Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1916-08-03

Answering the kilograms of John D
! Rockefelle- Jr, in reply to- his OWL
letter concerning the Colorado Supreme
Courts condemnation of the Rockefel-
| Ter methods in Colorado, Frank P
Walsh, chairman of the Committee on
Industrial Relations. declares in let
| ter just sent to Mr.. Rockefeller that
the total ignorance and misunder-
standing which you plead taken in
| connection With the abhorrent facts
which the highest court in Colorado
has now condemned in public to une
world, are convincing proof that you
should abdicate that imperial control
as the court has characterized it, and
give the workers who produce your
wealth their rightful opportunities of
citizenship and of self expression"
Mr.. Walsh's reply letter. in full, is
as follows:
July "a. 1916.
Mr.. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
No rs Broadway.
New York City.
My dear Sir:
I-have received your telegram Of
July 14th, in reply to my letter to you
of July 11th your telegram being as
follows:
your letter of July IL has just been
forwarded to me here, where 1 am
spending my summer vacation, and is
the first word which has reached me
in regard to the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Colorado referred to
in your letter. My office informs me
that as yet they have seen only news
paper accounts of the decision, and at
once took steps to ascertain the facts.
Pending the receipt of this information,
l can only say that any offenses, no
matter by whom committed, which
could have been justly characterized
in such language as you have quoted,
would be quite as abhorrent to me as
to< you, and I am confident that no
such quotations as you describe could
exist in the camps of the Colorado Fuel
& IronN Company under the plan of
representation which was adopted by
joint action of the company and It's
employees at the time of my visit to
Colorado last Fall"
In view of your assertion of entire
lack of knowledge of the decision of
the Supreme Court Of Colorado in the
contested election cases, involving the
conduct of yourself and associates in
the political and industrial control of
Colorado, I am taking the liberty of
enclosing to you, herewith a copy of
the opinion and judgment or the
court.
You will note from this opinion that
the appalling arraignment of what |
your organization has accomplished in |
Colorado is taken entirely from the |
testimony of the general manager of |
your own company. What standing, |
therefore, ought your so-called indus |
trial plan for the operation of your |
mines and the control of your work
ers lives have in the estimation of the
people of our country?
Your expression of horror and de
testation at what the Supreme Court |
of Colorado has condemned, are of
course, natural and commendable upon |
the part of any men However, this |
does not alter the fact that what the |
Supreme Judges of Colorado have so |
vigorously condemned are the acts of |
the organization which you dominate |
and direct.
Declaring that your company had
conspired with county officials to com
nit these crimes against citizenship
and against the law, you will note that
the court says: I'VE find no such ex-
ample of fraud within the books"
1t is declared that, to keep your CON
troll of your workers by controlling the
public forces for law and order, your
organization had prostituted the bal
lot and prohibited free public discus.
sion of public questions had violatedSI
the law for registration and elections,