Brick Mason Strike - 1934
From the State Note, Friday, July 13, 1934
The ten day strike of bricklayers and masons working on the PWA-Delaware Grave School addition at Delmar ended Wednesday when Phillip Lange Inc, Audubon, N. J. contractors for the $100,000 job, announced that no further concessions would be granted strikers and that they forced to "either work or quit."
The strike occurred when the bricklayers, members of the Delaware fusion, wanted $1.25 per hour, 30-hour week, as contrasted with of the $1.00 offered.
The U. S. Government Board of labor Appeals, siding with the contractors, who had adopted a decrease of wages through the terms of the contract, and according to PWA wages suggested a compromise of $1.15. This was effected, but the strikers refused to payment.
Yesterday Lang went to Salisbury and hired eight bricklayers at his rate.
"We do not wish to keep out Delaware labor." said Mr. Lange, "but this business must go on, and if Delaware masons will not work with us at our command's scheduled wages, then we are going outside."
Today fifteen men were working on the edifice, laying bricks, with the strike apparently settled.
