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Evening star., 1934-09-23
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 22.-Chicago
is richer than last year by $300.000,-
600. and most of the money came
from other cities and States.
approximately that amount was
poured into the Golfers of the city's
business men by visitors to the 1884
Century of Progress.
The golden flood, which last year
brought in S45O,OOO,0OO. slackened in
1884, as did Worlds Fair attendance,
but still proved an enormous boon to
transportation companies, hotels and
merchants.
A tentative survey by the Chicago
Association of Commerce TODAY
showed that the fair goer Of 1894
spent about one-sixth less than he
did year ago.
The total value of the influx to the
Chicago area was impossible to esti-
mate, the association said, but at
least $500, 900 900 flowed into Chicago
tills as result of the Century of
Evening star., 1934-09-23
MARET SCHOOL

OPENS THURSDAY. SEPT. 81
Founded in 1911. College Preparatory
and General Courses. Day and Boarding
Departments. Grade School and Sub
Primary for Boys and Girls A thorough
KNOWLEDGE, of the French Laneuage is one
Of the advantages offered by the school.
2IlH KalOrama Road.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
Banker Reported Drowned.

HAGERMAN, Idaho, September %
PO.-Homer Pitner. former prominent
San Francisco banker, now executive
vice president of the First National
Bank of Boise, Idaho, was reported
drowned while on a fishing trip near
here today. The body has not been
recovered.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
MOVIES TO BE TOPIC
Most Rev. James H. Ryan tc
Discuss Subject.

DISCUSS subject.
The Most Rev James H. Ryan,
Bishop of Modra and rector of the
Catholic University, will speak or
THE Church and the Movies" on
the Church of the Air program from
Station WJSV from 1900 to 1890
today.
Included in the broadcast will be a
program of sacred music by the Cath
olic University Choir, under direction
of DR.. Leo Behrendt, accompanied by
Conrad Bernier at the organ.
This will be Mr.. Bernier's first ap-
pearance as organist of the Catholic
University beginning with the 1934-35
academic year. Mr.. Bernier will play
at all academic and ecclesiastical
functions at the university. and will
also accompany the university choir
and the Glee Club.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
COPS LEAVE TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION

gallant protectors" of life and
property destroyed it ruthlessly.
1t was the creation of many
workers hardly pinched out
nickels and dimes, and of untir.
ing effort on their part. The
torn and dirty leaflets, the
smashed furniture, represented
the work and sacrifice for the
education and organization Of
the working class.
This was how attempts were
made to crush our organizations
by force as the crisis deepens.
This was fascism. Freedom of
press and freedom of assembly
were at an end. Smith, the strike
breaking mayor. the fascist Or
der of Cincinnatus; the police,
trained to do the work that Cos
sacks did for the Car; the ter.
rorlzing Vigilantes: these are
the instruments that capitalism
uses to destroy your unions and
your political organizations,
Workers!
But smashing a little plaster
of paris figure of Lenin could
not destroy the force and value
of Lenin's contribution to the
development of the revolution
airy working class; nor will fss-
cism prevent the rise to power
! of that class.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
BY Judith Scott

Today the Workers Center
at 1915 First Avenue Is q scene
of savage destruction. The Voice
of Action reporter stole up the
stairs of the Center, wondering
If the police were waiting to
make other arrests; listening
carefully at the door before Ell
tering.
The floor was strewn with
trampled leaflets and books.
Desks were piled up and wreck.
ed. Not a chair was left unbrok-
en-. Chair backs and legs were
scattered through the hall. The
shelves of the Workers Book
shop. center OF working class
culture, were bare. A door panel
and a glass pane were broken.
The cops had completely smash
ed everything in sight.
A mimeOgraph machine, which
had turned out many leaflets
and directives in workers strug-
giles, had been taken to police
headquarters. A police baton
had shattered a bust of Lenin.
This hall, those unread leaf.
let's, the desks and chairs were
the property of the working
class; they were not private
property" The police, those
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
PORTLAND lid WINS REAL VICTORY

Portland, July l3-Tonight at
$3.50 the Burgess case jury
brought in a verdict of not guilty
to the charge of assault with a
dangerous weapon although the
jury found the defendant guilty
of simple assault.
The International Labor De,
tense in winning this case has
won one of the outstanding vie
tories of its experience here.
Floyd Burgess. unemployed
worker with five children has
militantly battled the vicious
denials of relief to needy families
by the Lents welfare officials.
Burgess was arrested as a re-
suit of his activity on a commit
tee which went to the welfare
of Lents to demand relief for a
destitute young widow and her
two small children. The officials
of the welfare department had
locked the doors in order to keep
the committee out.
Not to be OutdOne by their
tricks. Burgess took the commit
tee around to a window which
was open, removed the screen
and proceeded to crawl through.
Winterer, one of the officials,
rushed Burgess as he was crawl
ing through the window and at
tackled him.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
C.P. Files Candidates
In KOOtenai County

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho-The
Communist Party will partici,
pate in the fall election cam
paign with two candidates filing
for County Commissioner in
KOOtenai county, Leonard We'd.
der and Joe l.. Willis.
Vedder, From District /, is a
militant farmer from the Carlin
Bay section, and an active fight
er for better conditions for the
workers in the Winton plant,
where he has been employed in
termittently for several years.
Willis has been active in the
working class movement in KOot-
enai county for some time. He is
well known as a leader and Or
ganizer of the militant lumber
workers and unemployed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
A Letter from a Worker

On June l the Standard OIL
distributing plant at Point
Wells was, apparently, like any
other peaceful commercial es-
Establishment.
Approximately 100 men were
employed on the regular pay
roll There was also a large crew
of extra men. Two of the com
pany's tank steamers, the r. j.
Hanna and the Miller, were idle
at the wharf, their crews pulled
off by the MWIU. But this had
not seriously affected the opera
tion of the plant as the huge
storage tanks had millions OF
gallons of gasoline and fuel oils.
Manager Prepares for War
But suddenly all this was
changed. A ccrew of carpenters
was employed to build a large
mess-hall inside one of the ware
houses. A car load OF cots and
bedding was seen along side the
wire fence. Barbed wire entan-
clements were added on to the
ten foot wire fence which already
encircled the yard.
Huge gates were reinforced
with steel, welded on. Seven
powerful search-lights were in
stalled at strategic points. In
addition to this, q extra watch
lnen WIRE employed, working
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
Workers Framed
For Distributing
Leaflets, Jailed

BELLINGHAM, July p =
Speedy Justice" meted out by
local courts is being used as an
other weapon against class con-
scious workers. Jesse Yonally
and John Sluys were arrested,
tried, and sentenced to so days,
each within the space OF less
than an hour.
Why? For distributing cir
culars calling for q mass rally
August 6 when the county COM
misisoners and relief committee
Of the Veterans Of Foreign
Wars have been cited into
court for denying aid to indi-
gent veterans Of suspect" po-
litieal views.
The arrests took place while
Yonally and Sluys were working
among the crowd collected be-
fore the local relief station when
ponce were called to clear the
welfare office of a committee
protesting unjust discrimination
against A. B. Plummer, ex-serv-
ice man. Sluys has a wife and 5
small children dependent on
him. He is a farmer and stands
to lose his entire crop OF hay If
not released to stack 1t before
1t can be ruined by weather.
Yonally is unemployed and has
been for three years past.
Workers Sentenced
The men we're charged with
circulating leaflets without a
permit. Though, after winning its
demand that aid be given to
Plummer, the committee hasten
ed to the police station to aid
the arrested workers, they had
already been run through the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
Unemployed Win Victory
In Case of War
Veteran

BELLINGHAM, July 27-Mili-
tant action by comittee of I'M
employed and farmers won a vie
tory over the local welfare office
in the face of continued evasiOns
and denials, climaxed when Cru
ger and Stokesberry fled from
their office and Callihan called
police.
Protesting the refusal of aid
for themselves, a delegation from
NOOksack took up the cause of
A. b. Plummer, eX-serviceman,
who is forced to walk the streets
barefoot because the aforesaid
Gruger has refused to provide
him with badly-needed clothing
and relief.
Armed Police Appear
Three carloads of police armed
with guns and riot clubs answer
ed Callihan's call. The committee
was elected from the welfare of,
fices. Outside a crowd estimated
at 1000 had cOngregated. Men,
bers of the crowd Joined in a
plea for Plummer, who stood on
the sidewalk barefoot, told at
the Rag Shop that his shoes were
beyond repair and he had been
forced to abandon them.
oowed by the angry citizens,
police confined their activities
to arresting 2 men circulating
leaflets protesting discrimina-
ton against veterans for their
political beliefs.
With its numbers reinforced
by sympathizers from the crowd,
the committee went to the relief
depot where Plummer had pre-
viOusly been refused aid on one
preteXt after another. Demand
ing a shirt and shoes for the
needy veteran, the enlarged COM
mittee won its fight speedily.
Going next to the police sta
tiOn to learn the fate of the ar
rested workers, it learned that
the two men had been summary
arraigned, tried, and sentenced
on trumped-up charge of dis
tributing leaflets without a per-
nit.
Mass protests must be organ
lied quickly!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
EDITORIAL

Continued from Page Onel
from the fact that the entire strike
most elemental demands higher hours
recognition the right to organize the right strike
right to picket.
The decision Of the MIRA Board in San Francisco is q
foregone conclusion As in Milwaukee the demands strk
will not be The decision ship
Again as did the Milwaukee truck drivers the
front must prepare to strike.
What then the INN diate tasks?
Terror must be stopped Protests must engu every
public official demanding the right picket right
strike the right to organize the pub
ish working class papers.
Gang Committees must Q formed on the docks
to fight blacklists and discrimination.
The seamen must organize an intense fight for
centralized shipping seamens
a. Waterfront Federation be formed Of all mill
tan unions whether they affiliated Of to the
TUUL, independent.
s. Strike to be led this time by elected rank and file
committees of the strikers Must be prepared
called when the MIRA Board betrayal
Of the waterfront strike by rejection of all
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
More Discrimination Slapped
By Aroused Militant Workers

Negro boys brought here by the
U. S. Government" said mem-
bers of the committee who re-
moved the sign. land we do not
propose to let it become a Gus
tom for local prOfit-seekers to
draw a line between the black
and white workers and further
segregate and divide us.
I'm some CCC camps black and
white workers both eat and sleep
in the same buildings and white
boys from the camps tell us that
after they had removed the race
barrier which the capitalist class
had erected in their minds from
childhood, they found the Negro
boys very fine companions"
1t is rumOred that warrants are
out for two members of the COM
mittee, Willis being one of them.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
Correspondence

Editor, Voice of Action:
Today, we find in America q
strange parallel of cases. Years
ago an irate federal government
fought with an equally irate set
of states known as the cOnfeder-
aey over the question of human
slavery.
Once again we find men striv-
ing for freedom. Not cOlOred men
as decades ago, but men as white
as their oppressors. Troops
armed with guns and more mod
ern bombs hold the working
man under the heel of capital
ism.
Again it is the time for a pa
ternal government speaking the
will of a freedom-loving people
to release from bondage our
modern slave. To take from the
capitalist his state-Owned blood
hounds and place the working
man in the Eden he deserves.
A New Deal is the sermon
preached from every pulpit,
broadcast from every radio sta
ton, and plastered in Capitalist
yellow sheets, but how in heav-
ems eyes can there be new
deal with the same graft-greased
cards, with big business still
holding out the aces?
A Business Man, Aberdeen.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
Welfare Head Will
Not Aid Sick Child

REDMOND, July -"Why do
you bring your sick kids to me,
they don't mean anything to me"
was the greeting Mrs. Harrison
received from the local snoOper
Mrs. Barr when Mrs. Veeder
applied for medical aid for her
child.
An emergency operation for
the removal of a tumor was I'M
dertaken by doctors the next
day, working independently of
the welfare administration. For.
tunately, the ehild's life was
saved.
The same welfare snooper
has given similar treatment to
others. She has issued orders
that INDECENT on relief must
stay away from her private res
idence, sickness or no sickness
upon another occasion shoes
of special type were ordered
by doctor for a crippled boy.
Mrs. Barr refused to endorse
the order, in this case for Mrs.
Harrison's son, saying of the
child's plight, TT doesn't mean
anything to me-"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
Fight For Free Press Is
Backed By ALL Leaders

When interviewed by a Voice
of Action reporter, Seattle's Ia
Dor leaders were almost unani-
nous in their condemnation of
the terrOristic attacks launched
by police against the Northwest
workers.
George Early, President of the
Central Labor Council, was one
of the few exceptions. He could
not see his way clear, he said,
to protest the threatened sup
preston of the Voice OF Action,
which was continually attempt.
ingtO discredit him in the eyes
of the workers.
Dave Levine, J. A. Sandvigen,
Earl Gunther and Al Jussett all
agreed to bring pressure to bear
on Mayor Smith to prevent the
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
An Ode to FDR and the Strike
He who smiles
And sails away
May live to fish
Another day.
-Anonvmoua
Anonymous.

mill" and condemned to jail.
The unusually heavy SEN
fences imposed on them are
evidence Of the bosses bitter
opposition to organised action
by workers, ex-servicemen and
farmers in defense of their le-
gal rights.
The Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League, Post No. Sc, is sponsor.
ing the mass protest and rally.
1t asks all sympathizers to send
protest resolutions to the county
commissioners and the trial judge
Ed. K. Hardin. Also the post re-
quests all veterans whose claims
for aid have been rejected to re.
port their cases to Post No. Sc
of the WESL. which meets each
Wednesday at 500 p. m.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
FLASHES
from OREGON
By Kenneth Fitzgerald

The situation in Oregon, at the
present time is one of tense act
ivity. The drive of local authori-
ties in conjunction with the
coast wide attack on all militant
organizations has in no way
weakened the spirit of the work.
ers.
AS a matter of fact, due to pO-
lice terrorism, former sympathiz,
ers have become active workers,
hundreds of additional workers
are volunteering their services to
the defiant organizations. Like
the many headed monster which
lsprOuted two heads each time
one was severed from it's body,
the movement in Portland is
actually increasing its army OF
fighters due to the attack by the
authorities.
The most wide spread re-
sentiment was aroused here due
to the wholly unwarranted raid
of the police on the unemployed
headquarters.
Although all offices in the I'm,
employed Unity Center were ran
sacked by the raiders the head
quarters of the Civic Emergency
Federation was the only one from
which articles were taken. In the
CEF offices a typewriter and
Communist literature" was con-
fiscated. The Communist litera-
ture it appears, turned out to
be a copy of the Moscow News.
However, widespread publicity is
being given the raid and the role
of the CEF as Communist sub
sidiary" is being played to the
skies.
This tactic is, of course, not
pulling to those who have been
in contact with developments
here, One week before the DO
lice staged their raid, w. X. Pat
rick, president of the National
Economic Welfare Federation,
appeared in Washington county
and began to disseminate the red
scare in wholesale quantities
amongst the newly organized
CEF locals.
When the Washington county
locals, however, arranged a huge
III IN b er hip meeting before
which Patrick was invited to pre-
sent his charges in the presence
OF the MultnOmah county eexcu-
tive committee of the CEF, the
bulwark of 100 per cent Ameri-
leanism" developed an acute case
of cold feet and failed to show UP.
This attempt at boring from
within" having failed, the police
authorities Immediately hit up
on their next step. Consequently
the headquarters of the CEF
was raided and wide publicity
given to the fact that "Commun-
list literature" was discovered
there.
The little incident of Patrick's
reticence to face the accused
reds" with his charges of "trea-
son" have, however, opened the
eyes of the unemployed in Wash
ington county, indications are
that they are entirely unswayed
by the latest political maneuver.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
Preparations Revealed, Proving
DaffrOn'S Death Was No Accident

three shifts, seven men to a
shift. 1t was self-evident that
the Standard Oil Company was
preparing for war.
Company Union Holds Men
in Leash
On June 18th the manager
called every man to his private
Office and gave each personal
interview. A company union had
been formed just a week be-
fore, but this was for regular
employees only.
The boss said they were get
ting ready to move the two
boats which were tied to the
wharf and asked II the men had
any objection to staying at the
plant as there was sure to be
trouble. He said the men would
be fed and looked after in every
way and that the company was
unselfishly taking this pTecau-
tion that none of the employees
would be injured while passing
the picket line going to and
from work. He repeatedly warn.
ed the men against communism,
his favorite admonition being,
Never let Communist get be,
hind your
The following night Shelby
S. Daffron, striking longshore-
man, was murdered, shot in the
back by Standard Oil gunman.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
Statewide COnClave
For Oregon Aug. e

PORTLAND, July ia sys-
tematic constructive program
to centralize all unemployed
groups in the state of Oregon
into one militant body
Such is the purpose of a
committee set up recently by
the Multnomah County Fedora
tiOn of Unemployed to call a
statewide conference on unem-
ployment in Portland for Au-
gust 30. This delegated confer
enee will be preceded on Au.
gust % by a large mass meet
ing at which Herbert Benja.
min, national organizer of the
Unemployment Councils, will
be the principal speaker. Both
meetings are being held in con.
junction with the national pro-
gram of the Unemployment
Councils. Many problems in
the oregon unemployment
movement will be Strengthened
out by Benjamin's visit here, IT
is believed, and elaborate prep.
arations are being laid for the
pending sessions.
Benjamin is remembered here
as the militant national leader
who was mainly responsible for
the formulation of the Multno-
nah County Federation of I'm
employed, a federation Iuade
up of the four Portland unem-
.ployed groups Unemployed
Councils. Civic Emergency Fed
Grafton, Unemployed Citizens
League and the RentOn Unem.
ployed League, all OF which had
been previously working at
cross purposes due to misun-
derstandings, distrust and or.
ganized disruption. The fed.
GRAFTON is now almost a year
old.
With the out and out growth
of Fascist organizations in Port
land, such as the Citizens
Emergency Committee, It is be.
coming increasingly obvious to
the unemployed that all mill
tant elements must Immediate
ly solidify their forces.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27

closing down of the Voice OF
Action.
Il am not in sympathy with
the policy OF your paper" Levine
told the reporter. But l certain
ly do resent any infringement
on your constitutional right of
free press. So long as your re-
ports do not contain any libel
lous matter, the authorities have
no right to interfere with the
publication"
II was In favor OF the General
Strike" Jussett said, And on
that point | was in concurrence
with your papers editorial poll
cy. The Voice of Action is a
working class newspaper, and /
will do all / can to prevent po-
lice intervention"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho 4
members of the international La
Dor Defense, one of them Joe l..
Wills. organizer of the militant
lumber workers and unemploy-
ed of KoOtenai County, Commun-
list candidate for County Com
missioner, went into Dawes Cafe
at POS Sherman, and took down
a sign reading NO COlOred Trade
Solicited" when the prOprietOr's
son, Clair Freeman, who was in
charge, failed to remove it.
The sign had been put up last
year when there were many Ne
gro boys from the CCC in the vi
entity. 1t was the only sign of the
kind in town and was the first
that has appeared since the lid
was organized.
THE discrimination is against
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
30 WORKERS ARRESTED

PORTLAND-"LOng live the
Communist Party!"
Thus, with fist appraised and
eyes flashing, did Dirk DeJOng
hurl his answer into the face OF
the marauding police raiders as
he led a procession of 40 arrest
ed workers down the stairs and
into the waiting patrol wagons
here Immediately following the
raid on the Workers Bookshop.
DeJong, John Webber and
Clyde Stewart were bound over
to the grand jury under $1,000
bail each.
George Petrovich and Roy
Vaughn are being held under q
bail of $780, and Don Cluster, Of
the Young Communist League,
is being held under 500 bail.
Bail of $25 apiece has been
set for the IA others held for the
grand jury.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-27
UFL Pledges Solid
arity with Strikers
To Workers on the Pacific Coast
Dear Brothers:

TO Workers on the Pacific Coast
Dear Brothers:
Your magnificent determine
ton and struggle against the at
tempts of the bosses, bankers,
and the New Dealers to lower
your living standards is a living
inspiration to the impoverished
farmers throughout the country.
We farmers suffer direst mis-.
cry from the same class that OPP
presses you and we are therefore
determined to do everything in
our power to aid you in your
struggle.
Our first national convention,
held in Minneapolis in June de.
cided that solidarity of the farm
ers with the city workers shall
be, in the future as it has been
in the past, one of the corner
stones of our struggles and or
ganization.
Locals of the United Farmers
League on the west coast have
already shown this solidarity by
joint picketing with the striking
longshoremen and by the collec-
tion of food supplies for their
struggles.
In order that our pledge of
solidarity shall be made more
concrete we are urging an in.
classification of these efforts to
aid you in your struggles
throughout our entire organiza.
ton. We stand ready to lend what
additional aid we can to you.
UNITED FARMERS LEAGUE
Alfred Tiala, President,
Henry Puro, Secretary.