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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-19
Events In Brief....

Mr.. and Mrs. Randolph Manuel
had as Monday visitors MIR. and
Mrs. Charles R. Stevenson and
daughter. Shirley, of Burbank,
Calf. and Mr.. and Mrs. l.. X.
Stevenson and daughter, Suz-
anne, of Fairfield, the group hav.
ing stopped off while on their
way to Waterton Lakes. They
are relatives Of Mr.. Manuel.
Sun.tan..d resses and shorts at
the Economy Shop.
Mrs. Vivisnne Gerard, Brown
ing public school te a C h e r, is
spending her vacation preserv-
ing memories of the days she
preserved fruit. she said. In
those days there was plenty of
sugar and fruit was cheap.
New Atwood fall skirts at the
Economy Sqop.
For ssle-20 wiener pigs. In.
Quire John MeGovern at Minnie
Walter home at Browning.
Plastic front apro 8 at the
ECONOMY Shop.
Mrs. C. S. Hoffman and sister
Mrs. Joe Coreeran of Conrad
returned from Chicago last Sat.
urday. where they had attended
the funeral of a brother. They
were accompanied home by their
sister, Mrs. Joe Powers of Chi.
cago. who will visit them during
the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Beckwith
of Kslispell spent last Sunday at
the Hoffman ranch.
Chickens for sale. young and
old. Mrs. Leo Baker.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-19
Wheeler Defeated

Continued from page one)
10 the special election deter
mining bonding Glacier County
for $1,000 for the construction
of 4 hospital, the issue carried
more than three to one. OF the
ll48 votes cast, S81 favored it
and 267 opposed it. Only two
precincts, McKelvey and GAL
breath. opposed it with major
tiles.
eIn the chief justice race.
Adair was heavily wore d
against four other opponents. In
the associate justice race, Met
calf was favorite of four candi-
dates.
The total registered vote in
Glacier County was 4058 and on
the basis Of tine combined votes
Of, for instance. the sheriff race
in both political parties, approxi-
mately SO per cent of the voters
went to the polls.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-19
Renshaws And Relatives
Visit Browning Sunday

Mr.. and Mrs. W. G. Renshaw
OF Great Falls and several east
ern relatives stopped a short
while in Browning last Sunday
while on their last lap of an ex.
tended automobile trip through
Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma.
Stopping briefly at Great Falls
before concluding their tour, they
picked up Miss Maggie X. Nye,
former Browning high school
economics teacher, to accompany
them on q S u n d ay visit of
Glacier National Park.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-19
Duck Season To Be
Talked By Commission

The state fish and game tom.
mission will meet Thursday and
Friday of this week in Helena
for its monthly session and was
scheduled to make its recon-.
mendations to the federal wild
life service on Montana's 1916
duck season.
Fish and game department
officials pointed out evera
sportsmen's groups. including the
Montana Wildlife federation. had
urged a later season to give the
birds more of a chance to ma
ture.
The season ran from Sept. 20
to Dec. 8 last year, but sports.
mems organizations have urged
the state be transferred to the
intermediate zone which opens
in October, state officials said.
The season, bag limit and other
rules and regulations are an
nounced each year by president
all proclamation, but prescribed
by the federal agency.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-19
Nash's Cafe And
Browning Mere. Are
Victims Of Burglars

Burglars sought the sweetest
thing in all the world at Nash's
Cafe one night this week.
Aud it wasn't the cooks nor
Mattresses,
None other than sugar, that
scarce and much-needed COM
modify these time. And they
were successful.
Burglars also entered Brown
ing Mercantile Co., for the Sec
oud time In several months.
There were no clues in either
burglary.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-07-19
MOnstrOuS Fishermen

The largest fisherman among ami
mails is the monstrous Alaskan
brown or Kodiak bear. He some
times reaches weight of $500
pounds.
Evening star., 1946-08-25

Going w. Trinity Maryland w.? sweaters ond skirts ore
you'll live in Going Wellesley, Vosso Smth orom
boe with sweaters ond skirts Rush onot tor sorority
bids oone-but workable weorobe wonderful coscs
Frank Co boned edons-unr'n9 chic that
through Ioude your Senior
Finals
Skirs-595 to l495
BIozer Jocke-l4.95 TO 2295
Sweoters-4OO 10 800
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
WELL, IT'S THE PROFIT SYSTEM!

Within the past two weeks some labor papers have been telling
the story of how the General Electric Company multiphes its profits
ought to be able to understand it. General Electric keeps down the
quality of its electric light bulbs o that they wear out quicker than
they need to.
There's the scheme: Sell more! It's the san scheme the. big
tobacco barons had in mind when they doubled their customers by
who cares about the welfare of society when atruism conflicts with
the profit sheet.
Here's another development of the capitalist system which per-
sistent apologists might justify by saying, Wouldn't you do it if you
had a chance?"
And under the profit economy the answer that most people would
have to give-if they wished to be truthful-is that they would do
the same thing if they had a chance. They'd fill their own pockets
at the publics expense.
But WHY would most people serve themselves at the expenss
of their fellow men?
The answer is obvious. People act like that because they are
living under a system that places self-interest in opposition to COM
mon interest.
People wouldn't act that way under an economy in which the
means of production and distribution were owned by everybody, with
wealth produced for use instead of for profit.
People don't do less than their best when they're working for
themselves. There's no incentive for that with people who use what
they make. But they do it when they're out to sell their product e.
more than its value. Remember how the big Anaconda Copper Com
pany furnished defective cable at the risk of soldiers lives during
the war? That, too, was quite in keeping with the ethics of capital
ism. wouldn't you do it ?"
There's another reason why big corporations do such things
They do them because they have a corner on the market, because in
their particular line there is no competition.
Anti-Sociaists better ponder this fact and get it's full meaning.
In article after article a few people have a monopoly. This 'Iree
enterprise" system about which w are told is the bunk. It doesn't
exist. We, the people, arr at the mercy of a few economic overlords
who levy whatever tribute upon US they think we can bear.
Mossbacks and foggy thinkers who have been 81 afraid that
Socialism would be a monopoly should be able to see now that we're
monopoly, while Socialism would make industry a peoples monopoly.
What we have is u for the benefit Of a small clique of owners and
at our expense. What Socialism proposes is that industry should func-
ton for the benefit of everybody.
We've told the story often. But we have to tell it again and
again because an understanding of it is essential to correct action
by the victims of the privateprofit monopoly economy.
How IAN we talk Of freedom when the lives of most of is re
planned by corporation scientists with the percentage table as their
guide?-Reading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
BACK TO "NORMAL"

n country is rapidly returning to normalcy, that is to the
State IN winch capitalists have their own way, and in which the needs
u the country re disregarded, especially if they conflict in any wav
IN us haste to beat the Republicans to the punch, has called off most
price controls, AM has invited labor to make a truce" with capital
VI IS impossible for a capitalist politician to make a move without
stopping 10 deliver a lecture to labor on it's responsibility
Apparently Irumans advisers have decided that the wav to block
me Hepuolcans IS to carry out the Republican policy before CONGRESS-
of its program. lily"
ne future, IS outlined IN one of the countrys conservative maoa
zhes IS described as follows, anybody who wants to build q house.
p' up d SVore ouloIhg, Or to cut a wage, o to do other things
haC te government now says he cannot do, is likely to get his chance
before long to do what he wants"
ne government, composed of capitalst-minded LEGISLATORS is
noe MAI happy to comply with the desires of Big Business What
oUeS prevent business from cutting a wage" is the fact that the labor
moVehleh IS IN existence, and that American workers. have shown
no srea oenght IN the demands of free enterprise"
n yet, merely to acknowledge the power of the labor nooyenoon
- " move IN to a analysis of it's weakness in the face of canita1st
Heeoom' I'VE II the republicans, looking to 1913. do not o. all ont
III passing antI-Iabo legislation, the real blow to workers will he
dealt o the economic front
cenot put III the kind of battle that will eliminate the possibility
- '"N"S d Wase simply because an employer decides to do 50 #
10 III no poSllon to declare itself free of it's letters, and to take over
III pSeh ue dlrectlon of the American economy. And it will be in no
SUI poShIon uhH American labor decides to support a svstem based
on ruhlHg n cal needs of the country, and not the selfish intereetr
OF lSr ulers-The Call "Nie0o
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
REEVE DOESN'T WANT MUCH

In presenting the demand of union textile workers for a wage
increase of 20 cents per hour. Emil Rnve, leader of the Textile
Workers Union, justifies this mostrecent demand by declaring that
statistics show the employers taking a profit of So cents per hour
on all workers employed in the industry.
One wonders, now, what about that extra 33 cents that the
union textile workers appear willing to have the private owners of
their industries keep for themselves.
Why not go after it all? And if the textile workers don't want
to take the whole business for themselves, why don't the American
people use their power to see to it that a cut in selling price brings
some benefit to all the people who must buy textiles!
We're not satisfied by the hoary claim, that the owners need
that 50 cents in order to do business. That just isn't true; profits
are not figured until after all operating costs, including taxes, are
deducted. The generous rake-off that Emil Rieve is willing to leave
with the owners is more tribute to parasites; it is the salary We paw
somebody for owning something.
We suppose it can be said that people with money to invest in
activities that Will make jobs for workers justawont use their money
ma way unless they IAN have some hope of taking a profit. That. of
course, is true, and we don't blame the private investors O. that core
Our dissatisfaction is with the workers who vote approval to a
system under which they wait for private individuals to start indus
tries and make jobs. Perhaps there was a time when that was the best
nj workers could do, but now it is possible for them to use their
government to initiate production without paying 33 cents an hour
to any owner: And that is precisely what we think the workers of all
industries ought to do.
The point is that an industry that is privately-owned is and
possibly should be, operated for the benefit of the owner. But an
industry that is publicly owned would likewise be operated for the
benefit If the oWners-who would be all of u.s.. - Reading Labor
Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
WHERE WE DO GO FROM HERE?
NO. 2O44.

Economists and saisticians, both those employed in government
offices and those who work for great business organizations, are try
ing, in vain, to warn the country that there is something wrong
about the situation in business and industry and that, if things continue
to slide, w re will be in for a depression in 1947. Perhaps the public
refuses to pay much attention to these warnings because bad news is
unpopular. People like to gloss over such things.
There is, however, IN important warning to Organized Labor in
the ominous news from the economists. One government expert saws
that industry, having completed most of its peacetnme expansion. is
before developing further investments. Then follows this verv signifi-
cant paragraph:
Recently something new has been added. It has become appar-
ent that some business quarters are preparing for a real fight with
labor IN congress and the collective bargaining table next winter
The former will probably take the form of a frontal attack O the
attitude OF wage demands and a firm opposition to bring profits into
Le discussion. hopes for a management victory ar probably based
on COP gains in November and the possibility of increased disunity
within tn labor movement. Even so, it is feared that the STRUGGLE
may be bitter and long, with adverse effects on sales and profits next
year"
This expert frankly says that insiders have quit investing Thew
re gong to sit out the expected Knockout fight with labor. Mean
Whlle, hoardlng OF goods the public wants is going on at an unprece-
dented rate Prices will be uncertain for a time, some going up and
others down. There will be a brief period of lu1, and then a first
rate depression, probably midway in 1947. Most of the business o.
search organizations agree with this summary. They a. the boono
IS over, that the decline already has set in. They predict unemplov-
ment this winter even though many prices continue upward.
Looks like this is a good time for caution, for straight thinking for
responsible leadership TO study the road signs.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04

Until the last general election, the state of Alabama had been an
island of liberal refuge between the Sylla of Mississippi and the
Charybdls of a Georgia which had relapsed into Talmadgism. But on
November 5 Alabama voted to adopt the Boswell amendment to its
constitution, al amendment which will set up the most highly
restrictive voting qualifications in force in any state in the Union.
The author of the amendment is Representative E. c. (Bud) Boswell
of Geneva, in Alabamas Black Belt. Mr.. Boswell wanted ito save or
Alabama traditions and principles from the frontal attack of the
radical allies to) maintain and insure white supremacy in Ala
bama, by law, for the salvation of both the Negro and white races"
The amendment provides that each applicant for the right to vote must
appear before the board of registrars in his county and be able to
read, understand and explain, to the boards satisfaction, any section
OF tn Constitution of the United States. 1t is. a foregone conclusion
that registrars will accept nc Negroes explanation of any part of the
constitution The leaders of organized labor and many newspapers
opposed the amendment, but the rank and file of labor in the large
Industrial districts failed to go to the polls. Racial prejudice is prob
ably stronger than loyalty to a union, and every questionable device
known to racial bigots w brought forth by proponents. The amend
by the small majority of less than 10000 votes out of 2OO,OOO cast
1t Will, of course, be tested in the courts at the earliest opportunity
Many of the states lawyers believe it will be held unconstitutional
meanwhile, Alabama has taken a step backward, much 20 the dismay
Of those who have been priding themselves on the advancing forces
of progressivisn within the state-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
Fight Russia? 1870 soy mo"

Observation-Disclosures aware
of misunderstanding between the
U. S. and Russia, 1870 of the Amer
lean people do not think these dis
agreements serious enough to con
slider going to war about, according
to a nationwide poll by the National
Opinion Research Center here.
Furthermore, more than one per
son in five (21 u % could not name
a single cause of disagreement be-
tween the two nations, the survey
showed.
More people answered In general
terms rather than citing definite
and specific causes of misunder-
standing. Likewise, more people
mentioned differences without at
taching blame to either country. Of
those who did place the respons-
Utility for misunderstanding on
either one, more people mentioned
Russia than the U. S.
A general fear and distrust of
each country by the other, parti-
cularly as related to preparations
for another war, and a general lack
of understanding were most fire.
quently mentioned by those inter
viewed. The MORO is located at
the University of Denver.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
ReUther Urges Co-ops

FLINT, Mich. ,(LPA). = The
battle against initiation, unemploy-
ment and depression is not simply
a battle to keep prices down,
United Auto Workers President
Walther Reuther asserted. Speak
ing to a group of union members
and other consumer-minded peo-
pie here at the opening of a drive
for $4,000 to open a cooperative
super-market, Reuther said that
one of the most vital next steps
is the organization of consumer CO.
operatives on a broad scale 'to
establish democratic ownership Oh
distributive and productive facili-
ties"
He warned that these consumer
protests against high prices would
continue with one commodity after
another selected as targets-until
the manufacturers, meat packers
and food professors "got it through
their heads that the American peo-
pie did not fight World War II just
to get paid off with high prices and
unemployment.
Reuther called on the consumers
of Flint to get behind the coopera-
tive movement and join in the
work of building new democratic
controls over the economic system
He said that consumer co-ops estab-
lish such democratic controls be
cause they gave the people owner
ship of the machinery of produc
ton and distribution, and return
patronage dividends to the con
sumers The coop system elimi
mates unearned income and increas
es Purchasing power, he declared
las president of the UAW-CIO,
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04

ish themselves in a fruitless strug-
gle for just a little more. They
could have all the coal they mine,
all the oil they tap from the earth.
all the clothing they make, all the
comfortable homes they could build
If they'd Wn the sources of
wealth and produce abundance for
use instead Of scarcity for private
profit
The working people of the
world are powerful. They could
have all they make if they would
not vote to keep themselves weak
by permitting the means of life to
be owned by a few people.
And, surely, nobody, not ever
workers, have a right to ask for
more than they make.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
Doesn't Blume
Workers
FORD REVEALS OPERATING
LOSS; SHOCKS COMPLA-
CENT BOSSES

For the first time in it's history.
the Ford Motor Company has taken
the public into its confidence re
garding its financial condition.
Ernest R. Breech, executive vice
president, says that a loss of $54. 6
millions was sustained during the
first six months of this year. How
ever, he added that tax refunds will
reduce the loss to about 1929 mil
lions.
Unlike some other executives.
Breech did not attempt to pin the
blame on the workers. He said the
management knew as early as last
December that losses would have
to be shouldered during reconver-
sion.
Then he proceeded to make state
ments calculated to shock compla-
cent bosses.
There lis too much isolation in
business" said Breech = by
which he meant that the men at
the top have lost touch with ''the
men and women who are so essen
tial a part of any project the man
ager may design and plan"
I'VE cannot have an officer
caste in our industry. We cannot
have brass hat-ism.'."
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
NOT EVEN WORKERS HAVE a RIGHT TO
ASK FOR MORE THAN THEY MAKE-BUT.
ny RAYMOND HOFSES, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

The same people who voted
themselves out of the Democratic
frying pan and into the Republican
tire are gripping about the pros
pect of a coal strike that NAV kill
their jobs, freeze their families and
almost certainly will boost their
coal bill to a new all-time high.
They are the same kind of peo-
pie who did the gripping back in
the late 2O,s and early 3O's when
a strike of the owning class barred
millions of Americans from using
the tools of production and Gre
ated a breadline economy.
They are also the same people
VINO went along with the capitalist
system all down through its sorry
course and who complained bitter
ly about the shortages, exploita-
ton and profits without which the
prlvate-profit economy for which
they voted simply could not func-
ton.
If the American people continue
TO act as they have in the past.
some future day will find them
frettlng against-and still voting
Tor the same kind of controls
That they described as ''fascism''
IN other countries when the con-
tlnuatlon of a class society made
1t necessary for a su~per-govern-
ment to take over and apply the
pressure that would keep workers
producing the necessities of life
under conditions that will assure
a rake-off for owners.
About the least inspiring sight
we a imagine is that of 40 mill
ION people plying themselves be-
cause of what a few people are
doing to them.
The working people of this ma
tlon-or of any nation for thai
matter - could enjoy the utmost
good that their combined ability
could create-if they'd use thei,
combined power to that end.
they wouldn't need to impover.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04

The goodwill which America
once possessed throughout the
world, but which is slowly being
dissipated, is not enhanced by pirat-
ical practices of some of our bust
ness men.
They r said to be buying off
grade goods at sacrifice prices and
selling them abroad for more than
best-quality products.
Foreign consumers don't quib-
BILE about the cost when they see q
label that heretofore has meant
superior workmanship and mate
rial to them. When they discover
they nave been cheated, they'll be
sore"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-12-04
Pity the Poor Packers

Look at this: The Big Four pack
ers-Armour, Cudahy, Swift and
Wilson made profits of up to 241
per cent as compared with only
1O6 per cent in pre-War years, even
with controls on meat during the
war years.
In the first half of 1916, with
controls still on, Armour made a
profit of SO, 700, 900, as compared
with a total for the entire year
of 1945 of only 1872 600.
Imagine what they'll make with
controls Off