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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
Fifty Years

Although newspaper editorials rarely hesitate to condemn unions
and working men they resist with obvious restraint any discussion of
war profits.
Here are some if the reasons why news of corporation profits have
been relegated to the back pages. They come from a Treasury statement
issued in March this year. They show that profit levels during the war
time years we're four times that of preWar years. This total, net profit
before taxes, in case you al handle a astronomical number, is $27,-
79O6 51 900.
This is a net figure after the Treasury had deducted losses suffered
by the few corporations which had gone into the red. The profit-makers
leported total profits of $8, $780, 71 900.
There were more than $4,000 corporations reporting excess pro-
fits. Out of a total of excess profits of $14,519,0OO0 900, more than 10
billion dollars was in the hands of 1000 corporations, each of which
had profits of more than one billion each.
What is involved here is more than just the fact that corporations
can more than meet wage demands out of accumulated profits. The "a
has concentrated more wealth and power in the hands of the major
corporations than they have ever had before. Fifty years of capitalist
trust busting has resulted in creating the greatest corporate power
the counry-and possibly the World-has ever seen-The Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
Appalling Stories of Waste
Food Is Burned at
Novel Posts

Shocking disclosures of the de-
struction of food at naval estab-
lishments came from widely sepa-
rated sections of the country.
At the Marine base in Quantico,
Va, the most nourishing portions
of "C-rations," which require no
refrigeration and are packed for
easy shipping were being thrown
onto the trash heap and burned.
This revolving waste in the midst
of the worst hunger in the modern
world has known was revealed by
A. F. L. workers on a construction
project at the base and was con-
firmed by a Washington News
reporter.
Two thousand pounds of butter,
which 'smelled slightly rancid"
followed by 5000 pounds of frozen
turkeys were fed into the incinera-
tor at the Seattle Naval Station.
In both cases the disclosures
were dismissed by the comman-
dants with the alibi that they
didn't have time" to check on
everything going on.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
FOR THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC
In 1916 AS IN 1919
(From La Parola," New York, N. "

The days of Kings, Kaisers and Cars arr fast waning. A goodly
number of these despotic rulers have already gone to their political
graves. Others are N the verge of political downfall The day in which
the whole world will be rid of all rulers by divine right is fast approach
ing and the dawn of a new era will presently gladden. the earth with
its democratic light.
Italy will be the next nation, we believe, to overthrow the Mon
archy and establish a free Democratic Republic. The Italian Socialist
Party is o n the alert. 1t is N the job. 1t is doing all in it's power to
awaken the masses to the new light. To proceed in it's work it needs
money to spread its propaganda. The workers of America ar herewith
appealed to for help to finance the political struggles in Italy. Every
Monarchy oVerthroWn is a step forward towards the international
brotherhood Of mar Everyone who has at heart the best interests of
humanity will not fail to help finance political progress in Italy.
Next June the General Elections throughout Italy it will take
place. The italian Socialist Party will be in the fight to capture the
1Ll OF the Monarchy. Quick action is necessary. Send all contributions
to our editor, Girolamo Valenti, 8O3 West Madison Street, Chicago. He
Is the director OF the special campaign fund to make Italy safe for
democracy"
The above is a reproduction of an appeal which appeared in La
Parola" of April 22nd, 1919. 1t is said that history repeats itself. It
surely does! In the year 1919, Immediately following the First World
Wal, La Parola' vas fighting for the establishment of IN Italian Re
public. In the year 1916, while celebrating it's 38th Anniversary, La
All this shows two things: First, that the italian Monarchy is rotten to
the core. 1t was no good in 1919 and it certainly is a disgraceful insutu-
ton after having worked hand in hand with Fascism for more than %
years and having brought Italy to the brink of destruction. Second,
that La Parola is true to the ideals for which it was launched and for
which it has fought throughout these SO years.
In 1919 the detectives of the italian Socialist Party, all the Re
publican elements and La Parola" were not realized. We are now
mendous task of bringing about the establishment of the Italian Demo
cratic Republic.
And of course the establishment of the Italian Democratic Republic
is but only one of u detectives. We ire in the fight and we shall
carry IN towards the achievement of all our detectives, the goal of
which is the establishment of a Socialist Society throughout the world.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
RUSSIA COULD Be INITIATING
OUR BAD EXAMPLE
Kenesaw M. Lundis II in the Chicago Sun

Cruz despite Huerta's prior offer
to submit the dispute to arbitration
as called for in a treaty then in
force.
After the first World War, when
we made the world safe for democ-
racy, we almost invaded Mexico to
make it safe for Doheny's oil con
cessions. During this period, Secre-
tary of States Hughes was referred
to as ''Secretary of Oil"
1t is hard to tell whether Stain
regards Iran as his Mexico, Or
whether he intends to go further
and establish an outright protecto-
rate as we did in Nicaragua and
Haiti.
It seems that he sent his troops
to Iran to keep the props under
the autonomous" province of
Azerbaijan, which revolted with
his blessing.
This would indicate he tends to
follow the policy adopted by Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt, when
Colombia refused to grant us canal
rights across the Isthmus of
Panama.
Panama was encouraged to de-
clare its independence from Co.
lombia, and as soon as the rebellion
started, Roosevelt sent American
Warships to the scene to prevent
Colombia from doing anything
about it.
Il took Panama." said Roosevelt,
and his example seems especially
dangerous now that we know
Stain wants to fortify the Darde-
nelleS.
Somehow we must persuade
| Stain that his timing is bad and
that he is following a reactionary
capitalistic policy, out of date in an
atomic world.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
REPORT OF DEATHS EXAGGERATED

In the negotiations for a new btuminous coal agreement John 7.
Lewis is making a play for new safety devices in the mines. His argu-
ment is bolstered with figures. During the past IA years, Lewis stated,
$4,000 miners have been killed and 100000 have been injured. To
this Harry M. Moses, president of the H. C. Frick Company, delivered
a whitening reply. only 14,615 have been done to death" said Moses,
and the number injured was only 646,591"
If the Moses figures ire correct, they mean that every day three
men die and more than $50 are wounded in order that we may
have coal.
A lot Of nice people object to John L. Lewis. They might, even,
have objected to his way of dramatizing the troubles of dirtstreaked
men who go down into the dark holes to pull out our coal. "What-are-
you going do about it?" he slowly asked. Nothing now? Because
you've done nothing yesterday? -. Caesar, we who are about to die
salute you. You condone these conditions by your silence" Then ne
paused, and for a long space nothing could be heard in the gnded hotel
room but the heavy breathing of the men under attack. Then he added
pointedly, And we proteds"-The New Leader.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03

Many regard Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Commerce and former
Vice President, as a liberal" Some people call him a radical"
Whether he is a radical o a liberal" Mr.. Wallace has just announced
one of the most un-Amercan proposals we have heard in many a day.
He contends that any member of Congress who votes against his
party ION important issues" should be kicked out and literally driven
into the political wilderness.
Evidently, Mr.. Wallace has been talking with Winston Churchill.
That's the way the Liberal and Conservative parties a things in
Britain for many a day. The result wasn't SO good.
Here in America, progressives, at least, have always held that Sena-
tors and Representatives should not be rubber stamps" and that when
they thought the leaders of their party were wrong, they should vote
against them.
Labor is in favor of a large part of the program President Truman
has presented to Congress. We regret that Republicans from the North
and West have entered into a coalition with 'sweatshop" Democrats
from Dixie to defeat some of the best features of that program.
But the way to discipline legislators who ignore the public welfare
is to defeat them at the polls. We must assign that job to their constitu-
.ents, not to some party boss in Washington-eVen if that boss happens
to be the President of the United States-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
G~UADALAJARA, Mexico.

Down here below the Rio Grande
it looks as if Stain were trying to
establish a Monroe Doctrine for
Russia.
More than a hundred years ago
we told the world: Hands Off the
Western Hemisphere" Any out
side interference would be re
garded as dangerous to III peace
and security
Whatever our motives, this was
taking in a lot of territory-more
territory than Stain is taking in
now.
Few WO9ld powers were disposed
to accept u proposition that small
countries up to 1000 miles from
our boundaries were part of our
security zone.
At the first opportunity, when
we were distracted by civil war,
France challenged the Monroe
Doctrine and installed a puppet
emperor to rule Mexico.
But as soon as the Civil War
ended, Sherman's army was sent
to the Rio Grande and France de-
cided to accept our diplomatic adj
vice and get out.
Americans like to think of tn
Monroe Doctrine as an idealisti'
principle, designed to protect the
small nations of Latin America
from the imperialist designs OF
other powers.
Yet Mexico became as importan
to us as Iran is to Russia. Dur
ing the administration of oul
friend, Dictator Diaz, American in
v~estors were able to acquire title
to half the wealth of Mexico, hall
a billion dollars being tied up in
| oil wells.
Naturally we didn't like it Wher
the MexicanS rose in revolt under
Madero, kicked out DiaZ and
started taxing our oil concessions
The American ambassador Henry
Lane Wilson, negotiated Madero's
overthrow and we installed Gen,
Huerta.
Then we fell out with Huerta
and American Marines seized Vera
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03

HERE IN AMERICA we are
fa~tuOusly attempting to do the i'm
possible. We are trying to effect
a condition of national unity and,
at the same time, doggedly hold
ing fast to a private-profit econ
omy that divides our own popula-
ton into groups and classes.
Capitalism is a divisive force,
not a unifying one. Every man
for himself has been the text of
life for SO long that it has been
bred into the bones of all who
have become SO much as second
generation Americans. Get what
you car get, no matter how"
neatly describes the way the Amer
lean people act at home. And so
we have strikes and Hobbies and
black markets and a multitude of
groups - color groups, religious
groups, veterans groups, and espe-
cially industry groups all press
ing for something for themselves
with not even a casual regard fol
the results of their success upon
society as a whole.
That's the kind of thing that
capitalism develops, and the kind
of people the profit system has
bred.
ONLY IN WAR has America
been able to effect any semblance
of national unity. Only with 6
purpose as big as victory and with
a threat as menacing as the Axis
was for a while, and with controls
Temporary, we were told) as eff.
fective as those established by oul
t~otalitarian enemeis could capital
list America effect a condition O.
national unity.
But now the war is over. Nov
the threat from without has dis
appeared. Now the old and time
dishonored game of producin!
wealth for the private profit of al
owning class has been resumed
So now the people who make tn,
nations political and economi
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
Reuther's Rise to Power

If anyone imagined that Walter ReutherS election as United Auto
mobile Workers president meant that he could run" the union, the
delusion was quickly corrected when r. J. Thomas was chosen vice
president over Reuthers opposition. But the advent of the fiery young
progressive to top leadership clearly has great significance.
His triumph indicated majority endorsement of his strategy in the
General Motors strike. 1t indicated majority endorsement Of his eco
nomic ideas-his conviction that unions should not fight O. narrow
wage issues alone but broaden their outlook to include discussion of
prices, profits and production policies. It indicated that the automotive
industrys scarcely yelled bids for his reputation had backfired.
Enlightened businessmen, however, should welcome Reuthers cleo
ton. He is a tough fighter, but he is also intelligent and scrupulous.
Though he opposes company security" clauses in contracts, he recog-
nizes the necessity for unions to build their own sense of responsibility.
Though he is a leader in the open the books" demand, he understands
that, in the long run, both profits and good wages must come from eff
cient production. He is a new type of labor leader, but still is pro-
opportunity-The Chicago Sun.
The test of our progress is not whether w e add more to the abund-
ance of those who have much; it is whether w e provide enough for
those who have too ltte-FrankHn D. Roosevelt.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
BABSON HAS
SOMETHING THERE

We seldom agree with Roger w.
Babson, but for once we find our
selves on common ground with that
dispenser of economic nostrums.
In his most recent column"
Babson says: 81 believe this coun-
try and the entire world could be
saved from much grief by one sim
pie thing. This would be for the
conservative Democrats of the
South and conservative Republi-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03

cans of the North to combine into
one party"
Right you are, Roger. Labor has
been preaching that doctrine since
the first issue came off the press
not for the reason you have in
mind, Roger, but for quite another.
Put all the progressives in one
party; put all the conservatives in
another, and then submit the issue
to the people at the polls. We are
willing to abide by the verdict
until the next election.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
Some Odds and Ends

Canada ccuse Russia of steal
ing its atomic bomb secrets. And
Russia's reply Gems to shake down
to: mot guilty, and we didn't get
much anyhow" = The St. Louis
Post Dispatch.
From Newark, N. j., comes the
news that Observation-Disclosures
chaser has been outlawed by the
taverns until the Government lifts
restrictions on the production OF
beer. Patrons are informed that
they can have Whiskey straight, or
with soda, ginger ale or water
chasers only. Observing the craft
CLEAN in some patrons eyes, bar
tenders quickly ruled that drinkers
can't evade the beer-chaSer ban by
ordering q beer first and then the
Whiskey.
It's twice as easy to get in
wrong when you think you're al
ways right.
The u. S. Treasury predicts prof
its after taxes in 1916 of at least
$4,000, 600, 900, or a more than
2OO% increase over the pre-War
level of $780, 0O, 600. Does that
look like the OPA and other gov
eminent agencies r "strangling"
industry?
It's a smart person who has judg-
ment enough to use his own.
Hearken to this tale of woe:
When God gave out brains, l
thought He said trains, and I
missed mine When He gave
out looks, I thought He said books,
and l didn't want any! And
when He gave out noses, I thought
He said roses, and l ordered a big
one! When He gave out legs,
I thought He said kegs, and 1 or
dered two fat ones! When He
gave out ears, I thought He said
beers, so l ordered two long ones!
When He gave out chins, l
thought He said gins, so l said,
Give me a double!" And now,
am I a mess!!!-The Journeyman
Barber.
Stockings of spun steel, now in
the experimental stage, should fill
loco fol4 n01I 1,o1oCc rnt11rn
comes up with a c~arborundum mos
quito. - Senator Soaper" in the
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Coalition government has been
made fashionable in Europe, and
the American Congress has adapted
the idea-reactiOnary Republicans
and bourbon Southern Democrats
are organizing their bloc to rule
this nation and block any more
liberal or New Deal legislation.
The progressives of both parties
likewise made a vain effort to get
together, h Out perceptlble
achievements SO far. ReactiOnary
members of Congress are more 20
hesiVe and homogeneous than the
liberals. Since FDR died, the re-
dictionary bloc has either defeated
or emasculated every progressive
bill presented, from the FEPC to
the housing bill and the full en-
ployment bill.-N. L.
Representative HattOn Sumner
of Texas should know: he has been
in Congress for "a years; he says
that our Federal Government is
IAN fundamentally of favoritism,
tyranny, oppression, and corrup-
ton" He damned both parties as
unprincipled, guided by eXpedi-
ency. Summers is what is usually
called a reactionary, SO his testi-
mony carries weight. He said the
government is beyond democratic
control, extravagant, Inefficient
IN announcing that he will not seek
reelection. Only two others have
been in Congress longer - Rep.
resentatives SABBATH and DoughtOn
N. L.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
M. P.'S ASK PAY HIKE

British members of Parliament
get $1,000 a year. They are clam
oring for a so per cent boost to
S2,400. The low pay was fixed
years ago so that only rich men, or
the tools of rich men, could sit in
Parliament.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03
LET'S NOT ONLY PREACH SHOW
ALSO SOME GOOD EXAMPLES!
Raymond Hofses, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

policies are out to prey upon the
general public with the same de-
gree of rapacity that is manifested
by the imperialists of Europe who
are out to extend their power over
the peoples Of other nations!
And SO it is that the same gov
eminent that speaks of unity and
cooperation and justice among the
peoples of all lands t~olerates a con-
dition under which private owners
of industry strike against the rest
of the population and refuse to sell
their goods to q clamOring public
until ali restraints against profit
teering are removed.
IF THOSE AMERICAN diplo-
mats want to establish peace and
equity throughout the world they
must first set their own house in
Order-and a class economy can't
do that without taking away the
political freedom of the class that
is exploited.
To plan and control a world
t is first necessary for us to plan
and control ourselves. But the
people of America have been de-
Gliding against planning here at
home. Even during the recent war
the people merely ACCEPTED
controls; few people shared in the
business of establishing those con-
trolls. Certainly the common people
didn't exercise them.
AMERICA CANNOT offer to
he world anything different than
t has at home. That's what makes
I'll this high-minded talk about
unity and cooperation a CHASTITY
oke. We don't have those things
ourselves. How then can we give
them to others?
But we're going to have them
pretty soon. The American people
are either going to stand together
or be herded together by some
force greater than themselves. No
body can tell what that force will
be. 1t may be that another war
will supply the basis upon which
common interest will be estab-
lished. 1t may be that the power
of government will be used tC
make the American people the
subjects of a super state dedicated
to the task of preserving class
privileges. Or it may be that the
common people themselves will SCI
up an order to their own liking
But order and control must come
to America, else it cannot come tt
the world.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-04-03

THE EFFORTS OF American
diplomats to establish a world
order would be funny if it were
not that their failure is fraught
with tragedy. For how can any
nation hope to contribute anything
worth while to a search for world
order when it lacks system and
order within its own borders?
How can we offer a plan for eco
nomic sanity and political unity to
others when they do not have such
a plan for ourselves?
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
Ex-Detroit Woman
Accused Of BigdmY

Mrs. Dorothy EmmonS Jarvi
Nowak, "a. former Detroiter now
living in New Rochelle, Ny,
today was charged with bigamy
in a warrant obtained from Re-
corder's Judge Arthur +. Gordon
by Tauno II. Jarvi. 25. of 1852
Rowe.
Jarvi, who married the woman
in September. 194l, told Judge
Gordon that he returned recently
from Is months overseas service
to learn that his wife married
Eugene c. Nowak, also of New
Rochelle. last Nov. s.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
Forest Fires Fewer, ,
Acreage IS Larger

MILWAUKEE, Jan. II tAP)-
Jay II. Price. u, S. regional for
ester, reported today that fires in
the national forests of Wisconsin,
Michigan and Minnesota dropped
from Ala i'm 1914 TO 272 in 1915.
but that two destructive fires in
Michigan boosted the total acre
age burned from 3 3,406 to 1857.
Price said that two fires which
the forestry service attributed TO
railroads in Michigan had damaged
over 1900 acres.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
Army Rewards
Economy Idea

"A Detroit Ordinance District
ennploye was S60229 richer today
because he suggested 10 the army
that il use one envelope where u
used 10 use two.
1t occurred 10 Albert Schenkel-
berg. 1891 Three Mile drive, that
army training manuals and
service parts catalogS which ac-
company each piece OF ordnance
equipment could just as well be
combined in one envelope. The
grateful army promptly gave him
$50 for the idea and followed
this with a check for S352.29,
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
RediSfrictinS
Petitions Out

Members of the Wayne County
Republican Committee were cir
culatlng petitions today to force
a place on the ballot for a pro-
poSal TO rediStrict Detroit.
The legislative reapportionment
fight was begun in the LegiS-
lature itself.
II failed by single vote in
the regular session. and Repuhli-
can decided a continuation Of the
battle IN the Jan. 2S special ses-
sion would be hopeless.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
Association Of Fairs
To Convene Sunday

Plans were completed today for
the annual convention Of the
Michigan Association Of Fairs
which viii run for three days
beginning Sunday in the Fort
Shelby Hotel More than 800
delegates are expected TO attend
County fairs for 1916 and the
first postwar Michigan State Far
in Detroit will be discussed. The
convention is being staged in con-
junction with lhe Michig a n
STANDARD Bred Horse Association.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
This Home-Made Cough y
Syrup Beats Them All

Thus you make n pint-a family sup
ply-of really excellent cough medi-
cine. II gives you about four times as
much for your money. Tastes fine
children love it-and II never spoils.
The way this simple mixture takes
right hold OF a cough. Is truly surpris-
ing. II loosens the phlegm, soothes
the Irritation. eases soreness and dif-
.ficult breathing. and let's you set
restfuI sleep. You'll swear by II.
Pinex is a special compound OF
proven ingredients. in concentrated
form. known for its quick effect on
throat and bronchial irritations. Just
try IL, and IL not pleased in every
way, your money will be refunded.
Detroit evening times., 1946-01-17
Quick Relief from
r Pile Irritation

40 yeaN ago a Buffalo druggist
created an ointment for relief from
the itching and smarting of Piles.
II brought such quick cooling,
soothing. astringent relief that It's
fame spread throughout the coun-
try, and made Peterson's Ointment
a fayorite in thousands of homes.
Ask your druggist for J5c box of
Peterson's Ointment today, or DC tube
with applicstor Money hack u you are
not delighted with relief.