Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
MEET >,
A FELLOW EDITOR
PUPPY APlN6 PELLEY
TEcHNocRAZY GOSSIP
THE BUCK PASSERS
OF ALL PLACES!
: BY LOWELL WAKEFIELo-


Centralia, had the bad habit of
carrying, issue after issue, vicious
attacks upon the Relief Workers
Protective Association and all
working class activities.
The Voice of Action, a few weeks
ago, printed in an obscure corner
a remark about certain former
fanoozeling between this fellow and
a judges wife.
The day after this copy of the
Voice Of Action was received in
Centralia, say our representatives
there, our fellow editor stopped his
series of editorials and there has
MT been a peep out of him since.
Who says the Labor Press has no
poweri
Moral: Subscribe to the North
vests Only Working Class Paper,
Down in Los Angeles Lazarus the
Fourth. once poppy little fox terrier,
is fighting his way back to life
after being dead for ten minutes
as a scientific experiment. All seems
well, except for one thing. Sad to
relate Lazarus the Fourth will for
ever more be an idiot.
William Dudley Policy, the "di-
vinely inspired" commander of the
Silver Shirts was never a poppy
puppy. But by his own admission
he recently died and spent seven
minutes in eternity. We don't claim
that the noble scientific experiment
on Policy had the same results as
the puppy, but his writings rouse
grave suspicious.
The Technocracked theory that
certain great leaders are above the
common run of men and have power
to do the things the rest of us
can't do will get a man into trou-
BILE. A little bird told us that a
certain big shot Technocrat, leader
of these noble forces in the State
of Washington, entertained at his
home an even bigger shot Techno-
crat. And, so we heard, the Biggest
Technocrat looked upon the daugh-
ter of the Big Technocrat.
Hesult, the Big Technocrat is
quitting the movement in a huff.
A good deal of public money could
be saved by instead of teaching
future politicians how to read and
write sending them to a school
where but one subject is taught,
that subtle art of Hide the But
ton" Or maybe that's what is al
ready done. Because when it comes
to passing the buck, Burgunder,
Lenihan, Martin, Davis of the pa
ole boad, Banntck and the rest of
that sneaky crew have developed
a pat answer to every committee
that goes after them demanding the
reelase of the Frandsen Eviction
Fighters. MY hands are tied. 1t
is up to the other fellows"
There is only one solution. That's
to tie into all of them until they
are fit to be tied The Eviction
Fighters have already been behind
the bars too long. If we rest, we
are not doing our duty.
No one, least of all myself, ever
expected to see a word of truth
in the Seattle Times. Yet l sup
pose it is impossible for them to
print hundreds of thousands Of
words and not let the truth creep
in somehow. We will just quote
without comment an article from
the National Affairs column in their
May First issue and let you draw
your own conclusions.
e. The relief rolls for April
reached 100000 families or the
support of some 100000 persons.
This is an all-time high-ihigher
even than last March when the de-
preston was at its peak.
Grocery store sales, while
greater in dollar value are less in
unit totals. In other words, the de-
preciated dollar makes purchases
seem larger, though real sales have
dropped. The same is true of de-
partment store sales, though the
grocery index is more significant.
People eat before they buy clothes.
While production is sc per
cent of normal, sales are only back
to n per cent of normal. In other
words factories are producing more
than people are buying.
This is what the New Deal
sought to avoid. A spread between
production and consumption power,
if continued long, can be disastrous.
To avoid this was one of the great
detectives of the N. r. A.
To-day, however, this probably
is the NRA's greatest failure. In
come taxes and corporation reports
all show some people are making |
more. Grocery sales show other |
people are eating less. The gap be-
tween the rich and the poor appar-
emily increases.
THE Detroit automobile manu-
facturers, the 'Wierton Company, |
the ron and steel moguls exact more
or less their own terms from the
MIRA.
Jacob Mayed, an immigrant |
tailor in Jersey City who pressed
suits for 35 cents instead of the |
40 cent code price, gets thirty days
in Jail and 800 f1ne-later RENTED
by friendly judge.
"AH of which leads to this: When
the history of NRA finally is told,
the crack down" bombast of Gen.
Hugh (Juggernaut) Johnson will
make pitiful reading"