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St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-07
Social and Personal
MINNEAPOLIS

Mr. and Mrs Thess SmawOOd $40 Hoag Ave. N, have as
their house guest Mrs Smalwoods sister, Miss Lorraine
Wick, of Duluth.
Mrs Frances Duncan visiting in Detroit with her daugh
ter Mrs. Kathryn Mitchell formerly of Minneapolis who is
making plans join her husband Roy in Los Angeles Calf
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-07

Wedding Anniversary: Mr.. and
Mrs. C. L. Sharp, 521 Rondo Ave-,
observed their 45th wedding ami
versary, Tuesday, September 4.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-09-07

Mrs. William Terrell, and Attorney
Herbert Jameson, all of Chicago,
who stopped over in st. Paul, en-
route from a vacation in Canada
to their home.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
THE MONARCHY I'M ITALY HAVE
SOME POWERFUL FRIENDS

The Italian criss has ended in compromise that favors the resist
forces. Delegates of the Committee of Liberation for North Italy
solved ne problem OF the Premiership by proposing Ferruccio Parri
o the post after Pietro Mimi had been rejected by the Christian
Democratic Party. This was the only possible solution, since Alcde de
Casper, proposed by the right wing, "a unacceptable to the Socialist.
communist, and Action parties. Bnlike Bonomi, the new Premier is
comparatively young and has opposed fascsm from the beginning. As
carly a 1929 Carlo Roseli described him in these words: Until I
knew Parr, the MaZzinian hero had been a rhetorical abstraction tc
me. NOW see him before me in flesh and blood, with all the sorrow
Il he world and al. the energy of the world stamped in his features"
Citizen years later the Mazzinian hero became vicecommander of the
PARTISAN forces tina contributed SO decisively to the liberation of the
North. The new Premier will also hold the important post of Minister
oft h Interior, with power over the police and local administration -
a power previously exercised by the monarchists These are the favor
able aspects of the crisis. The role of the British and Americans has
been less satisfactory. They opposed giving the Premiership to Nenni
for the same reason that led them, six months ago, to reject Count
Sforza as Foreign Minister-because both men ar against the House
Of Savoy. Since the crisis began Nenni has maintained that Crown
Prince Umberto should resign to make way for a republic and avoid
civil war. That action alone was sufficient to assure him the Allies veto
The British Tories, in particular, are committed to support of the
monarchy a part of their last-ditch fight to prevent Europe from going
to the left-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
Progress and the Profit system

one OF the foolish arguments w hear in defense of the Capitalist
economy is the statement that we have made all or progress under
that system.
uonaLze e own resistance to Socialist proposals, is not true Man
hho Game up saVagery, through barbarism to what is now
caHeo cVlhzatlon. Each change marked a step in the progress of the
ace n was matched by changes in the manner of producing
and distributing wealth.
People who take a short view of historical development ar think
ng only Of the progress made within their own Hfetmes when thew
give In credit to capitalism. But here, again, their statement is super
neal and silly. Certainly, all the progress they know about came to
pass under prlvate-profit system because that is the only system under
Whch uy nave hVed. What other system could make progress than
ne one under which men happen to be living?
OuSloe o a plan for a better world, Socialism hasn't Droduced
1nythlng OF value to the human race, for the very COOL reason thai
'cclals never has been the way of lie. But to assert that Socialism
nant Gone anything for progress is like saying that or unborn
5randchlldren never have done anything for us.
n profit motiveh has given many improvements to 7an Bt tboce
improvements have been paid for under capitalism, as under SLAYER,
are the other side of the picture.
reason human progress has exacted such a high price eve,
slnce humanity began its slow ascent is because through everv pattern
d hVe thu Ia designed upon the loom of history there has rn the
thread Of class exploitation. Under slavery, feudalism and canitaHsno
progress a made for the benefit OF a favored class and at the ex,anea
o IN workers. Under Socialism progress will continue without the
exploitation of workers by owners
Surely all the gains that most people now abo,,t boo on,o,o.
choer apnallsn; that has been the only system under which they
existed 6t just IS there is a darker past, so there is also y briohte
utur M tn race will march on-Readmg Labor Advocate
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
CO-OPS AND POLITICS

While no n suggests that the cooperatives Should play partisan
politics, it is nevertheless essential that efforts be made to elect e.
representatives. to Congress and State Legislatures who r. favorable to
CoopS, and also to continually be on the alert for proposed mfavor-
able legislation. A case n point is the recently defeated bill in the
Minnesota legislature which would have prevented co-operatives from
organizing medical service plans.
This bill almost passed the legislature, but finally after a tough
tight, led by cooperative groups, "a defeated by one vote.
The caSe also illustrated both the weakness and the potential
strength of cooperative intervention in legislative halls. The bill almost
passed before the people back home became organized and made their
pressure felt at the Capitol, but when they did reach the legislators, the
effect was immediate and aWoke some of the Lawmakers to the dangers
inherent in the bill and caused its eventual defeat.
This fact emphasizes the necessity of having someone charged
with the responsibility of keeping members informed of pending leMs
laton and insructng them in what to do about it without undue DELAY
AS cooperatiVes grow in strength and increase the fields of their
activities, they will encrOach more and more on the rich preserves OF
special interest groups, and unless they increase their alertness an
Will to fight in the political arena where the main bout is to be held
they will never be of championship caHber. - From "Coop" 1ewy
organ of Racine, Wis, Consumers Cooperative, Inc.
"Co-ops today handle almost everything used by consumers Pro
ducing as well IS distributing, they own o1WelIs, pipelines, and refin-
cries, farm implement plants, a mills, flour and feed mills, can
neries, chick hatcheries, they have Ventured even into the fields of
insurance, health protection and rural electriication-au this to as
sure a adequaste supply to prevent monopoly and to lower prices held
Magazine.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
I'm THE WIND

Erich Won Kuehnelt-Leddihn,
Journalistic apologist for Franco
and the House of Hapsburg, has
dropped the pseudonym Francis
Stuart Campbell" His articles are
now signed Richard F. Kestrick."
The Cole Chemical Company of
st. Louis is currently advertising
"Bral-for Relief of Hangovers''
in medical publications. With each
advertisement is a postcard which
a doctor may send for a profess
sional sample.
Riders on the Sideways OF New
York can now contemplate these
two advertisements: Cd "Meet Miss
Suh'Ways - Charming Veronica
Robinson. B~lue-eyed and lovely,
Veronica is statistician who dreams
of being a model" (2) Low l am
with you alWays.'-Mathew 1920.
Best Seller Publicity of New
York"
V. S. Pritchett, the urbane Lon
don diarist of England's New
Statesman and Nation, records in
the issue of May 10 a
ton he had with a horse on We
Day. "A damn good thing it's
over" said the horse. "Now we
can get rid of all these damn
regulations and damn foreigners.
Dutch, French, Greeks, the whole
damn lot. Send the Jews back to
Palestine, the Americans back to
America, the Italians back to Italy.
They'v been the ruin of this damn
country, filling it with half-caste
Negro babies. 1t will take us two
generations to recover from it,
and unless we put some discipline
into people this poor old country
will sink to the level of the damn
Portuguese" "At which," says Mr..
Pritchett, 'she cantared off. Quite
a number of the damned horses in
my part of the country think like
this. What have all these foreigners
done for us (they ask that they
should now eat u food? One of
the repressed emotions of the war:
Kenophobia is about to be released
ike poison gas"
Legislative Memo: The salaries
~ postal employees range from
So, 100. A temporary cost-of-living
bonus, amounting to $500, will ex-
pire June 80. The Post Office EN-
ployees' Salary Reconsideration
bill. which would grant a perma-
nent increase of $500, has been
passed by the House and is now in
the Senate Committee on Post Of
fices, headed by Kenneth Mcclellan
of Tennessee. This would be the
first permanent increase since
1925.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
FUTURE SACRIFICE

A warning of one of the evil
results of wartime child labor was
recently voiced by Arthur j. White,
a regional director of the Wage
and House Division of the U. S.
Department of Labor.
About three million boys and
girls-or almost one-third of those
in the United State between the
ages of IA and 17-are now work
ing. White told the industrial
management council of the Ro,
chester, N. Y, Chamber of Com
merce. About half of them are
working full time and about
ESQ, OOO have left school, he said.
Few realize how many children
have sacrificed their education in
order to earn a few dollars
White declared. Their future will
be entirely narrowed and confined
through their lack of education.
Many a child who might have had
a brilliant future will have sacri-
feed it"
Whites warning is timely. both
for the boys and girls who are
working and for their parents,
VINO IN most cases do not seem to
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
TITO RECEIVES
ARCHBISHOP or ZAGREB

washington Msgr. Alojziie
Stepinac, Roman Catholic Arch
bishop of zagreb, accompanied by
Croatian Premier DR.. Vladimir
Bakaritch, visited Marshal JosiU
Broz (Tito), Jugoslav premier, the
Belgrade radio said in a broadcast
reported to Owl by the Federal
Communications Commission.
Reports from Jugoslavia said
that Tito had earlier received the
papal delegate, Msgr. Joseph Mar
cone, and has addressed a dele
cation of Catholic clergy in Tag
reb, urging the Roman Catholic
Church in Croatia to be more
national minded" and more in
dependent" than it has been in the
past.
Meanwhile, the French Press
Agency (AFP) said in a dispatch
reported to Owl by FEC monitors
that conversations between Tito
and Msgr. Marcone are "arousing
great interest in religious circles.
THE church dign1tary was con
fidential representative of the Pope
IN the Croat state and is at present
the only Vatican representative
in Jugoslavia," the dispatch said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
FRANCO KAPUT

The unanimous vote Of the United Nations excluding Franco Spain
fom membership is a substantial beginning in international Justice
against tn talange regime. 1t also means, w trust, acceleration Of
international support for restoration of a democratic Spanish republic.
70 MeXlco-Which never sulied her record by RECOGNITION of the
France regIme-went the distinction of placing the exclusion denara
ton before the San Francisco conference. All honor to her for il-
tiatng it.
TWO circumstances we're a good deal less than ideal. Fascist
Argentina, which should not be a United Nations member, is credita5
as IN of the concurrmg states. However, she did not actually vote on
ne issue; when objections were called for and none was offered. the
exclusion "a declared approved by reclamation. The session ais
hnght nave eeh mor inspiring had someone other than Assistant Sec
cTetary OF State James (. Dunn, veteran appeaser of Spain, been
chosen to voice the approval Of the American delegation for the Mexi-
al declaration.
NeVeftheIeS te unanimous action against admission OF REGIMES
established with the help of the forces which waged war against the
United Nations was a ringing victory for democracy and simple de-
cehcy' II cannot tai to weaken Franco greatly inside Spain and hasten
his all But Spanish reactionaries must be given to understand that
nclher a Bourbon monarchy any other antidenocratc regime
VII b e admitted in place Of Franco. May the membership of q derno-
cratic Spanish republic be early realty-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
WHOM?

The Aluminium Company of
Canada opens its postwar books
with an order from Francois Spain
for two thousand tons of alum
mum. This is what we learn from
a reliable Canadian source. The
Canadian government has granted
a priority for the shipment of the
metal. In addition to this initial
order the Spanish government has
asked for annual deliveries of ten
thousand tons, many times the to-
tai pre-War consumption of Spain.
Even the Aluminium Company is a
bit perplexed and is investigating
what is behind-and ahead Of
these orders. We should like to
know too.-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
Greed

One of the difficulties, as l see
it is that we worship money in
stead of honor. A Millionaire, in
our estimation, is much greater in
these days in the eyes of the people
than the public servant who works
for public interest. It makes no
difference if the Millionaire rode
to wealth on the sweat of little
children and the blood of under
paid labor. No one ever considered
Carnegie libraries stepped in the
blood of the Homestead steelWork-
ers, but they are. We do not re-
member that the Rockefeller
Foundation is founded on the dead
miners of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company and a dozen other
similar performances. We wor-
ship Mammon; and until we 60
back to ancient fundamentals and
return to the Giver of the Tables
of the Law and His teachings.
these conditions are going to re-
main with us.
1t is a pity that Wall Street, with
its ability to control all the wealth
of the nation and to hire the best
law brains in the country, has not
produced some statesmen, some
men who could see the dangers of
bigness and of the concentration
of the control Of wealth. Instead
of working to meet the situation,
they are still employing the best
law brains to serve greed and sell
fish interest. People can stand only
so much and one of these days
there will be a settlement. We shall
have one ~receivership too many,
and one unnecessary depression
out of which we will not come with
the power still in the same old
hands
Our unemployment and our un-
rest r the result of the concentra-
ton of wealth, the concentration of
population in industrial centers,
mass production and a lot of other
so-called modern improvements.
Harry S. Truman, in 1897.
(From The American Federal
ionist.)
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
II Confidential

Recently the F. B. l. arrested two State Department employees,
a naval lieutenant, and three New Workers, connected with the maya
zine "Amerasia." AS the name indicates, the publication is largely de
voted to discussions of relations between this country and Asia.
The charge leveled against all six is the theft of confidential
from the State and Navy departments.
1hat sounds serlous. Perhaps, 81 far as the six prisoners r. CON
cerned, it is serious. Not having the evidence before u.s., we cans say.
But this we know, a every newspaper in Washington knows:
Leaks from every agency of government, including the State Depart
ment and the War and Navy departments, ccu % often that they are
commonplace.
If one official desires to slug another. he slips a "confidential
Nocurnent to some newspaper columnist O radio commentator The
practice is not confined to rows between officials. 1t is used to curry
favor with the scandal-mongers and thus gain the right kind of
publicity, and it comes in handy if an official wishes to spread propa-
2anda without assuming responsibility.
OF course, it's an evil practice, but just why the small fry" ap-
pretended in this case are consigned to the hoosegow, while the big
offenders are permitted to wander around loose. is an interesting point
which has not been explained up to date-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
AND THE POLL TAX

n United States Health Service has gathered from the Selective
records information n the incidence of syphilis in h vario,c
states OF TIT Union. We re warned that the figures nublsbad nav not
apply to the entire population, but for men from IL IN 45 tbav orc
accurate.
er ar facts to make Southerners sit up and do ornethipo
n twelve states at the top of the list are not merely northern Tbo
'e III states OF n extrem North. The twelve at the bottom of the
lSt are all southern-With states of the deep South at the very bo+tou
ana ne difference between top and bottom is appalling.
New Hampshire heads the list, with 48 victims for oyarv ! ooo
SelecteeS Norh dakota comes next with So per 1000. At the bottom
."os fl0floa with a rate of $50. Next to the lowest is Mississippi with
te gue 1873 opposite its name. New York comes somewhere nea,
the middle with a rate of 225 The Florida syphilis RATE e na,rly for+,
lines that of New Hampshire.
NE is something which cannot be disguised bv the smell of
naenolla blossom o II CLOSED over by oId-style oratorv about the will
- wv" ~ IS omnenoe to thu attention of Congressman Rankin and
Senator MacKelar-The New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
EMPLOYMENT DECLINED
$4,000 IN PAST YEAR

Employment declined 727, 900 to
a total of $685. 900 in non-agri-
cultural establishments between
March, 1914, and March, 1945; for
the same period the armed forces
showed a net increase of one and
a quarter millions, according to
tlgures just released by the Bureau
OF Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor. The transportation equip
ment group, including the ship
building, aircraft, and aircraft
engine industries, employed L.
980, 900, $4,000 fewer workers than
IN February and SOC 900 fewer
than a year ago.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
BUDAPEST VITAL
STATISTICS PUBLISHED

Washington Greater Budapest
has at present 100000 inhabit-
ants, a decrease of some 700, 0OC
to 100000 from pre-war days, the
newspaper Szabadsag revealed If
a recent article relayd to the Office
of War Information.
The article, quoting the latest
statistical reports issued by the
authorities, said that the most de-
populated is the first district
which is left with only $4,000 in
habitants, while the eight district
leads in density of population
with $4,000 persons.
There is a great decrease in the
male population in the Is to 80 age
group. The proportion of men to
women in the capital formerly
was LOCO to 1881; now it is 1000
to 1900" the article said.
An article in the Szabad Nep,
quoting official statistics published
by the city of Budapest, revealed
that there r over SO, 900 children
in Hungary who we're orphaned
by the war. Their parents died at
the front, were civilian casualties.
or were deported. These orphans,
the article added, are being placed
in orphanages or in private homes
in the country.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
Propagandizing the American PeopIe

attorney General Blddle sent to Congress a report every Amer
car Shoulo 1t had to do with the very large sums spent in the
'"'eu states oy foreign countries for propaganda purposes. In n
ear IL 1orelgn governments paid out $5,368 900 in this wav and 40
per cent was chargeable to the British.
MIR: Blddle frankly confessed he hadn't been able f., covnr tho -.
"e heo' ecau 1orelgn governments have found a va to evade the
w. J"' "s american pohtlclans, many years ago, discovered how TO
duck corrupt practices statutes.
propaganda can't do much harm if it is labeled propaganda >" Il
ecomes dangerous when it is passed out as Jews or comment Lr
experts" O""N" -
unfortunately, up to date we have been unable f. discover o,
Ia py Whch propagandlsts can be compelled to identfv thoiro ,+o,+
All we IAN 40 IS Isl a little sense. When we find an American
%e"ouHly chahnpnonlng the interests of some other oun4r wa sbor1d
east stop, look and listen" He NAV be raceivino o.r4 - 49,
funds exposed by the Attorney General ." T abor :"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
LEBANON

The Lebanese Radio carried
some very pertinent comments or
the recent events in Syria and
Lebanon: France wanted Syria
to be the first victim of peace.
But France failed. She is trying
to settle the peace with the men
tality and the arms of 1918. She
made war with the arms of 1914
and she lost it. Today she is
making peace with the arms of
1913 and she is losing it too"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
GERMANY

British correspondents report
that anti-fascist committees were
found in most of the larger in
dustrial centers of Germany.
Members of these committees how
ever are reluctant to come into
the open since the western Allies
have installed reactionary and
rlghtwing elements in the city and
provincial administration.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27

see that trouble is in store for their
children because they have cut
short their education in order TO 60
to work. Not only will the children
pay the penalty, but industry and
the nation will suffer the conse-
quences of workers inadequately
prepared for their life work.
The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27
Wrong Line"

Sidney Hiilman hasn't changed
his line - yet. He said, in the June
issue of Readers Scope that Labor
must continue to function through
the two old parties. He still can't
see an independent party of labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-27

Out of war has come a new re-
allzation of the ability of modern
industry to produce abundance.
Out Of that realization has come.
not JOY and confidence, but worry.
For such is the private-profit eco
nomy under which insecurity, un-
employment and wars develop and
which the owners of American in
dustry are determined to keep.
come hell, high water or another
World War.
On the face of things the mis-
called free" economy, under
which workers are regimented, ex-
plotted and cast adrift at the con-
~Venience of a super class, no long
er can serve the interests of hu-
manity. If it could, why all the
fear about the future? Why, under
a sensible economy should people
be afraid that they will have less
of the things that make for hap
pineSs and security when peace
comes?
When destruction stops -. When
the millions of workers who today
are producing for waste can be
free to produce for use When
ten or millions of the young
est, strongest and best of this ma
ton and corresponding numbers
IN all other industrial nations strip
off their military uniforms and
present themselves for service in
overalls -. shouldn't more of
everything, including a larger
share of leisure, results as a matter
of course?
And doesn't any economy in
which people - ALL people, rich
as we'll as poor-work and prosper
with war and rot and want with
peace convict itself of being a
very crazy economy indeed?
So it is that we find spokesman
Tor the American Labor Movement
urging an increase in wages with
out a corresponding increase in
selling costs--Which will take some
OF the profits away from the big
fellows who make big profits and
put small fellows who can't afford
to raise production costs without
also boosting selling prices, out of
business.
So it is, too, that the big fellows
are talking a lot about making