The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-19

Hanna has grown in much of his man.
ner to be a fashion Of water ruffian. There
is nothing softening about a marine in
f1uence. 1t develops the courage, and.
as in Hanna'S case, makes men prompt
and daring. But it grows no flowers in
ones nature. 1t has left Hanna as rude.
as hungry, as stormy and withal as
treacherous as the sea itself.
Hanna has fought with his coal miners
and fought with his sailors. With his
millions, his virility. his want of con-
science, added to his native skill to drive
and coerce and compel folks his way,
Hanna has never lost one of these labor
wars. Today he Is the conqueror of la
Dor unionism on the Great Lakes, and
perhaps the only man who was born to
make the boast. 1t took time and money,
and crime and blood, and took bread
from mems mouths, and left want and
wrong at many poor decent door; but
Hanna was victor. He is. as a result,
the great fresh-water padrone of the
day. and his sailor people are helpless
as Mexican poems in his grasp.
In 1881 the Seaman's union was
strong organization on the great lakes.
Wages for men forward of the mast We're
81 and 81. so per day during the summer
months, while in November and Decem-
ber months of storms and sleet and ice.
when vessels in those narrow seas went
crashing to the bottom like ships of
that the two ocean coasts could not and
cannot furnish parallel list of loss and
death, the lake sailor men had 81. so per
day.
This seemed enormous to Hanna, who.
not being enriched half fast enough, or
rather feeling himself possessed of the
cruel power to cut them down, ordered
a reduction. Then was the war between
Hanna and the Seaman's union on at
once. and, with the seamen fighting
for bread and life, and Hanna as indom-
liable and no more to be baffled or put
at bay than Hannibal. it was war to
the death.
Hanna, with Selah Chamberlain, the
Minches and the Alvah Bradley estate,
made up the four great Vessel-owners
of the lakes. Hanna organized these
enormous interests into line OF battle
against the tarry sailor folk.
Hanna demanded that they take 81
per day in summer and 81. so during the
stormy months when it was almost an
even chance that he sailed to his death
who sailed at all. Against the Seamen'S
union he organized a non-seamen's un-
ion. He gave orders to ship no sailors
on his craft or the vessels of the Big
Marine who belonged to the Seamen's
union and beyond that he arranged for
bitter battle.
What he did in his home city of Cleve-
land he did in Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo;
in fact, in every port from Duluth to the
Thousand islands.
In Cleveland he, after a fashion,
brought the local police to his elbow.
On the police force at that time was a
water thug named Al Rumsey. Rum
sey was hired as an agent" of the
Hanna Chamberlain Minch Alvah
Bradley combine. He was made a spe-
cial policeman. He hired under-thugs.
whose mission 1t was to bully and beat
union sailors. Rumsey and his myrmi-
dons, working the tyrranical will of Han
ma and under his eye and word. through
1882. 1888 and 1884, the years of fiercest
war, seldom allowed a day to pass with
out sending dozen wagon loads of
manned and beaten sailor men to the
police prison. In almost every instance
Updegraff, the Judge. and those who fol-
lowed him. made the victims free. as the
evidence constantly disclosed Rumsey
and his under thugs as the aggressors.
Now and then Rumsey and his brutes
were themselves arrested on warrant,
but Hanna's millions wired them loose.
In the courts it was practically a stand
off. Hanna. while unable to convict the
sailors whom Rumsey assaulted. still
had power equal to protecting his bra
vos from the reward due their crimes.
But the struggle ended in favor of
Hanna and his clique-this money war
on perishing flesh and blood. The Sea
mems union was at last beaten and
broken down, and four years ago died
outright Its members, poor always to
the point OF bitter want, couldn't cope
with the millions Of Hanna. At last the
Sailors union. with Peter Lynch at the
head Of the Cleveland branch, gave UP
the struggle and Hanna won his cruel
fight.
Hanna has often boasted that since
this crusade ganst poor sailors rights
he and his allies have cleared up over
$40, 100000 the aggregate reduction in
the wages Of the seamen which they
brought about.
AS one of the incidents to his war
Hanna bought and wrecked the Cleve-
land Herald, paper founded in 1896.
and eminent for its respectable sort un-
Ill Hanna got it. He turned ii as an
engine against organized labor. rated
his printing office and finally killed the
papcr itself. when 1t had served its turn
The above is a lesson leaf from Han
mas life history. You may know what
manner of man It is who control Nc
Kinley when he Is elected, lust as he
owns and controls him now. With such
q White House manager and such a