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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14

Criminal Syndicalism laws are
class legislation Their victims
are to be found among the work
ing class, particularly its mill
tant vanguard! Such was the
writer's conclusion in the preccd-
ing article Of this series. But con
slider this conclusion further
since it is emphatically denied by
the courts.
Washington's Supreme court
held:
The fourth point is that the
statute is class legislation. The
argument here seems to be baS-
ed on the assumption that it
was intended to restrict the dis
cussiOn of economic and indust-
rial questions among labor or
carnations The act is gen
eral in its terms and provides
that whoever shall do the
things there prohibited shall be
guilty of a felony. Under this
language any one, no matter
what his business association or
professional calling might be
who did the things prohibited by
this act, would be subject to its
provisions"
oregon's Supreme Court
held:
"The syndicalism statute is
not class legislation. 1t affects all
alike. 1t does not discriminate
against some in favor of Others"
Do Criminal Syndicalism laws
as these courts held, apply alike
to both employer and worker?
They were used against the
worker as a Strike-breaking
weapon in the Yakima fruit or
chards! They were used against
the worker when he fought for
shorter hours and higher wages
and better working and living
conditions in the California agri-
cultural fields!
Used in Mine Strikes
They were used against the
worker when he fought for I'M
ion recognition in the Kentucky
and Utah coal mines! They are
used against the worker up and
down the West Coast today as
he fights for shorter hours, I'M
ion recognition with hiring only
through union halls. for consti-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Daily Worker Deserves
Support

The Daily Worker is starting drive for a
100000 Sustaining Fund The funds from this
drive are to be used for the three new editions
which the Daily Worker plans to issue. There
is to be a morning and evening edition for
New York City containing not only news of
national and international Importance, but also
local news The third edition is to be the ma
tional edition sent out daily throughout the
United States stressing the daily events that
are of import to workers throughout the world.
The Voice of Action supports the Daily
Worker Financial Drive because the Daily
Worker is the only daily working class paper
1t is through the Daily Worker that the masses
are able to keep in touch with events which
affect them, told from the workers point of
view. The Daily Worker is daily paper. and
is able to give important eevnts in detail while
the Voice of Action can touch these national
and international problems only in summary,
as it is weekly paper mainly to problems of
the Northwest.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
WOMAN'S WORLD
Continued from Last Week.
BY MOTHER" ELLA REEVE BIooR

NINE. DUCHESNE OF FRANCE and Nine VaJen Guost Of
tor the organization of the Congress- formally opened the
sreSS VIII stirring addresses Nine Guest part:
ms Congress takes place twentieth annvers-
airy OF the World War must shall be an accusation
against the capitalist system of which ascism are
To-day we are gathered together with fascist
countries who fought heroicay with husbands We have
an awful list of imprisoned tortured and murdered women
from the countries of fascsm reaction
munst women mareaed by Douss agents One of these
laula Waih whose husband was hung She has
OF greeting to this Congress present at her trial Her
Judge was the same man who had imprisoned her husband
heroic and militant VI '
We comrades here this Congress must fight for her de-
hverance and for all imprisoned of all countries
Our Congress takes place in a of a threatening war
GagFr IN Japan and Germany the fight against the Soviet
mon already prepared In all capitalist countries immense
sums OF money which should used for social nsu
ae are being squandered for organization
coming war will be booder before The Front will
f very women and children will not be spared There
OF women against all mperast wars
This h sPEFd declare this this Congress
open discussion started Immediately 1t give
women like those from Valley who stressed the formation
OF their United Front OF Communist Socialist Parties one of
'ieln' a a. socialist, Mime Eodergach, said
Deeply influenced by United Front successful be-
cause oil our tenacious efforts about 30 Catholic
women have organized themselves oppoon to Hitler
We were often asked viii group dominate another?
We answered We in Saar do worry about such things
Nel te enemy stands before me- do not ask who my
ner is if only he fights with against enemy
therefore we socialists are joining with the Communists.
Our enemy Fascsm appeal the women of the entire
world to follow the example of the bring about
embrace the entire world"
Women Achieve United Front
AS THE CONGRESS PROGRESSED we realzed that we bai
achieved genuine United Front for the record alone but in
every possible to unite kinds of women I'm orgonfzod
action after the conference.
paeist and feminist said realize that we
can have Peace and that gain their freedom
until we have abolished fascism and war"
Tell of Soviet Achievements
THE MOST TREMENDOUS FORCE toward this unity Of MIR
pose was he influence OF the ten Soviet Union
femy Hee women with Their ringing words challenging
congress to rouse itself expressing victories industrial
cultural developments
after te great speeches the entire was
INTO one great force and together unanimously for the
resolutions and the embodyne the and the
purposes and future action OF the Congress
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Crisis Increases Speed>up

Latest figures on the speed-up of workers
in the industries of the United States is con
tanned in "A study just published in Bulletin 81
of the National Buro of Economic Research In
an article on Recent Changes in Production"
Chas. A. Bliss, executive secretary of the Ma
tiOnal Bureau, declares that:
"A period of depression is conducive to i'm
prOvemcnt in labor productivity"
Bliss then provides an answer to those who
have held that most of the increased product
iVity of the workers has been due to new
machinery and not due to the direct forcing of
the pace of the workers with its consequent i'll
effects in the form of fatigue and body wear.
He states that the recent improvement
may be in large part the result of temporary
Organzati6nal changes, Of greater labor effort
on the part of the more skilled workers those
who can keep the pace-Edl remaining i'm en-
plOyment and the use of the best existing
equipment which simply means that the "ex-
istng equipment" is operated faster, making
the workers step along more rapidly to keep
up with it. These are factors" he adds prob
ably far more important than the introduction
Of revolutionary mechanical innovation.
Little of the increased productivity since 1929
can be credited to the introduction of new ma,
chinery."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Fight Forced Labor!

Forced labor again raises its ugly head!
A new brand of it is sweeping the state OF Wash
ington.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administra-
ton at first assigned to this state for September
needs. $l,4000O0; then Topped of 100000 of that
This sweeping cut is being met by discon-
tinuing many pay jobs public works projects
and attempting to force the unemployed to
work them for the amount of their vouchers
in cash
As an Involvement clothing, shoes, fuel
will be given only to those who accept work!
With winter almost here! TN the past these ar
ticles are supposed to have gone to all, without
discrimination
In some small communities, this new set-up
is accompanied with one-third cut in relief!
The spirit of the strike against forced labor
that shook King County eighteen months ago
is not deadl Reports come that crews in Rem
ton and Lake Burien are out, already.
The Voice of Action was founded by the
unemployed in that 1888 strike. 1t will not now
lay down the fight against peonage
Aid the strike! Protest against forced laborl
Demand adequate cash relief jobs at trade
union wages, passage of the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill, HR 1885, Join the
campaign for Initiative No. a. for unemployment
insurance.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
The Workers Candidates

The Voice of Action did not have to wait
until after the primaries to decide whom it
would support in the elections.
The Voice of Action knew that whatever the
results the winning candidates would be sup
porters of Roosevelts program of hunger and
war regardless of how revolutionary their talk
might be-
AS for the minority party conventions held
on Primary Day. out of them all only one list
of candidates appeared on a clear cut working
class program: those nominated by the Com
munist Party.
Only the Communist Party raises in its
election platform the demands of the working
class for which the Voice of Action has been
lighting every week in its eolumns Against the
New Deal, for the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill. for the right to organize and strike
against War and Fascsm
Only the Communist candidates headed by
George Bradley running for u. S. Senator and
James Murphy for Congressman. have proved
their sincerity and militaney through the
struggles they have organized and led through
out the year.
The files of the Voice of Action since il was
first published are the best election record for
the Communist candidates.
The Voice of Action pledges to support the
Communist Party i'm the coming election cam
paign as II has supported it in the working class
struggles 1t has led every day.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
SOVIET
Main Street
BY MYRA PAGE

The three girls chum together
SOnya, a fair-haired, blue-ayed
girl of tWenty-thTee, was elected
last year by her needle depart
ment to represent them in the
city council or soviet. She likes
civic work. As a member OF the
sOviet's committee on commun-
ity feeding, she takes part in
the regular inspections and the
check-up of cooperative food
stores and food supplies.
She had struck me as a very
capable, but rather mattcr-Of-
fact persOn--until | discovered
her one evening, cTouched over
a book on the kitchen table,
reading revolutionary poetry
aloud to Ira.
Another time, when discuss
ing her budget. SOnya admitted
half-ashamed, Too much of my
wages go for clothes. Not my
top clothes, but fornice under
wear" Beneath her boyish khaki
shirt there is hidden linen. en-
brOidery and lace. Perhaps here
is one reason for the slogan over
the window.
Ira gives much OF her time,
after working hours, to leading
her group of Pioneers. In her
dark blouse and Wisp of a skirt,
she looks hardly more than 2
Pioneer herself. All three girls
take part in amateur dramatics
at the club, often joining in col
lective excursions to the the
aires in Moscow. Misha says the
girls put in too much time on
this kind of thing. Don't pay
any attention. the girls an
swer, we cant all be as serious
minded as Misha, and that's
that"
One evening Ira slips in with
her album. Just to get acquaint-
ed" she says shyly. We look
through the pages of snapshots.
Her pals and herself. Girl friends.
Boy friends. Her leader at sum
iner camp. Bits OF ribbon and
souvenirs of other days that she
wants to remember: a photo
graph of her sister and herself
taken with her mother, who died
when Ira was still a child. Candy
postcards that she apologies for.
Just to fill up space" Badges
she won when a Pioneer.
We talk long hour. At the
end she slips out as softly as
she came. TO Ira, the Commune
has brought comradeship, a.
home.
Misha, eighteen, a skilled me-
Page Three, Column Eight
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Plain Talk on War
and Fascis1n
BY WILLIAM B. sPoFFoRD

Editor, The Witness Episcopal Church Weekly
Sec'y Church League for Industrial Democracy
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Sultan, Wash.


Dear Editor:
| saw a couple articles in the
Voice of Action in regards to
Technocracy. The cOmrade at Ar
lingtOn says the paper is taken
up so much with hOllering Fas-
cist. Well, it does. But we must
keep up a constant holler in
order to get it over to the people.
TechnOcracy does have some
good points, believe it or not.
That is the Continental Study
Club on Technocracy, which is
different than Howard Scots
TechnOcracy, Inc, the Fascist or
ganiZation.
The study club is doing lots of
good while some of our comrades
are railing and others are asleep.
The capitalists haven't had to
take a dig at it yet. If comrades
will attend a few meetings they
see that it is club that is max
ing fast strides. The timid turn
to listen to speakers, also will
read it without being afraid of
dying. Also church people will
listen. As a member of the Tech
nOcracy Club of Everett, ! know
that eX-IWW's and ex-SOcialists
are the greatest boosters. | find
they are beginning to lean to-
wards Communism.
The Communists, instead of
doing so much talking, should
get into these study clubs, and
help them on to more correct
lines.
"A Worker.
Note: In answer to many re-
quests the Voice of Action will
feature series of analytical
articles on Technocracy. The
first of this series will appear
in the issue of September II.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Wacker, Alaska.
Dear Editor and Comrades:


Dear Editor and Comrades:
| have been fishing all sum-
mer and haven't been able to
send in anything in the way OF
news and there isn't any struggles
going on here at the present.
Most of the seiners made little
money this summer which makes
them more confident that ROOse-
welt will fix everything OK. SO
many of them are buying beer
and playing cards while every
thing is rosy and prosperity is in
sight. Many are fined for illegal
fishing. Now paying a fine is OK,
but on being asked to donate to
Thaelmann's defense nothing
doing. He is over in Germany and
that is so far from Alaska that it
won't affect the fish run here.
But there are a few class cOnsci-
Gus workers scattered around
these parts.
was out to Port Alexander in
July while the trOllers strike was
on. | didn't get to talk to the
strikers except on the street for
a few minutes. | was cautioned
by several to not say anything
about reds or Communists. |
told them that | wasn't on strike
so couldn't be classed as Red, but
as the trollers were all on strike
they all were classed as red for
they were pulling an industrial
revolution.
But while | wasn't pleading
guilty to being red | didn't want
any one to get the idea | was
Yellow. | haven't been in touch
with any of them since, but am
sending copy of a paper that is
being sponsored by the trOllers
and printed in Ketchikan.
COmradely yours,
d. W. Hoskins.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Workers School

SEATTLE. Sept. 13-AnnOunre
ment has just been made of the
courses offered in the Workers
School to open Oct. -. 1891. I'm
conjunction with the regular
courses offered, the John Reed
Club will sponsor a series OF
lectures on Saturday nights and
an open forum will be held at
the school each Sunday night.
Courses given will be MarXiSm-
Leninism. Theory and Tactics of
the Trade Union Movement, His
tory of the Labor Movement,
MARKHAM Economics, and Revolu,
tiOnary Journalism.
In addition to these courses
that We're given last year, three
new courses will be offered ac-
cOrding to their demand: Fascism
and Social FasciSm, The Unem-
plOyed Movement, and Negro La.
Dor Problems.
Low Jobless Rate
Glasses will be conducted in
the evening, and the charge for
each course will be one dollar
for employed workers and %
cents for unemployed. An appeal
is being sent to mass oragniza.
tiOns and to individuals to sup
port the school financially, and
to send or defray the expenses
of students who would otherwise
be unable to attend.
A permanent library will be
established based on contribu.
lions and loans of working class
books, periodicals and pamph-
lets.
The John Reed Club lectures
will cover number of subjects.
including Revolutionary Litera-
ture, Revolutionary Art, and
Book Reviews.
Registration will begin i'm
mediately, and for the present
all communications should re
sent to the Workers School at
POP Collins Bldg, Seattle. An
nOuncement of the location of
the school will be carried in the
voice OF Action at a later date
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Mutnomah County Jail
Portland. Ore. Sept.

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 3
Dear Comrades,
We, the undersigned persons
still being held i'm the MultnO-
nah County Jail, charged with
criminal syndicalism. realize that
the reactiOnary forces of Fascism
can be stopped only by the
United Front. Only the active
unity of all forces opposed to
suppression OF civil rights, terror
and other outeroppings of fas-
cism by bringing the greatest
mass pressure to bear can free
us; can ward off fascism.
We call on every AT of l. union
rank and file and on every other
organization where workers have
a voice, to join in such a united
front. Its benefits to the working
class will be far more important
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14

Van Ossietzki is ill-treated
and punished for any reason and
none. Anti-fascists locked up in
Papenburg die a slow death, but
sure one. The Hitler assassins
have provided every means to
break them morally and physic-
ally. Those anti-fascists who are
particularly hated by the guards
and police are murdered out
right. The world outside hears
only that they were "shot while
attempting to escape"
Pressure from the workers and
their sympathizers has forced the
Hitler government to open the
gates OF several concentration
camps to newspapermen and
foreign delegations. But the en-
trance to the brown hell OF Pap
enburg remains sealed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14

aid Of women. Mothers who had
been inclined to treat crime as an
impersonal monster that walked
down the dark streets, and dope as
a mysterious drug that belonged in
f1ophouses, took up arms when they
discovered that vice had a family
entrance into their homes. They
assisted Federal agents in uncover
ing the diabolic plot to victimize
children.
Undoubtedly similar situations
may exist in New York, San Fran
cisco and the hundreds of cities
that connect the two coasts. In
stead of waiting until Mary or John
drops into a dreamful sleep. fathers
and mothers should set out to make
the streets safe for school-going
children.
An attack on the home always
makes men and women prepare for
combat. The crime attack, which
is now centering on children, has
awakened the social consciousness
of mothers. If crime is to be con-
quered permanently it must be
through a personal agency.
There is a danger that we may
tarry too long, refusing to believe
that our own hearths are threat
ened. insisting in our belief that our
children are immune to evil.
Youth is always ready for new
experiences. And it hasn't learned
to refuse a dare gracefully The
youngsters who took the stuff just
to see what might happen aren't to
blame half so much as the parents
who waited until the narcotic ring
invaded their families before getting
busy.
From the beginning of time it has
been mans accorded duty to STAY
dragons, fight giants, protect the
frontiers of his country and his
home. Even when. woman entered
the industrial world the status was
not changed But she has proved
her willingness and her efficiency in
aiding him.
Laurel wreathS of the brightest
green are due Mary d. Bailey, as
sistant to Chicago's United States
district attorney. and Mrs. Eliza
beth Bass, narcotic director of three
states, who are largely responsible
for the work of smashing Chicago's
dope ring. When women are aroused
they are fearless. Criminals, get
ting by when only men haraSs them,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14

tect. True, we should take every
action to avoid the casualties from
careless driving. But the ominous,
stealthly, Sinking tread of the bear
ers of dope holds more potent
danger than the racing motor cars
If parents fail in their social
duties = and, fortunately, human
history shows us that they won't
childhood is helpless. The present
danger comes in the fact that par
ents may too long remain in ignor-
ance of the prevalence of the dream
packets. Social consciousness,
awakened through this atrociouS
yet most unwise stroke of the gen.
erous dope bearers, could end the
drug evil.
But let's begin to concentrate on
home activities-and take time off
tc go through children'S pockets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
DEC. II. 1891

ner and bridge party tonight at her
home, 21l2 Park-av. Her guests will
be members of De Paw University
chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta
sorority members, including Misses
Jeanne Smith, Lucy Link. Miriam
Waldo, Ellen Rogers. Jane Howe,
all of indianapolis; Miss Katherine
Ferree, Danville. and Miss Anas-
taSia Clothier. Limberlost Cabin
Miss Hitz will be assisted by her
mother, Mrs. A d. Hitz: her aunt,
Miss Ruth OHair. and her grand
mother. Mrs. Edgar OHair. Green
and gold will be the color combins-
tons used in the decorations and
appointments.
Mrs. Leland Clapp, assisted by
her mother. Mrs. Garfield Walker,
will entertain with a tea tomorrow
afternoon at her home. $3.50 z.
Westinghouse, for Miss Ostrom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
TUDOR HALL WILL
PRESENT PLAY,

Tudor Hall Schools traditional
Christmas pageant, THE Holy
Night, will be presented at 4 Sun
day afternoon in he school audi
forum.
The cast will include Patricia De
PREF, Ruth Fishback, Jane Caring
ton, Mary Lou Allen, Jane Craw-
ford, Eleanor Carter, Natalie Pfaff.
Nina Brown, Catherine Kemp and
Jane Rottger.
Other taking part include four
choruses, the residence glee club,
the upper school chorus, and two
groups comprising Grades 5, 6, 7, 8,
and l, 2, and 4.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-14
Became Bride on Holiday

The
marriage
of Miss
Frances SgrOi,
daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs.
Salvatore
Sgroi, to
L HGfteS II.
Rdgle, son of
Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Ragle,
took place
Thanksgiving
day at
HOLY Rosary
Church.
Mr.. and Mrs.
RGgle 1OiU
make their
home IN
Indianapolis.