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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
.TRYISMADE
TOSTALL0N
VOICE SUIT
Smith Attempts to Hold
Back Action On
Injunction

SEATTLE. Aug. 10 Appear
ance was made this week by Fas
cist Mayor Smiths defense in the
Voice of Actions suit for $25,00C
against Smith and his police chief
for damages sustained by the
Voice of Action and the Labor
Press by police raids during the
lOngSh0remen'S strike.
Lawrence Setter, Voice of Ac-
tiOn'S attorney. stated it was APP,
parent Smith intended contest
ing the suit, and would fight and
delay its appearance in courts
for months, if possible.
defense of freedom of the
press is supposedly a cOnstitu,
tional right" said Lowell Wake
field, who brought the suit
against Smith.
"The suit will be test of
working class rights of free press.
free speech and freedom of as
Semblage," Wakefield concluded.
The Voice of Action and Labor
Press were raided four times in
one day by Smiths Red Squad"
workers arrested and commercial
printing in the shop cOnfiscated.
threats made by police of demOl-
ishing the shop by "Vigilantes,
if any further printing were done.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
SPDelegatesMeet
With Communists

SEATTLE, Aug. 16-Answering
the call printed in last weeks
Voice of Action for a united front
against the wave of Fascist terror
sweeping the Pacific coast, the
Central Branch of the Socialist
Party here elected committee
sof three to meet with the Com
munist Party.
The Communist Party call was
presented to the Socialist Branch
by Alan Max.
Similar visits to Socialist Party
locals all over the northwest are
being made by Communist Party
Sections.
A fOur-point program was put
forward by the Communists as a
basis for the discussions:
/. For immediate release of
all striking seamen and long
shoremen.
2. For the right to organize,
strike and picket, and for the
defense of workers headquar-
tiers and press.
3. For Unemployment and So
cial Insurance, HR 1888.
4. Fight against war and fas-
cism, for the release of Thasl.
mann, and all victims Of fas-
cism.
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rich, which was displayed by all
capitalist papers and broadcast
over the radio, to the effect that
the strike was officially settled,
and the fishermen would go to
work the next morning under
the price cut.
The strike committee immedi-
atoly answered by dispatching
additional boats for picket duty.
with instructions to haul in any.
body attempting to scab. The be-
trayal was unanimously rejected
by the rank and file.
Attempt Terror
The next move of the agents of
the bosses, after attempted ar
bitratiOn which was also rejected,
was to resort to terror and intimi.
datiOn by dispatching 80 state
patrOImen with fifteen motor
cycles with gas attachments, and
a truck load of tear gas bombs to
AnacOrtes, All roads were guard
cd by these thugs.
The strikers Immediately or
ganiZcd workers defense corps
to protect their meetings and
their strike leaders. This move,
together with the evident milit-
Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
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them exactly as though they
were men"
Hitler could well be proud of
such body of StalWart. all-Amer-
/ lean Storm Troopers, who already
have their instructions to shoot
down women, in case they inter
ferC with the glorious, American
work of stamping out any type
of workers protest against hun
ger war and fascism.
WHEN YOU MAY FIRE: Re
member that our sole object is to
prev revolutionary tactics,
bloodshed and property damage,
by lawful and American means!
You must be lOath to loose your
piece gum, but must not hest
tate to use it if necessity de-
mands. If time permits and wis
dom dictates it, challenge the Of
Tending party before YOU fire up
on him.
GENERAL NOTES: A corner
ed rat is hard to whip. leave your
crowd an avenue of escape and
the weaker souls will take it.
thus launching a wholesale rOut
which you can follow to adVan-
tage. Mount your machine guns
low, in ground floor windows or
entrance ways, behind cover, but
so they can cover a wide area.
Upper windows are good for rifle.
men but bad for machine guns
since their arc o. fire covers but
little ground. Keep informed eV-
cry minute of the enemy's where
abOuts. arrange signals from men
in high places, keep in touch
with your SuperiOrs and all de-
tached bodies by runners or arm
signals"
Workers! There is but one
answer to these insane and muir
derous preparations for the
stamping out of all class at
tempts to gain economic Sc
curity.
The answer is-UNITE ALL
WORKING CLASS oRGANIZ-
ATIONS INTO A MILITANT
UNITED FRONT TO FIGHT
FASCISM WHEREVER 1T rs
FOUND
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LOngview Paper Halls
Rise OF Fascist Gangs

kELSO, Wash, Aug. 16-That
GO new members have been added
to the vigilante groups OF this
locality, is the proud boast of the
Longview Daily News, after a vi
ciOus red-baiting campaign of
several weeks duration.
The sheriff, confronted by a
committee protesting the throw
ing of tear gas bombs into a
peaceful assembly of workers, in
Guiding women and children,
started a senseless babble about
dance licenses"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
"RED SQUAD" COP
TRIES TO PANIC
MARINE LEADER
BY MWIU Port Organizer

SEATTLE. Aug. 16-The strike
breaking mayors newly organic
ed fascist Red Squad is making
an attempt to terrOrize and in.
timidate militant union organic
ers on the Seattle waterfront.
Feeling the discomfort OF the
seamen who have had their
strike sold out, the ship owners
knowing that they are sitting
on a powder key, want to get
rid of all these militant union
organizers.
While talking to some seamen
in front of CampiOn's Shipping of
flee, the Red Squad patrolman,
OBrien, tried to terrOrize one of
the organizers of the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. He
took him into the shipping office
and told them to ship him out.
The shipping crimps hadn't any
jobs on hand at the time so the
two fascist thugs of the Red
Squad drove him over to Lucken.
bach's dock, and tried to get a
job there for him. 1t just happen
ed that there weren't any.
However, jobs or no jobs, the
port organizers Of the MWIU
do not intend to allow some
thick necked thug, regardless
Of whether his orders are from
the ship owners or anyone else,
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the post of Central Council secre-
tary was engineered entirely by
his reactionary political machine.
and that the whole machine
would have been wiped out of
existence If the whole AL rank
and file had been allowed a voice
in the election.
Doyle's local, at the same
meeting, voted endorsement Of
HR 1898, unemployment insur-
anee, over Dpyle's single-hand.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
NaziS Scheme To Murder Thaelmann

BERLIN, Aug. 16-A new wave
of murders is sweeping the Nazi
concentration camps in prepare
ton for the referendum, Aug. 10,
to endorse the merging of chan.
cellorship and presidency in Der
Fuerher-Hitler
1000 are reliably reported
slaughtered. Conditions for the
remaining thousands incarcerat-
ed are horrible. Wracked by tor
ture. starvation and disease, jail
ed opponents of the Nazi regime,
Communists, Socialists, Pacifists,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
Union Raises Wages
Vel Calls Mass Meeting

SEATTLE, Aug. 10 Water
front Unit of the Young Com
munist League calls a mass meet
ing at the corner of Washington
and Occidental at 7;10 tomorrow
night.
Jim Bourne, who spent two
years in the Soviet Union, will
tell of his experiences there.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
COMMUNIST
PARTY WILL
SEND CALL
Election Conference Set
For September II at
|. @. G. 7 Hall

SEATTLE, Aug. 10 Calling
upon all working class organiZa
tiOns to rally behind its election
campaign against huger, war and
fascism, the District Committee OF
the Communist Party today is
sued an open invitation to its
nominating convention on Sept
II, at the lOGT hall. Seattle.
80 all Working Glass Organic,
atiOns," the call states, "AF of l.,
TT ILL., Independent Unions. UCL
and other Working Class Organ
izatiOns:
Fellow Workers:
On Tuesday, November 6, 1884,
the tOiling masses of the L. s..
will be called upon to again east
their vote for various county,
state and national offices.
AS in previous elections, the
capitalist politicians are using
all kinds of demagogic promises
in order to fool the broad mass
es OF people.
For five years the nation has
been in the thrOes of a terrible
crisis. At the beginning of the
crisis, the Republican Party told
the masses that prosperity is
around the corner" that prosper
iGs will return in esiNty days" just
suffer and wait, and happy days
will be back again.
In 1882 the population of the
L. 5. swept out of power the Re
publican machine, and put into
power the Roosevelt Democratic
which promised to al
lrviate the suffering of the PEG
pie.
But ROOsevelt'S policies have
served like HOOver's to further
enrich the monopoly capitalists,
and imDOvcrish the people of the
United States. Roosevelt and his
Congressional supporters took Of
flee promising a New Deal" to
the "FOrgOttcn Man" but his re-
cord tells a story of lying prom
ises.
Roosevelt's New Deal means
to the workers, unemployment,
misery and starvation. Roose-
velt's government has used ma
chine guns and tear gas, out
right murder against the work.
ers who have come out on
strike demanding the right to
live and organize.
Here on the West Coast, in the
lOngshOre strike. the Democrats
as well as the Republicans all
lined up against the striking
lOngshOremen and seamen in a
reign of terror, killing strikers,
organizing vigilantes to break up
workers h o m es, headquarters
and press. All this has been done
for the Forgotten Man"
The Socialist Party while pre-
tending to advocate socialism,
practices the same outright cap
italist politics. In Milwaukee, in
Bridgeport, where the Socialist
Party rules. they have adhered
to ROOsevelt's New Deal" poll
cies. Meetings of strikers and
demonstrations of workers arc
broken up by the police. Norman
Thomas gives his fatherly bless
ing to ROosevelt's administra-
ton. While it pretends to be
Continued on Page 3; Col. A.
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Christians, Jews, die like flies.
A plot has been uncovered to
murder Ernst Thaelmann, head
of the German Communist Party
and leader of the world fight
against Fascism, by shooting him
while attempting to escape"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
FCWIU Strike Victory
Important Workers
OF Pacific Northwest
EDITORIAL

Recognition of the Fisher
men and Cannery Workers In
dustrial Union is a victory Of
tremendous Importance.
The young, powerful union,
the largest in it's industry, Is
affiliated with the Trade I'm
ion Unity League and with
the Red International OF La
Dor Unions.
Thousands of workers have
been duped by the story of
American Federation of Labor
bureaucrats, that only "con-
sentative" unions can win re-
cognition from the bosses.
Vindication of the principle
of industrial unionism and red
letter day for the entire work
ing class movement is the
strike vote of Everett cannery
workers in support of the strik-
ing fishermen. This new solid.
arity in the fishing industry
played a major role in forcing
recognition of the union and q
price increase.
Right now is the time to
spread and strengthen the I'M
ion. Best procedure is new
subscribers and new bundle
orders for this paper, the
Voice of Action, official organ
of the Fishermen and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17

NlgllanteS recently, IneSe are
some of the Instructions given t.
Nigilantes in the four page bull
Ctin:
Temper your severity to suit
the occasion and if forced to
fight, don't forget that nothing
so swiftly sickens a mob OF its
course than brutal, stomach
wrenching, soul-sickening bru-
tally swiftly, fearlessly and ju-
diciously applied"
Ignorant tools OF the master
class, these gunner and thug,
whip up their 100 per cent Am
crican" courage through nslruc.
tiOns on how to protect the
home against the Reds"
1T would be we'll to provide
canned foods and arms for your
family, and to arrange for them
to stay in company with the
families of other members of
your unit. Plan with your wife
OF parents for a place of meet.
ing in case your home is de.
stroyed or impossible to reach"
BOlstering their fear and hat
red of a militant working class
by reading these lies. Nigilantes
are now prepared to learn how to
shoot, main, murder and gas the
rising demonstrations of jobless
and shaving workers against hun
ger, war and faSciSm:
"TR EATMENT OF CROWDS:
A crowd is a potential mob. The
best time to stop u fight is be
fore it starts. Don't tempOriZe,
don't harrangue, don't reason
with them don't buster, don't
argue. don't answer back don't
let your men be surrounded nor
left without an avenue of with
draWal, don't bite off more than
you can chew, don't plunge into
the heart of crowd for indiVidu-
al arrests unless your force is
strong and the crowd is covered
by your riflcmcn from n superior
altitude.
"Remember that the agitators
do more showing from the rear
than leading from the front; new
err neglect an opportunity to i'm
prove the potential effect of your
fire by posting men on roof tops
and second story windows, but
don't weaken your force too
much by division of your
strength.
Don't forget that women are
aligned with the enemy, they
are apt to be in the front rank
of mob and are prone to be
the most hySterical and the
most abusive. Ignore them un-
less they imperil your men or
your mission and then treat
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
TheFRONT
LINE ALAN ny MAX
Was the Strike
A Failure?

Yes, says William Green, it
certainly was.
Yes, echo the ALL bureau
Gratis within the liza, from Ry-
an down, it was great !iascO.
These same gentlemen stab
bed the strikers i'll the back,
signed secret sell.out pacts,
whipped up the red scare,
smashed the general strike in
San Francisco, committed be-
trayal after betrayal, yet
IN SPITE OF TIL Ell r
TREACHERY THE STRIKE
WAS NOT A FAlLUR RE!
At the beginning of the
strike. the shipOwners refused
to deal with the marine unions
as a group. hey fear nothing
more than the solidarity of
lOngshOremen and SeamCn. For
years they had managed TO
keep them apart with the help
of the rotten ALL OfficialdOm.
During the first few days of the
strike, ISL firemeu Obeying or
derS of their corrupt leaders,
supplied steam to Scab long
ShOremen. 1t was the Seamcn
coming out on strike under the
Marine Workers Industrial Tn
ion, that forced the ISL Offic-
ials to issue a strike call.
Time after time during the
course of the strike, the ship
owners tried to split the unity
of lOngShOremen themselves
and through their agent Ryan,
they unanswered FOR separate
port agreements. In this way
they hoped to clip the north
west from the rest of the coast
for once and for all Later they
houib hlINt al dutltI'lldl
wedge between the lOngShOre-
men and the seamen.
But in spite of the sell-outs
by the bureaucrats, the ship
owners were unable to get the
men back to work without Of
fering to deal with all the strik-
ers! This was a genuine partial
victory wrenched from the ship
owners who were determined to
SMASH THE UNIONS!
In addition there is every
possibility that the arbitration
board will be forced to give the
strikers a small wage increase.
Not that the members of the
board are "impartiaT and want
to give the strikers what is
coming to them. Not at all. In
fact, before the general strike
in San Francisco, there was no
mention of wage increase. But
Immediately afterwards, the
ShipOWners announced that
wages would probably 90 up
and even used this as an excuse
for boosting shipping rates.
If such an increase comes, it
will be the direct result of the
months of struggle kept up by
the strikers until the great be-
trayal of the general strike in
San Francisco.
1T is the job of those who are
paid by the employers to pre-
vent strikes, to crow that the
strike was failure.
In spite of them definite
gains were made.
And if the strikers had been
able to sweep them aside en-
tirely, the strike would have
been complete success, in
spite of the terror organized by
the government.
The strikers were able to
carry on only to the extent that
they could smash through the
bureaucracy and establish indie
pendent rank and file strike
leadership.
The lesson is clear. 1t is not.
as the bureaucrats suggest, to
mourn over the "rashness" of
the last strike and next time
think twice before taking ac-
ton. The lesson is, by building
rank and file control of the To-
cal unions, to smash the bu-
rpalIpratS fnraVar
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ed opposition, and against his
vigorous defense of the strike
breaking Wagner bill, although
II am not familiar with either
BILL" he frankly told local
members.
Resolutions backing the I'm.
employment insurance bill were
voted to be sent to Roosevelt
and Congressional Representa-
tives and Senators.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
PAYRoLLs DECLINE, SAYS
FEDERAL BOARD

WASHINGTON - Industrial
production and factory payrolls
declined during June, the Federal
Reserve Board reported recently
In Its monthly survey of business.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
UCL Local Hits Smith

SEATTLE, Aug. 16-Greenlake
Local, UCL, recently passed a res
olution condemning the "atti-
tude Mayor Smith and the police
showed during the lOngshore.
mems strike"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17

ENERETT, Aug. l6-The Ev-
erett Local No %, of the Fisher
men and Cannery Workers In
duStrial Union, voted unani-
mOUsly to issue a declaration of
strike in support of the striking
purSC-SCinCrS.
At IA special meeting the can
merry workers employed in the
Fishcrmcn's Packing Corporation
plant here. whose $4,000 a year
general manager is the j. c. Nor
ris who attempted to disrupt the
strike meeting at AnacOrteS, and
who is largely responsible for the
price cutting which brought on
the strike. drew up the following
night letter to the Fishermen
Strike Committee at AnacOrtes:
Strike Vote Unanimous
Everett Local No. Is, Fisher
men and Cannery Workers In
dustrial Union, votes unanimous
ly for declaration of strike in
support Of fishermen. VIII take
necessary steps to prevent the
handling of scab fish. Wire fur
thcr instruction"
This action of the cannery
workers of Everett brought re-
.newed determination to the
striking fishermen. 1t also raised
the level of industrial uniOnism
by bringing the fiSheremn and
cannCry workers under the head
of "OnC union for one industry"
Discrimination Query Raised
Conrad ESpe, Organizer of the
Everett Local, had already taken
up with the AnacOrtes strike
committee the question of dis
elimination of the union help in
the cannery and for the demand
that the union help be the first
to go back to work when the
strike was settled.
The strike committee took
the matter up and sent a tele-
gram to the Fishermens Pack
ing Corporation at Everett,
stating the demands and max
ing it understood they would
be backed by the necessary &C.
ton.
Union Raises Wages
The FCWIU, organized in the
canncry here during the oyster
canning season, forced an in
crease in wages from 8 cents a
can to "A cents a can. In this
cannery at the present time the
wages are higher than in others
on Puget Sound.
FCWIU Local No. rs, Everett
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
TROOPS KILL FARMERS

CORK, Irish Free State, Aug.
1G-One farmer was killed and Is
wounded when troops attacked
a demonstration here of 5000
gathered to protest a tax sale.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
SOUND FISHERMEN win union RECOGNITION
Vigildntes Issue Bulletin
To MurderAnd TerrOrize

Proof that the American Viglantes digging for hard
winter and completing elaborate fascist preparations
tnue by murder and violence the attempt
strike crush the American working
this week bulletin instructions issued to
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
AL Painters Union Rejects Doyle In
Election For Building Trades Council

SEATTLE, Aug 6-Chares Doyle AFL Council bI-
eaucra last week overwhelmingly defeated by the rank and
file of his local. Painters No. % the locals
election Building delegate Doys reputation his
rank and file, clearly Doyes
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
FRISCO FAsCISTs FUME

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug IS --
State American Legion Conven-
tiOn here calls for death penalty
for Communist activity.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17

Workers: Raise funds for ap-
peal of Herndon and Scottsboro
cases to Supreme Court.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
Fishermen and Cdnnery
Workers. Mdust. Union
Leads Way to Victory!

ANACORTES Wash Aug Is After days of striking
against the most drastic price cut known in the history OF the
fishing industry SOCkcyS from 90 10 and 30 cents
decided their strike Sunday
They price sockeyes
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
KIDS WIN VOICE PRIZE

SEATTLE, Aug. 10 Pioneer
Camp kids win news story prize
details on page four.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-17
SUPPORT OF EVERETT FISH
CANNERY WORKERS
AIDS FIGHT
Special Wire to the Voice of
Action

EVERETT, Wash, Aug. l6 -
FishcrmenS Packing Corporation
here is using discrimination
against active union members
since the cannery opened yes
terduy morning.
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STREET CAR

RERoUTING THROWS ONE.
HUNDRED SEATTLE MEN
OUT OF WORK - Page Four
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Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
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Bare Vigilantes' Plans For Massacre!
PROTEST

JAILING OF WORKERS IN
PORTLAND ON CHARG
OF CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-08
STATE TOWN
BOOMS AGAIN
Repeal Brings Prosperity to
LaWrenceburg; Only
Two Unemployed.
BU Times Special

BIZ Times Special
LAWRENCEBURG, Ind, March
8.-The snarling, leanribbed wolf
of depression has turned regretfully
away from this Indiana town of
1000 inhabitants on the Ohio river.
Just two fellows on relief now,"
exultantly exclaims William F. Ritz
mann, city auditor. And both of
them are too i'll to work. 1 haven't
written check for city relief all
winter
Merely a ghost less than year
ago, struggling vainly to live. her
industries deserted plants throw
ing additional unemployment and
their families upon meager relief
fund, now there is not an able
bodied man in town, willing to work,
who hasn't a job.
AS state after state thundered out
"ayes" for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. the lifeblood began to
flow back into anemic Lawrence
burg.
Promise of greater prosperity
than the town ever has known was
forecast in the shadow of repeal
The prodigal son. whisky, has re-
turned and with it halcyon days.
Joseph Seagram 61 Sons, Inc. an
affiliate of the Seagram Distillery
of Canada, and the Old Quaker Dis
tillery, division of the Schenley
Corporation, are working full time
in Greendale, next door to Law
renceburg. Another distilling plant
is planned.
The Lawrenceburg Roller Mills,
largest in southeastern Indiana, the
saw works, the veneer plant and
local merchants have become in
fected with the enthusiasm of pros
perity and have added employees.
Construction has doomed and
capital running into seven figures
will be spent building warehouses,
rectifying and bottling plants and
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