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The Washington times., 1934-08-17
Copyright. 1894. by King Features
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Why Are We Prejudiced?

Why Are We Prejudiced?
I ran across keen expression
the other Cay-"EarS plugged
by the cotton of prejudice
Games Huneker).
You've come across such ears,
haven't you? Seemingly smart,
current people, yet, on certain
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Did You Know

On November Is, in his talk to the Confer
ence on Economic Security, Roosevelt made
plain his plans of increasing starvation for the
masses. Business recovery he said, must come
before social insurance. The unemployment
insurance" he is pushing is fake one that re-
quires the workers to carry the burden of pay
ments and makes no provision for the unem-
ployed
One of the latest moves of the Socialist
party leaders is their declaring their desire to
form new labor party which would include,
no doubt, many of the corrupt and reactiOnary
AFL leaders with whom their New York lead
ers have been forming many working alliances.
The Roosevelt administration has annOunc-
ed that hereafter relief will be given only
through forced labor projects.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
By Tony Perez

A series of eight linoleum cuts
by the revolutionary artist Lin,
will be run in the Voice of Ac-
ton, starting this week.
Lin is well known in the San
Francisco Art Colony where he
has had several one-man art ex-
hibits. He also spent three years
in Paris, exhibiting at the Gal
lerie DIES Independents" and has
one picture in the famous LUX
embourg Galleries" which in
cludes the works of all the great
masters such as Van Gogh, Gau-
gum and Picasso.
He also has exhibited at the
Shanghai Arts Club"
Revolutionary Technique
Lin has always been a rebel in
the field of art, throwing away
all studio and academic tradi-
tiOns, feeling that it is not fine
paint, brushes, or expensive can
vas that makes the artist.
He uses whatever material he
has at hand, house paint, card
board or wood, a cheap brush.
With these materials he is able
to create a masterful piece of
work.
He first became interested in
the revolutionary movem en- t
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
THINKS TALKING PICTURE
Equipment Needed to Show
Soviet Films
Knappa, Ore.

hlldppd, VIC.
Dear Editor:
The silent picture, END of st.
Petersburg" was shown here last
Thursday night. We had a good
crowd, people coming as far as
ten miles to see it. This was the
first time Soviet film was ever
shown here.
There are many people who
judge Russia by what it can pro-
duce and a poorly taken film,
shown with bad equipment, does
not have very good impression
of modern Russia to a person
who sees his first Soviet film.
| suggest that you get an up
to-date portable equipment like
the Workers and Farmers Coop
erative Alliance Superior, Wis.,
has and with which they are now
touring the Central states, show
ing the Soviet talkie film, Moth
err" The film is receiving tremend-
Gus applause wherever it is
shown. Good movies help in or
ganizational work and not the
contrary.
By having modern equipment
you could also compete more eff
fectively with the capitalist
shows, especially in the cities and
give the workers and farmers
their moneys worth.
But where do we get the money
to buy new equipment you may
ask? Why not ask for donations
through the columns of the Voice
of Action?
Yours for a good Soviet film,
modern style.
Oregon Farmer.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Syndicalism Laws
Threaten Workers!

Four years ago they sentenced Ben Boloff
to ten years.
Boloff is dead
Monday they sentenced Dirk DeJonge to
seven years.
And they the capitalist rulers of Oregon,
the bankers, shipping interests, lick their chops
In anticipation OF another victim.
They care naught for DeJonge. Through him
they strike at the working class
They wish to hurl the body OF a militant
into our ranks, hoping it will strike terror to
our hearts, beat back the rising fight for bet
ter conditions, for unemployment insurance
Longshoremen! For aiding your strike, Dirk
DeJonge was charged with criminal syndicalism
Socialists The Communist Party is attacked
today. Unless we rally to the defense, you will
be attacked tomorrow.
Trade Unionists! Your right to strike is
challenged
Unemployed workers! The battle for higher
relief and for the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill will see its criminal syndicalism
law victims.
UNLESS ALL PEOPLE UNITE AT ONCE
IN A RISING WAVE OF PROTEST AGAINST
THE CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM LAW PERSE-
CUTIONS!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Stuffed Peppers
cup beef, well chopped up


l cup beef, well chopped up
u cup cooked rice
y tablespoon chopped onion
A medium green peppers (3c EACH
l tablespoon melted butter or
margarine
y teaspoon salt
Il cup milk
Salt to taste
Seed green peppers after cut
ting a slice off the top. Cover
with boiling water and simmer
gently for five minutes. Drain.
Meanwhile combine meat, onion,
salt, pepper, milk and melted
butter. Slightly salt and pepper
the inside of the peppers. Fill
them with prepared stuffing.
Bake upright in a baking pan
containing l cup boiling water
for 30 minutes or until peppers
are tender.
Spaghetti with Canned Beef
n Id. spaghetti
l can tomatoes
Q cups canned beef
2 large onions
Cook spaghetti in boiling salt
water until soft; drain, pour cold
water over, and drain again.
Add meat and onions which
have been simmering in another
pan. Bake one hour. A good vari-
alton is to add a Id. grated
cheese.
Rice with Canned Beef
u cup rice
2 cups canned beef
2 cups boiling water
l teaspoon salt
Add rice to boiling salt water.
Cook until tender, either using
double boiler or not. Wash with
cold water to prevent it from
sticking together. NJ e a nwhile
heat canned beef in frying pan.
Add rice and serve Immediately.
Beef Hash
2 cups canned beef
2 cups chopped, cooked potatoes
2 tablespoons fat
l tablespoon minced onion
Salt and pepper to taste
Heat frying pan, melt fat and
pan fry onion in it for three min
utes. Then add beef, potatoes
and seasoning. When heated
thoroughly allow hash to brown,
then fold over like omelet and
transfer to hot platter. Serves six.
Meat Loaf
When run through a grinder
canned beef can be used as other
ground meats in meat loaf.
If you have discovered any
Baked Hash
2 cups canned beef
2 cups chopped cooked potatoes
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Sketches of Revolutionary Heroes
BY Lin

The medium of linolenm is the
ideal material for revolutionary
newspapers and magazines. 1t is
inexpensive and makes possible
the printing of thousands of pic
lures very cheaply.
1t being a pliable material and
allowing the greatest of freedom
in handling, Lin naturally took
to this medium. OF the eight
prints, none are made in the same
style, each tries to express the re-
action of the artist to the subject.
Picture of Lenin
The series will include pOr-
traits of Thaelmann, Lenin, Rosa
Luxembourg, John Reed and
Stain; also three prints showing
the lives of workers.
The Voice of Action suggests
to it's readers to cut these pic
lures out, mount them on any
piece of card board and hang
them on your home walls.
This will necessitate the dis
posing of all cheap calendar pic
lures, Maxfield Parish's land
scapes and anything else that
looks out of place. You can point
to these new prints and tell your
friends that these are contempOr-
airy revolutionary prints.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30

3 small onions, minced
IA cups milk
/ teaspoon salt
Is teaspoon pepper
l cup coarse bread crumbs
Il cup melted butter
Combine beef, potatoes and
minced onion. Add milk, salt and
pepper. Pack into creased bak-
ing dish. Cover with crumbs
which have been mixed with the
melted fat. Bake in moderate
oven for 30 minutes, or until the
crumbs are brown. Serves six.
Vegetable Hash
In above recipes for hash, SUBJ
stitute left over vegetables for
potatoes, or use half potatoes
and half vegetables.
Sandwiches
Grind canned beef in any
amount desired. Mix with pickles
and mayonnaise. Makes tasty
and nourishing sandwiches for
school lunches.
new ways OF fixing up this vouch-
er beef, let us know. Your recipes
will be printed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
ERNST THAELMANN

Ernst Thaelmann, former
longshoreman and leader of
the German Communist Party,
who is now a prisoner in one
of Hitler's torture cells, is the
first working class hero to be
eulOgized in the dice of Ac-
TONS new series of linoleum
pictures.
So far international mass
protest has blocked the exc
cution of this brave, able lead
er fthe German proletariat.
But he is still in great danger.
Onl ythe world working class
and its allies can safeguard the
life of Thaelmann, and pre-
serve him for the fight for a
Soviet Germany.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Speed Initiative 4 Drive

Despite extensive support for Initiative 4,
signatures are not coming in fast enough to
reach the goal of $4,000. State headquarters re-
port that only 5000 signatures have been turned
in to date.
This situation must be radically changed.
The working people of the state OF Washington
want Initiative A. They are anxious to sign.
They know that it is the only genuine unem-
ployment insurance measure. All that Is re-
quired is the work of going to them with petit
tions for signatures; the job of linking up the
signature campaign with every activity of I'M
employed or employed workers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Lies About USSR

The screaming "Francol-Russ Military
Treaty" headlines were a deliberate capitalist
press Misrepresentation an attempt to classify
the Soviet Union as a militaristic imperialist
power.
The Soviet government is a workers gov
eminent and as the only workers government
it has for fifteen years fought insistently for
peace. Time and again at Geneva the Soviet
Union has proposed complete disarmament
and has always stood alone in it's peace pro-
posals
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Recipes

Has your family got to the
point where it groans aloud
whenever you open a can of that
voucher beef?
Try some of the following re-
cipes which resOurceful cooks
have devised to vary the flavor
and provide a welcome change.
Croquettes
~ cupfuls canned beef.
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons flour
Butter the size of a walnut
l pound lard, vegetable shorten
ing or 1 pint cooking oil.
u cup bread crumbs
/ egg
l tablespoon minced onion
Salt and pepper to taste
Melt butter in saucepan. Add
flour and onion. Pour in milk
and cook until thick. Remove
from stove. Add meat and season.
Spread on platter and set out to
cool. When completely cold mold
into balls, roll each in bread
crumbs and fry in hot deep fat
Toll is hot enough when 1t
browns a piece of bread. Cook
until a golden brown.
Spanish Style
This is quick and easy, cheap
and really delicious.
2 tablespoons butter
l tablespoon minced onion
l small can hot tomato sauce (4cl
Melt butter in frying pan and
stir in onion. Put in beef and stir
until heated through. Then pour
i'm tomato sauce. Let simmer I'M
til thoroughly heated. Plain can
ned tomatoes may be substitute
ed for hot sauce.
II your family is small perhaps
you can afford this one:
> Tamale Pie
2 cups canned beef
l can tomatoes
several onions
green pepper or pimento II you
have it
3 cups corn meal mush cold
Seasoning to taste
Fry onion chopped fine in a
little grease. Add meat and
brown slightly. Add can tomatoes
and bring to a boil. Season to
taste. Pour into baking dish
which has been lined with cold
cornmeal mush about half inch
thick. Cover the meat filling with
the remaining mush and bake
until brown.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
ASKS FOR DETAILED Contrast
of Workers Bill and Wagner
Lewis Measure

ASUUIId, OIV.
Dear Editor:
| believe it would be a good
idea if the Voice of Action would
explain in detail the differences
between the Wagner-Lewis IN
employment Insurance Bill and
the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, because there are
workers in different organiza-
lions who do not yet understand
the difference. The sentiment
among the workers is growing
for relief and unemployment in
surance and we must be able to
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Backs Workers School

The Central Federation has requested all
Unemployed Citizens League locals to send
students to the Seattle Workers School Much
of what is taught is applicable to the everyday
work in organizing the unemployed. For ex-
ample, the course in Labor Journalism Actual
writing of workers news articles under the
supervision of the editor of the Voice of Ac-
tiOn will give the student sharp eye for the
things that happen in the neighborhood that
should be written up, and written up so that
the essential points are brought out and given
precedence over unimpOrtant detail.
Many of the problems dealt with in the
Trade Union Strategy course are similar to
those encountered in mobilizing and leading
unemployed workers.
With knowledge of Fundamentals of Com
munism or MARKHAM Economies one can certainly
do great deal We can use our knowledge as a
tool to answer the questions which thinking
workers win raise We can explain the unsound-
ness of Commonwealth Builders, Technocracy,
Epic Plan and many other "crisis solutions"
which are confusing many sincere workers.
The school opens on Monday evening, Dec. g.
Register at POP Collins Bldg Twenty-Five cents
for unemployed and one dollar for employed is
the fee for l2-week course in any one subject.
Attend the benefit dance on Saturday night,
Dec. l, at IOGT hall, 1109 Virginia.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30

through the John Reed Club in
Frisco. There he painted stage
back-drops for revolutionary
plays and made many attractive
posters.
Scottsboro Series
AT that time he and the writer
decided to make a book of linole-
um cuts around the colorful
Scottsboro case, and which is
soon to be published.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Workers Correspondence

'explain. We must not only tell
the workers that Wagner-Lewis
bill is a fake, we must expose
it through facts. So | feel that it
is necessary to again point by
point explain these differences.
Fraternally yours
"A Lumber Worker
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Thanksgiving -.
BY a UCL Correspondent

/ bow my head
Over a can of beans,
A crust of bread,
Trying to remember
To whom should l address
My plea for grace?
To Andy Mellon
Who owns the pot
To stew the chicken
| haven't got,
Or maybe to Roosevelt
Who kills the chickens
So bankers can return thanksgiving
For eiltedged, greasy living?
No! l will not
Bow my head
Over a can of beans
A crust of bread
Thanking God I'm not yet dead
From all their generous ways.
] earned this crust of bread,
| earned those pans, chickens,
The wine, the feather beds
In which they grunt and lie,
Resting more and more uneasily
AS Red time marches by.
While fifteen million,
Like me, wait
And watch them celebrate
Thanksgiving 1884.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
Foods And
Health
Adapted from the best seller.
100000, 900 Guinea Pigs"

"lOO,0OO,OO0 Guinea Figs"
How far the punishment met
ed out by the courts In food and
drug cases may act as a deterrent
to future offenses, We can Judge
fro ma recent case involving two
gallons and three pints of the
fluid extract of ergot. This seized
shipment was found to be one
fourth the standard strength so
that. when single teaspOonful
was actually being administered.
four teaspOonfulls would have
been required to give the intend
ed effect.
The punishment administered
to the manufacturer who was
found guilty Of purveying this
dangerously impotent tool to the
Obstetrician was the loss of about
four dollars worth of fluid ex-
tract of ergot, condemned to be
destroyed by the government,
mo claimant having appeared
for the property" Literally not
enough loss to warrant the man.
ufacturers' hiring a lawyer to de-
fend the action.
And note this important point:
The shipment of this faulty ergOt
does not constitute a first, Sec
ond, or any other offense against
the Food and Drugs Act by the
offending company. Hence that
campany need not fear that their
next blunder of mismanagement
will subject them to the slight
est hazard of a heavy t$300!) fine
or Imprisonment for the respOn-
sible individual. For this and
thousands of other offenders, the
slate is thus wiped clean-the
Food and Drug administration
has seen to it that by bringing
its suit in the form of "U. s. vers-
us tire pint bottles, ct al, Of Flu
Id ErgOt," rather than against
the manufacturing corporation,
or one of its responsible officers.
Burroughs, Squibb, Merck,
Mallinckrodt, Sharp & DOhme, all
may offend as often as they
please and pay a smaller loss for
the error or carelessness, no mat
ter what the danger to the pub
lie, than one of their directors
will pay for wounding the feel
ings of sensitive traffic officer
in an argument about parking.
The case cited is typical, not ex-
ceptiOnal, and records the pro-
cedure that is almost invariably
followed against a reputable or
substantial business concern.
First offenses, by direct prose-
cution of the corporation rather
than of its goods in commerce,
are made only in cases of unlm-
pOrtant or shyster firms below
the fringe of liberation. No fear
that the present food and drug
officials of the department of
Agriculture will ever, by a sue
eessful prosecution Of a first
offense," be put in a position
where they must ask for fine and
Imprisonment against the max
ers of any prominent remedy or
package food.
The governments mode of pro-
cedure against corporation
which endangers public health
is very different from the manner
and swiftness of its actions
against a suspected radical, or a
ragged starving bonus army"
thought to be occupying an
abandoned building.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
READER TELLS CoNTRADIC.
TIONS of Capitalist Press

Dear Editor:
Isn't it strange. Although cap
italist papers reported bumper
crops in the USSR last year and
still larger crops this year, yet
Gle if you must" Ripley says
there are millions starving in
Russia.
Tacoma Reader.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30

NrGERIA--Severer fighting be-
tween Nigerian peasants and the
British troops is reported In re-
cent dispatches from British
West Africa. Peasant resistance
to excessive taxation was the I'M
DERIVING cause of the trouble.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30
NO VOICE OF ACTION Like,
North. Pole in Bathing Suit,
Reader Declares.

Reader Declares.
Dear Comrades:
Just a line to thank you for
your little reminder of my sub
being so nearly gone.
Without the Voice of Action
it would be much worse than no
shoes in rain storm; to me it
would be like being at the North
Pole in a bathing suit.
L sure don't want to miss a sin
gle issue and only wish 1 could
spare enough at this time for
full years sub.
COmradely yours,
Bend, Ore, Reader
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30

The largest steel corporations of the East
are urging the passage of labor laws such as
England has which would prevent sympathy
strikes, mass picketing, and place many other
restrictions on union activity.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-30

In its eastern offices the Western Union is
discriminating against Jews, some of the COM
pany's leading officials being KKK's etc.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Around the Movie Clock

When the Feature Begins
RIALTO..
ADOLPH MENJOU in
"THE HUMAN SIDE"
II :23 A. NJ, l :09, 2 80, 4 :49,
6:27, 8:13, 9:59 P. NJ.
EARLE.
MAE WEST in
"BELLE OF THE COS"
1905 A. NJ, 1926, 2:5O,
5:15, 1850, 1O:15, P. NJ.
Stage shows at II 80
A. NJ, 2, ago, $3.50,
9:20 P. NJ.
COLUMBIA.
HELEN TWELVETREES in
"SHE WAS A LADY"
:55, 80, $50, 5 As, 7:45,
9:45 P. NJ.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Max Gordon Has
Two Broadway Hits

Max Gordon, producer of THE
Farmer Takes a Wife," the play
by Frank B. Elser and Marc Con-
nelly scheduled to open at the
National Theater on Monday eve
ming, october 8, is the only man.
ager at the moment represented
on Broadway by two-hit shows.
The current Gordon successes
in New York are "Dodsworth"
with Walter Huston at the Shu-
bert Theater and the spectacular
operetta, THE Great Waltz" at
the Center Theater in Radio City.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
HOLLYWOOD JOTTtNGS"
Edwin 6. Hill Stars in Hearst
News Reel Starting Oct. 7

When Hearst Metrotone News
unfolds world events in the ma
tons theaters on october 2 at
Loew's Palace, movie audiences
will thrill to familiar voice in the
role of The Globe Trotter," the
newsreel'S commentator.
1t will be the voice of Edwin C.
Hill, leading radio news common
tator, whose Human Side of the
News" has the largest radio and
newspaper audience of any similar
feature in the world. 1t appears
regularly in the Washington Times
and other Hearst papers as well as
over the Columbia network.
Announcement of Mr.. Hills en-
gagement as newsreel commenta-
tor for the Metrotone News was
made few weeks ago.
Beginning october 2, Mr.. Hill
will write and deliver the crisp
dialogue that is synchronized in
all issues of the Metrotone News.
It will be in addition to his regu-
lar newspaper and radio work.
Radio editors of America re-
Gently voiced their selection OF
Mr.. Hill as the outstanding news
commentator of the air waves.
Gifted with an ideal radio voice"
and superb diction, he brings to
the microphone years of expert
ence as a vivid and colorful re-
porter and writer.
Born in Aurora, Ind, his father
was county superintendent OF
education and his mother a
teacher. He just escaped becom-
ing a schoolmaster, but always
wanted to be a newspaper man.
1t was while attending the Uni
versity of Indiana that Hill de-
cided to enter newspaper work
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Lawford Is Good

Between plays that. as Variety
says, lay an egg in Rochester and
fights with his leading woman
DEITY LawfordO, Papa comes
home to see his family. Usually
he's broke, and so Mamma Doris
Kenyon) decides she had better
marry James Dalton (Reginald
Owen, if the children are to eat
regularly. Right here fate deals
Papa a lucky card for a change
and the family are reunited for
the happy ending.
Tender and wholesome, "The
Human Side" has some fine little
touches inserted by Director
Eddie Buzzell. think you will
completely enjoy Adolphe Menjou
playing Indian chief and Daniel
Boone with his kids. MenjoG
makes it very genuine. laughing
and moving interlude of the pic
ture, being beautifully supported
by four clever juveniles, Charlotte
Henry, Dickie Moore. George
Ernst and Dick WinSlow.
Betty Lawford (Mrs. Monta
BelD has a thankless role as the
adequate actress and does a very
neat job with it. What has
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-28
Dennis Cornell
Directs Tom

Denis E. Connell is directing
"Uncle Toms Cabin" scheduled
for presentation at the City
Theater, on N Street Northwest,
between Seventh and Eighth, be-
ginning October 2.
James Tate, producer, under
took the task of directing the
play as well, but found the task
too heavy. Upon the closing of
the Roadside Theater production
of 1.-THE Tavern" Mr.. Connell,
who was playing the leading role,
was secured as director for
Uncle Toms Cabin"
Equally competent as actor and
director, Dennis Connell is one OF
the most prominent figures in
local dramatic activities. He
has directed musical comedies for
the George Washington Trouba-
dours, revues for the old st. Pat.
rick Players. and plays for the
Drama Guild and other local
groups.