Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-08-03
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of I'm
portant Events of the Week,
Here and Abroad.


Department of Labor reports
slight decrease in employment in the
country in June.
simultaneously with Judge Wilker-
sons decision making permanent the
injunction against the shopmen, the
United States Court of Appeals at
Chicago held that shopmen who were
cited for contempt for violation of the
injunction may not have the benefit of
jury trial.
Resolutions calling upon President
Oregon not to invite the Rotarians
to hold their 1924 convention in Mex
leo City unanimously approved BY the
Mexican Labor Council. Representa-
tives of SO labor unions roared APP
proval of the resolutions.
Men who now work IL hours in the
hard Goa lmines will suffer no reduc-
ton in wages when the S-hour day is
put into effect, it was agreed by OPP
orators and miners meeting at Allan
tic City.
Foes of convict leasing defeated
when Alabama House of Representa-
tives votes to l against considering
convict leasing legislation.
Carl C. Magee, New Mexico editor
foe of political machine, held guilty
| of contempt and sentenced to 800
days for protesting against his earlier
| sentence of Is months for libel. Gov.
Hinkle pardons Magee and calls him
victim of persecution.
General crop insurance is feasible
and an urgent need for the protec-
ton of the farmer, officials of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture declare.
| Ninety per cent of the work on the
national headquarters of the Chamber
| of Commerce of the United States at
| Washington, d. c., is being done BY
union men; the chamber planned to
have the building non-union from top
to bottom but contractors cannot get
competent non-unionists.
Magnus Johnson, Farmer.Labor
candidate elected United States SEN
ator from Minnesota, defeating his
Republican opponent, Gov. Prues, by
big majority.
Federal Judge Erskine issues an
injunction restraining the Arizona
Minimum Wage Commission from en-
forcing the Arizona Minimum Wage
Law.
British House of Commons by a
vote of 362 to 121 defeats Philip
Snowden's resolution for gradual
substitution of public ownership and
democratic control of the instruments
of production and distribution" for
the present capitalist system.
Rock Island Arsenal management
refuses union men right to elect their
own committeeman to deal with en-
ployers in matters of wage rates and
working conditions; War Department
chiefs support management.
Twenty thousand shopmen employed
by the New York Central lines are
given wage increase of three cents
an hour.
George KEENAN,, writer ON Russian
affairs, declares new Soviet constitu-
ton is mere camoutlage.
President Lewis of the United Mine
Workers revokes charter of District
26, covering the Maritime Provinces
of Canada and notifies local unions
IN that territory to return to work
under penalty of having their char
tiers cancelled.
Judge Gary Of the United States
Steel Corporation says change from
l2-hour to S-hour shift will begin
within six weeks"
Superior Judge BuSick of Sacra-
mento, Cal, issues a statewide tenn
porary injunction under which mere
ownership in the !. w. w. or afTiliat-
Ell bodies, will be construed as con-
tempt of court punishable by six
months imprisonment without a jury
trial.
The Philippine cabinet and council
of state resigns, charging Governor
General Wood with violation of the
fundamental law of the land" and the
"curtailment of Filipino autonomy
guaranteed by the organic act"
Bockers' strike stops loading of all
transatlantic liners at Liverpool,
England.
Brooklyn and Manhattan Transit
Company charged with requiring all
employees to take an oath not to join
a union.
Alabama foes of convict leasing
system open second fight before SEN
ate committee.
Mexican Commissioner Ramon Ross
announces settlement of all vital diff
ferenees between Mexico and the
Unied States, leaving the way clear
to recognition,
-Four thousand Nova Scotia union
miners vote to continue the unauthor-
lied strike alleged to have been de-
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