The Connecticut labor news., 1923-07-20
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week, Here
 and Abroad.

Steel magnates promise to end I2- hour day in letter to President Harding.
 President Gompers of the Nmeri- can Federation of Labor declares that promises of the steel manufacturers to abolish I2-hour day will bring little comfort to the men in the steel mills" Judge Gary's statement means he will end the I2-hour day when he can get unlimited immigration or when another depression creates surplus of workers. said MT. Com |pers.
 Federated Farmer-Labor party, with a platform drawn up under the leadership of the Workers Party of America, is organized at Chicago. ticipate, stating the principles of the platform were too radical. Investigation at scene of fatal wreck of Brooklyn, N. Y, elevated train reveals inner guard timbers were lacking at spot where. train plunged to street. New South Wales, Australia, fixes living wage for adult unskilled male laborers at $I8.o6 week and for adult women at 5000 week.  urges Government regulation of an- thracite coal industry and full con- trol in an emergency. Interest of pub lie declared to be paramount in coal production.
 T. w. Higginbothan, whipping boss, found guilty of the murder of Martin Tabert, the North Dakota
 man whose death in convict camp
 resulted in the abolishment of whip ping convicts in Florida. New Jersey State Department of
 Labor begins statewide crusade
 against sweat shops, following expo sure of sweat shops in Jersey City and other cities which resulted from an investigation in which organized labor took leading part. Anthracite Operators Association
 formally abandons the Ie-hour work day as "incompatible with American
 standards" The change will affect about 5000 workers.
 Twenty centavoS, Or 10 cents m American money IS what the Indian workers of the Coixtlahuaca, district, State of Oaxaca earn in a .I2-hour day, according to report submitted to the Department of Industry and Commerce in Mexico City. Railway Brotherhood chiefs repre- senting all trainmen and conductors west of the Mississippi meet in Chi cago to discuss the advisability of de- handing higher pay. Similar meet ings will soon b held for the eastern and southern districts. .
 Peter J. Brady, president of the Federation Bank of New York, union labor institution, announces
 that the bank has been admitted to the Federal Reserve System. Warning to migratory laborers and particularly to negroes from the south not to go to Cleveland for employ ment is issued by the Department of Labor
 ]. Officials of the Pennsylvania Rail- road scheduled to appear at a hear ing of the United States Railroad La Dor Board involving the recognition by the railroad of the conference Photographers, fail to appear.
 ,Twenty-seven members of the In- dustrial Workers of the World are convicted in Los Angeles on an in dictment charging criminal syndical- ism. The defendants were charbed with having circulated l. w w liter ature during a recent strike of long shoremen, in violation of California's syndicalism act
 LeadSrs of the British Labor Party declare there Is danger of war be- tween Great Britain and Franie.
 Wheat falls below ST to lowest July prince since 1914. Government reports indicate a big wheat crop this year.
 French Parliament ratihes Wash ington naval limitation treaty and four power Paciic accord.