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The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22

issued by the Nebraska Commit
tee, U. S. Brewers Foundation, are a subject OF discussion mere
among three of the speakers at the organizations eighth annual
convention, held here last week. Pictured left to right are Jackson
2. Chase, chairman Of the Nebraska liquor control commission,
District Judge Lyle E. Jackson Of Neigh, and Charles E. Sandal,
state director of the Nebraska Committee.
Judge Jackson, who gave the principal address, called the self
Hkpulation program as carried on by Judge Sandal and the Ne
ftaska Committee "a powerful striking force for public good"
i declared "the program steers a sound middle course between
e extreme Of prohibition on one hand and weak controls on the
her..
Helpful suggestions for better tavern operations appear in
bulletins such as the specimens shown on the display. Center
pages are made up in large posters for display In taverns, and
carry messages designed to help retailers maintain orderly and
law-abiding conditions.
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22

-
the trial vas held, was so inflam-
ed that McGee's attorneys were
unable to obtain affidavits in sup
port of the plea for a change of
venue, Jackson charged. Even re
latives Of the defendant were too
inundated to act, he stated.
MCGEE had been held without
bail in the nearby Kinds County
Jail for 80 days prior to his trial
because the Jones County sheriff
had informed the governor that
he was unable to protect the pri-
soner, Gro stated in the appeal
brief. Brought to the Jones Coun-
ty courthouse in custody of the
State Militia, MCGEE was at the
time of the trial SO incapicitated
by reason of insanity, shock and
fright that he was unable to adj
wise with counsel or to make any
coherant statement toe them, ac-
cording to the appeal.
CRC also argued that, because
of McGee's condition and the at
mosphere in Laurel, there was no
chance to prepare a defense; that
the circuit court refused to ar
range examination Of his sanity
by competent physicians, and that
on the basis of evidence presented
the court erred in not directing
a verdict Of not guilty.
In addition to a change of We
nue., CRC asked a proper inquiry
into McGee's sanity, delay in the
trial until he recovered from the
shock, and adequate time to pre-
pare a defense.
The prisoner was entitled to a
change Of venue before there was
hearing on the question Of
because h ewas entitled to
a fair opportunity to a
The Omaha guide., 1946-06-22
NeuO PIatterS BY Count Basic

NEW WORKPLACES good
news in sight for Cunt Basic fans
with the announcement this week
that two new platters by the Cou-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30

Financial World" a big business publication, has sent us a re-
print Of al article written by its vice-president, Henry L. Vonderleth.
which was published in its October 9 issue.
What Mr.. Vonderleth says is that workers are all wrong in be-
heving that stockholders RI robbing workers. And then he quotes
figures which, with the aid of a little arithmetic, show exactly why it is
that the capitalist private profit system results in insecurity and de-
preston IS well as class strife.
Mr.. vonderlieth points out that the average stakeholder" receives
only $191 in dividends. But when farther down in his story he says
that actually corporations r owned by about Is million investors,
he enables is to figure out that close to So, 600 OOO, 900 of the wealth
that people create by working is handed to somebody who does nothing
more useful than owning.
There is ar element of injustice in that division which should
arouse the ire of Americans whose chief interest is the interest of a
Wage-earner and not that of a dividendtaker. Why should so much
money be handed out as payment for owning?
But more important is the question-which Vonderheth failed
either to ask o II answered. how that THREE THOUSAND MILLION
DOLLARS is divided. Our guess is that the lions share goes to very few
people. And newspaper reports of high executive salaries compel the
conclusion that the few people who get the big dividends are the same
are declared and which serve IS a device for robbing the small stock
holder as we'll a the worker.
The flow of all those billions into a few hands explains why it is
that, even in normal times, workers re not able to buy the fruits of
their labors. The high salary dollars and the big dividend dollars are
not spending dollars, but investing dollars It is inevitable that they
on the home front and drives the nation to imperialism and war o
the international front.
Frankly, we don't believe workers should be too greatly interested
in knowing exactly how much is taken from them by owners. We think
the whole rotten racket of production for the profit of owners should
be outlawed. There is only one good reason why any Individual should
labor.
Of course, as Mr.. Vonderieth suggests, without profits private
profit business could not exist. But, being Socialists, we don't want it to
exist We want to replace it with a arrangement under which all the
people will own the jobs of the nation and also own the So billions
annually that is admittedly given to non-workers. Even the small
stockholder, who risks his all and gets so little out of the capitalist
racket, ought to see the advantage in what Socialism offers-Reading
Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
On The Old Trails

The American Legions convention at San Francisco has shown
n 1t takes a good deal more than a World War to change the Legion
I'LL Of nostalgia and grain neutral spirits, most of the dictionaries
gamboled and staggered through San Francisco, shooting off water
and quietly efficient group that has always controlled Legion policy
Kept n controlling it, in spite of the fact that, by now, twothirds of
the legionnaires are veterans of World War H. Generals, adnirals and
j. Edgar Hoover made the usual Arm! Arm! The Reds Are Coming!"
speeches, but General Omar Bradley, head of the Veterans Administra
ton, surprised his audience by delivering an attack on retiring Com
mander John STEELE. STEELE had declared that Bradley's Endorsement of
was a "betrayaI of the veteran, and that the rights of veterans were
everywhere being imperiled by the arbitrary and excessive ECONOMY"
OF the government. Bradley defended government policy. accused STEELE
OF ohslStent eXaggeraton and misrepresentation in the interests of
d special group, and reminded him that the veteran is a citizen first and
a veteran second. Stelles reply, though more palatable to the conven-
ton than Bradleys speech, won little applause outside of San Fran
the American Veterans Committee Immediately out in SIN
port O. bradley. There isn't much doubt that the Legion, in both prac-
lice theory, is just what it used to be, and leftsts boring from
within seem unlikely to get much more for their pains than bJiSters
and fruStraton-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
For q Democratic GERMANY

Foreign Minister Bevin has given a most effective answer-insofar
as words can give ito the cartel plans of British and Dutch indus
trialIts. He has announced that Brtain's government intends to foster
public ownership and control of the basic industries in the British zone
CT Germany. This sand-adoped by the Labor government following
rising criticism from its own followers for falling in line with Wash
lngtons conservative approach to German problems-will help the
Social Democrats of Germany. 1t is in accord with the social economic
trends of most of Europe.
In this case, specialization is proposed by a British government
which is itself professedly socialist. But given the peculiar problem of
acceptance oft the program now proposed does not require advocacy of
the same principles for other countries, such as America. It would
appear to be, in fact the only dependable means of preventing German
heavy industry from returning to or remaining in the hands of the in
dustrlal barons who, with the Junkers, have formed He permanent
backbone of German warordism. The United States should recognize
that fact and act accordingly in Germany.
But Mr.. Bevins announcement of intent does not assure that it will
be put into effect in the British zone. 1t will be opposed by the kind of
British conservatism represented by the Federation of British Indus
tries. With various Dutch industrialsts the federation is seeking to
revive great international cartels, and private German industrial
partners IN them, for the purpose of aloting markets, limiting
production n holding prices up. Moreover and probably more
to TIT point - although Secretay ByTnes is reported to have
told Mr.. Bevin that America would not object to a moderate degree"
of public ownership of German industry, the British do not know how
American conservative opposition they will face. Such opposition
can be powerful; for, although most of the heavy industry of Western
Germany is in the British zone, American capital is needed for indus
development there.
Finally, the extent of the determination of Messrs. Atlee and
recently very properly posed the plan as a barrier against carte1sa and
trusts; certainly these are incompatible with the principles for which
the Labor government stands. Yet evidence is still lacking that the
present leaders of that government adequately grasp the incompatibiIity
of cartels with al economics of plenty.
Means other than public ownership by the German people, where
ment, remain to be developed and thoroughly debated. But the lead for
public ownership in key industries is a signal move for German demo-
cracy against n totaitarianism of desperation, either right " left
1t should have Americas active support"-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
o~1,634,472 VOTERS IN
U. S. IS NEW PEAK,
CENSUS SAYS

An all-time record number of
potential Voters-91, 634, 472-will
be eligible to cast their ballots in
the November elections, a survey
by the Census Bureau revealed.
At the same time the bureau
made known that the women who
reached the age of q as of July l
outnumbered the men by LII, 948.
Two years ago the excess of wo-
men was placed at 730,810, and in
1910 it was as low as 1858, J. c.
Capt, Census Bureau director, said.
Women seem destined to be in
creasingly influential in elections"
the bureau commented in discus
sing the recent survey reports.
Estimates Of the number of per-
sons Fl years and more on July /,
for three different years, as re-
leased by the Census Bureau, were
as follows: 1910: men, AZ, 1O8, IT'S;
women, 42,181, 1863; 1914: men; A.
236, 1924: women, "A, 967, 734; 1916:
men, 1921, 262; women 46, 4O3,-
21O.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
AMERICAN WAGES

The labor statistics division of
the U. S. Department of Labor re-
Gently stated wage increases be-
tween VI day and May of this year
amounted to only from II to IA
cents an hour.
This increase would have been
a welcome one except for the fact
that the increase represents approx
imately 10 to II per cent increases.
while living costs have mounted
from 33 to 81 per cent in the same
period.
Hamburgers, once a dime, now
are twenty cents; a nickle glass of
milk is a dime today. Pie, once a
fifth cut for a dime, is now fifteen
cents for an eight cut.
Other prices are along the same
line. How the working man is ex-
pected to get along at this rate, no
one knoWs-or apparently cares.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
How to be q Capitalist

capital - what most people
can't get"
This definition of capital, which
was given by Edgar F. Kaiser, son
of the shipbuilder and auto manu-
facturer, Henry ]. Kaiser, before
the House merchant marine COM
mittee recently, is a pretty good
one.
At least it is closer to the truth
today than the old myths about
capital. Every man is a capitalist
under the American way" the big
boys have always chanted. Their
pretty make-believe has been that
If you're a carpenter who owns a
hammer you're the same kind of
capitalist as the guys who own Rep
ublic Steel; and that if you're a
school teacher with a share in Gen
eral Motors you're sitting around
the mahogany table with the board
of directors saying how the melon
should be cut.
The idea was that if you didn't
have capital it was just because
you were too shiftless to drop the
necessary nickels into your piggy
bank.
Now along comes MI Kaiser and
impolitely mentions the fact, in
effect, that you have to have more
than a hammer to start a heavy in
dustry. You need big hunks of cap
ital, and capital is what most peo-
pie don't have. This is the grim
side of the capitalistic picture.
Fewer and fewer people are getting
to control more and more of the
national wealth.
But it amt necessarily SO.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30

There is truth in what Kaiser
says. There is also truth in the
every man a potential capitalist"
view.
There is yet another truth. That
is that capital is created by the
people who use the products-onIy
they don't keep it. The people are
constantly creating capital and
giving it away.
Capital results from the fact that
people are constantly paying more
for things than it costs to make
them.
That's where the co-ops come in.
Co-ops are a method = the only
method we see in these days of
monopoly capital-by which you
really can start with a piggy bank
and end up with a heavy industry.
The co-ops, the consumers who
create the capital by their buying,
get it back through their patronage
returns, and keep it by investing
it again in cO-ops shares.
It's not as fast as government
contracts, Mr.. Kaiser, but it works.
Coop News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
. THERE is NO PEACE

Taylorville Qllinois) PMWA
Progressive Miners of America)
members in charge of the recent
memorial services there attempted
to arrange for use of the circuit
court room for the services in
event of bad weather at the Gene
terry.
They were politely but firmly in
formed that for services in honor
of the dead of World War II, the
court room was available.
But for services to honor the
memories of those who fell in the
war for union freedom-nothing
doing!
And this is 1946!-The Progress
sive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
Freedom of Speech" for the EMPLOYER

Many crimes are committed in the name of freedom of speech"
For example, the National Association of Manufacturers, and other anti
union groups, are constantly insisting that al employer should be pre-
mitted to tell his employees just what he thinks Of unions.
Of course, it all depends OF when the employer makes his speech.
Ii his employees are considering the ACCESSIBILITY of forming a union, it
would obviously be unfair for the employer to interfere, for that would
be coercion" in a very real sense.
1t would be quite a different matter for the employer to do his
talking when the question of forming a union was not before the
workers.
The foes of labor say that mo injustice can be done" by ar EN-.
ployer presenting his views to his workers at any time. However, any
man who has ever worked for another man knows that * word from
the boss" can be almost a. effective as a crack from a club.
In fact, more so, because, under certain conditions, if a worker dis
regards the boss advice he may lose his job. Loss of his job, when en-
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
Thut Vicious Circle at Work

ne National Industrial Conference Board recently issued a state
hnent hat rising wages without increased labor productivity arc forcing
unit costs of labor higher.
What a remarkable revelation!
what ootherS labor is that the NICB didn't say that labor still isn't
SetIhS enough to live on, that labor has never received increases in n
way comparable with living cost increases, and that wages have gone
up approximately IL to IA per cent n hour while food costs have
mounted IN many instances as much as one hundred per cent.
WONDER when federal agencies will come out of their stupor and
INC some means OF holding the line on living costs THEY'VE succeeded
III keeping wages down, but unless the avalanche of increasing living
costs is halted, labor will refuse to work for pttances and So Ger
dollars.
Democracy is supposed to work both ways-for the rich as we'll
d IN wage Garner, but the last year and a half hasn't shown this TO
be the case-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
WHY WE'VE Been SILENT

Perhaps you expected us to have something to say about the trial
and execution of Nazi leaders. Well, there's at least two reasons why
we haven't:
1. We have no defense to offer for the wanton NazEs murder
of innocent people.
2 We haven't forgotten who it was that wiped out thousands
of civilians by dropping atom bombs on two Japanese cities.
Nope, we're neither proud, exutant, resentful O satisfied. Our
disapproval of slaughter is much stronger than our dislike for execu-
tions. So, being just common-run Americans, we feel better when we
keep quiet about such things.
Advocate.
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NJ O w
BY ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTOR

By ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTOR
RISE! For the day is passing,
And you lie dreaming on;
The others have buckled their
armour,
And forth to the fight are gone:
A place in the ranks awaits you,
Each mar has some parts to play;
The Past and the Future are
nothing.
In the face of the stern Today.
Rise from your dreams of the
Future
Of gaining some hard-fought
field;
Of storming some airy fortress,
Or bidding some giant yield;
Your Future has deeds of glory,
Of honor (God grant it may!)
But your arm will never be
stronger,
Or the need so great as Today.
Rise! For te day is passing;
The sound that you scarcely hear
Is the enemy marching to battle
Arise! For the foe is here!
Stay not to sharpen your weapons,
Or the hour will strike at last.
When from dreams of a coming
battle,
You may wake to find it past!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
AWAKENS

Only recently has Bermuda, a
peaceful island in the Atlantic, adj
vanced from the horse and buggy
days. Before the war automobiles
e. not allowed there
Further evidence of an awaken
ing from a Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
was the introduction in the assem-
bly, of a bill to legaliZe unions.
Unionism in this British colony
hitherto has been unknoWn.-La-
Dor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30
Sfepinafz TnuI

On October 9th, 1916 the New
York Times published a letter writ
ten by Mr.. Stephen Lackovic, who
exalted Archbishop Stepinatz as
being instrumental in helping hun
dreds of Jewish refugees escape
from Croatia to Italy. Mr.. Lackovic
failed to mention Stepinatz's ignor-
ance of Ustashi Massacres.
DR.. Slime Balen, an eyewitness
of the 1941 to 1945 events in Yugo-
slavia and now Counselor of the
Embassy of the Federal Peoples
Republic of Yugoslavia in Wash
ington in a letter to the editor of
the New York Times, published
October Is, 1916, endeavors to re-
fresh Mr.. Lackovic's memory on
Stepinatz's activities during those
years.
DR.. Balen writes:
To the Editor of The New York
Times:
Like Stephen Lackovic, former
secretary of Archbishop Stepinatz,
whose letter was published in The
Times Of Oct. 9, l, too, am a Croat
and a Catholic and was an eyewit-
ness to the tragic events in Croatia
from 1941 to 1945.
We can all rejoice if Archbishop
Stepinatz was in any way instru-
mental in helping Hundreds" of
Jewish refugees escape from Croa-
tia to Italy. Yet, Mr.. Lackovic fails
to mention that the Ustashi terror
lists of the Pavelich regime, with
which Archbishop Stepinatz was
so closely allied under Hitlcr's pro
lection, murdered during those
years approximately $4,000 Croa-
tan and Bosnian Jews, or over
tWO-thirds of Y~ugoslavia's pre-War
Jewish population of 10000.
Mr.. Lackovic's letter also fails,
significantly, to speak of the major
sections of the charges against
Archbishop Stepinatz - the mas
Sacre by the Ustashi of over $780,
600 Serbs. There were 1000, 900
Serbs in Croatia when Hitler set
up the Pavelich puppct regime
there in April, 1941, and the policy
then officially proclaimed was that
a third Of these were to be forcioly
converted from the Orthodox to the
Catholic faith, a third were to be
driven back to Serbia and a third
were to be killed. Among the first
murdered were hundreds of Ortho-
doX priests.
DR.. Stepinatz, a member of Pa
velich's Parliament (Sabor), apos-
tolic vicar in Pavelich's army and
a member of the committee for the
conversion of Serbs to Catholicism,
made no effort to save these priests
and did not even intervene on be-
half of his colleague, DR.. Dositej,
the metropolitan of Zagreb, who
was barbarously tortured before
being put to death. 1t is not diff
cult to draw conclusions from Mr..
Lackovic's OMISSIONS.
1t should not go unnoticed that
the Ustashi also killed approxim-
ately $1,000 Catholic Croats in
Zagreb alone.
| am told that it is hard for
Americans to comprehend the enor-
nifty of these crimes. For us who
lived through them it is hard to
forget.
Slime BaIen.
A laugh is worth a hundred
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30

sion to scrap controls of certain
economic resources and functions
is not the end of anything. 1t is not
even the end of controls. Sooner
or later - and probably sooner
than most of us think - a situation
is bound to develop that will again
demonstrate the inability of the
capitalist economy to serve the
material interests of the people
AND at the same time leave the
great mass of little men an women
free to protest and fight.
Then it must be that the nation
will have to make it's chOice-nOt
as to whether controls shall be i'm
posed, but whether material things
shall be controlled in the interest
of the people or people controlled
in the interest of the owning class.
The decision that will be made
at that time is all the more likely
to be against social control of the
economic machine because the half
way controls, which always have
been shaped to fit the pattern of
private ownership and private pro
fit, have done much to discredit
the general idea of control itself.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-10-30

1T APPEARS THAT the people
who control these United States of
America are determined to try it
again. That is the broadest DOS
sible conclusion that can be drawn
from the presidential surrender of
meat controls.
The advocates of so-called free
enterprise-Which is not free at all,
but which makes millions Of peo-
pie subJest to the dictates of a small
number of oWners-have won a
victory which places this nation on
the same road that already has led
to two world wars and that has a
long history of recurrent boom and
bust.
1t like causes produce like re-
suits, and if America now goes
forward under an economy of pri-
Vate enterprise for owners profits.
then there is every reason to fear
mai n of the results will be an
other world war. For, make no mis-
take about it, the world policy of
any nation will have to fit with the
KIND OF economics it practices at
home.