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President Roosevelt that the
widely feared armaments race
would breed war;" and called for
reduction of up to one-fifth of
the worlds present naval forces.
Davis intimated the United
States might be prepared to grant
Japan some favorable change in
the existing ratio providing Japan
did not insist upon absolute parity.
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin,
opening the conference and speak.
ing for Britain, warned I'VE shall
none of us get exactly what we
want" and urged all Ito yield a
little of their maximum demands
in order to avert a naval race.
Ambassador Dino Grandi, head
of the Italian delegation, cited the
economic war between Italy and
the League of Nations as a hin.
drance to naval agreement, and
Ambassador Charles Corbin, head
of the French delegation, further
complicated the possibilities Of
agreement by calling attention to
the "interdependence" of navies
and land and air armaments.
Hope Held Slight
Thus, in a brief 75-minute open.
ing session, the naval parley was
confronted with grave problems
which will tax all delegates to the
limit as they strive to reach agree.
ment. Prospects for agreement
were dull, the main hope lying in
the spur created by the fear OF
the costly, war-threatening naval
building contest which lies in the
background.
Standing at the center of a
great oval table in the richly
gilded Locarno Room, Baldwin
formally opened the parley at
1920 a. m. All delegates wore
morning dress. There were nc
uniforms or orders.
Sir Samuel Hoare, British for
eign minister, was elected presi
dent of the conference, but be
cause of his absence on the Con
tinent for his health, Viscount
Monsell of Evesham, first lord o.
the admiralty, who was elected
vice-president, will preside ovel
the sessions as acting chairman
After the five brief speeches
and the election of officers, the
meeting was adjourned at 11:45
Meet Near Vickers
The committee session to be
held for the real work of the
conference will be in Clarence
House, gloomy, four,story struc
ture ironically situated but a few
feet away from the offices OF
Britain's greatest ornaments firm
Vickers, Ltd.
British Premier Stanley Bald
win, in convening the confer
ence, warned the delegates 1--WE
The Washington times., 1935-12-09
JAP NAVAL AIM
OUTLINED

LONDON, Dec. 9. G.N.SO-Fol
lowing are the high lights Of Japa
nese Admiral Osami Nogano'S
statement at the opening of the
world naval conference here to
day, in which Japan formally de
manded the right to possess
navy as powerful as either the
American or British fleets.
The object of this conference
we understand, is to conclude a
new comprehensive treaty of ma.
val disarmament with a view to
regulating the naval strengths OF
the powers concerned from the
year 1887.
Such a new treaty, in the view
of the Japanese government,
should be based upon the funda.
mental idea of setting up, among
the great naval powers of the
world, a common limit of naval
armaments to be fixed as low as
possible, which they shall not be
allowed to exceed; simultaneously
offensive forces must be drastical
ly reduced and ample defensive
forces provided, so as to bring
about a substantial measure Of
disarmament, thus securing a
state of non-menace and non-ag
gression among the powers.
"The Japanese government
firmly believe that this is in
deed the best way to reaching a
just and fair agreement on dis
armament, whereby the burden
OF nations may be greatly light
ened and a real contribution
made towards the durable peace
of the world.
"The japanese delegation wish
to declare that on such principles
as I have outlined, we are pre-
pared to carry on frank exchanges
of views with other members OF
the conference with view
to achieving a new comprehensive
agreement on disarmament"
The reference to a common
limit of naval arnamentS" repre-
Sented Japan's demand for abso
lutte parity instead of the exist
ing ratio system under which the
United States and Great Britain
possess five capital ships each to
every three possessed by Japan.
The Washington times., 1935-12-09
Japan Asks Equality
At Naval PaEley
ELIZABETH J. RYAN

bshall none of us get exactly what
we want" and urged all to
."yield a little of their maximum
demands" in order to save the
world from an unrestricted
peace-menacing naval armament
race.
Premier Baldwin said Britain's
position remains unchanged
concerning its desire to prolong
the principles of the Washing
ton and London naval treaties
with such notifications and
adjustments as are expedient
and necessary on account Of
altered international circum.
stances and the needs of indi-
vidual powers"
This latter qualification was
viewed as covering the British
desire for an additional 20 cruis-
ers and the necessity of making
some concessions to the Jap
anese. Mr.. Baldwin also brought
forth Britain'S expected proposal
for a reduction in the size Of
capital ships, especially battle
ships, and their ornaments.
"They (the British government)
would like to see a reduction in
the sizes of all the larger types OF
ships and of the guns which they
carry, and they still press for the
abolition of the submarine" he
said.
U. S. Is Opposed
The British proposal for reducing
the size of battleships was ex.
pected to meet American opposi.
tion. Britain wants battleships
reduced from $4,000 tons to
around $4,000 tons. Since the
United States is without the far.
flung naval bases possessed by
the British empire, the American
Navy considers the larger ships,
with their longer cruising radius,
absolutely essential to America s
national defense.
Baldwin also announced the
British government, in prelimi.
nary conversations with France
and italy, had induced both those
countries to agree to the outlaw.
ing of unrestricted submarine war
fare if it is found impossible to
abolish submarines. The Franco
Italian willingness to do so, how
ever, was based on the contin
gency that the provision now in
the London naval treaty prohibit
ing unrestricted submarine war
fare be included in a general
naval agreement.
This reservation was designed
to take care of Germany, which is
not a party to the London navaI
treaty and therefore not bound by
the prohibition against the un
restricted submarine warfare fol
which its dreaded u-boats be
came notorious in the World War
The Washington times., 1935-12-09
GAS RATE CUT
FIGURESGIVEN
COMMISSION

Fifty-two per cent of the Wash
ington Gas Light Company'S do
mestic consumer class, which is
the bulwark of all its patrons,
would receive only 6 per cent OF
the total $305,454 reduction In
rates proposed by the company to
the Public Utilities Commission.
Statistics of the firm revealed
this today when hearings on the
Company's proposed reductions
were resumed before the commits
sion. The company submitted sta.
tistics showing allocations Of its
proposed reductions to each class
OF consumer, including in the
computations comparison between
revenues with the current 8l2 per
cent reduction on all bills and
revenues after the proposed $685..
asa reduction.
The chart dealing with domestic
consumers revealed the company
now derives a total TO $4,075, ,667
from this class of consumers, and
this would be cut to $3,908,547, a
difference of $167, ,120.
In the computations, the com
pany statistics showed that the So
per cent of the domestic conSum'
ers would receive a cut under
the proposed rates of $19,774,
only 11.8 per cent of the reduc'
ton allocated to domestic con
Sumers, and 6 per cent Of the
total reduction.
Other statistics shown in the
domestic reduction chart revealed
that "a per cent of the patrons
who use between 4,100 to 10000
cubic feet of gas a month would
receive a reduction of $63,907
while the 5 per cent Of domestic
consumers who. use over 10000
cubic feet a month would receive
$s0,155. The So per cent are in
a class who use between 900 and
1000 cubic feet a month. Do
mestic consumers who use less
than 900 cubic feet a month re
ceive no reduction.
The Washington times., 1935-12-09
Final Rites Are Held
For County Policeman

CLARENDON. Va. Dec. 9.
With six uniformed fellow officers
as pallbearers, Louis Shaw, Airing.
ton county officer who, with a
prisoner, was burned to death Fri.
day, was buried here yesterday.
Services we're held in Ives
Chapel for the officer, who was
killed when a huge oil truck struck
his automobile on the Mt. Vernon
Memorial Boulevard. The body
of William r. Harrison, prisoner
will be sent to Chicago.
Harrison's scout car had stop.
ped on the road while another of.
ficer got out to examine a nearby
wreck when the oil truck piled
into it, setting it afire.
The Washington times., 1935-12-09

Old dirty rugs are breeding
places for all kinds of germs.
Protect yourself from colds
and safeguard your health.
Regal Cleaning expels germs,
moths and dirt-makes your
rug last longer.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Todd Exposed as
Enemy of Labor

SEATTLE, Feb. 2S-How Ne
graduating goes band-in-hand
with labor-hating, and why re-
dictionaries use one to split the
other, was shown this week by
the action OF Representative
Dorian L. Todd, introducer of
the vicious Todd anti-intermar-
riage bill.
Representative Todd, defying
the protests of olympia organ
lied labor, continues to patron
lie the Olympian Hotel employ
ing scabs and for the last month
picketed by the Culinary Work.
.ers and Beverage Dispensers as
VIGOROUSLY unfair.
Seattle Central Labor Council
last Wednesday acted on a CON-
munication from Olympia organ
lied labor urging q protest to
Todd for his contempt of the
working class.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Centralia RWPA
Wins Fight for
Medical Aid!

CENTRALIA, Wash, Feb. Is
For the first time in the history
of Centralia and possibly the
state, sick workers on relief are
allowed the right of choosing doc
tors in all cases of sickness.
This is the victory of a 10
month battle with the welfare
and the county commissioners.
Workers have in their posses
sion a medical petition with
about $500 signatures from Cen
tralia alone. Reports are that
other towns in Lewis county like
wise are securing many sigma
lures.
The fight for this privilege was
conceived by the Relief Workers
Protective Association, who car
ried the fight to the bosses. At
ter many struggles for medical
and professional care to individ-
uals it was finally decided that
this fight would be the concern of
the Lewis County Committee Of
Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
COMMUNISTS, C0MM0NWEAL TIL Bull DERS
unite AGAINST ROOSEvELT'S $50 WAGE
Save House Bill 1873!
EDITORIAL

Olympia legislators attempting to strange the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill Afraid an open fight
the only genuine jobless aid they have
sderacked House Bin 2S into the wrong hope
to bury 1t there
Much than the welfare washngons three hundred
thousand unemployed hangs In the balance provides
for payment Of insurance benefits approxmatng normal
of the individual without discrimination persons
out of work through fault of their
be unemployment old sickness maternity payments
to be administered by elected Representatives recipients
the to be raised from the rich higher
taxes
This Workers Bill social Justice and social security
through its provisions removes the unemployed
the the job protects the labor
the most important piece of legislation Olympia Life liberty
the pursuit of happiness empty phrases
feat of the spectre of hunger.
Forty thousand voters demanded passage of this bill through
signature of Initiative L. The Washington State Congress
Unemployment Insurance the repre-
sented the ALL TUU and independent unions the unempoy
ment organizations fratena societies. the Communist Party
students liberal individuals from walk of e Its spokes
before Joint HOuseSenate Committee Unemployment
demanded the bill be passed
the did not even go to the Committee on Unempoy-
Public Welfare consideration by
Speaker Waldron and the other bastard political ksers to
the Insurance Commeethe outfit that handles fire insur
ance rates
Do the Legislators think will sit idly by while they
making of human ves PTA mothers school
examined the pupils in King County school
report revealed the time this editorial
they found out of the 40 children undered Do the politicians
think the health of children little to to them?
The just Indignation of aroused public opinion must
make itself felt rapidly. At once
Trade unions, Commonwealth units unemployed localsl
Dispatch resolution to the Insurance Committee House OF
Representatives Olympia Demand the committee report House
Bill 2S the floor of the house with recommendation it
Better STILL send committee to Olympia The session lasts but
a few days There is no time to lose
People of the State Sign protest
below Paste to postcard envelope
Immediately Urge friends send similar protests.
will decide the fate of Washngtons only
for social security.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
wv Instructor
Knifes Negro
Students

SEATTLE, Feb. 2S-Discrimin-
alton against students because
they are Negroes-chauvinism in
it's worst form-is being practiced
on the University of Washington
campus by Mrs: DeVries, In
charge of the Dance Drama, be-
ing produced at a Saturday mat
inee in Meany hall.
Winifred Ingram and Syvilla
Fort, eOlored students taking
dancing at the University, were
told when they tried out for parts
in the dance drama that they
danced well enough but because
they were colored would at
tract too much attention from
the audience" So they were given
minor parts in a prologue adver-
Using the drama.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Mike Tom Smith
Flay Capitalist
Politicians

SEATTLE, Feb. 2S-The chief
task of the convention was struck
in a keynote talk by Michael
Smith and Tom Smith, Common
wealth legislative representa-
tives. Mike Smith flayed the past
endorsement of capitalist poll
ticians by Commonwealth exec
utive board, and stressed the
point that this convention is our
first opportunity to democratize
the organization"
He sketched the breakdown of
the Commonwealth bloc, their
cowardly passage of the OFT bill,
and the defeat of the bill repeal
ing the criminal syndicalism law.
Every working man is poten-
italy unemployed under the
present vicious, eoolie standard
of relief" declared Tom Smith, re-
porting on the investigation of
the VERA now practically stale
mated at Olympia.
He stressed the need for mil
liant struggle for more relief, to
save the working class from it's
slow starvation, and to prevent
the continued lowering Of the
standards Of labor.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Plot To Kill
,JObleSS
Insurance
lib l28 Shunted To
Wrong Committee
by Politicians
BY Robert Drake

OLYMPIA, Feb. 2S-Diselosing
that Initiative 4, the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill,
now HB 1913, has ben sabotaged
by being shunted into the Insur-
ance Committee of the House in
stead of the Unemployment In
surance Committee, where IL
rightfully belongs, was forthcom-
ing from Rep. A. A. Mackie, chair
man of the Insurance Committee.
When questioned by a Voice of
Action representative, Mackie re-
piled:
The bill is dead. We voted to
postpone it until March Is, the
day before the close of the ses-
sion"
Meanwhile all other unemploy-
lnent bills pose the same vicious
picture to the worker who had
hoped that out OF this session
might come some form of relief
above the hunger level of the
present system.
Other Measures
At the present time the only
other bills under consideration
are. first, HB II which provides
for funds to be supplied from
the workers themselves, and that
the county commissioners can
refuse relief without cause to the
applicant. The second bill under
consideration is one which sets
up a state board composed of
Director of Relief, one employer
selected by the Governor and one
employees representative select
ed also by the Governor. In this
bill, however, the employer is
supposed to bear the burden of
raising funds.
Unless the workers want to see
the session close without any
changes in the present level of
relief and system OF administra-
tion, a powerful force of protest
and demand for action will have
to be directed against the entire
membership of the House as it
requires a two-thirds majority to
bring HB 1913 out of the Insurance
Committee.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Opposes Real
interests of Labor

ABERDEEN, Wash, Feb. 2S-
Declaring that the American Fed
Grafton of Labor lis not interest
ed in any issue that concerned
the Communist Party" w. l..
Brackinreed, trail Labor
Council president here, refused
to allow a Communist Party rep
resentative to speak on the
Council floor on the VIGOROUSLY
anti-labOr OFT bill.
This at the same time the Ev-
erett Central Labor Council went
on record as militantly opposed
to the Oft anti-Communist bill
as an attack on all labor.
Brackenreed also fought HB
1913, Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
.Puyallup Demos
Send 2 Delegates
To Workers Meet

PUYALLUP, Wash, Feb. rs
An Unemployed Council commit
tee attended the Puyallup Demo-
cratic Club meeting here Febru-
airy Is OF present a resolution
asking endorsement of the Work
ers' Unemployment Insurance
Bill, HR 12S, and the sending of
two delegates to the Pierce Coun-
ty Conference for Unemployment
and Social Insurance February "a
Although the Workers Bill
was not endorsed, two delegates
were voted to attend the unem-
ployment conference.
A motion was made and passed
that the State Legislature be
memorialized to pass law pro-
hibiting the Hearst publications
from the mails.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
By Lydia Sommerville

ABERDEEN, Wash, Feb. 28-
Only one month is left until
March Is, which marks the end of
the $1,000 financial drive for our
paper, the Voice OF Action.
Watch closely the score board
in the Voice every week. Up to
Feb. Is only $70462 had been
raised. About $1,000 more must
be raised in order to assure the
fulfillment of the Northwest quo
ia.
What's wrong with some of the
largest sections like Tacoma, Spo-
kane, Seattle and Portland?
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
All Protests Hit
OFT Bill

OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 2S-
Apparently recognizing the tenn
per of the mass protest directed
against the OFT Anti Communist
bill, the committee in the Senate
ON Election Privileges have tenn
porarily dropped all action on
the bill.
According to Senator Kyle, the
committee chairman, there have
been no letters urging the pass
age of the bill and only one man,
a Hearts representative, has
approached asking for it's pass
age.
Meanwhile letters from over
the state continue to pour in on
the committee. Evidently the
workers have a clear realization
of the historical significance of
the anti-Communist bill, which
is always the leading step of the
fascist drive against militant la
Dor.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Brockway
Vote Shows
Big Increase
Communist Vote
50 Percent Gain
Over 1884

SEATTLE, Feb. 2s-In the coun-
eilmanic election held Tuesday,
Harold BrOckway, Communist
Party section organizer, running
on a workers ticket, polled a
vote nearly so per cent higher
than Communist candidates in
the 1888 race.
Brockway received 1898 votes
out of a total of 1852, while Cay
ton, for example, in 1884 got 1882
votes in 1892
Robert Stephens, ALL Machin-
lists Union member, and E. M.
Hudi, of the AL Roofers Union,
running with Brockway on the
united front workers ticket, poll
ed 1895 and 800 respectively.
The six successful candidates
who stay in the long-term council
race for the general election are;
Arthur B. Langlie, Fred G. Ham,
ley, Dave Levine, Frank Fits,
William Gaines, Mrs. F. F. Powell.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01

office of the Friends of the So
Wet Union.
Congressman Ernest Lundeen,
Minnesota, was chief speaker,
with James Waterman Wise,
Corliss Lamont, Prof. Charles
Kuntz, J. b. Matthews and DR..
Ruben Young also speaking.
Wise, who resigned last week
as editor of Opinion" wrote in
part:
Recent attacks OH the Soviet
Union, coupled with attempts of
powerful interests to secure the
withdrawal of American recogni-
ton of Russia and to Nstilize
the American and Russian peo-
pie, constitutes a national men,
ace and an international peri {.
The inflammatOry propaganda
unleashed by the Hearst press
and other reactionary groups is
part and parcel of the cynical
attempt to fascize American life
and institutions. Unchecked, it
would inevitably plunge the IN
tied States into war.
"Soviet-American friendship
with all it's implications for the
maintenance of world peace
must be defended against those
who did nothing to create it and
would do everything to destroy
it. The trouble makers and war
whether against Soviet
Russia or any other country,
must be met by united front
which is not to be stampeded
by red menace scares or intimid-
ated by a yellow press"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Major Tells of
World War

SEATTLE, Feb. 2s-Major L.
A. Miner, chairman of the ar
rangements Committee of the
Northwest Congress Against War
and Fascism, opened a Northwest
tour here last Sunday evening.
With him, Reverend Nathan b.
Alderman, chairman of the Port
land City Committee, presented
a strong call for united forces in
the coming event.
The Northwest Congress will
take place in Seattle, April 81.
Credentials or communications
should be addressed to 313 Nut
ual Life Building, Seattle.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Railroad UniOniStS
Score OFT Bill

EVERETT, Wash, Feb. Is
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Engineers. lodge sol,
and the Ladies' Auxiliary, went
on record last week unanimously
condemning the OFT anti-Com-
munist bill.
They sent their protest reso-
luton to state Senators Tewks-
bury and Reardon, stating, "The
OFT bill, HB 7S, is a direct threat
to the right of workers to ex-
press themselves politically, and
is an opening maneuver to out
law all labor organization. d.
We believe in civil rights. Free
dom of speech, freedom of press
and freedom of assembly are sac
red to us and we shall always
fight against the abridgement Of
them"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Steward SyndicaliSm
Trial Postponed

PORTLAND, Feb. 28-The trial
of Earl Steward, fifth of Oregon's
nine criminal syndicalism cases,
has been postponed to April Is at
the demand of the International
Labor Defense. Tho case was or
iginally slated for March 4.
Peter Zimmerman's bill to re-
fer the criminal syndicalism law
to the voters of Greg On, went
down to defeat in the Oregon
Senate with only seven senators
voting for it.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Call for Action in Papers $4,000 Drive

We in Grays Harbor have
learned that the working class
will respond to the workers
press. Up to date we have Sc
cured about 80 subscriptions. Be-
fore the drive is over we hope to
have $50. Longshoremen, fisher
men, lumber workers, are now
steady readers. Before the cam
paign started we had very few
readers.
Need Committees
The Aberdeen campaign COM
mittee calls upon all other coun-
ties to establish "go-getter" cam
paign committees. Arrange al
fairs, get subscriptions.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-01
Happy Family" Is
Breaking Up

SEATTLE, Feb. 2S-The tragic
death of a worker al the Fisher
FIGURING Slave Mill has taught
the workers that the way to get
safe working conditions is to
have a militant union.
Recruiting is being carried on
to build up a company union.
Not content with having workers
killed on the job through incom-
petent foremen and faulty equip
ment, the attempt is being made
to smash militancy in prepare
ton for another wage cut.
The "one big happy family"
idea did not occur until milit-
ant union appeared.