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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08
CARD or THANKS

We wish TO thank our many
friends, relatives and neigbboFE, es-
pecially Sgt. Walter j. Inglis (co,
J. Conn. State Guard), eK-seryicemeH
Of the East End, delegates ~ the
East End, for floral offerings and
the expressions Of sympathy and
kindness shown US during our re-
cent bereavement, the death OF our
beloved son and nephew, Joseph J
Reilly.
MRS. CATHERINE REILLY,
(MOtherl
MR. and MRS. JOSEPH BLUM.
fAunt and rnclel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08
FUNERALS

Private funeral services were held
today at the Anderson Funeral
Home, 70 Central Ave-, for Anita
Louise Hubbell, nine-months-o old
daughter Of Charles w. and Fran
ces (Curtin) Hubbell, Old Mountain
Rd., Marion. Burial will be In new
Pine Grove Cemetery at the con-
venience Of the family.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08
McKENNERNEY

MckENNERNEY Mrs. Mary
Brick McKennerney OF 293 Bald
win street died this morning after
brief illness. She was the widow
OF the late Timothy McKennerney.
She was born In Waterbury and
was a lifelong resident of the Bald
win street section, and attended the
Church Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton all her life. She is survived by
one sister. Mrs. Katherine LeDuc.
The funeral will be held Monday
from the Mulyille Funeral Home,
80 West Main street. at 8:l5 to the
Church Of the Immaculate Concep-
ton at where a solemn high Mass
Of requiem viii be celebrated. Burial
will be in old st. Joseph's cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral
home Saturday and Sunday from 2
to 10 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08

The funeral Of Thomas McAvoy,
ST., Plaza Ave-, will be held to-
morrow morning at 8:l5 from the
Lunny Funeral Home, IS Central
Ave-. to st. Margarets Church for
a solemn. high Mass at 9. Burial
will be in Calvary Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral
home tsday from 3 to 5 and z to
10 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08

SEsnn ms en- lI,;:o Fsp H., iss ~
~ Holmes avenue.
Private fufneral services will be
hold tomorrow from the Anderson
Funeral Home, 20 Central Avenue.
Burial will be in Center cemetery,
Bethlehem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08

kEANE-In this city. Feb. s, 1916.
Mrs. Josephine lWrynne) keane,
% le2 Malrose Avenue.
Funeral will be held Monday morn
ing from l02 Melrose avenue 10 IS.
Peter and Paul Church. Burial Will
be in Calvary cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08

MekENNERNEY-I this city Feb. s,
1886 Mr.. Mary (Brick) McKen-
usrney OF 293 Baldwin Street.
Funeral will be- held Monday MORN
ing al s.i5 o'clock from the Mut-
willie Funeral Home, go West Main
street 20 the Church Of the Immac-
ulate Conception at 3. Burial viii be
an old 81. Joseph's Cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-02-08
DIED

WAITKUs-In this city. Feb. 8.
1915. John Watkins OF s7i Bank
Street.
Funeral viii be held Monday morn
ing at 9:45 from the Deliniks Flu
neral Home. II Congress avenue,
20 ST. Joseph's Church at 10. Burial
will be in Calvary cemetery.
The Valley settler., 1946-08-29
LIST MINUTE NOTICES

LAST MINUTE NOTICES = Rev. George '. GoiVitz announces that his Church Services are changed as'fol1ous: Sunday School is at lo:l5 o.1a. No evening sorvice on Sunday.
 Rtto Mll--sunday School at 2:3o p.n. ri tn Mrs. Sanford Davis, Superintendent.
 No Church Scrvco at the Rltto. LADIES AID of the UP. CHURCH will have an all day work ing at 10 a.m. at tho Church with O Pot Luck Lunch at noon. 4 missionary picture entitled "Slavo Coast" will Do shown of missionary york in Africa
 --------------------- ~~z1SrC Frank Dors announces bulk sale undor' now contract to begin Sopt. .Gos Sc Oil.
The Valley settler., 1946-08-29
INITIATION TO BID

  Il s4nchE GGnv11E, MICHIGAN to
  
    
 
  E. Frriss,
The Valley settler., 1946-08-29

NAVY and ARlY ORDERS (cont from pp. Il rlent will begin loading cars to fill the so orders. Mir. Stacy says that with the cx- coption of Cabbage and lettuce, he will mood c ton each of proct icel1y al1 types Of vegetables. Loading begins Tue sdaX Eotl ing. Ibc, E. E. Hnrriss has received a 1ottor from tho British Columbia Coast Vegetable Marketing Boord stating that sottl onont fo, tho potatoes shipped then this spring will soon bo nodo. It is expected that tho dool nay be corp1 otod by tho middle of Soptor- LOT.
 Mr. Harriss ol so said that the Arry would bo taking 60 ton of potatoes.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
HENRY KAISER'S QUESTION
NO. 2O3O.

Henry c. Kaiser, who gained public attention during the w "a as a
rapid-fire producer of merchant ships, now wants to know why it is
that the United States Steel Corp. was permitted to buy the govern
mentoWned plant of the Geneva Steel Company for a fifth of what
the government paid to build it.
We are glad that Mr.. Kaiser raised the question, and we believe
we know the answer. But before giving our answer We would like to
ask and answer n o two questions Of our own.
First, why did the government use bond-buyers' dollars to finance
the production of steel in the first place?
One answer to that question is because the tycoons of capitalism
who have been speaking loudly and persstenty about the necessity
government to keep out of industry while they have a scarcity economy
in which to operate and when they have workers over a barrel. But
when the war came and a crisis developed which they knew would
end when the war ended, then private capital simply refused to finance
insisted that the government should coax and compel the general public
to build the industries.
Second, why didn't Henry Kaiser call earlier attention to the fact
that the steel industry was using the publics investment for private
and sailing down many dollars sin the doing of it.
AS to Kaisers question, why did teh government sell valuable
property to private industry for much less than its value?" we would
start to answer by changing the question to Why did the government
sell the industries it owned at any price,"
The answer to that one is because the people of America had err
miued the private profit system to outlive the war. They had voted
for private enterprise. They had turned thumbs down O n the Socialist
demand that the capital resources which the people had bought and
paid TO shOuld be used to produce abundance for everybody in com
petition with private industry. And Sc the people merely got what they
voted for when the government turned everything the public owned
over to the folks who already owned everything else in the a of
industrial capital.
workers in the dust, we must remind them of the empty shelves and
high prices that have been confronting them and ask them whether
they wouldn't have liked to use their w industries to produce those
white shirts and shorts that were missing 81 long and that a be
bought today only at greatly inflated prices.
We did produce for war in government-fnanced plants-under
conditions which permitted a few people to make profits for them
selves and debts for future generations. Likewise, we could produce
for plenty in peace if we'd want to.
But most Americans don't want to. They'd rather gripe when
somebody else pays the racket that we refuse to end.-Reading Labor
Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
La Guordiu|s Plan

Thre is one thing about the Little Flower Fiorello H. LaGuardia
can burst mt bloom almost any time in crimson rage or mellow gold.
IN Berlin recently 1t was rage-at isolatiOnBt reporters, at a changing
telephone, even at a German waiter who interrupted him. But he was
announcing a wise decision for the United Nations Relief and Rehabni
Administration, and at least the beginning of a constructive plan
tor getting displaced persons out of Germany
The constructive decision was to release 1t Gen. Sir Frederick
Morgan from his post as director of UNRRA displaced persons opera
tons IN Germany. MIR. La Guardia directed none Of his fury against
He praised him IS a great general and leVeled no direct criticism
against his UNRRA record. But Gen. Morgan's broadside months ago
at Jewish refugees indicated that he wa not the man for UNRRA. His
recent suggestion that Russia was using UNRRA as an umbrella to
cover espionage in displaced persons camps capped the climax.
Mr.. La Guardias displaced persons plan is 10 panacea. Getting
large numbers of YugOslavs and Poles to return to their countries de
ponds on the will and ability of the Belgrade and Warsaw governments,
through their agents, to convince these exieS that they will be safe
at home.
Even if. as he hopes, 45OOO are persuaded to go home, that will
cave a similar number of displaced persons in Germany, including
Bats. Those who won't go home, Mr.. La Guardia declared, must be
settled elsewhere around the globe. He hopes VI Congress will relax
country, lie said, has shed more tears and passed more resolutions
this subject than any other, but to date w e have not taken these
people in
Mr.. La Guardia has given us a good lead. Have we the sincerity
and humanity to follow it?-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
THE MINERS SACRIFICE

Miners year after year are sac
rificed that the nation may be
warmed, that railroads may prov
ide transportation and that umer
Gus other industries might prod
uce for the benefit of the populace.
Yet year after year, miners pay
with their lives for their hazard
Gus occupation, not SO much in
1945, fortunately, as in previous
years, but altogether too much in
the aggregate.
The four-year record shows that
more than $500 miners lost their
lives, another two hundred or more
Were permanently disabled, and up
wards Of a $50, 900 men injured in
minor accidents.
This is too great a toll to pay
for a job, and these facts ought to
be called to the public's attention
when coal diggers ask better con-
ditions, better wages, and a shorter
work week. - The Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
YES, LABOR LEADERS
ARE HONEST

We didn't always find ourselves
in agreement with the late Sid
ney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
We criticized him rather vigorous
ly on two or three occasions, but,
frankly, while we questioned Sid
ney's judgment, we never doubted
his integrity.
Our good opinion has just been
indicated. Hillman's estate has
come up for probate. Although he
wa a powerful leader of a great
union for a quarter of a century or
more and received a decent salary
- $4,000 a year his estate is
valued at less than SIC, 900, and of
that $50 900 represents insurance
policies.
In other words, while Hillman
was handling tens of millions for
his members, he lived modestIy
and put what he could save into
insurance. policies SO his wife
might have something when he
was called away.
He wasn't an exception. Labor
leaders are like that. Once in a
while a crook pops up - not as
often as in banking, for example
but 9 out of 10 are loyal to the
men who trust them.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
Who Solid Socialism
Would Destroy the
Nution's Family Life?

WASHINGTON (FP)-The nun
Der of working women is SteadIl,
increasing and will continue to d
SO, according to a Labor Dept. leaf
let based on a wartime study 0
10 war production areas. IndIca
tons are that in 1850, % per cen
of all workers will be women. Thu
figure was "a per cent in 1910 an
only Is per cent in 1880.
One out of five working womet
live alone, the study says, and 0
those who live in family group
Is per cent r the sole wage earn
ers contributing to household eX
penses. War casualties have IN
creased the number of women VIII
must support themselves or thei
families, the study found.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28

this research, and those who do
contribute, devote less than one
fifth Of one cent per ton for such
purposes.
The BituminouS Coal Research
Institute should make more Strenu-
JUS efforts to win the support of
all coal producers, on a basis of
tonnage, to acquire a real research
fund of millions of dollars with
which to revive the coal industry's
past glories.
All producers ought to recognize
that research is their salvation.
Their payment to the Research In
stitute of only one-half cent per
ton per year would produce a fund
in excess or 50, 500, 900 and with
that amount of money, coal re-
search could go places.
With an industry worth in ex-
cess of two and a half billion dol
lars, certainly a self-imposed tax
on the operators of only one-tenth
Of one per cent would be a worth
while expenditure as insurance for
their business. - The Progressive
Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
AWAKENING?

Announcement that the coal in
dustry is beginning to spend mo-
ney, "a half million dollars this
year, for research in hopes of find
ing new and better products and
more markets for coal is a heart
ening sidelight on the otherwise
gloomy outlook for the coal bust
ness.
Prior to this year, the industry
spent the paltry sum of about $13,-
900 a year for research. Threats
of losses of markets spurred the
expenditure this year of the half
million.
1t is an unfortunate fact that
less than As per cent of the ma
TONS coal producers contribute to
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
PASSING THE BUCK
TAX DODCING BREAKS RECORD

War profiteers broke all records for income and excess profit Ia
lodging, according to a Internal Revenue Bureau report.
1t says the bureau, in the year ended June 80, last, collected ii
unprecedented Jun of more than a billion dollars by forcing dodge
to pay taxes they owed on wal year incomes and profits.
A total of 81, 12, 100000 was rounded up by Uncle Sans seot
and lawyers, who uncovered tax cheats and prosecuted them.
Another $17OOO,O0 was brought in "VOluntarly" by people VIII
lad held back the money. Some of them may have done sc becae
their conscences bothered them. In most cases, however, they ha
a less praiseWorthy reason.
Bureau officials point out that a person who pays up before Uno
Sam gets after him usually escapes criminal prosecution" He has
pay money penalties on top of the overdue tax, but he does not
to jail.
Therefore, when a tax dodger begins to fear the government is 0
his trail, he often rushes to the buerau with the money and says h
simply forgot to pay.
The biggest case of this kind, the bureau says, resulted in paymer
of $4,000, 600 by one business man.
The report does not name him, but he was Henry Lustg, operate
of the Longchamps chain of restaurants in New York City. He "kiCke
in" with So, 600 900 in taxes, plus penalties, when Uncle Sam was abou
to nab him-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
ABSENTEElSM

If you're a good loyal WORKER
you've been needing the admoni-
tions of certain Congressman who
almost every other day have pro-
claimed how absenteeism is endan-
gering reconversion and our quick
jump into prosperity and full pro-
duction. Make no mistake; this
problem of workers absenteeism
is a serious, heartfelt problem for
these congressman. AT least it was
until the time one nosey reporter
started to wonder about Congress-
ional ~absenteeism. Here's what he
found:
Seven Senate votes on import
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
SWEDEN PROVIDING
DECENTRALIZATION FOR ALL

Accompanied by a surprising
lack of notice by outside coun-
tries, Sweden is moving to guar
antee unlimited disqualification to
every citizen in need of it. A new
law has been drawn up by the
government itself, and will soon
receive consideration in the legis-
lative council. This sweepin 6
measure is expected to pass with
out drastic modification. 1t will
go into operation July l, 1850.
Linked with it is a new and equal
ly alI-incIusive program of compul-
sorry health insurance.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
MECHANICAL SWITCH

Ford workers are under a CIO
contract that gives the company
the right to set standards of work,
discipline, ETC., and includes as
Article ", section 4: THE COM
pany shall not be required to re
tain in its employment any en-
ployee who refuses no meet estab-
liShed standards or who engages
in any attempt or participates in
any ulan to control or limit the
amount of speed or production q.
This paragraph shall be deemed
to be full and adequate notice to
all employees of their duties in
this respect"
Now Ford Motor has adopted the
"ChronOlog' in Department 498 of
it's Rouge plant. The CLIO News de
scribes it as "a robot measuring
device which records every split
second of a workers time 1t OPP
crates on a code dial system. A
code letter is used for each ele-
ment in an operation. It records
the actual time used to grind a
crankshaft and totals the time used
for machine setting and dressing
wheels. 1t even records time for
personal use in going to the water
fountain, the toilet, etc" Workers
in Department 498 call it Dick
Tracy, Mr.. Hitler and other names.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
WASTE COAL NOW useful

Alamjit D. Singh, a native o
India, now head of the Institute 0
Gas Technology of the Universit!
of Illinois, has devised a process
to use the Ignite and bituminou
waste formerly discarded, where
by the gas and tar derived wouIt
pay for the cost of processing ant
leave a smokeless fuel with a
great a heat content and no more
expensive than the original coal
1t is expected that this will en-
large the mining industry.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
Some Odds and Ends

The members of the United Ma
tons a understand why we are
Of SO little help in getting rid of
Franco. We can't even get rid of
Bilbo.-HoWard Brubaker in The
New Yorker.
Americans this year will spend
the record sum Of four billion of
dollars for recreation. 1t seems a
dreadful waste. That amount of
money would pay the nations
military expenses in the next war
for several hours.-The New York
Times Magazine.
Nobody worries any more about
tWo-dOllar bills being unlucky.
They're too handy for buying one
dollars worth of something.-Bar-
ney Barnes in the Saturday Eve
ming Post.
There was an old soldier named
Sidney, who drank till he ruined
his kidney-It shriveled and shrank
as he sat there and drank-But he
had a good time, though, now did
ney?-The Army Times.
We're still waiting for the name,
address and history of the owner
of the brain who thought up the
idea of shutting off the grain for
brewers. Don't tell us that thirteen
men appointed by the President
did it. Thirteen men-or two men
- never originated any thought
excepting through rare coinci-
dence. An idea is Oorn in one mind,
causing its keeper to pop off in a
meeting. Whose mind fOaled this
one and why doesn't he come out
proudly and claim it as his own
even if it IS abortiVe? If he's a
Congressman, maybe he can get his
name on an Act-like VOlStead.-
From The Detroiter, weekly pub
LEGATION of the Detroit Board of
Commerce.
People who are poor are i'll more
often, and for a longer period of
time, than those who have a de-
cent standard of living. People on
relief have 87% more chronic i'll
nesses than those earning $4,000 a
year or more. The average chronic
illness among persons in a relief
family lasts 63% longer than SINH
lar illness in the $4,000 income
group. - United States Public
Health Service.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
Britain Expands Social Security

Britain's Labor government is gradually redeeming it's promise to
hberalize the nations social security program.
Under the Family Allowance Act, 1000 900 mothers will hereafter
get 81 a week for each child under Is, except the oldest. Near the top
Of the list is a Welsh family with II eligible children. Mother will get
d allowance of $12 each week.
These allowances do not sound impressive to Americans, but they
will be thankfully received in British homes.
Canada has a similar program with more generous allowances. In
neither country is there anything suggestive of a "menas' test. Every
mother is entitled to the allowance if she cares to collect it,
In October, the Labor government will boost oldage pensions
For example, pensions of 10 shiuings a week will be boosted to 26
ShilGngS, plus Is shilingS for the insured mans wife. Allowances for
widows and blind persons are liberalzed. Altogether, 4, 1877 900 persons
are covered. The increase for this od-age pension item will be about
country-LabOr.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
THE NUMBER OF WORKERS
IN TWO 0 POWERFUL
STATES

The industrial labor force of the
USSR is now 26, 5OO,O 900, which
will be increased to $500, 900 by
the end of the new Five-Year Plan,
according to Pravda July s.. The
industrial labor force Of the USA
is above 5000, 900. The popu-
lation of the USSR is approximate
ly 200, OOO, 900; that of the USA
less than lao, 600, 900. The produc-
tivity per man in the USA is at
least SO per cent higher than in the
USSR, and increasing much more
rapidly.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28

London. - The British Govern
ment has accepted a proposal Q
the national union of mine work
r for establishment of a five-da
week in the coal mines.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
IL MILLION WAR
VETERANS

The veteran population of the
United States on May 81 was ap-
proximately 16, 900, 900 of whom
about II, 10000 were veterans of
World War II, according to the
Veterans Administration.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
Our Humanitarian Impulse
HypOcritical

Into this quarre Numbered
America, whose politicians have in
sisted that Britain force the Arabs
to accept more Jewish immigra-
ton, while refusing to relax the
quotas on Jewish immigration to
the United States.
This ~hypocritical humanitarian
impulse is explained by the poll
book tally, which shows that there
r close to five million Jews in
the United States and only a
thousand Mohammedans.
But British politicians must con-
slider another fact. There are only
a million Jews in Asia and. Africa
and two hundred million pro-Arab
Mohammedans.
While we righteously condemn
British imperialism for being anti
Jewish, exactly the opposite cry is
heard from the Mohammedan
world, which bitterly denounces
"Anglo-JeWish imperialism"
1t is no answer to condemn
British imperialism, or Arab ma
tionalism or Jewish nationalism.
They are all nostalgia anachron-
isms, and bound to clash.
Nor is it a solution for the Unit
ed States to support the Zionists,
or for the Russians to play their
own game by supporting the Arabs.
Nationalism is the pervading curse.
We cannot segregate ourselves,
by races, creeds or nations, or find
any refuge except by facing the
fact that the world and all it's
problems are me.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
AFER "CO-OPS"

The Power Trust is still after the
Rural Identification co-ops. The
other day R. E. A. chief, Claude R.
Wickard, formerly Secretary of
Agriculture, issued a sensational
statement. He said the Trust had
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-08-28
Even Solomon Could Not Divide This Boby


Nationalism is the curse of the
modern world. 1t takes different
forms. The nationalism of the great
powers reaches out beyond their
boundaries and takes the name of
imperialism.
This is the fearful nationalism
that brings Britain, Russia and
America into conflict in Europe,
in the Middle East and in the Far
East.
Aggravating this nationalism is
the jackal nationalism of the
smaller powers, like that of the
Yugoslavs and the Italians, who
have competing claims in common
territory.
Sometimes this nationalism takes
on theological, religiuos and racial
OVertOneS. In Palestine, all of these
nationaliSms converge.
In the Holy Land, we have Jew
ish nationalism. Arab nationalism
and the dominating nationalism of
the great powers which struggle
for oil.