The Washington times., 1915-01-30
AMOS P|NCHOT ASKS.
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP
Government Should Control
Raw Material and Trans.
, portation, He Declares.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-Government
ownership of raw material and trans
portation is needed to provide Jobs
for the jobless. in the opinion of
Amos Pinchot, lawyer and reformer.
He 80 told the Federal Industrial Re-
lations Committee today. Pinchot took
sharp issue with the men who have
approved thes unlimited power OF the
various charitable foundations and
educational boards. And he charged
directly that they are menace. as
they poison education at the source.
Pinchot and John II. Lawson. OF the
United Mine Workers. were today's
only witnesses. Lawson painted
vivid picture Of the recent industrial
war in Colorado. He renewed the al
legation that the coal operators con-
troll the state and local governments
there and quietly admitted that so FAR
as his State at present was concerned
democracy was a failure.
| lie bitterly denounced the DEMENT'S
proposed by the Rockefeller founda-
ton. He made II clear. however. that
| the union leaders are hopeful OF meet
ing the Rockefeller interests mora than
half way In reforming the coal camps
| and the mipers working conditions.
The commission was WORKING hard to
| of j. p. Morgan on Monday. IT hoped
10 dispose of Lawson and Pinchot
today, 50 that the early part of next
week may be devoted to Morgan. An:
drew ra Caraegies gsnancsaI GeIrk i;sbts BAKER ANU
| Morgan Is to be questioned regarding
his views on the proposal mat lapor
| be given representative on boards
| nj directors OF industrial corporations
| and on the responsibility OF directors
The question OF absentee landlordism
is being given more and more atten-
sion hopes that Morgan and Carnegie
viii have much to say on that subject.
For Government Ownership.
Pinchot advocated government own
ership Of railroads and natural re-
sources, with a leasing system as
the panacea for industrial unrest.
This was necessary, he said. IN order
to make transportation and the ra"
materials which are the basis or IN
dustry accessible to all competitive
Industry on equal terms. He also ex :
Dlained to the commission that ne ls
not a socialist and holds neither with
the monopolists nor the socialists
who advocate the elimination oi co:i
petition in industry. His position was
that competition WAS essential IN
everything but the raw material ana
| transportation.
one of the elements when makes
for trouble in Pinchots opinion, Is
the inability Of labor generally TO Rei
it's side Of controversies fully ana
fairly treated in the public press.
I JIrpes News Probe.
4 He urged the commission to investi-
gate the general handling OF news by
lpress associations.
| In this connection Pinchot cited what
lhe termed concrete examples OF favor
ing the mine owners against the work
ers. and OF distorted facts in connec-
ton with the West Virginia and upper
Michigan strikes.
There are two major news furnish
ing associations-thc United Press and
the Associated Press" he said The
ASSOCIATED Press sells news cricny to
morning papers and the United to even
ing papers. The United Press Is con-
Quoted by a group OF younger men who
have a broader attitude toward indus
trial questions. and who Usually give
reports Of conflicts between capital and
la bor But the Associated Press. under
older and more conservative manage
ment, takes affirmatively the side OF
capital"
Pinchot warmly indorsed labor unions
and the principle OF collective bargain.
! ing. Denial Of the right to organize
. by the Steel Corporation and the Col.
orado Fuel and Iron Company and
Acl lar corporations. he denounced a.
} "feudal and barbarous."
5 Pinchot described the Rockefeller
, Foundation as dangerous. 'Gratitudt
ii 10 a liyoly SenSe Of faSOrE vet to come
, he said. and because Of this he fearcC
the foundation and the education boart
: might have bad effect on education
university or school receiving bene
fits from either naturally would curl
radicalism among its professors. HI