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Rh Benefits. — Funeral.

Official organ. — The Journeyman Roofers' Magazine (quarterly).

Headquarters. — 3091 Coleridge Road, Cleveland, Ohio (variable).

Organization. — Local unions only: California, 10; Colorado, 2; Connecticut, 2; District of Columbia, 1; Florida, 3; Illinois, 11; Indiana, 4; Louisiana, 3; Maryland, 1; Massachusetts, 6; Michigan, 1; Minnesota, 1; Missouri, 5; Nebraska, 1; New Jersey, 7; New York, 9; Ohio, 10; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 7; Texas, 4; Washington, 2; West Virginia, 1; Wisconsin, 2. Total, 94.

Four other local unions, Locals Nos. 100, 101, 102, and 103, are maintained by the United Association for workers in the trade located "in any locality where the requisite five men for the formation of a local can not be found."

They are general membership organizations, membership graduated from Local No. 100 to Local No. 101 after one year's membership, then to Local No. 102, etc. Membership in Local No. 103 entitles member to all rights and privileges of membership in a regularly organized local.

Membership. — 4,500.

Stone Cutters' Association of North America, Journeymen

Affiliated to the American Federation of Labor.

Organized December 5, 1887. Craft unions of stonecutters were among the earliest established in the United States, but the organization as it exists to-day was launched on December 5, 1887, at a convention held in Chicago, Ill., attended by representatives from 20 widely scattered cities. The stonecutters were the first craft to obtain a universal 8-hour day, which was accomplished by 1904. Up to 1907 the Journeymen Stone Cutters' Association had been an independent organization, but it affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in that year.

Two rival organizations of stonecutters existed in New York City — the New York Stone Cutters' Society and the Architectural Sculptors and Carvers' Association of New York. In 1915 both these organizations merged with the Journeymen Stone Cutters, which thus became the only organization in the trade, with jurisdiction over carvers as well as cutters.

The official organ of the association has been in continuous publication since 1888.

Objects. — "The objects of this association are : To protect the trade from the dangers surrounding it and by cooperative effort to place ourselves on a foundation sufficiently strong to prevent further encroachment. We propose to maintain an apprentice system, to encourage a higher standard of skill, and to cultivate a feeling of friendship among the men of our craft."

Territorial Jurisdiction. — United States and Canada.

Trade jurisdiction. — "The cutting, dressing, setting, carving, fitting, picking out of all stone for position on the wall, drilling and patching of all stone, marble, Caen stone and artificial stone, exterior and interior, in or about a building, irrespective of any finish that may be specified; the trimming and rubbing down of all stone and artificial stone where stonecutters' tools, carborundum, emery or coarse sandstone is used; the molding of all artificial stone and the cutting of terra cotta in shops; all reinforced concrete, concrete cement blocks or artificial stone dressed or cut with stonecutters' tools, bush hammer and patent hammer; this classification to cover all stonecutting done in quarries, shops or buildings, and in the construction of bridges, culverts, manholes, archways, etc., and the cutting of street curbings and all rock-faced stonecutting."

Government. — General officers are president, vice president, general secretary-treasurer, and an executive board of five elected members, one from each district. They are the executive and administrative heads of the organization. "All local, State, and provincial conferences shall be subordinate to and abide by the rulings of officers of the association."