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Evening star., 1945-11-18

TONAWANDA, N. Y-POIICE SAVE STRANGLING BABY
eyearold Lndy Ann Tucker still looks little dazed after
the two policemen shown saved her from strangng salt
shaker top Patroman Arthur Butler holds top
the nails with which he removed it from throat
aided It. Edward Marohn. Lndy Ann held her grand
mother, Mrs. Fred Sprenger -AP Wirephoto.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
NO. 1894
OUR MEDDLlNG IN CHINA

The hypocrisy of Americas China policy has never been more
clearly revealed than in the recent series of official statements de-
signed to defend our Intervention in that country's internal struggle.
Secretary Patterson, for example, asserted that there was mo danger
the areas seized by American troops would be turned over to Chung
king forces and that if the Chinese Communists resisted, the Americans
would react with vigor and success" He defended the dispatch of
American marines to key points in North China OF the ground that they
were needed to disarm the Japanese, but Ambassador Hurley, who re
Gently resigned, contradicted this a day later by admitting that the
Americans were sent to prevent the Japanese from surrendering to the
Communists. Similarly, although the American embassy in Chung
king denied reports that the United States was planning to equip
seventy Chungking divisions or that a $4, OOoO 900 loan had been grant
cd for the purchase of American arms and ammunition, General Wede-
meyer, also in Chungking, admitted that this country was prepared
tc arm thirty-nne divisions. An independent dispatch from Running
states that 35 900 tons of American ammunition, guns, and equipment
had been handed over to the Kuomintang authorities under Lend
Lease, while another report told of the presentation of a large number
of American planes to Chang Kaishek, including enough transport
as if this evidence of Intervention were not sufficient, General Wede-
meyer declared that the possibility of increased military aid for the
Kuomintang a being discussed at a highest level, presumably in
Washington.
Meanwhile, the fut1ity of u course in China is daily becoming
more apparent. The Chungking forces are not going to be able to
take North China and Manchuria from the guerilla armies unless
indefensble; it would be dangerously provocative. One a imagine
the sort of reaction it would provoke in Moscow. Although Russia has
maintained strict neutrality toward the Kuomintang- Communist
struggle, it would be wrong to confuse neutrality with indifference,
particularly where Manchuria is concerned. The Sino-SoViet pact
showed that Stain was ready to meet the United States halfway in an
effort to bring about stability in China. But Ambassador Hurleys poll
ces have destroyed the basis of that understanding, imposing upon
foreign troops, both American and Russian, and the termination of arms
shipments to China are essential first steps toward establishing a new
internal balance in China and preventing the civil war from becoming
an international test of power. - The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
MARCH OF TIME

The results of the French elections have heightened the consterna-
tin already aroused in the frightened breasts of the diehard Free
Enterprises" by the overthrow of wartime Premier Winston Churchill
and the victory of the Labor party in Britain. Both in Britain and
France the ultimate goal of the new governments is Socialism. There
is some difference only in the precise methods to be used and in the
speed at which that goal shall be attained.
France and Britain are two of our allies in the war just concluded
Cor is it yet concluded). British particularly is the center of the
worlds largest empire and the very birthplace of free enterprise, which
is a term Of recent coinage, synonymous with Capitalism"
The fear and the alarm expressed by the Spokesman of free center
prise is therefore understandable. The cold, stark fact that the peoples
Of these two great nations have committed themselves to a program
perilously close to the already solidly established economic system of
Russia, the second largest nation in extent of territory, natural e.
sources and population, is something that cannot be lightly considered
from the view point of this so-called free enterprise. The possibilities
and cventuaitieS are certainly frightening; they are indeed, catas-
trophic. We may ad, too, for the adherents of uncontrolled free enter
prise that the eventuaHtes are inevitable.
Not only in Britain and France are the workers O n the march.
Titos victory in Jugoslavia is conclusive also and his National Front
programs elsewhere. 1t is the anne with minor variations in most of the
rest of Europe. The dawn of the EZRA of the common man" as or
own Henry Wallace has expressed it is at hand and time will not
turn Observation-Disclosures Voice.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
MISERY IN EUROPE

"Ihe resistance of Europe is
very low" wrote G. L. Sulzber-
ger in a dispatch from London to
the New York Times of Novem-
Der Is. Tuberculosis is rife. The
very young and the very old es-
pecially are beginning to die in
droVes as the autumn leaves fall"
Mr.. Sulzberger's article served as
an introduction to two pages of re-
ports providing details of living
conditions in all parts of Europe.
In only a few countries is it Dos
slble to say that the situation is
improving; in most of them people
face a winter of cold, malnutrition,
and a high incidence of disease. It
Will be a miracle if no epidemics
break out; if they do, they will be
hard to control. The Times survey,
a notable piece of newspaper enter
prise, added potent arguments to
those brought forward the next day
by President Truman in a message
to Congress requesting an addi-
tional appropriation of $780,
000, 900 for UNRRA. Present funds
available for relief work will be
exhausted by the end of the year.
the President pointed out, and with
the liberation of China UNRRA's
operations had to be vastly ex-
tended. But before Congress car
act on this request, it must ass Oh
the bill appropriating $3.50, OOO,-
600 in completion of the initial
American pledge to UNRRA, a
matter about which it has beer
pickering for weeks. In the House
the Republicans succeeded in at
taching a rider forbidding use O.
any of the funds in countries where
censorship hinders American cor.
respondents in writing about
UNRRA's activities. This name
e has been condemned by Sc
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
CIVIL LIBERTIES
ADVANCED BY ACLU

On November "a the American
Civil Liberties Union celebrated it's
twenty-fifth anniversary by hold
ing an all-day conference on the
question of the future of American
liberties, Founded in 1920, during
the worst spasms of the Palmer
raids, the ACLU has not only serv-
ed as a vigilant protector of civil
rights but has labored construct
lively for their expansion. Under
the leadership of Roger Baldwin,
the organization has taken a very
broad view of it's function. 1t has,
in fact, been criticized for it's de-
Tense of the rights of such fascistic
persons as Gerald l.. K. Smith.
as we'll as those of Communists,
Socialists, trade unionists and the
prosecuted minority groups. !
In the quarter-century battle for
World War III the ACLU has de-
lead in the fight against Mayor
Frank Hague's blackout on free
speech in Jersey City; it organized
the defense of Scopes in the fam
Gus Tennessee "monky trial. it
took a leading part in getting par
dons for Mooney and Billings. The
defense of prosecuted citizens of
japanese ancestry has been largely
in it's hands. And, finally, during
World War II the ALEU- has de-
Tended the conscientious DIRECTORS.
On the more constructive side
this organization has been active
in securing Supreme Court deci-
sions and legislative action which
have Widened and made secure the
rights of citizens. Due to it's activ-
ity the post office censorship over
literature sent through the mails
has had new limits set. The right
to distribute leaflets on the streets
has been widened and assured.
Participation of Negroes in prima-
ries and elections in the South has
been advanced. The results of all
these efforts are evident in the fact
that during the past 25 years there
has been a diminution of mob vi
o~lence, lynchings, raids on aliens
and denial of minority rights. No
organization in America is more
deserving of applause than the
ACLU.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
Lubor's Stake
In Industry

Unorganized labor is speechless,
without vote and without repre-
sentation. Only when labor is
organized can it become a~rticulate
and exercise its suffrage and full
fill its obligations. Only through
organization can labor's industrial
citizenship be established and only
through organization can the du-
ties of such citizenship be i'm
posed or labor.
There will be no industrial peace
in this country or anywhere else
until the nature Of labor's share in
industry is recognized and accom-
modated. Labor has a stake in in
dustry and one cannot a to it
hal the workings of industry or it's
income or profits are none of la
boris business. A workers Job is
his livelihood; it is the bread and
butter of his wife and children.
One cannot say to them that this is
none of their business. Everything
that affects their bread and butter
is their business. They are reason
ably and instinctively concerned
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
Slavery and Disaster

utacturers Association, to second the motion and sound the warning
that a law to guarantee a job for every American will result in nation
al calamity and the destruction of personal freedom. I
Perhaps there are many people who expect Socialists to disagree
with that man Donnely" Well, we do disagree-but with reserva-'
tons.
We are not at all sure that every worker can have both security
and freedom-within the limits of a class economy.
BY that we mean that if workers permit advocates and benefciaries
of the priVate-profit SYSTEM to give them security they must also per-
nit the givers to control their lives.
The only way in which workers al have security and freedom
is to get the security for themselves. When they do that they can
control themselves.
How can workers get economic security for themselves? The
answer is by using their united poWer-at the polls, so long as the
opportunity belongs to them-to abolish the capitalist economic system,
to make industry the socialy-oWned property of the people and to
produce wealth for use instead of for private profit
That is the Socialist program for security-and that program fits
with freedom.
Vice President Donnelly is thinking of the preservation of the
capitalist class economy. Therefore we can agree that he is sincere
in his predictions.
Donnely knows that social controls within a class society must kill
either class privilege # individual freedom.
Workers who want to be both secure and free better learn that
a better society is possible. That is the message of hope that Socialists
have been broadcasing. - Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05

The Grace Lines, in huge ads,
announce they're about to start a
big fleet of tourist ships to all
parts of the western hemisphere.
There's a bunch of CT tourists in
Europe and the Pacific who'd be
happy to make the tour. - John
Paine for Federated Press
The person that always say
just what he thinks at last gets just
what he deserves.
Reputation is a bubble which
man bursts when he tries to blow
it up for himself.|Carleton.
Mr.. Molotoff in his latest on AL
lied relations takes a firm but
friendly and conciliatory line.
The let's-fight-Russia element in
our midst will never forgive this
treachery. - Senator Soaper" in
the Cincinnati Times-Star.
China is apparently the first
country to recover from the effects.
of the war. After eight years of in
vasion, the Central Government
and the Communists have resumed
fighting just where they left off.
Howard Brubaker in The New
Yorker.
- Worry is interest paid on
trouble before it falls due.-Dean
Inge.
The gent who wakes up and
finds himself a success hasn't been
asleep.-Wilson Miner.
When Management explains it's
view, l think How sensible and
true!' When Labor makes its
answering plea, that also sounds
okay to me. Well, then, both crowds
of them being SO intelligent, why
in thunder don't they get together
and get to work before the coun-
try goes under?-The New York
Times Magazine.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05

with it. Recognize this interest &C
credit this concern and labor will
do everything in its power to pro-
mote the welfare of the industry
in which it has such a vital stake.
But blind, unthinking, atavistic
employers refuse to recognize la
boris right to participation in the
operation of industry. They want
to d~isfranchise and disinherit la
Dor, and then they complain why
there is SO little confidence in
them and such lack of cooperation
from labor.
And 81 labor and management
r brought together in conference
in Washington, and there is a great
hurrah about it in the land, for
the most prominent, the most
authoritative leaders of both labor
and management participate in the
conference. And then we are in
formed that the principle of col
lective bargaining has been fully
accepted by both sides. Whereupon
the conference proceeds to go into
a huddle about how to make the
principle stick; how to give it prac-
teal effect.
And l say that unless labor is
fully recognized, unless the union
-l~~
bargaining is put into genuine eff
feet, all these high sounding declar-
ations of principle and avowals of
affection are just so much hokum.
The conference itself will be a
farce and a hoax if it does not
come out forcefully and unequi-
vocally for the union shop.
Max Zaritsky.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
THIS SEEMS A FAIR
QUESTION

The "Wall Street Journal tells
us: american industry, the most
efficient in the world, is going to
be a lot more efficient.
New machines are being in
stalled. Some can do twice as
much as their predecessors. Com
panies are rearranging production
lines to make output smoother and
faster.
That's progress! But will the
Wall Street Journal" or some
other spokesman for capitalism,
kindly tell us how that kind of
efficiency can be maintained un-
less the workers are given more
money and a shorter work day?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
"Biq Business" Didn't Risk q Cent

Corporations made huge profits out of the war, but did not risk
a nickel to help Uncle Sam win. On the contrary, during the war years
corporations reduced their total plant and equipment investment by
So, 800 900 900.
That startling fact is revealed by a Federal Reserve Bulletin"
1t shows that, when the Japs hit Pearl Farbor in December, 1871.
all corporations in the United States, except banks and insurance COM
oanies, had $100; 800, O00, 900 invested in plant and equipment.
By March, 1915, when the al "a almost over, they had reduced
their investments to 500 700, 900 900.
during the war, but it was paid for by the government, the "Buletn'
explains. In other words, Uncle Sam took all the risks.
Now the war is over, but the country faces another great emer-
gency-peacetime unemployment. Will the corporations continue to
play safety first? Or will they invest billions of dollars in new
plants and equipment, and thus help provide jobs for millions of men?
Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
THE PUBLIC Deb LOAD

You owe $1,000. So does your wife and so does every one of your
kids It's the American individual citizens share of the national debt.
Who is it owed to? The late President RooseVelt-Who a up
most of it-said we owe it to ourselves, but he meant that some of
us owe it to some others of u.s.
You actually owe and will pay interest on the following amounts:
70 bankers S11O2; to insurance companies 1928. You owe to the gene
raj public that is to Tom, Dick and Harry, 1862, Tom and Dick
are guys who make more than $4,000 per year anyhow. Harry makes
less than $4,000 per year, s. you are Harry.
You and the other Harrys will pay on principal and interest
of the debt about five dollars for every dollar you Or any of the other
1arryS will receive. That's how we owe the national debt to our
selves"
You will pay it, too, make no mistake. Some you'll pay in with
neld income tax that you al see going out as you pay it out. The rest
will be paid by you in invisible" taXes-the pickpockets of govern
mental finance. United Mine Workers Journal.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
CHILDREN MAY SUE
"LOVE PIRATES"

We would like to give Federal
Judge Evan A. Evans of Chicago
a pat on the back. He has just
ruled that children whose home
is broken up by an outsider have
a right to sue for damages.
1t would appear that Wilfred
Daily of Oil City, Pa, had a nice
wife and four children. Every
thing was lovely until Mrs. Marian
hammers Parker, a wealthy heir
ess, came along.
She had a hubby" who was in
the navy, but she liked the looks
of Daily, and he liked the looks
of her fortune. So they marched
off together.
Mrs. Daily decided to permit
Wilfred to have his freedom, but
presented his girl friend with a
suit for alienation of affections.
She followed that up by filing a
suit for damages in the name of
her children. The lower court
threw it out on the ground that
there was no precedent" for such
a thing. Judge Evans and his asso-
ciates on the Circuit bench re-
instated the case, holding that,
precedent or no precedent, "love
pirates should pay for damage
lone. We think so, too.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
NOBLESSE DIDN'T OBLIGE

One can sympathize completely with the desire of Jack MacNi-
ders family to have him home after two years of honorable military
service in the Pacific. At Is, his education has been interrupted. But
there ae thousands of families, thousands of veterans, in exactly the
situation. Young MacNider enjoys the unique position of being
the son of a brigadier general who served under Gen. Macarthur.
When he is sent home by plane at the special order Of the latter; when
he receives his discharge by special order from Washington though
lacking the points required of other young men-then a body blow
has been struck, in behalf of privilege, at all the detectives of fairness
and justice for which the point system was devised.
Not many persons will blame the young man himself. Dut many
enlisted men are returning, a from all wars, with a healthy grippe
against officers. Special dispensations like the MacNider affair can
turn that grippe into al unhealthy one-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05

C~apitalism's chickens are again
coming home to roost - and they
are messing all over the place.
Moreover, the same voices which
have been raised in consistent de
Tense Of the system Of economic
indiVidualism, competition and
human exploitation now are wall
ing about the results of the game
they have insisted upon playing.
Having exalted the anti-Social
rules of unbridlcd Self-interest to
the status of a religion, the Wor-
shippers of Mammon are now view
ing with frightened eyes the hell
into which their cruel, selfish god
is leading them.
Listen to the plants of those
who still speak for private CAPT
talism as labor threatens. How
those apologists for capitalism
bleat because working people -
the people whose labor created all
the wealth there is and who own so
little of the fullness of their own
creation-are now seeking person
al and group advantages and Civ
ing no thought whatever to the
general welfare of society.
What did these apologists for
capitalism expect? Haven't they
been clarifying the go-gether
throughout the lifetime of all who
live today? Haven't they taught
their infants that financial succes
is the highest virtue? Haven't they
made the millionaire and the bill
llonaire peerless paragons for the
v~eneration and emulation of youth?
Yes, all down through the pres
ent generation Socialist have been
snubbed when they spoke of the
common welfare, ridiculed when
they advocated a distribution of
wealth on the basis of social serv-
ice, deride as "dreamers'' when
they urged the abolition of power
ty n prosecuted as dangerous
people when they unfurled a Grim
son banner to symbolic the red
blood that makes all men bro
theirs?
A writer. in one of the nations
leading magazines calls attention
to what he evidently views as a
lack of social revealed in
the automobile unions argument
for a 80 percent wage increase. He
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05

nator Vandenberg in terms which
we trust will shame his fellow
Republicans. Il am unable" he
said, to make mercy an arbitrary
hostage to the lifting of the iron
curtain at this tragic moment in
human history The iron cur
tain is in the control of govern
ments. 1t is the people in these
who die for want of bread"
The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05
WaiIine Of the Worshippers of Mommon
By RAYMOND HOFSES,
Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

says that if it be true that the COM
panies could raise wages and still
make profits without increasing
the prices of cars, then it is also
true that cars could be sold cheap
ers to everybody if wages are left
where they are.
That writer expects the auto
mobile workers to care about the
general public-With the profane
slogans of capitalism ringing in
their ears:
"A man has a right to all
he can get"
The law of supply and
demand"
IF he has the brains to get
the dough, give him credit"
Well, that's the code of CAPT.
talism, isn't it? That's what we
Socialists were told when we ar
gued against class injustice, wasn't
it. That's what workers have been
hearing all their lives, isn't it? So
what right has anybody to expect
that personal and group interest
should be discarded now or that So
cIal welfare should even be recog-
nized?
No, socialists should be the last
people on earth to assert that ques-
tons of economy should be settled
on the basis of group interest; they
view industry as one complete
whole; they argue for an economy
under which all workers of all
lands will share in the benefits of
science and industry.
But Socialists are not foolish
enough to expect workers to I'M
learn the lessons that a selfish
capitalist generation has thaught
them; election returns in which
foolish people rejoice show how
the minds, as we'll as the bodies,
OF workers have been warped to
lit with the morals of capitalism.
- Il st
But neither will Socialists ac-
cept responsibility for the things
that are happening today or for
ne evils that loom ahead.
If the common ooap eooLo~1x
the welfare of his group; if infla-
tion afflicts the land; if, in the
| end frnn6Qnn ic lar4 a.l c-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05

forces the unity which economic
individualism scorned.
That will be the consequences
OF capitalism. 1t will be the price
that mankind must pay for it's fail
ure to cooperate in the Socialist
way.
Does the future look gloomy?
Sure! All the evils that Socialism
trled to avoid are coming to pass.
We can't have capitalism without
paying for it.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-12-05

This world needs a lot more
philosophers than it needs new
philosophers!