The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-15
WAR ON LABOR UNIONS.
Organized Granite Workers of New
England to be Locked Out.


England to be Locked Out.
Boston, May 4.-On Monday will come
great lockout of the granite workers in
New England. That was the decision of
the executive committee of the Granite
Manufacturers Association, aud the subs
ject was given long discussion at an all-day
meeting at the Quincy house. The enforce
ment OF the resolution adopted May, to
suspend work In all departments" if
bills were not signed to Jan. !, was
unanimously agreed upon. and the men,
oers or the labor unions will be debarred
from work in all the yards and quarries of
the New England Association Monday
morning. The manufacturers say 1t Is not
lockout but only suspension of work.
Yet the fact remains that the unions will be
boycotted. and it is hard to find any other
word 70 suit the case. Over $1,000 men
connected directly with the granite industry
in New England will be idle, and this num-
Der will be augmented by several thousand
through the forced idleness of teamsters,
draymen and others. But this is only the
beginning of the battle between capital and
lobor, which both sides concede will be a
bitter one.
NOTICE POSTED AT QUINCY.
QUINCY, MASS, May 1.-THE executive
committee Of the Granite Manufacturers
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day issued In conformity with a vote Of
the New England Association this notice
to its members:
You are hereby ordered to close your yards
and shops to all organized labor on the morn
ing OF May l6, the same to remain closed to
such labor until reopened by vote of the asso-
citation.
TO BE A MONSTER.
New YORK, May 1.-THE latest decision
of the executive committee of the granite
cutters and paving cutters national unions
has settled definitely the fact that there
will begin on Monday the greatest
strike in the granite industry
ever ordered in America. 1t was an
nounced this morning at the headquarters
of the National Paving Cutters Union,
that the executive committees had decided
to order general strike of the granite cut
tiers, quarrymen and paving cutters, even
If the threatenened lockout in New England
did not take place. Before this important
decision was reached every trade in the
stone industry was consulted, and not one
union dissented from the proposition
to go on strike Monday morning.
The lowest estimate or the number
OF men who will strike on Monday is
100000. The seriousness of the strike is
made plain by the fact that the police In at
least dozen large aestern cities are max
ing preparations to quell all possible de-
monstrations by the strikers. The officers
of the union, however, are positive in their
statement that there will be no violence.
The National Granite Cutters Union, with
its membership of $4,000, can effectually
stop work on thousands of buildings
and In cemeteries to great extent east of
the Mississippi river.
The eccentric engineers and derrick men
have decided TO support the granite cutters.
This will make it next to impossible to 20 on
xTit unrLy NH t~fly oaAa I'D
there are probably less than 500 non-union
men in these trades In America. No favor
to any employers, it matters S not not
how they may be with their men. The strike
will not be directed against the employers
in the various cities, but against the Gran
ite Manufacturers Association Of New
England.
LIFE OR DEATH sTRUGGLR-
The men realize that the result of the
struggle into which they have entered may
be the extinction of the unions in the stone
trades In New England. Both employees and
employers have entered the fight in
earnest and it may last several months,
causing much suffering in all parts of the
country. In this city and Brooklyn the
number OF men on strike may reach $4,000
The police expect trouble along the water
| front, where strenuous attempts will be
and bluestone from objections
! BILE quarries. The union longshoremen
are in sympathy with the Granite Cutters
Union and have agreed to refuse to handle
any stone from the New England quarries.
Work has already been stopped on che new
water tower and memorial arch in Brook
Ign and in the yards Of Bo 9th Bros. and the
Hurricane Isle Granite Company and on
the extension of the Mutual Life insurance
building in this city. Monday work will
be stopped on the foundation Of the Grant
monument in this CITY, on the new st ate cap
Itol at Albaay, where 500 men will stop work,
on the new congressional library in WASH
ington, where 800 men will stop work; on
the Reading terminal building, aud build
ings in Philadelphia.
The troubles of the PAYERS are assuming
a more serious aspect every hour. The
Granite Manufacturers Association asserts
that the places Of the strikers will be filed
with German PAYERS. Where the non-union
men are coming from cannot be learned, ns
there is an air of mystery in the offices of
the members of the association in this city.
A mass meeting of about 1000 strikers
will be held Monday. The union will estab
lish headquarters in this city, where the
national officers will remain until the strike
is settled.