The day book. [volume], January 29, 1915, LAST EDITION, Image 28

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ROCKEFELLER'S PAID
STARTLING
Ivy Lee, the $12,000 a year public
ity manager of the Rockefeller fam
ily, also the $12,000 a-year publicity
manager of the Pennsylvania rail
road, more than earned his money
this week.
Lee himself went on the stand be
fore the industrial commission and
made a sensational admission under
oath. He stated under oath these
things:
That there was a mistake in the
booklet, "The Truth About Colo
rade," sent out by the Rockefeller's
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co.
That the booklet contained a state
ment indicating that the officers of
the United Mine Workers are graft
ers and got thousands of dollars
apiece for a few weeks' work in the
Colorado coal tsrike
That the mistake in the booklet in
timated that during seven weeks of
the strike Frank Hayes and John R.
Lawson, U. M. W. A. officers, got over
$5,000 for salary and collections
from' the miners and sympathizers
and this money went into their own
pockets according to their own rec
ords. That the truth is that this is a
"mistake" and the money was their
pay for one year's work and if the
Rockefeller booklet written by Ivy
Lee had told the truth it would have
said the pay was for One year, 52
weeks, instead of seven weeks.
This admission by a hired Rocke
feller press agent that he made a
"mistake" was not reported by any
Chicago newspaper except the Trib
une. At the tail end of a long Trib
une story about Mother Jones giving
the blessing of God to John D. Rocke
feller, Jr., are three paragraphs which
prove to those who have read the
Rockefeller booklet, "The Truth
About Colorado," that the booklet
was written by a paid liar.
William A. Cunnea talked with
Mother. Jones when she passed
AGENT MAKES SOME
ADMISSIONS
through Chicago a few weeks ago.
He believes there has been no such
sudden "change of heart" as reported
in stories from New York. Cunnea,
said:
"I don'e believe for a minute the
stories that picture Mother Jones
making apologies to the Millionaire
oil king's son in New York. I believe
Mother Jones looks on Jdhn D. Rock
efeller, Jr., as a burglar in the same
sense that she always did in the past
when she called him a burglar. Moth
er Jones meant that the Rockefellers
are the owners of wealth they have
not produced, property they have not
created, property which traces to
special privileges, rebates, legisla3
tive corruption.
"Mother Jones knows the letters
that passed between John Arcbbokl
and U. S. senators and the corrup
tion they proved. She knows the evi
dence contained in the history of the
Standard Oil Co., as written by Ida
Tarbell. The memory of the massa
cre at Ludlow and the killings car
ried on by Sheriff Jeff Farr is with
her. She believes the Rockefeller
family is a questionable factor in the
life of human society as any burglar.
I talked with her an hour in my office
a few weeks ago when she was going
east. I am certain she has made no
such apologies as newspapers credit
her with."
ELUSIVE DIMENSIONS
(With no apologies to the fifth.)
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The short sermon.
The wide skirt.
The narrow path.
The high stakes.
The low hole.
The lean meat.
The fat check. kludge.
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Perhaps those English only search
our ships in hope of finding an heiress.
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