The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-06-02

IS BLAMED
FOR STRIKE
CHAIRMAN WALSH SAYS COMMlS-
SION SHOWED BEYOND DOUBT
HIS RESPONSIBILITY. EVERY
CHARGE PROVEN"

Walsh. chairman of the federal indus
trial relations commission, in a state
ment today declared the commission
has proved the absolute responsibility
of John d. Rockefeller, Jr., himself,
for everything that happened in Colo
RADIO" Mr. Walsh added, the men who
led the Colorado strike were fighting
for liberty against an enemy as pow
erful and menacing as any ever faced
by our revolutionary forefathers."
"The Washington hearing" said
Chairman Walsh, "is remarkable chief
| ly because every major indictment
| brought against the Rockefellers,
father and son, as well as the other
coal operators working with them in
Colorado, by the bitterest of agitators,
| has been proved out Of the lips of Jno.
| d. Rockefeller, Jr., or the men he hires
to carry out the joint wills of his faith
er and himself; in most instances
backed by the letters over the sigma
lures of these men.
Conditions in Colorado
political domination, intimidation
of the governor, contempt for govern
ment and the American people as a
whole the prostitution of state to
private interests, an utter contempt
and disregard for the state and feder-
al constitutions, as well as for statute
laws, the horror of the Ludlow mas
sacre, the exploitation of helpless min
ers by economic pressure, and the vii
er forms of larceny, the attempt to
panies had met in conference repre-
sentatives of the strikers, when such
was not the case; the carefully organ
lied and extensive campaign underta-
ken to deceive the people-all these
have been established beyond all
doubt from the testimony of John ID,
Rockefeller, Jr., and his personal lieu
tenants.
But above all, the commission has
proved the absolute responsibility of
John ID. Rockefeller Jr., himself for
everything that happened in Colorado.
w. l.. Mckenzie King, former labor
commissioner of Canada and at pres.
ent an employe of the Rockefeller
Foundation. boasted while giving his
| testimony upon the stand, that the
will and conscience of John ID. Rocke
feller Jr, was more potent in Colora
do, than all the public 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, conceded by all to be un
American and intolerable.
Refers to Stevenson Article
"If the Colorado records were not
sufficient to give us the color and benz
of the mind of John ID. Rockefeller, Jr.
we should still have a perfect picture
of his mental processes in the article
by Professor Stevenson, which he in
dorsed as one OF the soundest and mos
forcible presentments upon the subjec
of capital and labor he had ever seen
Mr.. Rockefellers persistent effort tC
conceal from the public his true
thought has failed as a result of this
revelation.
1T does no injustice to the spirit o.
the article which Mr.. Rockefeller sC
lavishly praised. to call attention t
that portion of it in which Professor
Stevenson conceded for the sake of ar
gument. that 100000 little children die
annually in America on account of un
der-nourishment of themselves or theil
parents, and asserts that their deaths
must be conceded to be blessing tt
themselves and to the community, ad
ding that such children should no
have been born and that unskilled la
bor is mere animated machinery.
Prepare Report in Inicago.
with the record of the Colorado in
vestigation before them, the American
people will be blind indeed il the!
fail to see the folly of trusting to th'
good intentions and philanthropic i'm
pulses of men like Messrs Rockefeller
and if they do not realize that the mer
who lead a strike, such as that of The
miners in Colorado, are fighting the
same old fight for liberty and democra
; cy against an enemy as powerful anC
monacing as any ever faced by oul
revolutionary fore,fathers.'
Chairman Walsh announced tn,
commission had completed its hear