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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
Musicians Win a Smashing Victory
Subsidiaries of Radio Trust Surrender Internationally
"F: D., Refuses Further Aid in Attacks on Petrilo

Labor takes it's hat off to James c. Petnllo, president of the Must
clans Union. He has won a great battle under conditions which would
have caused a less courageous leader to run up the white flag.
Seldom in the history of trade unionsm hs. the chief of any labor
organization. been subjected to such a barrage of undeserved criticism
and appalling Misrepresentation. The War Labor Board, the newspapers
the magazines, a flock of paid prOpagandists and any number of poln-
States was induced to give approval to the disreputable affair. Forum
ately Mr.. Roosevelt discovered, before it was too late, that he was being
used to advance a very bad cause.
the members of his union from economic catastrophe. Being a man of
he recognized that the making of canned music would eventu-
ally deprive thousands of musicians of a livelihood. So he proposed that
INC makers OF records should put into a sort of unemployment insur-
M fund one-axtho of one cent for every record made.
The money thus secured, Mr.. Petrilo agreed, should be used to
supply various communities with free concerts of high-class music.
Thus the American people would be taught to appreciate good music
md the members of the Musicians Union would be enabled to keep the
wolf from the door. #sM$ 4&
More than a hundred small concerns agreed to the proposition, but
The three big companies, subsidiaries of the Radio Trust, refused to go
along. They enlisted the support Of virtually every newspaper in the
land. They induced the War Labor Board to order Petrillo to abandon
as fight on the theory that he was interfering" with the war effort
as silly an argument IS "a ever advanced by public officials in their
right minds
When Petrillo and his union refused to obey, the board called on
President Roosevelt to take drastic action, but IF. D" refused when he
vas told by advisors, who had their feet on the ground, that the Labor
Board didn't have a legal leg to stand on, because the making of records
was nanifesty not a part of the war effort.
So Mr.. Roosevelt urged President Petrnlo to be a good SPORT and
call off the fight The executive committee of the Musicians Union
refused to do anything of the kind, and the three big companies sur
rendered Internationally"
Now the record-making companies will contribute $4,000 900 a
year to the musicians unemployment fund; there is no reason to .ad-
vance the price to the consumer; millions of Americans will have adj
hhonal opportunities to hear good music.
The big recording companies complain that "the government re-
fused to enforce its order" Of course, the government refused, because
The law of the land did not Justify the order. In other words, the must
:ans were well within their legal rights and all the talk about PetrHlo
oelng a car who flouted the statutes enacted by Congress was just
unadulterated pifle-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29

inferior position as compared with
USA by active government back
ing of private business.
The second explanation is rem
dered all the more probable by
the proposal, preached by Prime
Minister Churchill at Quebec, and
now under discussion at Washing
ton, to have the US government
lend the British government a
supply of non-military goods
(worth from SIS billion to S6.5
billion) that the British can sell
in their export trade. j. Maynard
Keynes, British Treasury advisor,
is reported to be heading the Brit
ish delegation that is carrying on
the negotiations for a USA treasury
subsidy to British economy.
Whatever the correc; explanation
of the conflicting points of view,
it is increasingly evident that Brit
ish business is prepared to ad-
vocate and accept a large measure
Of collaboration between govern
ment and business, while USA
business interests stand for a
greater degree of business auton-
omy and a very high standard of
national sovereignty.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
In THE WIND
From III NATION

Education: The University of
Alabama is on the War Depart
ment's list of approved schools
giving correspondence courses to
men in the armed forces. A Negro
soldier in the Pacific applied for
enrolment in a course that was not
offered by any other school on the
list. But the university refused to
accept a Negro student even by
mail.
Religion: Monsignor Fulton j.
Sheen, in a speech at Boston, said
the American family is disintegrat-
ing. The family is higher in Rus
STA than in the United States" he
said, 'and God looking down from
heaven may be more pleased with
Russia than with u.s."
Small business: The Federal
council of the Churches of Christ
in America devotes most of its cur
rent bulletin, Information Service,
to an article entitled Are Funerals
Being Commercialized? The ans
wer, given in details, is yes.
Interstate Commerce: The Re-
gional Plan Association reports,
For every three New Jersey re-
sidents committing to offices in
New York there are now two New
York. residents travelling to jobs in
New Jersey"
Brotherhood; A Nation subscrib-
er in Florida passes on to us an
anonymous handbill he found in
his mail box, which maintains that
Northern agitators "antagonize the
black race against the white, until
the Southern Negro is losing the
only real friend he ever had-the
Southern white man The Thirt-
zenith, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth
amendments to the federal Con-
stitution, showed down the throat
of a defeated and helpless South
after the War Between the States,
are to be literally enforced !.
While our boys fight all over the
world for liberty, we lose it at
home"
Sour Grapes: Time, which stres-
sed the Importance of the P. A. c.
throughout the campaign, now i'm
plies CNovember 13, page 22) that
Roosevelt's victory was due less to
the P. A. C. than to Republican
apathy.
: Festung Europa: The conduct of
NaZi soldiers in Denmark is such
that the National union of trade
and office clerks has organized a
convoy service" to escort girls
home after work, and other organ
izations are planning to take SIM
liar precautions The German
Propaganda Ministry, for reasons
of its own, has ordered all news
papers henceforth to print the
texts of the Fuhrer's speeches in
small type. Some Berlin wits say
the purpose is to keep people from
reading between the lines.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
A Clash Between Free Enterprise
Nations for a Lucrative Air Roads
BY SCOTT NEkRING

Great Britain and the USA are
the only two powerful countries
that will stand for free enterprise
and competitive capitalism. They
r far from agreement, however,
on the way in which free enterprise
should operate.
British delegates at the Chicago
conference on civil aviation have
proposed that the worlds most
lucrative air routes across the
North Atlantic be divided on a
$3.50 basis so far as Britain and
USA are concerned; that there be
established a British and an Amer
lean private monopoly or cartel
and that these cartelS reach a
working agreement under a COM
petent world air authority. This
world authority would be en-
powered to determine air routes,
decide national traffice quotas,
supervise rates and administer
other matters concerned with air
travel. The proposed air authority
would have far more control over
civil aviation than the existing
Universal PostalUnion has over the
worlds postal system. Australian
and New Zealand delegations went
SO far as to propose International
ownership of always.
United States proposals CON
trasted sharply with those Of the
British. A. A. Berle jr., chairman
of the USA delegation, insisted
that: ''The US believes in and
asserts the rule that each country
has a right to maintain sovereignty
Of the air. There can be no
question of alternating or qualify
ing this sovereignty"
USA therefore proposed a COM
petitive struggle in the realm of
civil aviation. Minimum safety
regulations and the like Mr.. Berle
accepted, but on the question OF
sovereignty he was explicit.
There are two explanations OF
this clash in attitude between the
free enterprise nations. The first is
that British capitalism has evolved
to a point at which government
regulated cartels express the best
interests of the businesses con-
cerned. The second and more like
ly explanation is that British
economy car defend its relatively
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
.Bockwordness in Texas

The unhappy people of Texas, represented in the United States
Senate by a clown and in their own Governors mansion by a Babbitt,
may soon se their state university lose it's standing as an accredited
school. Responsibility for the universitys plight rests with the board of
regents appointed by Governor "Calculatin' Coke" Stevenson and his
predecessor, "Pappy" ODaniel. Seven of it's nine members are either
corporation lawyers II owners of vast corporate wealth, or both, and
they run the University of Texas as if it were their private property
and its faculty their employees President Homer R. Rainey, a brave
man and an articulate one, has finally been dismissed after struggling
for five years to maintain academic decency at the university. The
showdown came when two of the regents, IS individuals, ordered DR..
Rainey to curtail his speaking engagements, especially to religious
groups" Dr. Rainey, a Baptist announced publicly that the order had
speaking engagement he read to the faculty a statement recapitulatng
the sordid history of the boards interference with his administration
orders to remove professors because they were personally unsatisfac-
tory" to individual members of the board, the appointment Of a dean
without consulting him, the banning of books which met the personal
disapproval of individual board members. A few days later he ws dis
missed. The faculty met and unanimously voted its confidence in him
the students marched on the State House, and the Association of
University Professors made public its report on the dismissal of three
economies professors, over DR.. Raineys protests, in 1912. DR.. Ralph E.
Himsead, executive secretary of the association, said the dismissal of
the three professors, and now of DR.. Rainey, BODIES iP for the univer
of Georgia and Mississippi. We hope he has the wil-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
5-Cent Cigar Coming Back;
But Going TO Cost 71ac

Cigar manufacturers have won
their ''sitdown' strike for higher
prices. The Office of Price Admin
istration this week revised ceilings
upward. Cigars which formerly
sold at 5 cents hereafter will cost
ne cents, 10-cents cigars will be
two for % cents. and 25-cent
brands sell at two for SIS cents.
The change was necessary, ac-
cording to Chester Bowles, o. P.
A. chieftain, to bring back into the
market lower-priced cigars. He
contended it would result in a saw
ing to consumers of about $780,
000, 900 a year.
Bowles admitted that smokers
had been forced to pay Is cents
and owe for cigars that formerly
we're in the low-price range. NO
one has gone to Jail for this rob-
berry.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
Mon-hours of Work Lost
i'm the Recent ComDoion

NOW that the election is over and a national leader has been Sc
by majority decision of all the people with the exception of
those Who were barred from voting by sectional prejudice) the entire
country can again turn its undivided attention to winning the "a We
venture to say that more man-hours of work were lost to the general
war effort during the past few months, and particularly during the past
few weeks, because of political campaigns-natonal, state and local
ina were lost because of strikes in all the months before, although
while the Jul shone.
Congress hasn't done a lick of work since the political campaign
proper got under way. Most of the forty-eight Governors of our States
together witt their deputy State officials, have had little time in recent
weeks To- anything else but campaign matters, while several of them
became virtual strangers in their own home States. 81 often or so long
we're they absent therefrom in the interests of their party. Counties
lost the services of their top officials, and cities their mayors, for weeks
IN enc as the battle of politics waged fast and furious throughout the
length and breadth of the land, and even the Chief Executive of orr
nation was forced Tin self defense) to take an active part in it though
his office carries more of the war burden, measured in terms Of imme-
dlate responsibility for the prosecution of the war, than n outside the
military orces-TheB Brewery Worker.
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that we got tired of hearing it
ourselves, it was necessary !. be-
the anarchy of uncontrolled
capitalism no longer was able to
meet the needs Of the people and
was, in very truth, threatening the
nation with collapse.
We Socialists prophesied just
that-and we're roundly condemn
ed and maligned for it. But our
prophecy came true and made the
Roosevelt brand of control just as
inevitable in America as the Hitler
brand in Germany.
And SO the majority of the
American people voted for some
nor of the same because they had
not had time to forget what cap
italism did to them at the end of
that era during which the controls
were exercised in Wall Street in
stead Of Washington.
Well, having tried a controlled
economy, the people aren't likely
OF be frightened by that phase of
the Socialist program any more.
And that's a victory for the Social
list idea.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
Uncontrolled Capitalism No Longer Able
To Meet The Needs OF The People
BY AYMON HOSES, Editor Reading Labor Advocate

To those who are certain to cry
sour grapes" we want say in adj
n that we didn't expect the
election of Norman Thomas at any
stage in the recent campaign. So
we just can't have been disappoint-
ed on that score.
That's u preliminary state
ment to the claim that, while the
Socialist candidates were rejected
as expected and as usual, some
Of the things for which Socialists
have been fighting for many years
and the Socialist principle Of a
planned economy have, in a very
real sense, been endorsed by the
majority of Americans who voted
Franklin D. Roosevelt into the
White House for the fourth time.
Now that we are among those
people who think we see a Social
ist when we look at the President;
we'll let Republicans and reaction
aries generally have a corner on
that hallucination.
But the fact can not. be argued
that ever since Roosevelt took
office back in 1888, the govern
ment has been used as an instru-
ment for planning the nations
economy to a greater degree than
was ever considered compatible
with free enterprise before that
time.
Planning and control came be-
cause, as we Socialists have been
pointing out for SO many years
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
MORE EGGS NEXT YEAR

A more bountiful supply of eggs
in 1945, at lower retail prices, was
promised by the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-11-29
LESS NEAT IN 1915

AN 8 per cent reduction in the
amount of meat available to con-
sumers in 1945, and even less in
1916, was predicted by the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The drop was
attributed to the liquidation of
cattle by livestock raisers.
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HOG MARKETS

RALEIGH, June 8-RANCDA)
Hog markets steady, with tops
Of 1855 at Rocky Mount and 1885
at Richmond.
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Hewlett Or Gardner
To Attend CAB Hearing

New Hanover couzaty's repre-
sentative to the Civil Aeronautics
Board hearing to be held in
Washington Monday on the es-
tablishment of a proposed east
airline service affecting Whining
ton, will be eithe- Addison Hew-
let, Sr., chairman Of the board OF
county commissioners, o. Com
missioner Harry Gardner, it was
announced yesterday.
Hewlett asserted that New Han
over supports no single one OF the
II airlines, which have applied for
permission to establish an east
west route with stop at Will
mington, but that 1--WE want the
line that can furnish the beet Serv-
ice. It will be up to the CAB to
determine the best one"
The Civil Aeronautics Board
hearing on establishment of tn e
proposed east west Always trav-
ell opens in Washington Monday.
Hewlett said the Ne'y Hanover del
egate will attend when summoned
sometime next week."
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK, June 8-R-Clos.
ing foreign exchange rates follow
fGreat Britain II dollars, others
in cents):
Canadian do1la: in New York
open market 9 3-16 per cett dis
count or 90.S1 IA u. S. cents, up
.06 IA of a cent.
Europe: Great Britain official
buying $4.O2, selling $404.
Latin America: Argentina free
24.S0 up .03 of a caet, Brazil free
5.20n; Mexico 20.65n.
N-Nominal
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OVER THE NETWORKS
FRIDAY, JUNE 8
Eastern War Time Pm.

corrections BY networks made I too
late to incorporated
5:15-We Love & Learn, Drama - nbc
Fun With Dunn, Variety Show chs
Dick Tracy a Detective Serial blu
5:30-Just Plain Bill, Dramatic nbc
To Be Announced us mins.) =. mbs
The Jack Armstrong Serial - blu-east
The Sea Hounds repeat blu-west
Chick Carter. Boy Detective mbs
5:45-Front Page Farrell Serial nbc
american Women; Drama Series = chs
Captain Meningitis Sketch - blu-east
Serial Series for Riddles = mbs-basic
6.00-News Report for IS Minis. nbc
Quincy Howe and News Time - chs
Hop Harrigan. Children's Skit - blu
Prayer; Comment on the War - mbs
6:15-America's Serenade: Sports - nbc
Lyn Murray. Chorus. Orchestra - chs
Dance Orchestra us minutes, mbs
6:30-Jack Armstrong rept. blu-west
Jeri SULLIVAN and Songs Show chs
News Time and Volney Hurd mbs
6:45-Loweu Thomas & Newscast - nbc
World News and Commentary chs
Henry J. Taylor Comment - blu-basic
Capt. Midnight in repeat - blu-west
T:00-Fred Warnings Time nbc-basic
II Love Mystery" Dramatic chs
Nero Wolfe's Detective Drama blu
Fulton Lewis. Jr.. Comments mbs
7:15-War News from the World - nbc
We Who Dream, Drama cbs-basic
To Be Announced go minutes) - blu
The johnson Family a Serial mbs
7:3o-Carol Sisters and Songs nbc
It's Friday on Broadway = cbs-basic
Lone Rangers Drama OF West - blu
Mickey Alpert & His rchestra mbs
7:45-Kaltenborn Comment nbc-west
S:00-Lucille Manners & Concert - nbc
Broadcast of News us minutesl blu
Cecil Brown News Comments mbs
s:15-The Parker Family, Drama - blu
The Smoothics g. Their Song mbs
s:30-Beat the Band, Quiz Show - nbc
Freedom of Opportunity Drama - mbs
S:55-Five Minutes News Period chs
s:00-Voorhees Concert & Guest - nbc
It Pays to Be Ignorant "Quiz" chs
Gang Busters Anti-Crime Play blu
Gabriel Heater and Comment mbs
s:15-Nick Carter Serial Series mbs
s:30-People are Funny, Quiz - nbc
That Brewster Boy, Dramatic chs
Spotlight Bands, Guest Orches. - blu
9:55-Five Minute. Story Teller - blu
l0:00-Amos and Andy in Comedy - nbc
Garry Moore & Jimmy Durante chs
Leland Stowe and Comment mbs
New York Boxing Broadcast - mbs
lo:,s-Music and Sally Sweetland blu
l0:30-Bill Stern Sports & Guests - nbc
Stage Door Canteen & Variety chs
1o:45tTo Be Announced Us m.) nbc
1l:00-News for Is minutes nbc-basic
The Fred Warning repeat nbc-west
News. Variety Dance 2 h.-cbs & blu
Newsreel, Concert, Dance 3 hr. - mbs
lI:15-Late Variety with News - nbc
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NAVAL STORES

SAVANNAH. Ca. June 81pA
T,-pentiae n "a scents a gallon:
Offerings "a $50 gal. bhls): Sales
1900 gallons: Receipts "a barrels;
Shipments 81 barrels; Stocks 49,
731 barrels.
Rosin. GOO Ii. drums). offeri7os
$50; Sales $50; Receipts 2l8;
Shipments none; Stocks II, 583.
Quote r ATS: D A.80: E 5.25: F
az. q u 545: z 54H. M $50:
N $50: VIC SOB: WV and x SOS.
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AVERAGE MzDDLING PRICE

NEW ORLEANS, June g. R -
The average price of middling IS
16ths-ia. cotton at 10 designated
southern spot markets. today was
10 cents bale lower at 2129 cents
pound. Average for the past
30 market days was 21.04. Md
ding 7-0ths in. average was 20. 13.
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NEW ORLEANS SPOT

NEW ORLEANS, June 8-RE
Spot cotton closed steady unchang-
ed. Sales 945. Low nniddliag 1913;
Middling 21.5O. Receipts 873. Stocks
285, 1874.
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RADIO
= 'WMFD Wilmington
400 &c

FRIDAY. JUNE o
7:30-Family Altar.
7:45-Musical Clock.
c:oo-Daily War Journal.
S:15-Musical CLOCK.
s:30-Blue News Correspondents
a:45-Toby and Suzy.
s:O0-The Breakfast club.
lo:00-Sweet River.
1o:l5-My True Story.
10:40-Let's Dance.
l1:0O-Breakfsst Al Sardi'6
1l:30-Gil Martyr. News. +
1l:45-The Baby Institute.
Naturalization Period
l2:15-Meet Your Neighbor.
12:s0-National Farm ana Home Hour.
1:00-Baukhage Talking.
1:15-Musical Revue.
I:25News - Wilmington Staf-Newa
l;S0-Living Should Be Fun.
1:45-The Girl Back Home.
2:O0-Kiernan's Corner.
2:15-The Mystery Chef.
2:30-Ladies Be Seated.
3:00-Songs by Morton Downey.
3:15-Hollywood Star Time.
::3o-Appointment with Life.
4:00-The Gospel Lighthouse Hour.
4:15-Don Norman Show
430-Time, Views the News.
4:45-The Sea Hound.
5:00-Terry and the Pirates.
5:15-U. P. News.
s:30-I4one Ranger.
6:0O-Eop Harrigan.
6:15-Sports.
s:25-News - Wilmington Star-News.
6:45-Henry J. Taylor.
T:00-Connee Boswell Show.
Internationally Yours.
7:35-Sundown Serenade.
8:O0-Watch the World Go BY.
8:l5-The Parker Family.
S:30-Town Meeting of the Air.
10 :0O-Raymond Gram Swing
i0:15-Top of the Evening.
10:30-Money Go Round.
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CHARLOTTE

CHARLOTTE
CHARLOTTE, June S8@RNSpot
cotton 21.55.
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FOREIGN BONDS
TREASURY BONDS
NEW YORK COTTON

NEW YORK, June 8. = P) =
Cotton fluctuated in narrow range
today, closing to 10 cents a
bale lower.
Dribbling liquidation and hedge
selling lent a heavy tone as D.
ferings met Indifferent mill buy
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FINAL CURB QUOTATION1
EGGS AND POULTRY

RALEIGH, June 8-lRNCNCDA)
Egg and poultry markets steady.
Raleigh-U. S. Grade A large
(clean white) 80; hens, all weights,
20 to %.
Washington - U. S. Grade A
large 81; poultry unquoted.