Thesis SLUMS-WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY? Punch England May Be Jumping U

Devoted the A Yugoslav Weekly to EDUCATION Interest of the Workers ORGANIZATION • CO-OPERATIVE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF J. S. F. and Its Educational Bureau PROLETAREC COMMONWEALTH NO. 1977. Published Weekly at 2301 So. Lawndale Ave. CHICAGO 23, ILL-, AUGUST 1, 1945 VOL. XL. ENGLISH RECONVERSION BUILDING ON SAND The Yugoslav Thesis SLUMS-WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY? punch England may be jumping U. S. industry and labor to the ...From a lecture by Stoyan Pribi- Elimination of the slums districts in our cities is a laudable ob- bungalows.”' jective in “beating bombers into chevich, Time-Life correspondent, and one which has the support of all progressive organizations U. S. unions have discussed and argued in favor of converting given in mid-June before an ex- and individuals. The Federal Government has made an effort to aid cobwebs, huge aircraft plants, that would otherwise go to into the clusive semi-official audience in m the elimination of these disease and crime breeding districts by While the U. S. situation remains production of prefabricated homes. London, as printed in T. & T. means of Federal housing projects, but its efforts have been limited in exploratory stage the British have gone ahead and announced a by the Trends & Tides, editor and pub- to much too small scale the opposition of the private construction that their aircraft industry will turn out 50,000 prefabricated aluminum lisher Louis Adamic): and other special interests. houses in 1945 alone. For the purpose of this editorial we will not enter into an analysis On the principle Already scheduled is a 5,000-unit monthly production. American of self-deter- of the Federal vs. private interests issue, except to say that in nination of nations, Yugoslavs our union representatives are particularly irked at American industry’; opinion the private interests have shown little inclination to tackle the haini Venezia Giulia up Isonzo failure to devise a plan to reconvert to housing because they nave to problem on a scale which will attain the objective of final and total figured that many U. S. aircraft plants could satisfy the desperate tiver as Yugoslav natives of that slum elimination. egion outnumber two to need of many European nations for prefabricated housing. Now, the> Italians We will, rather, touch on an angle to which, we think, far too me. Furthermore, Yugoslavs ar- contend, the .British manufacturers will have the jump in the new little attention mas been given, namely, the slum owners and the slum market. lue that they are a small nation dwellers. which twice fought on Allied side, Union leaders in the construction and aircraft industries are espe The slum owners have been criticized on several counts, but main- that Italy traditionally indulf,'?d Cially bitter because England itself has been in such need of pre y for allowing the properties they rent out to fall into such deplorable n expansion against the Yugoslav fabricated homes that the U. S. has knocked down temporary houses condition. The criticism is justified in many cases, particularly so ancls and the Balkans, erected for war workers in boom towns and shipped them to England and that where the owner milks it of every cent of rent he possibly can, but Yugoslavia —LPA. xnsequently needs never puts a cent back in the way of needed repairs or improvements, trcngest Allied guarantees against n such cases there is no possible way of preventing the property from uture aggression—the more so as eventually becoming the worst type of slum. ill Italian governments after the THE MEDICS, TOO, WANT A FENCE There is, on the other hand, a type of renter who would turn any ast war pursued a policy of exter- place A few years ago the stuffed-shirt hierarchy running the state into a slum, and that in a short time. We have seen, here in Cin mination of the Yugoslav popula- cinnati—and (Wis.) medical society had an apoplectic seizure everytime someone it is probably the same in other cities—a whole section tion while in this war Italian oc- of the mentioned group health or dared to suggest that perhaps the pay-as- city turned into a slum district by a shiftless class of people who cupation armies committed mass you-go method of financing medical care was inadequate to the health came here in recent years to take war jobs and who were evidently ittrocities equal to the worst deeds needs of the people. just not accustomed to live under other than filthy conditions. They of the Gestapo. The high priests of organized medicine seem to have changed themselves ruined the houses in which they lived, and being of a When one remembers that 1,- migratory nature and always the have their minds before the growing demands for modern sensible means of on go, spread the ruin to many 500,000 Slovenians are wedged in properties. financing medical care. In fact they like the idea of prepaid medical between 125 million aggressive I rom plans so well that they were importuning the recent legislature to give what we have observed, we believe that the most pressing Germans and Italians, and that in 1 them a. monopoly on the plans. ieed in connection with the problem of slum elimination is a program this war Yugoslavia lost 1,700,000 Under the bill sponsored by the medical society the only medical With permission of Chicago Daily News Courtesy Appreciate America, lac. of education—education for the slum-creating property owner, to con lives for Allied cause, one realizes vince him public plans which would have been availabel to consumers would have been that the interest must be better served, and educa why the frontier dispute with Italy civilizing those established by the society itself or by the county medical societies tion—of a nature—for the type of renter to whom we refer is in Yugoslav eyes a question not red in the preciding with the approval of the state organization. This was obviously a paragraph. The latter need is the most imperative only of legal technicalities but also Brewery scheme to fence out cooperatives, labor unions, and other groups which POOR EXAMPLE —The Worker. OF AMERICAN JUSTICE of human ethics and sheer biolo- have pioneered in groups health. In other words organized medicine Bethlehem Gives a Fortune to Crooked Lawyer, He Fixes gical survival. attempts to establish a monopoly in the administration of the purely Judge, Corporation Gets the Loot, but Escapes Punishment Yugoslavs also emphasize that business features of group medicine. Shame in a Evidence uncovered by a House committee which is looking into by controlling Trieste Italy could Courtroom Cooperatives opposing the bill sought to amend it to give doctors Few indeed can be the responsible citizens the conduct of Federal Judge Johnson of the Middle District of Penn- dictate or choke off maritime trade of France and the United the right to participate in pre-paid medical plans established by groups Nations who derive pleasure sylvania is extremely disturbing. of nearly 50 people much from the trial of Marshal Petain other than the medical society. They A beer salesman sells decisions to million of state also sought to write into the equally Yugoslavia, As he returned to France, the trial is necessary. He betrayed his coun bill language crooked corporation lawyers, and the judge delivers according Austria, Hungary and specifically stating that the bill did not preclude the for- try and his country’s pledged word by giving up the fight to contract! To what extent are these practices common in other courts? Czechoslovakia. Therefore, at the against mation of medical plans by other groups. Germany. He continued to betray France, throughout rule, by Our Federal judges serve for life. They are clothed with extra- peace conference Prague, Vienna his col Altho the legislature did not adopt the amendment proposed by laborating with the enemy, by leading ordinary powers, but no one acting for the people presumes to and Budapest will very likely sup- Vichy Fascism and by lending the cooperatives it did tack on an amendment allowing ask how strength doctors to parti- those powers port Belgrade the of his prestige both to collaboration and Fascism. A verdict cipate in other organizations. This are exercised! in opposing Italian amendment passed * * of guilty only was after several * is the possible one—although actual carrying out of assemblymen domination of their Mediterranean voiced their suspicion of the bill and recalled that the a death sentence, if delivered, is improbable because age Judge Johnson is disgraced. Some of his associates are on the way outlet. of his and medical society in the past has refused permission to physicians to political complications to the penitentiary, but the biggest culprit goes scot free. Yugoslavs point out that the Al- involved. participate in group health plans and had caused hospitals Guilty though Petain is, it to dis- The Bethlehem Steel Company wished to absorb the Williamsport lied Military Government works w’ould have been much better had he criminate against doctors who did. never lived to go on trial. It is not inspiring Wire Rope Company which, through mismanagement or for some other under Fascists laws and with Ita- to see witnesses, like There is a very encouraging aspect to the fight in the legislature. former Premier Reynaud, in effect reason, was in receivership in Judge Johnson’s court. 'ian local personnel sometimes re- defending their own errors of judg- It indicates that even the reactionary medical politicians, having found ment and weaknesses by testifying against Those who had put their money into the Williamsport cruited from the former Fascist him.

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