PROLETAREC JE
DELAVSKI LIST
ZA MISLEČE ClTATELJE
PROLETAREC
Glasilo Jugoslovanske Socialistične Zveze in Prosvetne Matice
ST. — NO. 2222
Eaicrvti m mouJ re%oj\i urednik
"Starec se je pomikal presled->ma in tipal s palico — bil je ep. A nihče mu ni pomagal. Vsakdo je šel svojo pot in mislile nase in na vojno."
Kaj pa južno-korejska armada?
Nekaj dni predno je udarila v južno korejo severokorejska
Tudi malo korejsko vojno so špekulanti izrabili za dobičke
Špekulanti i živili so vojno
jL«hn ari"i0 T" , ,le"rv ? fure je dne 15 ju* | borbo proti agresiji severne Koli rt nupcle/i, izrabili u pudra- lija izjavil, da bo podpiral vlado reje, ki mora biti za to kalitev
i. v. raznih i.vljensklh potreb- ,v«Je dežele in Združene narode m ru kaznovana Watlace fndru
sen m se bu,fe se obeta. V liste v konfliktu s komunistično se- ,1 predstavniki so imeli Itei
so veletrgovcii spravili vesti, da verno Korejo. Ker je to ob enem njegoT zZi in nekai žTn«
namerava vlada v kratkem spet konflikt _ indirektno vsa i J ze PreJ
Sai"SSs-i:* Sovjetsko zvezo, je na- med ^jimi ni prišla VValiace^e In mesar ali grocerist ti ne sme narodom tudi v tem oziru vT ^l tXfil "1
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katere potem prodajalec odda sploh kdaj, merodajnemu kontrolnemu uradu, da potem spet lahko nakupi
ie prestopkov in vnanje politi-
News Keyes Beech piše s korej-| J° Je vežbal in oboroževal z a skega bojišča med drugim: "Sku- meriško municijo. Štela je v ča-šeni ameriški vojaki niso v skr- su invazije iz severne Koreje beh toliko kaj je pred njimi kot 95,000 mož, vsi pod orožjem. Le pa kdo je za njimi in ob stra-- niodernih ameriških tankov ni neh . . . Rezultat tega je, da im■ m *c —kzzcxcjts ssz r:sFr2 sswsrs-:
to všee. prvič ker svoje bTago1 £ X . ^ J ^klicev a- ve. Kar se Waliacea tiče, je z
sedaj dražje prodajajo, dasi ga Zdov vSna n n HhT'i ^ tmen>*n0 ^ bržkone podrl niso klavnicam in raznim živ* J mTra^UkZunM 1 ! pr°g^ivni stranki vse m os loškim podjetam nič dražje plačali Komunisti. ve za sabo; namreč, da v nji ne
kakor so bile cene prej. A sedaj, °dbor progresivne stranke, z vec Junak dneva, ko so videli, da je atmosfer* za izjemo Waliacea in morda še ne- Wallace ie začel kazati
ljive, izžene."
Izganjanje domačinov
Prej omenjeni poročevalec
To pomeni — ali da so jo ameriški častniki premalo izvežbalij ali — kar rnnogi reporterji naj-j Keyes* Beech * razlaga, da ker bulj verjamejo, ni imela nobe-Američani tudi ljudstvu južne ne£a navdušenja, da se bi tepla Koreje, katero osvobojujejo, nič
ne zaupajo, so ukazali prebivalstvu enega mesta (cenzor imena tega mesta ni dovolil omeniti), naj se izseli. Dotično mesto, ki je tik ameriške fronte, ima 50,000 prebivalcev. Keyes Beech izselitev takole opisuje:
"Premikali so se iz mesta v smeri proti jugu trudno, brez-močno in brezupno, noseč s sabo na hrbtu ali na glavi par malih stvari za prvo silo. Vse drugo so pustili na svojih domovih v mestu.
' Najžalostnejši prizor pa je bil ob pogledu na starega Korej-
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in na zavezniški strani so se navadni vojaki tolkli s sovražnikom z velikim navdušenjem. Saj je to vendar zadnja vojna, ako v nji premagamo tiste, ki so jo povzročili.
Premagali so jih. Rajanje v vseh zavezniških deželah. Vojne so za zmerom odpravljene!
In gleite, komaj se je črnilo podpisnikov na mirovnih pogodbah posušilo, že so nastajale nove vojne, najprvo v malem, potem večie in končno — druga svetovna vojna!
"SAMOODLOČEVANJE NARODOV" (Self Determination of Nations). Tudi to geslo je iz Wilsonovega
Tako je vse breme te osvobo-' Pro9[oma Kako vesela so ga bila kolonijalna ljud-dilne in kazenske ameriške voj- sfva m ma" porodi v vseh krajih sveta. Res so na mi-— ekspedicije šlo v bran južne rovni konferenci dovolili par narodom, npr. Čehom,
Poljakom in Srbom, da so si ustanovili svoje države. Srbi so jo sicer imeli že prej, a Pašič si je zamislil "veliko" Srbijo in dovolili so mu io. Toda vsem drugim Ijudslvom po svotv, r »zremo baltiških tfaltf in Finske, je Wilsonova obljuba o samoodločevanju ostala samo še spomin.
Ko so si zmagoviti zavezniki (Anglija, Francija, bija svoje rojake, čim jih kdo; Italija in Japonska) plen razdelili med sabo, so se izmed privilegirane reakcionar-| razš// /n nadaljevali svetovno politiko po starih potih
"GRADIMO SVET VAREN ZA DEMOKRACIJO"
po-
podražitve uRodna — češ, vojna ka|erih drugih, je proti ame- mankanje navdušenja za svoio pa SO U,di °nl V ,Ko.reji- °bJ ™>vo stranko kmalu po predsed-
z rojaki v komunistični severo-korejski armadi.
ne
Koreje na ameriška ramena.
Vse. kar ameriška okupacijska oblast v južni Koreji zmore, je precejšnje število domacin-ske policije, ki zvesto sfužfuBef-nemu režimu reakcionarnega nacionalista Singmana Ri-ja(Syng-man Rhee) in kot že rečeno, po-
ne kaste osumi, da žele uspeha
I\>kaj o našili stvareh
Društvo Slavij, št. I je bilu prvo društvo SNPJ, v kolikor im znan.,, k, je na svoji seji 14. julija sklenilo nakloniti ot;las
nam
v jubilejno številko Proletarca k njegovi 45-letnici. Odobrilo je v ta namen vsoto $25. Jr
Isti večer je imel sejo krožek št. 9 Progresivnih Slovenk v C nicagu. Brez posebnega vabila je na lastno inicativo sklenil dati pozdravni oglas v vsoti $10.
V pismih organizacijam je sporočeno, da stanejo pozdravni
kuluni $s'M 4 *5 - k«-
ca s sivo brado, ki mu je plavala . , , , -------------- - unnwi\n«v.u
vomih avtov, ki so vozili na1 ------------W.lsonovega programa. Namesto sveta, k, bi bil
fronto.
za-
vojno v Koreji v progresivni stran ki? Citajte o tem komentarje v tej številki.
Se spominjate gesla "vojna za odpravo vseh vojen"? In mnogih drugih gesel, ki so elektrizirala svet? Kaj se je zgodilo z njimi? Odgovor je na tej strani v članku v 3.-4. koloni.
Kako, da ljudstvo ne spozna tistih najglasnejših ameriškim patriotov, ki čini zadiše vojno so med 4>rvimi, ki začno v svrho zvišanja svojih profitov cene umetno navijati. Članek o njih je na 1. strani.
femu ljudstvo južne Koreje ne pozdravlja ameriških čet, ki ga branijo pred napadalci iz komunistične severne Koreje? Citajte o tem razpravo v 1.-2. koloni na tej strani.
Jožko Oven razpravlja v svoji koloni na 2. strani o vojni in posebno o problemih Proletarca. O njih bo še precej diskuzije, posebno še v njegovi jubilejni številki.
Na drugi strani je ponatis pisma, i uvodom, ki je bilo poslano naročnikom Proletarca.
V Nemčiji je imelo po vojni veliko nemških deklet otroke t ameriškimi vojaki zamorske polti. Nekatera dekleta bo Jih pomorila takoj ob rojatvu, mnoge Ao Jih enostavno pustile kje v kakšni cerkvi, a veliko Jih Je, ki Jih imajo še pri sebi In ne vedo kaj bo z njimi in temi "rjav^ki", kakor Jih imenujejo. jo tej iivljenski tragediji — ki je posledica vojne — Je članek na angleški strani.
Citajte pismo Cvetka Kristana Iz starega kraja pod naslovom "Nekaj o naših stvareh", in zanimivo upravnikovo kolono, v kateri primerja požrtvovalnosti nas in katoličanov.
korejskih
Tragedija Koreje varovan za demokracijo, smo dobili totalitarne dikta-
Ena izmed tragedij današnje ture in Italija ter Nemčija, in nato še Španija so se Koreje, ki so jo tuje armade že| Vfg/e v naroije faš/zm0f k, /e fa// ka, IQ nQVQ 'sv'etoyno
vojno.
Po prvi svetovni vojni sta po dolgem trudu ameriški državni tajnik Kellog in francoski minister vna-njih zadev Aristide Briand spravila skozi pogodbo,
(Konec na 3. strani.)
dostikrat pustošile, je, da bo v sedanji vojni posebno južna Koreja, ki jo naša armada osvobo-Jl^^L^^T^l JuJe' zel° Prizadeta, Mostovi v
nji so bili pognani v zrak, že-
(Konec na 2. strani.)
čeli navijati cene. , soja Združene narode, ker so to niških volitvah. Nizko število
V Chicagu so cene mesu na- ,1 V0Jn0 borili in jo proglasili za J (Konec na 3. strani.) •
rasle minuli teden povprečno 3c ----------—_' - . -
na funt. Tudi mnoge dru^e stvari so se podražile in se bodo še bolj. V New Vorku so pekarije podražile kruh na 17c štruco, mesnice pa mesnine od enega do štiri cente na funt.
Agrikulturn* department je špekulantom z živili pomagal z izjavo, da je pričakovati še višjih cen, ker ameriška vojna u-prava povečuje svoja naročila za armado. Ko bi pojasnil, da bo morala Amerika brtkone preživljati tudi avstralske in angleške vojake ter mornarje, in če pridejo tja še Čiang Kaiškovi kitajski vojaki, bodo tudi oni hoteli jesti na naše stroške.
Ako so mogli špekulanti tako iznenada dvigniti cene na račun te razmeroma zelo majhne vojne, kaj šele bo, če se prične v velikem, oziroma ako se razvije v tretjo svetovno vojno?
Poleg večanja draginje nam obetajo nn vseh koncih in krajih tuHi zvišanje davkov, kajti vojna in oboroževanje stane veliko denarja. Kongres je imel namen znižati razne .davke za eno milijardo, večinoma v korist imovitejših slojev, a predsednik (Konec na 3. strani.)
Anton Sehškar, dr. Franja Bojc-Bidovec in Drago Sega so sedaj na govorniški turi po Pennsylvania Tone Seliškar je nam poslal ,i Cleveland! razglednioo. v kateri pravi, da z urednikom nista utegnila n.tuv roko seči za slovo. Ob enem mu zagotavlja da bomo material za prihodnji letnik Ameriškega družinskega koledarja od tam sigurno dobili in obeta pisati obširnejše v
Kongres na nc/e/u" in v kampanji
Ves Trumanov 'Fair deal" je Deležni so bili dobre zdravstve- gi z operacijami po $500 pa tudi ga primorajo glasovati o njego-P° vodl- °st»I J® vseskozi od ne oskrbe samo imovlti sloji, p« tisoč dolarjev na teden In vem načrti, njegove kampanje leta 1948 sa- Sedaj so jo vsi. In naval je pone- potem zdravila! Bolnišnica raču- Uspelo jim je. Večina je rekla
hal, čim je h.lo zadoščeno prvini na posebej. In ako bolnik potre- nak, za "socializem" pa ne bomo
buje svojo strežnico je tudi to glasovali, ven z njim! velik izdatek. Lobisti zveze zdravnikov so Vse to je zelo dobro razumel Wll vse križem zbornice, vabili pokojni Franklin D. Roosevelt. P«*Iance in senatorje na pdje-Dasi je bil bogataš, se je vendar- dine, na katerih so potem pred-zanimal za socialne probleme stavniki zdravniške zveze g osni a lega ali kot pravimo "navad- tom dokazovali, da bi bila "sodnega" človeka in v svojih govo- alizirana medicina" poguba za rih pred kongresom in v radiu deželo, ker bila bi prvi, zelo je čestokrat poudarjal, da več korak naravnost v "soci-kot tretjina prebivalstva te de- »lizeni". Glasovanje o Trumano-žele, torej nad petdeset milijo- veni tedaj že zelo zvodenelem nov ljudi, nima niti z daleč za- načrtu se je vršilo 10. julija. Slo dostne zdravstvene oskrbe v bo- se i* v tem slučaju samo za leznih, in mnogi je sploh nima- ustanovitev še enega portfelja v
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PROLETAREC
NO. 2222
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EDUCATION
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CHICAGO, ILL., July 19, 1950
PEOPLE DO IT
VOL. XLV
„ There will be NO-WAR with Russia this week. . . Pulp shipments from Siberia to Moscow are 37 per cent less than required for paper work necessary to launch a major conflict.
Taxes: House Ways and Means Committee plans to repeal excise on baby oil and powder. Truman WILL VETO—unless Big Oil withdraws support from Dixiecrats. . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans.
Marcantonio WILL NOT get the Democratic nomination for President . . . party bosses say privately he is vulnerable because of past Republican connections.
War with Russia IS COMING ... but not in time to affect vacation plans. Intelligence reports indicate Stalin is preoccupied with decline in Shostakovich's production of,4 people's opera." BUT . . . this is temporary. Be on the alert for change and DON'T go far without a Geiger counter.
Government will not yield control over SYNTHETIC RUBBER PLANTS ... at present being used to decorate corridors of Pan-American Union building.
Expect SOME strikes m next 30-60-90 days . . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, rail-
By Henry Jones
„ . . . 4. , . i The cops have lie detector ma- copies of which had oreviouslv
roads printing, electric, textiles, chines. Of course, t h e y do n o t been reieased to Dra^e T^umlntn
building trades, clothing, aircraft, answer the ancient problem of steadC i m sTo aC and
farm equipment, retail business, philosopher,: 'What Is Truth?," solidify the m a r k e t for quite a
steel they do measure heart-beat, number of "intangibles *
. . . NOT ONE STRIKE among and sweat and a number of physi-baby-sitters since passage of the Cal changes that the cops say in-
act.
D. P. law WILL APPLY to disaffected diplomats from Iron Curtain countries. . . . McCarran plan is to convert ex-envoys into shep<* herds for use on Nevada ranges.
Discount rumors that Republicans plan to close down and padlock State Department if they win
dicate the state of mind of their victim, and the cops insist they are useful.
For that segment of the population who buy and sell on the stock exchange, that works much like a lie detector machine, too. It's im-
A few extreme conservatives like yours truly still adhere to the ancient doctrine of "Live and Let Live" and Just can't learn to whoop it up for war, and don't even intend to study how. Of course, we feel that it would be better for all others as well as ourselves, if more
in '52. Campaign talk. . . . SOME portrayal of their changing antici-Republicans favor the move, but pations, fears, hopes and states of party leaders realize they must mind.
perfect, but the nearest thing yet were uk, us. Wl,ve ,een ^ ™
-- we^^
do it. But we don't ALL have to.
find spots for Dulles, Vandenberg. . . . Truman IS THINKING SERIOUSLY of making McCarthy Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Theory is that if he can't be thrown out of Washington, he can at least be thrown out of Prague.
General Eisenhower WILL RUN in '52—if the time is ripe, his wife
Because of scientific interest in this matter, the reader will excuse us if we record the headlines regarding the market recently.
The most vexing thing about this old-fashioned position is the way so few believe it. It's as though at a cock-fight, when you said you
June 27: War Jitters Bring the didn t approve 0f the spectacle and
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approves, the stars favor him, the Rumor of War.
Widest Percentage Break in Four Years; Stock Market Prices Drop 4 Billion.
June 26: Grain Prices Soar on
Democrats fold up. and the Republicans give him the nomination.
June 27: Korean War Sends Commodities Up. Natural Crude
War with Russia is not in the rTZJ!™ Z? Limit; ............ Tin- Copper Advance.
cards—for the moment. . . . Soviet leaders would RATHER let Americans knock each other out first. Maybe NEXT week.
R. B in The Nation
don't think the roosters should have been spurrecf and pestered into trying to kill each other, the idiots promoting the mayhem insist that what you really mean is that you're betting on the other guy's rooster.
Sooner or later somebody was sure to. turn that Schmoo idea of
°"Labo'Force....... You'll Need It!
For May, 1950, our total labor force was estimated at 64,108,000, with 62,788,000 in the civilian labor force. Of these, 59,731,000 were employed—8,062,000 in agriculture and 51,669,000 in non-agricultural activities. The number unemployed was 3,057,000. This was a drop of about 500,000—the third successive month in which a drop of this size occurred. This decline in unemployment was due to expansion in construction and an increase in fi*-tory employment. Also there was a slight decrease in the number unemployed for long periods of time.
In May, according to Census Bureau reports, there were many persons who had been unemployed and seeking work for 15 weeks or more. One out of every three unemployed persons was ill this group. The average period of unemployment for the men was 14 Mt weeks in April and 15 Mr weeks in May, while the average period for women was 12 4 weeks in April, dropping to 11 weeks in May.
Agricultural workers increased about 900,000 from April to May, but were still under 1949 due to adverse weather conditions.
Cuba Libre!
Subsequently: Rubber, Tin, Zinc, abundance into a novel. Now Nor-Spurt Ahe^l 2nd Day. ris* "Nutro 29" takes it up—a won-
Stocks Rally After Big New der food cheap as chewing gum
Losses in War Scare; Sales Near 5 Million.
Cruel Fate of German 'Brown' War Babies
By FRED SPARKS . Chicago Daily News Foreign Serv.
FRANKFURT, GERMANY—The other day a Munich paper reported that a German girl had been arrested for selling a "brown" baby to a circus for 150 marks (about $33). The "freak" was the illegitimate son of a colored American soldier.
The ugly Munich incident serves to underline the crashing human misery contained in the six to eight thousand illegitimate children fathered in the Reich by colored troops since gone home.
While the unknown thousands of "bastards of the occupation" — as the Germans tag them — who and turned them over to welfare
makes everyone lose the yen for
his job, and things go pot. Reminds us of an old scenario that never In other stories it appears that Kot used where some guy accident-other's "stocks," not the kind on ally releases a virus that makes exchange or curb, went up and everyone extremely lazy and in-down, too. Maybe even some "sell- ! different, so that it looks like a ing" to avoid further loss. Folks,general strike. The moral of any who had criticised Truman's far such meditation is that the working its head in shame for failing to ac- east P01'^ came out hurrahing for class won't make a good world sim-knowledge and aid these unwanted Truman' In England the steel pool Ply by doing nothing. To create the
humans—leftovers of war. t.iu _------t_ -----------* -------*-*-
While 5,000 children now in Germany can be sent to the United States under the new Displaced Persons Act, it is doubtful if a single ' brown" baby will be included. Before a child can be brought to America an individual or organization must guarantee its support. No one has yet offered to take a stand for these "brown" babies.
While half of the German girls who bore illegitimate "brown" babies have given up the struggle
talk took new angles. In the Philip- Sood world it must do something, pines it's conceded that the Huks There's not much hope in a gen-
are a menace to democracy or something. Even an atomic physicist in Berlin canceled his talk,
eral strike" that takes the form of universal spring fever.
—Industrial Worker
CIVIL LIBERTIES
were fathered by white soldiers can be absorbed into the community, the future of these "brown" babies seems hopeless. They face a life of persecution because their color brands them.
groups, the rest carry on. Theirs is a terrific ordeal. Let me tell you about one I spoke to. Pretty, blond, she said: •
"Jim was sent home before I knew I was going to have a child
Remember: Germany is a coun-|and I have never heard from him
and don't know where to reach
try with absolutely no colored population. And unlike South American countries and Italy, most all German youth have fair complexions and blond hair.
Few human beings can be crueler than unknowing school children, and it us feared that if these "brown" babies are sent to German classes they will be ruthlessly hazed and psychologically marked for life.
At a recent meeting of European representatives of the United States National Catholic Welfare Council (our zone of Germany is primarily Catholic) a plan was considered to establish a nonsectarian central colony for thc three or four thousand "brown" babies already turned over to public charitable institutions.
A spokesman told me that in this way the children will at least be assured a "persecution-free" education, and prepared for emigration or specialized trades.
America collectively should hide
How much civil liberties we have depends primarily on how widespread are the attitudes favoring civil liberties. That in turn depends on how strongly people are attached to the idea that government is a force that should be restrained. It used to be a strongly held idea. Hysteria weakens it.
Significant straws recently are these:
1. Clearing the patriots who beat up on Paul Robeson fans at Peek-skill, a jury comes out with a 9,000 word "presentment" praising
t^ Trt IOt,S gir" in my the community for t he ™
Enm n. ,i "leg ,rate childJPn handled ' the shock troops of a
WhTn mv hahve ^Wer,CKWh,te ^olufonary force which is con-When my baby was born the poor troUed b a forej
thing looked so funny my friends urI!inl. Q,J" * ™'. " iBnftpw, „„__. * urging otner communities to do
"m V St CetS' likewise. Moral: If you can make
and .V/d e V<7 WiCkCd hoodlums patriots and their vie"
and I had to run away. I went to u • . .
^rur, ,o,r hri r=
station! £wy I have* ^ t ,7,'T T "
job and live with my baby Tn on^C ' " """ ^
small room. I know I will never I o t„ n>\ , , At_ ...
4 „ 2. In Cleveland the school board
^ -P« a loyally oath, and as
and I have no friends.
"I will never send the baby to a school to be tortured. Maybe I should have done what many other girls who had brown babies did— killed it when it was born."
usual a taxpayer's suit was started to point out it unconstitutionality and its danger to civil liberties. Judge Connell, hearing and dismissing it, let loose of stuff like this:
"Thc oaths violate only the sensi-
The price of crude oil was 3 per °f lhOSe Wh° do not wish
cent lower in June than a year a£ ^ ' !reacTh,ery in to be
but r . f i „ J * notlccd- • • " *very teacher, lawyer,
Why Oil Profits Rise
but refined petroleum products cost 7.5 per cent more. No wonder profits are on the increase.
Do You Still Believe in Voodoo?
Down in Haiti the World Health Organization wants to attack the wiedspread disease known as yaws. The Haitians and their voodoo men
have their own ideas how to go about it. Their idea is to dance around -----------------------
a figure decorated with chains of snake-bones, while the voodoo doctor had no Provision for punishment of
r ninna ik ■•.> 4 L « - - - > A _ i . t • a A • A m ~ A > . _
official and citizen who loved an atheistic despotism and hated our own beloved country was remoyed, disfranchised, disbarred, and deported, we would do them no injustice." ,
The Judge expressed his regrets that the school board's loyalty oath
those who refused to comply. 3. While Lawson and Trumbo,
chases them with a matchete hitting them occasionally with the broadside of it, while incantations and other rituals last all night. The United ....................u .rumu,
Nations doctors want to attack the disease by giving each an injection! Stilts, go to Jail for their con-of slow absorption penicillin. , | tempt in refusing to tell the Un-
Maybe in years to come the shots may seem as weird as the dances American Committee what party
(Knv rtr\ ••«»•>*>» Arm« ~ I ___I _ «___. . _ ' . , . ... *
but they do represent at least man s best current knowledge We feel
vastly superior to the Haitians, and the United Nations doctors ask the
help of the voodoo doctors to get the people to assemble and take their shots.
Meanwhile the civilized folks who know how to make penicillin and A-bombs, have quite a puzzle on their hands. It's how to stop them from killing each other on a bigger scale than ever before. They have large building filled with books that cast light upon this problem They have learned men who have become experts if not on how man can live in peace, at least on the factors that have led men to mass murder of each other. Instead of consulting the learned men, their voodoo doctors silence scholarship with their incantations.
fn Haiti it is contrary to the vested interests of thc voodoo doctors to explain the source of this disease yaws, or the germicidal effect of penicillin. To them science is un-Haitian. In America it is contrary to the vested interests to explain the economic and social forces that lead nations to war, or the war-ending powers of world-wide labor solidarity; it's un-American.
If you prefer science to voodoo doctors for disease, why not for this greatest man killer of all — war between groups of politicians who have made science the handmaiden of mass murder?—Industrial Worker
they belong to, business men and
extreme "rightists" like the Com
mittee for Constitutional Government, step on same trap, but are treated more gently. There is criticism why they are not packed off
to Jail too, when they refuse to answer questions, such as the sources of the funds for their propaganda, etc. To be consistent in support of civil liberties one must object as strongly to the politicians prying into the affairs of the rightists as of the leftists. There is very little of this consistency to be observed in any press.
4. The doctrine that a "clear and present danger" must exist to warrant abridgment of free speech and assemblage, i s completely cast aside by the Department of Justice in its brief answering appeal of the Communists. It argues that this limitation exists only if the lawmaking body does not specifically forbid advocacy of the ideas attributed to the defendants. That sounds dangerously like arguing that Congress can abridge the rights guaranteed in the constitution.
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J. Edgar Hoover says the red spy underground has 540,000Jn it and that the commies have their own "loyalty boards," 49 of them and are even checking on their 13-member central executive committee. If you live long enough you may eventually find how many men the FBI has planted in the CP and how many the CP has planted in the FBI, and how many of these doublehead in both directions.
"Everything's up to date in Kansas City," but no more so than in Havana.
When yeggs entered the Criminal Courts building at Kansas City, blew the safe and made away with the ballots and other evidence in a n election-fraud case, that was thought to be very high crime.
But here's the news from Havana, Cuba, the little republic we established 52 years ago:
/Ex-President Grau San Martin or his officials (they vacated office in 1948) are charged with stealing upwards of $174 million. Grau's secretary of the treasury is already indicted because the incoming administration claimed that it found the Cuban treasury like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
But the truth may never be known. It has been hijacked. In Kansas City style masked gunmen entered the courtroom where the probe was going on and took every scrap of paper bearing on the case.
Cuba has not lagged behind us in political progress since "Cuba Libre" was our war slogan in 1898.
—The Chicago Daily News
If government were suddenly to announce a universal distribution ' of gas masks every person in the nation would become worried What they dI be afraid of is that they were going to need those masks before Jong Of course everybody would be grateful for the masks but
the a^ed ' tHe gOVernment is now *oin« to distribute more dgllars to
So what? Why, *n Americans who have grown old in the service of profit-takers will be needing those dollars before long just barely to get along. J 1 y
Don't forget that when President Franklin D. Roosevelt plugged or the old-age "security" system he proposed that as a substitute for he poorhouse at a time when private industry was unable to provide jobs for millions of people. The capitalist economy needed that kind of buffer against its own shortcomings.
Now the needs of the system are just as pressing and prices are higher So, unless more dollars are handed out, people may soon be clamoring for a return of the poorhouse.
No, its not a good omen when a nation distributes gas masks — or more dollars to cushion poverty._R. L. A. 1
The Right to be Ashamed of What You Say?
If ever a group preached class hatred in the United States that group is the Committee for Constitutional Government. If ever any group sought to establish a "ruling class" in the United States, the Committee for Constitutional Government is it. This self-styled defender of the United States Constitution has. for years, been advocating a double standard in our country: freedom for businessmen, but strict Government control for us "lower classes" who work for a living
For example, the Committee for Constitutional Government is against any extension of Government power when it would restrict in any way the profits of free operation of business. But when it comes to trade union operations, the Committee for Constitutional Government controU G°Vernment restri^ions and more and more Government
The Committe for Constitutional Government is one of the defenders of the Taft-Hartley Act. Moreover, its officers are advocating that Congress further restrict union activity by outlawing craft-wide or industry-wide unions altogether and forcing unions to break up into units covering no more than a single company.
The fact is that since its formation, the Committee for Constitutional Government has been exploiting the Constitution of the United States using it as a mask to screen one of the nation's most expensive anti-labor propaganda operations.
In the United States, the Committee for Constitutional Government or anyone else« has every right to say what it thinks - about unions or anything else Just as we do. Our quarrel is with what they say not with their right to say it.
This right of free speech, however, does not provide the Committee
lor Constitutional Government or anyone else with a screen behind
which it can hide the names of the men who have been paying for its
propaganda. The people of this country have a right to know who is
putting up the money for organizations that are trying to influence our 1 d v\ maKers.
The fact that this Committee for Constitutional Government is afraid to divulge to Congress the names of its principal backers the men who have been buying and distributing its anti-labor propaganda jshows how proud they must be of their activities. That they are wealthy men should make no difference in the eyes of the law — or in the efforts of Congressmen to get at the truth. Let the investigation go forward
COLD WAR XOTES *
Socialism?
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia June 11 reported that American business "is probably as strong or stronger now than at any time in the past three years."
The bank said "the past eight months have witnessed a marked business recovery."
It pointed out that although some corporations reported a decline in income last year, this didn't mean they lose money.
"Even the hardest-hit industries showed profits," the bank said.
Elevators Full
Because elevators are already filled to the top, the railroad recently put an embargo on shipments of grain for storage in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and East St. Louis, 111., to avoid tying up box cars.
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ACLU has new Chairman of the Board, Ernest Angeli, who is also chairman of the Second Regional Loyalty Board. He succeeds Dr. John Haynes Holmes.
Death cannot come untimely to him who Is fit to die.—Mllman.
Sensitive
My Rose!" he whispered tenderly, as he pressed her velvet cheek to his.
"My cactus;" she said, as she dodged his whiskers.
Ups and Downs of Market Boost Wall Street Brokers' Earnings .
The war scares haven't helped investor« In stocks and bonds, but they have been a bonanza for the Wall Street brokers. Stock prices have rsced down and up several times since the fighting started in Korea
The drops have exceeded the rises, but that 1s of little concern to
the brokers, since they get a commission on every sale, whether the
investor, or "gambler" has made money or lost. Total sales for the month
° June were mor* t*««" «* million shares, the highest for that month since 1933.
The Wall Street activity was a reminder of the start of the Hoover Depression, except for one very marked difference. In those days many snares were bought on 10 per cent "margin," which means the buyer put up only 10 per cent of the price, borrowing the rest. So, when prices crumbled brokers were kepi busy calling for "more margin" and "dumping stocks when it was not forthcoming
But now. thanks to "New Deal" re/orms, a margin of 5* per cent is required.
As W6 Older Grow
A little less care of bonds and gold.
A little more zest in the days of old;
A broader view and a saner mind,
A little more love for all mankind;
And so we are faring adown the way
That leads to the gates of a better day.
A little more leisure to sit and dream,
A little more real the things unseen;
A little nearer to those ahead,
With visions of those long loved and dead;
And so we are going, where all must* go,
To the place the living may never know.
A little more laughter, a few more tears.
And we shall have told'our increasing years;
The book is closed and the prayers are said,
And we are part of the countless dead.
Thrice happy if then, some soul can say,
I'm better because he passed my way."
The Hydrogen bomb will cost $2.800,000,000.000, or about $700,-000 out of every kitchen In the
country, says physicist Hull. • • • •
Seven Senators support Mc-Mahon proposal that USA would make out better spending its billions for welfare instead.
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Hoffman of the Marshall Plan opposes the plan to use $5 billion in Economic Recovery Counterpart funds to expedite the arming
of western Europe.
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For a cent a bag. U.S. has sent 50.000 tons of surplus American spuds to Red Eastern Germany. That's to answer the charges that we sent potato bugs to wreck the crops. If potato bugs show up here, and if they're red, that will probably show up a great conspiracy. . . or would it be a blessing in a land that doesn't koow how to enjoy plenty? • • •
NAM, whose leading members will be the chief beneficiary, says it is opposed to these billions for
the Point 4 Program.
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One man to make all economic decisions, instead of the many boards used in past wars, is urged by Col. Bryan of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.
Some wonder if they'll use it to disrupt world gold market as their diamonds now are worrying Antwerp.
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If we didn't have a cold war, would take steps not to have the alternative depression, wed have a fine world ... but it would have to be "under new management."
From Industrial Worker
Propagandists Contradicted
Nuclear artillery, baby A-bombs, long range guided missiles, arc all expected to give any coming war a decidely new look that nobody will like. • • •
Labor will be represented on* the thought-control machinery of the next war. Col. Steiner of the Air Force tells the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, that arousing public opinion is an important part of the game, and that boards that represent the duPonts and not the
unions might not go over so well. • • •
Armament plans for western Europe for the next two years run to an Increase of 43 per cent in military expenditure. They're not eating very well in most of Western Europe right now.
Jack" Tait, London correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune." tells us Great Britain's nationalized coal mines have cleared a profit of $26,600,000 in 1949. They also contributed $36,960,000 to compensate former private mine owners. That looks like a total profit of over $63 million.
While all this was going on, the cost of producing coal was reduced 7 cents a ton, a saving of $14 million. The last item is worth stressing. because, for years before the coal mines were nationalized, the cost of production was steadily go-injg up. Output per man-shift also soared to a point higher than in 1938. before the World War. Clearly, this Labor government is not "ruining Britain and just as clearly, the British coal miner is not "soldiering" on his job.
For one thing, the Laborites are rehabilitating the industry. Private enterprise would not install modern equipment.
Soviet Union counts on 18V4% of its budget for arms, according to Finance Minister Zverev, or $19 8 billion, a bit more than U.S., if the rate of exchange is reckoned right.
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Maybe it's cold war stuff, too— but the Russians have been digging a lot of gold, "corrective labor discipline," and evidently not using It.
Farm Prosperity is Help to Everyone
Do you know that 5,800,000 farmers in the United States own cars? That 2,200,000 of them have trucks and 3,550,000 more own tractors? t.
It's true. How close the farmer is to you, using the things you help make, is not always realized.
The Agriculture Department has Just made the car, truck and tractor estimates.
The figures show that more farmers are using more machinery each year. For example, the number of farmers owning garden trac-l tors January 1, 1950, totaled 275,-000 compared with 250,000 in 1949 and 200.000 in 1948.
Ain't It The Truth I
' Some of you pedestrians walk as if you owned the streets."
"Yeah? Well, some of you drivers drive as if you owned your cars."