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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
HOW THINGS


From Argentina we have just
received a late copy Of c. G.. T.,
the official organ of that country's
Federation Of Labor. In times past
the Confederation General del
Trabajo showed itself to be an out
standing labor movement de-
mocratic, fighting movement that
vas without question one of the
best in Latin America. But condi-
tons have obviously changed. In
the copy of c. G.. T. which has
reached us a great to-do is made
over Colonel Juan D. Peron,
strong man. of the democracy
suppressing Argentine government
now on the blacklist of Hemis-
phere nations supporting the war
against Germany and Japan. c. c..
t. prints two pictures of Peron at
a Labor" rally and the full text
of a speech delivered by the pro-
Nazi colonel. The Peron discourse
is termed "a brilliant exposition
by the organ of what used to be
an independent democratic labor
movement. American Fedora
tiorist.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
Who Pays for These "Ads"?

AS a public service" the Inter
national .Latex Corporation of
Dover, Del, is conducting an ex-
tremely expensive campaign in
the daily press. The space is al
ways devoted to extracts from a
speech, an essay, an editorial. The
sentiments expressed presumably
meet with the approval of the top
flight officials of Latex. They are
often impressive and seldom often
sive.
Therefore, LABOR is not in a
critical mood when it asks: Who
really pays for these advertise
ments?" If the money comes out
of the pockets of the owners of
Latex, well and good. They have
a right to spend their money as
they see fit.
However, if these ads are
charged to operating expenses,
thus forcing Uncle Sam to pay IS
or 80 per cent Of the cost, it seems
to us that some n high up in the
Treasury Department should be
manifesting acute interest.
Every N of the ads" con-
cludes with the admonition: Buy
war bonds" We go along
with that advice, but why urge
people to buy war bonds, if, at the
same time, you are depriving the
Treasury of revenue to which it is
entitled under any fair interpreta-
ton of the rules of the game?-
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
INJURED PERSONS
FILL HOSPITAL BEDS

There arc more persons in the
nations hospital beds today as the
result of accidents than from
wounds received in battle.
That startling statement comes
from the National Safety Council,
which disclosed that $4,000 injur-
ed persons are now receiving
treatment. Throughout the year, it
added, the average number getting
treatment will remain substantial
ly the same.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
SECRET DIPLOMACY

A secret diplomacy in the Italian
armistice agreement which re-
serves certain rights to the House
of Savoy caused the Socialist Par
ty to withdraw voluntarily from
the Bonomi government, accord
ing to a sensational accusation
made by a representative of the
Italian Socialist Party, Signor Buff
foni, at an international Socialist
conference in France. During the
first phase of liberation the House
of Savoy tactfully avoided making
use of this clause. But now that it
feels more secure, it insists on its
strict application. This was shown
during the last Cabinet crisis,
when the Lord Lieutenant of the
Realm, Prince Umberto, insisted
on his full sovereign rights.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
The Case For Cooperufives

Il know of no better answer to this monopoly problem than the
consumer cooperatives," Thurman Arnold, No. l monopoly expert
told the recent Congress of the Cooperative League, U. S. A.
The words are more than a ceremonial bow of the public servant
to a group of people who may WELD political power. Indeed. Judge
Arnold might have gone further. If the consumer cooperative
ment grew large enough in the United States, it would be the
regulator o a cumulatfvely deadly form of competition that is able to
set prices for maximum quick profit in disregard of the long-run
public stake in full employment, production and distribution.
The cooperative movement, in contrast with government owner
ship or dictaton, is people organizing-just IS a private corporation is
organized to do a job for themselves. In a true sense of the word,
cooperatves are another form of free enterprise. To the extent that
they play a part in the regulatory field by competing with business
enterprise, they obviate the need for adding to the ponderous regu-
latory mechanism of rules, regulations, boards and commissions. :
St Louis Post Dispatch.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28

The Columbia Typographical
Union of Washington, D. c., claim
ing the title of Americas oldest
continuously functioning union,
observed its 130th anniversary
last month. The event was cele-
brated with a banquet. Labor lead
ers headed by William Green and
high government officials joined
with the unions members in the
festivities.
Other unions were founded in
this country before 1915, but none
of these survived, according to
Jesse B. Manbeck, president of the
local. He reports that he has com
bed through labor histories and
found no other union anywhere. in
the world with 100 years of un-
broken operation to its credit.
Started originally as the Co
lumbia Typographical Society, the
union has many firsts in its re-
cord, Mr.. Manbeck says. 1t nego-
tiated the first collective bargain
ing agreement, established the first
closed shop in 1886, and was the
first to win the eight-hour day in
1866. nearly forty years before
that schedule became the rule in
the printing trades.%
The Washington union was host
to the first national convention OF
printers unions in 1886, with Pc
ter Force, mayor of Washington
and a printer himself, presiding.
The alliance then set up collapsed,
but a second effort, in 1851, sue
ceeded. That's when the preset
international Typographical I'm
ion was formed,
Wage figures tell a dramatic
story of what the union has meant
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
LABOR BOARDING

Labor shortages alleged to exist may be directly traceable to one
important fact in our wartime economy: labor boarding. ~
Labor boarding will continue just SO long as the United States
government continues to issue government work contracts calling for
cost plus ten per cent"
No sensible manufacturer, if the term sensible may be used here,
will employ fifty men to do a job when he a employ a hundred men
and get paid ten per cent owe what the entire hundred costs him. Of
course, it is quite obvious that employer isn't being patriotic, but it is
also equally obvious that he is staying within the law and all that.
That is the reason for boarding. Employers keep men on their
rayrous who could be more useful elsewhere, but the employer should
worry about that tt Uncle Sam is paying the bill. E
An who is Uncle Sam? His other name is Jones, OF Smith, or
Cohen, or Macintosh, or Shymanski, and he works in coal mines and
factories and stores-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
RUSSIA AND FRANCE
ARE BUYING RAIL
EQUIPMENT

Restoration of wrecked rail ia
cilities in France and Russia is
furnishing considerable business
for American concerns. On top OF
TOO engines for the French, orders
for 500 Russian steam locomotives
we're placed recently with Bald
win, American and Lima Loco
motive Works. More than 1000
tank and hopper cars were also
ordered for the Russians.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
JUNK PASSENGER
CARS AFTER Hi WAR

The railroads will have to re-
place about 80 per cent of their
10000 passenger cars as soon after
the war as possible, according to
Wallace N. Barker, vice president
Of the Pullman Standard Car Man
ufacturing Company, which plans
to spend several millions moder-
nizing it's plants in anticipation of
this business.
The new cars, Barker said, will
be of still lighter weight, running
from so do so tons, and will have
many mechanical improvements,
including hot box alarms and de-
vices to reduce sway at high
speeds.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
No Sect For Labor

On the batlefields and on the production lines Labor is found pre-
dominating. But now a S the results of the recent Big Three Conference
ere announced it is found that at least up to the present no seat has
been provided for Labor in the peace proceedings.
There is one surest guarantee of future worldwide peace and
security and that is that those who fight and bleed and die in wars
shall be represented. in the peace deliberations.
Labor has always had a plan for worldwide peace. 1t is the best
and the surest.l 1t is worldwide brotherhood. 1t is humanity before
profits. 1t is the millions of Little Guys before the Big Shots in interna-
honal affairs.
Unless these things are given consideration, unless Labor is given
its due recognition in the peace proceedings it will not re surprising
should they not succeed.
1t is to be hoped the world wide planners, the Big Three, will con-
slider this and see that Labor has a place at the peace table. Min
neapois Labor Review.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
D. {. Union 1870 Years Old

for printers in the capital. Back
in 1915, when the union started
with nineteen members, wages
were So for a 70-hour week; to-
day union printers in Washington
receive from $50 to S58 for a 35-
hour week.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
PREDICTS INCOME TAX
AMENDMENT WILL FAIL

Rep. Wright Patman predicts
that the amendment to the consti-
tuition limiting to Is percent the
amount the government can de-
mand from incomes, gifts and eS-
tates will fail of enactment.
Patman says big business ty-
coons have used every known lob
by trick to get this amendment
through Congress, and that 1.-The
fascist-minded lobbyists who seek
to throw the main tax burden
upon the low-income group must
be ferreted out and exposed"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
LOW WAGES CAUSE
TO LEAVE

Prof. Charles W. Phillips, Of the
University of N. c., states that
more than 200,0 600 teachers have
left our schools since Pearl Har-
Dor because of better opportunities
IN other industries.
The crisis, he adds, will become
more acute when 5OO,0 600 more
disappear this year.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
THE MEANING OF
AMERICAN LIBERTY

A refugee seeking citizenship
was asked to define the meaning
of American liberty. He hesitated,
as even a citizen might, and then
replied, Free enterprise" I'm not
surprised. Every public perform
ance these days-right, left, and
center-seems to open and close
with that magic phrase, free en-
terprise." - Margaret Marshall.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
CAUSE FOR A

We like the story Uncle Matt
tells about a lady with operate
ambitions who was giving out one
night at a party with Garry Me
Back to Old Virginny."
While she was rafting the chan
deliers she observed an elderly
man, apparently a Southerner,
weeping. After the applause she
went to him and said:
MY dear man, why are you
weeping? Are you a Virginian?"
Still weeping, he answered.: mo,
madame, a musician!"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

Between attacks or the Admin
istration, Representative Rankin
Of Mississippi adorn5 the pages of
the Congressional Record with
rhinestones like this (page A252,
Appendix, January 23): "Glorious
women of the South. Fashioned in
Paradise, wrethed in graces and
virtues that blosomed like flowers
plucked from the green fields of
Eden, led down to earth by angels
along a pathway of stars, to be the
joy, the blessing, the inspiration
of noble men"
Advertisement in the Charlotte.
North Caroline, Observer of Feb.
3: Stain is on his way to Berlin.
We are not going to Berlin. But
We are giving you McCorkle's
Laundry and Cleaning Service"
From the Paris, Texas, News Of
January %: Mount Pleasant,
Texas.-A white man was placed
under arrest here Wednesday by
sheriff Redfearn, who filed vag-
rancy charges against him. The
man is purported to have called a
meeting of Negroes for Wednesday
night for the purpose of forming
some sort of social-equality organ
ization for Titus County, with
membership fees to be charged.
Although the organization is a
legal one, recognized by both the
federal and state governments, the
arrest was made on the ground
that agitation for social equality
would cause trouble here"
Our hat is off to H. B. Fox.
editor Of the jacksonville, Texas,
Meteor and Times, for his hard
hitting editorial in defense of Hen
ry Wallace in the issue of Febru-
| airy l. First he quotes a number
! of editorials from big-city papers
to the effect that Wallace has had
no business experience. Then he
points out that Wallace built up a
three-million dollar Seed-corn
business. And finally he says, AL
though personal wealth is no gauge.
of any sort, is nc prerequisite for
-
criticism in any field, we'd really
like to see a financial statement of
all the editors of all the big dailies
mentioned above. In fact, we'll bet
a subscription to the Meteor
against four subscriptions to all
the papers mentioned above -
practically an even bet-that Mr.
Wallace handled ten times as much
money last year as any of the edit
ors, which wouldn't prove any
thing at all except the minor point
Of course that when it comes to the
topic of Mr.. Wallace the editors
r either liars or ignoramuses."
resting Europa: "A rule at the
Grim concentration camp in Nor
way requires prisoners to greet"
all Germans, whether in uniform
or in civilian clothes, in the fol-
lowing manner: at a distance Of
six PAGES the prisoner removes his
cap; he marches past the Ger
man with head erect and eyes for
ward; three PAGES beyond the Ger
man he replaces his cap An
editorial in the Oslo newspaper
Nationen laments, I'VE who have
accepted the Nazi policies expect
to be shot sooner or later"
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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
VIEWPOINT

Our landlord has a very good
description of how he feels about
the income tax:
II laugh out of one eye because
| earned SO much money, and cry
out of the other because l have SO
little left
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28
SAFE AT LAST

rs there anything you fancy
TO eat before the execution"
asked the warden.
Yes, mushrooms" said the con-
demned man. I've always been
scared to try them fearing I'd be
poisoned"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-28

Ideas control the world. - Gar
field.
The union times., 1945-08-18
LITTLE LUTHER

"We that's about ths, Luther letting lawn mower drop with thud "Im going fishing"
 "Come back here, you!" hammock You haven't finished moving one of and then have help mother in the
 "But Pop Little Luther protested Its important fishing, really is"
 ing?"
 Don't read the Pop?" Why it's become such major activity Some of highest officials doing guess they ought to know what's and what isn't"
 Who and what talking abou?"
 Fishing, Pop Little Luther thing talking about all along Gee whi Congress decides fishing instead staying Washing and giving unemployed workers 25 starve and passing full employment bill have jobs, doing planning smack in the face almost fishing about the thing do for his leaving Little lose." - =
 Hold son!" cried Mr. Dilworh eaping of S'Iu with yOu!"
 Mrs. Dlwort in her victory garden watched the Those home smelling fshy Blbo himself"
The union times., 1945-08-18
AS WE SEE IT
(Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One) Naval Institute Proceedings to the effect that B, ,OOO men-or over l.l per cent of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Cuard-are either absent without leave or absent over leave at all times.
 ''This means that, in the Navy alone, l4,OOO,OOO man days of ef- fective military service are lost each year because of these unlawful ab- sences," writes Phelps. ''The Navy's record in this war is so magnificent that no one is inclined to criticize the service because a small per- centage of its men go over the hill. But labor also has done its war job we'll, and should not be pilloried because a few workers have failed to keep the no-strike pledge"
 DONALD RICHBERC, author of the Hatch Burton Ball and-chain bill, says union leaders only hurt labor when they ask for more pay.
 Some workers can stand lot of pain.
 IF the Nazis hadn't driven out some of Cermany's best Jewish scientists, they might have beaten the allies in the race to develop the atomic bomb. Just another case of how the supermen were tripped up by what they loved to call mon- grel race.
 REP. CLARE LUCE for once in her career got a unanimous vote when she made her dramatic debut in summer production of George Bernard Shaw's ''Candida.'
 The decision from the critics: she should've stood in Congress.
 One critic, a little more frank than the others, remarked: ''It was little difficult to tell whether she had stage fright or WAS a stage fright"
 UP IN the U. s. only readers ever beef, in letters to the editor. Down in Mexico it's different. Here's an item from the MesicO City Post, entitled "A Beef!" It reads:
 Restraining Our righteous rage and newspaper man's cOcabuIary, ,Oe merely say that unless subscrib- CTS srhO change residence, 0dUise US of their ne,O address they ,UOn't con- tinue to receiUe the Post. By Allah! We are not mind readers in this shop. .'. (Signed) WrathtulIy, George Mcdonald"
 UNUSUAL growth of a new re- porter on the NOrfOIk (Va.) Vir-
The union times., 1945-08-18
Germans May Form Unions

Getting quickly to work the policy for Germany set down in the Big Threes Potsdam agreement Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower has told the German people the U S. of occupation what their rights and duties conquered nation.
 Full freedom to form unions and engage in local political activities granted by Eisenhower who said that political meetings would be allowed subject approval of the local military government The initial aim of and political parties should be help in the necessary for the coming winter which Eisenhower warned would be 8 tough
 Just how far the unions and political parties allowed to depends the capacity the Germans "a healthy exercise of these privileges Eisenhower said You expect many hardsps in the coming year, Esen hover told the Germans but, he added: ' lies your ultimately build healthy democratic life in Ger many and tp rejon the family of nations"
 similar proclamation issued by Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery in the British Freedom form unions and engage in political activity permitted by the Russians before the POtsdam conference.
The union times., 1945-08-18

ginian-PiLOt was recorded in cut. lines which read: ''HARBINCER OF VICTORY-Doris Kanter, of the Virginian-Pilot news staff, grew in the shape of a ''V'' in the Vic. tory Garden of Mrs. Louretta Pap. pas. .. When found it. I chirped so loud the neighbors knew some. thing unusual had happened,' said Mrs. Pappas.''
 AGAIN the war got too close to home in q headline, this one i'm inc Indianapolis (Ind.) Times: ssSHER. lFF DEFIES STATE ON GAM. BLING, read the top part of the eight-cOlumn banner; JITTERY LAPS WONDER: WHAT NEXT said the lower half.
 INTERESTING headlines in a few dailies:
 FIGHTING DOGS
 TO HAVE POSTS
 Glendale (Calif.) Nescs-Press.
 NO CARTER
 FOR CHURCHILL
 Somerset (Pa.) American.
 MEN MARRY FOR LOOKS
 BUT NOT WOMEN
 Ne'Oark (N. J.) Star-Ledger.
 4 VALLEY MEN
 WAS CASUALTIES
 Brownsville (Tex.) Herald. Typographical errors, no dOubt.)
 ANNA MAE HARMON. society editor of the Illinois State Register at Sprinfeld, was so excited gettinp ready for her own wedding to Pet ty Office 3/c William A. GOss of the Coast Guard that she wrote, con- corning anOther's event: ssThe bride was attired in candlelight.' An old married cOpyreader caught it, how ever.
 FROM American Iabor'' to suf- ferers all over the world will go nearly $3,OOO,OOO worth of aid in l946, the Labor League for Human Rights-AFL announces. Although the total will be less than in I945. because Britain has dissolved its war relief organization and Russia has left the Nat'l War Fund, money will still pour out of the overall pockets of American workers to provide necessities, medical aid. and, in such countries as China and CzechOslovakia, vocational educa- ton for workers.
The union times., 1945-08-18

they should get $3 a week in Ar. kansas while their neighbors in California, Illinois, New York, Ore. gon and Washington can draw no less than $lO week?
 Top jobless benefits vary even more from state to state. ranging as high as $28 a week in Connecti. cut and Michigan where depend. ents' allowances are included, to SIS a week in 10 states.
 Added to these inequalities is the fact that the length of time for whicl Jobless benefits can be paid is as low as IA weeks in Arizona and Missis. slppi, and is high as % weeks ir Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Washington.
 Organized labor has joined witt social security experts in urging or Congress a bill to set the maximum benefit at $25 a week, and to make the possible duration of payments 26 weeks. Even this will only serve tc somwhat improve the provisions now enforced in the most backward of the states, labor men pointed out.
 Actually, they would prefer to fight for much more adequate pro- visions. Two bills, sponsored in the House by Rep. Robert L. Doughton Cat President Truman's request) and in the Senate by Harley Kilgore O., W. Va.,) are now enjoying a quiet summers rest in the Con gressmen's desks, and will not even be discussed until Congress recon venes October 9.
 A bold extension of the scope of social security, to build still stronger wall of protection against insecurity, is the aim of labor and progressives generally today. The .Murray-Dingell bill, drawn up and introduced into Congress at the express urging of the unions, would strike out into new fields health and maternal and child welfare-while at the same time extending the present benefits to workers not now covered, and providing more adequate old age and unemployment insurance.
The union times., 1945-08-18

laid in the area. Oak Ridge has nearly lO,0OO houses or apartments, 13,000 dormitory spaces, more than 5000 trailers and 16,000 barrack spaces. To feed its thousands, the project has nine cafeterias, five restaurants, three lunchrooms and 13 supermarkets.
 Oak Ridges population over. flows into crowded Knoxville, only Is miles away. Its streets are iam- med with construction workers from the project and its eating places and movies are always taxed to capacity.
 The workers of Oak Ridge are familiar with all the discomforts and hardships of wartime living the grinding, hard work, the overcrowd- ing and monotony, the loneliness of being away from home, but ask them today if they'd do it all over again and you get a flashing smile and a firm, "You bet!"