Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-02 | Page 4 | Gov. Ammons is a Witness

GOV. AMMONS IS AJITISS Colorado Executive Outlines His Attitude Toward Coal Miners' Strike t Hearing. Denver, Colo, Dec. 2 The pas', present and future of Colorado's ex-eeuthe ex-eeuthe attitude toward the coal millers' mi-llers' strike, was told before the Federal Fed-eral Commission on Industrial Relations Rela-tions at the initial session of its eleven days' hearing in the senate chamber at the state house todav For tho first time Governor E. M. Ammons, appeared as a witness in a public investigation of the strike conflict. con-flict. In a lengthy statement he outlined out-lined his attitude, past and present, toward the contentions of the operators opera-tors and strikers. He was a volunteer witness By consent, of the commission commis-sion his testimony wus a prepared :-tatf ment. The future attitude of Colorado's executive, again in a statement by Colorado's future executive, Governor elect George A. Carlson, followed. Governor-elect Carlson was to be followed by John G Osgood, chairman of the board of directors of the Victor- j nmencu uei company; James H. LMood, a former mine operator and John McLennan, president of the tate Federation of Labor, and president presi-dent of District 15, United Mino Workers of America. Chairman Walsh Opens Hearing. W ith the exceptions of Mrs J. Hor-den Hor-den Hnrrlman, James O' Connell. and the successor to Frederick Delano, all of the commissioners were present when Chairman Frank P. Walsh, formally for-mally opened the first session of the nearing. Chairman Walsh and John R, Commons, Com-mons, the forraor a lawyer and the latter a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin, author of the law under which the industrial commission of Wisconsin is working, were appointed to represent the genera gen-era public. Harris Weinstock and S. Thruaton BalLird, to represent the employers of labor and John B. Lea-non, Lea-non, James O'Connell and A B. Gar-retson Gar-retson are the representatives of organized or-ganized labor.