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The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-09
OPEN HOUSE HELD
 FOR BRIDAL PAIR

MT. and Mrs. August Smith an- nounce an open house in their home at 323 Decker Way from to 10 D. m. this evening, in honor of their daughter and son-in-law, MT. and Mrs. J. M. Butts, who were married November 5.
 All friends of the young couple are cordially invited to be present at the informal gathering.
 Assisting as hostesses will be Mrs. K. Wildes, Mrs. A. Hollmann. Mrs. L. Peterson, Mrs. c. M. Ferguson and Mrs. Walter Butts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-09
RELIEVE EXTERNAL
 MUSCULAR PAIN tOften Mis- Called "Rheulnatic")

If stabbing, shooting muscular pains in shoulders, arms and legs are making your life misery; if neuralgia pains and surface pains of the body are robbing you of com fort and ease don't endure this torture any longer without trying Williams R. U. K, Compound which is bringing the joy of quick relief to so many suffers. The first bottle os Williams R.U.x. Compound must satisfy you or money back. For sale by Butler Mauro Drug Go. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-09
ESTEBETH DUE IN
 PORT SUNDAY P. M

Motorship Estebeth, from Sitka, is due to arrive in port Sunday af- ternoon, according to report re- ceived this morning by the United States Signal Corps, Juneau office.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-09
Marine News
Steamer Movements

NORTHBOUND
 Evelyn Berg scheduled to ar rive next Wednesday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-09
SCHEDULED sAILINGS

SCHEDULED SAILINGS
 . Northwestern scheduled to sail
 from Seattle at a. m. today
 but no report . North Sea scheduled to sail from Seattle November 12 at g p. m. c zapora scheduled to sail from Seattle November 14 at p. m. Bandon scheduled to sail from Seattle November A. . Princess Norah scheduled to . sail from Vancouver Nov Is { at 9 pm. . SOUTHBOUND sAMINGS { . Northland is scheduled south { bound Sunday night at Il O. { . clock. . Yukon scheduled southbound ( about next Thursday. . LOCAL SAILINGS Estebeth leaves every Wednes-st day night at pm, .or { Sitka and wayports. ( . Dart leaves every Friday at { . ' am. fer Petersburg, Rake { and wayports.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-09

FOR RENT-Heated sleeping room
 Close in. Phone 3351.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-09
ATTENTION MAsoNs

There will be Stated Communi- cation of Mt. Juneau Lodge No. 147 F. & A. M. at the Masonic Temple Monday evening at 7:30. All Masons urged to attend By order of the Worshipful Master.
 J. w. LEVERS, -adv. Secretary.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
OFT Bill Still
Threatens Labor

OLYMPIA, Wash, March IA
Still hanging in the balance over
the floor Of the Senate, subject
to being jerked out of committee
at any moment in the feverish
bill trading that accrues to the
last few hours of state legisla-
ton, the OFT anti Communist
bill, HB 7S, has a fifty-fifty
chance of dying in Election Priv
ilege committee according to Sen
atOr Kyle, committee head.
Reactionary elements in the
Senate, aware of the highly con-
troversial nature of the bill and
aware also that a great many
OF the Senators feel that the bill
is a direct threat to the consti-
tutional privileges of labor and
are anxious to keep it in COM
mittee, are using it as a focal
point to pry their own legisla-
tion through the Senate.
A vrey grave danger exists that
the bill could be brought before
the Senate and passed so quick
ly that organized protest from
workers throughout the state
would be Intellectual. A steady
bombardment of Senators is the
only guarantee against passage.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
New Legion Post
Forced on Post
Office Employees

SEATTLE, March 14-All post
office employees who are ex-serv-
icemen have been invited" by
post Office bosses to break affili-
alton with their neighborhOod
American Legion Posts and join
a new Federal Post.
Enough pressure has been
brought upon the Federal en-
plOyees eligible for membership
to indicate the bosses are ex-
tremely anxious to see the work.
ers in a post that can be directly
under their thumbs for complete
domination by the Roosevelt ma
chine.
Assistant Postmaster Wise,
back of the pressure to force the
workers into the new post, plans
to use it as a stool pigeon base
in the post office similar to the
Chamber of Commences spy or
ganization Mantle"
A degenerate blowout for men
only" similar to that for which
several people were arrested in
Eagles Auditorium recently, is
planned Saturday night.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
CITY COUNCIL GRANTS UCL CIVIC AUDITORIUM
Build Labor's Bulwark
Against Corruption
EDITORIAL

Those who plundered the hungry of $50, 600, 900
have cause to fear the Voice of Action The papers
elusive expose last week of VERA graft has shaken the
Northwest
The rage of obleSS thousands has descended upon
a hundred relief stationS-upon state Public Enemy
Number One, Governor Martin.
"No money for shoes? No money for food? No
money for Shelter' -
''Where are the millions appropriated for relief that
did not reach uS9 What have you to say of the robbery
exposed by our paper?"
Never has the power of laborS greatest weapon
its preSS-been so demonstrated
Small wonder ErnSts successor was Immediately
named.
Small wonder the State Senate rushed through
$4,000 grant to continue the VERA probe!
Small wonder every copy was sold the first day!
With confidence we appeal to all labor to every
progressive individual for increased support of our CAM
paign to build still more effective newspaper.
A $4,000 financial drive is on. Send in your con-
tribuon to the only paper in the Northwest fighting I'M
compromisngy for the rights of labor against encroach
ments of fasciSn for higher wages for unemployment
insurance.
A better-a six-page Voice of Action by Interna-
tional Labor Day, May First!
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15

ers; no discrimination for union
activity; collective bargaining;
reasonable wage increases for
week workers.
A circular letter was sent by
the union on February IL, 1885,
to all dress manufacturers in the
city and to the Associated Indus
tries of Seattle, presenting the
demands and requesting an am
icable agreement. The letter was
ignored. Later another letter was
sent and was accorded the same
treatment.
Spirit High
The women are rapidly organic.
ing in the union. In each shop the
workers will take a strike vote.
A spirit of solidarity and enthusi-
asm is running high and the
workers are determined to put an
end to their bad conditions and
to stick together in a strong I'M
ion.
Horowitz, Inc, was the first
shop to sign a contract with the
union. 1t was completed satisfac-
torily on Wednesday.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
VERA Probers Call $3O,OOO,OOO
Relief Expose conservative"
Senate Committee
Gets $4,000 to
Continue Probe

OLYMPIA, Wash, March IA
Continuing its assault on admin
istration leaders who would
block further VERA investiga-
ton, the present committee led
by Senator Rebel Murphy, it's
chairman, forced passage in the
Senate of a resolution empower
ing them to act fully and later
passed a $4,000 appropriation
that insured complete investiga-
ton.
Administration lea ders at
tempted to ammend the approp-
ration to $1,000, but met with
angry resistance.
Senator D. Stinson, member Of
the present committee stated, Il
will not be a member of any COM
mittee investigating graft If we
are only going to appropriate
enough to buy bucket of white
wash"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Wind Rush Strike
Still Solid

SEATTLE, March IA - The
strike on the SIS Windrush, Shep,
perd line, is in its second week
Seamen are determined to force
the company to recognize the I'm.
ion for collective bargaining, ia
ship through the ISU hall and to
removal of all scabs.
The crew consists largely OF
Filipino seamen, among whom
are reported to be some scabs
LongshOremen here will not
work the ship until the demands
of the ISU are granted. An at.
tempt is being made by certain
reactionary forces in the union
led by the business agent, Pete
Gill, to remove all Filipinos from
the Shepperd line ships.
The Waterfront unit of the
Communist Party has issued a
leaflet condemning the attempt
to bar Filipino seamen from the
ships except those that are found
to have scabbed during the strike
and stating that such actions
will play into the hands of the
shipOwners."
The leaflet pledges support tC
the strike for recognition of the
ISU," calls upon the union to ad
nit the Filipino workers who
have not scabbed into the union
and build a real unity among
all maritime workers"
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Coast Oil Tanker
Crews on Strike

SEATTLE, March 14-Interna-
tional Seamen's Union officials,
pounded by the pressure of the
rank and file seamen and fire.
men, have been forced to call a
strike on the oil tankers along
the Coast.
During negotiations with the
union, the oil tanker operators
showed their contempt for or
ganized labor by walking out.
The answer of the seamen has
been to strike to force the tank.
er companies to recognize the
union, to ship through the ISU
halls and to raise the wages from
as low as $45 to $40 per month,
and rs cents per hour overtime.
The strike began Sunday night
in San Pedro and Is extending
to all unlicensed men sailing from
the Pacific Coast.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Anna Louise Strong
Calls for Unity
Against FaSCiSm

SEATTLE, March 14-Strongly
emphasizing the need for united
action of all progressives against
the growing menace of war and
fascism, Anna Louise Strong, now
editor of the Moscow Daily News
and former Seattle journalist,
gave hearty support to the
Northwest branch of the Am
erican League Against War and
Fascism Congress, April 6 and 7
here.
Most important OF all things
on which all left wing groups
must unite-and Immediately
is war and fascism," Miss Strong
declared in an interview with
the Voice of Action.
1T is a real and active danger,
not only to the USSR, but to the
workers of all countries, includ.
ing this one.
I'VE are not fighting war and
fascism out of altruism, but to
protect our future against the
inroads being made increasingly
against such liberties as we now
possess" she continued.
1T is very important for all
of intelligence to carefully anal
we fascism-not to blindly brand
certain groups as fascist, but to
trace the fascist tendencies in
these various movements and
fight against them.
These tendencies are: At
tempts to suppress workers or
CARNATIONS, against united fronts
and the increasing use of violence
to protect private property
groups" Miss Strong concluded.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Fit of Rage
Is Caused by
Voice Expose
Capital Jobless Demand
Higher Relief; Fight
$30,OOO,OO0 Steal

OLYMPIA, Wash, March A.
Faced with the story in the Voice
of Action of his $30000,00 relief
steal, Governor Martin assaulted
Mrs. Alice Budd in a fit OF rage.
A committee of 30 from the
Thurston County Unemploy-
ment Councils met with the Gov
ernor in his office in the State
Capitol Monday morning to de-
mand that the threatened relief
cuts be dropped and that be-
cause of the greatly increased
cost of living the amount of re-
lief must be increased. The COM
mittee further demanded that
the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, lib 1928, be taken
out of committee, be acted upon
and passed and be signed by
him.
The governor professed a strong
desire" to increase relief, ac-
knowledged the rising cost OF liv-
ing, stated he was doing all he
could with "the tools at hand"
He denied all knowledge of HB
1928.
When Alice Budd showed him
a copy of last weeks Voice Of
Action, asking an explanation Of
the $3O,0OO,OOO misappropriation,
the Governor roughly grasped
Mrs. Budd by the arm, shook her
and showed her, saying, You
can't come here and brow-beat
me that way"
Martin later apologized and left
the room, slamming the door be-
hind him.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15

violations. The women are mil
itantly picketing the plants, as
sisted by members OF other I'M
ions affiliated with the Inter-
national Garment Workers I'm
ion, ALL, and by unemployed
workers.
At Schoenfelds the women
have been working on low rate
piece work, and have not been
paid the minimum wage If I'M
able to make it. Few have been
able to do so, though all are
skillful and speedy.
Friday the slave driving boss
tried to run a number of strike
breakers through the picket line,
but the pickets Joined hands and
prevented all excepting four
from entering. Monday morning
the plant did not open.
Union Drive
The Dressmakers' Union began
its organizational drive last
spring and on the basis of the
generally bad conditions existing
in the industry, the following
were drawn up: Union recogni-
tion, decent treatment of work
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
UCL Dance.
Bazaar Set
For April 6
Voice of Action March 30
Costume Ball Cancelled;
Affairs To Be Combined

SEATTLE, March 14-Chalking
up the biggest social event in the
history of the Northwest's organ
lied unemployed movement, the
Unemployed Citizens League will
take over the Civic Auditorium
Saturday, April 6, for an all-day
bazaar, winding up with a grand
ball on the city's largest dance
floor.
The Civic Auditorium will be
furnished the UCL free by spe-
cial ordinance of the city council.
The Voice of Action, official
UCL spokesman, is jointly in
charge of promotion and arrange.
ments and has cancelled it's plans
for an international costume ball,
set for March 30, to wind up the
$4,000 drive, in order to make the
UCL bazaar and ball the more
successful.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Portland Vets Elect
Delegates to Anti
Fascist Congress

PORTLAND, March 14-Three
delegates, Frank G. Brooks, H.
d. Mansfield and G. o. Frankem,
with Joe Maehlfit as alternate,
were elected to represent the
Veterans Union at the North
west Congress Against War and
Fascism. The organization also
elected a committee consisting
of Arthur Jones, Richard Love
lace, Frank Brooks, Jerry KOn-
ell and A. r. Bishop to lead the
work of mobiliZing broad vet
eran support for the Congress.
Portland veterans are carrying
on a day-tO-day struggle against
rising fascism as it is being ap-
piled through SERA forced Ia
Dor camps. Recent announce
ments from SERA committee
boast of the the success" with
which OreOn has set up and OPP
Grated these concentration camps
CONTINUED on Page 4, Col. 81
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Postal Clerks, YWCA Branch, Vets
Support Fight Against WarmOngers
Arrangements
Committee Asks
Delegate Election

SEATTLE, March alternative
list of organizations sending dele
gates to the Northwest Congress
Against War and Fascism, April
6, in Seattle, this week included
Post Office Clerks, local %, Sc
attic; Finnish Workers Club, Ia
coma; Portland YWCA, st. Johns
Branch.
A number of other Oraniza-
tions have elected delegates, but
official notice has not yet been
received by the Arrangements
Committee.
The Arrangements Committee
urges that it be notified immedi-
ately of all delegates elected, and
that donations be sent in to as
sist Congress organization plans.
Address all correspondence to Ar
rangements Committee, Ameri-
can League Against War and Fas-
cism, Mutual Life Building, Sc
attic.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Fight for Starving Family

TACOMA, March. IA family
with small children, one sick in
bed, found themselves without
food last week, due to the rising
food prices, the change of issuing
vouchers from every week to ev-
cry two weeks, and having to buy
a sack of flour from their weekly
allowance.
A grievance committee took
up the case after the father had
been refused further help. Mrs.
Baskin, the case worker, said she
did not have the authority to
write an extra voucher" This
was later eontradicted by A. B.
Comfort, relief supervisor, who
said she did have such authority.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
"Crush Fascism"
Slogan of Seattle
.Machinists Union

SEATTLE, March 14-"Fascism
must be crushed" declares the
resolution of Hope Lodge 70, Ma
chinist's Union (AFL) passed at
its last meeting here and ordered
introduced to a labor rally in
Eagles Auditorium.
The resolution, which calls for
support for the Northwest Con-
gress Against War and Fascism,
was kept off the floor by chair
man Early.
Text of the resolution follows
BE IT RESOLVED by men,
bers of organized labor and
friends at a mass meeting assem-
bled, Eagles Auditorium, Seattle,
March IL, 1885, do hereby ask the
candidates, Levine, Fits and
Gaines. who were endorsed by
the Central Labor Council of Sc
Continued on Page 4, Col. Al
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
.SOlOnS Hold Martin,
Ernst Responsible for
Relief Fund Robbery

OLYMPIA, Wash. March IA
Consistently placing the respOn-
sibility for the Incorporated
VERA millions disclosed last
week by the Relief Investigation
al Committee on the shoulders
of Governor Clarence d. Martin
and relief head Charles F. Ernst,
both director of Efficiency A. E.
Judd and the Investigation COM
mittee emphatically reaffirmed
the truth and conservative ma
ture of the report.
This report indicated that at
least $27,000,0OO of the two year
$57, 100000 relief program ad been
either misspent or stolen.
Revealing that the malodorous
conditions in the relief set-up
were commonly known to Martin
and Ernst and that formal re-
ports had been presented from
time to time calling attention
to these facts but that no radi-
cal reorganizatiOns had result
ed, Director of Efficiency Judd
supported the committee in its
contention that the report was
but & cross section of wide spread
conditions throughout the relief
administration.
Robbery
These conditions centered
around the outright theft of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars and
the misuse of funds intended for
relief and welfare work that
reached into many millions.
Indications that the admins
tration will be only too glad to
effect a compromise to end some
of the pressure exerted by the in
vestigation came with the an
nouncment by United Press that
Senator G.. A. Cannon had been
selected as federal choice for a
successor to present head, Ernst.
This choice according to inform
ed rumor in the capitol meets
with the approval of executive
heads, although not openly.
If this change should be eff
fected, Sen. Cannon will ostens-
IDLY be VERA head. But the be-
lief in political circles is that his
power will be subject to the will
of Ernst.
Martins Stand
When questioned concerning
Director of Efficiency Judd's
statement that the materials in
Continued on Page 4, Col. u
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Force Defeat
OF Sales Tax
|ThruProteSt!
Substitute Measure
Also Hits Low Income
Groups the Hardest

OLYMPIA, Wash, March IA
That most odious of taxes-the
SALES TAX-has been passed
by the House and is before the
Senate as the Voice of Action
goes to press. 1t may yet fail.
First, a tremendous storm of
protest has swept upon Olympia
demanding the tax not be pass
ed.
Second, in the middle OF its de-
alterations rumOT reached the
Senate floor that the sales tax
bill, then under consideration,
had been declared unconstitu-
tional in an Eastern state. So
much uncertainty resulted from
the rumOr that the probability
that a substitute transfer tax
would replace the administration
revenue proposal appeared ex-
cellent.
The Transfer tax places a three
quarters per cent levy on all bus
mess transactions, both tangible
and intangible. This means that
all business, whether goods sold
or services rendered, is subject to
tax.
Burden Still on Workers
This tax, while still imposing
large share of the burden on the
workers, does not bear as heavily
on the worker as the originally
proposed slaes tax. However, it
is believed by opponents of any
kind of sales or transfer tax that
business manipulation will place
this taxload on workers incomes
by processes of price raising, in
creased interest, etc.
Sales tax opponents in the SEN
ate are preparing a graduated
income tax amendment to the
revenue act in the belief that the
State Supreme Court will not
again dare to rule it unconstitu-
tional in point OF considering that
an emergency exists.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Fail to Disrupt Show

KELSO, Wash, March IA
vigilante attempt to terrorize an
audience of workers viewing the
motion picture, Mother" by
hurting rocks against the hall,
while the movie was in progress,
failed its purpose when the 200
spectators kept their setas and
after the show unanimously pass
ed protest resolution which was
taken to city officials.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Women Strike Dress Shops
For Union Recognition

SEATTLE, March 14-Empoyees of several cloth
ing shops strike and indications that the strike
will spread throughout the local garment industry The
women organized in DreSSmakerS Local 1884, have effect
lively tied up the Schoeneld NeckWear Co., the Dolly
Meyers Company, and Olympic Company The main
demands are union recognition and cessation of NRA
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Martin Hunger
Program Wins
Over lib 128

OLYMPIA, Wash, March A.
Unemployment insurance is a
dead issue as the legislature rolls
into the final week of it's activi-
ties-unless a greater storm of
protest forces immediate action
on it.
The sum total of the bills pass
ed by House and Senate is to
intensity and thoroughly en-
trench the present administra-
tion as a powerful patronage sys-
TEN.
The Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, lib l2S, is still lin
committee"
The governors program, HB
582 and lib 5S4, has passed.
Under the Martin program the
same starvation relief level will
be maintained. Despite the I'M
believable disclosures of the Re-
lief Investigation that millions
have been stolen from welfare
funds, the unemployed will con-
tinue to suffer exactly as be-
fore, If the present regime has its
way.
The Old Age Pension bill pro-
vides that anyone over 65 years
can have less than $50 a month
thow much less is at the discre-
ton of the statel and that the
property of the old will be con-
fiseated by the state upon their
death. The old will continue to
suffer.
No Help
But these, the Governors bills,
are not unemployment insurance
bills. On analysis, they insure no
thing but the continuation OF in
adequate relief and hunger
among the unemployed.
'The failure to achieve by this
legislature any real unemploy-
ment insurance can be directly
traced to the administrations
complete dominance of the relief
set-up. We have been blocked
off constantly, said ]. B. Smith,
chairman of the House Welfare
and Relief committee.
Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-03-15
Martins Stand

When questioned concerning
Director of Efficiency Judd's
statement that the materials in
Continued on Page 4, Col. u