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Show i MUST THEY PAY FOR A JOB? An issue is before the state of Oregon that will be common to each of the 48 states. The voters of the city of Portland have approved postwar projects involving the expenditure ex-penditure of millions of dollars in public improvements which will afford employment and opportunity to the boys returning from the armed services. The question is now raised, Will the veterans of World War II be forced to join labor organizations and pay for the right to obtain postwar employment on public works jobs financed by taxation? In other words, when the taxpayers tax-payers authorize a public expenditure, will that mean that a substantial percentage of such money must be allocated to organization dues, rather than to the improvements for which the money was voted? Veterans who risked their lives to perpetuate individual liberty, may well resent restrictions at home that force them to pay for the right to earn a living. |