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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
FOUR BUCKS WORTH
OF HOMICIDE

Mr.. Perkins was a gentleman
(colored) who ran a taxicab on the
streets of Chicago.
Mr.. Jackson was a gentleman
(colored) who thought he would
enjoy a ride in Mr.. Perkins cab.
Note the twas" Mr.. Perkins
hasn't got a cab, Mr.. jackson hasn't
any more yearnings for rides.
Having transported Mr.. Jackson
and two companions thru the
streets of Chicago, Mr.. Perkins put
forth his hand in the time-honored
manner and mentioned something
about -Four Dollars"
Mr.. Jackson objected.
The usual highly intellectual dis
cussion followed.
MIR. jackson wanted to prove his
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05

right by a straight razor. Mr.. Per
kins countered with a gun.
After the usual you're another
debate, Mr.. Jackson proceeded to
carve Mr. Perkins into eating size
pieces, while in rebuttal, Mr.. Per
kins believed that a few bullet holes
would improve the appearance OF
his worthy opponent.
Result: Two men dead - and
the four bucks still the unanswered
question.
In this, the year IA of the Reign
of Roosevelt, four bucks is the price
of the carcass of a steWing hen
provided it hasn't already been
sold on the black market.
But four bucks is also the price
of two other carcasses/ species:
Human. Sex: Male. Religious per-
suasion: Democrat. Disease: Pacio.
The Industrial Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
Time to Wake 10

cooperative economic democracy cannot exist without political
democracy. We all know what happened to cooperatves in Germany
when the wrong kind Of politicians used the channels of political
democracy to climb into powerful positions, and then used those posi-
lions to kill political democracy.
Cooperators, who had naively ignored politics, wish-thinking that
their neutrality made their Movement safe from state interference.
woke up, too late. Co-Ops were among the first German institutions to
get the NaZ axe.
In England, the cradle of the Rochdae Consumers Cooperative
movement the cOOperatOrS have been wiser. Despite the fact that their
own coop pioneers formulated the principle of political neutrality, the
British cooperators realized, long ago, that even tho they may wish
to ignore the State, the State will not ignore the Cooperative Move
ment once it has become al economic pOWer. 49,.
1t began to cast about for weapons to smte the co-ops down. And
not being as naive as cOOperatOrs, the Movements enemies immediately
took up the most powerful weapon at hand, the political State.
We think its high time to stop pretending-to open u eyes to
the fact Of life. observation-disclosures we wish to emphasize that word.
the political State is growing more powerful in America. 1t is, therefore,
OF utmost importance for coOperators to pay close attention to the kind
of men who administer the body polite and make its laws-The Co.
operative Builders.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
THE RUSSIA IDEA

England is trying to get a loan
of $780, 900, 900 from the United
States. 1t has caused discussion
argument, strife and some pretty
nasty denominations among our
congressman and our press.
Russia needs So, zoo, OOO, 600 too
but Russia has decided to capitalize
on the public's penChant for gamb-
ling to get its money from its peo-
pie, by launching a loan drive, for
the billions and trying it up with
a lottery idea. The Russians are
called upon to invest one months
wages in the loan plan, and rich
prizes up to $4,000 rubles ($9,435 in
U. S. money! will be awarded in e
lottery drawing to purchasers of a
100-ruble ($18.87) bond. The prin-
ciple of the lottery and other de-
tails r a little involved for us to
understand over here - but one
thing is certain-if the Russians
are like Americans in their in
herent desire to gamble, the Rus
sian loan is an assured success, and
this is no editorial in support of
Communism or anything like it!
We might suggest this to Britain.
The Progressive Miner.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
TIME TO RETIRE

Southern workers need Organiza-
ton just as much as workers in
other sections of the country need
to have the south organized. The
economy Of the United States is as
closely integrated as a delicate
piece Of machinery, and it can i'll
afford to maintain a large non
union area in which wages and
working conditions are out of gear
with the rest of the country. And
it's particularly timely for the
Go to help do something about
the situation.
Workers south of the Mason and
Dixon line-and north of it-are
deeply interested in the CLIO south
ern organizing campaign which
opened in Atlanta on May 3. Van
A. Bittner, the CLOS drive director,
wasn't exaggerating when he des-
cribed the forthcoming union cam
paign as a "holy crusade" or when
he predicted that southern work
ers by thousands of thousands
would flock to the CLIO.
In the south, as in the north,
CIO will bring the benefits of
unionism to workers regardless of
race, creed, color or national Or
igin." AS Bittner has pointed out,
CLOS sole objective in the south is
to organize workers into unions
for collective bargaining for high
er wages and better working con-
ditions."
For such a campaign the CIO has
the support of millions of workers
in every part of the country. -
The CLIO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
Vicious Proposal Should Be Rejected

For more than a quarter of a century a campaign has been Waged
by wealthy individuals and corporations to secure congressional ap-
proval of legislation that would shift their share of the cost of running
the government to the back of bellies of Americans of modest means.
In the early EOS, Andrew Mellon, a muti-milionaire, refunded
billions of dollars to war profiteers and then attempted to recoup Uncle
Sans finances with a sales tax.
Congress set it's food down hard, but sales tax advocates were not
dsheartened.
Now they n proposing a sales tax for the District of Columbia,
in the belief that if they can establish it in the nations capital the next
step will be to extend it in the entire country.
Washington, one of the richest cities in the world, has a very low
tax rate on property. 1t needs additional revenue and obviously the
place to get it is from the landlords who arr waxing rich.
Congress should reject the proposal and place the tax where it be-
longs-on those best able to pay-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
SPEAKING OF FREEDOM OF TIE PRESS"

The Wall Street Journal has been printing an interesting series
OF articles on "Freedom of the Press" written by William Henry Cham
berlain. { reporter who has wandered around the world and has seer
strange things in many lands.
MIR. Chamberlain writes sanely and the "Journals' editorial com
ments arc worth reading, but it seems to IS that both overlook an ex
tremely important point.
In this country the real threat to a free press does not come from
the government, although it Interferes occasionally and sometimes OBJ
0oNiOusly That is bad and should be eliminated.
However, the chief menace comes from the handful of lei win
control the newspapers of this country and who are rapidly reaching
out to take over the radio.
LABOR has repeatedly said, and it still goes, that 20 men coulc
meet IN New York tomorrow and determine what should or should not
appear IN 80 per cent of the newspapers in this country on the follow.
ing morning. That's too much power for any group and we won't have
a Tree press until we find some way to meet the problem-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
NEW WORLD 10000
YEARS OLD

The continent of which the Unit
ed States is part is called the New
World" but it does not merit the
designation, according to scientists
who are digging into the sands OF
Arizona's deserts.
They are said to have disclosed
evidence showing that men had
lived here 10000 years or more
ago, long before the so-called en-
lightened' civilization Of Greece
and other nations.
Professor Emil w. Haury of tbs
University Of Arizona asserted the
Southwest was not always a desert
Once there were abundant rains
and rich crops.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
UNIONS HELP FEDERAL WORKERS

No group of workers in the country has been benefited by organ
Zed labor to a greater extent than government employees
Only those who have remained in touch with the Washington scene
during the past quarter of a century are able to appreciate the amazing
Improvement in working conditions and compensation that has resulted
from legislation the unions have succeeded in getting through Congress.
The latest union victory for a million classified workers is a wage
hike of IA per cent, with a minimum boost of $3.50 a year. The increase
will add 1921 900 600 a year to Uncle SANS payrols.
The increase is less than the unions had urged, but the significant
fact is that Congress has recognized the need of higher wages to offset
1t least partially steadily mounting living costs
While the government has officially taken this attitude, some of its
members continue to clamor for Stacking laws because workers in
private industry have asked for increased wages and have been COM
PEELED to strike when their reasonable requests were denied.
In their bitter hatred of unions, labor-haters are not bothered by
q little matter of consstency-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
CHURCH PAPER DEFENDS
MINE STRIKE

In striking contrast to the biased
hysteria of most of newspapers
when discussing matters involving
labor is an editorial in the Albany
Evangelist" Catholic publication.
Declaring that it takes two to
make a dispute, the "Evange-
list" defends the miners strike
as a protest against injustices for
which mine owners are responsible,
and adds: y
The strike has proved the sole
effective weapon of the worker
against r%ecalcitrant i~ndustrialists,
who refuse to give human rights
their proper place in industry.
"The cure for strikes is not anti
labor legislation, but effective
curbs against capitalistic greed,
plus about cooperation with the
workers efforts for social justice.
Before we talk about shipping
John L. Lewis to Russia, let's trans
port a few millionairesr from the
mine owners, the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers and the Unit
ed Chamber of Commerce % a spot
in Europe where people are com
PEELED to live on a diet Of 1900
calories a day"
The Evangelist" makes the
point that those who advocate
shackles for labor are pursuing a
method lifted bodily from Hitler's
bOOk.-LabOr.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
BABIES!

The Stork continues to do a flou-
rishing business. Last year more
than 100000 bundles from
heaven were deposited in Ameri.
can homes, according to the Jour
naP' of the American Medical AS
ISOLATION. Between 1888 and 1914,
1t said, the country's birth rate
jumped 80 per cent.
The explanation given for the
increase is a sharp rise in the mar
riage rate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
FOR REAL FREE
ERPRI

Propaganda spread by Big Bust
ness that government should keep
hands off" private industry to safe
guard free enterprise" was chal-
lenged the other day by Marion H.
Hedges, research director of the
Electrical Workers.
In a blunt speech to a meeting
of the Society for Advancement of
Management in Washington, Hedg-
eS warned that complete elimina-
ton of controls would give a green
light" to monopolies and cartels,
and lead to ''un-free enterprise"
ITO secure genuine free enter
prise for all in a democracy, you
must have controls" he insisted.
This may be a paradox, but life
is full of paradoXes."
Controls that the government
should exercise, he said, r those
which protect consumer; advance
full employment, and encourage a
steadily rising standard of living
for the masses"
Trusts and carteds, on the other
hand, seek to restrict production
for the sake of higher profits, and
they must be curbed. Hedges main
tanned, if the democratic goal of
full employment" is to be attained.
Incidentally, Hedges has just
been named by the Twentieth Cen
fury Fund to a committee of labor,
industry, agriculture and govern
ment representatives which will
make a study of the effect of inter-
national cartelS.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
BY KENESAW VI. lambs II.

l think it is a noteworthy fact
that John L. Lewis is the most
Republican Of all our labor leaders,
and the most rugged Of individual
lists.
Similarly the railroad brother
hoods are the most conservatives
minded of all our unions, and the
least likely to be suspected by the
House committee on un-American
activities.
In my town a railroad engineer
is a simbOl of responsibility, a
member of the Elks, a family man
who puts money in the plate when
1t is passed at church.
If our country is threatened to-
day, it is not by the left but by
the right.
The chaos we are witnessing is
free enterprise gone mad-the ir-
responsible use of economic power
by labor as we'll as capital.
Conservative businessmen say
No government interference with
business" Conservative labor lead
ers say: mo government interfer-
ence with labor"
Devil Take the HindemOSt
The principle is the same. Anc
we must not forget the conserva.
tive farm leaders who say: INC
government interference with far
merS."
All of these groups insist on The
right of getting what they car
while the getting is good. Coulc
anything be more American thar
this?
Or more isolationist?
To hell with the OPA, and tn,
devil take the hindmost. Initiation
a take care of itself. So can tn,
world food famine.
During the war we got togethe
to lick a common enemy. We sub
mitted to government controls an,
built up an industrial and militar,
potential that amazed the worlo
1t is idle to blame labor or cap
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
Peril of Independent
SOVcreignticS

In the interest of fair play, we
have done our best to equalizc the
economic power of all three groups
SO that each could take care OF
itself.
Yet this is no more a guarantee
of industrial peace than the bal
ance Of power among the Big Three
is a guarantee to world peace.
Equality is not enough. Equality
is possible only under some form
Of law, which means principles
mutually agreed upon looking to-
ward some common goal.
The question is whether the
world can long live while indepen-
dent sovereignities battle it out for
power, or whether machinery can
be set up to settle disputes peace
fully.
We can't jump all the way to
world government, nor can we ask
u W government to control our
economic life at every point.
But we must reduce the areas
Of anarchy, wherever the appeal to
force threatens to disrupt our lives.
Otherwise we shall have no gov
eminent at all. The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05

Laws are cobWebs, which may
catch small flies but let Wasps and
hornets break through. - Dean
Swift.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
HISTORY LESSON

MY wife always gets historical
when l stay out late at night"
Historical, you mean"
mo, historical. She digs up all
my past
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05

L abomlnate war as un-Christian.
hold it to be the greatest of HUI
man crimes,-Lord Brougham.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05

A married couple e r peace
fully sleeping in the upstairs bed
room. Suddenly the wife shouted
in her sleep: Good Lord! Here
comes my husband" The husband
woke up and jumped out of the
window!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05

THE MANS reputation is sink
ing" says Columnist Sylvia F. Por-
ter in the New York Post. Did the
printer doublecross you, Sylvia, or
do you always drop your it's?"-
John Paine for Federated Press.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
THE MARCH OF B

LABOR UNIONS -. WERE
ORGANIZED OUT OF THE
NIECE OF THE SITUA-
TON. A SINGLE EMPLOYEE
WAS HELPLESS IN DEALING
With AN EMPLOYER HE
WAS DEPENDENT ORDINARILY
ON HIS DAILY WAGE FOR THE
MAINTENANCE OF HIMSELF
AND HE WAS NEVERTHELESS
UNASLE 70 LEAVE THE EMPLOY
AND To RESIST ARBITRARY
ANO UNFAIR
UNION WAS ESSENTALToG GIVE
LA6oRERS OPPoRTUNITYTo
ZEAL on EQUALITY WITH
THEIR
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
Some Odds and Ends

Because of a law more than 100
years old, American Indians who
are veterans Of the recent war still
cannot legally buy SO much as a
glass of beer, and the Veterans of
Foreign Wars is fighting to get for
them the privilege enjoyed by other
Americans. The VFW took action
when a group Of Indians, veterans
Of the European and Pacific cam
paigns, appealed to the organiza-
ton to ask Congress to repeal the
old law banning sale of alcoholic
beverages to Indians.
Z
Wedding Ring; A gadged thct
stops circulation.
<
Two SWeethearts walking down
the street: she trips, he murmers
Careful, Sweet; now wed they
tread that selfsame street: she trips,
he groWls, Pick up your feet"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-05
We Must Reduce The Areus Of Anarchy

ital or farmer, or to punish any Of
them.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-23

COLUMBUS, Ga. - (SNS-The
celebrated primary case will be ap-
pealed to the United States SUI
preme Court, It was learned late
Saturday night from the office OF
DR.. T. H. Brewer, Columbus, Geor-
gia physician and leader in the
Primus E. King suit against Demo-
cratic Executive Committee officials
of Muscogee County.
The case was appealed to the
Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals at
New Orleans following a ruling by
Federal District Judge T. Hoyt Da-
Wis. In which he ruled that Negroes
could not be denied their consti-
tutional on account Of race and
color, and that the Democratic
White Primary in Georgia was an
nstrumentality of the state, despite
the arguments by counsel that the
Georgia primary was unlike that OF
of Texas and New Orleans.
The Court Of Appeals sustained
the Macon decision as a conse-
ouence, lawyers for the Muscogee
officials promptly announced that
appeal would be taken. Press ac-
counts last week discloser the pres
ence of House Speaker Roy v. Har-
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-23

Robert Durr, of Birmingham,
Ala, editor of THE Birmingham
Weekly Review" will be the prin-
cipal speaker at Jackson College
vesper service on March "a, at 4
o. m. His subject is Wake Up, It's
A New Age" Mr. DUR is a Bahai,
the second Bahai speaker for Jack
son College recently, following the
Mrs. Joy Hill Earle. The Bahai
Faith so world religion whose pur-
pose is to promote peace and unity
among nations, races, classes and
religions and give impetus to the
spiritual awakening of humanity.
Mr.. Durr has been called by Mr..
Jones of Piney Woods School Its
most distinguished product In ad
dition to being editor of "The Bir-
mingham Weekly Review Mr..
Durr is chief editorial writer fol
six affiliated Alabama newspapers
writes a syndicated column called
1.-The Deep South Speaks" for the
National Negro Newspaper Pub
fishers Association and is on the
staff of contributing editors OF
Service Magazine" published by
Tuskegee Inst. Mr. DUR is chair
man of the Negro Advisory Board
of the Birmingham Communll
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-23
Robert Durr, Birmingham Editor, To
Speak At Jackson College Sunday

Chest which raises nearly hall
million dollars for its 38 agencies
For many years Mr. Durr has
been member of the Executive
Cooperation. Mr. Durr is vice
chairman of the Birmingham
Bahai Assembly and o member OF
the Bahai Regional Teaching Com
mittee.
The Bahai Faith Advocates uni
versal education, universal aux
iliary language, the equality of OPP
portunity for both sexes the es-
adjustment of world govern
ment with police force anda spir
itual solution of the economic prob
lem.
Some basel teachings of the Bahai
Faith are that science and religion
agree that the foundations of all
religions is one, that religion must
promote harmony and unity, that
mankind is one family, that pre-
iudice and superstition must be
forgotten and the independent in
vestigation of truth.
The public is invited to hear MI
Durr at the Vesper Hour at Jack
son College. He will also speak at
chapel Monday at Tougaloo Col
lege and Lanier High School.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-23
Political Leader
Sues Beauticians

CINCINNATI, Ohio {SNS) -
Mrs. Nina Craig. well-known
political leader. sues the Poro
School of Beauty Art for $1,000
damage, it is alleged. resulting from
a treatment of hair-bleaching.
The suit was filed against Mrs.
Margaret Peak, chairman of the
Board of Directors and Mrs. En-
nestine Mahan, director Of the
Poro School.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-23

CENTERVILLEs Miss--tSpeciaD
- Two boys. IA and Is years old
were sentenced to death In the
electric chair here last week for
the alleged murder Of Harry Nc
Key, a white farmer and small
sawmill operator, receiving the
death sentence were James Lewis,
age IA, and Charles Trudell, age
Is.
According to reports the two
boys were arrested in Natchez
Miss, after Mckay was shot IN
the back, had been found dead at
his farm home near here.
According to reports of the trials
of the two boys which were held
separately no motive for the muir
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-03-23
WSB Commentator
Says Opinion For
Full Vote Prevails

ATLANTA, GA.,-(SNS)--
Radio Station WSB's Wednesday
evening commentator, journal edi-
torial writer Edwin Camp. indicat-
ed the growing sentiment for full
Negro participation in Georgia De-
mocratic primary and reluctance
to "maneuver" and deny the ball
lot further
Speaking at the els broadcast
hour of News and Views" Mr.
Camp read letter, written by
member of the Muscogee County
Democratic Executive COMMITTEES.
which lost the suit instituted by
Rev. Primus E. King for his civil
primary rights in Middle District
Georgia U. Court at Macon and
the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
at New Orleans.
The letter written by Committee
man McGhee to Governor Arnall.
said the writer attempted in vain
to convince the Muscogee Commit
tee to accept voluntarily the man
date for the Negroes vote, but that
he had been outvoted and that 1t
was his opinion the Negro would
become a better citizen and better
relations could be established we're
he permitted to participate fully
in all elections. The McCihee letter
warned further that it would be
better to accept the fact of the
Negroes inevitable voting than to
be forced TO do it.
Editorials in the Columbus Led
ger, calling Mr.. McGhee's view
sensible. and the Savannah Morn
ming News, calling compliance with
federal court rulings the "honest"
thing to do, as we'll as the Albany
Herald, the Macon and the Jack
son News, calling to attention that
Negroes are people as we are"
and have inseparable interests in
the community were quoted by Mr..
Camp. Fear that the Negro would
vote in a block Of revenge was dl-
spelled in the quoted editorials and
by Mr.. CaElp's conclusions.
The speaker pointed out that a
catastrophe did not strike in Ar
kansas, Florida, Alabama, Athens.
valdosta and other Georgia cities
when Negroes were permitted to
vote in primaries following the
Supreme and lower federal court
rulings.