HIGH WISCONSIN POWER & LIGHT CO. RATES
High Wisconsin Power & Light Co. Rates [A Letter From A Capital Times Reader] KINDLY accept my congratulations for your editorial in your paper of Apr. 1. Especially am I pleased to find a...
...I have taken the matter up with this company but to date have received little satisfaction as to why...
...to municipalises, as compared to charges for similar service by outer utilities...
...Under this principle injunctive relief has often been denied in cases including a labor controversy...
...16.00 High Power Rates That Municipalities Must Pay "IN ADJOINING columns on this" page today The Progressive prints a letter which it has received from a Monroe, Wis...
...I especially refer to a service charge of $1.50 per horsepower connected, as against a 25 cent per month charge by other towns...
...after union attorneys showed that the company had refused to negotiate...
...Thanks to the vigorous fight made by the teachers' union, the Maywood board of education rehired Miss Wheeler and agreed to reinstate Marshall in September...
...Town No...
...1. Especially am I pleased to find a newspaper that has the nerve to attack a public issue of this kind and print the facts as stated...
...The firm, whose 36 workers struck five months ago, is an affiliate of the May Knitting Mills, which was one of the 11 firms ordered by the wage-hour administration to pay a total of $250,000 back wages to 10,000 home-workers...
...system, were a major cause for that village voting at the recent primary to sell out to the Madison Gas and Electric Co...
...Maybe after your editorial you will have them in a different frame of mind and some action may come of It...
...I have visited and have data on power and light rates paid by other locker plants in Iowa...
...Following are some locker plant power rates in other towns...
...456 7'^ H.P...
...is exacting for this type of service, the publirj service commission does practically nothing to see that the local communities get a fair deal...
...Roosevelt Is a member of the American Newspaper Guild (CIO...
...I cannot understand why electricity purchased on a wholesale basis frcm them is so much lower than where we in Monroe buy it direct...
...5 Million Farm Families Moved WASHINGTON, D. C—It is estimated by Gov...
...456 T'/jH.P...
...228 K.W.H...
...reader of this newspaper...
...Eleanor Roosevelt has sent a $10 check to the Proviso Defense Fund, established by the West Suburban Teachers Union to support two teachers fired last year for union activity...
...There are many other matters in their rate structure that I can not find allowed to other companies...
...U Prairie du Sac 378 5 H.P...
...350 5 II.P...
...Mrs...
...COMMERCIAL ELECTRICITY: Commercial electricity for February bill, net of two locker plants...
...To this question I can not obtain an answer...
...Nevertheless I intend to ask why...
...The petty rate cuts that the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...Constantly shifting of tenants is costing landlords and tenants $150 million a year, to say nothing of the impai!|nent of human resources," .he added...
...Some of these towns are In the territory served by the Wisconsin Power and Light Co., but this company wholesales this current to the town, which in turn re-sclls the electricity to their citirens...
...Black that five million farm people were forced this year to leave their homes and take their belongings out on the road in quest of new living quarters during the moving period which occurs annually at this time of year in the South as leases are terminated...
...The author of that letter has gathered significant information showing the high rates charged by the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora ruled Apr...
...42.1* A five month average net bill for a locker plant at Erie, 111., served by the Illinois Northern Utilities Co...
...470 K.W.H...
...Mrs...
...Second is the high number of kilowatts per step, before one can enter a lower bracket, etc...
...The high rates of the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...15.30 Columbus ____"50 5 HP...
...500 7'^ H.P...
...Pecora refused to enjoin the Knit-goods Workers Local of the IntL Ladies Garment Workers Union (unaffiliated) from picketing the Devon Knitwear Co...
...In spite of the high rates that the Wisconsin Power and Light Co...
...20.00 MONROE...
...Jefferson, Wis...
...22.55 ? • • 1PLAN to appeal to the commission as to why, knowing full well of the satisfaction or results I will get, but after reading your editorial the prospects of getting any action from this body seems, futile...
...6.45 MONROE...
...of lockers Compressor Net bill paid Horse Power Lodi...
...Deny Injunction to Non-Bargainer NEW YORK CITY—A union may prevent an injunction against picketing and striking if it can prove that the employer has refused to bargain collectively...
...Illinois, and Wisconsin and find that the rate structure of the Wisconsin Power and Light Co: Ls the highest of any electric company that I have found...
...Rates [A Letter From A Capital Times Reader] - KINDLY accept my congratulations for your editorial in your paper of Apr...
...The May wood teachers, both members of the American Federation of Teachers tAFLi, are Miss Mary Wheeler and Ralph Marshall...
...22.83 (Served by Iowa Southern Utilities Co...
...The rule is fundamental that a court of equity may deny relief to one who enters its portals with unclean hands," Pecora said...
...350 5 H.P...
...are as follows: Erie, III...
...which the village of Mid-dleton had to pay for its distribution Mt...
...Horeb...
...F. D. R. Sends Aid to Teachers MAYWOOD, III...
...has announced, are no comfort to the municipalities upon whom high rates have been saddled...
...22.74 Grinnell, la...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
