SMALL CONSUMERS OF ELECTRICITY MULCTED THEY HELP PAY BILLS OF BIG MANUFACTURERS
Small Consumers of Electricity Mulcted ? ? ? * ? ? ? They Help Pay Bills of Big Manufacturers Tenants and Home-Owifcis Pay SVz Times as Much as Industry—If Yon Pay More Than' 5 Cento...
...The Cost of Distribution of Electricity to Domestic Consumers," is an eyeopener to those who always regarded present high electric rates as beyond reason...
...On May 30th, Great Britain win send a Socialist government to power, and Belgium and Holland win join later in the year...
...He is business agent of the Plumbers' union and is settle to the State Federation of Labor...
...Socialists are proceeding with, their plans to enter the field, alone if necessary, and to conduct a vigorous campaign on,a Socialist BCogram...
...Amongst those who have already accepted is Alexander Walker, of "Red" Glasgow, Scotland...
...It is published as an open letter...
...While receptive to the suggestion...
...It Is hoped that the district will not only be able to establish a district office, with permanent secretary-organizer, but win in addition, be able to place several organizers in the southern field...
...Is it .because public power stations don't pad their costs by including propaganda expense...
...The facts are there and the power interests certainly will have to think up new stunts to disprove them...
...He has taken an act...
...A ! collection was called for by Comrade George, and about $70.00 was raised in contributions and to sale of literature...
...George Addresses Meeting Comrade George went on to show how many Independent state organizations or Socialist groups such ss the Workmen's Circle in ,the Southern states were "simply casting bread upon the water at present, but without much hope for its return...
...The Committee is planning the picnic for the opening day of the Virginia State Convention, and the Southern States' Convention...
...The conclusions are startling only because of the carefree manner in which the small or domestic consumer is being mulcted by the power interests...
...Brookwood Students Protest Expulsion of Young Carpenter 'Sr a New LaaSer Cvrrcsp*n de n1) Kitonah...
...fight against such undemocratic detractive tactics in the labor movement State it further "Resolved: That we urge all local unset and rank and Hie unionists to join sab as to our common fight by denouncag the action at union meetings and by sextos...
...Mnny people who have never attended Socialist meetings to Richmond before attended the meeting Sunday, including prominent ofn^l^ls to the Stats Federation of Labor...
...Examine your next electric bill and see bow close you are to this figure...
...Paul C. Horine, of Laureldale, nomltoted for Jury commissioner, is the only asadstUs who lives outside the city...
...Like the Roman gladiators, we who suffer from outrageous electric bills salute him...
...United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, unhstty deprives ban of his livelihood and toerfere* with hfe private life, and "Whereas: This autocratic expulsion ariky b a contradiction of the program ef the A P. of L. to "double its memberSap" and only serves to further demoralke toe forces of Labor, therefore, be it "Resolved: That we, the student body at Brookwood Labor .College, condemn Hi expulsion policy as the action of sast-etguted trade union bureaucracy Sat fears an educated rank and file ¦iiilmililii, and be it further "Beoolved: That we conduct a relenthn...
...Generating or producing 1 KW hour of electricity costs no more than between one-half to one cent...
...This will be Mrs...
...The suggestion has been favorably received in some Socialist circles, the condition always being advanced that all cooperating groups agree, first, on political action independent of and opposed to the Republican and Tammany machines, second, on a program of municipal Socialism, and, tbirdTon candidates whose record of public service is such as to carry an assurance to the people that the execution of the program would be the primary concern of the candidates...
...Hoopes first campaign as a candidate...
...Within a year we should build a vigorous organization of Southern Workers with a membership of several thousand...
...A year ago there was not a country in the world governed by Socialists, and there was not a government in which the Socialists participated as part of a coalition, but today we have a Socialist coalition government in Germany...
...TJKB Wilson, eighteenth ward...
...declared Comrade George...
...The facts in this pamphlet are directed to the attention of all home users of electricity and especially to the Federal Power Commission and the several State Public Service Commissions...
...Claessens Well Received August Claessens was welcomed with a storm of applause which was increased ten-fold at the conclusion of his lecture— ! "The Measure of Social Progress...
...Every statement is substantiated and verified" by close examination of costs of many existing power companies as supplied by them to the various Public Service Commissions...
...The stales will be heal at Keller's park, SlnkB* Spring...
...It was one of the most successful meetings ever bald to Richmond, and the audience would hardly permit Comrade Claesftni to leave In time to catch a bus for Norfolk, where be was to speak at 9 P.M...
...is manager of the People's Printing company, Reed and Court streets...
...The resolution follows: ¦"Whereas: The expulsion of Brother Italia hi ii i from Local 246...
...Figured on a basis of a KW hour, it means that another cent and one-half should be added...
...Flan Southern Organization...
...The States to be invited to participate have not yet been definitely decided upon, but will probably consist of the entire body of 13 Southeastern states...
...Berks Socialhts save ssade the following nominations %t dtj and county offices: FOB 0X7 COUNCIL—William C. awnrtur, Fourteenth ward, and Jesse Charge, Ninth ward...
...He k rfce president of the State Federation ef labor and has taken much Interest in affairs of the Berks County Tuberculosis SSBStorbisi on Neverslnk mountain...
...He declared that each state might spend five hundred dollars each year and achieve very Uttle, but that by a pooling of resources of all the twelve states in one "container," probably five or six thousand dollars would be available for the first year's work...
...The convention will be held in the auditorium of the People's House, 7 East 15th street, on Saturday and Sunday, June 15th and 16th...
...Cooke's analysis of the rate problem is the best thing that could nave happened...
...Next to Tammany Han, Socialist organisations are functioning in every section of the city, and the opportunity for a city-wide drive that win double or treble the Socialist vote, and elect a number of Socialists to the Legislature and the Board of Aldermen, are believed to be brighter than they have been in years . I Socialists Of South Called To Parley Virginia Takes Initiative - Labor - Socialist Picnic Planned For July 4th in Richmond Richmond, Va„ May gab,—The Virginia Socialist Executive Committee, meeting Sunday afternoon...
...As far as the average householder is concerned Mr...
...DIRECTORS— Mrs...
...About 40 delegates will be selected from the party locals, and the membership at large...
...59 Branches To Attend N. Y. Convention Many Groups Expected to Send Fraternal Delegations to June Session rvELEOATKS representing 59 branches of the Socialist party of New York City, and fraternal delegates representing organizations whose membership in the city is in excess of 250,000, win attend the ¦ two-day municipal convention called by the Socialist party to frame a platform for the coming municipal campaign and to nominate' a ticket which Socialists, trade unionists, and independent voters generally can support...
...The Committee will, to fact, seek to make of the affair a State labor and Socialist picnic, by inviting the Federation of Labor to participate...
...Picnic Dates Chosen At a meeting of Local Berks, three atone dates were selected, June 2, July 14 sad August 2& All are Sundays...
...The Southern States' Convention will be held for the purpose of working out a plan by which all the state organizations can join in this merger, without, at the same time, surrendering their Identity as independent state organizations...
...Charles Teagar, Fifteenth ward, and Daniel Wentad, Fourteenth ward, several hundred men and women attended the party meeting, the second new meeting hall of the Labor Lyceum fester crowded...
...SOB FROTHONOTARY—Andrew P. Bfbsr, Fourteenth ward...
...The Committee will seek the participation and cooperation of the 4 Socialist branches of the Workmen's Circle, and several of the radical Labor Unions...
...Consulting Engineer, former Director of Pennsylvania Giant Power Survey and Past President of the Taylor Society...
...for common pleas judge— • DaUtogtau Hoopes...
...She and tor husband moved to this city from aUibsoen almost two years ago, followtag the accession to power of the Socialist sdntiulsUatten...
...that the doors of the party be opened to enable independent groups to support the Socialist program whether they are in total accord with Socialists on other questions'or not, are receiving consideration of Socialists in each of the five counties...
...The State Convention win be held on July 5th and 6th...
...Cooke to his fciestlgatton femnd that these etostrie pleats owned and operated by the municipality shew a transmission and distribution east ef i*% below those privately ran...
...Mrs...
...And it doesn't cost even a traction of a cent more to generate electricity to be used In the home than that consumed in the largest industrial plant...
...While Republicans are floundering about in a vain attempt to unite antiTammany groups on so-called "good government" issues, based upon the assumption that if they were given power to administer city affairs they would be more honest in New York than the Republicans have been in cities like Philadelphia ana Chicago, where Tammany policies and methods are duplicated, 'independents requesting the Socialists to enter the field in a way that would bring to the Socialist party the support of all progressive groups maintain that the Socialist party would become Tammany's real opponent In the coming election if a fusion of Socialist, labor, and liberal forces could be effected...
...The meeting with Comrade Claessens' was opened shortly after 2 o'clock In the afternoon...
...Cooke's survey, if the domestic consumer—that is the home user of electricity, whether for lighting, for ironing, washing, etc.— pays more than Ave cents per kilowatt hour for his electricity, he is being milked splendidly by the power trust...
...Andrew P. Bower, named for prothonotery, ran for assembly with George in Its and for prison inspector in 1927...
...For so is the electrical business arranged at present that the small home consumer of electricity pays part of the cost for keeping industry running...
...George made the opening address, describing the advances of International Socialism in the last year...
...For good measure allowances are made for loss of current in transmission, cost of handling consumers' accounts and general costs that cannot be Itemized...
...What The Costs Are The pamphlet analyses in detail what the actual costs of bringing electricity to the home really are...
...They should cause a revolution in favor of government ownership...
...David G. George, who went down from New York to attend the meeting of the Virginia Executive, of which he is a member, declared in the course of his address before the Committee that "through the formation of such a district organization we will not only be able to maintain an organization office somewhere in the South, but, by thus pooling the resources of a dozen states, win without a doubt be able to secure and maintain at least one or two permanent field organizers...
...It is a story "out of their own mouths...
...The large audience, which fined the Workmen's Circle Hall applauded both the actual advances and the optimistic predictions of Comrade George...
...The entire cost of transmission, that is, getting the electricity from the power house to the substation for distribution, is no more than three-tenths of one cent...
...As a matter of fact, the worker in his little flat, out of his meager earnings, pays about five and one-half times as much for a unit of "juice" as does his employer...
...resofcitioss to the labor press and e President Hntcheeoc...
...He ess a candidate for assembly last year sod for sheriff to 1937...
...With all these liberal allowances the total expense liM'Uiftol by poster oanpsntoj, ac-1 onrdtns, to this Ui nsHt.pl inn, for genersttng, tianesBbllug' exsf dtaUSiuting electricity to the home reaches a aarrrmrm total of between IS and AS cents per KW hone What are you paying tor yours...
...Prominent speakers will be invited...
...To it may be added the cost of distributing this electricity, which includes charges on fixed investments in wires, poles, meters, transformers, etc., amounting to $7.50 a year per consumer...
...Last week the Socialists swept Denmark and have taken up the reins of government...
...Neither has the item appearing Jn some reports, 'Unfinished Construction,' been .Included...
...Howard McDonough, 67 N. Thirteenth at, was nominated for congress by bis party tost year...
...Small Consumers of Electricity Mulcted ? ? ? * ? ? ? They Help Pay Bills of Big Manufacturers Tenants and Home-Owifcis Pay SVz Times as Much as Industry—If Yon Pay More Than' 5 Cento Per Kilowatt Hour Yon Are Being Heavily Fleeced n^HEN the average American worker, earning his twenty-five dollars a week or less, comes home from his day's toil and sits down to his evening meal, he does not realize that for the use of his 110 watt light overhead, he pays tribute to the $10,000,000 corporation which may employ him during the day...
...mart Hi Hoppee,^ighteenth ward, and avserd McDonough, Ninth ward...
...The Committee met just before the ' meeting arranged for August Claessens, i former New York State Assemblyman...
...OB RECORDER—Fred W. Ooels, PsVenth wsztL FOB DIRECTOR OF THE POOR...
...i Hoverter Nominated In Reading George Also Named as Socialists Pick Strong Ticket — Hoopes for JWge (•y • Mrs lf«i»r Cuminlut) wesaDIBG...
...the choice to run for recorder of deeds...
...Pa,—Drafting many of their " luamii ranr*'lT""r...
...Eighteenth ward...
...Edward a. Toe, bis running mate for jury comaaatoner, is a machinist and lives at 107 Mulberry street...
...Independent Support Seen Requests from independents, and some Socialists, that the Socialist fight this year be made as broad as possible, and...
...New members were added to Local Richmond, including one young man who has Just organized the Cement Finishers' Union, and who declared that be would bring the entire membership of his union into the local...
...Reports received at the executive offices of the Socialist city organization at the People's House ar« declared by party officials to indicate a livelier Interest In the coming fight than has been in evidence in former years, and a greater determination to carry the Socialist solution of muniefpal problems into every part of the city...
...The first session will be held on Friday, July 5th, and nominations for State Office win be made on Saturday, July 6th...
...re put in Socialist affairs...
...nominee for county commissioners in laTT, Jacob D. Reber will make his party's eaaspalgn lot director ef poor this ML He Is a laborer...
...Horine is a retired ice cream manufacturer...
...And tins in a state where water power for the generation of electricity is present to abundance...
...It Is a conservative analysis backed by thorough j investigation and professional understanding of the industry...
...Morris L. Cooke...
...LUith Wilson, wife of Birch Wiles, city purchasing agent, has taken part is local, state and national campaigns, gos was nominee for state treasurer last year and two years before for governor...
...Many declared that "they would give their tost dollar to bear Claessens again...
...In those general expenses are often hidden unnecessary fees and expenses to insiders, to holding companies, tor propaganda, etc" "Evidently this is where the three million dollar slush fund, unearthed by the Federal Trade Commission, comes from to subsidibze schools, colleges, professors and newspapers to favor high rates for the power interests...
...Amongst the Labor Unions which are expected to participate are the Tailors' Unions of Richmond and Norfolk, and the Cement Finishers' Union of Richmond...
...This cost includes taxes, depreciation, interest on the investment as well as all operating costs...
...As a pamphlet warns: "In the calculations for this study, no attempt has been made to distribute any share of the general equipment investment or general and miscellaneous expenses to transmission and distribution...
...He is the only Socialat attorney in the county...
...Jesse D. Reber, Eleventh ward...
...FOR SCHOOL...
...N. Y.—The Brookwood studtot body, consisting of members of 17 salon* from 13 states, has adopted a towhgtaa condemning the expulsion of Sat of their number from local 246 of tht Carpenters' Onion because he refused tb discontinue his studies at the labor •aQege...
...FOR JURY COMMISSIONERS — Heard A. Toe, Eighth ward, and Paul C Bortne, Laureldale...
...Haselette Hoopes is the wife of the SodaBst judgeship candidate...
...In addition to the 59 branches that are now functioning, several others in the process of formation will probably be organized in time to enlist for the city election...
...Eaaaatoe Your Bills According to Mr...
...He k manager of...
...The purpose of this convention is to organize all the Southern States Into an organization district...
...In addition to planning for the Virginia Picnic and Convention, the Virginia Executive voted to instruct David O. George to obtain sanction of the National Office, and to communicate with the State and Local Organizations of all the Southeastern States, in order to draw as many as possible to a Southern States' Convention to be held Saturday and Sunday, July 6th and 7th in Richmond...
...FOR PRISON INSPECTORS—Roy P. Hoverter, Fifteenth ward...
...the Keystone Co-operative awodation...
...It is planned to establish the district office in some large Southern City immediately after the District Convention, so as to ' make eaflff preparations for campaigns , in those stages which elect state officers .this year...
...Even then the five cents includes items that do not actually represent necessary elements in production and distribution of electricity...
...This startling state of affairs Is revealed in a remarkable booklet on "The Cost of Distribution of* Electricity to Domestic Consumers," published as a sequel to "What Price Electricity for the Home" by the same author, Mr...
...Yet in the face of these facts a list of/ present rates prevailing in cities of New York State and printed in the pamphlet shows a range all the way from 4-5 cents enjoyed by only" one city to 17 cents per kilowatt hour...
...The pamphlet is not an irresponsible diatribe against the present practices of the electric light and power industry...
...May 5th, voted unanimously to hold a State Picnic on July 4th...
...Fred W. Ooels...
...PebaV Plants Leas Costly One statement especially is significant...
...Hoverter is sdgsx foreman...
...8fes has been on national committees of tor party and has spoken in local contesta, _ aba...
...Robert M, Eighteenth ward...
...wnham Hoverter was his party's nomlass for city treasurer in 1937 and came cans to whining the election in a confeat with City Treasurer Kershner, the ream decided fey s few votes only after seeks of recounting ballots...
...Jesse George was his party's nominee aw assembly last fall...
...Hoopes, Judgeship nominee, is sssisttatoar sahcitor...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 17
