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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
PRICE CONTROL IS STILL NEEDED

Because of much Congressional ballyhoo, some justified some not,
against administration plumbers and abuses, the American consumers
are getting sold on the dangerous thought that price control and r-
toning regulations could, and should, be scrapped even without wait
ing for VI day. z
We must, however, remember the basic reasons for rationing and
price control. Then, if we're convinced that the need for the regula-
tons has passed, we can talk of going back to the law of supply and
demand.
Price control and rahoning we're established because a produc-
ton decreased the supply of foodstuffs and other consumer goods,
while bigger wartime incomes lacked up the demand. Without con-
arol3, we consumers would have scrambled for the scarce commodities,
bidding up the prices in a sort of a nationwide auction sale where
each bidder had desperate need for each item offered for sale.
Now, after several years of w production and because of our
recentlycontracted obligations to feed wartorn Europe Gf we don't
feed it, anarchy, chaos and revolution will follow, our consumers
goods cupboard is barer than ever. And at the door of the near-empty
cupboard we the consumers await, most with war-savngsfiled pocket
books. If the cupboard is thrown wide open, you can imagine where
the prices would be in a very short time. That, friends, would be run
away initiation.
Not only do we need price controls now, but every consumer must
nelp protect the structure from decay and internal collapse thru in
creasing violations. OPA reports that over-ceiing sales prices, by
licensed stores a we'll as by out-and-out black marketeers, RI al
ready adding one billion dollars annually to our national food bill. If
such over-ceilng sales continue, and we the consumers condone them,
the price and rationing regulations will become meaningless. Initiation
will be on u in dead earnest, wiping out your war-savings in very
short order.
We wonder, Johnny Consumer, if you were s. smart, from the
longe-range point of view, when you paid that unreasonably high
price for that bLackmarket quarter of beef
We urge 1909 cooperation in the current Grocer Consumer Anti
Initiation Campaign. To protect his postwar living standards and his
precious Warsavings, every consumer should famiiarize himself with
ceiling prices, and refuse to pay even one penny over them-The Co.
operative Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
POSTWAR ANTI-UNION DRIVE IS ON

Rep. John E. Rankin, Mississippi Democrat, is the sponsor of a
dangerous and clever plan to pit war veterans against American
workers. In effect, it is a scheme to divide and conquer the working
cless and, as such, will merit tibet approval and support of the big bust
ness interests who are spending millions of dollars to advance their
plan for postwar elias control.
The Rankin bill would make it possible for war veterans to get
jobs IN any plant without joining a union or paying dues, despite
a closed shop or a maintenance of membership contract = even if the
latter has been ordered by the National War Labor Board.
Designed deliberately to create a split between the worker and
the ex-serviceman, the measure provides that mot withstanding any
other provision of law or any contract or agreement, no veteran 80.
shall be required as a condition of employment, to be Or become a
member of, or to maintain membership in, any labor organization
club, association, o other organization, or, as a non-member thereof
TO make any payments thereto in the form of dues, assessments
charges, contributions O. other payments"
Any veteran, under the bills provisions, could obtain a n iniunc-
ton from a federal court to enforce the union busting provisions. The
Dill would nuulfy much of the Wagner labor relations act.
Whatever action Congress may take on the Rankin measure
worke had better understand that this attack upon organized labor
Is only the beginning of a campaign that is certain to be intensified
after the war ends and when jobs become a pressing personal problem
With many veterans and stay-at-hOme workers.
We believe that all workers, whether union or non lnion. should
try to understand the real significance of the Rankin bill and take steps
TO make postwar America a nation of producers who m united, secure
and free. And we can offer no better defense against the attack which
lies ahead than political organization of workers in a party of their
own with a program, not of class collaboration, but of united attack
against the capitalist private-proft system.
surely, mos Americans want to be free. But capitalism cannot
w unless workers are subdued to the will of the employing class and
moulded to the pattern of human exloitaton. The big danger of the
Rankin proposal is that it fits we'll with the needs of capitalism Amer
lcas workers can reject Socialism and conform to the profit economy
My by wearing the chains that Rankin and others r. forging for
them now-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
"CENERAL IKE" SAID IT

We oHer for the record some very important words uttered nv
General Eisenhower on June 19, in the course of a welcome home
celebration in New York City.
Said General Ike:
"f we r. going to live the years of peace, w e must be strong
and we must be ready to cooperate in the spirit of tolerance and for
iearance Ii enough that we device every kind of international
hes cannot cooperate with anything. Only strength can cooperate"
Well, what do those words mean? And what do thew imnlv as to
the past IS we'll a to the future?
They mean, do they not, that WE n largely to blame for the
fact that World War I was followed by jealousy economic riya1rv
treaty-breaking and World War II?
For weren't w e Americans the strongest people @ earth when
the first World War ended? And if only the strong have the POWER
to cooperate and build for peace, isn't that also the task and the RES
POSSIBILITY of the strong?
Yes, it mattered what we did all among the line that lead from
slaughter to slaughter. What WE did is what caused strife between
nations and brought calamity to millions of people. We wrote the
rules-W m tn few other peoples who boast of their democracy"
and fairness" We were the only people strong enough to write them
Back in the year 1918 w had u chance to cooperate" and to
chance because W e just wouldn't do the things that "coouerat;on" and
peace mean. We muffed it because we rejected democratic Socialism
II INSISTED upon marching forward into history under the banner
II a class society and a profit economy.
We Socialists rel among those who warned at that time that
Worldc capitalism would destroy human liberty and again drench the
eartn WIZ blood" But world capitalism it had to be. And so We had
10 pay tn penalty. So, too, it was and is that we cannot escape the
ouroen OF blame that must fall only upon those who were strong
enough to head the world toward cooperation and peace.
oon w m m other victors of this war will again have our
opportunity. War will end and strong nations again will draw the Ine
tha TN world must take. What will that line be?
1t it is the line of class exploitation, private profit and ;nterna
uonal injustice, then we, the strong, will be responsible when, in IN
oher generation or less, millions of little people again will be forced
to fight and die.
How many of those cheered General Ike" understood his
message? Perhaps he himself, did not fully realize its implications
what 1t meant was that, if new dictators arise to DESTROY liberty and
peace, those who are strong today will be responsible. But it also means
III lose VINO were strong In 1919 are responsible for the present
waste of life and treasure. And that means-US! Reading Labor
Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25

The sugar shortage is now NOV
ing in on us and will reduce net
total 1945 sugar supply for Ameri-
can families 1,154,0 900 tons under
the supply for 1914, according to a
statement by Representative An
derson, the newly appointed Sec
rotary of Agriculture, who has
directed the House committees
Investigation into the sugar short
age and the OPA's i~nefficiency as
regards sugar control.
That's a lot of sugar! 1t was
scarce enough in 1914, but this
year we will have only four spoon
fuls where we had five last year,
and we have already eaten and
used up more than half of the
scant supply available for 1945.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
REALTORS BLOCK SLUM


For half a century we have been
fervently debating the Instability
of Wiping out the slum areas which
d~isfigure our cities, small as we'll
as large. Unfortunately, we have
done precious little to solve the
problem.
And yet slum clearance should
be m of the cornerstones of our
program for full employment after
the war.
Replacing our slums with houses
fit for human habitation would
guarantee a job to every building
tradesman in the country and
would stimulate business and en-
ployment in every other industry.
The real estate dealer-he gen.
orally calls himself a realtors
mainly responsible for our failure
to intelligently handle this vita
reform. Of course, he is backed
by the landowner. They seem de.
termined that nothing shall be
done unless they are permitted t.
supervise the job and collect ex
orbitant profits. If they have theil
way, the slums will remain will
us and building will be confines
to suburban developments" which
afford the realtor and the land
owner the best opportunity t
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
DRUG FROM GRASS is
CALLED q "MIRACLE"

Another medical miracle" has
been developed out of wartime ne
cessity, A young doctor at Winter
General Army Hospital, Philadel-
phia, is reported by the Kansas
Medical Society to have obtained
from cuttings from the hospital
avn a drug which lis one of the
most potent ever discovered in the
healing of wounds"
From all indications" the re-
port added, sit will cause a SEN
sation in the medical profession
when it has been perfected. The
doctor is now preparing an article
about it for medical magazines
and it is scheduled for publication
in the near future.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
II Is q Condition Which Confronts Us

for lunch. The menu for the first
day included baked ham; fried
liver and bacon, smothered in
onions; julienne potatoes; creamed
spinach; string beans; Jam, sliced
fruit, cookies, minis, candies and
cigars.
And correspondents are allow
ed to tell us about the mobile re-
trlgerators provided for the Big
Three, giving them access to iced
melons, berries, tomatoes, lettuce
hearts, and a varied choice of fresh
meat.
This information is better than
nothing, and may give new hope
to the starving people of the Ii
berated countries. But it is not all
that we fought for.
Here is the final argument
against war as a method of settling
disputes. Wars may be democratic.
but there never has been a demo
cratic peace.
Here is the final argument for
an effective international organi-
cation to keep the peace and settle
the affairs of nations. It is the last
trail hope of the peoples of the
earth.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
WHAT ABOUT PRICES OF
OF FURNITURE AND


During the heat of Congression-
al oratory on the food situation
Rep. Charles LaFollette (R., Ind.)
gained the floor to remind his
colleagues that food was not the
only price gouge that was taking
toll of the public purse. LaFol-
'ette pointed out that the prices of
clothing and furniture had gone
up away out of line" and that
nothing had been done about it.
1T has been the policy to talk
about food, he asserted. II want
to know what has happened to the
retail price and the wholesale price
of clothing that people put on their
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
When Fitness Become q License TO Cheat

Under any system of unenforceabe laws, a. demonstrated during
prohlbluon, a I'M In court eventually becomes a license. The trick
OF timing bAnd-lger operators and gamblers SC many times a year is
so old that nobody remembers when it started.
In the liquor trade it has prevailed since the Government started
aXIng hquor. 1t was a recognized institution in Ohio 80 years ago
When n state had constitutional prohibition at the same time that
hcmna a becoming one of the greatest brewery cities in the
world.
una =. + a. burrocracy there wer $4,000 convictions for
violating 0. P: A. orders during 1914 in New York City The average
line around $40 to $40, These fines we're recognized as a license
fee" according to Stanley Kretzer, who made a IT. of the blaclr-
market meat trade for the New York Board of Trade.
There has been a 60O-percent increase in the number of license.
to meat saughterers and wholesale dealers in the New York matro
poItan area under {. F. A. All of which adds up to the unnnistakable
fact that the privileges enjoyed under the C. P. A fine system nov
handsome dlVidends-UnitedM Mine Workers Journal
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
PUBLIC IS "GYPPED"
ON SPURIOUS PEARLS

The Federal Trade Commission
charged that a dozen business men
and firms in New York, Chicago
and other cities import imitation
pearls from Japan and Spain, and
use various tricks to hide their
foreign origin.
Thus these importers, and re-
tallers who sell the limitations, pass
them off as real pearls and fool
the public, the commission said.
1t added that many of the pub
lie have a decided preference for
products OF American manufacture
instead of Japanese origin"
That is a masterpiece of under
statement.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
WILLOW RUN
WHAT TO DO

UAW-CIO Local so has a plan.
The fabulously expensive Willow
Run bomber plant can be used for
the nations military deployment
problem, for railroad equipment
and housing. 1t answer Henry
Ford's statement that Willow Run
can be considered dependable.
The plan was drafted by Walter
P. Ruether, vice president of the
union who declared that use of
former wartime facilities under
the proposal would provide a min
imum of six million jobs.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
In THE WIND
From THE NATION

AoW WV
clothing program, manufacturers
r required to pre-ticket certain
garments with their ceiling prices.
The tickets are there, but in many
cases they are hard to find. Some
times they are hidden under the
size labels, and sometimes they are
sewn inside a seam in such a way
that the customer must turn the
garment inside out in order to see
them.
The New York Daily Mirror
(Hearst) devoted its editorial on
July 3 to the Nation Associates
dinner for Thomas Mann. It seems
the affair "a part Of a plot to
make the United States join Rus
STA in a war against England.
The War Department will re-
lease 10000 light and 10000 me-
dunn trucks for sale to farmers.
Reverse Lend-Lease from France
in the year after the Normandy
invasion amounted to $400, 000,-
600.
At the annual commencement
day luncheon of the University OF
California Alumni Association,
June %, the guests brought their
own lunches. A good time was
had by all.
Headlin in the Santa Monica,
California, Evening Outlook for
June ~: "Racketeers Plan to Mich
Public - Better Business Bureau
Leads in Campaign"
Legislative memo: H. R. 776,
which would make it possible for
,Filipinos to become American citi-
zens, has been passed by the House
and is nov in the Senate Commit
tee on immigration, headed by
Walter Franklin George of Geor-
gia.
A soldier just in from Italy
brings this story. The American
ambassador, Alexander c. Kirk,
gave a reception in Rome for
members Of, the staffs of Yank
Stars and Stripes, and the Amer
lean Expeditionary Cradio) Sta
ton. He told a soldier connected
with the station, "Broadcasting is
one of the things that will survive
the war" The soldier said, Soap
Opera will die with u.s." and the
Ambassador replied, 81 manufac-
Iture soap"
The famous Anglo-Egyptian CEN
Isorship is still doing the things
that made it famous. There are
some of the instructions it issued
o the Egyptian press on June 4:
1t is forbidden: CD to mention
the visit of the Minister of the U.
5. S. R. to the Egyptian Prime
Minister and the note relative to
the Russian point of view on the
questions of Syria mad the Leba-
non; 49,. "a to mention any state
ment attributed to General Paget:
go relative to the declaration
made on the third of this month
by the president of the Syrian
Chamber to the journalists gather
ed at the Lebanese Legation in
Cairo, to mention (a) that the
British have given 5000 rifles tc
the Syrians and (b) that they have
given $4,000 tons of wheat to the
Syrians -"
If there is sufficient demand, the
United Nations Information Organ
ization and the Library of Con
gress will publish the official do
concentration of the San Francisco
conference. The documents will
fill $4,000 pages, and it is planned
to publish them in eight volumes
Inquiries should be addressed tt
the Secretary General, United Ma.
tons Information Office, 61O Fifth
Avenue. New York % NJ "
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
THE

We are blind until we see
That in the universal plan
Nothing is worth the making
If it does not make the man.
Why build these cities glorious
If man unbuilded goes?
In vain we build the world
Unless the builder also grows.
Edwin Markham
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
DIE NATURALLY

An English tourist travelling in
the north of Scotland, far away
from anywhere, exclaimed to one
of the residents:
why, what do you do when any
OF you are i'll? You can never get
a doctor"
Nae, sir" replied Sandy. "We'-
We just to dee a natural DEATH"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
HAPPY VOYAGE

New Misionary--Can you tell
me what became Of my predeces-
sor?
Cannibal Chief-He made a trip
into the interior.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25

backs, which have gone out of line
compared with any cost Of food"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25

satisfy their greed. - The Union
Leader, Chicago.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25
By KENESAW M. Lands III
in The Chicago Sun

1T is a condition which con-
fronts us, not a theory" said
Grover Cleveland in one of his
messages to Congress.
That's the fix we're in. We fight
a wal in the name of democracy,
and then sit by helplessly while
three men get in a room and di-
vide things up.
The same thing happened at the
end of World War I Wilson, Glenn
enceau and Lloyd George wrote
the peace treaty and Col. House
left us a word picture of their
secret sessions in the front room
of Wilson's house in Paris.
There n might have seen
President Wilson on all fours,
kneeling on a gigantic map spread
upon the floor and tracing with
MS finger a proposed boundary,
other plenipotentiaries grouped
about him, also on all tours.
1t was the same at the end of
the N~apoleonic wars, when Castle
reagh, Metternich and Alexander
met at Vienna to carve up Europe.
1t has been the same all through
history.
We're in much the same fix as
the Romans were in the turmoil fol-
lowing the death of Caesar, when
Anthony, Octavius and Lepidus
met on an island at the confluence
OF two rivers and divided three
continents between them.
For three days the Roman Big
Three met in a tent without wit
nesses, after submitting to a pre-
llmlnary search for concealed
weapons. Of course, the compari-
sion should not be carried too far
1t is not likely that Truman,
Stain and Churchill find it ne
cessary to frisk each other. And
they have five continents to work
with instead of three, which should
give them a greater sense of res
possibility.
But from a democratic stand
point, we r not much better off
Millions of men fought in the
European war, and whole peoples
were engaged. Yet after all the
blood and suffering, three mer
sit down at a table and bar the
door.
They let us know what thew hne
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-07-25

They let us know what they hat
Evening star., 1945-03-14
Southeast Group Formed
To Combat Delinquency

About 60 colored residents of the
Southeast section formed the Payne
Neighborhood Organization to deal
with juvenile delinquency problems
on a community basis at a meeting
last night at No. police precinct.
The group, which met under the
leadership of 1t. William T. Murphy,
chief of the Juvenile Bureau of the
Police Department, elected Oscar
L. Smith as chairman.
The new organization appointed a
committee to look into possibilities
OF establishing clubhouse for
youngsters of the area as its first
objective.
Meanwhile, new unit of the
Junior Police and Citizens Corps
has been organized for colored chill
dren at the Southeast Community
House by Policeman Oliver A. Cow
an, member of 1t. Murphy's staff.
Additional units of the corps also
were organized recently at the John
Wesley A. M. E. z. Church, Four
teenth and Corcoran streets NV,
and the Union Wesley A. M. E. z.
Church in Georgetown.
Policeman Cowan also announced
adults willing to assist in work of
the Junior Police Corps have been
organized into Citizens Co-ordinat-
ing Committees in several precincts.
Members of the corps promise to
keep out of trouble and help keep
others out of trouble.
Evening star., 1945-03-14
Law 10 Recapture
Race Funds Prepared
HY the Associated press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Mar. A.
Members of the Senate Finance
Committee today prepared legisla-
ton which would compel the States
major race tracks to pay back to
"the people Of the State" 81, 200, 900
of special fumes which the commit
tee charged the tracks had misused
A committee statement said it
had found the tracks to have mis-
used about so per cent of a special
fund earmarked for improvement
of racing.
1--WE feel strongly restitution
should be made and we are amend
ing Senate bills Alb and 414 to re-
quire that in addition to the 2 per
cent now retained by the State, the
tracks shall pay all breakage to the
State so that the people of the State
may receive the return of Sill 900 900,
approximately, in the form of State
financed services or State tax reduc-
tion," the group declared.
In race parlance 'breakage" Is the
amount of money accumulated
through the practice of paying of
winning pari-mutuel tickets in
round figures, calculated to the dime
The special fund was authorized
in 1888 and provides the tracks
may set aside l per cent of their
take for the improvement of rae
ing. 1t amounted to s2,028,0 ,053 as of
last April.
Evening star., 1945-03-14
East RiverduIe Officer Meets
Two Brothers in French Town

"Hey, where do you think you're
going?" someone yelled at Capt.
Hugh Saum of East Riverdale, Md,
as he walked through the mud of
a French town.
He whirled around, and there In
a doorway stood his brother, Robert,
whom he hadn't seen in 81 months.
Hugh was on his way to see an
other brother, James, when Robert
yelled.
The three brothers, separated for
many months by military service,
had family reunion in that
French village on the 7th Army
front last month.
''Talk about the Big Three meet
ing" Hugh wrote his wife, Lucy
Saum, who lives at 3218 Newark
street NV. at was held right
there"
The three sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hugh Saum of Templeton, East
Riverdale, are all officers in the 7th
Army. AL three graduated from
Western High School and from the
University Of Maryland. Two, Hugh
and Robert, are quartermaster cap
tains. James Is . second lieutenant,