WOMAN AND THE LAW
Brandeis, Susan
RADIO CONTROL IS FOUGHT BY LABOR UNIONS Air Waves Are Too Vital To Turn Control Over To a Group WASHINGTON, D. C. — Asserting that radio broadcasting is too great a medium of mass communication to...
...One of the latest quiet grins was at the expense of Ambassador Edge...
...Mr...
...Funny things happen in politics...
...A JOKE ON EDGE (From The Pathfinder) Those pompous and poker-faced members of the diplomatic corps no doubt have m»ny an interior smile as they sip their tea and bow stiffly in the political salons...
...This case Is pending...
...A virtual monopoly of choice broadcasting channels already exists, said Mr...
...The person or group which controls radio broadcasting in the years to come will control this nation...
...Just before going to Paris Edge was a stanch pillar of the high-tariff clique in the Senate, and one of the things he was most active in was plenty of protection for the New Jersey potteries against French competition...
...RADIO CONTROL IS FOUGHT BY LABOR UNIONS Air Waves Are Too Vital To Turn Control Over To a Group WASHINGTON, D. C. — Asserting that radio broadcasting is too great a medium of mass communication to be used purely for entertainment purposes, Hope Thompson, counsel for the American Federation of Labor, told the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce of the futile efforts of "organized labor" to obtain adequate radio facilities from the Federal Radio Commission...
...1 The "powers" that now have the choice frequencies, continued the witness, "are so influential that I doubt that Congress will dare to meet the situation...
...He said the Chi-cage Federation and the American Federation have tried without avail to obtain a cleared channel and high power for this station, to be used as the national mouthpiece of labor, with educational programs the primary function, and that since the Commission's last denial of Its application, It has appealed to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia...
...One of his first duties at Paris was to protest against the proposed high French tariff on motor ears and parts...
...Thompson...
...Thompson, while the only station licensed to any labor organization is WCFL, st Chicago, which now is restricted to daylight operation with 1,500 watts of power...
...He said there are 90 broadcasting channels available for broadcasting and that, if the Commission can not allow labor to have one of them, "that Congress itself should take care of the situation...
...I think it would be of greatest importance that this entire field of corti-munlcatlon be kept entirely free of private domination," said Mr...
...Thompson said he believed It Is the duty of Congress to save broadcasting "from where it is going," but he declared that "It has got away from you already...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 9
