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Greek royal government
asks U. S. (or more aid
WASHINGTON (FP) — The
Greek royalist government has
just asked the U.S. for more
money to help it put down po
litical and military opposition.
Undersecretary of State Robert
A Lovelt told a press confer
ence Oct. 6.
Lovett made it clear that the
government plan to wipe out all
guerilla activity in the moun
tains had not been a success,
despite American help during
the past year and more. His
press conference followed by a
day a report to Congress on the
program drawn up by the State
Dept, and submitted by Pres.
Truman. In that report Truman
hailed the Greek program as a
“conspicuous success."
The report summed up the
3-month period of the Greek
Turkey program through June
1948. It showed that 95 per cent
of the S100 million Turkish pro
gram went directly to the mili
tary and naval strengthening of
lhat country, with the other 5
per cent used on highway con
struction More than half of the
aid to the Greek government.
S300 million in all. went direct
ly to the monarchist military
forces.
The labor division of the
American mission to Greece re
ported it "has offered advice and
guidance to Greek labor leaders
with a view to the development
of a sound labor movement free
of outside dictation” (by the
government). The Greek Con
federation of Labor held one na
tional congress and elected an
executive to replace the one
which had been appointed by
the courts.
‘Unfortunately.’’ the report
added, "the congress, handi
capped by seriou. factional ri
valries. was unable to devote its
attention to policy problems.”
The report noted progress in re
peal of the December 1947 an
ti-strike law. which provided the
death penalty for strike leaders
in certain cases.
Labor advisors observed also
that while labor seeks a wage
Ballot fight
Continued from Page 1
submitted, however, the state
electoral hoard — composed of
one Democrat and two Republi
cans — denied the Progressive
petition, claiming that the mini- :
mum of 200 signatures had been <
complied with for only 41
counties.
The Progressive Party then
filed the suit, which it is now j
appealing to the Supreme Court, !
claiming that the requirements
of the Illinois law are incom- j
patible with the Constitution of j
the United States. Attorneys for
the party point out that 85 per
cent of the voters in the state,
who live in only 49 counties,
could be denied their constitu
tional right to a free ballot by
the small minority living in the
other 53 counties in the state.
Meanwhile, Progressives are
following yet another course in
their fight to give Illinois voters
an opportunity to mark for Wal
lace and the party’s state slate
candidates on Nov. 2.
The campaign, launched last
week, to get signatures on pe
titions challenging Governor
Green to call a special session
of the state legislature to put
Wallace on the ballot is gather
ing momentum in ward clubs
and other groups supporting the
Progressive ticket. The active
Young Progressives of America
group alone reports over 5000
s signatures as a result of the
week’s petitioning.
boost to keep up with mounting
living costs, "on the other hand
the mission economic advisors
(Americans) and the Greek gov
ernment fear that any substan
tial wage increase at this time
will endanger currency stability
and thereby undermine workers'
living standards.”
American labor advisors are
also trying to get an American
administrator appointed for the
Greek social insurance agency,
as well as to unify control of
apprenticeship training.
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• NEW YORK (FP)—The J
• latest issue of Consumer •
• Reports poses an economics J
• question to its readers. The •
• answer is not surprising. J
• "In August 1948, dairy •
• farmers in the New York J
a area produced more milk •
J than in August 1947. Con- J
• sumers. however, drank •
• less milk,” the magazine of J
a Consumers Union said. •
• asking: "With supply up J
• and demand down, what •
• happened to prices?” J
a And the answer: 'De- a
• spite the well-known law *
a of supply and demand, con- a
• sumers had to pay more J
• for their milk: the price a
• was 3KzC a quart higher in J
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MacDougall
arrested at
street meeting
Curtis D. MacDougall, Pro
gressive candidate for U S Sen
ator from Illinois, and Rod
Holmgren, campaign manager
for Dorothy Bushnel! Cole, Pro
gressive candidate for Congress
from the 9th congressional dis
trict. were arrested last Satur
day night in a continuation of
police attempts to intimidate
Progressives and break up Ihe
party's meetings.
The arrests, made under a
section of the city code which
'requires permits for street meet
ings, took place at the corner
of Grace and Braodway, only
a few moments after the close
of a Salvation Army meeting,
which was held on the same cor
ner without a permit.
Holmgren was speaking when
the police arrived, and refused
to stop until he had been form
ally arrested. MacDougal, pro
fessor of journalism at North
western University, promptly
stepped up and continued the
meeting until he, in turn was
arrested.
Progressive Party attorneys
hold that the law requiring per
mits for street meetings is uncon
stitutional.
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for Congress from the 6th dis
trict: Judge Samuel Heller, can
didate for state's attorney; H B.
Ritman. candidate for associate
judge of the Municipal Court,
and George Cermak, running for
state representative from the
19th senatorial district.
Albert Fitzgerald, chairman of
the Progressives’ National La
bor Committee, and president,
CIO Cnited Electrical Workers,
was to annear at all three meet
ings with Wallace and Taylor.
Young Progressives of Amer
ica had worked all week pre
paring for a torchlight 'pafade
to assemble at 6:30 p.m. Friday
at 43rd and Prairie
There, Sen. Taylor, Ear] B
Dickerson, and a group of local
candidates would join in the line
of march with hundreds of
youth.
The youth, bearing torches,
would march from 43rd to 33rd,
then proceed to the 8th Armory
for the first meeting of the eve
ning.
In the parade, YPA an
nounced. would be a ' Freedom
Train” float, with sign bearing
the stogan: “Get On Board a
Real Freedom Train With Wal
lace and Dickerson.”
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Police conjectured . . . the newspapers trotted out Chi
cago's store of dirty political linens . . . but the death of
William John Granata, 27th Ward GOP committeeman,
remained a mystery.
Granata, who was GOP candidate for clerk of the Cir
cuit Court, had been found dead last Friday morning at
1 a.m. in the doorway of the
Skyline Club, 188 W. Ran
dolph — blood gushing from
his mutilated neck and head.
The murder weapon had been
an ax, hatchet or knil'e.
The getaway was a 'dean one.
Isiah Mitchell, 27, of 13218
Langley, newspaperboy at Ran
dolph and Wells, sold Granata
two newspapers about 12:15 a.m.
Mitchell saw Granata cross the
street toward the 188 building.
Then Granata v/as found dead
by a Skyline Club elevator op
erator. That was ill . . .
Who had killed Granata was
a mystery.
But. all of Chicago knew
WHAT had killed him. politics.
Aussie labor
conference hits
monopolies
CANBERRA. Australia (ALN)
—Australia will not allow big
business monopolies to resume
their prewar domination of the
country, Premier Joseph B.
Chifley promised the annual
Australian Labor party confer
ence here Oct. 6.
Nationalization of some major
industries, Chifley said, will be
pressed by the Australian gov
ernment. It should begin, he
stated, with public utilities now
poorly managed by their private
owners. But there is no inten
tion of nationalizing small in
dustries, the Premier said.
After hearing Chifley’s
speech, the conference threw out
a motion calling for the outlaw
ing of the Communist party. Re
iterating opposition to Commun
ist ideas, it decided to issue
counter-propaganda pushing its
own principles.
In a foreign policy resolution,
the party went back on its long
standing opposition to the rais
ing of troops for overseas serv
ice in peacetime.
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Granata was first appointed
GOP ward committeeman in
1940. One of his predecessors,
Michael Galvin, was killed with
a shotgun shortly after the elec
tion of November, 1936.
William Garrison, another
Granata predecessor, hurriedly
left town for Tennessee in 1935,
and never returned.
Newspapers calmly accepted
the “hatchet” murder as a com
monplace development in Chi
cago’s gang-war political arena.
Placidly, the Herald-Ameri
can reported:
“High authorities admitted
that one big angle they are
! working on was the report that
the Granatas (William's brother
is State Rep. Peter C. Granata)
had refused to swing votes they
control on the West Side so the
Guzik-Ricca-Capone mob could
make an important showing in
the coming election.
“The office for which Granata
himself was Republican nom
inee — that of Circuit Court
clerk—was not involved in the
trading’ of votes. But other
high positions were.
“Vote ‘trading’ is a long-time
practice in Chicago politics by
which candidates of one party
are elected to some offices while
candidates of the other party get
other offices.”
Political observers wondered
if this murder, like that of Will
iam II. McSwiggin, would re
main conveniently unsolved.
It was April 27, 1926, when
assistant state’s attornev Mc
Swiggin was mowed dou n by
machine gun bullets near AI Ca
pone's headquarters.
Then, newspapers raised Ihe
cry: “Who killed McSwiggin?”
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