The Omaha guide., 1946-03-02
Program for 1916 of The Peoples Lobby, Inc.

dustries,-to be operated by production technicians and
engineers, 50 as to ensure maximum employment,-with
labor and consumer representation.
2. Paying most costs of war by current taxation. based
on ability to pay, and benefits received rom-Governmen
exempting the minimum income essential to health.
8. Government direction of farm production, and con-
troll of processing and distribution of farm products with
direct payments where needed to marginal farmers.
4. Effective government control Of prices and Of quail
ity of essential consumer goods.
3. The initiation and participation of the United States
Government in international arrangements, such as the
control OF atomic energy, money, credit, trade. natural re.
sources and cartels, to prevent depressions and wars.
B.. Opposing peacetime universal cOmpuisorr military
training.
L. The Surplus Property Administration stated Dec
ember 80, l945:-"By July /, 1916, ii is estimated that
over s35 billion of property will have been declared sur
plus.
SThis is flee times the surplus resulting IRON World
WarL"
The Government now owns about half the na:.on's ma.
chine tool factory facilities, a tenth of its steel production
capacity. nearly all the synethetic rubber industry, and
three-fifths of aluminium capacity.
Ownership is Government, and unless the pSvpIe o,n
the productive and d~istributipe agencies, they can neither
OtCn the Couernnent,-nor hare an economy OF abundance
2. There are about 90 million people in families re-
ceiving a family income of less than s., 500; many famil-
les have less than ST. 900.
The Federal Government can raise S35 billion a year,
for a few years, without taxing people with incomes below
a health minimum.
Corporation profits after taxes were SO billion in 1915;
will be baout IS much in 1916.
In l942,-78.2 precautionary fourfifihs,-of the
S0,9ll million net income received by 38O,5550 persons
having incomes over SlO,00O,-was from ownership or
control of property.
In 1915, net savings of individuals we're SIS billion.
The larger the income, the larger the proportion from
ownership of property.
Sales tax and other consumption taxes are not needed.
All Government spending, and high prices, increase land
values. The selling price Of land has increased about S25
billion during the war.
A 10 tax upon present selling price of land,-with a low
exemption for small home and farm owners,-wouId yield
nearly $3.50 million.
3. The Postwar Committee of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture states: 'The agricultural production of the
United States should be adjusted to national requirements,
with due regard for export demand, and desirable profits
Farmers as a whole, are getting their highest income, but
onehalf get about $50.
Direct Government payment to marginal farmers is the
most practical way to get needed farm products.
In Britain all professors and distributor of farm prod
ucts are agencies of the Government, and all farm produc-
ton is directed, by Government.
A. The cost of living, under present policies, will prob
ably increase about onethird, in a year or so.
CHESTER BOWLES, Price Administrator warns:-
"UnIess ace a uin the fight in the next teV r.0nths, we
shall condemn america to a brief period of false boom
followed by a SCATTERING snash-up that nou shake our eco
nomy to its foundations"
JOHN W. SNYDER, Director Of Reconvers:on, told a
Senate COmmittee:-'We have to stand off initiation, which
remains a very real danger, and the false promises of in.
flation are a danger just as great
Nearly a seventh Of Americas family units can increase
their dollar income only slightly,-if at all, So
holding the priceIine, and quality is,a part OF price, is
rItdt to them. zs~T = @&i y - rre @@e So
The Department of Labor reports the cost of living has
there, and can be reduced.
The Office of Price administration must be continued
for at least tuo years, toith adequate appropriations.
Increased prices compel small income folks to pay much
of the war debt
5. War can be prevented only by social ownership of
resources and other basic materials, Of ocean borne COM
merce. war equipment, markets and currencies.
The British Labor Party is committed to major social
ownership at home, and an Association Of Nations, .sthe
collective authority of which must transcend in the econom
ic sphere, the rights of separate nations
Eight corporations out of e~ighty-five affiliated with in
ternational cartels, indicted by the Department of Justice
for violation of antitrust laws, have assets of about S5.65O
million; onetenth Of assets of all manufacturing corpor,
atoms.
international government by International carteIs, still
threatens.
The practical alternative is social national and inferno
r"