Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-29
AS THE WORKER
SEES THE WORLD
Summary and Digest of In
pOrtant Events of the Week,
Here and Abroad.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

I .
United Mine Workers offer com
plete plan for naturalization OF
| Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines,
! with operation under control equally
representing miners, mine managers
and the public.
Democrats and Republicans de-
nounee Lasker's "millioU dollar JOY
ride" triad trip aboard Leviathan.
Missouri Pacific and Illinois Central
| Railroads grant voluntary" wage in
cfeases TO approximately $4,000 main
tenanee of way men.
/ Success of new Austrian loan,
! fioated In nine countries simultane-
ously under direction of League of
Nations, hailed as big step toward re-
Mobilization of Europe and re-estab-
| lishment of war torn nations credit.
Revolution In Bulgaria viewed by
many as victory for Fascist national
| list spirit, reported to be spreading
in nearly every county in Europe.
Kansas law creating State indus
| trial relations court receives blow
| from Supreme Court, when the court
declares the law is unconstitutional,
so far as it attempts to fix wages in
packing houses.
Gov. Blaine of Wisconsin signs bill
restricting issuance of injunctions in
labor disputes TO circuit judges or
| judges of concurrent jurisdiction and
then only after As hours notice.
Chief Justice Mccoy at Washing
ton dismisses suit of American Plaster
Company against alleged interference
with its business by the Operative
afuf nj he Ef,,
ishers' Union and the Tilesetters'
Union.
Shorter the day, the more skillful
the management" is put forth as un-
failing rule by William r. Basset, in
dustrial engineer, roasting Gary's 12-
hour day atrocity.
Warning that members of so-caled
Fall River Textile Council, on So
called tour Of inspection through
Southern textile mills, are playing the
game of employers, is issued by Exec
utive Council, United Textile Work
are of America.
Greek Government announces that
the unemployment problem will be
met by timely state measures. Labor
unions are reported cooperating and
will summon Pan-Hellenic conven-
tons.
Governor of California signs bill
making it unlawful for an employer
to misrepresent housing or other la
Dor conditions to work seekers.
Freight car loadings reported by
railroads for week ending June IL
have only been twice exceeded. April
showed unusually high rate of earn
ings.
Governor of Maine calls special
election for October Is on bill pro-
viding 4S-hour week for women and
children in industry.
Recent gouge in suoar prices will
have cost the American people at
least $22.000,000 before end of year,
says Truman G. Palmer, Washington
representative of beet sugar interests.
Wage increases given 5000 main
tenance of way, supervisory and me-
chanical employees of Long Island
Railroad Company, U. S. Railroad
Labor Board is notified.
More than 100000 acres of farm
land remain idle in Pennsylvania this
summer largely as result of shortage
of farm workers, reports the Bureau
| of Employment of State Department
of Labor and Industry.
Labor organizations rank next to
churches and schools in the elevation
of mankind, morally, intellectually
and socially" declares l.. S. Weir, of
the Switchmen's Union of North
America in address at Birmingham.
| In a statement on the Supreme
Court decision on the Kansas Indus
trial Court, President Samuel Gone
pers of the American Federation OF
Labor says: Labor maintained at