Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1904-10-25
BUILDING TRADES
MASSED TO FIGHT
Resent Insults BY Pennsylvania Be-
publican MacLine.
HOPELESS OF FAIR TREATMENT
All Trades Unionists Called Upon to
Aid With Their Immense Power
in Rebuko OF Their Persistent
Enemies,

The Building Trades Council of Phil
adelphia. after being dallied with for
weeks by the Republican machine of
Pennsylvania, have finally been driven
| to realize that there is no intention on
the part of the machine to make the
Capitol building at Harrisburg a union
| job, but on the other hand that it is in
tended to hout the organized trades of
| the State, relying on their absolute coz
| troll of the election machinery to secure
whatever majority may be necessary
| by the methods customarily employed.
| The Building Trades Council has de-
termined to resent this attitude of the
machine, and to administer rebuke
| by demanding that every trades union
ist in the State shall participate in an
effectual boycott of the machine by re-
fusing to support at the polls any can
| didate put up by it for any ottice-Con-
gressional, State, legislative or county.
That the trade unionists of the State
may understand the situation, the
Building Trades Council submits the
| following statement of facts:
The Republican State Capitol Build
ing of Pennsylvania.
For downright nerve, audacity. gall,
graft and corruption of the most vi
cious sort nothing equals or compares
| with that of the machine Republicans
in the State of Pennsylvania.
"A noted British divine, careful stu
dent of conditions both in America and
Europe, after years of study and O
| most painstaking and conscientious
investigation of our social as well as
our political conditions, once said in
discussing the criminal class of Lon
| don = the crooks, thieves and black
| legs-that whenever one was arrested,
indicted CT charged with crime, the po-
lice authorities in looking up the rec
ords of these criminals never failed TO
| inquire if the prisoner had ever been
connected with the Republican Ma
chine in Pennsylvania, or if he had
any relatives living in the State
LESS than four months ago the rec
ognized leader of the Republican ma
chine il Pennsylvania admitted Gas
per Associated Press dispatch from a
| Florida resortl the terrible corruption
of the Republican Machine in Penn
| syIvania, and then qualified the state
| nent by saying that the people of the
| great Commonwealth were satisfied,
know of it, and were perfectly willing
to continue it,
what deplorable state Of affairs
in State which boasts of having over
three hundred thousand men enrolled
in the trades union movement!
This corrupt. vicious Republican ma
chire proposes to erect-in fact is this
very Cay erecting "a State Capitol
BUILDING with scab labor. What a
shame ard disgrace to the organized
toiiers, their friends and their families.
"-hc Capitol building having been
classified as an ulprofessional job by
the American Institute of Architects
as Per Architect Illusions statement
it was necessary to secure the services
of a business house in preparing the de-
tail work for tile building.
MIR. Du Quelin, according TO his
own statements, worked for weeks.
his salary amounting to hundreds of
dollars, IL Architect Illusions Office,
with the specific understanding that
in the event of Payne & Co. securing
the contract for the Capitol-which APP
peared to be q foregone conclusion-Mr
Du QucH1 the Tiffany Company, of
coursel. would get certain share Of
the work.
ITO bind the matter, and to avoid
misunderstandings, contract was en-
tered into between Mr.. Du Quelin.
the George Il. Payne Co. and Mr. Hus-
ton, granting to Mr.. Du Quelm the
Tiffany Company, il consideration of
services rendered, G contract for the
decorating. painting, art glass, plaster
ing. modelling, in fact, some ten or
twelve branches of interior work This
contract was signed by George II.
Payne and Mr.. Huston, and is in pos
session Of the Tiffany Company.
"But when the Republican polite
ians discovered that the Tiffany Com
pany was first-class union firm, pay
ing union wages, employing Brother
hood Painters and Decorators, under
union conditions, /. was at once de-
cided that some other concern should
do the work. The Huneker and the
Chapman Decorating Companies of
Philadelphia, being Brotherhood firms
also, both on excellent terms with the
union and paying at least so to rs
cents per day higher than any Phiia-
deIphia firm not employing Brother
hood men, these firms were discrimi-
mated against and robbed est Of the
contract by the schening, vicious and
corrupt Republican Machine Of Penn
sy'van.a.
During July a protest was made
against giving this work to company
or firm unfair to the Brotherhood OF
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang
ers Of America. Mr.. Huston. the Cap
itol architect. IN his office made the
following statement: I compelled the
general contractor, George K. Payne
IL Co., to give this sub-contraet TO the
firm against whom the complaint is
made Isn't that remarkable state
ment? People Of the greas State of
Pennsylvania, just think for minutel
The architect, MIR Huston, the sup
posed servant Of the peopIe-instead OF
a vile, corrupt misunderstanding to |
the general contractor who shall be the |
sub-coatractor.
Listen to the statement Of Mr.. |
George +. Payne. the general contrac
tor, just thirty minutes later outside of |
A-r. Illusions Office, made voluntarily /
and without pressure being brought to
bear. Mr. Payne said: I was opposed |