New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-09
Eulogizes Fathers Kind
ness and Good VIII in
Denver Address.
HOPES PLANS WILL
END LABOR STRIFE
Officers Of Fuel and Iron Told
There Must Never Re An
other Strike.
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Denver. oct. s.-John u. Rockefeller.
jr.. vas given an ovation this after
noon a. 2 Chamber Of Commerce lunch
con attended by moro than 500 Denver
business men. He eulogized his father,
who. he said. was criticised, maligned
and condemned. but whose heart was
full of kindness and good will for his
fellows. He also declared there must
never be another strike among his
company's employees.
"Centlemen." said Mir Rockefeller,
my father has been criticised, ma
lgned and condemned for years Tor
his business success-even because OF
his great philanthropic endeavors. Yet
there is not in him trace Of bitter
ness toward men. His heart is all gen
tleness for his fellows and he regards
men only with kindness.
Whatever OF worth you people OF
Colorado may have found in me, owe
TO my mother and the training OF my
father. Fear is not word In his
vocabulary Yet he has all the ten
derness and gentleness OF woman.
"My father has always held up to
me this principle in dealing with men
that labor and capital are partners.
We cannot hope for industrial peace
until capital and labor joins hands
until they work for the common good
and until they appreciate that wna'
promotes the prosperity of one pro-
notes the prosperity of the other
Right to Organize Conceded.
~ cor -ede the right of labor to or
ceni,e for any legitimate purpose, and
TO strive to attain that purpose without
violating the rights Of the employer
and the public. ! also concede to capt.
tai the same rights. | think that or
canized labor az whole mas suffered
for the misdeeds Of a relatively small
minority"
Mr.. Rockefeller read his testimony
before the Federal Commission on In
dustrial Relations, in which he de-
clared his belief in labor unions, pro-
vided they were so organized as TO
leave every worker free TO associate
himself with such groups or 20 work
independently, and his declaration that
the interests of both labor and capital
must be conserved or both would
suffer.
Plan Based on Democracy.
at is upon that last declaration y
added Mr. Rockefeller, that the in
dustrial plan accepted by our company
and it's employees has been developed.
A spirit of democracy underlies our
industrial plan, as contrasted with the
plan common among other organiza-
tions Of labor, where only those who
elect TO Join the organization are en-
titled to it's benefit.
Mr. Rockefeller asked for the CO.
operation Of all citizens in the trial OF
the plan.
III you people will give this plan a
chance to be fairly. tried" he declared,
"the name of this fair state will be
written large in history. There must
never be another strike in the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company, and |
have so instructed the officers of that
corporation. My father and myself
ask the cooperation of every citizen, TO
the end that the industrial disorders
which have marked the history of this
state will never be repeated"
The complete returns tonight from
the referendum vote of the coal miners
employed by the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company showed the Rockefeller
industrial plan adopted The vote was
2,253 for, 4S3 against, according TO
officials.