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Millionaires' Day was held in Washington last week, this time by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee in its bituminous coal investigation.* The millionaires were three: Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...
...Schwab took the stand first to give the Committee his side of this story. Corpulent, jovial, ingratiating, he refused to discuss details, saying that he had been busy playing golf last summer and had now just returned from Europe. He said the Committee must get the details from his subordinates. But he was delighted to give the Committee and the world the benefit of his long experience as an employer: "It has been a broad policy into which the question of the open shop or union labor does not enter. As the result of my forty years' management of labor...
...summary: FRESHMEN COSSACKS Walker, No. 1 No.1, Schwab Gerry, Jenkins, No. 2 No. 2, Vroom Clark, back back, Frederickson...
Score, Harvard Freshmen 15, Cavalry Cossacks 9. Goals--Handicap--Cossacks 5. Goals, Clark 9, Gerry 6, Jenkins, Walker, Schwab 2. Vroom, Frederickson 2. Fouls, Clark 2, Frederickson 2. Time--Six five minute chukkers, Referee Munroe...