Senators Clash Over Mellons Tax Plan And Wealthy Beneficiaries
Washington Senator Couzens challenges Secretary Mellon to a public debate on the tax bill now before Congress. Couzens, among the wealthiest, argues the plan mainly cuts taxes for the rich and would reduce capital for industry. He notes his own taxes paid in 1919 and argues the proposal would have saved him millions, while Mellon contends tax cuts free capital for employment and public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Couzens
Mellon
Michigan
Washington
Federal Treasury
Labor Legal Bureau Opens Bulletin for Labor Organizations
The first bulletin of the A F L legal information bureau has been issued after Portland and Cincinnati conventions. Director and Vice President Matthew Woll says it aims to guide labor groups with legal information and will be published as circumstances allow. It may reprint extraordinary labor decisions with opinions or brief quotes from courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. of L. Legal Information Bureau
Portland
Cincinnati
A. F. of L
Matthew Woll
Bureau
Unfair Trade War Over Minneapolis Grain Markets
The federal trade commission orders the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce to cease alleged unfair practices aimed at destroying the Equity Co-Operative Exchange and monopolizing grain trade within a hundred miles of Minneapolis. The commission cites boycotts false statements vexatious litigation and price control as methods used to hinder competitors. the order targets chamber leaders and related publishers to report compliance within sixty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Trade Commission
International Labor News Service
Washington, D. C
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
Federal Trade Commission
Grain Exchange
United States
Equity Co-Operative Exchange
St. Paul Grain Exchange
Commission
Equity Co--Operative Exchange
Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis
Co-Operative
Co-Operative Exchanges
Chamber of Commerce of
St. Paul
Omaha
Nebraska
Chamber of Minneapolis
Equity Exchange
Minnesota
Manager Publishing Company
W. F. Frasier
H. P. Gallaher
J. B. Gilfillan
H. S. Helm
Asher Howard
John McLeod
J. H. MacMillan
F. C. van Dusen
Minnneapolis
Chamber
Minneapolis Grain Trading
Northwest
Min‘neapolla
North Dakota
Bishops Call for Heavier Taxes on Rich Under War Debt Burden
The National Catholic Welfare Conference endorses a program from February 1919 that urged heavy taxation on incomes and excess profits to curb privileged capitalists. It argues war debt justifies ongoing taxes to fund the poor and compel elites to return unearned gains to society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Bishops
Grim Coal Toll Across West Virginia Counties
A West Virginia fiscal year report documents deadly and nonfatal coal mine accidents in Logan, Marion, and McDowell counties. Logan shows 56 fatal and 62 nonfatal incidents with 243,678 tons per death and 220,096 tons per injury. Marion reports 7 fatal and 8 nonfatal incidents with 475,809 tons per death or injury. McDowell records 70 killed and 74 injured, totaling 216,863 tons per death and per injury. The pattern reflects higher levels of danger in non union areas versus near 100 percent unionized Marion, with earnings averaging 1,044.05 dollars.
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West Virginia
Logan County
Marion County
McDowell County
Gompers Hailed As Leader of Labor Progress in Canal Tour
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor was cheered in Balboa stadium during a canal zone fact finding tour. He urged unity tolerance and steady evolution toward better worker conditions and defense of the canal stressing non revolutionary reform and cooperation among nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Labor News Service
Panama
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Balboa Stadium
Gompers
Canal Zone
Canal
Powerful Judicial Council Proposed in Missouri Amendment
Organized labor warns that a constitutional amendment would create a nine member judicial council with unlimited power to regulate or abolish trial court methods and districts. It could transfer cases, establish new courts, and act to favor corporations over the poor while undermining the primary system and the initiative and referendum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Organized Labor
Judicial Council
Court of Appeals
Constitutional Convention
Nash Motor Company Reports Large 1923 Profits
Nash Motor Company announces a profit of 9,280,082 for 1923 and notes an average annual profit exceeding 5,000,000 over the past eight years.
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New York
Nash Motor Company
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Mew
Labor Legal Bureau
Rug Department
Detenoath
Lion and Wilson Bleae
Ape
the Workingman's Store
High Street
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