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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
Curfels A Super Trust

A cartel may be roughly defined as a understanding between
the big producers in an industry designed to perpetuate their control
M MAINTAIN their profits by keeping prices high, restricting produc-
uon, eliminating competition and preventing any new developments
winch might upset these arrangement. This end is generally achieved
through a division of Wolrd markets among the members of the cartel
the setting OF prices within the market areas, and the assignment of
production quotas among members. A cartel is the international twin
of u old friend, the trust.
The Department Of Justice has estimated that in 1889 17e cartel
agreements controlled 318 percent of world exports. This figure may
sound abstract to Joe Worker, but it spells trouble for. him in more
ways than one.
First, there can be no doubt that cartel agreements NAV oueez
MN out OF M JOB. Cartels try to keep prices up and make profits by
senlng a little at a high price and high unit profit instead of a large
amount at low prices and a lower unit profit. This less ro-
ductlon and less jobs. Most of the time cartels try to keep prices up
hy restricting production. Almost all penalze members for producing
beyond thu quota, which means members are punished for providing
more jobs Cartels frequently pay producers for NOT producing.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
A Mufter OF Decencv

IN OF the most depressing sights O Capitol Hill is h curran4
PROBE INTO food, and especially meat, shortages.
1 o listen to the probers, both official and self-appointed vou
would get the impression that the American people have n canca of
decency II honor left, that they were only concerned with henseIve
ano 10 hhl With the misery of the rest of the worId.
M comes particularly from the COP side uith man 1iLo
senators "herry eNeb) and Taft (O) as its chief exponents-though
II must be said for a Democrat like Wheeler MONTY hat he can ioc,lt
me Annerlcan people with the best of them.
~ ie@ reason why these professional vewers-with-a alarm are
iedm SO louoly is revealed in Phil. Murrays letter to the Congress-
en- price control, in which he tells the Congressman that r.cLino
Price ceilings is n o way to crack food shortages
Murray SHOWS men like Wherry and Taft III trying to break
aoWnu e whole structure of price control, in order to increase the food
ndustrys already fantastic profits.
la IS why they lie about the American people IN tbev sbo,
tat we dare not sent food to Europe, for fear we will starve at home
uat we mustn't be a universal Santa Claus" and the rest of that limo
lhey lie 10 as n about us because they want to use an imagined
teiirI 70 ehrlcn tner trends and associates in the food industry
y "a 81 when he said, a few weeks before his death that
me merlca people would endure food shortages in order to helm
iced the starving victims of fascism.
comes n Gallup poll to show that SIS per cent of the Arer
"a an people are VIKING TO put up with the shortages to help the peonle
know-The CLIO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
WHERE OUR PRESIDENTS ARE BURIED

II ueam u Preaden Roosevelt has prompted students n tb,unob
Lit pages of history to locate the last resting places q tbe thirty aan+1o
VINO preceded f. D." in the White House. Onlv one is buried
within te boundaries II the District of Columbia--Woodrow Wilson
t1sS IN te crypt III tn Episcopalan Cathedral of ST. Peter and Pan
III ns.o Sleeps a Mount Vernon, a few miles down the Potomac
and Iafts grave is in Arlington Military Cemetarv in viro;n;, uitLtn
sight of the White House.
oT ner PRESIDENTS were generally buried near their bones
mere arc exceptions Grants tomb overlooks the Hudson al+bo,oh IL
q new orher Grover Cleveland rests at Princeton, N. ]. and
iot at bm1alo, Wher HI spectacular political career began
N u tn interesting facts developed by this historical rasaar
hat old Hickory" Jackson declined to have his emains denosued
IN a Sarcophagus which had been TRANSPORTED acroc III A4I.a4io -
q haVdl captain n admired the hero of New Orleans. In declining
the offer, jackson wrote:
ao sta'esnen ought to bear evidence of the economy and sinnlichv
O republican institutions l have N, b,rohlo aa.a.n
ory for my mortal body beside that wherein lies m believed ,,sa =
for both Of " there to remain until the last trumpet sounds e. mu ~
dead to Observation-Disclosures. Wv
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09

Secretary of State, "Ciullible Ed
Stettinius.
Baloney. Triple. Eyewash. Sooth-
ing syrup. Once a Fascist always
a Fascist. No reforms" carried
through by Argentina's petty
Naz1s are any guarantee against
Argentina remaining a potential
source of infection for the rest of
the Americas. (Cordell Hull).
Only a revolution and the restora-
ton of real democracy in Argen-
tina could do that. Until such a
revolution, Argentina should have
cooled her hot heels outside the
international organization, in the
sympathetic company of clerico-
Fascist Spain and Portugal.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER

H-a~
The invitation of Argentina to
the world conference by open vote
was a victory of the democratic
process. 1t was a defeat for the
democratic cause.
This is not the first time the
democratic process has been sue
cessfully used against democracy.
One need only remember the Ger
man elections that brought Hitler
to power and the elections in. some
of our own mis-governed cities. It
is, however, a serious matter for
the nascent world organization to
junk fixed principles. Mondays
invitation to Argentina was a vic
tory for cheap politics and the big
fix.
1t will be argued that Argentina
has as much right to sit down here
as Soviet dependencies like White
Russia and the Ukraine, which
have just been admitted, or as de-
pendent India and the Philippines,
which here from the begin
ming.
Legally this is correct. Political
ly, it is nonsense. These countries
have all shed their blood in the
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
The Way Out of War Dangers-a World
Organization Based Upon Justice
BY RAYMOND HOFSES, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

| have a friend who says that
the International Conference in
a Francisco isn't going to
amount to much. And | think so
too. But that's where agreement
between my friend and me stops.
I think that the trouble with my
friend is that he puts a period
after his pessimism. He thinks
that the Conference will adopt
resolutions and formulate policies
and then adjourn. He believes that
there will be just as many sore
spots afterward as before. He
thinks that agreements will be
superficial and insincere and that.
after the talking and the voting
has been ended, each national
group will soon be playing its
game all over again without re-
gard for the general welfare. And,
he concludes, the upshot of it all
will be another war before very
long.
don't quarrel with my friends
pessimism about the Conference.
But | reject utterly the period he
places at the end of his conclu-
sions.
San Francisco need not, should
not and cannot be the end of
things. What will follow may, in
deed, be exactly what my friend
predicts. But what should follow,
and must follow if another war is
TO be averted, and if the peoples
OF the world are going to work to-
gether against poverty, inequality,
injustice and war, are more con-
ferences and still more until a
world Congress OF all nations
learns how to settle disputes with
out a resort to arms and common
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
1907 solution at hand.

a 1907 solution at hand.
AS veteran Joe Gilbert said re-
Gently in the Midland Cooperator,
We must realize that the end of
the military conflict is but the pre-
Jude to a still greater struggle to
establish economic democracy. of
which consumer cooperation is but
one phase, just as are labor unions
and other progressive movements
aiming to establish equity in hui
man affairs"
Today, more than ever before,
as it looks about at the world il
never made the Coop Commit
zee Of the Socialist Party feels the
need for common understanding
and common action by co-operat-
ors and Socialists. So, in an effort
to bring to Socialists more light on
cooperatives and to bring to CO.
operators more appreciation of the
meaning of Socialism, the COM
mittee has decided to issue 1.-THE
Coop Calf, a r~eincarnation of the
Socialist Cooperator" which first
saw the light four years ago.
In its new form it can carry a
great deal of news and opinion. AS
with all such ventures, it will need
its readers advice and aid. News
of labor in co-ops, of co-ops in
public affairs, of Socialists and
co-ops will be welcomed. We will
also be waiting for your opinions,
your gripes, your financial aid
August Gold.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09

CCome noW, let us reason together" saith the Lord)
Goa, we don't mean to be wilful though You're all for free will,
we've been told;
Nor m we meaning irreverence: we've a ven fr Your "cheItar;,s
fod";
ht O cen to believe we can Reason-tho I'm doubtful, myself,
about that
RMS life You're bestowed is 81 puzzing; there's such span between
skinny and fat.
we ley wood and draw water, and carry the World O our backs.
Who toll like dumb beasts for scant comfort, or die upon crosses
and racks,
were asking You, God, tho we're> thinking the answe was plain,
yen then
Beginning, You made us Your CHILDREN: Did you noean nc - moLa
OURSELVES M E N? ~@
- II NuIS
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Here r some figures ID for
those who grumble about ration
ing and (21 for those who hint
darkly that the bureaucrats are
shipping most of our meat to Can
ada. The Department of Agricul-
lures Report on the National
Food Situation shows that meat
consumption in the United States
last year was lat pounds per per-
son; in Canada, where meat is not
rationed, consumption was 1888
pounds per person.
Former Congressman Martin l..
Sweeney Of Ohio celebrated his
sixtieth birthday on April 16 by
denouncing British Imperialism
for dragging my country into
war" at a meeting of the Intelli-
gent Voters League in Cleveland.
He received birthday greetings
from Gerald L. K. Smith, Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, and William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor.
Advertisement in the Lincoln
shire, England, Chronicle: Gown
er of tractor wishes to cores
pond with widow who owns a mo-
dern Foster thresher; object matri-
mony; send photograph of ma
chine"
|. j. Fox, the New York furrier
who used to advertise by sky
writing before the war put a stop
to such use of airplanes, recently
started advertising war bonds that
way at the request of the Treas
ury Department. So many protests
poured in, however, that he has
dropped the idea.
A survey Of $50 soldiers dis
charged in New York City re-
vealed that only 10 we're still able
to get into their old civilian
clothes. y
West is west; The January 81
issue of the Forum, an Indian ma
tionalist weekly published in Bonn
bay, has just reached us. This is
from its review Of M.-G.-M.'s "Kis-
met: "A part of Kismet' is meant
to be purely sex-appeal business
Marlene Dietrich is now too
old a dame for all this (It) is a
hotch-potch of romance and ORR
entail splendor The whole
bunch of Western players should
not have been made to play Easter
ners' roles"
Legislative memo: The $500, 900
appropriation of the FEPC will
expire June 80, and the next fiscal
year begins July /. Representative
Clarence Cannon of Missouri is
chairman of the House Appropria-
tons Committee, which is now
bordering the question whether to
renew the FEPC's funds :. The
House Judiciary Committee, head
ed by Hatton w. Summers of
Texas, is sitting on H. R. Z, a bill
to outlaw the poll tax. The COM
mittee will have to let the House
vote on the bill if 218 Representa-
tives sign a petition for the bills
release. At this writing the petit
ton has 178 signatures. Senator
Claude Pepper of Florida has pro-
missed to introduce a companion
in the Senate if the House
passes H. r. 7.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09
MENTALIzlNG VS..
VOCALlZiNG

The following clipped from the
little Capital Press" printed in
Salem, Ore, contains more wis
dom than any editorial we have
been privileged to read in many
a day:
1T is really too bad that citizens
do not more generally give prece-
dence to mentalizing before vocal
izing. Of course, vocalizing is
easier practically automatic
with many. A fog horn hasn't any
brain but it sure can boot"
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09

people in a world organization
that is based upon justice, human
equality and a high concept of in
dividual dignity. But our ability
to do just that is the test of Il
ability to plan for peace, because
wan is natural child of injustice
and inequality and elias conflict.
And if that is not what we intend
to do, then what is the use of 10 .
in the San Francisco conference
in the first place?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09

Hurry is only good for catching
nies.--Russian proverh.
Kindness Is the tender touch of
the soul.-Harry A. Gordon.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-09

interest becomes a fact rather
than a slogan.
II that is not what follows San
francisco, then my pessiinistic
friend is likely to be justified by
the course of events. For then
group interest will develop, dis
satisfaction will tester irt the
minds of men, new alignmeats of
rivalry and discord will take shape
and the time will come when, lack
ing adequate means of talking it
out and adjusting it out, mankind
again will resort to the futile bust
mes of fighting it out.
My friend tells me that what |
am saying sounds we'll enough but
is pretty hard to do. And again he
puts a period after his words.
agree that its a big order, but
instead Of saying period" I tell
him some of the difficulties / see
on the road to comon interest.
economic justice and peace.
] say that the world is a hodge
podge of many different kinds of
peoples. Some groups, like Amer
leans and Russians live where
there is plenty of room to spread
out and abundant natural re-
source to exploit; they don't need
help from anybody. Others, like
Englishmen and Italians and Jap
anese are packed in cramped
quarters and cannot possible pro-
duce a high living standard from
their own resources. Some are
accustomed to the forms of de-
mocracy; others do not know the
meaning of the word. Some are
trained and educated; others are
uniformed and i~lliterate.
Yes, its a hard job to unite such
Montana labor news., 1945-11-22
FORT PECK POWER

trict Of the Missouri river division, U.
s. Corps OF Army Engineers.
The testing operations consist of
staged fault tests to determine the ade-
quacy Of the protective equipment un-
der operating conditions. Upon salts
factory completion Of the tests the line
will go into service.
The primary load carried by the new
transmission line will be absorbed by
the Montana Dakota Utilities company,
this firm recently having entered into
a contract with the Bureau Of Reclama-
ton for the distribution Of Fort Peck
energy over its facilities
Low-priced electrical energy will be
provided a number Of irrigation pump
ing units now in operation in the Yel-
lowstone valley Mr. Comstock pointed
out The Bureau Of Reclamation is also
contemplating the construction OF a
number of additional Yellowstone valley
pumping units as a part Of the author
lied Missouri river basin development
plan. The proximity Of Fort Peck power
win do a great deal to advance plans
for these units, he stressed
The new line will also permit future
service to a number of REA co-opera-
tives in Montana and North Dakota.
REA groups adjacent to the Fort Peck
Glendive line will be served directly
through the installation of substations
at needed points. Negotiations are now
in progress to begin delivery of energy
to the McCone County Rural Electrifi-
cation association.
REA co-operatives adjacent to the ia
cilities Of the Montana-Dakota Utilities
company will be supplied Fort Peck en-
ergy as provided by the contract in
force between the company and the Bu-
reau of Reclamation. Currently two
Yellowstone valley REA groups are Sc
curing energy from the MontanaDa-
kota Utilities company AS soon as con-
tracts are negotiated between these Co
operatives and the Bureau Of Reclama-
ton they will utilize Fort Peck energy
The new transmission line was CON
structed under the Fort Peck project
act of 1888 which established the Btu
reau of Reclamation as the marketing
agency for power produced at Fort
Peck, and the u. S. Corps Of Army En-
gineers as the construction, maintenance
and operational agency Of the reservoir
and generating facilities. At the pres
-nt time a 35,000-kilowatt generator is
in operation at the Fort Peck power
plant An additional 15,000-kilowatt
unit is now being installed and is ex-
pected to go into service during the
summer of 1916.
Montana labor news., 1945-11-22
VETERANS WIVES
TAKEN CARE OF BY
CKILDREN'S BUREAU

A million wives and infants of serv-
icemen have been or are being cared
for under the emergency maternity and
infant care program, the Children's Bu-
reau, U. s. Department of Labor has
announced.
OF these million cases, some 65Ol0OO
represent babies born; $4,000, babies
on their way; and 100000, sick infants
Doctor, hospital and nursing bills for
all Of them have been or are being paid
out of the $lOO0OO0OO "stork fund" ap-
propriated by Congress at various times
during the two and one-half years in
which the program has been in opera
ton
Facts about the program, brought out
in the Children's Bureau accounting,
show that
The "stork bill" on the average. is
something under 500 a baby How
ever, when the mother was dangerously
i'll and needed medical, hospital and
nursing care, bills have, in some in
stances, run we'll over $1,000.
The cost OF caring for sick infant
averages sos Sometimes, though, bills
run much higher.
Nine out Of 10 women cared for under
this program have their babies in hos
pitals-"the safest place for a baby to
be born" In the population as a whole,
seven births out of 10 take place in
hospitals
The mothers, by and large, are young.
A high proportion are having their first
babies A large number Of servicemen's
families have had their second baby
under the program; a few applications
for care for third have been reported
BY far the largest lot of these new
comers were born in New York and
California, with Pennsylvania, Texas
and Illinois claiming the next largest
All Of the states have a CON
siderable number, and even Alaska,
Puerto Rico and Hawaii make a show
ing No residence requirement has to
be met The care is given wherever
the servceman's wife or child happens
Montana labor news., 1945-11-22
THOUGH THERE'S NO PLACE
LIKE HOME, IT'S THE
MOST DANGEROUS PLACE

Accidents on the home front took
more lives than did fighting on the
battle fronts in the years from Pearl
Harbor to VI day, the National Safety
Council reports.
Figures released by the council placed
accidental deaths on the home front be-
tween Dec 7, l94l, and Aug. IA, 1945,
at 35s000 Army and Navy casualties
reports listed 26l COS killed in action in
the same period.
The most dangerous place on the home
front during the war was the home, &C
cording TO the safety council. The toll
in homes alone for the period OF hos
tilities was $4,000 killed and 17,5O0000
injured.
In addition to the 355,0O0 killed, home
front accidents took a toll Of 36,0O0000
injured, including 1,250,00O cases involy-
ing some permanent disability.
A total Of 100000 workers were killed.
10000 OF them on the job. OF the l5-
000,000 workers injured on and off the
job, 100000 received permanent injuries.
Traffic accidents claimed $4,000 lives
and caused injuries TO 100000 Per
manent disabilities were sustained by
10000 Of those injured
War casualties, as reported by the
Army and Navy, were 1,070,524 includ-
ing the l6O8 killed 651.911 wounded,
32,8ll missing and l24,194 prisoners.
The National Safety Council an
nounced that it presented the figures to
show the enormity Of the accident toll
and to emphasize the Importance OF pre-
venting accidents.
The council explained that it offered
the Comparison with no thought Of i'm
plying that wartime activities on the
home front compared in danger with
actual fighting on the battle front"
The council drew no comparison be-
tween the number Of persons on the
home front and the actual numbers on
the battle front during the war,
Montana labor news., 1945-11-22

ment signed a round-robin saying that
British troops must not be used in mil
itary operations calculated to restore
Dutch and French Imperialism in the
Far East"
The same day British reinforcements
sailed for Java to extend the full dress
war that so far has killed women and
children as well as the troops of the
Indonesian nationalists in the naval
base city Of Soerabaja.
Painless Home Buying
As an active union member Qnterna-
tional Association of Machinists) as
we'll as being one Of the handful of
honest liberals in Congress, Represen-
tative Hugh DeLacy (D-Wash.) has a
very real awareness Of the needs Of
American workers.
DeLacy is writing new hometown
ership proposal to be introduced soon to
provide for low income families by
eliminating the lump-sum down pay
ment on houses that cost less than
.$6.5OO.
Under the DeLacy plan "a family
could rent a $4,000 house for $40 a
month, a $1,000 one for $50-for just
per cent of the cost price for a pc
riod Of As months. After the two-year
period OF rental, the family could decide
to keep the place and the law would
apply the rent as down payment.
The builder holds title to the house
and lot for the first 48 months and
would get small monthly service
charge for his fee-an amount not over
l-l2th Of / per cent, or say 1888 on a
$4,000 house
Breaking down the DeLacy plan still
further, it goes like this You rent a
$4,000 home at $40 a month, Of which
5000 per month goes to the down pay
ment, another S2647 goes to the re-
tirement OF the mortgage each month
and 1888 goes to the service charge At
the end OF a months, the family would
have accumulated $47940 in the down
payment fund, and have reduced the
mortgage by $1,24509 Thereafter you'd
pay only $2647 a month and receive
title to the $4,000 home.
The plan is not for the very lowest
income group, but any family making
$40 or more a week in actual take home
pay could handle it-if the 10Th Con
gress really wants to do something for
the average American worker and
stimulate the building and real estate
field.
Readers interested in such program
could help the cause along by writing
their own local congressman about it
and sending a note to DeLacy at the
House Office Bldg, Washington Is,
D. c.
Montana labor news., 1945-11-22
VETERANS
CONTINUED From Page y

tificial limbs, vocational training-and
our well-documented guarantee-that
their suffering must insure that fsner-
ican children will face a better future
The patriotic savings attributed to
the youngsters of the land are now
running about S500OO0OO a month.
Treasury statisticians credit the school
children of. the United States with the
purchase in the last three years Of more
than 81 l,300,000,000 in war bonds and
stamps to purchase the necessary imple-
ments of war in order that Uncle Sam
could destroy our enemies. Today the
school children are buying Victory
bonds TO insure the speedy and safe re-
turn home of their loved ones. Our
school children throughout the nation
will invest in the future Not only will
their savings stamps and Victory bonds
assist Purple Heart hero back to
health and happiness, they will build
a lasting peace for generation mighty
in its youth"
we Can ;. We Will We Must
buy Victory bonds and hold them
until full maturity value.