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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
For Union Conditions

Setting an important precedent, the
Street PAYERS Union (AFL) has forced
union pay on the Seattle Railroad Ave
nue. job. In making city council and
county commissioners toe the line on
this question, the way is open for the
campaign for UNION PAY and UNION
CONDITIONS on all public works.
This is exactly the opposite of the
Roosevelt program of scale beginning
at SO a month.
The Street PAYERS Union is now plan
ming a campaign to unionize the "relief"
jobs. The Unemployed Citizens League
is cooperating. All labor should speed
this program. The starvation scales plan
ned for the projects are threat to all
wages. Protect union conditions in pri-
vate industry by forcing union condi-
tons on federal, state, county and city
jobs.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
.Newsnen See War

20 Revealing evidence of the neNneSS
ofsWAR exists in the announcements of
Al. n Richard executive head of a major
znewsreel organization and federal film.
administrator during the world war
Hundreds of cameras and operators are
being rushed, not only to where fascist
Italy and fascist Japan are launching
their horrible imperialiSt assaults on
Ethiopia and China, but to all major ma
TONS
Says Richard "In addition to cam
Seasforges from the US. agreements
have been established for picture taxing
in nearly every. European capital.
Emancipation of hoStilitieS we have
lined up native cameramen.in Lithuania,
Poland, Greece, Turkey and Yugo-
Silvia, because we feel these states will
be among. the first to become involved. "
The newSreel men. are mot fools. They
are in close touch with. every interna-
tional development They know that
unless the blocking efforts of the labor
movement intensity rapidly wars mass
murder is on the immediate order of
the day.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Stirling Must Go!

2 If a foreign admiral in charge of his
nations key navy yard were to call OPP
emily for an attack by all nations on the
United States, the capitalist, press here
would be screaming for his blood.
Yet Admiral Stirling, commandant of
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has called
through the Hearst press and at New
York mass meeting of German NaziS
for a crusade against the Soviet I'm
ion.p And the capitalist papers are CO.
operating fully with the administration
in, frantic efforts to protect the war
monger. Secretary of Navy Swanson
tries to weasel out with the administer
ing of a light tap on the AdmirapS wrist.
The aroused movement of labor and
of all those who loathe imperiaiSt war
will not be SO easily satisfied. SWanSon'S
speeches and the refusal of Bone,
Schwellenbach and Zioncheck to take
decisive action will not be tolerated.
Congressman Marcantonio Of New
York has introduced a resolution against
Stirling. Action of the Everett Central
Labor Council cenSurng Stirling should
be copied by every trade union. The
protests should go by wire. And they
should go direct to Senator Homer T.
Bone and to Congressman Marion
Zioncheck.
These gentlemen are on naval affairs
i. committees at Washington, They were
elected on radical, I" "left-wing" Demo
crat programs. They have a chance to
show now just where they stand.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Demonstrate July 5th!

"The employers have not changed
since last year"
Harry Lundeberg, president of the
Maritime Federation, hits the key to a
call for all labor TO participate in the
demonstrations, meetings, paradeS OF
the waterfront unionistS July 5. Be,
cause Observation-Disclosures lays Sinsesthe!
statement was issued by the fighting
leader of the Federation, Fred. Friedl
(Marine. Firemen's UniOn) and William
Kaarte. Striking lumber pickett have
jdinedfthe ,SiXinufdefed by gunner, po-
lice and deputies during the general
maritime strikesof last year.
In Tacoma troops concentrate to
smash the lumber strike. In Eureka, Cal.
(where .kaarte was killed. the National
Guard is also modified. The same forces
who will launch an attack on maritime
workers conditions when the agree
ments expire September 80, are now out
to wreck the lumber workers organic
atoms and to prevent the winning of the
Just demands of the men.
To protect the civil rights of labor,
to defeat terror, to safeguard union or
ganization, machinistS, lumber workers,
transfers, men of all trades, should join
with the maritime workers in the Bloody
Thursday Memorials July 5.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Death to the Murderers!

In San Pedro Fred Friedl has been
murdered by the police -. Shot down
by five bulls who were raiding his
rooms.
Eredl has often been attacked in
these pages as a gunman, reactlonary
bureaucrat, a betrayer of the best inter
eStS of the rank and file of his union, the
Marine Firemen. Capitalist press re-
ports that the police were investigating
his Communist activities are ridiculouS)
But Friedl was vice-preSident of the
Maritime Federation of the Pacific
Coast. And We delegate to no uniformed
gangSterS of the waterfront employers
the right to Judge Officers or men OF our
unions.
The entire labor movement is out
ragged by the killing of Fried. We de-
mand the arrest, trial, conviction and
execution of the murdererS, Detective
K. t. Bots and his four fellow gangmen.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Tabloid Reds

BEFORE an audience Of around 7s
rouohIv-crad reonls The Groun
PLAYERS nresented the satirieaI
Sketcb "Tabloid Reds - Friaav
NIGHT '-
II WASN'T rra,ty
There was none If the glitter
of the customary bourgeois drama
No welI-fed ricblv-dreSsed "rul;nr
clawssn indifferentlv hiding theiY
boredom No vast palace tanesE
tried and carpeted Nc professions,
actors going through too.f,miI
lar routine = ID l'.
1t WASH. "pret,v."
But in the shabby little hall q,
"a Main, Street-filled with organ.
lied unemployed, seamen water.
front workers and transient work.
ers-one saw as vivid acting AZ
was ever on the stage
In their brief sketch the Gro,r
PLAYERS dropped all the artificiaIit;as
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Around = the
world inC minutes

LONDON-The British cabinet,
through its support OF Nazi naval
armfng is steadily trying to Bring
pressure against the franco-RuS-
sian mutual assistance pact. Captain
Anthony Eden, meeting with Pre-
mier Laval in Paris, made no effort
to deny the bold anti-Soviet mean
ing of the reinforcement of Hitler's
navy in the Baltic sea.
SHANGHAI - That Japanese
miitariStS are pressing for any
possible excuse to swallow up
ChinaS Chahar province is evident.
Army heads are investigating the
cost and time necessary to double
track the railway between TientSin
and Shanhaikwan. The improve
ment of this railway would facilitate
the transport of troops from the
Kwantung army in Manchpria to
Northern China.
ROME-With 100000 men
already called to arms, more than
100000 either in ETHIOPIA or on
their way 10 Africa, Italy has vir-
tually gone on war basis. MuSSo-
lni is especially speeding up war
against ETHIOPIA to get war under
way before more serious mutinieS
take place in Italy. Each days post
brings letters to London and Paris
telling of new anti-war actions In
the armed forces of Italian faSciSm.
BUDAPEST Despite outright
classification of election results by
the TSaldariS- KondyliS government,
it is now a certainty that the Com
muniSt Party of Greece more than
doubled its vote, even officially
gaining more than IS percent OF
the electorate.
In Athens the Communist vote
was 100, 900, at PiraeuS, $4,000.
MEXICO CITY-Trade unionistS
and students of Mexico carried their
fight against fascism into the
streets, demonstrating against the
anti-union call of Plutarco Ellis
Gales. head OF the National "Rey-
olutionary" Party and Wall Street,
respectively:
Troops are being hurried into
the city by the administration.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Matanuskan Madness

No wonder police threatened to ar
rest a worker for selling the Voice of
Action to Matanuska settlers as they
went through Seattle on their way to
that Alaskan valley. For now the bitter
truth of the Rooseyelt-AAA paradise has
ben forced into even the capitalist news
papers.
Just as the Voice of Action stated
when the colonization began, this "Solu-
ton" of the administration for drought,
for low prices, for farm debts, for mort
gage foreclosures has turned out to. be
utopia mosquitoes, hunger, NAL
nutrition, disease (without either medi-
cineS or doctors to cope with the Situa-
tion), lack of housing, lack of schools.
The MatanuSka madness is part of the
same insane "plan" which dumps milk
while babies hunger, burns wheat while
men Starve, plows under cotton while
many, wear rags.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Show Solidarity!

To Juneau, Cordova, Nome stretches
the far-flung battle line of laborS figth-
ing resistance to the wage-slaShing Of
fenSive of the employers.
Now, as in Omaha, as in our own
lumber strike. TERROR is unleaShed
against the Juneau miners.
The trade union movement must rally
TO the support ofrthese strikers up north.
i Messages of solidarity should 60 to the
Alaska Miners Union at Juneau. Gables
of protest should be dispatched to the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28


it by radical leaders whose
real desire was to disrupt the
whole organization of society"
Shades of 1885. This myth ev-
aporated when later the rank
and file showed more militancy,
and were less ready to call off
the strike than were their al
legedly "radiacf' leaders.
On January % the Metal
Trades Council requested the
Central Labor Councils assist
ance in the general strike The
request was approved and a
week later a general strike com
mittee was formed and meet
ing of the committee called for
February 2.
First General Strike
A general strike had never
been called before in the Unit
ell States. The workers were GO
ing. but "no one knows where"
according to Union Record
editorial of FEBRUARY ).
The .P-I and Times were busy,
then as now, in vomiting up
Iup huge headlines of poisonous
terror. Authority on the gen
eral strike tells us that Law
and order now became the fetish
of the city government, which
had not bothered itself unduly
with law during the war
The New YOrktTribune, in a
feature article, entitled The
Minute Men" said in part:
There were Minute Men
who were already members of
labor bodies and in position
to learn the inner purposes of
men behind the strike
Legitimate labor even claimed
that organization was using
the agent provocateur. did not
believe this until an official
of the Minute Men told me >.
We had a man on the commit
tee that drew up the constitu-
ton of the Council, and when
he got through they had
document that would have
sent to the penitentary any
man who put his name to it,"
Even Ole Hason admitted
that his attempted revolution
was not accompanied by VIC
lence. There was no flashing
of guns, no Killings, but said
he, revolution, repeat, does
mt need violence"
The general strike committee
met as scheduled on February 2,
selected an executive committee
of fifteen to draw up a plan of
action and set the date. for the
general walk-out-10 a m,
Thursday, February 6.
Strikers Rule City
That this strike committee
was actually the city ruling pow
err is clearly shown by the state
ment of William Mcdonald, the
Nations special correspondent.
He writes:
'9rhe extent to which the city
recognized the actual rather
than the titular government of
the community is apparent
enough to anyone who reads the
earefully-kept records OF the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
By HoWTRD GRIFFITH

This is the fourth of a series
of articles on Northwest labir
history.
In December, 1917 the so call
ed Macy Board was created; con
sisting of three members, one
appointed by the Fleet Corpora
ton and the Navy Department;
one by the president of the A. f.
of L.; one by the president of
the United States.
Its task was the settlement of
disputes respecting wages, hours
and working conditions in the
shipyardS
The board fixed certain wage
rates, the adherence to which
was insisted on by the Fleet Cor
poration on the part of any of
its contractors. Since the Seat
tie shipyards built more than
a quarter of the ships construct
ed for the United States Ship
ping Board, it is easy to see hiW
important the Macy Boards de-
cisiOns were to local shipyard
workers.
The general strike, which
Mayor Ole Hanson termed an
attempted revolution" grew
out of a dispute over these
fired wages. The wage rates
fixed by the board had been
source of. discomfort in Seat
tie from the first but since the
nation was at war, strike &C
ton was effectively choked..
The armistice relieved the
rank and file from "ethieal" OBJ
stacIes and after appeals had
failed they took vote as to the
feasibility of strike.
Vote Strike
A majority of the craft unions
making up the Metal Trades
| Council and decided majority
of the individual shiypard work
erS voted to strike and after ne
gotlation had failed, "a strike
was called for January q, 1919,
in the shipyards of Seattle, Ia
coma and Aberdeen.
The Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton instructed its contracting
shipbuilders to carry out the
Macy award and make no con
essions to workers or face the
cessation of all ship building"
On January "a, the ship build
ers telegraphed the Emergency
Fleet Corporation. 1.-THE work
mems demands were so unrea-
saonGble they were demanding
$50 per day, that it would be
| impossible to think of negotiat-
ing with them"
Same Old Line
Skinner and Eddy wired dir
ector Pietz that "the majority
of the workmen did not favor
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Portland Youth. Back from
USSR, to Talk on
Soviet Union

PORfLAND-"An American Bow
IN the Soviet Union," will be the
subject of a talk by Joe Lukes,
graduate Of Reed College, at the
W. o. W. ball. S. W. Alder at nth
ST. SUNDAY evening, S;i5 p. m, at
a meeting held under the auspices
Oh tne foang Communist League.
mr. Luke' has recently returned
from an extended tour of the Soviet
Union during which he paid par
''eu," lllsntion to educational
lne'nods' b order to more closely
observe iheir methods he attended
.ne 'en'y'if school, which gives
primary and secondary education in
zen INSTEAD Of twelve years.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28

Governor of Alaska, also at Juneau.
Labor in the territory, until lately al
most entirely unorganzed, is blazing
new trail--a trail that will lead to pow
erful Alaska Federation of Labor AFL
unions here should speed them on their
way by assisting victorious conclusion
of the present strike.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
lroung Communists Will
Hold Picnic July q

SrAIlt-Full attendance Is
ps.u lhs July Fourth picnic at
y ~AS'k Park, sponsored by the
. vuns Communist League. A full
H.. o. SPORTS and entertainment
= .-' wen irranged. Admission is
'aoN flaming to attend are ad-
'1s ~ y iike Car ~ to the end of
,Is ' nn' and follow guide posts to
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28

they even refuse to play the poll
tical game of sell-out through fake
arbitration.
When that happens all that the
government officials can do is to
gas and shoot the citizens. Justice
under capitalism works only in one
direction, as the citizens OF Omaha
have Just learned.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
The Great Seattle General Strike
Historic WaIkOut of 1919 Grew out of Shipyard Strike
Workers Ruled City When 65, 900 Struck

Ystrike committee and observes
what was actually done =. Be
fore the committee. which
would seem to have been in well
nigh continuous session day and
night, appeared a long success
ion of business men, city Off
cials and the mayor himself, not
to threaten or bully, for this
or that step"
War Veteran Guard
For the preservation of law
and order the executive COM
mittee created Labor, War Vet
Gran Guard, of union men who
had served in the army or navy.
Three hundred were organized
without arms TO preserve order
without tn use of force"
The question of duration of the
general strike brought much dis
cussOn. Some of the more con-
lseryative who favored such q
strike for a definite term, of
only seven days. Jimmy Duncan
was one of these, as was +. b.
Ault, editor of the Union Rec
ord. The general conference
committee of the Metal Trades
! Council, however, decided
against them.
AT 10 o'clock of Thursday,
February 8, organized work
ceased. Street cars went to the
ear barns, elevators stopped,
restaurants closer their doors,
theaterS no longer entertained,
newspapers suspended publica-
ton. Mayor HansOn's threat of
martial law failed to turn a
street ear wheel for twenty
flour hours.
$4,000 Out
1t is estimated that some 30
600 workers went out in SYM
pathy with the $4,000 ship yard
workers already out, making a
total of $1,000 workers out on
strike.
Over a thousand soldiers were
brought i'll from Camp Lewis to
aid police but not a trouble
call as a result of the strike
was forthcoming. Friday eve
ming the Star published and dis
tributed strike edition under
armed guard and Saturday morn
ing the P-I, under similar cir
cumstances delivered four
page edition free to the crowd.
The executive committee de-
cided to call off the strike on
Saturday night, but its decision
was overridden by the rank and
file, who were unwilling to re-
turn to work. After an all-night
discussion the resolution to end
the strike was overwhelmingly
defeated.
The mayor threatened martial
law.
The strike dwindled in spite
of the vote of the delegates. on
Sturday several unions had re-
turned to work by order of
their lnternatiOnl chiefs who had
never approved the strike. This
broke the back of the whole
strike.
At noon on February II, 1t
was accepted as over.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28

Why don't the public officials use
the gas and guns on the company
which refuses to. obey even mild
requests!
The answer is that the capitalist
owners of the street railway are
not the servants OF the state, but
the owners of it. Some of these
capitalists are SO imperious that
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- 80 = - . !, -. :,
Montana labor news., 1935-03-28
CONGRESSMAN
COMMENTS
CONTINUED from page y

citizen arises he needs more money to
pay his electrical bills. A great amount
of propaganda has been circulated in
connection with this bill, which has the
Country keenly aroused. Misrepresen-
tation and exaggeration is likely to oc-
cur whenever legislation OF a regulatory
character is proposed. Most outstand-
ing is the allegation that the trainers
OF the bill had a sinister motive, in
tending c~onfiscation rather than regu-
lation. This argument was predicated
upon the exact provisions contained in
the Federal Water Power Act, which
enactment was written into law more
than ten years ago. II the Federal
Water Power Act did not result in that
feared by the opponents OF the Utility
Holding Company bill, why fear the re
enactment of that same Statute in this
bill. 1t is a Red Herring dragged
across the threshold Of this Bill, with
the intent Of misleading the American
people.
If naturalization Of industry will
result in lesser rates in gas, heat, light
and electricity used in refrigeration, the
thermostat, the toaster, the electric
~percolator, vacuum cleaner, radio, etc.
and will prevent robbing the American
investor not only OF what he may re
gard as a just return, but of the entire
investment, then it may not be as hor-
rible as its opponents assert.
Wouldn't a widow or a man who
spent a lifetime a%ccumulating a nest
egg for a rainy day be better off if the
credit of the Government were placed
behind that investment? Wouldn't il
be better to own stocks or bonds il
the U. S. Government Utilities, Inc.
than to W them in the company o
another Samuel insult? However
wise or unwise Government ownership
and control may be, that is not Presi
dent R~oosevelt's aim. Far from that
his intent in this bill, as in all othe.
bills proposed to Congress, is to regu
late in the interest Of the safety Of TIL
American citizens, in this case the in
weston and consuming public. Propa
ganda should be ignored.
ATTENTION READERS INTER
TESTED IN OLD AGE PENSIONS
My subject on the NBC coast-to-coas
network, Tuesday March 10th, at 81
P. M, Montana Time, Sis Easter
Standard Time, will be New Dealin
Old Age Pensions"
Montana labor news., 1935-03-28
CENSURES SOCIAL
SECURITY BILL

New York-The Importance Of an
appeal to President Roosevelt to pre-
sent a more adequate security measure
to Congress than the Wagner-Lewis
bill was stressed by the Rev. DR.. Ste
phen S. Wise, rabbi Of the Free Syno-
gogue here, in a sermon on "The
Roosevelt Revolution"
"The President deserves infinite cred
it for his aims, but the present pro-
gram, although a vast advance, is far
from being revolutionary" he said. 1T
represents the President under the pre-
ssure of the great and ruthless interests
in America, which probably warned
and threatened him until he found il
needful to white down a program
that would have been bloodlessly and
gloriously revolutionary to a compro-
mise which will give no security to
millions"
Montana labor news., 1935-03-28
TEACHERS UNION
PRESENT PLAN

1.-THE letter stated: at will raise the
standards of the Butte School, it will
|eive Butte better teachers, it will com
lpensate teachers who spend time and
money going to summer school or who
take ~extention or correspondence work.
Almost every school district in the
country c~ompensates teachers for the
time and money they spend lettering
themselves professionally"
The Silver Bow Trades and Labor
Council endorsed the resolution Of the
Teachers Union regarding this salary
schedule and sent a committee to the
| school board Tuesday evening to sup
port the teachers. This committee was
composed of Jack Driscoll, Vice Presi-
dent Of the Montana State Federation
of Labor and business agent OF the
Federal Labor Union, and Pat De
loughery of the Engineers Union and
Frank c. Shea, President Of the Clerks
Union of Butte.
The independent members of the
school board voted for the adoption
of the schedule. Thomas R. Morgan
made the motion to adopt which was
seconded by Frank Reardon, a member
|of the Plumbers Union. They were
supported by Billy Mccarthy ant
Arthur Lewalder, the other two mem
bers of the Independents.
By adopting the Teachers Union pay
plan, March 70, 1885, the board 0.
school trustees voted to give Butte ont
of the most progressive measures il
school affairs in many years. Thu
measure was the adoption Of the single
salary schedule, which is based on thu
qualifications of the teachers as wei
as their experience. Butte has Jagged
far behind other cities of its size in thi
important school measure. By re
munerating teachers for time ant
money spent in lettering themselve
professionally the school board ha
taken a very important step in rasiinl
the standards OF the Butte schools an
in promising to the children of the dis
trict better equipped teachers.
This scale will distribute the none.
of the district more %equitably. TIL
Butte Teachers Union, Local No. 80.
has pledged itself to work in %conjunc
ton with the finance committee of tn
board to work out a fair Distribute
should the district not be able to al
ford the scale in its entirety for nez
Ryear.
This scale was drawn up and pre-
sented by the Butte Teachers Uniol
and the members of the board, backe
by Organized Labor, voted unanimous
on this progressive measure. 1t is to
bad that, when a step of this kind
presented to the School Board, part
alliances are not forgotten and all rel
resentatives OF the people do not vo'
to give the people whom they repr,
sent what those people want-bett'
schools.
The Independent Party should
proud of its representatives on Il
Board and the stand which they toe
regarding this measure.