POWER TRUST HIT BY SOLICITOR OF POWER BOARD
POWER TRUST HIT BY SOLICITOR OF POWER BOARD Charles A. Russell Stales Jurisdiction Extends To Non-Navigable Streams in Answering Brief (Special to The Progressive! WASHINGTON, D. C—A blow for the...
...FROM FAR OFF HOLLAND i Amsterdam, Holland, Oct...
...Mr...
...Commission Has Jurisdiction Mr...
...Machines don't wear shoes nor buy cars, and workers are becoming fewer in factories and workshops through the growing efficiency of machines...
...Miss Anderson said much was being done on the part of industrial leaders to understanding and advancing human relations in industry, but...
...7.| — r am very glad to read that, Phil has been nominated candidate, for governor of Wisconsin...
...Machines Injure Workers' Welfare, Says Bureau Head Miss Mary Anderson, Director of Women's Bureau...
...Cities Decline of Purchasing: Power of Wage Earner WASHINGTON, D. C. — Machines don't wear shoes nor buy cars...
...Russell, however, declared In his brief that the Commission has the same Jurisdiction over non-navigable streams when a power project affects commerce as it has over navigable streams...
...A new era will soon open for beautiful Wisconsin...
...Intent of Congress "The Water Power Act...
...Russell, "clearly Indicates the intent of Congress to extend the Jurisdiction of the Commission beyond that which is actually navigable waters...
...she pointed out that, there was need for precautions against the goading of workers beyond certain limits, which was being done, under so-called efficiency mrthnris...
...I am happy to hear of his marriage.—Best of wishes.—Jacques L. Bienfait...
...What becomes of discarded workers...
...Referring to the progress made in machine efficiency, Mtes Anderson declared, "What profits it a nation to evolve a mechanized industrial civilization II such a creation becomes a forre tending to destroy the spirit, and good will of the workers since such order results both in loss of satisfactory laborers to turn the wheels of industry and a shrinkage of market," to consume the products...
...Miss Anderson stated that it was more dificult to control and adjust men than machines and to anticipate human behavior was harder than to forecast mechanical performance...
...Although at the time it applied for a license to construct its hydro plant at Bartetts Ferry the power company admitted the Commission's authority, after the construction was completed and the Commission attempted to exercise its authority in the valuation of the project, the company turned around and denied that the Commission's jurisdiction applied because it was not on a navigable stream...
...There are more shoes, more clothes, more automobiles, more radios, and fewer buyers...
...Do new Industries employ .or do they join the army of the unemployed...
...If under the decisions of the courts where the waters that run in a non-navigable stream would be hampered or delayed or their course changed by the construction of a power plant so as to affect interstate commerce in that case Congress can direct the control of that project for the same purpose, for the same reason, and upon the same basis of jurisdiction as it bases its jurisdiction and rights upon navigable streams...
...That utility, protesting the action of the Commission in paring down by over $64R.000 the amount claimed by the company as the cost of its power projret at Bartlett's Ferry on the Chattahoochee river between Georgia and Alabama, declared that the Power commission had no jurisdiction over its hydro-electric plant because it was located on "non-navigable" waters...
...The license was accepted at that time by the company, stated Mr...
...Congress in the Federal Water Power act intended that the Commission should have power both over navigable streams and streams which were non-navigable when construction thereon would affect interstate and foreign commerce, declared Mr...
...Russell, and it is now contradicting its voluntary act...
...This is the means taken by a number of private hydroelectric utilities to attack the jurisdiction of the power trust...
...Though I don't know the Senator personally...
...No one knows where we are Rolng In these days of efficiency changes," she .'aid...
...said Mr...
...It Is the province of the Women's Bureau to study and collect facts on this human side of industry, to Indicate, If possible, the way we are going and what are the best, industrial methods that combine efficient methods of work with wise and humane standards...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—A blow for the Federal Power commission in Its controversy with big power interests of the country as to Its jurisdiction and authority was struck here by Charles A. Russell, solicitor of the Commission, in a brief he has just filed In answer to the statements of the Columbus Electric and Power company...
...Russell also contended in answer to the assertions of the company that the Chattahoochee river Is navigable, the government having spent large sums upon that stream on its lower navigable waters...
...said Miss Mary Anderson, director of the United StBtrs Women's bureau, in an address here to the National Convention of Industrial Engineers...
Vol. 1 • November 1930 • No. 48
