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stranglehold on the country's
wireless and wire. facilities. In addi-
ton, the proposal is intended to facil- |
itate the battle which the monopoly
is waging against a similar British
combine for control of international
communication. Behind the radio trust
are the same men and banking groups
which control the power trust. The
disclosure of the activities of this
group into the purchase of newspa-
pers and through other forms of at
tempted influence over public opinion
can give only partial picture of the
tremendous power it already has OBJ
tanned in this field. Control over the
radio falls in With its plan.
Wheeler Sits Silent
/ When hearings were being conduct
ed last spring on bill to extend the
life of the radio commission, Senator
c.. G. Dill, democrat of Washington,
in particular, and Senator Wheeler in
a sort of sporadic back-fire method,
as is his custom, kept up an attack on
the radio trust. For time during
the present session of congress the
procedure was continued. Just what
agreement has since been arrived "a
is as yet not clear to the writer, bu'
in any event all is now still on thu
part of the great giant killers. 1t il
notable that when Sen. Norris during
his recent five-nour attack on the pow
er trust charged that the same mel
had already obtained a strangleholt
!, on the radio, both Wheeler and Dill
, sat in their seats without raising
. their voices.
J, Radio Corporation of America
At later time it will become nee
. essary to give a more detailed accoun
: of this whole matter. Here only
I. word can be said:
The radio trust consists of the Re
; dio Corporation of America, the Amer
lean Telephone & Telegraph Con
I pany, the international Telephone
: Telegraph Company, the Wrestling
, house Electric and Manufacture
= Company, the United Fruit Co., ar
/ the General Electric Company. EaC
: of these. and together they are col
y trolled by the House of Morgan, Il
~ banking group which now dominate
y, I world finance and world politics. f
4 means of some 1000 radio paten
' which they have cross-hcensed amor
= themselves they have obtained cor
= plete stranglehold over the industr
- Evidence has been spread over thou
y ands of pages of the Federal Ira,
Commission record of the illegal pra
= tees by the trust.
g The controlling genius of the who
? monopoly is Owen D. Young who
re chairman of the board of directors
both the General Electric Co., and
the Radio Corporation. Young is lik
lse wise the dominating figure of the ]
ii' ternational Paper and Power Coz
nc pany which has been exposed as see
ing the purchase of nearly one hu
e dred newspapers in every section
the country and which still contr,
about dozen of them. Last year \
Young acted as the reorganizer of
ne International Paper and Power CO
u pany.
u Young Guides Monopoly
: III In order to control broadcastil
~; Young organized the National Bro;
M casting Company which now practic
n " dominates the field. At the he
CT of the National. Broadcasting Co
pany, Young placed Mr.. Merlin
Aylesworth, one of the chief figu
in the National Electric Light AS
IN citation and head of the power tr
lobby in the United States. The ma
Tho of Aylesworth is legion on the pa
- of the Federal Trade Commission
IL posures during the past two years
e For another time must be left
r. - details of the so-called reallocat
"A plan adopted last November by
on Radio Commission, plan submit
by the engineers of the Radio Tr
Under this plan the trust was gi
almost complete monopoly over
IN broadcasting band.
re- 1t is this combine which these w
son, ly-heralded progressives, Dill
't-p Wheeler, now refuse to investigate