The Sentinel=record., 1915-05-23

Washington, May % Concluding his tNo-day examination by the Indus trial Relations Comm. ss on today, John D. Rockefeller Jr. entered de nials to three charges which. if sus- tained, would, according to Commis sioner Weiustock, Hay at the door of the Colorado mine operators the re- sponsibility for the unfortunate hap penings" in the Colorado coal strike. The charges Were framed and pre- scented by Commissioner Weinstock as being, in brief the allegations brought against the operators Joy the strikers.
 Despite frequent clashes between the witness and Chairman Walsh as to the form of questions. there was little friction at the hearing today. Only two members of the commission Chairman Walsh and Commissioner Weinstock, attended throughout the days session.
 Commissioner Weinstock presented a letter to Mir. Rockefeller reviewing the commissions inquiry into Colo rado conditions, which read:
 What I have been able, in brief to get out of it all,' it read, lis that the strikers and their sympathizers make three specific charges:
 That at no time after the strike could they get a hearing at the hands of the operators.
 That the civil and judiciary ma chinery for obtaining such justice as the law affords was in the hands of the operators and not available to the strikers.
 That the operators through their agents were the first to resort to vio lence and that all the violence which followed was defensive on the part of the strikers and not offensive.
 If these three charges have ben established then the responsibility for the unfortunate happenings in Colo rado must be laid at the door of the operators and the strikers are entitled to all support and sympathy of the American people"
 Answering the first charge, MT Rockefeller said:
 "The representatives of the unions, so far as I know, have not met in conference with the operators, but the striking miners, as | understand it. were present at a meeting called by Governor Ammons on November 26. where they met three of the oper- ators with the governor and discussed the situation"
 "The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com pany." he continued, have always been and always will be ready to meet with their men or with the rep representatives whom their men may eIect-men working in their mines.
 "As to whether the civil and judi cial machinery were in the hands of the operators and not available to the strikers | am mot in a position to state. have understood testimony has been offered on both sides. think the fact, without regard to party lines. is that the election which took place in Colorado in the fall, turning out as it did, would indicate that the ballot is still powerful in that state to represent the will of the people
 Discussing the final charge, as to the beginning of violence in the strike MT. Rockefeller asserted;
 '1 naturally regret, now that these are all matters of the past, to reopen the question of where the blame may properly rest ba the information have is that the beginning Of violence was on the nart of the strikers when one of the camp parshals was Killed
 Earlier in the aav Rock feller, after A sHe4t brush Zith Chairman Walsh over the if.tr fcUon of a letter he caused 10 he Iritten to President Wil horn of the colorado Fuel and Iron Company. by Etarr J. Murphy his counsel. succeted in getting before the commissiol account Of his part iu