The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-05-04
SHOWS GREENWOOD is
TOOL OF POWER TRUST
BY Laurence Todd, Federated Press

BY Laurence Todd, Federated Press
Washington ~ (FP)-TIow Ernest
Greenwood, former representative in
America Tor the International Labour
Office at Geneva, and then a Harding
appointee in the board Of education
for the District of Columbia, was
hired man of the power trust lobby
the Joint Committee of Natl. Utlllty
Assns. was disclosed before the Fed
eral Trade Commission on April "a,
during examination of the payments
made by that lobby.
Greenwood was shown by the books
of the Joint Committee, as identified
on the stand by Ira l.. Grimshaw, as
sistant director, to have been paid
$1,193.5l last year. His two principal
Jobs were the writing Of book called
"Alladin", clarifying the private pow
er combine and disappearing pub
lie ownership, and the making of a
survey Of the attitude of labor papers
toward public ownership.
This survey of the labor press, 1t
was indicated by other men in the
power lobby group last fall, was in
tended to precede the placing Of big
contracts for advertising the protest
OF the private powe interests against
public ownership and against the in
vestigation of the power trust which
is now being made by the Federal
Trade Commission. In other words,
Greenwood undertook to determine
which labor papers should be given
attention, either through cash adver-
Using or otherwise, in the campaign
to prevent the American workers from
supporting public ownership of cleo
trio plants.
Negotiation with Harper & Bros.
for publication of the propaganda
book Aladdin was handled by Geo.
OXley,. publicity director for the Natl
Electric Light Assn, who went with
Greenwood to the publishing house.
Greenwood received $4,000 for his
work on the book, and the Joint Com
mittee made payments in odd amounts
according to the royalties they re-
ceived from the publishers when they
sold quantities Of the work in various
states.
Richard Washbun Child, former
American ambassador to Italy and
magazine propaganda for Mussolini,
was shown to have received $500 for
writing two booklets on Boulder Can
yon--to block public operation of a
greater power plant at that point.
Child has boasted that he advised the
Italian financiers to back Mussolini
when the dictator was still looking
for funds with which to seize power.
His work on these pamphlets, how
ever, was not satisfactory. So the
Joint Committee turned them over,
for editing, to DIR. Frank Bohn, form
er co-author with w. ID. Haywood of
a pamphlet on revolutionary industrial
unionism. How much Bohn received
was not shown.
}. Bart Campbell, Washington cor
respondent o. the Philadelphia Even
ing Bulletin md the Harrisburg Patri-
ot-News, 'as admitted by Grimshaw
to have been receiving $3.50 a month.
for services to Maj. Richardson, press
relations man at the Washington Of
flee of the Joint Committee. Campbell
has been active in the press gallery
as an opponent Of the Walsh resolu-
ton of investigation, and of all pub.
lie ownership, measures.
Former Sen. Irvine Lenroot of Wis
consln, renegade progressive defeated
by the LaFollette progressiyes, was
shown TO have received $4,000 in fees
and $4,000 expenses in connection with
ms argument before the Senate com.
mittee on the Walsh resolution of in.
vestigation.
Professors come cheap, in power
trust financing. Prof. Thomas GRAY.
son of the University of Pennsylvania
was furnished" by the Joint Commit.
tee to make speeches, at 800 fee pel
speech.