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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Sends Wife
ToHospitaI;;
DeniiedReliet
Especial to the Voice)

MONTESANO, Wash, Sept. -
r. c. Bob Young, Commun-
list Party candidate for State
Senator, has been denied relief
by the local relief Official, Mrs.
b. V. Law. A technicality is her
excuse for refusing aid to Young
and his wife, who is recently
home from tine hospital, rccOv-
ering from an operation. In July,
Young obtained a few days work,
and upon being paid, applied
for his wife's admission to the
Aberdeen General Hospital,
where she had previously been
refused treatment on the
grounds that it was not an emer-
gency case, and all others must
pay cash.
Young, who is chairman of the
Relief Workers Protective Asso-
citation, obtained assurance from
the County Commissioners that
his wages might be spent, and
Mrs. Law, the welfare official,
promised that paying for lnedi-
cal service would not affect his
receiving of vouchers.
subsequently, Mrs. Law has
performed an about-face and de-
mics that he is entitled to relief
before October. Wages ARE to
be spent for food and food only"
she says.
Not Inundated
His fighting spirit undaunted,
Bob Young explains the snoop-
er's change not only because OF
his CP candidacy for State Sen
Continued on Page 4, Col. ~
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Exploit Children
In. WhatcOm Fields
by a Worker Correspondents


LlNDEN, WASH, sept. Is
Children are forced to work In
the berry and bean fields OF the
Pride Company for as little as
cents per halliday. On one
farm near Ferndale they lay
a cent per pound, with a bonus
promised at the end OF the seas
ON OF Is eent-if the pickers re-
main the full season.
Near the end OF the season
now the price has raised to "a
cent per pound but one boy OF
10 made but 4 cents, in half
day, a girl of IA could make oniy
s cents-this is explained by the
TACT that the fields are picked
over and must be combed care
fully ii picker is to find any
thing. A boy OF IL working over
time at top speed received only
70 cents for his work from day.
light to dark.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Starvation Bowers Gets
Car, Families In Want
By RwPA Correspondent

CENTRALIA, Wash, Sept. 10
Mrs. Kina Bowers, Starvation
Champion of the State of Wash
ington, now has a new Dodge
car. She says it isn't brand new
just second hand.
Last year this racketeer
bought a big new home. Like
the car, it wasn't new either. 1t
was a home someone else had
built and she got for a song!
Workers! Mrs. Bowers had in
structions to permit the people
on relief to have as much sugar
during canning season as they
needed. Did you get it?
Workers! Are your young
sters entitled to ride around in
a nice new Second hand car
and live in a comfortable WARM
home this winter?
Don't take it laying down,
workers! Join the RWPA in
Centralia and demand that you
have fuel this winter!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Begin Drive tOPut
Over Initiative 4
Lay Plans To Collect
$4,000 Signatures

SEATTLE, Sept 13-Formally
filed for the Washington State
Committee of Action and for the
Unemployed Citizens League by
Charles f. Malone, given its of
iicial title by the Attorney Gen
eral and Secretary of State at
Olympia, printed by the Labor
Press, the petitions for the Work
ers' Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill, Initiative 4, is
under way!
Fired with renewed enthusi-
asm, workers over the entire
state are rallying to the task of
securing before January 4, the
$4,000 signatures necessary to
force the legislature to act on
the measure. In many localities
workers were at the polls Tues
day, September II, armed with
petitions.
Longshoremen Donate $25
In Seattle. Bill Murray, repre-
seLtIng the UCL, went before the
International LOngshoremen's As
ISOLATION and asked for financial
assistance. The liza promptly
voted the maximum amount al
lowed of $25. This generous assist
ance enabled the Unemployed
Citizens League not only to move
to new quarters, but to print
the necessary petitions for In
itiative 4 for circulation in the
signature drive.
c. f. Malone , Sunday, Septem-
Der 8, took petitions to Tacoma,
Olympia, Centralia and Chehalis,
speaking in behalf of Initiative
4 at the workers picnic at Riv
erside Park.
Thurston Precincts Covered
In Olympia, Fred Church, Sec
tion Organizer of the Commun-
list Party in Thurston County,
personally supervised the distri-
button of petitions at the polling
precincts in his territory, get
Continued on Page 4, Col -
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
PickWOrkerS
For CP Slate
LabOr'S Enemies Top
Primary Elections

SEATTLE. Sept. l3-While pri,
mary elections left Democrat and
Republican states chOked with
enemies of the working class
representatives of unions, of the
unemployed, met in the State
Nominating Convention of the
Communist Party here and plac-
ed on the ballot the candidates
of the working class.
Nominating the war veteran,
railroad worker, leader of the UNI
employed, George Bradley, for
United States Senator; National
Secretary of the National Lumber
Workers Union, James Murphy
for Congress from the LIST dis
trict; Secretary of the Unemploy-
ed Citizens League Harold Brock
way for County Commissioner;
and eviction fighter Henry G.
Price, for King County Sheriff,
the convention selected men
capable of carrying out in action
the struggle against the capital.
list program of hunger, war and
fascism
Bradley VS.. Schwellenbach
Opposing Bradley in the Unit
ed States Senate race are Schwel-
lenbach Democrat, Fascist Past
Commander of the American Le-
giOn, whose principal claim is the
fact that the Legion judged him
more reactionary than Clarence
ID. Martin, and Banker Reno Cd
lin (Republican). The Hitherto
Cincinatus organization cOnven-
ed also on primary day, and nom
mated for Senator on red-bait-
ing program an anti-labOr man
from the Prosecuting Attorneys
office, William wilkins.
Lumber Worker Murphy will
be opposed by Zioncheck Dem
Ocratl, clever demagogue who
pretends to be the peoples
friend" but who voted for the
big Navy bill and to put thOus-
ands of army rifles in the hands
of the American Legion. Zion
checks excuse was that ammuni-
ton could not be bought for the
guns, but the Voice of Action
exposed the fact that it is open
ly sold by every arms company
and sporting goods store in the
city of Seattle.) Bert G. Ross is
the Republican nominee.
BrOckway opposes w. w. Con-
nor, Republican, and Louis Nash,
Democrat, for County Commits
siOner, from the City District,
while Price will run against W..
b. Severyns, Democrat, and VIM.
III. Sears, Republican
Malone, Strand in Race
Other candidates nominated at
the workers and farmers conven-
ton of the Communist Party,
were Charles f. Malone, Presid-
ent of the Unemployed Citizens
League, for State Senator, 45th
District; Joel Strand and A. E.
Edwards, leaders of the UCL, for
Senator and Representative, 44th
Continued on Page A, Col. q
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
ANTI WAR MEET GAINS
SUPPORT OF UNION

SEATTLE, Sept. l3-The Seat
tie Conference Against War and
Fascism will be one of the most
significant held here I'm years.
The Legion Against War which
is sponsoring the conference re-
ports that four local unions of
the AFL have already elected
delegates machinists, building
laborers. painters and decorators,
and sawmill workers. The butch
er wOrkmen have promised dele
gates and several other locals
have promised visitors.
To Elect Delegates
The Conference, which will be
held at the Moose Hall, Sth near
University, Monday, Sept. II, at
s p. m, is for the purpose of
mobilizing Seattle support for
the End U. S. Congress Against
War and Fascism and the elect
ing OF delegates to the Congress.
The Legion Against War is en-
deavoring to reach as many or
CARNATIONS as possible with the
call to the L. S. Congress and the
Seattle Conference.
The Legion, youth organiza-
ton, has particularly tried to
get the suDDOrt of labor unions
because of their fundamental i'm
portance to any anti-war and
anti fascist movement. Because
of this and the short time for pre-
paration many organizations
have been overlooked; all indi-
viduals who are interested In
the movement are invited to at
tend and if possible to get the
organizations to which they be-
long to send delegates.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Metal Trades Back Anti War Congress
Bare Plot To
Slash Relief
By A Third

SEATTLE, Sept. - - A one.
third cut in relief.
PeOnage-"To those who re-
fuse to work food only"
Removal from relief rolls of
every family the home visitor sus-
poets tho evidence required has
any income whatsoever.
Such are the main points of
the Temporary Emergency Re-
lief Plan" put into effect here.
Full details of this horrifying
plot against the unemployed are
contained in the bulletin to wei
fare supervisors intercepted by
the Voice of Action and revealed
today. The exact text of the plan
follows:
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Yakima Herald
TellsHoneyed Lies
By a Worker respondent

YAKIMA, Sept. 13-Devoting
almost an entire column, the To-
cal Morning Herald Sunday, Sep
TENDER 2, "heralded' the begin
ming of the hop picking season in
the Toppenish and Mckee dis
tricts.
According to the the Herald,
1000 hop pickers were ready to
start harvesting the estimated
crop of 100000 pounds, the daily
pay roll to mount to $1,000.
Happy Tunes!"
Already" chirruped the Her
aid, "the happy tunes of their
1.-THE hop pickers) night festivi.
ties have drifted over the heart
of the reservations rich agricul-
tural district. Tomorrow will come
work and songs in the field"
Continued on Page 4, Col. u
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
The Primary Task-5O,. 900
Signatures FOrMiHatiUe4
EDITORIAL.

Most important of all the events of the week every
err whether he has job net is the launching the initiative
campaign to the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill
through the State Legislature in January.
Genuine unemployment insurance the major issue of
today That fact is reflected peman-
emily unemployed in the relief
welfare officials in the program again
but in the fact
and reaconay politicians have been forced
OF their campaign the phrase unemployment
The Initiative titled Initiative No by the Secretary of
State at Olympia is exact pattern of the federal Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill and passed will stay in
effect until enactment of the Federal
CHR 1898 introduced into Congress by Representative
has gained tremendous following measure which
provides anything like adequate social unemployment
surance without contributions workers admins.
tered by their elected representatives without discrimination
-Four national conventions of AFL unions three
eatos OF Labor and over O city central labor councils
local unions have given it their approval
portant Seattle that of the Seattle Typogap
zeal Union No. 202
The campaign Initiative A. but a few days old has
gained instant The
Association whose members the Unemployed Citizens League
supported militantly during the strike
to the oCL the bulk OF the money to print the
ttons.
What needed now is immediate sweeping campaign of
action to get hundreds of these petition
voters the Washington
This be best done by making the petition campaign part
every action OF the unemployed and employed workers.
unemployed meetings to all political meetings to all trade
union gatherings for signatures
More-to build conquering every political
meeting of every political party should be asked
measure Every politician running ticket should
enged to make his stand clear Initiative
and unemployed organization other organized group
should be gone after for collective endorsement
Collecting the signatures of $4,000 voters
tremendous task The time to the January
quickly Quotas the Washing.
ton State Committee of Action These quotas
and passed If the Workers Unemployment
to become in the Washington Here they are
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Spokane Car
Strike Is Solid

SPOKANE, Wash, Sept. 10
After II days of striking, the
street ear employees of the SpO-
kane United Railways are still
holding solid.
Three men were arrested at
the barns IF the Spokane United
Railways September 10, and
charged with disOrderly conduct.
Chief of Police Ira Martin said
there were indications they in
tended to cause some trouble"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
TEMPORARY EMERGENCY
RELIEF PLAN
Effective September 5, 1884


Due to the lack of funds, GER
tain reductions in both direct re-
lief were deemed necessary and
the following plan for reduction
in expenditures was adopted.
PROJECT OF WORK RE-
LIEF: All men assigned to Pro.
ject of Work Relief will have
their eligibility cut One-third-
in other words, they will work
out two thirds of their assigned
eligibility. Money earned must be
used: u To meet fod needs, q
Clothing needs for school child
rem; 81 Fuel needs. In other
words, the usual items allowed
on Work Relief Budgets such as
Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
BureauCrats Betray
StevedOre'S Defense

PORTLAND, Sept. 13-FOllOw-
ing up its vicious betrayal Of the
80 LOngshOremen framed on
murder charges here this week.
the executive committee of the
Labor Temples board of direct
Ors cancelled permission to al
low use of the hall for a protest
meeting on the case sponsored
by the International Labor De
tense.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Hole RED TAPE EXPOSED

A widow woman living in a
very modest home in Tacoma, on
which was a mortgage of 1870,
applied for HOLO loan. This
loan was recently approved, but
the expense incurred in obtain
ing it had made the amount of
the mortgage mount up to $1,000.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Farmers Call
State Meet
By a Worker Correspondent

EATONVILLE, Wash, Sept. 10
Two new locals of the United
Farmers League have been or
gained, one each in SnOhomish
and King Counties. The UFL is
issuing calls for the statewide
convention to be held in Everett
next month. Spirit is high in
readiness for this meet, men,
bers are determined to show a
united front, and allow no So
called claw and order" gangs of
hoodlums to disrupt the ses-
siOns.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-09-14
Anti-FaSciSt
Meet Monday
AT of L Unions Endorse
Conference

SEATTLE. Sept. 13--The Met
al Trades Council has endorsed
the call to the Second U. s. Con-
gress Against War and Fascism.
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Not Intiinidated

His fighting spirit undaunted,
Bob Young explains the snoop-
er's change not only because of
his CP candidacy for State SEN
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12

would be equally unfortunate If COM
mitted in the .vestibule of movie
theater.
Recently a magazine published a
score card by means Of which you
might learn just how superstitious
you were. You put cross in one of
the squares when you recognized
your own superstition. Some of the
readers ran up as high as fifty.
1t is often an omen OF bad luck
when some one leaves a cake Of
soap on the stairs, or when you miss
the nail that is to be pounded and
connect with the thumb, or when the
children leave their little go-cart in
the passage way you start through
wrapped in thought. But apparently
the worst of all luck is to be born
under the wrong star. What is the
use of struggling, when the stars in
their courses fight against you? And
yet, by the way, did you ever hear
of a person with a decidedly bad
horoscope? AS a rule the stars do
very well by us.-A. J. R. in the
Minneapolis Journal.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12
MANY AND VARIED
ARE THE BELIEFS
COMMON TO MAN

The total number of superstitions
is large and they vary with locality.
But some of them are almost univer-
sal. Everybody knows it is bad luck,
while walking under a ladder, to
step into coal hole in the sidewalk.
Everybody knows bad luck may be
ayerted if you knock on wood after
making rash statement. Every
body knows that it is unfortunate to
see the new moon over the left Shout
der-and lucky to catch its first
beam over the right shoulder.
Perhaps not so many, even of the
cautious ones, know that an umbrella
should never be raised in the house,
nor should one rock an unoccupied
rocking chair. Entering a room by
one door and leaving by another is
unfortunate. Something is almost
sure to happen.
Since the horse has almost retired
from the scene, the good luck found
In picking up a horse shoe has
doubled. One should never pass up
a shoe on the pavement now. Few
experiences are more valuable.
And speaking of umbrellas, it is
exceptionally bad luck to leave one
In a church vestibule during the
services. Probably such an act
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12
Efficient Milk Tests
Can Be Made at Home

Here is an easy test which anyone
can make of his milk at home:
l. After the milk is all cooled and
stirred, take an eight or ten-ounce
sample; place in a clean milk bottle
or fruit jar and cover lightly.
2. Set the sample in a cool place
for SO or q hours. You might take
one test at 36 hours the other at 70.
8. Warm the milk by placing sam
pie in pan of water at 90 to 100 de
grees F. for about ten minutes.
A. Now remove the cap and smell !;
then taste the milk by taking it into
the mouth and tipping your head so
that it will reach the taste glands at
the base of your tongue. Discharge it
from the mouth; do not swallow it.
5. Good milk has little taste and
leaves no disagreeable taste in the
mouth.
6. Set the rest of the sample in a
warm place, with the cap on, to sour.
z. Good milk sours with an even.
thin curd. If it shows watery, or
CLASSY" broken, curd, you probably
either have one or more cows giving
bad milk; or your methods of milk
production are not good.-Milwauke
Milk Producer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12

In these days, when financial prob
lens are so generally harassing,
there is a tendency to curtail in en-
PERTAINING. While this seems a nat
ural result, it is, nevertheless, to be
deplored. 1t is when spirits are low
that the heartening of congenial COM
partnership is most needed. These
social events that do not drain, or
even strain, the purse, are actual in
vestments in good health for host
and hostess as well as guests. 1t has
been demonstrated that good cheer
promotes well-being, and when a per-
son is well he or she can best COM
pete with problems. So let US not
cut down too decidedly on the pleas
ant means of promoting health and
success.
In order to do this with no reac-
ton in the thought of too much
money spent which would come on
the persons entertaining if it was
done too lavishly. let me suggest q
ACW party tu6 4OPNOkA ouAAs "HANh
can be given at trifing cost.
The word ball suggests evening
dress, or at least dainty frocks.
These add glamor to an occasion,
yet no one need get anything new.
Before the event, the hostess pops
corn, dips some kernels in vegetable
dyes Of different colors, wires few
kernels with one color, edging them
with green, and makes two nosegays
Of similar colors, and as many nose
gays as there are guests. These she
arranges in two little baskets. From
these she presents boquets to the
men and the women. Matching
boquets secures partners for the first
dance. The music can be on the
radio, victrola, or by different per-
sons whom the hostess asks before
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12
Recalling Time When
All TURKEYS Were Wild

Enhancing are the accounts of the
turkey farmers modern methods.
The production in line" of more and
better turkeys is astounding. Tt ap-
pears the incubators are set at work
at the precise moment to bring them
to maturity at Thanksgiving, and
later ones for Christmas and New
Years.
From pen to pen the gawky bird
makes his progress until he is ready
for shipment. No doubt, along with
the methods of standardization, in
Guiding branding the turkey with in
delible ink, or trademarked like the
citrus fruits, they now load him with
an endless conveyor belt and whisk
him through the dressing processes
with elaborate heed to scientific man.
agement.
Now let the Idaho turkey farmers
read Of what our ancestors saw when
the world was young. Felix Walker,
coming into Kentucky, narrates:
$50 rich a soil we had never seen
before. Covered with clover in full
brown, the woods were alive, abound
ing in wild game. Turkeys so numer-
GUS that 1t might be said there APP
peared but one flock universally scat
tered in the woods"
Let the mass production experts
'haok Tint ~ tbav nan
Those who handy the name of Bril-
lat-Savarin, connoisseur of the pleas
ures of the table, to shame our Amer
lean bill of fare would do well to
quote his chapter IN the American
turkey and how he is h-nted and
cooked. Enquirer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12
Merry Time at Popcorn Ball
Entertainment That Can Be Made Thoroughly Enjoy.
able at Trifing Financial G. It and Little
Labor in Its Preparation.

hand to play for one dance. The cost
of musicians should be eliminated.
The hostess supplies needles and
strnng thread, and great bowls of
popcorn, which can be ready or be
popped as part Of the entertainment.
The players gather around the tables
having these bowls on them, and at
the sound of a sigma they start
stringing popcorn chains. AT another
signal, each player passes his or her
chain to the person next on the right,
who proceeds to string on this chain.
When the final signal is sounded,
the man and woman whose chains
measure most nearly the same length
become partners for the next dance.
Of course, players do not know Of
this beforehand.
The hostess scatters the remaining
popcorn over a cleared space in the
center Of the room, and at signal
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12

each person picks up one kernel at a
time in the effort to gather the larg-
est quantity. The man and woman
whose pfcleOrn kernels count up most
nearly Pc are supper partners.
PopcoYNds the chief edible for the
refreshnx is. Popcorn balls and
sweet cider or fruit punch may be
the whole menu. Or make an orange
gelatine. Top each portion with
whipped cream, sprinkle lavishly with
popcorn first put through the food
grinder, using smallest blade. Sert
with rolled oats waters. Have sailed
popcorn instead of sailed nuts, and
large kernels Of popcorn dipped In
chocolate coating for bonbons. Sprin-
kle around popcorn instead of minced
nutmeats over chocolate frosted
cakes.
g. Bell syndicate.-wNU Service.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-01-12
Salt for Pigs

Many farmers never feed salt to
pigs because of the danger of having
them get too much at one time, but
there is no possibility of their doing
so if the salt is well mixed with the
ground feed. says Wallaces' Farmer.
At the Lacombe (Alberta) dominion
experiment station, it was found that
the grinding of feed was made espe-
cially profitable because of the con-
veniel lin feeding salt. 1t is report
ed Il addition of salt not only
serV s0lce to whet the appetite,
but also adtAd to the palatability
feeds USE, the difference being
Yefecd in the extra amount of feed
consumed by the salt-fed pigs. In tests
conducted the last three summers, the
use of 2.5 pounds of salt in every 100
pounds of meal mixture, with pigs In
dry lot, settled grain ration Of oats
and barley, resulted, on the average, In
q SO per cent increase in the daily
gains and % per cent decrease in
cost of gains.