The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-27
AS THE WORKER !.
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week, Here
 and Abroad.

American Federation of Labor con- vention at Portland, Ore, ends sessions, re-electing President Samuel Gompers and other officers and members of the Executive Council and selecting Fl Pa so Tex, as the next convention city.
 Food riots spread Ill Germany, as French sign initial agreements with mir ners for resumption of work in the Rufr
 Killing of fourteen labor leaders and Socialists by cavalry troops at the Ka- meido police station following the Jap anese earthquake was justihable, off cial reports allege.
 Lawyers in Sicily strike in protest against taxation imposed upon them for the practice of their profession.
 Henry Ford issues statement blaming Secretary of War Weeks for blocking of bid for Muscle Shoals Six leading citizens of Pana, H., kill ed by drinking poisonous wf1iskey. T. w. Stanford, alleged Ku Klux Klansn1en, found guilty of whitecapping and sentenced to two years imprison- ment in connection with flogging case at Amarillo, Tex
 Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania places blame for failure fo enforce prohibition law on shoulders of President Coolidge Ferdinand Hanusch, since 1913 presi- dent of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, dies. Government begins drive to lower pri- ces of coal. Five wholesale dealers and one anthracite mining company to ap- pear before Federal Trade Commission November 1o to answer charges of con- spring to increase coal prices Maine defeats amendment providing for 48-hour week for women and child l ren.
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 Fire laws disregarded i'll 500 homes of the poor in New York City, Tene- ment House Commissioner Frank Mann tells State Housing Commission Union printers in Ashvi11e, N C, strike for higher wages. Edgar Combs, miner charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff John Gore i'll the 1921 march of miners in West Virginia, pleads guilty and is sentenced to life imprisonment
 Teapot Dome naval oil reserve has produced only small part of the oil expected from 1t, Government survey shows.
 Socialist party of Belgium bars all Communists from the party's unionist, cooperative or mutual organizations to eliminate Communist influence in these bodies.
 Thomas Edison predicts that next de cade will see greater strides in eleetri- cal world than last
 Striking barbers in Rennes, France, give free slaves to all corners in inn provised shops set up in cafes through out the city.
 Russia calls up troops of three classes to prepare for. possible war. Ste1nberg law, requiring literacy test for new voters, IS upheld by New York Appeals Court.
 Attorneys generals of many states lay plans to enforce price of gasoline
 Wage increase of Is cents an hour granted longshoremen in Boston harhor.
 American Legion, in fifth annual con vention, adopts resolutions declaring in. consistent with the ideals and purposes of the legion anl individual or organi- ration which fosters racial, religious or class strife.
 Senator King demands President Coolidge smurnon conference of Eur
 Strike of 14.000 British physicians, serving 15,000000 persons, is voted for January l against reduction in fees. Children go without proper food and are forced to seek work as parents strive to meet high rents, New York State Housing Commission IS told
 Tendency toward upward revision of wages continues in Boston district. Living costs rise in Paris and are now near the peak of 1920, according to the prefecture.
 Factories close and many workers are made idle by water famine in Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey bor. C.l,raS+d, C.,+-,t r ,b,. f-,.,.