The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-06
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Import ant Events of the Week,
 Here and Abroad.

Warning against giving aid in any form to the red progressive interna l tlonal committee of the United Min. l Workers of America," issued by in Iternational executive board of tht
 United Mine Workers of America. 1 Twenty-Five representatives Of or 1 ganized labor start movement to or \ ganlze workers in steel mills. Sup
 port of the A. F. of L. was pledged by President Gompers ,who said ''th, 1 actoin of the steel manufacturers II l deciding to continue the I2-hour day
 leaves the workers no hope for relic
 except through organization" | Unemployment crisis which forced 5,ooo,ooo men to walk the streets 1T | 1921 has vanished and all the jobles:
 are back at work, Government Un
 employment Bureau at Washington | announces.
 Robert Smillie, veteran radica
 British labor leader, elected to House
 of Commons in bye election at Nor peth.
 Consolidation of nations railroads
 into a few systems is country's Harding tells Kansas City audience. | INuoi oI clIto tO llIC oIItSN States under new quota for British Isles begins. One liner sails with 25o 1 skilled Scottish workmen.
 Leviathan given noisy greeting as trial trip' ends at New York Dem ocratic national committee announces it will press for a congressional in vestigation of the "junket." Congress of the Finnish Fedora
 ton of Trade Unions was attended by v delegates, of whom AZ were Communists and 20 Social Democrats !, Annual report of the Czecho-Slo- yakian Federation of Trade Unions shows the Federation has suffered much from economic conflicts and Communist rivalry, losing 25o,ooo members
 Illinois Supreme Court holds that strikes called in furtherance of boy colts are illegal. The ruling af-
 hrmed the judgment of the Appellate Court finding the Carpenters District Council of Chicago and two union officials guilty of contempt of court The court holds that strike called on builder even though no violence IS used Is in effect an act of intinida- ton against him and was called be- cause he had used mill work pur- chased from a manufacturing com pany which refused to maintain a strictly union shop.
 American Federation of Labor, in June American Federationist, refutes statement that Indianapolis is para disc of the "open shoppers" In quiry developed that Indianapolis is one of the best organized cities in the country" says the report.
 Moscow dispatches report that the Third or Red" International has re- jected the plea of some of its mem bers suggesting that religion IS pri- vate matter of conscience The In ternationale declares that while such might be the case in a "bourgeoise" state, religion is incompatible for Communists.
 Federal Council of Churches re- news attack on I2-hour day in the steel industry, branding as garbled and false book by Marshall Olds de- lending the 12-hour day.
 President Harding tells Denver audience failure to enforce prohibit ton among poor and rich alike will threaten the very life of this Repub- lie"
 West Virginia State Federation of Labor issues call for state convention July Io of organized workers and farmers to form political party. Girl telephone operators strike in five New England states, tie-up being most effective in larger cities of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
 United Farmers Party, in control of government of Ontario, Canada, lis defeated by Conservatives, who win v out of III seats in Parliament
 People of Alabama begin drive to abolish leasing of prisoners to coal mine owners; convicts clubbed, tor tured and maimed, 1t Is charged.
 British Labor Party, in 23rd an nual conference, rejects request of Communist Party of England for afiliation by card vote of 2,88o,ooo to 3o6,ooo.
 Trend toward a shortage of labor shown by bulletin. of New York State Industrial Commissioner
 Union plasterers of St. Louis win fight for $I4 for an eight-hour day. This is said to be the highest wages for .plasterers in the United States.
 ''The position of the Pennsylvania system in this matter Is devoid of in trinsic merit, violative of the will of Congress-, and destructive of the rights of employees" says the Rall- road Labor Board in scoring Penn sylvania Railroad for refusing to deal with clerks organization.
 Combination of British and Chilean interests is controlling prices and production of nitrate and forcing the United States to pay higher prices than are warranted, according to