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The Coolidge examiner., 1944-07-07

ferred by the United States EN-
ployment Service in accordance
with arrangements approved by the
War Manpower Commission.
Managers of local United States
Employment Service offices are
charged with the responsibility of
Interpretation Of the program to
employers, organized labor, work
ers and the general public. Other
information covering the priority
referral program may be had at
the Coolidge office of the United
States Employment Service.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-07-07

There is a growing feeling on
le part of those in position to
now the facts that government
arm relief measures have made
he most conspicuous success
rhen they have sought to help the
armer help himself, and have
ONE nearest to failure when they
ave simply tried to change con-
.ition through legislative, judicial
II executive fiat. It's an old ak
ON that doing a thing for a per-
on isn't nearly so worthwhile as
showing him how to do it on his
Dwn hook, and this is as true OF
agriculture as anything else. When
official agencies have worked to
build and strengthen the farmer
owned cooperatives, which repre-
sent concentrated individual effort,
they have produced excellent re-
Suits
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-07-07


ert home. Their attorney, H. G..
Richardson of Florence, who did all
he could in their behalf. notified
the boys early this morning that
nothing further could be done for
them A crude document,
much of which was misspelled,
was signed by both boys and
handed, without comment, by their
attorney to Republic newspaper
men. 1t was a note of warning to
others, and read as follows: 81
am giving this warning to the out
side world, as I sit In my cell
awaiting my turn to come, and
hoping that Jesus Christ will spare
me from death. 81, Manuel, am
guilty of crime, but my brother
Fred is not. | am Is years old
and my brother Fred, 10, just boys
who got drunk. My parents suffer
more than I, or you ever will
Your mother is your best friend or
earth and the Son of God is al
ways your friend. May the Sor
of God guide you and keep you
from sin. so you will not have to
suffer like my brother, Fred Her
nandez and me-" The youths re.
mained in their cell virtually alone
until 4 a. m. when they were join.
ed by the Rev. j. p. Murphy OF
Casa Grande, who walked "the las
mile" with them, and conducted
the funeral services at 10 O'Clock
in Casa Grande.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-07-07

Rains drenched Arizona's parch-
ed lands Tuesday and Wednesday.
The rainfall was widespread,
reaching into the mountain region
east of Tucson. Scattered thun-
der showers were reported all the
way to Ell Paso by airline officials
Tuesday.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-07-07
9,ox o,,. ~
1 Is
TEN YEARS AGO

J. B. Boone received his ap-
,intment as acting postmaster OF
Dolidge and took charge July l.
IS son is his assistant Former
ostmaster and Mrs. Mutt made
anv friends while in charge of
ae postoffice here and will be
tissed at the postal window. We
aven't learned where they will To-
ate in the future.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-07-07

BOND IN THE FIFTH WAR
LOAN DRIVE.
The Coolidge examiner., 1944-07-07

At the picnic held at the Casa
Grande National Monument last
Monday by ex-Texans, The Texas
Society of Pinal County was form
ed by electing A. T. Kilcrease OF
Casa Grande, president; ]. ].
Bugg of Florence, vice president;
and Frank Watson, Florence, sec
retary-treasurer. Mr.. Kilcrease
Immediately took charge and ap-
pointed the following to draw W
the rules and bylaws: B. F.
Thum of Florence; DR.. William
Jackson, Coolidge, and T. ]. Miles,
Casa Grande. George Nowlin OF
Coolidge gave an original poem
which will be set to music and will
be used as an annual feature OF
the picnic. Those in charge OF
the picnic Monday were, ]. J.
Bugg, ]. NJ. Hines, Coolidge; Carl
McNatt, Casa Grande; j. B. Con-
nor. Superior; Carl Gilmer and
Ray and Pat Wallace of Eloy.
At 5 o'clock Friday morning
Fred and Manuel Hernandez met
death in the lethal death chamber
at the state prison in Florence, for
the Staying of Charles P. Wash
burn, aged prospector near Casa
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
A CONGRESSMAN
SPEAKS

There was a breath of fresh air in
Congress when Representative
Richard Hairless ID, Arizona) stood
up and told the members that the
working people had a fundamental
right to organize for political &C.
tivity.
Hairless told the House that de-
mocratic political activity was one
of the rights for which we are fight
ing this war. And he called upon
Congress to repeal the provisions OF
the Smith-C onnally Act which
hamper political action by organic
ed labor.
Of course, the surprising thing is
not that Hairless should make such
a speech but that he should have tc
make it. What Hairless said is e
fectly obvious to all democracy
loving Americans. 1t is a sad com
mentary that some members of the
United States House of Representa-
tives have to be reminded of poll
teal tenets which were born ano
bred in our American system oil
government.-Steel Labor.
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You will be Responsible too

In a recent poll of opinion conducted among union workers by
Federated Press n the question: "Who is Your Favorne Fascist,
Editor Mccormick, Congressman Dies and Radio Priest Coughlin were
given positions Of honor-or dishonor, according to how one looks at it.
That result was interesting, but hardly unexpected.
However, while W suspect that the aboyenamed individuals have
earned the doubtful honor bestowed upon them, W. would not like to say
that fascism ever will come to America merely because of the viewpoints
and activities of people like Mccormick, Dies and Coughlin.
Speaking to the average American, we must say that
You will be responsible, too, if Fascism becomes the way of life
in this nation.
We feel very deeply about that. Fascism can't succeed in a nation
bnty for the welfare of society. Like any other social system, Fascsm
rises to power only when economic and social conditions are favorable
to it's existence and growth.
If Fascsm comes to America it will be because millions of Ameri
cans who never would have given Mussolini.and Hitler anything more
valuable than the wellknown "razzberry' haven't thought enough
about political action even to go to the polls OF election day. 1t will come,
very largely, because democracy has died from misuse and, especially,
dsuse.
And even more because the American people failed to organize and
vote to make changes in their way of life that need to be made and that
will be made somehow.
The time for change is at hand. Action may be averted while the
war is on, but not much longer than that.
If the change is o fascism it will be because the people did not build
a democratic Socialist planned economy in time to take owe their own
affairs when capitalist free" enterprise no longer is able to function.
reason to believe that it will not be done. If the masses won't the classes
will. And if the classes do the planning they'll plan for the preservation
of their w advantages and privileges. Then they will control, not only
the inanimate resources of the nation, but the people IS well. And that's
going to mean fascism.
WHAT the future is going to be like depends upon forces that ae
blind and impartial. HOW and BY WHOM the future is managed de-
ponds upon the intelligent action-or lack of it-of the generation that
lives today.
We're going to have a system of greater social controls after this
war ends The only choice for you, Mr.. and Mrs. American is whether
it shall function is a democracy O a S a dictatorship. And you can't
evade your responsibility in the Misunderstanding Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
WISCONSIN
SOCIALISTS NAME
STATE TICKET

The Wisconsin Socialist Party
held its state convention in Mil
Waukee on May 13 and IA. With en-
thusiasm and determination, the
convention drafted a platform and
program, and nominated a full slate
of candidates for state and federal
offices as follows:
Walter H. Uphoff, a farmer of
Oregon, Wisconsin, who is a mem
Der of the Socialist national execut-
i've committee, for u. S. Senator;
George A. Nelson of Midtown, can
didate for Vice-President in 1886,
for Governor; George Helberg of
Milwaukee for Lieutenant Cover
nor; William Kirst of Sheboygan,
for Secretary of State; Walter Ben
son of Kenosha for State Treasurer;
and Anna Mae Davis, Madison law
yer for Attorney General.
Congressional nominees are: Vic
tor Cook, 1st district; Margaret D.
Gray, End district; Fred A. Dahir,
3rd district; Stanley Budney, 4th
district; John G. Boil, 9Th district;
DR.. Lewis Frick, 7th district; Gin
ton B. Ballard, 9th district; Adolph
Maassen, 9th district; Adolph Kreie,
10th district.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
SOVIET RUSSIA
COMMUNICATION DAY
IN CHICAGO

General Fedor I. Below, military
attache of the Soviet Embassy, will
be guest of honor at "Order Of The
Day." a dramatic musical pageant
in the Chicago Arena, Thursday
evening, June %, observing the be-
ginning of the fourth year of our
Soviet allies fight against our Nazi
foe, it was announced by Russian
War Relief, Inc, sponsor of the pro-
gram.
Released with the announcement,
a proclamation by Mayor Edward
j. Kelly naming the date as Soviet
Russia Commemoration Day In
Chicago" calls attention to the
Arena event as one at which "all
Chicagoans attending will have the
opportunity to manifest their spirit
of unity with the people of the U. S.
S. r. and all other United Nations.
Crowded with thrilling features
the program scheduled includes APP
propriate musical numbers by a
symphony orchestra directed by Nj
cholai Mako, famed Russian con-
ductor and by the Russian Ameri-
can Chorus directed by Nicholai
Popoff.
Among the prominent Chicago
ans who will address the Arena
audience are Clarence B. Randall,
general campaign chairman of the
Community and War Fund of Me
tropolitan Chicago; Anton Johans-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Big business circles are abuzz
with rumors that the War Produc-
ton Board may give permission
next month for the resumption of
civilian automobile production.
Professor Harley Lutz of Prince
ton, who writes the monthly Tax
Review of the Tax Foundation, sees
no pressing need to keep this
something called the national in
come" at a high level or to achieve
anything better than reasonably
full employment" He thinks full
employment would cost too much
money.
However, the world does move.
The London. Daily Mail reports that
Lady Hoare, wife of Sir Reginald
Hoare, former British Minister in
Teheran, wrote to the annual meet
ing in London of the National Anti
Vaccination League, of which she
was an ardent supporter, that she
could not attend because she had
been vaccinated.
F~orty-five countries still belong
to the League of Nations.
The Biosophical Institute an
nounces a lecture on "Glamor-The
True Reality"
Medical care should not be
thought of in economic terms, as if
it were bread or coal, says Alphonse
M. Schwitalla, dean of the st. Louis
University School of Medicine. ITO
me" he says, medical care is more
related to a mothers love or a
child's affection than it is to a loaf
of bread or a ton of coal" That is
| the reason he gives for opposing the
Wagner-Murray-Dingel bill.
Thurman Boddie, Negro student
at the New Rochelle, N. Y, high
school, has been elected president
of the student body. The school has
a vast preponderance of white stu
dents. This is the first time in its
history that a Negro has been SO
honored.
Festung Europa: A new series OF
stamps showing the heads of Hitler
and Mussolini was issued in Wen
ma. A man complained to a Post Of
flee clerk that they didn't stick very
well, The stamps r all right" re-
piled the clerk, "but people will
spit on the wrong side"
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sen, vice-president of the Chicago
Federation of Labor; Robert Travis,
vlce-president of the State Indus
trial Union Council of the CLIO; Os-
a Brown, national president of
the NAACP; and Austin l.. Wyman,
chairman of the Chicago Commit
tee Of Russian War Relief.
There will be no collection
speeches and no fund raising. Elk
penses will be met by the sale of
admission tickets now available at
Russian War Relief, 80 E. jackson
Boulevard and its 20 neighborhood
branches. Telephone reservations
can be made by calling Harrison
1882.
West-siders a obtain their IT,
ckets from Victor Cejka, 1910 w.
18th ST.; Stanley G1edich, 1345 w.
18th ST.; or the following Russian
War Relief clothing centers: 3642
Roosevelt Rd., 2619 Ogden Ave, or
5472 Madison ST.; on the southwest
side at the Lithuanian center, 735
w. 31st ST., or from John Marko-
witch, 210 w 31st ST.; on the far
south side from Mrs. Sue Van
Houw, 10810 S. Michigan Ave.
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forgotten = Justice! Justice! JUS
tice!" There were reasons for shout
ing then, too.
The third is more recent. / was in
the choir that time. My voice is still
hoarse from the strain. That was
the shout we gave on Madrid's hill
top in 1886 to warn the sheepfold,
rouse the shepherds, and waken the
world: Watch out--here comes the
wolf! Here comes the wolf! The
wolff"
He who cried "Land!" and shout
ed "Justice!' is the same Spaniard
who, only eight short years ago,
screamed from Madrid's hilltop to
the shepherds below, Watch out!
Here comes the wolff"
Nobody heard him. Nobody. The
d%oddering old sheep herders who
write history themselves closed all
the doors and windows, made them
selves deaf, filled their ears with
cement. And even now they &C
about asking, "But why do Spa
niards talk so loud?"
The Spaniard does not raise his
voice. The Spaniard talks exactly
on mans level. And as for those
who think his voice is too high, per-
haps that is because they are listen
ing from the bottom of a well. -
(From The Nation.l
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
A Rose by Any Nome

Some of the odorous and foul smelling nincompoops who mas
querade IS representatives in Congress recently engaged in a lot OF
twaddle about how a lot of Americans of today had funny sounding
names in the generation or two before them.
Some went so far a to damn good, honest Americans who Angli
cized their names to make it easier o every one concerned, a sim
pifcaton which is most praiseWorthy and IN indication of the willing
ness of our melting pot America to be a truly reflective America.
Such assinine attitude on the part of some congressman makes the
world wonder what a real American might be like, sc we point out
with enviable pride, the fact that one of the greatest heroes of this war
IN Americas side, is none other than a gentleman named Dominic Sal
Vatore Gentle, of Italian ancestry, but far more American in his
achievements than some of the Fishes and Hoffmans and Starnes anc
Rankns, who think the mere accident of their unfortunate birth il
America makes them Americans.
1t takes more than birth here to be a good citizen, for w passed
up the idea of blue bloods in favor of our present system back about
the year 1776. Remember?-The Progressive Miner.
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and the Bourbo on

While armies of liberation breach the walls of Nazi tyranny shrewd
l'aHs" O. vel uVahceu INSIDE n outside. OF SPAN to save the country
Tor reaction, They have been aided by MI. Churchnrs speech of Nav
"a, which shocked British and American opinion by its praise of the
Spanish dictator butcher. Francisco Franco
The dictator, it appears. O. looks forward r. sharine booors uah
another, Don Juan the Bourbon. whose return from exls in Suitzor
STU " receive ne opanlsn crown IS freely predicted. Various support
es y . uan hoped a rev months ago that he couud achieve this
uNunpn w'lou relanmg Tan NOW n e IS reported to have agreed
to rule with Francois assistance.
ims Irrespective uluI Weddlng OF convenience and necessity may
have been in Mr.. Churchills mind when, in the aforementioned speecb
he predicted increasingly good relations viii Spain" But most of ne
Will dissent from such a view. Neither Bourbon reaction nor Franco
Fascsm, nor a merger of the two, is compatible with the mocrati
standards of the United States.
MI. Roosevelt recently cheered Americans and Britons alike by
indicating, clearly if automatically, that he did not share Mr. Chm.
chlls satisfaction with the Franco governments record We're he to Or
further and lend strong political support to democratic forces fighting
N Bourbon-tranco schemers, he would, we are confident, be backed
by large maJorties both in this country and Great Britain.-The Chi
cago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
But Why Do Sponiords
Talk So Loud?
By LEON FELIPE

On this point l think that I, too,
have a few words to say. The raised
voice in which the Spaniard speaks
is an old defect of his race Old,
chronic, and ~incurable. We Spa
niards have threats that are hoarse
and raw. We talk in a shout, as if
we had been hurt, and our vocal
chords are forever out of tune. For
ever, because three times in history
three times-we had to scream SO
loud that it tore our very larynxes.
The first time was when we dis
covered this continent, and there
was need to yell at the top of III
lungs, Land! Land! Land!" We had
to shout that word so that it would
sound above the noise of the sea,
and would reach the ears of men
who had stayed behind on the other
shore. We had just discovered a
New World, a world of different
dimensions, a world to which-five
centuries later at the time of the
great European shipwreck-man's
hopes would have to cling. There
were reasons for talking loud. There
were reasons for shouting.
The second time was when that
ghostly old eccentric the knight of
La Mancha, grotesquely clad, with
his broken lance and his paper he'll
met, sailed forth into the world and
lawlessly launched or the four
winds those words that men had
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
WORLD ECONOMY OR ANOTHER
WAR TO GRAB WORLD OIL
By o NEARING

Oil has been important economi-
cally for nearly a century. First as
a means of illumination, then as a
method of heating and of lubrica-
ton, it was carried to remote
corners of the earth and sold at a
handsome profit in local markets.
The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio, or
ganized in 1870, has stood through
the years as a symbol of highly
successful monopoly economy.
Oil entered politics with the in
ternal combustion engine of the
auto, truck, tank, plane and speed
boat, and the oil burning marine
engine at about the time of World
War l. In that war, as Lord Curzon
put it, "The Allies floated to
victory on a wave of OIL" and
proved beyond a doubt that
success or failure in later wars
would be determined to a large
degree by oil reserves.
During World War I the us.
was producing two-thirds of the
worlds oil. Other important fields
in Mexico and Venezuela made the
western hemisphere the chief
though not the only oil source.
There were other fields in Poland,
Rumania, southern Russia, Persia,
Mesapotamia, the East Indies and
Sakhalin.
World War I was followed by a
bitter struggle for oil serv con-
troll. The struggle conferred in Asia
Minor where the Turks backed by
France and the Greeks backed by
Britain fought a sharp war. In
Mexico and in the Chaco, British
and American oil interests clashed
in civil and international war.
All through these conflicts the
US. romped gaily along it's spend
thrift way squandering its oil re
serves on joy-riding and house
heating at home and scattering oil
products abroad with a prodigal
hand. Unheeded warning voices
were raised: US. oil reserves would
be exhausted in 25 to 40 years. Oil
squandering increased as the Penn
sylvania and Ohio fields tapered off
and those of Oklahoma, Texas and
California were tapped. World War
ii found the US. still the chief
producer and consumer of oil.
If World War ! floated on a wave
of oil, World War III required ar
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21

ocean of it. Mechanical transport,
the tank, the plane, self-propelling
artillery and the entire navy were
oil-driven. Oil production was
speeded to the limit in every avail
able field, and us. reserves were
exhausted SO rapidly that today
responsible voices are mentioning
Is years as the limit for cheaply
produced oil.
Meanwhile the eyes of the oil
using world had turned toward a
belt of land running from the North
Caucasus enthusiastically into
Arabia. Production in the Soviet
Union, Mesapotamia and Persia
and test drilling in Arabia led oil
experts to estimate that the bulk
of the worlds known oil eserves
lay in this region. British, Dutch,
French and US. oil companies
bribed and bargained. Italian, Ger
man and Japanese armed forces
made this area the focal point of
their drive for world resource con-
troll.
Out of the fracas Standard Oil
and its associates have emerged
with a concession covering $50, 900
square miles of Arabia Ca fifth the
are of the U.S.) which some ex-
perts estimate to contain two
thirds of the worlds known oil
reserves.
Arabia is several thousand miles
from the nearest US. crossroads.
1t lies closer to the Soviet Union
than to any of the other great
powers. 1t is a part of the Moslem
world and has for some time been
under British influence. Thus, us.
oil companies in their search for
profits have pumped down in one
of the hottest hornets nests of
present day power politics.
Hence the hullabaloo. Hence the
profound concern in New York and
Washington as we'll as in London
and Moscow. The three Big Chiefs
left Teheran, so they said, friends
in fact. But that was before the
announcement of a US. pipeline
project to pump Near East oil
across British controlled territory
through 1900 miles of American
pipeline to refineries and waiting
US. tankers in the Mediterranean.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-06-21
Doing A Thing The Hard WAY

There S such a thing IS being too technical, when living u D to the
very letter 0 n law becomesa farce. Proof of this is offered in the case
OF Patrick Finn, who for the last fourteen years has been emploved
as a maintenance worker in a New York loft building
Patrick IS the and only employee in the building. and vet the
state Labor Relations Board has ruled that an election be held to deter
mine whether he wants to be represented by a certain AFT, union or
does not want this union to be his collective bargaining ass1.. That's
~ sole lssue IN the case, in which there seem to be no complications
whatsoever. There's only this one worker involved and only this one
union.
We suppose that, in conformity with the State labor laws h e1ec.
uon must be a secret" one, % as to safeguard Patrick from the wrath
% LII employer IN case lie votes for the union, and vice versa. Keeping
the vote n a one-man election secret will be the neatest trick Of the wear
and we'd like to be there when the Labor Board does il.
Probably there was n way, under the law, of evadine the holdino
o an eecuon IN this case, but the situation points to a need for revision
Q the a to prevent a repetition of such foolshness. 1t seems to us
tha FatrlckS choice of union o r no union could have been made known
by nm without setting the ponderous machinery of the Labor Board
IN mohon, and 1T a great saving in time and energy for all concerned
plus a saving in the taxpayers money-The Brewery Worker.