The Chicago star., August 31, 1946, Special Labor Day Issue, Image 1

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SPECIAL LABOR DAY ISSUE
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By
Howard
Fast
IN THE DAY of my grandaddy,
and your too, the swindle was
strictly a small time affairs. I’m
not referring to such minor and
comparatively harmless opera
- y —— r-j tors as the In
dian medicine
man and the
9* shell game wiz
fiY *¥ ard. The first
y ' put up a harm-
An yr less concoction
A V *>Vy of colored wa
\ ; ter, with .rtay
\ be a wee bit of
y alcohol in it,
and if he took
fast more than the
packaging was worth, he gave
those credulous w«twmers of his
peace of mind In good* measure;
and the second manipulated his
walnut shells for those who were
determined to part with an un
easy dollar.
No when I say the swindle
was a small time affair in the
‘good old days”, I mean those
tycoons of swindlers, the gentle
men whom Matthew' Josephson
calls “The Robber Barons,” and
who, in a book of the same name,
he mercilessly exposes. Among
them, he includes such individ
uals as Jay Cooke, Jay Gould,
Andrew Carnegie, Pierpont Mor
gan, John D. Rockefeller, James
Hill, Henry Frick, to mention
only a few, and he goes on to de
scribe how these same gentlemen
fleeced the American people of
an empire.
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THOSE are the swindlers I re
fer to as small time operators.
Compared to a certain matter
that is going on today, under our
very noses, the Goulds and the
Rockefellers were petty thieves.
All their looting, lumped together,
pales away when measured
against something that goes by
the quiet and innocent title of
“Excess Profit Tax.”
Here’s the story. Follow it care
fully it’s worth your attention.
For sheer outrageousness, it’s
(See Page 16)
THE CHICAGO
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Vol. I,No. 9
PAC campaign begins!
Labor
opens city
political drive
A thousand CIO shop stewards and PAC committee
members moved into a block-by-block election drive in Chi
cago following a spirited meeting to inaugurate the Fall
campaign.
Resolving to organize immediate registration drives in
every plant, the assembled shop leaders from Chicago's in
dustries voted to begin the collection of one-dollar PAC
contributions without delay, and pledged full cooperation
with all groups interested in electing candidates pledged to
fight for the return to the Roosevelt program.
(See Page 7)
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Texas this time: NAACP
reports two new lynchings
Two additional lynchings, both of war veterans, were re
ported this week by the National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
Marshall, Texas, was the site and victims were:
RICHARD F. GORDON, 31, on police books as killed
“by a hit and run driver” but who was slain elsewhere and
dragged through the streets at night by tw'o carloads of
men w'ho remained until officers arrived, according to Negro
residents of the area where the body w r as found.
ALONZA BROOKS, 23, found dead in the woods from
blow's on his neck and strangulation, three days after leav
s ing home in his car to visit friends. The motive was not
robbery since his wallet and wrist watch were still on his
body when found.
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Attend the Star’s
labor Day Picnit
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Chicago,
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City labor
pioneered in
political action
see Page 8
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U.S. GOODWILL 'OVERDRAWN’
IN THREATS TO YUGOSLAVS
8y Brig. Gen. Evans F. Carlson
and Paul Robeson
The United States and Great Britain are talk
ing through their guns in the Middle East.
What is being said to Yugoslavia follows a
pattern set in Greece, Palestine and Transjordan.
Force and the threat
of force are being
angry words spoken
in Paris and Wash- ’ WT V •
ington, ordering the yjg|
victors as well as the \
vanquished of World Wm
War II to submit to ' <99
the dictates of an wB
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Commenting edit- I *
orially on the Yu go- I
Slav “incident", the
New York Herald '4 JtSsk •
Tribune admits that ■HHHHaguKr V
"brash young Ameri- \
cans an d Britons . >
nave no doubt h< • n
careless about navi- „ , „
gation.” But the Brig. Gen. Carlson
careless navigators who steer our ship of state Into
perilous waters cannot plead the excuse of youth. It
is their brashness which puts the security of our na
tion and the peace of the world in peril.
Post-war Yugoslavia is no dictator-ridden, United
Fruit-Company-ruled Honduras. Only the very brash
could so soon forget that, the people of Yugoslavia do
not scare easily. It is worse than brash to believe they
E■ will be cowed by
what Lieut. General
C. H. Lee called “a
convincing demon
stration of Allied mi
litary power”
This proud young
democracy, much
like our own a cen
tury and more ago,
is jealous of its sov
ereign right to guard
its territory and
skies. Marshall Tito
and the Yugoslav
guerillas won that
right in hand-to-hand
fighting with Hit
ler’s best panzers.
They will not scurry
before a parade of
Paul Robeson the American 88th
Infantry division, nor. tremble at the sight of Royal
Airforce Spitfires and a strong American Naval task
force.
We cannot expect Yugoslavia and its neighbors to
like up better for this ostentatious display of “respect
for the rights of small nations.” The balance of good
will we accumulated throughout the world by holding
up our end in the common fight against fascism is rapid
ly being dissipated. The United States government over
drew our account by its unwarranted ultimatum to Yu
goslavia. Here is further evidence that, as charged by
Elliott Roosevelt, “the path of Franklin Roosevelt has
been grievously and deliberately forsaken.” We must
hasten to find our way back to that path before the
“careless navigators” lead us to national shipwreck.