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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

by Vigilante terrorists, but never
were he and the workers in his
audiences intimidated. On one
occasion fascist hoodlums tried
to force the janitor of a build
ing in which Bradley was sched-
uled to speak to deny the use
Of the hall to the workers.
The janitor would not be dis
mayed, although he was inform
ed that if the Bradley meeting
were held, it would be broken up.
Workers answered this threat
by organizing a defense squad
of % to protect the meeting from
intrusion.
Bradley, who was employed
for eight years on the Cascade d.
vision of the Great Northern Rail
way, also spoke to so Great North
ern shop workers in front of the
shop gate at Hillyard. The work
ers there showed warm interest
in the program presented by
Bradley.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

slanderers of the Soviet Union.
"Palsl"
In the meeting place of the
Spokane Branch of the Socialist
Party, of which Mckay is chair
man, there sand on the wall,
side by side, pictures of Musso-
lini. Hitler and Stain. Under
meath these pictures is a plaeard
bearin ga single word, "Palsl"
Bradley revealed this as an at
tempt by Mckay and the Social
list Party leadership to place
Stain, the great leader of the in
ternational working class, in the
same category with the bloody
fascist tyrants, Hitler and Mus
solini.
In this Mckay is following the
line of the Hearst newspapers
and the other abject spokesman
Of the ruling class, who lump the
Soviet Union together with Nazi
Germany and Black Shirt Italy
under the MISLEADING head Of
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Syndicalism
Trials Begin
Next Monday
PORTLAND HEARS CASE OF
DON CLUSTER, YcL
LEADER FIRST

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 1S-Don
Cluster, organizer OF the Young
Communist League, one of the
seven workers charged with Grim
inal syndicalism, in connection
with the longshore strike. is
slated to go on trial next Mon
day Oct. q.
The charge for which he has
already spent 70 days in the
county Jail is based on speaking
at a protest meeting during the
time of the strike.
Clusters is the first case to be
tried.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Bradley Bares Anti Working Class
Role of Nc Kay, Socialist Candidate

SEATTLE, Oct. 18-After con-
Guiding a highly successful East
ern Washington campaign tour
in the interests of his candidacy
for the United States Senate,
George Bradley, Communist Par
ty nominee in the Nov. II cleo
tions, returned to Bellingham
last weekend to make ready for
the final lap of his campaign.
Workers In the Eastern part
of the state who flocked to Brad
ley meetings to hear the militant
ex-serviceman lay down the Com
munist Party's program against
Hunger, War and Fascism, en-
Enthusiastically hailed it as the
only program offering a genuine
solution for the problems of the
American working class.
John +. Mckay, veteran Social
list Party misleader, who is oppos-
ing Bradley in the Senatorial
campaign, was exposed by Brad
ley as the confederate Of fascist
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Threaten Boycott
Of Militant Paper

ASTORIA, Ore, Oct. 18-In-
tensifying their splitting tactics
John SuOja, secretary of the Pa
cific Fisheries Union, and Arvid
Matson, secretary of the Column
bia River Fishermen's Protect
i've Union, are demanding bust
ness firms here remove their ad-
vertisements from the Tyomies
under threat of boycott from
these unions.
The Tyomies, Finnish workers
paper, published at Superior,
Wisconsin, has played a leading
role in exposing these two lead
ers."
According to reports, no boy
colt OF the Tyomies has been vot-
ed in the union meetings.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
StevedOres To
Get Pay Boost
In Settlement
ARBITRATION BOARD WON'T
GIVE HIRING HALL
CONCESSION

SEATTLE, Oct. l8-Substantial
wage increase for longshoremen
was the arbitrated outcome last
week OF the Pacific Coast long
shore strike. only won after an
unprecedented show OF working
class strength through united
front efforts OF longshoremen and
seamen, resulting In a general
strike in San Francisco, and gen.
eral strike threats in Portland
and Seattle.
The new wage scale Is IS cents
an hour and $l.40 per hour over.
time.
Branding the longshore strike
government arbitrated settle
ment "a feeler extended with
the aim of ultimately breaking
the union" Harry Jackson, Coast
MWIU organizer, in an interview
with the Voice of Action today
explained the decision.
"Longshoremen have won a
slight wage increase-95 cents
and $l.40 over time and the 30
hour week." said Jackson, and
have lost through the setting up
of an arbitration board OF three
longshoremen and their bosses,
with an impartial chairman. Z
"While they have gained in
wages, the manner in which the
decision was made is smooth
attempt to break the union. In
Seattle especially, such an arbi-
tration board is dangerous, with
its reactionary labor leaders, who
will fight all attempts to bring
union questions on the floor.
Workers lose interest in the I'M
ion and drift away, il not allowed
to have an active part in the I'm.
ions good and welfare
Scabs Aided
'The government also ruled
that anyone now working on the
docks can continue. This encour-
ages the union-fighting scabs who
attempted to break the strike, to
keep up their work.
THE rank and files answer to
the government settlement must
be the building up of gang CON-
mittees on each dock and the
election of all other union COM
mittees, thus establishing rank
and file control" Jackson eonclud-
ed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
East Coast Marine
Strike Is Called Off

NEW YORK, Oct. 1S-The At
lantic seamen's strike is called
off.
This decision of the joint strike
committee, led by the MWIU, was
made necessary to prevent con-
fusion of the rank and file, as In
ternational Seamen's Union Of
ficials, working with the ship
owners, were scab-herding their
own members, radio broadcasting
to ships crews en- route to New
York that there was mo strike"
and asking police aid against the
strikers.
Scabs, recruited by the ISU
heads, called requirements were
paid $6250, although seamen
who did not 60 on strike received
the regular starvation rate of
$35 to s45 per month.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
.Thaelmannto
Be Tried This
Week, Report
WORKERS SHOULD RAISE
DEMANDS FOR GERMAN
LEADERS RELEASE

NEW YORK. Oct. ls-The eyes
Of anti-fascists the world over
are on Germany this week as the
trial of Ernst Thaelmann begins.
The often postponed trial, TAX
ing place secretly, will result In
execution for this leader of all
anti-fascists unless information.
al protest succeeds in staying the
hands of the Nazis, according to
information from the World Com
mittee to Aid Victims of German
Fascism.
Thaelmann, leader of the Ger
man working class and of the
German Communist Party, was
the workers candidate for Pres
ident in the elections preceding
the fascist dictatorship.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
State BrewS New
KOminSki Charge

WALLA WALLA, Oct. 1S-Lat-
est frame-up against William Ko-
minskl, Seattle Frandsen case
eviction fighter. is deportation.
Although the State Parole
Board promised to reelase him
long ago, prison attaches here
state that Kominski will be held
for his full term and then turned
over to deportation authorities.
Flimsiness of the excuse to
hold Kominski in jail Is seen In
the fact that he was born on 66th
Street in Philadelphia, Penna.
U. S. A., on May 6, 1906.
Bill attended the Coleman
School in Seattle.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Urge
More Relief Cuts

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 49,
The national office of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor in its
monthly review of economic con-
ditions published this week re-
commends immediate slash in
federal relief expenditures.
Weeping bankers tears over
the present inadequate relief
expenditures, the report states
with regard to the government
debt:
This increasing debt makes
business men hesitate to under
take new enterprises, for they
know they will be taxed to pay
the debt.
so great is this fear in the
business world that it stops the
progress Of recovery"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Farmers Hold Wn.
State Convention

EVERETT, WASH, Oct. lS-
The United Farmers League first
state convention, held here Sat
urday and Sunday, ended with
unanimous pledging of all dele
gates to a program of intensified
struggle for farmers rights dur
ing the coming year.
The viewpoint program adopt
ed: l. Fight consolidation OF rur-
al schools, keeping farmers child
rem 10 and II hours from home;
2. Support struggles of Indians
to better their social and econ
omic status, with aid in demand.
ing the 30-hour week, 60-cent
hour, on all relief jobs; 8. Rank
and file control OF farmers coop
eratives; 4. Demand a code for
the berry industry, and. 5. I'm
qualified opposition to subsist-
ence farms and concentration
camps
The new state committee men,
bers are w F.. Carlson, Rt. 1,
Box 231, Bellingham, and P. j.
Cantwell, 1914 Hoyt Avenue, Ev-
erett. They were elected state
secretary and state organizer, re-
spectively.
Political Forum
A banquet was given conven-
tion members Saturday night by
the Everett RWPA, and spon-
sored a political mass meeting
Sunday night, to which repre-
sentatives of five political parties
were invited. Democratic, Repub-
lican and Socialist speakers did
not appear, leaving the floor to
Socialist-Laborites and Commun-
list Party speakers.
The convention unanimously
endorsed the Farmers Billetaoi
endorsed the proposed Farmers
Bill which repeats the AAA and
places control of relief in the
hands of farmers committees.
The bill will be introduced at
Olympia this January.
Nine counties were represent
ed at the convention by 40 dele
gates.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Propose Joint
UCL-HA Rally

SEATTLE, Oct. 49, Proposal
for a joint mass meeting In
Eagles Hall in support of the
rs lOngshoremen framed on MUIR
der charges will be made tonight
to the International Longshore-
mems Association by the Unem-
ployed Citizens League. accord
ing to Harold Brockway, execu-
tive secretary.
The Central Federation of the
Unemployed Citizens League de-
cided at it's last meeting that
such joint rally would be the
best method of raising funds
and of crystalizing public sup
port.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Launch New Attack

WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. IL
Taking full advantage OF Presid-
ent Roosevelt's proposal for in
dustrial peace" the nations lead
ing industrialists have launched
a new campaign against the
working class. U. S. Steel has cut
the wages of 100000 men ten per
cent.
The entire electrical manufac-
turing industry has requested an
hour boost from SO to 40 hours
q week.
Ford's Detroit plant has laid
off 1900 men.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Meat Cutters, MachiniStS
BoilermakerS, Scorn
Order
Federated Press Correspondent

SEATTLE, Oct. lS-What ac-
tion AL heads have taken or
will take regarding National Pres
ident William Green's letter to
all locals asking immediate eX-
pulsion of all Communists and
Communist propagandists" in Or
ganized labor's ranks, was reveal
ed today in a Federated Press
interview with Seattle union
heads.
Seattle and Milwaukee Labor
Councils, Seattle boilermakers
and machinists last week unani-
mously voted to file Green's COM
munication, refusing to take any
action whatever.
Green's letter, two full type
written pages of red-baiting hys-
terra, asking drastic action of all
locals to put down Communism
to aid the AFL in promoting hu-
man welfare and human better
ment," was branded filth, just
plain filth" by Z. NJ. Weston,
Boilermakers business agent OF
Local 104
1T can be filed in the waste
basket, as far as I'm concerned"
Weston declared.
A typographical union men,
Der, Local OF, asked If his union
had taken action on Green's reac-
tionary attack on ALL militants,
said:
"A letter from GreenH We
haven't received it yet. 1t must
have got lost in the mails"
Green's letter received and
filed-by unanimous VOTE" re-
ported the Meatcutter's Union.
Green's letter is hysterical,"
stated James A. Duncan, auto
mechanics business agent, local
289.
But unless we develop a con-
structive program ourselves, ap-
pealing to the workers and actu-
ally doing something for them,
the Communists will continue to
gain Roadway"
Stage employees union, local
Is, was split at the top, Gray,
business agent, being highly in
favor of President Green's letter"
and Earl Gunther, secretary, re-
porting, 1--WE never take action
on those things. We have reae-
tionary membership, but a few
of us, more liberal-minded, know
we're being steered and won't
bite"
Stage employees voted no ae.
tion" on the Green letter.
Just how rotten AFL official
dom is, and to what length it
will go in its attempt to smother
and hound down its own milit-
ants, is revealed in statements
(Continued on Pare 4 Col. 81
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MWIU Leader Freed;
DepOrt Move Checked
Special Wire to the
Voice of Action

PORTLAND, Ore. Oct. 1S-
The International Labor De-
tense announced today that
Romanov, leader of the Ma
rine Workers Industrial I'm
ion, has been released on his
own recognizance after being
held for deportation for eight
months.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Threaten KelSO Swedish
VaSa Lodge With "CS
By Mary Goold

KELSO, Wash, Oct. 1S-Prose.
cutor. Sheriff and Chief of Po-
lice here joined forces to prevent
a scheduled mass meeting with
Mary Goold and Irwin Goodman
of Portland. as speakers.
Authorities got the hall can
celled by threatening criminal
syndicalism charges against the
entire Sedish Vasa Lodge, owners
of the meeting place.
Hundreds were turned away.
This denial Of free speech is
part of a campaign to railroad
Max Farrar and Arne Pisila to
prison on criminal syndicalism
charges.
The International Labor De-
tense plans to force the issue
with a free speech meeting in
the near future. 1t has requested
that protests be sent to Prose
cutor Hallen demanding free
dom or speech and assemblage.
- n-x-A-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Randall Speaks To
WOmen'S Council

SEATTLE, Oct. REPRESENTING
the Communist program, Areline
Randall, candidate for state sem
ator In the 18th district, spoke
before the Women's Legislative
Council of King County Monday.
Pointing out the use Of women
by the NRA to drive lower the
wage of men and women, Mrs.
Randall emphasized the Com
munist plank for equal pay for
equal work, regardless Of sex
or color.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
N0RTHSPA|NFL|E SRE DFLAC
News of Natl A. F. L.
Convention Delayed

Detailed report on the clos
Ing days OF the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor Convention
from our special correspond
ent did not arrive In time for
this weeks paper.
The complete report, includ-
ing action on all rank and
file resolutions and more
news on the activities of dele
gates from the Northwest, will
appear In next weeks Voice
Of Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Register NoW!

SEATTLE, Oct. 1S-"Register
at Oneel" That is the warning
issued to voters by Communist
Party election campaign head
quarters here today. Books close
Saturday, Oct. 20, and the issues
in the election campaign de-
mand that no worker throw his
vote away by not registering.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Everett Labor Council
Laughs at ALL Heads
Expel-CommuniSts Plan
|. L. A. Files MiSSive As
Further Evidence of
Green TreaChery

EVERETT, Wash, Oct. lS-De-
claring, I'm sending the follow
ing news-I don't know if it's i'm
portant enough to be used as a
news item or not" an Everett
longshoreman contributes to the
Voice of Action today significant
news.
"A communication from the
American Federation of Labor
was read" he says. This letter
was written in regards to the
Communist movement in the
ranks of the working class to-
day. The communication when
read before the Everett Central
Labor Council as laughed off
the floor.
Later the same communica-
ton was read before the meeting
of the International Longshore-
mems Association. The workers
after the communication was read
made the motion that it be plac-
ed on file.
Green Eemagogue
THE maker of the motion stat
ed that we know what kind OF
demagogue Bill Green is and that
we will keep the communication
as reference to Green's misleader-
ship in the future. Other workers
received the reading with the fol-
lowing: We know what a faker
Green is Throw it in the waste
paper basket What has Green
accomplished for the working
class?' Who is fighting for the
working class today?
''This event has the tendency
to show the rapid awakening of
the ranks today, showing the
feeling toward tshe misleaders
of the working class, especially
since the historic strike of the
working class of the Pacific
Coast, the recent marine strike"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
800 In Astoria In
COrreU Rally

ASTORIA, Ore, Oct. lS-Harry
J. Correll OF Salem, Independent
candidate for Governor OF Oregon
carrying the slogan, Communism
VS.. Fascism," addressed more
than 300 people in the Young's
Bay Cooperative hall Sunday ev-
ening, October 7. The meeting
was held under the auspices of
Olney Local United Farmers
League of Oregon.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Food Shortage Felt As
Spanish Revolutionary
General Strike Spreads
Capitalist Newspapers Maintain Silence on Revolt
Voice Of Action Only Paper in Northwest
to Publish News

SEATTLE -The Seattle Post-nteligencer reports all
telephone communications with Spain cut Off
Following reports Northwest capitalist that the
Spanish crushed last week. there has been complete
silence.
reports be only from Interna-
Correspondence cables York. then mailed to
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
The FRONT
LINE A.A sF MAX
Socialists & Green
=
King Alexander

The Boiler Makers OuloH
here In Seattle voted to throw
In the waste basket William
Green's letter urging expul-
sion OF all Communists. The
Maehinists voted to table 1t.
Under pressure OF the rank
and file, the Central Labor
Council took similar action.
Throughout the country, ALL
locals are throwing Green's
message back into his face.
Just when his misleadership
Is being challenged by the
rank and file. who PUSHES to
Green's defense and gives the
great red-baiter helping
hand? The leadership OF the
Socialist Party!
The New Leader of Sept. 20,
main organ of the Socialist
Party, in an article headed,
why Socialists Should Work
with Unions" proceeds to ex-
plain why Socialist workers
should help Green throw the
Communists out of the unions.
The American Federation
of Labor" says the article, has
been patient with the persist
emit sabotaging tactics practic-
ed by the organised Commun-
LIST cells in the trade union
movement during the past
three years Of unprecedented
unemployment. The Commun-
lists have been and continue to
be motivated by the one de-
sire to destroy the AFL-not to
reform 1t from within but to
kill II from within. obeying the
law Of self.preservation, the
AL now seeks in turn to de-
stroy the Communist influence
In the unions. What else Is to
be expected"
These are almost Green's
own words.
How should rank and file
SOCIALISTS work within the I'M
ions? Not by working with Will
liam Green. as the New Leader
tells them to. But by a United
front with the Communist and
non.party rank and file men,
bers AGAINST Green. His let
ter should be rejected In every
local and a protest sent to the
Great Strike-Breaker.
The united front between
the Socialist Party leadership
and the AFL leadership be-
comes closer week by week.
Anxious to shield German for
his sell-out of the great textile
strike, the New Leader on
Oct. 6, speaking Of the calling
off of the strike in the third
week, says, such action was
the part of wisdom"
Is 1t any wonder that the
same issue of the New Leader
reports an unhealthy condi-
ton" In the Socialist Party in
California? There one group
has gone over to Sinclair and
the Democratic Party, while
the rest have come to the Com
munist Party.
The capitalist press hasn't
ept so much since the killing of
the Lind,erg baby as 1t now
does over the assassination of
King Alexande rOf Jugoslavia.
But then the newspapers
recognise in King Alexander a
dear, departed relative. For
Alexander hung and quartered
Communists with q fury that
filled william Randolph
Hearst with gladness. Alexan-
der was driving spikes under
the finger nails Of Communists
and other rebellious subjects,
whom Hitler was still holding
small meetings In beer parlors.
y =
The murder of Alexander will.
not stop the oppression of the
people OF Jugoslavia. Only the
revolutionary movement of the
workers and peasants can do,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19
Astoria Still Leads In
Daily Worker Drive

SEATTLE, Oct. 1S-With As
toria still leading, the score in the
Daily Worker Drive now stands
as follows:
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

Advertise in the November 2
issue of the Voice OF Action!
$4,000 copies, rates only 81 per
column inch.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

the Voice OF Action, October 18th
news is the latest available.
The following information APP
pears in the Northwest only In
the Voice OF Action:
MADRID, Oct. 13-Street fight.
ing continues here In the Com
munist-Socialist led revolution
against the fascist Lerroux adj
ministration.
In northern Spain only BARGE
Iona is in the hands of govern
ment forces. All other cities and
towns fly the red flag.
Desertion of entire infantry
and marine corps regiments to
the side of the revolution were
reported yesterday.
General Strike Stronger
The general strike movement
throughout the entire country
has become so effective that gov
eminent controlled centers are
threatened by shortage of food,
The standing army, unable to
cope with the situation because
of the strength of well armed
proletarian corps and desertion
to the side of the newly set up
Soviets, has been strengthened
by the importation OF 1000 For.
eign Legionnaires from North AT.
RIGA.
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Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-19

ONLY COMPLETE TEXT OF
HISTORIC WELLS STAIN
INTERVIEW LIsHE ED
WEST OF NEW YORK PRINT
ED ON PAGE THREE TODAY
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Is 1t any wonder that the
same issue Of the New Leader
reports an unhealthy condi-
ton" In the Socialist Party in
California? There one group
has gone over to Sinclair and
the Democratic Party, while
the rest have come to the Com
munist Party.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-02
BY EMIL LENGYEL
Author Of ''7he Con1d'o~ BoiA, 'Ne70 Deal
in Europe" 'Htler, Etc:

supplemented by an additional 10000
auxiliary troops and militarized police.
The voluntary labor camps are furnish
ing the Reich with more than 100000
additional well trained young men. Herr
Hitler has announced that beginning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-02

actual and potential armies. The peace
treaty limited the strength of the regular
armed force, the Reichswehr, to 100000
officers and men. Yet it is estimated
that the Hitler government has grad
ually increased the army to 100000 men,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-02

may see the glory that lies in rolling in
= the mud and killing ones fellow beings.
I saw groups of children being taken to
a war exhibition on Berlin'S Inter den
Linden, and they showed the greatest
interest in all the CORY paraphernalia
of destruction.
The schools of higher learning. es-
= pecially the universities, emphasize the
teaching of the science of defense"
Courses in military technique, military
tactics, strategy and poison gas have re-
Gently blossomed forth in great pro-
fusion. One of the most notorious teach
ers of the new science is Prof. Ewald
Banse of Brunswick, who has written
paean to death in the trenches: War IS