Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-10-09

Imp: 'T just had a woman locked
in a room with a thousand hats
and no mirror"
TAXES AND MORE TAXES
When Eisenhower pulled down
the Sales Tax Balloons at news
packed press conference last week
he left the door open for manu-
factures' excise tax which enables
wholesalers and retailers to pyra-
mid profits.
NO RETAIL FEDERAL SALES
TAX was the word passed down by
President Eisenhower. But, he Inn
piled, there may very well be a
GENERAL MANUFACTURES EX-
CISE TAX asked for at the next
session of Congress.
A manufacturers excise tax,
many economists have pointed out,
has the same effect as sales tax
in shifting the tax burden to those
least able to pay and has the added
fault of piling up as 1t passes from
manufacturer to consumer.
The way it works is this. The
government levies a SO tax on an
article which manufacture sells
for $1.00. He passes the taz on so
the wholesaler pays $1.O5 for it.
The wholesaler, in passing 1t to
the retailer, has his mark-up on
both the $1.O0 which the article
costs and the 5 cents added tax
The retailer does the same with
the consumer paying the ultimate
freight.
The result is that while the gov
ernment gets the 5 cents tax, the
wholesaler and the retailer get
profit margin on the five cents
as well as on the cost of the arti-
Gle.
In effect this hidden tax would
penalize a mother every time she
goes to store to buy shoes for
her children to go to school in or
a new shirt for her husband so he
can look presentable at work. It
would be a rotten trick to play ON
parents who are already devilled'
almost sick with high prices; and
/ don't think the voters will stand
for it.
We take this opportunity to
thank Lawrence Taube AFL Repre-
sentative for his excellent story
on the Celetox Strike which he
wrote for this column last week.
We've heard some very good com
ments on his article. A
M
BROWN INDUSTRIES
In the Court of James McCrystal,
Common Pleas Judge Of Erie
County, Ohio an agreement was
reached Monday setting up an E.
lection for Friday, October 8 to al
low the employees Of Brown In
dustries, Inc. 30 vote for a bar
gaining agent.
This is the 4th election to be
held in period of a little over
three years. The agreement be-
tween UAW-CIO Local 393 and
Brown Industries Inc. providex
that the Injunction in effect since
lastweek is removed and that the
Company's appeal to the National
Labor Relations Board on the e.
lection of May Is is withdrawn.
The strike was called by the en-
ployeeS of Browns on August 13
after several months of fruitless
bargaining. Since that time man
agement has used about every
known form Of device to destroy
the Union and to intimidate the
workers involved in this dispute.
The agreement provides futher
that in the event Local 393 is a.
gain chosen as bargaining agent
the Company will Immediately en-.
ter into Negotiations to settle the
current dispute.
THOMAS A. KINNEY,
Information Representative
Region 2-B, UAW-CIO
Our Union Safety Committee
suffered the second resignation
within the week when Fritz Woz
MAX resigned his membership or
the Committee last Wednesday
morning. Mr.. Wozniak stated tina
the lack of management coopera
tion prompted his action. His res
ignation followed in two days af
ter Frances BrOugh resigned from
the same committee and for tn,
same reason.
Joe Verock has been appointed
to succeed Mr.. Wozniak as a mem
ber of our Union Safety Commit
tee.
We've made our recommeda
tions to management and hop
that by the end of the week man
appment will Snn fit IN ancaryf than