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...least willing to pay the taxes." Government experts have for generations been trying to devise such a means of raising revenue that the burden will be divided justly among all classes and all individuals--and are continually failing. By levying upon corporations a flat tax of ten percent on profits--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate up profit--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate to profits which exceed a stipulated percentage of the capital investment the Government has attempted to levy a tax on surplus profits which would not be felt by industry...
...Gompers' commentary is some what upset by the finding of fact by the Naval Consulting Board, which examined the capacity of American establishments to manufacture munitions, that of 18,654 plans, substantially 10 percent were union, and that of 1700 odd plants engaged in the fundamental manufactures, substantially 4 percent were union Nor is it irrelevant to call attention at this point to the fact that one of the first acts of the British Ministry, at the out-break of the War, was to negotiate the famous Treasury Agreement. By that, Mr. Lloyd George, as Minister of Munitions, asked...
Partisan feeling is at present running high, inasmuch as tomorrow is the date set for holding the plebiscite. The people living in Upper Silesia who are permitted to participate in the voting, number about 600,000, of whom 62 percent are Polish. This number would be sufficient to ensure a Polish victory were it not for the provision in the Versailles Treaty, which permits the return of all the native sons to the plebiscite who were born there before the year 1900. Germany is naturally making every effort to have all those born in Silesia return to their birthplace...
...standing of the teams at present is as follows. Won Lost Percent...
...replied, "Labor will make a concerted and organized resistance. It is not an easy thing to destroy an organization of five million men. Most of the trouble now-a-days is due to the fomentation of latent discontent by agents provocateurs'. The fact of the matter is that 80 percent of all detective agencies are engaged in industrial trouble. The whole scheme is dastardly. One of the things the agents provocateurs' do is to encourage and bring about demands before the organization is ready...