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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
3 Leading for Trip
To Soviet Union

SEATTLE, Feb. 14-Relative
standing in the contest for the
grand Voice of Action drive prize,
free trip to the Soviet Union,
remains the same.
Lydia Sommerville of Aberdeen
has to her credit 1912; Z. KOski,
Astoria, manager of the YOungs
Bay Cooperative Dairy, 1920;
Alvin Slower of Olympia, $50.
However, many other contest
ants are still in the race for the
trip and the nine other big prizes
offered. Everett has entered Sief-
fert McMullin. University of
= Washington students and Seattle
trade unionists are expected to
have contestants in the field
within a day or two.
Rules are that anyone may
enter except members of the
Voice of Action staff; all money
raised for the drive, whether subs
or donations counts, provided the
Voice of Action is notified to
which contestant the credit goes
when the money is turned in; Or
CARNATIONS and individuals may
support any contestant they
wish; a minimum of $3.50 must be
credited to a contestant to make
him eligible for the prize; the
contest closes March Is, money
received after that date will not
be counted in the awarding of
prizes.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
LUMBER WORKERS
JOB NEWS

Camp Union is working full
blast, with an 11-hour day for
fallers and buckers doing piece
work, riding six hours, and
working five. Men not able to
make the quota are fired. The
men are now organizing into the
AL.
Mills at Port Gamble and Port
Ludlow are operating at speed
up and with the usual lousy
board where workers aren't or
ganized. The men are coming
into the ALL soon.
Pulpwood cutter jobs are up
on some employment agency
boards, at $l.9O to 81 for 1852 cubic
feet.
Jobs are offered in Gray's Har-
Dor, Clallam and Snohomish
counties.
PulpwOod from Granite Falls
district is being shipped to Bell
ingham. Granite Falls cutters
want to know if there is any
labor trouble in Whatcom and
Skagit counties.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Preparations on Way
For FCWIU Farley

SEATTLE, Feb. 14-Prepara-
lions are going ahead for the con-
ventiOn of the Fishermen and
Cannery Workers Industrial I'm
ion to be held in Astoria, oregon,
on March 1924.
All locals of the FCWIU are
beginning to hold meetings and
electing their delegates to the
national convention. The Nation
al Executive Committee urges
that other unions also send fra
ternal delegates to the cOnven-
ton, for only by the joint discus
siOns of our problems and united
front action will we be able to
combat the attacks of the fish
packers and others upon our liv-
ing conditions.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Mrs. SOmmerville
Quitting? Nc Sir!

SEATTLE, Feb. 1+Writes Ly-
dia Sommerville, leading Voice
of Action trip to Russia contest.
ant
Your letter just received re-
garding my dropping out of the
Soviet Union trip contest.
Rest assured I'm still in it
and will remain in it!
81 don't understand where such
talk has originated.
81 pledge myself to do all in
my power to build the Voice of
Action-now, and after the trip,
if | make it.
"Grays Harbor is still deter
mined to be the winner"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Slower and KOSki
Win Mid-Drive Prizes

SEATTLE, Feb. 14-Alvin Slo-
yer and Ernest KOski are win
ners in the mid-drive One-week
contests. Each receives a COM
plete set of the works of V. l..
Lenin-six beautifully bound vol
umes, formerly priced at $23.
Due to an error two contests
were announced in Voice OF Ac-
tiOn instead of one. But We are
glad to award prizes to two such
loyal Voice of Action supporters.
These prizes are for the Janu-
airy 2S to February 4, and the Feb
ruary to February 8 contests.
Prize winner for the February
A to February II contest will be
announced next week.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Centralia UC Gets
New Headquarters

CENTRALIA, Wash, Feb. a.
The Unemployment Council here
has been buzzing with activity
the past few days. Recent relief
cuts have turned many of the I'M
employed towards the council.
Tired of being. disappointed
time after time in their efforts
to get the city hall as meeting
place, council members elected
a special committee to secure a
permanent hall.
The result: A good hall at $50
North Tower st., with money rails
ed from merchants and profess
sional people to pay the rent.
Workers are now on the job put
ting the hall in shape for grand
opening.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Organize Steel, Auto
Industry! Don't Lose
Any Time!

NEW YORK, Feb. 14-The Gen.
trail Committee of the Communist
Party, in letter to The American
Federation of Labor Executive
Council, last week pledged sup
port to the organization drive
OF the ALL.
The historic Communist Par
ty letter, signed by VIM. Y. Foster
and Earl Browder, is printed be-
low in full. 1t follows the new
policy towards the building of
the AL unions, adopted at a
recent meeting Of the Party Gen.
trail Committee, and marks a
great step towards the building
of strong unions in each indus
try, capable OF defending the
workers interests-one united
union in one industry.
The letter follows:
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Centralia Butchers
Now Read "VOice"
By a Worker CORRESPONDENT

CENTRALIA, Wash, Feb. IA
The Centralia Butchers and Meat
Cutters Union members have
found out to their own satisfac-
ton that the Voice of Acton is
the only real working class pa
per in the Pacific Northwest.
The Butchers union has placed
three meat shops in Centralia on
the unfair list-the Sanitary Mar
ket, Runyan's and the Central
Market. The union tried to get
some publicity on this struggle
in the local paper but was turned
down.
The Voice of Action carried a
write-up on the front page and
now the butchers are reading a
real workers paper.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

BUILDER UNIT 7
HITS Obi. ACT

SEATTLE, Feb. l4-In a resolu-
ton that was tabled by the eoun-
ty executive board Saturday,
Commonwealth Builders Unit T.
went on record as unanimously
opposed to the Economic Sc
curity Act for 1885, self-help
subsistence measure drafted by
Obi legalists and now in House
committee at Olympia.
Unit rs reasons were that Sec
ton 30 of the bill would prevent
self-help workers from organiz-
ing, that Section "a supports ex-
isting institutions which we are
now trying to abolish through
the ballot" that it is not a piece
of peoples legislation because
there is no protection of the peo-
pie who come under jurisdiction
of this act, and that the bill, in
Section %, protects the invest
ing class against loss on bonds"
If the self-help project is aban-
doned, and does not insure the
worker against loss of wages I'M
til the capitalists are paid in full.
Because the bill as submitted
to the legislature doesn't contain
any of the measures suggested
by the rank and file when it was
first being drafted, the resolu-
ton concludes it will not be a
plan of production for use, but
production for capitalistic profit,
under our present eapitalistic
state through exploiting our
people by further isolation and
serfdom."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Two. Offers Real
Workers Insurance
BY J. Kloizner

The International Workers
Order is workers fraternal or
der. As fraternal organization,
1t supplies to its members sick,
disability and death benefits as
well as medical aid and other
forms of mutual help.
AS a workers organization, it
accepts me.ubers irrespective of
sex, nationality, color or political
beliefs. As a workers Organiza-
ton it has the lowest dues COM
patible with the security of pay
ment of benefits to its members.
As workers organization it rec
Ognizes the need of government
unemployment and general dis
ability insurance.
That is why the International
Workers Order not only supplies
fraternal insurance, but also sup
ports and is q part of the move
ment for social insurance.
The International Workers Or
der was founded with 5000 mem
bers in 1880. Today it has MEM
bership of more than $4,000.
The International Workers Or
der started in 1880 with no funds.
Today il has a reserve fund of
over $1,000,00O.
1t recognizes that the need for
mutual help to the workers
grows out OF their economically
insecure position in capitalist So
ciety. The workers depend on
wages for a living. Yet they can
not get wages when unemployed,
when too old or disabled.
Capitalism tells them: You
must work if you want to live,
but it does not guarantee them
means of life when they are sick,
aisabled or unemployed. In such
cases it leaves them to beg. At
the same time it declares begging
morally degrading and legally
''impermissible."
The International Workers Or
der recognizes that these cOndi-
lions can not be met merely by
organizing mutual aid They must
be met by fighting for change
in these conditions. That is why
the International Workers Order,
a mutual benefit organization, al
so fights for social and unemploy-
ment insurance.
In the international Workers
Order there are no profit devour-
ing shareholders. There are no
high salary grabbing officials
The members control the TWO.
They elect their officials. They
determine its policies. Conven-
lions are held every two years.
The International Workers Or
tder is your own organization.
Tor more information write to
2O6 32nd Ave-, Seattle.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
WIN FREE TRANSFORMATION

PUYALLUP, WASH, Feb. "A
An attempt was made Wednes-
day morning. Feb. 6, to deny Sum-
ner VERA workers free trans
portation to and from the pro-
iect they are now employed on,
but the workers acted promptly
and militantly to foil the at
tempt.
A committee was Immediately
elected by the workers, and this
committee called the county sup
erintendent on the telephone. de-
manding transportation. The de-
mand was granted.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

courts, and law enforcement give
their endorsement to such ac-
tions of destroying working
class property.
These agents of faseism and
the bosses will attempt to fur
Their their insidious acts by re-
leasing slanderOus and provOca-
tive letters, documents, articles
with the unions official seal, es-
pecially to the famous red-baiter
Hearst.
The NEG wishes to inform the
membership to be on the alert
for any of the unions supplies
being forged, reporting to the
national office Immediately.
Fraternally,
National Executive Committee.
James Murphy, Secretary.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
"VOice" and Halter
Organize 100

ROSLYN, Wash, Feb. 14-Mark
Halter gives full credit for the
organization of an Unemployed
Council local of 100 in Ellens-
burg to the Voice of Action. II
owe a lot to the Voice of Action"
he declared. 1T was my sole in
strument in organizing the coun-
ell. | simply went house to house
with the paper, made contacts,
got house to meet in, set the
date, and 50 came to the first
meeting. That's one thing the
Voice of Action has accomplish
ed"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
ACTION AGAINST OFT BILL
Port Angeles, Wash.

Port Angeles, Wash.
Dear Editor:
/ want to call sharply to the
attention of all workers organ
izations the necessity for action
against the OFT bill. Underestilna-
tiOn of the Importance of this bill
in this section is evident from the
fact that the meeting of the MI.
Pleasant RWPA which heard the
report of the Unemployment In
surance Congress did not call
for a protest against this bill All
meetings, large or small, should
take action on this bill.
e. Allen.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
"NOt Socialism ,

Continued from Page One)
political interests elsewhere in
the state.
Capitalist Measure
While demagogy reigned SUI
preme and the interests of the
people were touchingly dwelt
upon, no mention was made of
the fact that the concensus OF
opinion among the Legislators
was that the bill will be amended
in committee to conform very
closely to programs suggested by
Charles Ernst and Governor Mar
tin. Donald A. Mcdonald. reac-
tionary House leader, indicated
approval of the bill and said, Il
see no necessary conflict between
this bill and the capitalist sys-
tenn"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
YExeeutive Council
American Federation of Labor
AFL Building,

AL Building,
Washington, d. c.
Dear Sirs and Brothers:
The arrogant blows delivered
against the trade unions by
Roosevelt, through the extern
sion of the automobile code and
his method of handling the ques-
tion, creates a very critical stu
alton, If not answered by a pow
erful movement of the working
class. The whole trade union
movement is in the most serious
danger.
An unprecedented open shop"
drive, with the backing of the
government, is now fully coming
into the open. The government
which, with all of its promises,
cannot bring about industrial
recovery. successfully brings the
recovery of profits and the open
shop"
Step Toward Fascism
This policy, now openly pro-
claimed by President Roosevelt
is long step towards establish.
ing in America a regime essen
TALLY similar to those OF Musso
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Powerful Unions in
United Front Can
Build Labor

Steel and Tin Workers, express
ed in their conference in Pitts
burgh, for powerful unioniza-
ton drive of the steel workers.
We declare we will support fully
and self-sacrificingly every at
tempt of the AFL and its men,
bers in carrying out this difficult
but great task.
There is no time to be lost. The
bosses and the government are
attacking on the whole front.
Build the united working class
front to defend our living condi-
lions, our rights, and our trade
unionsl
Faternally yours,
CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Communist Party, U.SA.
W. z. Foster, Chairman,
Earl Browder, General Sec'y.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
RosLYN FIGHTS OFT BILL

ROSLYN, Feb. 1.-THE Roslyn
local of the Unemployed Coun-
ell at its regular meeting voted
unanimously to protest passage
of the vicious OFT bill.
With the terrOrizing of ROslyn
miners by state police still a
fresh memory, they also voted 100
per cent support of lib PSI, anti.
terror bill.
More than $50 miners attended
the meeting.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
PUERTO RICO POLICE KILL
ID SUGAR STRIKERS

SAN JUAN, Puerto RicO-Po-
lice attacked a group of striking
sugar workers at FajardO here
last week, killing IA. One of the
policemen was killed when the
strikers defended themselves.
The strikers are demanding in
creased wages.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Fisher Mill

Continued from Page Onel
the defective torch or an act of
his own inexperienee, no one
will ever know.
Crazed with pain, burning alive,
he instinctively ran toward water,
passing the company foreman on
the way. More than a hundred
feet he ran to the wash room.
There, writing on the floor, flu
tily tearing at his burning clothes
he sought the relief from pain
which death alone was to give
him. Out of the wash room,
down a flight of stairs, along a
flour-piled alley-way he ran. A
little too late, this mad flight
from pain ended. Another work.
er, entering the warehouse, with
fine presence OF mind tore off
his coat, threw Chetvergoff to
the floor, and smothered the
flames with his coat. But he was
burned beyond recovery and died
in the hospital the next day.
What did this representative of
the company, the foreman, do
when he saw this fellow worker
aflame and in mortal agony.
The Foreman Was Yellow
He could have saved him had
he acted promptly. He was wear
ing a leather coat. The alley-ways
along which Chetvergoff ran were
stacked on either side with bags
of flour. The coat, bag of flour
ripped open-either could have
been used to stifle the flames.
But the foreman was yellow. He
actually ran away instead of try
ing to save Chetvergoff. He said
he ran to the office to phone, God
knows who for.
Their Responsibility
The responsibility for this
workers horrible death lies
squarely with the mill manage
ment and Frank White, the Sup
erintendent.
First, because Mr.. White makes
foremen of men not because of
their knowledge of the work,
ability to diTecte the labor of
others, and capacity of clear
headed action in emergencies, but
because they will stool pigeon
and fight the union. OF such men
nothing more can be expected.
OLA pop I9HIoM s!ql 'puOo9S
tim of employer greed since the
company tried to save a few dol
lars by putting him, inexperienc-
ed and unframed, to do the work
which an experienced workman
alone can do safely.
Build the Union
Workers in the Fisher Flour
ing Mills must realize that the
company is not correcting these
conditions and never will until
it is forced to; that its sole effort
in the matter was to hush it up;
that the capitalist press Of the
city has aided and abetted them
in this and only the Voice of Ac-
tion has printed a single word of
this story; that only through a
more militant union organization
which succeeds in gaining real
collective bargaining and placing
in the hands of the workers con-
troll of their own work can they
put stop to the speed up, the
competition of one worker
against another for the same
job, can they protect themselves
against incompetent foremen,
and maintain the right of the
skilled workmen to the job for
which he is trained and save the
unskilled from the dangers that
this tragedy so well exposes.
Protest passage of the vicious
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Locals
Back Voice
By a Worker Correspondent

SPOKANE, Feb. 1.-THE I'm
employment Councils of Spokane
have set up a county organization
in cooperation with the Deer
Park and Hillyard locals.
Announcement of the Voice Of
Action drive and of the quota
set for the Unemployment Coun-
ellis was received with enthusi-
asm. Members feel more than
ever the need of a "VOice" to
speak for them.
Officers were elected and de-
cision made to send out organic
ers to form new locals.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
POWERS STIRRED BY VOICE

The article about the Winlock
Negro woman caused quite a stir
among the powers and as soon as
| obtain some more copies of the
Voice of Action and sell them to
the same powers and point out
the article it will cause more stir.
"A Worker.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
LSNR Visits Italian
Embassy on Protest

SEATTLE, Feb. IA = T e
League of Struggle for Negro
Rights is sending a delegation
to the Italian consulate here
protesting the imperialist attack
on Abyssinia.
Officers OF the LSNR also an
nounced that Howard Costigan,
Commonwealth Builder radio
speaker. has publicly apologized
for his -nigger in the woodpile"
statement.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
CORRECTION
By a Worker Correspondent

SPOKANE, Feb. 14-An article
in last weeks Voice of Action was
attributed to Spokane instead OF
to Occur d'Alene. 1t was titled,
Pressure Gains Added Jobless
Funds" We wish such things
were happening here, but not
yet.
The relief set-up in Idaho cut
the whole relief off at one cut,
In Spokane it is being done like
the little boy did with his dogs
tail. He cut off a piece at a time
so it wouldn't hurt so much.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

SPOKANE, Feb. 14-Spokane's
Voice of Action drive quota is
now pro-rated among the various
organizations interested in its
success and reports are coming
in that enthusiasm is growing
especially among the locals of the
Unemployed Councils.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
CarlSborg Waking
.Up-9 Subs in
Port Angles, Wash.

Dear Editor:
Since a visit of the Voice of
Action campaign manager to
CarlsbOrg, and a cartoon of Carls-
borg Communists playing check
ers, in the Call to Action, the
Communist Party unit there has
answered the challenge of Unit
4 here and sent in nine subs
for the Voice of Action. Also they
have begun to send in news items.
Editor, Call to Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Carried forward S592.SI
w. II. Smith so
J. c. Jones $50
Frank Langdon LOO
A. Slower 400
Fabian Wes& $40
Paul Niemala 100
II. Thomas so
Val Smith 1.50
Unit 4, CP, Port Angeles 400
Unit 8, CP, Anacortes 800
Press Committee rs
Unit 10, CP, Everett LOO
NJ. c. Chopper LOO
Unit 9, CP, Tacoma 6.65
Voice of Action 56.25
Unemployed Citizens league LOO
University Friend 1000
Chas. Burrell so
AL Layman 2.5O
A. Burgroff LIS
Frank Curtis LOO
w. H. Olson ESQ
Viola Rak 1880
E. Laurmore 500
]. E. Snyder $50
Unit 5, CP, Ballard 81
Unit A, CP, Seattle $50
Laura Lame lbs
A Friend 1910
Paul Butt 4.30
H. Mackay so
j. G. Jones 1.5O
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
SPECIAL NEWS
for the
Lumber Workers
Edited by JAMES MURPHY
Secretary National Lumber Workers Union

SEATTLE Feb 4The National Executive Committee of the
National Lumber Workers Union all its members be
guard for material documents etc. carrying official seal
On the morning February b. the national offices the NLWU
Fishermen Workers Industrial Union
20 Second Avenue raded by the yellow dogs called
Vglantes. No doubt the Red Squad the capitalist
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15

Protest passage of the vicious
anti-labor OFT bill. Reach your
state senator Immediately!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15


Quota Raised
Aberdeen, Grays Harbor S $50 $9IS2
Alaska $50 1000
Anacortes Skagt County 60 700
Astoria and Ilwaco 100 1920
Beingham and Whatcom County 40 200
IO
Centraa Lewis County 30 $50
Coos Bay III 40
Eugene 10
Everett Snohomsh County 100 1890
Friday Harbor San Juan Islands 20
Grants Pass 10
Idaho so 1850
Kelso CowlitZ County 30 900
klamath Falls 35
Olympia, ThurstOnCounty 60 1850
Port Angeles Clallam County 80 1915
Portland 100 S25
Roseburg 10
Roslyn, Gle Elum Is
Salem
Seattle, King County 500 1867
Spokane 125 $40
Tacoma 17.75
Yakima 20 500
Miscellaneous 100
Total $4,000 56349
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15
Voice of Action
Drive Scoreboard

These the Voice of Action drive for 1000
closed Monday at Alater returns will be included in
Mondays tabuation issue.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1935-10-26
M ORE ABOUT
PREVENTION
OF CANCER

In the preceding article In This
series II was shown that many
cancers are preventable, and pre-
cautions to he taken In prevent
ing cancers of the skin. lips. and
mouth were suggested.
There are two considerations OF
importance in preventing cancer
of the breast. Since some cancers
of the breast develop In tumors
which are not themselves malig-
nant. Il Is good strategy In cancer
prevention To have every definite
tumor Of the breast removed. Can
Ger is melted by chronic irritation
and TN important source or such
irritation in Che breast Is the
retention OF the secretions when
mothers do not nurse their babies
The precaution TO be taken Is OBJ
vio1s. The normal functionlng Of
the breast should not be interior
cd with
As To cancer OF the womb, mere
also. there are two groups Of prac'
teal preventive measures. The In
jurics due to childbirth should b'
repaired and normal conditions
restored as soon after delivery a.
possible. This reasonable precau
ton. and the prompt treatment 81
inflammatory conditions. largely
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