Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-07-27
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
. Summary and Digest of I'm
. portant Events of the Week,
. Here and Abroad.

Observation-Disclosures
Steel magnates promise to end IL.
hour day In letter 20 President Hard
/ ing.
President Gompers Of the Amen'
can Federation of Labor declares thai
promises of the steel manufacturer
| 10 abolish l2-hour day Will bring
little comfort to the men in the stee
mills" Judge Gary's statement
means he will end the l2-hour day
when he can get unlimited immigra'
ton or when another depression
creates a surplus Of workers, sale
/ Mr.. Gompers.
Federated Farmer-Labor party
with a platform drawn up under tht
leadership of the Workers Party Of
/ America, is organized at Chicago
| Farmer-Labor Party refused to par
ticipate, stating the principles of thu
/ platform were too radical.
Investigation at scene OF fata
wreck of Brooklyn, N. y, elevated
train reveals inner guard timber'
were lacking at spot where trair
plunged to street.
New South Wales, Australia, fixei
living wage for adult unskilled mal'
laborers at 1886 a week and fol
adult women at $500 a week.
Federal Coal Trade Commission
urges Government regulation of an
thracite coal industry and full con
troll in an emergency. Interest o.
public declared to be paramount il
coal production.
7. w. Higginbotham, whipping
boss, found guilty of the murder o.
Martin Tabert, the North Dakota MAJ
whose death in a convict camp re
suited in the adjustment of whipping
conyicts 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 l2-hour work
day as incompatible with American
standards" The change will affec'
about 5000 workers.
Twenty centavos, or ten cents IL
American money is what the Indiar
workers of the Coixtlahuaca district
State of Oaxaca earn in a IL houl
day, according to report submitted
to the Department of Industry ano
Commerce in Mexico City.
Railway Brotherhood chiefs repre-
senting all trainmen and conductor:
west of the Mississippi meet in Chi
cago to discuss the advisability of de
manding higher pay. Similar meet
ings will soon be held for the eastern
and southern districts.
President Gompefs of the American
Federation of Labor declares that tn,
United States Coal Commissions pro
posal for dealing with strikes lead
one to believe that 1t could hardl!
have been better calculated to VIII
the Administration the support of thu
| operators" -.
Peter J. Brady, president of thu
Federation Bank of New York, ;
union labor institution, announces
that the bank has been admitted t,
the Federal Reserve System.
Warning to migratory laborers an,
| particularly to negroes from the soutl
not to go to Cleveland for employ
ment is issued by the Department o
Labor.
Officials of the Pennsylvania Rail
road scheduled to appear at hear
ing of the United States Railroad La
Dor Board involving the recognition b,
the railroad of the conference com
mittee of the Order of Railway Tele
graphers, fail to appear.
l TWapfu-cauan t,nanhnrc nf tho In
dustrial Workers of the World ar
convicted in Los Angeles on an indict
ment charging criminal syndicalisn
The defendants were charged wit
having circulated !. w. w. literatur
during recent strike of longshore
men, in violation of CALIFORNIA; syndi
calism act.
Leaders of the British Labor Part,
declare there is danger of war be
tween Great Britain and France.
| Wheat falls below 81 to lowest Jul
price since 1914. Government report
indicate a big wheat crop this year
French Parliament ratifes Wash
ington naval limitation treaty an
-four power Pacific accord.
Pennsylvania mine owners accuse
of peonage. Two victims charge the,
We're dashed by woman whipping
boss" in mine at Turtle Creek.
Twelve-hour day will end in man
departments of the steel mills befor
the send of the year. James A. Camp
bell, president of the Youngstown
Sheet and Tube Company, declares.
Italian Department of immigration
has received 100000 applications fror
Italian citizens desiring to emigrate t
the United States.
United States District Court a
Chicago makes permanent the tempo
rary injunction obtained last Octobe
by Attorney General Daughert
against the striking railroad shop
men.
Great Britain demands that occu
patton of the Ruhr be ended and tina
the allies fix a fair amount 70
reparations and make Germany pa,
il.