The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-05-21
THE FIGHT STILL ON.
Al Attempt to Break Through the
Granite Strike Fails.
SECRETARY GRANTS STATEMENT
He IL hanguine Of success--Mr. AoAllis-
ter's Attempt to Deliver . Load Of
stone-New Jersey Strikers Still Firm
The Local situation.

NEW YORK. May 2l--The first attempt
to break through the granite strike was
made yesterday by Brown & McAllister.
of West Fourteenth street. Brown e.
McAllister were anxious to deliver some
ing erected ON Franklin street. between
Elm and Broadway. McAllister obtained
a non-union truckman. loaded his truck
with granite blocks at the yard and
started him off for Franklin street.
AS soon as the truckman arrived he
was taken in tow by "a couple OF pickets
aud conducted to the nearest saloon. In
half an hour he agreed to leave his truck,
go back to Brown a. McAllister and tell
them to look after their own stone. NC
Allister ragged and started for the scene OF
action.
When McAllister arrived he tried to
persuade the men to unload his truck,
but without avail, and after waiting two
hours he was compelled to drive the stone
back to the yard himself.
Many of the locked-out granite and paw
ing block cutters are finding work In
other cities. This relieves the expense on
the union. Requests for men were made
yesterday from st. Peters, Pa, and p. j.
Nevins, Dover, N. j.
Secretary Grant has started in earnest
to boom the cooperative or profit-sharing
idear. All the proposals he has received
from quarry owners he Is carefully in
vesiigating, and hopes to be able to make
agreements to start them up at once:
Secretary Grant contented himself yes
terday be issuing a statement to the pub
lie, entitled, Our side OF the trouble"
The cause of the trouble Is simple, he says
1T Is whether the scale of wages shall
be signed on May or on Jan. I. All EN-
ployers in sections Of the country outside
OF New England have signed scales this
wear the Sam0 aa in former Veara on
"They make no complaints against the
May system of signing scales The New
England Manufacturers Association has
never made any complaint against this
system until this year. Without warn
ing the decree was sent out by the asso-
citation that on certain dates il the work.
men did not agree to break the estab-
lished custom of signing scales they will
be locked out.
against this 1st OF January system? The
employer has the winter weather in his
favor. and from our experience i'm the past
were we to submit to this January
scheme, we would simply be submitting
to the mercies of the association. because
In the fall and winter months, when
trade is at standstill, they would care
less for our conditions and less for scales
of prices"
In conclusion Mr.. Grant offers on be-
half OF the union to give ninety days
notice prior to May i Of any intended
change in prices, so rs to overcome the
pretended contract difficulty"
Ready for a Settlement.
GLOUCESTER, Mass, May 2l--IJ is re-
ported that proposition has been made
by the receivers OF the Cape Ann Gra lite
Company to the local branch OF the Gran
ite Cutters Union looking to u settlement
of the strike. The proposition was favor
bly, received and it was voted to 60 back
to work provided that the National Union
indorse such action.
Starting Works ofTheir Own.
BARRE, VT, May 2l.-At the granite
dealers meeting last night the subject OF
leaving the settlement of the trouble TO
board of arbitrators was not generally
approved The blacKsmiths are said to
have broken their agreement with dealers
in ceasing work and giving no notice of
the-ehaage- sides are as firm as
ever. waiting anxiously for the meeting
of the association in Boston on Tuesday.
The union men are starting granite
works. 4. Min e. Co. not members of
the association, have signed the bill to
May, 1898.