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Republicans Final Effort to "Deliuer"
the Labor Vote Exposed.
There appears in the leading newspapers of the
United States today a page advertisement containing
alleged labor testimonials in support of Candidate
Hughes and censuring President Wilson.
This is the last desperate effort of the Republican
National Committee to hoodwink the Public into believ-
ing that even one reputable labor man of prominence
is supporting their candidate.
A few days ago they were ~gleefully quoting a six
year-old statement made by John NJ. OHanlon, Editor
Of the official organ Of the New York State Federation
of Labor, even after Mr.. O'Hanlon had issued a public
statement calling attention to the fact that for months
he had been supporting President Wilson.
This time the Republicans are leaning upon Frank
Feeney, named by Martin M. Mulhall in the famous
lobby scandal at Washington as his closest friend and
advisor while Mulhall was the strike breaker and
legislative agent Of the National Association of Manu-
~facturers.
Feeney is VIGOROUSLY known as the labor agent
and political henchman Of the Penrose-McNichol
Machine in Philadelphia. Mulhall swore that he had
Feeney on his payroll and that he had documents to
prove it.
Two weeks ago the Democratic State Chairman of
Pennsylvania publicly charged that Senator Boies Pen
rose had been put in charge Of $4,000 to attempt to
influence the labor vote of the country and that Penrose
had objected to doing the dirty work. with so small a
slush fund! That charge has not been denied.
Nearly a week ago the Democratic National Com
mittee exposed Frank Feeneys employment by Penrose
in this campaign to circulate fake labor endorsements
Of MI: Hughes.
The alleged resolutions appearing in today's page
advertisement of the Republicans are the work of
Feeney and his agents.
The Chicago Building Trades Council did not
adopt the pro-Hughes resolution quoted in the Repub-
lican advertisement and the Republicans know it!
The false report that such a resolution had been
adopted was promptly denounced by Simon ODonnell,
President of the Chicago Building Trades Council, and
by Edward N. Nockels, Secretary of the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor.
The alleged pro-Hughes resolution, offered at a
meeting in the Philadelphia Building Trades Council,
was defeated. Leonard Kraft, Feeney's closest friend,
then drew enough proxies from his pocket to jam it
officially denounced the act as a conspiracy and repudi-
ated the alleged pro-Hughes resolution. Feeney tried
to get similar resolutions adopted in Cincinnati and
other cities-and failed.
When the attention of Samuel Gompers, President
of the American Federation of Labor, was called to the
Republicans page advertisement last night, he issued
the following statement:
ITO the Workingmen of the United States, Greeting:
AS predicted by me a few days ago, there is some
scheme to spring a canard upon you when it will be too
late to disprove and r~epudiate the falsehoods and
fictitious allegations or declarations.
THE information comes to me that a pretended
labor leader has secured some fake declarations of a
few supposedly labor organizations attacking the char
acter and the policy of the Labor Representation Com
mittee of the American Federation of Labor, and that
they are to be published as advertisements in the news.
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