title: Granite Cutters' International Association
text: # Granite Cutters' International Association
  
  The Granite Cutters' International Association of America was a trade union representing granite cutters in the United States and Canada.
  
  ## History
  
  The union was founded in March 1877 near Rockland, Maine, USA. Its official publication was the Granite Cutters’ Journal. It was among the founding organizations of the American Federation of Labor.
  
  It was founded as the Granite Cutters' National Union and later Granite Cutters' International Union of the United States and the British Provinces of America before taking its final name in 1905. Jobs for skilled granite cutters dwindled in the 1960s and the union eventually merged into the Tile, Marble, Terrazzo, Finishers', Shopworkers' and Granite Cutters' International Union.
  
  ## Leaders
  
  The leader of the union was initially the secretary; from 1905 the secretary-treasurer; and from 1912, the president.
  
      1877: Thompson H. Murch
      1878: Josiah B. Dyer
      1895: James Duncan
      1923: Samuel Squibb
      1935: Lawrence Foley
      1951: Costanzo Pagnano
      1967: Joseph P. Ricciarelli
  