The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-09-17
UNION FILES
PROTEST ON
PAYROLL TAXES
Montana Federation of
Labor Files Two Resolutions
With AFL Protesting Payroll
Taxes, Suggests Remedy for
Jurisdictional Disputes.

One resolution, protesting the pro-
posed increase in payroll taxes provid-
ed in the Wagner-Murray-D ingell bill
and one suggesting a study be made
of means-f for the avoidance of jurisdic-
tional disputes, have been forwarded
to the American Federation of Labor
by the Montana Federation, for con-
sideration at its convention.
The two resolutions as submitted
| follow:
| Whereas, The present plan of H.
nancing Unemployment Compensation
is not actuarially sound and is bound
to end in insolvency of the fund when
an acute period of unemployment oc-
ours, neither is it economically sound,
as it places tax on the payroll of
the employer, which in turn creates
an inducement for the employer to
reduce his working forces to the mini
mum, thereby reducing the tax on the
payroll and penalties the employer by
raising his payroll tax by every addi-
ton made to the working force, and
Whereas, The payroll tax places the
burden on the common shareholder of
corporation stock and exempts the
preferred share holder and bond hold
er from the liability of taxation to
provide a fund for unemployment
compensation while said preferred
stockholders and bond holders are
being paid dividends and interest
from the profits of industry, and
Whereas, A tax on the wages of
the workers is unjust as such tax
reduces his wages, thereby creating a
tendency towards a lower standard of
living, and
Whereas, The Senate Bill No. 1161,
known as the WagnerM Murray ingell
social security bill increases the tax
on the employers payroll about one
employees pay check five hundred
per cent thereby giving the employee
less actual wages and forcing the
workers to lower standard of living,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we favor an amend
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bill to strike out all reference to a
tax on employers payroll and tax
on employees pay check and that the
said bill be further amended to pro-
vide that congress budget annually
sufficient money from the Treasury
monthly social security payments.
Whereas, Jurisdictional disputes |
create chaos, and i'll will within the |
ranks of organized labor: likewise
produces feeling of resentment and |
disgust among employers who have
agreed collectively with labor on
wages and working conditions, there
by causing an unhealthy public opin-
ion to be developed against labor, and
Whereas, Jurisdictional disputes are
heart-breaking to the workers not
parties to the dispute who are usually
innocent victims and kept out of work
during the periods of the Jurisdiction
al walk-out, and
Whereas, The great advance in
LCNhiiCdi Improvements nave lilduC
trades interviewing, thereby making it
almost impossible to decide where the
of one craft ends and an
other begins, and
Whereas, Within the past two years,
lue to jurisdictional disputes one In
Union was suspended from
he American Federation of Labor and
another large international union with
1 long record of achievements by an
vote of its entire mem
Dership deemed it necessary to with
iraw from the American Federation
If Labor-and still another union, a
pioneer in the labor movement by a
referendum vote of its membership re-
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