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AF and Gorton announce campaign tour to go next to Spokane and Pullman. AF has accepted a debate invitation; Cherberg hasn't

Tri-City Herald

Fletcher Sets Campaign Tour

Explains the positive implication's of Nixon's monetary policy on Black unemployment

Fletcher

PRESIDENT NIXON'S NEW ECONOMIC POLICY : 
Th1PLICATIONS FOR-BLACK AMERICA 
Black Americans have a vital stake -in the outcome of the New ~conomic 
Policy announced by the President on August 15, 1971. The President's 
new program is designed to: 
1) Create jobs 
2) Stop inflation 
3) Stabilize the dollar 
CREATION OF NEW JOBS 
Measures: 
Job Development Tax Credit 
Acceleration of Tax Cufs ~ 
Temporary Import Surcharge--
Repeal of 7% Auto Excise Tax 
1) Blacks consistently are hit harder by unemployment than whites. 
Latest figures for Aug., 1971 show white unemployment to be ·s. 6%, but 
for blacks, 9. 8%. -
2) President's New Economic Policy measures estimated to pro-
duce between 500, 000 and one-million new jobs -- blacks stand to make 
significant employment gains. 
3) Job Development Tax Credit for business is designed to stimu-
late capital investment in capital equipment purchases. Machine tool and 
other capital goods producers are traditionally high-paying employers of 
blacks. Their expansion thus would greatly improve black unemploym~nt 
posture. 
- 4) Repeal of 7% automobile excise tax would greatly increase black 
employment opportunities in automobile and related industries such as 
steel, rubber, copper, glass and leather manufacturers. 
5) Blacks both skilled and unskilled have been significantly repre-
sented in these industries. For each additional 100, 000 cars sold, 25, 000 
new jobs will be created, thousands for black workers . 
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6) Small black businesses would be greatly helped in expansion 
by the 10% Job Development Tax Credit. Expansion of existing busi-
nesses and formation of new ones would be greatly stimulated. 
7) Job stimulation measures would be of financial benefit as well. 
· Bl~~ks are a significant part. of the car buying public, and thus would 
- be saving some $200 on a new car purchase if the 7% excise tax is 
repealed. Accelerated reductions in personal exemptions would save 
the average black family·between $50 and $110 per year in taxes. 
... 
8) Temporary 10% import surcharge will make U. S. products 
much more competitive with cheap foreign imports, hence opening 
still more job opportunities for blacks. · 
STOP INFLATION 
Measures: 
Wage-Price Freeze 
Reduction in Federal Spending 
1) 
badly. 
Inflation -- rising prices -- hurts black and poor people very 
Stopping inflation thus is of prime concern to blacks. 
2) Prices in inflationary periods always rise faster than wages, 
and this is especially true of lower income persons, such as many 
blacks. The President's 90-day freeze is designed to control inflation 
by temporarily freezing the key elements that contribute to it. 
3) Since blacks are the poorest people in the nation, with the low-
est wages, and are severely affected by inflation, the President's 
efforts to stop it is of great direct benefit to Blacks. The cost 
<?f food, professional services, rents and other vital necessities will not 
rise during the freeze and will be much less inflationary thereafter. 
4) Although government spending is being cut to offset the infla-
tionary impact of the other fiscal measures, it is highly unlikely that 
blacks will be severely affected. Blacks in recent years have done 
well in spite of government cutbacks. From November 1969 to May 
1970, minorities employed by the federal government increased by 
1, 363 while total employment decreased by 8, 655. Blacks are still 
catching up in government employment, and programs in furtherance 
of this objective will not be curtailed by the fre.eze . 
. . 
2) 
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STABILIZE THE DOLLAR 
. Measures: 
Suspension of Convertibility of Dollars to Gold 
Limitation on uses of U. S. International Reserve As sets 
Suspension of automatic use of Federal Reserve Swap Network 
1) These monetary measures taken together are designed to sta-
bilize the value of the American dollar overseas, and to encourage 
badly needed reforms in international monetary arrangements. 
2) Changing the relative value of the dollar to foreign cur-
rencies would make American products more competitive at home 
and overseas. Not only would such an occul.T<:n::e improve our trade 
position but it also would open up job opportunities for thousands of 
Americans. Blacks would be directly benefitted. 
3) Monetary actions also likely to result in a lowering of do-
mestic interest rates which had a tendency to be raised to prevent 
an outflow of American investment dollars. Lower interest rates 
will lower the cost of borrowing for the purchase of homes, auto-
mobiles and all other goods. Poor people and blacks stand to make 
direct gains as a result. 
3) 
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English

President Nixon's New Economic Policy: Implications for Black America

Information about upcoming conference on real estate developments

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Earl "Fatha" Hines, jazz pianist, meets with Hodgson; he's recording a "stay in school" song

Los Angeles Sentinel

Fatha' Hines Urges Youth to Get Good Education

Riesel says that the union leaders have declared war on Shultz and Nixon over the RPP

Riesel, Victor

Torrid New Year: Labor Leaders Declare Open War on Nixon on All Fronts

Tisdale, Janie R.

Correspondence

Difficult to read, often illegible, and of uncertain value

Everett Herald

On Way Out

Spokane Spokesman Review

Political Roundup: Cherberg Assails Tactics

Cummings, Robert

AuburnGlobe News

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.A~ urn, Nn . 
Ci.re. \V. 
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Robert z, "2..0 
. OLJMPIA - While Gov. Dan Evans has en· 
vis_one
1 
a Republican "team-effort" in this cam-
paign le mav cha11g h. · his ' · e is mind nnd campaign on 
own - as !le did four years ngo - after he 
analyz~s the primary-election returns. 
Evans, polling but 42.6 per cent of the total 
vote cast for goYernor. has his own work c:ut out 
for him. Meanwhile. Art Fletcher. the Republi-
can non1inee for lieutenant governor, polled but 
28 per cent of the vote cast for that office and 
Slade Gorton, another Republican nom\nee. 
polled only 22.4 per cent of the vote cast for at-
torney general. 
Only member of the statewide "team effort" 
who did well in the primaries was Secy. of State 
Lud Kramer, who received 62.2 per cent of the 
total vote cast for his office. 
Not only did Kramer lead the ticket, but he 
polled more votes than any candidate on the bal-
lot in either political party, even outpolling U.S. 
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson. 
Edwin J. Alexander, Republican nominee 
for treasurer, got 32 per cent of the votes cast for 
that office, and Gerald (Jerry) Sullivan, the Re-
publican nominee, received 30.6 per cent of the 
votes cast for insurance commissioner. 
·•1111n .. Tlae Tax Issue? 
tax issue could be pretty well buried in 
tbe~rnatorial campaign, with Atty. Gen. John 
J. O'Cbnnell as the Democratic standard bearer. 
nnell favors a graduated net income tax. 
tax package calls for a 3 per cent single-
ncome tax. 
i'his doesn't Ieav th ome tax e ose who oppose any form 
y'd pro~~p of any place to go, but of the 
t a Y prefer the Evans plan The 
~r ers of a state income tax will go. with 
ch as it is unlikel th . 
e two-thirds m . . Y at either plan 
ut it on the ba~/~[1~1 need~d in each 
ad. ' e tax issue is as 
I Do Well 
ually all districts · 
xpected to win Re wh1~h the Republi-
u ahead of Ev~ publican legislative 
expe t d ns. c e to result . 
on their own an~n .most of these 
• fro · ' . 1 t co u Id s en 
Under The 
Capitol Dome 
t January, it~ it\ 
I egi latur con\enes h re n x $4 7 mil\ ion 
.J h · r ith r making a · f fac • the c 01ce o ~ . 1 department o 
deficiency appropriation . to ;~~able reductions 
pu bl ir· assistance or forc 1 ng 
in welfare grants. $B 1 million allotted to 
'When added to t~e o~t of the governor's 
the department ca~her an.:., th:. department was 
. f Hi this me ... contingency .u•. · hort of having enough to carry 
nearly $13 nullio~ 5 t biennium. . . 
it throu~h tl~e cuirer into the next bien111um. it 
Pr0Ject1ng tha tment could need some $30 
could mean the deha\969.71 biennium then was 
milli on !71ore ffo~ ~h ~s program by the 1967 Legis-
appropnated 01 1 
lature .d .· g how much more will be needed 
cons1 e1 in . . h . 
r education and for inst1tut1ons, t ere. wont 
~oe much left of that surplus, even though it does 
run into nine figures. 
Cities Have Hands Out . . . 
Meanwhile , the state s c1ties and towns. 
which received a $22 million outright grant from 
the Legislature two years ago and wound up 
with nearly $24 million. will be back for another 
sizable chunk of cash. 
Many of the1n, in preparing their budgets 
for next year. balanced them by anticipating cash 
grants from the state. 
While appropriated only $22 inillion. they 
wound up with a windfall of nearly $1.8 because 
of "strings" the Legislature imposed on $2 million 
a.llocated to counties. Only four counties quali-
fied and the balance reverted to the cities. 
The counties don,t plan to seek an outright 
cash grant this time. They probably will seek 
permission to levy an additional 1 per cent tax 
on real-estate sales, to be collected for current 
expense. 
They now levy 1 per cent for school districts 
which would be left intact. The county mo 
would come by increasing the tax to 2 per 
Initiative Circulating 
Overshadowed by primary camp 
signature drives of initiatives to the 
initiative to the 1969 Legislature fil 
20 is still being circulated for sign&~•· 
This is Initiative 34. which 
personal-property tax 
personal property exc:dMI• 
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tot.tl\'Ofc<D:>d . l r: mer Jc•1d th e t1 ck~I . hut h e 
N t 1J:\.• JC i\.I ;;i ' b J 0 or · t • than anY c:nudiclulc on th' a 
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Sen. JJ 1 J Alexander. Republican nom inec 
Echi rn er got 32 per cent of the votes cast for 
foe tre;rscuer a~d Gerald (Jerry) Sullivan, the Re· 
that OJ,l • • f } 
b lican nominee, received 30.6 pe r cent o t 1e pu . . . 
vote~ cast for insurance comm1ss1oner. 
Where's The Tax Issue? 
The tax issue could be pretty well buried in 
the gubernatorial campaign, with Atty. Gen. John 
J . O'Connell as the Democratic standard bearer. 
O'Connell favors a graduated net income tax. 
Evans' tax package calls for a 3 per cent single-
rate income tax. 
This doesn 't Leave those who oppose any form 
o f income tax muc h of any place to go, but of the 
two t hey'd probably prefer the Evans plan. The 
real supporters of a state income tax will go with 
O'Connell. 
Inasmuch as it is unlikely that either plan 
can get the two-thirds majority needed in each 
house to put it on the ballot, the tax issue is as 
good as dead. 
Legislators Do Well 
In virt u a lly all districts wh ich the Re publi· 
cans are expected to win, Republican legislative 
nominees ran ahead of Evans. 
This is expected to result in most of these 
campaigning on their own, and it could sp~ll 
trouble for Evans from within his own party m 
the next Legislature, if he is re-elected. 
Surplus Shrinking . 
Another question w~i was i:>ro~ment a 
year ago but which has di on the vine is whethf 
er the sales-tax increase emanded by Evans o 
the last Legislature was qecessary: d d . that the 
One reason that ta~has subs1 e is ll by 
neral fund surplus c Id look pretty sma 
· the biennium ds next June 30. l" 
e thing, al ost as soon as the . 
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run into nint: f1gu1·cs. 
Cities Have II ands Out 
Meanwhile , the state's cities anu t<>wns 
which rc:ceivcd a $2:l mi ll ion outright grant fro~ 
th_e Legislature two years ago and wound up 
with nearly $24 million. will be back for another 
sizable chunk of' cash. 
Many of the m. in pre paring t heir budgets 
for next year, balanced them by anticipating cash 
grants from the state. 
While appropriated only $22 million, they 
wound up with a windfall of nearly $1.8 because 
of"strings" the Legis lature imposed on $2 milli on 
allocated to counties. Only four counties quali-
fied and the balance reverted to the cities. 
The counties don't plan to seek an outright 
cash grant this time. They probably will seek 
permission to levy an additional 1 per cent tax 
on real-estate sales, to be collected for current 
expense. 
They now levy 1 per cent for school districts , 
which would be left intact. The county money 
would come by increasing the tax to 2 per cent. 
Initiative Circulating 
. Overshadowed by primary campaigns and 
~1~~at1:1re drives of initiatives to the people, an 
imhahve to the 1969 Legislature filed last March 
20 is still being circulated for signatures. 
This is Initiative 34, which would extend the 
personal-property tax exemption to cover all 
personal property except that held for b 
use or for sale. As it is an initiative tot 
latur~, sponsors have until Dec~ 
the signatures necessary to quar 
have set a deadline for Decembelfti 
. The measure was prompted the 1967 law 
which requires property owners to list all of their 
t~xabl~ personal property in sworn statements 
flled with the county assessor. 
It origi!'ated in Clark County. where Mrs. 
L. ~· Alderua. Vanco8¥e§.. chfirman oft.he 
spriag. commtttee. saY& 1!tle'r ~unty as 
-.rott1qtb.e mw law rigidly. 
Numerous other counties are requir" 
fat boa~s .a~d.campers be listed, but supporters 
the m1t1~t1ve fear that r~id enforcement 
entually will be statewide. • 
The ~p_onso~·s got off to a siow start, but now 
ve petit.wns. m alJ 39 counties, and campaign 
rce and King as well as Clark and 
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D<>l! •d "'"'"<• "01.,, than an the t t<· k "' · l>u I lJ c 
' '" e;,h..,,. 1>01;,i"aJ • ~candidate on rn .., baj 
' c• ' w,,,.,..,,, G. Mag,,,_,~~~' t~. e"en outPol!ing ll S 
Ed11 , " J . 41 ex a '1der . . 
,,. lrea_surer. got 32 Per c~n~ePub11ca11 no,,,inee 
at .orfice. and Gerald (J orthe _votes cast for 
blican norninee re . erry) Sulli van the n 
· ceived 30 6 • -n e es cast I'or insurance . . . Pel' <'ent or th  
coinin1ss10 ller. re's l'he l'a1C Issue? 
he tax issue <'ouid b 
UbernatoriaJ camp · e Pl'~tty WeJJ buried in 
onne]J as the De,:1gn, ~Ith A.tty. Gen. John ·~onne]J favors a gl'~~.:!~~Jtand!'rd bearer. 
tax Package calls Ii net income tax. n~ome tax. or a 3 Per cent single. his doesn 't leave those h 
me tax much of a IV o Oppose any form 
ey'd Probably Pre~~/:~ce,f0 go, but of the 
'PPor ters of a state in e vans _Plan. The 
•eJJ. come tax "'Ill go With smuch as it is un1 ·k I 
the two-thirds ~ e. Y that either Plan 
, Put it on the b~f/iri:~en~a:d~sdsuine ~ach 
ead. • is as 
i.rsnowe11 
~tuany a11 dis.tricts Which the RepubJi. 
l<Pecte d to W111, Republican legislative ran ah ead of Evans. 
s ex pected lo result in most of these 
ng on their own, and it could •Pell 
Evans from within his own Party in 
gislature, if he is re-elected. 
illkiJJg 
Question W~i was Prominent a 
Which has di on the vine is wheth. 
tax increase emanded by Evans of 
lature was rJecessary. 
n that tal has subsided is that the 
Ul"pJQs c ld look Pretty small by 
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st :as 8b as the 1969 


Under the Capitol Dome

Nixon gives a speech on naval power in Seattle with Evans, AF, and other statewide GOP candidates in attendance

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