Annual supplement to the Labor compendium The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition . ring the heat of the above-mentioned strike of street 22 HISTORY OF THB I^OUISIANA PURCHASE C^KTEXNIAI, EXPOSrtTIOISr. railway emploj-es, at a mass-meeting, held at West End Coliseum, Wednes-day^ night. May 23, 1900, in behalf of the strikers, resolutions were adoptedasking labor unions throughout Ihe United States to petition their respec-tive Congressmen to vote against the Worlds Fair appropriation unless theoperators of the street railway settled the differences vAth their employesat once. As a further
Annual supplement to the Labor compendium The Louisiana purchase centennial exposition . ring the heat of the above-mentioned strike of street 22 HISTORY OF THB I^OUISIANA PURCHASE C^KTEXNIAI, EXPOSrtTIOISr. railway emploj-es, at a mass-meeting, held at West End Coliseum, Wednes-day^ night. May 23, 1900, in behalf of the strikers, resolutions were adoptedasking labor unions throughout Ihe United States to petition their respec-tive Congressmen to vote against the Worlds Fair appropriation unless theoperators of the street railway settled the differences vAth their employesat once. As a further means of forcing a settlement of the differences, aresolution was adopted asking all members of labor unions, should Congressfail to act in accordance with the spirit of these petitions, to do all in theirpow^er to prevent the consummation of the Worlds Fair plans . In line with the above action, a telegram was sent to Mr. Speaker Hen-derson, at Washington, D. C, asking him to stay proceedings in the WorldsFair bill for ten days, pending the circulation of a petition asking that the. W. J. KINSKlvI/A, Chairman of Committee on Mines and Mining and Member Waj-s and Means Committee. C. H. HUTTIG, Chairman of the Committee on State and Territorial Exhibits. appropriation be refused unless the street railway company came to anamicable settlement with its employes. The telegram was signed by sevenalleged tax-pa^ers. This attempt to disrupt the Worlds Fair movement was not favoredby Organized Labor of St. Louis, it being considered unwise to adopt dog-in-the-manger tactics in connection with so important a matter as a WorldsExposition, and on Saturday morning, May 26, H. W. Steinbiss, General Sec-retarj-Treasurer of the National Building Trades Council, and H. Black-more, President of the Building Trades Council of St. Louis and Vicinity,sent telegrams to Mr. Henderson, assuring him that Organized Labor of St,Louis was not opposing the pending Worlds Fair bill. Subsequent examination
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