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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
NAIL IN LUNCH

SEATTLE, Jan. 3l-At noon one
day last week, William Poly,
World War veteran, at dinner in
the Homeless Mems division of
the Transient bureau, found him
self treated to more than the
meat, rice and lettuce allotted
his fellows.
A one-inch nail in his mouth
was the morsel he was singled
out to gnaw-Or perhaps the
cook thought that the veterans
were made of sterner stuff.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Oregon Unemployment Insurance Congress Called for February 10
Portland Workers
Win Concessions

PORTLAND. Jan. 3i-rhrough
continual struggle. Portl and
workers have won many conces-
siOns from the State Emergency
Relief Association set-up, Sew
enty-two hours work a month
from the SERA was won instead
of the As hours every six or seven
weeks.
The Central Federati o n
Against Unemployment has call
ed q eity-wide demonstration to
be held at each relief station at
10 o'clock. February l.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

I'VE will kill that bill (HR 1881
If it is the last thing we ever do"
1t shows that HR 1913 strikes
home. The Commonwealth bill.
on the other hand, does not levy
the cost of unemployment relief
against the rich. IL merely sad
dies the unemployed with the
responsibility of caring for them
selves under the combined men,
ace of starvation and legal re-
preston.
The working class will have no
difficulty, once it knows the ma
ture of each bill. in choosing the
one that is wholly in the workers
interests-HR 1913.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
DRIVE DANCE

ABERDEEN, Wash, Jan. 81
A Voice of Action Drive Dance
will be held here Thursday, Feb
ruary z, at 8 p. m. at the Blue
Finn Hall, III Randall street.
Music will be furnished by Strom
and Randall's orchestra.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
UCL TO HOLD DANCE

SEATTLE, Jan. 31-The Inter
bay local of the Unemployed Cit
liens League will hold a dance
and entertainment, Monday, Feb
ruary a, at their meeting hall,
18th w. and Wheeler.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
OnlyBiW
For Unemployed
By JOHN WHARTON

The Commonwealth Builders program embodied in the
izaons Emergency Relief Security
contains number of fatal defects These
Commonwealth Builders analysis
call for relief and unemployment specific
posa forward to meet these conditions Section
that people
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
F.D.R. Has
81 Bankers
AS Advisors
Existence of Wall st.
Group Exposed
RUNS GOVERNMENT

ROYAL OAK. Mich, Jan. 81
A secret dictatorial committee
of % Wall Street bankers and
indNstrialists, headed by John J.
Raskob and including J. p. Nor
gan and Irene and Pierre Du.
Pont, has been appointed by
President Roosevelt to pass on
all legislation.
This was the startling an
nouncement made last week by
Father Charles T.. Coughlin, ra-
do priest and founder OF the
potentially fascist National I'M
ion for Social Justice, In speech
in the chapel next to his million
dollar Shrine of the Little Flow
er.
Attended Secret Dinner
Coughlin declared that he was
present at a secret dinner I'm
Washington, January l6, for the
committee of fifty-two, by sec
rotary of Commerce Roper.
He stated that with the APP
pointment OF this super-govern-
ment of the bankers and trust
capitalists that open congression-
al hearings on the more import
ant legislative questions will be
done away with.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Voice of Action Outlines
Labor Election Program,

3. The impeachment of May
or Smith by the City Council. The
election OF his successor by pop
ular vote.
4 The endorsement Of, and
the fight for, lib 12s. the State
Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill; and the
national bill, HR 2s27. For i'm.
mediate payment of the vet
Grams bonus.
= y
The Voice of Action Is sending
letters to each of the Is candid
ates, asking them to state clearly
their stand on these points. Their
replies will be made public by
this paper.
We call upon workers, as Or
carnations or as individuals,
to endorse this four-point cleo
ton program, and support only
the candidates who stand mil
itantly on this campaign plat
form.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

Join hundreds of other north
west workers in financial drive
for a six page Voice of Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

Demand State Legislature PASS
Workers Unemployment Ins. bill.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Police Chief Hits
Relief Officials

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 81
Unexpectedly, the law, in the
person of the new Chief of Police
of Olympia upheld an Unemploy-
ed Council member who was tell
ing the Welfare officials what he
thought of their action i'm allow
ing COW to die of starvation.
Because it owned a COW and
two goats, an Olympia family was
refused relief until the Unem-
ployed Council got busy on the
case. Then its budget was reduc-
ed because the COW and the goats
were supposed to contribute
food
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Dies of Starvation

In spite of this, however, the
county welfare refused to furnish
any feed for the animals. Conse-
quently the COW grew weaker
and weaker as it was led from
place to place to be tethered, and
finally died of slow starvation.
Outraged by this action, an
Unemployed Council member
was airing his mind in the well
fare office when the Police Chief
stepped in. Fully expecting to be
arrested, the worker told the
story to the chief, who in turn be-
rated the officials and saw to it
that the goats were allotted feed;
milk for the family above that
given by the goats to make four
quarts a day; and the family
budget raised to $32 per month.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

NCivil Rights Committee, and a
member of the International
Longshoremen's Association exec
utive committee, who went to
Salem to voice the will of hun
dreds of longshoremen for repeal
of the criminal syndicalism law;
Mary Goold, International Labor
Defense leader, prepared to show
the vicious law in operation; r.
vim Goodman, LID attorney, as
well as other attorneys in the de-
tense of the criminal syndical-
ism victims now on trial; Richard
Lovelace, a disabled American
world war veteran, who was pre-
pared to answer the jingoism of
the professional patriots, hiding
their fascism behind their war
records" Earl Steward, repre-
senting the Communist Party
and one of the nine Oregon work.
ers being tried for criminal syndi-
calism.
Zimmerman, with the aid of his
progressive" henchmen, assisted
the reactionary self-styled patri-
OTIS in their down with the reds"
chorus.
Both Sides Bait Reds
The only difference between
the opponents OF repeal and the
proponents of repeal, was that
of method. The hearing was a hot
lebate as to the most effective
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Workers Control

Contrast these inimical pro-
pOsals that are thoroughly &C.
ceptable to the capitalists, with
Section 6 of House bill 1913: 'The
unemployment insurance fund
shall be administered and con-
trolled by the workers through
unemployment insurance COM
missions composed of rank and
file members of workers organ
izatiOns."
Such a bill has teeth: 1t pro-
vides exactly what it is supposed
to do: To give unemployment
insurance. 1t takes from those
who are able to pay-the rich.
No wonder the Hearst press de-
nounces 1t.
And it is no wnoder that Rep.
Martin b. Holleran of Kitsap
County, one of the chief spokes-
men of the American Legion bloc
in the legislature, declares, as
quoted in the Post-Intelligencer,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
HUEY TRIPS UP
 ON F|L|BUSTER
 AGAINST BONUS
Relinquishes Floor After Six Hours Only to Find
 He Cannot Have Again

WASHINGTON, May 22.-Senator Huey Long provided the Senate with an uproarious prelude to its march to the House for the Presidents bonus veto
 Gibing at Roosevelt's work relief wages, kidding his colleagues and reading from the dictionary, Long threatened to break up the show with an all night filibuster against the resolution authorizing a joint session, but finally ripped over a quirk in the Senate rule and the filiouster was wrecked just as oth- Ter Senators were returning from dinner last night.
 At the end of six hours Long left the floor under the impression a quorum call had started. Actually it had not. When he returned he found he had lost out under the rule limiting the number of times a member can speak in a single day on the same subject. The Senate then passed the resolution for the jcirit session to hear the veto.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
YAWKEY, BOSS OF RED SOx, IS
 VISITOR TODAY
Baseball Magnate Wan ts Club in First Place
 andBrown Bear

Thomas A. Yawkey, genial man. ager of the Boston Red Sox in the American League who is Juneau visitor today, has two ambitions. He wants his Red Sox to win that pennant and he wants to bag a brown bear.
 Arriving here at o'clock this morning on the motorship Vest ward, a Campbell Church, Jr,, yacht, Yawkey admitted that neither of his two aims have been fulfilled yet. But-the baseball seasons young yet, and his current cruise on the Westward will last about two more weeks.
 An Empire reporter found the baseball magnate in c. " Browns barber ship, just in the process Of losing few whiskers.
 Wait for Finish
 Sure, the Red Sox are doing all right. The standings today show we are fourth in the first division; and don't forget there's long road ahead before that pennant is award ed.
 "Of the three clubs ahead of us now-Chicago, Cleveland and New York--I don't think the White Sox can stay up. They're leading the race, but it's my personal opinion that they probably will slip. l don't think they've got the team balance. I look for a four-cornered race be- tween Boston, the Yankees, Cleve- land and Detroit, now in fifth place"
 Yawkey thinks highly Of his three purchases from Connie Mack's Phil adelphia Athletics: Grove, Walberg, and Bishop. Lefty Grove, who set the world on fire with his hurling two seasons ago, had sore arm last year and wasn't effective. But Yawkey said that he was taking his turn on the mound this season.
 Brownies Sighted
 Rnbe WaIberg, the ex-Seattle sandlot star from the Ballard dis
 Continued on Page Two)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
VETO QUICKLY OvERRIDDENB BY
 HOUSE ACTION
Question Is Now Put Di- rectly Up to Senate
 Votes Tomorrow
RE,PRESENTATIVESPAY
 NO HEED TO WARNING
Harrison Compromise Pro- posals Loom Up Again
 It Is Reported

WASHINGTON, May 22.-- With the stern Roosevelt veto of the Patman bonus bill al- ready overridcn emphatically by the House, 322 to 9S, the Senate has agreed to take it up tomorrow morning under limitation of time for debate.
 Haunting the Presidents personal warning that the Patman bill invited "disas- trous cons eau ences," the House thundered the neces- sary two-thifds to override his veto, thus the issue is placed squarely up to the Senate where the Admins tration is counting on a few votes margin to sustain the Presidents objections.
 The Presidents statement that the Governments debt to the vet erans could not be considered in excess of 8 cash surrender of their certificates was interpreted in some quarters as an indication he would approve such a measure as the Harrison compromise which the Senate killed. The plan would per- init veterans to convert their certi- ficates into Government negotiable three per cent bonds immediately or take their current surrender value in cash.
 The House, in defiance of the personal Presidential warning that the Patman measure invited green back" destruction of the currency voted scant gain of four votes for opposition since the original passage.
 Tn the Senate, Floor Leader Rob- inson gained the unanimous con sent to meet early tomorrow to settle the dispute.
 Thomas Patman, leader, objected to immediate consideration, holding it would serve no good purpose. Senator Robinson wanted the mat ter taken up today with the view of reaching speedy vote.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22

Alaska Juneau Makes Reply Late Today OIL Proposals of
 Miners Submitted Last Week

formal reply to the agreement which Committee from the Alaska Mine Workers Union presented to L. H. Metzgar General Superintendent of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company last Friday, read to the com mttee by him this afternoon at meeting in the Alaska Juneau offices
 Following the conference with Mir. Metzgar, at 3:3O o'clock this afternoon the Board of Directors of the Min Union went immediate session at the Alaska Mine Workers Union headquarters At 4:3O o'clock this after noon they still considering the mine reply and a union official said that decision had been reached.
 Full texts of both the agreement submitted by the Union reply by General Superintendent Metz gar follow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
INTERNATIONAL
 CONFERENCE IS PROPOSED NOW
Would Be for Common Sense Cure for De-
 pression in World Vi

WASHINGTON, May 22--A reso- lution requesting President Roose- welt to call an International Con ference in Washington to consider a common sense" cure for world depression, including a five-year armament holiday, and a lump sum in settlement to war debts, has been introduced by Senator Willard E, Tydings, Democrat of Maryland.
 Senator Tydings also listed stab iiization of currencies by interna- tional agreement and revival of world trade through tariff adjust ment as subjects for the proposed conference.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
COLONISTS ARE
 DUE IN SEWARD
 DURING TONIGHT
Arran gements Are Com pleted at Palmer for
 Drawing F Parasites

PALMER, Alaska. May 22.-The Army transport St. Mihiel, with the Wisconsin and Minnesota col- onists aboard for the Matanuska Valley, is due at Seward late today or early tomorrow according to a radio received here.
 Arrangements are complete for a public drawing for the 40-acre farm sites as soon as the husbands and fathers arrive here. The latter will come ahead of the wives and children with the family household goods. The wives and children will arrive as soon as the household goods, furniture, bedding, dishes, etc., are placed in temporary tents.
 There are now eight or ten tenn porary camps near the farmsites.
 CASE OF MEASLES
 SEATTLE, May 22.-One case of measles is reported aboard the St. Mihiel. Many are seasick but the majority are now getting their sea legs according to radio advices.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
STATEMENT AS READ BY
 l.. H. METZGAR

Gentlemen of the Committee:
 T have read the proposed agree ment submitted by your Committee On May IT, 1885, and in reply would say that, first, in regard to Articles No. l and No. 2,
 We wish at this time to reit- crate our statement of policy made to Committee of Employees about one year ago, namely, that in dis cussing labor matters with any committee. that committee would be considered as representing only such number of employees as they actually did represent. And further, that the right was reserved to dis cuss matters of this nature with any other committee or with any individual employee whenever in our opinion such discussion or conference was advisable.
 No Closed Shop
 ITO allow decided minority of the employees, such as your or ganization obviously is, to impose closed shop on the majority who on the whole are free American citizens, would be most unfair and unjust. My answer now to these proposals is the same as it was last October when your members voted three to one against 1t, It is something that we cannot grant.
 With reference to No. and No. 4, these two requests are unjust and unreasonable. We can candidly say that the increase granted last year with the view to reducing the number of working days and in- creasing employment, made the wage paid at the Alaska Juneau the highest paid to the miners of any metal mine on the North Am erican Continent. The wage paid common labor at the Alaska Ju- neau is as high as that paid miners in most of the North American mines. The difference between lab- orer's wage and miners wage in most mines is about 50 cents per day; at the Alaska Juneau mine it is $1.50 per day. Further than this, at no mine in the country is the number of miners in proportion to the number of laborers so high. Of course, this high proportion of miners contributes to the high av- craze daily wage, but nevertheless, the wage paid common labor. is, as previously stated. the highest paid in the country for like serv- ice. While we are willing and have intended to continue this high wage, we can see no justice or reason in increasing it at this time.
 48-Hour Week
 With reference to Article No. 5, with the few exceptions taken in our proposal of June 19, 1884, and which was accepted by the men, no employee now works more than 40 hours in any one week unless he is paid the overtime rate for the extra time worked. While each man works seven days and then lays off one, he does not work more than AS hours in any one calendar week. The present method is the most practical we can think of to accomplish the equivalent of a six-day week and change the days on which the men lay off.
 With reference to Article No. 6, the entry to tunnel No. is not the entrance to the mine. The portal of Gold Creek Tunnel, sit- uated in the Basin above the AL aska Juneau boarding house, is the present entrance to the mine, and would be the natural place for a change room and time office. Since this place is not as accessible as
 tContinued on Page Elght)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
NEW BUILDING AT PIONEERS HOM E. BEING PLANNED
Residences for Superin- tendent, Nurses, Compile
 tion of North Wing

The Pioneers Home Blu Id in g Commission is arranging for a call for bids for the construction of resi- dences for the superintendent and nurses and also for completing the north wing of the building, it is announced.
 The general plans and specified tions are now in the hands of the Public Works Administration for consideration, and approval if sat- isfactory. As soon as approval is received call for bids will be made.
 The Auditors Office has five sets of the plans which are subject to examination by any prospective bidder, with the understanding that the present plans will be subject to any changes directed by the Public Works Administration. No plans or specifications will be let out to bidders without deposit to insure their safe return, it is stated by Auditor Frank A. Boyle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
Old S,oedish Royal Ceremony Is
 Obserued Once Again


 STOCKHOLM, May 22.-A gayly bedecked Swedish Royal Barge, propelled by 20 blue oars, moved across the sunlit harb0r yesterday to lend a traditional welcome to King Christian, Queen Alex a n drine, Prince Frederick, of Den m ark, and Princess Ingrid, of Sweden.
 The Royal couple was taken on a 40-foot barge from their yacht to the Palace landing stage.
 The ceremony is as old as the history of Swedish Kings.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
FLYER SPANS
 ATLANTIC TO
 HIS SWEET|E
Flying Cavalier of Spain k Youngest Aviator to
 Cross Big Pond

RIO DE JANERIO, Brazil, May 22-Juan Ignacio Pombo, aged 2l, Spain's flying cavalier, today became the youngest aviator to ever span the Atlantic.
 Pombo roared to a stop at Natal after l6 hour and 55 minute flight from Africa, carrying in his breast pocket a picture of his sweetheart in Mexico City whom he is enroute to see.
 Pombo left Bathurst, Gambia, West Africa. at 8:l5 pm, yesterday Eastern Standard Time, and landed at Natal at l:l0 pm. today.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
FLAMES DO BIC DAMAGE
 IN PULLMAN
Two Blocks of Warehouses Are Destroyed Tn
 Midnight Blaze

PU LYMAN, Wash, May 22.-- Smouldcring ruins stretched for two blocks in the warehouse dis trict where a s1OOOOo fire ragged for four hours.
 The fire, of undetermined origin. started at midnight in grain warehouse and burned other ware houses, coal bunkers. oil depot and many freight cars.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-05-22
GERMANY GETS READY TO ARM;
 DEGREE ISSUED
All Between Is and 45 Years Must Serve One
 Year in Army
CONSCRIPTION ORDER
 GIVEN OUT BY HITLER
Thirty-six Divisions to Be Formed Reserves
 Are Designated

BERLIN, May a. The Hitler Government issued decree late yesterday compelling all Germans between the ages of 18 and 45 to serve one year in the army.
 The order is effective immediate ly.
 Those over 45 will form the re- serves and during war time every German man and woman will be obliged to serve the Fatherland, :" the decree said.
 While the Government authori- ties did not divulge the exact size of Germany's army. under the re- cent conscription law, it was said the army would consist of 36 di- visions. The strength of each di- vision was not stated
 Jews, apparently, will be barred from military service except in spe- cial cases. Young Germans will not be actually called to arms before the age of 20.
 The conscription decree was is- sued shortly before President Adolf Hitler, in speech in the Reich stag, told the world powers, Ger many would abide to all but the military sections of the Versailles treaty and would limit armaments with them even to scrapping sub- marines While Germany preferred peace, he let it be known she would insist on adequate defense measures.