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THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized For the 40-Hour Week For a Labor Party ——— Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at 3 Vol. V., No. 327 Published daily except Sunday by The National Dally Worker Publishing Union Sq., New York, N. ¥. PACT IN HILLMAN COMPANY UNION Permits Bosses to Hire and Fire at Their Own ‘Discretion’ Cutters Also Betrayed Workers Outraged at New Sell-Out To the workers in the men’s clothing industry who were recently betrayed by their union officialdom through the forcible introduction of the sweat shop system of piece work now comes a new staggering blow as the existence of a secret supple- mentary agreement between the bosses and the Hillman-Beckerman machine in the Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers Union is disclosed. At the time when all the class- collaborationist exponents in this country were hailing the great vic- tory won by Hillman in his nego- tiations with the bosses, the same Hillman was signing a secret pact granting the bosses the right to hire and fire workers at their own pleas- ure at any time, all months in the year. And the “great victory” Hill- aman had won was the fake unem- ployment fund, conceded him when he consented to drop the workers’ demand for the 40-hour week. To Slash Wages. Not that indiscriminate hiring and firing is the only sell-out con- tained in the secret agreement. The supplementary agreement also per- mits employers to establish an in- dividual standard of production for the cutters in the industry. This means that if every cutter employed in a given shop does not produce as much work as is required to reach a specifie “standard” set by the boss then the wages of that worker are eut down according to the amount of work he failed to put out. Na- turally, the standard is high enough never to be reached by a worker unless he drives himself at an in- human speed, The tremendously accelerated re- volt of the tailors in recent weeks, who were outraged by the action of the officials in granting piece work to larger manufacturers, has been heated to fever pitch when they learned of this secret agreement. Excited discussions in the markets pictures only partly the flaming in- dignation of the mass of workers. Wholesale Dismissals. “Now all is explained,” workers in the market declare, as they re- cite instance after instance during the past few months of wholesale dismissals of shop crews entire or in part, because they did not pro- duce sufficiently to suit the boss. Adding fuel to their anger comes ihe news that Hillman himself, who was recently the recipient of a gold medal from a fund foundation left by a dead millionaire, had broken (Continued on Page Two) Rhys Williams to Talk on Soviet Peasants at Beck Theatre Sunday Tomorrow evening, in the Martin Beck Theatre, Albert Rhys Wil- liams will make his last public ap- pearance in New York before re- turning to his home in California. He will talk about his five years among the Russian peasants in the Soviet Union, telling stories that have never been told here before. Williams has made a close study of the customs and life of the peas- ants in the Soviet Union. Tornado Hits Homes of Til; Farmers, Workers ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 18 (UP).— A tornado, originating west of fvansville, Ind., swept over southern Mlinois today, turned northward and at last reports had struck the south- ern Wisconsin line. Four persons were reported killed and an unde- termined amount of damage was done, mostly to farmers’ houses and workers’ homes in small towns. \ ALL IN THE GAME. ELKHART, Ind., Jan. 18 (U,P).— Harvey L. Smith, former private de- tective, evangelist and circus bark- er, acquitted here of the murder of Mrs. Genevieve Stults, beauty par- lor operator, will enter the minis- try, he said here today. LENIN DISCLOSE SECRET! VLADIMIR ILYITCH LEN MEMOR w York, N. Y. under the act of March 3, 1879. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1929 We Commemorate His Death, We Carry On His Work! | | | | CABINET GRAFT @? Harlem Revels Tuesday | Hall Johnson, organizer and lead-jthe Negro folk music, which had jer of the famous Hall Johnson Negro been born out of singing together in euetes was eres by the Daily |groups, where each one made his own |Worker yesterday. This choir will|part. He says: “The music of the West-Insull Case |sing for the “Harlem Revels,” under | Negro people is not like formal, h jthe auspices of the American Negro monized music. If you do it like WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Two|Labor Congress and the” Negro |that you take all the nature out of members of the Coolidge .cabinet,|Champion, at Renaissance Casino, it.” He wants the music to sound Secretary of Treasury Mellon and|138th St. and Seventh Ave., this like “down home.” Secretary of Interior Roy West,| Tuesday evening. | were charged with corruption in debate which occupied the entire day in the Senate today. Particular interest attended the attack on Mellon because of reports that he is slated for reappointment to the Hoover cabinet and the possibility that his name will come before the Senate for confirmation after in- Air Mellon Tax Gifts; An excellent program, represen- | Hall Johnson was born in Georgia, |tative of the best work of the Hall jand heard many of the Negro spirit-|Johnson Negro Choir, will be pre- uals sung by his grandmother who sented at the Harlem Revels Solidar- was freed from slavery at the age ity Demonstration Dance. Hall John- of thirty. His home was near a'son will conduct the choir in person. |railroad track, and he used to hear/|He states this in order to eliminate ithe Negro workers sing their work!a misunderstanding that may have, songs as they toiled on the tracks. |arisen from the wording of previous Johnson told how chain gangs often were brought out to clear the red| clay roads after heavy rains, and sang their convict and work! songs at their heavy, disagreeable labor. Founded With Quartet. The idea of organizing a group of Negro singers first came to him when he was a member of the or- chestra of the famous Negro musical show, “Shuffling Along.” There was a quartet of singers in this show who sang one or two spirituals in one of the numbers and the audience al- ways received these songs with en- thusiasm. Johnson thought it would be worth while to develop a group that would present the folk music of the American Negroes in a more seri- ous and artistic way than was pos- sible on the musical comedy stage, and this quartet formed the nucleus of his choir. The choir started with eight peo- ple, in December, 1925, Hall Johnson found that it necessitated a larger group to render the true spirit of auguration, West Is Power Trust Man. West’s nomination came up after weeks of delay when his friends urged action be taken on the Public Lands Committee. majority report recommending his confirmation. Leaders agreed to go into executive session at 3 p. m., to begin consid- eration of the nomination. West’s friends voted down a motion for an open session. This dirty linen will be washed in secret. The same groups attacking Mel- lon are preparing to exploit simi- larly West’s legal relationship with Samuel Insull, the Chicago Public Utilities magnate whose corrupt political activities in the Illinois pri- mary of 1926 were published by the Reed Investigating Committee, Plan Other Features. | In addition to the Hall Johnson | choir, other features of the program are entertainment by Elizabeth | Welsh, |known Alhambra Theatre; and Paul | And of course, general dancing to| jorchestras in the city. tler, 2896 Seventh Ave.; and Negro | Champion 169 W. 183rd St. Any no revolutio: revolutionary theory ry Lenin memo! once in order to besure that they are assigned a box, \ SENATE DEBATES Had? Johnson Choir to Sing | ACTIVE. NEEDLE WORKERS CALLED Meeting Tuesday for Strike Mobilization A special appeal, calling all its |uctive members to a meeting Tues- day evening at 8 o'clock in Webster Hall, 11th St. and Third Ave.’ has heen issued by the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union, In the call great. stress was laid on the imminence of the general strike in the dress industry, asking that all active unionists in the cloak, dress and fur trades lay aside every other jannouncements in the Daily Worker.| Work and attend this meeting. Officers to Report. The leading officers of the union will deliver a full report on the {work already accomplished in the |mobilization for the strike, will ask , one of the most popular mem-/ the meeting's approval and will take jbers of the cast of “Blackbirds”;/up for Doris Rheubottom, singer of the well- | further plans for final mobilization. discussion and decision On the day of the general elec- land Thelma Meeres, Tango dancers. |tions, which will take place on hursday in the garment workers the music of one of the best Negro| building and the fur workers build- jing, 16 W. 21st St..and 22 E, 22d St. Tickets for the affair are on sale Tespectively, the shop representa- at the Workers Book Shop, 26 Union | tives. of all trades will meet in Man- Sq.; New Masses, 39 Union Sq.; Tat-|hattan Lyceum, 66 E. 4th St., for the purpose of electing from among them one-third. of the Joint Board organization wishing to have a box|delegation, This is provided for in should immediately make reserva- the union constitution. The election tions by writing to the American / hours will be from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. Negro Labor Congress, 169 W. 138rd | All cloak and dress crafts vote for St., or telephone Harlem 5643 at/their local and Joint Board officers in 16 W. 21st St. and all furriers vote in 22 E, 22d St 4 tract with one Kirby Fitzpa Outside IMPEACHMENT OF OKLA. GOVERNOR IN LEGISLATURE Committee Finds Guilt for Corruption and Use of Militia Fight Among Grafters | Injured ContractorsHit at Rivals | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 18. |—A special legislative committee in- |vestigating the administration {Governor Henry S. Johnston recom- |mended to the Oklahoma House of |Representatives today that the gov- jernor be suspended from office and tried charges of incompetence, offi |ruption and moral turpitude. court cial cor- before a_ senate The committee’s action brought jinto the open the long smouldering political warfare that has kept Okla- homa in a furore since the abortive attempt to impeach Governor John- ston last year. doubt that the governor is corrupt, as other governors have been, but in this case political groups that rep- |resent rival capitalists are on h trail. It puts his fate in the hands jof the legislature, where his enemies |through a coalition of parties, cl |to have secured’ a majority against) ; him. Once before the legislature was about to vote impeachment of John- ston but he called out the militia jand chased the legislative depart-. ment of the state out of its cham ber. charges against him. There seems little m This. is. one. of the present The charges voted against the gov- jernor by the committeemen were: 1—Issuance of pardon and restor- ation of citizenship to R. D. Crosth- waite. 2.—Diversion and misappropria- tion of funds, paid to J. W. (Buck) Eldredge. 3.—Unlawful issuance of defici- ency certificates for the banking de- partment; creating the pos’ assistant attorney, stenographer for the years of 1927 and 1928. on of clerk and law 4,—Unlawful issuance of SUBSCRIPTION RAT of Si of defici- ency certificates for the banking de- ‘New York, by mail, $8.00 per New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. in [AL TONIGHT! ® FINAL CITY EDITION year. Price Yents THOUSANDS AT MADISON SO. GARDEN TO HONOR MEMORY OF REVOLUTIONARY LEADER To Demonstrate Against U.S. Imperialist War Plans; Protest Mella Murder Program, Soviet All to the Madison Square world proletari on MONCADA LIES Never Offered to Split | Nicaragua in Two TEGUCIGALPA, Hond 18.—General Augustin commanding the Nicaragu independence, communicated to his representatives here today a denial that he had ever proposed to the Wall Street puppet president Man General Moncada, that iearagua be divided, leaving Mon- and his U. S. marine guard in control of the southern part, with Sandino in power in the north. Mon- cado circulated this slander last week: Instead, n army I Sandino sent letters he SANDINO REFUTES Communist Leaders to Speak; Rare Music Sports Spectacle Garden tonight! All to the Lenin Memorial meeting to pay tribute to Vladi- mir Ilyitch Lenin, on the fifth anniversary of the death of the at’s greatest leader. The memorable occasion will also serve to denounce the foul killing of Julio Mella by tools of the Wall Street-con- trolled Machado government and to give expression to vigorous opposi- tion to give United States govern- ment’s plans for a new imperialist wa ery detail has been worked out the arrangements cominittee weeks of tireless activi to by after make this mass rally the greatest in the history of New York. The ers will include William Z. ‘oster, Ben Gitlow, Otto Hui ind Juliet Stuart Poyntz and a uatin-American representative. Workers from Newark, Paterson, Passaic, N rgh and other cities and towns will come in force to the meeting. There will also be a large delegation from Latin-American countries, Cecilio Mella, brother of Julio, will lead a procession of Latin- American militant--workers-through* the great Garden. Andre Rodrigo. who was an intimate associate of exchanged with Brig, Gen. Logan, | 513i, Mella in Cuba will speak. A U, S. Marines, and Rear Admiral | ),,2<ideum of honor consisting of Sellers, U. refusing to meet 7 atin-Americans will be part of the and discus of peace until | ecting. every marine was withdrawn from Rodrigo, leading Cuban revolu- Nicaragua. Sandino is well and the army of independence is growing, said Froy- lan Tureios, his representative. He stated that a new offensive was be- ing prepared by Sandino. PAYNE: “MONEY partment; creating the position of assistant attorney, law clerk mone; pursuant to an illeg k. (Continued on Page Five) Workers Asked to | Send in Labor News | Tips to the “Daily” The Daily Worker wants them | |—labor news-tips. Workers can| help improve their “Daily, it cover the labor new York City and vicinity more thoroly by spending a little time ” help | Stuyvesant 1696. No worker is expected to go out hunting news for the Daily Worker. But every worker has certain contacts thru his shop- mates and friends, thru his union or other working class organiza- |tions that he belongs to that are potential sources of news. If your union is planning a strike, phone it in without delay. If your boss announces a wage cut or longer hours or you learn of such occurrences in other plants, phone them in. News of important meetings or conferences should be phoned in not a week after they occur, but before they take place, Be a Daily Worker reporter at no trouble to you. Ask for City Editor when phoning in news. ® National “Agrarians” of Mexico Ousts Two Peasants of Left Wing | | turned over in tremendous volume} MEXICO CITY, Jan. 18.—The National Agrarian Party today expelled Soto y Gama and Manri- quez, left wing peasant leaders, The National Agrarian Party leaders then pledged support to President Portes Gil, and declared that ex-president Calles is the “maximum leader of the revolu- tion.” “Our theory must give an an- awer to t roblems that practice puts t enin, Lenin memor- ial meeting, January 19, in Madison Square Garden, and stenographer for the years 1928 and |1929. 5.—The unlawful expenditure of 1 .gon- of New| and a five-cent piece and cone © | past few day: RULES OIL WAR” Pierces Rockefeller’s Screen of “Purity” CHICAGO, Jan, 18.—H. B. Payne, a large stockholder in Standard Oil of Indiana, marshalled his proxies today to back Col. Robert W. Stewart in the financial battle between Stewart and Rockefeller for control of the $750,000,000 oil corporation. | In letters to Colonel Stewart and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Payne pointed out that he was siding with Stewart although the Payne | |had been associated with the Roc fellers since the elder Rockefeller | | operated in Cleveland 60 years ago. | | Payne disregards Rockefellers “ouflage of purity, and supports the | Teapot Dome Sinclair-Stewart com- bine. “It’s a cold blooded business pro- position with me,” Payne said. “Every dollar I have is invested in Standard Oil of Indiana, See John D. Winning. On the Curb Exchange of New York, Standard of Indiana stock was featured by profit-taking yes terday, The stock sold down to $94.75, or almost $10 less a share than its high of two days ago. This drop reflected Wall Street’s belief that John D., Jr., was confident of victory and was no longer eager to buy the stock in open market. | Violent trading in oil stock on the (|New York Stock Exchange for the 's has given rise to ru- mors that a huge consolidation of {important producers is in the mak- ing. Standard Oil of New York was |on the Stock Exchange today after |opening 1-2 point higher at 45 on | sales aggregating 25,000 shares. | |The stock later shot ahead to its jhigh of the year at 4538-4. Both | Pan American and Sinclair have| also been taken in large blocks. | | Vacuum Oil, which competes with) | Rockefeller’s Standard of New Jer- | sey, listed on the Curb Market, has | | been most prominently mentioned in |merger negotiations with Standard | Oil of New York, which also fights the New Jersey Co., and has moved | Lup sharply. tionist, will tell of the persecution fered by the slain Communist leader for years by the Machado re- gime. It v Rodrigo, who wrote to Julio Mella, shortly before the murder warning him of the assas- sins’ plans. Rodrigo, himself, served in the milita prison at Havana for his activ! as Communist ainst the terroristic Cuban gov- ernment. Leaders of trade unions, workers’ educational and defense bodies and other organizations have called on the masses of the city to assemble at the Garden tonight A huge por- ait of Lenin, ally painted for the occasion, v dorn the speak- ers’ platf The meeting will be marked by the most extensive musical program of a revolutionary character ever offered. Opening the evening, will be a number of selections by the Freiheit Gesangs Verein with 250 members participating. It will be the first time the singing society will appear at the Garden with all its five sections. The members will parade through the aisles prior to mounting the platform. Following the singing society’s program, Jascha Fischermann, for- mer inspector for the U. S. will render revoltuionary compositions on the piano. The ad- dres: will follow. the speeches, a labor sports spectacle will be offered by the La- bor Sports Union. There will also be music by a symphony brass band. Doors at the Garden will be open at 7 p.m. The ticket office will be open long before. Tickets may also be obtained at district headquarters orm, _ of the Workers (Communist) Party, All workers have been urged by the arrangements committee to procure their tickets early and thus avoid a last minute rush. Lenin meetings will be held during the next few days in various cities throughout the country. Lenin was born in Simbirsk, Rus- sia and came of peasant ancestry. After his second sentence to Siberia, Lenin left Russia and toured the jfrontier forming groups of workers with whom he made arrangements to carry on revolutionary corre- |spondence through secret laisen quarters. He was the founder of |the Bolshevik Party in 1903. All Party Members at Garden Today at 6 p.m. All members of the Workers (Communist) Party, District ‘2, must report at 6 p. m. sharp today at Madison Square Garden for as- signments to committee posts at the great Lenin Memorial meeting, by orders of the District Executive + reenter

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