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Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Wronu Methods Get Wrong Results

Since the end of worldly war IL wages nav been increased IN almost
ell industries. Nevertheless, if workers who are getting more dollars
on PAYDAY want to hold fast to their postwar living standards they
will have to make new demands at once and, if necessary, strike again
to win more money. The reason we say this is because price increases
have more than offset thu additional money that worker
won by labor struggles.
once more, the same workers will have to strike again . and again
and again forever more.
If the same workers who came all out for Roosevelt and Truman
less than two years ago want to get public officials who will represent
them and serve their interests they will have to guess again and
again and again forever more And the reason w e say this is be-
cause workers arc finding that their political victory" is a hollow
one-whh the same people who were lauded as friends" of labor
permitting the owning class to grab back what labor has won and
threatening uniOniStS with ant-labOr laws that dlctatOrS might be
expected to prOmulgHe.
Somebody is herdng the working people of America along the
wrong road -
And it's not the Socialists
What has been happening to the American people fits exactly with
the warnings and predictions of Socialist speakers and writers.
Socialists were the first to point out that mere dollar wages mean
nothng-that it's what wages will buy that determines their real value.
Socialists have grown tred-and, we suspect, tresome-repeating
the lesson that what workers need is a economic system that will
react to their advantage, not politicians who profess to be "friendly"
but who are determined to preserve the profittaking privilege of an
owning class.
We'd like to vary our story-if only for the sake of making it
more interesting. But facts are stubborn things, and the fact is that
what workers are getting today is what they must expect to continue
getting SO long as the present economy exists.
Any worker who still believes that the number of dollars he gets
is of real importance simply hasn't learned the lesson that present
trends teach.
Any worker who believes that a capitalist minded politician can
be depended upon to emancipate him from the evils of the private.
profit system is due for continued establishment.
What this nation and the world needs-and the only thing that will
make freedom, justice and security possible-is a socialzed economy
under which wealth will be produced by use and distributed among
those who produce it.
1t may be that most people would rather be fooled, thwarted and
though they like what they have been getting. Reading Labor Ad.
Vocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
This May stort Another

The May issue of the official In
fantry Journal confirms some
facts which men who served in the
army have long known.
1t says medals were issued to the
Army Air Force utterly out of
proportion to it's accomplishments
and sacrifices.
OF the total 1,4OO, 900 decora-
tons for gallantry and meritorious
services, 1000, 900 went to mem
bers of the air forces.
In the European theater, the
infantry took IS per cent of all
combat casualties, but received on
ly y per cent Of the decorations.
The air forces, with 9 per cent of
the casualties, received 80 per cent
OF the decorations"
The Journal" adds that gen
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Joseph Snoy's Deoth
a Severe Blow

Joseph Snoy of Bridgeport, Ohio
died on Friday, June 7 at the age
of So. His passing is a severe blow
to our activities in that section as
ne was a tireless leader and worker
in behalf of our cause for many
years.
He was secretary of Branch No.
II j. S. F. for nearly 20 years. At
the time of his death he was also
secretary of Lodge Is SNIP, re
cording secretary of the local
SNIP Federation, an officer of the
Boydsville Hall, president of the
local Cooperative, and secretary
treasurer of the District JSF Con-
ference.
He is survived by his wife, three
sons and a daughter, and by a host
of friends who will revere his
memory and carry on the work he
believed in.
j. S. F. and Proletarec were of
ficially represented at the funeral
by John Tercelj of Strabane, Pa.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Tired Of Givig Free Space

After "gypping" country week
lies for years, the National Associa-
ton of Manufacturers has been
compelled to stand and deliver''
oy editors of the Weeklies who
grew weary Of boosting the cause
Of the N. A. M. without pay.
I'm Fact" the little paper pub
.ished by George Seldes, tells the
tory in its latest issue.
For a long time, says Seldes,
quoting claims made by the N. A.
W., thousands of the weeklies gave
LIBERAL free space to cartoons, ar
ticles, canned editorials" and 9th
ar material sent out by the IA M
propaganda agency, the so-called
industrial Press Service" This
propaganda boosted the glories of
tree enterprise" assailed price
controls or smeared organized la
Dor.
However, when it came to spend
ing money for advertising-such
IS on the recent campaign against
he OPA-the NAM. concentrated
on big city dailies. The country
weeklies reared up over this Ga
voritism" and, through their asso-
Citations, demanded a share of the
advertising appropriations.
That got results. The American
Press Association, an advertising
agency for the country weeklies.
jubilantly reported that the NAM
added 1850 more weeklies to q
previous meager list of $50 which
received four full-page "ads."
Of course, that was little more
than a ''bribe" to the country pa
pers SO they would continue using
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

about the next person when there
are so many of them. In a small
town it is easy to get acquainted,
but not SO in a large city.
Some of the people do belong to
clubs or lodges of some kind; others
get out and burn the candle at the
other end; but multitudes haven't
anything except maybe their
church; and multitudes of apart
ment jewellers have not even that.
l have stood in the railroad sta
lions in Chicago and watched the
streaming thousands Chamber, half
running, over the staircase to the
gates of the suburban trains. Each
one for himself. There was so much
lie, yet it was as if the station
were empty, for no friendship
flowed amongst the hurrying hun
dreds that swept by every minute.
was just as lonely as in the middle
OF a forest, and 1 suppose many in
he crowd were, tho they're so
lsed to it they seldom think of it
that way.
If you find a lonely man outside
your door, invite him in. The CO.
operative way of doing business is
a friendly way of life that car
warm even the heart of a cold city.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
URBAN LONELINESS
BY TAISTO HAYRINEN

Many city folks join co-ops be-
cause they are lonesome" declared
a friend in the middle of a lecture
on political economics, rudely wax
ing me from a nice daydream. He
is working on a graduate degree
at a large university, and when
he handles words about, they carry
weight. What about this business
of getting lonesome, then? It was
obvious that he meant that folks
would escape loneliness by joining
a coop, and participating in mem
Der activities, both business and
cultural. There was no question
from that angle. But-do people
actually get lonesome in a teeming
city, with life and houses all around
them? That sounds strange.
My humble research and observa-
ton is almost inclined to agree
with him. Particularly in a larger
city, n man or one family is but
a drop in the bucket. That tiny unit
of life feels quite insignificant first
OF all, and it is usually caught in
a Week-in, week-out pattern of
lie hat grinds forward like a
heavy cartwheel. A long ride to
work in the morning and evening.
a hurried breakfast, a busy day at
work. duties at homo IN vUaeLorlc
leave little time to get out and get
acquainted. And people in a large
city each go their own way, since
it is impossible to know anything
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Advertisers Censor Radio Broudcustinq
liza Tossed Off Air by Sponsor When He Voices View
Objectionable to Big Business

When Congress approved legislation regulating radio broadcastng,
it wrote in a stipulation that the air belongs to the people, then and
forever. 1t likewise decreed against any form of censorship.
plenty of evidence. Some time ago the Federal Communications Com
mission, in a report that received all too little attention, declared that
the big networks obtain the bulk of their revenues from a comparatively
few advertisers.
Advertising agencies, some of whose ethics are pretty low grade,
to put it mildly, are in position to dictate what listeners shall hear, and
that they do not hesitate to exercise their power was made clear when
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, former mayor of New York, offended the sponsor
of his Sunday night broadcasts and was unceremoniously tossed off
the air.
LaGuarda went on the air for Liberty" magazine with the distinct
understanding he could pick his own subjects and say what he pleased.
There was to be no attempt at censorship.
However, when he said things that displeased Big Business execu-
tves, they protested to Liberty" and its publishers, crnging before
the lash of this disavor, surrendered without firing a shot for freedom
of the air.
LaGuarda flaty charges that the advertisers pressure cost him
his job.
Mr.. Hunter Nhe publisher of "LbertyD, La Guardia said, told
him hard. He didn't know what to do. He stated he was frantic and
couldn't afford to lose the advertising"
The incident is of the utmost Importance to the American people.
For years the question of whether advertisers influence what goes into
newspapers has been the subject of sharp controversy.
Publishers have Vehementy denied that, in selling space, they
reLnquish control over their columns. They protest they are independent
men, free to serve their readers without fear Or favor.
But the LaGuardia incident clearly shows that advertisers not
only attempt to prevent the airing of views to which they object, but
are successful 1t will take more than publishers protests to convince
the public that the same thing has not happened with newspapers.
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Gamblers Seek to Influence Election

Careful observers have suspected for some time that sinister
groups controlling race track gambling re getting too big for their
clothes. This belief is supported by charges that a New York gambling
ling spent large sums of money to influence the results of a primary
election in New Jersey.
The 'sush fund, it is said, was spent in efforts to elect candidates
who would consent to the opening of race tracks in communities from
which they are now banned.
Betting o horses is the most pernicous and demoraIzng form
of gambling. Its sinister nature is not changed by the fact that many
states arr low deriving a large part of their revenues from money lost
at race tracks.
When gambling and politics are tied together, the result is bound
TO be bad. In legaizing race track betting a Frankenstein has been
created that may eventually devour representative government Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
"Chickens Come Home TO Roost"

When Congress passed the law to lynch" James Caesar Petrillo,
president of the Musicians Union, we suggested that our lawmakers
were making a mistake. The wealthy broadcasters, who need a lot of
regulating themselves, thought the aW would hamTring the Musicians
Union. Up to date, it hasn't worked that way. In fac, James Caesar
Petrino seems to be signing new agreements containing favorable
clauses.
But as We predicted at the time, other employers, who don't like
to pay decent wages, ae demanding that Congress do for them what
1t did TO tn brOadcasters. Former Senator Ed" Burke of Nebraska,
who VocHerously represents the low-wage coal operators in the Deep
South, asks that Congress lynch" John L. Lewis. MI. Burke does not
like unions of any kind. That's why he was employed by the Southern
operators and that is why he is now an ex-senator.
OF course, we don't imagine Congress will pay any attention to
Senator Burkes plea, but someone in authority should suggest
o the bellgerent Burke that the way to settle a strike is to work out
ern coal operators? Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
WHY PEACE WITH
SCARCITY?

Why is it that, after having
proved its ability to provide mate
rails for the largest and most
Wasteful war in all history with
millions of workers withdrawn
from production, the economy of
these United States now gives the
nation scarcity instead of album
dance?
We are not trying to puzzle you
when we ask the above question.
The answer is known; it has been
told by spokesman for the big cor
pOratiOns which own and control
the, nations economy.
The reason is that the profit
motive cannot be served by pro-
ducing abundance.
During the war profit, as such,
was not the handspring of human
activity. There was a Job to be
done and all else was subordinated
to the winning of the war. That is
why everything that was needed
then was forthcoming.
We could have the same degree
of abundance today if we wanted
to-and If we willing to make
everything else secondary to the
satisfaction of human needs and
desires.
But human need again has be-
come a secondary consideration.
We have gone back to the profit
system with a vengeance. We are
permitting the owners of industry
to sabotage the nation in peace in
a manner that would not have been
tolerated in war.
We know that nobody likes to go
without shirts and underwear,
butter and meat and homes. But
the Of industry say that
we can't have those things unless
those owners a make a profit by
letting us have them.
That's why \var brought album
dance and peace brings scarcity.
We would like every worker to
understand that what is happening
now is the natural consequence of
the private-profit system. 1t is what
happens - what MUST happen -
when we tolerate a system of pro-
ductiOn for private profit. During
the war we produced primarily for
use The armies had to be supplied.
Today we produce for the ad-
vantage of owners. The people need
not be supplied except at the terms
dictated by a consideration of
profit.
How long will the people of the
nation be foolish enough to tolerate
a profit economy? Must they go
through another depression"
while modern machinery and eff
cient workers stand idle, to learn
that the same machines, labor and
skill that produced for war can
produce for welfare?
Or will the people who used
their labor power in wartime now
use their voting power to inauguar-
ate a system under which the
wealth of the world will belong to
the people who inhabit the world
and abundance will be produced to
supply human beings with plenty,
security and leisure? Reading
Labor Advocate.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
EFFICIENT

Most disabled workers are just
as efficient as the able bodied and
in some cases more so. That's what
he Department of Labor's Bureau
If Labor Statistics has found after
l survey of $50 plants, employing
100000 workers, of which SO, 900
were handicapped. The Bureau
learned, too, that on the average
disabled employees are more careful
and have fewer accidents.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Some Odds and Ends

Alexander Hamilton, with all his
faults, was an exceedingly wise
man, not easily fooled. One of his
political observations, based on a
fundamental truth, was: Men are
governed by opinion; this opinion
is as much influenced by appear
ances as by realities. If government
appears to be confident of its own
powers, it is the surest way to in
spire the same confidence in 9TH
ers."
A fact as true today as when
he eXpounded it over $50 years
ago.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Would Shock the Burburiuns

If the ancient barbarans could come back to life, they would be
shocked at some things they would find in American newspapers.
They would learn that this "civiized' country is perfecting some
new weapons more deadly than the atomic bomb" Among those are:
Germ warfare" - methods of spreading "viruIent strains of
human disease Sc as to wipe out whole populations of men, women
and children before they know we have attacked them.
"Atomic poison gas" - destroying all human, animal and vegetable
life over wide areas by means of deadly rays.
plant diseases and poisons" - so potent they can kill a nations
crops and thus starve its people.
New poEons' so concentrated that a little in a citys water
supply would end the lives of all the inhabitants.
Any country which starts the e disease and poison warfare will
Labor.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

The original Certificate of Affili-
alton of the United Mine Workers
of America, issued by the AFL in
1890, recognized the so-called "in-
dustrial' form of organization, by
granting jurisdiction over "all per-
sons employed in and about coal
mines" The original Certificate of
Affiliation issued to the Brewery
Workers Union in 1887-four years
earlier and in the first months of
the AFL's operation-set the prec-
edent by acknowledging our juris-
diction over all persons employed
in the brewing industry.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
We Spend SIS, 900, 900
On PROPAGANDA

According to the Budget Bureau,
the Federal government will ex-
pend SIS, 200, 900 this year for
educational, international, promo
tional and publicity activities" All
this, we are told, is to enable this
government to tell its story to the
world. A.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Jacob MUhu Dies
We Lose a Friend

Chicago, Ill. - On Saturday,
June Is the tragic news of the sud
den death of Jacob Muha shocked
our community.
Our first thoughts turned to
Mary, his wife and constant com
panion. Together they had taught
our chorus "SaVa" for almost
fifteen years, up to the time that
war conditions caused the chorus
to be suspended. That it is now IN
the process of reorganization made
the sudden loss even more tragic.
A large group of Sava's mem
bers gathered at the Center on Sa-
turday evening and again on Tues
day, after which they went to the
Zefran chapel to express their SYM
pathy to the bereaved family, and
to sing a song of farewell.
Jack Muha was born near Vrh-
nika in J~ugoslavia and studied
music in Ljubljana. He would have
been So years old in July. Surviv-
ing him besides his wife are two
sons, Ralph and Jack, daughter
Lucille, and three grandchildren.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

erals favored each other in confer
ring honors, regardless of merit"
In some cases, air men who mere
ly flew parachute troops to the
scene of battle received medals
wholesale, while, the troops who
dropped to earth and did the fight
ing awarded no honors.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

Corporations netted SO, 100, OOO,-
ooO profits in 1945, and saved up
$25, 1000, 900 900 profits in the war
years 1941 through 1945, the De-
partment of Commerce reported.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

Neatest wartime racket was that
If the shipowners who had ships
built for them by the Government,
sold them or chartered them back
at five times their value, and then
got themselves jobs working for
The Government at fancy salaries.
And it all comes under the heading
of Free Enterprise"
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26
Ell Members Benefits
In AS Total ~S23,562,7o3

Washington, D. c. - Benefits
paid by AFL unions to their mem
bers in 1945 aggregated more than
$23, 500 900, according to reports
submitted to Secretary = Treasurer
George Meany. The %tabulation fol-
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

For a few incredible hours it
looked as though the Wood-Rankin
unAmerican Committee might ac-
tually investigate Ku Klux Khan
activities. But Representative Ran
kin quickly brought the Commit
tee to it's senses.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

N. A. M. propaganda disguised as
"news"-but apparently many of
the small Weeklies are willing to
prostitute themselves to Big Bust
ness, particularly if they get paid
Tor it.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1946-06-26

An optimist is a man who thinks
his wife has stopped smoking Gig
~arettes when he starts finding cigar
butts around the place.
Evening star., 1946-04-14

total of 33,547 casualties, of whom
SSH were killed. The strength of
an infantry division, it should be
recalled, is 14,C37 men. Those fig
ures tell the story of the Sd Division
in Europe more eloquently than
praise of any commander.
Next in order were the 45th Di-
vision, with 27,207 casualties; the
36th Division, with 26,7l8; the 9Th
Division, with 22,184; the 4th with
81 ,2O2 and the lst with 20,893 Only
one infantry division, the 98th, saw
no action.
Among the airborne troops, the
82d Division led with 1871 casual
ties, followed closely by the 10lst
with 1888 losses. The 82d Airborne
Division, one of the outstanding of
all Army divisions in Europe,
marched in the recent Army Day
parade in Washington. The
strength of an airborne division is
1858 men.
The Sd Armored Division, with
$500 casualties, led all the armored
outfits. Next was the 1st Armored
Division with 9.438 casualties. An
armored division has an authorized
strength of 10,752 men.
Despite commonly heard COM
plants that too little opportunity is
afforded the enlisted man to rise
from the ranks. the report showed
that by the wars end approximately
1913 5000 men had been singled out
from ground forces inductees for
that process of training which ended
in officership.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Pupils 10 Gel 7 Hours Off
As Corning Sees Teachers

The Districts $1,000 public school
children will get two hours OF this
week because DR.. Hobart M. Corn
ing, superintendent Of schools, wants
to hold general meeting" with
their teachers.
DR.. Corning will meet with colored
teachers at 2:30 pm. tomorrow at
Armstrong High School. All schools
for colored pupils will be closed at
l pm. tomorrow.
He will confer with white teachers
at 2:30 pm. Tuesday at Mckinley
High School. Glasses for white chill
dren will close at pm.
Some of Dr. Corning's predecessors
used to hold general conferences
with teachers. and he is reviving the
custom, he said. The superintendent
indicated at a recent Board of Edu-
cation meeting that he will ask
teachers to channel their complaints
properly through their principals
and superintendents rather than
appealing directly to the board.
Evening star., 1946-04-14
Streptomycin Sales
.Probed in New York
BY the Ax.ocioted Press

NEW YORK, April 13.-District
Attorney Frank j. Hogan's offlce
said today an investigation was
being made of possible illegal sales
here of streptomycin, new drug
which is under Government con-
troll.
Mr.. Hogan's Office said the in
quiry, being made by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Manuel L. Robbins,
was to determine if there was ary
basis for legal action.
The investigation resulted from
request by DR.. Edward j. Carlin
Mayor of Railway, N. j., who quoted
a New York physician as saying
he was asked exorbitant prices fol-
quantities of the drug after being
unable to obtain 1t through regular
channels to treat a 14-year-old girl
The condition or the patient
identified only as S. Gilbert. who
has an infection of heart tissues
was described as fair" today. The
district attorneys ONCE said she
had passed the danger stage and
added there was enough streptomy-
Gin on hand to care for her.
The mayor said the New York
physician, who he did not identity
told him s125 was paid for the
first dose, and that two others were
obtained for 500 each. When he
sought more, Mayor Callin said
the doctor was asked a price which
he thought was much too high.
DR.. Carlin quoted the physician
as saying he had been turned down
by controlling authorities Of strep-
tomycin at Boston before going to
outside sources and after noting
that the patient showed improve
ment under administration Of the
drug had again appealed to the
control agent but was still unable
to obtain any.