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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-08-12

Furniture Sale - Beds. desks,
chairs, refrigerator, floor wax
er. tables. all furniture and
equipment, Inspect Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sub
NIT bids, AL bids subject 10 re-
section by uSo Regional Office,
nslval Street uS0. sos Duval
Street, aug9-4 tN
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FOR SALE Oh RENT

Large electric fans, on stands,
with guards, suitable for bust
ness use. Apply South Beach
Casino augl2-6t
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with attached cabin. 2
fuIl-size beds; stove: ice box:
pots, pans, etc. On wheels.
Worth $3.50. Priced. S170.
William Meyers, Tropics Bar,
700 Duval St. aug10-2tx
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Furnished cottage, three rooms
and bath Apply 512 Catherine
Street aug12-3tx
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apartment, lights, kitchen uten-
sis, linens furnished. Paul's
Tire Shop. aug1z-3tx
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ROOM AND BOARD

Board and room. $3.50 per week.
Private entrance TO room and
bath Mrs. Gabel, 704 Eaton
Street. augg-6tx
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Housekeeping rooms. All utilities
furnished. So weekly Paul's
Tire Shop. aug12-6tx
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Furnished garage apartment.
Marks Estate, Roosevelt Boule-
ward Phone 749-J.
aug12-3tx
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BEr. and MrS. CaarFeS Boil and
son az Tampa are En Key West
visiting relatives and fraes1GiS-
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CaEnpbellfs. 9l5 Division. phone
169- Keys made. locks repair
ed, etc augl-lnO
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For Sale-MacArthur Home, two
bedrooms. screened porch. ex-
cellent condition throughout
Electric stove. refrigerator. wa
ter heater. Low initial cost.
Comdr. Walker, 1905 Harris
Avenue, phone 1187-R.
aug9-3tx
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Mrs William r. Warren. local
representative of tine District
Welfare Board today gave .
summary u tire work that has
been done recently In TINS COM
Er11zTry-
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shzz - resa9l 1t68Es OF respect. 9sEE-
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Statesmen WANTED
MISCELLANEOUS

Refrigeration sales and service
Repairs ON all makes. All work
guaranteed METafoE6 * Ross.
20 D1val ST., phone 333.
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For guaranteed plumbing work
and repairs. call John Curry.
5I2 Margaret street. phone ISL
Give us a try on your next job.
Free estimates jly16-Imox
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Mr. ana Mrs Charles Sands.
Mrs Eliza AIu--5a and Mrs.
SepheFine AImyda and children
Shirley and Enla. returned yes
terday from visit TO the west
coast Of the state
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When Won tnink Of plumbing
supplies or plumbing work.
think of Peppers Call us for
repairs or installations, Pep
perss Plumbing Supplies, 5l2
Fleming, Phone lis, aagl-tf
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Set of table and four chairs
stain dark oak. $40. Apply
80 Rest Beach.
fri-mon-wed-aug9 -3tx
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Coolerator; practically new. Ap-
ply Bottle Cap Inn, 1923 Simon
ton street. aug1-tf
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Driving to Washington Aug. 20.
Take 2 passengers Phone
309-J. aug10-2tx
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This morning a nleetIng was
held at WPA headquarters to
make preliminary angements
for the construction of an athletic
field and county fair grounds In.
KEY West
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Electrical contracting; motors,
generators, radio repairs and ap-
planes. Sawyer's Electrical
Repair Shop, 800 Virginia St.
phone 1896 aug8- f2tx
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The Key West discriminating Co.
will solve any determination
problem. Hotels. Restaurants.
homes and stores. Phone 1881
between 9 am and 8 pm
gS-6tv
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Mrs H T Nagorsenand and
daughter Betty arrived yester-
day from Detroit and are visiting
the formers mother, Mrs Salsr
WEIGH
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We have returned from vacation.
PHASE call us to serve you
again A H. Williams and A.
G. Roberts. Phone $50.
aug12-6t
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ron SALE

2 and 8 bedroom bungalows,
furnished and unfinished:
small down payment. balance
payable monthly. johnson &
Johnson, Phone 372. aug1-tf
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VIII give away mule 10 party
who will take care OF him. Ap-
ply 304 Amelia ST. augt0-3tx
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Dry cleaning agency to lease.
Guaranteed good Lying. Only
ambitious party should apply.
F-100. Citizen Office. aug10-3t
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Woman 30 take care Of boy. Call
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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
BAD News FOR BIG BUSINESS

We have reports that payrols in the industrial state of N Michigan
were 263% less than they were for the same month of 1914.
Almost anybody will aggree that such a story is bad news for
workers. But we say it is also bad news for big business.
Badly a S workers need to maintain living standards, the need of
the owners of the nations economy for customers is even greater. For
while workers can manage to exist o les, then they have been getting,
the very life of the capitalist economy depends upon the ability of
owners to sell what their magic machinery produces, And unless the
buying power of rank and file Americans is kept high, business will
lose n customers who give it life and enable the profit system to
function.
If the only result of low wages would be that capitalism would
fade and die, the prospect would not be alarming to the working mil
lions If the disappearance of the profit system would be followed by
the industrial democracy for which Socialists organized many years
ago, we would be willing to accept temporary inconvenience now.
But the economic system can die and the social inequalities and
3njustces it has fostered can be given a new lease of life by government
controls which will be dictatorial, rather than democratic.
That it's what is likely to happen if capitalism passes from the scene
before the common people IRE organized and prepared to replace it
Will an economy Of industrial democracy. And if it should happen that
the government is forced to take total control of the national economy,
then many capitalists, a S well as workers, will ultimately be losers of
both power and freedom.
We suspect that many topflight capitalists understand that they
cannot function without the big market that is to be found only in
a relatively prosperous working class. But, come what may, they will
not surrender their profits in order to keep industry going. Before the
owners get off the backs of the workers altogether, they may be ex-
pected to take a fling at faScisn and use the power of government to
as the middle class"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
YES - WHERE ARE THEY?


NOT IN Germany, certainly, where any CT will tell you that the
hair shirt has replaced the brown shirt. And not in Spain r Argen-
tina either, it seems. We had thought that Gcneralissimo Franco
an Colonel Peron were fair examples of the Species But it seems
we ere wrong. Both statesman gave interviews in which they
proved themselves democrats by saying SO Franco told Dewitt
Mackenzie OF n Associated Press that "he never subscribed to the
pOlcles c r to the political views of Hitler and Mussolni," and that
re Us heading for absolute democratic rule by the people"
Moreover, said the Caudilo, Spain was with the United States
all III time in the a against Japan" What must have led US astrav
"ere those occasions early in the wal when Franco said that Spain
was an integral part Of Axis Europe and stood firm against the
democratic liberal alliance with Communist Russia"
Then there was that message to Hitler which said, MAY YOUR
triumph; and that other message congratulating Jose Laurel
On forming a Japanese puppet government in the Philippines. Colonel
Peron, in a similar effort to sIaghten things out, summoned Frank
kIuckhohn, newly arrived correspondent of the New York Times
and insisted that his regime wa closer to the New Deal than to
NaZlSn IN fasclSm" President ROoseVctS death, he said sadly, was
the greatest blow Argentina had suffered" This really confused us
because at that very moment Gerald 1. K. Smith, iaughingIy attribut
ing us reputation Is IN antiSemite to "JcWish Gcstapo' propaganda
was telling the Rankin committee that the only effective fascist
agency he knew Of in the country was Rooscvclts New Deal bur
caucracy" Well, we knew there were fascHts somewhere,
The Nation
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20

One of the fears expressed regularly during the "a revolyed
about the possibility that returned servicemen would easily be re-
crulted to the ranks of reaction, that it would not be difficult for
antl-laoor employers to lead veterans in a crusade against the unions
Fears were also voiced regarding the possibility that veterans would
a. the nucleus of a fascist movement.
Although it would be too early to dismiss these possibilities com
pletely,-for the vast depression and chaos to which capitalism is
leading make them a threat sil-nonetheless the current strikes in
steel auto have revealed something quite unexpected.
On every picket line in the country, returned veterans arr taking
a leading part in conducting and participating in the strikes. None of
the major veterans organizations, has dared to offer a blanket con-
demnaton OF the strikers, and some of the newer veterans groups
such as the m1Itantly pro-labor Veterans League of America-haye
gone into the picket lines in support of the workers.
This development has a twofod importance. It indicates that
the American Gl, was not precisely taken in by the slick four color
advertisements which assured him that all he wanted when ne came
back from the vars was a piece of BURBERRY pies.
1t points to the fact too that the American veteran was not pre-
pared to oce his condemnation against the labor movement, simply
on the balso OF the say-so of the economic rulers of the country. He
has taken his place side by side with other American worker against
the massed might of U. S. Steel and General Motors.
And it is just this Willingness of the veteran to throw his lot with
labor that makes the responsibility of labor the greater. BY their
actions throughout the world in demonstrating against army injustice
and the military caste the Gs have shown their willingness to buck
the brass hats and the deadening and soul-destroying military system
The CT should be willing to throw the same energy into bucking
Inc capitalist system The labor movement must reconvert itself to
give the CT that lead. - The (Socalis) Call.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
THE ARMY AND THE MERCENARIEs

Wondrous and frightening is the political naivete of the Amer
lean military mind. The latest example comes from the American
zone IN Germany, where disSident Polish and Yugoslav mercenaries
have been pressed into service a military police.
The five days of embarrassed official silence which followed this
disclosure Were broken by Secretary of State Byrnes with the TX
planauon n Sc OF thu Yugosavs would soon be stopped. But he did
not say Why theI services we're ever needed.
If it had hunted far and wide for any two groups more calculated
TO arouse the fear and suspicion of the Soviet Union, and the Polish
and YugoslaV overnments, the Army could not have been more sue
ceSStul. Both groups of mercenaries are, by all reports, bitterly
antl-SoViet and ant-Semiic; both r. hostile to the new govern
ments IN their home lands which have been recognized by tn united
States, and bothl look forward with eagerneSs to what they consider
the inevitable "a with Russia. Although theoretically displaced
persons, their standard of living is much higher than that of the ordi
nary d p. Is it any wonder that FascHts from all over Europe flock
10 the American zone?
Especially pecuiar-and Mr.. Byrnes' explanation O this score
leaves much to be desired-is the case of the Yugoslavs. Although
only a few hundred are working for the U. S. Army, some 10 900 of
mem V IN barracks all their oWn-knoWn as HEADQUARTERS of the
Royal Yugoslav Army"-eat Army ratons and, with paper furnished
by us, print two weekly papers advocating the overthrow of Marshal
Tito, and war with Russia.
Brig. Gen. George Eyster, acting chief of U. S. military opera
tons, says that what these mercenaries think is no concern of his. For
the sake of peace, it must be Americas concern-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
a PROCESSION OF
ROYALIST FROM
MADRID TO LISBON

Lisbon, a paradise for Nazi
agents during the war, has now
become headquarters for the Span
ish Pretender. A procession of
rOyaliStS headed by the Dukes OF
Alba and SOtOmayOr arrived from
Madrid in time to take part in the
show, and to contribute glamour
to the m OnarchiS campaign
abroad. The British government
facilitated Don Juan's journey by
granting him passage through Eng
land. when his request was first
received" said a press cable from
London, lit was going to be turned
down, but a similar request -.
came from DR.. Giral, Premier of
the government in exile, and it
seemed polite to grant both re-
quests" Bully for Mr.. BeVin! From
now on, no n can justly accuse
the Labor government of partially
toward the Spanish Republic! Opin-
ions r divided concerning the
Prctender's chances. Certain de-
tails, especially the manner in
which Francois brother, the Span
ish Ambassador to Portugal, well
coined Don Juan after rushing to
Madrid for instructions, would
suggest that a deal had been made.
On the other hand, the insistence
IN the Falangist press that Francois
position has never been stronger
indicates his reluctance to step
aside. The Madrid correspondent
Of the New York Times attributes
this new optimism to the refusal of
Secretary Byrnes "to diVulge at
present the contents of the Franco
Hitler-MuSsolini correspondence
A perfect harmony pervades both
foreign offices; while London dis
tributes amenities impartially
among Republicans and Monarch
lists, the State Department one day
expresses its dislike of Franco and
next day suppresses evidence UNI
favorable to him. We entirely
agree with Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
who in his Milwaukee address re-
commended ito the President of
the United States and the Secret
airy of State that they vigorously
support French proposal of a three
power conference and a concerted
program which will help the
Spanish people get ride of Franco.
The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
Some Odds and Ends G. |. ON THE LINE

At the moment, the industrial
picture is pretty dark. An estimat-
ed LOCO, 600 workers are out on
strike, while no more than fifty
to a hundred million or so people
are on the job.-HoWard Brubaker
in The New Yorker.
Industry has a strike benefit
fund of $40, 900, 900 900, thanks to
a tax rebate law passed by Con-
gress. This is the same Congress
that tackled an amendment onto
the CT Bill of Rights Withholding
4 measly $40 a week from veterans
out on strike for a living wage
John Paine for Federated Press.
College professors in public life
have strange, revolutionary ideas
right along. Senator Fulbright, for
example, thinks it is time to stop
sending politicians abroad just for
the boat ride in reward for past
services. He actually believes that
people assigned to represent us in
overseas councils should have had
some experience in international
affairs.-The New York Times
Magazine.
The Army and Navy Depart
ments have issued such a variety
Of ribbons, shoulder patches and
sleeve braids to our returning vet
Grams, in recognition of their var
iOus achievements, that we humbly
suggest d medal now be struck
with which to recognize the achieV-
ement of any civilian who knows
what all the military decorations
signify.-The Milwaukee Journal.
We are advised, in an excited
press release, that nearly 100
editor-Writers" in the radio field
have voted something identified as
"PolonaiSe"- presumably in A
Major-"the musical composition
of the year: "This hot tip comes
from the enterprising journal, Ra-
dio Daily, which adds: Thus
Chopin reaches out into p~osterity
to join the All-American winners"
Nice going, Chopin, old boy. I'm
mortality at last.-From The Chi
cago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20

purchased the Albuquerque Jour
nall from Albert B. Fall, then U.
S. Senator, later Secretary Of the
Interior and still later an inmate
Of a Federal penitentiary.
When Fall discovered that
Magee wouldn't play the game"
he started to ''break" him. 1t was
a stirring battle.
Magee helped expose the Teapot
Dome scandal, went to Jail for
criticizing a crooked judge, and
when the crooked judge assaulted
him, fired a shot which "nicked'
the Jurist and killed an innocent
bystander. The trial judge ordered
an acquittal.
Magee continued to live dan
gerously,'' as the mighty Danton
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
BRITISH LABOR
FORTY HOUR WORK WEEK

AT Q conference OF British trades
unions, General Secretary of
Trades Union Conference stated
that British trade unions will de-
mand introduction of a five day
forty hour work week under a
new program of industrial reform.
Addressing a conference called
by the Spen Valley Trades Coun-
Gil, Citrine said the program could
be effected by successive stages
without loss of production.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
vuItUres Are Back on the Job

About lo years ago, after a fierce struggle, Congress passed the
Holding Company Act, but not until a Senate committee, headed by
hugo L" Black, then a Senator from Alabama, now a justice of the
Suprem Court, had developed a shocking story of crookedness by
Atnhty tycoons like insult of Chicago and Hopson of Associated Gas.
insult died. Hopson went to penitentiary. Chiefs of other holding
companies escaped. by the skin of their teeth, and American investors
principally little feloWs"-lost billions of dollars.
Now with the "a over and bank vaults bursting with idle mo
ney, tn financial Vultures n back on the job. Spokesman for the
Electric Bond and Share, biggest holding company of all, and Common
wealth and Southern, appeared before a House committee, pleading
LII the Holding Company bill be changed 50 that the men and the
methods that feeced investors sin the good old days" be given a free
hand to repeat the performance.
Of course, Congress should turn a deaf ear to these pleas. but there
IS grave danger that weakening amendments may be slipped through
unless the folks back home" are IN the alert-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
"Smurt" Editors Fall for This "Racket"

We have always felt that editors of our daily press, who fill
their columns with Features supplied them by "syndicates' of one
n another, were easy marks" for professional propagandsts
what we had in mind is illustrated by a letter sent out recently by
Leon Bloch and Associates" with headquarters in Washington.
It's addressed to a business concern and explains that Leon Bloch
and Associates send a package" of news to more than 1900 weekly
newspapers all over the United States. 1t consists of "a Washington
column, feature stories and editorials"
The editor who receives such a package" would be justified in
neleVng that it is all straight newspaper stuff and in no sense
paid propaganda"
But Leon Bloch and Associates" suggest to business men that
at a very reasonable cost they may be represented in the package"
by tn kind of stories which will do you the most good"
n other words, Leon Bloch and Associates" proposes to sell a
feature ervice" to 1900 weekly newspapers, and at the same time
business nnen whose propaganda they incorporate lin their
features"
1t a great racket, but the amazing thing is that newspaper
edltors, who are supposed to be smart" fall for it-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
Study Spanish and Grow Young Again
Kenesuw M. Londis II in The Chicago Sun

If you feel yourself growing old,
and want to reverse the process, l
suggest you go to the nearest book
store and invest 81 in a book, dis
armingly entitled Spanish in 20
Easy Lessons"
l discovered this elixir of youth
a few days ago, as a result Of a
promise l made to my wife last
summer that we would go to Me
XiCO this winter.
When the time came for US To
depart, | suddenly woke UP to the
strange fact that the inhabitants of
Mexico speak Spanish. 1 thought d
knowledge of the language might
be helpful, especially if l wanted
to understand the presidential
campaign which has just started
down there.
| don't know why l thought so.
The more l have learned of Eng
fish, the less l have been able to
understand the difference between
the Republican and Democratic
parties here at home.
A Basis for Understanding
But no matter. The first three
Spanish verbs 1 ran into provide
a basis for the understanding OF
politics anywhere.
In chronological order, they are:
"deseo" meaning Il WISH" "habl-
ar" meaning "to speak," and Ito
mo" meaning II take"
One of the beauties of learning
a foreign language is that life is
reduced TO its kindergarten funda.
mentals. The entire first lesson Is
based on II wish" The second on
Il take" and soon you are putting
sentences together-"I take the
breakfast"
70 encourage me in this project
my friends kept assuring me thai
Spanish was really a very simple
language. One of them went SC
far as to say it was a masculine
language.
| am not so sure. One of tho
first discoveries I made was tina
papa" means both papa and pota.
to, depending on which syllable i,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-20
FIGHTING EDITORS"
ARE LIVING LONGER

Carl Magee, who died in Okla
homa City recently, was a eight
ing editor" but he lived to be 70,
which perhaps proves that the
live expectancy of editorial writ
ers who refuse to be coerced is in
creasing.
He was born in Iowa, and start
ed as a lawyer in Tulsa, but his
wife's i'll health forced him to move
10 albuquerque, N. NJ. There he