Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-09-21

AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of I'm
portant Events of the Week,
Here and Abroad.
Observation-Disclosures

Anthracite coal miners suspend
work, as Gov. Pinchot of Pennsyl-
vania seeks solution to dispute be-
tween operators and workers.
Condemnation of the steel trusts
Pittsburgh plus" system of fixing
| the price of steel expressed by the
attorneys general of the United
| States at meeting in Minneapolis.
Workers and their employers will
cooperate in running banks in indus
trial centers of Chile, United States
Assistant Trade Commissioner En-
bry reports.
New York theater stage hands win
| increase in pay and call off threaten
| ed strike.
Earthquake, fire and tidal wave
cause great loss of life in Toxic,
Yokohama and other cities of Japan,
United States Government and Red
Cross act to rush immediate relief
| to stricken nation.
Yardmasters and assistant yard
masters of the Northern Pacific Rail
road win S-hour day.
American workmen sit on the
worlds pinnacle" say Secretary of
Commerce Hoover and Secretary of
Labor Davis in Labor Day statements
| Both have recently completed studies
of European labor problems.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers is planning to open labor bank
in Boston.
Child labor is increasing in the
United States. Latest figures mdi-
cate an increase of child labor in
1922 as compared with 1921 and in
1923 as compared with 1922.
| Unconditional "ardons should be
granted to the Sacramento group of
prisoners convicted ON charges of vio-
lating wartime laws, says Senator
Pepper of Pennsylvania.
| London dock workers return to
work after strike of seven weeks
called in defiance of their officers.
United Textile Workers and Fed
Grated Textile Workers to hold con-
ference in New York Sept. % looking
toward amalgamation of two unions.
| President Coolidge issues instruc-
tions for opening of big drive against
bootleggers.
| Governor Walton of Oklahoma de-
clares that if necessary he will use
every soldier in the state to end mob
violence and flogging.
Mines in the Ruhr reopen as miners
accept terms offered by employers.
lnteralied Federation of Former
Combatants in BRUSSELS conference
calls on all citizens of world to urge
new disarmament congress.
Ebert II. Gary, Chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation an
nounces that his concern had been
comforting with heads of subsidiaries
companies on adjustment of wage
rates in connection with the elimina-
ton of the 12-hour workday.
Ford Motor Company has cash bal
! ance of $210,293,922, said to be the
largest cash holding ever reported by
any industrial concern in the world
Delaware, Dackawanna 4 Western
D.. Railroad grants wage increase of two
cents an hour to its stationary fire
men and engineers, oilers, water ten
ders and coal passers.
Exchange of kilograms of congrat-
: ulation by American and Mexican or
gained labor Signalizes announce
ment of the recognition of the Mex
lean Government by the United
States.
, Col. Sam N. Hunter, in address
ing the Springfield, H., Federation
of Labor attributes the Herrin mas
sacre to professional gunner "mem-
bers of the hired army of capital"
, Strike called in Lisbon, Portugal,
in protest against the increased price
of bread ends and many of the lead
ers are arrested
Car loadings throughout the United
States set new high record for ali
time.
? Action to obtain wage increases
considered by general chairman of
the Switchman's Union of North
America and the Brotherhood of Fire
men and Enginemen at conferences
in Chicago.
Bulletin of the Harvard Economic
, Service says although the recession
in June and July brought business