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SDF News A.T10NAL.—Philadelphia, Pa.: Final campaign rally under "mjcff 0f S.D.F. and Workmen's Circle branches, Sunday, *L^lV80th, 8 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum, 41b S. 19th Street. 2225 C....
...secretary of the Labor SS**"*" >n(j g pp., announces a splendid program of classes f^itmnosia to begin in November...
...Cay Central Committee meets Wednesday, Nov...
...Employment is still increasing and War profits have skyrocketed...
...Soak the poor seems to he their slogan...
...If they are organized by the Aaserieau Legion, there is grave dancer that it via ho « reactionary, anti-labor role...
...The Treasury planned to cut the estate exemption from $60,000 to $40^00, wJft sharply, riling levies on larger estates inherited ' by the scions of the rich...
...Wc are very far from taking the profits out of war...
...The big event in this EfcSelBth national convention of the Jewish Socialist Verband *Ca«M November 26-27-28...
...M. Vasilew, secretary...
...Adolfo Omodeo (rector of the Naples University...
...L'unite del Popolo...
...This ia the third auosessive year that Congress has rejected the Treasury's proposals, endorsed by liberals and by labor, ta boost estate and gift taxes...
...Theatre Party *n Thursday, December 30th, at the Second Avenue Theatre...
...Committee on Political Activitiet has issued a statement recommending the election of Vincent Murphy as Governor this coming Tuesday...
...to the Editor Soys Willk.e MovesTowards Liberal Lead From I. RICHARDSON To the Editor: In your editorial on September 25 on Wendell Willkie...
...The great surplus of purchasing power over available supplies is still growing...
...The Action, which looks to Count Carlo Sforza for leadership and is the most powerful of Naples' six political parties, has already published demands which included expropriation and nationalization of major industries and utilities, liquidation of large estates and distribution of .the land among the peasants, and immediate participation of workers in the profits of production...
...Over half of the excess spending power is in the hands of a small fraction of the population with incomes above $5,000...
...Curiously," observed the Naples correspondent of the Herald-Tribune (Oct...
...foners...
...It is probe hie that ia poet-war America the return™* seiaisra will play mm sneeesT ingly important role in pohthrs...
...Pius Xll has always been a reactionary...
...Eugenio Reale, of Naples) have been rallying forces for the staunch support of Badoglio, and have vigorously attacked any dissenters on any issue...
...2225 C. Bullitt, candidate lor Mayor, and prominent trade ^jj gpeak...
...died last Monday...
...A sales tax would surely result in widespread, justified demands for higher wages...
...26), "the Communist platform seemed more moderate than the Action...
...The Treasury proposed to siphon off $10.5 billion of this surplus buying power as additional revenue...
...nt)r...
...What atmospheric pressure the Allied military conquerors are going to exert now on the old vacuum remains to be seen...
...A large force would have to be recruited to collect and police some 2.500,000 retail establishments...
...67X432,514 Roubles for a Loot of Broad Congress Tax Bill Soaks Poor By ALAN MERRIAM How would yon Hke to pay W00 for a ham sandwich...
...Joseph Braginsky...
...We should point out: (1) Where a Government uses the open city privilege by shifting the centers of warfare from one city to another, it diverts destruction from one city to another, whereas in this case the Nazis would save Berlin and expose Vienna to destruction—a city which does not and never did belong to the Reich...
...It ia a nuisance tax...
...namely, that in order to win the nomination, Mr...
...Communist weekly here, is also collaborating in this campaign...
...For that reason the UAW will propone such aa organisation, to he open to all aniens hn the nation, at the CM) convention next week...
...More confusing were Sforza's relations with the powerful Parti <TAzione, of which he is now apparently the nominal head...
...Badoglio was accused of allowing the Germans to recover from the surprise of the armistice in time to reinforce their armies in Italy...
...1 for Louts P. Goldberg, Brooklyn...
...He has appeared to be both pro- and anti-Badoglio...
...And so w^hile I agree with you that the choice between Willkie and "any good New Deal candidate" will not be difficult for any American laborite or liberal, my conclusion is diametrically opposed to yours...
...B. Hororitt of the Coney Island Branch of the J.S.V...
...Instead the American industrialists and bankers are determined to hoard their swollen profits and to make the working people pay far taw war...
...Willkie will have to secure sufficient votes from the organization delegates to insure his beating the reactionary members of his own party...
...It cant happen here* Maybe not, but it did happen in Germany, Russia, and other Euro* peaa countries after World War I. Ia 19211923 a German paid, not 5 marks ($1) but 5,000 marks, far a sandwich...
...members must rtBort to A.L.P...
...Omodeo is quoted as being both sharply anti-Badoglio and anti-Vatican...
...When there is so much mors money than goods, prices shoot upward, unless something drastic is done to stop it, and inflation results...
...Algernon Lee uuwers questions on current topics over Radio Station WEYD (?ery Saturday evening at 9:45...
...Instruct voters to write number (1) on the paper ballots____ Aa X mark voids the ballot...
...The question-mark, which is dotted with dynamite, is of course—Will the Allies consider this as "upsetting" and "dangerous" for their "successful prosecution of the war against the Nazis...
...The National Association of Manufacturers has spent millions in a nation-wide campaign against the Treasury's tax plan, and for shift-, mg the burden of taxation from the upper-income groups to the low-income groups...
...Its officers are: H. Eobinsky, organizer...
...Arrests of minor females for'misdemeanors increased 89.5 per cent, while arrests for felonies increased 30.8 per cent...
...31st, 9 p. m. The Upper East Bronx Branch is bejng reorganized and will be own as the B. C. Vladick J.S.V...
...Though I cannot believe that the Allies would consent to spare Berlin and thus deprive themselves of what I am sure is one of their most formidable weapons, I believe that we must suggest to the United States that the Nazis be told that such strategems will not succeed in saving the beauty of the lovely Spree Athens...
...Esther Friedman speaks at the Hew Era Club, 274 Grand St., Friday, November 12th, 9 p. m. Topic: "Backgrounds for War and Peace...
...determines its procedure...
...Probably over 4 per cent...
...Pearl Willen, New York...
...The shortage of goods and the expectation of higher taxes led ta greater savings by the American people—by those who bad a margin of safety above living expenses...
...It has proven that it is lined ap with various big business groups . . . When the thousands of union men now serving oa every battle front return home, we believe that s special union veterans' organizatism can best serve their interests in the teterssn peat-war era...
...Last week many of the parties on the Italian political scene were framing platforms, expressing their respective socialist, communist, liberal and Christian-democratic views...
...The OPA's efforts to check rising coats of living, the WLB's bold-the-line policy against wage increases, do not avert the danger of inflation...
...R. J. Thomas, UAW president, stated...
...This would have brought in $400 million added revenue...
...Justice and common sense demand that surplus purchasing power be reduced by higher taxes mainly on incomes above $5,000, on estates, gifts, corporations, and war profits...
...There is much reason to believe that in some circles exception will be token to mid-war Italian radicalism, and reason, too, to believe that more than one "international politer a I crisis" is in the offing in Alhed-heid Europe...
...for I believe that Wendell Willkie is the only figure on the public horizon whose stature entitles him to the unselfish devotion which formerly was the liberal's badge of service...
...Deduct taxes and war-bond purchases, and there will remain about $25 billion surplus...
...It must be defeated...
...He is not fisted to run the country...
...Women's Committee Workshop (or the manufacture of clothing for the United Nations' war asTni" >s open daily from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. from Monday through Thursday and every Wednesday evening...
...The House Ways and Means Committee trimmed this down to less than $2 billion...
...P. S. I voted for Roosevelt three times...
...It ia thoroughly tines ail economically and politically...
...The $8 billion of net corporation profits this year ia a billion more than the big profits made-last year...
...While wages have been stabilised, prices and business profit have soared...
...August Claessens ¦till on "The Average Mind and the Roots of Prejudice" at Tht Group...
...The latter pair were named as "Trotzkyists," and the former as "bitter anti-Soviet haters...
...For in order for Mr...
...The entire economicstabilization program of the Administration— inadequate aa it is—is threatened by the revolt of Congress against the Treasury's tax plan...
...Clubs on Election Day to help near the polling plates to instruct voters...
...Why Did the State Department Send These Four to Italy...
...3rd, 8 p.m...
...Joseph Shu [man, former member of the Socialist movement tai a cousin of Frederick Shulman, died last week...
...Under the direction of the ex-Comintern agent, "Ercoli...
...Roosevelt to foe his party's nominee,' he must continue to appease the Southern machine Democrats as well as the Northern reactionaries...
...The Communist party functionaries in Italy (led by spokesman Dr...
...according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...to 6 p. m. . . .Vote for all A.L.P...
...Taxes that fall on low-income groups would scarcely touch this enormous surplus...
...Together with the untouched surplus of purchasing powgr in the hands of those with incomes above $5,dW, price ceilings could not be held down...
...Labor unions over the state are giving political, moral and financial aid to Murphy's campaign...
...now known as Palmiro Tagliotti, the Stalinist line is being given international support...
...Schenectady, N. Y.: Herbert j Marrill...
...f0r the United Textile Workers (CIO) organh*tion \j-Zgof Botany workers in Passaic, N. J., on Sunday, October BBONX The recently held county membership reunion was yfUy successful—record attendance—fine speeches—handsome j0$fm~ for A.L.P...
...Salvatore Ninfo, Bronx...
...Real on-the-spot leader of the Action forces is apparently Dr...
...The reverse will be true, I believe, in the Democratic Party...
...These facts show who can afford to pay increased taxes...
...And (2) that, even u the seat of the Government were removed to Vienna, Berlin would remain an important center of heavy industry and for this reason exposed to attack...
...The Economic Outlook (CIO) gives these eloquent figures: Net profits of tee pee ale business after taxation have increased 1*7 per cent...
...Sixty-one per cant ef American Workers get lens than $2,506 n year...
...Badoglio was advised toward the end of July to open Spezia and Genoa to the Allies...
...38 per cent...
...For a League of 1 Labor Veterans A proposal for a special veterans" organization of union members has been approved by the executive committee of the I itited Aetomomte Worker* (CIO...
...About $69 billion can be spent to buy goods and services at current prices...
...While it is obvious that you cannot suggest that Vienna be spared, as that depends exclusively upon military considerations, the Nazis should not be left under the delusion that their maneuvers will divert the bombing from Berlin to Vienna...
...And thus he will be in command of the party and not those who oppose bim...
...ejection Day, Tuesday, November 2nd...
...Hence the UAW proposal shouhi he adopted asm ear* tied •¦• Nofes on Italy (Continued from Pag* One) shaping* up, it is still going to be behind the throne when Victor Emanuel is again King of Italy in Rome...
...arrests of girls under 21 increased 64.7 per cent...
...For...
...Italian radicals are apparently willing to "fight for freedom" en the military fronts, bat insist on a program fpr freedom at home...
...Native Italian politics is still far from coherent formulation...
...A sales tax high enough to take It per cent ef SSM spent by a lew poM worker . mould take 64 per cent of s tljm income and only Z per cent of incomes above $10,000...
...Warns on Nazi Plan for Berlin To the Editor: Gentlemen: No doubt the reports of Germany's alleged intention of declaring Berlin an open city have not escaped you, as well as the rumor that many major offices of the German Government have " already been shifted to Vienna, undoubtedly with the idea behind it that if there is to be a good bombing it should rather destroy an "architecturally indifferent city like Vienna" and spare Berlin with its "incomparable beauties and attractions...
...Rape and aggravated assault, according to J. Edgar Hoover, "have definitely emerged as wartime crimes...
...NEW JERSEY.—The S.D.F...
...Congress is yielding to the pressure of powerful lobbyists opposed to increasing the taxes of the wealthy...
...he seemed at moments to be advocating "compromise" on the grounds of military necessity (i-c, the war against the Germans), and at other times to be the "purist," advocating a "truly moral leadership...
...The interests of Labor is the basis from which the SJJ.F...
...Women's Afternoon Forum starts Monday, November 15th, 1:30 p. m. Esther Friedman speaks on "Background for War and Peace...
...Vernon, N. Y, last Thursday...
...He has urged the suppression of political interference by the Catholic Church, charging that the Vatican "fostered anti-liberal politics even after Mussolini's fall...
...Friday, October 28th, 6:30 p. m., at *f White Home Tavern...
...Claessens also spoke at an 7*9 campaign rally in Mt...
...candidates...
...Count Carlo Sforza, who returned to Italy last week in a triumphant homecoming, has been vague and contradictory in various remarks in New York, London, and in Naples...
...Polls open from 7 g,m...
...H. S. Female Crimes Up, FBI Reports Male arrests declined 29.3 per cent in the first half of 1943, but female arrests increased 18.4 per cent...
...It is the opinion at moat anion men that the American Legion does not represent the interests ef the working man...
...How would yon like to pay $5 for a eap of coffee...
...This commits him to demands 'from these groups that he honor and pay off on his promises, real and implied, to them...
...But if Congress passes this tan bill there will be a spending apree, sad the oiistfcng price structure may be shot to heU...
...These remarks were described by a correspondent as "a breath of fresh air in Italy's political vacuum...
...Branch...
...The Treasury figures that our total national income will reach $152 billion during this fiscal year...
...I believe you missed a point which many liberals are overlooking...
...Inflation would menace our standard of living...
...150 West 84th St., N.Y.C., Sunday, Oct...
...All S.D.F...
...Wages ami salaries ef industrial workers have increased, after taxes...
...and the story proceeded to accuse Alberto Ciana and Alberto Tarchiani, Mazzini Society leaders, and Aldo Garosci and Bruno v Zevi, of Giustizia e Liberta, of everything including fifth-colummng...
...That represents an extremity of runaway inflation that is improbable, hot not impossible, in poet-war America The tax biB that ia being prepared by the House Ways and Means Committee right now will add to the danger...
...Cmpwlmanic candidate, vote No...
...This has acted as n brake on inflation thus far...
...But he always acts too late...
...Fascist police and district leaders," Omodeo has charged, were still intimidating the people...
...Both the King and BadogKo are very thoroughly discredited...
...While yen and I would he toned 5 to l» per cent of one interne, corporation executives and bankers would ho Used 1 to 2 per coat of their war-swollen itireases, The sales tax operates the reverse of the income tax—it btcosasa heavier aa iacomea decline Treasury experts are opposed to the sales tax for an additional reason the cofi.action costs are high...
...Special leaflet printed for rejection of Councilman Ninfo...
...The a ales tax is in effect a wage cot...
...was on Wednesday...
...August Claessens and local candidates will speak at *• vLi>.' campaign dinner...
...One international factor of unmistokeabie political direction is, of course, the Kremlin...
...Last week, for example, the Daily Worker of New York served its Naples comrades by a vicious attack on four anti-fascist exiles, who have just returned to the Italian scene...
...The sales tax would hit them below the belt...
...the banner headline screamed (Oet...
...The Treasury's plan would have increased comparatively little the taxes on people earning less than $2:000—the absolute minimum necessary for a decent life For the preservation of war-time health, morale, and production efficiency, the margin of safety of tow-income should not be wiped out...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 44
