The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-29

statement that the association proposed to
bring suit for damages against him, he said:
All have got to say about the suit for
damages is that have documentary and
other evidence In abundance to prove all
that 10 set forth In my statement Of Tuesday.
cutters Union, called on me last Saturday
and told me had better 60 UP to the En-
ploying Stonecutters Association in the
St. James Building and settle things, and
that he would give me until Tuesday TO do SO.
i told him that l could give him my
answer right then and there and II was
that ! would not 90 near the st. James
vised us that the Employing Stonecutters'
Associations methods were illegal and
advised us to keep out OF it. The delegate
said he did not know anything about that.
ALI ne knew was that he had his orders,
On Tuesday he came and again asked me
if were going to the st. James Building
and settle things. When told him was
and they did 80,
'Our men are holding meeting tonight
to decide whether they will go on with
tbs strike. If they decide to go on We
will submit the matter to the District At
torney. Work has been stopped on ten
and indirectly 1000 men. The walking
delegate told Judge Mcconnell of the Fuller
company In the presence OF two others,
that the reason work was stopped on our
Job on the site of the Macy store at Four
teenth street and Sixth avenue was because
We had not paid our assessment to the
association.
.Under the association bylaws all bids
on work are submitted to committee,
which strikes an average, and the bidder
coming nearest to that average gets the
Job. all the others agreeing to bid higher.
Ten per cent. Is then added to the SUCCESS
ful bid and the stonecutters' union gets 10
per cent. Of this 10 per cent. The rest is
divided up among the members Of the asso-
citation.
I'VE had union shop with union wages
and union hours. We obeyed the union
rules and our men had no complaint. They
did not want to strike.
1T Is time that | agreed to join the asso-
citation and sent In my $50 dues. When l
got a copy Of the by laws Of the association
] submitted them to our attorney. He
have anything further to do with the
association.
"They have forced in, by means Of strikes,
nearly everybody in the business I know
OF one man who had to pay $4,000, his
10 per oent., after he had made his contract
directly with the builder.
Il am not opposed to cooperative ar
prefer to give il to the men directly, and
not TO the labor leaders
Donald Call, the walking delegate Of tie
JOurneymen Stone Cutters Union, who
ordered the strike against Bradley 4 Son,
denied yesterday that the union had any
business arrangement with the Employing
Stone Cutters Association by which the
union was to get a bonus on contracts
though II had a mutual agreement He
was asked why the strike was ordered
against Bradley A Son.
ITO make them conform TO the rules Of
the Employing Stone Cutters Association, "
he said
Al a meeting of the Journeymen Stone
cutters Union last night it was unani-
mously decided 10 continue the strike at
the yards OF William Bradley Son, stone
contractors, at Neyins and Butler streets
Brooklyn, Before the meeting Logan Presi-
dent haiuone Of the Stont cutters Union
denied emphAtically that hls union had
ever received dollar Of the $40 600 which
II IL said, IL yearly received by the unions
through their walking delegates