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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
so WE DON'T NEED A LABOR PARTY?
Editor Of Local AZ News" Organ
BY JERRY KOTZ

Editor of Local AZ News" Organ of IUMsW-CIO
Brother, it's ten to one that you don't know that Congress fixed it
so that your boss could kick you out of a job, close up shop and spend
the next two years on vacation and still make a much money as he
might if he stayed open.
Or he can operate way below productive capacity and if he doesn't
will make up the difference out of a kitty of 81 billion dollars put aside
just for Industry.
Yes, that deal goes for your boss, your neighbours boss almost
everybodys boss. AS a wage and union busting measure, there wa
never anything to equal it.
AS for you, suckers, Congress might not even give you the promises
they never keep, and after all, you fellows seem to fall for those
promises and over again. You know, your kids must eat-so take
what w e give or else"
And, Brother, they aren't kidding. Business could ven change its
tactics and give u a 10 Or Is per cent increase. Then raise prices to
get that and more back.
Yes, sir; they have us by the - OF SC they think. Mavba this
time they have gone a little too far.
Congress pulled this cutie" in the middle of the wal. They called
it tax refund legislation. 1t went through without any fuss r. noise
The President signed the legislation 1t is the Law And babv it's y
-unlon-bushng fund If ever there a one.
Millions of service e and workers can't ven ret Congress to
guarantee jobs at a hallway decent wage, but when Business interests
are involved, Congress works speedily, and quietly and generously.
Jimmy, how much longer arr w going to be suckers? We re the
majority. Why in hell should we let them pull deals like this? We and
to have to argue for anything like a sub-standard minimum wage of
6c an hour. ~,
We could change all these things quickly. This tax deal was put
over by The Democratic and Republican parties. The legislative record
is a testimonial to the business interests they represent.
A Labor Party might not elect it's representatives in its first election
people and not just a money-hungry minority, that it wouldn't take
long. And while the men of good will in both parties would be at
tracted to u party even the politicians of the old parties would never
again dare to pull anything a raw as the grabs thew engineered for
Big Business in the second world war.
1t is a fact that many of the sam labor leaders who dance with
JOY every time a politician makes a promise r. the same ones who keep
saying, this is not the time for a Labor Party"
It's time they were made to sing a different tune.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
A SUCCESS OF THE WORLD LABOR
CONFERENCE IN PARIS

The success of the world labor conference in Paris is in striking
contrast to the failure of the Foreign Minister'S meeting in London.
Where Byrnes failed to reconcile Bevin and MoIotov, Sidney Hillman
achieved a compromise between Sir Walter Chrine and Vasili Kuz-
netsov. On the eighth day of the conference the formation of a World
Federation of Trade Unions was announced. The Russian demand for
permanent organization wa met and so were British reservations. AS
a result, the Executive Committee of the permanent WITH can amend
the constitution during the next two years subject to confirmation by
the general council. During that period also officials of the old IFTU
oe carried n for adherence to the WITH of existing international trade
secretarlats4 On the question of voting, the credentials committee e.
ported that Russia, representing 1000 600 workers, will have fortyo ne
votes; Great Britain and France, each credited with about 5000, 600
workers, will have % votes each; and the United States, represented
only by the CLIO, will have twenty-five. By refusing to participate in
the e labor organization, the ALL and John L. Lewis have insured
a great preponderance of votes to the Russians. Sir Walter Ctrine has
been elected president of the new body, permanent headquarters of
Wh1ch Will be Paris. Louis Sainant, the secretary-general, comes from
the french resistance, in which he gave able and daring leadership.
and the new formation needs strong leadership if it is to play its role
Ill the transition to a democraticanly planned society-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
ROGER BABSON TELLS
A "WHOPPER"

Roger Babson is a great hypo-
critic and also a pestiferous propa-
gandist. When he isn't delivering
Sunday school sermons, he is pre-
~varicating about organized labor or
endeavoring to sell someone a
scheme to get rich on the stock ex-
change. He also writes a column for
the papers.
Recently he told a story about a
young service man who wired Bah
son for a loan, saying he was
broke" and couldn't go to work
unless he paid a union $40.
Babson didn't identify the union.
He didn't identify the service man.
Instead, he proceeded to traduce
trade unions.
There is little democracy in a
big labor union," he said. Mem
bers vote as ordered; they have far
less freedom than the stockholders
of any corporation"
We know something about labor
unions, and we know something
about how corporations are run.
We never knew a trade union
which didn't give it's members ten
times as much information about
it's affairs as any of the big corpo-
ratiOns.
Furthermore, every union we
know is going the limit to aid re-
turning service men. There's moth
ing surprising about that, for hun
dreds of thousands of the service
men belong to trade union families.
Babson is not SO stupid that he
doesn't know all this, but, like
other prOpagandists, he doesn't give
a boot for the truth SO long as his
racket" continues to pay him
handsome returns.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
O
GERMANY

The Communist leader Wilselm
PECK, in a speech in Berlin on
September 10 sharply protested
against the temperance of old
leaders of the Social Democratic
party in leading party positions.
The former Social Democratic
Deputy, DR.. Schumacher, who
spent 10 years in a Nazi concentra-
ton camp, declared at the first So
clal-democratic mass meeting in
Hlldesheim, that PECK "jeopar-
died collaboration between the
Socialist and Communist Parties"
He added: "The leaders of u par
~ r elected exclusively by the
members of our party. We do not
allow anyone to interfere in the
choice of persons. Anyone who
would make such an attempt would
face u resistance. AS for the re-
possibility for the advent of naz-
SIN shared by part of the German
abor movement, it rests on those
VINO have completely misjudged the
Importance of democracy in the
political and class struggle lie. the
-P). In the interest of the new
Germany we would prefer to leave
his subject alone, but we are not
lfraid of any discussion The
social Democratic Party was the
'nly party in Germany which never
1eVlated from the line of democ-
cacy and peace. History has fully
indicated this Social Democratic
Party line"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
HALF OF BRITAIN's
FAMILIES ARE NOW
COOP AFFILIATES

MANCHESTER, England (CLNS)
THE British cooperative move
ment has now attained a numerical
strength which includes half the
families of the country" the Co.
operative News declares in sum-
marizlng statistics for 1914 COM
piled by the Cooperative Union.
During 1914, the Centenary yea
OF the cooperative movement, the
total membership of retail GOODS
reached a total of 1925, 24O, a net
increase for the year of 143 ,O22.
Since most coop memberships are
held by heads of families, this in
cludes over one half of the con-
sumers in Great Britain.
Over Million in London
seven local cooperatives have
more than loo, 900 members each.
The London Coop Society leads
the list with 832,67O members. The
Royal Arsenal Coop Society, also
serving a section of London not
served by the London Society, has
a membership of 33O,235, so that
the number of coop members in
greater London is well over one
million.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
I'M THE WIND
From THE NATION

SCIENCE: Every sensitive hu-
manitarian,' says a letter in the
San Francisco Chronicle of Sept.
26, has reacted in horror to the
savage atomic bomb. AS a social
istic project under a New Deal
brain trust of starry-eyed profess
sors it is a fragrant example of the
dangers Of government meddling
in the field of free enterprise.
These same reformers now want a
federal department of science to
allow these same dreamers to con-
tinue their experiments, the end in
view being, no doubt, to develop
such new cheap sources of power
as to undermine our way of life
under private enterprise"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
Professor Pleads for More Rich Men:

what this country needs is a good scent cigar" said Vice Presi-
dent Marshall shortly after the First World War.
Marshall "a a "piker" compared to DR.. Wilford l. King, New
YORK University professor of economics, who is now touring the coun-
TRY speaking to business mems organizations Is a propagandist for
frank E.. Gannetts COMMITTEE for Constitutional Government"
what this country needs" the 65-year-old professor says, lis more
rich men"
Fol good measure, he adds that the country needs to abolish all
apo unions, and pass a constitutional amendment limiting taxes on
even the biggest incomes to Is per cent.
King apparently believes, but does not quite dare saw, that the
country also needs to deprive the poo of their votes.
ne system II vote for one man" he said in a recent talk
att chicago, has enabled the poor to rob the rich through income axe
just IS effectively as if they did it with guns"
n eXtrerm opinions of this "mossback" professor would not he
important II he were not backed by Gannetts organization, which is
lavishly subsidized by wealthy men.
1t uses this money to spread rich mems r.o rro,ob uno,l,
es X King through employers, through a monthly magazine dis
trlouted tree to millions of farmers, and through "Ameucas Future ;"
o free magazine for the general public.
nj magazine savagey attacks unions and progressive legislation,
nt II never ellis who is paying for this propaganda. So far. it has not
1ooleon many OF tn American people-Labor, WASHINGTON. D c.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
$50 Million Sales Rise

The IA sales of retail co-ops
totaled $1,4O9, 900 900, an increase
for the year of over $50 million.
Most of this increase, in fact, rep
resents volume increase, and not
much of it can be attributed to
price changes or increased taxa
tlon," the News declares.
Sept. 80 the London Coop COM
pleted its first Is years of existence.
1t was formed by merger of several
smaller co-ops at that time. In its
fiscal year just closing, it will do
a business estimated at nearly $50
million. The savings to members
during the year will be approx
mately 81 million.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
In FREEDOMS CAUSE

Obviously, the Dutch and French ire unable to restore their hated
rule over the Netherlands East Indies and French Indo-China without
outside aid. No such aid should be given them.
which are as yet mprepared for full independence, is United Nations
trusteeship, designed and administered to prepare the people for in
dependence at the earliest feasible time. Admittedly, where colonial
rule is at present effective in preventing revolution, such trusteeship,
for the time being, is blocked by the possessing powers. That, however,
is n O reason why America should not push for its immediate application
in areas where the alternatives to trusteeship m chaos or outside aid
for overlords who III unable to make the natives knuckle under
America cannot dodge its responsibility in these matters. In Asia's
eyes u strength is the primary power upon which white dominion
must rest. Let is tell the colonial masters that they will have no
support from is in reconquering their" natves-neither moral sup
port nor such tangibles as shipping. Let us also urge the British, re-
CARELESS of their own plans for colonial territories under their rule,
rot to us British armed forces to compel acceptance of Dutch and
French rule.
If the Dutch and French will not give way to trusteeship now,
requiring them to stand alone against native rebelions might fairly
soon induce them to change their minds-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

peace conference after World War
II might aptly be summarized by
the single sentence
CAPITALISM DIES HARDw
That is the meaning of the
troublesome and ominous events
that already are casting the threat
of a resumption of warfare over
the world. The old order of free
enterprise and competitive COM
merce has been reduced to rubble.
But the beneficiaries of capitalism,
organized into groups called ma
tions," are trying to salvage their
own vested interests from the
ruins.
Socialists r not happy about
the manner of capitalism's passing
1t was to prevent this very death
agony, as manifested by depres,
sions, wars and threats of war, tina,
Socialists in all countries organic
ed, agitated and educated.
There are many shallow think
ers who believe that the primary
objective of Socialists has been tc
destroy the existing economic sys-
tenn and social order. They are
wrong; the big job which Socialists
wanted done is the Inauguration OF
a new economy and a new society
AN economy based upon produc-
ton for use instead of for profit,
a society recognizing the dignity OF
human beings of all races and ma
tons; a society in which coopera-
ton, rather than competition,
would be the pattern of human
activity; a society in which nation
al boundary lines would cease to
be spite fences.
Long before "isolationist" was
adopted as a New Deal" swear
word, and before Wendell Willkie
spoke of the need for economic
internationalism," Socialists were
paying a heavy price for singing
OF the day when "the information.
al party shall be the human race
The point to all this is that So,
cialists recognized that merely to
aim at the destruction of the old
order was both negative and need
less-negative because destruction
merely creates a vacuum; needless
because, as Socialists tried to make
plain, every economic and socia
order carries within itself the seeds
of its destruction and the day
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
RECORD PRICE FOR
WAINWRIGHT STORY

General Jonathan N. Wainwright,
hero of Bataan," is writing his ex-
periences in a japanese prison
camp and they will be printed in a
series of articles by many of the
nations newspapers.
King Features Syndicate is said
to have paid Wainwright $155, 900
for his literary effort, the largest
price ever paid for a newspaper
serial.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
SO BILLION LOSS ON
SURPLUS WAR GOODS

Fifty billion dollars! That is what
Uncle Sam is going to lose in the
disposal of surplus var materials
according to the House Expendi-
lures Committee, which is drafting
legislation to improve disposal
methods.
The sum which taxpayers will
have to write off, it was pointed
out, is more than the entire ma
tional income in 1888.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
NCapita|ism Dies Hard"
BY RAYMOND HOFSES
Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

could not long be postponed when
the present order would become
rotten with its own corruption and
collapse of its own weight.
The further point is that the
Socialist program has been posi-
tive and desperately needed be-
cause acceptance of Socialism by
the peoples of the world would
enable a new order to be born
when the old one died without the
pains which humanity already has
been forced to suffer for more
than a generation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
MEDICINE: Lonnie Hearo,

MEDICINE: Lonnie Hearon, a
sixteen-year-old Negro, was badly
burned in a gasoline fire at a Mem
phis garage on September %. In
response to a call at private firm
sent an ambulance to take him to a
hospital. But it was an ambulance
for white people only, and when
the driver saw that the victim was
a Negro he left him lying on the
ground and drove away. An am
bulance for Negroes came some
time later. Lonnie Hearon died
next day.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24
EX-LABOR SECRETARY
WILL TEACH

Miss Frances Perkins, who was
Secretary of Labor throughout
Roosevelt's four terms, will begin
her new duties at Radcliffe College
in January. She will teach a man.
agement training program in the
graduate school.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

GOVERNMENT: Tamon Mayeda,
who was Japan's Minister of Edu-
cation in the Higashi-Kuni govern
ment and has been reappointed by
Premier Shidehara, was formerly
director of the Japan Institute, Z
pre-war propaganda outfit with
offices in Radio City, New York.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

: RELIGION: The Comeback Inn,
Phoenix, Arizona, states in a bro
chure, Clientele is rigidly restrict
ed to 125 Gentiles. Priding itself
on the quality of it's patrons, the
inns 100 per cent restricted policy
has met with wide approval from
old guests"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

fighting against a wage cut. For
strikers could really upset the
equanimity of the American CAPT.
talist if to their wage demands
they added the desire to make an
end of the system whose existence
depends on industrial unrest
The Call.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

STRIKE! IF we are really seri-
GUS about sometime intoxicating the
japanese with our democratic doc
trines," said the New York Herald
Tribune on September 26, base
ball would seem to be an excellent
way to start"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

QUESTION: William E. Laurence
of the New York Times, who OBJ
served the effects of the atomic
bomb in New Mexico and over Ma
gasaki, stated recently, atomic
energy is here to stay; the question
is whether we are"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

honor and shame from no condi-
sion rise; act well your part, there
oil the honor lies.-Pope.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1945-10-24

The alarming failure of the first
peace conference after World War
II might aptly be summarized by
Evening star., 1945-07-29

Port Of the proerom to bring
Americon agriculture to the
conquered soil Of the Morionos,
these imported porkers moke
themselves OF home under their
poIm covered piepens. The
proerom is designed TO give
fresh vegetables and meot to
servioemen, hosp;toIs getting
first priority.
Evening star., 1945-07-29

the Boodcostne
rockine Dough- combination comedy ond
Adoms model
OF funet
Ted while ehet dort collier Fronk
BY hot
N on the fun-heor Dots for Dough"
Evening star., 1945-02-25
Informal Parties
In Alexandria

Several small parties have marked
the week end, the festivities ending
with the informal party given last
evening by Col. and Mrs. Floyd
Wood.
Another party Of yesterday was
given by Mrs. Thomas Tedley, who
entertained at luncheon at the
Mayflower Hotel.
Earlier in the week Mrs. Lloyd
Partridge was hostess at luncheon,
entertaining a group of friends
Wednesday afternoon at the Army
and Navy Club.
Maj. and Mrs. Samuel E. Mar
quart entertained at George
Washington birthday party Thurs
day for their daughter Jane.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Waterman
Of New York are the guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Neil s. Waterman.
Maj. and Mrs. John C. A. Walker
are entertaining as their guests 1t.
Col. Tarleton H. Walker, COM
manding offlcer at Millville, N. j.,
and Mrs. Walker.
Mrs. Darlington King Of La
Grange, Ga, Is visiting her son-in-
law and daughter, Ensign and Mrs.
John w. Vaught, and is making the
acquaintance Of her new grandson,
John Darlington Vaught.
Maj. and Mrs. William s. Staub
have as their guest Mrs. M. Arnold
Of Romney, w. Va.
Mrs. NJ Anderson and her young
niece, Barbara Ray Anderson, are
here from Summerville, N. j., and
are the guests of Ensign and Mrs.
Albert A. Anderson.
Mrs. Aubra Shuman has left for
visit in California.
Col. and Mrs. Thomas K. Vincent
and their small son Trevert are
visiting in Kingston, Pa.
Col. r. E. Stafford has gone to
Florida to visit his son, Capt. Lewis
Edward Stafford, who is in Orlando,
1t. Comdr. and Mrs. Tulon L.
jackson returned Monday from a
visit in New York.
Evening star., 1945-02-25
Drama Groups 10 Sponsor
Jewish Center Program

A program sponsored by various
Washington theater interests and
drama groups will be presented at
3:l5 pm. next Sunday at the Jew
ish Community Center.
Drama critics of the four WASH
ington papers will participate in
a panel discussion Of the profess
sional theater. Talks will be made
by the Rev. Gilbert v. Hartke Of
the Catholic University Drama De-
partment and Edward P. Mangum,
director of the Mount Vernon
Players Of the Mount Vernon
Methodist Church. The Municipal
Theater will be discussed by Charles
Stofberg.
A miniature revue, with songs
written for the occasion, also will be
presented. Tickets may be OBJ
tanned by calling the District In
formation Service at Republican
5819.
Evening star., 1945-02-25
Calvary Baptist Church
10 Observe Youth Week

Youth Week at Calvary Baptist
Church, Eighth and H streets NV,
will begin tomorrow. A panel dis
cussion, open house and banquet
will be held during the week,
The following events have been
arranged: Monday, cleanup night;
Tuesday, panel discussion on "Whe-
ther or Not We Want Postwar Con-
scription"; Wednesday, prayer meet
ing; Thursday, open house at
homes OF various young people; Fri
day, banquet at church; Saturday,
church door canteen for service men
and women; Sunday, sermons to be
delivered by Carl Tiller and Ensign
Harry Gates, members Of the group.
Evening star., 1945-02-25

his degree from the University of
Oregon in 1926. He entered the Navy
and served at various stations in the
Far East and aboard ship. He was
wounded in the Tarawa invasion.
During the last year he has served
as liaison officer between the Bureau
of Medicine and Surgery Of the Navy
and the Marine Corps.
Capt. Moore holds the Legion Of
Merit, won at Tarawa, where, ac-
cording to his citation, ''the fine rec
ord of performance of medical units
was in large part due to his out
standing leadership and courage in
the face Of the enemy"
Evening star., 1945-02-25
General Gets
| Town Before
He Expects It
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WITH THE 9th ARMY, Feb. a.
The commanding general Of the
forces assigned to attack Rurich
yesterday got that old German
city miles north OF Juelich some
what before he expected it.
He had ordered his infantrymen
pushing north to stand by for an
attack on the town after an artil-
lery barrage. He was pacing the
floor in his command post, waiting
for the roar of the opening guns.
His field telephone rang.
Tell the general Rurich is HIS
the caller reported.
Capt. Alcee Peters, Monroe, La,
and his doughboys had decided to
try to inflltrate and capture Rurich
before the artillery barrage started.
It worked.
Evening star., 1945-02-25
Sixth Anniversary Of Plus
Coronation 10 Be Marked

In commemofation of the sixth
anniversary Of the coronation OF
Pope Plus XII, a high mass will be
sung in the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception at Catholic
University March IL with the Right
Rev. Francesca Lardone, director of
studies of the ecclesiastical school at
the university, as celebrant. The
sermon will be preached by the Most
Rev. Martin j. O'Connor, auxiliary
bishop of the diocese of Scranton,
Pa.
Msgr. Lardone is native of Italy
and has been member of the
faculty of Catholic University since
August, 1924. Bishop O'Connor was
ordained in Rome in 1924.
Evening star., 1945-02-25
THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington D. c.
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY IS, le45.

gon Law School, told the Washing
ton Lawyers Guild yesterday at a
luncheon in the Hotel Continental
Senator Morse said his experience
as member of the War Labor
Board left him with this memory
of lawyers contributions to discus
sions Of the issues: Flag waving
phrases ana constitutional cliches." /"
Both union lawyers and those
representing employers were guilty
of such attempts to obscure the