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GOGpERS TELLS OF ATTACK
Says Attempt to Bride Him and Forct
Him Out Of Labor Fight Was Mads
In 1907.

In 1907.
Washington, July 2. - Disclosure.
that promise to follow the reopenins
of the senate's lobby investigation to
day are expected to be among thf
most important developments OF re
vent years in congressional inquiry
Since the publication of Martin NJ
Mulhalrs narrative OF how he had op
Grated to influence legislation aad cleo
tons in behalf of the National Asso
citation of Manufacturers, scores Of la
Dor leaders, present and former con
gressmen and others have come for
ward with testimony and asked tha'
they be heard by the investigators,
Louis ] Siebold, of New York, also
has accepted service. He has beer
called as a newspaper man connected
with the publication Of the Muinai
statement to give the committee infor
nation as to it's preparation and as tt
the letters and kilograms Mulhall has
agreed to produce.
Representative Sherley. of Ken
lucky, mentioned in the Muihal
CudTScS dS Ouc LILO uduu1dStui Si'
could cound upon to support certain
measures, obtained from Senator
Overman permission to appear before
the lobby committee and make
statement He said he would introduce
in the house a resolution for an, in
vestigation by special committee
and make a statement detailing con
versations with Mulhall.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, who
figured prominently in Mulhalfs &C
count as the object of long-continuec
attack by those who attempted tt
bride him and force him to give VI
his fight in behalf of labor legislation
has made public detailed report
tending to confirm Mulhalis allega
tons.
The Gompers statement is report
that he prepared in 1907, after his ex
perience with Broughton Branden
burg, now a convict in Sing Sing, who
said he was in the employ of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers
Efforts to obtain private interview:
with Gompers aroused the latter's sus
picion, but he met Brandenburg, the
report says, under the advice and ssug
gestion of other officials of the FEEDER
'ation.
Brandenburg, it says, represented
himself as in charge of bureau o,
the National Association of Manufact
urers, organized ito expose the dis
honesty of the leaders in the lnbol
movement"
According to his report, Gompers lee
Brandenburg on until the lattergpro
posed that Gompers should prepare
general statement in the nature RI s
confession" should stand for fec
ton as president of the AN Ear
Federation of Labor in 1908 and her
should resign, leaving the feder1 Tor
crippled by his FetiEeHent- aEd1 = les4
posture of other leaders.
"My object in coming to you 4 te
say I want to save you," Brandenfturs
is quoted as saying. Il want to save
you, and while l do not want to, ex
press in specific financial terms wha'
the National Association of Manufac
turers is willing to do. yet / can guar
antee that you will be financially safe
for the balance of your life"
The Gompers report states that thu
interview terminated there; that Com
pers succeeded in keeping the paper
Brandenburg had prepared for him tt
sign, and that Duncan. the vice presi
dent, and other officials of the feder
alton were at once made acquainted
with the circumstances.
Gompers and others officials of the
federation probably will be called tt
testify.
Both John Kirby, Jr., and D. M
Parry, prominent in the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers, are in Sar
Francisco and were expecting to sal
for Australia They wired Senator
Overmap, the chairman, asking to be
excused from testifying before the
senate committee now, but promised
to appear on their return in severa
months. Overman wired the two men
directing that they hold themselves in
readiness TO appear.