The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-12
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the Winthrop. The employees there nre
still receiving the same wages ,hat
were paid before tho cut at other places
wages are maintained, but this mine
has paid no dividend for the past three,
Years, though In ordinary times II IL
very profitable. Other mines have paid
dividends during that time. but The,
president OF The Winthrop, Mr., M. A,
hanna, thonsht5lt better to allow the
employees to earn living than 10
squeeze out dividend by reducing
wages; Tile Lake Superior iron milne
~ Which MT. Hanna recently became
interested is the Chaplin, ut Iron Noun
lain. Work was begun there abou,
fifteen months ago on n large scaIc.
Since then the company has never
passed pay day, and the employees arc
again paid In hard cash. n change most
Sratelui 10 them. after long experience
ordelerrcd payments and duo bills that
were only passed ut q heavy discount,
MIR. Hanna has aiso directed the re-
mission OF the ground rent at the Cha
pin. which was formerly charged en-
ployes living on the company's land,
ana they now occupy the land rent
Il condcnsc tho above from the re.
port OF the long and comprehensive
by shT. SItNpfly,
sThern Is no room for n possible doubt
OF the truth OF his assertions, and II
surely seems that the man who gives
his employees land free to build their
homes upon merits the praise rather
than the condemnation of the friends OF
labor. - -
Il have taken pains also TO Inauire
into the charges made against Mr.. Han
ma IN other fields of labor, especially
the lake sailors, and in the course OF
my investigations have received the fol-
lowing, which most emphatically ex-
onerate MIR. Hanna. the first being a
letter from MIR. T. L. Lewis, president
Ohio state Trades Assembly. and sccre-
tary OF the Ohio Miners Union:
s- COLUMBUS. O.. Sept. Is, 1896.
Dear Sir:-1n answer to your recent
letter of inquiry. wmlld state that
had charge of an Investigation OF the
marine interests OF Ohio. made under
the auspices of the Ohio bureau OF labor
statistics In 1891. My inquiry went back
tor twenty years. extending beyond the
time OF the trouble between the Lake
Carriers Association and the Sailors
Union. There was no evidence found
In The course OF this investigation TO
show that Mark Hanna had any part
In the difficulty then existing between
the sailors and their employees.
I would further state that the sta
tistlcal Investigation OF the workshops
and factories for the city OF Cleveland.
made by the labor bureau, was like
wise under my direction. The reports
based upon this inquiry are on file in
Columbus. and they will show that Mr..
Hanna paid the highest standard wages
for labor performed In Industries In
which he was interested. Very respect
fully yours, IT. L. LEWIS.
Pres't Ohio State Trades Assembly.
Sec'y Ohio Miners Union.
T Another document OF equal value In
coming to u conclusion on this question
is from Mr.. Richard Powers. a Droml-
nent and influential worker IN the labor
organizations OF the country and ex-
president of the Seamen's Union He
writes as follows, under idate OF Chica-
go, September %, 1896:
Knowing the history OF the Lake
Seamen's Union from Its organization
to the present, and participating In Its
struggles when to do so involved dam
ger and sacrifice. can truthfuIly as
sert that never In all this time, nor at
any other. has that organization ever
had any trouble with Mnrk A. Hanna.
All assertions TO the contrary are false
hoods, manufactured for political effect.
and with desire to mIsleud working
people, and denounce them as such.
Yours truly.
RICHARD POWERS,
EXPIRES. Seamcn's Union"