The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-09-20
instincts. And Hanna paid the Rumsey
thugs the wage and hire of their brutal

thugs the wage and hire of their brutal
ity.
In four years, Hanna, with his Rum
| sey cohorts, had beaten the sailors I'M
ion 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 SIS
| to $35 a month where before they re-
ceived from $50 to $40.
Hanna boasts that since 1884, when
his final triumph over the Seamens
! union came and the organization lay
in blood dabbled death at his feet, he
and his fellow moneyites who were in
| the conspiracy with him-the Chamber
LANES, the Minches and the Alvah
| Bradleys-have as direct profits of their
victory made over 100000,000. How
many women and children, the wives
! and little ones of his sailors, this should
have honestly fed and clothed. are
questions which never rap at the Hanna
heart for answer. He has natural bars
against any such inroad on his sensi-
! bilities AS a sweet bone to good dog,
he rewarded Rumsey for his thug work
by sending that satellite on vacation
trip around the world.
| In a former article on the crushing OF
the Seamen's union by Hanna 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 I have learned. To stop his
| mouth Hanna and Peter Lynch appoint
| ed in some small capacity about the
| Cleveland postoffice. Hutchins, whom
/ Cleveland named postmaster, politi-
! clan rather than a Democrat inspired
| by the fisherman of Buzzard's bay, IS
! out for Mckinley. He is today Hanna S
| man. And Peter Lynch, once reDutably
&c = ,1 1oly unr of
| land is Hanna Hutchins henchman.
Lynch must hold his place. He will
| say nothing now of those bitter years
/ back in the eighties, when Hanna ground
him and his sailors beneath the mill
stone of his hard rapacity.
| But while Lynch may be made to'for-
| get a wrong by 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
nomination, the Central Labor union of
! Cleveland sent Tom Carter a list of
| questions, including the following:
rs it not fact that Mark Hanna,
manager of VIM. Mckinley, candidate
| for president, employed the notorious
! a. r. Rumsey to disrupt and crush the
! Seamen's union of the lower lakes? And.
! further, did not Mark Hanna, N ac-
acknowledgement of Rumsey's services,
send him on trip around the world?
rs it not a fact that Mark Hanna, pro-
I fessional hater of organized labor, dis
organized the mine workers of Pennsyl-
vania?
Was it not through Mark Hanna's eff
! forts that the street car mems organiza-
ton was totally annihilated? And even
today does he not deny his employees the
right to attach themselves to labor
organizations"
These and other queries were put by
/ the Central Labor union and never an
swered.
Only the other day Hanna, who now
seeks to cajole a labor element he was
wont to cudgel until its blood dripped,
! sent for Peter Witt, the head of the
head of the Cleveland Central Labor
union and business agent of the Iron
! Moulders union. Hanna said he wanted
I to explain his past and announce his
pure. new milk and white position to-
ward labor.
Witt wouldn't go near him. A thirty
years war on labor unionism, during
which Hanna imported the pauper labor
of Europe-the Slavs, the Huns, the Po-
laks-and even brought north the black
eX-slaves of the south to take the places
of white men and Americans whom his
eXtortions, cuts and locl1-outs had
ferced INTO revolt; a thirty years war,
during which Hanna hired the Pinker-
| tons, the Mooney Bolands and every
| VI DduCeu IOEether to
be at the shooting, stabbing beck and
nod of every moneyite who might need
! them to aid him in his wrong doing, was
rightly held by Witt to sufficiently set
forth the blood-stained labor pose of
| Hanna.
! Witt was right. Hanna has made
wage cut after wage cut, against labor.
He has provoked strike after strike. and
| by force and money, used without stint
/ or scruple, fought them to a standstill.
IL is not eXaggeration to say that TO- 900
men have bled and 1000 died in the kill
lngs and woundings and the starvings
| of Mark Hannas strikes
| Go to Cleveland and talk with the
men on Hanna's street railroads-the
| woodland avenue and the Little Con-
| solldated. Not labor union man is
given employment. not one can stay.
| Inc first question put to an applicant for
work on any road of Hanna's by Null
hern, his man, Isl do you belong to a
labor union?" He gets no work if he
does. Moreover, he is at once Swallowed
| by one of Hanna's detectives, of which
he keeps horde, as some men keep A
pack of hounds, to learn if he has told
| the truth.
No man who belongs to organized la
! Dor In any form can work for Hanna.
| or III any enterprise he fosters; unless
one excerpts those brotherhoods to shed
blood, such as the Pinkertons. Then he
may do his black work for Hanna and be
roundly rewarded therefor The Pink
ertons. the Mooney Bolands. are the
only labor" organizations to fatten by
the hands of Hanna.
Labor does not hold a meeting at
| Cleveland or near any of Hanna's inter
ests which his detectives do not attend
They take the name of every Hanna
employe who comes Off goes his head
with the moment of their report
When the Nestibule street car act was
! being agitated in Ohio, measure meant
! 10 force such a construction of street
cars as might serve to shield the motor
men from piercing cold. Hanna opposed
It. His men who signed petitions favor
| ing the act were dismissed
! When it passed in spite of Hanna. in
| stead of vestibuling his cars he stretched
n screen of canvas. 1t was no protec
ton; moreover, it was violation in fine
sense of an evasion of the law.
Yet II one of his men complained he
was discharged. The Hanna slaves
could in the biting winter gnaw their
tongues over their work and freeze in
slow silence. Or they might quit and
| starve. Such has been the friendsLi,