Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 March 1947 — Page 15

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S i x - at kets out & handker- « ‘give way. | ing against the ‘handled by a supplication has 8, stops there that it takes a i a state of e, have beautiful inging’ and take

Business—

+ New Plan t

singers straight, cept the singers therefore, is to do it at the risk ¢ 3 5 e Induced to do §

Of ‘Lean’ Years in

i rate, jomeéthing WASHINGTON, doing now. In 3 Lo suppress their x ot, I know, but greatly from year to year,

The plan has been offered by the national legislative committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which presented it to the ways and

at it's a wonder

MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1047

-Income Taxes Gains’ i | Backing in Congress ! "Proposal Backed by V. F. W. Takes Care

By DOUGLAS LARSEN «NEA Staft Writer March 24.—-Many congresemen are -enthusiastic about a new method of computing income taxes which is designed for the benefit of veterans, small businesses, and others whose incomes vary |.

0 Average

Computing Payments

means committee. Legislators who have studied it say that it might - become the G. O. P's No. 1 tax

ried it. If, for heir gowns with ould be avoided.

disputable fact program. ¢ those of bari- For want of a better name it is ls in their pants’ referred to as an “averaging ul plan.” - It would permit any tax-

payer, if he chose, to base his tax i payment on his average income : over a flve-year period, instead of forcing him to pay each year on what he earned that year: The proposal can be illustrated like this:’ Mr. Jones served a year in the ».army, and had no taxable income to report. His first’ year In civvies he started a little business; his net income was $2500 and his income tax $510. The next year

ranos, being of 0 provide them- . yockets., Which, bility of- prima ding their hands ratura wouldn't

as I thought it 1 prima donnas 's them up for

business improved; he took out $5000 net, and his tax is $1100. The third year as a clvillan

brought him $7500 net, on which

he must pay $1810. And on the ~ fourth year's $10,000—the busi- ” ness now being established and prospering — he shell out

mut lors ‘Morse, Ives $2640. ;

Taxes Almost Fourth

Hope to Hold Line| On Rubber Prices

| ‘CLEVELAND, O., March 24 (U. P.) ~Spokesmen for the Big Four

Big Four Sees Sales To Pay Wage Hike

of the rubber industry said today they hoped no price increase would | be. necessary to compensate for a $50 million wage increase granted {to 110,000 employees. The rubber = firms = Goodrich. Goodyear, Firestone and U. S. Rubber—granted their workers an 11':cent hourly wage increase ee Saturday, 24 hours before a scheduled walkout. The increasé is retroactive to Feb. 2. The raise was a compromise between the unions 16 cent demand

cents.

PALM OF HIS HAND... Stanley Hiller holds his new: coaxial Wo. place “commuter” ,

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Last of Mis Strikers Return

{P.).—The last 3000 strikers against ‘the Allis-Chalmers farm equipment

Actign Held Both ‘Tactics’ and ‘Defeat’ MILWAUKEE, Wis, , March 24 (U.

company began returning to work today after voting to ‘end the 327day walkout. " 3 More than half of the 3000 C. I. O. United Automobile Workers who are expected to return. within the next two weeks voted 3 to 1 yesterday to return to their jobs. They will not receive the 25-cent hourly wage increase, revised grievance procedures or union security. for which they struck almost a year ago. . . End Unexpected The end of the strike was suggested unexpectedly by union 'leaders, who are fighting charges that some of the”Tocal officials are Communists. A ) Robert Buse, president of the Allis-Chalmers local, explained the| switch in “tactics” this way:

plants and given to tho er who voluntarily returned during © past months, Originally, 11,500 cmplbien « {walked out of the West Allis 3 Supurian Milwaukee on April 30, | Allis-Chalmers plants in Norwood, | O.; Pittshugh; Boston; Springfield, [tur

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_helicopter i in the palm of his hand" in a Sermonsietion at Palo Alto, Cal.

Here' s Tax You'd Pay

Under Revised GOP Bill

Provides 30 Per Cent

Reduction on $1000

Or Less Income, 20 Per Cent Up to $302,000

WASHINGTON, March 24 (U.P.

speech orn the Com an cials estimated the Pi the labor During these five years he has Jany om | ee. That speech earned a total of §25000 net, and|yjion and $50 million annually. : d graduated smaller reductions philosophy, was has paid a total of $6,060 in Income |myey gid they hoped to make up| | BA x : |the amount through increased prooted to pointing Under the V.F.W.s “averaging | duction and sales.

sees in bill 360. Wagner agh by

J speech Senator $s to the Wagner nal strikes and nd the national seven members burden of cases. ir constitutional NLRB would be to enjoin either

book, it is published and makes

plan” he would average the five years’ net income at $5000 a year, on ‘which the tax would be $1100 a year. This would total $5500, and save him $560 over the period. Another example would be an author, who spent two years in gervice and then two years writing a book. During these four years he ‘has no taxable income and pays no tax. Ruring the fifth year he completes and sells the

“Pattern for Others”

creases in most other

contract of the year.

a hit, and he‘takes in $25,000 net.

L. M. Buckingham, counsel for contributions, interest and the like; the Big Four, said the settlement but without the personal exemp“may set a pattern for wage in-‘tions of $500 each for the individual, industries wife and dependents. since this is the first industry-wide have been rounded to the nearest

The C. I. O. United Rubber Work- (apply to persons under 65. The bill ers union was the first labor group | {would grant an extra exemption of | to settle last year for an 18!3-cent {$500 to persons over 65. hourly wage increase, a figure that | set the pattern for most industry. The 11'4=cent increase boosts the | Before Personal

“Net income before personal exemption” refers to total income minus all allowable deductions for

The figures

(dollar, omitting cents. The tables

|

| Net Income Amounts of Federal Tax|

| Exemption Present Law House Bill |

)—The following tables show the

| annual federal income taxes that would be paid by various individuals | and the Big Four's offer of 10|,,4er the revised Republican tax bill in the house, as compared With {ion «Indiana Business Review,” | present law. The bill provides for a 30-per-cent reduction on taxable incomes of increase would cost between $40|41000 or Jess: 20 per cent on incomes up to slightly more than $300,000,

Hog Prices Gain 25 Cents

| cents in an active trade at the In-

SINGLE PERSON — NO DEPENDENTS |dianapolis stockyards today. | price “was $217.75.

Steer, Heifer Trade Active

gained mostly 25

Hog prices Top

Steer and heifer trade - was ac-

Industry Output

Leveling Off

|, Business Strong

The Indiana university publica-

U. Index Shows

hold out till hell froze over. This is a surprise move, a tactic they | did not expect. This is not a ques- | tion of defeat. It is merely a | change of tactics designed to hreak | !the stalemate which the company has brought about. | “In taking this action to return | {to work we are not in any sense | | surrendering to the company We simply are fulfilling our pledge made in the past to our members that we would prefer to go back into the plant without a contract than to accept the sweatshop proposals which the company offers,”

“The : company * expected us to).

| today predicted a leveling off of |employment and production in the near future in many important industries.

raw material difficulties. are grad- | ually catching up with consumer demand,” the review their output may be expected to level off in the months ahead.

|terial shortages and -other factors

Mr. Buse said. Some Are Puzzled Other officials of the local “Industries which have had no| With Mr. Buse had conferred W. at Louisville, week-end,

Ky., over

stated, “and

shop” its battle for a contract increased wages,

“Further expansion in industrial operations will largely be limited to those industries where raw mahave restricted output of goods for sure of the maneuver. which there is a strong consumer demand.”

Still Going Strong

Hoosier business’ activity in general, however, is still going strong,

employed during the 101% walkout,

the I. U. out tails between our legs.”

international officers of the U. A.

said the union would “carry on in the Allis-Chalmers

“The rank-and-file, while accepting their leaders’ decision, was less

who with

the

and

“We're going back tomorrow,” said one striker who had been unmonth “and we're going back whipped. We're going back with

75 | industry in Indiana which has not

bureau index showed. February activity was only 2 per cent below the all time high peak last summer, and was 3 per cent higher than in January. The bureau said the segment of

3 | caught up with consumer demand o|is still substantial from the standpoint of employment and income.

been operating as close as practicable to capacity under present con-

review said. Pay Rolls Drop

Little expansion can be anticipat-| ed in the steel industry, which has

ditions of raw material supplies, the |

. Walkout Costly

Walter Geist, president of the company, issued a statement in which he said the walkbut was costly to everyone, and estimated that the company lost $65 million in production revenue, and the workers more than $20 million in their pay envelopes. ‘ “Everyone loses such a. strike,” {Mr. Geist said, “Particularly those |union leaders whose aim has long been to destroy the friendly relationship between the workers and the company.” Those employees returning to

In Indianapolis, the report showed manufacturing employment rose two per cent over January,

v our board was con- The present law permits him to rhe pi ny rubber workers from Uo, i i s 13| tive and strong and mostly" 25 consider the two years of writing, Th tae dest yo 3 feyoents higher. Vealers and lambs or relations in a and distribute his income over that| The new contract provides that! 3 133 33 sold at steady prices. y . g i law would | ‘the general wage scale shall be, 1,500 150 Morse sees it period. But the proposed law 2000 285 228 . tof vi . B take account also of the two years subject to reopening at the end of 2,500 380 304 GOOD TO CHOICE HOGS (455) point of view in ; : his | 120 days after the date of the agree- 3.000 485 338 Butchers pport what they 3 in the army, and let him split his 4.000 694 555! 100. 140 pounds A : in 500 | ment upon 15 days written notice 5.000 922 7371 140- 160 pound ssary to correct = $25000 five ways, paying $5 ; 934 J60 pounds ary a in all by either party.” $0 110 IN 160- 180 pounds " ¥ . , ' i - pounds ... & meptrse—— 10,000 2,347 1,878 i ad tee vote for the = Few Benefit Now : 10.008 . 231 3417| 20-220 pounds ; » 20,000 6.645 5316] 320- 240 Pound osal, they know % ‘The privilege of spreading income 25.000 238 Re 3x- 10 Pe : ; ; 50, : v h : ; ation, ’ | like this is restricted now to a few 0Ca di Ven 30,000 3 AT 300. 330 pounds al 26.30426.65 ¥ cases, such as authors, artists, in- 100.000 Sian 82 | Medium — ventors, who ok for some gs * Hh iv 308 ines avian... san and then reap their reward all a g gian war 350,000 78.2 5 Packing Sows ) 500,000 407,807 342,460 cking once. 750,000 624.022 335.8331 Good to Choice— 840,147 729,210 ot apply, as the proposed : 1,080,800 ! 270- 300 pOUNds ......ss... [email protected] 1% Sous 710k PP 3 pall Pa The award of & croix de guerre MARRIED PERSON — NO DEPENDENTS! 3co. 330 pounds ..... ...... 31.008 34.50 law wo ’ pa) : with Im by the Belgian govern | (Assuming Wife Has No Income) 330- 360 pours .........-- 23.75@ 24.50 movie and stage actors and others pa y g gove ix taco 350. 90 Fonds iarereriee 2350@ 24.25 who work every year, are paid at ment to Robert P. Koenig, president | pa Ipc, Amounts of Feder#l Tax Good— ce. but have great variations in of Ayshire Collieries Corp, was an- Exemption Present Law House Bill| 400- 450 pounds ............ n 333062490 hin bi from year to year. nounced today. 3 13:0 su + ay 0 pounds ....eeecens eSidelt Are an. the plan would pro- The secretary of war's office for- 2000 130 1331 350. 350 pounds ............ 11.50G33.00 | the British and As suggested, the plan ROWS PIO” (warded the award fo Mr. Koenig.| 230 33s Tod Siaughter Pigs woth enough to vide a FHiOVIng Sverag! ol RYT An accompanying citation lauded 4.000 589 14] 90- 120 pounds . 17.00@ 22:50 eq eotfutiundes, Sidi . i vears if. that | iT, Koenig for “exceptional war| 300 1.045 836 CATTLE (2250) na donnas with- age in the pas however he Service rendered to Belgium during 3.000 1577 1288 | choce— dn't he? Okay would reduce his tax, |the liberation of its territory dur-| 19.90 2 3338] 700- 900 pounds ............ 24.00 he : filed the previous year. | 15.000 2 900-1100 POURS “on sovvvenns 24.30031.50 hat good in the may have file P 1d ignore | NE the years 1944 and 1945.” 20,000 6.394 31151,900.1300 pounds .... Or, if he chose, he could 18 A similar award was made to| 3500 24.795 19,83 | 1300-1500 pounds nd consider only his St : 50,000 36 474 Gone arshall as Jim- ine averale 3 Roy E Dean, siatisician ' with 100.000 63138 50.502| 700- 900 pounds 22.006 24.00 | to have inspired SUFTEtit ineomne, Ayrshire Collieries Corp. "| 280.000 191.340 153.012 00100 DOBBS. rrrrirersans 32003450) Gen.’ Marshall's If the taxpayer's income should Mr. Koenig receiveg the award in| 350.000 371390 226.043 | 1300-1300 pounds .... | 32.30625.00 Ms a e has suc drop materially, by averaging in connection with his service as a| 500.000 407.485 Jeo Medium — tor ge the big the past four years he could get | colonel on the staff of Gen. Dwight 1.030.000 9 4 728,824 00-1 soo POUNDS ...orsrrsres 11.00 2.0 esult of irrev s refund. Eisenhower in supreme headquar-|,.oo = oo ocon TWO DEPENDENTS 1100-1300 _paunds one : 5 r y oh Purpose Explained ters of the American European| ...(Assuming Wife Has No Income) 700-1100 pounds iptv itn teses [email protected] = very 8% v. p. w. forces. He headed the solid fuels | Net Income “oem. © HEIFERS AON 'eague: ¢ John C. Wilismen. > the plan [€Ction and was in charge of pro-| Before Personal Amounts ot Fofors! Ta} 800- 800 pout res 33 30a2000 3 spokesman who presente D3 duction and distribution of fuels y 3300 p 4) ee Bi POUNAS +.oeirrvonns J 00 b to the ways and means ap © throughout the European theater. 3.000 190 133| 600- 800 POUNAS ..vrveesses [email protected] lity hovers over = explained its purpose like this: + Mr, Dean was a member of Mr. 4.000 380 304) 800-1100 pounds ...... virus 21.50@33. politicians, the “Veterans, as a group, will x= Koenig’ staff in the fuels section. 8.060 NL A S00- one 900 POUNAS +evrerereres [email protected] dry little man © perience wide fluctuations in their y 10.000 1862 1430] 500 900 pOUDMS +. verre rse [email protected] once. 1 haven't = incomes for the next few years of T k wh oe 13,000 3.639 2.911 Cows (all weights) and where 18 it readjustment. The present income ruc eat ¥ 30.000 3.280 A O00. ov vysxrrsxsrinshunsass 1325017 00 Assen apparently tax system is designed for persons 0.000 2111 16.289 Medium. eae i Hadi R e, when he an-, « Whose income is fairly steady from fey flour mill sa stain ae 100 00 si onal Canner SE AE rm 10.60@11. . vators are pay shel for 250, , i” > a good boy for year to year. This averaging plan r/o} fie Paying $200 per bubel (O01 300.000 237,500 180,000 | Beef — a>) will make it possible for persons to. on $1. BM, per bustiel and No, 2 white. 230.000 218.028 228,218 sod (all weights) +....... 16.00@ 170. : er bus ts test ; y 341, Sage 517 ing citizen who balance lean years with good years.| or peiter, -s3c Cer Bushels No. Y Poellow | 750,000 622.725 534.875 good errr JeUgLIw kK for renomina- “Under the present system a per- soybeans 14 per cent moisture, $3.80. 1,000,000 838,850 728,050 Cotten abd mediin rr ars 3 [email protected] 1 In the circles gon whose net income alternates CALVES (523) ho fouls: out to ‘between nothing and $10,000 will x L b - d Si I Good and choice 24,[email protected] ) ‘ Cc d medhum ........ "[email protected] starting -tomor- pay ‘about 50 per cent more taxes, ouse da or un as es Gulls (75 poundsup) iw 7.00612.00 RAL _»in the long, run, than .a ‘person _ Feeder and Stocker Cattle and Calves indeed, and we ‘whose net income, rematmns eofstant A il 4 bh ‘U Chic fs Steers” = * , and : Sno the helm, but I { at $5000, even though they both ssai e y nion ie S 300 800 pos n 0070.00 sieks right now © “end up-earning the same amount of ja pounds 50@20. [ : pe 500-800 ds. [email protected] 5 Desident wil Honey * {of Tehiliug. & Rep. Keefe Blames Excessive Spending, 800-1050 De aaa: wa 16.50 @18.50 a Mb . A recent poll of leading tax ex- . Medium*- | . | ve nn Warkare | 500-1000 pounds .....veuse.. [email protected] perts revealed that 86 per cent Payroll Padding; Denies Drive on Workers | ame pounds ; favor some system of averaging By FRED ‘'W. PERKING 500- 900 WOE Ve Steurs . [email protected] i viously y ’ . yearly earnings. But previous; rat hatars SU rite EE suggested plans have been rejected! y \guINGTON, March 24—Ths big cuts recommended by the | Shoct sorted —— Closely sorted ........

for one reason or other. "Option Idea Cited

Some experts believe that the 2 VFW plan is more workable becayse of its optional nature, because it provides a “moving average,” includes refund, and permits use of a simple short form return, { They say that the present pay-as-you-go. (Ruml) plan, with refunds, would care for most of the administrative troubles that previously have been stumbling blocks to an averaging plan, J. C. Dockery of the department of commerce’s office of small business, in an article™on “The Finance and Tax Program for Small Busihess,” has urged the desirability of an averaging plan ‘for businesses

ect

elf - without the y also indicated ntial to the deevent there was

, are leading Inn to write and pleases ‘without squad. They are iedom “but world ~~

¢ English-speak~ | ess. It does not | “a formal treaty, be worked out. 1040, Winston ish and French He even offered

vér both. Every whose incomes fluctuate greatly we & double, a from time to time. : Author of the V. F- W.s plan Is Richard A. Mullens, tax attorney > .and former Army captain who

served in the Pacific in world war II. He is special tax consultant - to the V. F,-W.'s national legislatvie committee, A complete description of the plan

y work at this ins, It probably the British and lity for Britons tages, but what

in similar and a proposed bill were added to ry n two world . - the hearings.on the 20 per cent tax cut bill. Several G. O. P. members » United States have expressed eagerness to intro-. nding. with the duce the bill. They expect: that it ith its neighbors will get wide support from other thin the frame- ! organizations, groups repNhmr business, and

tax the power of

house appropriations committee in

against labor. Rep. Keefe (R. Wis), chairman

labor and his state antédated the New Deal in benefiting labor. He claims the labor department has outdistanced the rest of Washington bureaucracy in padding payrolls and spending public money on projects of only theoretical value to the taxpayers. Unions . List Portal Bill Within a few hours after the 40 per cent cuts in labor department appropriafions were reported to the house. The senate passed its version of the bill against, portal suits. Some union spokesmen, particularly in the C. I. O., call this senate act another part of the drive against organized workmen, but the senators who voted for it said the unions brought it on by trying to get some “easy money’ for theig members by going. outside the te of their contracts. The “general” labor bills, intended to control union practices that legislators deem’ unwise, will appear in house and senate within the next few weeks. : Coming Election Factor Many Republicans are proceeding on the theory that they still have an election “mandate” to cut down unions, .

en up Tonckutd

the next fiscal year's funds of the!

labor department will be charged by union spokesmen to a general drive, | Comma

of the subcommittee that made the |

cuts, ‘denied there is such a connection. He contepds he is a friend of

‘there will be a Presidetitialteletioh

next year. This was shown when Senators Robert A. Taft (R. Ohio), Owen Brewster (R. Me.) and Wayne Morse (R. Ore.) fought off an attempt by Senator Francis J. Myers (D,- Pa.) to label them as “antilabor” because their side of the senate voted against an attempt to place a 60-cent minimum wage in the portal bill. The house committee's attempt to remove Edgar L. Warren from directorship of the U. S. conciliation service, on the ground that je once belonged to two organizations that were labeled *“Communist-front,” will receive a thorough going-over in the senate if not in the house.

Morse Defends Warren

In the: senate Mr. Morse joined with five other former officials of the war labor board in saying he never saw anything subversive about Mr. Warren.

Whether ‘Mr. Warren is thrown

No matter what. that outcome, the conciliation service headed by Mr.

out ‘depends on how many friends | Senator Morse cananuster for him.

24.00 22.00% 23.50 17.00@ 21.75 [email protected]!

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Railroad Workers

Vote on Unions . WASHINGTON, March 24 (U. Py.

8.50! 700

day began calling 56,000 Pennsylvania railroad shopcrafts employees on their choice of a collective bargaining agent. It was the biggest poll of its kind under the railway labor act. The contest is among the American Federation of Labor, the Congress of Industrial Organizations which now represents three groups, and the Independent Brotherhood of Railroad Shop Crafts, representative for the other groups now. Mediation board polling crews began work in the biggest shops on the system between New York and St. Louis and Chicago. The vote will be completed April 18. °°

Local Produce -

| PRICES FOR PLANT DELIVERY Poultry: Jone, di th Ibs. and over. 20c

under, 30c; 20c, soft sated hie Kina, ene cocks and stags. i6e; No. ae h '}, ,

Butterfat: No. "ory No. 3. Ste.

while corresponding pay rolls | dropped fractionally.

work as a result of the union's ac- | tion Sunday will receive wages 18's jcents per hour higher than when 'they struck. This increase was

{granted by the company at its other

| showed a 20 per cenf increase over | February, 1946, but dropped about

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one per cent below the January o| figure. February bank debits were {up 12 per cent over January. While there were no significant

o | declines in any part of the I. U. 0| bureau's index, the advance was * slowed somewhat and lost some of its previous uniformity. The bureau attributed this chiefly to the shortage of railway cars, which restricted coal mine and manufacturing operations. .

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WASHINGTON, March 24 (U. P.) —Gov-

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