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JOHN D.f JR., MADE NO EFFORT TO SEE LAtySON Trinidad, Colo., Sept 23. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., left for Walsenburg today without seeing, or expressing the desire to seeT-Jojin R. Lawson, who is in the Trinidad county jail awaiting the outcome of his appeal on a life sentence for murder. Rockefeller did not even stay for "miners' day" at the county fair, as he expected to. After the Walsen burg visit he will go to Pueblo. From there he goes to Denver to attend his first meeting of the directors of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., whose for mer attorney was appointed an extra judge to try and sentence Lawson to life imprisonment for murder. BLAMES ROCKEFELLERS New York. Helen Ring Robinson, Colorado's woman senator, blamed Rockefellers for her state's recent disastrous coal strikes with this statement: "Our recent strikes un doubtedly could have been averted with all their economic waste and loss of life if a certain man at 26 Broadway had not gone into a twi light sleep and declared there was nothing to arbitrate." o o DUMBA IS MAROONED Washington, Sept, 23. Austrian Ambassador Dumba is marooned. He must stay in this country -until his government complies with request for his recall. That he will be allowed to return home "on leave" eventually, however, after compliance of Aus trian foreign office with this govern ment's request, was confidently be lieved. Notification formal and official from Austria that Dumba is being re called, even "on leave," officials in timated today, would satisfy this gov ernment A safe conduct would then be secured. Not a single passenger killed in a collision in the last quarter of 1914 is the record to which railways of th& country are pointing, it is esti mated that 230,500,000 fares were paid in that period: o o LABOR MEN'S , MURDER TRIAL SURROUNDED BY MYSTERY New York, Sept 23. A man found dying in front of labor headquarters five years ago is the basis of a mur der trial that began here today sur rounded by many mysterious fea tures. The men who are now charg ed with the crime have been promi nent in labor circles during all of that time, but no attempt ahs been made by the district attorney until a few weeks ago to bring them to triaL The defendants are Morris Sig man, secretary-treasurer of the Inter national Ladies' Garment Workers' union, which recently won a victory for its members in Chicago; Sololnon Metz, second vice president of the In ternational union and president of the United Hebrew Trades; Julius Woolf, organizer of the International union in charge of the strike of the ladles' tailors and dressmakers; L Ashpis, former vice president of the International union; Morris Stup nicker, employe of Cloak and Skirt Makers' unions of Greater New York; Abraham Weidiger, member of Cloak Operators' union, and Max D. Singer, member Sample Makers' union. The labor leaders are charged with the murder of Herman Liebowitz, a strike-breaking cloakmaker during the general strike of 1910. The labor leaders declare that behind the action of the state there is a conspiracy of big business and strike-breaking de tective agencies, who are taking this means to try to break up the organi zation that they have been unable to destroy with the usual methods em ployed by strike-breakers. Practically every labor organiza tion in the United States has plelged its support to the cloakmakers in their fight against this charge. Every union affiliated with the Internation al has already voted to stand by the indicted men, i ) iL