The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-10-13

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} LIST OF ISSUES ON WHICH
CONFERENCE REPRESENTATIVE
ARE REQUESTED TO PREPARE
IA BRIEF STATEMENT:
In the advance written statement
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ord and used for publicity, please
cover all the issues on which you are
Informed, but in the oral presentation
at the conference in hte five to fifteen
minutes available for each representa-
tive, emphasis should be placed only
on those issues considered most i'm
portant and should be confined large
ly to expressions of attitude
A What general policy do you advo-
cate in regard to federal aid? For
what general purposes should the
federal government assist the state
and its subdivisions? On what
types of public works projects is
federal aid justifiable? Should fed
eral aid be administered by federal
or state agencies?
B. What is your attitude toward
1. Federal aid for highways as pro-
posed in pending legislation?
2. Federal aid for irrigation, flood
control, and river navigation?
Should Montana waters be con-
trolled by Missouri Valley and
Columbia Basin "Authorities"?
3. Federal aid for airport develop
ment? How extensive?
4. Federal aid for education
a. Land grant colleges? Farm la.
bor food production and war
activities have required in
crease in federal money.
b. Vocational education? War
training has greatly expanded
scope and cost
C. Civilian rehabilitation? Federal
aid and control increasing.
d. Public schools? $30O,OOO 900 aid
proposed.
e. School lunches. $4,000 900 |
spent this year
A. What general policy do you advo-
cate in regard to federal grants for /
public welfare? By what agencies
should such grants be administered?
B. What is your attitude toward
1. The Wagner-Murray bill and other
proposals to liberalize and feder-
alize all public welfare?
2. Unemployment compensation for
government employees?
8. Notifications in Montana unem-
ployment compensation laws and
payroll taxation to meet federal
encroachment?
4. Postwar federal or state admins
tration of unemployment compen-
sation?
5. Continued expansion of federal
aid for and control of public
health administration rather than
greater state and local RESPONSE
bility?
What general policy do you advo-
cate in regard to federal subsidies
for consumption and production?
B. Specifically, what is your attitude
toward
l. Postwar government regulation
of prices of food and other prod
ucts by the payments of subsidies
to manufacturers, professors, or
producers?
2. Postwar government regulation
of wages, hours, and other en-
ployee-employer relationships?
".
What general policy do you advo-
cate in regard to tax equality of
all enterprises that compete with
each other?
3. Specifically, what is your attitude
toward
1. Subjecting co-operatives to the
same state and federal taxation
as corporations?
2. Eliminating or reducing double
taxation of corporate income and
of the income derived by individ-
uals from corporate dividends?
3. The taxation of government cor
porations on the same basis as
the private enterprise with which
they compete? Z
4. Restrictions in the use of public
funds to provide capital for coop
eratives and for government COR
porations to compete with private
enterprise?
5. Subjecting all government cor
porations to current control by
congress, the Budget, Treasury,
and General Accounting Office?
v.
!. What general policy do you adyo-
cate in regard to the taxation of
federal lands and property?
. Specifically, should the following
federal property be taxed?
1. Post offices, federal buildings,
military establishments and such
property used exclusively by fed
eral agencies.
g. Forest reserves, national parks,
Indian reservations, Taylor graz
ing lands, lands mortgaged to the
federal government, or public do
main. Should such lands at least
be required to pay for state, coun-
ty and local public services rem
dered on such lands?
3. Resettlement projects and hous-
ing projects and similar projects
where a large amount of tax-shup-
ported public service is required.
4. Power plants, saw mills, mines, -
or other government enterprises -
competing with private enterprise.