The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-02
WALSH DISTORTED TESTIMONY CHARGES
 MACKENZIE KING
Former Minister of Labor for Canada Criticizes the Statement of Chairman
 Industrial Commission

New York June 1.-The charge that Chairman Frank P. Walsh of the United States industrial relations commission distorted testimony when he issued a statement at Kansas City yesterday seek ing to make it appear that John D. Rock efeller, Jr.. was personally responsible for
 labor conditions in the Colorado coal fields was made here tonight by W. l.. Mackenzie King, former minister of labor for Canada, and now director of an in- vestigation into industrial relations for the Rockefeller foundation.
 No better example could be afforded" :" said MT. King, ''of the methods adopted by Frank P. Walsh. the chairman of the commission on industrial relations, and of the kind of thing against which I pro tested so strongly whilst testifying h Washington, than the following paragraph from statement issued yesterday bs Mir Walsh at Kansas City. and which is given to the public in the name of the commission as a whole
 But above all the commission has proved the absolute responsibility of John D. Rockefeller Jr., himself for everything that happened in Colorado. W. L. Mac kenzie King, former labor commissioner of Canada, and at present an empoye of the Rockefeller foundation, boasted while giving his testimony that the will and conscience of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., were more potent in Colorado than all of the public opinion of all of the people of the United States, and that the American people must look to that one man for an
 improvement of conditions, conceded by all to be un-American and intoerable.'
 Perversi0n of Testimony
 That this is a complete perversion of
 my testimony is shown from the follow ing extract from the official stenograpn- io report:
 !" Chairman Walsh: Is there any force to control the Rockefeller interests in Colorado to do the right thing, if they
 are not doing the right thing, except the
 ordinary people in American
 MT. king: II you are speaking of the immediate force and immediate influence. l think that the conscience of young MT. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is more power . ful on that, and will affect social Justice in Colorado quicker than any other single force that you could bring to bear. think he realizes there is a great work tu do there, and he intends to have i' done. Chairman Walsh You think tat the will and conscience of MT. Rocket Her in bringing proper conditions and enduring conditions in Colorado is more poweri ul than the will and conscience of all the | balance of the people of the Unlleo | States directed in that feld?'
 MT. King: No, MT. Chairman, don'i put it that way at all'
 Tt will be seen that the reply in which IT made reference to MT. Rockefele: con- | science referred solely to the question as | to what was the most powerful influence l for correcting conditions anon, tho | Rockefeller interests in Colorado shodia | they be found to be not as they ought tc I be. The contrast of the will and con. 1 science of MT. John D. Rockefell I, itl with the power of public opinion, as well
 as the introduction of a reference to Mr. l Rockefeller's will were MT. Walsh ! own, not mine.
 A Vigorous Protest
 "A perusal of the evidence in it's en- tirety will show that instead of there be- ing on my part any boast of the ki.ld MT. Walsh alleges there was the most viz orous protest against the attempt which 1 recognized he was making at ths tipe, to so distort and pervert testimony as b make 1t appear to the public that such a contrast could be drawn.
 An examination of the testimony will further show that 1 resolutely efused to be drawn into discussion of tie Sol- orado situation one way or the other, and that l positively declined to find responsi- ,,;i;