Capitalism’s best framed puli
licity stunt was stood on its head,
ripped open, and exposed to ll e
nation’s workers last week.
'1 he bigggst effort ever made o
whitewash the black name ot a
multi-millionaire exploiter of k
bor proved to be futile.
The toi'ers of the land rema n
unblinded, 'they still see in th
Rockefeller millions a'l the hor
rors and evils of the exploitatioi
of humanity under the capitalist
system.
Ivy Lee, John D. Rockefeller i
$42,000 a year, press agent, tin
highest paid publicity hireling h
the world, staged the perforn
anee. Kockfellor, Jr., invite,
oigh officials of the-United Min,
Workers of America into confer
ence at the New York retreat oi
^Standard Oik 2(5 Broadway.
FWhen it was all over the capi
talist press was handed red hoi
dope, to which it immediate]}
gave first page display notice, to
the effect that Rockefeller was
the real big-hearted b other ol
all common folk.
But the next day this fast
mask was torn away, and tin
Rockefeller millions stood forth1
as hideous as ever. 1 his was
done by a Socialist, John R. Law
son, executive board member for
Colorado in the United Mine Wcr
kern of America.
In his testimony before the fe
deral commission on industrial
Rebel Employee
Dismissed.,
Alfonso Russe'l of Mississippij
has boon dismissed from the ru-j
ral free mail delivery service be J
cause he wrote for a local paper !
mild y critieisin / the administra- j
tion tor putting the free deliver y ;
system on the contract oasis, j
The charge again-'t him was that j
Pfce was *‘arousing •» spirit of dis- J
satisfaction, resentment and u; .
&rest” among employees ol the
government,
The Workers
The workers make all the guns. |
'1 he workers use the guns. '1 he
workers stop tire bullets irom
the guns. AH to increase or pro
tect the profits of those who dc
not raak * pure;, use them orstc*. |
the bulle's from them.
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Frederick C. Howe at the Ma
yors’ convention in New York,
declared that IC'o cities in Great
Britain own and operate the it
street railways, and yet, with
fares that average two cents
each, turne 1 in a net revenue tc
the people of more than $80,000.
000,
•Rations Lawson attacked the,
estimony of Rockfeller Jr., ard
the methods and purposes of the
Rockefeller philanthropies.
Lawson told of the shooting1 of
the striking miners in Colorado,
the shattering of miners’ heme- 1
of hundreds in 1903 dumped into
'he desert without food or wa
ter, whi'e others were driven
ver the snow of the mountain
•anges. He uttered a vigorous
wraignment of Rockefeller for
his confessed ignorance of cor.di
ions among the exploited wage
daves of the Colorado Fuei and
iron Company.
He then referred to the mis
iirected phi anthropy of the
hypocritical Rockefellers as fob'
ows:
"Health for China, a refuge'
for birds, food for t,he Belgians,
tensions for New York widow:;,
miversity training for the elect,
md never a thought or a dollar
for thousands of men , women,
ind children who starved in Col
u*ado; for the widows robbed of
husbands, or cf children who
lost their fa hers. Therm are
thousands of Mr. Rockefeller’s
employees in Colorado who wi. h
to Cod they were in Belgium to
he fed, cr a bird to be tenderly
cased for.,J
Lawson then told of the revolt;
of the miners in 1903-4 and now
the strikers were forced into ex
ile and banishment. He said:
lo take the place of the Irani ii
e 1 workers thousands of men I
were imported, and the extent of!
the company's dragnet for new
material may ba judged from
the fact that over thirty langua-1
res and dialects have been spok
en in the mines since 190-1.
If it. had not bean for the re
cruits won by Rccke'elier from i
the army of the unemployed the
’ Colorado strike would have beer
won. It was the hosts of jooless
that furnished Rockefeller hi;
strike breakers in 1914 to again
crush the revo't, of oppressed
toil.
Not one cent of the Rockefel
ler mi! ions has been spent t<
solve the unemployment pro
blem. The workers must solve
this problem for themselves.
Let your reply to the huge at
tempt te whitewash the black
name of Rockefeller be a record
breaking unemployment demons
tration.
When unemployment has beer
wiped out capitalism has been
beaten to his knees. 1 lie end ol
capitalist oppression vvi l then be
near.
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