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Use Labor Day TO MisIedd
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against the brutal attacks police meeting
wounded.
by police blood bath followed which resulted rail-
and the imprisonment of other militant leaders This
the signal offensive against labor all the country
But the struggle for eight hour day continued In 1890
May celebrated strikes all the United
States and in European countries.
the reaconay labor leaders fought against mil
action tried to destroy the meaning of May Day by
eng the observance sOaed Labor Day the first Mon
day September Labor Day adopted in localities
1885 later granted by state
anti-dote to May First celebrations
the American Federation of Labor mis-
federal government 1923 when they
emaculae May First still by setting May Child
That this Enthusiastically effort
mtancy First is shown by the following
resolution submitted to the American Federation OF Labor
AT the time May longer will be known
a either strike day Communist Labor Day"
workers of the world continue to hold May Day
Labor Day evidenced by the demonstrations held all
the world last May l.
of the meaning of May Day has been
the tremor Of the capitalists that day
massing police armies ready to shoot down
the workers.
mseaders OF the American Federation Of
the capitalist class and their terror do not in
spirit of the working class OF the world
Weekly Worker of April a. 1907 Eugene ". Debs
edition This the first and only Inter-
national Day belongs to the working calss and b
dedicated Revolution"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
FIGHT ON PEONAGE LED
BY COMMUNIST CANDIDATE
Aberdeen Mayor Turns Fascist
To Protect Eastern Bankers

ABERDEEN, Wash. Aug. 80
Although a picked audience of
fascist supporters cheered Justify
as Mayor HOrroek's viciously de-
nOunced a committee of workers,
headed by Lydia Somerville, Com
munist candidate for Commits
sioner District 2. which again
sought a hearing before the City
Council on the question of free
water for the unemployed. an
other section of the audience
listened to the crude attack in
silence.
This section was made up OF
workers whose water had been
turned off; workers who were
shaving on the pipe line to pay
back water bills; workers who are
beginning to wonder just what
is so sacred about that $S0,C00
debt owed to the fat-paunched
bankers in the East; work rs
who are beginning to look to the
Communist Party as the only
party of the working class.
Hizzoner Red Batter
These workers listened to the
rantings and rawlings OF the red
bloOded Mayor" as he shouted,
"These sO-called workers are not
workers; they never would work
They are representatives of a
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Berry Field Refuses To
Paw Workers. Bonuses

PACIFIC CITY, August 30 -
When all the pickers at "a berry
field here quit at the same time
because they were not making
anything, the foreman refused at
first to pay them their bonus.
Pearl and Bertha Moore, two of
the pickers, tried to ganize "a
committee to go to the foreman
and demand the bonus.
A small committee finally call
ed on the foreman, and those who
were on the committee got .hGi"
bonus which amounted TO about
seven dollars. The others lost
out.
Farmers on relief here are won
dering whether they will get
spray, which is a necessity for
them, or whether they are eX-
pected to buy it out of their
skinny food vouchers.
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Tacoma Welfare Hits
A Small Grocery. Stores
BY a Worker Correspondent

TACOMA, Aug. 30-The relief
set-up OF Pierce County has been
making a concerted drive upon
small business to see that they
give to those on relief only that
which is on the list Gas per
list"l.
One japanese who was SYM
pathetic to the workers gave
them a little better than the
list called for. The welfare
stopped so low (they are SO
low now that STOPPING is easy)
to sending a woman stool to
frame this man. She even got
so cents from him on the pre-
text that she needed something
he did not have in the store.
They now have the grOcers so
frightened that they will not
give anything the list does not
include, SO the workers have to
use 10 cent coffee and other gro
ceries not fit for human con-
sumption.
The japanese grocer came to
the writer asking what | thought
best for him to do. | pointed out
that this was enc of the ways of
putting all of the little ones out
OF business and giving it to the
Zig fellows, and that ne and the
workers would have TO put up
q determined fight if he was to
get his trade back.
The workers of the state
must be prepared for a bitter
struggle after the first of the
month, as there are big
changes to take place in the
relief set-up.
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faction of radicals whose activi-
ty stirs every red-blOOded Ameri-
can"
Warming to his subject. the
Mayor continued, Paid agitat-
ors will not be extended the pri-
vilege of the floor during this adj
ministration."
1t is reported that many of
the audience rushed to congratu-
late him at the close of his denial
to the committee of their right
of petition and free speech. The
committee had come to demand
the free water promised them by
provision made by the FERA adj
ministration and which the city
administration had seen cit to
disregard.
Communists Hit Back
The Communist Party of Abb
erdeen has answered this ehal-
lenge by issuing thousands of
leaflets to the workers. intellect
uals, professionals and small bus
mess men of Aberdeen, calling
upon them to send protest reso-
buttons from their organizations
or groups to Mayor Horroeks, de-
handing the right OF workers to
practice their constitutional
rights. I'll has also called upon all
workers to organize in the neigh.
borhoods to carry on the fight
for adequate relief, and to all
lumber workers to oragnize into
the National Lumber Workers
Union.
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lid Offers to-Defend liza
30 Union LOngshOremen Framed In Death Of
Portland Scab; lid First To Pledge Aid
Men Charged With Murder

PORTLAND, ore, Aug. ~ -
Following the strike breaking
policy consistently pursued by
them, the Portland ship-owners
are building a company scab I'M
ion called the Columbia River
Longshoremen's Association. On
Monday, August 20, about 50 un-
ion longshoremen visited the hir-
ing headquarters of the newly
formed scab union to stop the
employment of scabs.
A fight ensued, during which
Conner, scab longshoreman and
student at the University OF Ore
gon, was fatally shot.
Immediately union long
sh.oremen who could be identi-
fled as being at the scene OF the
scene of the battle, were round
ed up by police and jailed on
first degree murder charges.
Some of these arrested workers
talked while others, who had
evidently digested the leaflets
issued by the International La
Dor Defense during the strike,
refused to give any informa-
ton whatever.
Although witnesses testified
that the shot which killed Con-
nor was fired from inside the
headquarters OF the scab union,
police still tried to place the kill
ing upon the lila union long,
shOremen. AS a result, 30 LIZA
members have been charged with
first degree murder.
Faced with such program the
militant brothers facing murder
charges, all the members afraid
that anyone might be framed
next, the members of the Inter-
national LongshOremens Associa-
tion felt deeply the need of sup
port. The local capitalist press
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Front Line

Continued from Page One
is, he will claim an endorse
ment of his whole New Deal
Hunger Program.
At the beginning of the cris-
is. the capitalist politicians
wouldn't even speak of unem-
ployment insurance, 1t was
"Un-American."
Now after four years, during
which the Communist Party
has rallied the masses to de-
mand unemployment insur-
ance, the words roll off the pol
iticians' tongues as easily as
High tariff and Low tariff
used to.
But they will not speak of
the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, originally drawn
up by the Communist Party,
and the only bill that provides
a complete system of social in
surance of real benefit for the
masses.
Roosevelt's sincerity on his
promises of social insurance is
not even debatable.
He stands already indicted
as the arch-enemy of the work
ing class-as the great strike
breaker the great war-maker.
Only one party comes into
the elections with a program
of struggle against Roose-
velt's program OF hunger, war
and fascism.
Vote Communist!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
BOSSES FEAR FCWIU

ANACORTES, Wash, Aug. 30
When the heavy run of fish ar
rived here this season, the can
neries, instead of hiring the ex-
perienced cannery workers of
AnacOrtes, sent to Aberdeen and
to a nearby Indian reservation
for inexperienced sinners and
hand-packers.
The bosses were afraid the An
acortes workers were organized,
and would struggle for higher
wages and better conditions in
the canneries.
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LlVhl e6S OAiS
of this law, and was one OF those
arrested.
Spangol, who has fished for
rs years in Puget Sound wat
ers, has his home in Hoquiam,
Washington. Since the hard
times with their accompanying
low prices, Spangol has formed
the practice of cruising along
the coast of California, where
there is no residence law, fish
ing for sardines in between the
regular salmon seasons in Pn-
get Sound. It is on this four
or five month cruise, however,
that the law" based its claim
that Spangol has forfeited his
legal residence in Washington.
Emil Linden, National Secre!
tary of the FCWIU, which is lay.
ing plans to fight these residence
laws, went to AnacOrtes upon
hearing OF the arrests and was
himself arrested an hour after
his arrival. Lodged in the Border
Patrol Station, Linden was sub.
jected to a Star Chamber hear.
ing before the United States
Marshall.
Linden Threatened
When Linden refused point
blank to answer any and all
questions, the marshall threat
ened that he would be charged
with perjury, and that he had
better talk or he would receive
five years in striped suit with
number on his head"
Although the international
Labor Defense failed to arrive
on the scene until after the
trials had been rushed through
the fishermen recognized the
value of the working-class or
ganization which. seeks to aid
arrested workers before the
majesty of the courts, and are
eager to work with it in future
struggles.
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little bonds will pick the neces-
sary money off the fig trees.
And all this bond selling and
brokerage business will take
place in spite of the fact that
EPIC will create new and self
maintaining world for our unem-
ployed. in which they will live,
having as few dealings as possible
with our present world of specu-
lators and exploiters" Up. Isl. Just
sweet little utopian island of
the unemployed in the midst Of
the storm-tossed sea OF capital
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which rule our world today" as
part of the business autocracy'
by which we have been ruled
ever since the Civil War" Up. Al,
over whom Sinclair cries his eyes
out.
No more space need be given
such. phantasies that consti-..
tute Sinclair's political and &C.
onomic programs" These are
only follies; deceit and treach-
cry toward the working class
are much more serious, and
Upton Sinclair Is guilty Of this.
Continued Next Week
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ism.
Now for the political side. Not
even Upton Sinclair has quite
enough crust to assert that he
can bring this Kingdom Come all
by himself, but only provided
you elect me Governor, with
Legislature to support me- Up. u.
The election Of such an EPIC
Legislature, would. as the high
school boys say. simply be duck
SOUP" in the California of the
Fleishackers. Croekers and STAN
ley Dollars, the men who consti-
tute the cruel and wicked forces
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
Grays HarbOr To Elect
Delegates To CP Meet

ABERDEEN, Wash. Aug. 30
The Grays Harbor Section of the
Communist Party is calling upon
all working class organizations to
elect two delegates to its nomin-
ating convention to be held on
primary election day, Tuesday,
September II, at 2 D. m. at the
Workers Hall, 7l3 f. First St.,
Aberdeen.
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WHERE TO GO

SEATTLE, Sept. 3, entertainment
at Interplay Local, UCL, 18th
and West Wheeler. Political
speakers, refreshments. Adm. Zoe.
SEATTLE, Sept. 4, p. IN. Mass
meeting sponsored by the South
Ballard Local UCL, 5203 Ballard
Ave. for increase in vouchers.
Joel Strand will speak.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
SECTION S, CP, IN PICNIC

TACOMA, Wash, Aug. 3O-At
Glendawn Park on Five Mile
Lake, about ten miles from Ia
coma, Section Five of the Com
munist Party, held their annual
picnic Sunday, August 26.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-08-31
MASS MEETING

SEATTLE, Aug. 30-The Street
PAYERS Sewers and Water Main
Union will hold an open mass
meeting in Washington Hall,
18th and East Fir Thursday, Sep
TENDER 6. at 1880 p. IN. All well
come.
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Lawrence Settler, LID attorney
will go to Kelso this week to ar
range the release of the workers
if bond can be raised.
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80 arrested in New York strike
against raising of bread prices.
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Break FCWIU
Agreement

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
BOUNDARY CASE
EXTENDED

An extension of so days to the
time during which Arlington
county must file its claim in the
boundary dispute between Vir
ginia and the District of Colum
bia was granted yesterday by the
Boundary Commission at a meet
ing in Washington.
Henry H. Classic, counsel for
the Federal Government, said at
the hearing that individual prop.
erty owners would be required to
file their claims before the com
mission at the same time as they
are filed by Arlington county
and Virginia.
William C. Cloth, Virginia mem.
Der of the commission, contended,
on the other hand, that individ'
ual property owners should not
be required to file such claims un-
til they had previously been
filed by both the Federal Gov
eminent and Virginia. At the
conclusion of the meeting, the
commissions request for claims
was dropped.
Former State Senator Frank l..
Ball, special counsel for Arlington
county, also represented the At
torney Generals office at yester-
days session.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
Citizens Group Asks
New Fire Euuipment

Randle Highlands Citizens AS
ISOLATION, meeting last night in
the Orr School, passed resolutions
requesting the District Commits
sioners to supply new fire fighting
equipment.
It was stated that secondhand
equipment was now in use.
A report from the executive
committee was Endorsed for a new
Pennsylvania Avenue bridge, the
opening of Minnesota Avenue,
from Pennsylvania Avenue to
Benning, and a swimming pool
for the Randle Highlands com
munity.
A request will be forwarded to
the Capital Transit Company to
place modern buses in operation.
Endorsement was given the pro.
posed organization of South
Washington Citizens Associations
conference, to which H. A. FL
more, H. Marti, R. H. Randall,
A. H. Bacas, and A. H. Leapley
were appointed delegates.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
NAVY AIR PIONEER BURIED

Capt. washington Irving Cham
bers, U. s. NJ, retired, one of the
pioneers in naval aviation, was
buried today in Arlington National
Cemetery with full military honors.
Captain Chambers, who was 70
years old, died Sunday while en-
route to the Capital from San
Diego, Cal.
A graduate Of the Naval
Academy with the class Of 1875,
Captain Chambers served with the
Greedy Relief Expedition to the
Arctic in 1884.
During the SpaniSh-American
War he was on torpedo duty, and
later commanded several ships.
In 1907 he was assigned to the
Bureau of Ordnance, and later
began his interest in aeronautical
work which resulted in the first
naval appropriation for that work
in 1911.
He was the inventor of the sys-
tenn of catapulting planes from
warships as we'll as other devices
Retired in 1918, he was recalled
to active duty the following year
and served until after the World
War.
Captain Chambers is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Isabelle r. Cham,
bers, and a son, Lieut.. Comdr. If.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
CHILDREN HELP
YOUTH CENSUS

Public school children will aid
in the biennial census Of all
youths Of school age in Prince
Georges county. the basis OF
which is used in the distribution
of over a million dollars Of State
aid to education.
Facing a task made particularly
difficult by the country's mobile
population, school officials are
asking children, through their
teachers, to list all the children
in their respective neighborhoods
lists which will be checked with
the census taken two years ago to
determine the countrywide in.
crease.
Instructions were being sent
principals of schools today by the
office Of the Board of Education
at Upper Marlboro.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
CHURCH T0HO[D
HOMECOMING

Lincoln Temple Congregational
Church will observe its fifty.third
annual homecoming services Sun
day, October Z.
Every department in the church
is to take part in the program.
There will be a choir of 100
voices under the direction Of
Henry Grant and Miss Mary
Europe.
Provision will be made for
elderly members to be carried to
and from the church. The only
living former pastor of the
church, the Rev. Emory B. Smith,
will have a special place on the
program. Representatives from
other denominations and churches
will also participate in the cele-
bration.
The Rev. R. w. Brooks is
pastor of the church.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
Births and
Marriages
BIRTHS

Carl o. and Helen NJ. Romborg, girl
twins.
Arthur R. and Florence X. Gsiger. boy.
William ]. and Dorothy E. higgins,
boy.
Walter ]. and Havis L. ODonohue,
boy.
Thomas D. and Anna r. Neville. boy.
George W. and Martha A. Morgan, boy.
Edwin and Emily w. Tribute. girl.
Wayne P. s. and Shirley Mckinley,
girl
Henry E. and Mae Corvelli, girl.
Emanuel and Dorothy Sachs. girl.
Ralph L. and Rosetta r. Patten, girl.
Carl B. and Mabel s. Peters, girl.
Sterling P. and Wilhelmina NJ. Roberts,
boy.
John o. and Myrtle Holmes, boy.
George H. and Thelma Casey, boy.
William o. and Aubrey NJ. Washing
ton. girl.
Thomas r. and Charlotte NJ. Ellerbe,
girl
Daniel and Frances Mackall, boy
James r. and Cassie NJ. Redd, girl.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
CHARITY To GET
HORSE SHOW
RECEIPTS

Through the generosity of
Montgomery county individuals
and firms who have donated
most Of the prizes and materials
for this years county horse show,
it will be possible to use prac-
tically the entire income from the
show for charitable purposes, it
was made known today by mem
bers of the show committee.
This years show like that of
last year will be held on Satur-
day at the Rock Greek show
grounds, in Rock Greek Park at
the intersection of Beach Drive
and the East West Highway, and
the proceeds will be turned over
to the Montgomery County Social
Service League to aid them in
carrying on their charity work in
the county.
Established Agency
DR.. Jacob w. Bird, chairman
of the Social Service League in a
statement issued today said:
"The Social Service League,
. countrywide agency, to which
the funds from this horse show
are given, Is an established So
cial work agency with a record
Of "a years service in MOntgOm-
cry county.
ut is . member of the Family
Welfare Association of America
and the Maryland Children's
Aid Society, and its program in
cludeS child placing and child
supervision, and family welfare
work for the entire county.
"The board of directors of this
agency is made up of MOntgom-
cry county citizens elected by
the membership of the agency,
and serve without remunera-
tion."
Entries Are Large
Horse owners this year may
enter their prize horses in IL diff
ferent show classes during the day
with two Steeple-chase races, one
for thoroughbreds and one for
non-thoroughbredS, and a mile
open flat race to close the days
activities.
Many entries have been received
from Virginia and Maryland, with
the total far exceeding that of last
year, members Of the committee
said today.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27

How would you like to lose Is
pounds Of fat and at the same time
increase your energy and improve
your health?
How would you like to lose a load
Of unhealthy fat that you don't need
and don't want and at the same time
feel better than you have for years?
How would you like to lose your
double chin and your too prominent
abdomen and at the same time make
your skin so clean and clear that it
will compel admiration?
How would you like to get your
weight down to normal and at the
same time develop that urge for &C.
tivity that makes work a pleasure
and also gain in ambition and keen
ness Of mind?
Get on the scales today and see how
much you weigh-then get an ascent
bottle of Kruschen Salts which will
| last you for weeks. Take one-hali
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
COL. J. 8. UPHAM
TRANSFERRED

Lieut.. Col. John S. Upham, ad-
jutant general of the District mill
tia since 1881, has been relieved
of duty here and detailed to the
University of California, accord
ing to Army orders published
yesterday.
Colonel Upham was appointed
adjutant general of the local mill.
tia from the regular service at the
request of Maj. Gen. Anton
Stephan, commandant.
Recently Colonel Upham's two
sons graduated from the Naval
Academy at Annapolis and West
Point.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
Board Approves
Beach Drive Bid

The Maryland National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
has accepted the bid of the North
ern Virginia Construction Co. for
extension of Beach Drive in Rock
Greek Park from Capital Drive to
Connecticut Ave-, it was an
nounced today by Irving G. Root,
chief engineer of the Park and
Planning Commission.
The bid of $47,633.52 covers
grading and construction of ap-
proximately one and one-quarter
miles of concrete road. This will
give a continuous park driveway
from Connecticut Avenue, near
KenSington, Md, to downtown
Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-09-27
Fraternal Order
Dissolution Asked

Dissolution of the Knights of
Pythias of North America, South
America, Europe, Asia, Africa and
Australia, a benevolent insurance
association, was petitioned Of Dis
trict Supreme Court by the United
States Government.
Through United States Attorney
Leslie c. Garnett and his assist
ant, John w. FINELY, the Govern
ment informed the court the asso-
citation was incorporated in the
District, but maintained its prin.
cipal office in Memphis, Tenn.
This, it was pointed out, was a
violation of the local insurance
laws.