Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-04-02 | Page 29 | "Open Shop" in Granite Trade

"OPEN SHOP" i GRANITE TRADE Employers Go "American Plan" When Wage Cut Is Rejected BOSTON. April 1 Py the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) Union granite workers work-ers in 18 New Englan.l centers today rejected a two-year wor'cing ngree-ment ngree-ment entailing a 20 per con-, wage reduction, re-duction, and announced that ihey would not resume work until a new contract was signed. The board of j control, representing threo largo producers' pro-ducers' associations, In turn announced an-nounced that "the American plan" (open shop) would bo put Into effect ef-fect Immediately in all the centers Twenty thousand men would be affected, af-fected, tho board said. .James Duncan, president of the CIranlte Cutters' Internationa! association asso-ciation of North America. Informed the employers this afternoon that the local signatory to the eld agreement which expired last midnight, had unanimously voted not to sign a eo,i tract reducing the rhiil. wag. ,,: , t. tern from $8 to ?S ii The board of control representing tho International Monumental Granite Gran-ite Producers' association, (he National Na-tional Building Granite Producers' association and the Granite Paving Block Manufacturers' association of tho I'nited States Immediately i tied a statement declaring they had been forced to adopt the open shop in order to put wage schedules, into effect ef-fect which will permit them to secure se-cure order?, and provide employment for the workmen " Tho granite in- 1 dustry In New England, the statement state-ment declared, "had been threntenel with practical extinction " Tho granite Industry in the west and south has generally adopted the open shop, the board declared.