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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20

Organize Protests

The Communist Party, the militant trade unions, and
the rank and file of the American Federation of Labor from the
first day of the strike demanded militant action the maritime
workers The leadership of the the beginning
the strike have refused their support to the strikers Joseph
PRyan Michael Casey Dave Beck have signed
with the spOWners which the rank and file rejected William
Green president of the American Federation of Labor
leadership support striking Ongshoemen
The Communist Party constantly
and called the workers general strike
the defense of the maritime workers.
In San Francisco the rank file the heads
the labor leaders and declared strike The labor
leaders who against the general strike medate seized the
opportunity to betray the rank and file the
of the general strike went record for arbitration
In Portland the labor leaders while they instructed
by the rank and file for general strike they refused call
In Seattle MR.. LEVINE, MIR. DOYLE and MR.. DUNCAN
working overtime to do all in their stop
strike.
In order smash this powerful unity welded by the working
of the West Coast the Government together with the labor
organizations Germany challenges
elementary rights of the workers this country This
unchallenged We mobilize ofOrce the
ment to Withdraw the San Francisco the
open mobilization Viglantes terrorizng
workers of the West Coast
Workers organize selfdeense to defend trade union
halls and other places where working people gather.
Organize protest meetings in city village,
send resolutions Governor Merriam of California President
Roosevelt Governor Meier of Martin Wash
ingtOn Demand the dbandng of the Fascist bands demand
the release of all arrested workers. Organize workers defense
the attack with mighty united
working class
DISTRICT COMMITTEE COMMUNIST PARTY.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Arrest EviCted Men
for Return to Farm

KELSO, Wash, July 19.-Mass
demonstrations and protests are
being arranged against the trial
of Joe Fors, chargedf with tres
pass for staying on his farm after
farmers and workers had placed
him back on it.
FOrs was put off his place after
farmers and workers had pre-
vented the eviction for several
weeks. After he had been placed
back on the farm, the sheriff ar
rested him. He is out on bail.
The international Labor De-
tense will handle the case. Work
ers and workers organizations
are urged TO send protests to
Judge Huntington and Prose-
cutting Attorney Hallin demand
ing the dismissal of the case.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
MWIU Asks Rank
And File Strikers
To Show MilitanCy

SEATTLE, July 19-MOre than
400 pickets and strike sympa-
thizers heard and cheered the
appeal for mass action to pre-
vent further scabbing and the
institution of a general strike in
support of the waterfront strug-
gle of organized labor, at the
demonstration called by the
NJ arine Workers Industrial
Union, at Smiths Cove, Satur-
day.
James Arthur, MWIU secre-
tary, led the appeal for a gen.
eral strike, pointing out that
only through such a move, acting
over the heads of the AT of l.
misleaders, could the water
front strike be successful.
I'VE also ask for mass support
in stopping scab operations be-
cause 10000 pickets could move
pier Al down to Coleman dock, if
they wished, tear gas or no tear
gas" said Archer.
George Bradley, Communist
candidate for U. S. senator, and
F. j. Jenkins, of the Unemployed
Citizens League, also spoke.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Centralia Mayor
Puts Teeth In Anti
Labor Fascist Bill

CENTRALIA, July 10. A
protest demonstration was held
at City Hall here against the
arrest and conviction of NJ. A.
Niedfelt for distributing work
ers' leaflets. Two hundred or
more were present to press de-
mands for repeal of City Ordi-
nance No. CAS- being used to
suppress the workers rights to
distribute leaflets.
Demands were made to Fas-
cist Mayor Nugent to keep his
promise for free lights and wa
ter for the unemployed, instead
of turning them off as Nugent
is threatening to do.
Over the protests of the
committee of militant workers,
Mayor Nugent and City Com
missiOners Green and johnson,
Centralia's Fascist city council,
illegally passed an amendment
to the above city ordinance re-
ferred to and to use their own
expression put teeth in it"
against the workers.
A fight is being waged to
appeal the case of NJ. A. Med.
felt to the superior court of
Lewis County.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
NLWU Leads Fight
On BlaCkliSting

PORTLAND, Ore, July l9.-
To devise ways and means for
Ia drive against the blacklisting
clearing house supported by the
logging and lumber companies
a mass meeting of lOggers and
lumber workers was held July
I under the auspices of the
National Lu Der Workers
Union.
DR.. Shadduck spoke on the
necessity OF unificatiOn of the
working class.
Roy Brown, national chair.
man of the n. l.. w. e., fol
lowed with a thorough eXpla-
nation of the policies, program
and demands of the rank and
file controlled National Lum-
Der Workers Union.
A resolution was drawn up
demanding the abolition of the
clearing house and employment
offices connected with it. They
also demanded the setting up
of a free employment office adj
ministrated by a committee
elected by the lumber workers
and maintained by the lumber
associations.
The Portland Local of the
NLWU was authorized to form
the committee for the abOli-
ton of the clearing house.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Denied Medicine.
Tortured Worker
Commits Suicide
BY Joe ShToyer

ABERDEEN, July l9.-Just
one more case of a worker,
unemployed, unable to secure
medicine, and confronted with
misery of capitalism, took his
own life rather than continue
as he had for the past five
years.
Ira |. Terrier, fifty-One years
old, born in Lewis County near
Toledo and lived in Lewis and
Grays HarbOr counties all his
life, had suffered from sugar
diabetes for many years and
had been an insulin patient
for the past two years. When
the county welfare board re-
fused to supply the insulin, he
expressed the suicide intent.
Later his son went into the
CCC, but with the small sum
from his sons wages he could
not provide for the family and
purchase the medicine. Terrier
was always active in the Strug-
gle for the rights of the work
ers even to the last evening
before his death.
He leaves wife, one son
twenty-seven, one son twenty
one and daughter sixteen.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Portland Thug

es of resisting an officer.
Her case was scheduled for
II o'clock but when she ap-
peared the judge maintained
the case had been scheduled
for $3.50 and that her posted
bond had been forfeited.
However, a committee of
workers accompanied by the
International Labor Defense
attorney forced the Judge to
open the case which is sehed-
uled for today.
While distributing leaflets
put out by the Communist
Party calling for a general
strike. Dirk DeJonge. member
Of the Communist Party, was
arrested last Thursday.
De Jonge defended himself
IN court Thursday, with the
help of the international La.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Doyle Men Active
AS Election NearS

SEATTLE, July l9-GraVely
disturbed by the murmer of rank
and file discomfort that is sweep
ing the Labor Temple as a re-
action ia their traitOrOuS OppOSi-
ton to the general strike plan,
Charles Doyle, George Farley,
Dave Beck, Severt Johnson, Dave
Levine and other cOgs in the
machine that has dominated the
Northwest Labor Movement for
the past twenty-five years, are
frantically scurrying about the
Temple corridors rallying sup
port for the coming Labor COun-
ell elections.
DOyle's henchmen waylay dele
gates in the halls, and paint ter
rifying pictures of the situation
that would prevail if +. NJ. Wes-
ton, DOyle's opponent for the
secretaryship of the Council,
We're elected.
IF that red sO-and-so' Weston
beats Charlie" they say, He'll
turn the whole Labor Temple
upside down. Why, we'll all lose
our jobs"
DOyle's supporters openly adj
mittheir campaign activities.
One of them said, Weston hasn't
a chance to defeat Doyle. True,
he was able to poll enough votes
to nose out George Farley for
delegate to the State Convention,
but We weren't prepared for him
that night"
Now his opponents are
aroused, however, and by the
time elections roll around, he
won't have a chance"
The time-hOnOred "red-herring
is freely employed in an effort
to discredit Weston. His stand
at the recent ALL convention at
Everett is cited as proof of his
leanings.
The Doyle machine has proved
itself capable of STOPPING to any
brand of slanderous intrigue to
its existence. Whether
it will be successful this year is
questionable.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Er-SerUicemen's
League Meet Sun

SEATTLE. Wash, July 80
With a mass meeting held at the
| . q II Hall, 1909 Virginia St.,
Sunday night at eight o'clock,
the Workers EX-Servicemen's
League viii present Claire b.
Cowan, eX-marine World War
veteran, one of the organizers of
the Cleveland contingent of the
1892 Bonus Marchers.
Cowan is launching the $1,000
Veteran Fighting Fund campaign
on the Pacific Coast. He will
speak on the lOngshOre strike,
and the soldiers bonus. He is
one of the mass of bonus march,
ers that held upthe train service
eighteen hours until transpOr-
tation to Washington, d. c. was
given them
Ali workers and eX-service men
and their friends areurged to
attend the meeting.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
$50 Attend Election
Picnic; $1OO Raised

ABERDEEN, Wash, July 10
Announcing Fred JyOrt as can
didate for County Commissioner
in the third commissioners dist
riot, Lydia Laujkanen SOmmer-
vile in the second Commissioners
District and Robert Bob Young
as candidate for Mayor of Monte
sanO, the Communist Party held
most successful election picnic
at Lake Sylvia, July 1.
FOllOWingspeeches, singing and
entertainment amused the crowd
of $50 workers and farmers gath
cred. One of the high spots of
the entertainment was furnished
by a gallon of wild blackberries
which was ratified, with the bid
carrying over $500. A total of
$4,000 was raised for the benefit
of the election fund.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
KELSO J0BLESS
WIN $40 Relief
For One Family
By Aarne Pisila

KELSO, Wash, July 1.-THE
mOnth-Old Unemployment Coun-
ell of KelsO and LOngview is
going ahead rapidly, growing in
membership by leaps and
bounds. We have won more re-
lief in great number of cases;
we have helped prevent an evic-
tiOn and smashed forced labor.
As an example. a committee
yesterday got "A $34 order for
clothes besides a So grocery
order, a total of $40 for one
family.
Over 200 workers were pres
ent at the meeting, July 8.
Three resolutions were adopted
and sent out; one demanding
the release of Ernst Thaelmann;
one to the Mayor of Seattle
holding him responsible for and
demanding the cessation of pO-
lice brutality in the lOngshOre-
mems strike, and one to the
striking lOngshOremen pledging
the solidarity of the unem-
pIOyed of KelsO and LOngview.
A provisional County Com
mittee of Action was elected to
prepare for county conference
in order to set up a real Coun-
ty Committee of Action. Rep
resentatives of the United Pro-
ducers' League of COwlitz COun-
ty participated in the election
and discussion.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Law Steals Widows
Farm, 1000 Protest

CHEHALTS, Wash, July 10
One thousand militant workers
and farmers massed at the court
house to protest the foreclosure
sale of the farm of Mrs. Fred
Aust.
The sale was halted four weeks
ago by militant demonstration
of the United Farmers League
and the Relief Workers PrOtec-
tive Association.
Thirty minutes before the time
posted for the sale, workers and
farmers jammed the court house
urging that more time be given
Mrs. Aust to secure a loan.
Sheriff Blankenship finally
came out, offering the time worn
excuse that although he knew
it was wrong, it was the law, his
duty and his path of office that
made it necessary that this sale
be held.
After he read the description
of the property, Mrs. Aust made
the only bid, SIS. The crowd
waited and no one else spoke,
but the sheriff refused to act
on the bid. A committee accom-
panied Mrs. Aust to the Judge
to make the necessary payment.
When they arrived they were
told that a higher bid he'd been
made by Lawyer DonahOe for
Frank Good, plaintiff in the case.
And so another widow and her
children are robbed of their
home. They had paid $500 on
the place.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20

SEATTLE, July ia hun
bred Negro and white citizens
answered the call of the Pro-
visiOnal United Front Commit
tee and attended the mass
meeting held at the A. NJ. K.
Zion Church, 23rd and Olive
SITS, on July 10 to discuss seq
regatiOn and the practice OF
discrimination now in force at
relief depOts.
In spite of the fact that a
very special invitation was de.
livered to John X. Harris, presi-
dent of the National AssOcia-
tiOn for the Advancement of the
COlOred People, he failed to be
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Portland Finnish
Workers Support
Strike, Raise $S3

PORTLAND, Ore.-A seemed
successful united front affair
for the benefit of the striking
longshoremen and seamen was
held by the Finnish workers of
Portland Friday night, July 6.
Net proceeds amounted to $83.
The first drive, three weeks
ago, brought in S1O1.70.
The united front is made up
of five Finnish organizations:
Finnish Workers Club, Finnish
Working WOmen's Club, Finnish
Brotherhood and two Finnish
churches.
At their last meeting the
United Front committee de-
cided to send a protest to the
California and Oregon COVER
nOrs against the sending of
state militia against the strik-
ers. Two delegates from the
committee were also elected to
the Anti-War Conference to be
held in Portland, July Is.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
THOUSAND PROTEST MWIU
ARRESTS TO SEATTLE
CHEF OF POLICE

Flash! Two hours after the
arrest of James Archer and
Walter Stack, the Marine Work
ers' Industrial Union and the
Waterfront Local of the UCL
held a mass meeting protesting
the arrest of these two militant
workers.
About 1000 workers were mo-
billed at the corner of Wash
ingtOn and Occidental where
they elected committee of
three workers to be their
spokesman.
The workers then marched to
the police station and on the
way the crowd increased to
about 5000. One hundred pO-
lice came out to block the
doors of the station with riot
sticks.
Chief Howard refused to re-
lease the prisoners. maintain.
ing that he was holding them
for investigation" and that he
did not know when they would
be released.
The committee reported to
the rest of the workers, who
then went to the Marine Work
ers' Hall and Smith Cove and
back to their neighbOrhOOd.
They will recruit more protest
committees to continue de-
handing that Archer and Stack
be released.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
COOLE WAGES PAID SOUPLINE WORKERS

seripted from Seattle soup.
lines by order of Mrs. Sha-
pirO, homeless men" relief
head, under the threat that
they'll be cut off relief If
they don't accept the work.
Clothed in east-off CCC gar
ments, the men cut wood,
make, bridges and slash I'M
dergrowth, and are locked
for the time they're laid off
due to rain.
The camp Is surrounded by
barbed-wire barricade.
Mrs. Shapiro boasts that
she is able to lower Seattle
soupline expenses by driv-
ing these workers off relief
into forced labor at cOolie
wages.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Hold Meeting To
Fight Jim-CrOWing

present or have a representative
present.
TOO Late"
Among groups and Organiza-
tiOns represented was the Cr-
ban League, by Joseph Jack
son. secretary OF the Organiza-
ton. Mr.. Jackson made clear
his attitude to the whole ques-
tiOn OF discrimination and segre-
CATION when he stated that
Firstly, there is absolutely no
excuse for The situation as it
exists at present, but secondly.
You are much too late to do
anything about it. He further
stated that: Il don't think this
is a protest meeting" and that
the way he believed in settling
any question was by having
heart to heart talk over a table
with some of the head men
who were responsible for the
state of discrimination which
exists at present-as if talking
over tea tables ever has or
could accomplish anything.
Picket Voucher Station
A great deal of interest and
enthusiasm has been evident
among other Negro and white
citizens of Seattle over this
question of segregation, and the
necessity for a united front of
Negro and white workers de
handing an increase on relief
vouchers. There has been
group of pickets at the voucher
station on Twelfth St., carry.
ing signs of: NO discrimination
and Segregation; Against jim
Crow Thursday; I'VE Demand
that the Negro Investigator In
vestigate All Workers in This
District; We Demand $2.10
Voucher for All Workers" These
pickets will continue through
out the week.
The Provisional United Front
Committee is calling a mass
conference. The call appears on
Page 3.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Ryan Thrown Out
Eastern lila Halls
Stack Says

SEATTLE, July 49, - Joseph
Ryan, ill-famed |. L. A. presi-
dent whose frantic attempts to
sell out the Pacific Coast long
ShOremen in the present strike
aroused the ire of the entire
A. f. of L. rank and file in this
section, is apparently even
more despised by Atlantic Sea-
board dock workers.
r. J. Stack, recently trans
ferred to the Seattle Workers
Industrial Union from Balti-
more, reports that the most
honorable Joseph was fOrcibly
elected from at least three |. l..
A. halls in the East.
Ryan, Stack says, is now bust
ly engaged with the task of
preventing the Atlantic Coast
lOngshOremen from going out in
a sympathy strike with their
brothers in the West. Despite
the fact that rank and file
sentiment is overwhelmingly for
the walk-Out and against Ryan,
the bureaucratic machines Ryan
has set up in most of the locals
has so far been able to suppress
strike action.
Stack is of the opinion, how
ever, that if one Eastern |. L.
A. went on strike, nothing could
prevent a walk-Out in every
port on the Atlantic Coast.
AS it is now, Baltimore and
Boston lOngshOremen are stead
lastly refusing to unload scab
cargOes from the West Coast.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Vigilante TeChnOS
One And Same

SEATTLE, July l9-The relation
existing between the vigilantes
and the TechnOcrats became evil
dent at the recent meeting of
the White CenEer branch of
TeehnOcrats when the officers
elected were forced to tell their
affiliations.
The present chairman, Harry
Morris, the man who first started
forced labor in White Center
Unemployed Citizens League
fight, said openly, that he was a
Vigilante, and attends the Silver
Shirt meetings, agreeing with
their program.
Other members of the board
likewise told of their utilization
with the Fascist band.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
RWPA REJECTS JOINT
RELIEF BOARD PLAN

OLYMPIA, Wash, July 49,
When Robert B. Shaw, a Wei
fare Counselor, proposed a
joint board of four workers
from the Relief Workers Pro-
tective Association and four
from the relief setup to take
up all questions of conflict"
the members of the Relief
Workers Protective Association
exposed it as another attempt
to pacify the workers without
giving them anything.
Pointing out that such a
board would have no authority
but merely keep the workers
from making their protests to
the authorities directly, they
voted down the proposal at
their meeting OF 100 workers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
UCL Gives Picnic

SEATTLE, July 19.-"Gee,"
said the little dirty-faced
youngster, for the first time
in my life I've had all the
Coca-Cola I've wanted to
drink"
And that just about ex-
presses the sentiments of all
the other some seventy indi-
viduals gathered at Kinnear
Park Sunday, July 8 at a picnic
sponsored by the Auditorium
Local of the UCL and well at
tended by members of the
Interplay Local.
The main speaker, Harold
BrOckway, spoke on situations
facing us at the present time
and explained the coming i'm
pOrtant date, August |, Anti
War Day.
A spontaneous resolution was
adopted by those present de-
manding the immediate and I'M
conditional release of Ernst
Thaelmann, brother worker in
Germany who is in a Nazi dun
geon facing trial and immedi-
ate execution. 1t was further
agreed that this resolution be
sent to the German consulate
here in Seattle, and the Ger
man embassy in Washington,
ID. c., and that the same be
forwarded to Hitler.
The above locals of the UCL
hope to give other entertain
ments and meetings in the flu
ture to which all readers are
invited.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
August Is Date Set
For The Release OF
Eviction Boys

SEATTLE, July 19.-All of the
Frandsen boys out August TO-!
That was the verdict given by
Governor Clarence ID. Martin at
a meeting with Garfield Davis
of the tSate Parole Board and
a committee composed of the
wives and sisters of the i'm
prisoned men Monday.
Martin said, however, that
the case of William KOminsky,
who is serving a sentence at
Walla Walla, would have to be
taken up with the State Parole
Board. This board does not
meet until September 6.
The committee is working on
Davis in an attempt to arrange
for the release of KOminsky at
the same time the others are
freed.
Martins decision came after
q long series of mass working
class campaigns led by the In
ternatiOnal Labor Defense in
the interest of the boys had
virtually forced him and the
Parole Board to take action.
Fear Demonstration
Obviously fearing that Seattle
workers would, on the occasion
of the freeing of all the prison.
ers at one time, call a demon
stratiOn, Davis said that the
boys would be released singly
or in pairs, on different days.
Before going to see Martin,
the committee, which was COM
posed of Mrs. Moon, Mrs. Frand-
sen, Mrs. Price, Mrs. Robert
Norton and Mary Curry, met
with Davis, Prosecutor Bur
gunder, Sheriff Bannick and
Douglas. Davis told them at
that time that the prisoners
would be out by August Is.
Davis said that this was the
best that could be done for
them, and tried to persuade the
committee not to go to see
Martin. The women refused to
be turned aside, however, and
Monday when they entered
Martins office in Olympia, Davis
was on hand.