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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
School Teachers Plan
Fiqht on RetrenchMlent

ganized and non-aggressive,
was killed at birth years ago
by a reactionary school board
successfully attempting to ter
rorize teachers with q yellow
dog contract.
Tax levy measures were car
ried in 21 out of % counties, but
the statewide legislation was
lost in the four dissenting bOur-
oughs. This would have slapped
an additional tax on the small
home owner and left the bosses
free as usual.
The revenue loss in King
county will be met by appropri.
ating 100000 from the school
bond redemption fund, thus cut
ting into the bankers "swag"
and by laying off all teachers an
extra week at Christmas vaca-
ton.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Anti Var Farley Opens
CONTINUED from Page One,

oworkers in the Party a program
on which they can unite with
other opponents OF war and fas-
cism.
I'VE Communists realize that
politically we are far apart from
some of those present here to-
night. But we are confident that
in the heat of the battle into
which we have thrown ourselves,
it will become increasingly evid-
ent that America faces one OF
two alternatives: Communism Or
Fascism."
USSR VS.. Germany
The choice, we are sure, will
be simple to make. Fascism is
exemplified in Hitler Germany,
where all elementary human
rights and laudable human vir-
tues have been destroyed by the
bloody tools of German indust-
rialists. Communism, as we see it
in the Soviet Union, is building
a society in which the workers
are coming to realize economic
liberty and real cultural advance
ment is taking place"
Other notables on the program
were Mother Ella Reeve Bloor,
74-year-old militant; DR.. Kurt
Rosenfeld, German exile who APP
peared in Seattle on a speaking
tour recently; Waldo McNutt,
Kansas City YMCA; II. r. Amlie,
ex Farmer Labor Congressman
from Wisconsin; Samuel Patter-
son, League for Struggle for Ne
gro Rights; Harold Hickerson,
Workers Ex-Servicemens League;
General Victor A. Yakhontoff, ex-
general in the Czarist Imperial
army and now a stalwart support
or of the Soviet Union, and Louis
Werlich of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Parole Board Double
Crosses KOminSki

SEATTLE, Oct. A. Breaking
faith with the defense campaign
for William Kominski. imprison-
ed eviction fighter, the parole
board has decreed he must serve
full sentence, it was learned to-
day. Parole board officials had
definitely promised a defense
committee Komlnski's release.
The International Labor De
Tense received the following let
ter: Washington State Peniten-
tiary, Walla Walla, Octr. 2. 1894,
Dear Sir: In answer to your in
quiry of Sept. 18th. addressed to
Mr.. Garfield Davis, l desire to
state that the parole board at it's
meeting held here Sept. 9th last,
was of the opinion that it could
not consistently request the Gov
ernor to commit the sentence of
William Kominski. Very truly
yours, p. f. Mahoney, Secretary"
Protest to Martin
The lid points out that KO-
minski's freedom now rests in the
hands of the Governor, who has
the authority to pardon without
any recommendations from the
board. The LID asks that all indi-
viduals and organizations sup
port the defense of the last of
the Frandsen Eviction Fighters
by sending letters and resolu-
tiOns to Governor Clarence ID.
Martin. demanding freedom for
Bill Kominski.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
BY Hackfield Thomas

SEATTLE. Oct. 4-Losing of
the three-mlll school tax levy
election last week was greeted
with mixed emotions by Seattle
grade and high school teachers.
To all of them 1t meant pa per
cent wage slash, to a class con-
scious minority it marked the
beginning OF an organized, milit-
ant fight into which all teachers
will be drawn to save education
from further suffocation by a
dying capitalism.
Plans are being laid to or
ganize a Seattle teachers un-
ion to maintain present sal
aries-already cut rs per cent
and retain and enlarge upon
present academic freedom.
The first union, poorly or
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05


ship owners to wait for the re-
suits of the West Coast arbitra-
ton. This was only maneuver
to stab the strike in the back,
and also trying to create illusions
In the minds of lOngshoremen
that arbitration will take care of
your demands.
AT the same time. the ship
owners recognizing that IA strike
on the East Coast will force the
West Coast arbitration board to
grant concessions, they offered
Is cents an hour in order to make
it easier for the Ryans and Lew
is and the rest of the finks to
sell out, and to make the long
shoremen accept the present So
cent scale.
''The East Coast ISL leaders
are following the footsteps of
their brothers. Scharenberg, Fur
seth and Gill and many others,
who tried all through the West
Coast strike to break the unity
of the longshoremen and sea
M en-, constantly maneuvering
how to sell out, and send the
seamen back to work.
although ISU misleaders
issued call for an East Coast
strike on October 8, the finks
have already called it off, thus
trying to force the seamen of the
East Coast to work under the
same rotten conditions and the
same fink halls. In Seattle the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Front Line
Continued from Page One)

unite its economic strength and
go out on the strike field to
enforce these tribunals"
What are the tribunals that
Green wants to battle for on
the strike field? They are the
MIRA boards that have smash
ed every major strike in the
past yearl
And then Green goes on to
say of the strike-breaker
Roosevelt: Labor and the
president speak the same Ian
guage. They have the same
thoughts"
Labor and the President do
not speak the same language.
But labor misleaders and the
President dol
Here is the united front of
Roosevelt, AFL leadership, So
cialist Party leadership. 1t is Of
ten concealed with tricky man.
euvres, but it stands as the
front line defense of the cap
italists against the working
class.
1t must be met by a growing
united front of the workers
within the ALL, regardless of
party affiliation-to GUST the
union misleaders and to build
up rank and file control.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05

CENTRALIA, Wash, Oct. A.
II. p. Huff, who is nominee for
County Commissioner in Lewis
County ON the Communist ticket,
has received notice to appear in
Judge Studebaker's court to an
swer an eviction charge.
The judge refused to hear a
committee of Relief Workers
Protective Association members
who went to protest against the
Huff eviction. Aseertaining the
names of the workers, the judge
Immediately accused certai n
ones of participating in the Aust
demonstration, and ordered the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Workers Threaten
Textile Re-StrikeS

THE total locked out in South
ern states reaches $4,000. accord
ing to latest press reports.
Lockouts and blacklisting
have done much among textile
workers to smash faith in the
Gorman-Green misleadership of
the United Textile Workers and
in Roosevelt.
Strikers who were ordered to
return to work without winning
single concession are now at
the mercy OF special board ap-
pointed by Roosevelt, consisting
of a Chicago lawyer, Southern
supreme court justice and an ex-
navy admiral.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Stop Shipping!

ISU misleaders have gone on re-
cord not to support the East
Coast seamen's strike instruct
ing their membership that they
have nothing to do with the
strike since they are under ar
filtration.
1T was the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union which called up
on the West Coast seamen To
come out in solidarity with the
longshoremen, raised their own
demands for the seamen, to
build one united front of all mar
thine workers, who exposed the
Scharenbergs, the Furseths and
the Ryans, and stopped the be-
trayal Matched by the misleaders
and the ship owners.
The Marine Workers Indust-
rial Union called the unity con-
ference in Baltimore on Sept. IL,
for the purpose of formulating
uniform demands for all seamen
and longshoremen in the United
States. This conference was the
rallying point for the East Coast
seamen and the longshoremen
for united action, and the be-
trayers of the ISL and LILA are
stabbing in the back this united
militant front organized by the
MWIU.
THE Marine Workers Indust-
rial Union has issued a strike call
for October s, organized a United
Front Committee. Proceeding
with Strike preparations. Twen-
ty thousand seamen are welded
in one united front, proceeding
with strike action. Twelve hun
dred seamen in the city of New
York met in front of the ISU
hall denouncing the sell-out, and
pledging to support the United
Front Action Committee.
The Communist Party is the
only working class party which
helped to organize the West
Coast strike, constantly exposed
the betrayals of the takers, call
ing upon the workers to build
rank and file strike committees
to embrace all unions, and to
GUST the takers out of their
ranks. We call on the longshOre.
men and seamen of the North
west ports to support the East
Coast strike, to refuse to handle
scab cargo, and send solidarity
greetings to the East Coast
longsh0remen and seamen, de-
mand Immediate removal of Ry-
an. Lewis. and the rest of the
betrayers in your ranks. Demand
the Immediate results from the
arbitration board. Prepare for
struggle to demand from the ar
bitration board your original de.
mands.
Build the Waterfront Fedora.
ti0n of all maritime unions. For.
ward for one national agreement
and a national Rank and File
Controlled Union"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Co. Welfare Must
Cdre6rChiLdren

ABERDEEN, Wash. Oct. A.
The health of children in Grays
Harbor county is greatly endan-
gered by bad tonsils.
A girl Z years OF age has had
a serious case of rheumatism
because the welfare refused to
have a doctor take her tonsils
out. A boy II years old is getting
deaf for the same reason.
These are only two examples.
The FERA is supposed to guar
antee through the local welfare
office free meIieal and dental
attention for alt the unemployed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Coop Gives SIS
To Campaign Fund

ASTORIA, Ore, Oct. En-
dOrsing the workers candidates
running on the independent
ticket with the slogan "Commun-
ism Against Ease is H." the
Youngs Bay Cooperative Dairy
at its regular monthly meeting
voted SIS toward the election
fund.
Other matters taker up were
the appointment of a committee
for the CoOperaterS wall news
paper, which appears once a
month, new committee putting
it out each time, the reading of
Il protest demandinr release of
Oscar Mannisto.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05

BROCKON, Mass, Oct. 4EOne
thousand students of the local
high school struck last week
against half hour extension OF
the school day, which prevented
them from earning money after
school hours. Some demands
were won, such as preventing a
scheduled decrease in lunch hour
and the granting of study per-
iods in each school hour.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
JoBLESS DEFY COPS

NEW YORK, Oct. 412,000 I'M
employed, after massing in I'm
ion Square, marched on City
Hall demanding decent relief of
Mayor LaGuardia, who ear-marks
one-third of the city budget
each year (162 million dollars to
flow into the Golfers of the bank
ers).'
The police had refused to
grant permission for this march,
but were powerless TO prevent
the demonstration once it got in
to action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Celebrate Communist
Party's Anniversary

SEATTLE, Oct. LCelebration
of the American Communist Par
tvs 18th anniversary will be held
8 p. m. October 20 at the IOGT
hall, under auspices OF the down.
town section, Communist Party.
Entertainment Will include
speakers, dancing and a rattle.
All proceeds will be turned over
to the Daily Worker drive and
the election campaign.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
lid DEMANDS IMPEACHMENT
OF r. I. GOVERNOR

NEW YORK, Oct. LThe i'm
parchment of Governor Theodore
F. Green of Rhode Island for the
misuse of his executive powers
to promote profits of his own tex
tile mills and of the textile in
dustry in Rhode Island by calling
troops to break the textile strike
was demanded in a wire to the
Rhode Island State Legislature
by the international Labor De-
tense last week.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
DISCUSS WHIPPING POST

SEATTLE, Oct. A Members
of the Washington Bar Associ-
alton are voting this week on
the question: Shall the whip
ping post be established in
Washington? The question has
become of sufficient interest to
a debate before the as
ISOLATION.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05

NEW YORK. Oct. A tre-
mendous wave of resentment
against the textile strike betray-
al has swept the strike area
since Germans orders to return
to work.
Re-strikes doomed throughout
Massachusetts, and in the South
where thousands of blackllsted
strikers continued picketing.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
UssR DELEGATE SPEAKS

TACOMA, Oct. Fresh from
the Soviet Union, where he went
as a delegate, Robert d. Minor,
Baltimore longshoremen, now
touring the country under the
auspices of the Friends of the
Soviet Union, will speak at
Eagles Hall here, October 9, at
s p. m.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
COMMUNIST COMMISSIONER
CANDIDATES ARE POPULAR

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, Oct.
4 Much favorable sentiment ex-
lists among the workers here for
the Communist candidates for
County Commissioners. Several
thousand local programs are be-
ing distributed and affairs are
being organized to popularize
the program.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
ENDORSE INITIATIVE 4

ROSLYN, Wash, Oct. 1.-The
Unemployed Citizens and Tax
payers League here, has endors-
ed the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, HR 1898 and Ini-
tiative 4. They are confident they
will get their full quota of 1000
for the petitions on
4.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Here's More on
Convention
Continued from Page One)

NAOllllllutd llOiil uBC INV
William Green. In contrast to the
Roosevelt poster his face was
frozen in such a sour look that
one might have supposed that
he had just spotted rank and
file delegate in the convention.
Twelve movie cameras lined the
sides of the hall. Press men took
flashlights from every conceivable
position.
Entertainment All-Important
John O'Connor of the San Fran
cisco Central Labor Council was
introduced as the first speaker
with an important matter to
bring before the convention. We
all sat forward to listen carefully.
This important matter turned
out to be an announcement of
the entertainment committee.
The sightseeing trips, boxing
matches, boat excursions, ETC., ar
ranged for the amusement of the
delegates. Significantly, most of
this entertainment was to be
conducted while the convention
is in session and supposedly en-
acting important business. | be-
lieve that this was the only
speech that gained the undivided
attention of the delegates during
the entire session. He ended with
this much applauded remark: IF
any of you boys need any spirit
uaP entertainment, see me and
I'll take care of you"
No Struggles Reported
The next speaker was Paul
Sharrenberg, secretary of the Cal
ifornia State Federation of La
Dor. He spent Is minutes discuss
ing California state labor history.
He said that the principal OBJ
jective of the California state or
ganization now was and had al
ways been to keep California a
white mans country. He pointed
out that their many successes in
this direction but made not
single mention of any struggle
with employers. From his speech
one would have been led to be-
lieve that in California the state
AFL organization has been very
successfully doubling for the Ku
Klux Khan.
of Longshoremen Talks
The third speaker was Angelo
X. Rossi. bloody mayor of San
Francisco. Instead of Kisses, the
whole convention rose to their
feet to salute the erstwhile muir
derer of the embarcadero. His
speech was devoted entirely to
the splendid American spirit of
San Francisco employers. He
dwelt on how friendly had always
been the relations of San Fran
cisco employers toward union la
Dor. And still there were no hiss
es or boOing at a labor conven-
ton in a city which had buried
its murdered longshOreman only
a few weeks before. Mayor Rossi
ended his speech with a tribute
to Franklin d. Roosevelt which
brought cheers from the conven-
ton.
Green Again Attacks Miiltants
President William Green adj
dressed the convention and the
radio audience. He talked for 80
minutes and said nothing. While
the radio hook-up was on, he
talked on the objects of the con-
vention and the policies they
were working for. AS soon as the
radio hook-up was off, he took up
the things the American Fedora
ton stood opposed to, Number
one was Communism. Number
two was radicalism and the reds.
Number 3 was Communism again,
etc.
The rest of the session was
devoted to routine business ap-
pointing of committees, etc.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
to Evict
Centralia Leader

entire committee out. threaten
ing to lock them up.
The same judge is the man be-
fore whom the riot case growing
out of the Aust demonstration
will be tried, involving Huff, Le-
Baron, Niedfelt and Setosky, all
militant workers of Centralia.
Protests must continue To pour
in upon this fascist judge.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
2 New Unemployment
Council Locals Meet

SEATTLE, Oct. 4 South
Parks first Unemployment
Council meeting was called on
Thursday at 1882 Elmsgrove with
IL neighbors and their families
attending. Officers were elected
and a committee voted to find
meeting hall, renting one at
701 ClOverdale street.
Rainier Beach also is starting
an Unemployment Council, and
is calling a mass meeting at Du-
dale Hall, p. IN. Monday.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
DANCE FOR DAILY"

A dance will be given Satur-
day, October 10, at the Finnish
Hall, Ninth and Yesler, Seattle,
by Unit 10 of he Communist
Party to raise funds for the
Daily Worker.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
RAISE $40 FOR DAILY"

SPOKANE, Oct. 4Baeking it's
challenge to Tacoma in the Daily
Worker drive with definite ac-
ton, Spokane section already has
500 of it's $50 quota raised.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
NEW UFL LOCAL FORMED

EDMONDS, Wash, Oct. A.
With headquarters at Maple
wood, the United Farm Ell $
League has established a local
here. Under UFL auspices, a card
party will be held at Seattle
Heights Civic Club, Oct. 6, 8 p. m.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05

LINCOLN, Neb.. Oct. Another
Bloor and six others have been
convicted on charges of "disor-
DERBY conduct" and 'inciting to
riot" for aiding the chicken
pluckers In their recent strike.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
THOSE "UNcHRIsTIAN"
RUSSIANS

TOKYO, Sept. 27-The Japan
ese Red Cross has received a ty-
phoon relief gift of 100000 yen
from the Soviet Red Cross.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05

Support Initiative N. 4.
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Address UCL

Continued from Page Onel
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-05
Sedmen Defy
LSU Leaders

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lid Hits Arrests
Continued from Page One)

politicians Uttered the streets
with leaflets without being ar
rested.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-11-16
OPEN THE MARKETS

i IS becoming increasingly evident
that restoration Of markets for his pro-
diets 5 the outstanding hope of the
American farmer. AS Dean Curtis of Iowa
State College recently declared:
The ultimate solution OF our agri-
cultural problems viii be found. not in
eurtailnaenf. but In expansion. The word
has never been surfeited with production
beyond human needs. What the farmers
want are markets that will afford fair re-
turns for the husbandman and moderate
living costs for those who toll in other in
dustries. We win have these markets
when labor IS fully employed at fair
wages. and foreign trade IS restored. By
reducing instead of increasing production
costs
similar view was expressed nearly
two years ago by the Grain Committee on
National Affairs. which pointed out that
We can not increase consumption by max
ing things dearer. substantial firm in
recent investment bulletin likewise de-
clared:
Reducing domestic products of the
land to increase market prices at home
stimulates foreign production at lower
cost and thereby robs us of our export
markets and trade"
Whatever may be the effect of tenn
porary governmental measures intended
to benefit the farmer. the fact remains that
no permanent recovery for agriculture can
be expected until artificial restrictions on
production are removed, and time-tried
marketing agencies are permitted to func-
ton without oppressive legislative inter-
ference.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-11-16

There are some people on our
island Who. once started. are IN
able - stop themselves in their
impetus for pleasure seeking.
This ) their own affair. But,
xhen they chnose On their return
home Ar any hour Of the night on
morning 70 announce their hilarity
b turning their radios on full
blast. this becomes the affair OF
their neighbeEs.
Is i 70 De wondered that these
revelers become the objects Of
unpfintahle eiaeula6onss Fer.
believe Il or not, there are some
islanders who earn their sleep.
And there are Others who per-
hzps had not planned 10 get mp
for breakfast at dawn. And we
win have many visitors this year
who win be Interested ia rest
rest with a capital r.
Il an nneartl,ly loud speaker
breaks our nights sleep. or a
shout under our window awakens
Us. or a harsh foot Of a horn. or
the racing of a car without a
proper muffier. We cannot call
these things a prison offence.
We cannot eaforee legally our
right to peace.
Bot re can become. especially
now that We have not only our
nelghhors 10 consider. hut many
out-af-town visitors who have
come here in search Of repose.
noise conscious. This does not
mean that we must be cranks. Il
just means that we must become
imbued with respect for quiet
that viii awaken some loyalty 70
the unwritten laws of neizhborly
courtesy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-11-16
: school,. PROBLEM

Earnesz educators throughout the
United States are giving serious thought 70
. reform a curricuIa. with = view to bet
Ter adapting them to the needs Of the
present-day student No current question
deserves more thoughtful consideration.
It's no reflection upon our educational
leaders that present methods are proving
Inadequate 70 the demands Of the times.
With the ever-inereasing store Of available
knowledge. i becomes mere and more DIFF
ficalt to choose that which should be
taught IN the limited tine that can be
given 70 formal education BY the average
student.
Bat the problem Is not new As far
back - 175s the prevailing system of
education IN England came IN for drastic
criticism BY Thomas Sheridan. who labored
with little success for its reform
Sheridan eontended that the estab-
hshed system OF that day did not fit the
young for their duties IN hfes that it was
uniform for al and profitable for none.
Re also stressed the importance OF impart-
ing better knowledge OF the English Ian
guage-
The latter point. 1t least, might well
be taken 70 heart today. 1t would be a
great step forward Il our children might
emerge from high school with reasonable
acquaintanee with their mother tongue.