The Connecticut labor news., 1923-08-25
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week, Here
 and Abroad.

| Senators Frazier and Shipstead de- clare they will ask Congressional in- lvestigation of gasoline prices. | General Federation of German Trade Unions protests against action of the Belgian troops in the Ruhr in requislt1oning public funds destined for the use as unemployment benefit.
 Charges that employees of many I coal mines 1n non-union districts of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ala lbama are held in state of virtual isolation Tn towns where they live are made by committee of c1ergymen and educators.
 l Adoption of resolutions calling for legislation designed to better labor conditions and addresses by labor leaders featured opening session of the North Carolina Federation of Labor.
 Illinois National Guardsmen sent to plant of the American Zinc Com pany, at Hillsboro, H., where em- Iployes are on strike.
 Employment exchanges in Great i Britain register LISA ,ooo as unable to get work. This is 100000 less than on Jan. I, 1923.
 Practices of the Seattle Master Plumbers and Heating Engineers As sociation denounced as. a Standing menace to the community by Judge Ronald Injunction proceedings tagainst the association charged the association with unfair price fixing lmethods, interference with union men on jobs and threatened expulsion of certain members.
 Advocates of the one big union palm and amalgamationitsts were der inounced as enemies of trade unionism at convention III Chicago of Cigar !, Makers International Union. Chemical analysis of 4o food stilffs isold in New York City reveal foreign substances in seven of the 40 samples.
 President Gompers of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor asserts in an address at Chicago that the labor movement in America is evolutionary and not revolutionary Carol Tesca, editor of an anti fascist paper in New York, arrested on charge of mailing and deliver ling unmai1able matter through the United States mail" He charged that the arrest was inspired by the, Italian government.
 l Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen to consider ask ling wage increase, at meeting of gem
  J. O. Bentall, who served two years in Leavenworth penitentiary on charges involving opposition to the war, is welcomed back in Minneapolis at a dinner given by the Minneapolis 1 city council
 German reichstag adopts measure lproviding for seizure of the industry, lands and private holdings as part of ! the national wealth.
 Turkey said to have found prohibi- ton failure after three years trial and will modify law.
 Officials of Brotherhoods of Rail- lway Conductors and Trainmen pay their respects to President Coolidge. | Premier Smuts of the Union of South Africa, makes appeal for all nations, including the United States, to help Great Britain in saving Eu- rope from destruction and to avert worldwide disaster.
 ! Irving T. Bush says practical busi- nes men could solve Eufope's prob lems if politicians kept hands of. Carnegie Steel Company, Pitts lburgh, places 10000 employees on the 1eight-hour basis This is the first move in Pittsburgh district to abolish the I2-hour day.
 Secretary of Labor Davis advocates | the selection of immigrants before they leave their native land and says he will incorporate this proposal in a bill he will send to Congress.