Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-26
ON ANOTHER BASIS.
The Cut-Stone Contractors Remodel
Their Organization.
SOME OF THEIR PROPOSED PLANS
Work of the Sheet-MilI Committee Has
Been Finished.
MISCELLANEOUS INDUSTRIAL ITEMS

The Cut-Stone Contractors and Quarry
mems Association of Allegheny County,
which was organized year ago, has adopted
a new constitution which materially changes
the character of the organization.
This is the association that, last year,
wanted the journeymen stone cutters to pass
q law in their union. by which they could
not work for any but members of the Stone
Contractors Association, so as to prevent
competition from the general contractors.
This the men refused to do, claiming the
privilege of working for anyone who paid
them union prices and employed union
men.
Hence, the stone contractors are reorgan-
izing on different basis. one which will
either force all stone dealers into their asso-
citation or out of business. Hereafter no
stone will be purchased from quarrymen who
supply dealers who are not members of the as
sociation, thus making close corporation of
their organization.
BY this arrangement general contractor
who is not a member of the association will be
compelled to employ one who is to do the stone
work. thus bringing to the front the middle
III,
cost of the work. And journeyman stone
cutter with small capital could never start in
business for himself.
For the purpose of making the plan work
still more successfully, an effort IS to be made
to include in the membership of quarrymen
only such men as can furnish stone at reason
able rates, leaving those at a great distance
from the city. who have heavy freight rates to
pay, in position in which It would be utterly
impossible to compete with those whose rates
are lighter.
Some OF the clauses of the new constitution
just adopted are quite interesting, as setting
forth the object and policy OF the association.
Article reads:
The initiation fee of this organization shall
he S25 until May l, 1891, and $500 thereafter.
The dues shall be $40 annually, to be paid semi
annually In advance.
Article Z, which has already been ex-
planned in a general way, provides 'that we
purchase no stone of any quarryman. or cJIn-
pany operating quarries. VINO are not members
of this as sociation; that no quarrymen or COM
pany operating quarrles shall sell stone TO any
contractor for cut stone work for building pur-
poses, not a member OF this organization, ex-
cept IN cases of railway or Government work."
Article specifies the jurisdiction OF the
association over work, and says: "All cut stone
work used for building purposes excepting
granite and marble, and including tagging, ex-
cept such of three inches thick and under.
shall be considered cut stone work for building
purposes within the meaning OF the constitu-
ton and under Its Jurisdiction"
The present membership Is composed as fol-
lows: Quarrymen-Portage Red Stone Com
pany, Chicago, ILL.,; Cleveland Stone Company,
Malone Stone Company, Cleveland; Furst,
Jacobs & Co., Chicago: Ohio Stone Company,
Cleveland; Park d Park, Freedom, Pa; Forest
City Stone Company, Cleveland; F. g, Clark,
Blue Stone Company, Oxford, N. Y.
Cutters-J. p. & r. H. Knox, A. Beggs &
Son, Clark Bros. A. Alstou Morrison Bros.
William Witkenhead, A. Stehle. Valentine &
Berg John Schneider, Allegheny. and Kaiser
Stehle, Joseph Book and S. C. Gill. Pitts