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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04

- The worlds wrestling cham
pionship bout at the Arena,
Thursday February Z, between
Frank Sexton, the worlds top
heavyweight and Whipper Billy
Watson, t. he BIRTHS h Empire
Champion draws nearer and
nearer.
Both Sexton and Watson are
demanding the be st reference
possible and Promoter Jack
Ganson7i lis promising them just
that. =
The $4,000 diamond studded
Title Belt will be brought, to
Cleveland and put on public dis
play. The winner receives the
Belt and will of course be the
worlds champion.
There will be four good sup
porting bouts, one of which
will feature the Cleveland fa-
vorite, Jumping Joe Savoldi.
The former Notre Dame foot
ball star appeared ag ainst t
Whipper Watson just last week
and was going good until he
fouled himself out of the con-
test.
The demand for tickets from
out-of-toWners has amazed even
the promoter and there is a
good possibility that a new box
office record will be set. The
Arena, with it's $4,000 capa-
city, will. enable all present to
have good seats.
Tickets are on sale at Bonds
ticket office, 419 Euclid Ave.
and at the Arena, 300 Euclid
Ave. Reserved seats are $500;
$2.40; $1.80; with 5000 gen.
eral admission seats at $1.20.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04

TeIenews Theatre
LIFE WITH BABY"

March of Times latest release,
Life With Baby" revealing
what makes tot tick" is fea-
tured on the new program at
the Telenews this week.
DR.: Arnold Gesell, noted au-
thority and his staff at the Yale
University Clinic of Child De-
velopment, put the toddlers
through their PAGES in a unique
vision-proof dome which hides
both the camera and spectators.
Some are bewildered, some frus,
trated, some coy, and some tri-
urnphant. The net results are
hilarious.
AS the forthcoming atom
bomb tests on Bikini Atol in the
Marshalls are announced, sound
cameras record the statement of
Vice-Admiral Blandy,> who de.
scribes details of the tests
against naval vessels. And from
New York comes an exclusive
statement by William Laurence
who witnessed the New Mexico
tests and saw the atom bomb
explode at Nagasaki. He gives
his dramatic impressions OF
what he believes the results OF
the new tests will be, and how
the bomb will effect future
Navy tactics.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04
March Of Dimes
j. r. Fifolt

Wednesday, January 29th,
the local group under the chair
manship of John Gornik, Sr.,
and Felix A. Danton, sponsored
a very successful March of
Dimes Dance.
Miss Josephine Prince, Miss
Milavec and sister of Miss
Prince, together with F. Jak-
sic, Jr., took care of the sale of
tickets; the boys from Troop
$50 handled the checking and
the doors, while Mrs. Petric
and Mrs. Kushlan handled the
sale of refreshment tickets. Be-
hind the bar worked Messrs.
Centa, Zakrajsek, Cesnik, We
rosek and the writer; in the
kitchen Mrs. Gornik and her
ladies took charge. Mr.. John
Tavcar was conspicuous by his
presence on the stage assisted
by Joe Fabjancic. Music for the
dance was furnished by Pete
Srnick and his orchestra.
The big hit of the evening
was the Richman Brothers
Choral group under the leader
ship of Miss Josephine Turk.
The girls in their striking
gowns presented beautiful
picture on the stage and demon
strated to the group in attend
ance their versatility in switch
ing from hot music to classical
renditions. Soloists Dorothy
Svigel and Emma Paulin caused
the crowd to clamor for more.
Mr.. Lowman, genial and we'll
liked president of Richman
Brothers and other officials,
were present as well as many of
the Richman employees. Now
that we have heard and seen
this fine choral group, their ap-
pearance in our neighborhood
should be more frequent.
The crowd at the dance ex-
ceeded the expectation of every
one. The proceeds together
with donations received from
various lodges and clubs, also
individuals, should enable the
committee to send to headquar-
ters a nice sum for the infantile
paralysis cause.
All those that participated
are to be commended for their
effort.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04
ANNIVERSARIES

On January 29th, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Stavanja, 1928 Not
tingham Road, celebrated their
thirtieth wedding anniversary.
Their family and friends wish
them happiness and good for
Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Ujcich,
772 East SO Street, celebrated
their .25th wedding anniversary
on Tuesday, January 29th.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04
VISITOR

Visiting in Cleveland for the
first time is Antonia Savoren of
Crested Butte, Colorado. She is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Frances
Fabec of AL East 157 Street who
she had not seen for the past
Is years.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04

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the present circumstances, their
outcry will be ineffective where
British interests are concerned.
But they hope that the freedom
of half a million Jugoslavs and
the economic cooperation of
central Europe is not a British
interest. ...tf III
One Italian argument in fa-
vor of retaining the 1920 from
tier is, however, well-founded,
though it is no longer an argu-
ment which the Italians care to
use. When in. 1919 the Italians
pressed their claims to Trieste,
they were repeatedly asked by
President Wilson whether they
would not be content with the
possession of the city, allowing
the country districts to go to
Jugoslavia. The Italians always
replied that he who possessed
Trieste must possess it's hinter-
land as far as the line of the
Alps; and they were right.
To draw the frontier five
miles behind the coast would
create an impossible strategic
position. It would condemn Tri-
este to starvation, since the city
draws it's food supplies from the
whole of the hinterland.
The experiment of a city with
out hinterland was tried on a
small scale at Zadar (Zara), a
town on the Dalmatian coast
which was allotted to Italy. This
experiment was the ruin of Ia
dar: the inhabitants had to get
their food supplies by sea from
Italy, they could not even 60
for country walk; and no peas
ant could come into the town to
use the shops. Yet Zadar is little
more than a village, Trieste a
city of quarter of a million in
habitants.
Such a frontier, ruinous to
the inhabitants of the city, is
also ruinous to the peasants of
the hinterland. They lose the
natural market for their pro-
ucts; they lack the enormous
conveniences of a great city at
their doorstep; there are no Sec
ondary schools to which they
can send their children; they
have to put up with the very in
ferior amenities of petty viii
lage life.
Imagine what it would be like
to live at St. Adams and be un-
able to visit London, or to live
at Bury and be unable to visit
Manchester. Yet ST. Adams and
Bury are sizeable towns: the
Jugoslavs of Istria have none
such. This argument was very
we'll put by the Italians in 1919;
but it has now disappeared from
their repertoire.
The argument of the last pa
ragraph has anticipated the
consideration of the second So
luton: solution by partition.
InlS solution mas a misleading
appearance of fairness, attrac-
tive to the British public. The
countryside is Slovene and Croat
(Jugoslav), Trieste is-as to
majority-Italian, and is per-
haps linked by an Italian-speak-
ing coastal strip with Italy
proper. This last is not an i'm
portant consideration, since Tri-
este in practice is not linked to
Italy by land, but by sea.
Nevertheless, why not draw
the frontier along the national
line? This proposal was for
more than 20 years violently re-
jected by all Italian writer's,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04

goslavia.
There are arguments in favor
of each of these courses; and it
is better to examine them frank
ly than to pretend that no diff
ferences of opinion exist.
The principal argument in fa-
vor of the first course is that
the frontier established by the
Treaty of Rapallo exists, or
rather existed until fairly re-
Gently. For the Jugoslavs to de-
mand Trieste seems somehow
grasping, in a way that it does
not appear grasping of the Ital-
ians to desire to retain it.
This is not a very serious ar
gument. It is more to the pur-
pose to argue that the new dem
ocratic regime in Italy will start
life under an impossible handi-
cap if it is compelled to renounce
territory for which Italy fought
at great war and which gen.
Grafton of Italians have been
taught to regard as an integral
part of Italy.
A plausible gum n t.
though it would have applied
with. even more force to Alsace
or Posen in 1919. Germany, too,
had fought a great war for AL
SAGE and this had been German
for more than 40 years, whereas
Trieste has been Italian for only
rs. Yet the victorious allies, of
whom Italy was one, were una
nimous in inflicting this handi-
cap on the democratic German
republic. Posen had been in Ger
man hands for more than CEN
tury and was universally re-
gard in Germany as German !;
yet the allies were unanimous
in restoring it to Poland.
The argument would appear
equally fraudulent in the case of
Trieste, were it not that Poland
and France are historic coun-
tries, and the Slovenes are not
therefore it is possible to ad-
vocate national injustice at
their expense in a way that
would not be possible with the
French or Poles. Besides, is it
so certain that Italian national
Feeling is really SO deeply
bound up with the fate of Tri-
este? Certainly those elements
which in esssence have remained
Fascist would deplore the loss
of Trieste, since this would
mark the end of Italy's imperi-
alist plans in central Europe; =;
but it is difficult to suppose that
these elements carry much
weight with democratic opinion.
Or rather they would not car
ry much weight if the present
leaders of democratic Italy
genuinely set their faces against
them. But the truth is that Ital-
ian feeling about Trieste is de-
liberately provoked by the new
"democratic' journalists and po-
liticians of a previous genera
ton. The purpose is the same {:
1t is to unite Italy IN some for
etgsa quarrel and so distract at
tentiom from the terrible and
perhaps, nsoluble domestic
problems. Once it was the Aus
tro-Hungarian embassy, now it
is the Jugoslav mission, which
provides the safety valve for
Italian political feeling.
Trieste is not the only object
of Italian ambition which is en-
dangering. Italy fought a war,
with a great deal of patriotic
enthusiasms, for Libya, which
has been Italian for 80 years
and she fought a war, with quite
unparalleled patriotic outburst,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04

eastern Europe; and they be-
came in time one of the strong
est elements in the National
Liberation Movement which
grew up in Jugoslavia under
Marshall Tito.
Thus the Slove,aes do not ask
to be liberated from Italy. They
have liberated themselves. All
they ask is not to be put forcibly
back under Italian, rule.
The Italians paid a heavy
price for the possession of Tri-
este. Many of those who burnt
Trade Union buildings and beat
or murdered liberal Italian poll
ticians had learned their trade
in Trieste, burning the head
quarters Of the Slovene national
club and numbering Slovene
spokesmen - aoith the approval
of liberal Italians. Still worse,
the possession of Trieste COM
PEELED Italy to a foreign policy
of Imperialism, led her to revis-
ianism, and ultimately brought
her to all the disasters of 1910
and the years that followed.
For Trieste aOas not, and qaever
could be, an Italian port; 1t had
neither tracing connections aoith
nor economic meaning for Italy.
Under whatever national sover-
eighty, it remained the port of
central Europe; it was inextric~
ably bound up with it's hinter-
land, as far north as Prague and
as far east as Budapest. For
merly it had been the means by
which German Imperialism ad-
vanced to the Adriatic; now it
became the means by which
Italian imperialism tried to
thrust itself into central Eu-
rope. Italian governments, even
before Mussolini, manipulated
the tariff charges of Trieste in
order to compel the states of
central Europe to become Ital-
ian satellites. Jugoslavia and
Czechoslovakia would not de-
grade themselves in this way
and so were driven to use the
ports of northern Germany, un.
til-too late-they discovered
that they had given themselves
an even worse master.
So grossly did the. Italians
abuse their control of Trieste
that goods produced five miles
over the Jugoslav frontier were
exported by way of Hamburg
In Austria and Hungary, how.
ever, there were reactionary Oh
fascist parties, which rejected
the settlement of 1919; and It.
ally held out the promise of pre-
ferential treatment at Trieste as
a means of helping them to pow.
er. Horthy in Hungary, Dolfuss
and Schuschnigg in Austria,
were Italian dependents; each
destroyed d e moor acy, each
preached revi S i O n ism, each
opened the way to a new Ger.
man aggression. And the Italian
control of Trieste a0as the origin
of their poa0er.
Such are the facts about Tri-
este, and they are beyond dis
pute. In the area as a whole the
Jugoslavs are in an unchallenge-
able majority, and even IN Tri.
este the majority is not Italian
by origin. Trieste has no histori-
cal significance for Italy. 1t has
no economic importance for
Italy. 1t has al,oays been &C.
plotted by Italy for innperialis-
tic purposes and Italy has
proceed herself unqualified to
rule over peoples of other mo-.
tionahties. The question of Tri-
este will have to be decided
afresh at the coming peace con.
| foropoo
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-02-04

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Fellow Of Magdalen College.
Oxford
tContinuation)
This was not all. By the
Treaty of Rapallo, Fiume was to
become a Free City. Hardly had
the treaty been signed, when an
Italian adventurer, financed
with Italian money and equipped
with Italian arms, seized the
city under the protection of the
Italian navy. Once more the Ju-
goslavia could do nothing and in
1924 they acquiesced in the in
corporation of Fiurne in Italy.
The fate of the Free City of
Fdunee is 0orth naeditating by
those who nooO advocate that
Trieste should become o. Free
City IN its turn; and it is also
worth meditating that the "le-
gioiaries" who seized Fiume be-
came thereafter the most viol-
ent and successful agents of the
Fascist coup detat. Italy paid
for the e,aslavem,ent of Fiume by
being herself enslaved.
Thus Italy brought under her
rule more than 100000 Slovenes
and Croats. The Italians re-
jected as an insult to their ma
tional honor a proposal to give
these South Slavs the protection
Of the Minorities Treaty, though
they were fulsome in their as
surances that their nationality
would be respected.
Italy did not wait until the
coming of Fascism to break
these assurances; they we're
',ever fulfilled even in the Days
of constitutiondHsne. The guilt
for the M-treatment Of the So
Venes and Croats cannot be
placed solely on Fascism; 1t
must be shared by Bonomsi, by
Count Sforsa, and by every lib
eral parliam,entarian.
Even were the future of Ital-
ian liberalism secure, it would
be small consolation to the Slo-
venes and Croats to return to
the days of 1920. Italian rule
over these South SlavS had mo
parallel IN Europe until the
aOorst days Of the Nasi Dictator
ship. The South Slavs were de-
prived of their schools; they
were deprived of their newspa-
pers and books; they were not
allowed to use their language in
public meetings or in the law
courts; the Slovene-speaking
bishops and clergy were ex-
PEELED, with the connivance of
the Vatican; even Slovene-
speaking doctors were forbid
den. When it was urged on an
Italian doctor that his patients
could no longer explain their
symptoms to him, he replied
'Nor can the cow explain it's
symptoms to the veterinary sur
geon."
Such was the Italian estimate
of these peaceful, educated, civ
ilized Slav peasants. No Italian
ever protested; no attempt at
Improvement was ever made.
Italians Of all parts agreed in
the aim of exterminating the
nationality of the Slovenes and
Croats under Italian rule.
This aim was not achieved. A
people proves it's right to live
by asserting it's will to live; and
no people has proved it's right
better than the Slovenes west of
the Julian Alps. The Italians
were driven to ever more ter.
reristic methods and to great
treason trials, one in 1880 and
an even more brutal one in 1941
The British (and the Ameri.
CAM public is fond of plebis.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
Clark Agrees
Civil Liberties
Laws Inadequate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 =
! (LPA) - The recent lynch out
RACES in Georgia and other
southern states produced one
concrete result last week. Atty.
Gen. Tom Clark admitted that
present federal laws are india
equate to protect the life and
rights of u. S. citizens and de-
clared that he would ask the
next Congress for stronger civil
liberties legislation.
The brutal mob,murder of
four Georgia Negroes and the
persecution of Negroes in other
southern localities together with
renewed violence by the Ku
Klux Klan provoked Clark into
the determination to demand le-
gislation that will put tighter
screws on lynchers an organiza-
tions like the Klan. Justice
Dept. officials point out that
time after time their investiga.
tors have gone south and brought
back plentiful evidence of mob
violence and Klan terrorism but
there was no federal law under
which the indictments could be.
made.
Wants LOOphOles Closed
cit is like trying to fight a
modern atomic war with Civil
War musket," Clark declared
He said that he had undertaken
a study of existing federal lie.
gislation on civil rights and the
weakness in the various laws
and will recommend to Congress
that these loopholes be closed
Meanwhile the resurgent Klan
continued to recruit new mem.
bers in several southern and
northern states. In Florida It'll
solicited membership openly unI
der a regular business charter
granted by the state. It's liter.
ature appealed for native Pro
testant white gentiles who be-
lieve in America above ALL" The
Justice Dept, however, continu.
ed its probe of revived activity
by the Invisible Empire" in
seven states.
Several states have revoked
Klan charters and California has
removed the hooded fanatics
group from its list of chartered
non-profit organizations. But in
Georgia, Assistant Atty. Gen.
Daniel Duke, an outspoken foe
of the Klan, declared that state
laws now cannot prevent groups
like the Klan from incorporat-
ing under the guise of a fratern-
al organization. He asked for
more stringent state laws while
the states court action
10 revoke the Klan's charter.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
GYps TaxPaYers

SUPERIOR, WIS. (LPA)-
The startling disclosure that the
u. S. Government is spending
$4,000 year of taxpayers
money to help finance a lobby
fighting liberalization of the
nations social security laws was
made here last week by Nelson
Cruikshank, director of the
AFL's Social Security Insurance
Activities.
Cruikshank revealed that a
lobbying and propaganda outfit
known as the "Insterstate Con-
ference of Employment Security
Agencies" has received $4,000
annually since 1887 from Social
Security Board funds allocated
to states to help pay admins
trative costs of unemployment
insurance programs.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
Dewey And Mead
Stump EN-

ROCHESTER OPA) = The
83rd annual convention of the
New York State AFL, represent
ing 100000 members, refused
last week to endorse ei ii h er
Thomas e. Dewey or Sen. James.
M. Mead for the states next gov
ernor. Instead, the convention
referred the endorsement to a
25-man "non-partisan commit
tee" which will be named by
State AFL President Thomas A.
Murray.
The convention heard both
Gov. Dewey, who has high hopes
for the Presidential nomination
in 1948, and Mead, but the con-
census of convention delegates
made it clear that Mead, who
received a tremendous ovation,
was an overwhelming faVorite.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
UNIV Stops W0Ikouf

NEW YORK (LPA)-At al
most the zero hour, District so
of the United Mine Workers
called off a strike on the largest
road in which it has gained a
foothold-the Long Island Rail
road, subsidiary of the Penn
sylvania.
Action suspending the walk
out was taken a few hours be-
fore the deadline, after President
Truman established an Emer-
gency (Fact-Finding) Board to
consider the dispute. Under the
Railway Labor Act, appointment
of such a board customarily in
vokes a 60-day cooling off"
period.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
Where We Lead
They Do Follow

CHICAGO, Aug. 26 (LPA) -
Organization of local Political
Action Committees throughout
the country by the United Auto
Workers-AFL was announced
here this week by President
Lester Washburn.
The union will throw its full
strength to defeat labor's en-
emies in forthcoming local, state
and national elections, Wash
burn declared. "Labor's political
power and the support of every
relative, friend and neighbor
must be modified to the fullest
extent" he said.
City-wide UAW-AFL Political
Action Committees are being
formed in cities where two Or
more union locals exist. In addi-
ton, regional and statewide Po-
litical Action groups will be or
ganized. Local Political Action
Committees will be headed by
the local union executive board
with shop stewards constituting
the plant section of PAC.
The unions strategy provides
that cities will be divided into
blocks, zones, or wards, and
groups over these sections will
constitute residential sections of
the Political Action Committees.
Political Action Committee,
Washburn said, will interview
and investigate the candidates
for all offices and make recon-
to the membership
for endorsement.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-08-30
Ball Guild
Is Defeated

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26 (LPA)
The infant American Baseball
Guild, first trade union in the
games history, fell victim last
weak to company unionism and
lost its first collective bargaining
election by a 15-to-3 vote.
Only 19 of 81 eligible mem
bers of the Pittsburgh Pirates
cast ballots in an election or
dered by the Pennsylvania State
Labor Relations Board.
The company unionism charge
was made by ABG Organizer
Robert Murphy who declared,
''The loss constitutes a setback
for the Guild. 1t was brought
about by the pretended fairness
of the owner dominated Player
Management Committee. Illegal
committees, set up as a smoke
screen by the owners, are both
a sham and a farce and lack
both the perm anenc and
strength to represent the players
adequately They will give the
players an apple instead of an
orchard"
Will Continue Fight
Murphy made it clear that the
Guild has only started to battle
and that this defeat will not halt
continued organizing work on
the Pirates and other teams. "In
this fight which has hardly be-
gun" he said, eve shall doubt
less be fortified by the resources
and assistance of some of the
foremost labor support in the
country.
Baseball players will eventu-
ally realize" Murphy concluded,
that the club owners who have
had 20 years to change the one
sidedness of the baseball picture,
never acted until the Guild
threatened the very foundation
- sometimes rotten - of their
empire"