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469M Resolution Unemployed Labor Employment 93

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Resolved

To provide immediate employment to our people now unemployed that the city authorities requested to commence the improvements for which the bond were noted and that they issue the bonds in suitable denominations to pay for labor and material as the work progresses and that paid bonds be made servicable for city taxes

Resolved That we demand of the mayor and city council the establishment of a free employment office in this city for both men [blua?] wemon;

These resolutions were unanimously adopted at a mass meeting of the unemployed at pioneer place Saturday July 29th 1893 [???] J. Laskin Chairman of the Meeting

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Mr. President: Your Committee on Finance to whom was referred Resolution adopted at a meeting of the unemployed of the City held on the 29th July requesting the city to immediately commence improvements for which bonds were vote, and that a free employment bereau be established We submit an opinion of the Corporation Council regarding the first proposition and [beg?] [lear?] for [report?] unfavorable. We learn that the advisability of establishing an Employment agency is being considered by another committee of this house and therefore asked to be excused from reporting that matter J.M. Lyon Chairman [Signatures]

Filed 8-11-93

Reasons why bonds cannot be issued in payment of labor and materials, and be receivable for taxes.

1st. There is no law allowing taxes to be paid in anything but lawful money. The City has no power to make taxes payable in anything else.

2nd. The ordinance submitted to the voters, providing for the bond issue, require the bonds to be in denominations of not less than one hundred dollars.

3rd. The ordinances approved by the voters require the bonds to be payable twenty years from their date, and this cannot now be changed.

4th. If the bonds were issued and turned back into the treasury in payment of taxes or otherwise, the City would have no right to re-issue such bonds without the authority of the voters expressed at another bond election.

5th. It being illegal to receive the bonds for taxes, merchants and laborers will not accept a five per cent. bond payable twenty years hence in payment for their materials and labor, hence the plan is impracticable, and if attempted will simply retard the sale of the bonds for money, hence retard the commencement of the improvements.