The Connecticut labor news., 1923-12-01
AS THE WORKER
  SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important
 Events of the Week, Here and Abroad.

Long hours are bad business and the l worker is not machine, John D. Rocke- | feller, IT,, tells Standard Oil Company employees.
 President Coolidge plans to ask Con- gress for $28,500,0O0 to fight smuggling of liquor.
 Radicals and Progressive Republicans in both houses of Congress demand greater representation on all important Senate and House committees. Senator-elect Magnus Johnson of Minnesota tells Chicago Federation of Labor expects to fight when he takes his seat in Congress. Panama broke all records for volume of business and money income in 1923, annual report discloses. Many killed in the Ruhr and the Rhineland as Separatists attempt to ex- tend control.
 Cardinal Logue, Prirnate of all Ire land, advises Free State Government to free all persons held in internrnent camps.
 Methodist Bishpos give conflicting re- ports of conditions in Russia, at serm- ons in New York
 Most serious soft coal strike Ill the nations history will occur when present wage agreements expires, next Spring, says L. A. Snead, former assistant to the United States Fuel Administrator Gov Walton of Oklahoma convicted by Senate of eleven of g charges and busted from office
 United States Supreme Court upholds 00-day sentence on Comptroller Craig of New York City for alleged contempt of court Despite depression i'll the oil industry, cash dividends paid by Standard Oii companies for 1923 smash record with total of $134,o57, ,372.
 Senator Brookhart of Iowa urges se- parate 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.
 Lother Witzke, only German spy con victed II United States during World War, is released for LeavenwortI Pri- son and ordered deported
 First death among hunger shrinking political prisoners in Ireland occurs in Newbridge Camp, Kildare,
 Union Pacific Railroad does heaviest business in its history and earnings rise F per cent over last year.
 Russia Soviet Government continuing to spend great sums for aeroplanes, ac- cording to dispatches from Riga
 Because of readjustrnent in the wo- mems garment trade, the period of guar anteed employment and the umemp1oy- ment allowance of 1924, have been re duced by the board of referees main tained by the International Ladies' Gar ment Workers Union and the Cleveland Ladies Garment Manufacturers Associ-. ation @S
 Study of wages earned by 60,00O wo- men employed in New York state in dustries disclosed that approximately half receive less than $16 week.
 Dr. Frederick A. Cook, Polar explor- CT, found guiltp, with twelve others, of oil swindling charge.
 Prague professor finds cure for arte- rio sclerosis in plain syrup of silicic acid and sundew plant Z Six men indicted in Cobb County, Ga, in connection with. the fogging at night of man and woman
 Railroads and the Brotherhoods hold series of conferences on wages and working conditions.
 Paris goes without milk as milk hand 1ers strike for higher wages
 Soviet Government permits the Holy Synod to reopen the Supreme Clerical Academy for the teaching of theology.
 William H, Barr, head of National Founders Associatin, urges "open shop" mad declares for contract labor when there is proven shortage in any branch of agriculture or industry"
 Heavy pig iron buying points to big steel and iron business next quarter.
 Pennsylvania railroad Closes Altoona shops until Dec B About 12,000 men are affected.
 United States Railroad Labor Board issues statement blaming both the com pany and the railroad unions for the dispute which caused hrerlen and en- gineers of Virginia railway to strike.
 Bands of unemployment ment reported robbing and burning farms in German Silesia.
 Germany will bleed to death over Rhine and Ruhr if France keeps wound open, Chancellor Stressmenn tells Reich stag.
 Farmers Union convention at Omaha demands that tariff on wheat be increas- ed 50 cents bushel.
 President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor vigorously attacks | latest campaign for recognition of So- viet Russia conducted in the Hearst 1