Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-08-31
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! AS THE WORKER
! SEES HIS WORLD
: Summary and Digest of I'm
: pOrtant Events of the Week,
: Here and Abroad.

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Strike of Reichsbank printers
causes shortage of paper money IN
Germany. Berlinn subway workers,
printers and compositoTs also stflke.
National Civic Federation announe-
es that John Hays Hammond will
head new department on economic
and political education established by
the Federation.
Senators Frazier and Shipstead de-
clare they will ask Congressional IN
vestigation of gasoline prices.
General Federation of German
Trade Unions protests against action
of the Belgian troops in the Ruhr In
requisitioning public funds destined
for the use as unemployment benefit.
Charges that employees OF many
coal mines in non-union districts of
Pennsylvania, West Virgini and Ala
bama are held in state of virtual
isolation in towns where they live are
made by committee OF eiergymen
and educators.
Adoption of resolutions calling for
legislation designed to better labor
leaders featured opening session OF
the North Carolina Federation of
Labor.
Illinois National Guardsmen sent
to plant of the American Zinc Com
pany, at Hillsboro, ILL.,, where en-
ployes are on strike.
Employment exchanges in Great
Britain register l,lS4 900 as unable
to get work. This is 100000 less
than on Jan. |, 1928.
Practices of the Seattle Master
Plumbers and Heating Engineers As
ISOLATION denounced as standing
menace to the community" by Judge
Ronald. Injunction proceedings
against the association charged the
association with unfair price fixing
methods, interference with union men
on Jobs and threatened expulsion OF
certain members.
Advocates of the one big union plan
and amalgamationists were denounced
senemies of trade unionism at con-
vention in Chicago of Cigar Makers
international Union.
Union miners and anthracite opera
tors agree to abandon the check-of
system. Agreement resulted from
miners proposal that they would
abandon demand for the check-off II
operators would cease checking from
the mems pay charges for rent, sup
plies and other things.
Chemical analysis of forty food
stuffs sold in New York City reveals
foreign substances in seven of the
forty samples.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor asserts in an
address at Chicago that the labor
movement in America is evolutionary
and not revolutionary.
Carlo Tesca, editor of an anti-fas-
cist paper in New York, arrested on
charge Of mailing and delivering
unavailable matter through the Unit
cd States mails" He charged that
the arrest was inspired by the ltal-
ian government.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen to consider ask
ing wage increase, at meeting of gen.
eral chairmen in Chicago Sept. 6.
j. o. Bentall, who served two
years in Leavenworth penitentiary on
charges involving opposition to the
war, is welcomed back in Minneapolis
at dinner given by the Minneapolis
city council.
German Reichstag adopts measure
providing for seizure of the industry,
lands ana private holdings as part OF
the national wealth.
Turkey said to have found prohibit
ton failure after three years tfial
and will modify law.
Officials OF Brotherhoods of Rail
way Conductors and Trainmen pay
their respects to President Cooilage,
Premier SHUTS of the Union of
South Africa, makes appeal for all
nations, including the United States,
to help Great Britain in saving
Europe from destruction and to avert
a worldwide disaster.
wvl0vaadOnnJaq fl (Pafket "a etaoinnn
Irving T. Bush says practical bust
ness men could solve Europe's prob
lens if politicians kept hands off.
Carnegie Steel Company, Pitts
burgh, places 10000 employees on the
eight-hour basis. This is the first
move in Pittsburgh district to abolish
the 12-hour day.
Thirty-seven of 1873 miners en-
tombe dat Kemmerer, Wyo.. brought
out alive by rescuers. One hundred
or more are dead.
Secretary of Labor Davis advo-
Gates the selection of immigrants be-
| fore they leave their native land and
says he will incorporate this proposal
in bill he will send to Congress.
June railroad earnings amounted
to $S7,742,00O and represented an
| annual return rate of SAT of the
| theoretical value of the property in