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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Letters From Readers

Negro worker to read COmrade
MaX's article on Dewey Bennett,
and he bought the paper. l find
this the best method of selling the
workers paper.
Another thing, by going from
house to house with the paper you
can always go back the next week
and sell them another and event
ually draw these new readers into
Organizational work.
Here's to a real mass circulation
, of the Voice of Action.
J. C. JONES
From Oregon
klamath Falls
Dear Editor:
Since yo uhave increased the size
of your paper we have no difficulty
in selling it, although the price
has raised a little. The demand =
| this fighting paper has steadily in
increased. The workers like its
truths about the labor questions,
and also the organiZational news
that it is impossible to get in any
! OlneF paper Vi ple NOIIli"eSt'
When we take out a bundle OF
these papers we have an approach
to workers homes where we are
not acquainted. This proves effect
i've in selling the paper, also In
getting members for our organic
atoms. Many workers wish we
could make the Voice of Action o
Daily.
A REGULAR READER
klamath Falls
Comrades:
| [ worked for relief last week and
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
BY MARY JORDAN

cation blank they have a space to
fill in Veteran and Fraternal or
CARNATIONS and Post or Lodge"
The Vigilantes organization is
composed of divisions, or units as
they are called, under a Colonel
and officers, and a unit staff of va
rious branches-intelligen COM
munication, OrganizatiOnal militia
ry educational, etc. The units are
under the direction of a General
Board.
Strike Activities
1t is the duty of the intelligence
branch of the American Nigilantes
to pick out suspects and known
agitators" which is the Vigilante
term for working class leaders.
Vigiantes have been active on the
waterfront during the lOngshore-
mems strike spOtting leaders. Their
object, Of course, is to attack these
leaders and to use their efforts to
bring trumped up charges against
them in the future.
Also in the longshormen's strike
Vigilantes have been guarding
places where scabs were being
hired thus definitely establishing
themselves as the enemy of the
workers.
The Seattle Vigilantes have sew
eral law officers as members so
that the extra legal body can at
tempt suppressions of workers that
the legal body cannot now under
take
This, no doubt, explains the pres
ence of deputy sheriff A. II. Swift
supervising" the manufacture of
clubs for waterfront guards" at
the Horschuch cabinet works on
June / at S5th and Greenwood, Sc
attic.
cart" of Clubbing Workers
According to the Vigilante bull
Ietin, unit military officers in
struct troops in the art of dispcll-
ing mobs, riots, and demonstra-
tons"
The art" of the Vigilantes has
consisted in merciless smuggling and
the use of blackjacks by plain
clothes thugs in relief stations Wig
ilantes have been used by local Of
ficers at relif stations to attack
demonstrators in order to maintain
the officers pretenses as friends of
the working class.
Vigilantes Drill
A regular routine part of Vigil
lante activity is company drill fol-
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
The First Lady Is Interested In
Homeless Boys
BY L. p. Read

Mrs. Roosevelt is personally in
terested in the homeless boys of
America. According to Drew Pear
son, writing in the Seattle Times
May 20. perhaps she is more con-
cerned about the quarter of a mil
lion homeless youths who roam "a
bout our country than is the presi-
dent. She recently unearthed a
lengthy report on the boys which
had been at the White House, I'M
read, since the first of the year.
The gondola was loaded with
long steel pipes, The freight, a
manifest, was sweeping over the
fiat NebrasNa country. 1t was ev-
ening or a sweItering day.
My cL,npsnIon and |, among the
first aboard, had been able to
choose the end of the gondola,
where the ends of the pipe didn't
quite reach.
The car was soon crowded with
men and a few women. There were
a couple of boys. Little boys. Bare
headed, coatless, empty handed.
Thin, with the pitiful rawness of
undernourished adolescence. Worn
cotton shirts through which sharp
shoulder blades showed edges.
talked to TENN.
where you going, kids"
Delightful grins answered me.
Nowhere"
why amt you home"
Folks on relief. Amt enough to
go round"
Sudden clouds dark in the Neb-
raska sky. High wind.
she's goin' to rain"
Put your sweater on, Ted" |
heard the older of the two yell to
the little chap, maybe twelve, may
be thirteen.
He unfastened a lower button on
the blue shirt and pulled out a thin
cotton pull-Over sweater and thrust
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

They are getting plenty sick about
it now. They haven't seen any
checks from the government yet.
The processing tax on hogs which
was put on to raise the money to
pay the farmers for reducing the
no crop has lowered the price of
hogs just the amount of the tax,
which is $2.25 per hundred. The
farmers are getting mad again as
their illusions in Roosevelt fade.
An Interested Reader
From Yakima
June
Dear Editor:
want to let you know that the
workers here think the Voice" has
improved wonderfully in the last
two months, and so do I. However
[ think it can be improved a lot
more. I think it could be made
more attractive, the articles could
be written better.
Comrade Max's column, which is
very good, should be headed diff
ferently, and should be set off from
the rest of the page. i asked q
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
A Correction

Port Angeles, June lin June s
issue of the Voice of Action is an
article which is headed "Scabs
Load One Port Angeles Freighter."
This was incorrect. The ship was
loaded in Port Townsend, So miles
east of Port Angeles.
A caravan of several carloads of
Port Angeles longshoremen were
among the pictets who stopped the
loading. About 600 tons of paper
were loaded before pickets arrived.
The ship that was partly loaded
was the Nelson Traveller.
Four other ships are tied up at
Port Townsend, some of them
without crews.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
TWO WEEKS TO GO
Jar the campaign for une

Jar the campaign for unem-
ployment insurance!
A matter of days and the petit.
tions to put Initiative IS on the
ballot in the state OF Washing.
ton must be I'm.
Decisive action is needed. Lists
must be circulated in a hurry;
checked by the proper county
authorities; sent within two
weeks to the headquarters of
the State Committee of Action
in Seattle.
But initiative IS is not the
only only point in the unem-
ployment insurance front that
needs attention.
HR 1898 introduced into con
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
AMERICA ON STRIKE!

PITISBURG-June 7. Wierton
Steel heads have fired 116 more
union men as the date for nat
ional steel strike nears.
Steel companies are attempting
to tighten their hold on the work.
ers with the refusal for an Anal
gamated Association in Homestead
an anti-strike resolution passed by
group of DuQuesnes "best citi-
zens" and a delegation from Me-
Keesport abuOt to leave for Wash
ingtOn to prOaest against the strike
y y z%$ $%%
BRIDGEPORT, Conn June Z.
5000 members of the Unemployed
Relief Workers League voted to
strike June 18th unless they were
granted their demands of SIP a
week instead of the weekly $3.50
and a box of groceries.
Il y y n
CINCINNATI, Ohio June Z.
100 Remington Typewriter Co.
strikers defed the instructions of
their AT of L officials and comp
letely shut down the plant and
continued mass picketing. One
striker was shot by a company
thug and automobiles have been
burned.
The Stearns-Foster plant is on
100 per cent strike for increase
wages and recognition.
= y %@# -
NEW YORK-June 8. A mass
demonstration of longshOremen,
seamen and workers has been call
ed to support the striking West
Coast longshoremen. by join
ing hands with the West Coast men
it will be easier for US to win
better conditions and wages here"
said a call from the Rank and File
Committee.
#xx%# ##%%
HOUSTON, Texas June 5.
Strikebreakers fired rs shots into
tie longshOrmen's picket line here,
killing one of the pickets.
y = y =%%
NEW YORK June 6. Be-
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his bony arms up through the
sleeves, feeling with long fingers
past holes at the elbows.
A cold sprinkle of rain.
Looks bad! Let's get off," we
heard all round us. At the first
swift stop several climbed over the
edge to disappear.
shall we get Off" we counseled
with each other
I'VE have blankets. Let's tough II
out. o. X. ?"
30. X"
Rain in heavy torrents. Wind
Night. We huddled together on the
bottom of the car. Blankets wet. We
were wet. Aching cold.
On and on and on through the
terrifying blackness. Grind and
rush of wheels. Always the icy
wind driving the rain through us
through our bones.
At every stop we heard faint
clatter of bodies going over the side
in escape.
Morning. Four o'clock. Rain over
Freight slowing down. My compan-
ion peered into the dim light.
Huh! We've got the pipes to
ourselves. She's plumb deserted ex-
cept for u.s."
What's that over there?"
chartered.
"Where?"
"See?" ] pointed shaking finger
r''Well, III be damned"
Two little grey figures, stretched
fiat on wet steel pipes. Two boys OF
America, maybe twelve. maybe
thirteen. Homeless-so that the re
lief might go round.
Mrs. Roosevelt is personally in
terested in those boys. She says SC
herself.
But what the hell difference does
that make to them?
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
OHM

Menus
Oranges French Mutton Steak Lettuce
Brown
WEDNESDAY
Veal Steak Mashed Potatoes
led
But Carrots in Biscuits
Nodded vegetable o.
vegetables, Jelwel
Orange orl ande cans Spinach
BAKED AppIe heese Ome Potatoes
Spinach
Pot Roast
Wafles bacon in them CARROTS Onions Potatoes baked
with Apple Pie
VI
red Apples with vegetables |
and Lettuce salad /
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

Dear Editor:
Although the welfare board has
O room in the cold storage plant
at the Bend Dairy they keep their
meat in an ante-room off their Of
fee until it is spoiled. Then they
dish it out to the unemployed and
expect them to eat it.
Butter is also kept in this room
and when We go after our butter
we need a bucket to take it home
In. A first class farmer wouldn't
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

cause the crew of the SIS Texan
struck, the U. S. Shipping Commits
sioner refused to order the Amer
ican-Hawaiian Steamship Co. ia
pay wages due the seamen.
The Marine Workers Industrial
Union is setting up a picket line
in front of he Amrican-Hawaiian
Steamship offices to force the com.
pany to pay the men their wages.
%%%% 80 1888
TOLEDO, OhiO-June5. The
AT of l. officials have finally fore
ed the sellout agreement over the
Electric Auto Lite Strikers and
driven them back to work after a
stormy session with the strikers
committee.
##&& n %%%S
NEW Y0RK-June 8. Butch
ers of the Fort Green, Weschester
Fulton, Lee Markets are cOntinu-
ing heir strike for higher wages.
They are preparing for a mass
meeting to discuss the question
of a general strike to acct New
York packing and slaughter houses
%**%# %%%#
BRIDGEPORT, Commune 7.
With painters, carpenters, hatters,
furriers and iron workers on strike
in five new strikes, general
strike of all building trades unions
threatens here.
%#%s# n 49,
NEW YORK June s. The
strike of 1000 hatters is spreading
rapidly to union and nOn-uniOn hat
shops all over the country. The
demands include increase in wages
and recognition.
- 80 S%s%
BIRMINGHAM, Ala June z.
The strike situation with 5000 ore
miners out remains tense. The
Brittling Cafeteria workers are
still out. The Selma Cotton mill
maintains a lockout. The steel
mill workers at Thomas Furnace
are fighting for recognition. The
meat cutters, chain store are re-
naming solid.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
UNCONVENTIONAL SET-UP AND
STRIKE ACTIVITIES OF THE
VIGlLANTES Barred

American Vigilantes have re-
Gently been calling on business
firms in Seattle requesting contri-
buttons to carry on their work.
Exposures of Communistic &C
tivities" by the American Vigilantes
and editorials praising the "alert
organization in the American Vigi-
lantes" and urging action against
Communists have been appearing
in Hearst's Seattle Post -Intelligen-
Ger.
From their activities as revealed
recently in the Voice of Action,
their action in the present strike,
together with the fact that they are
supported financially by capitalists,
ii is evident that as the crisis deep
ems the Vigilantes may become a
real menace to the labor movement.
The Vigilantes are showing more
clearly every day their true charac-
ter as potential fascist murder
WHO CONTRIBUTED?
And 10! Alfred Lundin's name
led all the rest.
At the top of the list of contri-
buttons is reported the name of AL
fred Lundin, attorney and president
of the Chamber of Commerce, who
has been having a busy time the
last few months protecting the in
terests of capitalism. He has lately
been occupied with the Seattle Cit
liens Emergency Committee, a
group of 200 business men which
raised $4,000 to break the long
shoremen's strike.
Another name said to be on the
list of contributors to the Vigilant-
es was that of w. ID Shannon, for
mer welfare head and Stone and
Webster Yassal.
Plan of VisiIante Organization
According to their own state
ments. there are 1000 Vigilantes in
the local organization which is
planned and directed along military
lines.
Like Hitler's Brown Shirts, the
Vigilantes are composed largely of
ex-service men. They are thugs and
towards of the lowest order as their
attacks on unarmed boys and girls
and helpless men and women have
shown.
Many leaders and members of
the American Legion are prominent
in the Vigilantes. On their aptli-
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received the sum of SIS. The
snOoper told me to pay a certain
amount on my rent and a given
amount on my electricity. Then
to be sure that I did she said I
must show her the receipts. She
couldn't take my word for it and
she was so afraid I might buy
something I did not need CD.
A WORKER
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
WOMAN'S WORLD
BUYING LIST

BUYING LIST
Coffee one pound .16
Butter one pound .25
Bread, 2 lOaves %
Milk, Z quarts SO
Oranges, l dOZ. rs
[ pound shoulder Mutton Steak Is
1 pound veal steak .l5
Lettuce. 3 heads 10
Radishes and Onions o.
Jellwell .O5
Carrots 90
Salt Pork .05
Bacon, y pound 10
Banana, 9 pounds 10
Hamburger 10
Pot Roast .27
Pot Roast, 3 pounds .27
Apples, dozen 10
Mayonnaise, l pit. bulk 1T
Eggs, dozen 20
Soap .O5
Br. Sugar 3 pounds Is
Vegetable shortening, pounds 10
Total $3.50
Onion Sauce for Spinach
Melt 1 T. shortening and butter.
Add several green onions chopped
fine, heat thoroughly. Add heaping
tsp. -four. Stir in about l cup water
taken from the spinach. Let thic-
ken. Season to taste and pour over
spinach just before il is served.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
From Alaska

Port Armstrong
Dear Editor:
The herring fishing feet has Just
arrived and is busy working on
the nets getting ready for action.
Then our grievances will begin.
We have signed up several new
member since leaving Seattle. We
expect to have the shore crews
signed up practically hundred per
cent in a short while.
We are expecting the girls who
do the salt packing to arrive in a
few days. They have also shown
their willingness TO join the Union
in order to fight for better con-
ditions. Salt packing is a very mis-
cradle job; the salt burns the flesh
out of your hands and you receive
no medical attention whatever. This
is only one of the many grievances
hat we must fight to better through
an organized way.
We also wish to establish a dele
gate council in this Port so we are
writing the FCWIU headquarters
for information regarding the form
alton of this council.
Shoreworker DelegateNo. 323
From Missouri
Novinger, Mo.
Dear Comrades:
The main criticism l would make
of your paper is the one / make
of most working class papers.
There should be more space used
teaching the Theory Cf Surplus
Value in plain everyday workers
language. End their confusion of
mind as to the cause of the class
struggle on a world scale. Teach
the workers the theory of the ma
terialist conception of history, Sc
they may read history with oper
eyes.
Most of the farmers here signed
up the corn-hog reduction contract.
gress by representatives .Lun-
deem, contains the principal
features of the workers in
surance bill. Around this bill
must rally all supporters of
unemployment insurance at the
expense OF the government and
the employers.
The state convention Of the
American Federation Of Labor
set for Everett. July 8. sharply
brings to the fore the necessity
of all locals taking up HR 1898
at once so delegates may go to
Everett instructed TO back the
measure.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15
Algonna

Dear Editor:
The Voice OF Action is being han
died thru 4 local committee of the
NLWU. Please Increase our order
You may rest assured that all av-
enues will be explored in an at
tempt to build the circulation OF
your excellent paper in this local.
ity.
II. UHRMAN, AGENT
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1934-06-15

Dear Editor:
This letter is written by one
that has had 81 years of experience
as a producer. Ihave produced more
wealth than all the bankers and
political criminals in the state. 1925
billion piled up in Wall street and
two thirds of our people cold,
hungry, and some almost naked
and our babies have died for the
want of milk.
was an organizer for the
Knights of Labor so years ago. The
farm and labor must organize a
party of their own. Then strikes
and panics will be called off.
T. C. MCNAMARA
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slop his hogs in such a manner as
Marion Bowen dishes out the eats
to the unemployed.
Build the Unemployed Council
and fight down these conditions.
A BEND READER
Ernrn Maahinnfnn
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Next week: The Heroes Of the
Homestead Strike).
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Bend

II. UHRMAN, AGENT
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I worked for relief last week and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-25
TORRINCTON MAN
 GETS SETTLEMENT
Stipulation Agreement Ap= proved By Compensa=
 ton Commissioner

John Tino of 3SS High street, Torrington, is awarded $2,000 in a final settlement of his claim for compensation against the City of Torrington, under a stipulation agreement approved today by Com missioner James M. Lynch at the Waterbury o A ce. The sum includes payments for disability and medical treatments.
 Tino was injured Feb. 23, 1892. when he suffered a fractured left arm. Payments on a weekly basij were made to the injured man un- til Sept. 30, 1884. when the re- spondents believed the claimant had reached the maximum amount of Improvement.
 The claimant charged his arm was 100 per cent disabled as re- suit of the injury while his employ CT and its insurer claimed the workman could have returned to work at any time after Sept. 30th. In order to avoid further litigfia- ton. the s2,000 sum was agreed upon as full and nal settlement of the claim.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-25
.1 GOO Crusaders Hear
 Dr. Kemmerer Speak
Imitation Resulting in Depreciation of the Dollar Ina < justice to Worthy People Says Monetary Expert

New Haven. Conn, october 25 e- By cheapening the value Of fIle dollar in which all debts are payable, imitation obviously tends G relieve the debtors at the ex- pense of the creditors, charged Dr Kemmerer in an address before approximately 1000 Crusaders at a. mass meeting held in Sprague Hall. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, last evening.
 "The greatest debtors Tn tne United States on longtime account are not the farmers with tne.r 1-2 billion dollars of farm mort gages," Kemmerer further cnarseu' "but the stockholders or our COT porations with their S6 billion ool, lars of bonded indebtedness anu the greatest creditors are the peo- pie who own these bonds. A iarse part of our bonds and mortgages is owned by insurance companies savings banks. and other panhs' universities and colleges, sclentlllc' charitable, benevolent, religious, and other beneficiaries or 1unos held in trust. Imitation resulting in heavy depreciation Of the ool- lar is causing much injustice to q large proportion of the country most worthy people"
 Continuing, Dr Kemmerer salo: :: "For the last fiscal year the deticit of the government was over tour million dollars. During the HTS. few months of the present flscai wear it has run much heavier than during the corresponding months of last year. If these heavy gov. ernment expenditures, many o' which are extravagant and excess sive, were being financed entirely or chiefly out of taxation. the slt- uation would soon correct itself, TOT the high taxes would prove to be so politically unpopular that the electorate would rise in vigorous protest against them. The situa-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-25
SISTERS
 HONOR MRSCLARK
Myrtle Temple Fetes New ly Elected Grand
 Chief

At a testimonial dinner in Tenn pie hall last night Mrs Fannie Mitchell Clark, recently elected grand chief of the Pythian Sisters of Connecticut was the guest of honor. Myrtle temple of this city, of which Mrs Clark is a member, was in charge. Mrs Charles Marshall, Mrs George Cooper, Mrs Minnie Burdwick and Mrs Clara Thomas were in charge of the chicken supper which was served at 6:30 o'clock.
 Grand officers from throughout the state were present and a min- strel show was given, those partic- ipating being Mrs George Chand- Ter, Mrs Minnie Burdick, Mrs Vi- la Schroder, Mrs Bertha Northrup and Mrs Pauline Niles.
 Solos were rendered by Miss Laura Chipman and George Chandler and dance exhibitions were given by Shirley Ehrhardt and Maurice Costello. Mrs Mildred Marshall and Miss Evelyn Chand- Ter were accompanies. A travel ing bag was presented to Mrs Clark. Mrs George Chandler pre- sided as most excellent chief.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-25
FOREIGN PUPILS
 AT R. P. l. FEW
Financial Conditions Given as ReasOn-TWins in
 Freshman Class

A study of the entering class at Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute shows that it's appeal is still ma tional in scope. Although about half the students come from New York state, particularly from the metropolitan area, other staets are well represented. There are onc- fifth as many students from Con- necticut as from New York; one seventh as many from New Jersey and one-eighth as many from Mass achusetts. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Vermont follow in order with con- siderable delegations. The most eastern state represented is New Hampshire, and the most western, California. The majority of stu dents live in the area which in- cludes Wisconsin, Utah and Colo rado, in the northwest, and Vir- ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, the southeast. Although, because of financial conditions, the number of foreign students is not so great as in previous years, Central America and South America have continued to send a quota of able students. Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and Peru are all listed. The wide distribution of the entering class is indicated by the fact that its members come from 286 secondary schools, 230 of which are public secondary schools and 56 private preparatory schools. More significant is the fact that the great majority of stu dents rank Tn the upper levels of their classes. Over one-fifth of those admitted stand in the first tenth. The graduates of the In- stitute are well represented by sons
 and brothers. As in the past, there is a succession through three generations. One of the new stu dents follows two of his brothers,
 both upper-classmen. There is also one pair of twins among the freshmen, whose ages range from sixteen to twenty-nine.