Denver labor bulletin., 1915-06-05
WALSH DECLARES
CHARGES PROVEN
Rockefeller Stands Indicted
Before American People
Commission Probed Bottom Of Social
Cancer as Developed By Coal Strike
in Colorado and Got Naked Facts

Every indictment brought against the
Roekefellers in the bitter attempt to
crush the revolt against industrial des-
potism" in the Colorado coal mine re.
gion was proved at the recent Washing
ton hearing before the industrial rela-
tions commission, says Chairman Frank
p. Walsh in a statement isued from his
home in Kansas City upon return from
the Washington hearing this week The
statement is as follows:
with the close of the Washington
hearing, the commission has practically
completed its investigation of the Colo
rado strike. The American people now
have access to public record which for
the first time in the history of the coun-
try tells the whole story of how monop-
/ olistic property interests 90 about it
when they wish to crush a revolt against
industrial despotism, and thus to retain
their arbitrary power over the lives OF
men, women and children.
Arbitrary Power of Rockefeller. ~
4 favored the commission probing to
the bottom this particular social cancer
because l realized that the struggle in
Colorado was not local or peculiar in
character but presented, as it were. a
great laboratory in which every angle OF
the labor problem could be observed and
studied, and, in my opinion, the indis-
putable facts developed provide a strik-
ing illustration of what happens any
where when the workers. in their strug-
gle for freedom, run counter to the fl
nancial interests and to the love of ar
bitrary power OF such men as Messrs.
Rockefeller
The record of the Washington hearing
of the commission is remarkable. to my
mind. chiefly because every major in
dictment brought against the Rockefel-
/ lers, father and son. as well as other coal
operators working with them in Colorado.
by the bitterest of agitators, has been
proven out of the lips of John D. Rookie
feller, jr., or the men whom he hires to
carry out the joint wills of his father and
himself. in most instances, backed up by
the letters over the signatures of these
men.
Prostitution of State Officials. -
Political domination, intimidation of
the governor. contempt for government
, and the American people as a whole. the
prostitution OF the state to private inter
| ests. an utter contempt and disregard
for the state and federal constitutions.
as well as statute laws; the horror OF
the Ludlow massacre, the exploitation of
helpless miners by economic pressure and
the viler forms of larceny. the attempt
to make it appear that the coal compan-
les had met in conference representatives
OF the strikers. when such was not the
case; the carefully organized and extern
! sive campaign undertaken to deceive the
people-all of these have been estab-
lished beyond all doubt from the testi-
mony OF John ID. Rockefeller ir and his
personal lieutenants.
Rockefeller Proven Responsible.
But above all. the commission ha.
proved the absolute responsibility OF John
ID. Rockefeller, ir., himself for everything
that happened in Colorado. W. l.. Mac
kenzie King, former labor commissioner
OF Canada and at present an employe of
the Rockefeller foundation. boasted while
giving his testimony upon the stand that
the VIII and conscience of John d. Rookie
teller, lr-, was more potent in Colorado
than all the public opinion of all the peo
pie OF the United States and that the
American people must look to that one
man for an Improvement of conditions.
conceded by all 70 be unAmerieau and in
tolerable
With the record of the Colorado inyes.
tlgation before them. the American peo-
pie will be blind indeed. If they fail TO
see the folly of trusting to the good in
tentions and the philsnthropic impulses
OF men like Messrs. Rockefeller and ii
they do not realize that the men who
lead a strike, such as that of the miners
in Colorado, are fighting the same old
right for liberty and democracy against
an enemy as powerful and menaeins as
fathers"