The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-09-21
The Other Side.


DEAR STR Having printed one ~iie Of
the affair Of O'Donahue "a. Orleans | trust for
the sake Of the workingmens stone cutters
interest. that you VIII also rnni m, slde Of
the affair So that both parties shall have Jus
tice through Your columns
l ! vii here make full statement ~ the
affair. and would De- very much obliged a.
you # you Was kind enough t. invite . n,no-
hue and all the witnesses he can possibly get
H. come t. Your residence land should do
the same. II YOU are Kind enough &" rccciV.
u.s. for my part, am willing 1" leave you
I Judge Of our miserable trouble And a you
should Judge / am guilty, well then slAnier
me as much as you choose. but the pther
me Justice This is all | am alter. ana the
above to be we'll understood for ~, benefit #
the workingmen's ~tone-cutters Association
On the 9Th Of August last. | was uneI
ceptionslly busy | had shipped about -
loads Of cut stone during that day t. thu
Sherman House The laborers were about T.
\ % home, when | stated 10 them how W, were
y liked for the day after, unless should 90
to work while the sun vas down. 50 as to be
better off the day after when the sun would
be up. 10 this the laborers we're glad. tot
course provided lunch for them. and every
one was happy Now comes the question g,
| | had TO get 3 or 4 stone-cutters TO split the
! stone 50 it would not be So heavy for the
laborers to lift on the banker The above
stone-cutlers | did not ask e. cut stone
whatever / asked one Of them who was a
good member foI % years asked HIM # We
could. according to the rules of the assocIa-
tIon split stone after O'Clock. for II not
| had to discharge 30 or 40 men the day after
for the want Of stone. because nothing would
be ready for the men IN tine morning The
ansW er Of the above man wt> that We were all
right, as long as We was not doing any other
work but splitting or quarrying. Put, says
he, let Us make sure hy asking a membei
here that has been Vice President during two
wears, he ought to know ~ We went 70 hun.
Ia, answer was .'bt course W can quarry
stone but we cannot cut It. run any moulding
nor draft. tut we can quarry II Well, not
yet satisfied OF that, We went I" the shu, ami
found the representative Of the ASSOCIATION m
the yard and asked him His answer was that
he did not know consequently could not ans
wer
Now Mr. Cameron, would YOU believe fnr
one moment that men Who went To- the trouble
AZ ~ Lintg u, Y,t1..l p,tItr,- ,,.r,r .,- ,,-r,
for the association 10 Slr These men Wrre
under the impression they were doing night,
ur else they would had rather have then
necks twisted hall a dozen Tunes rather than
violate the rules al the ASSOCIATION While
they we're at work. which they lid during
one hour under exceptional circumstances for
such IS not a practice ~ the yard the presi-
dent UDonOhue. came IA. and without tell
ing the men a single word about beng wrong,
simply asked their names | stepped for
ward and told INN that We could not help
ourselves Tor that evening, and hoped it was
all right, as this was no, practice | told
ann my name was hlrles Orleans ms answer
t. me was that he hal nothing u a. With me.
that bosses could 10 as they WISHED. hut tie
men could not He then walked away. with.
out saying to the men single word about
either stopping or continuing to work
The first thing knew Of it next morning
the men were stopped from working until
they were Judged by the ASSOCIATION. To that
effect they got the signatures Of Is good
#
meantime doins r.ithmg for Ice President,
o Donohue, hal stopped them from working.
All at once he came IN the yard | saw him
went to him saying "ODonohue. You are
Just the man | wanted to see saws he.
what Is it ri | sand to him. You have
stopped these men from working, I'd like Of
You to let them 70 to work, they are family
men, and whatever the association decides
against them, III 60 their securities. So as to
see that the association Is paid anyhow ="
To TINS he answered by telling me that
should know better than that, that those men
were internal scabs, &c. To the above abuse
OF the men, ] told him he had no right to do
any such thing pr call them any such names,
for the simple reason there was no judgement
against them, consequently he was wrong to
call them such Irtil they lie Judged to he
such. At this ", became very excited. and
ordered the bill poster not to notify the ward
to call meeting for those men, that first
they should Tay $1,000 for hearing Then
says to him, because you are mad at me.
you revenge yourself upon family men thai
are absent You, the President of the Stone.
cutters Association. you ought to he man
OF common serse. ard instead Of that Won
make a fool of yourself At this he became
so excited that he threatened to fix me. To
that effect told him squarely, as long as YOU
talk about hNng YOU are not going to scare
anybody around here. He walked off with
out saying a single word that | know Of. and
that same evening the association, without
any statement whatever of the mems, con
demne'N them to pay SO first for hear
ing the night after. To this the men complied
forcibly q course, because they could not
DO anything till that was paid The next
night they had hearing and we're tined
5000, together with two days lost at 50 90
per day, and SO % for hearing, made them
lose or pay $4,000 For what, you may ask !!
For nothing. I'll answer in the name Of Justice
because those men, when committing them
selyes-if ever they did-done it under the
impression they were doing right, SO as to
prevent the men from being discharged, as
stated before
Vow then came my question. O'Donohue
| on the morning nrevinns had cnms ~ nv