The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-20
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week, Here
 and Abroad.

American Federation of Labor de- nounces Ku K1ux Klan and Fascist movement at Portland convention.
 Longshoremen at Norfolk, Va, strike for 8O-cent wage scale and shipping IS delayed.
 Credentials of William F. Dunne, of Butte, Mont, Central Labor Council, revoked by American Federation of La bor convention for communist activities.
 Japan to cut army and navy budget III face of nations recopstruction program. l American Federation of Labor con- vention votes to push campaign for Con- stitutiona1 amendment forbidding child labor Convention also indorses educa-
 Fascist regime in Italy plans to spend more than 800 million lire to provide work for the unemployed.
 Federal Judge Rufus Foster at New Orleans issued temporary injunction for bidding striking harbor workers from interfering with work along the river front or from congregating along wharves and in the neighborhood of ships.
 Proposals for the formation of a la Dor party and for the recognition of Soviet Russia voted down by American Federation of Labor convention.
 Packers raise wholesale price of beef and spring lamb as cool weather increa- seS demand for these meats
 F. C. Plambeck, general organizer of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, indicted by Federal grand jury at Toledo on charges of making efforts to influence members of his union not to testify for the Government III war fraud" cases
 Nineteen thousand miners on strike III Scranton territory vote to return to work and permit the Anthracite Board of Consolidation to settle their grievances.
 United States crop reports say that corn yield is fourth greatest on record.
 International Ladies Garment Work CTS Union ousts from office nineteen of the twenty-five members of the execu- tive committee of Dressmakers' Local g, New York City. The busted mem bers were accused of acting under di- rection of William Z. Fosters Trade Union Educational League"
 American Writing Paper Company goes into rece1vership. A strike of sta tionary engineers and hremen in the company's plant contributed to its trou- bles
 Seven weeks strike of coal miners in Czecho- -Slovakia settled, miners agree ing to accept wage reduction.
 Senator James Couzens, of Michigan, returning from Europe, urges modifica- ton of the Volstead law
 American Federation of Labor con vention reiterates its demand fora modi- fcation of the Volstead law permitting the manufacture of light wines and beers.
 Many Negroes leave Stowe, Town ship, III western Pennsylvania, after be- ing ordered out by a vigilance commit tee" Steel plants, which employ color, ed workers, feel effects of exodus.
 David Lloyd George, former Prem mier of Great Britain, tells Canadians Europe IS arming for another war.
 Bishop Francis J. Mcconnell, of Me thod1st Episcopal Church, attacks me thods of Ku Klux Kan, branding Klan's tactics as m-American
 Car loadings In the week ending Sep tember 2o were the1argest in the history of American railroads, reports say
 University of Michigan announces that George w. Wickersham, Attorney General under President Taft, will not be permitted to speak on the League of Nations in any University building.
 Government monoply of banking urg- ed by Western Starr, representing the Farner-Labor party, in testifying be fore a joint Congressional committee
 Free textbooks in the public schools of all states urged by American Fedora ton of Labor convention.
 Industrial Workers of the World de nounced as a force aiming to destroy organized labor and investigation of it's activities ordered by the American Fe- iteration of Labor convention.
 Reports from many cities show death toll of at least 200 from poison liquor in the United States thus far this year, Chicago Health Commissioner says.
 American Federation of Labor con-. vention zoe on record as opposing can didacy of Oscar w. Underwood for Democratic nomination for President.