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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07

machines will be restored within
the National Liberated Front. The
Fronts majority r non-Com-
munists but for the time being
qualified as informal democratic
groups, not as organized political
parties. Party differentiation on
an entirely new basis is bound to
develop within the National Libe-
ration Front after the war. The
National Liberation Front will APP
pear to electorate as one organiza-
ton and any differences of opin-
ion that arise will be settled in
meetings within the Front.
There is much propaganda in
Yugoslavia for heroic" Yugoslav
Communist Party which in 1941
alone is said to have lost 10000 of
its organized members on battle
fields but none for communist sys-
tenn or government or society. In
eight months l have not seen or
heard of a single slogan calling for
communism or found out about a
single attempt to collectiviZe a
private farm, shop or factory. Uni
form propaganda phrase is ''feder-
al, democratic Yugoslavia." Priv
ate property and initiative have
repeatedly been proclaimed to
stay under National Liberation
regime for chief National Liberia
ton fighter is highly individual
istic peasant. Only enterprises
owned by pre-war m~onarchical
state such as state monopolies of
tobacco, matches, petrol, salt,
some mines, etc, and property be
longing to convicted enemies of
the people may remain state-own-
ed under the National Liberation
government. Foreign capital is to
be let in again probably under
new religious contracts.
There is no evidence of anti
religuos propaganda in Yugosla-
via. Bearded Serbian Orthodox
priests have proved such a tonic
to Partisan fighting morale that
saying goes among the Serbs "Je-
dina brada kao brigada" i. e., "A
beard is worth a brigade Par
tisan attitude toward religion: Or
thodox, Catholic, Protestant, Mos
len or Jewish is that of separation
of church and state. Serbian Or
thodox Metropolitan Joseph in
Belgrad, fearing demotion by Par.
tisans, received courtesy visits by
high National Liberation Army
officers.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
HAVING A DIVIDEND
BIG TIME, AND HOW!

Cash dividends publicly report
ed in the U. S. during December,
1914, amounted to STA, 100, 900,
an increase of SO percent over the
$3.50, 10000 paid in December,
1943, according to the U. S. De
partment of Commerce.
For the calendar year, dividends
totaled 1855, SOC, 900, or 3.3 per-
cent above 1943 payments.
Among the major industrial
groups, gains we're largest in min
ing-3.4 percent. In manufacture
ing, the Automobile Division did
pretty we'll by itself with a per-
centage gain of 26.1 percent, while
oil refining was up IA percent.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
WHAT IF. D." SAID TO The TRANSFERS
Paid Glowing Tribute TO Workers Contribution
to Americas War Effort; Why He Changed Front?

About four months ago--to be exact, on the night of September
70, l944-Presdent Roosevelt opened his campaign for a fourth term.
ne chose, IS a proper forum for this momentous utterance, a dinner
arranged y Ieamsters Union at a Washington hotel The Chief x
ecuuve had many pleasant things to say about American workers. Here
are a few quotes:
When / addressed you four years ago, 1 said: L know that Amer
ica will never be disappointed in its expectation that labor will always
continue to do its share of the job we now face. and do it parioticallv
and effectively and unselGshly'
To-day We know that America has not been disappointed.
IN his order Of the day, when the Allied armies first landed in
Normandy, General Eisenhower said:
Our home fronts have given us overwhelming superiority in
weapons and munitions of war -
II know that there are those labor-baiters among the opposition
who, instead of calling attention to the achievements of labor in this
war, prefer the occasional strikes which have occured-strikes which
have been condemned by every responsible labor leader every ma
tonal leader except one, and that one labor leader, incidentally, is GER
taInly not among my supporters
"Labor-baters forget that at peak American labor and man
agement have turned out sirplanes at the rate of los, 600 per year:
tanks $1,000 per year; combat vessels, 53 per year; landing vessels,
$1,000 per year; cargo ships 100000 tons per year, and small arms
ammunition 23000.000O00 rounds per year.
But a strike is news and generally appears in shrieking headlines
and of course, they say labor is always to blame.
THE fact is that since Pearl Harbor only one-tenth of one pr
cent OF man-hours have beea lost by strikes"
Naturally that pleased the hundreds of trade unionits who at
IN every part OF the land. So pleased were they that on election day they
marched to the polls and voted for Roosevelt and Truman. They be-
ieved President Roosevelt meant every word he uttered at the Team
sters' dinner.
Now they are asking: What has happened to cause the President
to change front? Why is he now seeking to draft, for private profit,
the workers he eulogized on September 90? Why didn't he mention
he draft-labor idea at the Transfers dinner?"
LABOR can't answer those questions. But up to this minue the
President hasn't presented a single fact or figure which would justify
the uttrely un-American proposal he is pressing on Congress--Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07

Mihailovich mystery could be
unraveled only upon liberation
of Belgrade. There is now court
evidence that certain Mihailovich
commanders were in cahootS with
Germans and for instance main
tanned headquarters at Cafe Tako-
vo on Terezija Square in German
occupied Belgrade. There is also
court evidence that certain Mihail-
ovich people we're executed at Ba-
mica Camp near Belgrade. The
truth of the matter is that Mihail-
ovich followers in Serbia consist
ed of genuine collaboratorS and of
genuine patriots. Germans as we'll
as Nedich's special police knew
who was who and protected the
first while prosecuting the others.
When this reality became obvious
last November Marshal Tito pro-
claimed amnesty. Membership in
Mihailovich'S organization was not
a punishable act but only persons
guilty of direct collaboration with
the enemy, with Quislings or per-
sons responsible for common
crimes would be sentenced to
death or to forced labor. Belgrade
rumor = popularity called Radio
Aunt Mileva"-last October placed
the number of Belgrade people ar
rested by Partisans at $4,000.
Actually in the first four weeks
the Partisan authorities arrested
about 5000 people in Belgrade out
of a total population of 800 1000.
Of these los were shot, about 1000
were released and the remainder
were kept for further investiga-
ton or sentenced to forced labor.
The only organized political
party in liberated Yugoslavia is
the Communist Party. 1t was third
strongest in the only free Yugo-
slav elections of 1921. In that year
it was banned and since then it's
popular strength has never been
tested by legal means. Other seven
Yugoslav political parties, legiti-
mate before the war, have disin-
tegrated. While the illegal Com
munist Party from top to bottom
joined the National Liberation
Movement, leaders of every other
party split among themselves in
1941. Some went abroad, some
Joined Mihailovich, some entered
Partisan ranks, some approached
Quislings and some adopted pas
sivity toward the invaders. The
National Liberation Front led by
the Communist Party draws its
main strength from leaderless
/ voting masses of these seven old
political parties. 1t is unlikely
that old, rather Giscredited, party
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
A LESSON FROM SASKATCHEWAN

The territory of adult education, almost untred in this country, is
being boldly invaded by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation,
the party now in power in the Province of Saskatchewan. Watson
Thompson, director of the new program, says that the ambition gov
erning his work is to zee half a million adults in his province become
active and intelligent participants in the business of running their own
public affairs and reshaping their environment. Toward that end, and
in cooperation with other government agencies, the Department of
Education will provide both rural and urban areas with the materials
for study and action" District libraries will be set up for the dissent
nation Of public information. District centers will be built, with faci-
iteS FOR every phase of recreation and study, where the media of
film, radio, and press will be employed. Conferences and lecture-dis-
cussion classes under the guidance of experts will be held to solve the
immediate problems of the community and to view them in their broad
perspective. The entire project, a it is outlined in the departments
release, hat the imprint of real enthusiasm and purpose And those are
qualities which the education systems of our democratic nations badly
need. The lack of them has been responsible for a loss of human and
intellectual resources which, had they been properly exploited, might
have offered a solid wall of resistance to the fascist teaching of III
time. Had they been properly exploited, no army psychiatrist would
have found it necessary to say that the mental age of the American
soldier is somewhere between thirteen and fourteen-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
Scandal in the CoIIeqes

NOW that five Brooklyn College boys have admitted being paid
by gamblers to throw a basketball game, so that the gamblers could
make a killing, all the cover-up artists of amateur sport may be ex-
pected to explain that this is just a isolated case.
The fact is that collegiate athletics for many years has been in
ereasingly conmercialized if not professionalism, with heavy emphasis
on drawing enough gate receipts to pay off the stadium and fieldhouse
in metropolitan centers to draw large crowds-and incidentally en-
rching promoters-t was virtually certain that some youngster would
eventually be victimized by the money-hungry fxers and professional
sharps always hunting for a ure thing.
DR.. Forrest c. Allen of the University of Kansas weeks ago warned
that gambling and fixing of basketball games was taking place, but he
was shouted down by loud denialS- Maybe the presidents of colleges
and universities will now heed his counsel to set up some system to
protect the kids whose competitive skill and stamina bring in the
golden gate receipts-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
Just q Joekoss to Him

An eastern visitor to the wide
open spaces of the West was cap
tivated by that diminutive beast
of burden, the burro. He bought
one, ordered it shipped to his
country estate. The animal was
billed, Il Burro, Grated"
A freight clerk checking way
bills enroute, finally balanced his
record with the notation: '.Short:
l Bureau. Over: l Jackass."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
POOR GUEssERs

Members of Division 4 of the In
terstate Commerce Commission
were no better guessers on the end
of the war in Europe than a lot
of others. A year ago they specu-
lated that the fighting would be
over early in 1945 and set the eff
fective date of a Burlington
branch line abandonment accord
ingly. Last January they had to
extend the time.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
TEXTILE MACHINERY
NOT FOR LATIN
AMERICA

Latin America countries, des-
perately in need of machinery and
often eager to buy machines that
seem obsolete in the u. S. A, are
watching with considerable an
xiety reports in such papers as
The New York Times that textile
machinery manufacturers and fab
ric-makers are forming pools to
buy up all used machinery after
the war, SO that it will be iunked
at once and withheld from use by
foreign lands. (WP.)
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
OIL COMPANIES
DETRAUD UNCLE SAM
ON ROYALTIES

LOS ANGELES.-Federal Judge
Campbell Beaumont decreed that
a half dozen major oil companies
had defrauded Uncle Sam of more
than $1,500,000 in royalties on oil
taken from the Kettleman Hills re
serve.
Suit to recover was filed by the
Department of Justice in 1889 and
the trial which resulted in the
judgment lasted nine months.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
CLOTHING SHORTAGE
Is FACING MENFOLK

Clothing is only about half the
quantity available last year is the
outlook for the nations masculine
population. The wall Street Jour
nal" reports that a survey of man
ufacturers disclosed that enough
suits will be produced to keep the
home front clothed, though some
may get a little threadbare.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07

special police maintained liaison
with German authorities. Power
politics idea behind these relation
ships appears to have been that if
and when Anglo-Americans in
vaded Serbia Nedich would hand
his administration over to Michai-
lovich who then would place him
self at the disposal of the Anglo
American Command. When Nedich's
administration was destroyed by
the Partisans and the Russians,
Mihailovich's underground organ
ization fell apart. There is now
court evidence that Nedich's spe-
cial police in Belgrade arrested
Communists according to black
lists submitted either by Gestapo
or by M~ihailovich headquarters.
Villages in immediate vicinity of
city like Kumodraz and others
were ruled by Chetnik authorities
who were accorded free travel to
and from German-ocupied Bel
grade. l possess eyewitness testi-
mony of high Chetnik officers that
on September 16. 1914, with the
Russian army already in Serbia,
Mihailovich had a meeting with
Herr Staerker, chief advisor to
Neubacher, Ribbentrop'c deputy
IN Pn1nrnIn IN tho yi11onn nf DO
dovinei near the town of Shabats,
West of Belgrade-and that one
week later the Germans supplied
Mihailovich headquarters with
$500 rifles. According to the Par
tisans, Mihailovich is a traitor and
an enemy of the people. Accord
ing to his disappointed followers
he is a fumbler and a Hamlet. In
any case he has hardly any organ
ization left.
Whatever opposition there is to
Marshal Tito in Serbia seems to
be di~sorganized and inactive. 1t is
composed partly of Pan-Serbian
followers of Mihailovich, Nedich
and Ljotich, partly of War-weary
people to whom the Partisans' to-
tai mobilization against Germans
does not appeal and largely of
people who for three and a half
years under occupation had been
subjected to terrifying enemy and
Quisling propaganda about the
Red danger" A typical example
is Belgrade. Upon liberation last
October the city was perhaps 800
anti-Partisan. For a week civilians
did not dare to show up on the
streets. Then markets; then shops
opened; gradually fur-coated wo-
men came out and in spite of ru-
morS of mass executions, the
dreaded Partisans appeared not to
be such Red cut-throats after all.
After two months opposition dwin-
died down to perhaps 500. If Par
tisans continue their present policy
of mo reprisals except against
proved ''fascists", they may win
support of majority of Belgrade
population. Even when Belgrade
was perhaps 300 anti-Partisan
weakness of opposition was strik-
ing. There was no attempt at mass
demonstrations against Tito, no
attempts at signing collective
letter of protest, not a single wall
inscription: Down with Tito. This
is important evidence about a city
VIGOROUSLY rebellious.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION


day Morning Club of Los Angeles
on January IL. This is from the
account in the Los Angeles Daily
News: DIR. Durant reminded the
clubites of the Neville Chamber
lain Hitler conferences of a few
years ago. He said he believed that
Hitler had asked for a promise
that Britain would not interfere If
Germany Warred on Russia. He
added that he believed Chamber
lain gave that promise. Chamber
lain probably thought such a var
with Russia would last two years.
said DIR. Durant. He may have en-
visioned in that period the tho
rough arming of Britain, the Unit
ed States, and France -. Insuffi-
GENTLY informed public opinion,
DR.. Durant suggested, prevented
Chamberlain from carrying out
his plan, and disaster followed"
Noel F. Busch, senior editor of
Life, makes this observation in
his book, my Unconsidered Judg-
ment": Eden has been criticized
for not resigning long before he
did, over the Hoare-Laval pact
which enabled Italy to gobble
Abyssinia. Most of this criticism
comes from leftists, who, in adj
dition to knowing nothing about
anything else, have never heard a
gun go off," "Unconsidered, O.
X" say Jay Allen, 'but where
does the judgment come in?"
Twain Nicholson, a municipal
judge of San Francisco, in pro.
nouncing sentence on the manager
of a burlesque theater and three
of his actors for presenting an in.
decent performance, held up Sally
Rand as an ideal for them to shoor
at. Il remember Sally Rand" he
said, who was as naked with hel
balloon or fan as any performer
ever saw, and in my opinion shs
did a very beautiful dance. Fur
thermore, Miss Rand is a college
graduate and a very highly cultur
ed woman"
An advertisement for Cosmo
politan currently appearing in the
business press is illustrated will
a picture of a young girl with {
bemused expression. Edna Fer
Der has inspired her mind" it say.
land now, Campbell, you whip w
her appetite for soup. You know
her type. She's as young and eager
and alert as she looks. She's i'm
pulsive. She's emotional. RICH
now, she's under the magic influ
ence of a story by Edna Ferber
one of the many famous author.
who write regularly for Cosmopo
Titan. Great writing makes grea
reading! And great reading stir,
the impulses. Great reading warm.
the heart, 1t increases a girls ap
petite for the pleasant life. l
makes her the good friend of al
around her. So now, Campbell
Soup, now that she's reading Cos
mopolitan's great fiction, the stage
is set for your famous advertise
ments! This is the moment to pu
ideas in her head! Emotion
makes war. Emotion makes mar
riages. Emotion makes sales" w
are sure Miss Ferber is an limo
cent victim of this exploitation
She has our sympathy.
Festung Europa: The new Ger
man troops in Denmark are s.
young that the Danes suspect the,
are part of a Nazi campaign t,
arouse pity. They call them pit,
traps"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07

After eight months spent in
Bosnia, Dalmatia, Serbia and Bel
grade / feel I can sum up the stu
alton in Yugoslavia as follows:
Fact of paramount Importance
is that Partisans have been able
to establish stable orderly govern
ment which does not have to en-
gage in civil war but is devoting
itself to total mobilization and
prosecution of war. This fact is
due not only to Marshal Tito's for
midable military poWer-he now
has an army of 500, 000-but also
to the firm political discipline Of
the National Liberation Front and
to large support it enjoys through
out country. 1t is my considered
opinion that National Liberation
would obtain at this moment at
least 70% of Yugoslav popular
vote in free elections supervised
by AIN in~ter-allied commission. I'M
portant point here is that Marshal
Tito is likely to get majority from
every one of five Yugoslav ma,
tionalities: Serbs, Montenegrins,
Macedonians, Croats and Slovenes.
Since Tito is a Croat and Mihail-
ovich a Serb, the latter has long
appeared as legitimate represent
alive of Serbdom. But even be-
fore the liberation of Serbia Tito
had about SIX times Tor Serbs
under arms than Mihailovich had.
In free elections Serbs outside
Serbia proper, about 4,000,0 600,
would almost certainly give an
overpowering majority to Tito
while even in Serbia proper about
2,500,0 900 National Liberation
Front would very probably poll
more than 500 of vote. Tito has
more backing in villages than in
cities, but then Yugoslavia is 800
peasant country.
Unexpected Partisan Russian adj
vance in Serbia last autumn seems
to have caught Mihailovich by
surprise. In October he fled with a
small detachment to Bosnia and
then to northern Dalmatia, not
Italy as reported, leaving confu-
sion among his units in Serbia.
Some of his commanders in
Serbia, KeSerovich, Kalabich, etc,
continued to fight the Partisans
and even the Russians. Others,
such as Piletich and Stankovich,
surrendered to the Russians to
avoid being captured by Partisans.
Yet another fraction of Mihailo-
vich's units roamed Serbian
forests not knowing whom to
fight. Still another fraction dis
banded and filtered back to their
homes. / have met Mihailovich of
ficers who last August and Sep
TENDER reported to fight Germans
and return clandestinely to Bel
grad weeping while Wehrmacht
was retreating from Serbia they
had been sent to fight Partisans.
At no time has any Mihailo.
vich unit been reported attacking
German positions in battle for LIB
Grafton of Serbia. Certain evi.
dence from Belgrade now show:
that M%ihailovich's underground
organization in Serbia leaned
heavily OH Quisling Nedich's adj
ministration.
This III turn through its
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
OVER 20 MILLION
TELEPHONES IN u. S.

Telephones in the U. S. now
number 26.5 millions. In all the
rest of the world there are only
81 millions. We have installed 8
million phones since Pearl Harbor
and now are using 97.4 million
miles of telephone wire.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07

He who knows the world will
not be bashful; he who knows him
self will not be impudent.- C.
Simmons.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-02-07
STOJAN PRIBICEVICH ON YUGOSLAVIA

"New Statesman and Nation" UondOn) of January 81 published
under title Truth About YugOslavia" long article by StOjan Pribice-
vGh relating his information about situation in Yugoslavia from his
last journey there. In this article he writes, among other things:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15
Czech Puppet Heads Token

London, May 15-(UP)-Dr. Emil Hacha, former president of Czecho- slovakia who turned over his coun- try to Hitler in 1899, was under ar- rest today according to Prague radio report.
 Arrested along with him wzre many members of the Czech puppet regime known as the Protectorate of Bohemia -Moravia They all were accused of collaboration with the enemy"
 Hacha was elected president of Czechoslovakia in 1888 to succeed Eduard Benes. The following year Hitler summoned Hacha to Berch- tescgaden where he agreed to Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
 Others arrested, according to the Prague broadcast, included Dr. Jar oslav Krejci, former premier; Rich ard Bienert, minister of informa- tion: Dr. Jindrich Kamenicky, min- ister of transportation: pr. Josef Kalfus, minister of finance; and Adolf Hruby. minister of agricul- ture.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-15

Carnations banked the altar, and the shrine of the Blessed Virgin and carnations and spring flowers were used in the sanctuary of St.. Johns church Sunday afternoon where the reception of new mem- bers into the Children of Mary so- dality and the ceremony of crown ing the statue of the Blessed Vtr- gin took place.
 The senior members of the sodal- ity, wearing dresses in pastel shades were seated in their places, when the ceremony opened with the pro- cession of junior members, the May queen and her attendants and the new members, singing "On This Day, o Beautiful Mother. as they marched. The junior members of the sodality also wearing dresses in pastel shades, led the procession, and as the first couple reached the head of the aisle, the girls turned to flank the aisle, and form a guard of honor through which the May queen and her attendants, and the new members passed.
 Miss Cecelia Hondura, president of the junior branch of the sodal- tty who served as May queen, wore a floor length gown of white and a white net veil. She was attended by two maids of honor, Miss Doris La Belle, who wore a gown of blue, and Miss Harriet Poudrier, whose gown was pink. They wore wreaths Of white flowers in their hair and car ried nosegays of pink and white carnations, which they later placed at the foot of the statue of Our Blessed Mother. Paula Johnson and Joan Nestor served as train bearers for the May queen and Irene Pic ard was crown-bearer. All three attendants wore white frocks and white flower wreaths. The new members, wearing white dresses and hats formed the rear of the pro- cession.
 After the girls had taken their places the May queen approached the altar and placed the crown upon