South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-27
Frank P. Walsh, Chairman Of
industrial Relations Commit
tee, Makes Hot Reply TO Oil
Kings Son.
SAYS MINE OWNERS
DARE NOT ANSWER
Investigator Says His Denunci-
alton by Rockefeller MAY
Create Public Opinion 10
Prevent Another Ludlow.


that when the Rockefeller group are
out for Ailling-to set blood
nothing stands in their way Air.
Rockefeller did not doign and does
not dare 20 make answer ra fg.f- with
which ! have confronted him.
John -. Rockefeller. Jr. received
this answer today 90 The charges he
made that Frank 2. Walsh. chairman
of the United States commission 0n
industrial relations had misconstrueI
his correspondence with executives of
the Rockefeller mines in colorado
during the coal strike.
The facts which Rockefeller did
not delgn 10 answer are SCI forth in
long telegram from Horace \. HaN-
strikers 20 Chairman Walsh fcr Iur-
bio Colo, Jan. -. 1915. % was trans
mitted at once 10y Mr Walsh to A..
Rockefeller. This telegram detailed
the killing of three guards and tne
chauffeur Of Sn automobile in which
the guards were riding Tho company
claims its men were amhushcd bet
strikers claim they did not hrc until
the guards attacked them. Murder
charges we're preferred
MIR. EOckefeller's company owns
no interest in the oakdale property.
where the guards were killed" said
Mr.. Hawkins telegram. hui is cm-
are conducting the prosecution De
tectives employ ed by the colorado
Fuel & Iron Co. have bceu in attend
ance assisting these attorneys.
Rockefeller Lawyers Appear.
I'm numbers of other cases against
the strikers - continues Mr. HaWkins
telegram. where alleged ofenscs are
yet TO be tried and in which neither
Mr.. Rockefeller's company nor his
employees are concerned Mr Rookie
feller's attorneys have entered their
appearance. and openly announce
that they are going to conduci tle
prosecution.
Il respectifull submit that Mr.
Rockefeller should be asked if he
knows Of these things and approtcs of
them"
Mr.. Walsh's statesment today reads.
."I note that John H. Rockefeller ir.
denounces me as liar. Mr. Rocke-
feller's anger and resentment towards
me obviously grows out of "a miscon-
ception as 10 my duties was NOT
appointed 10 allav or smother the
causes Of industrial unrest but 90 in
vestigate them and make them man
ifest 10 the world
The published letters which
aroused Mr.. ROckefeller's ire are an
admitted by him 10 have been writ
ten and correctly quoted. so that Mr.
statement is in no sense "A denial of
anything published 10y me.
1T Is interesting and am sins to
note that Jesse +. Welhorn. president
Of Rockefeller companies in Colorado.
gives a labored interview attempting
to show that no letters were written.
While l. NJ. Bowers. chairman OF the
executive committee OF the Rockefel-
ler's interests in Colorado now at
Binghampton, furnishes his somewhat
lame contribution TO the ROckefeIIer
defense by cOnfessing the authenticity
Of the correspondence but declaring
that it did not amount 20 anything
and besides. n had been uncovered
by the congressional committee
Disappointed with Statement
"I must confess certain degree
Of disappointment however. with Nr
ROCkefeller's statement. He fails 80
explain in any way the confession o-
Mr.. Bowers that the Colorado r'uc.
x Iron CO. leads in fixing prices and
conditions Of labor He fails To- SET
forth the memorandum which he ne
clared in his letter of June "a. 1917.
10 has publicity agent. Mr Lee shat
1t could be appropriately used in rhe
letter from Gov. Ammons 80 Pres'-
Wilson.
Il also hear many expressions Of
disappointment OF the fact that Young
Rockefeller did not make public tho
draft OF Mr.. Lees letter referred .3
in his letter OF July = 1919 which
ne was not entirely satisfied
also the explanation 0f Mr. Rookie
feller was fragmentary 90 say tho
least. because 10 did not contain the
names and locations of the 'friendIr
papers 20 which the story ~ Ludlow
massacre was 10 be given. as suggest
i've in the telegram from AR Bowers.
Mr. Rockefeller's representative iu
Colorado IN the morning after thai
unspeakable horror.
II arn glad 10 note thar the Rocke-
feller defense 10 the Ludlow massa,re
IS. that the two women and D chIdren
who met their death upon that occa-
sion were not shot but merely
'sm0thered 20 death in q pit while
the bullets from the mine guards were
flying over the mouth Of The p't
Entire candOr. however. shOu,d have
moved Mr.. Rockefeller o. add the
additional details that his mine guards
in the guise OF state rniiftfamen burn
ed down the tents and looted the VIC
Tins before and after their deaths
When Mr.. Walsh gave his state
ment 10 a Representative ~ the inter-
national News Service he added this
sentence 20 the formal written state
ment which ne had prepared
''I submit that al hen the Rockefeller
group ase ont for killing-out 60 gee
tl0od-nothing stands in their way.
Mr. rockefeller did not dclEn and
does not dare 20 make answer o. facts
with which 1 have confronted him"