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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Brown, UMwA Linked

oIOWu, Sm w n hiuhcu
Who is attorney for the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America and
assists in negotiating its con-
tracts? Mr.. Z. X. Brown!
In the issue of August /, 1894,
of the United Mine Workers
Journal, official United Mine
Workers of America mouthpiece,
there appears on page IL an ar
ticle growing about the success
attained in smashing the miners
strike. In this account the Jour
nal points out how successfully
the NRA Labor Board is used to
manipulate the government ma
chinery against militant workers
organized in an independent rank
and file land thus outlaw I'M
ion.
Mr.. E, X. Brown, attorney for
the N. w. Improvement Co., the
Northern Pacific and also for the
United Mine Workers of America
is quoted in this precious Tabor"
journal as follows:
ISLANDERS Independents
an one hundred years from
now the United Mine Workers of
America will be the backbone Of
When the split between the
corrupt leadership Of the union
and its betrayed rank and file
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Where UCL Meets

Here's where Seattle Unem-
ployed Citizens League locals
meet:
Interplay, 18th and Wheeler,
Monday.
Fairview, Cascade school, Tues
day.
Downtown, Wash. and Occi-
dental, Thursday.
Auditorium, Warren Avenue
school, Monday.
Capitol Hill, PIT. Minor school
Monday.
Crown Hill, 102nd and Green
{ wood, Monday.
iRenton, Renton Labor Tenn
pie, Saturday.
Ballard, 5203 Ballard Avenue.
Wednesday.
Hillman, 1922 Rainier Avenue,
Tuesday.
Georgetown, Portable school.
Monday.
South Park, 701 Cloverdale.
Green Lake. Green Lake Meth
odist Church. Friday.
21st Ave. 10 plus 3 Club. 206
2lst Ave-, Friday
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Civil Service Men
Thank Bradley

BELLINGHAM, Wash, Dec. 20
Expressing the good will and
thanks of the Bellingham Civil
Service League, a letter was sent
to George Bradley and the Work
ers Ex-Servicemens League for
their activity in keeping the Civ
il Service system in Bellingham.
The fight took place when
employers of Bellingham initi-
ated an ordinance to repeal the
civil service system in order to
further cut salaries of city en-
ployees.
The letter to Bradley states:
in behalf of the Bellingham
Civil Service league and all
those of our citizens who believe
in the merit system of selecting
our public servants, l wish to
extend to you our thanks for the
services you rendered in helping
to make the vote for the reten-
tion of Civil Service the success
it was.
Without the valuable assist.
ance which you, together with
many other citizens, rendered,
the vote on this question would
probably have been much closer
than it was.
Again thanking you for the
help given us, and assuring you
of our continued good will, I am,
Yours truly"
The letter is signed by HI. S.
jenkins, Secretary of the Bell
ingham Civil Service League.
Bradley is not only veterans
leader, but secretary of the State
Committee of Action and of the
Arrangements Committee for the
Olympia Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
N. w. Improvement Company
and Mr.. Elk. Brown.
UMWA Leaders Exposed

UMwA Leaders Exposed
There is a labor union known
as the United MineWorkers of
America which is intimately as
ISOLATED with the prosecution OF
these cases. The United Mine
Workers of America, an AT. of
L. affiliate, was at one time, q
legitimate labor union represen-
ting the economic interests Of
the coal miners, who were being
exploited by the NV. Improv-
ment Company. But the rank
and file within the union have
been deprived of a voice in it's
control and have been the victims
of vicious national and dis
trict bureaucracy that open
ly and without the grace of con-
cealment shamelessly co-operat-
ed with the employers to sell out
the workers.
This policy of the leadership
of John Lewis, International pres
dent of the United Mine Work
ers Of America and Samuel Mich
OILS, district No. 10 president Of
the same union, was the direct
cause of the strike of the coal
miners last year and the subse-
quent split of the honest rank
and file from the corrupt lead
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
No work, No Clothes,
Bellows Relief Head

RENTON, Wash, Dec. 27-Re-
lief workers here found out
through a One-minute interview
with the relief head just what
the set-up is concerning forced
labor for clothing.
Ira Redford, relief worker, col
Jared the relief head in her office
after a tw0-day chase.
DO | have to work to get cloth
ing?" Redford asked her.
yes" she yelled.
Can | get clothing without
working?"
Nor
Redford had put in his order
for clothing the proceeding
Thursday and had gone down
Monday to the relief depot to in
vestigate the forced labor set-up.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Official Refuses City
Hall to HerndOn Meet

OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. 81
Major Dohm, one of Olympia's
city commissioners, thought he
could use his dome for the pur-
pose of booming the Herndon
meeting in Olympia to oblivion.
The workers committee in
making preparations for the
Herndon meeting went to the
mayor and city commissioners
and asked for the use of the city
hall for the purpose of the meet
ing, and their request was grant
ed without a dissenting voice.
Leaflets announcing the meet
ing were prepared and a large
quantities of them distributed
the day before the date set for
the meeting; placards announc-
ing the meeting were also placed
conspicuously in a number of
places.
Then, the night before that set
for the meeting, the mayor being
out of town, Major Dohm sent
one of the satellites on the police
force to notify the committee that
Dohm had used his dome to doom
the meeting by, at the last mo-
ment, denying the use of the city
hall.
The comittee having, for rea-
sons, anticipated such trickery,
used their domes and doomed
the effects of Dohm's doom to
doomery. They had hired the lee
ture room in the basement of the
Public Library.
Notices of the change of loca-
tion were speedily broadcast by
leaflets, radio and word OF mouth
and the meeting was a good sue
cess, the lecture room being fill
ed to capacity and overlooking
to the stairway beyond.
Not so was it with the anti
working class lecture delivered
by Professor Woellner the same
evening, held under the auspices
of the Olympia Chamber of CON-
merce in the Capitol Park Aud
itorium, largest in the city.
Small Audience
There a meagre audience COM
posed mainly of working people
whose curiosity had been arous-
ed as to how this petty bOurge-
Ois professor would attempt to
doom the working class move
ment, the Communist Party. Less
than one-tenth the capacity of
the auditorium was occupied.
And at the close of the lecture
the doughty professor beat a
hasty retreat instead of waiting
to answer all the questions which
members OF the audience were
DESTROYS of asking him Many of
his assertions were incorrect and
were due either to purpOseful
misrepresentation or wilful ig-
norance of facts.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Welfare Head Says NO
To Demonstrating Tacoma
Workers Relief Demands
Employers Donate
COughlin'S Auto

DETROIT, Mich, Dec. 81
When Father Coughlin, social
reformist" radio priest, was ar
rested last week for speeding, it
was revealed by a Detroit paper
that the license plates on his
car were made out in the name
of a large automobile manufac-
turing company, name not divulg-
ed.
This establishes clearly the
tie-up between the demagogic
radio priest and big business.
Capitalist employers have to
think a lot of a man before they
will provide him with a private
ear.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Executed White
Guards Imported

MOSCOW, USSR, Dec 27-Most
of the 70 white guard terrorists
executed here recently were in
possession of hand grenades and
revolvers, it was revealed by the
military tribunal of the USSR
Supreme Court this week.
The majority of those executed
had crossed the Soviet border
from Poland, Latvia and Finland
it was discovered, thus blasting
the claim Of the world capitalist
press that the executions We're
part of a suppression campaign
against dissatisfied workers"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Frisco lila Men Boo
Scab Football squad

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 81
Longshoremen and members OF
the crew of the Dollar line, Pres
ident Taft, walked off the pier
last Friday afternoon before sail
ing time, in protest against Uni
versity of California football
players who scabbed during the
marine strike here and who were
bound for Honolulu.
The strike lasted for nearly an
hour while longshoremen and
seamen lined up outside Pier
46 and booed the players when
they arrived in buses.
Bill Ingram, VINO recently re-
signed as California football
coach and who herded the play
ers to scab on the strikers, was
visibly disturbed by the demon
stratiOn.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Order Eviction of
Tacoma Worker

OLYMPIA, Wash, Dee. 81
One of the most fragrant acts OF
injustice, committed under the
guise of law, in civil actions in
the state of Washington, involv-
ing the pending eviction of a
worker, a member of the Plumb
er's union, and his sick wife,
from their home which they have
built with over 20 years of hard
work and thrift, is seemingly
drawing to close.
In Department 3, Pierce COun-
ty Superior Court, on the 18th
day of December, Judge Hodge,
after declaring in court that the
merits of the case do not interest
me-" ordered Writ of Assist
ance be issued to the Sheriff so
that he may evict John Hague
and Alta NJ. Hague from their
home at ALA n. 32nd street, Ia
coma.
The prima facia evidence shows
that a conspiracy was Matched
by certain attorneys as the only
means whereby they might OBJ
tain their fees. In this conspiracy
a contract was forged while in
the hands of Bob Evans, an at
torney at the time for Hagues.
Court Winks at Perjury
In the course of the conspiracy
perjury was committed at which
the court winked; the constitu-
tional rights of the Hagues were
denied by the prosecution attor-
ney, Bertil johnson, the Hagues
were denied the right to trial by
jury; other requirements of the
law were ignored by Bertil john
SON
The forged contract was against
the protests of the Hagues, pre-
scented in Court by Mr.. Burkey,
at one time another attorney for
the Hagues, whom they discharg,
ed in consequence.
The court denied the Hagues
the right to introduce in evidence
the proofs of perjury, forgery,
malicious prosecution and con
spiracy which the Hagues were
prepared to submit. And now the
Hagues are facing eviction in
consequence.
Workers Should Protest
All workers, employed and I'M
employed, should rally and re-
monstrate against such fragrant
miscarriage of justice, whereby
lawyers (using another man as a
tool will finally obtain posses
sion of the Hague's home. A pc
tition is being circulated address
ed to the grand jury of Pierce
county, demanding a thorough in
vestigation of the whole matter;
and that, upon evidence present
ed, they order a re-Opening of
the cases involved in the pos
sible hope of saving the home
for the Hagues.
Workers, write to the Grand
Jury and add the weight of your
protest to the many others.
Speedy action is necessary.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
LONG "CoMMoDIT LINE"

SPOKANE, Dec. 27-The com
modify line" waiting for the gov
eminent handout is over a block
long all day. A worker in the line
was threatened with arrest if he
kept on agitating. He kept on.
He was not arrested.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
IS TO INJURED MAN

SPOKANE, Dec PA worker
on a relief job reports being in
jured a month ago. He got a
check for eight dollars. Another
man working for a private con-
Germ gets seventy dollars every
month, all disqualification free at
the expense of the state
Relief workers should force the
state to pay the same compen-
sation the state demands of pri-
vate concerns.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
To Answer WOellner

OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. 81
o. p. Allison, vice president Of
the Shingleweavers' Union and
a member of the American
League Against War and Fas-
cism, will answer the charges
OF Professor Woellner at the
x. P. hall in Olympia, January
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
CARLSON GRANTED WRIT

SPOKANE, Dec. 81 Word
comes that Ray Carlson has been
granted a writ of habeas corpus
and his deportation temporarily
held up. Bail for his release will
most likely be needed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Admits Hunger Can't
Be Ended Under
Capitalism
By a Worker Correspondent


TACOMA, WASH, Dec. 27-At
the Pierce County Welfare head
quarters last week, about 200
lusty voices roared out the Inter-
rationale, while waiting for Re-
lief Director A. b. Comfort to ap-
pear to answer to the demands
presented by the unemployed,
under leadership Of the Unem-
ployed Council.
A clerk i'm an office adjoining
the hall furnished comic relief by
tapping with a pencil on a win
dow to stay the song that all cap
itallsm's bludgeons, guns and
tear gas have never been able to
quench.
After Mr.. Comfort appeared
and retired with the committee,
the unemployed took possession
of the main hall, organized their
own meeting and for over an
hour militant songs and speeches
rang through the sacred precincts
of the relief headquarters.
The last half hour was devoted
to discussion of the Communist
remedy for unemployment and
poverty, with questions and an
swers.
Comfort Saws mo"
Capitalisms answer was furn-
ished by Mr.. Comfort, who re-
turned a flat mol" to all de-
mands. The demands were: Mini
mum relief voucher of $40 per
person per week; milk and flour
in addition; medical and dental
care; heat, water and light to be
taken care Of; adequate food and
clothing during winter; an extra
voucher for Christmas.
After the committees report,
Mr. Comfort made one Of the us
ual man to man" talks, attempt
ing the usual stall, no money"
But a barrage of questions from
the militant workers drove him
from the stand.
The one that hurt worst con-
cerned the amount OF his own sal
airy; the one that finally sent him
scurrying away was: why don't
you study Communism and learn
how to end unemployment" His
most interesting admission was
that he knew the present relief
budget means starvation and
that he knew no remedy for starv-
alton under capitalism.
An important feature OF the
meeting was that the farmers
joined the city unemployed in
presenting their own demands,
for government help in feeding
their stock: amounts per month
So for horses, SO for cows, 81 for
hogs, 10 cents for hens.
These men who need such help
are living on supposedly profit
able farms. What will happen to
the subsistence farmers" on mar
ginal land, one of the government
proposals for the city unemploy-
ed?
A pouring rain did not keep
these workers from marching
with banners and slogans through
the streets and descending on
the relief headquarters.
At the head of the parade they
carried a dead and leafless Christ
mas tree from which hung empty
milk bottles, worn out clothes
and shoes and other things in
dicative of the plight of the un-
employed.
The clerks pencil did not stop
the Internationale, and nothing
that the ruling class can do can
stop the small farmers and I'M
employed workers of Pierce coun-
ty from organizing in sufficient
strength to force something else
than capitalist starvation for
their families.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
By Special Editorial Correspondent

Behind the Rosln mine just the typical
class case the of by capitalists against workers. The
states attorneys have been Short Prosecutor Kit
tas County and X Brown local attorney of Eensbug WASH
and special prosecutor
In this association of Short
political significance of these
political alignment
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Mill Owners Balk
Employees Election
BY NLwU Correspondent

ASTORIA, Ore, Dee. 27-An
election was TO be held on De-
cember 3, to see which one of the
unions is the representative of
the workers in Westport mill, the
Al company "union" or the AFL
Timber and Sawmill Workers
Union.
The election was to be super
vised by the Regional Labor
Board, but due to "a fact that
company refused to turn over
the payrolls for investigation,
the election was postponed" II
the National Labor Board and its
Regional BrancheS are really
fighting in the interest of the
workers, wouldn't they have the
power to force the company to
grant an investigation?
Haven't the leaders of the Am
eriean Federation of Labor told
the workers that the full weight
of the federal government was
thrown behind the workers eff
forts to organizer"
Avoid Struggle
But instead of forcing the COM
pany to grant an investigation,
they are lulling the workers to
sleep, by avoiding any kind of
struggle and are guiding the
workers into legalistic channels.
Thus the whole case was given
to the court to decide whether
to have an investigation and then
the election.
J Workers in WestpOrt mill
should understand that courts
are weapons of the capitalist class
in order to crush the working
class.
While the workers in Westport
are waiting for the court decision,
the company is making every at
tempt to drive the workers into
the company Al union. Mill own
ers claim that Al has the most
members, but workers know that
Timber and Sawmill Workers I'M
Ion has the majority organized.
Promote Illusions
High salaried officials in the
AFL, together with the National
Labor Board, in order to pre-
vent the workers in the unions
from taking any kind of militant
action to win better conditions,
they are pumping the workers
minds full of illusions, such as:
I'VE got to be 100 per cent Or
ganized before we can do any
thing" mo strikes" strikes do
more harm than good" Com
munists are boring within the
ALL in order to break the I'M
IONS" etc.
Mr.. VIM. Green refers to every
militant worker VINO is willing TO
fight for higher wages and better
conditions, as Communist.
Workers in Westport mill, in
order to prevent the company and
Regional Labor Board from man.
euvering the company union
back to WastpOrt mill, they
should mobilize all possible re-
sistance.
The National Lumber Workers
union is willing to help all the
lumber workers regardless of
what organization they belong to
in the fight against the company
unions and for higher wages and
better conditions.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
HERNDoN TO SPEAK

SPOKANE, Dec. H-The An
gelo Herndon meeting on Janu-
airy A will be held in the basement
hall of the Calvary Baptist church
at Third and Cowley streets.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
PETITION CIRCULATED

SPOKANE, Dec. 27-The IN
employed Council is circulating
a petition to force the relief agen-
cy to furnish electric lights for
the unemployed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Commonwealth Program Is
Thirly-Veiled Effort To
Lower Taxes of Wealthy
Plan Would Put JobleSS Into Forced Labor
Camps, Cut them OFF Relief

Now that the failure OF the New Deal is becoming and
jobless employed because
wagecu speedup and hostility to labor organization the
labor and political takers everh scratching find and
to continue the fraud and robbery that capitalism
practices the Anything their support
vded only that ooling workers small bust
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
SPECIAL NEWS
. for the
Lumber Workers

Edited by JAMES MURPHY
Secretary National Lumber Workers Union

SEATTLE Dee 27Snce the New Deal has been effect
five million workers have been forced join unions
the basic industries Company
in existence before the New Deal but smaller
degree.
The company Al union organized beginning
the world $1,000 lumber strike
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28

they are ready to rip off your
skins. Don't let the Common
wealth Builders be the bell-weth-
er in leading you to the skinning
pens.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28

OF tine WOflu war. over 41,OUU lllml
the eight-hOur day, better work,
ing conditions and the abolition
of blanket packing.
The West Coast lumber operat-
ors were making huge profits
out of the war materials being
And the workers
took advantage of this favorable
opportunity to organize their
own trade union.
With the aid of the govern
ment and 5000 men in uniform,
the operators formed the Loyal
Legion of Loggers and Lumber
men," This formation of a com-
pany union had as its purpose
blacklisting the militant workers
from the industry, establishing
a union of contented loyal
workers, and smashing the strike.
Although the Al is completely
controlled by the operators, their
agents attempt to convince the
workers that it is an employee
and employer Joint representa-
ton" or cooperation between
employee and company manage
ment to develop confidence in
each other"
Weapon Against Men
The company union is very
weapon in the hands
of the boss in keeping the wages
to low minimum, putting over
speed-up maneuvers
The lumber workers being
largely unorganized are victimiz-
ed by the organized operators and
forced to submit to any PROPOSE
ton the companies desire to put
over.
The NLWU is confronted with
the important problem of win
ming these workers over to a mill
tant program. away from the in
fluence and control of the operat-
Ors
Our main objective is to con-
vert the company Al union in
shop committees, by the vigor-
Gus struggle against the operat-
Ors and their agents. By the Or
ganization of an opposition group
to give guidance to the workers
in the company union. we will
fight to eliminate the company
the foremen, superin-
tendents, etc, and demand the
comprise workers only.
At these meetings the workers
must take up such questions that
pertain to their everyday needs.
Set up department committees,
grievance committees, etc. Broad
en- this campaign to where a dele
gated shop committee is estab-
lished consisting of delegates
from all departments. Ultimately
strike action can be taken over
the heads of the officials and
against the operators.
Sectarian Policy
In the past the NLWU used in
correct tactics. Militant workers
would isolate themselves from
the broad masses, resulting in
defeat not only for themselves,
but a setback for the workers re-
under company control.
BY following incorrect sectari-
an lines we passed up a favorable
opportunity last summer in Long
view where the workers are being
forced to join the company I'M
ion. Their demands for higher
wages have been smashed by the
IL wage board.
At the December End National
Committee meeting this question
was discussed by the delegates
and committeeman where a de-
cision was arrived at to correct
this mistake and lay the basis for
work within the COM
pany Al. We will work in the COM
pany Al union for the purpose
Of finally smashing it and bring
ing the workers into the NLWU
Or any union they so choose.
Next week the column will car
ry our position regarding the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-04-30
Democrats in 35th
Endorse Candidates

John Dobbert Of Robinson and
Theodore Hansen Of Denhoff have
been endorsed - Democratic candt-
dates for the state legislature from
the 35th district (Kidder and Shert-
dan countess, according to John
Hinkel Of futile. chairman Of the
Kidder county Democratic central
committee, who visited IN Bismarck
Monday.
Dobbert was selected BY the Kidder
endorsing committee while Hansen
was named BY the Sheridan endors-
ing group.
No action has been taken yet on
candidate for the senate. but Hinkel
said there i considerable talk Of IN
effort to recall the ho!dover senator,
oscar Z. Erickson, publisher Of The
Leader. administration newspaper
published In Bismarck. ii
Dobbert and Hansen are running
On the new deal" platform. pledgins
themselves to fight corruption" in
government.
Members Of tho endorsing commit
tee in xidder county included Hinkel
George Elliott Of futile. Levi Landin
Of 9teAe. Carl Thompson Of, Happen
ara Jcqn T. Buck Of futile. Al mem.
bers oflthe central committee; Verne
Wells kohlnson: Fred Fra(1e. Petit
bore Il i 7. Montsouer, Happen
lLustis u. Dawson; ard John G
1 x. -