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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
Labor Better Start Now!

Inc ar will be filled, soon, with the words of the candidates
promising this and promising that, all with their ewes and ears cooked
to what labor thinks about this and that.
Organized labor had better start thinking of the things it needs for
must eventually pass.
VIII labor go back to the old order of things, o r will labor assert
itself and go forward, with the help of men labor will elect this wear
al needs much If it is to hold on to its present and safeguard its
Wure must demand a flat 35-hour week. or perhaps even a
mo week, If labor is to survive and give jobs to all who must tou
But II Labor IS successful in getting a thirty or 35-hou week. will
TABOR force through its demands for a dollar ar hour floor under wages
Y prevent poverty in the midst of employment Labor must think
of that.
ieioiihs ana TN means work for SO weeks a year, not work for twenty
eeh ana tnen a thirty week starvation period. Work fifty weeks
q year, with a steady income all those weeks, hospital and medical
care, social security as BELTS the greatest country in the world.
Wheh w come to a cross road, we want to know the right-and
specHlc road-to take. We don't want general directions-we demand
specific directions. Labor leaders of America had better wake IN NOW
~ Whohl aDor viii IN itself behind the eight ball when We have found
the peace-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
Cooperative Centennial

A gathering of representatives from many lands celebrating the
century of development begun by the weavers in the mill town of Roch-
dale, England, was recently held in Washington, D. c.
In 1874 tWenty-eight workers started a cooperative store, after
discussing the principles on which to establish the Rochdale Society of
Equitable Pioneers. Their earnings were small and they wanted to get
the most they could with them. The cooperative distributed profits to
buyers. a
The cooperative movement spread through Great Britain and other
European countries. 1t has met the need of industrial and farm groups
alike. In Sweden the movement has become a powerful servant of the
people with cooperative housing and industries as well as retail stores
In Denmark, Yugoslavia and other countries it was a way of life before
this war In Germany cooperatives paraleed the trade union move
ment. In Russia cooperatives had a part in the revolutionary movements
In India and China the cooperatives took root, and now IL per cent of
the Chinese people are associated with cooperatives
Here in the United States farm cooperatives are a flourishing
development.
The centennial meeting in Washington gave consideration to the
responsibility of cooperatives in the postwar period.
The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration plans
to utilize cooperatves in its rehabilitation work. The cooperatives of
all countries will aid in the revival of former cooperatives destroyed
by the war.
AT the centennial celebration representatives of many nations laid
the groundwork for further expansion of this movement that seeks to
serve without profit and fosters the spirit of cooperation. American
Federationist.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
WARNS LABOR OF POST
WAR PERIL

Organized labor has had plenty
of problems during the war emer
gency, but even greater difficulties
will have to be faced after the
shooting stops.
To even the casual observer il
must be clear that certain elements
of Big Business are already plan
ming a concerted drive on unions
which will be more menacing to
their welfare than any of the shack
ling proposals of these last few
years.
Senator Homer 7. Bone of Wash
ingten declares that big monopol-
les, many of them with information
al connections, plan to resume
operations on a much vaster scale.
after the war is over, and warns
that part of their program is an at.
tempt to destroy workers organ
izationS.
Organized labor" Bone says,
has a great stake in the political
and economic operations that lie
Just ahead, and it is going to see
a wild scramble on the part of the
Big Business interests for economic
domination as this war draws to a
close.
There can be little or no doubt
that the giant monopolies of Amer
ica will be very ruthless in their
attitude toward small business
which seeks to compete. 1t requires
a fantastic stretch of the magma
ton to assume that when this sort
of a clash occurs labor will not be
an unfortunate goat in such a CON
~troversy.
"One need only be reasonably
familiar with developments in the
national capital to become aware
of a growing volume of bitterness
towards organized labor, and
thoughtful men are we'll aware that
this feeling will violently flare up
in the postwar period.
"Well-informed men in the cap
ital make no bones about this prob
lem, in discussing postwar opera
tons, but at the moment most of
this discussion is behind closed
doors"
Workers should take to heart the
Senator's warning and prepare for
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
WILL EUROPE GO
COMMUNIST
AFTER THE WAR

A revolution became inevitable
in Europe, says Demaree Bess in
the January % issue of The Satur-
day Evening Post, when Hitler
stood the whole continent on its
head and hopelessly scrambled its
people, its politics, its industries, its
money. And the revolution became
doubly certain when the three
great Allied powers promised Eu-
rope the right ito choose the form
of government under which they
desire to live"
What is the lineup going to be
for the coming European election
campaign? Mr.. Bess says that there
should be nc complacency in An
glo-British circles that the choice
of Europe will be for democracy.
Soviet Russia has shown that some
100, 000, 900 people think her form
of government is worth fighting
for. There seems to be some cleo
tioneering going on on both sides,
and this indicates that Europe will
! probably be able to decide her flu
ture with equal pressure from both
sides, the effect of each cancellipg
out the other.
How will the various countries
line up? Mr.. Bess' guess as to the
box score is as follows: Democracy,
Finland, Switzerland, Czechoslova-
kia; Communism (Rusian model),
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; Mon
archy, Belgium, Holland, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden; Doubtful, Ger
many, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria,
Rumania. France, Spain, Poland,
Greece, Jugoslavia, Albania.
AuthOritarianism Has The Edge
In dealing with the doubtful
countries, Mr.. Bess feels that demo
cracy will not stand much chance
in postwar Germany. For one thing,
it was tried with the Weimar Re
public after the first war with very
poor success. And for another, the
German people seem to prefer 2
certain amount of authoritarianism
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01

You could drive down in your
jalopy, or take a bus or special day
coach train, and have a vacation
there for little more than at the
average resort-provided you kept
away from those cleaning beach
castles with "Gentiles Only" signs
which pre-dated Hitler.
Then anne the war, and with it
one of the cleanest acts of social
justice that ever happened to Mia
INLAND.
The government said scat to
the pot-bellied profiteers, racket
GERS and their kind and took over
all the best hotels for some real
men. 1t removed the "Gentiles
Only" signs and made the resort
into Army training centers and rest
places for returning servicemen.
But this season (the months
when the idle rich idle in the south
instead of in the north), many of
the hotels have been returned to
private use, and the rich rabble
have also returned-and how!
But war has its hardship even for
war profiteers. Their pockets have
to bulge with so many $50 and 500
bills, to get through the day, that
it makes their brick-red Oh electric
blue wide-bottom pantaloons look
positively unsightly.
Even after they've tipped their
way ahead of the crowd into a little
So. 500-a-month apartment or a
$35-a-day-room, their troubles are
not over.
After an exhausting day lounging
o the sand and worrying about
the war, and labor 'absenteeism,'
and the unions, and that man" in
the White House and all the rest
and with the weight of a SIS, $40 or
$40 dinner in their sagging stom-
achs-the poor fellows have actual
ly to stand in line to get into the
best night clubs.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
5000 CARGO BOATS
BY Enc OF THIS YEAR

Ii everything goes according to
schedule, by the end of this year
about 5000 merchant ships will be
sailing under the American flag,
according to Rear Admiral Howard
l.. Vickery, vice chairman of the
U. S. Maritime Commission.
While some of the boats must
be regarded as dependable" Wick
cry said, America nevertheless will
emerge from the war with a fast,
modern merchant marine.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
LOOKING
Ahead
By LEN DE GAUx

Among War-boom towns include
Miami and those Offering miles of
hotel palaces known as Miami
Beach.
But don't get any wrong ideas
about landing a war production job
down there.
We don't mean the kind of boom
town you mean. You don't find new
airplane OF munition plants, or
shipyards, cluttering up Miami
Beach.
In the dark of early dawn you
may run into folks staggering home
from night clubs, but not into
leaden-eyed war workers swaying
from side to side in packed and
jolting street cars on their way to
10-hour jobs.
Sure, it's hard to get rooms in
this boom-town toe. But it's not a
matter of standing in line for a hole
in the wall for 80 or 40 bucks a
month.
No, at Miami Beach you give the
hotel clerk a $50 tip, and he'll fix
you up with a nice room for $40 tc
$35 a day-without meals, oil
course. Or, if you're lucky, you car
get a two-room apartment fol
$4,000 a month.
And no, pal, before we 60 any
further, we're not writing this
piece from anywhere near those
golden sands-no such luck We
just read about all this in a widely
syndicated series of newspaper
articles.
Mainland, playground of racke.
teers and other profiteers, Away:
went in for luxury, glitter ano
glamor that made Arabian Nights
stories sound like five-and-ten-cen
store stuff.
But in pre-war years it was be
coming positively middle-class ans
even pr~oletarian in spots.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01

In the case of France, it will
probably be General De Gaulle
who will lead the new France.
Time and again he has pointed out
the flaws in the Third Republic, it's
weakness and corruption, both po-
litical and economic. Although any
revolution in France is likely to
follow democratic channels, Mr..
Bess feels that more authority will
be needed to carry out De Gaulle's
reforms than existed in pre-war
France. ~
Because Of the factionalism be-
tween leftists and defenders Of the
status quo in the Balkans, faction
alism that even transcends patriot
ism, he feels. that the Balkan people
may feel that they cannot afford
to experiment with western-style
democracy, especially since they
remember that similar experiments
after the last war led to reactionary
dictatorship.
Naturally. we hope that Europe
will choose democracy, but Russia
will give powerful support to those
who choose the other road. If the
latter road is followed, we will
have to readjust completely our re-
lationship, political and economic,
with Europe.-The Advance.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
INDUSTRIAL
HIGH

In 1943 our country has its most
momentous year in industrial pro-
duction. Records were set in every
field. Despite tear-inciting taxes,
the net incomes of the big corpora
tons for the first nine months rose
by at least 1870 over the CORES
ponding period of the previous
year. Undersecretary of War Ro-
bert P. Patterson has complained
that excessive high prices have
been written into many defense
contracts and that those who "hol-
Ter the loudest' are making as
much as 500 net and yet they
kick because they have to rene
gotiate somewhat"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
Misleading Wage Figures

Anetlaoor groups have seized upon government figures to claim
nat WORKERS wages nave doubled since 1899. 1t is true that the nations
payfoHs nave doubled from 48 billion in 1899 to 15 billion in 1e4a
bt cry little Of this rise was due to wage increase. Had everv wage
RAISE IN every plant IN the United States been frozen in 1899, payrols
sMl YOU been doubled" said Prot. Sumner SIichter of Harvard
pefore the Academy of Political Science, November Is 1e43 erie
biggest source of increase" he continued. "has been more eonl -
work" pPe a.
Ine latest hgures are as follows: Total payroll increase (excluding
to armed forces) is SAC billion from 1899 to 1913. OF this. s4
mo is I'LL to increased employment; SO billion to longer hours q
YORK INC overtime; $l4 billion to upgrading and transfers to higher paid
IDS ~ billion has nothing whatever to do with genera in
creases sin rates of pay. This leaves al average WAC incraasa ~ onIv &c
per cent while living costs rose rs per cent. wen bv the adeo,a
Labor Department index-Jushce.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
|SLOVENES DETERMINED
IN THE STRUGGLE
TO WIN FREEDOM
Source, American Committee of
South Slavic Americans

BY radio Free Yugoslavia Feb. 8.
In connection with the second
meeting of the anti-Fascist Vece of
the National Liberation in Yugo-
slavia, about 1000 meetings and
conferences took place on both lib
Grated and occupied territory.
100000 Slovenes, men and wo-
men, took part in these meetings
and approved the decisions taken at
the End meeting.
The largest meeting took place at
Cernomelj with 1000 people pre-
sent, including delegates from dis
tant villages. Speeches were made
by DR.. Ivan Ribar, Eduard Kardel,
Eduard Kocbek, Sulejman Filipo-
vic, MAIDEN Zecevic, Josip Vidmar,
Vojslav Pribicevic and they met
with loud applause and the approx
al of the Slovene people was
shown at this meeting that the de-
ciSionS taken at the second meeting
of the Vece are true national aspi-
rations to put an end once and for
ever to the old and to build a new
Yugoslavia on bases of national
equality, democracy, and the ap-
proved stand taken against the Yu-
goslav group under the leadership
of King Peter and his agents.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
In THE WIND
From THE NATION

The Committee for Constitutional
Government proposes an amend
ment to the Constitution, to prov
ide that the maximum aggregate
rate of "all taxes, duties, and ex-
cises which the Congress may lay
or collect on, with respect to, or
measured by, income . shall not
exceed 25 per sentum."
On page 296 of Apperson's
English Proverbs and Proverbial
Phrases appear these lines:
From He'll, Hull, and Halifax
Good Lord deliver u.s."
The first date given for the QUO
tiation is 1894. This little paragraph
is in honor of its 35Oth anniversary.
How to get a candidate: The fol-
lowing item appeared under Help
Wanted, Male" in the Augusta,
Georgia, Herald: Honest, intel
ligent, conscietious citizen as indie
pendent candidate for judge of City
Court of Richmond County. Would
have backing of Augusta Citizens
Union if desired. Must be lawyer.
Light work. Short hours. Good
salary. Excellent opening for right
party. References. Write for APP
pointment Augusta Citizens TN
ion"
The Czechoslovak National Council
of America has protested to the Ma
tional Geographic Society against
repeated, wilful omission of the
Republic of Czechoslovakia'' from
the society's new map of the world,
published in December, 1943. The
society replied that Czechoslovakia
S a part of Germany"
The White Plains, New York, Re-
porter-Dispatch refused to accept a
paid advertisement announcing the
moving of a cooperative store to
larger quarters. The only reason
given for the refusal was, 1T is
against the policy of the Macy
chain to publish cooperative adve1-
tisements." The Macy chain, which
publishes newspapers in Yonkers,
Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Tar
:ytoWn, Peekskill, Ossining, and
Port Chester, as well as White
Plains, is the dominant purveyor of
local news in Westchester County.
Stars and Stripes, the army news
paper, publishes a poem by a SOL
iier who signs himself E. M. L. on
the soldier-vote mess in Congress.
1t predicts victory over the Nazis
and the Japanese, and ends thus:
All liberties we will defend
At home, abroad, until the end.
Then we will beat the rats who say.
you cannot vote Election Day"
FEsTUNG EUROPA: From a
speech by one Kamasin, leader of
the German clinical Group in
Spis, Slovakia: mo one should be-
lieve that he might be spared by
the enemy because he did not take
part in the last monthly meetings
or did not pay his party dues and
contributions
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
GOVERNMENT AGENT
DEFINES "SEDITION"

Here is how the Department of
Justice defines sedition, as explain
ed by o. John Rogge, special assist
ant to the Attorney General:
A verbal attack against the Unit
ed States government or its of
f~icials, made by an honest citi-
zen," would not be seditious. The
same statement, made by a MAJ.
agent, would warrant criminal
action.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
JOB CREATED

Voter-Senator, you promised
me a job.
Senator--But there are no jobs.
Voter-Well, you said you'd give
me one.
Senator-Tell you what I'll do.
I'll get a commission appointed to
investigate why there aren't any
jobs, and you can work on the
commission.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01

Bearing in mind that China is
Is to Is hours ahead of us in time,
it should be possible some day to
board a plane in China today, and
arrive in the United States yester-
day, seemingly doing the trip in
less than no timel
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-01
HELD AT BAY

Mother Con train)-if you're not
a good boy, I'll slap you.
Junior-You do, and I'll tell the
conductor how old I really am.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-16
SUCKERS SOAK SUCKERS ON SOUVENIRS

A quick survey of war junk and a little mathematics on the thumbs and fingers reveals that American soldiers are giving themselves an awful beating on the souvenir front. ~.
 The small-arms toll is heavy, with slickers charging anywhere from too-much to all-the-tratfic will-bear, and never cracking a smile. When a Luger brings 5O or 100 bucks, the buyer is getting a variety of clip that is not described in the manuals on autnmatics. Some of the sales of enemy arms suggest that the gun must have been sticking in the purchasers ribs at the time he paid for it.
 But the real high is reached in jewelry and bric-a-brac, where the victim has the idea that he is get ting into pretty snazzy field. There is generally more fine art in the selling than there is in the article sold, and the unwary GI often gets into the upper bracket figures for objects dart that the girl friend could have picked up at a modest price in shop back home. In extreme cases of suckeri- tis victims have been known to pay 2OO096 above actual value and more.
 In Italy the cameo market got SO far out of hand that some Post Exchanges began stocking them to give the men better idea of what these items were worth.
 The souvenir black-and-blue mar ket isn't restricted to any theater of war, many gullible boys in the Pacific gladly committing finan- cial hari-kiri for mementoes of the Far East. There is also variety in the sellers, some of them being natives and some GIs ready to take advantage of their more inexpe- rienced playmates The only thing that's uniform is the sucker type, which is universal.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-16
Mission Accomplished!

TO ALI Personnel Miary Ctvilidn Participated This Weeks Difficult Successful Accomplishment. AS Base Commander urgently express gratitude contributed notable Mission That it successand beyond all expecationthe result has a ready continuation could only have been civilians That that cooperation achieved credit o all. :::~ =:+ On the other hand cooperation is twofaced operate But would not have been enough worked with deserve far credit possible all strove accomplish In it to tbem that credit should go Their discipline courtesy credit to the Air Foces admiration of them is sincere. Untraned bewildered the of technica- difficulties they maintained seadfast at doing job to be done And when the first evidences personnel to the occasion magn fcently. essential volunteered The WAC contingent this And nowhere there complaint the long hours needed and the service re quired.
 As Commanding Officer, proud say today that delighted of this Command There is higher praise all Officers enlisted and wo worthy soldiers Also Civilian employees of application have been deeply appreciated thing to Bradley Field has lived up departments and all have proud further occasions which may equally we'll.
 My congratulations to you Civilians Officers and En- listed Personnel
 H E. JOHNSON
 Colonel, Air Corps
 Commanding
Bradley beam., 1944-12-16
Why Not Give A GI His Life For Christmas?

Will you spend an embarrassing Christmas? Have you ever been embarrassed by receiving an ex-- pensive gift from a friend, to whom you didn't even think to send a Christmas card?
 On Christmas Day 1914, some soldier, sailor or marine is going to give the most expensive gift known to man-HIS LIFE! ! ! ! Will you be embarrassed because you didn't even think to send him 8 pint of blood? ? :? ?
 The Red Cross Blood Donors Unit will be on the field on Dec. 22nd. Give lasting gift for Christmas. .. GIVE A LIFE.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-16

our civilian co-workers take we'll deserved pride. Every day the Civilian War Bond Officer is re- ceiving authorizations for increases in employees Class "A" Reserva- tions. Two departments have al- ready exceeded the new 15@o goal recently established for War De- partment civilians and several other departments are rapidly ap- preaching that figure. The civilians realize that the attainment of a high Class "A" Reservation rot only establishes for themselves we'll rounded savings plan for use after the war, but that it will as- sist their respective departments in meeting their quotas for the 7th War Loan Drive which is now be- ing planned for the Spring of 1945. The larger the Class "A" reserva- tions, the less will be the amount required to be raised at that time through cash purchases.
 Not that our civilians hedge on cash purchases, however They are doing a great piece of work on the Sixth War Loan Drive. Twelve de- partments are now over the top by percentages ranging all the way from 100% to 313%o. Only three departments have not yet reached their quotas-Aircraft Mainten- ance, Post Engineer and Traffic. Progress is being made, however, and it is hoped that next weeks BEAM will be able to announce not only that all departments have made their goals but that Bradley Field topped all other neighboring installations in the Sixth War Loan Drive. The campaign has been en- thusiastic and the civilians are really out for record this time.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-16

Rivalry between Bradley and Westover Fields will reach a new high on Friday, December twenty second, when the "Quiz of Two Cities" will give contestants from the Station Hospitals at these Fields chance to match wits. Two convalescing soldiers and two Red Cross workers from each Base will make up the competing teams. Each participant will receive $500 for entering the contest, plus $500
Bradley beam., 1944-12-16
Women's s Club Holds Monthly Bridge-Tea Next Tuesday

The Women's Club of Bradley Field will hold it's monthly Bridge Tea at the Officers Club on Tues day, December 18th at 400. All Officers wives, their families and friends, are invited to attend.
 The women from West Spring field Gardens will act as hostesses under the chairmanship of Mrs. Roy l.. Carr.
Bradley beam., 1944-12-16
Civvies Reach 100% In Deduction Plan
 For Bond Purchases

Every civilian employee on Brad ley Field, including the Exchange and outposts under jurisdiction of the Post Engineer, is buying bonds under the Class "A" Pay Reserva- tion Plan. *
 The civilians thus distinguished themselves, this week by becoming the second of the twenty installa- tions of over 800 civilian strength within the geographical area of First Service Command to achieve