The Irish standard., 1896-10-24

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81 interesf, ana 81 which HIS brot is pTesI
q slent. was a rivefer, and, WI man 9th
II ers. was paid 50 per hundred Tor making
IA fivets in the construction Of steel vessels
i From the Sfall of 1893 to the spring. OF So
4 the Hannas n conpl aimed loudl W of hard
q times and bad business, and here is ths
i story of how they swindled US $50 work
u men out Of tensNpf thousands Of dollars
laggregately: They--the yI1annas-pFopos-
i esl build stee1vessel and pay us a hal
j OUT regular Wage--viz., $1.5G per hundred
I for riyets, and the other skilled men pro
northumberland to pay the other hall
/ due us when the vessel was sold. esIs
Il There was nothing in writing and These
4 $50 men. including myself. were cheated
of this other half due us The vessel was
COMPLETED and operated by the Hannas
and they owe me today more than $40G
1 and there are $50 men. sea ttered among
the lake ports who stand ready to testify
to this high-handed piece of rascality in
i which Mark Hanna and his brothers were
chief partners. This steel "freighter
which we built was known as the Globe
and is running on theslakess today Alfred
Smith was the foreman of the riveters or
| this job @
The Hannas also owned largely the
stocks OF the Chicago Ship Building Com
pany, in South Chicago, Of which w. I
/ Babcoek is and was the president, and
this ship company did the same rascally
job with their men, in the building of the
kearsage at South Chicago as was done
at Cleveland. only the Deferred pay
ment was made one-third instead Of one
half. ..Ss
At this present moment there is little or
no work being done in the Globe yards, at
Cleveland and 1t is positively known that
this concern has discharged its men by or
| der OF the Hannas to give political effect to
their talk about the industrial stagnation
!
unconpleted contracts in the Globe var
ar this moment. several boats being on the
stocks half finished, which is conclusive
evidence thar the Globe company has
plenty of work on hand, and that this I'M
Warranted Shutdown" was ordered pure
the shSp-building trades AS another evil
dence that the ship-building in ustry is
thriving today in Cleveland, the Cleveland
Ship Building Company, rival concern,
is working a full! force OF men.
| The men who handle Hanna's boats are
! receiving but SIS a month at all seasons.
Mr.. Hanna's Globe yard, in Cleveland,
| pays the worst wages Of any shipyard on
the continent, laborers who DO partially
skilled work receiving 80 cents to $1.10 per
day; tirst-class skilled "platers,,' 'srivet-
'blacksmiths, "furnacemen" and 'scar-
penters'' are paid $175 to s225 per day in
the Globe yards. while in the Cleveland
company's shipyard, almost next door. the
| same labor commands So. rs and So per day
1t is generally conceded fact that the
stand by the ticket which is to bring de-
feat to that syndicate of bondholders and
self-seekers headed by Hanna, Mckinley
& Co.
You well know that should any of the
Hanna henchmen get hold of any names
n ~ faCf II! mo rot on,7t
above that they would be bounded until
their lives became burden. You will
therefore leave off the signature to this
statement. Abundant corroborative tes-
timony will be furnished you by address
ing our brotherhood.
MEMBER B. M. & +. S. E.
The missive shown above is, in short
but specimen brick. The story it tells is
only Getail-only one setting in the
mosaic of black wrong which makes up
the Hanna treatment of workmen every
where.
Those of us who are well fed, we'll gar
mented and well ordered ought not to for
get that necessity makes frequently the
root of crime. 1t is we'll for us to recollect
that even in our own law-abiding, not to
say virtuous cases, the only barrier be-
tween us, and anarchy is the last nine
meals we've had. 1t may be taken as
automatic that starving man is never a
good citizen.
With this IN our mind, what shall be
said of the man who arranges famine, who
forces a labor strike with it's priVatiOn, it's
rloting. its disorder, it's bayonet thrusting,
and it's blood-letting as an incident in his
money heaping? IF necessity breeds crime,
what is he who creates the necessity? Let
me tell a chapter in the history Of the
Mark Hanna millions.
There are those who will recall the ire
men6ous mine strikes Of 1894 Blood flowed
and the torch fourished. Buildings were
burned, men were shot down. Women with
their little ones were starved and bitten
by hunger. Now as to the cause Of the
strike.
Il was in the autumn ct 1898 The wealth
er was raw and chill, but the Hanna lust
for money was as hot as ever. Hanna con-
ceived plan-a money inspiration. At his
call there came to his offices in the Perry
PAYNE building, Cleveland, Ohio the mag
mates of Western Pennsylvania and East
ern Ohio mines. They talked, considered
and at the word Of Hanna made this plot.
1t was plot to bleed the public, and as a
detail to throw thousands of miners out
of work, and into want, and need, and
sorrow.
Separating from this Hanna conference,
those in the black pool repaired to their
coal holes and put all the men to work
they could sign. They mined coal day and
night. They piled it up in ebon mountains.
There were never SO many at work in the
mines, never so much to do. AS the l1ar-
vest of this break-neck digging and blast
ing and mining Of coal, the pool, with
Hanna at it's head-even as he is now at
the head Of the Mckinley syndicate, plan
ming for White House-stored in barges
on the Ohio river over 1900, 900 tons Of coal,
while $50, 900 tons were stored along the
shores of the Great Lakes.
With these 100000 tons Of coal in hand
-'sup their sleeves as runs the cant Of
the alleys---the trap Of the Hanna pool was
ready for the springing. The first step
was to stop the production Of coal; do it,
too, SO that the blame therefor would rest
with the men and not with the pool. This
was readily brought to bay as a PROPOSE
ton. The miners everywhere in the coal
holes of the pool were cut and trimmed in
their earnings AS if that might not be
enough another cut was ordered.
In moment the men were out, work
was brought to a dead standstill, and the
strike the Hanna pool had plotted for was
on. Then the strike spread. Sympathy
strikes were ordered along the whole line
OF mines as far west as Council Bluffs
The soft coal production came to an abso-
lutte end, and coal famine set in.
Along with these things, of course,
came the militia, and strikers who need
ed it, We're shot down or stabbed. or club
bed in an intermittent but decisive fashion
as in such case made andsprovided. Mean
while like a spider in its web, the Hanna
inspired coal pool sat back, hiding it's
time. The strike might proceed, blood
might flow, the tide of their profits was
flowing in, and they nSlst watch and take