Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-04
ROCKEFELLER, ST.,
RARELY MEETS
PERSONAL STAFF
Close, Confidential Agent Of
Oil Magnate Has Talked
With Him Only Twice Dur
ing Last Five Years.


New York, Feb. John X. Law
son. executive board member Of the
United Mine Workers of America
from the district which Includes colo
RADIO. told the federal commission on
industrial relations TINT the reason
the Colorado Fuel & Iron company
ana otnef operators refused to deal
With ORGANIZED labor was that they
ttaiized mat the unions would force
them 10 obey the mining laws which.
nc sald, they had repeatedly violated.
Mf. lawson, who was a witness last
week was recalled 10 the stand after
Mrs. Mary Petrucci and Mrs Mar
gatet boninskl, the wives II Colorado
miners. had told the story 0f Ludlow
and the battle there as they had seen
IL. Mrs Petrucci's three children
We're smothered 70 death in a subter-
ranean che mber where they haa hid
Gen when the tent colony was nurned
Mr.. Lawson said that the only
reason the operators had granted the
miners anything Was because they
had seen The handwriting on the wall
placed there by the unions" As ne
testified he held IN his hand copies
OF twelve Colorado mining laws. Each
OF these, he said, had been broken
many times By the operators. The
operators realized, he asserted. that
the unions would not only force them
To obey the statutes, bat would pre-
vent them from Importing vast num-
bers Of workers IRON southern Fu-
rope. who had never seen mine he
fore. and then paying them what
they pleased. working them as long
Nfas "a II q
state Of poverty f0r the rest of their
lives
Defends Work Of Foundation.
Jerome -. Greene. secretary on The
Rockefeller Foundation ana formerly
a member Of the personal staff IT
John D Rockefeller, SF.. occupied the
witness stand all during the morning
session and a part Of the afternoon
session. lie defended The practices
and policies Of the Rockefeller
Foundation and the aims and ideas OF
its founders.
He admitted that the foundation
could. within the scope Of the charter
granted it by the New York legisla-
ture, do many things Incompatible
with The general interests of the pub .
lie, y such as conducting propaganda .
n -tiAIirt VI -Atlattu lNHhi or "a campaign
against compensation for workmen.
But he declared that there was not
even a remote possibility that such
Ihinss would ever happen.
Mr.. Greene said that while until the
first of the year he was % member Of
kockefelier's personal staff, he had
seen his employer but twice in the
last five years Mr.. Greene said he
considered the trouble in Colorado
10 be economic.
At the afternoon session Mr.. Greene
said that the figures quoted Yesterday
by Mr. Costgan in regard 10 how
much financial interest the Rockefel-
er Foundation had in Colorado were
wrong. ne denied further that the
was in any way q factor in
he conditions in Colorado.
Mr.. Greene, in discussing the char
Icteristics of Mr.. Rockefeller. Sr..
aid: He is open-minded He might
everse his own opinion If anyone
ould show him he was wrong. He
s open to suggestions from everyone
Even the officeboy might offer n
digestion he would take"
How often do you see Mr.. Rookie {
eller SEP asked Commissioner I
Walsh,
Very rarely. ! think l have seen I