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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
Make the Lobbyists Confess

In the big squeeze o n Henry Kaiser we SEE q clear definition of
what free enterprise means to big business 1t doesn't mean free
enterprise at all. 1t means monopoly.
Big business is trying to put Henry Kaiser out of business because
he really believes in free enterprise and what big business economically
pictures a the American way" in its mult-milion-doIEa advertising
campaign.
to preserve the competitive system,' Henry Kaiser answered
those ads.
He entered the automobile business. But the big automobile manu-
facturerS did not believe in the competitive system when it applied
to them.
And when Mr.. Kaiser signed a union contract, the steel industry
decided that wasn't the American way" So it refused to sell steel to
Mr.. Kaiser. Without steel, Mr.. Kaiser can't build automobiles. Unless
he builds automobiles he can't pay the high wages he accepted in his
contract and thousands of Americans will be out of work.
Is that the American way big business has been talking about?
When Mr.. Kaiser testified before Congress that the OPA had been
fair to business a well as to the public all the monOpoLes of America
joined the fight against him.
In the Kaiser case, free enterprise is actually IN trial for its life
IN the United States. If Mr.. Kaiser loses, free enterprise will be dead.
We must then face the fact that we are living in a totaltaran economy
regimented by the automobile industry, the steel industry and the
tInancerS who manipulate all industry.
Mr.. Kaiser is in trouble because he paid the highest wages ever
paid in the automobile industry, because he refused to enter into a
conspiracy to break organized labor and because he insisted on pro
tecting the wages of all Americans by continuing the OPA.
The antitrust laws supposedly guarantee him the right to compete
with other industrahsts.
Unless the federal government can enforce those laws, the United
States will have become an industrial dictatorship-The International
Teanster.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
Why Control Private Property?

A friendly critic who calls himself a "iberal-WhichW we suppose
he is-haS advised us to stop arguing for social ownership Of the means
Of production and distribution and to emphasize a demand for more
government controls of private corporations.
We shall not follow his advice.
The fact is that we just don't want to manage the other fellows
property. We don't think that's fair and there is plenty of evidence
at hand to prove that it hasn't worked.
Why should we expect a private individual to invest his money
in a business and then tell him how to run his business? No, there's
something bad about that even if it works.
But the fact is that it isn't working. The owners arc showing us
that they will either have government controls that suit them or
they just won't invest. One result of the refusal of private capitalists
60 go to work under unsatisfactory conditions is the present shortage
of homes. The government can tell them the price at which they must
tent and sell homes, but they can't make them build. That's why
many people are looking for homes that don't exist. That, too, is why
shirts and shorts and nyons are hard to get. That's one reason why
butter has been absent from the dinner table.
However, if you think we're talking like Senator Taft please read
what follows:
While we don't want government to run" private business we
us and Sen. Taft is that we want the people, through their government,
TO OWN the industries
We want the people of America to run" their own business.
The trouble with the government controls about which the back
to normalcy' crowd is complaining and which private business is sabo-
tagging is that they don't go far enough.
The people of America should SCI to it that those controls extend
beyond saying what industry shall not do, and say what industry
shall do.
We can't very we'll do that SO long as we depend upon private
capital with nothing but the hope of profits to keep them going. So
we should depend upon ourselves.
Let's sOcialIZe industry. Let's make the economy of the nation the
property of the people. Let's u our own misunderstanding Labor
Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
TWENTIES TOO OLD

AS if there weren't enough
troubles in maintaining the morale
of the postwar Army, there have
been complaints recently that the
USO hostesses - pretty misses in
their 20's-are too old for the 49,
year-olds now being drafted.
Young men of that age just don't
like to dance with the Older" girls,
the Special Service office at nearby
Fort Belvoir recently told the
Washington USO. At Belvoir, it
was said there are $4,000 youths
who just have passed their 18th
birthday.
One officer described the young
men as refugees from a Coca-Cola
bar and the junior prom"
No one really knows how to
straighten out this situation, I'M
less it be the drafting of teenage
women to serve their country and
its men under arms as USO host
esses.-(From The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
President Green Wos Conservative

president William Green Of the A. F. of [. complains that Congress-
has been much more generous to corporations than to workers. That's
true.
government. The executive agencies, which made contracts during the
a emergency and which worked out settlements after the fighting
was over, we're also more than generous to Big Business"
Two items which appeared on the financial pages of the daily
press sin one day speak eloquently:
General Motors profits for l945 total $188y 258, 115. Perhaps this
will explain why c. M, during the long srike-which tied up it's
plants but did not necessarily shut off its profts-strenuousIy pro
tested against any attempt to examine is books.
Then Cities Service, the tremendous holding company built up by
the late Henry L. Doherty. Readers Of LABOR will recall how prac-
tcaLy all the newspapers told us that the passage of the Wheeler
Rayburn Holding Company bill would nfHct frightfuL damage on
such huge financial structures.
Cities Service stock was selling for almost nothing at that time
and Cities Service bonds were far below par.
Now, largely IS the result of war profits, Cities Service a number
OF days ago printed In a New York paper "te largest financial adver-
tsement that has appeared in recent years. 1t covers five pages and
contains the numbers of the bonds called by Cities Service, altogether
S35O 100000.
1t won't be necessary for Cities Service although it wa on the
II bankruptcy a few years ago, to borrow a dollar to consummate
this tremendous transaction.
These are just two examples. Obviously, President Green was not
CONGRATULATIONS.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
OTHERS SEE US

To the Editor: The people who
are saying hard things about So
Wet foreign policy might gain a
better understanding of the situa-
ton if they would put the shoe
on the other foot. If, for example,
the Soviet Union Cd possessed
the secret of the atomic bomb and
(2) were doing its best to keep it
from US, meanwhile 60 building
up a stock-pile of the bombs, "a
maintaining an army larger than
ever before in it's history and 60
a navy larger than all the other
navies of the world combined, and
CO. proposing to continue the
wartime draft and CD introduce
universal compulsory military
training in time of so-called peace;
if 90 she allowed her army and
navy officers to talk openly of
attacking us before we should
have time to recover from our war
effort and perhaps to make our
own atomic bombs, (9) carried on
a press and radio campaign to
foment suspicion and hostility
toward us, (10) seized and held
military bases along our frontiers
ICELAND, Greenland, the islands
of the Pacific), (11) sent a naval
expedition into northern waters
for special training in Arctic war
fare, C12) maintained armed forces
at our very gates GUS. Marines,
planes and ships in Manchuria,
U. S. troops and anti-Soviet armies
in India, Germany, Italy, Greece.)
(13) proposed for 1947-tWo years
after the War-a military budget
greater than that of any other
country, with a higher percentage
of expenditure for military pur-
poses than was made by Germany
or Japan when they were actively
preparing for war, and if (14) the
Greek Catholic Church were Of
fering to lead a holy war against
us and if (15) Marshal Stain of
ficially sponsored a public cere-
mony at which an ex-prime min
lister who twice tried to overthrow
our government was highly hon
ored and in his address urged an
alliance between our two most
powerful rivals-What would we
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
MIHAILOVICH

Drew Pearson, in his Washington
Merry-Go-Round column appearing
April third, states the following:
The capture of Serbian Gen.
Draja Mihailovich by Marshal Tito
now permits revelation of one
hitherto unknown chapter of the
War-how it happened that Chur-
chill and Roosevelt suddenly
switched their allegiance from
Mihailovich to Tito.
Prior to the Tehran Conference,
all Allied military aid had gone to
Mihailovich. Tito got none. But
after Tehran, this was reversed and
Churchill even sent his own son,
Randolph, as liaison officer to Tito.
Most people figured it was Sta
lin who persuaded Roosevelt and
Churchill to change their allegi-
.ance. This was not true. The re-
versal was caused by the fact that
the US. was intercepting Nazi
military kilograms and DECIDING
them, as we deciphered the Japan
csc.
Several intercepted Nazi mes
sages showed the Germans expect
ed cooperation from Mihailovich.
One told how, in arranging a Nazi
retreat, the Germans said they
could depend on Mihailovich to
cover them against an Allied adj
vance.
This was what caused RooseVelt's
and Churchill's desertion of Mi
hailovich. Stain was responsible
for only one thing-after they made
their decision to desert Mihailovich,
he sold them on Tito, who, of
course, turned out to be a minion
of Moscow.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
LABOR LEADERSHIP

Walter Reuther, president of the
United Automobile Workers (CIO),
has little fear that the American
of Labor will lure away
any substantial number of U.A.W.
members. And, as for the posi-
bility of the AT. of L. winning
over the U.A.W., the very sugges-
ton arouseS Reuther's scorn.
why the insinuations that |, or
r. j. Thomas or Secretary-Treas-
urer George F. Adde's or anyone
else could lead the U.A.W. into the
AT. of L. are absurd" Reuther
says. "None of us nor all the kings
horses nor all the kings men could
lead this great rank and file union
into the reactionary A. F. of L.
Reuther blames the frequency of
wildcat or unauthorized strikes in
recent years on the lack of a posi-
tive program of leadership in the
nations big unions.
"You get negative leadership at
the local union levels only when
there is no positive leadership at
the national union level" he says.
'"The obvious answer to wildcat
strikes is to give workers a positive
program of leadership stemming
from the top down"
BASCOM N. TIMMONS
in The Chicago Sun
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
FROM THE


We Socialists are accused of
hating the Russians and fomenting
anti-Russian feeling because The
Cal Norman Thomas and other
Socialist speakers attack the Rus
sian economic and political frame
work as non-Socialist.
The Russian situation is too big,
too complicated and too far away
for us to exactly appraise it. We get
an infinite variety of statements
n opinions as to conditions eX-
listing in Russia.
Anna Louise Strong says that
Russia is a Socialist state because
no individual or group owns the
tools of production and therefore
no group can exploit other indi-
viduals. She admits inequality of
compensation, saying that equality
would mean communism, but there
may be inequalities under Social
ism. She says writers are highly
paid and become rich, having the
better apartments in Moscow,
country homes and other luxuries.
She does not say what use they
make of their excess earnings but
denies that they use their wealth
to exploit other workers.
Scott Nearing, as reported in the
Western Socialist, admits the ex-
cessively high salaries of writer's,
composers, actors and industrial
managers and says that part of
these earnings may be invested in
bonds that yield unearned income
expressed in interest.
No state in which interest exists
is a Socialist state, because interest
means exploitation.
Russia, the United States AND
England are in conflict at present
over the valuable oil reserves ir
Hungary, Iran and Iraq. Scott Near.
ing refers to Russia's maneuverins
for these oil reserves as 'progres
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
NO, WE DON'T HATE THE RUSSIANS

sive" while Anna Louise Strong
refers to the same as expansion
rather than imperialism. To us it's
nationalism whether you call it i'm
perialism or not. Nationalism is not
Socialism.
We shall take no time in de-
biting the question whether Russia
is or is not Socialist. We know
that the United States is not So
ciai1st. We know the evils of cap
italiSm which are on our very door
steps and as to which there can be
no dispute. We know that the only
cure for these evils is the establish
ment of Socialism and so we shall
cOnflne our discussion to the evils
and to the situation of which we
have first-hand knowledge and as
to which there can be no dispute.
We do not hate the Russians. We
do have fears in regard to their
development. We hope they will de-
Velop into a true Socialist state. In
the meantime, there is no reason
for the workers of Russia and the
workers of the United States to
make themselves paWns in the in
ternational capitalist game to gair
control of oil reserves. They should
both be fighting capitalism instead
of fighting each other.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17

think Of Generalissimo Truman
and Foreign Commisar Byrnes if
they did not work night and day
to see that the United States had
friendly governments in every
capital from Canada to Argentina
and if they did not move heaven
and earth to discover the secret Of
the atomic bomb?
Let us try to ''see ourselves as
others see us"-and this does not
mean only the U.S.S.R.
Jamaica, Vt. SCOTT NEARING.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
A Silly Argument

Among the arguments heard in congress recently against the pro
posal. for a 65-cent per hour minimum national wage is the cry that
when, as, and if this IS cents is granted, the workers will begin to
demand ST an hour minimum.
So what?
Is 81 an hour too high a wage IS a minimum base? Is $40 a week
for a fortyhom work week over the nation too much money to give
a man who supports a family, pays rent, buys food and clothing, buys
his share of victory bonds, pays the doctor, the hospital, the dentist,
gives a few dollars to church and to charity?
If $40 is too much to pay, then what this country needs is a new
congress-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

All this and vaudeville too: Carl
Wilson, the New York Posts night
spot columnist, reports that the
navy is scouting for entertainers to
play before Congressman and news
papermen at the Bikini Atoll atom
bomb tests. Just in case things get
dull, we presume.
The pot and the kettle: A Cana
dian radio ~neWscaster, reporting on
the recent riots in India, quoted
Prime Minister Attlee as saying the
riots we're the work of "left-Wing
elements"
Famine notes: Herbert Hoover
made a radio address on March 16
urging the importance of conserV-
ing food in America to prevent
starvation in Europe. Shortly after
ward the Truth or Consequences
program came on the air, featuring
a hilarious sequence in which par
Elephants squashed lemon-meringue
pies in each others faces. . A
bulletin announcing the forthcom-
ing banquet of the Balzac Society
of America proclaims: There is no
longer a scarcity of choice meat
and drink, which will be served in
greater profusion than ever before"
The Metaphor of the Week comes
from Drew PearSon's column of
March II: Last week Representa-
tive) Gallagher got something off
his chest he had been nursing for a
long time"
Politics AflOat: The Compagnie
Messageries MaritimeS of France,
according to the Overseas News
Agency, has had a ticklish time
with a merchant ship it just
launched. Built during the occupa-
ton, the ship was first named the
Marechal Petain. After liberation
it was rechristened the General
Charles de Gaulle. When De Gaulle
resigned, the company directors
cast a wary eye over the political
scene, went into conference, and
came up with a third choice which
they think will stick: La Marseil-
laise.
The Old-FashiOned Virtues are
coming back-on the wings of mod
ern promotion methods. Editor and
Publisher says that Pillsbury Mills
spring advertising campaign will
feature a free recipe book offering
instructions on home bread-baking.
This One Has Us Stumped. The
German-American weekly publica-
ton Aufbau reports that when Ges-
tapo agents, posing as musicians,
accompanied the Berlin Philhar-
monte on its tours through Europe,
they were usually disguised as
flutists.
Swedish stone %quarries, cables a
New York Times correspondent,
are getting a little worried about
the granite victory monument that
Hitler ordered in 1910. They're
still working on it and have en-
gagged a lawyer to investigate their
chances of getting the $780, 900
still due on the contract.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
RELATION OF CZECHS AND
SLOVAKS IN FIGURES

According to the latest statistical
figures issued by the Ministry of
Food in Prague and published on
February II, there are in the prov
inces of Bohemia and Moravia g.
100, 900 Czechs, and in Slovakia q
500, 600 Slovaks. If we do not take
into consideration the Germans
and the Hungarians still living in
Czechoslovakia, there are 75.77
per cent of Czechs and 24.23 per
cent of Slovaks comprising the
total number of the entire popula-
ton of the country.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
Scheme to Waste Money

The State Department continues to pressure" Congress to give it
a large fund for an information service" which will sell the United
States to the Old World" The theory is that other countries art propa-
gandizing America and that we should retaliate.
We don't believe the State Departments plan will succeed. Sup
pose we beam" a broadcast to Russia. Who is going to listen? If he
listens, will he understand?
Have you seen anyone who a impressed?
Instead of flooding other people with propaganda, we should take
steps to label the propaganda which comes to this country-and, we
might add, it doesn't all come from Russia, by any means.
Having done that, w e should endeaVOr to set a good example.
That's the best way to make the peoples of other countries like Is.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
We Don't Like War, Nor Deprivation,
Strikes, etc, Yet They Happen - Why?
BY Raymond Hofses, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

wealth labor produces would be
distributed among the workers and
that nobody would be allowed to
grab a rake-off, as the private own
ers do today. We draw the conclu-
sion that workers could not posi-
bly, have the same grievances that
now disturb them when ALL of
the product of human labor would
be distributed among ALL workers
on the basis of social service.
you can't ask for more than
ALL" we say.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17

Then, when the time M for
people to make their decision about
the system that gives a few people
the legal right to own what the
many need, to take a share of what
the many make, to get rich by
legalized human exploitation -
The same people who do the
working, the suffering, the CON-
planning and the striking VOTE
for the system that brings those
things about.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
BUMPER CROP

Unless weather is unusually bad,
American farmers will harvest a
bumper" grain crop this year to
feed this country and the world,
the Department of Agriculture e
ported after a survey of the situa-
ton.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17
IDENTIFICATION

Jane Ito the policeman on the
corner) - Please, Mr.. Policeman,
have you eel a woman without a
little girl that looks like me?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-17

Things are happening today that
nobody likes. Even the people who
appear to be making them happen
and r personally involved in the
course Of those distasteful things
don't like them. Yet they happen.
Why?
War is one of those things. No
body likes war, yet we have wars.
Neither do many people like
strikes. Yet great masses of people
pay the price of sweat, blood and
tears which strikes exact to win
wage increases which they know
in advance will be taken from them
by prompt increase in prices.
The Governor of Virginia hates
dictatorship. Yet he uses the tao
tics of a Hitler when he drafts
workers who threaten to quit their
jobs and orders them to do in mill
tary uniforms what they are about
to refuse to do in oVerallS.
Why do people do SO many things
that they hate to do?
We Socialists know the answer.
We try to tell our felloWmen about
it in the simplest possible manner.
Perhaps we are not as clear as we
try to be. Perhaps we over-simpli-
fly. Anyway the people as a whole,
in spite of all we can say and do,
keep on the road that leads to war
and strikes and insecurity and pow
erty.
We say it is "the economic sys-
tenn The capitalist private-profit
system is the parent of all the evil
and stupid and distasteful things
that people do. And we offer a
remedy. We urge that the people
end the rules of capitalism-which
are made to conform with the pri-
Vate ownership of the means of
production and distribution-and
make the means of life the prop
erty of all the people.
We say that under Socialism the
questions and differences that arise
between men would be settled
democratically. We explain that the
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-04-12
A Local LudY Spit
Up Acid Liquids For
Hours After Eoting

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acidulous liquid mixed with
pieces of half-digested food. She
says it was awful. At times she
would nearly strangle. She had
stomach bloat, daily headaches
md constant irregular bowel ac-
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