The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-01-31
One Million
Dollars Capital
had been indicted and must decline

had been indicted and must decline
to go into details
Lawson said there are now nineteen
indictments pending against him, four
teen OF which are for murder. No oper-
ator has been indicted, he said, for the
outrages committed by their hireiings
during the strike, and was not likely
to be, because OF the control over gov
eminent agencies exercised by the Col
orado Fuel and Iron Company. He de-
clared that democracy was a miserable
failure In Colorado. and when asked
how he would remedy the existing Or
der OF things he replied: II would In
sist that every man at the head Of a
corporation, or in IT. comply with the
law. and give the people social and
industrial justice"
But what II the people do not avail
themselves of the machinery that has
been provided for them to obtain these
thinssT
How can they avail themselves of
them IL the corporations control the
officials through whom these things
must be obta.ned7 I believe our only
hope lies In men obeying the law with
out the necessity OF being forced to do
SO, and penailzed II they do not"
"Are the wages paid by the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company good"
Not Question of What One Earns.
They are lower than In Wyoming,
Montana and Washington. do not
concede that they are good. and want
to say that Ii is not a question in Col
orado OF what a. man earns. but of what
he gets after the company Is through
| with him"
Lawson reiterated the charges that
men favored by the Colorado Fuel and
that II In done by voting sheep, males
and even box ear. nj elections. He
charged aiso that n miner going to the
postomce for United States money
order In frequently given company or
ders.
Pfnehot stand.
Amos Pfnchot took the stand at IL: so
o'clock. and at las the hearing was
adjourned while he was still reading Il
prepared statement In answer to q
question submitted to him. In his opin-
ION. industrial unrest lis due to nnem-
pBoyment resulting from under pro-
duction and fiooding of the labor mar
ket by greedy employers. He denounced
the Rockefeller Foundation as a menace
! TO liberty, and assailed the Associated
Press. In this connection he said that
one OF the elements which makes for
trouhle, In his opinion. was the In
ability OF labor generally to get its side
! of the controversies fully and fairly
treated In the public press In this con-
necfion he urged the commission TO In
vestigata the general handling of news
by press associations. He cited what
| he termed concrete examples OF favor
! ing the mine owners against the work
ers, and of distorted facts in connection
with the West Virginia and upper Mich
/ tgan strikes.
There are two major news-furnish-
ing associations--the United Press and
the Associated Press" he said. "The
Associated Press tells news chiefly to
morning papers and the United to
evening papers. The United Press is
conducted by group of younger men.
who have a broader attitude toward
Industrial questions. and who usually
/ give fair treatment to both sides in
their reports of conflicts between CAPT.
| tai and labor. But the Associated
{, Press. under older and more conser-
vative management. takes afiirmativeiy
the side OF capital"
| The hearing will be resumed Mon
day morning. other witnesses will be
| j. i. Morgan and James Mackaye, the
| latter Boston sociologist who has
evolved new scheme of scientific
ethics.