SUP, Employers
Reach Agreement
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other unions received increases.
The AFL sailors had asked for
increases ranging from $20 to $60
a m mth. Employers countered
with an offer ranging from $16 to
$155. The top pay of the highest
group—boastwains—now is $290
monthly.
SUP secretary Harry Lundeberg
said the union negotiating com
mittee would recommend accept
ance of the settlement at a special
meeting tonight.
An agreement also appeared to
be near in the coast steam schoon
er dispute. They remained tied up
at the end of the recent strike. A
$12 a month increase had been
proposed by the operators. Three
unions refused to accept the offer.
Wednesday, however, the unaf
tihated marine firemen and coast
wise operators reached a tenta
tive settlement on a $16 monthly
increase. A union meeting will be
held to discuss the employers’ of
fer. A similar offer was made to
CIO radio officers and marine
cooks and meetings are pending
for both unions*__
Major Tax Pro
gram Will io
(Jiven Legislature
• Continued from Page One'
| session.
He said at that itme, in discuss
j ing “where is the money coming
' from?” That “the legislature will
have no difficulty in answering
that question if it desires to find
, the answer.”
His first suggestions were for
i taxes on the construction mdus
I try, which was involved in build
ing the major Alaska defense
bases, and possibly a withholding
tax of around 2 per cent on the
wages of thousands of construc
tion workers.
In that regard, he noted that
“opportunity appears to be knock
ing twice" through the big post
war contracts.
He named a long list of busi
j nesses which he said paid no di
rect taxes to the Territory and
which offered a source of new rev
enue.
He headed the list with steam
I ship companies, air transportation
I r'nmno —— , 1Jtoi'aCompanies
President Makes
Plans For **New
Deal” Program
more friendly with the United
States, replied:
“I can't say, because my ac
quaintance with the politburo is
very limited,” The politburo,
headed by Marshal Stalin, is he
communist agency which runs
iussia.
At his news conference Mr, Tru
man declined to clarify his state
ment except to say that it was not
and banks.
He cited persons living outside
of incorporated cities as escap ng
local taxes and suggested that they
might be a new revenue source.
He also mentioned the thousands
of seasonal workers.
Main sources of revenue, under
existing tax laws, cited for 1949-50
by the board of budget are: excise
taxes on liquor, $1,800,000; salmon
canneries pack tax $800,000; sal
fnon canneries net income tax
$150,000; fish trap licenses $300,
000; motor fuel oil tax $1,000000;
mines and mining $300,000; school
tax $370,000; automobile license
plates $280,000.
connected with hi.: cnmpaig 1 re
mark last June that "Old Joe” S a
lin was a likeable fellow who
v nled o live up to his agree
ments but was a prisoner of the
• >i- -ouio.
There were reports, said a news
1.1. n, that Barkley had gone to
mope with credentials from the
’1 sident to negotiate with Soviet
e iers believed to be friendly to
■ United States. Mr. Truman
. ickled.
is it not remarkable, he added,
to what extent speculation can
go? Laughingly he suggested that
enorters just keep on speculating
—it’s good.
The President discussed other
foreign matters with newsmen, too
He denied that Gen. MacArthur
had orders to rearm Japan—the
state depart nent later described
reports .hat MacArthur had him
self suggested such a move as “to
tally without foundation.”
Asked about his plans for pos
sible new military and economic
aid to non-communist China, Mr.1
Truman indicated that no deci
sions might be expected for many
weeks, noting that the question
doesn't come up until the first of
April, when the present $400,000,
000 China aid program is due to
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