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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Withdraw Former AfiliatiOn To
National Unemployment Council

SEATTLE.-At the Monday
night meeting of the Ballard
North local of the Unemployed
Citizens League, reactionary
group passing through IN e
executive board got over a
motion to rescind the locals
former action in connection
with utilization with the I'm
employment Council. This al
filiatiOn was passed at a pre-.
vious meeting with vote of
20 to /.
The TeactiOnary group intro
duced a petition purpOrting to
cOntai in these twenty-nine
names for the purpose OF re-
scinding this action.
This caused considerable dis
Eruption and was held in abey'
ance until the executive board
report was made last night.
The report asked ,nat the for
mer action be recOnsidered. A
motion was made to concur in
the board report. A motion
was then made which made it
impossible for discussion. The
motion carried, forcing the
UCL to rescind its utilization
with the NC
The motion was then made
to call the local the Ballard
North local of the Unemployed
Citizens League, Unaffiliatcd.
The control is old time reac-
tiOnary politicians who are ap-
parently attempting to control
the hall and start a political
Setup for the November cleo
lions.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29

Union. made a militant sound
ing speech in support of the
strikers but when the question
of the general strike came up
he kept silent.
A committee from the I'm
employed Citizens ague
asked for the floor to talk of
the strike and was refused by
the chairman. But after the
committee got in touch with a
delegate the motion was made
and carried to give them the
floor.
UCL for Strike
Murray of the UCL took the
floor and stated that the UCL
is giving all their support
towards winning the strike and
demanded that the council 60
on record for a general strike.
A motion was made to con-
cur in the request of the UCL
but was again sabOtaged by
the chairman.
A rank and file worker got
up and said, This is only my
second meeting as delegate to
Central Labor Council, but it
looks to me like there is a
clique running this place"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
PROFESSOR EXPOSED

TACOMA.-R. +. TOmlinsOn,
professor of German at the Col,
lege of Puget Sound, who
poses as champion of de-
mOcracy, was exposed as a
friend of Fascism at a meeting
of the Junior Progressive Club
here Friday, June %.
He spoke in admiring tones
of Hitler's strong leadership"
said he was doing something
for the country" ana mentioned
thigh ideals" Other statements
were similarly vague and
equally dangerous.
Taking a social-demOcratic po-
sitiOn, he quoted TrOtsky, no.
tOriOus enemy of Communism
and the working class, as an
authority to prove that the
Communist Party of Germany
should have, first, voted for
Hindenburg aolng with the yell
low sOcial-demOcra;s, and, sec
Ond, staged an armed insurrec-
ton at the time of Hitler's
coming to power. He insulted
Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned
leader of the German workers,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29

missioner johnson granted the
Auditorium earlier in the week.
Thirty-siX hours before tn @
meeting a police officer from
message from the ROslyn
miner-strikers under the spOn-
sOrship of the YCL City-COm-
City Hall called to inform H..
HUFF who had charge of the
reception, that by order of Mayor
Nugent the hall would be de
MED.
Immediate action evinced the
fact that city commissioners had
no objection to the mass meet
ing before which tn miners
were appearing. Appeals to the
Mayor disclosed that he OBJ
iected to handbills used to pub
licize the ROslyn speakers. The
mayor asserted that the bills
were isued contrary to law. He
vehemently denied the terrorist
tactics of mine owners and CON-
blamed that there had been
10 murder in ROslyn."
Informed by the committee OF
protest of the facts and told
that identical handbills had
been distributed in other cities
without interference the Mayor
began a clubbing retreat.
Nugent alleged that no per-
NIT had been obtained for the
meeting though proper arrange.
ments were completed long in
advance of the date planned.
Pinned down at last, he said
of the revocation of permits
sion 1T is MY decision and
anyhow | will have nothing to
do with Communists"
Mayor Nugent makes a fire.
quent boast of being elected
by the workers and aspires to
run for Senator as a represen-
tative of the labOring classes.
In this case he was much ag-
gxrieved because no member of
the Labor Council was called in
to appeal to him. When he
was told his latest action would
align him against the workers
he accepted the challenge.
Workers, realizing that t h e
Communist Party is their only
militant defense, viii remember
his defiance of the city com
missioners and the working
class and Il viii have nothing
to do with Communists At
the next elections workers will
remember-and they win have
nothing to do with Nugent.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
DANGER
An Editorial.


All unemployed mu st
rally to crush the menace
arising in North Ballard 10
cal of the Unemployed Citi-
zens' League.
Time after time anti
working class elements have
attempted to split and
weaken the unemployed
movement. In the sixteen
months that the UCL has
followed militant leadership,
These attempts have each
time failed.
But they never tire. This
time they center their at
tack on a local that has led
many struggles of the I'M
employed.
That makes even more nee
essary their overthrow.
All homes unemployed
workers in the North Bal
lard district should rally
now to throw out the reac-
tionaries and save their Or
ganiZation.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
continued from page
HUDSON ASKS UNITY

the AFL bosses work for the boss
er, same as they are here. You
don't see that except if you read
the Daily Worker. or in Seattle
The Voice of Action. But it's a
fact. The same sabotage from the
guard, the same efforts to smash
the strike from inside that the
boys here are up against. Opera
tors are using real unity among
the workers all over the country
this time. We're fighting to win
and we will. But we've got to
fight sOlidly and keep fighting.
First thing to do is organize
central strike committees in
every port. Take the example
of San Francisco. Down there in
spite of all the AFL and lila and
ISU opposition the strikers con-
centrated their forces under one
committee to take full charge. |
want to emphasize the need to
do this. It's the only way in Sc
attic we can stop them working
ships at Pier 40 with sc&b labor
by rallying all workers.
We must unite all unions to
see the chance they have for
helping themselves and the ma
rine workers by general strike
action. 1t will advance the cause
of union labor and the class
struggle a hundred years if we
can do it. And we will. We've
got to.
The question of nationwide
action is being discussed every
where, | found on my trip out
here. At the solidarity confer
ence in Everett Monday morning
Local 1915 raised the roof with
enthusiasm and they're working
for it from now on. The same aft
ernOOn an assembly of 1900 work
crs outside the Seattle ArmOry
showed the same spirit.
In response to the voice of the
rank and file we're holding a
national conference in Baltimore
September / and 2. That means
every worker must help to keep
the ball rolling. A district con-
ference of the WMIU is called
for July q and % at Portland.
Rank and file delegates from the
locals of the LILA and ISU are
invited to elect fraternal dele
gates.
Recent strike developments
will be reviewed and plans set
for further cOast-wide action to
relate the bonds of solidarity
closer together. At the same
time plans for consolidating the
work of local unions and pushing
the campaign will be made.
It's up to every man now to
fight and fight hard. First it's
"On to Portland" and after that
"On to Baltimore" and a united
front of all marine unions every
where in the country!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Finnish Workers
Raise $1O1 For
Marine Strikers

ASTORIA, Ore. - The Oregon
National Guard, scheduled to
wind up summer training at
Camp ClatsOp Monday, may be
held another week due to the
waterfront strike. This was pro-
posed, it was explained, partly
to keep the guard modified in
case of a major outbreak and
partly to keep guardsmen away
from the strike area" Officers
seem to be afraid the guard
would be harder to control once
they dispense.
This information comes from
major on the staff.
Incidentally, the guard held a
more powerful demonstration
this year than ever before.
In six weeks prior to mObiliza-
ton $4,000 was spent on the
camp, which is situated on the
sand dunes along the ocean west
of Astoria.
The strike situation is quiet
here. A few ships, empty, have
gone upriver the past week. None
have come down. Two weeks
ago, passengers were transferred
to States Line ship in mid
stream. Sympathy generally is
with the strike.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29

PORTLAND DEMONSTRATION

fered although the county sher-
if closeted himself with the re-
lief officials while the commit
tee was being heard. At first
the relief heads were unwilling
to see a committee of 10, de-
claring that a committee of such
size was directly against the
rules. Upon seeing the masses
gathered in the corridors, how.
ever, the rules" were promptly
forgotten and the entire COM
mittee was seen.
Present United Front
Although many significant
cases were won by the militant
masses of unemployed a few
were lost and this, according to
N. A. Mackrill of the Multno-
nah County Federation of I'm
employed, will continue to be
the ease until the whole of the
county is organized and a great
er and more extensive demon
stratiOn can be held. The Or
ganizatiOn, affiliate members Of
the NJ. G. F. U. participating in
the demonstration, were the
Civic Emergency Federation,
Unemployment Councils and
Unemployed Citizens League.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Turn Strike Protest
To Political Racket
BY Garland Andrews

SEATTLE. 1t was DCma-
gogues' Night at the Eagles Au,
ditOrium Monday.
The scheduled strike meeting,
called by the Seattle Church of
the People, was converted into
political side-shOw by Social
Fascist OppOrtuniSts, who saw in
the gathering a chance to build
themselves in the eyes of the
Northwest labor movement.
One thousand two hundred
people who jammed the audi
forum to hear Il discussion of
the strike were treated to a first
class exhibition of drmagOgic
acrObaticS. as such notorious
careeriSts AZ NJ. VI. London. Coun-
Gilman Frank Fits and Council
man Roy Misemcr paradrd their
Wcll-wOrn repertoire Of political
tricks before the crowd.
London. who has had no dis
cernRblc connection with the
strike, utilized twenty-five min
utcs Of the meetings. time cf,
fusing about the munitions rae
ket and other irrevelant subjects.
His Grafton attempted to con
vey the impression that NJ. VI.
London was the important issue.
not the strike.
Babe in Woods" Miyener
MiSencr told the audience that
when he voted for the hiring of
deputized thugs in the city coun
ell Il week before. lie just hadn't
known the facts"
81 saw what Il big mistake
had made, however. and yester,
day | led fight to prevent
Mayor Smith from maintaining
the special force" he said.
(The matter of special police
was settled definitely last week
when the city council declared
h e waterfront situation al
"emergency,' and voted Smith
the power to proceed as he de
sired Both Misener and Fits
were aware of this at the time
and they were also well-infOrmed
of all strike particulars. The
crowd knew this, and was not
taken in by the evasive state
ments made by the councilmen.
James A. Duncan, school board
official and A. F. of i. leader, who
acted as chairman for the eve
ming, lauded Fits, Misener aHd
London for their courageous
stand. Constantly abiding to the
American Revolution as a par
allel to the existing strike cOndi.
tiOn, Duncan gave the meeting
an odious nationalistic aspect.
Duncan Boosts Workers Enemy
John @. Stevenson was cited by
Duncan as "a man who always
comes to the aid of the working
class in the time of a crisis"
Calculating their stands in the
strike and calling on the public
for its active support, James
Archer, MWIU speaker, Harold
Brockway, UCL, and an ISU rep
resentatiye saved the meeting
from complete failure.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Continued from page one)
FRANDSEN DEFENDANTS

CARNATIONS and individuals
flood Garfield Davis with de-
mands that he Immediately pa
role men he himself admits in
nOcent. Davis lives at 1876 East
59th Street and his phone num-
Der is Vermont 1898.
Mrs. Price and Mrs. Norton,
pointing out that their hus-
bands and the other prisoners
are still forced to buy fruit at
fancy prices from Regan's Gro
Gerry (Regan is Sheriff Bannick's
brother-in-law), ask that a de-
mand be made upon Sheriff
Bannick for the right of friends
of the prisoners to take fruit to
them.
Funds are needed to buy to-
baccO, ETC., for the men in Jail.
Money should be sent to the In
t"rnational Labor Defense, 300
Lyon Bldg. Seattle.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Labor Council Heads
Pass Buck on Strike

SEATTLE.-The Central La
Dor Council meeting OF June
20, clearly shows what may be
expected OF the council official
dom.
A report lasting an hour and
q half was made by the district
committee of the striking long
shOremen and seamen. Paddy
Morris made the longest re-
port.
Morris and Martin spoke only
of union recognition and moth
ing about hours or wages. They
had no concrete proposals to
offer the council in the way
Of actual support to the strik-
erS.
A motion was made and ear
ficd to protest strike breaking
action of Mayor Smith, the pO-
lice force and the Sheriffs of
flee and demanding the I'M
mediate withdrawal Of all
armed thugs from the picket
line.
Move for General Strike
Then a motion was made
that if our request Is not com
piled with within twenty-fOur
hours. the council go on rec
ord for n central strike This
motion was not entertained by
Chairman Early. lie stated the
council has no right To go on
record. llie lies and the dele
gates should fight against such
burCauracy.)
The time for the meeting was
extended until 1880. and then
james Duncan tried to mo-
nOpClize the extra half hour by
talking Of the Seattle General
Strike in 1919 and crying about
how he has suffered from his
part in it. but he has had a
job as business manager of the
Auto Mechanics and IS now on
the school bOard.O
He peddled his usual line
until a rank and file striker
yelled, why do you get up
here and talk like this when
you tried to get us to go back
to work at our meeting two
weeks ago."
Duncan replied, Whoever
says that is a liar" and a dele
gate from the lila jumped up
and said, Duncan you did try
to get us to go to work.
Duncan, Lockwood Pals
Duncan said. - still say
that's a lie" OF course, Duncan
had the floor and the strikers
had no chance to expose him.
But the significan: thing is
that Duncan's idea of winning
the strike was to go down and
protest to Councilman Lock-
wood, and, that the rank and
file delegates are getting wise
to the role Duncan is playing.
Weston, of the Boiler Makers
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29

against Negro workers, the
committee pointed out the seq
'regatiOn of the Negroes from
the white workers as TO hours
and days on which each gets
his voucher.
The committee also pointed
out the discrimination against
single men who cor example
get wood at some stations and
not at others; vino are allowed
no commodities except those
purchased with the $l.z0 vOueh-
er.
The different methods of dis
tributing commodities : wood,
clothing. cod liver oil-the DIFF
ference in the treatment of In
dividual cases by different wei
fare supervisors, were exposed.
The official investigators -
eighteen, nineteen and twenty
years OF age-are sent out TO
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Continued from page one)
THE FRONT LINE

that Roosevelt tried to do right
by at least the class he repre-.
sents.
The Socialist Party leadership
like the A. +. of l., has proven
by its actions Germany, Autsria
Great Britain, U. S. A, etc), that
it is a main bulwar= of the pro
gram that leads to hunger, wal
and faseism.
%z#z
The capitalist way out of the
crisis lies along the way of wage
cuts, speed up, denial of unem-
ployment insurance, lynehing,
fascism. and war. The revolu.
tionary workers. way out of the
crisis begins with the fight
against wage cuts. against speed
up. for unemployment insurance
for relief to the farmers; by or
ganizing strikes anG demonstra-
lions for the destruction of the
capitalist system.
The Communist Party leads
and organizes these struggles;
leads toward the only final
solution-the establishment OF
Soviet power.
This is the only way out OF
the crisis We must choose. Let's
choose the workers way out.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Continued from page one)
HUNGER MARCH

minimum cash relief at 50 cents
per hour.
2. Fun medical and dental
care for all workers and farm.
crS on relief with the right to
choose ones own doctor.
3. General tax strike unless
the above demands, as well as
mUratOriums on foreclosures,
are granted, and all evictiOns
stopped.
/. Endorsement by the cOun.
ty commissioners of II. r. 1898.
tThr Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill
). Full support to the strike
of the lOngshOremen and to all
other strikes for better wages
and working conditions.
The publicity committee an
nOunces the parade will mo-
billie at the office and march
to to the courthouse to en-
force the demands.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Worker Refuses To Saw ShOtgunS
For Gunmen'S Use On Strikers

What are the guns going to
be used fOr?" was the workers
first question.
Against the striking scum on
Pier 49," the MARSHAL agent told
him.
The worker told the agent he'd
have to hurry along and get
somebody else to do his dirty
work, and he'd better start hur-
rying right now"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Like Soviet Picture

COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho
The Soviet film, "War Against
the Centuries" just completed
a siX-day tour of this section.
Much interest and enthusiasm
has been shown in the picture
although it was not a success
financially due to lack of Or
ganiZatiOn and to the difficulty
in securing halls.
In Kellogg the 7. 0. o. F.
cancelled the rental of its hall
because it was thought the
picture would cause too much
excitement" This shows clear,
ly the role of the officers of
certain fraternal groups in sup
porting the bosses.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29

SEATTLE. - MARSHAL an d
Sons, armament dealers at 1914
First Avenue. picked the wrong
man, for once to do their dirty
work.
A MARSHAL agent approached
local gunsmith whose sym
pathies emphatically were pro-
strike with an offer of 80 cents
cash" apiece for saving off the
barrels of six l2-guage shotguns.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Citizens" Committee
Exposed; Shows Profit
OF Shipping Companies
By Hark Howells


so-called Citizens Emergency
Committee? Who buys the gas
bombs and machine guns? And
who pays for the Tuthlessly Wei
Gus thugs masked under the
name of Emergency Police?
There has been nothing in the
capitalist press but malicious
Islander of the strikers and their
aims; nothing but lies, thanks
to the lavish advertising of the
Citizens" Emergency Commit
teee) about the real nature of
the dispute, the causes of the
lOngshOremen's and marine work
ers' valiant fight.
We are learning who is behind
the Citizens Committee, whore
the money pOurs in from, how
much is stolen from the govern
ment and mulcted from the poe
kets of local taxpayers to defray
the expenses of arming and main
tanning in luxurious comfort the
employers army of ex-cOnvictS,
gunner and desperadOes.
A consistent charge against
the striking workers is that q
small body of Willful Men" are
preventing a settlement and
wrecking our port. terrOriZing
the waterfront, setting up a die
tatOrShip--
Who really belongs to this
small body of Willful Men? Who
are really the wreckers, terror
lists, dictatOrs?
Guilt Placed
A few capitalists who control
the shipping lines! The Dollars,
FlCischackers. hOups and
Kingsburys of California and
New York such groups as
control the Dollar and Admiral
Lines THE Dollars owing the
Government Is million but earn
ing in mail subsidies over four
Short years IA milliOn-and Sched-
uled to fatten on II million more
under existing contracts. Then
there is the Admiral Line which
has made a profit of $7,50O.000 on
an initial investment tOtalling
the grand sum of 500 dollars!
Witness the Export s. S. COrpO-
ration buying AZ million dollars
worth of ships for one million
from the L. S. of course, and in
the past six years the Corpora
ton has received $7,OOO,OOO in mail
In a period of nine
it carried exactly three
pounds of mail-at a cost of $234,-
$50 each-and over the year 1881
it carried eight pounds for $685.
800 apiece.
Who robs the public? Who
our shipping industry?
And who pays the bills for
these heroic thieveries, this cal
loused effrOntery, this highland
ed pocket-picking?
Everyone has heard of the
"outrageously high wages" paid
to lOngshOremen-but did you
know that the Seattle Oriental
Line made profits on stevedoring
operations amounting to ONE
THIRD of the total return from
all it's shipping? From % to 80
the Line raked in $l,25S.2l6 from
stevedoring and slightly more
than 3 million from shipping.
There are others too: but this
is the type which cOmpOses the
Small Body of Willful Men"
which is defying public opinion,
working selfishly against the
public interest, wrecking the
American shipping industry, and
attempting to starve and ter
rorise thousands of workers into
meek submission.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-29
Hunter Against Unity
In Mine Cases

ROSLYN, Wash, June 25.-
With the strike for recOgni-
ton of the Western Miners
Union broken. ana fOrty-five
pickets facing trial for rioting.
Andrew Hunter continues to
fight against the militants
who have tried TO unite the
miners on the basis of strug-
gle.
The union is broken. Its
meetings are being well at
tended because the miners are
worried and fearful about the
outcome of the trial. But
when the trials are over, the
union will die a quiet death.
Hunter claims an active men,
bership of 600. but there are
probably less than 100.
We'll get a vote from the
NRA," is Hunters new song.
Stay in the MWU until the
vote, and we'll be recog-
nized."
But Hunter himself doesn't
believe this new stall. There
are reports that he is plan
ming to organize an unem-
ployed citizens league, similar
to the old UCL in Seattle,
which elected sucn takers as
Dore and Stevenson to office
Hunter will probably file for
office himself on the anti-COm-
munist issue.
LID Asks Unity
The International Labor De-
Tense, which is hanCiing a mum,
Der of the riot cases, has called
upon Hunter and Vanderveer
for united defense. but so
far has received no answer.
Instead Hunter attacks the
LID in all the union meetings,
telling the absurd lie that the
LID tries to keep the workers
in Jail so it can go around
taking collections and filling
its own pockets.
IF the LID could get Tom
Mooney out of Jail. they'd try
to get him right back in again,
for the rake-Off," IS the way
Hunter lied about the LID at
one meeting Lass week.
While Hunter storms, the
lid is circulating in the coal
field an open letter telling of
the campaign of protest it is
launching, and the tour OF
Mark Halter and a;iitOn Kairis
for the defense of the riot de,
PENDANTS, and cuiiing for q
united defense in the court
room. Yves Randall reports
that a number OF tile defend.
ants will ask for a united de.
Tense when the second case i,
tried Thursday.
There is rumor in ROSlyT
that the company is going t.
give the men ~ per cent cut
2 in wages this next week.