The Farm-Labor Union News (Texarkana, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1925 Page: 3 of 4
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By Benj. C. MARSH,
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over, these artieles will give you mi
legate for each five hundred (500) ani
idea as to what effort is being
foreign brothers
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' stitution and By-Laws of the organi-
Lint cotton yield this year was pise
at Canton,
and Menns Committee of the Nanae people with the smallest income much
to he Nainaai itapputivo
the figbt.
Of ecurse vour enrrospomel
tion.
WRCEMBER 1Oth.
the loca Iretail societies.
The National Convention wil con- Committee.
W. HlLLARD,
Secretary of Commituee ,
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BOND SECIRIT BANK
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Liability
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wieh administers the grain
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Texas, in time to n
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each year an increasing share of their packers’ effort to capture the cotton tants or experts, having dug all the
trade, amounting to 20 per rent in ginning business and. cottonseed oil fnets eut of official government re.
(Omi Eta-
Konsumver-
a few combinations have net vesulted
in lower prices for the people.
tion of th" abandonment
000 acres on Otoher 19.
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vene at Texnrkana, Texas, December
lOil. Represe ntnt ion fixed by the Na-' •
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tion and from fereign trade.
Score.- of selfish interests are bo -
TO ALL
FARMER
UNION
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arety Co. Bonds
seuring ali Deposits ____
put
and
grains, telegrams, telephons
are to come out of it, office
er and light bills, andaloftheev-
since June 25, was reported as LS per
cent.
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__ $904,044.80
mittee.
All cotton that has been
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haxk an expert on taxation, meomma-and smaller percentage of tak un- method of securing lower prices for
-- der the Federal Estate Tax and point-, eon sumers through business effieien-
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For Prices Wire er Write
State Lime Hiling
PHONE 386
BONHAM, TEXAS
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NATIONAL COMMITTEE MAKES
RULING AS TO hANUK COTTON
orhen. Thea it wil he eu?
numes on a sepurat • cine 1.)
Texarkana, Texas, on D
at 8 a.m. to ass on all
15,226,000 Bales
Cotton Forecast
When Congress meets again, the same old croud will march back to Wasiiington
to feed off the Farmers. Same old manipulators. Same oli delays. Same old line
oi bunk! But, much stronger. More myiy back of it. Are we going V, whip
this old line outfit once ami for all and make Congress stand by its promises:
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ah we have to do is to tell the truth—Am! it
is time that the country learned the TRUTH!
ORGANLZF — UNIONIZE — ORGANIZE
of which
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ineh, and (0) the hapwisi Union oftered the field of proiiqetien and owna ptta and statistic it
Geman oCmsumeis’ Societies (Reich-;1a enensive product sv a plant-' for the uIp Department.
FLOUR
THE FLOUR WIrR
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tve moyemeut. The total member -
ship of all German distributive co-
egemative soeieties ineluding those
wiih do not have the form of a re-
riiet Stes. mn at th comPE85 ta sample we
Tre action of the hozra «f trade cotton on both sides of the hale and
Th €erman W spa—tire lw re-
hires the share system; several
shores may be subseribei which ale
KATS A
TON OF
Till
any definite vocation.
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ing heard before the Committees as
etative move woods in other countries, number of its affiliated societies
to why their, tnxes should he ret
states within the jurisdiction of the
Farm Labor Union of America is Na-
' tional cotton and must be sold by the
a heavy suitax
Poultry, Butter Md Egga.
711-13-15 West hm st
TEXARKANA, TEX-ARK.
tional Executive Committee is one de-
following a warnineissved las: sprinr forward the sample.' to the National
be the seeretarv after ir -estigation in or State Sale sAgent as the case maysaid expenses the vemainder goes in
wolk ami enenuraging him to keen u
Co-operative Union al Union of Cermaa Coneumers’ Soz
mr to rater the place eieties (Reichsverhand) It was foam1-.
Ginnings from rhe 1925 crop to Or . . --z g- m w g
tober IX. were placed at 9,519,784 pntaanee forthebutionalCon”
running hales, counting roune as half
Ealer. I At a recent meeting of the National
Abandonment of cottan acreage Executive Committee, I was appoiat-
cd as secretary of the eommittee, to
succeed Mr. W. J. Kyle whe recentiy
resigned from the committee to ae.
nor estate tax an mest erge
‘That does not mean that the agent
‘himssf gets the 25 cents, his sala-
ry is to come out of the same, cabie.
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Chicago board of trade to prevent! paee their bales of cotton at the com-
wide fluctuations in the grain ndarket press in their vespective counties
and predieted similar sep would be where such compress exits, and se-
Ukon by al contraet market; in the for themseives an agent and place
hefnElows: 67 per cent industrial workers,
fmeiehstam- Thei-la-k- etc.; 6 per cent skillei artisans
it in , ion Mows sub cards should not forget
German Co-operative Wholesale to inform those buying sards that m
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(Each week we will carry an artiele
the Nation.
Four impovtaat mergers in recent
I That is the only way on earth we are going
to heat the well trained gang oi speeuhators.
Cotton producing area, nfter «educ-
1,931 cept the positio nas NotfaMl * s^p
' All proposed amenimente to the enm-
eult prevai!s. There has been over-
eapitaization bared upon abnorial -
ly high eamings and there is no ade-
quate Federal supervision of the enm
binatiens. Prohably all of them Me
c0-operative soeiety exeeeds
personr. The baric German vuy autenu use zauerngs. vnes~w*E yvn-
cooperstive law is the apt of May 1, eelleetive buying associations haw de- about two week
, g1j. S . 1 0 A _ --^-S 1 g.)g g)j.„g.
and onpqses ieduct ion-of the surtaxe :, acre,
very henvily, thankinp him for his
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Gentlemen:—Fnelosed please find . ...... for....... uh scriptian ts J ior Ore
Year to the Fttrmcrs Mayttzmc at the Sprcial Rate made to all memhers of the
Farmers’ Union.
The press of ports and other reliabie sourees but
______ ed out that the Seeretary the Traps ley and elimination at excessive cost of?
, tarat- mb* Sattetieh. Igument’am familiar and we haw ftp ury is completely opposed to both the competition. Un to da‘e the first ve
1 The third large federation of dis- quemtly veported them; that heavy Bederal Estate Tas and the surtaxes
inimn „tributive co-operatives is the Imperi- taxes at lmrg incomes loads men at iwhch maakes is move difficult for him
triet must properly sample all bales The handling charge for settop thru
delivered to him and forward all sam- the state agent fa 25 cents per Laze
«MM Meter Konsumvereine)manfaeturer of suan. tohaeeo zea »?Mary of the Treasury for neas-
Togathe with the two agticulturaljand hiseuits, Me', boxes, furni-’ly two hour discussed the taxation .
PteCpMM unions (with the exeep-jture, mustard, spices, brushes eaudy," question. Mr. Mellon h a aarf ea - the Treasury’s own vepot that theinations may be viewed in two Way
w *Wy ten* and woven goods. It has a Hable and shrewa financien No fa Mt government was eolleeting axsmalleriEither as a mohae, or as a nessible
Me CfapdRw at German Co-1 fei-euling piant and operate; a
ntidhednumai Unions for the de-‘and en in a onto deptttment.
be 25 cents, th* nationa lagent does
aet. The seeretary declaved m a state in this respeet where no compress or--not rat the 25 cents himeeif but.kit
ment that any step toward ieepieg ganization exists. Where there is no salary s to come rat of it, and aN
prees in Mae with actual econontie con county organization and one or more ' spense as ***** vegarding the
ditions would benefit farne’s nd alljlocals are organised in said county “Ee6!.
other legitimate husinss intere: is ana they shall have the right to pool Mr ‘Thestateand t -
establish publie confidence in the mar- cotton at theit nearest shipping point all charges for th shippipgofqompi
cent eombinations, and dissolution of to the compress district agent end
It is the duty of said compress agent
to so notify the National Sales Agent
tie market be.
of agrriculftte, it fa the duty of the county earn-
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future mitte to funetior for the membership
First. Where there is an organiz- select their agent
ed district the grader at such dis. tion at same.
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Washington, D. C Get. 26 — Fo -
tne consumers’ societies hnve there - f
core estnblisehed savings bnadbks for a
the eonvenenev at their mencm. As
transportation eosts and facilitate dis- - . .......
.__________ irihutjon the wholeaale soclety oper-itnte (inheritamce) Tax ant reduetion income tax thoy paid ineluding surtax years have eniled a ‘tent ion to the ne
fo, (2) the Central Va- »tes larhe braneh warehouses nt it of the surtaxes on ineomoa to a tew was only an averare of 13.6 per cent cessity for earefui government super-
nprtont eo-operative context fiture of 16 per cent to 20 per cent, on their agzvegnte net income and af-;vision of these rreat combinatiq .
The wholesale society has also en • supported by a large number at ex- ter paying it they had left an aver-The aluminum combine, the ArmVr
fvom the Tens- nge of $46,280. This is considerable Morrie merger, the propsod hkery
more than the net weaith of most peo- merger, and th'* threatened milk cbm
pie who are not subject to surtax. jbine, have fulty ilustrated the tenden-
I also showed iwthe same way fromcy ia morern Lu ’ e s. These comh;
ed at an average of 164.7 pounis per
Ff,se cnde Nr embahtr fevmera son 5
Ant fred the tri weed "rmm Me wE
ip 1919 its memhership in-
184 distributive sncieties with
the Farmers' National Council ami of the Federal inheritance taxes ane
Executive seeretary of the Peoples'. reduet ion of surtaxes are really an-
Managing Director, Farmers Nation. Reeonstruetion League, folhoe edSec-xious to untax the rich, since nostate
' al counei t etary Menmon as a witness before can effective collect
• the Ways and Means Committee which
the members of the wholesale society I am very glad to beable to report had assigned him half an hour but
the worla are not obligated to purhase their that the Federal Trade Commission or which extended Ma time to an hour.
wypii-. bom it, tiey h.e, g.rn itjdered°the investigation of the meat He did not have any corps of assis-
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or repealed. So far as I know th"
writer was the only on ewho zprenr d
on behalf, of the general publie in
favor of our American Tax Reduetin
Plan, to repeal taxes on consumpti m
paid by the coinmop pec pie and! to
retain income and estate taxes until
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। at least the war debt is paid.
|‘ We sineere'y hope that readers of
the Union News will vrrite tn .Honor-
able William R. Green. Chairman of
the Ways and Menns Committea. The
Capitol. Washineton. D. C., who is
fvieneily te retain' g the estate tax
Washington, Oct. 17.—Secretary National Sales Agent.
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legai. They have th* means b h ire
fer v. hi. can pass on this ques •
tion just about as definitely as the
gamblers, politicians, ant prelected middlemen
and loan sharks who want the government tn
audit the farmers hooks so they can squeeze the
last dollar out of the farmers' products and
♦nil. The Farmers Magazine gives the
farmers the truth about the farmers' husiness
so you can have the whole story at your fingers’
ton production this year wEs forecast. . g.
luce । by the departnvent of agriculture at I 15 . _
12ooc Ann 1 i .. . . The National Commit
15,226,000 bnles cn the hasis of a sur-
vey made October 18.
eiety attend these gatherings These Commiite piane to hold hearings tor,with lorwe incomes. In 1923 there
' ‘ is and then redraft were 56446 rat urns of net incomes
meze f’fieient maqagement. Our ae-
ti-trust laws have not prevented re-
Christian Nationalist
has its stronghola ht
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(WMIsF-r Hl JkUmPMi wom
1903 and 31.8 per cent iu 1920. The refining, expedited.
nrule there s no dividau1 dt: <n
0" haves, and vhe rate af interest pniet
S0 n deposits eepends upM busmers
arouditions. Fror to the war it w.
"t"a per cent 4 nd at that $h * * rhore
uionsEwas 20 marks. Subseque..t I+ur*‛a
„2tinn of money has great’y vaim! te
Ejominal value at the shaes and he
60un rate at intenn st
the bale ami forward same with the gn"Rationa
corresponding number detached from Hoping this _ *
the gm tag an al ether grader-sales- faetory with the entite memberhiA I
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your aHnbe
•Id will centinu • the fight mi hehalf
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I wealth to conceal them and to invest to enforce the rates which Congress
| h. tax-exempt securities mesrribed. I toll the Committee
" The writer a. managing directer of that those who advocate the repeal
| i than ten (IP) day* before the Con-
NATIONAL CONVEN- XtiCtf MmXi
TION TO CONVENE । cum mittee ar the *'^11 an* Conva-
is work in the Chicago office of the com- he was able to show that the capital
a,on6, mission had blacked this for a time investments were larger with the hesv
j\'' institution which in recent years .but agents ar now making the in - iet surtaxes, than with the reduction
Has become of great praetical vatue vestigation and we hope that there in th esurtax rates made since the
cinsists in the so-called "buying will be some tangible and helpful re- war, that .he total income of those
associations (Einkaufsvereingngem sulfo. receiving incomes in exeess of $100,-
These are voluntary associations of The National Capital is not yet 000, subject to the high smtaxee ra-
eo-operative societies within a certain back into its accustomed activity but "ueed on incomes for 1923 had iaereas
territory which arrange collective mar many Congressmen and Senators have ed much less than the aggregate in-
stuength at the eo-operative distribu- ket days zenerally v n anth, । re.urned and are getting lined up for come people not subjeet to the sur
when they pool th er «. a d thurjthe next session nf Cnaffmm. The,taxes.
prucmne i < ir supp:t • at r • •1 1 wer most important publie event has heen I also sheweri the injustice nf th*
-vs tian if eac. 4xut, wae itethe starting of heavings by the Way.- prerent eensumption taxes which hit
puchares by itself. «;l sma reyre-
senting the Hamburg Wholesale So- this week on the Revene MR. The, harder than the surtaxes affect those
Jardine today expressed asprovel of Al’, organized counties that are not
the adoption of revised rules by the organized in compress distriets shall
veloped h to an impoitaut esmneeti. i’the entire Revenue Nil. The first in excess of PMNW. The argvegate
socie- link between the wholesale soeiety and ‛ day’s session was given over to See- net income .being in round figuresjcf the farmers and wage eurne 1
To reduce' retary nt the Treasury Mellon to ad-1 $3,098,000,000. Of this nearly two
i vocate his repeal of the Pederal Fa- thirds came from property. The total
Supreme Court of the United State-
Thera should be a Federal law andecutive C
enenev to prevent oer eapitalizfioni Seoonii:
ard to see that consumers g*t theirisigned up by the membership wheth-
fair -lire of zhe advantages of a er it is specified bales or crap as aey for samples fomurded tetmmi
Ag13 per eent farmers; 8 per cent muri-i
oranizatioms or indus- cipal and State officials and other pro
4 a^ia^tnt^, ataKnatt^ taata^aa 3 per eent agricultural worta-
ions, and the consumers eo-operatives-fers; ane 13 per cent persons without
The Central Union at German Con-
Gions become too large ane
JARDINR APPROVES FLAN o
TO REVISE FIT’S Rin.Es
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