Denver labor bulletin., 1915-10-02
ReitterateS PoliCyof Open
Shop in Colorado
Spends Week in Denver Going Over
Affairs With C. .F.6l |. Officials But
Extends No Invitation for Con-
ference With Union Men

There will be no recognition of the
union as a result of young John ID.
Rockefeller's visit to Colorado is the
announcement of w. L. Mackenzie King,
social welfare expert of the sIO0, 600 600
Rockefeller foundation fund. Instead a
program of benevolent paternalism" is
to be instituted.
The principal director and owner of
the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
came to Denver last Sunday after spend
ing week making personally conduct
ed tour of investigation thru the mining
camps of Las Animas and Huerfano
county, and the big steel plant at
Pueblo. Everywhere he is being accom-
panied by Mackenzie King and officers
of the C. F. & l. Up to this writing he
has not requested conference with rep
resentatives of the United Mine Workers
OF any of the victims OF the system pur-
sued by his Colorado officials. What in
vestigation the young man is making
have so far been conducted on one side.
Conference With Justice League
A conference was granted Mrs. Lee
Champion. president. and Mrs. Sarah l.
Scanland, secretary, representing the
Colorado Justice League This meeting
was held Monday afternoon in the re-
the Brown Palace hotel As no reporters
were present. there have been different
statements given out at to what trans
pired The women said that they under
stood Rockefeller to say that he had no
objection to his employees joining unions
and believed in collective bargaining.
Rockefeller's secretary eontended that
the only statement made by him Was to
read What he said to the industrial COM
mission at its hearing in New York
Nothing that was material to the sit
uation came of this conference
While Rockefeller contends that he
stands for the open shop policy of en-
ployment without discrimination against
union mmbers. the fact nevertheless re-
mains that union men are debarred from
getting work in his Colorado industries
and an effectual blacklist is maintained
against all those known to have parti-
cipated in any way prominently in the
recent strike.
Company Maintains a Blacklist.
Last week a number of miners union
delegates from Las Animas and Huer-
fano counties We're in Denver attending
the State Federation of Labor conven.
tion. The Bulletin editor took occasion
to question them as to Unemployment
of former strikers and union men They
were united in saving that the mine
superintendents, acting apparently under
instructions from the Denver office of
the Rockefeller company. refused to en-
ploy union men if they knew them to
be such. and that all who were active in
the strike were blacklisted.
They said reports in the daily press
OF Rockefeller conferring with union
men while at Trinidad and Walsenburg
was pure fiction, and that if they were
union men they We're members of the
social welfare union organized by Presi-
dent Welborn and Superintendent Welt
eel of the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany.
Promised Complete Investigation
Nearly year ago, at his offices in
New York. young Rockefeller told
Mother" Jones. John r Lawson and
Ed L. Doyle that when he came to Colo
rado he was poing to hear the union
miners side of the industrial tragedy.
So far there has been no movement on
his part to fulfill this promise. He has
been in Denver for a week. calling al
most daily at the c. F. & l. office.
in the Boston building only three blocks
from headquarters of the United Mine
Workers in the German-American Trust
building, with telephone ready at hand,
and vet no request has been made for
committee of the miners to meet with
him.
In order that such committee. EN-
powered TO deal with Rockefeller. might
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