Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-10-07
the conditions in his Colorado coal mining camps looms in

the conditions In his COLORADO coal INNING camps oos III
it's true proportions
FIVE give Rockefeller credit for intelligence must
accuse him of hypocrisy For twelve years he went
near these mines In that time strike fought and
men were murdered scabs imported and they IN turn
grew to be union and strikers There was another
strike and murders, and still Rockefeller did not n-
vestigate. Not until now, when he has been forced to
bv the publicity given his dark Deeds and now, he post
poned his trip for than year. giving ample time for
the wpng out of all that would have been unpleasant
for him to see and time for the artificial creation OF the
things he supposed to see. 81,
hundred proofs Of his hypocrisy plain.He says
he wants to hear the views of his workers. and then
trolls the conditions that he hear only views pleas
ant to himself He says that workers should have the
freedom to belong to organization they DESIRE and
then makes it impossible for them to belong amy other
than the he prescrbes He says that every worker
should have the to work where he peases and then
specifies that his companies shall reserve to themselves
the right of discharge without appeal He admits that
the workers in the camps should be allowed to have their
grievances taken up by representatives and their own
checweighman to that they are not cheated IN the
weights and then he provides system OF voting that
gives him and his companies absolute controover every
man theoretically elected by tho Miners.
Rockefeller could have granted the miners every CON
cesson except one and their rights would have been
ashes That one is the right to discharge When
be discharged without appeal discharged for any cause
for their manhood gone their hopes nave
been wrenched from them. job is to worker what
store is to merchant factory is to manufacturer,
building landlord, stocks to the capitalist money
the banker Take his job from him and he has nothing lett
tects every source Of livelihood except jobs It will de-
end against thieves the property of the merchant the
manufacturer the capitalist and the banker but the work
ers has no protection in his of livelihood except
through organization The courts you know have decld
ed that worker has rights his job that employer
is bound to respect.
Now Rockefeers plan to take from the worker the
only protection he possibly can havehis Labor union TO
saw that they still have the right to press any grievances
to say nothing whatever for will not have the co
age to press grievances against employer who can take
away from them arbitrarily their means Of livelihood
Therefore, the Organization which Rockefeller is to-
permit among his employees will either gravltate into the
United Mine Workers Of America or it will dlsentegrate
and become nothing at all It may be kept alive by com
pusorv membership but it be real organlza
tion since the foundation of Labor organization must
necessarily be it's protection to it's members and the
Rockefeller organization offer no protection
The newspapers will tell us that the employees nave
voted to accept his proposition What else eod they 40?
Certainly nobody expected them to vote against the wishes
of their masters Why the Rockefeller underngs know
all the men, what party they belong to- what church they
attend what tobacco they chew It is not surprising that
thew voted the way they told. For many years 1t
has been the custom for the coal companies the kocke
Teller interests to the asse for even potlca
Offices The surprising thing is that man out OF eight
stood out against the scheme That's big proportion
Of brave men in bunch recruited and enrolled because
! they were believed to be industrial towards.