davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1945-01-12
DOES THIS MEAN MORE
AND TOUGHER BEEF?

No ruling of a government bureau mas
created as great furOre and as much
bitter recriminations as the Office OF
Price Administration recent fixing OF
ceiling prices on live cattle. Stockmen
fought to the bitter end to head off the
directive which sets the ceiling at. SlS
a hundred in Chicago. With that direc-
tive goes announcement of dollar
hundred pounds subsidy. No matter what
name it may bear any subsidy means in
simple language that the consumer pays
that much more because subsidies 90 not
grow on trees, free for the picking.
The OPA chief is sure the ceiling will
protect the consumer and the retailer.
The stockmen and the feeders take just
the opposite view and openly warn the
government that new black market has
been born with the directive. Further, II
growers and feeders are to be taken at
their word, business will not go on as
usual. 1t will be so Improbable that
well-fed beeves will not reach markets,
they contend and in manner that means
they will just quit This means that two
things will happen-the cheapest KIND
of feed will be used and stock will be
shipped before at the proper fattenlng
stage and that range cattle Will flnd
their way to slaughter pens.
There are the two sides 1t hardly is
possible for both to be right. Again the
government stresses it's policy OF 'drouth
: to meet conditions said to exist.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
They Fiqht in "Silver Fox Holes"

In the Red army, every possible fighting man is put on the
actual front Russian headquarters stafs are much smaller than Amer
lean o II British headquarters staffs"
That report by one of the first American newspaper men who saw
Soviet troops in action, brings up a subject which should be investi-
gated before this war passes completely into history.
Do too many American army men, particularly officers, sit safely
in office swivel chairs and luxurious Officers clubs" far from the
fighting fronts? Will they stay there all through the war, while other
men with less luck and pull do all the fighting in Europe and the
Pacific? @
Washington, London, Paris, Cairo, Calcutta and other "cushy
spots" arc packed with these warriors Real army fighting men call
them the "chair-borne infantry and say they spend the war in silver
fox holes"
How many of them are rich mems sons? How many of them have
contributed little 0 nothing to the winning Of the war, or have OBJ
sructed the real fighters by multiplying red tape at numerous head
quarters? EhFf
Front line soldiers will have some bitter tales to tell on this SUBJ
jct when they return from the wars. One such story came out of
India this week.
at Calcutta, two veteran combat flyers were punished by a
court-marIal for violently protesting when they were refused admit
lance to the SWank U. S. Army Officers Club at the Kanarni estates"
These two flyers had just returned from the fighting front and did
not have the dress uniforms worn at the club by the swivel chair
officers who spend a large part of their time there, drinking and
dancing.
Iher service" uniforms were good enough to fight in, but not
good enough to associate with the staff officers from Calcutta head
quarters-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
The QUESTION or SPAIN

one question which the Western Allies earnestly hoped to brush off
but which forced itself into the discussion at San Francisco is he
question of Spain. The collapse of Nazi power has left to Franco he
uneasy honor OF being the last important focus of fascism o the
european continent He has met the situation by trying to scramble
over to the democratic side, but he has discovered, like his confreres
N Argentina, that every gesture. in the direction of liberty necessitates
raore severe measures of repression if his regime is not to be over
thrown. LAST February he shot without trial sixteen political prisoners
IN reprlSal for the killing of two minor FaIangist officials during an
attack on a Falagst party headquarters in a workers district in
iaorlo. recently eight others were sentenced to die for completely
IN TINS attack: seven of them were executed. Republicans insist that the
va a frame-up to provide a plausible excuse for the execu-
TONS. But the fact remains that political arrests and killings have
markedly increased since Franco began issuing his series IF amnesty
announcements. The lot of the dictator turned democrat is moi merely
hard, it is hopeless-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
ROYAL MARRIAGES

A son of a Swedens crown prince is engaged to a commoner to the
considerable distress of his grandfather, who seems disposed to make
the young prince suffer for behaving like a man. The king of the Bel
gians has also married a commoner and may have to give up his throne
Ir doing so. Windsor wasn't the first man of royal blood IF even ths
first king to insist o. marrying the girl of his choice, but he may have
popularized the idea. If so, he deserves a vote of thanks.
The king business is a n anachronism that ought to be abolished.
These recent examples of the nonsense that governs the choice of a
royal mate should help speed the institution into oblivion. The notion
that royal blood is superior to ordinary blood and must not be mingled
With it was firmly believed by pretty nearly everybody for hundreds
of years but isn't believed by anybody today. Accordingly, when a
great TODD is made of the marriage of a king to a commoner, the fuss
serves to focus attention on the absurdity of the institution, and by
doing 10 many hasten its disappearance,
Kings are bad for a country for a number of reasons, but chiefly
because they make for false standards of thought and behavior. A
kings training tends to make him selfimportant, vain, and wasteful.
and the exaladon of such a man tends to corrupt his nation. AS head
of a social system, a king yields a powerful. influence even in a con-
sdtutional regime; he commonly uses his social leadership to preserve
ar aristocratic caste system that a modern country cannot afford to
maintain. The monarchial institution is a bar to the progress of any
nation that is capable of self government-Chicago Daily Tribune.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
"A LONG STEP TOWARD
SOCIALISM

There hasn't been a general cleo
ton in Britain ten years. They
haven't a written constitution over
there, SO Parliament, when the
spirit moves it, can extend its life
and Parliament is the govern
ment.
Now that Hitler is wiped out,
chiefs of all parties agree the peo-
pie should be given q chance to
hand in their verdict. The exact
date for the balloting has not been
fixed, but it will be in the near
future, sometime in July.
The Labor Party is urged by its
leaders to start the ball rolling
with a platform which would be
considered extremely radical" in
this ccantry-socialization of the
Bank of England, the coal mines,
the public utilities and all inland
transportation. That would be a
long step toward Socialism.
Sir Stafford Grips says: "It's
time to displace the old conception
which still fingers on that proper
ty, money and material possessions
are more important than human
life and happiness" Winston
Churchill will probably brand that
a 'pious platitude," but what SUBJ
stitute will he offer.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
AND TRIESTE

YugosLavs action in withdrawing her troops from Carinthia, and
indication 9. lessencd tension inside Trieste, should be followed by the
firmest determination n all sides for loyal Allied settlement of the
entire problem of Trieste on its merits.
Certainly all Yugoslav efforts designed, or appearing to be de-
signed, to win Yugoslavias permanent retention Of the city by I'M
lateral act should cease. Control of Trieste, pending a permanent
settlement, should be under an Allied command Jointly acceptable to
all the principal allies. Meantime Yugoslavia should have the most
convincing assuranc that her case of sovereignty over the city will
mentS.
1t isn't a case of assuring Yugosavia that she wins American or
British backing for permanent retention; it is a case of assuring her
that the "fx" is not in for Italy. It is also to be hoped that Field Mar
shall Sir Harold Alexander will be instructed to avoid in future in
flammatory language such as he used against Marshal Tito in a political
attack canouflaged as an order of the day to Allied troops. After
yugosavias enormous sacrifice and heroic contribution for victory,
to compare her leader with Hitler and Mussolini within two weeks
after We Day passes understanding,
The problem of Trieste demands Allied frmness, diplomacy and
justice. The last thing it demands is namecallng in the midst of an
explosive situaion-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30

organized labor groups and for
whom a union leader cannot ne
gotiate.
Perhaps those millions of work
ers who are organized could gain
advantage for themselves by
following the Lewis line. But the
chances that the gains of the
organized section of the working
class would be entirely at the ex-
pense of the millions of inorganic
ed r strong enough to be dis
quieting.
We hold out for the political APP
proach to the solution of social
problems because everybody con-
ceivably be represented in politics.
BY the use of the ballot all people
could find a common denominator.
Moreover, being Socialists, our
objective is not to find some mean
of dealing satisfactorily with priv
ate owners of industry, but to So
cialize the economy of the nation
and end private profit altogether.
That, we believe, can be done best
by organized use of the nipple
ments of political democracy. In
the end, what we want is not that
workers should deal with owners,
but that all able adults should be
workers and that none but work
ers should share in the wealth
produced by human toil.--Reading
Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
PRO AND CON ON JOHN |. EVIL

The other day John l.. Lewis
gave his opinion aboutjth Amer
lean Labor Movement in an article
published by Golfers Weekly. We
want to give our viewpoint on
Lewis statements and, since hard
ly anybody agrees entirely with
Lewis, it can scarcely be expected
that we will.
What Lewis says is that there
is no Labor Movement in America.
He says that the unions of today
r nothing more than company
unions under the domination of
politicians. He says that the big
unions have agreed to play the
game according to rules laid down
by political leaders without secur-
ing a bill of rights for themselves.
And in all this we believe that
Lewis is justified by the behavior
of most big union leaders since the
start of the war in particular and
since the advent of the first Roose-
welt administration in general.
However, we find ourselves in
conflict with Lewis when we con-
slider his general attitude toward
political action. If we understand
him correctly, Lewis does not
think that politics is important. All
that he thinks necessary is that
unions should fight for what their
members want without regard for
the wishes of political leaders in
and out of public office.
If that is what he means we are
afraid that the success of organiz-
ed labor would not bring social
justice and democracy; not, at
least, with society organized as it
is today. For one thing, there are
too many people who are out of
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
EVERYBODY EQUAL
IN RUSSIA

Surprisingly many American
fellow travellers still believe in the
myth of economic equality in Rus
STA, which they fondly term the
workers fatherland." Facts speak
otherwise.
Did you, for instance, read
about the two Russian seamen
dying, and six others getting i'll
when they celebrated the recent
false armistice at Long Beach, Cal.
by drinking wood alcohol drained
from a ships gauge? And did you
read about the rich stores of vodka
and caviar that the Russ delegates
brought to Frisco, as ''lunch?"
Russian sailors are VIGOROUSLY
underpaid, compared to sailors of
other European countries, to say
nothing of U. S.
And did you know that there
is a staggering difference between
the Russian private's pay and that
of even the lowest commissioned
officer? The officer class in Rus
sian armed forces lives in luxury,
compared to their subordinates,
while in U. S. armed forces the diff
ference, tho there is one, is picay-
n compared to that of the work
ers' fatherland."
That we point out these facts IS
not to be interpreted to mean that
we like private monopoly capital
ism any better than we like the
state monopoly capitalism of Rus
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
IN The WIND
From THE NATION

JOnn DOnDcl wa s n n & | O n
columnist Of the New York Daily
News, on April 25 defended the
aquittal of three drunken men,
two Of them privates A.W.O.L.,
who set fire to the packing shed
of an American farmer of Japanese
descent, on the ground that this
is a white mans country" The
aquittal, said O'Donnell. reflects
the honest thought of the people"
The editors of the News, however,
apparently didn't think so; for
after the first edition that para
graph disappeared from the column
and was replaced by a picture Of
Sir Anthony Eden and Sir Alex
ander Cadogen.
Thirty-four bills for tax-sup-
ported health-insurance programs
have been introduced in the legis-
latures of twenty states thus far
this year. Only sixty-six such bills
were introduced in the ten-year
period 1935-44.
Argentine Motorists, the only
ones in the Western Hemisphere
who still drive on the left side OF
the road, will move to the right
June 10. Does this represent an
other triumph for our State De-
partment?
What Good" asks the London
New Statesman and Nation of Ap-
ril 81, "can come of a non-frater-
niZation order which is said TO
have been defined by an American
commander who told his troops
that they might spend the night
with a German girl but must MOI
stay for breakfast"
Printers Ink, an advertising
trade publication, reports in its
issue of May IL that Northwestern
newspapers are now carrying
twice the usual number of war
time ads offering homes for sale.
It estimates that $4,000 war work
ers have left the region within the
last three months.
Why We Fight-from the Char
lotte, North Carolina, Observer of
May 10: THE three billion Russians
a year who used to see movies
before the war don't know Van
johnson. Or Ruth Hussey, Betty
Hutton, or June Allyson, for that
matter. Why, it's enough to make
a movie fan wonder what in the
world Russia is fighting fort"
Tammany Hall has retained the
public-relations firm Of Russell
H. Potter Associates, not only for
the coming mayoralty campaign
but on a continuing basis. The old
Tammany regulars are said to be
greatly disturbed by the fact that
Mr.. Potter is a Republican and a
resident of Connecticut. He viii
try to erase the word "Tammany"
from the public consciousnes-he
wants people to call it the New
York County Democratic Com
mlttee."
Legislative Memo: The House
Appropriations Committee is seri-
ously considering a $500,000 cut
in the appropriation of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board fof
1916. Also three riders which would
protect collusive contracts with
company unions and prohibit the
use of NLRB funds in the cases
involving foremen OF food process.
sing workers.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
War Destroys = Co-ops Rebuild

Remember Casino, Italy, a city that had to be completely dem
olshed by Yanks before the entrenched Germans were dslodged?
And Montecassino, the famous monastery n a overlooking hill that
met a similar fate?
Well, a STRAIGHTFORWARD Cooperative Building Society recently
launched Cat a ceremony attended by italian Premier Bonomi and mn
bassadors Of U. S, USSR, France, and England) a monumental pro-
jct of rebuilding the village and monastery The financing of the pro-
jct has been undertaken by the Central Institute of Italian PEOPLES
Banks, a cooperative.
How symbolic! War destroys-the Cooperative movement re
builds! The question is, can our constructive peoples movement rebuild
as faSta as war, and the profit system that causes war, destroy? Or will
we fall SO hopeessly behind the rebuilding race that civilization ()
gets completely engulfed?
We've got to build sound, but much faster!-The Cooperative
Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
a Sorry Record

Preliminary reports on mine
fatalities in the United States
show a death toll of 1,251, and
Washington officials admit this
figure may reach 1875 by the time
all reports are received.
Compare this record of fatalities
in the U. S. coal mining industry
alone, with the total Of 1921 fatal
accidents in ALL. british industry,
including the coal mines.
There must be some answer to
this problem, and it is up to the
miners and operators to find it
and quickly. The Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
MISSES A BET!

Organized labor is banded together for the mutual benefit of its
members-yet in its most Importance aspects, labor does not serve its
full purpose.
Aside from achieving better working conditions and better wages
labor falls down O the vital task of developing a broader economic
way of life for its members.
Labor does not take advantage, for instance, of the numerous laws
which enable labor organizations to form and operate credit unions
Such credit unions would save the laborng and his family hun
dreds of thousands of dollars annually in interest payments now being
made to the small loan companies all over the land.
Labor does not form its own building and loan associations, to
enable the 1aborng man to build on more liberal lines and at less
interest cost.
Here alone are two lines of endeavor which labor ought to use
TO the limit There are many others which would succeed if organized
labor got behind them-for its own good-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
Lock Who's Fiqthinq MVA

The fight against Missouri Valley Authority legislation has been
carried to date mainly by the Bureau of Reclamation and Army Engin-
GERS, in defense of their bureaucratic vested rights sin resource dcve1-
opment, and by business groups hostile to the alleged socialism" of
the iva principle. Now, according to Senator Murray of Montana,
private power companies are setting up a sluSh fund to finance nine
mghpowered publicity men in organizing the campaign against MVA.
Fascinating, isn't it? Why do you suppose the power companies
are fighting MVA, if not because they consider it will do a better Job
of public power development than existing agencies? Which is pre-
cisely, of course, the reason why an MVA should be established. Since
the Missouri River is going to be developed with the peoples money,
the people have the right to demand that it be developed in the most
effective way-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
FOOD FoR

Not a bad epigram," observed
a philosophical Weary Willie,
when the judge said, Ten days in
jail"
~"Epigram?" muttered his buddy
What's an epigram, boz"
oh" airily explained the other
tramp, its a short sentence that
sounds light, but gives you plenty
to think about"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
CENSUS BUREAU
ESTIMATES POPULATION
AT 1924 900

Washington, D. c., The census
bureau estimated that on Jan. l,
1945, the United States population
was 1873, 469-including the
military forces overseas. This was
an. increase of about 7,286,0O over
the 1910 census figure of 131 500,
ITS, Altho the Jan. /, 1945, figure
is the latest official estimate ex-
perts say unofficially that by May
] it was probably up to about
1879, 243, 900.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
GO SLOW ON THE CURVES,
FruuIein Warns IA. p.

London. The Stars and Stripes
reported under a Hanover date
line a sidelight on the army rule
against determination.
Every day, it said, a fraulein with
the right curves at the right places
walks past a military policeman of
the 35th Division, gestures at the
more prominent of the curves, and
mockingly explains: "Verboten."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
LEFTISTS PILE UP
MAJORITY IN PARIS

Final returns from the Paris
municipal elections show that the
Communist Party won, by a great
majority, 27 out of the 90 seats in
the municipal council. Gains and
losses of the various parties since
the last municipal election in 1885
were as follows:
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
WITTY

WITTY
Officer Gust bawled out) Not
a man will be given liberty this
afternoon.
Voice-Give me liberty or give
me death!
Officer-Who said that?
Voice-Patrick Henry.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30

STA. Both forms are economic auto
cracy. We prefer for-the people
by-the-people economic democracy.
The Cooperative Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
A ER

New RESIDENT hear that the
village boasts a choral society.
Old Inhabitant-Well, we don't
boast about it we suffer it in
silence.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30
rouge

TOUGH
Diner-This is a small piece of
steak you have given me-.
Waiter-Yer sir, but you'll find
it will take you 4 long time to
eat it.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30

Hundreds would never have
known want, if they had not first
known waste.-Spurgeon.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-05-30

The public is wiser than the wis
est critic.-Bancroft.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-30
c0I1NT NARROWLY
ESCAPES DEATH

ororKHOLM, April % R -
d. FoJke Bernadotte, vice-presi-
Cou + If tbe Swedish Red Cross,
oen rou-lv escaped death when Al
nal names bombed the Danish
A ;afeId from which he was about
ai1 Ike off after receiving mes
10 oo 's from Heinrich Himmler for
S ssse United States and Britain. the
INK Aftonbladet said today.
ne Tse Swedish foreign office an
wood that Bernadotte transmit
n NV an 'oral message from Hmm
,eu = IN the Swedish government,
le s;cb then turned it over to the
American and British ministers IN
Stockholm.
! nothing more, but it was pre-
eu ',,ed that Himmler's message
.nr the one which offered capitu-
, r4 10 the western Allies only.
Am American and British legation
ffcials were not available for
comment Immediately.
Rernadotte reached Sweden last
rnesdav, and since has left the
countrv again, ostensibly on a Red
rross mission TO Denmark.
Aftonbladet said Bernadotte, his
chauffeur, and another companion
had TO Jump into a ditch foc safety
when Allied planes bombed the
Danish airfield.
Bernadotte, whose American
wife is the former Estelle Man
vile, is one of the few men who
has negotiated with top leaders of
both the Allies and Germany dur
ins this war. 4
He visited Cen Eisenhower in
France last fall. In recent weeks, |
be saw Himmler on several occa-
sions in connection with a Swedish
mercy mission which obtained the
release of thousand of Nazi-intern-
ed Danes and Norwegians. Many
OF them already have been brought
In Sweden. i