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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Make Real Slaves OF
Real Silk Hosiery
SaleSladieS

Aberdeen, Wash-We have heard
here that there is a strike on at
the Real Silk Hosiery Mills in New
Jersey.
This big concern employs thou
sands OF salesladies throughout the
country.
Here In Aberdeen quite a num-
Der are working, going from house
to house trying to sell the hose.
The commission paid is. 90 per
cent. Always a check up call has
to be MADE after the customer has
received the order.
High officials or the Company
want to continue to get their fat
salaries. They write personal letters
to the salesladies asking them to
speed up their sales because the
big shots salaries depend upon the
aggressiveness of the salesIadieS.
Also just lately a letter came
asking the girls to be patient in
waiting for the hose orders. (Orders
are being delayed because or the
strike, but this wasn't mentioned
in the letter..
The salesladies in Aberdeen
should follow the example OF the
workers in the Real Silk factories
and go on strike; demanding high
er commission on their sales.
The workers of Aberdeen should
refuse to purchase Real silk hose
as long as the strike is on.
Worker Correspondent
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
JUDGE PHILLIPS AND ATTORNEY NELSON GET
IT IN THE NECK AT FARMERS PICNIC

Aberdeen, Wash.-The United
Farmers League of Grays Harbor
County held a picnic at Sylvia Lake
on Sunday. June Srd.
Among the speakers on the pro
gram were two demagoglc mislead-
ers of the workers and farmers of
Grays Harbor County.
The first was Judge Phillips. He
is posing as a friend of the work
ing class under the guise that mon
ey is the source of our present diff
firuIties." This same lackey of the
capitalist courts was a strike break
err during the Wilson Mill strike
in Aberdeen in the winter of 1881.
He spoke for one hour and 10 min
uteS.
Not one word did he mention
about militant program of
struggle. He, however, remembered
to attack the Communist Party by
stating that the Communist Party
attacked all parties mot specifying
that we attack the leadership and
not the rank and file). He also
mentioned that none of the Parties
called for a United Front.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
BY a UCL Correspondent

Seattle, Wn.-Following the con-
sistent refusal of the Elliot Avenue
Relief Station to grant wood to one
of it's single men members the Au-
ditorium Local of the UCL passed
a resolution at it's regular meeting
Monday, June II, demanding that
discrimination against single men
be stopped Immediately. A commit
tee of eight was also elected at the
same meeting to present the re-
solution to Mrs. Paige, head of the
Elliot Ave. Relief Station the fol-
lowing morning.
The committee called on Mrs.
Paige as scheduled; three of the
committee were finally admitted to
the inner sanctum after the usual
preliminary struggle over how many
should be heard. Our committee
was instructed to visit Mrs. Paige
in a body while she wished to see
only the complaining individual. We
were first asked our names, but
upon explaining that names did not
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Did You KnOU

That Standard Oil, thru the aid
OF the NRA and the government
money policy, was able to increase
its 1888 profits some $4,000 per cent
over 1882 profits? Not so bad!
That assets of national banks
have risen more than one billion in
the first two months of 1894? How
come?
That 5000 small New York bak-
cries have returned their blue ca
giles to Johnson, saying the NRA
has bankrupted too many of them
already?
That physicians, social workers,
and other white-collar workers in
the eastern states are forming rad
ical professional unionst
That the Socialist Party met in
national convention at Detroit and
made no change in it's past policy?
That 176 hospitals were closed In
the U. S. during the last year?
That the latest sport in Chicago
for the wealthy is cockroach breed
ing and cockroach racing?
That Mayor Hoan Of Milwaukee,
Socialist, says: TT would be po-
Itlcal suicide for the Socialist
Party Convention to go on record
for the dictatorshoip of the prole-
tariat."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Aberdeen Welfare Can /
Keep Its DUN Secrets

Aberdeen, Wash.-Local Welfare
employees are worried to death
trying to keep secrets, but some
how they just can't.
one of the employees is Rever-
end Mcdowell. He breaches so
much brotherly love to his congre-
cation; he takes every opportun-
ity to get before the workers. For
instance, he spoke at an IWW mass
meeting not 80 long ago.
He acted very hurt when a re-
lief victim called Mrs. Reed, IAN
investigator" He stated she should
be called "a home visitor" Then in
the next breath he stated that ev-
erything was going nicely because
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Coos Bay lila Strikers
Say They'll Stay Out

Eastside, Ore, June 2-The Wor-
kers Protective Industrial Union
held a business meeting June l, at
which a representative of the local
lila reported that the striking
longshoremen will stand pat until
word is received of definite action
by the larger ports.
Following the business meeting,
the union members and their fam
lilies and friends enjoyed a social
evening including dancing and a
light lunch.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

Mrs. Reed was sick and wasn't
around to cause trouble.
Welfare Boosts Crime
Also Mr.. Patterson, investigator
for South Aberdeen, who advised
worker to steal wood had his
secret betrayed. Now he is going
around asking the workers not to
repeat his conversation.
Now more secrets than ever will
be revealed to the entire Welfare
Board; especially the shoppers.
Mr.. Brown, Welfare head, sub
scribed to the Voice of Action.
Wen give them plenty to think
and talk about!~
Worker Correspondent
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Welfare Officials Come
To Rescue OF
Employers

Seattle, June Like hounds on
a scent. a bevy OF King County
Welfare officials. scurried 10 the
aid of the starving Black Diamond
Coal Mining district. yesterday.
only this time IL was at the behest
OF ~, not the starving miners who
viii continue TO starve, but, bless
their suffering little souls. the coal
mine operators ! !
This sensational information fill
tered into the Voice of Action edi-
tOrial offices after every possible
effort had been made by Welfare
Workers and mine operators to
suppress the fact OF perfldious coll
fusion In an effort TO blk and
starve the miners for the companys
profit and further drain from the
proper channels the inadequate.
badly wrecking relief that trickles
so slowly, that many recipients
consider IL merely fiendlsh prolong-
alton Of the old Chinese torture by
slow death.
The facts; The miners owe the
company money on back bills
from company storos--no further
extortion is possible without
working the miners for nothing.
The operators have put men to
work one day a week to clean up
back bills. Since the miners can't
live on reeeipted bills, the cal
lous operators got the bright idea
Of making welfare authorities
the bill collectors. Relief is TO be
given the men while at work.
for which they receive no pay
IL the MachiaVellian scheme de-
Vised by the operators goes
through.
II you're good at mathematics,
solve this one. Pacific National pays
the miners daily wages of $500
back groceries at company store
takes n good slice-rent $3.50 to
STANDARDIZATION and medical
care S2.5O-union CD dues $3.50
(bacF dues taken out by company.
Total about StO.10, wages $3.50. The
problem is to work on less than
nothing and support a family. Sol
ution: Let the welfare support
them while we take the profit.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Cops Protect New
York Hitler Meet

New York-A thousand police
were mobilized here to prevent any
counter demonstration against a
,NazI meet called by the Hitherto
Friends Of New, Germany" in Mad
IsOn Square Garden. 3D..
\ spontaneous anti-Nazl meeting,
participated in. by several hundred
Socialist and Communist workers,
several blocks away, was brutally
smashed by police, who injured
many in their attack aud arrest
led several. one young worker was
gotten into a corner by sc veral de-
teCtives, who Joined in beating him
in the face with black-jacks until
he lay on the ground with blood
squirting from half a dozen wounds.
He was allowed to lie there for half
an hour before receiving medical
attention. s.s
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Can't Feed Red,
Welfare Head Says

Bend, Ore.-Mrs. Elva Mann,
widow and mother of four small
children, was cut off relief here on
the trumped up charge of welfare
heads that "she is feeding a we'll
known radical"
Mrs. Mann had been receiving
81 per week for over a year, but
was stopped from receiving her
last weeks dole by Marian Bowen,
relief administrator. Workers won
dered how such a charge could be
made, with commodity prices up
and her four small children barely
keeping their health on the already
Inadequate voucher.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Japanese Report
Jailed 736 Reds

Tokio-Police here last week is
sued a report that 7S6 Communists
we're arrested in a recent raid and
would be held for trail. In the past
cnree years, the Japanese police
awe arrested over $4,000 people on
the charge of being Communists.
OF the 1856, the police state that
1874 are workers, 1853 students, and
E4s intellectuals.
a British school teacher, by the
.iame of Bickerton, who has been
employed in q Japanese high school
cor the past ten years, was arrest
81 on the charge of furnishing the
communist Party with funds, and
.ranslatipg articles, police said. He
. being held incommunicado.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
CCC Underwear Found
SIashed Into Pieces

Medford, Ore.-Exhibiting a suit
of army underwear that had been
slashed with a knife and rendered
worthless, an ex-CCC worker re-
counted Monday to an interested
audience of c and AWIU members
of seeing a ten foot room at his
CCC camps headquarters piled to
a four foot height with such NUT
Hated garments.
At another CCC camp in Wash
ington. a worker reports that gar
ments-woolen shirts and trousers
arc simply burned as rubbish at
each Decentralization of CCC work
ers, complete new outfits ordered
from the government contractor and
issued to the new detachment of
workers
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Thrift Store Men
Poorly Situated
Free Speech

Port Angeles, June enlarged
with assault as a result of a relief
station demonstration held here re-
Gently, William Marshall and Frank
Langdon are defending themselves
in court here today.
Young. a Welfare worker, claims
that both Marshall and LangdOn
struck him on the face, chest and
shoulder.
Other witnesses agree with Lang
don's testimony which says that
Young was in such hurry TO shut
the gate that he thrust his head
under Langdon's chin and that
Langdon. thinking Young would
wipe his nose ON his clean shirt.
U.oughter in Court, in sheer self
defense pushed Youngs head to one
side" 49,
All witnesses for the defense
agree that this is the only time
any one touched Young,
One point brought ont i'm the
trial was that the only violent. act
was committed by a stool pigeon
named Lingley who rushed in yell
ing. Let me at him, I'll splatter
him all over the floor" He started
pushing and nearly showed the
counter over. This Sir Galahad was
50 thoroughly blasted by Marshall
and by the witnesses that the pro-
secution did not even call him to
testify.
Marshall Blasts "Welfare"
In summing up, Marshall brought
out the class issue very sharply
and exposed the welfare rats col
lectiveIy and individually as rack
eteers, whose business it is to sCien-
tifically starve the workers. Mar
shall quoted from pamphlets and
periodicals from the Russell Sage
Foundation (Which all welfare out
fits use as a guide) and pointed
out just how local welfare agents
use this system to scientifically
starve workers.
The jury Judge Richie hand
picked brought in verdict of guilty
after being out two hours. a couple
of social fasCists who were suppOs-
ed by some to be sympathiZers
showed their true COlOrs by bring
ing in q verdict of guilty "for the
defendants own good" as was ask
ed by the Fascist prosecutor, Bruce
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
BECKER REJECTS
MASS CAMPAIGN

SEATTLE The Districe office
of the International Labor De-
Tense has issued the following
statement on the Ray Becker case;
Ray Becker has notified the Int
irrational Labor DEFENSE that he
wishes to withdraw his case from
our hands. We regre that Becker
has taken this step, as we feel that
only the methods used by the lid
will ever release this last remain
ing victim Of the Centralia frame
up from his Imprisonment in Walla
Walla.
1t was precisely on this point OF
methods that we broke with
Becker. The LID was ready to
throw its full strength into a cam
paign against the governor OF
Washington for the immediate I'M
conditional release of this class
war prisoner. Becker would not
agree. He believes the frame-up
against him is so clear that further
legal action, in the federal courts
is certain to give him vindication
and release.
MASS ACTION NECESSARY
The LID was willing to under
take this legal action, but we know
how useless such step would be
unless it was accompanied by a
vigorous campaign to rally the
workers and their sympathizers be-
hind Becker. We tried to prove
to Becker the necessity of this
mass action accompanying legal
action, and had his consent, but at
every step his respect for legal
procedure and particularly for the
federal courts, stood in the way of
any real agreement. Becker is
not clearly class-conscious. He
has many illusions about law and
the courts.
At one point this disagreement
proved fatal to an understanding
and decisive action. The forces
of the lid are limited, as also our
finances. Becker has gathered a
wealth of material on his case, but
still he has many old leads to new
information which he wanted the
lid to investigate. lnvestiga-
ton costs money, and we could not
start any intensive drive for the
money until the preliminary work
was done. What we were able to
do proved to be too slow for
Becker and he became dissatisfied.
As it is, we collected by persona
solicitation the sum of $22.75; we
spent 1881, not including several
trips made by our attorney before
Becker authorized us TO act in his
case.
WILL CONTINUE FIGHT
The LID is not forgetting the
Becker case, nor the cases of the
other Centralia victims released on
humiliating parole terms. We
will continue to fight for the full
of the paroled men, ond for the
freedom of Ray Becker, who has
had the great courage to refu'e
parole. Ray Becker is mistaken
but he is a vghter, and deserves the
respect and support of the working
class.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

Seattle, June 12-Led by the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
the Marine Branch of the Unem-
ployed Citizens League was vic
torious in the first step of their
campaign for better Seamen's Re-
lief.
A committee of twenty-f five sea-
men went to see John F. Hall, Re-
lief Commissioner, and were greet
ed at the office entrance by a group
of Vigilantes. The committee, how
ever, refused to be frightened by
threats Of terrorism, and after q
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
UFL Drafts Own
Berry Code

PUYALLUP. Wn. June 6.-F'ed
up with NRA and AAA and all
other brands of Roosevelt relief,
the farmers here are organizing into
the United Farmers League for
militant action to gain better con-
ditions. Five locals of the UFL in
Pierce County held their first
county conference, June 2, here, and
set up a county apparatus.
There was much discussion about
the low price of berries, which is
the main crop. The farmers drew
up their own price code and elected
a committee to submit it to the
state director of agriculture at
Olympia on June IL when there will
be a state hearing on the agree
ment signed by the associations.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
SeamenS Demands
Partly Granted

short conference with Halls Sec
rotary. was sent TO see Mr. Amos,
the soup-line head.
Amos granted them the follow
ing demands: 1. A separate section
Of the "flophouse" for seamen; 2.
Better washing and bathing facil-
tiles, towels and soap; 3. No more
sterilization of seamen's clothing
after a night is missed at the flop
house," I. and recognition Of an
elected committee Of Marine Work.
ers to thrash out all grievances.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Farmers Aid lila

North River. June 1.-THE own
ers of small ranches here donated
$50 lbs. of foodstuffs to the strik-
ing longshoremen of Grays Har-
Dor this week.
Sympathetic workers, with the
aid of lila representatives, contact
ed the ranchers, and found them
anxious to cooperate with the
strikers. One of the ranohers DON
ated 60 lbs of honey to the collec-
ton.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Merriam Looks
Bddas GOU ROLph

San Francisco-(F. P) = The
death of Governor James Rolph.
Jr. enemy of Tom Mooney and
good natured reactionary, will not
help labor.
Governor Frank b. Merriam, his
successor, is a member of the Fas-
American Legion, a supporter Of
Herbert IT'S all in the mind" Hoov-
er, and a conservative of the most
vicious type.
His taking over the office of gov
ernOr is likely to be followed by
the calling out of troops to break
the dock strike. This move. of
course, would force the AT of L
leaders to call a general walkout-
or back down on their promises to
workers.
Merriam will do nothing for
Mooney.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Everett Boom Men
Elect New Officers

EVERETT, Wn., June 6.-Grant
Dory was elected president Of the
United Boomworkers Union at their
semi election OF officers
held here May 26, and VIM. Nyman.
vice president. Other officers elected
were secretary and treasurer, A. w.
Lund; executive committee, Jack
Doam, Ted Lane, NJ. V. Fredericks;
grievance committee, Walter Cor
nelius, Archie Moloney; auditors.
Art Barnhart, Verne Faulkner.
Voting $40 to the lila strike fund.
the Union went on record backing
the strike 100 per cent. After the
business of the evening, hot dogs
were served, sandwiches and cake
with coffee were served and a good
time was had by all.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Mrs. FrandSen Told
We want your house
and we will get it

SEATTLE, June 4.-Mrs. n. G.
Frandsen, wife Of the Frandsen
eviction fighter now serving six
month sentence in the County Jail,
was ordered last week to Vacate
her present lodgings in Rainier
Valley.
When she informed the landlord
that she would not leave until her
husband was released from Jail, she
was told, "Mr. Frandsen's predica-
ment means nothing to us. We want
the house, and we're going to get
IL"
The Unemployed Citizens League
is at work trying to avert another
eviction Of the unfortunate family.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Proletarian Writer LaudS
New Voice of Action
New York

Comrades of Voice Of Action:
Il is good to see Seattle which has always been
of which time set the
Soviet in this country during the Gem
produced which is called and s in TACT
the lumber workers, the fisher
inectuals of Seattle will rally
to your support of the voices which Is re-
vvna the which undoubtedly to play an enor
nous preparations for the next war which VIII Do
fought the Pacific. Keep the red flag flying
comradey yours
MIKE GOLD
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
White Legion Would
Outlaw Negro Defense

Birmingham, Ala.-While the
state supreme court considers the
appeal made by International Labor
Defense attorneys May rs against
the lynch verdicts handed down in
Decatur last fall against Clarence
Norris and Haywood Patterson, two
or the Scottsboro boys, the White
Legion, a re-christened Ku Klux
Khan, opened a campaign for laws
TO prevent out state attorneys
from embarrassing our courts" as
they have in the defense Of the
Scottboro boys.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

New York-A call to all workers
employed and unemployed, to join
in the fight to free Angelo Herndon
young Negro organizer OF the I'M
employed, from the chain-gang on
which the Georgia Supreme Court
has decided he must serve from
IS to 20 years"-a sure death sem
tence-was issued last week by the
National Unemployment Councils.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Farmers Enemy Spouts

Next followed Attorney Nelson.
He is the Attorney who is doing all
in his power to make the robbery
of Ben Nieman's farm legal CAT
the same time in his speech he
claimed to be friend of Mr.. Me
man, He also attacked the Com
munlst Party.
Following their speeches Lydia
Laukkanen. representing the Grays
HarbOr Section Of the Communist
Party as Organization Secretary,
exposed them by bringing out the
program of the Communist Party.
Judge Phillips got cold feet. He
left before the speech was ended.
Worker Correspondent
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Picket NY. Consulate
OF Nazi Germany

New York Continuous picketing
OF the Nazl consulate at II Battery
Pl. here, for the release, of Ernst
Thalman and the 100000 anti-fas-
cist prisoners in Germany, has been
established by the international La
Dor Defense.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

Olympia, Wn, June 7-Branding
war as mass murder and those who
gave their lives as dead heroes or
fools according to your way of
thinking" a young worker in the
recent graduation exercises, raised
the ire of the local American Le-
gion Jingoists.
His speech showed thought and
the struggle Of the young to under
stand the contradictions OF the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Oregon SIdUery

Muline, Ore, June S-Relief au-
thorities are cutting families off
relief after finding them worthless
jobs. One girl was offered a job
doing housework, washing clothes,
and taking care of children, at $500
q month.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
STUDENT BRANDS WAR
MASS MURDER; ATTACKED

world that he and fellow graduates
were stepping out into.
Although his address was receiv-
ed by the assembled parents with
much applause. a severe reprimand
and criticism was given him by the
head of the National Guard and
the Daily olympian.
Member Of women's Education
al League.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Where To Go

Where To Go
Showing "War Against the
Centuries, Sat, June 80, 8 p. NJ.
Dances for the benefit of the
Campaign Fund at Finnish
Hall, 9Th and Yesler, admission
25c.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

The Herndon decision is being
appealed to the u. S. Supreme
Court by the International Labor
Defense.
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