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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
War Workers Left Out

Our Uncle Sam" has created a difficult problem for war workers
The z. S. Government has in effect said to American war plants holding
war contracts: 1--WE will take are of you when your contracts are
terminated; we will help you to a speedy reconverson to peacetime
June and signed by the President on July 1, 1914, and in the Presidents
Executive Order setting up the Surplus War Property Administration.
These laws provide for quick payment to companies of money owned
by the government when their contracts IRE ended, for loans to help
them ride over delays, and for quick removal of government property
left in their plants or on the market
The Government has said to servicemen: eve will take care of you
when your magnificent job of winning this war is done" This was
gress in June and signed by the President N June %, and in the
Presidents Executive Order setting up the Retaining and Reernploy-
ment Administration and his appointment of Brigadier- General Frank
7. Hines a S head of this administration. These laws, together with pre-
v1ous veterans laws, provide that honorably discharged servfcemen
will have $500 mastering out pay, hospital care for the rest of their
full year if unemployed, payment for education OF retraining up to
$500 a year for tuition and $50 to SIS a month for board, and disability
benefits if injured.
But for war workers our Uncle Sam" has thus for done nothing.
The government has said in effect to war workers: when war work
is cut back and you are left without job o income, you must take are
of yourself Your only hope will be to find a job in civilian work-and
millions will be competing for those few jobs. Your only chance will
has left war workers in this plight. Instead of blaming them if some
few take the only possible method to protect themselves, it would be
sense to pass the Kigore Bill at the earliest possible moment
so war workers would be secure against postwar unemployment and
could give their full effort to a work.
The fact that in spite Of Uncle Sans" neglect of them, war
workers have stayed in the job and produced more and more per hour
of work is outstanding evidence that they put loyalty to their country
above everything else. Production per worker in the munitions indus
has increased 42% from January 1913 to May 1914, and this
amazing increase has confined month by month to date. Compared to
the millions of war workers at their posts, very few have left to get
safe peacetime jobs. These war workers are making, of their own free
will, a greater sacrifice than Uncle Sam is asking of any other group
on the home front--From Labor Monthly Survey, AFI.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
Company Unto ism
In Politics

Harry Fleischman, national secretary of the Socialist Party gave
is a phrase for which we offer thanks. It's
Company Unionsm in Politics.
The way to lead the workers to freedom. Fleischman declared
vas not to deliver them en- masse to either of two political parties If
capitalism. The effective way to combat labor exploitation, he went
on, is to organize workers into a political party that will challenge the
system OF human exploitation for which both Democrats and Repub-
licans stand.
The policy of the HiIman Political Action Committee, in aHemp-
ting to advance by hanging to the coattais of Franklin q. Roosevelt
$ merely company unionism in politics." Fleischman asserted.
We think the description is apt
A company union plays the bosses game. Company unionists
expect to get something u of their organization, just as members of
aillnnans organization expect to get of the unions to which they belong.
What the company unionists expect to get is favors from the boss. What
members of worker-controled unions expect to get is a n advantage
through the use of their own organized power.
We like the regular unionsts idea better. We like it better on the
labor front. But we also like it better o the political front. And
we submit that
Ii 1T Is good tor workers to have unions of their own. rather than
to seek the favors of an industrial boss, it is at least as good for them
to have a political party of their own rather than seek the favors of
political servant of the capitalist class.
We urge union workers to be consistent They AN vote against
the political company union plan by casting a straight Socialist ballot
next Notwithstanding Labor Advocate. ~
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23

ages now enjoyed by the few.
Another course would tend to
maintain the status quo. Ruling
groups that long have had power,
and have managed to hold on to
much of that power under the Fas-
cists, and Nazis, would be support
ed The wide gap between the
scale of living of the ruling groups
and that of the masses would be
ignored or would be lesSened
through temporary measures of re-
lief.
This second group appears to be
the one that has been chosen by
the British and U. S. governments.
In England, Prime Minister Chur-
chill attaches great Importance to
the "monarchical principle" In
this country, Secretary of State
Cordell Hull says U. S. foreign
policy is built around the idea of
stability. And temporary relief for
the masses of Europe is being plan
ned through the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Admin
istration.
Dissatisfaction with this policy
of maintaining the status quo is
beginning to show up, however.
The indignation of soldiers over
the attitude of the privileged
groups in Italy and France is being
reflected in the stories sent back
by war correspondents. The sol
diers want to know why they
should be expected to fight and
possibly sacrifice their lives just
to bolster up the position of these
groups.
Also, within the U. S. Govern
ment, officials are questioning the
wisdom of following the British
lead on maintenance of the status
quo. They are wondering whether
the U. S., in shouldering a large
part of Europe's relief burden, ac-
tually is underwriting Europe's
social system, with its war-in-
creasedNgap between rich and poor.
They doubt that the u. S. should
consent to be a partner to this
policy.
For all these reasons, the prob
lem of what to do about social con-
flicts in the newly freed countries
of Europe is being studied by u. S.
officials, many of whom arc con-
WINGED that, if moderate changes
r prevented now, extrem e
changes are all the more certain to
come later.-United States News,
Washington, D.. c.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
WAR ON YUGOSLAV
COST NAZI
$4,000 MEN

WASHINGTON. - Efforts to
overcome the Yugoslav resistance
has cost the Germans $4,000 men
and large quantities of equipment,
according 20 an article by S. Belin-
kov, entitled Forty Months of
Heroic Struggle of Yugoslav Ma
ton, in a recent issue of the Rus
sian publication Trud.
The article, relayed to the Of
flee of War Information asserts
that the Patriots in Yugoslavia
have obliged the Germans to main
tain an occupational army OF
something like $4,000 men. The
army, the author says, is half Ger
man, the remainder Bulgarian and
quisling.
Nazis had hoped to compensate
for the loss of Ukraine by increas-
ed plumber of Yugoslavia, the ar
ticle says. The plans, however,
were not realized, as the Germans
have been unable to force the
peasants to turn over their grain,
and the summer offensive was a
complete failure.
One of the most important func-
tons of Tito's army, the article
continues, is to disorganize enemy
communications in the Balkans.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
SAY GENERALIZATION
SPREADING IN ARMIES
OF OCCUPATION

WASHINGTON. - Demoraliza-
ton is spreading in the ranks of
Hit1er's followers in occupied
countries, the Free Yugoslavia RAJ
dio said in a broadcast monitored
for the Office of War Information,
Desertions of individuals and
whole groups, the broadcast con-
tinued, have become increasingly
frequent among Hitler's Slovene
Domobranstvo army.
These troopers come over with
weapons and equipment, The
broadcast said. Members of a
minor Domobran group from Novo
mesto surrendered with their
weapons to units of the Free Yugo-
slavian Cankar brigade. At Rihen-
berg in Primorje, 90 Domobran
soldiers after having established
contact with sections of the Ma
tional Army of Liberation, went
over to the Army of Liberation,
with their weapons and their
equipment. First, however, they
wiped out a small number of Ger
mans in (Rihenberg) and other
places and killed the commander
of the White Guard in that place.
They also brought two mortars
and ten machine guns.
OF 100 men of the Domobran
garrison in Postojna only "a e
NAMED; all others joined the Army
of Liberation, the broadcast re
ported.
The liberation army in the Slo-
vene territory is guarding the har-
vest against daily attack by the
occupying garrisons, the broad
cast added, and related that several
weeks ago occupying forces at a
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
Pay
For Senators, Too
K. M. LANDS in The Chicago Sun

IA NA. LfAlND1S III 1nc CIlCdSC sun
l am in favor of unemployment
compensation for U. S. Senators.
If they had been covered by the
Kilgore rehabilitation bill, they
might not have objected so much
to the liberal benefits which rang
ed from a low of $12 a week to a
high of $35.
They wouldn't have been so
ready to say that the maximum of
$35 was too much for a person
with a base income of more than
$4,000 a year.
For senator's, $35 a week would
not be too much, for they have
difficulty getting along on 5000 a
week. Indeed, they might even
have raised the schedule.
It's a cinch they wouldn't have
preferred, for themselves, the
George rehabilitation bill, which
allows the 48 different states to fix
the rate of benefits.
States Rights Could Be Irksome
Take Senators Cotton Ed"
Smith of South Carolina and Ben
nett Champ Clark of Missouri, who
are being demobilized at the end
of this year.
States rights wouldn't have ap-
pealed so much to them if it meant
the right of their states to cut their
benefits below the benefits accor-
ded to jobless senators from New
York and Illinois.
No, they wouldn't say that the
unemployment of senator's was a
national problem and should be
met with the united of a
grateful nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23

certain village, finding that a
store of corn' was guarded and
could not be taken away, set it on
fire. In Zuzemberk they demand
ed 80 tons of corn from the peas
ants. Full warfare is being waged
for the harvest" the broadcast
said and added confidently: I'll
will end in our favor. In the Val
ley of Krka the harvest was fin
ished five days sooner than in
peace time. The National Army OF
Liberation, and the rear, constitute
a firm unity, and that is why we
shall also win the battle for the
harvest"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
Close Up Of Continent

The fundamental situation
brought to light as the Allied
armies advance in France and
Italy is this:
Members of a small minority are
in good financial circumstances.
They are the mes who are enjoy
ing the night life, who are able to
shop in the well-stocked stores.
They can get expensive wines, cos
metics, musical instruments, smart
frocks, silk stockings. They eat in
good cafes. They sleep between
freshly Numbered sheets. They
keep up the luxurious standards
of high society. They are the ones
who have money enough to buy in
the black market 80.
Many members of this group
have elaborated with the Nazis
and Fascists and in return have
been favored in various ways.
Some have been given business adj
vantages. Others have been re-
warded with jobs that paid hand
somely. Whatever the reason for
their privileges, Allied soldiers are
shocked to find them untouched
by the devastation of war.
The big majority, in contrast,
has been living from hand to hand.
Except for workers employed in
war industry, the masses in the oc-
cupied countries have been forced
by the Germans to exist on a near
starvation diet 49,.
In Southern Italy, due to lack
of transportation, hunger is wide
spread, in spite of all the Allies
have done. Thousands are going
without shoes and are wearing old,
patched-up clothes. In many areas,
medical facilities are completely
lacking.
All Over Europe there is a severe
shortage of fats and proteins. The
worst conditions are reported to
be in Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland
and Norway, with Belgium,
Czechoslovakia, France, Neither
lands and Denmark coming next
in order. Also, parts of Russia
have suffered severely.
Poverty and malnutrition are
declared to be the lot of most OF
the people in the occupied coun-
tries. Enjoyment of luxuries is
limited to only a few. The con-
trasting situation of these two
groups is posing a different choice
for Allied officials.
One course should be in the di-
rection of change. New govern
ments would be encouraged in
which political power would be
taken away from the small minor
ity and spread equally among all
the people. Then the people them
selves would have an opportunity
to adopt measures that would wipe
out the special economic advant-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23

This would give them a better
understanding of the problem of
the 10000, 900 returning soldiers
who will need something to tide
them over until they can find CT
william jobs.
These soldiers came from South
Carolina and Missouri and from
all the 48 states, but they fought
the war under one flag.
And the same thing is true of
the 10000, 900 war workers who
were shifted all over the country
to work on federal contracts which
were not let with any reference to
state lines.
National ProbIem-and Calamity
Of curse there would still be
people who would say that it is
good strategy to fight the war I'M
der one flag, but that we should
fight the depression according to
t8 different planes.
In particular, some of us would
object to taking care of Clark and
ssCotton Ed" on the ground that
they are the peculiar social prob
lens of Missouri and South Caro-
lima.
But we would be wrong. The
Senate of the United States is a
national problem, and may well
become a national calamity.
There is no reason why the hon
orable members should not have
federal unemployment compensa-
ton, and every reason why they
should be included in a general de-
mobilization law.
Unless they get busy ana agree
On some national program to avert
a postwar depression, many of
them are going to need unemploy-
ment compensation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
Smarter Than the Men Who Made 1t"


chine" 1t is a better mathematician than EinTein. One writer says: 1T
is smarter than the men who made it."
The man primarily responsible for the contraption is Howard H
Aiken, who, until this war called him into the navy, was an associate
professor for mathematics in the Harvard School of Engineering. He
had the assistance of the engineers of a big calculating machine
company.
devoted to design, construction and testing.
The net result is a huge supercalculating machine, which, in an
incredibly short time, "a solve mathematical jobs which cannot be
solved now because of their intricacy and the enormous time and per-
sonnet which would be required to work them out"
The New York Times pays the inventors this pretty compliment:
but nobody invented Commander Aiken and his colleagues, and
nobody could predict them. In them lay the eternal mystery of the
human mind, which cares more for knowledge than for bread and
which, not knowing in advance just where truth resides, never rests
in it's search TO. it"-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

One of the things that may have
contributed to Wallace's defeat
was a book. It's title is Statesman
ship and Religion; its author,
Henry j. Wallace. 1t consists of
three lectures Mr.. Wallace deliver
ed at the Chicago Theological Sc
minary and another he delivered
before the Federal Council of
Churches, and was published in
1884 by the Roundtable Press. 1t
was circulated by reactionary
Democrats Thursday night and
Friday of convention week, among
a few important Wallace leaders
A dozen or more passages were
marked. These passages were
taken out of context to prove that
Wallace was (a) anti Catholic, (b)
anti-Protestant, (c) atheistic, (d)
communistic, and (e) fascistic.
Anyone who read the book in its
entirety could easily see that Wal
lace is none of these things, but
the carefully marked passages APP
peared damning when read alone.
The Old Guard argued that the
Republicans might use these pas
sages if Wallace were nominated
The photograph desk of a ma
tional news syndicate reports that
Dewey insists on serious, non
smiling pictures, because, he
says, the campaign is serious.
The Post Library at Camp Per-
ry, Ohio, with more than seven
thousand volumes, has been closed
for lack of funds to pay the libra
rian. At the same camp a private
with a masters degree in librarian
ship is guarding war prisoners.
A Red Cross al carrying a sol
dier with a heavily bandaged hand
and another with crutches drew
alongside a Fifth Avenue bus.
isn't that a shame!" said a lady
bus passenger. Eyes, those poor
fellows" replied her male com
panion. ooh, no, that isn't what
mean," said the lady. "Look at
that sign: Donated by Local 32B,
Building Service Employees Inter
national Union, A. F. L. Isn't that
a shame for the Red Cross!"
American business men may not
trust the Soviet government, but
they certainly intend to do bust
ness with it. Printers Ink, an adj
vertising journal, reports a 800 per
cent increase in advertising by
American industrial and engineer
ing firms in American Engineer
ing and Industry" a Russian-lan-
guage technical monthly publish
ed by Amtorg. "Catalog of Amer
lean Engineering and industry,
1944-66 Edition." another Amtorg
publication, will have 1850 pages
of advertising placed by O than
seven hundred American firms.
The last edition, in 1912, carried
about $50 pages of advertising.
Festung Europa: The Nazis are
melting down the bronze statues
of Paris, but one of Lafayette has
escaped them. A crew of workmen
removed the 1k-ton statue from
It's pedestal and hauled it away in
broad daylight-and it didn't oc-
cur to passing Nazis that the work
men were guerilla fighters from
the maquis.
AAF n All HII~@HU AM
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
BIBLES
CONFESSED FAKES

The business of selling bibles
guaranteed to protect soldiers
from battlefront death or wounds
came to an end when a Pittsburgh
firm recently admitted such claims
r fraudulent.
Indicted by the Federal Trade
Commission, Arthur Won Sender
Company, signed a statement as
sorting that its "armored' Bibles
"are not capable of DETECTING
bullets, shrapnels or bayonets and
will not physically protect the per-
son carrying one of them"
OF course, the swindlers were
not sent to Jail.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
TO LEARN

Missionary-Do you folks know
anything about religion?
Cannibal-Well, we had a little
taste of it when the last mission
airy was here.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23

Sometimes it is said that man
cannot be trusted with the govern
ment of himself. Can he then be
trusted with the government of
others? Or have we found angels
in the forms of kings to govern
him? Let history answer this ques-
tion.-Thomas Jefferson.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-23
BLIND WORKERS
AID WAR

Blind workers are doing a great
job or. wal production, Manpower
Chief Paul v. McNutt declared.
Over 1000 of them are handling
key operations in war plants, he
said.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-02-25

bowling enthusiast frequent Bowling
PIX No 7-B Pvt William Carter Special Unit
pictured a
hoped that fellows
pride bowling tournament
which the Reeationa Office planning
the enlisted
bowling tourney. Apache Sentinel Photo
The Apache sentinel., 1944-02-25
Corporal Woody Strobe Takes
Lead in 1943 Army Athletics

,e MARCH FIELD, caiif.-In a re-
cent after-dinner Speech before
members of the San Francisco Press
club, Major Paul j. Schissler, March
Field Athletic Officer, described
Corporal Woody Strobe, track and
football athlete. as "the greatest end
in the United States. ~
He played football with the
Fourth Air Force team, which rank
ed 10th in the nation in the AS
sociated Press standings. His top
mark in football is four touchdowns
scored on passes. He won titles in
the shot put, discus, and high jump.
His top mark for the high lump is
six feet, three inches.
T While at the University of Cali
fornia, Los Angeles, Corporal. Strobe
played with the Bruins and won the
discus and shot put titles in both
1899 and 1910, In 1899 he helped
them to the Coast Conference foot
ball co-championship by catching a
succession of game winning touch
down passes from Kenny Washing
ton.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-02-25
Cage Star Assists in Army
Physical Training Program

Jefferson Barracks, Mo = Cpl.
Tom Sealy, of Brooklyn, NY, who
formerly played with the Washing
ton O.C0 Bears, is assistant phys
ical training instructor for the
11G5th Training Group here.
The strapping athlete who began
his basketball career at Alexander
Hamilton high school in his home
town, was a stellar forward on the
cage team for three years. After
graduation, he played with the Har-
lem Yankees during the 1941. season
before joining the Washington
team.
He was selected to accompany the
famous Harlem Globe Trotters on
tour of Mexico last year, but because
of his induction into the Army on
March % at Fort Dix, Nj. he had
to abandon his athletic career for
the duration.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-02-25
Monday to Mark Opening Bowling League Tourney
SpecioI Cage
Double Header

Saturday night double head
er cage tilt will be held in the
Field house, when the "Flying
Tigers" from Davis Monthan
Field journey here from their
Ease in Tucson to meet the SCH
All-Stars. The game promises
to be a good one as the SCUers
have grudge to play off and a
recent defeat to even up. This
game is scheduled for 8 O'Clock.
At 2 o'clock the WACs and Col.
Young school girls will meet in a
preliminary match, which ought
to be good since the WAC bas-
keteerS are also out to settle for
a recent beating suffered at the
hands of the Col. Young young-
SterS.
Tonight at the Field house, one
CT the most unusual games of the
season will be played when mem
bers of the WAC team play the
37th Special Service company's
Cagers. The men will play wom-
ems rules but they promise that
whatever goals the WACs achieve
will be well earned. This game
is set for 8 o'clock.
The Apache sentinel., 1944-02-25
Soccer Being Taught To
Sou Men Headed Overseas

1t. James T., Chambers, assistant
Post Athletic Officer, recently add
ed soccer and pushball to the rec
reational program of sou men who
are training for overseas service.
On Wednesday evening of this
week he began the playing of Soc
Ger. The game is being taught to
men in basic training groups of
Sou 1922. According to 1t Cham
bers, soccer is going over big with
the Armed Forces overseas. 1t is
played by more people, perhaps,
than any other game in the world.
If the game is desired by other
enlisted men besides those in basic
training groups, they may receive
instructions by calling 1t. Cham
berS at 3133
The Apache sentinel., 1944-02-25
INVENT NEW GAME
SINK HOLE FOOTBALL

new game, conceived by S/Sgt.
Birtram Kurth of the 25th Training
Group, Jefferson Barracks, Mis-
souri,, threatens to take the Post
by storm. It's called sink hole
fcotball' and it involves Sc men-
% at the rim of the sink hole and
25 in the bottom.
The team at the bottom attempts
to get a medicine ball out Of the
hole by running it out with the aid
of interference and all types of
blocking. IN endeavOring to prevent
this the opposition above are al
lowed to go halfway down the. slope,
resulting in rugged battle inVolv-
inc plenty of bodily contact
The 25 men on the rim of the sink
hole are spaced about two feet
apart, while those below disperse
their forces as they please.
One point is scored each time a
team gets the gall out successfully,
and playing time OF five minutes
is allotted each side.