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Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
MUST KNOW DESIGN

we must know to what extent
the federal government proposes to
stay in business after the war;"
Warren said. Until that question
Is answered no one connected with
these workers or man
agement of the communities and
states in which they are located
will be free agents, economically,
socially or politically"
Warren, keynoter for the forth
coming Republican national con-
vention at Chicago, said that if
private industry is to take its prop
er nloro in tho postwar picture it
must know in advance the terms on
which it will be allowed to take
over from the government.
But" he declared, "the govern
ments stake in, and its control
over, private business being what
they are, there is a point beyond.
which neither state nor local gov
ernment nor industry can go until
national policies are determined and
announced
Warren said the governors should
have a hand in working out those
problems.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29

+ forces advancing from the former
beachhead had driven into the out
skirts of Velletri, like Valmontone
key fortress on the last German
defense line protecting the capital,
anci smashed to within a mile and
half from Lanuvio.
With their list, oath and 715th
divisions virtually destroyed and
$4,000 prisoners in allied hands, the
Germans were revealed to have
rushed additional elements of the
Hermann Goering and 92nd infan-
try divisions from their forces north
of Rome into the crumbling defenS-
es south of the capital.
USE FLAME THROWERS
The Germans counterattacked
strongly with tanks and flame
throwers all along the front from
Campoleone to Valmontone in
desperate effort to throw the Fifth
army back from the approaches to
their Alban Hill defense line, but
all attacks were repulsee with
heavy losses to the enemy.
1T is evident that the enemy is
doing all in his power to resist our
advance against the Valmontone-
Velletri line south of highway six
Via CaSilina)," General Harold r.
l.. G.. Alexander announced in his
daily communique.
Despite this, British and Amer
ican troops of the Fifth army have
made a substantial acvance SOUTH
Continued on Pg 6, Col. %
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
ALLIED ADVANCE TROOPS SIGHT ROM
Warren Demands
u. 5. Policies
In Postwar Plan
Says States Must Know
How Far Federals
Intend to Stay in Business
BY JOHN l.. CUTTER

HERSHEY, Pa, May 20.
(UP)-Governor Earl War
rcn (R.) California, declared
Monday that neither local govern
ment nor industry can blueprint
postwar plans until they know the
extent to which the federal govern
ment will stay in private business
after the war.
Asserting that the federal gov
eminent has invested $4,000, 900, 900
in private industry for the war
production program, Warren told
the 36th annual governors confer
ence that disposal of the invest
ments constitutes one of the major
questions in postwar planning.
The conference opened on a theme
of states rights in postwar PLAN
ming.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29

Too Modest
Mrs. Eugene Waterman telephon-
ed the Post-PreSs the account of
the French class program at the
Junior college auditorium last week.
The account was accurate except
for one thing Mrs. Waterman made
no mention of herself or her part
on the program.
We understand from our secret
sources of information that Mrs.
Waterman was the "mainest" one
Continued on Pg. 6, Gel. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-05-29
p AHIn4s AMBl!Ne
NEpoR1ER

Baby BantiCS-
Remember the orphan bantam
rooster M. C. Pinnell found on his
doorstep Christmas Eve?
That little rooster has become a
father. He and Mrs. Banty are the
proud parents of six of the cutest
little feathery-legged babies you
ever saw in your life.
Pinnell coulcn't stand the rooS-
ter's growing so he gave it to John
Mayo. Mayo arranged a marriage
for Mr.. Banty and now look what
happened. As
AIT least some of those little ones
will grow up to be growers at dawn
erS.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
The Forgotten Man"

From now on until the polls close in November, spokesman for all
parties will be running up and down the land proclaiming their love
for the working man. We shouldn't permit these gentlemen to kid is.
Instead, we should call their attention to the record tn. two old parties
nave made up to date:
At this hour every class, except the workers, is assured a generous
measure of protection after the war.
Business has not only been permitted to pocket fabulous profits
during the war, but will surely make billions more in tax refunds and
the adjustment of contracts after the war.
President Roosevelt assured us this conflict would not be permitted
10 spawn a new crop of muli-milionaires. That promise has been for
gotten. Big Business has written its own ticket during the war and its
normal profits are guaranteed for at least two years after the war.
The men and women of the armed srvics are to be treated with
unexampled generosity: We say "Amen" to that.
The farmers, for two years after the war, are to have their prices
inexampled generosity. We say "Amen" to that.
How about the workers? All they will have will be the inadequate
state compensation funds and the comparatively small sums they have
been able to rescue from the greedy fingers of the prohteers. That
won't last them very long.
IL something isn't done, millions of workers will be in the bread
lines before we have celebrated the first anniversary of the defat of
Hitler and HirOhito.
Neither the Democrats 10 the Republicans can dodge responsibility
for this state of affairs. Up to date the leaders of neither party have
made anything like a determind effort to safeguard the workers in the
postwar world.
Organized labor is asking for the passage of the Kigore bill. That
measure clearly recognizes that the workers are entitled to the same
consideration already given Big Business, our fighting men and the
farmers.
Organized labor position is eminently fair, but neither President
Roosevelt and his supporters nor MI. Dewey and his supporters have
indicated any interest in the matter.
It is time the organized labor movement said something like this
stop staling, gentlemen. Just how much do you love the American
worker? If your affection is really genuine, then do something to give
the workers reasonable aid during the trying years which we know will
follow this great war. In other words, get behind the Kilgore bill"
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
A Hopeful Sign

Mr.. Churchill and others who believe that idedogicf factors m OF
diminishing importance in the might pay some attention to what
is happening in Latin America. For physically remote as that vast region
is from the conflict and in spite of the primitive political development
of many of its inhabitants, it is powerfully affected by the sam political
cross-current that are sweeping Europe. Economically Latin America
is experiencing a war boom but not enjoying healthy prosperity. De-
mand for its products makes money plentiful, but the difficulty of ex-
changing the proceeds of its exports for imports has made manufactured
goods scarce and sent prices soaring, causing much suffering. These
conditions, in themselves, create political unrest and provide grst for
both democratic and fascist propaganda mills. 5Ddators abound in
Latin America, but with the exception of the Argentine fascist junta
they have adhered to the United Nations and opened their countries to
Allied propagandists who, tactful as they may be, can hardly avoid
providing some food for dangerous thoughts. The atmosphere is less
healthy for relationships Thus in the past few months we have seen the
voluntary abdicaion of President Batsta of Cuba, who by permitting
a free election restored democracy to his country, and the sudden col
lapse of relationships in Ecuador, FL Salvador, and Guatemala. In the last
spontaneous civilian uprising. This is a hopeful sign, and sc is the igno-
minious failure of the military plot against President Lopez in Colon
ba, head of one of the most democratic governments in Latin America
The Nation. #~
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26

job for the balance of his life.
Within the past dozen years he has
established farm and business SUBJ
sides, labor union supervision,
worker RECOMMENDATION, job control
and the kind and degree of social
securities that a benevolent pontiff
or a whealthy squire might be ex-
pected to wish for servants for
whose welfare he feels personally
responsible. Having inaugurated
the means for the kind of control
that capitalism will find necessary
when the war is over, perhaps
Roosevelt is the proper person to
adjust them to postwar use.
But if the American people really
want to be free-and if they under
stand that to be free they must
end the privilege of labor exploit
alton which both Roosevelt and
Dewey frankly propose to preserve
for an owning class-then they will
use their votes, not to elect a man,
but to register their demand for
the kind of industrial democracy
, that can be achieved only by the
program of democratic Socialism.
1t would be wrong to accuse
either Roosevelt or Dewey of wish
ing to make America a fascist ma
ton OF of seeking to establishing
| themselves as dictators. But it is
even a worse error to believe that
fascism and dictatorship can either
come into existence or be long pre-
vented merely by the desires of a
man or a political party.
Dictators get their opportunities
when society holds fast to an eco
nomic system which nc longer
functions normally for the general
welfare
And when the people, rather
than unite their powers to institute
a new way of life for their own
advancement, trust their fortunes
to a more or less benevolent leader
as they probably will do next
November.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
HEALTH CONDITIONS
BAD IN LOW INCOME
STATES

WASHINGTON, D. c. Health
conditions in the United States are
appalling" Inadequate wages and
Lack of proper medical care have
produced a bitter harvest of stun
ted minds and bodies.
That shocking picture was paint
Ell before a subcommittee of the
Senate Committee on Education
and Labor by a group of military
doctors who urged a Federal health
plan to correct widespread physical
and mental defects.
Testimony showed over AGO.
900 draft registrants 18 to 81 years
have been rejected as unfit. 1t
states with relatively high income
and good medical facilities, rejec-
ton rates were low. But in the
southeastern states, where wages
are low and medical facilities poor,
the rejection rate was highest.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
Civil Liberty Survives
Amidst War

When the American Civil Liberties Union reports that n Bill OF
Rights is standing up fairly well under the hammerings of war we can
well believe it. The Union is IS viglant in this field IS any organization
We have. It notes that the Chinese Exclusion, Act has been repealed;
that the Supreme Court has affirmed the Negroes right to vote IN the
primaries; that sentiment against the poll tax is gaining ground; that
the rights of Mexican Americans are more strongly supported, and that
there is a growing public awareness of the evils of IN expanding anti
Semitism." There has been no mob violence since the Detroit race riots
of 1913, only on lynching, no reported interference with public assem-
bly,, only two cases of college professors dismissed for holding un-
majority dogrnas,' are, of course, sitting pretty. A few symptoms, in
Guiding some excuses in the drive against literary "obscenlty," are
counted on the debit side.
Certainly the nation is making a better record than it did in 1917
and 1918, and in the years Immediately following. Whether Or not the
Union is justified in offsetting an expanding anti-Semilsm" with "a
growing public awareness" of that evil one can't tell-one phrase seems
to eat up the other. There is still plenty to worry about in dark hooks
of American life. Things that bite, occasionally crawl out of the cracks.
But if the Civil Liberties Union is encouraged, the rest If us ought to
be, too-The New York Times.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
AFL and Clio

Return of the International Typographical Union to the fold of
the American Federation of Labor focuses attention on the hope that
the AL and the CLIO will try to get together, now that the chief
block to both, John L. Lewis, has been definitely sdetracked.
There is much merit to the craft union idea IS expounded by the
AL. There is probably equally a much merit to vertical unions
advocated by the Go. Somewhere in between the two there must be
some central point of agreement.
The black eye which labor has received during this war by the
dBunited United Mine Workers various strikes under the leadership
of dictator John L. Lewis can be combatted by a united unioniHn after
this war.
Twelve million men and women, joined together in one great
national labor organization, can dominate the political economic stage
of this nation to obtain their just rights and privileges, and benefit the
nation as we'll
Let us hope that Villain A. Green and Philip Murray, two astute
and far-seeing union leaders, can get together, name committees from
their respective organizations, and work out the details for IN ANAL
eamation which will serve labor and the nation IS a solicited and
cohesive labor group.
Let postwar planning OF this issue begin at once. There is every
reason to believe that now is the ideal time for starting negotiations.
Every days delay is a day lost--The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
Greet Britain improves
Ties with Russiu

WASHINGTON - The press de-
partment of the British Embassy at
Moscow has been raised to the
status of a Department of 1nfor-
nation and Cultural Relations, and
more British publications are to be
made available in the Russian Ian
guage, the BIC said in a broadcast
on May 23rd, as reported by u. S.
Government. monitors. The broad
cast added: These changes were
announced in Moscow by an official
of the British Ministry OF Informa-
ton, who said that his talks with
leading Russian officials had con
WINGED him that they shared our de-
sire that the two peoples should get
to know about each other"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
TRAFFIC DEATHS
INCREASING AGAIN

CHICAGO - QLNS) - Amer
ica'G wartime traffic took a toll OF
9,400 lives in the first five months
Of this year, the National Safety
Council reported. This is IL per
cent - or almost 1000 lives -
higher than the toll for the same
period last year.
The situation is made even more
serious, the Council pointed out, by
the fact that the nation has headed
nto its peak traffic fatality season,
which usually extends through the
vacation months into October.
The traffic toll went up 2 per
cent in May over a year ago, the
Council said-1,800 traffic deaths
this May against Ito in 1943.
Additional evidence has been OBJ
tanned by the Council that increas-
ed travel is responsible for part of
the growing traffic toll. Motor We
hicle mileage was up 6 per cent in
the first four months of this year
over the same period a year ago.
Travel figures r not yet available
for May.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
Labor "In Bag

1--WE seem to get nowhere in
Washington before the present con-
gress. Even the heads of depart
ments just courteously listen to the
representatives of the AFL and
CIO and then after the labor men
leave the office, they turn around
and whisper: Well, that's the same
old story. We've got them in the
bag anyway And the representa-
tives of labor appear before the
congressional committees, and
after the hearings the committees
go on and make their reports,
ignoring labor"
Even on issues such as subsidies
to keep down the cost of living,
where AFL and CIO r agreed, the
politicians pay no attention to
them, Tobin pointed out. mot only
that, but the labor movement is
being so thoroughly crucified by
adverse legislation within several
states and by the national law
makers that the situation is becom-
ing exceedingly dangerous he
warned.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

The New Jersey Republican Fin
ance Committee is sending out a
form letter to it's rank and file,
seeking &snds for the 1914 cam
paign. The committee is embarras-
sed by the circumstances which
have made such an appeal neces-
sary. Twelve years of the New
Deal" the letter says, has leveled
fortunes; therefore the former
large contributors no longer write
large checks. We must now look to
thousands of contributors for suf-
ficient financial support"
Education for democracy: The K.
O. Lee Company of South Dakota,
manufacturers of machine tools, is
writing to the firms with which it
has done business advising them
that the management of every
business has a great opportunity
for carrying on an educational pro-
| gram among its employees by
weekly or semi-monthly Enclosures
in pay envelopes" The company
suggests that the Committee for
Constitutional Government, or
other sources, will provide firms
| with suitable envelope suffers on
the ''fallacies of the New Deal
The K. o. Lee Company, of course,
has acted. 1t is stuffing envelopes
of employees with New Deal and
Diocletian," a speech delivered by
Clayton Rand before the Rotary
Club of Gulfport, Mississippi.
During the recent hearing on the
new rice Control Act, Printers Inl
reports, Representative Taber wa
going through the OPA pay roll
item by item. He showed consider
able distress when he discovere,
that a $75-a-week newspaper re
porter was listed as receiving
$4,000 a year. Turning to James F
Brownlee, senior deputy admins
l traitor, Mr.. Taber said, II see tina
! you are getting $4,000 a year. D
; you mind telling us how much yo'
. got before you came here?" MI
t Brownlee, a former executive c
t General Foods and Frankfort Dis
: t%illers, modestly admitted that h
S had been forced to. worry along o
$125, 900 q year. Whereupon MI
Taber lost all interest in the pa
roll.
Slight-exaggeration departmer
Technocracy, Inc, tells us that fo
the first time in history 'techno
Z logy has made it possible to be vi
e terly ruthless The Flying Wins
super-bomber designed and propo.
ed by Technocracy, Inc, could dro
275, 600 tons of bombs in one singl
raid of $500 planesl It has a win
D spread of $50 feet and can carr
fifty tons Of bombs for 5000 mile
and return without refueling. 9Th
largest bomb load of Allied plane
is reported to be eight tons, and til
longest tactical range 1000 to 2
500 miles. The colossal B-29 has
wing spread of 141 feet.))
Festung Europa: Vacations hav
+ been prohibited in all N~azi-contro
! led war industries in Norway, an
. Nazi-controlled newspapers hay
been forbidden to publish anythir
that might lead workers to want
vacation. Workers who take a vac;
a ton face a court-martial.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
JUSTIFICATION
CONTINUES, LEVER
BUYING PRESIDENT

CHICAGO. - Another step in
the justification of the worlds
business was taken here when the
Lever Brothers Co. of Mass, a sub
sidiary of the international cartel
Lever Brothers and Unilever),
bought the Pepsodent Co. for about
$40 million.
Under the new management the
toothpaste company, which crossed
SO million in '43, retains its man
ager-stockholder Charles Luckman.
Other products of the Lever ~cartel's
U. S. subsidiary: Vimms ca vitamin
product), Lifebuoy Shaving Cream,
Lux, Swan, Fairy and Lifebouy
soaps; Rinse, Gold Dust and Silver
Dust; Spry and Coro shortcomings.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26

The attitude of President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt toward serving an
other term in the White House is
understandable. 1t is easy to be-
lieve that he would prefer to e
turn to private life; as Mr.. Dewey
emphasized when accepting the
Republican nomination, the Roose-
welt administration has grown old
and tired, and the president may
very reasonably be looking long
ingly toward the beauty and quiet
of his estate on the Hudson.
However, Franklin D. Roosevelt
has no other choice than to submit
himself to the judgement of the
American people, who, in turn,
must decide whether they wish to
project the RECOMMENDATION and con-
troll of RooseveltiSm into the ma
TONS future.
And so, while pro-administration
editors will attempt to blow up the
Presidents simple statement of fact
to the proportions of noble self
sacrifice, Franklin D. Roosevelt
took the only course open to him
when he agreed to be the Democ-
ratio fourth term candidate.
The most important thing for the
voters to consider in deciding
whether or not they want four
more years of Roosevelt is that
If he remains i'm the White House
for four more years, Franklin ID.
Roosevelt will be the chief influ-
ence in deciding the way of post
war American life.
There is a strong probability that
the common people of America will
not have this thought in mind
when they cast their ballots. They
will be more likely to be for or
against him on the basis of his past
without balancing the future
against the past and without asking
themselves whether they want a
peace-time president whose every
action commits him to the preser-
walton of the same national econ
omy which has taken Americans
through two wars and which, when
outside pressure is removed, may
make totalitarian control as in
evitable in this nation as it is in all
other nations where capitalist class
relationship III to be preserved.
And, to make the record clear,
let it be emphasized that the de-
feat of Roosevelt and the election
of Dewey will in no manne or for
any important length of time alter
the course which must and will be
taken = if the system of private
ownership of capital and owner
exploitation of workers is to func.
ton. The Republican will have te
utilize the controls and compul.
sions which the Democrat has
established to hold exploiter anc
exploited in a workable relation.
ship.
If the American people are con
tent to give themselves a politica
Pope, perhaps the best way to do i
would be to keep Roosevelt on The
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26

The honeymooners were driving
along a country road when they
met a farmer leading a mule. Just
as they were about to pass, the ami
NAL turned toward the motor car
and brayed vociferously.
Bridegroom (teasing)-Relative
of yours?
Bride (sweatly)-Yes, dear, by
marriage.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
G ERROR

Teacher-It was very nice of you
to bring those nine red apples. /
must call up your mother and
thank her for them.
Sonny-If you do that, will. you
thank her for a dozen, please?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
LITTLE BUSINESS
HELPED

Little manufacturers have not
Jared badly during the emergency,
if the War Department is telling the
story straight. 1t laid before Con-
gress figures showing that nearly
SO cents of every dollar spent by
the army goes to plants employing
fewer than 500 persons.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
Is Tobin Losing
Trust In Help
From Roosevelt !?
Transfers Leader Says
Congress Laughs AT U.s."
Urges AFL-CIO Unity

Pres. Daniel j. Tobin, of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Team
sters, largest AFL unit, may be
losing his trust in the Roosevelt
administration, according to a
warning published by him in "The
International Teamster," official
union organ, under the headline:
Merger with CIO vital to Labor
Politicians Laugh at Divided Lee
Dor Movement"
Declaring that politicians do not
fear labor because labor is divid-
ed" President Tobin appeals for
AFL-CIO reunion and continues:
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
FOUND N LOST

Stranger-Are you still looking
for your roller skates?
Tommy-No, my brother found
them.
Stranger-Well, now what are
you looking for?
Tommy-My brother!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26

Money is a medium by which
producers are barred from the pro-
duct of their labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26

So blinded are we by our passions
that we suffer more to be damned
than to be saved.-Colton.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-26
End Private Exploitation Of Labor, Or
You Will Be Where You Are and Worse

HOFSES, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate