The herald., 1896-08-16

cent the veriest pillage of. labor. Hanna
lives and wakes fat today. the best spec
linen of the modern anthropopaghi.
Hanna's first labor war of worth and
weight was with the seamen's union of
the Great Lakes. I've told the story be
fore. The battle began in 1892 1t lasted
four bitter years. Hanna had a thug
named Rumsey, professional pugilist,
and Of morals and mentality to match
his sort and kind. Hanna had RumSey
placed on the police force of Cleveland.
Rumsey had been one of Hanna's sail
ors.
Then Hanna caused the police board
to construct on the Cleveland force
river squad" with Rumsey, the thug,
as prime spirit.
Hanna was now ready, and he pulled
on his war withsthe poor sailor foik.
They were gettine-$2.25 per dayin sum
mer and "a in.November and December.
Hanna cut them at slash to 81 day in
summer ana $2.25 in November and De-
cember.
For four years, the. battle between the
sailors and nasstaggeredSon Rum
sey and his under thugs didsthe dirty
work. They thunped, gouged, mauled,
pounded and mafi.handled every union
sailor whom theysfound on the CleVe-
land docks. They sent them!by cart
loads to the central police station, Where
tneN were ititooNA ~
graft, a judge who had some human in
stincts. And Hanna paid the Rumsy
thugs the wage and hire of their Dru-
tality.
In four years Hanna with his Rumsey
cohorts had beaten the sailors union 10
death 1t has gone now for good. Han
ma had his cruel way. Today. even with
those benefits of protection" about
which the ring-directed. note-threaten :
ed Mckinley has so much to say. all that
Hanna's sailors get is SIS TO S35 month,
where before they received from $50 10
$40.
Hanna boasts that since 1884, when his
final triumphs. over the Seaman's union
came and the organizationlay in blood
dabbled death at his feet, he and his
fellow moneyites who were in the cruel
conspiracy with hirn-the Chamberlafns,
the Minches and the Alvah Bradleys--
have as direct profits of their victory
made over $40, 100000 How many wom-
en- and children, the wives and'little ones
OF his sailors, this should have honestly
fed and clothed. are the questions which
never rap at the Hanna heart forSan-
swer He has natural bars against any
such inroad on his sensibilities.
AS sweet bone to a good dog, Hanna
rewarded Rumsey for his thug work, by
sending that satellite on d vacation trip
around the world.
In q former article on the crushing of
the Seamen's union by Hanna told mec
to ask the particulars of Peter. Lynch.
who was at the hour of it's defeat the
president of that body. 1t would be use :
less, have learned. To stop his mouth
Hanna had Peter Lynch appointed in
some small capacity about the Cleveland
postofllce. Hutchins, whom Cleveland
named postmaster, a politician rather
than a Democrat, inspired by the fish
erman of Buzzard's bay, is out for Nc
Kinley. Heis today Hanna's man. And
Peter Lynch, once reputably the leader
of the lake sailors of Cleveland, is q
Hutchins- Hanna henchman.
Lynch must hold his place. He will
say nothing now of those bitter years
In the eighties, when Hanna ground him
and his sailors beneath the millstones
of his hard rapacity.
But while Lynch may be made to for
get wrong with the present of lackey
place, there are others with warmer
memories. When Hanna went to St.
Louis to work out the. program Of the
syndicate and spring bribe trap on a
| nomination, the Central Labor union of
Cleveland sent Tom Carter list of
questions, including the following:
rs 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 ac-
acknowledgement of Rumsey's services,
send him on trip around the world?
| "Second-Is It not q fact that Mark
| Hanna, professional hater of organized
i labor, disorRaniaed the mine workers of
Pennsylvania?
'"Third-Was it not through Mark
Hanna's efforts that the streetcar mems
| Organization oftCleveland was totally
annihilated? And even today does he
not deny hi. 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 alt,
| swered.
Only the other day Hanna, who now
seeks to cajole laboryelement he was
wont to cudgel until It's blood dripped,
! sent for Peter Witt, the head of the
| Cleveland Central Labor union and
business agent of the Iron Molders' un-
| ion. Hanna said he wanted to explain
| his past and announce his pure. new
and milk-white position toward labor.
| Witt wouldn't go near him. a thirty
! years war on labor unionism, during
| which Hanna imported the pauper la
! Dor of Europe-the Slavs. the Huns, the
| Polaks-and even brought north the
| black eX-slave labor of the south to take
| the places of white men and Americans
| whom his eXtortions, cuts and lock-
outs had forced into revolt; a thirty
years war, during which Hanna hired
the PinkertOns, the Mooney Boiands
and every fashion of hireling banded
together to be at the shooting. stabbing
beck and nod of every moneyite who
might need them to aid in his wrong
doing. was rightly held by Witt to suf-
! ficiently set forth the blood-stained la
| Dor pose of Hanna.
| Witt was right Hanna has made wage
| cut after wage cut against labor. He
| his provoked strike after strike, and by
| force and money, used without stint or
| scruple. fought them to standstill. 1t
Is no exaggeration to say that 10, 900 men
| have bled and 1000 died in the killings
and the woundings and the starvings of
Mark Hanna's strikes.
| Today go to Cleveland and talk with
| the men on the street railroads-the
| Woodland avenue and the Little Consol-
idated Not a labor union man is given
| employment; not one can stay. The
| first question put to an applicant for
work on any road of Hanna's by Null
/ hern. his man. is: do you belong to
labor union?" He gets no work if he
| does. Moreover. he is at once shadoWed
by one of Hanna's detectives, of which
he keeps q horde as some men keen
pack of hounds, to learn il he has told
! the truth.
| No man who belongs to organized Ia -
| Dor in any form can work for Hanna
! or in any of the enterprises he fosters
! unless one excepts those brotherhoods
/ to shed blood such p 6 tho p;pkertopr