SOLVING UNEMPLOYMENT
UPTON SINCLAIR'S FLAN SUPPORT FROM DEMOCRATS (Received September 21, 8.35 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 The plan of the American novelist Mr. Upton Sinclair, 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 in the platform adopted by an overwhelming majority at the Democrat State convention to-day. Among those voting in favour of the platform was Mr. W. G. McAdoo, a member of the Senate. As a first step in executing the plan, the platform anticipates an increase from the present State deficit of 30,000,000 dollars to 130,000,000 dollars. The taxation system would be revised to repeal the sales tax on necessities of life and to adjust incometax on corporations and individuals, just and moderate increases in bank and inheritances taxes, and an honest assessment of personal property.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 11
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146SOLVING UNEMPLOYMENT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21912, 22 September 1934, Page 11
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