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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
In Unity There Is Strength

In a broadcast heard in this country on the University of Chicago
Round Table discussion program, Harold Laski, noted economist and
the future of the world because 1 do not see how the free enterprise
system in America can lead to full employment" He said that the hope
of avoiding an American postwar depression is not great because the
philosophy of the American businessman today seems to be exactly like
it was in 1929"
Another British speaker IN the same program, Godfrey Crowther,
editor of the Economist" declared that American listeners should
realize that we are more frightened of an American depression than
we are of a British depression. We want to be sure that America will
not allow another gigantic depression"
There two men speak authoritatively for expert British thought
on the subject of postwar stability, and their words should be needed
in this country. Both are among the worlds foremost economists, have
lowed the First World War, and other depressions before it, and must
be given credit for knowing what it's all about.
Laski will not make a hit in U. S. business circles with his crack
about or venerable free enterprise" system, nor will his comment
regarding their 1929 model philosophy endear him to our National
Association of Manufacturers, which is still signing gustly for a return
malcy"
But the very fact that two of Britain's leading economists are
worried about our ability to avoid a depression when the war ends
should arouse every American worker to the danger which lies ahead.
We have been hearing and reading a lot about postwar plans, but so
far we have heard or read nothing that promises us action in time to
prevent a collapse.
Of course, there are many Americans who will say that Laski and
Crowther and all other foreigners" should mind their own business
These same Americans beHeve-many of them quite sincerely-that
our nation is self-sufficient, that w have no stake in and need not
concern ourselves with the welfare of other nations, and that we have
all we can do to take al of ourselves.
It was this same short sighted policy that aggravated conditions
in Europe after the last war to a point where the entire world was
engulfed in the longest and worst "bad times r in the history of
the world. It is a policy we must not adopt this time, even if it means
giving up ONE of our cherished business PHILOSOPHERS, and even if it
means some hated foreign entaglements." It's either that, IT back
to selling apples on street corners for u war veterans and other I'M
employed, and a revival of that old refrain: Brother, Can You Spare
A Dime?',w which al 10 appropriate to the times fifteen years ago. =
The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
WPA, FINALLY DEAD,
WAS TIGHTWAD WHEN
COMPARED TO WAR III

WASHINGTON. - The much
maligned Works Projects Admins
tration, one of the longest-lived
New Deal stop-gap agencies, passed
away quietly June 80, after 10
years of politically stormy life.
During the hey-day this make
work project, which left behind it
many permanent public projects,
was accused by opposition-party
politicians Of wasting taxpayers
money by the barrel to make jobs
for Observation-Disclosures" WPA's
total expenditures were a little
short of 1012 billion, which would
pay for 40 days of World War II.
1t provided jobs for 8R million
u. S. unemployed.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
CROAT GUSHING
DISTRIBUTES MORE
TINSEL TO HIS
SUPPORTERS

WASHINGTON. - A wholesale
distribution of decorations to his
collaborators, in hope of retaining
their services, was recently made
by Croatia's quisling Ante Pavelic.
According to a Zagreb radio
broadcast, as reported to OWL on
July 10, the Poglavnik made the
following awards: The Grand Cross
of Zvonimir with Star to DR.. ORA
gutin 10th, minister of finance; the
Grand Cross of the Order of Merit
with Star to DR.. Vrancic, minister
Of trade; Ivica Frkovic, minister of
state; DR.. 'Lovro Susie, minister of
corporations; DIR. Pavalo Canki,
minister of justice; DR.. Oscar Turf
nj, secretary of state; DR.. Vladimir
Zidovec, former minister to Bulga-
ria; DR.. Vilko Rieger, propaganda
chief, and ito many representatives
of public and cultural life, the
church, the diplomatic corps, and
economic life.
MAIDEN Lorkovic, Croat minister
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
LINCOLN DIED IN VAIN

Illinois, the Lincoln country,
bows with shame as it reads of the
action taken in the South Carolina
legislature to bar all Negroes from
voting in the primary.
Lincoln died to free the slaves,
but apparently South Carolina feels
itself still a part of the confederate
states, rather than a member of the
United States.
What has South Cardinals action
to do with unions? Plenty.
If a state can bar Negroes from
voting on the grounds of color,
what is to prevent that same state
from barring union men from vot-
ing on the grounds they are men,
bers of an economic sect? = The
Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
"WE:' THE CONVENTIONAL LIE

AS used by politicians and super-patriots, the personal pronoun
I'VE" implies a condition of national unity which unfortunately, is not
based upon fact.
Anybody who believes that there is common interest which binds
all Americans together fails to take into consideration facts which prove
beyond question that there is a division of class that sets individual
against individual and group against group.
AS justification for the above statement we submit the degree
of profiteering that is taking place while the nation is at war.
Some weeks ago the Truman Committee was addressed by Randolph
E.. Paul, who, until recently, a general counsel of the United States
Treasury. What he told the committee was that
While the most of is were being asked to sacrifice for the national
welfare, the small group that owns the major industries of the nation
were taking profits that added tremendously to the debt of the nation
and to the burden that will have to be carried by this and future
generations. #N
Mr.. Paul ought to know what he is talking about. What he says is
that after paying taxes and all other charges, corporation profits during
193 and 1914 will be three times average profits during the same
period from 1886 to 1899.
It is ridiculous for the producers of wealth and the nations soldiers
to speak of "we" and thus include themselves in the company of the
people who are bleeding the public and burdening future generations.
Moreover, is Paul points out the bulk of war business has been
given to 100 corporations. Of these 100, the Truman Committee says,
only 8 have been found wholly free of excese profits in 1912 and even
greater sums in 1943. DaA
There r. plenty of examples of self seeking, anti pubic grabbing
from rs to 600 times normal peacetime profits. There is a New York
aircraft corporation which multiplied its take" by 1853 in 1912, after
paying taxes and dividends There is a Pennsylvania airplane conn
pany that jumped from a deficit in 1936-1939 to a profit Of $11 100000
in 1912.
The known facts could make a long list.
1--WE" are doing real well out of this war-of I'VE" means the
favored few who III going to own the nation after it is saved by the
sacrifice and blood of ordinary people. But what right has a worker or
a soldier even to listen to the word 1--WE" when it comes from the cor
poration interests who are exploiting him and his country
"We?" Whom are you talking about?-Reading Labor Advocate
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
IF LABOR MEN WERE
TREATED THAT WAY

We don't like to rub it in on
medical brothers, but we can't re-
frain from calling attention to the
fact that only recently it was Of
ficially announced in New York
City that more than 1000 practic-
ing physicians in the metropolis
had been found guilty of "partici-
pating in workmen's compensation
kickbacks."
Putting it crudely, they had as
sisted crooked lawyers and others
in robbing poor working men en-
titled to benefits under the state
laws.
The verdicts were rendered by
medical societies to which the doc
tors belong.
The scandal started when a state
commission reported that 2,778
physicians were involved, and call
ed on the medical societies to do
something about it. Only II we're
found not guilty, hundreds escaped
because they r in the armed
services.
Now the matter is up to the
State Industrial Commissioner. He
may impose more drastic punish
ment for what he describes as "a
vicious and disgraceful racket"
Think what the newspapers
would say if a government agency
found that in one city 2,778 trade
unionists had Violated the law
robbed the state and its unfortun-
ate citizens-iand then suggested
that the culprits be first tried by
the unions to which they belonged
Can't you imagine the mighty pro
test which would come roaring up
from every corner of the country?
But no newspaper objects when
professional men are treated that
way.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
MIR. Johnston's Significant Omission
His Eleven 'Musts' for Peace Seek to Drive Wedge
Between The Soldier and the Civilian Workers

Back from Russia Eric Johnston, president of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce, submits what his press agent describes as Eleven musts
for peace!'
Practically all the "musts' set forth special favors demanded by
taxes; war contracts promptly adjusted and tn a generous scale; first
chance at the war plants in which Uncle Sam has invested billions of
the peoples money, and much more of the same.
In the opinion of LABOR, the most significant feature of the
Chambers "musts' program is its demand for private and public
policies which will enable service mn and women to re-enter civilian
life with the fullest opportunity for profitable employment in the
expanding economy" and its failure to say a word about what govern
ment, industry or any one else should do to help wal workers and
other civilians.
Apparently the Chamber desires to drive a wedge between Ameri-
cans who served n the battlefront and Americans who served IN the
home front.
It doesn't require a very wise man to prophesy what will happen if
the Chamber and its laxative president get away with that proposal.
If jobs are few, workers who served on the home front will be
showed out, and those who served on the battlefront will be showed in
If civilian workers complain, then the service men and the service
women will be expected to assist the employer in putting the home
front workers "in their place"
That's a n invitation to Fascism. It's the game Mussolini played,
and which resulted in his march on Rome.
Eric Johnston is a very smooth gentleman. To listen to him tell
the story, one would imagine he loved organized labor. However, "the
hand is the hand of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob.
The only postwar plan w should consider is which provides,
jobs for aH-the worker from the home front, Is well IS the soldier
from the battlefront. That, plus fair prices for the farmers products
will insure economic safety.
Anything less means widespread depression and perhaps even more
serious consequences.
Perhaps we should add that up to date MI. Johnston hasn't ans
wered LABORS query: "Who puts up the money which enables the
U. S. Chamber of Commerce to funchOn?" We have asked that question
many times.
We have pointed out that rs per cent of the Chambers dues come
from associate members and that the names of those members and
the amount contributed by each have never been made public. But
Eric is still IS silent as the Sphinx Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Alice Roosevelt LongWorth, of
the Republican Roosevelts, is given
as the source of this remark about
Dewey: "Who wants to vote for a
man who looks like a bridegroom
on a wedding cake?"
Although the Owls Research
Division was strapped by Congress,
there will still be researcher a
kind. Tide" an advertising trade
magazine, reports that private in
dustry is financing a new bureau
to carry on the work. 1t will oper-
ate as an adjunct of the War Ad.
vertising Council.
Amid such goings on, more and
more people are turning to the ON
ISOLATION of philosophy. Both the
Modern Library and the publishers
of the Everyman series report
increasing sales of such authors as
Plato, Aristotle, Tacitus, Epictetus,
Marcus Aurelius, William James,
Henri Bergson, Sir Thomas
Browne, Spinoza, Thomas a KEN
pis, and Saint Augustine.
A Naval Lieutenant, born in
Florida has been relieved of his
command for addressing a group
of Negro sailors to whom he was
l~ecturing as "you niggers."
The policemen of Long Beach
California, having been assured by
the city attorney that it is legal fol
them to join a union, have organ.
lied and elected officers (AFL).
Festung Europa: Belgian govern
ment bonds of 1886 and 1887
which were quoted at 80 per cen
of face value on the London mar
ket in June, 1910, are now quoted
at SO per cent. The Nazi-spon
sored company union of the Mi
chelin automobile plant in Franc
recently held a meeting to cleo
twenty-six delegates. But when tn
votes we're counted it appeared tina
only four delegates had been cleo
ted: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stain
and De Gaulle.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
THE TONGUE
BY PHILIP B STRONG

BY PHILLIP Is oIhONG
"The homeless tongue, so small and
weak,
Can crush and KILL" declared the
Greek.
1.-THE tongue destroys a greater
horde"
The Turk asserts, than does the
sword"
A Persian proverb wisely saith,
"A lengthy tongue-an early
death"
Or sometimes takes this form in
stead
Don't let your tongue cut off your
head"
''The tongue can speak a word
whose speed"
Say the Chinese, "outstrips the
steed";
While Arabs sages this impart,
"The tongues great storehouse is
the heart"
From Hebrew wit the maxim
sprung,
Though feet should slip, ne'er lei
the tongue"
The sacred writer crowns the
whole:
who keeps his tongue doth keer
his SOUL"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
IF YOU OWN ENOUGH
BANK STOCK

NEW YORK-With total depo-
sits at $4,677, 872;688 and total re-
sources at 81, $780, 1872, 843, the Chase
National Bank in its midyear re-
port set a record for any CONNER
cial bank in the world.
Net earning were $1.23 per share
of stock, compared with 98c a share
for the same period last year, after
expenses and taxes are deducted.
Doesn't sound like much, but $1.23
a share runs up to SO, 134,O 900 net
earnings for six months.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
French Work ers For
A Real New Order

Franc Tireur," the underground paper that is much read by the
French workers, writes:
Badoglo wa imposed on Italy; they had wanted to impose Darlan
n us . But then Italy was after all a conuuished enemy. Such is not
our case, a we see it; we shall know, if necessary, how to make this
understood.
There exists one French government and one only: the French
Committee of National Liberation. And would-be Badoglio would find
US against him. And there exist also in the land of French men desig-
mated by responsible organizations to take over key posts. We will
recognize them alone.
THE government on the other hand will have to adopt revolution
airy measures in answer to the unanimous wishes of the country. These
measures contain nothing that reed brighten our true friends. The
others must understand that any attempt to maintain a status quo
which would profit heaven knews what interests would provoke reac-
tons which we would support with all our strength"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
Socialist Agitation
In Germany

Socialism is not dead in the rnotherland of Marx and Engels. The
correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor" in Switzerland re-
ports, for instance:
In Mannheim, one of Germanys most ruined cities, my informant
found signs of a very strong anti-Nazi mentality, with underground
Sociaistic agitation of surprising holiness
The Swedish paper, "Sydsvenska DagbLadet," Malmoe, reported at
the beginning of July:
illegal leaflets and pamphlets have appeared with increasing
regularity since November, 1943. Is is known that morale is bad in
factories. There are frequent conflicts between workers and labor
officials.
"Cne day in May, AZ workers, including 18 women, who had visited
an illegal meeting were arrested in Leipzig. The population of Berlin
is mostly apathetic, war weary and nervous. A complete change can
be noticed among the students, who clearly show anti-War and anti
Nazi tendencies. 1t is a fact that the authorities were forced to quell
some n1utnies in the spot by force of arms.
eve live in 1918 in spite of the fact that we write 1914 is a slogan
among men and women in the opposition J. During the raids bitter
Fuehrer for"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
PIONEER PICNIC
SATURDAY, AUG. 5

CHICAGO, ILL.-The highlights
for the Old-Fashioned Pioneer Pic
mic, which is stalled for Saturday,
August 5th, at Pilsen Park, include
a special admission of two for the
price of me-, between the hours of
4:00 and 600 p. m, the serving of
plate lunches, the playing of bingo
and other games and concessions,
Ray Rodman's good music for dam
cling, and the celebration Of our
achievement of our 1000 member
ship goal. Things such as admitting
two for the price of one r being
done to induce our patrons to come
to the picnic early. The regular
hours for the grove are 400 p. m.
to 1900 midnight. After that it
is overtime. If we can come to the
grove a little earlier, it will give
us that much more time to mix
with the crowd and take part in the
various games and concessions.
Plate lunches are being served by
our ladies to afford everyone an
opportunity to "eat out" that day.
The prices will be nominal. What's
nicer than to bring the family to
the grove for an appetizing plate
lunch. So that there shall be no
dull moments, we are arranging for
bingo and other games and conces-
sions. Little needs to be said about
Ray Rodman and his orchestra.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
A Return to the Old Order Means New
D~epressions, Unemployment and Wars
By RAYMOND HOFSES, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

Vice President Wallace returned
from a diplomatic mission to the
Orient in time to do a few chores
of fence building in his own be-
half before the Democratic con-
Vention selected a candidate for
the office he now holds = and
brought with him a promise for the
American worker. Since, under the
circumstances, it is reasonable to
expect that Mr.. Wallace would
wish to create a favorable impress
sion, it may be assumed that his
promise to the working people of
this nation was the best he had. 1t
is therefore important to ponder
the Wallace speech and come to an
understanding of its implications as
we'll as it's words.
What Mr.. Wallace told the Amer
lean people is that, when this war
is over, there will be lots of trade
with the Orient.
What he offered to the workers
of America was-JOBS!
And that's all that Wallace
offered!
To those who condemn Henry A.
Wallace as a starryeyed dreamer,
an idealist or a leftwing sort of
liberal, the Wallace speech should
be reassuring. For in a very real
sense, what Wallace was saying
differed not at all from the ''back
to normalcy" plea with which
Warren Harding won the presid-
ency at the close of World War l..
Stated differently, but quite
truly, what the Wallace speech said
was -
"When this wal ends we will
return to business as usual. We
can do that because we will have
opened a field in which the labor
exploiting capitalist order can ex-
pand. The private-profit system,
which has already given us two
world wars in a generation will get
another chance. For big business
here is a chance to invest and to
make dividends. For the nations
of the world here is a chance to
compete. For workers here is a
promise of an opportunity to do
what workers always have done;
namely, to produce wealth which
will be sold around the world for
the profit of a privileged class.
1t should be possible for Herbert
Hoover to vote for Henry A. Wal
lace on that promise. For such an
arrangement is exactly what Mr.
Hoover and all other advocates OF
''free enterprise wants.
1t even may be that most Amer
lean workers will perk up and
look happy at a promise of nothing
more than a chance to work in the
profit mills of the private enter
prise system. For, unfortunately
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02

They have played for us at the
same spot a year ago and made a
hit. We are confident they will do
it again.
Pilsen Park is located on 10Th ST.
and Albany Avenue. 1t is spacious,
and has excellent accommodations
for a large number of people. This.
then, can be an old-fashioned pic
mic for you all, if you will attend
and meet your friends and partake
of the things that have been pre-
pared by an energetic committee.
The admission is soc including tax.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02

for them and di~sastrously to the
peace of the world, jobs have been
the utmost that most workers
have demanded up to this time.
But Socialists want something
more for their nation than the re-
turn of the old order on a broader
basis and something for
themselves than merely to be the
employed servants of American
imperialism.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02

to Bradshaw, and Ivan Orsanic,
leader of the regime-controlled la
Dor organization, also were given
the Grand Cross of the Order of
Merit, the controlled Zagreb radio
added.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02

An enslaved press is doubly fatal;
1t not only takes away the true
light, for in that case we stand still,
but it sets UP a false one that decoys
us to Observation-Disclosures.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
AirpIone Production
Sets New High Mark

American aircraft workers have
done it again. During February
they produced planes at an all-time
record rate of $50 a day, for a total
of $3.50.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
PLENTY OF A

Recruit-What's on the menu to-
night?
Cook-Oh, we have hundreds of
things to eat tonight.
Recruit-What are they?
Cook-BeanS.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
IN THE ARMY

Private-How's the water on this
God-forsaken island, soldier?
Corporal-Well, buddy, first we
boil it, then we filter it, then we
drink beer.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-08-02
PROSPERITY? SURE

Life has no blessing like a pru
dent friend.-Euripides.
Bradley beam., 1944-04-22
WHERE WAS HE IMPORTANT?

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 Perhaps story enough he'll believe it himself
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