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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
The Communist Zine"

Great excitement is expressed by d few Red batting publications
about statements and magazine articles strongly indicating a forth
coming change in line by the American Communist Political Assoca-
Americans.
The Communists apparently are about to drop the leadership of
Earl BrOWder, who has advocated. after a fashion. collaboration" be
tween classes. They are about to return to the goal of social revolu-
on by the workers. BroWder's policy of "opportunsm' was sever
ely criticized by Jacques Duclos, French Communist leader. and the
national board o the American c. P A. has virtually echoed Duclos
language and ostentahOusly praised the neverfaling militancv of
William T. Foster in opposing providers errors"
If this means that American Communists ar going to re-emerge
communism made n large Roadway in this country even in the black
est of epresslons. Between a revolutionary movement in the open
and such d movement hiding underground. in fact the open move
lnent is greatly to be preferred.
There is not and never will be danger of violent revolution in
America unless We ourselves invite i-unless we art too timid to
use III W democratic processes to solve u problems of full en-
ployment, security and we'll being among people The "threato to
our institutions, if any such exists, is not the Communist splinter but
te reaclonares who assail every proposal for social reform The
Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
JUgosIovio to Repotriote
$4,000 Nationals
From Germany

Washington. - Severa1 hundred
camps in Germany contain a total
Of 314,0 0 Jugoslav nationals for
chilly abducted for work in Ger
many" the Belgrade radio said in
a recent broadcast recorded for the
Office of War Information by FEC
monitors.
Of these workers, $4,000 are in
Austria, the broadcast revealed.
THE health Of the interneeS is
rather low" the broadcast related.
Up to their liberation their food
was below the minimum required
and this caused a state of general
weakness. When, after their liberia
ton, the internees were given
more food, the sudden increase
caused many to die. Typhus, too,
claimed numerous victims"
The Belgrade broadcast COM
planned about inadequate meas
ures'' taken by the Allied occupa-
ton armies, about the "slowness''
of medical service, separation and
isolation of the infected from the
healthy, and the Improvement of
food in quantity rather than
quality"
Notwithstanding these grave
conditions, the broadcast continu-
ed, activity among the internees
is very intense" At each camp spe-
cial repatriation committees have
been established for sponsoring
cultural and political activities"
including the publication of a daily
newspaper.
At present a delegation of eight
Jugoslav officials is cooperating
with Allied authorities in Ger
many. and these have already
established central clearing sta
tons at Dachau and Salzburg. The
actual process of repatriation will
take several weeks, the broadcast
said, adding that political inter
nees and prisoners OF war will first
be eligible for repatriation, and
then the forcibly modified work
ers.''
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
NTEA PAYS NO TAX

1t might be of public interest to
know that the same internal reve-
nue. act which exempts the co-ops
from paying income taxes also ex-
empts the National Tax Equality
Association from paying taxes. The
law provides 10 provisions exempt
ing nonprofit organizations of var
ious types, including "educational''
institutions. NTEA has announced
that it is a nonprofit association
for research and education.
1t claims 1000, 900 members and
as their membership fee is $50
each, they must have quite a tidy
sum for education" It would also
yield a rather sizeable sum if
NTEA had to pay taxes too. Then
there is something to think about
IN the use of such a terrifying
stack of money to Influence pub
lie opinion.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
PINCERS ON FRANCO

II the international atmosphere is getting too close for General
rance comfort, the cause may be found some 5000 miles from
Madrid. AT San Francisco a vigorous movement is afoot to make the
world less safe for fascists than it has since "nonintervention" fostered
the Spanish Civil War.
20 only are prominent Spanish republicans working out new
UNITY among themselves in the very shadow of the United Nations
Conference building. The Conference itself may soon be debating a
proposal to bar the Franco regime permanently from the United Ma
tons organization.
The latest speech of the Spanish dictator shows he feels the breath
of lis outraged pursuers on his neck. Does he sense power in the new
world organization to insure his downfall?
Hitler is gone; Mussolni is gone. To whom can General Franco
TURN! we should like to say: % n O one. But the delays which some
patriots have encountered in obtaining permissio to travel to
the United States suggests Franco may have friends in American
OfGcialdom.
Nothing would be more welcome at this time than clear support
not only by China and France and Russia, but by the United States and
Britain, for the proposal at San Francisco to bar Franco Spain from
the United Naions--Chrishan Science Monitor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
"Let the People Eof Grass"

Living costs rose 18 per cent between Nav, 1943 and December
1914, reports the Department of Labor
In figuring the cost of living does the Labor Department figure the
decrease in quality as well a the increase in prices? We ae doubtful
Of it, and beyond question the quality of the things workers purchase
has slumped as the prices have risen.
Because the powerful institution known a free enterprise fights
FlclousEy any attempt to brand goods as to quality and still operates
under the old slogan let the buyer beware" but does not var BUYERS
to be too aware of anything, it is probably a little difficult to figure
just how much quality lowering of things people buv has increased the
cost OF living and lowered living standards.
Whatever the necessary for war purposes the people are willing to
take II reduced quality, but they do not care to be suckers for yer
Gyp artist in business.
Anyone who has any doubt about quality reduction might inorrp
CT the women of the family how the quality of the STOCKINGS thew are
2ettHng are holding up and at the same time how prices are holding upq
quality reduction is too often just plain swindlng and the swind
lcrs who think they IRE going to continue to get away with it are
descendants of that tribe of queer and thoughtess French buccaneers
OF government and business who once said let the people eat a. -"
and after US the deluge"
TIT deluge came. They called it the French revolution
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
BY DARLINGTON HOPES

Most People want this to be the
last war and r ready to sacrifice
whatever may be necessary to
make it so. Despite this worldwide
yearning for peace, very few
people really believe that the San
Francisco conference, or those that
are to follow it, will succeed Why
can't we have the peace we so
ardently desire? Why must every
generation slaughter millions of
its finest young men, and load their
children with debt that can never
be repaid? Must this go on for
ever? Are we blind paWns of fate?
Or can we do something about it?
Why is it so difficult to obtain
what nearly everybody wants?
Why are peace conferences so
long, drawn out, while declarations
OF war are made SO quickly? Things
don't just happen that way. There
must be something very wrong
Oih "A1SIS dllo IIlClS Is. Inc
trouble is so plain and obvious that
it is hard to understand why every
body didn't recognize it long ago.
The delegates at San Francisco
do not represent the peoples of the
earth. They weren't ever elected
by the peoples. They we're appoint
ed by the governments. In most
cases the government were not
economically elected by the
people. Many of those which were
so elected serve the interests of the
wealthy few rather than the mas
ses of the common people. Who is
so childlike as to believe that Mr..
StettlniuS and the other million
aires in the United States State
Department serve the intereste of
the farmers and workers of this
country, when they conflict, as thew
nearly always do, with those of the
bankers and manufacturers? Who
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
Declarations of Wars Are Made Quickly
But Peace Conferences Take Time

thinks that Mr. Churchill and An
thony Eden will place the welfare
OF the many, ahead of privileges
for the few?
The bankers and business men of
each nation want the foreign mar
kets for themselves only. They
want the oil of Arabia. the rubber
Of Java and Sumatra. the tea of
China and airplane bases all over
the earth. Each wants the exclusive
privilege of exploiting the power
ty-Stricken, dark skinned workers
OF Africa and Asia. To them pro-
fits, and nothing else matters.
They know that their economic
conflicts have caused wars in the
past, and will cause more wars in
the future, But, what care thew?
After all there are big profits in
munitions, tanks, and bombing
planes. What if a few million wor-
kers are killed? The rich will get
theirs, and that is what matters to
them. They want to destroy Ger
man industry, not to prevent war,
but to kill off possible rivals for
markets.
OF course, their delegates can't
agree on how to split up the swag.
Each wants it all for his group.
That is why so-called peace con-
terences take SC long and always
fail.
They planned it that way.
Instead of allowing the privil-
eyed few to plan everything for
their profit, the common people
must take control, and plan for hui
manlty. We can do it, if only we
consciously try. We must do it.
or die.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
IS NO LONGER "A MANS
WORLD
Fair Sex Represents Nearly rs
Per Cent of Total Membership
of Organized Labor, Report
Shows

The trade union movement isn't
a mans world any more. Many of
the nations major unions now
have almost as many feminine
members as male, the Women's
Bureau of the Department of La
Dor revealed.
At a conference in Washington
of women union leaders, the bu-
reau reported results of a survey
showing that we'll over 5000, 900 of
the fair sex-betWeen 20 and 25
per cent of the total union rosters
are now members in good stand
ing.
In some of the needle trades or
CARNATIONS, women Outnumber
men. Also. as a result of the ire
mendous rise in wartime feminine
employment, many of the unions
that at one time were almost ex-
clusively male, now have sub
stantial" proportions Of women
members, the bureau said.
Among these it listed the Auto
mobile Workers, Electrical Work
ers, Machinists, BoilermakerS and
others, in which from 10 to 40 per
cent of the members are women.
One of the encouraging results
of the war, the bureau said, is the
great advance made by unions in
winning equal pay for women do
ing the same work as men, and in
obtaining seniority rights as we'll
as other benefits for them on d
par with men.
In an address to the conference,
Miss Frieda Miller, director of the
bureau, declared that the prog
ress in employment status, stand
ards and skills gained by women
as a result of their magnificent
response in our Work-to-Win drive
should not be allowed to slip at
the close of the war"
Delegates at the conference
mapped an extensive program by
which such gains may be preserv-
ed in postwar period.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
Congress Is To Blame For Black Markets

n refusa OF Congress to make professors and distributors OF
farm products agencies of the government for the war and postwar
reorganization, is the chief reason for black markets and bIacker prices
In 1889, the latest official figures, over half of the wholesale mea
PACKING concerns did less than one sixteenth of the business; while
1870 OF tn concerns canning and drying fruits and vegetables in
cluolng ann soups, accounted for only O twelfth of the Output
n TN year, tenth of grocery stores not selling meats, oper-
by chalns, did nearly one third of the grocery business. and less
than ninth of combination (grocery-meat) stores operated bv chans
Gid nearly two ffths of that business.
Congress must know that trying, as the OPA hae dona to roGca
5000 meat-packers and Gamers, and 387 400 grocery and combination
food stores, is a futile undertaking.
only by making all of these and other professors and distributors
q Iooos' agencies of the government, leaving regular operators in con
troll, pooling their equipment, cutting and advertising wastes and
limiting profits, can black markets be prevented
This would not increase food supplies. but would for nroftaaripe
III fOods-Federatoh News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
WORST FRAUD" OF
WAR is UNCOVERED

Aiuldnd concern IS vi
Conspiracy to Rob The
Government
Fort Wayne, Ind. - Conspiracy
to rob the government and produc-
ton of defective material were
charged in indictments returned
by a Federal grand jury against
the Durham Manufacturing Com
pany, its officers and some en-
ployes.
Federal attorneys said the fraud
is one of the worst uncovered dur
ing the war. They accused the de
PENDANTS of using tricks, schemes
and devices" to avoid compliance
with specifications for the manu-
facture of projectiles, rocket
bombs and propeller shafts over
an 18-month period, during which
the concern supplied $14, 900, 600
worth of material to the navy.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
IDEAS OF WORKERS
WORTH BIG MONEY

Ideas submitted by workers to
improve production have saved
Uncle Sam SOL ,228, 268 since June,
1943, it was reported by James F.
Mulcahy, chairman of the War De-
partment's Civilian Awards Board.
Many of the suggestions will
prove of permanent benefit to in
dustry and over the years will save
employers many millions of dol
lars, Mulcahy declared.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
Cleaned Up S4OO, 600

Morgenthau says that many Of
the big tax dodgers made their
money by boosting the price of
food, principally meat
One Washington dealer solo
ESQ., 600 pounds of meat every week
N the black market and avoided
$500, 900 in income taxes in the
one year, 1914.
The big shot" distributed his
meat among Washington retailers
at from 6 to 8 cents above ceiling
prices, and the retailers proceeded
to soak the consumers. Those who
could pay got the meat, and thus
workers We're the principal sui
fererS.
In the case of another Washing
ton meat profiteer, the OPA has
affidavitS from 200 retailers, show
ing they paid this concern 1882, 200
in excess prices.
, The O.P,A. has filed suit in d
Washington court, asking for trl-
pie damages, or 81, lac, 900. The
men who control this concern are
old offenders, and yet they have
been permitted to continue in bus
mess.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13

How much better it is that he
should speak i'll of me to all the
world, than all the world speak i'll
OF me to him.-Tasso.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13

A man who is well warmed with
wine will speak truth.-Old Prov
erb.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13

The debt-habit is the twin
brother of poverty.-T. r. Munger.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
By

One of the most startling state
ments made by a public official in
a long timecomes from Secretary
of the Treasury Morgenthau.
He has 1900 agents probing in
come tax frauds, but business men
have been robbing the Public
Treasury on such a huge scale that
Morgenthau is asking Congress for
10000 more! At first he requested
only 5000 extra agents but he has
been forced to raise his sights"
Hit latest proposal will give him
an army of 1850 agents. all Of
them more Or less experts, dcdi-
Gated to just n job:
Exposing Of business men who
have been robbing the Public
Treasury, while our boys have
been fighting all over the world
and most Americans have been
digging into their jeans to buy war
bonds.
Mr.. M~orgenthau says it is
shocking" and that is surely not
an oVerStatement.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
Losses Are Tremendous

Even if the OPA wins its triple
damage suit, it will have a hard
time collecting. The "black mar
keteers' will probably conceal
their assets.
1t is estimated that these criml
mails and others like them have de-
prived the Treasury of hundreds
of millions, and perhaps billions,
of revenue during the wal period.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
PLENTY OF RICH "PATRIOTs" CHEAT
PUBLIC TREASURY ON TAXES

Iadelphia court directs him to pay
S46,653.84 at once and penalties OF
S 5,026.75 within a year.
Cohen immigrated from Russia
in 1913 and apparently immidiat-
ely began robbing the country
which gave him a full measure o.
liberty and opportunity
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-13
"Overlooked $4,000, 900"

He gives this example: A New
Yorker who runs a chain of res
taurants confesSes that during the
last three years he "overlooked''
$4,000, 900 of his gross income.
Every day this gentleman sent
an armored truck to his restau-
rants and picked up a certain
amount of cash. This money was
put in a vault and was not enter
ed on the books of the restaurants
and, of course, was not included
in his income tax returns. That's
the way this particular business
man "overlooked' his obligations
to the Treasury.
In the little city of Ephrata, Pa,
Abe Cohen, a retail furniture deal
er, had no time to fool with in
come taxes and for "a years didn't
make a correct return. Now a Phi
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15

Spssgsl Mulsesy Gin Resss see
Msss fovoslsss Of me Armed Foress,
1,MG $3.50; LIFE $3.50; FORTUNE $500
70 b sure Vovr sifh arrive In time
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The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
9-2O Board
Determines
10 Save Club

AT AN EMERGENCY MEET
ING last night, the board OF the
Nine-Twenty Club admitted the
Justice of complaints of lack of
cooperation on the part Of both
parents and members, and voted
to seek another chance" with
Arthur Murphy, USO Club di-
rector, who yesterday resigned
as advisor to the teen age group
numbering nearly 900 members.
Plans for reorganization Of
the club were begun at the meet
ing, held at the home of Bill
Weller. Pending completion Of
the plans, it was voted to cancel
the dance set for Friday night.
Arthur Murphy is just what
the Nine-Twenty Club needs -
he's a wonderful advisor" a
spokesman stated. "We are 60
ing to whip the club into shape
50 everyone does his Bit"
The youthful board, determine
ed to save their club, planned to
hold another special meeting on
Sunday to further reorganiza-
ton.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
Auxiliary Holds
Annual Election

MRS. WILLIAM SCHWARTZ
was chosen president of the
Young Women's Auxiliary of
Zion Evangelical Church at the
election Of officers held last eve
ming at the home of Mrs. Harold
Eyth. Mrs. Schwartz succeeds
Mrs. Wallace Gerlach.
Other officers are Mrs. Ed
ward Hatch, vice-president; Mrs.
Gordon Penman, secretary; Miss
Florence Burk, treasurer; Mrs.
Earl Burk, publicity. The De-
cember meeting will be a Christ
mas party to be held at the home
of Mrs. Wallace Gerlach. Mrs.
Leonard Freimann. Mrs. Irene
Stearns and Mrs. Schwartz form
the committee. Assisting the
hostess last evening were Mrs.
Harold Stewart and Mrs. Les
ter Schmidt.
MRS. FRANCIS GOODAR
and Mrs. George Smith, Jr. left
today for the weekend in Chi
cago. They will be joined by
Joan Goodar. who is a student
at Ferry Hall in Oak Park.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
Public Tea
Plans Told

A PUBLIC TEA and bake sale
will be sponsored by BIN Sis
terhood at the social hall of Beth
Tifilas Moses on Tuesday after
noon, Nov. 27, at 2 o'clock, 1t is
announced today.
Mrs. Leon Mandell is general
chairman of the affair, with
Mrs. Harry Farber in charge
of the bake sale; Mrs. Max
Elkins, tea table; Mrs. Sam Mad
orsky. tickets; and Mrs. Sam
Ginsburg. publicly.
Tickets, which are available
now, may be obtained from any
of the above committee men,
bers.
MRS. w. E. GILPIN entertain
ed her tripoli club Tuesday eve
ming at her home on Shore drive
in st. Clair Haven.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
Miss Schonschack
Feted by Club

MRS. GILMOUR PETERS en-
tertained the members of her
birthday club at dinner at her
home last eening honoring the
birthday anniversary OF Evelyn
Schonschack which occurs to-
day.
The table was centered with
q birthday cake and lighted ta-
pers. Cards were played with
prizes going to Miss Schon-
setback and Mrs. John Schrade.
MRS. WILLIAM HURTTIEN-
NE, 1914 Welts street, entered
st. Joseph's Hospital Wednes-
day, suffering from a fractured
hip suffered in an accident in
Mount Pleasant on Tuesday.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15

EMILY ELIZABETH LAEKE-
MANS engagement to 1t. Rob-
ert F. kirkpatrick. USAAF, is
announced today by her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emiel Laekeman
of 48 Lake Shore drive. st. Clair
Haven and Detroit. Miss Laeke-
man, a graduate of Southeastern
High school in Detroit, attended
Wayne University, and is now
supervisor of accounts at Sell
fridge Field. Her fiance, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. kirkpatrick
of Logansport, Ind, attended
Purdue University. He was for
merly stationed at Selfridge, ana
is now based at Dalhart Army
Air Base, Tex. No wedding date
is set.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
Nurses Set
Dance Plans

PLANS are set for the annual
semi formal dance sponsored by
st. Joseph's Alumnae Associa-
tion, to be held at the Medea
ballroom on Thursday evening,
Nov. 20, from 9:30 to o'clock.
Julie Modos, general chair
man. has named Ethel Quinn.
chairman of tickets; Phyllis
Teller. decorations, Dorothy
Smith, hall arrangements and
orchestra; and Betty Murray.
publicity.
AL Cox and his Londonnaires
Of Detroit will furnish music for
the affair, tickets for which are
available from committee men,
bers or at the door.
MRS. JAMES s. NUNNELEY
Is expected to return tonight
from weeks visit with her
relatives in Mount Pleasant.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
Dorothy Womack Sets
Date for Wedding

THE APPROACHING MAR
RAGE of Dorothy Lucille Wo-
mack, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold LaCroix of 80 Clinton
street, and Richard James Castle
son of Mrs. Catherine Castle Of
Chicago, Is announced today.
The couple Is planning a 1890
o'clock wedding in ST. Peters
Catholic Church on Thursday,
Nov. %. with Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew Woodarski. cousins of the
bride, as matron of honor and
best man. Also in the wedding
party will be Mr.. and Mrs.
George Henry of Detroit as at
tendants, and Louis Shovan as
an usher. Miss Womack will be
given in marriage by her uncle,
and a wedding breakfast and re-
ception will follow the cere-
mony.
Miss Womack attended both
st. Mary's and Mount Clemens
High schools. Her husband to
be, formerly a sergeant in the
Air Forces. is a veteran of two
years duty in the Pacific.
Mrs. Woodarski will entertain
Tuesday evening for her cousin,
at her home on Hollywood
court.
CADET Thomas Paul SchocK
will arrive home Thursday TO
spend Thanksgiving with his
mother, Mrs. Eleanor Welsh Of
Detroit. He is a student at the
Hall of Divine Child. Monroe.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
Parents and Members
CHARGED with Ldxity

CITING lack of cooperation
of members Of the Nine-Twenty
Club and laxity of parents in
the matter of chaperonage, Ar
thur Murphy, USO Club direct
or, resigned yesterday as advisor
of the teen-age organization.
He also stated that the USO
night dances have been held
Club, where weekly Saturday
night dances have been held
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15
Bake Sale

CANAL LUTHERAN Ladies'
Aid will sponsor a bake sale at
the French Cleaners on Macomb
street on Saturday, beginning at
IL o'clock. Mrs. Erving Simms,
Mrs. William Wink and Mrs. OF
TO Ahrens are in charge.
The daily monitor leader., 1945-11-15

DIR. AND MRS. BRUCE
WILEY will entertain guests at
dinner this evening at their
home in Utica. Those invited are
DR.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Croman. Jr.,
DR.. and Mrs. A. A. Thompson,
DR.. and Mrs. w. j. Kane, DR..