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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
IT'S a LIE !!
BY MARTY SOLOW

Lle-of-the-Week honors belong to columnist Frank Kent, political
Bourbon QOO% proof-against progress), who wrote that "the country
has turned on labor and labor leaders.
Scribbler Kent evidently felt no further than his own pulse, the
Fortune magazine poll for June, 1916 shows that public support of
labor sWeHed from 257% in January to 371% in June. During the
same period, support of business dropped from 447% to 1861.
AFLs George Meany, in an emotionally charged piece called eve
Back America, in the July issue of the American Federatonist, ac-
cuses the World Federation of Trade Unions of being a Soviet" =.
Controlled Organization"
MIR. Meanys score on this is no runs, no hits-al errors For his
information We cite the following facts: s
Executive committee votes in WITH r apportoned as follows:
USSR ), U S and Canada 3, Great Britain 2, France 2, Latin America
and West Indies :, Near Middle East l, China l, India and Ceylon l,
Scandinavia l, Australasia l, Western Europe l, Southern Europe |,
Central Europe l., Southeastern Europe l, Africa /.
The "socaned" WITH has a worldwide membership of 35 ma
tons. Every major labor movement in the World with the exception
Of the AFL is a member.
1t is a fact that the AFL is outside of the WITH by it's own deci-
sion. Membership is open to it any time it wishes to affiliate.
Warner-Swasep Machine Tools in a June advertisement in News
week attacks unions for having" -. control over the lives of others by
free collective bargaining-t is dictatorship brown shirt arrogance"
It's a lie because the reports of the American Civil Liberties Union
and the LaFouette Senate Committee Investigations turned up the fact
that violence "a nearly always precipatated by management.
Only recently Senator Murray of Montana in a twohour speech
before the Senate showed by documentary evidence from government
sources that violence in labor disputes had been brought about by
management resisting the growth of unions. He cited Homestead, Lud-
low, Gastonia, Marion, N. c, and the Republic Steel massacre in Chi
cagO is evidence.
NeWsweek has no room for the Senators report.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
POOR BUT HONEST

According to James A. Farley,
former Democratic national chair
man, politicians are mostly honest
men.-NeWs item.
An honest chap, the politician,
We have it on his own admission
The vigilant and selfless nurse
Of public veal and public purse
He will not straddle, will not hedge
He'd die before he'd break a
pledge.
With billions nowadays expeno-
able,
We trust him, knowing he's de
pendable.
High-principled in word and deed,
He is the kind of man we need,
The kind, we also have detected,
Who runs, but doesn't get elected.
Richard Armour.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
Was About Time

One effect of the Vaicans Political excursions has been to spur
the Protestant churches into united action without precedent in this
country. A deep and growing sense of outrage has mounted among our
citenzry over the campaign sponsored by the knights of Columbus and
other Catholic groups in favor of the fascist Franco. The blatant inter
ference of the Pope in the recent European elections has reused Amer
cans, who don't like to be told by any church how to vote and who
cherish that basic tenet of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of church and state
The fact that the leaders of seven great Protestant denominations
representing more than thirty million members waited on President
Truman to demand the recall of Myron c. Taylor fom Rome should
give pause to those Catholics here and abroad who debase the name
81 christian by applying it to the most reactionary of political faiths
When DR.. Samuel McCrea Cavert, general secretary of the Federal
Churches Of Christ in America, described the present diplomatic raa-
tons between Washington and the Vatican State as unauthorized" and
unconstitutional" and demanded that they be permanently severed.
of free Americans-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24

to Moscow, Russia, without the
clean hands and pure heart which
Ehrenburg brought to his trip to
Moscow, Alabama.
How pleasant it would be if one
could leave ones head at the near
est checkrOom, and accept the
views of this talented but trans
parent propaganda! It is not edit
orials about Russia in the Chicago
Tribune or New York Daily News
which disquiet Americans, but the
actions of the Soviet Union itself;
and it will take deeds from Sta
lin, not words from Ehrenburg, to
change their feelings. In the last
year few foreign correspondents
except those of the Daily Worker
have been able to say anything
about Russian policy that could
please Russians or reasure Ameri-
cans; if Horace Greeley were alive
still, and could summon from the
grave his regular European CORES
pendent, Karl Marx, to write a Sc
rieS of articles on Russia, it is a
safe bet that within a few months
there would be one more slanderer
and rabble-rouser whose articles
Ilya Gregorevich Ehrenburg would
be deploring.-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
We Hell ped Them But -.

In the past the farmers have always come to Organized Labor for
help in passing legislation vital to their welfare. They have never been
refused. Labor organizations and Union members of law-making
bodies, always have fought and voted for the best interests of agri-
culture. That is the record!
In view of these facts, you might expect the farmers to be kindly
toward Organized Labor. That assumption, however, would be far,
far from the truth.
Coal miners have won a recent wage victory. AS a result, the price
of coal may go up 25 cents a ton. Railroad workers also received al in
crease in their dispute.
The same day that the coal dispute was ended, the public was
informed that butter would advance II cents a pound, cheese would
go up six cents and an additional cent would soon be added to the
price of fluid milk. This news came from Washington.
The unacceptable fact is that these price advances were forced by
and fore the benefit of the farmers, who have been on strike against
both the public and the government for several months. 1t may very
weel be that the farmers were justified in striking; perhaps they should
receive higher prices. That is no. the point. The fact is that the farmers,
like the coal miners and rail workers, used their economic strength to
obtain more money for their labor. The increase farmers won will
have a greater and more painful impact upon the public than the
gains of either the miners n railroad men-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
ODE TO A MINER

A miners life is bleak and grim;
He seldom sees the sun.
Danger turks in every path
Until his day is done.
His only light, a little lamp
Hanging by his side,
And though his work is very hard
He takes it in his stride.
He labors hard from dawn till
eve;
1t really is no lark.
He Wades through water, mud and
rock
In tunnels damp and dark.
So as you sit beside your fire
Whatever be your goal,
Just think a little kindly of
The man who mines your coal.
By Catherine Colombo,
Johnston City, I'll.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
Goodbye,
IIyu Greqorevich

Ilya Ehrenburg has left our
country for his own. His some
what rhetorical and disingenuous
letter of farewell, though it repre-
sents fairly enough the realism"
we have learned to accpet as the
official attitude of the U. S. S. R.,
hardly does justice to Ehrenburg
himself - a more engaging and
impressive figure than one would
guess from the mixture Of specific
objections and general affection
that constitutes his message to us.
His itinerary - suggested, no
doubt, by Senator Bilbo, and low
ingly itemized by Samuel Grafton,
whose communicates of Ehren-
burg's Raid must have reminded
readers of a little boy tagging
breathlessly along behind his big
brother-specialized in places like
Dogpatch, Skunk Hollow, and Van
Buren,, Arkansas. There the sur
prised E%hrenburg saw bad things
and, by questioning the older in
habitants, heard of worse - the
Scopes trial, for instance; and he
returned to New York able to re-
flute any objection to an unfortun-
ate feature of the Soviet Union by
a quick counter-objection to some
ANALOGOUS evil in the United States
But though he finds the United
States an adolescent country full
Of contradictions, he recognizes
that we and the Russians are 1.-TWO
great and noble peoples" who are
kept apart only by the curtain OF
fog" which has been drawn by
slanderers, rabblerousers, ~fascists
and correspondents who have come
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
Miscellany

The 14th anniversary of the
semi-Fascist dictatorship of DR..
Antonio Salazar was celebrated by
the publication of a White Book
extolling his foreign policy. "Por-
tugal maintained her neutrality to
serve the interests of her old ally,
England, and the United States"
it was said, sin verguenza.
Poland is not the only country
in which the electoral campaign
was accompanied by violence and
terror; in Turkey the dominant
Peoples Party is hiring gangsters
to ensure its victory over the
Democratic Party Cloth titles are
misnOmers). Since its start in 1923
the Turkish Republic has been
authoritarian, though social re-
forms have been carried out.
&
Colonial Secretary George H.
Hall told the House of Commons
that 1T is. our policy to develop
the colonies and all their resour-
ces in such a way as to enable
their peoples speedily and substan-
TALLY to improve their economic
and social conditions and, as soon
as it may be practicable, to attain
responsible selfgoVernment. To So
cialists the idea of one people do
minating or exploiting another is
always repugnant."
The Labor Government has a
long hard road to travel to reach
this goal, but some progress can be
reported in Ceylon, Malaga, Malta
and some African colonies as we'll
as in India and Egypt.
X
The U. S. Army is looking for a
range to test rocket-bombs which
will be fired at targets 1000 miles
away.
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J. Edgar Hoover warned that the
army of professional criminals in
the USA is approaching 5000, 900.
A serious crime is committed every
20 seconds. In 1945, crimes increas-
ed 12.4 percent and are now in
creaSing ever faster.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
FIRST ROUND"

Our problem is now to increase
purchasing power SO that the peo-
pie can consume what the war
proved they are capable of pro-
ducing, In no other way can full
employment be assured and our
free economy preserved. Labor's
strike for higher wages is the first
round in the postwar struggle to
a achieve full employment and
maintain it.-Railway Clerk.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
PASSING OF HILMANN

The death of Hillman may mark
a turning point in American labor
history. He was the outstanding
representative of those who hold
that the practical way to achieve
progress is to find out how far you
can go and still get along with the
capitalist. From now on, may it be
hoped, the practical way to achieve
progress is to figure out how you
can get along without the capital
list.
AS a young man in the clothing
industry he had ideas-the sort of
ideas that make other workers
join the l. w. w. He took some of
the L. w. WIS phrases, and some
points of its industrial structure,
and led a revolt from the AFL
after the leftWingerS were denied
seats at the 1914 convention of the
United Garment Workers. The re-
suit was the Amalgamated Cloth
ing Workers and a career that ap-
piled to America what in the same
era was considered progressive
unionism in Europe. According to
all conventional standards such a
career is a success. 1t is the sort
of progressivism and cce that
since the dawn of the Amalgama-
ted has yielded two world wars.
two depressions, and left as the
starting point for some further pro-
greSS a world unable to feed itself
yet prepared for a third world war
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
THE STORY OF HIGH
FINANCE

FINANCE I
The lei who were f~inanciers
slipped in $40 each and bought q
fine COW that gave ten gallons
of milk every day.
The milk was divided at night
and each man received one gallon
as his share.
Soon the neighbors far and near
heard about the wonderful COW
and said to m another: "Think
of getting a whole gallon of rich
new milk every day! What a won
derful return on a $40 investment.
| wish | had a share in that coW!'
When this talk came to the ears
Of the ten good men and cute, they
held a meeting and one of them
addressed the gathering: Our
shares in the cow" he said, ''cost
us SO each, and if we are wise
and businesslike we can sell other
! shares in her at the same price"
So they went to a printer and
obtained one thousand sheets of
paper bearing the legend: Zone
Share in the Cow" Then they sold
five hundred of these shares at $40
each, which brought $4,000, and
divided the other five hundred
shares among themselves as a re
ward for being smart and wide
awake.
Each man of the ten now had
f%ifty-one shares, whereas in the
beginning each had only one.
But M of the ten began to Wor-
ny. Look here" he said. Every
fellow who bought a share in this
COW will expect a gallon of milk
tonight, and the cow gives only
ten gallons. When the milk is di-
vided into n thousand and ten
parts these new shareholders won't
get a spoonful. Shares will drop
to nothing. We'd better unload
while we can"
So the ten men went out on the
street to find investors, and each
of them sold the fifty shares that
had been awarded to him, and thus
obtained a second $1,000 to divide
among them.
But now night was drawing high
and the same scrupulous man
began to worry again.
There will be a row at milk
ing time" he said.
I'VE can prevent it," said an
otker. 'Hasten abroad and persu-
AIDE each of shareholders to sign
a proxy, which is a joker author
ling you to cast as you think best
the vote to which his share en-
titles him. Then come back here
with the proxies and we'll do some
voting"
Coming on to twilight the men
sat at the coW-house, and in their
hands were one thousand signed
proxies to represent the absent
shareholders. And the ten were en-
titled to vote in their own right,
for each still held his original
share.
Now said the one who did
most of the talking, 1--WE must or
ganize. This Company needs a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., a secretary and
eight directors. That gives each of
us a job. And since there are ten
of us and the cow gives ten gallons,
it is moved and seconded that each
of us receive a salary of one gallon
of milk per day. All in favor say
Aye"
The motion was carried without
one dissenting vote. And then they
MIXED the cow. - Don Capillano,
The Labor Leader,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
EVEN PIES!

A little shoe-shine boy came
into the office of the New Castle
County Industrial Union Council
in Wilmington, Delaware, and ap-
preached the chairman, Gilbert
Lewis.
us the OPA Off" he asked.
YES" said Lewis.
Il knew it!'' said the boy.
"They're selling sc pies for Sc
now"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
"MIRACLE DRUG" ON WAY

More streptomycin, a miracle
drug which is said to take up the
fight against disease where peni-
cilin leaves off, will soon be avail
able for the treatment of specific
maladies, according to DR.. Chester
S. Keller, chairman of the National
Research Councils committee on
chemical therapeutics.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
WILL FEED 20 MILLION

Each million tons of wheat which
we ship to the starving people of
the world means that 20 million
people will have bread.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
Some Odds und Ends

Inc Government TAX people re
port the intake from beer is slum-
ping. So is the intake of beer
The St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Z K 4
Shall we make honesty lille
gal?" shouts a Congressman. Well,
that's n way of making it at
tractive.-The Omaha World-He-
raid.
Z 4 4
The Presidents bill to draft
strikers is languishing in a House
committee and may not come to
a vote at all. Hysteria does not al
ways repeat itself.-Howard Bru-
baker in The New Yorker.
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Japan resumes the manufacture
of cheap dishes for the export
trade. The Well-bred purchaser will
remember not to drink hot tea out
Of the saucer. It dissolves the
soucer. - Senator Soaper."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24
RESOLVE
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Have you missed in your aim?
Well, the mark is still shining.
Did you faint in the race?
Well, take breath for the next.
Did the clouds drive you back?
But e yonder their lining.
Were you tempted and fell? Let
it serve for a text.
AS each year hurires by let it join
that procession
Of skeleton shapes that march
down to the Past,
While you take your place in the
line of Progression,
With your eyes on the heavens,
your face to the blast.
7 tell you the future a hold no
terrors
For nay sad soul while the stars
revolve,
If he will stand firm on the grave
of his errors,
And instead of regretting, re-
solve, resolve.
1t is eve too late to begin re-
building,
Though all into ruins your life
seems hurled,
For see how the light of the New
Year is gliding
The wan, worn face of the
bruSide old world.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24

For progress, don't try more of the
same.-Industrial Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-24

When tired with vain rotations
of the day, sleep winds us up for
the succeeding dawn.-Young.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
Marjorie She'll Becomes Bride
 Of David Todd

MT. and Mrs. James J. Shell of this city announce the marriage of their daughter, Marjorie Jane, to David B. Todd, son of Mrs. Henry w. Hunt, of Elyria, Ohio, in a double ring ceremony at Covington, Kentucky, January 4. The vows were read by the Rev. Paul E. Enin- ger.
 Immediately after the wedding the young couple went to his home in Elyria, where they visited until leav- ing to make a trip to Juneau. MT. and Mrs. Todd arrived here yester- day by plane from Seattle, and are visiting at the home of her parents.
 The bride, who was 1941 gradu- ate of Juneau High School, is one of the most popular of the younger set here. Prior to leaving for the States in December, she was with the staff of the Territorial Head quarters Selective Service.
 MT. Todd, who received his dis
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
'pAN-AMERICANk' AT CAPITOL IS FULL
 OF SONGS, DANCES

New and refreshing screen musi- cal entertainment is presented in RKO Radios Pan Americana" at the Capitol Theatre, with Phillip Terry, Audrey Long, and Robert Benchley in leading roles.
 The gay romantic plot revolves about the adventures of New York magazine representatives visiting Central and South America to se- lect local beauties for musical re- vue the magazine plans to sponsor. Backgrounded with a dazzling arr ray of colorful Latin songs, dances and production numbers, the picture sparkies its way to a riotous finale, and proves itself one of the bright est film attractions of the whole season.
 Terry, as a cameraman, and Miss Long, as a feature writer for the magazine, handle the romance in adroit style. Benchley, as the publi- cations foreign editor, furnishes many of the offerings funniest mo- ments, with fine cooperation from Eve Arden, Marc Cramer, Ernest Truex and Isabelita.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
PAA CARRIES MANY,
 WEDNESDAY FLIGHTS

Pan American Airways yesterday flew the following passengers on trips to and from Juneau
 To Seattle-Douglas Cherry, Har- " Curran, Louise Peters, Vera Paige, Charles Franzen, Francis Franzen, Webster Cole Earl Herr, Paul Stimson, Irene Thorn, Mabel Rolleg, Jessie Kimball, Susie Shir- ley, Gaylen Joy, Perry Huff, Elmer Rasmuson, Lorraine Howard, Jo- anna Marvin, Del Hanks. Blanche Trimble, Winifred Lindsey, Clar- ence Baker, Thomas Savora, Ethel Lightel, Glen Nubert, Don McDon- aid, Frank Babulak.
 From Seattle - Mona Harris, Frank Harris, Ayleen Rossi, Pat rick Rossi, Cliff Nelson, Howard Kasbaugh, Gail Kasbaugh. Fern Punton, Margaret Brown, Mary Ann Rogers, Jim Moscrip, Helen Rolf, Etta Traversay, Jean LaLond, Doris Sanford, Frederick Miller, Wilfred Wright, David Todd, Mar jorie Todd, Steele Culbertson, James Cole.
 To Whitehorse, Otto Chaney; to Linda June Ulrickson, Christine Ulrickson.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
CANDIDATE S0H0LT IS MAJOR IN ARMY;
 WAS kETCHIKANITE.

Leonard H. Soholt, who filed yes- terday as a candidate for Terri torial Treasurer on the Republican ticket at the April Primaries, is a former Ketchikanite who entered the army with the Ketchikan Ma tional Guard. He was stationed in Alaska until about a year ago and only recently returned to his war time home at Seward from Japan.
 Soholt is now on terminal leave with the rank of Major and accord ing to advices from the Ketchikan Chronicle. is returning to Ketchi- kan aboard the steamer Yukon on business trip.
 Soholt for time operated the Post Exchange at Chilkoot Barracks and has been stationed at Anchorage, Annette Island and Seward, besides Japan.
 At the time he entered the ser- vice, he was accountant at the Ketchikan Public Utilities.
 Olson WithdratDS
 William Olson, discharged veteran, who recently filed as candidate for the House on the Republican ticket, has withdrawn and is going to Kodiak to open private law of- flee according to advices received by the Empire from the Ketchikan Chronicle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
DOUGLAS AUTO CRASH RESULTS
 IN CIVIL SUIT

Growing out of car collision early this month on the Douglas road, a civil action to recover $794 was filed in the District Court here this morning by Everett Buchanan. Named as defendants are taxi driv- CT William Hart and the owner of the Arctic Cab Co, Carl Bergstrom.
 A criminal charge of drunken driving, brought by Hart against Buchanan immediately following the crash, has been dismissed for want of evidence.
 In his complaint, Buchanan re- lates that on the evening of Janu- ary 5, 1946. he was driving his 1886 Plymouth sedan toward Douglas at a moderate and lawful rate of speed on the right hand side of the road. He alleges that his car was struck by a Buick sedan driven by Hart in a careless, reckless, negli- gent and unlawful manner and on the wrong side of the road.
 The complaint drawn by Attor-' ney N. c. Banfield, asks to recover the value of Buchanan's car which he sets forth was damaged to such extent that repair would cost the worth of the vehicle. He sets the value of the car at $275. In addi- tion, Buchanan seeks S19 paid out for medical care and $500 as indem- nity for injuries he suffered in the crash.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
SGT. ALFRED zENGER NOW OUT OF SERVICE

Sgt. Alfred Zenger, son of ME and Mrs. Alfred Zenger, returned to Tacoma, Wash, late last week and has received his honorable discharge from the armed forces at Fort Lewis Separation Center.
 Young Zenger entered the service four years and two months ago in Juneau. He has seen service in the regular army at Chilkoot Barracks, Excursion Inlet, Anchorage, the Aleutians, California, Mississippi, and just recently in India, where he ended up with the Engineering Corps disposing of surplus property. He travelled across the Pacific, 10000 miles in 29 days, enroute home to the United States.
 Zenger will spend a month visit ing relatives and friends in Wash ington and Oregon, then return to his home in Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-31
Petersburg Man Is
 Loser, Salvage Case

PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 31.-Mar- inc salvage judgment of $4,300 against Tom Rustad, owner of the fishing vessel Melody of Peters burg, Alaska, was entered by Fed eral Judge Claude McColloch here.
 The Melody was taken in tow by the fishing vessel Stampede II last July 9 after a freak wave had capsized her off North Head near the Columbia River entrance. Charles Wuori, Stampede II own- CT, received $2,0oo and $500 for ex- penses and his crew members re- ceiyed $500 each.