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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09

versity; LEE BURNS, Bessemer, Ala, Bessemer
Trades Council;
MALCOLM COWLEY, New York, Editor The
New Republic; BEN DAVIS Jr, New York, Editor,
The Negro Liberator; JAMES EAGAN, Pittsburgh
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union; F.
FUSCH Billings, Mont, CWA Workers Union:
BEN GOLD, New York, Fur Workers Industrial
Union; c. GREENFIELD, Cleveland Ohio, Small
Home and Land Owners; HAROLD HICKERSON,
Washington, ID. c., Veterans Rank and File Com;
GRANVILLE HICKS, Troy, N. Y, Editor The New
Masses; ROY HINES. Cheyenne, Unemployed
Workers Union; T. ARNOLD HILL, New York,
National Urban League; RABBI EDWARD l..
ISRAEL, Har Sinai Temple, Baltimore, Md; Ell
MER JOHNSON Chicago Federation of Labor;
MARY VAN KLEECK. New York, International
Professional Assn: JULES KORCHIEN, New
York, Federation of Architects, Chemists, Engin-
GERS and Technicians; JOE KISS New York, Fur
niture Workers Industrial Union;
MARGARET LAMONT, New York Morningsde
Hts. Branch, Socialist Party; j. J. LEONARD,
Philadelphia United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners: EMIL LINDEN, Seattle, Fishermen
and Cannery Workers Industrial Union; HARRY
L. LURE, New York, Economist and social work.
er; WALDO McNU1vr, Wichita, Kan, National
Youth Congress-; CHARLES MALONE Seattle,
Unemployed Citizens League.
THOMAS MCGEE, Philadelphia. Westinghouse
Federal Local; ESTHER PENN Washington DC,
American Federation of Government Employees;
GEORGE PRIMOFF New York. Fraternal Fed
Grafton, Social Insurance; LAVERNE PRUETT,
Illinois Progressive Miners of America; E. TIL
DEN HANDLES Los Angeles Relief Workers
Protective Union JAY RUBIN New York Food
Workers Industrial Union; NJ A. SHARPE, South
Dakota United Workers Leagues; JOHN f.
SLOAN, Westville ILL.,, United Mine Workers of
America; BROADUS MITCHELL, Baltimore, Md.
Socialist Candidate for Governor JAMES MUIR
PLY, Seattle, National Lumber Workers Union;
G. MORTIMER, Cleveland, Ohio
WILLIAM b. SPOFFORD New York, Church
League; j. STRENGTHEN, Rochester N. Y, Bakers
Union IA; BEAUMONT SYKES, Philadelphia,
International Oil Field, CIV and r. Workers;
ALEXANDER TAYLOR New York. Associated
Office and Professional Employees; AUDLEY
THORPE, Fairfield, Ala, Switchmen's Union of
North America; PAT TOOHEY, New York. Trade
Union Unity League; LOUIS WEINSTOCK, New
York, ALL Com, Unemployment Insurance; AL
FRED G. WINTERS, New York, American Assn
of Social Workers; JAY WILSON. Detroit Mich,
Auto Workers Union; REUBEN YOUNG, New
York, League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
PLEASE NOTE-The organizations with which
the signers are associated are not of necessity
committed to the endorsement to this Call All
organizations will be invited to add their endorse
ments.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
,nce To this end we now join i'm calling great
CONGRESS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT
AND SOCIAL INSURANCE


In Washington, D. c., January 5,67
This Congress meeting at the time when the
Congress of the United States begins its 74th
Session, will serve to-
Bring together, consolidate and demonstrate
the great and growing movement for Federal
system of unemployment and social insurance
Provide the possibility for jointly formulating
comprehensive plan for all forms of social in
Exert pressure upon the 74th Congress Of the
United States to act without delay upon such
surance
program as is formulated.
Deepen, broaden and strengthen the move
ment and devise a program for the necessary
further struggle that must be waged in order
to win greater measure of social security
through unemployment and social insurance.
We cordially and earnestly invite all who need
and all who desire to help advance program of
adequate protection against the hazards of unem-
ployment, industrial accident or sickness, old age
and maternity to participate in this Congress by
electing delegates from their every organizations.
Let us demonstrate that we are united in the de.
termination that those who are willing to engage
in useful labor shall not be forced to suffer hun
ger, want and dread of insecurity in the midst of
plenty.
We call upon all national and local organiza-
lions in all cities and towns to join together in
united Congress Arrangements Committees for
the purpose of assuring united efforts and strug-
gle for unemployment and social insurance. We
appeal TO every interested individual to begin
Immediately the work of building a mighty
united, nationwide movement that will win for
the wage and salaried workers in all industries
occupations and localities of the United States
assurance of decent existence and freedom from
the fear of want and restitution.
I. AMTER, New York, National Unemployment
Councils PAT ANSBURY, Buckner ILL.,, Pro-
gressive Miners of America; ROGER BALDWIN
New York, American Civil Liberties Union; HAIR
RY BAUMGARTNER, ILL.,, Progressive Miners of
America; MARY T.. BEARDSLEY New York
American Red Cross; MAX BEDACHT New York
International Workers Order; d. NJ. BENSON,
Tampa, Fla, State Federation of Workers Leagues;
HERBERT BENJAMIN. New York National IN
employment Council; FRED BIEDENKAPP, New
York, United Shoe and Leather Workers; AL
FRED BINGHAM, New York, Editor Common
Sense Mag; HARRY BRIDGES, California In
ternational LongshOremen's Assn; HAYWOOD
BROUN, New York. American Newspaper Guild;
EARL BROWDER New York. Communist Party
U.SA.; ELMER BROWN, New York, Information
al Typographical Union, Amalgamation Party
PAUL BRISSENDEN, New York, Columbia Uni
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09

movement OF the lWW. has built
a machine in the Peru for the
purpose of carrying out his re-
dictionary policies. He has not linn
tied his disruptive activities to
the trollers, but joined with Mr..
Mattson, secretary of the ALL
Gillnetters and Cannery Workers
Union. They work together like
a pair of Siamese twins in demon
alizing the struggles of the Col
umbia River gillnetters and can
merry workers.
The united strength and cour-
age of these Siamese twins has
not been sufficient to face the
rank and file workers without
being braced up and saturated
with whiskey furnished by the
packers and fish buyers.
Birth to the program of Suoja
and his cohorts was given by de-
caying capitalism. In the spring
of l933-fourth year OF the crisis
the fish trust was faced with q
rising tide of militancy amongst
the tremendously exploited and
starving workers in the fishing
industry. This threatened the
profits of the salmon packers.
Now that the members of the
PCFU have excluded SuOja from
their ranks, their most important
and immediate task is to elect
rank and file members on the
organization committee, get rank
and file delegates elected to the
coming annual meeting in Janu-
AIRY, crush all remaining rem
nants of Suoja's supporters from
the leadership, prevent him from
strengthening his machinery to
regain the leadership.
Then the members of the
PCFU will be able to adopt a
program of unity, join hands
with all other organizations in
the fishing industry, lay a basis
for a militant united struggles
for our common demands for the
coming season.
Fire Mattson Next
1t still remains the duty of the
gillnetters and cannery workers
of Astoria to render the same
blow to Mr.. Mattson of the AL,
to GUST this faker from their
ranks.
The earnings of the fishermen
and cannery workers throughout
the entire coast have been mea-
ger, while the boss packers this
year have made the greatest pro-
fit in the history of the industry.
All this has been possible under
the NRA new deal" with the
of its double-tOngued
orators, SuOja, Mattson and Free
man.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Can't Get Lenin
Medal In Stores

SEATTLE, Nov. s. Anytime
you're downtown look i'm the
pawnshOp windows, at the Dis
tinguished Service Crosses and
Congressional Medals given Am
erican war and peace-time heroes
You can buy German, French
and English medals too. All you
want, from four bits up.
But you never saw in a pawn
shop, and can't buy medals given
working class heroes by the So
viets. For instance. the Order of
Lenin, comparable to our Con-
gressional Medal, gives the bear
er 1920 per month for life. no
matter where he lives, half price
on food and lodging in Russia,
with free transportation on all
trains and BUSES and first choice
of jobs.
But when an American, French
or English hero has done his bit
he gets a vote, of thanks, a kiss
and a medal.
You can get one too, minus
the vote Of thanks or the kiss,
from four bits up at any pawn
shop. But you can't buy the
Order OF Lenin.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Workers School
Will Open Dec. 3

SEATTLE. Nov. S-A perman.
ent Workers School in Seattle Is
the goal of the School Committee
which announces the opening
date as Dee. 8, Delayed a few
weeks because of technical incon-
venienees which have now been
overcome, the school will open
on a much sounder basis than be-
fore would have been possible.
Instructors who are the most
competent in the Northwest. men
and women who are leaders in the
labor movement, will teach For
instance. Revels Cayton, a lead
ing Negro organizer. will handle
a class in Negro liberation. James
Murphy, National Secretary of
the National Lumber Workers
Union, instructs the class in
Trade Union Strategy. Labor
journalism. Fascism and Social
FasciSm, Fundamentals of Com
munism. MARKHAM Economics. His
tory of the American Labor Move
ment. and other courses will have
equally capable instructors.
Registration will be taken in
organizations and at the Workers
Bookstore. 3O2 Collins Building.
Twenty-Five cents for a full ~
weeks course If you are unem-
ployed, and one dollar il employ
ed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Mother Wins
Better Shoes
for Daughter

CENTRALIA, Wash, Nov. s.
Because a working class moth
er of Centralia refused to be
intimidated by an officious
store manager, her little daugh-
ter was given an examination
at the Seattle orthopedic Hos
pital and a $500 pair OF shoes.
With "a voucher for $3.50 with
which to buy shoes for her child
at Karl's Shoe Store, the mother
was dissatisfied with shoes which
she could get at that price since
the child had IA deformity of the
foot, making her difficult to fit
comfortably.
However, one pair for $3.50 was
nearer suitable. The manager of
karrs Shoe Store insisted that
she take a pair for 1925. and
when she refused, called the
Welfare on the phone telling the
relief officials that 1925 shoes
were good enough for any young
ster on the welfare and recon-
that they issue a vouch-
er for 1925 instead of $3.50
The mother. however, refused
to take the i'll fitting shoes as she
feared they would injure her
child's foot. Instead, she report
ed to the county doctor, who or
dered that the child be taken to
the Orthopedic Hospital in Sc
attic, where a $500 pair of shoes
were prescribed for her.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Organizers To Get
NLWU Instructions

SEATTLE, Nov. Sin pursu,
ance to the decisions of the Ma
tiOnal Committee of the National
Lumber Workers Union. the
NEG is now organizing an Or
ganizers Training Corps" called
"TraincOr."
The TraincOr is to start at Abb
erdeen beginning Nov. 10, 1884,
and to last two weeks. We want
10 or more prospective organizers
to take in the Traincor, who will
pledge themselves to carry on as
field organizers for the NLWU
for lengthy period afterWard.
1t is to be a self disciplined
body for the purpose of study
and doing practical work, there
by gaining theoretical knowledge
and practical experience during
the same period.
Roy Brown, NLWU chairman,
is the instructor.
Tentative instruction plan is:
Reading material: /. Constitu-
ton and Organizational Guide of
the NLWU. 2. NRA-What it
Means to the Workers. 3. Trade
Union Unity League Today. 4.
Monograph Form History of the
NLWU. 8. Strike Strategy. 6. La
Dor and Lumber. 7. Workers Cor
respOndence. S.What is Industrial
Unionism? 9. Material covering
relation of Trade Unions to the
Communist Party.
Tentative plan, Order of Day:
$3.50, arise. 700 breakfast. 500 to
1890, class. 1915, lunch. 1900 to
loo mill gate work. 200. dinner.
300 to 4:30, class. 1870 to 500, mill
and camp work. $3.50 supper. 500
to $3.50, discussion. 1000, to bed.
1900, lights out.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Fishers Must Struggle
For JObleSS Insurance

SEATTLE, Nov. S-The ques-
ton of adequate relief and unem-
ployment insurance is a burning
question for the workers in the
fishing industry this coming win
ter. The fishermen and cannery
workers, regardless of Organiza-
tional affiliations, must give
their support and actively par
ticipate, together with other sec
tions of the working class in the
national fight for the enactment
of the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill, HR
1898, now pending in Congress.
Elect delegates from your I'M
ion locals to the National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insur-
ance, to be held at Washington,
ID. c., in January.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
A HELL OF A DISCUSSION

A logger recently killed in the
woods. finally arrived at the
gates of He'll and asked if he
could come in.
The "side push in charge of
the gate turned around, stuck his
head through the gate and hol-
Tered to the ''main squeeze"
How about this guy"
Asked by the big shot inside
as to where the applicant had
worked, the side push" replied,
I'm the woods"
"Oh, hell. let him come in then.
He won't stay long anyway
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
INDIANS CHEATED
By a Worker Correspondent

SEATTLE, Nov. S-A Commit
tee of Quillayute Indians from
La Push, Wash, were here last
week protesting to the Fisheries
Department against the selling
of their fishing nets by deputies
of the State Fish Commission.
Chief of Fisheries b. NJ. Bren-
nan DIETER known as the Hit
Ter of Washington Fisheries)
commented on the grievances Of
the Indians, Il don't believe the
Indians have any grounds for
their complaints. They have been
fishing commercially outside the
reservation boundaries in COM
petition to the white people who
must have licenses and pay q
tax"
Those who have been at Quill
layute or Neah Bay know the de-
plorable the conditions OF the
Indians on these reservations are.
Civilized" American capitalism,
that stole the natural resources
from the Indians, is now in the
name of the Law" prosecuting
and falling both the Indian and
the white fishermen so that cor
porations can maintain profits.
Pointed Question
/ would like to ask, Mr.. Bren-
nan, when you ordered your de-
putty snooper to steal fish nets
from starving Indians, did you
do that in the name of "conserv-
ation," as you did when you
closed Puget Sound last sum
mer?
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LOvelace Scores
Bonus MiSleader

PORTLAND, Nov. s. Walter
w. Waters, self-commissioned
Commander" OF the 1892 BEF,
is up tn his old tricks in his home
town. He is trying to form a ma
tiOnal organization" announcing
himself as commander.
Capitalizing on the American
Legion's endorsement of the DO
nus" payment, Waters called a
meeting at which he announced
his plans-an obvious attempt to
side-traek the rank and file
veterans from the Rank and File
Convention to be held at WASH
ington. ID. C., late In December.
He proposed a new bonus march
to assemble in Washington, ID. c.,
in May.
Lovelace Speaks
Richard Lovelace, former men,
Der of the Veterans National
Rank and File Committee. active
in the Workers EN-Servicemen's
League. and workers independ-
ent candidate for the State Legis-
lature in Oregon, took the floor
and urged the veterans to organ
ize. but warned them to be care
full what kind OF organization
they formed and under what kind
of leadership.
He also pointed out the dan
ger of a late spring mass march
on the Capitol, as Congress will
be rushed through its session.
GO to the National Rank and
File Convention" he urged. Meet
Congress when Congress meets
and stay there il we have to! But
let's not give the administration
a chance to slip out on usw
Waters had made a heroic
statement that he didn't care
about the bonus for himself
but he knew others needed it."
Lovelace stated: Unlike
Comrade Waters, I want my
bonus-I need 1.-THE same as
the rest of you. And I'm willing
to put up a scrap to get it,"
Out of a crowd Of $50 veterans,
nine signed up" in Waters
organization.
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Protest Fascist Trial

NORTH BEND, Ore, Nov. s.
Vigorously denouncing his threat
to exclude workers from the court
room during the coming trials
of jim StOckman and Kyle Pugh
of MedfOrd, Ore, militant workers
now held on criminal syndicalism
charges, and fill it with American
Legion members, Section 20 of the
Communist Party sent a protest
letter to G. A. COdding, MedfOrd
prOsecstOr. on October 30.
The letter demanded the re-
lease of the two jailed workers.
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Fish Served Socialist
Party, Reports Clerk

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. s.
According to the Clerk OF the
House of Representatives here,
Congressman Hamilton Fish, the
nations foremost reactionary red
batter, enemy of the Soviet IN
ion and of all labor, carried the
endorsement in his district not
only of the Republican Party
and of the Law Enforcement
League but of the Socialist
Party.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Lumberjacks Fight
4S Hour Week Plan

PORT ANGELES, Wash, Nov.
S-Rallying to the militant pro-
gram of the National Lumber
Workers Union, the workers in
the West End Bloedell-DOnavan
camps are preparing to block
a second attempt of the bosses
to put over the 4S-hour week.
Defeat First Proposal
Two weeks ago the lOggers, led
by a united front of NLWU, the
AL union. and unOrganized
workers, successfully defeated
the proposal to quit the present
week of 40 hours.
Bloedell-DOnavan is reported
to be planning to reopen after
the Christmas shutdown with
the 4S-hOur week.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
Intolerable Conditions
At Wash. Pulp Camp

NEAH BAY, Wash, Nov. s.
At Washington Pulp camp near
here the owners are working the
men ten to IL hours a day at
straight time. This includes the
whole camp, bushellers and day
men.
All men must eat at the CON-
pany cook house. even those men
who have honles near camp. They
even charge these men the full
seven days board when they 60
home on Saturday and Sunday.
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by the boss packers, hindering
the development of unity be-
tween the various eategories Of
fishermen. In the spring of 1893,
after maneuvering to get on the
strike committee, he introduced
a resolution prohibiting all
mass meetings i'm Astoria. This
was given wide publicity in the
capitalist papers and heralded
by the cannery operators as a
move to stop the activities OF the
reds or Communists which name
was given by Suoja to all workers
who proposed militant action
against hunger and misery.
1t was only because the thous-
ands of fishermen and cannery
workers used militant mass ac-
ton, although they were nearly
all unorganized at that time, that
Mr.. Suoja "a sewing machine
AGENT, Arvid Mattson fish buyer
for Anderson and CO. and Chas.
Knapp Ia federal AGENT were
prevented from selling out the
strike.
Betray Alaska Trollers
In the spring of 1884 Mr.. Suoja,
Mr.. Freeman of Seattle (head of
the Chamber of Commerce affili-
ated Trolling Vessel owners AS
sOciation) entered into an ALI
ance" with the representatives
of the Alaska Trollers. On the
basis of this alliance a North
west and Alaska TrOllers strike
was declared. Suoja and Freeman
this time decided to capitalize on
the situation at the expense of
the Alaska TrOllers and carried
out the wishes of the bosses by
calling off the strike in Oregon
and Washington without even
notifying Alaska
Because the FCWIU and its
members had constantly expos
ed the treacheries of Suoja and
proposed program of unity to
the rank and file members of the
PCFU, lie openly aligned him
self with the fish buyers, Dor
eimus Fisheries, Kari and Back
man and Jack Kaakinen of West
port, Oregon, and Mr.. Mustola,
buyer for San Juan Fisheries at
llwaco, Wash, in carrying out a
vicious boycott, instructing these
buyers not to buy any fish from
the members of the FCWIU. OF
course the bosses didn't hesitate
in carrying out such a plan be-
cause they knew that by sitting
the militants they can get the
fishermen's catches at their own
prices. A few weeks later this ac-
ton of Mr.. Suoja actually result
ed in a price cut for the trOllers. !
Twins of Treachery
Suoja. who claims to be a
"wobbly," but actually is a rene
gade from the former militant
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The homes, the families and the basis for the
very existance of millions of workers have al
ready been destroyed or seriously menaced as a
result of mass unemployment and other causes
that deprive willing workers of the opportunity
to work and earn ltlihoOd for themselves and
their dependents
OF the ten to fifteen million workers who have
been denied the right to work during the
five long years of the present widespread and
deep-g0ng crisis, barely one half have been given
any relief at all Yet at this time when the sixth
crisis year is about to begin, four million families
representing nearly one-sixth of the total popula-
ton OF the United States are admittedly reduced
to existence on the unstable public relief which
averages less than five dollars q week per fam
lily. In many states and counties the relief pro-
vided amounts to as little as $1.25 week per
family
1t is now established beyond doubt that
millions are doomed to remain part of a great
army or permanently unemployed long as
the present economic system lasts. This means
that millions of youths continue to graduate
from school into an army of destitute jobless.
IL means that those who have been declared
too old to work" cannot hope to be restored to
sef-supporting position in our economy. It
means that all workers in all industries voca-
tions and professions face the danger that their
wage-rates will be reduced to the less than sub
sistence levels of existence that now prevail
for those dependent on public relief. Thus
all workers face the menace Of degraded living
standards whether they retain their jobs or are
forced into the army of unemployed
The men and women who are dependent upon
wages and saares-the overwhelming majority
of the population-must be safeguarded against
loss of income and livelihood because of invoun-
tary unemployment old age industrial accident
or sickness and maternity. Congress must enact
system of Federal unemployment and social in
surance which provides compensation by the
government and employers to all willing work
ers who are denied the right to work.
An unemployment and social insurance sys-
TEN must be designed to insure the masses
against any lowering of their living standards 1t
must serve to increase purchasing power stimu-
late productivity in the interest of higher living
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-09
DAILY WORKER DANCE

NORTH BEND, Ore, Nov. s.
An entertainment and dance will
be held at the Souni Hall, Nov. TO-
for the benefit of the Daily Work
er 100000 drive. All workers are
invited to attend. Admission, in
Guiding supper, soc, advance tick
cts 35c.
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WIN SANITARY CONDITIONS

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. Nov. 5
After working two days on a
street at the edge of town with
out sanitary accommodations, a
group of SERA workers demand
ed adequate toilet facilities and
won them.
The workers went to the court
house and put their demand be-
fore Spencer, the superintendent.
AT first he refused, but when the
group insistently opposed such
uncivilized conditions, he ordered
building begun.
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IGNORE GREEN LETTER

TACOMA, Nov. S-Wm. Green's
red-baiting communication to
the Mine Mill & Shelter Workers
international Union, Local %, of
the Tacoma Smelter received only
enough support to command a
motion that its contents be fully
ignored.
The motion was sustained by
the unanimous vote of the local
membership.