The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-09-03
Labor News From Brituin

earners will pay into the Exchequer.
treated as postwar credits.
re Inland Revue authorities are now
sending out the bank books" in which
these postwar credits are recorded.
Most Of the wage earning tax payers
understand, Of course, that the docu-
ment they are receiving Is an asset,
but not all of them know this one over
suspicious citizen sent his certificate Of
credit back to the local collector Of
taxes with an indignant note that ne
had paid enough income tax and re-
! fused to pay any more this year.
But the Inland Revue authorities are
very helpful and sympathetic. They
have just issued a revised edition of q
little booklet which sold over a million
copies when it first appeared, explain
| ing in great detail how the tax is
levied, what allowances the taxpayer
can claim, and just what value the
post war credit has and will have 1t
tells the tax payer for instance that
their postwar credit, growing year by
year, will bear interest us from some
date to be fixed when the war comes
to an end, and that they will be able
to draw it out at the end of the war,
if they want, or leave il 10 earn inter
est, just like any other post office say
/ ingS bank account.
| This booklet not only sets forth the
standard allowances the income tax
payer can claim in respect of depend
entS and family responsibilities. but
also reminds them that there are allow
ances for those who have to spend any
part of their wages on tools or special
working clothes. And the Government
officials who compiled this booklet tell
the working class tax payer to CON
in any doubt about his rights, or his
responsibilities.
| Wage earnerS taxes on earnings are
deducted at source. The practice of
deducting Trade Union dues at the pay
Office of the plant, not very common in
British industry, is also finding ac-
ceptance among employers. Earlier in
the present year the Durham Coal
owners Association entered into an
agreement with the present Miners
Federation in the County, undertaking
to deduct from wages the arrears of
Trade Union dues of Union members,
subject to the consent of the workmen
concerned.
There is reason for this arrange
ment, and the agreement in which it is
embodied is a significant one. 1t EN-
bodies Il new principle-new, at least,
in the British mining industry. In
order to secure maximum production
of coal the Durham mineOwnerS have
agreed that at any rate for the period
of the war, all manual workers in the
collieries of Durham should be mem
bers of the Trade Union. To give eff
feet to this principle they have agreed
that the constituent members of their
Association as owners should not pay
the attendance bonus to which the
mine workers are entitled to any of
their employees who are not members
of the Trade Union: and to deduct
| from the attendance bonus arrears Uf
Trade Union dues in the case of Union
members who refuse to allow dues 10
be deducted by the management at the
coliery pay office.
This is not the CLOSED shop" in the
sense in which the phrase is under
stood overseas. 1t is rather recognition
by the mine-owners of the argument
put forward by the Miners Federation
over Il long period of yearS-that when
improvements are secured in wages OF
conditions, or agreements for holidays
with pay and similar concessions are
negotiated by the Union, the benefits
should accrue only to those who are
members of the union.