M. A. Hanna And The Workingmen

What Qreat Workers in the Cause of Labor . 5ay of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee. As the Democratie managers have spread all over the country the charge that M. A. Hanna, chairman of the Republican national committee, is unjust and despotic to his employés, a number of well-known and very popular men in labor circles have seen fit to make the following 8swerB to the charges: PRESIDENT WM, A. CARNEY'S INVESTIQATION After a thorough investigation of the charges made against Mr. Hanna in regard to the treatment of the men in the Michigan ron mines controller! bv M. A. Hanna & Co., I am convinced that they are false ancT were made purely for politica! effect. M. A. Hannn & Co. were the first men in the Michigan mining regions to give their employés land, free of rent, on whieh to build their homes, and it was done at the express direction of Mark Hanna. Hi is theonly mining company which did tiot reduce wnges this nummer. There have been two strikes in this district, one in 1890, on a question of hcrars. The men in the Hanna mines adjusted their differences with their employprs in a few hours and returnpd to work. The second strike, in 1896, on a question of wages. did not originare in the Hanna mines, but the men there werp compelled to walk out. They re'urned fo work three weeks bef ore thre strike was ended. The proporty of the other mines was protected by state troops, but no troops were needed to protect the Hanna property. WM. A. CARNET, President of the Amalgamated Asaoeiation of Iron and Steel Workerg. Ex-Vlce-Preslaent of the American Federatlon of Labor. THE PRESIDENT OF THE OH1O STATE TRADES ASSEJVIBLY SPEAKS Columbus, O.. Sept. 28, 1896. I had charge of an investigation of the marine interests of Ohio, made under the auspiees of the Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 1804. Mr mriuiry went back for twenty years, extendin? bevond the time of the trouble between the Lake Carriers' association and the Sailors' union. There was no evidence found in the courae of this investigation to show that Mark Hanna had any part in the difficulty then existing between the sailors and their employers. T. L. LEWIS, President Ohio State Trades Aasembly. Secretary Ohio Mlner' Union. RICHARD POWESS, OF THE SEAMBN'S UNION Kno-wing the history of the Lake Senmen's union from its organization to the present, and participating in its struggles when to do so involved danger and sacrifice, I can truthfully assert that never in all this time, nor at any other, has that orgnnization ever had any trouble with Mark A. Hanna. All assertrons to the contr.ary are falseboo Is, manufacturad f.or political effect and with a deire to mislead working people, and I denounee them as such. Yours frn]Tr RICHARD lUVVJbjKS, J' Ki-President Seamen'a Union. MR. HANNA PAYS THE HIQHEST WAGES The statistical investisrarion of the workshops and factories for the city of Cleveland, made by the Labor Bureau, was under my direction. The reports based upon this inquiry are on file in Columbus. and they will show that Mr. Hanna paid the highest standard wages for labor performed in industries in which he was interested. T. L. LEVVIS, President Ohio State Trades Assfmbly. Secretary Ohio Mlners' Unloa. T. V. POWDERLY ON DEPRECIATSD MONEY When labor was scarce and wages high in England in the Sixteenth century, persevering efforts were made to oppress the working classes, but laws could not reduce the wages of labor: the King, backed by Païliament. the nobility, the army. all the power lodged in crown and scepter, could not do it, but debased money did it. It madé miserable slaves of men, women and children. Do the workingmen wish to cali down upon themselves and their families all tki suffering by voting in the interest of the owners of a few silver mines? T. V, POWDERLY, Ex-President Knights of Labor.