Show ::S""-i3Pfec58fe7vaa:: a Friday Morning CTIjc Suit £akt itribunc July 10 CIO AFL Join in Demand Tax Exemption jScnalor Urges For Factories Need to Boost For AiiXT aft Wage Hike Draws Criticism Silver Increased Output Mayors Say Practice Robs Cities of ‘Rightful Revenues’ CrP) CIO and AFL presented — The labor-manageme- nt “tax-exemp- t” — ‘ — sur-round- two-poi- 60-ce- nt - SPECIALS STRAW i2 PRICE S129 C property is tax exempt’ other industries n Will Help War Says McCarran NEW YORK July 9 UP)— Mayors of cities representing every secjoint demands for wage increases in the aircraft industry Thurs- tion critithe nation conference — cised the federal Thursday for day to a government-sponsore- d government demands which representatives of both sides estimated unofficial- building plants for on the at a of least mean boost $125000000 would annually private industry ly — Mayor F H LaGuardia of New Pacific coast alone chief of the war production board's York and other municipal execuNo definite figures were availstabilization branch said the dis- tives held that this policy denied s ed because military secrecy involve some 1250000 to local governments a rightful cussions the total number employed employes in the source of revenue and thereby arcraft factories Refutable present orin future all parts of the coun- multiplied their financial problems S ' nt e? agreed that the total prob-i- d industry that wage The executives representing the try The CIO demands y would be higher nation-wid- e conference of advisory board and A spokesman for Paul R Tortcr increases be made Labor’s actual demands range trustees of the U S conference from a minimum of 95 cents per of mayors met at the call of hour for unskilled trades now re- Mayor LaGuardia president of the to $160 conference ceiving 60 cents per hour for skilled workers now receiving The conferees adopted a mini$152 The present program designed to ease mum however is not in effect for the financial burdens of the muContracts nicipalities which were described more than a month with all plants provide for boosts as approaching a critical stage unof 5 cents per hour at the end of der the impact of war each month until a minimum of A mayoral committee was ap75 cents is reached three hours pointed to seek a change in the Peak o’ the Season after an unskilled worker is hired federal government’s policy with The bulk of the employment regard to the tax status of war total is in the unskilled classifica- plants erected with federal funds tion and to oppose plans of the treaswith the wage ury department to eliminate the Simultaneously of Stock Our Complete demands made by the CIO Unit- tax exemption provision of mued Automobile Workers and the nicipal securities AFL International Association of Asserting that “there is not a HATS Machinists the CIO issued this city that is not on thin financial statement: ice” Mayor LaGuardia said that “If the results of this conference relief from their immediate and was up to do not provide the necessary re- pressing problems lief then the U A W-- I O vie’ws Washington with alarm the reaction of the airLaGuardia called “unfair and a little below the belt the tendency craft workers” to give federal color to private It did not elaborate Reg $195 Summer The conference called by the enterprise to evade local taxes” “The government builds a plant government hopes to stabilize wages to meet increases in living it is government owned and thereMESH SHIRTS costs since the last general indus- fore exempt But it is unfair for try rise a year ago and to prevent the government to collect its taxes to possible migration of employes and then turn around and say ‘This from one plant to another or to the municipal government ” LOS ANGELES July 9 Juniors’ Misses’ Women’s Cool Refreshing New Mining Estimate Increases Would Total SI 25000000 on West Coast Seek Floor" of 95 Cents an Hour nt RENO Nev July 9 UP— Declaring that silver is often produced as a of strategic metals such as copper lead and zinc Senator P A McCarran (D) Nevada suggested Thursday that the government could encourage increased mining of the strategic metals by fixing the price of silver at not less than $1 per fine V by-prod- V L v A ounce Not V only would the increased price of silver as a encourage greater production of strategic metals he said but it would meet a heavy world demand for silver itself in industry and as currency The Nevada senator chairman of a subcommittee of the special senate committee on silver is in Reno making arrangements for a silver conference here July 16 and 17 Other conferences will be at Salt Lake City July 20 and 21 and at Denver July 24 and 25 Purpose of the meetings he said will be to take testimony from mining men and mine in- vestors in order to develop a policy to recommend to the senate finance committee in connection with its study of how to encourage increased silver and strategic metals mining OIL L$1 Ss ct ORIGINALLY $ 595 to $2500 EACH V ’Vi W W-- j rrfV - y 30 60 70 30 20 1 £ Tests of Plants Fail to Yield Quick Rubber WASHINGTON July 9 (Pi-A- fter many months of intense investigating and experimenting ag- riculture department plant specialists and engineers have about concluded that there is no quick easy source of' natural rubber to replace supplies cut off by the war Departmental studies ghave been directed at such ing plants as guayule cryptostc-gi- a Russian dandelion goldenrod and rabbit brush DRESSES DRESSES DRESSES DRESSES DRESSES $395 Peak the Season ? 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