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Show STANDARD OIL IS UNFAIR TO LABOR Chicago, Aug. 15. Tho report of George P. West and C. T. Chenery, who investigated the July, 1915, strike of Standard Oil company employes at Byaonne, N. J., for tho United States commlsion on Industrial relatione, was made public tonight by Frank P Walsh, chairman, of the commission. Tho report aald in part, after stating stat-ing that the strike was against the Standard Oil company of New Jersey: Jer-sey: Tho company is tho most Important of tho Standard Oil group, and this group is the principal contributor to the woalth, prestige and power of the largest estate in tho country, If not in tho world, that of Mr. John D. Rockofeller, Sr., and his immediate family. The facts regarding the com pany's labor policies must, therefore be regarded as of special significance because of (the tremendous power wielded by the group of men who control con-trol this industry, and because or their announced Intention to enter the field of industrial relations with a view to widening their influence and actively propagating what they deem to bo tho proper "theories and principles princi-ples that should govern tho relations between employer and employe. Wages Too Low. The following findings of fact are to be considered in the light of the fore coin c: The Standard Oil company of New Jersoy, although conducting an enormously enor-mously profitable enterprise, pays , wages too low to maintain a family on a comfortable, healthful basis. It fixes wages not with relation to the earnings ot the company, but by taking1 into consideration wages paid by other companies in the same locality lo-cality and then fixing tho wage as low or lower than the prevailing wage in that locality. In Bayonno it paid common laborers lesB than those of two companies whose plants adjoin Its refineries. This is va direct contradiction con-tradiction to the claims of tho company com-pany in a statement issued at 26 Broadway that it has always paid tho prevailing wago or bettor. Tho statement state-ment of the general manager of the company that the interests of other companies in the same locality are considered in the fixing of wages constitutes in effect an admission that tho company combines with the poorest and least generous employers to fix the wage rate. The company maintains a settled policy of refusing to deal with any labor organization or "professional labor man," and even refuses to permit per-mit those employes who cannot speak English intelligibly to engago an at torney as their spokesman and representative. repre-sentative. Refuses Consideration. Developing this last point further in the report it was stated that Paul Supinsky, a Jersey City attorney, visited vis-ited General Superintendent Hennes-sy Hennes-sy of tho company as spokesman for a committee of six employes who had hired him to negotiate for them It wac further stated that Mr. Hennessy, "acting in conjunction with Mr. Gif-ford. Gif-ford. general manager of the company, com-pany, refused point blank to consider the demands, and expressed indignation indigna-tion that the men should have engaged en-gaged a non-employe of tho company to aid them in presenting their grievances." griev-ances." The report continues- The men 'nre made to understand that they must seek no outside assistance as-sistance in their dealings with the management and that any show of ...uiuubulo ui uu milt oi compulsion compul-sion will be vigorously resented. The company has Instituted no machinery ma-chinery by which real or fancied grievances may be peacefully and promptly adjusted. The officials say that any man has access to the general gen-eral superintendent, but the em-ployes em-ployes allege that they would be discharged dis-charged before reachin gthe office General Manager GIfford is not a believer In child labor legislation, and on the other hand, thinks the chil-dien chil-dien should bo allowed to go to work earlier. Ho and Mr. Hennessy apparently ap-parently have little respect for the foreign-born men whoso labor produces pro-duces tho company's earnings and vvho are proponents of the extremely individualistic and reactionary industrial indus-trial theories discarded by enlightened enlight-ened employers and by economists many years ago. Employs Detectives. The report then recited that the company employed a detective agency agen-cy of New York City to furnish guards and strike-breakers. It quoted quot-ed the attorney for tho agency as referring re-ferring to these men as "a lot of thugs." The investigators added "Their appearanco amply justified his use of the term." "The strike was broken by Sheriff Sher-iff Eugene Kinkead," the report stated, stat-ed, "who first overawed and disorganized disor-ganized the strikers by assaulting and arresting one of their leaders and then strengthened his control over them by promising to use his influence influ-ence to obtain an Increase in wages and by arresting thirty of the armed guards." In another section of the report it was stated that the sheriff's alleged assault was upon "a young Elizabeth City Socialist by the name of Jeremiah Jere-miah Baly." The report assorted that the sheriff sher-iff had suggested Baly as a member of the strike committee and when the man went to the plant to draw back pay insisted that Baly, not being an employe of the company, refused to go to the pay window and that tho sheriff first "beat him viciously" and then arrested him." The report adds: Sheriff Kinkead's course had the cordial Approval of Standard Oil com pany officials, who were thus enabled en-abled to maintain their refusal to rnako any concessions to the men until un-til the men returned to work and had, ln effect, thrown themselves on the. bounty of the company. Two days after the men had returned re-turned to work the Standard Oil company com-pany announced increases in wages. These increases were less than those demanded by the strikers and the ra;es being paid are still below those paid by one of the other companies adjoining the Standard Oil company's plant, if the common labor rate can be taken as a basis of comparison. Complete Victory. The outcome of the strike constitutes consti-tutes a complete victory for the Standard Oil company as to its vital policies, that is, its refusal to recognize recog-nize or permit collective action or to make any concession to the men except ex-cept of Its own free will and accord The report gave a long history of the strike and of the disorders which accompanied it. It accused the Standard Stan-dard Oil company of urging the Bay-onne Bay-onne police to keep strikers off the streets, and asserted that the attempt to do so caused the first riot on July 20. The arrival of strikebreakers from New "iork City on July 21 was blamed m the report for a conflict between the police and strikers, and it was stated further that as a result the local police asked Sheriff Kinkead to send deputies to Bayonno. The report said further that tha ifxr mi,J tified the Standard Oil company and the Tidewater Oil company "that they would have to make preparations for their own defense." iJhe arrial f,armed guards was then recited and it was said that tho Juver4 aA?B?etdhthe TIwater plant July 22 after the guards had fired on men and boyS who threw stones. ,aPtetrs V"e report were also devoted to a d scussion of the use of ES nrKS ln 1BtrikeB' t0 the stan- dard of living and comparative wages in Bayonno and to correspondence combes"0 " and the o'n |