RANKIN TELLS BENEFITS FOR TVA CONSUMER
Rankin Tells Benefits for TVA Consumer Record Explains Bitter Opposition from Power Trust WASHINGTON, D. C—It Is easy to understand the bitter opposition of the power trust and its business and...
...This was clearly pointed out in the House of Representatives recently by Rep...
...Rankin said that municipalities in the region of the TVA Wilson dam were now paying various rates between 4 and 8 mills a kilowatt hour for power and that it was profitable for them and the TVA...
...In those days 100 kilowatt hours cost him $8.60...
...Labor Relations Act will be considered votes against labor, emphatic delegations from Illinois, Ohio, and Massachusetts told representatives from those states...
...Samuel Rissman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (CIO) voiced the Illinois delegation's opposition to the proposed craft unit amendments...
...Ted Silvey of Columbus, in a three hour meeting with the Ohio repre-senatlves, declared that "any changes will destroy the Wagner act and create industrial strife, chaoic employer-employe relations and unnecessary conflicts...
...In those 'good old days' 1,000 kilowatt hours cost him $66.10...
...Rankin Tells Benefits for TVA Consumer Record Explains Bitter Opposition from Power Trust WASHINGTON, D. C—It Is easy to understand the bitter opposition of the power trust and its business and political allies to the Roosevelt administration when it is seen what the adminisratlon has done for the general public and the farmer through the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Rural Electrical Administration...
...Rankin of Mississippi when an attack was made on the TVA and REA by one of the Republican allies of the power trust in congress...
...Labor's Non-Partisan League, conducting the campaign against amendments, brought 50 members of the Massachusetts league, 25 members of the Illinois league, and 100 members of the Ohio league here to discuss the question with representatives from those states...
...Illinois unionists declared that citizens in their districts "are aroused over the proposed changes in the act...
...You can just imagine what would happen in a garment shop where approximately 35 operations art necessary to complete one garment," he said...
...The public utilities crowd does not like this he said because "the private power companies that were buying Muscle Shoals power from the Hoover administration at a little less than 2 mills a kilowatt hour were selling it to the ultimate consumers at 10 cents a kilowatt hour, whereas these municipalities and cooperative associations that are now buying it from 4 to 8 mills a kilowatt hour are selling It to the ultimate consumers at a maximum of 3 cents a kilowatt hour and still some of them are making so much profit that they have been compelled to reduce their rates every year...
...it now costs him $2.25...
...it now costs him S8.15...
...Contrasting the rates paid under the Hoover regime with those now, he said that Tupe'o, Miss., has reduced Its maximum rate to 2',i cents a kilowatt hour but "in those days 30 kilowatt hours cost a residential consumer in Tupelo $3: the cost now is 75 cents...
...Labor League Is Fighting Changes WASHINGTON, D. C—Votes for amendments to the Natl...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 17
