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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
Didn't Die Like q Hero

Count Bernadotte, nephew Of King Gustav ' Of Sweden and head
of the Swedish Red Cross, played a leading role in the preliminary
negotiations for Germanys surrender. The count had an unusual oppor-
tunity to e what was going OF among high-ranking Nazis.
He quotes Walter Schenenberg, chief of German Intelligence, as
saying: According to my calculations, Der Fuhrer died O. April 27
and it is my definite belief that it was by an injection. However, I do
not know who gave it to him"
Bernadotte describes what he witnessed in Germany in the spring
of 1945:
Third Reich from sources which must be regarded a reliable.
"These leaders were lacking in all moral concepts, in all loftiness
CT mind. In the last act, they were, with their hideous past, desperately
intriguing among themselves, coWardly, undecided, irresolut. The
F0hrer did not die like a hero. 1t al be regarded as quite certain that
he was murdered"
Bernadoues story sounds convincing, but for the next century
evidence" will crop out in a score of places proving" that Hitler
escaped in some dramatic way and did not perish miserably in the ruins
Of his dictatorship-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
Senator Byrd's Surprising BIunder

1t is unfortunate that Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia doesn't
know more about history and economics. Everyone knew the Virginia
Senator would oppose Senator Pat McCarrans 3O-hour-week proposal.
but few intelligent observers were prepared for Senator Byrd's amaz-
ing declaration:
"The first step in the downfall of France was the 3O-hour week"
Now, a every schoolboy know, France never experienced with
the 30-hour week. The government of Premier Blum, known as the
Popular Front" established the 4O-hour week.
Furthermore, n o one familiar with what happened in France
during the last 10 years would contend for a moment that the reforms
of the Blum government had anything to do with the military collapse
following Htleris bltz.
The fact is the miltarsts of France and Britain we're not prepared
to meet the new kind of warfare. The record shows the workers gave
the armies and navies of both countries everything they requested and
on time.
Senator Byrd will have to find some other excuse for opposing the
80 hour Week-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
REDS TAKE
SUMPTUOUS ESTATE

Many strange things are GER
tainly happening these days. 1t is
announced in New York that the
gorgeous J. P. Morgan estate at
Glen Cove L. I.-Where the might
lest figure in Wall Street enter
tanned multimillionaires and sprigs
of royalty-has been leased by
the Soviet government.
For the next two years, mem
bers of Russia's Purchasing Com
mission to this country will use
the place as a sort of country club.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
HOW ABOUT
LAWYERS, HAROLD?

Secretary of the Interior Harold
1ckes has the unfortunate habit of
being offensive, eve when he's
trying to be complimentary. He
delivered a Labor Day speech and
warned the American labor move
ment it must get rid of "grafters
and drones."
There are more than $4,000, 900
trade unionists in this country. 1t
would be amazing if some graft
ers and drones" had not sneaked
in. However, the labor movement
is as free from "grafters and
drcnes" as any other segment of
American life and, we venture to
say, is as clean as Mr.. Ickes' De-
partment of the Interior, which
has had the benefit of his personal
supervision for twelve years.
MIR. Ickes doesn't know much
about trade union movement, but
he should know something about
bar associations-city, state and
Federal-of which he has been a
distinguished member for years.
What has he done to clean them
up and drive out the "grafters and
drones"? So far as we know, he
has done exactly nothing. Instead.
he assumes a "holier-than-thou"
attitude toward organized labor
ond forgets about crooked lawyers.
- Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
POLL FAvORS TAKING
OVER TRANSPORT LINES

Chicago citizenss by a vote Of
81, have authorized the city to
take over local transportation faci-
lities. Existing surface and evelat-
ed lines would cost about $87, O00,-
600, and needed improvements are
estimated OF $40, OOO, 900.
The transportation moguls have
not resisted the idea. Their pro-
perties are now in a bankruptcy
court and they will welcome an
opportunity to exchange them for
the city's gilt-edged bounds.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
DOCTORS AND INCOME

Why is 1t that the District of Columbia, that is, the city of Wash
lngton, has one physician for every 100 of the population? Why is it
that the State of New York has n physician for yer 461 of the
population, and Massachusetts, has one physician to every 528 of the
population? Why is it that Mississippi base one physician for every
1896 of the population, Alabama one physician for every 1860 of the
population? These are curious facts. .
we beueVe that the District of Columbia has this tremendous
oVer-balance of physicians because the District of Columbia is a city
where the average income is low but constant and regular Government
workers may not get as good pay as factory workers O n the whole.
but they get ure pay and this enables them to support this overload
OF physicians, that is, al overload compared with other states.
1t is a trusnn that medical care depends upon income. Poor people
cannot pay for doctors and they die more easily and regularly than
Ih people This is the gist of the struggle now going O in this
country for medical care. Physicians are opposing the Wagner-Murray-
Dngell Bill and labor is supporting it,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
NOW LET'S FREE
AMEPICAI

The poll tax, levied in seven
Southern States as a precondition
Of voting, sounds as a roadblock
across the road to peace and jobs.
1t is not alone the oncer of the
ten million American citizens,
white and black, robbed of their
constitutional right to vote. A free
vote is the concern of all.
The Smith, onnally Act stands
az a monument of shame to the poll
tax congressman, and as a con-
slant reminder to every worker,
every farmer, every industrialist,
every American, that irresponsible
government produces irresponsible
laws.
Social security, full employ
ment, industrial democracy, de
cent homes and Wages-every aim
of American labor is menaced as
long as siXtynine members of Con-
greSS and fourteen Senators are
elected by a tiny fraction of their
people and owe no allegiance to
the people.
These eighty-three men control
far more than their proportionate
share of powerful and strategic DO
sltions on House and Senate COM
mitteeS.
Elected by only one-ninth of all
the votes in the country-thougb
their States have one-fourth of the
people-eight of the nineteen most
important committees of the House
nave poll tax chairmen, ten have
poll tax ranking members: in adj
dltlon, four of the committees have
Southerners as chairmen, two
have Southerners as ranking mem
bers. The remaining thirty-seven
States have seven chairmanships
seven ranking majority member
ships. In the Senate the story is
the same: of seventeen major COM
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
ENTERPRISE SYSTEM
IS ON TRIAL IN AMERICA

Millions of jobs will be needed in order for every ablebodied
American who wants a job to have one.
We know that if the energies of Ill country and its resources
made possible the production of billions of dollars worth of COM
rnodIhes for the purpose of destruction, we certainly should be able to
use all III entire constructive forces for the purpose of permitting III
peace-time.
The so-caled free enterprise theory is o. trial. Unless III industry
can be 81 organized as to permit willing workers al opportunity to
work and produce, it will have to give way to government interference
and government control and ownership OF industry that will permit
internal peace and plenty. Washington State Labor News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26

millions of hungry men ad women
running around this country seek
ing jobs, as they did in the last
years of the Hoover administra-
ton.
That would be throwing the
door wide open to Fascism or
Communism, and in our judgment,
the American people are emphati-
cally opposed to both.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26

More money has been made out
of World War II by the rich man
than was ever before piled up in a
comparable number of years or
any other war period. AS in all
Warld wars, the workingman must
pay the freight.
Corporation reports for the first
half of this year show that the
golden flood of war profits-easy
money-from sure-thing, cost-plus
contracts continued we'll after We
Day and almost up to VJ-Day.
The SEC. reports that Amer
lean corporations have At billions
in cash to tide them over the re-
conversion period.
A group of 800 big corporations
had net earnings CATER paying all
taxes, depreciation charges and
after piling up fat "reserves") of
$687, 591,0 900 in the first half of
l945, compared to 1914, $780, in
the same period of 1914. This is a
gain of 11.8 percent. The war
babies hung on to the Treasury
teats until the last drop.
= * x
Now come the cutback. When a
corporation gets a cutback the
Government owes it money. When
the war worker is laid off he has
a claim for a pittance for a few
weeks of state unemployment
And by the way, those funds came
out of his pay check-Out of his
hide, in the first place.
The National Association of
Manufacturers complains that war
baby industries may be a year get
ting some three billion dollars the
Government owe for war work al
ready done or of claims of all sorts.
This should not cause too great a
hardship despite the tear-bucket
brigade.
Corporations have piled up AZ
billions in reserves out of which
they can pay dividends, interest
and big official salaries for years
to come, just as they paid out 20
billions to the fat cats in the de-
preston when millions of workers
went on relief.
Tho nnIntru &c vnnnrn. MOI r.aL
er, because of those billions of dol
lars piled up in corporation treas
urIeS. These funds" and ere
serves" are not real wealth, They
are ink and paper items that give
the corporations and their owners
claims on what the workers will
produce in the future. That is true
also of the 70 billion dollars worth
OF bank deposits" and Govern
ment bonds that have been ac-
CURED by individuals (mostly the
rlch) in the war period. The 70
billions is not 20 billions of dollars
worth of wealth. 1t is 70 billion
ooIlars worth of claims against the
country's future productive capac-
Ity. 1t is the first claim ON wealth
that must be created by the work.
ers before they meet their own
family needs.
The country is poorer
BY hundreds of millions of tons
OF coal, iron ore, copper, zinc, alu-
mlnum, magnesium, r and other
basic materials that have been shot
up, worn out, lost or sunk in the
sea In military operations.
by millions of feet of lumber
cut from dwindling forests.
BY tens of millions of hogs,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
in THE WIND
From THE NATION

~N0 - |CS>S "
fetal publication of the San Fran
cisco Advertising Club, carried the
following advertisement by the
San Francisco Examiner in it's
issue of August %: 1--WE never
claimed to be the newspaper that
reaches the war workers because
our field is on the right side of the
railroad tracks year in, year out"
REVOLUTION: That radical
consumer publication, the Wall
Street Journal, offered this ad-
vice in its Commodity Letter of
August %: Start jumping on the
butcher when he leaves a lot of
fat on the steak or roast. There
will be ore animals coming to
market, and it won't be a case of
taking the steak with the tallow
on or doing without another
week"
TRICOTEUSES: r. H. Mark
ham, in the Christian Century of
August IS, gave this analogy of
conditions in Bulgaria today: eff
the Communist Earl Browder,
Ruth McKenney, William Foster,
and Robert Minor, with the CO.
operation of The Nations Miss
Kirchwey and PMS Isadore Stone,
should set up a court to hang, after
a days trial, Hoover, Landon, Van
denberg, Dewey, the Times Sulz.
berger, and the Tribune's McCor-
mick, with photographers filming
the dangling victims, we would
have a picture in American term
of ~Bulgaria's peoples justice in
the grand new order"
WAR: Editor and Publisher of
September l reports that an I'M
identified news photographer who
appeared in shirtsleeves at a for
NAL ceremony in Halifax, N. s.,
recently, was berated by a high
ranking officer. Dammit" the Of
ficer roared, your paper ought to
provide you with morning coats
for occasions like these-it's dis
graceful"
REDS: Charles Ventura, society
columnist of the New York World
Telegram, turned labor columnist
IN Cop+opoIor A of b,,o0o,
cries now reverberating through
out the fashionable residential
colony of Redding Ridge, Connecti-
cut" he said, ARE being heard in
New York salons. Certain of the
feminine members of the colony
have gone on a sit-doWn strike by
refusing to whip up a meal for
their businessmen husbands. They
say they're fed up with having to
do their own domestic chores and
demand a new deal now that the
war is over.
MAGIC: Ralph Blodgett, of the
Meneough Advertising Agency of
Des Moines, Iowa, wrote an article
entitled We Need Those Depres-
sions in the August 25 issue of
Opinion and Comment, a quarter
ly published by the College of
Commerce and Business Admins
tration of the University of I'LL
nois. 1T is to be hope that depres-
sions are never abolished" he said,
for they have many desirable
features. Those who learn to ride
the business cycle can find as
many advantages in depressions as
in booms . That very name de
preston is inappropriate. 1t hor-
ribly maligns those great periods
SO full Of splendid opportunities.
Let us keep those periods but
abolish only the name . Some
economic r e e a h foundation
might we'll offer prizes for suit
able names and select the best
one"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
PLENTY OF "SPUDs"

II everything else fails, there'u
be potatoes-plenty of them. The
harvest this year will total 400
2o6, 900 bushels, Al, 900, 900 more
than in 1914.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26

A Substantial increase in the
production of leather shoes for
civilians during the last quarter of
l945 is promised by the War Pro-
duction Board.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26
Psychology Note

Tender-hearted Americans who aren't exactly satisfied that their
nation used the atom bomb to kill many thousands of Japanese women
and children months after Japan had offered to surrender on terms
little better than have finally been agreed upon 49,.
May be helped by reading the stories about Jap atrocities that are
now being published under screaming first-page headlines.
Try it, human beings. What do you think those stories are for?-
Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-26

It Is better to have q lion at tho
head of an army Of sheep, than o
sheep at the head Of an army OF
Gons.-DeFoe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Concessions Given ItoIy

Rome, Feb. 26. (UP)-Italy was well on the way toward self-goVern- mcnt today as result of four major concessions by the Allied Control Commission,
 The concessions were:
 l. Italy hencelorth may appoint and receive ambassadors deal direct ly with her own amgaSSadors abroad and use her own secret commmuni- cations. The Allied Commission asked to be informed of any lm- portant negotiations in which Italy may engage With foreign coun- tries.
 2. Italy may issue decrees and laws without further submission to the Allied Commission.
 3. All appointments from cabinet members to minor functionarleS may be made without approval or the commission with the exception of 10 military posts, including the' air and navy portfolios in the gov ernment.
 4. Large numbers of regional of- ficers which the Allied commission had stationed throughout liberated Italy will be withdrawn.
 Harold MacMillan, acting presi- dent of the Allied commission, an- noulnced the concessions at press conference yesterday. He described them as mot the final, but the penaultimate stage "of Italys return to independence.
 They became effective immdlately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
U. 5. Patent Office
 Returns To Capital

The Strand Ski company of Rich mond, Wis, I might add, has be- come one of my favorite corpora tions. It makes skis, see. and it's also going to manufacture wooden bed springs, as invented by John H. Burr and Donald J. Driscoll of Richmond. These are tricky busi- neSses, functioning something like inner spring mattresses. So you buy pair of skis and unless you're an expert on same, you automati- cally become prospect for bed- stead.
 Another inventor want to meet is Lee B. Miller of West Bend, Wis, who has produced the worlds first safety-first billfold.
 It snaps inside the hip pocket and unless you know the secret-which I'll certainly not reveal-nobodtl steal 1t without also stealing the pants.
 Let us consider Allan O. Kelly of Carlsbad, Cal, who long pondered the problem of the seagoing afr plane carrier. The trouble with this kind of boat, usually. Is that 1t isn't big enough. Ask any naval aviator. The Kelly airplane carrier consists of three battleships, side by side and solidly bolted together This makes an airfield big enough for a B-29.
 And maybe you never thought of the waste space inside your hat. Say you're wearing derby. There $ about three inches of room between the top of your head and the top of your hat. John l.. Johnson of Pinehurst, Wash, makes use, for the first time in the history of the derby, of this space.
 His invention, patent number g. 369 829, provides for combined camera hat. Should be good for spies, detectives, and others who wear derbies.
 The shutter cable, in any event comes dWon by your right ear. Say you're looking at something you don't want to forget. You push the cable release, small trap door opens in the front of your hat, the shutter clicks, the door shuts and with luck you've got picture oi whatever 1t was that interested you
 I can report further that Ar thur E. Benson of Springfield, Mass. has patented reinforced rubber threads (where he gets the rubber I don't knoW) for shoes for Olympic runners. Horace H. Kent has in' vented the first tennis racket strung like a spider web, instead of like z waffle. Thomas A. Dolan 0 Chi. cago is the father of foot-poweret (your foot) foot massager.
 And Boris Belcher of Philadel phia turns out to be either fan O the Athletics or the Phillies. H. has invented a baseball, whicl Sprinkles salt or pepper.
 Patent office, I love you. I'm glat you're coming home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Late Realty
 Neus

The following real estate deeds have been filed at the office of Town Clerk Mary c. Kilmartin:
 Warranty Deeds
 A. & D. Inc. to Kenneth and Allen l.. Kennedy, land on Myrna avenue. Rose Azzara to Richard and Emily Pelletier, land on High street.
 Albert o. Taller to James F. and Mary P. Marti, land on Pierpont street.
 Philip Gaudiosi to James Gaudiosi property on Rhode Island avenue and Massachusetts avenue.
 Oakie 0. Johnson to Gerald J. Gagne and Margaret H. Gagne property on EdgeWood avenue.
 Alice r. Sullivan to Hector P Boulander, Jr., property on Merider road.
 Katherine Palladino 10 Emile Boisvert, land on Buckingham street.
 Alice F. Sullivan to Hector P Boulanger Jr., property on Merider road, and also an administrators deed, from Prank Clarlo, admins trator on the estate of Elice Conn to Mary Conn, property on GranbJ street.
 Mortgage Deeds
 Gerard J. Gagne and Margaret II Gagne to First Federal Savings ant Loan Association. Waterbury, prop erty on Edgewood avenue, $5 400
 Richard Pelletier and Emily Pel' letter to the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, property or High street, $4,50O.
 Richard Pelletier and Emily Pel' letter to Rose Az2ara, property or High street, $l,0O0
 Hector P. Boulanger. Jr., to tht First Federal Savings and Loan As sociation. property on Meriden road $7,00O.
 Hector P. Boulanger, dr. to Les ter E. Young. property on Twininl avenue, $700.
 Release of Mortgage
 The Citizens and Manufactures Bank of Waterbury to Ray Somma Louis Scigliano to Oakie c. John son.
 Waterbury Savings Bank to Gae tano Rinaldi
 Waterbury Savings Bank to An thony and Theresa Cllfone; Alice \ Sullivan to Lester E. Young.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Nozis Fearing Red ReprisoIs

Moscow, Feb. 6-(UP)-Fearful German civilians in towns occupied by the Red Army await what they believe will be a terrible fate.
 Two Pravda correspondents. Bo- ris Gorbatov and Oleg Kurganov told the story of the "crlngling Ger mans, dominated by the haunting fear that the Russians will exact retribution for German excesses.' V They protest, the correspondents said, that they had nothing to do with the Nazi party.
 The town of Landsberg was cited as a typical example. Townspeople walked about wearing white arm bands, which they hope will save them on some mysterious manner from reprisals.
 As the Russian soldiers pass them on the sidewalks, the Germans halt, bow low, and then lower their heads as If expecting to receive wallop.
 Whenever the Russians enter a house for inspection, housewives or the men lush forward to offer all sorts of unasked for and useless service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-26
Food Stamp Plan Set Up
BY RUTH GMEINER

Washington, Feb. 26-CUP)-The government is studying revolution ary food stamp program designed to assure three square meals day to the undernourished, 1t was learned today.
 In brief, the plan would assure any city family that 1t need not spend more than 40 per cent of its income for all the wholesome food considered necessary for an ade- quate diet.
 Described as a national invest ment in public health,' the plan was developed by the agriculture depart ment and would cost upwards of $750, 100000 year to operate. It is Stii, in tentative form, awaiting study by other federal agencies be- fore becoming an official proposal.
 The program has two basic pur- l poses: CD To raise the nutritional level of the national diet, the need for which has been shown by the fact that about 45 per cent of draft rejections are traceable to malnutri- ton; and CD to provide stable and expanding market for food products, thereby preventing accumulation of surpluses and collapse of farm prices
 The plan IS far broader in scope than the food stamp program in operation during the bleak depreS- sion years or the one contemplated in a bill now before the Senate.
 Here is how 1t would work:
 Once or twice year, the govern ment would determine the cost of a basic neutritional diet. In 1922, this
 amounted to about $170. This
 amount would be designated as the
 food allotment" for one person.
 Food coupons equal to the fam-
 ily's total food allotment would be sold to subscribers at a price equal
 to 40 per cent of the family income.
 The coupons would be used to buy { the family groceries at any public !. store.
 For example, in 1942, family of ; three with an income of $l,00C l would have been entitled to buy food coupons worth $5l0 at an ac- } tual cost of $400.
 The program IS aimed primarily
 but not exclusively, at families III the low-income group. Unlike the , old food stamp plan, which Waf , available only to relief families ol pensioners, no one would be barred r Since few families could afford tc
 pay for full years food budget al l one time, stamps would be bought on an installment plan. Families 5 would be required to commit them , selves to participation for stated l period, probably six months.
 With at least two-thirds of tho stamps a family could buy whatever food 1t chose. The rest, however 7 might be used only for foods on { restricted list. These would include
 surplus food items and, possibly f food believed necessary to rount
 out nutritional requirements.
 With an estimated 100000 cit! n subscribers, the program would cos the government about $75O,00O,Oo /. in a relatively prosperous year suci o as 1942. If extended to rural fam '. flies, 1t would rise to about $l 900,
 900, 1000. In depression years, l f would be higher.