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against the bill.
These star K
IA cts are not
s Q n s a tion a J..
They seem hard
" 10 justify the
expense and en-
ergy involved in
having your ser
want scurry up
the Hudson to
a city which is,
on the whole,
less pie a s n g
from the enter
tainment point
Of view than
New York. But
the scenes in
which they were
af7actad OrT1
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DispInu to Be Visited

St. Francis Hospital Guild mem
bers will visit the modern bedroom
style show at the Riley room Of the
ClavDOol at II tomorrow.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
Picnic Postponed Until
Labor Day

TACOMA, AUG. 3-The Work
ers Picnic, scheduled for the
Garden of Eden, nine miles north
of Tacoma, under the auspices of
Section Five of the Communist
Party, was postponed until Sep
TENDER 3, Labor Day.
The date was changed because
the management refused to meet
the demand of the AFL musi-
clans union in order to be taken
off the unfair list. Because of
this the committee in charge was
forced to look for a new place to
hold the picnic and made final
arrangements with the manage
ment of Glendawn Park, a much
better place for such an affair
and the same distance from
town. ..
The program will consist of
speaking, sports, picnicking and
dancing. Admission will be only
ten cents per person, five cents
for children between five and
twelve. Glendawn Park is on
beautiful Five Mile Lake. ..
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
More News Is Needed
From Correspondents

Worker Correspondents! Dur
ing the last two weeks the Voice
of Action has been definitely
handicapped by lack of news
from the field.
Why? The answer lies with
you, Worker Correspondents. 1t
is because so much is happening
you haven't time to write? Or is
it because the news you have sent
in to us in the past has not been
handled satisfactorily by us?
If the first is the case, let our
other readers share with you the
happenings of your locality.
If the second is the case, we are
sorry and We pledge ourselves to
strive to overcome our shortcom-
ings in that respect.
But If the Voice of Action is to
function as working class paper
rejecting the struggles of the
workers of the Northwest, then
you must send in the news to usl
Let us hear from you in time
for next weeks issue-deadline
Monday nights!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
H-Fdscists To Speak At
Hall On We'd. Aug. 8

rope described by actual OBJ
servers is expected to attract a
huge crowd to Eagles AuditOri-
UNI where DR.. Kurt ROsenfeld,
victim of the NaZi regime in Ger
many, and Aneurin Bevan, the
eminent British LabOr-Member
of Parliament, will speak on
Aug. 8.
New light on the recent po-
lice attacks on Coast workers
and workers organizations will
be cast through the focusing
of attention on the advance of
conditions in Germany.
Keen analysis of the foreign
situation by Dr.. Rosenfeld.
former Prussian Minister of JUS
tice. now exiled, and Mr.. Bevan,
the militant antifascist trade
uniOnist, is now more than ever
of interest to all citizens who
believe in the right to freedom
of thought and speech.
Prominent Seattle clergymen,
teachers, professional men and
liberals of all persuasions are
actively sponsoring the appear
ance of these speakers. The vital
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
Spokane UC Gets
Relief Concession

SPOKANE, WASH, Aug. 8
Local No. 2 of the National I'm
employment Councils won three
cases from the Welfare board
recently.
When the Welfare board re,
fused to give a baby suffering
from malnutrition, the special
diet prescribed by a physician,
the local demanded it. They were
only given cod liver oil at the
demonstration, but when ana
other call was planned, the vel,
fare board sent the Investigator
down to the home giving all
the requested help.
A committee of the local also
forced the Welfare board to give
relief to family which they had
denied. The husband had been
laid off his job and when he ask
ed for food the official told him
to use his credit. The committee
then called at l0:30 and by 1926
the family had its vouchers.
On the way home from the sta
ton, the committee demanded
that the light company turn on
lights that had been shut off at
the home of the unemployed
worker. The officials refused, SO
the committee turned them on.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
Communist Party Can
didates Speak At
Workers Picnic

OLYMPIA, Wash, Aug Gam
didates for the Communist Par,
ty, in the coming election spoke
at a picnic held by the campaign
committee July 2.
Speakers included Wayne
Downey, candidate for County
Auditor; Green, for County Com
missioner; Frank Hayden, for
School Superintendent; Bill Hay
den for state representative land
Alvin Slower, for County Assess
or.
F. Cadle introduced the cam
paign paper, Hammer and Sick
le' to the workers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
COmStOCk Asks Funds
10 Attack Workers

SEATTLE, Aug. demanding
$4,000 Unstead of last years $1,000
for secret service" investigation,
another $3,400 for the chief of de-
tectives and $4,000 for new prOWl-
er ears, Chief of Police COmstOck
has presented to the city council
his needs" for campaign of ter
rOr against workers and their Or
CARNATIONS.
Roosevelt says that private re-
lief agencies must be maintained
"mOre than normal strength"
Donald Richberg, ROoseVelts
lieutenant during the Presidents
cruise, says that the New Deal is
good because it acts as check
on communism.
Key West, Florida, once fam
Gus boom town, has gone into
bankruptcy.
The Du Points, famous as man
ufacturers of instruments for in
ternatiOnal slaughter, feel very
hurt. They say that the Third In
ternatiOnal is causing all the un-
favorable publicity about arma-
ments makers.
Even with the ornaments
boom, the steel industry is now
operating at 275 per cent of cap
acity.
The Congressional Committee
investigating "Un-American Act
ivities" slept through most of the
first weeks of the hearing-be-
cause they were devoted to testi-
mOny about NaZi activities in
the L. S. Now the committee is
listening to testimony about
Communism in America given by
such betrayers of labor as Matty
VOL. Needless to say, the con-
gressmen are now all eyes and
ears. The press, which paid al
most no attention to the Tevela-
tiOns about fascism, is now
spreading its pages full of the
false Matthew VOL brand of in
formation" about Communism in
America.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
RELIEF COMMISSIONER
DONS RAGS, LEARNS
REDS LEAD FIGHT

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 2
Discovering that relief is be-
ing administered by snooty per-
sons who are doing more to ag-
gravate the destitute than to
help them" relief commissioner
George L. Allen has returned
here after a private inspection
of welfare administrations in sew
eral parts of the country.
Allen spent a week in the
breadlines of Chicago, Milwau-
kee and other cities and admits
that SO per cent of the men in
those breadlines are looking for
jobs. Allen himself tried many
times to get one and failed.
Admitting that the Commune
list Party has gained widespread
influence among the unemployed
Allen says, They will listen to
people who are down and out
and will work for them and fight
for them. The relief people won't
even listen to you most of the
time .......
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
WORKERS MASSN
WORLDWIDE ANTI
WAR MOVEMENT

As the reverberations Of the
Austrian clash echo through.
out the world, the imperialist
powers become frantic, and
speed up preparations for the
disappearing slaughter.
Workers and students every
where are massing for protest
demonstrations at press time.
while Stanley Baldwin. the man
behind the British throne. or
ders an increase in Engalnd's
flying force, and demands that
the British populace be trained
to meet air-raids.
Secretary of the U. S. Navy
Swanson calls for more flyers.
and urges the building OF addi-
tlonal battleships. Roosevelt
cruises the Pacific, inspecting
American naval bases.
Japan Maneuvers
Emissaries of japan scurry
about Europe searching for al
lies in its coming attack on the
Soviet Union. 1t is reported that
the Japanese diplomats have
come to terms with Sir John
Simon and the English.
But while the imperialist
robbers are lining up to do
battle for the choice bits Of
economic booty, workers and
students in every section Of
the globe are consolidating
their forces for a united thrust
at the hideous monster, cap
italism, that threatens civiliza-
ton with Wholesale destruc-
tion in, the form Of interna-
tional war.
August !, the international
Day of Struggle Against War
and Faseism, was marked with
gigantic demonstrations of pro-
letarian might all over the
globe.
French Workers Strong
In France, where anti-war
sentiment is stronger than in
Continued on Page A, Col. Al
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
ANTI-FASCIST FLAG
ON MUNICIPAL POLE

SPOKANE, Wash The tall
flagpOle rising from the parking
strip in the very heart of SpO-
kane's business area was the
scene of a "cOmmunistic display
July "a, according to a local pa
per, that brought early-morning
calls to the army-navy, marine
corps, police and fire depart
ments.
1t remained for the fire depart
ment to quell the uprising sim
gle-handed, however.
White Flag Catches Eye
Ellsworth Thorpe, asst sec
rotary of the Chamber of Com
Continued on Page 4, Col 81
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they struck, to the same open
shop method, at the same wage
scale.
in recognition of the public
interest in the termination of
the strike" o. X. Gushing,
spokesman of the Presidents ar
bitratiOn board said, "the men
returned to work.
The employers have agreed,
pending arbitration, that the
board shall place a representa-
tive in the hiring halls and the
men should have observers
there to see that there Is no
discrimination.
Men Forced to Hire Through
Old Halls
"The men believe they should
not have been required to hire
through these halls. but in re-
cOgnition of public interest in
the termination of the strike
they have even waived this
point.
"All questions of discrimina-
ton are to be referred to repre-
sentatives of the national long
shOremen's board and tn e
boards decision will be binding
on all parties. Any readjustment
on wages after the arbitration
are to be made retroactive to the
date that the men return to
work"
The sell-Out was accomplished
by the leadership only after in.
Vulnerable maneuverings with
the employers and the open ter.
rOrizatiOn by the police in con-
junction with the employers as.
ISOLATION.
With Lewis, Ryan, constantly
pounding at the men to return
to work, their morale was only
broken after the mass arrests of
the militant rank and file pick
cts.
Still maintaining their solid
arity with the seamen, the long
shOremen are refusing to load
Continued on Page 4, Col. u
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
Ministers Protest
Raids On Eugene
Workers Center

EUGENE, Ore, Aug. 3-VigOr-
Gus protests against the raid of
the New Era BOOkshOp here
last week are being hurled by a
committee of Eugene's liberals
headed by the Reverend Cecil
RistOw, pastor of the Methodist
church, Reverend Palmer of the
Congregational Church, and Jim
Bryant of the University.
Part of the literature ruth
lessly destroyed when the book
store was demolished was con-
signment of pamphlets and 9th
er publications issued by the
National Council for the Pre-
ventiOn of War in which the
Reverend Ristow has been act
lively interested.
Committee to Protest
The deliberate destruction of
the organizations literature, to-
gether with that of other organ
izatiOns, has resulted in the
formation of this liberal commit
tee of protest.
The raid, which took place
last week, was carried out in
two shifts, the first one engin-
eered in the presence of the
sheriff, who, with election time
approaching, pretended mild
opposition to the proceedings,
took box of literature from the
raiders and gave it to a group of
workers assembled in the park
nearby.
During the second shift,
however, the sheriff was con-
veniently absent and quanti-
ties of literature were carted
away and destroyed.
The bOOkshop, which has been
headquarters for the COmmun-
ist Party here, has been ordered
closed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
Capitol Hill UCL Sup
ports Pioneer Camp

SEATTLE, Aug. 3-The Capt.
toll Hill UCL local showed its
support of the Young Pioneers
Camp at Pine Lake by giving
a party at Mrs. CaytOn's to raise
the necessary SO to send a child
to the camp. A cake was ratified
off and was sold to the highest
bidder for $420. A generous dom
alton of 3 boxes of cantaloupes
was made to add to the refresh
ments, which were much enjoyed
by the % comrades present at
the party.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
HR 1898 Wins
More Support

NEW YORK, Aug. 22Another
victory was scored in the fight
for passage of the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill, in
Produced into Congress by Rep
resentative Lundeen and labelled
HR 1898, when delegates from
conservative" unemployed or
CARNATIONS assembled in confer
ence here last week gave it their
endorsement.
Represented were nine unem-
plOyed and relief workers organ
izations with a membership of
$1,000 in five eastern states as
well as 50 groups of unemployed
white collar workers and trade
unions.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
UCL Organizes

MONROE, Wash, Aug. 3-As
an Outgrowth of the strike on
Frye's Lettuce Farm. the United
Farmers League has modified
a local in and around town here.
Pat Cantwell, organizer for the
UFL, spoke at several meetings
of workers and farmers recently
pointing out the program of the
League. Both farmers and work.
ers pledged their support to the
striking longshoremen. ra
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
1000 Hear COwan On
Seattle'S SkidrOad

SEATTLE, Aug. 3-Despite the
terror directed against working
class meetings and demOnstra-
lions, Claire b. COwan, World
War Veteran and organizer of
the Elk Servicemen's ague,
spoke at a mass meeting of 1000
on Seattle's skidrOad Wednesday
night, July 25. The Marine Work
ers Industrial Union also held
a successful demonstration at
the same place on Friday.
COwan, who was on the Bonus
March to Washington, d. c., is
gaining support for the $4,000
Veteran Fighting Fund cam
paign on the Pacific Coast.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
Aged Negro Whipped
To Death By 4 Men

PELAHATCHIE, Miss, Aug. 2
Henry Bedford, 20 year old Ne
gro born in slave days and known
to everyone in this part of the
country, was whipped to death
by four white men Saturday.
Benny Cawthorne, one OF the
men, explained that Bedford, a
share-eropper tenant of his faith.
er, talked unexpectedly" in an
argument over his rental agree.
ment.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03

|. That the mayor and chief Of
police interfered with the lawful
and constitutional business of
publication of the Voice of Ac-
ton and the printing contracts
of the Labor Press by failing
shop employees, cOnfiScating com
mercial printing already con-
tractPd for and on the press, de-
laying the publication of the
Voice of Action and permanently
damaging the good will and bus
mess prestige of the Voice of Ac-
tiOn and the Labor Press, sepa-
rate, unaffiliated enterprises
2. That the mayor and his chief
of police be pnjOined from wreak-
ing further damage upon the
Voice of Action or Labor Press
by any future raids upon the pre-
misses of either firm.
The suit was filed by Lowell
Wakefield, with Lawrence Self
ger and Irwin Goodman, attOr-
.neys. Mayor Smith, defendant, has
ten days to reply, then date for
court hearing will be set.
SEATTLE, Aug. 3 Seattle's
new police chief, George II. Com
stock, will continue to enforce
Fascist Mayor Smiths campaign
against radicals, acting under
authority of the state anti-sedi-
ton ordinance. COmstOck re-
Continued on Page 4, Col g.
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World Demonstrations Show Working Class Strength
VOICE OF ACTION SUES SMITH FOR $4,000 IN DAMAGE CASE
Public Is Behind
Drive To Gust
Fascist Mayor

Il hope the public appreci.
ates the way the police have
acted in the longshore strike"
Mayor Charles L. Smith told
Pr reporter Monday,
Today Smith can see how much
the public appreciated the
way his blue-coated terrOrists
carried on during the water,
front tie-up. Recall petitions by
the dozens have been signed by
Seattle citizens. and turned into
the Recall Headquarters in the
Henry Building.
Leaders of the drive report
that they are nearing their goal
OF 210OO signatures. There is
every indication that a suffici-
ent number of petitions will be
filled by the end of the week.
Doyle Fights Recall
Meanwhile a group of AL
bureaucrats are fighting the re-
call furiOusly. Charles Doyle,
George Early, Dave Beck, o.
Reilly, Brewster and Paul Fred
erickson, Smith job-holder, are
leaders of the labor" group
which puts its stamp of approx
al on the Smith-Lundin civil war
against the workers by Obstruct-
Ing the recall move.
AFL heads active in the drive
to Gust the Mayor are J. A. Sand
yigen, f. NJ Weston, James Dun
can. Al JusSett, Earl Gunther
j. A. Fox, and liza and lSU men
whose unions launched the cam
Epaign.
Smith is fast discovering
f~tnat he cannot get away with.
his Hitler like m N vers
against the workers without
paying the penalty. Editors of
Seattle's yellow journals who
said the strike had been
broken by public opinion"
! are, under pressure of reality,
, being forced to accept another
point of view-to themselves,
of course.
Levine, Harlan, Fits, Misener,
Carroll or anyone the City COun,
ell might select of it's own volt
ton would be little better than
Smith. Workers should move
now to replace Smith with a
man from their own ranks.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
$500 BILL FOR THUGS ...
is PAID BY MILWAUKEE,

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Aug. g.
Payment of $3.50 to 95 deputized
thugs who were used against
workers of the Electric Company,
during the recent strike, was vot-
ed by the county boards COM
mittee Of courts, county offices
and supplies last week. ...
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
TIheFRONT'
LINE F. B" y. S.
BETRAYAL
RECALL -

The maritime strike has been
betrayed. The men are to go
back to work in the same old
fink halls while their demands
are considered by a committee
set up by the very government
that shot down the strikers.
1T might have been differ
ent," say the AL leaders, "if
only there hadn't been a gen
eral strike. And we all know
that the Communists are re-
spOnsible for that
This is the line being fed to
the marine workers: the San
Francisco general strike-the
greatest show of power ever
displayed by the working class
of this cOuntry-was the cause
of defeat. The movement which
put victory within the grasp
of the strikers and which could
have crushed the terror of the
government. this is what has
sent the men back to the fink
halls pending arbitration, say
the Greens. Lewis's, BjOrklunds,
etc.
Therefore, according to these
treacheTOuS leaders -- never
think of general strike. And
clean your unions of the Com
muniSts who built the strike in
San Francisco.
And-they continue - don't
listen to anyone who accuses
US of betrayal. Because it was
the general strike-nOt We
that betrayed the marine work
erS.
The AFL misleaders know
they sold out the general strike.
They know it and they are
proud of it.
VIM. Green was eager to ex-
plain to the newspapers that
Vandaleur, Casey, ETC., agreed
to the general strike in order
to stop it.
And Ryan-president of the
ILA-wired to Mayor Rossi of
San Francisco: "As one pal to
another wish I were with you.
Everything will come out all
right"
And this was right after Rossi
had ordered the strikers killed
on the picket line.
Ryan and Rossi are pals!
But the workers are begin
ming to realize that the AFL
bureaucrats are all pals with
the NRA board, with the ma
chine guns and with the ship
owners.
And as their treachery be-
comes more clearly revealed to
the working class, the bureau
Gratis work harder and harder
to put up smoke screens.
In San Francisco the Central
Labor Council leaders are busy
trying to hide their part in kill
ing the general strike. In Sc
attic, the Duncans, Doyles, Le-
vines, ETC., are busy trying to
shun the responsibility of re-
fusing to call general strike.
This is the secret of the Re-
call Smith movement-tO place
the blame on Mayor Smith
alone. But the AFL leaders who
had the power to drive back
the police, national guard and
federal troops too, are even
more guilty than Smith. And
they hope that the resentment
and hatred of the masses to-
ward them will be turned into
the quiet channels of the recall
movement.
Yes, Smith should be recalled
as part of the fight of the
working class against terror.
But the city council should
not be allowed to put another
Smith in his place.
And above all, the main fire
must be directed at the AL
bureaucrats themselves. They
must be hurled out of the ranks
Of the working class so that
they can never betray the
workers again. ......
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
LSNR GROUP FORMED

SEATTLE, Aug. Mount
Zion Baptist Church was the
scene Monday night of a canfer-
.ence against Negro segregation
and discrimination. Nearly two
hundred East Madison residents
and delegates assembled to build
Continued on Page 4, oil. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
GOVERNMENT AND A.F.L.
LEADERSHIP SUCCEED IN
BETRAYAL OF WORKERS
Blacklist Raises Its Ugly Head As Rank And File
Return To Same Old Set-Up. Dissatisfaction
of SelI-Out Already Apparent
NEXT STRUGGLE WILL VIM SAY LoNGsHoREMEN

SEATTLE Aug 8 Betrayed by the top leadership of the
American Federation of Labor sold out by the abia
board teorzed by the police the OngshOremen returned
work Tuesday the eighty third day of the coawe strike They
returned the hiring hall system which they had when
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03

Not a Cent for Bosses War!
All War Funds for Unemploy-
ment Relief and Insurance. For
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill! w
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03
CHALLENGE Is MADE TO
MAINTAIN FREEDOM OF
WORKING CLASS PRESS
Injunction Is Asked By Newspaper To Prevent
Future OutrageS Against Freedom Of Press;
COnlStOck Promises Raids Whenever
Police Feel In Mood


SEATTLE Aug Suit $4,000 filed last week against
Smith Chief Police COmstOck by the Voice
damages sustained by the publication resulting from
raids by police July 20 The suit served
or
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03

Against Wage Cuts, Strike
breaking and Terror, for the
Right to Organize ard strikei
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03

SEATTLE, July 2S-The APP
palling facts of fascist terror
ism's growth and spread In Eu-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03

For the Liberation of Ernst
Thaelmann and All Anti-Fascist
Prisoners!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-03

need of every sympathetic an
intelligent person to Join il
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ELECT

DELEGATES FOR THE UNEM-
PLoYMENr CONVENTION
AUGUST a6-2s
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II hope the public appreci.
ates the way the police have
acted in the longshore strike"
Mayor Charles L. Smith told u
Pr reporter Monday,