Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-01-25

al workers the teacher. the artist the scientist.
as well as the worker and farmer
Greedy for markets, the capitalists plunge
into foreign lands Markets must be found-for
profit and dividend-no matter what the cost
War Is the outcome-war Is being prepared.
Armies and navies. made mp Of workers, air
fleets, and chemicals-all are being prepared
for the coming imperiaiist slaughter.
This is our reward for producing so much
that we must starve.
Workers fight back to preserve their liveli-
hood. The Negro people carry on the struggle to
protect their rights
Seeing that the masses will not starve in
silence; seeing that the unemployed organize
to raise themselves out of degradation seeing
the workers strike in militant battles to i'm
prove their conditions, the bosses and the gov
eminent mobilize every kind of violent instru-
ment to crush them.
This is the workers share in the MIRA. This
is the New DEAF which we were promised.
This is the fascism that Is developing In the
United States, to keep the capitalists in the
saddle, TO keep the masses cowed and subdued.
Rosy Promises
knowing that the workers will not accept
these conditions without a militant fight, the
Federal Government Roosevelt in his address,
continue at the same time to dangle rosy prom
Uses before our eyes. Two years OF the promise
OF unemployment insurance" Promises" OF
the unemployment of Millions" of industry
absorbing more millions" Il stand or fall by
the idea that unemployment can be eliminat
ed' said Roosevelt on June 28-but still the
huber of unemployed grows!
Unemployment insurance"-but not for the
100000 unemployed Unemployment insur-
ance'-but nothing for the millions who never
again will labor at The bench; nothing for the
aged; nothing for the hundreds of thousands
in industry who are speeded up like mad and
fall the victims of industrial disease and acct
dent. Nothing for the working class mothers
who toll at the machine-and have to bear
children in misery Unemployment insurance"
but only when the state legislatures enact 1t
and then after a wait of no less than two years.
This is the bluff the sham. This is the
promise while families and profits SOAR This
is the promise" while workers who fight for a
piece of bread are shot down in cold blood
This is the promise" while boys and girls are
turned into criminals in the search for crust.
WAITED LONG ENOUGH
We workers declare we have waited long
enough. Promises mean nothing to the army of
unemployed. The government makes of US
separate caste and will press us in into FORC-
ED LABOR camps-camps like in fascist Italy,
in Nazi Germany.
We workers have learned that promises
mean action only when the workers force action.
Millions face the same problem Millions reeog-
ME the same SOluIlOn MILLIONS To-Day maintain
that it should be the function of government to
provide for the welfare of the peOple-the work.
ers and farmers, who face restitution. No great
err obligation can the Federal government have
an obligation that We workers must compel it
to fulfill.
Unemployment and social insurance-the
Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill HR 1927 lin Washington Initiative 4-this
is the fulfilment of this obligation. This obi
cal hn fIIl nf no at
gress for Unemployment and Social Insurance
we dedicate ourselves to realize.
No victory can be won without struggle. The
government and the capitalists are determined
that the millions Of unemployed shall have no
part in social insurance. We are to remain the
objects of charity and of forced labor. We are
to be reduced and used as a permanent army
to lower still further the conditions of the I'M
employed
THE LINES ARE DRAWN