The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-02
AS THE WORKER
 SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week,
 Here and Abroad.

Senator Wheeler of Montana accepts Vice-Presidential nomination on La Toilette ticket; attacks both old parties. Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, votes against prohibition and i'll favor of Government sale of liquor in sealed packages.
 Public Service Commission denies New York Telephone Company tempo rary increase in rates.
 Process for making stainless steel and iron tested in Pittsburgh.
 Board of arbitration gives New York | City pressmen increased wages. 1 Four persons killed in Mexican train wreck.
 Strike of Chinese workers halts busi- ness in China. Fumes from decayed hides and cof- fee beans kill four 1aborers in ship at 1 Panama.
 Commerce Commission denies Mid l dle Western states demand for cuts on farm product freight rates. l Eugene V. Debs calls on Socialist party members to support La Toilette. | Four-months strike at Fl Aguila oil company workers at at Tampico, Mexi- co, reported settled.
 Federal Court grants stay of execu- ton to man condemned to die on plea ' of constitutional rights. Macdonald Labor Government de feated in House of Commons, but won't [ resign.
 Canadian House of Commons defeats 8-hour day bill. Government loses case on trial of lumber men accused of conspiring to defraud i'll sales of surplus war stocks. Rehabilitation of Leningrad will cost S13,OOO,00O, says Soviet report. Wage cuts reported in shoe and ho- siery industries.
 Henry Willard heads committee of 100 formed to back La Toilette.
 Will soon arrest wealthy who drink, says Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
 New York employers make plans to fight 4S-hour bill for women workers.
 American Vice Consul killed and companion wounded by fanatical mob in Teheran.
 Germans form big new organization to fight for preservation of republic.
 Cancer chiefly due. to Overeating of rich foods, says Danish nutrition ex- pert.
 Glass manufacturers and workers agree to continue present wage scale until September 50.
 President Coolidge accepts irvitat on to speak at New York Labor Day eel .- bration.
 Big shipments of cotton leave Southern ports for Russian mills.
 Premier Herriot of France exchanges friendly notes with Soviet Russia's for eign minister Federal Government begins new war on rum smuggling along Northern New York border.
 America will help Europe, Secretary of State Hughes says in London ad- dress.
 Further cuts made in oil and gaso- line prices.
 Fifty-seven of crew dies when Eapa- nese steamer sinks
 O..cial board of elections declares Gen. Plutarco Elias Cal1es> elected President of the Republic of Mexico, He will take o....ce December l.
 Representatives of 30OOO Jewish trade uniOnists and Socialist endorse La Toilette for President at New York meeting. 1 International Ladies' Garment Work CTS Union calls strike of 500 in Bai- timore.
 Federal Trade Commission orders Steel Trust to abandon Pittsburgh | Plus" system of charging imaginary 1 freight on steel Senator Wheeler endorsed for Vice. President by Socialist party executive committee. Woman charges New York State Trooper shot prostate man. Labor Premier of Victoria, Australia, names cabinet; policy includes national ization of transport, unemployment in surance and aid to farmers.
 Four killed as steamer IS rammed by