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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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, in the shape of a petition for a writ of mandamus, filedby Henry H. Werdes and John F. Bergherm, in the name of the Working-mens Protective Association, before Judge William Zachritz, in CircuitCourt Eoom No. 4. A demurrer to the petition v^^as filed, July 29, by Chief Counsel JamesL. Blair, on behalf of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Co., reciting- twopoints: That the petition did not state facts sufficient to constitute causefor action, and that neither of the plaintiffs appeared, upon the face ofthe petition, to have any right to the remedies prayed for. The Court ap-pointed August 6 for a hearing. On July 31 the Building Trades Council adopted the following resolu-tions, introduced by Frank P. Farrell, of Plumbers Union Xo. 35: WHEEEAS, The Building Trades Council, on January 26, 1898, adoptedresolutions proposing that a Worlds Fair be held in St. Louis in 1903, tocommemorate the purchase of Louisiana Territory by President ThomasJefferson in 1803; and,
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ISAAC S. TAYLOR, Director of Works. Frederick J. V. Skiff, Director of Exhibits. WHEEEAS, The Building Trades Council has, ever since that time,exerted its best energies towards making the said Worlds Fair a fact andan acknowledged success, and the members of its affiliated unions have,both by their subscriptions to stock in the enterprise and by their personalefforts, contributed to the extent of their ability to that end; and, WHEEEAS, We believe that it is to our interest, and to the interestof our city, that no obstacles be placed in the way of the Louisiana Pur-chase Exposition Co. and its efforts to erect and complete the work neces-sary to said Worlds Fair; and, WHEEEAS, There has lately been filed, by one Henry H. Werdes andone John F. Bergherm, purporting to represent an organization styled the*Workingmens Protective Association, an injunction suit to restrain theuse of Forest Park as the site for the said Worlds Fair; and, WHEEEAS, We believe that the said Forest Park site

• Frederick James Volney Skiff (1851-1921)

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