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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19
DETROIT NEGRO IS
 SET FOR TITLE, BUT
 SOME DON'T AGREE

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.- Although a noted ring expert disa- gree5 with him, Joe Louis, sensa- tional Negro heavyweight boxer of Detroit, thinks that he is ready to take a crack at Max Baer's world championship title.
 Louis recently knocked out Lee Ramage, one of the Pacific Coasts best heavy bets in bout at Los Angeles, and the Negro figures that is test enough to warrant his turn ing to Baer.
 However, Lieut.. Com m n CT Jesse Kenworthy, U. s. N, not cd fistic expert who refereed Louis bout with Ramage, doesn't think so. Kenworthy said here that Louis is only 20 years old" and expressed the opinion that he should wait four years before aiming so high
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19
WRANGELL'S PREP
 HOOPSTERS RETURN

Accompanied by their coach and carrying the silver basketball tro- phy, emblematic of the Southeast Alaska high school hoop champion ship, the players of the Wrangell High School squad left for home on the Yukon.
 They had arrived here last Tues day and had defeated Juneau High School in the three-game playoff.
 The players who made the round trip to Juneau are:
 Richard Johnson, Ronald Bean, Lawrence Behovic, James Berke- ley, Peter Casey, Laurie Broad, Bill Grant, Fred Grant and Man ager Eddie Arola.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19
AND THIS IS THROWING.

OMahoney began his athletic ca reer as weight thrower. He SCOT ed a victory over the Olympic ham
 mer throw champion, Dr. Patrick
 O'C ala ha n, in the 56-pound throw He recently demonstrated
 that he has not lost his knack when he outdistanced Harvari's best men with the 56, 40 and 35 pound weights.
 Names like O'Mahoney and Doyle bring back memories of great Irish athletes who held sway years back
 The most glamorous of them all
 vas. of course, John L. Sullivan. Sullivan headed the parade of Irish fighters who won fame in the ring. There was Peter Mahr and Jim Cor bett, the San Francisco bank clerk, who broke many an Irish heart when he knocked out the great John L.
 Tom Sharkey, Terry McGovern, John McAuliffe, Johnny Kilbane, Mickey Walker and Jimmy Clabby come to mind Gene Tunney is the son of Irish parents. William Null doom, the Solid Man" was an Irishman who ruled the wrestling throne to which O'Mahoney now aspires.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19
SONS OF NORWAY

Will meet at odd Fellows Hail Wednesday night at o'clock h. itiation and refreshments. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19
BASEBALL TALK STARTS: MOOSE
 NAME LEADERS
Erskine, Leading Pitcher, Chosen as Playing Man
 ager for Club

Although home plate" may be covered with snow, Juneau's sport ing element today turned to thoughts of the national pastime baseball.
 Now that King Basketball has abdicated his throne, it's only nat ural that the "hot-stove" league should begin to function. And the prime item of gossip around the local diamond circle today was the action taken by the Loyal Order of Moose last week.
 The brethren, in duly assembled meeting, chose Art McKinnon as manager But the action that made tongues wag was the naming of Claude Erskine as assistant mana ger and field leader.
 Erskine, held by many to be one of the outstanding pitchers in Ju- neau, win give the Moose nine plenty of playing strenpth aT well as providing that club with A sterling field general who will know when to put on the "hit-and- run signal and when to flash the Hay it down" sign.
 True, the hot stove" sessions will be many before actual playing etarts. Preseason drills are not due for two or three weeks, and the schedule probably won't start rnfil May. as usual
 But, twill be baseball from now until August
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19
BEHRENDS' STORE IS BEING REPRINTED BY WENDT- -GARSTER STAFF

Spring comes to the B. M. Behr- ends Co.,, Inc, Department Store this week with extensive interior painting and remodelling by bat tery of painters from Wendt and Garster's Paint Store.
 The department store spring cleanup program includes the painting and decorating of all walls, woodwork, and ceilings in white, with harmonizing colors, and is said to be the biggest interior decorating job in Juneau in sev- eral years.
 The management stated that the renovation follows the completion of the new modern show windows, giving the entire store an up-to- the-minute appearance in keeping with the times.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19

year-old receiver from Birming- nam.
 There's bare chance Bill Bru- baker, rangy third sacker from AL bany, may help ease Traynor's bur den at the hot corner, but Pic shows little signs of wear after his IA years of service there.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19

The number of rail-line passen- ger miles covered by the Alaska Railroad in 1884 amounted to D. GOA 4,534.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19
BARSI NAMED NEW
 BRONCO CAGE COACH

SANTA CLARA, Cal, March 19. Appointment of George A. Bar si, coach of football and basketball at St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Minn, as head basketball coach at the University of Santa Clara is announced here.
 Barsi, who was graduated from Santa Clara in 1929, will report next summer to succeed Harlan Dykes, who resigned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19

SHOP IN JUNEAU FIRST:
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-03-19

The beloved Tim Sullivan was
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Fishers Mill Tragedy
Responsibility of Bosses

He had already wasted Is min
utes trying to get the damned
thing to work right. He had new.
er done this work before and no
one had told him how to use the
torch. If he asked one of the
foremen or complained about the
torch they would put some one
else on the job. 1t was late, and
he would have to hurry. With
this speed-up business If you did
not finish a job in little less
time than the other fellow took,
you were out of luck. By God, he'd
bull it through somehow. Open
up the torch and let her roar.
A Human Torch.
These are probably the last
coherent thoughts of Chetver-
goff. Exactly what happened next
no one knows. One minute he
was a living worker, facing the
common problems of his class,
the next he was a human torch,
aflame from head to foot with
burning gasoline.
Whether he was the victim of
Continued on Page 4, Col. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

ENDORSE
LABORITES
Hudi, BrOckway and
Stevens Backed
For Council

SEATTLE, Feb. l4-RoOfers'
Union local "a here (AFL) has en-
dOrsed the Workers Municipal
Election Platform and council
candidates running on it. They
are f. N. Hudi, Harold Brock
way and Robert Stephens.
Hudi is delegate to the Central
Labor Council from the ROofers'
Union. Stephens is an active men,
Der OF the Machinists' Union and
leader of the statewide unem-
ployment insurance movement.
Brockway is Seattle section or
ganizer of the Communist Party.
The Central Federation of the
Unemployed Citizens League has
also endorsed these three, who
have united on program of pub
| lie works, cancellation of back
city taxes and assessmentes on
homes of part time and unem-
ployed workers, five-cent car fare,
impeachment of Mayor Smith, no
discrimination against Negroes,
and city support to secure pass
age of genuine unemployment
insurance.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
5 Tacoma Unions
Back Am. League

For more details see page 81
TACOMA, Feb. 14-Delegates
representing five AFL unions
Single Employees Union No.
1868; Hold Carriers and Building
Laborers No. 252: Carpenters and
Joiners of America No. 1859; Bak-
ers and Confectioners No. 126, and
Tacoma Smeltermel's Union No.
Is; six different unemployed
Council locals; two Grange To-
Gals; Socialist Party, Communist
Party, Young Communist League,
two church groups, four cultural
groups, three fraternal, and two
veteran groups, met at the Am
erican League Against War and
Fascism conference at the Eagles
hall, Sunday.
Realizing that the struggle
against war and fascism should
be intensified and to continue
this day to day struggle, con-
limitations committee was form
ed, consisting of II members, rep
resenting each organization. The
first meeting of this committee
will be held Sunday, February IL,
at 200 D. m, at the Unemployed
Council hall, 1895 Tacoma Avenue.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
NC. Gets Relief
FOrAged Worker

SEATTLE, Feb. l4-Led by C..
B. Blankenship, chairman of the
grievance committee of the Down
town Unemployment Council To-
cal, five members of the organ
izatiOn succeeded recently in
forcing the county welfare auth
critics to put back on relief John
Henderson, SO, of 10th and Plum
streets.
Henderson had been cut Off
January 8 when relief officials
discovered that for a few months
last summer he received SD in
stead of 81 through a bookkeep-
ing error of their own.
The committee fought vigor-
Ously a demand that the old man
deed over to the county shack
he had built and was living in
and won both an emergency
voucher and a promise of steady
relief from now on.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
VIGIL ANTES RAID UNION HAL Is, BOOK SHOP,
STEAL RECORDS, DESTROY BOOKS, MAGAZINE:
Defend Your Rights!
Protect Workers Halls
EDITORIAL

Lawless vlglantes again challenge civil liberties. More,
these hoOdum storm troopers of the Chamber of Commerce
violate all law in their sneakng midnight burglaries
LOong the offices of the National Lumber Workers I'm
ion and of the Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial
Union denies to labor the most fundamental of rghsthe
right to organize.
The raids these union offices and the Workers
B0okshOp not from In olympia Reaction
aries enraged the hornets of protest stirred
by their of the OFT bill They hope to terorze labor
into surrender
OFT bill refusal repeal the criminal syndicaism law
antintermarriage BILL unemployment insurance raids
these parts of capitals drive against the working class
Breaking into these offices prelude new vandalism
last summers raids swept Unemployed Citizens League
Communist Party, MWIU and ALL seamens and longshoe
mems halls alike As the maritime strike the Voice of Ac
ton militant labors only mode of expression in the North
west, may be next!
Workers. farmers rally to the defense Of halls and
oces Protect organizations would protect
honest
unionists liberals organized unemployed speed let
resolutions committees skebreaker Smith and his
acting Chief Police Krey Demand action against vigante
terror gangs!
Strengthen the organizations of labor! Support the Voice
Build mighty wall of defense against the attacks
Of reaction!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
BY John Victor

Last week the Voice of Ac-
tion reported the horrible death
of a worker in the Fisher Flour
ing Mills who died a flaming sac
rifice to employer greed. Further
ietails of this tragedy have reach
ed the Voice of Acton from the
workers in the Fisher FIGURING
Mills and we present them here
with.
Seventeen-year-old Mich o as
Chetvergoff was repairing the as
phalt floor of the Fisher ware
house. He was troubled. To flow
the asphalt into a smooth layer
on the floor he was using large
gasoline torch. The roaring heat
of its three-foot flame was sup
posed to melt the cuts and bumps
of the floor into a smooth black
sheet. But the torch was not
working right. The flame was vel
low instead of blue as it should
be. 1t flared up irregularly. The
nozzle spat occasional spurts of
raw gasoline into the flame.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Knight, Negro Halter,
Fights ScOttSbOrO Boys

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-By spe-
cial appointment from Alabama's
new encouragement, Albert A.
Carmichael, Lt.-GovernOr Thomas
Z. knight, Jr., former attorney
general, will continue to prose-
cute the cases of the ScOttsborO
boys.
knight has from the beginning
of the case conducted a blood
thirsty persecution of the Scots
bOrO boys. His conduct at the
Decatur trials, in particular,
aroused the horror of civilized
communities.
Knight persistently referred to
the Negro people as whole, ridi-
culed the idea of Negroes serving
on grand and petit juries, and
made a virulent attack against
the attorneys of the Information
al Labor Defense, whom he term
ed Yankee Jews"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
.eU Locals
Chartered

SEATTLE, Feb. 1.-THE unem-
ployed movement has spread rap
idly since the Olympia Congress
for Unemployment Insurance.
George Bradley, head of the
State Committee, and Bill Muir
ray, UCL chairman, report re-
quests for charters in the Nation
al Unemployment Councils from
Sultan, Pinehurst, Silver Lake,
Auburn, Monroe, CentTalia, Mon
tesano, ROslyn, Gle Elum, Ellens-
burg, Redmond. Two new locals
are being formed in Seattle in
the neighbOrhOOds of the Horace
Mann and Washington schools.
Bradley, however, pointed out
that the drive for the Workers
Unemployment, Old Age and So
cial Insurance bill, HB 128, must
not lag. He asked that organiza-
lions that have sent a resolution
demanding it's passage, send their
representatives in Olympia an
other.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Mooney To Petition
Supreme Court Again

NEW mountaineering the
action taken by Tom Mooney,
who, it has been announced, will
within the next few days petition
the U. s. Supreme Court for re-
consideration of his writ of ha-
beas corpus, the National Execu-
tive Committee of the Interna-
tional Labor Defense has called
for the broadest support to this
move from all sympathetic ele-
ments.
The LID In it's announcement
made through Anna Damon, act
ing national secretary, pointed
out that the previous U. S. Su-
preme Court decision makes it
very clear that, as Mooney HIM
self stated in a recent appeal, "the
greater the protest, the larger
the demonstrations, and the wild
er the public opinion of mass
pressure" the better are his
chances for freedom.
kilograms and resolutions to
the u. S. Supreme Court and to
President Roosevelt demanding
MONEYS freedom, were called for
by the lid.
The statement also called for
financial assistance to the Moon
ey defense, to be sent to the Tom
Mooney Molders' Defense Com
mittee, p. o. Box 1475, San Fran
cisco, Calf.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
SelfH Help Bill "Not Socialism,
Drdfters Tell Rank and File At
"Security Act" Public Hearinq

OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. n
Monday night found over three
hundred enthusiastic and expect
ant Commonwealth Builders in
the galleries of the House cham
bers, assembled to witness the
birth of a new economic order
withp lenty for all and malice to-
ward none. But the rank and file
of the organization, who have
been unaware of the political
chicanery and strategic maneuv-
ering of the demagogues who
control Commonwealth Builders,
Inc, were strangely silent as
Jack Kluek summed up his key
note address by saying that, this
system is definitely not social
ism"
Rollo Houghton, following the
lead, nearly fell over backwards
in his efforts to avoid offending
the feelings Of Charles Ernst and
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
CIVIL RIGHT
GROUPS HIT
VANDALISM
Commonwealth, Civil
Liberties Union, lid
Protest to Police

SEATTLE, Feb. l4-Vigilantes
broke into the Workers Book
Shop here Tuesday night, steal
ing and destroying $500 worth of
literature. They also broke into
the National Lumber Workers
and Fishermen and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union head
quarters next door, stealing the
NLWU seal, letterheads and
blank membership books,
All Book Shop records we're
stolen and addresses torn from
wrapped bundles of movie post
ers ready for mailing.
The Police Department red
squad" investigating" Wednes-
day morning, entered the Book
Shop WITH THEIR OWN KEYS.
and refused to take the finger
prints the vigilantes had left
everywhere.
Leaving the Book Shop they ar
rested a worker, Ed Hendrick-
son, and held him a short while
for questioning"
When asked by committee
representing t H., Q newspaper
Commonwealth Builder" Civil
Liberties Union and Internation-
al Labor Defense, why the red
squad" was sent to Investigates
wrecking OF the Book Shop. act
ing police chief Kirtley declared
1t was a mistake"
Not since the days of the
postwar hysteria against liber-
ais, radicals and workers alike,
has there been so fragrant a
trampling upon workers consti-
tutional and civil rights" was
the text OF a call issued by Paul
Olson, Civil Liberties Union sec
rotary.
The American Civil Liberties
Union calls upon all good Amer
leans to organize themselves into
effectual groups for the purpose
of protesting these actes of mob
violence and lawlessness."
Harold Armstrong, Common
wealth executive board member.
condemned the book store raid
as both wanton destruction of
and ma attack on civil.
righst." - ~.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
z Delegates at
Workers. Congress
Special Wire


SALEM, Ore, Feb. l4-Seventy
two delegates, representing "a
organizations, were present at
the Oregon Congress for Unem-
,plOyment Insurance held here
Wednesday.
The Oregon Workers bill was
discussed at a hearing held by
the Unemployment Committee
of the State Legislature.
At tine Congress a broad State
Committee for Unemployment
Insurance was elected to con-
tinue the struggle for enactment
of the Workers bill. Details in
next weeks Voice of Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
WIN CLOTHING FOR
THREEOLD WORKERS

SPOKANE, Feb. 14-Three old
men here, ages 66. 6S and 20, tried
to get clothing from relief head
quarters and failed. They were
told only married people could
get clothes.
The Unemployment Council
took up the case with these re-
suits within two hours:
For the 70-year-old man, under
wear, shirts, coat and a promise
of a mattress.
For the other two, an emer-
gency order for underwear, coats
and caps.
One of the old men had also
been cut off the grocery list. His
food voucher was restored.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Voice Of Action Days
In Seattle Next Week

SEATTLE, Feb. 14HFriday and
Saturday, February % and %,
have been set aside as Voice of
Action Days by the King county
drive committee. All supporters
of the paper are urged to go out
those days with collection lists
and subscription books in an eff
fort to add $3.50 to the drive total
in those two days.
Headquarters for the two-day
campaign will be 2l7 Mutual Life
Building, offices of the Unem-
ployed Citizens League.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

private business interests in the
state. After stating that men
with good sound business sense
will most have the interests of
the people at heart and can best
administer this plan" and there
is nothing radical in 1t, of course"
Help Private Business
The packed galleries stirred
uneasiIy as they hardened back
to prediction promises Of a
bloodless revolution, of the Nbo-
lition of profit and private bus
mess, as Dean Tyler of the Uni
versity of Washington carefully
explained that "the introduce
ton of this system viii not hurt
private business, it will help it."
Howard G. Costigan and Mel
win London were conspicuously
force passage OF the bill, appar-
entity being more concerned with
Continued on Page 4. Col. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
SOyietS Hail
Greatest Year.

MOSCOW, USSR, Feb. 1.-THE
elected representatives of 9OOOO,-
600 voters in the Soviet Union
recently met here in the annual
All-Union Congress.
V. M. MolotOv, chairman of the
Council of Peoples COmmisars,
delivered the keynote address to
the Congress, which enthusiastic
ally hailed the past year, 1884, as
the greatest in the history of
the mighty workers and peas
ants republic.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Try To Jail Dairyman
Who UnderSOld Trust
By a Worker Correspondent

BEND, Ore, Feb. 14-The Bend
authorities hate to see workers
children getting rich, whole milk
at a low price, for they cited j.
w. Peterson, a small independ-
ent dairyman into court Feb. 2
to appear and give explanation
why he was selling high quality
milk under code prices. After
giving his testimony, Peterson
was arrested.
When workers discovered that
Peterson had been jailed for sell
ing below the prices of milk rack
eteers, they Immediately started
a stream of committees rolling
into the judges office, and with
the aid of an International Labor
Defense representative, secured
Peterson's release.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
MAI. MILNER, DIR.
ALDERMAN, WILL
SPEAK HERE SOON
PORTLAND MEMBERS TO
ADDRESS AMERICAN
LEAGUE ON WAR

SEATTLE, Feb. H-MajOr Law
renee A. Miner and Rev. Nathan
B. Alderman, both of the Port
land section of the American
League Against War and Fascism,
will speak here Sunday, February
"a, at Eagles hall.
Major Miner is retired from
the United States Army after 80
years of active service. He was
decorated for outstanding mill.
tary achievements in France. His
subject will be, "a Soldier Hates
War;
Alderman is pastor of a Con-
gregatiOnal Church diocese in
Portland. He will speak on
World War in the Pacific" {:
In Tacoma, Too
Both men will address mass
meeting in Tacoma, Saturday,
February %.
The meetings are being held
to mobilize support for the
Northwest Congress, and Rev.
and Fascism, which will be stag
ed at an early date in April. Ma
tOr Miner is chairman of the Ar
rangements Committee for the
Northweste Congress, and Rev.
Alderman is chairman of the Port
land section of the American
League Against War and Fas-
cism.
Both the Tacoma and Seattle
meetings are being sponsored by
the American League Against
War and Fascism.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
US. Aids Nippon
Threat to Russia

TOKYO, Japan, Feb. 14-Rec-
ognizing the recent anti-Soviet
maneuvers of the American gov
eminent as a sign of approval of
their feverish preparations for
armed invasion of the Soviet IN
ion, General Hayashi, Japan's
war minister, last week argued
strongly for the rapid passage of
a huge war budget.
In advancing the demand for
the budget, Hayashi made it
plain that the added ornaments
were being requested because Of
Japanese military plans against
the Soviet Union.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
{ of c Wants Law
Against HandbillS

CENTRALIA, Wash, Feb. l3-
The Retail Trades Committee of
the Chamber of Commerce here
is behind a proposed ordinance
prohibiting the distribution of
handbills in the city.
The ordinance is directed
mainly against labor Organiza-
tiOns. The Centralia Unemploy-
ment Councils are calling upon
all other labor gfoups to fight
the ordinance and to pack the
council chambers when it comes
up for hearing.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
LID CALLS FOR PROTESTS
ON SPANISH EXECUTIONS

NEW YORK-"One of the
most vigorous campaigns of mass
protest must be started at once
to stop the executions of revolu-
ionists and militant workers in
SPAIN" was the call sent out
last week by Anna Damon, act
ing national secretary of the In
ternational Labor Defense. THE
fascist government of Spain is at
tempting to massacre the flower
of the Spanish working class, so
that the workers movement will
be crushed for years to come.
Protests must come from every
corner of the world to stay the
hands of the fascist murderers."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Seattle Star Manager
Heads Voice of Action
Circulation Department

SEATTLE, Feb. H-Merwin L.
Cole, for two years a district cir
culation manager for the Seattle
Star, this week joined the staff
of the Voice of Action as Seattle
circulation manager.
In few days time he has taken
steps to reorganize the entire dis.
tribution apparatus, has placed
the Voice of Action on many
newsstands and has ordered more
than twice the copies taken by
Seattle last week!
Adding an experienced news