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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-12-29

SYMPATHY
Our heartfelt grief goes GU to those
who lost their loved ones
Mrs. Newton Ball, Mrs. Jessie
Hayes, Mrs. Lena jackson, 81 Ham
mond st.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1945-12-29

DVNduaU UI IUIks IKE YOU
TO THOSE WHO DONATED
Dear Friends,
Thank you for your remembrance
And for your kind thoughts too
The worlds a nicer place because
OF thoughtful folks like you.
J. J. T.
Thank you Mrs. Myrtle Surry, for
your donation Of dollar. 1t GER
tainly helped those for whom we are
trying to make life little brighter.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
WILL u. S. A. BLOCK THE ROAD?

Pondering the possibilities of the British Labor Party victory n a
Socialist program of naturalization ol basic industries and the Bank
OF England, American Socialists may logically regret that it was Brit
am, INC not this country, that took the step at this time.
economically, if not psychologcally, America is ripe for a change
to democratic Socialism. Britain, on the other hand, will have many
difficulties to overcome which would not confront this country.
England itself is not sef-sufficient to the degree that we are. The
degree OF prosperity achieved by English workingmen has been built
upon the exploitation of colonial peoples; the island must import food
to prevent actual starvation; to import it must export; and to export
1t must do business with a United States of America whose economic
pollcymakers n hostile to Socialist ideals and detectives.
England must care about what America thinks of her, while Amer
lean workers could proceed with the building of a Socialist cooperative
commonwealth 'unhampered by the road blocks which antiSocialits
now can place in the way of Britain.
Even before the Labor Party victory, the question must have
come to the Socialist leaders of Britain: Will the capitalist u S A
attempt to hamper III progress?" If their fears o n that score no
to be well founded it will be because the workers of America ire still
holding fast to the policy of collaborating with the expliters of labor
for the purpose of making the private-profit economy work IS long
as possible.
1t is deplorable that American Labor has not gone into politics
with a positive program OF its own. For there is no limit to what the
workers could do for themselves if they decided to act without regard
for the profit interests of the few people who control the economy of
this nation.
Perhaps the reason why the American workers permit their ma
uon to be the last remaining bulwark of a ims-named free enterprise"
IS because ne change to planned collectvsm, while desirable
now N ultimately inevitable, is not a pressing need.
The Declaration of Independence asserts that people suffer wrong
as long as they are sufferable. Up to this time American workers have
uHere plenty-trom insecurity, from depressions, from RECOMMENDATION
m from war. But they still r able to take it." Will we Americans
TO walk he capitalist road through miltarsm and totaitarianism
before w e rise in our might and overthrow a economy which is not
asnlone to n best interests of humanity-ReadingL Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
CONGRESS GIVES TO CORPORATIONS

Perhaps our capitalist lawmakers have been reading Holy Writ
to learn that unto him that hath shall be given" AT any rate, Con-
gress has given these corporations with big SURPRISES in their treas
uries a free gift of SIS, 1000, 900 900.
1t was a tax relief bill, passed in the Senate, without any record
being taken of how the individual members voted, and approved by
the House with no essential changes.
The explanation of that little hand-ou is that Congress wants to
encourage corporations to reconvert their industries.
1t is worth at least passing comment that this type of rationalizing
government paternaism for a selected class is being employed by the
very people who shout loudest against government controls" and for
free enterprise"
1t is also enEghtening to understand that, on the same day the
congress gave that hand-out to the big boys, the Securities and Ex-
change commission announced that those highly-favored corporations
available a capital IS per cent higher than they had in 1889.
10 ordinary people it will seem that what the tax relief action
really is, is nothing but a gift to people who already have made mon
strous profits out of the war.
But what do the opinions of ordinary people matter? It is the
ordinary people who have persistenty voted their approval to n
economy whose chief purpose is the enrichment of owning class at
IN expense OF a working class. Those ordinary people voted for "fpe
enterprise without stopping to understand that enterprise" is the
prerogatlVe of a very few people.
wen, M owning class is getting what it wants It's getting it for
only reason. Because most Americans, in rejecting the Socialist
program, give the right of way to class legislation and human *
Notwithstanding Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
ODDS AND ENDS

Now party politics can re-
sume," say the party politicians,
and joyfully begin to overhaul
their vocabularies, put away in the
closet in 1912. Out come the old
words, as good as new. Incompe-
tent, inept, radical, starry-eyed,
sinister, subversive, radical, dema-
gogue, dictator, tool; usurpation,
RECOMMENDATION = how they bring
back the good old prayer days!
Dust them off. They will do again.
The New York Times Magazine.
A fellow who is always declar-
ing he's no fool, usually has his
suspicious.-Wilson Minzner.
In the Juror over atomic energy,
we tend to overlook radar, which
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
ITALY'S EMPIRE

Ii, as reported from London, Secretay Byrnes intends to propose
that Italy be assigned as United Nations trustee over her former Afri-
can colonies, he has taken a very wrong turn. The colonies certainly
should go under United Nations trusteeship. But to reinstaI italy over
Mussoini's Fascist empire violates all reasons.
Italy, by the terrible crueltes and exploitation practiced in this
empire, and by joining Germany against the Allies, has forfeited the
lands sin question. Italians are hated in them. We trust that a new Italy,
devoted to freedom and democracy, is in the making. But the stricken.
confused Italy of today needs assistance quite different from making
her master in a enterprise for which she lacks anything approaching
adequate present capacity.
What to do with Italy's African empire admittedly is a difficult
question: approached on the basis of deciding what settlement will
by no means Sc difficult if approached with the simple intent of finding
the solution that will best serve the advance of the peoples to be ad-
miniTered, and thus best serve peace.
Ii that approach is taken, the colonies will be governed by a com
mission composed of experts of mixed nationalities, under direct au-
thorlty of the United Nations Trusteeship Council itself. Such a COM
mSslon-With n o single ruling nations ak to grind, and chosen for
axlnu effectiveness in assisting the peoples under it to achieve
capacity TO- seItgovernment through educational and economic advance
Is not only the right solution for Libya and Italian East Africa. It
could set an example in those areas that would encourage emancipation
elsewhere; al example to subject peoples, to colonial powers and to
ne United Nations, That should be the American program-The Chi
cago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19

rifle. What do you think? Not bad
-. now but give me home any
time. We are SO darned home-sick,
everyone of us.
I thought 1 was going to write
only about the liberated peoples al
the time these series of articles be-
gan to take shape but now I find
a tumult of events piling up, and
consequently all out of sequence. In
fact, | can see that the end was
written first. Now I'll progress to
some of the incidents that happen
ed first, from the time our boat
left New York and my outfit be-
came a part of the bloody machine
war. Once in a while 1 wonder
if people at home are still interest
ed in what happened "over-there''
-. and if the true, horrible pic
lures were brought home to them,
greater effort would be made to
bring about a just and lasting
peace. (To be continued.)
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
WARTIME STRIKE LOSS
is UNDER A A

Contrary to propaganda in the
newspapers, 1.-The percentage of
lost time from all strikes during
the war was far below the losses
of peacetime years." Chairman
George w. Taylor of the National
War Labor Board declared.
I'm addition, strikes were halted
far o quickly than ever before
in history" he said. "The wartime
voluntary program for peaceable
settlements has indeed served
America we'll"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
The Ens|uved PEOPLES
Are Liberated
BY JOSEPH DRASLER
formerly an Associate Editor of Proietorec)

supposed to be more courteous and
mindful of the rights of the people.
indirectly stated, because they hap
pen to be of a higher class; are the
rich less guilty than the poor far
mers? @s
In nearby Fussen are located the
famous Bavarian royal castles of
Neuschwanstein and Hohen-
schwangau. We got to see them
only from the outside, for inside
they have more looted treasure
piled up, besides the original a
terpieces of art and priceless OBJ
Jects and furnishings. The noun
talns and lakes form a picture of
breath-taking beauty, and a more
beautiful spot could not have been
selected for the pomp, splendour
and grandeur of these castles.
Our company at the present has
a lake of it's own where we spend
our free afternoons swimming,
boating and fishing. Occasionally
we have an afternoon picnic, fol-
lowed by an evening of song and
entertainment around the camp
fire. Sometimes we're surprised
with an announcement that a spe-
cial program will be given in a
neighboring town-and usually, to
the last man, we pile into trucks
to attand. We've been treated to a
Russian and a Polish one, a few
weeks ago, and both groups put on
a splendid show of varied enter
tainment. All of the entertainers
were liberated prisoners and be-
fore the war were well-knoWn
performers on the stage and opera
in their WI countries. But what
l really got a kick out of was the
way the local Germans took this.
To them it was a blow between the
eyes. Deutschland kaput" you
could hear them groan. Something
like this seemed to have greater
effect on them than having our
army take over their cities.
Six years of war has helped
make this country a hunting and
fishing paradise = that is, game
abounds in all the woods and
streams. In a little trout stream.
have been catching twelve to
fifteen nice-sized brook trout in an
hours time. The villagers and far
mers are not allowed to fish or
hunt, just like in the old days when
my father would tell of poaching
"povhe" and spearing fish in for
hidden streams and forests in his
home town of Borovnica in Jugo-
slavia. Those of us who like to
fish and hunt have a real time
and that makes our waiting less
heavy. One evening at dusk | got
a deer just outside the town in a
meadows, and a couple of hours
later we had a swell steak-fry-
nothing tastes better than fried
steak and potatoes on a cool, moon
lit night besides a roaring fire.
A very large specie of rabbit
abounds here too, much larger than
our cotton-tail and jack-rabbit and
they are a fair target for the MI
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
(Continued.)

On our way into the Alps we
passed through Spital. The road
leading through the town and down
to the Ems Rives is we'll over
$500 years old, built by the Ro-
mans, who were also hell bent on
world conquest, as they advanced
against the Germanic tribes that
dWelt in this area. Today there still
are signs of this ancient era, and
the remains of a Roman temple
still stands on one of the SUBMITS,
and another tower on top of Pyhrr
pass was used as a combination
observation and guard post during
this war. Our regiment = 317th
MISUNDERSTANDING in this town
a large amount, if not the total
Hungarian gold reserve, some 80
million dollars plus 1000, 900, 900
pengos, which is 1870 million dol
lars at the present rate of exchange.
as we'll as much of Hungary's Ma
tlonal Art treasury, and a huge
amount of American money.
Now my company has taken
over a little town in the Bavarian
Alps, called Stotten, near Markt-
Oberdorf. 1t is a typical German
farm village where the people do
nothing but work and go to church.
The farmers all live in the village
n have their land portioned off
within a radius of a few miles from
the village. They have dairy cattle
and raise much hay in addition to
enough wheat and potatoes for
their w use. At first the only
men folks around were the really
old ones, around sixty, and oc-
caslonally you would see a younger
man who ha6 been discharged from
the army because of a missing arm
or leg. Now some of the soldiers
who are being released to help
raise crops are drifting in one by
one. The farm work was carried
on entirely by women and children
and wal prisoners. Their simple
farm life has not been affected
very much by the war; they work
hard all week on the farms and on
Sundays go to church-that is all
that is apparent.
We live in homes of the local
families but would much rather
not. The manure piles that surround
the houses and the toilets that are
anything but modern smell to high
heavens. And it just happens that
the woman who takes care of our
house doesn't believe in clean
Illness but in goodness, and her
kitchen is like a pig-sty. 1 believe
we'll be moving soon, into better
quarters if we grippe long and loud
enough. We griped and wondered
about our living in pup-tents on
the colo mountain slopes after We
Lay, until we ere moved into one
town after another. We wonder
sometimes who the victors are
we or n GermanS-When we see
u military set-up pussy-foot and
soft-handle the situations that
arise. And in some localities we're
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
"Biq Business" Could Live On Its "Fut"

Millions of workers may have a hard time getting along in the
postwar period, but corporations could live on their war profit fiat
if they did not turn a wheel for years.
That is the meaning of a report published recently by the securities
and Exchange Commission.
1t says that "the net working capital of American corporations
reached another new high in the first quarter of this year. During the
three months January through March, 1945, their working capital
increased by 81, 400 O00, 900, to a peak of SAC, 900, 600 OO0"
met working capital" is the amount of cash and other assets
quickly convertible into cash, held by the corporations after paying
every cent they w to any one.
The report says the ST AGO. OOO, 600 increase consists entirely of pro-
fits which the corporations retained after paying taxes and dvi-
dends"-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19

in a way is even more wonderful:
Read backward it spells radar.-
Senator Soaper' in The Cincinnati
TimeS-Star.
A great many prominent fam
lily trees were started by grating.
The National Association of
Manufacturers is threatening a sit
down strike unless OPA lifts price
ceilings. War manufacturers, sit
ling on a 28-billion dollar tax re-
bate from the Federal treasury,
feel they can afford to refuse to
play ball. OPA, with the jobless
worker in mind and with fear of
initiation, is anxious to hold down
prices. The battle lineup: OPA VS..
NAM.--The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
in THE WIND
From HI NATION

DEBATE: The Chicago Sun OF
August rs carried the following
advertisement: Town Club week
ly public forum -. Today at 8 p.
m. What Should We Do with a
Defeated Japan?' Speakers! 'Yes!'
Irving Pflaum, foreign editor, Chi
cago Times. MOI George Kao,
Chinese News Service"
PROBLEM: An Associated Press
dispatch from Madrid on August
% reported "A committee of di-
rectors of leading Spanish news
papers and magazines will be
named next month to find a for
mula easing the present complete
international censorship without
exposing Franco regime to attacks
by the opposition"
TROPE: 1.-THE European enemies
are vanquished' says an advertise
ment in the August IL issue of the
Sunday Guardian, Port of Spain,
Trinidad, land Gibraltar is intact,
impregnable, and redoubtable as
ever. This rock has stood the test
of time. In Trinidad we have built
this Gibraltar of the Cleaning and
Dyeing Industry. 1t took us over
sixty years to build this unshak-
able rock. 1t has also stood the
test of time an tribulation and to-
day it stands as firm as ever under
its present generals R. j. j. Clam
n and Roy Clamens. All loyal
subjects can depend on the ex-
cellence of our service at Gibr-
altar"
LABOR: The Metropolitan Mu-
sic School, New York, has signed
a contract with the Music Teach
ers Chapter of the Teachers Union
Local 555, c. l. o. This is the first
music school in the country to
have a union contract.
OBSESSION: John O'Donnell of
the New York Daily News is still
fighting Franklin D. Roosevelt. In
his column of August 80, on the
Pearl Harbor report, he called the
| Lotto DrnciInnf. SEMn ~I1h1io
my of the United States in that
horrible and shocking disaster"
PHILOSOPHY: at is a bad
habit to reflect much upon the
meaning of life?" asked DR.. Albert
Edward Wiggam in his column,
Explore Your Mind, in newspapers
of August "a. Worse than bad"
he answered, cts dangerous, un-
less you enjoy a break
down."
AID HOMINEM: DR.. John P.
Peters, professor of medicine at
Yale, spoke for the Wagner-Mur-
ray-Dingell bill in a debate on
health insurance over Station WOR
August %. DR.. Morris Fishbein,
editor of the Journal of the Amer
lean Medical Association, ans
wered his arguments by asserting
that DIR. Peters was not a prac-
ticing physician. But even less is
DR.. Fishbein. He has worked for
the Medical Association ever since
he completed his internship. And
DR.. Peters is on the staff of the
New Haven Hospital and the New
Haven Dispensary.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19
A REcoRD!

New records for the movement
OF grain on the rails have been set
TINS year, the Office of Defense
transportation reported. Through
August the carloads totaled 1,748,-
24o, which tops the previous peaks
N 1929 and 1913 by 142, 900 and
$4,000 carloads, respectively.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19

one great, outstanding t1nanclaI
and bushes nation of the world!
/ will tell you where we stand
We are going to stand alone for the
principles of free enterprise. And
how long can we stand alone?
Perhaps five or ten years!
The pity of it is that big business
and the big powerful newspapers
r goading and ready to fight
against labor whenever labor
raises it's head in behalf of justice
for the masses of the people.
And on the heels of the two in
situations in our country, big bust
ness and newspaper industry, we
have u political leaders, many
of them, trailing along, ready to
get up in the Congress and advo-
cate the adoption of unfair labor
laws to further chain the hands
and feet of the t~oilers.
| repeat, they are blind to their
own Interests, because the greatest
friends of honest business and of
free government that there are
now in u country, or that there
eve have been in our country,
are the masses of the working peo-
pie who follow the trade unions
and the doctrines of justice and
freedom now practiced and ad-
vocated by trade unions.
And the unorganized workers
and the small farmers and small
business men of the nation follow
the leadership of labor.
What happened in England? Six
million organized workers in Eng
land educated for years the small
business interests, the small far
mers, the so-called middle classes.
and led by the trade union leaders,
they went to the polls and repu-
dated so overwhelmingly the Brit
ish aristocrats that the results
were similar to an earthquake.
l know former Prime Minister
Churchill personally, and in my
analysis of him, althouh he comes
from the so-called upper class, he
was a Democrat at heart and he
did everything within his power
to be helpful to the masses of the
working people of England. But
his efforts were blocked by the
leaders of his Conservative Party.
Churchill saved England from
destruction by the German con-
querors in the darkest hour that
England had ever seen. The British
people were not fighting Church
Ill. They we're fighting the system
of government and the interests
he represented.
We are not opposed to honest
business or to honest political
leaders, but we are opposed to
leaders in either political party
who are going to be used by the
enemies of labor. Any party that
believes that in this progressive,
dangerous age they can continue
to fight the masses of the people
and take it all for themselves are
just simply cutting their own
Threats.
They are going to destroy not
only their class, but destroy their
system in this country as they
have done in France, in Russia,
and are on the road to do in Eng
land unless they can be saved now
by the Labor Party, which is be-
ginning to travel down the road
towards eXtreme-ism.
The handwriting is on the wall.
Business, capital, political labor
matters beware! The days are not
far off when the masses in u
country may say "You and your
systems have failed. We are not
going to be isolationists. We will
JOIN up with all the other nations.
where the masses have taken over"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-19

OBSESSION: John O'Donnell of
the New York Daily News is still
fighting Franklin D. Roosevelt. In
his column of August 80, on the
Pearl Harbor report, he called the
late President: mo. l public enc
my of the United States in that
horrible and shocking disaster"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-08-16
No Soft Time For Japan

Hard times are ahead for Japan. It is not
to be supposed that the Supreme Commander,
General OF the Army Macarthur, who knows
the Japanese well, their treachery, their lust
for power their arrogance as few foreigners
do. will have any sentimental softness Tor the
nation, or its military caste, that sought by
conquest to rule Asia, and in tne attempt
nracticed barbarism that would have put the
hordes of Genghis Khan to shame.
They have no reason to think mat even
though they are permitted to retain their mlka
do this favor will give them chance to pre-
pare for further warfare. On the contrary II
is specifically explained in the terms LAID
down by President Truman and accepted by
the other three of the Big Four powers con-
cerned in peace in the Pacific, that Hlronlto
will be the spokesman, not OF them but OF the
occupying forces, and that General Macarthur
succeeds him as actual ruler.
We may be sure that Macarthur will be
fair in all his dealings, but fairness does
not imply softness. Japan must in actual TACT
make its own way back into the world COM
munity of nations, and radically change its
policies before it will deserve or receive
fellowship therein
Even So and in the full knowledge that
Macarthur will rule with just severity, Japan
is fortunate to get off so lightly. 1t has Jared
much better than its chief Axis partner, Ger
many, which had to be invaded and all but de-
stroyed before surrendering BY giving up now
Japan, battered though it has been, by plane
and warship and atomic bombs, can begin
the march back without the destruction in
which the European war ended for Germany.
When the war party has been destroyed, as
required by the Potsdam declaration, and her
industries have been transformed from war to
peace production there is no reason that Japan
should not work out its own salvation, it the
people, who have been led astray by the war
lords, take charge of their own affairs and
devote their efforts and lives to the pursuits OF
peace
The future of Japan, therefore, rests with
the japanese people. BY cooperating with Mac
Arthur now and ruling themselves when the
time for that comes, their future will lead
toward safer paths than they have trod for
mary a year.