Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1937, Page 7

PRESIDENT MUM ON LEWIS, STRIKES He Refuses Any Comment on Reported Break With C. 1. d. Leader. Reports that President Roosevelt has broken off relations with John L. Lewis do not need comment, in the opinion of the President. This was made known at a press conference yesterday afternoon, when the President declined to be drawn into a discussion of the steel strike commander-in-chief ~ or sit-down strikes. Asked if he indorsed the recent statement of Secretary Perkins that sit-down strikes are unsuited to America, the President declared he had not read her views. He also said he had not heard of a report that a Senator had presented to the White House a suggestion for bringing together the Committee for Industrial Organization, headed by Lewis, and the American Federation of Labor. The C. I. O, which seeks to organize all the workers in each industry into one big union, is under suspension from the federation, whose leaders favor unionization by crafts. Mr. Roosevelt has not commented publicly regarding the steel strike since he criticized “extremists” on both sides with this quotation from Shakespeare: “A plague upon both your houses! Meanwhile Labor Department sta- tistics disclosed yesterday the number | of strikes beginning in April was about | 25 per cent lower than in March, when there were the most strikes of any | month in 20 years. D. C. Taxes (Continued Prom First Page.) imum prices for resale of trade-marked commodities. On examining the completed re-| draft of the bill today, McCarran said he did not like collection of a sales| tax on meals served in restaurants. | He said he thought the committee | had voted to exempt all food as well | as all medicines and clothing. In its | present form the bill would not exempt food consumed on the premises where prepared and purchased. Nevadan Sponsored Sales Tax. ‘The Navadan. whose task it will be to guide the measure through the | Senate, sponsored the special land tax | of $1 per hundred of assessed value, which was coupled with the sales levy | in the rewriting of the House bill. When that time does come, it is expected the revenue bill, designed to meet the District's impending $7,000,- 000 deficit, will have to come up by unanimous consent in ordr not to dis- plac th court bill, and that means that if a long fight on the District measure | ghould develop, those in charge of the | court bill could call for the regular order, which would again sidetrack | the tax program | Even if the various tax changes | made by the Senate Committee are voted on promptly, there is danger | of a controversy developing over the | ‘Tydings amendment. Meanwhile, the District Government gradually is using up its available | funds, and the date is approaching | when the Commissioners should fix | the property tax rate in order to give the assessor's office time to prepare | the ledgers and bills for September payment. i The rate on real estate and tangible personal property, however, is one of | the issues unsettled in the tax bill with the House and Senate commit. tees advocating differént propositions. | Real estate, which already bears a | major part of the city's general fund requirements, would produce $2,500,- | 000 toward the $7,000,000 deficit under the House proposal to raise the pres- ent tax rate from $1.50 to $1.70 on land and improvements. The Senate eommittee has thrown out that propo- sition and adopted an entirely new system by placing a rate of $2.50 per $100 on all land, whether improved or unimproved, while retaining the $1.50 rate on improvements. This will require property owners to put up $4,- 800,000 of the total required to meet | the deficit. The Washington Tax- payers’ Association has appealed to the Senate to reject this heavy real estate burden. Restaurant Meals Taxed. Details of the sales tax amendment became available yesterday afternoon, | showing that meals served in res. taurants will be subject to the 2 per eent tax. Food not consumed on the | premises where prepared, however, will be exempt, together with all clothing and medicines. All alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, candy and confectionary would be subject to the tax. Gasoline, on which there is an existing special tax, would be exempt from the sales tax. Representative Bigelow, Democrat, of Ohio, one of the House single tax advocates, late yesterday renewed his indorsement of the Senate plan for | imposing an additional tax of $1 per $100 of assessment on land value. His views were contained in a 1,000-word statement, which follows, in part: “Commissioner Hazen thinks $25 a thousand, which the Senate bill puts upon land value, is too high. I don't think it is high enough. There are two reasons for keeping the tax on land values high: (1) To discourage boosting land prices by speculation, and (2) to divert to public use some of the unearned increment which at- taches to land because of Govern- ment services and other social ad- wvantages. P “But no such reasons exist for taxing buildings. You can keep the price of land down by taxing it, The more you tax land, the more you lower its selling price. But just the reverse is true of buildings. The . more you tax buildings, the dearer they become. That is elementary economics. “The House bill makes for high Trents, because it reduces the tax on Told Him it was his wife, and she told him the truth. But she didn’t say he had “bad breath.” Instead, she said, “My dear, you need E-Z Tablets.” A hint to the wise is sufficient. Don’t wait for some one to tell you. If you feel sluggish, headachy, dizzy or bilious, due to con- stipation, you may be quite sure your breath is telling others. Get a pack- age of E-Z tablets today. At all good land and raises the on buildings The Senate bill makes for low rents, because it raises the tax on land value and lowers the tax on buildings. The House bill is bad economics. The Senate bill is sound economics, as far as it goes, and it would be gratifying if the Senate committee really knew what it was doing, which I doubt. If the Senate committee really knew how right it is, it would have the courage to stick to its position. But I'll bet & sour little apple that the vacant land speculators, and the unearned increment swipers—that is, the owners of the land avea at the city's hub— will knock off that $8 a thousand net which the Senate committee added to the land. value tax. It is just too good to be true, that that much intelligence can come out of this Congress. “When we tax land we do what we do when we come into a crowded street car and find that the only available seat is occupied by a fellow who has sprawled over two seats. We say to the fellow “Move over, please!” That is the economic justification of taxing land. It helps to keep people from hogging what others need. “But buildings are on an entirely different basis, because their nature is different. When you tax a building, in effect, you say to the builder: “You shouldn’t do that! You shouldn't build buildings. It is a bad thing. We tax you for it. We wish to dis- courage building.” But the bitter joke is that we don't tax the build- ing, or the owner of the building, we tax the fellow who has to rent buildings. “Absurd as this is, it is Commissioner Hazen's idea of taxation. Here are two lots of equal value, side by side. We tax them equally. But Commis- sioner Hazen notices that the owner of one lot had put up a building. That irks Commissioner Hazen. He can't endure the idea that a man who has done something good for the com- munity should get away with it. ‘Catch the culprit and fine him with a tax!® Tax Dodging Charged to U, S. “The land of the Federal Govern- ment, not the buildings, but the land should be taxed according to its value, as privately owned land, and a 4 per cent tax on the total| land value of the District would meet all public needs without any | other forms of taxation. The United | States Government is the biggest | tax dodger in the District. It is escaping taxes on over $300,000,000 of land value, for which the District | Government has to furnish public | service free. If taxation were as I propose, the Government would be | contributing its 40 per cent which the | law says it should contribute, but | the contribution would be made in the present form of a tax on the Government land value. “The Senate committee’s bill fis| a start in the right direction. If you cannot see that all land value | is socially created value and that its full accrued value should be taken for public purposes, then at least take enough of it to keep specula- tion down and recover for the com- munity a part of the values created by the community. And if you must or will get revenue from other sources, it seems to me that one general in- come tax should take the place of Mattresses—Box Springs Pillows — Studio Couches Bedroom Furniture. 1215 22nd St. N.W. | with Glover's Medi- THE_EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1937 e e D Ay VLI by O like. After all, all taxes-are paid out of income. Why should they not be levied according to income, if you must make tax raids on privately created wealth? “Then, instead of taxing buildings, the owners of buildings would be taxed as other enterprises, on their income, whether made owning buildings, or sticking pigs or being Congressmen. Oh, no—not Congressmen. You have to leave out the Congressmen. You may put salt on a bird's tail, but you can't put a tax on Congressmen, not by an act of Congress.” ~ Strike (Continued From First Page.) Truscon works. Republic's Steel & Tubes, Inc, is scheduled to reopen tomorrow. Pickets were limited to 12 at each plant gate. Nearly 1,000 troops were here to preserve order. “End of Lewis.” “This is the beginning of the end of John L. Lewis,” said H. G. Ellison, Upson superintendent. “They'ss never get these men out on strike again.” To which B. J. Damich, fleld di- rector of the C. I. O.-affiliated Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee, re- Pplied: “The attempt to reopen Republic was a complete failure. When the public realizes only the foremen and bosses are in the plants it will insist that the military be withdrawn.” Pressman, at Canton, Ohio, asserted in a formal statement that the Ohio National Guard “has made itself a veritable army of occupation” in the ©Ohio sector of the seven-State strike, launched May 26 for signed bargain- ing contracts. “Men, women and children have been beaten, homes raided and searched,” declared Pressman. “Picket lines are raided daily and attempts made to coerce the men into going | back to work. | “The statements of strikers reveal ! & state of brutal terrorism.” “Violently Lawless Acts.” The attorney said he based his | assertions upon a two-day investiga- | tion conducted at Canton by Joseph Kovner, another C. I. O. lawyer, in | which *‘over 100 persons were inter- viewed.” ! “While Gov. 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Clifford Townsend at Indian- apolis and said: “Our position is unchanged.” “Not Signing Anything.” The Governor disclosed he had suggested three possible avenues through which reopening of the plant —employing between 8,000 and 7,000 men—might be affected. Townsend said he proposed that the State division of labor act as arbiter; that the company, the workers and the labor division each name one member of the Mediation Board; on that the company and workers each name one person, the two to name a third to comprise a board of three. “Our plant at Indiana Harbor,* said Argetsinger, “will be reopened at such time as our employes and their families are afforded adequate legal protection. We are not signing anything with anybody.” Fire Signal Like Crackers. CLOUDCRAFT, N. Mex. (#).—Four buildings burned in this little South- west mountain resort because resi- dents mistook the customary alarm for firecrackers. 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