29 August 1925

Voice of the Sea

La Voz del Mar (Voice of the Sea) is the journal of the Chilean sailors who formed a branch of the Industrial Workers of the World. Occasionally its pages have large blank areas: "This periodical is subject to military censorship." The crew of the steamship Palena on 29 August 1925 is permitted to write uncensured: "Do not sign on with captain Smith. This devilish immigrant, travelling from Antofagasta to Colosa, would have let a sailor who dropped off the ship drown. Fortunately the sailor was saved by an American boat."

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