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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-11
Late War Bulletins

Southeast Asia Headquarters, Randy, Ceylon, July l1.-UP)- tUP)-JapaneSe troops have with drawn along a nine-miIe stretch southeast of Ukhrul to Ongshim, only 16 miles from the Burmese border, a c0mmuniquc said to- day.
 OTne Japanese were sur. rendering without fighting north and west of Ukhrul, the com munique added, although heavy fighting was reported from the Chepu area.
 Rome, July ll.-(UP)-Libera- tor bombers based in the Mediter- ranean area bombed TOulOn on the southern French coast today.
 Allied Forces in Normandy have captured more than 54,OOO prisOn- CTS and are developing our Of- fensive operation in accordance with our plans." Gen. Sir Ber- nard L. Montgomery, commander ground forces in France. said to- day in his first message to his troops in a month.
 The American 1st Army began an attack on the fortress town of St. L0 early today and in the first three hours of battle advanced several hundred yards uphill against strong enemy positions, a London broadcast recorded by United Press in New York report ed.
 London. July ll-(UP)-Ameri- can warplanes estimated at more than 2,0O0 strong defied bad weather and violent anti-aircraft fire today to invade southern Ger many and smash at targets in the Munich area, while Liberat0rs based in the Mediterranean area struck at big port of TOulon on the southern French coast.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-11
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors. especially Torrington Plum ping Supplies, for floral offerings and the expressions of sympathy and kindness shown us during our re- cent bereavement, the death of our beloved mother and wife.
 PETER KUKANSKIS,
 MRS. CARL DAVINQ,
 PETER KUKANSKIS, JR.
 MRS. PETER VITIS.
 MISS EVE KUKANSKIS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-11
DIED

DEROUIN-In this city, July 10th. 1894, Mrs. Rose (RheaulO Derouin. of 561 Baldwin Street.
 Funeral Thursday morning, at S:le o'clock, from Belleville Funeral Home, 6S East Clay Street, to St. Ann's Church, at 800 o'clock. Bur- ial in Calvary cemetery. FURTWENGLER- this city, July 10th, 1914, Mrs. Wilhemenia (Rey- er) Furtwengler, of 54 Ashley Street.
 Funeral Thursday afternoon, nt 2:oo o'clock, from Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Central Avenue. Burial in Riverside cemetery.
 PENNIMAN-In this city, July 1lth, 1944, Mrs. Anna F.. (Durkeel Pen- niman, of 1903 East Main Street. Funeral Thursday morning, at ll:0o o'clock, from Alderson Funeral home, 70 Central Avenue. Burial in new Pine Grove cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-11

BUY WAR BOllDs AND sTAAAPs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-11

The funeral of Annibele Scozza- fava, 174 Bridge street, will be helc Thursday at a. m. from the La Porta Funeral Home, 67 Holmes ave nue, to Our Lady of Lourdes church at g. Burial will be in Calvary cem- etery Friends may call at the funeral home today from 2 to 10 D.
 m. and tomorrow from 2 to 10 p. m
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-11

Tan thousand Jewish officers have been appointed Heroes of the Soviet Army"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
I hat Monetary Conference
Control of the Proposed GIoboI Bonk Would
Enoble O Handful of Big Finonciers to Boss World

At Breton Woods, in the hills Of New Hampshire, the representa-.
tlves of AZ nations are holding a monetary conference. Our government
issued the invitations and, of course, is paying all the bills
Two big proposals will come before the conference. IL A world
bank. That will cost about $4,000, OOO, 900. ~ A Sterilization fund
than any one else, but will not control either the bank n the stabil.
cation fund.
Everyone agrees that it would be nice if dollars and pounds and
francs, and marks, and rubles, all had a certain fixed relation to each
other. Some experts say it is possible to bring that about. Others insist
it can't be done. We don't know. We don't think the proposition is as
important as some people think. For example, it isn't as important as
providing jobs for human beings after this war is over.
The world bank is a horse of a different color. If that bank is set
up and is supportedby the billions in gold Uncle Sam has been hoard
.ng, it will be stronger than almost any government on earth.
In fact, it is not too much to say that the men who controlled the
bank would control the world.
That's where the big international bankers come in. They expect
important enterprise in every country on the globe.
And they will do it all with the peoples money. They won't risk a
cent. They will just direct the machine and pocket the profits
Neither American labor nor American agriculture is represented
at Breton Woods yet labor and agriculture may be affected more
seriously by the decisions made there than any other group. There
ri four members of Congress, but that's about as close as the people
get to a "look-in"
Other international parleys are being held from time to time
They have to do with oil, shipping, aviation and a lot of other things
Clever gentlemen are endeavorng to form cartels, or trusts, to control
these and other immense enterprises.
In practically every instance men who have a selfish interest in the
decisions to be made are doing the negotiating. The people, who ulim,
ately, in one way n another, will pay the bill, have nothing to say
That is an extremely dangerous way to decide issues which arr Of
vital consequence to all of us-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
Luxury Liner Crosh
Wrecks "EquoIity" Myth

When John G. Worker wins a badly-needed weeks vacation he is
told that it is his patriotic duty to stay home.
When &C. / Joes' are granted brief leaves to visit folks at home
they are privileged to ride crowded day coaches.
But when soft-handed business executives travel, a luxury
train is ready to accommodate them.
That is the big story coming out of the wreck of the Santa Fe
Chief crack sreamhner, as it speeded across the state of Arizona
on Tuesday, July A.
1t is a story that adds eloquenty to abundant testimony proving
that equality of sacrifice" simply doesn't exist in these wa days of
long hours for regmented labor, and mountaineering profits, ease
and abundance for the same old favored super-class of owners.
The Santa Fe Chief carried Ia cars for only 1853 passengers
Including" the news stories nonchaantly report, prominent bust
less men and film officials"
with the crowded, stuffy coaches assigned to ordinary workers. And
then ask yourself where, in any phase of American life, equal sacrifice
is being made in this n of national crisis.
We know of one local soldier who was going home to bid his folks
goodbye before embarking for the battlefront.
He stood all the way from Nashville to Washington!
This soldiers experience is not an isolated case. 1t could be
multiplied by thousands, Such accommodations are good enough for
working class Americans, in and and out of the armed forces.
But when prominent bushes men" travel they must be given
comfort and plenty of room and de luxe service on lux
ury liners!
Equality of sacrifice? Where is it today
And where will equality be after this war ends and unemploy-
nent returns to America?
The Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
Looks Like Russio's Bio
Reserve May Be in

On all w fronts there is triumph for the forces of the United
Nations. @
More than once this publication has referred to the powerful re-
serve army that Soviet Russia was holding in reserve for the knockout
1T appears now, that army is in operation and will sweep to the death
blow for the Nazis.
If this is not the Russian reserve army that is plunging ahead, the
most powerful mechanical army in the world, than the worse for the
Nazis, for it means there is still another Soviet army in reserve.
Do not forget though, IS w view these things, that the liberation
forces of the Allies in Normandy are being of marvellous assistance to
the Russian drive. 1t has developed that the Nazis already have had
to pull divisions off the Eastern 'front.' divisions that they could not
spare, in the desperate effort to stem the Yank and British tide sweeping
toward Paris.
Nor are all the blows struck yet. Hitlers fastest plane undoubtedly
awaits his orders for transportation to Toxic, but unfortunately for him,
the Toxic official radio Tuesday stated the war in the Pacific is now in
the decisive stage and inferred things are not going well for Hirohito.
It is becoming a very little world for the very little man with the
very little musache.
This is the time when full swing, all out production, increased and
increased to the nth degree and the peak of war bond buying can aid in
the knock out sock. The foe is getting off balance. Let's give those
boys who have made him that way everything that possibly can be
produced.
Stacking in production postpones the day of triumph. Stubborn
employing interests responsible for this, will do well to hold up their
end and stop dragging their feet-Minneapols. Labor Review.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
OUR REPRESENTATION

Just to illustrate how seriously
the Senate took the recent poll tax
debate, here was a typical scene:
It was mid Afternoon. Three senat-
ors were in the Senate chamber.
Ninety-three senators were some
where else. Senator Bilbo was
speaking. He was the only senator
on the Democratic side. Senator
White of Maine was writing at his
desk. He was the only senator on
the Republican side. Senator o.
Daniel was occupying Vice-Presi-
dent Wallace's chair. O'Daniel
dozed. He knew he would have no
ruling to make. Finally Bilbo
moved to adjourn. O'Daniel put the
motion. It was recorded as passing
by a voice vote, although no one
heard a voice.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
UNCLE SANS PAYROLL
NEAR 3 MILLION MARX
Federal Employment Has Grown
Like Topsy, Reports of Two
u. S. Agencies Reveal

Tho operate the over-grown gov
eminent machinery calls for nearly
as many men and women as are
needed to man III navy and more
than a third as many as are in our
army.
A joint report by the Department
of Labor and Civil Service Com
mission revealed that Uncle Sans
payroll personnel numbers 2,797,-
900, with $4,000 employees station
ed at Washington. The latter fig
ures compares with $4,000 at the
peak of the last World War.
Many thousands of these workers
r in navy yards and arsenals and
performing civilian work for the
armed services, but that does not
explain the staggering increase. No
one is able to tell how many draft
dodgers have connected with gov
eminent jobs, but the number I'M
doubtedly is large.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
Russian Soldiers Turn
To American Beer

The high regard in which Amer
lean beer is held by Red Army men
is cited os follows by Colonel Char
les P. Porter, in his article, Eve
Work With Russians" in the New
York Herald Tribune's "This Week
Magazine:
''The Russians indifference to
part of u menu was offset by a
boundless enthusiasm for American
beer. They shared our CT ration of
80 beer-pevo, they called 1.-TWO
cans a day as long as it lasted. Gen
eral Obrazkov, of the Red Air
Force, himself made a special re-
quest that the beer supply be con-
tinued, at both Russians and Yanks
worked better with the daily re-
fresher -. On social occasions,
language limitations were no handi-
cap. General Obrazkov sat in my
hut many an evening and, over
ans of beer, we would attempt tc
learn something of each other.
native tongue"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19

expert, who, after some time,
emerged with what the chief said
was the correct answer-$19.33.
Advertisement in the New York
er: In war as in peace McCall's
is edited directly to the three pri-
mary interests of the American
Woman-Her Heart, Her Home,
Herself.
Department of Censorship: Ac-
cording to Editor and Publisher, a
human-interest story about a tank
driver in Castelforte, written for
the Chicago Tribune, was held
up by the censor. When it finally
went through, the fact was deleted
that the c.. rs wife back home
was an expectant mother. Tracked
down by an irate correspondent,
the censor explained that he cut it
out because the Germans would
be able to deduce that the sol
dier had been home within nine
months, and would know that
newly arrived troops were facing
them in Rome" The over-zealous
censor was shipped back from
Italy to Algiers,
Festung Europa: According to
the Yearbook of the Bank of the
International Settlements, Ger
many's foreign clearing debts for
goods delivered up to September
80, 1943, reached $4,000 million
marks. Creditors in order of rank
were: France, 4,400 million; Hol-
land, 4,010 million; Belgium, 3,845
million; the "Protectorate," 2,425
million; Italy, 1000 million; Den
mark, 1890 million.
In the City Hall square of Cop,
enhagen the Danish tourist aso-
citation has a little wooden hut in
which it sells lottery tickets. A
citizen went over to one of the
many German tanks kept in the
square, knocked on the window
and asked the astounded soldier,
DO you sell lottery tickets here?'
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
PLANS THAT SPELL
INITIATION

Here's what will happen to you
if the amendments now proposed to
the price control act go through:
The Bankhead (polltaxer, Ala.)
plan on cotton textiles will jack
clothing prices up to 20%, cost you
as consumers $35O,O00,0 900 a year.
And it'll be followed by others on
other commodities.
The Taft (R., o. plan to end
food subsidies after Juno 80, 1945
(note, this is well after the cleo
tom will raise your food costs on
every item you buy at least 10 per
cent.
The Smith (polltaxer, Va.) plan
to wreck rent control will put you
right back in the landlords not too
tender clutches-and your rent bill
will go up out of sight.
The Weeks (R., Mass.) plan to let
price violators plead innocent of
intent to defraud will make an
forcement impossible, leaving you
at the mercy of every chiseller.
Put them together and they spell
initiation for you and an enormous
ly greater tax bill for you, your
children and the fighting men who
will have won the war to pay now
and in the future.-The CLIO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
National Party Conventions Antiquated

National political conventions have outlved their usefulness. The
Republican gathering, which has just concluded its labors in Chicago,
was no better and no worse than the Democratic National Convention
which will soon assemble in the same city.
National conventions of both parties r. controlled by political
bosses, and the delegates, in the main, look to those bosses for leadership.
The result is that the workers, the farmers and the plain people
generally have no voice in the proceedings except as the delegates toss
a bone to them occasionally in the hope of winning their votes.
1t is entirely safe to say that among the delegates who attended the
Republican. convention, there were not 20 who could to be said truly
representative of either the workers O. the farmers. The Democratic
which is onW assembled in the same city.
We need a national primary. Men who aspire to the presidency
should not be permitted to hide behind the fiction that they are waiting
TO be drafted" They should be compelled to ONE out in the open and
submit their cause to the voters.
That would make it impossible for politicians in "smoke-filed
rooms to pick the nominees for a great party and formulate platforms
so worded as to conceal, rather than reveal, what the party chietns
have in mind. - Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
100000 NEW VETS"
ARE ON PENSION ROLLS

Opposing legislation increasing
the pensions of veterans of World
Wars I and II from $40 to $50
monthly, Veterans Administrators
Frank T. Hines told the Senate Fin
ance Committee that already more
than loo, 900 veterans of this war
have been added to pension rolls.
Hines said Congress had better
defer action until it knows more
about what the results Of this war
are going to be.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
A REWARD TO 81 FOR
BEING INDUSTRIOUS

A CT who had completed his al
loted years of faithful service re-
tired with a comfortable fortune of
$50 ,000. He amassed this large sum
through courage, enterprise, initia-
tive, attention to duty, faithfulness,
military efficiency, the careful in
vestments of his savings--and the
death of an uncle who left him
$50 500 - From the Stars and
Stripes, London.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
In THE WIND
From THE NATION

The Credit Guide Company of
Marshalltown, Iowa, is circulating
a patriotic" leaflet advising all
Americans to reject the "most
sinister, dangerous, and revolution
airy legislator ever introduced in
the American Congress"-the
Wagner-Dingel bill. do you
want an 'OPA' to ration your
medical care?" the company asks.
do you want to wade through
government red tape to secure
medical supplies from some bu-
~reaucratic clerk who thinks in
terms of cost rather than of your
medical welfare? (Under similar
systems, only those drugs listed
by the government a be pres
cribed.)" The Credit Guide Com
pany derives a good part of its in
come from collecting on overdue
bills for Marshalltown doctors.
Good-Neighbor Note: Some mer-
chants in nearby. nations, Print
er's Ink reports, now advertise
that their goods are not from Ar
gentina.
Columnist Cedric Adams, in the
Minneapolis Star Journal, says
that delegates, alternates, and
speakers at the Republican con-
vention were all schooled to make
no mention of democracy. Repub-
lie is the word.
The Washington Daily News
sent six reporters with identical
theoretical income-tax data to six
different deputy collectors in the
Revenue Building in Washington.
They came back with six different
answers. The returns were SIT. SO,
1913, $12.15, 1881, 1920, and
$16.77. Another reporter then
went to the head of the depart
ment, who called in his super tax
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
LITTLE FELLOW PAYS
HIS SHARE OF TAXES

Individual income tax collections
during the first nine months of this
fiscal year were more than three
times as large as in the same period
last year, a Treasury statement re-
vealed.
Of the $12,s6s, 900 900 paid in,
some $780, 900 600, or more than
40 per cent, came from payroll
withholding, pretty good indica-
ton that the workers are paying
their share of the wars cost.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
IS BILLION MORE WAR
CONTRACTS TO BE LET

That the war is a long way from
being ended was indicated by the
rather startling disclosure that $751;
000, 600, 900 of army and navy con-
tracts for combat materials are still
to be placed.
Tie revelation was made by
Donald Nelson, head of the War
Production Board, who said that so
far $21O, 600, GOO, 900 of contracts
have been awarded.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19

the will of monopoly capital.
This goal we may hope to win
only when we a unite in its pur-
suit all peoples, peasants as well
as workers, former enemies as well
as allies, throughout the world.
We seek, therefore, to avoid, alike
in the conduct of the war and in
the terms of the settlement, every
cause of enlightenment. That was
the aim, as we read it, of the At
lantic Charter. 1t must not be
discarded.
Karl Ausch,
H. N. Brailsford,
julius Braunthal,
Louis De Brouckere.
George Chester,
Karl Csernetz,
Faringdon,
Victor Gollancz,
j. F. Horrabin,
Wenzel Jaksch,
Harold j. Laski,
Louis Levy,
Marthe Levy,
Hector Mcneil,
Lucy Middleton,
A. Ramos Oliveria,
Oscar Pollak
P. Ollenhauer,
Paul Sering,
G. r. Strauss,
Paolo Treves.
Hans Vogel,
Leonard Woolf.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19

not be realized, and the sufferer
would be humanity as a whole and
not Germany alone. The ideal that
"all the men in all the lands may
live out their lives in freedom
from fear and want" could not be
fulfilled for any of us if we were
to deny its application to scores of
millions of Europeans and Asiat-
les.
MUST APPLY TO ALL
The first clause of the Charter
("Their countries seek no aggran-
dizement( territorial or other')
means nothing unless it applies to
the enemy peoples. At whose ex-
pense, if not theirs, could we seek
territorial ACKNOWLEDGMENT? The
crucial second clause
They desire to see no territor-
ial changes that do not accord
with the freely expressed wishes
of the peoples concerned.
flows from the democratic out
look of the whole document. It is
implicit in the declaration of the
last clause that "all the nations of
the world :. must come to the
abandonment of the use of force"
If, as is now proposed, indis-
putably German populations are to
be annexed to Poland "by way of
compensation" for loss of territory
elsewhere-indeed, if any popula-
ton whatsoever is to be made to
change its national allegiance
against it's will-history warns
us by many precedents that the
reign of force will be perpetuated.
That the Poles are entitled to re-
dress for the cruel wrongs they
have suffered we should be the
first to proclaim, but to the in
juries the proposed act of barter
has no relevance.
These proposals for the aliena-
ton and Acknowledgement of what
is properly German territory
awaken our gravest fears for the
future. Their adoption may frus-
trate all the efforts of German
democrats to eradicate ~extravag-
ant nationalism from their country.
WE GO BEYOND
The elementary principles of de-
mocracy are not the end but only
the beginning of a good settle
ment. But if they are violated
whether at the expense of Poles
or of Germans, our advance into
a happier future will be gravely
imperilled.
We mean, as Socialists, to go
far beyond the promise of this
Charter. We hope to see the close
organization of the economic life
of an integrated Europe for the
common good of all its peoples.
Freedom from fear and want can
be secured only by the collective
pursuit of full employment and
full production. These ends will be
attained only when the control of
the whole community supersedes
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-07-19
White Man Crozy

The Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman recently published two pictures,
one o a dlapidated house and the other of a washed-away field. The
magazine offered a prize for the best essay on the two pictures. The first
prize a won by a Cherokee Indian, who wrote this:
Both pictures show the white man crazy. Make big tepee. Pillow
hill. Water wash. Wind blow soil, grass all gone. Squaw gone, papoose
too. No chuckaway. No pig, no corn, no hay, no cow, no pony. Indian
no pillow land. Keep grass. Buffalo eat. Indian eat Buffalo Hide make
tepee, moccasins, too. Indian no make terrace. No build dam. No give
a dan All lime eat. No hunt job. No hitchhike. No ask relief. No shoot
pig. Great Spirit make grass. Indian no waste anything. Indian no work
White man heap crazy."-The Missouri Farmer.