Evening star., 1933-06-01
Alterations in Tax Provisions
Enacted by House Are
Indicated.
JOHN |. LEWIS ENDORSES
MEASURE FOR ALL LABOR
Takes Issue With Lamont That
Clauses in Bill Are Now
Uncertain"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate Finance Committee to-
day closed its public hearings on the
industrial recovery public works bill
and expects to begin revising 1t to-
morrow, with indications 1t viii change
some of the House taxes inserted to
finance the $4,000, ,oo0, 900 construction
program.
Chairman Harrison said some change
in the House tax program of raising
income and gasoline levies was con-
templated, but he had not sounded out
the full sentiment of the committee.
Hearings ended with John l.. Lewis,
president of the United Mine Workers,
indorsing the measure on behalf OF al
organized labor and protesting any
"emasculation of the clauses prevent
ing employers making a condition TO
employment that workers join com
pany union and permitting workers 70
Join any union OF their own choosing.
Disagrees With Lamont.
Lewis took sharp issue with Robert
p. Lamont, president of the Iron and
Steel Institute and former Secretary OF
Commerce, who called the labor clauses
too uncertain" and said the steel In
dustry stands for the open shop.
Lewis said "secret service" operatives
of the steel corporations report a man
who attends a union meeting or who
signifies an intention to join union,
and che Is Immediately discharged"
Questioned by Reed, Lewis said all
this was not true of the United States
Steel Corporation in Illinois and 1ndi-
ana where "they deal with the union" I"
Before the Senate committee ses-
sion, President Roosevelt, through Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes, told the
House Ways and Means Committee
he hoped an amendment to include oil
regulation would be attached to the
industrial control bill.
Favors Oil Control.
As the House Committee began hear
ings on the Marland oil control bin
Ickes testified:
"Just before left my oface this
morning Col. Mcintyre, one of the
Presidents secretaries, called me, and
am authorized to say on behalf Of the
President he hopes very much that there
viii be attached to the national indus
trial recovery bill the following section
on conservation of petroleum to read:
Section 10. For the oil industry,
in addition to the powers granted the
President concerning codes OF fair
competition, agreements and licenses,
he Is authorized to prescribe regula-
tions to supplement State conservation
legislation regulating the production OF
petroleum, to allocate equitably the
national market demand for petroleum
and the products thereof, among the
oil producing States and between
domestic production and importations
and to prohibit the transportation in
interstate commerce of petroleum and
the products thereof produced or with
drawn from storage In violation OF any
State of Federal law or the regulations
prescribed thereunder."
Would Replace Long Bill
This short amendment is intended
to replace a 40-page bill drafted by the
Interior Department and which SEN
ator Capper, Republican, OF Kansas,
had inteded to offer IN the Senate as
an amendment to the industrial recov-
cry bill.
President Roosevelt in q letter to
Speaker Rainey and Vice President
Garner already had expressed the hope
that oil legislation might be attached
to the Industrial bill, but had not
specified what particular addition he
would favor.
The new amendment differed from
the original bill principally in the point
that control of production would be
given to the President instead Of to the
Secretary Of Interior as in the original
bill.
At the outset of the Senate Finance
Committees final public hearing on
the industrial bill, it heard plea
from j. Howard Pew. president of the
Sun OIL Co., for general sales tax to
finance the $4,000 900 construction
bond issue.
Opposes Gasoline Taxes.
Opposing the proposed raise in gaso-
line taxes, Pew said:
"If you are going to go on putting
confiscatory taxes on few, while let
ting others escape entirely, there can
be no other outcome but the destruc-
ton, one by one, of all our great in
dustries.
Everybody Is pleading for general
and reasonably uniform advance In
prices" he said, "as the most effective
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