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OFFICE OF
[SEAL OF WESTERN CENTRAL LABOR UNION]
The Western Central Labor Union
Corner Madison and Front Streets
UP STAIRS

Seattle Washington, Dec. 3rd 1894

To the Honorable City Council of the City of
Seattle:

Gentlemen:- The Western Central Labor
Union having urged the estalishment of the
Free Public Employment Office naturally feel a pride
in seeing it decently equipped for the transaction
of business with the public. We are fully justi-
fied in believing that all right thinking
persons, whether affiliated with our organ-
ization or not, entertain the same sentiment.

It is no misuse of language to say that the
quarters occupied by the office at present are
not calculated to give it either patronage or
respect, in short if it had been designed to
bring it into public contempt its surroundings
and appointments couldu scarcely have been better
designed for that purpose.

For the purpose of measuring the usefulness of
the office and maintaining for it some degree
of public respect we pledge our best efforts in
endeavoring to secure better, more commodious and
more decent accomodations for the transaction of
the important business for which it was instituted.
We feel confident that the city will lose
nothing either in dignity or self-respect