The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-08-15


Hanna III the a1M sririt of every
kenterprise he Is. involved In He controls
|or he gets out orth twenty MI lions
|personally ", he decides the policy Sof ten
times as much, and can march two hun
dred millions Of capital upon any battle
field Of business to he as absolutely a
his beck and order as an army to the
baton of it's Communicated lief. This
makes a. power of Hanna, even Wi th0ut
a courage that never pales and a heart
as hard and as. cold as hail, and as res
mOrseless. 81, +, SSs. Y ,.ssi3ESs ss I
Hanna in his enterprises employs thou;
sands of men. He has fought strikes and
leckouts with every one OF them. There
is not a man at work for Hanna today
who doesn't hate him with a heart of fire.
Why? Because he feeds on them, deyours
them at every chance. Those twenty mills
ions OF his are IS per cent the veriest pill
age of labor. Hanna lives and wakes ia
toaay, the best specimen of the modern.
anthropophagi. "a 55,5 #s{ss IS 4
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-
lore The battle began in 1882. 1t lasted
four bitter years. Hanna had a thug
named Rumsey, a professional pug:list
ana OF morals and mentality to match
his sort and kind. Hanna had Runlsey
placed on the police force of Cleveland.
Rumsey had been one Of Hanna S sailors.
Then Hanna caused the police board to
construct on the Cleveland force a river
squad, with Rumsey the thug, as prime
spirit.
Hanna was now ready, and he pulled
on his war with the poor sailor folk They
were getting 1925 a day in the summer
ana "a IN November and December
Hanna cut them at a slash to 81 a day in
summer and 1925 in November and De-
cember. ed
For four years the battle between the
sailors and Hanna staggered on Runsey
and his under thugs Gid 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 CEN
trail police station, where they were
promptly released by Upgraf. a judge
who had some human instincts. And
Hanna paid the Rumsey thugs the wage
and hire Of their brutality. ~
In four years Hanna with his Runsey
cohorts had Beaten the Sailors union to
death. 1t has now gone for good. Hanna
had his cruel way. Today, even with
those benefits of protection" about which
l1t~' 1IliS -QA eCteO, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nlc-
kiney had so much to say, all that Han
ma, sailors get is SIS to S35 d month where
before they received from $50 to $40.
Hanna boasts that since 1884, when his
final triumph over the Seamen's union
came and the organization lay in blood
dabbled death at his feet he and his fell
low moneyites who were in the cruel con-
splracy with him-the Chamberlains, the
Minches and the Alvah Bradlains--havei
as direct profits Of their victory over $780,
zoo, 900. 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 hats natural bats
against any such inroad on his sensibili-
ties.
Lynch must hold his place. He will say
nothing now of those hitters in the sos,
when Hanna ground him and his sailors
beneath the milestone OF his hard rapacity.
But while Lynch may be made to for
get a wrong; with the present of lackey
place, there are, othersswith warmer nan1-
cries. When lama went to st. Louis to
work out the program Of the syndicate
and spring a bribe-trap ON a nomina ton,
the Central Labor union of Cleveland
sent Tom Carter. a., list Of questions, in
Guiding the following:
us it not fact that Mark Hanna, man.
ager Of William Mckinley, candidate for
president. employed, the notorious A, r.
.
union of the lower lakes, and further, did
not Mark Hanna, in acknowledgment of
Rumsey's services, send him on a trip
around the world?
Seconds it not a fact that Mark
Hanna, professional hater' of organized
labor, disorganized the mine workers Of
Pennsylvania
'"rhtrd--Was it not through Mark F1anna.s
efforts that the street car organization of
even today does he not deny his employees
the right to attach themselves to a labor
organization"
These and other queries were put by the.
Central Labor Union and never ANSWERED.:
Only the other day Hanna, who nov
to cudge until it's blood dripped, sent for
Peter Witt, the head Of the Cleveland Cen
trail Labor Union and business agent of the
ed to explain his past and announce his
pure nilkwhite position toward labor.
Witt go e d,r im 30
M imported the pauper,, labor Of Europe-the
slavs, Huns. the Polacks---and even brought
to take the places of white men and Ameri-
cans whom his extortions cuts and lockouts
had forced into reyolt;.a 80 years war, dur
ing which eIiapna hired the Pinkertons, the
MooneyrB9lands, and every fashion of hire
ling banded together to be at the shooting,
who might need them to aid in his wrong
doing, was rightly held by Witt to sufficient
" set forth the blood-stained labor pose of
d.
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., 1t is no exag-
geration to say that 10000 men have. bled
and 1000 died in the killings and the wound
ings and the starvation of Mark Hanna's
strikes.
Today go to Cleveland and talk with the
men on the street railroads.&c. Woodland
avenue and the Little Consolidated. Not
labor union man is given employment: not
one can stay. The first question put to an
applicant for work on any road OF Mark
belong to a labor union" He gets no work
If he does Moreover, he is at once shad-
owed by one of Mark Hanna's detectives, Of
which he Keeps q horde. as some men keep
a pack of hounds, to learn il he has told the
truth
any form can work for Hanna, or in any en-
terprise he fosters, unless one excerpts
those brotherhods to shed blood. such as
the Pinkertons. Then he may do his black
work for Hanna and be rOundiy rewarded
therefor. The Pinkertons, the Mooney.Bo-
lands, are the only 3labor" organizations
to fatten by the hands of Hanna. x
Labor does not hold meeting at C1eve-
land or near any of Hanna's interests which
his detectives do not attend. They take the
name of every Hanna employee who comes.
Cff goes his head with the moment of their
report.
when the vestibule street car act was be-
ing agitated in Ohio, a measure meant to
might serve as q shield to the motormen
from piercing cold. Hanna opposed it. HIS
men who signed petitions favoring the act
were dismissed.