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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
a. r. OF l. CALLS FOR
WORLD BAN ON USE
OF "SLAVE LABOR"

One year after the war, millions
of workers the world over are still
being condemned to slave labor
That shocking situation was cited
recently in a radio address by
Herbert Thatcher, associate coun-
sci of the A. F. of l..
Great Britain is still employing
more than a million citizens of
enemy nations (mostly Germans)
at forced labor" Thatcher pointed
out. France has even a greater
number "shackled under involun-
tary servitude."
But the figures for Soviet Rus
sla," he added, FAR outstrip all
the others combined. Forced la
Dor in the Soviet Union exceeds
the entire working population of
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
Vania, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Vermont, Massachusetts and New
Hampshire"
Thatcher pointed out that the
A. F. of L. Executive Council has
gone on record demanding that the
United Nations take action to end
the abuse.
The U. N. should insist, he said,
that all member nations renounce
the use of forced labor and agree
to bar the products of forced labor
from world trade"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11

Black m~arketeers are getting
holder as goods become scarcer
and prices higher.
In the 1920's we blamed such
"going-on' on prohibition.
New York dispatches disclose
"hi-jackers' are holding up trucks
hauling anything and everything,
except maybe sewer pipe"
One insurance company reports
800 truck thefts, with a merchan-
disc value Of $4,000, 900. Textile
shippers were said to be the prin-
cipal victims Of "hi-jackers,''
with liquor shippers next.
In the Philadelphia area black
marketeers are accused of steal
ing farmers cattle, Strengthening
them in the fields and hauling off
the carcasses.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
BIG FINANCE"
TO BOOST WAGES"

Big Finance" is out for an in
crease in its "Wages"-and it's rep
r~esentatives are not going through
the formalities of Cancellation and
mediation.
A delegation of the American
Bankers Association called on
Treasury officials and urged that
the government hike the interest
rate on its long-term securities and
issue more of e m, to replace
shOrt-term financing.
The conference was very much
"hush-hush," as usually is the case
when big financiers foregather, but
it is learned h the bankers
argued that if Uncle Sam boosts
interest rates it will be easier for
bankers to increase the "ante" with
their private borrowers.
1t is understood that former Sec
rotary of the Treasury Fred M.
Vinson turned down a similar pro-
pOsal.
Apparently the bankers hope for
better success now. At least, Sec
rotary John w. Snyder has agreed
to meet next month with spokes-
men for investment bankers, insur-
ance companies and other b o n d
dealers.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
WALL ST. PICTURE OF
FARM

How're You Coin to Keep EN-
Down on the Farm After They've
Seen Paree?" is a song that was
popular after World War l.
If a program outlined by the
wall Street Journal is not a
pipe-dream, people will go down
on the farm through sheer curios-
ity.
1t says the typical red barn"
is out of date and must go. In it's
place will be a barn made of steel
or aluminium, without a hayloft,
but with a Cow lounge" All build
ings except the dwelling, averaging
10 to a farm, are to be brought
under one roof, saving steps and
labor.
Glass-lined silos are another new
one. Homes are to be streamlined
and modernized with all the latest
"gadgets."
Through better layouts, the
"Journal' declares, research men
hope to cut a billion man-hOurs a
year, or about Is per cent, off farm
labor.
Those familiar with farms sus-
pect that the first question the
farmer will ask when shown the
plans will be: "They're fine, but
where is the money to come
FROM"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
FOR HOGS!

Hundreds of cans of vegetables
fruits, ice cream mix, Vienna sau-
sages and other items, including
1O0-pound sacks Of pure cane SUI
gar, are being sold by the navy
for hog feed at Seattle, according
to the Times" of that city.
Navy officials insist the food is
unfit for human consumption, but
that is denied by the newspaper
1t says that its reporters and work,
ers at the navy depot sampled the
articles and found them palat-
able"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
How the Press Monopoly Grows

The La Toilette Progressive" one of the most readable weekles
IN America, presents ONE interesting figures to show how a few
individuals are grabbing the daily press and the radio.
1t quotes from a report by the Small War Plants CORPORATION, q
government agency. Very few communities now have more than N
version OF ne news, the report says, pointing out nat 81 per Ger /
publishers
In 1909, there were $500 daily newspapers in this country with
a clrcuahon Of 4,2OOOOO. In 1912, the number of danies had drOnned
TO l,787, although the circulation had reached 43, 374 SIS. O almost
double.
loday the situation is ever worse. The number IF daiIiez bc
decreased by SO, n circulation has gone u to 48 400 600
II is probable that "chains' now control half the dailv crcnIation
AND even more o. the Sunday Observation-Disclosures.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11

Despite Uncle Sans aid to other
countries during and after two
world wars, some of their politi-
clans and newspapers have been
fond of calling him "Uncle Shy
lock"
If that cry is raised again, Amer
leans should remember some fig
ures provided by William L. Clay
ton, Undersecretary of State.
The United States has supplied
So, 700, O00, 900, or 72 per cent of
all the money used by UNRRA to
feed and otherwise rescue the peo-
pie of devastated nations, Clayton
pointed out.
Moreover, this country furnished
the following:
A total of nearly $13 billion to
the Export-Import Bank, Britain,
and the International Bank and
Fund.
Those billions, plus others in
postwar ''lend-leaSe" goods, make
nearly $40 billion of gifts from
Uncle Sam to 'restore and stabilize
the economies of other countries
since the war ended.
The var itself cost us the blood
and lives of hundreds of thousands
of our boys, and over $500 billion.
AS q result orr notiOno1 Iah+ &c
nearly $500 billion"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
a Monarchy for Greece

Our side won If the Greek election, as everybody expected
Our slde means the Tsaldars government, which is backed by Great
Britain, which is backed by the United States. By three to one.
Greece voted to recall King George II to the throne. The Russians
Will not like it. In the power struggle that now colors all interna-
tonal relations this may pass as sufficient reason for others to send
up a muffIed cneer.
But II Americans will examine their consciences they will find
that secretly, IN their heart IF hearts, they don't like the return of
George IL any better. A nation which rebelled against monarchy and
set up It's own republic cannot be elated at seeing a brave ally recall
a KING who was the symbol and partisan of blacklist reaction. Whv
must American foreign policy O often find itself on the side of the
most reactlonary elements in contested areas? Why must the challenge
OF the lett be met by an extreme swing to the right, with or
dressings! why cannot America find a foreign policy which reflects
me way OF ITS national temperament?-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
"Uncle shyIock" Spent Blood and
Billions to Save World

Clayton was burning up" when
he cited those figures, in a long
letter to a Washington newspaper.
1t had printed an editorial criti-
Ching him for a statement attrib-
uted to him by the New York
Times"
That paper, which boasts its &C
curacy, had quoted Clayton as say
ing the UNRRA gravy train is
going around for the last time"
Clayton flatly denied he said
that. Nevertheless, he declared,
UNRRA should not be continued
beyond early 1947.
The international relief organi-
zation was set up to do an emer-
gency job, Clayton declared, and
the emergency is largely over.
1T is easy to start an organiza-
ton with billions to spend, but it is
not easy to stop it. The receiving
countries would naturally like to
continue it."
Most members of Congress will
agree with Clayton's remarks. One
thing which makes them welcome
the end Of UNRRA is the fact that
much of its money has been care
lessly spent, and much of it's food
las been used for political pur-
pOSeS."-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
News on the -Four
Winds

AS an indication of the better
feeling toward Soviet Russia in
Denmark since Russian troops
evacuated the island of Bornholm.
the Danish government will send
in the near future more than 1OO,-
600 food parcels as a gift to the
Russian people.
The State Dept. has issued a new
map of Germany, showing tn e
zones of occupation, and making
clear that the western boundaries
of Poland and Russia as they are
now being administered, are not
final, but still subject to negotia-
ton.
Two hundred selected non-hab-
ltual offenders r being trained in
Jamaica as small farmers, instead
OF being sent to prison cells, under
a program financed thru the Brit
lsh Colonial Development and Wei
fare Act. The latest report of the
Director of Prisons states that In
stead CT walls, we hope to build
character, and instead of Warders
there are leaders who work with
the prisoners rather as foremen."
-
Partly to counteract British in
fluence in the Middle East, Soviet
Russia is aiding a Moslem litera-
ture program inside the U.S.S.R.,
where a recent manual of Islamic
doctrine was issued in the Tartar
language, and several periodical;
r being published in Arabic.
It is more and more doubtful
whether Britain's Labor Govern
ment will adopt peacetime compul-
sorry military training. Ness Ed
wards, Parliamentary Secretary of
the Labor Ministry, recently assert
ed: I'VE are satisfied that if we
can put it Chat is, a career in the
armed forces) on a proper basis,
with a pension at the end, we will
get plenty of volunteers"
= - :
Sec'y of State Byrne5 has given
approval to the idea of a Central
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
For Shame, America

Americans OF all people on the face of the earth, ought TO he
.eratetu to- their right to express themselves at the polls m any and
all election days.
YET many congressman sti in Washington, representing large mum
oes of people, but placed in Washington by the votes Of only 10 to IS
per cent of the population.
Omy 90 ger cent ot American voters exercised their franchise at
the las national election, against 80 per cent in recent French and
Italian elections, and 76 per cent in Britain.
chance you haVe-Vote!-The Progressive Miners
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
HOPE IN new FACES

n a speech inserted in the Congressional Record Rem Adclob
SABBATH voices the hope that new faces" in the mex Cororocs will
mea better laws for the American people.
Since ne only face with which we have ever found foI+ woo ~
OWL we aren't as hopeful IS the Congressman from Illinois
III mencan need is not new faces but a neW economic ss
en-" Aorahan Lincoln was reputed to be one of the homeliest Of men
SUI he IS remembered because he ended the chattel slave system
oclaAS want to n the wage slave system. But they're not cor
cerned about the face of the Individual who leads the march, 70 o,
nomlc freedom-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
LET THE ENSIGN BE LOWERED
TO HALF-MAST


One of the m 0 melancholy
events Of u time is the good will
trip Of tt e carrier Franklin D.
Roosevelt to the port of Athens.
According to our Navy Depart
ment, the Roosevelt visit to Greece
is prompted by the great admir-
alton of the Greek people" for the
late President.
The admiration of t h Greek
people for Mr.. Roosevelt was most
notably expressed during the anti
mOnarchiSt demonstration which
filled Constitution Square in Ath-
n on Dec. 3, 1914.
The gathering had been called
by the E.A.M resistance forces to
protest the acts of the British-sup-
ported royalist government that
was intent on bringing back the
King.
Churchill said the E.A.M was
dominated by Communists, but
when the police opened fire, more
than 20 Greek men, women and
children were killed and more than
a hundred wounded.
Our newspapers reported t h a t
the people started crying: "Roose-
welt! Roosevelt! America! Amer
ica!' In hysteria, they embraced
American officers and correspond
ents, pleading; Why don't you
help us?"
But Roosevelt didn't help. Amer
lea stood by, while in the ensuing
days the British moved in with
dive bombers and Sherman tanks,
and crushed a rebellion that was
characterized by on both
sides.
Churchill rejected Greek at
tempts at compromise, as he had
done during the war when the
resistance movement wanted to
form a popular coalition govern
ment similar to that which was
formed in France under De Gaulle
So the issue was dramatized.
The King versus Communism,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11
Secretary Wallace is Riqht

secretary o Commerce Henry Wallace said a very sensible thing
lecenty' he Was discussing taxes and pointed out that the America
people are paying the highest taxes in history because NJ +ho uurs' w.
I'VE engaged IN during the last half century.
Hppdehty, authenuc figures show that ga cents INF of every
collar Uncle Sam expends goes to pay for past ar to care for The
victims and to prepare for the next War
That will continue until we find the wav 70 rodroo ouoo.a.
The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11

American Union, provided that the
initiative comes from the countries
involved, according to a statement
given out recently by DR.. Salvador
Mendleta, a prominent member of
the Central American Unionist
party, on his return to Nicaragua
from Washington.
The lndOnesian R e publica n
Party has five points which it
stresses as central principles: hu-
mainly, popular sovereignty. ma
tIonalism, belief in God. and social
ism. The emblem is a red kriss.
or Malay knife, dripping blood.
Mexican economists are troubled
because, while the country served
as host to m u C h foreign capital
which was put to productive in
Vestment during the war. the com
ing of peace has seen a flight of
this capital out of the country, at
least $3.50, 900 900 having been
withdrawn.
IS -
Because of inSistent orders bv
General Macarthur, the premises
of the American School in Tokyo
are being restored to pre-war con-
dltion, and the school is expected
to begin regular educational work
in September.
X X *
The All-India Educational Con
ference has inaugurated an Indian
Child Education Council, the pur-
pose of which is to stimulate in
home and school the DEVELOPMENT
OF modern practices in child train
ing.-WOrldoVer Press.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11

Communism versus the King.
On this issue the plebiscite on
the King was held Sunday, Sept.
l, under conditions of civil terror
with the British army in control.
Perhaps Churchill was right.
Perhaps no compromise was pos
Sible between Communism and the
return of a King, who would safe
guard British investments in
Greece.
Perhaps it vas necessary for us
on the eve of the election-tC
accept the invitation of the puppet
monarchist government and send
the Franklin D. Roosevelt to
Greece.
The visit of the Roosevelt does
not constitute direct intervention.
for the issue had already been
determined by our default.
But you don't have to believe
MolotoV to see that the trip has
political significance "a sad sig
nificance for us. Once we were
opposed to kings everywhere.
A century ago we were denounc-
ing Russian intervention in Hun
gary, which overthrow the Repub-
lie proclaimed by Louis Kossuth
and reinstalled the Hapsburg en-
peror.
Then we sent a warship all the
way to Turkey to bring the fugi-
tive kossuth to the United States,
where he was universally ac-
claimed by a nation that was not
afraid to champion the cause of
human freedom.
Perhaps times h ave changed.
Perhaps reaction is the only an
5Wer to Communism, and America
must take the side of kings. But
let no one rejoice.
On this issue America cannot
win, and still remain America
Let the ensign be lowered to halt
mast, when the Franklin D. Roose-
welt enters Piraeus Harbor to sa.
lutte the glory that was Greece.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-11

Sec'y of State Byrne5 has given
approval to the idea of a Central
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-28

Il Gross was given the proud title, 1.-THE
Greatest Mother In The World" Today after
the greatest struggle in history, that title has
been retained. The list of services your Red
Gross has given our Servicemen your Ser
viceman - is almost endless.
Blood plasma made the difference between
life and death to many thousands of our men,
Food parcels packed by the Red Cross
meant survival to many Of our men in prisoner
of war camps. Medical kits and capture par
GELS were provided wherever possible. Red
Gross workers distributed release kits to
thousands Of prisoners as soon after their
liberation as possible. Red Gross Clubs have
sprung up by the hundreds all over the world
%. wherever the Armed Forces went sup
plying warm touch of home for lonely, home
sick lads.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1946-03-28

Red Gross hospital workers talk to the men
Laugh and play games with them - provide
amusement and recreation facilities to shorten
long, dreary days. The cheerful smile of an
American girl helps Danish loneliness and
boredom helps man keep his chin up when
things look pretty dark.
And on the home front, wherever fire, flood
or other disaster strikes, the Red Cross is
ready with relief for the suffering.
Yes, your Red Gross is literally mother to
many millions -. friend of the friendess -.
comrade in time of need. And its work must
90 on. Hundreds of thousands our men are
still overseas. They need the Red Gross, and
they need it now.
It is your Red Gross. The gift you give is
its only income. Without you, the Red Gross
can not carry on. Don't put off giving to the
Red Gross. Give today!
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-04
DAYTONA ELECTION
RESULT MAY GUST
NICHOLS FROM JOB
Special to The Star

DAYTONA BEATH, Dec. 3 -
The wheels Of political fortune in
a city election today. we're inter-
preted here as having the effect
Of impending custer for city Mana
ser A. c. Nichols who came here
from Wilmington, N. c., June l.
Al anti administrat1on state OF
candidates went in to office by
a better than two-to-oae majority
today, with one almost certain re-
suit - dismissal of Nichols on Jan.
7 the date of the organization meet
ing Of the new commission, unless
Nichols should find a new job and
resign before that time.
He was brought to Daytona
Beach at $40, 900 a year when the
city administration determined it
wanted more competent manager
ship than it had been getting.
Nichols approached his new Job
with business-like efficiency and
handled a transaction of two large
military establishments here from
federal to local control. One was a
Naval air station and the other a
large army convalescent hospital.
A broad program of street i'm
provements also has been accom-
plished under Nichols regime.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-04
UnionLeader
Found Guilty
Of Contempt
UNIV Boss Unle 5
Bitter Diatrab Against
{ Goldsborough Findings
MAY FIGHT RULINGS
Observers Believe Heavy
Fines Await Head OF
100000 Miners.

WASHINGTON, Dec. s.
L. Lewis Tuesday
was found guilty of criminal
contempt Of court-with a
possible heavy sentence but
the coal strike went on-and the
government took drastic
emergency action to save fuel.
Lewis responded to the
guilty verdict by rising in the
federal courtroom and max
ing a bitterly defiant speech.
He accused the judge of de-
priving the coal miners Of their
constitutional rights. He said he
would firmly stand" on his posi-
ton.
After this dramatic scene the
judge, T. Alan Goldsborough, sat
bordering for four minutes then
put off sentencing Lewis until
Wednesday morning.
The language of his conclusions,
that Lewis and his union "wilfully,
wrongfully, and deliberately" dis
sobeyed a court order, suggested
See UNION On Page 2; Col. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-04
Along The Cape Fear

Bowl. the Will Rogers Bowl, and
the Russian Bowl.
BIG JOB = So many of us just
take the Cape Fear River for
granted that we never consider
the tremendous amount of both
money and work that is required
to keep our port in tip-top shape.
Back in December 1888, the Chief
of the Army Engineers recon-
mended to Congress that the width
Of the channel from the ocean to
Wilmington be increased from 300
to 400 feet. He also suggested that
the width of the turning basin here
be increased from 900 to 300 feet.
Then in May two years later the
chief recommended to Congress a
modification of the existing project
to provide for an increase in the
length of the southernly approach
to the anchorage basin from 1900
to $500 feet and for a depth of 81
feet in the channel between the
outer end of the ocean bar chan
mel and the Port City, and in the
turning basin. The work of widening
and deepening the channel and turn
ing basin has been approved and
funds in the amount of l 1000, 900
are noyu available
See CAPE FEAR On Page 2; Col ]
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-04
The Weather

FORESAsT $3.50
South and North Carolina: Fair to
partly cloudy and warmer Wednesday,
Thursday, fair and mild.
eastern Standard Time)
(By u. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 pm. yesterday. =
Temperatures
1880 am. 90; 1880 am. rs; 1880 pm. -;
1880 pm. 43. II
Maximum As; Minimum 25; Mean IS;
Normal 81.
Humidity
1880 am. A; 1880 am. 40; 1880 pm. 81;
1880 pm. s..
a, Precipitation
Total for "a hours ending 1880 pm
600 inches. @
Total since the first Of the month =
q. 100 inches.
Tides For Today a.,
From the Tide Tables published by
y. S. Coast and Geodetio Survey.
High Low
Wilmington $3.50 5:42 am. IL :29 an
Gil pm. 1:01 pm.
Inlet 1927 am. 1851 am.
$3.50 pm. 10:15 pm.
Suarise 1902; Sunset SOB; Moonrise 2:25
pm; Moonset 2:08 am.
River stage at Fayetteville, N. C. at 8
am. Tuesday, (missing) feet.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-12-04
GROUP
SCHEDULES MEET
Further Development OF
Facilities To Be Discuss.
ed By Authority

The Wilmington-New Hanover
airport authority will meet late
this month with the county board
of commissioners to present in
full detail its plans for the future
development of B~luethenthal Field
here, Hamilton E. Hicks, authority
secretary, said yesterday.
The flve-member airport board
will gather Dec. 16 to discuss a de-
tailed program for the fields ex-
pansion and to set the date for its
meeting. with the county commits
sioners, Hicks said.
The authority's meeting with the
commissioners will ring some set
Element to widespread reports Of
dissension between the two bodies
over the airports future.
Rumors Of dissension reached
their high point yesterday after H.
r. Gardner, a member of both the
commission and the authority. Of
fered a few informal objections to
proposals that the county spend
some $40. 600 to build an admins
tration building and other facili-
ties at Bluethenthal Field.
Gardner made his comments at
a meeting Of the authority in the
county courthouse yesterday. Addi-
son Hewlett, Sr., chairman of the
county board, who is an ex-office
member of the authority gave no
indication whether he agreed or
disagreed with Gardner's observa-
tons.
As secretary of the authority,
Hicks presented plans for a $40,-
900 expenditure to improve the
field, which he declared would put
Wilmington in a better position for
commercial aviation than any other
city on the eastern seaboard.
City Industrial Agent John H.
Farrell and H. E. Boyd, OF the
Wilmington Port Traffic associa-
ton, who both attended the meet
ing, expressed agreement with
Hicks plans for expansion.
Much of Hicks case for the new
See AIRPORT On Page 2; Col. 3