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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. OCTOBER 2. 1936. LANDON-TI- IE CANDIDATE OF WEALTH AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGE (Continued from rage 1) the powerful reactionary figures by of Pennsylvania, such as former Senator Joe Grundy. The Buffalo speech was a plea for relief for the Mellons, the oil magnates, the great steel Interests, and the whole crowd of corporate structures whose hoarding has been interfered with by the tax on corporate surpluses. $80,000,000,000 to $39,500,000,000, and has been raised under the New Deal to more than $00,000,000,000. National debt has a direct relation national income, and under the New Deal the national income has risen so that our national debt has begun to go down to. a decent ratio. On National Debt The governor of Kansas, in his reference to our national repeated Reason to Oppose debt, hopes that we will be stupid If Governor Landon intends to enough to infer that it was all inrepeal the tax on corporate sur- curred during the last three years. plus, then labor has one more He does not dare mention the mighty reason to stand as a unit devastating fact that the Roosevelt against him. We have waited for administration inherited the stagthe governor to develop issues. sum of $21,000,000,000 in Thus far he has wandered around gering national debt when it took office. among the daisy fields of platidoes tudes. His Buffalo speech came not The governor of Kansas this debt the mention fact that nearer than any other to touching had to be added to the present by real issues, and we find the Kansas because of the record projected into the presiden- administration left by the previous Retial candidacy. Here spoke the oil ' wreckage administration. The govman. Here spoke the man who has publican ernor of Kansas describes as starved the Kansas schools so that waste the spending necessary to more than 900 Kansas school us back on our feet. Does he teachers are on relief, largely sup- get as waste the relief of milregard plied by the federal government; lions of unemployed who stood in and whose salaries, when there is a the ever lengthening bread lines of job, average just a few pennies the previous regime? Does he reover $37 a month. Here spoke the gard as waste the great projects most unenlightened voice in Amer- of national improvement that will ican politics today. be of lasting benefit to ourselves The Landon program ould en- and to our children? And, finally, trench corporate special privilege does he regard as waste the behind larger and stronger bulthe federal government warks than it knew even under allotted to Kansas at Governor Hoover, when the national income Landons own hysterical imporwas plunged down from a former tunities? Is it a question of con to $448,-000,0- 00 structive help in Kansas and waste outside Kansas? Kansas, although ranking 24th in population, ranks 15th among the states seeking and obtaining federal appropriations in the last three years. Record in Kansas Here is the wasteful federal record in Kansas, from March 4, 1933, to June 30, 1930: KANSAS Loans Closed It. F. C .....$ 11,079,457 Farm Credit. Adm. .... 142,001,906 Com. Credit Corp. 1,009,567 Resettlement Adm 3,717,149 II. O. L. C. I. W. A 33,643,893 5,604.460 Total $197,056,422 Loans Insured Federal Housing Administration Title I $ 2,113,462 Title II 6,156,007 Total Loans Closed and Insured $205,325,891 Grants, Allotments and Payments $102,056,598 Agri. Adjust. Adm Resettlement Adm. 1,101,377 C. W. A 11,989,424 F. E. R. A Emer. Conserv. Work.. Bureau of Public Roads Social Security Board.. 43,32(7, - P. W. A. 867 12,606,605 32,079,597 80,959 16,479,526 Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 23,151,972 Total $242,872,925 Grand Total Grants, Loans Closed and Insured $448,198,816 Balanced Budget The above figures draw a very 3 simple truth. It is that Governor Landon deluged Washington with telegrams, letters, and calls begging federal money on the plea that his people were in dire distress. lie now denounces those who look to Washington for aid. It is this very federal aid that long-distan- ADULT EDUCATION ce Classes in sewing and handi- craft have been added to the free adult education curriculum at the Irving high school, 1179 East 21st These classes will meet South. every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 7 to 9 p. m. The free classes in vocabulary building and the study of the short story and modern poetry, which were held in the committee-rooof the Public Library last year will be resumed this coming week in the same place, at the following hours: Monday, 10 to 12 a, m. and Saturday 2 to 4 p. m., short story analysis and construction; Friday 2 to 4 p. m., poetry appreciation and poetry writing. Vocabulary work is a part of every class. Advanced mathematics algebra, geometry, trigonometry, will be taught in the assembly room of the Sprague Library, 2131 South 11th East, Friday from 7 to 9 p. m. has brought about Governor Landons budget balancing of which he so frequently boasts. I believe that one of the greatest arguments against the Landon candidacy is along this very line of budget balancing. When a man, as governor, balances the budget of his state and has 17,000 people in his own county either on relief or jhome I without means of self support, and these people receiving almost all of their aid from the federal government instead of from the budgeted state, there is something very wrong. The condition prevailing in Governor Landons home county prevails generally throughout the state. Surplus Tax The Revenue Act of 1936, containing the corporate surplus tax Master Salesman of which Governor Landon complains, was expressly designed to apply evenly the principle of taxation according to ability to pay. Workers Under This Label Are: This means the ability of the very TAXPAYERS rich to pay as well as the rest of OWNERS HOME us. Heretofore the very rich, with their money largely invested in GOOD CITIZENS corporations, found an easy means SKILLED WORKMEN of avoiding taxation according to THE BEST CUSTOMERS ability to pay. For instance, under the Hoover regime, neither J. I. REQUEST IT ON YOUR Morgan nor any of the incredibly NEXT PRINTING rich Morgan partners paid any inORDER come tax at all during the years on 6) (Continued page m I Tie MJU Just Before tbe November 3 Election On October S3 Mot will print ta tie -- a unique Souvenir IPii?60DE,Sisr and , iv i T f 44 X ' f . I I v''s' , . '' s - ' .. M v- EflStJ3na This edition will bring you complete details covering the coming Presidential election, with pictures of the leading candidates and officials in the Democratic Administration, as well as photographs of the officers of Lan bors League. There will also be some new cartoons depicting the issues in pictures . snappy Labor will be interested in.the edition, for the reason that it will give a review of Labor Legislation that has been sponsored and enacted into law by the Roosevelt - .. 4 Non-Partisa- r - v-- - 1 vl r. VV v. i .. A 9 S y V a; , s .X U '- - Administration. 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