Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-15
THE sToNE-cuTEERs' CASE
special neetisg OF tho Grounds ana
Buildings Commifte TO Consider NJ.

/ The Committee 90 Grounds and Buildings
met In the City Engineers o0lce at $50
1 O'Clock yesterday evening. Present: Messrs.
/ Philips (shMrman), Higgins, Crensnaw, and
/ Snead.
\ Dispatch reporter asked admission 10
/ the meeting, but was refused.
! A committee from the Granite. Cutters
4 Union, beaded by Mr.. George Gordon, were
! present in the adjoining room, and sent in to
/ the committee a resolution passed by their
! union Saturday night.
The reporters OF the press were not allow
/ cd 10 see this document, but II Is understood
/ 10 be OF a conservative character. asking the
/ committee 10 Iescind their order requiring
/ the discharge from the City~Hall building Of
all employees who are not In sympathy with
/ the Democratic party.
! A member Of the committee Informed the
/ Dispatch man that the resolution was not
I cot sidered, as Messrs. CreDsbaw and SDeAd
/ had 10 leave 10 attend a meeting of the Board
/ OF Aldermen, and o special meeting Of the
committee was called for Friday evening at
1 2:30 O'Clock.
| In the event that the committee does not
| rescind It's order The Board OF Aldermen
| and Common Council will be Appealed to
/ by the union. What course will be rur-
/ sued II they find no relief from this source
| 10 member OF the order would last night
/ venture TO say further than that eaiied
meeting Of the union win have 70 deter
/ mine.
! The stone-cutters were all at work on the
/ City Hall Yesterday. and though some people
/ fear strike, II is not likely 10 occur, II al
| all. before their resolution Is considered by
/ the committee.
WHAT THEY PROPOSE.
The members OF the union, a. rule. are
] 4 ftaU
| viii pursue IN the event that they cannot
! ind relief at the hands OF the City Council.
/ Nearly all OF them seem disinclned 10 eX-
/ press sn opinion. They say that a conference
! OF iheIr members will have 10 be held before
any definite plan OF action Is decided upon.
Mr. JObn A. Haley, the secretary OF the
union, said Yesterday I'm speaking OF the mat
/ ter. that when a Library building is erected
I in Washington the stone-cutterS Of Richmond
] will want 10 get portion OF the work, and
( The next Administration VIII be RepuOllcan,
and II this order is enforced be Is AFRAID
none % the WORK will be given
! workmen here. He SAID when The
1 War Department aud other Government
| buildings were erected they we're built prin-
| cipally oi James river granite, and great
/ deal OF money was thus brought here.
/ Men belonging 10 both political parties
were employed In the work, and such
/ thing as inquiring into the politics
/ OF the workmen was not intimatcd.
WHERE IS DICK?
When inquiry was made last week as to the
/ politics OF the col0rcd brick "t0ters" all but
| one owned allegiance 10 the Republican
/ party aud accepted dismissal. The one ex.
/ ception was man called Dick, who claimed
/ to be a Democrat. lie was Informed that be
I could keep his place and yesterday he came
/ down TO the building as usual, but when the
/ whistle blew for all hands to start to
work he was not in place. nor did
he reHppear during the day. 1t is
suspected that the race.pressure has
/ been brought to bear upon him, and that
rather than incur the hostility and persecu-
tions Of his people be has abandoned bis
/ position.
White men filed all the places Of the negro
/ brick.csrrlers Yesterday morning, and for
! raw hands did very well indeed. They will
soon learn The work Here's where the
sicam.hol.ter helps: II raises bricks by the
carl.lO from the ground 10 the top row OF
ioists, and the carriers then have only to
take the bricks from The dump and distribute
them among the masOns.