Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1910-10-13
..AbUn Lives UP
FOR J. K. TENER
Prompt Reputation Of Scheme
Worked by Keystone Party.
THE LEADERS ACT QUICKLY
Greenawalt's Personal Game Blocked
When Exposed BY Representative
Union Men.

When Exposed BY Representative
Union Men.
An attempt to work scheme to in
fluence organized labor in the present
gubernatorial campaign has proven a
boomerang for Berry and his party.
President Greenawalt, of the State
Federation of Labor, is being denounc-
ed upon every hand for seeking to
use the position which he fills tenn
porarily to advance his own political
interests and to promote the cause of
combination of politicians who are
striving to use the keystone Party to
land themselves and their friends in
public office.
Greenawalt's political campaigning
for the Keystone Party is quite nat
ural, as he is known as an ardent
Democrat, but his efforts to use his
position to influence the votes of the
wage carners of the state are resented
by the rank and file Of organized labor
in Pennsylvania as well as the infu-
entail leaders of various trade unions.
Terer a Friend of Labor.
Greenawalt's action. it is pointed
out, is most reprehensible, on account
OF the fact that John X Tener, the
Republican nominee for governor, has
for years been known as a staunch
friend of the workingmen throughout
western PENNSYLVANIA. where he grew
up in an atmosphere which would nat
urally make him sympathise with the
wage earners. He spent his boyhood
days working in a steel mill in the
great Pittsburg district, and in recent
years he figured in the satisfactory
home community, being chosen to ap-
pear in consultation as the represen-
tative of the workingmcn. The only
period in his career when he was a
large employer OF labor was when he
was at the head of a glass manufac-
turing establishment and he had none
but union men employed about the
plant.
Upon several occasions during his
tour of the state Mr. Tener has taken
occasion to refer to his advocacy of
Legislation in the interest of labor,
and he has pointed out that through
the agency of the Republican party
many excellent labor laws have been
passed, most Of them at the sugges-
ton and upon the request of union
labor. The employers liability bill
passed at the last session of the
Pennsylvania legislature was enacted
by Republican majority in the sen
ate and the house and was signed by a
Republican governor,
The fact that John Mitchell. one of
the most respected and popular lead.
ers in the crowd of labor in recent
years. is a warm advocate of the cleo
tion of Mr. Tener to the governorship,
has been known to the labor leaders
of the state from the very outset of the
campaign.
Mitchell lndorses Tener Plan.
John Mitchell has heartily indorsed
Mr. Teners proposition for the ap.
pointment of a state commission to
be composed of employers and wage
earners. whose duty it shall be to in.
vest!gate every phase of the question
Of employers liability and kindred
subjects and report to the coming ses.
sion of the legislature such changes
in existing laws as may be deemed
advisable. Mr.. Tener has given his
word to do everything in his power
to have satisfactory laws and amend.
ments to lays enacted at once.
In order that workingmen of Penn.
sylyania shall not be misled by the
tactics of Greenawalt and others work.
ing with Berry, an address has been
issued to wage earners over the sig.
natures of Patrick Gilday, president
of district No. ,. United Mine Work.
ers of America, and Thomas Haggerty
member of the national executive
board OF the United Mine Workers of
America.
They declare that Greenawalt is act.
ing on his own responsibility, that
there is no distinctive labor candidate
in the field that Greenawalt's appeal
was not authorized by any convention
or organized labor assembly. and they
protest against any labor leader at.
tempting to dictate to organized labor.
They say: We can recall instances
when organized labor asked for and
received the assistance of prominent
men in the Republican party who are
now being villiaed by some of the ad.
Vocates OF the keystone Party"
Submitted to the Touch.
81 suppose all of us have our little
venities," says James Hamilton Lew
is of Chicago. When | was a mem
Der of congress | was called out into
the corridor by a stranger who asked,
is this Colonel James Hamilton Lew.
is?
"'Plain Mr.. Lewis, at your SERVICE