Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-07
Did You Know
That

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New York City seaman, who
was denied relief, leaps to death.
Los Angeles pay cut stirs up
great resentment among police
men.
Secretary Roper admits that
there Is shortage OF 8 million
livable houses in the U. s.
The LID reports that 2S were
killed in strikes and other labor
demonstrations during the first
six months of 1884.
The Southern Worker" again
appears In a new issue despite
police and vigilante raids and
campaigns Of terrorism.
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Green of the AFL Gusts New
York City Painters local when
the locals rank and file refused
to reflect a racketeering leader.
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In Gallup, New Mexico, in a
one week strike FERA workers
under the leadership of the Ma
tional Miners Union won SOL
cent an hour wage scale.
Guardsmen in ten regiments
of the National Guard at Chica-
go have organized groups to pro
test racketeering and graft in
their midst.
Starvation conditions among
sugar beet workers is shown
in a recent Labor Department |
report. Any able bodied men in
this work are shown to be earn
in gas low as $40 month.
1000 quit in bathrobe factories
tying up three eenters of the
industry in New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut. The strike
is under the leadership of the
militant BathrObe Workers In
dustrial Union
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1900 Bucks County, Pa, farm
ers face evictions for inability to
pay taxes. Governor Pinchot,
who declared himself "sympa-
thetic with them, sent troops to
stop all mass action that might
prevent sales and evictions.
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When 1900 Scranton workers
demonstrated under the leader
ship of the Unemployed Council
demanding hearing on the
question OF food increases, many
men, women and children were
beaten numerically by the po-
lice.
Florida convention of the Am
erican Legion is greatly angered
by the growing militancy of Ne
gro workers and the increasing
numbers of them that are join
ing the Communist Party in it's
fight against hunger and racial
Chauvinism.
In frantic effort to prevent
the cotton textile strike Roose-
welt has tried to install in the
industry 10 per cent cut in the
working hours while doing his
best to hide the fact that the ae-
companying 10 per cent cut in
wages would leave the workers
with an actual decrease in pay.
To pay the bankers of New
York City-and let the unem-
ployed go hungry LaGuardia
has placed l per cent tax on
all incomes above 500 a week.
Even the bourgeois press of the
city admits that "the mayors '
chief concern is to get a tax pro-
gram that will appeal to the
bankers"
The American Bar Association
the lawyers national organiza-
ton, calls for great centraliza-
ton of police powers in the
hands of state officials. This
movement is spreading rapidly,
and it means great threat to
the militant labor movement for
Capitalization of police to func- '
tion in the hands of the state )
government means a stronger {
arm for the law to use in break $
ing strikes. The official excuse
is a need for greater ease in
catching criminals. S
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In another effort to throttle ]
militant unionism in New York {
Mayor La Guardia has decreed !
that there shall be no picketing 6
by groups opposed to the ALL
This comes directly on the heels {
of militant mass protest which A,
forced him to revoke his fascist |
decree that attempted to elimin-
ate all militant unions by fore l
ing all unions to secure recogni-
tion from his chief of police-a
man who was shown by a con- c
sentative investigating commit
tee to have been largely respon- =