The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-31

CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE)
| the laws OF COloraGo. or being a call
to arms. a rebellion.
THAT is no violation of The law"
Mr.. Lawson replied Il defy anyone
| 10 prove VIC violated the law
The notice was Issued. the witness
| said. two days after the shooting at
| Lud.O
Mr. Lawson said three thousand ccal
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 a charge growing ont
Of STRIKE" So the operator was dis
| charged.
Amos Pinchot, New York attor-
| hey. the next witness. declared govern
mcnt ownership of mines or other
natural resources which are founda-
| tions 3f industry and labor, was the
"only doctrine In which there Is any
hope" for the alfcviatlbh or industrial
evils! -.
Acceptance by cducatioal institu-
tionS OF donations from the Rockefcl-
Ter Foundation or the General Educa-
| lion Board. Mr.-Pinciiot considered a
grave danger" Smaller colleges lie
declared. were full OF Instructions and
profsessors "who have not been de-
| libcrately driven from larger univer-
sities on account of economic opinions
| tn nj, ,tf a
Industry. but who nevertheless have
! 'ound their chairs In the large uniyer-
| 'itios untenable and have loft them
owing to influences which were ,ir-i
| r3sistibie, but too subtle TO complain
about" 5
The commission adjourncd until
Monday before Mr.. Pinchot has com
plcted his testimony. lit he was per-
mitted 10 place the 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 body into the handling OF news
labor controversies
The effect of public opinion could
only be Justly exerted. he said. when
the public was put in possession of the
| iacts. 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
| of the question will not be presented
| % the public through the press"
| The Associated Press in particular.
he said, failed to. carry news relating
to labor troubles In an IMPARTIAL man.
1er and takes affirmatively the side
| Of capital" He asserted that he had
1cen informed by. "a, representative
'itizen Of Colorado, himself news,
! oaper man of high standing and n sub
scriber to the Associated Press. that
the failure Of the Associated Press to
carry news, impartially in the labor
troubles was q serious element In CIV
ing strikers the feeling that they
could not hope for instice."
Speaking of labor troubles in the
West Virginia coal fields and in the
Michigan copper mine region in 1913.
he quoted what purpOrted to be dis
-atches of the Associated Press as
characteristic evidence of its par
! tiality to the operators side of the
case" He declared that the Associat-
ed Press reported rifle attack ty
mine Fuards from an armored train
upon a miners tent colony at Holly
Grove. Va. "as il the miners had made
an unwarraIted attack upon pas
senger train"
AS another typical Instance of op-
preston in perversion Of news" by the
Associated Press. he compared testi-
mony OF Charles III. Meyer, president
OF the Western Federation OF Miners.
before the. congressional commission
which investigated Che Michigan o3p-
per strike troubles with what he de-
c,ared 10 be an Associated Press ac-
count. both referring to circumstances
surrounding Meyers departure from
the mine distict for Chicago.
"Both in the West Virginia :, and
Mich,can strikes tho assaciatcd peess
grossly misrepreseRted. the real con-
,ition OF AFFAIRS" said Mr.. Pinchot.
.This was due in part to the fact that
In West Virginia, 1t gets Its informa-
ton from q man identified with the
coal companies, while in Michigan,
during large part OF the strike, the
Associated Press received its informa-
tlon from two Offices controlled by the
mine operators. But whatever the
machinery may have been through
which suppression and misrepresenta-
tr0H occurred. the fact remains that it
die occur and that Il resulted In blind.
ing The public to the actual facts un-
1 tll conEreesio ionat q intestigatIons
brought them out. - s e