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The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Butte Ministers
Ask Voters Shun
>R-W' Petition

BUTTE=The Butte Minister'S As
sociation at their May meeting passed
the following resolution against the
so-called "right-to-w work" petition urg-
ing Montana citizens not to sign it.
"Whereas there is being circulated
in Montana an initiative for a so
called ''right-to-w work. law and the
citizens of our state are being urged
to sign said initiative, and
Whereas recent investigations have
revealed the extent to which some
of the leaders of large labor organi-
cations have used their position for
personal gain and removed control
of union policy and organization from
the hands of the rank and file mem
bership, and ~
Whereas we recognize the need
of a re-study and renewal of the
labor movement, and
Whereas at the same time we recog-
nize the need of working people to
band together to bargain collectively
for wages and working conditions and
would deplore any movement to rob
them of this privilege and the power
to pressure employers into bargain
ing with the union, and
Whereas we believe the currently
initiative petition would
destroy this vitally important privi-
lege without effectively correcting
the abuses in the organized labor's
Therefore be it resolved that the
Butte Ministers Association stands
to the currently circulated
petition and urges the citizens of
Butte and Montana not to sign it."
The people's voice., 1958-05-23

= chairman Dave Manning, said his
group was exploring solution to
the fiscal problem from several diff
| ferent angles.
Most startling proposal taken out
from under wraps at the May meet
ing was one developed by Execu-
tive Secretary Carl Infanger con-
corning a revision of the state i'm
come tax law.
Infanger's proposaI would, if en-
acted into law, place basic percent
age tax on the NET income of each
taxpayer before individual exemp-
tions are figured in to the tax liability
of the citizen.
Using a basic percentage of "
per cent of the net income after fed
eral income tax and various contribu-
tions had been deducted, but before
taking personal exemptions, Infanger
estimated that upward of $11 million
a year additional tax revenue could
be funneled into state Golfers.
Under his proposaI man with a
wife and three children and an in
come of $4,000 year would, after
deducting from his total income an
estimated 20 per cent ($800) for
federal tax, contributions, etc., have
basic tax liability of $63 on the
$4,000 balance. Then, taking his de-
ductions of 5000 for each member
of his family from that $4,000, he
would pay present income tax rates
on the $1,000 balance-or an addi-
tional $13. His total state income
tax bill would amount to $76. (For
the wage-earner with $4,000 in
come, and four dependents, the in
crease would amount to about $50
The people's voice., 1958-05-23


The question and answer period
was chaired by Art Neill, tax con-
sultant for the Montana Power Com
'pany.
The sales tax was put forth by Mr..
Lord as a Replacement tax" for the
"tax BURDEN on property. A sales
tax, said Mr.. Lord would make more
people conscious of their RESPONSE
bility in supporting government.
AND CO-OPS, TOO
Taxing co-operatives on the state
and national level was proposed from
the floor. The proposal said RETAINED
earnings" of co-operatives have al
lowed co-operatives to grow from a
100000 business to about $30,000,-
600 and "they have done it all on
retained earnings because there is
no state or federal income taxi.
The Montana Chamber of Com
merce recommendation included "a
critical review and inventory of our
basic needs and how we can stream
line government operations before
any new tax program or replacement
taxes are introduced.
The Montana Taxpayers Associa-
The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Sales Tax Hits Farmers,
Minnesota Economist Says

MINNEAPOLIS - (CNS) - A
Minnesota University economist,
Phil Raup, says the states farmers
would pay three to five times as
much under 21a % sales tax as
they would pay under a state in
come tax.
Raup also says farmers will wind
up on the short end if sales tax
is substituted for the states per-
sonaI property tax. For every SIS
reduction in personal property
taxes, non-farm business will get
81 and farmers will get 81, RauP
finds.
The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Butte Miners
Praise Metculf
And Mansfield

From (Mine-MilD BUTTE MINER
The Butte Miners Union wants
to point out that our members and
all of Montana Labor are indeed
fortunate to have the support of
our full congressional delegation
in opposition to the so-called
"Right-to-Work" drive.
Cong. Lee Metcalf and Sen. Mike
Mansfield who are facing re-elec-
tion this year are to be compli-
mented for their unqualified posi-
ton in support of organized labor
in this election year. The Butte
Miners Union feels that all candi-
dates should publicly state their
position on the phoney "Right-to-
Work. issue.
And, not only can we depend
on support from our present Sena-
tors and Congressman in prevent
ing anti-labor legislation, but the
record of their achievements and
help on all of our problems has
been outstanding. Metcalf and
Mansfield have never failed to re-
spond to any request from the
Butte Miners Union and their visits
to Butte have always included a
visit with officers and members of
the Butte Miners Union.
The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Dividends Climb Despite
Recession

WASHINGTON, d. c. (AFL-
CIO)-Despite the recession, corpora
tions are paying more dividends this
year than last. Latest figures for
corporations issuing public reports
show 81, ZOO, 100000 in cash dividends
for March, bringing the total for the
first three months of the year to $2,-
100000. This was $14,0O0,OOO
higher than during the first three
months of 1857. Most of the workers
who are unemployed work in fac
tories, but manufacturing dividends
for March were up more than $9,-
100000 above the 1857 figure.
The people's voice., 1958-05-23
MIC Subcommittee To
Visit TB Sanitarium

Hugh Cumming (D-Granite) an
nounced Tuesday that his subcommit-
tee of the Montana Legislative Coun-
Gil will go to the TB Sanitarium at
Galen May 31st to meet with DR..
Knight.
The subcommittee has been charged
with the responsibility of looking into
the charges being made at Montana
Institutions for services rendered to
people who are able to pay.
The people's voice., 1958-05-23

that time. Between that time and now
Anderson has returned and Aronson
has left.
Wednesday Cannon informed An
derson that the U. S. Senate is still
interested in having this information.
Anderson urged Cannon to request
Congress to "give greater considera-
tion to direct grants rather than loans
which will require much administra-
tive work and negotiation before the
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The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Michigan Farm Co-ops
Pay Income Tax

LANSING, h.-(CNs)-Michi-
gan Association of Farmer Co-opera-
tives recently surveyed it's members
and found that 120 of them paid
$123,00O in federal income taxes in
1854. They also paid $832,00O in
local, state and other federal taxes
that year.
The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Sales Tax Alternative Proposed
Sales Tax Alternative
Mog ling Deficit, Higher Costs,
w <gh Heavily On T-E Group

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70
Education o
all
its is
The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Montana Suggest
Sales Tax, Coop Tax, Reduced
Property Tax, Greater Economy

Less property general sales and
20
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The people's voice., 1958-05-23
Cannon Urges Congress Speed
Action On JobIess Pay Extension

Acting Governor Paul Cannon in night letter to u. S..
Senator Paul Douglas D Wednesday urged federal leg
saon be passed that would make it possible for Monanas
unemployed who have exhausted their unemployment bene
fits to receive extended payments from federal funds
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-03-01
ers in electing nine members.
Full Explanation Urged

In these qualifications, the gov
eminent is seeking to impose con-
ditions on the African electorate
which it would not dare to impose
at home, Labor member Dingle
Foot said.
The House, he said, should have
full explanation of the "stupen-
dous" increase in the income quail
ification for the electoral roll to
720 pounds a year, and also the
imposition of the literacy test.
There are more than 100000
Africans and 275,000 Europeans
in the Federation of Southern
and Northern Rhodesia and Nyasa-
land.
Labor speakers claimed the new
measures could not bring about
genuine partnership when 1I25th
Of the population, the Europeans,
would get AZ of the SO seats in
the federal House of Representa-
tives.
In defending the measure, Alan
Lennox-Boyd, Colonial Secretary,
said there was no differentiation
between the races since Africans
could go on the general voters reg
lister. He called the bill a "brave
attempt at partnership" and said
the misunderstanding had arisen
because it was so complicated.
i In regard to the income and ed
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preach" regarding equality and
democracy for all of our people.
He said the establishment of a
West Coast office enables us to
concentrate" on the problem of dis
elimination in employment on Gov
eminent contracts in the area. He
told his audience that the COM
plants which the Committee re-
ceives in its West Coats office
"will show your awareness of the
situation and your desire to correct
it."
Later, speaking to labor leaders,
he said that California could be
proud of it's n-diiscrimination
record but that 1--WE are not per-
feet in this respect. We must re-
move the last vestiges of Unequal
ity, and the help of the labor move
r1ent is needed and appreciated"
Secretary Mitchell told business
men that the United States cannot
continue to waste its manpower
through job discrimination against
minority groups.
Committee members who attend
ed the Los Angeles meetings in
cluded Vice President Nixon, Sec
rotary Mitchell, Maj. Gen. Cor
nelius E. Ryan, (USA, Ret.), Ex-
ecutive Vice Chairman; Daniel c..
Gainey, President and Chairman of
Josten Manufacturing Co., Owa-
tonna, Mimi; Myron Silbert as al
ternate for Fred D. Lazarus, Jr.,
Chairman, Federated Department
Stores, Inc, Cincinnati; Assistant
Secretary Of Defense Perkins Nc
CURE, George B. McKibbin, Con-
sultant to the Administrator, Gen.
eral Services Administration; Boris
Shishkin as alternate for George
Meany, President, AFL-CIO, Wash
ington, D. c.; Assistant Secretary
of Commerce George T. Moore,
DR.. James M. Nabrit, Jr., Secre-
tary of Howard University, Wash
ington, D. c.; Mrs. Helen Rogers
Reid, New York Herald Tribune;
Victor Reuther and George LIP
Weaver as alternates for Walter P.
Reuther, President, United Auto
mobile, Aircraft and Agricultural
Implement Workers of America,
AFL-CIO, Detroit; Deputy Attor-
ney General Lawrence E. Walsh,
John A. Roosevelt, Bache & Co.,
New York City; Harry S. Traynor,
! Assistant General Manager, Atom
ic Energy Commission; Ivan L.
Willis, Vice President, Interna-
tional Harvester Company, Chi
cago; and Maxwell M. Rabb, Sec
rotary to President Eisenhower
Cabinet and White House Liaison
to the Committee.
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ment makes it illegal for hotels to
run casinos. Mr.. Marley piloted
this bill through it's legislative
stages and in so doing assured the
House that his Government would
not itself run public casinos.
Not AS Brisk
Thus the excitement that flared
up into a cause celebre has now
begun to fade away, leaving ia
maica to enjoy a winter tourist
season that is not quite as brisk
and busy as it was a year ago,
although the hotels are doing quite
well. The principal reason for the
slight decline is not lack of tour
lists so much as the increase in
hotels since last year.
At Montego Bay there are two
big new hotels, the Casa Montego
which is the first skyscraper hotel
to rise in this part of the island,
and the Royal Caribbean, a low
lying building stretched out along
the north coast. The Casa Montego
has automatic, electronic elevators,
the first of their kind seen in this
part of Jamaica, and the natives
are having more fun with them
than the guests. Turning necessi-
ty into a virtue, the building uses
the tall outside elevator shaft as an
important and most interesting
unit in the decorative scheme of
the rear facade, overlooking the
outdoor dining room and pool.
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bill which enlarged the federal
Parliament from IS to SO seats and
increased the number of seats re-
served for Africans from 6 to IL.
Protest Aired
The African Affairs Board con-
tends that still only four of the
seats reserved for Africans will be
filled by African votes. The prop
erty and educational qualifications
are such, it contends, that the
other eight and all the unreserved
seats, to which the election is to be
based on the common roll, will be
controlled by European voters.
These qualifications were criti-
cized severely by Labor members
in the debate as being too limiting
and excluding too many who other
wise would be entitled to vote.
Income and property are con-
sidered on sliding scale with the
extent Of schooling a man has had.
Thus, the man who is merely lit
crate in English may get his name
put en- the general roll (which has
monopoly in Al seats) if he has
an income of 720 pounds $4,000
dollars). If his income is only 300
pounds year, he must have had
four years secondary education.
People with less schooling and less
money may reach the special roll
and join with the general roll vot-
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gambling, except for certain chart
ty sweepstakes and pari-mutuel
track betting. But there was a
loophole. whereby hotels were ex-
empted from the definition of
places where gambling was not per-
mitted, and whereby the Govern
ment was permitted but not re-
puired, if it discovered "promiscu-
GUS gambling" in hotel to lift the
hotels license.
Wide Publicity
This permissive aspect was given
wide publicity, as was the question
Of promiscuous gambling. Among
Jamaica's officials the controversy
ragged, as it did among the hotel
iers, as to whether the sign on the
Arawak's casino that limited ad-
mission to members (meaning
guests of that hotel) meant gamb-
ling there was not promiscuous.
The Arawak's casino was a
small, well-appointed, draped and
carpeted room, with a couple of
roulette tables, a crap table, black
jack tables and a row of slot ma
chimes. 1t operated, for the few
days that it did operate, at night,
and the repercussions were noiser
than any activity could have been
in that room.
Jamaica's hoteliers visited and
telephoned each other frantically
trying to figure out what to do. A
group at Montego Bay proposed
that all that areas hotels combine
to purchase small hotel and in
stall there acasino to serve their
area. A. E. Issa, head of the ia
maica Tourist Board, proposed that
if there was to be gambling, the
law be changed to establish three
national casins, at Kingston, at
Ochos Rios and at Montego Bay,
with the Government operating
them in style befitting a Jamai-
can national cosino. The revenue,
he suggested, could be used to i'm
prove tourist facilities in Jamaica
and to help develop tourist bust
ness.
The leader of the Government,
First Minister Norman n anley, ap-
parently was caught in the middle.
He had noted the loophole in the
law and at the height of the contro-
versy he indicated that he had no
immediate intention of interfering
and that he did not believe the
Government should run gambling
casinos. Jamaica's people are a
church-going people and the poll
ticians guessed that majority of
their constituents were opposed to
legalized gambling. This upset the
proposal to let the loophole pre-
vail and the hoteliers do as they
wished; it also upset the proposal
for national casinos.
The issue was resolved simply
enough by an act of the House of
Representatives which amended
the gambling law so as to plug the
permissive loop-hole. The amend
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-03-01

events that included a faculty
symposium, Wednesday, March 5
at 1880 pm, in the Lecture Room
of the observation-disclosures Build
ing; student convocation, Friday,
March Z at noon in the New Gym
nasium; and on Sunday, March 9
at 2:30 pm, telecast (WBRZ-
TV); Vespers at Z p.m., and radio
broadcast at $50 pm. (WJBO).
Even though March 9 is the date
of the institutions founding, the
formal exercises will be conducted
on Monday, March 10.
The Mondays schedule begins at
9 am. with a Military Review in
the University Stadium. At IL
am, the exercises will begin with
DR.. Charles H. Wesley, president,
Central State College, Xenia, Ohio,
as guest speaker.
The committee chairman pointed
cut that alumni and friends of the
University are being asked to at
tend all of events on the calendar
this year.
Southern, though established in
New Orleans in 1880 was reorgan-
lied as the New Southern Univer-
sity and Agricultural and Me-
chanical College on March 9. 1914
and began operation on it's present
site some five miles North OF
Baton Rouge, under the presidency
of the late DR.. J. S. Clark.
Starting with a staff of nine
teachers and less than 80 students,
the institution has grown to staff
of nearly 600 and 5000 student
enrolment.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-03-01

ucational qualifications, he said as
time passed more would transfer
from the special register-for
which there are lower qualifica-
tions-to the general register.
Differing Status
He felt that the fact a minimum
of one-fifth of the House, II seats,
would be African, must insure
that the parties in the Parliament
would pay due regard to the Afri-
can point of view.
The idea of the bill is to build
up a nation in which difference of
race shall become, after a lapse
of time, politically irrelevant. 1t
should work toward Indignation
and away from segregation and
thus be the opposite of the apar-
theid of the Union of South Africa.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-03-01

or agencies representing them, may
file complaints with the Regional
Office Of the Committee il they
believe q Government contractor
has Disseminated against them
because of race, religion, color or
national origin, he added.
The Committees program in Los
Angeles included four separate
meetings with representatives of
as many groups. The Committee
met with about Is Compliance Of
ficers of Government contracting
agencies during the morning. APP
proximately 70 business and indus
trial leaders attended a Committee
luncheon, when Secretary Of Labor
James P. Mitchell, Vice Chairman
of the Committee, was the prin-
cipal speaker.
Leaders of social agencies con-
cerned with the elimination of dis
criminatory employment practices
attended an afternoon meeting,
when Committee Member Ivan L.
Willis, Vice President of the In
ternational Harvester Company
presided, and Vice President Nixon
was the principal speaker. The
afternoon meeting was followed by
a one-hour reception, after which
the Committee was invited to a
dinner by the Los Angeles County
Central Labor Council. Vice Pres
ident Nixon and Secretary Mitchell
spoke at the dinner in response to
a welcome address by William j.
Bassett, Secretary-Treasurer of the
Central Labor Council.
Vice President Nixon told the
social agency leaders that moth
ing is more damaging to U. S.
prestige abroad" than the nations
failure to practice what we
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office will enable us to develop
closer and more productive rela-
tions with those most concerned
with the elimination of discrimina-
tory employment practices in an
area which has a significant con-
centration of Government contract
activity" Mr.. Nixon said.
The new Regional Office, like
the one in Chicago, will work with
members of minority groups, Gov
eminent Contractors and other en-
ployers, labor organizations and
social agencies working in the field
of merit employment, Mr.. Nixon
said. Members of minority groups,
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1958-03-01
Southern Univ.
To Observe
|Ath Annual
Founders Day

Baton Rouge, La, Feb. 24-Sou-
thern University will observe it's
44th Annual Founders Day, be-
ginning Wednesday, March and
continuing through March 10, it
was announced this week by DR..
Twiley Barker, chairman of the
Founders Day Committee.
DR.. Barker posted a calendar of
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Negro Insurance .
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board of directors.
Other changes concern TIE ap-
pointments of Mrs. Olive H. Cros-
wait, vice president and secretary
of Jackson, a assistant secretary
of Monmouth, and J. Joseph
Johns, Jackson vice president and
treasurer, as assistant treasurer.
Harris B. Gaines will become as
sociate general counsel.
-Patronize Our Advertisers
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the proposed federal scholarships
on the basis of need.
Under the plan, certificates of
merit signed by the United States
Commissioner of Education would
be awarded to students who excel
in their studies but who do not
need financial help to go to col
lege and would not, therefore, quail
ify for the proposed federal rchol-
arships.
AS now written, the legislation
would provide for such certificates
only for those entering commpeti-
ton for the scholarships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-26
Edinburgh Halls
New Eliot Drumu

EDINBURGH, Scotland, Aug.
26 (AP).-A glittering Edin-
burgh festival audience roared
its applause for T. S. Eliot's
latest and simplest play last
night.
They left the Lyceum theater
marveling at how marriage
last year to his pretty young
secretary had Softened the
heart of the auStere 69-year-
old poet-playwright.
Mr.. Eliot himself sat through
the world premiere of THE
Elder Statesman" holding
hands with his wife.
Already impreSSario Henry
Sherek is inundated with
Broadway offers.
The play tells of a nobleman
who is a former politician and
businessman now retired to a
nursing home. He is black
mailed by someone who knows
Of a hit-and-run incident in
his past and by a faded actress
whom he once paid of to avoid
a scandal. The nobleman con-
fesSes his sins to his daughter
and dies relieved Of his
burdens.
Paul Rogers played the
nobleman and Anna Massey
was the adolescent daughter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-26
Wealthy Widow, 80, Found
StrunqIed in Bedroom

Imel's main street, went to the
house to check up yesterday.
A back door was open and
Mrs. Gould found Mrs. Edgren's
body, clad in a nylon night
gown and wrapped in tangled
bed clothes, on the floor beside
her bed.
A purse on the bed contained
a $40 and two IS bills. The
purse was snapped shut. A con-
siderable amount of small coins
was scattered around the bed
room.
Mrs. Edgren's husband died
in September, 1899, at the Mon
terey Peninsula Country Club.
Robert Edgren, jr., a son, is
a professor at Mills College for
Women at Oakland, Calf.
Mrs. Edgren owned consid-
cradle real estate in the area,
but she lived modestly in her
home three blocks south Of
Pacific avenue, the main street
in Carmel. She was known to
carry thousands of dollars with
her at times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-26
John Brown, 81,
DC. Photographer

John r. Brown, a veteran
telegrapher who lived in Wash
Iington most Of his life, died
Sunday in the Sharon Nursing
Home at Olney, Md. He was
go.
A native of Washington, Mr..
Brown grew up with the Morse
code of telegraphy and spent
most Of his career as a teleg-
Irapher with the Washington Of
flee of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
His last home address was
1905 Mckinley street NV. He
had been in the nursing home
with a hip injury for the last
nine months.
Mr.. Brown was a member
Iof st. Paul's Catholic Church
at Fifteenth and v streets NV.
since 1890.
He leaves a niece.
Services will be held at $3.50
am. tomorrow at the James t.
Ryan Funeral Home, 317
Pennsylvania avenue Sc. A
requiem mass will be offered at
9 am. in st. Paul's Church.
Burial will be in Congressional
Cemetery.