Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-24
CHEMICAL WARFARE TO BE
WAGED AGAINST
Strikers

DcScTlDlilB nOW CllcHllCdl war luIt
is to be waged on organized work
ers who dare to struggle against
Hunger, War and Fascism, the
Pennsylvania National Guard has
recently been issued a l4-page in.
struction book on how workers
are to be handled in any strike
or protest they might make
against intolerable working con
ditions.
Under the title General rules
governing the tactical use Of
chemicals in riot duty" the Ma
tional Guard is instructed:
Don't threaten or harangue
with the mob Cd prior to the
use of chemicals, much of the
value of chemicals is depend
ent upon surprise.
Guard chemical munitions
carefully from capture. Fire gre
nades at high trajectory so that
these weapons will fire at the
moment of impact, preventing
their return or destruction by
the mob.
Drive the mob downwind
so as to most effectively repeat
with chemical munitions. Drive
the rioters toward uninhabited
or sparsely settled districts so
as to not pass near to public
buildings nor utilities such as
water, gas or electric works.
Sufficient of the agent (gas)
be used at once to pro
duce the Immediately desired eff
fects. When the situation re-
quires application of force, the
blow should be delivered ener-
getically.'
That the National Miners Tn
ion, under Communist leadership
is the only labor organization in
the Pennsylvania coal fields fear.
ed by the coal barons and the
fascist National Guard, is adj
in the instruction book.
AS usual, lies about the vi
cious, unreasonable mob" of
miners struggling-not for
living wage-but to wreck and
destroy" the mines belonging
to the kind-hearted coal bar
ons, are first taught the Ma
tional Guard rockies.
Then, in the right frame oil
mind, they are instructed in saw
age fascist brutality, in manning
numbering and demoralizing the
communist" workers struggling
for a living wage;
"Your mission is to proceed to
protect property, re-
store order and await further in
the rockies are in
in one of the proposed
murder problems"
You send Sergeant s by pri-
vate automobile in civilian
clothes to Coaltown with instruc
lions to report all important
in the situation there.
Stool pigeoning for the boss
es is one of the governments
honored professions.
Special situation No. 5. Two
of the "ringleaders' of the strik-
ers, who are alleged to have kill
ed coal policeman on the first
day of the strike, are reported to
be hiding in No. 13 house on West
Street. They are armed with re-
and ammunition, but no
gas protection.
"CN tgasl is used in this case.
If modern masks were worn by
the criminals editors note: mill
tant organizers are always erin
inalsD DM candles would be used
but with much greater discOm-
fort to the community.
(For instance, a non-eombat-
ants baby in Gle Elum was eriti-
cally injured when state patrol
men tossed a tear gas bomb into
the housed
Windows are shattered in or
Ter to provide entry for the mu-
and to cause a draught
through all parts of the house.
Yet these bailiffs have been
sent into the town at the COM
mand of the coal barons ITO
protect property, restore order
and wait for further instruc-
tons"
These instructions official
war department orders to Ma
tional Guard flunkeys and the
regular army-eXactly duplicate
orders given the strikebreaking,
fascist Vigilantes and shows con-
the direct but sup
posedly secret" tie-up between
the Federal and state govern
ments and the hired thugs and
gunner.
The vigilantes even are in
structed to use your own arms
until standard army pieces and
ammunition are issued you"
In the face of this terrorism
against miners by the govern
ment, wherever conditions are in
tolerable, coupled with the gen.
eral warfare. Vigilantes are wag-
ing on a national scale against
the working class, militant work
ers wherever organized have but
one answer: