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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
THE POGROMS IN POLAND

Survivors of the Kielce pogrom will be little relieved to learn
through Cardinal Hlond, that THE Catholic Church always and every
where condemns murders of all kinds" When the Church is really
cut to do a job of condemnation, as against communism, it is capable
of doing a thoroughgoing, unequvocal, Wholehearted piece o r work
Poor-sprited indeed would be the Prince of the Church who conden-
ned communism with one breath and in the next explained that one
should recognize, all the same, that this doctrine was an understand
able political reaction of honest people to the evils of capitalism, Yet
it wa in precisely this vein that Cardinal Hlond condemned the mas
sacre of forty-one innocent Jews in Kielce. He is filled with sadness
and regret that these people were stoned, dubbed, and tramped to
death, but Ito a great degree" the tragedy is due to the Jews" them
selves. Why? Because they occupy leading positions in Poands gov
eminent and endeavor to introduce a government structure which
the majority of the people do not desire" The truth is that while there
are a handful of Jews in office, they are insignificant in the pattern
of change that sc distresses the Church. The lines in Poland, tragcaLy
enough, r. drawn between communism and Catholic feudalism; and
the Jews, wanting nothing more than to shake the dust of Poland
from their feet. are caught between the two tOtaltaran machines. The
government Uses their massacre IS a stick to beat all its opponents
the Church, General Anders, and Mikolajczyk; the Church uses the
same nightmare to undermine the government and damn the Com
munBts. And the Jews, seeking only an exit from hell, find the way
blocked by the British, who can't sec why they don't stay where
they ar instead of conspirng to "a the remnant Of their lives. -
The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
DID CONGRESSMAN MAY go Illegal?

Congressman Andrew j. May has been one of our pet anathemas
ever since he stepped to the front a. one of the nations foremost con-
gressional niitarists. Now it appears that he may be convicted Of
playing the World War II game in a manner that illegally brought
profit to himself.
Since TIE papers are full of the story, we'll not recte the charges
now being aimed at the Gentleman from Kentucky" What we do
out of the wa perhaps he should have.
We would apply that suggestion to all lawmakers who were
satisfied to run the war economy under the rules of the private-profn
system. For, after all, what difference would it make to the average
taxpayer whether our lawmakers took some of the graft for themselves
or whether they merely permitted other people to do that dirty and
unsocal job?
It conceivable that a mar who holds another in his grasp SO that
footpads may rob him is still respectable if he does not profit person
ally from the job. But we don't think so.
What Andrew J. May did do during the war was to give his ap-
proval to a system that enabled a few people to mulct the nation and
impose a debt upon future generations during a great crisis. And
whether he and others got a rake-off for themselves is of small con
sequence to the victims of that system.
To us the chief crime still is the profit system. It is a crime III
time of peace and a greater crime when ordinary people are drafted to
die in defense of the nation.
The point for rank and file Americans to understand is that the
economy under which they are living is basically immoral. If some
body breaks the gansters' law of capitalism that shouldn't be of too
much concern to those who robbed by the system even when it is ad
miniNered according to code-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
in JAPAN

One of the most obvious things wrong in Gen. MacArthurs rule
Of Japan is the aggressive intolerance of George Atcheson Jr, in the
Allied Council for Japan. The latest example was his display of sheer
boorishness and anti-SOviet venom last Wednesday when, after the
Russian member offered a set of proposals for labor legislation along
lines that accord with American principles, Mr. AtcheSOn read him a
lecture against Communist propaganda"
The blast met a cool reception all around. Britain's member, w.
Mcmahon Ball, having studied the Russian proposals, declared he just
couldn't find any signs of propaganda in them, and that they were
quite conservative as compared with the Beveridge report. He spoke
when a council member makes a proposal, he automatically will be
sigmatized as spreading Communist propaganda"
Atcheson, in fact went even farther. The Soviet platform included
such planks as the 48-hour week, vacations with pay and unemploy-
ment allowances. Besides declaring that the Soviet proposals bore
familiar signmarks of Communist propaganda" Atcheson baited the
Russian member, Gen. Derevyanko, about conditions of labor and
unions inside Russia, and asked why, in view of conditions there, he
made proposals on labor in Tokyo.
Japan, Atchesons attack could only increase japanese opinion that
America is less than lukeWarm to progressive reform. That is NJ way
TO stop Communism in Japan. 1t is the way to turn more and more
desperate people to Communism.
he is merely following instructions from Gen. Macarthur, whose
personal representative N the council he is. But he is also a State
Department officer. The department should see to it that a mar with
such prejudice and hostility to an ally is removed from a position of
representative follows similar tactics-The Chicago Sun
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
Chicago Pioneers
Hold Annual Picnic

Pilsen Park at Goth Street and
Albany will be the scene of the
annual picnic of Pioneer Lodge
$50 of the Slovene National Bene-
fit Society on Saturday, August
3. This year it is being presented
in honor of the war veterans of
the lodge, and a special souvenir
book has been issued.
An important attraction at the
picnic will be the 1916 Ford car
which will be awarded to the
lucky winner. Other features in
clude Jankovich's orchestra of Gle
veland, Ohio for dancing in the
beautiful pavilion, a variety OF
food and refreshments, games,
contests and prizes.
Large delegations of SNPJ mem
bers and friends from Milwaukee,
Waukegan, La Sale, Detroit and
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
Some Odds end Ends

Now that Vinson has been made
top man on the Supreme Court,
folks are remembering a remark
made by Kentucky's Senator Bark
ley in reply to a complaint that
the Blue Grass State was not get
ting enough Federal patronage.
'"That's not true" said Barkley.
"A Kentuckyan was named to the
Circuit Court of Appeals in Wash
ington. A Kentuckyan became
chief judge of the OPA's emergen-
cy court of appeals. A Kentuckyan
was appointed Federal Loan Ad-
ministrator. A Kentuckyan became
Director of War Mobilization and
ReconVersion. A Kentuckian was
named Secretary of the Treasurer.
Kentucky got all those jobs. They
all, Of course, happened to go to
one man . Fred VinSon!"-The
Army Times.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS: Re
mind me to have those brakes
checked-tOmorroW."
That's an obliging bunch of boys
at the Marine Commission. With
summer vacation at hand, they an
nounce surplus war goods for sale
and thOughtfully include:
More than $4,000 anchors weigh
ing from 80 to $50 pounds-dandy
for drifting Congressman who
seem utterly at seattle Cincin-
att Post.
Informed of plans for a nation
wide buyers strike, President RO-
bert WaSOn of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers said he
approved Of tempered" buying.
With the tempers of Americas
housewives rising daily, we would
advise Mr.. Wason and the other
NAM members to seek more tem-
perate climates before too many
women learn who got them into
this fix-John Paine for Federated
Press.
What interests us in the current
wave of price increases is what's
going to happen to the price Of
chinchilla fur coats, last advertised
at $4,000.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
Relation Of Savings to SpiraIing Prices

The Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies, at the request of the Fed
eral Reserve Board, made a sam
ping of the different economic
groups to find out where the huge
accumulated savings of the war
period are located.
The report indicates t a the
great bulk of accumulated savings
is in the hands of people who are
in the higher income brackets.
It indicates that the mass of fam
lies in the low income brackets
have very little accumulated saw
ings.
The "liquid assets" theoretically
available for spending, among the
top 10 per cent figures out at $1O,-
500 per family. The Liquid as
SETS" theoretically available for
spending, of the lowest 40 per cent
figures out at $40 per family.
Not For a Buying Spree
What the Federal Reserve Board
was interested IN, of course, was
getting some real facts instead OF
mere guesses about potential in
flationary pressures." Assuming
that the figures produced by BAE
through its survey are approx
mately correct, which is a reason
able assumption, they are very sig
nificant.
For one thing, savings by people
in the comfortable" income brack-
cts r not likely to be- poured into
the r completely in any
grand buying splurge. A consid.
cradle part of such savings will be
poured in for houses and automo.
biles and refrigerators and other
relatively costly durable goods
But certainly not all. The ne
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
DEATH TO FRANCO!

Excerpts from text Of resolution
unanimously adopted by Executive
Committee of World Federation of
Trade Unions, on Franco Spain:
The Executive Committee .
reaffirms the unshakable opposi-
ton of the trade union organiza-
tons Of the free countries to Gen
eral FRANCOIS regime in Spain. This
regime, which came into being as
the result of a coup d'etat, is re-
garded by the world trade union
movement as unconstitutional and
illegal.
Relieving that it is essential to
put a speedy end to this survival
of fascist dictatorship after the
military defeat of Nazism and Fas-
cism, the WITH declares that it
desires:
ITO recommend to each national
trade union center again to de-
mand of their governments to
ONE out in favor of liquidating
the Franco dictatorship and of
breaking off all relations with the
Franco government;
ITO invite the national trade
union centers to organize in their
respective countries, beginning
July 18-the anniversary of Fran
co.'s aggression against the Spanish
Republicans - until August IS,
anti-fascist demonstrations
ITO request all national centers
to send to the General Assembly
of the United Nations resolu-
tons demanding that the UN adopt
DECISIONS favoring the restoration
of democracy in Spain;
ITO address a message to the
Security Council demanding that
it approve the report of the Sub
committee of the Security Council
recommending the rupture of re-
lations with the Franco regime.
THE WITH addresses to the
UN, the demand to declare Franco
and his regime outlaWed and calls
upon member nations to recognize
the democratic Republican Gov
eminent as the legal and constitu-
tional government of Spain and in
vite that government to the forth
coming meetings of the General
Assembly of the United Nations
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
MYTH EXPLODED

Big Business, through the National Association Of Manufacturers
and a subservient press, has sought to foster the notion that OPA must
be killed and prices allowed to rise in order to compensate for the lex
orbtant' wage increases won by organized labor.
A recent issue of Moody's Stock Survey" a publication for fnan-
Ciers and industriaists, analysed business prospects, the impact OF
wage increases on profits, and production possibilities, and came up
with this conclusion:
cit looks as if, by and large, the average profit margins had
been impaired much less by wage increases than was feared a few
months ago."
Moodys highly qualified market analysts made it clear that they
look forward to extraordinarily peacetme levels of production which
for the most part will be very profitable"
The significant angle on the Moody forecasts is that they were
made before OPA was allowed to die and without expectation that
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31

Some army official was respons-
IDLE for sending to sea in unsani-
tary condition a ship bringing wal
brides from Europe. In conse-
quence, an epidemic of dysentery
broke out among babies and nine
have died.
On arrival at New York, passen-
gers said the vessel was overcrow-
ded and filthy, and that 100 women
and 100 babies were forced into
one cabin. One of the army nurses
was accused of drunkenness and the
crew with failure to give help to
mothers whose babies had been
Stricken.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
SASKATCHEWAN STORY

On June IS, 1914 the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Fed
Grafton swept into power in the Province of Saskatchewan with AZ Of
the SIS seats in the Legislature. Despite notices by capitalist papers pre-
dieting doom, and within the limitations of provincial powers, two
years of CCF activity have been outstanding.
Recently the Toronto Daily Star sent a reporter to Saskatchewan
to check on the changes that had taken place since the CCF had come
to power. Published here are excerpts from one of these articles
Future issues of the CALL will publish excerpts from other articles.
In its first two years, the CCF has been the first province to enact
g comprehensive Farm Security Act; to back labor by a Trade Union
Act guaranteeing union recognition, effective prevention Of unfair
labor practices and union security; to extend Workmen's compensation
to 1870 of wages, the highest rate of benefit in the world; to provide
free dental, medical, surgical and hospital care for all old age and
blind pensioners; to enter into collective bargaining with it's employees
assuring union security to establish ar air ambulance service; to spon-
The Call
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
NEWS FROM ALL AROUND

charges, with Uruguay, Argentina,
Paraguay, Chile and Peru.
Sweden will concede to Allies
500 of estimated 500 million
German assets. In return U. S.
will release S4OO million frozen
Swedish assets, dissolve black list
of Swedish firms suspected of Nazi
ties.
Australian war casualties were
95,923 of whom 31,123 killed, 80
900 wounded, 2,475 missing.
Slightly less than million men
and Women we're indicted in
three armed services.
French discovered hoard of 44O
lbs. ($300, 900 WORTHY Nazi colo
and jewelry at Landeck, Tyrol
removed from cremated Jews.
SWedeS considering $3.50 million
trade credit to Russia, to be usec
over 5-year period. The credit
would be abnormally large fol-
Sweden to give any country.
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Norway bought from Britain ;
destroyers, 4 minesweepers, 2 sub.
marines, 10 motor torpedo boats
bombing and fighter planes.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
DOWN DRAIN!

Uncle Sam has written off more
than 5000, 600, 900 in lease-lend
aid to six countries whose accounts
have been settled, it is revealed by
the Treasury Department. The ma
tons are Great Britain, France,
Turkey, India, Australia and Bel
GUM.
In return for $33, 3O7, 76O, 900 in
materials and equipment, the Unit
ed States received 5000, 900 900 in
cash payments or promises and
S 1902, 1886, 900 in reverse lease
lend.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31

effect Of this kind of concentration
of spendable savings is to reduce
substantially the estimate of one
phase of inflationary pressure.
Wage Farmers Will Be Hit
But the lack of any accumulated
savings worth mentioning in the
vast lower income group ought to
make a lot of us think very hard
1t means that even a relatively
small price initiation that affects
the necessities of life will put a
real pinch on at least half our total
population. A real pinch on that
large part of our population, which
includes most wage earnerS, is
bound to produce immediate de
mands for relief in the form OF
wage increases.
In any new wave of demand for
wage increases, the highly skilled
and highly organized and better
paid segments of labor certainly
would participate. No sensible
person cOulQ expect tnem not 10.
There is a warning sign in this
report on the distribution of saw
ings, painted in tall letters across
the horizon. Congressman who are
hell-bent on reducing price con-
trolls as nearly as possible to zero,
especially as to the necessities OF
life, would do we'll to read. And
those others who talk glibly Of
/ prices going up quickly by, say,
| 20 per cent, and then rising more
| slowly after that, as if that were
inconsequential, should perhaps
take another think.
From Des Moines Register.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
VETERANS

About $4,000, 600 Americans
are war veterans, the Veterans
Administration reported recently.
Many of these veterans head
families. Others will as they grow
older. Figuring the low average
of three persons to a family, the
veterans will represent nearly So
900 600 people, or more than one
third the population of the United
States.
That fact will have important
political and economic results in
the future. No one can question
that.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
DUNN TO ROME

Our new ambassador to the infant Italian republic has now been
nominated by Mr.. Truman. He is James c. Dunn, veteran appeaser of
Fascism and Franco, and one of the most reactonary men in the State
Department. We don't know just why he was appointed. One motive
doubtless was to cas- him out of his post as assistant secretary of
state. Yet, for months, he has been Secretary Brynes' representative
in the parleys of the foreign ministers dputies on peace treaties. That
was no place to send a man in order to denote hin Neither is the
embassy in Italy such a place. When the struggling Italian democracy
looks for great American leadership and counsel, we send her a man
whose face is turned to privilege and a defunct past
MIR. Dunn, Of course, was all for giving Trieste to Italy. But that
doesn't alter the case. With some exceptions, our top diplomatic repre-
sentation abroad already a weak and undistinguished. Mr.. Dunns
appointment is another symptom of the confused blindness in Wash
ington which so gravely undermines Americas world leadership.
The Chicago Sun
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31

The Swiss cooperative organiza-
tons have announced that their
combined journals now reach al
most 500 900 regular readers. The
German-language editions have a
circulation of $50, 900 copies; the
French editions 1O5, $40; and the
Italian editions 1880.
Confronted by an increased pro-
duction in aluminium and a poor
market for it overseas, Norwegian
reconstruction authorities in the
northern part Of the country are
experimenting in the use of alum
mum shingles. If successful, eco
nomic advantages are expected to
be substantial, with important
changes in housing also.
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The cost of living in Mexico
City, based on a 1889 norm Of 100,
has risen to 385.18, according to
reports Of the Federal District.
Typical Of past-War political
problems in many parts of Europe
is the situation in the Saar, where
M. Gilbert, French commissioner,
has prohibited publication by the
Saar Communist Party of a mani
feSto requesting that the Saar re-
main an integral part of Germany.
Seminole Indians from Okla
homa, thru delegation to Mexico.
have informed President Manuel
Avila Camacho that 81 families
including $50 persons, want to set
tie on Mexican farms, in accord.
ance with a 1888 pledge by former
President Cardenas that lane
would be granted the prospective
settlers in due time.
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Great Britain has re-establishec
direct radio-telephone communica
ton, at a rate half of prevail
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
NOW is THE TIME..

The proposal of President John Marchiando for a meeting of
heads of all international unions in America to chart the future of
organized labor is worthy of the highest consideration.
Lack of this unity has been distinctly demonstrated in recent weeks
through presidential approval of the crippling Hobbs bill and through
the death of the OPA.
Approval of the Hobbs bill by President Truman, and death of
OPA may be laid right at the door of labor.
Had every man and woman in the nation who is a member of a
one congressman would have cast his vote against. Congressman exist
by virtue of the ballot box, and once that support is removed, they
lapse back into the drudgery of their regularly ordained clerkship
existence
Labor must unite to fight for its rights. Labor must unite against
every congressman who helps to destroy what labor needs.
Marchiandos proposal is sensible, logical and commemorate.
1t should be followed quickly else labor will be the loser and
when labor loses, the nation loSes-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31
HOW LOW, MISSISSIPPI?

The voters Of the state if Mississippi have returned to the Senate
for sixy years, its notorious senator, Theodore Bnbo, and for two years
more, they have returned their equally notorious John Rankin to the
house of representatives.
Both we're expected, for anyone who has ever read anything about
Mississippi knows that the state ranks 18th in lteracy, 48th in COM
mo- sense, and 48th in justice for all men.
Some day the people of Mississippi may learn to read and write
and think. 1t is questionable if that is ever accomplished during our
time-The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31

other points are expected to min
gle with Chicagoans from all parts
Of the city at this annual event
which promises to be bigger and
better than ever this year.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31

No company is far preferable to
bad.-Colton.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-31

effect Of this kind of concentration
of spendable savings is to reduce
substantially the estimate of one
phase of inflationary pressure.