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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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same amount, and requesting the Citj^ of St. Louis and the State of Missourito jointly appropriate $5,000,000, conditional upon subscriptions bj^ citizensof St. Louis and others of an equal sum. HISTORY OF THE I^OUISIANA PURCHASE CENTEXNIAI, EXPOSITION. Thus it will be seen that in less than twelve months after the subjectwas first broached in the halls of Organized Labor, and the matter takenup and pushed vigorously by The Labor Compendium, official organ of theBuilding Trades Council, the pro)30sed Centennial Exposition was well inthe minds of progressive citizens, and was fast taking on a tangible form,\^dth a movement on foot to raise $15,000,000—the amount paid by PresidentJeiferson for Louisiana Territory—to be used in celebrating the Purchase. INTEREST BECOMES GENERAL. On Januarj^ 17, 1899, at the annual meeting of the St, Louis BusinessMens League, the subject of the proposed Exposition was received withgreat enthusiasm, and resolutions were adopted approving the action of
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ADOLPHUS BUSCH, Ciiairman Committee on Foreign Relations and Member Fine Arts Committee. GEORGE T. CRAM, Chairman Insurance Committe and Member Historical Committee. the convention of January 10-11, pledging support, to make the Expositionthe grandest the world has ever seen. Following this, the :Master Builders Association of St. Louis adoptedsimjlar resolutions, as did the South Broadwaj Merchants Association, andon January 18, 1899, the Building Trades Cotmcil of St. Louis and Vicinity,at a regular weekly meeting, adopted the follo\^-ing bv unanimous vote: •AYHEEEAS, The resolution of C. C. Behnke, of the Central Trades andLabor Union, as introduced in this body hy General Secretary TreasurerSteinbiss, and indorsed by this body at a regular meeting, on January 26,1898, has been successful in interesting the citizens of St. Louis in the move-ment for a grand celebration of the centennial anniversary of the LouisianaPurchase; and, WHEEEAS, The Convention of Delegates appointed by t

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