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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

Arthur ]. Hayes, Negro worke
den, cook; Richard Lovelace,
veterans organizer and bonus
march leader; Howard Nc
Peak.
For County Commissioners,
Multnomah County, Louis Jes-
sen and N. A. Mackrill, railroad
worker.
Astoria-Clatsop County
For Mayor, Emelia Peuhk-
urinen, cannery workers organ
izer; County Commissioner,
Walter Hekkala, UFL organic
er; State Representative, first
district, Z. Pickmosa, section
organizer Communist Party;
State Senator, 18th district,
Paul Dale, Columbia River
organizer Of the Fishermen
and Cannery Workers Indust
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02


Sheriff, Ed White logger;
County Commissioner, district l. Wilbur tPete)
johnson, milworker; district two, Albert Strout,
farmer State Representative Elmer NJ. Allen,
auto mechanic and editor Call to Action"
olympia-Thurston County
For Sheriff. Robert E. Bob Grimes unemplOy-
ed and NLWU leader; County Treasurer Ira B.
Parrott South Bay State Representative, Will
fred E. Blasting Tenino RWPA leader; and Lyle
Gillette, Olympia YCL and NLWU leader; CON-
missioner, first district, Martin F. Green; sec
ond district, Claude B. Orfman Assessor, Alvin
Slovin, hunger march leader; Auditor, Wayne
Doney section organizer Communist Party and
RWPA organizer; County Clerk, Gladys French.
and for School Superintendent, Frank Hayden.
Tacoma-Pierce County
Sheriff, Orval Swain, Port Secretary MWIU;
County Commissioner, second district, Vic NJ.
Ellison, section organizer Communist Party;
State Representative, 25th district, Hazel Pet
erson; State Senator, 18th district, Will Hopkin-
son, both are UFL organizers
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. County
Sheriff, c. z. Anderson, dairy farmer; County
Commissioners, first district, John T. Brockway,
former section organizer Communist Party; Sec
ond district G. d. Read; State Representatives,
4lst district, w. f. Carlson; And district, Earl
Plummer, ex-serviceman and militant unem-
ployed leader; State Senator, 42nd district, Pete
Hampstead.
Everett-Snohomsh County
County Commissioner, first district, Glen
Parks leader of Indian struggles for equal
rights at Tulalip reservation; second district
Dennis p. Kelly, RWPA organizer and farmer;
School Superintendent, j. M. Salter, former
school teacher, superintendent of schools and
Socialist Commissioner of Public Works (l9l4)
Due to his opposition he was charged with
"dsloyalty" and his teachers license revoked
for one year. During that time the legislature
passed law making "disloyalty" treason, re-
voking his license for life. Under this old law,
Salter is forced to enter as a sticker candidate
State Senator, 38th district, Doris K OFT;
State Representative, 38th district w. Z. Elbe,
states first UFL organizer. For Sheriff. William
Paul Butt, Communist section organizer and
Olympia hunger marcher
Anacortes-skagit County
State Representatives district 40, Archie
Youny Mt. Vernon, farmer; Vim Carl Day Creek,
Ed Green Clear Lake, millworker; County Com
missioner, district one, Chester Duranceau; dis
trict two Frank Dodd, shingleweaver
For Mayor of Anacortes, Phil Burgaas; Coun-
Gilman at large, Claude Speer; Councilman, ward
one Harry McGee; ward two, E. w. Barney;
ward three, Eula Lowery.
Aberdeen-Grays Harbor County
County Commissioners, district two, Lydia
Laukkanen Somerville, former YCL organizer;
district one, Fred Hort UFL leader; State Rep
resentative, district 81 Joe Shroyer; State SEN
ator, district 81 Bob Young.
Spokane
For State Representatives, fourth district, j..
H. Van Orman and Harlowe Wildman; r. K.
Wilson seventh district. For Sheriff. j. A. Wind
burn.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

The nine preceding articles of
this series considered the ma
ture and use of criminal syn
dicalism laws. They included an
explanation of these laws, their
class character, how their vic
Tins are the working class. par
ticularly its militant vanguard.
the relation of these laws to the
economic crisis, how they are u.s.
ed by employers against work.
ers as a strike-breaking weapon.
why they are used today, how
they nullify constitutional rights
of free speech and assemblage,
the pending criminal syndical-
ism cases in Washington and
Oregon.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

flee of County Clerk. Mrs. Hazel
Peterson, seeking the position
of State Representative, 25th
district, has been prominent in
the United Farmers League, and
is now doing valuable work in
the LID. She will be remembered
as one who played an outstand-
ing part in the eviction case
near Puyallup when an attempt
was made to GUST a quaranteen-
ed family. A picket line of 100
was maintained about the house
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02
Washington's State
Communist Ticket

George Bradley for United States Senator. ex-
serviceman UCL leader. James Murphy for U. S.
Representative. first district national organizer
National Lumber Workers Union.
King County-seattls
For State Senators: 3lst district, Paul Me
mala, farmer; 32nd district, Paul E. Heating. UCI
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

icauci, ooiu uiotiicI' oViii iSou-
rie, TUUL organizer, former
candidate for mayor; 18th dis
trict. Revels Cayton, organizer
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights; 44th district. Joel
Strand, chairman Ballard UCL;
18th district, George Webb
UCL organizer; 10th district,
Areline Randall, business man.
ager Voice of Action.
For State Representatives:
33rd district. Robert Smith,
secretary Pavingworkers' I'M
ion: 9th district. G. d. McLen
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

awaiting trial on criminal syn
dicalism charges; U. S. Con-
gress, third district, Louis Oh
son, section organizer Commun-
ist Party; State Senator, 18th
Dirk DeJonge, criminal
syndicalist defendant in Port
land and world war veteran;
for State Representatives, Vir-
gil j. Aiken, Ray Billings, Ed
ward Denny, George Butter
field, Beatrice DeBord, Clair
H. Fessler, Kenneth Fitzgerald,
former Socialist, Harold A. Eos
ter, construction worker; Mary
Goold, LID secretary in Port
land and criminal syndicalist
defendant in Yakima last year;
yNslltnv,, in
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

The producing capacity of the
U. s. even in the prosperity"
year of 1929 was only 80 per cent
utilized. The other 20 per cent
that should have been produced
for the benefit Of all the people
was not produced because OF the
sabotage of the ruling class. Run
ming at capacity there would
have been no unemployment.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

800
of women can
didates has been
n o m in a t ed on
the Party's tick.
ct, ranging from
offices of coun-
Gilman to state
senator.
Eula Lowery
is q candidate
for City Council
man, third ward
OF A n AGO t es.
Gladys French
Olympia, is run
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02
Around = the
world inO minutes
AUsTRIA-Since the famou:

AUSTRIA-Since the famous
February Revolution against the
Dollfuss fascist government, be-
tween 5000 and 5000 Socialists
and Communists have been put
in Austrian prisons with a menu
of typical Hitleresque seasoning
poor food, little recreation, and
much brutality. But already the
spirit of another revolution has
reached the point where the
Rote Fahne and other C0mmun-
list papers now enjoy a circula-
ton of 10000 in that one little
country.
=
HAITI The Haitian govern
ment has plotted frame-up OF
j. Roman, prominent revolu-
tionary leader. A scheme to plant
a bomb that would incriminate
him has been revealed. In Aug
ust, Is persons, opposed to the
despotic rule of the puppet gov
eminent of Wall Street, were ar
rested, tried by a military court,
and sentenced to long terms at
hard labor.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02
Many Women on Red Slate

The Communist Party believes
in equality for women in politics
as well as other fields of activity.
An imnosinp LIST
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02
SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA - Here the
natives are kept in subsection to
the local ruling class by requir-
ing them to carry permits from
their employers whenever they
move from place to place. Any
native found without one is sub
ject to arrest. The Communist
Party of South Africa is carrying
on an intensive campaign to Sc
cure mass pressure for the re-
peal of these vicious laws.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02
Nominees
I'm State of Oregon

For Governor, Harry j. Cornell, state organizer
and national committeeman, United Farmers
League; Secretary of State, Earl c. Steward,
formar hiph schOol teacher now
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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

Taylor, NEGRO SeaInaII, 1CL
member; 43rd district. Lowell
Wakefield, Editor of Voice of
Action; 44th district, A. f. Ed
wards, UCL leader, not Com
munist Patry member but en-
dorses Communist campaign
program.
Lewis County-Centralia
For sheriff, @. w. Witchey;
County Commissioner, district
l., H. p. Huff; State Repre-
sentative, Rosetta Smith.
Port Angeles
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

non, former lila vce-president; 34th district
Kent Bradley, UCL leader; 37th district, James
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02
Correspondence

SLAVE PEN Says Worker Of
Yakima Packing Plant
Yakima Wash.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-02

md Cannery Workers Industrial Union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11

cheap long-term financing services through
ut the country.
The second is a simple treasury raid since
under it the government takes the risks for
direct construction loans. 1t has no place
IN an insurance measure. Indeed, rather than
substitute private loaning services, the govern
ment could better spend the money on slum
abatement through its PWA housing CORPORA
lion.
The third amendment needlessy limits the
relief. Since the United States now is run
ming $S,O00,0o0,000 a year behind normal on
construction and $2,7OO, 100000 on home build
ing, why hamstring the rehousing plan by
setting limit on new construction mortgage
insurance?
President Roosevelt sees in the carefully
conceived measure, which the house COM
mittee and lobby tried to destroy, a chance
to put private money to work sprucing up and
rearing homes for the American people. Per-
hapS it will not do all that is claimed for it.
but the vision is high, the sights aimed at
"the objective of making it possible for Amer
lean families to live as Americans should"
The house and senate should not permit
special interests to lower the sights
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
THE GAS TAX

ME tendency of the taxing powers to kill
the goose that lays the golden egg is il
Illustrated forcibly by the report of the Amer
lean Petroleum industries committee.
Fifteen years ago the idea of taxing gas
olne occurred to revenue hunting legislators.
The average gasoline tax that year, 1919, was
one-twentieth of cent per gallon. The aver
age tax today is ga cents gallon.
Sales taxes of any form and to any degree
are of questionable economic soundness since
they tend to stif1e trade. But this sales tax.
equivalent to more than 4S per cent of the
average retail price of gasoline and to more
IMAM loo per cent of the average wholesale
price, is colossal discrimination
There was at least fair argument for
nigh gasoline taxes while the proceeds were
used exclusively for highway building and
maintenance. But in recent years, increasing
portions of these receipts have been diverted
Tor other purposes BY what strange line of
reasoning can We justify taxing American mo-
torlstS as a class for unemployment relief.
schools, oyster cultivation, sea walls and har-
bors?"
Federal, state, county and local govern
O" 4Ao'e oil 1edCned OUT Tor revenue from
gasoline. That the saturation point has been
passed IS demonstrated by the spread of tax
evasion and gasoline bootlegging and adultera-
uon' Gasoline bootleggers, it is estimated.
cheat state governments out of from 25 to 100
milo" dollars annually. Like liquor boot
IeggerS, they will continue to operate so long
as excessive taxes insure their profits.
An easy first step toward retrenchment in
gasoline taxation would be for the federal
government to retire from that field Tho
saSohne tax Is not isolated 1t fits in with
'ne hooge-podge of liquor taxes, tobacco taxes
ana other conflicting, duplicating, pyramidine
1eVleS that can be adjusted when federal and
state taxing authorities get together and agree
where the taxes of one are to start and the
taxes Of the other are to stop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
HOW TO TRY JUDGES

ME clumsy method of trying inpeached
Judges under the Constitution ran ha
Slmplihed by adoption Of the Ashurst resolu-
ZION now pending in the senate. This would
SET up committee of eight senators. five of
"hom would form quorum, to hear and sift
mouse charges of unf1tness of federal iudres
Under the Constitution, the senate must
give the verdict. But its verdict would be
more just and intelligent if guided tv exnert
ana thorough findings of a smaller group of
senators. In England the house of lords has
even greater punitive powers than our sem
ate, yet it delegates trial functions to it's So
called law lords"
our present system reached it's depth of
aosurdity last session when ninety-sx sem
afors set out to try Judge Harold Louder
back, the San Francisco federal Judge &C
cused of receivership malpractices. The trial
dragged through days and took up time badly
needed for emergency legislation Often as
few as four senators were in their seats listen
ing to testimony.
Congress is trying to cleanse the federal
bench of few judges whose moral lapses have
brought it into disrepute. The way should be
cleared for dealing swift and enlightened JUS
tice. A jury of ninety-six members is too
large.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
SEARCH FOR GRASS

MOVE audiences watched in absorption
A'A the picture Grass" made a couple of
years ago. This masterful picture showed the
migration of Asiatic tribes, perpetually driving
their herds before them in search for grass
From season to season, from year to year,
these restless nomads migrate, searching al
ways the green pastures where their herds
may feed and they may live in plenty
1t all seemed exotic and PARKWAY. The
quaint costumes, the unfamiliar faces of the
trSoesmen made it seem like a legend, de-
spite the cameras eye. Such things seemed
mere survival of a pastoral age long gone
Yet today, in machine-age America are
felt the first STRINGS of a movement that may
be modern pilgrimage for grass. On the
western prairies of Wisconsin, near the Min
nesota border, may be heard the pitiful bel
lowing of hungry, thirsty cattle as they plod
down the dusty roads toward newer and
greener pastures.
Localities which will not have, unless
merciful rain comes enough pasture for their
own cattle, watch streams of emaciated ami
mails pour in, and farmers share or rent
cheaply what pasturage they have.
Now this is temporary you think at first.
When rains come and restore the home pas
lures, they will return.
But the government is looking farther
ahead than that. 1t foresees that in some of
these drought-stricken areas the long struggle
is hopeless one.
There are areas where for three long years
you could count all the heavy rains on your
fingers; areas where grain pulled through
frost, heat and drought only to be devoured
by locusts
The emergency drought appropriations now
pending will provide huge sums to buy up
lands of those farmers who are willing to
give up the fight, and allow the government
to turn their wasted lands into forests. game
preserves, meadows.
The government then will try to find Jobs
or new lands or both for these farmers
$4,000 of whom are expected to be on their
way this summer in voluntary migration
such as the country has not seen in two
generations.
Certain professors of ancient history be-
lieve that the history of ali he world is the
history of men migrating toward newer and
better pasturage for their animals.
Faced for the first time with the necessity
of meeting something which may approach
one of these migrations, Uncle Sam is pro-
posing to meet it in planned basis, to make
his own history
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
CLYDE L. SEAVEY

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has appointed to
= the federal power commission one of the
best qualified men in the United States for
that post. He is to be congratulated on add
ing Clyde L. Seavey to his official family.
Seavey has been a member of the Cali
fornia state railroad commission for eleven
years and chairman of it for much of that
time. The policies which have distinguished
it as one of the most intelligent in the country
have been shaped largely by him. He orig
mated the plan-recently enacted into law
for curbing the power of federal courts over
regulating bodies. His commission was the
first to devise formula satisfactory to the
supreme court for valuation of utility proper
ties, formula which ended the dispute over
reproduction costs as a basis.
Seavey's appointment strengthens immeas-
urably commission already excellent. When
it is given the additional power it needs over
utility holding companies. the country may
count on it for even more effective administra-
ton of its most valuable resource.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
HANDS OFF CUBA

TUBA seems to be preparing for another of
- the periodic revoltS which have followed
the overthrow of the bloody Machado die
tatorship. There is one fundamental differ
ence, however. Before we had an unavoidable
treaty obligation to preserve Democratic insti-
tutions there. Now we have not Under the
new treaty ratified by congress last week we
have no right of intervention.
Since President Roosevelt and State secre-
tary Cordell Hull are responsible for the en-
Hghtened reform of our policy written into the
new treaty, it may seem strange that any
warning is needed now to keep hands off Cuba.
Perhaps the warning is not needed.
But the fact remains that state department
representatives were at least partly responsible
for picking the short-lived conservative De
Cespedes government, for withholding recog-
milton which helped to kill the more liberal
Grau San Martin government, and for favor
ing the conservative Mendieta regime which
now is lettering.
Maybe Sumner Welles former ambassador
and now in charge of Cuban affairs at the
state department, and his associates have
learned their lesson. All we can get out of
meddliig in Cuba's internal affairs is to burn
our fingers and SINCE our eyebrows-or worse
To live up to the spirit of the new treaty
we must do more than refrain from military
intervention. We must refrain equally from
back-StairS diplomacy.
If the Cubans want TO recall Grau San
Martin, or more radical government, that
is their affair. We can hope that they will
find their way in peace, rather than resort to
the civil war which marred our own history
and that of most nations. But if, unhappily,
Cuban revolution results, that is not our
business
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
Louis LUDLOW Labeled Real Democrat

individualism and of conservatism,
fearful that liberal interpreta-
ton of the Constitution will limit
some special privilege enjoyed by
the rich and powerful.
would like to ask An
Honest, Homespun Democrat which
group more nearly represents the
principles of the new deal
George w. Norris, Harold L. Ickes,
Robert La Toilette Jr., or Bernard
M. Baruch, John j. Raskob and
Al Smith. 1 also would like to ask
him where the dyed-in-the-wool,
or honest, homespung Democratic
ticket would have been in 1882 if
it had not been for the vote of
liberal Republicans as we'll as lib
eral Democrats.
Louis Ludlow is a liberal Demo-
crat. He is a tower of strength
without being a yes" man to the
administration. What he was in
1924 I do not care. know that
he IS representing the Twelfth
Indiana congressional district eff
fectively and in manner salts
factory to the people of that dis
trict. I should like to see him the
Junior senator from Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
q0hOlly disapprove of 1Ohat you sag and sOM
defend to the death your right to sag it-Totaire.

being dominated and controlled by
their leaders.
1t is only by deceit and trick
cry that the Communist party has
ever gained any considerable fol-
lowing. The main tactics used by
Communists are terror and force.
Without these weapons Communism
can not maintain its power, not
even in Russia.
The United States is one nation
with people who don't like to take
orders and have a reputation for
fighting to the last ditch to defend
their rights as free and independent
citizens and any pressure or reg
imentation or social control such as
Communism uses in its progress is
sure to meet with far different
type of resistance in this country
than in any other nation of the
world.
If word to the wise were suffi-
Gent would suggest that the fol-
loving sign should be posted on
every public building in the United
States: 'Bolshevik, Beware"
80 long as Communism is in the
hands of men who can boo the last
of the Civil war veterans, no one
needs to worry about it," is good phi
losophy, and here is a good ending
for that statement: And so long as
there is one Communist in this ma
ton he will be ready to boo and be-
little everything which is near and
dear to the hearts of patriotic
Americans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-11
UNBECOMING CONDUCT
CHARGED TO OFFICER
BY w. A. SprowI.

BY w. A. SprowI.
1 happened to be an eyewitness
to very disgraceful actions of po-
lice office June and wish to report
his conduct through the Message
Center.
During the windStorm a light wire
was blown down in keystone avenue
just south of Prospect street. Po-
lice were called and car No. 20 was
sent to the scene. The driver parked
the car crosswise at the south end
OF the block and directed traffic in
an efficient manner so far as could
see, but his partner, big fellow,
who looked like he could be real
policeman, took a stand on the cor
ner of Keystone avenue and Pros
pect street and acted in every way
like a maniac.
He cursed drivers for being eau
tlous. He used foul and indecent
language in the presence of women
and children. He would wait until
a car started to turn into the block,
then ne would stop it, threaten to
lock up the driver and act like a
bully in general.
Don't get me wrong. 1 am not
Just peeved because I got told, be-
cause I was bystander and he
never spoke to me.