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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
BEHIND THE SCENES ~
MA E.|!kGTON

Jules. business charts. lists OF new
code authority members. pleasant
little business items about payroIl
increases, price increases and re-.
auctions. personal testimonial,
and snaprN little news notes such
as how the dress code people have
distributed 50.000.GU0 NRA Ia.
bells
Originally. "Bleagle" carried
cartoons portraying the Blue
Eagle as the king OF birds. inyi.
rational editorials. and columns
of epigrams from "the Admins.
traitor" But those have ben ut
out While other papeEs vge
screaming the Dollfuss assassin.
ton. the big Page One "Beay%
scoop, as headlined, was
"NRA Plan Not Theoretical"
CITING at lunch across from
~ Surgeon General Hugh S.
Cumming and Assistant Surgeon
General r C. Williams, every.
body with coats off, ! asked what
the Y. S. Public Health Service
was recommending to beat The
heat
Keep COOL" cracked Cum.
ming. Then they Suggested
extra doses of salt, based on
the fact that pcrspiration draws
salt from the system.
In recent experiments, extra
salt was added to the diets Of
furnace stokers and the stokerS
felt a lot more comfortable.
WILLIAM ] WOOLST0N, the
w young MIRA Labor Advisor!
Board staff member who ap'
peared at work wearing shorts
and was ordered to change back
to pants, happens to be million
aire from Philadelphia. the
shorts were handsome and e%
pensive. Secretary OF state
Cordelr Hull and Assistant Secre
tary r. Walton Moore are Gale!
Judge" by each other and thei
! friends. Hull used to be one
| (Copvricht. 1884. NEA Service. Iacl
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service StaT Correspondent

W7ASHINGTON.-The weekly Blue
Eagle is now in its seventh is!
sue, has gained a circulation of 65..
900, and long ago jumped from four
tabloid-size pages to eight
This NRA house organ is SO we'll
edited as to offer NRA critics little
chance for ridicule-which is too
bad, because l would like TO poke
q little fun at it myself.
The most extraordinary thing
about THE Bleagle"-as it's called,
of course-is that it never mentions
the name of Gen. Hugh Johnson.
Or of anybody else in NRA
Editor Bill Lawson decided it
wouldn't quite do to play up John
sons name and nobody else's and
that to throw the sheets open TO
other NRA prima donnas would in
vite' so much jealousy and accuse.
ton of personal publicity promo
tion as to interfere seriously with
a fellow trying to get out news.
paper. I
OF course q prominent bust
ness man or trade association
executive doesn't have much
troIbin crashing THE Beagle"
Just let him throw al armful
of posics at NRA and its effect
OIL his industry and he'll be
quoted with his name and corr
rect middle initial.
The weekly is sent free to all
code authorities, NRA state Off
Icials, trade associations, and per-
sons who ask for it. BY attempt
ing to publish all the official, au-
tkentic NRA dope, it sa~es great
pile of correspondence. /,
Texts of all executive and ad,
administrative orders, summaries of
interpretations - including those
affecting the candlewick bedr
spread industry - are carried;
with explanations of the most i'm
portant ones.
Also there are hearing sched-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
THE POWER DIRECTOR SAYS
By WICKES WAMBOLDT

, Lilienthal, "however powerful,
however subtle, however firmly
entrenched, which can withstand
. the force of a united public opin-
ion."
But the trouble, my friends, Is
to get public opinion aroused,
united and in action. We public
are dull; we are stupid; some
thing happens to disturb us to
! the point of making US get up
and strike; then we lie down
again, go to sleep again and snore.
And Immediately our enemies,
those who would exploit US as
they would jackasses, proceed
again to skin off our very hides.
Here is the great, outstanding
difficulty that l have observed in
getting the people to protect their
own interests: the political rae
keteers say to certain capitalistic
enterprises and institutions: "Give
US the money to organize our
forces so that we can control the
political machinery and keep our
men in office and we will give you
pecial benefits in the way Of
taxes, property assessments, spe-
cial laws to make you special
profits; we will at all times en-
ploy the power you enable us to
acquire for your particular bene-
! fit and protection"
Thus you see certain capitals
tic interests supplying regularly
as matter of business, the
money necessary to enable politi-
cal racketeers to build and main
! tain organizations and publica-
tions of sufficient strength and in
fiuence to induce and to confuse
the people into, voting themselves
constantly into bondage and into
shackles. On the other hand per-
sons sincerely and desperately
striving for clean, honest govern
/ ment, have no funds, no means
! with which to organize their
forces, and to inform the public
and in general to put on a cam
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
SPARK INJURIES GIRL

FRESNO, Cal, August l.. (UP).
Sparks from the exhaust pipe Of
an automobile put Evelyn Gooch,
20, of Fresno, in hospital. The
girl, riding with friends, became
alarmed when she saw sparks
flow from the pipe, thought the
automobile wah afire, and leaped
out, injuring her head.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
THE MINNEAPOLIS UPRISING

,a,,s Conditions in the Minneapolis truck
drivers, strike have developed to danger
noint which appears to be more serious
than the late San Francisco strike. IL the
strikers make good their threat to nght
the government of the State Of Minnesota,
as represented by the military authority
which is imposing martial law on the Guy
Of MINNEAPOLIS, a condition of revolution
will exist: The strikers have publicly an
nounced they will defy the rule OF the
military. which is nothing more or less
than notice to the State of Minnesota that
they are going to have their way IN spite
of all constituted authority.
REGARDLESS of the merits of the case OF
the strikers, and putting aside all discus
80 sion of the strike and the Developments
~ which have brought on such conditions as
- prevail in Minneapolis today, it should not
tbe difficult for the people OF the United
States as a whole to understand what IS
happening in Minnesota. The strikers are
- raising an instruction against the State.
49, Similar uprisings have been witnessed IN
other sections of the country in the past
a,s twelve months, but none Of them went TO
the extremes which it is indicated this
s7o strike will reach if those engaged in 1t
openly defy and make war on large
scale on the government of Minnesota.
To- - AS in the case of the San Francisco
strike and many others which the country
has witnessed lately, the Communists are
active in MINNEAPOLIS. They are obeying
"., orders sent out several months ago from
= Moscow. They will create all the strife
10 oa' possible and will not hesitate to use des-
= perate measures to foment trouble and
carry the country along the road to revo-
luton.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
SCHOOL HAD CASH BAIANcr

HOUSTON, Texas, August ,
(UP).The Houston indepenfs',,
school district had $SO24IT u
cash on hand at the beginning =;
July, it was announced. The Al,
trict was said to be the opIv w !.
dependent school district in y,
state with a cash balance sr ~,
where near that amount
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01

out boldly ana
says that this
magnificent prof.
ect which is be-
ing launched by
the United States
government for
t h e permanent
improvement Of
human welfare,
is being menaced
and attacked by
powerful, selfish
interests and that
unless the people
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01

the Pacific highway. Within,
lost the race, although he maS
better than 70 miles an b""a
The other car contained DENIM,
Sheriff ]. Messenger. Viii!
was fined $25. ''@'
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
IN SCHOoLROoM 40 YEARS

OANTON, O., August /. (UP)
forty years in the schoolroom
and in capacities affiliated with
TIi work is the record of
W. q. Seese, retired at 81 from
active service in Stark county
schools.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01
POOR JUDGMENT

McMINNVILLE, Ore, August
1.-(UP).-Lester Whitman, IS,
used poor judgment when he rae
ed his car with another one on
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01

David E., Lilienthal, director in
charge of power for the great
Tennessee Valley Authority comes
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-08-01

= f.. A man was standing in telephone booth trying
TO make out message. He kept saying, i can
hear. can't hear" Another man said Sharply
aIf you'll shut the door. you cam
Some folks have got their hearing badly con-
fused because their doors have not been closed
81 Mans voice and Gods voice have become miNsa
in their -,
The trouble is partly with the door. If youll
shut that door, you hears. D. Gordon.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08

When the workers came to power
in Russia in November 1917, Lenin
saw that the only way to keep pow
or and develop a truly Socialist So
Ciety was TO socialize agriculture
along with industry. But this was
much easier said than done. The
city workers were much more highly
organized and class conscious than
the peasants. As Lenin said, the
city workers must lead in the work
OF establishing Socialism because
they were best able to do so, and
the peasants would follow.
All land ownership was immedi-
ately placed in the name of the
state, and the landlords of the old
regime were eliminated; the use of
all the land was turned over to the
peasants for as long as they used
II for productive purposes.
In order to industrialize the So
Wet Union rapidly enough the State
had to give the farmers special in
centives to increase production,
which had broken down during the
World War and the counter revolu-
tionary civil wars. So under the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
CONGRESS MUST ACT ON HR 1898

The order of the day for all people re-
mains the drive for immediate enactment OF
the Workers Unemployment and Social lnsur-
ance Bill EIR 1898 by the United States Con-
gress.
All means of relief put into effect by the
federal, state and local governments have com
pletely failed to provide for the army OF TO-
OOO,OO unemployed. The increase in produc-
ton which was supposed to absorb the millions
of unemployed has given temporary jobs only
to few hundreds of thousands while the en-
ployers have installed new machinery and
speeded up the whole working force.
The government has found billions of dol
lars to finance the banks, railroads and other
corporations, while millions of workers and
their families have starved. 1t is spending near
ly two billion dollars for war purposes, while
children cry for milk
All other proposals for unemployment in
surance are fakes, and do not provide one pen
ny for the present army of unemployed. Only
one bill meets the needs of the whole working
population and that is the Workers Bill F1R
1898.
The Committee on Labor must be forced
to Immediately open hearings specifically on
this bill. Write individually and in the name OF
the organizations to which you belong to the
congressman from your district. Demand that
he sign the petition now being circulated In the
House of representatives to bring the bill onto
the floor of the House and that he vote for the
bill.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
Did You KnOlU That =

runs daily articles of lies and hat
red about the Communists who he
says are secretly plotting for the
overthrow Of the American govern
ment. In the next few words the
L. l. condemns the Communists
for openly" attempting to over
throw the government. And in the
next sentence it praises the efforts
of the American Vigilantes of Wash
ington, which it admits are secret
ly" working to stamp out" Com
munistic influence in the northwest.
Mr.. Hearst probably knows that if
the Communist press couldn't speak
with any more consistency than he
does it wouldn't have lived thru the
depression and greatly increased
its influence.
Cuba: -Wages for many thous-
ands of workers now average so
cents a week. All strikes are out
lawed. All foreigners that show
active sympathies with the workers
are deported. In many ways the
L. S. government is helping the
Cuban government to suppress the
workers. When the decision was
made in one labor dispute in favor
of the workers, the American Am
bassador forced the Cuban labor
board to reverse it's decision in ia
vor Of the corporation involved.
Lakeland, Fla.-No trace has yet
been found of Frank Norman, In
ternational Labor Defense organ
izer here and former leader of the
Citrus Workers Union, who was
kidnapped by Ku Klux Khan thugs
Wednesday, April II.
Details of the kidnapping showed
the definite link between the kid
nappers and local authorities.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
Soviet Agriculture

was able to turn its attention to the
wreckers. Those well-to-do kulaks
who resisted the governments move
TO remove them from their positions
as rural capitalists had TO be re-
moved by force-and those that re-
quired it, with severity. This move
Of the Soviet Union TO save itself
from internal destruction caused a
vast campaign of lies and misplaced
sympathy in the capitalist press of
the whole world.
With the kulaks out of the way,
colIectiveizatlon Of agriculture was
begun in 1929, and the nation was
on its way to a success equal to that
in the field of industrialiZation. This
was done by two types of farm or
CARNATIONS: State Farms (scienti-
fic example of how farming should
be done, like our experiment sta
tions) and Collective Farms (huge
experiments in socialized agricul-
ture). Under the Five Year Plan
agriculture and industry marched
hand in hand toward victory. At
the end of the first four months the
collective area had doubled. In some
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08

In an unusually frank moment
James Madison, later president and
one of the founders of the govern
ment of the United States, wrote:
The only durable source of faction
Cclasses) is property"
Recent statistics show that the
use of labor injunctions, troops,
lynchings, private police, vigilantes,
and labor spies by the American
capitalist class increased more in
1888 than ever before.
The Silver Shirts are now organ
lied in 27 of the As states of the
u. S.
The students on many eastern
college campuses held large demon
STATIONS against war and listened
to speeches against war by students
and teachers.
Now that President Roosevelt is
back from a leisurely vacation
cruise on the ocean we are remind
ed Of Walter Duranty's recent dis
criptiOn of Stain: stain works IS
hours a day, lives in extreme sim
plicity, and has none of the advan-
tages of supreme authority as an
outsider might regard them. But the
l5olsheviki (leaders) do not want
advantages. They are so desperate
ly in earnest. that they do not
care about personal gain or COM
fort. 'Stalin) lives more simply than
any high executive since the King
of Sp1rta"
One wit quite truely said that
Human society is composed of
folks who make things, fake things,
and take things. The first come
last. The last come first, and the
betwixts and betweens get living
and honors explaining the justice of
the arrangements"
The successes of the true workers
movement are even admitted by it's
opponents In speaking of the sue
cess of the California Communists
in organizing the farm laborers
Norman Thomas admits: 1T must
be acknowledged that about the best
job recently done by the Commun-
lists has been the organization of
the migratory workers in California
and other western States"
One Of the most interesting things
about the capitalist press is its al
most universal inability to speak
any one sentence to the end without
contradicting itself. Hearst's p. I.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
VOICE OF ACTION ANSWERS
UCL STATEMENT CRITICISM

From the Crown Hill local oil the
Unemployed Citizens League and
from the Ladies' Auxiliary Of the
Local have come statements Criti-
cising the Voice Of Actions print
ing. several weeks ago, a statement
on the Unemployed Citizens League
and, incidentally, on Bill Dobbins,
issued by the Communist Party.
The statement referred to was
printed because the Voice of Ac-
tion columns are open to any mill
tant working class organization.
The statement was the statement Of
the Communist Party, not of the
Voice of Action. However, if any
one wants the Voice OF Actions
stand on this question, here it is:
The Voice of Action endorses the
basic criticism made in that Com
munist Party statement Of the kind
of work being done by the Unem-
ployed Citizens League and by the
Communist Party members in the
Unemployed Citizens League. The
Voice Of Action most certainly en-
dorses the criticism in that state
ment of Bill Dobbins attitude to-
ward the militant program put forth
in the columns of the Voice of Ac-
ton. Dobbins instead of fighting
constantly to support the Voice of
Action and it's militant program as
the only paper and the only pro-
gram for the unemployed people of
King County, failed, together with
many other leading people of the
UCL, to give the Voice of Action
anything but lip-service support.
1t is significant that a group of
women in Olympia secured more
subscribers for this paper than the
whole UCL. that small neighbor-
hood committees of the Unemploy-
ment Councils i'm Tacoma contrib
uted more to the drive that doubled
the size of the paper than did any
UCII local.
The Voice of Action knows that
| the members of the Unemployed
| Citizens League are ready and will
ing to accept the Voice of Action
| in real life as their paper. They will
give to the paper healthy construct
| i've criticism and they will give
! it loyal support.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08

uAs4Lyg1g1g1 ..
Around the World
in Three Minutes
WITH BILL
WITH BILL

Seattle: The bonds of govern
ever being drawn tighter. The Sc
attic Municipal News. well known
paper OF the Seattle business men,
becomes bold enough To say:
Would there not be merit in the
idea Of enacting legislation which
would provide that no candidate
(for public office) not approved by
members of the bar could be con-
sidcred at a general election?' Such
a move is logical for business. II
would please such men greatly to
eliminate all workers candidates
from the ballot.
China:-Evidence IA b e en-
brought to light Of Nazi aid being
given to the native Chinese fascist
group, the "Blue Clothes" which
are already making considerable
gains in various parts of China
Iowa Despite vast government
loans to big business and banks
there are still large sections Of the
country lndI are as bdu on 10 tN'l'
Through the famous Iowa corn belt
region fOr,a distance Of 1870 miles
In one section there is not single
bank open for business.
Atkinson, Kansas:-All hitch
mixers ad train riders are being
picked up by the police and put on
the local labor farm. Horses have
been discarded for the farm work,
and the prisoners are hitched TO
the plows in ten.
Characterization continually
grow worse. A competent, observer
reports that hundreds Of thousands
of workers and their families are
near starvation. Children faint from
hunger over their books. n recent
offer of food from the U. 5. was
turned down because it would go
in free of tariff, causing the gov
eminent to lose a little revenue and
thus endanger Cuban bondholders'
securities.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08

Education continues to disappear
in the U. S. There are now over
1000 rural schools in "a states that
are closed to more than 100000
farmers children. Tuition is charg-
ed in many of the schools yet open,
which eliminates most workers
children. One out of every four cit
les has shortened its school term.
715 country schools (teaching &c.
900 children) are now open less
than months. $4,000 more schools
are open less than months In most
big cities the school term is now
shorter than 1t was 20 years ago.
Tn all. 10000 schools are closed for
1I250.OO0 children, leaving 100000
teachers out of work.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
Will Women Lead In
Drive for 1000 Subs?
By U. j. 3.

A sub drive was announced
in last weeks issue. Just word
to those who would be wise. Down
in Olympia live four women who
know all the ms and the outs of
getting subs for the Voice Of Ac-
ton. Says Rose Strong, who got
literally hundreds of subs during
the recent sub drive in Olympia,
and who now uses (for comp'ny,
y'understand) a certain silver set
says Mrs. Strong, II believe the
way to get anything is to go after
1t and not stop until you get it.
BY applying this rule l got subs
where 1t seemed impossible" And
by the way, Mrs. Strong included
hitch hiking in going after it,"
Virginia Gravelle, who also knows
all about subs, wrote to us, NO
thing I ever did made me as happy
as this work has. 1t gave me a
feeling that 1 was really doing
something for the working class"
(And he Is certainly doing some
thing for this working class news
paper.) Mrs. Gravelle did some Of
the hitch hiking too, and she says,
I'D hitch hike clear to New York
to build the Voice of Action"
Erma Stevenson declares, n
don't care il did get beat, we got
the subscribers anyhow. And I'm
not through yeti (Oh! Oh! Erma-
here's your chance!)
The children of Mrs. Cairns,
fourth contestant in the Olympia
drive. went and had the whooping
cough right in the middle of ev-
erything-otherwise, she says, 81
would have made it hot for the
others"
Now the point is, readers (aheml)
in every town, in every community
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
Safety Valve Stuck
VIGILANTES BLOW LINCOLN
CENTER INTO Street

Seattle, Mn, May 3-Lincoln Ed
ucational Center, self styled 1.-THE
safety valve for the youth" has
been kicked out of 6O2 Union st.
Regardless of the fact that Jean
Stovel, who has fallen for Howard
SCOTS Technocrat Inc. ($5 year
membership dues) and who objects
to any active opposition to the
present system sponsors Lincoln
Center the Vigilantes hold her dan
geIous and the building company
moved her out.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08
Form RWPA Local

Cheholis, WHITE Relief Work
ers Protective Association held an
organizational meeting at the Moose
Hall last Friday night. The regular
State Constitution of the RWPA
was adopted and Mr.. Marshall Gus
sick was elected temporary pres
ident and Mr.. Field organizer.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08

ClSNTlpuIlOH OF TIOIi
New Economic Policy Q921-192S)
the peasants were encouraged to
sell their products for profit in the
open market.
This plan increased agricultural
production considerably, but it also
had a very bad effect-the increase
Of the rich peasant class, the rural
capitalists, the kulaks. By 1927
these kulaks had increased in num-
bers and power until they held one
fourth of all the farm area. This
was such a threat Of the return of
capitalism that the government had
to act quickly to save itself from
Kulak sabotage and the threatened
breakdown of the whole state.
BY that time industrialization was
well under way and the government
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08

there is a Rose Strong (Mrs.
Strong, you understand what
meanD, and a Virginia Gravelle
a Violet Cairns and an Erma Sic
version. And l don't know of course,
but 1 wouldn't be surprised if there
weren't some men who could get
a few subscriptions!
o. X. Let's see how busy you
can keep us, checking in the subs!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-05-08

Art Smith, leader of the notorious
Khaki Shirts, has been arrested
and put on trial for perjury in the
famous Terzani case of last year, in
which he and his organization tried
to fasten the murder crime on the
militant workers.