The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13


 Eeleration. of which Senator Hanna was the presidentT .a..Ia
 ..In a sense. yes, It tried to settie ,ohnr disputes as far as possible without recourse to strikes. It is true we hau uoy,a strikes. but we settled l,lOO laoor 5isputes without strikes. Indeed, might say we prevented over A'VV'
 How Mark Hanna Did Business.
 .sneaking of Senator Hanna" MT 1,o,vderlv went on, ''he was thoroughly in earnest in his desire to settle laoor troubles through arbitration know that he began 1t more than twenty years ago. It is now twenty-two years sihce I was asked by his men to come out to Ohio to act as their representative Tn n. sJr,l<e there. went and, as their delegate. called on Mir. Hanna and trled to present the case. He treated me uoliteIy. but refused to talk to me. He said: Why don't they come to me and present their own case? They know me. Kno" them. I don't know you.'
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 "I went out and brought In commit. teo of the miners and then starteu cV leave. You need not So 1T you uom ,s want to- said MT. Hanna. Slt oo"h' looked at the men. They said stay and I stayed"
 .'Well. the discussion then went on oe- tween Hanna and the men. The trouoies were taken up item by item and thresheu over. Sometimes Hanna gave ln' some times the men, but in an hour or so IL was all settled, and the men saIu '"ey wera satisfied and would go back 10 work It was hot at times, but at the close Mir. Hanna said: Now men, when you have any trouble in the future want you to come right to me anu we will talk 1t over. Don't ask MT ro" derly to come clear across Pennsylvania and Ohio to talk for you. You kno" what you want. know what want We are all sensible men and can do our own business, and we will do 1t. From that time on Mir. Hanna and his men settled their labor troubles by conference and mutual conclliation. He was thor oughly honest and earnest in his adVo- cacv of this policy and his life shows It,
 How Powderly Saved Railroad.
 "In your strikes I suppose you nave often had to deal with many violent men. Mir Powderly?"
 "Yes. we had" was the reply. But we tried to hold them in check. l remember an incident of the great railroad strike or l886. when the Gould system of railroads and other roads in the Southwest were tied up. The men had left work for some time when got a letter proposing a plan to blow up every bridge and culvert on the Gould system upon certain signals The letter stated that the only way to reach Jay Gould was through his pocket and that this action would prevent the trains from running and break the strike. The writer said that he had the dyna- mite and he gave a full plan as to how If should be placed and exploded to wreck the system. He marked his letter con- ndentiat and asked that 1t be sent back to him He signed 1t with the name Henri Lee Caron.
 ''I was mortified. and at once sent a warning to all the local assemblies of the 1 Knights of Labor. protesting against the scheme. and saying 1t was better to lose ,he strike a hundred times than to re- sort to such vlllainy to win 1t. At the same time filed away the letter.
 Story of Parnell and Gladstone.
 ..Nvnu about three years after that" Mir Powdarly continued, ''I picked up my papor one morning and saw that a man named Henri Lee Caron was giving tes- timonv in n damage suit brought by Charles stewart Parnell against The London Times. Caron was on the side or The Times, and he pretended to testi- fv as an Irish spy that Parnell had been rnived up In the assassination of Caven- disb and fin other fendish Outrages in Ire land knew that Caron had belonged to some of the Irish agitator organizations. although he did not belong to the Knights of Labor. Tine moment saw