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Show HARDING TERMED! ANTI-UNION MAN Alleged Activities in Home I City Told By Aides for Sam Gompers NEW YORK. Nov. I, Samuel Gompers. Gom-pers. president of the American Federation Fed-eration of iHbor, in a statement said an investigation conducted In Senator Sena-tor Harding's iews and practices in the industrial life of his home city, j proves his duplicity In relation to his, claim of friendship for the working people and gives a full picture ()f his ardent championship of industrial en-sia en-sia vement." The Republican candidate, the state- nient said, 1 aooul to be "an Intimate and guiding participant.' in ihe Industrial In-dustrial life of Marlon, where, it added, ad-ded, there are nb trade union ugrce- j m? nts and wages are low. Mr Gompers charged Jbat through a system cstab- lished by the Employers' association ' of which, he said. Senator Harding is I onr of the leading members, workers active In their unions, are discharged ami unable to obtain employment in an) other manufactories. PRACTICES CHARGED. The investigation upon which Mr. Gompers said his statement was based was conduced by John B. Frey, editor edi-tor of the International Molders' Union Un-ion Journal, and Chester M. Wright.' assistant editor of the Amcritin Ked- erai lonlst. The statement asserted the Manufacturers' Manu-facturers' association of Marion, is I organized primarily to prevent thel organization of wage earners, determines deter-mines the maximum wage to be paid j tht employes of. any of its members and provides that no employe can secure se-cure employment from any other than his present employer without the consent con-sent of the emploer " TWO INSTANCES till D 'We cite two instances out of many verified." the statement said, "to indicate in-dicate the methods and their workings "Six girls recently left a manufacturing manufac-turing plant and obtained belter posl- lions In a candy factorv. Upon being notified of this, the Manufacturers' as-: sociation forced them to return to their previous employer A molder. securing a better position in another foundry, was forced to return to his previous employer or leave Marlon. The Manufacturers" 'association of Marlon Ma-rlon imposed upon its employes a condition con-dition of involuntary '.servitude. J Hblliday, a member of a molders' union before the war was so seriously wounded In Flanders that he could not follow bis trade. Through the vocational voca-tional training service of the United States government, he was placed in a machine shop of Ihe Power Manufacturing Manu-facturing company of Marion to. learn I the machinist's trade.. He retained his membership In the molder's union Some six weeks ago his foreman discharged dis-charged him, saying that orders from higher up' demanded his discharge 'because of his union activity. Holli-, day went to Mr Primm, manager and vice president, to demand reasons for: his discharge. Mr Primm told him that he was discharged "for his union at Llvlty." The vocational training service ser-vice was unable to place Holiday In .hi other plant in Marion, and Holll-day Holll-day was driven from Marlon. NON-IMON ACTIVITIES. We present here the following fac'.s concerning Senator Hardings personal relationship with Marion industry l-'or many years he has been a leader In Marion industries. H- is a stockholder and director m many of Marlon's leading manufacturing manufactur-ing corporations. He is a director of the Marlon Lumber Lum-ber company, which is a member of the Manufacturers' association of Marlon. Ma-rlon. "He Is a director of the Prendei -gast Lumber company, which Is a member of the Manufacturers' association. associa-tion. "He is a director of the Marion Bell Telephone company', which is a mem-ibcr mem-ibcr of the Manufacturers' association ; He is the owner of the Marlon Star ' and as such Is directly a member of ihe Manufacturers association "Carrying out the antl-unlon policy of the Manufacturers' association ol Marion, thes corporations arc strictly strict-ly non-union, with the single excep- turn of the typr-sctters employed by tho Marion Star. This year the arpcntrs' union of Marlon, requested the Marlon Lumber company to confer with the union committee com-mittee On the question of wages. The compuny retuscd to discuss the question. ques-tion. At about th: santc time, the carpenters' car-penters' union requested -he Prender-gast Prender-gast Lumber company to confer with its committee relative to wages and hours of labor This company also re- CUSSd to discuss tne question ! "Senator Harding is a director In. I the Marion County oank PR1NTKMS ORGANIZED i n Senator Hardings newspaper, the typesetters were organized overnight over-night during his campaign for the' toga. The heckling of a union printer at one of his meetings, resulted In a telegram from him to his manager, Instructing In-structing him to unionize the composing compos-ing room Immediately." The statement charged the Marion Manufacture nV association with guarding guard-ing its membership so closely that it is Impossible to secure a roster of members and that Its meetings are held behind locked doors. |