Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-02
Says Walsh
 Distorted Facts
KING PROTESTS STATEMENT OF
 INDUSTRIAL CHAIRMAN. -n
ON COLO. HEARING
Employe of Rockefeller Foundation
 Declares Version Given Out at Kan. sas City Is a Complete Pervsrsior
 of Testimony Given.

of Testimony Given.
 New York, June 1.-The charge that Chairman Frank P. Walsh of the
 United States industrial relations com mission distorted testimony when he issued statement at Kansas City yesterday seeking to make it appear
 that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was per-
 sonally responsible for labor conditions
 in the Colorado coal fields was made
 here tonight by W. L. Mackenzie King former minister of labor for Canada
 and now director of an investigation
 into industrial relations for the Rocke-
 feller foundation. To support his con-
 tention, MT. King quoted from the of
 ficiai stenographic record of his testi-
 mony given in Washington recently.
 His rejOinder follows:
 Protested Mir. WaIsh's Methods.
 No better example could be afford
 ed of the methods adopted by Mir
 Frank F. Walsh, the chairman of the
 commission on industrial relations, and
 of the kind of things against which I
 protested so strongly whilst testifying
 in Washington than the following
 paragraph from a statement issued
 yesterday by MT. Walsh at Kansas
 City, and which is given to the public
 in the name of the commission as a whole:
 Walsh's Statement.
 But, above all, the commission has
 proved the absolute responsibility of
 John D. Rockefeller, Jr, himself for
 everything that happened in Colorado. w. L. Mackenzie King, former labor
 commissioner of Canada and at pres
 ent an emplOye of the Rockefeller
 foundation, bOasted while giving his
 testimony that the will and conscience
 of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., were more potent in Colorado than all of the pub lie opinion of all the people of the
 United States, and that the American people must look to that one man for
 an improvement of conditions conced- ed by all to be un-American and in tolerable.'
 Stenosraphic Report. That this is a complete perversion of my testimony is shown from the | following extract from the official Stenographic report:
 Chairman Walsh: Is there any | force to control the Rockefeller inter | ests in Colorado to do the right thing, | if they are not doing the right thing, l except the ordinary people in Amer | ica?'
 MT. King: If you are speaking of | the immediate force and immediate in- l fuence, I think that the conscience of young MT. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. is
 more powerful on that and will affect social justice in Colorado quicker than | any other single force that you could | bring to bear. I think he realizes there | is great work to do there and he in | tends to have it done.
 | Chairman Walsh: You think that | the will and conscience of MT. Roclle- | feller in bringing proper conditions l and enduring conditions in Colorado is
 more powerful than the will and con science of all the balance of the people
 of the United States, directed in that | feld?'
 "'AIr. King: No. MT. Chairman. I ! don't put it that way at all.' Denial by Mir. King. Tt will be seen that the reply in | which made reference to MT. ROcke- | Cellers conscience referred solely to the ' question as to what was the most pow | erful influence for correcting condi- | tions among the Rockefeller interests | in Colorado should they be found to be | not as the yought to be. The contrast | of the will and conscience of MT. John | D. Rockefeller. Jr., with the power of 1 public opinion, as well as the introdUc- | ton of a reference to MT. Rockefeller's | will were MT. Walshs own, not | mine.
 ! Protested Effort to PerVert Testimony. "A perusal of the evidence in it's en- | tirety will show that instead of there | being on my part any boast of the | kind Mir. Walsh alleges, there was the | most vigorous protest against the at | tempt which recognized he was mak- | ing at the time to so diStOrt and per | vert testimony as to make it appear to ] the public that such a contrast could 1 be drawn. Not only did I protest 1 against the distorting and perverting | of words into the framing of so absurd | a contrast, but the record will show l that, with reference to it, I made the | following positive assertion: I do not 1 see the necessity of drawing that dis | tinction. MT. Rockefeller is not de- | sirous of opposing public opinion. I think he is distinctly anxious to fall in l line with it.
 | Did Not Discuss Colorado Situation. i An examination of the testimony | will show further that I resOlutely re- | fused to be drawn into a discussion of | the Colorado situation one way or the l other and that I positively declined to | fix responsibility for it or any indi- | vidual or group of individuals. Noth- | ing could be plainer than the follow | ing which appears at page 1858 of the | official record:
 | Chairman Walsh: Who was re- | sponsible for the conditions in Colo | rado?'
 | :" MT. King: I could not and would | not attempt to fix the responsibility l T trust that these questions will be | sufficient to indicate how much ere | dence is to be placed in statements l emanating from MT. Walsh and how | far they are entitled to consideration"