The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-10-20
BUILDING TRADES
MASSED TO FIGHT
Resent Insults by Pennsylvania e.
publican Machine.
HOPELESS OF FAIR TREATMENT
All Trades Unionists Called Upon TO
with, Their Immense Power
in a Rebuke OF Their Persistent
Enemiea

Inc building Trades COUNCIL or Phil
adelphia, after being dalfied 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 il is in
tended to iout 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 In an
| effectual boycott of the machine by re-
fuslng TO support at the polls any cam
didate put up by 1t for any office-Con-
gressional. State. legislative or county.
That the trade unionlsts 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, a 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 II he had
any relatives living in the State
LESS than four months ago the rec
osnized leader of the Republican ma
chine in Pennsylvania admitted las
per Associated Press dispatch from
Florida resort) the terrible corruption
of the Republican Machine In Penn.
sylvania, and then qualified the state
ment by saying that the people of the
great Commonwealth We're satisfied,
know of 1t, and were perfectly willing
to continue it.
"What deplorable state of affairs
in State which boasts Of having over
three hundred thousand men enrolled
In the trades union movement!
FNhtc VII
chine proposes to erect-in fact Is this
very day erecting "a State Capitol
Building with seab labor. What q
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 Huston's office,
with the specific understanding that
in the event Of Payne 4 Co. securing
the contract for the Capitol-which APP
peared to be fOregone conclusion-Mr.
Du QCelin the Tiffany Company, of
course), would get q certain share of
the work.
ITO bind the matter, and to avoid
MISUNDERSTANDING, q contract was en-
tered into between Mr.. Du Quelin.
the George Il. Payne Co. and Mr.. HuS-
ton, granting to Mr.. Du Quelin (the
Tiffany Company, in consideration of
services rendered, 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 frct.cIass union firm, psy.
Ing union wages, employing Brother.
hood Painters and Decorators, under
union conditions, 1t was at once de-
cided that some other concern should
do the work. The Huncker 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-
delphia firm not employing Brother.
hood men, these firms were diserlmi.
mated against and robbed out of the
contract by the scheming, vicious and
corrupt Republican Machine of Penn.
sy;vania.
During July protest was made |
against giving this work to company |
or firm unfair to the Brotherhood Of |
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang- |
ers of America. MFR. Huston, the Cap |
itOl architect, in his office made the |
following statement: I compelled the
general contractor, George h. Payne |
Il Co., to give this sub-contract to the |
firm against whom the complaint is |
made Isn't that remarkable state |
ment? People Of the great State Of
Pennsylvania, just think for q minute!
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 f. Payne, the general contrac-
tor lust thirty minutes later outside of |