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FINANČNI "GENUI" SO "POČISTILI" 2EPE IN POVZROČILI KATASTROFO
na debelo. — Čezdalje globokeje v krizo, — plače in penzije za veletatove, jeca za male
Mogočni finančniki in indu-itriaki, ki so bili leta in leta opevani v kapitalističnem ča-
je ljudstvo izgubilo. Državni pravnik preiskuje, federalni sodnik preiskuje, listi zahteva-
sopisju kot graditelji bogastev jo preiskavo — zdaj, ko je pre-in splošnega blagostanja, so pozno, kajti tatovi ukradenih svoje stavbe vsled nebrzdane-! milijonov ne bodo dali nazaj, ga pohlepa po grabljenju zrn-/Vzeli so jih po postavah, kate-šili kakor hišo iz kart, in danes re si s svojimi kupljenimi zako-je njihov sloves sličen slovesu nodajci sami določajo sebi v kakega Caponea, s to razliko, prid.
da js Capone bil poslan v ječo, j Keko brutalno nepošten je oni pa dobivajo penzije! kapitalizem, dokazujejo baš v
NEZADOVOLJNI FARMARJI DEMONSTRIRAJO
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Vzrok je, da spada Capone v primeri z njimi med male roparje, zato so ga prijeli. Ameriške železnice so v ban-
teh časih polomi velikih kom-panij in finančnih zavodov. Ce hi ameriško ljudstvo hote-^ t lo, bi lahko imelo v zbornicah taotnem stanju, ker so jih slo- j svoje zastopnike, kateri bi skr-viti "managerji" ogulili do ko- beli za kontrolo nad korpora-«ti. Ne le, da si sami nakazu-| cijami takrat, ko bi kaj izda-I jejo plače po sto do dve sto ti- la, ne pa šele preiskavah, ko tot dolarjev na leto in nekateri je polom vsakemu viden.
J*	imaJ> P|a- V Zed. državah je vpliv
Wni listi kopo sorodnikov ter, špekulantov vrhovna oblast, tnnado protežirancev, ki pre- Republikanska in demokratska
stranka sta njihovi. Vse zakonodaje jim služijo. Nad sabo nimajo nobene efektivne kontrole. Posledica je, da je danes ljudstvo oropano, da so
jemajo od $10,000 do $80,000 na leto plače, brez da bi v resnici izvrševali kako delo.
Vpropaščanje bank je slično
poglavje. Vsega skupaj je Slo ______________________
v prošlih desetih letih 8,000 delavci*in YannatfiViwmani-«ank k vragu. Le kakih 3,000 kanju in da 30,000,000 ljudi Jih je propadlo po krivdi go- strada. Beraštvo na debelo je «podarekih razmer v prizade- v takem položaju neizogibno, tti okrajih, pet tisoč pa zara- Kriza se p0 krivdi "velikih fi-<U nepoštenosti vodij in špe- nančnih in industrialnih genijev" veča. Toda oblast hočejo držati naprej in so se spet z vso močjo pognali v volilni boj. Ljudstvo slepe s tekmo za službe med demokrati in republikanci. Naj zmagajo eni ali drugi, špgkulantje zmagajo v vsakem slučaju toliko časa, dokler se ljudstvo ne obrne od podpiranja kapitalistične politike in se izreče za socializem. To je zanj edina rešitev.
Stavko farmarjev proti oderuškim conam, katere jim dajejo za pridelke prekup-ci, niao izoliran pojav. Poljedelci v vaeh državah ae puntajo zoper sedanje razmero. Govemerji devetih agrikulturah držav ameriške Unije ao ae nedavno zbrali na posvetovanje v Sioux City ju, Iowa, da ao s zastopnici farmarjev posvetujejo, kaj storiti za od pomoč sedanjemu stanju. Ob tej priliki ao farmarji priredili demonstracijo, ki jo prikazuje ta slika. RekK ao, da zahtevajo rezultat©*» ne aamo konference. Norman Thomas jim je na^hodu dejal, da bo njihov položaj izboljšan, ko ae izrečejo za socialistični program agajo k zmagi socialistični stranki.
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kulantake mani je, ker so ho-teli na račun ljudskega denarja postati milijonarji, pa so se mnogi ukanili, ker je pač tudi med bankirji pravilo, da velike ribe žro male. Le ljudstvo, ki je ob svoje z delom prisluže-ne prihranke, je na izgubi.
V Chicagu in v državah o-»ednjega zapada so ljudje ob ¿«trt milijarde dolarjev, ki so izginili po tokih Insullovih kom-panij v žepe špekulantov. Časopisi pišejo le o izgubah, — o velikanskih izgubah v Insul-iovem labirintu špekulantakih kompanij, ne povedo pa, kdo ima tistih $250,000,000, ki jih
USPEHI IN NEUSPEHI EKONOMSKIH NAČRTOV PJAT1LETKE V SOV. UNUI
Preveč optimizma.—Težkoče v industriji — Nazadovanje izvoza. — Premalo živil.—Sovražne vesti
FARMER-LAROR PARTY V MINNESOTI SE UDINJALA DEMOKRATOM
Minnesotska Farmer-Labor Party je, vaaj kar ae njenih vodilnih "politianov" tiče, postala le podružnica demo-kratske stranke. Demokratski štab je obljubil, da bodo demokratje pomagali kandidatom F.—L. strank« v državne urade, ako v pomračilo ajjitirajo za Rooae-▼•Ita. Mnogi člani Farmer-Labor stranke ao temu brez-načelnemu, oportuniatične-«»u paktu naaprotovali. Izjavili ao, da bodo podpirali kandidaturo Norman Tho-"®aea in Jamoa H. Maurerja. Za demokrata Rooeeveita a-fitira med drugimi governor ki je bil izvoljen na foti Farmer-Labor etranke, »n več drugih visokih držav-n>h uradnikov, Id ee amatra->a voditelje farmarake-de-••vake atranke. To Jo zalednim delavcem v Mmneeo-J*Ma, katera jim priča, da bodo imeli načelno pošteno delavsko gibanje šele» ko si Sgrad« v svoji državi eociali-stranko.
STARA PRIZADEVANJA KEMIKOV ZA UMETNO IZDELOVANJE ZLATA
Nemški znanstvenik Heinz von Bohndorff pravi, da je iznašel praktičen način za izdelovanje zlata. V svojem pro-
cesu rabi živo srebro ter razne kemikalije. Njegovo iznajdbo zdaj preiskušajo v nemških laboratorijih. 2e mnogokrat prej je en ali drug kemik iznašel proces za izdelovanje zlsta, ki pa je bilo veliko dražja kakor
Ves kapitalistični tisk z veseljem razlaga, da se petletni načrt za industrializacijo sovjetske Unije ni posrečil, in da je življenski stan d srd za večino prebivalcev v Rusiji celo nižji <kakor je bil. Mnogo potrebščin se je podražilo. Se vedno je treba pred trgovinami čakati v vrstah in marsičesa si delavec sploh privoščiti ne more, ker so cene previsoke. Nove tovarne producirajo povprečno komaj 50 odstotkov od količine, ki jim jo je določil petletni načrt. Letina je v splošnem slabša kakor lani. Kolektivne farme niso izpolnile pričakovanja.
To je ena stran slike, ki jo prikazujejo poročevalci tuje-zemskih listov iz Moskve ali iz obmejnih mest.
Druga stran je, da si je sovjetska vlada zamislila svoj petletni načrt skrajno optimistično, kar je bilo iz taktičnega stališča opravičljivo, kajti z negovanjem takih nad je delavstvo pripravila v aktivnosti, katerim se je čudil ves svet. Nova mesta so res rasla kar preko noči in v teku nekaj let si je Rusija zgradila velikanske tovarne, elektrarne in mnogo drugega kar potrebuje za svoj gospodarski razvoj. Ker svojih tehnikov nima zadosti, si je pomagala z inženirji iz Amerike, Nemčije in Anglije. Dajala jim je visoke plače in jim poskribela za komfoit, kakršnega so bili vajeni doma. Mašinerijo je naročala iz inozemstva. To jo je stalo visoke
vsote. Dokler je mogla uvoz kriti z dohodki izvoza, je šlo. Toda Evropa je danes slab trg, Azija ravno tako in dohodki so padli. Tako je tudi sovjetska vlada prišla v finančne zagate, v katerih si doma pomaga s tiskanjem denarja, toda v | mednarodni trgovini papirnat , denar, ki je brez pokritja, ne velja.
Dograjene tovarne tudi ne morejo z nerzvežbanimi delavci, ki so večinoma sinovi muži-kov, producirati prvi teden, prvi mesec ali prvo leto toli-j ko, kakor producirajo npr. Fordovi delavci v Detroitu. Ru-I ske tovarne traktorjev niso izpolnile nade, ker delajo počasi. Vzelo bo pač nekaj let, predno se ruske delavce izvež-ba v obratovanju moderne, industrije, po metodah masne produkcije.
Življenski standard se vsled teh okolščin res ni dvignil, razen v nekaterih mestih, in to le med delavci, ki so deležni privilegijev komunistične stranke. V splošnem je to jesen celo slabši. Optimisti in prijatelji Rusije v drugih deželah, ki so se divili velikanskim načrtom pjatiletke in občudovali ogromno energijo vsega naroda, so poparjeni. Toda bil bi čudež, če bi primitivna, zaostala Rusija res kar preko noči, v teku petih let, postala moderna industrialna dežela. Saj je že to, kar je v industrializaciji dozdaj dosegla, ogromen uspeh. In to je komaj začetek.
SLEPARJI PONUJAJO ZA PETAK MOČ IN 'MLA-DENIŠK0 SVEŽOST
pa zlato, ki se ga dobiva iz povprečno bogate zlate rude. Da-li bo Bohndorffov proces ceno za produciranje te rumene kovine znižal, ni še znano. Na sliki je Heinz von Bohndorff v svojem laboratoriju«
Profit plinske družbe
Cikaška plinska kompanija Peoples Gas Light and Coke je napravila v drugem četrletju tega leta po odbitku vseh stroškov $1,682,432 čistega prebitka, ali $2.85 na delnico.
Raketirske firme oglašajo poslednje tedne v jugoslovanskih časopisih med drugim zdravilo, ki povrne izčrpanim moškim "mladeniško čilost". Oglas zatrjuje, da gotove pilu-le, ki jih je "iznašel" ta in ta sloviti zdravnik, pomagajo tudi 60 let Staremu moškemu, da postane krepak kakor fant. Za pet dolarjev dobi to zdravilo, in seveda, če prvo naročilo ne pomaga, je treba pošiljati pe-take toliko časa, da pomaga, oziroma dokler ni žep prazen, ali dokler betežnik ne spozna, da ga goljufajo z ničvrednimi pilulami. "Proletarec" je te vrste oglas odklonil, čeprav potrebuje dohodkov, ker je taka reklama insult na zdravo človeško pamet in direktno goljufiva. Listi, ki ga priobčujejo, bodo zapeljali z njim mnogo nevednih ljudi, ki ne razumejo ničesar o zdravstvu, pa bodo iskali "fantovstvo" s temi pilulami. Da bo petakov še več, pravi oglas, da tudi ženskam pomagajo, da postanejo spet kot mladenke, namreč v seksualnem oziru. Oglas je sestavljen previdno, da bi oblast fakirjem ne mogla takoj do živega, toda dovolj vabljivo, da posega v ljudske žepe po pe-take.
Vsak list v Ameriki \e odvisen od subvencii
NOBEN UST v tej deželi ne bi mogel izhajati samo z dohodki naročnine. Vsi prejemajo podporo v eni ali drug! obliki. Delavski listi jo dobivajo direktno od delavcev, kapitalistični listi pa po ovinkih—OD DELAVCEV. Kapitalisti, ki subvencirajo svoje publikacije, namreč ne zaslužijo denarja, torej razdajajo tistega, ki so ga vzeli delavcem in farmarjem.
Železniške kompanije, zavarovalnice, živilska industrija, borze, banke itd., si kupujejo propagando. V preiskavah je bilo dokazano, da so gotovi interesi plačali za priobčitev enega uredniškega članka v prilog žitne borze v Chicagu štiri tisoč dolarjev, ker je napravil vtis, da je zagovarjal dotičn0 skupino list sam s stališča svoje politike, ne pa po naročilu. Oglasit se pozna da je plačan. Članek ali poročilo napravi vtis iskrenosti in več zaleže kakor očitno plačana reklama.
Milijone in milijone dolarjev gre kapitalističnim listom na ta način, in stotine milijonov dolarjev dobe za oglase. Trgovina, ali banka, ali katerakoli kompanija ne da ničesar za oglase iz svojega, kajti ves denar dobi od klijentov in odjemalcev. Tovarne, ki izdelujejo milo ,trošijo ogromno za oglašanje. Pri vsakem kosu mila plačate polovico za reklamo in plačujete zanjo pri vsakem drugem blagu. Ce bi plačano oglašanje odpadlo, bi se nešteto Stvari pocenilo POLOVICO m vec. Ljudstvo, DELAVSKO ljudstvo je torej tisti faktor, ki SUR-VENCIRA vse liste.
Socialistične publikacije ne dobivajo subvencij kakor kapitalistične ,kar se razume samo po sebi. Za svoje vzdrževanje se obračajo na delavce DIREKTNO. Prodano časopisje to dejstvo izrablja, češ, glejte, kaiko "prosijo" miloščine! Resnica je, da je podpora, ki jo dobe delavski listi direktno ali indirektno, MALENKOST v primeri s podporo, ki jo dobivajo kapitalistični, brezbarvni" ter "nestrankarski" listi.
Vsa glasila vseh podpornih organizacij so subvencirana. Moraš jih plačevati, hočeš-nočeš. List, ki je bil glasilo banke, je živel od nje, in ko je zaprla vrata, prejema podporo od šifkartaške agencije, katero s0 ustanovili isti ljudje, kot s» preje vodili banko. To je "podpora", katere pa ne prizna, pač pa pravi, "da ni še nikdar prosil zase milodarov". Ta njegova izjava je pesek v oči nemislečim čitateljem.
Slovenski listi, ki jemljejo politične oglase in priobčujejo članke in novice za plačilo, letos sicer ne bodo imeli tolikšno žetev kakor pred 4. leti,toda bodo vendarle dobili veliko več, kot pa dobe delavski listi v svoje tiskovne fonde. Vsak list stane toliko in toliko vsaka izdaja. Naročnina jo ne plača. Razliko pokrijejo z oglasi in DRUGIMI viri, ki so jim v podporo, pa če to dejstvo še tako zakrivajo pred čitatelji. Časopis, ki trdi, da ne služi nobeni politični stranki, prav gotovo prejema od političnih strank več, kakor pa npr. socialistična glasila, ki od svoje stranke res ne prejemajo gmotne podpora.
Noben delavski list ne "berači" in ne "prosi milodarov". Razlika je le, da apelira za podporo direktno na one, katerim SLU21, prodani in bizniški listi pa jo dobivajo na "svoje" načine, katerih nočejo razlagati. Kadar subvencijo izgube, propadejo prav tako kakor delavski listi, če ne dobe dovolj oporo med čitatelji.
Naše priredbe
Library, Pa. — Konferenca klubov JSZ in društev Prosvetne matice v nedeljo 25. septembra v Slovenskem domu.
Chicago, III. — V nedeljo 25. septembra piknik naročnikov in drugih prijateljev Pro-letarca pri Keglu v Willow Springsu.
Girard, O. — Piknik naročnikov Proletarca in drugega občinstva v nedeljo 25. septembra.
Chicago, III. — Shod v sredo 5. oktobra v dvorani SNPJ. Glavna govornika James H. Maurer in William A. Cunnea.
Koliko dobe socialisti glasov?
Kapitalistični žurnali«ti ugibajo, da dobi Norman Thomas od enega in pol do dva milijona glasov. Največ, kar je soc. stranka dobila glasov dosedaj, Je bilo nekaj nad 900,000. Oddani so bili 1. 1920 za Eugene V. Debsa. Ce bodo letos vsi člani dovolj aktivni v agitaciji, so tu pogoji, da dobi socialistični predsedniški kandidat ne le več milijonov glasov, nego da »e soc. stranka pojača in posta* ne politična sila, kakršna je a-meriškemu delavstvu nujno potrebna.
Novi klubi JSZ
Dne 11. septembra je bil u-rftanovljen klub JSZ na Maple Heights pri Clevelandu. Pristopilo je šest članov. Ustanovnega sestanka se je udeležil Chas. Pogorelec in več cle-velandskih sodrugov.
S. sodelovanjem s. Jos. Snoyja je bil ustanovljen klub JSZ v naselbini Farrell-Sharon v Pa. Akcije za ustanovitev ali obnovitev klubov JSZ so v teku v več drugih naselbinah.
Tudi dokaz krize
Nad milijon strank v Zed. državah je v tem letu odpovedalo telefonske naprave, ker ni denaija.
ALBANIJA JE NA CIKASKIH ULICAH
"Balkanski" prizori v sredini
Chicaga. — Izganjanje zk*>
čincev je zagovarjanje mesta
Čikaški župan Anton Cermak je v prošlem poletju potoval po evropskih mestih in pravil, da so vesti o "kriminalnem valu" v Chicagu pretirane, kajti Chicago je mesto, ki neguje mir in red ter pazno skrbi za varnost prebivalcev. Isti dan, ko se je Cermak povrnil v Chicago, se je vršila v trgovskem delu mesta ob belem dnevu bitka med tolovaji in policaji, v kateri je bilo par mimoidočih ljudi ustreljenih. Taki boji ▼ Chicagu niso nič izrednega. In noben prebdvalec v tem mestu ni varen pred tolovaji, ne po-dnevu in Še manj ponoči. Zasmehovanje balkanskih dežel od strani Čikaških dnevnikov je torej krivično in neupravičeno, ker imajo dovolj balkanizma doma.

Thomasovi shodi ^
Norman Thomas bo govoril dne 26. sept v Milwuakeeju, dan pozneje pa v Racine in Kenoahi. Dne 28. sept. bo govoril v Superirju, Wis., in Du~ luthu, Min.
A Jugoslav Weekly Deveted to the Interest of the Workers.
Official Organ of Jugoslav Federation, 8. P.
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OUR AIM: EDUCATION, ORGANIZATION, CO-OPERATVE,
COMMONWEALTH
What's Wrong with Democracy?
Dictatorship Not the Remedy. Depose Industrial Oligarchy
s so far ap-
LABOR AND THE F STOCK MARKET
When a captain of industry asserts that democracy in America has failed, and that it would be better to put one man in control, you may be sure that he is not concerned about the welfare of the American people, but only about the welfare of hia own class.
American copy of Mussolini? Has Mussolini made such a success of his rule in Italy that anyone could wish to have it imitated and repeated in the United States?
Outright capitalism is better than Fascism. With all its woes,
Democracy,
It seems there is some relation between the idle rich and
plied, has its faults. And its the stock market. You have faults grow out of the capital-; no doubt heard it said that the istic social order.	•
This country has been trying to have political democra-
idle rich live off the stock market.
It seems there is some relat-
cy alongside of industrial au- »on between the idle worker This is the whole an<* the ¿stock market. You
Amercer, is better off than The rule of the capitalist Italy r the dictator. Even class in America certainly has the capitalists of America are brought enough chaos to give j better cf. than the capitalists concern to any thinking 01 Italy, person. But are we to take our advice about the future from the very class that has made such a miserable failure in the past and present?
Even from their own point of view, what can the owners
have no doubt heard it said that the stock market lives off labor.
Now that laibor is idle, and
aid the stock market gamblers. The crop reporting service of the department of agriculture tells of tomorrow's breakfast. There is not a commodity sold that its consumption record is not being carefully kept. But profits stands across the way and says you cannot eat unless you feed the stock market, the idle rich. And it makes good with its command of the high-Way of life like a brigand of old, and will so command your life until you co-operate.
—Herald of Co-operation.
Voting for the Best Man?
by norman thomas.
And That's That
•their special privilege to rob the rest of the people may be
and exploitera expect from an taken away.
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Our paper has been hit very hard in this depression yet with the spirited assistance from the comrades we have pulled thru until very recently. But lack of money by the people and the advertising corporations has reduced the treasury completely and stacked up many bills. And then the call for help and now the loyal response. What other but a Socialist publication can ask and get the needed revenue. Comrades and sympathizer« contribute because they are loyal; because, while being in a snail minority, they know that they ore assisting in building a world of the future, a world in which we all may work and live decently. They give and will continue to give, even while in hurts, to make their paper survive. No other but a man of principle, a man that's pledged to a cause can be so devoted and so willing. The money is coming in slowly. In the meantime we have had to lower our expense. The two
tocracy. This is trouble with democracy. We have political democracy to a certain extent, but we have industrial oligarchy. The in-	. dustrial oligarchy puts the bulk there is unemployment, the iffBH I .. „ . -of wealth in the hands of a stock market suffers from a 1 he desire of some capitalists few These few, therefore, depression. If labor does not for a dictator in this country \ fyn^ w|th which to produce the goods, then busin-is clearly due to a fear thatmiseducate the populace and ess cannot gamble in them. The justice may otherwise be done t thp lK>iitiCal democracy ff**ible slows up because labor
to them—that is a fear thht	political democracy unemD,oved The ffamblGr A cloudless sky from morn till
to inem—inat is, a iear mat into wrolvg channels by poiso<n- » unemployed ine gammer,	^ s lerriW the
ing the minds of the voters. | cannot give the order to the eleventhf the ^ o{ ^ socialist The remedy for this con- engineer, to the worker, to the( party-, picnic at Lukas' Grove in dition is not dictatorship, but useful. Why should we ever, Vandling. The picnic was well ad-
mnra Hpmiwrflrv	i have allowed him to give the vertised. Our posters were distri-
more democracy.	order'	buted throughout Forest City, Brown-
Slowly but surely, the truth	' „ - . . .. - dale, ard Vandling. The crowd
. Cannot useful people direct ^ g^tred ^ the ^ t0 liat4?n to
the labor of useful people? To our speaker, Joaeph Oven and later do SO is for the useful to CO- in the evtninj to enjoy dancing and operate. There is no other the sight of the crowded grove and way for the useful people to refreshment stands throughout the 4.__. f	I afternoon and evening, repaid us well
give the order to the engineer. for <yur work and tnmbl# in ^^
Have we not had enough ofing the picnic>
the gamblers and their busin- Comrade Oven spoke in English
ess, of their foreign trade wars, and Slovene. He proved thai there
of their nationaliam, of their is absolutly no difference between
rationalizations? p**1«*. ^P»Mcans •t*r	. 1 .. _ t_____and the Democrats. They are both
We want a better barometer owned and controlled by the rich. of consumption than that Of They both serve big business and the stock market. In fact, there therefore, have nothing in store for are several better barometers the workingman. He described some
There are those who say: "Never mind the parties; we know they aren't much good. We'll vote for the best man or at any rate the least bad man who is likely to win." But you can't be sure who he is and so in this time of crisis the A. F. of L. executive council is neutral and endorses neither Hoover nor Roosevelt. Some state federations, I believe, have endorsed Roosevelt. Well, let me j say that you can't endorse the presidenta! candidate without endorsing his party. The Democratic party today is not the
party of Thomas Jefferaon or Andrew Jackson. It is the party of that great foe of liberty and labor, former Attorney General A. Mitchell. Palmer, chief author of this year's platform of Vincent Astor who has eih dorsed Roosevelt, of Tammany Hall, of the Southern Reactionaries, foes of labor legislation, foes of Negro rights, authon of poll tax laws to keep even white workers from voting. What an army to fight labor1! battles! An angel from heaven couldnt reform that party. And Roosevelt is no such angel!
school teachers are still unpaid. The city employees, fireman and policemen are still waiting for their back pays. Chicago is so broke so Mayor Cermak wished to dodge the horror of all this, turned toward Europe with an explanation that the city of Chicago is in the best of condition to receive the visitors for next yean Worlde Fair. One other thing worried our Mayor. The unemployed are still broke and waiting for
are still
jdbe or food and ahelter and there is none of any of these in store for them. You workers can well remember at the ballot box next novemf-ber that our Democratic Mayor went to Europe to avoid a port of the responsibility to provide relief. Don't be fools to vote for his colleague Roosevelt.
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Mayor Cermak's choice for governor of Illinois is rounding up the poor fish for his election by telling
about this condition has been reaching the minds of more and more of the people, in spite of the poisoning process above referred to. The hope for democracy lies in the probability that a majority of the people will learn the truth and act upon it.
And what must they do?
They must use their POLITICAL democracy for the purpose of securing INDUSTRIAL democracy.
The shortcomings of political democracy, being due to the prevailing industrial oligarchy, can be removed by removing that oligarchy. So far, the country has been trying to get along half slave and half free —a condition which the wise Lincoln said cannot last
Take the great
that have been developed to
of the results of the present day decaying capitalistic system. Plentiful .	crops of wheat and coffee—people
voice and vote in industry asking hungry. Plenty of cotton—
, the farmers and workers that he'll together will stem the tide—but to! cut their taxes and assure the farm-
rebuild—^ire'11 have to put more power] er a better return for his products
behind the rescue crews. You young numbers of the Federation! The fall and winter aeason for indoor activities is at hand. Why not selected a committee to aell literature at every Slovene affair, im which you could »bcIvkW tW uU of Pralotanoc. Set aside a revolving fund with which to buy the first bundle. Then, aa money is realised from its resale secure more bundles. In this way you can acquaint many people with our paper and secure many subscribers.
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Every Socialist publication, that is, the English publications, has gained many new readers thro these methods. The American Guardian has its Minute Men, The American Freeman its army, America For All its bundle brigsde, etc., what's wrong with Proletarec having its recruits or guards, too? Socialism is gaining so rapidly and the people are taking things nrfore seriously than ever before. We can help in turning that tide for Socialism so much quicker if we place a bundle recruit in every town and if the your« folks assist the recruits.
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On Sunday September 26, we will be in Willow Springs again. On that date readers and sympathisers of our paper in Chicago and vicinity will assemble on the well known Kegel's Grove. The purpose of the affair is to raise money for the sustaining fund of Proletarec. There will not be any admission charge. From the sentiment gathered we are to have a god attendance. Challenges and counter challenges as to who may be the champion ballina thrower have been issued and we expect that this question will be setUed on this date. We urge our many friends to spend Sunday Sept 26, at Kegel's Grove and have good time in the open during thie Indian summer.
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Chicago's Mayor went to Europe for his health but while in Europe had little time to devote to the recovery of his health. Chicago wasn't as bad a place as the newspapers have made it. That means Mr Cermak was not sick at all but merely fooling the people about the purpose of his trip. Upon his return last week Chicago gave him o great welcome. Several thousand! people took part |n the democratic festivities. Chicago is in a hellofa fix. The
if elected. How he expects to do that he doesn't my. Politicians of either the republican or democratic parties are always vogue on these matters. They have no plans or program. They just shoot off a lot of wind which blows over soon after the election and the poor fish who vote for them are stung just once more. No Mr. Horner, you can't cut taxes as long as your political machine carries a lot of dead weight with it That's the place you should —but you won't cut off—that dead weight—getting paid for doing nothing.
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And the buddies of the late war yelled louder and louder, B—B. (Beer and Bonus). They met, loads of them got drunk again, shrieked a couple of times and then went home again. Did they ask for a planned America? No. Jobs; no.—They only want their beer and bonus, even if they have all they want to drink.
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We were happy that the referendum vote on the liquor plank for the Socialist platform was carried. We are now the only political party that has the proper solution for a miserably spciled question. We say, repeal the 18th amendment and let the government own, operate and distribute liquor in a sane way and if the people in any State want to be
dry—let them be.
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Farmers are striking In many States of the middle west Coal miners are being beaten for peaceful assemblage and picketing. The bonus army was gassed and chased front Anacostia with bullets and clubs. Everywhere there is struggle and strife and the workingman always on the side that gets flubbed. They tell us it is sgainst the law to use violence against the government yet that same government is responsible for some of the most atrocious criminal and violent acts. It is one law for the governed and another law for the governors. What costly lessons the workers suffer and all because they do not listen to those who want thevn good.
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Four million votee for the Socialists, comes the cry from last weeks America for AU. What a scare that would put into the political bluffers of the two old parties. It is your job nnd mine to help bring about thooe 4,000,000 votes.
out of the control of the industrial oligarchy. Make them collective property, owned by all the people. Introduce into them as great a degree of democratic management as is
well as in politics.
Then democracy will be a success.
Political democracy is only a part of democracy. It is only a preparation for real industries democracy. Industrial democ-
racy is the real thing. The people have votes—they have political democracy—and they can use their political democracy to secure industrial democracy. It is our task to
practicable, so that everyone educate them to do so. will feel that he or she has a —The Milwaukee Leader.
people walking around In rags. Thousands of shoe factory employeee idle—people walking around barefooted. He explained Socialism and its principles, what it is and what it Is not He made it plain that the Socialist Party is the party of the working man and urged every working man to cast his vote for his party in November.
Mr. 4 Anton Zaitx acted as chairman for the afternoon. About three hundred copies of the Socialist Party platform were distributed among the crowd. All in all, this was the biggest an rrfoat successful affair ever sponsored by branch 10.
Joooph Draslor, Forest City, Pa.
"Misled by Headlines"
An indignant citizen of Scarsdale, ;N. Y., takes the New York Herald-, Tribune to task for the misleading h^dlines that paper prints over its news dispatches. Says Mr. Striclr-lsstd:
The desire of the last two or three yean, to create a spirit of hopefulness in readers of American newspapers has led to grave abuses.
Undoubtedly it is true that we used to be a nation of "headline read or-grabbing a paper skimming over the headlines and then talking as if we had gotten the meat out of the article.
Such a superficial study( if you can dignify it by such a name) was not handful as long as the headlines gave an accurate idea of the content of the article itself. It has always been my idea that such was the purpose of the headline. Other* have had the same naive thought
The people of this country have had to put up with a great real of propaganda of many varieties in recent years. We have had one dose after another of Pollyannism enunciated all the way from the White House down to our socalled financial' counsels and statistical companies.
We buy our papers for information and a reasonable approximation of the truth. The only justification for a newspaper's existence for its readers is the attempt of that paper to present the truth. Its headlines should be a boiled-down essence of the important feet of the article itself.
Americans are sick and tired to death of the type of pap which has been poured down their throats the last few years. Their confidence will return more quickly when they feel the truth is being told to them than it will if they believe they are being 'Skidded along".
—Fred D. Warren..
down those who are fighting for living wages.
Max Korosec, a Slovene wrote iron Russia that he is still in the land of the living and that he will return to Detroit. He is lonesome for the old gang. His chief amWraent is killiig flies and mosquitoes. Max is a member of lodge No. 664 SNPJ here in Detroit
Judge Callender of the Traffic Court here returned from a vacation in Sovietland. Fond of cigars the judge was pleased to find ten cent brands available in Leningrad, but had to pay $3 for four. Because the government owns all trucks and pas* senger cars in Russia, judge CaUes-der said Traffic Courts are not is-portant He was provided by the fov* ernn/ent with a big sedan car for sightseeing.
Picnic Reports.
The Slovene National Home Society has postponed their scheduled picnic of September 18, to some date next year as the weather is getting too cold to hold outdoor events.
The Ladies Club of the SND hart cancelled their picnic to be held Saturday, September 10, due to the marriage of two well known Slovean of Detroit, Miss Mary Ann Ansicok to Mr. Leo Golcar. Congratnlstlwl And row Gmm Jr., Detroit Midi
This and That
Recently the undersigned had the opportunity to visit Mexico. Some people in this country are still very religious and at one time the Catholic church played a very important part in political affairs.
In the town of Reynosa Tarrfpa are many saloons which depend on American trade. Majority of them are owned by Americans, but the licenses are taken out on some Mexican citizen because Americans cannot own property within 80 miles from the border. This primitive city is a 100 years behind the times. No water-works. All the water is brought from the muddy river in harrels by carts pulled by mules. There are no paved streets, very few automobiles and the people live a care free life. While there I saw a bull fight During the bull fight all business is suspended until the fight is over.
I also visited the coal strike region in southern Illinois. I met the miners as they were returning from their ill fated march upon Franklin county where they were greeted with bullets, their cans wrecked and received other body injuries. If this county had a Socialist sheriff such \ungs would not happen. People should begin to realise that only by putting Socialists in office can they prevent such act-ion. A Socialist sheriff would never deputise a group of school kids, give them guns and tell them to shoot
An Open Letter
To the Slovene and CxechosM Singing Societies:
As I listened to your songs st tk Norman Thomas mass-meetiflf I wondered if you realised year importance in that wonderful prognm
Thousands of people had coom there to hear the message of one of the greatest statesmen America «■• ever produced.
.Your singing inspired and thrilled us. It was an ideal introduction.
Some day, perhapo not so far distant, a new world will be bom— and you singers are going to ploy a great part in bringing it abovt
Yours for o Singing Socialism, J. R. Cook, Cleveland, Ohio.
Important Dates for Cfiicagoans
The readers of Proletarec hs" made arangements for a picnic to be held Sunday, September 25, at Kegel's Grove in Willow Springi. A program of games, novelity race and other frolic events wiU take place. Ih the dance pavilion Johnny Kochevar's orchestra will supply the rythm for both old and young da**» lovers. In case of rain this affair will be held in the lower SNPJ Hall Invite your friends along and enjoy your afternoon with the reader« of Proletarec. The admission b e
Comrade James H. Msnrer, c;alist candidate for vice president will speak at the SNPJ Hall on Wednesday, October 6. Several ether speakers will also be among them Wm. Cunnea, candidste for States Attorney on the Farmed Labor ticket The admission w01 1* free. Everybody welcome!
Keeping in Practice
"What's become of that hit-and-
run driver?"	^
"He's now doing his rtunt on m
prison baseball team."
—TS* WaHn*
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