The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-03-06
TRUST FLAYED
IN NEW YORK
SUIT
Air Monopoly by American
Telephone and Telegraph
Company Feared.

NEW YORK, March 6.-The
"broadcasting trust" plans not only
to gain a complete monopoly of the
air, but 1t eventually may rent
vacuum tubes in the same manner
that telephone receivers are now
rented, George Schubel, one of the
directors of WIN, New York city
declared today in a statement ALI
swering the test suit filed against
the station by the American Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company.
Action to protect its patent rights
against independent broadcasting
stations was begun Monday by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company when suit for perma.
nent injunction against station
WIN, operated by Schubel and
Marcus LOew, was filed in the New
York courts.
Air Control At Stake.
Counsel for Loew. Schubel and
the Radio Broadcasting Society of
America an organization Of indie
pendents, predict that the suit will
resolve into legal fight for the,
control of the air.
Mr.. Schubel declares in his state
L
and Telegraph Company which with
its subsidiary organization, the
Western Electric Company, includes
in all Of its licenses for stations an
agreement not to accept. fees for
broadcasting.
THE plan Is absurd" Mr.. Schubel
stated. The company sells a man
the plant with which to do bust.
ness and then prohibits him from
going ahead and earning a revenue.
ut means that there Is only
one concern in this Gods fair
country which has the divine right
by reason Of the power Of money
to be IN the broadcasting field"
Hits "StOne Wall"
THE city OF New York" Mr..
Schubel stated, has been trying
under utmost difficulties to build a
station OF its own but has run
into this stone wall"
There are six hundred independ.
ent broadcasting stations through
out the country" Mr.. Schubel con-
tinues." licensed by and with the
consent of the Government, ready
and willing to serve without charge
the religious, patriotic, educational
and social life Of their communities,
hut these stations stand to be
threatened by a monopoly which
refuses to serve a similar function
unless paid in dollars and cents
Mr.. Schubel also attacked the
proposed fund to provide artists
for broadcasting from one of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
stations.
Funds will be collected from gen.
erous hearted people, amounting
perhaps to millions" Mr.. Schubel
stated. Let the American people
watch who will get the millions.
Get Monopoly Next.
"If Mr.. Mackay and the other
influential gentlemen who seem to
have the musical education of the
American people at heart really de-
sire that the Radio Music Fund
should be appropriated and used
for the artists and for purposes
where 1t will do the most good, then
let them go to the American Tele
phone and Telegraph Company and
ask permission to establish a broad
casting station which will be under
the direct control of the good
hearted people who contribute.
when this monopoly has finally
cornered the broadcasting field; will
it extend its tentacles on receiving
sets?" Mr.. Schubel asks in conclu
sion.
THE telephone company control.
the patents on tubes. If 1t II
decided in the future to rent out
receiving sets as 1t now rents out
its telephone apparatus, who could
say nay?"