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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13

Women CannCry workers have
for some time been carrying on
a determined campaign to bet
ter conditions in the fishing
and canning industry under the
leadership of the Fishermen
and CannCry Workers Indus
trial Union.
They have fought not only
for their own interests but have
supported the fishermen in
their struggle for higher prices.
They are endeavOring to wipe
out race discrimination.
Emilia Feuhkurinen from As
tOria, in a letter to the Voice
of Action, is now appealing to
all workers. especially young
workers. both men and women,
to unit in this effort.
The main industry on the Co.
lumbia River, she writes. is
fishing and fish packing. Can
ncries along the river employ
several hundred workers, most
of whom are women.
The most important work in
the cannerics is filling cans 1t
is done by hand and by women.
Formerly packing was paid by
piece work, but through the
militancy of the women last
spring this method was abOl-
ished, and the workers are now
receiving 50 cents an hour.
The cannery workers are
mostly wives and children of
! fishermen employed outside the
home because the men cannot
make a living fishing.
Because women are the ones
who have to see that there is
IenOugh to eat even in winter
when there is no work, they
realize that a certain price and
wage must be secured to carry
through. This makes them more
militant. This is why you see
them ready to struggle for bet
ter wages. During our strikes
in the past, women have been
in the picket lines when young
workers, for example, showed
less interest.
Through the militant activity
of the women working with the
fishermen, COmrade Peuhkuri,
en- reports the latter were able
to 90 on strike this spring.
Organization Difficult
Because of the individual
theology, each one for himself,
these cannery workers engaged
in different kinds of work, do
not care how much wages the
other workers are getting. 1t
is hard for them to see that in
order to get better living cOndi.
lions each should support the
other and struggle unitedly for
their common demands.
White workers also often mis-.
understand the Chinese, Japa-
nese and Filipino workers.
Knowing that the boss hires
them so that II the white work
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
An Open Letter
TO Mrs. CeCilIo Newell
Welfare Supervisor
Kirkland. Wash.

TO Mrs. Cecillc Newell
Welfare Supervisor
Kirkland, Wash.
Mrs. Newell As a tool Of the
system that hands you your pay
check, it is your duty to handle
relief funds 50 spariug that the
condition Of the unemployed on
the East Side not only borders
on starvation bat causes il lin2rr-
ing. guawiug hunger brought
about by the starch foods that
the scanty dole forces the uncn-
plOyed to purchase.
If you doubt these facts, mix
with the unemployed as | have
and see for yourself the sores
prevailing in this community.
Then, because these families
have OvCrrcachcd their trans
pOrtatiOn allowance, you even
cut off their medical attention.
Then you have the nerve to
baWl me out for writing an
article comparing your sore
throat with the condition of the
unemployed. Which weighs the
most?
You say, Sec your personal
invest ipatOr." But what good
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
Socialist Militant

SOCIALIST Mlhtdub
"On October 20, 1926, the
death of Eugene V. Debs, chair
man of the Socialist Party and
its standard bearer i'm five ma
tional elections, removed the
last sincere militant fighter
from the leadership of the
party"
Debs was born in Terre
Haute, Ind, November ;, 1855,
If French parentage.
From the Ranks
He went to work at the age
of fourteen and scraped paint
from sides of railway cars for
year and a half One night an
engineer asked Genes boss to
lend him the 'lanky, over six
.foOt-tWO lad to replace his fire
man who ahd gone on a spree
This was the beginning OF
Deb's career a. a railroad man.
Although after year or two
he became a grocery clerk to
ease his mothers worry ltrain
work in those days was CX-
tremcly haZardOusl, yet he was
so popular among the railroad
workers that at twenty he was
elected leader Of a lodge of
firpmCn. From then on until
his death, Gene Debs was
leader of men.
In Politics
In 1879, at the age Of twenty
five. he was elected city clerk
of Tcrre Hautc on the Demo
cratic ticket and five years
later went to the Indianapolis
Legislature for the same party.
Thcre he became 50 thoroughly
disguised with political mancu-
vcring that at the end of the
session he announced, Il AIN
through with that business
lpOliticSD forever Fifteen years
later he was running for PreSi-
dent.
AS Labor Organizer
Throughout Dcb's career as
labor organizer he led strike
after strike. Less than a year
after the organization of the
American Railway Union, Debs
led the strike on the Great
Northern against James J. Hill.
Hill granted 81 per cent OF
Genes demands. SO sudden and
complete had been the victory
that railroad workers from st.
Paul to the West Coast refused
to go back to work until Dcbs
himself tclcgraphed their lead
ers that the fight was over.
The same year Dcbs lead the
great sympathy strike of the
railroad workers with the Pull
man workers which ended with
martial law for the entire area
and ii Jail term for Dcbs for
contempt of court.
After his release Debs began
a series of lecture tours to
raise funds to continue the dis
integrating American Railway
Union.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
LUMBER UNION HISTORY
DELAYED FOR ONE WEEK

This weeks installment of
the HISTORY OF THE Ma
TIONAL LUMBER WORK
Frs UNION is unfortunately
missing.
Jim Murphy's trip to Can
ada to attend the Lumber
Workers Industrial Union
convention there prevented
him from getting this issues
chapter ready in time for the
paper.
Next week the series con-
tinueS.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
Did You Know That

The Scottsboro Boys have
been condemned by the Ala
bama supreme court to die on
August 81. The LID and other
organizations are working day
and night to save the boys by
carrying the case again to the
United States supreme court.
Only militant mass action and
loyal financial support in these
efforts can save the lives of
these boys.
A call has Just been issued
for the second national confer
ence of the American League
Against War and Fascism to be
held late in September in Chi
cagO. The first convention was
held with great success last
year with more than $500 dele
gates in attendance. Militant
mass support of this Organiza-
tiOn and its magazine Fight"
must continue.
The Hartman Hosiery Mills,
at Hartman, Tenn, give us an
other glowing example of the
bankruptcy of the NRA. Some
600 workers have been on strike
there for eight months. The
governments applicant was
somewhat upset when the COM
pany's attorney wrote the Cen
eral Johnson: Even your own
secretary E. advised us to take
back fifty strikers, work them
for a week or ten days, and
then let them out" 1t looks
as though even crooks working
together can't seem to agree to
keep things to themselves.
y
In Tennessee many of the
CCC camps are losing hundreds
of boys through strikes and
Tunaways. In one camp martial
law was declared when forty
went on strike. Orders given
were: Shoot to kill' if further
uprisings occurred.
y y
The Firestone, Goodrich and
Goodyear Rubber Companies
are closing temporarily to avoid
strike sentiment spreading to
their workers from the 1,500
strikers at the General Tire
Company's plant.
y
Milwaukee police dubbed and
gassed workers last week as 40
900 of them routed scabs. Sixty
one were jailed for picketing
by the police force of Mayor
Daniel Hoan, one of the So
called left wing members of the
Socialist Party.
=
In San Francisco the national
guard has been in action the
past week with a terrible toll
OF death and injuries among
the strikers it has attacked.
More and more the workers are
coming to realize that ROose-
velt's huge increase in appropri.
atoms for the army were not
meant altogether for use in
fighting in foreign lands.
In the drought stricken areas
of the Middle West the hog
and corn reduction program of
the AAA has been a. great ca
lamity to the stricken farmers.
Red tape holds up feed for
what stock remains, and forced
labor is demanded of those
who are facing starvation and
must eat.
In Denver, Colo, more than
$1,000 people are on relief-one
lin every six.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13
BY J. S. BALSH

boy jes solOng. Ah'll be hop
pin the same freight wild yuh."
That amt So" Jim Wall
said, you gotta have money to
git outa here"
IN, it takes money fob the
state to feed yuh," the Negro
said. Amt that right, bOy?"
ITO Be Continued
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13

In Denver, Colo, more than
$4,000 people are on reliei-one
in every six.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-07-13

In the drought stricken areas
of the Middle West the hog
and corn reduction program of
the AAA has been a great ca
lamity to the stricken farmers.
Red tape holds up feed for
what stock remains, and forced
labor is demanded of those
who are facing starvation and
must eat.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Urge Election
OF EuIa Martin
In Shoe Union
Voting To Take Place
in HaverhiIl from
II to E Today

HAVERHILL. Mass. June 13.-
Following a heated discussion of
over two hours the membership of
the United Shoe and Leather Work
ers Union nominated Eula Martin,
a bench girl and outstanding mill
tant from Stitchers Local 10, as a
delegate for the District Council.
Members Of the old Protective
union machine who are trying to
disrupt the United fought hard to
force Miss Martins withdrawal
from the Council. but failed because
no one dared to prefer charges
against her in order to recall her.
Eula Martin was elected to the
Council last January. Her work in
the Council has been Of a very mil
liant character. as was her work
during the recent strike. All dur
ing the strike Miss Martin, along
with Marine Brandolini, chairman
of the Council, had many open bat
ties with members who were carry
ing out destructive policy Of be-
trayal
Elections for the Council will take
place by secret ballot today from
noon until pm. All members Of
Local 10 are urged to come and
vote for Eula Martin.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Dugan Work ers Face
SeIl-Out by A. F. of L.
in Brooklyn Strike

NEW YORK. Snyder, Powers and
Carlbush, heads of the A. F. of L..
bakers union, conferred with E. j.
Dugan and Chambers, owner and
manager of Dugan's Bakery, Brook
Ign, Tuesday, and decided to meet
Friday in the N.R.A. Offices at As
Broadway where a sell-out plan Of
the drivers and leaders strike is to
be prepared.
The workers, $50 in all, have been
striking for union recognition for
five weeks. The MIRA. board had
told them to return to work several
weeks ago with union recognition,
but the workers found themselves
locked out when they returned.
Snyder, president of the union, has
been collecting dues of four dollars
a month, giving a button in return.
He refused to give any strike re-
lief after he had promised ten dol
lars on the grounds that not every
member has paid up his dues.
Meanwhile he has collected hun
dreds of dollars from the workers
and refused to give any accounting.
Workers in the Krug. Wards and
other bakeries are watching the
struggle of the Dugan workers with
interest, it is reported A victory
would mean a possible general strike
in the industry
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Urge Vote for Rank
and File Candidates
in Carpenters Local

NEW YORK.-Elections of off
GERS will take place in Carpenters
Local 2o9O today,
The rank and file group of Car
penters Local 1880 is therefore call
ing upon all members of the local
to see to it that Local 2090 remains
fighting local and vote for the
candidates of rank and file groups.
The candidates of the group are:
Robert Mayer for president, Louis
Ivan for vice-president, Florian
Modrovszky for recording secretary,
Sam Friedman for financial secre-
tary, John Lenicek for treasurer,
Savo Goikovic for D. C. delegate,
for members of the executive COM
mittee, Sidney Novick and Alex
Herman.
A vote for these candidates means
vote for an administration that
will help the local to fight in the
interests of the carpenters as we'll
as in the interests of the labor
movement in general.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
THE FIGHT:

This fight might easily
degenerate into what the boys
around the Garden call a
stinko ."
Joe Williams-The World
Telegram
THE Contestants:
The Camera affair is the
best thing that mas been offered the
f1stic fans in years"
Damon Runyon-New York
American.
Il maintain that Camera is the
biggest hoax we have ever had pa
rading in the guise of a heavy
weight champion"
Paul Gallico-Daily News
I'm for calling the fight off, not
for postponing it, if this is the fell
low who is going to face Camera.
The public has been swindled for
years but I'm not going to stand
for it,"
Honest Bill Brown-Boxing
Commissioner.
Camera Baer Match Flames
With Drawing Power Angles"
Richards Vidmer-HeraId-
Tribune.
GETTING Ready:
u Camera and Baer in Tiptou
Condition for Title Battle"
J. Lester Scott--The World
Telegram.
"(Baer) Incredibly Bad in Box
ing Made the sorrest showing
in nine rounds of any challenger
for the title ever seen by this writer
at a corresponding period Of train
ing"
Wilbur Wood-The Sun.
IT write that he (Carnera) was
not as good as he was several years
ago when he toured the nation
bowling over hams
Jim Tully-New York
American.
THE thing that is being over
looked is that if Baer is under
trained, Camera is overturned"
Paul GaIIico-DaiIy News.
"The worst judges of physical
condition of fighters in the world
are sport writer's"
Damon Runyon-New York
American.
THE Winner:
There is more hedging about
picking the winner than is custom
airy even in these days. I quite
agree with this hesitancy."
Hugh Bradley-New York Post.
Your correspondent rises
to announce that he Is going to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
ADVERTISEMENT
THEATRE HEAD AT
NITCEDAIGET
Former DAILY" Writer Edits
Camp Paper

John Bonn. national secretary of
the League of Workers Theatres and
director Of the Theatre Collective.
will direct theatricals at Camp Nit
gedaiget this Summer. A group Of
actors from the Workers Laboratory
Theatre will form the core Of the
producing group, and campers will
be drawn into agit-prop produc-
tions that Bonn is experimenting
with.
To celebrate Communist Party
month, new revolutionary words set
to Gilbert and Sullivan operettas,
are in preparation. During the
month of June, all profits go to the
Communist Party.
Dan Davis. former city editor of
the Daily Worker, is the sports di-
rector and editor of the camp
paper. This staff is preparing a
series of daily programs of a quality
never before attained at Camp Nit
gedaiget.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Chi. Workers Plan
United Steel Strike
Members of A.A. Lodge
Boo Officials for
Tighe Defense
BY BILL ANDREWS
special to the Daily Morkerl

CHICAGO, Ill, June 13-Dele-
gates from every major steel plant
in South Chicago met last night in
a regional conference to plan united
action during the coming steel
strike. Workers from Republic. IL
linois, Wisconsin and YOUNGSTOWN
Steel mills reported an overwhelm-
ing strike sentiment in the various
shops.
TWenty-three workers of the Steel
and Metal workers Industrial
Union, the Amalgamated Associa-
ton, the United Roll Turner's and
unorganized groups in departments
worked out plans for the immedi-
ate holding Of group meetings to
instruct the workers on the tactics
to follow Saturday when the strike
is called. The conference was unan-
imous in support ofthe program
of joint action Of all unions pro-
posed by the Steel and Metal Work
ers Industrial Union.
Workers Boo A. A. Official
While this meeting was going on,
rank and file members of the Blue
Eagle Lodge Of the A. A. in Repub-
lie Steel were in uproar against the
tactics of their leaders. Curtiss, q
district official, attempted to put
over a resolution sent out by the
office of the International that the
lodge would not ask for strike ben
efits during the steel strike.
The anger Of the workers was ex-
pressed in shouted protests and
Curtiss and his henchmen were
forced to delay action on the reso-
luton till a meeting called for Fri
day.
Leaders then tried to tell the rank
and file that the Committee of Ten
elected at the convention was "un-
constitutional and that the Pitts
burgh convention of the Fourteenth
would have to review previous con-
IYention decisions that didn't fit the
bylaws A furious worker shouted
out: who the hell gave Mike Tighe
authority to review our decisions. "
20 Walk Out in Disgust
Smith, President of the Lodge,
made an appeal in support of the
.reactionary Mike Tighe machine,
pleading with the workers to sup
port him on the basis of his So
year record Of betrayal of the work
ers. Smith was hitherto very popu-
lar with the Lodge members. Last
night, however, 10 Of the 100 men,
bers present walked out of the meet
ing in disgust without even waiting
for the election of delegate to
Pittsburgh. With only Smiths per-
sonal friends remaining, his election
was practically assured. A COM
pany union election in Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Plant, Indiana Har-
Dor, was met by a mass refusal to
vote. Only II out Of 400 in one
department voted until superintend-
ants and straw bosses came in and
forced them to vote.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
continued from Page ~
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
Daily Worker Washington Bureau)

citation, all leading to rendering
useless the strike weapon.
Republicans in the Senate met
secretly to consider the proposal to-
day and decided to meet again to-
morrow on it. They were not en-
thusiastic over it, but expressed no
opposition. Democrats were eX-
pected to line up promptly
In the form Of q Joint resolution,
the Roosevelt measure would de-
clare any board created by it en-
powered to conduct elections by
secret ballot, to determine collec-
tive bargaining representatives, but
only when it shall appear in the
public interest. This would simply
mean that any labor grievance
going to the board or boards would
be subject to lengthy negotiations
more strike-stalling than the ma
tional run around now provides
and that after this the board might
decide that an election would not
be in the public interest"
The resolution would set a penalty
of a $1,000 fine or one years i'm
prisonment or both for anyone's
violating a rule or regulation aU-
thorized by the board or against
anyone who should impede or in
terfere with any member or agent
Of any board established"
The direction of the boards to
investigate the practices of "em-
ployers or employees gives the lie
to any contentious the sponsors of
the resolution may make about its
validating the collective bargaining
promise of the NRA., for it is
known universally that employers
alone are the users Of coercion and
intimidation, etc. The first bill in
troduced by Chairman Wagner of
the National Labor Board was di-
rected exclusively, in this respect,
at employers.
Compulsory Arbitration
Under the resolution the boards
would be appointed by the President
with no provision for labor repre-
sentatives chosen by the workers.
Observers generally recognized the
proposal as an arbitration measure.
One Senator known as Progressive
expressed the viewpoint that the
only thing that really would solve"
the present situation would be a
straight-out compulsory arbitration
measure.
1t was because Of such sentiments
that conferences and undercover
wire-pullings and agreements, which
filled the capitol today, failed to
reach complete agreement to enact
the measure at once.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Bronx Consumers
To Protest Today
At Milk Price Rise
Urge Demonstration in
Front of Sheffield
Milk Company

NEW YORK-A united fight tt
lower the price Of milk will be made
by the Bronx Committee of Action
which calls for a demonstration to-
day at pm. before the office Of
the Sheffield Milk Company. al
165th St. and Webster Ave, Bronx
The full text Of the call of the
Committee follows:
Last week we witnessed a rise
in prices on the most vital foods.
such as bread, meat and milk.
Under the present conditions of
low wages and unemployment. the
mounting cost of living means adj
ditional suffering and misery to
the working class families.
The city is opening milk sta
lions to sell milk at eight cents a
quart. But one must be eligible
to get this milk. This means
again investigators to our homes
to qualify us as to one of the verv
needy cases.
We don't want to suffer and
wait until the investigators make
us needy cases. We must lower
the price of milk so as to be able
to buy it for our children, to keep
them healthy, to help prevent
disease.
The Bronx Action Committee
of five calls upon all workers. all
unemployed, all consumers, men
and women, to come to the dem
onstration in front of Sheffield
Milk Company, today at l PM,
at l65th st. and Webster Ave.
There we will present our de
mands and demand an answer
from the milk company"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Spring Festival Will
Be Held Tomorrow
By Harlem Sec, C. p,

NEW YORK.-A Spring Festival
and Roof Garden Party will be
given tomorrow, pm, in the roof
garden of the Finnish Workers Hall,
Is West 126th ST., by the Harlem
Section of the Communist Party.
The entire cast of "Stevedore" is
expected, as we'll as several, famous
Negro artists.
The Harlem Section has gone for
ward in great strides this year 1t
now needs the support of New York
workers in order TO intensity its
work in the liberation struggles of
the Negro people.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Anti War Conference
At Brighton Beach

BROOKLYN, N. Y.-An anti-war
conference will be held at the N. &
H. Restaurant, Ali Brighton Beach
Ave, between E. 4th and E. 5th SITS.
today, pm.
All civic, social, religious and po-
litical organizations have been in
vited to send two delegates each
The purpose of the conference is tc
unite all those who will struggle fol-
peace. The conference is under the
auspices of the Parent Teacher
Student Anti-War and Fascisn
Group of Coney Island and Brigh-
ton Beach
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14

cast a vote for Primo Camera
in Thursdays heavyweight battle
with Max Baer at the Bowl
Joe Williams-The World
Telegram.
Max Baer is your man this
time" Frank Graham-The Sun.
"Preem To Outlook, outlast Baer
in Title Battle. !"
Benny Leonard-The New
York American.
"Carnero Could Be Whipped By
His Sparmate.
Jim Tully-The New York
American.
THE Bets.
l "Carnera Choi9e at 8 to 5 Odds.s
New York Post-June 10.
Betting Even Money"
Notwithstanding 10.
THE Spells:
i "A total gate of between S4Oc,-
600 and 100000, which proportion
ally to the times is easily the eoutv-
alent Of something like s1O0O,0O0
in the days of the gold rush.
New York American.
There is a belief in some quar-
tiers that the promoters, dissatis-
fed with the advance sale, twerel
at the bottom of the move for a
postponement, hoping that a delay
(woul0 help the gate"
The Sun.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
Call Workers to Picket
Frigidaire Co, 45thSt., TODAY

NEW YORK. = To protest the
brutal beating Of strikers by hired
thugs, striking workers of the
Frigidaire Corporation, 80 w. 45th
ST.. will hold mass demonstration
in front Of the plant today at noon.
All workers are called to join the
mass picket line.
A similar demonstration was made
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-14
DISTRICT Is TO HOLD
PICNIC SUNDAY

MILWAUKEE,, visa large turnout is
expected at the Sixth Annual Interna-
tional Workers Picnic to be held by Dis
trict 10 Of the Communist Party Sunday,
June II at Old Heidelberg Grove. An
interesting program for this outing which
has always been one Of the Summer fea-
lures of the city, has been planned.