Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — WORLD’S FAIR CATALOGUE. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S FAIR CATALOGUE.

No Necessity for Precipitating Trouble with Organized Labor. A Chicago correspondent says that the pending controversy between the managers of the World’s Fair and organized labor is unfortunate and apparently unnecessary. It grows out of awarding the contract to print the Exposition catalogues to a non-union printing establishment. It was a very large and desirable job, and seems to have been awarded to the highest bidder. As drawn up, but not yet signed, the contract provides that the printer of the catalogues shall pay the Exposition SIOO,OOO in cash before May 1; shall deposit a certified check for SIO,OOO and bond for slstj»* 00 that the work will be done; shall pay 10 per cent, of all receipts to the Exposition until the'sales shall reach $150,000, after whigh the Exposition is to receive 20 per cent, of the gross receipts. The price Offered for the job seems enormous, and the large printing houses of Chicago seem to have so regarded it, as none of them bid. The fact that the successful bidder is a non-union establishment raises a suspicion that it is run on a cheap plan and expects to make its profit by paying starvation wages and piobably doing inferior work.