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...years experiments have been made in an effort to devise an automobile engine which could use fuel oil, rather than the more refined product, gasoline. Mitten Management, Inc. (operating buses and taxicabs in Philadelphia) has developed the "gas generator," has tested it on 20 buses, traveling 300,000 miles of hilly country. Last week Mitten Vice President J. A. Queeney said that he was ready to use fuel oil in 600 buses, 3,000 taxicabs; advised all U. S. bus operators to use fuel oil if they want to save $50,000,000 yearly...
...triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Cleveland, President William B. Prenter presented a financial proposal from Mitten Management, Inc. This corporation, headed by Thomas Eugene Mitten and his son Dr. A. A. Mitten, has been remarkably successful in operating street cars, motor busses, taxicabs and a bank in Philadelphia, also a street car line in Buffalo. Their plan has been to permit employes to share in the management, investments and profits of their enterprises...
Within the Brotherhood conferences in Cleveland last week criticism developed against the Mittens' proposal. Learning this Dr. A. A. Mitten telegraphed: "The apparent impossibility of there being a sufficiently unanimous accord of the convention in approval, prompts us now to request that the proposition ... be now withdrawn." Said B. of L. E. President Prenter: "Other plans preferable to the Mitten project will be brought before the convention...
...going out of office with the most hearty contempt not only for the morals and the intentions but also for the minds of the gang politicians of Pennsylvania. . . . Any machine must include a body of the lowest politicians, such, for example, as the Mellon machine in Pittsburgh and the Mitten machine in Philadelphia, men who depend for their living and their power, on liquor, crime, vice. These are the men the magnates buy. These are the men they protect from time to time against the revolt of honest citizens who would otherwise destroy them...
Last week, when informed by the Congress of American Industry at Philadelphia that the U. S. was facing "a crucial condition" in its "social, political and industrial life," Mr. Mitten produced a solution, explained it to the Congress...