Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1904-10-20
BUILDING TRADES
MASSED TO FIGHT
Resent Insults by Pennsylvania Re.
publican Machine.
HOPELESS OF FAIR TREATMENT
All Trades Unionists Called Upon to
Aid With Their Immense Power
in Rebukc of Their Persistent
Enemies. s.y


Enemies. y
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 tiout the organized trades OF
the State, relying on their absolute con-
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 a rebuke
by demanding that every trades union
list in the State shall participate i'll 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-
gressonal, State, legislative or county.
That the trade unionists of the State
may understand the situation, the
iIIilding Trades Council submits the
following statement of facts:
The Republican State Capitol Guild
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, a careful stu
dent of conditions both in America and
Europe. after years of study and a
= ton.
investigation of our social as we'll 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 or 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 roc
ognized leader CT the Republican ma
chine in Pennsylvania admitted Gas
per Associated Press dispatch from
Florida RESORT the terrible corruption
of the Republican Machine in Penn
syIvania, and then qualified the state
ment by saying that the people of the
great Commonwealth were satisfied.
know of it, and were perfectly willing
to continue it.
"What a deplorable state of affairs
in a State which boasts of having over
three hundred thousand men enrolled
in the trades union movement!
This corrupt, vicious Republican ma
china N nrntt-in fact jG This
very day erecting 49, Il State Capitol
Building with scab labor. What
shame and disgrace to the organized
toilers, their friends and their families!
"The Capitol building having been
classified as am unprofessional job by
the American Institute of Architects
as per Architect Hustop's statement
it was necessary to secure the services
of business house in preparing the de-
tail work for the building.
"MIr. Du Cuelin, according to his
own statements, worked for weeks,
his salary amounting to hundreds of
dollars, in Architect Illusions office,
with the specific understanding that
in the event of Payne Il Co. securing
the contract for the Capitol-whch APP
pcared to be foregone conclusiom-Nr
Du Quelin 0hc Tiffany Company, OF
coursel, would get a certain share Of
the work
ITO bind the matter, and to avoid
MISUNDERSTANDING, q contract was en-
tered iato between Mr.. Du Quclin.
the George f. Payne co. and Mr. Hus-
ton, granting to Mr.. Du Quelin 0he
Tiffany Company, in consideration OF
services rendered, a contract for the
decorating. painting. art glass, plaster
ing, modelling, in fact, some ten OF
twelve branches of interior work. This
contract was signed by George T.
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 a first-cIass union firm, pay
ing union wages, employing Brother
hood Painters and Decorators, under
union conditions, it was at once de-
cided that some other concern should
Go 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 90 to 10
cents per day higher than any Pntta-
dcIphia firm not employing Brother.
hood men, these firms we're diaermI-
natcd against and robbed out of th1
contract by the scheming, vicious ana
corrupt Republican Machine Of Penn.
syivania.
During July Il protest was made
against giving This work to 4 company
or firm unfair TO the Brotherhood OF
Painters. Decorators and Papcrhang
ers Of America. Mr.. Huston the Cap
itol architect, III his Office made the
following statement: I compelled the
general contractor. George H. Payne
X Co.. to give this Sub-cuntract 10 the
firm against whom the complaint is
made Isn't that a remarkable state
ment? People Of the gres> State Of
Pennsylvania, Just think for minute!
The architect, Mr.. Huston. the sup
posed servant Of the pcope--instead Of
Il vile, corrupt Misunderstanding TO
the general contractor who snail be the
Suh-contractor.