The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-10-22
BUILDING TRADES
HASSED 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 q Rebuke OF Their Persistent
Enemies

T All Trades Unionists Called Upon tn
Aid With Their immense Power
In Rebuke OF Their Persistent
Enemies.
Inc Building Trades Council of Phil
aaelphia, after being dallied with for
weeks by the Republican machine of
pennsylvania, have finally been driven
| 10 realize that there is no intention on
: cue part OF the machine to make the
Sapitol Ouiidlng at Harrisburg a union
loD, put on the other hand that it is in
TENDED to f1out the organized trades of
the State, relying on their absolute con-
troll OF the election machinery to secnra
whatever majority may be necessarv |
ny the methods cuStomarily employed
| Inc Buiidlng Trades Council has de- |
termlned to resent this attitude of tho
! machine, and to administer a rabuI-o
oy demanding that every trades union-
Isl III the State shall participate in an
ehectual boycott of the machine by re-
Lusing TO support at the polls any can
dldate put up by it for any officeYCon.
gresslonal, State, legislative or COUNTY
mat the trade unionists of the State
may understand the situation. the
bulldlng Trades Council submits the
Following statement of facts:
The Republican State Capitol Build.
ing Of Pennsylvania.
FOR downright nerve, audacity. gall n
sralt ana corruption of the most vi n
cious sort nothing equals or compares O
WIN that of the machine Republicans o
IN the State of Pennsylvania. n
a noted British divine. a careful st,,- Lei
uenr OF conditions both in America and
Europe, after years of study and n
most pa1nstaking and conscientious "
investigation OF our social as well as IL
~, ,uf lpoiltlcai conditions, once said in fl
discussing the criminal class of Lon iii
ION = the crooks, thieves and black nf
eSs-tnaI whenever one was arrested Ia
lolcted or charged with crime. the no. tn
ICE authorities in looking up the rec Ps
rus or these criminals never failed TO | of
nqu4e II tne prisoner had ever been Ell
onnfcteo with the Republican Ma mi
n."s IN PENNSYLVANIA, or if he had tic
ny relatives living in the State. VI
Less than four months ago the roo. La
gnlZed leader of the Repuhlican ma-
nlne in Pennsylvania admitted las ha
er Associated Press dispatch from q syl
Dorlda resort) the terrible corruntion | tiy
the Republican Machine in Penn. ing
1Vania, and then qualified the state | r
ent Dy saying that the people of the aga
eat commonwealth were satisfied syl,
low VI II, ana We're perfectly willing lab,
continue it. Owe
what deplorable state of affairs uni,
State which boasts of having over 81
rec hundred thousand men enrolled poll
the Grades union movement! Pen
[ll1s corrupt, vicious Republican ma. mac
lIle proposes to erect-in fact is this harl
y Jay erecting "a State CapitoI pioy
llclns with scab labor. What a tom
me and disgrace to the organized .'V
ers' tnelr friends and their families! expo
ed t,
Inc capitol building having baap are
sSlhed as an unprofessional iob nv mas
American Institute of Aroh;t' Penn
per Architect Illusions Statement State
'as necessary to secure the services nostr
business house in preparing the de- men zen,
work for the building. TT
ir. Du Quelin, according to his build
statements, worked for wefks most
salary amounting to hundredA of ana
lrs, in Arcbitect HuSto,,,S world
. the specific understandings tNat To
ne event of Payne q Co. seeurH mo- we sa
contract for the Capitol-which ouien
cd to>be foregone conclusion- woes,
Quelln (the Tiffany Company victor
SCI, would get certain share DOR .
york
o bind the matter, and to avn
contract was