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Title: Annual supplement to the Labor compendium. The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., H. W. Steinbiss
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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iciting renewed interest and additional subscriptions. It was con- 26 HISTORY OF the; I^OUISIAXA PURCHASE CEXTEXXIAL EXPOSITIOX. sidered that while Labors fixiancial aid to the fund could be but a mite^compared to that given br men of great wealth, they could well afford, inview of the great benefits to be derived, to even pledge a portion of theirfuture earnings to support the cause, and in that way set a good examx)leto those in possession of unstinted means. This address had been drawn up with the view to uniting all Union menin the city in the interest of The Fair, and for the purj)Ose of establishinga delegate body, to continue after the Worlds Fair should be assured, au-thorized to watch out for the interests of Organized Labor during the con-struction and operation of the Exposition. The address w^as signed by H. W.Steinbiss, McArthur Johnston, Cuthbert Childs, E. L. Smis-th, James Pender-gast, J. J. Earh. E. Fuelle, W. G. Cole, David KrejTing. W, W. Morrison andC. P. Connollv.
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SETH W. COBB. Chairman of Committee on Fish and Fisheries and Member Legislation Committee. F. W. LEHMANN, Chairman of Committee on Ethnology and Anthropology. After being indorsed by the Building Trades Council, the address wasread before the Central Trades and Labor Union, at its meeting. December,9, and was almost unanimously indorsed by that body—a few of the mem-bers contending that before any further action was taken by OrganizedLabor in behalf of the Fair, the Committee of Two Hundred should be re-quired to sign a contract, gtiaranteeing that only L^nion Labor should beemiDloyed in the Fair construction and operation. (This was an impracticable proposition, as the Committee of Two Hun-dred was only a temporary body, and any contracts it might make wouldhave had no binding force.) Copies of the address were mailed to all unions in the cit3% and as a re-sult, a meeting of delegates from various local unions was held at Building- CONGRESS APPROPRIATKS FIVK MII.I,ION DOLLARS. 27 T

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