Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
LABOR HITS.
OFT BILL
in SENATE
Reconsideration Move
Started in House
By Rep. Boyle

By Rep. Boyle
SPOKANE, Feb. 1.-THE Rail-
way Garments lodge on the Union
Pacific lines here has gone on
record protesting the reactionary
legislation passed by the state
legislature.
They condemned the attempt
being made to outlaw the Com.
munist Party by passage of the
OFT bill to bar militants from
the ballot and scored the defeat
OF efforts to repeal the criminal
syndicalism law.
OLYMPIA, Feb. 14-Statewide
protest pressure of liberal and
labor organizations directed at
the house of representatives for
passing the vicious OFT bill may
result in its consideration by
the House, it was revealed this
week.
Il am preparing a brief calling
for reconsideration of this BILL"
Representative Clemens M. Boyle
stated Monday. Such recOnsidera-
ton by the House of Represent
atives, bowling to mass pressure,
probably would result in the OFT
bills defeat, but only If eOntin-
ued stronger pressure was ap-
piled by labor and liberal organ
izations than could be focused
by the Hearst Veteran bloc.
1t will be fight, workers be-
lieve, that will result in complete
victory for constitutional free
dom, il mass pressure on the leg
islature and senate is intensified.
Representative Boyle, prepar-
ing his brief for O. reconsidera-
ton vote, will cite a New York
law barring the Socialist Party
from the ballot, which was de-
clared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court.
OLYMPIA, Feb. 14-Efforts of
the Hearst-veterans lobby to pass
the anti-Communist OFT bill, HB
70, we're redoubled this week in
Olympia to offset the effective
pressure exerted upon Senate
members by workers and mass Or
CARNATIONS.
Throughout the state fecogni-
tion of the OFT bill as a direct
threat to the right of the workers
to express themselves politically
and as an opening maneuver to
outlaw all labor organizations,
resulted in strong protests and
demands upon Senator H. L.
Kyle and members of the Judi
ciary Committee to kill the bill.
Senator Mary U. Farquharson
of King County evidenced the
result of this pressure in her re-
ply to her Communist competitor
for a Senatorial seat, Areline
Randall.
Said Senator FarquharsOn, my
belief in civil rights is very deep
seated. The democratic principles
of freedom of speech, freedom of
the press and freedom of assem-
bly, are sacred to me and l shall
always fight against the abridg-
ment of them.
"Since I strongly believe that
the ballot is the way to solve
our problems, I shall most GER
tainly vote against the bill in
troduced by Representative
Off,"
Fearing a growth of this opin-
ion among other senators, Lester
M. Hunt, Hearst news reporter,
approached committee chairman
Kyle and urged an attempt at
immediate passage.
Continue Protestsl
Meanwhile, Wesley Randall, of
the International Labor Defense,
leading exponent OF the fight
against vicious legislation, urged
a continuation of the fight to kill
the OFT bill.
There must be no Stacking
Of protss from the workers
until the bill is definitely kill
ed, either in the Judiciary Com
mittee or on the Senate floor.
The lobbyists of the Amer
icaniza tions Committee Of the
American Legion are intent
upon making q strong case for
this bill, realizing that its pass
age is a test case from which
future attempts Of this kind
can be judged"
Representatives Michael b.
Smith and Thomas Smith of King
county, the sole dissenters in the
nearly unanimous vote OF the
House, we're commended in a
letter from the Central Fedora
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