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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
OUR ELECTIONS ARE FREE-PROvlDED YOU
Are FOR A FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM

the South, have had every opportunity to vote Democratic or Republican.
Each party has been sOlidly pledged to the free-enterprise system. In
the majority of cases, the candidates have been picked by the party ma
chine. The heretics in most instances have been retired to the pasture,
the heretical parties showed off the ballot 1t should be a lesson to those
other democracies which have lost faith in the capitalist way of life
and have even permitted labor parties and socialist parties to come to
power. Take New York State. for instance. Under radical pressure. IN
dependent parties have come into being, and at last three-American
Labor, Liberal, and Communist-have got on the ballot. And in every
cae their members and adherents have had the inahenabe right OF
voting for the chief Democratic Party candidates O their own party
urged to vote for a good Republican or for a candidate bearing their
own label. Not so, however, other parties whose independence has gone
beyond the limits of decent American political behavior The Socialists
for example, who are known to distrust both the free-enterprise system
and the two tme-tried parties, have, through petition, the legal right
of getting O. the ballot. But the law is conveniently framed so that a
technical mistake - the wrong color of ink, the wrong color of paper.
a single mistake in a assembly district - a invaidate the petition
Naturally, Democratic judges and lawyers, we'll versed in the law and
the American way of election, discover those errors Sc New York So
caist, in contrast with SON millions of their British. Canadian. Aus
traian, French, and Scandinavian cousins, who talk about building a
e. society, find Election Day a rather dull affair. What they don't
realize, of course, is that in this country We We had our revOlution-as
any Tammany chief or daughter of the said revolution could tell them
The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
Why Production Luqs

One reason why the owners Of corporate industry ae not 81 eager
now in order to make profits.
Thus we have a report from the Packard Motor Company that re-
Veals a profit Onet) of 81 387,316 for the first nine months of 1916.
The slgnfican fact about that profit was that it a owe a quarter
million dollars more than the Packard Company made in a similar
period a year ago on much smaller volume of sales. Sales and billings
tms year were $64, 358,312, compared with $685. 18,O74.f
How does it happen that the Packard owners were. able to get so
much profit from such grosslyreduced sales? AS a matter of fact they
admit make the profts-they just got them. They got them from Uncle
sammy, who provided a tax "carry-back" law for the benefit of profit
takers while the boys were too busy looking at Germans to watch what
was going on at home.
Without the tax refund law the Packard owners would have II
corded a loss of more than $6 million. The difference was in the nature
Of a refund out of taxes the company paid in more productive, and
therefore more profitable, years.
Well, workers will get a refund too, one of these days. They'll not
get it in millions, but in the does and handouts that are grudginly be-
slowed upon working people when concerns like the Packard Company
40 longer have any use for them.
The lopsided consideration of profit needs and human needs was
enc of the things that was planned that way" by the late President
Roosevelt, whose signature made tax refunds a law of the land. But
it's not what ere inclined to complain about. Our complaint is that
the automobile business sin general ae still the property of a few who
operate them solely for their own profit instead of for the welfare of the
people. We think they should be owned by the people and that the
people should get all the benefits of their aWn Misunderstanding Labor
Advocate. '"3 49, .ts .Et.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
Open Shop Boom

One indirect result of the recent election was a boom for the open
shop. In Nebraska, South Dakota and Arizona the electorate voted for
amendments to state constitutions forbidding the closed shop. In this
they follow Florida and Arkansas. (COnstitutionaity of these provisions
is uncertain, and will remain that way until there s a test case that gets
up to U. s. Supreme Court. One is in process in Florida. Alabama has
q right to work law" that makes the right to work independent of
union membership, but since closed shop agreements still remain in
force elm Alabama, it has provided no test)
The vote on these proposals reflects to some extent the experience
of workers, often Of veterans, in trying to get into lines Of work where
there are high lnltlanlton fees. Some unions have free initiation for
veterans, especially for first job after discharge for service. But many of
them find that hundred buck fees to apply trades learned in the army
hits them hard and have objected. Even so conservative a Zionist as
Tobn of the Transfers puts out advice in current issue of Teamser
that high initiation fees are bad union business "A union" he saws
is not a country club which restricts membership to the super social
brackets" Various crafts have charged high initiation fees on the
grounds that they had so improved conditions for the new entrant that
he should pay something into the union funds for the cost Of achieving
these conditions. With real wages going down at a time when n could
expect them even without unions to have gone up, it is rather hard to
advance such a argument. Anyway a union does not win its battles
with its treasury-t wins them with the solidarity and nniitancv IF ifs
members. Industrial Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OWNERSHIP
AND CONTROL OF THE BRITISH PRESS

LET the Press look after its own affamsn a Conservative M. P
pleaded, opposing a House Of Commons resolution calling for a Royal
Commission of Inquiry into the finance, control, management, and
ownership of the British press. But one reason why such an inquiry is
needed in Britain, and would be equally valuable here, is tina. the press
as a institution has to a large extent abandoned the practice of self
criticism. In the days when newspapers were small and personal they
seldom hesiated to call attention to one anothers misdeeds. But now
that publishing has become really big business, with huge investments
at stake, there is a tacit understanding that dog does not eat dog, and
any paper can suppress news without much risk of exposure from it's
competitors. Freedom of the press, it seems is freedom to discuss and
investigate any matter of public interest except the press itself. This
being the attitude, it is not surprising that proposals for a government
sponsored study of the newspaper industry evoked anguished cries in
Fleet Street. Titled publishers charged that the Labor government, re
sentng criticism was plotting to abolish freedom of the press Work
ing neWSpaperrnen, however, applauded; they know how much their
freedomto report the news accurately had been curtailed by the neces-
sy of catering to the ambitions and whims of poWer-drunk newspaper
proprietors; they knew the insecurity which concentration of news
paper ownership had brought to their profession. In the House of Com
mons, journalist members of Parliament moved an seconded the resolu-
ton calling for a Royal Commission. In a free vote, with the govern
ment whips called off, it was approved by 2O to 17. So at last some
daylight is to be thrown O the dark recesses of Fleet Street. The
Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
Aputhetic Victors

Whlch IN American people view politics is not confined to the 'sucks"
The New York Times reports that Times Square crowds, which were
smaller than those found at a Irish fair" observed dead silence"
when news Of the election results was flashed and that even the Rep
ubicans didn't find anything to cheer about.
Indifference to things political may come from a number of causes.
we are convinced that in the present instance the explanation
IS a utter lack of faith that the election of Republicans is sc-ng to result
in any improvement of the lot of the common man.
The people didn't vote for Republicans so much a they voted
against the party that had been in power for more than a dozen years.
They were resentful and they took it out on the Democrats.
There's a danger signal in the news from the nations metropolis.
People can't be both angry and hopeless without being a potential threat
to the peace and order of the status quo. ry -sslr,-5 r.e
Now that the Republicans have insreased their power it will be UP
TO them to do something that will satisfy the American people and keep
them satisfied. If they don't, the least that can happen will be that they
will be kicked out Of the offices to which they have been elected and
that the people will again jump from the frying pan into the fire.
But the combination of apathy and disgust ultimately produces
a social explosion that blows existing forms and customs out of ext
Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
THE TAIL WAGS THE O

American University, Washing
ton, D. c., dropped football because
it finds that the sport has degener-
ated into a human slave market"
The school charges that day by
day young men come to the auction
block for sale to the highest bid
der" 1t says the bidding is bitter,
determined and INSCRIPTIONS"
Coming on the heels of a similar
blast from Maj. Gen. Maxwell Tay-
Tor, West Point commandant, the
charge cannot be ignored.
Somewhere along the road, the
signals seem to have been mixed.
The tail is now wagging the dog.
Theoretically, college football is an
adjunct to education--a source of
relaxation, exercise and training in
craftsmanship. Actually, the game
has become a big BUSINESSMAN end
in itself. 1t has, as American Uni
versity noted, mo more relation to
education than bullfighting to
agriculture" If the game is to be
professionalism, let the colleges be
frank about it; let them strip away
the phony aura of sentiment sur
rounding 1.-THE Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
MOSCOW CREATES
NEW MINISTRIES IN
SOVIET EXPANSION


of the Russian government, involv-
ing the creation of several new
ministries and the appointment of
Is new junior ministers, was an
nounced by Moscow radio recently.
Duties of the new ministries will
cover such undertakings as food
reserves, domestic animal breeding,
silk production, manufacture of
surgical instruments, geology, and
the film industry.
At the same time, Georgyi NAL
enkov, As year old member of the
presidium and one of the five sec
1etaries of the central committee
Of the Communist party, has been
appointed a deputy chairman OF
Stalin's cabinet. Malenkov was 6
member of the supreme council
(the soviet parliament).
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
WHY ARE WORKERS SO UNABLE TO UNITE
THEIR TREMENDOUS POWER?

Union members are workers.;
nOn-uniOnists are workers; farm
ers are workers. BY a majority
that could be an overwhelming
force for abundance and security
the American people are workers.
Yet, neither the workers of Amer
lea nor of any other nation have
ever been able to unite the ire
mendouS power of their numbers
to the end that all who are work
ers could enjoy the fruits of CO.
operative labor.
If there is one thing that the
recent election has demonstrated
it is that the working people of
the nation are divided.
With millions of people organ
lied in economic groups within
these United States, the division OF
the American people seems like a
paradox until the Importance OF
that one word, group is under
stood.
People have individual interests
and they vote to advance them
Groups have group interests ano
they likewise vote to advance
them. But there is no common in.
terest in America.
That is demonstrated in every
election. 1t was demonstrated with
unusual clarity in this years cleo.
ton.
Whether or not he planned i
that way" Franklin D. Roosevelt
has b~equeathed this nation a leg
acy of group antagonisms that are
sinister in their implications anC
possibilities.
In the recent election peopl,
who were Democrats voted Re
publican because other people wer,
Democrats. Voters in farm an,
rural communities were more de
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20

determined to d t the union
Party than they were to turn back
the party's candidates. They
blamed the Democrats for controls
which they believed gave an I'M
equal advantage to industrial
workers especially to t h 0 S e
workers who have learned how to
function through a strong union.
Farmers and unorganized city
workers do not like the fact that
industrial workers are permitted
to strike and picket. They resent
the aggressive action of unionists.
They object to wage rises that are
promptly passed along to consum-
ers. Their interests are different
and they vote differently.
That is the result of Roosevelt's
policy of legislating rights for one
group that conflict with the in
terests of another group. And that
is why the other groups fIocked
to the polls this year and voted
for the Republicans. Leaders OF
Organized Labor were FOR t h e
Democrats; SO many organized and
~unorganized Americans who were
not of the Labor movement were
AGAINST the Democrats.
The American people lack a pro
gram that is all-inclusive. This is
inevitable under the economy that
Roosevelt set out to preserve ir
times that called for basic changes
Democratic Socialists had such
a program. 1t called - and still,
does-for the social ownership Of
the means whereby the wealth Of
the nation is produced and distrib.
uted. 1t declared for the end O.
the profit system and the distri
button of wealth solely as a re
ward for service. The Socialis
program would give the workins
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
Safe In Repeating

When Egan was American min
lister at Copenhagen, he made a
practice of going through Denmark
once a year and lecturing on
American literature. On night
when the Crown Prince and Prin-
cess were dining at the American
Legation, the Corwn Prince said to
Mr.. Egan: Il receive agreeable re-
ports of your lectures in the prov
inces. Do you use a different lee
ture every time?"
Il always use the same one,
Your Honor" the minister ans
Werd.
But what do you do if people
come a second time?"
"They never come a second time
was the answer.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
SENSATIONS EXPECTED IN PROBE
OF BRITISH PRESS

sonal, political and financial in
terests, without regard to the
rights of readers.
Speaker after speaker asserted
that a free press" with minor ex-
ceptions, NJ longer exists in Bri-
tain. AS one speaker said:
How can we have freedom of
the press under a system of COM
bines and chain newspapers which
are mainly interested in profits,
and, s~econdarily, in presenting the
particular views Of publishers
views which are frequently at var
lance with the aims and aspirations
of the people?"
That's a big question, and it
can be addressed to Americans
with equal force.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20

The British Labor government
has ordered a "full-dress' invest
igation by a Royal Commission in
to the financial control management
and ownership of British news
papers. Sensational developments
r anticipated.
The probe was approved by
Parliament after an extended and
heated debate. The British Ma
tional Union of Journalists, % of
whom are members of the House
of Commons, initiated the pro-
posal.
The matter has long been agi-
tated in Britain, but, for obvious
reasons, very little attention has
been given the controversy by the
American newspapers. An excep-
ton is the Baltimore Sum-" which
has a correspondent in London
who reported rather fully the Par
liamentary debate.
Charges hurled against British
publishers were similar to those
which have been brought against
our w press.
The main complaint is that the
newspapers have fallen into the
hands of wealthy men, some OF
whom were declared to be mega
lomaniacs' who distort the news.
suppress vital facts and use their
papers to advance their own per-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
Everybody Wins But Uncle Sam,

Apparently, everybody but Uncle Sam is making money on the dis
posal of surplus war goods. How the system works has been brought out
by the House Committee on Surplus Property.
It's Investigations revealed that a Philadelphia junk dealer obtained
machinery that cost $780, 48 fer $3.50 or SIG so a ton.
The first junk dealer sold the machinery to another Junk dealer for
$40 a ton, who passed it along to third dealer at $40 a ton.
The third dealer sold it to a fourth dealer at SIS a ton. and the
latter disposed of the machines for 1924 1913.
Why all this juggling? Because the War Assets Administration has
a rule that materials bought as junk must be sold as Junk. However,
the rule applies only to the first dealer.
Where was the War Assets Administration while all this was going
on? It "a right there o n the job, seeing that the dealers didn't lose on
the transactions.
One dealer said that he had purchased the machinery on representa-
ton o a ". A. A. warehouse superintendent that he could sell it for a
great deal more than he paid for it. He dd-Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
FEWER "FAGS" MADE

For the first time in 13 years,
production of cigarettes shows a
decline. Output during the first six
months of 1916 is said to be 2 per
cent-or half a billion-less than
during the same period a year ago.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20

Like cigarettes and candy bars,
rail tickets r now being sold
by machine.
BY inserting coins and pushing
a button, a ticket a be secured
to any one of 16 suburban stations
from a robot installed in Philadel-
phia by the Pennsylvania. The ma
chine even makes change and is
said to be slug proof.
The manufacturer claims the
device will issue 20 tickets a
minute.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
WASTED EFFORT

Jean-Take my advice and don't
marry your boss.
Jane-Why not?
Jean-You'll just work for him
for the rest of your life without
a salary.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-11-20
in THE WIND
From The Notion

THE WIND DEVOTES ITSELF
thist week to a compendium of
worthy ~utterances, both by men
and the institutions. Heading the list
is Court Asher, publisher of X-Ray,
who recently referred to General
Eisenhower as a Swedish Jew"
MEANWHILE, editor Luka Pala-
marchuk of the Ukraine's Radyan-
ska Ukraina told a New York
Times reporter that there is no
criticism of Josef Stain in Soviet
newspapers, because Stain never
does anything that merits criticism.
A MAN was interviewed by the
University of Denver's National
Opinion Research Center the other
day. He was asked: do you think
Negroes are as intelligent as white
people?" He answered.: NO" He
explained: Some Negroes you
couldn't learn anything"
H. w. PRENTISS, JR., who
seems to have earned his own re-
gretS, said in a recent address,:
Unfortunately, freedom and phys
lcal luxury to be congen-
italy Incompatible" Mr.. Prentiss,
who ought to know, is president
of Armstrong Cork and past presi-
dent of the N. A. M.
APPROXIMATION by Thomas
E. Dewey of New York named the
week before election as that states
Apple Week"
THAT SAME PRE- ELECTION
WEEK, the Wayne County mich
igan) Republican Finance Commit
tee expressed its fear of a repudi-
alton, by the county, of Senator
Vandenberg. This" quavered the
committee, could have awe-inspir-
ing repercussions."
AND THE RESEARCH STATS
of thrCe California industrial-em-
ployment commissions h ave an
nOunced breathlessly to Governor
Warren that unemployment in
California dropped in September
and that the chief reason for this
rapid decline in unemployment was
the large expansion in employ
ment."
80 LITTLE" say the Penn
sylvania Railroad in a pamphlet
urging raises in freight rates, has
never before meant SO much to so
many"
A SMALL SQUIB in the New
York Herald Tribune announcing
the resignation of Victor Emanuel,
director of General Aniline and
Film Corporation, carried this
headline: Resigns Dictatorship"
CLASSIFIED AID in the Bridge
port (Connecticut) Telegram: "A
Master Baker seeks a new position.
Have good bread formula. Can
handle union and other un-Amer-
lean element. Payroll padding if
desired"
SAM GOODWIN, who ought to
be used to this sort of thing,
spreads two pages of blurb for his
new movie, The Best Years of Our
Life" in a recent issue of Time, the
infallible magazine. in the be-
ginning was the word" starts the
advertisement, With an asterisk
after word" At the bottom of
the page: "#Genesis."
THE TAIL WAGS THE DOG