Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1905 — Convict Labor to Build Roads. [ARTICLE]

Convict Labor to Build Roads.

The labor unions at Indianapolis are backing a proposition to utilize the labor of convicts in the manufacture of brick and the coastruot. ion of brick roads ia the country districts. They claim that the building of roads by convicts would offer the least opposition to free labor and that briok roads under these conditions con'd be built qs cheap as macadjin is now being laid by the contractors.