Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-12-07
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of I'm
portant Events Of the Week.
Here and Abroad.

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Observation-Disclosures
Long hours are bad business and
the worker is not a machine, John
d. Rockefeller, Jr., tells Standard vi
Company employees.
President Coolidge plans to ask
Congress for S28, 100000 to fight
smuggling of liquor.
Radicals and Progressive Republi-
cans in both houses Of Congress de-
mand greater representation on all
important Senate and House commit
tees.
Senator-elect Magnus Johnson Of
Minnesota tells Chicago Federation Of
Labor he expects to fight when he
takes his seat in Congress.
Panama Canal broke all records
for volume of business and money in
come in 1923, annual report discloses.
Many killed in the Ruhr and the
Rhineland as Separatists attempt to
extend control.
Cardinal Logue, Primate of all Ire
land, advises Free State Government
to free all persons held in interment
camps.
Methodist Bishops give conflicting
reports of conditions in Russia, at
sermons in New York.
Most serious soft coal strike in the
nations history will occur when pres
ent wage agreements expires next
Spring, says l.. A. Snead, former as
sistant to the United States Fuel Adj
ministration.
Gov. Walton of Oklahoma convict
ed by Senate of eleven of % charges
and ousted from office.
United States Supreme Court up
holds 60-day sentence on Comptrol-
Ter Graf of New York City for al
legged contempt of court.
Despite depression in the oil in
dustry, cash dividends paid by Stand
ard Oil companies. for 1923 smash
record with total of $134,957,372.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa urges
separate Federal Reserve system
banks for farmers and labor.
Liberal and Labor parties of Great
Britain announce stand in favor of
full recognition of Soviet Russia.
Lothar Witzke, only German spy
convicted in United States during
World War, is released from Leaven-
worth Prison and ordered deported.
First death among hunger-striklng
political prisoners in Ireland occurs
in Newbridge Camp, Kildare.
Union Pacific Railroad does heav-
lest business in its history and earn
ings rise IL per cent over last year.
Russian Soviet Government con-
tinuing to spend great sums for aer-
oplanes, according to dispatches from
Riga.
Because of a REIMBURSEMENT in the
women's garment trade, the period of
guaranteed employment and the un-
employment allowance Of 1924, have
been reduced by the board of referees
maintained by the International La
dis Garment Workers Union and the
Cleveland Ladies' Garment Manufac-
turers Association.
Study of wages earned by 60 900
women employed in New York state
industries disclosed that approximate
ly half receive less than SIG week.
DIR. Frederick A. Cook, Polar ex-
plorer, found guilty, with twelve 9TH
ers of oil swindling charge.
Prague professor finds cure for
| arterio sclerosis in plain syrup of
silicic acid and sundew plant.
Six men indicted in Cobb county,
Ca, in connection with the flogging
at night of a man and a woman.
Railroads and the Brotherhoods
hold series of conferences on wages
and working conditions.
Paris goes without milk as milk
handlers strike for higher wages.
Soviet Government permits the
Holy Hynod to reopen the Supreme
| Clerical Academy for the teaching of
theology.
William H. Barr, head of National
Founders Association, urges "open
shop" and declares for contract la.
Dor "when there is a proven short
age in any branch of agriculture Oh
industry"
Heavy pig iron buying points to
big steel and iron business next quar-.
| ter.
Pennsylvania railroad closes Altoo.
ma shops until Dec. 3. About 10000
men are affected.
/ United States Railroad Labor
| Board issues statement blaming both
| the company and the railroad unions
| for the dispute which caused firemen
and engineers of Virginia railway to
| strike.
Bands of unemployed men reported
robbing and burning farms in Ger
man Silesia.
Germany will bleed to death over
Rhine and Ruhr if France keeps
wound open, Chancellor Stressmann
tells Reichstag.
Farmers Union convention at Oma-
ha demands that tariff on wheat be
increased so cents a bushel.
President Gompers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor vigorously
attacks latest campaign for recogni-
ton of Soviet Russia conducted in the
J Hearst newspapers.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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