Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-01-30
JOHN D.'S FUND
CALLED A MENACE
J BY AMOS P|NCHOT
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Reforner Declares for Govern
Fnent Ownership of Raw Ma
terial and Transportation.
JOHN r. LAWSON SAYS
MINERS HAVE NO CHANCE
Miners Official Declares There
Is No Social Life In Camp.
Attacks Operators.
BY JOHN EDWIN NEVIH
United Press Correspondent.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Government
ownership OF raw material and trans
portation is needed TO provide jobs
for the jobless, In the opinion Of
Amos Pinchot, lawyer and reformer.
He so told the Federal Industrial
Relations Commission today. Pinchot
took sharp issue with the men who
have approved the unlimited power
of the various charitable foundations
and educational boards. And he
charged directly that they are
menace, as they "polson education at
the source"
Pinchot and John r. Lawson, of
the United Mine Workers, were to-
days only witnesses. Lawson
painted Vivid picture Of the recent
industrial war In Colorado. He re-
newed the allegation that the coal
operators control the State and local
governments there and quietly ad-
mitted that so far as his State at
present was concerned, Democracy
was g. failure
Pinchot advocated government own
ownership OF natural resources with
q leasing system as the panacea for
Industrial unrest. This was neces-
sary, he said, in order to make tran
sportation and the raw materials,
which are the basis of industry, ac-
cess.ble to all competitive industry on
equal terms. He also explained to
the commission that he is not So
cialist, and holds neither with the
monopolists nor the Socialists, who
advocate the elimination Of competi-
tion in industry. One of the
elements which makes for trou-
BILE, in Pinchot's opinion, was the in
ability or labor generally to get its
side OF the controversies fully and
fairly treated in the public press.
In this connection he urged the
commission to investigate the gen.
sral handling of news by press asso-
Citations.
In this connection Pinchot cited
what he termed concrete examples
of favoring the mine owners against
the workers and of distorted facts in
connection with the West Virginia
and upper Michigan strikes.
There are two major news fur
nishinE associations-the United
Press and the Associated Press" hs
said. The Associated Press sells
news chiefly to morning papers ami
the United to evening papers. The
United Press is conducted by a
group of younger men, who have
broader attitude toward industrial
questions, and who usually give fair
treatment on both sides in their re-
ports of conflicts between capital AMI
labor. But the Associated Press. un-
der older and more conservative
a q MT fnIxaa fir ffUAlV tha
side of capital"
Pinchot warmly indorsed the labor
unions and the principle of collective
bargaining. Denial of the right to
organize by the Steel Corporation
and the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany and similar corporations he de-
nounced as fraud and barharous.
Corporations Take Away Rights.
"Our great corporations are TAX
ing away every right from labor ex.
cept the right to work at a wage
hardly large enough to supply physi-
cal efficiency" sad Pinchot. In the
system of Golden Rule absolutism,
of which so many advocates have ap-
peared before your commission, COM
plete control-a control touching the
most vital things in a mans life an
fixing the conditions in which he
must work and live and try to sup
port his family---is assumed by the
employer. Such a system is unjust
and impracticable.
1.-THE cause of industrial unrest Is
the fact that there are more men than
there are Jobs all the time and in hard
times often dozen men for each Job.
We must develop industry until there
are more jobs than there are men.
Men today bid against each other FOR
jobs. Today in this country condi-
ton of restrictions exists which lin
its industry, and therefore limits the
amount of labor which Is used In in
dustry. Last year the legislative as
sembly of New Jersey made a report
which stated that eighty-seven per
cent. of all the anthracite coal in tho
United States was owned or controlled
by a combination of eleven railroads,
in which the Philadelphia and Read
ing alone controlled sixty-three per
cent of all the unmined coal.
"This cornering of anthracite coal
deposits, which are basis Of both in
dustry and labor, produces condi-
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