EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1934 - ::sxuumfnn^A. ijj 5 B 8 § ^ * 5 ^ 5 ^ WOULD we stand for a law that kept 3 0 0 0 families out of Oregon? Of course we wouldn’t! So it’s up to us to vote the antagonistic Income Tax Law out of existence! For it has already lost for Oregon payrolls amount ing to more than six million dollars ($6,000,000) a year! And six million dollars means at least 3000 families who are lost to Oregon’s popula tion in just one year under this dangerous law. Oregon needs Jobs and Markets The Income Tax kills both! Vote 312X YES and kill the Income T ax! 1 59 Industries lost to Oregon in a single year —oth ers hreatened Recorded Damage Due to State Income Tax 32 22 Yet the income tax law antagonizes industries and enterprises. Many au thentic cases are on file where industries MOVED OUT OF OREGON OR DECIDED NOT TO COME TO OREGON because of the income tax law. Counting loss of capital invested, purchases and payroll, this loss is already conservatively estimated at more than $40,000,000. The payroll loss alone is already over $6,000,000 a year I li These figures show the appalling effect of this unwise tax law which antagonizes industries on which a large part of our growth and prosperity depend. 10 If there are two things Oregon needs above all others it is (1 ) jobs for her workers, and (2) markets for her products. Every new enterprise or in dustry brought into Oregon means more jobs. Jobs support population. Ev ery increase in population means a better market for farm and factory products. ' i Tim ber purchases cancelled or sus pended .......................................................$18,000,000 C onstruction of lum ber mills, towns, logging camps and logging railways abandoned or suspended...................... 7,875,000 O ther industrial investm ents can celled or suspended.............................. 4,578,000 One year’s operating payroll on foregoing i t e m s ..................................... 5,680,000 D isincorporations, $4,606,000 capi- ital. Damage listed 1/10 o n ly ........... 460,600 A ctual removals from the state, in cluding loss of only one year’s pay roll ............................................................ 2,440,250 T hreatened rem ovals, including lose of only one year’s p ay ro ll................... 2,218,500 31 34 21 Cases as to which definite «mounts are not available, but which would am ount to m any millions; damage listed as .................................................. Cases still under in vestigation; would amount to many millions; dam age listed as ................................... Cases in which reported removal or investm ent elsewhere was stated to have been caused by the income tax but which cannot be verified in w ritin g ; damage listed a s .................. D am age . . . . 0 0 0 $ 4 1 ,2 5 2 ,3 5 0 These figures certified conservative and correct b y : F R A N K E. A N D R E W S , C H A RLES H . ST EW A R T , BEN SELLING, C H R ISS A . BELL, J. K . GILL. The customer who quits and says nothing — T h e insidious thing a b o u t this law is th at industries do n o t com plain— they simply pack up and m ove to an o th er state I T hey are like the custom er w ho quits and says nothing— you never know he is dissatisfied n o r w hy — hence h av e no chance to m ake m atters right w ith him . M any large concerns w ho left or stayed out of O re gon on account of the incom e tax refused to allow us to use their nam es because they d id n o t w ant to b e m ad e to a p p e a r as tax d o d g ers— and yet they could n o t a f ford to carry a tax b u rd en in O regon w hich they d id not need to pay in C alifornia or W ashington 1 T h ere is an old ad ag e which says, "B usiness is sensitive. It goes only w here it is invited an d stays only w here it is well tre a te d .” W e can n o t afford to A N T A G O N IZ E enterprises w hich o th er states are IN V IT IN G I This insidious law must go It is hurting Oregon! • • * wa h id planned to e atib llih our N orthw est headquarter* in P ortland. W e changed our plans, and ir e locating ift Seattle because of the adverse Oregon Tax Law. T H E B O Y L B -D A Y T O N CO ., L o a Angeles. M ad we known the Oregon Incom e Tax Law would h iv a pasted, we certainly would have bought tim ber in W ashington or B ritish Columbia, father than in Ore* ton. C E N T R A L C O A L ft C O K E CO., K ansas City, O w ners of V ernonia, O re,, developm ent We had planned on erecting a sawmill « a coat of Approximately $100,0(10 and four miles of logging rail« toad. This Would increase our logging facilities which Would amount to an expenditure of abcxit $150,000 addt- T H B G L E N D A L E L U M B E R CO., Glendale, Oregon, O n receipt of • draft of th e state income tax law at Our New York headquarters, in structions were aent to tlo*« th e Pacific Coast branch at P ortland, February LK W IS-M K A R S CO ., New York. Wa would not consider any further expansion At long as there is a state income u x in O regon. B A R N B S L IN D S L E Y M FO. C O „ Portland, Ora. Wa had completed plans and specincationa for a building to be used at a warehouse and offices for a Urge corporation w ith headquarters in California, but these plans fell through when they learned of the state Income tax measure. W ill do nothin^ further in tlill matter until the income tax m easure is settled. H O L M A N T R A N S F E R CO ., Portland, Cr*f.on. Will reduce our operation* in O regon and possibly go to Vancouver, W ashington. -------------- I E CO., Portland, Ora. C O A ST C -------------- U L V E R T ft < P L U JM Read these extracts from letters. The originals and hundreds more like them are on file. Then go to the polls November 4th and rid Oregon of this objectionable law which is keeping millions or dollars and thousands of people away from our state. W hen the S tate 6f O regon passed the state income tax law, then we believed it best to re-incorporate the company in California, which was done. B E N S O N L U M B E R CO ., San Diego, Cal. * * • we cannot perm it ourselvea to be burdened with any taxes th a t our com petitors, the m ajority of whom are in W ashington, do not have to pay. For th at reason we figure th a t if the Income tax is to be perm anent, we, in self preservation, m ust w ith draw our headquarters to another atate. M ft M W O O D W O R K IN G CO ., Portland, O regon. Coming from W isconsin, w here we have had a state Ihcome tax for several vears, we are fam iliar w ith that deterrent to business development, and we, ourselves, as well as m any others whom we know, left W isconsin for the came reason for which we hesitate to go into business in O regon. W M . M. BRAY, 8ecy.-Treas., O shkosh Land ft T im ber Co., O shkosh, W is .; Pres. Klam ath Logging Co., K lam ath Falls, O re.; Pres. Sprague River Co., Chlloquin. O r#.; Third largest owners in K lam ath C ounty. W e had acquired property for the erection of a w arehouse when we learned of this law. I have heretofore advised on similar requests th a t we cannot m aintain our business in Oregon if the statute is upheld. T R U S C O N S T E E L C O M PA N Y , Y oungstown, Ohio, W . F. G uthrie, V. P. W ill lim it expansion to m ost absolute necessities to com plete present functions, a reduction of 65% in program . On account of the severity and injustice of the Oregon income tax law we have decided to cut down our proposed building and equipm ent project from $35,000 to $12,000, and had we realized that thia tax would become effective, we would not have budgeted any additional improvem ent a t , Oregon. W E S T E R N L U M B E R M FG . CO., San Pranciaco. U nless the law is repealed we are seriously con sidering incorporating our Seattle house separately and diverting also to them all O regon business th a t it ii possible for them to handle. C L Y D E E Q U IP M E N T CO ., P ortland, Oregon. O ur com pany will not expand In P ortlan d so long as there is a State Incom e Tax Law. T he principal reason our head office was not located in P ortland was on this account. B U N G E W E S T E R N G R A IN C O R P O R A T IO N , Portland. Oregon. * * * had we not already opened our office there, and established ourselves, we certainly would not do it now, and furtherm ore, we have been considering the advisability of discontinuing our branch there. T H E B. F. ST U R T E V A N T CO., San Franciaco. Mr. H erbert A rm strong, W estern M anager for the M enasha W oodenware company, stated that they were figuring on moving the W estern W oodenw are Com pany from Tacom a to Coos Bay, and had already p u r chased site on our w aterfront. L ater stated they would not do anything at all tow ard a change until they had seen the effect of the O regon State Incom e Tax Law. H . G. K E R N , President, F irst N ational Bank, N orth Bend, Oregon. O ur original plans of operations in O regon called for an annual production of 200 million feet of lum ber, w hereas our present plans call for only 20% of that am ount. Furtherm ore, we had planned on con structing and operating a large Door and Sash Factory in connection with our lum bering plant, but with this threatening legislation there is no encouragem ent for us to invest the necessary capital for carrying out ouf original plana. We hope that the m ajority of the people in Oregon will ultim ately change their present attitude toward« capital and industry, to the end that it will be a weU come visitor in every section of the state. M O U N T E M IL Y T IM B E R CO., La Grand«, Ora. • • * wa contem plated putting in an electric steel furnace, bu t will not do this until the law has been changed. B E N D IR O N W O R K S. T i l 1 C t n V I n a n i i n c n l r p n r l v I n s t for Ore8on more than 40 million dollars just for the purpose of JL l l l o LLI'A l l A t v IL L 4/0 L&G/f l U o v SOaking our enterprises 2 or 3 millions a year. Is that good business or good sense? The situation is critical. It must be met by intelligent voting. If we want Oregon to grow we must vote to KILL THE STATE INCOME TAX IaitUt*d b r C. C. Cbapm.n, Editer, Orrgon Veter, 22.3 Worcnrtcr Bnttd- b ,. Portland, O rerm -tX C O W Z TAX aKPEA I^-Purroee: T . re veal ehapter 22» o f tbn O ra m i Lew. e f Oregon of 1*23, ltoo-n ai tbe Incorno T ei Art Vote TE8 or NO the In to 3Ë ns ’Vote 312 X Yes J* Xo M ako eure y o u r b a ilo t i* m a rk e d thin w ay raid arWerdeement, Portland Chamber of Commerre Committee for repeal of Income Tea, W. S. Baboon, Chairmen, residence 542 E a,t 15th Street, North, Portland, Oregon, Paid Advertisement .. H i * More on Case of Ere*. H ere’s an actual case, and it should be an object lesson w orth w hile: A Clackam as county m an has 285 hens and It has been his custom to sim ply fill the cases, regardless of size o r cleanliness, and ship them in. And he got the “case count" price, which at this time was 45 cents per dozen or $27 for two cases. A poultrym an advised him to grade, clean and classify the next shipm ent, which he did, and w ith the m arket price the sam e as the week before, here w as the resu lt: Out of the 60 dozen he culled 15 dozen, which were undersized, stained or m isshapened. These filled a before, a net gain of $3 25, or half case, and he labeled them i $1.62 cents per case. as seconds. The o th er 45 doz T here are nearly alw ays fair en were first class eggs and so m ark ets for first class quality, labeled in th e case. He got 45 cents per dozen for the 15 doz and the egg-producer m ight as en seconds, $7.75, and 50 cents well get th e higher price as the I for the 45 dozen selects, $22.50,! dealer who grades his eggs. a total of $30.25 as ag ain st $27 Five cents per dozen is good ' for the sam e eggs of the week m oney for grading eggs. .....— ¿r- -j ■ ■- Powerful Farmer Association*. Seven hundred thousand farm ers are associated in the control and m arketing of four products, grain, rice, tobacco i and cotton. One w heat asso ciation has 63,000 members. The farm ers a re fast learning th a t they m ust take over the (speculative profits of tbe middle BEr: i "SX-riafiRB Interests and handle th eir prod ucts them selves; th a t far more profit has been made a fte r the products leave the farm than in the production thereof. And as they learn they will build m ore strongly. The Eastern Clackama New s $1.50 the year.