Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-10-20
BUILDING TRADES
MASSED TO FIGHT
Resent Insults by Pennsylvania Re
publican Machine.
HOPELESS OF FAIR TREATMENT


III "a hItahN
Enemies.
The Building Trades Council Of nh
adelphla, after being dallied Win ior
weeks by the Republican machine OF
pennsylvania. have finally been driven
to realize that there Is no intention on
the part Of the machine 10 make .ne
Capitol building at Harrisburg a union
lob, but on the other hand that it's IN.
tended TO iiout the organized trades OF
the State. relying on their absolute con-
troll Of the election machinery to secure
| whatever majority may be necessary
Iby the methods customarily employed.
The Building Trades Council has de-
termined to resent this attitude OF the
machine. and 10 administer a reDuke
by demanding that every trades union
list Ia the State shall participate IN an
ee~fectual boycott OF the machine by re-
fuslng 10 support at the polls any cam
dldate put up by II for any oiiice-Con-
gressional. State, legislative or county.
That the trade unlonlsts OF the STATE
may understand the situation, tne
Building Trades Council submits the
following statement OF facts:
The Republican State Capitol Build
ing Of Pennsylvania.
tFor downright nerve, audacity, gall,
graft and corruption OF the most VI
ciors sort nothing equals or compares
with that of the machine Republicahs
in the State of Pennsylvania.
"a noted British divine, Il 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, b po-
lice authorities in looking up the rec
ords of these criminals neyer failed to
inquire IL the prisoner had ever been
connected with the Republican Ma.
chine in Pennsylvania, or II 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 las
per Associated Press dispatch from a
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 deplofable 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
chine ropos TO erect-in fact is this
very day erecting "a State Capitol
| Building with s.ab 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 Huston's statement
it was necessary to secure the services
of a 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 Illusions office,
with the specific understanding that
In the event of Payne & Co. securing
the contract for the Capitol-whlch APP
peared to be a foregone concluslon-Mr.
Du Quelln 1.-THE Tiffany Company, OF
course), would get a certain share OF
the work.
ITO bind the matter, and to avoid
MISUNDERSTANDING, a contract vas en-
tered into between Mr.. Du Quelin,
| the George +. Payne Co. and Mr.. Hus-
ton, granting to Mr.. Du Quelln dhe
Tiffany Company, in consideration OF
services rendered, a 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 Il.
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-elass union firm, pay.
ing union wages, employing Brother
hood Painters and Decorators, under
union conditions, II 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 Phila-
deIphia firm not employing Brother
hood men, these firms were diserimi-
mated against and robbed out Of the
contract by the %seheming, vicious and
corrupt Republican Machine of Penn
syivan.a.
During July a protest was made
against giving this work to a 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 +. Payne
Il Co, to give this sub-contract to the
firm against whom the complaint is
made Isn't that a remarkable state.
ment? People Of the sress State OF .
Pennsylvania, just think fer : minutel
The architect. Mr.. Huston, the sup
posed servant Of the people-instead Of
4 vile, corrupt misunderstanding TO
the general contractor who shall be the
sub-contraetor.
Listen TO the statement Of Mr..
George h. Payne, the general cc%ntrac-
tor, just thirty minutes later outside Of
Mr.. Illusions Office. made voluntarily