New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-01
Asserts Board Proved His
Responsibility by His
Own UtteranCeS.
CALLS PEOPLE BLIND
TO TRUST SUCH MEN
Colorado Strikers Fought for
Liberty Against Menacing
Enemy, Says Chairman.

Kansas City, No, May 3l.-frank r.
Walsh, chairman of the Industrial Re-
lations Commission, in a statement to-
day declared the commission has
proved the absolute responsibility OF
John D. Rockefeller, jr, himself for
everything that happened in Colorado.
Mr.. Walsh added that the men who
led the Colorado strike were fighting
the same fight for liberty "against an
enemy as powerful and menacing as
any ever faced by our Revolutionary
forefathers."
"The record OF the Washington hear
ing of the commission" said Chairman
Walsh. sis remarkable, TO my mind,
chiefly because every major indictment
brought against the Rockefellers'
father and son, as we'll az the other
coal operators working with them IN
Colorado. by the bitterest OF agitators,
has been proven out Of the lips OF John
D. Rockefeller, jr., or the men whom
he hires to carry out the joint wills OF
his father and himself; in most IN
stances. backed up by letters over the
signatures of these men.
political domination. intimidation OF
the Governor. contempt for government
and the American people as whole,
the PROSTITUTION Of the state to private
interests, an utter contempt and dis
regard for the state and Federal con-
stitutions. as we'll as for statute laws,
the horror of the Ludlow massacre, the
exploitation of helpless miners by eco.
nomic pressure and the vller forms CT
larceny. the attempt to make * appear
that the coal companies had met IN
conference representatives of the strlk-
ers when such was not the case, the
carefully organized and extensive cam
paien undertaken to deceive the people
all of these have been established
beyond all doubt from the testimony of
John D. Rockefeller, jr., and his per-
sonal lieutenants.
Rockefeller, jr, Absolutely to Blame.
But, above all, the commission has
proved the absolute responsibility OF
John D. Rockefeller, jr., himself FOR
everything that happened in Colorado.
W. L. Mackenzie King, former Labor
Commissioner of Canada and at pres
ent an employe of the Rockefeller
Foundation, boosted, while giving his
testimony upon the stand, that the will
and conscience of John D. Rockefeller,
jr., were more potent in Colorado than
all of the public opinion of all the peo-
pie of the United States, and that the
American people must look TO that one
man for an Improvement of conditions.
conceded by all to be un-American ard
intolerabls.
"If the Colorado record were not
sufficient to give US the color and bent
of the mind Of John D. Rockefeller,
jr.. we should still have perfect rec
ord of his mental processes in the
article by Professor Stevenson, which
he ndorsed as 'one of the soundest and
most forcible presentments upon the
subject of capital and labor he had
ever seen. Mr.. Rockefeller's persistent
effort TO conceal from the public his
true thought has failed as a result of
this revelation.
Called Unskilled Labor Machinery.
at does no injustice 10 the spirit Of
the article which Mr. Rockefeller so
lavishly praised to call attention 10
that portion Of it in which Professor
Stevenson conceded, for the sake of
argument, that seven hundred thousand
little children die annually in America
on account of undernourishment Of
themselves or their parents, and as
serts that their deaths must be CON
coded to be blessing to themselves
and to the community, adding that
such children should not have been
born and that 'unskilled labor is mere
animated machinery
with the record OF the Colorado in
vestigation before them, the American
people will be blind indeed if they fail
TO see the folly of trusting TO the good
and the philanthropic I'M
pulses OF men like the Messrs. Rookie
Teller, and if they do not realize that
the men who lead strike, such as that
Of the miners in Colorado. are fighting
the same old fight for liberty and de-
against an enemy as powerful
and menacing as any ever faced by our
Revolutionary forefathers."
Chairman Walsh announced the COM
mission had completed its hearings on
industrial conditions throughout the
country. and would assemble in Chi
Cago within the next ten days to pre-
pare a report of its findings.