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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
Revolution in the Balkans

The Balkan peace moves now under way constitute great military
opportunity for the Allies, and equal political challenge.
Obviously, the sooner Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary escape Hit
Ter, the better will be our battle prospects. Formidable difficulties adj
mittedIy lie in the way. The Germans, for example, will make extra
ordinary efforts to keep Runania captive for the sake Of OIL But Nazi
chains in the Balkans are wearing thin; the Red armies approach the
Rumanian frontier; liberation may be nearer than we've imagined.
For all of which Americans cheer. But peace for most Balkan
countries. we must realize, means morethan peace. 1t means revolution.
Revolutionary forces already have won leadership in Yugoslavia. They
should have a policy for dealing with Balkan revolutions and there
is no indication that we have it.
The Balkans ire feudal, Agrarian countries, with small, feeble
middle classes, they have long been cruelty exploited by disreputable
governments on behalf of rich, absentee landlords, commercial con-
cessionaires and urban parasites. The prayer OF the peasant is land, the
means of farming it and a decent living from it. Now, with the enor-
mously increased prestige of the Soviet Union, deiverance from the
Axis is bound vastly to strengthen the revolutionary forces. 1t is not to
be expected that the old reactionary government cEques can retain
power, and thus continue to stave off reform at home by dverting the
emotions of the people to the. insanity of Balkan nationaHsns.
This does not mean that the Balkans ire going Communist" But
Russian influence will be tremendous. There should be, also, great in
fuence from the west for Strengthening political democracy. Actually,
however, Anglo-American support of antidemocratic forces elsewhere
in Europe has sadly diminished our chances Of welding our weight in
tile Balkans.
1t isl not too late to alter that fact, But America cannot win other
peoples for democracy unless it believes enough in democracy to prac-
te it consistently in foreign policy-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
Yes, Mr.. Ferguson

We suspect that few of our readers will know who Homer Ferguson
is-because he's a United States Senator from Michigan and most people
can't even tell you the names of their own representatives in the ma
tional Senate.
However, Senator Ferguson rates mention here because of some
thing he said to the Senate Military Affairs Committee the other day.
In effect, what he told the committee was that
"Hoardng of Labor, extravaganza, waste and inefhciency re the
products of costplus contracts"
We think that is a m important statement, because it shows that at
least me member of the Senate has no higher opinion of the patriotism
of American industriaists than we have.
About the time the government began handing out war contracts,
we predicted just what Ferguson now says is coming to pass. Moreover,
we told the reason why:
Capitalism is a dog-eatdog system. 1t has a philosophy that always
has gOrified the individuaist. Its p0licy-makers have consistently
sneered at the ideals of Socialism and behttIed the plaintve cries of
those who were left behind in the competitive race for personal adj
vantage.
Well, what can anybody expect? Wouldn't MI. Ferguson make as
much out of the war as he could if he were an industriaHst? Wouldn't
he take care of himself first and let the rest of the world go hang?
WE'LL maybe HE wouldn't-just maybe. But then he's out of tune
with the times and at odds with the system he is hoping to perpetuate
as the American way of life"
The private profit system, by its very nature, pits mar against man
and the individuals against society. It's idea of virtue, as instuued into
the minds of everybody who would listen, was to get anead. Ahead of
whom? Why ahead of everybody else And how? Oh, anyhow-if you
could get away with it.
Competition That was the watchword. Yea, brother, it was the
life OF trade!' Remember? But it was also the death of national unity
and the birth of a generation so anti-social as not to be trusted when
more profits could be made by hurting the nation than by helping. -
Reading Labor Advocate. a
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
RICH HIRE LOBBY
TO FREEZE TAXES

Congress must not tax incomes,
in~heritances and gifts more than IS
per cent?" A lobby, which lppa-
rently has unlimited cash, is en-
deavoring to put that proposal over
in the form of a constitutional
amendment. just now the lobby is
working on the New Jersey legisla-
ture and has already succeeded in
getting the approval of the state
Senate. Seventeen or Is other states
have been lined up.
OF course, the proposed amend
ment is entirely in the interests of
the very rich. 1t would do more to
safeguard great fortunes than al
most any other conceivable scheme.
Daily newspapers are treating
the idea with great consideration.
That's because the owners of daily
newspapers would be among the
chief beneficiaries.
But the 80 per cent of our people
who find it difficult to make their
pay envelopes match their budgets,
should register their vigorous OPP
position.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
In THE WIND
From THE NATION

N
A Frenchman VINO recently ar
rived in New York brings this
story from the underground. A
Nazi colonel in Paris bought a
newspaper from the same boy
every day. The boy always said,
Voice lie journal, grand con-"
Those last two words are a filthy
term of abuse, which The Nation
leaves untranslated to spare the
sensibilities of the Postmaster Gen
eral. The colonel asked a French
acquaintance the meaning of con,
which he could not find in any die
tionary. The Frenchman, thinking
fast to save the newsboy, told him
it was an abbreviation of conquer
ant. Next day, when the neWsboy
used the term, the colonel patted
him ON the shoulder and said. Mon.
Je suis lie petit con. LIE grand con
c'est Hitler"
The planning board of Nuetley,
New Jersey, has submitted to the
Town Commission an agreement
which postwar residential builders
would be required to sign. One of
its provisions reads: mo person
belonging to any race except per-
sons of pure Caucasian blood shall
use or occupy any dwelling house
erected on any lot, except that this
covenant shall not be construed to
prevent the occupancy by domestic
servants of a different race when
actually employed by the owner or
tenant of any such premises"
The Communist press is not what
it used to be. The New Masses cri-
ticizes I. F. Stone for deploring
Roosevlt's omission of the Wagner
Act from his list of New Deal ac-
complishments, and the Daily
Worker comments thus on Henry
Wallace's Seattle speech: Vice
President Wallace unfortunately
doesn't help the struggle against
the anti-Teheran elements by his
general attack on Wall Street. The
widest kind of national unity is ne
cessary to defeat them, including
clear-headed business men from
Wall Street"
An article on the renegotiation
law in the Railway Clerk quotes
Maurice H. Karker, chairman of
the War Departments Price Adj
iustment Board: "In reaching a
conclusion we allow an adequate
margin of profit, plus a margin of
generosity, plus a margin for good
measure
Festung Europa: A current joke
in Prague is that war daylight-sav-
ing time was introduced not to save
an hour Of daylight but to permit
the Nazis to stay in the city an hour
longer on the day of their defeat.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
WHO SAID THAT?

Labor is prior to and indepen-
dent of capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor and could never have
existed if labor had not first ex-
listed. Labor is the superior of cap
ital and deserves much the higher
consideration"
Who said that? Roosevelt? No,
for had he said it. the daily press
would be calling him worse names
than they are today. He'd be aclled
a red" and a communist" and
other things.
Did Eugene v. Debs, the famous
socialist say it? No, he didn't, for
he'd be accused of even worse
crimes than our president had he
made that statement.
No socialist said it, neither did
any communist, but the man who
did say it'came closer to being
Christ-like on this earth than any
other man who ever lived.
That man was ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22

A head
By LEN De CAUx

Back in the U. S. A, after a two
years absence, Marine Sergt. John
R. Devereux, veteran of the Bong
AWHILE, Guadalcanal and Russell
Island campaigns, was surprised
and kind of shocked by some
things.
Il thought it would be pretty
rugged here-no chow, no gas" he
said. But he found plenty of cars
running, and a lot of belly-aching
about rationing coming from full
bellies.
From what we had heard over
here, you'd think the Administra-
lion had ruined the country" Sgt.
Devereux added. But he found the
U. S. 'iust as American and just
as unruined as ever"
He also thought he'd find hal.
The country on strike But when.
lie got back, he realized sit was all
blown up for US"
Actually America is just as much
as it was, if not so--and too
much SO in some respects.
The lousy-rich are lousy with
war profits, instead of peace pro-
fits. They're still gripping that
they're Nover-taxed," and that the
New Deal and labor are running
them. They still have most of the
press for their mouthpiece.
The poor are still plenty poor
and still getting the blame"
The crooks are just as crooked.
Dirty politicians are just as dirty.
There's still plenty of ballyhoo
and baloney.
But 99% of the American people
r just as decent as they've always
been. They know what their fight
ing men are going through. They're
working their heads off to show
their appreciation to speed the vic
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
FOOD WASTED TO
KEEP PRICES UP

Destruction Of food to maintain
excessive prices has long been prac-
ticed by distributors, but rarely on
the present scale.
Scores of carloads of fresh cab
bage are rotting in Detroit because
of excessive costs, it was revealed
at a public meeting called in pro-
test by the Greater Detroit Con-
sumers' Council. Among delegates
were representatives of organized
labor, retailers, consumers and the
Office of Price Administration.
Unless action is taken imme-
diately, not only cabbages, but pa
%tatoes, cauliflower, spinach and
other commodities may experience
the same fate that befell oranges,
which were dumped by the ton re-
Gently in a similar situation" Char
les c. Lockwood, Consumers Coun-
ell attorney, said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
WOMEN ARE LAUDED
FOR WAR PRODUCTION

Credit for American aircraft pro-
duction attaining a record Of 5000
planes a month was given women
by Charles E. Wilson, executive
vice president of the War Produc-
ton Board.
Theodore E. Quinn, director gem
eral of the wa production drive,
went farther and said he had no
doubt 1.-THE United States would
have to withdraw from the wan if
women stopped working now"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
PROFITEERING HIKES
NATIONS DRINK BILL

1t cost Americans more than
Sc, 900, 000, 900 to wet their whistle
last year, or II per cent more than
in 1912, and so per cent above
1889. The larger bill was not be
cause they drank more, but because
they were forced to pay higher
prices for booze.
The Department of Commerce, in
reporting these figures estimated
that the per capita expenditure for
hard liquor was SAG, or nearly z
cents of every dollar spent for
goods and services of all kinds.
Consumption of whisky was a.
600 600 gallons, or $4,000, 900 gal
Ions less than in 1912.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22

Since it constitutes a threat to
the prestige of the Nazf enemy,
most Americans will approve the
action of 5000, 900 Italian workers
who defied their conquerers by
striking against German military
authority.
But how much better it would
have been if the workers of Italy
had rebelled long ago against their
own native eXploiters? Had they
used their power to free themselves
from the bondage which Italian
capitalism fastened upon all of
them there would have been no
Mussolini to make every Italian the
creature of a super-state. Instead,
the Italian government could have
made to be what all governments
should be - the instrument where
by the people are enabled to CO.
operate, not for the service of a
master class, but for their w well
fare.
Most Americans will agree with
the thoughts thus far presented in
this column, because they are be-
ing expressed about workers of an
other nation. However, there is
little doubt that the big exploiters
of America and of Britain, too -
those whose interests are interna-
tional in scope-are already wor-
ried by the thought that Italian la
Dor solidarity may some day be ar
rayed against Badoglio and the
king, or against whatever other ma
tive exploiters may some day be as
signed to the task of preserving the
prlvate-profit system in postwar
Italy.
However, the fact is now, clear
to all in this nation that, so far as
the people of Italy are concerned,
their number-one enemies have
been those other Italians who main
tanned and profited by the system
of human exploitation.
Likewise in Germany and Japan.
There were Socialists in Germany
once. There was a peace party in
Japan. How much better it would
have been for the German people
and the people of Japan it, instead
of fighting workers of another ma
ton to extend the power of Ger
man and Japanese masters over
other people, the German and Japa-
nese workers had united against
their own native exploiters for the
purpose of abolishing the .exploita-
ton system!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22

49, ri Fl
tory, and to keep America a coun-
try worth returning to.
How come all the distorted stories
that trickle through to the troops
then?
They're due to privilege, politics
and pelf-just as in pre-war days
but with some new war wrinkles.
Millionaire special privilege still
controls the press and other means
of manufacturing opinion. Papers
like Chicago Tribune and the
Hearst press have added to their
usual labor-baiting new devices to
create hatred and division among
Americans and among the United
Nations.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
On The Control And
Eradication Of Pests

While considering a bill for the control and eradication of certain
animal and plant pests and diseases and a number of other miscel-
laneous purposes, the House of Representatives, after some debate,
voted down al amendment to alot so million dollars for school lunches
for children who would otherwise be inadequately fed.
There was no objection to spending government money to combat
animal and plant diseases, But the idea that something should be done to
protect undernourished school children from disease brought tory Con
gresSmen to their feet in violent objection.
Rep. Carrier of Kentucky expressed surprise that the Congressman
should be o concerned with the health and comfort of livestock, and
S % willing to spend money "o rid cattle of ticks and other parasites" but
SO canous to the need of supplying improperly fed children With hot
lunches.
This is only n sample of the warfare against the peoples welfare
that is being waged by the combination of poltax Democrats and tory
Republicans that has usurped control of Congress. - CIO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
LITTLE PEOPLE" NOT
WAR BOND SLACKERS

Charges that little people" are
not Loyalty responding to the gov
ernment's loan bond drives were
disapproved by a Treasury report,
showing that the S14, 900, 600, 900
goal of the recent campaign was
exceeded by So, 730, OOO, 600.
More than So, 900, 600, 900 of e.
bonds were purchased by indivi-
duals-more than. their quota-the
report said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22

How much suffering and blood
shed would be prevented-and how
much greater intelligence would
have been revealed-if the people
of all the enemy nations had recog-
nized the fact that their enemy was
not somebody across the border at
all, but the system of human ex-
ploitation-and the b~eneficiaries of
that system-within their own bor-
ders!
Of course most Americans will
agree-up to this point.
But how many will agree when
we extend the same reasoning to
this country? How many will be
able to cast prejudice and tradition
aside and understand that here in
the United States, too, the number
one <rcmy of the people is the sys-
TEN which enables a small owning
class 70 exact tribute from the
many VINO work -. the system that
breeds insecurity at home and wars
all around the world?
How many Americans will agree
sufficiently to revolt against the
~number-one enemy here at home
by working for Socialism now and
by voting for freedom from then
own native exploiters with a sim
pie pencil mark on next Novem-
ber's ballot?
And how many will fail to see
the lesson that Italy, Germany and
Japan teaches, and SO suffer basic
wrongs as long as they are suffer
able, only to be forced in the end to
revolt in a more difficult way?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
PROFITS BEFORE DUTY

PHILADELPHIA. - William A.
Elliot, member of a government
committee enforcing War Food Adj
ministration rules among butchers,
was charged in a suit filed in Fed
eral court here this week with
overcharging retailers for meat.
The government seeks to recover
$750,000 in damages.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
HOSPITALS FOR VETS"

The peak load in veterans relief
will come in 1875, when 800, 900
hospital beds will be needed to care
for incapacitated ex-servicemen,
General Frank T. Hines, veterans
administration, told the House APP
preparations Committee.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
TO OUR ALLIES
$4,000 Planes Are Shipped
Abroad Under the LeaSe-Lend
Program

Of the 10000 planes produced
by American workers since the
lease-lcnd program went into effect
$4,000 have been sent to our Allies,
Leo 7. Crowley, foreign economic
administrator, revealed recently.
In addition to aircraft, Crowley
said, So, 500, 0OO, 900 worth of ord
nance and ammunition and $780,
600, 900 worth of petroleum had
been shipped to the Allies.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22

People seldom improve when tAsy
have no model but themselves 90
look at--Goldsmith.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22

Socrates said that Q knowledge n9
our own ignorance IS the 1irxe Aeas
toward true knowledge.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1944-03-22
Number One Enemy Of the Workers Are
Exploiters, NATIVE and Foreign

By RAYMOND S. HOFSES, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-01-28
GRASS SEED WANTED

yellow and Brown Mustard. broom grass.
crested wheat. alfalfa. and all kinds Of
other grass seed wanted. Send sample Po-
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-01-28
Huge Grasshoppers

Giant grasshoppers four to five
inches long that prey on small
creatures such as mice and the
young of ground-nesting birds are
found in the Congo region of AZ
RIGA. They rival the kangaroo as
jumpers and can leap a consider
able distance to pounce upon their
prey.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-10-05

MIR. and Mrs. Harold Robinson
and daughter Donna Mae were
week end guests of Mr.. and> Mrs.
A. c. Anon. They are former
Kennewick residents and now live
in Vancouver, Wash.
MIR. and Mrs. Ray Bo1dt who
have made their home in Free
water, Ore, for the past year
are again making their home in
KenneWick.
The Kennewick chapter of the
Daughter of American Revolution
will meet at Mrs. Reuben Gest's
home for a 100 dessert luncheon
Monday, Oct. 9th. Anyone be-
longing to another chapter or any
one who is eligible to join is
cordially invited to attend. Please
contact Mrs. Gest by Sunday.
Phone 3071.
Guy Bryson of Pullman as visit
ing his sister Mrs. VIM. Munsey.
Mr.. Bryson plans to spend most
of the winter in Kennewick.
MIR. and Mrs. Walter S. Jack
son of Sunnyside announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Grace, to 1t. Earl Johns of Ken
newick. Miss Jackson is gradu-
ate, of Sunnyside high school and
now has a position in the dupont
office at Richland.
Mrs. Earl Magelson and two
children Shirley and Jimmy &C
companied by Mrs. Clara Bleich-
ner left Sunday for Seattle to
spend several days visiting, rela-
tives and friends.
Mrs. Emma Hansen went to
Tacoma Friday morning to visit
her daughter Mrs. Warren Sum
dine. She returned to her home
Tuesday.
r. R. Mcintosh, operator of the
Richland transfer for many years
and for the past two years main
tanned an office for his truck lines
in Kennewick, has sold his bust
ness and with Mrs. Mcintosh and
son Dean left this week for Spo-
kane to make their home.
Member of Althea Rebekah
lodge are planning a meeting for
Monday, Oct. 9 when the Kiona
Rebekah lodge will exemplify the
Rebekah degree for five candidates
of the local lodge in the local hall.
Nomination of officers will also be
a part of the evenings program,
and Frances Pangle, president of
the Rebekah Assembly of Wash
ington will make her official visit.
All members are urged to attend
and all visitors will be welcomed.
Funeral services for Cecil Ho-
mer Campbell, a veteran of World
War /, were held Saturday after
noon at the graveside at River
view cemetery. Chaplain John b.
Coan officiated with the assist
ance of an honor escort of several
local LegionnaireS.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-10-05

at sounds almost like a miracle, Judge.
how did we ever do it,"
american industry did it, Sally. When
the Japs conquered the chief natural rubber
producing centers of the world they thought
they had dealt a death blow to our war
effort. But, in less than two years, we are
producing enough synthetic rubber in this
country to supply all our military and
essential civilian requirements.
"Or rubber experts knew how to make
it but the most practical process at the
time required huge amounts of industrial
alcohol far beyond the already over
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1944-10-05
Thursday, October 5, 1914

taxed capacity of our industrial alcohol
plants. So, overnight, our country's beverage
distillers stopped making whiskey and pro-
duced hundreds of millions of gallons of the
vitality needed alcohol.
"As matter of fact, Sally, a high govern
ment official said recently g. synthetic
rubber Is from 6 to months ahead of
where it could have been If alcohol had not
been available for butadiene production"
1--WE were really fortunate, weren't we
Judge, to have beverage distilling industry
in existence &. able to help perform this
great wartime miraclep'
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-30
New Group
Backs FDR

4 Michigan Citizens Commit
zee for the Reelection Of PreSi-
lent Roosevelt has opened head
quarters al OF David Stott Build
lng. IL was announced today by
,tate chairman Howell Van Au-
zen. a member Of the Detroit
Board Of Education and former
tate public utilities commissioner.
other officers Of the committee
re- Patrick $. Nertney. president
rt the Detroit Lawyers Guild,
local chairman; Paul II. Todd,
Kalamazoo. and GlenwoOd c.
Fuller. Grand Rapids, state vice
ChsirUCn
This is a bipartisan commit
tee, Van Auken said. composed
~ citizens from all walks of
life who believe that President
Roosevelt provides the best a.
SHFanee for the continuation of
the American system OF free
enterprise and will bring 10 a
successful conclusion the great
catastrophe which has engulfed
the world, with a sound and
lasting peace"
Branch organizations are being
formed in Grand Rapids, Kala-
mazoo. Flint and Lansing.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-09-30
Illegal Arrest Claimed
By Bride Defendant

The case Of Eladio Rivera. %,
Of 943 Michigan. charged with at
tempting 10 bride policeman. to-
day was continued until Oct. IL
by Judge Joseph A. ellis. when
attorney Samuel Weller asked
time TO file a petition Of illegal
arrest.
Patrolman Thomas Dickson
charged that Rivera attempted 10
bride him with SIS after he broke
into Rivera's room on Dec. >,
1913, and allegely found . card
game in progress.