The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-27
Obiectives Outlined
 By Business Groups
Employer, Employees Share Success Or Failure, Mu
 tualy Dependent; Coordination of Relief Urged

1 that each one on relief or employed on productive public improve ments is 8 direct burden on their pay envelopes, MT. Williams fore- cast that there would be a rising demand for local administration of relief funds so that the distress might be met fully, but as econom- ically as possible.
 Read Newspapers MT. Williams read clippings from middle western newspapers to show that return of relief to local non- partisan direction was being asked by the business groups in that area. He suggested that the chambers of commerce and boards of trade in Connecticut follow this example The Smaller Business Association of New England already Is request. ing members of the House of Repre- sentatives and the Senate to insist upon such decentralization of con- trol over relief funds in voting on the presidents spending-lending program.
 MT. Williams said: 'The report of the special senate committee issued yesterday, states that there are 12,- 870,000 unemployed at the present time in the United States, with more than 17,314,000 persons or about 14 per cent of our population receiving relief. The question is not one of xvb at !, a,. WA ebo IT c,,a,,d or. ,,nt cy,ay>J Every American will wish to prevent distress and destitution amongst the unemployed until they can be re- turned to private productive occupa- tionS.
 Plans Continuance
 The administration has been, and in its new program merely plans to continue spending and taxing at the high rate of the last several years. Business men, taxpayers and wage earners are coming to realize that the huge funds involved are direct burden on each one of them. They do not come out of thin air or out of the pockets of the wealthy. Natu- rally, if these business men. tax payers and wage earners are pro- viding the money they want its ex- penditure under local control where "free-riding" by employable persons who are offered jobs but prefer to remain on relief wastage or use of relief funds as an influence in na- tional politics can be stopped"
 In reply to questions from the floor, MT. Williams said that there were several so-called smaller bus mess organizations receiving pulp licity currently but that the Small CT Business Association of New Eng land is the only one organized by New England men solely in behalf of New England smaller business. It has no alliances with either po- litical party or with big business and is not affiliated with any of the several organizations, formed in the last few weeks, which claim to be national in scope despite their very short span of existence.
 Objectives
 1. TAXES:
 Repeal the Undivided Profits Tax so that smaller business may be encouraged to strengthen their fi- nances, to expand and to pay of debts by blowing back" profits and in new enterprises.
 Simplify and reduce the number of tax reports to eliminate the bur- den of time and expense currently required in their preparation.
 2. FOREIGN TRADE:
 Employment of American work men and protection of American business men is of first importance to our National welfare. Under present conditions of unemployment we oppose further reciprocal trade treaties which will permit increas- ing imports from low wage scale countries. which not only replace similar goods produced by Aneri- can workmen but which tend to demoralize the sales and price struc- ture of similar American products. 3. Employers and Labor:
 We urge the promotion of closer cooperation between employer and employees towards clearer mutual understanding that both are subject to the same business principles, that both are travelling the same path way, along which each will suf- fer or prosper with the other, and