Show washington ni N i W 9 comour FR OUR congressman AN W WK K GRANGER lice few slant on wage dispute regardless of its outcome the attempt of john L lewis to force an increase in coal wages and about a showdown on the bring tiff little steel formula lo 10 has as a deeper significance signi 11 than appears app on the s surface involved in the whole problem is in the fundamental question ot of how to eliminate inequality which exists so an far as both laborers and ad farmers are concerned the congress is aware that the inequities arise very largely from firm a faulty distribution system labor le b or is appeal appealing rog now for a re turn to a price liin levels of may Y 1942 P without calef careful investigation I 1 am not prepared to say that is the pro per ner base of fixing prices it can be sold said without hesitancy however that the fanner famer is not cult getting his last share of the increase in the cost of the products cal as reflected on retail markets As far as the laborer and farmer fame r are co concerned merric d it is obvious ural that the weakness in the structure B lies somewhere between the producer a and d the con consumer sumer ai the distribution a system the abric agric agriculture it corn committee m 1 brecto of f the rome house is a vitally concer concerned n e in th that at most serious problem in of it distribution istrin to chairman chaiman fullmer of that co committee has introduced a resolution which is now w pending before con gross gress to investigate the price spread belicen the producer and c colsum 1 er ultimately the distribution lem must most be solved to 10 eliminate easte and consequent ineat inequality lit to meantime both labor and farmer fame meantime the th 1 war has to be fought now and it A behooves both every la laborer illmer and nd every fanner famer to give careful cira consideration id before taking a any ny step that will detract from the effort f to conclude on the var or as a quickly as possible near mew pay as you yen go plan explained the much dist cussed pay Y as you questions ionI go raceme income tax quest question for fin salary and wage earners carriers only corres comes before the congress again ne next is tw k having alag aing create failed in its effort to create a pay as you go plan aitho without t an any y forgiveness the ways and means committee ii of the house headed by chairman doughton has a new plan which has the approval of the treasury dep department I 1 romant this P plan Is b briefly n efly provides thai the first two i income n come tax instill ments for 1943 that paid on M mar ar 15 and that on june I 1 15 to be paid will represent full pa payment for all 11 morine income taxes due the federal cral gov eminent for the first six months of 1943 from wage and salary earners on july I 1 the got go will cold be bc gin the collection of income to tabei from fleet wage age and sale salary ry earners at the walle source inch each wage g and ad salary ca earner caco co will have 20 per cent deduct ed from his monthly earnings thus thas a at t the end of 1943 all 1943 ta tees tace ce will da have been bee paid by the matell installments menta paid during the first ace months of 1 1943 and the pay as an you go ded deductions chions during the last V six months the 1942 income taxes which are not act COma considered dered in any payments thus bus tar far discussed will be computed on the basis of the 1941 income tax schedules w which aich permit higher ei potions and levy a low tax rate these thele 1942 1 neome income taxes at the lowis rate late are to be paid over a period of three or co four years if hov ham ever the he income taxpayer desires he may pay the 1942 ls tax x by march 1944 and id he be will ree receive ewe a 6 per cerl cent t discount on the total amount hf of that tax the plan as now proposed would mew lean if adopted that about one half of the amount of income taxes P proposed under the defeated ruml bona Z plan Z will aul be b forgiven the th new m plan pie relieves 1 all of re the ec 1 income j pa ers in the I 1 lowest all brackets a e acs from rom pa pay mg ing any tax on a jg 1942 income while 0 the congress recognizes that some nome concessions must most be made in order orde to put the wage and salary income taxpayers on a pay as you go basis the congress conga also is faced with a tremendous burden of war expense forgiving all of the 1942 taxes would have aided and abetted the afla inflationary to nary trend people had in more money to ito spend during 1942 and less goods to purchase an onomy economy of scarcity which naturally naturally forces pric prices up it must be clearly understood that thai the pay as a you go plan applies on cal ly y to the ancombe of individuals on a 8 freeda fixed wage or salary scale it does not apply ap pp ly to farmers professional men en or to private busm business efah eithel the 1 individual or the corporation whose income is not based upon a fixed wage or salary scale it must most be ae made clear also that this is not a tax bill it is a bill to set up the machinery by which individual in come taxes will be collected on a pay as you go lasse basis it is simply legislation to an implement p j arient a change in the method of collections c elections those these not included under the pay as you go p plan 1 an will pay their taxes in the same manner as th they ey pay them now on march 15 of the year following that in which the income me was earned the th news ul in brief resident the president has approved appi oved the application of the box elder coun ty se school it ool district for federal funds with which to operate and maintain a nursery school for about 40 pie school children of working war mothers at brigham city the pro joel will cost about 12 with the fe federal derill contribution to toe be about 0 00 need for protecting the health of a young workers will tee be the e keynote of may day celeb celebrations ratio through rough out ut the nation the children childr s ab bureau emphasizes that more than the 3 flau 00 0 00 boys and girls between 14 s and nd 18 8 will 11 hold full or part it time jobs this summer A health for youth auth campaign will be sponsored to 0 aid in their protection the office of rubber robb director has removed all controls over the distribution tn trib ution butin of used tire re treading recapping and repair equipment 1 OPA has ruled that shoe dealers ean cannot t hold held or lay ily shoes away for or customers beyond the end of the period in which a current war ra tion ion shoe stamp is as valid unless they receive the ration stamp samp in advance acting under a presidential order orde to get t the facts on the cost coal of hein living m the c coal mining area price ad rat r Prout prentiss las M brown has brown assigned a crew of investigators tore to at make k e an mune immediate diate check of price pric pl levels cl s and comp compliance hance with price cel ceilings h in a in pennsylvania west virginia 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