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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
New Relief Programs
Mean EvictionS, Shut
Offs OF Light, Water

ABERDEEN. Wash, Sept. 10
4 new relief program calling for
mass evictions, mass light and
water shut-offS, and deeper pow
erty for the unemployed of Dist
riet No, of the VERA, Grays
Harbor, Pierce, Thurston, Paci-
fic and Mason counties, was an
nounced September 6, in the
columns of the Aberdeen World
The government is taking
over the relief formerly handl-
ed by the Salvation Army, and
will institute a program OF in
tensive forced labor on road
building and land clearing pro.
jects for the single men.
Family relief goes on new
program as well The program
is stated as follows: Every pos
Siblc economy will be affected.
All work (SERA and FERA) will
stop and employees suspended.
Overhead will be cut in admins
tratiye departments and "A less
liberal relief policy will be adj
opted. lin the future, relief fam
lilies must apply incidental in
comes on such items as food, fuel
and clothing instead of rent, light
and water and household neces-
stiles, AS they have done in the
past.
The new program will also close
many of the present eases, as "A
new investigation of all relief
cases will be in effect through the
district.
This is a typical example of
what the New Deal is doing
for the workers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14

SPOKANE, Sept. - -On a va
cant lot, out under the starry
sky, the Soviet film, '"Thc Road
to Life" was shown here August
81 to an enthusiastic audience
of approximately AGO, while a
few blocks away, National
Guardsmen, regular and plain
clothes-men and the fire depart
ment were zealOusly guarding
the entrance to Glover's Stadium
to keep Spokanc's citizens from
seeing the picture until after
the film could be previewed and
censored by the City Council
and the Spokane Censorship
Board.
The Road to Life" started on
tour couple of months ago. un-
der the auspices of the Commun-
list Party. Down through Ore
gon the two comrades, Go0ld of
Yakima and Johnson of Belling-
ham, took the pictlGe.
No Showing in Portland
So great was the terror at the
time in Portland that no at
tempt was made to fill scheduled
engagements. At Eugene the
comrades were run out of town
by a bunch of American Legion
mares.
At Roseburg, they were al
lowed to finish the show, but as
they left the hall the members
of the audience and the two
comrades were bOmbarded with
water melon rinds thrown by a
band of CCC boys from "a nearby
camp. Asked why they threw
the melon rinds, the boys re-
piled, Captains orders. We were
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Wired Soles
Good Enough
Says Welfare
BY a Worker Correspondent

SPOKANE, Sept. 10 Wiring
the soles of his shoes with hay
wire, an applicant for a new pair
of shoes went to Zone S here, but
was refused.
Conditions at this relief sta
tion are becoming moro and
more unsatisfactory. Orders for
clothing issued by this Zone are
written on the Red Cross at
Hillyard High School, about 4
miles away, and are filled by is
suing second hand clothing.
s IT. one case a woman was fore
ed to walk in from Garden
Springs, distance of 10 miles,
to the Zone, because she was
out OF groceries and her investi-
gator was two days overdue. She
left "A nursing baby at home
while she made the trip
A sick woman, after waiting
for several hours to see the diet
ician at Zone s, tainted away. Al
though she was still weak and
shaky after being revived she
was allowed to walk home alone.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14


Back in Spokane, nearing the
end of the tour, the film was
scheduled to be shown at GLOW
ers' Stadium, a public play
ground. The city officials warned
the Communist Party that under
no circumstances would the film
be permitted until it had been
censored"
However, a secret showing was
arranged on a private lot a few
blocks away. A comradc was sta
toned at the Stadium to instruct
the crowd where to go. As fast
as the police ordered one COM
rade to move on" another took
his place.
At last one comrade inadvert-
antly informed a carload of
dicks where to go to see the pic
ture. They went at full speed,
but found the picture well under
way, with the audience enjoying
IL hugely.
Firemen Called Out
Most of the available police
having been detailed to break
up the picket line at the car
barns of the Spokane United
Railway, whore a strike is in
progress, could find nothing
wrong, and staying to watch the
show, declared it one of the best
they had seen, one fireman con
tributing 90 cents when the hat
was passed.
This Road to Life" film from
which the citizens of the North
west have been so valiantly pro-
tected, is concerned with the
erstwhile wild Boys of Russia"
Says John Dewey, Americas not.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Old Man Framed
Home Is ValueleSS

CURTIS, Wash. Sept - As
the result of a clear cut frame
up engineered by Tom Long Jr,,
son of a deceased Mayor of Che
halls and his hcnchmcn, a clique
of Lewis County lawyers, John
Goodwin. resident of Lewis
County since 1910, and owner of
his farm since 1871 now finds
himself, at the age of 81, with
his savings gone, his crops de-
strOyed, his fences reset, his SllOO
home rendered practically use
less, and he and his family de-
pendent on the welfare.
Goodwin owns nine acres of eX-
ccllcnt Chehalis Valley land.
Long. who handles the property
adjoining, wanted GoOdwin's
nine acres for his stock.
Long Creates Frame-Up
AS his first step to obtain this
land, Long brought suit through
his lawyer aides, over the proper
ty line, although it had been es-
tablished for many years. Failing
in this, Long next trumped up
criminal charges against Good.
win. Goodwin was arrested by
two special deputies, and al
though he furnished bond, was
to all the humiliating
procedure, even to being finger
printed.
This action prevented Goodwin
from protecting his legal rights
in the civil suit pending. AS a re-
suit, he was cut off entirely from
a road to his place, his fence lines
were reset, his stock turned
loose, his crops destroyed, his
tools and farming implements
stolen, and a restraining order
placed upon him to keep him
from using the gate or the road
to his place His home is thus
completely isolated.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
FASCIST BANDS HARRAS SOVIET FILM ON TOUR

told to clean out the Reds APP
parently the boys were supposed
to have stopped the show, but
waited instead until the audi
encc was leaving.
TWo-thirds through at Grants
Pass, a gang of vigilantes order
ed the picture stopped and
young Goold was invited outside.
About 200 of these civilian
gangsters' made up the band,
led by the Legion and Eagles
lodge, many of them youth.
Showings Cancelled
ShoWings were cancelled at
Centralia and Chehalis, where it
was impossible to secure halls.
At Winlock a fiery cross was
burned across the road during
the showing, accompanied by
savage hoWls, yells and firing of
guns.
At Spokane, August %, the
American Legion, then III state
convention here, put the pres
sure on the local Eagles, who re-
vOked the contract for the use
of their hall. City officials did
their bit as well. Colburn, Com
missioner of Public Saftey, wrote
a letter to the Eagles, stating
the hall could not be used on ac-
count of fire hazards, although
the film passes all fire writer's
inspection and requires no per-
mits whatever.
over in Idaho, the epidemic
of infantile paralysis stopped all
public meetings after the COM
rades had made the long expens.
i've trip across the line.
Warn Communist Party
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Soviet
Main Street

chanic, is one of the most likable
of them all. Not long ago he or
ganizcd class for fifteen older
women and men who were semi
literatc. Since it meets in the
Commune, we have had plenty
of chances to listen in. 1t is the
most remarkable class which L
have ever attended.
One of the organizers of the
Commune and its president,
Misha, was away when we first
came to POdolsk. He had been
recovering his health in a sani-
forum, after risking his life to
save several others. 1t happen
ed that one evening when only
"a small shift was at work in the
repair department, gas leak
developed. The workers, engrOss-
ed i'll what they were doing, fail
ed to notice the gradually ac-
cumulating fumes. Later, Misha
CHANGED into the department
where he worked during the day.
He found the motors still rum
ming, the room filled with gas,
and men, overcome, lying by
their machines. Some evidently
had lost consciousness while try
ing to carry their comrades to
safety. Throwing off the power,
giving the alarm, the slight lad
dragged five workers out before
also being overcome. AS it was,
no lives were lost.
Misha takes what he did as
matter of course. He only did his
working class duty; what any
Communist would have done.
Some months before this,
Misha, who is studying painting,
invented new pattern for the
upper part OF the sewing ma
chine which allows an economy
OF Lacquer, giving the factory a
saving OF 2,5O0 ruDles a year. he
warded a premium of the same
amount, Misha turned it over 10
the Commune with which it pur-
chased extra blankets, cots and
other equipment.
Busy as they are with many
engrossing activities, the Com
mune members get little oppor-
tunity for joint communal gath
erings around the table for tea
and talk. once in a great while
they make joint trip to the
club movie and on free days go
skiing with other young workers
or help the peasants on their
neighboring collective farms.
Continued Next Week.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
liza Men Convicted In
Assault CaSeAS AFL
LegalDefenSeFailure

PORTLAND. Sept. - Thomas
+. Black, Malcolm II. SamuelSon
and James Hanlon, lOngshoremen
accused of having beaten two
special policemen at the Carlton
hotel on June Is, were found
guilty of assault and battery by
a jury in Circuit Judge Kanzler's
court on September 4. by a vote
of II out OF y after about an
hours deliberatiun.
The defendants did not APP
pear at all, nor were any wit
nesses called for the defense,
nor was there any argument to
the jury. Several motions for
mistrial by the defense we're re-
fused by Kanzler.
The defendants were accused
in two indictments of aSsaulting
and beating John Lake and Carl
Jensen, special policeman during
the waterfront strike. Both of
the special policemen related the
details of the beating. and Lake
declared that Black, who was not
even in the courtroom at the
time, was the man who hit him.
The AL attorneys, Green and
Lord, failed to defend these three
workers. They made no attempt
to expose the victorious sell-Out
of the strike or the methods
used by the employers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14

ed educator:
Ten years ago every traveller
in Russia came back with stories
of the hOrdes of wild and Grim
inal children who Toamcd the
countryside and infested the eli
ties. They were orphans of sol
dicrs killed i'm the war, of faith.
ers and mothers who persisted in
the famine after the war. In this
picture you will see their old
road to life, a road of vagabond-
age, violence and thieving, you
will also see a new Road to Life,
a road constructed by brave
band of Russian teachers after
methods of repression had failed.
They gathered these children to-
gethef in cOllectives, both homes
and industry, they taught them
cooperation, useful work and
healthful recreation and against
great odds they succeeded.
There are today no wild child
rem in Russia. You will see a pic
ture of real artistic beauty, of
dramatic action and power. You
will see also record of a great
historical episode. You will see
an educational lesson of the pow
er OF freedom, sympathy, work
and play to redeem the Juvenile
delinquent, lesson from which
we, too, may learn. 1--WE have
100000 roaming ON the highways
now.) This picture is made from
members of this redeemed youth,
non-professional actors, who live
in actual colleetives."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
BOSSES DRIVE FOR SUPER
PROFITS; ALSO PLAN
SPEED-UPS

SEATTLE, Sept. - - The re-
ports of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association for
August II, clearly show the wage
cut drive that is being put into
effect The secretary of the Labor
Committee of the West Coast
Lumbermen's Association, releas-
ed report the middle of August
stating:
Due to sharp decline in lum-
Der prices 90 per cent? overhead
must be cut. as wages Is the
greatest overhead confronting
the operators, this, naturally,
will be the first reduced"
The NINA states the follow
ing: Shipments for the week
ending August II were larger
than any week Snice July, 1888.
Shipments for the week totalled
2li million feet, compared with
the shipments of the previous
week of ISL million feet"
Boast of NRA Aid
The National Lumber Mfg.
Assn glOat over the fact the OBJ
orators are able during the crisis
to have the backing of the Code
authorities in their wholesale
attacks on the living standards of
tbn llrphn,, ,rnrI-,r,
While their statements are re-
leased in confused manner so
as to keep the workers from
really knowing what percentage
of profits the operators are max
ing.
\ drop of more than 10000
workers throughout the entire
industry taken place in June: en-
abling the operators to save over
Sl.9OO,OO0 while the hours work
ed are reduced from 146 to 13l
for the quarter.
Many Workers Grievances
These facts stated by the slave
driving operators can no longer
go unchallenged. During the past
three weeks fOOd-StuffS have
taken another advance while the
actual earnings of the workers
are lastly declining. DiScrimina-
tion, sreed-up, long hours on the
job and several hundred other
grievances face the workers in
the mills and camps.
The pulpwOod cutters are
barely scraping out starvation
existence that is on the level of
tire relief that is being admins
tered.
The AL and company con-
trOlled IL officials are frantically |
attempting to behcad every
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
BY JOHN THOMAS PAINE
(Fhis is the third of a series CT
on Upton Sinclair's EPIC
Plan.)

This ridiculous and treachcr-
Gus business of being on both
sides of the fence at the same
time is not limited by Sinclair to
economic organization alone, but
shows itself in his political posi-
ton as well. The Democratic Par
ty is hailed as the instrument
of salvation: ~ call upon all
friends of progress -. to flock to
the standards of the Democratic
Party, and make certain that the
machinery of the party is turned
to the service of the people" %.
26l. Evidently the machinery of
the party at present is not in
the peoples service.
II call upon the Democrats to
have that pledge EPIC ratified
by THEN party | call upon all
progressive and humane men,
bcrs of the Republican Party to
enlist under this banner | call
upon Socialists to fall into line.
| call upon all intelligent and
fair-minded citizens to rally
to this crusade" Up. =. After all
these have come into the Demo
cratic party, then what? EPIC
will be realized and by 1898 the
Democratic rarty will have be-
come conservative OrganiZa-
tion, prepared to live forever on
the deeds OF its ancestors" ip. 81.
The end result will be to build
and bolster a still bigger organ
iZatiOn of political rcactiOnarics
Bids for NRA Support
Another bid for mass support
of EPIC is on the grounds that
Sinclair endorses and supports
Roosevelt and the NRA. Sinclair
declares ecStatically, 81 have
with satisfaction a new
birth Of the Democratic princip-
les under the leadership of
Franklin ID. Roosevelt. He has
barely got started on his jour
ncy, but he is headed in the
right direction, towards govern
ment control of business and in
dustry -and | am shOving." Up.
q.
A few pages further on, Sin
clair, the political salamander
who can change his color sto
match every new leaf that he
crawls upon, blows hot and cold |
in one braeth: Like all good |
Americans, ! am giving my sup
port to the NRA, but | cannot |
shut my eyes to its failures" %. |
l2), Further on he adds that by |
October, 1888, the failure of the |
MIRA was easy to foresce." In |
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Green Becomes
Tool OF Fascist
Mayors Clique
FRIEND OF UNEMPLOYED"
TURNS RENEGADE TO
WORKERS

CENrRALIA. Sept. l3- Hiram
Green, trustingly elected as one
of their own number by local cit
liens on relief has turned rene
gadc under the pressure brought
TO bear by Mayor Nugent's motor
iously fascist machine.
Green, as City Commissioner In
charge of Public Works. was head
of the department supervising
unemployed workers forced to
labor to pay off light and water
bills. tNugent's pre- election
speeches contained a promise
that free light and water would
be supplied those on relief: also
that City Employees would be
placed on a siX-hour day.
Without protest against I'M
employed being compelled to
work off their bills in the face of
Nugcnt's promises. Green issued
an order last week changing the
work day from 6 to hours. This
means pay cut from so cents
to 81 cents per hour.
Protest was answered by the
order that service would be cut
off Immediately unless the work
ers swallowed the reduction
mcekly. Green admitted that In
the past the FERA had been
paying these bills but neverthe-
les the workers were forced into
virtual peonage. Now the FERA
has cut its subsidy, the city in
tends to force the men to greater
degradation.
Green did a disappearing act
when "A committee of workers
waited on him for an explanation.
So a former seeker of relief
turns traitor to his friends and
fellow workers. Easier for him to
play ball with the racketeers,
starve the people, grind down the
workers, than to stand up for
their rights. This must again be
a lesson to workers they must
vote solidly for worker candid
ates, sweep the old line politi-
clans out clean in order to avoid
a Sell-out.
Mayor Nugent plans to run for
[. $. Senator this fall. Centralia
workers have learned how he
keeps his promises to them.
Workers must repudiate this
petty iob-seeker and his hirelings
Vote Communist, or af-
ter the next election there will be
simply more bitter repetitions of
this treachery.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Labor News"
Boosts Fascist
Job Seekers
STRIKE BREAKING CANDID.
ATES GET SUPPORT OF
LEVINE PAPER
By Garland Andrews

The September issue of the
Washington State Labor News
affords a perfect sample of the
tainted journalism employed by
AFL leaders i'm their frantic at,
temps to mitigate the militancy
OF their discontinued rank and
file.
Edited by Dave Levine. the
NorthWeSt'S carbon copy of Mat
thew VOL, who slid into the
Citys Council on working class
votes. the Labor News is Satur-
ated with capitalist political adj,
rcrtiSing.
Ross Jingoism
Bert Ross, reartiOnary Repub-
lican who Is running for the of
flee Of senator, is quoted in a
jingoistic utterance about sound
Apprehension" In the article
Ross calls attention to an edit
orial by William Randolph
Hearst. that arch-enemy of labor,
whom he seems to admire in
tenSely. Levine apparently be-
licycs that llcarst'S profound"
ideas should be sufficiently air
ed to the workers.
larry II, Lewis. candidate for
Sheriff, who addresses American
Ntgilantc gatherings and who
numbers among his campaign as
Si>tants a host of the Waterfront
striko-breaking crew, is spot
lighted in the political Candid
ates' column Throughout his
campaign, this avoWed chauvin-
ist has had the support of the
Labor News.
Soft-Pedal Fascist
Lewis vicious anti-Iabor com
ElcN is dimmCd by the editor,
and great stress is laid on the
fact that Harry II. Lewis is a
member Of the Electricians Tn
ion.
In addition to this the Labor
News runs advertising and news
stories for countless other work
ing class enemies, including Matt
StarWiRl. Lewis SchWellcnbach.
Don Evans. Claud Bannick and
o. X. BOdia.
As if this were not blatant
enough mOckcry for his readers.
Levine comes up with a piece of
advertising from the American
Hawaiian Steamship Lines. one
of the concerns that was impli-
Gated strongly in the breaking
of the recent Marine Strike.
Levine will fast discover that
conscientious workers shy from
this shameless type of Irritation
with strike breaking politicians
and Open.shop business concerns.
His paper, along with the many
other corrupt enterprises of the
AFL misleadcrs, is on the way
out.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
NLWU NEWS

CYCLONE MILLER CAMP,
WcspOrt Road Western Log
CO.)-This camp, near Aberdeen.
was recently reopcned. 1t is a
small outfit, but about so men
are employed.
These men were told that
they needn't look for any mon
ey for about 60 days.
After the camp got running.
the cost of board was boosted
ID cents per day to all workers.
making the cost of board and
bunk in the camp $l0.45 per
week. The camp has always been
low on the scale of wages paid to
the men.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Pulp Cutters See
Value OF Militant
Workers GROUP

COPALIS BEACH, Wn., Sept.
13-Pulp cutters of this locality
have recently learned the
strength they possess when act
ing as an organized body.
Going into the office of hte
Grays HarbOr Local of the Ma
tiOnal Lumber Workers Union
Saturday, Sept. /, a pulp cutter
asked that an organizer be sent
out to Copalis Crossing at Co
pals Beach to assist the cutters
to organize for higher prices for
cutting and more relief for those
families not making enough to
support themselves.
Pulp Cutters Meet
A few days later, at "A meeting
of 60 cutters, there was a discus
sion of the problems and price
demands drawn up to be present
ed at a mass meeting scheduled
for Sunday, September IT,
A committee of five was elect.
ed to obtain shoes for the cut
terS' children, as information
had previously been issued that
no shoes or clothing would be
given out.
Presenting its demands to a
member of the school board, Geo.
Mann, supposedly friend OF
the workers, the committee was
told that the school board and
welfare board would get the
children clothes and shoes and
ii the cutters didn't send their
children to school while they
were waiting for the welfare
board, he would send them to a
place where they would go to
school.
This was evidently reference
to II reform school, to which d
Copalls boy was sent last year fol
a period of six months because
he told his school teacher when
she asked him why he had not
voted in the school room elec'
ton, that ii she would run
Communist candidate, he would
vote.
The same day the committee