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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Committee Wrests Shoes from Welfare
Board, Enabling Girl To Attend School
Voice of Action Graft
Expose Aids Work of
Relief Workers Union
BY RwPU Correspondent

ANACORTES, Wash, March 2l
"A little Anacortes girl had no
shoes to wear and for this reason
had been kept out of school for
a month. Learning of this. the
grievance committee of the Re-
lief Workers Protective Union,
together with neighbors and re-
latives, secured the needed shoes
and obtained relief for the FAM
lily. This is but one of the things
done by the grievance committee
of Anaeortes during the past
week. To date they have won
everything they have demanded.
A ten dollar voucher was won
for Mr.. Parsons OF Summit Park.
The grievance committee togeth-
er with neighbOrs and friends of
Mr. Parsons formed committee
of l6. The shoppers reason for re-
fusing relif was that the man hal
bought his wife a washing La
chine with some OF his earnings
from a job he had had. His wife,
in poor health and with three
small children, needed the wash
ing machine badly.
1t took the committee four
days of struggling to finally gain
hearing with the county relies
head. She informed them that
Mr.. Parsons was being denied re-
lief because of the very fact that
there was a grievance commit
tee She disproved that by giving
Mr.. Parsons ten-dollar voucher
Immediately after the interview.
Sell Voice" in Relief Station
The exposure of the statewide
graft of the relief funds that was
published. in the last Voice of
Action has been a heavy weapon
over the relief heads in this coun-
ty. Our committee sold the Voice
of Action in the relief stations
while waiting for a hearing, both
in Anacortes and Mount Vernon,
The Mount Vernon workers
have no union and know nothing
about struggling. AS d result
they are browbeaten and refus-
ed relief in many cases. They
were eager to read the Voice OF
Action and two workers wanted
to get the address so they could
subscribe.
Mr.. Powers saw the power OF
organized action and has vOliln-
teered to act on any committee
and help the union any way pos
sible in the future In short, we
have won new support IN both
eases for the Union and the
Vice OF Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Papers Sold out
First Day Again;
Readers Enthusiastic

SEATTLE, March Fl = The
Voice of Action last week topped
its own record of the previous
week, with another complete
sell-out of papers on the day OF
publication. Not only in Seattle
was the sale complete, but from
all over the state came enthus-
iastic reports on the ease with
which the statesmen had sold
their papers.
From Olympia by wire came
two extra orders-for 100 Friday
and for another 80 on saturday.
From several places in the state
came subscriptions unsolicited
from persons who had bought
the paper and liked it the week
before.
Many statesmen and readers OF
the Voice I'm Seattle have drop
ped into the office to get extra
copies, to subscribe. and some
Just to compliment the paper
on it's improved appearance and
news content.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Farm Delegates
Spike Effort To
Disrupt Meeting
BY RICHARD CoRRELL
With the Oregon Delegation
Enroute to the Farmers Ma
tional Relief Conference


HOOD RIVER, Ore, March Fl
How attempts to induce a
speaker to incriminate himself
can be used to good advantage
was illustrated at a farmers
meeting put on by the Oregon
delegates near Hood River. A
stool pigeon chairman of the
Americanization Committee of
the local American Legion post
and officer of the law got up
and by questioning, tried to trap
II. j. Correll, the speaker, to say
something which would make
him liable to arrest. Organizer
COrrell made a joke out of the
fellows clumsy efforts and he
left the hall in a rage with the
audience laughing at him. But
the valuable part of the incident
was the fact that the master Of
the local Grange, whom the stool
pigeon had brought to the meet
ing and whom he probably in
tended to use as witness, re-
NAMED in the hall and after adj
jOurnment, invited Correll to re-
port to the local Grange upon
the attachments of the Farmers
Emergency Relief Conference.
Apple Growers Poor
The small grower of Hood Riv.
er is being forced out of produc
tion by mortgage sharks, high
taxes, expensive water costs and
the rich growers who control the
local Apple Growers Association.
One small farmer has received
only $500 above his harvesting
expenses for his 1894 crop.
The Apple Growers Assn is
controlled by the rich growers,
who use their power to make
their profits secure at the eX-
pense of the small grower and
make it continually more diff
cult for the small grower to re-
main in production.
AS result of these conditions,
a strong sentiment is arising
among the small growers for
more adequate relief, for rank
and file control OF the Association
and for cancellation of debts.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Capt. Fox Expelled from
Maritime Federation AS
Enemy of LABOR

SEATTLE, March 21-The Sc
attic Marine Federation at it's
weekly meeting last Friday night
showed very clearly and emphat-
ically that it will not tolerate
any agents of the Chamber of
Commerce when it expelled from
its ranks Captain" (Finky) Fox.
Capt" Fox, notorious for his
attempt to set up waterfront
federation affiliated to the cham
Der of commerce and his recent
strike-breaking actions of tow
ing the Robert Luckenbach
from the dock during the strike,
was being groomed by reaction
airy forces to try to head the
Pacific Coast Maritime Fedora
ton.
Capt" Fox has become such an
open agent of the bosses that
Local 6 of the Masters, Mates
and Pilots, showed their disgust
by breaking away from his lead
ership" and affiliating with To-
cal 80 of San Francisco.
Boarded Wind Rush
Fox was expelled for walking
through the picket line on the
Wind Rush and lining up cou-
pie of nOn-union mates. The fact
that he was able to get aboard
through an armed guard clearly
shows his connections.
The Federation recommended
that another delegate be sent
from the Ferry Boatmen's Union
to replace him and also recon-
mended his expulsion from the
union.
His militant" talk of the last
few weeks was exposed and an
attempt by him to discredit the
militant Sailors Union delegate,
Harry Lundberg, failed miserab-
ly.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
OK Sale of Waterfront
Worker in liza Hall
BY a Worker Correspondent

EVERETT, Wash, March 21-
Our lila committee, in line with
a recent decision to keep out all
non-members during hiring per-
iod, asked the Waterfront Work
er salesman to come in after the
hiring. At the next meeting one
of the brothers made motion to
give a special permit to the Wat:
erfront Worker salesman to be
in the hall during the hiring.
Another rank and file member
made an amendment to the mo-
ton, to permit in the statesmen
of the Daily Worker, Voice of Ac-
tion or any other working class
literature.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Tacoma Shipbuilder
Gives Lie to Tales
OF Soviet Starvation

TACOMA, March 2i-Starving
hordes in Russia. -.
Millions of workers dying of
hunger and cold 80.
That's the picture being drawn
of the United States daily in the
Hearst press which has led and
is leading the fascist drive in
America.
John Peterson, Tacoma ship
builder, who was head of the
Murmansk shipyards in Russia
from 1881 to 1888 gives first
hand account of how conditions
really are in Russia. Peterson
lived with the people for nearly
three years and during that time
was one of them.
He found the Russian workers
intelligent and swift to learn.
They were quick to understand
the work to be done and enthus-
iastic in doing it.
There was always work for
everyone. No unemployed. Ev-
cry man had something to do,
some part in pushing the social
program. Everyone had money.
Wages were not high, but then
it cost so little to live
People Happy
There is no starvation in Rus
STA. The only ones dissatisfied
with conditions are the kulaks
(rich peasants) who are given
no chance to profit. The vast ma
jority of Russians met by Mr..
Peterson were happy and con-
tented. Living conditions were
infinitely higher than ever they
had been before
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Celebrate Paris Commune

SEATTLE, March PA pro-
gram and dance in cOmmemora-
ton of the Paris Commune will
be held Saturday, March 80, at
the Finnish hall, 9th and Yesler
Way, by Unit 8 of the Commun-
list Party. The Paris Commune
of 1872 was the first workers gov
eminent. The commune was sup
pressed and the workers mas
sacred. It's anniversary is observ-
ed throughout the world where
workers are striving for freedom.
The proceeds of the affair will
go to the Voice of Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Hold Services for
Militant Worker

PORTLAND, March 2l-Frank
Barlow was buried last week. He
was found dead at the Bridge
Hotel, and the doctors called it
heart failure. But the hundreds
of workers who packed the fun
eral hall and paid silent, tense
tribute to their comrade know
that the word starvation sticks
in the Threats of those who pro-
nounce the cause when a worker
dies.
The International Labor De-
tense and the Single Workers
Unemployed Council, who ar
ranged the services. are not afraid
to recognize when slow starva-
ton claims its victim.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Four More Days To
Win Trip to Russia!

SEATTLE, March 2l-The con-
test for the trip to the Soviet
Union. held In connection with
the Voice OF Action $1,000 financ-
ial drive, win close Monday,
March 25 After a complete audit
of the drive, the Voice of Ac-
ton Board will announce the win
ners and will award the prizes.
When this weeks receipts
were checked up it was found
that Lydia Sommerville OF Aber-
deem, who has been leading
contestant from the first, still
ahead OF the second in the race,
Frances Farmer, of the Univers-
Ity of Washington. Farmer sup
portes, however, ae still sure OF
their candidates ultimate sue
'cass. which is going to make the
last week of the contest an excit-
ing one. >
out of the total receipts for
the week OF $l39.SO, $59.S5 was
credited to Lydia, bringing her
total to 1923, 10. Miss Farmer has
q total of 1914, making her
Si25.7 rs behind. Koski of Astoria
Is still third with a total of $l45.20.
Al slower of Olympia is not so far
behind with $3.50. All contest
ants are working hard to make
the last week count.
Others in the first 10 are Mark
Halter, $4l.75; A. HOdOff, $40; ID.
4. Capps. $3l.10; Caroline Haggin
$3.50; Ed Ryan, $26.25; and Paul
Niemlaa, s22.3O.
Every contribution, subscrip-
tidh or donation must be in the
office of the Voice of Action by
Monday. March Is, at 5 p. m, to
count for one of the contestants.
On the Voice of Action Board
are James Murphy, NLWU; Paul
Dale, FCWIU; George Bradley,
State Committee OF Action, Bill
Murray, UCL; John Laurie, TU
UL; Emerson Daggett, Thursday
Noon Outlook.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Drive Lays Despite
Good Work of
Some Sections

The Voice of Action drive, in
spite of the good work of the
contestants, has Jagged again
this week. Less than $50 was
raised in the entire Northwest,
and S727 still remains to be rails
ed. The drive has been extended
70 May First; since every cent
of the $1,000 is needed to pay for
the Soviet trip and to establish
the Voice OF Action as a six-page
paper.
A comparison of the score
board with that of last week
will reveal that most cities and
counties have sent in something
this week, but some of the
changes have been very small.
Spokane has taken a turn for
the better in the last few weeks,
but still has raised only 80 per
cent of its quota. Portland has
raised less than a third OF its
quota, and Tacoma has still
Sl14.55 to go of its quota OF $l50.
Although Seattle has less than
500 to make its quota OF SOU,
Seattle groups feel that the drive
must be speeded here to make up
for some of the outlying Sec
tions.
A letter from Port Angeles
this week says, This completes
our quota, but we are increasing
our quota to $50" Kelso Voice
of Action supporters say, Al
though this remittance puts kel-
so and Cowlitz county over the
top. we're not stopping"
Greet May / Issue!
Supplies for a greeting list ior
the first six-page Voice OF Action
have been sent out. These should
be utilized in the drive, and all
money turned in will be credited
to drive quotas. Any organlza-
lions or individuals who have
not received these greeting lists
are asked to send in requests Tor
them.
Every possible method to
speed the drive must be en-
ployed if the Voice of Actions
proposed six-page edition for
Nav Day is to come out.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Try To Double
Cross UCL on
Auditorium Grant

SEATTLE, March 81 Resent
ment at the city eOuncilmen's
sudden change of front flared
Wednesday when a second city
council committee referred the
question OF the UCL bazaar and
ball in the Civic Auditorium TO a
special council meeting today,
with two reports" A week ego
the whole council unanimously
agreed to allow the UCL to use
the Auditorium for their affair
April 6.
William Murray, chairman OF
the Central Federation OF the
UCL, addressed the finance com
mittee with some resentment,
reading from the Seattle Pr re-
port disappearing the nature
of the UCL. The city council har-
bOrs and public grounds commit
tee Tuesday had referred the
matter with two reports after ir-
responsible members OF the Re-
serve Officers association had
denounced the UCL as an organ
ization advocating the overthrow
of the government. This occurred
after Councilmen Griffiths and
Laube had assured Mr.. Murray
that the matter was settled fav-
Orably to the UCL and Murray
had left.
Unemployed workers were ex-
pected to pack the city council
chambers today when a special
meeting will be held to consider
this question and other matters.
Blasts Hearst Story
In order, he said, to correct
the false impression left by the
Hearst story and The words of
witnesses before the harbors and
grounds committee, Murray read
the preamble of the constitution
of the National Unemployment
Councils. with which the UCL
is affiliated. Councilman Laube
wanted definition of militant. ="
ut means that we are not
supine, we don't beg, and we feel
that We have the privilege Of de.
handing aggressively what we
need" said Murray.
Laube complained about the
number OF Communists who were
identified with" the UCL.
George Bradley pointed out
that the campaign of Hearst and
the efforts of the anti-UCL wit
nesses was calculated not only to
damage the Communist Party,
but to smash all workers organ
izations, whether they are pOliti-
cal parties, trade unions or I'M
employed organizations.
Laube and Lockwood are still
opposed to the UCL use OF the
Civic Auditorium, although they
had originally voted favorably,
and Griffiths was still in favor,
so the matter was referred with
two reports, indicating a differ
ence of opinion in the committee.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Slower Show Success

TACOMA, March 21-Al Slower
put on his show for the Horace
Mann Unemployment Council
last Friday night for the benefit
of the Voice of Action drive. The
show pleased the audience so
much that the downtown local
made arrangements for it to be
repeated March q at the Lincoln
theatre.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Balks at Paying
For De Jonge's
Transcript
By DAWN LovELACE

PORTLAND. Ore, March 81
County Commissioner Bigelow
did not see fit to protest the
enormous outlay of Taxpayers
money when the criminal syndi-
calism charges were framed
against eight Portland workers
and pushed by the Chamber of
Commerce interests, hiding be-
hind flag-waving patriots. Yet
when the court reporter present
ed his bill for $500 for the trans
cirpt of evidence in the case of
Dirk De Jonge, world war vet
eran sentenced to seven years
for his active support of the mar
thine strikers last summer, Big
Glow protested that the charge
was too much.
That the state pay for the
transcript was one of the con-
cessiOns forced from Circuit
Judge Kanzler who presided over
De JOnge's trial and who inter-
preted the jury recommendation
of leniency by giving De JOnge
seven years out of the 10 possible
years in prison.
Four Convicted
The trial lasted three weeks.
De Jonge was the second of Ore
CONS nine criminal syndicalism
cases to be tried and convicted
Don Cluster. 20-year-Old YCL
leader, was the first, getting pa
role from a years sentence. Kyle
Pugh of Medford and Edward
Denny, whose "crime" was organ
izing the jobless single workers
in support of the strike, are 9th
ers whose cases are being appeal
ed by the International Labor
Defense and other organizations
fighting for retention of civil
rights. Pugh was sentenced to
five years for distributing litera-
ture. Denny was given two-year
sentence.
Demand Dismissal
Five other workers still face
trial-Earl Steward, former
school teacher and now an active
Communist is the next, schedul-
ed for April 10.
Organizations and individuals
should call for dismissal OF all
Oregon criminal syndicalism
charges. Resolutions demanding
reversal of the decisions and free
dom for De Jonge. Pugh and
Denny should be sent to the Ore
gon Supreme Court, Salem.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22

VIM oSt INV
four stitches to sew up the
wound.
Bulls on Guard
The employers, concentrating
their forces at the Olympic Co.,
succeeded in getting about 10
scabs to work Monday morning.
In the evening four ear loads of
police drove up to the plant es-
corting a truckload of mattresses
and cots and other supplies. De-
tectives then carried the equip
ment upstairs and the scabs re-
NAMED all night. 1t is not known
whether or not the police Groom
ed the scabs to sleep.
Schoenfeld's and Dolly Meyers
are tied up completely. Members
of the lila, Cloak Makers Union,
Unemployed Citizens League and
other workers are supporting
the mass pieketing at all plants.
Cloak Makers have donated $50
and are in addition planning to
assess each member half days
pay for a strike benefit.
Women representing nearly
every garment factory in the city
attended a joint meeting of the
Dressmakers Union and the
Cloak Makers Union Tuesday
night. Sentiment for strike is in
creasing throughout the industry
and the working class of the city
is firmly behind the fight of the
Dressmakers to win increased
wages, better working conditions
and union recognition.
Bosses Deputized
More than a dozen employers
in the garment industry have
been deputized and are using
their badges in cowardly at
tempt to prevent their employ
ees from going on strike. The
bosses flaunt their badges in the
faces of the pickets. Boss Maran-
tate, of the Marantate Manufac-
turing Co., in response to phone
call by the Voice of Action, adj
mitted that he was deputized
but refused to make public
explanation.
Every morning police and dep
utized bosses stand gurad at the
Textile Tower and refuse to per-
nit members Of the Cloak Max
ers Union to talk to the morgan
lied workers in the building. The
employers worked side by side
with the police in getting scabs
through the picket line at the
Olympic Garment Co.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Demand Dismissal
Portland Council Active

PORTLAND, March 21-Twen-
ty-six members of the NV Port
land Unemployed Council at
tended the Central Body meet
ing March 9. Mr.. Ireland deliver
ed a talk on fascism. March 20,
dance is to be given by the Sell
wood U. C. for the benefit of the
Central Body.
Many members attended the
Thursday evening U. G. meeting
and a number of problems were
discussed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Hearing on Deport

PORTLAND, March 2l-The
hearing on the petition filed by
international Labor Defense at
torneys for a writ of habeas cor
pus in the deportation case of
Walter Baer was postponed I'M
til today, at which time 1t will
take place in Federal Judge Fees
court.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
RAIDERS Speech

Continued from Page One
Aquinas. If you are jew, do not
forget MaimOnides and Spinoza
and Bergson. If you are a Pro-
testant, do not forget Berkeley
and. Kant and William James.
And do not forget either your
art or your science. For today
these things are threatened by
forces that vainly attempt, by
means of military dictatorship
and a ruthless suppression of
free thought, to stave off social
change.
We do not have fascism in Am
erica, but there are signs of its
coming. But the coming OF fas-
cism can be prevented If the re-
ligious and racial groups and Ia
boring people band together in
United Front Against War and
Fascism-for these two dangers
ladies and gentlemen, war and
fascism, tend to go together.
Guard Civil Rights
1t will take strength, convic-
tion and foresight to ward off
these dangers in the perilous
years ahead. We must constantly
guard against the abolition OF
civil liberties, the infringement
of freedom of teaching, the sup
preston of minorities or labor
unions, and the Overturning OF
the Bill of Rights in our Consti-
tuition. We must resist every eff
fort to inflame popular prejudice
against the Jews, against the
Catholics, or against any racial
or religious minority. We must
resist the hue and cry for stu
pendous war preparations, and
the false Americanism that mas
querades as patriotism in some
of our newspapers and in other
places. hese things that you
should resist are the stock in
trade of fascism, and they have
already begun to appear in Am
erica.
Some of them may seem to
YOU necessary in order to avoid
a violent Communistic revolu-
ton. But let me remind you OF
one thing: revolution never
breaks out where there is no ty-.
ranny! England was ruled by ty-
ranny before the revolution OF
Cromwell; France was ruled by
tyranny before the French revO-
luton. and Russia was ruled by
tyranny before the revolution OF
the BOlsheviks.
Not an Easy Task
Finally don't be discouraged
if you find it a difficult job to
give well-being and justice to
masses, and to stop the drift to-
ward fascism. 1t has been well
said that there are things in the
life of the mind as in the life OF
the body, for which you have to
take your courage in your hands
and set your breast and your
teeth as to. a steep hillside.
What is needed now is not hero
ism for the hour but heroism
for the years. Remember what
is at stake-the happiness OF
our people-and art, science, re-
ligion, and philosophy. And re-
member: If the task is difficult,
the reward is correspondingly
great. On this far-reaching pro-
gram of social justice and oppo-
sition to fascism, Jews and Pro-
testants and Catholics should un-
tie.
tAbove speech courtesy jew
ish Transcript
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Gains for President
jefferson Strikers

SEATTLE, March Pin a
struggle on the President Jeffer-
son, Seattle seamen and long
shoremen together with the
Masters, Mates and Pilots once
and for all demonstrated effect
lively to waterfront employers
and to the NRA strike-breaking
boards that their bluff doesn't
work. The unions successfully
forced removal of six finks from
the docks, removal of two fink
Junior engineers, demOtiOn of the
scab mates and their replace
ment by union mates.
Assistant Secretary of Labor
McGrady, in an attempt to break
the strike, wired, "Tf ship doesn't
leave on time, the agreement
snail be considered void" and
tried to use the argument about
holding up U. S. mail to break
the strike.
Victory
DESPITE these threats and their
paving the way for the shipown-
ers to break the agreement Sept.
30, the ship sailed three days
late and an important partial
victory was won.
The significant thing about
this action, besides the growing
solidarity of marine crafts, is the
failure of the shipowners and
federal government to smash the
strike through the use OF the
stopping-the-mails argument.