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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-01-30
Ex.sHERIFF FINED

WAYCROSS, Ga, Jan. 80 CUP
L. w. Rogers, a state legislator
and former Wayne county sher-
Tiff, paid a $50 fine yesterday on
charges of possessing liquor. :,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
UNITE TO WIN LONGSHORE STRIKl
The waterfront is on fire.


Rapidly the employers muster their forces
70 break the strike. On two fronts they prepare
Within the international Longshoremen s As
ISOLATION itself their friends like Ryan, make
every attempt to discourage the strike. Openly
against the union they rally every ally. he
police, the MIRA board, the welfare officials,
professional thugs and scabs, the employment
agencies, the press, the radio, university stud
ents, Dave Beck of the Transfers.
Strangely enough many are surprised at
the role of the MIRA apparatus. The lesson,
learned through bitter experience in every re-
cent strike, that the MIRA and other govern
ment agencies are the greatest scab herdlng,
strike breaking machine in the United States
has been carefully concealed. he hundreds
of men in the Seattle local of the lila who tor
hours voted against strike because OF their
hope in Senator Bone and Senator Wagner
now see their neighbors get cards to report at
the Federal Unemployment Service Offices tor
scab work or be cut from the relief rolls, now
read the statement of Reynolds, Seattle's new
deal liberal member of the NRA board for
the Pacific coast that if necessary the federal
troops will take over the docks and smash the
strike.
The longshoremen can guard against
maneuvers from within by giving democrat
ically elected rank and file strike committees
control. The LA men can rally against the
forces of the shippers fighting united front of
labor Mass picketing, solidarity demonstra-
tons, sympathetic strikes are the order OF the
day.
The movement has begun. In many
Northwest ports the militant Marine Workers
Industrial Union has called out the seamen,
iobless mass support, truck drivers strike. By
joining closely these forces the waterfront
strike can march on to victory.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
DIR. merrill SEATTLES
PROFESSIONAL RED BATTER

the use OF force In preventing the
workers from organizing and OBJ
tanning living wages and decent
conditions.
At the present time in Seattle the
Anti Communists are working to
get members out of the Silver Shirts
into the Anti Communist League
the main urge being another MEM
bership fee. This clearly shows the
calibre of men of which DR.. Mer-
rill is an example. These men are.
for the most part, not the least sim
cere in the propaganda they peddle.
They hate Jews and spread red
scare stories for the same reason
they sell fake mining stock-and TO
the same sort OF people. They are
parasites living on the stupidity.
cowardice and selfishness OF people
who deny the class struggle.
Such men as DIR. Merrill and his
petty organization are an indication
of the madness OF capitalism. 1t Is
this madness which financially en-
couraged by capitalists is fascism-
the foe of the worker and of every
person who wants economic and in
tellectual freedom.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15

tories have been opened. Eight
million new workers have gone from
the Russian farms to the factories
to build Socialism. In 1882 three
million workers moved into new
apartment houses. (How many in
the rest of the world did that in
1922 The lowest average wage is
about S52 a month, plus social in
surance, medical care and all kinds
of cultural life furnished free.
Wages rise faster than living cost.
eyes, Mr.. Roosevelt, that is trueD
The piece work system in Russia
is successful because it is used to
increase Socialist construction but
is never permitted to harm work.
ers. Forced labor does not exist in
Soviet Russia but does exist in the
u. :. A. The Russian treatment of
prisoners is for reeducating them
into good citizenship. Do we do
that?
How about health of the Soviet
workers? There are now three times
as many doctors as there were in
1913. In 1882 the supply of milk
was increased 80 per cent over 1881
and clothing SO per cent. Education
is compulsory up to IS years of age.
Already the USSR has as many
children in elementary schools as
the USA. Since 1929 the expendi-
lures for education there have in
creased 1870 per cent; all other
countries have declined greatly.
Worlds Greatest Newspapers
Newspaper circulation is the larg-
est in the world. The USSR leads
the world in the number of librar-
les, and Leningrad has the largest
library in the world. The Soviets
lead the world in the number of
books published yearly.
These are only few of the many
vital questions that are fully an
swered. Is the progress of workers
government assured in Russia and
the rest of the world? Yes, If If
the working class OF the world rail-
lies to the defense of the workers
cause and repells the attacks Of
war and fascism. Then there is no
telling to what great heights the
workers achievements will reach.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
WOMAN'S
WORLD

and find it interesting are those
who haven't awakened to the reas-
ons of the terrible conditions under
which. we live.
And to those women 1 would re-
comend the building of an educa-
tional and current events club where
those who with the cares of home
and family find no time to read can
come in contact with those who do,
and in a cooperative way learn the
facts and how we may best help
ourselves and our children.
FIX.
Member of Thurston County
Educational League.
We are glad you called our atten-
ton to the wording of our introduce
ton, though not for a moment do
we intend to relegate the women to
corner. On the contrary the pur-
pose of this column Is to bring to
the attention Of particularly those
women who haven't awakened as
yet" the conditions under which We
live and what We might do about
them.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
Dear Editor:

Women Don't Want to Be in Corner
The following letter from Olym-
pia was certainly welcome:
Dear Editor:
With much satisfaction read
my copy of the new improved Voice
of Action and | find no fault until
! get down in the "Women's World"
corner, and wish to protest against
your very first paragraph.
You say-"In Introducing our
selves to you women whose hus-
bands read the paper but who never
read it yourselves, because - we
might as well admit tit hasn't
any particular interest to women"
Every line in the Voice of Action
is of interest to women. and to rel
egate us to a corner by ourselves
smacks of Hitlerism. We are proud
to have a column in the Voice of
Action and we want to make 1t as
interesting to our husbands as to
ourselves just as the balance Of the
paper is as interesting to us as to
them.
The only women who do not read
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
Good Readin'

Tho Soviet Union, Your Questions
Answered, BY Margaret cowl, 8
cents at the Workers Bookshop,
1915 First Avenue.
In a country that is seeing a
great mass proletarian party rising
in the midst OF unemployment and
oppression, in the city of Seattle
where the membership of the Com
munist Party increases four-fold
within a year, questions are con-
tinually being asked about the
workers fatherland, the Soviet IN
ion. This little booklet answers
briefly and clearly nearly all ques-
tions that will be asked about the
Soviet Union except by those who
are making a very detailed study of
the subject.
% Questions Most often Asked
The author has spent several
years in Russia, investigating con-
ditions at first hand, so she knows
her subject. In lectures delivered
In rs American cities she noted the
20 questions most often asked her,
and in this booklet she gives full
and complete answers to them.
These are some of the questions:
Where do the Soviet workers get
the capital with which to build the
new factories? After new machin-
cry is produced will there be I'M
employment? What are the lowest
wages? How is the piece work sys-
tenn used in Russia? What are the
shock brigades? Is there forced Ia
Dor? How is labor protected? Why
is there a housing shortage? What
about education? Churches? Free
dom Of the press? Women workers?
Divorces? The further building of
Socialism? The kulak? The differ
ence between Soviet Socialism and.
Socialist Parties elsewhere? How
can American workers get the con-
ditions enjoyed by the Soviet work.
ers?
Wages Rising
The booklet is crammed full OF
information. We learn that in the
last two years over 1900 new fac
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
Did You Know That

Nearly three times as many
strikes occurred in March as In
February, involving nearly three
times as many strikers.
Over $1,000 have been out of the
Alabama mines; 1000 knit goods
workers in Philadelphia; 1000 Zinc
workers in LaSalle, Illinois; S4OO
textile workers in Fall River, Mass;
1000 waterfront workers in Texas.
The April "a issue of the New
Masses has a fine article on the
struggle of the lumber workers OF
Washington. 1t is by John Spivak.
who recently toured the u. S. and
studied conditions in this state.
The interest of Soviet citizens in
the cultural life of the whole world
is so great that the IS Kim took
back to Russia with it last month
10000 American records for Soviet
monographs.
A group of distinguished Ameri-
can musicians sails on May 9Th to
attend the Leningrad Music Fes-
tival. 81
The munitions factories are now
working at a rate 80 per cent higher
than in 1918, when feverish prepar-
atoms were being made for the first
World War.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union was established in April 1880
and has just celebrated its fourth
anniversary. Its strength is steadily
increasing. Among its eastern
strongholds it now holds control
of over IS per cent of the shipping
of Baltimore.
On May Day, 1886. 100000 work.
ers took part in the fight for the 5
hour day in the u. 5. over 2OO'Oo0
won their demand.
There were $4,000 cases of small
pox in the u. S. in 1882. Only India
had a greater number. In several
European countries (where vaccin-
alton is required) there were no
cases.
1000 AZ Of L locals, rs central
labor bodies, and 8 state declarations
are supporting the Workers unem-
pIoyment Insurance Bill.
II the bill recently introduced in
to the Senate by Senator c. c. Dill
is passed it will be a heavy blow
to militant labor. 1t will force COM
pulsory arbitration in the railroad
industry, establish a dictatorship
over wages and working conditions
and remove the right to strike.
A caricature Of Hitler. on exhibit
at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
By LOWELL WAKEFIELD


Press time, and seven important
cities not heard from. May Day was
Tuesday. Yet by Thursday night
Astoria. Everett, Anacortes, Bell
ingham, Tacoma, Salem, Port An
geles had sent no word of their
demonstrations.
Did nothing happen, or Is some
thing the matter with the cores
pondents for the paper?
Let John Do II
Thousands of workers, many of
them readers and agents of the
Voice of Action, participated In the
May Day celebrations in those cit
les. But in most cases no one per-
son is responsible to send in news.
The first step in making the Voice
Of Action a real news paper Is TO
have each organization appoint an
official correspondent. Then at least
one official report will come in Of
each event.
Notify the Voice of Action of the
election of this correspondent, and
we will send him a credential.
When the Writers Don't Write
But many official correspondents
do not send in the news, or send II
i'm way too late. In Spokane, for ex-
ample, the Socialist Party leaders
broke the united front for May Day.
There are several regular cores
pondents for the paper there. One
only of them took it upon himself
to analyze this SIP action. He wrote
a good letter. but the postmark
shows it was not mailed from Spo-
kane until May Sth.
When the Writers Write Wrong
May Day reports were received
in time for last weeks paper from
Portland, from Eugene, Spokane,
Occur d'Alene, Olympia. Even these
reports show weakness of the
correspondents to the paper.
Portland: Fine, detailed report,
but most important material buried.
Pick up last weeks paper and read
it. The forcing down of the Hitler
Swastka and the raising of the
Red Flag are down at the end of
lHS olOlys
Olympia: Detailed report of more
than 1000 words, but no figures on
number of demonstrators, no state
ment on whether workers defied po-
lice and spoke from capitol steps, no
word of what demands were pre-
scented to Martin and who presented
hem Except that two Pioneers were
on the committee). AS an after
thought, a wire came the following
day with the information as to how
many participated in the demon
stration.
Occur d'Alene: Bill Parker wrote
a swell article. He used an interest
ing, personalized style that made
his account of May Day a little diff
ferent than the others. But-he told
how many participated in May Day
a year ago and not how many par
ticipated this year. He told of all
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
BEATS SECRETARY WALLACE

Tenino, Wn., May 4
Voice OF Action:
As a subscriber of your paper
would you please print the follow
ing. In regards to Sec. Henry A.
Wallace and his simple ideas of
bringing 25,OOO,O0O Nordic people
here and giving them $1,000 apiece
to make the farmers whistle, I'll go
him one better. Pay the so-called
soldiers bonus. 1t will put $4,000
100000 in action and a debt paid
and pay the unemployment insur-
ance.
"A Worker.
Here's the clipping on Wallace:
Washington, May 8 (UP)-Here's
a way to solve the nations ills as
received in a letter by Henry Wal
lace, secretary of agriculture:
Admit 25,OOO,OOO immigrants of
the best Nordic type
Grant each family $1,000.
Immigrants will eat up agricul-
tural SURPRISES. cause a real estate
boom and the farmers will be 'whis-
Ting again"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
Correll Scores With
Vivid Perturbation

Did you see the May ! issue of
the New Masses?
Did you see the cartoon Smiling
Thru? The cartoon of our pres
ident looking through a maze of
workers, one picking food from a
garbage can, some facing a closed
relief station, of pickets on a strike
being slugged by thugs, Of food
prices rising high. while war pre-
parations continue to eat the work.
ers' money. of the fat fascist sitting
tight on the money bag? And the
president smiles!
Did you know that this cartoon
was done by the artist who has sew
eral cartoons in this weeks Voice
OF Action?
Richard Correll of Newberg, Ore,
makes linoleum cuts for Farmers
National Weekly as well as the
New Masses and our Voice of Ac-
ton.
Congratulations. Comrade. We
like your work.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15

withdrew from the United Front
May Day despite the fact that the
membership of the All Workers
Union and the Socialist Party had
voted to have United May Day
parade. The rank and file Socialist
workers are very disguised for the
most part with the disruptive tao
tics of the Socialist leaders in Spo-
kane. Even the capitalist press ad-
mitted that the Socialist leaders
broke the United Front. AS a result
of this, nine Socialist workers threw
their buttons into the face of the
leader of the Socialist Party in
Spokane and walked out.
Worker Correspondent.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
A Secret May Day
SIMPLE RULES FOR WORKER CORRESPONDENTS OUTLINED IN
ANALYSIS OF NEWS STORIES ON NoRTHWesTs
MAY DAY DEMONSTRATIONS

the places where demands of the
demonstrators were refused. He
said that the paraders did win con-
cessions from the welfare appara-
tus. But he didn't say what conces-
sions.
Simple Rule for Writers
BY following a few simple rules.
/ think we can correct many of the
errors on May Day stories.
l.. Write the story as soon as the
event takes place. II is easier to re-
member all the details, easier to be
absolutely accurate. Then put IL in
the mail or bring IL to the office at
once. Remember that the papers
deadIine is Thursday night, so use
special delivery if necessary.
2. Write down the most import
ant things first. Then add the de-
tails. Newspaper articls are best
tails. Newspaper articles are best
ed in order of interest and import
ance, not in order of time they oc-
Cured.
8. Be sure all the important
facts are included: names Of people,
numbers in meetings and demon
STATIONS, places, the exact date and
time, what the demands were, exact
quotations of what people sailor
whatever facts the occasion requires.
4. Write as clearly and neatly as
possible. II you have access to
typewriter, double space the mater
ial. In any case write on only one
side Of the sheet.
Offended?
| talked to one of our contribut-
ors He said, IF you criticise those
articles, you will just discourage
the writers of them from sending
in any more"
He's wrong. No one writes for the
Voice of Action to get individual
glory. We write for the Voice of Ac-
ton because it is our working class
weapon, the organizer and leader
of struggles. Each one of us wants
to do better job, from editor to
correspondent. We are not afraid of
constructive criticism.
The Five Senses
Worker correspondents are the
nerves of the Voice of Action. The
reporters in the lumber camps, on
ships. in the unemployed organiza-
lions, are the senses through which
the paper sees, feels, hears, smells
what is going on. Each correspond
ent is part of the editorial staff of
the paper.
A labor paper is not produced in
a vacuum. 1t flows from the very
life of the workers.
The correspondents must feel their
responsibilities. We must work to-
gether to improve the contents of
the paper. The Voice of Action can
and will become not just the only
working class paper in the North
west. but the best Newspaper in the
Northwest, and one of the best in
the country
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15

Around the World
in Three Minutes
VITA Rll
WITH BILL

Japan-Like Germany and other
fascist countries. Japan says one
thing to her people at home and
another thing to the world abroad
The japanese government backed
down before the English and Am
erican protests, but these are some
of the headlines in her home pa
pers Ito fool her own people,. ia
pan will not permit other powers to
ALLEVIATE Japan and China" Japan
does not need the help of other
powers to maintain peace in the far
east"
Alabama you can't see the
Scottsboro niggers," the jailers tell
the LID attorney.
New York-The former secretary
OF Roosevelt's (when he was gov
ernor Of New York; has been dis
covered to have borrowed heavily
from the late Max Greenburg, no.
torious gangster.
Neutrality-suspicious. L. Roosevelt,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
tells the ID. A. r. convention that
the U. S. must have many more
battleships.
East Coast-The crew of the ship
Pan America" half Negro and half
white, won their recent strike for
back pay and a 1929 wage scale.
They are solidly behind the Marine
Workers Industrial Union. This is
one of the finest recent examples
of solidarity illustrating Marks
famous words: Labor in a white
skin can not be free while labor in
a black skin is branded"
Germany-The Communist forces
in Germany continue to show their
influence, although driven under
ground. The Nazi army officers are
continually finding the words Red
'FRONT.' marked on the barracks
walls. Hitlers new repressive labor
laws were put into effect on May
Day. But opposition continues to
grow; in Bremen not one of the
$4,000 jobless offered to go to the
forced labor camps when ''volun-
teers" were called for.
Vienna-The Communist Party is
gaining rapidly in Austria. Many
former Socialists and Republican
Guards are joining the ranks. Mass
demonstrations continue even at the
great risk of life that awaits all
militant workers at the hands of
Dollfuss.
New York City-A member of the
Unemployed Teachers Union was
arrested recently for distributing
leaflets calling for united protests.
If some of Seattles unemployed
teachers would only be guilty of
such actions!
Colorado Springs - 1000 relief
workers of federal works have
struck for higher pay.
Ashyille, N. c. The Galahad
Press, the Silver Shirts publishing
company, is being sued as bankrupt.
ed to let Jewish athletes train to
enter the 1896 Olympics.
Havana, Cuba-A 16 year old Gu
ban YCL leader has won his hunger
strike in a Cuban Jail.
Haiti-All demonstration and or
ganization work for freeing the
Scottsboro boys has been prohibited
by the government.
Canton, China-The Chinese Red
Army recently won a huge victory
over the Nationalist forces. 10000
Red soldiers disarmed 1000 of the
opposition.
Birmingham. Ala More than
2I, 900 miners on strike refused to
return to work recently on orders of
Roosevelt.
Cleveland, Ohio - $500 Fisher
Body plant workers have been on
strike for some time demanding a
30 per cent wage increase.
wW.a1 n Q
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15

Next week the Voice Of Action
will reveal what faseism means
to women. Every woman should
read this article.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15

in New York has been removed af-
ter influence was brought to bear.
II was the work of 10 year old
unemployed artist.
Human society is composed OF
folks who make things. fake things,
and take things. The first come last.
The last come first, and the betwixts
and betweens get living and honors
out of explaining the justice of the
arrangement"
The Red Flag floated over the
City Hall at Portland on May Day
for more than an hour before sweat
ing firemen were able to cut it down,
King George Of England pays 40
cents a day to have his dogs board
cd, but the children Of the unem-
pIoyed English workers get SO cents
a WEEK to eat on.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15

The Soviet Union, Your Questions
Answered, BY Margaret cowl, 8
cents at the Workers Bookshop,
1915 First Avenue.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-15
Correspondence
HITS AT of L HooK-UP

Editor, Voice of Action:
Over at the Nettelton Mill it is
alright for the AT of l. organizers
to come in and talk to the men and
put out their literature, but when
an organizer for the National Lum-
Der Workers Union comes around,
it's a different story. The company
officials have called the Police
twice in the last month because a
member of the NLWU distributed
some leaflets to the workers in the
mill.
In the Seattle Export Lumber
company's mill the same situation
exists. The boss ordered the work.
er with the leaflets away and
threatened to fire any of his men
who Joined the damned outfit"
(meaning the NLWU). In both
cases the workers kept at it until
they distributed their leaflets and
sold the literature, The response of
the workers was pretty good.
What more proof is needed by the
workers to prove that the AT of l.
is controlled by the bosses? Join
the Union of the Working Glass,
the National Lumber Workers I'm
ion, 20 Marion Street.
Lumber Worker.
SCORES SPOKANE SOCIALIST
Spokane, Wash.
Dear Editor:
Several hundred workers answer
Committee for May Day and par
AIDED through the streets of Spo-
kane. At the last moment the So
cialist Party leaders arbitrarily
La gaceta., 1934-08-17
5U ANUNCIO
NO

ST no obtiene la debida
circulation entire personals
de solvercia economical
comprobada y de poder
adquisitivo estable y du-
radero.
la Gaceta'' circula en-
tire los concentrates e in
dustriales de habla espa-
nola Y entire los elementos
sociales de la colonia, en-
porcentaje tan alto que re
sulta olivia la compare
cion con cualquiera otro
organo de publicidad en-
nuestro idioma.
Por ESQ "La Gaceta" re-
sulta ell vehiculo mas ido-
neo para sus propagandas
comerciales.
HAGA listed
UNA PPUEBA
La gaceta., 1934-08-17
PRIAL SERA CANDIDATE
A ~INTERVENTOR

New York, agosto 17.-Frank
? Prial, exdiputado interven-
tor, dijo aver que el sera candi-
u9,o a Intervention en- la sveni-
deras e~lecciones, aunque no sea
das,.1nado pc ria organization
democratica. Los iefes democra
tas de los cinco condados de
New York eStan indecisos en-
tire Grover A. Whaien, excoml-
>icnado de policia, y Frank j.
Taylor ,excomisionado de beae-
ficencia publica. Sc da por Sc
gura la nomination de VIVA
len.