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12/7/43
"I think that's true, and it constitutes a large part of our problem. ”
Asked what the Commission had done and was doing to pro¬ tect and help American interests in the matter of present and future communication facilities abroad, he declared that it was "promoting the merger. "
"How many and what companies would be included in the merger?" Senator Wheeler asked.
He named Press Wireless, Inc. , Radio Corooration of Amer¬ ica Communications, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Inter¬ national Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, adding that the merger would also cover a "few others".
The witness said there was some question as to whether or not Press Wireless should be included because it wasn't a commercial concern, its object being to transmit news for the press.
Commissioner Wakefield dismissed the present charges against the FCC of exceeding its authority and of lack of confidence in the Commission as "unrest", much of which had been "manufactured" by opponents of regulation and "deliberately promoted by the press in its reports of radio news in newspapers and magazines. "
He agreed that it might be well to define more clearly the powers of the Commission, but not to limit them beyond the boundaries fixed by the 1934 Communications Act, which, he insisted, had never been exceeded by the Commission.
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WLB RULES ON POSTAL EMPLOYEES SHIFTED TO W.U.
The War Manpower Commission has ruled that former employees of the Postal Telegraph Company, now merged with the Western Union Company, cannot be considered as laid off, discharged or otherwise involuntarily separated from employment when transferred to the pay¬ rolls of the second company. Such employees are not, therefore, en¬ titled to statements showing their availability for new employment.
The War Manpower Commission ruling is based upon the fol¬ lowing facts:
1, The rights and benefits of all transferred employees are securely protected by the terms of the merger. The change of employer is, hence, a technical one which in itself does not affect the worker.
2. Shortages of employees in the telegraph industry which Is part of the essential communications services industry, have caus¬ ed the quality of the service to deteriorate dangerously.
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