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It is not often that a respect
able newspaper deliberately
misrepresents a matter that is
on record. When they do so it
is evident that they are hard
pressed for what our worthy
Mayor calls an "exkoos." From
Wednesdays report in the
morning paper of the county
commissioners meeting we clip
the following paragraph:
after all had been heard a communi-
cation was read from the Typographical
union in which it was said that it had
been rumored that the board might let
the contracts for printing to weekly
papers and that in that event the
W0rk zU01tld have to be sent out OF
the city. It was stated that this would
be an injustice to the unemployed print
ers in the city and the board was urged
to let the contract to responsible papers
that had plants equipped to do the work
without sending it away"
A copy of the resolutions is
hereto appended. It will be
noticed that there is not the
remotest approach to an asser-
ton that the work Wou1d have
to be sent out of the city if
given to a weekly paper. The
only thing in the resolutions is
the request, which is always
made on such occasions, that a
bond be required to guarantee
the execution of the work in
this city or county. One bidder
professed his intention to send
the work outside the county,
but this was not true of the
other weekly papers, and a bond
as required of the Duluth Press
a few years ago, would have
fulfilled every requirement of
the resolution.
WHEREAS, reports are current that
bids have been asked for in st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Chicago and Superior, by
various Duluth publishers for setting
the forthcoming St. Louis County tax
list. which is to be awarded next Tues
day, January 4th, and which is very
large,
THEREFORE,, BE IT REso1ED, That this
union enter most vigorous protest
against any work being done outside of
this county, as there are great many
frst-class idle printers in this city at the
present time-men with families and
homes who need work badly to carry
them through the winter; and
Be IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the
county commissioners use due and prop
or diligence and require bond to be
given that no papers secure any of the
county printing who do not pledge them
selves to have all the work done in this
city or county and support home labor.
Be 1T FURTHER RESOLVED, That a
committee of three of this union, includ
ing the president, be appointed to wait
upon the county commissioners, prior to
their meeting next Tuesday, and urge
the purport of this resolution upon them,
and also that a copy of this resolution be
mailed at once to each commissioner and
to County Auditor Halden.
Be IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this
committee urge upon the commissioners
the necessity of having the union label
placed on the county stationery and
printed supplies.
HENRY DwoRsCHAK, Pres.
F. H. LoUNsBERRY, Sec'y Treas.
S. E. PEACHEy
F. BURwELL.
[sEAL.
IS NOT DISCRETIONARY.
To show to the people of St.
Louis county that the letting
of the tax list to the lowest
bidder is not discretionary
with the county commission
ers, as claimed by the News
Tribune, we quote the follow
ing from the General Laws of
Minnesota:
The county commissioners shall let the
9 7vertising Of the delinquent tax list to