Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-28
AN IMPORTANT CIRCULAR

Addressed to the Organized Carpenters
and Joiners of America.
The following circular has been handed
to the REGISTER by member of the Car
penter and Joiners' Brotherhood of this
city, with the request that it be printed.
1t expresses itself:
CHICAGO, ILL, July 81, 1883.
To the Organized Carpenters and Joiners of
america, and all other porkingmen uh0m
IL may concern:
The following is the report of a Special
Committee of the United Carpenters Coun-
Gil of Chicago and vicinity in reference to
the action OF the Republican party in hold
ing their National Convention in the Chi
cago Auditorium Building: The report
was unanimously adopted and ordered to
be printed
"Your committee respectfully submits
the following report: Acting according TO
your instructions your committee visited
the National Committee of Arrangements
for the Convention and informed it that
the foundation and carpenter work on the
Auditorium had been done by scsb labor,
and that the antagonism of the owners and
contractors of that building toward labor
organizations had been most active and
injurious to the workingmen in their efforts
to secure the eight-hour faw and fair
wages; that the building was of semi
public character, which is clearly set forth
not only in the name Auditorium but
also by the successful appeal TO the City
Council on this point, and the gift by that
body TO the Auditorium company Of the
alley which divided the land upon which
the building is being erected.
"Your committee also informed the Re-
publican committee that the owners Of the
Auditorium had made elaborate arrange.
ments to have President Cleveland lay
the corner stone Of the building during his
visit to Chicago, and the refusal Of the
President to lay the stone when he learned
that scab labor was erecting the buildiog
"Your committee respectfully urged
upon the Republican committee the i'm
portanoe of its action in this matter; that
as the Republican party was pledged to
the eight-hour working day, inasmuch as
that party had enacted State and na-
tional law making eight hours legal days
work, and that the party was pledged to
the protection of the workers, therefore
they could not consistently hold their con-
vention in o building erected by scab
labor.
s'Your committee respectfully requested
the National Republican Committee to
notify the owners Of the Auditorium build
ing that the Republican party could not
hold its convention in that building unless
Union labor, on the eight-hour plan, was
employed.
"Your committee was listened 10 by the
committee with visible impatience, and
eyasive answers and promises were given.
"Your committee also visited the State
and County Republican Committees and
made substantially the same statements ~
those made to the National COMMITTEES.
and like evasive answers were given, and
your committee kept in state Of uncer-
tainty until the Republican Convention
was held in the scab building.
"As instructed, your committee has,
since the convention was held. visited the
State Committee and urged IL TO use its in
fiuence to have the remainder Of the work
on the building done according TO Union
principles.
"During one of these interviews the
question Was asked Of your committee that,
q this committee used its influence and
succeed in turning the Auditorium build
ing into Q Union job. would the Rspubli-
can party receive the united support Of the
organized carpenters Of Chicago2 The
answer of your committee was that Il had
no inclination or power to make any such
promise.
"All interviews had by your committee
with the Republican managers have besn
Of . very unsatisfactory character.
1--WE thoroughly believe that the branch
Of the building trade that We represent,
and the great labor movement Of which We
are part, have been trifsd with and hum
bugged, and our vital interests contemptu-
ously ignored, by the managers Of the Re-
publican party, and Il is their purpose TO
keep Us on the end of their string until the
polls close in November, and then snap
their fingers and laugh ut our diappoint-
ment. Therefore, We respectfully submit
this report, and ak TO be discharged from
further service In this matter.
SEE. A. MEAGHKR
SO. W. FLACKFORD,
aIAa RRxNH0CH