Montana labor news., 1949-08-18
Labor Continues Fight for MVA-CVA
WHAT'S GOOD FOR One IS GOOD FOR ALL;
BASIC POWER POLICY FOR NORTHWEST

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bus bar. However. and this is ex-
trcmely important to the people OF
Montana. IN the case OF Canyon
Ferry. should the Senate language
stand. a private utility. the Mon
tana Power Company. would GO
beyond the bus bar-build the power
plant at Canyon Ferry. sell the
power to the people at any cost
they desired and the net result
would be that in building the Can
Won Ferry Project. we would be sub.
sidizine the Montana Power Com
pans and seeing to it that high
rate, would very likely he charged
to those who bought the power
from this Dam. | repeat what may
be done at Canyon Ferry will. ii
allowed to stand. be done at Hungry
Horse and other projects through
out the country and the peoples
Ia make big monopolies bigger and
niuney will have been invested then
to do away with low-cost power.
The job done by the private util-
lite, on the Senate Appropriations
Committee was o good that nearly
everything recommended by them
wa, followed, The Senate Commit
tee even went 81 lar a, to recon-
mend Individually what private
power companies should be allowed
to construct, and operate the neces.
,ary transmission lines.
Montana is the local point ior
three great issues involving psblic
power at this time. The fight Is
basic 10 the future welfare Of our
State, and | intend TO do everything
| possibly can 10 see that the
peoples interests are looked after
10 the end that the Senate inserted
language in the Canyon Ferry Pro-
lect will be eliminated that the
funds and authorization for the Ana
conda line be restored, and that the
necessary appropriation be made ior
The Havre- Shelby line. The issue
involved is whether the people OF
Montana viii be forced to give over
the control oi III great hydroelec-
tric natural 10 a private
group which will inevitably exploit
il ior private profit. | shall have
more To- say about these proposals
when and ii they reach the floor OF
the House Tor consideration because
! iecl very strongly that money in
vested by the people in multiple
purpose project, should be used for
the benefit 81 all the people and
not Tor any u particular group
Ny nam interest is to build Mon
iana Ia develop our resources. to
elAe security to our people and tn
make opportunities Tor children.
The answer TO Montana's future is
~ the development OF lower cost
power because wc have in Western
Montana alone lOG OF the potential
hydro-electric power in the entie
United States. The Canyon Ferry
and Hungry Horse are only the
begInning-,he power facilities must
he authorized and appropriated to
the end that new industries will
come n and more security Tor II
people will result.
Remark, Of Hon. Wayne Morse,
senator from Oregon. in the Senate
Friday. July p. 1910.
Mr.. President, | ask unanimou,
to have printed in the .Ap-
pendiN Of the Record an editoria,
entitled The Basic Power Issue"
from the Oregonian OF Tuesday.
June u. 1910
There being no objection. the edi-
turial was ordered 10 be printed in
the Record, a, follows:
vi appropriations subcommittee
al the Senate will decide this week.
many hearings, an issue OF
policy Tor the Northwest 1t
Is whether the Bonneville Power
administration cor lis CNA success
,prl shall transmit electricity from
a iully lntegrated system TO major
load centers III Montana and Idaho.
or whether private power companies
Will be permitted TO take deliveries
at isolated dams, such as Hungry
Horse. and build their own trans
lines.
The dispute does not involve any
proposed change in distribution OF
power t. individual customers.
still would be BY private
utilities. PUBS. municipalities. RE..A
and cooperatives. IL does involve.
5. he intrrconnection OF Federal
and second. transmission OF
power 10 the big centers OF need in
Idaho and Montana.
The main light in the North
involves Hungry Horse Dam
on the Fla,head River in Montana.
but the decision on this dam will
the later decisions on Hells
Ianyon Dam on the Snake River in
Idaho and Oregon, as we'll as in
terconnections with Anderson Ranch
Dam in Idaho and others. Hungry
will be completed in 1852, a
year before McNary Dam on the
columbia. and will be the first I'M
Confined on Pace