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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
America on Strike

Milwaukee, Wisc.-Cudahy pack
ing plant recognizes union and pre-
vents strike of 1000 workers.
Wichita, Kansas-3,ooo emery
ency relief workers 90 on strike
against wages totalIins as low, as
S3.15 a month.
Ohio-15,000 members Of the
Ohio Unemployed Councils are
on strike against forced labor for
starvation rations.
Terror, violence and murders
continue in the strike areas Of
Alabama, Detroit, the east coast
and the west coast.
Washington, D. c. - Roosevelt
has vetoed a bill which would have
guaranteed a minimum income to
all substitute mail carriers, many
Of whom have been earning less
than IS a week.
The radio operators OF the Amer
lean Merchant Lines ships are now
on strike against a rs per cent
wage cut. Twelve hours work was
the rule per day. The places of
these highly trained technicians,
who work for the miserable wage
of $65 a month, are being taken
by scabs, thus endangering the
lives of thousands of ocean travel
lers, because the safety of a shin
depends often to a great extent
on the skill Of the radio operator
Does there have to be a major
ocean tragedy to bring action in
the case?
Professional strike breaking
agencies Of New York are now
exporting armed thugs to the
Ohio strike area, to work in the
employ Of the industriaIists.
Millville, N. J.-242 relief work.
ers strike for cash pay.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
LITTLE STANLEY

Clarence barrow, chairman of the
recovery review board, has recent
ly made public, after considerable
research. an outstanding and re,
evolutionary discovery concerning
the MIRA.
barrow Is saying the NRA is
being run by and for the boss
class!" the capitalist press yelps.
IAN anomoly arises from the fact
that monopolistic combines are ex-
pected to enforce against themselves
a law to prevent monopoly" OAR
row finds, IA months after the NRA
was cooked up by Roosevelt to give
the bosses every chance to get their
exploitation of the masses back to
normal"
But Darrow is IA months late
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

body cared about 1t.
1t is clearly seen that the motive
behind the Bro Bidjan project is
not the fostering OF chauvinlsm, or
a desire to segregate the Jews, or
a means to solve the Jewish prob
lem.
With the destruction of the cap
italist class and the ending OF ex-
ploitation of one man by another
one, all racial frictions-including
the Jewish problem-have auto
matically dissolved themselves.
The Bro Bidjan project Is only
a means of furthering Socialist
construction and absolute equality
Of all nationalities inhabiting the
U. S. S. r. If there are Jewish
toilers who feel that they can de-
velop the best within themselves
by means Of their native Language
and thru their racial culture among
their own people. the Soviet Union
presents them the opportunity of
fulfilling their desire.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

to do what they did to get some
place to sleep, but what worries me
Is. they seem to be- going right in
with 'em. Mile says, the Comrades
took 'em down to the relief station
and got 'em put back on relief and
got a months rent for the landlord
and now she leaves the kids with
an old niger woman she calls a
Comrade and goes with Tom to put
back other people that's in the
street.
Now this is the worst of all, Par
son. The other day they was putting
back somebody and the police came
and arrested her and Tom and took
'em to Jail. 1 always said Tom would
wind up in Jail. but the idear of his
dragging my Mile there with him.
They was only in over night though,
because the LID got 'em out the
next day. Mile says IL Christ came
back to Chicago. he would soon be
In worse jam than he ever was
In Jerusalem and nobody but the
lid would bail him out. I Thought
at first that the LID was some
branch Of the Salvation Army, be-
cause heard they look after peo-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

There never was an organization
in the United States OF Molly Nc
CURES" Back In the seventies the
rank and file of the coal miners
became a menace to the gigantic
profits OF the coal barons Of Penn
sylvania. Determined to break the
unions. the barons launched a cam
paIgn Of terror against the leader
ship.
In their program OF propaganda
o handy name upon which TO center
their vicious attacks was necessary.
Since a majority OF the miners were
Irish, they tackled upon them the
name OF an ancient society Of Irish
peasants. BY 1879 the coal operat-
ors. with the full sanction OF the
government and the church, had
hanged nineteen working class lead
ers for being members Of this Mol
ly Mcclure" organization which did
not exist.
The State Versus the Workers
This struggle between the coal
barons and the miners constitutes
the first major labor fight waged
in America. The Union officials
hastily scampered over to the side
Of the boss. Labor and Capital"
they lied cheerfully, will go hand
in hand and be no more known rs
arrayed against each other. Their
interests will be truly identical and
recognized as such. The workman
will get the true value of his labor
and invested capital will get Its
own"
The employers first used their
now faithful allies-paid company
thugs, the National Guard, the Ia
Dor spy, the press, the courts. and
the church.
The operators paid the Pinker-
ton detective agency at the very
start of the campaign 100000 for
stool pigeons.
The Catholic Archbishop of Penn
sylvania was the only person to
whom the chief mine operator dis
closed his plans to exterminate the
militant miners. The Bishop re-
sponded by accommodating all
labor leaders who were Catholics,
thus condemning them In the eyes
Of the millions of working class
Catholics. Preachers gayly escorted
parties of young women to the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
Heroes Of American Labor
- The MOLLy Nc Guires-

, hangings.
The press created an atmosphere
Of extreme terror around the trials.
unfolding the sentences as a "trl-
umph OF law and Justice"
The courts did not attempt to hide
their Partially. legalizing for the
first time the wholesale murder OF
labor leaders.
The miners. on their part, first
utilized the tactic Of mass picketing
opposing the power OF the masses
10 the concentrated power of the
state.
The Crime Of the Molly MeGuirss
What was the crime for which
the Molly McGuires died on the gal
lows? whenever prices of labor
did not suit them" shrieked a cap
italist sheet Of that day. they or
ganized and proclaimed a strike!"
What were some of the conditions
against which the miners were
striking?
Low wages and the bob tailed
check"-"net balance 10000"
Dangerous working conditions-only
one mine outlet. A hundred and
seventy-five miners were trapped
and burned TO death. Child labor
out of $4,000 miners in one Penn
sylvania county in 1870, $500 were
children between 7 and l6. Against
the blacklist and for union recog-
milton.
And by no means least, the fight
ing Irish miners were battling bit
terly against the same capitalist
exploitation that had driven them,
starving. from their Irish homes to
seek freedom" in America. For
English milliOnaires had $4,000, 900
invested in the Pennsylvania coal
field and these Irish fighters knew
II.
Tho Fights Not Over Yet
But the coal barons did not stop
the menace to their profits. All over
the United States today the min
ers are on the march" Some day
they will vindicate the Molly Nc
CURES"
Read Anthony Bimba's THE Mol
ly Maguires" (NOT in the Public
Library for the working class an
gle, then read Allan Pinkerton's lu-
rid detective tale IN the Public
Library for the capitalist angle.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

workers with their mass action are
forcing substantial concessions, they
are breaking down the mass terror
as we'll as obtaining increased wages
and recognition.
Wherever we members Of the
Communist Party are working sys-
tematically we are making the Com
munist Party strong.
Communists everywhere must
be in the forefront Of these strus-
giles. They must be the best or
ganizers, the best fighters on the
picket line. They must be the lead
ers Of mass defense Of the work.
ers against the bloody attacks.
They must be the unifiers of the
ranks Of all workers in these bat
ties. The hundreds and thousands
Of workers everywhere rising as
leaders must be won to the Com.
munist Party"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
Mass Murders Expose
NRA, Says BrOWder

New York The rise of police terror
and the use of troops in strike areas
affirm the correctness Of the dec
isions of the Eighth National Con-
vention of the Communist Party,
Earl Browder, general secretary OF
the Communist Party USA, said in
an article recently published In the
Daily Worker.
why do the capitalists already
turn to mass murder of strikers ?
They are shooting men who demand
the bosses recognize and deal with
their union. The employers will
shoot down workers rather than
work with the union. 1t is the final
exposure of the reality behind the
NRA-which was hailed by lead
ers of the AFT and leaders Of the
Socialist party"
The shooting Of workers is to
enforce the principles cf the
Rooseaelt- Green auto settlement
and establish this pact as the
standard for all industries,
Browder continues. TheAF Of L
leaders signed this pact. The
workers are forced to face gun
fire to protect their right to or
ganize because their leaders sold
them out, and betrayed them.
That conservative Americans are
fighting with heroism that is ar
ousing the entire working ella IS, in
dicates the determination Of the
working class not to surrender and
be enslaved by the combined en-
ployers, the NRA officials and the
AF of L leadership, Browder says
The workers are going over their
leaders heads and with mass soil
darity win continue the struggle of
the working class.
The move toward a general strike
in Toledo and Minneapolis is a move
that should be fostered by every
class conscious worker toward a
National General Strike, Browder
urges.
After a year of the NRA which
drove down their real wages, the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

leath sentence on a trumped up
charge.
This bill, recognizing that the
rights of Negroes as granted by the
constitution of the US is constantly
and systematically ignored and vio-
lated and that there were 5000
lynchings in the last so years, pro-
vides that every person participant
ing in a lynching is declared guilty
Of murder of the first degree and
upon conviction shall be punished
by death"
1t defines lynching as violent
assault, resulting in death or aggra-
waited injury directed against the
victim. because of supposed infer
iority-"
The bill continues in Section 3:
ANY official or official body of any
subdivision of the USS who
shall adopt or enforce any measure
aimed at or resulting in, the denial
Of the full equality of Negroes is
guilty of malfeasance in office, sub
ject to immediate removal E"
1t also asks that damages for Ne
groes who have been Disseminated
against by individuals in the way Of
employment, higher rents. higher
prices, etc.
The League for the Struggle for
Negro Rights as well as pointing
out the dire necessity for such leg
islatlon, recognizes the value of a
mass action to prevent lynching and
discrimination in every form.
finPernail.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

That's all right, Comrade." the
man said. Wen put you back"
Parson, there amt much more
swearing so I'll just tell you, to
make 1t shorter. Mile says the
man went around and rang all the
doorbells and sent somebody down
to the Unemployed Council Hall and
In about zen minutes there was
most a thousand people there and
in another five minutes they had
busted in the front door and set the
furniture back In the flat. While
they was doing this the Red Squad
drove up 1 thought when she said
Red Squad they must be some kind
Of Bolsheviks. but they wasn't be-
cause they began to beat the work.
ers who took some two-by-fours
and chased them away. The work.
ers who came to put 'em back was
Americans. furriners and niggers,
only all through the letter Mile
calls 'em Fellow Workers and Com
rades. just like I hadn't always
taught her to keep them kind of
people in their place.
I'm Afraid lfs the Reds
Nov that was al right for 'em
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

cinct captain was there talking to
Tom and saying that he would have
given him a letter to the County
Commissioner only he was in WASH
ington. But the crying had changed
Tom just like he said it would. He
got up with the baby in his arms
and shook his fist at the precinct
captain and anybody a block away
could have heard him when he yell
ed:
You son of a bitch, my kids can't
sleep under a letter! They can't
eat II! You go to hell! I know what
to do"
Well Put You Back
There were some neighbors who
Tom never had anything to do with
because they were radical, but now
he walked right over and knocked
on the door Of one of them. and the
precinct captain beat II. When the
man came to the door Tom pointed
at our furniture and said, Look"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

pie that's been in jail. That would
be a good thing IL it's true because
they would be under a good religi-
GUS influence, but Parson, I'm afraid
It's the Reds and Mile dursn't come
right out and tell me so, and you
know, Parson, you can't go again
the Government.
What Do You Think, Parson7
I've been thinking this over all
night and decided they'd had a
terrible trial, and maybe I've been
just a little mite hard on Tom and
Millie too but I don't know lust
what to think.
, What do you think about II, Par
son? ..- .
We'll, the only thing we can do,
is thank Gawd that he provided
for 'em in their hour Of need, and
ask Him to continue to help 'em and
bring 'em back safe into the fold,
because from what you say. things
must be pretty bad in Chicago"
tie es Continued
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
BRO Bidjan Land of Plenty

To the alarmingly increasing
wave of antisemitism throughout
the world the Soviet Union has
responded with officially proclaim
ing Bro Bodjan as an Autonomous
Jewish Province, thereby emitting
the Jews to be represented in the
Soviet Council of Nationalities.
This step was not expected to
be made before another couple OF
years, due to the fact that the num-
Der OF Jewish settlers there is toe
small as yet. However, it is well
come news to Jews as to other OPP
pressed people in the world. The
granting of autonomy will also ma
terially speed up the development
and settlement of Biro-Bidjan.
This territory was chosen with
extreme care and set aside for
Jewish colonization six years ago
II has all the requisites of a coun-
try to support comfortably a con-
siderable population, but no peo-
pie to claim 1t their own.
1t is situated in Eastern Siberia,
about 800 miles from the Pacific
Coast. It lies between ATTITUDES AZ
and so degrees north and between
longitudes $50 and 1874 degrees east.
The great river, Amur, divides 1t
off from Northern Manchuria. It's
area is about 1880 square miles,
and population about $4,000, of
whom about rs per cent are Jew
ish new settlers.
The country is very rich in nat
ural resources-fertile soil, rivers,
timber, an abundance of minerals.
1t has great deposits of iron,
coal, graphite, marble, copper and
gold. Its prospects for agricultural
and industrial, development are
splendid.
Red Army Helps Harvest
The country is already produc-
ing its own food supplies, including
grain. They have been experiencing
some difficulties with wheat there.
1t ripens just when the rainy sea-
son begins, and 1t has to be har-
vested very rapidly, II it is to be
saved from getting damaged. On
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
A STRIKE SHOULD BE A STRIKE

Brothers of the lila, you are ON
STRIKEl You demand higher wag-
es. union conditions and recogni-
tion OF the International Longshore-
mems Association.
You deserve the support of the
whole toiling population, and in a
greater degree each day you are
getting 1t. Labor is with you, ex-
cept for the little crust Of trade
union bureaucrats (there are some
within your union, too).
But never forget you are ON
STRIKE!
The purpose OF the strike is to
tie up shipping completely, bring
enough pressure to bear to win your
demands.
THE STRIKE DEPENDS ON
KEEPING ALL SHIPS IN PORT.
And that is what you set out to
do.
You knew this would cause the
shippers, the manufacturers, the
bankers. the whole Chamber Of
Commerce gang a lot of heartache.
That is exactly why you did it!
Now you are giving in to one Of
the main groups of shippers and
capitalists, the Alaska trade crowd.
True, they bellyache loudly Dust
as you knew they would, and just
as they should) and their press
means with them.
In huge paid advertisements they
cry starvation" in Alaska.
The lie should be thrown in their
teeth. Look what our Ketchikan
reporter has to say on the front
page this week. Or maybe you've
been up North and know the truth.
Even their own papers news stories
betray them.
THE TRUTH Is THAT THE
FISH PACKERS AND SHIPPERS
FEEL THE FULL POWER OF
THE STRIKE. PROFITS, NOT
PEOPLE, ARE HUNGRY.
You know the Alaska mouths will
not go hungry. Are you going to
feed those Alaskans (closer to the
Alaska Building at Second and
Cherry Seattle) pocketbooks?
Beware of the man, be his name
Ryan or Roosevelt, who tells you to
do so.
The strike, to succeed. must be
spread. not narrowed down.
II you settle with one line be-
cause the Governor of Alaska must
have fresh strawberries from the
Puyallup valley, with another be-
cause Dole in Hawaii wants a can
(for pineapple), with a third be-
cause Seattle's political dope ring
wants new supplies from the ORR
ent. clear ships from the Philip
pines because the First Lady needs
a new nightie. you will soon find
two skiffs and leaky scow tied up
due to the strike and yourselves
holding the well-known sack.
Stick together. REFUSE TO |
LOAD ANY SHIP. Keep the picket |
lines solid. with the support of 9TH !
er workers. Hold out for your de-
mands.
You can be sure the Voice of Ac-
ton and the militant workers 1t
represents are with you to the last
ditch.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
New Paper Started
By Aircraft Workers

Seattle. May 20 The Aircraft
Plywood Worker, a shop paper pub
lished by the Aircraft Plywood Unit
Of Communist Party. carried the
following item under correspond
ence:
"As nearly as I can figure out,
production the last months has
increased IS per cent, while retail
orders OF Plywood have increased
$50 to 200 per cent but the increase
in employment during the same
period Is less than 20 per cent"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
Negro Rights Bill Drafted

New York-To abolish the prac-
tice of lynching Negroes, and to Sc
cure full equality and civil rights
throughout the United States. the
League for the Struggle for Negro
Rights recently published its revis-
ed Bill of Negro Rights in the Daily
Worker.
With such a bill of rights as that
proposed. 1t would have been i'm
possible for the jim Crowism now
existing in klamath Falls to con-
vict Theodore Jordan, innocent Ne
gro worker, who lies waiting the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08

several occasions they had to call
out the Red Army to assist in
harvesting their wheat.
The principal agricultural crops,
though, are rice and soya beans. It
it also a great dairying and honey
producing country.
The resources of this region were
appealing even to the Cars of old,
who made attempts to COLOMBO It,
but the wilderness Of the country
would not yield to their primitive
means.
The Soviet Union, however, has
tackled the job with the modern
tractor, excavator and Bolshevik
spirit, and the results are entirely
different
During the last six years the
population of the country has dou-
bled. The former village on the
Trans-Siberian Railroad, Tikhon-
kaya, now renamed BRO Bidjan
City" and capital Of the province
is a prosperous modern town of
10000 population.
Marshes have been drained,
bridges spanned across rivers,
highways cut through, and a num-
Der of Industries started. The
country is now in a position to re-
ceive great masses of immigrants.
In making the above mentioned
proclamation the Soviet Union has
also extended a welcome to foreign
Jewish toilers to come and settle
there. The Soviet Press in COM
menting upon it warns not to mis-
take the Soviet intention for the
creation of a new Zion"
Non Jews Join Colony
One who has watched the devel-
opment Of Bro Bidjan for the last
few years could not even suspect
anything of the kind. 1t is a signi-
ficant fact that even during its
pioneering days BRO Bidjan has
attracted many thousands of nom
Jews, while great numbers of Jews
brought there at government ex-
pense have been enticed away to
nearby developing cities, and no.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
FRIENDS OF NEW GERMANY
TRAIN STORM TROOPS TO
ESTABLISH HlTLERiSM
IN AMERICA

WIN sShSNN
DR.. Walther l.. Reinhardt, Ger
man consul in Seattle, is spreading
anti democratic, anti-semitic and
anti Marxist propaganda here thru
Nail literature and Is attempting
to Justify HitlePs reign OF terror in
speeches before Seattle arganiza-
lions.
The Nazi Party OF Germany Is
using every means II can find TO
spread its program of hate and
violence. In America II works large
ly through the Friends of New
Germany which is training storm
troops dressed in Nazi uniform TO
take control here just as Hitler
did in Germany.
LOCAL FRIENDS OF NEW
GERMANY
There is a local branch of the
national organization Of the Friends
of New Germany in Seattle. Weekly
meetings are held at the First Ger
man Congregational Church at
Eleventh and Howell Streets. The
organization in Seattle, however,
has not reached the spectacular de-
gree Of success which it has In
other sections.
FINANCED BY GERMANY
The Friends of New Germany
have o membership OF more than
5000 in the U. s., 1t is claimed.
Their outward purpose is TO create
friendly feelings toward Germany
and they disclaim any connection
with the German Nazi Party. How
ever, documentary evidence shows
that the German Party directs and
finances the Friends OF New Ger
many which is training storm
troops and planning a violent over
throw OF the U. S. Government.
The German government is
spending large sums of money and
has a great many persons on its
payroll. The brains and purse of
the propaganda activities are in the
office Of the German Consulate in
New York and the Embassy is
kept informed. Communications
and receipts are sent to Berlin by
special courier or with the diplo-
matte mail pouch.
Propaganda literature is received
in America from German vessels
sent directly from the Nazi propa-
ganda bureau at Hamburg, Ger
many. The Hamburg American
Line and the North German Lloyd
steamship lines, both of which are
represented in Seattle. have put
themselves frankly on record as
disseminating official Nazi propa-
ganda.
German American societies have
been taken over by force by Nazi
uniformed Friends of New Ger
many and threatened with violence
en- relatives of members who still
live in Germany. Practically the en-
tire German American press has
been Appropriated by the Hitler gov
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-08
PART u

AS you REMEMBER, an old
lady is reading letter to her
Parson which she has Just re-
eeived from her married daueh-
ter in Chicago. She has read Of
an eviction notice and of how
they are dreading il. The letter
continues;
The Eviction
Wen, Ma. morning came in spite
OF our wishes and the balliffs were
right ON the job to carry out the
things. The kids thought 1t was a
picnic or something and were run
ming In and out and having a fine
time. We had been thinking so much
OF the kids that we had forgot the
shame OF being on the street in front
OF all the neighbors. until the bail
IFS came out with the last piece
and slammed the door behind them.
a. ! live. II seemed as though our
Ma. III remember that slam as long