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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

plans of these powerful Wall
Street-governmental groups are
the insidiOus plans of Hearst who
is busy acquiring a chain of radio
stations throughout the nation,
as well as increasing the number
of his newspapers. Hearst has
powerful oil and mineral inter-
ests here and abroad which put
him in the front ranks of those
men who dictate the foreign poll
cy of the country, who say Wheth-
err and when we have war and
peace.
Another pro-fascist group
working hand in glove with the
above named groups is the Vet
Grams Voters League, reaction
airy group centered in New York
City and having a following Of
about one million veterans. It's
present line of demagogy consists
in putting out feelers toward
forming an anti-labor Farmer
Labor-Veteran Party" Denying
the capitalist connections of the
group, raving and ranting against
the bankers" secretly cooper
ating. with them-these are some
of the distinguishing marks OF
the organization.
The leading publications Of
Wall Street clearly indicate their
pro-fascist nature. Soon after the
great San Francisco strike, Bar
ron's Weekly said, IF history is
safe guide for those seeking to
preserve a social order and a po-
litical regime, the dictatorS in
Europe are certainly on the right
track"
In its anti-labOr statements
this magazine is as one with the
entire capitalist press in the
country, as well as the national
governmental offices aud the
AL officialdom, both of whom
shout that the first and foremost
task is the expelling of all r'ilit-
ants from the ranks of labor.
Ambassadors Terrorize Militants
In a recent series of articles,
John L. Spivak, the famous re-
porter, uncovered the cOnnec-
lions between the American
agents of Mussolini and Hitler
and officials high in the federal
and state governments. A more
recent revelation of the Daily
Worker was that Italian fascist
official diplomats are systemat.
ically prosecuting and terroriziDg
American citizens of Italian de-
scent who are discovered to be
in sympathy with militant labor.
This even extends into the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

touch with the agricultural sta
ton in Nome, Alaska, to ex-
change experiences.
There is no starvation in Rus
STA. That is a matter of past his
tory. OF course, we do not have
the variety of victuals that you
have, but if you reason it out you
will readily understand why each
district must get along mainly
on what it produces. We do not
as yet, have enough railroads and
facilities to transport food-stuffs
from place to place, in the face
of the tremendous building work
that is going on all over this
vast land.
Take a map and compare So
Wet Russia with other nations
as to their size, and you will
readily understand why we are
anxious to develop our farming
industry to the highest limit. We
want to raise semi-tropical plants
in the Arctic zone, and-you may
not believe 1.-THE Soviet agron-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Number of Workers
JObleSs Increases

The number of jobless increases. As each
day passes, it becomes more necessary to wage
a stronger fight for genuine unemployment in
suranee.
Over AZ million men, women and young
workers were still unemployed in the United
States in November, 1884 according to the latest
preliminary estimate just completed by the
Labor Research Association. This number rep
resents 80 per cent of all "gainfully occupied"
persons in the country. The estimated total
includes as unemployed those workers having
relief jobs on federal emergency projects. These
workers numbered 2,S50,OO0 Including those
on PWA projectsl in October 1884, the latest
month for which figures on this point are
available. Even with this figure subtracted from
the estimated number of unemployed, there
remain over 14,3O000O jobless workers in the
country.
The Ira estimate this year, like that of
previous years, is based on government figures
and induces The preliminary employment in
dices of the L. s. Bureau of Labor statistics
for November 1894, are used in arriving at the
fissare of l7157,OOO unemployed in that month.
That is over 100000 more than the revised fig
ure for November, 1898, which was 16320OOO.
Rise in unemployment between November,
1888 and November 1884 was due chiefly to
the rise of unemployment in agriculture, and
to the increase in the army of young workers
coming of working age and seeking jobs. The
rise OF over 100000 in agricultural employment
was caused by the drought and the further de-
cline in agriculture.
Number of workers becoming eligible for
employment, due to the normal increase in
population, was over 100000 during this year
Industrial employment has thus about held its
own for the year, but it has not been able to
absorb the bankrupt farmers and farm work
ers nor the increasing poetarian population
Write to your Congressman and to your
Senator. Demand he support HI 1927, the Ma
tional Workers Unemployment Old Age and
Social Insurance Act
lombard Olympia and Salem with demands
for passage of the Washington and Oregon
state versions of the same measure HB 12S and
HB $685.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Wall,Street's Fascist Conspiracy

high official circles of such
great" institutions of higher
learning as Columbia Univers-
ity in New York, which is now
serving as a hot bed for the dis
semination of fascist propa-
ganda among college students
and teachers. These connec-
lions are directly linked with
Tamany Hall and Wall Street,
which both rule New York City
and finance the government of
Mussolini, thus enabling that
gentleman to maintain a rule
of terror over millions of Ital-
ian workers and farmers.
Linked with these out ard cut
pro fascist organizations are
those of less openly fascist ten
dency but which are none the
less dangerous because of their
hidden nature: Father Coughlin
and his Social Justice" League,
and his radio listeners, more than
ten million strong; Hearst and
his powerful chain of newspapers
and radio stations pushing to the
limit their red scare drive against
labor; Huey Long, with his three
million share the Wealth
LeagueEs, a pro-fascist organ
ization of rapidly growing influ-
ence; and the leadership of the
AFL, which cries aloud for open
violence and terrorism against
any labor group and policy which
does not fall in line with boot
licking subservience to the lords
of finance.
These four powerful forces OF
reaction play able parts in aiding
the openly fascist groups in their
onslaught against labor.
Coughlin Has Connections
All four of them are closely
connected with each other. (Fath-
er Coughlin claims the friendship
of 80 SenatorsD All four of them
are clever-excedingly elever-in
their demagogy. All four talk
much of their friendship for the
people," talk violently against
"the bankers" and lin secret)
have the closest relations with
the corrupt chiefs of American
finance. Long, Coughlin and
Hearst are apt candidates for an
American Hitler's crOwn-and the
ALL leaders would speedily fall
in line behind any one of them,
The forces of fascism are stalk
ing abroad throughout America
Labor-militant labOr-must &C.
ment the united front and nip
them in the bud, or they will Hit
lerize America.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
How Does Hearst
Treat His Workers!

Through the columns OF his Seattle Post-In-
telligencer the multi-mlionaire William Ran
dolph Hearst weeps buckets of crocodile tears
over the supposedly starvation conditions of
the Russian workers
Yet how does Hearst treat his own workers?
1t took long fight to even get the filthy
Pr shop whitewashed. Other working eondi-
tions are bad Hours for editorial workers are
long speed-up for every employee Is terrific.
Hearst is one of Americas most unscrupu-
lous enemies of unionism. He Is the mainstay
of large scab-herding agency in San Francisco,
from which scab printers are dispatched to
break newspaper strikes. Nearly two years ago
he broke his contract with the Seattle Typo
graphical Union. and in cooperation with the
Seattle Times and the Seattle Star, locked out
the union printers, replacing them with seabs.
Recently Hearst fired Jennings, an editorial
worker on his San Francisco paper for union
activities, and refused to accept the National
Labor Boards decision to reinstate him.
During the waterfront strike, Hearst's news.
papers up and down the coast played the most
vicious of strike-breaking roles. As result, the
Transfers, Longshoremens and Seamen's I'm
ions in San Francisco, have voted to fine any
member of their respective unions caught read
ing Hearst paper.
And still this millionaire, Hearst, has the
brazenness to pretend sympathy for the work
ers in the Soviet Union. where in reality, condi-
tions for the toiling masses are better than in
any place in the world.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
s,a Tropical S,.In Vegetable Tr. Russia Today

omists (agriculturalists) have
succeeded in raising some OF
such vegetables.
What did we have for dinner?
We usually have what we have
raised on the farm. We raise pork
and beef, chickens and hare, pO-
tatoes, cabbage, beets, carrots,
onions, celery, rutabaga, squash,
parsnips, etc., and home-baked
bread from home-raised rye. We
have milk, cucumbers, green
pickles, tomatoes in season. Some
watermelons also.
We are not starving.
You want to know about our
schools. Child-training begins in
the children's nurseries and con-
tinues in the kindergarten which
children enter at the age of three.
Children usually know how to
read and write and have rudi-
mentary knowledge through ex-
perience of gardening, when they
enter the grade school at eight
years of age.
After four years of grade school
they go to high school. School
work is not all classroom work.
Much of the time is devoted to
practical work. All country
schools have their own piece of
land for a school garden. Child
rem also learn, through contact,
about machinery, dairying, etc.
Schools make at least two excur-
sions each term to museums and
factories to learn.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
The Scab'S Reward
By w. FERDINANDsEN

Member Machinists' Union Hope Lodge No. 7s)
Il ought to get large reward
For never owning a union card;
I've never grumbled, L We never struck,
I've never mixed with union truck
| must be going my way to win
So, open, st. Peter, and let me in
st. Peter sat and shook his staff,
Despite his high office, he had to laugh.
Said he with a fiery CLEAN in his eye:
who's tending this gate, sir, you or 1?
I've heard of you and your gift OF CAB
You're what is known on earth as a scab.'
Thereupon he rose to his stature tall
And pressed button upon the wall
And said to the imp who answered the bell,
Escort this fellow down to hell.
Tell Satan to give him seat alone
On a red hot griddle up near the throne,
But stay For the devil can't stand the smell
OF cooking a scab on a griddle in hell.
1t would cause a revolt, a.strike know,
If send you down to the imps below.
Go back to your master ON earth and tell
That they don't even want q scab in he'll
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
"Anti> Crime" Drive
Really Anti>Labor

The big business men, the mayors the
prosecuting attorneys and other pubic serV-
ants" are joining Hearst in his hysterieal anti
crime" drive.
Why this sudden desire to rid our country
of criminals? These men have never before
taken such an active interest in crime preVen-
ton, even though burglary, kidnapping, gang
sterism and other such outrages, have flourlsh-
ed on a large scale since the war.
Their purpose is obvious They wish 10 Whlp
M lynch spirit against criminals in order to
lure private citizens into vigilante law enforce
ment groups. When these groups are organized
and the lynch mania stirred up to feverish
pitch. Hearst, the American Legion heads, the
Chambers of Commerce, and the public Of
ficials will attempt to turn them loose, not on
the criminals, but on the working class. The
holy war on crime" is a slogan that will be
turned to the Wall Street war on labor, IL
Hearst and his millionaire friends are success
in their efforts.
1t is no accident that here in Seattle, the in
dividuals who lead this so-called "anti-crime"
drive are the same persons who call for fascist
violence against the Communist Party and
other militant labor organizations. Mayor Smith,
John j. Sullivan of the American Legion, Alfred
Lundin strike breaking Chamber of Commerce
president and Rev. Mark Matthews, sword
waving pulpiteer, are all outstanding hoWiers
for the immediate organization OF crime pre-
vention" groups They are also the communitys
leading red-baiters and labOr-haters.
Let us know Hearst's "anticrime" cam
paign for what it is: A drive to recruit unsus-
pecting portions of the citizenry into employ
ers terrorist and strike breaking bands where
they will become first line troops in the big
business attack on labor.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
FARMER REMINDS SoLoNS
OF LINCOLN
Eatonville, Wash.

EdtOllNlliC, " dSh.
Dear Editor:
Let us flood every member of
the legislature with postal cards
reading as follows:
Required Reading for the
Legislature:
This country, with it's institu-
lions, belong to the people who
inhabit it. Whenever they shall
grow weary of the existing gov
eminent, they can exercise their
constitutional right of amending
it or their revolutionary right to
dismember or overthrow it.-Ab-
raham Lincoln"
This reading is not for Hearst
alone, the pay-triots and mis-rep-
resentatives in Olympia also
should study this. They also
should be requested to read and
study article 1 of the Amend
ments to the Constitution of the
United States, which reads as fol-
lows:
Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech or of the
press; or the right of the people
peaeeably to assemble and to Pc
tition the government for redress
of grievances"
1t should be plain to the work
ers and farmers, readers of the
Voice of Action, that our class
has no part in the capitalist gov
eminent.
Fraternally yours,
Casey Bossaljou, farmer.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

Following is printed a let
ter from Selma McCone, Amer
lean worker and former Oregon
resident, now living on the COM
munal farm, "Trud," in Russia.
She writes in answer to re-
quest for information on So
Wet farmers conditions, made
by Fred b. Leader of Bothell.
Miss McCone's letter is partic-
ularly interesting, as it deals
exclusively with the farming in
dustry, telling of how Russia
starves" under the Soviet gov
eminent that Hearst so frantic
ally lies about
The letter follows:
You say we are homesick be-
cause we ask for literature from
over there. That is not the reason.
The reason is that we can not
read the Russian language and
benefit by the abundance of Rus
sian magazines and books.
What We want is some good
farm papers or magazines to help
us along with the farming and
dairying. And then the young
folks are interested in all kinds
of practical sciences.
There are not many Americans
left in this commune, "Trud." l
am going to Karelia, a state
which is being rapidly developed
by Americans and Canadians. The
farming industry is being raised
from it's primitive form.
Perhaps it will be of interest to
you to know that ] have lived
"out west" several years in Ore
gon. While there, | edited the
Finnish Women's Socialist week.
ly, "Toveritar."
Here we are much nearer the
north pole than you are. We are
in the same latitude as South
ern Alaska. / intend to get in
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Farquharson and London.
A Correction

In an editorial last week, we pointed out
the policy of the Voice of Action-to print the
truth and to welcome criticism.
Before the paper was many hours off the
press Mike Smith took us up on the criticism
offer, writing a refutation of our charge that
Prof Farquharson and Mel London engineered
the Oft bill sell-out of the Commonwealth bloc
majority.
We have checked carefully. We can not
prove either of the two engineered this par
ticular attack on labor. The information given
us was erroneous. We retract the story.
However, we do not wish to allow either
Farquharson or London to escape the Just wrath
of every right-thinking person in the North
west. For they do support the OFT BILL They
do defend the action of the Commonwealth
Builder representatives in voting for the meas
ure. They are aiding the movement to force the
bill through the Senate an to make IL law
in the state of Washington
AS Mike Smith, state representative rom
the 3lst district, so apty puts it, III you would
simply tell the truth of the activities OF these
two men, it would be enough
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
BY r. X. Van Dorm

Last week we dealt with the
basic facts that have been IN
covered regarding the fascist
plot of Wall Streets leaders. To-
day we will deal with many of the
supporting facts that are of great
interest and value to all workers.
The Committee For the Nation,
that group of super capitalists
organized to bring about infla-
tion and fight militant labor, is
in cooperation with Roosevelt. In.
flation, one of the capitalist ways
of making the working class pay
the depression bill, may soon be
on in full swing. A leading figure
in these moves is Frank A. Van
derlip, former president of the
National City Bank and promin-
ent industrialist. He is in close
contact with Roosevelt.
Also interesting is the last
that he spent last summer in a
close study at first hand OF
Hitler's fascist machinery. He
agrees with Gerard Swope, a
General Motors head and anoth-
er close friend of Roosevelt,
that the United States needs a
m d / fication of Mussolini's
brand Of fascism.
Another friend of President
Roosevelt is James H. Rand Jr.,
close associate of General Motors
Raskob and a Morgan man. He
has been urging the Crusaders,
a pro-fascist organization of IA.
pidly growing influence, to spend
all their efforts in fighting milit-
ant labor and in contracting the
hundreds of private military ac-
ademies throughout the nation
in doing so.
Gets so Free Broadcasts
The commander of the Cru
saders, who publicly voices his
approval of Killers achieve
ments, recently secured SO
broadcasting periods over the
Columbia Broadcasting Net
work for his organization in the
propaganda drive - free of
charge.
Efforts have been made to
merge the Crusaders With the
American Liberty League, the
other large pro-fascist group OF
Americas leading business men
who are seeking above ali else to
throttle the labor movement. The
names of the leaders of these two
organizations reads Ike a who's
who in business and finance.
Hearst Buys Radio Stations
Closely linked with the fascist
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Act at Once! Smash
The. OFT Bill!

The storm of protest against passage of the
OFT bill barring the Communist Party from the
ballot has drawn first blood in Olympia.
After rushing the measure through the
House, plans to drive it through the Senate
with the same speed have been changed The re-
dictionaries are not so sure of themselves. They
are delaying a vote while they rally their own
forces.
AS til Nwritten there is still a chance to
kill the Dthe State Senate. But the mo-
bilization the4Sopinion against it must be
intensified and .teeted
In addition to kilograms, letters, resolutions
to the state Senator from your district SEND
A DELEGATION DIRECT TO OLYMPIA.
Some Commonwealth Builder Units in revolt
against the action of their representatives in
voting for the measure have done that. 1t is
the most effective kind of protest.
Few will not join in a movement to stop the
OFT bill AS the Voice of Action pointed out
last week, it will be applied first to the Com
munist Party, then to all labor and to all liberal
groups Under its provisions Abraham Lincoln,
whose birthday was celebrated Tuesday, could
be barred from the ballot were he alive today.
United Action of all groups is necessary.
Smash the OFT bill and smash it now!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Around = the
world inC minutes

GERMANY-The greatest sec
recy is surrounding the building
of Germany's giant new aviation
center at Keil, nearer France,
England and the Soviet Union
than her former base. All men
engaged in building the plant
are sworn to secrecy on pain of
death.
CLIMATIC economic situa.
ton in China grows more serious
daily. Bankruptcy threatens
many of the foremost Chinese
cities. Textile production fell rs
per cent during the last few
months of 1884; silk production
fell 20 per cent; and iron and steel
so per cent. Unemployment is
rapidly on the increase.
More than 1000 Chinese firms
in the province of Kwangtung
have been forced to close down.
There is run on all braneh,spf-.
fees of the leading banks. "
CEYLON- This large island
near the coast of British India
continues in the grip of malaria
plague. Thousands are dying due
to the refusal of the British i'm
! perialists to furnish decent health
facilities. The Daily Worker was
the first to expose this condition.
A month later the capitalist press
admitted the seriousness of the
situation.
KENYA COLONY, South Africa
British justice to natives of this
region is shown in the recent
execution of seven Negroes for
the killing of a white settler. In
the same month, white woman
was sentenced to six months for
having a Negro flOgged to death.
ALGIERS - In this French
north African colony imperialist
rule is being more and more re-
sented by the exploited natives.
The press tries to give the i'm
preston that the riots are anti
Jewish demonstrations. Some
Jews have been killed, but the
chief resentment is against the
imperialist rulers.
JAPAN-Dispatches from Gen.
eva show that at the very mo-
ment Japan began her recent in
vasion of north China she was
making agreements with Chang
Kai-Shek, butcher of the Chinese
masses.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
WAKEFIELD TO SPEAK AT
ANACORTES TUESDAY

ANACORTES, Feb. 14-Lowell
Wakefield, editor of the Voice Of
Action, will speak here at the
Eagles Hall Tuesday, February 10
at s p. M, on Unemployment
Insurance-Which Of the Propos-
ed Plans Is the Best?"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

Roosevelt has again extended the motor
code without even consulting organized labor
This was done in attempt to extend indefinitely
the stretehout and speed-up conditions of labor
IN the industry which are in direct violation of
the so-called principles of NRA but which are
the very objects that Roosevelt feels to be ne
eessary for continuing the recovery" of big
business
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

The Methodist Federation for Social Service
has recently indicted the New Deal as follows:
1t has redistributed wealth upward and not
downward; unemployment has increased five
per cent; collective bargaining has been al
most completely nullified"; and prices have
risen tremendously as a result of Roosevelts
criminal AAA crop reduction policy.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

In order to harmlessly drain off the wrath
of American labor, now rising against Roose
velts auto code extension, Green and Lewis are
directing their jibes at Richberg, ROosevelts
puppet, just as these two did last year against
Johnson With straight faces Green and Lewis
tell the masses that Richberg, the evil man, is
misleading" our great and good president.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

1t has Just been disclosed that the large
ship-buiding interests spent considerable sums
of money electng Roosevelt in l93|so tna'
there would be other than a pacitist III inc
White House"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

The Portland city council has recommended
that any teacher who even privately expresses
radical ideas be Immediately fired.