Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1924-08-14
A STUDY ON TAXATION

"Mr. ]. ]. Holloway, President of
the West Virginia Manufacturers
Association, announces that it has
been successful in securing the ser
vices of the National Industrial Con-
ference Board for the purpose of
making a thorough and impartial
study of the tax situation in the
State of West Virginia. The Nation
al Industrial Conference Board is To-
Gated at 247 Park Avenue, New York
City. 1t was established in 1916,
as a research organization and the
fundamental purpose of it's work has
been to secure, analyze and dissent
nate information concerning indus
trial problems and experience in the
United States and other countries
and in general, to encourage and pro
mote the sound development of A
nerican industry. The Conference
Board has made elaborate and extern
sive studies and Investigations of
problems that bear an intimate re-
lationship to industry and industrial
management, and of questions that
are of a broader and more national
into~ost It's reports have dealt with
such subjects as critical analysis
of the eight-hour day, minimum wage
and hours of work legislation, cost
i.of living studies, trends of wages,
welfare work, mutual benefit associ-
ations, industrial employment, Kan
sas Court of Industrial Relations,
Workmen's Compensation, health
service in industry, railroad CONSOLE
dations and working conditions, i'm
migration problem, taxation and ma
tional income, tax exemptions, feder-
al income tax administration, etc.
i Each department of the Boards ac-
tivities is in charge of an expert
whose academic, as we'll as practical,
standing is well known.
In addition to making studies upon
it's own. initiative, the Conference
| Board undertakes special investiga-
lions ~ .hA request Of responsible
organizations, provided the subject
matter of these studies is of suffici-
ent national Importance and interest.
The Conference Board being scienti-
fic organization of the highest order,
the first condition imposed in con-
nection with these requests is that
the Boards tradition of impartialty
and disinterestedness be maintained
throughout the investigation and that
the conclusions be based wholly on
facts and figures, as officially and
reliably ascertained ad compiled. The
expert in charge of the investigation
meets a committee of the organlza-
ton that applies to the Conference
Board and merely confers with the
Committee as to the scope and char
acter of the contemplated study
Once these circumstances are deter
mined, the Boards staff proceeds
with the investigation in an abso
lutely independent manner, ana tnS
Board stipulates in its contract tina
the Investigator must be left abso
lutely unhampered and beyond thu
control or influence of the contract
ing orgaization in undertaking ant
: carrying on the study. Not unit
, the report has been completed, doe
i the applicant organization have al
} opportunity to see the results of tn
} investigation. The Conference Boar
: then may receive suggestions Q
| criticisms, which it takes under ad
: visement, but it is under no obliga
: ton whatever to accept them
Whether or not the final conclusion
} are acceptable or agreeable to tn
0 applicant organization, the Confer
0 ence Board then proceeds to publis
> and distribute the report as one 0
} its own publications.
The present investigation under
. taken for the West Virginia Manu-
Y facturer's Association is under tn
! direction of Mr.. l.. r. Gottlieb, form
e erly ofthe faculty of New York Uni
versity, who is in charge of all tn
: Conference Boards tax studies