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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

The story itself deals with that
brief and tragic period In Shang-
hats history when in 1927 the
workers rose and seized the po-
lice posts and made possible the
ready entry of the victorious
Chang Kai-shek in command OF
the united front armies of the
Communists and KuOmintang.
However, already Chang had
made a deal with the capitalist
and imperialist interests, and
having, with the help of the Com
munists without whom his sue
cess is doubtfuD, seized the pow
err, he now repudiated them, and
instituted one OF the most sweep
ing massacres in history.
1t is in the giving of the i'm
preston OF confusion among the
Russian and Chinese COmmun-
lists as to the proper tactics in
the united front that Malraux
creates some misconceptions. The
alliance of the Communists with
the KuOmintang was unavoid-
able, and most of the risks were
understood.
Now that we look back in per-
spective we can see that Com
munist participation in that ma
tiOnalist movement enabled such
effective agitation among the
masses that the Communist
movement not only survived the
reaction, but has risen to the or
ganization of Soviet China grow
ing stronger in power and influ-
enee every day.
Even more important 1t has re-
suited in the smashing of great
obstacle to revolutionary action
in China. the spirit of compro-
mise, of bargaining. of gradual
ism and the lesser evil.
Accurate Report
Agnes Smedley. the travelling
journalist, in both her books
breathes dramatic fervor into
careful reporting of Chinese life
since the Shanghai insurrection of
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

Member Exec Com. Teachers Union, American
Federation Of Teachers; Director Leadership
Training, United Parents Assn. New York City
The grey boards and bald heads can see the
war clouds grow nearer and darker without
feeling the concern that the youth of this land
should have. 1t is the young men who will go
to war; it is the young men and women both
who will inherit world drained of its resources
and barren of opportunity, if another war
comes. Youth should get busy now about this
problem. 1t stares them in the face one of
the great dangers that threatens everything
for them. The old men now in charge of national
affairs, while talking peace. are preparing for
war. 1t looks like the greatest trap ever set
Will youth fall into it?
The people of the earth want peace. Des-
perately they need peace But governments are
piling up huge ornaments, greater in amount
than were ready for the World War in 1914. The
United States is playing the CHASTITY game to
the tune of billions of dollars. In another way
business and political leaders of our country
are preparing tragic future for those who now
are young; they are building the foundations of
fascism, twin sister of war. War sucks the life
out of the masses of a people; fascism fastens
them in their present plight without hope of
changing their lot for the better. The Liberty
League, the variety of shirt" organizations, the
restrictions of civil liberties of citizens workers.
teachers the recent unbelievably reactionary
program of $50 industrialists meeting at Hot
Springs, Virginia-all these lead inevitably to
the conclusion that powerful forces are attempt
ing to regiment the nation in its present wretch
ed state.
Will youth submit to the prospect of long
future with no more hope than they have now?
Two hundred thousand of them have graduated
from high school in the last few years of the de-
preston with complete assurance of no job and
no chance to begin normal adult life. Will they
see without organized resistance, the creation of
fascist attitudes fascist habits, fascist regula-
tions that regiment them for future war?
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Green BetraysJobless

William Green and the treacherous AL Of
ficialdom stand criminally indicted before the
100000 unemployed workers of the nation.
Not content with the traitorous fight they
have, throughout the five years of the econ
omic depression, waged against social and un-
employment insurance, particularly against HR
$685. Green, Lewis Vol, Mcmahon and Company
are now joining forces with big business In the
drive to cut relief expenditures.
In the columns of this months American
Federationist," the national organ of the trade
union bureaucrats, there appears an editorial
urging the Roosevelt administration to stop
pouring huge sums of money in relief doles
Business enterprise is being discouraged and re-
covery slowed up because the capitalists fear
they will have to bear the relief burdens, the
editorial explains.
Roosevelt winks and Green acts! Green,
who takes his cues from the White House, thus
puts "Labor's" stamp of approval on the attack
Roosevelt plans to launch against the unem-
ployed. The Federationist's statement provides
the administration with the necessary incite-
ment to initiate its vicious relief slashing plan.
In the same decisive manner that they re-
pudiated Green's order to expel militants from
labor unions, so must A.F.L. workers disown
Their leaders criminal statement Members of
Northwest locals should answer Green with
mass endorsements of Initiative 4. the Workers
Social and Unemployment Insurance Bill
Three thousand ALL locals have already
endorsed HR $685. the Workers Social and I'm
employment Insurance Bill, which is the Ma
tional prototype of Initiative T. in every detail.
ALL. workers in the Northwest should lose no
time in repudating Green's stand and following
the lead of their brothers in other sections of
the country.
ALL members, push endorsement of Initial
i've in your locals Join the mass drive to OBJ
tain adequate relief for your unemployed broth
ers!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Around 4 the
world inCminutes

USSR-In the current issue of
the American Mercury, is an ar
ticle by Anna Louise Strong led
itor of the Moscow Daily News
on "The Soviet Dictatorship" in
which she most ably refutes all
the popular misconceptions that
most people have about the So
Wet Dictatorship" In a most
able manner the author gives abb
undant proof that in the USSR
there is the nearest approach to
true democracy that the world
has yet seen.
The masses of the people rule
through their trade unions, their
local regional and national sovi-
cts, their local, regional and ma
tional Party congresses, and
through many other governing
activities that extend to every
phase of the life of the people.
In no other land does so much
real democracy exist. The author
who says this has had IL years
experience in the USSR as a
journalist in daily contact with
the lives Of the people.
GERMANY-Reports reaching
this country indicate that Ernst
Thaelmann may at this very min
ute be facing a Nazi lynch court.
The International Committee for
the Aid OF Victims OF German
Fascism has called for October 10
to 20 as days of demonstration.
Prolong these demonstrations
until 1t is known that Thaelmann
is safe.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Anti>War Army Marches

demonstrations, picketing and
strikes.
2. To expose everywhere the ex-
tensive preparations for war be.
ing carried on under the guise of
aiding National Recovery.
3. To demand the transfer of
all war funds to relief of the UNI
employed and the replacement of
all such devices as the Civilian
Conservation Camps, by federal
system of social insurance paid
for by the government and EN-
ployers.
4. To oppose the policies of
American Imperialism in the
Far East, in Latin America, es-
pecially now in Cuba, and
throughout the world; to sup.
port the struggles Of all colonial
peoples against the imperialist
policies of exploitation and arm
ed suppression.
5. To support the peace poll
cies of the Soviet Union, for total
and universal disarmament,
which today with the support of
masses in all countries constitute
the clearest and most effective
opposition to war throughout
the world; to oppose all attempts
to weaken the Soviet Union.
whether these take the form of
misrepresentation and false pro-
paganda, diplomatic maneuver-
ing, or Intervention by imperial
list governments.
6. To oppose all developments
leading to Fascism in this cOun-
try and abroad, and especially in
Germany; to oppose the increas-
ingly widespread use of the arm
ed forces against the workers,
farmers and the special terroliz-
ing and suppression of the Ne
grOes in their attempts to MAIN
tain a decent standard of living;
to oppose the growing encroach-
ments upon the civil liberties of
these groups as a growing fasciz-
alton of our so-called democrat
ic" government.
Z. To win the armed forces to
the support of this program.
other articles by Mr.. An
drews on the American League
and the anti-war anti-fascist
movement will appear in COM
ing editions of the Voice of
Action.)
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Yakima, Wash.
Dear Comrades:

uhliilui w ooii.
Dear Comrades:
A little obstructive criticism
regarding the last issue of the
Voice.
With the headline, North
Spain Flies Red Flag" the last
edition of the Voice in my estim-
alton is to a certain extent copy
ing the methods used by the
capitalist sheets in order to sell
the papers.
1t is quite obvious to the read.
ers that all the news regarding
Spain was taken out of the Daily
Worker, and although it is per.
fectly all right for the Voice to
give all of the news regarding
Spain, it is not all right for the
leading headline, because the
news is too old, at least for the
main headline. / think it is mis-
leading; at least when the Daily
Worker has already come out
stating that it is impossible to
get news story regarding the
Spanish uprisings.
A headline regarding the steve
dOre's pay boost would have
been more effective or the Thael-
mann trial for instance, would
have made a good headline. The
Voice should carry all the i'm
portant foreign news and by all
means should have mentioned
the Spanish situation on the
front page in the last edition
instead OF just mentioning it in
the around the World in Three
Minutes" column (Oct. IL edi-
tom. We were in a position to
get news then which would have
been up to date.
/ think that If the headlines
carry the latest possible news we
can sell more of our papers and
our paper would be better liked
by the workers and farmers. In
stead we have a paper dated Oct.
10, and news from Spain dated
Oct. Is.
Our bundles don't arrive until
Saturday and we think an effort
should be made to try and get
them to us on Friday which is
when We used to get them.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM,
EWHAT 1T MEANS

son County grand jury against
Kyle Pugh. who gave his res
idence as Josephine County,
and James w. Stoekman OF
Medford. They were charged
with possession and distribu-
tion of Communistic litera-
ture."
Each now faces a maximum
penalty of ten years and $1,000
fine. Crime: possession and dis
tribution of Communistie litera-
ture!
On September 8 the writer and
Mary GOold, international Labor
Defense secretary at Portland.
visited Stockman in the Medford
jail. The 26-year-old militant
worker was in a solitary cell
where, to that date, he had been
confined As days under $4,000 bail!
He was in i'll health, possibly suf-
fering from consumption! I'm
charged with resisting an offic-
er," he stated. "Of course | was
the acting secretary of the Can
merry and Agricultural Workers
Industrial Union at Medford.
And we boosted their wages too.
That tells the story in a nut
shell" Now it's criminal syndical-
isml
These six workers. likewise the
five considered in the preceding
article of this series, may soon
be brought to trial. They face
years of imprisonment. They face
exhorbitant fines. How can they
be freed? Can it be done by law
yers alone? Can it be done by the
technicalities of the law? These
questions will be considered in
the next and final article of this
series on criminal syndicalism.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Pitkin Goes Nazi

NEW YORK, Oct. 25-Walter
b. Pitkin, who has long been the
idol of middle-class "success-seek-
ing American readers, is now
coming into the open with his
fascist leanings. Having at his
disposal a staff of assistants to
do the work. Mr.. Pitkin has
written books on how to be
success at this, that, and the 9th
er for several years.
None of his works have had
much depth and solid worth, but
his latest is so manifestly shallow
as to be a suitable object lesson
for discussion. 'The Chance of a
Lifetime" has a Hitler. like sub
title that betrays the psychology
of its author-"Marching Orders
for the Lost Generation" tAmer-
lean Youth.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Aberdeen Organizes

ABERDEEN, Wash, Oct. rs
On October IS the South Aber-
deem unit of the Communist Par
ty held a Communist election
campaign meeting at both the
Schafer and Bay City mills.
Lydia Laukkanen Somerville,
Communist candidate for County
Commissioner, spoke at the
Schafer mill meeting, and Joe
SchrOyer, Communist candidate
for State Representative Dist.
81, spoke at the Bay City mill
meeting.
Workers responded well to
both meetings. The Daily Worker
was for sale. Signatures for In
itiative were solicited.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Voice of LA Militants

The Voice of Action heralds publication last
Monday of the Waterfront Worker.
Victories won in the strike Of longshoremen
were due principally to militant rank and file
of the lila, that constantly rejected sell-outs.
that conducted mass picketing. Future success
full struggles of the longshoremen and other
maritime trades depend primarily on the organ
lied strength of this militant rank and file.
The Waterfront Worker is the voice Of the
rank and file of the LA, published by men in
Northwest locals Of the union The few excerpts
from the paper published in last weeks Voice
of Action give taste of the contents We recon-
mend that every worker in a maritime trade,
that every supporter of the movement who has
contacts in that trade, order through us copies
of Volume l. No. l, of the Waterfront Worker.
Mayor Smith has proclaimed this week Navy
Week. We are sure that all Seattle proletarians
will be overjoyed at this news
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Workers Correspondence

/ would like to hear from you
regarding this criticism. l may
be all wrong and if L am would
like to have you explain this to
me more thoroughly.
Yours for a better and bigger
Voice of Action.
COmradely yours,
j. G. Jones.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Vile Anti>Red Propaganda

From every source we find propaganda pour
ing out from official and unofficial sources in
desperate effort of the ruling class to counterfeit
the amazing growth in strength and influence of
the Communist movement.
In addition to the powerful Hearst press
and the nationwide radio network programs.
the cheap pulp paper fiction magazines that
have circulation running into the millions are
filling their pages with fiction Of the most das-
tardly sort.
Tales of the villiany of the Russian Soviets,
love stories of the blessings of the depression
and the new deal, sport stories Of strikebreaking
athletes stories in which gangsters are glorified
for their use against Red" unions, tales of
wholesale murders OF Congressman Fiction, of
counsel where it finally turns out that the MUIR
derer is a scheming Communist leader
In such ways are the American ruling class
American Hitler.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
BY Garland Andrews
Delegate to the Second U. S.
Congress Against War and
Fascism

The World Congress Against
War and Fascism, held in Am
sterdam. Holland, in 1882, consti-
tuted the first artieulate pro
test against the brutalities of
German and Italian fascism and
the rapidly increasing war bud
gets of the world imperialist
powers.
Called by Henri Barbusse and
Roman ROLAND, French intel
lectuals, and a committee on
which were such prominent fig
ures az Maxim GOrky and Lord
Morley of Great Britain, the
Congress seated 2,200 delegates
from q lands and elected by
30 million people.
Out of this gigantic Congress
interrelated groups sprang up
against war and fascism in every
leading capitalist nation in the
world. The American League
Against War and Fascism is one
of such bodies.
First Congress in 1888
The American League held the
First U. S. Congress Against War
and Fascism September 20 and 80
and October |, 1893. With its
broad correct program the
League was able to gather di-
versified, mass elements together
at this Congress, and mold them
together into an effective united
front.
Leading Socialists like ]. b.
Matthews and Devere Allen were
drawn into League work, as were
Zimmerman, vice-president of the
International Ladies Garment
Workers (AFL) and Annie Gray,
veteran pacifist.
The united front was tempo
rarily impaired when the Execu-
tive Committee of the Socialist
Party, apparently incensed at
militant unity that existed be-
tween Socialists like Matthews
and the Communist Party, which
was potent factor in develop
ment of the League, demanded
the withdrawal of all Socialists
from the American ague
Against War and Fascism.
Ward Steps In
Matthews, who was chairman
of the League, and his Socialist
brethren, meekly Withdrew, and
the defeatists Immediately began
to howl gleefully, prOclaiming
that any such united front effort
was foredoomed failure.
However, DR.. Harry F. Ward,
professor of Ethics at Union
Theological Seminary; chairman
of the Methodist Bureau for So
cial Service; chairman of the Am
erican Civil Liberties Union; as
sumed Matthews duties as chair
man of the League, and under
him the strong anti-war, anti-fas-
cist program assumed even more
formidable aspects than before.
Today the brewers of fascism
and war in America are faced
with the organized opposition
of 100000 or more people, all of
whom march under or hover near
the militant banner of the Amer
lean League Against War and
Fascism.
And each day the number
swells. The League carries its
program into every section of
American life. And it is received
enthusiastically by the masses
of trade unionists, unemployed,
church people, middle class intel
lectuals, minority peoples like
the Negroes and Jews, and farm
ers.
Broad, Fighting Program
The seven point program adopt
ed by the Second U. s. Congress
Against War and Fascism is the
best pact ever devised to guide
the struggles of the American
masses. 1t follows:
1. To work towards the STOP
ping of the manufacture and
transport OF munitions and all
other materials essential to the
conduct Of war. through mass
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

Dr. Thomas Meyers, Pasadena, California,
endoctrine specialist, has announced the pres
ent economic condition causing mass starvation
and misery will leave the next generation race
of weaklings-unless conditions for the masses
are soon changed. And still most bourgeois
scientists maintain that the next generation
will-not be affected by the material condition OF
the present generation-no matter how bad that
might be.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Did You Know

The New York Workers School now has
more than 5000 students.
The lid reports q lynchings for the U. s.
since January !.
Senator Borah says 'the laborer is himself
q capitalist In America"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

Wall Street bankers and the U. s. Chamber
of Commerce. after recent conferences with the
president, announce that they are quite pleased
with him. In its latest statement the Chamber
says that Roosevelt is the best bulwark against
the 30-hOur week.
They also reveal what they have kept
secret up until now between the president
and themselves-that Roosevelt was known all
along by them to have secured the passage of
the NRA act to stop the movement for shorter
hours and increased wages. They now feel sure
that he will continue this stand.
This analysis of Roosevelt substantiates the
Communist estimate of him. As in all its other
predictions regarding the NIsA and the New
Deal, this one has also been proved true.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

There have been 46 deaths so far this year In
labor struggles ten of them Negroes.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

The Scottsboro Boys are condemned to die
December by the lynch courts of Alabama
Back the LID in its fight to carry the case to the
U. s. Supreme Court and save the boys lives.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Youths Anti-War Fight
BY LEROY e. BOWMAN

Member Exec. Com. Teachers Union, American
Federation Of Teachers; Director Leadership
Training United Parents Assn, New York City
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
Girl, IL, Missing;
'FOreDer.' She Pen.

Forever, She Pens
THREE OAKS, Mich, July 10.
':Dear mother and dad. am
never coming back home"
Leaving this terse explanation
Of her act, Marvel Paff, 10, disap.
peared early today from the home
of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Paff, here.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
Holl ywood Welcomes Back
Genial Kate Price

Abile accident. She started to
drive from her Palm Springs
bungalow to Los Angeles. In some
manner, the car went off the
road, wheels spun in loose sand.
the machine careened sideways,
over a precipice into an arroyo.
No one saw the accident, and
it was an hour before it was dis.
covered. When aid finally ar
rived, Kate was rushed back to
her Palm Springs home and doc
tors were summoned
But although there was q con-
Spiracy Of silence about her in.
juries, the veteran comedienne
was due to wait many weary
months before she could step be-
for a camera. For more than a
year, she lay a bed-ridden invalid.
But that is over now; Kate is
able to work and has a job. with
tears in her eyes, she greeted old
friends today. She said:
1T feels like coming home"
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
COURT EX|LES
. BITING PUP

"Sooky" stood on a table In
police court this morning, wonder.
ing what it was all about.
"Sooky" is a little wire-haired
terrier, and his master, julius
Becker. had been accused Of keep.
ing a vicious dog.
The pup didn't look particular
ly vicious. Court attaches, at
torneys, and newspaper men pet
ted him, while Judge Ralph Given
looked down and smiled.
Donald Bright, 13-year-old news.
boy charged that "Sooky" had
bitten him. Mr.. Becker explained
the pup was just playing and
wouldn't really bite any one.
Miss Mildred Becker looked dis
consulate. wondering what the
fate of the family pet would be-
Judge Given ordered the case
continued, however, until the fam
lily could find some means Of dis
posing Of the dog, and Mr.. Becker
agreed he would send "Sooky" in
to exile in the country.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
Hen Sweatshop'
ToBe Set b
In Jersey

NEWARK, N. j., July 10
(INS-Members of the city
zoning board today pondered
ACCESSIBILITY Of issuing a bust
ness permit to an "egg factory"
that might be a valuable addi-
ton to Newark industry, but
certainly will make it tough on
the hens.
A concern, unnamed by the
board, applied for permission to
open the factory" in a former
garage owned by P. D. Kin
ney.
Mr.. Kinney and the board
were informed the firm would
open the factory with 1000
hens. The hens will be Stimu-
lated with artificial sunshine
and an egg quota will be set for
every hen every week.
Hens that don't make their
quota will be killed and sold for
food.
The Washington times., 1934-07-19
RuHngEases
Gambling
Raids

Visitors found in gambling
houses during raids are not to be
charged with gambling, but merely
held as witnesses, District Attor'
ney Leslie c. Garrett has ordered
His action followed a spectacu.
lar raid by the police vice squad
on an alleged gambling place in
the 600 block Of Pennsylvania
Ave. N. w., Tuesday night.
Crashing into the place with
sledge hammers, police seized ~
men and charged them all with
setting up gaming tables, and
bond was set at $4,000 each.
Only six were able to post bond
the rest being forced to spend the
night in Jail.
Police explained that they had
placed the gaming charge against
all because they were unable to
learn who was in charge of the
place. ..
Mr.. Garrett dismissed charges
against 10 Of the men arrested