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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
SOVIET
Main Street
BY MYRA PAGE
CHAPTER "
TAKING OVER THE CITY

We hitch our chairs around
one end of a long reading table
on which are spread numerous
magazines and papers Soviet
Union i'm Construction, Our
Truth, the plants daily paper,
Mastery of Technique, and the
popular humOr sheet, Crocodile.
Feodor and Andree continue
their stories. Around us, young
workers are playing chess and
reading. Some come over to list
en- i'm. They are curious. What do
they know of the old days of
want, oppression and terror?
For many centuries cnslaved
men have listened to stories.
and built hopes of freedom. Here
at last, history reverses itself.
These youth. free men, class-cOn
scious workers, are hearing of a
slavery that is for them forever
, past.
In the summer of 1913, Andree
tells us. there was big strike
at the Singer plant, against the
fresh wage-cut that Dixon was
trying to put through. The strik-
ers also demanded all eight hour
day. minimum wages OF one
ruble a day for men and women,
and that the administration
and fOremen act more civil to-
ward the workers." Those VINO
had been fired for taking part
in the First of May Strike must
be re-emplOyed, and any other
worker who lost time through
the fault of the plant must re-
ceive his full pay. 1t was hot
strike, led by Party workers and
lasting a full month. The Mos
COW governor, from whom Dixon
demanded troops, sent a full
force to the little town. Spies
and provOcateurs were active.
Finally hunger broke the strike.
Seventy-twO workers were black.
listed, and many eXiled, as earlier
FeOdOr had been.
Signing, Andree pushes his fur
cap towards his long nose. $50
Dixon and the foreman treated
us almost as hard as ever. But
not quite. They didn't dare, see,
ing our rising spirit" Then came
the imperialist war. Andree was
drafted and sent to the front.
The Singer plant began produc-
ing munitions for the tsar-a
very profitable business. Like,
wise, in Elizabeth, New Jersey,
Singer converted his plant into
a munitions factory. Is this how
funds for his New York sky
scraper accumulated?
As prices rose and food grew
scarce, the revolutionary mood
of Russia's masses kept rising,
rising. After weeks strike in
1915. Dixon was forced to raise
wages by per cent. At the end
of the next year the factory was
again struck. Conditions grew
worse each month that the war
continued. While POdolsk work
ers sWeated by their machines
their wives and children had ia
stand in queues all day, in order
to get bread. Demonstrations for
bread and against the autOcracy
grew; strikes increased. The
Party carried on its work Illegal
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
MultnOmah County Jail
Portland, Ore.

Vi Wv
Dear Editor:
As part of the raids along the
entire coast by police and vigil
antes, our Marine Workers In.
dustrial Union headquarters was
rnided four different times, the
police acting without search war
rants.
The first time the Vigilante
hoodlums broke up the furniture
and stole records of Union bust
ness. In an hour the police fol
lowed up, selling literature, re-
ceipt books, etc. At the next raid
nine union members were ar
rested, and held four hours for in.
vestigation.
Later nine MWIU men were
arrested and held on criminal
syndicalism charges. All are
bound over to the gland jury,
with absolutely no evidence to
prove the charges. The Interna-
tional Labor Defense is handling
the case
sAll of us were put in one
tank at first, but when they
saw how well we got along with
out their phony Kangaroo
Court rules, we were separated
after a protest - and put
three and four to a tank, along
with other prisoners.
For breakfast we have mush,
bread and coffee, always black.
For dinner, one bowl of soup, 7
days week. Supper is either
beans or Stun gulion or what
they call hash.
We realize that these whole
sale arrests are only gestures OF
the bosses to terrorize and In
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" and also openly, making use OF
workers study and dramatic cir
cles. At the front there was fer
ment. Feodor and Andree knew
that soon something must hap
pen.
February 1917. For four days
not a newspaper in POdolsk. The
police force at the Singer plant
was strengthened. Everyone was
tense, waiting. Far into the
night the Party comrades We're
organizing, preparing. Two mes
sengers were sent to Moscow, to
learn developments. They found
barbados going up in the pro-
letarian districts of the capital
The storm had brOkenl Hurry
ing back, they reported, going
from factory to factory: Com
rades! Stop your work The re-
volutiOn has begun! Into the
streets. in support of the work
ers of Moscow and PetrOgrad!'
Every machine in the Singer and
Zengor plants was stilled. BY
ten o'clock all were outside. This.
was February 2S. With boxes
brought from the factory yards.
the first revolutionary meeting
was organized. Bolshiviks, Men
sheviks, nOn-party workers and
even tsarist supporters mounted
the improyised platform, pre-
senting their arguments and
programs to the masses. there
was some confusion, many not
being sure of which leadership
to follow. But it was the BOlsh-
iviks that showed them what
to do, calling upon them to or
ganize their forces, to devide
according to departments and
elect their deputies to city
wide council Soviet right there
in the yard. With their exper-
fenced guidance, this was done
quickly and easily. Dixon, 9th
er administrators and the police
were not to be seen. Every spy
that was recognized was driven
away.
Since it was cold, the workers
asked to be allowed to go back
inside the shops. This their
newly-elected committee allowed
but cautioned them not to begin
work, without first receiving di-
rectiOns from their deputies.
The hundred and fifty dep
uties from the Singer and Zeng-
or plants Immediately held a
meeting in a restaurant close by.
They decided upon the next
steps to be taken, and for strong
er connections with Moscow.
Again the workers were called
out, and a great demonstration
of 1000 marched through the
town. The question was how to
disarm the tsar's police and win
over to their side the seven hun
at tilt
local munitions factory.
The soldiers told the commit.
tee sent to learn their feeling,
I'VE won't hinder you" So the
1000 workers set out for the po-
lice station, to disarm the force.
Many soldiers joined in. I'VE
also are oppressed workers.
they said, IF they could send us
to the front with guns, to defend
the fatherland, with the same
guns, we can defend the revolu-
ton. "One member of the local
police came toward the march
ers. Gentlemen" he cried,
openly weeping, "for thirty-five
years I've been a fool, serving
the tsar. Now / refuse. Take
my arms and don't bother me-"
Laughing at his fright, the
marchers took over his gun.
At the station there was a
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
Real Official Organ

Closer connection between the members and
locals of the National Lumber Workers Union
and the official organ of the Union, the Voice
of Action-this is the intent of the decision
made by the Unions National Committee to
establish special column Of news from the
locals.
Building such column and building
good one-Will do much to establish the paper
as a real organ of the union, as the lumber
workers only paper.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24

fishermen to speak on n. his request was unani-
mously denied.
The hot crucible OF struggle separates the
pure metal from the Stag. The fishermen are
building themselves fighting leadership OF
which to be proud, rejecting the men who have
betrayed them so often.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
WOMAN'S WORLD

Last week Mother BloOr was
mentioned in this column in con-
nectiOn with the Paris Confer
ence. Our readers will be interest
ed in knowing more about this
champion of the working class
who has, for 45 years, been in the
front ranks of the class struggle.
Born in Staten Island in 1862,
she was II when she took her
place in the fight for liberation.
Since then she has always been
in the front ranks of the work
ing class.
There is not a corner of this vast
America that she does not know;
not an important center where she
has not lived and fought. When
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24

GERMANY The food short
age is beginning to be felt acute
ly in many parts of Germany.
Much of the livestock shortage is
due to the fact that the stock is
being slaughtered for lack of fOd-
der. 1t is quite significant that
when Hitler flew to meet ROehm
preparatory TO killing him
Goering waited for four hours
after receiving word that Roehm
was dead. If the news had proved
untrue-and Hitler had been the
one to suffer defeat Gocring
was prepared to go over TO the
side of ROehm at a moments no
tice. There is NO honor among
thieves.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
Did You Know
That

increase In reliet budgets.
1900 New York painters walk
out on strike.
~
New York City-Tenants in IA
buildings push rent strike.
Cleveland workers win fight TO
cut prices OF bread.
New York summer resort work
ers toll Is hours day for 81.
The federal government an
nounces that crop reduction will
continue next year.
n y
Fur union affiliated with TU
UL wins gains in largest fur shop
in Chicago.
Reports from various parts of
the country show big gains in
flop-house population:
=
Aluminium strike of 10000
workers ties up the aluminium
industry.
Portland, Maine, jobless are
forced to break rocks for their
food slips.
y
st. Louis Negro dock workers
strike in support of leaders fired
for organizing.
John Cowper POwys, famous
novelist, backs Leo Gallagher's
candidacy for Justice of the SUI
preme Court of California.
Some of the leading attorneys
of the country have issued Il pro
test against the reign of terror on
the west coast.
5000 Philadelphia whites and
negroes protest prosecutions, de.
spite all efforts or police to halt
them
Having an anti-war leaflet in
his possession drew a 6-month
Jail term for a worker iii Birming-
ham.
Thousands of American teach
ers are working for as low as So
a week-when they can collect
the pay.
A New Jersey mayor issues an
open call for the formation OF
500 vigilantes for use in labor
trouble"
Chief Technocrat Howard
Seott's laboratory" in New Jersey
has been sold by the sheriff for
back taxes 1888.
y
Chicago The Farm Bureau
Federation "a rich farmer group
attacks the unemployed thru the
press and urges a program of fore
ed labor.
Norman Thomas expresses his
pleasure in William Green's new
liberal statements, and says
that Roosevelt is doing very well
with drought relief.
A recent study shows that
miners children in the eastern
districts average getting about
One-third as much milk as the
AAA sets for a standard diet.
Throughout the u. s. more and
more Socialist groups are join
ing the Communists in united
fronts, despite all efforts OF ). p.
officialdom to prevent it.
\
Prices rise when Roosevelt an
nOunces the cOnfiscation OF sill
yer. Government officials are
forced to admit that a big increase
in prices is due in the near flu
ture.
Governor Olson of Minnesota
raises red scare to cover up his
strike-breaking activity of issu-
ing truck permits so that com.
merce moves nearly as much as
before the strike.
While Louisiana has been
spending thousands supporting
troops for Huey Longs raid on
New Orleans, that city has turn
ed 1900 relief subjects out to
face starvation.
y
New York relief teacher fired
for giving food to hungry children
twho didn't happen to have the
documents to prove they were
hungry.
To the hunger marchers that
met with Governor Lehman of
New York he said that he would
introduce no bill for relief OF
hunger: I'VE are busy with char
ter revision. IL is the most i'm
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Comradely yours,
William Kominski.

Note: The LID urges all work
ers and workers organizations to
continue to send letters and pro-
test resolutions to Garfield Davis.
State Parole Board, Olympia.
The Parole Board meets in Walla
Walla In September. We must
force the release of Kominski.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
SOVIET cHINA-Wbile in OIL

SOVIET CHINA-While in 9th
er districts of China people are
facing starvation by the millions,
the country's only prosperity is
to be found in the Soviet re-
gions. Some Soviet regions have
increased farm production $50
per cent, while manufactures
are also being stimulated. In
Shanghai the rickshaW men are
now on strike.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
Around = the
world inC minutes.

GERMANY-With the failure
of many banks, savings are being
rapidly withdrawn as the crisis
deepens.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24

The following letter is from
William Kominski, last Of the
Frandsen defendants, who is
serving IS months in Walla
Walla.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
Workers Correspondence

timidate the workers into sub
mission.
Fellow workers and brother M
VIII members! Don't let these
tactics undermine this struggle
we have waged for the past 81
days, but keep fighting until
we have won our demands!
George Petrovich and d. Austin
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
August Is, 1894.

August Is, 1884.
Dear Comrades:
l received your welcome letter
a few days ago, and am glad to
hear the rest of the Frandsen
Defendants are out.
Yes, i could use little money
to get a few necessities that are
classed as luxuries here.
| also send greetings to the
LID, Voice of Action, Communist
Party, UCL, and other workers
organizations that are fighting
for my release; and hope to see
you soon.
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SOVIET UNION

lenge to widespread falsehOOds
in the capitalist press of the en-,
tire world, Soviet Russia an
nounces a crop harvest that is
even greater than the record
breaking one of last year.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24

CUBA - 5000 mail and tcle-
graph workers go on strike.
IRELAND-4,000 Dublin print
ers tie up all the city's papers
on August l3.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24

LINZ, Austria The National
Committee of Revolutionary So
cialists of Upper Austria has de-
cided to affiliate to the Moscow
world headquarters of the Inter
national Red Aid.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24

FRANCE united front oil
Socialists and Communists is
making effective a nationwide
series of giant demonstrations
against the governments fascist
policies.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24

Hearst's latest idea is to have
all aliens submit to finger print
ing, thus giving them the status
of criminal suspects. Boston is
doing it. Hearst's lackey writer
Richard Washburn Child let's the
kitty out Of the bag when he tells
that the U. s. Attorney General
and Secretary OF Labor were pre-
vented from putting this system
into national operation only by
mass pressure.
Evening star., 1934-08-02

CHINESE TEA COMES PACKED IN
ATTRACTIVE POTS AND CAM
NISTERS (above). THE DOUBLE
DECK SANDWICH TRAY (center)
Is A LEAF PATTERN IN WHITE
CHINA. THE LOWER VASES
ARE OF HEAVY FROSTED GLASS
WITH RAISED DESIGNS. ALL
SKETCHED IN WASHINGTON
SHOPS.
in appearance and has a large spiral
for crushing the ice. 1t Is not very
large. is painted pleasant green and
will be a great help.
Then to hang around your vari-
GUS cIecanters and bottles are those
nice names cut from thin silvery
looking metal with chains to keep
them in place These are 81 each
and If you don't need them they
would make nice gifts at some
future date. Clipsies, too, in little
silver designs to tell whose glass
belongs TO whom, make charming
gifts, and are often hard to find,
especially at Christmas time.
DOLKA-DOTTED cocktail glasses
= with shower Of all colors Of dots
scattered over them and different
colored rims and bases are being sold
at a reduced figure and are quite
worth looking at.
Double-deck sandwich and cake
plates are another Summer buy.
There is q very pretty one in heavy
white glazed ware in the form OF
overlapping leaves with center rod Of
brass, but If you wish to be more
spiffy you would probably prefer the
large chromium one with rings on
the underSide Of the upper deck to
slip paper napkins into, 1t is very
clever and is priced at $40.
A lovely effect In frosted glassware
is produced by a circle Of dancing
figures which are in partial relief on
the underside Of the plates leaving
the upper side with high glaze. The
underpart is frosted and this combi-
nation of dullneSs and bright glaze is
very pleasing There are salad bowls
and plates and finger bowls.
OF somewhat the same nature and
standing halfway between it and
lalique glassware is some heavy,
frosted ware in vases and bowls of
different shapes that are new. The
glass is half an inch thick with the
design raised on the outside. The
interlacing of long grasses with here
and there a grasshopper or beetle
makes an interesting design and it
has a certain look Of coolneSs also.
A pleasant Summer gift suggestion
is a pair of book ends in ivory white
composition material in the shape Of
two horns of plenty filled with col
ored flowers. They would make
nice birthday remembrance or bridge
prize and are useful as well as orna-
mental.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
Egg Bouquet.

Boil six eggs hard for 25 minutes
Peel and cut them in halves Take
out the yolks and mash; mix with
SardineS faxed fine or finely minced
ham, adding some melted butter to
moisten. Season with salt, pepper
and mustard and put back carefully
in the white halves. Put a layer
about an inch deep of mashed potato,
which has been seasoned, and to
which has been added two tablespoon
fulS each of chopped green pepper and
chopped pimentos. Make depressions
in which to stand the half eggs, and
put in the oven to heat thoroughly
Place tiny sprig of parsley in each
egg, and serve in the dish in which
it is baked.
Evening star., 1934-08-02
Uncle Ray
From Log to Liner.
Greeks.


EYES are painted on the front Of
many Chinese boats or "tunkE.
and when a Chinaman was asked TIA
reason. he replied: No have eyes
no can see
The same idea may have been be.
hind the custom in ancient Greecs
Of painting eyes at the front, or prov
OF many OF their ships The eye'
were Of goodly size. Though Of nc
help in seeing they were probably
a comfort TO the sailors on dark
nights In the course Of time the
/ eyes were left of. but holes were
! cut In the same places, well above
| the waterlne, and anchor ropes were
| passed through them.
Sailors Of Athens placed statues ot
! Athena on board their vessels. They
| hoped that the goddess would guard
| them from danger. perhaps BY telling
| Poseidon,. god Of the sea, TO spare
them from storms.
Greece is a land Of many bays ano
| harbors. and In ancient times there
were thousands OF Greeks who learned
the art Of sailing. Part Of their learn
| ing came from Phoenicia, part from
Egypt Like the Phoenicians, they
made long voyages, and Greek sailors
reached the British coast.
Ancient folk, as we have seen, found
the way for more men TO row a boat
of given length by placing rowers
at different levels. Holes were cut
, in the sides Of ships for the oars
to pass through. Men sat on beams or
benches inside. and-in the case OF
Greeks, at least-rowed to the tune
Of piping music.
The Greeks liked the idea Of hav-
ing different levels of rowers. They
built ships which were fitted to have
three, four, five or even more rows
or banks" of oars.
The lowermost oars appear to have
been about Z feet long, those next
above 10 feet, the third row IS feet,
the fourth Is feet and the fifth 19
feet.
An oar 10 feet long would not have
been easy to handle if it had not been
for weighing" Lead or iron was
placed at the upper end of each extra
long oar. near the handle, and This
gave balance to it.
1t Is figured that about 300 men
we're needed to row Greek ships with
five banks of oars. In addition, there
were probably two dozen sailors to
handle the sails. On windy days the
sails might give full speed ahead.
but In calm weather the vessel could
have made little progress without the
work of the oarsmen.
Some Greek ships were more than
$50 feet long and could carry from
800 TO soc tons Of cargo. As many as
80 horses we're taken across the sea
in q single vessel with three banks
of oars
CFor history section of your scrap
book
If you would like the new leahet,
"Fifty-flve Riddles and AnsW ers," send
Scent stamped return envelop to me
in care of this newspaper.
UNCLE RAY.
(CopyriRht. 1934)
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Slightly dazzled by the sight Of so
many hearts, he opened the bidding.
"One spade" overcalled South lyric
ally. West and North passed. Two
hearts" continued East. Three
clubs" replied South. West passed.
North passed.
Three hearts" said East, loosen
ing his collar slightly and preparing
for battle. Three spades" glowered
South, paying no attention to his part
ner's inferential preference. West
passed. North passed.
-Four heartsI" said East.
"Double" said South.
South laid down the queen of
spades. North overlook with the ace
and returned small spade. As South
beloved afterward, "Timing Timing
Haven't you ever heard of timing?"
North should examine his hand care
fully.
Tricks in spades-One (now gomez
Tricks in hearts-None
Tricks in diamonds-None Che has
possible stopper.
Tricks in clubs-None.
Possibilities of obtaining the lead
None.
Who is going to take the setting
Evening star., 1934-08-02
How It Started
BY JEAN NEWTON.
Wall Paper.

pAPERNG the walls OF houses.
which as q means Of interior
decoration has In recent years enjoyed
renaissance. first became fashion,
able about the middle of the seven
teenth century. However. its earliest
use dates back over q hundred years
fnrther. when II began to be used In
Europe. The paper first employed was
imported from China.
That papering the walls Of houses
was not an entirely popular innova-
ton is evidenced by the plant Of
Isaac Ware In his book Classic
Architecture. published in 1855, that
wall paper was suppianting sculpture.
among other established forms Of In
terror decorationl
(copyrisht. 1p34.D