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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-23

TINE world 1872 balkline billiard
l. champion-Welker Cochran,
San Francisco-will give a free
exhibition here next Tuesday
night. He will devote an hour
of free instruction to local players.
The exhibition will be held at
the Dougherty Billiard Parlor,
1341z N. Pennsylyania-st at 10
p. m. A demonstration of carom
billiards and fancy shots is in
cluded on the bill, which is open
to women as we'll as men.
Cochran won the title over such
stars as Willie Hoppe, Ora Morn
ingstar and Kinney Matsuyama
He is being sent here under au-
spices of the National Billiard AS
ISOLATION.
MILLER BOOKS BOUT
BARCELONA, March 23.-Freddie
Miller of Cincinnati, O., will con-
tinue his sensational boxing tour
of Europe here Wednesday night in
a 10-round bout with Luigi Qua
drini of Italy. Miller's claims on
the world featherweight title will
not be involved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-23

Cars need a good tonic in
the Spring as we'll as humans.
One of the best ways to pep
up your car is to drain and
flush the crankcase, removing
all the accumulated junk and
muck that is being worked
into the moving parts of the
motor and which causes oil
pumping, scored cylinders,
fouled spark plugs, worn
valves and waste of gasoline.
Replacement of the oil filter
also helps. We have every
facility to give you quick, eff
fcient and complete crank
case service. We also carry
your favorite brand of oil in
sealed tamper-proof cans. We
are open all day Sunday until
8 p. m. for your convenience,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-23

No sale of liquor on Sunday
means extra tear and wear on
the hip pocket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-23

Maybe our local talent can
dish up ditty on the dust
something like this: Just a
little bit of Kansas dropped
from out the sky one day and
it fell upon Indiana, not SO Jar
away.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Transients, Seamen Get
33 Per Cent Relief Cut

CLEVELAND, Ohio.-Transients
and Seamen received a 80 percent
cut, as part of the FERA relief
SlaShing program.
A rank and file committee of
transientS and unemployed Seamen
secured the International Seamen'S
Union hall for meeting to take up
the question of organizing against
this relief cut. About one hundred
attended, and an executive commit
tee was elected A committee was
also elected to present demands to
the Relief Administrator, Piwanka.
Piwanka told the Committee to
come back in week. In the mean.
while he got in touch with local and
State relief administrations. The
answer of the State office was. at
will stand as il is"
A demand was also presented to
Federal Director of Relief, Hopkins
when he was in Cleveland, but Hop
kins ignored the issue.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28

you have been perhaps a wiSttul
sigh escapes from you as you recall
a night spent in the rendezvous OF
a little cafe off Moto-Machi you
long to be wandering down Butte
Road with your head in whirl and
hanging on to pretty Limey girl.
You try to snap out of il hmm.
but your mind wandeTS on to
the Boca BuenoS Aires Z.
Then all of a sudden your mind
Jumps to that strange, weird and
mystic India with its gliStening
white cities and its destitute and
hungry people enslaved in the
cruel grip of merciless exploiting
tyrannical mother country cities
whose names roll careSsingly off
your tongue Burma kar-
achi RangOon Bombay
Calcutta you mentally
hasten away from this strange coun-
try as your mind visualizes once
more women breaking rocks
under a hot Indian sun D.. beggars
horribly MANNED, crowding you for
'bacsheesh' colonial soldiers
cruelty abusing some poor unfor-
tunate native 49,.
You finally find yourself on the
dock a few shillings in one
hand and your sea bag in the
/. Where next, wandererl"
You swear you're through with
ships huh, the depression is
still on people are still beine
shot down and gassed because they
strike in their desperation to better
the conditions of themselves ant
their children =.
A fortnight later finds you star
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
SOUNDINGS ON THE SOUND

ing over the stern of a crummy
rusty, crackpot freighter and you
disinterestedly ask of your ship
mate "where are we bound
for" in an off-hand way as he
spits his chew over the rail into. the
frothy white of our wake, "MerSey
and the Clyde" -.
Homeward bound once more and
old man sea decides to kick up a
rumpus as only old man sea
knows how days of wet hunks
wet biscuits wet clothing
and curses not SO wet 49,.
This time you swear off the sea
for good so you think
Again you find yourselves on the
dock :. The depression is gone
and in its place You are told is
chronic unemployment .
Shipping has also slowed up .
then for the first lime you detected
ly apply for "relief' =. you listen
in sheer amazement as you are Of
fered the alternative of either work
ing in a concentration camp at one
dollar and five cents per week OF
else starving j.. you hitch up your
belt anr prepare for long hungry
siege q.
"UNTIL your ship comes in
and Join the thousands of Others
who are desperately seeking for Z
solution to their ecoonmic troubles
This is Saunders of the Sound
who is fast learning that the solu'
ton for the problems facing the
seamen lies in rank and file union
ism and militant action in unity
with the rest of the working class.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Send the Police Spies
DOWn Schdrrenbery Road!
EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL

The disclosures made by Claudia Waller, for weeks
doing espionage work for the Portland police depart
ment against the powerful liza and the Maritime Fed
Grafton are revolving in their revelations of the police
lila officials collaboration. They offend every honest
instinct of labor.
They are "hard to take but the sworn statements
made by this girl who couldn't stand the dirty work
she was assigned to do backed by evidence, and
are demonstrated by the activities of the liza officials
named
These disclosures should not be taken lightly. They
reveal warnng-grim and Sartling-to all organized
labor The duStraliStS-organized and deliberate
even in their deSperation-are determined to crush
the uniting of labor such as demonstrated by the
Maritime Federation, which makes into one solid, loyal
body all maritime labor.
IndlSrialiStS are trembling as they see labor NOV
ing and marching together Do we think that they are
idle as they see entire industries acting together on the
picket line?
The Maritime Federation--unty which grew out of
the experiences of housand5 workers on the picket
lines last summer; the Northwest Joint Strike Commit
tee of the lumber SrikerS-a of these are terrifying
proof to the induStraliStS that the influence OF their
lck-spte agents in union offcaldom is slipping, and
that there will be growing number OF feet stumbling
down the Scharrenberg Road which leads out OF the
ranks of labor and into the refuse heap where all Such
mSleaderS belong!
Those ongShorerhen and Seamen who last summer
saw the police coldboodedy shoot their fellow work
ers on the picket line who on July will pay tribute
by 24-hour strike to the victims of police bullets
will not tolerate in their ranks officials who cooperate
with the same police who fired the deadly and prutai
shots!
Brothers Thurston, Ahern Peabody and your
colleagues in the District offce-the blood of dead
strikers is accusing YOU The waterfront OF San Fran
cisco and Terminal No. at Portland are sharp ana
bitter scenes to the living strikers.
Labor is standing up and repudating you-and the
Voice of Action is throwing every ounce OF It's energy
and every inch of space into the fight for cean united
labor unions!
Perhaps if you are fortunate, you, too will be ban,
quoting with the big shots of Wall Street ana It's local
subsidiaries, as Joseph Ryan was doing in New YORK
while the progressive rank and file maritime WorKerS
were Storming for his removal
If you can get seats at the Wall Street banquet
tabe-go ahead with LaborS benedIcuon
But Labor does not need you and your police allies
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Workers Protest Slave
Camp Set-Up
of VERA

SEATTLE - laundering their
protest at the "slave camp or
starye" edict of the Washington
Emergency Relief Administration,
70 workers held a meeting Monday
morning at the corner of Western
and Stewart avenues.
A resolution was adopted, con-
demning the VERA, which has
dropped men from relief for re-
fusing to apply for work in the
forced labor camps. A demand was
also made for union wages on all
relief projects.
workers and unions are urged to
flood the offices of the King county
and state relief directors with de-
mauds for the immediate hating OF
attempts to force slave camp labor
ON transient workers.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Accuser Is Heckled
Nv d. L. SAUNDERS

"Et tn, BrutuS'' so you too,
D. o. Mcintyre, have felt the crack
ing of the whip of your victorious
.Red-baiting, anti-labor' master =.
ihame o. o. f.. and you were once
my favorite columnist you were
one writer whose work was not
entirely prostituted by rat Willie
Hearst yon were one OF the
few columnists that had not been
dipped into the ink of his
slanderous anti-labor inkwell. /.
And then out of a clear sky you
Jump on the soap box asking
yourself how you got there You
know how you got there, Q. O., you
heard your masters voice and like
4 good. little servant you needed. :.
Before | leave you, o. o., may !
offer a suggestion as an effec-
live serum against this 'anttred'
phobia that has attacked you, | most
Earnestly suggest that you take a
stroll along the waterfront or along
The Battery Yes, ! know that
You in your column at times have
mentioned the lost souls but have
you ever asked yourself who OF
What, is responsible for their con-
tition Truly, 0. o., you should
eonfine yourself to writing about
those bloated idle rich OF the 'av'
enues whom you are always des
tribing."
i FEELING rather mellow and rem
ineseent one evening ] found my
Self running rampant with th'
typewriter you read it -
You wander around this tiny
World and you think of the places
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28

ents--a polite term of bribes-hand-
ed out to government aofficials by
the Diamond Steamship Company.
"The Diamond Steamship COM
pany,' he said, ''sent me box of
cigars for Christmas present,
worth $50. | understood they un-
loaded cargo in the Shipping
Board, and ! ordered them all sent
back"
Mitchell repeated charges he made
when he was fired by Roosevelt
that inefficient inspection might
have contributed to the Moro
Castle disaster" This is in direct
conflict with horror stories of red
sabotage" at the time.
Astor in INN
He declared that he was informed
that he would "get in bad with
President Roosevelt" if he preferred
charges against Admiral Hutch !.
Gone, former chairman OF the us.
Shipping Board, whom he des-
cribed yesterday as "messen-
ger boy for the international Mer-
camille Marine
Among the chief stockholders OF
the INN are Vincent Aston, close
friend of Roosevelt, and Kermit
Roosevelt, fifth cousin OF the presi-
dent. who supported him in 1882.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Portland Unemployed
Aid Lumber Strikers

PORTLAND-Appearing before
Jack Simmons, chairman of the
Lumber Strikers grievance COM
mittee, a committee from the Cen
trail Federation Against Unemploy-
ment last week, offered the aid of
the Federation to all lumber strik-
ers in need of relief.
Numerous striking lumber work
ers in. Portland have been refused
relief by state and federal authori-
ties. Committees have already been
established in all unemployed locals
to handle these cases.
The committee from the unem-
ployed federation pledged their sup
port in keeping the operators from
recruiting Scabs among the jobless,
and proposed that joint committee
from the lumber workers and the
unemployed federation be es-
tabliShed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Mitchell Bares Huge
Shipping Subsidy Graft
In Washington, d. c.

(. WASHINGTON, d. C.-With the
ichargeS Of assistant secretary of
rrdIhlfferee, E. Y. Mitchell, of ship
;ping subsidy graft and corruption,
threatening to boil over in a scam
dial that would cover the adminiStra-
.tion from head to foot, Attorney
General Cummings was forced TO
act.
He promised a sweeping inveS-
figatiin of MitchePs charges against
the Commerce department, which
nave involved President Roosevelt
and other high officials. If Cum
Innings investigation, however, is OF
the same character as the hearing
now being conducted by the Senate
Committee, about all it will do is
10 sweep MitchePs charges under
some bureau out of sight, where
they will not priye embarrassing to
decentralization
------ Accuser Is Heckled
On the second day of the hearing
Mitchell was again subjected TO a
steady cross-fire of heckling from
both.- Republican and Democratic
members of the Committee. Nit
chel told of $500 in Christmas pres
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Sends Money
I 0 Support
B. C.IStrike
Vancouver Workers Vote
By Big Majority to
Continue Tie-Up

VANCOUVER, B. c. = lnterna-
tional support was lent to the Strik-
ing Canadian longShoremen with
receipt of cablegram from the
international Seamen and Harbor
Workers of France, pledging their
aid 10 the strikers and the donation
of three thousand francs to the cof-
fers of the striking longshoremen.
The cablegram read: IN L. T.
Driscoll. ~ Powell St., Vancouver,
B. C.-lnformeS par iSh our greve
heroidue marins ct lockers de
Vancouver declarations unitai APPEL
liant tOuS marinS ct lockers Fran
Gals au soutien pour arracher vic
toire" Signed. Minter TillOn.
Suggest Solidarity Actions
Translated, il reads: DO not de-
lay to inform us on the heroic sea
mems and lockers strike OF the
vancouver unit OF the Seamen and
lockers. France, herself is firm
with the strikers and calls on all
French Seamen and lockers to main
tain the strike to victory
Another cablegram read Send
ing three thousand francs, express
sion solidarity. Complete tieup all
ports necessary for victory. You
must cable international SeamenS
Union. International LOngShore-
mems Union, Frisco and New YORK,
and international Transport Fedora
ton, Amsterdam, demanding soll-
darity actions. Cabling protest po-
lice terror demand strike freedom
to Canadian government Signed,
international Seamen and Harbor
Workers Union of France
Challenging the capitalist press
statement that the strikers were
anxious to work under perSent con-
ditions, vote was taken by the
striking longShoremen to reafiirm
their strike stand, and an over
whelming vote in the Affirmative
on their strike stand was recorded.
Big Majority
In Vancouver, OF a total OF $40
votes cast, sol voted il favor of
remaining on strike until copdltnns
were gfanted. Westminster alsU'
voted in the same proportion 10
remain on strike.
Authorities refused to sanction 2
mass meeting witch was to ftdSe
been held in protest of the police
terrorism. Earl King, popular rank
and file business agent of the Seat
tie branch of the Marine Firemen'S
Union and +. J. Van-Ermen, Seere-
tary of the Seattle local OF the ARTA,
made a trip TO Vancouver to find
out for themselves first hand the
state of affairs in the strike.
They were both greeted enthu-
sSFsstKaily gtY,st StrRss5S ss II
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Cooks and Assistants
Protest Use of Troops

: SEATTLE A strong protest
against use of troops in labor dis
putes was made by the Cooks and
Assistants local 80, here Friday
night, which wired protest to
Governor Martin. Frank Jones, To-
cal president, cast the lone dis
Senting vote.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Cal. Labor Misleaders
Join Employers Attack
on Marine Militants

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. - The
breach between maritime work
ers and the emplOyer-cOntrOlled
machine in the upper stratas
of the unions widened when the
executive committee of the Cali
fOrnia State Federation of La
Dor took a definite stand with
shipOwners against the men.
The expulsion of the motor
iOus labor misleader. Scharren-
berg, from the Sailors Union by
an almost unanimous vote Of
the membership was scored by
officials of the State Federation
who passed resolution almost
identical in contents to the III
timatum issued by the Water
front Employers Association.
Raise Red Scare
Using the same smoke screen
that shipOwners and lumber
barOns have been hiding under
the officials describe their at
tack as a drive against Com
munists and radicals"
They proclaim their inten-
lions of eliminating all rank and
file leaders from the unions.
This cOlldes with the strong
movement afoot in San Fran
cisco unions to Gust these very
officials and elect honest lead
ers from the rank and file.
Press Supports Takers
1t is signifinant to note that
Mt time when the employers
are launching an attack upon
the marine unions, the paid
presses are lending uniform
support to both the reaction
airy pro-Scharrenberg machine
and to the waterfront employers.
As one seaman expressed 1t,
I'VE no sooner had kicked out
out Scharrenberg than the
daily papers went crazy. Anyone
knows that these sheets are
speaking for the shipowners
themselves. They did not want
Scharrenberg kicked out be-
cause he's one of I their mems
Thatisstheevery AreaRonsgwesas ri 81
PEELED him. 1t is also clear
that that gang at the Labor
Council are employers men,
otherwise the press wouldn't
be supporting them"
IRE resolution itself was
couched in beautiful glowing
terms of tribute to Scharrenberg
Many laugh was heard from
the waterfront workers upon
reading, Whereas; COmmun-
lists, character assassins have
attempted to besmirch the
name and reputation of Paul
Scharrenberg, whose loyalty
and untarnished record of serv-
ice to the American labor
movement has never been
questioned. THE resolution
wound up with frantic plea
for the workers to expel COM
munists and radicals out of
the unions.
In spite of these mislead-
ing attacks upon the rank
and file, the steady march
toward true rank and file
controlled unions goes on.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Victoria Marine Workers
Arrested for Refusing
To Handle Scab Cargo

VlCTORlA-Ten Seamen and
the union organizer on board the
S. S. Southholm, were arrested here
for refusing to unload Scab cargo.
The union representative, Pat
DriScoll, was charged with ''inciting
to riot" and the sailors with "diS-
obeying their superior officers"
The cargo had been loaded on
board the vessel by scab labor un-
der armed guard at Vancouver. The
ss8,sn wee 9lfrsi sed'onsbailsrle s1ys !
ing their trial.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
S. F. Longshoremen Boo
Thurston, Mason in
Union Meeting

A letter from a longShoreman in
San Francisco sheds little more
interesting light on the activities of
Tom Mason, reactionary, OF Ever
EFT lLA, and Cliff Thurston, ex-
posed police spy of the Portland
lila, while at San Francisco.
The letter reads in part; &.
"They, (Mason and ThurSton) both
acted like real reactionarieS and
voted against anything progressive,
they even opposed the B. c. long
shoremen coming into the Fedora
ton on the grounds that they were
a dual union, and must join the
lila first.
Opposed Federation Paper
"They were opposed to the
Federation paper coming out, as
bad as we needed one, maintaining
that the Executive Board had been
called together to discuss the tank
er strike, and therefore nothing
else could be discussed.
''MaSon and Thurston attended
two meetings of our local. Mason
in speech criticized us because
we did not back Lewis, he told us
we were newcomers in the LA
and that he had belonged for many
years.
"He said, why don't you fell
lows give President Lewis a chance
and see what he can dol' One tel-
low answered, we gave him a
chance and he and several other
district officials tried to sell us
out last year
Mason Booed
SIN his talk Mason tried to get
the idea over that he was a good
union man and we were not Well,
he got booed badly for his remark,
left the meeting at once and we
have never seen him since.
"After the meeting some OF the
gang started to rib Thurston, call
ing him a fink. ThurSton took Off
st once for points north. ! don't
think we will see either of them
in San Francisco for while
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
Ferryboatmen Elect Rank
and File Delegates

SEATTLE Displaying definite
rank and file action, the Seattle
branch of the Ferryhoatmen'S Union
elected rank and file delegates to
attend the coming state federation
of labor convention at Port Angeles,
July s. Delegates elected were
Charles Mccarthy, Savidge and Gil
BRYANT.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
PRESENT PLAY

SEATTLE-The Theater Unions
prize-winning play, Goods in His
Heaven" will be presented by the
Group Players at "a Union street,
Thursday, at s p. m. Admission is
free and all workers are invited to
attend.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-06-28
San PedrO'S
Cops Murder
Fred Friedl
Police, Press Lie, Say
Slain Reactionary
Was Red
BY San Pedro Correspondent

By San Pedro Correspondent
SAN PEDRO, Cal.-Fred W.
Fried, recently expelled business
agent of the San Pedro Firemen'S
Union of the lSU, and vicious reac-
tionry vice-president of the Pacific
Coast Federation, was reported kill
ed last week when he opened fire
ON police who come 10 his apart
ment Searching for machine guns"
=, Local capitalist papers are re-
porting Fried as Communist
agitator" and Associate Of Harry
Bridges" Nothing is farther from
the truth.
Fried, ouSted from his own union
June 20 by vote of As to 1, had
organized a fascist gang who roam
ed San Pedro, beating up militant
rank and filters who had ended
his understanding hold on the To-
cal.
Had Police Connections
The killing of Fried by police
~ groteSque considering that Fried
is known to have had high police
connections, that he and his gang
were continually armed, and the
Beating up of militant workers oe-
CURED almost under the eyes of
sthe police, who did not lift finger
to stop the merciless beatings.
When police entered his apart
ment searching for the machine
gun said to have been in his pos
session, they discovered a small
arsenal.
no The apartment in which he was
killed is said to have been the
headquarters of his gang" and is
known TO have been the place where
The fascist elements in the union
held their meetings.