Show SI DEFENDS REVOLT 1 OF COAL MINERS Colorado Company Arraigned by Former Rockefeller Sociological Sociological So So- ciol Worker Washington May Ia 19 While While John D. D Rockefeller Jr lr waited here again today today to- to day dav to testify before the Industrial re relations relations relations re- re lations committee In a supplementary supplemental Inquiry Into the recent strike against the Colorado Colora o Fuel Iron company compan the commission listened to an arraignment bRe Rev Re Eugene Eugene Eu Eu- of that concerns concern's methods by b gene sene S S. S Gaddis a Methodist clergyman formerly In char charge e ot the company's I sociological department nt Chairman Walsh who summoned Mr Rockefeller to testify relating to correspondence correspondence cor cor- made public since the original Inal Inquiry In New dew York said ald to tonight tonight to- to night that he surely would be called tomorrow Mr Ir Rockefeller did not appear at the tho hearing today but remained re remained remained re- re within call lie He will take the t stand as soon as ns Rev He Re Daniel Danel S. S Mc- Mc Ic- Ic Corkle pastor of a Presbyterian church churchIn In one of the Colorado company's minIng mining min mm- ing big camps at Sunrise Wyo yo completes his testimony Appeal ul Rejected ejected H n Rev Rey Mr Ir Gaddis said he was discharged ills dis charged d from the thc sociological department department depart depart- ment of the Colorado com company pan last February after r r making a personal appeal appeal appeal ap ap- ap- ap peal to Mr Rockefeller to bo be allowed to continue Important betterment work among the miners He lIe Justified ll the revolt of ot the time strikers a against military and other constitutional 1 I authority t laws for nr inI In In i i Colorado on me the round ground mui II io o 0 Improvement of the miners' miners condition had been I Ignored nored and there was no other way left to seek leek a 0 rem remedy dv dy Technically the th terrible strike of the Colorado minors was lost said Mr I. I Caddis but In reality It was one of the greatest labor victories ever achieved In tho the United States because today toda the coal coni operators have ear car to the tho ground and tho they will bevery bevery be bevery very careful Indeed In the time future The Time minister char charged that minor of officials officials of- of of ot the Colorado Fuel Iron for forthe forthe forthe company were directly responsible the strike asserting that the they Ignored the law dominated employees in a brutal manner fostered saloons saloon obstruct ob ob- obI ob-m I d efforts cHarts to Improve working and hn hygienic conditions and C even Cn n controller controlled controlled con con- trolled elections In direct conflict with state laws He Ho asserted that toda today the tho company dominates politics as much muchas as It dares but not to such an arm extent as ns It did he before foro the strike lul Violence B Strikers Striker n Mr Ir Gaddis compared the condition of miners In Colorado before the tho strike I Ito to that of the colonists before the thc American revolution saying In there was wasa a conviction among amon the miners that It It wa wag Impossible to get set justice from tho the government He lie e Justified the violence vio vio- lence lonce of the tho strike and the time revolt ro against authority because of or their repeated re repeated repeated re- re failure through other channels to get constitutional rl rights right What would come como of ot the time republic asked If if everybody c revolted against constitutional constitutional authority It It would break down and ought to break down If citizens were wert denied their rights as aR the men In Colorado Do you OU Justify rioting I J Justify any means necessary to toI clarify an atmosphere so 80 pregnant mant with wrong that a roan man Is asphyxiated I wh when n he holds IH his hili head up tip replied the clergyman Would you OU punish the strikers who resorted to violence In Colorado Colorado- Colora o- o asked Mr Ir 1 I 1 would not L have never seen a situation more mor despicable and damnable damnable damn damn- able ahle than that The Colorado Fuel Iron com company compan pan was an oligarchy oligarch I dont don't think that all aU things s are arc right merely because they thoy arc are on oft th the statute books The Rev Mr Ir McCorkle called to the stand late today told the commission commission commission commis commis- sion that when ho went to Sunrise Wyo ro he was informed bt bv by the church authorities that the tho Co Colorado orado compan company com corn pan Pam pany maintained the church but that this fact a was to he be kept secret Ho said that he urged that this be made mado public |