Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-10-20
BUILDING TRADES
MASSED TO fight
kesenI Insults by Pennsylvania Re-
publican Machine.
HOPELESS OF FAIR TREATMENT
All Trades Unionists Called Upon to
Aid With Their Immense Power
in Rebuke of Their Persistent
Enemies,

iiutIDuld, dIltI DtiHS udltlttl NIlI LOl
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 Il 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 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 Il reDuke
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 O1fice-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 i'll America and
Europe, after years of study and Il
most painStakin@ and conscientious
investigation of our social rs well as
our political conditions, once said in
II Sci. 10 cY.i, u nj nl1 If
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
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 il.
What 4 deDlOrable 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 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!
1.-THE Capitol building having been
classified as an unprOfessiOnal job by
the American Institute of Architects
as per Architect HuStOr'S statement
it was necessary to secure the services
of a business house in preparing the de
tail work for the building
Mr.. Du Queln, according to his
own statements, worked for weeks.
his salary amounting 20 hundreds of
dollars. in Architect HuStOn's office,
with the specific understanding that
in the event OF Payne IL Co. securing
the contract for the CapitOl-which APP
peared to be a foregone conclusiOn-Mr.
Du Quelin (the Tiffany Company, of
course), would get Il certain share of
the work.
ITO bind the matter, and to avoid
Misunderstanding, a contract wasEu-
tered into between Mr.. Du Quelin,
the George +. Payne Co and Mr. Hus-
ton, granting to Mr.. Du Quelin the
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 +.
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-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 Runeker and the
Chapman Decorating Companies of
Philadelphia, being Brotherhood firms
also, both on excellent terms with the
union and paying at least so to IS
cents per day higher than any Phila-
6eIphia firm not employing Brother
hood men, these firms were discrini-
mated against and robbed out of the
contract by the scheming, vicious and
corrupt Republican Machine of Penn
sy:van:a.
During July a protest was made
against giving this work to 4 company
or firm unfair to the Brotherhood OF
Painters, Decorators and PdperhanS-
erS of America. Mr.. Huston, the Cap
itOl architect, in his office made the
following statement: i compelled the
general contractor, George l.. Payne
II Co., to give this suD-c0ntract TO the
nrm against whom the complaint is
made Isn't that q remarka Die state
ment? People of the grea. Stale Of
Pennsylvania, just think for minute!
The architect, Mr.. Huston. the sup
posed servant OF the people-irstead o.
Il vile, corrupt misunderstanding 10
the general contractor who shall be the
sub-contractor.
Listen to tho statement OF Mr..
George +. Payne, the general contrac-'
tor just thirty minutes later outside OF
Mr. Illusions Office. made voluntarily
and without pressure being brought to
bear Mr.. Payne said: l was opposed
IN ciyino. this contract 10 This firm 7