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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
WashingtonD.C. Congress
On yObless Insurance
Jan. 81 Winning Support
ALL Is NOT GOLD THAT GLITTERS
{ EDITORIAL

Recent have headned "Roosevelt economic adys
DRY board will recommend unemployment
of the employers"
Bill Green's letter attacking the National Congress
poyment and Social Insurance the ALL
ance."
The Roosevelt boards plan is employers the
burden through PER CENT TAX ON PAYROLLS
from the East indicate that Green's plan the same
Leaving out all other eonsideationswhO
rates of weekly payments how last
Will be administration the point
we brand the Roosevelt-Green plan a gigantic fraud
A tax payros does the employers
child of ten would prattle sincerity tax
on payrols drains the right
The source of funds by Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill funds
year. is the only method of shifting the burden
can afford to
Green learned lesson when he
Communists and milan the weeks back Union
after union hurled the edbatng into
Green's face. b
Green and Roosevelt this growing move
ment for genuine unemployment insurance trickery
Answer them by rejecting letter
union local sending to him demand endorse
tona Congress for Unemployment and Social
Answer them by of the election delegates
the Washington d. c. Congress news columns
detals).
Answer them by ntensyng the drive for Initiative sig
natures.
ANSWER THEM WITH A MASS CONFERENCE IN OLYM-
PA!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
City Endorses Peonage

SEATTLE, Dec. 2O-The labor
unions representative on the
city's board of public workes,
Paul Fredrickson, was voted
down when he protested the use
of transients on city jobs.
Pointing out that the transit
ent workers under the Federal
Emergency Relief Administers
ton receive only room and board
and $l.05 per week, Fredrickson
stated that no man should work
without pay.
The FERA had offered to sup
ply the 'transients' for simple
work such as street grading" to
the city without pay.
The Board of Public Works
accepted the offer from the FE
RIA with Fredrickson's no" vote
recorded.
Commenting on the action, W.
H. Murray of the Unemployed
Citizens League, stated that the
use of forced labor was not only
a menace to the unemployed, but
a direct threat to every man
holding regular job.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21

neighborhoOd, where plans are
being made to put on banquet
in his honor.
Continually there are being
drawn comparisons between the
fearless record of struggle on the
part of the young militant Negro,
Angelo HerndOn, and that of
such local leaders as Jack john
son and N. Graffell, who changed
political parties during the last
elections like one would change
q coat. Always on the side that
would promote their personal
ends. Like other leaders in the
Republican and Democratic mer-
ry-go-round, who, during the last
elections, cowtowed and bowed
before white politicians in the
hope of getting a few crumbs;
steadily refusing to raise one
single basic issue of concern to
the Negro people, such as ade-
Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
The Final Week

With but $1,000 signatures
in the office at 420 Mutual
Life building, the drive to
put over Initiative 4 enters
the FINAL WEEK!
December 20 is the dead
line. Every list must be in on
that day.
The Voice of Action has
SAID plenty. Now it's up to
you! ACTION is demanded.
The goal can be reached.
The people of the Northwest
want unemployment insur-
ance. They will sign the initi-
alive.
But only the immediate mo-
bilization of every supporter
every day on every busy cor
ner will carry us to victory.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Initiative 4
Wins Many
New BackerS
Spokane Adds Train
Workers Locals
To Sponsors

SPOKANE, Dec. 20 - Two
lodges here, No. 464 and No. sos,
of the Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen of America have added
their names to the call for state
unemployment insurance con-
gress in Olympia, anuary 27-2S.
Backing for the movement was
assured local workers for the con.
gress by Max Morphew and M.
Haggin, president and secretary
of lodge sos, and by Amos j.
Hoist, secretary of Lodge AGA.
State Senator Signs Call
The name of Rebel Murphy,
state senator from the 9Th dis
trict, will also appear on the call
when the final draft is mailed
out hu the congress arrangements
4nittee this week.
Other men of prominence here
who have signed the call include:
Rev CT w. Latin, pastor Of the
9TH Day Church of God; J. Rich
ard Brown, mining engineer and
member of the local Liberal Club,
and VIM. Matthews, another
member of the Liberal Club.
Plan Local Conference
A local conference for Init
alive 4 1.-THE Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill will prob
ably proceed the one in Olympia.
1t is felt that distance may
prevent many from attending the
state parley, and that all sup
porters of the initiative could
meet locally and organize a broad
committee and send even more in
fluential delegation to the legis-
lature than by direct election.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
TheFRONT
LINE ALAN sr MAX
Another Letter
From Green

After a bitter fight on the
floor, the Seattle Central Labor
Council last week voted to re-
fer to the locals VIM. Green's
letter against the National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insur-
ance.
This is the second such letter
that Green has sent out in re-
cent months. The first one was
the appeal for the expulsion
of all Communists from the un-
ions. That letter was rejected
by locals and central labor
councils throughout the eoun-
try. 1t was voted down, thrown
in the waste basket, or return
ed to Green with appropriate
messages written across it.
The rejection of the first red
batting letter made Green more
careful in the way he attacked
the Congress for Unemploy-
ment Insurance in the second
letter. He brings in the ques-
ton of Communism merely by
referring to the fact that a GER
TAIN Article on the Congress ap-
peared in the Daily Worker.
His attack on the Congress is
eentered around the point that
the Congress is not in line with
the policy of the AFL on I'M
employment insurance. The
AFL, says Green, is working
with the administration on
working out state unemploy-
ment insurance plans.
What Green fails to point out
of course, is that in the Amer
lean Federation of Labor there
is no one policy on any ques-
ton, let aolne on unemploy-
ment insurance. There are two
policies-the policy of Green
and the rest of the leadership,
and the policy Of the rank and
file.
William Green is against
the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill. 5000 locals of the
ALL have endorsed it. William
Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Form Theater Group

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-All those
interested in taking part in work
ers theater activities are asked
to attend meeting on Thursday,
Dec. q, at p. m. in room 300, Ly-
on Bldg, Ord and James.
The first play to be produced
will probably deal with social Sc
curity, and members of the I'm
employed Citizens League are
particularly urged to participate.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
SIGN INITIATIVE FOUR
Ballard UCL
Wins Victory

SEATTLE, Dec. 90 Ballard
UCL local won their demands for
an aged couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
man, II years old. They demanded
one special voucher diet OF $3.50
per week for the wife who is sick;
one special diet of $3.50 for Nor
man, who is in poor health; one
voucher of $3.50 for three child
rem, IA to 16 years old. They
also won wood, lights, water, shoe
repairs and clothing in addition
to the above.
From now on the old man will
be allowed these necessities with
out having to work for them. In
the past he has had to us,s his
clothing allowance for rent.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Stack Beats
VagC Charge

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-After seven
hours deliberation the jury in the
case of Walter Stack land the
Marine Workers Industrial I'm
iOnl VS.. the State of Washington
land the shipowners) decreed
him NOT GUILTY. Verdict was
rendered at 8 Monday evening.
The charge was vagrancy (six
months and $500 fine limit. But
prosecutor Bailey told the jury
he was only sorry the charge was
not a more serious one" and
used extreme efforts to toss at
least one militant marine work
ers' leader in jail.
The shipowners spared no ex-
pense to convict Stack. They
brought men from the East Coast
"a mate, two seamen, a first as
sistant engineer-who were sup
posed to have witnessed an alleg-
ed assault by Stack on a seaman.
Red Herring
The prosecution continually
tried to bring in a red scare.
Each witness was asked, Are
you Communist" and Bailey
wanted to know If the union
headquarters were not in Mos
COW.
In the early part of the trial
Judge Meakim ruled out all evil
denee dealing with the back
ground of the Stacks lead
ing role in the waterfront strike
of seamen and longshoremen. But
scores of protest letters before
and during the trial seemed to
change his mind and he loosened
up.
The case was ably handled by
Attorney Ross Kingston, who
was retained by the Information
al Labor Defense.
SIGN INITIATIVE FOUR
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Workers To
Face Court
OF Company
Mine Bosses Attempt
Frame-Up Of
Strikers

ROSLYN, WASH, Dec. 20-De
manding the full measure of ven,
geance against workers who dar.
ed strike against intoleraable liv.
ing and working conditions, Kit.
titas County and the Northwest
ern improvement Company are
putting IL workers on trial De.
cember n for alleged rioting dur
ing the recent Roslyn-Cle Elum
coal mining strike.
Not content with having used
tear gas bombs, the state
police and thugs, the NRA
Labor Board and the corrupt
UMWA company union, the
bloOd-thirsty coal company is
now enlisting the orderly pro-
cedure" of the State Court to
crush out the remaining spirit
of the miners by trying to send
this group of workers to the
state penitentiary for five years
for alleged riOting."
Court Company Weapon
On April 3, while the strike
was in progress, the striking min
ers called upon a number of non
union workers and sought to per-
suade them to refrain from scab-
bling upon their fellow workers.
Even the state law, which is
by no means partial to workers,
guarantees strikers the right to
picketing and peaceful persua.
sion.
In spite of these guarantees
the Northwestern Improvement
Company finds it necessary to
express its fear of working class
militancy by using the legal ma
chinery to stamp out the last
vestige of independence which
may be left among the miners
after all of the other terroristic
company cOercions have done
their dirty work.
Nick Fayko, Tony Chopp,
Frank Chopp, Mary Baretich,
Louise Radosevitch, Sylvester
Kairis, Milton Kairis, Agnes Sc
nuty, TERESA Wargo, Eleanor
Bogachus and Clara Yakovitch
are the victims to be served up
on a nice silver platter to the
greed of the coal companies.
This is the group to appear
before Arthur McGuire's court
on Dec. q. Another case is SEIZED
uled for Jan. 2.
More Roslyn news on page 8;
more next week.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
M VIII NEEDS STOVE

The Marine Workers Indust-
rial Union, "a Main St., Seattle,
are badly in need of a stove to
provide their hall with heat.
Any one who would like to
donate a stove to the Marine
Workers should call the Voice
Of Action, Main 1926, or 60 to
the MWIU hall, "a Main St.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
Vigilantes Get Jobs
Taking JobleSs Census

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-Members Of
the American Vigilantes are hir-
ed almost exclusively by the
Washington Emergency Relief
Administration to take up the
census of unemployed workers
now being conducted, the Voice
Of Action learned from reliable
sources today.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
CrOat Leader 0KS Meet

ABERDEEN, WASH, Dec. 20
Mike Utkovich, secretary of
the Croatian Independent lodge
has endorsed the Unemploy-
ment Insurance Congress, which
will be held in Olympia, Janu-
airy q and %.
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Seattle Delegate Will
Be Selected
Dec. e
DEJONGE MAY ATTEND
NATIONAL FARLEY

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-Word comes
from Portland that Dirk De Jonge
victim of the criminal syndicalism
laws, may represent Oregon at
the National Congress for Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance.
January 5-6-7, Washington, d. @.
Here preparations to send a
delegate, begun late, proceed
rapidly.
Mass meetings called by the
Unemployed Citizens League to
follow up the demonstration for
extra Christmas relief are discuss
ing who shall go.
Tickets are out for the city
wide affair next Friday night et-
which the delegate will be elect
ed. Organizations backing the
move are asked to send official
representatives there with all
money collected to go toward the
delegates expenses. There will
be dancing and an entertainment.
The place: IOGT hall, 1109 Vir-
ginia ST., December %.
Tacoma supporters OF the I'M
employment insurance campaign
report they will be unable to
send delegate, but will raise
what funds they can to aid Sc
attic.
Tremendous Support
Perhaps no conference In Am
erican labor history has received
the support being accorded this
one. New York headquarters lists,
besides the dozens of men and
women nationally known in lib
eral and labor circles who signed
the original call, hundreds of in
dividual and organization sup
porters.
Notification of delegate cleo
ton and endorsement in couple
of typical days runs like this:
Sixteen United Mine Workers
of America locals (AFL); Eocial-
list Party and Communist Party
organizations in East Ohio and
West Virginia; six branches of
the Eagles; three of the Elks;
two of the Forresters; five IOOF
lodges; Hungarian, CzechoslO-
yak and German fraternal soci-
cites in New York, Detroit, Cleve-
land and other cities with mem
bership running into the tens of
thousands; the Civil Liberties
Conference on the New Deal.
Many Liberal Groups
The Civil Liberties Conference
alone was composed of repre-
sentatives from the following or
CARNATIONS:
American Federation of Teach
ers; American Indian Defense AS
ISOLATION; Church League for In
dustrial Democracy; Committee
for the Protection of the Foreign
Born; Committee on Militarism
in Education; Emergency Com
mittee for Strikers Relief; Farm
ers National Committee on Ac-
ton: Fellowship of Reconcillia-
ton; General Defense Commit
tee; International Juridical AS
ISOLATION; International Labor
Defense; League for Industrial
Democracy; Methodist Associa-
ton for Social Service; National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People; National
League for American Citizenship;
American Birth Control League;
National Student Federation; Ma
tional Urban League; Peoples
Lobby; United Farmers League;
Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom.
SIGN INITIATIVE FOUR
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
SIGN INITIATIVE FOUR
Millionaire
Kindness

NEW YORK, Dec. 2O-while
Barbara Hutton M'divani is be-
ing ballyhooed by the press for
giving a check for $1,000 for a
Christmas dinner for 10000 peo-
pie, it is remembered by many
that just a few weeks ago the
Woolworth princess spent $4,000
on her own birthday party.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
MUST TAKE OATH

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-For the
first time, those getting jobs for
the holiday rush in the Post Of
flee had to take the oath of al
legiance to the Constitution and
swear fidelity to the country
against all its enemies.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
HerndOn Called
Fearless Leader
BY Revels Clayton

SEATTLE, Dec. 20-The COM
ing of Angelo Herndon to Seattle
is causing a great deal of discus
sion among Negro and white
workers in the Madison Street
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An Early Challenge!

SEATTLE, Dec. 2O-The Uni
versity District unit Of the Com
munist Party yesterday set it
self a quota of $40 and pledged
to raise the amount within the
first three weeks of the Voice of
Action drive.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
SIGN INITIATIVE FOUR
Nearing to Talk

Scott Nearing, world-fam-
Gus lecturer, Just returned
from Russia, speaks at Sc
attle's Eagles Auditorium,
Jan. 6, at Tacoma's IOOF tenn
pie, Jan. 10, and in the Port
land Civic Auditorium Jan.
IL. Details in next weeks
Voice of Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-12-21
RAILROAD UNIONS BACK J0BLESS INSURANCE
$1,000 DRIVE WILL GUARANTEE
MOREPOWERFUL WORK ERS PRESS

sxpage powerful stable Voice of Action! This by the
second birthday of the March 25h)
financial drive beginning January /.
To accomplish this goal will raise $1,000 lot
of money? Yes but by will be possible
raise the Northwest
of the Voice Action Making
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to raise the quota and even go o,
proud of the Voice of Action. Nj;
its own shop, was a victory for
the working class. But paper
cannot stand still. 1t must grow,
develop. And we are not getting
out of the Voice of Action the
good the paper could do as agi.
tatOr and organizer If support for
it were on a broader plane.
The drive will begin with New
Years Eve parties and dances Is
the one in your locality yet ar
ranged?
During the drive all means
will be used to raise funds: plays
dances, house parties, banquets,
tag days. Punch boards and col
lection lists will be issued. A
motion picture tour will be
run.
In addition, subscriptions will
count in the drive, and organiza-
lions and individuals who wish
may obtain subs tat the regular
rates. for all money turned in.
Trip to Russia
There will be prizes: sets of
Lenin's works, other books, per-
haps a radio or twO-and a grand
prize of a trip to the May Day
celebration in Moscow!
What is the immediate task?
A drive committee should be
organized. How? Call together
the organizations already sup
porting the paper. Elect a COM
mittee probably one for each or
ganization). Make the first job
of the committee a successful
New Years Eve affair.
In organizing this affair, the
committee should attempt to
draw in new OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ticularly American Federation of
Labor locals. When the local Of
ficially will not come into the
drive at first, get members of it
active, draw them into the drive
committee.
The Voice of Action is a mass
united front paper, and we must
broaden that united front dur
ing the drive.
Quotas
Competition between individ-
uals and organizations must be
a big part of the drive. The fol-
lowing quotas will be your guide
in developing that competition.
Alaska S $50
Port Angeles, Clallam Co. so
Kelso and COwlitz County 80
Grays Harbor $50
Idaho sol
King County 500
ROslyn, Gle Elum Is
Centralia and Lewis County 30
Tacoma and Pierce County $50
AnacOrtes and Skagit County 60
Everett and SnohOmish Co. 100
Spokane 125
Olympia and Thurston Co. 60
Bellingham and Whatcom Co. 40
Yakima 20I
Friday Harbor, San Juan Is. 20
Portland $50
Astoria and Ilwaco 100
Eugene Is
Roseburg 10
Grants Pass 10
klamath Falls IS
Coos Bay 10
Salem Is
Bend 81
Miscellaneous 100
$4,000
II your quota Is too low, too
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If your quota Is too low, too
high, write in at once!
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Election Of Delegate To
National Jobless Farley
I0GT Hall Dec. 18th
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-09
CHILDREN PRESENT POSTER PAR RADE'
Woodrow Wilson School Observes National Book
 Week With Playlet

The eighth grade of Woodrow Wilson school observed the open. ing of National Book Week by the presentation yesterday of a playlet, "The Complete Library" An unusual feature of the little sketch was the Poster Parade" !" consisting of display of 27 book posters made by the children. These posters will be placed on exhibition in the school halls next week. All costumes used in the play, as well as stage settings and scenery, were the work of pupils | of the class.
 "The Book Pledge' was also the 1 work of the students, while the theme song, We Ride a Book Tra:i to Knowledge and Adven- tAre," was written by members of the class and sung to the tune of Long Long Trail" A number of visitors were present during the presentation of the program, presented under the direction of the principal, Miss B. Mae Keefe.
 The following children took 1 part III tHG pldyAGl. AttAAd hdI N lin, Victor Del Cioppo, Patsy Fi- ne1li, Laura Seaver, Fillmore Phil lips, Walter Pachinok, Harry Lie- beck, Domenic Pappiano, Julia Smoley, James Cimaglio, Ruth Houghton.
 Following is the Book Pledge" written by members of the class: We promise to keep faith with all the books of the world. We will try to be careful of them all the time, in all places. We pledge ourselves to cover them, to keep them in the bookcases when we are not using them, to wash our hands carefully before handling them, and to use bookmarks. We shall not turn down the corners of the pages nor lay our books down carefully when we go to play. We will never, never open a new book without properly breaking the binding. Above all, we will not injure books by tear ing out pages nor marking them with pencils.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-09
NOTED LECTURER
 FORUM SPEAKER
Margaret Slattery Return. ing to Second Church
 Sunday Evening

The Forum Committee of the Second Congregational church are happy to announce that on next Sunday evening, November 11th, Miss Margaret Slattery will speak on the topic "Foundations for World Peace." Miss Slattery has been coming to the Second Church Forum for over 8 period of twelve years and has always given an in- spring address. She is a noted lecturer and writer. She has rare genius that takes the common place things of life and fills them with both significance and beauty. Her deep spiritual insight makes her a wise seer and interpreter. She gives message to the people of America-a message stripped of creeds and cant, freed from preju- dice and bias, presented fearless ly and convincingly. She has been called the most perfect wo- man orator of the American plat form to-day. She has perfect ,poise, and she is telling, force full speaker.
 She is the author of a number of books. Her latest books are Two Words" and Important to Me"
 Miss Slatetry has been a very popular speaker at conventions and summer schools and young people all over the country crowd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-09
APPEAL TAKEN IN $25,OOO ACTION Jury Returns Verdict in Favor of Lilley
 Company

: A superior court jury brought in a defendants verdict in teh civxil action of Elizabeth M. Ryan againgt the George L. Lilley Com pany late yesterday afternoon. The jury deliberated two hours before arriving at a decision. Attorney Clayton L. Klein, counsel for the plaintiff announced after the yer dict he would take an appeal to the supreme court of errors.
 The plaintiff has asked $25,00O damages for injuries she suffered when struck about the head and shoulders by an accumulation of snow and ice in front of the Curtis Art Company store on West Main street. The accident was alleged to have happened in front of the Steele building which is owned by the defendant.
 The jury took the case for delib- eration about 2:50 and returned
 with decision for the Lilley Com pany at 4:50 o'clock. Attorney Walter B. Monagan represented the defendant. Judge John A. Cor ] nell presided.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-09

to hear her addresses. Parents have also found in her addresses a great deal Of food for thought, and
 have gone from her conferences
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-09

with a new attitude toward their children.
 It 6 expected that e capacity audience will greet her Sunday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-09

night. All are cordially invited. The doors ok the church will be open at { o'clock and the scrvice starting at 7:S0.