Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-10-05
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of I'M
portanf Events of the Week,
Here and. Abroad.

Observation-Disclosures.
Illinois Federation of Labor, in an.
nual convention votes down by over
whelming majorities proposals fol
"amaigamation," a labor party and
recognition of Soviet Russia.
International Metal Polishers' I'm
ion. in convention at Cincinnati, votes
down zone big union" plan by 122 to
Il. Convention asks release Of all
remaining wartime prisoners.
Demands for more pay and shorter
working day submitted to steamship
officials by International LongshOre-
mems Association.
Northwest Federated Shop Crafts
obtains temporary injunction restrain
ing members Of the Associated Organ
ization of Shopcraft Employees on
the Great Northern railroad from in
teffefing with members Of the for
mer organization in shops Of the road.
Trades ana Labor Congress of Can
ada in 39th annual convention at
Vancouver votes 10l to 53 to con-
tinue its present relations to the
American Federation of Labor and the
international trade unions.
Gov. c. W. Bryan of Nebraska goes
into coal business TO break national
combine"
Illinois reports increase in factory
employment in August, figures show
ing 10 per cent gain over August,
1872
Net income of Glass / railroads for
July far above same month last year,
Interstate Commerce Commission re-
ports.
Compromise ends long strike in the
Swedish iron industry.
Canadian Trades and Labor Con
gress passes resolution declaring
that if war threatened to embroil
Canada, the executive of the congress
would call special session to decide
what action the workers would take
toward preventing the participation of
the Dominion in hostilities.
Sixty well known men and women
Of California send petition to Pres
the remaining prisoners convicted on
charges of violating wartime laws.
Tom Moore reelected president of
the Canadian Trades and Labor Con-
gress for the eighth time.
All records for production of port
land cement were broken in August,
u. S. Geological Survey reports.
Cost of living in the United States
on August Is, 1923, was GIG per
cent higher than in 1914, according
to figures collected by the National
Industrial Conference Board.
Failing to reach a settlement by
negotiation, the U. S. Shipping Board
plans to begin suit against the Beth
lehem Shipbuilding Corporation for
recovery of $2,500,000 alleged to have
been overpaid under the firms war
contracts.
Anthracite coal miners return to
work, following ratification of new
wage scale based on settlement pro-
posed by Gov. Pinchot.
Pressmen's strike ties mp daily
newspapers in New York City.
New Jersey trolleymen, on strike
for many weeks, vote to accept COM
pany's offer of 20 per cent wage in
crease.
Four thousand workers employed
by American Smelling and Refining
Company at Chihuahua City, Mexico,
go on strike.
Louis v. Eytinge, former "lifer,"
denounees prison system of United
States as "antiquated, brutal and
stupid" in address at Union Hill, N. J.
Alabama restores whipping lash in
its prison system, corporal punish
ment to be resorted to only in EEK
treme cases."
Mayor Cauffiel of Johnstown, Pa,
who ordered negroes to leave John.
town, is defeated in primary election.
Mexico investigates reports that
Cauffiel also ordered Mexicans to
leave Johnstown.
General strike ties up industry at
Freiburg, in Baden, Germany. Strike
stops railway service and publication
of newspapers.
Labor disturbances are the most
serious obstacle to a superintendent
production of coal, United States Coal
Commission repor. says.
Oklahoma editors and publishers
issue appeal to country against mar
tial law declared by Gov. Walton in
his fight against the Ku Kulx Kan.
Five hundred Alabama convicts in
Birmingham dynamite coal mines and
wreck pumps in protest agairsS the
failure of the state legislature to
change the convict leasing system.
A special coal investigating ccm-
mission of the Massachusetts legisla-
ture renews its appeal to the publ,
to boycott anthracite coal. EVERY
time the mine price of anthracit.
goes up" the commission says, "tlt
state of Pennsylvania gets an in.
creased tax"