Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

workers. But by this SANDER, the
AFL bureaucracy completely ex-
poses its treachery.
A glazing example of this is
found in the outburst OF Schar-
renberg, state secretary Of the
California AFL-the same Schar-
renberg who has plotted against
and sabotaged the Tom Mooney
defense from the very beginning.
Seharrenberg is quoted by the
New York Times as declaring, in
regard to the agricultural strikes,
led by the Communists, that "on-
ly fanatics are willing to live in
tents or shacks, and get their
heads broken in the interest of
migratory workers"
Only fanatics! This is the only
way an honest man can be seen
by an ALL bureaucrat. Anyone
who refuses to betray, sell out,
and eonnive with fascist terrorist
gangs at the disruption and muir
der of the struggling toilers, is in
the eyes of the $4,000 a year bu-
reaucrat, only a fanatic!
Turn to Communists
The answer to Scharrenberg is
being given by California work
ers. 1t is to the fanatics" who are
willing to live in shacks and get
their heads broken that the
workers are turning, and will
trust to lead them against the
CAPITALISTS and their corrupt
henchmen, the leaders OF the
AL.
After quoting Scharrenberg,
the New York Times goes on to
say of these Comunist-led strikes:
Growers have raised wages
and improved living conditions
as a result Of the strikes and
exposures of 1888, but the men
and women responsible for
those exposures lie in Jail in
Sacramento and face long pris-
on terms.
The combined forces of Califor-
mai capitalism, financial, legal
and extra-legal, are conspiring to
destroy these genuine heroes of
the working class.
Against them,' says the Times,
ARE modified the American Le-
gion, the newly organized Associ-
ated Farmers of California 1.-THE
big banks and few rich farm
ers) and the State Chamber of
Commerce. The influential Sac
ramentO Bee" and the Hearst
press are urging vigorous prose-
cution and raising the red scare
against the defendants, who re-
main unsupported by organized
labor and by liberals, who, in 9TH
er times, have opposed the invoc.
alton of the criminal syndicalism
act and urged its repeal"
This is the lineup. The ALL Of
ficialdom, capitalism's Man Fri
day. not only does not support
these working-class defendants,
but does everything possible
against them, as is shown by such
vicious SANDER as that quoted
from Scharrenberg.
The Times article. under the
sub-heading Liberals Inactive"
lists group of prominent Calf
ornia citizens, formerly we'll
known liberals, who ten years ago
opposed the criminal syndicalism
act and worked for its repeal.
Ex-Liberals' Treachery
Today, these men, such as Bish-
OPP Edward Lambe Parsons of the
Episcopal Church, are either
completely silent, or like the
high-power lawyer, John Francis
Neylan, counsel for the Hearst
papers, have gone over complete
ly to the forces of terror, villifica-
itOn and fascist reaction.
Such assertion of the working
class cause by the liberals shows
how many of this group reacts
when their class interests are
touched. They become dumb
as a stone, or else shrek them
selves hoarse in a frenzied clamor
for the workers blood.
The waterfront strike of last
summer, clearly drawing the class
lines, was the thing that stripped
OFF the mask of liberalism. The
general strike following, Mr..
West of the Times says, was in
no sense a revolutionary gesture,
but rather protest by labor
against brutal and stupid bit of
police work-the killing of a
frightened plain-clothes man, of
two unarmed strikers on the
waterfront.
But the public was badly
frightened and selected a hand
ful Of Communists as the goats. I"