PROLETAREC JE DELAVSKI LIST ZA MISLECE ClTATELJE
PROLETAREC
Glasilo Jugoslovanske Socialistične Zteze in Prosvetne Matice
ST. — NO. 222«
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
J. S. F. AND ITS EDUCATIONAL BUREAU
CHICAGO, ILL, August 16, 1950
Published Weekly at 2301 S. Lawndale Ave. LETO—VOL. XLV.
Združeni narodi Zed državam v Koreji le malo pomagajo
Večini članic anglo-ameriškega bloka se v oboroževanje nič ne mudi. — Slab odziv na apel za skupno intervencijo ZN v Koreji
■Velika želja naše vlade je bila I čaju proti sosednemu Pakista-
koj v začetku ko se je odločila za intervencijo v Koreji, pridobiti organizacijo Združenih na
NAS POZDRAV XIV. REDNI KONVENCIJI S. N. P. J.
NAROČNIKOM NA ZNANJE
, Tiskarna, v kateri tiskamo Od dne 6. aprila 1904, ko se /e v Chicagu vršilo Pwletarca, nas je že pred tedni ustanovno zborovanje ali prva konvencija SNPJ, se je op~oriU' db Kre nai stavec me' med nami in po svetu ie veliko dogodilo in spremenilo.
KOMENTARJI
Zbira in presoja urednik
Samo devet društev je bilo zastooanih na prvi . . . . , , • ---------------------------------konvenciji. Delegati na ustanovnem zborovanju so bili
takoj V začetku ko se je odločila nu). Obljubila Pa je vrhovnemu večinoma iz Chicago, ki so razen par izjem zastopali
poveljstvu ZN sanitetne oddelke t(jdi vnanja d,u$fva Zq u%tanQvno konv'enciio je
seca avgusta na počitnice. Mora iti, ker taka je določba unije za vse tiskarje.
z ambulancami in zdravstveni-
rodov, prvič, da ta ukrep ame- mi pripomočki riške vlade odobri, drugič, da Danska je obljubila ambulan-
severne°Kor F* " *ni Ek-dor obeta sa-
severne Koreje vrši pod pokro- nitetne priprave in materijal
strategične vrednosti, Izrael je obljubil pomagati z medikalija
viteljstvom ZN in trejič, da čla nice ZN, ki so ta načrt odobrile, tudi dejansko pokažejo, da bodo
pomagale v skupni akciji vsaka mlir^noVoln^nico' po svojih močeh. 1
Odziv razočarljiv
Prva se je odzvala Anglija z bojno floto, v kateri je tudi ena nosilka letal in poslala je v Ko-, rejo tudi oddelek bojnega letal- n°Stm SVe' V nj?mu tudl P° ene" stva. Zed. države so Londonu f ^ pa ta e™k°P™vnost neha namignile, da ta pomoč ne za- kadar J tr*ba v°jno ali
dostuje, kajti AngUja je vendar Pa V n'\ sklepom deJansko smatrana A velesilo, torej se od Nekatere vlade so od-
nje pričakuje v bojni akciji v ?°™r,le. da ** od njih ne pri-Koreji boljše udeležbe. Pošlje ™kUJe mkake P0™0*1' bodisi naj tja npr. tudi precej vojaštva ker S° VTere™*> k^r so brez Angleži so Washington to-o£ TmLV1 P*, predaW
ljubili, dasi ne prav radi. Opra- °d K°reJe Med temi' kl so dale vičevali so se, da imajo ves čas po vojni polne roke bojev z
zadostovala mala soba in iz tega početka, ki je bil ie par let prej zasnovan v društvu Slavijo, je zrasla SNPJ, ki ima sedaj v Detroitu svojo štirinajsto redno konvencijo.
V Ameriškem družinskem koledarju letnik 1950 mi. Švedska pa postaviti in opre-1 je obširen opis delovanja za ustanovitev slovenske
napredne iednote, ki prikazuje, kako velike so bile (ilasovati je eno,pomagati drugo težave, predno je vsajeno zrno vzklilo.
Dočim ima vsaka država v T udi ko ie bila SNPJ ie močna„so se še vedno do-
d rža v ,iC kf ^ vor i j o tS^TSZ ^ °V"e' fc/ P"** napredku te mla-
de organizacije. Vršili so se večkrat zelo teiki notranji
boji, ki pa so.se k sreči vedno končali tako, da je SNPJ
ostala pri svojih starih smernicah, -j
Ovire so tu pa tam nastajale tudi vsled spreminjajočih se razmer, a tudi te so bile premošČene z dobrimi posledicami za organizacijo.
Ko je usahneval vir za pridobivanje novega članstva med priseljenci, se je jednota lotila agitacije med mladino in ustanavljala v ta namen mladinska, an-
uporniki v Malaji.
Trygve Liu tak odgovor, so Af- ___ ____
ganistan, Cile, Guatemala. Irak J
Iran, Nikarafeva, Panama, Sirija,« 9'eik° P°$/U'društva' Uruguay in Venezuela. Nekatere
V teh takrat mladinskih ali angleško poilujočih društvih vidite danes ljudi, kl imajo svoja mlada leta za sabo in niihovi otroci so ie druga tu rojena generacija naših ljudi. To spreminja tudi vnanje in __ . _ notranje lice SNPJ. Prva leta ie bilo vse njeno pošlo-
kuje, da bi ji Zed države v nje- bolJe za vse, ako bo mir pravi- yanje slovensko. Na njenih konvencijah se je qovorilo ni vojni v Indokini pomagale cen korejskemu ljudstvu. $amQ $/ov#f|gJ0- r- . I-m*
bolj kot pa ji. In res ji je pred-1 Med državami, ki niso glede sednik Truman to obljubil ta- i sodelovanja v intervenciji šc
Zapadna Evropa pomaga največ izmed teh so rekle, da so pri-z obljubami I pravljene na posvetovanje, ko-
Se veliko manj kakor Anglija liko bi ekonomsko poma-l
je pripravljena pomagati Fran- «ati' a do tedaj bo menda vojne 9enera*,/c» nasm I j cija. Pravzaprav ona celo priča- v KoreJi konec. Čimprej tem- notranje lice SNPJ.
Farniarica Anna Van Hoof v zdravnike, v zdravila in v bol-vasici Necedah v Wisconsinu nišnice, kot pa da bi si šli iskati i ima blaženo srečo, da se ji pri- zdravja v Lurd ali na druga taka V tiskarni Adria je on edini kazuJe devica Marija. Prvič jo božja pota, kjer so se in se še stavec, ki zna na linotip postav- J? ° lla s sv°jim obiskom lan- kar v hipu dogajajo čudežna o-Ijati slovensko, poleg lastnika,! ga, novembra> Potem jo je zdravljenja, ki pa vsled rahlega zdravja že 2a™ak?Jena /®™tnca spet vi-1
dolgo ne dela pri stroju Naš'de,f lb JUniJa ln ob izg»njenju romarjev v Necedah je
stavec je v Ameriki rojen Ceh I P'*""! ji je MariJin *,as de" bi tolikžen' da jih tja vozili v hmUhi*i 4 . U . Jal' da obišče 15. avgusta in ccI° posebni vlaki. Železniška
r Prej?njlh *k,h * ""' potem 7. oktobra. Tako je na-i družb* Northwestern ima tam
stavca ?z°tisl^n^SNPJ " * ZdaVn° Pr°g°' * drži
oreiem« iiuV ,„ i s,ePariJ° bigotsko maso tak vasici velikega čudeža stranska
Sel^Hh^n "snii i!! ' d,rndaj' da * danes vasica Ne- Proga. Omenjena železniška f« ll * "U . T ; cedah' z okl tiso^ Prebivalci,! d™žba je oglašala celo po radi
to malo ur smo mu morali plača-1 romarska pot ki jo je obiskalo da kdor želi romati v Neceda
že nad sto tisoč "vernikov" in se oosluzi »ličnih še več jih prihaja.
Katoliška hierarhija zanje do-
bičke iz praznoverstva. Name- : zajo nad to ignoraneo mase a ob
ternativa. katere se*ob pocitni- sto' da bi katoliški škofje v Wis- enem se zgražajo nad katoliško
cah poslužujejo mnogi drugi consinu» Illinoisu in drugje hierarhijo, ker neguje vero v ta-
tedniki, med Slovenci v Ameriki kratkomalo rekli, da se farma- ke namišljene prikazni, četudi
npr. "Nova doba", glasilo ABZ, rici v njenih "zamaknjenih" prav dobro ve, da se Marija De-ki izpusti v času počitnic dve bIedf. Pa preiskujejo" ,— kajti | vica nikjer ne prikazuje iz obla-
šl-vilki. Isti običaj ima tednik mozr|o je- da se je čudež res kov — ne kaki pobožni deklici
'Heading Labor Advocate", ki z8°dil. Krošnarji s svetimi po- kje na pašniku ne farmarici Ani je znan posebno čitateljem naše dobicami. razglednicami, proda-apgleške strani. V času počitnic jalci k,obasi i d_________• m a. a« . ____^
je na tej strani.
Proletarčev poidrav XIV. redni
takih vnanjib znakih patriotisms.
V upravnikovi koloni so zanimivi citati is pisem ljudi, kl so delali in še delujejo za napredek. Objavljena je na drufi strani.
Zelo vsino naznanilo naročnikom je v peti koloni na tej strani, da Jih ne bo skrbelo, ker nekaj časa lista ne bodo dobili.
Ali bo izstop HenryJa Wallaces za prorrefltvno stranko usoden? Nekaj omemb o tem Je v komentarjih.
Vojna histerija okuiuje tudi cerkve. Nekaj slike o tem je v članku spodaj na prvi strani.
To In vse drugo gradivo v tem listu je vredno, da (a preberete. Priporočite Proletarca svojim prijateljem in znancem.
All so Zed. države in generalni tajnik ZN Trygve Lie uspele v apelu na one dežele, ki so odobrile
vojno proti severni Koreji, da naj Naša stara ugotovitev, da so reporterje.
sedaj tudi dejansko pomagajo, ne cerkve za mir večinoma samo o Res se je natrpalo v cerkev samo z glasovanjem? Članek o tem hoiičllt M je ilkaza|a M 2e|o nac? Prešeren^ Vsak0o/ki ga je že poslušal, ga želi še ponovno in ponovno čuti. Na plesni zabavi tega dne bo igral Fr. Kovačič in njegov orkester.
Pisana iz raznrti naselbin, ki jih prejeaifui} kot Ugnil$ f^ra-
cije dokazujejo, da j« med članstvom za to slavnost veliko zanimanja. Po njjk sk le parno, da bomo imeli na dan SNPJ obilno udeležbo.
Na članstva SNPJ v Chjca^u in okolici apeliram, d^ naj pripomore k velikemu posetu tudi z naše strani. S tem bomo zunanjim gostom pokazali, da smo vredni velike proslave, kakršna bo na dan SJNPJ v Pilsen Parku.
— Frank Alesh
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M/sko Kranjec:
Fara Svetega Ivana
uporabljanju atomskih
nico, Sovjetsko zvezo. Mnogi v kongresu,, v Pentaggnu in celo na prižnjcah priporočajo, da naj
MacAtthur nabira na Jap^n- ern. Toda v kanceleriji čikašfce
Združeni narodi Zed. driavqm v Koreji le malo pomagajo«
(Konec s 1. strani J Anglijo zadušiti upore na Ma-laji, Nizozemski v Indoneziji, Turčiji, Grčiji itd., splph vsekri-
bomb v Koreji se je izrazu'tudi I žem' kar v vel'avi Tru' profesor dr. Roscoe B. Miller, ma"ova doktrina, predsednik univerze Northwest-' V V8eh teh krajlh Pa vladni
skem prostovoljci, Amerikp naj jih oboroži in pošlje v boj proti komunistom v Korejo, v obrambo Formoze pred kitajskimi komunisti in v slučaju vojne s Kitajsko nam bi japonski "prosto-
nadšJurfije pa na t« vprašanje niso hoteli odgovoriti, pač pa opozorili na neko izjavo prole-so rja katoliške univerze v Washingtonu, rev. F. J. Connella. O«
ljudje drug drugemu zaupno priznavajo, da se je akcija v Koreji zelo nerodno pričela, kar se Zed. držav in ZN tiče, in d& ima vsled tega sovjetska diplomacija s svojo propagando toliko
je dejal, da ako gre kaka vlada' la$e stali$<* upravičeno v voin« t*še iz Avstrije najslabše mnenje "4To niso Slovani.''
44Pa so res čudni ti Poljaki," mu je pritrjeval Plavšek. "Saj so im^li res nesrečno zgodovino,
ROMAN
Na zunaj te spremembe sicer ni pokazal, ker je bil dovolj prebrisan. Pa ne toliko "za slučaj", kolikor bolj, ker ga je v resnici hudo prizadelo, ko se je moral posloviti od Jugoslavije. Kakor je bil sicer dober Jugoslovan, toliko trden Vendar ni bil, da bi to ostal v vsakem primeru. Se pred padcem Jugoslavije je padel sam: zapustil jo je.
Plavšek je bil sicer neprimerno bolj izobražen od Podleska, toda ni imel tistega posebnega daru, s katerim je stari žandar in trgovec znal ločiti stvari med seboj na prvi pogled. Medtem ko je stari žandar kot župan v najhujših časih jugoslovančenja priznaval, da smo Slovenci narod, je Plavšek tarnal okoli njega, da je za nas rešitev samo, če opustimo svoj jezik in se spremenimo v en narod, "ker sicer nas požro valovi tujini." Plavšek je živel vedno v razburljivi napetosti, ih ko Je doma najprej stvar ,4s svojo soprogo" temeljito predebatiral, se je zatekel še prav tako obupan k Podlesku. Stari žandar si je bil naglo o vsem na jasnem.
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res zelo se je vse spremenilo po prepovedana. T " prej je še dejal, da se naša vla-tej vojni, ki smo jo označevali Katoliški teolog pač ne more da v ne ^ umeSav*la in ne-za borbo proti fašizmu ia za govoriti drugače, kajti nihče ne d°lg° pred Pričetkom vpada se-ustvaritev trajnega miru. Niti bi tako rad pomaknil k*Ulf» verokorejskc armade v južno prikazan v Necedahu v Wiscon- svetovnega razvoja nazaj kakor KoreJ° Je ameriška vlada izja-sinu nam ne bi znala razjasniti katoliška cerkev ■ vi*a' ^a Koreja za Zed. države ____________ ______fteh ču,dni.h P^kucovanj v sve- Xudi JoJ^ o4komik ni strategične važnosti. A v ne-
pripopa pečat komunističnega 1 d,PIomaclJl- krajevne zveze unij CIO, je bil
sopotnika ali pa proglasi za naiv-, Kaj je razlika med belopoltno nedoločen v svojem odgovoru, neža, ki ga imajo komunisti za ter drugimi rasami ali plemeni? je, da so o tem kompitent-
lutko, da se z njim poljubno
kaj dneh pa je bilo prejšnje stališče glede Koreje in Formoze zavrženo in tako imamo na glavi vojno, ki si jo ni nihče že-' lel in še večja nam preti.
(namreč način rušenja in pobi- plnrn fi'cl^riAw janja) moralnega značaja in za-
Nič! Nobene! Tako izjavljajo ni soditi vojaški ljudje. On meni
igrajo. Wallace se je s svojim znanstveniki, ki študirajo pie-, da v vojnah itak ni nobena stvar
izstopom in s svojo izjavo zava- mena, razmere v katerih žive,
roval proti takim možnostim, njihov razvoj iz pradavnim in, _ _________
Vsekakor je v prošlosti v bojih, druge take stvari, po katerih' to tudi atomska bomba ni kako y ChlCOQU proti monopolom, zoper reakcijo, ugotove marsikaj novega ali do- moralno vprašanje. r . . ^.ffT .
in s sejanjem svoje liberalne, datnega, kar je bilo vedi na tem! Cerkve današnje dobe so tor-j *
ideologije med ameriškim ljud- polju prej neznano. Osem teh «**«W!e svojo moralno silo, ki «|h listih nr s.tyom veliko storil. Morda misli zaanstvenih ustanov na svetu je K nekoč, posebno v neka- ' P
tako tudi nadaljevati — a za-enkrat je dejal, se iz politike umakne na svojo farmo v New Yorku. S tem je P. S. ob svojega najvplivnejšega prijatelja in ga bo pogrešala.
General >lacArthur je na Japonskem v marsičem jačja in bolj odločilna avtoriteta kakor pa cesar Hirohito in njegova vlada, ali japonski parlament. Zatreti komunistično gibanje na Japonskem ni za MacArthurja nikak problem. Ko je videl, da k. s. raste in da se njeni časopisi širijo, je prepovedal najprvo njeno glavno glasilo, potem še 121 drugih levičarskih listov in odredil čistko v unijah. Ni čudno, ako nekateri najbolj vneti kongresniki Trumana opozarjajo, naj se uči od MacArthurja, in če se ne zna (učiti), pa naj pozove njega domov in mu poveri
v Chicagu, dnevnikih in dru-prejemajo po doseda-
P0.I.10 jako velika. To*)^^ ^ £
ferenco v Pariz, da med sabo iz-1 um®vno, ker so cerkve toliko rr
Pa se je tudi zdaj naglo za- , „ . vedel in—klonil. Ubogi Plavšek damo ln P(>dobno- To<*a te tab-ko so jih samo delili, a sami tudi pa še ni zavedel in je zato še n^so mogle potolažiti za-niso bili nič boljši. Reci Poljaku, I naprej taval in tarnal, komur je skrblienega Plavška. Prav tako da Ukrajinci, vse tja do Črnega le mogel. Tembolj zdaj ko ga pa ga niso mogli P°tolažiti Kle-morja ne spadajo k njim, pa se je Podksek previdao pustil na|men*evi odgovori pri šahiranju, mu do smrti zameriš." Kljub —eedilu. Ni ga povabil za seboj ko mu doPovedoval, da so temu jima je bilo hudo, da so zakaj Stari žandar je le dobro težki časi še prcd nami* ko ie jih Nemci tako zmrcvarili. 4'Na- čutil, da vsa ta njegova stvar ni prav iz nie8ovih ust izvedel, da zadnje so le Slovani," je dognal docela V redu, marveč da smrdi naša voiska v resnici klavrna Plavšek. I mai0 ^ _ Izdajstvu I,n da so naši P°litiki najbrž pri-
Podlesek si
AvstrToTtdf t^to h .ZaPUS Nazadn^e Pa Je Plavšek
vendar ne bodo dopustili, da bilkem ^g,Jedu izdaJstvo' vend«r do »emenca mnogo predsodkov jih Nemci v revanši naklestili I drtjaa^nn T^ltr^t 'ln bl se z vsem na svetu laže
in se maščevali nad njimi. Pa MkJi^1_^ra^>prijaznil kakor s komunizmom.
Medtem so Angleži in Francozi še trdno stali vzdolž Rena in ob belgijski meji. Francozi
icicutu v mnj, ua mea wdo iz-i ^ iuiiku iiilf ctat - __
menjajo svoja dognanja. Ugoto- ^.U,.. Mv^jJ i^j^ajo „ Vft vili so, da biologicno m med ple- so v strahu pred kukrš- - • > • . J ^ -
meni, ki jih razdeljujejo samo nemkoli preporodom Svetovne-med tri vrste — v mongolitsko, 8® miru na cerkvah torej ne bo negroidsko in v kaukasoidsko moK«če sezidati. (Mongolid, Negroid in Cauca-soid) nobene razlike. Poročilo teh učenjakov je dolgo in zanimivo predvsem v ugotovitvi, da med rasami ni nikakih bioloških razlik, in da mešani zakoni bio-logično takim poročencem niso prav nič škodljivi (npr. zakon med človekom
Kom na Labor Day? Na slavnost SNPJ ki bo v Chicagu
Chicago. III. — Priprave, da
kaukasoidske bo dan SNPJ, ki bo letos v Chi-
(bele) s. človekom negroidske cagu, čimbolj uspešen, so v pol-
(zamorske) rase. Vseh teh osem nem teku. Ta slavnost se bo vr-
znanstvenih organizacij za bio- šila v soboto in v nedeljo 2 in
loška proučevanja ima odobritev 3. sept. v Pilsen parku, 26. ulica
in priznanje znanstvenega od- & Albany Ave. Na Labor J)ay 4
delka organizacije Združenih sept. pa bo prireditev nadalje-
narodov. Tako so ti biološki u- j vana v dvorani SNPJ. V Centru
_________________________ ____ čenjaki te razlike med rasami, bo ob tej priliki balincarska
mandat očistiti Zed. države vseh **1 0 Pomankanju kakršnih koli tekma.
nelojalnežev. Truman smatra | blolowkh razhk me<* njimi po V soboto 2. sept. bo v Pilsen
dolgem studirahju le odkrili in parku takozvani sprejemni ples,
dognali. A stari predsodki in Igral bo Joe Kovich in njegov
da gredo ti kongresniki v svojem patriotičnem "navdušenju
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plemenska ter narodnostna sovraštva so ostala. Niti še tolikšni učenjaki ne bi mogli odpraviti
orkester.
V sprejemni dobor so bili izvoljeni Milan Medvešek, Math
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med nekaterimi močnimi, vlade- J. Turk, Frank Gorenc in Mary
željnimi ljudstvi vere, da so le Udovich. Vsi ti so dolgoletni čla-
ona najbolj vzvišena, najbolj ni, skušeni za delo na takih
plemenita in najbolj močna in slavnostih, kar je zadostno jam-
"kulturna" v vsakem oziru. stvo, da bodo posetniki bratsko
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Učenjaki bi na tem polju malo dosegli, ker proti predsodkom in za pobijanje zmotne teorije o nadljudeh, kakršno je gojil posebno Hitler, se bore sociologi ter zagovorniki -enakopravnosti in glasniki vzajemnosti med človeštvom, neglede na polt, jezik ali vero.
Koliko pride na vsakega prebivalca vojnih stroškov
Pred prvo svetovno vojno je prišlo na vsakega prebivalca (vštevši otroke in stare ljudi) $2.25 na leto davka za vzdrževanje naše oborožene sile. L. 1938, torej tik pred pričetkom druge svetovne vojne, so znašali_$8 na osebo, sedaj pa $100 na osebo. In to toliko na vsakega samo za o-boroievanjt, brez raznih drugih vojnih stroškov.
Dobro pravilo: Besede mičejo, qigledi vlečejo!
Iskati napake na drugih je igrača, Delati, je težje.
sprejeti.
V nedeljo 2. sept. — na glavni dan naše slavnosti—pa bo predvajan obširen spored. Poleg nastopa govcu-nikov bomo imeli tudi lep glas&eni spored. Nastopila bo naša članica, Znana pevka na svetu. A n$ši vojaki'y Koreji Angela Plut. Mnogi v Chicagu pa sporočajo, da od kraja niso
la istotako $101 na teden. Nedavno so tiskarnam predložili zahtevo za zvišanje plače. Ponudile so jim $2 na teden več. -Stavci so ponudbo z veliko večino glasov zavrgli/ Pravijo, da je prenizka. Organizirani so v Int l. typographical Union, lokal št. 16, v katererp so skoro vsi čikašly tiskarji. Unija ima še par drugih lokalov, majhnih, med njimi onega, v katerem je nekaj čeških tiskarjev. Svoj kon-trakt ima s tiskarno SNPJ, v kateri prejemajo za 30 ur dela na teden približno toliko kakor v drugih tiskarnah za 36V4 ur dela na teden. Ta skupina ima pogodbo poleg z SNPJ še s tremi drugimi majhnimi tiskarnami. To je edini lokal tiskarske unije v Chicagu, ki ima tako kratek dnevni šiht in najvišjo lestvico, in pravijo, da je tudi edini v Ameriki.
Ka| smo dobiti za 89 miJijard?
V letih 1946-50 je ta dežela potrošila 89 milijard dplarjev za narodno obrambo (national defense). Sedaj, ko smo podyzeli intervencijo v Koreji,pa se mnogi v naši deželi začudeno vprašujejo, kam vse je šel ves ta denar? Kje so tanki, kje letala, kje vsa druga mupicija, o kakršni je nam vlada pravfla, da ji ni para
tudi Angleži se ne bodo igračkali, ko vedo,, da jim gre za ves imperij. Na ta ali oni način so Angleži vedno znali dobiti vojno, pa bi bil čudež, da bi zdaj vse zaigrali.
Tudi padec Norveške ju še ni stri. 44Se bo že ustavilo, ko pridejo trkat na prava vrata!" sta doffnala. Nemci pa so šli "trkat tudi na prava vrata," na Francijo! Francija se je sesula. Anglež pa so še komaj ušli: Takrat je Plavšek privihral ves pre-p^den k Podlesku in vzkliknil: "Ti, zdaj je pa vrag mlade dpbiir To frazo je Plavšek uporabljal, kadar mu je pri kartah ali pri šahu slaba predla. 44Kaj pa zdaj?" je vprašal Podleska Podlesek je že vedel, da je vrag mlade dobil", celo več, da se je zrušil ves zapad, da je gospodar Evrope postala Nemčija in da je Jugoslavija samo še na papiru. Takrat je Podlesek — klonil.
čilo. čutil se je Slovenca. Ta
Zakaj Plavšek si
je, ne da bi vedel kako, vtepel v glavo, da
£ wdolzno«t1' £ katero sta s soprogo s tolikim da kljub takemu razpadu bo! ♦ 11 f. » "
^rM" 'ti
• 1. , . «. .. . sam živeti v svoji hišici, tisto
niti stran in zamahniti z roko.1 iocti x,av. K
. " jesti, kar mu bo soproga pripra-
Na to stran Plavška ni mogel vila: vsi dokazi, da mu tega ne in ne hot^ vabiti Zato je na bo nihče jemal, so bili zaman,
Electric Water Heater
is ...
se je lahko še spominjajo, ko je nam, ko je bila še čisto majhna, pela na nekaterih božičnih priredbah. Zdaj je doraslo dekle z izvežbanim glasom, da jo je v petju veselje poslušati.
Nastopili bodo tudi mladinski krožki iz raznih naselbin, oziroma talentirani člani in članice teh krožkov. Tudi mladi muzi-kanti so obljubili nastopiti, da naš spored še bolj obogate.
Poudarim naj, da bo na tej
imeli drugega kot puške. Pre} ali slej bodo spet kongresne preiskave, a potrošenega denarja ne bodo privabile nazaj. In ako so se dogodile kake nepravilnosti, ne bo šel radi njjh nihče v zapor. V
Ker ste naprednjak, koliko storke za napredek? %
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OGLAŠAJTE JIH V P*Ql£TARCU/
brezupna PUvškova vprašanja 4,Kaj pa zdaj," vselej samo zmi-gnil z rameni.
"Kaj jaz vem!" Bil je skoraj že jezen nanj,
"Hudiča ali," je zaklel Plavšek brezupno. "Saj zdaj siho tako rekoč na kraju. Kjer je odpovedala Francija s svojimi štiridesetimi milijoni, z vsem ko-lonijskim bogastvom, kaj naj tam opravi Jugoslavija? Ta stvar me presneto skrbi! Potlej pa se mi zdi, da naša politika ni docela v redu . .
"Čudna pa je res naša politika," je pritrdil Podlesek. "Nič ne veš, kaj naši politiki delajo in kaj jočejo." — Kaj so naši politiki delali in hoteli, mali Plavšek ni ntogel vedeti. Imeli so svoje načrte, ljudje pa so dobivali uspavajoče tablete z napisi: "Naša država je močna". "Naša hrabra in zvesta vojska " "Tujega nočemo — svojega ne
ker ''komunizem ne bo gledat name".
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PROLETAREC
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COMMONWEALTH
NO. 2226
Published Weekly at 2301 S. Lawndale Ave.
DOLLAR-MARKED DUNKERQUE
Dunkerque will stand for all time as a symbol of utter defeat _
for disaster, for broken lines, for armies crumbling and soldiers in desperate retreat, abandoning a continent to its enemies.
A Dunkerque threatens America today.
Today's Dunkerque, though, lacks any overtone of the gallantry that shone through that military disaster of ten >ears ago.
The lines are broken, the soldiery is in retreat, and a desperate cause is all but abandoned . . . This Dunkerque is dollar-marked, tnough, as the military defeat was not. This is a defeat for all civilian - America, and all the ordinary homes and families, and it is a victory for the dollar-grabbing profiteers who are attacking citizens of their own country instead of invading a foreign country.
A possible thirty per cent rent increase?
You read the headlines . . . Did you also read the fine print in dozens of other news reports, these* last ten days? Coffee, bread, tires, canned goods, beef, soap, clothing — did you read the news about these necessary items, and a hundred others?
Or maybe you got the news by one glance at what was left _ if
anything was left — out of a week's pay check.
"... any increase in food prices will result from profiteering, not from scarcity." That is from the press report of President Truman's press conference on July 13, and it names the enemy that is now harrying us all into headlong disaster.
This Dunkerque has got to be stopped. »
Korea? . . . Nothing in Korea justifies the A & P's five-cent hike in the price of coffee, or Firestone's five per cent raise in the price of tires, or American Woolen's 17-cents-a-yard boost in the price of worsted fabrics.
Korea, hell! . m 1 A
You'll pardon the expression . . . This is not being done in Korea, by Koreans and Communists. This is being done in America, by Americans, to other Americans — to the United States of America itself.
This dollar-marked Dunkerque is home-grown.
And it has got to be stopped.
Profiteers are hiking these prices now, on top of price levels already high, in the hope — the hope, mind you — that war will soon betray us altogether into their hands . .. And there are millions of Americans who can't take it much longer.
Congress is our only recourse - Congress and immediate action ^n offedna H^rX^*Zii by Congress and the President. ' offenn« He refused to modi
Clip today s price news and mail it to your Congressman, to your President . . . It's our own country that we're being run out of at this dollar-marked Dunkerque. — (From The Montana Labor Ne*s)
Fascist Lobby In Washington
When the president and the Secretary of State, on successive days recently, spoke out against the Senate's $100 million loan to Spain, they were doing more than defending the prerogatives of the executive department. They were trying once again to educate Gen. Francisco Franco, the little, shrewd, Gallego military man who thinks he has more power in Washington than the President of the United States.
It's too soon to say Franco is wrong. His fascist lobby in Washington still might dictate our foreign policy ^nd at the same time make some millions of dollars for its members and sponsors. For the Senate reaffirmed tbe Franco loan after Mr. Truman had spoken against it.
If his lobby succeeds, Franco will show Mr. Truman and Sec. Ache-son that he can thumb his nose at the U. S. government and rob the U. S. Treasury at the same time. Such an accomplishment will make the generalissimo as great a "statesman" as a Chicago publisher made him a military strategist —that is to say, the greatest in Europe.
For more than a year, Franco has refused to follow the advice Acheson has politely and gently
Trying to Execute Willie McGhee
fy the tyranny whereby he and his political generals, his fascist bullies, contractors and grafters fasten themselves upon the thin necks and bent backs of the Spanish people Yet Franco need only have gestured in thtf right direction, loos-The entry of Mississippi hoodlums into the sordid struggle over ened slightly his dictatorial mas-the tired body of Willie McGee must provide millions of "gooks" tery of press, industry and finance throughout Asia with food for thought. (Eight Chinese Communist or- and Acheson would have nodded ganizations have cabled protests to President Truman about the McGhee to the Export-Import Bank. Fran-case.) For five years, the state of Mississippi has been trying to execute co made no gestures, loosened no McGee, a thirty-seven-year-old Negro, for "raping" a white woman chains—for he mortally fears his who has admitted that at the moment in question an ill child was in own people—because he believes bed with her and her husband was in the next room. And for the best his lobby in Washington can get part'of five years the Communist Party, the Civil Rights Congress, and him the money he needs without various supporting newspapers have fought strenuously inMcGee's de- Acheson and Truman.
He counts on Sens. Brewster, McCarran, . Maybank and Walter George; on his "cultured" Spanish contact men in Washington; on his American "special legal counsel" hired at $50,000 a year; on the "cotton bloc;" on the cork importers; on New York bankers; and
big-
fense and three times played a strong part in securing last-minute reprieves. In the process they have also made enormous capital of the affair in headlines, mass-meetings, funds, and violent incidents. Supreme Court Justice Harold R. Burton wisely granted the latest stay of execution until the full court meets in the fall and can rule on a petition for review of the case. But on the previous evening a Chicago member of the C. R. C. and a white Mississippian serving as one of McGee's attorneys were set upon by a local mob at the Jrckson airport as they
left for Washington to plead before Justice Burton. In addition, a C.R.C. lib^ve^'aH on the Pentagon officer who the day before had argued loudly but futilely before Gov- brass s{ra'ieflisis ' ' ernor Fielding Wright in McGee's behalf was beaten up by a group of men who invaded his hotel room. And a Reporter from the New York Daily Compass was assaulted by still another gang and then hustled out of town by the police. The quasi-official support of these attacks may be inferred from a question asked by the Jackson Daily News in a frontpage editorial a week earlier: "Why the hell go to Korea to shoot Communists when the hunting is good on home grounds?" Are you listening. Korea? Are you listening, "gooks"? — (The Nation)
THE LAST WORD
Korea has become a known to most Americans today, but it was merely a country no one knew a few short weeks ago, and no one cared about her particularly.
• • •
Now most of us know that there are such things as imaginary lines running around the earth which are called parallels, and we have a pretty good idea where the 38th parallel runs. Incidentally, the opposite of these parallels are our lines of longitude which run up and down and all converge at the north and south poles.
By Duffy
word Wake up Americans—especially American laborites—you're asleep at the switch!
• • •
In these United States with a free press, it's good to know we can ask a lot of questions. Ask your candidate for congress where he stands on social security improvement, prepaid health and medical and hospital insurance (and we DON'T mean socialized medicine, either) . . . ask where he stands on repeal of Taft-Hartley, where he stands on taking the profit out of war.
The 38th parallel runs through the United States near such cities as Charlotte, N. C.; Lexington, Ky., Evansville, Ind.; Benton, III.; Du Quoin, III., and St. James, Mo.
• • •
Some of our American industrial brothers grabbed that Korean situation like a long lost country cousin as the peg on which they
can start gouging the public. • * *
Pork went up 31 cents with plenty of hogs available; coffee went up nineteen cents with more coffee In the country than they'va got ln Brazil; sheets for beds are unavailable . . . sugar went up eleven per cent in a 'lot of places ... all because of the human hogs who like to cash In on human greed and human suffering.
• ■ « •
Wonder how long it will take to wake up Congress to the need for price ceilings?
On the subject of, congress, it's mighty interesting to note that Taft started to get a $1,500,000 campaign fpnd by telling big business labor 'was going to raise $16,000,000 to beat him. Taft got his million and a half—labor raised less than $300,000.
Get all the answers—then you will know how to vote more intelligently . . . and if your candidate hedges on any of these question«, vote him down.
• • •
In the year which began last July 1 (the fiscal government year) and which will end next June 30, 1951, the government will give business 11 billion dollars in subsidies and grants, only six billions for social security, and only two
billions to farmers. %
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And business (big business, that is) is charging Uncle Sam through the administration, with being a welfare state. Ho Hum!
Franco's Washington lobby can override the President, the Secretary of State, our European allies, and democratic public opinion everywhere. So thinks Franco.
Irving Pflaum in Chicago Sun-Times.
Prolelarer Urvvts ihv
lllli S .MM Convention
A great deal has happened, and many changes have taken place since the day of the first or founding convention of the SNPJ, which was held in Chicago on April 6, 1904.
Only nine lodges were in existence at the time of the first convention. The majority of delegates were from Chi-vago, and with a few exceptions they also represented the lodges outside of Chicago. From this meeting in a small hall, and from the beginning charted by Slavia Lodge a few years before, grew the SNPJ, the organization now holding its 14th regular convention in Detroit.
In the 1950 edition of American Family Almanac there is an account of the movement to organize a progressive Slovenian Society. It shows the ^reat obstacles which had to be surmounted beiore the seed took root.
And even when the SNPJ had grown strong, other difficulties were encountered which endangered the life and progress of the youthful organization. There were often serious inner conflicts, but in the end the SNPJ always retained its original principles.
The changing conditions also brought problems which were solved with good results for the organization.
When it was no longer possible to secure new members from among new immigrants, the Society began to work among the youth and organized English lodges for this purpose.
In these youth or English lodges you have today members whose youthful years have passed, and whose children form the second American generation of our people. This has brought about external and internal changes in the SNPJ.
At first the Society functioned entirely in the Slovenian language, and only Slovenian was spoken at its conventions. Then it became bilingual; now Slovenian is giving way to English more and more.
Only the Society's principles have remained the same, except as they are being adapted to changing conditions.
The SNPJ has been unique in that it has never advertised itself as being only a good insurance institution—which it has always been—but it also entered the social field and participated in the struggle for social security, for legislation which would give protection to labor unions; in short, it worked for such "impossible" things long before some of them were legislated in the period of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.
Our work in these fields is far from finished. Much of the program which the SNPJ has outlined for itself in the social field is still to be accomplished. This work must go on because it is to the advantage of all who toil for their daily bread.
No other large fraternal benefit society in the United States has worked on the scene of the social struggle for justice and a better life so many years and with so much resolution as has the SNPJ. There were others, but none remained so energetic through the years as has the SNPJ.
Delegates of the 14th regular SNPJ Convention — PROLETAREC, the paper which has cooperated with your Society during the entire 45 years of its existence — greets you and extends its wishes for success in the tasks before you.
WHY NATIONS FEAR U. S. SEEK TO DOMINATE WORLD
Lobby Lists Economic Changes Needed To Win International Confidence
Citing a dozen facts making I 'social security' legislation — so the world fear us, which it holds property income has soared and no Voice of America can change, taxe» haven't. People's Lobby, Inc. through its 4 We have defi^iteered almost Secretary, has written Sen. Wm con,inuo"s,y. for 20 years, mak-Benton who is trying to get a ing us a lhreat to sma11 nation».
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special agency "to tell the world,"—"What do you propose
who know that spells aggression.
"5. The sun never sets on
. , . , , . - - i Americans' investments, conces-
tk , ? Cha?ge tHlS reCOrd? sions' mili*ary or naval bases, The letter reads: which creates the (eaf w fhaU
Permit me to suggest some of revert to the doctrine, where the the facts about the United States, ! American dollar or uniform which the leaders of every nation there is American territory in the world know, which we must | "8. We have broken faith ... change, before it is worth while Europe, China and Malays, and blowing in a lot of money to tell backed reactionaries and fascists the world how noble we are-al- and opposed social ownership in
is,
in
though we are not as vicious as some Russian broadcasts would make us out, and Russia does plenty of wholly inexcusable things.
Why U. S. Is Feared "Despite our shortcomings, America probably suffers more
Europe—though we agreed not to.
"7. We have used the slogan 'The American Century' and major program for future investment, envision and advertise 'breathtaking' profits. "8. Our Government or private
LITTLE LUTHER
B J JOHN PAINE
"Prices up, wages down, That's what makes a happy town," crooned Mr. Dilworth.
"And that makes you poet lau-I suppose,"
The 'Handout' State?
One out of every three new homes in the United States is paid for with a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration— FHA. And more than half of the people who bought homes with an FHA-guarantecd mortgage last year earned less than $4.000.
. Furthermore, since 1934 when FIIA was established its income has exceeded expenses by more than $160 million. The income is received from fees, insurance premiums and investment«. The figures are published in the
reate of the NAM, said Little Luther.
"Well, practically," Mr. Dil- annual report of the Housing and
worth said modestly. I'm rehears- Home Finance Agency,
ing for the local businessmen's js thjs the reason Senator Taft
association banquet. I thought says wr iive in a "welfare state"?
that instead of my usual speech, Is this what causes Senator Cape-
Id give them something new." hart to say we're headed toward
"What's new about that?" Little "socialism"?
Luther asked "You always give Is this why Chairman Gabriel-
them a song-and-dance about son of the Republican Party
"We have just one diplomat in Europe who is realizing what I am talking about. That diplomat is a woman, a Mrs. Anderson from Min-
from mental torpitude; than from citizens are grabbing all the na-
moral turpitude, but here are some tural resources throughout the
of our situations and practices we world they can locate, directly or
must change because they make through preclusive buying the world fear we shall try to I "9. Advertising has degenerated dominate it: j into an apology for exploitation
1 We have about 4,000,000 too and a device by which industry
many people trying to make a liv- may cheat the Government of
mg in times of peace, for our eco- taxes, to extol the system of pri-
nomic system, including surplus vate profits marginal farmers, coal miners, rail- "10. We have ignored every
road workers, excess personnel in basic proposal for the internation-
government jobs, etc., while war al controls of investments, natural
provides a way of getting full resources and
employment.' to world '
2. We are complete hypocrites peace, in calling our economic system "n. Only the billions Govern-pnvate enterprise," because big ment now spend on the cold war and little business, farmers, and and on defense —so largely wast-labor all ask a government hand- ed—prevents a collapse of our eco-out or intervention in one form nomy.
«j tv» I "12 Government policies have
3. Both New Deal and Fair in the past 17 years cut the value Deal have repudiated the Demo- of the dollar* almost in half—the cratic Party's alleged principle — crooked way of making the poor ending special privileges—and in- pay more than their share of stead have entrenched them, but Government costs. What do you tried to bribe the victim into ac- propose to do. to change this rec-quiescence, through subsidies and ord?" *
markets—essential prosperity and world
Korean Workers Oppresed ECA Labor Adviser Says
PORTLAND. Ore —Blaming the, prisons were bulging. I went U.S. diplomats for the "Korean through them, but no one else did."
fiasco." ECA labor adviser Stanley Earl, who returned here from Seoul
nesota. She represents us in Den- j July 14- expressed bitter condem-
mark. ,
" Mrs. Anderson forgets the swell dinners, the cocktail parties, and goes directly to the common people. She visits the workers, the farmers, the women, and tells them what democracy has done in our America.
"She is the best advocate of our way of life on the Continent. Until we learn the old way has passed and that the new way is upon us, we are not going to get very far with the peoples of the world."
No So Tough I
LOBBYISTS for the privately-owned electric utilities like to picture their industry as the "whipping boy for government," imperiled both by the competition of publicly-owned power plants and the control of regulatory bodies.
But the industry's own figures make such claims appear ridiculous. Recently It was disclosed that the net profit of the companies for the first half of 1950 was $448 million, compared with $392 million In the
prices. Anyway, what are you celebrating?"
"The emergency," said Mr. Dilworth happily. "Every time there's an emergency we have a banquet."
"And every time there's an emergency you raise prices."
"Correction, please^" Mr. Dil-wcrth said. "We don't raise prices, they just sort of seem to go up. Before we look around, bingo, prices are up! Very mysterious."
"Why don't you outsmart those mysterious forces and lower prices as soon as they go up?"
"Oh, we couldn't do that," said Dilw<*th, shocked. "If prices didn't go up, there wouldn't be a threat of inflation, and if there isn't a threat, we can't demand that they freeze wages."
"How about freezing the profits?" Little Luther asked.
"Can't hear a word you're saying," said Mr, Dilworth. "Just can't hear a word."
screams that something called the "handout state" has us in its gra.«p?
Is this what Senator Wiley means by "extravagance"?
A Farmer Views 'Cold War'
James G. Patton—everyone who really knows him calls him "Jim" —is a Coloradoan and president of the Farmers' Union, probably the most progressive of farmers' organ* i/ations. "Jim" has just returned from a tour of Europe. He doesn't think our "Brass Hats" and the "striped-trousers boys" from the State Department are doing a good job. H<*re is Jim's story:
"We are good, as Americans, in selling the world plows, airplanes, and all types of machinery, but the Russians have us backed off the boards in selling the world their ideas itntil we get a line of diplomats who will quit the old-fashioned way of holding cocktail parties for the near-great and get a group
Why Fuss About Hoarders?
We Just can't reconcile the stories
nation of conditions in South Korea.
Just evacuated with his family from South Korea, where he has been serving as a Marshall plan labor consultant since last fall, the former secretary of the Oregon
State CIO Council was scathing TT ™ «..u
in his criticism of the "corrupt" gnift in the army' Earl said' "al-Syngman Rhee government American diplomats.
The South Korean people had no confidence in the Rhee government, Earl said. "The workers had no faith in the. corrupt union leadership of the government-controlled unions, or in the word of the government itself in adjudicating the grievances."
The government tried to minimize the widespread corruption and
and
though it was there for anyone to see who took the trouble to look." u * , . i Earl said he knew of one South
He sa.d Congress should sub- Korean division commander who
us" Korean"" K T Ch8rged ™ one mil.ion wan
U S. Korean mi«ion and make a I a month for usp of their mess ^
"full and complete investigation of the Korean fiasco." Earl left for Washington July 19 to make a personal report to the ECA and he plans to talk to congressmen too. " I don think the Congress of the
tton\nrH|teingSenLOUt°,WaShing*lU S kn™ what was going on in
one Ln^ZT ^ Ko™ a"d * ^n t think the public
one hand, there is no reason for knew," he said.
IN A DAZE
"How did the Smith wedding go off?"
"Fine, until the parson asked the of diplomats who will really go out
bride if she'd obey her husband." among the farmers, the workers
What happened then?" and the common people, and sell
"She replied, Do you think I'm American democracy at we know
scime period of 1949 That la anjerazy?' and the groom, who was It, we still are nolng to be in this
increase of 13.2 per cent. in a sort of daze, replied, T do'." i cold war.
anybody to fear a scarcity because there is plenty of surplus. On the other hand, prices will go up if everybody fills the pantry shelves
Now if there is a surplus why should anybody care very much about hoarders. If people do it, the government — which is the greatest hoarder of them all i- need not do so. And if prices do rise — as they are doing — it would be better to have them go skyward after the people are supplied than before.
Our guess is that the people are more afraid of rising prices than of actual shortages. They want to get rid of their dollars because they see that dollars are losing value. And in so doing householders are acting not one bit different than business men or stock gamblers who buy heavily when they can get cheaper prices and twitch "securities" when they think they can benefit themselves by so doing
If all the eggs that the government has hoarded were made into one big omelet it frs^robable that the G.I.'s who learnedNybout powdered eggs only a few years ago would turn up their noses with the same contempt that many Americans must feel when they are told to buy lightly while corporations and speculator* are permitted to jack up the price of practically everything.
Describing how the South Korean army went completely to pieces the first day of the war. Earl said: "I wonder what now has happened to the arrogant, horse-riding South Korean officers who committed so many indignities on their fellow Koreans?"
Before it fell- apart, the South Korean army confiscated rice from
In an interview Earl said: " I'm going to tell the CIO and the AFL and the Brotherhoods of Railroad lhe P°Pulace ddy the war be Trainmen Just what conditions are Kan aUhou8h army warehouses in South Korea. were bulging with rice supplies,
"Some of our diplomats are too 1 EaPl revealed
much above the people," Earl said bitterly. "You can't instill democracy with cocktail parties for the big shots and conferences with the bankers. I told them to go out and talk to the people, but they never did."
Describing the South Korean workers as "oppressed, suppressed and regimented," Earl said: "I did not go over there to sit at a desk and liquidate the working class." The Syngman Rhee government, he said, couldn't distinguish between communism and unionism."
"The people I worked with w?re continually being put in Jail," Earl
He said the cost of a monthly supply of rice for a family of five was four times the $2.50 earned by the average Korean worker in a month under the country's runaway inflation. Workers in the coal mines, he said, were three months behind in their pay.
In the campaign preceding the May 30 parliamentary elections, Earl said, "Rhee charged all his middle-of-the-road' opponents with being Communists or leftists. Some of the opposition was thrown into Jail and subjected to the brutal police method« of a force atill made up in large part of Korean police
continued, adding that he spent who dominated their fellow Kore half his time trying to get the, an»* for 30 years under Japanese unionists released Finally, in dis-' ru,p-
gust, he demanded that he be sent back to Washington to explain what was going on. "I did not think the American labor movement should lend itself to anything so corrupt," he explained.
M I had no support," he said " I got clamped down." Last year, the Rhee government "put 150,000 people with families in jail. The
" The people kicked Rhee In the pants by electing the middle-of-the-roaders," Earl said. "Of the 200 seats only 31 were won by Rhee adherenU, while 121 middle-road-ers were elected." Whereabouts of the assemblymen has been undisclosed since the fighting broke out.
— (From Minneapolis Labor He-view.)