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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-06-25
PISMA IL STAREGA kRAJA
Primorko zlozi|o pesem v zoporu

)eSem V ZoPOTu
sti je bilo prelite krvi, 'dosti ma
sih ljudi >je konealo. Danes pa
Iahko recemo, da vsaj to imamo,
la lahko svoj jerk govorimo.
"Ko ssno bill pod Italijo, smo
Sc morali skrivaj uciti ali govo-
riti slovensko. Danes, hvalabo.
gu smo vsaj v tenn svobodni. cr'
ia meje sedaj sega, Povir, ia je
pod zaveznisko upravo, Lokev
Grocana, Vrhpolo. Istra je poo
Jugoslovansko upravo. Pola isto
samo luka v Poll je pod zavezni
sko upravo. Gorica isto je "a
vezniska.
"Ko smo bill odpe1jani v "a
por, Sc nisem jokala. Hotela sem
biti hrabra. Vedela sem, da ne
bonn zaman v zaporu. Zlozils
sem takrat pesmico, XII Sc ime
nuie: "V druzbi primorskih de
klet!"
Dekleta primorske v zapornico
gredo,
zvizgajo in POLO, srce je "a
lostnO.
Ocka in mama "a mimi jokajo.
PriSel je oktober dvajset in tri,
nasih deklet cd nikoder Sc nj.
Dekleta pisale SO pisemce "a
lostno:
Ocka in mamca, Nemeijo
gremo!
Ocka in mam'ca sla sta oba,
prinesla sta hcerki kruha in
mesa.
Zbogom, preljuba hci,
sal ne bo "a vecne dni!
Srecno, ma svidenje, preljuba
hcerka I'll!
Hcerka IL vlaka tako odgovori:
Ocka in Mam'ca, ne bodite "a
lostni,
ker zane prostosti nj.
Dokler ia Nemec zivi,
moramo trpeti "a svobodo vsi.
Prisel bo dan, ko liz Nemcije mi
bono prihajali Cd vseh strani.
Takrat re svoboda DO in
Nemca mixer ne DO,
ziveli bono vsi svobodno!
Zdravo mi ocka in Mam'ca,
preljubi bratec in sestrica!
Trpljenje minulo je, dobro mas
caka Sc. Bog mas zivi zdaj,
SlOVence VSe!
Ko smo Sc pripeljali ma gor
Sko postajo, smo ravno to lapel
Vsi ljudje so mocno upili, d
maj Sc zapojemo. Mi smo Sc p
bali, da mas ne bi Nemci pc
streljali. Dragi stric, Sc niser
% let stara, toda mojega zivlje
MIA je ze zadosti. Uzila sem We
liko vec slabega kot dobregs
Mama pravi, da ste bill vi, strie
vedno zaveden Slovenec in da S
Sc Yam dopadle narodne pesm
Zato Yam napisem Sc emo.
Bledi mesec men posilja zarke
srebrne,
svetle zvezde men svetijo mole
upanje.
Misli mi hite cree gore in plan,
kjer pod milim nebom spaVa
Partizan.
Cas- ze tretje leto mine, kar
slovo je vel.
Morda zadnjic on poljubil, ma
mico objel.
Ko je Sci v goro, v boj "a
svobodo,
hrabro Sc boril je on S zuljevo
roko.
Nj pomislil, da cveti mu MIA
dostni maj,
zelja po svobodi ga je gnala "
gaj.
In tam so ga tovarisi cakali,
pogumno orozjem so ma ia
Siste Sli.
Bill dnevi so trpljenja, strasne-
ga gorja,
| kri junaskih nash bratov, je
mocila tia.
Ne pustimo Sc, da mas unicijo
Svabe.
Ven jih spodimo in belogardo,
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1946-06-25

lepa, zelo dobro ohranjena pi-
salna mia typewriter desk).
Cena primerna. Zglasite Sc ma
17643 Lakeport Rd., ma koncu
Brazil Rd.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
FRUITS OF CAPITALISM

When we read what capitalist writers in newspapers and maya
zines have to say about the unreasonable" demands of labor unions
and "unpatriotc" actions of union leaders we get the impression that
those writer's believe that those things which they view as evils are
the work of vicious individuals.
We are afraid that many workers are getting to think that way too
And that concerns us, because it simply isn't true that labor leaders
are able to hamstring the nation because they are strong and willing
to do it because they are INSCRIPTIONS.
What is true is that unions, and all they stand for and do, are the
result of the private profit system. 1n this respect they are like priv
ilegeserving trusts and corporations which dictate to the people and
deal to conspre against the public welfare by means of cartel arrange
ments with foreign labor eXpoters.
If we like the capitalist private profit system we have to accept
all the results of that system. And a growing disregard for the gen
cal welfare by those who have the power to get what they want is
one of those results.
Being Socialists, we don't like capitalism. We have preached and
voted against it and, therefore, have a right to complain about the
results of that unholy system.
We don't like everything that every union leader does. But we
know why those union leaders ire here and why they are what they
are,
They are what the system has made them. It is useless and child
ish to hope that a dog-eat-dog economy can be permitted to run it's
course to its ultimate collapse and then pass from the scene in a man.
nr that is decent, dgnifed and social.
Those people who complain about vicious labor leaders are the
same pope who opposed Socialism and insisted upon holding fast to
the profit racket. Now they're getting the results of their own action
and they don like threading Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10

whether business is to be good or
bad.
A significant statement in the
report is that the people generally
will save considerably less this
year than they did in 1945, be-
cause higher prices compel them to
spend nor for living expenses.
Two definite conclusions may be
drawn from the report-that the
fabulous" earnings of workers
of which SO much was heard during
the war years-Were largely a fig
ment of the imagination of propa-
gandists; and that the only hope
of keeping production going at full
blast-and thus avert another
frightfull depression-is by putting
mor money in the weekly pay en-
velope.-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
.ook Under the Skin of Union-Buiters
And You Will Find Someone who Is Hostile to the
OF Workers to Bargain ColIectiyely.n Saws Daniels

|E"V 1OV VIII TIM DOTHOOTN VIM 10 I1U5ITTO IU CC TTE1I
Of Workers to Bargain Collectively" Says Daniels
1t is good to know that in the Deep South" IN "od mrecon-
structed Jeffersonian Democrat like Josephus Daniels is still handling
the editorial page of the Raleigh NCD News and Observer" a daily
newspaper of generous circulation.
We forget when Daniels wa born-but that's not material. How
ever, the record shows that he marched with Bryan" in the days
when the Great Commoner" thrilled Americans; served IS Woodrow
Wilson's secretary of the Navy during the first World War and as
Franklin Roosevelts Ambassador to Mexico in later years.
lost touch with the plain folks.
Just last week, in his leading editorial in the News and OBJ
server, he had this to say
eff you look under the skin of those who, while protesting to love
labor, are most blatant in denouncing all unions and union leaders,
you will find they n hostile to the right of workers to organize and
bargain collectively. .a.
"They re good to labor they help labor with a God Almighty
complex, while doing all in their power against labor organization, no
matter by which organization.
THAT is at the bottom of the denunciaticns of President Truman
controlled by labor.
"Those who fight against the right of labor to organize and bar
gain collectively arc engaged in a losing battle. It has come in all en-
lightened industries and it is coming in all Observation-Disclosures or
unenlghtened.
"The sooner management recognizes this truth and accepts it and
joins with labor in just collective bargaining, the better it will be for
ell concerned"
Daniels wound up by quoting from two great Protestant organiza-
stand for the right Of employees and employers alike to organize for
collective bargaining and social action; and then the Southern Baptist
Convention: eve recognize the right of labor to organize and TO en-
gage in collective bargaining to the end that labor may have a fair and
living wage, such IS will provide, not only for the necessities of life,
but for recreation, pleasure and culture"
Like uterances have been made by Catholic prelates and other
Christian minister's" Daniels concludes-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
UTILITY LOBBYISTS WIN

By tradition the Senate is less
hostile to public power projects
than the House. But the upper
chamber did little, in considering
the Department of Interior apprO-
priation bill, to improve a measure
which the House had virtually
ruined at the plea of private utility
lobbyists.
1t took a roll-call vote, narrow
ly winning, for the Senate to grant
the Southwest Power Project ST.
500, 900 to construct transmission
lines linking dams in Oklahoma,
Arkansas and Texas. Another mar
row vote was required to get 81
500, 900 for Central Valley Project
lines from Shasta Dam in Califor-
MIA. The Senate restored many
funds eliminated by the House
from the Interior Departments
budget, but it showed no deep en-
thusiasm for public power.
The whole power battle, which
George w. Norris temporarily won
with the IVA in the middle '30's,
must be fought again in the years
to come. It must be fought for a
Missouri Valley Authority, a Co.
lumbia Valley Authority, for the
Rural Identification Administra-
ton. The lobbyists are riding high
while congressman spout about
free enterprise" But the issue is
not free enterprise" 1t is ~electri-
city, irrigation, fertilizers, flood
control for the people-and the use
of our great natural assets for their
benefit.-The Chicago Sun.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
WAR SAVINGS"
LIMITED TO HALF
OUR PEOPLE

One of the "backlogs" on which
some of our economists are basing
predictions of continued prosper
ity are the saving accumulated
during the war, but that may be a
frail prop on which to rest the ma
TONS economy.
The report discloses that the bulk
of wartime savings of individuals
r concentrated in a relatively
small part of the population.
Ten per cent of our spending
units" are declared to own so per
cent of our savings. A quarter of
the spending units" own no bonds
or bank deposits at all, an another
quarter w only 3 per cent.
In other words, according to the
report, one-half of the American
people are dependent upon current
earnings-they have no "backlog''
and it is the purchasing power
of these people that will determin
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
PEOPLE I'VE MET
BY JANE FRADEL

During my two years overseas
in the Army Nurse Corps I had
occasion to meet many interesting
people. Of course most of these
people l met after hostilities
ceased.
| was a regular reader of the
Manchester Guardian" while in
England, and had met many active
workers in the Labour Party. They
did extensive and intensive cam
paining prior to the election. Prac-
tically every village and hamlet
was visited by a Labour candidate.
Now that the Labour government
is in power we should not judge
them to hastily or harshly for they
do have a monstrous job on their
hands.
While in Plymouth, Lady Aston
introduced me to the present
Mayor and Mayores, Labourites.
During my three day stay in Ply
mouth Lady Aston showed me vari-
u projects, and the Settlement
House she and her husband built
in 1925. It's true, according to many
people l met in Plymouth, that
she is noted for her charitable acts
of kindness but people in Plymouth
as anywhere else in the World do
not want charity but general i'm
provement of their conditions and
welfare. The victory of the Labour
Party proves the fact that people
are eager for a better world for
themselves.
The Slovene Colony in London
was composed of some very inter
estIng characters. l had occasion
to, meet those who were active in
the National Liberation movement
of Jugoslavia and those of the
Royal Jugoslav government. Also
IN this colony were those who haC
less significant positions and livec
IN humble flats in London but who
diligently wished for the Partisan
movement in J~ugoslavia. Two
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10

chaps were kept busy broadcasting
daily current events and true pro-
gress of the wal to the Jugoslavs
from B. B. G..
The British Red Cross establish
ed the "Jugoslav House" 1t was a
quiet place to eat, to have tea and
entertainment with Jugoslav Ma
tionals and Jugoslav Americans.
The last four months prior to
going home l had been stationed
in a general hospital in Paris. The
Columbia Red Cross Club in that
city sponsored a weekly forum
The overlooking attendance was
noteworthy. The American soldiers.
WacS, Waves and nurses came and
they did not hesitate in asking
questions. The audiences were very
alert. Ten or fifteen people at 6
time raised their hands to ask G
question. One week we had Miss
Frances Perkins, former Secretay
of Labor who was attending a con
VentlOn at that time. Most cues
tons that were fired at her were
about the strike situation at that
time. Then at one of the meetings
Paul Scott MoWrer, editor of the
Paris Post spoke. His subject was
France and the French people. II
was very informative. He mention
ed all political parties that are in
existence in France and explained
generally how the French govern
ment and its legislative bodies
function.
Another amusing incident while
was overseas: The Catholic chap
lain in u hospital who was from
Colorado asked me upon learning
that l was a Slovene if l was a
Slovene that went to church or one
That did not go to church. He very
faithfully made rounds throughout
the hospital and as soon as he met
a Slovene in some ward he would
immediately inform me. It wa4 he
that told me about the four Tito
Partisans who were hospitalized in
the ward next to my ward.
That is all, folks!
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
Odds and Ends

Business is going to hell in a
handcart, manufacturers insist, on
account of high wages. But we
notice they had Congress remove
tie excess profits tax, just in case
they're being too pessimistic. =
John Paine, Federated Press.
Atom bombs will destroy Bos-
ton, only world government will
prevent such bombings, Americans
won't go for world government
until their large costal cities have
been destroyed, so -. Babson's Re
port, Inc, is offering a monthly
atomic Service" to help people
invest in companies in cities that
won't be bombed.
x = x
1t has been explained that the
British desperately need that loan
because they are running low on
dollars. Any American ought to be
able to understand that state of af-
fairs.-Howard Brubaker in The
New Yorker.
x X X
It's strange how the people with
less sense than you have seem to
get along much better.
X * x
One way Americans could make
much more bread available for the
starving people would be to eat
only buttered bread. = From The
Nashville Tennessean.
X * X
The Army Times reports that a
druggist, being suddenly called
away from the store for a few mi
nutes, left a small boy in charge.
Upon his return, he asked if any
customers had been in while he
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
Battle in Our State Department

Not since Thomas Jefferson was its chief-that was back in George
Washington's adminStration-has our State Department been O seri-
ously divided within itself.
Half a dozen factions are struggling for control Career diplo-
mats, who ruled the root" in the old days, complain they have been
pushed aside by "high-poWered statesmen" headed by William L. Clay
ton, greatest cotton specu1ator of all time, and William Denton, who,
before the war, piled up a million o two IS an advertising expert.
Then comes the "subversve eIement"-running all the way from
violent Reds" to mild "pinks."
Congress is concerned about this latter group and last week gave
Secretary of State Byrnes extraordinary power to clean them out He
may fire" anyone he see fit without consulting the Civil Service
Commission. With bated breath, Washington is awaiting the house
cleaning.
But whatever happens to the Reds" and their fellow Travellers"
the two big groups will continue their struggle for control The Pres
ident and Mr.. Byrnes appear to be on the side of the high pressure
salesman but the career diplomats" who possess money and social
prestige, r digging in"
1t will be a lovely fight, will probably seriously interfere with the
development of a sane foreign policy and will certainly cost the tax
payers a lot of money-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
PRETTY BAD

The housing situation must be
pretty bad when Roger w, Babson,
soothsayer for Big Business, feels
inclined to protest. In his latest
review of business" Babson des-
cribed today's market for houses
both old and neW-''as crazy as
was the stock market in 1929"
He complains that prices r be
yond all reason, and suggests as a
remedy that those who have con-
.emplated buying homes put it off
until the greed-fever of realtors
subsidies.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
Refugees Are Trimming
The Home Folks

New York is full of refugees who came here fleeing from Hitler
and other tyrants. Some are good people-but some are certainly not
1t is the rats among them, too, who mostly stay here. They have
no desire to go home and help build up their PROSTATE home lands
They have found the USA. to be a land of suckers and they want to
keep on trimming them.
Posing as "transents" these people rode the stock market up
from its early wartime lows to it's nea 15-year highs at this time
Then they evaded capital gains taxes on the plea that they we're tran
sients" who are not subject to that tax.
But the transit of these transents is far in the future, if ever. They
have found a e racket. With their illgotten gains, they buy up apart
ment houses. AS new owners they al move in and eject old tenants
under OPA regulations. But that's just a starter. The real racket is to
reorganZe the apartment as a cooperative" and sell every apartment
to its tenant at a high figure. The tenant has to buy or get out.
One refugee Greek is said to have mopped up from $3.50 900 to
100000 on several deals of this kind.
Meanwhile the American people must dig up money, pay higher
prices and save food to help the countrymen of these grafters abroad
Nor is that all for which vi food is being used-UnHed Mine Work
erS Journal.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10

was away. Just one" said the boy.
What did he want?" the druggist
asked. "Something to stop him
from sneezing, so l gave him a
bottle of Pluto Water" THAT won't
stop him from sneezing," said the
druggist. ooh, yes it will" said the
boy, pointing out the window.
Look at him out there. He's afraid
to-"
* \ X
The Army Times also reports
that Harold l.. Ickes, in comment
ing on attempts of the National
Association of Manufacturers to
ged rid of price controls, said that
there is no such thing as a little
inflation," just as there is no such
thing as a little pregnancy"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10

Here is the basis of predictions
that the butter scarcity will con-
tinue for a long time in the future:
Normally, at this time of year,
there are 40 million pounds in
storage, while now are only IL mil
lion pounds in reserve, and that
is mostly owned by Uncle Sam. To
make matters worse, production
is running about 25 per cent under
a year ago.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
Reaching for Uncle Sans Billions

Economists of the Department of Commerce took a look at then
crystal ball this week and came up with a prediction that within five
years this cotntrys foreign investments may be IS much as 80 billion
dollars, a gain of 20 billions over the preWar figure.
But that is not all If we ever hope to collect interest n this stag
gerlng sum-not to menion return of the money-we must open our
ports to foreign imports wider than ever before, economists said.
The way they figure it, we must be satisfied to ship abroad very
much less than we buy back. What that would do to American workers
is easy to imagine.
After the last war, we shipped billions to foreign lands. 1t was like
pouring money down a knothoIe.
The borrowers reneged on both interest and principal Uncle Sam
charged of about IL billions, and private investors kissed goodbye
a chance-Labor
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
TIE WINNAH!

The fight at the Yankee Stadium in New York was an affair to
promote the financial we'll being of the champ, Mr.. Louis; the chal-
lenger, Mr.. Conn, and a gentleman by the name of Jacobs who knows
how to arrange such events. Fans numbering 1886 paid 1,925,564
to see the spectacle. l. these three men could split such a sum among
themselves, each would be well advanced toward the millionaire class
In Jeffries-Co"bet days there wasn't any outsider counting him
self in IN the gate. Even in the Dempsey-Tunney era the participants
and the promoter received most of what was taken in. Now it is diff
ferent On the receipts of nearly 2 million dollars, the treasury makes
q number of claims. There was first the tidy little sum of $685. 900
which had to be paid as a federal admissions tax.
Louis was entitled to receive $577669 plus a cut in the radio and
but we can't be far off if we take $780, 900 as the aggregate. On this
tax authorities says that Joe is paying Marva, his divorced wife, some
stitutes income for the recipient. AS we don have access to Joes fnan-
tax and 100000 as his net income after the tax, and go no further.
For the beating that Joe gave Conn when he could catch up with
him, the boy from Pittsburgh received $288, 1874 plus a share of what
the radio and teleVision people paid. That makes exactly $500, 900 for
cur purposes. The treasury won't llet a mar have that much income
unless he kicks back $235,OO0 to the treasury.
Mike Jacobs, the producer of the show, according TO the reports
got is much out of it a. the champ did, from which operahonal ex-
penseS had to be paid. Let's say that he had, a net before taxes, as
much ac Billy had, or 100000. On this he, too, would pay $685. 600,
leaving him $65OOO.
Adding together the admission tax, $685., 900; Joe's income tax,
@5OOOOO; BlLyS income tax, $2350O0, and Mikes net income tax,
S235,OOO, we find that the federal government realized 1855 600 on
the out The participants, Joe, Billy, and Mike, had a total of $3.50 600
for themselves.
1t was a great evening for the treasury-Chicago Tribune.
You never have to retract something you never said.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-07-10
IN THE WIND
From THE NATION

THESE TROUBLED TIMES:
"Have you ever watched h~elplessly
while a cork in a bottle of fine
MoSelle '27 crumbled suddenly in
the neck of the bottle? Have you
ever taken pieces of cork out of
your teeth after drinking red wine,
or even white? Then you too will
be interested to know that for the
first time a scientific study has
been made of the problem of re-
moving the cork from the bottle
with a minimum of effort and a
maximum of efficiency. The May,
1916, issue of Modern Packaging
Magazine carries a complete ana
lysis of this problem" (From a
Modern Packaging press release.)
IN CUBA the Sugar Workers
Federation has complained to the
island Labor Ministry that sugar
missed a 10 per cent wage increase
by their bosses as soon as $4,000
sacks of sugar had been harvested.
After the work was we'll under
way, the federation claims, it was
announced that the harvest for
that area would be limited to ex-
actly $4,000 sacks.
THE WOMEN. OF WESTMIN-
STER and the Married Women's
Association held a joint conference
in London, went on record as de-
claring: 1--WE loathe housework,"
and demanded monetary recogni-
ton" of their household labors.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: An
anonymous higs-school principal in
a Letter to H. L. Jackson's column
in the Detroit News: Teaching
what is known as citizenship to
high-school pupils these days is
largely a matter of teaching them
not to act like adults"
AMERICA, I LOVE YOU! The
University of Rochester this June
gave honorary degrees to Lise
Neither, nuclar physicist, and
Branch Hickey, president of the
Brooklyn Dodgers.
THE GREENVILLE, SOUTH
CAROLINA, NEWS included this
item in a roundup of a weeks ac-
tivities in court: Judge Martin i'm
posed a sentence of twenty-five
years to Sylvester Pendergrass,
Negro man, who pleded guilty to
assault with intent to ravish, with
recommendation to the mercy of
the court -. Roscoe BagWell,
white man, indicted on a charge of
assault with the intent to ravish,
pleaded guilty to assault and bat
terry of a high and aggravated IA
r e He was sentenced to serve
three years, suspended during
good behavior, and placed on pro-
baton for three years.