The Connecticut labor news., 1923-08-04
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week, Here
 and Abroad.

Protesting against the employment of convicts in competition with free labor, the United Mine Workers oi America ask the U. s. Coal Commis- sion to investigate cruel treatment of convicts in Alabama coal mines.
 American Relief Administration virtually completes withdrawal from Russia, where for almost two years 200 Americans have been fighting famine. The relief work cost the United States about $62, ,ooO, ,ooo.
 President Harrington of the Hi nois Mine Workers planes the "ugly countenance of the American gun man" for the Herrin calamity, in answering a brief. filed by the Ma tional Coal Association.
 American congressional junketeefs in Russia have gathered their infor- nation from tours prearranged by Soviet officials and accompanied by guides and interpreters of the Rus sian government, Philadelphia Public Ledger charges.
 Great Britain hopes to call inter national conference on the limitation of armament, Premier Baldwin tells the House of Commons.
 Investigators of the United States Public Health Service find that many women in industrial plants rush off 10 work without breakfast. A large majority of them eat insufficient food at noon.
 At the request of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, the Fed eral Trade Commission postpones de- cision on the "Pittsburg plus" system of steel prices until December.
 Richard T. Jones, district director of the United States Employment Service of St. Louis reports employ ment is awaiting thousands of work CTS in St. Louis district.
 Criminal action against San Fran cisco building material dealers to pro feet the right of building workers to organize, is in view, Attorney Gen. CTS, and certain trade associations colt labor unions by refusing to fur nish material to contractors employ ing union labor.
 Charles M Schwab declares in favor of the 8-hour day for the steel industry but thinks 1t will be a long time before the change from the I2- hour day is made.
 Indianapolis trade unions organiz- ing labor bank, patterned after Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin- eers' bank in Cleveland.
 Hugh Frayne, New York represen- tative of the American Federation of Labor, accepts vice-chairmanship of the advisory committee appointed by State Senator Cotillo of New York to aid his joint legislative committee in Investigating immigrant exploita- ton.
 Michael F. Tighe, international president of the Amalgamated Asso- citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work CTS, says that the campaign launched to organize the steel workers is di- rected primarily toward the elinina- ton of the I2-hour workday..
 Temporary injunction issued at Albany to restraint Ku Klux Klan and its sister organization, the Kamelia,
 New business and decreased can cellations of orders points to con tinued full operations in iron and steel industry.
 Employers of New York City bank and trust companies joining Book keepers, Stenographers and Account ants Union as result Of organization campaign by union.
 Several hundred additional em- ployes in the open hearth department of the Republic Iron and Steel Com pany at Youngstown, Ohio, obtain the 8-hour day at the same rate of pay they had been receiving for the I2-hour day.
 An industrial group in thef British House of Commons sends letter to Premier Baldwin, outlining plans to take care of the unemployed. The letter suggests that public work be begun at once at a cost of 5o,ooo, ,ooo pounds.
 Price of bread is going up in Wash ington, D. C., while the price of the raw material of bread-wheat-is down to pre-war levels. Government Is unable to determine the responsi- bility.
 First formal conference looking to- ward the elimination of the I2-hour day in the steel industry held in New York, when presidents of manufactur- ing subsidiaries of the United States Steel. Corporation meet with Judge Gary.
 Cost of living advanced an average of one-half of one per cent in the United States between March and June and in the latter month 1t was 6o7 per cent higher than in 1915.
 A G. Pack, chief safety inspector of the Interstate Commerce Commits sion, sharply criticises the Pennsyl- vania railroad for two recent acci- dents. Bremen and enginemen were seriously scalded. The report de- clares that the locomotives had been improperly and inadequately re- paired. .t