Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-07-13
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AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of I'm
portani Events Of the Week.
Here and Abroad.

Warning against giving aid in ann
form to the red progressive inter,
national committee of the United
Mine Workers of America" ISSUED
BY International Executive Board Of
the United Mine Workers of America
Twenty-Five representatives of or,
gained labor start movement 70 or.
ganize workers in steel mills. Sup
port of the A. +. Of L. was pledged
by President Gompers, who said the
action Of the steel manufacturers In
deciding TO continue the i2-hour day
leaves the workers no hope for relief
except through organization"
Unemployment crisis which forced
1000 900 men To walk the streets in
1921 has vanished and all the jobless
employment Bureau at Washington
announces.
Rober, Smillie, veteran radical
British labor leader, elected TO House
of Commons in bye election at Nor
peth.
Consolidation of nations railroads
into few systems is country's
transportation solution, President
Harding tells Kansas City audience.
Rush of emigrants to the United
States under new quota for British
Isles begins. One liner sails with $50
skilled Scottish workmen.
Leviathan given noisy greeting as
trial trip" ends al New York. Dem
ocratic National Committee announc-
es ii will press for a congressional
investigation of the "junket."
Congress Of the Finnish Federation
of Trade Unions was attended by n
delegates, of whom az were Com
munists and 20 Social Democrats.
Annual report of the Czecho- Slo-
yakian Federation of Trade Unions
shows the Federation has suffered
much from economic conflicts and
Communist rivalry, losing 100000
members.
Illinois Supreme Court holds that
strikes called In furtherance of boy
colts are Illegal. The ruling affirmed
the judgment of the Appellate Court
finding the Carpenters District Coun-
Gil of Chicago and two union officials
guilty Of contempt of court. The
court holds that strike called on a
builder even though no violence is
used Is in effect an act of intimida-
ton against him and was called be-
cause he had used mill work pur-
chased from a manufacturing com
pany which refused 10 maintain a
strictly union shop.
American Federation of Labor, In
June American Federationist, refutes
statement that indianapolis is para
disc of the open shoppers" I'm
quiry developed that indianapolis Is
one of the best organized cities In the
country" says the report.
Moscow dispatches report that the
Third or "Red" International has re.
jected the plea of some of its mem
bers suggestions that religion is a pri-
vate matter of conscience. The In
ternationale declares that while such
State, religion is incompatible for
Communists.
Federal Council of Churches re-
news attack on 12-hour day in the
steel industry, branding as garbled
and false book by Marshall olds de-
Tending the 12-hour day.
President Harding tells Denvar
audience Failure to enforce prohibit
ton among poor and rich alike will
threaten the very life of this Repub-
hc."
West Virginia State Federation of
Labor issues call for state convention
July 10 of organized workers and
farmers to form political party.
Girl telephone operators strike In
FIVE New England states, tie-up being
most effective in larger cities of
Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
United Farmers Party, in control
of government of Ontario, Canada. is
defeated by Conservatives. who win
n out of Ill seats in Parliament.
People of Alabama begin drive TO
abolish leasing of prisoners to coal
mine owners; convicts dubbed, tor
tured and MANNED, it is charged.
British Labor Party, in twenty
third annual confeerpce, rejects re
quest of Communist Party Of Eng
land for affiliation by card vote of
2,8S0,000 to 100000.
Trend toward a shortage of labor
shown by bulletin Of New York State
Industrial Commissioner.
Union plasters of St. Louis wiz
fight for $14 for an eight-hour day.
This is said to be the highest wages
for plasterers in the United States.
''The position of the Pennsylvania
system in this matter is devoid of in
trinsic merit, yiolatiye of the will Of
Congress, and destructive of the
rights of employees says the Rail
road Labor Board in scoring Penn
sylvania Railroad for refusing to deal
with clerks organization.
Combination of British and Chilean
interests is controlling prices and
production of nitrate and forcing the
United States to pay higher prices
than are warranted, according to
Charles j. Brand, marketing Special
list of the Department of Agriculture.