Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1915 — JOHN D., JR., IN OVERALLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN D., JR., IN OVERALLS

Forgetting for the time that he was the most powerful young man in industry in America, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., son of the great Standard Oil magnate, dressed in a suit of overalls and went down into the coal mines of Trinidad to see for himself under what conditions his men labored, and to investigate the causes of the great strike which practically caused civil war in Colorado.