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SCORED BY MR. BOLAND.The Iniinrvrily of lalon Mfu Tlior-ougtil) And Vigoromij Ihona l'p.I-» tfi*» WjreiV «ul Ms9nt' Colon. No.I. of Hkftifia;Cientli Mirjf:— I not.ee tn your com-nuni.aton in the Evening Leader of the LHh in*u, reference i* made to pnee* received for bricklaying on the Soldier*’ Home job. I did not receive any mon* than I ought for doing the cvtra kind of work doue by me on account ut change* m the plans for heating and ventilation flue*, a?* you are all awaro that even common chimney flues are worth the same pr eve. and the regular brick work 1 d.J lor a good deal m.Nevertheless it is in bad tri'te for an organization of journeymen masons like your*, whose members received about five thousand dollars for their labor on that job. to throw up any tucb slur aa that against a contractor who lured no o but union men and paid union wages, Vi*.: to Ceuta per hour, and worked nine hours per day. Then I hud to figure against a contractor who got the dormitory building of miJ holdicr*' Hume, and paid 93.oO per day for ton hours iu a day’s work, and whose masons your union menus retried to hare leave their joi\ but v*»u did not *uccelt; d. I must h.ivr ln*rn a good sort of a contractor then, if 1 could figure against outride contractor* and get the jot at lower figure* than they, and I j4ty 4*» cents p._r hour for nine r.ours as a Jay's work.When the contractors, Ward Russel, of Flint, got the other Soldier*' Home mason work and only paid g.1.30 for ten hours a* a oav'a work. And those contractor* could hare done the ent.re work of tnu Soldiers' Hume on the tanu tctmasi fthetr man received from them lor what they u.d do. I think you ought to leave ail such talk as th:s ones: le. I am not the man you should have spoken to in this maimer, alt**r what I did with your union on this job, ns against unequal competition from out* di n who got their work done fur i* money than I did and received the •true pay you mentioned that I got. •» you seu what thank* union contractor* p t for working ui harmony w*l.» t.n on men.Ife men. brother*. and look ou*. for tiiore professional trouble makers who are after another job a* walking bone *. ?u be paid out of your treasury funds. They don't nautbj work. •»! ! no.J. l». Ifc*LA9D.
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Grand Rapids Telegram Herald
Grand Rapids, Michigan, US
Sat, Mar 21, 1891
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