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Show OIL KING SCORED Blf UBOR LAWYER Ecvard P. Costigan Calls Rockefeller a "Visionless Money Maker." FOUNDATION UPHELD Cleveland Banker Tells Commission of Aims of Great Organization. NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Jerome D. Greene, secretary of the Rockefeller foundation, and formerly a member of tho jiorvjnal sraff of John B. Rocke-f Rocke-f ellc-r, Sr.; Edward P. Costigan of counsel coun-sel for the United Mine Workers of America, and Frederick H. Goff, president presi-dent of the Cleveland, Ohio, Trust com-j com-j pauy and head of the Cleveland foundation, founda-tion, testified today at the hearing of the federal commission on industrial relation s into the philaiithrophic foun- : datious of the United States and the . cause of industrial unrest. Mr. Greene outlined some of the work done by the various Rockefeller organizations, organi-zations, and presented a chart, which the commissioners had requested from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., showing how the directors of the differr-nt boards and the foundation were interlocked. Denies Menace Charge. Tie denied that the foundation con stituted a. menace to the public, and said Mr. Rockefeller, Sr., had the highest high-est purposes in mind when he furnished the money which made possible the philanthropic and scientific organizations organiza-tions bearing his name. Mr. Cctuan vigorously assailed the Rockefeller foundation and Jobo D. Korkefeller, Jr. lie head a statement which clusrdy followed the line rad lat week by John R. Lawmen, cr.ember of the executive boarH of the United Mine Workers of America, from Colorado. Colo-rado. Scores Rockefeler. ' 1 Mr. Rockeielb who appears to the world in tiV relief affuraed Belgium Bel-gium n a libera! bt-nefa.'tor," said Mr. CoMicm, ' stands ronvicted before the workers of Colorado as a narrowly biax' l and vi.-innies' moneyiiiaker. ' Mr. Goff told of the aims' of the Cleveland foundation, uf which he said he was the originator. ISpcnkinjT of the Rockefeller foundation, founda-tion, Mr. Goff f-aid he could not tVlp bu t feel that the handling of so i rn -t ortant a t nut by a If perpetuated hoard presented a possible element of dnRcr. |