Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-04-04
IN The WIND
From THE NATION


salary from $4,000 a year to $780,
600.
A New York federal district
,ourt has held that maintenance
Employees of building, bank,
brokerage, and law firms are out
side the Wagner-Hour Act because
hey r not engaged in producing
goods for interstate commerce.
The March 5 buluetin Of the Cham
Der of Commerce of the United
States finds the decision ''signifi-
amt and heartening.'
On page two of the Wall Street
Journal for March z was a story
headed, aluminium Called Too
Expensive for Wide Use in Autos,
Engineer Says" On page four was
an advertisement by the Bohn
Aluminium and Brass Corporation
showing a shiny dream car of the
future. "Bohn," said the ad, SIS
one of Americas foremost sources
for both aluminium and magnesium
products SO vital in the modern
car"
Notwithstanding the powerful
American Bankers Associations
opposition to the Breton Woods
agreement, the Independent Bank
ers' Association, an organization
of small and medium-sized banks
opposed to chain banking, has
issued a statement indorsing the
agreement in full.
The Legislature of South Carol
ina, in revising the salary sched-
ule of public schools, has required
identification of all teachers sin
order to avoid and possible dis
elimination between races" -. On
the other hand, the city council
of Columbia, South Carolina, on
March ID unanimously rejected a
proposal to put Negro policemen
in Negro districts.
New York Notes: You can safe
ly take your wife or sister to the
Roxy Theater. The song Rum and
Coca-Cola,' as currently sung on
the stage there, has been de-alco-
holized to Lime and Coca-Cola."
Bickford's, a chain of cafete-
rias, has placed the following sign
on every table: Gentlemen, please
remove your hats. You can help
us create an atmosphere which will
attract some very desirable lady
customers"
Pope Plus today received Gen
neral Brunette BRUNETTE -" New
York Times of March III. We
know there's movement to make
the Holy Father an American in
stitution, but is this a sufficiently
dignified way of promoting it?
Spokesman of the undertaking
business in West Virginia confer
red with Representative Cleveland
NJ. Baily at Clarksburg on March
5 and asked him to try to have the
War Production Board release
larger quantities of cloth for lining
baskets. The Clarksburg News re-
ports that they put it to their Con-
gresham this way: Shall we have
caskets properly lined to give our
dead here decent burials or shall
we send the material to other
countries to clothe the living?"
Ralph Smith, an advertising
man, defended radio commercials
in a letter to the New York Times
of March IL thus: I'VE have found
that nobody relieved of a stomach
ache by a remedy purchased
through a radio commercial ever
complains about them -. Persons
who complain about commercials
are, as a rule, di sgustingly
healthy"
Festung Europa: The old peo-
pies home at Oslo has been re-
Questioned by the Nazis. The in
mates had to move out to make
room for German soldiers. The
only ones allowed to remain were
the old ladies on the top floor, who
are being held as hostages against
Allied bombing, - Nazi sentries in
front of certain German-occupied
buildings in Copenhagen have re-
Gently been supplied with steel
screens, behind which they stand.
One of these sentries was recently
surprised by the smiles he got from
Copenhageners who passed by
him. Finally he stepped out in
front of the screen and discover
ed that a sign had been attached
to it. The sign read: He has no
pants"
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