Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-09-09
Industrial Commission
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Literature 10 recognize the miners I'M
ions), and also literature containing
statement Of Prof John ]. Stevenson:
Labor unions defy the law but are
ever ready to demand it's protection;
their principIes are M better than
those of the India Thugs, who prac-
ticed robbery and murder in the name
of the goddess Call" -.
d. That the Investigation of indus
trial relations is not being made IN
good faith, inasmuch as its director
states that he will not now nor here
after make public his fndsings regard
| ing most Important part OF his IN
vestigation, namely. the investigation
| in Colorado.
a. The purpose of Mr.. Rockefeller
to influence the public press Is clear
ily shown by the employment Of an
Experienced publicity expert as mem
| her OF his pers nal staff. and is inf1i-
Gated by his evident interest in the
ownership Or control OF u nllnhe' u
publications, of which we have rec
lords dating from the inquiry of his
secretary regarding the Pueblo Star
Journal in May, 1913 to the extensive
conferences regarding a loan of 1885,
900 to finance The Nations Business,
the organ of the National Chamber of
Commerce, which was established and
tgiyen a seini-official status through
the instruInentalities of the Secretary
of Commerce and Labor with the sane
| ton OF a fOrme rpreSident of the
United States"
Extent of influence.
%. THE extent of the possible in
fluence of these foundations and pri-
vate endowments of institutions fol
eduaction and public service is shown
lby a large amount of evidence in the
possession of the Commission. The
following examples may be cited:
a. The adoption of definite line
OF policy by the Bureau of Municipal
/ Research of New York to meet the
conditions imposed by Mr.. Rockefeller
in connection with proposed contribu-
ftionS.
b. The abandonment by several
colleges and universities of sectarian
affiliations and charter clauses relat-
ling to religion in order to secure en-
dowments from the Carnegie Corpor-
Iporation and pensions eor professors
1from the Carnegie Foundation for the
Adj ancement of Teaching. 1t would
y j willings abandon Its religious af-
Lii atoms through the, influence Of
these foundst. rs it will r.e'l more
cas- ly conf III to their will any other
i;.'t of its o.~a1:tl'n or tai, ing :
| Control Of Colleges.
26. apart from these foundations
there is developing a, deeret of con
ffc' over the teachings o. professors
in our colleges and univer sites which
Ic.1sti+uts most serious menace. In
June of this year two 5profes sors
known throughout their professions as
men of great talent and high charac
ter. fxere dropped from the positions
they Lad occupied and no valid .ea,
Es0n for such action was made public,
Both were witnesses before the Com
MISSION and mace statements based
Upon their own expert knowledge and
experience which were given I'll wide
publicity One avs a professor of law
1 in, a state university, who had acted
as counsel for the strikers in Colo:
RADIO; the other a professor of econo-
mics, who had not only been active in
lights in behalf of child labor legisla-
ltion and other progressive measures
but had recently published a work
comparing the income paid for prop
erty ownership with the income paid
lfor all classes of service.
I'm the case of the state university
we nkow that the coal operators In
conjunction with other business inter
ests had gained the ascendancy and
exercised great degree of control
over the former Governor of the
State, that the coal operators were
bitterly opposed to the professor in
| question, and that the dismissal of
the professor had been publicly urged
ilby the operators upon numerous occa-
sions, and We have the uncontroverted
statement Of the professor that he lad
been warned that if he testified before
the Commission he would not be re-
appointed. In the case of the professor
in the other university (Which, though
privately endowed, receives large ap-
preparations from the State), we know
that the trustees are interested in
4corpOrations which have bitterly op-
1posed progressive legislation, and are
men whose incomes are derived from
property ownership and not from
tservice.
In the fact of such an enormous
problem one can only frankly confess
inability to suggest measures which