The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
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speeding to New York to transact
some private business but as the COM
mittee was technically in session.
even had the house committee captur-
ed the witness the senate could have
reclaimed him. Nearly 900 letters
and kilograms were spread ON the
records of the committee today. They
embraced only one-tenth OF the total
that are to become evidence. Begin
ming with the campaign OF 1904. with,
Mulhall in the dual capacity Of head
of the Workingmen's Protective AS
sociation-made up of labor men work.
ing for the success of the republican
ticket and the paid agent OF the Ma
tion Association of Manufacturers.
they told Of Mulhall assisting in elect
ing Nelson w. Aldrich to the senate
in Rhode Island. They related the de-
feat of McComas in Maryland and
Congressman Hughes, now senator In
New Jersey. They carried him into,
1906 when he assisted the NATIONAL
| Typothea, the organization OF employ
ing printers, to break the eight hour
day strike in Philadelphia.
At that time MulhaIl was agent for
the National Manufacturers. When
the bill placing the burden OF proof on
the employer for contributory neglf-
gence, was urged as q defense in an
action for damages, turned up In the
New York legislature. MuIhall was
hurried to Albany to kill it. And he
swore that at his request Boss Barnes
Of Albany" smothered the measure.
Mulhall told how he lined up the labor
men of the first district OF Maryland
for Nelson Aldrich. He undertook
that task he said at the request OF Jo-4
seph B. Foraker OF Ohio. The associa-
tion, Mulhall swore financed his oper-
/ ations for the co-author of the 1909
tariff law, and with plenty Of money
at his command he was able to line up
the majority OF unions In the state for
Aldrich.
!, MulhaIl declared THAT he had In his
employ Geo. B. Quires, a bookkeeper
! In the offices of the American Fedora
/, tion of Labor Quires divulged =
Mulhall and through him to Secretary
Cushing of the N. a. NJ. all the secrets.
Squires was exposed and dismissed
Mulhall with the N. A. M. at his back
!, secured position for him in the gov
ernment service in Panama. In defeat
ing Congressman Hughes in 1909 Null
hall said he hired half a dozen labor
leaders of Philadelphia and New York
and sent them into the district. 1t took
Mulhall fifteen months to break the
printers strike of 1906 in Philadelphia
He did it. he swore by employing the
heads of other unions and having them
! prevent their unions from contributing
to the printers strike funds. He said
the N A. NJ. never played any favor
a ite political party" in It's campaigns
> that they preferred to elect republicans
!, when they could but that they punish
ed their enemies no matter In what
party there were The one Legislative
!. measure that the N. A. NJ would not
stand for was the bill making eight
t hours work day of service In gov
3 ernment employ 1t was because OF
their advocacy OF 1t that Senator Nc
9 Comas was defeated In Maryland and
Representative Hughes in New Jersey
3 Further complications in the opera
8 bouffe rivalry Of territory between the
8 committees developed at long e1ecu-
3 tive session of that body this after
noon A fight for publication Of the
. papers of the N A M. was the issue.
a James A Emery, counsel for the aaso-
q Continued on page 2.)