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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06
SHORTER WORK WEEK
FOR

Texas is attempting to reform its
prison farm system. Among the
revolutionary proposals" is a A
hour work week. That's a move in
the right direction and will prob
ably produce good results.
But there are thousands and tens
of thousands of free Texans-men
and women who never committed
crimes-Who are working 48 hours
and longer. Why not include them
in the reform? It shouldn't be ne
cessary for a Texan to break into
a smokehouse, or rob a bank, or
commit some other criminal act, in
order to get a shorter work week.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06
OPPOSE AFL RAlDING

Attempts by agents of the ALL
to raid Latin-American unions will
be vigorously opposed, Vicente
Lombardo Toledano, head of the
Confederation of Latin-American
workers (CTAL), said in CTAL
News.
According to the CTAL paper,
Toledano said: Latin American
labor will seek immediate expul-
sion of any and all agents of Will
liam Green and foreign monopoly
generally who may attempt to
cause trouble in our countries"
Toledano's warning came after
Green announced in Miami, Fla,
that he was sending one Sarafino
Romualdi of the Ladies' Garment
Workers to Latin-America to at
tempt to lure away CTAL affili-
ates."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06

GtGbCS" DN'SI DfOobttS'
There is one problem of rehabilitation in Europe which is greater
than any other. 1t is also the most important. 1t is to save children
body and soul.
Unless they ar be rehabiltated, all the great plans for a new
and beautiful world are in vain. The danger and the hope, the menace
and the salvation of the world of tomorrow lies sin the children of today
for whatever ideals, ambitions, and beliefs III inculcated in the
hearts and minds of these children will determine the future of the
IL their lands.
The most serious effort of war, except for the casualties, is never
on the generation fighting it but on the generation following. The
tension falls hardest On them-for they have not had the background,
the knowledge with which to properly evaluate happenings. Even when
they do not show any immediate effect, fears, inhibitons and hatreds
an be engendered which may we'll scar young minds permanently
Remember that Hitlers first followers were the warped children of the
last war. And those who faltered and hampered and hindered in other
lands Were children when the guns roared before.
How we are going to explain security to a child who has never
known peace; who has lived in the constant presence of terror; who
has see death in its most brutal forms; who has known horrors from
which the most hardened adults shrink?
How we are going to teach truth to a child who has had to learn
to lie in order to keep alive? How re w e going to restore faith to those
who have watched murder go unavenged? How r. we going to teach
The value of law and order to a child who has learned to scurry in fear
from those in authority? who has known abuse, starvation and de-
graduation?
when young lips have drunk deep Of the bitter waters of Hate,
Suspicion and Despair, not all the Love in the world a wipe away the
and teach Faith where no Faith was" So KipHng wrote at the end of
a sad story of a little child.
What IAN we do for these children? Unless w e use all the wisdom,
courage-and love-we possess to help them, there al be no lasting
peace. This is the greatest problem. How can we help to solve it?
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06
mr.. ICKES SUCCESSOR

Mr.. Truman faced a imperative need to secure IN outstanding
progressive as successor to Harold L. Ickes In naming j. A. Krug he
chose a proved administrator whose New Deal reputation goes back tc
early Tennessee Valley Authority days. The nominees record in the
War Production Board was less happy but the President himself bears
major responsibility for premature lossening of wartime economic
controls. There is good reason for believing that in the Interior Depart
ment MIR. Krug will be an effective fighter for the public interest.
He will need both strength and understanding to defend the ma
TONS forest reserves against private eXploiters and to resist the poiti
clans who speak for the oil, electric power and livestock barons. He
will have much to do with territorial policy in Alaska and Puerto
Rico. If he will reverse Mr.. Ickes' policy against the proposed Missouri
Valley and Columbia Valley Authorities-one of the indomitable Old
CuTmudgeonS few mistakeS-he can make a major contribution to the
intelligent, democratic U.s. of our national resources
Mr.. Krug says that Mr.. Ickes has been his personal ideal a. a public
official Let him live to that ideal, and he may become Mr.. Ickes' sue
cessor in spirit, scope and depth of trusted liberalism a. we'll a. in the
outward title of offce-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06

dering. A. F. L. leaders hope that
John will take a good rest and not
start remodeling the old place right
aWay.-HoWard Brubaker in The
New Yorker.
The National Association of Man
.ufacturers is publicizing its views
with this slogan, For a Better
Tomorrow for Everybody" The
better today it has in mind, how
ever, is pretty plainly for the Ma
tional Association of Manufacture
ers.-The st. Louis Post Dispatch
Possibly as battling as any-to
the British bride of the Civil
be the American custom of drop
ping the paper tag along with the
ball into the tea. Senator
Soaper."
In Kentucky there was uncover
ed a still where moonshine-making
was being taught. Graduation like
ly will be held in jail.-The Pitts
burgh Press.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06
MANY PEOPLE IN AMERICA DRAW
THE COLOR LINE EVEN I'M SIN
BY Raymond Hofses, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

1T SEEMS THAT here in Amer
lea there are many people who
draw the color line even in sin. At
least that is the impression l re-
ceived by listening to comments
upon the fact that a goodly Cor
badly number of British women
have become the mothers of child
ren of Negro American troops who
were billeted in the land of u
English cousins.
While the British authorities re-
cognize the mulatto infants as a
social problem which must be
death with, it does not appear that
English reaction is tinged with the
anne degree of contempt as has
been manifested by Americans
with whom l have spoken. And
considering the fact that we Amer
leans hold it to be self evident that
ALL men are created equal, while
the British don't bear heavily upon
the factor of human equality, it
seems funny" that we should be
the people who speak less of adul-
try and more of color when we
talk about the illegitimate off
sprin of our dark-skinned fellow
Americans.
But there's a reason for that -
perhaps several reasons-as there
is for everything else that happens
to be a fact. And / believe I know
n of the reasons why the color
line is not as sharp anywhere in
the so-called civilized" world as
it is here in these United States.
THE REASON I am offering
here for an American color COM
pick that rises in peaks of intensity
to heights achieved by a Nazi
super-race evangelist is that
We made chattel slaves of Ne.
groes within our own homeland
and the British people didn't.
Yes, l know that economic rival.
ries have plenty to do with keep.
ing race hatreds alive. But it take:
a lot of rationalizing to justify the
basic sin of slavery when that sir
is committed by a people who pro
fess to believe in the common
Fatherhood of One God. And Sc
I suggest that the brearth anc
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06
IN THE WIND
From III NATION

THE UNITED PRESS is our
authority for the story of an ex-
army sergeant who was arrested
for dunkenesss in Beaumont, Tex,
after he had slugged a striker on a
picket line. He explained that
when I was overseas l promised
I'd punch the first picket l saw
right in the nose" The picket was
also an ex-army sergeant.
HIGHER EDUCATION NOTE:
the Southern Illinois Normal Uni
versity operates a Department of
Effective Living.
WHEN UNITED STATES STEEL
turned down President Truman's
proposal of an 18R-cent wage in
crease, the Greencastle, Indiana,
Daily Banner headlined its story
on the start of the steel strike:
"Steel Workers Reject Offer by
Mr.. Truman"
THE ANNUAL REPORT of the
National Park Service complains
that "the bighorn sheep-wolf re-
lationships" problem is continuing
-. And the Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice is having trouble with the
whooping crane, a baldheaded bird
which is almost extinct and is
stoutly resisting all efforts to keep
it from becoming completely so.
THE LEGISLATURE OF MIS-
SISSIPPI, a theoretically dry state,
has postponed consideration of a
bill to repeal taxes which the state
now collects on bootleg liquor.
CAPITALISM IN CRISIS: Okla
homa City pest exterminators are
up in arms against a proposed
ordinance empowering the city to
order building occupants to rat
proof and if necessary undertake
the work itself at cost to the own
err. Rats, the exterminators claim,
are properly the concern of private
enterprise, and they accuse the
city of using Hitler methods on
US"
...WILLIAM LINDSEY, president
of the Florida Peace Officers AS
ISOLATION, told a recent meeting of
Florida sheriffs that returning
Negro veterans would be a major
problem for Acknowledgement Of
ficers. I'm a keep them in their
place Speech" reported the Miami
Herald, Lindsey asserted that
Negro soldiers -. are coming back
pretending to be heroes without
ever having seen a gun unless they
stole n -. We have to iron out
this situation, even if it's with
a club"
THE TROUBLE WITH THIS
COUNTRY, suggest the writer of
a Letter to the Editor in the New
York Herald Tribune of February
Z, is that "the poor people have too
much money" We knew somebody
had too much money, but we
weren't quite sure who it was.
PROFESSIONAL DIG Y:
When the proprietor of a New
York Fountain Pen Hospital goes
out to lunch, he hangs a sign on
the door saying, "The doctor is
out"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06
FARM PRICES

Farm land prices are So per cent
above the prewar level, are still
going up, and may pass the peak
to which spectators boosted them
after the First World War, the De-
partment of Agriculture reported
recently.
The report said many farms were
sold last year by people who had
owned them only a short time, and
81 per cent of the farms were
bought by people who did not in
tend to do any farming.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06

Earlier, Toledano denounced re-
ported AFL plans to form a dual
Latin-American organization as a
declaration of war" The CLIO
News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06

Mingle a little folly with your
wisdom; a little %nonsence. now and
then is pleasant.-Horace
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06

AS good almost kill a man as
kill a good book.-Milton.
1t is better to wear out than to
rust out.-Bishop Cumberland.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06

l speak the truth, not so much as
l would, but as much as l dare:
and l dare a little thus more as
L grow observation-disclosures.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06

depth and height of race prejudice
in this land of the free is condi-
toned by psychology as we'll as by
economics.
There is only one valid justifica-
ton for bending people to your
will, and that is by proving that
they are so low in ability and rea-
son as to leave some doubt wheth-
er, after all, they are people or
some kind of draft animal who
were placed at the disposal of mas
tiers by God in His Wisdom"
l placed the four words ending
the above paragraph in quotation
marks because that is the excuse
which the late George F. Baer,
honestly but undiplimatically, gave
for keeping the coal mines in his
possession and coal miners in his
service.
WELL, THERE YOU have it! To
begin with dark skinned people
simply HAD to be "benighted'' and
inferior beings - otherwise what
kind of people would we Ameri-
cans have been to capture them in
their native lands, pack them in
ships like cordWood and bring
them to our own nation as slaves?
The compulsion to degrade the
Negro not only on American
plantations, but even more in
American minds-Was overWhelm-
ing. The only way we could be
right at all was to prove that the
niger was ALL wrong in hav-
ing a dark skin, a thick skull and
kinky hair.
And, as l pointed out at the be-
ginning-the people who live in
the British Isles never had to fit
his viewpoint with such a mind
Warping compulsion.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-06
SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN...
BY RUTH TAYLOR

"A child's sob in the silence curses deeper
Then the strong man IN his l0rath.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
TIME FOR ACTION

NUMBER of CIO unions dsassociate them
"A selves from Communism We commend them for the ef-
fort belaed is to clean house and turn their organ
tons into useful and responsible members of American
ciety Yet cannot help wondering to what extent these
efforts dictated by eXgences and the need to
pose before the voter role strangely free from foreign
entanglements and Moscow dictates.
Fortunately genuine trade unionism embodied in the
Federation of Labor has need desire to resort
eleconeerng shenanigans It's record crystal clear
and the antCommunst stand of the AFL convention IN
Chicago merely confirms what has been public knowledge for
a long time.
President William Green's denunciations of Moscow and
Vice President Matthew Wols caSgaon of Hollywood radl
calls been timely But the true impact of imported
deooge upon American labor barred by John F. Frey
president of the AF Metal Trades Department who pointed
y recalled the early and prominent role of Communists IN
the CIO and added:
"The CIO paying heavy penalty for it's cOopera
ton with Communism and Moscow policy 1t is being torn
under with internal strife members of the CO who also
loyal Americans refuse any longer to permit their organiza
ton to be used by the dictator the Kremn and his agents
and followers in this country"
The attempt to paint true picture of what is going
backyard merits the support of democratic
unionist But criticism and condemnation alone not
enongh We believe the time has to build strong dkes
around organized labor and to bring the lesson home to the
worker that the words of Samuel GomperS
citizen unless he uphodS the institutions Of country:
The battle for the soul of labor is than extra
currcuar activity 1t cannot be undertaken side
and the fringe of the many other problems that confront
the trade union movement 1t is futme proposition and
job How the battle is to be fought best what
form and the crusade will take it's generalshp at
the moment secondary questions.
Labor beware against begging down higl-sOund-
resolutions and pious generates while the within
and without his aims at the of America and
the American people The time has to fight The task
before urgent requires all the devoted service and the
best brains labor has to offer
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
the WASHINGTON.
SCENE &Y
BY ALDEN TODD, Federated Press
TRUMAN GIVES IN-THE PEOPLE MUST NOT!

Washington have hundreds of thousands
night of Oct IA felt
that price control meats would be ended the following day.
willing pay the highway that demand
p dk @ the hea a e @ d I
The President told people considered
alternatives table Two of them
n he the nr price holiday and
enough profit to satisfy them.
sa as d m s me- mas ] % g but
impossible" war against the Axis.
the plants and the herds had been
feed the troops and the workers the would
doubt it. " nov ~ ~ ~ ~ N' " i0'''
President Truman in his speech responsibility
the big packers and Livestock I ts % behind a G the CONN.,
who put the present unavoidable price control law the
did bluff of the crowd of proteers who held
hundreds OF of head of cattle off the market bully
If in 1916 has illusions about
let him think happened few months to the meat
industry of powerful interests off the major
emme said uncle nationwide hooup major
1t would be mistake to look the
chief Williams in this piece for they not Guilt falls the fellows
who filled the Capitol corridors last spring and early beating
Ten & price holiday fast they began kill live
for an end to price control.
Beyond this the same crowd is playing hand glove with the
cracy" in Washington has responsible shortage
the s Bg ses S D sVe thought Ugh the through and
man enemy still 9 the pr pGofmad fit monoopy gang who stuck big
TO give them control of the Congress by letting them their
up the fight ''"s p''D' "'0 CAV
labor and the people let the monopoly gang
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
TWENTY YEARS AGO

Thomas Hill superintendento George Pottery:
Ashevie N following extended
the National Brotherhood
tive Potters for than twenty-five
Crawford Carroton taken the of
the decorating kinshed al Scio, Ohio.
Ohio-Lous bench after the
illness and death of his
William Trit of the Albright China had the
fortune to disocate his shoulder recently.
Arthur Tnney Vern Reynolds potters,
the job again after brief lay offs due to illness.
Davis Sewers bench boss the biscuit the Albright China
Co. will leave for North Dakota the
Joseph Ko Baltimore potter has returned to his dipping tub
following a recent operation.
Laughn China Football End A. c..
19 10 hard fought battle Newell Saturday
Neson ggerman has accepted job Pottery
Hall president
Tuesday He will
presidency cayshop
Pottery Company in New Cumberland
Cambridge OhoWlam Carpenter Sunday in Coshocon.
Bill Reed of the packing shed has returned
Ernest Hughes has accepted employment Carroton
The joint kinmens committee will hold their first
take the question of
banjo saggers the middle of the kiln
Allen Pope William Pope of the Summit China
the
John McTigue Falls Creek Pa Minerva
end
Lloyd Wood of Richmond, Calf, withdrawal
card % the garage business.
Union Richmond
ployment at Martins Ferry, Ohio
Max Tabert at the Shenango Pottery
has returned to the bench following recent illness.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
CALLING - &CR@
STRAIGHT
BY ED HUGHES, Federated Press


BABE RUIH SILL DRAWS JOKER FROM BASEBALL PACK
As this written everybody George Shaw being
considered for Of New Yankees Among them
guys doubt But the outstanding fellow Who is
mentioned nee baseas Forgotten Man FORGOTTEN this by the
followers a and its keene fans The is Babe Ruth
As manager Babes long hush in base
balls front office It such when he player has remained
alaroand performer virtually playing
he
good! Babe properly riled and turned it down.
Sounds like mystery story
to the A em Wa Ba G %a
sa e 1917 % thf ss following the h0n0us Black
member tei existing record 5s in 1921 The
skulls E this sSss477 regular salary and
in the country. ~
Even today from the lowle buher the guys
$s tak s% for five a % ao a n e %pp6 & aar la @ 6 6
starting in 1927 and hit the grand slam $SooCO
eay a sd pf s es 5 % % AND But
M Ry WIN Ths NEVER ppfa % Babe 1t a % be ay ground
1s S tsf an Th @ he
death bed Then he asked great ugger Maybe
d % sos Rft p p SFns asa S F1 % e 5 5 m @ s
the first time But Rupert parting said he
hoped Babe would become manager some day.
Most ball players think Ruth would manager At
them S Sas s bo ~i his Oi BRAIN d o
w aRr the a@ n S led @ e9 lie
In all the that witnessed Babe an
Of Judgment in the field His tremendous batting
better than well He light pitcher
shutting out the Cubs 10 and whipping them s
fail s % M ~ innings Sa s wo ID sa1as 5s Dodgers
two earned runs from him.
Babe M the the biggest drawing card baseball but all he
viii Wast or enIse cash But
spirit the want of what he wansa managers job baseball
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
"SENIOR LABOR MEETS"

ONE of the few daily papers the nation which gives fair
- break to labor is the Christian Science Monitor The
Monitors stand labor issues almost invariably
cam considered While do not agree with all of the things
The Monitor says believe this editorial of last week merits
reprintng:
The opening sessions of the American Federation of
Labor convention in Chicago pretty well notice that its
leaders favor retention of it's traditional role 1t is role
which has both strong and weak aspects
On the credit sidethe side, at least of stablity-the
A. F. of L. still stands committed to collective bargaining
and purely economic carried within the circle
of labor relations The report of the executive
labor group its recognition that raises must
paid of the increased wealth created by raising
ductivity per man hour
The A. F. of LIS concern Communist nfiltration
vigorously expressed by President William Green be
than that being voiced by O. leaders, But
is deeper rooted 1t springs from the Federation trad
tona aversion to political entangements of kndes
pecialy the radical.
But Mr. Green does not eschew all political activity He
makes familiar appeal to unlonlsts to to the polls and
elect reject candidates their labor recordsa myopc
definition which has sometimes lined up union labor behind
strange liberals And another entry the debit
sde visiting Hollywood stars spotghted the fact that the
besettng sin of the A. f. of skesis not
yet washed away.
The chief departure from the conventional pattern would
appear be Mr. Green's specific and emphatic adoption of
the welfare fund Federation goal Whenever wage
trolls dropped there is profit to the unions in such
disguised wage boosts Sc welfare funds before long
will have to stand on their own merits.
There should be nothing startling about them provided
they responhby and honestly administered for bona de
employee welfare number of existing funds appear to
meet these conditions They in affect than
adaptions of established American institution group
for economic security through empoyerempoyee
But industry-fina 'welfare funds which could be
diverted into chests dangerous for everybody in
Guiding the union members
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
"FREEDoM OF SPEECH FOR THE EMPLOYER

MANY crimes committed in the of freedom of
AVA speech For example, the National Association of Manu-
facures and other antunion groups constantly insist
ing that employer should be permitted to tell his employ
just what he thinks of unions.
Of course it all depends when the employer makes his
speech If his employees considering the advsabity
forming union, it would obviously be unfair for the
ployer to interfere for that would be coercion very
real
1t would be quite different matter for the employer
to do his talking when the question of forming union
not before the workers.
The foes of labor say that mo justice be DONE by
employer presenting his to his workers any time
However, any man who has worked for another
knows that "a word from the boss be almost effective
as crack from club
In fact, because, under certain conditions if
worker dsregads the boss advice he loose his job Loss
of his job when employment is scarce may the bread
line for his family and himself
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1946-10-24
DON'T LET THEM RIDE AGAIN

THE SENTENCES handed down by the international Tri-
buna at Nuremberg have been carried out The chief in
stgators Of the Naz crimes against humanity paid with their
lives But let's not fool ouselvesthe posons of Nazism
will not die with those leaders
The vicious doctrines of relationships, religious bgoty
and hatred that these have fosered not be ban
ned by tribunals stranged by gaow They must be rooted
out of the minds and actions of men the world before the
ghost of Nazsm is finally laid.
Wherever kept from speaking they choose,
from printing the truth without censorship from crtczng
freely those who governthere the sparks of Nazsm still
smolder.
Wherever people walk in fear to the church in which
they worshpthere NaZism still turks to commit crimes
when the time is ripe.
Wherever his neighbor for his racial origin
there Nazsm still lives to plot future war
Justice has uncovered the most notorious criminals and
made them We must each remaining breach of
human rights that dead hands reach steal
our victory from