The Washington times., 1915-05-21
No MERCY IS SHOWN
JOHN D., JR., IN GRILL
Rockefeller Flushes and Pro-
tests, But Manages to Keep
Temper at Hearing.
Continued from First Page.)

which the executives of the company In
Colorado should deal with.
Rockefeller declined to take RESPONSE
bility for the bulletins issued by Ivy
Lee, head of this publicly bureau. dur
Ing the Colorado strike, though he ad-
mitted that his father paid Mr.. Lee
5000 for his services
when the morning session adjourned
Chairman Walsh was vigorously criti-
oising Mr.. Rockefeller for having sug-
Eested In one of his letters that an ar
uole by Prof. John ]. Stevenson, of
New York University, should be used
by Mr.. Lee in his publicity articles.
"Deaths Blessing"
The Stevenson article said that wife
and children cannot be considered in
connection with the relation of the
wage-earner and wage payer encour-
aged the restriction of reproduction
among the poor, and declared that If 1T
is true 100000 children die because they
or their parents have insufficient nour-
tshment. one must concede that their
Deaths are blessing"
Rockefeller said he was indorsing the
articles as a whole. and not individual
sentences in It,
A mass Of papers and letters was sub
mitted for the record by both sides.
Rockefeller read prepared address to
the commission in which he made cate
gortcal denial Of charges that had at
tempted to influence Governor Ammons
or President Wilson. or that the COM
pany had been instrumental in prosecu-
ting the mine leader, Lawson. A tele-
gram from Bowers to Rockefeller giving
the companys side of the Ludlow mine
disaster and suggesting that it be pub
lished in friendly papers," was read.
Did you publish that telegram in
II don't know here I'd find a friendly
paper in New York." said Rockefeller.
Long List of Letters.
he
correspondence was made public By
John d., jr.. the commission made pub
lio long list OF letters written by
and to him during the progress of the
Colorado trouble. His correspondents
were, for the most part, l.. NJ. Bowers,
Woe president of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. and J. F. Welborn. The
Bowers letters are particularly inter-
esting for their discussion of Presi-
dent Wilson. Secretary of Labor Wilson
and Governor Ammons.
In G letter dated December 80 1913
Bowers wrote to young Rockefeller re-
karding letter just received from
His Excellency had an excellent op-
Yortun1ty TO end this correspondence
upon the receipt of my second letter,
but, unwisely. we all think. he allowed
pfmself to write another one, which II
from less dignitied statesman, would
- regarded as a bluff. as he was well
aware that the efforts of Congress-
man Heating of Colorado and some
Vuions, have utterly failed to induce
Congress TO make an investigation. We
4re confdentially advised that Presi-
GSnt Wilson 9 recommendation for a
fn9re effective. Anyhow, he can medi-
tate over his decidedly weal reply to
tdy aecond letter and take such action
~ he sees fit."
Eockefeller's reply included the ex.
Your letter of December 80, enclosing
Vopy of President Wilson's third letter
2, you and your reply, has been re-
SeIved and read with interest. I rather
snaaeyy anaeyy ,. that the correspondence has
In a letter written May 49, 1918, to
Sharles o. Heydt of the Rockefeller Of
aGes. Bowers remarked:
I've have secured, the past winter, a
mining law almost entirely written by
Sur own superintendent. E, H. Weitzei.
with four other men appointed by the
senate committee. including representa-
yves Of labor, a capable engineer and
TWO representatives of the operators. 1t
ls Just and fair to all concerned and
meets, every requirement of the labor
organizations, excepting that there are
no special privileses granted to labor
October Il, 1918. Bowers wrote to
Rockefeller:
when this Government places in the
Cabinet men like Commissioner of La
Dor Wilson, who was for many years
secretary or the United Mine Workers
of America, which has been one of the
unions that permitted more disorder and
bloodshed than any class of labor or
ganizations in this country, we are not
skating upon thin ice, but we are on
top of a volcano. When such men as
these, together with the cheap college
professors, and still cheaper writer's in
muckraking magazines, supplemented by
g lot or milk and water preachers with
little or no religion and less common
sense, are permitted to assault the busi-
ness men who have built up the great
industries it is time that Vigcr-
GUS measures are taken to put a stop tc
these vicious teachings which are beina
sown broadcast throughout the country
Not Awakened To Situation.
/ believe that if the business
mep do not awaken from their indifrer.
ence. we will see a revolution
Ten days later Bowers wrote tc
Rockefeller:
Our balance sheet is practically com
pleted, and our net earnings would have
been the largest in the history of the
company by $500, 900 but for the increas,
IN wages paid the employees during the
last few months"
Writing to Rockefeller November IL
1913, Bowers told OF the banking anc
cpmmercial interests whose co-opera
tton had been secured In efforts to in
dYce the governor to end the strike.
Another mighty power has beer
rounded up in behalf of the operators,
he wrote, by the gathering together O
fourteen of the editors of the most I'M
portant papers in Denver, Pueblo, Trim
dad. Walsenburg. Colorado Springs, anC
other of the larger places in the State.
STILL he complained, the governo
hobnobs with Hayes, Lawson, McI.en
nan, and the rest OF the gang and eth
er refuses or begs for moro time t,
bring the strike to an end or to ampl,
protect the operators in bringing in out
siders to take the places of those VIII,
have left the State and those engage,
in these murderous assaults, whom w
refuse to take back under any crCum
stances"
November 2S 1913, Bowers wrote t
Rockefeller:
II will inClOse herein. or forward t.
you later In the day, copies of Presiden
Wilson's reply to my letter of Novem
ber and my answer to all Of the point
he raised. You will notice in his lette
that he lodged all the essentials, OK
cusing himself in a wa that men usu
ally take when they have the worst O
the argument, and he falls back ont
arbitration law and the spirit of tn
times"