Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-09-14
. AS THE WORKER
. SEES HIS WORLD
. Summary and Digest of I'm
. pOrtant Events of the Week,
. Here and Abroad.

Three members of the ku KluX
Khan in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sentenced
to two years Imprisonment for taking
part in recent fiOgglngs in Oklahoma.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor names a com
mittee of fifteen labor officials to in
vestigate "the uses and abuses of
Feedral injunctions."
Unemployment situation in Great
Britain continues to be grave and
apparently is growing worse week to
week.
New England Conference Board Of
the United Textile Workers announr
es it will fight any attempt to reduce
wages and will call upon all textile
| workers to re-establish better work
ing conditions and the 1920 wage
scale.
Six industrial training schools for
the unemployed have been opened In
Vienna.
Destruction of seven American war
ships in compliance with treaties for
the limitation of ornaments begins
in two Pacific Coast shipyards.
Col. Jay J. Morrow, Governor Gen
eral of the Canal Zone says the Pan
| anna Canal is operating at such a big
profit that it has paid for itself many
times over
Evidence indicating the larger oil
companies operating in Georgia are
using methods in restraint OF trade
and are blocking independent dealers
from dealing with them has been
found by George M. Napier, who is
investigating the gasoline situation in
| Georgia.
Tariff Commission orders a Com
pfehensive" investigation into the cost
of producing sugar beets In the
United States.
| President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor says the easiest
and only permanent solution for the
continuous recurring trouble i'm the
! coal industry is for the mine opera
tors to recognize all organized labor
| and agree to conditions and wages
enabling the miners to live in accord
ance with American ideals and stand
ards.
Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania
issues plea for release of % men
convicted at Sacramento ON charges of
violating wartime laws.
General strike at Vera Cruz, Mex
leo, ends after isolating city for five
days.
| Government is now costing 500 a
year for each man, woman and child
in the United States, according to
compilations being made by the Cen
sus bureau, says Milwaukee journal
! Institution of the S-hour day in the
steel industry in the Birmingham
district has been postponed by the
! Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Co.
| Disabling industrial accidents num-
bering 2,427 $50 annually result in
a wage loss of at least 81 900, 900, 00C
according to a statement by Ethel.
bert Stewart, U. S. Commissioner OF
Labor Statistics.
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah t,
present at next Congress an eXpen
diture tax on Injuries and eNtrava
giant purchases.
Mob 5000 strong storms Ku Klu,
Khan meeting at Perth Amboy, N. J
Two men seriously injured but no on
killed.
: Speculative jobber or wholesale
blamed by the United States Goa
Commission for last years high prices
of anthracite.
Executive Council of American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor meets in New Yorl
City to draw up its annual report Il
be submitted to the A. +. of l.. con
yention opening Oct 1 at Portland
D Ore
Cigarmakers' International Uniol
I convention in Chicago adopts propose
to take into Cigarmakers' Union al
1 workers in the trade.