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Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-02-22
A LEKvAROS KENYER
MEG MOCSAR BACSI

Nehany honapja valahogy el-
sirtam magam ebben az ujsag-
ban.
"Lekvaros kenyer" cimen ir-
tam az amerikai gyerekek nyo-
morusagarol, akiknek az arcaroi
a depressio regen letoriilte a
mosolygast
Akik ebben tejjel-mezzel TO-
lyo orszagban idaig mem talal-
koztak csak a panasszal, a mel
kulozessel, nyomorral, akik
apro banyaszhazakban, varosi
nyomortanyakon idaig csak az
&let atkait ismertek.
Akkoriban valahogy nagyon
sziven iitott egy Greg banyasz
levele, aki orommel irta, hogy az
vi deal kovetkezteben megint
megtanultak mosolyogni a gye-
rekek, SGT hogy egy darab lex
varos kenyer~az egyikbol a notat
is kicsalta.
Talan meg is bantam, mikor
a "lekvaros kenyeret' megir-
tam.
Ugy ereztem, hogy az olvasok
ziikert szorakozni kivannak,
hogy nyomorusagbol jut mind
nyajunknak elegendo kar tehat
meg a mas bajaval is az Greg
emberszivekbe markolni.
Tevedtem.
Los Angelesb6l el6bb level,
azutan csomag jott egy nehany
jo embertol, akik ARA kertek,
hogy benne levo ruhanemiit
juttassam el azoknak a szegeny
gyerekeknek, akik kulonosen ra
vannak szorulva. Merthogy a
lekvaros kenyer historiajat OIL
vastak.
A csomagot elkiildtem egy
olyan banyatelepre, aho1 sztraj-
koltak es ahonnan a multi heten
irtak meg, hogy a benne levo
ruhanak gyerekek is, de fell
nottek is orultek.
Es ha Los Angelesben a ba-
rataim EFT az irast ujra o1vas-
SAX, akkor meg kell erezniiik,
hogy banyaszgyerekeknek igaz
oromet szereztek, ami vegre sok
mindennel feler ebben az elet-
ben.
Ezzel lekvaros kenyer iigyet
lezarom, es ma ait remeljuk
mindnyajan, hogy nyomorusag
nemsokara egeszen veget er eb-
ben az orszagban, hogy mum
kasember mem lesz adomanyokra
szorulva.
Nehany hete egy mask iras
latott napvilagot ebben az ujsag-
ban, aminek a kozleset szinten
megbantam.
Egyeni termeszetii iras volt.
Szomoru tell idoben, rideg,
sotet napon ARA gondoltam,
hogy mennyi jo emberrel talal-
koztam az eletben hogy ha-
nyan nyujtottak testveri kezet
es kenyerdarabot felem, mikor
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-02-22
AZ. UTOLSO SO

A bankokban dolgozo, bankok-
ban meghuzodo gangszterekrol
sokat beszeltek mar ebben az or
szagban, miota Roosevelt bank
igazgatok barsonyfoteles szobai-
max figgonyet felrehuzta.
Eliszonyodva latta a men,
zet, hogy az "ipar kapitanyai"
a Morganok, Mitchelek, a
Kahnok, a Wigginsek mikeppen
fosztottak XII EFT az erszagot,
hogy mikeppen csaltak, loptak,
hol a torveny betiiin beliil, hol
AIT egeszen megkeriilve.
Es minel tovabb folyik a
szenatusi bizottsag kihallgatasa,
annal tobb blzt, mocskot, szeny-
nyet, iszonyatot .talaltak fel az
orszagnak.
Neha ait hisszik, hogy NOES
kosabb, aljasabb bankarokat mem
latunk mar. Neha ait hittuk
hogyha Morgan megcsalhatta az
adozassal az orszagot, akkor mar
becstelenebb latvanyban mem
lesZ resZink.
Mikor kisiilt, hogy Wiggins a
leghatalmasabb bank minden ha-
talmaval rafekudt a gyarosokra
hogy a munkabereket levagjak
nikor a sajat negyedmillios fize-
teset felemelte, akkor ait hitttk,
hogy elertiink az emberi alavalo-
sag fenekere.
Mikor megmutattak, hogy az
egyik detroiti trust kompania a
rabizott arvapenzeken tonkre-
ment es bukott vallalatok papir-
jait vasarolta az arvaknak, hogy
azoktol maga a bank szabadul-
jon, akkor ait hittuk, hogy a
bank-gangszterek ocsmanysaga-
ban az utolso szot mar kimond-
tax.
Hat mem mondtak XII.
Es tevedett b0lcs Rabbi
Akiba, aki ait mondta, hogy
nincsen vi a nap alatt, inert
most a bankrablasok lgyeben
egeszen ujat produkaltak.
Kisiilt ugyanis, hogy amig
Morgan, Mitchell, Kahn meg a
tobbi bankcsalo a becsiiletes jo-
vedelmi ado alo1 is mindenfe1e
torvenyes furfangokkal kibujtak,
addig az egyik nagy detroit bank
olyan adot is fizetett, arnit mem
kellett volna fizetnie.
A bank evi kimutatasat hami-
san csinaltak.
Ere angolul szebb szot talal-
tax $ e1neveztek hamisitast
window dressing mex, (szepi-
tesnek) hogy senkit ne ke1ljen
betenni a hiivosre. de a teny
megis csak az, hogy a kozonseg-
mex hamis merleget mutattak.
Sokkal nagyobb 'jovedelmet
mutattak XII, mint amennyit
tenyleg kerestek. SGT a .szovetse-
81 bankszakert6k szerint egyal-
talan mem is kerestek mar az
utols6 esztend6kben.
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-02-22

hogy hajdani jo magyarok elfe-
lejtve nincsenek.
XII GoNDoL RAJUK?
Mem nagyon formas, de szivb6l
j0v6 valasz H. M. cikkere.
Hat vegre megis akad csak
valaki,
Ki megpenditette reg mem
hasznalt hurt
A szivekben .rejlo lelkiismeret,
hej!
| AEON fajo. mely dalokat huz.
Szegeny emberek konnye, vidam
bankettek,
Szivbol adott alamizsna S oda-
lokott adomany;
Ugy-e nagy kulonbseg az test
yer,
Ha sziv muzsikal neha a LIANT
jan.
Ki gondol rajuk? Mi Condo
lunk;
Poeta szivekben gyakran szol a
nota,
Mem mellet vero "nagy en-
berek",
De Mocsar bacsik nevei kotta
TIE prozaban H. NJ. en- egy kurta
versben,
Megemlekeziink jo emberekr6l
Vajjon ezentul a "nagy embe-
rex"
Dobnak maid csontot "ban.
kettekrol."
A. G. 10th.
EFT a verset is nyugtazni
akartam.
Mem azert, inert A. G. 10th
a nyugtat elvarna, hanem azert,
inert emberszivekre akarok mu-
tatni.
Tele van az elet jajjal. bajja1
es zokszoval.
A kozelet porondjan azok Was
kodnak, akikben a 1egtobbszor
csalodunk. Es inert a nyomo-
rusag is vertet yer a szivekre,
meg a csalodas is osszeroppaht
benniinket, manapsag mar mem
igen hisziink egymasnak.
Pedig szebb a vilag, erteke.
sebb az elet, ha a jot, a szepet
keressiik es nezzik egymasban,
es batran hihetjiik, hogy ma is
a legszebb erzesek tanyaznak
az emberi szivekben.
Mem lenne erdemes elni sem,
ha az ember hitet az ember-
tarsaiban elvesztene, ha az en-
Der mem tudna tobbe az eletben
viragokat ta1alni.
Meg kellett hat irnom, ,hogy
lekvaros kenyerr6l valo szo-
moru nota Sc hangzott Ell meg
hallgatas nelkiil $ hogy az ell
esettek segitesere kinyujtott
testverkezek sincsenek feledve.
Es amig az e1et szaz kiizdel-
meben emberek id6t es faradsa-
got vesznek maguknak, hogy a
napsiiteses Californiab6l gondol-
janak lekvaros kenyerert esen-
ked6 gyerekekre, amig az A.
G. Tothok verset irnak reg
elkoltozott Mocsarr6l, addig sok-
sok szepseg van az eletben, ad-
dig batran kereshetnik Is talal-
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-02-22

gatosaga a kor szellemehez es
az amerikai szokasokhoz alkal-
mazkodott, mikor elrendelte,
hogy moi osztalyokat is fognak
szervezni.
A ferfiak Macy aranyszama az
eddigi osztalyoknal a n6ket ne
ma tagokka tette, ami egyszers-
mint AIT is jelentette, hogy mem
vettek tevekeny reszt az egyleti
eletben.
Ha itt-ott Ell is mentek, leg
inkabb azert. hogy tagsagdija-
kat fizessek, a gyileseken a
hangjukat igen ritkan 'hallottuk
s mem is nagyon torodtek vele,
hogy mirol folyt a targyalas.
Termeszetes, hogy ilyen mo-
don az egylet mem adta meg a
szamukra a szikseges tarsas-
.eletre sem az alkalmat es amig
ferfitagok ait is talaltak az
egyleti eletben, a n6knek a ma
gyar egyletek csak eletbiztosi-
tast jelentettek idaig.
Ez meg jarta azokban az id6k-
ben, mikor a szegeny magyar
asszony tizenot-husz burdossal
volt kenytelen kinlodni, mikor
orulhetett, ha vasarnap delutan
ket oral piheno jutott neki es
eszebe sem jutott, hogy szivesen
elmenne gyiilesre, hogy szora-
kozasra is lenne neha sziksege.
Ma azonban EFT az eletet nem
ismerjiik, a burdos rendszer ell
mutt kozottunk es a magyar
asszonyok tobbe-kevesbe belle
illeszkedtek az amerikai, vagy a
magyar-amerikai e1etbe.
A hazimunkan kivul sajat
egyeni eletiiket is elni akarjak
egy kis reszben es kulonosen az
egyhazi eletben ait has znosan
tapasztaljak mindenfele, ahol ar
ra megadjak nekik az alka1mat.
Ahol tevekeny noegyletek mil
kodnek egy-egy egyhaz kebele-
ben, oft az egyhaz viragzik.
Es ha all ez a magyar asz-
szonyra, aki l5-2O evvel ez-
elott meg lie sem ulhetett sok
munkatol, szazszor jobban all
ez az amerikai magyar lanyokra,
akik a tarsaseletet megszoktak.
Egyszeruen arrol van $40,
hogy hol nyilik meg annak a
lehetosege a szamukra.
A magyar egyletek ezelott mem
gondoltak meg ra, hogy az egy-
hazaknal miikodo leanykorok
milyen hasznos szervei az egy-
hazi eletnek, de masodik nem-
zedek megszervezesenel a Yer
hovay Segelyegylet szemben ia
lalta magat ezzel kerdessel.
Es inert Verhovay Segely-
egylet igazgatosaga es tisztikara
most igazan komolyan veszi a
szervezes munkajat, termesze-
tes, hogy mem zarkozhatott el
S mem is akart egy percre sem
elzarkozni tole, hogy noi oszta-
lyok felallitasara alkalmat adjon
a tagsagnak.
Valoszinlleg mem csalodunk,
ha ait hissziik, hogy EFT peldat
nemsokara a tobbi orszagos ma
gyar egyesulet is fogja kovetni,
inert kezenfekv6. hogy az hasz-
nara lesz minden novekedesre,
fejf6desre torekvo egyletnek.
Termeszetesen noi oszta.
lyok felallitasa mem jelenti, hogy
most mar sziiksegkeppen Minis
denutt fognak n6i osztalyokat
szervezni.
Ahol annak sziiksege mem
all fem, ahol a notagok ait
mem kivanjak es ahol az mem
lenne alkalmas fejlodesre, oft
valoszinileg ezentul is kozos
osztalya lesz a tagsagnak.
Valoszinii az is. hogy az an
gol nyelvii vi osztalyok szerveze-
senel el6szor kozos osztalyokat
a11itanak fe1 kesHhh fOpiak
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-02-22

eheztem. Eszembe jutottak ell
felejtett sziirke magyarok, akik
szegenyek voltak, Gle akik letort
nagyart soha tires kezzel el mem
kiildtek hazuktol.
ARA gondoltam, hogy' azokra
a regen elkoltozott sziirke ma
gvarokra emlekszik-e rattan
kiviil mas is, hiszen husz evvel
ezelott nap-nap utan tucatszam-
ra jelentek meg naluk szegeny
emberek, akik ra voltak egy
niklire vagy egy dajmra $50
rulva; es hat lehetetlen, hogy a
Wechslerek, Torokok, Pete
i rex, a Mocsarok hajdani Gus
tomerjei kozul csak en- elnek.
xxi gondol rajuk" cimen olyan
kisebbszerii tetemre-hivast rem
deztem es hat - 1ega1abb egy
testver megjelent hivasra.
A Buffaloi Hirado egy nem-
regi szamaban a kovetkezo vers
jelent meg, amely ait mutatja,
hogy hajdani jo magyarok elfe-
lejtve nincsenek.
XII GoNDOL RAJUK?
Mem nagyon formas, de szivb6l
jov6 valasz H. M. cikkere.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Officials Try To Delay
Trial of Four Workers

CENTRALIA, Wash, Sept. -
Because the officials involved
in the Centralia riot case wish
to avoid political exposure be-
fore the general election, and
also because Prosecutor Grimm
wants to go deer hunting, they
are seeking to postpone the trial.
Workers everywhere will rec
ognize this ease as a test ease.
The reason Niedfelt, SetOsky, Le-
Baron and Huff we're arrested
was that the sheriff knew their
names, not that they were doing
anything contrary to the law.
Their purpose at the Aust farm
on the day of their arrest was
to protest the sale of the farm,
requesting the sheriff to grant
time for Mrs. Aust to arrange
a loan, as recommended in a tele-
gram from Washington, ID. G.
Letters of protest are going
to Judge Studebaker, Sheriff
Blankenship of Chehalis, and es-
pecially to Prosecutor VIM.
Grimm of Centralia, whose broth
er was the Grimm killed in the
fight of the IWW's in 1919 to
defend their hall.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Hits Yakima Herald
Continued from Page One)

Just how much this rich agri-
cultural district is going to bene-
fit the hop pickers, and just how
much like work and songs they
will feel can be estimated by a
little simple arithmetic, using
the Morning Herald's own fig
ureS.
There are to be, according to
the Herald, 1000 pickers, also 1870
other workers. The pay roll daily
to be $1,000. Which means Sc cents
per day per worker.
S1.25 Weekly Wage
The job, again according to the
Herald, is to last three weeks
and 1000 pickers are to pick Co.,
600 pounds in the three weeks,
which means an average of 300
pounds per picker, or, at the SIPS
per hundred pounds, the price
for picking hops, SIPS per week.
Some hop farms in the Moxie
District are allowing little boys
and girls as young as eight years
old to work in the fields.
As you can see, the long spell
in the Morning Herald is just
pure capitalist ballyhOO!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
VERA Cuts Noon Hour
To Speed Up Women
By a Woman Worker

SEATTLE, Sept. 13 - While
working at the sewing room of
the VERA program, one of the
speed-up methods of the work
room was to cut a few minutes
off the lunch hour each day. In
stead of having 80 minutes for
lunch, sometimes as much as 10
minutes are cut off.
At closing time because they
had too few people checking out,
some women took as long as 40
minutes. Consequently, when the
bell rang there was a rush for
the door. Often workers got hurt
in their attempt to be first so
that they would not have to wait
too long. IL saw one woman have
the wind knocked out of her and
her ribs seriously bruised" one
worker reported to the Voice of
Action.
One group of women worked
cutting old rags for quilts. They
even cut up old sweaters for the
batting. Almost constantly, due
to the poor ventilation, etc., the
women coughed constantly. Some
one was always sick.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
COrreLL Heads
Ore. Workers.
Election Slate

| PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 10
Despite the fact that the bosses
of the State of Oregon organized
reign of terror against the
workers and used the capitalist
press and radio in order to in
timidate workers and sympathiz-
ers from signing the Communist
Party petitions to keep the Par
ty from going on the ballot, more
than one hundred voters held a
nominating assembly at the I'm
employed Unity Center, Port
land. Saturday, September 8, and
nominated 10 candidates for ma
tional, state and local positions
for the coming general election.
Louis Olson, section organizer
of the Communist Party, now out
on $4,000 bail on charges of Grim
inal syndicalism, presented the
Communist Party Congressional
Election Platform to the assem-
bly, and explained the need for
a workers ticket on the ballot.
Major Milliner, formerly of the
Oregon National Guard, was ell
ected chairman of the assembly,
and Mary Linden, young worker,
was elected secretary.
The following candidates were
elected to run under the slogan,
Communism Against Fascism"
independent: Harry COrrell of
Salem, for Governor; Earl Stew
ard of Irrington, now in Jail fac
ing two charges of criminal syn
dicalism, for Secretary of State;
Louis Olson, Portland. for Con
gresham from the Third Dis
trict; n. A. Mackrill and Louis
lessen, for MulnOmah County
Commissioners; Dirk De Jonge,
also in Jail facing two criminal
syndicalism charges, for State
Senator, Thirteenth District; Viz
gil Akin, William Linden, George
Butterfield, Richard Lovelace,
Ray Billings, Clair Fessler, Ar
thur Hayes. Kenneth Fitzgerald,
Harold Foster, Beatrice DeBOOrd,
Howard McPeak, Mary GoOld
and Edward Denny, also in the
County Jail facing criminal syn
dicalism charges, were nominal
ed as candidates for state repre-
sentatives from the Fifth Dist
riot, MultnOmah County.
Arthur Hayes is the first Ne
gro ever to run in this state for
the legislature.
After the announcement was
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Workers CatechiSed
BY a Woman Correspondent

SEATTLE, Sept. 13-When l
applied for work today on the
VERA for the sewing room, /
signed my name Is times, / count
ed them, a worker reported last
Friday. Health questions, person
al questions OF every sort, regu-
lar CONSUMPTION questions were
asked.
when / refused the job be-
cause the wages were so low and
| would earn only q little more
than my food, the women in
charge were very nasty.
you are the first one in 600
to refuse. When other work
comes along You won't be among
those employed" was told. THE
workers must bear along with
the government during this eri-
sis and they would be remember
ed as soon as business picked
up"
We must organize against this
forced labor and drastic cut II
we are to get through the win
ter.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Send Delegates To
arCOngreSS

SEATTLE, Sept. 10 - From
Coast to Coast, in Frisco, Mime
apolis, New Orleans, Detroit, Bir-
mingham, Boston, Cleveland,
preparations are being made for
the great trek to the Second L..
S. Congress Against War and
Fascism, which is to be held in
Chicago during the last three
days of September.
In large cities and small
towns thousands of workers, pro-
fessionals, farmers, members of
religious organizations, are meet
ing to elect delegates to the
Congress. Trucks are being cor
raled, time tables checked, cars
prepared for the cOnveregnce
on Chicago. In one town alone
in Arkansas, state which last
year sent no delegates to the
Congress, it is already reported
that fifteen are planning to go.
They will include sharecroppers,
miners, students, and members
of church organizations. They
will travel by truck and auto
mobile.
In New York City, a special
Anti-War train has been charter
ed to take many Eastern dele
gates to the Congress.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14

made that there would be a
nominating assembly to nomin-
ate candidates on workers tick
ct, the Oregon Journal, anti
working class paper began carry
ing vicious editorials against the
assembly, attacking the Party,
and laying the basis for police i'll
timidation which was evident
when the workers were entering
the hall.
Despite this intimidation more
than 100 qualified voters as re-
CURED by law, were present at
the assembly.
Earlier in the campaign, when
attempts were being made to
secure signatures to put the par
ty on the ballot, the capitalist
sheet of Astoria, Oregon, ran a
printed list of every signer of
the petitions.
Relief officials Immediately
threatened to cut off the relief
of the unemployed signers, and
many job holders were threaten
ed with immediate dismissal.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
By a Worker Correspondent

WINLOCK, Wash, Sept. 13-
Citizens are protesting the re-
cent appointment by the relief
head here of a man with a Grim
inal record to the office of Play
ground Supervisor. While we'll
educated and competent family
men are forced to work on sewer
crews at the most taxing of man
ual labor, their children are I'M
der the supervision of a man
without education except that
gained in reform schools, a man
with no family nor children, who
at one time was faced with statu-
tory charges, who has in fact no
qualifications except that he is
LegiOnnaire.
The possessor of such a clean
civilian record, such sturdy quail
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Soft Positions For
Crooks; Honest
Men Dig Sewers!

ifications for the guidance of
children boosted that all play
ground equipment had been do
mated by the Legion. But at the
next meeting of the iCty Council
bill was rendered the city to
cover the costs. The Welfare
faker who allotted him this job
has refused to give the names of
the committeeman who OK'd the
appointment.
Petty Grafters
Al CapOne wouldn't stand
knee-high to a duck as racket
eer in WinlOck. Recently bids
were requested for a septic tank.
The winner bid several hundred
dollars above the lowest. The
local candidate for County Com
missioner, Jack Prouty, tried to
stampede the council into ac-
ceptance of semi-final estimates
on the job disregarding the fact
that the engineer stated that no
authentic figures could be
shown at the time And after
the foregoing burlesque of good
government it was discovered
that bids had not included the
cost of a cover for the septic
tank!
PrOuty was appointed by the
mayor under extreme pressure
from the relief workers to in
vestigate the starvation meth
DDS of the relief set-up. No re-
port ever resulted. and when ask
ed to explain, Prouty (playing
skill-ball with his political cro-
nies) stated that he thought
everything was being taken
care of and the committee had
resigned.
Voters, these are the rackets,
and the politicians responsible
for them, that have robbed your
pockets, defrauded your gov
eminent, mishandled your pub
lie affairs for years! This fall
they ask you to re-clect them.
Remember that class conscious
workers and farmers must fight
side by side. Preserve a united
front Vote for the only labor
defender in the class struggle!
Vote Communist!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Workers on CP Slate
Continued from Page Onel

District; Paul Niemela for State
Senator. 3lst District; Alan Max,
Communist Party organizer, for
State Senator, 35th District; two
prominent Negro Workers, Rev
els CaytOn and James Taylor, for
State Senator and Representa-
tive 47th District; John Laurie,
district head of the Trade Union
Unity League, Robert Smith and
Ed HendricksOn, for Senator and
Representatives, 33rd District.
Areline Randall, Business Man
ager of the Voice of Action, and
Charles Denyes, Bothell leader of
the unemployed, for Senator and
Representative of the 46th Dis
trict; Heating for State Senator,
32nd District; Kent Bradley and
G. ID. McLennen, veteran long
shoremen who participated in
the 1919 stopping of munitiOn
loading of the Steamer Delight,
for Representatives from the
34th District; and Lowell Wake
field, Editor of the Voice of Ac-
ton, for State Representative
from the 43rd District.
The highlight of the conven-
ton was a telegram pledging
support to the Party Platform,
from the candidates selected
from the Communist Party eau
Gus meeting in the Woodmen of
the World Hall in Bellingham.
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atOr, but because of his activity
in the RWPA. IL have been
chairman of that organization
since its formation, in which |
helped. | have led a number of
committees in struggles for re-
lief In fact | have always been
active in the struggles Of the
working class. These things can
be expected under the Capital
list system and its tools-Only a
united front of workers and farm
ers-a real working class gov
eminent, will stop these stomach
robbers from prosecuting the
workers"
Class-Conscious Worker
From the age of II, when he
was forced to quit school and go
to work in the mines, Bob
Young has ben active in the I'M
ion labor movement. He was
born in Tennessee, which after
the Civil War, allowed only IA
few mnothS schooling each year.
Working as a trapper-boy in
the coal mines, Young joined the
X of l., and after it was sold out
by its leaders and crushed by
the bosses, he Joined the CM
WA at COalfield, Tenn. He was
among the leaders of the Corbin
Hill mine strike which lasted 10
months and was victorious. Until
the age of "a, he fought in the
ranks of this union. In 1902 he
came to MOntesanO and worked
for 10 years, mainly as rigging
singer, in Grays Harbor camps.
As young enters the lists as
CP candidate for State Senator
this fall, he has lived in the state
for 80 years, during which he
has been active in lumber work
ers' labor struggles as their I'M
oragnized condition would per-
NIT. Since 1924 he has been a
Charter Member of the Carpcn-
tiers and Joiners Union at Mon
tesanO. He voted Socialist all his
life until the Party lost its mill
tant leader, Eugene DebS. Since
the reactionary element took
Deb's place, Young has realized
that a militant worker can only
support party that fights for
the working class without fear
or favor. The activities of the
CP in the struggle for better
living conditions of the working
class, won YOung's attention and
then his whole-hearted support.
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FLASH

RENTON. Wash, Sept. 10
Latest news from the forced
labor strike here states picket
line turned back forty men so
effectively that relief officials
were forced to shut down the
job completely.
RENTON. Wash, Sept. 13-
Striking in protest of the new
VERA program of forced labor
and the cut in relief, workers
here and in Burien went out on
strike Friday.
Postponing the regular bust
ness, the United Producers of
Washington devoted their meet
ing Saturday night to making
plans for the strike activity. A
from Lake Burien report
ed that the same plan of forced
labor was in effect at Burien and
the workers had struck. A rank
and file committee of Is was elect
ed to make the demands and
call another mass meeting.
w. III. Murray, member of the