VOICE OF THE AMERICAN CITIZEN: MARITIME - AGRICULTURAL - AND INDUSTRIAL LABOR NEWS

Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 13, 1937). Scarce. [50459]

Mimeographed bulletin of the Maritime and Transportation Servicemens Union of the Pacific Coast, which was headed by Lee J. Holman, a former I.L.A. organizer in San Francisco. A virulently anti-Communist sheet which warns the that the "citizens of our agricultural and industrial area must organize militantly against alien communism, and its dire program of destruction and sabotage. It they don't, they will face the 'red firing squad.'" Communists are accused of "practicing their creed of violence" during the recent longshore strike and of "terrorizing the populace" and "wantonly assaulting citizens of this City" (San Francisco). "There is no way of knowing how many people were beaten by them, for some of them were not recorded, but we know that many were kidnapped and some have not been heard of since ..."

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