The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-07-17
TELLS THE SENATE OF HIS EFF.
FORTS TO GET PUBLICITY
FOR N. A. NJ. LETTERS.
I'D NOT SELL THEM, He
TELLS SENATE COMMITTEE

)lD MOI SELL THEM. he
TELLS SENATE COMMITTEE
Details Effort TO Break Printers
Strike In Philadelphia by importing
NonunIon Men, Which He Later
Tried 10 Organize and Induce 10
Strike, as They We're Not Useful
to Masters, and They Would Use
UP Unions Funds--RooseveIt. Gom.
pers Conference Detailed.
MISUNDERSTANDING NJ. Mulhall
'elf.styled lobbyist for 10 years for
he National Association Of Manufac.
,urcrs, interrupted the senate lobhy
investigation to reply TO what he de
clared were personal attacks upon his
character and his purpose in the ex.
pose In which he has become the cen.
tral figure Of the lobby inquiry.
He denied that he mad tried 10 eel
the great mass Of papers and letter.
which were recently published. and
which now are in the hands of the
senate committee, Later, he said, Ne
proposed to introduce witnesses and
letters 10 show that he had been en-.
gagged for months in trying TO give
away the great file of correspondence
which has brought officers OF the Ma.
honal Association OF Manufacturers
and labor union leaders and congress.
men into prominence,
Mulhalrs statement was in connec.
ton with his request that he be al
lowed TO read letter he had written
May l6, 1913, TO perriton Maxwell,
editor OF Hearst's Magazine. urging
him TO have William r. Hearst to
make the mass Of letters public
public through his publications. This
letter reiterated former statements
that the writer did not want money,
but wanted TO get the lobbying docu.
ments published "as a series to the
public"
Tried TO Give Them Away.
Il have attempted for the last two
monts TO give them away Mulhall
told the committee Il never had in
mind the question OF the money |
would receive for them"
But you did sell them later to the
New Y ork World?" asked Senator
Reed.
Il would like to offer more letters
and witnesses on that point" said Null.
hall Il did not sell them fell into
the hands OF gentleman named Bar.
ry, who came over to look at the let.
tiers for Mr.. Hearst. / have learned
since that he is what is known as a
newspaper tipster. The letters were
given to New York paper, but later
Mr.. Barry came and wanted me TO
break the contract, saying he could
get 100000 for the letters from the
| National Association OF Manufactur-
ers. ] said the letters were not for
sale, that the National Association of
Manufacturers did not have money
enough to buy them; that ! had no
proposition of blackmail in connec.
ton with them"
Mulhalls testimony related to let.
tiers from Marshall Cushing, secretary
OF the National Association of Manu-,
facturers, suggesting a campaign
against Pearre.
Mulhall said he made frequent Wis.
its TO Pearres district and conferred
with former Senator Wellington, Geo
II. Hoffman, postmaster at Cumber
land, and others,
why did you oppose Pearrc?" ask.
ed Reed
"on account Of his stand on the
Injunction bill, same MS ! did McCo.
mas" said the witness.
The plan by which Mulhall and Of.
fcers OF the Philadelphia Typotheta
proposed TO break down the printers
strike there In 1905 was outlined in a
report identified by Mulhall as one he
had made to John a. Mcintyre. secre.
tary of National Typotheta
"A great many men had been
brought from the south to take strik.
ers places, but proved no good to the
employers" wrote Mulhal Our
plan was to get them to &c out on
strike also, go they would become
charges on the unions and help eat up
their funds"
Gompers.T. r. Conference.
Tho report TO Mcintyre told of an
arrangement with employment agen'
cies to obtain new men. who were to
be encouraged to strike as soon as
the labor unions suggested il.
Details of the fight against Pearre
we're brought out through a letter from
Mulhall TO NJ, c. Hoffman Of Cum,
berland, Md, dated April y, 1908
which outlined plan TO send you
all the labor organizers you wish and
guarantee all OF them TO be frst-class
men," TO organize the fight against
Pearre.
In n letter to Cushing in April, 1906,
Mulhall wrote of conference on
March %, between President Roose.
welt and Samuel Gompers, at which,