Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-05-01
WESTERLY

Westerly Contractors Dissatisfied
Those Who Pay High Union Prices
Grur.bis While Others Save by
unien Laborers' Wage Scaie-Dan-
lei cuinian Dies in New York-su
psrier Court Hears Auto Fatality
Case Of sissen vs. MilIs-Delia
Brown injured.
Contractors who are employing union
laborers at the present high union
prices are at a disadvantage when in
competition with other contractors
who employ union stone cutters as la
aorers at less than union laborers'
rate of wages. 1t is claimed that
Stone cutters. members of the local
their trade. and still claiming to be
union workTnen, are working as labor
ers for 2.5e day or fifty and seven
V-f1ve cents less. as the case may
be, than is paid to union lab0rers. the
contractors who hire laborars at union
WAGES, and the men 50 employed as
well, are protesting against this con-
dftfon. as being unfair to the laborers
ard their employers It is said that
in the main the Offenders are stone
cutters, paving cutters and mem bers
to be made direct to the unions with
which they are AFFILIATED.
The affected contractors declare that
50 far as they are concerned 1t would
business standpoint, as to the union
affiliations OF these men who have
trades and who are working as labor
ees, provided they received the pay of
regular laborers. Under present con-
dltions, they claim, that they are up
against unfair competition, and that
the employer of the cheaper labor can
furnish men, and with profit, for less
money than the contractors who en-
ptoy union labor actually pays in
cages.
Darisi 0uinlan. a former resident of
Westerly, died Friday night in New
Nsri- esSy, where he had been employ
ed for The past twenty years. He was
Fsnra III Erslaud stxty-two years ago
end cana T. Westerly when quite
SpUng. F'cr years he was employed |
at the granite clarries as tool sharp |
enet and blacksmith, and continued
ct that trade in New York. The rel
mains arrived in Westerly Sunday |
night, and will be buried in st. Mich I
brother and three sisters. all residents
Of Western, Cornelius, Mary, Annie |
and Margaret Quinlan.
The superior court for Washington |
county. in session 4. Westerly, Judge
George T. Brown, ard Jury, was oc-
cupied Monda- = He7rinE- the case of
Edward Sisson Il Ashaway against
Walter F. .E-:z,is a Westerly, an ac-
ton to ro-1--~f- -a.nages for the loss
of his s:~ -ear Cd son. William Perry
Sisson. v-l11 MS struck by an auto
mobile cv-.aI and operated by the de-
fe1CIaat, ard almost instantly kill
ef-
.rho evidence showed that the acct |
DIRT occurred on the Potter Hill and |
AsaaWay bridge on the afternoon of
November 1, 1916. The Sisson boy
with two playmates. came from the
platform leading to the grist mill near
the bridge, and, as the Sisson boy
emerged from behind 2. standing teaTn
he was struck by the automobile fen
der on the right side of the head, and
thrown to the bridge. His skull was
fractured and his right ankle crush
ed.
The evidence for the plaintiff show
ed that no horn was sounded from the
approa ching automobile, which was
proceeding at a moderate speed That
after the boy was struck he was drag
ged several feet and that the auto
mobile did not come to stop until it
had proceeded about forty feet. Tests
taken shortly after the mishap showed |
that the foot brake Of the automobile |
was not in good working order. that
The brake would not hold. and to this
fact was due the fatality. The allie
CATION set forth negligence and lack
Of due care on the part Of the defend
ant Judge Herbert W Rathbun is
counsel for plaintiff and John J. Dunn
and Samuel H. Davis, for defendant.
Attorney Dunn made motion for
non suit ON the grounds that the Sis
son boy did not exercise due care, and
that the plaintiff had failed to show
negligence or lack of due care on tho |
part of the plaintiff. In reply Judge
Rathbun said there was doubt. sup
ported by law, as to the capabiliIy on
the part of a. child six years of aga
TO exercise the care expected of an
adult The child was in the highway
contended that it had been clearly
proven that the foot brake was defec-
i've, as shown by the tests, and was
but of repair.
non-sUft, and the attorney for the
plaintiff was given opportunity to es-
Eablish the question of loss in the
amount of damage, to aid the jury
should award be made for plaintiff.
The jury. was of course out of the
court room while the motion for non
nit was being considered
The defendant testified that heI
sOested down the hill towards the
bridge at the rate of perhaps fifteen |
niles an hour, and as he neared the
lid not blow the horn. He said he
lad his foot on the brake while coast
nE and after he went into the bridge.
One boy crossed in front of the auto |
tbout fifteen feet ahead. then came
he Sisson boy. The defendant ap-
sled all force to the foot brake. swerv-
ID the machine to the right, but could
lot avoid hittifg the boy He pro-
,eeded about fifteen feet before COM
ng to d full stop and did not apply
he emergency brake he did not
ave time. He said that on the night
# the fatality he called at the Sisson
lone and both Mr.. and Mrs. Sisson
aid the accident was unavoidable and
hat they did not consider him respon-
fb1e- At AS court adjourned to 1880
Tuesday morniny,
The case of Harry Peckham against
Charles A Morgan. an action to re-
lover damages from injuries received
n an automobile collision, was settled
nut of court and the case withdrawn I
Local LaconicS.
It is about time for the first run
& soup, or porgies.
Butter has taken a fall of from 81
o 4s cents a pound, and potatoes from
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