The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-09-09
WRITE A LETTER
AND SAVE MONEY
Act Now to Save Yourself $100
A Year in Taxes.

w ~. W, aug. o1, 1CEl. .
Dear Friend: The Peoples Re-
construction Leagues hard work
and the vigorous action of thous-
ands of our friends all over the
country in writing letters to their
Senators and Representatives killed
che vicious sales tax. 1t did not
get the revenue the government must
have-if the big army and navy
appropriations stand-this year to
meet it's current obligations, about
seven billion dollars.
The Secretary of the Treasury,
Mr.. Mellon, told me a few weeks
Igo that the Administration plans
20 refund the national debt of fif-
ceen billion dollars for from forty
20 sixty years. He admitted that
his will compel the men and wo-
men who won the war to pay most
If the cost. They will have to do
chis twice in interest charges.
The House Revenue bill is part
of the plan of the investment bank
ers and others who made billions
net out of the war to saddle not
only past war costs but current
costs of government upon the work
ars of America, on farms, in fac
;ories, transportation, mines and
srade, so the profiteers can invest
foreign concessions, and pyramid
heir present wealth.
America has now $500 900, 900 in
yOld-43 per cent of the worlds
gold supply.
The twenty-three thousand people
who own nearly one-third of the
rational wealth, about one hundred
md thirty billion dollars, own a
cry large proportion of the Lib
,rty and Victory Bonds. Farm
rs and other workers have had to
sell their bonds to live. These
;wenty-three thousand people own
much of the twenty billion dollars
# tax exempt securities.
The House Revenue bill reduces
axes aon these millionaires incomes
md practically fails to touch their
fortunes. The inheritance tax
Yielded last year only 100000, 900,
including the tax on the $780,
)00,000,000 of property of the 49,
700 richest Americans.
You can force Congress to tax
privilege, monopoly and concen-
rated wealth instead of the pro-
iucers of wealth - the farmers
Whom Wall Street robbed of six
billion dollars last year by forcing
a slump in the price of farm prod
Icts) and other workers whose
wages Wall Street is now hammer
ng down to un-American levels.
Will You Do 1t Now?
l. Write Immediately or wire
Hon. Boies Penrose, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Finance, which
S now redrafting the House Rev
,nue bill, and demand that the Com
nittee repeal all consumption taxes
md retain sur-taxes on big in
,omes, and levy rapidly progressive
Inheritance and transfer tax which
will yield two to two and half
billion dollars year until the war
lebt owned chiefly to millionaires
S paid.
Senator LaFollette has prepared
iuch an inheritance and transfer
ak bill in cooperation with the
oeople's Reconstruction League and
will introduce it shortly
2. Write or telegraph to the
iame effect to both your United
States Senators and your Congress
nan, and tell them to work for
such a tax bill and vote for it,
md to refuse to vote for any
lther.
If your Senators and Congress-
nen are at home, see them and tell
hem the same thing, and if they
address public meetings, ask them
the meeting what they propose
do about the revenue bin and
ell them what they must do.
8. Get every local organization
which you belong to adopt SINH
ar resolutions, and send a cory to
Senator Penrose, both your u. S.
Senator's. your Congressman, and the
President.
Address all Washington. D. C.
Send a copy to your local papers
and write letters to them on the
subject.
A. If you are an officer of a ma
tional or state organization. send
out letter to your state or local
organizations, asking them to take
the action requested above.
AN HONEST REVENUE BILL
WILL SAVE THE AVERAGE
FARM AND INDUSTRIAL WORK
ER'S FAMILY ONE HUNDRED
DOLLARS A YEAR. =
Sineerelv vours.