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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
NEGOTIATING FOR THE NEXT DEPRESSION

Aside from the fact that the public intelligence Gf any is insuted
when wage gains are accompanied by governments sanctioned price
reason why every employer should be required to prove his case before
he is given any price relief whatever.
It's bad enough when government forces are brought into action
10 rob workers of the benefit OF the extra dollars they get by organizing
and striking. It's distressing when workers savings, as represented by
the best investment in the world which they were forced to make
during the war, ae sIashed in value by higher prices.
But over and above all that, the secondary result of price in
creases will be to hasten the day when, after a relatively brief squirt
in industrial activity, industries will again be closing their factories
and millions of workers will be walking the streets a S an army OF
unemployed.
The fact which almost everybody appears to be ignoring right now
is that in the final analysis the home market is the place where private
Industry must sell its products. When the American people arr able to
buy much, business and employment continue. When they can buy
little, business grinds to a stop AT least that is how the capitalist
flight capitalists who ire debating present government policies and
planning our national future decide to use their profits in an interna-
tonal pool to finance foreign buying, there is no telling how long
American machinery can be operated and American workers exploited,
Granting, however, that the nations policymakers intend to get
back to some semblance of free enterprise = a concession which we
make with considerable misgiving-the price rises are going to mean
unemployment within a comparatively short time.
People who think tina. the demands of present day strikers are too
high ought to give more thought to the relationship between the ability
Of wage earners to buy and the ability of business to continue operat-
ing. Unless they want another era of boondogglng, an increase in gov
eminent controls, a adventure into fascism and, ultimately, another
world war, the American people should be very much in favor of
more goods.
We have noted the protests with those who object to the Auto
Unions demand for wage raises based upon the ability of the auto
moble. industry to pay those increases.
We, too, think that there would be something cockeyed about
such an arrangement it were adopted on an industry by industry
basis But if industry is united as a whole, if we consider the entire
national setup a a single unit, then ability to pay" gets to sounding.
the only escape from another economic collapse.
Certainly, neither the immediate advantage of working people
nor the ultimate safety of the American economic system nor the pre-
Servation of a democratic government is being achieved by settling
wage disputes in a manner that will enable the American people to
buy a smaller, rather than a larger, portion of the material wealth they
Notwithstanding Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
MERCOLIzED
WAX CREAM

MercoliZed Wax Cream has long
been a highly advertised product
widely used by women who have
been sold on the idea it will i'm
prove the beauty of their skins.
Its manufacturers were ordered
by the Federal Trade Commission
to stop using advertisements
(which fail to reveal the serious
dangers and "harmful' effects of
that product, which contains am
moniated mercury.
"The use of ammoniated mer-
curry is likely to result in erythema,
oedema, inflammation, irritation
and dermatitis," the F. It. c. said.
This is particularly true where
the skin is already cut or broken.
In some cases, the commission
added, the mercury is absorbed
by the system, injuring the kid
neys and aggravating nephritis."
The order was issued after q
long battle, in which the manu-
facturers got help from a Federal
court delaying this warning to
users of Mercolized Wax.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
New bill Of Rights" Drafted at Rio

The newspapers haven't said much about it, but a committee, re-
presenting the nations of North and South America, has been at work
in Rio de Janeiro drafting IAN inter-American declaration of the
rights of man"
Eighteen rights r listed: Cd The right to life, including the in
curably i'll, the mentally deficient, and the insane. (2) Personal free
dom, including freedom of movement. go Freedom of speech and of
opinion, both in public and in private. a. Freedom of religious be-
lief and worship. 60 Freedom of peaceful assembly. CO. The right of
association for the protection of legitimate interests. CD The right
to sue the government. go The right to private property.
90 The right to nationality, which the state cannot deny. (1) The
right against interference in family relations. (1 Protection against
arbitrary arrest. (2 The right of defense against criminal charges.
Q3) The right to participate in elections. 04) The right to work
and maintain a family. G5) The right to share in the benefits of scen-
tifc discoveries and inventions Q) The right to social security, with
the state fostering its development. I'D The right to education. O8)
Tie right of equality before the law.
1t sounds like a second Declaration of Independence and Bill of
Rights Thomas Jefferson could not have done a better job-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
LITTLE
BY JOHN PAINE

Pop, I'm worried ABOUT YOU"
Little Luther announced.
you don't have to worry" said
Mr.. Dilworth grimly, you're not
getting that increase"
Little Luther laughed lightly.
whatever made you think I'm
talking about that. No, as a matter
of fact" he said, concernedly, "you
haven't been looking so we'll lately.
Your hairs been failing out, YOU
We got that tell-tale gray complex
ion and-I know I shouldn't saw
this out loud - but I've noticed
you have pink tooth brush.'
Luther" shouted Mr.. Dilworth
will you stop talking like a radio
commercial and come to the
point?"
well, frankly, old men. DOM
you think it's about time that vol
retired?"
MIR. Dilworth's eyes filled with
sentimental tears. Son" he said
Il didn't think you cared how hare
/ worked"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
SUPPORT YOUR
LABOR PAPER

Publicity is a necessary for labor
unionistS as it is for any other of
our American institutions. 1t is &C
CURED in many ways yet only
through the printec word can it
bring the desired result in the
shortest time and in the most salts
factory manner.
Many modern newspapers con-
duct what they are pleased to term
a labor department, but because
of circumstances over which the
editor in charge of that depart
ment has no control the views pre-
sented are attuned to the manage
ment's slant rather than to facts
and figures painting the picture
presented.
There is but one real outlet for
dissemination of labor news which
permits presentation of full, free
and unbiased news and views OF
organized labor and that outlet is
available through the columns of
the labor presses.
In every industrial center there
are to be found such publications
and all are anxious to give space
to news concerning the activities
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27

of labor in a true and fortnight
manner.
Labor papers do not exchange
space in their news columns for
advertising. Their income is in
most part obtained from subscrip-
tions, and it must not be imagined
their influence on readers is weak
ened because of this fact.
Boost your labor paper. Read it,
see that your friends do likewise,
and support it in every way you
can. In times of labor stress the
local labor paper gives service else
where unpurchasable and it gives
it without cost to you and your
fellows. Why not return this favor
now when the support of such pub
locations is more valuable than
ever before?-Typographical Jour
nal.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
R
ALESMANSHIP"
NOT NEEDED

In the House of Commons, a Con-
servative suggested that Ernest
Bevin, able labor leader and Bri-
tain's Foreign Secretary, should be
sent to the United States on a sort
of goodwill mission to overcome
the antagonism alleged to be enter
tanned by Americans for the people
of the Tight Little Isle"
Sir William Darling, also a Con-
servative, made the proper reply,
saying: I'VE like the Americans
and they like us. Those who say
that it will require high-pressure
craftsmanship to keep our friend
ship will be mistaken, and if they
are not mistaken, then heaven help
this world"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
PALESTINE SITUATION
MORE TERRIFYING

Perhaps there is someone in
Washington who can give a clear
and accurate statement of the stu
alton in Palestine. Up to date we
haven't been able to find him.
The other day it was announced
that janet ell Husseini had return
ed to the Holy City after "a virtual
exile for eight years" The Arabs
gave him a hero's welcome.
But the Zionist Council in New
York described him as a terrorist
leader" and insisted ne is backed
by British imperialistic intrigue"
At the same time, the Moscow ra-
dio proclaimed its approval of an
Arab state" in the Near East.
On the surface that would seem
to indicate that Britain and Russia
were agreed on the thorny issue
of what to do with Palestine, but
Washington's alleged experts say
mo"
In the meantime, Jews and
Arabs continue to murder each
other, with the British authorities,
who are supposed to maintain or
der, occasionally using black troops
from Africa to enforce their orders.
Surely this is the kind of contro-
versy-bulging with >le most ter
rifying posibilities-that the U. N.
O. was organized to handle. -
| Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
NEWSPAPERS BY RADIO

You may not have to look at
your newspaper on the front porch,
II the Federal Communications
Commission approves an expert
ment by the Cowies Broadcasting
Company.
The company wants to try out
facsimile broadcasting." If it
proves successful, you can sit at
your breakfast table and see the
news before you as fast as it is
printed at some distant point.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27

ment Of the United States steps in
and Immediately offers to give
them another nickel or dime a
pound to stimulate production. No
Ifs, ands or butts" about it, and
the press of the nation says
nothing.
When labor goes on strike against
despotic employers who wax rich
at the expense of the workers, all
you hear in the newspapers is dam
nation of the working man. The
Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
DID IT c 10 YOU?

WHEN WORKERS periodically
reduce their living standards to
buy a government bond for $18.75,
they get the governments promise
to pay them $25 Soon ten years.
But
WHEN STEEL M A G N AT E S
grudgingly give workers an in
crease of 1850 the same govern
ment generously gives them a
license to soak the American peo-
pie for an additional 25c-right
away!
Yep! 1t is a great system! -
Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
A DREADFUL THING
BY GIOVANNI

Illusion blinded, by Delusion led,
The Great Majority the Rut still
tread;
Their brains by long disuse devoid
of sense,
Their hands are helpless in their
own defense.
Unknowing how to live they fear
to die,
And in confusion for a Saviour"
cry;
And to the rolling of mob-massing
drums,
The Friend of Labor" from his
Castle comes.
He comes! and they go forth in
their despair
To die to save their Masters every
where;
Upon Their Mothers people, babes
and all,
The Workers on their Fellow
Workers fall.
Still, still the long taught lesson
they ignore;
Still, still the Gods for Leaders
they implore;
Still to the Worn and Ancient Ruts
they cling
Their fear of Freedom is a Dread
full Thing!
Industrial Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27

"Oh, but do" Little Luther in
sisted. There you are shut up in
that stuffy old plant all day, no one
to talk to but supervisors, you have
to have your food struggled in t..
oh, it's really tough"
Mr., DilWorth stared at his son
suspiciously. How do you know"
Because I've been marching on
that picketline outside your plant
all day in the nice warm snow
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
100000 LOST DAYS

Considerable interest has been aroused by al editorial in a Chi
cago paper that workers lost 81, 900 900 man work days through strikes
in 1945.
However, there ought to be considerably more interest tin the fact
that workers in 1945 also put in approximately 4 1900 1000 actual
man days and the 35 million days lost represent only a fraction of one
per cent of the days worked.
You may be ure that the number of days actually worked by
labor was NOT incorporated in the editorial in the Chicago paper. =
The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
Community Hearing

The successful experiments conducted by the Batele Memorial
Institute of Columbus, Ohio community heating ar paving the way
for the future of American heating o approved scale.
The Institute has shown that large scale heating of a group Of
homes from one central heating plant is not only possible, but eco
nomical.
Best Of all such heating removes the drudgery of individual fur
mace stoker operation, and with this out of the way, large scale
community should prove a boon to the coal industry.
Support of these experiments is highly desirable and worthwhile,
and it is to be hoped they will continued.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
JOBS DROP

Unemployment is still climbing.
The Social Security Board reveal
ed that claims for jobless compen-
sation in the states mounted by
3O7,0 0O in the week ending Jan
uary 26, the highest figure since
early September. Total claims were
placed by the board at 900.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
SEEKS THRONE

Don Juan, the son of King Al
fonso, Spanish last monarch, is in
Portugal negotiating for restora-
ton of his throne. If Franco agrees,
Britain may approve the deal.
However, the Spanish Republicans
must be considered. They might
accept a king, if they could control
the government.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
WHEN BUTTER
GETS SCARCE!

When butter producers go on
strike against the public by refus-
ing to produce butter the govern
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27

'Tis not enough to help the feeble
up, but to support him after. -
Shakespeare.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27
WE SHOULD help TO PREVENT
STARVATION OVER THE WORLD

America today is an oasis of plenty in a hungry world, and yet
there are some Americans-We hope a tiny mInority-who are unwilling
to do anything to alleviate foreign distress that involves the slightest
inconvenience or sacrifice on their part No sooner had the President
announced his bread for Europe plans than Representative Edwin
Arthur Hall, New York Republican, introduced a resolution in Congress
Agriculture found that shortages of animal feed in certain areas had
been made good, and that enough flour was av1able to assure the
American people the present amount of white bread"
While Mr.. Halls reaction to the food crisis is by all odds the mean
est, that of Af M. Landon deserves mention as the stupidest. Crtcizing
the Presidents program, the forgotten Republican candidate of 1886
declared: we are reappng the results of the iniqunous Morgenthau
plan for defeated Germany" How o earth a policy of deindustriaHz-
ing Germany, which in fact has not been adopted, could be responsible
Tor harvest failures throughout the world Mr.. Landon does not
Vouchsafe to explain. 1t could not even affect the situation in Germany
Itself since the last seasons crop there was in the ground before the
Allies crossed the Rhine. Of course it might be argued by Mr.. Landon
that W e ought to have postponed our offensive until the Germans had
gathered in their harvest. But if haste to end the war was a mistake,
surely it IS General Eisenhower rather than MI. Morgenthau who was
at fault If Mr.. Landon wants to criticize the Administration for its
share IN the present situation, there are more rational grounds on which
ne can do so. President Truman and his advisers cannot escape blame
tor shortsightedness. AS early a VI Day there wa clear evidence
of a dangerous food shortage in Europe this winter. Nevertheless, ra-
toning of everything except sugar was ended in this country with in
decent haste, and no steps were taken to insure that wheat needed for
food would not be diverted to less essential uses. That was a culpable
error, but if Mr.. Landon lifted his voice in protest at the time. the
squeak escaped us-The Nation.
Some men never read tho. bible probably because they didn't
write it.
You can't buy confidence and respect with profanity and vulgarHv
1t takes more than vaseined hair and a barber-shop manicure to
make a polished gentleman.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27

When men are most sure and
arrogant, they are most mistaken.
Hume.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27

Some men never read tho. bible - probably because they did
write it.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-02-27

1t takes more than vaselined hair and a barber-shop manicure
make a polished gentleman.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Mass Sedition RetriaI
Still Remains in Doubt

whether the mass Sedition case
will again come to trial remained
in doubt today following a hearing
yesterday in District Court before
Chief Justice Bolitha J. Laws to
consider a trial date.
After arguments by various de-
tense counsel and a statement also
by counsel for the prosecution,
Justice Laws set two weeks time
1or attorneys to file motions in
the case.
Some 20 defendants In the case
are charged with conspiracy to
undermine the morale of the armed
forces of this country. Trial of
the case came to a sudden end in
December, 1914, following the death
OF Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher
OF District Court, who was presiding.
Yesterday, o. John Rogge, special
assistant to the Attorney General,
told the court he had prepared a
3S4-page report on additional evi-
dence he said had been uncovered
IN Germany. He asked that retrial
OF the case be set for December.
Mr.. Rogge informed the court
there was some doubt as to whether
the Government has a case, in view
OF certain Supreme Court decisions
pertaining to freedom of speech and
press. He emphasized, however, that
the Government was not definitely
taking the position that it has no
case.
Attorneys for a number of the
defendants argued that the case
should be dismissed, but urged that
II 1t is to be retired that a retrial
date be set for October.
Evening star., 1946-09-21

typs Nsw ?erdss dozen s:sn sSi s6 5a'es Big
'oNIoNs-suppliss liberal Market dull.
aieRsan sERGsna Nea esk Jersey and New YORK
sacks, white boilers. 1.0o:l.a5; Colorado
spanish. s.ineh minimum. s6;i,75,
PEAcHEs-supplies light: Market steady,
esshe baskets halss Sa and ap
and and ccndition. some showins decay green.
inches and lsts sp ESe5ta Sasss ass boxes
Ei5ertas, u. s. No. i. 2-inch minimum,
$50.
PoTAToEs-sapp::es nOer.l Mark:. Market
dull; Idaho. 100. round sacks. sacks Russst @
sSlTsna sqTsnns' foopoSnd MS l. .aefs Rsahdin
SACKS, long whites. =: 5. NJ, i. 4.sss4l,so;
u. s No; /, 5o,2 .65. o., 49,,
.ssg san. sasey Ssy' type. P.ns
Market dun MARYLAND; SgsheI baskets
sSssp, sssss crates, y : sSito ss J. Resn: No
pSTto RsaRs No fSPsy v19sni. oos2s sssh.
Feas Hss sapp., Il s ssi. ss l. make.
wrapped, 6x6 and larger. 800: New York,
| luss. u s. No. /, green. rtpes and turning.
wrapped, 6x6 and larger, wide range IN
prices; best, $50; fair condition low as
| ! 1.50; local half bushel baskets, 2.00-2 90:
| Virginia, half-bushel baskets, 800; IL.
| quart climax baskets. green, ripes and
! turning, unwrapped, Ohio. 1.75; New Jer-
| sey, / 1,00-1 20; Maryland. 75-l.0 90; ordi-
| nary condition low as so.
| SQUASH-Supplies light. market steady:
New Jersey. bushel hampers, yellow. ZOO
| white, l.50.
| GREE s. Supplies liberal. market
/ about steady: nearby stock supplying the
market; bushel baskets kale, 90; collards.
| l15: rape, .25: turnip tops. 75.
A Supplies moderate. market
steady: New jersey, l2-ouart baskets, best,
2.75-3, 90; ordinary quality and condition.
CORN-Supplies moderate, market dull
! sacks, dozen, white and yellow. Pennsyl-
| land mostly l.25.
BEETs-Crates dozen and bushel bas-
kets, Pennsylvania, 1.25; nearby, per
bunch.
PARsLEY--Nearby, per bunch, 8; Ohio.
| 12-ouart baskets, 65-75.
pennsylvania,, crates 2, dozen 1.bo; New
York, sacks, 80; rutabagas, Canada, So
pound sacks, l 90
Evening star., 1946-09-21
+. N. Chichester Dies
Al Fredericksburq
BY the Assoeioted Press
FREDERICKsBURGg Va, Ser

FREDERICKSBURGy Va, Sept
'21.-Frank Moncure Chichester, 70,
former commonwealth attorney of
Fredericksburg, died yesterday after
a long illness.
Mr.. Chichester was a native of
Stafford County and a son of the
late Judge D. NJ Chichester of Fair
fax County and Mrs. Agnes Robin
son Moncure Chichester of Stat
ford. Much of his early life was
spent in Fairfax.
He was graduated from William
and Mary College. and received his
law degree from the University Of
Virginia. He had practiced law
here since 1906, for a time in asso-
citation with his brother, the late
Judge r. H. L. Chichester of Stat
ford.
Surviving are his widow, the for
mer Lima Carter Harrison; a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Richard D. Hull, West
field, N. j.: two sisters. Mrs. Mary
c. Lewis, Bethesda, Md, and Mrs.
Halle c. Moncure, Stafford, and
two brothers, Cassius M. Chichester,
director of the State division of
statutory research and drafting,
and DR.. Peyton M. Chichester, both
of Richmond.
Funeral services will be conduct
ed from the residence at 2::30 pm.
tomorrow.
Evening star., 1946-09-21
Chinese Reds Offer
To Renew Peace Talks
fU. ). Will Aid Truce
By the Associated Press

NANKING, Sept. 2l - Chinese
Communists, who walked out on
Chinas peace negotiations, today
offered to return if the United States
would guarantee to throw all its
weight into efforts for an immediate
armistice.
Gen. Marshall, special United
States envoy, was expected to give
this assurance to Gen. Chou En-lai,
the chief Communist negotiator who
went to Shanghai in huff earlier
this week.
The Communist spokesman left
behind in Nanking called on United
States Ambassador Stuart yesterday
and for the first time showed some
interest in the proposed five-man
Stuart Committee to work for a
coalition government
indicating that the Communists
might be willing to work on the COM
mittee. the spokesman asked for a
reassertion of United States prom
ises to make every effort to obtain
peace If Mr.. Stuart's committee sue
ceeded In organizing an all-party
state council.
This council would operate as a
coalition government until a new
constitution is adopted and elections
can be held.
The Communists have refused IN
work on the Stuart Committee until
the government declares a truce
They previously looked askance at
assurances by Mr.. Stuart and Gen.
Marshall that they would try to
arrange the armistice as soon as the
committee made some progress to-
ward unity In China.