Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-03
WESTERLY


 CTS association and officers of the International Granite Cutters asso- citation, and in consequence stone 1 cutting is at a standsti1l in the prln- cipal plants in Westerly. The demand is for s1 an hour for the next twol years, to go into enect at once. In the agreement this rate would not be effective for five months, the pay in the interim to be $S.60 day for eight hours IS against $S per day. Westerly has taken stand with other granite centres in New England.
 The old, old song, with lines, "a dollar a day is very good pay when working on the railway" and "how gay would be and what sight would I see If I had but a thousand a year" are sung no more. Eight dollars day and three thousand a year are more timely and more tuneful in Westerly, and the slogan of eight hours for work, eight hours for re- creation and eight hours for sleep prevails. Wage condition have changed since the time the lines in the old songs made them popular. Richard B. Mellon of Pittsburgh has purchased from Frank W. Coy, the three acre tract at Watch Hill, known as Sunshine park, recently ys adjoining land previously owned by MT. Mellon. This new purchase is op- | posite the summer home of MT. Dun ham of Hartford. Already all the l large houses that are rentable at Watch Hill have been engaged and but few smaller cottages are avail able.
 1t is about ten years since the stone cutters of Westerly were on a strike. The present situation has not 1 really reached strike condition, but | just at present there is no telling what may be the result of the yolun- 1 tary lay off of the union men. The | Boston conference was slow in com ing to terms for submission to the local unions and the members were | placed in a position where they must l submit without opportunity for caFe- | full consideration, or quit work under the agreement which expired with March 31. They chose the latter all formative. There was nothing else the men could do consistently under the union rules. pending final decision.
 The bill of prices was presented to employers in ample time for ade- quate adjustment and mistake was made in waiting for the eleventh hour before The number of granite CQIl6IS III WSSLSIly at LIlS~ pIS6oIll | time is considerably less than in the strike of ten years ago and then the number was much smaller than when the big strike was on years before.
 Local Laconics.
 Oswald Littlefield, captain of Watch Hill Coast Guard, has been appointed assistant suprintendent of the First district, with station at Portsmouth, N. H. He was at the Block Island station twelve yeras before coming to Watch Hill.
 The inspection of the Fourth com I pany was a credit to the command and satisfying to the inspecting of fcer
 There will be special music at the services in all the local churches Easter Sunday.
 Tn memorial window to J. Alonzo Babcock and the memorial tablet to the members of the church who par | ticipated in the world war will be l dedicated in the First Baptist church 1 Easter Sunday morning.
 1 Rev. Francis G. McKeever of Prov 1 idence, a former pastor of the First Baptist church, New London, will preach the Easter sermon in Calvary Baptist church.
 1 At the Easter service of Narragan- sett Commandery Knights Templar, the address will be by Rev. Edmund J. Cleveland, rector of Christ Epis- cepal church. Subject, Unselfish Con quest. The choir will be assisted by | Mrs Katherine G. Price, soloist; Mrs. Florence B. Larkin, organist; Mrs Jessie, C. Davison. soprano; Mrs. Sar- ah B. Welch, contralto; Harry H. ColmaR, tenor, William S. Martin, bass; Charles Bedford, cello; John Sutcliffe, violin,
 Rev. H. O. Hiscox, D. D., will preach in the First Baptist church Easter Sunday.
 William A. Wilcox has sold to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens of Brooklyn, N. T., the W. Scott Chapple farm in Canon chet. The farm comprises 120 acres.