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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
VERA WastefuL

KELSO, Wash, Dec. 20-An
example of the wasteful methods
used by the VERA is the wood
salvaging project here. Exclus-
i've right to get slabs that escape
the hog" is obtained from q
small mill.
These slabs are in four foot
lengths, mostly sap and were for
merly given to anyone who would
come and haul 1t away. Work
relief Is used. Four men pull out
the slabs at so cents an hour,
eight hours. Two truck drivers
get $1.50 an hour.
This fuel for the unemployed Is
then delivered to the center
where it is handled again and
sawed into stove lengths. p.
once more deliver orders. ?i2s
method costs the government
about $50 cord.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Demonstrators Ask Extra
Christmas Relief Voucher

| SEATTLE. Dec. 20-For the VI
tai demands of Christmas cash
relief for all unemployed, 500
men and women met last Friday
In a demonstration at Times
Square.
From the 500 assembled, q COM
mittee OF 20 was elected to pre-
sent the demands to the VERA
officials who have their offices
in the old Times building.
The committee was stopped at
the door by police, both uniform
ed and special. and was told that
only five of their members would
be admitted to present the de-
mands. The five were escorted to
the office of Mr.. Arnold, who is
substituting for Mr.. Moore, dis
trict administrator for the WE
RIA.
With q tremor In his voice
Mr.. Arnold told the committee
that the unemployed had his
heartfelt sympathy" and that
every day he was in conference
taking up their problems and
sending recommendation to Oh
ympia and Washington, d. G.
Less Relief
Mr.. Arnold admitted that for
December $4,000 less is being
spent for relief than In Novem-
Der.
When the committee present
ed the demands Mr.. Arnold in
sisted that the word request"
be inserted In place Of demand"
but when asked If he would en-
dOrse the demands if they were
so changed, he said he would not.
He stated further that he would
neither endorse them officially
or personally.
The demands of the demOnstra-
tion were for Christmas cash re-
lief equal to the regular weekly
voucher, for the 80 hour week,
six day week at union rates of
pay on all relief work, and for
the endorsement of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance bill,
Initiative A and the national bill,
HR 1898.
will Hit Council
After the committee reported
Arnold's refusal back to the
demonstration, the men and wo-
men assembled decided the
same committee should go be-
fore the Board of County Com
missioners and the City Council
to get their endorsement of the
demands.
The committee represents the
transient workers, the unemploy-
ed seamen, three units of the
Commonwealth Builders and the
Unemployed Citizens League.
All unemployed locals are ask
ed to bring renewed pressure to
gain the demands.
One significant victory was
gained in the demonstration.
Seamen who have fought for
weeks for a hearing on their
grievances at last won through
and placed their demands be-
fore the authorities.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Special Census Shows
Half Are Unemployed

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-Half the
population of Beacon Hill, South
Park, West Seattle and George
town is unemployed. The VERA
census taker in these districts
found 40 to so per cent of the
people jobless. Large numbers
of these had been laid off this
fall and winter.
Many unemployed are not get
ting relief because some relative
is working or because they have
q small business. In many of
these cases those considered as
working" are employed only a
few hours a week, earning prac-
ticaIly nothing.
Solicitors for the Federal Hous-
ing programs home repair cam
paign. are getting no response.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Waterfront Paper Out

SEATTLE, Dec. 2O-The Deem
Der is issue OF the Waterfront
Worker. popular publication Of
the rank and file groups in North
west International Longshore-
mems Association locals, is off
the press.
Copies may be obtained from
the Voice of Action.
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Coming EUentS
SEATTLE
Sat-, Dec. 22-Dance, auspices
Seattle Section Communist

o6k1 4 LEE
Sat-, Dec. 22-Dance, auspices
Seattle Section Communist
Party, IOGT Hall.
Sum-, Dec. 23-Angelo Hern-
don, Mass Meeting, auspices
LID, Eagles Hall.
Fri, Dec. 2S-Benefit Dance
and election of delegates to
National Congress for Un-
employment Insurance, aus
pices UCL.
SUM-, Dec. 30-Dance and en-
tertainment at Finnish hall,
9Th and Yesler. Auspices
Seattle Youth Club. Door
prizes and program. Adm. 10
cents advance, 20 cents at
door.
Mon., Dec. 31-New Years Eve
Benefit Dance, Voice of Ac-
ton Drive, auspices Voice
of Action, IOGT hall.
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.
OLYMPIA
Sum, Jan. 6-First Of the Oh
ympia Lyceum lectures, s
p. m, K. 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, 7l3 K. First st.
JUANITA
Sat-, Dec, 22-Young Commun-
list League dance at Finn
Hill hall,
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Extra Commodities To
Follow Demonstration

TACOMA, Dec. 20 = Approx
mately $50 workers participated
in a demonstration called by To-
cal l of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis Dec. 10. They assembled at
the Pierce County headquarters
at 1925 Tacoma Ave., where speak
ers outlined the detectives Of the
demonstration.
A spokesman was elected to
present the demands that had
been decided upon and the work.
ers marched to the relief station
at 9Th and Fawcett, where they
demanded an answer to their de-
mands.
At first Mrs. Nichols refused to
give an answer, but when the
workers voted to remain until
an answer was forthcoming Mrs.
Nichols appeared and granted q
hearing.
Demands Listed
The demands were as follows:
/. $2.10 per person per week.
2. Milk, flour and other COM
modities.
3. Adequate clothing and school
supplies for the children Of the
unemployed.
A. Light, water and rent to be
taken care of for unemployed.
5 Hot lunches and milk for all
school children Of the unemploy-
ed.
6. An extra cash voucher for
Christmas.
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TUO Arrested

PORTLAND, Dec. 20 - Louis
lessen and Harold Foster were ar
rested Saturday for distributing
leaflets advertising the Angelo
Herndon-De Jonge meeting. Both
workers received SIS fines which
they are serving out in jail.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

the fishermen on
t he Columbia
river as a gill
netter in 1918.
The newly ell
ected National
Secretary is to
take charge of
the National Of
flee until the Ma
tional Conven-
ton to be held
in March elects
a permanent sec
rotary.
In order to un-
ify and strength
en- the union the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-It was learn
ed yesterday that the State will
imediately press charges Of riot
against Harold Broekway. who
was arrested May % for leading
the fight of transient unemploy-
ed for higher relief.
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To Introduce
Anti Red Bill

NEW YORK, Dec. 20-Faith-
fully carrying out the anti-labor
program of the Hearst press and
the U. S. Chamber of Commerce,
Representative Dickstein of New
York and a group of congress
men have drawn up legislation
for the next session of Congress
making it penal offense to be-
pong to any militant labor organ
fzations.
The bill provides for the depri-
yation of all rights of citizenship
and the reduction of the citizen,
foreign born or native, to the
status of an unnaturalized alien
If proved guilty within its pro-
visions and subject to all the pun
ishments provided for those gull
.ty of sedition.
Significant
Announcement that Dickstein
would sponsor this vicious meas
ure came in the midst of a poison
GUS barrage of lies directed by
the multi-millionaire William
Randolph Hearst against the
Communist Party and the Soviet
Union.
1t also came simultaneously
with President Roosevelt's cree
tion Ola new war preparations
board, headed by another multi
millionaire, Bernard M. Barch,
and created to whip labor into
meek submission for another
Wall Street war.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
SPECIAL NEWS FOR THE
e. FISHERMEN e.
PAUL DALE ELECTED ACTING NATIONAL SECRETARY OF
THE FISHERMEN AND cANNERY WORKERS IND UNION

SEATTLE Dec 20-Pau Dale the Fisher
Cannery Workers Industrial Union Columbia
River elected Acting National Secretary Of the union
place Emil Linden who met his death automobile accident
several weeks by the National Executive Committee
meeting held here December Executive Committee
Dale in this position felt
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

NANAIMO, B. c., Dec. 20-Last
week some 60 men and women on
relief workers laid seige to the
relief headquarters. The sunem-
ployed surrounded the office, be-
cause their relief had been cut
from $21 to SIG a month.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

ENGLAND-The English gov
eminent has just adopted a new
scheme of government for India,
as an answer to mounting waves
of revolutionary protest break
ing out in that region.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

Tile uIIIOh on The COIumDlh rlVef,
and as a gill-netter and seiner
for a good number of years,
would be of organizational ben
eft to the union.
Emil Linden, whose place Dale
will take, also gained his first
experience with the problems OF
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

ITALY-In what is probably
one of the initial moves in his
war plans, Mussolini has seized
all external credi,
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Win Relief for
Destitute Family

ANACORTES, Wash, Dec. 20
Joining the exodus OF farmers
from drought stricken areas a
family consisting of a man, his
wife, two children, ages 8 months
and years, respectively, and a
brother to the woman came from
the arid regions of Nebraska to
the "oasis" of Washington.
For while they lived in tent
until a neighbor offered them the
use of a shack. Applying for re-
lief they were given the meagre
dole offered transients. Nothing
was done about furniture, bed
ding, clothing, etc.
Baby Dies
On a mattress made of gunny
sacks and filled with ferns the
woman gave birth to premature
baby. With rain beating through
the cracks in the house, the in
FAINT died.
Hearing of the plight of this
family, Communist workers gath
cred a group of neighbors togeth-
er to protest to the relief organ
izations. At first the relief offic-
ial, Douglas Apologize, refused
to consider the case but after
pressure was brought to bear
he wrote out a voucher for shoes
for the man and children, stock
ings, overalls and shirts, blan-
kets, nightgowns and a three
dollar food requisition.
In this case the Veterans of
Foreign Wars assisted the COM
in gaining the demands.
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SIGN INITIATIVE FOUR
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Hernd0n, Leader

Continued from Page Onel
quate relief, unemployment in
surance, against all forms of seq
regation and discrimination.
The Washington times., 1934-06-06

nament champion, is 6 to 1 here,
with a lot of people looking for
him to win. He likes these mashie-
niblick courses because his aver
age off the tees doesn't beat 220
yards. Did it ever occur to any
one that there must be reason
for this? AS a matter of fact,
there are two, both of them knees.
Runyan's leg-action is faulty and,
if he wins this tournament, it will
be his first.
Same Trouble
Horton Smith, with a wide leg
spread, has the same trouble and
it is my guess that he'll have the
same result. He's never won a
major championship and, since he
began delving into the mysteries
of the theoretical, I'd say his
chances of winning one were
vague and remote. I don't know
much about these things but my
guess is that a golfer is like a
third baseman; once he begins to
think, he's ruined.
Lawson Little, recently winner
of the British amateur champion
ship with an amazing exhibition
The Washington times., 1934-06-06

of sub-par golf, just doesn't figure
here. He's only a couple of days
off the boat, for one thing. For
another, see him a great player
only on a great course. This is
not a great course. It makes no
demands on carries; it asks no
questions of tee shots, except that
they be accurately placed. Little
is one of those Slashing hitters
who get tremendous distance with
woods, whether it is needed or not
If all golf holes were 500 yards
they'd never beat him. AS it is,
on a snug course like this, he can
very easily beat himself.
Casual Shot Finds Trap
Johnny Goodman, the 1893
champion, has come here under
the most adverse circumstances a
champion has yet faced. He didn't
see the course until Tuesday. He
wasn't hitting his shots when he
left England. Beyond that he's all
right except that John is a bit
carefree off the tees and doesn't
begin to tighten his game until
On or near the greens.
That could very well be too late
The Washington times., 1934-06-06
BY DAVIS J. WALSH

PHILADELPHIA, June 6.-Back
here at Skokie, IL years ago, a
slim, young Italian played his
first open golf championship
and won it, with melodramatic
final round in the high COS. I
think he'll do it again, starting
here tomorrow at Merton, al
though he's now a squat, no longer
young Italian, who happens to be
the 5-to-1 favorite in the
books on the National Open. It's
the same man but a much better
golfer.
The books, therefore, are ap-
parently right for once. Gene
Sarazen has the two things neces-
sary to win this championship,
namely, the golf and the soul of
the true assassin.
It appears to be his tournament
and his course. He can take a
No. / iron on this tight but short
course and get all the distance he
wants, without sacrificing accu-
racy.
Paul Rrpyan, the winter tour
The Washington times., 1934-06-06
Pickups and
Putouts

Everyone seems to be picking
the other guy in the 1884 ma
tional open golf championship
:. Paul Runyan likes Macdonald
Smith. Gene Sarazen picks
Denny Shute. and Johnny
Goodman favOrs Runyan. but
Jack Doyle, the betting man,
has put the short odds on
Sarazen. "a n d smart money
leans to the OutspOken Italian
=. who calls a spade as he sees
it. and let's the chips fall
where they may. Lou Gehrig,
Iron Man" of the Yankees
missed his first game since June
l, 1925, when the Yankees took
on the New Haven Comm
ColonialS in an exhibition game
=. Gehrig remained in New
York to have his teeth renovated
=. however, his consecutive ma.
jOr league game string of 1892
remains unbrOken. Matte Brown
and Johnny RiskO saw yester-
days dOubleheader at the Grit
fifth Stadium. from different
boxes. Jack TulIOch's Twilight
Baseball League in Alexandria
drew SAL in receipts in one day
with tickets at 10 cents each.
The Washington times., 1934-06-06
COURSE OPENS
FOR PRACTICE
TOMORROW

Prospective entrants for the
Women's District golf champion
ship at Columbia, June 1922, can
use the course for practice tomor-
row morning. Mrs. Howard j.
SimonS and Mrs. H. King Corn
well are accepting entries.
Miss Helen Dettweiler, Congress
Sional Country Club, was facing
the medalist, Mrs. Jerome Sloman,
Suburban Country Club, in the
first round of match play in the
women's Maryland State cham
pionship over the Elkridge Hunt
Club course today. Miss Dettweiler
Tailed 90 in yesterdays qualifying
round. Mrs. Sloman scored "a.
Mrs. Smith Plays
Mrs. D. c. w. Smith, Elkridge,
was opposing Mrs. Leo Walper,
Kenwood, who also scored 90. Mrs.
Smith was runner-up to Mrs. Slo-
man for the medal honors with IS.
Thus, the two Washington wom-
en- who qualified for the champion
ship sixteen, are thrown into i'm
mediate combat with the qualify
ing leaders.
: Mrs. H. A. Knox, Congressional
Country Club and only other local
feminine golfer entered. qualified
for the first flight with los, and
today was meeting Mrs. w. Smith,
Baltimore County Club.
The Washington times., 1934-06-06
To EN- TER
JUN|ORPLA

Since Gilbert Hunt left home
to go to M. I. T. he's been doing
big things in a tennis way. He
recently won the New England
intercollegiate title.
He now has his eyes on one CT
the local titles, the District of
Columbia Junior championship.
The tournament begins Saturday
at Henry Park courts.
The boys championships also
are slated to begin Saturday at
the same courts.
Yelverton Garrett, the Choate
schoolboy, isn't expected to de-
fend his junior title. Buddy
Adair, boys champ is too old for
the boys division but should be
strong contender for the
juniors.
Besides Hunt, Nate Ritzenberg,
who put UP a stiff battle before
losing to Bud Markey in the re-
cent City of Washington tourney
is a real threat.
Billy Turner, of the Columbia
Country Club; Harry March, of
Techs team, and David johnson,
semifinalists in last years event,
are favoriteS.
The Washington times., 1934-06-06

here. The casually hit tee shot will
find a trap. I can guarantee it.
There must be at least 80 of them
on the course.
Tommy Armour. who led the
field for one dazzling round at
North Shore last year and then
faded, has great possibilities. He
always has great possibilities but
he probably needs another Oak
mont to repeat his 1927 champion
ship. KY Lafoon, bright young
man from Denver who had a 81
yesterday and hasn't been over
70 here yet, also has the chance
that brash youth always merits.
This is the thing that is keep
ing Hagen and Mac Smith battling
down there is the discards. When
the time arrives to come on,
they're back there on the sixteenth
fairway.
Johnny Revolta, just a young,
Slashing hitter, has a chance, pro-
vided he can string four good
rounds together. Most of them
can't. They're just one'round
HoganS
The Washington times., 1934-06-06

to send out a courier to tell
them when an innings over,
they're so far away!
''Why, the pitchers don't
have to pitch any more in this
game to win. The batterS do
all of the work.
Look at that 2O-tO-2 score
between Detroit and Cleveland
out there on the board. 1 tell
you in all of my playing ex-
perience with the old ball I
never remember such a score
being rung up in the National
League.
Baseball is almost altogether
a Slugging game with a ball as
full of coax as that one is.
They surely manufacture them
up at the Dupont Powder
Works."
And the longer we sat there
and watched and heard the
bingles defect off the Washing
ton and Philadelphia bats, the
more was our joint wonderment
at exactly what must be inside
those baseballs this year.
One of Those Days
1t seemed to just naturally be
one of those afternoons when a
ball was always being slashed
over the grass or down through
the dust. Poor old Buck had
good cause to rub his eyes and
reminisce of the days when a
whole week on the Giants or
Braves or Reds wouldn't see as
much hitting as did either one
of yesterdays games here.
And come to size up the situa-
ton there was some cause for
Herzog's EXPLANATIONS of won
derment. Twenty-Five hits in the
first game and twenty-five in
the second are a lot of hits in
any mans ball yard on a single
afternoon. 1t was not like that
during the palmy days of Can
taloupe Charley" The pitchers
saw to that!
No wonder Buck had that
Eddie CantoK look!
1t WAS quite a day for hit
ting. Besides all that heavy
artillery which was being laid
down at Griffith Stadium, the
boys were getting their cloutS
on other sectors. In the first
Cleveland-Detroit game 20 hits
were registered. Twenty-six
safeties ratified off the Braves
Giants bats, while thirty was
the sum total of the first
Brooklyn-Philly game.
They may be making that
standard ball at the Dupont'S
at that!
The Washington times., 1934-06-06
DEMPSEY USES
IRA 7 EGY
On BAER
BY HYPE IGOE

ASBURY PARK, N. j., June 6.
Is Jack Dempsey trying to goad
Max Baer into making a super
human fight against Primo Car
nera?
Jacks attitude toward Max is
on parity with the way Jack
Kearns used to treat Dempsey
himself. With Kearns, nothing
that Dempsey ever did in train
ing was quite right, with the re-
suit that Dempsey was always
hitting for high mark in his
career.
It was a deliberate plot on
Kearns' part. AS long as he pre-
tended that he wasn't satisfied
with Dempsey's training or his
fighting, Jack was all the more
anxious to serve his master. 1t
made him work or fight ten
times harder than he would have
under ordinary circumstances.
Trying 1t on Baer
It IS my private suspicion that
smartened-up Mister Dempsey is
now trying the same sort of CUFF
on Max Baer. Jack wants to
goad the fellow into fighting
above his speed. 1t is probably
the only way in the world to get
the best out of Baer. If Max is
left to his own notions, he won't
make half the fight that Dempsey
can bully out of him.
1t is the one way to make him
fight at his best, make him sore
at himself before the first bell
rings, and you'll see one of the
greatest fighting machines since
Ketchel or Dempsey himself.
It is a fellow like Dempsey who
would get Baer's goat. Max is a
sort of Dempsey twin in the fight
business. In many ways Baer has
taken Dempsey's place, and this
would be more pronounced should
Baer win the title.
The genial Dempsey has put on
a mask of scorn. He'll have to
keep on wearing it as long as Baer
is in action and Jack has anything
to say.
The Washington times., 1934-06-06

1t had Fred Schultz in the lead
off position, Buddy Myer, second,
Heinie Manush, third, Joe Kuhel,
fourth, Johnny Stone, fifth, Cecil
Travis, sixth, Manager Cronin,
seventh, and the catcher and
pitcher, eighth and ninth.
There are many reasons why
the change looked good, and why
it should function in better than
average fashion as the future I'M
folds itself. Manager Cronin him
self wasn't hitting and something
had to be done right away.
He effected this something"
by placing himself seventh. That
left the cleanup role vacant. The
young pilot filled this "hole" by
nominating Joe Kuhel, fourth, be-
cause as he stated after the twin
bill had ended for the day, Kuhels
ability to drive across the runs
was as good, if not better than
any other performer on the club.
Then the placing of Ere d
Schultz as lead-off position and
Cecil Travis, sixth. Fred was a
lead-off man for the st. Louis
Browns before his acquisition by
the Griffmen a couple of winters
ago, and a good one at that.
Change Benefits
So why not, Cronin argued, put
the big center fielder in that spot,
particularly as he figured a change
in position might benefit his bat
ting as much as a change in
scenery from the Browns to the
Griffs boosted his general value as
a regular performer?
Comment on this is arbitrary
here, but from the looks of things,
Schultz should deliver in great
fashion, because of being faster
than the average big man, be-
cause of his better than average
ability to wait 'em out" and last
but not least. his faculty for start
ing rallies by basehits with the
DdoCS CAAAPGy"
AS to Travis, his new position
appears to be the best handed him
since his entrance into the lineup
as regular. The lad, because of
his great hitting, was handed the
cleanup assignment on the recent
Western trip, but he failed to de-
liver in the fashion expected. This
was probably due to the import
ance he felt was attached to the
job, which mental worry caused
his drop in hitting form.
No More Worries
The youngster now will have
nothing to worry about but to
step up to the pan and hit the
ball. He demonstrated he was
less bothered in yesterdays dou-
ble-header against the AS when
in the first game, as a particu-
lar note, he raped to the out