Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02
Why Vote for
Communists!

In the name of the National Lumber Workers
Union; the Fishermen and Cannery Workers In
dustrial Union; in the name of Unemployed Cit
liens Leagues and Unemployment Councils; in
the name of the Washington State Committee
of Action, of the thousands of liberty loving,
right thinking people in the Northwest who
support the program and policies expressed in
the Voice of Action, we call upon you to vote
November 9th for the Communist candidates
Careful examination shows that of all can
didates and OF all parties only the Communists
have the program which fits the immediate
needs OF the people OF the Northwest-and men
with ability and training to carry out that pro-
gram
we have had our fill of the two old capitalist
partIes the democrats and the Republicans, OF
their politicians and empty political promises.
we nave lounu InaU DenInd the smile OF Gov
ernor martin Is smashing OF miners picket lines
gasslng OF women ana chliuren at hoslyn
we remember that TREND OF labor" Smith turn
ed loose unDridieu terror against the longshore-
mems sIrlKe. We know that there is no choice
between reactIonary Schwelenbach and banker
Odiin, between koss and Hioncheck who
arms american eglVunalres ana sUrIke-break-
ing vgilanUes with government rifles.
1he "raulcansm Oh the commonwealth Build
ers does not Iool us with their endorsement OF
the democratic slate, OF the Roosevelt anti
LABOR program with their dlscredited self-help
delusion
The reward your friends and defeat your
enemies" policy of the ALL misleaders is not
for us. 1t but rivets tighter our chains to the
capitalist program of war, of hunger, OF evictions
by binding us to the capitalist political parties.
Look what happened week before last when
this particular phase of the lesser evil theory
resulted in the machine putting an endorsement
through the Central Labor Council for Sears,
clubber of the unemployed, and Lehman, vicious
anti-labor prosecutor of men who tried to save
the Frandsen home.
Nor can we support the Socialist Party NOM
inees The Socialist Party has no program for the
toiling masses. Did not John Mckay, their can
didate for u. s. Senator fight with utmost vigor
at the Continental Congress at Yakima against
endorsement of the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, the only genuine measure in the
country for unemployment insurance?
Nor can We fail to take stand, to ignore the
elections as do many IWW's and ex-lWWs in
the Northwest To do that is to ignore the fun
damental issues of the day, to leave the field
wide open for the bosses and to fail in our duty
of exercising class political action against them
What are main issues facing the people OF
the Northwest today?
Against Rooseyelt's New DEAL attacks on
the living standards of the toilers, against rising
living costs resulting from monopoly and infla.
ton.
For higher wages, shorter hours, a shorter
work week, and improved living standards.
Against capitalist terror and the growing
trend toward tasclsm; against deportations anu
oppression of the foreign-born; against compul-
sorry arbitration and company unions; against
the use Of troops in strikes.
For the workers right to join unions Of their
own choice, to strike, to picket to demonstrate
without restrictions; for the maintenance of all
the civil and political rights of the masses.
3.-For unemployment and social insurance at
the expense of the employees and the state; for
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill
CHR 1880.
4-For the repeal of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act; for emergency relief to the i'm
poverished and drought-stricken farmers with
out restriction by the government or banks;
exemption of impoverished farmers from taxa
ton; cancellation of the debts Of poor farmers;
for the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill
5-Against Jim-Crowism and lynching; for
equal rights for the Negroes and self-determina-
ton for the Black Belt. For the Negro Bill Of
rights
s.-For the immediate payment of the vet
Grams back wages (bonus).
7-Against the sales tax no taxes on persons,
their property, earning less than $4,000 per
year For steeply graduated and greatly increas-
ed taxation on the rich.
s.-Against Roosevelt's war preparedness pro-
gram; against imperialist war; for the defense
Of the Soviet Union and Soviet China.
Only the Communist Party and its nominees.
and in Oregon only the candidates on the Com
munism VS. Fascism" independent slate carry on
the struggle for these demands. Election of the
Communist candidates and large Communist
vote will benefit each one of us.
Don't waste your vote. Vote for the Commun-
list candidates.