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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
COuIee Dam, Fort Peck Big Time
Confidence Games, Workers Find

ton, and buy the contracting
bosses electricity at a high rate.
Trading exclusively at the COM
pany store Is compulsory If the
worker wants continued employ
ment.
The American Cxarist Siber-
ia" is James Rorty's descrip-
tion of Fort Peck, Montana.
federal navigation and power
improvement project on the
upper Missouri.
Real estate spectators at COu-
lee Dam, in on the ground floor
liked property prices in six
weeks from 5000 to $4,000 on cor
ner lots in the city" Rorty said.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28

Recently returned from the
Soviet Union where he witness
ed a great section of the in
ternational working class tri-
umphantly building Socialism,
Professor Scott Nearing will
appear before Northwest audi
ences soon, under the auspices
of the Friends Of the Soviet
Union.
Workers desiring a truthful
and accurate account of condi-
tions in the Soviet Union
should not fail to hear this
brilliant lecturer. He speaks
n Seattle JAM 6 at the Eagles
Auditorium.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
TRANSMITS WIN DEMANDS

TACOMA, Dec 27-Unemploy-
ed in the shelters here, organized
into the National Unemployed
Council, forced the resignation Of
flunkey at Shelter No. 1, and the
hiring of cook to replace a
flunky at Shelter No. 2. A number
of other concessions have been
won by militant organized ac-
tion, such as more towels, tObac-
co, tubs in which to wash clothes,
etc.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Coming EUents
SEATTLE

Sat-, Dec. 29-Banquet honor
ing Angelo Herndon at Chan.
der hall, 1916 23rd ave., un-
der auspices of League of
Struggle for Negro Rights.
Admission, Csc, p. m.
Sat, Dec. DIFFERENTIATION
meeting of Seattle branch
of the LID at LID headquar-
tiers in Lyons bldg. Friends
and members invited to at
tend, 2 p. m.
Mon, Dec. 31-New Years Eve
benefit dance, Voice of Ac-
ton drive, auspices dice of
Action, IOGT hall. Angelo
Herndon is to be guest of
honor.
Fri, Dec. 2S-Benefit Dance
and election of delegates to
National Congress for I'm
employment Insurance, aus
pices UCL.
Sun, Dec. 30-Dance and en-
tertainment at Finnish hall,
9Th and Yesler. Auspices
Seattle Youth Club. Door
prizes and program. Adm. Is
cents advance, 20 cents at
door.
Sum-, Jan. 6-Scott Nearing.
speaker, auspices FSU, Eagles
Auditorium.
Sum-, Jan. 13-Rally Against
War and Fascism, auspices
Seattle Section of League
Against War and Fascism,
Eagles Hall.
Sun, Jan. 20-Lenin Memorial
meeting, auspices Seattle
Section Communist Party.
TACOMA
Jan. l0-Scott Nearing, lectur-
er, IOOF temple, main audi
forum.
Dec. 20, Sat.-Voice of Action
dance, auspices Horace
Mann Unemployment Council
NC hall, Sind and Yakima.
OLYMPIA
Sun, Jan. 6-First of the o.
ympia Lyceum lectures, s
p. m, X. p. Hall. o. P, Al
lison, vice pres. Single
Weavers Union, on "Fas-
cism." Prominent speaker
every Sunday night there
after for six weeks.
Sun. and Mon, Jan. q, 28-
State Congress for Unem-
ployment Insurance, X. p.
Hall
ABERDEEN
New Years Eve-Dance and
Entertainment, benefit for
Voice of Action. Workers
Hall, 713 E. First st.
PORTLAND
Mon, Dec. 81 = Committee
meeting to further Voice OF
Action Drive, 1880 p. m. Gen.
trail Federation Against I'm
employment headquarters,
23S Worcester bldg.
Fri, Jan. 11-Scott Nearing, s
p m, Civic Auditorium, 3rd
and Clay, Adm. Csc. Auspices
FSU.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Enthusiastic Response 10
Voice Of Action Drive

CONTINUED from Page One)
with a New Years Eve dance and
entertainment for the Voice Of
Action, at Workers Hall, 7l3 K.
First street, Aberdeen, Washing
ton.
The Horace Mann local of the
Unemployment Council In the
South Side of Tacoma has the
honor of holding the first Voice
of Action benefit dance. 1t re-
ports plans to beat the gun by
two days with an affair Saturday
night, Dee. 20, at the locals hall,
Sind and Yakima.
Spokane Under Way
Spokane Is getting under way
for the Voice of Action Drive and
has arranged a New Years Eve
dance and entertainment with
plenty of eats on the side. 1t is
planned to have a popularity
contest to win the Grand Prize
of a trip to Soviet Russia for the
most popular woman in the con.
] test.
A set of simple rules drawn up
for the contest include:
All money received from jan
uary 1, 1895 to midnight
March rs, 1895 towards the
$4,000 drive fund counts
Absolutely anyone except
members Of the Voice Of Ac-
ton staff may participate.
Money may be raised either
through cash. donations or
through subscriptions. All the
methods of the drive may be
employed (parties, collection
lists, punch boards, mass meet
ings).
Supporters and friends Of
contestants may have the mon
ey they raise credited to the
contestants, but it must be SO
marked when turned in to the
Voice of Action office.
No contestant with less than
$3.50 to his credit will be eligi-
BILE for the Grand Prize Of
trip to the Soviet Union.
QUOTAS
Alaska $50
Port Angeles, Clallam Co. so
Kelso and Cowlitz County 80
Grays Harbor $50
Idaho so
King County 500
Roslyn, Gle Elum Is
lCentralia and Lewis County 80
Tacoma and Pierce County $50
Anacortes and Skagit County 60
Everett and SnOhomish Co. 100
Spokane lbs
Olympia and Thurston Co. 60
Bellingham and Whatcom Co. 40
Yakima 20
Friday Harbor, San Juan Is. 20
Portland $50
Astoria and Ilwaco 100
Eugene Is
Roseburg 10
Grants Pass 10
Klamath Falls IS
Coos Bay 1C
Salem IL
Bend )
Miscellaneous 10(
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Welfare SnOOper 3rd
Degrees School Child

OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. 81
Miss Mills, a militant snooper"
for the Thurston County Welfare,
with an evident desire to estab-
lish a record for herself in the
organization and win the blue
ribbon for snoopery, went to
the Garfield school in Olympia,
had the principal get an eleven
year old boy called down to his
office, and there the timid child,
terrified at being called to the
principals office, was third-de.
greed by the welfare agent.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
Port UniOnized

FORT BRAGG, Cal, Dee. 81
Due to the successful militant
strike here last fishing season
led by the Fishermen and Can
merry Workers Industrial Union,
the trollers are 100 per cent be-
hind the union. The union won
full recognition, and no non-un-
ion fishermen can deliver fish in
this port, reports the secretary
of the Fort Bragg local of the
ECIUITT
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28

William Green, president Of
the American Federation Of
Labor, cleverly caricatured
above. Green's recent letter to
all Central Labor Councils, or.
dering them to have nothing to
do with the National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance
which will be held in Washing
ton, ID. c., January 81, is a
brazen betrayal Of the working
class in its fight for real unem-
plOyment insurance.
AFL locals all over the ma
tiOn are throwing Green's let
ter back in his teeth, and elect
ing delegates to the national
congress.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
COMMISSIONERS SIGN BILL

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 27-The
County Joint Action Committee
on Unemployment recently fore
ed the local county commission
ers to endorse the Workers I'm
employment Insurance bill.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
CLOSE MILLS

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 27-
In spite of an Injunction against
strikers, pickets succeeded in
closing the local Utica Knitting
Mills.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
RELIEF MoGULs sCAB.HERD

CHICAGO, Dec. q = Relief
heads here engaged in scab herd
ing, urging the jobless to take
the places of men on strike from
the local machine shops.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
FRENCH TAXI DRIVERS

PAIRS, France, Dec. 27JTaxi
drivers here have won their fight;
for a shorter working day and
higher pay.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28
SPECIAL NEWS FOR THE
e. FISHERMEN e.
INITIATIVE n LAYS BASIS LATEST ATTACK FISH
ERMEN - - INITIATIVE s

Initiative is embodied into the laws Of the state of
Washington
outset of the campaign for Initiative ~ the Fisher
Workers Industrial Union analysed the
carefully and comprehensey and result of this anay
campaign against II the grounds that
fishermen against
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. ~
lbs truck drivers won after a one
day strike.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-28

CONTINUED from Page Onej
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
A N DIT ORR A L

THIS formidable array of American capitalists is
now weighing the various proposals adopted at
the recent Congress of American Industry, with the
purpose of ironing out any conflicts that exist be-
tween various groups and especially with presenting
a roundabout, co-ordinated program for American
industry embracing all the newest phases in the
recovery" drive.
These new phases have already been made
clear in the resolutions adopted in the New York
convention two weeks ago. They include: the
re-emphasis profit as the indicator of recovery,
the demand for balanced budget as against all
relief expenditures, the Affirmation of the prn-
cipe of the open shop, the strengthening of anti
strike apparatus in the government the lengthen-
ing of working hours and the increasing of every
workers output without increasing wages the
levying of heavy taxes on all consumptive
goods and the tightening of taxes on corporations
and banks, the whole program to be topped off
with renewed reactionary drive to outlaw the
Communist Party and its mass organizations.
1t is significant that the organization of this
reactionary program is taking place at the same
time that the U. S. Chamber of Commerce the
Dickstein Congressional Committee and the A. F.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

cut in pay must be intensified.

cut in pay must be intensified
The fight for the right to organize, strike and
picket must be widened to include all workers of
every Party or union.
The fight for cash relief and for unemployment
insurance, to be paid by the Federal government
and the employers, as well as the whole program
of social insurance that will be presented at the
National Congress for Social and Unemployment
Insurance at Washington on January ST, now be-
comes mighty weapon to meet the offensive of
the employers.
The American working class must mobilize its
forces The united front of all workers in defense
of the workers standards and interests must be-
come the main weapon against the Wall Street
monopoies now holding their anti-labor war coun-
ellis.
Not only the united front in defense of wages
and conditions but also powerful united front in
defense of all civil rights, and, above all of the
rights of the Communist Party the political
preston of the workers class interests and aims
The blows aimed against the Communist Party are
also aimed at the whole American working class
Set up the united front against the Wall Street
offensiveI
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

MEETING in secret session, ninety of the country's
M most powerful ndustrialists are holding
sessions at White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
These meetings are of the greatest Importance to
the whole American working class. For they have
been called by the two most powerful groups of in
dustralists in the country the United States Cham
Der of Commerce and the National Association of
Manufacturers
Thus these meetings the getting together of
all the organized groups of American industrial cap
ital with the purpose of originating the economic
policies of American capitalism for the new anti
labor drive which already outlined in New York
two weeks ago at the Congress Of American In
dustry.
Represented at these secret sessions all the
various interests of Wall Street monopoly capital.
There is Owen D. Young of the General Electric
Company there is John J. Raskob of the General
Motors Corporation, Lammot du Pont of the du
Pont munitions monopoly, James H. Rand, inf1a-
zionist advocate of the Committee for the Nation,
and leading industralist George A. Sloan, of the
Textile Institute, as well as other numerous repre-
sentatives Of Morgan and Rockefeller interests as
well as smaller groups
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

of L. bureaucracy headed by William Green are
launching new attack against the Communist
Party as the first step toward crushing attack
all militant labor.
FROM all this it is clear that the Wall Street mo-
nopolies with the direct aid and encouragement
of the Roosevelt government and the A. F. of L.
bureaucracy, are printing their guns for new bar
rage of wage cuts and union smashing activity in
their attempt to climb out of the crisis on the backs
of the workers More, it is further development of
fascist reaction against the whole labor movement.
In all this resctonary discussion and prepara-
ton, the Roosevelt government is, of course, play
ing decisive part, with Roosevelt committed COM
pletey to giving the Wall Street monopolies prac-
tically everything they want. 1t is highly sgnifi-
cant that among those now celebrating in the
secret sessions is leading representative of the
N. R. A. Advisory Board. Roger B. Shepard.
AS against this united battle-line of American
industrial capital, the working class must begin to
mobilize its own forces in defense of its standards
of living its wage levels its trade unions, its Party
and its hard-won democratic rights
The drive for the thirty-hou week without any
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
COURT HOLDS
JANE NEWTON
Chicago Judge Places
Wife of Negro Leader
in Insane Ward

CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-THE use of
the courts to maintain the oppres-
sion of the Negroes was barred in all
it's ugliness during the past few days
in the attempt to legally declare
Jane Newton, white wife of Herbert
Newton, insane because she married
a Negro, and with the arrest of
Newton and the issuing Of a warrant
for the arrest of Harriet Williams,
white woman with whom the New
tons shared an apartment at SIS
Oakwood Boulevard, from which the
chauvinist landlord and Chicago
courts are trying to evict them.
Jane Newton Held
Jane Newton, committed to the
Psychopathic Hospital by Judge
Green of the Municipal Court, is to
be examined by a psychiatrist to-
day, the judge having decided that
she must be out of her mind to have
married Negro. International La
Dor Defense attorneys are trying to
obtain writ of habeas corpus for
her release.
Newton, arrested with five other
workers last Wednesday for picket
ing the lakewood Relief Station, was
held on a warrant for his arrest is
sued by Judge Green in connection
with the fight for Negro rights
against Judge Green's order for his
eviction from 615 lakewood Boule-
ward. Newton was released Satur-
day on 5000 cash bail, furnished by
the I. L. D. He is to be tried this
Wednesday in Municipal Court at
26th and California. He has de-
manded a jury trial.
Jane Newton, who was arrested in
the Red Squad" raid on Newton's
apartment, was given a suspended
sentence last Tuesday by Judge
Green and placed on six months pro-
baton on condition that the New
tons move out of the house that
same evening. She was not sworn
in or informed she was being tried,
and was not permitted an attorney.
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
NOLKER LEADS ANTI-UNION
MINE POLL PACT SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. IL
Protection to company unions and
compulsory arbitration by the Steel
Labor Board are among the points
included in proposal reported
made yesterday by Myron Taylor,
president of the United States Steel
Corporation at a secret meeting
with the Steel Labor Board. The
proposal, designed to avert the
strike looming in the industry it is
expected will be passed to the
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel and Tin Workers officials
within few days.
The proposal is essentially the
same as that which served to avert
a strike in the automobile industry
in March, and agreed to by the
American Federation of Labor Off
Gals. The dissatisfaction of the
workers in the automobile industry
has finally forced the A. F. of l..
officials to back down upon their
agreement which gives company
unions control in all relations with
the employers. But these A. F. of
l.. officials, instead of preparing a
strike, proposed new compulsory
arbitration board.
Meanwhile, the Steel Labor Board
Continued on Page 81
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
U. S. TO LIMIT
ARMS EXPORT
Acts to Cripple Her
Imperialist Rivals on
Munitions Shipments

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. IT.
A move to cripple the imperialist
rivals of American capitalism by
withholding all ammunition and
other supplies from them when war
breaks out and by refusing to pro-
tect ships which carry such cargo
is forecast in a detailed document
just completed by the State Depart
ment and soon to be submitted to
President Roosevelt.
This further development of &C
CELEBRATED war-preparations now be-
ing masked under the demagogy of
the take the profit out of war;
campaign is aimed directly at the
two chief competitors of American
industrialists, Great Britain and
Japan.
This position is a drastic change,
not in the profit-grasping motives of
the war-mongers, but merely in the
tactics of how best to guarantee the
safety of these profits and to main
tain the pre-eminence of American
military and naval strength. The
end of the London naval parleys, set
for next Thursday, is generally rec
ognized as the prelude to an open
arms race and ultimately to open
imperialist conflict
Senator Borah, chief protagonist
in Congress of an aggressive foreign
policy for United States capitalists,
in a threat against attempts of in
dividual industrialists to aid Great
Britain or Japan by exporting am
munition, stringently narrow e d
down commercial traffic in time of
war to non-military goods. The
United States government would not
protect ships sailing into conflict
zones when they carry actual mu-
nitions of war or when they actually
seek to break blockade"
Thus, in the event of Japanese
attack upon the Soviet Union,
American imperialism might with
hold war; supplies from its rival,
Japan inadvertently and unwilling
ly rendering passive support to the
Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
ALL LOCALS BACK INSURANCE CONGRESS
Anna Damon Stresses
Need Of Scottsboro Fund
Urges Intensified Collection to Meet BHrd en-
of Expense of Legal Steps Necessary
in the Appeal

through Anna Damon, acting ma
tional secretary, called for the i'm
mediate and intensified collection
of funds in it's $4,000 drive to meet
the tremendous burden of expense
of the legal steps necessary in the
appeal, and the vital mass campaign
for the boys release.
Already more than $64, 000-a sum
$500 greater than has been COL
lected-has been expended in the
three and a half years of this cam
paign, of which 621z per cent was
spent on purely legal expenses, 1913
per cent on the mass campaign, and
"a per cent on administrative ex-
pense. This last figure, it has been
pointed out, is in striking contrast
to the It's per cent which. it has
Continued on Page g.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
By Tom Keenan,
DAILY Worker Pittsburgh Bureau

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 17-At
a Rank and File Conference of
United Mine Workers local unions,
held in California, Pa, delegates
from 80 locals brought in duplicate
results OF the U. M. W. A. District
Five election last Tuesday to show
Charles Nolker, Rank and File can
didate for District President, lead
ing Pat Pagan, Lewis machine can
didate by about four to one.
Tabulated results obtained from
10 of the above 80 locals give MOL
ker, 4,066 votes to 1876 for Pagan.
Out of the thirty local unions
represented at the meeting, only
three = Cokeburg Junction, Arnold
City and Pricedale returned
majorities for Pagan.
Laying the basis for wholesale
steal, Pagan yesterday announced
to the press that he and his entire
slate had been returned to Office by
ma jorities as high as 5000"
The result counted for the Price
dale local union is highly SUSPECT
Gus, according to the Rank and File
Committee, since determined
fight has been waged there for some
time against Pagan
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18

A call to all those who are we'll
wishers of the Scottsboro boys, to
all organizations and individuals
VINO are opposed to fascist lynch
terror, to intensity their activity to
force the United States Supreme
Court to review the cases of Hay
wood Patterson and Clarence Nor
ris, now before that court, and to
reverse the lynch verdict of death
against them, was issued yesterday
by the National Executive Commit
tee of the International Labor De-
Tense.
A decision by the court on the APP
plication of the I. L. D., through its
attorneys, Osmond K. Fraenkel and
Walter Pollak, for writ of certiorari
in these cases is expected momen-
tarily.
At the same time, the I. L. D.,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-18
C. P. IN DRIVE
FOR SPREAD
OF LENINISM
Party Leaders Stress S
Theory as Weapon
at Open Meeting

4IlOuSu WOTkGIS IUdy VIII SGr1keS,
though they may win relief and
other concessions from the capital
ist-controlled government, they will
never be able to find way out of
their growing misery and oppression
unless they understand and use the
Revolutionary theories advocated and
practised by the Communist Party.
With this as the central idea, the
Communist Party on Sunday night
launched a serious drive to improve
the theoretical equipment of its own
members and to bring to broader
masses Of workers an understanding
of the Marxist-Leninist theories
which they need in their every day
struggles.
A meeting of members and SYM
pathizers of the Communist Party
in the New York District to cele-
brate the tenth anniversary of the
proletarian publishing activity of In
ternational Publishers was the open
ing signal of the drive, but the ma
tional Importance of the meeting
was indicated by the fact that it
was sponsored by the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party as
we'll as the New York District Com
mittee.
The meeting, held in the New Star
Casino, 10Th Street and Park
Avenue, filled the hall to capacity.
More than $500 Communist Party
members and sympathetic members
of trade unions and Socialist groups
were in the assemblage.
Need of Theory Stressed
In half dozen speeches, each de-
voted to detailed and keen-visioned
examination of the chief problems
which face American workers to-
day, the point was hammered home
again and again that without revo-
lutionary theory there can be no
revolutionary practice"
Jack Stachel, acting national sec
rotary of the Trade Union Unity
League put particular emphasis on
the need of spreading among work.
ers the understanding that their only
way out of the crisis is determined
organized use of their strength as
a class to launch serious struggle
for state power.
Scores of misleaders and vision
aries daily offer the workers rem
edies for their misery, false ways out
of the crisis. The Upton Sinclairs,
the Huey Longs, the Father Cough
Inns and others attempt to win the
attention and sympathy of large
masses of workers by their proposals
for way out.
I'VE, then, who have the only
practical, workable scheme, already
successfully tested over one-sixth of
the earth's surface, must show
greater enterprise and energy in
making the workers understand our
proposal for the way out. We must
put in their hands as indispensable
and invincible weapons the teach
ings of Marx, Lenin and Stain.
Stachel pointed to the attacks of
the Hearst press on the teachings
of Lenin, to the destruction of work
ers' bookshops by vigilantes and to
the burning of revolutionary litera-
ture by Nazt hangmen as proof
that "the power of revolutionary
theory among the masses is recog-
Continued on Page %