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-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS_ Congress Fashions bxh Billion Dollar Tax Reduction for 1946; Ponder Postwar Army Training ■ ■■ _Keieasea nv Western Newsprint t;ntor. , ..- . (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of Western N>«sn,ipft f'nion’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper » With freedom of speech assured under Allied orders, former Japanese political prisoner addresses gathering in Tokyo. Under proposed liberal ized constitution, ail Nipponese elements would be afforded opportunity for recognition in nation's governmental councils. TAXES: Good News Though the senate and house had yet to compromise their differ ences, John Q, Public could look forward to substantial reductions in Income taxes in 1945, and Ameri can business was assured generous relief for the immediate postwar period. No less than 2l/z billion dollars was expected to be lopped off of in dividual income taxes as a result of provisions for permitting $500 ex emptions for dependents before pay ment of the normal 3 per cent levy and the scaling down of surtax rates. Close to another 3 billion dol lars was scheduled to be pared from corporation income taxes through substantial reduction or total elimi nation of the excess profits assess ment; repeal of the declared value excess profits and capital stock levies, and graduated decrease in surtax rates on companies with less than $60,000 net return. In addition to income tax reduc tions, the use tax on automobile and boats was expected to be dropped. Solons were divided on the question of wartime luxury levies, however, with the house for cutting present rates to prewar levels July 1 and the senate against the action. With reserves well over 6 billion dollars, both houses were unani mous in freezing present social se curity payroll taxes at 1 per cent on employee and employer alike and forestalling an automatic increase to 2ti per cent apiece January 1. Under the tax relief bill drawn up by the senate, G.I.s would not be required to pay taxes on service compensation during the war years, and officers would be permitted to spread tax liabilities over a three year period interest free. LABOR: Setting Pattern With both Henry Ford II and United Automobile Workers’ leaders expressing confidence in settlement of a wage adjustment at the com pany. government officials held high hopes that an agreement might re sult in the establishment of a post war pay pattern and clear the way for speedy reconversion. Government optimism was a wel come note in the dreary labor pic ture, pointed up by the deadlock in negotiations between the UAW and General Motors over the CIO union's demands for a 30 per cent wage increase to maintain wartime “take-home” pay and the corpora tion's resistance to the demands because of possible effects on prices. Setting the pattern for other CIO unions, the UAW declared that Gen eral Motors was well able to dip into alleged huge wartime profits to carry over any losses accruing from higher wages until future pro duction reached big volume levels. Reflecting industrial sentiment for its own part, General Motors denied exorbitant wartime earnings and de clared any withdrawal from reserves would crimp expansion plans. As the companies and unions clashed, the administration worked on a reconversion wage policy de signed to guide negotiations through the troublesome days ahead. Strong ly influenced by labor, the govern ment reportedly favored substantial wage boosts to maintain wartime “take-home" pay while freezing prices at prewar levels, except in hardship cases. Giving both capital and labor its say in the formulation of a reconver Huge Postwar Market for Autos Looms Potential demand for automobiles by domestic consumers next year should amount to 9,843,000 cars, after allowing for 331,000 ears to meet the increase in population, says the Alexander Hamilton institute. At the beginning of 1942, the number of passenger automobiles in operation in the United States was at a record peak of 27,364.000. results of an extensive survey showed. As the result of the stoppage of production ^during the war, the prospect is that there will be only 21.921.000 cars in operation at the beginning of 1946. Taking into account the increase in population since 1942, the number of passenger automobiles in operation at the beginning of 1946 will thus be 6,768,000 cars below the normal level •and in addition 2,744.000 cars may be scrapped in 1946. sion pay program, the government moved slowly in the establishment of policy. Hopes ran high that the forthcoming management-labor par ley would result in the voluntary creation of machinery for settlement of important disputes. MILITARY TRAINING: Await Response Having received President Tru man’s recommendation for one year of postwar military training for American youth 17 to 20, congress adopted a cautious attitude on the question, with one ear perked for popular reaction and the other for military argument. Personal congressional response to the President’s request varied, with Senator Revercomb (Rep., W. Va.) declaring "... I am open minded —I want to hear both sides of this. ...” while Representative Celler (Derm, N. Y.) exclaimed “ . We President Truman asks congress for military training for youth. want no truck with compulsory mil itary conscription. ...” Meanwhile, it was estimated that about 975,000 youth would be called up for training each year under the President’s program, with 250,000 rejected for physical or mental de ficiencies. Because of weather con siderations, the largest number of camps undoubtedly would be lo cated in the south, with regular army officers and non-commissioned officers in charge. Fewer routine tasks, such as kitchen police, would be in store for reservists, military sources said. JAPAN: Reform Imminent Her military machine smashed, Japan's highly developed economic monopolies, designed for foreign as well as domestic exploitation, also faced imminent dissolution as part of the Allied program to strip Nippon of her war-making potential and democratize the country. The losers figured to be the five great financial-industrial families of Japan, which, as the dominant ci vilian powers, had exercised strong pressure on the nation's foreign poli cies. Backed both politically and financially by the government, the big five, known as the '‘zaibatsu,” were heavy investors in overseas development. By smashing the “zaibatsu,” the Allies planned-to loosen their grip over Japanese politics and permit more liberal and democratic ele ments to exert influence over gov ernment direction. At the same time, destruction of the great com bines promised freer opportunity for economic development in the coun try. As steps were taken for the dis solution of the “zaibatsu," the politi cal transformation of Japan slowly gained ground with new parties in the development stage and more lib eral political institutions impending in the rew'riting of the national con stitution. 1 \ AGRICULTURE: Global Part First permanent body ol the United Nations, the Food and Agri culture organization <FAO> earns Into existence in the grand ball room of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, Canada, with 30 nations for mally signing its constitution. Though possessing no executive powers over member nations. FAO seeks, through voluntary inter change of information and effort, to improve agricultural production, raise nutritional standards and bet ter the living conditions of rural pop ulations. Indicative of the big job FAO has on its hands, two-thirds of the world's population is estimated to be ill-fed, with many facing peri odic starvation. Signatories to the FAO constitu tion include Australia, Belgium, Canada. China. Denmark, Domini can Republic. Egypt, France, Greece G atemala, Haiti, Hon duras. Iceland. India, Iraq, Liberia. Luxembourg. Czechoslovakia. Mex ico. Netherlands, New Zealand. Nicaragua. Norway, Panama, Peru, Union of South Africa, Philippines, England. United States and Vene- . zuela. FRANCE: Left Suing With their fundamental platforms at variance. France's three great political parties — the Commu nists. Socialists and Popular Repub lican movement — prepared for the establishment of a new constitu tion as demanded in the recent elec tion. As the three major parties and a smattering of smaller organizations moved to write a new political char ter for the country, the Popular Re publican movement, backed by General De Gaulle, loomed as a counterweight between the Commu nists and Socialists. Known as a Catholic Liberal party, and led by Foreign Minister Bidault, the PRM’s surprising demonstration of strength in the elections was in dicative of the quick defense thrown up by moderate elements against the threat of extreme radicalism. The new alignment found France's political picture charac teristically mixed, with the Social ists joined with the PRM for a west ern bloc of European nations against Communist opposition; the Communists committed to a swift program of nationalization of indus tries; the Socialists favoring more study of such an undertaking and the PRM for a moderate course. FIRE RAIDS: U. S. Vulnerable Back from a tour of war-wracked Europe. Anthonv J Mullaney. chief fire marshal of Chicago, 111., and a noted authority on fires, declared that investigations showed that no great city could withstand concen trated explosive and incendiary raids and domination of the skies overhead was the only assurance of safety. In making his disclosure. Mul laney cited the obliteration of Ham burg, Germany, where all walls were of brick, numerous firebreaks 1 existed, no skyscrapers reared up ] and an efficient fire department op- i erated. In a contrast indicative of the vulnerability of American cities, j Mullaney cited localities dotted with frame buildings, wrood lathe and plaster construction, tall buildings, and few empty spaces for allowing a sweeping fire to peter out. In burning out Hamburg, Mul laney said, great squads of Allied bombers first dropped explosives to rip up structures, with incendiaries then being loosed upon the open wreckage. Towering flames licked up the oxygen to create a vacuum into which air from surrounding areas then rushed in, creating fierce “fire storms.’’ With instruments re cording temperatures of 1,400 de grees F., over 40,000 persons were said to have died from the flames, heat inhalation or asphyxiation. NAVY: 1 Speed Releases With nearly 300,000 enlisted men : and officers already released since j V-J Day, the navy planned for the | demobilization of an additional 800,- ) 000 by the first of next year through I a reduction in discharge scores. 1 Following establishment of lower scores November 1, the navy con templated an even further cut De cember 1, with male officers' poinl requirements pared to 44; enlisted male personnel to 39; WAVE offi . cers to 30, and enlisted WAVE per sonnel 24. In cutting its discharge scores the navy left its point computation unaltered, with one-half point for each year of age; one-half point fo> each full month of service; 10 prints for dependents regardless of num ber, and one-fourth point for each month of service outside oi the U.S. since September 1, 1939. TURKEYS: G.I.s and civilians alike are as sured cf ample supplies of turkeys for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays even though the size H birds may bp smaller than usual dm to growers' speeding up production ' upon government demand. Purchasing turkeys as early as last August, the army quartermas ter corps assured plentiful stocks for service personnel Most of the birds already have been dressed and stored in warehouses or are in proc ess of shipment overseas. METAL TOYS TO COST MORE Washington. .. Consumers will pay up to 15 cents more than they paid in 1941 for a metal toy costing up to $1, and proportion ately more for more expensive tovs made of metal, the Office of Price Administration announced last week. In an action effective November 2, 1945, OPA estab lished the 14 percent mdustry wide price increase factor for aL reconverting manufacturers of metal tovs. New manufacturers will apnlv to the price agency for a ceiling price. However, consumer prices for metal toys, even with the increase allowed, probablv will amount to less than a third of current pric es for the same type of toys made of wood, OPA said. The metal toy manufacturers expect to supply about one quar ter of their normal Christmas vol ume of trains, trucks, scooters, and similar items. I>K. W. E. llnl)0.<i ST3 C'\ i\ i,o\no\ New York. N Y. (C) Dr. W. E. B. DuBiig who went to London. England, to attend the Pan-African Conference is reported not able to get back into the states. All ship, ping space -s be;ng taken up by re turning til's. It is so indefinite as to when he is returning that he j gave up his *2nd Street Office. 1 IJteJltem *1044)41 IdepxviteA in WASHINGTON 5 By Wolter Sheod H VVNU Corrrnipondm* m WNU Washington Bureau, ISIS Eye St., K. W. Government’s Job Way back in the second adminis tration of President Cleveland there was a severe drouth in the Middle West. Farmers did not even have seed corn. So the congress passed a bill providing for the distribution of seed corn to the farmers. Presi dent Cleveland vetoed the bill and sent it back to congress with a strong veto message wherein he stated that the government of the United States was set up to be sus tained by the people of the United States and not to sustain the people of the United States. That fallacy in the concept of our federal government was enunciated a half century ago, and yet in this conservative congress in the year 1945 there are some who still adhere to that archaic belief . . . that it is not the business of government to help the people of this country . . . that it is not even the business of government to adopt a policy of gov ernment guaranteeing the people anything. This attitude on the part of some senators was definitely apparent in the debate on the so-called full em ployment bill when the opponents, led by Senator Taft <R., Ohio) were able to emasculate the language of the bill to such an extent that it is more or less meaningless as it went over to the house. ‘The Right to Work’ The original bill, as it was intro duced by Senators Murray (D., Mont.) and Thomas (D., Utah) con tained this language: “All Ameri cans able to work and seeking work have the right to useful, remunera tive, regular and full-time employ ment. .. .” Senator Taft questioned this “right’’ of these Americans and ■ declared, in effect, that it was not the business of this government to guarantee that right by any law. And of course the answer is that under , the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights ... if Americans do not have the right to work they have no rights. It finally came down to a point in the debate that the Ohioan conceded we possibly did have the right, but it was no business of government to set that right up as a governmental policy, and so the splitting of hairs began. Columnists, radio commentators, senators, congressmen, lobbyists have taken up the cry, “where did this bill come from?” “what does it propose to do?” “what’s behind the measure?” and, “what does it actu ally mean?” and other questions. Insofar as this reporter can learn, the full employment bill is backed not only by this government, but by 50 governments throughout the world and was drawn up pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Interna tional Labor Organization's conven tion at Philadelphia in May of 1944, which sponsored full employment as an objective of government. Backed by 50 Nations Senator Thomas was an American delegate to that international con vention. Labor and governmental delegates from 50 nations were pres ent. The resolution was adopted unanimously. The full employment bill, then, is this government's at tempt to give expression to that con cept of government as committed at the Philadelphia convention. In his testimony before the Banking and Currency committee of the Senate, Senator Thomas said: “The declaration of Philadalphia i was in reality the first serious study to try to bring about that condition which is promised in the “four free doms”—a condition which would make freedom from want a real freedom. In the declaration at Phil adelphia there were many theories and many different ideas sponsored I but among those ideas was the idea , of sponsoring the concept of full em ployment as an objective of govern ment.” As a matter of fact guaran teeing a person the right to a job is not new in our government. That guarantee is given to re turning veterans in the Selective | Service act . . . that they get their old job back. The whole ! civil service system is builded upon that same guarantee of gov ernment; the unemployment compensation art is also attuned to the right of a man to work: many of the Dew laws, including the act governing disposal of Surplus Property, which start off with the words, in order to pro mote full employment etc.,” are tied in with the right to work. Aid to Private Enterprise The point is that whether the con gress says a man has the right to work or not. the fact is, that in this country he does have that right, and the important sections of the full employment bill are those sections which set up the machinery for pro viding full emplt yment . . . the an nual national survey by the Presi dent . . . the incentives offered pri vate industry to expand, to provide jobs, placing the responsibility, if you please, on private enterprise to bring about full employment. ' 50 s% Clover Leaf a Ice & Coal CO. 3 2009 North 27th St. Phone JA-1090 100 WORLD WAR II VETERANS STUDY UNDER G.I. BILL OF RIGHTS Eight of ten World War II Veterans studying in the Atlanta University ! School of Social Work under G. I. Bill of Rights, first semester 1945-46. Reading left to right are: First row: James Tatum, Beaumont, Texas; Geo rge Phillips, New Orleans, La; Carmen T. Thornton, San Antonio, Texas; ;Horton Cooper, Uallsville, Texas; Beverly UeJoie, New Orleans, La; Second row: William Brooks, Philadelphia; Pa.; James Cosby, Macon, Ga.; Joseph Walker, Topeka, Kan.; Not on the picture are Mr. Joseph Gadsden of Savan nah, Ga., and Clarence Moss. H. W. Smith’s Weekly Waiter’s Column If you have any news about waiters, or anything pertaining to them or their routine of living, call H. W. Smith—HA-0800 and give him the news... Mr. Reed of the Fontenelle Hot el a very active member of Clair Chanel Church. The OAC top force with Mr. Ward in the front line and Capt. Mitchell McFarland and Hodges in a quick step at all times instruct ing the new waiters. Omaha Club waiters with Capt ain Karl Jones are always headlin ers. Blackstone waiters serving with a smile. Waiters at the Regis hotel and the Wrhite Horse Inn always on the job. Paxton hotel head waiter and his crew always on the front line on service. Waiters at the Hill hotel on the improve at all times! helped make it possible and now doing the honors at the Fontenelle hotel is a headliner on good serv ice at all times! THE NAACP The NAACP held !l well attended meeting on Sunday afternoon Nov. ISth and many vital items were discussed and all committees mad" good reports and the membership i§ increasing and all members are helping to get the 2.000 in Omaha as all other cities are on the wide awake and up and go! Are you a member of the NAACP? If not » why not? The WEEK (BY H. W. SMITH ...HA-0800) 20.000 truck drivers on a strike November 16 in the midwest. IT. S. 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