The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-06

charged from the employ of the said Hen
rvs street railway without. any reason or
cause being given him., and further, that,
motive in diseharpin@ him him mat the sale
Henry refused positively TO assign any mo-
tive:
THE deponent further says that he had
been a faithful employe and is OF the firm
belief that he was discharged by the said
Henry solely because he was known 10
be a friend of organized labor and a DEM
ocrat. That the said Henry even refused TO.
give the deponent a recommendation until
he had gone TO him a number of times ana
importuncd him for many days 10 give MIN
an abstract: that the stand the said Henry
had taken against organized labor was no
torious. and IL was well known that the
men had been discharged by Henry be-
cause they wanted to form a union among
themselves that after Henry had refused
TO give deponent a recommendation. and
charged with having discharged his men
for this reason only, the said Henry sent
word to him asking him TO come 10 the
and the following conversation passed be-
tween him and the said Henry:
mendation. / can give you one, but l don't
feel like giving you one now. III see fur
tner on. Did you see that piece in the paper
about my being 'pizen on unions?
william Vasbinder-Yes, / heard ii read"
Charles L. Henry-Weren't you boys go
Al" .W III am VasbinderHYes We were talk
ing about it,"
Charles l.. Henry-Were you going into
it?r
william vasbinder-Yes. sir"
Charles L. Henry-Were the boys afraid
to GO in?"
matter over. and after Nation and Gambol
were discharged it scared all of them out
but three or four"
Charles L. Henry-Who were they?'
William Vasbinder-Well, there was
Charles swaine and some others
-Charles IL. Henry.Did you ever near
fh0 on6 - uvara diCah n rTaI
because they were getting up the union?'
William Vasbinder-Yes, sir"
Charles L. Henry-well, of course. now
I'll tell you. I'm opposed to these unions
and / want nothing to do with them"
And deponent further says that the said
Henry said that he wanted him to sign a
paper stating that ii was not on account
OF his friendship to the union that he was
discharged before he would give him a
recommendation. DepoDent told Henry that
he could not do this truthfully and went
away without a recommendation.
That afterward Henry sent to him a
clerk by the name Of Ellis Carpenter. who
is the said Henry's confidential secretary,
who had with him a recommendation writ
ten out, and which he showed the deponent,
and then asked him to sign a paper stating
that he had not been discharged on ac-
count OF his friendship for the union, to
which the deponent answered: We'll. you
can give me that recommendation or not,
but I'll never sign that paper
"Deponent further says that on Oct. /,
1884. the said Henry again sent his conf
0CANAaA GIL NcAA y . LAlAo al tAl ~ Ao4AC
to him with a paper stating that
the deponent had not been discharged on
account of his friendship for the union,
and deponent again refused to sign any
such statement. knowing that such a state
ment would be false: that deponent has
long been aware of Henry's antagonism TO
organized labor and has it from the lips of
Charles l.. Henry that he is opposed TO
WILLIAM vASBINDER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
LIST day of October. 1894.
HOWARD GATES, Notary Public"
Mr.. Henry was asked as TO what there
could be to base the conversation related
in the affidavit upon, and he said there was
absolutely nothing. He had never, he said,
had any controversy with his employees in
the street-car service or elsewhere. He had
not given orders to anybody at any time
not to employ men who belonged to a labor
union. or to discharge men VINO belonged
TO a union or who proposed to form a
union. He did not know, he said, that there
had been any proposition to form a union
in June of 1893 until the cation in the
Anderson Democrat of the charge in March,
1884, when the conductors were taken Off
the cars for prudential reasons. 1t is a
matter or history in Anderson that he has
slightest controversy with men working for
him as TO wages, hours or anything else.
since the slreet-car company changed the
ployes have been receiving $3.50 a day, and
there has never been heard a word of dis
satisfaction from them. He has been, on
the contrary, a friend to labor, and has
brought the majority of the factories to An
derson through his own pluck and energy.
He has been one of the largest employers
or organized labor in the city, and now
owns a store there wi1ich is operated by
union clerks He was president of the
Hoosier Glass Company, in which every
employee and the foreman were members of
the union, and no other sort of men were
esSr tnouShl Vi. Later ne Was secretary
and treasurer of the Anderson Glass Com
pany, manufacturers of window glass, in
which only union men were employed. v.
Il. Morgan. a member of the window-glass
workers union, said to a Journal reporter:
You may say that the charge that Hen
ry is opposed to union labor don't go with
er so far forgets his own interests as to
oppose Henry's election, 1t will not be on
the ground that he is not a friend OF labor
organizations, and I promise you there are
mighty few OF them that will not vote
for him in the gas belt. / once heard Mr..
Henry say thar g,.i If 1t Ter Were not not b for the
of making glass would be far more un-
profitable than 1t is. He said that the man
ner in which the window-glaSs workers
control their members, regulate the work
they do, gives the manufacturers assur-
ance of what they may rely on from the
men in their employ. He wished, ne said,
that the manufacturers were as reliable
in their organizations as the employees. III
they would unite, he said, as strongly and
NQulu act dS IliDiilOQSly 10 Lie QillOl,
| the manufacturers would find it greatly TO
their profit. There are numbers Of others
who have heard him talk just That way"
There is another affidavit that reeks with
either knavery or folly. 1t comes from
John G. Williams. who is connected with
| the Anderson Democrat. He seems envi-
Gus of the infamy of the dollar-a-day-affi-
| dayit liar of the campaign of 1888. He de-
poses as follows:
/ state of Indiana, Madison county, SIS. /.
This day personally appeared before me
John c. Williams. who, being by me first
duly sworn. deposes and says:
That heshas been a resident of Ander-
! son, Madison county. Indiana, about eight
I years, and during the whole of that time
has personally known Charles l.. Henry,
now Republican candidate for Congress,
| and has had frequent talks with him.
until about eighteen months ago a stock
| holder in the Anderson window-glass fac
tory. That about that time he sold his
interest to his partner, Philip Matter, of
Marion. Ind, receiving in exchange in a
| complicated deal that was then made be-
tween them the said Matters interest in
the Anderson street railway, after which
| he became sole owner of the railway, and
since which time he has not been engaged
4 in the glass business.
That shortly after the said Henry re-
| tired from the glass business the deponent
asked him, the said Henry. with some sur
| business, to which he, the said Charles l..
Henry, had replied:
- don't want TO have a cent of my
money invested in a business that is con-
trolled by this Internal organized labor
or words TO that effect. He has heard a