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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
Planning Or Chaos?

A monentous decision confronts your Congressman in the very
near future.
lie must decide whether American industry is to be reconverted
~ a planned n orderly fashion to peacetime production. IS and when
ar contracts end; o whether plants m to be closed down right and
left at the whim of their owners without any program for continuing
production and employment.
He must decide whether workers and ex-servicemen, is we'll as
puanes interests, are to be protected by adquate emergency unemploy-
ment benefits against such dslocations a ar inevitable. or whether
only profits are to be guaranteed, without n similar protection for
human beings.
lie must decide whether W e ire to start planning o for Jobs for
IL expanded production after the war; or whether we ara TO
plunge bhndly ahead into postwar depression and mass unemployment
Q orderly reconversion, protection of human interests and plan
hng or JOBS To- all, only ont effective measure has been presented
to Congress-
1t is the Kilgore- Murray bill, rejected in the Senate by a combina.
10 OF reaet1onary Republicans and poltax Democrats, but still in the
running II the House will adopt its counterpart, the Cener bill OHR
1920.
The George bill adopted by the Senate is no than a feeble
attempt to gloss over the beak prospects of industrial chaos. a.
n postwar depression, which it does little or nothing to avert
The CO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
Congress Should Turn On The Light

After discussion which dragged along for weeks-most of the i'm
portant talk being behind closed doors-the International Monetary
Conference at Breton Woods, N. HI, has adjourned after formulating
plans for a World Bank and a global Sterilization Fund. Uncle Sam is
involved to the tune of six or seven billion in gold.
Lord Keynes dominated the gathering. He's undoubtedly n able
gentleman. He has always been on the side of the ruling classes in
England. They put him in the House of Lords s. a to add to his prestige
and make him more influential. For some reason, which is difficult
to explain, many Americans are more impressed by a statement made
by Lord-So-and-So than they are by something Mr.. So and So may say.
1t is not unreasonable to suggest that Lord Keynes has worked out
plans which will aid the classes he represents Unfortunately, what
benefits those classes may not benefit American and British workers.
AT the moment W. are not prepared to enter into a detailed discus
sion of the work accomplished at Breton Woods. The official documents
are long and dreadfuly complicated. This much may be said now,
however:
Congress will make a mistake if it swallows the World Bank and
the Sterilization Fund without the most careful study. Hearings should
be arranged so that all sides may be heard, and. of course.t thew should
be in the open. The plans formulated at Breton Woods will affect
every American for good or for i'll. Therefore, before they II adopted,
every American should have a chance to learn something about them
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30

ers who may thus be thrown out
on the street.
The George bill, adopted by the
Senate in place of the Kilgore-
Murray-Tuman bill, adds nothing
to the present state unemployment
benefits, which average only $13.-
"a a week.
However, the unemployment
compensation against which most
>of the propaganda has been di-
rected is only ~ small part of the
ore-Murray-Truman bill.
The bill as a whole is designed
to plan recOnversion from war to
peacetime production i'm such a
way as to make it u%nnecessary to
pay unemployment compensation
to large numbers of people.
For this purpose, it provides for
cooperation of industry, labor,
agriculture and the public with
government, through a National
Production Employment Board,
working with the Director of War
Mobilization and Postwar Adjust
ment.
The bill also provides for a Bu-
reau of Programs to review all re-
conversion plans, and for advisory
councils for each industry and
area, representing industry, labor
and agriculture.
All these features are omitted
from the George bill, which would
in effect leave reconversion to
planless business-as-usual.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30

privately controlled competitive
economy and to reduce working
hours and increase leisure for
everybody without sacrificing liv-
ing standards when men and ma
chimes had produced SURPRISES.
And with ahuman welfare as the
end sought, it would be the most
natural thing in the world to ex-
tend democracy to our industrial
processes so that all of us would
have at least as much to say about
the running of corporate business
as we now have to say about the
running of our political govern
ment.
But the purpose of reconversion,
SO far as our capitalistc profit
takers and their Democratic and
Republican lackeys are concerned,
is to produce wealth, not for use,
but for sale.
And there's the problem.
Every ruling, every adjustment,
every governmental edict that
comes to America must be shaped
to fit the ~unalterable determine
ton of the wne to preserve their
p~rOfit-taking privileges.
The doors of industries will
have to remain closed until they
can be opened without injuring the
private-profit system. Dismissed
war workers and returned soldiers
will have to rot in i0leness, as they
did in the decade beginning in
1929. Workers will have to trade
liberty for bread, men and ma
chimes alike will have to wait until
the reconversion problem is solved
from the capitalist angle
The problem of how to make a
profit by permitting American
workers to use the nation they
worked to build and fought to
save.
Can the problem of reconver-
sion be solved by an owning, ex-
plotting class?
Yes, it is possible. Workers can
be used for the profit of a super
class
BY imposing the control of a
super state upon industry and hui
manity. If the sale-and-profit econ
omy is to be extended far beyond
the end of the wal that is the way
that is the way the problem of con-
version must be solved.
Free enterprise can't do it.
Only an American brand of fas-
cism can.
There is nc escaping the choice.
We are either going to scrap the
private-profit economy or surren-
der our liberty as we change from
the ways of war to the ways of
peace.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
IN THE WIND
From THE Ma ION

Jaques Barthaut, news common
tator on the Nazi-controlled Paris
radio, in a recent broadcast had
this to say about Spain: The Jew
Alvarez del Vayo is in Algiers as
senbling troops for resumption of
the revolution in the Iberian pen
insula -. Revolutionary prepare
tions are being completed in terri
tory controlled by the Anglo-Sax-
ons with the consent of Washing
ton and London. While in Madrid
they reiterate assurances guarant-
eeing Spain against the return of
armed Bolshevism, Roosevelt and
Churchill assist the plots of Bogo-
molov and Del Vayo. It is now felt
in Madrid that the only safeguard
for Spain is the collapse of Boil
shevism and the Allies. The Falan-
gists are ready"
We learn that two large compa-
MES doing war work are encour-
aging their sales and promotion
staffs, who have little to do these
days, to engage in a spontaneous
campaign, urging the more con-
sentative employees to register
and vote.
Reginald E. Gilmore, president
of Sperry Gyroscope, reports that
his company's experience with Ne
gro workers in skilled jobs has
been excellent. A considerable
number of them are leaders. All
of them get along well with white
workers. And Negro workers in
general, says Mr.. Gillmor, ARE
neither SO prone to absenteeism as
other workers nor do they change
or lose their jobs quite so fire.
quently."
An eight page reprint from
Comic Cavalcade is being distrib-
uted by the National Maritime
Union, CLIO. 1t is entitled Heroes
in Dungarees," and pictures the
role Of merchant came in deliv-
ering the goods to the fighting
fronts. 1t presents arguments, on
the comic-book level, in favor of
unionism and against racial and
religious discrimination.
Walter F. Crowder, chief Of the
distribution division of the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, writing in Printers
Ink, says distribution costs should
go even higher and thus broaden
market facilities, which would
NEAR more production and more
jobs"
A recent March of Time" film
presented an unsubtle defense of
Ireland,s neutrality. We now have
at hand some advance publicity for
a forthcoming film by the same
outfit, attacking the British Empire.
Festung Europa: Mrs. Vidkum
Quisling is in a hospital. Melan-
cholia. Her doctor has q police
escort.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
LEARN SEAMAN'S JOB
THE HARD WAY

Two members of Congress now
know o about the gruelling
work performed by seamen and the
risk they run in taking wartime
cargoes to Europe than they could
learn by reading all the books in
the library.
They are Congressman Gordon
Garfield (Rep., N. J.) and Con-
gresham Hugh d. Scott (Rep.,
PAD, members of the House Mer-
chant Marine Committee. To OBJ
tain information for the committee
they signed on, under assumed
names, as members of the crew of a
tanker and worked their way to
London as utility hands. Their
identity was unknown to the mem
bers Of the crew until they reached
port.
"We worked like hell" Garfield
told London newspaper men. eve
got up each day before 6 and make
UP 20 hunks, then swabbed the gal
leys and rooms with slop buckets,
cleaned privies and polished brass
until evening"
"They worked the pants off u.s."
Scott testified. "It was no junket.
We got seaman's pay and will do
nate the money to seamen's funds"
The solons disclosed that the
tanker was under Nazi attack part
of the way and escaped submarine
raiders hY clever navigation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
SOLDIERS MARRYING
AUSTRALIAN GIRLS

This may be a mechanical war,
but Cupid still finds his bow and
arrow a most effective weapon. A
dispatch from Sydney, Australia,
discloses that nearly 10000 Aus
tralian girls have married Ameri-
can soldiers since 1912. Already
1000 of these war brides and about
200 babies have come to the United
States. Recently another large con-
stingent arrived at San Francisco.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
he Conversion Problem"


Like all other people, Socialists
have been thinking and talking
about what is commonly called the
conversion problem" It's admitted
by everybody that the closing of
war industries and the return of
approximately 10 millions of young
men who are now in the armed
forces, all of whom will be looking
for jobs, will be the basis of this
problem. What means can be devils
ed for taking care of so great an
influx in human beings who are
able, ready and willing to work?
Study the question which is both
ering our best minds" and you will
crash head-on into the weak point
of this private-profit system that
both old parties are determined to
preserve for as long as they can.
Viewed by itself the addition of
a vast army of workers to a nation
as spacious and as richly endowed
with raw materials as America I'M
questionably is should not create
a problem. On the contrary, the
return of the national economy to
a peace basis, the end of the waste
of war, the releasing of many mil
lions of people from the useless and
destructive activities in which they
r now engaged should solve many
problems. Especially it should solve
the problem of how to provide
everybody with a secure life with
more comforts and more leisure
than the people of any age or coun-
try have ever known.
Reconversion from War to peace
presents a troublesome problem
only because the people who are
mapping the postwar program
aren't really concerned with bene-
fitting the American people as such.
What does concern them primar-
lily is that the recOnversiOn shall be
accomplished in such a manner that
the few people who w the natural
resources and industries of America
shall be enabled to continue to own
them--and to manage them under
such rules as will enable owners to
rule and exploit the many who do
the nations useful work.
If human welfare were the only
end sought by u national policy
makers, it would be easy to go from
the relative scarcity of war to the
absolute abundance of peace.
If America had a Socialist econ
omy Of production-for-use instead
of for private profit it would be
logical to tell everybody to go to
work and produce everything that
they needed. 1t likewise would be
logical to eliminate the many use
less jobs that are necessary to a
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
BONANZA QUITS

Romania's exit from the war as
Hitler's ally speaks Aeloquently for
the victory of Russian arms and
for what the Allied blitz in France
mean to the Balkans. With the
liberation of Paris, the fall of Mar
seille and the sensational advances
of the Allies on other fronts, the
detection of Bucharest adds heav-
lily to German knowledge of doom
for the Axis cause. Bulgaria is
straining to follow Romania out.
We have not yet come to the end
of the course - but in Europe we
appear to be entering the home
stretch.-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
A GREAT SYSTEM

LII Case DeWey keeps his pleQSe
to finish out his term as governor
of New York, will F. D. r.. finish
out the century in the White
House.
A young army captain who was
sent to Alaska in mid-winter asked
on his arrival there: How cold
does it really get?"
"When your shaving lotion
freezes, then it's 80 below" he
was told. when the antiseptic
solution freezes, it's SO below.
When Scotch freezes it's 65 below.
And when the anti-freeZe mixture
for trucks and bulldozers freezes,
then you'll know it's 70 below"
AT what point does gasoline
freeze?" demanded the captain.
AT 81" he was informed. but
don't worry about that. Because
you freeze at H."
Liquor dealers are wondering if
instead of the customary The
End sign-the new goth Century
Fox picture Wilson" will close
with That's All.
With the Red Army getting
closer and closer to Berlin, Adolf
Hitler will probably begin issuing
Disorders of the Day.
Maybe the enemy could under
stand the handwriting on the wall
better if they learned how to read
English and Russian.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30

LADY, want to see some gloves.
Clerk-What kind? Kid?
Lady-Young man, | am not &C
customed to being addressed in
that manner!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-30
QUITE SO

QUITE SO
The man in the moon isn't half SO
interesting as the lady in the sun.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

then without a word TO his friends disappeared
All Captain Jack had TO 60 rambling,
wild kind of letter written by a sculptor named
Sam Lane, who'd teamed up with Hugh Carver
some years before and set out with him on a
prospecting trip through that country.
THE letter told how Sam and Hugh had headed
for the Arbuckle Mountains in a prairie schoon.
err. following old Indian trail, and taking along
a heavy ironstrapped trunk that belonged to Carver
At first Sam couldn't figure why Carver was
Juggling along such baggage a prospecting trip,
but Hugh finally told him
The trunk had fortune in it, about $4,000 in
gold which Hugh had accumulated during his
years of roaming around the gold camps.
Then he told Sam about the Indian girl he'd
married and how she had died in childbirth. Judg-
ing by Sans letter, Hugh must have been mighty
cut up over that. Anyway he just couldn't stay
in place, he left his baby daughter, White
Fawn with her Indian people, and hit the trail
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

In his wandernFs he'd lost track Of his dauGh-
ter. Now he wanted 10 find her and see that she
got the right kind of upbrnging. That's why he
told all this 10 Sam. II anything happened TO him
he wanted Sam to track White Fawn and make
that she got the $4,000.
After knocking around in the mountains for
several weeks Hugh and Sam found a good place
TO hide the trunk, in cTeNicc at the base Of {
towering crag near a waterfall
The crcvice wasn't big enough 10 hold The
trunk so Sam got out his sculptor's tools which
he always carried with him, and followed il out
Then they put the trunk In il, concealed il Will
debris and blocked the entrance with big boulder
They were sitting beside their campfire rest
ing up from their abors before moving into
the mountains, when a party OF Indians came
whooping down 'em without warning.
The Indians, as they usually did in attack, boCai
to ride around them in a circle firing from all size
the ring was drawn tighter
Lane and Carver were poorly prepared TO stanc
off the onslaught, but they fought back with thci
rifles as best they could against big odds.
In his letter, Sam said that before they hat
time to find cover, bullet hit him and he wen
out like light.
The Indians must have left him for dead bu
he pulled through. He was clean out Of his c
though for a long time, from suffering and ya
he found himself up on a ledge above the crevic
where the trunk was hidden carving a big, weir,
face, then body, in the rock
According 10 his letter the face prett
near finished before he realized what he wa
and partly the result Of his feverish delrium.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

We'd been hearing about that Spirit Image for
years, but none of us had seen il. 1t was
supposed TO be way back in the widest part of
the Arbuckle Mountains, in spot known only to
the Indians, who looked on il a sort of mystic
symbol set there by the Great Spirit to rule over
all the Indians lives.
Their medicine claimed it had the power
of turning away the white mans bullets and any
time the braves got themselves all worked up TO
60 the warpath they passed out the word that
the SPIRIT Image had ordered them TO tear loose
and lift some scalps.
1 didn't believe there any such thing as a
Spirit Image. But was wrong. / found that out
when saw il with my own eyes
At that time, only young Sprout, hang
ing out in the border settlement of Caldwell, when
Capt Jack Crawford came through there, trying
TO pick up the trail of a fellow named Hugh Car
yer, an Englishman of high-Class family who'd done
some cow-punching and prospecting in the Terri
tory, married the daughter of an Indian chief and
10 July 10. 1914
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16

day that goes by we're showing 'em how
tough we really are.
But that's no surprise to me. ! know
by association with ii, the kind OF stock
that made this country what II is.
l grew up back in the ripsnorting times
Of the old Indian Territory, and l went
through the great Oklahoma land rush
when Uncle Sam finally let the bars down
for a horde OF pioneers, called Boomers,
TO swarm over 100000 fertile acres and
populate them overnight.
There never was another stampede just
like that one
At high noon on April %, 1889, the
crack of an army rifle gave the signal that
sent a yelling mob of $4,000 land-hungry
settlers racing across the border on foot,
on horseback and muleback and in all sorts
of conveyances from prairie schooners TO
railroad trains every last one of EN- hell
bent on stalking out the very best
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-16
CHAPTER i

RECKON by
when they figured the Ame
u people TO fight Every
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-12-21

The warmth and comfort of the
boarding house sitting room thaw-
ed the heart of the "star" boarder.
Turning to the landlady, he muir
INJURED:
evil you marry me?"
"Just a minute" replied the
landy. "You have been here five
years and never once have you
grumbled at the food or failed
to pay your bill every week. No,
I'm afaid you're too good a Gus
toner to put on the free list"
History will probably reveal.
says Dad Gummit. that LaFaY.
cite made the worlds best in.
vestment. So far il has paid
22.000.000 percent.
..-- sg7
The Indian chief made this an.
nouncement to his tribe: You all
know me as old Chief Train Wits.
tie. but since I am extremely
democratic hope that for short
you will feel free to call me
"Toots,." .1
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-12-21

diligence and two of them caught
the train.
The third was standing defect
edlY on the platform when wag-
sish bYstsnder said. why look so
sad? Two out of three made H..
That's a pretty good averaged"
Yes. I know" sighed the pro-
fessor. but they came down TO
see me off,"
As one Navy craft sailed out
into the English channel on the
eve Of D-day, the skipper called
the crew together and delivered
a lecture on fear.
Fear" hes aid. lis a very
healthy thing"
"A third-class Yoeman near the
front spoke up.
"Cap'n" he said. you're lookin'
at the healfhiest sailor in the
United States Navy"
+s
A couple of leatherneck aviators
had been shot down and were
floating around the Pacific in their
rubber boat when a jap submarine
surfaced and its crew called on the
Americans to surrender.
The marine filters held a whis-
pered conference.
That's the stuff" said one to
the other, "let 'em think we're CIV
ing up q. then when we get close
We'll ram 'em!"
49,
Those new square doughnuts
may pack better, but not in me-"
saws Dad Gummit.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-12-21

Maybe you too have noted that
parents spend the first four years
Of a babY's life teaching il 10 talk.
and the next ten trying TO keep
IL quiet.
The wife of a German workman
employed in a perambulator fac
tory before the war tried 70 induce
him TO steal perambulafor for
their baby.
He refused to do this. but agreed
TO purloin sufficient parts 70 make
a complete machine.
The great day for the assembly
of the parts arrived. After five
hours the wife went out TO their
hack yard and found her husband
in a state of exhaustion.
ITS no good" he said. 1T al
ways comes out a machine gun.
Definition
OLD TIMER: One who can re-
member when it was considered
wicked to play on Sunday except
on Grandpa's farm, where nobody
could hear you.
They laughed when I started
to make a new kind OF dyna-
mite. but when ] dropped Il.
they exploded.
They laughed when they saw
how my white trousers had
shrunk, but when I sat down,
they split.
The main preacher shortage
is in their wallets.
q
Percy Whiffletree discovered
his wife had deceived him when
, they got engaged. When he
asked her to marry him she
said she was agreeable.
She was never satisfied, he said.
Just last week he gave her a
vacuum cleaner, and now she
Three slightly deaf men were
motoring from the north to Lon
don in an old. noisy car. and hear
ing was difficult.
As they were nearing London.
one asked: "Is this Wembly?"
NO" replied the second. this is
Thursday" --
so am l." put in the third.
LET'S stop and have one"
-
The next generation of Am
erican children. suggests Dad
Gummit, should be a big i'm
provement. They will be from
registered fathers.
The Yankees dashed thru Ar
mentieSes without stopping. Do
you suppose the famous Madam
oiselle doesn't live there any
more?
There really is something rot
ten in Denmark, but it won't be
long before what is left of it will
be back in Germany.
DcI uClCi SOI GA dwAaA Joit
when he lost Brussels. His supply
of chewing rugs is now critically
short. s',-sa@
. " q y
In 1899 Hitler cried, 81 am being
encircled by a ring of STEEL" He
was kidding then, but not now.
The notorious author of "Mein
Kampf" is now reported TO be
writing a sequel. Il will be called
"Mein DeKampf."
@
Karl wrote to his parents in
Berlin that he hopes to be home
by Christmas, if he can keep ahead
of the Russians. o.
Three professors were sitting in
train. They became 50 deeply en-
crossed in conversation that they
failed to notice when the train ar
rived. In fact. not until IL was
pulling out did they see il. AT
that. all three sprinted with great
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-12-21

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