The times., 1899-04-25
THE EVENING star"
CENSURED BY LABOR
Its Conduct Condemned i'll a
Mass Meeting.
Bitter Protests Against a Contract
Placed in Vermont.
Money to He Spent Outside of WASH
ingtOn-vigorous Sentiments En-
dorsed in a Resolution.


ington which filed Masonic Hall last even
ing, endorsed the protest of the local
Journeymen Stone Cutters Association
against the Evening Star Company hav-
ing the stone for it's new building pre-
pared at the quarries in Vermont, and also
endorsed a petition asking the Evening
Star Company to have the work done in
this city. The meeting was called at the
instance of the local stonecutters' associa-
ton, and was presided over by James F.
McHugh,>the general secretary-treasurer of
the national organization of stonecutters
in the United States.
The protest OF the stonecutters was
also endorsed by the local Federation OF
Labor and also by District Assembly No.
66, X. of l., and the Building Trades
Council. The audience was composed
mostly of the members of local organized
labor. but there were also present great
many local business men. There were also
many ladies present.
A few minutes after o'clock the mem
bers of several of the local labor bodies
entered the hall. the leader carrying tri-
angular transparency. bearing the follow
ing inscription: Fifty thousand dollars
put in the pockets OF alien labor won't
clothe our little ones. Is the Star fair to
organized labor?. Actions speak louder
than words. Patronize home labor Money
expended for labor outside the city is
blow at the business community"
The object of the meeting was briefly
explained by Mr.. McHugh. who rehearsed
what had been done by the stonecutters'
union toward having the work of preparing
the stone for the new Evening Star Build
ing done in this city, and the result. He then
took up and discussed an article published
in the Star on Saturday last in which
many of the statements he said were TN
true. He spoke especially Of the state
ment that it was not customary Tor the
contractors for any large building to have
the stone prepared for placement on the
building ground. This Mr.. McHugh said
was untrue and referred to the building
of the Capitol, the Interior Department.
the Postoffice Department, and the Ccrco-
ran Gallery of Art, in this city and the
courthouse at Baltimore in proof of his
contention. The State capital building of
Rhode Island and Minnesota, he said. were
also built the same way. that is, the stone
was cut on the building lot.
Mr.. Noyes, of the Star" the speaker
said. had stated that the representatives
sent by the stonecutters' association had
not made true report of the conditions
under which work is carried on at the
Proctor Marble Quarries in Vermont. Mr..
McHugh said the report is true, and
stated that if the Evening Star Company
wanted to send a man there TO investigate
the conditions and he did not return and
make substantially the same report tine
local stonecutters association would pay
the expense of the agent.
Mr.. McHugh also read an article from
New York newspaper written ten years
ago, descriptive OF the conditions at the
Proctor marble quarries. The article re-
ferred to the employees at the quarries
as ''Proctor's white slaves" and said their
condition compared with that of the treat
ment received by convicts in the mines of
Siberia In concluding. Mr.. McHugh
stated that the meeting was only one of a
series of the same kind which will be
held for the purpose Of letting the public
know how 1t is being treated by the ''Ev-
ening STAR
]. H. Brnkman, a member of the order
| of the Knights of Labor, said his organi-
zation always favors home labor, because
| it benefits not only the laborer but the
whole community. E. J. Dakins a mem
ber of the Carpenters Union, said il was
| a matter of business with the people OF
| Washington TO have this work done at
| home.
| Samuel DeNedry, well known in local
labor circles, was the next speaker. He
paid his respects to Mr.. Noyes of the
| Evening Star. and Senator Proctor,
both of whom he criticised severely. The
Evening STAR he said, had proclaimed
itself as fair to union labor, but he said
| every oppressor of man from Hanna TO the
| devil always claimed to be fair
Frank Morgan a practical stoneculter
appeared late in the evening and also made
a few caustic remarks anent the Even
ing Star Company and the management
of the Proctor marble quarres.
Addresses were also made by William
Castley and Julian Pierce. AT the clos,
of Mr.. Morgan's speech. which was tn,
last, Charles F. Enrich, who acted as sec.
retary of the meeting. read the following
preamble and resolution which wer
adopted without dissenting voice:
Whereas the Evening Star Publishing Com
pany contcmpates the erection of building a
the northwest corner Of Eleventh and Pennsyl
vania Avenue northwest, and having let the con
tract to the G.. A. Fuller Company, of Chicago
who has subeontTacted the exterior marble wor
TO the Proctor Marble Company, OF Proctor
Vt, and
Whereas the said Proctor Marble Company de
sign cutting the work at their quarTies in Proc
tor, Vt, by men who not members Of an
organization, and in fact scabs, and the labor
underpaid. and compelled TO deal with the oh
nOxious store system in vogue at that place.
Whereas we feel that the Evening Star pa
per is local institution, supported entirely b
the community OF the District that it is no NOR
than right and just expect them 10 give III
| employment OF about seventy y-fve to one hIndrc
men. members of the Journeymen Stonecutters
| Association OF the District of Columbia the benC
fits that may accrue from that labor, in tur
they may contribute TO the welfare OF the gen
| al nd businpSS m yhO