The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-12

would result in lowering wages and
inJuring labor
Hundreds Of such letters went to
McComas.' said Mulhan
How did they happen to be writ
ten?' asked Senator Cummins
We'll. just about that time" Mulhall
answered, the Workingmen's Pro-
tective Association had passed reso-
lutions condcmning the eight-hour bill.
and / guess 1 was largely responsible
in bringing that about After the
resolutions passed. these letters went
to McComas."
The witness told about the distribu-
ton OF bundles" Of letters in Mary
land. sent By Cushing from New York.
protesting against the cight-hour bill
that McComas was backing. lie said
he sent them to business men In Bal
timore.
Fighting Eight-Hour Law.
An unsigned communication. purport-
ing to be from Cushing to Mulhall, on
June 13. 1904. gave instructions for
the visit of Mulhall and two labor men
to Chicago. They were to do their
best to prevent the Endorsement of the
eight-hour law by the Republican con-
vention. ANY slip-up by any of your
friends" it said. might be fatal"
Cushing spoke OF certain resources
lin the usual form"
What were these resources" asked
Senator Reed.
Cash $780," said the witness st
was to take two activo organized la
Dor men and pay their expenses as
we'll as my own"
What were you going for?"
We were to work against the active
mon OF organized labor. Gompers and
the others"
One letter identified by NIulhall was
addressed to Theodore Roosevelt when
President, urging the appointment of
a postmaster at Baltimore: 1T was from
Mulhalrs organization. the Working
mems Protective Association. and told
Mr.. Roosevelt that this organization,
representative of ffty-two associations
OF organized labor, earnestly petitions
you to appoint to the office of post
master for this city Hon. Stephen r.
Mason, chairman of the Republican
City Committee"
"A lette: which caused considerable
amusement in the committee was iden-
tilted by Mulhall as from Cushing. In
part it read:
who was the best friend Of the
laborlng man? Mark Hanna. who
fought the eight-hour bill tooth and
nail. as long as he lived. and Gompers
knows it. because Hanna realized
that It would only make trouble be-
tween the employer and the employe,
and the shorter workday would be
put off twenty years by these methods :;
or l.. E. A1cComas. who endangers the
success of the Republican party and
its protective system and high wages
by making 1t hard or impossible for
ii to win the next election. and who. in
addition. while posing as a Republi-
can and decent and honorable man
who would not deceive anybody, new
ertheless tries to hand out to labor or
ganized or unorganized. q gold brick
humbug or a false pretense in the
way OF a piece OF legislation which
nobody can understand. and which
cannot possibly accomplish anything
he promises that 1t will"
Marvin on Stand.
Winthrop l.. Marvin. secretary OF the
National Association OF Wool Manufac-
turers. to-day put into the Senate com
ment showing the financial operations
OF the association.
He was questioned about special
$4,000 fund raised several years ago.
He said he had no record of how that
fund was collected or disbursed, but he
was certain the money had been spent
in printing and travelling expenses.
William Whitman, former president
OF the association, explained $4,000
of the association in 1897. and clerk
to majority members OF the Senate FL
nance Committee. The gift was made
after the Dingley bill passed Congress
Whitman said that many prominent
wool manufacturers and others not
connected with the association contrib
uted to the fund
Speaker Clark made a statement to