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Show oo- REMEDY FOR LABOR UNREST MUST BE FOUND ST LOUIS Mo . Nov 20 As a means of allaying Industrial rest, the American Mining Congrcsa today was asked to ap-a ap-a commission to investigate methods in us at plants where labor troubles suc-ceisTully suc-ceisTully have been combat trd. and to proparc r. program accepUJbe to botn capital and labor no rewiuunn was presented by C O ; Rarklt of Cle eland, o, who asserted lhr were about thirty atuh plants in the United States. Hetroactive ta lovtal&tlpn was opposed by A. T Romstert ot Wailflice, Idaho, former for-mer member of the advisory board of th- advlsor- hoard of the revenue department depart-ment of the L'nitcd States treasury, who apokc on federal Income and profit taxes as applied to mines." Enormoui Tax Burden "The patriotic taxpayer accepted the enormous burden Imposed by the tax measure of 1017 without t omplulnt." said Mr Remstert. He stood for the rev-enuc rev-enuc act of 1918 which not only Increased his annual burden, but Imposed that burden t a law enacted more thrin a year after it became effective, is it pos-thnt pos-thnt laws which have placed Luxes on practically every business enterprise so high that they hao become the controlling con-trolling factor fovcrning future operation-., ina again be change! by enacting rel:oartle legislation? Tlie niininr: bus-incss bus-incss In common with other Industries must know In advance what its tax liability lia-bility .la to be If It is to survive. Moreover, It is entitled to have Its tax liability finally fixed by competent authority within a reasonable timf "The revenue act of l'J17 was a conglomeration con-glomeration of Idcns. thrown togethi-r, it c2m. without regard for the elementary ele-mentary principles of taxation and so loosely as to require strong arm and arhltrary administration to make It workable work-able at all The revenue act of 101S Is a much better law. but still presents Its problems, especially whsn applied to mines and other so-called wasting Industries In-dustries The taxes on Incomes and profits are so heavy that we all feel, as never before, be-fore, the necessity for applying sound 1 financial methods as far as possible in i computing tax liability." |