The Connecticut labor news., 1923-08-11
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week, Here
 and Abroad.

that he fears world revolution unless America takes the lead in spiritual redemption.
 Walter s. Ward, son of the mil lionaire head of the anti-union Ward Baking Company, indicted at White Plains, N. Y., for the murder of Clar- ence Peters, mysteriously slain May I6, 1922.
 Jury in trial of William Blizzard of the United Mine Workers, ac- cused in West Virginia mine wal case, fails to agree
 Strike of telephone operators ir New England declared off, on recom- mendation of Massachusetts State ton.
 Senator-elect Magnus Johnson oi Minnesota says revolution faces United States eff conditions confront ing the laboring man and the farmer are not changed"
 Bethlehem Steel Corporation earns nearly double it's dividend require ments, report for second quarter shows.
 New York State wage levels rose slightly in June, according to report of the State Department of Labor Working time decreased in several industries.
 Threat of Premier Mussolini to gag the press of Italy is one which he will not dare to put into effect, say three leading opposition papers.
 Leading oil refners call for 3o-day shutdown of rehneries to keep up prices of gasoline.
 Communists conduct large denion- stration in Berlin and other cities
 
 man Fascist movement.
 Representatives of railroad labor unions meet at Albany, and form New York state branch of National Conference for Progressive Political Action
 Directors of Illinois Manufactur- CTS Association expected to call con vention at Chicago in effort to stem wave of political radicalism which Is threatening to sweep Middle West.
 Employment conditions are expect ed to remain favorable in virtually every part of the country for the next 6O days at least, according to the Employment Service of the Depart ment of Labor
 Adjustment of working rules. and an increase averaging cents an Ihour in the rate of pay for te1egraphers on 30 roads asked by President Man ion of >the Order of Railroad Te1e- graphers before the U. S. Railroad Labor Board
 Divorce rate in the United States IS now o.3 divorces to each one hun dred marriages, as compared with 6.3 in IoI6, says the New York Herald.
 Child laboE in the United States is increasing judging by recent reports received by the United States Chi1- dren's Bureau, Grace Abbott, chief of the bureau, states in an address at Chicago.
 Labor members of the U. S. Rail- road Labor Board declare the railroad shopmen's strike of 1922 was due probably to the 'incapability of Chairman Ben w. Hooper and R. M Barton to understand the value placed upon trade union ethics by bona hde trade unions"
 Railroad earnings for June average close to 6 per cent, reports from 40 of the largest and most represent alive railroads of the nation indicate
 Street car service in I46 towns and cities of northern New Jersey Is tied up, as 63oo trolleymen strike for wage increase.
 United States Steel Corporations earnings for second quarter of year indicate that corporation is earnings at the annual rate of more than $I3 a share.
 Connecticut Socialists and repre- sentatives of labor unions to attend State Conference for Progressive Po- litical Action at New Haven Septem- Der TO-
 Minnesota State Federation of La bor plans campaign to organize ore miners of the Mesaba range, north of Duluth
 Moscow dispatches report "a sharp decrease in membership of Russian trade unions. Total membership was 5.ooo,ooo in July, 1922, as compared with 8,5oo,ooo in July, 1921.
 Attacking convict leasing system in Alabama, Rev w. E, Lockter charges in sermon at Mobile that Thu man beings are being cut to pieces with lashes such as one would not dare strike mule with for fear ol being arrested for cruelty to animals and many of them have marks or their bodies they will carry to their graves"
 Nova Scotia steel workers, whose walkout resulted in sympathetic strike of miners, vote to return tc work
 Executive~board meeting of Il1inoi: Federation of Labor sanctions organ ization of posts in the American Legion composed entirely of trade union members. A state campaign te acquaint union workers with the use of the injunction in industrial strug gles was announced