Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-07-20
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of I'm
p0rtant Events of the Week,
Here and Abroad.

J. ].
Observation-Disclosures!
Declaring the bridge between pro-
ducer and consumer must be short
ened, President Harding proposes a
plan of cooperation among consumers
| to be financed in part at least through
an adaptation of principles of the
saving bank and the building and loan
society.
| Social Justice Commission of the
Central Conference of American
Rabbis joins with the Federal Council
of the Churches of Christ in America
and the National Catholic Welfare
Council in attacking U. S. Steel Cor.
poration for maintaining the 12-hour
day.
Tendency to advance wages in many
lines is still apparent, says Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago.
| Nation must draft all industry and
wealth, as well as men in the event of
another war, President Harding says
in address at Helena, Mont.
Edward w. Box offers 100000
prize for best practicable plan by an
| American for cooperation of the
UNITED States toward world peace.
Workers of Cooperative Wholesale
Society of Great Britain end strike
in compliance with terms drawn up
by joint committee of trade unionists
and cooperators.
| Payments aggregating more than
$25, 100000 in nine years have been
made to injured workmen and their
dependents since the Workmen's
| Compensation Law became effective
in New York, Commissioner Schien-
tag reports.
Navy yards announced by Navy De.
partment. Rate allows a general in.
crease of about 10 per cent.
Adjutant General Black of tn,
Illinois National Guard is declared
"derelict in duty and primarily tC
blame for not sending troops to thu
scene of the Herrin riots, in the re
port of the Legislative Investigating
Committee.
| I President Harding's speech in which
he asserted his administration hac
endeavored to prevent the destruction
of organized labor. is assailed b.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor The Harding
administration has been charged witt
lending aid to the campaign against
the unions, said Mr.. Gompers, ano
organized labor is by no means in
clined to withdraw the assertion. The
Daugherty injunctions against thu
railroad men and the miners did moi
appeal to Mr.. Gompers as any grea
effort to conserve the forces of or
ganized labor.
Three Jersey City, New Jersey
manufacturers begin to serve 60-day
sentences in Jail for violating the
child labor law. Their attorneys
however, file motion for appeal.
Canadian troops sent to Sydney
| N. s., where steel workers are OF
strike.
| Partition of large estates under
existing agrarian laws, to restore
land to the villages, reached more
than 1855 acres, according tC
figures published by the National
IAgrarian Commission of Mexico.
| Organized labor moves to give
financial support to telephone opera,
are striking for increased wages and
a seven-hour day.
| More than 10000 acres of public
land in four Western states are
thrown open to entry by ex-service
men.
Seven immigrant quotas went to
smash on Ellis Island, New York, July
2, when 2,243 immigrants were taken
in for inspection. This number ex-
hausted the quotas for Albania,
Greece, Portugal, Turkey, Syria and
Africa.
Berlin dispatches say that the
Metal Workers Union, rejecting the
wage award Of the Minister of Labor,
has called general strike. The car
penters also decide to stop work.
Farmer-Labor conference, designed
to weld scattered groups into third
party, opens in Chicago.
Four railroads, Chesapeake and
Ohio, Norfolk and Western. Louis
vile and Nashville and Central of
| Georgia, grant wage increase to shop
! men, mechanics, helpers and appren-
tees. The Norfolk and Western
| grants increase to signal maintainers,
signal men and assistants and helpers.
Doekers in London, Bristol and
other English cities strike In protest
against wage cut.
Low wages drive 1880 negroes
and 29,51S white to leave the farms
of Georgia for other states, James
f. Peters, president of the Georgia
! Bankers Association, reports.
President Gompers of the Ameri-
/ can Federation of Labor, speaking
before the American Flint Glass
Workers Union in Baltimore, calls
upon labor generally to proteS.- the
| right of free speech. Mr.. Gompers
also advises the workers to demand
the return of the wages cut during
the period of depression that followed
the world war, at the coming wage
conference with their employers.
Lieut.. Governor Lunn of New York