Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-08-17
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of I'm
portant Events of the Week,
Here and Abroad.

Former President Wilson writes
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
Clarence Peters, mysteriously slain
May l6, 1922.
Jury in trial of William Blizzard,
of the United Mine Workers, ac-
cused in West Virginia mine war case,
fails to agree.
Strike of telephone operators in
New England declared off, on recon-
mendation of Massachusetts State
Board of Cancellation and Arbitra-
ton.
Senator-elect Magnus Johnson of
Minnesota says revolution faces
United States ''if conditions confront
ing the laboring man and the farmer
are not changed"
Bethlehem Steel Corporation earns
nearly double its 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 Mussolni to gag
the press of Italy is one which he will
not dare to put into effect, say three
leading opposition papers.
Leading oil refiners call for thirty
day shutdown of refineries to keep
up prices of gasoline.
Communists conduct huge demon
strations in Berlin ad other cities
against Cuno government and Ger
man Fascist movement
Representatives of railroad labor
unions meet at Albany, and form New
York State branch of National Con-
ference for Progressive Political
Action.
Directors of Illinois Manufactur-
ers' 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
90 days at least, ACCORDING to the
Employment Service of the Depart
ment of Labor.
Adjustment of working rules and
an increase averaging cents an hour
in the rate of pay for telegraphers
on 30 roads asked by President Man
ion of the Order of Railroad Tele-
graphers before the u. S. Railroad
Labor Board.
Divorce rate in the United States
is now 9.3 divorces to each one hun
dred marriages, as compared with 6.3
in 1916, says the New York Herald.
Child labor in the United States is
increasing, judging by recent reports
received by the United States Chill
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 II. NJ.
Barton to understand the value
placed upon trade union ethics by
bona tide trade unions"
NoilAuau earnings LOT June average
/ close to 8 per cent, reports from 40
| of the largest and most representa-
tive railroads of the nation indicate.
Street car service in LAG towns
and cities of northern New Jersey is
tied up, as $500 trolleymen strike for
wage increase.
United States Steel Corporations
earnings for second quarter of year
Indicate that corporation is earning
at the annual rate of more than S13
a share.
Connecticut Socialists and repre-
sentatiYes Of labor unions to attend
State Conference for Progressive Pc
litical Action at New Haven Septem-
Der 10.
Minnesota State Federation of La
Dor plans campaign to organize ore
miners of the Mesaba range, north of
| Duluth.
Moscow dispatches report sharp
decrease in membership of Russian
trade unions. Total membership was