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NaziS Spend Millions

NEW YORK, July 19-Ivy
Lee, publicity agent for the
Rockefeller interests and for
the Pennsylvania Railroad, was
paid $4,000 in cash by the |. G.
Farhen Industries the German
dye trust, for advising high
Nazi officials in Germany how
to conduct their propaganda
campaign here.
This information was brought
out at the congressional com
mittee Investigating foreign
propaganda in this country.
Lee actually prepared articles
to be sent to Germany for the
approval of Won Papen and
other Nazi officials which We're
then to be returned to the
press in this country.
Lees son is paid $4,000 a
year as Lees contact man in
Germany.
The investigation brought out
that the NaZi government had
appropriated $55,0OO,0OO a year
by spreading propaganda in
this country.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Dirt On Doyle
By GARLAND ANDREWS

SEATTLE, July l9.-In view
of the proximity of the Central
Labor Council elections, which
are to be held Wednesday
August s, the following story
might be of interest to Doyle
minded" voters.
Weston, the business agent oil
the Boilermakers, was organ
lzing the workers at the Puget
Sound Sheet Metal Works. He
was enjoying unusual success,
and most of the workers he
contacted promised to come in
on Friday to sign up in the
union.
Came the Friday, however,
and Weston waited. waited
and waited. Not one OF the
prospective trade uniOnists APP
peared.
On the following Saturday
morning, Doyle. the present see
rotary of the Central Labor
Council who Is asking the
workers to reflect him for an
other term, entered Weston's
office.
Il understand" he said. that
you've been organizing the men
down at Puget Sound. How
have you been getting along
with them?"
Fine" weston replied.
Some of them were supposed
to come here to join the Boiler
makers yesterday afternoon,
but APPARENTLY they have been
intimidated by the boss, be-
cause none OF them showed
up"
Il thought I'd tell you" Doyle
confided. that Bowen, the
superintendent of the Puget
Sound Sheet Metal called me
up this mrOning." He added
implOringly, You know. Wes-
ton. Bowen is an awfully good
friend OF mine. He loaned me
$500 once when I was in a
pinch"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20

At the relief station at 1921
18th ave-, part of the apparatus
of t he Federal Emergency
Relief Administration, the most
open discrimination is practiced
against the Negro eOple.
Negroes, regardless of where
they live, must apply for their
voucher on Thursday while
white workers come the other
days of the week.
But this is by no means the
only example of such discrimi-
nation in Seattle. On many relief
jobs, Negroes have been segre-
gated by the foreman from the
white workers For Whites
Only signs are permitted to
be displayed in the city. Many
restaurants are closed to the
Negro. The Infamous advertise
ment of the "COON CHICKEN"
Inn stares from the rear Of
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hundreds of automobiles.
All these examples of discrimi-
nation, segregation-like the
entire system of lynching and
Jim-CrOwism in the South
have one deliberate purpose:
to drive a wedge between the
Negro people and the masses
of the white workers, so that
each will be deprived of the
other in what should be a
joint struggle for better con-
itiOns.
To combat the Jim-CrOwism
at the 18th Ave. voucher station
a group of Negro and white
workers i'm the East Madison
district have held protest mass
meetings and conducted picket
ing at the voucher station.
From one of these mass meet
ings, a committee was elected
to call a conference to broaden
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
UCL Will Send Boy To
Pioneer Camp

SEATTLE, July l2-TO the
eleven year old son of an unem-
plOyed worker to the Pioneer
Camp, the Interplay Local of the
Unemployed Citizens League,
gave benefit dance at the Fin
nish Hall, 9Th and Yesler, July
10.
knowing that two weeks out
of door life with lots of good
food, fun and an informal school
taught by class conscious work
erS will do much to build the
children both physically and
mentally. this local of the UCL
is sending this boy to camp.
Other organizations are urged
by the committee in charge to
send children. or, if they have
no one to send, to contribute to
the Pioneer Camp fund so that
more children can take advant-
age of these two weeks at Pine
Lake, July 20 to August II.
Headquarters are at 1915 First
Ave.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Father OF 5 Held
In Assault Case

PORTLAND, Or, July r.
Floyd Burgess, father of five
children, is being held by the
ruling class courts here on
charges of assault and assault
and battery of three welfare
officials who have been guilty
of starving. rObbing and pcrse'
cutting the workers of the LcntS
district.
The welfare officials have
framed up charges against Bur
CESS because he was a member
of committee which forced its
way into the welfare office
through window, after all
doors had been locked.
Burgess has been forced to
feed his family of five beside
he and his wife, on four cents
per meal. Milk, prescribed by
the dieticians, was denied the
Burgess baby who is now thin,
undernourished and pale as a
result of insufficient food.
After the workers had won
more relief for Burgess, he acted
as committee member in the
case of destitute young widow
with two small children who
had been denied any relief.
When he defended himself from
the attack upon him by Win
terer, welfare official, Burgess
was jailed and his bail placed
at $40
The workers of the district
became aroused and under the
leadership of the international
Labor Defense drew up a peti-
ton and resolution demanding
of the judge the dismissal of
the charges against Burgess,
and charging the welfare Off
cials of Lents with murder of
helpless workers children.
A committee presented the
resolution to the judge and de-
manded action. AS a result the
bond was reduced to $1,000 and
the workers bailed Burgess out.
ley, prosecuting attorney, Coy
Wire prOte sts to Lotus
Langley, prosecuting attorney,
County Court House, Portland.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Welfare Board Helps
Boss Starve Farmer
BY a UFL Correspondent

EVERSON. Wash. July -
The United Farmers League
here is blasting by mass pres
sure boss class efforts to keep
poverty stricken farmers off re
lief so their families will be
forced to accept subsistence
wages in the bosses cannerieS
and keep farm produce prices
at rock bottom.
Ed Lehman, relief applicant,
was investigated by Hannah
Rhinehart, welfare investigator,
who found his crops mOrtgaged
and his milk check being held
by the Dairy Association. Yet
she refused his family food.
Lehman's case was taken up
by the UFL and a committee
elected to demand that Leh-
mans family be given food. Re
lief was still refused.
Teh committee then called on
Miss H. Gruger, WhatcOm
County VERA head at Bel,
lingham. The committee found
that J. G. Richenderfer, Ever
son canneryman and bank di-
rector, had already telephOned
her to refuse Lehman relief,
stating that the poor and
middle-class farmers don't need
relief yet"
The WhatcOm County UFL
has taken the case and will
press county wide campaign
of struggle for Lehman. Pro,
test letters are being sent Boss
Richenderfer by all militant or,
CARNATIONS, leaflets issued, and
if necessary, a united front
demonstration of workers and
farmers will be held in Everson
to force the issue to a sue,
cessful conclusion.
BY organized effort and mass
pressure farmers can enforce
the enactment of the Farmers
Emergency Relief Bill, the
farmers only hope.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20

BELLINGHAM, Wash, July
l9.-BlOdel Donovan Lumber
Company here is hiring scabS
and gun thugs to break the
l0ngshOre strike, and to load
the Dutch =. $. Danderback for
Europe.
National Lumber Workers
Union is calling ON mill work
ers to strike in support of
longshoremen and force com
pany to stop Strikebreaking
policy.
OverlatZ, Timber workers
Union lA.FLl official is at
tempting to stop the strike
move. whining Men should
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
FLASHES
From, Oregon
By Kenneth Fitzgerald

Last winter the unemployed
i'm Portland had an Outstand-
ing and somewhat amusing,
example of the impartiality of
the police department.
A demonstration had been
called on q downtown building
which housed the local relief
authorities. About three
thousand unemployed had raj
lied for the meeting and the
steering committee decided to
start program of speeches.
However, the police captain on
the job ordered the chairman
to Immediately dispense the
meeting and clear the streets.
The chairman refused. The
police dragged Kim from the
speakers stand and threw him
into the waiting police patrol.
ThereupOn a whole string of
rank and file speakers began
to climb up on the box, each
in his turn being hauled down
and thrust into the city's
black wagon.
There was, however a very
respectable little gentleman in
the crowd. one whose mind had
been deeply permeated with
the red scare. He noticed that
some of the speakers arrested
were Communists and h :
AmericaniSm began to bubble
over He pushed his way
hurriedly through the crowds,
ascending to the box and began
to explode:
They can't arrest me" he
shouted. "I'm "A member of the
Republican Precinct Committee
and d good American citizen -
That. however, was aS far as
he got. His heels flew high in
the air, two burly COppcrS flung
him from the box and the last
seen of him were two sprawl
ing legs following a mortified
appearing body into the city's
black maria.
And Republicans, Democrats,
and Communists all rode to-
gether to the city Jail
port OF the findings committee
of this section proved to be
the most exhaustive and com
prehensive of any Of those sub
mitted by all five sections, and
it was evidently a monkey
wrench in the machinery of the
steam roller.
The findings of this fifth see
ton Of the conference. it is
hoped, will be available for
publication in the next issue
of the Voice of Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
VigiLante Head
hires Deputies
BY MARY JORDAN

SEATTLE, July 19.-Bill Cole
grove, one of the organizers of
the Vigilantes, is in charge OF
hiring the special deputies paid
by the Seattle Citizens Emerg-
ency Committee to guard strike
breakers on the waterfront in
the longshore strike, the Voice
of Action is reliably informed.
Bill COlegrove, who is also a
deputy sheriff, is well known
to workers from his corrupt ac-
tivities in connection with the
Olympic Heights cOmmissary
Set-up.
Who Are Special Deputies?
The special deputies are
drawn from the unemployed
ranks of the Vigilantes and
underworld characters whose
mania to pack gun and will
ingness to shoot anybody quail
flies them for the job of herd
ing scabbers.
According to a report from
a policeman the special depu-
ties are rats" wholly unTe-
liable and Enthusiastically.
I'D hate to have my back
turned when the special depu-
ties start firing" one police
man said.
These are the men Alfred
Lundin's Chamber of Commerce
committee pay $500 a day to
guard the scabbers and try to
break the militancy of the
lOngshOremen.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Strike Wave

NEW YORK-IIOpcs for win
ming brighten for the striking
matters as many trade unions.
workers clubs and fraternal or
PLANTATIONS offer their support
and planned to give financial
help.
DIES MONIES The 1000 work
relief employees, who have been
on strike for three weeks, are
still out. Demands raised for a
Ia hour work week have drawn
hundreds of unemployed work
ers into this struggle.
PEKIN, Ill.-Over 100 work
ers went out on strike at the
Corn Products Co. here for a
| 80 per cent increase in wages
and union recognition.
The strike, conducted under
broad rank and file leadership,
is 100 per cent effective and the
strikers are coming out on the
picket line in huge numbers.
Workers in other shops are
watching this strike and prepar-
ing to come out on IA sympathy
strike.
WASHINGTON, D. c. - Men,
bers of the international AssO-
citation of Machinists employed
in machine shops voted to strike
for a 40 hour week and higher
hourly wage The machinistS
demand a 40 hour week at $l2O
an hour. About l2O men in five
shops are involved.
NEW YORK-Marine Workers
Industrial Union has issued a
call for general strike in the
marine industry to support the
strike of 10000 West Coast sea-
men, lOngshOremen, MASTER
mates, pilots, truckers and truck
drivers.
VINELAND, n. j. - Violence,
mass arrests, attack on picket
lines and the attempted Organi-
zatiOn of the Klu KluX Khan
vigilante committee continues in
to the second week of the strike
here against the Sea-BrOOk
Farms as wealthy farmers launch
campaign to terrOrize strikers
and the Communist Party.
SANTIAGO, Chile-Oficial re-
ports here state that 400 peas
ants are carrying on an armed
struggle against the rich land
owners.
The government charges that
Communists are leading the
peasant revolt. Police raided
the Communist Headquarters in
Santiago and $50 persons were
arrested.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
AL Head ScabS
WhatcOm Mill
National Lumber Workers Union Calls Men To
Stop Loading OF s. s. DanderdOck

Iconsider the interests of the
employers"
Brown. TimberwOrkrss Union
president. is scabbing in the
mill yard handling cargo to the
ships side.
The National Lumber Work
erS' Union is exposing the role
Of these miSleaderS to the mill
workers.
The workers are showing
their resentment against ScabS
by stopping ears and removing
scab occupants.
Police are protecting scabs
and attempting to stop even
peaceful distribution of strike
leaflets.
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the fight against the voucher
station segregation and to set
up permanent organization of
Negroes and whites to carry
on joint mass activity against
all forms of Negro discrimi-
nation.
Every organization is invited
to send two credentialed dele
gates to the Conference on Mon.
July 80, s p. m, Mt. Zion Baptist
Church corner 18th Ave. and
East Madison.
individuals, Negroes and white,
interested in furthering this
cause, are invited to participate
Fraternally
Provisional United Front
Committee
1852 18th Ayennel
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
PORTLAND FRIENDS OF
SOVIET UNION" TO MEET

PORTLAND, Ore. - According
to Mrs. Nina Bogart local Or
ganizer of the Friends of the
Soviet Union, over sixty men,
bers of the group are now fur
thering the work of educating
Oregon as to the true facts con-
corning Soviet Russia. The F.
IS. L. was recently organized
here
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.lor, federation president, who
opened the convention with a
TRADE against the Communist
Party, but also struck at G. o.
| dad Young, of Tacoma and
Joe Reid, Boilermakers Inter
national vice.president.
"lf the waterfront employers
association wins the Seattle
strike Taylor said, its men,
bers can shake hands with the
Communists. The American Fed
Grafton of Labor and the liza
have long stood as a buffer be-
tween the employers and the
radicals, and the defeat of the
liza In the present situation is
going to remove this buffer and
give the radicals free rein"
Weston's Answer
Il deplore the tactics of
labor's representatives who join
hands with the waterfront EN-
ployers in branding as radical
the fight the rank and file
leaders are CourageOusly press.
ing to win their strike.
"Red-baiting by labOrs rep
resentatives is IA betrayal of
the waterfront employers"
WestOn's attack on reaction.
AIRY A F of l. leadership was de-
livered Thursday after three
days of speech making by social
fascist delegates.
Cost Thousands
A conservative estimate of the
conventions eOst--paid for by
the rank and file who were for
Ced to stay home is $500.
Did the A + of l. rank and file
get its moneys worth?
President James Taylor
opened the sabotage on labor
by appointing Dave Beck. sell
out specialist, and Dave Levine,
effervescent red-baiter. as res
pective chairmen of the all-im-
pOrtant Legislative and resolu.
ItlOnS committees.
A boycott of all California
goods until the governor calls
his gangsters of the San Fran
cisco waterfront. and recon-
mendation to William Green,
international A + of l. president.
that national convention plans
for California in September be
cancelled, were the most mill
tant resolutions adopted.
Dave Levine presented a
courageous" resolution that
the names of the Citizens En-
Urgency Committee members be
discovered and given widest
publicity"
! G. o. DAD Young. Tacoma
delegate, invited to the plat
form by President Taylor. de-
livered a 40 minute re-hash of
Gene Debs convention talk of
eleven years ago, and wound up
with the command: when TAX
ing a. strike vote don't let the
reds intimidate you.
Secret Ballot Religious"
Cast a secret ballot when
taking a strike vote. 1t is the
authorized, religious way"
And "a year-old Dad" Young
had struck the keynote of the
convention, followed through to
the final rap of reactionary
Taylor's gavel.
Was it worth $1,000 to the
worker?
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Governor Martins
Welfare Conference
BY w. w. GABLE

On Friday, June %, Welfare
Conference sponsored by Cover
nor Martin was held in Olympia.
Some $50 persons attended In
vitatiOns to send delegates had
been extended to all kinds OF
organizations throughout the
state with the exception of
workers organizations, h Ose
most vitality interested.
When representatives of
workers organizations demand
ed the right to attend it was
preemptOrily refused by Mr..
Ernst, the head of the state
Welfare sct-up. However. upon
appealing this ruling OF Hitler
Ernst to Governor Martin it was
Overruled and the conference
declared open to the public,
though Mr.. ("RObber") b. Shaw,
the acting executive secretary of
the conference, declared that in
thus appealing the matter these
representatives of workers Or
CARNATIONS had taken an I'M
fair advantage" that they were
not supposed to know of the
conference anyway, and would
not if he had not given them "A
copy of the memorandum.
Steam Roller
When these representatives
of local workers organizations
demanded the right to sit in
at the "preliminary meeting of
the conference leaders" to be
held in the forenoon of June
-. when the technique of han
ding" the conference in the
afternoon was to be decided
upOn-in other words, the
steam roller to be set up this
right was arbitrarily and cate
gOlically denied by Mr. Shaw,
and he was sustained by this
in the governors office.
Main Issue Suppressed
In the several interviews of
the workers representatives
with the governor, Mr.. Ernst,
and Mr.. 'PshaW," these Off
cialS tried to impress these
workers that the conference de-
alterations were to be confined
to the consideration of prob
lens relating to the unemplOy-
ablcs of the state, and not to
I he emplOyable unemployed
upon relief. Though when
pressed all these officials had
to acknowledge that these two
problems were closely inter
related, the subsequent discus
SiOns in the conference and its
subdiViiOns proved clearly that
the emergency relief problem
was the paramount isSu e,
! though the chairman, Mr.. Will
! liamS of the American Legion,
tried to place the soft pedal
upon it.
The conference was original
ly divided into four sections /:
THE DEPENDENT CLASSES;
CHILD ELFARE AND
CRIME; DELINQU ENCY, TAX.
ALTON AND COOPERATION
OF FEDERAL. STATE AND
LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERN
MENT.
Workers Force Action
1t was only through the mill
fancy of a large group largely
composed of persons not Origi-
nally invited to the conference
that fifth section of the con
ference was created to consider
the problems of immediate
emergency relief for the unem-
plOyed of the state; and the re-
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EcOlOlllc w elldIe f6ueIdllOll W
gency Federation on the questi
now working on the Washing,
ton County CEF with the OBJ
ject in view OF splitting the
newly formulated group.
Patrick and Whitbeck, dis
seminating the red scare in
wholesale quantities. are work
ing overtime to win over the
Washington County NCEF to
what they call a program OF
100 percent Americanism as eX-
emplified by the NEWF."
Fail
Their first attempt, however,
was unsuccessful when the Tig-
ard local voted unanimously to
have nothing to do with Pat
rick and his group. Sentiment
in Washington County, al
though the membership has
just been newly organized into
the CEF. seems to be bitterly
opposed to any attempt to
split the militant demonStra-
tiOn. Meetings are to be held
this week in an attempt to
clarity the situation.
Patrick is working on the
program committee of Peter
Zimmerman, recently nominated
as independent" for the gov
crnOrship of Oregon. COnse-
quently he is promising many
vague political plums to those
in a position of leadership in
the Washington County fede-
ration. A few CEF members
including Webb of Forest
Grove formerly chairman of
that lOcal-have succumbed to
his offers and are striving deS-
perately to swing the I'M
employed in the outlying
county to the Patrick Organi-
ZatiOn
Mass Action Issue
The main mass demOnStra-
tiOns is being utilized as a
battle-ground in the cOntrO-
versy the diSSidcnt faction be-
ing opposed to any form of
mass protest. The majority of
Washington County CEF real
ICES, however. that the ire
mendouS increase in living
standards gained for the I'M
employed in Wa h in & t n
county during the past two
months has been won by mass
demonstrations. This factor is
mainly responsible for the de-
sire to stay with the CEF.
Patrick and Whitbeck have
always been frightened at the
prospect of organized mass pro-
test. The limit of their prog
ram" manifests itself in a pol
icy of peaceful picketing be-
fore welfare stations.
Slaps Wrist
Whitbeck recently explained
his method of striking terror
to the hearts of the welfare
officials. u took case into the
relief official" he explained,
and when she refused to do
anything about it | just walked
right out of the place" Whit
beck is running for the office of
county commissioner on the
Democratic ticket Hence his
desire to gain the support of
the unemployed.
Oppose Own Members
When the membership of
the NEWF recently voted Il
mass demonstration, Patrick
Whitbeck and their bureau
cratic executive committee
hastily called it off.
The role of these two mis-
leaders is everyday manifest
ing itself openly and the path
they leave behind them. claim
militant rank and tileIs in the
unemployed movement, is that
of broken organizations.
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ONE HUNDRED NEGROES

working on relief jobs at Selma,
Ala, for 10 cents an hour have
struck against their unbeara-
BILE conditions. In punishment
they are faced with the threat
of being cut off from all relief
for two months.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-20
Patrick, Whitbeck, Aid
Police Attack On C.E.F.
Efforts To Split Unemployed
Movement Unsuccessful

PORTLAND July 1aW X. Patrick, Walter Whitbeek and
Portland Chief POice-Tumvrate disru ptiOn
bthey their attempting smash the Ore
unemployed movement Patrick president of the National
Welfare Federation which split from the Civic Elmer
Eederati0n the auction of OF milancy is
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No Move To Aid Strikers
Made By Washington AFL
Pressmen's Delegate Scores
CAPITALIST Press

EVERETT Wash. July 10 Bitterly denOuncing delegates TOR
redbang hypocey and betrayal file strike
leadership Weston Boiermakers Seattle
local evnced the sole spark of working class leadership the
Washington Federation of Labor Convention held here July
Mestons chiefly deeted agans james Tay
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CLASSIFIED AID.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. wO-
man cOmrade as hOusekeeper.
Route |. Box -, ROseburg,
Oregon l6-lt
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AN AVERAGE of every other
day sees the death of one per-
son from starvation in New
York City.
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