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mon to attempt to hold him to his

James J. Ryan eN-secretary or the Al
He'd Printing Trades Council. of Chicago:
when it gets so that ioboring man
/ can't 20 10 The man who hires him and
/ a.z his aivice about the way his vote VIII
I erect hIs wages. without being accused Of
-.berv. corruption and sedtion. we
ought TO- put Mark Hanna up for Presi-
dent on a platform o. government by in
rrction with. Tor and by the Million
aires"
~. j. Elderkin. president Of the Seameh
Union of America: I don't remember
that Mark Hanna's sailors ever went 10
him and asked him IL his promises meant
any,hiug. but 7 judge from his exhibition
I or feeling in this matter that they went
/ ard the promise went. too"
Robert l.. Nelson. president of the Chi
caeo IRON Moldcrs Union. 81 do not be-
/ reve Won could get man who is going TO
/ Vote for Mckinley 10 promise that wages
v-oiId be increased in the event of Repub-
lean success. because the man does not
believe 70 himself and if he made prom
Use a. would Doe just like those Of Hanna s.
it wouldn't work.
J. ]. Mitchell ex-presldent of the Build
ing Trades Council of Chicago: Hanna
evidently believes that it is a crime pun
islabls by fine and Imprisonment for any
workman 90 asl, FOR an increase I'm wages
M This dime. After the election Of Nc
kinney i- would be just as seditious for
man to- think ne Will have his wages rails
ed Anyway. can plead not guilty to
this last charge
ID. ID. Woodbury. president Of the Car
foo
been arrested yet for asking for more pay
hut ON Hannas statement, / expect 10 DC
-if Mckinley is elected.
s. $. VAUGHN. business agent of Typo
graphical Union 10. &c: Men have been
elioircd from striking in this broad land
Of freedom under the administration Of
cleveland and the gold standard. In
functions have been secured by which men
hqve been ordered 10 work, whether they
wanted to- or not. Mark Hanna is only
progressive and logical when he asserts
that IL Is criminally sediJlous for man
&c ask for more wages. whether he intends
10 strike or not
j. Mccarthy. business agent Of the Shoe
makers Union Of Chicago. Mark Hanna
wants TO make more money every year.
II De is honest about what will happen
when Mckinley goes i'm. do not see why
a. shoemaker shouldn't want 10 make more
money. But it IS evident that Hanna does
and that he knows the reason why.
Joseph D7ze. president of the Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers: Hanna and
direr.a about several things. but we >Eree
thar he ism getting - much for the iron
he sells as he did some years ago. That
IS not the result Of the gold standard
however. 10 is because he pays his men
SO much more wages-nit."
Adam Meushe. president of Cigarmak-
ors Union NO. "A: III it is all right for
Hobart. McKinley's running mate, TO
bring an the hard coal men into trust,
90 limit production. our wages, and in
crease prices until coal Is IS per ton what
IS wrong with going t. your employer I'm
"a body and asking him If YOU can get
more wages in certain event? The law.
as Hanna interprets IT, does not seem TO
be quite foir.'
August Luders German vice president
Of the Brickiayers Union Of Chicago;
"Our organization does not believe in
striking and our employers do not believe
iu letting u.s. Bat II they were to have
any of MS arrested for sediuon on the
charge that we were about 10 ask that
the wage scale be maintained after cleo
zion. or any other time, 1 believe the
whole American people would think we
had q right TO strike.
John G. Harding. ex-presideut of Typo
graphical Union No. 6: 'IIanna's state
neut of the case seems to Zoe % twin broth
ar Of VanderbHt's-it reads, The Laborer
Doe Jailed. Printers make contract for
years ahead with their employers. and
strange 10 say. the employers seem TO
think the contract is valuable to them
Evidently Hanna has never tried this sys-
tenn with his men. lie ought to. 1t
would make his employees like him bet
ter"
T. O.. Adalr. president Of the Chicago
Labor Congress: There have been some
strange accusations brought against the
Democrats this campaign bCt OF all these
the straugest IS the charge Of coercion
Hanna has Just made. To so 10 man for
whom YOU are working for the purpose
OF learning whether or not Hanna is tell
ing The truth about Mckinley. is coercion
of your employer. Why? 1t seems to me
Hanna ought to explain
W.. $. TimbHn, president Of Typograph-
i.aI Union No. Is: "AfJer Hanna's deiin-
fi3n of the duties of the workman to his
employer al election time and his procIa-
NATION of the law governing the former
7 can understand his bowling for national
t..,or and the American flag. And 1
know for a certainty why old DIR. John-
son put this in his dictionary; PATRIOTISM
the last refuge OF a svvundrel