Word: taxed
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...peace. Result: "violence on the part of the workers, and provocative tactics on the part of the employers, have not for a long time played any significant part in industrial disturbances." C, British trade unions cannot incorporate but they may register, which gains them continuity of being and certain tax exemptions; or they can get a certificate, which gains no tax exemptions but proves title to a union's legal immunities for striking. Neither registration nor certification is required...
...last week announced selection of his strong-arm man: the Assistant Administrator in charge of compliance. He will be bald, stoutish Major Arthur L. Fletcher, 57, since 1933 North Carolina's commissioner of Labor, a War veteran lawyer who used to work in his State's tax division with Josiah Bailey, now a Senator. Major Fletcher's chief accomplishment, besides drafting labor laws hailed as models, and condemning "gypsy" factories which exploit communities briefly and then move on has been raising flowers (150 varieties) in his garden at Raleigh...
This promise was called "$30 Every Thursday," a pension plan whereby every idle, retired Californian of 50 or over would receive $30 a week for life in State-issued scrip, upon each $1 of which a tax stamp costing 2? (U. S. money) must be stuck every Thursday, to retire each scrip $1 at $1.04 at the end of a year, the 4? to pay administration expenses (TIME...
Despite the fact that the plan would tax Californians at least $1,315,766,400 in real U. S. money each year ($625 each from all working Californians*.), "$30 Every Thursday'' was no daydream politically. Close to 800,000 signatures were obtained for petitions to put it on the November ballot and last week, day after Californians went to the primary polls, the State Supreme Court announced there was nothing wrong with the form of the petitions, on the ballot it must go. Candidate Downey, who had plumped for the scrip plan and adopted its slogans ("Life Begins...
Defending his 1938 tax law. which President Roosevelt sneered at and refused to sign, the Senator said: "You can't take 80 or 90% of a man's income in Federal taxes and expect him to risk his money in industrial investments. Money is what makes the mare...