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CONNERY CARRIES ON IN CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Although Congress adjourned three weeks ago, Represent¬ ative Connery (D.), of Massachusetts, was still carrying on his campaign for a Congressional investigation of the Federal Communications Commission and the broadcasting industry this week in the Congressional Record,
Extending his remarks in the supplemental issue of July 5th, Representative Connery lauded the activities of Commissioner George Henry Payne and derided the Special Committee named by the FCC to investigate monopoly practices and chain broadcasting.
"The House of Representatives, in the closing hours of the session, did vote against a Congressional investigation of the radio monopoly only after positive assurances on the part of the House leaders, that the Monopoly Investigation Committee, with $500,000 at its disposal, would make a thorough investigation of the radio monopoly, and that the Federal Com¬ munications Commission would hereafter function in the interest of the people rather than in the interest of the radio monopoly", Mr. Connery said.
"The recent Congressional disclosures, revealing the deplorable conditions prevailing in the Federal Communications Commission and the influence of the radio monopoly will, to my mind, however, plague Congress until a real Congressional investigation is made and the proper remedial legislation enacted, unless the radio monopoly is soon broken up.
"The Commissioners alone as a body and their individual' acts as Commissioners have made possible the present radio monopoly. There are some who would if they could, lead us to believe that the 'mess' which Chairman McNinch a year ago pro¬ mised to clean up, is due to employees of the Commission. Only those too cowardly to assume full responsibility for their own official actions ever resort to such a subterfuge.
"A few days ago, while attending the hearings before the Rules Committee on the resolution calling for a Congressional investigation of the radio monopoly, I was astounded when I listened to some who but a few weeks before had been quite vociferous in their demands for a Congressional investigation of the radio monopoly respond most graciously to the whinings of Chairman McNinch, who, in 1 Charley McCarthy* fashion, danced to the music of the radio 'Pied Pipers' , as he did in 1928 when he deserted the Democratic Party to support President Hoover.
It was laughable to listen to Chairman McNinch plead for an op¬ portunity for the Federal Communications Commission to investi¬ gate its own activities.
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