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Program, Broadly Nominee Thomas advocates the "class struggle'' involving the peaceful displacement of capitalism by an economic system wherein the State owns and controls production for the common good. This does not mean nationalization of all industry along the lines of the postal service, with the Government owning and running everything to the exclusion of worker and consumer alike. According to Mr. Thomas, the nation would become socialized in the sense that, while the Government would be the proprietor, workers and consumers would be the operators of the industrial machine. He considers government more efficient and honest than private business...
...revealed by Writer William P. Helm in his recent syndicated articles, over $40,000,000 has been paid by the Post Office Department to shipping companies under these contracts for the carriage of mails that actually brought to the Government a total postal revenue of only...
Last week Senator Reed voted aggressively for each & every "nuisance" tax item that appeared. In addition, he got back of the second-class postal rate increases. What he expected soon happened. The potent motor, radio, cosmetics, and candy lobbies whose products had been singled out for taxation sent up a wounded howl. The proposed tax on bank checks trod on the toes of the American Bankers Association. Publishers, many of them on failure's brink, protested the postal rates...
With an estimated 45 votes behind him, Massachusetts' Walsh, never before a Sales Tax champion, suddenly brought forth a measure to make the second-class postal increase unnecessary (a bid for Press support) and tax all manufacturers alike. He proposed a 1.75%, general manufacturers sales tax, conservatively estimated to yield $325,000,000, the law to expire July 1, 1934. Exempt would be food, cheap clothing, agricultural products, workmen's tools, tobacco, nonproprietary medicines, periodicals...
...Four postal clerks were called on the carpet and roughly rebuked for cancelling stamps in such a way as to smudge the face of His Majesty King Carol...