Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-22
MEET.
EATING MACHINERY
THE scAB DEAN
INSIDE THE OUTLOOK
: BY ALAN MAX

and 1t took the combined FORCES OF
the ship owners, the press, city and
state and national authorities, plus
the lila officials, to slip IT over on
the men.
When the strike first broke, the
ship owners tried to load with scab
and received 100 per cent coopera-
ton from the local lila officials.
mo violence. boys" Bennett told
the men. Just talk TO the scabs
and make them realize what they
are doing" But the scabs couldn't
seem to understand. They couldn't
be made to see that one of these
nights they would wake up with
pangs of conscience and wouldn't
be able to sleep wink for the rest
of the night.
The longshoremen got tired of be-
ing on the losing side of the argu-
ment. Fruit crates and busted
fences seemed to give the scabs a
clearer understanding of what was
wanted Of them. and tied up the en-
tire waterfront.
The ship owners were going fran
tic. They tried to get the lila men
as deputies to protect the scabs
from the strikers themselves. With
the endorsement of the officials of
the local, this almost went across,
and only the protests of the rank
and file forced them to withdraw
II.
Then in desperation they cooked
up the starving Alaskans." With
suicides every week right here in
our own state from starvation, hun
cry children dying from eating
weeds, practically on the mayors
front lawn, the whole city has been
told that the longshoremen-not the
ship owners, of course-are causing
famine and in those regions of AL
aska where they are accustomed to
getting along for months without
outside supplies!
Governor Martin called out the
yigilantes to attack the Hunger
Marchers who asked for something
TO eat. Mayor Dore has repeatedly
offered to answer hungry stomachs
with machine guns. So naturally, II
is to be expected that they would
do everything in their power If they
heard of just one hungry child up
in Alaska.
The longshoremen, working the
Victoria, contribute their pay to the
strike fund, while the ship owners
are carrying the supplies at their
usual profit. And a glance at the
cargo would indicate that the starv-
ing Alaskans eat machinery.
The vigilantes have been on the
picket line all week. Not to help
stop scabs but to warn the long
shoremen against the Communists.
Many a vigilante has been told by
longshoremen to keep his - -
mouth shut"
THE Communists are with us"
one longshoreman said. IF all of
us had half the CUTS that they
have the strike would be ever by
now"
The Dean of the University of
Washington was upset when he
heard that some of the students
were scabbing. THE University
does not want to see its students
breaking the strike. But still less"
he added, do we want to see them
in demonstrations in support of the
longshoremen."
So between for and against the
longshoremen, the University knows
exactly where it wants the students
to stand-against!
The Thursday Noon Outlook Is a
small paper but trying to make
good. published with a lot OF en-
thusiasm by a number of college
students. Many think we ought to
give it fatherly pat and helping
hand. And when we don't. many
think 1t is because the Outlook
doesn't come out for the Communist
Party.
But without going into the in
tentions of those who write and
help distribute it, the Outlook is as
two-faced a sheet as was ever
printed.
The Outlook will publish well
written stories about the anti-war
demonstration of students and ex-
pose the triel that followed. And on
the next page hail Marion Zion
check, who introduced into Con-
gress a five million war appropri-
alton bill for Bremerton.
The Outlook publishes good stor-
les of the longshore strike, even
reprinting word for word the CAL
ley Wireless of the Marine Work
ers Industrial Union. And at the
same time, 1t compliments AT of L
misleaders for getting on the NRA
regional board.
The Outlook fights war by in
spring confidence In the war max
ers.
It supports strikes by inspiring
confidence in those who sell out
strikes.
It tries to play both ends against
the middle. But there is no mid
dle-only the ends: the workers
end and the capitalists end.
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