Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-08-10
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of I'm
portant Events Of the Week,
Here and Abroad.

Observation-Disclosures.
Protesting against the employment
OF eOnyiets in competition With free
| labor, the United Mine Workers Of
America ask the U. S. Coal Commits
sion TO investigate cruel treatment
of cOnviets in Alabama coal mines.
American Relief Administration
virtually completes withdrawal from
Russia, where for almost TWO years
zoo Americans have been fighting
famine. The relief work cost the
United States about s62 100000.
President Harrington of the Hi
nOis Mine Workers blames the ugly
countenance of the American gun
man" for the Herrin calamity, in
answering a brief filed by the Ma
tional Coal Association.
American congressional junketeers
in Russia have gathered their infor-
nation from tours prearranged by
Soviet officials and accompanied by
guides and Interpreters of the Rus
sian government, Philadelphia Public
Ledger charges.
Great Britain hopes to call inter-
national conference on the limitation
Of armament, Premier Baldwin tells
the House of Commons.
investigators of the United States
Public Health Service find that many
women in industrial plants rush off
to work without breakfast. A large
majority of them eat insufficient food
at noon.
At the request of Illinois, Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin, the Federal
Trade Commission postpones decision
on the "Pittsburg plus" system of
steel prices until December.
Richard. 7. Jones, district director
of the United States Employment
Service of st. Louis reports employ
ment is awaiting thousands of work
ers in St. Louis district.
Criminal action against San Fran
cisco building material dealers to pro-
tect the right of building workers to
organize, is in view, Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty announces. The deal
ers are certain trade associations
are charged with conspiracy to boy
colt labor unions by refusing to fur
nish material to contractors employ
ing union labor.
Charles M. Schwab declares in
favor of the 8-hour day for the steel
industry but thinks it will be a long
time before the change from the IL
hour day is made.
Indianapolis trade unions organic
ing labor bank, patterned after
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
bank in Cleveland.
Hugh Fayne, New York represen-
tative of the American Federation of
Labor, accepts craftsmanship of
the advisory committee appointed by
to aid his joint legislative committee
in investigating immigrant exploita-
ton.
Michael n. Tighe, International
President of the Amalgamated AssO-
citation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work
ers, says that the campaign launched
to organize the steel workers is di-
rected primarily toward the elimina-
ton of the 12-hour workday.
Temporary injunction issued at
Albany to restrain Ku Klux Khan and
its sister organization, the kamelia,
from functioning in New York State.
New business and decreased can
cellations of orders point to con-
tinued full operations in iron and
steel industry.
Employees of New York City bank
and trust companies joining Book
keepers, Stenographers and Account
ants Union as result of organization
campaign by union.
Several hundred additional en-
ployes in the open hearth department
of the Republic Iron and Steel Com
pany at Youngstown, Ohio, obtain
the S-hour day at the same rate of
pay they had been receiving for the
12-hour day.
An industrial group in the British
House of Commons sends letter to
Premier Baldwin, outlining plans to
take care of the unemployed. The
letter suggests that public work be
begun at once at cost of $4,000, 900
pounds.
Price of breed is going up in Wash
| ington, ID. c., while the price of the
raw material of Observation-Disclosures
down to pre-war levels. Government
is unable to determine the RESPONSE
bility.
First formal conference looking to-
ward the elimination of the 12-hour
| day in the steel industry held in New
ing subsidiaries of the United States
Steel Corporation meet with Judge
Gary.
Cost of living advanced an average
of one-half of one per cent in the
| United States between March and
June and in the latter month it was
697 per cent higher than in 1915.
A. G. Pack, chief safety inspector
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, sharply criticises the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad for two recent acct
dents. Firemen and enginemen were
seriously scalded. The report de-
clares that the locomotives had been
| improperly and inadequately renaired.