The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-31
CONDITIONS IN MINING CAMP.
CONTINUED FROM PACE oNEo

the laws Of ColoraGo. or being q call
to arms, a rebellion.
THAT is no violation of the law"
| Mr.. Lawson replied. Il defy anvOnc
10 prove VIC violated the law
| The notice Was Issued. the witness
| said, two days after the shooting at
Ludlow
Mr.. Lawson said three thousand coal
miners are under indictment in
Colorado; and not an operator has
been indicted.
Mr.. Lawson said he was shot down
several years ago by an operator.
When the hearing came up. Mr.. Law
son said. the district attorney. John
L. Gray, said the case Should not be
pressed as it "as charge growing out
Of strike" So the operator was dis
charged.
Amos Pinchot, a New York attor-
.,ey, the next witness. declared govern
mcnt ownership of mincs or other
natural resources which arc founda-
tfons 3f industry and labor, was the
only doctrine III which there Is any
hope" for the. alfcvlation OF Industrial
evils! - - .''
| Acceptance by educatioal institu-.
tion5 of donations from the Rockefcl-'
Ter Foundation or the General Educa-.
lion Board, Mr-Pincfot considered q.
grave danger" Smaller colleges > he
declared. were full OF instructions and
] prufsessors "who have not been de-
iibcrately driven from larger univer-.
5ities ON account of economic opinions,
unfriendly to benevolent exploiters in,
industry. but who nevertheless have
'ound their chairs in the large .uniyer-.
/ 'itiosl untenable and have loft them
owing to influences which were lr-
! rsristible. but too subtle 40 complain
shout .,,
The commission adjourned until
Monday before Mr.. Pinchot has COM
plcted his testimony. tIt he was per-
mitted 10 place tho remainder on rec
| ord in the form of prepared state
ment. In that he advocated an invcs-
\ tigation by the commission or a sim
! liar iiody into the handling of news
labor controversies.
The effect OF public opinion could
only be Justly excrted. he said, when
the public was put in possession of the
sacts. He declared that there was mo
clement which gives labor feeling OF
SUCH helplessness and bitterness as its
] knowledge. that the merits of its side
I D. -thc question will not be prosecuted
% the public, through the press"
| The Associated Press in particular.
he said; failed to carry news relating
to labor troubles In an IMPARTIAL man.
| aer and takes affirmatively the side
Of capital" He asserted that he had
been informed by. "a, representative
:itizen or Colorado, himself q news
paper man of high standing and sub
3criber to the Associated Press. that
the failure OF the Associated Press to
carry news, impartially in the labor
| troubles was serious element In CIV
| ing strikers the feeling that they
could not hope for Justice"
Speaking of labor troubles in the
West Virginia coal fields and in [. =
Michigan copper mine region in 191
he quoted what purported TO be
>atches OF the Associated Press as
characteristic evidence of it's par
tiaiity to the operators side of the
| case" He declared that the Associat-
ed Press reported rifle attack fy
| mine: guards from an ermored train
upon q miners tent colony at Holly
Grove. Va. "a3 IL the miners had made
an unwarranted attack upon pas
seDger train"
AS '.another typical instance OF op.
preston In perversion os news" by the
Associated press, he cnn.narea test,,-
mony. OF Charles Fl. Meyer, president
or the Western Federation of Miners.
before. the, congressional commission
which investigated the Michigan top-
per strike troubles with that he de-.
yiared TO be an Associated Press &C.
count, both referring to circumstances
surrounding Meyers departure from
the mine distiet for Chicago.
Both in the West ;yirgiuis !, and
Mictsran strikes thc hssoniatn5 press
grossly misrepresented the real CON
,,,tion or AFFAIRS" said Mr.. Pinchot:
This was due In part to the fact that
| IN West Virginia, It gets it's infosma-
ton from man Identified with the
coal companies. while In Michigan.
during large part of the strike, the
Associated Press received its infefma-
| ton from two Offices controlled by the
minG Operators. But whatever the
machinery may have been through
which suppfession and misrepreseata-
ton occurred, the fact remains that Ii
/ did Yccur and that II resulted In 5iind-
tDg The public TO the actual facts un-
lut congressional Inv, ,utigasicns
brought them out ~