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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

is Morgan man and one OF those
who originally financed the start
ing of the American Legion for
Big Business and who supports
disseminators of anti-semitic, pro
paganda, and that knowing all
this the Dickstein committee new
er called Murphy to explain his
activities.
That a Hearst man tied up
with Morgan interests captured
control of the American Legion,
which Butler was asked to lead
as a fascist army; and that this
man, summoned to appear be-
fore the Dickstein committee,
was never questioned after he
had secret conference with Pres
ident Roosevelt.
Provided for Arms
THAT :. the American Liberty
League is controlled by Morgan
Du Pont interests, as well as hav-
ing Warburg representation on
it. That the Remington Arms Co.,
controlled by Morgan-Du Pont,
was named as the body which
would supply arms and equip
ment to the fascist army and that
this testimony was suppressed
by the Congressional committee.
That Max Warburg, brother
of Felix, and directors of the steel
trust of Germany, which original
ly financed Hitler, are in the
United States trying to get cred.
its for Hitler's government in cop
per purchases. That Hearst cop.
per interests were among those
being considered at the time
Hearst opened his anti-red cam
paign."
These are the basic facts of a
rapidly advancing fascism in the
United States. Read the New
Masses, the Daily Worker and
the Voice of Action, for further
news on this and other similar
subjects of vital interest to the
working class.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Their Blood Is on Your
Hands, Mr.. President!

Even in the carefully censored columns of
the capitalist press owned and controlled by the
rich, the misery of the jobless and homeless
breaks through.
In Chicago, mother and son, struck from
the relief rolls, left to starve, in their despera-
ton and hopelessness, murdered two relief Of
fieials and then killed themselves.
In New York, 25-year-old girl homeless
and penniless after loss of work. jumps out of
window to her death on the pavement.
Sitting comfortably in the White House,
Roosevelt slashes federal relief and then sui
eide and murder, tragedy and misery, follow in
the poverty-stricken homes of the masses. These
tragedies are on his head
These horrible penalties which the masses
pay for the capitalist crisis can be stopped by
the passage of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill (HR 2S27D.
The federal government and the employers
must be forced to guarantee minimum living
wage and insurance for every single worker fired
by the capitalist class. Not suicide and murder,
but mediate cash relief and unemployment in
Surance!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Rally to Defense
OF fC.S., Victims

Edward Denny is the fourth Oregon victim
of ruling class hatred, vengeance and despera-
tion, as a result of the demonstration of working
class solidarity and militancy during the West
Coast waterfront strike.
His "erime," for which he faces two years in
the penitentiary, was organizing the jobless
workers against the ruling class conspiracy to
force them to scab. The shipOwners and their
allies of industry and finance, attempted to
drive the unemployed to the waterfront as
scabsl
Edward Denny committed the crime of frus-
trating them, and leading the workers to the
waterfront pickets carrying the banner of
determined, militant labor! Don Cluster, Dirk
de Jonge and Kyle Pugh also face prison for the
same kind of offense against Oregon's ruling
class-against the Chamber of Commerce and
those they represent!
The International Labor Defense is carry
ing the burden of defending these workers. 1t is
real burden. Thousands of dollars in bail have
been raised, and workers are still in Jail! Blow
after blow has been struck by the brutal fist of
organized industrialists.
Dirk De Jonge must go to jail on second
warrant, issued since his conviction and SEN
tence, unless more bail is raised. Edward Denny
must sit in jail pending his appeal unless the
workers and their friends respond with bail
1t is up to the working class and to profes-
sional and business people who realize that the
best way to combat rising fascism is to save
these workers from prison.
Protests must be sent to District Attorney
James Balm, Courthouse, Portland, Oregon; de-
mand the dismissal of the other five criminal
syndicalism cases!
Funds are needed at once to carry on the
almost overwhelming tasks facing the Interna-
tional Labor Defense. Rush funds large or small
amounts to the LID, $40 Gerlinger Bldg, Port
land, Oregon.
Show your solidarity with the oregon VIC
tins of ruling class persecutionl
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Three Vancouver Workers, Just Back from USSR,
Tell of Happy Care Free Life In Soviet Land

VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. /
Two audiences, totalling more
than 5000, packet, first the Audit
orium, and later another hall
obtained to care for the overflow
crowd, Drawing the coolest night
of the winter to hear three trade
union delegates describe Soviet
Russia as a Workers Country,
a new land of happy, care-free
people, freed from the anxieties
depressing those in capitalist
nations"
Tom Russell, longshOreman;
Mack MacKinnOn, lumber work
er, and Pete Munro, worker on
the b. c. Electric Railway, were
the three speakers. Thy had been
the guests of Soviet trade unions
for a month, and during that time
had toured 1850 miles, investigat-
ing 20 industries.
Social Security for All
While an heroic and success
full struggle to industrialize the
country is fastening to put Rus
STA in the vanguard of world
powers the workers contributing
to the ultimate perfection of So
cialist planning and living are not
neglected.
On the contrary, by compari-
son with the desperate onslaught
against the living standards of
the toling masses in capitalist
countries, the workers of all
kinds, and in every industry in
Russia are practically "pamper-
ed" All workers are protected
by social insurance and free hos
pital treatment and at the age of
retirement are given old-age
pensions, beginning at so in the
heavy industries, SIS in the light
er.
From two to four weeks vaca-
ton on pay annually is allowed
every worker. In all industries
the workers have clubs, where
they may go for recreation or
study after their days work is
over. These clubs, many of which
are former palaces, are maintain
ed free and offer space for the
aters, dance halls, study and mu-
sic rooms and gymnasia.
All housing is state-owned.
Rent is paid by workers in pro-
portion to the wages they re.
ceive. Children are not allowed
to work until they are Is, unless
they have shown exceptional pro-
ficiency in their studies, when
after they are l6 they may work
two hours daily-for which they
receive half a days pay! Instruc-
tion in economies is begun at the
age of 10, During the first two
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Are Commonwealth
Builders Fascists!

ssrhe Voice of Action calls us fascists"-so a
West Seattle Commonwealth Builder leader
spoke to friend. The friend, who's friend OF
ours too wanted to know II he had read the
article in question, an editorial in last weeks
issue, labelled "The Commonwealth Group and
Mussolini" He hadn't He'd only been told by q
Obi leader who misses no chance to Islander the
Voice of Action.
No Voice of Action editorial has called the
Commonwealth group or any member OF It fas-
cist. We wish to state without equivocation that
the Commonwealth Builders, incorporated, is
not fascist organization. We wish to make 1t
clear that the members OF the Obi are not fas-
cists.
Last weeks editorial erred 1t did not mis-
state But 1t did give wrong impression. The
man who reads only the headlines could read
the one mentioned and easily get the idea we
tossed EPICers and Mussolini in the same pot.
And to list together Costigan, Cluck, London
and the Smith Brothers 1.-THE name is their own.
there are four men in the house named Smith
and all are members of the Commonwealth bloc)
is definitely wrong
The very day we earelessly grouped these
men they split. Out of the entire house Tom
Smith and Mike Smith alone voted against the
most reactlonary measure ever to pass that body
the OFT BILL barring the Communist Party
from the ballot. Howard COstigan, executive sec
rotary of the Obi admitted the vieiousness of
the measure and its anti-working class nature.
On the other hand, NJ NJ London heartily fav.
ored the bill
While we admit error, we remind the men,
bers of the Commonwealth groups that:
Section 80 of their Economic Security
Act is the same as article Is of the Italian
Fascist Labor code, setting up heavy pen
alties for striking.
While two Smiths voted right the other
two Joined the rest of the Commonwealth
bloc to swell the anti-labor vote on the Oft
measure
Although most members of the EPIC
movement want unemployment insurance
and at least five Commonwealth Builder
units have endorsed House Bill 1913 1.-THE
Workers Unemployment, Old Age and So
eial Insurance Act, Initiative Al practically
every man and woman elected on the Com
- monwealth program is working to kill the
measure.
The Voice of Action welcomes constructive
criticism. The Voice of Action is not afraid to
admit it's mistakes.
In fighting the battles of labor we have
found truth the best weapon.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
By r. K. Van Dorm

An organized conspiracy ex-
lists to seize the government by a
fascist coup. The Congressional
committee to investigate just
such activities has not only failed
to follow the trail of evidence to
it's fountain head, Wall Street,
but has deliberately suppressed
evidence pointing in that direc-
tion."
With this statement, John L.
Spivak, famous reporter, opens
his series of articles in the New
Masses exposing the cooperation
of Wall Street and the govern
ment in maneuvering toward the
establishment of a fascist regime
in America. Spivak is well known
for his brilliant exposures of the
rise of the various American fas-
cist movements and the military
nature of the Red Cross.
Aids Fascists
with an ostensible mission to
uncover fascist activities, the
committee actually" turned out
to be a close collaboration with
the would-be fascist rulers of the
country" The activity of high
government officials and high
Wall Street figures was too much
for the committee to disclose.
One of the chief forces active
in preventing the uncovering
of Wall Street names before the
public gaze was Secretary Of the
Treasury Morgenthau.
Another prominent figure cit
ed by General Butler as involved
in the fascist plot was the San
Francisco banker, BelgranO, who
is head of the American Legion,
that organization of World War
veterans formed by wealthy ex-
soldiers for the purpose of keep
ing militancy out Of the ranks Of
labor.
The Legion banker head held
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Did You Know ~!

The fake federal housing set-up is proving
flop and the government is trying to figure out
nice silent way of side-traeking itw ithout adj
mttiiig that it is doing such thing. This bears
out the analysis and predictions the Voice of
Action made several months ago.
In demagogic attempt to curry public favor
land votesl even Huey Long. embryo fascist of
New Orleans, has given his approval to the
Workers Bill
General Hugh johnson, ex-NRA Chief now
a big figure in Roosevelt's wra council, is much
against the CONSUMPTION of industry in time of.
war. It's all right to draft the masses to serve
as cannon fodder but let the wealth alone
Travel in the Soviet Union on the part of
Americans has increased LIS per cent since 1888.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

grades children are instructed by
normal graduates, thereafter by
university teachers. All children
are given two hot meals per day
by the school staff.
Under Dying Capitalism
Compare the conditions out
lined by\iese speakers with the
wage-cuts, speed-up, starvation
and brutal disregard for the most
elemental human needs and
rights-a program which is being
inflicted upon the workers in
every capitalist country today.
A program whose terror deepens
as the crisis draws nearer which
must forever end the competitive
anarchy known as the profit
system"
Yet with all their ruthless
savagery toward workers who
dare to organize the fight for de-
cent living, the bosses cannot
keep pace with progress of Soviet
development. Nowhere else in the
world are all industries working
full time, paying high wages, SUI
pervising the health and educa-
ton and general well-being OF
workers and workers children
such an enlightened spirit is to
be found only under what
Hearst accuses, and what we
proudly boast of the dictator
ship of the proletariat-
Piers Well Equipped
Russell told of the busy Len
ingrad harbor. The lumber dock
alone could accommodate 10
ships ard was working to ca
paeity. ALI piers were equipped
to cargo with the fastest, most
modern equipment, yet the vol
ume of traffic was so great that
existing machines and warehous,
es were scarcely sufficient to ac-
cOmmodate it. In great detail,
Russell described the phenomen-
al progress Of the Moscow SUBJ
way, of which ten miles has al
ready been tunnelled; $4,000
workers are employed in this
construction job. When complete
it will be superior to even the
London subway. OF great inter-
est was a visit to the coOperat,
i've farm region where small farm
ers have pooled their land, rent
ing tractors and other machinery
from the state, organizing pro-
ductiOn much as any crew of
skilled workers in a self-govern-
ing factory might.
Impressive Celebration
MacKinnon told of the i'm
pressive celebration of the 18th
anniversary of the Russian revo-
luton. The Red army marched
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

CPOTLIGHT
~ ON THE
World Crisis
BY DONALD GLEASON
GERMANY PREPARES
WAR PLANS AGAINST UssR
"MARINE-MINDED"
FDR BACKS BIG BUSINESS
PREPARATIONS FOR an at

PREPARATIONS FOR an at
tack on the Soviet Union by the
capitalist powers are being push
ed so rapidly that the coming
spring seems to be the time for
another world war.
Last week Japan pushed into
Mongolia at a point where she
could cut the Trans-Siberian
railway. This week Germany and
Poland make companion moves.
General GOering visited Pres
ident Moscicki of Poland, and
went hunting with him. In order
to protect this henchman OF Hit
Ter the Polish closed the town
near the hunting lodge to all Wis
itors, flooded it with police, and
prohibited the papers from an
nouncing the time OF Goerings
arrival or the means of transport
alton by which he was to arrive.
The hunting was an excuse for
secret conferences involving unit
ed action on the part of the two
fascist controlled countries.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
War Trends

The local division of the Army
Air Corps Is calling for all inter-
ested aviators to apply for en-
listment.
The enrolment in the CCC
camps has passed the million
mark; many government officials
urge the enlargement of its scope.
But the federal government is
considering shifting much of the
cost of the CCC onto the states
leaving more funds for war pur-
poses.
Congress is pushing through a
bill permitting the administfa-
tion to issue nine billion dollars
in "baby bonds" which would
mean initiation to aid the further
building up of steel and war in
dustries for the purpose of wag-
ing war
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In order to prepare for war,
the ruling class knows that it
must prepare for action against
militant labor. Hence, the big
crime drive which was at first
called only a 'erime drive" but
Is now admitted to be a drive
against crime and Communism"
The Seattle police department
is pushing full steam ahead with
publicity and moves for inereas-
ing its crime detection" work,
establishing a crime school, etc.
n
In order to prepare the minds
of the people for a war, informa-
tom about the increasingly mer-
CHESS alliance between finance
capital and the government and
the rising measure of exploita-
ton of labor las evidenced in
the rapidly increasing size of the
larger incOmes) must not be
made public knowledge.
Hence the government is talk
ing of repeating the law that
now requires that income tax
figures be open to the public.
The lame excuse is given that
unless big incomes are kept Sc
cret it would constitute find
ing list" for the use of kidnap-
ers and other crooks and thieves.
\
A kept press must remain
kept if it is to serve the cap
italist state properly in time of
war, so the presidents war eoun-
Gil heads admit that upon the
outbreak of war a censorship
will be clamped on all express
sion such as will make that of
the last war blush with shame.
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U. S. Navy officials are trying
to push through Congress a bill
that would punish with stiff
prison sentences any who tried to
propaganda the sailors. This is
duplicate of England's vicious
gag bill passed two months ago.
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And finally, there is a power
full move under way to outlaw
the Communist Party and all
militant groups. This is meant as
the entering wedge that is to tie
American labor hand and foot
and hand it over to the war mong-
ers for the greater glory of Amer
lean Imperialism.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Impressive Celebration
Wall Streets Fascist Conspiracy

a late night conference at the
White House with Roosevelt, but
skipped out on an early morn
ing train without testifying be-
fore the Congressional committee
then in session investigating the
case in which he played a chief
part.
Knew of Plot
In the course of his articles Mr..
Spivak proves the following:
That the Dickstein committee
refuses to explain why it sup
pressed evidence of fascist organ
iZations and of fascist movements.
That the Dickstein commit
tee knew of the offer made to
General Butler to organize a fas-
cist army :. but ignored this in
formation until it was forced to
call Butler. That having called
him, the Committee issued a gar
bled statement of what he said
and not until the national furore
died down did it issue even parts
of his testimony.
THAT General Butler named a
fascist organization in which some
leaders of the American Jewish
committee are active-and that
this testimony was suppressed.
That Nazi agent worked in War
burg's Bank of Manhattan and
that Felix Warburg was never
called on to explain how he got
there.
Has German Investments
"That the Warburg financial
interests have heavy investments
in Nazi Germany. That the most
powerful fascist organizations are
controlled by financiefs whose in
terests are controlled by J. p.
Morgan's interests. That the War
burg financial interests are tied
up with Morgan and consequent
ly work with Morgan's men.
THAT Murphy, involved in the
plot to organize a fascist army,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
Real Wages Sink Under
MIRA. /, Figures Prove
By Labor Research Association

Admission of NIRAs reduction of workers
real wages is now frequent occurrence. Speak
ing before the National Catholic Alumni FEEDER
alton, Senator Robert F. Wagner former Nation
al Labor Board head, declared:
Already there is discernible the tendency of
wages to lag behind profits, while the real wage
of the individual full-time worker is no higher
than in March, 1888" New York Times Deem
Der 81 1884,.
At the meeting of the American Economic
Association in Chicago, Lewis Lorwin, econo-
mist of the Brookings Institution, analyzing the
effects of MIRA, pointed out:
'The great bulk of the real income accru-
ing to the workers added through the work.
spreading program came from diminution of
the real income of the workers previously en-
ployed" New York Times, December 81, 1884.
And arguing against the 30-hour week Al
fred P. Sloan president of General Motors Corp.
speaking to members of the Illinois Manufac-
turers Association, admitted that nominal wages
also have not increased:
I'VE have reduced the hours of employment
and we have increased the hourly wages the
pay envelope as general policy remaining the
same As a result, we have raised the real
costs of goods and services, but we have not
raised the purchasing power of the American
worker in proportion"
Speaking to other employers frank discus
sion is essential to achieving the real aim This
is to further decrease real wages increase ex-
ploitation of workers, and establish company
unions. To bring recovery Sloan declares the
bosses want:
"An increase in working hours and prdouc-
tivity.
"A flexibility of wage scales to bring the
greatest wage total
"a works council system with free workers
for labor relationships as against the closed
shop. New York Times, December H. 1884,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08
TWO RECENT LABOR decis-

TWO RECENT LABOR decis-
ions by the president destroy all
faith in his friendliness to the
masses. In the Jennings case
Roosevelt has upheld the worst
labor hater in the country, Will
liam Randolph Hearst.
The newspaper men formed a
union under the NRA provisions.
Hearst fired Jennings from his
San Francisco paper because of
his union activities. The News
paper Guild appealed the case to
the National Labor Board which
ordered Jennings reinstated.
The president has notified the
National Labor Board that it has
no jurisdiction over the case
which then goes to the committee
set up under the Newspaper
Code. The membership of the
Code Board makes it a certainty
that nothing will be done about
Jennings.
The second instance of the ex-
tension of the Automobile Code
until June 16. The automobile
workers, sold out by the presid-
ems settlement, were not even
consulted in the matter. This
drive against labor is extending
to every locality now that the
bosses are certain of Roosevelt's
support.
Under the pretense of attack
ing Communism, measures are
under way which seek to destroy
any chance for militant action,
the only means by which labor
can prevent further exploitation.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

Militant rank and file steel workers are max
ing strong and uncomfortable demands on the
ALL leaders, attempting to force them to send
real union organizers into the steel industry.
The strength of the rank and file is growing SO
fast that even the capitalist press admits it.
On January "a, Norman Thomas (author OF
the famous statement that pro-fascist Father
Coughlin is good man, says that it is time
to start campaign to show the demagogy of
Huey Long and the shirt groups Not many
weeks ago Norman Thomas said Of the shirt
groups: we just laugh at them"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-08

~
SOVIET UNION-Some of Mr..
Hearst's lie-spreading artist S
have been fabricating the most
ingenious stories about the starv-
ing serfs in Joe Stains agricul-
tural sweat-shOp."
Aside from the fact that this
is the first time that Mr.. Hearst
has ever shown interest in sweat
shops, it is interesting to note
that the correspondents of vari-
Gus American newspapers, who
toured the regions at the same
time as did Mr.. Hearst's able
falsifiers, report that instead of
the reputed starving millions"
they found the region enjoying
the greatest of prOsperity-with
food never before so plentiful.
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CHINA-With the daily in
crease in strength of the Soviet
areas of China, the nationalist
government becomes weaker and
the imperialist powers support
ing it become more panic-strick-
en-.
Last week the bourgeois press
admitted that in Shanghai, the
trade center of China, "the Yung-
king Native Bank failed today
as all China awaited efforts of
government leaders to save the
nations monetary system from
collapse"
The U. s. rulers are torn be-
tween two pangs of imperialist
pangs of pain: they have, for
profit, been bleeding China white
of its silver; but they dare not
bleed her much more or she will
collapse. The question is when to
stop.
Meanwhile, French, English
and American armed forces are
pouring into China to protect
her from the Chinese Red army.
Japan is invading her from the
north for that purpose. German
and American army and navy Of
ficers train the armed forces of
the puppet government. A cri-
sis is rapidly approaching in the
east.