PROLET AR E C J C DELAVSKI LIST ZA MISLEČE ČITATELJE PROLETAREC Glasilo Jugoslovanske Socialistične Zveze in Prosvetne Matice OFFICIAL ORGAN OF J. S. F. AND ITS EDUCATIONAL BUREAU ST. — NO. 2208 Catered «* Mtoad-rUu m.u.r, IW k, l«JU7, «4 the po»t oHur «t Clucac* 11!.. iu- dobili k>'r ™ak "«» k«P»iejo ba- d je ter industrialno navdahnje bom° V$e f° nazal " 2 lePa ah 1 9 Kajier je bil tepen in res je dobil Lenin veliko prejšnjega carskega teritorija nazaj, v glavnem Ukrajino, potem s časoma Gruzijo (Georgijo), toda Poljska je postala suverena in vzela si je za nagrado vso avstrijsko Galicijo ter velik del Ukrajine. Baltiške dežele so se pod zaščito zmagovitih zaveznikov oklicale za samostojne. Velik del Sibirije je okupirala po prvi svetovni vojni japonska armada. Drugi del Sibirije se je o klical za samostojno državo, s sedežem v Citi. Romunija je vzela Rusiji Besarabijo in Cehoslovaška Karpatsko Rusijo. Zavezniški polki so motovilili po Rusiji in tudi Zed. države so bile udeležene v tej "kazenski" ekspe-diciji. Ameriške čete so takrat rogovilile največ okrog Arhangeja. Bela armada (ostanki carizma) je bila v civilni vojni onih dni poražena in zavezniške čete so odšle. Toda "sanitarni obroč" je ostal. Ponehal je nekoliko bodne, v ameriškem pomenu be-j šele ko je pokojni Roosevelt leta 1930 priznal Sovjet- (Konec na 3. strani.) j (Konec na 2. strani) imel priznanje le kot intelektualec brez primere, a laboritonv cije. Pravi le. da dokler bo še konservativne šole, kakršna sta urednik, .>.000,000 zaposlenih ljudi. Ko ho odvišek produkcije prevelik, pa bodo odslovljeni na-dalnji milijoni — in kaj potem? To je vprašanje, s katerim se naš zvezni kongres noče ukvarjati. Gnavljcnje s "komunisti" mu jc najlaglje opravilo. Ne ve pa, da ako nekega dne vrže to (Konec na 3. strani.) Dolg zvezne vlade—kako ga bo plačala? Kako bo naša dežela izšla iziza razne ljudske potrebe. Sedaj — ako jim zapadne sile, dolga, ki stalno narašča, name- Ako ima vaša družina i skupino ljudi dolga zvezne via-, to da je zdaj vsakdo izmed nas, npr. de $240.000,000. Ampak vsa od otroka do starčka, samemu dajo pravico samovlade, kakšen sto da bi se po vojni nižal? Se- pet članov — tedaj dolgujete vrednost tega mesta (Reading, > sebi dolžan dva tisoč dolarjev. bo ta četrti rajh? Vsi mali narodi v Evropi so uverjeni, da bo spet prevladal v Evropi, toda sedaj ne več sam temveč s pomočjo kake druge sile — in v sedanji dobi imamo samo še dve — Zed. države ter Sovjetsko zvezo. Cemi odlašanje z mirovno pogodbo? Očividno je, da se zmagoviti zavezniki glede bodočnosti Nemčije nikakor ne morejo zediniti. Angleže skrbi, da če si četni rajh opomore, kadar bo z njim sklenjen mir, jin^ bo tekmoval toliko, da lahko pride v nevarnost ves obstoječi ekonomski sistem njihove dežele. Saj je celo že sedaj na šibkih nogah. Anglija je na račun nemške vojne odikodnine razdrla precej nemških tovaren v svojem predelu Nemčije ter stroje premestila v svoje tovarne. A je s tem morala prenehati, ker srd Nemcev je poetal tolikšen, da mu tudi angleška soldateska ni bila kos. Nemški kapitalist in nemški delavec sta proti razdiranju nemške industrije. Oba vsak vladnih temveč še posebno v bančnih krogih, kjer so vsled teh zadolžitev še posebno v skr- daj ta dolg znaša blizu 250 mi- $10,000; ne verjamete, ampak lijard dolarjev, ali okrog $2,000 tako so izračunali ne samo v na vsako osebo v tej deželi — torej tudi na novorojenčke. V lanskem fiskalnem letu (pričenja 1. julija in konča s 30. junijem) smo imeli nadaljnih pet milijard dolarjev deficita. Trumanov proračun za prihodnje fiskalno leto določa spet pet milijard več potroška kakor dohodkov. Kongres sicer jamra in sc duša za varčnost, toda odščipuje le od tistih postavk v proračunu, na l'a.) pa je cenjena samo $141 milijonov dolarjev. Torej je "bankrotirano" in njim vred vsa ostala dežela. Kako torej da moremo shaja ki so socialnih vrednot. Priza- j mu bo vrednost po vojni zviša-deval si je odrezati tudi (»d proračuna za oboroževanje, a ogla- heh — kajti kaj če pride spet ti, če smo preko mere zadolženi? do finančnega poloma? No, saj so vse vloge v bankah in v drugih postavnih finančnih zavodih zavarovane! Seveda so. a kaj pa, kadar valuta propade? Naš dolar ima samo še polovico nekdanje nakupne vrednosti. Obljubljali so nam, da se Prvič, ker vse dolgujemo samemu sebi. Drugič, ker ima naša ekonomija, kakorkoli je na rahlih nogah, še vseeno za sabo ogromen produkcijski sistem, bodisi v industriji kot v agrikulturi. Vendar pa to dejstvo ne more Nekateri pravijo: Čemu sc gnjaviti s papirnatim denarjem! Saj imamo prirodna bogastva, npr. rude, petrolej, premog — gozdove in kdo ve še koliko drugih naravnih zakladov! Seveda jih imamo! A imeli smo jih tudi v prejšnjih depresijah. Toda lastnik teh bogastev nisi ne ti, ne vlada. In tako je tudi sedaj. Tvoj denar propade, tvoja farma gre. na kant, tvoja hiša ali hišica isto, če ni plačana. a od vseh naših prirodnih bogastev nimaš ti nič in država Nekaj o naših stvareh Letos bo nekaj precej važnih konvencij ameriških jugoslovanskih organizacij. Ena izmed njih bo SANSova. Oklic zanjo jc priobčen na tretji strani v tej številki. To bo četrta konvencija SANSa. Ako bi sodili iz skušenj v prošlosti, bo bržkone zadnja. Imeli smo v naši pri lično dolgi zgodovini im precej »ličnih organizacij, ki so bile ustanovljene v neki določen namen. Mislimo namreč gibanja, kakršno je bilo na eni ali na drugi strani ustanovljeno v danem položaju za ali proti temu ali onemu. Niti ena teh organizacij se ni ohranila. Mnogo ljudi ne ve, da smo imeli v tej deželi Jugoslovani že vse jačje organizacije kot pa so bile tiste, ki so bile osnovane med minulo vojno. Jugoslovansko narodno vječe je imelo v prvi svetovni vojni v Washingtonu zelo velik urad. Načeljeval mu je don Niko Grškovič. Izdajali so tudi svoj časopis v Washingtonu — v srbohrvaščini in v slovenščini. Vrh tega je takrat izhajal v Washingtonu v imenu omenjenega Viječa in Slovenske lige tudi slovenski tednik, ki ga jc urejeval Ivan Možina. Jugoslovansko republKansko združenje, ki jc delovalo za ustanovitev jugoslovanske federativne republike, v kateri naj bi bili tudi Bolgari, jc izdajalo zelo lepo mesečno revijo v angleščini in včasi v slovenščini — "Jugoslav Review." Slovenska liga je bila ustanovljena za borbo proti JRZ. Niti ena teh in razhih drugih organizacij kot že omenjeno se ni ohranila. O SANSu so nekateri rekli, da bo "trajna" ustanova. Zgodovina ne priča, da se bodo te prerokbe uresničile. Je pa res-nira, da nekako TRAJNO organizacijo napredni Slovenci v tej deželi POTREBUJEJO; namreč tako, V kateri se lahko združujemo vsi, neglede h kateri podporni organizaciji kdo spada. Prihod nja SANSova konvencija ima torej pred sabo zelo važno vprašanje. A ob enem naj se sprijazni z resnico, da gredo taka gibanja v zaton čim je dosežen namen, radi katerih so se ustanovila. Se pomnite prvo konvcncijo SANSa? In potem drugo ter tretjo? Učimo sc iz zgodovine, da bo čimmanj napak. sil se je bivši naš vrhovni po velnik general Eisenhower — češ, nikar, poglejte, kako je Ru-1 nakupna moč dolarja *e vedno sija oborožena! padala, četudi je to izmed vseh Znano je, da gre od vsakega VELIKIH držav po svetu edina dolarja, ki ga vlada dobi v obli-j denarna vrednota, ki kaj pomeni ki davkov, nad 70c za stroške | tudi izven naših mej, torej po minulih vojn in za priprave na vsem svetu, novo vojno^ Zllani M)ciali!ll^ni t e d n ik Komaj 30c od vsakega dolar- D .. , . j«, ki ga plačate za davke, pa Rverila prejšnja konvencija. Na tem zborovanju imajo delegati skupaj s člani glavnega odbora SANSa odločati o bodočnosti te edinstvene organizacije naprednih slovenskih Amerikancev. Od nas je odvisno, kako uspešna bo 4. konvencija. Zaradi tega se priporoča, da razgibamo med zavednimi ameriškimi Slovenci in njihovo mladino zanimanje za SANS ter v pravi luči tolmačimo njegov namen in njegovo delo. O tem je treba razpravljati na sejah in v javnosti. Dasi je bit SANS originalno ustanovljen kot politična organizacija, so se njegove funkcije v teku sedmih let neprestane delavnosti polagoma spremenile v politično-kulturn/ ter pomožne aktivnosti in od 1948 naprej je bilo njegovjfldelo skoro izključno relifnega značaja. Delo v zvezi z otroško kliniko v Ljubljani ter z zbiranjem sredstev in odpošiljanje dragocenih redkih zdravil trebno tudi reorganiziranje njegovega ustroja, ki naj bi ustrezal finančnim potrebam za izvrševanje določenega dela. Nepobitno je namreč dejstvo, da zaradi sedanjih razmer SANS ne more biti uspešna močna politična organizacija. Fakt pa je tudi, da se SANS zopet lahko razvije v efektivno organizacijo na podlagi širokega kulturno prosvetnega programa, ki bi privabil med naše vrst,e močnejše število zavednih organizacij ter posameznikov. Zaradi teh vprašanj je SANSova 4. konvencija važnega pomena in nobena zavedna skupina naših ljudi bi ne smela iti indiferentno mimo tega dogodka. V imenu izvrševalnega odbora Slovenskega ameriškega narodnega sveta torej pozivam vse podružnice ter sodelujoče organizacije, društva in ustanove, ki so dobile uradno obvestilo za izvolitev delegatov in zastopnikov, da o tej zadevi razpravljajo na svojih sejah ter se vabilu v naj polnejšem številu odzovejo. Mirko G. Kuhel, gl. tajnik SANSa. KOMENTARJI • (Konec s 1. strani.) rajŠe bi &el iz urada danes kot jutri. Jemes Debevec bo — oziroma je ob enem tudi upravnik "Glasa ADZ". Anton Sabec je torej drugi urednik glasila slo-venske podporne organizacije, ki je resigniral. Prvi je bil Ivan Molek. Sabec je "Glas SDZ" dobro urejeval, je fino "podkovan" v literaturi in nekaj časa je bil prijazen tudi SANSu, namreč v onih dneh, ko so bili tudi katoličani zraven. Radika-lec Anton še nikoli ni bil — torej se je razpor med njim in odborom dogodil pač vsled svoje-glavnosti enega ali drugega. V JUGOSLAVIJI so imeli v nedeljo 26. marca volitve v parlament, ki se jih je baje udeležilo nad devet milijonov izmed deset milijonov volivnih upravičencev. Zmagala je kajpada skoro stoodstotno vladna lista kandidatov, ker druge sploh bilo ni. Nekaj tednov prej so se vršile slične volitve v Sovjetski zvezi in udeležilo se jih nad 99 odstotkov upravičencev. Pri nas pa ter v drugih "zapadnih demokracijah", kjer se tepe s separatnimi listami kandidatov apriIa rrične se io(.nQ ob 3 ?lr"nk' K v0!itev popoldne v veliki dvorani Slov. narodnega doma. v solospevih pa tenorist Tomaž ka partizanskih. Cukale. Spored je torej vreden, da Na kitaro bo igrala članica "Zarji" napolnimo dvorano, kaj- mladinskega oddelka ABZ, An- ti njeni koncerti so publiki še toinette Krapenc. vselej nudili obilo duševnega Zadnja točka programa pa bo užitka. zelo šaljiva igra v treh dejanjih, "Moč uniforme". Po končanem sporedu bo plesna in prosta zabava. Igral bo Frank DetK?vc in njegov orkester. Vstopnina na to priredbo s tako bogatim sporedom je zelo nizka, namreč samo 75c. Društvo bo udeležencem postreglo z najboljšo pijačo, v kuhinji pa bodo na razpolago fina jedila, tako da bo lahko vsakdo zadovoljen. Po končanem sporedu bo plesna in prosta zabava. Udeležencem bo postreženo z okrepčili kot običajno. Vstopnice v predprodaji so po 85c in pri blagajni pa jim bo cena $1. Dobite jih lahko po znižani ceni pri pevkah in pevcih Zarje ter v starem poslopju SND. Torej rezervirajte si nedeljo 16. aprila za poset ZarjinVga činstvo, da se udeleži te naše priredbe. — Joseph Oblak. Odbor Vljudno vabi članstvo! koncerta- Ne bo vam žal! Vec ABZ ter vse drugo slovensko ob- P°drobns to French en- make-up, caught a hawk, tied a gravers, who use equipment furn- stick of dynamite to its leg, lit the ished by ECA, work for one tenth fuse and let the bird fly away. The the American wage, and their bird flew straight for the farmer's bosses can afford to ship the plates barn, demolished it. by air here to idle American free Note of that turn of events might enterprise and the unions endorsing even be taken by those who plan to it. make free enterprise prosperous by • • • Du Pont, GE Make New Profit Marks Under Fair Deal In 1949 E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. made a net profit of $213.6 million. That is $56.2 million more than its 1938 net earnings of $157 4 million. ' Last year General Electric Co. netted a profit of $125 6 million which is $1.8 million more than the $123.8 million it made in 1948 Remember, these record-breaking profits were made in Year One of that awful Fair Deal which, as Du Pont or GE can tell you, is rapidly bankrupting the country. THE 4 PUBLIC SERVICE" which this column is offering is to tell our frustrated fellow citizens that if this nation can neither stop Russia nor make her listen, it can at least escape the evil consequences o f Russia's influence i n Europe and Asia. So don't take off your "ear-phones." As of now, we Americans could neutralise the Russian threat by doing exactly what Socialists have been wanting to do for the past half century—namely, by a o c i a I i s i n g our own economy, managing it democratically and producing abundance for the use of the American people instead of for aale and profit. Borden Sets Record As Milk Stays High Wondering why your milk bill is still so high? This may be the answer: , In 1949 the Borden Co., which is the second biggest dairy and controls one-fifth of the net capital assets of the milk industry, made a net profit of $21 9 million That's an all-time record. It is $2.8 million more than the company's previous high year, 1948, when earnings were $19.1 million. Yet in 1949 net income of farmers was 17 per cent less than in 1948 The comparable figures are $13 8 billion and $16 7 billion. Live only for today and you ruin tomorrow.^—Simmons. Paris Tackles Crime Wave Although they won't talk about it, partly because they think sensational publicity helps the criminal, top officials of the French Surete Nationale are worried over a rising crime wave in Paris. Armed assaults in the course of robberies, for example, jumped from 37 to 65 a month in a recent four-month period. Only a few months in office. 40-year-old Pierre Berteaux is introducing new methods in the famous old organization. Speedy cars have been given the police, and new alarm systems are being installed Special squads of men with knowledge of the underworld are at instant readiness. There's an international angle in the problem. Lately there has been an influx of crooks from abroad. At the same time, France is eager not to have its hospitality marred, for sake of the vital tourist traffic. RFC OK's Loans Of Millions for Hotel Promoters The Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which recently denied a loan of $200.000 for repairs to a coal mine at Minersville, Pa , thus depriving 700 members of the community of a livelihood, continues its open-handed policy toward Tex-as oil and hotel promoters. It has approved a loan of $485,-000 for the construction of a hotel in Texas City, Tex., and $413.000 for a hotel at Berger, Tex. These promoters seem to be pikers, however, because the JjlFC is now considering the application of Glen McCarthy, millionaire oil and hotel man of Houston, for a loan of $70,000,000 of the proper field of private enterprise. Provision of pensions for re tired persons Just happens to be a function which the government can perform far better than can private insurance companies—just as the government can handle some other functions, such as deliveiing the mail, more satisfactorily than private enterprise."—League Reporter. THE LAST WORD By Duffy The central fact about the British elections is that the Labor Party Won. The Conservatives, reduced the Labor majority in the House of Commons. However, Labor still retained more members than all other parties combined. shooting irons and other lethal The air-age and other factors simply have to vote if they want good, liberal, decent legislation in Congress, the state legislature, the county board and the city council. weapons. There's nothing in those have made lhis one world. That gadgets to determine which way hai transformed world labor soli-they will be pointed. darity from a high-flying phrase to an urgent necessity. By the way, • * what are your plans for World La- One reason that there's so much *>or Day, May first, this mid-cen-confusion about the freedoms we tury year? recently fought for and presently i • • • are arming for, is that liberty 1 means different things to differ- ently placed men in a wolf-sheep society As Abraham Lincoln said 86 years ago: "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf de- And the lesson that American Tories should learn is that ttie The press and radio in the United British Conservatives didn't make States, owned chiefly by men who ! their gains with leaders that act, as the sheep was a black one. Plain-get ulcers every time the word think, and vote like Taft, Cape- ly the wolf and the sheep are not "labor" is mentioned, turned hand-I hart, Fulbright. Donnell, Wiley, agreed upon the definition of the i A fire in a mill cabin of a sawmill worker at Sandy, Ore., killed the entire family of eight. It was a one room cabin for the married hands, with only one door, and the stove close to that door. The windows were covered with boards. A trap for death by fire for sure. nounces him for the same act, as Wi*h ""ion P™cr u"* the destroyer of liberty, especially ^p**' Why' °h Why' d° th°y springs over the fact that the Con- George, Hoey, Millikin or Hicken-servative Party reduced the Labor-1 looper. vSucea* Story "What has become of Yonson*" "He went to America and has made a name for himself there." "How?" "He call« himself Johnson now!" ite majority. What they and reactionary politicians in this country think they see is a sort of band wagon effect. They think they see the American people* turning away from the progressive measures of the Fair Deal simply because the British voters didn't elect Labor candidates in the overwhelming proportion they elected them in 1945. • • • They forget that thb Conservatives won on a basis of "me too." The Conservatives said they could do the same thfhg the Labor Party has done, but do it better. They didn't promise to erase a single thing the Laborites have instituted. The Conservatives didn't say they would end national compulsory health insurance. They didn't say they would end welfare services. They didn't say they would end the nationalization of transportation or coal or other nationalized industries. It was "me too" all the way. • • • 1 If there were such a thing as a band wagon crossing the Atlantic between Great Britain and the United States it would have crossed in 1945-46 But after liberals ran away with the British elections in 1945, conservatives ran away with the American elections in 1946. • • • Four million more Britons voted In 1950 than in '45. Of this number, the Labor Party picked up lesa than 1.5 million votes, and the Conservatives more than 2.5 million. . A» "The Washington Post" commented, *\ . , what happened was that the Conservatives got out the vote." And that is the great lesson to be learned by American trade unionists from the British elee- ! liens. Working men and women For. once again, what the Conservative Party promised was as The explanation for many such word liberty"; and precisely the 'things may be this blind assumption same difference prevails today that the world is right and that the among us human creatures." : individual who doesn't like it About the only way to end that should be "adjusted" to the way different from the Taft line as confusion is to end the wolf-sheep the world is. For instance the Chi- whitc is from black. • • • The average weekly earnings of the 11,500,000 production December, according to BLS. workers in industry reached an all-time high of $56.20 in mid-Steel-makio* i«n» jming in dustries expanded production and lengthened the workweek by more than half an hour to 39.8 hours. In the durable good group, the work-week rose almost an hour to 40.1 hours. v Gross hourly earnings rose to $1.48 as steel and auto workers returned to their Jobs and overtime increased. Despite some scareheads in the dailies, there's a growing tendency toward labor unity. UAW-CIO and Machinists announce formal non-raiding pact. Even AFL general council creep toward agreement with CIO. The Federation top brass went on record by designating a new committee to discuss merger and revived a standing committee no AFL-CIO unity for social order we have by all becom- cago News interviews the head psy ing human. There's not much hope doctor of the Cook County Behav-of converting a human wolf, but ious Clinic, that examines the folks once the human sheep cease to be the cops run in. He says from his sheep, there's no more freedom for sampling of the run of the mill that free wolf enterprise. If we must be sheep, and hungry sheep, we ll have to learn to say "Baa-a" lounder. Those starving families at the Avondale labor the majority arrested arc "psychopaths," and has the gall to define the term as "one who doesn't choose to adjust himself to the standards of the community." So, for instance, a mill worker camp near Phoenix. Ariz . got help. assigned with his family to such a Newspapers gathered relief funds fire-trap cabin as that, who ob- for them and the Federal' Surplus jected and raised the necessary hell Commodities office decided to let about U' would not be adjusting them eat some of the surplus. I himself to the deplorable "stand- Relief clients across the nation ards of the community," and would lilve been showing their case work- b<> ca,,ed nuls by lhr to*5 «n<* a ers the reports about potatoes being destroyed and asking why they can't have some of those spuds. No appropriation was available for paying transportation charges on the spuds to where hungry folks could eat them. The new bill authorises the payment of transportation. But it will still take a lot of noise to get a bellyfull. , One doesn't have to go to that merger parleys with a similar CIO'labor camp lo find hungry#people 8bOUt lhe °nlylin the Land of Food Surpluses, thing hat holds up national labor President Mitchell of the National unity is the fear by some big labor ; Farm Labor Union who OUKht to scathes that such unity may cost know as much aboi|t thc subjocl them Jobs or prestige. Cost of Foreign Mail The United States Postoffice Department paid American and foreign steamship lines $22.500.261 for carrying mail to foreign countries in the year ended last June 30 psychopath by this cock-eyed witch doctor. This assumption that we should accept the standards of thc community instead of change them, is POISON.—From Industrial Worker. anyone, says: "I have no doubt that a thorough investigation would uncover not 100 cases of children starving to death, but 100.000 or more." FLU has pressed for more surplus food distribution, and to keep Mexican labor 01ft; blames thc big farms run for absentee owners for the starvation. In 1939 a 3-bedroom house qf average quality cost $5.000 to build. To day the same type would cost more than $10,000. Since 1920. assets of mutual savings banks have tripled. There are limits to how far you can keep your breadbasket full by making folks do their starving in some other country. For instance one of the more aristocratic of the occupations, the photo - engravers, Poison in the T-H Law Union leaders have been saying for a long time that there is much deadly poison in the Taft-Hartley Act which has not yet been used by the enemies of Labor. Now comes an outfit which calls itself the "National Foreman's Institute. Inc." with a book which it wants to sell to employers. It says: "Relatively, few companies today are profiting as they should from the Taft-Hartley Act." It offers ways to fight Unions and prevent organization.* It points out a lot of jokers deliberately planted there by Lawyer Gerald O'Reilly and others who wrote the Taft-Hartley Act and who were .paid for their services by the Republican National Party treasury You bet the poison is there, aplenty. That's why the vile act must go.