SENATOR WALSH BACKS CHILD LABOR BAN
WALSH, SEN. T. J
SENATOR WALSH BACKS CHILD LABOR BAN Shows Employers Lie to die People to Retain Their Grip On Labor 0f Children. By U S. SEN. T. J WALSH fa methods of the National Ae-^^ation of Manufacturers may...
...East, Weat, North, South...
...Hare ia a part of the first Indictment, as officially sot down: "The General Electric Co...
...and the Utah Light ft Traction Co...
...After appealing to the Bengal Government to cease, its violent methods, he continued: "The Congress must find a remedy to demonstrate both to the Government and revolutionaries that there is a more effective force than violence...
...Utilising facta already available, Senatora Norris and Howell have astounded their colleagues in tho Senate by ahowing that the Electrical Trust ia not only in control of the vast majority of tho water power sites and power plants—both steam and water— but dominate the manufacture of electrical appliances...
...That is why, as I have frequently pointed out, the big interests are desperately anxious to smash this Commission...
...In this effort it has been aided by one David Clark of Charlotte, N. C, who instigated the suits in which the Federal child labor a ts were held unconstitutional...
...T. J WALSH fa methods of the National Ae-^^ation of Manufacturers may be ZuitA by a letter lent by their Mr...
...Tha location of tho final Court of Appeal »t Delhi, instead of London...
...It is not an eleemosynary institution...
...The Electric Bond ft Share Co., this subsidiary, which is entirely owned by the General Electric Co., also owns the Lehigh Power Securities Corporation, which controls the Pennsylvania Power ft Light Co., which was organized In 1920 by a I merger of the Pennsylvania Light-I ing Co., and of the following companies, which had been controlled by the Lehigh Power Securities Corporation: The Lehigh Valley Light ft Power Co., the Northern Central Gas Co., the Columbia ft Montour Electric Co., the Northumberland County Gas & Electric Co., the Har-wood Electric Co., and the Schuylkill Gas ft Electric Co...
...Realty Co., and the New Orleans Gas Light Co...
...Tho appointment of a Commission to examine all monopolies given to foreigners, and, subject to its findings, full guarantees for vested > :ghta justly acquired...
...Have You Reserved Your TicJntp«for The New Leader wnquet...
...the Northwestern Ohio Light Co., the Ohio Power Co., the Ohio Service Co., the Rockford Electric Co., the Scranton Electric Co., the West Virginia Water ft Electric Co., the Wheeling Electric Co., the Albany Water & Light Co., the Jonesboro Water Co., and the Montpelier Utilities Co...
...Tha curtailment of military expenditure...
...owns the entire common stock of the Electric Bond & Share Co., which, in turn, has a large number of subsidiary companies, and which acts as fiscal agent or supervises the operations of all associated companies, which, in turn, control numerous other utilities...
...THE REVEREND GEORGE ELLIOTT...
...Tho mere list of companiss dominated by this gigantic combine covers near-ly three closely printed columns of tho Congressional Rocord...
...The past four years haa ahown tho Republican Administration to bo hand in glove with tho private interests and fighting anything like public ownerahip or adequate public control...
...If Not, Do It Now...
...In his presidential address to tha Indian National Congress, which was in aeisioa over Christmas at Belauem, Gandhi outlined his program of Home Rule in an ax-tended speech...
...owns all the issued stock sof the Boise Valley Traction Co...
...owns the American Gas ft Electric Co., which, in turn, controls the Atlantic City Electric Co., the Benton Harbor-St...
...As a part of that groundwork he and those associated with Mm had distributed "fully 50,000 pieces of literature in rural sec-Hions"—-"to show the farmer...
...It also owns the Carolina Power ft Light Co., which controls the Yadkin River Power Co...
...LONDON—An amended program of "non-cooperation" haa bean adopted in India by Gandhi and hi* followers...
...Tha Swaraj Schema His Swaraj scheme, he said, would include the following provisions:— Manual work as qualification for franchise...
...Jjjry under date of September 3, UK, to the editors of farm jour ifa+r^int them lo join in the cam-J against the child labor Sdment, and asserting that the Jgtndnent does aot affect snana-fsttoriaf appreciably, bat that it is |MT-i »i childrsn on the farms...
...I found that the power magnatea from Maina ' to California ware contributing Urge sums...
...and the Nevada Power Co...
...BISHOP FRANCIS J. McCONNELL...
...The latter company controls the Edison Illuminating Co., controls the Easton Transit Co., which controls the Easton Amusement Co...
...Charles Street Railroad Co., the Jefferson ft Lake Pontchartrain Railway Co., the Railways...
...Tha repeal of all arbitrary powers...
...This same Electric Bond & Share Co...
...Lajpat Rai Opposes Tho Congress Subject Committee approved, by 160 votes to 19, the pact between Gandhi and the Swarajists, which suspends non-cooperation and allows the Swarajists to represent the National Congress in the Legislature, and adopted the spinning of 2.900 yards of yarn each month is the Congress franchise...
...Executive Committee of Social Service Federation...
...The same subsidiary owns the New Orleans Public Service (Inc...
...Enemies of Society* Enemies of the movement to abolish child labor by constitutional amendment tell us there is a plot concealed in that measure to destroy the home and overthrow American liberty...
...Doubtless there are among its members many high-minded men, men with hearts in bosoms who do not coin cash out of the lives fobbed of the joys and opportunities of childhood, who know no more about its present hypocritical pretenses about being concerned for the sanctity of the American home than they did about the employment of MalhMtt...
...At every turn in the road the sordid nature of the organized opposition to the amendment is rcvolting-ly made manifest...
...Herewith is printed EXHIBIT A. Action taken by Methodist Church authorities at Springfield on May IT, 1924...
...For particulars consult the National Association of Manufacturers and some "liberal" newspapers After careful investigation and private detective work, The New Leader has discovered some of the people behind this "red plot" and is determined to expose them...
...Tha reduction of salariaa in tho civil and military services to a level compatible with tho country's condition...
...Just before the election I had an opportunity to examine tha list of contributions mada to tho Republican National Committee up to October IS...
...As an individual, he said, he could not suspend it as long as the Government remains what it is...
...He defended the pact with Das Swarajists, and explaine' that he advised the suspension of non-cooperation in order to keep the Congress intact...
...Gat Youra Without Delay...
...It also owns the Southwestern Power ft Light Co...
...THE REVEREND RALPH B. URMY...
...The reverence of the writer of that letter for the truth may be accurately estimated from his state-¦tnt therein that industrial concern is the proposed amendment is a miner character in that actual "child liber in factories i' practically non-txlstent...
...GANDHI MODIFIES PACIFIST STAND Indian Leader Agrees to Compromise to Avoid Break in National Con-Sfpss...
...The open appearance of ttfs champion of childhood, whose president is a textile mill owner, in the lists serve admirably to characterize the campaign agaiast the amendment...
...The Lancashire trade was immoral because "it has been raised and sustained by the ruin of millions of India's peasants," Gandhi said...
...Here and there •''me conservative minds, wedded to tha past regardless of the march Jj wants and the revolution in industry, find themselves unable to accept the amendment, but the driving force behind the opposition is the desire to exploit the children of the nation...
...If we can devise a power to keep foreign cloth from India it will be better...
...V call Stuyveaant 6885...
...It exists for the purpose of promoting the financial interest...
...of its members...
...Write The New Leader Dinner Committee, 7 East 15th St...
...The Congress must devise a sanction to back its demands...
...PROFESSOR H. F. RALL...
...Joe Railway & Light Co., the Indiana ft Michigan Electric Co., the Kentucky ft West Virginia Power Co...
...This same company, the Lehigh Power Securities Corporation, controls the Lehigh Valley Transit Co., which controls the Easton Consolidated Electric Co...
...If all communities and parties unite it will be well...
...and the Phillipsburg Transit Co...
...It owns also the Utoh Securities Corporation, which is an investment company that does not operate any properties, but controls the Utah Power 4 Light Co., which controls the Western Colorado Power Co...
...They want that regime to continue...
...A guarantaa of tho statua of Indian chiafa...
...Endless Chain of Power Trust Encircles Nation By JUDSON KING ENORMOUS importance centers in the resolution offered by Senator Norris, directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and report on the ownership and operation of the electrical industry...
...This last-named company owns all of the capital stock of the Great Northern Power Company...
...also owns the Power Securities Corporation, the principal assets of which consist of all the common stock, except directors' shares, of the Idaho Power Co., and the Idaho Power Co...
...The British connection, he said, should be retained, but on "perfectly honorable and equal" terms...
...This Lehigh Power Securities Corporation, in Wilkes-Barre Co., the Lycoming Edison Co., the Lock Haven Elec-1P23, acquired the properties of the trie Light ft Power Co., and Jersey Shore Electric Co., and among other companies controls the Hagerstown Light ft Heat Co., of Washington County, Md...
...which controls the New Orleans City Railroad Co., the St...
...This subsidiary, the Electric Bond ft Share Co., also owns the National Power ft Light Co., which controls the Houston Lighting ft Power Co., the Knoxville Power ft Light Co., the Arkansas Central Power Co., the Birmingham Electric Co., and the Memphis Power ft Light Co., which has acquired substantially all of the capital stock of the Memphis Street Railway 'Co...
...His non-violence propaganda had checked the outbreak of physical violence and given the people a consciousness of their strength, while the partial success of non-cooperation had brought Swaraj nearer, he declared Dwelling on the retention of the boycott of foreign cloth, Gandhi reiterated his fkith in handspinning and handweaving, which, "while making the villagers self-sustained and self-reliant, is fraught with the greatest political consequence because it removes the greatest immoral temptation from the way of Britain...
...and the Asheville Power & Light Co...
...Reservations are limited...
...Resolved, That the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, viewing with deep concern the persistent practice of exploiting childhood for mercenary purposes and believing that the future of the nation and of civilization depends upon the protection and proper development of the children of this generation, puts itself on record as favoring the proposed Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, giving to Congress power by legislation to control child labor, and instructs the secretary of the General Conference to transmit a Copy of this action to the President of the United States, to the President of the Senate, and to the Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Power, Power, More Power...
...Having an nual revenues f approximately $350,000 a year, it is in a situation to do quite a lot to uphold the sacred doctrine of states, rights and preserve the sanctity of the home...
...Un-dei the direction of its present personnel, the Commission is well equipped to do this job...
...They wall might...
...Anyway, the National Association of Manufacturers as such has no ipecisl interest in children except to make money out of their labor...
...Its opposition to the child labor amend mint is sordidly and sirkeningly Stilish...
...Inc...
...I must fight non-yiolently," he said, "and to the death, the unholy attempt to impose Britis', methods and institutions on India...
...The census of 1920 shows that there are 176,000 person between 10 and 15 years employed in factories...
...and the Williamsport Passenger Railway Co...
...The Electric Bond & Share Co...
...Lajpat Rai, in voting against the resolutions, des-ribed the par' as a bundle of inconsistencies, and declared that the wearing . f handspun only on ceremonial cccasims would make them look ridiculous in the eyes of the world Gandhi withdrew r, resolution condemning ho r u uer of Sir Lee Stack and the British attack on Egyptian in dependence...
...Its purposes are not strictly hamanitarian...
...Clark, the editor •f the Southern Textile Bulletin reports that "ever since the amendment passed (the Congress) we have V«n laying groundwork for the situation that is now rapidly developing...
...The Lehigh company also controls East End Passenger Railway, Jersey Shore Electric Street Railway, South Side Passenger Railway, Vallamont Traction Co...
...HERBERT N. SHENTON...
...Reference has been made to the activities of the National Association of Manufacturers to enlist the rapport of farmers...
...We shall be ready then for the sanction...
...This Electric Bond ft Share Co., owned by the General Electric Co., also owns the American Power & Light Co., controls the Kansas Gas ft Electric Co., the Pacific Power & Light Co., the Portland Gas & Coke Co., the Nebraska Power Co., and the Minnesota Power ft Light Co...
...The author of that letter is too ¦ill informed not to know that ooth child labor laws enacted by Congiets expressly excludd farm Itbor, am' that there is no sentient whatever in Congress in favor ef a departure from that policy, eld no purpose to place any restraint upon the ordinary labor of children on farms or in the house-told...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 4
