The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-01-10

siiail receive for their cat
Tie and hogs, but what the cons, NOR
snail pay for his meat
Consumers League In Fight
because the commission has def
nitely shown by it's investigation that
the consumers are robbed quite A.
as are the producers fl
livestock, the hearings on the Sims
stockyards bill are to include some
testimony by Mrs. Florence Kelley OF
New York, general SECRETARY of the
National Consumers league. Mrs
Kelley has for score of years bee,
conducting a struggle in congress ar1I
IN the legislatures of the variou,
states in behalf of women wage.
workers, to secure eight-hour laws,
minimum wage boards, prohibition of
night work for women in factories.
and IN general to make life more toll
cradle for the woman in industry
The Consumers league is league of
persons who agree that as consumers
oil industrial products they have NOR
al responsibility for the conditions I'M
der which these goods are made.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, before
he went upon the supreme court
bench, was the Consumers leagues
unpaid counsel, and IA times he al
gued before the supreme court, and
won, the issues brought there in de-
Tense of the bettermnt Of industrial
conditions for women. Now Mrs.
Kelley finds that the increased cost
Of living, together with the relaxing
of industrial standards due to the
war, have almost wiped out the gains
OF these past years. Wages buy
much less than they did before the
war. Food profteering is largely rt-
sponsible for this. The National Con-
sumers' league is going to fight the
Big Five packers because the packers
have made meat too costly for the
table Of the working woman, and be-
cause the packers have likewise in
creased the cost of all the substitutes
for meat.
Thus for the first time in American
history consumers Of food, organized
and partially enfranchised, are COM
ming to congress to demand a dig
economic reform. Incidentally, the
fact that Secretary of War Baker is
the active and enthusiastic president
of the National Consumers league
Will not detract from the interest with
which the house committee will hear
its argument.
/ ONLY SIX FOR FAIR TAXATION
Six members of the senate voted
for the La Toilette substitute to the
Penrose- Simmons revenue bill, which
is now in conference. The Wisconsin
! senator remarked that he had no idC;;
/ that any large number would support
such a taxation measure as he fa"-
ored, but that he had made it rule
of his public service to follow prln-
ciples without deviating a hairs
breadth, no matter what other men
might do.
The chief difference between The
La Toilette revenue bill and the one
approved by Penrose and Simmons
+. and their friends on both sides OF the
chamber were:
4 Normal taxes on incomes, affecting
people of small income-Senate bill
1 $40 100000 La Toilette bill, SIC.
100000. Small-income people take.
/ 1870 100000 more under the senate
bill than under La Follette's plan.
Surtax, affecting larger incomes
4 S1,O18, 100000 under senate bill; 81
714O0O.0O0 under substitute. Senat
: plan saves 100000 to people 0
, big incomes. ),
War excess profit tax-Senate OH
81 400 900, 900; substitute, S3,2OO,Ooo'
900. Saved to war profteers unde
senate bill, $800,0O0,0OO.
Estate or inheritance tax-Sena'
bill, 22,O0O,O00; substitute, S11o,ooo
600. Saved to big estate under ser
! ate bill, S88,0o0,00O.
Corporation income tax-Sena'
9 bill. s772, 100000; substitute, $7oo
: 600 900. Corporations not under We
\ excess profits clause taxed S1z'oVo
600 more under senate bill.
Transportation facilities tax {,
f railway tickets, etc.-Senase o..
o s219 100000.
! The total revenue proposed TO
: raised bv the senate bill is estimate
+ at $500, 100000; the total propose
: under the La Toilette bill was 1914
= 100000. But the difference betwe'
! the two plans was great deal via
Z than that. It was the difference .
!, tween putting the burden OF taxes
the middle class and the toliers'
), tha penrose-Simmons bill, and putin
! the heavier burden on the proflseeril
class nv the La Toilette bill.
DEnpI.E SACRIFICED