The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 11

BY CARL D. THOMPSON (Secretary of the -Public Ownership League of "America.) INE HUNDRED AND 8| FIFTY delegates, repre- ~senting 25 states and Canada, attended the public ownership confer- . 5 ence held in Chicago, No- .vember 15-17, under the auspices-of the Public Ownership league of Amer- ica. From the states of Washington and California on the western coast, to Massachusetts and New York on the east; from Louisiana, Alabama and Tennessee in the south, to North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana +in the northwest, delegates and rep- resentatives appeared to take part in the program and deliberations. Aside from the program of the con- ference many matters of vital impor- " tance and of nation-wide significance were handled. For example, a joint session of the exéecutive committee of the Public Ownership league and Grand President Warren S. Stone of Secretary Carl D. Thompson of Pub- lic Ownership League of America. the Railway Engineers, Timothy Shea, ,grand president - of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and Glenn E. Plumb went carefully into many matters in which both leagues are in- terested, and after consideration ar- rived at a unanimous agreement on all important points, -and submitted the following resolution to the general conference, which was unanimously adopted: = . “That the Public Ownership league of America indorses the general prin- ciples of public ownership embodied in the Plumb plan for railway owner- ship and control of railways with such modifications as may be deemed wise and necessary.” Other resolutions were unanimously adopted on the public ownership of street car lines, gas plants and other municipal . utilities, on the telegraph and telephones, and on the conserva- tion of natural resources, in each case going into great detail. Other resolu- tions on the restoration of civil liber- ties were also adopted. = - President A. M. Todd, in his open- presented an interesting discussion of public ownership of public utilities in the United Statés and Europe. Mr. Todd has made four or five trips to Europe, during. which he has studied the utility problems in all of the lead- ing countries there. In the course of - his address he presented a most in- teresting collection of photographs of the various utilities that are publicly -owned in these various countries of Europe. ; : . The 'secretary of the league, Carl ~ Public Ownership Records Gains Governor Frazier of North Dakota Big Figure at Recent Chicago Conference D. Thompson, presented a detailed re- port of the work so far done by the league. James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of La- bor, thrilled the audience with a most stirring address, in which he told why organized labor was for public owner- _ship and described the industrial con- dition resulting from private monop- _ oly in the Pennsylvania steel districts. Duncan McDonald, himself a miner, spoke the same evening. with equally telling effect for the United Mine Workers. Unfortunately, neither Thomas Kennedy nor John Brophy of the United Mine Workers were able to be present on account of the pres- ent strikes. Next in interest and equally inspir- ing was the splendid gathering at which Lynn J. Frazier, governor of North Dakota, spoke on the “People’s Movement in- the Northwest.” The Nonpartisan league was: represented not only by its most noted official, but . also by Walter Thomas Mills, perhaps one of the most stirring speakers of the entire conference. George P. 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