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6 Heppner Gazette Times, January T in46 WHO HAS TO FILE T X FORM BY JANUARY 15 1. What Federal tax form must be filed by January 15th? Your 1945 Declaration of Estimated Tax (or an amendment of your 1945 declaration.) 2. Does everyone have to file a not be confused with the regular Decaration? No. This filing should time for filing annua income tax returns, which must be filed not later than March 15. 3. Who does have to file January 15? Three groups as follows: (a) farmers, (b) persons who filed a 1945 Declaration of Estimated Tax, but wish to change their estimates, (c) persons who shoud have filed a 1945 Declaration but have failed to do so. 4. Did everybody have to file a 1945 Declaration? No. Only persons whose wages last "year exceeded $5,000 plus $500 for every exemp tion except their own and persons who had over $100 income outside of wages from which tax was with held (assuming their overall in come was at least $500). 5. What are some examples? A wasreearner with a wife and one child has two exemptions besides his own, and if his wages exceeded $6,000 ($5,000 plus $500 plus $500), he had to file a 1945 Declaration. Also required to file were mer chants, landlords, lawyers, doctors, and others vhc received income from which tax was not withheld. 6. Why is January 15 a special date for farmers? Other taxpayers were required to file declarations last March, but the law specifically permitted farmers to wait until the next January 15. o ON WAY IIO?,IE According to information com ing from Pearl Harbor, Danald Jones, SKD lc, is one of 800 high point navy veterans whom the "Magic Carpet" is bringing back to the States aboard the U. S. S. Wayne. The U. S. S. Wayne, one of more than 300 carriers, battleships, cru:sers and attack transports in the navy's famed "Magic Carpet" fleet, left Manila Dec. 17 and waa scheduled to arrive in Seattle about Jan. 4. Passengers will go erectly to the separation centers nearest their homes to complete for.malities of obtaining their dis charges before returning to civilian life. 55 n I -A u DOlC (HIT f BB " r n n J Wit, Which is the UAW-CIO really after? Is it seeking facts or new economic power? Does it want to know things or run things? These questions concern you as well as General Motors. For years the facts about General Motors have been made public. In spite of this, the UAW-CIO demands a chance to look at our books, with the hint that we could meet Union demands "if the truth were really known." We have firmly declined to recognize this as a basis for bargaining: 1 The Ful! Facts are Published How much General Motors takes in each year how much it pays employes how much it pays to stockholders how much it pays in taxes how much net profit we make and many other facts are plainly stated in annual reports and quarterly reports. These are broadcast to 425,000 stockholders from coast to coast sent to newspapers and libraries. Additional copies are free for the asking. a All Figures are Thoroughly Checked Every General Motors annual statement is audited by outside auditors. Similar figures are filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission. Does the UAW-CIO honestly believe that General Motors would or could deceive these experts? 3a Basis of Collective Bargaining is Defined The Wagner Act lays down the rules for collective bargaining. These cover such areas as rates of pay, hours of work, working conditions. No mention is made of earnings, prices, sales volume, taxes and the like. These are recognized as the problems of management. wm Something New has been Added The obvious fact is that the UAW-CIO has gone beyond its rights under the law and is reaching not for information but for new power-not for a look at past figures, but for the power to sit in on forecasting and planning the future, A "look at the books" is a clever catch phrase intended as an opening wedge whereby Unions hope to pry their way into the whole field of management. It leads surely to the day when Union bosses, under threat of strike, will demand the right to tell what we can make, when we can make it, where we can make it, and how much we must charge 3OM-all with an eye on what labor can take out of the business, rather than on the value that goes into the product. 5 This Thrsaisns ASS Business If the Union can do this in the case of General Motors, it can i do it to every business in this land of ours. Is this just imagination? Union spokesmen have said, "The Union has stated time after time that this issue is bigger than just an ordinary wage argument, that it is bigger than the Corporation and bigger than the Union." For Labor Unions to use the monopolistic power of their vast mem bership to extend the scope of wage negotiations to include more than wages, hours and working conditions is the first step toward handing the management of business over to the Union bosses. We therefore reject the idea of a "look at the books" not because we have anything to hide but because the idea itself hides a threat to GM, to all business, and to you, the public. 3 a j -a jll 111 -3 "MORE AND BETTER THINGS FOR MORE PEOPLE"