The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02

Teller foundation or the genera edu-
cation board, Mr.. Pinchot CONSIDERED
"a grave danger Smaller colleges
he declared. were full Of instructors
and professors who have not been
deliberately driven from larger uni
verSiries on account OF economic opln-
iore u~nfriendly to benevolent exploit
ers in industry, but who nevertheless
have found their chairs in the large
universities untenable and have lett
them owing to influences which were
Irresistible. but too subtle TO complain
about
The commission adjourned until
Monday before Mr.. Pinchot had com
pleted his testimony, but he was per-
miIted 10 place the remainder on the
record in the form OF d epare
statement. In that he advocated an
investigation by the commission or a
similar body into the handling Of
news in labor controversies.
Press Alleged Unfair.
The effect Of public opinion could
only be justly eXerted, he said, when
the public was put in possession OF
| the facts. He declared hat there was
no element which gives labor a feel
ing OF such heiplessness and bitter
ness as its knowledge that the merits
OF its side OF the question will not be
presented to the public through the
| press"
The Associated Press in particular,
he said, failed TO carry news relating
10 labor troubles in an Impartial man
ner and takes a~ffirrnatiyely the ! q
Of capital" He asserted that he had
been informed by "a representative
citizen of Colorado, himself a news
paper man CT high standing and a
subscriber to the Associated Press,
that the failure OF the Associated
Press to carry news impartial1y in the
labor troubles was a serious element
in giving strikers the feeling that
they could not hope for Justice"
Speaking OF labor troubles in the
West Virginia coal fields and in the
Michigan copper mine region III
1913. he quoted what %purported to be
dispatches Of the Associated Press
as characteristic evidence of it.
partially to the operators side of thu
case" He declared that the Asso
ciated Press reported a rifle attack b.
mine guards from an armOred tral1
upon a miners tent colony at Holl.
Grove. w. Va, "as if the miners ha
made an unWarranted attack upon
passenger train
? AS another typical instance Of op
: preston in perversion Of news b.
the Associated Press, he compare,
testimony of Charles H. Meyer, pres
ident of the Western Federation O
- Miners, DeIOFo the congressional com
mission, which investigated the Mich
= igan copper strike, with what he de
clared to be an Associated Press &C
count, both referring to circumstance
: surrounding Meyers departure froI
e the mine district for Chicago.
Organization Imposed Upon.
e Both in the West Virginia an
Michigan strikes the Associated Pres
grossly misrepresented the real cor
e dition of affairs" said Mr.. PinchO
e This was due in part to the fa'
S that in West Virginia it got its info
IF nation from a man identified wit
S. the coal companies, while in Mich
e, gan, during a large part Of the strik
d the Associated Press received its il
formation from two newspaper offic
controlled by the mine operators. b
d whatever the machinery may ha'
been through which suppression al
misrepresentation occurred, the ia
remains that it did occur and that
resulted in binding the public to Il
IS actual facts until congressional inve
re legations brought them Out."