The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-02-17
GRANITE PLANTS MAY
BE TIED UP MARCH /
BY MANUFACTURERS
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new constitutional demand of SO day.
Your committee could give us no assur-
ance that your members would not do as
they are now doing in Quincy, did once
in West Chelmsford, Mass, twice in Cape
Ann, Mass, and as they are now doing in
various smaller places and in retail man
ufactlIring plants, namely, take a vaca
tion,' your method of calling a strike by
a different name, but which means a
strike, or suspension of work. against
which you expressly contracted in your
agreements. And since our committees
met we have received no assurance that
you would continue work; ON the con
trary, we have been told that pressure
was being brought to bear upon you from
the outside, that is, from fellow members
of your international association, to stop
work April /, 1919. You, and we also,
are in this situation: You must either
violate your agreement with us or your
own constitution. So far, taking Quincy
and other places as an indication, your
fellow members have chosen to violate
their agreements with employers. And
we have no reason to think that your
branch, voting for such an amendment
and belonging to this international asso-
citation, will do otherwise.
"Your fellow members in other places
have openly boasted that they would
continue TO play one district against an
other, until, in sheer desperation, set
Element of So would be gained; then,
they argued, other districts would have
to follow. In other words, the wrong
done in Quincy, namely, demand for
minimum beyond the agreement, a strike,
and a refusal TO arbitrate according to
the terms OF the agreements, if it accom-
phshes its purpose, would warrant other
members to shrug their shoulders and
say, Well, Quincy came across. We
might as well get it here So, here goes
And all the time your fellow members
keep saying: Headquarters told US to do
this If headquarters did not put you
up to this, then what is headquarters do
ing in Quincy TO put you and other mem
bers right before the bar Of public opin
ion3
Confronted with precedent where
agreements between employers and
members Of your G. G. !. A. were binding
on us and not on you, with a future
where you could change your constitu-
ton whenever you wished to change
your solemn agreements with US; with
no warrant, either Of contract or other
wise, against the continuation of such
practices, we joined in convention with
our fellow members of the international
Monumental Granite Producers assOcia-
tion in New York City on Feb. IL and IL,
1919. There it was unanimously decided
that these questions are now beyond
proper handling by the local bodies and
we, as we'll as our other members, have
referred our case to a special committee
of our international association, given
them full power 70 act and to treat with
your international association. We have
Joined in a request to your international
association that they see to it that the
members of said association, who are on
strike, or a vacation return to work
Feb. 20. 1919. We also have Joined with
our fellow members in notifying your in
ternational association that a failure Of
your fellow members to return TO work,
or a failure or delay to meet and treat
with our special committee viii be con-
sidered as an act of hostility, which,
coupled with previous acts, will make it
necessary to suspend operations in all
granite centers on March /. 1919, until
such time as way may be found to
make agreements binding on both par
ties.
we sincerely hope that the influence
of your powerful branch will be thrown
into the scales, weighing down that spir-
| it of contempt of contract which has
plunged the world into the misery of the
| last four yearsh