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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
WOMAN'S WORLD

THE MOST DREADED diseases infantie paralysis has
left suffering in its wake with its cOastwde epidemic
One is inclined to question the strides
that this the second greatest epidemic of nane paralysis that
the United States has known.
Starting in Southern California epidemic spread north
with hundreds of victims in California Oregon Eastern Wash
ngton 1t is still threat around the Puget Sound country
Medcos Puzzled
SCIENCE IS VERY MUCH in the regarding disease
both its manner spreading and its The
that the medical profession finds itself in certainly
ing physicians unable to diagnose the disease
late to remedy it.
But the handicap fight against the maady
the worker and his family the medical aid
worker hesaes long before calling doctor until
the illness be administered
workers who dependent county hospitals hesitate
themselves they will machinery charity"
slow that by the time it does around to them if it is
often too late.
The symptoms the disease enough is their
which makes it dangerous
inclined to take them seriously
Illness Rapidly
A CHILD WHO Is PERFECTLY healthy may suddenly
develop of 100 to 1902 His pulse becomes rapid
lie headache and vomt have throat He
drowsy ritated There not be wtchng
trembling of his fingers The child will try keep
from moving spine bend his
will from the waist instead of the neck.
The bacterial disease though science
is transmitted Ordinary precautions against
sufficient An ordinary mouth wash has effect The and
throat OF exit of the that swimming
places for child to be during epidemic
precautOn against it, to the child plenty
Food should be exposed And keep the
crowds and especially from other children
during epidemic.
We must fight security children demand
medical attention be available when need
We fight needs that keep children
healthy and happy.
Note: Additional material in Housekeeping Magazine
for July, 1888. and Parents Magazine for August 1884
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Workers Correspondence

izatiOn, will depend upon wheth-
er we stand on the side-lines and
zap fascist or whether we enter
it and give it the proper leader
ship, exposing each reactiOnary
move, pointing out constantly
the road to power and the ne
cessity of strong workers and
farmers government as the only
way in which all of the inven-
tiOns and chronological achieve
ments of modern science can be-
come the blessing they picture
it, instead of the curse it is now,
under capitalism.
Why do not our higher func-
tionaries and press point out
this method of dealing with Tech
nocracy?
With a fraction in each club,
or even one member, when the
necessity for united front of
struggle arises we will have some
one there to point out that ne
cessity.
We must win the majority of
the working class.
Do you think it can be done by
shouting fascist!?
Do you think the correct
path is to win as many as pos
sible within the organization?
The road should be clear
which we must take.
COmradely yours,
Lenus Westman.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Roosevelt Dernagogy

Roosevelt promised social insurance before
the 1882 elections, a promise never fulfill
ed. Roosevelt declared on the eve of the closing
of Congress and his campaign trip that this elec-
ton will be fought out not on the basis of party
differences but on the basis OF issues affecting
all the people
In his last message to Congress on June he
proposed what is known the three point
program which he himself designated rs secur-
ity of home, security of livelihood, and security
of social insurance. Shrewd demagogue that he
is he here eleverly brings forward issues that he
thinks will secure the support of the widest
masses of the population
1t must be noted first that Roosevelt does
not mention the NRA or the New Deal The
New Deal and its whole fascist content is being
steadily exposed to the masses; the establishing
of state controlled labor unions under employer
domination: compulsory arbitration; the stag
ger plan; the sending of troops to strike zones;
the unleashing of terror against workers every
where the suppression of workers rights to
organize, to strike and picket, to assemble
The workers are asked to forget this and
support him on his new and wider program.
Hiding behind this demagogic three point pro-
gram, Roosevelt will claim support for his
New Deal.
Second: This program was presented to Con-
gress on the very eve of adjournment anly with
the suggestion that members OF Congress think
about these proposals ana tllat Wnen the next
Congress cOnvenes Roosevelt will come with
complete recommendations regarding them. The
next Congress will not convene until after cleo
ton. The new program therefore was definitely
not meant for action, but for agitational pur
poses during the campaign.
Similarly in his radio speech on June % we
find that the center of his speech was devoted
to the promise of social insurance. This dema-
gogy on a grand scale, wholesale promises made
for election purposes, have the same value OF
those of 1882.
The present election campaign is taking
place in period of intense class struggles The
struggles we have had recently have shown how
the masses are on the march, especially the
meaning of the capitalist state. Almost every
strike today is strike against the NRA, against
the codes-government codes and their prOvi-
sons which means against the government
which is the author of these codes
This militant fight of the strikers shows the
real mood of the masses in their actions toward
/ the capitalist government as a defender OF the
interests of the bosses against the workers.
More than that, these mass fights are the start
ing point in the workers struggle for political
power, for a workers government. for Soviet
government in the u. s.. which alone will bring
the present crisis to an end.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Higher Tax Burden

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue re-
Gently released figures showing the enormous
increase in the tax burden thrown upon the
working class by "ROosevelts New Deal
During the fiscal year from June 30, 1888, to
June 80 1894. internal revenue collections in
creased by one billion dollars. OF this amount,
some S37l.000O0O was in the form of processing
taxes. borne by the workers through increases
IN bread prices and prices of the cheapest kinds
Of meats such as pork Miscellaneous tax eollee-
tions increased by S6l1OO0OO0 Largely because of
increases In old taxes and many new taxes
such as the federal tax on gasoline and taxes
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

totals 755 rublesl Several years
ago. his health not permitting
him to do heavy work i'm the
foundry. he received an old age
pension from the government.
Then few months ago, he went
through the new foundry, with
its airy. spacious rooms. its sky
lights and latest equipment of
overhead, underground and level
conveyors, with cranes, giant
mixtures, and a modern vent
Hating system that has no equal
in America. Feodor felt fresh
strength. "In my old age to see
such foundry" The American
engineer. Mr.. Strouck, who sup
ervised its construction told him
that there are only five such
foundries i'm the world today.
FeOdor declared, Il can't stand
it. | gotta work here. Most of
my life I've shaved in the dark
ness, for the profit of Others.
Now | will give my free labour
in this model foundry" After
consultation with the doctors.
it was agreed that he come as
instructor in the foundry's train
ing school, transferring his know
ledge of hand moulding to the
IOn-cOming generation of work
crS.
IF old age takes away my
strength" he ends his story, Il
shall still be content. The new,
hopeful shift | am training into
real BOlshevik constructors of so
cialism will be working in our
new fOundry-a real Palace of
Labor"
Continued Next Week
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Arlington, Wash

Arlington, WASH.
Dear Comrades:
| have read with interest
number of times in the Voice of
Action articles about Technoc-
racy.
As Communist Party mem
Der, | have naturally grown to
rely on our evolutionary press
for guidance in matters concern
ing the mushroom organizations
sprinigng up around us.
But after reading some of the
articles about TechnOcracy, and
the Intellectual manner in which
our higher functiOnaies deal
with it, | have acquired great
er understanding why we, as an
organization, have not grown
more rapidly.
For one thing. our monthly
org. letters party give no in
structiOns to the members as to
their action in relation to the
Technocrat clubs which are be-
ing organized in every town and
hamlet. And the Voice of Ac-
ton has so far confined itself to
shouting Fascist! Fascist!
1t is true that TechnOcracy is
one of the few organizations
which has not publicly attacked
the Communist Party.
Yet its own class composition
precludes the possibility OF it
becoming lin its present form a
revolutionary organization.
Capitalism, caught i'm its in
soluble crises and realizing the
rising revolutionary tide of the
workers, and the growing influ-
ence of the Communist Party,
has given every aid to the build
ing of Technocracy, Inc, an or
ganizatiOn which has a program
so closely resembling COmmun-
ism, that even party members
have said that it is Communism
under a different name"
1t has, in its writings, even
borrowed phrases and para
graphs from the works of Marx.
1t is the Communist Party pro-
gram emasculated. Without m
The struggle for the daily needs
of the workers: (2) The road to
power; 81 The dictatorship Of the
pr)letariat.
Yet within Technocracy, Inc,
lies a potential revolutionary
force, providing that we have a
sufficiently intelligent leadership
to arouse IL.
Likewise, within Technocracy
are the reactionary elements.
Technocracy is yet in passive
form. But whether it will become
a counter revolutionary organ
ization, or q revolutionary organ
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Around = the
world inCminuteS

MANCHURI - Papers here
have been printing the widest of
lies about reputed raids on gov
eminent property by Russian
Communist groups.
r.
GERMANY-Nazi newspapers
lose heavily in circulation. Big
graft found among Nazi offiC-
ials. Vast illegal campaign be-
ing launched. Posters leaflets,
flooded the cities during the
recent election drive, and mill
tant activity is on the increase.
Nazi exports for the past six
months have dropped sharply.
USSR-This month the Soviet
workers are celebrating the Both
anniversary of Anton Chekov--
novels and plays are enjoying n
steadily Increasing 20, ularity in
his homeland because Soviet
readers IRE acquiring taste fol
the best phases of the literature
of all lands and all ages probably
faster than the citizens of any
other country.
CORK, Ireland - Last week
5000 farmers marched on Cork in
protest against the confiscatiOn
of cattle by the government for
inability of their owners to pay
taxes. That the class alignments
of Ireland are being drawn ever
sharper and sharper is shown by
the fact that these farmers were
met by rifle fire that killed one
and injured 10 of their numbers.
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USSR- Grain collections are
above those for last year. In the
Odessa region collections are 800
per cent above last year.
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MANCHUKUo-On August 10
the ManchukuOan government
as an open threat of war, broke
off relations with the USSR.
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FRANCE-French press shows
nervousness and anger at the
news of a Socialist Communist
united front.
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ENGLAND-Sir Henry Deter
ding, British oil magnatc and
number one enemy of the Soviet
Union because that country
keeps British capitalists out of
the rich Russian oil fields. has ar
rived in the L. S. to talk with
the American oil kings.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
SOVIET
Main Street
BY MYRA PAGE

AT first" FeOdOr tells us, every
worker tried to be his own boss.
We began at once to organize
our own labor self discipline.
We showed that now we were
the ruling class. this did not
mean anarchy, each for himself
but all together, under direction
of our leaders whom we our
selves chose" Throughout the
years of civil war and famine.
step by step, the new order adj
vanced.
Andree continues, 1T is only
since "a that we've had a chance
to put our full energies into
building things up. But go
about and see for yourselves
what changes we've made. Now
you young fellows" he mods to-
ward his listeners, you don't
even imagine the difference. You
think there is a lot to improve
yet. So there is. But don't be
forgetting the distance we've
come"
Feeders voice drops. go t
nine hundred men at the old
Singer foundry, only ten of us
left. The rest? Died off long
ago from some disease they got
in that hell-hOle OF a shop, or
killed in the war.
Signing. uncOnsciously Andree
slides big paw up his lame
side. He and FeodOr sure
broke their backs for old Dixon.
TO the devil with all that. The
present and the future that 5
what counts. How do | live now,
compared to the old days." An
drees mood Immediately brigh-
tens. As to wages, he earns be.
tween $50 and 300 rubles a month,
about nine times what he earned
in 1913. He and his family live
not so badly. They can afford
much better food and clothes
than before. Some time ago he
built a little house of stucco, out
side of POdolsk, plastered inside
with two medium-siZed rooms. q
kitchen and small garden. He
lives here with his wife and hel
aunt. His son, the only one Of
seven children who did not die
of hunger while he was in the
tsar's trenches, has rec Ell V ed
training .as an electrician. An
drees eyes glitter softly, M!
boy writes me some fine letter,
of whats going on at Magnito
gOrsk."
Andree likes to drop in at thu
club. to read, or pass an hOu
among his cronies. Once g
month, or perhaps oftener, III
and his wife go up to Moscow t.
the theatre or circus.
And in the old days. do yoI
think we had clubs and evenin!
T schools like today?' he quizze
us. "In our otf-hours. there wa
only one amusement that Pod
DISK Offered-S a | cons" TIL
streets of an evening were full
of drunkards, poor fools tryin,
to drown their sorrows. Tryin!
to forget the slavery and fulfill,
of their existence. And ] a
well as FeOdor will have to ADM
to being often among them. Onl.
the revolutionary NOV men
changed u.s."
Since October, 1917" FeOdo
puts in, 81 swOre off,"
Andree agrees. Sure. We'v,
: got other interests. Here in tn,
plant and in town I'm foreve
p busy. Now we're rid of tn,
bosses, we have to decide an,
do everything for ourselves
To FeOdor, life since the re
vOlutiOn has brought even NOR,
changes. With his wife, son AM
three daughters he lives in
small apartment in the cente
of town. 1t is crowded and no
= very light. Later on he expect
to move out to the new tow
the plant is building. Since al
his children are grown and work
ing. the family's monthly incom
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31


Chicago bus strike weak in
picketing.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, relief
workers strike broken by the
bosses and the Socialist Mayor.
The Communist Party of Mass
achusetts triples the quota OF
signatures necessary to get the
party on the election ballot.
Colonel Blethen of the Seattle
Times has been retired with the
rank of brigadier-general in the
Washington National Guard.
Iowa jobless leaders who have
been in Jail on demand for $4,000
bail have been released after
ten day hunger strike.
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Attacks are being made on
jobs of Negroes on Chicago and
Northwestern r.. II. with bosses
and labor board asking for secret
session of steel board.
More than score of prOmin-
ent west coast lawyers have re-
Gently endorsed Leo Gallagher in
his campaign for election to the
California Supreme Court.
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During July American payrolls
fell nearly Z per cent, with a de-
cline of employment of as much
as 20 per cent in some industries
such as hardware work.
The LID warns of the chain
gang that awaits HerndOn If
funds are not raised to finance
the appealing of his ease to the
Supreme Court.
From widely separated parts of
the country come reports OF
mass strikes of CCC workers
against bad food and conditions
of work.
Chicago military police beat
five youths numerically for sell
ing Communist literature to
sympathetic national guardsmen
during the recent war maneuvers
in Illinois.
Upton Sinclair, liberal can
didate for governor of California
shows his true nature by speak
ing approximately of strike
breakers who support him in the
campaign.
Soft, unframed CCC boys at
Gle Elum are to fight fires on
irregular meals. Organization
and a threat of militant action
brought an improvement in the
quantity and quality of meals.
Il
Mayor LaGuardia urges that
New York City establish lottery
to raise $40 million to feed the
unemployed this winter--so he
won't have to increase the ter
rible burden that is already i'm
pOverishing the poor bankers.
u. S. private construction con-
tracts for June 1894 were q per
cent lower than for June 1888.
Govern ment construction has
dropped from IS per cent of the
total last December ia % per
cent of the total this last June.
Earl BrOwder Secretary of the
Communist Party, corresponds
with Norman Thomas in an effort
to bring the Socialist Party into
a united front with the COmmun-
list Party, against hunger, war
and fascism.
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National campaigns are being
started by militant anti-faseist
organizations to get million
signatures demanding release OF
Thaelmann and protesting the
barbarOus arrests and senteuc-
ing of militant workers in the
recent west coast strike areas.
One-third of the crops have
been destroyed by the AAA,
One-fOurth of Americas farmers
have been driven off their land
by insurance and mortgage CON-
panies in the past few years, and
prices are now rising by leaps
and bounds real wages
falling.
Disclosures at National Guard
Camp Grant near Chicago show
tainted food, graft, and brutality
are meted out to the rank and
file of guardsmen. Sentiment has
been raised to the point where in
one company of 90 men, 40 de-
clare they will refuse to shoot
down strikers.
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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

Fascism has come to the most
widely read woman's magazine
of America. Those VINO doubt it
should read carefully the Sep
TENDER issue of the Pictorial Re-
view. This issue contains articles
which shout to the skies the glO-
ries of motherhood in Germany
the production of babies for can
non fodder. Hitler and his bar
barous sterilization laws and his
emphasis upon baby production
for war needs are given the most
glowing praises. Slanderous at
tacks upon the educational and
child-rearing practices in the So
Wet Union are thrown in for good
measure, and the readers are
most charmingly told that bar
barous" Russia must he shown
the path OF civilization" in these
respects by Hitler's Germany.
which raises large families for
defense" against the Soviet Un-
ion.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

USSR- Grain collections are
above those for last year. In the
Odessa region collections are 800
per cent above last year.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

Disclosures at National Guard
Camp Grant near Chicago show
tainted food, graft, and brutality
are meted out to the rank and
file of guardsmen. Sentiment has
been raised to the point where in
one company of 90 men, 40 de-
clare they will refuse to shoot
down strikers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31

FRANCE-French press shows
nervousness and anger at the
news of a Socialist Communist
united front.
Evening star., 1934-05-20
Southeastern University.

DONALD HYLAND. member of the
District bar and a 1880 graduate
of the School of Law, was elected
president Of the Southeastern Univer-
sity Alumni Association Thursday
night at the annual meeting of the
association at the Admiral Hotel
Harvey w. Goddard was chosen first
vice president; George G. McLeish,
second vice president; Margaret A.
Hickman, secretary, and Curtis E.
Chadwick, treasurer.
Nettie Tolson of the Veterans Ad-
ministration. was elected chairman of
the board of directors and E. Chester
Adams was made vice chairman
Other members of the board are Ran
dolph Barbee, Katherine Barkdull Ell
mer J. Mead and Edwin J. Noyes
Students of the Woodward School
for Boys, affiliated with Southeastern
University and the Y. NJ c. A.. made
an automobile tour of historic and
scenic places Of interest in the Shen-
andoah Valley and the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Virginia last week end.
1t was the most extensive sightseeing
trip yet sponsored by the school.
James j. King, headmaster, led the
group, assisted by faculty members,
Mrs King and others
The university is preparing for a
busy week with the advent of June.
The Summer school will open June l.,
the baccalaureate service will be held
June at Wallace Memorial United
Presbyterian Church and the COM
mencement ceremonies will take place
June in Memorial Continental Hall.
Evening star., 1934-05-20
Who Are You?
The Romance of Your Name
BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS.

"Corcil." His sons accompanied VIII
liam the Conqueror into England,
where they fought in the great Battle
of Hastings in 1866, and were rewarded
with grants of land in Dorsets,lire,
Somersetshire, Wiltshire and Shrop-
shire.
In England the name became
Churchill and has been a prominent
one for centuries.
Perhaps the first Churchills to ap-
pear in the New World were John,
who came to the Plymouth Colony in
Massachusetts in 1643, and Josiah,
who settled in Wethersfield. Conn, In
1889. Josiah was soldier in the
Pequot War, and surveyor Of the town
of Wethersfield. He married Eliza
beth, the daughter of the Nathaniel
Foote of Colonial fame.
In the Southern colony in Virginia
the first representative Of this splen.
did name was william Churchill
Q649-171O). who came from England
in 1889 and settled in Bushby Park
on the Rappahannock River, in Mid
dlesex County. He was a leader In
the affairs OF his day, serving as
member of the Virginia Council In
1705, and as warden and vestrymar
of Christ Church, Middlesex. in 1703
He married Elizabeth Armisteac
Wormley, daughter Of Col. John
Armistead, distinguished Virginia
councillor.
The arms here shown are used BY
the Virginia family and their descen-
dants.
(Copyright. 1934l
Evening star., 1934-05-20
Esperanto Unit Plans Picnic.

Esperanto UHIt IIdHs 1ICHIC'
Games and songs will feature the
annual picnic and outing Of the
Washington Chapter Of the Esperanto
Association today, from 2 to 6
pm. in Rock Greek Park. Ernest
q. Dodge, president Of the chapter.
will talk on the progress Of Esperanto
in Washington and North America.
Evening star., 1934-05-20

to secure employment or financial
inability to attend college.
This matter has been given very
earnest consideration, and we have
concluded that it is possible to grant
twenty high school graduates two
year scholarship in our School OF
Economics and Government. the STU
dents to, be designated by you, or by
the principals of the respective high
schools, and scholarships to COM
mence with the 1884 Fall term, be-
ginning on September "a.
Pre-LegaI Course Given.
Permit me to add that the Ma
tional University School of Economics
and Government is what the name
indicates; that is to say, 1t aims to
train students in the fundamental
principles of government and eco
nomics. The schools curriculum is so
arranged as to give students a valu-
able pre-legal course. OF course, the
usual academic courses are also Of
fered.
Il shall be very glad to interview
students who present themselves with
proper credentials from you. or from
the principal of any Washington
high school"
The constitution of the National
Universitys Hellenic Council was
signed ON behalf of the students and
faculty Wednesday before the as
sembled classes of the university.
John L. Cassin, assistant dean of
the Law School. signed the constltu-
ton for the university and Henry
L. Doyle, senior student and bres-
ident of the council, signed for the
students
Addresses were delivered by DR.
Pergler, who is professor in the Law
School as well as being dean of the
School of Economics and Government
and Prof. Godfrey Munter of the
Law School.