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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Portland To Hold Civil
Rights Farley Dec. e

PORTLAND, Dec. 6-Follow
ing the conviction of Dirk De-
JOnge here last week and his sub
sequent sentence of seven years
in the Oregon State penitentiary
large and representative group
of liberals formed a provisional
committee and sent out cal
for a civil rights" conference to
be held at the WOW hall in Port
land on December 23rd.
This conference, says Ben An
dersOn, local attorney and sec
rotary of the provisional com
mittee, will lay the basis for o
statewide drive to seek repea
of the Oregon criminal syndical'
ism laws.
wellKnown People Sign
Signers of the call include
Ralph G. Clyde, Portland city
commissioner, Harry Kenin and
Harry w. Stone, members of the
Multnomah county school board
Larry Miner, a retired major in
the United States army, several
prominent members of the Port.
land Central Labor Council, many
professional and business men,
wellknown Oregon ministers and
various officers of the Interna.
tional Labor Defense and the Am
erican Civil Liberties Union.
Gust Anderson, secretary OF
the Portland Central Labor
Council, although when appear
ing as a witness against De Jonge,
admitted that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor was on record
against the criminal syndicalism
law, refused to sign the call be-
cause he was unwilling to place
the Central Labor Council on re.
cord without its sanction"
Several local trade unions, how
ever, have already elected dele.
gates to the December 23rd con-
ference.
Despite a barrage of vicious
SANDER on the part of the local
daily newspapers, says Anderson
the sentiment for repeal of the
CS law is rapidly growing through
out the state.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Censor Arms Data

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. G.
Not content with having post
pOned the resumption of the Sen
ate Munitions Committee invest.
igatiOn of the sensational world.
wide activities of American mu-
nitions companies until after the
recent elections, the Roosevelt
administration has now suppress
ed important parts of the hear
ings.
1t was the testimony and doe.
uments illustrating the tie-ur
between the briggs Ordinance &
Engineering company, the Unit
ed States Navy Department, ano
the Colombian government which
were stricken from the record
The censorship was requested
by the State Department.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Central Labor Council
To Aid Relief Workers

BELLINGHAM, Dec. 6 - Ed.
ward Benedict and A. b. Plum
mer visited the Central Labor
Council last week as delegates
from the United Front Strike
Committee.
The Council pledged them
selves to give all support pos
sible to the striking relief work
ers to protest the use of the Col
umbia School as a work relief
center, and to use their influence
to have all the trade unions rep
resented endorse the demands OF
the relief workers and to elect
delegates to sit on the United
Front Strike committee.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
BY Richard Lovelace

by hlch,ard Lovelace
Disabled Overseas World War
Veteran, Workers Independ-
ent Candidate for State Legis-
lature in last Election; Men,
Der Exec. Com, Portland Sec.
American League Against War
and Fascism
PORTLAND, Dec. Gan air OF
mystery was deliberately built
around Stanley M. Doyle, special
prosecutor in the trial which re-
suited in the seven year sentence
of Dirk DeJonge, on the charge
of criminal syndicalism. This air
of mystery was no accident. The
Commanders Comedian isolat.
ed body of American Legion, Vet.
Grams of Foreign Wars, Disabled
American Veterans and Spanish
War Veteran leadership-pro.
posed Doyle's services as special
prosecutor without cost to the
Taxpayers.
A part of the deliberate mys-
terry is who paid Doyle? A part
of the purpose OF that mystery
was to leave the impression that
organized vterans were paying
this vicious character to send
militant workers to prison. 1t
was just one more of the meth
DDS of cOnniving reactionary
forces to drive a splitting wedge
into the ranks of the working
class; to create the illusion that
Doyle, in all his brutality, rep
resented the American ex-serv-
icemen.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Relief Strikers Take
Fight To COuncilmen

BELLINGHAM, Dec. 6-BefOre
a meeting of the City Council, A.
b. Plummer testified that single
men were being compelled to
exist on relief allowance of seven
and a half cents per meal and
that the allowance was gradual
ed down to four and three quar-
tiers cents per meal per person in
families of eight.
He also stated that the relief
administration had become so
deplorable that the workers had
gone out on strike, demanding a
so per cent increase in relief to
be paid in cash to all on relief.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

Solving these problems met. Mis-
leaders are now at work trying
to divert us from those tasks.
trying to split the ranks of the
wOrker.veterans. w. w. Waters
is in Portland attempting new
national organization of which
he is to be Commander" and
urging a bonus march late in the
spring-after Congress has had a
chance to defeat payment of the
bonus" But veterans and nom
veterans alike must realize their
identity of interest. Veterans
must recognize that only by a
militant stand for uAemploy-
ment insurance can they success
fully beat back the hunger, war
and faseism program of the New
Deal. NOn-disabled veterans must
recognize that only by solidarity
for the demands of the disabled
can The Economy attack against
the veterans be smashed.
These are the problems facing
the veterans, and they do not
differ, except in application from
those facing the nOn-veterans.
Hunger, Fascism, War-these
are our enemy. We must fight
them together, recognizing the
symbolic truths in the fact that
Don Cluster, 20 year old YCL or
ganizer, also recently convicted
on a CS charge, and Dirk De-
Jonge, world war veteran, are
victims OF the same class which
maintains itself by Hunger, Fas-
cism, War!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Win Shoes For
JObleSS Woman

TACOMA, Dec. last week a
woman who had been unable to
get shoes for herself from the re-
lief setup was accompanied by a
committee from the Unemploy-
ment Council. The committee was
kept waiting in the ante room
while the woman was taken in
and her size sent down to the
shoe shop. She was fitted to shoes
then and there, without waiting
for a voucher. Another man who
had been on the committee, on
the strength of this, wen in and
demanded voucher for shoes for
himself and two children, which
he received.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Kanzler Nazi Sympathizer

and there | saw tlris great bud
dy" Stanley Doyle together with
his bosom friend, NJ. II. Bacon,
leering in drunken contempt at
the men who were paying tri-
butte to the victims of the last
imperialist slaughter. Trivial
though the incident may be, it
illustrates just how sincerely
Doyle can speak for veterans!
Those veterans who had the
cause of their comrades at heart
were in the line of march-and
not guzzling liquor and sneering
on the sidelines. AS when he
made his closing argument to the
jury, Doyle was mixing booze
and patriotism.
Let's Clean UP This Mob"
DOyle's career-as a drunkard,
as an organizer of the American
Legion, as a flag-waver-is i'm
portant because it demonstrates
the type of character fascism is
using to entrench itself. Doyle
organized Post So of the Ameri-
can Legion at Bonneville for the
boosted purpose of putting
down radical agitation"-work-
ers' struggles against speed-up
and wage cuts. The Bonneville
Record-actually the organ OF
the General Construction COM
pany, stated that such patriotic
leaders of the Legion as Larry"
Doyle would in cases of work.
ers' struggle, say to the Post,
Come on boys, let's clean up
this mob!" b. K. Lawson, former
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Can Still Register
For Workers School

SEATTLE, Dec. 6-The Work
ers School opened oMnday, Dec.
3. The first week the classes were
organized and introductiOns CIV
en- to the courses. Those who
have failed to register for the
school or who registered early
but did not attend the first ses-
sion of the classes may still do
so next week. Registrations are
being taken every day at 203
Collins Bldg,
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Portland Has ROuSing
Nazi "Get-TOgether'

PORTLAND, Dec. 6-Portland
Nazis staged meeting at the
Turn Verein hall here Wednes-
day, Nov. 2S, at which, according
to capitalist press reports, Her
man Schwinn, district manager
of the Friends of New Germany,
protested the boycott of Ameri-
can goods.
What the press did not report
was that Schwinn, speaking in
German, stated: Forget you are
American, you are German first"
Nazi flags and storm troop uni
forms were prominent at the
meeting. Ro bert Closterman,
German consul here; A. Hoch-
field, local Nazi leader; and Mrs.
Herman Keller, local leader of
the women Nazis also spoke to
an audience estimated at 400.
There was much Hitler eiling
during the meeting.
Kanzler Nazi Sympathizer
1t is significant, though not
related to the above subject,
that Judge Jacob Kanzler's
daughter is going to school in
Germany. Kanzler is the 200 per
cent American who protected the
American constitution from sub,
version, by sentencing Dirk De-
Jonge, American world war vet
eran, to seven years in the peni-
Tertiary upon his conviction OF
criminal syndicalism violation.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
AL HEARS JoBLESS

BELLINGHAM, Dec. 6 The
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
at their regular meeting at 2O3
Chestnut street, elected Tony
Lundgren and William Wallin as
delegates to act with the United
Front Strike committee to help
with the winning of the relief
workers demands.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

struck by another car, driven
by drunken driver.
Fellow worker Linden was
thrown on his head from the car
striking the curbing and inflict-
ing a fatal injury of which he
never regained consciousness.
He died in Harborview hospital
Saturday at s a. m.
Blow to Workers
This sudden death of Linden
is tremendous blow, not only
to the FCWIU but to the en-
tire working-class movement
FellOw-worker Linden has been
a militant worker his entire life.
Being raised on a farm, he
came to the Columbia River in
his youth. He started fishing
for a living, but he, as many
other thousands of fishermen,
lost his boat to the packers due
to the low prices paid for their
catches.
He then began to follow con-
struction jobs on the frontier.
Realizing from bitter expert
ence the need of rank and file
control in unions, he started his
trade-uniOn career, first by join
ing the Carpenters and Joiners
Union in klamath Falls, Ore.
Find Leader in Linden
In the Spring of 1898, thous-
ands of fishermen and cannery
workers went on strike against
starvation wages and prices. The
II. U. U. L. went into the strike
zone, and needing militant
workers to build a rank and file
union, found real fighter and
leader in Linden.
During the twO-years existence
of the union the fishermen and
cannery workers have followed
the leadership of Linden Loyalty
in fighting against the fish
trusts and their agents for high
er wages and better prices.
The fish trusts and their
agents, Mr.. Suoja, Makovich,
Freeman and Co., will dance
with joy on seeing the news of
Linden's death, but their joy
will be cut short as the work
of fellow-worker Linden has not
died with him.
Work To Be Continued
The plans that have been
laid for the development of
future struggles against the fish
trusts will be carried out by
rising leaders from the ranks of
the fishermen.
Yes, Linden is dead, but his
work will continue to bear re-
suits. A powerful united front
is being constructed by all fish
ermen and cannery workers, who
will continue along the line of
his leadership in fighting solidly
against the fish trusts and their
agents.
New leaders are taking up
where Linden left off, who will
fearlessly carry forward this
militant program for the final
emancipation of the working
class.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
Theater
Notes
By Tony Perez

Little OF Boy" by Albert
Bein at Seattle Rspertory
Playhouse. directed by Flor
ence b. James.
A play that tries seriously to
present conditions In the average
boys reform school. One is
thrown face to face with stool
pigeons, tough guards, potato
peeling. ignorant officials and the
whipping bench.
The story Is very simple. yet
complete enough to hold the
play together. The boys, while
peeling potatoes, decide to write
letter to the governor protest.
ing food, beatings, and the hard
work. The letter Is Intercepted,
the writer confesses to defend
new prisoner. Red Barry, and all
the little oil boys in cottage ID
take beating.
Personal Fight
Later personal fight takes
place, u guard tries to stop 1t. Is
beaten over the head, and two
boys make u getaway One of
them is killed and the other, Red
Is sent to the penitentiary.
The author has spent six years
in reform schools and prisons and
knows what he is writing about.
The play is a damning portray
al of our penal system, its beau
ty Is strict reportage, offering
neither reform or the revolution
airy solution as the Soviet Union
has handled the problem. AL
though the story does leave open
ings for false conclusions, one
might believe that II the gov
ernor had gotten the letter con-
ditions might have been changed,
which we know is absolutely I'M
true for officials do know about
these things and they thrive on
them.
Acting Good
The acting of the boys is good
and the lead, Marcel Leplat, who
plays Red Barry, does a sincere
job, yet at times gets too excited
and the audience misses some
lines.
Admission is rather high but
workers who can afford it should
go.
st. Louis Kid" Warner
Bros, with James Cagney, at
the Orpheum.
Although the play has some
shady interpretations OF milk
strike at least cops are cops, the
boss is a rat, and strikebreakers
are 100 per cent American gang
sters In Cagney's new film.
The play has some good gags
and is well acted, although Gag
ney never made up his mind as
to whose side of the strike he
was on. One is also made to be-
lieve that county jails are stop
over places to drink beer.
The picket captain is perfect
Characterization of militant
striker, but Hollywood seems
to think that local judges 60 In
for strike organizing.
News Photos Significant
Well worth the admission are
the two news flashes of thous-
ands of Partisan soldiers and
workers marching through the
streets with fists appraised, and
the strike at College OF the City
of New York where effigies OF
and College President
Robinson are burned.
The vaudeville, except for the
Japanese tumblers, is vile.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
CORRECTION

We wish to correct an error
made in the last two issues OF the
Voice of Action. In printing the
list of sponsors for the Unem-
ployment Insurance Conference
in Olympia we neglected to state
that the organizations to which
the sponsors belong or of which
they were officers were listed for
purposes of Identification and
that the organizations them
selves were not necessarily com
mitted to the call.-Editor.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
DAILY WORKER BENEFIT

PORTLAND. Dec. 6-The Com
munist Party is holding a chick
en- dinner, rally and dance at the
Italian Federation hall, Saturday
Dec. s, at So. 4th and Madison
streets. All proceeds are to go to
the benefit of the Daily Worker
drive.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

Chief of Police, had the same
idea a few months ago when he
tried to form a police auxiliary
out of the Legion to handle
demonstrations" He was not sue
cessful.
Stanley Doyle--whO does not
hesitate to insult the rank and
file American Veteran - has
been used to a vicious purpose.
Workers must realize that it
was not the American Veteran
that prosecuted Dirk DeJOnge,
a world war veteran, and gave
him seven years in the peniten-
tiary. They must realize that
rank and file veterans are bitter
about the outrage, that humid
reds of them recognize it as a
betrayal of themselves Attempts
on a national scale to use vet
Grams as the base for building
American storm troops have
failed, as the recent expose OF
General Buffers plans show.
Veterans and non-veterans work.
ers face the same problems, the
same starvation attacks of the
New Deal, the same traps Of
demagogy set by the exploiting
class.
Rank and File to Convene
The Veterans National Rank
and File Committee has issued
a call for veterans to assemble
in convention at Washington, ID.
c., January TO- There the real
problems facing us will be
threshed out and the task Of
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
JUNEAU lid FORMS

JUNEAU, Alaska, Dec. 6-"The
Miner" a paper put out by the
miners union, reports that an In
ternational Labor Defense branch
has been formed in Juneau and
is making good progress.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
CASE POSTPONED

SEATTLE, Dec. 6-The case OF
the Independent Carp enters
against the NRA, which is entitl
ed George Edwards VS.. Sivert
johnson has been postponed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07
SPECIAL NEWS
for the
Lumber Workers
Edited by JAMES MURPHY
Secretary National Lumber Workers Union

Bother trade unionists workers OF organizations:
Emil Linden National the Fishermen and
Workers Industrial Union This working class fighter died
as II he were shot down a picket line
Returning from meeting of fishermen where
plans were discussed for the immediate
the in which he fellow workers were riding was
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

Send protests to boss courts
against criminal syndicalism and
riot charges against Northwest
workers
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-07

Smash criminal syndicalism
laws! Demand release of workersl
The Nome nugget., 1934-08-23

millions of dCalarA flowing into commerce again, it can fix. for years possibly. the buying habits of purchasers re-entering the mar ket.
 "A vast change is taking place. The Murphy, 'off the county are now buying canned goods and fresh fruits instead of boilinS beans with pork scraps. the Van Landinghams are seriously con sidering the purchase of a ne~ home, and the Smiths are buying their new car. Millions have suddenly come into a new financial standing, entered new buying classy Not only has market been created among those who previous ly had no money to spend, new tastes are being established among those with more money to spend.
 Now is the time for alert ad- vertisers to appeal to new young CT generation of the nations pur- chasers, the Murphys, the Smiths, and the Van Landinghams who are trecasting interrupted buyins habits to fit a. larger purse.
The Nome nugget., 1934-08-23
DID YOU EVER sror TO THINK
By Edson R. Waite

Millions of Americans ,' are establishing purchasing habits as they return to the act i've business of buying. Alert merchants know that persistent and intelligent newspaper adver- Using can fix these habits upon their products and goods.
 Unsettled business conditions disturb buyer preferences. Let me give an example: The Smiths have now had the same automo- bile for five years. They are in the market for new one. Mir. Smith feels it's purchase is just. fled by improvement in his cloth ing business.
 Tn 1880, when a new car was
The Nome nugget., 1934-08-23

ander has been chartered by the Alaska Line to sail for Seward. Aug. 18th. The s. S. Aleutian H the company will sail for south eastern Alaska points, September first and fifteenth. The Yukon is to sail from Seattle on the same route September Sth and 22nd.
 The s. s. Victoria, according to reports arrived at Kotzebue about I pm. today. from Nome and St. Michael; with the Arctic Adven- turers' Cruise.
The Nome nugget., 1934-08-23
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

other than a remote possibility, the Smiths were already sold up- on the make of their next one. Then for four years the Smiths forgot entirely about buying. Now they are in the market again . bewildered. There are so many new things. knee action, no-alr- resistance design, superchargers, all steel bodies. no-draft ventila- tion. to mention only a few. ,Frank ly, the smiths are, at sea; they want Information Advertisias gives it to them.
 "Wha.'s true of the Smiths is true of thousands of other fam flies in every State of the Union. Vigorous. well planned advertis- ing comes today at a most oppor- tune time. Not only can it effect immediate sales by attracting the
The Nome nugget., 1934-08-23
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY CHANGES IN SAILING SCHEDULES FOR NORTH

Due to an unexpected turn in the cargo situation requiring the S. S. Derblay of the Alaska Line to wait in Seattle for mining machinery and other freight con signments. the vessel will not sail for Nome and Kotzebue Sound ports until August 27th.
 On the southeastern Alaska route the. steamship Dorothy Alex-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-25
TWELVE MONTHS PROFIT
AMOUNTS TO S5,369, 991
Pacific Lighting Corporation Shows
Decline in Operating Costs.

The report of Pacific Lighting
Corporation and subsidiary COM
panies for the twelve months ended
March 81, 1894, shows net income
of 5,369,991 after all charges, taxes
and depreciation, equal after pre-
ferred dividends to 1854 a share on
the outstanding common stock,
comparing with $5,O97957 or $3.50
share in the twelve months ended
March 81, 1888. For the calendar
year 1888, balance was equal to
1928 a share. The common stock
is on So annual dividend basis.
Gross operating revenue in the
twelve month period ended March
81, 1884, amounted to $43, 1869 ,653, an
increase of $208,456 over the COM
parable 1888 period. but a decrease
Of 81 ,394,50 from the showing for
the year ended Dec 81, 1888.
Operating expenses, amounting to
$18673,781 in the twelve months
ended March 81. this year, were off
$457, $50 from the total for the like
period last year and declined $685.
24l from the total for the calendar
year, 1888.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-25
UNION PACIFIC STOCK
HOLDINGS CUT HALF
Company Earnings in 1888
TotaIed $21,578,196.
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
CHICAGO, April 25.-Stock hold
ings of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company in the Chicago and North
western Railroad Company we're cut
almost half during 1888, according
to the annual report of the COM
pany. Holdings by the company in
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company we're reduced approx
mately one-third.
The Union Pacific on Dec. 81 held
IS 940 common shares and 24,190
preferred shares of the Baltimore
and Ohio; 1880 shares of Chicago,
Milwaukee, st. Paul and Pacific pre-
ferred stock; 242O6 shares of Chi
cago and Northwestern common;
100000 common and 1920 preferred
shares of Illinois Central; o,0O0
shares of New York Central; 108,100
shares of Pennsylvania, and $4,000
shares of the class (A) preferred
stock of the Wabash railway.
Earnings of the company during
1888 according to a preliminary re-
port we're $21, 578,196, equivalent
after dividends on preferred stock
to 1892 a share on the common
against $749 a share in 1882.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-25

Bohn Aluminium and Brass shows net
profit of S1.84 share for the first quarter
of 1884 after charges, against % cents
share for the first quarter of 1888.