Show ON E OVER SCALE SC BOSTON Starch 2 Moro 2 Moro than granite granito cutters quarrymen and others employed rl in n the granite in industry ut and surrounding centers of Barre Vt Montpelier Mont Mont- ont ont- pelier Vt anil Westerly esterl R. R T. T were affected af af- af- af by a suspension of work today due uc to the tho failure of the tho unions and the manufacturers to o agree reo to tho provisions of a new newn n wage I scale and working agreement agree agree- ment to replace that which governed the industry up to Satur Saturday ay Although h the Vermont and Islands blands voted to suspect suspend operations until until un un- un til their demands were mot met by hy tho the manufacturers the cutters in iu reported for work to today ay following a vote to submit the matters in dispute for arbitration A continuance of the present agreement agree agree- t meat ment callin calling for an- an ti avera average o wa wage e of 37 cents an hour is asked h by ly tho Vermont Ver Vcr mont moat unions unions while whilo the manufacturers say a they the will contract for no shorter a n period than three years Tho unions in in Westerly ask uk for a minimum compensation compensation tion of 40 cents an hour in place of the tho 37 cents which the thes- thes received un under er ertho the tho old a agreement Half a hundred Pill plug P ill lug cutters and about ns as nt many blacksmiths blacksmiths blacksmiths black black- smiths employed ed in iii tho the qu quarries at fit Westerly also struck today for higher wages |