The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-29
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Import ant Events of the Week,
 Here and Abroad.

Abolition of the I2-houF shifts in
 the open hearth departments of the l Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
 and the Republic Iron Company IS in lterpreted as refuting Judge Gary's
 arguments for the retention of the I2- i hour day.
 Assistant Attorney General Grim
 protests against the policy of loading i sional politicians He declared "the crooked politician and his machine"
 IS always arrayed against law enforce
 ment and said "the thousands of
 federal detectives" constitute an in
 stitution that would make the found
 CTS of the Republic shudder President GomDers of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor declares in Flag Day address that the United States flag typifies the leadership which the nation has ever maintained in the democratic and humane" struggle. S Mayor Hy1an of New York wins agreement with contractors and brick layers for school work at SIP basic wage
 Nearly 6,ooo,ooo more pupils are lattending schools in the United States than were enrolled 20 years ago, the United States Bureau of Education
 announces. In 1902 there were 16,- ooo,o as compared with 22, ,ooo, 900 in 1922.
 Unscrupulous and freely landlords are exploiting the foreign born work CTS of Lawrence, Massachusetts State Commission on Necessities of Life re-
 port.
 United State Railroad Labor Board issues scathing rebuke of the Pennsylvania Railroad for its refusal
 to obey an order directing 1t to recog- nize the shop crafts union Commissioner of Immigration in
 Italy is besieged by workmen and peasants eager to be included in the immigration quota to the United
 States.
 Negotiations for wage increases that will affect nearly 225,ooo men started by the Brotherhood of Rail- way and Steamship Clerks
 Tt is only when the colleges open their doors to working people as Byrn Mawr has done, that we can hope to cationed democracy" says Spencer iller of New York in addressing students of the summer school for women workers at Bryn Mawr.
 Members of the House who wish to make the present immigration quota even smaller are convinced they can pass the Johnson two per cent. bill in the next Congress, says the New York Herald.
 Retail cost of food for the average family in 5I cities increased two tenths of one per cent. from April F to May I, says report of Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. $. Department of Labor
 Organized efforts to combat wage reductions seen in preliminary for nation at Syracuse, N. Y., of State Trades Council.
 State of Kansas notifies United States Supreme Court it would not ask rehearing of the case involving the constitutionality of the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
 President Harding releases "A ed- eral prisoners, including 28 convicted of violations of wartime laws and ions issued during railroad shop mems strike.
 Farmers of the nation should or yanize like labor, President Gompers ,f the American Federation of Labor els National Wheat Conference, meeting at Chicago in effort to stabil- ze wheat industry.
 Mason Builders Association of New York City surrender to Brick ayers Union and grants two-year agreement at basic wage of SIP lay.
 Heat wave in east and middle west 1ills many and causes great misery n congested districts.
 President Alexander Meiklejohn of Amherst College, forced out of presi- Iency, makes strong appeal for fiber lism in colleges, at Amherst Alum Ii Association luncheon
 Great Britain is worried over the increasing number of skilled artisans md servants who want to take up heir abode in the U. s. So great has ,een the stream of immigrants 1eav- ng England that the government has ;reated a special committee to inquire nto the causes.