Show to SETTLE PLANER ROW L H Fitzgerald Will investigate inves-tigate Matter HOPES TO SATISFY ALL Says He Will Try to Give Boih Sides Justice jVIember of Executive Board of National Na-tional Organization Arrives to Look Into Question L IT Fitzgerald of Denver a member of the executive board of the Journeyman Stonecutters union of North America arrived in the city yesterday afternoon He has been sent to Suit Lake by the committee to settle the trouble over ho I Introduction of a stone planer on the Federal Fed-eral building and tho consequent discharge dis-charge or fifteen members of the union employed on the Job Mr Fitzgerald Is at the Cullen He said last night l WILL TRY TO PLEASE ALL I have not yet had an opportunity to Investigate the situation I have met sonic of the membcis of the union and have a general Idea of the difficulty but I am not yet In a position to dlsouss the 11 tel Intelligently 1 have been delegated dele-gated to take charge of tho negotiations and I hope to bring about a settlement that will be satisfactory to all partict concerned The contractors of course have IhUr living to make the same as other people and I will not demand anything any-thing that IK not just to each side of tho controversy ARGUMENT AGAINST PLANER It I is undoubtedly to the best Interests of any community to have as many men working as possible rho more men at work and tire better wages paid tho more money goes to the business men for commodities com-modities and into general circulation For this reason the t stone planer Is a detriment detri-ment to a community The planer will do the work or thirty or forty men when worked to Its full capacity The wages of these men at lr > 0 per day which would all be expended In the city where the work is In progress forms a considerable Item The planer on the contrary uses only somo electrical power and some Water wa-ter and gives no business to the merchant mer-chant tor understand that the contract for the Federal building was lot on the basis of handcut stone That Is I the t estimate was high enough to pay for hand labor and at the same time leave a reasonable mar Kin of prollt for the contractor If this Is true and I have no doubt that It Is the planer will be the means of putting the difference between the cost of tho work and the legitimate profit of the contractor Into the pockets of the contractor and not into the channels of trade where It be ho irs TABOOED IN CANADA In addition to this there IB no flues ton that the violent friction of the pinner is detrimental to the stone At Toronto Canada where the same question has been investigated th Government forbade for-bade the use of the planers altogether But jegardlest of this fact if the people peo-ple of the United Stacs are paying enough to enable the contractor to employ fifty men and make his profit we believe the men aivl the cniimuniiy whore I he work Is hieing done should get the benefit of the outlay Mr Fltzg nild has been vory successful success-ful In ftiling disputes of this chniactor In tho I Western States that lie in his lu ilsdlctlou lie secured the use of native atone and hand labor on the Cheyenne jiostoffirc after the Government inspector had rccomniPiulfd iho use of Indiana I machinecul stone He also unionized the work on tho Capitol of Montana afler it had been partially completed by nonunion nonun-ion workmen |