Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 7 | Ecavators to Go on Strike

oo IB EXCAVATORS 10 I GO ON STRIKE I New York, July 29. Forty-eight IMm hours before the time fixed for tho H formal beginning of the excavation Ml work on Mew York's subways, fresh f difficulties arose todav with tho an- IH nouncement that 15,000 members of li tho excavators' union employed on I i subways and waterworks would walk I'fl out on August 1 unless their demand lH for 22 cents per hour was granted. kH The question of a wage scale for V jl the excavators has been in dispute for 1 more than a year, and it Is thought that tho members of the union have H been holding the matter in abeyance H until the new subway work was about BH to begin.