The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-15

would become charges on the unions and
help eat up their funds
Details of the fight against Pearre were
brought out through letter from Mulhall
to M. c. Hoffman of Cumberland MI,
dated April 81, 1906, which outlined a plan
to send you ull the labor organizers you
wish and guarantee all of them to be first
class men to organize the fight against
Pearre"
In letter to Gushing in April, 1906, Null
hall wrote of a conference on March .
between President Roosevelt and Samuel
Gompers, at which the letter says Gorh-
pers declared that IL labor was not favored
more in legislation it would carry on n
campaign to elect labor men to Congress.
Mulhall wrote Cushing that he had
found in tours of large cities that tbs
threat of Mr.. Gompers was being carried
through to the best of his ability and said
that the Gompers labor leaders were do
ing their utmost to turn their labor organ
ization into the Hearst movement in Phil
adelphia.
I'm perfectly confident that Mr.. Conn
pers and his labor leaders can be badly
beaten if the movement is taken hold OF
in time" Mullhan prohpesied. II know
| If you take hold in the right way" he
concluded, mo more delegations like the
one calling with Gompers on the President
will be ever gotten up, and | know like
wise the splerdid organization you have
got in the National Association of Manu-
facturers can easily put those people out
of business.
receive letters abou. campaigns in Penn
sy1vania congressional districts and he
wrote to Cushing:
1T might be of some interest to you
to show you what the Gompers people
are doing in this state. They have
nominated President Thomas D. Nichols
from the tenth congressional district
of Pennsylvania on the democratic
ticket, and / should predict now that
unless there is very good work done
in that district we will have a red hot
imitator In the next Congress. There
are about 10000 miners In that district
and Nichols is their ideal. Besides
John Mitchell is pledged to come to
that district and work for the demo-
cratic ticket. 1 hope Mr.. Sherman and
the republican congressional commit
tee will get busy in the near future"
Mulhall said the Mr. Sherman re-
ferred to was the late Vice President
Sherman. Some of the congressman
whom Mulhall said were on the Com
pers blacklist were given in a letter
from him to Cushing as follows:
THE principal parties that he will at
tempt TO defeat this fall will be Chair
man jenkins of the house judiciary
committee; Speaker Cannon, Congress-
man Dalzell of the Pittsburg district,
this state, and Congressman Littlefield
of Maine.
:, Mulhall told about making personal
visits to Cumberland to lend his in
fiuence In the campaign to defeat Con-
gressman Pearre and otherwise of a
letter he received from his employers
which read:
I'VE want to do all we can to de-
feat that gentleman, so redouble your
efforts and don't get caught"
letter to Mulhall from c. H. Holtz-
man at Cumberland said the anti
Pearre organization there was costing
5000 a day and much persuasion was
| necessary
What do you mean by persuasion? p
| asked Senator Nelson.
Money" said the witness tartly.
I'VE had large colored vote there
| that needed seeing often"
On June IA, 1906, Cushing wrote to
Mulhall telling him that he could point
out that Pearre was playing both ends
against the middle. Cushing wrote:
"You ought to point out to all such
people, that Is those who naturally
ought to be against Pearre, how he ia
playing both ends against the middle
Cushing wrote:
You ought to point out to all such
people, that is those who naturally
ought to be against Pearre, how he is
trying to play both ends against the
middle; that he Is attorney for the
Baltimore and Ohio and could not ex-
cuse himself as a paid employe If he
does not secure legislation when 1t
came to a show down. SO while Pearre
is playing both ends against the mid
die perhaps you can play both ends
against the middle on your own initia-
tive
Cushing mentioned a plan of Mul-
halls to keep democrats from the polls
in the Maine election.
THE plan was to have enough whis-
ky on hand on September 10 to keep a
lot of democrats intoxicated" Mulhail
said I'VE had hall in Roclxland as
labor headquarters. I myself counted
23 men in that hall so beastly drunk
they could not get on their feet. 1 left
because of the STENCIL"
Mulhall told of an agreement he made
with Dr. G. l.. Crockett for work against
the labor forces in Knox county Crockett
was paid $500 for making a speech at the
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