Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-27
BIG FOUNDATIONS MENACE.
Walsh Committee Would Have Con.
cress Supervise Rockefeller Funds.

Chicae Aug. DIFFERENTIATION Of
the Rockefeller and other foundations
as "a menace TO the national welfare
demand for more stringent immigra-
tion laws. recommendation that private
interstate commerce traffic in cannon
ard gatling guns be prohibited and that
all police working in strikes be en-
ployed by the state, are leading features
Of the third and final section of the
staff report OF the federal commission
on Industrial relations.
The report. which was prepared un-
der the direction OF Basil NJ Manly. di-
rector of research and investigation for
the comm ssion, aims at the founda-
tiors by urging congress to enact a
statute providing that all incorporated
profit making bodies. whose present
charters empower sthem to perform
more than one Specific function and
whose funds exceed slo0,o00.o00 be
compelled to secure federal charter.
Evidence in support OF the state
ment that the lives Of millions of wage
earners are subject 10 thhs dictate. IF
a relatively small number of men, Is
cited at length.
The following allegations are made as
statements of fact based on the testi-
mory and evidence in the hands of the
commission.
Except. perhaps. for improvements in
safety and sanitation, the labor con-
ditions Of corporation controlled indus
tries are subject to grave criticism and
are a menace 10 the welfare Of the ma
ton.
In order to prevent the organization
OF employees for the improvement Of
working conditions, elaborate systems
of espionage are maintained by the
larger corporations which refuse to deal
with labor unions. and employees sus-
pected OF union affiliation are dis
charged.
The domination by the men in whose
hands the final control OF large part
of American industry rests is not linn
tied to their employees, but is being
rapidly extended to control the educa-
ton and social service of the ma
ton.
This control is being extended largely
thru the creation of enormous privately
managed funds for indefinite purposes,
hereafter designated foundations" by
the endowment Of colleges and uni
versities, by the creation of funds for
the pensioning Of teachers, by con-
tributions to private charities, as well
as thru controlling or influencing the
public press"
The Rockefeller foundations en-
trance into the field Of Industrial rela-
tions, thru a creation OF a special d.
vision, it Is declared. CONSTITUTES a
menace to the national welfare to
which the attention. not only Of con-
gress, but Of the entire country, should
be directed. Backed by the 500, 600 600
of the Rockefeller foundation, this
movement has the power to influence
the entire country in the determination
OF its most vital policy"
Mt. Rockefeller il charged with plan
ming to utilize literature which was
known to him at the time to be untrue
and misleading in q so-called union
educational campaign"
I; There is developing. says the report
degree of control over the teaching OF
professors in our colleges and univers-
| tiles which constitutes q most serious
menace.
On immigration the report recon-
mends:
THE enactment Of legislation provid-
| ing that within six months from the
time OF entry all immigrants shall be
required, under penalty OF deportation
either to declare their intention to be-
come citizens by taking out their first
papers or to definitely register them
selves with the proper authority as
alien tourists, and further providing
that all immigrants who have failed
to take out their first papers at the end
OF two years shall be deported. - shall
all who fail to take out their second
papers when they become eligible, de.
portation in each case to act - Q hal
to future entry"