Producing Own Necessities
Upton Sinclair’s Plan For the Unemployed
ADOPTION BY STATE DEMOCRATS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 9.55 p.m. VANCOUVER, Sept. 20. Upton Sinclair’s epic plan by which unemployed men would be placed on idle farm lands and in defunct factories to produce their own necessities, was embodied virtually in full' iu a platform overwhelmingly adopted by the Democratic State- Convention at Sacramento (California). Among those voting in favour of the platform was Senator William Gibbs AlcAdoo.
As the first step in executing the epic plan, the platform anticipated an increase iu the present State deficit of from 30,000,000 dollars to 130,000,000 dollars. The tax structure would be revised to repeal ihe sales tax on necessities of life and. to place income tax on corporations and individuals, just and moderate increases -in bank and inheritances taxes, and an honest assessment, of personal property and intangibles.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 222, 22 September 1934, Page 4
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