Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-30

answer was. ! have net had the OPP
portunty
Fourteen months, thousands OF
men, women and children suffered on
the mountainsides and pralries and
two more months have gone since wo
called off the strike as result OF
President Wilson's proposal and yet
he has not had the opportunity for ~
personal investigation MIR. lawson
continued. His excuse for his lack
OF knowledge and his failures ls that
he Is too busy.
Discusses Rockefclicr's Business.
What is his business? lie ac-
knowledged it by stating, 4 spent a
large part Of my time In directing
with others the various foundations
which my father had established and
in giving time TO questions Of invest
ment
Mr. Lawson compared Mr.. Rookie
ieller's testimony with that given by
Henry Ford who testified that he kept
IN close touch with labor conditions
among his employees. Mr.. Lawson re-
viewed that part of Mr.. Raekrfellar'a
testimony In which he stated that
John u, Rockefeller, Sir, had re-
celved only sS7t 900 In dividends in
all, on his stock.
1T was only under questioning
that he confessed that his father had
received $s,ss9,000 from his bonds,r
MIR. Lawson continued, "and that the
assets of the company were s23,000,-
600 In excess of liabilities. and that
this item did not take In an appreci-
alton In property values of some s19.-
000. .O00, Nor did he mention the vast
holdings that the company refuses 10
develop, keeping them idle while the
population increase adds to their
value.
Whatever appearance of poverty
clinrs to the company is mt due TO
anything but It's own stupid aud COR
rupt policy. Had II taken the money
il has spent In controlling officials
and the electorate, IN purchasing
machine guns, the employment OF
grnmen and IN crushing the aspira-
tions of human beings, aud spent Il
In wages and the Improvement of
working condltions they would have
had rich returns in increased produce
tlvity.
Industrial Discomfort.
"Theso-~lhia record of Indifference
respecting human life and human
happiness vital causes OF Indus
trial discomfort An employer who Is
never seen and whose power Is hand
cd down from man to man until
there is chain that no individual can
climb; our lives and our liberties
passed over as a birthday gift or by
will; our energies and futures capt
talized by financiers in distant cities.
our masters too often men who have
never seen as who care nothing for
ila and who viii not or cannot hear
The cry Of our despair
"rherc Is another cause OF indus
trial discomfort and this, too. flows
from a Rockefeller source. This Is the
ikilful attempt that IL being made TO
substitute philanthropy for Justice.
rhere is not one Of these foundations,
low spreading their millions over the
world, In showing generosity that
loes not draw those millions from
ome form OF Industrial injustice. 1t
y not their money that these lords Of
commercial virtue are spending, bue
he withheld wages OF the American
working class"
Mr.. Lawson related some of Mr..
tOckefcller's testimony concerning
he activities OF the Rockefeller
Charity Begins nj Home
"A wave OF horror swept over me
urlng that reading and say that
amo wave is now rushing over the
ntire working class IN the United
tates Health for China. a refuge
or birds food for the Belgians pen
ions for New York Widows univer-
ity training for the elect--and never
thought ols a dollar for the many
Of men. women and chill
ren who starved in Colorado, for
be widows robbed Of husbands. chill
rem Of their fathers. by law-violat-
~ conditions IN the mines, or for
ne glaring illiteracy of the coal
amps. There are thousands Of MIR.
ockefeller's ex-employes In Colora-
o today who wish 70 God they were
! Belgium to be fed or bird to be
'nderly cared for
Mr.. Lawson referred to the Rocka-
Her Foundations appropriation of
1 100000 to defray the expenses Of
q investigation into the causes of in