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Show I ROCKEFELLER'S I GIFTS ATTACKED Source of Seventy Million Donation to Schools Condemned Con-demned by Labor N'KW YORK. 4kP Rttack fl again1 John d. Rockefeller for his H donation of 7d.OOO,000 o c-i, B .i education board, in ft H statement Sunday by the .v w Fork State Federation Of Labor. The State H ment declared the gift, as w II as oth- or activities of the board, were moves to plum academic freedom In the enn-H enn-H tin) of capitalists. H "The millions donated to the con-1 fl oral education board." says the siate- mailt, "have been accumulated as a result of a type of Industrial and fln-uncial fln-uncial control that chat l.ed nno of the darkest pages of our eoitomto history. The acquisition of the awol-: Ion fortune that John D Rockefeller H now distributee would never have been possible under an enltght ned social ! The $70,000,000 donation was made recently by Mr. Rockefeller. $50,000.-j $50,000.-j 000 of which was given to colleges and universities for aid In increasing teachers' salaries and $20,000.0 DQ fof 'he improvement of medical educa- The statement guoted the industrial relation commission appointed by jj President Wilson as saying of the Horkefeiier foundation "The money with which the Rock-efeller Rock-efeller foundation was created and Is '! maintained Consists f the Wage f M workers. These wages ar- withheld H I by means of economic pressure, viola - V Hon of law, cunning and disorder j j practiced by the founder and certain 1 j of itis business associates" ' "organized labor is of the opln- ? ion." continued the statement, "that ; subsidies such as those granted by the J ; genera education hoard, cannot ' but ' I undermine, t.. a degive. democratic ln- M dependence in higher educational ln- R stltutlons." |