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Show Formerly The Utah Statesman SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1959 VoL 13; No. 44 Lee Win Is Moss Loss t - $5JX) per year Big Labor Shows Muscle Hoff a Gives GOP Edict i Sen. Bennett Queries, J. Bracken Lee Answers 15c per copy - By Politix Well Rule Or Ruin It was' a bad beating for U.S. DETROIT (COPE county) Jimmy Hoffa, president of the Senator Frank E. Moss and the g Democratic of the party Teamsters Union, has laid the plans for a purge of 56 House (Part VII of Action Survey) left-win- in Utah --the election of Conserva- members in the 1960 elections because they supported the new tive J. Bracken Lee as mayor of of face reform the labor law in Salt Lake City. Labor And only those who know what Big opposition. being marked for the Hoffa was really behind the desperate He intends to develop a purge because of their support effort of the Moss clique to take powerfpL national political acf the Landrum-Griffi- n bilL The over City Hall in Utahs capitol for the purpose, ist named 54 Republicans and tion machine city realize how very bad the beatwill finance the and purge with two Democrats from 23 states... ing was. At stake was a position of con- a $3,340,000 annual fund taken With COPE and Hoffa's big siderable influence and patronage. from the dues of 1,672,000 memunion working toBRACKEN LEE If Bruce Jenkins, a Moss disciple, bers of the Teamsters Union, transport gether to "rule or ruin", politicould have won, the junior U.S. of Hoffa the told a Your statement six which you Senator would have been on his cal observers noted, the I960 meeting say is the most fundamental point way to complete control of the Central States Conference of the election could be weighted in connection with this whole pro- Democratic party in the state. Teamsters here on November 3.-- heavily in favor of the Demoassumes if eliminate that you gram cratic party even before the Expose the income tax that you will then Slim Victory are eliminate a strong pressure group The man who defied the U.S. presidential It was an open secret even bewhich fights to keep waste and ex- fore the primary that George Senate Rackets Committee dur- chosen. travagance out of government be- Hatch, radio and .TV impressario, The Teamsters' monthly maging its expose of crooked dealcause they are being directly ef- who is credited with master-mindin- g the High Command o: azine identified among the fected by money that is being the , 1958 ings by J4Q5.gliriitvjctory..in.i the Teamsters Union, disdosec Congressmen it intended to detaken from their pocketsr And that Senate1 race and who managed the if we take away the income tax you Jenkins next year: , campaign, wanted to. be that he would be "perfectly feat will greatly weaken this opposition national committeeman. S. California willing" to .work with COPE, to waste. Let me point out two political education Committee of Gubser (R), Gordon L Mcfallacies in your thinking. In the Envy the AFL-CIfirst place, the Congress of the despite expulsion Donough (R) and Edgar W. Calvin the incumbent, Rawlings, AFL-CI-O J. Heistand (R). Colorado United States authorized the .withwas slated Moss fpr the dis- of the Teamsters by the holding tax, which is another un- card. In the by in 1957. Edgar Ghenowefh (RX first place, Rawlings, constitutional law because the Minnesota Odin Langren a popular figure in Democratic poliAt least one of the U.S. SenaConstitution guarantees that the tics Thomas B. (R). Missouri nationally for more than 20 tors who voted for the Lan-drugovernment cannot make anyone secis In a the conservative. years, Phil work for the government without Griffin labor reform bill Curtis (R). Nebraska first compensating them for their ond place,1 Brigham E. (Bob) Rob- will receive the personal attenWeaver (R). services. And yet the Congress has erts, Rawlings law partner, ran of Hoffa in the purge efOklahoma Page Belcher forced every employer to collect against Moss in the 1958 Demo- tion Senatorial In cratic the (RX primary. fort Hoffa supported him In Oregon Waite? Norblad this tax at a considerable expense Moss has always en- 1954. third place, RX without and annoyance compen- vied Rawlings prominent position Texas vSenator (Pat) McNamara sating them for this service. By of influence Bruce Alger (RX with Adlai Stevenson, withholding this tax, rather than Henry A. Dixon (R. Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, (D, MfchJ cannot escape re- Utah forcing the employees to pay the and of other the bigwigs party. sponsibility for a bill destruc- Washington Jack Westland government direct, the government tive to Labor," Hoffa told his (R), Catherine May (R) and has cleverly, kept the working peoSees Clover followers, "1 personally will Walt Horan (LR); Wisconsin ple of this nation in the dark as Moss has never cut much of a to the amount of tax they are payWillian K. Van Pelt (Rb campaign for McNamara's deing and has made it possible for figure in state, let alone national feat" Wyoming ' Keith Thomson the government to get money from Democratic circles. But with a naa new tional state committeeman, Meanwhile, in Washington, (RX the workers which they never could get if the workers were com- chairman and various other party D.Cw two days later, the TeamRepresentative H. Airbus' pelled to pay at the end of each bosses taking orders from him, sters Union listed 56 House Dixon JR, Utah) had already year, as is the normal and consti- Moss would be in political clover. GOP announced would he not be including tutional procedure. As in previous articles in which we are endeavoring to reply to statements from the United States Congressmen and Senators who are opposed to the people's right to vote upon the repeal of the Personal Income Tax Act, we continue our fourth, article replying to Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R-Uta- SENATOR BENNETT 6. My next question concerns what I believe is the most fundamental point in connection with this whole problem of the income tax, and I hope you will give it careful consideration. As you have said many times, there are too many pressure groups asking for increased spending, and too few pressure groups opposing spending.' But what' pressure Congress does get in favor of economy comes mainly from people who oppose spending because they hate tax increases. They see waste in Government and realize that the money that is wasted is coming out of their own pockets. Therefore, they try to elect people who will vote for economy and a balanced 'budget When you take, away the income tax you greatly weaken this opposition to waste, because many of these people will no longer feel so directly involved in government spending. Instead of coming out of their pockets, most of the money will come from deficit financing. Now, you and I know that deficit spending is Just as bad as any other kind, and that sooner or later the bills must be paid, either by more taxes later on or by printing-pres- s money and the resultant inflation. But (Continued on Page 4 CoL 1) Why do the bureaucrats n- eglect when after your their ects, detail they go more of money for pet projbut when you .demand tax reductions same the bureau- crats insist on itemized Lee ..state-M-r. meats as to where, what, why and how much? h). J. nominees . Charles O, m- ' members, Leader Charles A. Halleck, as Hysterics Privileges a candidate for I would venture to say that if you remove the withholding tax, you would have a tax rebellion on your hands by next April 15. The government has also very cleverly cut the opposition to high taxes by the big corporations and the wealthy individuals of this country by permitting them special privileges which the rest of us do not enjoy through certain tax exemptions, tax exempt bonds and special considerations in so far as expense accounts are concerned. Another way the government has bought off the extremely rich and very large corporations is through the many give-awa-y programs, including the defense program, whereby they allocate billions of to those who dollars in contracts I are on their side and penalize on Page 4 Col. 2) cor-(Continu- ed the best laid plans of mice and men oft gang a gley and Moss1 plans certainly went a gley this time. And those close to the former county attorney of Salt Lake confide that the defeat of his man, Jenkins, and the election of the y of the left, J. Bracken Lee, was responsible for Moss outburst in Cedar City the Saturday following election day. hot-temper- ed arch-enem- Election puzzle . . . Hie disparity up. Theyre running him for the between the official tally and the Senate in 1962 even before he takes Error number of people who say they over as Mayor. So emotionally disturbed was the voted for the candidat- ealmost king-makthat he made after they havewinning read the returns. Definition of a defeated cana serious political mistake in a didate: Politician who misplaced speech to southern Utah Democrats, Wonder how many 1990 votes his hope in COPE. some of them solidly conservative the Jenkins, crowd lost for the in their views. Democrats in Caibon county by Now you see it, now you dont the smear that failed? Lots of the Save .Our City Citizens Wild Swings civic pride down there. Committee' which published ' the ' Moss castigated Lee as an enigscandal sheet against Lee in the be was which to The Democrats who- did their recent Salt Lake City election. Gone ma, expected from a disciple of the knock-dowbest or worst to . keep Brack underground? or Just faded away Lee out of City Hall havent given like the Forest Dale Golf Course? (Continued on Page 4 CoL 3) 9 er , - n- ) . i re-electi- on. But, as Bobby Burns used to say, |