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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
FEED GERMANS? ASK NORWAY!

President Truman has asked us to reduce u diets in order to
provide food for impoverished foreign populations. No one will refuse
that humane request, as long as the food does not go to u former
enemies II to pseudo neutrals like Spain who helped our enemies.
In short, we should tighten u own belts, if necessary, to help our
allies: But w e should not be asked to sacrifice our food to make the
Germans n Japs fat and arrogant again.
1t is well to remember the charity of Norway after the last war.
in sympathy for German children, she took thousands of them into
Norwegian homes and raised them with Norwegian children.
When they were strong and healthy again they went back to
Germany. But did they feel any gratitude for the kindness they had
received? The answer to that is written in Norwegian blood.
The hungry German children returned to Norway when the next
war broke out. They went in the uniforms Of storm troopers, killing,
raping, deporting and torturing the people who had befriended them.
They laughed at the "softness' of the kindly Norwegians. They
used as military information the knowledge they had gained of Nor
wegian geography while the Norwegians fed and cared for them.
Human history records no fouler betrayal than the invasion of
Norway by her adopted children.
Germany evaded the penalty of the first World War by the benevol-
ence of her neighbours: Now she is insolently squawking for somebody
TO feed her again.
Let us, by all means, feed the victims of Germany-our brave little
allies who, IS prisoners Of the master race" suffered more in a month
than the population of the United States suffered in the entire course
Of the conflict.
Germany adopted as a matter Of military policy the starving of
all conquered countries. She did SO in order to wipe out the next genera
ton of soldiers that might block the next German avalanche of ag-
gression.
She Systematically starved French, Belgian, Dutch, Polish, Nor
wegian and Russian children in the sadstic theory that dead babies
don't grow up into enemy soldiers.
Now Germany says she is hungry. Well, let her scratch for her food
AS long IS she is doing that she is not scratching out the eyes of her
neighbors.
If we feed her now, We'll fight her later. Ask Norway!-The Inter-
national Teamster.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
AGAIN TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE"

There's a war on. Hunger is the cruel and ruthless aggreSsor. And
once more, so far as America is concernedt it is a case of too little and
too late" Surely the experts knew months age-a great many non
experts dd-that the world must be fed and that we must make up
any deficiency Yet with a light hearted and light-headed responsibility
that becomes more appalling With every day that passes and with every
under-nourished child that dies in Europe or Asia, controls were lifted
and Americans were told in effect that they could eat, and waste, as
much as they pleased. At last President Truman has called a conference
of civic leaders, and we are informed that IN aggressive" campaign
will be waged to persuade Americans to use substitutes and eliminate
waste. Ordinary Americans are more than willing, but one wonders
whether the spectators and the hOarders are MarquBe Childs points out
that a thousand wheat elevators in the Northwest arr full to bursting,
while Secretary of Agriculture Anderson has announced that commit
ments Of wheat for Europe were short 100000 tons in February and
will be even shorter in March. Factors in the situation are the poor
coordination of boxcar facilities and the grain lobbys desire for higher
profits and an end of price control. We hope Secretary Anderson is right
in his stubborn insistence that a voluntary program will suffice. But
the public should be prepared to accept rauonig again when and if it
appears necessary. The question is whether the necessity will be
recognized by President Truman and his adviserS-The Nation.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
The Interests of Labor and Farmers

The current re-emergence of "Vglante" organizations of farmers
bent Oh opposing labors struggle for a fairer wage is a depressing revival
of a n old employer strategem to divide the producers of America-the
workers and the farmers.
for a moment that the farmers have critical problems and urgent needs.
Nor can any sincere student doubt that in most cases, the farmers form
ing "vigilante" groups are motivated by a earnest desire to find a
militant outlet for their grievances and a medium for gaining the pubics
ear.
Unhappily, however, these vigilante organizations almost always
become the darings of the reacHonary press and the tools of the more
INSCRIPTIONS segment of management In the hands of these forces, farm
vigilante groups III transformed into out-and- out anti-abor agencies
arrayed against the farmers best interests and best customers-the
workers of the city.
Newspapers egging the farmers on had no room for the sound com-
sci of Murray D. Lincoln, president of the Coop League of the USA.
and leader of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, when he correctly
emphasized the basic issues in the economic struggle in America today.
Said Mr. Lincoln:
Here at home we find industry and labor poised in battle to deter
mine whether we shall indeed tap the rich potential abundance that is
America.
The Issue is not shall w or shall we not increase wages? The issue
is plainly, have W. the courage to abandon u old timid concepts of
THE farmer today has as vital an interest in the outcome of the
himself, because the only safeguard against the serious collapse of farm
prices in the next few years is ever-higher purchasing power in the
hands of customers.
In my opinion, the farmers No. 1 objective should be full produc-
ton, full employment, and high wage levels. Particularly, we have a
real stake in the fight for a minimum hourly wage of IS cents"
Here, 1t seems to u.s., is farm craftsmanship of the highest character,
for here is recognition of the fundamental fact that only in an economy
ot abundance is there any real hope for labor and agriculture-and the
rest of the country-and that the struggle to Danish scarcity economics
Any attempt to divide these two great producing groups in America
in pursuing this conmo goal is % much gravy for the small but power
III Clique IN America whose fortunes and power rest on the mainte-
nance of monopoly and scarcity-The Progressive.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
Oh, SUGAR!

In another six months the Philippine Islands will become indepen-
dent, and on their own. But the United States is not going to give them
up-and the Philippines are not going to give us up. The population of
the Philippines, at the time of taking the 1910 census, was 16,350OOO
and the land of the Islands was 114,830 square miles.
Reciprocal free trade relations have existed between the United
States and the Philippines since 1909. Under the new relationship
covering the forthcoming independence of the Philippines free trade
will continue for ten years. The most important shipments of the Islands
to u own country has been sugar. The Philippines r. insisting that
It's sugar should be shipped without any tariff to the United States
indefinitely.
But the United States is being accused of letting Cuba down by failure
20 provide the market for all of its sugar.
All restrictions on the shipments of sugar from Hawaii were re-
moved by an order by President Roosevelt in 1912. So Hawaii figures in
our three-covnered sugar puzzle.
veloped in the United States 30 as to take care of our oWn demands. All,
there is the rub! A half dozen of u own Southern States have grown
as fine a quality of sugarcane and sugarbeets a S has ever been produced
in any part of the World-Federation News, Chicago.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
"Here's q Chance TO Nuke q Profit"

Roger w. Babson is "a pillar Of the church" and a very pious gentle
man, but something is wrong with his moral standards.
Now, when this nation is trying to build lOW-cost houses for millions
of homeless veterans and other citizens, Babsons widely published
financial advice column is telling people how to make unearned profits
at the expense of those who have nj roofs over their heads.
In a column entitled The Real Estate Outlook" Babson said that
"te boom gathers momentum" and gave detailed advice on how to
buy land which will yield quick and easy profits when resold IS sites
for new houses, retail stores and other buildings.
"Mr. Wyatt will do everything possible to stimulate new home
building BabsOn said, SO there is bound to be a building boom"
Smart people will cash in On it by buying the needed land and holding
it until they are bought off at q fat profit.
Babson also advised that now IS a good time ito sell obsolete
houses" In others words, to take advantage of people who re SO
desperate that they will pay twice what an old and diapidated house is
worth.
lobby which is fighting the Trunnan-Wyatt home building program, but
he is more frank about il. The lobby talks about free enterprise" He
simply says, Here's a chance to make profit"
Until those moral standards are changed, it will be extremely diff
cult to solve the housing problem. Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
LACK OF MATERIALS
STYMIES HOUSING

Lack Of equipment and materials
is blamed by the US. Chamber of
Commerce as being primarily re-
sponsible for the critical housing
shortage. The national organization
has just completed a survey of
more than LOO cities. Local
Chambers of Commerce who sur
veyed the situation proposed a
four-point plan to step up the sup
ply of building materials:
l. Compel the O.P.A. to make
price adjustments.
2. Speed up the release of Army
barracks, prisoner-of-War camps
and similar structures for CONVEX
sion to civilian use or to be torn
down for lumber.
3. Release lumber, plumbing,
heating and other equipment now
in Army hands.
4. Stop lumber exports.
UNIV Journal.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
DON'T LET THEM Get AWAY WITH !
WITH 1T!

Radio commentators, newspaper columnsts and editorial writers,
the National Association of Manufacturers land all the others who are
opposed to workers organizations r industriously trying to turn the
general public against unions by blaming the shortage of consumer
goods on the current crop of strikes. By continuously repeating this
charge, day after day and over and over again, they have convinced the
eosiy-fooled element of the American public, including certain of their
representatives in Washington, that the only way they're ever going to
get needed products back on the market is by putting the unions out of
business.
We suggest to our readers that the next time they hear a radio
commentator giving out with that line, 0 see it in their newspaper,
own. Write the radio commentator OF the newspaper and ask them to
explain the shortage of all the products of the many industries not
affected by past or present strikes. Send them a list of the things you've
tried to buy lately but couldn't, just because, as one large shirt manu-
facturer said recently: I'VE won't ship a damned shirt until w e get a
price increase" ~
If enough union members do that, the antiunion boys O the radio
and their pals in the newspaper business will oon pull in their ears
The Brewery Worker.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
FOOLINC The PUBLIC

The American public, made up chiefly of workers, farmers and
other low-income folks, has a vital stake in decent wages, strong unions
and price controls to keep down living costs and prevent initiation.
But a huge big-business campaign is now under way to fool the
public into favoring union-busting legislation and lower wages, with
unrestricted profiteering and no lid on prices.
These poisonous ideas are being presented in ssugar-coated form
through a mnlion-doIar newspaper advertising campaign of the Natl.
Assn. of Manufacturers
At the same time, the publication In Fact has exposed the systematic
corruption of many weekly papers through a steel company advertising
were required to print prepared anti-labor editorials and alleged news
items"
While sef-respectng publications refuse to sell their news and
editorial columns in this brazen fashion, big advertisers mquesionably
influence them in more subtle ways And because they are bgbusineSs
institutions themselves, most of the major papers print big-business
propaganda of their accord.
While they know they can't fool all of the people all of the time,
these propagandists hope to fool many of them into opposing their own
interests; and to fool others into believing that what they read in most
of the press reflects public opinion THE CLIO News.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
Sound Morals, Also Good Business

eff there is to be peace and freedom in the world" Congressman
Charles M La Toilette (Rep, Ind) said, our country must say to the
white nations:
III is tme for you to release your hold on the yellow and brown
and black peoples-to stop depressing their standards of living and
retardng their development. That position is not only sound morally,
u also from n standpoint of jobs, production and profits.
You cannot sell radios, bathtubs, automobiles and other products
to- yellow, brown and black people who receive such a small share of
the wealth which they produce that they a barely maintain them
selves.
These people occupy almost three-ourths of the surface of the
earth and offer the greatest potential market for industrial goods in the
world today-if we furnish the leadership which will strike off their
colonial letters and relieve them from the economic injustices to which
they have been forced to submit for 400 years"-Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
IN THE WIND.
From THE NATION

A west coast correspondent re-
ports considerable confusion among
the commissioned personnel at
some of the smaller California
naval bases. The rest rooms come
in threes-one labeled Men, one
labeled Women, and one labeled
Officers.
Things we never know till now:
The New York Stock Exchange ran
an advertisement in the Sunday
Times a few weeks back which re-
vealed: Both your neighborhood
voting place and the New York
Stock Exchange provide common
meeting grounds for all shades of
opinion. -. Second only to pre-
serving the purity of the ballot is
the need for preserving the inte-
gritty of the market place. Truly,
the voice of the people speaks more
clearly and forcefully through this
Exchange and the other organized
markets of the country than
through any other single means OF
expression, save the polling place"
LIE jazz politique: The London
correspondent of the Record
Changer, an American hot-iazz
monthly, says, "It would appear
that every jazz fan in Europe was
a member of the underground.
movement"
A committee of leading Nor
Wegians headed by the chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court is COL
Letting funds to erect a memorial
to Franklin D. Roosevelt in Oslo.
World-girdling airliners had just
succeeded in convincing us that the
world must be round after all,
when along came Transcontinental
and Western Air, trading as T.W.A.,
to throw the issue into doubt again.
With the acquisition of European
routes, T.W.A. has started billing
itself as Trans-World Airways-a
clear implication that, so far as
T.W.A. is concerned, its planes are
travelling across the world and to
hell with this newfangled nonsense
about going around it.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
SUGAR

The price of sugar is going up
siX-tenths of a cenS i pound. AL
most all of the increase will go to
refining companies in the United
States and Cuba.
The main reason Tor the raise
was to make it possible for Uncle
Sans Commodities Credit Corpo-
ration to pay one-half cent a pound
more to Cuban sugar companies.
most of which are owned by big
American banks and other Wall
Street interests.
They have been demanding a
large boost in the price of Cuban
sugar, and Commodities Credit
granted part of what they asked
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
BREAD PRICE BOOSTED
BUT CANNOT EAT CAKE

NEW YORK, March 6. - The
O.P.A. has started an investigation
of New York bakers who have
raised the price of bread 2 cents
a loaf.
That increase on the staff of
life" is a heavy burden on the poor.
There is no use advising them to
"eat cake" however, because the
bakers have boosted its price 5
cents. That also is being investi-
gated.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

Well, what do you care that cap.
italism is sinking? It doesn't belong
to you, does it? What do you care
if price levels rise and values are
destroyed? You're getting more
wages - or are planning to get
them, aren't you? What do you care
ii private owners strike against the
government to open the way for
more business as usual? You
voted for that way of life, didn't
you?
Well, you may care when you
are herded in line later on.
Maybe you still think that fas-
cism came to Italy because a man
named Benito Mussolini wanted it
to. Perhaps you still think that
Germany never would have gone
Nazi if Adolph Hitler had been
killed in the first World War. Most
likely you don't think about what
has happened, is happening and
what is shaping up to happen in
the world. Why should you; it isn't
YOUR world.
Well, you're wrong. Mussolini
and Hitler aren't to blame. The
reason dictatorship finally came to
those countries in Europe was be-
cause the people there thought and
acted pretty much as the people OF
America think and act today.
They were planless. They had
gone along too long being
AGAINST many little things but
not FOR one big thing. Their
economy was shattered. The strug,
gle between the classes had reach.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

a cooperative commonwealth.
based upon working class unity and
heading toward abundance and har-
mony.
But the same people who could
MT save the old ship just wouldn't
build the new one. And that's how
people are acting today.
Well, human freedom can't be
preserved anywhere in the world
merely by fighting for it. Freedom
must be used to make life better
and safer. Otherwise it dies ano
is buried without mourners.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
Ship And About Us All In General
BY Raymond Hofses, Editor, Reading Labor Advocate

Our man would have liked to
climb into the very first lifeboat
that was launched. But he stayed
in line because he knew that he'd
be shot if he left the place to which
he had been assigned.
Later ne learned about controls
in a lifeboat, with space rationed
water rationed, behavior con-
trolled. 1t was all very uncom-
Portable and completely at variance
with the spirit of individualism If
which he had fashioned his life up
to that time.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
Just a Typographical Error

At the breakfast table the
amateur poet eagerly opened the
morning paper, ran his finger down
the Contributors Column" and,
finding what he sought, began to
read. Suddenly he gasped, dropped
the paper, and in an agonizing
voice cried, ooh, heaven what have
/ done to deserve this?"
whats wrong, dear?' asked his
startled wife.
"Wrong?" he muttered. 81 wrote
a poem about our Willie, and l
said, My son! MY pigmy counter
part"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
MEAT "CYP"

According to the wall Street
Journal" the black market in meat
is getting darker every day" The
Journal insists that in Chicago
the O.P.A. admits from 80 to 40
per, cent of the beef is retailed at
o~verceiling prices and that the stu
alton is even worse in New York,
where the illegal sales total about
80 per cent.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

If he begins his letter, my at
tention has been called to -" he
wants you to think he is a big shot
surrounded by a corps of under
ling attention-callers-to - Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

Eyes, yes, go on!' urged his anxi-
Gus mate.
The poet drew a long breath,
picked up the paper, and, squaring
his shoulders, forced himself to
read:
MY son! My pig, my counter
part!"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

There is a story about a voyager
of uncertain nationality which
seems to apply to the general run
of people right now. In the middle
of the night, so the story goes, the
subject of this yarn was awakened
by heavy pounding upon his state
room door and a voice crying,
wake up, the ship is sinking"
Whereupon he rolled over and
settled down for another nap muir
muring, We'll, let it sink; it doesn't
belong to me-"
You may laugh at and feel quite
superior to the fellow who reacted
so stupidity to grave danger. But
if you are an average American ii
is probable that you are no less
aware that calamity may be no
farther away than the next tick OF
the clock.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

ed a point where workers were di-
vided among themselves into many
groups.
And SO it wa that a captain ap-
peared to herd them into line and
assign to each his place. The ship
sank and they lived in the lifeboats
for a while.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

When the Socialists of the world
sounded the alarm, even before
World War I, they cared enough to
urge a course of action. They didn't
stop when they said "the ship is
sinking" They also said, Lets
build another ship"
The old ship was the class
economy based upon private profit
and bearing toward industrial and
commercial rivalries and war.
The new ship was to have been
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20
GOING DOWN

How old are you, my little
MANI"
81 don't know sir. Mother was
&c when was born, but now she's
only "a"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-03-20

Millions of Americans are like
that and have been for a long time.
Back in the days Immediately
following World War l, there were
those who sounded the warning of
what happened to the world during
World War II. Socialists of that day
told whoever would listen that, by
getting back to capitalist NOR
malcy," the people of that genera
ton were directing the world
straight toward social inequalities
and international rivalries that
would again plunge the world into
war.
And people by the millions
workers for the most part-said,
by their actions and by their in
action: What do we care about the
world; it doesn't belong to u.s."
The man on the sinking ship soon
found out that here was more tt
it than Ter ownership of the ship
Within a few minutes he was lined
up on deck with his scared and
shivering fellow passengers. There
he learned that conditions car
change suddenly and radically. The
captain, who only a'feW hours age
was a genial host, now was a die.
tator with a gun in his hand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
Miss Ann Elizabeth McBrYde,
William Lord Lennon Married

prayer book centered with sweet
heart roses and s~tephanotis.
Attending the bridegroom as best
man was his brother. Junius Pres
ton Lennon. The candles we're light
ed by his brother, Ernest Duvan
Lennon, and a brother of the bride.
Castor McBryde of Laurinbusg.
The mother of the bride Wos
dressed in black with corsage OF
red roses. Misses Emmie and
Theresa Patterson, maternal aunts
of the bridegroom, had corsages at
their shoulders.
Immediately after the ceremony
the brides parents entertained at
an informal reception and cake-cut-
ting Mrs. Alex M. Patterson Of
Alexandria, Va, sister of the bride
sliced the cake. Others assisting in
receiving and serving were Mr..
and Mrs. w. F. French, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. D. Stewart, Mr.. and Mrs
Fred W. Lennon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Mcleod, Mr.. and Mrs. B.
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