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has been extended to American
Federation OF Labor and other
fishermen's unions to send fra
ternal delegates for the purpose
of discussing proposals for unit
ed action for the immediate de-
mands of the fishermen on the
questions of prices, conditions,
etc, and building toward unfit.
cation of the many lishermen's
organizations.
The convention will he held at
the Hannula Hotel, which has
been reserved for that purpose.
Meals will be provided by the
committee in charge.
The Astoria local of the Fish
ermen and Cannery Workers In
dustrial Union has arranged an
entertainment for the convention
delegates for the night of March
"a. Arrangements for a dance are
also being made. All local fisher
men are urged to attend to get
acquainted with the fishermen
of other ports.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
How Relief" Is
Administered

DEER PARK, Wash, March q
The relief situation in Loon
Lake was investigated by MEM
bers of the Spokane UnemplOy-
ment Councils when residents re-
quested it.
1t is reported by the commit
tee that a VERA relief worker
went to Loon Lake and told the
people no more relief was being
issued because the VERA was
out of funds, and issued relief
to only two people. Later she put
a few more people on work relief,
but most of the people needing
relief were still left off the relief
rolls. A woman was also left off
relief on the preteXt that relief
was not issued to women.
A branch of the National I'm
employment Councils was organ
lied in the town.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Carlsborg RWPA
Gets Action

CARLSBORG, Wash. March
2l--A strongly organized branch
of the Relief Workers Protect
i've Association has been formed
In this town and is getting re-
suits. Twenty-Five members have
joined in the past month.
The latest victory for the
grievance committee has been
that of securing milk for the sick
wife of an unemployed worker.
He had appealed to Mrs. Green,
the relief agent, for milk for his
wife and she had bluntly refused.
Half an hour later the grievance
committee interviewed her and
obtained an order for Is quarts
of milk a week for the wife.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Fishermen Favor Unity
of Unions

SEATTLE, March 2l-At mass
meetings held at AnacOrtes May
IA, and Bellingham May ID, called
by the Fishermen and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union, fish
ermen approved the move to-
ward unification of the many
fishermen's unions as urged in
the call of the Second National
Convention of the FCWIU.
Paul Dale, National Secretary
of the union, addressed both
meetings.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22

NEW ORLEANS, La, March
2l-Addressing a meeting spOn-
sored by the New Orleans Re-
giOnal Labor Board, MonsignOr
p. NJ. II. WynhOven, director,
pointed out that the country is
still in a hell Of a mess" that
millions are unemployed and that
other millions are not getting
enough for a decent living"
Describing conditions around
New Orleans, Wynhoven declar-
ed:
In a certain industry in this
section, 10000 persons work eight
to 10 hours a day. six days a week
and get about SIS a month. In
another, workers getting jobs,
must sign away their belongings
to the firm, and If they go on
strike, the company takes their
property"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
By r. K. Van Dorm

The CCC camps are being back
ed to the limit as the training
grounds for the coming imperial
list slaughter. With more than
100000 destitute youth now I'M
dergoing military discipline in
these concentration camps-and
a total of more than a million
who have so far received this
training-the stage is being rap
idly set for war.
A year ago the Assistant Sec
rotary of War admitted that
these concentration camps were
the first real test o fthe army's
plans for war mobilization"
But not only are the camps
a war machine, they are also CEN
tiers of graft and corruption.
From one end of the country to
the other there have been spon-
taneous revolts in the Gees
against intOllerable food, living
and working conditions, and mil
itary discipline. These revolts
have been hushed up by the
press.
In the first place the camps do
not serve the purpose they pre-
tend to serve. The million home
less and wandering youth of the
nation are not cared for to any
great extent by the camps. In
stead of the homeless youth,
boys are gathered up from fami-
lies on relief; relief is then cut
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Introduce Drastic
"SeditiOn" Bill

WASHINGTON, D. c., March
21-The corrupt anti-labOr cam
paign of Hearst has now reached
into Congress where a bill has
been introduced, with the back
ing of President Roosevelt, to
completely outlaw labor Organiza-
tiOns, and first of all the Com
munist Party, and provide Jail
sentences and fines for trespass
on the banned territory of milit-
ant thought, action, and organic
alton.
Representative Charles IRA
mer of California, Democrat, and
avOwed anti-COmmunist, intro
duced the bill in the House after
his failure to establish the motor
iOus Dickstein-McCOrmick Com
mittee as permanent court of
inquisition in which to try all
labor activities not meeting the
approval of the owner classes.
Though the heading of the bill
describes it as an act ito prohibit
statements and publications adj
vOcating overthrow of the Gov
eminent by violence" it provides
Jail sentences for persons who
sincerely, if naively, believe in
the principles laid down for the
government of this country by
it's early and best known states
men.
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appreciate it more than the av-
erage CCC member. An inability
to secure employment cOnduces
to an unruliness, a feeling OF I'M
rest, that, prevalent among the
majority, gradually pervades the
entire company. No training can
possibly be of more advantage
to the reforestatiOn men than
military training"
And then comes the open fas-
cist proposal by the CCC officials
in this magazine: eff the CCC has
proved so beneficial in the case
of 100000 young men, why not
make it permanent and extend
it to include the whole youth of
the nation? Why not make it
compulsory for every able-bodied
boy, upon reaching the age of
IS or upon graduation from high
school, to serve one year in a
CCC camp?" There is a bill be-
fore Congress to make this set
up permanent.
Not only has revolt of con-
siderable size swept the CCC
camps of the nation against bad
food, living conditions, but also
against INFLAMMATION.
Disclosures in Tennessee show
that destitute families by the
dozens flock to some of the
camps with the most devastat-
ingly pitiful of all purposes
selling their daughters into pros
titution for Is cents a night.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
North Idaho Labor
Congress Held

COEUR D'ALENE, Ida, March
2l-Delegates from 10 different
organizations held a North Idaho
Congress. Thirty-nine delegates
representing 4,7S3 workers were
present.
Election of officers and an ex-
ecutive board, drawing up and
adopting of resolutions, discus
sion of a Labor Party, anti-War
and anti-fascist congress in Seat
tie, and discussion on trade I'M
ions, was held.
Robert Brandt was elected
chairman; Mr.. Brothers, vice.
chairman; Albert Marley, secre-
tary-treasurer. Raymond SILlli-
van %a5 elected ogapiZer and the
executive board elected was:
Francis Brandt, Pete Wilson,
Mrs. Kemp, Glen Bigelow, Mr..
Krenck, Claude Lovett, G. w.
Danforth and Ole Pound.
A resolution was drawn up for
the freedom of Tom Mooney. One
was sent to President Roosevelt
and one to Governor Merriam of
California. A resolution for the
spending of war funds for relief
of unemployed was sent to Pres
ident Roosevelt.
A mass meeting was called by
the League Against War and
Fascism for Occur d'Alene March
"a, to arouse interest for sending
a delegate to Seattle April s
and Z.
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Labor Leader Hits
Fascist Trends in NRA

WASHINGTON, D. c., March
2l-Testifying before the House
Labor Committee for labor re-
presentation on code authorities,
Secretary l. NJ. Ornburn of the
Union Label Trades Department
of the AFL, declared:
with NRA now headed by one
of industry's chief night-riders Is.
Clay Williams, labor can eX-
pect increasing doses of fascism
from its decisions and activities.
The trend is alarmingly similar
to the early stages of fascism in
Europe, where labor was first
baited with promises, such as
the NRA, and then suppressed. !"
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COEUR D,ALENE. Ida. March
PA bitter struggle for free
light and water for the unem-
plOyed was won recently by the
women's auxiliary OF the Relief
Workers Protective Union. The
women members of the local un.
ion have through a strong organ
ization won other decisive vie
tories in the past.
A large mass meeting was the
result of a call for a united Front
issued by the women's auxiliary
for International Women's Day,
Speakers were Virgil Willis and
j. 4. Snyder. Members OF the
auxiliary put on a program.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Louisiana Mob
Hangs Negro Boy;
Second 1895 Lynching

MARINGOUIN, La, March q
Because he dared to protect
himself from the assault of a
white man, Anderson Ward, a
young Negro, became the second
known victim of lynching this
year.
Town officials allowed the body
to hang from the bough of an
oak tree for several hours before
they cut it down, in the hope, no
doubt, that the sight would ter
rOrize the Negro population of
the neighborhOOd.
Ward and white man, Den
mis- BrudrOe, had an argument
on the afternoon of February "a.
BrudrOe drew his gun in an at
tempt to shoot Ward, but the
gun failed to explode. Meanwhile
Ward struck out in an attempt
to protect himself, but actually
dealt no blows because another
Negro youth drew him away.
Break Into Jail
As soon as news of the affair
spread, a lynch-gang of about rs
started a man-hunt for Ward. AL
though he was locked in the 10
cal Jail, no real effort was made
to- protect him and the mob cas-
lily broke in and seized him.
A swift and efficient whitewash
with the usual verdict of killing
"by parties unknown" has been
made by the town officials.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Witness Pictures
Viglante Murders

SACRAMENTO, CAL, March 81
An eyewitness picture OF the
murder of striking agricultural
workers at Pixley was last week
unrolled in the court room where
Is workers are on trial for GRIM
inal syndiealism. The simple
words of Lily Dunno, wife OF a
cotton picker and mother OF
three children, became biting
indictment against the landlords
and their thugs as she told of the
eold-blooded shooting of two
strikers and the wOunding OF
scores of others.
From the window of the stIik-
ers' meeting hall, Mrs. Dunno
saw the armed vigilantes, led by
number of landowners descend
on the strikers and open fire.
With her infant child in her arms
she rushed out of the backdoor
of the hall, and found Raymond
Cato, chief of the state highway
patrol, hiding in an alley while
the murders were committed.
The parade of witnesses for the
defendants-nOw so many in
number that their passage in and
out of the witness stand has
amounted almost to a defense
demonstration went on last
week. Two Negro labOrers, three
cotton pickers, a student from
the University of California, two
small businessmen, and many
others added their part to the
mountain of testimony against
the prosecution.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
HONOR PARIS COMMUNE HERoEs"-McNamara

NEW YORK, March 2l-An appeal to the Ameri-
can working class to join the demonstrations now tax
ing place to celebrate the Oath anniversary of the Paris
Commune, first workers government, has been sent
out by j. B. Mcnamara, working-claSS leader framed
in 1910 fake bombing charge Mcnamara is in San
Quentin Prison.
The Paris Commune celebrations will be held under
the auspices of the international Labor Defense, and
will be the occasion for an international solidarity
campaign for the victims of ruling class terror and preSe
CutOn.
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will be the major step in eli
making this long and hard fought
goal. A typical letter from a
group of lumber workers, states,
I'VE have met and discussed the
question and believe your line
is correct, and will work with
you to push it through. D"
The workers are disillusioned
over the NRA and New Deals
forcing their conditions to a low
ell level.
A strong mass lumber work
ers' union with a policy of Or
ganizing the unorganized, can
construct a weapon that will eff
fectively meet the new and fresh
attacks of the lumber operators.
MURPHY TO TOUR
The National Committee has
decided that in order to more
quickly acquaint lumber work
ers with the program of amalga-
nation the national secretary
should make the following tour:
Spokane, March %; Occur d.
Alene, March "a; Aberdeen March
20; Astoria and Westport, March
30-31; Portland, April /; Powers,
April 3; klamath Falls, April 6;
Bend, April s; Port Angeles, APP
ril 10; Everett, April Is; Belling-
ham, April 16.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
SANITATION DISREGARDED

SPOKANE, Mar. 21-The ques-
ton of light and water has been
a constant reminder to the I'M
employed here of the lack of re-
spect for sanitation and health
on the part of the authorities of
Spokane.
Children have been forced to
study their lessons by candle
and cOalOil lamp light and water
has been entirely cut off in many
homes of the city. This is even
against the city law.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Compulsory CCC Term for All Americas
Youth Is Plot of Army Ohcialdom

off from the family which is
forced to live on the starvation
wage of 81 a day earned by the
youth in the camp. But the
homeless youth still form a dis
NAL and amending line along the
highways of the nation
Many of the eastern papers
have been admitting what ev-
eryOne knows-that the camps
are part of the war machinery.
They therefore clambor for open
military training. Cartoons of a
New York paper brazenly scream
He's got a spade. Give him a
gun" Give the CCC boys guns
and let them learn how to shoot
the guns" This propaganda is
for a double purpose: to prepare
the boys for use in strike-break-
ing and in war.
Propaganda
The government has been
swapping the country with mag
azine propaganda fairy tales
bribed from the boys and then
spread before the public gaze
to get the support of the people.
The descriptions of CCC camp
joys know no ends. But no maya
zine is more blatant with it
than the official paper of the
CCC, Happy Days" This sheet
editorializes:
Everyone knows the value of
military training, and who. re-
cipient of army discipline, should
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Packers Move OF Smash
Fishermen's Association

CORDOVA, Alaska. March p
Though statements made by
canning corporations and can
merry trade journals indicate that
1885 will be one OF the most prof
table years since the war for op-
orators, the Copper River and
Prince William Sound Fisher
mems Association has been L.
nored in its efforts to discuss
increased prices for fish and an
increase In eannery wages
Faced with a 25 per cent in
crease in the cost of living since
last year, members Of the union
charge that prices and wages
paid them are inadequate to
support them, and that the cor
porations are seeking through
a system of company unions to
reduce the fishermen to state
of peonage. Supported by West
Coast Chambers OF Commerce,
the packing corporations are
making an intensive drive to
crush the militant Copper River
association, organized last year
and now numbering more than
1000 members.
Recently word was sent from
the packers to COrdoVa mer-
chants to refuse credit to the
families of fishermen who are
waiting for work on the 1888
fish run. Though staunch resist
ance has been made to this starv.
alton order the fact remains that
not a few women and children
have suffered and are still suf-
fering.
Demand Higher Price
The fiShermens' Association
has demanded five cent per
pound increase Ito 32H cents
in the price paid for red sOckeye
and propOrtionate increases for
other fish. Workers feel that the
increase is, if anything, moderate.
SlanderOus charges of tires
ponsible, radical leadership"
have been made an excuse for
the operators association to re-
fuse to further discuss the pro-
posed increase with union repre-
sentatives. Alex Pringle of Ed
monds has been sent to CordOva
to mediate between operators
and workers. A representative OF
bankers and West Coast cham
bers of commerce, he is using his
influence to discredit the rank
and file union and its represent
atives. The local press is giving
him generous space in his pro-
gram of reVilement.
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NORTH END, BALLARD
Drug Store, 65th g. Oath N W
Drug Store, 65th & 32nd NV
Drug Store
32nd N w and w 85th
Drug Store, 1864 18th N W
Magee Drug Co.
N. 103rd and Aurora Ave
Smith Drug Co.
N. 85th and Aurora Ave.
UNIVERSITY
Pharmacy, 6416 Meridian
Neptune Fount., 1901 E 45th
Drug Company
And and University Way
Ravenna Pharmacy
$500 Ravenna Ave.
Drug Company
29th N e and z. 55th st.
SOUTH END:
Pharmacy
Walden and Rainier.
International Pharmacy
Vale and Airport Way
WEST SEATTLE, ALKI-
Daily Drugs
California and W. Alaska
West Seattle Drug Co.,
1900 California Ave.
Seaside Pharmacy (Alki)
81 S. w. and Alki Ave.
WHITE CENTER
Newsboy, 18th. 5. w. and W.
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Maybe you got it, but a letter
that goes through the enemy
doesn't amount to much. The
jailer wasn't very fond of me
and was waiting for a chance to
put me in solitary.
Hoping to meet you soon, l
remain,
Comradely yours,
Kyle Pugh."
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Prince William Sound
Fishermen to Attend
Convention

SEATTLE, March p Outside
members Of the Copper River
and Prince William Sound Fish
crmcn'S union at meeting here
Sunday March II, elected two
fraternal delegates to attend
the Second National Convention
of the Fishermen and Cannery
Workers Industrial Union, in re-
Spouse to an invitation extended
them by the FCWIU.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
LOggerS Strike

ABERDEEN, Wash, March q
On March IL the cutting crew
of the Saginaw camp placed a de-
mand for a five-cent raise per
thousand. They were refused the
demand. They walked off and
came into town.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22

in getting action on my case"
he writes in part to Wesley Ran
dali of the International Labor
Defense. 1--WE workers are all
prisoners, so to speak. Whether
we are behind prison bars or not.
we are prisoners of the profit
system.
81 eeeived a letter from you
while in jail and answered it.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
SPECIAL NEWS
for the
Lumber Workers
LUMBER WORKERS APPROVE OF
MI WI ANAL GAMATION PLAN
Edited by JAMES MURPHY
Secretary National Lumber Workers Union

SEATTL March 2l-In last weeks issue of the
Voice of ACti i, the National Committee made an an
nouncemen of its call for all lumber workers unions to
amalgamae into union Letters have been received
from lumber workers voicing their hearty approval
This move is an objective set by the union several
wears ago and the Unity Conference being called April u
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
Workers Respond
To Council

MONTESANO, March 2l-Due
to the response of the workers
in this locality to build a united
front, our local of the Unemploy-
ed Council has grown rapidly.
Our committee was successful in
gaining the consent of the eoun-
ty commissioners to meet in their
room at the court house every
Monday night at 1880.
Mrs. G. H. NJ.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22

Huey Long has kissed and made
up with Standard OH, which he
has always pretended to fight.
He has agreed to return four out
of every five cents in taxes @le
lected from the oil company:
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Voice of Action
On Sale i'm Seattle at:

Robbery (9637 18th s w
DOWNTOWN
Newsboy, 3rd and Union
Newsboy, Fourth and Pike
Newsboy, 3rd and Pine
Newsboy, End and Pike
Newsb oy, 9Th g. University
Labor Temple
Newsstand
Washington g. Occidental
Workers Bookstore
202 Collins Building
Pike Place Market
Corner First and Pike
Miller's Merchandise Mart
708 Pike Streete
Federal Lunch,
1st g. Madison
MADISON TO JACKSON:
T. B. Bakers Pharmacy
18th and e. Union
Mayrand's Drugs
23rd and E. Union
Pharmacy, 2311 e. Madison
Garden Drug,
18th g. e. Cherry
Benson's Fountain Lunch
Leschi Ferry Dock
Star Pharmacy,
23rd and Jackson
walla Walla Pharmacy
2tst and e. Jefferson
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Workers Are All Prisoners of SYSTEM"
Writes Kyle Pugh, Facing Prison Sentence

SEATTLE, March 21-In letter received this week
from Kyle Pugh out bond but under sentence of five
years in Oregon prison for selling books and pamphlets
the writer revealed gallant defiance of captaStc op-
preston and for the methods used against enght
ened workers.
''You don't owe me any apology for the time taken
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Fishermen Prepare for Second National Convention of
Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial Union

ASTORIA Ore, March 2l--ProSpectS for wide
attendance at the Second National Convention of the
Fishermen and Cannery Workers Industrial Union here,
March 2524 are very good Preparations being made
to receive delegates from California Puget Sound and
Alaska Besides delegates from the locals of the Fisher
men and Cannery Workers Industrial Union, invitation
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-22
communist School Trains
Leaders Of Class Struggle
By Goold, Cadle and Owens

SEATTLE, March 2i--LaSt Saturday marked the
conclusion of important step forward in District of
the Communist Party-the closing of its first two weeks
fulme training school for leading Party functonareS
from its various sections.
The theoretical training gained from this training
school has placed the Communist Party in better position
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Tacoma Purse Seiners Elect
Delegates to FCWIU
Convention

TACOMA, March p AT a meet
ing OF fishermen held in Tacoma,
at the Slovenian hall, ON the ev-
ening Of March II, three dele
gates were elected to represent
Tacoma local of the FCWIu at
the National Convention. March
23,2l, at Astoria, Oregon.
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-12-19
Christmas Program At
Sans SOuC Club Meet

Amidst a colorful array of holly,
mistletoe, red candles, and lighted
Christmas trees, the Sans Souci Lit
erary club held it's regular Christmas
meeting on Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. H. A. Newell at her home on
Gholson Avenue.
Roll call was enlivened by a Christ
mas custom of other lands from each
member In the business session the
club voted generous donation to the
American Legion Auxiliary, and the
president appointed a committee to
assist the auxiliary in taking care of
4 family at Christmas.
Mrs. S. e. Jennette had as her
subject The Holy Land. In a high
ly interesting manner she interpreted
the Holy Land through it's own peo-
pie, the Hebrews or Jesus, giving a
vivid account of their history from
earliest times to the present-tracing
them in their wanderings over the
entire world and finally back to Jeru-
salem, at least a part of them She
made numerous references to and read
excerpts from three outstanding
books: THE Road of the Ages" by
Robert Nathan, Stranger Than Fic-
-ion.' and How Odd of God" by