Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-25
BUILDING TRADES
MASSED TO FIGHT
Resent Insults by Pennsylvania Re-
ruSli.aa Mashine.
HOPELESS OF FAIR TREATMENT
All Trades Unionists Called Upon to
Aid With Their Immense Power
in a Rebuke of Their Persistent
Enemies


in Rebuke 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 fiout the organized trades of
the State relying on their absolute con-
troll of the election machinery to secdre
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 in an
| effectual boycott of the machine by re-
| fEsing to support at the polls any can
didate put up by it for any office-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 a
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 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 rec
ognized leader of the Republican ma
chine in Pennsylvania admitted (as
per Associated Press dispatch from a
Florida resort) the terrible corruption
of the Republican Machine in Penn
ment 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 q State which boasts of having over
three hundred thousand men enrolled
in the trades union movement!
This corrupt, vicious Republican ma
chine proposes to erect-in fact is this
very day erecting "a State Capitol
Building with scab labor. What a
shame and disgrace to the organized
toilers, their friends and their families
"The Capitol building having been
classified as an unprofessional job by
the American Institute of Architects
as per Architect Illusions statement
it was necessary to secure the services
of business house in preparing the de-
tail work for the building.
"Mr. Du Quelin, according to his
own statements, worked for weeks,
his salary amounting to hundreds of
/ dollars, in Architect Huston's office,
with the specific understanding that
in the event of Payne & Co. securing
| the contract for the Capitol-which APP
peared to be foregole colclusion-Mr.
Ou Quelin (the tiffany Company, of
course), would get a certain share of
! the work
ITO bind the matter, and to avoid
Misunderstanding a contract was en-
| tered into between Mr.. Du Quelin,
the George f. Payne Co. and Mr.. Hus-
| ton. granting to Mr.. Du Quelin (the
| Tiffany Company, in consideration oil
services rendered, contract fer the
decorating, painting, art glass plaster
ing, modelling, in fact, some ten or
twelve branches of interior work. This
contract was signed by George H.
1 Payne and Mr.. Huston, and is in pos
session Of the Tiffany Company.
"Sut when the Republican polite
ians discovered that the Tiffany Com
pany was first-cIass union firm, pay
ing union wages, employing Brother
hood Painters and Decorators, under
union conditions, it was al once de-
cided that some ether concern should
do the work. The Huneker and the
Chapman Decorating Companies of
Philadelphia, being Brotherhood firms
| also, both on exec lent terms with the
union and paying at least so to rs
cents per day higher than any Pnla-
delphia firm not employing Brother
mood men, these firms were diseTimi-
mated against and robbed out of the
contract by the scheming, vicious and
corrupt Republican Machine of Penn
! syivania.
During Jelly 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: ! compelled the
general contractor, George +. Payne
& Co., to give this sub-contract TO the
irm against whom the complaint is
made Isn't that a remarkable state
ment? People of the areat State of
Pennsylvania, just think for minutel
The architect, Mr.. Huston, the sup
posed servant of the people-instead of
vile, corrupt Misunderstanding to
the general contractor who shall be the
sub-contractor.
Listen to the statement Of Mr..
George Il. Payne, the general contrac-
| tor, just thirty minutes later outside Of
| Mr.. Illusions office made voluntarily