The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-05-01
CONCORD AGREES
ON 5-YEAR BILL
Settlement Effected After Struggle
Which Went Into Eafly Hours
Of Sunday Morning.

Concord, n. H., May i After
working until 4 o'clock yesterday
morning, the granite manufacturers
and Concord branch. @ G. T. A., eff
feeted settlement which went infe
| operation to-day The quarrymen'
union also settled. and for the same
| time five years. Nearly 600 men
were involved, and Concord people are
rejoicing that there was no suspension
| of work
| Weekly pay, Saturday alf.hoIiday
in June, July and August and mini
mum Of 80 25 are the principal features
| of the new bill
| The demand Of the cutters for a
minimum wage of S.45 per hour for
the men who ARE running the surface
machines out of doors was compro-
missed and the.men will receive 4Sa
cents, amounting practically to So so
per day This part Of the settlement
only affects few men
No bumpers are TO be used in any
of the sheds unless equipped with prac-
tieal device for carrying away all of
the lust raised by the machine
The blacksmiths or sharpeners re-
eeived the same increase az did the
granite cutters, and their bill Is also
for term Of five years. The polishers
are to receive, by the terms of the
new BILL 399s cents per hour, which
is a raise III advance of the wages they
received under the old bill Of praeti-
cally the same proportion as was re-
ceiyed by both the sharpeners and the
cutters
Perhaps the settlement which was
the hardest to make was that between
the manufacturers and the quarrymen,
q separate and entirely different organi.
zation than the cutters organization
Conferences between the employers and
the employer have been going on all
Of the week, and it was after o'clock
Sunday morning when the differences
between the two bodies were finally
compromised in manner agreeable to
both sides.
The quarrymen in their original bill
called for minimum wage of twenty
nine cents per hour. but this the
members of the contractors would not
hear to, claiming that the men were
getting at that time more salary than
nine-tenths of the men throughout
New England were receiving The
euarrymen then modified their bill.
calling for 231s The contractors of
fered twenty-seven cents per hour, and
from this position they would not
bulge one iota- The meeting on Sat
urdav afternoon closed with the dead.
lock still existing and every prospect
OF strike on Monday morning. How
ever, during the session held on Satur-
day night some &c the points involved
were settled and the men compromised
on minimum wage scale per hour of
twenty-seven cents for the next two
years, that to be advanced in 1918 to
2s1s cents per hour as minimum wage
for the ensuing three years. This
settlement is the same as was effected
in Barre and Bethel, VT. and is ex-
pected to be perfectly satisfactory TO
and employers alike. Il was also a
five wear bill. the same as was in
volvel in all the other settlements.
The men representing the cutters and
the manufacturers alike appear to be
perfectly satisfied with the terms of
the new bills. The men were not ex-
actly pleased with the five.year term
Of bills. but expect that il viii prove
Of merit and not prove q detriment 10
them ia any way. The manufacturers
are pleased to have the matter set
tied for two years longer than L Is
usually settled for, and also looked for
ward to a prosperous period Of hnsi- /
nes in the granite industry.