This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: cathabes1 Surnames: Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.vermont.counties.rutland/4807/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Beginning on March 2, 1880, the Rutland Herald carried several articles about a strike in the marble quarries in West Rutland. No particular names were mentioned, but the first article and several in the following days describes wages at the time. The quarry workers had been receiving 80 to 90 cents a day. They were told they would receive a pay increase of $1.10 a day for 11 hours work. Then they were told the maximum would be $1 a day for 10 hours work. All of the Rutland Marble company quarry workers struck and 2/3 of the Sheldon and Slason workers struck asking for pay of 12 and 1/2 cents an hour. (This would have been $1.25 for a ten hour day.) They said they would settle for the original $1.10 for 11 hours. (The sawyers at Sheldon and Slason stayed at work; all the quarry workers struck.) One of the companies threatened to turn all the strikers out of company housing if they weren't back at work by Wednesday. By the end of the week, the workers had returned to work. No outcome to the wage dispute was mentioned. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.