Carpenters Plan Strike for Shorter Hours
Local woodworkers demand a nine-hour workday without a reduction in pay.
It is stated that today the members of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners will go on a strike should the employers decline to accede to their terms, which in effect means that the men call for the same pay for a day's work of nine hours duration as they previously have been receiving for a day of ten hours. The strike will represent about fifty carpenters and joiners, but about a dozen who do not belong to the Brotherhood will continue at the present rates—$3.50 for a skilled mechanic.
“the men call for the same pay for a day's work of nine hours duration as they previously have been receiving for a day of ten hours.”
The transition from the ten-hour day to the eight or nine-hour day was a defining struggle of the late 19th-century labor movement, echoing today's modern debates over worker scheduling, gig economy instability, and the definition of a standard workweek.
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