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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 21, 1939 Page 8 ITS NOT THE TAXES . I (Continued from page 1) comes in excess of $20,000, would be imposed under the pro-- . visions of the bill. The following figures indicate the steeply I I graded surtax: SLOT MACHINES IN UTAH 6 percent tax on incomes above $1000. I its of foreign corporations Wall Street corporations The following editorial appeared I 10 per cent tax on incomes $3000 to $5000. in the March 30th issue of the Mil please. 30 per cent tax on incomes $5000 to $6500. lard County Progress. Because of These are profits taken from the natural resources of Utah ound and comnonf sense phil- its 50 and from the sums paid by Utahns for services by public utili per cent tax on incomes $6500 to $8000. 7 per cent tax on income, $8000 to $20,000. ties, chain stores, etc. 93 tax cent on incomes above $20,000. per The author of the article is C. D. It is estimated that more than $100,000,000 leaves the As stated by Senator Bone, corporations woul State annually, never to return. It is this that hurts the State 15 per cent on net incomes not in excess of 2 more than anything else. i , per cent or tne i Delta, Utah. va ared 25 incomes not I The legislature, which recently on cent net corPorations, Isnt it time to do some tall figuring and start building per ,uc, value and 100 per cent of net adjourned, flirted a little with the Utah in a way that will keep the profit, here for the benefit of !" eIceM. ot 6 Per ,cent I incomes in excess theicof' 'lot m' question of th Use Utah people and Utah in,titution.) chines in the state. Some of the Th- - lair would go into effect as soon as Congress declared lawmakers wanted to kick them out a state of war to exist and, according to Senator Bone, would I entirely while others wanted to put on Jbem, as a means of in make it possible to "pay for the war as we go." Senator Bone a AC U l "mOV' the inccniivc ff . and thereby aid m preventing war. about it. When we speak of slot The Senators who have introduced the bill are as follows: I Jchines we have reference to all .Senator Bone (Wash.), Clark (Missouri) Vandenbenr fMi-h- ilnJwh,ch the Player Put a coin I in the Editorial Typographical Journal) Uan) Barbour (New Jersey), George (Georgia), (An Had the manifesto quoted herewith been written by Stalin (Honda), Ashurst (Arizona), Bilbo (Mississippi),' Brown of skill, chance or amusement or and had it borne the seal of the U. S. S. R. it would still have (Michigan), Bulow (South Dakota), Capper what not ,Tliey are all the same, (Kansas), Chavez Salt Uke is full of machines which been cause for much serious reflection upon the part of free (New Mexico), Clark (Idaho). ; p American, accu.tomed to exercise the right to expre, un-- 1 (North Dakota). Gibson (Vermont), Gillette (Iowa), Hill eame,' nothin's the ,tau I I political hampered (Alabama), Holman (Oregon), Holt (West Virginia), Hughes out of them. There seems to be opinion. . . That it emanates from an American labor organization (Delaware), Johnson (Colorado), La Follette against the lever (Wisconsin) 80me. prejudice which early and late loudly acclaims its advocacy of the prin- - Lee (Oklahoma). Lundeen I1?0111163 and that may be due to (Minnot statement Enunciates in unmistak-- 1 Mooney (CtnecticuO.MurralMoiftantOwy (Wesf Vir- - I ionedfC aSlet Anyxvay theyre lookedon joerey em era cn8tl uen 8Ubordinate bodies of Igima), O Mahoney (Wyoming), Pepper (Florida), Reed with suspiciony some of the en- eAem.s he Federation of Labor must and must not "erase (Kansas), Reynolds Carolina), Russell (Georgia), W111 the Utah legislature was the right of franchise should arouse a feeling of distrust and Schwartz (Wvomine (North Shirvu-a- ri Q in session and quibbling on the suspicion in the minds of thousands who have pledged allegi- - Jersey) 1 - T110"138 nncssee)(Oklahoma), Tobey subject the North Carolina legis ance to the organization issuinc the edict (New Hampshire), Truman (Missouri), Van Nuys (Indiana) lature was working on a tax bill to The order m no sense may it be construed a request or a Wagner (New Wheeler (Montana), Wiley (Wiscon-- . finance a 15436W spending York). plea is addressed to national and international unions, as well sin), Gurney (South during the coming Wen- Hatch Mer.Vn and a. state federation, of labor, city central bodie, and directly af-- 1 (Iowa). H'rrmN;um, a, one of the mean, to Dakota) North rt aid m this sum it licensed bill filiated local unions, and all are threatened with extinction as IT,' ha, the support of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. aI1 sl raising or machines re- playing functioning affiliated bodies if they fail to comply with the terms gardless of the name with a tax of the promulgation. schedule set out as follows: Machines that cost less than five cents When by a stroke cf a pen elected officers of- a labor to play, $10; less than 10 cents, organization may disfranchise entire affiliated unions and all $20; less than 25 cents, $50; less members thereof simply because political viows dissimilar to than 50 cents, $100, and $1 or those espoused by the A. F. L. Executive Council are enterAnd North Carolina more, $500. was one of the only two states in tained, means only one thing democracy in that body has the Union which voted against the ceased to be one of its cardinal principles. i hat Vtah repeal of the 18th Amendment. onf OUr Judge for yourself by reading the mandate quoted below: Regarding the operation of the ,.ot mining standpoint. How- - playing Washington, D. C., March 1, 1939. ev there is no moral To National and International Unions, State Federations of 9uestln r how long Utah will remain in its presen differencemachines Labor, City between with a Central Bodies and Directly Affiliated Local Unions: predominant position is a question worthy of the deepest con lever, and those with those a but button, Dear Sirs and Brothers The Executive Council of the American sideration. when to blue enforce you laws go Federation of Labor at a meeting held in Miami, Fla., recently, di- Mining in the Wet 'Tas W.,n centunes ago by the Indians, there is a wide range as to which rected me to communicate with you calling attention to the fact that I . should be enforced and which the Labors Spaniards coming into the southwest by way of Mexico should be overlooked. League is a C. I. 0. organiza- tion and is in no way regarded as a labor organization by the Ameri- - contmued the working of old mines and opened up some new The playing machines are not a can Federation of Labor. The Executive Council regards it as a purely ones. menace, but in reality are devices for amusement in which the player POhlBecaursftnhrAmerican Federation of Labor follow, a Axlertcans the amusement he likes discovered the pays asforsome political policy and formulates said from time developed policies just play pool beto time as circumstances warrant and conditions easily found deposits of minerals. "The country was cov cause they likepeople require, I am writing that kind of diverkod from one end , ,he other by eager prospector,, and by sion, but the pool halls pay this a 'liXIp.rti,rLen,,e7',C':CPti"B nembershi cense tax for the right to operate. f was If any American Federation of Labor Unions, central labor bodies sTncT fh?n The slot and marble machines ?y,nf qULantl"'s or state federations of labor have accepted membership in Labors Non- - discovered the ce. though more all kinds of machines which and the Partisan league they are directed by the Executive Council to imme- - lnense and backed by a much greater scientific knowledge, has likes to public generally resulted in very few discoveries. At the same time the earlier amusement and diversion play for diately withdraw and sever all connections with Labors should be taxed. Tourists especially like diaSUThe American J Federation of Labor cannot submit to the forma- - reerJeY hLTome CeV'I!pm'nt nT,0r version of this kind when making lation of its political policies by C. I. 0. organizations or and expensive. Many short increasingly other any stops in passing through the older discoveries which had not been worked because of state. political organization. Central bodies, state federations of labor or fed-- 1 This should be a source of cral labor unions which refuse to carry out these instructions sent by the low grade or of revenue for the state as well as for ODened then complexity Executive Council, subject themselves to the revocation in the hopes of Z he towns and cities which wish to finding increased valueslJ of their ?fihe for insubordination to the eeper strata, laws and rulings, principles because the them. of the American Federation of Labor. metallurgist had discovered less expensive smelting lave We have many laws in the state methods. By Direction of the Executive Council, hat are never enforced and no AmeriMnFedertrtion of Labor. Some of these operation, have been successful, but made to enforce them. We many fall'd- - Much of thi, work ha, been done m"lcaa FeHeratn Lab.or-,- . by small group, of lave a special statute which says, cha m men GreenVlerter Jh Pj t! organized eompanie, and sold stock to raise the Any person attending a theater, ,mf n.l.,n'J. f opera house or an indoor place of C"t,fCa,e Pe0pI' ,h took a gambler. amusement affiliation" thal is as a spectator shall to iLZIPPP unions. chance and lost more often than not. headgear tending to obstruct With the arrival of thq depression the difficulty of rais- the view of any other person. Any ing funds to put into expensive exploration work has been so person violating the provisions of section shall be subject to a great that operations of this type practically ceased. The death this fine of not less than $1 nor more blow to this method of exploration was dealt the Federal than $10 for each offense. This by Securities Acts outlawing the sale of stock without known law could easily be enforced be- property values to back it up. Thus, the development of new cause it would not be dificult to obtain evidence sufficient to conore bodies by speculation has ceased. Forty-nin- e Senators have joined with Senator Bone of vict. It is violated daily, but it is The prospector still exists, but due to the fact that the doubtful Washington in introducing a bill which has for its purpose to tax if there i3 a case on recthe profits out of war by steeply graduated income and other more obvious mineral deposits have all been found, his chance ord where anyone has ever been of making a worthwhile discovery is prosecuted. taxes in order to provide for effective national defense, to practically proo fact ca,se that no one else is developing new ore mote peace, to encourage actual neutrality, to discourage war .bodies it has become an absolute WHY THEY profiteering, to distribute the burdens of war, to keep democnecessity for the large to spend huge sums of money to carry on development REMAIN DRY racy alive. i he entire burden and work, expense must be borne by these UnIjkle,.f,aLier mislabelled "war profits" bills, notably the another Thus, Sheppard-Hill-Ma- y item has been added to the mining companies. bills, this measure does not include the war cost sheet Onjy three Dry states remain. and the cost of mining again rises. . department s mobilization plan for universal draft and governMississippi remains dry because ment control of industry and labor in wartime. Instead of set- ,Wlth these rising costs the mining companies have insti- thevhites, who are the only voters, tuted sound business methods and eliminated, so far as want to keep the Negroes from tl"LUPja d!ft5tor8luP,m,wartime. the bill concerns itself only possible, all the wasteful methods ofhave liquor. Oklahoma remains the past. Yet this is not getting a tax schedule calculated to remove all because of of the survival there dry hope to the future of the industry. In addition there of the enough insure war profiteering. western frontiersmans likA normal tax of six per cent on all individual incomes must be a spirit of wholehearted cooperation between capital ing for a good joke. Kansas reand labor. Their objective is the same, and dry just because its Kan0V anSer80nal thar.methods of mains of $50- - Plua $500 for a spouse, sas. St. Louis that reaching should be objective the same, for their very lives plus $100 for each dependent, together with steeply graded depend on it. The sooner we realize this the sooner the persurtax ranging from ten per cent up to 93 Opinion is a medium between per cent on net in manency of the industry will be assured. knowledge and ignorance. Plato. 1 .c J 1 1 f. war'll 'd Downed - I L hetLtx ESfJ"'' I 1- so-call- ed Non-Partis- an non-partis- non-partis- -3 enterhfatetl'1 an an I w"1 so-call- ed "'"w I Non-Partis- I aa I I X I ef-o- rt 1 tut re-mo- ve Fifty Senators Introduce Bill To Tax Profits Out of War non-existe- nt. com-pani- es Post-Dispatc- h. -- |