The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-27
Seattle Unions Have Over $1,000
in Building Fund.
CASH GIVEN BY BUSINESS MEN.
Mass Meeting mt Armoryz Results in
Many Substantial Promises
Speakers Tell of Interest in Cause
of Workingmen-Prin onion
sends Check for ,,-oo-otherr
Will Give Literally to the Fund

A labor temple in Seattle is now fairly
ana substantially assured. Five con.ribu-
tors have agreed to subscribe $3.50 toward
the purchase OF the lot and the erection OF
a building. and others have promised SINH
lar aid, though no regular effort to solicit
subscriptions has been made A COMMITTEES
OF the Western Central Labor Union xill
today begin a systematic canvass II Is be-
HsFed that within a month the entire yur-
chase price of the 10. viii be obtained
The price Of the lot is sl2 900. 1t is locat-
ed on Pike street, between sixth and
Seventh avenues, and the Central union
has secured an option on il for sixty days
from Crawford & Conover. Ii is the inten-
lion TO have a temple that exclusive OF the
lot viii cost 10000. four stories high. and
fitted with every comfort and convenience
possessed by any similar building In the
land. The labor on the structure win cost
nothing. The trades unions Of Seattle have
agreed TO do all the work free, and II is
believed that great reductions will I've Sc
cured on the prices OF building material,
The temple scheme was formally pre-
Tented TO TIRE public at a meeting held at
the Armory last night There was not a
large attendance. but the 300 or 300 there
were representative OF all classes. showing
the general interest In the movemen.the
willingness Of the business men 10 contri-
butte, the eagerness OF the unions TO have a
home for themselves and the hearty CO.
operation of professional men.
BY the time the meeting was over, Il was
found that the sum mentioned had been
offered. and that more money was forth
coming from others The contributions
were: Samuel Rosenberg, 800: the Seattle
Times, for a cornerstone $500; the Typo
graphical Union, $3.50, and SIS a month from
It's building fund the MacDougall & South
wick Company. 500, NJ Prayer, 500. The
printers presented their check for $3.50 to
Secretary Middleton, and the others will do
the same as soon as the money is needed
Labor TO Cost Nothing.
The meeting was presided over by w. G.
Armstrong. OF the Typographical Union.
who explained that the reason for selecting
the Pike street site was that there might
be revenue from renting the ground fioor
which would not amount to so mucn " the
temple were located on a street of less
business Importance. He believed the
temple would prove a paying Investment
from the start He announced that all the
building unions of the city had agreed to
do the work OF construction without charge.
I'VE have gone So far now on the project
that there IL no stopping" he said. we
have been promised so much help that all
we need to do ~ to help ourselves, and the
building Is ours"
Fred Ware of the stonecutters. promised
the aid OF the tDffty uitHptis VI 1hat
union.
Judge Moore expressed himself as heart
ily In accord with the movement 1T is In
koeping with the dignity OF lahor TO have
its own temple" he said. Il shall do all
I can to aid the enterprise"
]. @. Pyle. editor OF the Post-lnteui-
eencer. said he appeared at the meeting
10 assure the workingmen of the hearty
co-opsratIon of newspaper men. Ihis
temple means much TO organized labor,
he said There Is meaning to the
word home that is typical with labor IL
means the same as It does Ia the indi-
vidual--eompanionsh soclahility. adj
yancement and rest after day OF toll re-
lief from all cares OF work. With home
Won can act I'm harmony that would other
wise be impossible II IL big matter you
are undertaking and you have conmenc-
ed Il In a businesslike manner. All you
want now Is good business assistance.
pledge you the support Of the newspaper
interests Of the city"
Rev. W. u. Simonds, pastor Of the Uni
tartan church. gratlhed his auditors by
saying; III you have great temple OF
labor here / should be ashamed not TO
be represented in its erection. want an
interest IN II, even II IL is not more than