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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

ASTORIA. Ore. Nov. l5-Can-
didates on the political principle.
Communism VS.. Fascism," secur-
ed good support in the elections
despite the fact that in Astoria
there has been going on a black
list of workers on the job and de-
NAL of relief to those who are sus-
,pected of having Communist
ideas.
The largest vote was given to
Walter Hekkala, candidate for
county commissioner. who receiv-
ed 523 votes. Emanuel Pickmosa,
candidate for state representa-
tive from Clatsop County. reeeiv-
ed 427 votes.
Paul Dale, candidate for state
senator from Clatsop County re-
ceived Ala votes; Earl Steward,
candidate for Secretary of State,
received l75. Harry Correll, can
didate for Governor, 9S; and En-
ella Peuhkurinen. candidate for
mayor of Astoria, O. votes.
Red Vote Increase
Large increases were noted in
the vote from Seaside since the
last general election. In the last
election where only a few seat
tered votes were received there,
65 votes were now recorded.
Votes, too, had increased ma
terially in the following mill
towns. Westport, l6; Wanna, u;
and Warrenton, IA.
Highest votes in the farming
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Martin Again Pledges
He'll Free KOminSki

OLYMPIA, Nov. l5-A commit
tee from the Rainier Valley
Branch of the International La
Dor Defense in Seattle last week
wrung from Governor Martin a
definite promise to release Bill
Kominski, eviction fighter, Tues
day. November 9th.
IF your committee will have a
ear at Walla Walla the Tuesday
before Thanksgiving" Martin is
reported to have said, II will be
there and see that Bill Kominski
is released. e will be home by
Thanksgiving"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Young Beaten By
Voice of Action

CENTRALIA, Wash. Nov. Is
Two hundred and three votes
were east in Lewis County for
Rosella Smith, State Repepre-
sentative on the Communist Par
ty ticket, Charles Witchey. run
ming for the office of sheriff on
the same slate, polled l47 votes,
and III. y. Huff for county COM
missioner totalled 1873 votes.
Young, capitalist candidate,
was defeated by the Voice of Ac-
ton, according to active workers
here.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
HearSt'S Writer Outs
With Fascist Plan
BY Mary Jordan

b. G. Forbes, Hearst's financial
writer, urges business "to pom
der how serious and dynamite
laden is the present business pre-
dicament of several million
youths" and advocates discrimin-
alton against young women seek
ing employment in favor of young
men, in his column in the Post
Intelligencer, November 13
He states his reason clearly
and revealingly.
Upon whom must the nation
rely for defense, for protection,
for preservation in the hour of
extreme peril? Upon her young
men," he says. Experience from
the last war showed that it is the
sons of working class mothers
and fathers now vainly seeking
work who Forbes urges employ
ers to turn away with profound
courtesy" that they may be will
ing to shed their blood for "liber-
ty." The smooth, well-groomed
capitalists and their sons don't 60
to war-they get safe, patriotic"
jobs at the rear.
Forbes makes it clear that he
is not speaking merely of exter-
nal defense. He says, "The very
existence of our present social
and economic system will become
threatened il enough yung men,
deprived of a chance to fit into
it, decide that the time has
come for it's overthrow =. why
shouldn't they? What have they
to lose?"
Fascist Theory
Forbes is not original in his
fears or his remedy. Hitler and
Mussolini have sent women out
of industry. They have both tried
to relegate women to the level OF
brood sOws so there will be lots
of Black and Brown shirts and
loyal soldiers to fight the capital.
lists battles inside their coun.
tries and out.
But profound courtesy" from
business does not fill empty stOm.
achs or clothe backs. The fact
remains that there are not
enough jobs for men, young OF
old, to go around even though
young women are replaced. The
fascist measure Forbes advocates
has failed to improve conditions
in Italy and Germany where ii
has been tried.
Working class sons and daugh-
tiers are brothers and sisters
they each deserve equally the
right to work. And in America
they are beginning to realize that
they must struggle together side
by side to defend this right and
defeat war and fascism.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Won't OK Initiative 4

ABERDEEN, Wash, Nov. Is
A committee from the South Abb
erdeen unit of the Communist
Party asked Arthur TiiOla, city
councilman from South Aberdeen,
to endorse Initiative 4, the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance
Bill.
He refused, stating that it
would not do any good.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Aberdeen City
Council Votes

ABERDEEN, Wash, Nov. Is
Incomplo e returns. from 'he Alb
erdeen city elections give the
Communist candidates the fol-
lowing votes: Joseph Cameron,
1st Ward, 10 votes; Adam Paak-
konen, nd ward, 10 votes; Wood
word, fifth ward, 10 votes.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Worker
May Lose Home
By Joe Shroyer

ABERDEEN, Wash, Nov. Is
The story of Clifford Leitch is like
that of many other Americans.
Clifford is 30 years old, has lived
in Aberdeen q years; is married
and has two children.
He bought home on the in
stallment plan and during the
depression became delinquent in
his payments. Later he secured a
Federal Home Loan. He worked
at anything he could get and
proud that he had never asked
for relief.
Forced to Ask Relief
Finally on october %, unable
to find any kind of employent,
he applied for relief and was sent
by the VERA to work disman-
Ting the American mill.
Leitch, who has been employ
ed as a boOkkeeper most of the
time, is not rugged, and is I'M
used to this kind of work. He was
sent on the roof to scrape the
sawdust and dirt from the roof
and after a few hours fell and
broke three ribs and fractured
a fourth.
He spent more than two weeks
in the hospital, and is at home
now wondering how he will be
able to meet the payments on
the home loan.
May Get Compensation
He is assured by the VERA
officials that he is covered by In
dustrial Insurance. but a letter
received by Ray Wilson from the
Department of Labor and lndust-
ries, stated that relief workers
do not come under the jurisdic-
ton of the Department of Labor
and Industries.
Leitch was to have six days
work of six hours at so cents per
hour, making SIS per month for
his family of four.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

in the mid-WeStefn states, Wnefo
millions Of cattle died of starva-
tion or were slaughtered by the
orders OF the AAA blue eagle.
Ii has always been the policy OF
the Salmon brokers to quote the
opening prices on Salmon In their
trade journals low before the
opening and during the fishing
seasons. so that packers agents
have been able to propagandize
to the fishermen that the quota
tions are low. therefore the fish
ermen shouldn't demand higher
prices and wages" This propa-
ganda of the bosses has to some
extent created an idea among the
fishermen to look to the pack
ers and brokers price quotations
when making their price demands
for the season. The price manipu-
lations and maneuvers OF the
bosses. especially this year under
the NRA prove more conclusively
than ever that we must base our
price demands definitely on the
cost of living and supplies.
" Sidetracked Issue
The packers campaigns this
year both for and against Initial
i've II were used to prevent the
fishermen from demanding higher
prices for their catches. In fact
on July 1, when the Purse Sein.
ers at Neah Bay threatened to
strike, Morris. manager or the
Fishermen's Packing Corporation
sent wireless to his buyer, stat
ing that strike of the fisher
men would be injurious to u.
Thus Initiative II was made a
strike-breaklng weapon, helping
buyers get choice catch OF
Socl:cvcs for less than half price.
The failure of the strike on July
1 laid a basis for the price cut on
July 81.
If we were to believe all the
articles and editorials recently
printed in the capitalist press, re-
garding bill II, it would lead us
to think that the troubles OF the
fishermen are over now that the
bill is passed. 1t would make us
believe that we are now face to
face with eternal prosperity. In
itiative " carried entirely be-
cause of the slogan, abolition OF
the traps" The average person
didn't stop to consider whether
II would actually abolish the
traps. The fact is that the rich
sportmen are now openly stating
that II is a beginning to COM
pletely abolish all fishing except
angling with a hook and line.
Therefore the abolition OF traps
was not the intention of n and
its sponsors.
The Fishermen and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union is
calling a Northwest Conference
in Seattle December 16. The
National Executive Committee
calls upon all locals to place
this conference on the agenda
next meeting. A representative
from the National Office will
be present at all local meetings
before the Conference. Every
local secretary and delegate or
ganizer should Immediately get
in touch with the National Of
flee so that q date for meeting
can be arranged.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

NEW YORK, Nov. 15-Work-
ers on the new model" housing
project government financed)
slave SO hours a week, many at
wages IS low as Is cents an hour.
LaGuardia has started another
drive against New York's work
ers. He has announced a drive to
prevent gatherings and demon
stratiOns in the midtown area.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Communists SIG;
Socialists Only 81
In Centralia Vote

CENTRALIA, Nov. Is - Re-
turns for SO precincts here show
an interesting contrast in the
strength of minority parties. The
of votes cast follow: So
cialist 81; Socialist Labor 2; Gin
cinnatus 50; Prohibition 29; Ii
berty 927; Communist 526.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Drain Underworld

SEATTLE, Nov. 10 Seattle's
underworld was drained as never
before for the war chests of Sears
and Severyns in the battle for
King County sheriff. Houses OF
prostitution were forced to con-
tribute to both campaigns in
order to play SAFE"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
Boston Fishers
Still on Strike

BOSTON, Mass. Nov 15-The
New England fishermen's strike
is in its sixth week. The men de-
mand a better share of the pro-
ceeds from the catch and shorter
hours of work.
drain underworld
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

10 tne large lulnDef operators 1
are being driven out of business.
low for these greedy parasites W
the industry for this purpose
At present the Stimson Mill
company has been set a quota by
the WestcOast Lumbermens' AS
ISOLATION to operate is hours per
week. Being member of the
VIOLA the company officials
don't dare come out with suit
for an injunction against the
powerful lumber trust. But they
propaganda the workers in the
mill with the illusions they have
enough orders to run their mill
so hours per week which would
be longer hours for the workers,
and they could make bigger
wages.
To gain public support and to
cover up their scheme, the COM
pany officials have released artic-
les in the local papers with sem
timental appeal that their en-
ployees are fighting for their
"GOd-given right" to support and
maintain their families. The
StimsOn officials are shedding
crocodile tears over the present
plight of the workers.
Charge Costs to Employees
At the same time they are fore
ing the workers to donate from
their starvation wages to the
$3.50 fund to pay the court ex-
penses. The conditions that pre-
vail in the Samson mill are no.
torious. The speed-up is so in
tense that danger exists of the
machines going through the
walls. During the recent strike
workers stated at strike meet
ings they were on relief in order
to have enough to eat.
The Stimson company is be-
wailing their sad plight, accusing
the NRA of violating the Code
and victimizing them. But the
company has constantly violated
the code by the way of wages,
firing militant workers for Or
ganizing the NLWU, and having
gun thugs constantly on the job
to keep the workers inundated.
Workers Used as Football
The workers must donate to
the fund of the company or they
will be laid off on the first oc-
casiOn. Due to the unorganized
condition of the workers they
must submit to such outrageous
schemes. Not one worker does not
know he is being exploited the
more for the company's interests.
The workers in StimsOn Mill must
expand their branch of the MI
WI, take up this question with
all workers. on the job. Draft
your demands for 30 hour week
and IS cents per hour minimum.
The companies are making larger
profits than in the past history
of the industry and will continue
to reap huge profits from the
workers as long as we remain I'M
organized and passively submit
to such tactics as the operators
are resOrting to.
AS the crisis deepens more OPP
preston will be launched against
the workers and when the COM
pany can no longer make profit
from the workers labor they will
not keep the mills running to
keep you or your family FROM
hunger. These acts of discrimina-
tiOn can be eliminated only by
the united force of the workers
on the job. The National Lumber
Workers Union urges the work
ers in Stimson Mill to organize
your job committee and take
strike action against the COM
pany and the NRA. Put into Of
feet the hours you want to work
and the pay you deem necessary.
Organize and fight these greedy
parasites.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

GASTONIA, N. c., Nov. IS
Fred Mcmahon, blacklisted strik-
er, has been sent to the chain
gang for Is months for defending
himself when attacked by COM
Isany gunner.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
SPECIAL NEWS
for the
Workers
sTnMsoN MILL COMPANY HOOD wINKs WORKERS
FOR INJUNCTION
Edited by JAMES MURPHY
Secretary National Lumber Workers Union

SEATTLE Nov. 15Ihe cutthroat competition between the
small and large lumber markets is becoming
sharp Since the code administration
to the large lumber execution the small
being driven of business survive
low for these greedy parasites the workers
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

BOSTON, Mass, Nov. 15-Seven
anti-fascist student demonstrat-
ors have been fined $40 and SEN
fenced to jail for terms of six
months each.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
SPECIAL NEWS FOR THE
e. FISHERMEN e.
BY Emil Linden, National Secretary,
and Cannery Workers Industrial Union

Nov l5The fishing Puget Sound
back in their home ports with the majority
forced % soup lines and relief for existence
their warehouses the largest packs
OF history the industry The capitalist
papers packers ubnt the fact that prices
rapidly increasing because OF the drought
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

The home of Jim Davis, COM
munist candidate for governor of
Alabama, was bombed just be-
fore elections, he and his family
escaping death by inches.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. IS
Voting rights were denied 1853 in
mates of the local poorhouse in
the Nov. 6 elections.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

The labor bureaucracy in the
central Labor Council knows no
shame, and these statements
were made and accepted as a mat
ter of course without comment, so
accustomed have the delegates
become to seeing the interests of
labor sold out by its misleaders.
Fireman Delegate Wins Case
The delegate from the firemen
won his case by showing that Ia
Dor and city officials were firing
these men instead of adopting a
share the work plan not to pro
tect any wage scale" but to break
up the Fire Fighters Union.
He said that this scheme was
being used to get rid of all the
most active union men, while
keeping all the rats on the job.
As delegate from the Central
Labor Council George Early made
a long and dreary report on the
54th annual convention of the
American Federation of Labor. 1t
was read from a written manu-
script, more than an hour long,
and mostly quoted from the pro-
ceedings of the convention.
Avoids Controversies
He carefully avoided mention
ing any important, interesting or
controversial subjects. As for in
stance, the Brewery Workers
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16
.NLWU. School Will
Open November 10

ABERDEEN, Wash, Nov. Is
The National Committee of the
National Lumber Workers Union
is organizing here an organizers
training school called 'rraincOr."
The Traincor, as was reported
in last weeks Voice of Action, is
to start November 10, and will
last two weeks. Fifteen or more
prospective organizers are need
ed to take in the TraincOr, men
who will pledge themselves to
carry on as field organizers for a
lengthy period afterward. 1t is to
be a self disciplined body for the
purpose of studying and doing
practical work; thereby gaining
theoretical knowledge and eXper-
fence during the same period.
Roy Brown, chairman of the
NLWU, has been appointed as
the instructor, or leader, of the
Traincor.
The situation in the lumber in
dustry is such that there is a
great desire on the part of the
lumber workers to get organized
in a truly rank and file controlled
union; a union which allows for
the workers to decide for them
selves about the conditions of
their own job and their own To-
cality as well as providing for a
central apparatus by which the
workers can tie their local efforts
into one gigantic struggle against
the bosses in the lumber indus
try.
Organizers Needed
The workers in every lumber
section, particularly in the North
west, have been calling on the
NBWU for organizers. The I'm
ion has been unable to meet this
demand owing to the lack of or
ganizers who are clear on the
program, policies, etc, of the
NLWU; who are schoOled in re-
evolutionary trade union work;
who have the qualifications.
Two weeks does not seem long
to gain this necessary clarity, but
it will be a finishing course for
those who already have been in
terested and active in trying to
get the lumber workers organic
ed into the NLWU.
Ask Money
We already have a building and
equipment for the feeding, hOus-
ing and instruction for 10 to 30
recruits in the TraincOr. We need
$3.50 in cash for food; or $3.50 each
member.
All interested and sympathetic
organizations and individuals are
hereby called upon to donate and
collect donations for the NLWU
TraincOr. Foodstuffs sent to the
Traincor must be unperishable
(staplel. Send all contributions to
Oren Sommerville, TraincOr Sec
rotary, 7l3 East First ST., Aber-
deem, Wash.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

One per cent of the population
of the United tSates controls IS
per cent of the wealth.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

The average American family
on relief now gets less than $40
q month.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-16

This was embarrassing to the
Central Labor Council bureau
cracy. Many of them are holding
profitable jobs under the present
city administration and criticism
of their bosses makes them nerv-
Gus.
Early made an attempt to keep
this matter from being consider
ed by referring it to some COM
mittee or other. But delegate
from the firemen promptly de-
nounced this move, and was sue
cessful in getting the resolution
considered and passed by the
Council in spite of Early's propo-
sition.
Approved Move
During the discussion George
Early said that he, Dave Levine
and Robert Harlin, acting as a
committee from the Central La
Dor Council, had approved the
plan to fire the firemen.
They did it, he said, because
they believed that 1T was bet
ter to fire all these men than to
run the risk of lowering the pres
ent wage SCALE"
No mention was made that this
committee ever raised a word of
protest against the whole villain
GUS job-cutting budget plan of
Mayor Smith and his City Council
supporters,
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-02-01
Ha oft is felnenek

minel elobb bosegesen jusson
mindenbol.
Mifele veszedelmes tanitas
lenne rajuk nezve, ha megtud-
max, hogy nalunk termes egy
reszet alas zantjak, hogy nalunk
a gyiimolcsot fan hagyjak
rothadni, hogy nalunk a gyarak
munkaidejet mestersegesen le-
vagjak?
Mifele. veszedelem lenne rajuk
nezve, ha ait tanitana az anne
rikai propaganda, hogy nalunk a
torvenyeket azert hozzak, hogy
- megszegjek?
Hogy lit mem lovik f6be a
hivatalanak hatalmaval hiitlenul
visszael6 koztfsztvisei6t, inert
nagy reszuk az alvilaggal, a hi
vatasos gonosztev6kkel van $40
vetsegben.
Mifele veszedelem lenne ra.
juk, ha AIT tanitanak, hogy lit
csak kivaltsagos osztalynak
szabad "szabad szerelmet'
gyakorolni csak azok tudnak
,, elvalni, akik Ell tudnak Reno-ba
utazni?
(Ma mar tudjuk, hogy Orosz,
orszagban ugyan valas konnyr
es mem vesz igenybe tobbet egy
feloranal, de mines tobb valas
mint minalunk. Es a gyermek.
tartas kotelezettsegere nalunk-
nal jobban iigyelnek.)
Mifele hatassal lenne rajuk, hs
az egyenl6segre es testverszere
tetre nevelt ifjusagot hirtelen ar
ra tanitanak, hogy profit jel
szava alatt ok is kezdjek egy
mast rabolni?
Hogy a nemzetjavakat ne osz
szak fel a munka aranyaban {:
a sziikseg aranyaban, hanem en-
gedjek at annak kilencven sza
zalekat egy kis ragadozo falka
max, ahogy ait nalunk meg
fessziik.
Mifele hatassal lenne rajuk, h;
megtanitanank 6ket, hogy egy
szervezett kisebbseg raulhet q
tobbseg fejere,' hogy eloirhatj;
la tobbseg erkolcset hogy {
Amerikai Magyar hirlap = American Magyar journal. [volume] (Youngstown, Ohio) 1911-1942, 1934-02-01

! talcan hoznak at a szamukra.
Megnezne, megtargyalna, meg
gondolna es ha latina benne vala-
nit, ami jobb, szebb, kivanato-
sabb, mint a morganok, a wig
ginek, meg a tobbi crookok ural-
ma, akkor ait atvenne nemzet
szamara. A tobbit biztosan OFT
hagyna.
Mem kell tehat olyan nagyon
remegni, mikor bolsevik propa-
gandarol beszelnek, inert van
ebben a nemzetben annyi JOAN
sag, hogy felkinalt propagan-
dat megvizsgalja, miel6tt a
"hook-line- -sink"-et lenyelne.
Viszont szem el6tt kell tar.
tani, hogy minel sirubb es koz-
vetlenebb lesz az erintkezesiink
a Sovjettel, annal erosebb "ame-
rikai propaganda" exportalunk
mi is hozzajuk.
Es hogy amennyire nalunk
| sziikseges megvizsgalni a voros
rendszer aldasait, annyira lesz
kenytelen vedekezni a Soviet is
az amerikai rendszer "aldasai-
max" hatasa ellen.
! S minthogy nalunk a voros
propaganda ellen leginkabb es
leghangosabban a kivaltsago:
osztaly tagjai beszelnek, lassar
gyanut fog nemzet, hogy ta
Ian nem is annyira a nemzetrt
jelentene csapast, ha az oross
igyekkel kozelebbrol megismer
kednenk, mint a = kivaltsago:
osztalyra.
Ne lasson senki remet, nj
duljon senki be remitgetesnek
semmifele veszedelmet nem je
lent mirank, szegeny, kuzdo, XII
semmizett nincstelenekre, h;
megismerjik, hogy Oroszorszag.
ban hogy elnek.
Merit ha ait latjuk, hogy az f;
rendszer rosszabb, ostobabb, al
jasabb, erkolcstelenebb, akko
biztosan mem fogjuk atvenni.
! Ha pedig AIT latjuk, hogy
vaunak behlne ertekek, akko1
azokat atvesszuk, a tobbit mes
otthagyjuk.
| Es XII van koztunk, aki az
merne allitani, hogy az amerika
tokes rendszert erdemes lenn'
teljes egeszeben az oroszoknal
n4uo,,,;o