The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-08
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 Congressman Huddleston.-It is absurd that the administration has no settled policy from one day to anoth- CT, It IS ridiculous that the admins tratlon IS like chameleon, changing color from hour to hour as 1t may confer with one Senator with certain views, then with another of different views, then with big business men with opposing opinions; that hops and skips in it's policies as it passes from one industry to another and taking complexion from each and giv- ing constantly changing blasts with every emotion that has stirred it, but all of which means nothing. gressional Record
 Senator LaFollette-I have ob- served in the news dispatches that Secretary Weeks now has before him for subsidizing the munition plants of the country. After election I have no doubt that the proposition to subsi- dize the munition plants will be brought forward and pressed to pas sage by the same interests which are now opposing adjusted compensation for the soldiers.-Congressional Rec ord
 Senator Capper-Mr. President, believe the war profteers and the peace prohteers owe a bonus to the soldiers of the World War There is no better guaranty against militarism than to require the men who profit out of war to pay for 1t. Those who remained at home made enough here in the United States to enable us to pay many times over the debt we owe to the men who fought our battles Wall Street wants to pay 1t with a sales tax, which would be paid largely by the farmers, the laboring people, and others in the form of tax on food and clothing and other necessit- ies I will never cast my vote for sales tax or any other device which shifts tax burdens to the backs of the poor in higher prices and in- creased cost of living. Taxes to pay the bonus or taxes for any other pur- pose should be laid upon wealth in proportion to ability to pay.
 Prohteering during the war pro- duced one American millionaire for every three American soldiers killed in France. 1 would like to see the Government recover the hundreds of milloins of dollars stolen from the Treasury by the crooks and grafters who profteered off the Government in war contracts and then use that money to pay the soldiers bonus Congressional Record.
 Senator Reed-Create a commis- sion, create board, create a govern mental tribunal to limit in time the production of coal, and just as cer- tainly as water runs down hill, just as certainly as night follows the disap pearance fthe sun behind the west ern horizon, just as certainly as the eternal cease1ess vigilance of vested interest will gain its end while the people sleep, just so certainly will that commission or board ultimately come under the control of those who are producing the coal in the coun- try The great competitive field will have been destroyed, and a few gen tlemen will sit here in Washington, appointed by President or some body else, and in the end the attor- neys and counselors and representa- lives of the great invested capital that is vitally concerned will have their way. Now, if we are going to make this Government a general so- cialism, let us do it in the open. Let us say 1t is going to be a socialism and that everybody has to work so many hours. Let us start right there. Then we will not have any more strikes. Let us say that everybody has to work, and if he has to work there will not be any use in having any property, and consequently we can wipe out capital. When we say that, let us, say we have written the epitaph of Anglo-Saxon greatness and we have set up tombstone over the grave of the greatest Republic ever framed by men under the providence of God-Congressional Record.