St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-21
ABOUT STONECUTTERs.
The Strikes, Hours amt Wages in the
Local Trade.

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The Stonecutters' strike on the court
house job has remained the same since
Thursday. On that day Mr. O'Brien agreed
TO pay all nnion men 35 cents an hour and
work eight hours, but the union insist that
he shall not employ nOn-union men and
settlement hangs ON this point. The union
has the united encouragement and support
of the Minneapolis union. the
st. Paul Trades assembly and
Sricklayers' union as well as other 0rgani-
zatons. and is going to make determined
effort to carry its point. The union men
working in Mr.. Breen'S quarry Mt kasota
nave struck an account OF the trouble here.
and will organize uuion. A boycott OF
The stone from Mr.. Breen'S QuarieS looms
up as future possibility, and as his stone
goes in the rough 10 many points, and in
The event of boycott no union men will
work it, il would be turning on the screws.
All the labor organizations hope that an
amicable adjustment of the difficulties may
be reached before long.
IN OTHER YARDS.
A tour of the four other yards working in
the city was recently made by a GLOBE re-
porter with view of learning the situation
and feeling in them. The proprietors of
out two yards We're seen.
Miller ~ Rau are working eight hours
and paying 80 cents to good meu.
O'Halloran'S yard is idle. owing to the
recent strike. This yard has not been
Scabbed as recently stated, though the men
are on a strike for 50 cents.
w. Ii. Ulmer of Ulmer & Smith. was
interviewed. Mr.. Ulmer said: 1--WE are
working twenty men, and don't know
whether they belong to the union or not. l
guess some of them do. We are working
eight hours and are paying 30 cents. which
we have paid winter and summer for three
years. We pay the same i'm winter as we
do in summer. If man works for us all
summer, and stays by us. we stay by him.
1t makes no difference to us whether the
men work eight hours at % cents, or ten
hours al the same price. They do as they
please about that 1t makes little differ
2nce to a contractor what wages are paid,
Tor he figures on his contracts accordingly"
ANOTHER UNION ORGANIZED.
The StOneCutterS' union gave the follow
ing statement TO the GLOBE last evening
Tor publica lion:
a committee from the st. Paul Stonecut-
ters' association and one from the Minue-
apOliS StOuecutterS association visited kosOta
,o-day and organized "a stonecutters' union in
that place. The cause that has led TO this
action which the committees from st. Paul
and Minneapolis unions have taken was on
account or the injury that has been done to
them in the past while koSCta has
been working without any fixed principles
Of trades unonism and especially on
account Of the strike that is now
existing in St. Paul. For, while the stone
cutters were working for Mr.. Breen in Ka-
-ota, it was an injury done to the stonecut-
ers who are now out on a strike in st. Paul.
All the men working for Mr.. Breen were re-
Iuested TO quit work, which they did to-day
1T noon. After the committees secured a hall
ana called n meeting. Officers were elected
| and permanent union established in that
! place. The stolecutters there will make the
same demand as the 81. Paul stOuecutters
| nave made and will not commence
| work till everything is satisfactorily
| errayed on the court house here in st. Paul.
| Mr.. Breen MADE the boast some time ago that
! ne would spend $4,000 to break the st. Paul
~tonecutters' as .ociation. He will now have
a chance TO spend his loose change, and he
,hould consider the folly of such Il course,
! Tor there is no certainty that $4,000, nay
| $4,000, can break the stonecutters' asSocia-
| ion of st. Paul. He may run the risk. per-
laps. of losing his whole purse in n vain at
Tempt to accomplish what is an utter impos-
! Sibility for him TO do. THOMAS WARD.
GEORGE SMITHERs,
X. POLLOCK,
Con DE WAN,
j. HENNESSY,
| C. HOGAN.