The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1947-02-14
Privileged Groups Threatened

will immediate action referendum of people
welcome the foreign corporations the state
And less welcome to them announced plans to initial
for corporation taxes that will really some
thing.
steps preparation the referendum
initiating of corporation taxes that will to slight degree
at least portion profits
corporations from the exploitation of the states
people, have already been taken by the Legislative Coordn
ang Committee This committee which composed rep
resenatves of farm and labor and small business has
the reaonary legislators and the lobbyists for the ACM Mon
quite disturbed They understand how
instance representatives of the CLIO and the AF
be working complete harmony not only with each other but
with the representatives of the other groups participating
the activities the Usually the
quer strategy employed by the lobbyists has been effective
but this year it doesn't seem to work at all we'll
might lobbyists members of
the House and Senate WE'LL to know that weekly reports
out by this coordnatng committee to four hundred
organizations the sate local farm organization loo
al labor unions etc. and the interest these reports
marked The little people of the state watching the eg
laure and they being informed about what going
The opposition to retail sales tax cannot be laid only
the of organized labor and farmers certainly the
proponents claim that it is only radical who
it. The small business Main street knows that not only
will he become ax collector without compensation but that
profit to himself After ALL the low groups
whose purchases make the of his income have
just much spend for goods at his counter The
levy which the sales would impose Them must
proportonaly lower their purchasing power
undoubtedly sales
legislation the large foreign corporations of the state The
Montana Power Company the Anaconda Mining Company the
companies banks made profits last
They know that under ordinary this would make
them extremely vulnerable demand by the people of the
that the of the state be met
by increasing their So their stooge in the lega
tur introducing various to provide the required
be safely that they of
them except the sales tax.
attorney railroad
leads the drive for enactment of sales and is at the
time WORKING his hardest to defeat nronoal for 10 cents
ton tax coal produced by that in its strip mining
operations The railroads have recently been granted
service rates and the N P knows of that this
could not be Immediately the
public 1t would out of the profits until such time the
ICC felt that the people of the country would consider
raw grant the N P another increase in it's service
rates
outstanding example the profits being garnered
the foreign corporations exploiting the of this
the the Anaconda Copper Mining Company
be cited It's profits after the period 1869 ST.
During the period 194245, its profits after
climbed S122 050000 In the third 1916 its
the quarter than for the entire 945
This information has not been pubczed to the people of the
If it had been don't think they might have insisted
that their representatives this year make effort
this of the additional funds needed
by After ALL of the profits by this
poraon made by depicting the physical of the
state the should be entitled equitable
turn in taxes than it is getting.
The evidence of awakening by large numbers of the people
of the state the fact that is only their responsibility in
democracy to elect representatives the awmakng bodies
but watch their performance in office encouraging Let
hope it continues and grows.