Just a little misunderstanding that resulted in a two-hours’ strike of the painters and paper hangers on the Hotel Charlotte job Thursday at noon, was soon settled and the work resumed. The contractor having the painting, paperhanging and the decorating is a Baltimore concern, The H. Chambers Company, and there is an arrangement existing between union painters and contractors that a contractor of one city must pay the scale prevailing at the contractor’s home city providing the scale in that city is lower than that of the contractors city.
The scale for painters in Baltimore is higher than that in Charlotte. The men working on the Hotel Charlotte job asked The Chambers Company to make the Charlotte pay equal to that of Baltimore, according to the regular rules. There was some little hitch about bringing the matter to a close, so the painters on the hotel job stopped work until the matter could be adjusted. It was adjusted within two hours, the company agreeing to pay the same as paid in Baltimore.
Officials of the company here and the men employed work in harmony, and there was no ill feelings at all during the short cessation of work.
Everything is o.k. now, and just another chapter is added to the already million and one reasons why all workers ought tot be in an organization of their fellows.
From the front page of The Charlotte Herald, Friday, Jan. 11, 1924
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