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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
European Volcano

Europe is a vast powder magazine INTO
which madmen hurl lighted torches
Within Austria groups of fascists butcher
each other in struggle for power Each group
is pawn of mighty imperialist power walt
ing nervously for the spark that will touch OIL
war explosion
Growing economic rivalry and fight Tor
territory claimed by both had Italy ana Jugo-
slavia mobilize huge armies within mile and
half of each other, waiting.
Business collapse in each nation forces on
the war lords to fight for new markets.
England enters heart and soul the greatest
arms race of history. Concentrating on air force,
the government declares it will build at once
400 new planes.
The situation today is little less fraught
with possibilities of immediate world war than
the actual marching feet of twenty years ago
today.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
We Must Never Forget

Glarng from Germany-dated news stories
of the week Is this, from the mouth of Hitler:
"We must never forget that the National
Socialist (NaZil government would not have
been installed, but for Won Hindenburg."
Upon the shoulders Of those who put into
office Paul Won Hindenburg lies responsibility
for the torture of the German people at the
hands of the insane sexual pervert, Hitler.
How did Hindenburg win his election to
the presidency? Three major candidates were
in the field. Hindenburg himself, Hitler, and
Ernst Thaemann.
The first represented the aristocracy the
army the monarchists, the junkers 1.-THE big
landlords of Germany; the second, a number of
industrasts and bankers, men like Thyssen
the steel magnate the third, the workers of
Germany.
In this race fourth political organization
held the balance of power. Itself commanding
the greatest single vote of any political party
in Germany, it had no candidate in the field.
This force was the Social-Democratic Party
the Socialists.
Why no candidate, We must. said the So
calst leadership at any cost defeat the Com
munist Thaelmann. Millions are rallying to his
banner VOTE FOR Won HINDENBURG!
These Socialists, opponents OF war, pacifists,
said Vote for the field marshall"
in the name of democracy, vote for the
monarchst"
The Communist Party vainly appealed for
unity of the working class. Though still follow
ed the Socialist leaders to put HindenbUg
into the presidency.
Shades of Norman Thomas, of his "RoOse-
welt the Socialist of his NRA boostingD
There is no honor among the criminals who
came to power. The Socialists who put them
there fled Germany, were imprisoned in the
NaZi dungeons, were murdered, or grOveed in
the slime OF their own betrayal and were given
petty state jobs.
Thus some of them pay for their crime. But
with them suffers the whole pOpulace.
The blood, the degradation of Germany is,
as Hitler so blithely boasts on the hands of the
SocialDemOcratic Party the Socialists.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
IechnocratS Asleep

The TechnOcrats don't like what they con-
slider the brutally narrow-minded attacks upon
their organization by the Communists But can
they name many reasons why they shouldn't be
attacked?
Here's why they lay themselves open to at
tack BY holding three-day convention of sup
posedly soeialmnded bourgeoise, out of which
gab-fest came not even one proposal to alleviate
the misery and hopelessness of unemployed and
slavery bound millions
BY refusing to even consider that militar-
lstic dictatorship of capitalism is already SHOW
ing Faseism down the throats of the proIetariat
"a class that the middle-elass TeehnOcrats will
eventually be forced to enter as captalisms
decay continues.
Because they delude themselves with the
belief that capitalism will die painlessly and
quickly without maintaining itself by violence
against, and war on the workers living condi-
lions Tor years Hore-unless a day by-day battle
Is waged against it by oragnized fighting work
ers.
Because the Teehnocrats, by banding them
selves into an organization that puts premium
on inaction and Utopian dreaming thus emas-
eulates its membership from ever going into
action to gain Communism (which they claim
Is the same as Technoeracyl and because they
do not even froHn on Fascist police terror and
denial of constitutional rights already crushing
the working class, the Technocrats already are
well on the road toward becoming Fascists
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10

grew silent: a serious breach OF
discipline. Jack read off the list.
Each who had been absent gave
his reason, good, bad, or indiffer-
ent. One was sick, another had
her laundry to do, and so it went.
When an excuse was too obvious,
murmurs ran about the room.
"The action to be taken will be
decided by the nucleus bureau,"
Jack said, and reported at our
next meeting" Afterwards, Mary
challenged him, Say, why did
you let Valya off so easily. Not
soft on her maybe% Now it was
their turn to kid. Flushing Jack
Joined in, asking, How about
lit Valya, did | let you off too
easy? Or didn't | treat you just
like the others" Grabbing one
of the boys around the neck, he
began to wrestle with him, try
ing to hide his confusion.
It's true, Jack likes Valya,
some of the girls added. Calling,
chasing one another, they ran
gaily between their machines,
and down the stairs.
How does it happen that Jack
has learned the art of leadership,
when still so young? His story,
which we get out of him with
some difficulty-for he is not a
lad to talk about himself-eX-
plains good deal.
Jack has travelled a long road
in his brief twenty-five years.
Born in the Ukraine, son of re-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
Why Sue Smith for
Twenty-Five Thousand?

As part of the campaign for freedom of the
press and against police terror the Voice of Ac-
tion publishers instructed the papers editor,
Lowell Wakefield, to file suit against Mayor
Smith and Chief of Police COmstOck for $4,000
damages The suit included petition for court
order restraining the Police Department from
its open threat to smash the Labor Press, the
papers shop.
Viewed only as legal step, the suit would
mean little. All the lawyer skill of those two
capable Seattle and Portland International La
Dor Defense attorneys, Lawrence Settler and
Irwin Goodman. cannot change the court set-up
and collect $2500O for the working class move
1nent Excellent grounds will avail them nothing.
look what the impartial" courts did to the
petition of Seattle marine strikers for an in
junction permitting them to picket pier 40
without police interferencel
But as part of the mass campaign for work
ers' rights, the suit can mean great deal. By
dramatizing the issues at stake, it will aid the
mobilization of public opinion.
The damage suit should be mentioned in all
resolutions to Mayor Smith and to the Police
Chief, in all letters, protest kilograms, phone
calls Bring it up at union meetings, at mass
gatherings.
We may not collect the dollars damages.
But by attacking the fascist authorities from all
lngles we can fight for existence of our press,
jeaI death blows to terror against workers Or
foundations
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
WOMAN'S WORLD

>we all know, are very frce-and-
easy matters in Russia. SO that
the father may be far away when
the mother becomes unable to
work and needs financial help.
Perhaps the parents never went
through the forms of matrimOny.
That makes no difference in the
eyes of the law in Russia.
But suppose the mother is
poor ignorant wOrking-girl who
does not know her rights. Well,
even that is provided for. Per-
haps she cannot read the news
papers, or the popular literature,
or even understand the posters
and placards that blaZon the in
formation all over the country.
Plenty are like that In that case
she finds an official advisor
knocking at her door, not to tell
her she has done something
wrong, but to tell her of her
rights. She is taken to a moth
ers' conference" where she is
given advice not only on the pro
per care of herself and her baby,
but on all her rights and the
means at her command to enforce
them.
''If the health regulations are
not Obeyed in the plant. where
the mother is working, the man
ager hears from the health sta
ton. If woman is given tasks
beyond her strength, the health
station shifts her to work she
can do. EXpectant mothers are
given the lightest jobs. and they
are invited to the consultations
for women and introduced to the
hospital and the maternity ward.
"Of course all this is fine for
little Ivan. 1t gives him a splen-
did start. As soon as the health
station hears he is expected it
sends visiting nurse to call on
the mother, without charge, and.
from that time on. to keep her
under her watch-care and to as
sist her in every way.
THE maternity centers now
aid nearly 100 per cent of the
childbirth eases in the cities and
industrial towns. The number of
beds increases continually. Thus
in 1914 the maternity beds num-
bered 400, in 1925 there were
1900, and now there are 1880.
a striking growth. This also
means that the number of doe
tors, nurses, and other attend
ants has increased at the same
rate. Everything has increased,
in short, except women'ss mala-
dies, which have shown a striking
decrease"
We think these articles speak
sufficiently for themselves and
need no further comment except
that the figures of maternal
death in America and the Soviet
Union bear out the descriptions
In the foregoing comments.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
Dark Future for Germany!

While Newspapermen speculate on Hitler,
Napoleon HIP" the Nazis march to certain de-
strueton.
Particularly since the bloody purging OF
June 30 and the massacre in the concentration
amps following it, great antifascist storm
you'd has gathered. In every country million
listed throngs say Free Ernst Thaelmann"
Soon the storm will break and sweep Ger
many from capitalist to proletaran dictator
ship. from Nazi Germany to Soviet Germany,
from slavery to freedom.
The growth of Fascism here shows more
clearly than ever before that we cannot afford
TO be Isolated from that movement.
Picket the German consulate for release of
Thaemann and all German political prisonersl
Raise funds to aid the victims of German
fascisml
Join the campaign for million signatures
and a million pennies for Thaelmannl
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
The Epic Plan

Upton Sinclair, father of fantastic EPIC
plan. upon the strength of which he will run
for Governor of California this fall. has been
revealed in his true political light by the Daily
Worker and the New Masses in recent issues.
In a letter to the Daily Worker he went on
record as approving the Fascist drive against
the California workers. He chimes in with Gov
ernor Merriam Mayor ROss and Hearsts Exam
liner with vicious diatrbes against the Com
munist Party
The New Masses published last week cor
respondence between Leo Gallagher veteran
champion of workers rights, and Sinclair in
which the latter told Gallagher he could not
support him in his campaign for place on the
California Supreme Court Bench. Il cannot en-
dOrse you, because you do not believe in me and
EPIC" was the gist of Snclairs letter
Gallagher pointed out in his reply that by re-
fusing to support him Sinclair was deliberately
sanctioning the candidacy of two fierce reac-
tiOnaries Hartley Shaw and Emmett Seawell
who have long records of working class persecu-
ton. Seawell figured in the blocking of the
Tom Mooney pardon.
These two incidents offer sufficient proof
of the .hypocricy and insincerity of Sinclar's
twaddle about his devotion to the workers
cause How could any worker with any kind of
political vision conscientiOusly east his vote
for Sinclair after these exposures? And after
reading his pamphlet, Il, Governor of Calf
OlIlld III WHICH lie ENTHUSIASTICALLY lldllS inc
NRA and Roosevelt, and brazenIy boasts of
supporting the government in the Imperialist
Blood-Bath of 1917?
A group of liberals and renegade radicals
are hard at work in the State of Washington
trying to put over the Sinclair plan. Already
they have established Democratic Precinct
chaimen and have entered several men in the
race for State Legislative positions.
Most OF their leaders are wellversed in the
art of political demagogy. During the recent
waterfront strike they seized every opportunity
workers They were very much in evidence at
strike mass-meetings where they cunnngy
worked themselves in as speakers.
AT the present time they are attempting to
grab the votes of UCL locals The Seattle EPIC
planners are also paving the way for the cand
dacy of Marion ZiOncheck for Governor in 1896
NJ NJ London whose political record is one
of unsavOry oppOrtunism is a leader in the
new movement. which is supported by the
strike-breaking Austin L. Griffths and others
of his ilk
TO date the EPIC plan has been able to gain
only a small labor following Most of its con-
verts are petty-bOurgeois liberals, who see po
litical jobs in the offing. But workers must be on
their guard. The EPICers will attempt to trick
them this year and in 1896 in the same way that
Stevenson Bone, ZiOncheck and others did in
1892
Workers,dO not be taken in by the wild
promises of these careersts Back your own
class candidates, James Murphy for Congress
and George Bradley for Senatel
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
Boss Gives Workers
Charity Flour
By a Worker Correspondent

LEMPSTER. n. H. Twenty
lumbermen went out on strike
here for higher wages. They
have been working for $3.50 a
day. They work for Charles En-
ersOn who has the reputation of
paying his men the least of any
mill operator in this section. He
makes his mill help start aheaJ
of time and makes them work
after quitting time thereby get
ting around the code limit.
In the winter of 1928 Emer-
son worked his men so cheap
that at the end of the week in
order to keep his men living he
gave them a bag of Red Cross
flour with their weeks wages.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
BABIES AGAIN

Here we are back to the sub
ject of babies again. We happen
ed to read two articles in current
magazines which gave two very
different pictures of how babies
are brought into the world. One
was an article in the August Pie
tOrial Review by the former ed
itOr of the Literary Digest tell
ing of the conditions of the ba-
bies in the Soviet Union. The
other article was in the Ameri-
can Mercury written by a young
student doctor in New York City
who was assigned to charity ma
ternity work in that city.
The Picture in America
We will let the New York doe
tor tell his own story:
Boarding house mistresses
were a tough element to handle.
For all their shrewdness, they
would occasionally take in a
woman near the end of her preg-
nancy. What a row the boarding
house mistress would raise when
labor occurred! No matter how
miserable and dingy their places
were, they would curse the wo-
man in labor for disturbing the
other dodgers and for bringing
disgrace upon the house. They
made nuisances of themselves
when | was on the job, demand
ing that | remove the woman i'm
mediately to the hospital. I
would gladly have done this in
most cases, but only difficult op-
erative cases would be accepted
there.
Some of the rooms in the
boarding houses where | made
deliveries were so narrow that
the door could not be opened
fully on account of the bed. One
was a large closet, with no win
dow in it. Sometimes, there was
no running water, and often
warm water was altogether I'M
obtainable. Frequently | had to
make numberless trips up and
down stairs for water, or to get
rid of slops, with the boarding
house mistress trailing me like a
shadow, bawling me out for spill
ing a drop, or complaining that L
was wearing out the rug, or dis
turbing the other boarders.
The women in the boarding
houses were as a rule young, and
from out of town. Sometimes they
were hiding from people who
knew them, so that there was no
one about to help. A number APP
peared to have come from good
homes"
How Little Ivan Arrives
How different the story sounds
of the arrival in the world of So
Wet babies:
The fight for the Russian ba-
by, in fact, begins before he is
born. Marriage and divorce. Us
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
SOVIET
Main Street
CHAPTER II
YOUNG JACKS STORY
BY MYRA PAGE


The endless white snow glows
with a blush light, under the
star-jammed sky. Our boots
make fresh, crunching sounds as
the six of us, arm in arm, singing,
tramp along the broad highway:
Endless the way of the millions,
Out of the past toward the flu
ture,
As free men we labor and strive"
We are on our way from the
club to the workers new town.
No one seems tired, although we
have put in a full day of it, yes,
and evening too. with Jack and
his young comrades. What en-
thusiasm and energy these youth
possess! At their machines for
six hours they have worked with
pep and udarnik tempo, then to
department meetings of young
workers, to discuss their part in
the fight to improve quality of
output. To the club gym for
physical culture, followed by
showers, supper in a recently OPP
ened factory kitchen, nearby.
Back to the club for classes in
political economy and current
events, the nine o'clock movie
show, and now home for a round
of sleep before beginning an
other day.
Jack Nickamkin goes with us
as far as the Youth Commune
where the rest of us live. He
shares a room with his brother,
in an apartment short distance
away. Even while we sing, his
thoughts are busy with tOmOr-
rows affairs.
Barely twenty-five, heavy re-
spOnsibilities rest on his firm
shoulders, placed there by his
eighteen hundred cOmrade youth
of the machine factory. A year
ago they took him from his work
bench and placed him as secre-
tary of their "COmsOmOl" young
Communist League.
His mobile, sensitive face, top
ped by waving red hair, is quick
to light as he discusses politics
or jokes with his pals. Every one
of the twelve thousand workers
at the paint knows Jack. There
is young fellow who will go far"
they say, "he has the makings."
So he has. Regardless of age, |
have seen few who could guide
their fellows with a more sure,
sympathetic hand. Furthermore.
having observed him at close
range, under varying circum-
stances, | wager my next copy of
the Crocodile that here is one
who disprOves the old adage
about redheads. Not once have
his patience and good humOr de-
serted himl
Even at the meeting with the
COmsOmols from the needle de-
partment, when they were
caught mapping, his good temper
held
Called together for a political
discussion, he found a scant half
dozen out of the twenty had
prepared themselves. Largely
village girls, and a few youths,
but few months in industry.
they sat stolid, flushed, while he
quizzed, explained, Juggling away
at loOsening their tongues. His
quiet kidding was more telling
than any scolding could have
been.
AT last the dam burst. Cues
tions, opinions poured forth.
Don't worry, Jack, they said to-
ward the close, you'll not find
us short-handed again."
1t was an unlucky day for the
needle department. Mary, a soft.
checked girl with dancing eyes,
called for a check-up on the last
"subbotnik'- the term applied
to the hours of voluntary labor
given during free days on col
lective farm, or in community
work. Mary declared that several
who had signed up to come, had
failed to appear. The gathering
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
Around = the
world inC minutes.

vIENNA-The Austrian ruling
class was victorious in the recent
battles against the NaZis who
would have done nothing fun
damentally important to change
conditionsl, but the present gov
eminent is greatly weakened by
the fighting.
DUBLIN, Ireland No papers
in Dublin on July 80 as printers
and newsboys strike.
=
ELGIUM The Socialist
Youth of Belgium organizations
have voted for determined mill
tant fight against war and war
preparations i'm all their aspects.
PARIS - The American dele
gates to the international Con
gress of Women Against War and
Fascism have launched an appeal
to the women of the whole world
to join in the fight for the lives
of the ScottsbOro boys.
=
MANCHU RIA japanese war
lords have been recruiting Chin
csc workers for use i'm building
military roads through Man
churia toward the Soviet border.
More than 100000 Chinese work
ers have been forced into this
slave labor in which they have
been most numerically treated.
many of them facing starvation
through undertaking.
e.
USSR-Twenty new radio sta
tiOns are planned for use be-
tween June and September.
American students are going
to Russia to study in ever in
creasing numbers. Last year the
number at the Moscow Univers-
ity summer school was Is; this
year the number was lS4.
Grain collections thus far are
ahead of last years bumper crop.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
Did You Know
That

johnson flew to Chicago July
30 to try to halt general strike
movements in that vicinity.
The factory that supplies 80
per cent of American airplane en-
CINE magnitoes is working "a
hours a day on wartime basis.
Mayor LaGuardia of New York
has ordered all labor unions to
register with the police depart
ment, in an attempt to outlaw
all militant union work in the
New York area. At the same time
he announced the beginning of
training for special new police
force of 1900 men to be equipped
with rifles, machine guns, and
armOured ears. The 2 fascist at
tempts go hand in hand in a
move to stamp out militant I'M
ionism. Among the first organiza-
tions to protest was the news
paper Guild, which won a spec
tacular strike last week against
one of the. New York papers.
The Long Island Naval Yard
has been placed on a war time
basis. No visitors are admitted
except by special pass.
400 sausage workers won their
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10

A move is on foot in California
to establish a convict camp for all
who are suspected of being Com
mlluiStS.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10

strike at Detroit last week. They
were affiliated with the TUU
Last week street ear men in
Omaha, Nebraska, went on strike.
300 delegates last week held
a midwest congress against war
and fascism, despite attempts
of vigilante mobs to break it up.
The Los Angeles bosses spent
well over million dollars in po-
lica protection during the first 9
weeks of the west coast strike.
New Orleans has dropped $1,000
"unemployables" from it's relief
rolls The "uuemplOyables" are
such people as the sick, the blind,
the lame, the aged, mothers, and
children. At the same time New
Orleans finds money enough to
pay for Huey Longs fascist reign
of martial law a mere within of
the American Hitler to hold his
political control over the state.
The Western Union Telegraph
Co. in Newark is starting on a
campaign to eliminate all its en-
ployees who are Jews. We predict
that this will be followed by
many other large corporations
within the next year.
In San Francisco the Jail which
was built to handle Us is now
crowded with 400 militant work.
ers. Conditions are becoming al
most intolerable.
In Portland during the recent
strike the Red Cross made itself
a strike-breaking agency by plac-
ing signs in relief depots calling
for scabs to accept waterfront
Jobs.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10

300 delegates last week held
a midwest congress against war
and fascism, despite attempts
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-10
How Little Ivan Arrives

How different the story sounds
of the arrival in the world of So
Wet babies:
The fight for the Russian ba-
by, in fact, begins before he is
born. Marriage and divorce. as