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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
SLAIN TYRANT MILLIONAIRE

BE g r. I'D E, Jugo-Slavia-
King Alexander, assassinated re-
Gently in Marseilles, was not only
fascist tyrant, but an extreme.
ly wealthy capitalist. He left a
fortune valued at almost $4,000
900, consisting mostly of cash de-
posted in French, Swiss and
British banks.
His salary was more than a
million dollars year, and he
was banking $4,000 a month.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Report Anti
War Congress

PORTLAND, Oct. 25-The infiu-
ence OF the Second U. s. Congress
Against War and Fascism in
broadening and strengthening
the struggle on the anti-war and
anti-fascist front was dramatic
ally demonstrated here when the
local delegates reported the Con-
gress to an enthusiastic audience
at the Italian Federation hall.
Rabbi Sandrow, who presides
over one of the largest Jewish
congregations in the city, served
as chairman, mentioning that he
knew the work of the League
Against War and Fascism, and
stating the necessity of building
the united front. At the outset
he laid the red scare" by the
heels. challenging the critics of
the League who charge Commun-
list domination to explain the
presence of all political affilia-
tions aid such wide religious rep
resentation.
Rev. Ross Anderson, president
of the local Civil Liberties Union
and active in the Socialist Party,
gave greetings to the League and
pledged his continued support.
Ex-Soldier Speaks
The main speakers-the dele
gates, Frank Dimmick, discharg-
ed from the army for participant
ing in an anti-war, anti-fascist
conference, and Henry Ireland,
brought the Congress to the aud
fence as a living, growing reality.
Dimmick was received with over
whelming applause, and after
relating the war preparations
and preparation in the army for
use against the workers, deliver
ed the message entrusted to him
by men in the army when he was
discharged-the workers salute.
Henry Ireland, who last year
led anti-war struggles in college,
reported the achievements of the
Congress and the tasks ahead
of the American League Against
War and Fascism.
Communist Party Represented
John Dunfield, a visiting dele
gate en- route home from the Con-
gress, also gave a stirring report,
urging immediate carrying into
action of the decisions of the
united body. Others who greeted
the Portland Section of the
League were: Fred Church, rep
resenting the Communist Party
and pledging the Communist
Party to greater efforts in build
ing the united front against war
and fascism; Sam TelfOrd, of the
Marine Workers Industrial IN
ion; Mary Goold of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense; Matt Nee
han, member of the lila strike
committee who was prevented
from speaking by a delay in
starting the meeting, but who ex-
pressed his solidarity with the
fighters against war and fascism
by attending, and Richard Love
lace, member of the Executive
Committee of the League, dis
abled world war veteran and rep
resentative of the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Green Speaks to
Seattle Workers
CONTINUED from Page One

and reaetionary menaees facing
labor on every front today, he
presented the stock capitalist so
luton of all economic ills:
I'VE must make our choice be-
tween the siX-hour day and the
machines. The six-hour day will
put three million unemployed
back to work. Then we can con-
tinue the values we hold higher
than mere economic security-the
moral and spiritual values we all
hold so dear.
No Better Solution?
Il ask any group" Green roar
ed, IL care not from where they
come, to offer a better solution
for unemployment"
How to win the 30-hour week
was not explained, nor one con-
crete proposal for increasing I'M
employed relief, preventing lay
offs, etc.
On the Roosevelt-Green sell
out of labor to hunger war and
faseism: Not as political parti-
Fans, but as patriotic citizens,
must we stand behind the Presi-
dent in all his decisions!"
Mayor Smiths shiny sedan, po-
Hceman at the wheel and police
men on the running boards, wait
ed outside the Masonic Temple
to drive Green to his hotel Strike.
breaker Smith meets Strike
breaker Green.
Rejecting the resentment of
the rank and file of the Metal
Trades Union, i. A. Sandvigen,
maehinists' business agent, LO-
cal 70, James Duncan, business
agent. mechanics, 2S9, and Z. NJ.
Weston, secretary OF the Metal
Trades Council, refused to serve
with Mayor Smith on the recep-
ton Committee for Green.
Weston turned his back on
Smith when an introduction was
attempted. I?
The medicine show will be
over as soon as the rank and file
rings down the curtain.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
ALL ONE BIG FAMILY

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 25-
According to Frances Marion Law,
president of the American Bank
ers Association, whose conven-
tion tok place here this week, Il
do not think that the President
has 1t In for the bankers or the
bankers for the President"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

NCOntlnued from Page one
drew Price, president of the Ma
tiOnal Bank of Commerce, and
w. b. Greeley, labor-hating head
of the West Coast Lumbermen's
Association.
AFL workers should be CRATE
full that the happy wind blew
Dave Levine into their laps. Few
representatives they could select
possess the qualifications to fit
into a lavish setting like the Mon
day affair at the Olympic, and
feel at home with such gentle
manly scab-herders as Lundin,
Mckay and Greeley.
And even fewer are capable of
filling in as official greeter for a
superlative strike-breaker like
Mayor Smith.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
HEAR COMMUNISTS

SALEM, Ore, Oct. 25-Arrange
ments are under way for a huge
mass meeting here on Sunday
evening, October %, at Nelson
Auditorium. Harry ]. Correll, In
dependent candidate for Cover
nor, and Earl Steward, Independ-
ent, candidate for Secretary OF
State, will be the speakers.
They carry the slogan, Com
munism VS.. Fascism," and are
endorsed by the Communist Par.
ty.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Aberdeen Speeds
Initiative 4DriUe

ABERDEEN, Wash, Oct. Is
An Initiative 4 campaign commit
tee has been organized for Grays
Harbor County. A. G. Jonas is the
secretary-treasurer. Lydia Lauk.
kanen, Communist candidate for
County Commissioner, Dist. 2, is
the chairman.
Plans were made at the organ
national meeting to start an in
tensive campaign to get the 5000
required signatures from Grays
Harbor County.
The headquarters Of the COM
mittee are at 512 Il. Market st.
Aberdeen.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
KelsO's Paper
Admits Protests

KELSO. WASH. Oct. rs Pro
tests from all over the Northwest
are reaching Prosecuting Attor
ney G. G. Hallin and Judge j. T.
Stone. demanding that the eharg-
es of criminal syndiealism against
Max Farrar and Arne Pisila be
dropped. according to reports in
the local press.
The Daily KelsOnian-Tribune Of
October Is printed the following
under the heading, "Hallin Re
ceives Another Protest:
Another OF the numerous
protests that Prosecuting At
torney Cecil Hallin has receiv-
ed from the United Farmers
Leagues against the prosecu-
ton of Max Farrar and Arne
Pisila, who are to be tried next
month on criminal syndicalism
charges, reached him today. It
was from the Farmers at their
State Convention Of the United
Farmers League held at Ever
EFT, Oct. 10, IA and was signed
by Fred Carlson, Washington
State Secretary of the UFL."
The reporter was mistaken when
he wrote that all these protests
came from the UFL, as other
working class organizations have
also sent in protests. All workers
are asked to take note Of the
value of these protests, to flood
the Kelso officials with their de-
mands for the release of Farrar
and Pisila.
j. o. Davies of Centralia will
represent these workers in the
arraignment in Superior Court,
October 26. Trial has been set for
November 16
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

PORTLAND. Oct. 25- Word
has just been received here that
the prosecuting attorney of Med
ford, Oregon, is attempting to
get Jim Stockman. 26-year-old
worker indicted on charges Of
criminal syndicalism. to plead
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

in a meeting and draw
ing up the demands and electing
a ships committee to present
them to the captain. the de-
mands we're all granted. The sem
timent of the longshoremen in
support of the strike was good.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
DANCE AT FINNISH HALL

SEATTLE, Oct. pa program
and dance will be held next
Thursday at Finnish hall, 9th
and Yesler, to raise funds to send
a delegate to the National Con-
ference Of Youth Clubs of the
Finnish Workers Federation at
Detroit, November IL.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
TROOPS ON BoRDERs

BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, Oct.
25-Troop concentration increas-
es on both the Hungarian and
Italian Jugo-Slavian frontiers, it
is reported here.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

USSR-Moscow has just open
ed Europe's best equipped lux
ury food shop. But the yellow
press bilge about the starving
Russians will undoubtedly con-
tinue.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
RANDALL TALKS AT BAZAAR

ASTORIA, Ore, Oct. pa sue
cessful bazaar was given by
the Astoria Branch of the Inter-
national Labor Defense Saturday,
Oct. 20.
Wesley Randall, district secre-
tary of the LID, spoke on the
evening program.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
SUICIDES IN Ccc CAMPS

SULTAN, Wash, Oct. 25-In
the CCC Camp here there have
been three suicides, and more
than 100 workers have deserted
during the summer.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

ed of their last penny. then the
mayor and chief OF police and
the vice squad will undoubtedly
obey the law and close them up.
But not before.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26

Demand Freedom for Bill Ko.
minski.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-10-26
Levine, Smith Pals

Continued from Page One
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'CS' Cases Open

Continued from Page One
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
GRAIN MARKET.
TONI T HEAVY

CHICAGO, July 26 G.N.S).-In-
fluenced largely by the weakness
in stocks, grain prices developed a
heavy tone shortly after the open
ing today and early gains were
converted into losses of around a
cent each for wheat and corn.
Wheat shot up nearly a cent
after opening lower, but prices
quickly reversed their course when
heavy selling hit the stock market
and the leader fell from $1.0O3s
to 985s cents for the September
delivery, to show a net loss of
"a cent. Trading in May delivery
started today at $1.031a.
Winnipeg was 3s to 2 cents
lower and Liverpool 3s to y pence
higher.
Prices near midsession for
wheat were "a to 7s cents down,
corn Is to 11s cents off, oats 3s
to 5s cent lower and rye "a to
~ cents decline.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
KENNEDY TALK
CHEERING To
MARKET
BY WALL STREET SPECTATOR

BY WALL STREET SPECTATOR
NEW YORK, July 26 Q.N.SO
Wall Street has the reasSuring
Kennedy speech to cheer it up
today.
There was some disappointment
that the market didn't respond
to it Immediately, but the new
Austrian crisis and the Staying of
Chancellor Dolfuss were response
BILE for the late hesitancy.
The market has taken a terri
fic beating in the last week, and
the new drive by the Administra-
ton to restore confidence and
stimulate business should be
helpful.
1t is likely that there are still
some situations in individual
stocks to be cleaned up market
wise.
But there is more of a feeling
around that the general market
is somewhere near bottom; and
quite a few more buying recon-
mendations are going out.
In this connection, it is inter.
esting that Europe has been a
substantial buyer on balance since
late Monday. The orders from
abroad are going into leaders and
some of the second grade rail
bonds that have cracked badly.
1t is likely that this trend of
funds to this side will be accen-
tuated by the latest developments
in Austria.
Business will have a chance to
show it's confidence and coopera-
ton in the next few days.
The Bethlehem Steel board
meets late this afternoon and
will have a good second quarter
earnings report to recommend
some payment on the preferred.
Somewhat similar situation will
come up at the U. S. Steel meet
ing on Tuesday.
Next week the General Motors
board gets together also and earn
ings of $1.50 a share for the first
half, 81 more than the dividend
requirements for the period, open
the possibility of a liberal extra.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
RENEWED SALES
SENDS COTTON
HIGHER

NEW YORK, July 26 U.N.S). L.
The improved technical position
of the cotton market brought re-
newed buying into the ring today
and futures climbed about 25
cents a bale above previous clos
ings in fairly active dealings.
Sentiment was also aided by re-
ports indicating the hurricane
which hit coastal regions Of GiexaS
late yesterday had blown open
cotton out of the bollS in some
parts. This, however, was par
TALLY offset by fears that the
storm might break the drought in
the interior, where the crop con-
dition is most critical.
Futures were taken out of the
ring today by Liverpool, Wall
Street and domestic trade sources,
while spot houses ard the South
continued to sell on a moderate
scale. At the opening, the list
registered gains of to 5 points,
despite Liverpool cables that were
5 to 9 American points below due
prices. This advance was held in
subsequent dealings as trading
quieted down.
At the end of the morning ses-
sion contracts were 2 to points
higher, October up 5 at 1881,
December up at 1898, March
up 2 at 1897, and May up 4 at
1913,
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
PITTSBURGH LIVESTOCK

Hogs-60O; dull; practically no trad
ing zone small lot around 20O-pound
averages, $50, or 15c lower; other
quotations mostly nominal; heavies,
$5@5.1O; light lights. $3.75@425: pack
ing sows, 33.5O@4; pigs, $3@3.50
Cattle-125; slow and steady; steers
(90O-1,10O pounds), good. $5@6.75;
heifers (55O-S5O pounds, good $4@5;
cows, good, $S@S5O; bulls, good, beef.
$3@3.75.
Calves-15O: steady; vealers, good
and choice, $5@5.5O.
Sheep-2,50O; lambs, mostly 25c low
er; lambs, good and choice, $6.75@7;
yearling wethers, good and choice,
S. q 5.25; aged wethers, medium good,
$2@S; ewes, good and choice, $2@2.%5.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
JERSEY PHONE
NET HIGHER

New Jersey Bell Telephone Com
pany, for the quarter ended
June 30, last, reports net income
of $1,841,76O after taxes and
charges, equal to $1.14 a share on
common stock. This compares
with net income of $1,721,913, or
81 .O4 a common share in the June
quarter of last year.
For the first six 1884 months,
net income was $3,555,771, equal
to $2.17 a common share, against
$3,322,11O, or $2.17 share, in the
like 1888 period.
The company showed a gain of
9,764 telephones in service during
the second quarter, against a loss
of 3,845 telephones in the June
quarter of last year. For the first
six months of 1884 the company
had a gain of 1882 telephones,
against a loss of 1885 in the first
six months of 1888.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
LIVERPOOL COTTON

LIVE R P OOL, July IS GN.s.).
opening spots on the Liverpool cotton
market today. Prices were easier. Re-
ceipts totaled 5000 bales none of which
were American.
strictly good middling, 7.iSd; good mid
ding, 7.1Sd; strictly middling, 7.O3d:
middling, 6.SSd: strictly low middling,
6.7Sd; low middling. 6.5Sd: strictly good
6.03d.
Futures opened quiet and steady and
at noon were to points above OPEN
ing quotations but 3 to 4 points below
due prices October opened at 6.61d;
January. 6.57d. and March. 6.S1d.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
CLOTH MARKET QUIET
lHiRhl Low :On

NEW YORK, July IS Q.N.SD.-A
quiet tone again prevailed in the COARSE
yarn cloths market today, with first
hand prices continuing finn and with
second hand goods offered intermit-
tently in relatively small quantities. but
in sufficient total amount to meet the
UNITED demand which cropped up dur
hesitant even in the face of the fear
that quick change in the trend of cot
ton may develop. Cloth buyers, aware
of the possibility of upturn in raw
other factors, including uncertainty as
to the future of processing taxes, the
drought with it's accompanying reduce
tion in purchasing power, and persis-
tent talk of consumer resistance to what
are termed high prices
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
NEW YORK

NEW YORK, July 26 (IN.S.).-But-
ter: Firm, salted and unsalted cream
cry higher scoring, 25K @27Ac.; cream
cry extras, 25@26Ac. creamery tirsts,
25%c.
Cheese-Firm state whole milk flats
specials, 18@19c.: average run, 16@
16hc; Wisconsin whole milk fancy
young Americans, 13c.
specials ?4@25kc.: standards, 22c.: me-
diums. 2O@23c.; nearby brown specials,
21@27c. standards. zoe; mixed specials,
2O@23hc.; standards, 19@19hc.; firsts,
17@17Ac.; seconds. 16@16Kc.: mediums
1914 @15%c.; Pacific Coast white, fancy
packs, 27@27hc.; standards, 25h q
26Ac.; mediums, 2SA @25c.
The wholesale price is $210 per 100
pounds. No. 1 fluid milk within the
201-210 mile zone.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
FaLstaff BrelUing
Net RepOrted

Falstaff Brewing Corporation,
for the six months ended June
80 last, reports net profit OF
$73,965 after interest and Federal
taxes. etc., equal to 16 cents a
share on capital stock. Compari-
son with the similar period OF
last year is not available for the
company did not start operations
until March, 1888. Total earned
surplus as of June 80 last was
$197,154
The Washington times., 1934-07-26

Dividend In dollars parenthesea (NotoI Extra
dividends published through regular dividend period.
(1l Optional stock or cash tbl Partly extra tcl Extra
(fl On account Of aecumulaOuS (E) No roEular
CnS PAID this year. twwS variants Cxw1 WitHOuI
warrants. 60 Ex-dIvidsnd (t) ExEiEhtA
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
v:s7: :3gs,s y:' :s:::' N. Y. Curb Quotations ys s

NEW YORK, July 26 1.N.S0
A fresh outbreak of selling on
the "big board" turned prices
on the curb exchange lower today
although losses ran to compare
lively small fractions.
Few sections of the list were
spared in the liquidation and
minus signs predominated.
Oil stocks continued sluggish
and generally reactionary. Stan
dard Oil Of Indiana lost "a at
26b, and International Petroleum
off y at 26h.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
Steel Production
Less Than Week AgO

The American Iron and Steel
Institute estimates steel produc-
tion during the current week at
PIT per cent of capacity, COM
pared with 28.8 per cent a week
ago and 44.7 per cent a month
ago. This is a decrease Of IL
points, or 3.8 per cent.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
Oil Company Net
Is 53Ce1tS in Half

North American Oil. Cons. for
the six months ended June 80,
last, reports net profit of Sat ,424
after royalties, taxes, deprecia-
ton and depletion, equal to So
cents a share on common stock.
This compares with net profit of
$78,239, or % cents a share in the
like 1893 period.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
General Asphalt
Reports Net Profit

General Asphalt Company and
subsidiaries report for IL months
ended June 80, 1884, net profit Of
$155,712 after charges, deprecia-
ton, taxes, ETC., equal to 40 cents
a share on the common stock.
This compares with net loss Of
$727.510 for the preceding II
months.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26
v'';S; :iS.';s:S Ss;;;;''' N. Y. Bond Quotations

NEW YORK, July 26 QN.S0.
A break in the German bonds
with losses running to more than
a point was the bond markets re-
sponse to the central European
war scare.
German International 51as
dropped to 331a, off 11a, and the
Dawes Loan Is lost 1H at 48B
Austrian Is of 1943 we're off "a at
9S1a, while Italian Is lost 70 at
94Ts.
Trading in the foreigns was
Slow in getting started.
The domestic division was
again highly irregular with second
grade rails mixed.
Prime investment liens were
quiet and steady.
United States Government liens
moved narrowly.
The Washington times., 1934-07-26

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Allis Chalmers SIS '37. 9Sh 99h 99h
Am Beet Sug CIV db SIS 100 100 100
Am Chain ST deb 6s SO SSh SS12 SSh
Am Cyanamid SIS AZ 102& 1O2% l02%
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The Washington times., 1934-07-26
High Low 1915

Waco Aircraft ...... 3 6A 6A
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Celebrate 18th Anniversary
of Communist Party
STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
COMMUNIST PARTY, U. S. A.

September, 1884 marks the 18th anniversary of the
Communist Party of the United States.
Nineteen hundred and nineteen was the year when
our Party formed 1t year of great strikes
and deep revolutionary fermentation among the widest
masses of the toing population of the United States
The American working class beginning to wake up
to the swnde of the first world imperiais war; to the
gigantic crimes of the capitalists and to their reformst
supporters in the labor movement The rehabilitation
and peace reconstruction plans of the American bour
geosie, which aimed at widespread lowering of the
standard of living of the toing masses were met with
militant strikes in almost all the basic industries of the
country It was also the of the great Seattle Gen
eral Strike.
Nineteen hundred and nineteen the
st International formed preceding the formation
Party by about i've months Party
lowed logically and inevitably from the whole the
States All the lessons the struggle this
STEP But only through the costly experiences
world war and especially the victory Of the proletarian
Russia under the leadership Of the Boshevks poarn
vanguard Of the United States
the of the American proetsriat
Continued Page D
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Analysis Sho'os Fakery in Rickberg NRA Report

capitalist press. But it is an obviou,
fraud.
FOR In the very paragraph Mr..
Richberg admits that the average
per capita weekly earnings of
manufacturing workers have in
creased only S.5 per cent over
June 1888. The difference between
the S.5 per cent increase in aver
age weekly earnings and the rise
OF S.6 per cent in the cost of liv-
ing gives q net decrease OF IL
per cent in the real wages Of
manufacturing workers, even ac-
cording to Mr.. Richberg's own
figures. This means that the
wages of manufacturing workers
In terms Of what they are able to
buy Is actually l per cent less
than 1t was in June 1888. when
Mira. was being legisIated.
AS part Of the rising cost of liv-
ing. Mr.. Richberg conveniently
fails to mention that the Bureau of
Labor Statistics latest report on
retail prices covering the two weeks
ending July 81, shows that food
prices for the country were the
highest point in 80 months and
were % per cent above those of
April 1888. One estimate places the
increase in the food bill of the
masses at s2,250, 200, 900 a year.
tSee Labor Research Associations
Economic Notes, September 1884
Compared with only a year ago,