MUSCLE SHOALS OFFICIALS ASKING GOVT. FOR POWER
Muscle Shoals Officials Asking Govt, for Power CJit \ Requests Power Surplus Lenenited fit H u;re Govt. Plant Rented to Utility Co. WASHINGTON — The mayor and city council of Muscle Shoals have...
...Senator Metcalf is a candidate this fall for re-election and the textile workers declare he should be defeated...
...js buying only about one-fifth of the power and the remainder is going to waste," ftald Mr...
...The government is not getting a dime for it...
...This power is wasted for one reason— that is, the great Influence of the power companies of America...
...The power companies object to a precedent being established by the government selling any of this power...
...The Alabama Power Co...
...The Alabama Power Co...
...The vote of these two Senators, the resolution states, show they are not sympathetic to the workers' cause...
...It has offered to purchase it with a 30-day cancellable clause...
...Black...
...Protests were filed with the State Industrial Commission by the Colorado Federation of Labor...
...It has even offered to pay more than the company Is paying...
...ADMIT VIOLATING 8 HOUR-DAY LAW DENVER—Contractors who are building state and county highways in Colorado admit, they force employes to work 10 and 12 hours, in violation of the eight-hour law...
...There is only one reason why it is not sold...
...Senator Black of Alabama charged on the floor of the Senate that, the citizens of Muscle Shoals are blocked by the Alabama Power Co., a unit of the power trust...
...WASHINGTON — The mayor and city council of Muscle Shoals have again appealed to the Secretary of War to sell them surplus power which continues to go to waste over Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee river...
...The little Alabama town has made several efforts to secure this power...
...declines to buy this power."This municipality has offered to buy it...
...It has offered to buy it on the same kind of contract...
...The town of Muscle Shoals, which is Immediately adjacent to the dam, requested several years ago and sent a delegation to the War Department for the purpose of buying some of the surplus power which was going to waste...
...LABOR OPPOSES METCALF, HEBERT OLNEY YILI.E, R. I.—The Rhode Island Textile Council oppose Senators Metcalf and Hebert for their support of Judge Parker as an associate justice I of the United States Supreme Court...
Vol. 1 • July 1930 • No. 32
