The Wilmington morning star., 1947-01-19

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lsbor policy. There was strong R
dont's pleas in successive messag
Tnlltson (R-Minn.), Chairman of
loittee. continued to press for a
',arsons with incomes up to S3O0 ,0O0.
u;s stand was buttressed by a report
- +be small business advisory COM
u,;+tee of the Department of Com
norco which called for a fiat 20 per-
nont cut in individual income taxes.
w. TE committee is composed of l8 bust
Semen from all parts of the country
nnnointed by Henry Wallace. Its re-
,,prt was released without comment
by Secretary of Commerce Averill
Hartman, Wallace's successor.
One Republican, however, broke
uooks, Sen. Wayne Morse (Ore.) said
he would rather go out of the Senate
than deal in a political hypocrisy with
those who tell us we can have a 20
percent cut in taxes"
Cuts in Military Strength
He charged that tax cuts proposed
nv party spokesmen would necessitate
reducine military strength and lessen
mo This country's influence in Europe.
He said:
"Tnless statesmen of our country
have the political courage to tell
Americans about the Importance of
remaining strong and sharing respon-
sihj]ities in Europe, the war-is-over
.ttitude will sentence our children to
another war"
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder
ronorted to Congress that the nation
could not afford a general reduction
in taxes.
SNYDER said high-level taxes must
he maintained to get a budget surplus
for debt reduction and also to hold
down in1ationary pressures-presum-
abv BY draining off some of the buy
ing power.
Change of Heart
Republicans who earlier had talked
of ending speedily the excise taxes on
liquor, furs, jewelry and other lux
uries, had a change of heart. Chair
man Knutson of the Ways and Means
Committee said that House tax leaders
would sponsor quick passage of legis-
lation to continue the wartime excise
taxes indefinitely.
The bill, forestalling an automatic
rolI5ack of the excise list on July l
with an annual revenue loss of one
and a half billion dollars, will be
given precedence over all other tax
bills.
Sen. Morse also split with his party
on proposed labor policy. A member
Of the Senate Labor Committee and a
former member of the National War
Labor Board, he urged Congress to
give top priority to p%erfecting the
Wagner Act.
IF Republicans continue their anti
labor and fiscal policies" he said,
they will lose both Congress and the
White House in 1940-and they will
give lis the worst era of labor unrest
IN our country"
Other Labor Bills
Morse's criticism stirred up plenty
Of trouble in the Senate Labor Com
mlttee, headed by Sen. Taft, Taft is
co-SponSor with Sen. Ball of Mime
sofa and Sen. Smith of New Jersey of
a measure which, among other things,
would delay serious strikes so days,
bar Jurlsdlctional, sympathy and or
sanlzatlonal strikes and require
unions to file financial statements.
Other Senate measures which con-
celvably might get the right of way
over any specific revision of the Wag-
ner Act are bills by Ball to outlaw
The closed shop and its notifications
and to prohibit industrywide bargain
ing.
In the House, bills by Rep. Case
lR-S. d. and Rep. Howard Smith
ID-Va.) would in effect revise the
wagner Act but they are independent
measures, not amendments. House
leaders, expect these two bills to be
Inc foundation of the labor legislative
program in their chamber.