PROLETAREC JE DELAVSKI LIST ZA MISLECE CITATEUE PROLETAREC Glasilo Jugoslovanske Socialistične Zveze in Prosvetne Matice OFFICIAL ORGAN OF J. S. F. AND ITS EDUCATIONAL BUREAU comUUm M*U*r. IW b. IHU7, mt ifc« po.. oHv, Chicago III under ilir Art o I (W>ugrrM ol M«i ne da bLza to^vlo-tudi kominform označuje Tita Zlla n,tl cn cent kaPl^la. ter njegovo "kliko" za "fašistič-i Za amf-«"iške truste pa ni bilo no bando". En tak propagandni lc važno, da so kontrolirali vso članek, ki pa je dokaj objekti- l,P°rabo atomske energije v mir-ven, čeprav enostranski, je bil nr m v°jne namene na ameriš-objavljen v tržaškem "Ljud- kem ozemlju Se bolj važno za-skem tedniku", ki je urejevan v, nJe Je da b' nadzirali vse skladu z beogradsko "Borbo". Poskuse izkoriščanja atomske Glasi se: energije v svetu predvsem one "Pogostoma pravijo, da Ame- P°skuse- kl bl služili človečan-ričani ne bi mogli živeti v drža-! lm, nam.enom; Zato se je ustavi, kjer bi bila odpravljena oseb- na iniciativa in zasebna lastnina podjetij. Zato večkrat Američane strašijo s tako državo — Molohom, ki bi bila v nasprotju z ameriškim značajČfti. Zakaj so torej Američani tako občutljivi za senzacionalna odkritja o tatvini atomskih tajnosti? Zakaj se reakcionarna propaganda tako pogosto poslužuje tega orožja, da zmede milijone Američanov, ki vsak dan berejo časopise Hearstove, Mac Cormickove in Scripps Howar-dove skupine? To se ne dogaja samo zato, ker je vojna psihoza, ki jo skrbno vzdržujejo že od časov Hirošime, spravila ob pamet velik del ameriškega ljudstva, in ne samo zato, ker so špijonski filmi, izdelani med V Moskvi ie bil Prvi mai ob enem dan vojnih manifestacij. V paradi so vsakega prvega maja najbolj Nikoli pa ni bilo opaziti, da bi I izvežbani vojni kadri, tanki, topovi in nad mestom z rstrSie.eS: kroiif(° ri,eti aeroplani v voinih forTe bo>ne J manifestacije imajo namen prvič pokazati domačemu ljudstvu moč sovjetske oborožene sile in v drugič so protest proti zapadnim silam. Govorniki v Sovjetski zvezi so na Prvega maja napadali posebno Zed. države, katere dolže, da pehaio narode v tretio svetovno vojno in pri tem da jim posebno Anglija pomaga. Enako so napadali ameriško vlado govorniki na prvega maia v drugih komunističnih manifestacijah po svetu. Pred prvo svetovno vojno ie bilo delavstvo saj na Prvega maia enotno, toda z ustanovitvijo tretje inter-nacionale je to prenehalo. Izmed socialističnih strank je sedaj samo socialistična stranka v Italiji v tesni zvezi s komunistično stranko. Desničarska delavska so-cialistina stranka v Italiji pa je v opoziciji proti obema. Komunisti v Italiji in v Franciji — posebno v Franciji, so demonstrirali najbolj proti atlantskemu paktu, ki so ga zasnovale Zed. države v "obrambne namene" pred agresivnostjo Sovjetske zveze. Amerika sedaj oborožuje posebno Francijo, pa tudi Italija ter druge države atlantskega bloka dobivajo ameriško orožje. Izmed držav, ki so v atlantskem paktu imata samo Francija in Italija močni komunistični stranki. Nekaj časa po vojni sta bile zastopane v koalicijski vladi, a potem so bile pod pritiskom ameriške vnanje politike izrinjeni in od tedaj tvorita v obema državama jedro opozicije. V Franciji so imeli Prvega maja zborovanja tudi degaullevci v protest proti komunistom. General De-Gaulle, ki je vodja tega gibanja hoče v Franciji močno vlado, ki bi komunistično stranko zatrla. Ako bi on mogel, bi ustanovil enak diktatorski režim^Uakor je Frankov v Španiji. Sploh je položaj v Franciji jako napet in v manifestacijah ter v demonstracijah prvega maja je bilo spet vidno, da je država v nevarnosti civilne vojne. Tudi v Nemčiji so praznovali prvi maj. Pred prvo »Konec na 2. strani i voljni. Pravijo, da le govori, noče pa svoji stranki—ki ima večino v obema zbornicama—napraviti vtisa, da je res za v.v* to o čemer govori. Torej da so njegovi govori "pesek v oči". Sedaj je Truman za zvišanje hrezposelnostne podpore. Bila naj bi po $30 na teden skozi 26 tednov. V kongresnih odsekih ho sicer o tem nekaj razprave, a ostalo bo po starem. Zvišanje hrezposelnostne zavarovalnine bi kajpada bilo več kot potrebno, ker od takrat ko skupščina zveze kulturnih in znanstvenih delavcev mariborske oblasti. Zveza ima namen pospeševati ter dvigati kulturno in znanstveno delo, povezati in zbliževati med seboj vse kulturne in znanstvene delavce ter prirejati predavanja, diskuzijske in sveta" piše Mirko Rupel o Župančičevem delu pri nastajanju novega slovenskega pravopisa. V drugi številki "Novega sveta" sodelujejo Fran Albreht z "Napisi", ki so posvečeni spomenikom iz Narodno-osvobodil-ne borbe in s kritičnim člankom "Ob mladinski poeziji Iga Grudna", v katerem govori o izrazitem čutu pokojnega pesnika za otroško psiho. V reviji sodelu- družabne večere za razširitev MateJ B°r s pesmijo "Pe-njihovega obzorja. Glasilo zveze bodo "Nova obzorja". Ustanovljeno bo tudi vedro gledališče. pelnična burja", Zora Tavčar s pesmimi "V dežju", "Pojdeva med ljudi" in Vida Taufer s pesmijo "Žrtvam". Drago Sega ob-Prvi koncert mladinskega zbo- javlja odlomek predelave Tav- je bila sedanja določena, si z do- slo|venuskc Mbarmonije, ki je čarjevega romana "Visoška kro-larjem lahko kupil znatno več V LJub,Jan; vzačetku marca, nika" v filmski scenarij. Miško kakor sedaj. A če bi delavci ho- ^ ,zvaJal1 mlad» Pevci iz vse I Kranjec je zaključil reportažo Slovenije, ki obiskujejo ljub- sodobnega življenja prekmur-ljanske sole, stanujejo pa v mla- ske vasi " Zemlja in človek" dinskih domovih "Anice Cerne- Vlado Habjan pa nadaljuje nojeve in "Ivana Cankarja". Ta velo "Njuni maji". V rubriki zbor bo obnovil dobro tradicijo "Kritika" je članek o drugi knji-trboveljskih slavčkov", ki so si gi Puškinovega izbranega dela »i^c ^tvfr,h sloves tudl v tujini. "Povesti" iz serije, ki jo je zače- pa je sedaj naibolj v mo- ^,adl PeJCI so nastopili na aka- la izdajati Državna založba Slo- dati "komuniste". Toda T'^SLJO J' inviting workers to think of freecion and competition as substitutes for cooperation and economic justice. We believe that the freedom they value most and wfllTrifTce uL Zr V" thciausis surely Only One Walked Out "It may be time to use shotguns and rifles—and >ou know what 1 mean." Who said that? Some Communist? No. A "subversive?" Maybe, but of a surprising kind. It was Robert P Gerholz, president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, main cog of the "Real Estate Lobby" which has blocked decent housing legislation. Was he talking to "Reds?" Far from it. His audience was mostly St. Louis business men, who would seem to have a big stake in the "American system." Yet, according to the St. Louis Star-Times," only one man walked out when Gerholz ended his tirade against the "Truman Fair Deal" by suggesting use of "shotguns and rifles—and you know what I mean." "What did he mean?" asked the man wtio walked out, Walter W Ziegenbalg, vice president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. "I can't stand speeches like that," he said. "I resent it when speakers make such attacks on our government." What Gerholz meant seems fairly obvious, lie, and some other frascist-minded business men, who have benefited greatly from the American system, would like to destroy it bv violence if they can't have their way in .very respect. Yet they would certainly resent being called "suoverslves."—Labor. LITTLE LUTHER By JOHN PAINK unity"-where • • • The Pregnant Earth and the Big Machine By Floyd Hoke-Miller O, Pregnant Earth whose children are you bearing That some can have your breasts as favored few And fight against all manner of goodness sharing Because they have the Big Machine exploiting you? O, Mortal Man wherein you lies your weakness To look upon the Big Machine with fearful scorn And humbly bow before its might in meakness As if it meant a cross and a crown of thorn? O. Constant Law, beyond all end or making What greater blessing ever could be seen Than that the Sons of Soil, their own right taking Fall heirs to Earth and to the Big Machine? PEOPLE DO IT By Henry Jones Hospital,/at,on benefits illustrate | those he wanted to benefit moved thc old theme of how hard it is to , out. buck the system. It's Not So Simple If anyone thinks Uncle Sam's foreign problems couid be solved by madman" McCarthy's method—shouting about "Communists" in the State Department—he should take a look at the delicate situation m Greece. It's not so simple If it were not for large-scale economic and military aid to the Greek government, first by Britain and then by the United States Greece would have been taken over by Communists after the war' In rushing to the rescue. Uncle Sam had just one purpose—to save Greece for democracy. Yet Henry F Grady, U S. Ambassador to Greece, now finds it necessary to send a stiff note to that country's government, warning it that its reactionary course will be fatal to democracy, and that deep and far-reaching reforms must be made immediately Otherwise the Greek people, "fed up" with reaction, may turn Red " The American people do not like to interfere in other nations' affairs, but what should be done in the case of Greece0 Do the hundreds of millions of American dollars sent to Greece give the United States the right to some ' say" in thc way that country »s run? Or should Uncle Sam keep silent, regardless* of what the Greek government does or does not do? LABOR finds no easy answers to those questions, but they illustrate the complex problems met by Uncle Sam on thc foreign front — Labor. "Don't you think baseball is subversive, huh, Pop, dontcha, Pop, please, Pop?" asked Little Luther in his most weedling tones. "Nonsense," replied Mr. Dilworth briskly. "Baseball is a 200 per cent Amurrican game. What this country needs is more baseball, or anyway more bases." "But. Pop, doesn't all that bsse-stealing make you suspect something just a wee b i t subversive about the game?" "Luther," demanded his old man, "why are you so determined to undermine our great American institution?" "I don't want to undermine it, Pop. I just want to investigate it." "Investigate it?" "Sure," said Little Luther. "Investigating is 300 per cent Amurrican these days, and fun besides. The House unAmerican committee is out in sunny Hawaii investigating' and another committee says it's going out to Hollywood to investigate morals, and Europe is full of congressmen investigating the un-Americans over there. So why can't I be an investigator, too?" "Just how do you propose to investigate baseball, Luther?" "Well, Pop," said Little Luther patriotically, "I'm n o t going to bother with the small fry. I'm going straight to the big ones. You just appropriate a dozen bags oi peanuts and a world series box seat for me between home and first. I'll carry on from there." Nearly every section of organized labor is officially in favor of something called "unity," but there is small likelihood that the CIO s appeal for a joint committee with power to move toward organic union of various labor forces will produce sensational results. Each of the big labor federations and every independent union has its own bureaucracy and its own jurisdictional problems, and there is no sign that unions feel sufficiently menaced even by the Taft-Hartley act to be driven to coalesce. The significant thing about the CIO move is that for the first time in many years the ideal of organic union is mentioned by the AFL's junior rival. Organic union hitherto has been strictly an AFL project, while the CIO has emphasized functional cooperation toward mutually held objectives. For the CIO even to talk about a structural coalition is a sign that functional cooperation s actually developing It is developing as the AFL, the independent International Association of Machinists, and the Railway Brotherhoods paralel the CIO in political campaigns. It is developing as the older unions, which have emphasized economic gains in the past, come out more strongly for legislative programs—in the fields of social security and housing, for example. American labor has been slow to grow up politically, but the series of anti-labor bills which culminated in Taft-Hartley has produced exactly the effect which AFL President William Green predicted in 1946 when he testified against an earlier union-busting bill: the American industrial worker is turning slowly toward the path that British labor has followed. The American worker is not a Socialist, but he has become conscious of his potential political power and exceedingly concerned about what Congress will do to him unless he cooperates with his fellow-workers to make that power effective —The Nation Not Socialism In Toledo the UAW wants a rate structure for services, such as that applied for veterans It's Toledo Union Journal complains "that there is no point in negotiating with management for increased sick, accident and hospitalization benefits if the doctors promptly raise their rates accordingly. . When the workers could get hospitalization coverage for a $75 appendix operation, t h e doctors charged $75. When the allowance was raised to $150, the doctors jumped to $150, and ff thc new agreement raise t h e benefit to $200, the doctors will undoubtedly raise their fees accordingly. "What it amounts to" says Vice President Gosser, "is that we are negotiating for bigger fees for the doctors, and not getting anything for the workers." A Detroit correspondent writes that frequent instances have occurred there where workers covered by hospitalization insurance are asked to pay the same amount to the doctor that the doctor col lects also from the insurance company, so he gets paid twice. Pa tients who objected that the insur ance paid for it, and they had paid for the insurance, have been told that was O.K. but not to come around any more. Dr. Broome, editor of the Detroit Medical News, says that present pre-paid medical service plans like Blue Shield, are out of line with current income and that consequently doctors have been charging above Blue Shield rates. Somehow it all seems like walking in a marsh where your effort to lift one leg out of the muck forces the other leg into it that much deeper Or like Shaw's old story about the philanthropist who felt so sorry for the slum children with no place to play,- that he bought up a block of slums, and turned it into a playground The result wa« that rents in the neighborhood went up so much that all • • • Then there arc the oldsters who say its harder than ever to get a job either in thc places that have adopted pension plans or where they expect them to be demanded, because the older you are the bigger the liability you will be as a prospective pensioner. They don't figure the pension wave has made them securer. Or there arc the miners laid off soon after their union victory. And there's the Teamsters' allied with their employers planning to make inroads on thc loads railroads and marine transport workers have been hauling, and vice versa in a three-way tug of war. And projected on a world scale the tussle of each country to get more of the world's work to do. The more of such things you get to add up, the closer they all add to zero. Wouldn't It be more practical to be less futile? — From Industrial Worker. REFLECTIONS By Raymond S. Hofses I AM REMINDED of a cartoon I But despite their objection, their that appeared in popular magazine j fears and their votes the fact about a year ago. stands forth that socialization is be- A young couple were in the re- »"K born cciving room of a hospital where It isn't free private enterprise he wife was about to enter to have any more when all of us are taxed her first baby. Beads of pcrspira- to pay farmers for mountains of tion were standing on the agonized food that the government destroys husband s face as he turned to his . . . Or when government funds wife and asked: "Honey, you are finance factories for enterprising quite sure you want to go through | people and homes for other people w thls? ' who are not so enterprising nn , or when the President of the United WHAT BROUGHT THAT States solemnly warns steel moguls comic to mind was a booklet that that unless they produce a satis-has been published by the United factory volume of steel the govern-States Chamber of Commerce in ment will go into the steel business ^crs" ''lomečima! i "V^ "dan- Al1 ^ "" «11 gers -..orne imagined or magni- lzalion of a sort Tht,re aro h ^n leul7atte:;eal ~Htaken and ? , d 8 trans,t,on many others still ahead from capitalism to socialism. A . Thn t. .. A , . And what makes those people wm l. ? ■?*!, at soc""H'ook so ridiculous — those people dJ tlvHv »L u ' e; Pr°- Wh° trV to ar«up socialization bick J,* ' 8ndardS' H'"10 oblivion—i« that the very peo-peoplc of freedom, etc.. etc.. etc plp who are .sending t h e nation To which thc obvious socialist along the course of socialization are reply is that, regardless of how loud in their opposition to social much this is going to hurt or the I Ism. dangers involved, mankind already Sen. Martin Meets Himself Kiss Her By THOMA8 A. DALY Say! young man. if you've a wife, Kiss her. Every morning of your life Kis her. Every evening when the sun Marks your day of labor done, Go! get homeward on the run-Kiss her. Even if you're feeling bad, Kiss her. When she's out of sorts or sad. Kiss her. Act as if you meant it, too, Let the whole true heart of you Speak its ardor when you do Kiss her. If you think it's "soft," you're wrong, Kiss her. Love like that will make you strong— Kiss her If you'd strike with telling force At this Evil of Divorce, Just adopt this aimple course Kiss her. Costs Little Compared To War has made the start with some form of socialization and is certainly going "through with it win0, Z an hU™n raCr' if for another generation So it Z 1 J5T *Ver mana«cs to turn hia mind with social systems, and all the ™"ey I™™" 10 ^ warning and scolding of mere men I * cha,,on^8 of P™cc -Labor, who find the present comfortable and the future ominous won't halt the process From the "Federation News" of the Chicago Federation of Labor: •On March 17, Senator Edward Martin (R , Pa.) had two statements put into the Congressional Record. On page 2128. Senator Martin grieves that t h e Government is spending too much money. Talking to a wool growers association, he said: "I wanted to hammer home the warning that a nation which adopts reckless, wasteful and extravagant spending and continues year after year to pile up additional billions of dollars of debt is on the road to national bankruptcy. So long as that course is pursued the day of reckoning must arrive. With it will come financial collapse. And what is more important. freedom of the individual will be destroyed " For sake of t h e Congressional Record, let's agree with Senator Martin, and turn to page 2130 of thc same day's proceedings. The Senator had printed in the Record a statement which he made before the Committee on Appropriations on the subject of rivers, harbors and public works in Pennsylvania. For the Concmaugh Reserve, he wants $9 million; he asked $4 million for culm-removal operation on the Schuylkill River, and many more projects usually labeled pork barrel' material in political circles —totaling in all $41.448.500. Spending Senator Martin of the Congressional Record, page 2130 should meet t h e Saving Senator Martin of page 2128. same issue, same day. The distinguished dual personality wants money saved everywhere except in Pennsylvania After all, that's where he gets his votes! We were amused by a story in "The League Reporter," organ of Labor's League for Political Education It seems that Rep. Andrew Jacobs, Democrat, put Sen. Homer Capehart, Republican, through a needling process. Capehart had been saying that the policies of the New Deal and Fair Deal are "socialistic " So Jacobs, after asking other quesUons, finally wanted to know which measures Capehart would repeal. "And," says Jacobs, "he said he would not repeal any of them, believe it or not. So he went around saying the New Deal was Socialistic . . ." Two comments are in order in this connection. One is that the Capeharts of the nation wouldn't know how to do things better than has been done to keep the capitalist private-profit system from collapsing. The fact is that all that Roosevelt has done and all that Truman has done to put industry, relief and other activities under government controls have been nothing more than compromises. In a way they are socialistic, since they reduce the freedom of enterprise and increase the power and responsibility of a centralized government. But since both Democrats and Republicans wish to preserve the profit system they must make some compromises with the reality that capitalism can no longer stand upon its own feet. The other comment is that neither Truman, Jacobs or Capehart are willing to go far enough. Real justice—which means real socialism —requires the government to do more than preserve the capitalist economy by giving workers the kind of relief that, at the same time gives capitalist business some customers. To be socialistic" Truman and Company must have a different purpose than merely to preserve capitalist class relationships by makinc hem more tolerable. They must set out to socialize the ownership of the resource upon which everybody depends aitd to end the legalized racket of private profit which is the incentive of capitalist product***- Being human. Socialists will take all the "relief measures they can get. But they aren't especially grateful to an administration that permits corporations to swat them everyday of their lives and then supplies the linament to rub on the bruise -Reading Labor Advocate THE LAST WORD Disgraceful Here's something the Real Estate And do we "want" to go | Lobby would like to hide, through with it? Most Americans! Up to date, realtors and build-are saying certainly not." That ers have been forced by Federal is what they are saying most em- j authorities to cough up more than phatically evetV time they use their $2 2 million which they gouged voting pow„ to give many votes to from house-hungry veterans - the the political partie* of capitalism | boys who not so ago were and few votes to the Socialist I fighting on the battlefields to save Party. America, PARISIAN SLICKER TAKES A NEW YORKER IN $2,500 CON GAME PARIS—Dr Frederick Freed of New York came to Paris two years ago and went to the Louvre to ad mire the pottery and porcelains Pierre Poulain spotted the sightseer and scraped up an acquaintance. "Some friends of mine have a big chateau in the country and they are going to sell a magnificent collection of ancient pots and Chinese dishes," confided Poulain "I can fix it for you to get the winning ticket." Freed demanded to see the chateau and its furnishings. So Poulain took him to Fontain-bleau and showed him the palace of King Henry IV with its priceless furnishings Convinced, the doctor returned to America and sent Poulain $2,-500 to insure getting the winning lottery ticket, but never got a reply A judge on April of this year sentenced Poulain to eight months in jail and fined him $60 By Duffy Politics makes strange bedfellows some smart cracking politician once remarked, as he sat down to dinner next to his worst enemy but a political "friend." * * * And it's true, too, especially in such states as Illinois. Missouri and Louisiana, where they play for keeps * * * In recent years, it's gotten worse. These days to run for any political office, you've got to give some shyster politician your right eye, your left leg. your bankbook with a blank cheek, and then on top of all that you've got to be right with the bos* on the various religious issues. * * We've seen some pretty rotten politics in our day, but the thing that gripes us more than anything. is the pious attitude of most newspapers on politics. * * * They harp about getting the best men, then put ovay stone in the paths of the best men so that only the peanut politician with dough has a chance. * * * A dozen major newspapers in Illinois rave and rant editorially about getting good men for public office, from the governor on down to the lowliest precinct committeemen * * * Then the newspaper tells the good men: come across with plenty of dough if you want to advertise your wares, and don't expect as to say anything good about you—after all we want to stay friends with your enemies too. (Unless you can do a favor for the editor.) o * I've often wondered about precinct committeemen—what they're for, who they serve, what purpose they have in the political picture. * * o I found out all right—most of them are payrollers or looking for hand out They eat out cf the grimy paw of the boas of the com-munlty, who rakes in his share of the boodle, makes no account* Ing to anyone, then ordeas the committeemen to "carry" his man or else Funny part of the whole rotten mess is that it works. * * * It takes a lot of money to run for office, a lot of time and a lot of false backslappine. The man who can't face a voter he doesn't like and smile in the voter'« face with some degree of sincerity had better stay out of politics. He's doomed before he starts. * * One of the odd things about it is that there are plenty of men in politics who are honest, but they don't raise their voice against the pernicious systems all about them. * * * Take Illinois, for example. The politicians in our legislature don't have guts enough to hand out a npn-partisan primary ballot. They want to put the finger on each voter. Result: thousands of honest citizens won't vote in primaries. * * * Another case in point: In the recent election, hundreds upon hundreds of payrollers, honest, conscientious men and women, went into the polls, asked for their party ballots—then voided them by not even making a mark on the ballot. They are recorded, however, for their party bosses to see. * * * So it goes—and goes—and goes. Some day perhaps we'll have a better system. You'll either vote or cough up a $5 fine, and then „ the legislature will wake up and permit you to vote a non-partisan ballot. * * * Or maybe I'm dreaming, MAY DAYS Remember well the May Days That helped us to assay The long road, the high road, The crest of Labor's way. Remember well the brave days The high road that led on To the green lands, the fair lands, Our hearts were set upon. Oh, the high road, the brave road, Still'beckons to our kind. We; need »but shift our heavy load And leave our chains behind. Matilda Robbins