Gilpin observer., 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
Aid With Their Immense Power
In Rebuke Of Their Persistent
Enemies -

adelphia, after being dallied 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 union
job, but on the other hand that it is in
tended to fOut 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 n rebuke
by demanding that every trades union
ist in the State shall participate in an
effectual boycott of the machine by re-
fusing to support at the polls any can
didate put up by it for any office-Con-
gressonal, 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, 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 we'll 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 If he had
any relatives living in the State
Less than four months ago the rec
cgnized 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
eyIvania, 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 4 deplorable state of affairs
|
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
"The Capitol building having been
classified as an unprofessional job by
the American Institute of Architects
as per Architect Hustop's statement
it was necessary to secure the services
of business house in preparing the de-
tail work for the building.
'Mr. Du Quelin, according TO his
owl statements, worked for weeks,
his salary amounting to hundreds of
dollars. in Architect Huston's office,
with the epeeifie understanding that
in tie event of Payne & Co. securing
the contract for the CapitOl-which ap-
peared to be a foregone cOnclusion-AIr.
Du Quelin (the Tiffany Company, of
coCrse), would get a certain share of
the work.
ITO bind the matter. and to avoid
Observation-Disclosures, a contract was en-
tered into between Mr. Du Quelin.
the George F. 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.
"6ut when the Republican polite
ians discovered that the Tiffany Com
pany was a first-class union firm, pay
ing union wages, employing Brother
hood Painters and Decorators, under
union conditions, It was at once de-
eided 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-
delphia firm not employing Srosher-
hood men, these firms were diserimi.
mated against and robbed out Of the
contract by the schemins, vicious and
corrupt Republican Machine Of Penn
syivania.
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. Mr.. Huston, the Cap
ltol architect. iIf his office made the
following statement: I compelled the
general contractor, George +. Payne
" Co., to give this sub-contract to the
firm against whom the complaint Is
made Isn't that remarkable state
ment? People Of the greas State Of
| Pennsylvania, just think for minute!
The architect, Mr.. Huston. the sup
posed servant of the people-instead of
a vile. corrupt Misunderstanding to
the general contractor who shall be the
sub-c0ntract0r.
"Listen to the statement OF Mr..