Does War Tax Resistance Have a Political Future?

NWTRCC has posted some documents from October’s New England war tax resistance regional gathering, including:

• Larry Rosenwald’s position paper on the potential political effect of war tax resistance
• a transcript of a conversation on the subject: “does war tax resistance have a political future?” featuring Ed Agro, Ruth Benn, Daniel Sicken, and Bob Irwin

Today’s treasure hunt was inspired by this tiny dispatch from this date in 1919

Miners Decide to Strike

Resistance to Income Tax

(Reuter’s Message.)

London, December 1. The Welsh miners have voted in favor of a strike in resistance to the income tax.

That was the whole thing. And it didn’t give me much to go on. After some sleuthing, I found a little bit more:

The Income Tax.

Miners Object to Pay

London, December 1. The final figures in respect to the ballot of the Welsh miners gave 73,307 votes in favor of the strike to enforce the £200 limit in the income tax exemption, and 72,837 votes against the strike.

The council of the Welsh miners have decided to defer the strike pending a conference with the Miners Federation of Great Britain, which has been asked to arrange a national ballot on the subject.