The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-25
ROCKEFELLER
SAYS BIG FUND
is UNHAMPERED
John d.. Jr.. Tells Industrial
Board S1OO,OOO,OOO Will
Be Used Impartially.
WILL APPEAR BEFORE
COMMISSION TO-DAY

In statement submitted TO the United
States Commission on Industrial Relations
and made public yesterday the Rockefeller
Foundation reveals for the first time the
utter absence of red tape in the fouuda-
TONS work. work so colossal and 80
richly endowed as to have no counterpart.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., will be the
witness when the commission resumes its
hearings this morning in the City Hall
He will probably he on the stand for sew
cral hours. and will be questioned not only
as to his ideas on industrial problems but
also about the foundation, OF which he
is the president particularly a. a possible
menace to democratic institutions.
Jerome u. Greene. secretary OF the
foundation. and Ivy l.. Lee until recently
publicity agent OF the Pennsylvania Rail
road will follow Mr.. Rockefeller on the
stand. Mr.. Lee took up work with the
foundation 10 Few weeks ago. \ Barton
Hepburn Is also scheduled TO testify.
When inviting Mr.. Rockefeller to testify
the commission submitted two sets OF
questions, 20 which the replies are now
In hand. The commission displayed great
curiosity about the foundations resolve
10 investigate industrial relations through
out the world. with a view to reaching
permanent reconciliation between capital
and labor It wanted to know how the
foundation came TO pick w l.. Mackenzie
King. formerly Minister or Labor In Can
ada. to make a world study OF industrial
relations
No Intricate stan Maintained.
The vision IN the commissions mind. a.
revealed by its questions, was Of Mr. King
l..NV 10 AZ
bureaus. division chiefs. investigators.
clerical assistants and the like. This
elaborate machine was evidently supposed
to be gathering long rows of figures facts
and instances and tabulatng them In the
usual involved and endless way such
mechanisms have.
So the missionaries included such in
tcrrogations as these: How large stan
has Mr.. King at the present time" What
procedure is followed when engaging in
vestigators to assist Mr.. King? Is there
any provision I'm the agreement or under
standing to assure Mr.. Kings ability IA
GO on with his plans, even II his polcy
should be divergent from that of the d.
rectors?
The foundation replied that this last
question and some others asked appear
3, 10 Based upon 81 entire '"'s""n"""'i"n
Of the spirit and purpose Of the invest e
cation" II explains that Mr. King has
no stan; not oven n division chief
I He was engaged to investigate indus
trial relations in his own way. He began
work last October !. The first thing he
did was to engage Prof Robert f. Foer'
ster OF Harvard to card index trustworthy
hooks on the subject. Prof, Foerstei
listed over 5000 titles. with 700 or SOC
in separate list dealing only viii
| America.
stenographer Vow and Then.
Further than this the work, says th'
foundation. has hardly had time e
progress in four months Besides Prof
Forester Mr.. King has hired a stenog
rainier now and then. That is all th'
stam he has lie Is to investigate where
and when he thinks best and most prac
teal: he has not submitted to the foun
dation any grand programme OF the worl
and isn't expected 10,
The commissions misrepresentation wa
shown In a question about divisions o
the foundation, such az the General Edu
cation Board II also asked for tho rea
sons for the consolidation OF Rockefelle
benefactons The foundation pointed on
that Il has nothing to do with tho Gen
eral Education Board and that the Rookie
Teller benefactions. of which that boar'
is one. have never been united.
At tho commissions request the founds
ton has supplied II with copy OF II
charter Estate OF New York;. its con
stitution and bylaws, its security holding
already mentioned, four closely printe
pages telling what Mr.. King has don
10 qualify as a student OF industrial re
} latlons. chapters six and seven on civ
ing from John II. Rockefelers auto
biography and all its public statements
All these. together with the QUESTIONABLE
and answers. may be had of the founds
= ton in booklet form.
There are only two restrictions on III
spending of the foundations 100000. O0t
Any or all Of So 100000 of the yearly II
J come must be spent as the senior Rookie
Teller directs in his lifetime. Two-thrd
OF the members of the foundation. meet
ing after thirty days specific notice, ma
spend any or all OF the sl00,o00o0O il
self
Power 10 Meet EmerGencies.