The evening world. Newspaper, November 6, 1916, Page 22

—— — — —— _ NN v : PC a a ee » iw ee ee ee Oe ‘ | ttm | ‘ ‘e POLITICAL. POLITICAL, ow POLITICAL. | POLITICAL, mT IOAN i | rere POWITIC AN acne | mmm POSITION rs | en POT et ‘A mel raw ed eee meres | ARRARAASS mor | nnn ——_ | : SE LABOR CAN’T BE FOOLED! Republicans’ Final Effort to ‘‘Deliver’’ 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 Na- tional Committee to hoodwink the Public into believing 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 M. O’Hanlon, Editor of the of- ficial organ of the New York State Federation of Labor, even after Mr. O’Hanlon had issued a public statement calling at- tention 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 adviser” while Mulhall was the strike breaker and legislative agent of the National Association of Manufacturers. Feeney is notoriously 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 Penn- sylvania publicly charged that Senator Boies Penrose had been put in charge of $400,000 to attempt to influence the labor vote of the country, and that Penrose had objected to “doing the dirty work’ withgso small a slush fund! That charge has not been denied. Nearly a week ago the Democratic National Committee exposed Frank Feeney’s employment by Penrose in this cam- paign to circulate fake labor indorsements of Mr. Hughes. The alleged resolutions appearing in today’s page advertise- ment 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 Republican advertisement and the Republicans know it! The false report that such a resolution had been adopted was prontétly denounced by Simon O'Donnell, President of the Chicago Building Trades Council, and by EdwardN. Nockels, Secretary of the Chicago Federation of Labor. The alleged pro-Hughes resolution, offered at a meeting in the Philgdelphia Building Trades Council, was defeated, Leonard “Kraft, Feeney’s closest friend, then drew enough proxies from his pocket to jam it through. A week later— November 3rd—the Council officially denounced the act as a conspiracy and repudiated 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 state- ment: “To 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 repu- diate the falsehoods and fictitious allegations or declarations. “The information comes to me that a pre- tended labor leader has secured some fake declarations of a few supposedly labor organi- zations attacking the character and the policy of the Labor Representation Committee of the American Federation of Labor, and that they are to be published as advertisemenis in the newspapers of the country tomorrow (Monday) “The American Federation of Labor has without a dissenting voice or vote proclaimed the politica! policy to stand by the friends of labor and justice and to defeat its enemies. “In this campaign Woodrow Wilson stands for all that is true to labor, justice, patriotism, freedom and humanity. “The false friends of labor will fail in their purpose to deceive.” -Workmen’s Wages % FVERY workingman in this country knows that the working- men of Europe are now, to a very large extent, either engaged in war or in munition factories and that they have very little time to work on goods to be offered for sale in this country. When the European war is over, however, they will have plenty of time to work on goods to be offered for sale in this country, exactly as they did immediately before the breaking out of this war. Not only this but hundreds of thousands of women in Europe have taken up mammal labor and will undoubtedly continue to do manual labor after the war ceases. These women will replace to a considerable extent the men who have been killed and incapacitated and will undoubtedly do it at a lower wage than that paid the men. Rates of Pay in Europe The following tables show the wage scale of Great Britain, Germany and France: * Average Weekly Wages (Dollars) in in in Great Germany France United Britain States Textile Workers. .....x«-.0-. $3.25 $3.75 $5.00 $8.50 Garment Workers nme. 5.75 4.75 5.25 11.25 Electrical Industry 8.25 7.00 7.25 13.25 Machinists w..ne-<-memmanae: 8.25 7.00 6.50 21.00 Carpenters nenrerem + sicemewieicre; 9.25 7.00 6.50 21.50 Pattern Makers..--<1memes« 8.75 675 6.75 23.00 All Other Wage-earners in Proportion. What Chance Will American Workingmen Have to hold their present jobs at present wages when they get irto competition with the workingmen and workingwomen of Europe who will work at approximately the wages indicated abcve? “{'do not know much about the tariff, but I know this much, when we buy manufactured goods abroad, we get the goods and the foreigner gets the money. When we buy manufactured goods at home, we get both the goods and the money.” Do you believe in insuring your lives and your homes? Do you not as American workmen equally believe in insuring an American wage by voting for a protective tariff through the election of Charles E. Hughes ? ote for Hughes Kevublican National