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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-06
COTTON Is STEADY
ON OPENING SALES
Southern Selling and Realizing
Cause Slight Early Re-
cessions.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. March 6.-Cotton opened
steady today at an advance Of 2 points
to a decline of points. Most months
were lower under realizing and some
Southern and local selling promoted by
disappointing Liverpool cables and
prospects for improving weather In the
Eastern belt.
Offerings were absorbed by continue
ton of the recent buying movement,
however, and the market became firmer
after the early realizing had been alb
sorbed. May sold up to 212 and the
new October contracts to 20.39. This
carried active months 6 to IA points net
higher by the end of the first half hour.
Private cables reported local and con-
tinental buying in Liverpool. but said
Bombay selling had checked the adj
vance They also reported disturbancc-
in Calcutta we're checking business in
cotton cloths
SILVER QUOTATIONS.
NEW YORK. March CP).-Bar sill
hHavinan do1lore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
WOMEN RE-ENACT
|. PLEAS FOR BUREAU
Motion Picture, Taken in
House Building, ReneWs
1910 Scenes.

Representatives Snow of Maine and
Hall of Mississippi had the masculine
leads" in a moving picture which was
taken yesterday In the caucus room of
the House Office Building.
The scene was representative of the
time in which several women from or
CARNATIONS throughout the country
called upon the appropriations commit
tee of the House in 1910 20 testify re-
garding the shocking conditions existing
throughout the country, when labor OF
women and children was being exploit
ed, and to request that the Federal Gov
eminent establish a women'S bureau,
which would investigate and report on
actual conditions and take measures for
improving them.
The scene taken on Capitol Hill was
the last tc be shot" in a picture en-
titled The Story of the Women's Bu-
reau," being made by the United States
Department of Labor. The first show
ing of the picture is expected to take
place Thursday evening at the country
place of Mrs. Anne Archbold, who will
entertain the delegates from the Ma
tional Womens Trade Union League,
converting in Washington this week.
Women who took part in the scene
were Miss Rose Schneiderman, president
of the National Women'S Trade Union
League; Miss Agnes Nestor. Miss Eliza
beth Christman and Miss Selma
Borchardt, all officers of the league.
The women made an amusing picture in
long, trailing skirts. tight-fitting coats
and large Merry Widow" hats Of the
period of 1910.
Each of the woman principals in this
scene had leading parts in the original
hearings at the Capitol, following the
Federal report of 1910 on the unfavor-
able conditions under which American
women were working Others who took
part during the investigation at that
time. which resulted in the eventual
establishment of the Women's Bureau,
we're Miss Jane Adams. Mary Mcdowell
and Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago.
An appeal was made at the time
by these various women to President
Roosevelt and the President responded
most sympathetically. stating to the
women at the time that it was up to
the sisters to get after it."
One scene which will appear in "The
Story of the Woman's Bureau is an
actual one of President Roosevelt max
ing a speech, this scene was secured
from the Signal Corps Of the United
States Army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
ToDAY's ADJUSTMENTS.

NationaI-"Its a Boy" comedy, at
2:20 and 800 pm.
BeIaSco-"The Wild Duck" Ibsen
play, at 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Poli's-"And So to Bed" comedy. at
500 pm.
Wardman Park-"Some Time Soon, IS
musical comedy, at $3.50 pm.
Strand-"Darktown Affairs" musical
comedy Of Negro life, at 2:15 and 8:15
pm.
Palace-"Gentlemen of the Press"
Call talking photoplay). at IL noon,
.2:30, 5:25, TAO and 9:55 pm.
Fox-"The Donovan Affair" tall talk
ing photoplay), 2:35, 4:5o, 1850 and
1905 pm.
Earle-"A Dangerous Woman" at
11:40 am, 1875, $40, 5:35, TAO and
GAS pm.
Little Theater-"Krassin," at lilo
am, 1885, 2:40, 4:25, CLIO, and $50
pm.
RiaIto-"Show Boat" at 1o:45 am,
12:45, 3, Sis, 1880 and $50 pm.
Columbia-"The Iron Mask" at 1:25
am, 20, 3:15, $40, 7:25 and 9:25 pm
MetropoIitan-"Close Harmony" at
1880 am, 1910, 2:30, 4:20, 6:10, 8
and 9:55 pm.
Ambassador-"The Cohens and Kellys
In Atlantic City," at 6:10, 1855 and
GAS pm.
TivoIi-"Hearts in Dixie" at 2:S5,
APO, 6:10, 7:55 and GAS pm.
CentraI-"Sonny Boy" from II am.
to IL pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
JUSTICES HONOR WHEAT.
New Appointee Guest of Mccoy and
Others of Bench.

A. A. Wheat, recently confirmed as
an additional justice of the District
Supreme Court, was the guest of Chief
Justice Mccoy and the other justices
at luncheon yesterday at the court
house.
Justice Wheat, it is expected, will
await the confirmation and induction
into office of Charles Evans Hughes, jr.,
as solicitor general of the United States,
before taking his place on the bench
of the local court. He will probably be
assigned to the condemnation cases
now pending in the court. The new
justice has been acting as solicitor gen.
eral since the Hoover administration
began.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
Clearance Refused Steamer.

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland. May
R).-1t is understood that the govern
ment has refused clearance to the
steamer Boulderpool, which is loading
ore at Belle Island for Boston, until
the royalty tax of 10 cents per ton,
which has been in allegiance for some
years, is paid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
LEGAL NOTICES.

LEO A. ROVER, U. g. Attorney. and RE-
BEKAH s. GREATH0USE, Assistant U. s.
Attorney,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-08
Radio Stills Street Music.

Londons famous barrel organs are
passing with the increase in the use of
the radio and the photograph With
them also are going the street bands,
travelling harpists and other street
music which entertained clerks in Offices
during the afternoon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
SANDING REFUTES
MONCADA LIES
Never Offered to Split
Nicaragua in Two

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan.
18.-General Augustine Sandino,
commanding the Nicaraguan army
of independence, communicated to
his representatives here today
denial that he had ever proposed
TO the Wall Street puppet president
in Managua, General Moncada, that
Nicaragua be divided, leaving Mon
cada 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, Sandino sent letters he
exchanged with Brig. Gen. Logan,
u. S. Marines, and Rear Admiral
Sellers, U. S. Navy, refusing to meet
and discuss terms of peace until
every marine was withdrawn from
Nicaragua.
Sandino is we'll and the army of
independence is growing, said Froy-
Ian Turcios, his representative. He
stated that a new offensive was be-
ing prepared by Sandino.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
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" help
it cover the labor news of New
York City and vicinity more
thoroly by spending little time
and five-cent piece and calling
Stuyvesant 1896.
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 Daily Worker reporter at
no trouble to you. Ask for City
Editor when phoning in news.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
DISCLOSE SECRET.
PACT IN HILLMAN
COMP ANY 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 mems
clothing industry who were recently
betrayed by their union officialdom
through the fcrcible introduction of
the sweat shop system of piece work
now comes new staggering blow
as the existence of a secret supple
lnentary 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
IRE at any time, all months in the
year. And the ''great victory" Hill
1nan 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-
tanned 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 given shop does not produce as
much work as is required to reach,
a specific standard" set by the boss
then the wages of that worker are
cut down according to the amount
of work he failed to put out. Ma
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
the news that Hillman himself, who
was recently the recipient of gold
medal from a fund foundation left
by a dead millionaire, had broken
Continued on Page Taco)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
Hall Johnson Choir to Sing
at Harlem Reuels Tuesday

Hall Johnson, organizer and lead
er of the famous Hall johnson Negro
Choir, was interviewed by the Daily
Worker yesterday. This choir will
sing for the Harlem Revels," under
the auspices of the American Negro
Labor Congress and the Negro
Champion, at Renaissance Casino,
138th ST. and Seventh Ave-, this
Tuesday evening.
Hall johnson was born in Georgia,
and heard many of the Negro spirit
uals sung by his grandmother who
was freed from slavery at the age
of thirty. His home was near a
railroad track, and he used to hear
the Negro workers sing their work
songs as they toiled on the tracks
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 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 more seri-
Gus 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-
pie, in December, 1925. Hall johnson
found that it necessitated larger
group to render the true spirit Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
SENATE DEBATES
CABINET CRAFT
Air Mellon Tax Gifts;
West-Insull Case

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Two
members of the Coolidge cabinet,
Secretary of Treasury Mellon and
Secretary of Interior Roy West,
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
auguration.
West Is Power Trust Man.
Vests 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 8 p. M, to begin consid-
Grafton of the nomination. Vests
friends voted down a motion for an
open session. This dirty linen will
be washed in secret.
The same groups attacking Mel
Ion are preparing to exploit simi-
larly Vests legal relationship with
Samuel insult, the Chicago Public
Utilities magnate whose corrupt
political activities in the Illinois pri-
mary Of 1925 were published by the
Reed Investigating Committee.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
ACTIVE NEEDLE
WORKERS CALLED
Meeting Tuesday for
Strike Mobilization

A special appeal, calling all it's
active members to a meeting Tues
day evening at s o'clock in Webster
Hall, 18th st. and Third Ave. has
been issued by the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union. In the
call great. stress was laid on the
immincnce of the general strike in
the dress industry, asking that all
active unionists in the cloak, dress
and fur trades lay aside every other
work and attend this meeting.
Officers to Report.
The leading officers of the union
will deliver full report on the
work already accomplished in the
mobilization for the strike, will ask
the meetings. approval and will take
up for discussion and decision
further plans for final mobilization.
On the day Of the general elec-
tions, which will take place on
Thursday in the garment workers
building and the fur workers build
ing, 16 w. 21st st. and 90 E. ed st.
respectively, the shop representa-
tives of all trades will meet in Man
haitian Lyceum, &c E. 4th St., for
the purpose of electing from among
them one-third Of the Joint Board
delegation. This is provided for in
the union constitution. The election
hours will be from a. m. to p. m.
All cloak and dress crafts vote for
their local and Joint Board officers
in 16 w. 21st st. and all furriers
vote in % Z. 22d st.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
IMPEACHMENT OF
OKLA. GOVERNOR
IN NLECISLATURE
Committee Finds Guilt
for Corruption and
Use of Militia
Fight Among Grafters
Injured ContractorsHit
at Rivals
Fight Among Grafters

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Jan. 18.
"A special legislative committee in
vestigating the administration of
Governor Henry S. Johnston recon-
mended to the Oklahoma House of
Representatives today that the gov
ernor be suspended from office and
tried before a senate court on
charges Of incompetence, official cor
ruption and moral turpitude.
The committees action brought
into 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. There seems little
doubt that the governor is corrupt,
as other governors have been, but
in this case political groups that rep
resent rival capitalists are on his
trail. 1t puts his fate in the hands
of the legislature, where his enemies
through a coalition of parties, claim
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
and chased the legislative depart
ment of the state out of it's cham
her. This is one of the present
charges against him.
The charges voted against the gov
ernor by the committeeman were:
1.-Issuance of pardon and restor-
alton of citizenship to R. D. Crosth-
waite.
2.-Diversion and misappropria-
ton of funds, paid to ]. W. (Buck)
Eldredge.
3.-Unlawful issuance of defici-
ency certificates for the banking de-
partment; creating the position of
assistant attorney, law clerk and
stenographer for the years of 1927
and 1923.
4.-Unlawful issuance of defici-
ency certificates for the banking de-
partment; creating the position of
assistant attorney, law clerk and
stenographer for the years 1928 and
1929.
| 5.-The unlawful expenditure of
moneys pursuant to an illegal con
tract with one Kirby Fitzpatrick.
Continued on Page FiUe)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19

the Negro folk music, which had
been born out of singing together in
groups, where each one made his own
part. He says: "The music of the
Negro people is not like formal, har-
monized music. If you do it like
that you take all the nature out of
it." He wants the music to sound
like "down home"
An excellent program, represen-
tative of the best work of the Hall
Johnson Negro Choir, will be pre-
sented at the Harlem Revels Solidar-
ity Demonstration Dance. Hall John
son will conduct the choir in person.
He states this in order to eliminate
misunderstanding that may have
arisen from the wording of previous
announcements in the Daily Worker.
Plan Other Features.
In addition to the Hall johnson
choir, other features of the program
are entertainment by Elizabeth
Welsh, one Of the most popular menu
bers of the cast of "Blackbirds";
Doris Rheubottom, singer of the we'll
known Alhambra Theatre; and Paul
and Thelma Meeres, Tango dancers.
And of course, general dancing to
the music of one of the best Negro
orchestras in the city.
Tickets for the affair are on sale
at the Workers Book Shop, 26 Union
So; New Masses, 39 Union So; Tat
tier, 1896 Seventh Ave-; and Negro
Champion 1863 w. 133rd st. Any
organization wishing to have a box
should Immediately make reserva-
tions by writing to the American
Negro Labor Congress, 169 w. 133rd
ST., or telephone Harlem 5643 at
once in order to besure that they are
assigned box
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
PAYNE. money
RULES OIL WAR"
Pie rces Rockefeller's
Screen of "Purity"

CHICAGO, Jan, 18Th. 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,OoO,o0o oil corporation.
In letters to Colonel Stewart and
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Payne
pointed out that he was siding with
Stewart although the Payne family
had been associated with the Rookie
fellers since the elder Rockefeller
operated in Cleveland 60 years ago.
Payne disregards Rockefeller's cam
outage of purity, and supports the
Teapot Dome Sinclair-Stewart COM
bine.
cts cold blooded business pro-
position with me-" Payne said.
every dollar l 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 $40 less share
than its high of two days ago. This
drop reflected Wall Streets 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
past few days has given rise to ru-
mors that huge consolidation OF
important producers is in the max.
ing.
Standard Oil of New York was
turned over in tremendous volume
on the Stock Exchange today after
opening 1-2 point higher at 45 on
sales aggregating $4,000 shares.
The stock later shot ahead to its
high of the year at 1884. 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
up sharply.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
Rhys Williams to Talk
on Soviet Peasants at
Beck Theatre Sunday

Tomorrow evening, in the Martin
Beck Theatre, Albert Rhys Will
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 close study
Of the customs and life of the peas
ants in the Soviet Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
ALL IN THE GAME.

ELKHART, Ind, Jan. 1S WH.---
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.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
Tornado Hits Homes of
Ill. Farmers, Workers

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. 1s (UP).-
A tornado, originating west of
Evansville, Ind, swept over southern
Illinois 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.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
All Party Members at
Garden Today at 6 pm.

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
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
National "Agrarians"
of Mexico Gusts Two
Peasants of Left Wing

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 18.-The
National Agrarian Party today
expelled Soto y Cana and Manri-
quez, left wing peasant leaders.
The National Agrarian Party
leaders then pledged support to
President Portes Gil, and declared
that ex-president Gales is the
maximum leader of the revolu-
ton"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19

'sWithout u revolutionary theory
there can be no revolutionary par
ty."--Lenin. Lenin memorial meet
ing, January 10, IN Madison Square
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19
THOUSANDS AT MADISON SO.
GARDEN TO HONOR MEMORY
OF REVOLUTIONARY LEADER
To Demonstrate Against U. S. Imperialist War
Plans; Protest Mella Murder
Communist Leaders to Speak; Rare Music
Program, Soviet Sports Spectacle
Square Garden tonight!

All to the Madison Square Garden tonight!
All to the Lenin Memorial meeting to pay tribute Vlad
mir ch Lenin the fifth anniversary of the death of the
world proeariats greatest leader The occasion
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19

"Our theory must give an an
swer to the problems that practice
puts to us.'--Lenin. Lenin memoir
inl meeting, January 10. in Madison
Square Garden.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-19

THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS
For WOrkers-Farmers Government
To Organize tbe Umorganized
For The 40-HOnr Week
For Labor Party