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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Comfort Pays $12
For Manifesto OF
Communist Party

OLYMPIA, Wn. Upon re.
eeipt of a letter from A. b. Com
fort, Administrator, Third Dist.
rict VERA, inviting him to a
consultation on a practical way
of solving the relief problem.
w. w. Cadle, prominent COmmu-
mist here, accepted and spent
considerable time discussing the
present problems of the unem-
plOyed. An outcome of the dis
cussiOn was a suggestion that
Mr.. Cable submit his views on
the matter in writing, at one dol
lar a page. ?
COncealing as best he could,
his amusement as well as his sur
prise, the prominent Communist
fastened home, and wrote a
couple of pages on the back
ground of the present situation,
the causes underlying the de
preston as well as outlining the
inadequacy of capitalist pro-
grams in overcoming crisis since
they fail to deal with the roots
of the trouble. Then Cadle
copied ten pages on the subject
from the Manifesto of the
Eighth National invention of
the Communist Party of the
United States of America.
Though admitting that com
plete facts are not known, Mr..
Cadle is of the opinion that it
is the first time in history that
the opinions of a Communist
have been solicited by a'capi
talist relief official, in this dis
trict-at any rate at dollar per
page.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

Fascist newspaper which has ac-
lively fought to have Filipino
and IRdian berry pickers depOrt-
ed from VashOn Island, and
which is now wailing the scarcity
of workers to be exploited If the
islands berry crop is to be har-
vested.
"A picker who really means
business and will work can earn
from 81 to So per day." cries Ed
itOr SmOck in an editorial, adding
with a minimum of laying dying
is better English) in the shade"
Admitting that 81 to So per day
is a subsistence wage for man.
killing work, nevertheless Editor
SmOck maintains 1T is the moral
obligation of every person who
needs work and who can work to
help the Island growers harvest
their crop of fruit"
This is the recovery policy OF
the Fascist and ultra-capitalistic
News-Record, the pathway work
ers must take in the eyes of this
spouter for the boss class before
America is returned to the de-
cency and soundness of the Con-
stitution-- and then only can We
again take our place In the sun
as a free nation"
Free" to the bosses and Ed.
itor Smock- Negroes. Filipinos,
Indians and other workers not In.
Guided. of course.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Ask War Funds
for Unemployed

TACOMA, Wn.- How about
some of that for the unemplOy-
ed?" was shouted from the floor
by a worker upon hearing Prof.
+. G. WillistOn of the College of
Puget Sound advocate that half
of the war budget be spent on ex-
change fellOwships for university
students at a debate" between
the Professor and Major Reed
Alexander, before the Junior Pro
gressive Club here, Friday, June
10.
Both speakers laid the blame
for Americas war on the people"
and few bad individuals among
the ruling class. The professor
was supposed to be advocating
disarmament, in opposition to
the Majors program of super
armament. The affair was con
Quoted with extreme cOrdiality,
with little disagreement between
the debaters except on irrelevant
points like the comparative
hOrribleness of ancient and mod
ern war.
A worker accused both speak
ers of being fascists and forced
the professor to give the facts
in answer to a slur east upon the
Soviet Union by the major. CUES
tiOning also forced admissions
about American Imperialism and
the role of American bankers in
Bolivia.
Professor Charles Il. Battin Tee
OnOmicsl, also of the College of
Puget Sound, declared there was
no competition between Japan
and the United States for world
markets and recommended that
the United States assist Japan in
the conquest and robbery of the
Chinese people.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Frisco StevedOreS,
Seamen Unite For
Strike Action

JUNE 1S.-AlOng with a We
hement rejection of tht dastardly
San Francisco Sell.Out plan
submitted by the |. l.. A. presi.
dent, Ryan. rank and file long.
shOremen made anOthtr impOr-
tant contribution to the strike
cause.
The following statement, insur-
ing further unity Of the seamen's
and lOngshOremen's bodies, was
issued by the San Francisco |. l..
A. Sunday:
Eve, the undersigned Organiza-
tiOns, individually and severally,
heerby agree to refuse to return
to work until such time as a salts
factory agreement is arrived at
between employers of labor in
marine industries and Organiza-
tiOns signatOry to this agree
ment."
Maritime unions signed the
above with the lOngshOremen.
One of the reasons given for
the rejection of the lOngshore
plan was that it made absolutely
no provision for the striking
maritime workers. |. l.. A. work
ers saw it as an attempt to split
the solidarity of waterfront
unions.
The spread of the strike was
felt as Oakland Transfers and
San Francisco machinists were
about to take a strike vote.
1t was reported today that a
new settlement was being sub
mitted to employers today, but
the terms were but vaguely
known.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Militant DepOrtees
Organize Jail Forum

Dear Comrades and Friends on
the Outside: Just a few lines in
revolutionary greeting from
Multnomah County Jail Port
land. | am one of eight COM
rades up for deportation waiting
the pleasure of Her Royal High
ness, Francis Perkins.
We have started a school here
in the Tank where we study the
working class struggle and the
revolutionary movement in gen
eral. Some of us are here for re-
fusing to work for starvation
wages and finding it impossible
to live on the rotten soup lines.
Some of us are being depOrted
for fighting for better working
conditions and for our solidarity
in the revolutionary movement.
One of the comrades, a farmer, is
being depOrted for no cause. He
did nothing offensive to the
bosses, but he has been torn
from his family and farm and is
to be sent to Germany. And he's
of a type that would have made
a better citizen than any Code
administrators and strike medi-
ators. Were holding an Open
Forum here in the Jail which all
inmates can attend and the great
majority are enthusiastically in
terested. We are resolved
that in the future we will put
all our efforts into the class
struggle and do all in our power
to set up true government of
the workers, which will advance
the cause of the profetariat.
We of the Deportation Special
have decided we will work to win
over workers in the immigration
stations at Seattle and Ellis Is.
land and each of us will join the
Communist parties in our res
spective countries and help
spread Communism over the
world.
Our case is just an example of
this Capitalist GOV rnment
bringing pressure through it's
immigration partment to
crush the workers and break up
our growing solidarity. They can
depOrt some of us but they'll
never get rid of all the workers
and when militant workers learn
their power and unite we will
shake off our backs the para.
sites and thieves of Capitalism.
Long live our comrades in the
class struggle and good speed to
the Soviet of the World. -
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Extra Gang Strike
Forces UpRRPdy

BELLINGHAM- Forcing the
Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul and
Pacific Railroad to discontinue
use of extra gangs and to put
regular crews back to work on
maintenance schedule, the strike
of the extra gang, conducted last
week is over.
The extra gang struck because
OF the low wages of 26c an hour,
and a condition whereby they
were paid for eight hours but
took ten hours getting to and
from the job. They were forced
TO eat at the boarding ears pay
ing for at least p meals month
at the rate of SOC per meal or Is
meals at 35c per meal.
The strike occurred after the
men on the job had made their
demands to the foreman, and
division dispatcher and superin-
tendent, and set at Tuesday 10
A. M. for a deadline for the ans
wer. They also decided that any
man fired before that time would
call the strike. Monday, June IL
the foreman fired a worker. As
oil was being taken out of lamps
in the bunk cars, workers felt
that the company was going to
ward off the strike by tying up.
During the lunch hour the men
held a meeting and decided that
they would demand reinstate-
ment of fired worker and job
was on strike. 20 stood solid, 5
would scab.
The railroad company decided
job would not work that day. so
the men stayed in the bunk ears
and the company moved the ears
back to the yards. The men
were paid off. The cook ears
were sent back to Tacoma.
The company sent regular see
ton crews back on the division
the next morning, 7 men to
crew.
of those who agreed to scab
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
UCL Relief fight

for the lOngshOremen and turned
down by them are practically
the same as those made by the
waterfront employers at the con-
ference called by Mayor Smith.
Here they are:
|. Recognition of the Interna-
tiOnal LOngshOremen's AssOcia-
ton, as agent for all coast long
shOremen in collective bargain
ing.
2. Joint operation of hiring
halls by a labor relations commit
tee, comprising three lOngshOre-
men and three employers repre-
sentatives.
3. No discrimination in hiring
any lOngshOremen either be.
cause of membership or NON
MEMBERSHIP in union.
4. Determination of ages,
working hours, operation of hir-
ing halls and other problems by
the labor relations committee. In
cases of deadlock, provision was
made for selection of a disinter-
ested and impartial chairman.
). Registration of all lOngshOre-
men employed prior to Deem
Der 81, 1888, as determined by the
employers payrOlls. Additional
men to be registered only as the
need of the port may require.
6. Employers empowered to Sc
lect their men within those eligi-
BILE; workers permitted to select
their jobs.
With general strike sentiment
rising, the |. L. A. should elect
rank and file strike committees
to go to all union locals and de-
mand that they unite with them
in a general strike in retaliation
to the mayors attempt to break
the strike with terror.
They should negotiate to take
the control out of Ryan's hands
and organize the west coast
strike to include all unions.
No agreement can be signed
unless it provides for satisfaction
of the demands of all unions in
volved in the strike.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
VashOn Paper Tries To Drive Negroes
Off "ItS' Island
BY Hack Thomas

Pressing the mentioning social
ties of VashOn Island to trans
port II Negroes because they
dared to enjoy the islands cOun-
try pleasures. despite the fact
that their mentioning harmed
none of their white masters"
the VashOn Island News Record
bids fair to lead all Northwest
publications as an organ of class
hatred and race prejudice.
The c,tizenry is decidedly in
censed over the influx of Neg
rOes," living near Burton and
Lisabuela, island communities,
according to Editor Agnes SmOck,
in a front page news article in
the Record for June IA.
Although, according to a state
ment by +. J. Shattuck, deputy
sheriff, one family of Negroes,
living near Lisa beula, are on their
own property and within their
own rights in occupying it, says
Editor Smock, this family has
committed the unfOrgivable sin
of bringing more Negroes to the
island, "the exact number un-
determined"
Eleven of them, however will
be transported back to their
legal residence, Arkansas, Editor
SmOck reports with relief,
where authorities have the
knowledge of handling the race"
The News Record Is the same
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Mayor Smith Backs
Initiative Number SO
by Allan Hervey

SEATTLE There would be
nothing new about saying that
the public schools are a great
vehicle for the consistent spread
ing of capitalist propaganda.
But sometimes we are apt to for
get that all agencies of govern
ment are at all times subject to
use for the spreading of propa-
ganda.
Seattle's new mayor is the case
at hand. Smith wants to put
over Initiative SO, which calls for
turning over to the city street
funds of about one million dollars
a year of state road tax money.
Why does he want it done? So
that the large property owners
Will have to pay still less in taxes.
And don't forget that Mayor
Smith pays taxes on a fine home.
We don't know how the schools
are being treated but we do
know that all the other depart
ments of the city government
are forcing all employees to sign
petitions to put Initiative SO on
the ballot, and urging" them to
get Others to sign. OF course
they aren't told that they have
to sign. But woe unto the pub
lie emplOye that would refuse.
He'd soon be jObless. AS borrow
ers from the public libraries of
the city, we notice that petitions
are on the desks in all rooms of
every library in the city, and
borrowers are urged to sign.
We are curious to know Just
how soon city employee would
lose his job if he tried to get
signers on the job for another
and far more important Initia.
tive number IS, for workers un.
employment insurance. His lob
might last out the Gay, and then
again it might not.
Force Tribute
Which reminds us of the Red
Cross:- all city employees are
in the same way, forced to give
money to it. And money given to
the Red Cross doesn't increase
the happiness OF any worker who
knows the history and practice
OF that organization which is of.
ficered largely by U. S. Army and
Navy officials, whose accounts
are audited by the war depart
ment, whose publishing is done
Tree by the government. which
has much of its money invested
In ornaments stocks IL doesn't
make this worker happy to know
that all public employees are
forced to give money in support
OF an organization that is part of
the nations imperfalist|. war
machine.
Which reminds us of the YMCA
and YWA buildings that are
the gifts OF Rockefeller, Morgan
and Others.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
$1,000 On Strike

A total of AZ strikes in Greater
New York were covered in Pen &
Hammers March, 1884, regular
monthly strike survey for Labor
Research Association. OF these
strikes. q were led by the Trade
Union Unity League, 10 by the
American Federation of Labor,
and II by Independent unions.
Over $4,000 workers were in
vOlved in the 36 strikes for which
numbers were reported. OF these,
1,45O were led by the II. U. U. l..
The A. F. of l.. led nearly 10000
Independent unions. including
some $4,000 taxi drivers.
OF the "a strikes in which out
come was reported, five were lost.
Wholly or partially successful
strikes numbering II were led by
the Il. U. U. L., five by the A. F.
of L. and three by independent
unions.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
BY Mare Jordan.
Business in General Declines
SharDly.

NiioA pay
SEATTLE, June pa report
from a survey of Seattle markets
and grocery business shows a
decline over the last two months
of between 80 and 40 per cent.
According to Arthur Brisbane
in the June Is POst-Intelligencer,
President and NRA rejoice"
over their notable record of re-
cOvery."
Seattle grOcers, however, and
business generally are not in a
rejoicing mood. Butchers, gro
GERS and druggists all report a
steady decline most noticeable
since the CWA was discOntin-
ued March 30.
ASK any of the stalls along
here-they'll say the same
thing" one merchant said. This
report includes not only Pike
Place market, but uptown as
well. Anybody in the whole
market will tell you how bad
business is" another said in an
uptown market.
Bourgeois GrOcers Affected.
Too.
Surely no truer index of con
ditiOns exists than the grocery
business. Not only are grOcers
generally feeling the effects of
the crisis. but grOcers who sell
to the capitalists are also in bad
straits.
1t Is reported that Augustine
and Kyer, which has been Oper-
ating under the direction of the
creditors for the last two years,
has reached a new crisis. The
capitalist class, which is their
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

were placed on a regular crew
out OF Bellingham at the order
of the ROadmaster over the pro
test of the Section Foreman.
The strike shows how small ac-
lions can force the railroad com
pany to back up on attacks
against the workers.
Forcing the railroad to use reg
ular men instead OF extra gangs
at lower wages means higher
standards of living for the work
ers.
The question of organizing a
Division Local Maintenance of
Way Workers Union, with the
regular crews of the division to
take up the question of affilia-
ton with the A F OF l. on line of
opposition or independent union
to consolidate gains, is the line
for the workers to follow.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
From Another Comrade)

-. | am in my nineteenth year
=. four years ago unemployment
brOkeup my home and [ had no
choice but to look for work,
which / was unable to find al
though ] travelled from coast to
coast. Finally in Portland / was
turned down at all the employ
ment agencies and trying to get
enough to eat and sleep / tried
desperate measures. was caught
in the act and here / am. There
was no hope for me until Com
rade Sam Romanoff and Others
started our Forum. As instruc
tor he gives us the facts about
these strikes and rips apart the
fakery of capitalist politics. At
his own expense he has furnished
us with papers and pamphlets
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
MAKES Big
GAIN ON COAST,
BROWN SAYS

Seattle, June 22.-Reporting
rapid progress in the growth of
the National Lumber Workers
Union, Roy Brown, chairman of
the NLWU, returned yesterday
from a trip DOWN the coast to
the Pine Belt in Oregon.
Since the organization of the
klamath Falls branch of the
NLWU, he reported, the boss
has begun to fix up grievances
voluntarily, because the agita-
tion carried on by the union in
the camp.
In this branch, a girl was hurt
by an unguarded machine. As
soon as she was taken out, the
guard was put up, but the work
ers knew that the machine was
unguarded when she was hurt.
We will hear more from Ago
ma later, Brown said.
Discharge Upheld by Courts
Because they were discharged
for taking Section "a at its face
value and attempted to organ.
ize a union OF their own chOOs-
ing, two workers got out an in
junction against the Tidewater
camp.
They sued in the Federal court
at Portland. OF course, the case
was decided in favor of the com
pany. Now the workers have no
illusions about the federal
courts.
One of them now is very busy
organizing his fellow lOggers,
Brown reports.
Union Forces Boss Fire Scab
At Big Creek Company at Nap
pa, where a strike won wage in
crease for the men in the spring
one of the oldest lackies of the
bosses who had scabbed during
the strike was forced to leave
the job after the demands were
won.
The boss at the CrOssett- West
ern Lumber Co. said, This is the
first time in my life that | have
had to give in to a Labor Organ
izatiOn."
In the BrOOks-ScanlOn mill at
Bend, Ore, the National Lum-
Der Workers Union have a good
bunch. Owing to the vicious
spy system they are organizing
underground. We will soon see
a healthy branch bloom out into
the open there.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22

main trade, is VIGOROUSLY reluet-
ant to pay bills, and restaurants
which are finding business bad
are said to cOmplicate their cred
1t situation.
PRESS LIES
The latest methods of the
capitalists is to try to make peO-
pie think prosperity is here. The
capitalist press is full of stories
of how well recovery is progress
ing. Writers of the type of Ar
thur Brisbane and Others have
some favorite tricks to delude
workers. Among them is to give
percentage gains and not say
gains over what or when, which,
of course, makes figures useless.
Another recent one has been
tOgive figures in production,
sale, etc, for March and April,
1894, as cOmapred with figures
for March and April, 1933-the
period during which banks were
closed and business was at a
dead stop.
These gains" are shouted to
the sky by the capitalist press
as great cause for cheer. Re
cOvery must prOceed"-strikes
which are holding it up must be
broken striking Outlawed.
WHAT ARE CONDITIONS?
To get a true picture of cOndi.
tiOns. consult the publication of
the National City Bank of New
York for June, 1884, entitled
Economic Conditions, Govern
mental Finance, L. S. Securi-
ties"
This publication is for the
capitalist class and does not in
clude the spOutings of paid prop
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
lila Strike

ed to the mayors office and pre-
scented HR 1898, the workers I'm,
employment insurance bill, for
his approval. He admitted that
insurance of some kind was need
ed, but said that he did not know
about this bill. He has taken it
under advisement and will give
the committee his answer next
Wednesday.
He was also presented with a
resolution from the UCL demand,
ing that he withdraw his gun
thugs, vigilantes and police from
the waterfront and let the strik-
ers have a chance to win their
battle. His reply was, "I am
going to serve the best interest
of the greatest number and |
consider the forces on the wa
terfrOnt to constitute the min
GRITTY group, and | have con
fferred with them for several
days without result, and now in
tend to open the port"
Ii was pointed out that he
would be bearing down on work
ers who would bear the brunt of
the battle, letting the operators
win, thus continuing condition
that would again lead to strife
and blOOdshed. He repeated
that the port would be opened,
thus signifying that he is willing
to sacrifice the workers on the
altar of capitalism. His atten-
ton was called to the treatment
accorded Archer, secretary of the
MW1U, who was attacked and
beaten up by thugs late at night
while on his way home from
work. He seemed to think it
was joke and answered that the
workers cracked heads and must
expect to get theirs cracked in
return.
The committee went from there
to the Council Chambers and re-
quested an audience with the
Council on the insurance bill, HR
1898. Time set, Monday, June IS,
2 P. NJ.
Monday, June 18Th the above
committee called on the Council
for their endorsement of HR
1898. 1t was requested that the
bill be discussed by the commit
ttee as a whole, but Levine, the
AFL labor faker, who is PRESIDENT
of the City Council, referred the
bill to the finance committee
When it was insisted that the
bill be heard by the committee
as a whole Levine's answer was,
IF you want that bill heard you
will have to put Communist in
the council" That remark shows
him to be small town politician
sitting in a big mans chair.
An intelligent would not disre-
gard the expressed wishes of 40,
DGO or more voters of Seattle who
have endorsed the state referen-
DUN for the same bill and Lev
inc Is due to fall in the next cleo
ton. The takers must go!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
PLAN STEEL STRIKE

WASHINGTON, June Is. -
Steel union labor leaders will
hand operators and the admin
istratiOn d fOur-pOint strike set
Element ultimatum tomorrow.
Meanwhile (Pittsburg, June 49,
workers are on guard against a
sell-Out, determined to fight for
the seven basic demands drawn
up at the last convention.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-22
Where To Go

Communist election rally picnic
at Sylvia Lake, MOntesanO, Wash
ingtOn, Sunday, July |. Program
swimming and dinner all for 25c.
Proceeds to file candidates in the
local City and County elections.
Under the auspices of Grays Har-
Dor Section of the Communist
Party.
Seattle, June 80 War Against
the Centuries" Soviet film, fol-
lowed by a dance. Finnish Hall,
Ninth and Yesler. 5 p. IN. AID
25c.