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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20

freedom and justice and peace.
And already the guns of our ally,
France, have been fired against
a weaker member of the family of
nations. Is the greed of empire
to defeat the ideals for which the
common man answered the call to
arms?
Our new president has asked
for a revision Of unemployment
benefits, Before we cheer, let US
ask ourselves: Why should there
be unemployment in peace when
there was work for all in war;"
Are we going to exact uncondi-
tiOnal surrender from foreign
enemies only to surrender uncon-
ditionally at home to the pro-
position that producers can be
busy, prosperous and safe only
when a few who own and dom
mate can find profit in human ex-
ploitation?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
SLOVENE INDUSTRlALISTS
PLEDGE THEIR SUPPORT
TO GOVERNMENT

Washington. - Delegates of the
Slovene Industrialists' Federation
recently called upon Andrija Heb
rang, minister of industry in the
Jugoslav coalition cabinet who,
together with Franc Leskovsek,
minister Of industry of the Slovene
government, received the delega-
ton in Belgrade, the Jugoslav
home service radio said in a broad
cast recorded for TWO by FEC
monitors.
The spokesman of Slovene in
dustrialists, DR.. Vrhun, managing
director of the Trbovlje mine, ex-
pressed the readiness of the Slo-
vene Industrialists' Association to
place itself at the disposal of the
Slovene national government in
the economic reconstruction of the
country.
According to the broadcast, DR..
Vrhun declared: we know full
we'll what our industrial produc-
ton means to the reconstruction Of
the country, to the reorganization
Of its finances, and to the, most eff
fective exchange of goods with the
other confederate units Of the new
democratic Jugoslavia. BY the
same token, we are conscious Of
the Importance of an equitable 81
tuation of the social, and parti
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
BRITISH ACTION IN SYRIA
IS a PERILOUS HYPOCRISY

nobility begins to look like a trick
in gang warfare.
The central fact of the Middle
Eastern picture is that Great Brit
ain has interviewed by superior
armed force to prevent an ally
from doing precisely what Britain
does every day.
Forget the lamentable spectacle
of doWntrodden India. Consider
only independent countries like
Syria and Lebanon. Great Britain
maintains similar unavowed pro
tectorates over independent Iraq
and independent Egypt. British
troops drove the legal prime minis
ter of Iraq out of his country
British tanks surrounded the pal
ace of the King of Egypt and forced
the neutral sovereign to maintain
in office a prime minister whom
the King wished to rid himself of.
British troops remain in Egypt and
Iraq. 1t turned out that there were
more British troops in Syria and
Lebanon than French. British
troops invaded Allied Greece,
shot down thousands of people.
Against such a background
British nobility in Saving" the
Syrians and LebaneSe appears as
an act of odorous hypocrisy. Until
MI. Churchill is prepaid to give
up his own protectorates, he had
best spare the pro~tectorates of
others.
! Politically, Churchill's action
was a grave error. The time is ear
when the British and the French
will need each others support. I'm
perialists will have to stick together
to uphold their empires. British
policy in the Mediterranean is
preparing a whole series of revo-
lutions from which not Britain but
another big country will be the
sole beneficiary. Is this what Mr..
Churchill wants? Yet he must
know that victorious Britain's hui
initiation of convalescent France
is something few Frenchmen will
pardon.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
BUSINESS CAN'T COMPLAIN

American corporations have rolled up tremendous profits and re-
serves during wartime while they continue to insist that the wage
freeze remain.
Fortune revealed IL its April issue that American corporations
arc in good shape. They have nearly twice as much working capital,
more than twice as much cash, and more than eight times as many
government securities as they had in 1889. They have paid over 81
billion in debt and have So billion coming to them in tax refunds"
Bank Profits Soar to Record Heights; Net Earnings in 1914 of All
Insured Commercial Units S75OOO,OOo. Up 1872" was the headline in
the N Y Times MAY 10).
Profits Have Been Good Gwen After High Taxes, Dividends
Have Been Low; and U. s. Business Has.the Biggest Bank Account in
History a subhead in Fortune declared. The magazine found that "The
managers basic wartime advantage, of course, is the colossal volume
ne has enjoyed. In the great year of 1929, gross receipts of all U S
corporations were $3.50 billion; ten years later they we're only 1892
billion But in l941 they were $50 billion and in the past three years
hey ranged upwards of $3.50 billion"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
LABOR'S SHARE CUT

Before tn "a the average American worker produced twice as
much as the worker in Britain, USSR, Germany and Japan. and pro-
ducuOn per man hour ranged from twice to four times as much. &C.
cording to a WPB survey.
Since the war, despite the great increases in all the other warning
Countries, American labors productivity has still retained it's lead.
The WPB says.
The freezing of U S. wage rates during the "a means that labors
snare OF what 1T produces has been most sharply cut.
AS Philip Murray points out, at least 1919 of the 200 increase in
wage ratesa asked by CIO is necessary to restore even the prc-war rea
lonSmp between wages and productivity The CO News
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
JUGOSLAVS GET IS o
TONS OF SUPPLIES
UNRRA

Observation-Disclosures supplies for
Jugoslavia delivered up to May Is
reached $4,000 tons in food, tex
tiles, footwear and technical mat
erial needs for reconstruction, anC
were delivered in 80 Allied ships.
BIC revealed in a recent broadcast
recorded for the Office of War In
formation by FEC monitors.
THE Belgrade press paid tribute
to the work of the Allied Military
.liaison officers and UNRRA of
ficials for the understanding ano
good will of the British and Amer
leans toward Jugoslavia's needs,
the broadcast said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
AT w ORK
BY RAYMOND HOFSES, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

Since | last wrote this column
there have been some important
events. CLOSETS to the lives of the
working people of America is the
fact that the war in Europe has
been ended and the jobs Of mil
lions of Americans are being men
accd by d partial peace.
Physically and spiritually I'm
tccllng better. The treatment l
received in the hospital was sue
cesSful because it was radical: sur
9eons don't treat symptoms; they
remove causes. Some day the PEG
pie of all nations will apply the
knife of class solidarity to the sys-
tenn of class exploitation and re
move the roots Of poverty, ignor-
ance, selfiShnesS and war. Then
mankind will be stronger and hap
pier.
Although war still calls for sac
Tlflce and waste on the Eastern
front, workers are wondering how
long their jobs will last, and the
h~l8h-ranking eXploiters of labor,
their literary propagandists and
their political servants, are busy
ing themselves with arguments
and plans for the continuation of
d predatory economy and a class
society that has already produced
depression, fascism and two bloody
wars IN a generation and that can
be extended beyond this war only
at a further cost of freedom and
blood.
Within recent weeks events have
justified doubts and fears in the
minds of men.
America and her allies have
crushed Nazi organized military
might. And already the policy
makers of our nation are demand
ing that we ape the evil we have
fought by m~ilitarizing our youth
foreVermore. Did we really win g
wan or have we merely demon
Strated once again Napoleon's
theory that God is on the side OF
the heaviest artillery"
American blood was shed fol
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

University, Waco, Texas thus adj
dressed the graduating class at
commencement exercises May 20,
IS quoted in the Houston Chro-
nicle: Baylor University has been
/ narroW-mindcd institution for
90 years, and as long as I'm con-
1ccted with Baylor it will remain
narroW-minded institution E.
[ want to assure the trustees =.
hat Baylor is stepping into it's
.econd century with no ism i.
f anything is a threat today, it's
broad-mindedness."
LaWrenc G. Salter has resigned
as director of public relations for
the American Medical Association
and organized his own public-re-
atoms firm. One of his partners
is William Fishbein, brother of
d.. Morris Fishbein, editor of the
Journal of the American Medical
Association.
Dr.. Robert F. Galbraith, presi-
dent Of Westminster College, New
Wilmington, Pennsylvania, offered
his advice to students now in the
armed forces, in the May 18 issue
of the Holcad, student newspaper:
We will continue to register
sweet, beautiful young women and
decent, g~entlemanly men But they
will not look the same to you when
you orn again. You have truly
grown up since you walked the
paths at Westminster. You have
experienced much. Students will
have experienced nothing beyond
the little routine of college life
So when you come again
won't you come understanding the
difference you will find? After
all, isn't it better to have our girls
sweet and fine and not even aware
what life can be like? l feel it is"
Put your mind at rest. This is
the economic future forecast by
the United States News of June |;
Worry about economic problems
can be postponed beyond this
term, even beyond the next White
House term. There may be only
a few big problems. Cotton will be
one. We tell you of that on page
10. Another will relate to social
security and unemployment. Plans
in that field are explained on
page IS"
In reply to a protest by the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, the pub
fishers of "Roget's Thesaurus'
have agreed to ''clean up" the lists
of synonyms for the words Neg
70" and Jew"
Roger Babson offers this contri-
button to economic thought in a
statement issued by the National
Research Bureau: "Unemploy-
mcnt is a spiritual and educational
problem rather than an economic.
Congress cannot prevent unem-
plOyment. The churches and school
committees Of each community will
determine the unemployment 81
tuation."
Montgomery Ward shareholders
have no cause to complain about
army management. In the first
quarter of this year the mail-order
house made profits of 81, 767 1855
after taxes, compared with
$3,430,324 in the first quarter of
1914 -85 cents per common share
against SO cents.
Legislative Memo: The United
States Chamber of Commerce has
suggested to the Joint Committee
on Internal Revenue, now consid-
ering revision of corporate taxes,
that the excess-profits tax be eli
minated after December 81, 1945.
Should the end of the war with
Japan not be in sight at that time"
says the Chambers May 81 bull
letin, Congress could continue
this levy by simple resolution, if
the need for continuation could
be proved"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20

Add vital statistics: 5000, 900
boys and girls-one third of the
nations population between the
ages of IA and 17-noW are hold
ing down jobs of one sort or an
other, the Department of Labor
reports. Half of the employed
youths are working full time.
Some 25O,O 900 have left school.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-06-20
1T CAN'T BE DONE

He diddle, diddle, the cat and
the fiddle,
He called the sergeant a COON.
The M. P.'s laughed to see such
a sport -
Court-martial: T o &c at
noon.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Spies
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. All eight
were captured and six were later
executed.
Mr.. Hoover said Attorney General
Biddle would decide what charges
would be placed against Colepaugh
and Gimpel.
Bought Expensive Clothes.
The FBI director said the two
agents, after landing, went to
Bangor, Me, and stopped briefly in
Boston before coming to New York
where they went to separate hotels,
bought expensive clothes and made
purchases to construct a Short
wave radio transmitter to COM
municate with Germany.
Colepaugh, who once attended
Massachusetts, Institute of Tech
nology, also served in the United
States Navy until discharged in 1942
for the convenience of the Govern
ment."
He went abroad as a mess boy on
the Swedish exchange ship Grips
holm, leaving the ship at Lisbon
where he offered his services to the
Nazis, Mr.. Hoover said. He was en-
rolled in the Elite Guard sent to
school in Berlin, The Hague and
Dresden.
Gimpel was arrested in Lima
Peru, while working for a German
radio firm and was interned in
Texas until repartiated to Germany
where he continued radio work un-
til joining the Elite Guard for train
ing similar to Colepaugh's.
Trip Took "a Days.
Mr.. Hoover said the two mer
sailed from Kiel, Germany. in U.
boat 1890 September 26. The trir
across the Atlantic took 81 days, he
added, as the submarine submerged
in daylight hours and surfaced only
at night.
The FBI chief said he was certain
no other agents landed with Cole
paugh and Gimpel.
Mr.. Hoover said one of the pur-
poses of the men was to frequent
taverns where they might overhear
information for transmission to
Germany. He said Colepaugh made
no attempt to communicate with his
mother and sister who live in New
York CITY.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
.BWho Bought Homes
Before GI Bill Came
In Use Hit Interest Rate

More than Is veterans in this area
who bought homes between June
and October have complained to the
Veterans Administration because
they have been cut out of their
principal benefit under the GI Bill
Of Rights-the low interest rate.
The veterans bought the homes
after the bill was passed, thinking
they could reflnance them at 4 per
cent, which is maximum for loans
guaranteed in part by the Veterans
Administration.
They are being told, however, that
the bill does not permit guarantees
to veterans who purchased homes
before they applied for the guaranty
They could not have made applica-
ton before October when the regu-
lations were issued.
One Veterans Administration Of
fcial said the difficulty had arisen
in conflicting languages in the bill
One section gives the impression, it
was explained, that the home is to
be bought in the future. Another
section indicates that the sale could
have been made before the veteran
applied for the loan.
Meanwhile, number of veterans
have charged discrimination be-
cause of the regulations, Veterans
Administration official admitted. In
letters and telephone calls, the vet
Grams point out that chances to buy
home are limited and that If they
wait, they will lose the home they
pick out.
One veteran said he bought q
home for 5000 at 51a per cent in
terets, thinking the CT bill covered
his case and that he would be able
to reflnance at 4 per cent when the
application forms became available
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Jap-HeId Island Af|ame
Due 10 Active Volcano
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAIPAN, MARIANAS ISLANDS
Dec. 80 (Delayed)-(Via Navy radio
American airmen flying the sky
trails to Tokyo reported today thai
tiny Japanese-held Alamagan Is.
land in the northern Marianas wa.
af1ame, apparently from the erup.
ton of Its very active volcano.
Flyers returning from previous
missions have reported smoke is
suing from Alamagan's 2,441-foot
cone. Today was the first time
they saw fires flaming over wide
areas of the little island.
Alamagan, ITO miles north OF Sal.
pan, is only 40 miles south Of
Pagan, strongest Japanese point
remaining in the Marianas. Ths
islet is 4 miles long and 2 wide
Only about dozen Japanese ane
SO natives are believed to live or
Alamagan.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
1945 Farm Census
To Start Next Week
BY the Associated Press.


The Nations 100000 farm op-
orators can get their answers
ready. The Census Bureaus 1945
census of agriculture will start Janu-
ary 8. This event takes place every
five years.
About $4,000 full time enumera-
tors have been trained for the two
month task.
Only farm operators will be in
terviewed-not their employees.
Every farm operator will be asked
about his production in the 1914
crop year and his inventory as of
January 1, 1915.
He will be asked the location of
the farm acreage, how many live on
1t. how many houses they live in
and what facilities the houses have,
the value of the lands, buildings and
machinery and the amount of mort
gage debt.
Operators will be requested to give
the number of workers, paid and un-
paid: amount of work done by the
operator and his family; total cash
outlay for labor throughout the year
and the number of days on which
the farm operator may have worked
off the farm for pay or profit.
In addition, certain number of
operators, on a sample basis, will be
questioned on many other subjects,
such as fertilizer and feed purchases,
livestock, amount of timber cut and
motor vehicles.
The census will begin in the face
Of the fact Congress has not yet ap-
propriated s5,50O,000 needed to tabu-
late and publish the results.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Bomber Crash Kills Infant, (,
Pilot, Wrecks Five Houses
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONG BEACH, Calf. Jan. "A
seven-month-old baby was burned
to death and Douglas Aircraft Co.
test pilot was killed when an attack
bomber crashed yesterday and
wrecked five houses in North Long
Beach.
The baby, Mary Warner, was
fatally burned when the plane
Isheared the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Warner, of
its foundation. Ronald F. Bollinger,
"a, chief test pilot for the Douglas
Co.'S Long Beach plant, was killed
when the plane sped down in flames.
The bomber virtually demolished
one house, tore sections from three
others and a fifth house was burned
by flames which destroyed the plane.
Another child of the Warmers,
Gary, 3, was seriously burned and
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner were less seri-
ously injured. Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Lee Propes, who lived in one OF
the houses hit, suffered minor in
juries.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
6 Of Al Wreck Dead
Unidentified; Autopsy
Planned on Engineer
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OGDEN, Utah, Jan. 2-Slowly
the task of identifying dead from
1944s worst railroad accident
dragged into the new year today
with bodies of six Unidentified civil
ians-four men and two women
lying in mortuaries here. Names of
II military personnel-mostly Navy
men-have not been announced.
They were part of the % military
and 10 civilians killed when the
westbound Southern Pacific Limited
mail and express train drilled at
high speed Sunday morning into the
rear of its first section, a passenger
unit, on the rock causeway crossing
a shallow arm of Great Salt Lake.
Many in Hospitals.
Eighty-one were injured. Many
Of these still are in hospitals at San
Francisco, Oakland and Auburn,
Calf, and Reno and Elko, New.
Others are at Dee Hospital here
and the Army's Bushnell Hospital
at Brigham, Utah.
Railroad officials said the locomo-
tive would be separated today from
the tail-end sleeper into which it
bored and search would be made
of the sleeper's portion for addi-
tional dead. The forward part of
the sleeper already has been
searched thoroughly, they said.
Many of the dead came from this
Car.
Meanwhile, plans were made for
an autopsy on the body of Engineer
James Mcdonald, "a, of Ogden, who
was found in the cab of his locomo-
tive. Army, railroad and family
physicians were expected to conduct
the autopsy joinGly.
Fireman Escapes Death.
His fireman, M. E. Hardman OF
Ogden, escaped with minor injuries.
One report said Mr.. Hardman OBJ
served a warning signal and shouted
a warning to the engineer.
Weber County Attorney Blaine
Peterson said his Office would re-
quest an inquest probably within
two days.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission also has ordered an investi-
cation.
Six members OF one family were
wiped out. Joint funeral services
will be conducted here Thursday.
They were Roy Porter, Southern Pa
ciflc brakeman; his wife Margaret
and their two daughters, Mary and
Peggy, all of Sparks, New: Mrs. Por-
ter's sister, Mrs. Delpha Francis and
her husband, John Robert Francis,
both of Carlin, New.
Evening star., 1945-01-02
British Paper Calls
For Challenging Of
American Critics
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Jan. 2.--The Yorkshire
Post said today that since the re-
cent "plain speaking" by the liberal
London magazine Economist (Which
called for ian end to the policy OF
appeasement" toward the United
states. lone or two influential
Americans have begun the search
ing Of hearts.
1--WE are thankful our difiiculties
have been put to the American pub
lie squarely," the conservative Post
said editorially Of the Economist
article that hit at what 1t called
"the recent most violent and sus-
tanned criticism and abuse" OF Brit
ain In the United States.
The Post said: "The time has
come for plain speaking, If behind
1t lies clear and honest thinking.
Many Americans are saying griev-
ously unfair things about Britain
and her part in the war. An effort
must be made to show them how
wrong they are"
Saying the British people almost
unanimously kept quiet about any
grievance about America in a belief
that the sense of fairness on the
other side of the Atlantic would cor
rect the situation, the Post added:
1--WE often have been deeply
troubled by the American failure to
acknowledge our needs and rights
and by the bland American sugges-
tions that we give up parts of the
Empire, such as bases the United
States would like.
But there is point at which in
dignation can and should no longer
be silent. That point has been
reached by this country"
Evening star., 1945-01-02
Army Hospitals in Europe
Face Nurse Shortage
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, Jan. 2.-Unless thousands
of civilian nurses back home volun-
teer for service, Army hospitals In
the European theater will be 1900
short of minimum requirements N
nursing personnel by April because
of increased casualties, 1t. Col. Ida
Danielson, the theater's chief nurse,
said yesterday.
The shortage will hit the hospitals
despite the fact that half of all the
Army's nurses already are serving
In this area and have the assistance
of some French nurses, Col. Daniel
son said, adding that station and
general hospitals would be forced to
cut their staffs 10 or Is per cent be-
low current minimuns.
Col. Danielson reported that in
September the European theater
had about 10000 casualties weekly
and that more soldiers were evacu-
ated to the United States in that
month than in the entire preceding
period since Pearl Harbor. She said
hospital units scheduled for activa-
ton in the spring were called in
October, November and December
making necessary a recruiting drive
for 10000 additional volunteers for
the Nursing Corps
Evening star., 1945-01-02
B-H Raids Clear
Radio Lanes 10 Japan
By the Associated Press,


Super Fortress blows against
Japan achieve a double result. They
not only infiict damage to the Japa-
nese war machine, but clear the air
lanes for American broadcasts to
the Japanese people.
This was disclosed today by owl
Director Elmer Davis, who reported
swift enemy reaction to two radio
stations in the Central Pacific. Ef-
forts to Jam" the stations were
made within 80 minutes after they
began broadcasting.
Mr.. Davis said the tanning,
however, affected only medium
wave hgoadcast from Saipan. Short
wave station KRHO at Honolulu
carrying the same program, went
into Japan without interference.
1--WE, of course, expected thi.
normal enemy counter-activity, ane
we, of course. were prepared with
counter measures of our own to in
sure good flow OF news and educa-
ton into Japan" Mr.. Davis said.
There are also clear hours
whenever the B-29 bombers are
over Japan, for then the Japanese
stations leave the air. We may ex.
pect compound results from the 81.
multaneous rain Of bombs and the
fiow Of truth into Japan"
The two new stations, described
by Mr.. Davis as powerful psyche.
logical warfare weapons" begar
their broadcasts with statements b,
Undersecretary of State Joseph G
Grew, a former Ambassador to ia.
pan, and Fleet Admiral Chester w
NimitZ.