Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-10-25

clans in royal style-always sees to 1t
that the right firm "a non-union firm. Of
courSel gets the sub-c0ntracts on the
Capitol building from Mr.. Payne the
general contractor? VIII Architect
Huston explain or will the corrupt. vi
cious machine in Pennsylvania tell why
the sub-contracts for the meta, ,athing,
| the electrical work. sheet metal work.
elevator construction. the employment
laborers, hoisting engineers and others,
amounting to hundreds of thousands
of dollars, were given to notorious
scab firms, companies constantly at
war with union labor. eyerlastingiy
crushing the workers:
appeal upon appeal was made to
Matthew Quay before his death. Sen
ator Penrose was appealed to time
and again. Petitions were sent from
the miners and the carpenters, hun
dredS of letters found their way TO
the leaders in the Republican party,
from Senator Penrose and Governor
Pennypacker down to the smaller con-
tingent of what is known as the Re-
publican Political Maehine-the most
corrupt ever known in the history Of
the world Regardless of all these
appeals, the many committees and
| delegations from Pittsburg and Phila-
delphia and the entire State rerfe-
senting thousands of union men. the
Republican leaders. by their actions.
have openly declared against union
labor, union hours and unicn pay, in
favor of the labor-cruShing corpora
tion the employer of scab labor, long
hours, unfair conditions, short pay,
the sweat shop and slavery.
what are you going to do about
it? The Republican political Machine
of Pennsylvania has deliberately
snubbed and nsuted the trades union
movement. 1t has placed itself on
record against union labor: it has
placed its seal of condemnation upon
our employers because those employ
ers recognize the union and willingly
pay union wages and observe union
conditions.
Not only were the leaders of the Re-
publican party in Pennsylvania content
with insulting one national union, but
they extended their persecution still
further until it included six great ma
tional organizations. namely. the Inter-
national Union of Wire, Wood and Me-
tallic Lathers, the Brotherhood of Elec-
trical Workers, the Brotherhood of
Painters Decorators and Paperhangers
of America. the international Union OF
Elevator Constructors. the Amalga-
mated Sheet Metal Workers Interna-
tional Alliance and the International
! Union of Hold Carriers and Building
Laborers.
These six national organizations
have thousands OF members in Penn
| sylvania and thousands of friends rela-
| tives and co-workers. These six build
! ing trade crafts have 4 right to ask, aye
a right to demand. that in their fight
| against this political machine in Penn
| sylvania the whole strength Of union
labor. the solid vote, shall be massed in
overthrowing this dangerous foe to
union labor
| LET union labor assert itself at the
polls, let us boycott the Machine in
| Pennsylvania as effectually as the
machine is boycotting union labor and
! harboring as well as protecting the em-
! ployers of scab labor and unfair condi-
| tons.
1--WE can successfully search and
! expose the favOritism which is EXTEND
ed to those contractors and others who
are part of the graft system which
! has made the Republican machine of
| Pennsyivania-the banner Republican
| State of The Union-a stencil in the
nostrils of ali respectable and decent
men.
Trades unionists, arisei Aid the
building trade workmen to rebuke this
most dangerous foe 10 human liberty
and the most corrupt machine the
world ever knew.
''To the union men of Philadelphia
we say, prevent or cut down the frau
dulent vote of that city at least 10000
votes, and the union will gain big
victory over the enemies of union la.
bor.'"