The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-11-07

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/. PleasE t9fl Tile, e. man who live in
| this town many year. who have big
family ato subpoft,:4 why the Com
IN ershals eAsls want y .t nescto" hand over
| every. month, from nay hard erned
waees So ~n1iieh money to be sent to
SOME -76themzfeNSfo 3he never live in
tffsm {Gsid af6Hey beeaase he made
F74daprpt satooaisas Kstnaer,t in stock ks
{ &: SSa N;,B Btsfa nf R had anything
80 niss.ees :tHs hest ienginers of
III itsa. States sax,stthfRt the Ederson
I 1ectffc1k plant eau BE al built over
i agam1 bfasiss ;lS6M3s foS:less than One
M Il slE and, if new
pptEkfnfts vas ;s4 buiits the people could get
lertritk light. Ats cents per killerwat
ks loa.5 3 oFas'vhateNer 5yop call it, and
that many poor people could, then
have fectrfck- tight -:
| ; ButsneR this COMPANY charge the
| people 8 centsaper killerwat hour and
this Is two high Tor many people and
they must~go without lectrick light.
4 Yes they chaHge.>:1 me 8 cents per
killerwat hour, and give mo 5 cents
worth OF light and the other cents
they take from me and send it to
some Teller who bought stocks and
bonds, in order to- save him from
! losing money on bad investment. Is
that right? '77
Then the Commershal Club say
we must not build new plant NOW
because it is hard times. Sure we
have hard times, but its the people
who are having the hard times and
not the Ederson lectrick light Co.,
and the Commershal Club in these
very hard times should not ask it's
own people, the people of it's own
city, to pay out more than two times
as much for lectrick light as they
should pay.
If the Commershal Club would try
and look after the interest of it's own
I people, instead Of asking it's people
to go down in their pockets and put
up money to keep some speculato1
from dropping money, it could pass
high sounding resolution to better
purpose.
/ Then these Club say we should no,
! ny w pu4lu pAduI, uSCduS6 ~ "On1C
hurt the Ederson Company. but ]
understand that the city has offered
these company Two Hundred Thou.
SAND Dollars more money for theil
plant than it would take to builc
one just as good as theirs. and tina,
they wont take it.
Some say to build new plant Is no.
the right way to get the company.
plant that the city should condemn
it. have a jury say what it is worth
But can: you pick up twelve men wht
i know nothing about engineering, VIII.
could better till us what this plan
lis worth than the abal engineers wh<
have careful and at big: expense gon,
thorough into the matter Of it's value
f-s~No wants to hurt the Ederaol
Company plant. The only thing W,
have thrown, at them is Two Hun,
dred Thousand Dollars, more thar
=, .thers plant is worth, and that shoult
+. not hurt them, i
The great body. or majority Of tn.
people of this city want Their owl
.lectriek plant. ::
They have voted for it for years
!. and by one argument, o.. another hav
been kept out Of it, and NOW it i
time to- so:ahead and set It.
+ We We start t!ll to build, the Ederso,
company'@can come in at anytime, i
it don't wait too long, and sell to tn
city, The door is, open to it, 80 i
- can come in out of the cold at an!
time. If it wont come in then it 4
Their own fault if they prefer to freez
outside.
These arguments that we must: no
build now, hat We should not hur
the company are by people who don
want this city to own, its own lectricl
light plant at al, neither now or an,
other time. a.
They are only measures to hurt tn
municipal ownership plan So the
can beat the will of the people 81
often voted in favor of having it
own plant.
Yours very truly,
20. Johnson