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Show BUILDING TRADE MEN QUIT AS PAY IS CUT SANTA BARBARA, Cal.. March 2 .Men employed In nine building Ir. - here remained away from work yes i terday after refusing a lower wage pale promulgated by the Bants Bar- bara County Employers' association j It was estlmat -d by employers that i Irom 500 to 600 men were affected The new scale which became effec tive Monday marked a cut of $1 a day in wages of all building cratiamen ex cepl carpenterSi stone masons and painters, Wages of carpenters and slone masons were not affected 'Those of painters were cut J2 a dR' I Carpenters uid stone masons, accord I ing to both employers and ropresenta ! lives of labor unions were the only srafts represented in the local build Ins trades council not "observing a holiday." OMAHA. Neb, March 2 In what Is ml to be a final attempt to solve the building situation in Omaha, mem ben oi the Omahfl Builders' exchange will be called lor a meeting "within len days." according to an announce I meut made at the annual banquet of tno exchange. The membors were admonished to "come wltlr their bacKj sUffened for action" and It was Inti mated that the spirit of the exchange is to break from "the grip of organ iied labor." Two hundred promtnen! employers of labor attended the bin quet. |