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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

The steel bosses are building
fifteen foot barbed wire fences
around their plants. Ruthless
plans are already set to break
the impending steel strike
Officials of the United States
Armp have looked over the in
vOlved territory with view to
action when appealed to, by the
bosses.
History is repeating itself.
Forty-twO years ago this month
at Homestead, Pennsylvania,
heart of the gigantic Carnegie
Steel industry, the same prepar-
ations by workers to strike and
by bosses to break the strike
were being made. A few
months of bitter struggle, and
the barbed wire fences, the
thugs, spies, stool pigeons, scabs
and the United States militia
won and beaten Homestead
workers went back on the job,
their union, the Amalgamated
Association of Iron and Steel
Workers Outlawed.
1t was probably the first time
in L. s. history that workers
came into conflict with apOwer-
full modern corporation backed
not Onlp by hired thugs and pro
vacateurs but by the govern
ment OF the L. 5. as well.
The Carnegie Steel Company
had become annoyed by the
growing power of the steel work
ers union. at that time the most
powerful in the country. and aS
u means of Kidding itself Of the
nuisance once and for all, all
nU.irred wage cUt and prrpar-
I'd to put it Over.
ON May 20 1872, the bosses an
nOunced that unless the wage
cut was accepted by June %, the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

It's a five cent pamphlet,
written by GEORGE AN
STRoM, for sale at WORK.
ERS BOOK STORE, 1915 First
Avenue, and Is reviewed by
JACK LEWIS.
A World Agricultural Crisis
An interesting situation faces the
capitalist countries this year: theil
wheat crops promise tobe about
one third short. Italy is doubling
the price of -four. While in Soviet
Russia theer promises to be the
largest wheat crop in Russian his
tory. With drought and crop losses
facing the farmers of the world
this pamphlet Is OF special interest
II is too bad that II is already
two years old, for with up-to-t the
minute statistics II would be a
powerful piece Of propaganda for
class conscious farmers; but even
with this one drawback IL is one
OF the most effective pamphlets yet
published by the international Pub
fishers. A.. ..
Decline Of American Agriculture
For years there has been a
steady decline in the nnmhar and
size Of middle and small farm and
an increase in largo farms while
has made sIopans of ne
onaee "back IN horses" "hocL IN
sanity" hack TO starvation size
farms.
Farm prices have fallen IN 90 ner
cent of pre-war levels. while farm :
ers are having taxes 966 ner cent
OF pre-war levels Freight rates
have risen 152 ner cent while
bankers mortgages have stavad at
the same levels, land yames have
sunk to one-rhalf ana less. In many
Of the states one fourth and more
Of the land has been sold for taxes
In Mississippi. that muc was sold
in one day
EIioht fror, IN. Farm
40 600 OOO of onr Nomination bave
shifted between citv and country
during the last ten yasrs Including
millions Of debt-ridden farmers
Millions more are starving mipra-
tory workers. In many sections of
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
WOMAN'S WORLD

the fight of the Women's Educa-
tiOnal League in Olympia to abol-
ish the degrading peonage voucher
list of prescribed foods in the gro
Gerry stores.
Such occasional flashes of activ-
ity are insufficient.
HELP! HELP!
Britt. We rush from our print
shop! Now what? Now What?
Just this! Now the printer has
even started criticizing this col
umn! He says our stuff last
week was social fascism, poor
and simple, and politically at
rociOus! We were encouraging
the housewives on relief to be-
lieve that $3.50 per week was al
most more than enough on which
to survive! Gosh! He almost
had us believing that we asked
for a relief cut
Now, honestly. | think it would
take more than a. few menus
printed in the Voice of Action to
convince anybody that $3.50 is all
they live on at the White House,
and anyway, those waffles stuff
ed with bacon are delicious! Oh,
| know, you haven't got a waffle
iron. Neither have /.
However, there's a lot of things
going to happen to the woman's
column the next few weeks.
First thing, it's going to be re-
named. And next week we an
nounce a contest on the name
a brief poppy little contest that
will be all over except setting
the new name up in type with
in a couple of weeks or so. So
we advise all you readers to get
a name in the back of your heads
to send in to the contest editorl
Watch for the announcement
next week l-Women's EdltPr,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL
LUMBER WORKERS UNION
BY JAMES MURPHY,

the big shot operators.
The future lumber barons wer,
now able to make the huge SCOOP
that brought them power ant
wealth. They were able to victim
lie the settlers flocking by train
loads westward. Many an indiyid
ual was given his transportation
to tract of timber and after films
was forced to sell his tract to tn,
operators for few dollars. With,
out capital, without any mode O
livelihood, this worker now becam,
more of slave than he had beer
before.
However. the operators were no
acquiring timber grants fast enough
by this method. So, since the Law
was on their side. they took ad
vantage Of the publlc's not beinl
protected and started outright Il
steal timber by simply establishing
sawmills on public timber and be
ginning cutting.
The interests of the operators anC
the officials being Identical action
was seldom taken and even court.
upheld the officials interests. Ar
outstanding example is the weyer-
hauser Timber Syndicate which
stole the best standing timber 4
Idaho. Charges were procured bS
the House OF Representatives, but
action was killed in the Investigat
ing Committee and the matter new
err appeared before Congress.
Thus operators acquired huge
tracts of timber for little or no ex
pense and by holding them until
prices advanced. doubled and treb-
led and quadrupled their invest
ments. ...
Mergers Formed by Few Operators
To keep themselves from being
driven out of business and swaI-
lowed up small operators were
forced to merge. This resulted in
the industry being diverted into
the hands of few. The MIRA codes
now in effect make for monopoly
in the same way-small fellows are
being crushed and such firms as
the Weyerhauser Timber Company
allowed to dominate completely.
Lumber Workers Struggle Against
Operators Oppression
The lumber operators thus gain
ing control over one of the largest
and most basic Industries, thou
sands of workers coming West to
escape the sweatshops became once
more trapped in the clutches of a
strong organized trust.
The lumber workers daily live
lihood depends on the amount of
work he is able to obtain in logging
camps and sawmills. AS the new
country settled there was an in
creasing demand for lumber and
but the greed of the opera
tors for profits kept wages small,
working conditions miserable and
hours long for the lumber workers.
They realize that as unorganized
individuals they are helpless and
at the mercy of the capitalists. So
when. during this period of timber
and land grabbing by the capital
lists a movement was organized by
the working class to fight against
miserable working conditions, for
the. eight hour day and higher
wages, the workers or the lumber
industry gladly Joined the Struggle.
Next week-Unions Established
in the Lumber Industry.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

AS YOU REMEMBER, an
old lady tells her parson about
her married daughter in chiea-
go who has just been evicted,
and who sounds like she is 90
ing Red. Going to Chicago to
see for herself what is going
on, she writes the parson about
an open hearing she attends.
The letter to the parson con-
tinues:
The way Tom brought that out
made everybody sort of gasp and
then look at Mr.. Ross who got
busy making notes and said ne
would take care of the case first
thing i'm the morning. Tom says,
IL move we ajurn and take Mr..
Ross with us to help set this work
ers furniture back in the flat" Mr.
Ross got up and said. II don't
think we should ajurn this import
ant meeting. Appoint a committee
to replace the woman's furniture
and l will give money for the rent
to take with them"
Well you could have heard the
cheering for a block and a COM
mittee was sent off right away to
look after the case.
Tom says, Fellow workers, you
can see how effective mass pres
sure is
The Next Case
The next case was an old man.
He said he lived with his grown
up children. Have you no wife ?''
asked Tom. NO" said the man.
What happened TO your wife?"
asked Tom. "She died three weeks
ago." and the mans voice broke.
What did she die off," asked
Tom.
Pneumonia"
How did she get pneumonia?"
There was no coal in the house."
says the man. ...- ..
Did you ask the relief station
for coal?" ..--
Yes. three weeks before my wife
died." says the man.
When did the coal conner" ask
ed Tom.
Two hours after my wife died"
says the man.
'Mr. Ross" says Tom, you was
able to fix up the other case by
digging down into your own pock-
ct. / don't know how to fix this
one. Can you give this man back
his dead wife?"
Mr.. Ross got up, very FILTHY and
says, This man Is a umn very de-
plorable case and Comrade Baxter
whom I respect ana admire has
used his great ability TO present
i most dramatically. Uh. am sure
l would be inhuman II I had not
been as deeply touched by this I'M
fortunate mans story as all of YOU
have. No one can doubt this story,
II rings true. Uh UNI # Is depior-
able that such things can occur but
they do. II must be remembered
though that in this country we have
majority rule and majority Of
your legislators have appropriated
but never had such Joy as when
heard that stick swish and crack.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Heroes of American Labor
The Homestead Strike

/ Union would no longer he recOg-
nized. On July the workers re-
jected the wage cut and were
promptly locked out. Before
hand the mill superintendent
had contracted for 300 PinkertOn
gun thugs and had built a three
mile long fence, fifteen feet high.
Homestead, then with a pop
ulatiOn of about 1900 steel
workers, is on the MOnOngahela
River. During the night of July
5, 1892. the PinkertOn thugs were
brought in boats. But the work
erS had guards out and mess
enger on horseback warned the
waiting workers. Aiming them
selves in any way they could.
men and women hurried to the
plant, threw up barbados, pre-
pared for battle. The gun thugs
arrived, and finding opposition,
opened fire. The thugs were
| Dtdltll, llllDllNOll0us ullL oibSl
few days run out of town. but at
the cost of the lives OF more than
half a dozen workers.
Paid gunner, falling i'll the
Job, the state militia was called
in and the little town was an
armed camp for several months.
About October the steel work
crs, discouraged, heartsick, went
back to work. With the union
completely broken, the steel
bosses were free TO mass thir
gigantic fortunes unchallenged.
Ia 1919 the steel workers strike
shook the nation. But again the
strikers lost.
History H. rep, atlng itself.
But the steel workers may put
Il different finish to the chapter
this time.
Next week, the Pullman Rail
road strike
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
NO NEW DEAL FOR WIVES
BY A Man

BY A Man
Frigidaire, Simplex Ironer, Hoov-
er Vacuum Sweeper electric stoves,
electric egg heaters, new styles, new
recipes, a million new gadgets for
the home scream at my wife from
the pages of the daily newspapers,
from the leaves of magazines.
And she can't afford them.
Great hullabaloO is made over
the advance of science and civil
ization, of new inventions to tighten
the burden of the housewife.
But my wife hasn't even the con-
venience my mother used to have.
Because we haven't as much
money.
Monday too Blue
Take washday. There are only
two of us. Yet the washing is a
real task. We have no laundry
trays, leave alone machine. My
wife, who isn't strong, must bend
low over q bathtub.
We once lived in an apartment
with electric refrigeration and an
electric stove. Now, not even an
ice box, and an old fashioned range
must suffice. And I have to rustic
wood. -
A host of families are in the same
boat, | know Light companies are
taking out tons Of electric stoves.
Second hand ranges are at a pre-
MUM. --....----
Cooking presents similar prob
lens. Our total cash income hovers
around 3 TO dollars a week. It's
hard to get together many meals
on that. And We are not the poor
est family in town by a long shot
A Scrap Needed
Not enough is done about the
gradual forcing of wives back into
middle ages conditions of work.
seldom read in the Voice of Action
Of special demands raised by our
unions and by the unemployed or
CARNATIONS TO benefit housewives.
Last week an. article described
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
OF the working class.

No pretty speeches are the
measure by which these two men
are judged. Their Deeds Speak.
A better selection could not be
made. The Voice OF Action
heartily endorses the candidacy
of George Bradley and James
Murphy.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
How Lumber Promoters Aeqired
Timber and Wealth

Timber and Wealth
Early In the history of the United
States, division Of the public lands
was demanded by the lumber spec
ulators. who were eager TO bring
the natural resources of the coun-
try under private control Workers
in the East, trying to escape the
ever-increasing exploitation of
sweat shops and the effects OF the
economic panic of 1873, Joined in
the agitation for free lands.
Corrupt congresses manipulated
by the rising interests enacted the
Timber and Stone Act and the
Homestead Laws between 1S40-
1880. These were to be administered
by public officials In the employ of
face eviction under the AAA codes.
The increase in the use of mach
inery, the decrease in land fertll-
ity. and all made a clear picture
OF capitalist decay In the south
which is finished by such scenes
as the fascism now ruling the Ala
bama country-side.
The Wheat States
The World War now induced the
government to get the western
farmers to greatly increase their
wheat acreage. With the end Of
the war. and no market for the sur
plus wheat, bankruptcy of wheat
farmers was rapid. In the Soviet
Union all crops are planned and
such an 'over production" Is i'm
pOssible) BY 1880 mortgages In
the grain states had increased from
SO per cent to 81 per cent. and
much more since. Montana's wheat
farmers shrunk from $4,000 to a.
900 who now grow more wheat than
the $4,000 ever did (tho it can't be
Sold.
Dairy and General Farming
The Oldest of the farm areas has
II Der cent of the farm population.
living near the largest cities. Dairy
Ing is the main crop. and the
market price averages to 4 cents
a quart with cost of production at
= cents. So milk is thrown away
while thousands of city workers
and their children are starving.
About half of the farmers are on
the verge of bankruptcy. 81 per
cent of the mortgages are held by
big bankers and insurance compan-
les. SO per cent of all American
farmers are on the verge of bank
ruptcy.
Pacific Fruit Regions
4S per cent of farm help is made
up of migratory workers. $4,000 of
the richest farmers hold the best
land. while 100000 poor farmers go
hungry. For lack of selling prices
during the depression California
fruit crops have gone to waste ev-
cry year enough to give fresh fruit
to all the unemployed Of America.
Starvation wages prevail. The one
bright spot is the Cannery and Ag
ricultural Workers Industrial I'm
ion. which is carrying on unceas-
ing militant activity all along the
west coast in the face Of bitter fas-
cist opposition.
Every farmer In America should
have this pamphlet. If 1t were in
the hands of all Of them at least
half Of them would be sure to join
in militant action on a broad united
front with the workers. . -
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
YOUR COMRADE IN CHRIST
BY Ralph MunsOn.

by Ralph MunSOn.
certain sums which have been in
adequate and in many cases, uh
it has been necessary to uh delay
delivery of coal to stretch the uh
funds until replenished by uh sub
sequent appropriations"
Tom says, Majority rule He'll,
don't believe a majority of Mrs.
MorenO's neighbors wanted her put
into the street in the dead of win
ter with her children. I don't be-
, lieve a majority of this mans
neighbors wanted his wife to die
, of exposure!"
Says amen"
ParsOn, I was so proud OF Tom
and so excited I just shouted
Amen as loud as I could and then
when everybody started to cheer,
an old Niger, mean Negro wo-
man. pOked me in the ribs and
says, "Thas all right Comrade, I
used to holler Amen my own self
when l first quit the church."
Parson I don't know when I've
been so put out over her thinking
| had given up my religion just be-
cause I hOllered amen" at q Red
meetin.
hope I amt gettin all swelled
with pride over Miles Tom but
Mr.. Ross is a pretty smart man or
he wouldn't hold the job he does
and 1t made me feel awful good
to see how Tom put it all over
, him when ii came to summin up.
He told Mr.. Ross that they was
all comm down to the relief sta
ton in the morning and that they
/ had over a hundred cases to bring
with them.
Next Morning
Tom and Millie didn't want me
to go with them the next morning
but 7 said I didn't see how anything
could happen after the way Mr.,
Ross talked the night before and
they finally let me come along.
When we got tn the station there
was about three thousand people
milling around the entrance and
the police was holding EN- back.
Word came that they wouldn't re-
ceive the committee that was to
take the cases in and that the work.
ers had voted to all go in. I'll tell
you parson you never saw anything
like the things / saw that day in
all your years of Christian minis
try. To this cay I cant get over
the idea that things had just been
waiting until got there to start,
because I had no sooner got into
the edge Of the crowd before the
police started clubbing the work
ers. The workers had some signs
they was. carrying on sticks and
they defended themselves pretty
good for a few minutes but all OF a
sudden heard gun go off and
three or four workers started to
scream with pain.
The Battle
The next thing / knew more po-
lice came up from the rear and
started to beat the workers right
close to where I was. I heard a
woman scream that was getting
dubbed numerically and when I
looked / saw it was the old Negro
woman who had poked me in the
ribs the night before.
don't know what happened in
that flash to change me from a re-
spectacle law abiding citizen, but
remember thought Promises al
night and bullets in the morning
Well parson I just grabbed stick
nom somebody and let that police
man have u May God forgive me
The Washington times., 1934-10-23
BABY RASH
chAEING

With INV
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The Washington times., 1934-10-23
'RUGGEDNESS'
CAR ENDS TEST

The RuggednesS Run officially
ended at 10 a. m. today. The year.
old 1884 Terraplane which has
been piling up second years mile
age in two weeks day and night
road-pounding flashed across the
District line, its starting point, hav-
ing travelled 10,403 miles through
four states and the District of
Columbia.
A reception of cars starting with
a 1915 Hudson and a police escort
met the car on its arrival in Wash
ington as it flashed across the line,
driven by Bill holster. The car,
selected at random, was driven
16,205 miles before the run started.
1t was owned by Fred A. Haycox
of Norfolk. During its original
ownership American Oil products
were used
In travelling it's 1O,403-mile
course the ruggedness car-named
the Rugged Trailblazer''-crossed
the Allegheny and the Blue Ridge
Mountains
The Washington times., 1934-10-23
TODAY
TOMORROW
CIVIC AND SOCIAL

SOCIAL
1880 P.M-LuncheOn, Democratic University
1880 PMLuncheOn, University Missouri Alumni Unive
Sity Club
1880 PM-LuncheOn, Exchange Club University Club.
1880 P-LuncheOn
1880 PM-LuncheOn, Lions Club. MayflOwer Hotel.
1880 PM.-LuncheOn, OpmiSt Club Hamilton Hotel
1880 PM.-LunCheOn, Rotary Club Willard Hotel.
12:45 PMLuncheOn, D. Bankers Association Willard Hotel
100 P.M-Luncheon, SOrOptimS Club. Willard Hotel.
100 of
Ladies Committed. MayfOwer Hotel
1870 PMFaShOn Connecticut Association May
flower
$500 P.M-Meeting A. S. O. Lodge No. 2 A. F. G. E. Hamilton
Hotel
$500 P.M.-Meetng Unity Group. Hamilton Hotel.
S:15 of MOdra DIR Jane H
flower Hotel
$3.50 P.M.-SmOker Chi Fraternity Hamilton Hotel.
$500 PMCaVd Party Dance Goldenbergs Relief AssOcia
tOn MayfOWer Hotel.
BOARD TRADE
1890 AMMeetng, Machinery Products Industry.
MayflOwer Hotel
CODE HEARINGS
1000 AM-COde Meeting, Retail Monument. Hamilton Hotel
1000 AM-Meeing, Retail Drug. Raleigh Hotel.
CONVENTION
Day-COnventiOn American Bankers Association Willard
Hotel.
The Washington times., 1934-10-23
ALWAYS DEAD TIRED?

How sad! Sallow complexion, coat
ed tongue, poor appetite. bad breath.
pimply skin and always tired. What's
wrong? Chances ARE you're poisoned
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Take this famous prescription used
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Rosy cheeks, clear eyes and youth
full energy make a success of life.
Take one or two DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets at bedtime for a week. Know
them by their olive color. 15c, soc
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The Washington times., 1934-10-23
MELLON, MILLS
WIN TAX SUIT

Government officials should be
able to perform their duties with.
out fear OF damage suits, the
United States Supreme Court has
tacitly decided.
It's position is revealed by its
refusal yesterday to review a
case involving Andrew w. Mellon
and Ogden L. Mills. The former
Treasury officials had been sued
for $250,O00 damages by a Flor
Ida firm in connection with taxes
collected and the District of Co.
1umbia Supreme Court refused to
entertain the suit.
Mr.. Mellon contended no Off
cial would dare act in a doubtful
situation if he knew he might be
sued.
The Washington times., 1934-10-23
One Million More Users of
this Famous "W0nder Cream!

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RESERVE CORPS
PLANES ASKED
nv Universal Service

Congress is gravely hampering
progress of American aviation by
constant whiting of the Air Re
serve Corps, Casey Jones, pilot and
aeronautic pioneer, yesterday tod
the Federal Aviation Commission.
Funds for this organization have
been cut so heavily members OF
the Air Reserve get only two or
three hours of flying a month, and
then in old and frequently dan
gerouS planes, he charged.
The organization should be
given $50 new planes Immediately,
and Congress should provide a
minimum of 10 hours flying each
month for every one of the 1,400
persons in the corps, Mr.. Jones
told the commission.