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~ • Montgomery, Ala. JOURNAL December 13, 1967 .....-.-.. `.'s~..,..,.,:...+! -AP wvepnda Amish Protest An Amish tobacco farmer from near Lancaster, Pa., smokes a cigar while wearing a"prntest the cigar tax" sticker on the front steps of the State I .Capitot in Harrisburg. The Amish man was one of I the nearlv 300 tobacco farmers from Lancaster County appearing at the State : apitol protestinQ a 35 per cent increase in taxes on tobacco products other than ctgarettesbeinr proposed by the 5tate ~ Legislature. -~ 15. Erie, Pa. MORNING NEWS December 15, 1967 /5,000 Ciqyar Makers Stage Tax Protest HARR(SBURG (AP) - SomeLptmrcded sh'oultler-to-shoulder 3.000 ciuar emploYes. on a paid }hto the Capitol rotunda. holidayof~ sorts; ,taged amasdi, sive two-hour demonstration at i The crgarwm~kers, 75 per.cent the state Capilot Thursday, to of them women, were brourht protest~ a proposed a5per cenl to Harrtsburgr too protest an $8.5tobacco tax. nowpendinq before millionI increase in the extsunr, the House of Representatives. 5percentexcisetaxon c o. products other than cigarettes. "Your voices have been~heard loud~and~ clear.'."Robert. Keaain~K "We want. Shafer. We wanti a Scrantonmciear e\ecutive andjShafer." theplacard-tieanngl organiter, ofthemovement- de- protesters chanted as theyweret clared as the demonstrators assured by their area law-I ~ makers thatl legislativeopposi-' lion~to the billiwas stiffening. I Gov,. Shafermet with three.of! their representatives: \Irs.! 119ard Vail and Mrs Sallie Smtth'~ Ibout of West Pittston: and ltfrs. I,~taryKrupsha ofExetert alt in Ire t,uzerneCounty,-which whicI Ifteavy concentration of cigar i btants:... 'Tttis is what government is 1abouti'' Shafertold the nmen. An aide said Shafer as-I •suned~ them he had no desire tul harm the cigar industry, or any industry; but added that citizensl must'aecepta reasonable tarl burdentf sfate epvernmenrwere to meeritst mandated abhya- i tions. Veterani t'ap,tlol cutdes satdj ihe as,emhlt- was thesecundl larl;est m their memory, tiuper-1 ,eded onlp b.v a.prute.t of bitu-I mnnwss mmersa,amst a strtpi mmem tall four~ years a~u. Keatim, sad lu0 buses brought i i the.worsers here pnntartly from ~ ~ Philadelphta andf.uzerne l'oun- ties, alihou::h Luckat%anna and Cleaitield also eere reprP,e~nted. '-Wb •hut downthefacturies.'he atd. 46=