The Journeymen Stone Cutters Association of North America, a union which represented laborers working with cutstone, was organized in 1853. By 1907 the international, which was located at Indianapolis, Indiana, became affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, and in 1968 merged with the Laborer's International Union. The Madison local was established about 1901, and records indicate that it went out of existence about 1941 amid jurisdictional squabbles with other construction unions, such as the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers International, concerning various types of stonework. There also appears to have been a decline in the available work of a type previously done by the union. The State Historical Society of Wisconsin building is an excellent example of cutstone work.
