The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-05
Miners Overwhelmingly il
Favor of Industrial Idea.
Cooperative Mediation Is Civ
en- Emphatic Endorsement.
To DROP MINE STRIKE CASES
Governor Said to Be Consider
ing Wholesale Dismissal.
GOmpers and Morrison Take
Rap at Rockefeller Program.

Denver, Oct 5.-The directors of
the Colorado Fuel. and Iron company
have accepted the Rockefeller indus
trial plan. Officers of the company
believe that the result of the miners
ballots will be Overwhelmingly in ia
vor of the plan of cooperative media
ton sponsored by John D. Rockefel-
Ter. Jr. The Rockefeller party
planned to leave late today for Sun
rise, Wyo., where the Colorado Fuel
and Iron company has an iron mine.
Rumors that Governor George A.
Carlson was on the point of ordering
a dismissal of most of the criminal
charges growing out of the coal min
ers' strike of 1924, were current
today in circles close to the state adj
ministration- Mr.. Rockefeller called
upon the governor and discussed with
him the industrial situation. Both
the governor and Mr.. Rockefeller de-
MED the latter had suggested that
any of the strike cases be dropped.
The result of the referendum vote,
reported tonight from four mining
camps, indicates the miners are en-
phatically in favor of the new indus
trial plan. The result shows: Ber-
wind, lao affirmative, negative; To-
basco, 1873 for, against; Rouse, 1S9
for, against; and Lester, 81 affirma-
tive and negative.
Gompers RidicuIes Plan.
Washington, Oct. Samuel Com
pers, president, and Frank Morrison,
secretary, of the American Federation
of Labor, have issued statements COM
menting unfavOrably upon the Col
orado Fuel and Iron company's an
nounced plan for dealing with its en-
ployees. Mr.. Gompers said:
so Mr.. Rockefeller has formed
union-a union of his employees of his
Colorado Fuel and Iron company
and perhaps imagines he has solved
the problem of just relations between
himself and his employees. But with
all his wealth and all his brains and
the brains that he could buy, he has
missed his mark. Imagine an Organi-
zation of miners formed by the richest
man in the world, who employs its
members. What influence can such
a pseudo-union have to insist upon
remedying of a grievous wrong or the
attainment of q real right? And what
about the representatives of the men
sitting around the table with Mr..
Rockefeller and his angelic represent
atives out IN Colorado? Should the
miners spokesman have the temerity
of insistence in the rightful demands
of the nlinerS2
THE miners employed by the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company, of which
Mr.. Rockefeller is the head, have been
whipped by means of atrociouS brutal
ity and hunger into submission, back
to the mines.
After what Mr.. Rockefeller has
done. that is. to organize a union of
miners in Colorado, he should carry
his benevolent and practical purposes
into full execution in all his varied in
dustries and not wait until another
massacre, the like of which occurred
at Ludlow, should break out at one of
his other Industrial institutions. Do
not stop at Colorado. Organizer Rock
efeller."
Doesn't Go Far Enough.
indianapolis, Ind, Oct. 5.-"Mr.
Rockefeller seems to have taken a step
in the right directio-. but he does not
go far enough" asserted William
Green, secretary-treasurer of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, in a
statement given out here. The only
way to establish a lasting industrial
peace is by the employees being or
ganized through the miners organiza-
ton and their being permitted to Sc
lect their own representatives to speak