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MOUNT AIRY, N. C
Swcoad Stage of the Open Shop
in tko Granite Industry
. at Mount Airy.
Mr. Editor and Citizens, including the
Granite Cutter*:—
We are going to ask you once more
to allow us to make further explana
tion in reference to our granite busi
ness at the quarries in-as-much as
this open shop movement, or Ameri
aan plan, has now reached its second
stage and orators from other parts
are addressing our people on the sub
ject and making statements in con
nection with our business and the in
dustnr that are absolutely contrary to
the facts existing in the case, and
consequently we feel it our duty to
present this article.
As explained in previous letters,
we made a strenuous effort to get a
settlement with the local onion at the
rate of $6 per day of 8 hours with
but slight consideration from them;
and owing to the fact It was impos
sible to secure business on the basis
of the $8 day, and had we continued
attempting tt there was no possible
solution to the question but to eventu
ally close down the cutting depart
ment, we decided it would oe better
to establish the open shop and at
least make an effort to keep running,
believing it was better for our busi
ness, the locality, and the workmen
to receive $6 per day of 8 hour* than
to hope to get 88 and employment for
bat a few. "High pay and I no work
does not help anyone, but the highest
psy possible and steady work is what
counts." This we are trying to ac
complish, and we mor-j toncerned ut
the present time ir the securing of
business for those who sre remaining
loyal to the business than we are in
convincing the men of the S8 ideal
that they should return to work.
In the recent speech made here at
sur city hall the granite manufac
turers were accused of being unfair.
We cannot understand why the orator
would select the granite industry for
his attack in-as-much as from all
sources we can get information we
learn that the granite industry has
the shortest hours ahd the highest
nay, even at 86 per day, of any manu
facturing industry of its magnitude
in iM Ltrouau.
He tlao spoke of the unhealthy eon
dltions existing at the cutting plant*.
This is "ghost talk" and entirely
without facta back of it aa applied to
Mount Airy, hot it doea fit in the
colder climates of the north where
during the winters the sheds have to
be artificially heated and to do this
must be very closely built like a
dwelling house and the dust then stays
in the room where the workmen are
working and they inhale much of it.
In this section, however, tha cutting
sheds are open to the winds which
blow thru the shed at all seasons of
the year and clarify the atmosphere
and our granite cutters do not die ef
-onsumption any more than men ef
any other trade; your local doctors
will tell you that there is no mors
consumption among the granite cut
ters of Mount Airy than there is
among the farmers. Neither have
we denied our men the privilege of
discussing working conditions with us,
even now uiUrr the open shop prin
ciple we are glad at any and all times
to discus* rpievtVm* of policy about
the works in which tha workmen are
interested. We have always done
this and hope to continue doing it, and
our men know this fact.
Mr. Barrett moat have been very
poorly informed about conditions here,
or else he was attempting to convey
a false impression to our cHixena, as
many things he said were without
foundation. His speech seemed to be
more particularly a matter of work
ing OH the sympathies of the public—
sentimental talk and belittling the ef
forts of the granite manufacturers of
Meant Airy In their attempt to save
their business from rufh, where it was
rarely headed had we continued to
aSssr the granite cutters' union to
dictate its policies a* they have at
tempted to do in the recent peat.
The granite cotters arbitrary atti
tude on the various -important quea
ttooa, such m the number of appren
tice* we could employ: the objection
1e working overtime when it was ab
solutely necessary for the welfare of
the business, even though 60 per cent
additional was paid them for any
time worked over the regular hoars;
the restrictions placed on the oper
ation of machinery which woald have
reduced the cost of granite to the eon
Humor and made it possible to have
mad* greater sales; their arbitrary
attitude in the matter of wagee, re
fusing to liquidate from a war-time
condition, and the restricting of pro
duction- -all these thing and others
are the reasons why we have had to
separate oar businses from the union
There to mo Jostles in the cranft*
cutters demanding the full war-time
wage even if the manufacturer! could
(Jet business on that basil, aa it is
their duty, aa well *a that of other
citizen*, to aaaiitt in liquidation so
that business may go on again.
Furthermore, they can purchase more
with the $6 daily warn today than
they could with the >8 during the war.
The union has no magical power to
produce wealth—the same old eco
nomic principles are in force now that
have been in force since the world be
Kan and the unions cannot change
them. The union has nearly destroyed
the granite industry of the United
States and will complete the destruc
tion if allowed to continue as they
have in the past few year*.
The recent orator attacks the em
ployers of the granite industry. We
would ask him, "Who they are?",
and answer the question by telling
him they were the employees of yes
terday. Every resident owner who is
managing granite affairs in Mount
Airy today came here as an employee
with no better hope of success before
him than now lies before each of the
men who are attempting to destroy
this local industry, and the employees
of today will be the employer* of to
morrow; and we only wish they knew
better the inside condition of the
business as we think then they would
not be so persistent in their attempt
to destroy the business.
The parent company, The North
Carolina Granite Corporation, as is
well known to the citisens here, has
been operating many yean and It
started with a piece of barren rock
that was worthless until it had been
exploited. Men put their time, money
and energy into this deal to introduce
this stone and have been successful to
the extent that it is being used in a
large portion of the granite business
being done in the country today. This
material is in great quantities here
but is useless unless brought to the
buying public by men of experience.
It seems only fair that the people who
hare carried this business on to this
stage would have some reward and
it might intereat the people of Mount
Airy to know that for fifteen years
the stockholders of this company have
not received a penny in dividends on
their investment, while the community
has profited by the payrolls that were
turned loose Here, una we are pr^ud
to know that even Mr. Barrett allows
our Industry a fair credit for the up
building of our city.
Mr. Barrett states that we are at
tempting to reduce wages without
passing this along to the trade. We
wish to correct this statement and to
»ay that the prico on cat granite was
reduced 25 per cent last fall by a
circular letter aent by our company to
all of our cut stone buvera. This 26
per cent was made possible by the re
duction in quarrymen's wages, the
saving we were getting on the various
materials we were purchasing for our
business, and the fact that we elimi
nated our profit in order to keep oar
crew organised while we were negoti
ating for a reduction in the wage rate,
hoping to make a fair profit later.
This reduction was denied us, conse
quently the open shop.
It might be well to state here at
this time that the open shop in the
rranite industry in Mount Airy has
come to stay. We would be very
glad to have our granite cutters who
were with us return to work If they
wish to do so. They will be us«d as
well, or better than they were before,
but will receive 96 instead of |8; the
hours will be the same and pay day
the same. We, however, reserve the
privilege in our open shop to work
as many apprentices which we secure
from the immediate vicinity as the
business justifies.
Mr. Barrett criticises us severely
hut offers no fair or businesslike solu
tion of the question, but simply that
we work union men and pay 18. If
Mr. Barrett feels justified in criticis
ing and condemning our present meth
ods perhaps he can show us a busi
nesslike method by which we can get
orders that will enable us to pay $8
for eight hours to our workmen. This
he knows he cannot do, consequontly
his speech is like that of other labor
agitator* - i inflammatory, sentimental
and destructive. Nothing construc
tive can ever come from It.
We understand that he considers Um
meeting here a very successful one.
The results as we find them are as
follows: That thru his efforts hers
he has taken from our planta, collec
tively, from eight to ten granite cut
ters who were working and satisfied;
these men were getting W for eight
hours work, and now they are walktni
the streets. It may be possible h<
| has done these men a favor hut wt
cannot see how it can be so.
If granite rutting is to be done ir
Mount Airy in the future It will hi
done on the open shop, American Plan
- basis This part af the letter we an
| addressing particularly to tbs gnatta
cutters. If they vish to close up the
i cutting industry 'n Mount A try they
may possibly do this if they are suc
cessful in getting the cutters to leave
the works; this, in oar opinion how
ever. they cannot do, but should they
( do this we will simply remain closed
: until we can get cutters to work in
the open shop. This may take a year
or two years—whatever length of
time it may take is the amount of
time we will consume In establishing
the open shop. If the granite cut
ters of Mount Airy wish to give up
their occupation and go elsewhere to
work we have no objection and wish
them well and will he glad to favor
them in any way we can. We have
respect for them and the fact they
are fighting for something they no
doubt think is right. We again say
they have our beet wishes and simply
demand that in going their way they
allow us the same privilege, and this
we will Insist upon.
Among the granite cutters of
Mount Airy are a greater percentage
of workmen who own their own homes
or business than is true of any other
granite center to our knowledge. We
find that 40 per cent of the journey
men cutter* own their homes and we
are proud of them and wish it was
100 per cent. We find there are
many about this locality who are on
farms or have mercantile businesses,
etc., who originally cot their start
"working on the roc*." This would
not indicate that the men have been
used particularly unfair at any time
in way of wages or conditions.
We would like to say, in closing,
that in our opinion this condition now
existing between the workmen and the
manufacturer* here would not have
occurred If it had not been for the pro
paganda pub'ished by headquarter! in
their journal and in their monthly
reporta, which continually teaches
them to be distrustful and suspicious
of their employers, and according to
the various editorials we personally
have read any one who employs must
necessarily be dishonest. This pro
paganda and suspicion is kept up by
the labor leaders shaping their plans
in the direction of making sure their
own Jobs. The labor leader tries to
create the impression that his own
services are indispensable—ha is the
Moses who volunteers to stand be
tween the tesk-master and the op
pressed for a consideration, and be is
continually stirring up strife and
keepa alive the impreasion that the
emergency calls for every man to
stick by the guns. We have no re
cord of a case, however, where the
labor leader has gone without his own
salary when the treasury funds have
gotten so low that the striking work
man could not get his strike pay%
These explanations in this letter are
more or less of a family affair, and
we regret the necessity of laying them
before the public, but in-as-much as
we have been accused wrongfully and
untruthfully we feel some of these
facta might be worth reading.
In closing, we wish to again make
this statement—we are finished with
the granite cutters union, and again 1
say we have no objection to taose
who wish to remain members doing so
but if Mount Airy Granite is cut in
Mount Airy it will be cut in Open
Shop* where any American citizen
who withes to seek employment can
ret it when it ia to be nad without
Bring forced to join a onion unleaa he
iteen fit to do ao.
Thank you.
THE NORTH CAROLINA CORP'N.
J. D. SARGENT. President
Second Baptist Notes
Rev. J. H. Fulghum, pastor
Sunday school. 9:46 a. m.
Morning worship, 11:00 a. m.
Evening worship 7:30 p. m.
Wednesday services.
B. Y. P. U. junior and senior, Thurs- j
day evening 7:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening |
7:30 p. m.
At the morning service Rev. J. II.
Nester took the place of the paator,
who preached at the First Baptist
church. •
At the night service the paator
preached to a large congregation on,
"Trying to Compromise with God."
Everybody ia invited to attand these
services and visitors from the other
churches are made welcome. Come
and worship with us.
The local W. C. T. U. met with M
C. Binder Tuesday afternoon, M
Key conducted devotional service* I _
an interesting program was carried;
out under the direction of M
Steele and Bray.
Dcurhnuta and coffee were served
after the business meetinc
W. C. T. U.
Missionary Club Mwto
The Girls Miaaionery Club of tki
Methodist church met with Mlas
Elisabeth Ashby Wedneaday mollf
under the leadership of Mlaa Ma*
Wilt.
The next younger group of (iri>
waa invited to meet artth tae ciub, for
the purpose of enlarging the iiiiiiiiIim
■hip.
After • delightful evening durtaff
which appetizing ref reahmaoto war*
served the dub adjourned.
* . :fl
Rusk Nawi
Rev. U B. Murray filled his regular
appointment here Saturday and Sua- „
1-iorn to Mr. and Mrs. C. A- Jaetaa
tian recently a baby gtri
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Snaed who
were recently married ta> Winstoo
Salera are at hocaa to their hMb at
the home of their father, M. G. Bant
Mrs. E. J. Burch was called to the
bedaide of her father and mother Mr.
and Mrs. Andy WhHakar Dear State
Road who are very sick with III aad
pneumonia.
Miss Bertha Lajroe who is aft aad
ing school at Boonville apart the
weak end here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Lajrna.
Carl Wallace of Yadkinvflle was a
visitor here Wednesday.
A daughter waa born to Mr. and
[Mrs. John W. Martin, Tuesday Marsh
Paul Burch of the Mitchell's river
section spent Sunday here with Ma
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Burch.
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