The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-17
Chairman of Industrial Re lations Commission Makes
 Letters Public
REFERENCES MADE
 TO LANNON'S LETTER
Walsh Claims Correspondence Proves Colorado Governors Letter to Presi- dent Was Written by Representa-
 tive of Rockefeller Interests

Washington, May 1s.-Correspond ence between John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Ivy L. Lee. assistant to the pres ident of the Pennsylvania Railroaf company relating to the broad edu cative campaign of publicity" conduct connection with the Colorado coa strike, was made public today by tho federal commission on industrial re- 1ations. The letters include those which Chairman Walsh of the com mission claims prove that letter writ ten to President Wilson by Governor tAmmons of Colorado was prepared un- der the direction of Mr Rock efeller They will be the basis for the exam 1nation of the latter when he resumes the stand before the commission hero lTuesday.
 The correspondence from June l, 1914, to August ,, 1914, contains sew reral references to Governor Ammons After MT Lee and MT. Rockefeller had agreed upon a plan for the distrib a- tion of a series of bulletins designed to "clarify the public mind" as to the Colorado situation, Mr Rockefeller wrote to MT. Lee that he had prepared a memorandum in reply to magazine statements and letters attacking the Colorado coal companies, but had de- cided not to make it public. He fer warded the memorandum to MT Lee and wrote:
 Several points in my memorandum, however, could well even more appro- priately be used in the letter from Governor Ammons to President Wilson which you are proposing to prepare as soon as the majors memorandum reaches you, which l hope will be very shortly"
 The only major referred to in the correspondence Is Major Boughton tMaj. E. G. Boughton is judge advo- cate of the Colorado militia.)
 On June II MT. Lee said in a letter to MT Rockefeller:
 Give Attention to Letter
 ''I am inclined to think that at the moment the best thing we can du would be to give the letter from Gov erncr Ammons to President Wilson our attention and l hope We can accom- plish something very soon.'
 "On June 29 Mir Rockefeller wrote that he would be interested to see tpe letter from Governor Ammons to the governors and also 'tile Tarryto ar ticle which you are preparing"
 The last reference to this matter is in letter from MT. Lee to MT Rock efeller on July in which he wrote;
 'In reference to letter for Governor Ammons, I am not entirely satisfied with the draft I prepared and I am making certain amendments to it. I sent out a draft for discussion but will get 1t into shape in day or so and then send you copy"
 Publicity Campaign Discussed
 In the early letters MT. Rockefeller discussed broad educative campaign of publicity such as you and I have talked of" and MT. Lee suggested a plan Of circulating leaflets and bulletins, send ing Mr. Rockefeller a bound volume of the material we issued in connection with the recent campaign to increase freight rates , per cent
 On June 10, MT, Rockefeller enclosed to Mir. Lee check for 5000 "as personal loan applicable to the initial expense oi organizing the publicity campaign yoa are undertaking on behalf of the coa operators at Denver" He asked for ths return of the money as soon as the oper- etors began to remit to MT Lee
 The correspondence discloses that other publicity plans were discussed. On June IS MT. Rockefeller wrote MT. Lee:
 Referring to the publication on week. 1v~basis and with many additional fea- lures of the Nations Business by ths Chamber of Commerce of the United States. of which matter l spoke to you the other night, I am enclosing copies of two letters from MT Harry A. Wheeler setting forth the project have writ ten MT. Wheeler of my talk with yoc about this matter and have told him you are soon to be in Chicago and asked him if he would arrange to talk the mat ter over with you
 Agreed to Write Letters
 Tn his reply the next day MT. Lee agreed to plan to write letters correct ing "rnisstatements of fact" regarding thc Colorado situation and concluded:
 Thank you for the letters from MT. Wheeler. There is no doubt something can be done along these lines. I do not believe. however. that I will ever come to the point of thinking that you should establish and become responsible for a string of daily newspapers"
 On July ?. Mir Lee wrote that he ex- pected to lunch with Colonel Harvey and to talk to him about MT Harry Wheel ers scheme." In the same letter he re- ferred to a speech by Representative Kin del of Colorado and said. We are going to arrange to have Mir, Kindel distribute some 10000 or 5000 copies of his speech to a mailing list which we will supply On July 20 Mir. Lee enclosed to MT. Rock ----------------------