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Show V, THE Thursday, May 28, 1959 SUN-ADVOCA- An Open Letter from the Steel Companies Coordinating Committee to the President of the Steelworkers Union Price Miss Awarded Scholarship by Utah Dietetic Group Miss Anice Blanc of Price has I been awarded a scholarship by the j Utah Dietetic Association, according to word received by Mr. and Mrs. Martin Blanc, Sr., parents of the young lady, who were informed that their daughter is the I I first Utah State University student ever to receive this scholarship. The award was presented at the Spring meeting of the association held in conjunction with the convention of the Association of Western Hospitals in the Jade Boom of the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City May 6. Delegates from all the western states attended the convention. Miss Blanc is a senior student! at the Utah State University in Logan where she is majoring in dietetics and has served as student chairman of the Agathon held on the campus of the university May 7, 8 and 9. The Agathon is an educational fain sponsored by the college each year. The Price miss is also currently filling the position of president of the Newman Club, a Catholic organization for college campus students. She has been accepted to serve her internship at the Mayo Clinic and at St, Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, Miss Blanc is a graduate of No- - j tre Dame school here, attended Mt. St. Gertrude Academy in Boulder, Colorado, and Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa, before en-- 1 tering Utah State University. negotiations began, you have been trying to mislead the public about the red issues in the wage negotiations you are carrying on with us. Ever since weekly advertising distorts facts and tries to sidestep the job we have to do. Despite what you have been saying in print: , Your KNOW YOU that the public, as well as your own member- ship, is greatly worried over inflation and the high cost of living and does not want the outcome of these negotiations to make in- a KNOW YOU that profits vary with the amount of business, and that when business and profits go up, steelworkers are better off. flation worse. KNOW YOU YOU KNOW that inflation is not a fictitious monster created by the American steel industry, the label you applied to it at a Utah Property Tax Burden Average On National Scene .'. recent press conference.- YOU Utah is an average state with respect to its over all relative property tax burden. This conclusion was reached by Utah Foundation in its latest study on the property tax burden in the j nation. According to the Foundation's report, Utah ranked 28th in the nation in the amount of state and local property taxes collected per capita during 1957. The property tax burden was equal to $71.12 per capita in Utah, compared with $75.15 per person throughout the United States and $81.12 per per- son in the eight Mountain States. The report observes that a large part of the property tax burden throughout the nation is paid by business and industry. In Utah, 56.9 of the total property tax bill last year was paid by owners of commercial and industrial property. Because of the large mining valuations in the state, commercial and industrial property comprises a substantially greater proportion of the total property tax base in Utah than is the case for the nation as a whole. As a result, the relative tax burden on noncommercial property in Utah prob--1 ably Is somewhat below the national average. When property taxes are re-- 1 Mated to personal income, Utah ranks 20th among the 48 states, according to the Foundations study. Property taxes in Utah were equal to 4.47 of the states personal income. Throughout the 48 states, property taxes were equal to 3.98 of the nations total per-- 1 sonal income. In the eight Mountain States, approximately 4.68 of the personal income went forj property taxes. Foundation analysts point out! that among the Western States, the relative property tax burden is highest in California and Montana. On the other hand, the property tax is used least in New Mexico and Washington. Washington, however, currently imposes the highest state sales tax in the nation with a rate of -- I I 4. In Basic Training Billy G. Hales, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl D. Hales, Price, is currently undergoing the first cycle of basic infantry training at Fort Ord, California. He is training as a mechanic with the Ninth Battle Group of the Third Brigade. Upon completion of eight weeks of training "and instruction, he will go to advanced infantry or other specialized training before being as- signed to a unit. I KNOW that the dollar today is worth only 48 cents, compared with 1940, because of the inflation which you pretend' is not a problem to anybody. that profits are essential to provide new and improved tools of production - hence maintain and provide jobs for. steelworkers and to pay stockholders for the use of their KNOW YOU - - money. that U. S. Department of Commerce reports show that since December 1958 for the first time in modern - imports of foreign-mad- e steel are greater than the history amount exported (your latest advertisement implies just the posite). KNOW that the basic issue before us is steel wages and other employment costs - and what will happen next to peo- YOU ples dollars - - if wage-pus- h inflation continues to spread. that steelworkers are already earning an aver- age wage of $3.03 per hour, and that the cost of the employee always 'less work for many bers of your union because American steel with its high costs can- ' i not compete with low-co- st foreign steel. NOW is KNOW that the steelworkers average wage and benefits are already higher than those of almost all other workers and that their advantage has increased greatly in recent years. In wages alone, average hourly earnings in steel are now 84 cents per hour above the average for all manufacturing. how do WE know that YOU know these things? Here are three good reasons: 1 one of the above facts and figures is a matter of public record. . Every 2. In' your own union convention last fall, members of your org anization publicly boasted, We have the highest industrial wages in America. 3. An official report at that same convention stated that approxi of your members owe their jobs to exmately one-seven- i YOU that there KNOW benefits paid by the companies comes to 57 cents per hour more making a total of $3.60. YOU KNOW . 4 YOU YOU KNOW that steel wages and benefits have increased th ports of metal and metal products. much faster than the cost of living. KNOY that the 288 percent increase in hourly steel ten times the 30 ployment costs since 1940 has been nearly YOU em- per- cent increase in shipments per man'hour. YOU man-ho- ur KNOW that the 30 percent increase in shipments per results largely from about 12 billion of dollars spent by steel companies from 1946 through 1958 in modernizing their and equipment. Certainly the investors are entitled to an plants additional return on additional investment. the use of invalid comparisons and other We say to you distortions of fact to produce misleading impressions will only make it harder for both sides to do our job as responsible citizens. Our job is to reach an agreement in the best interest of all conan agreement that will help to curb inflation and help cerned make more jobs. That is why we have proposed continuing the present high level of wages and employee benefits, without change, for an- other year. THE - STEEL COMPANIES KNOW that steel profits as you have been telling the public scale since 1950. far from being fantastic, have been on a declining Avenuo York 17, N. Y. 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