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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
HISTORY MADE AT TWO HAR3ORS

An important milestone for Cooperation in America was posted
at Two EarborS, Mmn2 when delegates of coop health are plans
voted to establish the Cooperative Health Federation of America.
Until now, the national movement has concentrated more on
consumers goods and farm supplies, particularly petroleum, and
wherever coop health care plans have sprung up, they've developed
spontaneously as expressions of the bitter need o, the people. There's
been no central organization to coordinate experiences and to offer
and advice. AS a result each group has groped its own way,
making the same error over and owe again, and thus losing valuable
time, and stunting its own growth.
Health care, like every other consumer need, is a natural for
the democratic cooperative movement. Buying your beans and pork
chops comparatively is vital, but if you lack adequate preventive
medical care, you won't need pork chops for very long.
IS our present fee system Of medical care adequate? The stand
patter medlcS think Sc. But, then, the Standpatters are always short
sighted, always masterful at naturalization. They r. like the Bour-
bCnS, who fought all change SO much that their nation ended III in the
throe O a destructive revolution and they themselves rode the tunnbril
TO tn gullotne. The runbling thunder Of discomfort with the fee
system OF medlCInc is in the air-f it weren't so, America wouldn't
lend It's ear to the advocate of state medicine, which. in this case
represents that total revolution that the medical Bourbons are inviting
through their ObStnacy
Change IS in the air for Americas medical care, and whether
nat chalge be toward bOttOm-up democracy or toward top-doWn
StateBm depends N the peoples, and the doctors willingness to
push organizations such IS the set up at Two Harbors-The
Cooperative Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
FRENCH SOCIALISTS REFUSE
TO TURN TO THE RIGHT

The importance of the Socialist Party congress that ended on Sep
tcmber 1, in Paris, reaches beyond the area of internal party disputes
into the entire domain of French politics. To begin with, the congress
will have a n immediate effect on the new Constitution which in its
present form depended upon the combined support of Socialists and
Movement Republican, Popuaire (M. r. PD to counterbalance the
more and more beligerent opposition of the Communists in the Assem-
bly,. 1t will also destroy some of the hopes entertained in moderate
circles that the next elections might bring about a government Of
Socialists and M. R T. representatives with some additions from the
Radical Socialists and other minor groups, but leaving the Communists
outside. If one thing has clearly emerged from the congress. in ti
midst of all kinds of reciprocal concessions to avoid a split in the
party, it has been the uncomprOmising will of the majority to rule
main target of the delegates from the provinces where the traditional!
mt -ClcrIcalSm Of the French masses had been aroused by the Gre
alton of a Cabinet under Catholic leadership. With his experience of
so many years in the labor movement, Leon Jouhaux had already
the Socialist leaders not to allow themselves to appear as tho
allies of the priests Since the elections this feeling, strongly ex-
pressed at the Monrouge meeting in May, has swept every regional
and local pre-congrcss gathering. 1t is not any personal objection to
BIdauIt, whom everybody likes; it is fear of the Vatican smuggling
itself, against all logic, into the France of the Liberation. From the
point Of view Of personalities, there is not one among the new mcmbcrs
of the National Executive Committee who can compare with the de
fcatcd leaders. Neither the young though successful Minister of Agri
culture, Pierre TanguyPrigent, nor Guy Mouet, in spite of his ex-
cellent record in the Resistance, has the authority of a Leon Blum or
a Vincent Auriol, but they have become the voice of the Socialist
youth and the Socialist workers who, while favoring collaboration
With the Communists for limited ends, demand party independence
and leadership Leadership in directing France toward socialism and
checking the increasing aggression of the reactionary forces.
The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
BABSON'S CURIOUS
PROPHECY

Roger w. BabsOn is a queer old
bird. He makes a handsome in
come by writing a column" for
the newspapers and giving gullible
citizens tips on the stock market.
Of course, if Roger could accur-
ately forecast the course of the
stock market, he would soon be
come one of the richest men in
America.
However, that is not the point
of this story. Roger is spending
the summer at Gloucester, Mass
''the worlds largest fishin. port. "
He reports that there has recently
been a radical break" in the
wholesale price of fish. He says
the same thing happened in 1920,
after the first World War, and that
the drop in fish was followed by a
drop in other commodities.
If fish is again to be a leader,
then cattle and cotton will tumble
within a year, while shoes and tex
tiles will tumble within two years.
says Roger.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
GREEK KING WINS

The elections in Greece were
part of the power struggle between
Russia and the west, with Great
Britain dealing the cards in this
particular session, The British
Labor government, following the
traditional policy of continuity
doing just what it's predecessors
had planned to do-simply dealt
the Greeks a king. The Greeks
actually had about as much to say
about it as did the people in
Lithuania and Poland about what
was to happen to them. In this
colossal game of power politics, the
rights of small nations is a colossal
farce.-InduStrial Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
BALINA TOURNAMENT

CH1CAGO-We are inviting the
members of the Slovene Center So
cial club and their friends to par
ticipate in our balina tournament
Sunday, Sept. %, at the Center,
23Ol S. LaWndale ave. Many mem
berS from Waukegan are planning
to attend, and also invite other
cities who are interested. The en-
try fee is S1.50 for three person
team. There will be separate divis-
ions for men and women. The ex-
act number of entries will deter
mine the starting time.
All those interested turn in your
names with entry fees to the Bal
ina Committee, 1901 S.. Lawndale
ave-, Chicago %, III. No entry
blanks have been prepared, all the
information we want is the names
of the three team members, name
of organization they will represent
Of any and entry fee. Entries will
close on Wed, Sept. Is, thereby
giving the committee sufficient
time to prepare the schedule and
notify the participants as to their
approximate starting time.
The Center Club will also donate
money so hat a substantial amount
will be available for prizes. For
more information contact any
member of the committee or write
to the Center. Members of the
committee are Louis Zorko. Ed
Hudale and Frank Groser. Re-
freshments and sandwiches will be
available for all.
For the Balina Committee,
! FRANK GROSER.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18

Makers

The action of the International
Longshoremen's Association in re-
fuSing to load UNRRA supplies
destined for Yugoslavia, as a pro-
test against the shooting down of
United States filters last month. sets
a precedent with dangerous impli-
cations. In effect, President Joseph
Ryan and his longshoremen have
taken it into their own hands to
decide what our foreign policy
shall be. They have arrogates to
themselves the right to overrule
the State Department and an in
ternational relief agency; we are
making the largest contribution to
UNRRA, of course, but it is never
theless an international body.
The matter is not a question of
whether we should or should not
continue to send supplies through
UNRRA to Belgrade. 1t is wheth-
er a single group of unofficial per-
sons in this country has the right
to decide what action this country
shall take in its relations with an
other country. The fact that many
will applaud this action without
thinking does not make it right.
Certainly it is not in the demo-
cratic tradition. Mr.. Ryan and the
longShOremen are not elected rep
resentatiVes of the people. They
do not speak for the country. They
are using the economic weapon of
the strike-Which is what their ac-
ton amounts to-for international
political purposes.
The LILA is in considerable part
anti-Comunist. This factor prob
ably played a part in the decision,
as we'll as righteous anger against
the killing of American filters. But
how would the same men who are
taking direct action in this instance
like it if another group of long
shoremen, whose sympathies lay
with the Communists and not
against them should decide that
the United States should pull it's
troops out of Korea and the Mar
ines out of China and should re-
fuse to handle any supplies for
our men there, as an implementa-
ton of that decision? Should such
an action be taken, it would be
argued logically that those estab-
fishing that embargo were only
following the precedent that has
been set by the LILA.
1t will be a bad day for all of us
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
And Still Go On

By MAX PRESS
To be manned, broken, blind and
still go on,
Rising with each bleak dawn to
meet the day;
To be bound and noosed and await
the hour,
Silent, while minutes wear the
brain away.
To drink to the last acid drop of
grief,
Too strong to die though one has
drained the cup;
To walk with a pounding heart to
the wall,
And to look at the guns and still
stand up.
To bear the black wound with a
ribald jest,
Cursing without tears the throb
and the pain;
To rise from blood and dust where
loved ones lie,
And yet to stumble on and on
again.
To watch with stole calm the last,
"a sun
AS it sinks irrevocably in the
West;
To endure all these things and yet
not break
Such the heart that beats in the
human breast.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
SYNTHETIC VS..
RUBBER

Put this down in your note
book: There is a fierce fight on
between the producers of natural
rubber and the makers of the syn
thetic product. The British and
Dutch governments are backing
the natural rubber boys. They
would strangle the synthetic rub
Der industry if they could get away
with it.
They'll get a lot of help from
some of the big American bankers.
and in return, may permit them to
get in on the juicy profits of the
natural rubber industry.
1t is encouraging to find that the
synthetic rubber makers are conf
dent they can hold their own. All
we need is an even break" they
say. But the danger is we will
be stabbed in the back by our own
government, especially by h a t
crowd in the State Department.
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
Double Standard on Emperors

henry r H. former puppet emperor of Manchukuo, is a tragic
comic figure n his "a crimes trial at Tokyo. But he "a a tragic
comic emperor, all along. He did what the japanese war lords told
and got pomp and pay in return.
were not much interested in what happens to the ridiculous
Htle mi now. obviously he deserves conviction, but II the punish
1nent IS to fit the crime it need not be too severe. beyond the disgrace
nc already has. What really interests us is the contrast between
+ H. IN tal under the Allies, and the Emperor of Japan, protected
M helo IN power by the Allied Ge, American) occupying author
Ties. lie, too, was, personally, a weak tool of the japanese war
lords, u III served them immensely more powerfully against Amer
lea, Chlna and the United Nations than Pu vi eve. dreamed of
cong we would recommend conviction of war guilt and then
cemency for the Mikado we're he on trial He need not lose his head
But n east he ought to lose is his throne. Instead, tie occupying
regime is saving it for him-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
TURN DOWN SALES TAX,
MR.. PRESIDENT

Powerful interests in the Dis
trict of Columbia, including the
great property owners and the
royal families" which control the
daily press, are urging President
Truman to assist in imposing a
sales tax on the people of the Ma
tons Capital.
In the main, this would be a tax
on the stomachs of the poor. We
are ure the President knows that.
In addition, there are plenty of
other sources Of revenue within
easy reach.
Taxes in Washington are lower
than in any other city in the cOun-
try, or in the world, for that
matter. Naturally, the great pro
perty owners wish to continue that
system, and among the largest of
these property owners are the pub
fishers Of the profitable Washing
ton newspapers.
These greedy interests have en-
listed the support of gentlemen
who are supposed to be CLOSE to
the White House. and they are
Boosting that these emiSsaries have
succeeded in convincing the Presi-
dent. We can't believe it, but.
nevertheless, we indulge in this
word of warning.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
MAMMA FROM HEAVEN

Oakland, Calf. - To illustrate
the dangers of uncontrolled
prices, the Alameda County Emer-
gency Committee to Combat In
flation shoWered from a plane 1OO,-
600 million-dollar bills, currency"
of The Disunited State of Infla-
ton" and redeemable on demand
in old bottle tops-good only in
payment for illegal debts and CAM
paign promises"
Portrait on the bills was that of
a melancholy goat.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
Sounds Like Fuscism, Doesn't It?

re rapidly gong to hell in a handbaSket. The great United
States OF America, mghtiest nation the world has ever seen, simultane-
III winner OF two colossal var in Europe and Asia, is lettering toward
q collapse. 1t IS staggering downward in complete stagnation, prostra-
ton and paralysis"
VINO Shd that? Some "crackpot" on a soapbox? No; that comes
TO u IS from the COMMITTEE for Constitutional Government, Inc" Its
hlgh priest is Frank Gannett, multi-millionaire newspaper publisher.
us treasurer IS Sumner Gerard, also a millionaire. It's chief mouth
piece IS a former Democratic Congressman from Indiana named Petten-
smL It's master brain" is a gentleman who a sent to prison
curing M first World War on the ground that he was the paid agent
of the German kaiser.
Inc way TO w America, according to this precious outfit, which
apparently IS collecting immense sums from the gunible rich. is to
destroy trade unonism. You will remember Hitler and Mussolini took
the same posiion-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

What? No discount? Bread and
Butter, Consumers Unions weekly,
reprints the following letter to a
Congressman from an irate citizen
in Melrose, Mass, who had been
comparing his June and July food
bills: Congressman Angler L..
Goodwin, Debtor, House Office
Bldg, Washington, D. c. For the
money you have picked from my
pocket by your votes to sabotage
price control as a ventriloquist
dummy for the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers, balance due,
July 1-2O-S18.07. Please remit
promptly. (Signed) A long suffer-
ing victim of Congressional mis-
representation"
: IS s.
BedfelloWs Hall: The New Lead
er, which calls itself "America's
Leading Liberal-Labor Weekly"
is featuring the European CORES
pondence of William Henry Cham
berlin. So is Americas leading
conservative-capitalis daily - the
Wall Street Journal.
Long arm of the law! A New
York Sun story about a police
officers malfeasance reads: He
was found five blocks off post, in
uniform, when he should have been
on duty, with his arms around a
Woman's neck. Two women, who
demonstrated with him, said that
he waved his nightstick at them
and said, Get along or I'll arrest
you for interfering with an officer
in the performance of his duty"
What price vision! Philip w.
Pillsbury, president of the Pills
bury Mills, makes this comment in
his firms annual report: For
American agriculture, we should
already have planned-and should
be planning noW-What to do with
tne coming gram surplus" An adj
mirable thought; perhaps some
thing should be done, instead of
letting the grain rot.
= :: =
Insurance for a best seller. The
New York Times comments: with
all the books pouring off the
presses nowadays, a person whose
time is not all his own would GER
tainly miss out on some of the
most absorbing ones, if it weren't
for the a%nti-vice societies. The
deuce of it is that other people also
read the anti-vice news, and before
a busy man can find time to get
to the book store, there isn't a copy
left"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
Quit Hidinq

IF the Consumers Cooperative movement is a good as you think
1t Is, you should quit hiding its light under a bushel" said Rowland
burhstah to a group OF regional and national coop employees recently.
lhlSI is 1T KIND of critical appraisal we all need often. And it's
especially Weu-taken in these uncertain days when the consumers
la thought is government price control or bust"
CoOperatOrs knOW that the only effective and enduring price con-
troll measure is buy coop, join coop, w coop" But how about
me rest OF the folks who want to get out from under rising prices
and establish a stable economy of the American people who have never
heard Of co-OpS.
NOWs the time to remove the bushel and let the light of voluntary
cooperation shine clear and far-Cooperative Builder.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
LIKE THROWING AWAY
$40 GOLD PIECES

The Veterans Administration is
authority for the statement that
10000, 900 veterans have refused
Uncle Sans urgent plea that they
renew their government insurance.
This is most unfortunate.
A government insurance policy
is the cheapest and best in the
world. 1t is literally "worth its
weight in gold"
The day will come when every
veteran will realize that, but for
many of them it will then be too
late.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
r. L. {. /. .. 2. a. G.

That conglOmeratiOn Of letters means American Federation of
Labor, Congress Of Industrial Organizations and Political Action Com
mittee.
10 Slartedt the PAC several years ago. AFL4 held completely aloof
even wen SO far as to oppose candidates for office supported by CIO
F-and that is a big IF-PAC of AFL and CIO can agree n can
dldateS, they are as good IS elected. If they take opposite sides merely
to be mad ate each other, than labor itself is the loser.
Wonder when AFL and CO will wake u 10 to their mutual res
possibilities to the working voter The Progressive Miner
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
JUST SO IT'S MEAT

Chicago.-AnyWay, it was meat.
That's what a long line of women
waiting to buy hamburger at a To-
cal butcher shop protested when
police put in an appearance, stop
ped the sale and arrested the pro-
prietor for palming off horse meat.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
GAUGiNG CHARGED

Furniture manufacturers COM
plain they are being gouged on the
price of Philippine rattan. A chair
made from the product they say,
would@cost O 500 to $3.50,
against a prewar cost of SIS to $40.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18

For capitalism is a class economy
and altogether individualistic in it's
detectives. That is to say that it
operates to serve the purposes of
the individuals who own the ma
ton and not to preserve the nation
as a whole or to promote its ulti-
mate welfare.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
NOT GUILTY

NOT GUILTY
Traveler-Your son just threw
a stone at me.
Irishman-Did he hit you?
TraVeler-No.
Irishman-Well, then, he wasn't
my boy.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18

when we allow our foreign rela-
tions to be directed by longshore-
men, or any other group, instead
of by responsible Government au-
thorities. The New York Times.
September 10.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-09-18
MOVIE WILL NOT BECOME a "HAVE
NOT NATION" IF WE DON'T WANT TO


one al not be quite sure about
the stories appearing in our news
papers from time to time, telling
us that this nation will soon be a
haVe-nOt nation in respect to many
things that are essential to the
American standard of living. Some
OF the scare stuff may be just plain
hokum, but some is clearly true
and understandable alarming.
Anyway, here is the condition
at government sources which
should be reliable tell us exist.
Listing only a few of our essen
tials:
The nations supply of vana-
dunn is likely to be exhausted in
seven years; tungstan, four years;
TN, less than a year; lead, less
than II years-etc., etc. In addi-
ton, we have been warned that
America can't "'oil another war"
n hat the famous Messabi
Range Of high grade iron ore is
nearing exhaustion. Also that our
lumber resources have been used
up much faster than they were
replaced.
Even this sketchy picture of
how our nation stands in economic
IndISpenSibles should serve as an
explanation of why our diplomats
are SO interested in who is going
TO control the resources that are
10 be found in Middle East and
other parts of the world.
However, it would be we'll for
americans to turn the situation
around and look at it from an
angle that is seldom explained bv
the economists of capitalism.
Why is it that we have been
SO profljgate in the use of ire
placeable necessities in the past?
The answer is that, in an econ
omy that has sale and private
profit as its objective, the purpose
OF human activity is not primar-
lily to get real wealth, but to get
rid of it.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1946-03-14

motor trip to Kentucky, En- route
home they stopped in Catlettsburg
for a few hours visit with Mrs.
Anne Dawson, who has been spend
ing the winter there with her
uncle, Mr.. l.. j. Frazier.
Mrs. Edwin N. Cherrington was
hostess at house warming party
at her home on Montgomery Ave-
nue.. Her luncheon guests included
friends from Potomac, Glen and
Cabin John. The Cherringtons, who
formerly lived in Glen, recently
purchased home here which was
known as the Maus House.
Mrs. William H. Osmond of
Plymouth, Mass. is a guest this
month of Mrs. Alexander Kilgour.
Miss Eva Howard was given a
birthday luncheon by her sister,
Margaret last week. Guests were
Mrs. Albert Wootten, Mrs. Nc
Kinsie, Miss Anna Schook and Mr..
and Mrs. James Henderson and
family.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1946-03-14
County Congress Calls
Meeting In Upper County
Continued from Page u

Continued from Page -
purpose of electing a new chair
! man to replace Thomas E. Han1p-
ton, resigned. New delegates to
the congress and new chairman
of the caucus committee will also
be elected at this meeting.
Another meeting of the congress
will be held April 9Th when reso-
luton and suggestions for plat
form will be voted upon and candi-
dates for democratic nominations
/ indorsed
Meanwhile J. Sumner Wood of
Seneca who recently announced
his candidacy for the House of
Delegates, reports that he has
been receiving support from all
parts of the County. He states
that most people are urging him
to run as a Liberal Independent,
and not in the Democratic Prim-
airy.
Since there are two or more
political factions, Mr.. Wood, to
clarity his position, has addressed
a letter to the Editor of the Mary
land News, in which he says in
part:
81 do not want to have my name
proposed to the County Congress
il the Democratic Party is to run
this County then the Democratic
Organization leaders should be
chosen in an open primary and
directly responsible to the people,
otherwise, the only answer is to be
found in a non-partisan home
rule which will be fair to the
farmer and residential citizen, and
free from the strong arm Of un-
elected bosses"
Roscoe F. Walter, of Gathers
burg, last week announced his
candidacy for the Republican
nomination for the United States
Senate-the only one of his party
to file in the county for Office :
and Royal H. Carlock, Democrat
Of Brookmont, filed for reelection
to the House of Delegates to add
to the number of candidates al
ready in the field.
Mr.. Walter is a member of the
West Virginia and Tennessee