Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-05-16
FEELING WELL.
The HaIloweII Granite Workers
Resting on Their Oars.
They Have Been Locked out But
They Are Able to Wait
TIL the Companies Are Ready To Do the
Proper Thing.

ftAItDH XIII may Ia spetla4 - iae
great lockout has begun and the great
granite fight Is nov on IN deadly earnest,
Last hight the granite manufacturers nlii-
matam went into effect and Monday morn
ing but comparatively few of the thousands
Of granite workers will go to work. NOT
0hiy is New England effected bat in New
York, BROOKLYN. Philadelphia, Chicago and
many other places will the men also he out
fast night over 100 800 were throw out Of
employment for an indefinite time.
Mondav morning. for the fir-; tine in the
history OF New EHglsnd. strongly organized
capital begins deaths struggle " ith strong
y organized labor. One the one side Il the
Manufacturers Association controlling over
one-haif Of the granite business, an assoeis-
ri0n Organized for the especial purpose of
fighting the unions. IL is an association
more strongly backed financially, more
closely organized and more compact than
ans other that has ever faced the Unions
opposed to this are the three great
affiliated granite workers unions. the
quarry yTdeBs Granite Cutters and Pa, ing
Cutters, national bOIes controlling J9-lg0's
If the men employed in the granite trade
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men employed IN the calling- auxiliary to
the three important granite trales. Behind
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are the American Federation of Labor, the
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