The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-15
HOOVER TO LEAD
U. S. imp ERIAL
RADIO PROGRAM

WASHINGTON, June 14.-Her-
bert Hoover, secretary of commerce,
has been named by President Cool
idge as chairman of the American
delegation--and hence to be general
chairman-of the international Rad
io-Telegraph Conference, which will
assemble Oct. A in Washington. From
this conference Secretary Kellogg
has barred, by refusal Of invitations,
The Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
lies and Ecuador because they are
not recognized by the United States.
In this conference the American
delegation viii load the battle of pri-
vate versus public ownership and op-
Grafton Of radio communication. 1t
will speak for the Radio Cooperation
of America, which is the central or
gan Of the American Radio Trust,
owned by the General Electric power
trust, the American Telephone e. Tel
egraph Co.'s wire trust, and the
Westinghouse electrical equipment
manufacturing combine. The Amer
lean radio giant is allied with British
Marconi in the foreign field. 1t has
also established what it calls a radio
Monroe Doctrine" for Latin America,
TO eclude all competitors from the
republics south Of the United States
Latins Refuse.
In the recent Inter-American Con-
ference on Aircraft, the Latin Amer
lean governments refused to accept
dictation from Washington. Led by
Argentina and Colombia, they voted
down every proposal which was adj
vanced by Hoover's delegates on be-
half of American private monopoly
in air transport in Latin America.
This spirit Of determination to main
tain the open door for free develop
ment of air travel in Latin America
is said by the South American diplo-
mats to be a fair indication of what
they will say when Hooyers program
for private radio trust control of
the western hemisphere is brought
before the radiotelegraph conference.
In fact, they have only to repeat what
they did at a pan-American radiotel-
egraph conference in Mexico City
two years ago, when they protested
the United States delegates attitude
so sharply that the conference broke
up without making a report.
Radio Imperialism.
In substance, the situation is this:
The American radio trust is deter
mined to invade foreign fields, while
the European, Latin American and
some of the Asiatic governments are
determined that government owner
ship and operation Of radio communi-
cation shall be maintained as a fun
damental public policy. Soviet Rus
STA, one of the most important users
of radio communication, would have /
been prominent in defense of the pub
lic-ownership doctrine if she had not /
been barred by Kellogg.
Because the two groups, or the /
trust versus the govern
ments of 40 nations, viii be dead /
locked on this issue, the conference
viii get nowhere with it. Instead, T
some rules for avoiding interference
in the sending Of messages win be
adopted and the question of estab-
fishing an international code based .
on government ownership will be
postponed until the next conference,
which will be held in Europe in four
or five years.
With Hoover on the American del
egation Coolidge has named Sen. Jim
Watson of Indiana, Sen. Smith of
South Carolina, Owen d. Young, of
General Electric, John J. Carly, of
A. T. & T., Rep. White of Maine,
Asst. Secy. of State Castle, Stephen
Davis, former solicitor for the Com
merse Department; John Beaver
White, electrical engineer, John Hays
Hammond, Jr., and representatives of
radio communication in the war, navy
and commerce departments.