The Washington times., 1915-05-19
ROCKEFELLER HEARS
SYSTEM ARRA|GNED
Minister Bitterly Attacks Meth
>ods Of Treatment Of Miners
BY Colorado Company.
Continued from First Page.)

speaking people, the condition Is just
reversed at the present time and four
hfths of the men speak foreign
tongues.
Colorado faces worse conditions than
~ mas seen In the past, DR.. Geddes de-
clared. =
III investigators keep out of Colo
rado another six months the shackles
that It will takes the fires OF hell to
break them" the witness declared dra-
matically.
Shameful camp conditions we're al
legged by DR.. Ged1es.
Workers in the 'Rockefeller mines
live In box car shacks and adobe huts,'
he said. The company rents sharks
and dugouts to these people. and they
live on the level OF a pig sty."
Partnership between the Rockefeller
interests In the saloons also was al
legged.
Gets Big Saloon Rent.
AT Primero the company gets 81 200
year rent out of a saloon building that
cost 5000" DR.. Gaddis charges. When
he demonstrated with Superintendent
Charles O'Neil, of the Berwin and Ia
basco Mine. against the sale of liquor
to mine workers, ONeil told him, he
said. that "a drunken spree Is q good
thing for a miner. as he works harder
when he gets back to work"
Further evidence of saloon conditions
in the coal camps was offered by DR..
Gaddis. In 1908 there were eighty-two
saloons in the Colorado camp, twelve
| Of them under company lease. The
to human ghouls, who operate the
places with the connivance of mar
shals," he charged.
In spite of a vote of 1900 placing
a ban on liquor in Colorado. several
camp saloons have been permitted to
run DR.. Gaddis continued.
The camp saloon was one of the
strongest melting factors in the recent
| strike"
In addition to the moral conditions,
DR.. Gaddis said shocking sanitary CON
ditions prevailed. Typhoid epidemics
| were caused in camps by filthy condi-
| tions
DR.. Gaddis said he was discharged
| after calling attention to these condi-
| tions. Il wrote to Mr. Rockefeller about
| it, he said. "and was told he couldn't
| interfere"
$4,000 To 1904 Campaign.
| Chairman Walsh read a letter from
l.. M. Bowers. one of the managers OF
the Colorado property, written May 10
1913. in which he said that while the
G. F. and !. Company had contribute ed
| $4,000 to the campaign of 1904, he
| had refused to pay out nickel &c
any politician or political party" and
had conducted a fight to drive the
saloon out Of mining camps. THE
company has been notorious in many
sections for their support Of the liquor
| interests" Bowers said.
Questioned about this Or. Gaddis
said the company had adopted &
smooth way OF continuing the part
nership with saloons" by leasing
company buildings to saloons at ex
orbitant prices.
Il One man, Sheriff Jeff Farr OF Wal
senberg. was kept in office through
the influence of the company, he al
: LEGGED, though he is a partner In six
teen solaans and a Wholesale ,liquo
, house.
Concluding his testimony at th'
morning session. r. Gaddis charge
that the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany in closed camps controlled schoo
funds. put a superintendent in 4
school director and discharged teacher
: who sympathized with strikers. Aske
II he justified the use of violence b
strikers, DR.. Gaddis said:
mo, unless II becomes apparent tha
> the proper authorities are biased"