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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Workers Mourn
Linden's Death

The working class of the Northwest mourns
a leader, Emil Linden. He headed the Fisher
men and Cannery Workers Industrial Union
from its founding to the day an auto accident
stopped his career of service to the union
AS leader OF the union he played leading
part in the building of the organization to the
largest among fishermen, with thousands of
members from Southern California to the Are
tie.
He fought trelessly against SuOja, Knapp,
Mattson, and other betrayers of the fishermen
and cannery workers. He organized and led the
strike of purse seiners on Puget Sound-the
strike which halted price slash and won re-
cognition of the union.
Linden is particularly missed by the Voice
of Action and its staff. In the first financial
drive for this paper the drive which made pos
sible installation OF the papers own print shop,
the Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial
Union topped the list for financial support
and Linden organized the campaign in the I'M
ion.
Active leaders of the working class move
ment are too few Whether it be through sick.
ness, accident or by the guns of an employers
hired thugs, we can not afford to lose one.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
LABOR PROVISION
VIOLATIONS GROW

NEW YORK, Dec. 6-The in
creasing number of labor viola
lions of labor provisions of NRA
codes is indicated in the latest
summary of complaints lodged
with the NRA Compliance Di-
vision.
Out of 10000 complaints on file
as of September 20, 1894, 1858
were concerned with wage and
hour violations. These figures do
not include complaints handled
by industry through code author
tiles but only those filed with
state NRA compliance directors.
The following table, secured
from the AFL news service and
showing number of complaints
on file as of September 20, 1884,
indicates the industries in which
the largest number of violations
occur:
Restaurant, 2,277; retail food
and grocery, LII; hotel, ZAP;
trucking, 725; motor vehicle re-
tail, 1873, motor vehicle storage
and parking, 647;
Graphic arts, 564; baking, $50;
lumber and timber, 495; con-
struction, 493; cleaning and dye
ign, 464; retail trade, 456.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Section /. That system of Unemployment
Insurance be established guaranteeing the
average wages in the respective industries and
territories in the State of Washington.
Section 2. This act shall be known as the
Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill
Section 8. The Unemployment Insurance
shall not be less than $1,000 weekly for each
adult worker and $500 weekly for each depend
ent.
Section 4. All workers wholly unemployed
through no fault of their own, shall be entitled
to the benefits of this act for the entire period
of their unemployment. There shall be no dis
elimination. Unemployment insurance shall be
paid to every unemployed worker, adult and
youth, whether industrial or agricultural office
employee, and all other categOries of wage labor
native or foregn-bOn, citizen or nOn-citizen
white or Negro, man or woman, without discrm-
ination against race, color age or political opin
iOn No worker shall be deprived of unemplOy-
ment insurance because of refusal to take the
place of strikers or to work for less than union
rates of pay.
Section 5. The full funds for unemployment
insurance shall be raised from funds now set
aside for the state militia and other military
purposes and by taxation upon incomes over
$1,000 year. In no instance shall there be any
contributions levied upon the workers in any
form whatsoever for this insurance.
section 3. The unemployment insurance
fund shall be administered and controlled by the
workers through unemployment insurance COM
missions composed of rank and file members of
workers organizations. Unemployment insur-
ance commissions shall be empowered to estab-
fish free employment exchanges for the regis
tration of workers. the payment of unemploy
ment insurance, the hearing of contested claims
for unemployment insurance and appeals from
awards made.
Section T. Social insurance shall be paid to
workers to the amount of not less than $1,000
weekly for adult workers, and $500 for each de-
pendent, to compensate for loss of wages
through sickness, accident, old age, maternity
Section s. Part-time workers shall receive
the difference between their wages and the I'M
employment insurance benefit No worker shall
be disqualified from receiving unemployment
insurance because he refuses to work at wages
below what he was formerly receiving or below
the prevailing trade union rates in that vicinity,
nor shall he or she be disqualified for refusing
to work because of strike, of unsafe or unheaith-
full conditions nor where hours are longer than
the usual trade union standards in the partcu-
lar trade or locality. An employee shall not be
required to accept employment If the establish
ment where employment is offered is at an I'M
reasonable distance from his or her home.
Section 8. This act shall take effect immed
ately and remain in force until the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance bill has
been enacted by the federal government.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

From a worker who last year
did perhaps more than any other
one person in making the drive
for an enlarged Voice of Action
a success comes a letter full OF
suggestions for the Voice of Ac-
tion drive for six-page paper.
We want more suggestions
from all over the Northwest. We
want to know how you can help
us, what methods you think are
best, so that the drive beginning
January l will go over with a
bang from the very first peal of
the New Years bells. Let us hear
how you are going to help give
the workers in the Northwest a
six-page paper.
The letter from Olympia fol-
lows.
Olympia, Wn.
Dear Editor,
| suggest a Voice of Action Ly-
ceum course of six lectures, one
week apart in as many places as
possible.
This series of lectures should
be along lines appealing to the
ordinary citizen, and drifting
toward our view point.
A socialist competition for
subs covering the entire six
weeks to begin on the first night
and awarding the prize on the
last night. Credits given with
each sub and also with each
ticket and should be graduated:
3 months sub, 100 credits; 6
months sub, $50 credits; l year
sub, 500 credits. Admissions
should have a separate scale. All
admission tickets, 10 credits, ex-
cept the last night, which should
be rs credits.
1t should be arranged so that
each speaker could make the
whole circuit at one trip, the sec
ond should follow the first and
so on.
Someone who could organize
the contest should accompany
the first speaker and also the
last speaker in order to get a
good finish. The proceeds from
admissions can be used to defray
expenses and the balance credit
ed to the local organization.
| estimate that each course
should turn in $500 in subs be-
sides paying expenses.
The Lyceum course should be
well billed and played up in the
Voice Of Action by featuring the
speakers, etc.
II I could be of service in or
ganizing the contest ! would be
glad to do so.
This is intended only as a sug-
gestion and fully realize there
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Workers Art in Block Prints

newspaper costs $40 and up for a
two column cut. A few bills like
that would bankrupt the Voice.
The use of wood blocks and
later linoleum was tried and has
proved to be a success. The wood
cuts were put aside in favor of
linOleum cuts because wood for
block printing is rather expens-
i've and is easily damaged.
Workers who undoubtedly had
the interests of the paper at
heart criticized the new prints on
the ground that the PI, Star and
other capitalist papers had nice
shaded and carefully drawn car
toons, and we should have the
same.
These workers didn't realize
several things, one is that block
printing is the Oldest and high
est developed form of illustra-
ton. In the bourgeois art camp
the prints of Gaughin and hun
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
By Tony Perez

When the Voice" first ap-
peared as a newspaper, limited
funds necessitated the finding of
an inexpensive method to Illus
trate the paper.
One of the first methods was
to get cartoons from the Daily
Worker and other Eastern re-
evolutionary publications, which
cost the Voice" little more than
the postage to have them sent to
Seattle.
This was not entirely satisfac-
tory because workers who read
the Daily had already seen the
cartoons and the Voice" looked
like a rather la teeditiOn of that
paper.
Also there could be no way of
illustrating local problems with
eastern cartoons.
Ink Cartoons Expensive
To have an ink cartoon pro-
cessed so that it can be used on
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

>dreds of other artists and the
block prints of the japanese and
Chinese artists rank first in all
the art mediums.
Other Papers Use Block
Also the so-called better" pa
pers such as the Forum" Men
tor" and the local Town Crier,"
have for years used this method
of illustrating. Jack Conroy's re-
evolutionary magazine, the AN
vil," has always used this method.
Print No. two, Funeral of a
Striker" in the series of eight
revolutionary prints by Lin,
shows how well this medium fits
into the mood of the subject.
Those who have seen the grim,
silent and massive funeral march
es of workers in strike centers
will see in this cut something
that the fine lines and soft black
pencils of the cartoOnist in the
boss papers could never make.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
DR.. BreUing,
BIC. Minister,
Praises USSR
By Laura Hilton

Imagine a capitalist press de-
voting banner head and ten
columns of space to a glowing
account of a visit to Russia paid
by a preacher. Yet this is what
happened on the return of DR..
Brewing of Vancouver, b. c.,
who claims he is willing to go
to any school or any teacher" on
his return from Russia.
A place where a goddess peO-
pie are building a godly social
ORDER where prostitution is non
existent and where contented
workers toll and learn in flower
decked factories; where a sound
er and more consistent philoso-
ply of marriage existed and
where there were no classes and
no man could exploit the labor
of another is the picture present
ed by Brewing, who states that
Lenin may be greater man than
Christ because he could get peo-
pie to accept his order and do the
things that needed to be done.
The great reforms and the out
standing example of Russia as
the pioneer of a new social order
was praised by this open-minded
pastor as he pleaded with the ma
tions of the world to aid Russia
in her effort, not to hinder her
progress.
Ten columns of the Vancouver
Sun were devoted to the report
ing of DR.. Brewing's talk telling
the Canadians what they could
learn from Russia and pointing
the way in which coordinated
thinking could lead to a higher
form of living.
Would the Seattle Times, we
wonder, give as much of it's val
liable space if the Reverend DR..
Mark Matthews should forget to
investigate crime and vice long
enough to learn a lesson from
Russia?
The schools, the happy youth,
the individual spirit and the I'm
ique preservation of art were
elaborated on by DR.. Brewing. In
spite of his calling, DR.. Brewing
criticized the place of the church
in the old order in Russia and
blamed it for many of the cor
ruptions and for the irreligious
attitude of the people.
He concluded his speech with
the statement, Il look back on
Russia now, as one of the great
teachers Of the world"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

get is 1895, 100000, the largest in
her history.
II. L. Buell. In an article In
the New York Times, Nov. Is,
estimates that the military ex-
penditures for 1884 increased over
those of 1914 1.-THE first year of the
world war; 48.S per cent for Great
Britain, 1903 per cent for the
United States, and 1888 per cent
for Japan.
In 1885 the increase will be still
more.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
NV Workers Press

The Northwest bids fair to rival New York for
a center of working class publications First the
Voice of Action is the only mass united front
paper in the country
Second, the Waterfront Worker, published
by rank and file groups in the International
Longshoremen's Association is the only printed
publication of the militants within an AFL
union with the exception of the Printing
Worker" a fine magazine published by the
unemployed association of the Big Six in New
York.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
THE KIND OF LETTER We
Like to Get

Snohomish County
Dear Editor:
Enclosed is 81 for a six months
subscription to the Voice.
l am soliciting names for In
itiative A at present and trying
to get subscribers at the same
time.
Send me a bundle of ten copies
next week as | intend to go
down to a nearby town to the
relief station and give them
away if l can't sell them.
Good luck to you,
"A Voice of Action Supporter.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
PERU WORKERS IN REVOLT

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 3-Two hun
bred workers have been arrested
and two killed following a revolt
against the Peruvian govern
ment.
The workers stormed the ar
mory in an attempt to take over
the city of Lima.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

NEW YORK, Dec. 6-The New
York Times reports that Harry
Redkey, state director of tran
sients in Florida, has ordered all
transient unemployed in Florida
to go on work projects in order to
get relief. Those refusing will be
arrested as Migrants and sentenc-
ed to long terms In the Florida
chain gangs.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
BANNER OF SOVIET AMERICA

Lift up your eyes, Respondent workers,
Fling to the wind your needless fears,
We who unfurl this crimson banner
Say it shall wave a thousand years.
thousand years-perhaps forever!
Wen fight for all and all for one
To down the class that would enslave us
We pledge our lives; it shall be done !!
r.. w.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Workers Correspondence

,may be many reasons why it
could not be used.
An Olympia Supporter.
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Subscribe For A Friend

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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
TEXT OF
INITIATIVE 4

AN ACT to provide for the establishment of
Unemployment and Social Insurance, and other
purposes.
BE 1T ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

W0dC Une HOu-dBBTeSSlOl pact
between the USSR and France
does is to check the war crisis, for
continued peace is vital to the
growing united front against war
and fascism.
1t gives the workers of France
and the rest of the world time
to increase their strength and
at the same time prevents their
being slaughtered on imperialist
battlefields.
The war scare which was being
used by fascists in France, Ger
many, Poland and Japan to pre-
pare for greater terror and en-
slavement of the masses has re-
ceived a severe setback at the
hands of the Soviet peace policy.
The negotiations concerning
naval expansion now being held
at London between England, ia
pan, and the United States have
broken down. Japan intends to
reject the whole agreement some
time this month.
England Plays Double Hand
England is playing a double
hand. She does not want to an
tagonize the United States but
she has no intention of giving
up her partnership with Japan in
the exploitation of China.
Statesmen talk about peace
but here are some of their wal
appropriations. The French wal
budget for the next year is 1892,
073,000 Seattle Times, Nov. 27).
The Japanese present war bud
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Anti Sernitisn

This is a review Of John l.
Spivak's first article appearing
in the New Masses, October 2.
His second article will be re-
viawAd naxt Waak.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

To have an ink cartoon pro-
cessed so that it can be used on
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-05-16
= C1zsorslca s7
MO cKfNC HOUSE
~ WAEIER 6. BROWN.

ticed the reporter percned BY the
radiator and regarding him with the
peculiar smile OF the cat who has
Just swallowed the canary. Harper
checked the question. Standing
erect and silent. he pulled OF his
gloves. while he and the reporter
exchanged long, non-committal
stare. Harper uhbuttoned his over.
coat and loosed the muller. reveal
ing his formal attire.
"How did you get out here.
Doyle?" he questioned at last.
Il walked--the last mile or So"
was the flip answer.
Harper walked over and sat down
beside him. "You know what Imean.
Why are you hanging around here?"
D0YLE brought a folded newspa-
~ per from his pocket and handed
It over. page one. column three"
he advised YEARLY. reaching for an
other cigarette.
The reporter permitted himself
another knocking smile. You've
been outguessed. Sergeant. Mark
son pitched the boys that yarn about
Dufresne coming up here to his
house tomorrow. | printed 1t. but !
smelled a rat Just the same. figured
that was Just a little cheese to bali
the trap and that either yonor Barry
would be up, this way to get some
advance dope land arrange for
warm reception AHohld our friend
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LECALS
NOTICE or APPLICATION FOR
FINAL DISCHARGE
In re Estate Of

In re Estate of
ENRIQUE GISPERT, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to tall
whom itsmay concern that on the
18th day of May, A. ID. 1894, the un-
dersigned administrators cum tesfa-
mentO annex0 A. Indignant will app
ply to the Honorable Hugh Gum,
County Judge in and for Monroe
County, Florida, for his final dis
charge as administrator cum testa-
mento annex0 Of the Estate of En-
rique Gispert. deceased: and that at
the same time he Will make final
returns of his accounts as Ad-
ministrator cum testamento annex0
of said estate and ask for their ap-
proval.
Dated March IA, 1894.
A. LUCIGNANI,
Administrators cum testamento an
nexo of the Estate of Enrique
Gispeft, deceased.
WILLIAM w. ALBIJRY,
Attorney for Administrator cum
testament0 annexo.
mari 4-2l-2s; apr4-l1-Is-25; may2-
s5sas;sxas lssSsss
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the crank Try ID Anish his Job. De.
duction. simple deduction"
Harper nodded. Il see. Perhaps
you can dednce the next mover"
"That depends" the reporter re-
piled. I'D say the best play would
pc TO fake the removal Of Dufresne
from the Austerlitz to his home and
then watt fof the crank to try again.
e that's thu scheme. you needn't
worry. All the boys viii play 1t up
strong for you. Am | right?"
@That's too eood % be only 1
guess, the detective answered.
Il know your methods. Sherlock
Holmes. Doyle retorted. then
dropped bis voice Into Z mora e.
ripus tone. rlve beer let in on tie
ground floor. Delievs II or not. 1
know Dufresne. BE consulted with
me abont those letters before be-
went kos Gonipfs aboa 1t. That was
my advice | didn't like the tone 81
them. not BIT IsaM Dufresne be.
tore yuu reported there. He'd juss
finished talking with Connors over
the phone and - asked me about
this man stephen Harper who was
being assigned to the case. told
him you were the smartest detectIva
NORTH OF ne MsAon md Dixon Tine"
Thanks for your good opinion
was HarpeF's Cry comment.
Listen. Harper. was Dufresne
drunk when you left him at the Aus.
terlifnls
The detective nodded.
Il thought 90. Doyle continues.
At that moment the white huib
On thesNileAboard nAred. anH Myers
elapped On his sarphonoa Al ne
AIst few words ~ sllRened. -ThxEs
ccnnally.r BE Aang ever his shoak
der. they've found Hamlll at No.
- PoMAasan TefFAos-and there's
another dead man IN the sam1
ruomls
Doyle looked q Harper. ana nar
per looked ~ Doyle.
fcspssisAt. sssi. - Wslisr 9. Srsnnl
ne ersw - co aan1ls snases.
tonnesraN. usahsa Z esussenls en-
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Chapter Seven
ENTER TRAGEDY

II EVILS sat bolt upright at men
~ ton Of those names, while the
others ceased their activities tohear
mere Of this. Detective Barry was
virtually in command Of the plain
i<iothesmen n the Central District.
While Sergeant Stephen Harper
Wns the psrticular bright and shin
Ing light Of the Homicide Squad.
What would they be- doing up
AeEefs Lewis queried. What's up?g
Don't gou read the papers, Ser.
gsknt7" he leased. HThis is front
page stun andlthe gent lives in your
own bailIwick. Isee you've got my
Dapsr there. Page one. column
TIRES Another scoop for Howard
Doyis. rye got date here tonight
with either Barry or Harper and
WON'T they be surprised" He
erinhed through q pun b blae
.W&.|.
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seeseessssssessessessese
Foday's Horoscope

Here we have grea. intuition
and a powerful, perhaps naughty.
nature. You ought to make a
place for yourself in the world.
but do not be too anxious to fight
for justification, but rather seek
to win it by merit. Seek friends
and use your position to help 9TH
theirs not so fortunate, and re-
member that pride generally has
a fall.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-05-16

SYNOPSIS: 10 eeems Obvious
that the man tDho dg5bHshe6 Pierre
DmfFesiie. contractor and political
soccer - he sOho b0s bSen eelIdin0
DHfresme threatening letters. But
Sergeant Hdrpef % not 80 eifye,
auiItgs Dujres9te Is about to open
bis house On the edge 0f the city az
bait for the guilty man eShert01
DoNle, reporter. dFrfves az the 18TH.
PrecjMct police at0fi0n jltst as on
ser HdniII fails to P1tll HE boz
fer the frat time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-05-16
SURVIVE POISONING

BRADFORD, Eng.-Miss Wini-
fred Fielding and John Astbury
of this city took poison in a suicide
pact, but both survived and land
ed in Jail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-05-16

Lewis spread out the newspaper
Ana turned ID the indicated epotI
HEADING the column was 4 picture
81 Duffesne's brown coupe, with
heavy circles drawn around the bul.
let marks. Inset was q photograph
Of the dapper Pierre Dufresne him.
self. Then followed q double-col.
umn account OF the anonymous and
threatening letters and their dra.
matte sequel. which had 50 narrowly
averted tragedy.
They read through the account.
while Doyle warmed himself and
blew smoke rings toward the cell.
FMS. Before they could question him
further there was an interruption.
This was . blast from an automobile
siren ~ . car came peIting aiohs on
skid chains and halted outside.
Voices were heard and the slam.
ming Of an auto door.
Two men came stamping ii. siiiE
and cold from . long drive They
we're Officers smith and HILLARY,
the crew OF Bandit Chaser No. Is,
now steaming and chugging outside.
Siilleary knew the reporter and
dropped friendly nod In his dIrec.
ton. I'VE just came In to warm up
for q minute" he explained to Ser.
eeant Lewis:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-05-16

Quick checking of figures and
calculations may be made BY a
new slide rule for engineers. field
men and students.
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SALESMAN WANTED
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chants would like to secure
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and small amount Of cash cap
ital as some merchandise must
be carried in car. Line well es-
tablished and offers wonderful
opportunities to right party.
See or write Mr.. Al. b. Ander-
son, Ponce DeLeon Hotel, Mi
ami, Fla, Friday and Saturday.
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