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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
TACOMA LIBRARY BOARD REJECTS
F.S. u. OFFER OF BOOKS

TACOMA, Oct. 1S-A visit to
Tacoma Public Library will show
that the thumbs of honest work
ers are harder on books than
are the lily white hands of the
enemies of the Soviet Union.
The nicely bound volume,
Russia, a Utopia in Chains" by
VIM A. Fairburn. although pub
lished in 1881, shows no marks
of use whatsoever-all of its 469
slanderOus pages are perfectly
clean. On the other hand, the
two copies of Anna Louise
StrOng's, "Soviets Conquer
Wheat" are almost worn out.
and the title practically obliter-
ated. The Fairburn volume, dedi-
Gated to " the Liberty, Ideals,
and Prosperity of the American
People" as vicious and lying
book as can be found, has been
borrowed only three times, while
the compelling Strong volume
has had hundreds of readers.
Service Curtailed
Half of a 20 inch shelf-a tall
person must stand on a stool to
reach it's devoted to books
about the Soviet Union. Taco
mas library, like Seattle's,has
suffered a drastic reduction in
income. The phone service has
been cut off since April, the H.
brary has been closed on Sun
days since March. and those in
charge of the library stations,
six in the city, are doing it
gratis. The library is buying lit
tie or no new books, and is max
ing an appeal to private persons
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Forced to Make
Good on Shortage

COALFIELD, Wash, Oct. 49,
Miss White, relief supervisor
here. was forced to promise to
make good clothing shortages for
August by a committee of seven,
elected by group OF organized
unemployed.
For months people have not
been getting clothing orders-or
else orders were short. One
worker, John Delayo, with IA in
his family, was given only one
pair of socks, when he signed for
clothing.
Miss White has been refusing
to take orders through any COM
mittee, and when orders were
handed to Angeloff, local relief
director, he passed the buck to
White.
The unemployed this week
will check on the making good Of
this promise.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

The statement printed below,
required of us by postal regula-
tons, requires explanation.
The Voice of Action was estab-
lished March 25th, 1888, as official
organ of the Washington State
Committee of Action. The State
Committee at that time compris-
ed mainly unemployed organiza-
tions. The Voice of Action was
mainly a paper of the organized
unemployed.
Soon one of the most import
ant unemployed organizations
in the country, the Unemployed
Citizens League, adopted the
Voice of Action as official organ.
AS the paper grew and devel-
Oped two militant trade unions
that were also growing and de-
veloping in the Northwest met
with the Voice of Action board
and became joint publishers of
the paper, with the paper &C
cepted as official organ of these
two unions, the National Lumber
Workers Union and the Fisher
men and Cannery Workers In
dustrial Union, at their respect
i've conventions.
Readers of the paper, since its
founding, have seen a change
that is even greater than the
changes which have more than
doubled the size of the paper.
The paper has become more than
just a paper of the unemployed.
1t has become also the militant
voice of all workers. appealing
to militant trade unionists, to all
AL members, to the inorganic
ed, to professional people. to
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Oregon Farmers
Hear Correll Talk

SALEM. Ore, Oct. 49, More
than 40 farmers and farm wives
met at the Community hall in
the little village of Crabtree in
Linn County, to hear Harry j..
C0rrell, Independent candidate
for Governor. carrying the slo-
gan. Communism VS.. Fascism,"
speak on What are the issues
of the election campaign"
Correll maintains the issues
of this election campaign can be
found only in the class struggle,
/. e.. in the picket lines of the
striking workers. in the mass
demonstrations of the farmers
for possession of their farms and
homes, at the relief stations with
the mother and her starving BAT
bies, in the struggle of the work
ers and toiling farmers for the
right to live.
And not in the distribution of
cheap electric power from Bon
neville dam to the industries of
Oregon, or in the deepening OF
our inland waterways, channels
and harbors for the benefit of
the ship owners, not in the state
banks as per Mr.. Dunno, Gen.
Martin and Mr.. Zimmerman. His
talk was enthusiastically receiv-
ed by the farmers.
Correll is state organizer of
the United Farmers League of
Oregon. Plans are being made in
Portland for Correll to speak
over the air later in the cam
paign.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Speaks to
700 at BremertOn
Navy Yard Rally

SEATTLE, Oct. 1S-In responses
to a leaflet calling for a gate
meeting at the Navy Yard, Tues
day at noon, over 700 Navy Yard
workers listened about Is min
utes to the Communist candid
ate for U. S. Congress. District l,
James Murphy expose the tao
ties of Zioncheck used in Con-
gress against working class in
terests.
There were some attempts on
the part OF Vigilantes and stool
pigeons to heekle and disrupt
the meeting. After seeing the
sentiment displayed by the
workers and their interests in
the program which Murphy put
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Workers Expose
Self-Help Leader

YAKIMA, Wash, Oct. 1S-The
old self help system of solve your
own problems is being started
here again by a well known mis-
leader who was instrumental in
helping to rob the workers OF
Yakima of the few necessities
that they could have out of their
labors in the last self help or
ganization, the United Produc-
ers League.
This misleader, Roy Colburn,
was in the middle of outlining
his new program" when work
ers began asking him questions
about the corruption and graft
in the last organization, of which
he was one of the leaders. He
stated that he was not familiar
with whoever was responsible
for the graft.
Exposes Plan
After a few more questions
we're asked with similar answers
a well known Communist asked
him for the floor. He refused at
first and finally asked the crowd
if they cared to hear this Com
munist" had to say. Someone
said, Sure, let's hear him." and
the crawd followed suit. After ex-
posing this self help plan and the
leaders of it, this eomrade point
ed out how the workers had fore
ed the ruling class to give us
relief, etc, through our organized
efforts and how this faker would
take away what we have fought
for and on from the powers that
be. The crowd applauded, show
ing that they had little confid-
ence in this misleader and his
self help plan. When this com
rade finished he announced the
Bradley election meeting and sat
down.
Colburn tried to go on with his
meeting but the workers began
walking out in disgust. When the
Communist walked out six or
seven workers walked out with
him. Before they got to the door,
the whole crowd followed them.
On the outside the workers be-
gan talking about the Commun-
lists and wanted more information
about them. They all said they
would be at the election cam
paign meeting.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

by Peter Gill, ISU secretary, deck
department.
Were behind President Green
100 per cent" Gill said. We'll ex-
pei Communists as fast as pos
sible. Right now we're turning
down applications of workers we
suspect of being Communists.
Stool Pigeons Used
How do we know they're Com
munists? We can usually tell by
the answers they give when we
cross question them. And then
we have other ways Of finding
out! We're an American institu-
ton"
Severt Johnson, carpenters, de-
clared himself right down the
line for President Green"
I'VE expelled six or seven Com
munists two or three years ago"
he said. They're menace to or
ganized labor!"
Dewey Bennett, LILA secretary,
Local 1912, refused to make a
statement for publication.
Green's red-baiting letter, ex-
posing his fear that the AL
rank and file, once they deter
mine to shake the throttlng grasp
of his machine from their Threats,
is filled with platitudes for those
who still pretend to follow him
blindly, and attacks all militants.
1t states in part: "While the
Executive Council of the AFL is
in no way alarmed over the stu.
alton created as result of Com.
munistic propaganda, and while
we have abiding faith in the 10y
atty of members of organized
labor to it's principles, its phil
Osophy and it's policies, the Of
ficers," are convinced it is their
official and patriotic duty to
fight the open and concealed at.
tempts of Communists to impose
their philosophy upon the wage
earners of our nation"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
FILE LEWIS TICKET

CHEHALIS, Wash, Oct. 1S-
For the first time in the history
of Lewis County. the workers and
farmers will have an opportunity
to choose county officers that will
carry a program entirely in the
interest of the workers and farm
ers.
Rosella Smith for state repre-
sentative. HI. p. Huff for county
commissioner, LIST district, Charles
Witchey for sheriff, are now Of
ficially filed in Chehalis as can
didates on the Communist plat
form in the general election, No
vember 6.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
File AnacOrteS Slate

ANACORTES, Wash, Oct. 1S-
The Communist Party of Ana
cortes today filed the following
candidates for city offices to run
in the primaries to be held Nov
ember 6: Phil Burgaas for Mayor;
Claude Speer for COuncilman-at-
Large; Harry McGee for COun-
Gilman, First Ward; Z. w. Bar
ney for Councilman, Second
Ward; Mrs. Eula Lowry for Coun-
Gilman, Third Ward
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

to donate books they no longer
want.
1t is expected that the branch
es and stations will be closed
the first of the year.
The local branch of the fSU
offered to supply both Soviet
Russia Today" and "USSR In
Construction" to the library free,
but the offer was turned down
by the reactionary library board.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
WATERFRONT FEDERATION

SEATTLE, Oct. 17-Union long
shoremen were scheduled to take
up in meeting Thursday plans
for the long-proposed marine
federation of all waterfront un-
ions-with attempts by leaders
to carefully weed out the milit.
ant ones.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
DELEGATE ARRESTED

GEM, Idaho, Oct. 1S-The dele
gate representing the Mine, Mill
and Shelter Workers here, to
the Rank and File Convention
of the ALL at San Francisco is
reported arrested on a fake tres
pass charge at Auburn, Califor-
mia.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Special to the FcwIu

PROvINCETOwN, Mass. Oct.
1.-THE workers in the Atlantic
Coast Fisheries Cold Storage
Plant are striking against wage
sut of IA to Y cents a pound
for piece work. They are demand
ing SIPS per hundred for cutting,
37H cents per hour for packers
and laborers and so cents per
hour for all overtime.
The Cape Cod Cold Storage
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Win 80 Per Cent
of Relief Demands

EVERETT, WASH, Oct. 1S-
Holding their relief administrat-
ors in the voucher depot from 2
until p. m, the Relief Workers
Protective Association members
here won 80 per cent of their
hearing for grievances embarrass-
of immediate investigation of the
remainder.
This novel method of forcing a
hearing fro grievances embarrass-
ed the supervisors, as all of them
were together and buck-passing
was impossible. Grievances were
heard one at a time in detail and
full concessions granted.
The major case was demands
for decent, warm clothing for an
so year old worker whose main
clothing was a ragged pair of ov-
erals.
Peoples Friend
Two deputy sheriffs arrived
at $50, and when asked by Paul
Butts, workers organizer, to show
their credentials, they produced
badges signed by Sheriff Faulk-
ner, the workers friend"
They refused to protect" the
relief heads, however, in the face
of the militant workers.
A thorough investigation of all
cases was started the next day,
and Verne Graham, relief head
for Everett, admitted that the
"RWPA forced the investigation"
And the concessions subsequent
ly granted.
Attempts by Miss Gesner, sup
ervisor, to close the voucher de-
pot and deliver the vouchers,
plus fascist threats, door-to-door,
were quickly spiked by the mil
liant workers, and now head
man Graham is anxious to COOP
crate"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
By a Worker Correspondent

SPOKANE, WASH, Oct. 49,
Mrs. Wilton, mother of two
children. died Thursday morning
at the Sacred Heart Hospital as
result of a sterilization opera
ton performed upon her without
her or her husbands knowledge
or consent. by DIR. Lien, Spokane
county physician. Mrs. Wilton
went to the hospital for treat
ment for anemia and heart troll-
BILE, and in her weakened condi-
tion the abdominal operation
caused her death.
Sterilization Charge Proved
An investigation by the Unem-
ployed Council OF this city has
revealed the fact that DR.. Lien
sterilizes practically all women
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
NOTICE

The national Offices Of the
Fishermen and Cannery Workers
Industrial Union, the National
Lumber Workers Union, are at
201 Collins Building. Seattle.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Statement of Ownership, Man
agement, Circulation, etc., Re-
quired by the Act of Congress
of August "a, 1912,

OF The Voice of Action with
which is combined the Thursday
Noon Outlook, published weekly
at Seattle. Washington, for De-
tober /, 1894.
State of Washington, County
of King, SIS.
Before me, Notary Public in
and for the State and county
aforesaid, personally appeared
Areline Randall, who, having
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

This story was written by a
worker taking the Workers
Correspondence Course being
given by the Voice Of Action to
train working class news re-
porters. Enrolment is open
for a small fee to cover ex-
penses.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

forth these red-baiters immedi-
ately stopped their attempts to
disrupt.
Predicts Communist Vote
The enthusiastic attendance OF
this first gate meeting ever held
by the Communist Party at the
Navy Yard shows how eager the
men are to support Its militant
program.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

GERMANY-Proof of a close
Japanese-German alliance are
found in the great increase of
Japanese students who are well
coined to German Universities
with open arms-while German
youth walk the streets without
schooling. japanese studies are
taught in these universities and
have increased greatly.
y y
SPAIN-In an effort to remove
influence of the Young Commun-
list League and other radical
youth groups from the war front,
the Spanish government has for
hidden all youth to Join any po-
litical organization until they
reach the age of % Except with
parents CONSENT.
y
JUGOSLAVIA-The country is
seething with the germs of re-
volt that are being deliberately
provoked by the Jugoslavian Of
ficials against the presence Of
Italian citizens in the country.
Taking advantage of the death of
the dictator to stir up the flames
of racial hatred, the officials have
already been responsible for seri-
Gus race riots throughout the
land.
ITALY The fascist govern.
ment told 250,O00 Italian youth
last week that they could expect
neither honors, nor jobs, nor pro.
fits-but only duty and combat"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19


BELLINGHAM, Wash, Oct. IL
AT a recent local meeting of the
Vail Local of the United Farm
ers League, which was turned
over entirely to representatives
and candidates of the different
political parties, George Bradley,
running for U. 5. Senator on the
Communist Party ticket, was CIV
en- a alger hand by the 20 work
ers and farmers present when
he explained the program and
role of the Communist Party
in the eelction campaign and the
fight for better conditions for
workers and farmers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Workers Down Green's
Anti-Red Letter

Continued from Page One)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
BY B,,rck

farm system has definitely proved
an Interchangeable victory. The
kulaks are liquidated on the whole.
The dictatorship of the proletariat
is stronger than ever before. The
masses of toilerS in the U. S. S. r.
know firmly they are working and
fighting for their own cause-f1ght-
ing, conquering and will conquer.
The state apparatus is working ever
more accurately, more in harmony
with the great planned socialist
economy. Therefore, the guaran-
teeing of revolutionary order and
safety of the state can be turned
over to the newly organized Peoples
Commissariat of Home Affairs of
the Soviet Union, and also to trans
fer all court functions to a single
Soviet court system.
Revolutionary order IS even
deeper and more fully and firmly
rooted in the towns and villages of
the Soviet Union. The streets of
capitalist cities are covered with
blood of executed peoples without
trials, with the blood Of the fore
most proletarians, in the blood of
the toilers, in the blood of their
own fascist supporters, the bour-
geoisie is attempting to drown their
fear and horror before the ap-
preaching day Of revolution.
Even in peaceful Amsterdam,
the blood of the proletariat flowed
in streams on the streets and on
the barbados during the past few
days. Tanks, gas, cars, machine
guns-these are the arguments of
bourgeoisie order even more fire.
quently and insolently utilized by
capitalist governments
Strict revolutionary order is be-
ing established more firmly in the
Soviet Union. Consciousness of
socialist law is ever more dominat-
ing the minds of tens of millions
of toilers trained by the Party of
Lenin and Stain, trained by words
and deeds of socialism, which every
day is being created in factory,
shops, on the railroads, on the
Soviet water transport, on the
boundless collective farms"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12

led masses, who saw in the National
Socialist movement way to curtail
the manifestations of capitalist ex-
ploitation. They are now being dis
illusioned. Their disillusionment will
strengthen the mass base of the
revolutionary movement. AS re-
suit, the revolutionary crisis in Ger
many is swiftly ripening.
1t is most important here to point
out that the developments in Ger
many in the last few days have
shown how utterly wrong it was to
present the victory of Hitlerism as
a decisive defeat of the proletarian
revolution. Developments proved
that such a conception of decisive
defeat of the revolution could only
grow out of a MARKHAM or anti
MARKHAM consideration. 1t could
only be voiced either by traitors to
the working class or by people who
we're blind to the different class in
terests, to the elementary force of
these class interests. The force of
these interests will break their way
through into the open, no matter
what obstacles they find in their
way. No, the establishment of the
Nazi government in Germany was
not victory of capitalist rule in
Germany; it increases the difficult
ties of capitalism and speeds the
conditions for the proletarian revo-
luton. 1t was rather sign of its
most rapid disintegration and decay.
In spite of the forcible limitations
put upon working-clas thought and
activities, they broke through and
showed that beneath the surface of
Hitler's rule the forces of the pro-
letarian revolution are seething,
working and ripening. The prole-
tartan revolution is on the march
in Germany, against Hitler and
against capitalism. And this revo-
luton is being organized and led by
the Communist Party of Germany.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12

has destroyed the profit system can cope with it.
But the planned destruction of crops by gov
eminent in the interests Of keeping prices high in
order to maintain profits is only one Of the more
criminal inssnities Of the capitalist system and the
capitalist class.
The Well Street and Chicago spectators are
rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation of new
fat profits in grains. The weather. farmers with
stocks Of grain viii make fortunes
But the millions of small farmers who have been
ruined by the Roosevelt acreage reduction program
and the drought, as well as the millions of working
class consumers in the cities will pay for this
crop-destroying madness in increased hunger and
misery.
That it is the cold-blooded destruction of crops
by the Roosevelt government which is mainly re-
sponsible for the record low crop is admitted by
the capitalist press, the New York Times stating
today that more than so per cent of the drop
in corn is due to the acreage-reduction program"
Can one imagine a more damnng indictment
of capitalist society Of the capitalist money rulers
who live like hdeous parasites on the miseries of
the people than this planned destruction of food
while millions go hungry
Can one conceive Of better reason for smash
ing this insane and criminal rule Of the capitalists
and their government and establishing a Soviet
Government of Workers and Farmers, a govern
ment like the Soviet Union which strives to increase
the amount Of food and wealth for the producing
masses 50 that all who toll can march forward to
higher and higher standards Of living
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-12
Toward General Strikes!

EVEN the capitalist press can no longer
II hide the fact that the class struggle in
this country is flaring into open class
battles in almost every section of the
country.
And this hired press cannot hide the
fact that the cry of GENERAL STRIKE
is sounding all along the vast dock strike now
raging on the Pacific Coast.
The present wave of strikes is not merely
series of struggles for pay increases.
It is absolutely essential to understand that the
present strike struggles taking on an increasing
political character That is to say the strikers
coming more and more into conflict with the
capitalist state power, the Government
The isolated strikes of the early phase of the
crisis have now become mighty movements for gen
era strikes in entire industries and sections of the
country.
The fight of one group of strikers is more
and more becoming the fight of whole sections of
the working class in that section Of the country.
The attack on one group of workers in the
present stage of the crisis becomes inevitably an
attack on all the workers in the industry and
section That is why the movement toward gen
eral strikes is now the vital link in all strike
struggles taking place.
THE Central Committee of the Communist Party,
in its report on the current strike situation
published in Mondays Daily Worker, singled out
and emphasized precisely this aspect of the present
situation as the qualtatively new development in
the advance of the struggles Of the working class
against the Roosevelt Wall Street government.
"We see everywhere" it states, "the increasing
role of workers outside the immediate strike in
affecting the relation of forces in strikes and their
outcome. =. . The tendency of workers in various
industries in a given community to join In a
general strike in a given industry also has its
expression in the growth of general strikes Of
national character in the same industry"
And the Central Committee emphasizes that the
fact that all strikes now characterized by the
struggle for the right to organize and picket as we'll
as for demands of an economic nature are symp-
toms "of growing political character of the present
strike wave, and their increasing tendency to de-
velop into struggles against the capitalist system"
Thus the effort to spread the GENERAL
STRIKE is necessary for the defense of the daily
economic demands Of the workers. The struggle
between the employers and the workers who they
exploit can longer be confined to separate,
isolated sections.
The struggle for bread, for civil rights becomes
now battle along immense front covering
entire industries and sections OF the country
Toward general strikes against the employers and
their government! Spread the marine strike!