Proceedings, Public Ownership Conference, Vol. 14

Download or read book Proceedings, Public Ownership Conference, Vol. 14 written by Public Ownership League Of America and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings, Public Ownership Conference, Vol. 14: Held in Chicago, November 15, 16, 17, 1919 in the Congress Hotel At these conferences the League endeavors to bring together the leading authorities, students, specialists, managers and experts in the field of public utilities and natural resources for the discussion and consideration of these vital subjects and for the formulation of a non partisan, educational organization for the advancement of the public ownership and democratic control of public utilities and natural resources. Its object is to secure the the efficient operation of public utilities already publicly owned; just and reasonable conditions for all public em ployees, and the public ownership of additional public util ities and natural resources as far and as fast as it can be made practical. Collects, classifies and disseminates information on public ownership; conducts an Information Service; as sists individuals, organizations and cities in a strictly non partisan way in public ownership campaigns; a corps of speakers and writers and a press and publicity service, and publishes bulletins on various phrases of public own ership. (a list of those so far published will be found on inside back cover.) The League also publishes a twenty page monthly magazine, The People's Voice, devoted to public ownership and allied subjects and to the work of the League. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.