The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-04-13
Pious John DIS Religious
Mask Falls Under Grilling
By Leland Odds. Federated Press

BY Leland Odds. Federated Press
Keep Rockefeller, Jr., on the stand
explaining, and his mask of christian
service will soon cease to blind peo-
pie to the really heartless soul of can
ltallsm. However cautious he NAV be
as a witness, facts which he cannot
deny rise to challenge his fine phrases.
The past 6 months gave this pro-
fesslonal godly rich man a number
Oh opportunities to wash his hands in
public. His offices were picketed by
sympathlzers with miners striking
against his autocracy in Colorado
Inc senate committee investigating
the republican oil scandal wanted him
TO explain what he knew about the
role of Standard Oil of Indiana in
deoauchlng the national administra-
ZION. Another senate committee
pfngs him to book as the chief stock
holder IN a giant coal company which
union. - ''0 iiiiiieis
In every instance this multimillion-
are, whose dragnet gathers profits
from oil refineries. coal mines ra;Io
roads, banks, steel mills and most 9th
er economic activities of the country.
sldestepped the responsibility. A few
years ago ne sidestepped responsible
" Tor the antiunion lockout of rail
ROAD workers by the Western Mary
land IN which he was then a dominant
stocKholders. So Ia years ago he side
stepped IN connection with the mur-
uer OF men, women and children hv
gunner acting on behalf of his COLI,
rado Fuel & Iron Co. 49, oio
Each time he moralizes about The
aostract responsibility of the abseno
tee owners. His talks on christi,
principles In business, delivered To .
pig Sunday school class. make cow
Tor the newspapers. Editors bo oSpy
disc on the dedication of tbis p1,t
standing capitalist to service o"'
meanwhile strikers and their wives
are slugged, evicted and massacred ~
Ge1eat organized labors' challenge Of
hocKe1eller profits. Union contracts
are broken, wages are reduced below
Lne possibility of decent living. Lob.
o!eS are maintained and public off
cIaIS even up to the highest in the
iah9 are corrupted to smooth the rood
TO Rockefeller profits. o AOe'U
!, rockefeller personally can nIead
tnat ne does not direct these +hin@S
mat ne. is unable even to know . w5s =
ms various arrangements are doin~
put ms actions, if not his words ae.
kIlso1Wiedge the fact that he is satisfied
WIN these arrangements, satisfied 60
long as they produce the profits.
fernaps the gem of his latest +esti-
mony before the senate committee in
EEesClgatlng the coal strike is his half
nearTed assertion that he still believes
t tile IsocKefeller company union nlan
the best solution for the nrobIa,,o Pi' 81
INDUSTRIAL relations. That plan was
H1aa Sy put into effect in Colorado in
III 70 gloss over the infamy of the
! LUDLOW massacre. Since then If has
oeen thoroughly discredited by strikes
"a 1919, 1921, 1922 and 1927; discred-
Ited by a Russell Sage Foundation in
iv,esUgatlon in 1924; and finally. as
Inc most unl1ind cut of all, discredited
1y the supposedly subservient Colora-
10 industrial commission in its renort
on the recent l. w. w. strike.
:. Inc Colorado commission urges
restitution of collective bargaining
through non-company unions"
~, rockefeller prestige is crumbling.
Inc capitalist overlords will have to
look Tor another pious figurehead.