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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
UNITY PAYS

If British labor has profited by the experience of the New Deal,
let me say that American labor learn even more from the ex-
British labor is so thoroughly united. Whatever differences of opinion
may prevail within the ranks of labor in England, there n no splits
and no divisions in the performance of their chief tasks. There is no
CIO-AFL split; there are no contendng groups in the political feld.
Policies hammered out in discussions are conclusive and binding on all
the components of the British Labour Party.
British labor has also shown an unusual capacity for winning the
confidence of elements other than the industrial population. Labour
Party candidates have scored victories not alone in industrial and
mining districts, but also among the middle class and even among
the farm population. Indeed, the label "Labour Party is a misnomer
under such circumstances, for under the emblem of the Labom Party
one will find all the liberal and progressive forces which in this
country do not commonly group themselves with labor.
1 have great faith that the British Labour Party will achieve the
success it deserves. I believe that without turmoil and turbulence, but
in observance of all the traditions of British life, and in observance
even of its ceremonial procedures, the labor government will put it's
program into effect to the advancement of the welfare of the people
Max zartsky, President, United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers
International Union (AFL).
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
The Ens|dved PEOPLES
Are Liberated
By JOSEPH DRAsLER
Formerly ON Associate Editor of ProIeforecl

By JOSEPH DRASLER

ride on b~ycicles, for in this coun-
try the bicycles take the place of
the automobile in our country. It
is surprising the amount of luggage
they are able to load on a bike.
The radio programs, now that
our army controls them in this
zone of occupation, arc almost
typical American programs you
get at home. The news, of course,
is broadcasted to the German peo-
pie in their own language. German
newspapers, the Munchener-Zei-
tung published in Munich, and the
Augsburger-AnZeiger published in
the American Army, are delivered
each week, coming by way of the
milk truck. They r SNAPPED up
avidly by the n~eWshungry people,
most of whom GO not have radios,
and if they do have them, they are
out of order and no supplies to
repair them. Eight weekly news
papers re being published in the
American zone of occupation. Their
total circulation is about five mil
lion, according to the army news,
paper. STARS and Stripes" This
makes about one paper for every
five Germans. Originally distribut-
ed free, the papers are now sold
for 20 pfenings, or about two cents
per copy. German civilians are SO
starved for news that secondhand
copies bring up to two marks -
200 times their original price, on
the black market. At the present
time papers are being published in
Frankfurt, Essen, Kassel, Heidel-
berg, Brunswick, Bamberg, Munich
and Cologne.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
in THE WIND
From THE NATION

EUGENE r. FLITCRAFT of
Chicago is having troubles with
his Gentle Business Directory"
a 152-page "handy shopping guide
for Gentiles who prefer to do bust
ness with Gentiles'' ($12), The
Chicago Better Business Bureau
reports that many of the listings
are unauthorized and inaccurate,
and a number of firms and indi-
viduals are considering legal action
on the ground that listing in such
a publication Injuries their reputa-
tons.
LOCAL "a, United Office. and
Professional Workers of America,
CLIO, claims a majority of the en-
ployees in Henry Ford's Chicago
office, and has filed a petition for
a National Labor Relations Board
election.
TIMING: In its issue of August
Is Time said, Last week Russia
was not ready-if she ever would
DE- to go to war with Japan"
(page 27, column p. Russia went
to war with Japan as readers are
aware, on August g..
THE CURRENT Q945) edition
of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
defines "Fascisti' as IAN Italian
organization, originated by patriots
Q919) to oppose all radical ele-
ments in the country"
WILLIAM DAMON, an artist of
Ocean City, New Jersey, was ar
rested on Sunday, July 20, while
painting a portrait. Major Clyde
Struble pointed out that a city or
dinance forbids unnecessary bust.
ness" on Sunday.
ROBERT CASADEUS was the
soloist in the final program of the
Bach-Mozart Festival at Tangle-
wood, Massachusetts,, August IL
A note on the printed program
warned the customers: Baldwin
Piano. (Mr. Casadeus uses the
Steinway Piano.)"
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, anc
Madison, Wisconsin,, are planning
to adopt the Philadelphia system
of taxing the incomes of daytime
citizens" who earn their money ir
the cities but live in the suburbs
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
BLACK MARKET
IN CHILDREN EXPOSED

A writer in the St. Louis Post
Dispatch - newspaper which is
edited with exceptional courage
and intelligence-tefls us there is
a ''black market in children" On
the plea that eve must win the
war;" state and federal regulations
have been relaxed and employers
have been quick to take advantage
of the situation.
Before the war, less than a mil
lion children between IA and II
yer employed. Now the number
is 2,750,000, and it is estimated
that before the year is out the to-
tai will reach 5000, 600.
"In many cases." the Children's
Bureau reports, 1.-The children have
been unable to earn enough to pay
their board, lodging and other ex-
penses."-The Union Leader, Chi
cago.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
DON'T SIT ON YOUR HANDS!

Congress came back to work September 5, its summer vacation
over and a long list of must legislation facing both Houses and
Senate. <a.#
Full, employment; Unemployment compensation; social security
changes; polltax repeal and permanent FEPC; better laws for veterans
aid; health; housing and the like are high on the peoples agenda.
Despite the crying need for such legislation, despite appeals by
President Truman, some forces in Congress r doing their utmost to
delay and frustate passage of the needed bills. These forces are on both
sides of Congress; Republican and Democratic alike.
In the House, for example, Rep. Doughton ID, N. c. uses his
position Is chairman of the Ways and Means Committee to throw cold
water N his own inadequate unemployment compensation bill-which
he introduced with the greatest reluctance and only after considerable
pressure. Rep. knutson, from the Republican side of the committee,
fights against any form of aid to the unemployed O. to the nations
purchasing power.
In the Senate, Sens. Byrd ID, Va) and Taft (R, o. vie with each
other in attacking the Klgore unemployment compensation bill. On
the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, Sens. Taft and Austin
Or, V) sing a duet of opposition to the full employment bill.
Predictions are freely made that both the Kigore bill aand the full
employment bill will be thoroughly enascu1ated before they are
passed These predictions are being made while the bills were still in
committee before Congress has formally reopened.
The answe to these predictions lies in the hands of the voters
back home. If they let themselves be heard in Congress now and
throughout n res of the session, they upset the predictions and
make Congress work for security and prosperity-The CLIO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
"soft" for "Kuiser Bills" Grandson

"Kaiser BilTs' grandson marries the daughter of a brewer! That
would have been impossible before the first World War, but the market
for royalty is weak" these days and threatens to get much weaker.
The charming bride is Lady Brigid Katharine Rachel Guinness.
Her forebears on the Guinness side piled up an immense fortune
through the sale of the famous stout which bears their name. They
accumulated S o much money that Lady Brigid's grandfather purchased
a title, Earl of Iveagh. That put the Guinness family in the top social
set, but still far removed from royalty.
However, when this started, Prince Friedrich George Wilhelm
Chritoph of Prussia was informed as ar enemy agent and shipped
to Canada. In the course of time he developed sufficient pull to get
back to England, visit at the great houses" and finally marry Lady
Brigid and her fortune.
We've been told many times that Kaiser Bill" started his world
war business. It's a little disconcering to find that his grandson has
been permitted to wander around loose and to finally get his hands on
one of the biggest bags of money in England-Labor, Washington, DC.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
223 MILLIONS PROFIT
WAR INSURANCE

Private insurance companies
passed up a fine piece of business
when they refused to issue policies
against war damage to property.
Uncle Sam took over the job and
cleaned up a profit of 1928, OOO,-
600, in spite of the fact that rates
were exceptionally low. Damages
amounted to only $4,000.
There is some controversy over
what should be done with the mo-
ney - whether to return it to
policyholders or keep it in the
Treasury. The decision will likely
be that, since the government took
the risk, it should retain the pro-
fits.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
UNRRA IS MIXED UP

News that the finances of the United Nations Relief Adminlstra-
ton, set up to dole out relief to starving populations in other parts Of
the world, n baled up to the point where a scandal impends is not
surprising.
That makes UNRRA fit with the capitalist system under which it
developed. For capitalism is just about the most ridiculousy snared
up piece of business the world has ever seen.
If it wasn't so serious it would be downright funny to watch the
antics of an economy who's managers III worried, almost to the point
of welcoming another war, by the prospect of having too many" peo-
pie to help them do the work that needs doing.
AS to UNNRA itself, our chief concern is not Sc much about how
the finances are accounted for. More important, w submit, is the
question of what purpose relief aims to accomplish.
What we think we SET is that food is about to be used for a quite
different purpose than merely to feed hungry people. The big purpose
of UNNRA is not nutriional, but political. The end sought is the paci-
fcation of large masses of people and the de-trackng of revolutionary
tendencies.
Once we a a runaway horse who had been captured. And as he
stood trembling and redeyed, seemingly wondering whether he had
not better make another break, his owner persuaded the animal to
accept a lump of sugar. Immediately poor old Dobbin quieted down
and permitted a halter to be slipped around his neck.
UNNRA is supplying the sugar. But close at hand stand the labor
exploters of the world ready to apply the halter of class control
Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
80 MILLION MEMBERS IN
RUSSIA'S RURAL CO-OPS

The cooperative movement in
the USSR numbers 38 million
members, according to Theodore
Bayer, writing in Soviet Russia
Today.
Each local cooperative is in full
control of it's business which is
conducted at open membership
meeting, the article states. The
consumers cooperatives of USSR
(Centrosoyuz) function today only
in the rural regions. In the cities
retail distribution is handled
through State shops and govern
ment controlled producing organi-
cations.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
How Not to Reduce Taxes

A simple, attractive and thoroughly deceptive tax proposal has
been made by Representative Knutson of Minnesota, number one
Republican on the House Ways and Means committee. He would cut
all personal income taxes 20 per cent.
Very easy indeed, and it has that nice look of imparta1ity which
is found in the worst tax system. Treat everybody alike. Make all
taxes one-hfth lower. The day laborer who now pays $40 will save
So. The man who pays 81, 100000 will save 100000. Right there is
where the joker becomes visible.
During the war, income taxes were laid on families whose earnings
were not enough to live n They were taken out of food and clothing
come tax at all. 1t should not have to. But the man who pays ST 100000
a year is just al able to do 81 tomorrow as yesterday, and there ire
sound reasons why he should.
Our tax system should be revised to maintain consumer buying
power at the bottom level of incomes, and absorb excess savings at
the top. Heavy taxation of huge incomes is necessary not only to pay
war costs, but, through the resulting government expenditures, to keep
these necessities. 1t is a typical and very shortsighted effort to restore
Andrew Melons tax system which did much to bring on the great
depression of the nineteen thirties-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
THAT'S RICH

Congressman are returning re-
freshed from vacation to Wrestle
with the problem of unemploy-
ment. Many of them are deter
mined to make this the biggest
apple-selling year since Hoover
turned the corner.
The Gallup poll and other gath
erers of straws in the wind express
amazement at the fact that women
now employed in industry say that
they want to continue on their
jobs
Imagine! Girls thinking that
butter goes good with bread.
Milly, our favorite millinery
worker, is convinced the war is
over. She danced with fellas twice
last week.
Senator Bilbo, Mississippi's
champion hate peddler, believes
Hitler is still alive and wants a
reward of a million dollars offer
ed for his capture.
Just can't stand the competi-
ton, Ell?
Communists who previously
considered Earl Browder to be the
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
Continued)

After our regiment fought for
Kaiserlautern and captured the
large german city, we moved in
and took over what was left. There
were dead horses all over the
roads, and shattered euipment of
all kinds everywhere. Poles and
Russians and other liberated peo-
piles were overloaded with bundles
trudging along-and still looking
around the debris for something
else they could add to their posses
sions. And from everywhere along
the roads came the prisoners-all
ages-giving themselves up by the
hundreds. This happened all over
Throughout our advance, and the
prisoners multiplied SO fast that
we hardly handle them. When we
went into Kassel, which was al
most completely destroyed by our
planes with fire-bombs, the Ger
mans were still turning out tiger
tanks in a huge factory in one end
of the city while we were invading
the opposite end.
While in Nurnburg, we saw a u.
S. 0. show at the famous Sports
palatz, Luitpoldarena, the largest
stadium in the world. At one end
there was a huge podium from
which Der Fuehrer addressed the
cheering throngs before we came
along and spoiled his game. From
this mammoth stage we saw our
own show, five hundred of us, and
we felt lost in this place. AS l re-
member, there were four slender
columns in back of this great stage,
on which there still were huge
panels decorated with swastikas.
On either side of these banners
were two great, bronze, German
eagles; one of them had holes
through it and a part of the outer
wall was also damaged, otherwise
the great masses of white stone
were unframed, while Nurnberg,
Nuremberg, city itself was in COM
plete ruins.
In southern Germany trains are
running but it is all military traf-
fic, either American or German
troops being shifted around or our
food and gas supplies coming in.
in this part of the country rail-
roads e not damaged except in
the larger cities where they had
slzeable railroad yards. It differs
quite a bit from what the Germans
did In France where all bridges
were destroyed and miles upon
miles of railroads systematically
blown up, by tying a few sticks
OF dynamite to the rails every SO
feet and setting the explosives of
simultaneously with electric prim-
erS.
The only transportation the
villagers have is the daily milk
truck which picks up as many as
he can load on top o his milk cans
The stream of returning German
soldiers and refugees along with
others shifting from place to place
is endless. Most of them, however
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12

fount of all knowledge, and the
pure source of their ~unalterable
convictions, have changed their
line. They now think that Browder
is nothing but a dirty Browderite.
RECONVERSION: Where men
who were formerly told to stick to
the job are told there are no jobs
to stick to.
Add useful information:
Blue points are a variety of
oyster and not, as some believe,
a kind of stamp. c. Rich.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
DINING

We may live without poetry, music
and art;
We may live without conscience
and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we
may live without books;
But civilized man can not live
without cooks.
He may live without books-What
is knowledge but %grieving?
He may live without hope-what
is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love-What
is passion but pining?
But where is the man who ear live
without dining?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
COAL SUPPLY

cessation OF hostiities with Japan has produced cancellation of
millions upon millions of dollars of wa contracts, with the resultant
slackening in the demand of coal.
AS was to be expected, the scare stories about the shortage of coal
for the fall and winter of 1945-1946 have lessened somewhat, but there
persists current reports from Washington of a probably shortage.
How such a shortage may come about has not been explained, for
ne simple fact remains that there II enough miners available to pro
duce all the coal needed in the country - and for export to Europe
a we'll
All the miners need is a chance to work seady-The Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
SOME DEFINITIONS

Public opinion: What people
think other people r thinking.
An optimist: A crossword puzzle
fan who starts with a fountain pen.
Remote control: The kind most
parents have over their children.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
I'VE" DID 1T

1--WE" DID 1T
The performing flea and an ele-
plant crossed a jungle bridge to-
gether.
"Oh, boy" whispered the flea In
the elephants ear, we certainly
made that bridge shake!"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12

of system that will fit American
capitalist interests.
It's a dirty deal, to be sure. It's
a threat of economic isolationism
and a policy more calculated TO
force all of Europe into the Soviet
orbit than to achieve the democ-
racy for which Americans thought
they were fighting. But it's just
the kind of thing that might have
been expected. Certainly, if it is
good policy to lend-lease billions
of wealth and sacrifice millions of
lives for the preservation of a
prlvate-profit economy, it is not
good to continue helping people
who ready to scrap that
economy in their own nations. So
American capitalists obviously are
reasoning.
The way American policy
makers are acting now - and the
promptness with which they take
that action-would not be consid-
ered sensible in any walk of life.
Imagine a policeman who ar
rests thugs in the act of beating
a citizen to death. He sends the
offender to Jail, but he does not
leave the victim PROSTATE in the
| gutter.
What would be done in that
case is that the beaten man would
be hurried to a hospital and cared
for, not forever, but until he is
again able to care for himself.
But the U. S. A. now is ready
10 let its badly-injured companions
IN struggle take care of them
selves unless they submit to the
wishes of labor exploiters.
Naturally, it may be argued, a
capitalist economy can not be ex-
pected to help Britain and the rest
of Europe establish Socialism. If
the British plan for the elimina-
ton of the profit system is sue
cessful the workers of America
will have an object lesson from
which they may profit.
Just as naturally, however, a
Socialist America would not act
that way. If this nation of ours
were owned by the people who in
habit it, and if wealth were being
produced for use instead of for
profit, A America policymakers
would be just as eager to see So
clalism succeed in other nations
as capitalists r to preserve in
! ter%national capitalism.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12

l Am NOT prepared to argue
that the Roosevelt policy of lend
lease should continue forever;
there is nc reason why this nation
should work to supply the needs
of the whole world without receiv-
ing adequate compensation.
On the other hand, however, /
suggest for the consideration of
thoughtful American workers that
the abolition of lend-lease was
fastened by the victory of the
British Labor Party with a So
cialist program.
Had the British Tories been kept
in power, and if the Labor Party
had been rejected by as large a
majority as the one which swept
it into poWer-and especially of
all of the rest of Europe were not
showing unmistikable signs of
swinging to the left - lendlease
probably would have been ended
some time, but not now.
For then the Sokolskys and the
Peglers, and all the rest of those
high-priced defenders of status
quo. who are paid to write what
big business wants workers to
read, would not have overstepped
themselves as they did when they
shouted against helping Socialist
Britain build a new order. And
then the policymakers of Amer
lea would have seen-as any in
telligent person must see - that.
although the shooting has stopped,
the war will not really be over
until the wounds of the war are
at least in the process of healing
and at least those who we're Amer
ica's allies are able to do necessary
things for themselves.
WHAT WE CAN expect now
and this is what this column has
been predicting - is another plan
which will enable capitalist Amer
lea to help Britain and the rest
of Europe under conditions SETS
factory to the owning class of the
u. S. A.
For practically avery nation in
Europe = and this is as true OF
England as it is of any nation on
the mainland-food is of first i'm,
portance.
Now, with the lend-lease at an
end, American reactionaries are
hoping to use food as a weapon t.
force the world to accept the kim
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
DEFINITIONS
INDEPENDENT VOTER:

INDEPENDENT VOTER: One
who believes that either a Repub-
lican or Democrat administration
is bad for the country but foolish
ly votes for one or another of them.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12
TRY 1T IN SOUTH O
Broadcaster Frank Kingdol

Broadcaser Frank Kingdom, subbing for Winchel, Sunday night
bated this one out: Secretary of State Bynes wants to have a free
election in Bulgaria to see if it works there, Sc he can try it out later
on South Carolina"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12

JAIL: Place of refuge where
criminals are housed and fed at
public expense of 85c a day, while
the honest unemployed are allow
ed 15c a day per person.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-09-12

INDIVIDUALISM: The right of
a few to be born owning millions
and the many to be born not own
ing a diaper, slave through a life
time and die paupers.
Evening star., 1945-09-08
Nazi War Criminals
Accusing Each Other
10 Save Themselves

| BY the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Sept. S.-Nazi ring
leaders are Switching" on each
other while being questioned for
their war crime trials, member OF
the United States Interrogation
staff said today.
This source did not disclose who
was telling what on whom, but said
there were several cases where the
defendants we're pointing fingers ac-
Icusingly at ex-colleagues In appar-
ent efforts to gain consideration for
themselves.
Prisoners Bearing Up Well.
Col. John H. Amen's staff of in
terrogators. now increased to IS, is
busy "all day, every day. it was
reported, questioning the growing
population of the Nuremberg prison
and witnesses
| The prisoners are bearing up well
physically except for former Foreign
Minister Joachim Won Ribbentrop,
who is showing recurring neu-
ralgic condition" jailers said. Some
are showing mental strain and de-
preston, however, and psychiatrists
have been rushed here from Paris
to take their places on duty in the
cell blocks along with doctors and
dentists.
The latest arrivals were a group