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LABOR FEDERA TION ON RECORD AS OPPOSED TO ST A TE INCOME TAXProposals of Joint Legislative Tax Committee Indicates Discrimination Against Wage Earner, In Opinion of Many Local Trades Unionists; Annual Election of Officers Jan, 8,BEGINS TO LOOK AS IF WE MIGHT HAVE A NEW P. O,Certified notice of the supreme wart’s recent decision in the post office ■site controversy and denatures of the mayor end city commissioners oa a resolution agreeing to build a retaining wall as expeditiously as possible between First and Second avenues, s. R, wore forwarded Tuesday night to the proper officials in Washington.It is expected that warrnnls in payment of the First street property to betaken over by the government wUJ be here early next week, possibly bv Mon-day. When this money has bwn pafd, 'work of dcmolislung the old buildings *•111 be commenced.Bids for the river wall ure- to be opened Jan. 12 and it flte.y nre within the estimate of $86,500 a conlract will be let and work can start immediately, weather permitting. Because- o£ the unusually low stage of il«i Cedar river, a wail can be built now much cheaper than when the water is high.fr The Cedar Rap! Us Fed 3 rail on of Labor LlsL night went on record as being opposed to a sUte income tax, as proposed in a tax bill recently completed by the si ate tax bcord and .Joint legislative! tax committee.Not all delegates prr.wnt at the session were In favor ol opposing the measure at this time, some arguments bflrg offered thaL uincu rams! deration should bC given to the pro|io.?Itlon. However, those who had road and cans* folly drucsled the-proposals. declared the bill, if passed in its pnwul form, would wait drastic hards Id] w on the as-era go wage oarm*.Tills action of the Federation r*a-■fured an otherwise routine .session, r.o meeling having been lield .lines Nov. 13 lX-eauscaf the annual Federation dinr.c'r Ta.sL week,. Ur.uTral Interest centers about tl» next meeting, to be he:d Jan. 3, when nomynal'ons and ♦■‘ectlnn nf officers for 111c coming yrar will bD the principal order Gf business. A large attendance is expected.MOitE JSAREKS AltE SIGNED UPGeo. A. Krambcrk, secretary and business agent at uakery Workers’ local No. 3d o£ Davenport. a-ddrcAK-d the meeting relalivo ti forming a bakers1Objectors to the proposed site liavGP.-e v ^30 days in which to file an objection to *H^yee5 of the. Cedacthe supreme court's decision, but it fs 1*55!? ?*kcry ^erfllnot likely they will attempt any lurtber llUt'tflon that will delay active work on this much needed improvement.FOUR APPLICANTS TO EACH EXTRA HOLIDAY JOB AT POSTOFFICEActivity in and around the post office, always considered n haremcter In regard to business conditions, although not so brisk as In previous- years, is ccmmenclng to take on the holiday aspect. Long iir.es are forming front of the stamp wiiMknvs and parrel post desks, but extra servke in the-lobby avoids the possibility ot congestion, so patrons with bundles du not have to wait very long.Postmaster Hahn's biggest task is to make 300 applications for jobs fit into *0 ptaces. He has about four applicants for every vacancy caused by the holiday demand . for extra helpers. Great care is being exercised, he says, to give these jobs, so far as passible lo heads of families wliiS are rHit of work-.All work in the Cednr P-ipkis post Dfficc will bo suspended from midnighl Dec. 24 to midnight Dec, 23, with the exception of special delivery servke ■and fhn retention of sufficient number of employees to make regular holidayI Oil a rlicn-iti-l-or nf nl. [.weeks ago and Mr. KrambecL announced thal workers In Ihc Sanitary bokocy were signed up yesterday. Pending the organization of a bakers’ local here, theso memberB will bo afflllatrc with, the Daveuixirt union. HD urgclt;! his hearers to demand the unloa label on thclr bakery purchases.-Willard llayca, who Us in charge o: public recicatkmal activities In Codm Rap'.ds, urged membcra or the Federation to taka an active interest ant part In the playground movement. Hi paid tnbule to Harry Ainsworth, \thi died suUdtmJy this -week, as having betj one uf ihc chief prorr.oter.5 at Twibgh league baseball. Mr. Hayes offered ti install a Victrola and somo recoils fu I ho use of thc^ic who frequent Labo Temjdu. Ho suggested that indoo games nlso be started and it Is lil«5; that some- of his excellent, Ideua-wiH b put into effect through fbe entertain nwm comm in dc.Many congratulations and words o praise were slowered upon Delegat F. W. l-ur.dcjulst axul his committee fn the splendid bucccss of Ihc Fcdtratk): dinner IesI week. A tola! of 934 place were prmfrfed. for which that rnaa tlckeLs wera »ld. A resolution c .thanks uLso will be ^eut to members lt;tlw Woman’s 'Rureflu Tor their able as slsisnre in putting ths affair over,Adjjuramcnt was ryjt made until 1 o'ckkic.
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Cedar Rapids Tribune
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Fri, Dec 19, 1930
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