Masonry Magazine January 1970 Page. 28
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The Mason Contractors Association of Western Michigan held its 3rd annual dinner meeting with area architects in Grand Rapids, Mich December 2, 1969. Fifty were in attendance, with an equal number of architects and mason contractors. Keynote speaker was Paul G. Ville Monte, of Hay-Con Tile Co., Detroit, who discussed monowall construction with Threadline brand adhesive mortar. Pictured, from the loft, are Grant Church, executive secretary of the Detroit Mason Contractors Association and Michigan chapter: Ville Monte: Thomas E. Hogan, president of MCAWM, and Albert Hazewinkle, Michigan state chairman.
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Other tax changes will be proposed by one group or another next year-including the Treasury. But few of them will get to the President's desk for signing. Some of the ideas will be enacted eventually. But most must wait a little longer.
-Depreciation reform, of great interest to industry, doesn't have the compelling priority that general reform possessed.
-A value-added tax, a kind of sales or turnover tax meant to supplement the income tax, will get study-not action. The fact that it can be rebated to spur export aids its appeal.
POLITICS WILL INFLUENCE HANDLING OF NIXON'S CRIME BILLS by Congress.
Some legislators... mainly Democrats worry over the Constitutional issues involved in calls for preventive detention, limiting rights of accused, etc. But most lawmakers recognize the genuine concern that people feel over this. They do not want to be denounced for impeding the quest for "law and order."
So the President will get much of what he asked on updating narcotics laws, aiding local police, hitting big-time crime.
CONGRESS WILL PASS SOME OF THE LABOR LEGISLATION that was pending as 1969 ended.
But much is too controversial to get by in an election year-especially in the face of indifference or opposition from the White House. This much seems sure: A compromise to set Federal standards of occupational safety, if states fail to do so first, will become law early this session.
-On the minimum wage: There'll be hearings on labor's demand for $2 an hour but it will be fought hard as inflationary.
-On emergency strikes: The Labor Department is drafting a bill to put rail disputes under Taft-Hartley jurisdiction.