The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-05-20
A QUESTION OF ENDURANCE.
RO1H SIDES LOSING MONEY IN THE
GRANITE TRADES WAR.
Ooers Of Assistance to the Striking Granite
Cutters, md Propositions To Work Ger
tain S,unrries on the Co.opkrntive Plan,

oner. OF Assistance to the Striking Granite
cutters, md Propositions ia Work Ger
tain Ssunrries on the Cooperative Plan.
Tho Indications in the struggle between the
New England Granite Manufacturers Associa-
,ion and the granite trades showed pretty
mainly yesterday that the fight has resolved
itsct int a question OF endurance. That both
sides are losing money is evident. and the
question now hinges on whether the manu-
fa,turers are willing to lose the trade OF a busy
season by starving the~employees into sub
mission or Yield to their dcGhands.
IN, pavins block cutters have received
promises of assistance in unexpected quarters
hy tho offer of number OF leases Of granite
uIlarrns. TO run them with members Of tho
pavin. block cutters union on the co0pera-
tive plan. The owners Of n number of quar-
RIGS outside the manufacturers association
are also selling the chance OF obtaining a
good market for their stone by the present
shutdown Of the granite quarres in New
England.
The following. among other dispatches Of a
similar character. was received at the head
quarters Of the Paving Block Cutters Union
Hudson and Chester Granite Company Massn-
chusotts:
sen! MY paving block cutters to chester Mass. i'm.
Answer
Tho men will be supplied to the company by
w, i. Church. the representative Of q quarry
at larrytown. Me-. u representative, Of tho
Orange Granite Company. Pine Island, Nix
has luarries at Sing Sing. sent word that they
wey. ready to run these quarries with paving
other OF the same kind came from Goshen.
n y.
worked in tn. granite quarres at Pine Island.
and that the stone there was very suitable Tor
nks sfH viii be DtSas to
ries mentioned before the offers Of starting
then on the coo perative plan is accepted.
mi'e s tS'f tie new EnSa md Of
Granite Manuiacturers. said YESTERDAY: AZ
na. OF fat tSs a" st Of Ssy S1
contracts must be closed by March /: II I'VE
in= to cost us; and can inteSjsentiy make our
in The course Of the year Il I'VE We were liable to
Mr.. Peirrc said that the unions greatly exag-
v.rated THO NUN Der of men out through the
ve 9 a bo sf out there
irhn Booth Of Booth Brothers. members Of
the New England Associations said:
bill Of prices 10 last until January. 1896 We
do not want to prolonG the hours Of work or
II is now case OF tight it out The men
want us to trust them and We want the men to
ohn 6 Smith; one Of the paving contractors SC 1t,
arranged matters he continued. so that
T s tia for FITS is
it is the fight Of the Eastern men. am. per.
sy S wat o. DO
sioner Gilroys order to temporarily repave the
Company was asked what he thought Of the
he ouTh OF to Ss
made for Il year or two ahead. and in any con-
January. want TO know soon after tho new
year begins what am to pay during the year"
the m sac w yona s shea s int ste
dS, t At psn They Ts5s
how Mr.. Gilroy could enforce his order. about
reepayinE tho open spaces temporarily with the
T. xhe IS Fl TR9d
the paving outside Of the car tracks ''NN
s. s ysS hS %as
""H in AZ h. e1s ne IL reply to the state
Ills assertion that the majority Of tho con-
tracts are made before May Ia preposterous.
Whe vast bulk are made between May and tho
fail. Ask Commissioner Gi!roy if nearly all the
we'll give UP the fight. Regarding Mr.. Peirce's
statement that there are rs. 900 mon out. be;;
out on strike. There are. however. three times
that number made idle in various trades
through the strike. For instance. the strike
meg m.n. cartmen. stone handlers. graders.
ard mixers. For every payer on strike there
nrr several men thrown out OF work. and the
~nm3 with tie granite cutters and quarry
men. 1tstopS building operations"
rho granite cutters met ut 90 Union Square
Yesterday. and passed resolutions to keep up
the hight until the bosses yielded. II it lasted
tcr six months.
Tho strike committee ot the tile layers and
helpers. who are OH strike for the eight-hour
work day. met at LeGwith Hall. Forty if1th
street and Third avenue. yesterday. They
crved reports stating that several EN- ployers
agreed to sign tho eSht-hour agreement.