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VOL. XXI. No. 33
Washington.—Despite heroic meas
ures to escape taxation, Americans
war rich have lost their fight to have
the surtax, or extra tax on large in
comes, cut in two. The president en
tered the fight for lower surtaxes, but
nearly 100 members of his party rer
fused to follow him.
In a letter to Congressman Ford
ney, chairman of the house ways and
means committee, the chief executive
said that while he favored a 32 per
cent surtax, he believed 40 per cent
would be a fair compi-omise.
The present law provides for a 65
per cent surtax. The house ^hanged
this to 32 per cent, when it passed
the new revenue bill. A country-wide
protest, that was especially strong in
the west, forced the senate to raise
the figures 50 per cent. When the dif
ferences reached the house, that body
ignored the president's letter and ac
cepted the senate's figures by a vote
of 201 to 173.
In ui'ging the 50 per cent surtax
Congressman Sinnott, of Oregon,
showed the reason for the propaganda
for lower taxes on high incomes. The
32 per cent surtax of the house, he
said, made little differences to in
comes of $75,000.
But when you get to the man with
an income of $100,000, he said, the
saving is $2,730 under the 32 per cent
tax.
"When you get to the man with
$1,000,000 a year income he is sav
ing $174,730 under this proposition of
32 per cent.
"How can you justify such discrim
ination?" asked the law maker.
"There is no material reduction in
taxes by the house surtax rates till
annum, when the reduction is $2,730
you reach an income of $100,000 per
for $150,000 incomes the reduction is
$12,730 for $200,000 incomes the re
duction is $22,730 from this point on
the reduction is startling, being $274,
730 for $1,000,000 and $1,594,730 for
a $5,000,000 income.
"Oh, they tell us that this surplus
money, these earnings of the man
with a big income like $1,000,000 a
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COMES CUT IN TWO
President Harding Entered Fight on Side of Rich, But
Nearly 100 Party Members Refused To Fol
low iHim
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$25 SUITS OR
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A present of Roger Bros. Silverware given FREE
with every suit or overcoat DOLLAR DAY.
REMEMBER!
Our Presents Are Free.
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you one. Ask the clerk
for it.
Men's Wool Worsted
Suits $4.00 value.
Dollar Day
Men's and Boys' Heavy Sweater
Coats $4.00 value. ^2 QQ
Dollar Day
Men's Wool Flannel Shirts-—
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Boys' Corduroy School Suits—
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securities.
"Did you ever try to find out from
the treasury department in the last
syc months what has been the increase
over prior years in the purchase of
non-taxable securities by men having
an
income of $66,000 and over?
"If you have, you have received no
information. They have had six
months to produce these statistics—
3ix months to go over 12,000 returns.
There is a presumption of law—I do
not wish to invoke it here—that he
who suppresses evidence suppressses
it because-it is against him. Sena
tors and representatives have written
to the treasury department for this
irrformation and it has not been forth
coming."
CLOSEjblOOLS
If We Don't Want Men to
Think, Says British
Employer
New York.—"There are some of us
who believe that industrial unrest is
a reflection upon the ability of em
ployers," said B. Seebohm Rowntree,
British manufacturer, in a speech in
this city.
"So far as I can see the only prac
tical way to eliminate industrial un
rest is to seek out its causes and re
move them.
"If we want our employes to re
main servile, then we must close our
schools. Schools teach men to think.
In England they are think furiously."
The speaker said that there are
thousands of English families in
which the wage earner is not earn
ing sufficient money to maintain his
dependents under ordinary conditions
of decency and comfort, although not
a penny is wasted from year to year.
He said it was with a sense of deep
shame that he saw long lines of idle
workingmen' in Great Britain holding
out their coin boxes in the streets for
assistance, because these lines were
made up of the same men who fought
in France to save their country and
civilization.
DOLLAR °H SATURDAY
Seventh ANNIVERSARY SALE
Hundreds of Dollars' Worth Roger Bros. Silverware to be given
away FREE with every purchase of $10 or over.
$12
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$3.50 Men's Wool Ribbed Union
Suits sizes 40, 42,
$4.00 Men's
Dollar Day
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Union
$1.50
Imlrpante-
Dollar Day
$2.50
Dollar Day
Men's and Boys'
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shawl collar.
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JQollar Day .......
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$27.50 SUITS OR
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And with a beautiful present FREE, DOLLAR
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$40.00 SUITS OR
OVERCOATS
A beautiful present FREE, DOLLAR DAY.
$1.00
44. Dollar Day
$2.00 Men's
Dollar Day
for
Winter Caps
$1.50
Soft Hats
$1.00
$1.00
Day, 2 garments for
Shirts—
Men's Wool Flannel
Worth $6.00.
Dollar Day ...
$3.50
$10.00 Boys' Dress Suit.
$6.00
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Boys' Corduroy and Cassimere
Pants—Dollar
Men's Heavy Ribbed Union
Suits sizes 34 to
46. Dollar Day ...
$2 50
$1.00
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$3.00 Men's Black Ribbed Union
Suits—Sizes 36 to
40. Dollar Day
Boys' Worsted
Sizes 6-8-10.
Dollar Day ...
$2.50
Men's Heavy Fleeced Union
Suits—$2.50 value.
Dollar Day
75c Men's Heavy Ribbed Shirts
or Drawers—Dollar
$5.00 Men's Dress Pants—
Dollar Day .:
Workingmen with Shrunken Incomes, You can get Shrunken Prices at
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By Charles M. Kelly
Strikebreaking is to be made a
permanent government function un
der the direction of the department of
commerce through an organization
that has been perfected by Secretary
Herbert Hoover.
Through the recently created feder
al emergency organization for the
movement of necessities in case of a
strike, the whole power of govern
ment and the business organizations
of the nation is to be turned against
workers who are compelled to resort
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PLANS TO CRUSH LABOR
WERE ALL COMPLETE HAD THE RECENT THREATENED RAIL
ROAD STRIKE COME TO DEFINITE ISSUE-EXCUSE
WAS TO BE "FOR PUBLIC'S PROTECTION''
Permanent Nation-wide Strikebreaking Agency to Function Under Direc
tion of Department of Commerce Through Organization
Perfected By Herbert Hoover
to extreme measures in defense of
their interests. At the head of this
organization has been placed E. G.
Montgomery, as assistant to Chairman
Hoover. C. C. Stetson is executive
secretary.
The federal emergency organization
will maintain itself in skeleton form
permanently. It will be ready on
short notice at any time to state just
what areas are short of food or fuels,
and to direct the proper necessities
to the districts threatened with short
age.
The former food administration is
to be recruited and incorporated into
his government-controlled and gov
rnment-financed strike-breaking
agency. Chambers of Commerce,
manufacturing associations, civic or
ganizations, private detective agen
i ies, corporation police forces and
state political machinery will be used
under the direction of the central au
thority at Washington.
Lists of potential strike-breakers
will be made and corrected period
ically, that they may be available in
an emergency. Should a strike hap
pen anywhere in the country, the ad
ministration would bring into play
the organization in the particular dis
rict affected, with the justification
that it adversely affected the move
ment of some necessity, as must in
evitably happen when industry is tem
porarily halted when a dispute be
tween employer and employe reaches
the strike stage.
In close touch with the national or
ganization will be state bodies divid
ed into numerous districts. Some of
Mtese state organizations have already
been formed, notably in New Eng
land where an association of govern
ors forms a skeleton organization for
emergency relief.
With each district organization are
several divisions, formed on the ba
sis of commodities, among them the
following: Breadstuff division, meat,
livestock, dairy products, fruit and
vegetables, coal and oil. A strike
involving any of these commodities
would immediately bring into action
the proper division, which is expected
to be thoroughly familiar with the
strikebreaking resources of the dis
trict represented by it. This simpli
iies the work of the general govern
ing body.
One of the most important divisions
is that of motor transport. Had the
October 30 strike of railroad workers
taken place trains of motor trucks
would, according to officials of the
department of commerce, been in ex
tensive operation the following day.
The federal government, where the
strike was pending, placed orders for
thousands of flanged wheels, of stand
ard railroad gauge, for the equipment
of government army motor trucks, the
plan being to place them on rails for
the transportation of commodities.
Thousands of motor cars distribut
ed to the several states "by the war
department are to be re-equipped for
strike duty, many of them being pro
vided with standard flange wheels for
U3e on railroad trucks. The motor
transport section is expected to main
tain a complete classification of these
trucks, with stich information as will
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make it possible to requisition them
instantly for service if the govern
ment finds it necessary to break a
strike of workers.
Through the National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, and support
ed by leaders of Detroit industries,
automobile men jumped at the oppor
tunity to demonstrate the effective
ness of motor transportation in com
parison to railroads. They were
eager to prove their means of trans
portation in a time of test.
The federal organization maintains
close laison with the war department,
which has both transports and sup
plies available for distressed areas,
and with the shipping board, which
can reach most of the populous cen
ters in the country.
Among enlisted men and officers of
the army are thousands of trained
automobile drivers, and they are to be
detached to strikebreaking service in
the event the civilian organizations
are unable to recruit the necessary
number of strikebreakers. The ship
ping board also can supply several
thousand workers when there is need
of them.
Cities in which regional head
quarters are maintained include New
York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, San
Francisco, Washington, Aberdeen,
Seattle, Atlanta and Kansas City.
One of the aims of the organiza
tion is that of being prepared to keep
the public informed regarding avail
able supplies, of preventing panic and
discouraging hoarding. For example,
it was prepared—so Hoover's assist
ants claim—to assure the public that
had the railway succeeded in operat
ing 20 per cent the government would
have been able to supply essential
commodities for an indetfinite periodc.
In case of complete stoppage, the
towns and cities outside the dense
areas were to be secured for at least
60 days without difficulty, while even
in the dense areas, which include New
England, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi
ana, and Illinois water and motor
transport facilities of the government
were said to be sufficient for a 60
day tieup before hardships set in.
This emergency organization was
the "ace in the hole" frequently re
ferred to by government officials dur
ing the late strike talk. Secretary
Hoover, realizing the potentialities
of the former food administrations,
started to recreate it just as soon as
the strike order was issued, and feels
that he would have been ready for any
emergency. He liked his plan so well
that he has determined to maintain
it as a fixed adjunct of the federal ad
ministration.
Officials of the department of com
merce are willing to admit that they
have comprehensive plans for hand
ling strikes, but are not willing to go
into details. They desire tov leave the
impression that the object in view is
the protection of the "public," from
the adverse affects of strikes, but the
close co-operation they are getting
from business organizations justifies
a suspicion that in operation the ma
chinery that has been built up is for
an entirely different purpose.
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Washington.—The A. F. of L. ex
ecutive council made the following
declarations on the armament confer
ence at its quarterly meeting, held
in this city:
"Resolved, that the magnificent pro
posal for the reduction and limitation
of naval armament, laid before the
international conference on limitation
of armament by the American delega
tion on behalf of the government and
the people of the United States, be
indorsed in most emphatic terms and
in relation thereto the following be
adopted as expressive of our convic
tions upon the issues as they stand:
"The American delegation spoke
for America in proposing the whole
sale destruction of war ships.
"The American delegation spoke for
America in proposing the absolute
cessation of warship construction for
a period of 10 years.
"America is unitedly in favor of
these proposals.
"America, we believe, is willing
and ready to place its full trust in
the methods of democracy and in the
efficiency and integrity of democracy.
"America, we trust, will continue
on the inspiring course laid down at
the outset by its delegation, for whom
Secretary Hughes was the spokesman,
and will, on every point, take tthe
same lofy and advanced position,
transcending, if possible, the note
which was struck on that first mem
orable day.
"We record the position of Amer
ica's workers, for whom we speak, as
Blue
Green
Brown and
Red
WITH VERY BEST WISHES!
ORGANIZED LABOR THROUGH A. F. OF L. EXEC
UTIVE COUNCIL LENDS HEARTIEST AP
PROVAL TO PLAN FOR SCRAP­
ING BATTLESHIPS
Declarations Further Hope For America Leading The
Way for Permanent Accord Between Na
tions Assuring Everlasting Peace
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tiful fur trimming and flexible
leather soles. Colors, black and
^rey sizes 3 to 8.
MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S
Cozy Comfort Slippers
$1.50 values
89c
Colors: Six
different
Delight the kiddies with a pair of
Xmas Leather House
SLIPPERS
Romeo or Everett Style
$2.50 values
$1.79
—These are rare bargains and
make ideal gifts. They come in
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PROFIT
New York. Milk dealers who
forced their teamsters on strike be
cause of wage differences, are making
6 cents' profit on each quart of milk
instead of one-half cent, as advertised
says President Sterbinisky, president
of the Milk Drivers' union, in an. af
fidavit.
The strikers demand court action
against the milk dealers, who are
charged with monopolizing the deliv
ery of milk. The affidavit says milk
dealers not only admit they have a
monopoly of milk distribution in this
city, but boast that "85 per cent of
all milk distributed in the five bor
oughs is distributed by them."
Now Ready For The Holiday Shoppers
$100,000.00 Purchase
Consisting of Holiday
Shoes and Slippers
Called East by a manufacturer of Holiday specialties
cur Mr. Cohen closed this gigantic deal for spot cash. Real
izing we have only a few weeks to dispose of this enormous
-tock, we have marked prices lower than actual cost.
$2.00 values
$1.00
—Beautiful in ail
the wanted colors and styles,
with painted color designs.
Colors: Pearl, vermillion, old
rose, blue and China blue.
Come early for these as
supply is limited.
styles to
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being in absolute accord with the ut
most degree of disarmament, with the
utmost effort to destroy the machin
ery of war and to make unnecessary
and impossible the appetites, the jeal
ousies, the rivalries and the intrigue
that lead to war.
"And we trust that America will
blaze the way even beyond considera
tion of the armaments of nations and
the rivalries of nations and will seek
to bring them into some permanent
accord which will be organic and defi
nite, to the end that there may be
made possible those necessary recur
ring adjustments and adjudications
which are vital to permanent har
mony between peoples and nations."
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