M I all of his men $4 a day. Campbell declared that many of the union men H alleged to have walked out really M have been let out by the contractors m in anticipation of tho strike. M Bakers May Not Strike. H The union bakers, who asked for HV a nine-hour day, and sanitary bake Hj I shops were quiet today, preferring to M wait for developments beforo taking H, stringent means to try to enforce Hl their requests. D. C. Shields, secre- Hj! tary of tho bakers' union here, said Hi ' that all of the twenty Bmall bakeries HIL I already using the union label have M 1 j agreed" to the new demands and that Hj i five of the remaining fourteen of tho 1 I larger shops have to do the same. Hjj According to F. J. Zeehandelaar, H j secretary of the Merchants and Man- Hj j ifacturers' association, Uie bakers are H signing up the smaller shops first to H make ajnumerical showing, but ho H said that the employers, who control H fully 75 per cent of the output have H not signed the agreement. |