Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
STAND UP. WORKERS

How the local capltallst press
Is being used by the Chamber
of Commerce to turn public sen
timent against the courageous
battle of Seattle's waterfront
workers for a living wage. Is
clearly shown in the lying adj
yertisements and editorials ap
pearing now almost daily IN
these organs OF oppression.
'"The longshoremen's strike has
reached this point"-says the
Times in an editorial smeared all
over its yellow front page, June
10, shall Seattle live as a free
city or shall it be choked to
death to satisfy the ambitions
OF a few labor leaders"
Every word is lie, intended to
turn citizens against their own
best interests. There is no such
thing as free city so long as it
is controlled by the Chamber of
Commerce, the Waterfront en-
ployers Association, and by any
boss class organization.
As for Seattle being chOked to
death by IA few labor leaders
the strike has been successful
so far, only through the militant
and constant vigilance of the
rank and file of the waterfront
workers watching their own
labor leaders to see that their
leaders" did not sell them out.
They closed one eye and the
Alaska boats were freed by
Ryan.
If workers had turned over the
strike management to Dewey
Bennett and Ryan, the strike
would have been sold out weeks
ago. The workers would have
gone back to work under worse
conditions than ever before.
in other words" says another
advertisement in the POst-In-
telligeneer for June Is, 1T is o. k.
for San Francisco and Los Ange
les to operate with the non
union men under police prOtec.
tion, but, If we do so here, Mr..
Ryan is quoted as saying he will
call a national lOngshore strike"
In the first place, Los Angeles
and San Francisco ports ARE
NOT OPEN Sc ships are idle
in San Francisco alone
In the second place, Mr."
Ryan is going the way of all
labor leaders who sell out to
the bosses in this port.
Ryan's general strike threat
is a bluff which he doesn't dare
carry through unless absolutely
forced to do so by rank and
file.
All strikes in America are
rank and file strikes, and the
Seattle waterfront is no exeep-
tiOn. 1t will be a rank and file
victory, or a labor leader" sell
QUIT
Stand Up! and be counted
for Seattle" reads an advertise
ment in the Times for June II.
"On one side, in the lOngshore-
mems strike, are the people of
Seattle, more than $4,000 of
them. with the growth and pros
perity of this great seaport at
stake.
"On the other: 1852 lOngshore
men who won't work and say
Others shall not work"
This is clearly a Chamber of
Commerce appeal for public
sympathy and to gloss over the
real issue which is Shall men
work for living wage, through
collective bargaining, or shall
they be forced back into slavery
by group of 10 waterfront
bosses who are prepared to kill
and MAIN workers to maintain
their strangle hold on labor's
thrOat?"
These advertisements and ed
itorials in the capitalist press
are preparing the public to
stand unprotestingly by or to
help the bosses in the bloody
and open fascist warfare against
workmen planned by the boss
es to open the port today or to
morrow.
Stand up workers! Protest
these boss-made lies intended to
turn you against your own in.
terests and murder your own
chances for better working and
living cOnditionsl
Phone the Times, the Star and
the Post-lntelligencer, and pro-
testl Have your unions draw
resolutions protesting these lies.
Call on these editors and de.
mand that the truth concerning
the strike be printed