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Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Notes From
The Capitol
Betrayal of Workers Bill
Ernst Justifies Thugs
Martin Silent on lib i2s
By ROBERT DRAKE
Special Voice of Action Staff
Correspondent
WORKERS BETRAYED

This is an inside story. 1t is
the story of scampery and cheap
political jingle.
1t concerns the introduction OF
Initiative 4, now House Bill l2S.
IL deals with an attempt OF the
workers to secure bread. Do you
remember the long hours spent IN
getting unemployment insurance
petition signatures? Well, this is
the ironic end of your effort-this
is the grave the politician digs
for your energy, your sincerity
and honest desire.
When Representative Lloyd
Iindgren of King county was ask
ed to introduce Initiative 4, he
readily assented. 1t was a chance
10 get some publicity.
So this fat little round-faced
boy became for a time, voice for
the people, the repository OF the
workers hopes, working class
champion.
Stevenson Tool
Now this much was all right.
But there is one thing more. Rep.
Lindgren has disclosed himself to
be a dupe, the political tool OF
John G. Stevenson.
And John @. Stevenson is, as
you know, by the very grain OF
him and by the nature OF his
political fakery, against the in
terest OF the workers.
So when John heard that his
own elect, his own political flesh
and blood, had disgraced him by
introducing an honest bill, taxing
the rich, and believing starvation,
he burned the road to Olympia.
He Immediately went into hor-
rified session with Lindgren and
now, the joke is on you, workers
Killing Bill
Because Lindgren is killing his
own bill.
Because Lindgren is begging
the members of the Industrial In
surance committee, to whom the
bill was referred, to gently and
soundlessly kill it in the commit
tee rooms at Olympia.
1t cannot be repeated too often
that there is only one way to
make these political dupes act
in the interests of the workers.
That way is through powerful
mass action. A barrage of wires,
letters and resolutions must rain
into the laps of the legislators, de-
immediate passage of
the Workers bill.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Where UCL Meets

Here's where Seattle Unem-
ployed Citizens League locals
inject:
Interplay, 18th and Wheeler.
Monday.
Fairview, Cascade school, Tues
day.
Downtown, Wash. and Occi-
dental, Thursday.
Auditorium, Warren Avenue
school, Monday.
Capitol Hill, PIT. Minor school
Monday.
Crown Hill, 102nd and Green
wood, Monday.
'Renton, Renton Labor Tenn
pie, Saturday.
Ballard, 1903 Ballard Avenue.
Wednesday.
Hillman, 1922 Rainier Avenue,
Tuesday.
Georgetown, Portable school,
Monday.
South Park, 701 Cloverdale.
Green Lake, Green Lake Meth
odist Church, Friday.
2lst Ave. 10 plus 8 Club, 206
21st Ave-, Friday.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Demand JObleSS InS.
At Workers Congress

Continued from Page 0ne)
Gfays Harbor County-Robert @.
Young. chairman: G.. ID. Smith,
ers, viee-chairman, L. A. Smith,
secretary.
Whatcom County-Frank Ennis,
chairman; Frances Knoll, vice.
chairman, Perry Love, sec.
Thurston County-Rosa Strong,
chairman: Ii. f. Johnson, vice.
chairman, Lyal Julitt, Sec.
Kittitas County-Andrew Hunter
chairman; Fred Notar, vice.
chairman; Richard Prescott,
secretary.
Skagit County = John Swisher,
chairman; John Allen, vice.
chairman; Claude Spears, see.
Lewis County-F. Curtis, chair
man; Lewis Hovey, vice-chari-
man; Rosetta Smith, secretary.
Voice Gets Praise
That the Voice of Action play
ed a leading part in building the
campaign for real social and I'M
employment insurance was stress
ed by number of the delegates
addressing the congress.
we have found in our union"
declared James Dallas, Flour and
Cereal Workers delegate and Con-
gress chairman, that when we
sent articles concerning our an.
ion to both the State Labor News
and the Voice of Action, the
Voice invariably printed them,
and the News generally left
them out.
I'VE have learned through ex-
experience that building our
working class press is one of the
best ways of building militant
unions and strengthening the
campaign for real unemployment
insurance." Dallas concluded.
Demonstrate Solidarity
The Workers Congress adj
journed Monday evening, after
demonstrating its solidarity and
unity of purpose in projecting
through the coming months a.
struggle for its common
aim-unemplOyment insurance at
the expense of the capitalists.
Not even the last minute action
by heckler to smash the Con-
gress by a provocative attempt to
railroad through an insignificant
resolution, was able to dent the
united front of the worker dele
gates.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Denny Convicted
On C.S. Charge

Continued from Page One)
desperately to suppress this ties,
timony, the judge sneeringly re-
marking: IF you can show me
in the slightest degree how a de-
scription of the Portland Com
mons has any bearing on the
case, all right"
The defense made the point
that the jury couldn't possibly
understand Denny's background
unless they did have a picture OF
the rottenness of the Commons,
on which Denny lived.
"All right" Judge Stapleton
retorted, laughing cynically, 'T'll
make a bargain with you. I'll let
him answer the question but be
sure you show me the rotten
ness!"
The story Denny told must
have satisfied the court. 1t was
a story of crowded, unsanitary
sleeping quarters, where men
are the bed-fellows of vermin and
disease; where hunger and filth
are the companions at table with
unemployed men, driven by cap
italism's decay from all walks of
life; of men dropping dead while
waiting their turn at the miser-
able food provided.
1t was out of that experience,
as Denny pointed out, that he
developed the determination to
assist in doing away with the
system which permitted and fos-
tered such conditions, and join
ed the Communist Party.
One month after joining, he
was arrested, and charged with
criminal syndicalism. He told to
the breathless court room of the
struggles for better conditions.
Judge clustered
StapletOn refused to grant the
10 minutes more requested for
Denny's argument, and when re-
minded of the ineongruity of
his quibbling about fifteen min
utes when years of the defend
ants liberty were at stake, he
could do nothing but buster. He
insisted that Denny take some
of the time allotted to the de-
Tense attorneys.
Harry Gross made the first
half of the defense argument
SCATTERING the states structure
OF lies and SANDER as to the his
tOric objectives of the Commun-
list Party. Irwin Goodman CON-
pleted the case for the defense,
dealing with material which con-
cerned the meeting, which was
the occasion for the arrests.
Graham and Tarshis, dividing
the work of presenting the states
final argument, made much of
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Latest News on Voice Drive
Another Prize for This
Week

Following was the standing Of
the three leading contestants in
the Voice of Action drive up to
Monday, January Is:
Lydia Somerville, Aberdeen,
first; Ernest Koski, Astoria,
second; A. Slower, Olympia,
third.
Other declared candidates are:
w. H. Olson, Bend, Ore; Mrs. G.
L. Borowski, Gold Bar; Mari Wy
att, Couer d'Alene, Ida; Tony
Malovieh, Kelso.
w. H. Smith, Emma Wildman,
Salina Locke, Spokane; Frank
Webb, Winifred Black, George
Richie, Seattle; d. f, Capps,
Kelso; Hale Scribner, Belling-
ham; Paul Niemala, Renton;
Ed Ryan, G. Reading, Kenneth
Fitzgerald, E. II. Hicks, Portland;
Mark Halter, Roslyn.
Subscriptions have been receiv-
ed from other workers who have
not declared their candidacy for
the grand prize of the trip to
the Soviet Union. However, any
time candidacy is declared they
will be credited with the money
received at the Voice of Action
office.
1t must again be emphasized
that every subscription to be
applied toward the $1,000 drive
goal must be marked with the
name of the candidate to simpli-
fly bookkeeping.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Mother Of Legless Youth Learns
HeartleSSnesS of Existing system

SUMNER, Wash, Jan. 31-Typ.
zeal of the ruthless, crushing pow
er of the present economic sys-
TEN is the case of Harold and his
widowed mother, both residents
of Sumner.
Three years ago, when Harold
was in high school, he became
dissatisfied with the conditions at
home, and, with a group of other
boys, wandered down to Oregon
in search of work. Finding no.
thing to do, they boarded a
freight train to return home.
When the train reached Sum-
ner, they found it was a through
train, and rather than go further,
Harold gathered up his belong
ings and jumped from the moving
train. Hours later he was found,
both his legs mangled below the
knees, one foot cut off and lying
some distance from his body, his
hips broken and in this condition
he had lain through the entire
night, too weak from the loss of
blood and from shock to call for
help.
Sympathetic neighbors of Sum-
ner took up collections, gave
dances to raise money for his care
and through the best of medical
attention he was able to walk
again by means of artificial legs.
He resumed his high school cours
es and hoped to become a book
keeper or clerical worker. He
graduated with no job in sight.
His mother was jubilant when
she got job in the sewing room
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
MARTIN INTERVIEWED

Utilizing the rabbit in the hole
dodge of the professional politi-
clan, Governor Clarence ID. Mar
tin, at Olympia refused to 60 on
record in regard to Unemploy-
ment Insurance, tear gassing of
workers and the use of the State
Highway Patrol to intjmidate
strikers.
Governor Martins answers on
Unemployment Insurance were
particularly noteworthy. When
asked which of the five general
schemes OF insurance now nation
ally known the Governor would
favor. ne Indicated that he had
not known there were five gen.
eral plans. Further he stated,
This is too big a question for
any one mans mind. Meaning in
this case, his, the Governors
mind.l However" he went on,
They'll get something up I'm Con-
gress and send it out to u.s.
Although he was very vague on
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

Yunder the government. Now she
could earn the SIS necessary to
buy Harold new sockets for his
legs.
Harold was given a motor agen-
ey, he made few sales, did some
garage work. The government job
shutting down, the mother took
care of children, still hopeful,
still cheerful that their condition
would improve.
Harold was still without new
sockets. Work in the garage
where he had been working in ex-
change for fuel, was too hard for
him. His legs needed attention,
unless the sockets could be OBJ
tanned, another amputatiOn, this
time above the knee, would be
necessary.
When the mother, in despera
ton, applied for relief aid, Har-
old was given work card to
work on the road and the mother
was told that he would have to
have doctors certificate to the
effect that he was unable to
work.
Harold's mother, who through
all these hard years, has held to
her belief that conditions will
improve, is now convinced that
the fight for unemployment and
social insurance at the expense of
those who can pay is the only
hope under the capitalist regime
for those who have been broken
in body and health by the harsh
ness of the present economic sys-
TEN.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

the lying testimony of the vigi
lante witnesses-that Denny op-
ened the meeting by saying:
This meeting is called in def
anee of the police" They also as
ed much of their menacing case
on the testimony that De Jonge,
in the course of his talk, invited
the workers to attend an OPEN
air mass meeting the following
night to practice revolutionary
tactics"
1t is upon such testimony and
evidence, presented by strike
breaking members of the Citizens
Emergency League and the po-
lice force that the prosecution
urged the jury to bring in a YER
diet of guilty"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
TWO DRIVE PRIZES

This week a set of Lenin was
awarded to the person turning
in the largest sum of money
from Friday, January 25 to mid
night of January 81, and from
Monday, January 2S, to February
A. However, Roberts, campaign
announces that in case
one worker wins both awards, on
ly one set OF books will be given,
as the confusion in dates was due
to an error.
The winner, or winners-which-
ever the case may be-will be an
in next weeks Voice of
Action.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Workers Squash Try
To Frame-Up Leader
p. Norris

ROSLYN, Wash, Jan. 3l-Sens-
ing the growing discomfort, not
only for the unemployed and the
blacklisted miners but also of
those forced back to work, the
coal operators here are attempt
ing to intimidate the miners.
Bob Ronald, chief of police and
, the legal force of the coal COM
pany, the Northwest Improve
ment Company, and L. B. Wright,
grilled and questioned Mark Hal
Ter, militant workers leader, as
to his visible means of support"
in an attempt to get him run out
of the county.
Halter was picked up on his
way home to dinner and taken to
the police station and city hall
After failing to trap Halter, Ron
aid stated, There's still a few
Americans left in ROslyn to han
die you. Don't you think it's the
same as last year. I'll see to it
you get out of here"
Judge Wright, who seemed to
be a scholar of Lenin, was quot
ing Lenin to Halter, who finally
asked him the source of his quot
ations and was told the opt"
Haller's crime was preaching
"insidiOus propaganda to the
youth" He was labelled a "leech,
living off the citizens and tax
payers"
Meeting that night the Unem-
plOyed Citizens and Taxpayers
League passed motion protest
ing to the city council against
such acts of intimidation
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
POSTPONE DRIVE DANCE

ABERDEEN, WASH, Jan. 81
Due to the inelement weather, the
committee in charge of the Voice
of Action Drive has had to post
pone the dance planned for Feb
ruary Z. The committee tentative
ly plans to wind up the campaign
with a big dance.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
ERNST ON FENCE

Balancing himself very handily
between the autOcratic state he
represents on the one hand, and
on the other the growing pressure
from the dissatisfied workers on
relief VERA head, Charles +.
EnrsC met with a delegate COM
mittee from the Workers Con-
gress in Olympia.
Mr.. Ernst resentfully declined
to treat with workers demands"
but expressed willingness to ar
bitrate. But throughout the en-
suing discussion he made it in
creasingly plain that arbitration
meant little more than accept
ance of present VERA aims and
methods.
mo Money" Is Excuse
The reasons for relief break.
down were made plain by Ernst,
who constantly referred to the
shrinking funds allotted for the
VERA work. NO money" was
the excuse given for admittedly
poor conditions in regard to the
problems of light, water and rent.
Admitting that cash relief was
cheaper and more desirable
than payment in kind" Ernst
made no reply when William
Murray, committee chairman, re-
ferred to the present system of
alloting goods in lieu of money
as graft ridden" However, a
few seconds later he emphatically
proclaimed that "the VERA is
not afraid of any investigation
because we have double checked |
every expenditure.
In regard to the hired thugs at |
relief stations Ernst replied that |
they were necessary to protect |
VERA officials against "barging |
After reading over House Bill |
l2S at the request of the commit
tee, Ernst said, Il believe in I'M
insurance, but it
must be workable. This amount
$40 week and So for dependents
is not too much, but it sounds
fantastic, considering the diff.
Guilty to get money now"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
39,O54 Is Final Count
On Initiative 4 Drive

SEATTLE, Jan. 31-39,054 sig
natures were secured on Initial
i've a, the Workers Unemplay.
ment and Social Insurance bill,
final returns showed this week.
Following are the totals for each
county:
King, 21,677; Pierce, Abb; Spo-
kane, 1928; Snohomish, 2,511;
Grays HarbOr, 1,779; Thurston, L.
800; Skagit, LOLA; Whatcom, 1909;
Lewis, SIS; Yakima, 400; Xiii
tas, 81; Kitsap, 237; Clallam, 1913;
San Juan, IS; Pacific, 60; Island,
&c.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
HONEYMOON AT CONGRESS

MONROE, Wash, Jan. 31-The
wedding of Miss Geneva French
of Monroe and Jim McMullen OF
Altoona, Penn, was sOlemnized in
Everett, the afternoon of Jan.
26, at the home of Rev. R. B.
Hassell. The bride and groom
spent their honeymoon attend
ing the Unemployment and So
cial Insurance. Congress at Olym-
pia Jan. 1928.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

unemployment insurance., he was
quite specific in his attitudes to-
ward the use of violence against
the workers in strikes.
When the Roslyn case was
mentioned, the Governor repli-
ed angrily, Tn regard to this
Roslyn stuff, I only know that,
peace and order were restored,
a lot of people went back to
work, and a lot Of people who
ought to have been, were run
out of town"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
CHARGES M1souoT1NG

Charging deliberate misquot-
ing of statements secured on the
Legislature floor, Representative
Tom Smith of King, protested
against news distortion in the
capitalist press and demanded
revocation of press badges from
Daily Olympian and the Seattle
Post Intelligencer.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
ON coNsTITUTIoNAL1rY,

In a hot discussion on a bill to
increase taxes on large corpora
lions, Senator j. d. Bengston rose
to say, Senators, for some years
1 have noticed that whenever a
bill to benefit the people at large
is brought up, the question of
constitutionality is always raised,
but that this is never the case
where vested interests are con-
eerned."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01

closed Monday at Alaer returns will be included in
Mondays tabulation for the next issue.
Quota Raised
Aberdeen, Grays HaTbor S $50 1882
Alaska $50 1000
AnacOrtes, Skagit County so 400
Astoria and IwacO 100 1890
Bellingham and Whateom County 40 L50
730
Centralia, Lewis County 80 300
Coos Bay 10 100
Eugene Is
Everett, Snohomish County 100 $50
Friday HarbOr San Juan Islands 20
Grants Pass 10
Idaho so 1850
Kelso COwlitz County 30 600
klamath Falls 35
Olympia, ThurstonCounty 60 also
Port Angeles Clallam County so $40
Portland $50 1150
Roseburg 10
Rosyn, Gle Eum Is 1900
Salem Is
Seattle, King County 500 $3.50
Spokane 125 800
Tacoma $50 800
Yakima 20
Miscellaneous 100
Total $4,000 33O.72
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Joint Hearing for
HR 12SComlnittee
By Hack Thomas

Il ~ &&@t. 4AAtAA<&a
OLYMPIA, Jan. 2S-The Work,
ers' bill for Unemployment In
surnace lib 1l8) was explained
today to the joint committee on
Unemployment relief by a COM
mittee of ten workers from the
Steate Unemployment Insurance
Congress.
j. c. Stevenson's representa-
tive Lloyd Lindgren, Renton,
State Unemployment Insurance
deem read a newspaper as George
Bradley, William Murray, w.
Stewart and youth representa-
tive of the Workers Insurance
delegates, told of the hunger,
suffering and degradation of
Washingtons masses and pre-
sented 10000 signatures for lib
12S, a mandate for passage of the
Workers bill.
Other public servants" also
slept while the need for real, un-
employment insurance was being
stressed by thes spoksmen for
the impoverished masses. Gen.
orally, however, the workers
were courteously received by
their servants"
These signatures represent
the will Of 10000 workers." stat
ed delegate Murray to the
House-Senate joint committee
on unemployment relief. II am
making no threat when I say
for these people that there will
be day of reckoning IL their
demand for passage of real I'M
employment insurance-House
Bill 128-is not considered by
you"
One representative question
ing delegate Bradley, asked If a
trick system OF cancelled curren-
~, stamped at each transaction,
wouldn't give more money to the
unemployed. !
There is plenty of money in
America" replied Bradley, but
it is in the wrong hands. Our
bill is the only one which will
aid in redistributing it,"
A state representative answer
ID the workers committee by say
ng that eff constructive relief
is not forthcoming
rom this legislative body, it bet
err had never met" and that
real relief Washington
aced revolution"
A resolution adopted by the
tate Congress for Unemploy-
lent Insurance was read and ex-
lained to the House-Senate Joint
ommittee condemning "the vari-
us capitalist relief and reserve
lans, such as the Wagner-Lewis
ill, Wisconsin bill, the Towns
nd Old Age Pension bill, Green's
ill, etc., and demands the i'm
enactment of House bill
% in the State of Washington,
ending enactment of HR 1927,
ational workers bill, by the fed
raj government"
Must Demand Passage Il
Recommendation for passage
y the joint committee will only
ONE through continued mass
emand and an intensified drive
Dr. support by the workers.
Your correspondent realized |
his as, when the workers hear
lg closed, most of the reaction
ry and left wing" politicians al
eady were settling back into the
lts of their own little private
themes for saving profits at the
expense of the work
rs.
Only a continued fight will see
he Workers bill passed.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
SENATOR'S ASK MORE PAY

While the relief administration
authorities claim shortage OF
funds for unemployed necessities,
Sen. w. r. Ronald of Kittitas in
troduced bill raising the pay OF
Senators from IS q day to $40.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Carried forward S 2O1.17
Mark Halter 400
Paul Niemala SO
Youngs Bay Coop Dairy 5000
L. Koski 1I00
w. III. Olson $50
Tony Molovich $50
Unit /, Port Angeles 80
Port Angeles CP unit A LIS
Henry Aho so
G. COomer LOO
g. WOrden LOO
Seattle CP unit 4 DIT go
Mari Wyatt $50
A. Slower LOO
Harry Collins 100
ID. Hadara LOO
Max Farrar so
Aberdeen Unit CP 800
Ed Green LOO
ID. L. Caps so
V. Smith 200
w. A. johnson LOO
Viola Rak APO
Geo. Ritehie LOO
+. L. Mauritz 100
Theo Stark so
@. Reading LOO
Ed Ryan 500
Salina Locke 150
Emma Wildman so |
w. III. Smith 100
A. Slower 2L50
Mark Halter 500
John Reed Club 200
Total $S3O72
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
Voice of Action
Drive Scoreboard

These returns the Voice of Action drive for 50 900
osed Monday at Alaer returns will be included in
Mondays tabulatOn for the next issue
La gaceta., 1935-10-30
Corte de 10 Criminal

I'm jurado declare aver cul-
pable a Wade Gibson que re
cientemente Efuera encontrado
culpable de guar IN autom6vi
e.tAndo borradho del u DO de
un canton propiedad de j. A.
Hartline. La d.efensa, represen-
tada por Martin y Martin, a.
nunci6 que solicitaria un nue.
70 juicio, aplazando la senten-
cia ell juez Petteway.
Per aggression criminal cum
plira cuatro meses de carcel,
David Schofield, un vecino de
Plant City.
Sc declararon culpables de 70
bar 80 galones de gasolina los
ciudadarFs G. w, Delaney y
Jimmy Stanley, La semana
prcxima seran condenados.
La gaceta., 1935-10-30
LOS ETIOPES DEJARON Ell
GAMING LIMPIO A LOS
ITALIANOS

Adds Ababa, Octubre 30. -
Los ejercitos etiopes han deja-
do ell canine libre a los invaso-
res en- una extension, en- la from
terra norte, de mas de 125 mi
Has. Sc decide no hacer resis-
tencia contra los italianos, en-
Makale, por no haberse efectua-
do todavfa la concentration de
acuerdo con los planes de los es
trategas del emperador. Dfcese
que la primera batalla de impor
tancia, en- ell frente norte, Sc Ii
brara en- las montanas a 100 mi
Has de Lago Tana. La poblaci6n
civil de Makale Sc ha marchado
Y los italianos Sc encuentran a
II millas de su objective. Tn es-
cuadr6n de a~eroplanos italianos
bombarde6 aver la poblaci6n de
Magalo, a $50 millas de la CAPT
tai.