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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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e a capital stock of from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000, one-halfof which must be subscribed in good faith, and ten per cent, of which mustbe paid in. The bill to incorporate was passed by both houses of the MissouriLegislature without a dissenting vote, and on Wednesday, April 12, 1899, itreceived the Governors signature, and became a law, authorizing the in-corporation of companies to inaugiirate and hold National and Internationalor Worlds Fairs, Centennials and other Expositions, either commemorativeof historical events or for the purpose of promoting improvements in thearts and sciences, professions and trades, by appropriate exhibits. An interesting social event in connection with the passage of this billwas an elaborate banquet given to the State officers, numbering 225 persons,at the Mercantile Club, St. Louis, on Saturday evening, March 18, 1899. Itwas a remarkable occasion, the guests appearing in business dress, insigniaof the purely business matters it ^vas desired to discuss.
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HARRISON I. DRUMMOND, Chairman Police Committee and Member of Committee on Fish and Fisheries. CORWIN H. SPENCER, Chairman of the Committee on Ceremonies. ORGANIZED LABOR AT THE FRONT, Early in March, 1899, the members of several St. Louis Labor Organiza-tions began to express a desire to become stockholders in the proposedExjDOsition, either as individuals, or as unions en masse, and at a meetingof the Building Trades Council of St. Louis and Vicinity, March 15, aftertelling addresses, the following resolutions were adopted: WHEREAS, The Building Trades Council was one of the first organiza-tions to indorse the project of a Worlds Fair in celebration of the Louis-iana Purchase Centennial; and, ORGANIZED I,ABOR AT THE) FRONT. 19 WHEEEAS, Said Worlds Fair is now an established fact, and will beheld in the City of St. Louis in 1903 and 1904; and, WHEEEAS, We recognize that said Worlds Fair will be of incalculablebenefit to all citizens of St. Louis, especially the Building- Trades, inas

• Harrison Irwin Drummond (1869-1920)

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