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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-18
Sails Soon On New
 Assignment; Plans
 Oberammergau Visit
Former Chamber of Commerce Official Pays High Tribute to Charles A. Taft in Bringing About Speedy
 Settlement Between Employer and Labor Forces

France. News of his latest assign. 'nent was received in this city toe day.
 Manufacturer Make IschcHt
 Tho champagne industry survey will be made by Mir EuHtnce at the beheHt of q group of French manufacturers On completing this work he will bc In England for n few days and then expects 10 go to Germany and see the Passion play at Oberammergau
 Charles 4. raft, son.in-lnw of Irving Chase of Waterbury, was paid high compliment in the news from Mir Eustace nt Toledo to-day. MT Taft is nationally known lawyer and acted nH m ef- fcctivc go.bctween. bringing about powerful employing and labor forces.
 : May Visit Here
 According to Mir Euatacc, he ia just finishing a very successful campaign in Toledo to incrcnHe ln- duHtrinl activities in that city. Mir Eustace also hopes tO visit Water. bury some lime in tho near future and address the kiwnniH club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-18
MiLKMEN FIGHT CiiIsELgi,s

ChicOpee, Mass. (UP) --The chIs. elsrs iB th6 milk busiDoss have got Co Do stopped somewhere, NO tho ChiGOpoO MIX D6GIerE association adOptod this methods They IOaded n truck with cGses Of milk, DhrkGd near m offending place, and HOId milk Ht four cents h quart They which rcndi wen beat the Chiss GIer ht his own game"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-18
HOLY NAME UNIT
 MEETS TUESDAY
St J0seph's Society to Elect Officers-Church
 Enjoys Picnic

The annual meeting of Ht Joe Heph'H Holy Nnme society twill tnk0 place in tho church auditorium t0' morrow evening, All nro urged tO b6 proHcnt boca uAG buHlnopa of I'm. pOrlance Will bG transacted. Tho election of officers will he q fcatuio on tho program. Present OiilClhlH were chosen temporarily three months ago when the society wdH first organized. Tho group now has a membership of three hundred and fifty.
 Following tho rogulnr business session thorc Will bo C showing of motion pictures, The principal speaker will bo Rev Earnest Iirio. nutl, M, x. Father IIrlcnult hns mol appeared before this particular group bofOrc and hlH address con. corning tho Holy Nnino society will Do In accordance with tho OGGns sion.
 The organization of tho Wilson A. C. hnH bocn a source of interest Co residents of thia section, The club numbers hb0ut forty members at present with interest among tho young people still nt h high pitch. Tho organization hnH taken vacated store on Wilson ntroot and hna mndo arrangements for furniture, Discarded tabl0H and chairs not entirely beyond ropnir were glndly accepted, Pictures and hooks also hold m important part ln tho rooms with ample provision made for their use In tho club charter, The organization should not fall been use thoir advisory b0nrd consists of practically nll veteran residents of the section. Tho club hna baseball tonm ndd. Ing Co thoir reputation in tho rub- llc Parks tongue. John I'Illh is president of the club.
 More thnn 0nc hundred and fifty children. members of tho Aun. day school class of the Third Con grcgntiOnnl church attended a pIc- nIc at Lakewood park Saturday, The children nDd their chnperOncs left by special trolley from tho ter- minal on Highland and Congress avenues at iOt3O o'clock and were transported Co the amaement pnrk where thcy enjoyed tho dny. This picnic waH tho largest sponsored by tho group for tho pnst several years. rrnnk Williams was in charge 6f arrangements.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-18
YOIanda Prize
 Winners Chosen

Announcement of the annual prlycs awarded by tho Y0lnnda club t0 graduates of the city high pch0olH Of Italian pnrentage nt taining highest h0n0ra wnH mnde to.dny, Florence Mattniini will be given tho award for the highest ranking student of itnlinn oxtrnc ton nt Willy; Virginia Cnl0 ia tho dinner of tho l.envenworth award, md AnRcllnc Mnmbrun0 nt Cr0H. by. Tho girls will bo presented with fountain pens.
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 Diamond cutting tn Germany iB
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-18

Robert EuHtace. formerly con nected with the Merchants Trust company of Waterbury, at the time
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-18
FULL WEATHER REPORT

Boston, June is--UP)--Wsather forecasts
 Massn Ghueettg--.IFObabjy pnIB foe night and TueHday. COOjeP TUgBdAy except OD southeast GOaBt
 Rhode JsInBd--Ii1JB tonight and Nome what cooler TDsSday IH interior.
 Connecticut .~- IlaIn tonight and Cooler Tuesday,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
ROsIyn Cases
Will Be Tried

ROSLYN, Wash, Nov. 22-The
trial of the ROslyn riot cases,
growing out of the Roslyn-Cle
Elum coal miners strike last APP
ril, will begin December 10, 1t has
been announced in Ellensburg.
Although Prosecutor Spencer
Short has had these cases post
pOned three times, until after
elections were over, still he has
been badly beaten
Lately Short has been visiting
frequently with Jack Lewis, mine
foreman. 1t seems that since he
can't keep the support of the
voters, he is going to get in good
with the mine owners by pushing
these cases.
Workers should Immediately
send protests to Prosecutor Spen-
Ger Short, and to Judge Mcclure,
Ellensburg. Wash.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Bankers About
To Evict Aged
Pair In Street
COUPLE, OWING $S01 ON
HOME, TOLD TO
GET OUT"
By Hack Thomas

SEATTLE, Nov. 22-After ex-
hausting her attempts to win
justice in capitalist courts, learn
ing through bitter experience
that working class rights must
not interfere with the right to
make money, Mrs. T.. NJ. Alloway
has appealed to the Voice of
Action and the mass oragniza-
tons it represents to save her
from being evicted from her
home next week.
For four years she has fought
to save her home, carrying her
plea for justice to the state
Supreme court. Always she has
been sold out to the United
States Fidelity and. Guaranty
Co., who have the legal right to
turn the Alloways into the street
for the 1901 they owe on their
home.
You are too old. We can't
make you a loan to save your
home because we might not get
it back" This is the answer re-
ceived by the aged couple when
they applied to the Homo Own
ers Loan corporation for help.
Have Had Home % Years
The Alloways have lived in
their home for % years, paying
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
AL BureaucratS Hail
Sieg at Council Meet

SEATTLE, Nov. H-Lee Paul
Sieg, reactionary president of the
University of Washington, was
given the place of honor at the
meeting of the Seattle Central
Labor Council Wednesday night,
November IA.
Sieg, under whose encourage
ment the fascist Pathfinders, stu
dent organization, sprang up on
the Washington campus and
whose red-fighting work earned
him a word of praise from the
strike-breaking vigilantes in their
weekly bulletin, said he came at
the invitation of Mr.. Doyle and
Mr.. Duncan" M
Capital and l have not been
friends for a long time," lied the
man who was imported to the
U of w from the Mellon-control-
led University of Pittsburgh.
"If the state tSieg means big
business-ed. motel becomes bur-
dened with taxes, we may have to
do without education" drooled
Sieg.
School Director Duncan, the
bombastic labor progressive"
was seen outside the meeting hall
exchanging greetings with Sieg.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Butler Bares Wall Street
Plot To Establish Fascism

NEW YORK, Nov. 22-Charges
by Smedley Butler, corroberated
by Paul Comley French of the
New York Evening Post, that
Butler was offered three million
dollars to build fascist veteran
army to establish fascism in the
United States, are being investi-
gated by a United States Senate
Committee.
Gerald p. Mcclure, who is said
to have made the offer in behalf
of his employers, a large Wall
Street bonding firm, tries to
laugh off the whole affair.
Butler states that during his
five interviews with Mcguire
the latter stated that:
I'VE need a fascist govern
ment in this country to save
the nation from the Commun.
lists who would tear down all
that has been built up In
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Anti-War Body
Shows Strength
In Broad Front
ALL UNIONS, CHURCH, POOL
FORCES TO FIGHT
WAR, FAsCISM

SEATTLE, Nov. 22-Respond-
ing enthusiastically to the call
of the Seattle provisional COM
mittee, AFL trade unions, church
groups, and political parties,
workers defense, anti-war, youth
and farmers organizations, sent
representatives to the Common
wealth Builders hall last Thurs
day night to form a Seattle Com
mittee Against War and Fascism.
The committees first official
action was to send request to
the national office of the Ameri.
can League Against War and Fas-
cism for an American League
charter.
Organizations represented on
the committee are: Machinists
Union (AFL); Church of the Peo-
pie; Building Laborers' Union
(AFL); Commonwealth Builders;
Communist Party.
Seattle Youth Club; League of
Struggle for Negro Rights;
Blacksmiths' Union (AFL); Le-
gion Against War; Unemployed
Citizens League, and Auto Me-
chanics' Union (AFL).
The International Labor De-
tense; Kenwood Branch of the
Socialist Party and the Sawmill
Workers Union (AFL) all had
delegates but they failed to ap.
pear.
The Executive Board included
three officers and six members:
Merwin L. Cole, Legion Against
War, chairman: Clark Loyer, Ma
chinist, viGe-chsirman George
Hurley, Legion Against War, sec
rotary treasurer; Michael Smith,
Commonwealth Builders; Mr..
Armstrong, Commonwealth Build
ers, Unit Z; c. Aust, Blacksmiths;
J. Zahn, Building Laborers; Alan
Max, Communist Party; DR.. III. j.
Givens, Church of the People.
Next Meeting Dec. 3
The next meeting of the Sc
attic section of the American
League will be Monday, Deem
Der 8, tenth floor of the Lowman
building. Regular meetings will
be held at that place the first
and third Monday of each month.
Arrangements were made for
the distribution of Fight" the
official organ of the American
League, by members of the COM
mittee and their organizations,
and mass meeting was set for
some date in December.
The body adopted a resolu-
ton to send wires of protest to
Kelso and Portland, demanding
the immediate release of criminal
syndicalism defendants in those
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Workers Demonstrate
In Protest of Fascist
Verdict Monday Morning
Flood Judges Office
With Wires OF
Protest!

PORTLAND, Nov. Platter "a
hours deliberation, the jurors de-
clared Dirk DeJonge, section or
ganizer OF the Communist Party,
guilty of criminal syndicalism.
Workers prepared to answer
this fascist court decision with a
tremendous mass meeting In
front of the courthouse Monday
morning at 8 a. m. when De-
Jonge's sentence will be handed
down.
This is the second conviction
given in the criminal syndicalism
cases. Don Cluster, Young Com
munist League organizer, was al
so convicted recently.
This ruling class attack against
the workers must be smashed be-
fore IL continues further. II it is
not halted now, It will spread to
every section of the Pacific North
west and of the nation.
Mass pressure is the strongest
weapon the working class has in
the fight against these Hitler-like
criminal syndicalism prosecutions
Even last week Judge Kanzler
called the defense into his Port
land courtroom, and. showing
them the pile of protests sent to
him by workers, whined about
intimidation"
Workers should show their re-
action to this latest fascist ruling
made by HANDLERS court by
changing his whine to loud howl.
This can be done by flooding his
office with kilograms and letters
of protest.
Wire or write Immediately to
Judge Kanzler, Multnomah Coun-
ty Courthouse, Portland, Oregon.
demanding that DeJonge and
Cluster be released Insist that
all charges against criminal syn
dicalism defendants be dropped
at once.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Voice of Action Gets
Letter from ]. Ujick

SEATTLE, Nov. 22-John Ujick
writes from Ellis Island to the
Voice of Action that when he
and other Northwest deportees
arrived in Ellis Island they were
hailed before a court which could
best be described as one of Hit
ler's Tribunals.
Telling of his confinement on
the Island, he writes:
Several of us were put in
solitary. Word was sent to the
Daily Worker and as a result of
their exposure of our mistreat-
ment, we five were taken out of
solitary and put in one room,
though still separated from the
other prisoners.
"The International Labor De-
tense has taken up our defense
and our cases were taken into
the federal court which has stop
ped our deportation for at least
the time being"
Ujick ends his letter with a
plea to the workers Of the North
west, in which Mannisto, Carlson,
and other militant dtpOrtees
with him, join:
Your strength. lies in solid
arity. That is why the bosses
tactics of deporting foreign
born workers is used by them
to split our ranks. You must
be prepared to meet the at
tacks of the bosses with q
mighty defense apparatus, the
International Labor Defense"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
KelSoSyndicaliSim
Trials Postponed

KELSO, Wash, Nov. 22-Pro-
tests from all over the Northwest
and from hundreds of local resi-
dents who have signed the petit
tiOn for dismissal of the cases,
have forced Prosecuting Attorney
G. G. Hallin to postpone the trials
of Max Farrar and Arne Pisila on
criminal syndicalism charges I'M
til the next term of court.
This is the easy way out for
Hallin, who has been defeated for
reelection and will not have to
try the cases.
RED Drive on Court Upset"
was the headline on an article
in the Kelsonian-Tribune last
week, telling of the failure of pro-
tests to have the desired effect
because the cases were postpon-
ed. 1t concluded by saying that
Prosecutor Hallin and Judge j.
e. Stone have received a multi.
tude of protests from over the
Northwest demanding that the
cases be dropped"
The local LID committee is con-
tinuing the drive for signatures
on the petitions for dismissal of
the charges, expecting to get over
1000 before taking them to the
papers and to Judge and prose-
cutor. They will also take the pc
titions to the new prosecutor
elect, Shirley Marsh.
The relief bureaucrats have
been compelled to place back on
the rolls tn four b0ndsmen for
Farrar and Pisila, who were cut
off at the prosecutors request.
Immediately a committee went
to Olympia to protest, and secur-
ed a reversal of the order.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23

America. Well put across a
plan that will be really effect
i've. All unemployed men will
be put in a military barracks
under forced Labor, as Hitler
does.
I'VE would register all per-
sons in the United States as
they do in Europe. That would
stop Communist agitators."
Mcclure has recently returned
after an extensive study of
European politics.
He is reported as saying that
Butler is the Man on a White
Horse" who could put over a fas-
cist coup d'etat by organizing
loyal veterans and placing man
in office as secretary of state to
replace Roosevelt II he and the
vice-president did not go along
with the movement.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
ALL Men Respond ToUCL
Call For State Meeting
To Be Held In Olympia
Prominent Leaders OF Workers Organizations
Back Call To January Party
On JObleSS Bill

SEATTLE, Nov. 22-Called to-
gether by the Unemployed Cit
liens League with the realiZa-
tiOn that Initiative 4 is the only
real unemployment insurance
bill, IL representatives of organ
lied labor, church and education,
are now sponsoring plans for the
Unemployment Insurance Con-
gress in Olympia in January.
The sponsoring committee: L.
A. Sandvigen, business agent,
and Herman Wicks, secretary,
Machinists' union (AFL); f. NJ.
Weston, Boilermakers' (AFL))
business agent; Alfred Jussett,
business agent, clearinghouse
Workers (AFLl; James Dallas,
Flour and Cereal Workers (AF
Il; International LongshOremens
Association (AFL), Everett To-
cal; Charles mccarthy, Building
Laborers (AFL).
Elmer Miller represents the
Seattle Teachers League; j. F.
Cronin, chairman executive COM
mittee, Commonwealth Builders
Incorporated; DIR. J. HI. Owens,
Church of the People; James
Murphy, National Lumber Work
ers' Union, and VIM. Murray,
chairman Central Federation of
Unemployed Citizens League.
Murray Elected Secretary
Murray was elected secretary
of the sponsoring committee at
last Saturdays meeting.
Immediate objective of the
sponsoring committee is to send
call to all AFL and industrial
unions, fraternal and religious
organizations for members to
serve on a general arrangements
committee which in turn will is
sue the call and arrange for the
conference for Unemployment
and Social Insurance at Olympia
early in January.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Unemployed To Make
Special Xmas Demands

SEATTLE, Nov. 22tPlans for
the demand of special Christ
mas extra cash allowance, and
for 30hOur week at union scale
for all relief work and for sup
port of Initiative 4, were laid
Wednesday night by the Unem-
plOyed Citizens League Central
Federation.
Plans call for three conferences
the first week in December, at
South Ballard, Capitol Hill and
at Rainier Valley UCL halls.
Demonstrations demanding the
Christmas allowance and 30-hour
week will be planned at the con-
ferences.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
We Need Your Aid
In BuildinglBigger
Workers Paper

The Northwest needs a big
ger, better, more powerful Ia
Dor press. The board of the
Voice of Action has decided
that the next step will be a
six-page paper.
A year ogo the Voice of Ac-
ton announced a drive to es-
tablish it's own shop and to
double the papers size. That
drive was a success because
unemployed workers, fisher
men lumber jacks, liberal
people from San Diego to
Fairbanks, recognized the val
ue of militant working class
news carrier and organizer.
1t will take at least $1,000 in
cash, or many thousands of
subscriptions to give the fl
nancial basis to increase the
size of the paper again, and al
though the paper has more
widespread support than ever
before, increased unemplOy-
ment, low wages and high liv-
ing costs make the raising of
funds a difficult task.
Before announcing the de-
tails of a drive the Board of
the Voice of Action therefore
asks all the papers readers to
help. How should the drive be
conducted? Should we conduct
the same kind of a drive we
did a year ago, or should we
concentrate on subscriptions?
Should we offer prizes to the
most active individuals in Or
CARNATIONS and what sort of
prizes should they be? What
are the most profitable affairs,
the best means to raise money
to popularize the paper?
Write to us or come to the
office this week so that defin-
lite plans may be made with
= out delay.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Fight Eviction!
[ EDITORIALl

The Voice of Action, in the
name of the working class it
represents, calls upon all work
ers' organizations to protest
against, and prevent by mass
action, the impending eviction
of the AllOways.
Protests must be sent to and
committees call upon the Unit
ed States Fidelity & Guaranty
Co., the State Supreme Court
at Olympia, the King County
sheriffs office, Irene Dyches,
notary public.
Mass demonstrations must
be held, no stone left unturned
to prevent the eviction of these
aged workers from their home
to satisfy the greed of the mas
ter class.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Makes Strong
Plea Before
Jury

PORTLAND, Nov. 22-Charsed
with the crime of fighting for the
rights of his class, the working
class, Dirk DeJonge, criminal syn
dicalism defendant, yesterday
made his plea to the jury in a
courtroom packed with workers
wearing red badges bearing the
slogan Free Dirk DeJonge."
DeJonge, pleaded to the jury,
not for himself, but for the rights
of the working class he represent
ed and for understanding OF the
Communist Party program.
Communist Party on Trial
81 am proud to know that 1t
is not Dirk DeJonge who has
been on trial for the past three
weeks" DeJonge told the jury,
and the packed, breathless audi
enee, but rather the Communist
Party that has been on trial =. "
you undoubtedly read in the
capitalist press that Dirk De-
JOnge was to give a soap-box
speech to the jury today.
'This Is the way the capitalist
press ISLANDERS the working class.
When a worker makes a speech,
it is a soap-box speech. When Mr..
Doyle or Mr.. Cohen make q
speech to you, that Is an addressl
Doyle and Cohen are state pro-
secutors.)
''The state says Communists
teach and advocate force and vi
Olence," DeJOnge explained. did
you ever read of a group of
workers attacking the police?"
He told them how, on one Oc-
casion, Bacon, notorious stool
pigeon, was saved from lynching,
at the hands of an infuriated
crowd of workers, by Communists
who counselled the crowd against
violence.
Will Continue to Fight
81 do not want to go to prison
and L am going to fight like ev-
erything to keep from goingl Do
not think that the few Commun-
lists in Portland think they will
Continued on Page 4, Col. Al
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
Yantis, Martin Group
Plan Sales Tax Drike

SEATTLE, Nov. % - George
Yantis, speaker of the house at
the last session of the Washing
ton State Legislature, and the
Washington State Tax Commission,
an appointed body of Governor
Clarence d. Martin, are cOvertly
making plans to fOist sales tax
on the people of Washington at
the coming legislative session.
The tax commission has been
propagandizing legislators for
some time with letters, urging
them not to be influenced by the
talk of "hair-brained" radicals to
vote for any sweeping measures
of taxation"
Blow at Initiative 4
This is interpreted as a blow
at Initiative 4, which provides
for a steeply graduated tax on
high incomes as method of
raising money for workers I'M
employment insurance, and an
endorsement of the sales tax,
which is designed to throw the
burden of taxation on the backs
of the workers.
The Olympia treasury is low,
and either a tax on big incomes
or a sales tax must be voted at
the coming session to bear the
expenses of government and re-
lief.
Workers should act now to kill
such vicious legislation as the
sales tax. Send protests to your
legislators and to Olympia, de-
handing that the sales tax be
blocked and a tax on high in
comes be imposed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23

SEATTLE, Nov. 22-While the
shipowners and the lila local
president are attacking union
men in Portland, j. p. Ryan, lila
President, is being used in San
Francisco to threaten the re-
moval of the local charter there,
IF red activity in the union con-
tinues."
In Everett, the LILA workers
were locked out by waterfront
bosses for several days, culminat-
ing in an attempt by Warren
Bowling, West StevedoriDg Co.
foreman, to submit a floor plan
for joint-controlled hiring hall,
promising the workers shower
baths and all the luxuries-if
they'd forget their fight for the
100 per cent union hiring hall.
The rank and file quickly tabled
the plan and continued the fight
for the union hall.
Threaten Expulsions
At Portland, rank and file
group of longshoremen, meeting
in private residence to discuss
rank and file problems-back pay
due on the strike settlement, hir-
ing halls, marine federation. gang
stewards, closer solidarity be-
tween the east and west coasts
and between seamen and long
shoremen-were broken in upon
by Con Nigstedt, Portland liza
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-11-23
P0RTL Land COURT C0Nv|CTS DE J0NGE
ON CRIMINAL SYND|CAL ISM CHARGES
Bill Dunno To
Be Heard Here

SEATTLE, Nov. 22-Bill Dunno,
known throughout the North
west and particularly in Montana
as a leader of the copper and
coal strikes and former editor
OF the Butte Bulletin" is going
to speak in Seattle and other
Northwest cities.
Irf Seattle, Dunno will speak
under the auspices of the Seattle
ALL Rank and File Committee
for Unemployment Insurance.
The date and place have not yet
been definitely set.