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

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A striking revelation of the
role of claw" and its administra-
ton in courts of justice" as def
mite instrument in the hands of
the capitalist class for the specific
purpose of imposing ruthless ex-
ploitation upon all workers, is
contained in the January 10th
edition of the New York Times.
This article begins by repeating
that California has the shameful
honor of being the first state to
pass criminal syndicalism law
sixteen years ago as a weapon
against IWW agitators in its
harvest fields" and is invoking
it again-this time against IL
Communists for attempting to
overthrow the government of the
United States by force and viO-
lenee'."
Times Admits Frame-Up
The fraudulent nature OF this
charge as a cover-up to the screen
the capitalists assaults on wages,
living conditions and the eonsti-
tutional rights of the workers, is
recognized and implicitly admit
ted by George p. West, author of
the Times article.
OF the trial now going on at
Sacramento, West says, Out
standing among the defendants
are Caroline Decker and Pat
Chambers, leader of strikes of
cotton and fruit pickers in the
great central valleys during the
harvest season of 1888"
Mr.. West and the New York
Times know that it is useless
to deny the importance of those
strikes and the soundness of the
strike tactics employed by the
Communist leadership.
The workers victories, in the
face of the utmost terroristic vio-
lence, including even the infam-
Gus mass-murders of the buck
shot gun massacre days carried
out by the vigilante thugs hired
by the big banks that own rs per
cent of CALIFORNIA; farm land,
proved to the capitalists that
strikes will be won when carried
out under Communist leader
ship.
Not only did the capitalists
learn this, but to the horribly ex-
plotted workers it was everlast-
ingly demonstrated that the mil.
liant, correct and courageous
strike tactics of the Communist
leadership could and did win
against the combined terror and
trickery of the entire capitalist
machine.
Mr.. West writes that "as a
result of those strikes wages
were raised and working and
living conditions improved for
the thousands of vagabond tin
Grants on whom California
growers depend for harvesting
their crops"
These victories resulted in a
mass-turning of the California
agricultural workers to the Com
munist Party and its militant
workers organizations.
The great banks, and the cap
italist class generally, became
thoroughly frightened, and have
resolved at all costs to crush the
Communist Party, and the in.
ustIial unions under its leader
ship. Hence the criminal syndi
calism trial through which the
capitalist dictatorship is trying
to railroad the Communist strike
leaders to long prison terms, and
lay the foundation for illegalizine
the Communist Party.
The capitalists hope that once
the Communist Party is destroy.
e,L the whole working class will
be deprived of its vanguard, oil
its successful militant leadership
and thereby fall wounded and
helpless at the feet of capitalist
tyranny.
But the attack on the working
class is not confined to the frame
up trial in progress at Sacramen.
to. 1t is being pushed with ex.
ceptional vigor throughout the
state, indeed, throughout the
whole country.
AL Aids
Among the organizations in.
volved in this attempt to turn
the whole working class into pc.
ons, is of course, the bureaucratic
leadership Of the American Fed.
GRAFTON of Labor. These shameless
traitors to the toiling masses are
so eager to serve their capitalist
masters, and are so terrorized by
the rapidly growing movement
of the working class towards the
Communist Party, that they re