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The Butler County Press
Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio
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The Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor purchased the former Colony Club building in Detroit to convert it into a labor temple. Secretary Frank X. Martel announced plans to recondition the seven-story structure, unused for eight years, with unions moving in soon. The property, built starting in 1928, was sold at a scavenger sale after foreclosure for unpaid taxes.
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Detroit (ILNS). - The Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor has purchased the Colony Club, once a downtown gathering place of society women.
Frank X. Martel, federation secretary, said that the building will become the finest labor temple in America. The big ballroom, ornate tea-dance rooms and paneled library will be re-conditioned at once and in a few weeks the unions will move into the rooms, unused for eight years.
Construction of the $600,000 seven-story steel and brick building was begun in 1928. Then came the depression and by 1933 it had become a burden to the members. Furnishings worth $125,000 were auctioned off in 1925. The state foreclosed the property for unpaid taxes and sold it at a "scavenger" sale to the labor federation, which has ten years to pay for it.
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Detroit
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building to be re-conditioned and become finest labor temple in america; unions to move in within weeks; purchased at scavenger sale with ten years to pay.
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The Detroit and Wayne County Federation of Labor purchased the Colony Club building, a former society gathering place, to convert into a labor temple. The seven-story steel and brick structure, construction begun in 1928 and costing $600,000, became a burden by 1933 due to depression; furnishings auctioned in 1925; foreclosed for unpaid taxes and sold to federation.