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The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23

as well be Abandoned. If on the
other hand, the Republicans keep
some of the promises they so
eliquently and frequently make to
Negroes, the present Negro re-
sentiment against the Bilbo-TaI-
Observation-Disclosures domination
of the Democratic Party may de-
velope into a force strong enough
to decide who will occupy the
White Houye and control Con-
person who predicts that I will
gresS in 1948."
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23
Dining Car Walters
Elect New Officers

At a general executive board
meeting Of Protective Order OF
Dining Car Walters, Local No
465 officers were elected.
The new officers elected are az
follows: Mr.. Arthur H. Reeo.
general chairman; MI. Willis Por-
ter, Jr.. secretary-treasurer.
More information Of this meet
ing will be given at a later date.
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23
Walters Key Club

A statement issued by the Wait
er's Key Club today, stated that
the Club would be forced to can
eel many of its activities and do
nations to worthy causes if the
proposed curtailment Of slot ma
chimes becomes effective Jan. 1st.
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23
f. Ice,
Midway Hall

contract for Manor records, the
Sweethearts also completed a full
length feature film, produced py
Associated Producers Of Negro
Motion Pictures. The celluloid pro-
duction, as yet untitled, will sooh
be seen on local movie house
screens.
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23
SPECIAL Hardware
Store Burglarized

Richard SPECIAL, operator of the
SPECIAL Hardware Store at 1922
North Twenty-fourth Street re-
ported two money sacks, each
containing $40, were missing from
his store. He said a back door of
the building had been forced open.
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23

hama. he said was the Tightening
up on voter qualifications design
ed to prevent a flood of Negro
registration.
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23
MinoritieS

By Cornell Wilde Currently star
ring in the goth Century-Fox
production. ~The Homestretch"
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23

LOCAL AND NATIONAL NEWS
in THE OMAHA GUIDE Columns
EVERY WEEK!
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23

A CLASSIFIED AID WILL SELL ii!
The Omaha guide., 1946-11-23
Prominent Surgeon Vacations in States
After Fifteen Years in Vest Africa!
BY STAFF WRITER

Defender, Louisville, Ky
The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1946-12-19

Full cut pajamas with button from
and adjustable waist bands. Stripe
and plain.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
WILLIAM GREEN IS HALF RIGHT

While CLOS Philip Murray is exerting pressure for further wage
increases to offset recent advances in living costs, President William
Green finds more hope in a high level of production by the nations
economy.
production alone can save u.s." MI. Green told Maintenance of
way delegates at a convention in Detroit. Moreover, he made his mean
ing clear by adding that strikes in retaliation against removed of price
controls are "unWise at this time"
If Mr.. Green had said that production is the FIRST step toward
the general welfare we'd be agreeing with him without reservation.
ton alone"
We still recall that the economy of the nation dropped dead
back IN 1929 after a decade of the greatest production in the history of
the capitalist system. And so we know that, even though no generation
can have the good things Of life until they first produce them, ome
thing more than production is needed to make the people prosperous
and secure.
What must be added is that workers must produce for the purpose
OF using the things that are produced. Otherwise SURPRISES are created
which, in the future a in the past, will clog the economy and produce
q depression of gigantic proportions.
OF course the present economy is not geared to the purpose of
producing for use. Profit is the handspring of human activity; the
can sell the products of industry profitably, then they stop producing
We always have contended that the only sane purpose for pro-
ducng anything was to consume what a produced. But workers n
not prevented from using the product of their toll by owners who pay
them less than the value of their product.
We say that Mr.. Green is half right when he advocates production
But he will have to accept the Socialist program of production for use
instead o. for profit before he a com through with a complete pro-
gram for the economic security and political freedom of the American
Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
HIGH PAY ESSENTIAL TO PROSPERITY

For years business observers and commentators have been earnest
ly talking about some $1,000 600 900 in savings which people had
laid by III war bonds and bank accounts. A large part of this immense
sur vas supposed to be in the hands of workers who had saved if
from their high wartime wages and would spend it for automobiles
new homes, refrgerators and many other products when the war was
over. Business men were counting On a new ra of prosperity when
this money came to market to buy goods.
The actual facts, published recently in a Federal Reserve Board
study, show how little these observers knew about the wartime in
comes of workers and the heavy expense they had to meet wartime
living conditions and the huge hidden increase in living costs
The study shows that only a small portion of these savings m in
the hands of workers. The top 20 per cent of Americas savers hold
IT per cent of the savings, o S2 800 OOO 600. These are the family
groups who have 81 800 n more in savings. The middle SO re cent
hold the remaining % per cent of savings (S18, 500 600 OOO), with
family holdings varying from $50 to S, 800.
In the bottom 80 per cent of American families, "a per cent n
13, 300 900 families had no savings at all and the rest had 20 little as
to be negligible.
Tie study further shows that those who hold the major part Of
these savings do not expect to use them for current spending, nor even
for such lasting things as automobiles, refrgerators and homes. Cur
rent spending will be financed out of their weekly incomes.
So it is clear, IS labor has pointed out for years, that business
must depend o n workers Week-by-Week income to finance the sales
of goods which keep business alive. Once more it is clear that high
workers. income, which means high spending for industrys products
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07

The investigation which has linked the name of Congressman
Andrew j. May and other great men and wartime patriots with
a mushroom munition firm that seized upon the war as al opportunity
to profit upon the people smells bad. Certainly if it is proved that
members of the nations lawmaking body connived with racketeers to
muct the people while the soldiers were dying across the oceans the
nation will be shamed.
But we submit for the thoughtful consideration of working people
that there are still greater shames which seldom get public consider
alton.
While it's bad enough if lawmakers rob the people illegally, we
contend that it's still worse to make laws which permit the people to
be the victims of legaized robbery.
The browning shame of this ea of potential abundance is that the
government sanctions the institution of private profit in the production
and distribution of peoples needs.
It is disgraceful that a small class of people should be able to wax
wealthy by owning the nations jobs while millions of people who work
born-and that with the sanction of law and the mantle of conventional
responsibility.
Americans have a good reason to object to illegal racketeerng.
But they have more resaOn to resent the legalized robbery of private
profit which is a normal result of u capitalist economy. For it is to
the legal eXpoiters that the people pay the much larger toll.
Figure what dishonest congressman may have taken for them
selves, reckon the cost of the Prendergasts, the Hagues and the Keneys,
and then compare the total to what is taken every year by the res
pectabe' private owners of the nation. 1t will be found that the cost
of the latter as described by the words, "divdends' and "interests'
is vastly greater.
And bear in mind, too, that back of every scoundrel in public
office is a private individual who is seeking to make a short cut to
wealth by avoiding some of the rules of the private profit game.
Crooked politicians are one of the byproducts of the capitalist
racket. There will be fewer of them when the legalized dishonesty of
private profit is ended-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
TWISTS AN ISSUE

Mr.. Churchill charges that the Labor governments proposal to
investigate ownership of British newspapers is a threat to freedom
of the press" The accusation is reminiscent of the one-time complaint
of too many American newspapers that requiring them to observe the
Wagner Act and the Fair Labor Practices Act was a invasion of free
dom of the press.
The Labor governments project, Is w e understand it, is to dra
Matte the fact that press ownership in Britain is concentrated in the
hands of a few men who m also closely allied with banks, shipping
mining, transportation and other great industries. Does such dramatZa-
ton interfere with the right Of these men to publish IS they please, to
express their editorial beliefs, to print without licensing O censorship?
Not at all. 1t simply tells the people that, when the majority of news
plans, they are expressing the views of a particular economic group
which was outvOted in a free election.
Federal law in this country already requires newspaper owners to
print the facts Of ownership. That does not infringe freedom Of the
press. 1t protects a equal right of the public to know who is speak
ing through newspaper columns. Press freedom is too precious a right
to be msdefined, and those who benefit constantly by the great guaran-
tees of both British and American constitutions should be especially
jealous not to let any misuse Of the term go uncorrected-The Chicago
Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07

blunder after another, and, al
though we spent billions in South
America during the war, we prob
ably have more enemies in that
area than ever before.
More Terror in Palestine
Jewish terroristS in Palestine
continue to blast everything that
carries the British label. Undoubt-
eddy London is on the hottest kind
of a hot spot and would like to
share it with Uncle Sam. Well be-
crazy if we get mixed up in the
controversy.
Britain made the original pro-
posal for a Jewish homeland" At
the same time, Lawrence of Arabia
was assuring the Arabs that after
the first World War they'd control
all that area.
For rs years the Jews have been
asking the British to make good.
Undoubtedly the British would like
to do SO, but the Arabs are tough
and there are plenty of them.
It's hard to see how a Jewish
homeland can be put over unless
some great power is prepared to
fight a first-class war.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
CLAGUE AGAINST
DRIVING IDLE WORKERS
INTO LOW-PAID JOBS

If unemployed k RS are
forced into Sub-Standard Jobs, the
nation as a whole will suffer. That
warning was voiced recently by
Edwin Clague, director of the Blu
reau of Employment Security Ad-
miniStration.
Clague criticized the attitude of
some state authorities. that iobless
workers should be compelled to
take any job" regardless of pay
or conditions. He insisted that, on
the contrary, jobseekers should be
given a reasonable time to look
around for satisfactory employ
ment before being denied unem-
ployment insurance.
IF they cannot obtain Jobs at
their highest skills, they should
have a chance to look around for
jobs at their next related skills,"
Clague declared.
Many workers will surely be
able to maintain r wartime
skills and earning power if given
sufficient time to explore job OPP
portunities.
1T is to the economic interest
of the country as a whole. as we'll
as the individual workers interest,
that shifts in jobs take place with
the least possible waste of skills or
loss of earning power"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07

dogs, how dare they let us freeze
in our homes, cried the heartlesS
public. That is all they r good
for anyhow. Let them breathe the
coal dust. Let them die like rats
when the explosions occur because
the jelly-fish back-boned mine OPP
orators fear to do their duty.
NeWsprint - stir up resentment
against them. The idea, holding up
the economy of the Nation by not
wanting to work in those dastardly
pits! They are just foreign scum.
Why, sure, we burn the coal. We
have to keep warm.
My father coughed again. But
this time it was not in his home.
1t was in the hospital. MOT long"
whispered the doctor. We filed in.
He was breathing heavily now. I
kidded him. "Oh, get up, Pa, you
are not sick" Don't make me
laugh. 1t hurts me to-" But he did.
He did not go that night, but
fingered into the next day. He
passed away from worry, strained
breathing, fumbling in the night
for light and powder. He was free.
So were the operators. But not of
conscience.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
I'M THE WIND

france still lives! COgniZant of
this was a New York Herald Tri-
bune correspondent who c b e d
this story: AS the Paris-Nice ex-
press gathered speed and prepared
to Whirl through the Whistle-stop
town of Frejus, n of the passen-
gers could restrain himself no
longer. He pulled the emergency
alarm chain. The train ground to a
halt before the Frejus station and
out stepped Henri Giraud, Mayor
of Frejus. Admitting townsmen,
who had long fought off the i'm
pulse to do what their mayor had
dared to do, hoisted Giraud to their
shoulders and paraded him tri-
umphantly into town.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
Disturbing News
From Foreign Fronts
By DONALD RAMSEY

''The fat is in the fire" in China.
Madame Sun = Vat = sen, widow of
the George Washington of China"
says Generalissimo Chang is en-
deaVoring to involve the United
States in a war with Russia and
she suggests we cut off military
supplies from the generalissimo.
The lady probably has more in
fluence in China than any other
individual. She is n of the Soon
sisters. Therefore, Chang is her
brother-in-laW. She has n r
trusted him since he murdered a
lot of his Red" comrades years
ago, after making a deal with the
Chinese bankers of Shanghai.
Undoubtedly, she leans heavily
toward Moscow, and her declar-
alton which must have created a
tremendous sensation in c hin a,
probably mean that General Mar
shalls peace efforts have failed.
Russia will back Chinese
Reds" Will we start another
world war by going to Chiang's
assistance?
Saluating a Gallant Lady
A revolution in B iv a; the
president of Paraguay prepares to
''reorganize the G m e n t."
storm signals are flying in half a
dozen other Latin-American coun-
tries.
The Bolivian revolt was a bloody
affair. 1t remained for a woman to
do the decent, courageous thing.
Maria Teresa Solari, chairman of
the Women's Civic Union, had OPP
posed the dead dictator, Villarroel,
from the start, but she faced the
mob and demanded that the. bodies
of the victims be cut down and
buried like Christians" No coun-
try is lost while it produces such
women.
The situation throughout Latin
America demonstrates that our pol
icy is a flop" Apparently, there
is no n in our State Department
who can handle affairs south of
the Rio Grande. We commit one
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
BULuTT IS LOOSE AGAIN

William Bullitt, born in wealth and social position, IS a sort of
"Peck's bad boy" In the first World War he was close to Woodrow
Wilson. Franklin Roosevelt gave him many distinguished posts, in
Guiding Ambassador to France and Ambassador to Russia.
Bulitt is a brilliant fellow, but utterly without balance, and that
makes him a very dangerous gentleman.
His latest Outburst is a new book. In it he makes the mild Sugges-
ton that the United States should not hesitate to use the atomic bomb
to stop new crimes of Soviet imperialism.
1t happens that this paper has never preached Communism. 1t
stuck to trade unionism and oldfashioned democracy when Billy"
Bulltt was quite pink"
However, LABOR is convinced that one way to destroy democracy
here and elsewhere is to listen to the hySterical outcries of men like
Bulitt, who r. "radcal' one minute and, heaven only knows what,
the next.
Powerful forces m endeavorng to push us into war with Russia
AS a lover of democracy, LABOR hopes we can avoid such a conflict.
However, the outpourings of men like Billy" BulHtt make the task
extremely difficult. - Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07

Attorney General filed suit to gain
possession of the tideWater fields,
and the case is now pending in the
Supreme Court of the United
States.
There is a good chance that the
Supreme Court would decide that
these oil reserves legally belong
to all the American people.
At least the oil companies think
so, for they have not hesitated to
use all kinds of pressure to get
the government to drop the suit.
Do you remember the great scan
dial that broke when President Tru-
man appointed Ed Pauley to be I'M
dersecretary of the Navy?
1t was over this very thing. Pau
ley was a millionaire oil operator,
whose company was financially in
terested in the tideWater fields.
Voted to Bypass the Supreme
Court
In the hearing before the Sen
ate naval affairs committee, Secre-
tary Ickes testified that Pauley had
offered to raise several hundred
thousand dollars in campaign con-
tributions if the government would
drop its suit.
1T was the raWest proposition
ever made to me-" said Ickes.
Although Pauley d n d the
charge, it was felt he had no bust
ness being in the Navy Depart
ment, where his private interests
might conflict with his public trust.
He was forced to withdraw his
name.
But here's the funny thing. What
1t was suspected-perhaps unjust
ly-that Pauley might co, Congress
has done itself.
With brazen effrontery, Congress
has voted to bypass the Supreme
Court and hand the tidewater fields
over to the oil promoters, confirm
ing their doubtful title.
The so-called representatives of
the American people. Whom do
they represent, anyhow?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07

My father coughed again, cursed
and fumbled in the dark for the
light. 1t tingled as he gave it a
jerk. Powder and funnel a
match struck and l could hear him
breathing the. pale yellow smoke
into his lungs.
He had made everything handy
for himself since mother had gone,
all things within arms length.
Since she had gone his bedding
was not so clean and the floor not
swept so often. His wooden leg
handicapped him. But he was
proud in his own way.
He coughed again. 1t was the
mine asthma, all right. He spit,
cursing the rejection. Thirty years
in the mines had done this to him.
Except when they were out on
strike against the heartless coal
operators. No wonder they could
pay huge bonuses to the men high
in position. Soulless they were.
How many of them would be
suffering as my father was suf-
fering? Sure, the only time they
entered the mines was on an ex-
cursion with friends. 1t wasn't too
bad, they had remarked. Coal dust
bah!
He coughed again. a e to
sleep properly, unable to breathe
properly. Cut the wops down like
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
Congress Befruys the
People on OiIfieIds
BY KENESAW NJ. Lands, III
in The Chicago Sun

Well, n bill got through Con-
gress by a Whopping majority.
The OPA was butchered. The
FEPC was filibuStered. The 65-
cent minimum wage bill was killed.
So was the health insurance bill.
And the bill to appropriate money
to fight cancer.
In the closing hours of the ses-
sion, the long-range housing bill
was allowed to anguish in COM
mittee. But one bill passed easily.
BY an overwhelming majority,
Congress voted to renounce the
claim of the United States to tide
water oil fields off the coasts of
California and Texas.
These tidewater fields contain
the greatest stores of oil o w
known to exist within the juris-
dictiOn of the government. In the
opinion of biologists, they may
constitute in another decade the
only source of fuel for the U. S.
Navy.
Doubt About the Legal Right
They are nov being exploited by
private oil interests, who have Sc
cured extremely profitable leases
by arrangement with complaisant
officials of California and Texas.
But there is considerable doubt
whether these two states had any
legal right to dispose of these oil
reserves.
In 1887, the Senate passed a res
olution declaring submerged lands
along our coasts Ito be the prop.
erty of the United States and di,
recting the Attorney General tc
assert, maintain and establish the
title and possession of the United
States"
In the exercise of his duty, the
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
More War Contracts Scandals

All through the war, fragrant abuses were apparent in the power
s. dola-ayear civilian production officials to throw favors to COM
panies from which they were ION leave" Comptroller General Warren
now charges that Army officers, still in uniform, have handled contract
termination negotiations with companies from which they later accepted
civilian employment.
The Treasury, apparently. is taken for a ride both coming and
going. Short cuts to production were justified in the emergency
of 1941. But there is no Justification for what Mr.. Warren calls a
terrific lobby of Army officers which broke down enforcement
of an 1872 statute barring government officials from handling claims
against the Treasury for two years after leaving federal service. There
IS no justification for the rider to the noW-p pending terminal leave
pay bill, which in effect would sanctfy the destruction of the sound
1872 law. 1t is the business of Congress to strengthen the statutes, not
weaken them, in the face of developing scandals of war profiteering-
The CHICAGO Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
Sole OF War Plants

The War Assets Administration has sold So of the war plants
financed by the Government to 16 big corporations. This represents
ST percent of the total government investment of $4,000, 900 900. The
latest sale was that of the 5000 OO 900 steel plant at Geneva, Utah,
to the U. S. Steel Corp. for SAT- 900 900. Whatever the Attorney General
says, this sale of our plants to big business has strengthened mono
poly. 1t has also strengthened the hold of Eastern industrialifs over
the West, for many Of these plants were in the West and arr now
owned by Wall Streetcentered corporations. Steel will continue to
cost more to Western consumers than to Eastern, even if it comes
from Utah smeters. This is what the NAM means by free enterprise
monopoly control of our economy.
The net national income in the United States dropped from $50
billion in 1929 to $40 billion in 1882, and rose to $50 billion in 1887,
and to $3.50 billion in 1914, as shown in a Twentieth Century Fund
report.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07

Occupational adjustment. Judg-
ing from the juxtaposition of two
recent books reported in the Labor
Departments current Monthly La
Dor Review, the golden age of COM
petition yet to come (sans OPA)
should consist mainly of captains
of industry--a book by Michael
Gore lists "101 Ways to be Your
Own Boss" but Paul w. Boynton
can offer only a modest Six Ways
to Get a Job"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
500 MILLIONS

The contract the United States
has signed with Cuban sugar grow
ers calls for a price boost of 10
cents a hundred pounds. When
the increase reaches the consumer,
it will be l cent a pound. That
means about 500, 900, 900 a year
more to crafty the nations sweet
tooth-or about 500, 900 900 for re-
finerS and distributors.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-07
WHY WE HAVE
HIGH TAXES

Secretary of Commerce Henry
Wallace said a very sensible thing.
He was discussing taxes and point
ed out that the American people
r paying the highest taxes in his
tory because of the wars we have
engaged in during the last half
century.
Apparently, authentic figures
show that "a cents out of every
dollar Uncle Sam expends goes to
pay for past wars, to care for the
victims and to prepare for the next
war.
That will continue until we find
the way to reduce ornaments.