davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
Textile War BETRAYED

The German Green wire to striking textile
union locals calling off the strike called the
return to work complete victory triumph
These fat,paunched Washington. ID. c., bu-
reaucrats deliberately mis-stated the terms of
settlement to hide their Grass betrayal of
half million heroic strikers
In some places than those against which they
struck
Pacific Coast maritime workers. who have
for more than two months waited for the de
alterations" of a federal arbitration board.
could tell the textile workers a thing or two
about the victory of turning over their strug-
gle to another of Roosevelt's boards
= As in the San Francisco General Strike,
misleaders OF labor played the principal role
In preventing the winning OF all demands.
VI course they were amply aided by the
mobilization OF 1900 National Guarusmen VINO
saw active service against the picket lines;
tear gas, but a new concoctIon likely to lead
TO tuberculosis at any time WITHIN i've years Oh
the date il was used against man. Inc relief
authorities through Federal Director hopkins,
dld their little blJ III preventing the dlsurlpu-
ton OF relief to all strikers excepting those VINO
would bow to forced labor.
Fifteen textile workers were murdered in
this, one OF the greatest battles OF all labor
history. Bill Green typlfies the top leadership
OF the ALL as he desecrates IneIr graves Win
our task now TO Dullu gOoa VIII through
cooperation" Inc sooner sucn leaders are
removed. the better tine entire labor movement
will be
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
About Face
By Mary Jordan

The change of attitude of the capitalist class
toward the unemployed in time of strikes from
one of gratefulness for abundance of scabbers to
one of fear because of unemployed participa-
ton in struggles is brought out in the capital
list industrial magazine, Factory Management
and Maintenance, September 1884.
well informed students of labor disturbances
note the increasing organized participation of
the unemployed in such violence (strlkes) The
presence of this group is a serious element in
the present situation" an editorial states.
The growing solidarity between workers
employed and unemployed-is helping strikers
to win demands and challenging capitalist DOM
ination, and is therefore viewed as serious
element" The unemployed as a whole, not only
refuse to scab and help the bosses beat down
the wages and living standards of fellow work.
ers In the longshoremen's strike In Seattle
militant workers picketed voucher stations to
warn against betrayal of the maritime workers
rights.
The editorial urges the government to put
men to work at any cost to break up this solid
arity. 1t says, only when the employable popu-
lation as a whole is again at work will this seri-
Gus danger subside Many federal projects which
could hardly justify themselves on ordinary
grounds become ineligible when the respon-
sibility of the government for this phase of the
national situation is fully realized"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
PRIZE WINNER WRITES

Some time ago the Voice OF
Action offered a prize of two dol
lars each week for five weeks for
the best King County news story
sent in to the paper. The last
prize was divided between two
youngsters who wrote about the
Pioneer camp. One of the lads
got his dollar right away, but as
we didn't have the address of
the other his dollar has been
waiting for him. Now. after al
most two months, we finally re-
ceived the following letter:
ITO the Editor of the
Vocie of Action:
II am sending you my address
in case you don't know where to
send the dollar prize | won for
writing a story about the sum-
mer camp. / would like it very
much II you could send it right
away because l need 1t for school.
yours truly,
Johnnie Katsonis."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
SHORT STORY
By
HAcKFIELD THOMAS

paper lies, political lies (manag-
ing chef. Small profit. Siddown.
Bread and coffee at the tables,
butter. yes, II the doctor pre-
scribes it. Shiny sliek-sloppy Oil
cloth covers. The eaters bend ST.
lently over their pie-tins, hats
pulled over eyes. Old ones smash
ing the feed to pulp before slip
ping it into their shaggy sore
gummed mouths. A rangy guy
leans over, lifts the OilclOth, spits
half-raw carrot under the table.
Bread is edible. stale but edible,
staff of life. The eaters reach
great handfulls of it into their
plates, pick what they can off
the pie tins, fill up on bread,
sneak a slice or two into peck
cts. Second helpings. More beans?
All gone. Carrots? No thanks.
Meat? None left. Then the pud-
ding, mealy bread pudding COW
cred with yellowish watery sauce.
Wash it down with coffee. Well,
lets go. Scrape the carrots and
bones into the garbage can, stack
your tins.
The men wander slowly out
the door into the cold daylight.
Nothing to do till tomorrow
morning at 7:45. Then line up
again and show your ticket.
I'VE got to watch our budget"
the head chef tells the college
bred supervisor. Were wasting
lot. Now them carrots. They
don't aDDreciate a balanced diet f"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
A Worker Looks At Art
BY Bob Plumb

We went to the Fair last week
in Puyallup. We saw truly mar.
velOus exhibit of WashingtOn's
finest. Product of farm and fac
tory. Natural resources piled
high on ranging tables. Samples
and views of timber lands. Marine
supplies. Fish and how they are
caught. Pampered Guernseys and
fattened, lazy looking draft
horses, Rabbits of all sizes, poul-
try, hogs, goats, sheep. Tractors,
trucks, automobiles. Even the
midway offered interest and en-
tertainment, not alone for the
thrills it offered, but for the in
geniOus mechanisms of these
thrill producers.
Agriculture, industry. We
felt quite exhilerated, comparing
in our mind this fair, fine as it
was, with the fair OF the future.
We attempted to picture how
this fair would be surpassed by
the product OF labor unleashed.
Still dwelling on this thought,
we stumbled into the art gallery.
Something between two and
three hundred pictures ranged
the walls. Surely among these
we would find the work of some
visionary artist who had caught
something of the picture we had
been trying to draw for ourselves.
Didn't Fit In
No. That art gallery was as out
of place in its surroundings OF
industry and agriculture, as Is
the Little Church off Times
Square. Out OF the whole show,
there were perhaps half dozen
that dealt with something ap-
preaching industry. "A Slasher
Mill" that might Just have appro-
priately been labelled Haunted
House."
There were two or three water
front scenes; freighters towering
high above a shaky dock that not
even a boss insurance inspector
would permit. These same huge
ships, not in the water, but APP
parently bouncing, cork-like, on
top. Another attempt at an In
dustrial scene was one OF Nassau
Sponge Trimmers. A dozen half
clad Negroes sat languidly toying
with a big pile Of sponges while
their white bosses lounged COM
fortably against railing. Pos
sibly the speed-up and terror was
not yet initiated in the sponge In
dustry when this picture was
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
Famous Men
viii Address
AntiUar Meet

NEW YORK, Sept. 27-The Ma
tional Executive Committee of
the American League Against
War and Fascism has already
announced a partial list of PROM
inent speakers for the Second U.
s. Congress Against War and
Fascism, to be held in Chicago
this week end.
The list Includes: DR.. Kurt
Resented, former Prussian Min
lister of Justice; DR.. Harry F.
Ward, chairman of the American
League Against War and Fas-
cism; General Victor Yakhontoff,
ex-C zarist general and author;
Earl Browder.. Secretary OF the
Communist Party, U. s. A; Mabel
Byrd, Negro social warker and
former NRA executive; Thos. r.
Amile. chairman of the Farmer
Labor Political Federation; Ro-
ger Baldwin, director of the Am
erican Civil Liberties Union;
Mother" Ella Reeve Bloor. mill
tant farm leader; Clarence Hath
away. editor of the Daily Work
er; Robert Morss Lovett, chair
man of the League for Industrial
Democracy and Professor of En-
glish at Chicago University.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28

yeah. too much starch. That's
what they're used to. Well have
to cut down on bread. Train EN-
to eat their vegetable"
More economical and a better
diet"
The rangy guy stands on the
curb picking his teeth and look
ing at the join-the-army posters
outside the armory across the
street. A national guard officer
all nickleplate, creased whipcOrd
and polished leather, jingles out
the door under the high wide
arch way, a rolled newspaper
clenched in his right hand like a
sword The rangy guy shrugs his
shoulders crosses the street and
ambles along half block behind
the officer. The officer stops in
the marketplaee for a cigar, lays
the newspaper on a stack OF mag
azines while he pulls off suede
glove. He moves off. unwrapping
his cigar, forgetting his paper.
The rangy guy picks up the news
paper, shuffles across the curb
and sits unfolding it on the run
ming board OF a parked auto.
Hitler Promises Peace. FDR
May Fortify Alaska.
The rangy guy unbuttons his
coat, his vest, pulls out his
sleazy cotton shirt tail, shoves
the newspaper up under his shirt
across his chest. He tucks in his
shirt tail, buttons his vest and
coat over it. Buttons his shape
less, colorless sh0ddy vest over
the newspaper.
FDR May FOrtify Alaska
against his sunken breastbone;
Hitler Promises Peace over his
constipated belly.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
Did You Know

The Illinois Socialist Party has endorsed the
Congress Against War and Fascsm and the
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill.
Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late presid-
ent is flaying FD.R for being too kindly to the
unemployed. He advocates so per cent reduc-
ton in relief expenditures. Don't worry, Teddy!
Franklin would oblige you any day-if he
thought he could get away with it'd
In further demagOgic announcements, VIM.
Green tells the government that it should estab-
lish rigid control of production in an effort to
pep UP business operations Business
activity will still depend TO a large extent on
the hopes and fears of millions of business
men 4" What about the millions of workers,
who, without purchasing power, condemn all
business revival" to defeat? The leader of
conservative labor has little to say about the
workers. but many kind words for the exploit
ers Of labor.
To cover UP their criminal AAA crop de-
struction program that has aided the drought
in bringing misery to millions, government Of
ficials are broadcastng the ballyhoo that the
country has never suffered shortage Of farm
products. Then along come other conservative
research authorities and show that even in
1929 we had a shortage of "a billion pounds Of
milk, and meats and vegetables In proportion.
mot q sales shortage but a real shortage for
those who needed the food)
Articles in the Pictorial Review have been
praising Italy and Germany to the skies. and
voicing the most vicious ISLANDERS against the
Soviet Union. The answer: 1t has just been
disclosed that Hearst has bought the maya
zine, and an opening wedge of American fas-
cism will be Hearst working on the minds Of
American women.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
POLITICS Liz e BASEBALL,
with MIRA a Crooked Umpire,
Bought by Big Business.
Seattle, Wash.

Dear Comrades:
Listening to the radio nowadays
all we hear is politics and base
ball. Why couldn't we put them
together like this:
In today's game we have Big
Business and the Work ers
playing. For umpire we have the
NRA and Democratic politicians.
The grandstand is filled with Re-
publicans and big business men.
The bleachers are Overlooking
with workers, farmers and small
business men, while by every
knothole and crack in the fence,
the unemployed are trying to see
the game.
The game is onl First batter
for Big Business is up. Here
comes the ball right over the
plate. He swings. He misses. The
Umpire calls it a ball. Here
comes the ball again, right over
the plate. He hunts it. Infield
rushes in, scoops ball to first. He
is out. They're arguing at first
Umpire reverses decision and
says batter is safe. (Boos from
bleachers and applause from the
grandstand.) Second batter is up.
He swings, He misses. He knocks
long fly to the southwest corner
of the field. Sinclair, the Outfield.
er is racing for the ball. He's un'
der it. It's in his glove. Oh! Oh!
He fumbles it. He drops it. And
B. B. scores two runs!
And so on through the first
half of the inning. The Umpire
sees only plays in favor of Big
Business. Throw i'm out" sounds
from behind the fence. Those in
the belachers take up the cry.
Throw i'm out" In the grand
stand you can hear a scattered
"throwimout."
Workers! We can't go on with
an Umpire that gives all the
breaks to Big Business. Vote
Communist in the coming elec-
tion. AR
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
NCRL1NINAL SYNDICALLSM,
WHAT 1T MEANS

is the writer's answer to the
question.
When employers have no fear
they pay little heed to criminal
syndicalism laws. Hence, In the
past, these laws are often unused
for years. For instance, in Oregon
these laws were practically un-
used between the years 1923 and
1890.
Today employers fear their
dominant position in society en-
dangered. An unprecedented
strike-wave sweeps the countryl
At least l6 million unemployed
At least 20 million on relief MIL
loins upon millions OF human be-
ings are demanding a change /!
They are demanding the very
right to live!
1t is change from their dOmin-
ant position in society that en-
ployers fear. 1t is this change en-
ployers seek to prevent. 1t is
opposition to this change that Is
the essence OF criminal syndi-
calism laws. Washington's law,
quoted verbatim in the first ar
ticle of this series, reads:
whoever shall advocate, adj
wise, teach or justify crime, sedi-
tion, violence, intimidation or in
jury as a means or way of effect
ing or resisting any INDUSTRI-
AL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL or PO-
LITICAL CHANGE, or D.. organ
lie or help to organize, give aid
to, be a member of or voluntarily
assemble with any group OF per-
sons formed to advocate, advise,
or teach crime, sedition, violence,
intimidation or injury as a means
or way of effecting or resisting
any industrial, economic, social
or political change, shall be gull
ty of a felony"
Employers fear change! Work
ers demand change! Criminal
syndicalism laws seek to prevent
change! That's why they are used
today!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
Uusual Nudes

Pastoral scenes were limited to
such true to life topics as a goat
farm in the Pyrennes and one of
Nudes and Pineapples," in
which brown skinned figures,
male and female, with the usual
precautions in nudes" were dis
tinctly outlined against an indis-
tinct background which might
have been a field of pineapples.
The titles in predominence ran
something like thse: A Bit of
Old Quebec, Winter Road, The
Road to Mattewa, La Fournee De
Plain, etc. Some of them were
really pleasant to look at-more
were Over-colOred blotches.
We are looking forward to See
ing a display of workers art
a display that will not be out of
place in the workers and farm
ers' fair of the future.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
OUR INFLUENCE Stretches
East; Montana Worker Recog-
nizes His Language
Butte, Montana, Sept. 2

Butte, Montana, sept. Il
Voice of Labor,
Voice of Action,
Greetings:
| am not sure of your name.
But 1 have heard that you speak
my language
/ am therefore wanting to see
your paper and to get your SUBJ
scription rates by the quarter
and by the year for a workers
library in which 1 am taking
some interest.
Very truly yours,
w, b.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
Workers Correspondence
Bend, Oregon,

Dear Comrades:
Don't think that every one gets
what they want or even half what
they need, for the unemployed
on relief are getting cut off little
by little in hopes they will final
ly starve to death and really not
notice it.
| am a widow with four child
rem ranging from 5 to II years,
and l get a $35 a month county
warrant. The county being broke,
it costs me $525 to get the check
cashed. That leaves $29.75 for fuel,
rent, clothes, food, and the eOun-
ty refused to pay a $40 fee to a
doctor for setting a broken arm
for my little girl.
Elva Mann.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28


IRELAND-After Dublin had
been without newspapers for six
weeks due to a 100 per cent eff
fective strike of printers, the
daily press finally had to recog-
nize the situation and give a
little news of the strike-after a
six weeks conspiracy of silence.
H0LLAND-Wheu the Queen
opened parliament at The Hague
on September Is, the COmmun-
list Party staged a demonstra-
ton against the cruel treatment
melted out by the Dutch govern
ment to strikers, against whom
the greatest cruelties were used
during the recent nationwide
strikes. With great cruelty. the
police dispersed the demonstrate
ors, as in the strike troubles,
when many unarmed pickets
were slain in cold blood by the
police. Outdoing itself to crush
radicalism, the Dutch govern
ment broke the law by arresting
three Communist members of
parliament, who are by law i'm
mune to arrest.
y
CUBA-The Wall Street pup
pet government proposed the
passing of a law providing for
trial and execution within "a
hours for so-called "terrorists."
The LID protested to the Cuban
government and lined up so
much publicity that the attempt
will probably fall through.
\ y
USSR-Before the revolution
there were less than 10000 doc
tors in the country; today there
are nearly $4,000. This year there
were $4,000 medical students in
the universities, and by 1887 the
number will exceed 100000.
ARGENTINA Managed Ec-
onomy," the NRA in the south
land, is fast failing in Argentina.
This country, whose wealth is
already twO-thirds concentrated
in British hands, is rapidly ap-
preaching revolutionary stu
alton
SPAIN-Spain is facing a grave
crisis. Exports are rapidly falling
off. With millions of people liv-
ing on a few cents a day each, the
revolutionary situation is rapid
ly coming to a head. Anarchists.
syndicalists. socialists. and com
munists are rapidly forging a
working united front organiza-
ton that threatens the present
army-protected regime at any
moment.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28

Senator Nye, in the late munitions investi-
cations. promised not to ask the Du Points the
amount of political contributions desiring not
to embarrass candidates in coming elections"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28
Around = the
world inC minutes
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-Man.

ila's first fatal clash between
striking workers and attacking
police brings the death toll of
strikers to four 5000 cigar work
esr are striking for higher wages.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-28

ySketChed,'
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-12
UNCLE WIGGILY'S MAPLE
SUGAR

Wood Woo. Every one must
get wood!"
It was Uncle W g;'n who was
calling thus and he was shouting
at many of his rabbit children
and some other animal girls and
boys who were in tie sugar camp
with him.
why does your father want 50
much wood?' asked Johnnie Bushy-
tail, squirrel boy of Buster, rab
bit
He needs the wood 20 make the
fires under the kettles where he
is going to boil the sap from the
maple trees to make it into maple
sugar ana syrup" said Buster.
do you think he'll give us any
of the maple sugar after it's
made?" asked Jackie Bow Wow, a
puppy dog boy.
of course he will" said Baby
Bunty. the orphan rabbit. She was
there with the other animal chill
dren helping Uncle Wiggily. Then
the rabbit gentleman called again:
Wood! Wood! More wood"
He ought to have the woodchuck
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-12
BEDTIME STORIES
By HOWARD Z. GARRIS
Copyright, 1888 by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)

sweet, white sap dripped into little
bark pals WhicE Mr.. LongearS
made to hang on little spiggots Or
into the holes of the trees.
When tie children had gathered
much wood for the fires. Uncle
Wiggily ard Mr.. Twistytail, the
pig, and Mr.. Stubtail, the bear
went about among the trees gath
ering the sap buckets, which were
nearly full.
were several of them, were glowing
rot. Over each fire Uncle Wiggily
hung a big pot or kettle in which
! the sap could boil. So that the fire
would not burn them. each pot was
hung over tie fire in gypsy fash
ion, with a chain. The chain, being
Of iron, would not burn.
well, here's where we start max
| ing maple sugar!" shouted Uncle
Wiggily, as he and tie soap-gath-
ereis came in with the bark pals
full of what looked like water TIE
sap was just the color of water
| which as a matter of fact, has III
color at all.
Into the kettles over the fire wa:
poured the white sap. There were
three fires in three separate placeI
in the sugar camp. The first firt
| was looked after by the BOY rab-
bits. The second fire was fed witt
: l,tyf rri,.1
! animal children-dogs, goats, squir-
rels and little bears-looked after
thc third fire.
Soon the white sap began boiling
, in the three kettles. 1t bubbleo
and seethed as the tea kettle does
! just before breakfast. And as the
not sap boiled, more cold sap, drip
!'rr from the trees into the barl
| pals, was poured into each Kettle
over the three fires.
Every now and then Uncle Wig
gily would dip out a little of the
boiling sap to see if it was getting
| thick enough to turn into sugar OF
syrup. But each time he said:
1T needs to boil longer" YoI
know, when you're making molasse.
candy it must be boiled until it /;
ready to harden.
Uncle Wiggily was just getting
ready to take out some of the Eo
sap and let it turn into maple sy'
rup when, all of a sudden, Baby
Bunty shouted: Someone is COM
ing
Who it was and what happened
you shall hear in the next story
which will be about Uncle Wiggily
and the Bob Cats nose. And
hope The coal shovel doesn't JUMP
over the back of the pussy cat!
sister.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-12
More Join In
Spanish Strike

MADRID, March y. U.R)-News-
paper and publishing house work
ers struck today, joining thousands
already on strike and bringing
further confusion to an alarming
situation that is causing the gov
ernment grave anxiety.
Rumors were widespread that
Socialists might seek to take ad-
vantage of troubled labor con-
ditions and try to effect revo-
lutionary general strike. The gov
ernment, operating under extra
ordinary powers, was watchful and
prepared whenever it thought nee
essary to declare martial law. Plans
were ready 10 reinforce the civil
guard and mobile police forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-03-12
PALO VERDES :.
OFFERED FOR :.
REPLANTING

Persons who desire to replace
palo verde trees along the park
ways of the city streets may obtain
one or two palo verde trees from
the Ell Centro Chamber OF Com
merce. The chamber staff has not
been able this year to get large
quantity of palo verde trees as has
been done in past years, but has
obtained a few, less than so, which
will be sold one or two to a person
for the purpose of replanting where
former paintings have not been
successful
The trees grown for the use Of
the FL Centro chamber are small
but healthy and when taken from
the individual cans and placed in
parkWayS will show the quick
growth natural to the palo verde
tree. Those who are interested i'll
getting larger trees for replanting
or to set out new supply may OBJ
tain them from the local nurseries,
where trees older and larger than
the ones at the chamber of COM
merce are available.
Any persons who desire one or
two of the new chamber of COM
rerce trees should call at cham
ber headquarters Immediately, as
the supply is limited and there will
be heavy demand for the trees
available. There should also be as
little delay as possible in planting
trees as they should have time to
take root and become established
, before summer weather is here.