The morning call., 1890-04-04
THE ROCKLIN STRIKE
Signs Of Weakening Among the
Quarry-OWnerS.
Two Of the Bosses ACG9de to the Demand
for Nine Hours Work.
Non Union Men Employed by Taylor Quit
WOrk-ImpOrtant Contracts That
Must Be Filled
Special by the California Associated Press.

RocKLIN, April Son Tuesday, April
1st, the quarrymen's union, which COM
prises, with but few exceptions, all the men
engaged in quarryng granite in the towns
of Lincoln, Penryn, LOomis and Rocklin,
gave notice to the different quarrymen that
unless their demand for nine hours work
and the same wages they had been getting
for ten hours work was acceded to gen.
eral strike would be ordered This, with
but one exception, was refused, and the
men quit work. About 500 men are thus
thrown out of employment. The whole
community is in sympathy with the strik-
ers, and there is no doubt but that they will
succeed.
Thomas Quinn gave his men nine hours
Wednesday, and to-day Sam Kin ia has also
given in. All but one quarry in Lincoln
have acceded to the demands of the men.
and it is reported in town tonight that sew
eral of the largest quarries here are about
to come in line.
AT meeting of the Stone-cutterS' Union
held Tuesday night it was decided to up
hold the quarrymen, and after using up
what rock that has been quarried to cut no
more rock quarried by scabs. AS the
Stone-cutters' Union is one of the most
powerful in the country, it is almost impos-
sibe for the bosses to stand off the quarry
men very long.
The strike is being conducted In a quiet
and orderly way. Enthusiastic meetings
are being held daily in Lombard's Hall,
where speeches are made by members
whose oratorical powers would shame
great many of the State officers who make
themselves heard during a session Of the
Legislature at the State capital
SACRAMENTO. April ga special dis
patcn to the Bee says the quarry
have heavy contracts on hand and cannot
afford TO wait serenely for solution OF the
strike.
a number of men employed in the quarry
of John Taylor do not belong to the union
and kept at work after the strike had been
ordered. Yesterday, however, they were
| waited upon by committee of the strikers
with an intimatiOn that If they valued their
pers onal safety they would stop work with
out delay. They quit at once.
One of the bosses said last evening that
he had no objection to allowing nine hours
| for days work provided the rule were
made general in all the quarries of the
| State.
A large quantity of granite taken out at
Rocklin is finished in San Francisco, but it
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not handle stone quarried by non-uniOn
| quarrymen.
The Phillips quarry has heavy contract
with the Government for a dock at Mare
Island. The Brady quarry was at work
when the strike came on a $4,000 job for
the Hibernia Bank Building in San Fran
cisco. John Taylor was working on stone
| for the Croker mausOleum. and expected
soon to get orders for a big job for the
great Croker building to be erected at the
Junction of Post, Montgomery and Market
streets in San Francisco.
The Phillips quarry is the only one Of the
eleven in this vicinity now working, and in
that there are but eleven out of thirty men
remaining. Two new men went to work
| there yesterday and were not disturbed. 1t
| must not be supposed however, that any
! general effort to displace the strikers can be
carried without protest, or, perhaps, serious
| trouble.
FOLSOM, April 3-The quarrymen of this
place are in full sympathy with the striking
| quarrymen at Rocklin.
Colonel Cummings of the Folsom Granite
| Company pays his men 81 90 per day for
| nine hours work. though the men work ten
hours per day but receive pay for one and
| one-ninth days work.
Edward McCue, who is running a quarry
| here, Endorses the strike at Rockin. He said
| that while his men are working ten hours
| per day, if they desired a reduction to nine
hours per day he will at once accede to their
request