Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Convention
HighHghts
BY Garland Thomas


friend. Yet IL Is no different
than any other capitalist press.
1t throws you the soppage and
keeps the meat of profits VS.,
human rights. These and other
charges were hurled in Il vigor.
Gus speech by Brother Smith,
web pressman from Seattle local.
How do newspapers comply
with child labor laws? Children
under Is aren't supposed to
work. Newspapers get around
this by letting a middleman hire
the children to sell their dirty
prOpagandistic sheets.
What writer is free to utter
what he really believes? Not
even Brisbane, Americas jour
nalistic god. He is the lackey of
William Randolph Hearst,
In 1921 newsprint (blank
paper was delivered to news
papers here for $50 a ton. Now
Its down to $40. Every other
product used by newspapers,
also has gone down, and is OF
better grade.
Yet how do newspapers meet
these falling price costs? by re-
ducing wages and laying off men!
California Boycott
The resolution recommending
boycott of all California prod
ucts until troops are called of
the docks in San Francisco, met
with the hottest debate of the
convention, but finally was
adopted unanimously.
This is no Sunday School pic
|nlc." shouted a delegate, ans
Wcring moan that II boycott
would throw our brother union
lists out of work"
I'D be willing to boycott Cal
ifornia products from now until
Tom Mooney is released, and
some other of the states black
marks wiped out ! Ground
APPLAUSE.
1t would have done Wall
Street bankers and their bench
men in the United States gov
eminent, who through the We
hiclc of the MIRA, are leading
American workers and students
into another imprriulist blood
/ bath. good to witness the display
jOt bigOtrd natiOnaliSm eX-
hihlted at the gathering.
.IingOiStiC uttcranceS made by
Dad Young, Joe Reid and others
brought rounds of warm ap-
plausc from the audience.
Good Americans"
Mr.. Banker of the State De-
partmemt of Conservation told
the body, The American work
crS have had to go through much
during the past few years, but
they've suffered all their hard.
ships cheerfully and have re-
manned good. patriotic Ameri-
cans. think they are to be
commended"
10 remain the kind of good
Americans" Banker alludes to,
it is necessary to pitch the
country into war over foreign
investment, enlist in the army,
and shoot down his prOletarian
brothers across the lines.
The delegates to the COnven'
ton. leaders in State A + of L
unions, are those kinds of Ameri-
cans. They can be counted upon
by Wall Street to beat the war
drums in the ears of the rank
and file when the time comes to
start the slaughter. They are
playing their role well. 1t is a
pity that certain sections of the
bOurgeOisie, such as the Citi-
zcns' Emergency Committee, do
not realize their value.
Now if only the tOiling masses
of this country were as serville
to American Capitalism as Ban
ker made them out to be, the
picture would indeed be rosy
one for big business.
But fortunately they are not.
H R 1893 Tense
In the atmosphere cOnjured
up by the red baiters, no dele
gate had the audicity to bring
up HR 1898, the Workers Social
and Unemployment Insurance
Bill, which was tagged by Dave
Levine in the Seattle City COun-
ell as a typical Communist"
measure.