The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-05
New Taxes Requested d. Also Authority Impose
 Economic Controls
BROAD PROGRAM OF
 SOCIAL LEGISLATION
Makes Appeal to Business 10 Increase ProduCtion-
 Maintain Armed Forces
By ERNEST B. vACCARO

WASHlNGlON, Jan. c.--'Hl-- President Truman today asked the new Democratic Congress for S4.- 0C0.0O0,003 in new taxes, sweeping authority tS impose economic con- trols and broad program of social legislation
 MT. Truman ranged far calling for Taft-Hartley law repeal, aid to farmers, civil rights laws, uni- versal training, broader social se- curity. and Federal programs in the fields of education and pre- paid medical insurance, plus l. C00,000 new public housing units in the next seven years. 1 He made his recommendation in the annual State of the Union message before joint session of the Senate and House under cir- cumstances vastly different from those of l948.
 ] Favorable Prospects
 With his own party in control and many of its new Senators and Representatives regarded at New Dealers" the Presidents advisers feel that prospects are now favor able for enactment of many of the proposals the GOP-dominated 80th Congress rejected last year
 MT Truman himself told Con- gross today: Tn the months ahead I know that I shall be able to cooperate with this Congress. The President recommended that the new taxes be levied principally against corporations. without speci- flying what he has in mind He also asked higher estate and gift taxes and consideration of increas- cd personal income taxes in the middle and upper brackets
 Anti-Inflati0nary
 The tax proposal was part of a series of proposed anti-infla- ! tionary measures including standby power to impose wage and price icontrols, passage of strengthen ed rent control extension. contin- ued control of consumer credit and enlarged powers ito control bank credit"
 1 And he coupled recommendations covering series of New Deal pro- posals with call upon business i to plan for steady, vigorous ex- pansion--seeking always to increase it's output, lower it's prices and avoid the vices of monopoly and restriction"
 So long as business does this" Mir Truman said in personal ap- pearance before joint session of the two houses. it will be con- tributing to continued prosperity and it will have the help and en- couragement of government"
 Campaign Recc concentrations Mir Truman laid before the new '8lst Congress virtually every recom- mendation he made in the 351 speeches of his $500 miles of campaigning for the Presidency. Included were calls for farm price supports and adequate stor- lage space for wheat and other crops-two items he hammered hard in winning farm states which usually go Republican.
 ] He asked, too for repeal of the Taft Hartley Labor Law. which he blasted across the country as un- fair to working men. He proposed re-enactment Of the old Wagner Act with, however, prohibitions against "jurisdictional strikes and unjustifiahle secondary boycotts." "
 He topped off message sure to stir controversy in and out of Con- gress with new call for enactment of the entire slate of civil rights proposals he advocated last year.
 Stands On Civil Rights
 Then. they not only failed of passage. but brought cleavage that cost him four southern states.
 I stand squarely behind those proposals" he said.
 : Asserting the heart of our for eign policy is peace" the Presi- dent requested that the hands of