New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1915, Page 11

Y i 3 o #whose acts during this period . (‘(\t Mr. OPERATORSBLAME | MINERS’ STRIKE IN COLORADO | G. P. West in Report Made Public By Industrial Relations Commission, Flays John D. Rockefeller and Son for Disorder and Suffering. Chicago, Aug. The respoasibil- ity for the strike of coal miners In Colorado in 1913 and 1914 for the dis- order and suffering that followed s placed squarely on the shoulders of operators in a report by George P. West, made public today, by the com- mission on industrial relations. The Colorado Fuel and Iron com- pany, controlled by John D. Rockefel- ler, is declared to have been the lead- er in formulating and carrying out strike policies. Mr. Rockefeller and his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., are charged, first, with the selection of incompetent and reactionary agents to serve as executive officials in tais company, and, second, with giving their heartiest endorsement and sup- port to these officials after they had taken action that precipated the worst of the troubles. Tells of Ludlow Massacre. Mr. Rockefeller, Jr., is charged with having approved measures to coerce the state government of Coi- orado and with having flouted the will of the president of the United States. The report says: “During all tne seven tragic and bitter months that preceded Ludlow, Mr. Rockefeller wrote letter after let- ter in enthusiastic praise of men had precipitated a reign of terror and bloodshed. It was only when the Ludlow massacre filled the press of the nation with editorial denunciation when mourners in black silently par- aded in front of his New York office when cartoons in the conservative press pilloried him and his father be- fore an angry public, that at last complacency gives way to concern in his letters and telegrams to Denver.” Of Mr. Rockefeller’s responsibili- ty the report says: “Mr. Rockefeller’s responsibility hasa significance beyond even sin- ister results of his policy in Colorado. The preversion of and contempt for government, the disregard of public welfare, and the defiance of public opinion during the Colorado strike must be considered as only one mani- festation of the autocratic and anti- social spirit of a man whose enor- mous wealth gives him infinite op- portunity to act in similar fashion in broader fields. Mr Rockefeller writes to Mr. Bowers: ‘You are fight- ing a good fight, which is not only in the interests of your own company hut of thesother companies of Col- orado and of the business interests of the' entire country.” Letters From Roekefeller. “And Mr. Bowers, with whom Mr. Rockefeller obviously is in full sympa- thy and agreement, writes jetter after letter picturing the growth of trade unionism as a naticnal menace against which the business men of the nation must combine. ‘Now for the campaign of 1916’ and beyond, isthe slogan with which one of these let- ters closes, -and Mr. Bowers is un- sparing in criticism of a president who would tolerate a former official of & labor union in his cabimet. “The nation-wide significance and importance of the Colorado conflict and the company’s ruthless policy of suppression aré emphasized again and again. By June, 1914, Mr. Rock- efeller has formulated something like a_ definite plan for a nation-wide cam- ign. The most highly paid pub- city expert in the country has been borrowed from a great eastern rail- way, to be taken over ‘later as a per- manent member of Mr, Rockefeller’s staff. A ‘union educational campaign’ is to be conducted, and the country is to be flooded with articles by college professors and others bitterly de- nouncing trade unions. And at tae very time when he prepares to cir- culate Prof. Stevenson's intemperate and amazing defense of industrial ab- solutism and tirade against trades unions Mr. Rockefeller enlists the aid W. L. Mackenzie King, expert on industrial relations, to devise spe- cious substitutes for trade wunions | comprehensive -plan, embodying that will deceive, mollify and arbitrary control. One Man Raule. “Yet it is important to’ remember that Mr. Rockefeller’s character and policies are important only show- ing the possibil inheren economic and in al situation that permits one man or a group of men te wield such enormous economic power, and through that power not only to control the destinies and dic- tate the circumstances of life for mil- lions of wage carne and for entire communities, but to subsidize and control to ¢ cies that mold the public opinion of a nation. iven should Mr. Rocke- feller change over night, ‘those pos- sibilities of evil would remain in- herent in our economic and indus- trial situation, as a menace to frec- dom and democracy- very important statement of fact ned in the report, it is blished by quot »ondence or sponsible cutive 2 Colorado Fuel and Iron company or of Mr. Rockefeller and member: 4 his personal staff. The report con- tains copious extracis from the tes- timony ‘and. correspondence of Mr. Rockefeller; Jr.. and Starr J. Mur- rhy, his personal attorney in New York, J. F. Welborn, President of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, l. M. Bowers, Chairman of the Ex tive Department of the Colorado I 1 and Iron company, the Rev. Eugene &. Gaddis, Supcrintendent of the company’s Sociological Department during the str and until Febru- ary, 1915, and others. Rockefeller Rebuffs Prevident. The report in discussing the com- pany’s rejection of President Wii- son’s plan for a settlement of the strike, says: “Mr- Rockefcller not only rebuffed the president by denying his earnest request, but if the letters of his agents may be relied upon, he ap- parently. deceived they president and the public by means of the company’s letter of rejecti This letter written by Pr laboration with Mr. Ivy L. Lee, member of Mr Rockefeller's person- al staff, whom he had sent to Col- orado for the-purpose. Mr. Rocke- feller’s personal staff in New York had become impressed with strong public sentiment supporting the president’s proposal, and in drafting their letter of rejection to the pres- ident. Messrs: Welborn and Lee in- serted the following: A plan to secure harmonious re- lations in some industries or sections of the country would not necessarily apply to our peculiar conditions. We are now developing an even employers’ monre the results of our practical experience, which will, we feel confident, result in a closer understanding between ourselves and our men. This plan contemplates not only provision for the redress of grievances, but for a continuous effort to promote the wel- fare and the good will of our em- rloyes. “This letter was signed by Mr. Welborn and w dispatched on September 18, 1914. On the following day. September 19 Mr.- Welborn wrote tc Mr Murphy, Mr. Rockefeller’s per- sonal attorney in New York: T appreciate your very thoughtful letter of the 16th inst., with sugges- of its heing necessary to propose scme plan to take the place of that presented to us by the president.” Conditions in Coal Camps Dealing with the character of the men employed in the coal camps, the report says: “Coming as amazing evidence of the repudiation of American prin- ciples by certain small bhut powerful groups, is the allegation frequently heard during the Colorado contro- versy that the inhabitants of -the coal camps, being largely of foreign birth and speech, were incapable of either poltical self-government or of Advance Styles in Ladies’ Fall Suits, Skirts, Coats and Dresses We have made up in our own factory, a splendid line of Stylish Suits, Coats and Skirts. and we have followed out the lines adopted for Fall and Winter wear. These garments are exceptional in beauty of design and fashionable model. 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Granting that social and pol tical conditions in the coal camps could be worse than those which ex- isted under coal company domina- tion, and granting that they actually would be worse under a truly demo- cratic control, But no such There benevolent despotism. concession can be made. city for civic and social progress in- herent in the populations of coal mining those of southern small minority i of recently-arrived Europeans. Bes vatched their progress, the Commis- sion has the significant testimony from Francis S. Peabody of Chicago, a mine owner who operates on a scale larger than that of any of the Colorado companies.” GREECE AND ALLIES REACH TRADE PACT! Greater Privileges Between Countrics Considered Good Augury for Further Negotiations, Paris, Aug. sentatives of the entente powers and Greece, according to a despatch from Athens to the Havas Agency tries, which has produced an impres- sion that public opinion in Greece fa- vors the allies. 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