Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
SpOutS VenemouS Lies
About Communist
Party
By r. X. VAN DORM

Two or three weeks ago we an
swered the incredible supply Of
SANDER and villifieation that was
erupting from the sly-sleek pages
of the Hearst press. The Daily
Worker quite aptly calls the
Hearst sheets "the reptile press"
In our last article we thought
that we had effectively chopped
off every falsehobd that the
Hearst press frantically keeps in
circulation as its legal tender for
deluding the masses. But like
the proverbial reptile, the be-
headed falsehoods continue to
wiggle about until the end Of
day-and then some.
On December 10 the King Him.
self0once again made his appear
ance as a front page artist in a
Juggling act with his series OF
well-trained lies. NUMBER
ONE PUBLIC ENEMIES" they
are called. Mr.. Hearst must have
lost both his mind and his gram
mar, because these enemies" are
olny one-"Russia."
ISLANDERS Soviet Union
TT is the same old Russia as
under the Cars. 1t is the same
old tyranny under a different
name" "a good many Americans
would be mighty glad to have
the opportunity of living under
the kind of tyranny that has
abolished unemployment, set up
workers and farmers democ-
racy, the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat to replace the dictator
ship of the capitalists, and usher
ed in a regime of peace and plen-
ty, both material and cultural,
such as the common people OF no
other land enjoy.)
There is the same old protest
by assassination against cruelty
and tyranny" THE great masses
of the American workers have
been carefully protected by the
freedom of the American press"
from any knowledge of the great
spontaneous nationwide state
of mourning that the masses OF
the Soviet citizens are expressing
for their great departed leader.)
There is the same old Unjust
ice and oppression and the same
he /. implacable hatred by the
people of blood and IRON" Oh
yeah!
Lauds White Guards
There is tine same old conflict
for position and power in which
the masses are trampled under
the feet of the battling factions"
A hundred or so of imported
counter-revolutionary terrorists
quickly become transformed into
luminous-winged angels of free
dom" as SOON as they reach the
Hearst pages. incidentally, we
notice that Mr.. Hearst has sud
denly acquired an overpowering
love for "the masses" Three
weeks ago he described them as
being only a stage or two above
the beasts
There is the same old whole
sale indiscriminate massacre of
opponents of the despOtism,
whether those slaughtered be
guilty or innocent of crime"
We know of no facts that
would cause any honest person
to say that both the innocent and
the guilty were punished for the
assassination of the Soviet lead
err. Some of us may not agree
with the practice of Over-rapid
trials and execution as conditions
of punishment.
Hearst's Crocodile Tears
But there is probably none of
us that doesn't Immediately
think of Mr.. Hearst's approval of
murders american style) as
soon as that gentleman begins to
weep crocodile tears over the ex-
ecution of foreign criminals and
the lives of the foreign masses"
Mr.. Hearst and his papers have
openly boosted of the way they
broke the west coast general
strike. He lent his full approval
to the murderous breaking of the
great textile strike that cost the
lives of dozens of innocent work.
ers.
So long as Mr.. Hearst and his
class were able to exploit the
American masses comparatively
free from complaint and resist
ance, we had a glorious "dem6c-
racy."
Now, with the rising wave OF
militancy and strikes against the
growth of tyranny and starvation
Mr.. Hearst spouts walls of venom
against those who are attempt
ing to transform this American
republic into Communistic ty-
ranny of class against class"
They, who turn the tables on
the exploiters, above all others
are the Number public enemies
of our country and our people"
These, be they aliens or citizens,
Mr.. Hearst wants deported, for
they are more dangerous than
the criminals, more demoralizing
than the imbeciles-and partak-
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