Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-15


match his sort and kind. Hanna had
Rumsey placed on the police force of
Cleveland. Rumsey had been one OF
Hanna sailors.
Then Hanna caused the police board
to construct on the Cleveland force a
River squad, with Rumsey as chief
spirit.
Hanna was now ready, and he pulled
on his war with the poor sailor folk.
They were getting s.. % per day in sum-
mer and 81 in November and December.
/ Hanna cut them at slash to 81 day
in summer and s.. % in November and
December.
For four years the battle between the
sailors and Hanna staggered on. Rum
sey and his under thugs did the dirty
work. They thumped, gouged. mauled,
pounded and man-handled every union
sailor whom they found alone on the
Cleveland docks. They sent them by
carloads to the Central police station,
where they were promptly released by
UpdegraH, a judge who had some human
instincts. And Hanna paid the Rumsey
thugs the wage and hire of their bru-
tally.
In four years Hanna with his Rumsey
cohorts had beaten the Sailors Union
to death. 1t has gone now for good.
Hanna had his cruel way. Today, even
with those benefits of protection" about
which the ring-directed, note-threatened
Mckinley has so much to say, all that
Hanna's sailors get is s15 to s35 a
month, where before they received from
$50 to $40.
BoASrED OF HIS PROFITS.
Hanna boasts that since 1884, when
his final triumphs over the Seamen' S
Union came and the organization lay in
blood-dabbled death at his feet, he and
his fellow moneyites who were in the
cruel conspiracy with him-the Cham
berlains, the Minches and the Alvah
Bradleys-have as direct profits of their
victory made over $40, 600, 600. How
many women and children, the wives
and little ones of his sailors, this would
have honestly fed and clothed, are the
questions which never ran at the Hanna
heart for answer. He has natural bars
against any such inroad on his sensibil-
! tiles.
AS sweet bone to good dog, Hanna
rewarded Rumsey for his thug work by
sending the satellite on a vacation trip
around the world. -.
In former article on the crushing of
the Seamen's Union by Hanna 1 told
men to ask the particulars of Peter
Lynch, who was at the hour of its defeat
the president of that body. 1t would be
useless, as have learned. To stop his
mouth Hanna had Peter Lynch appoint
ed in some small capacity about the
Cleveland postofice. Hutchins, whom
Cleveland named postmaster, a politi-
| clan rather than a Democrat, inspired
| by the fisherman of Buzzard' Bay, is out
for Mckinley. He is today Hanna's
man. And Peter Lynch, once reputably
the leader of the lake sailors of Cleve-
land, is Hutchins-Hanna henchman.
Lynch must hold his place. He will
say nothing now of those bitter years in
the Dos, when Hanna ground him and
his sailors beneath the millstones of his
hard rapacity.
IMPORTED PAUPER LABOR.
But while Lynch may be made to for
get wrong with the present of lackey
place there are others with warmer mem
cries. When Hanna went to ST. Louis
to work out the program of the syndi-
cate and spring bribe-trap on nomi-
nation, the Central Labor Union of
CI.xoIoI Il
questions, including the following:
lis it not fact that Mark Hanna,
manager of William Mckinley, candi-
date for president, employed the notori-
Gus A. r. Rumsey to disrupt and crush
the Seamen' s Union of the lower lakes,
and further, did not Mark Hanna, in
acknowledgment of Rumsey's services,
send him on trip around the worldf
Seconds it not fact that Mark
Hanna, professional hater of organized
labor, disorganized the mine workers of
Pennsylvania?
"Third-Was it not through Mark
Hanna's efforts that the street car mems
organization of Cleveland was wholly
annihilated? And even today does he
not deny his employees the right to at
tach themselves to a labor organiza-
tion?''
These and other queries were put by
the Central Labor Union and never
answered.
Only the other day Hanna, who now
seeks to cajole the labor element he was
wont to cudgel until its blood dripped.
sent for Peter Witt, the head of the
Cleveland Central Labor Union, and
business agent of the Iron Moulders'
Union. Hanna said he wanted to explain
his past and announce his pure, new
and miIk-white position toward labor.