The Connecticut labor news., 1924-08-09
AS THE WORKER SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of Important Events of the Week,
 Here. and Abroad.

l Explosion III IdteS, Ia, 1Illlc XIII ten. Dublin municipal employees strike a: protest against threatened six shilling l reduction in weekly wages. Fishermen strike on Pacific coast as price of tuna fish is cut. Charles M. Schwab, steel magnet, to make six-wheel motor trucks. Justice Lydon refuses plea of Iron League to restrain striking New York City Iron workers from picketing.
 Hoover power committee recon mends system of centralized steam and water plants.
 Farm products soaring in price, Mid dle West experience business boom.
 Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, head of Loyal Order of Moose, address ses orphans in Central Park, New York City.
 Women take place of striking bar bers in Brooklyn barber. shops.
 Director of U. s. Veterans Bureau urges business men to absorb disabled veterans who are completing vocational training at rate of 800 per month.
 New York State factories cut pay rolls $1,50O000 weekly during June, Textile workers most affected.
 New York interborough express train runs with open doors, endangering lives. Passengers hold indignation meeting.
 Executive Committee of Communist International report says UnitedStates is beset by agrarian crisis, 2,OOO,OOO farmers throwing away their plots of ground.
 Kansas prohibition law in effect A years; nations best asset, says circu- lar issued by several Kansas organiza- tions.
 Institute of Politics established by Furman University, Greenville, s. C.
 Hadley Textile Mills, South Hadley Falls, Mass, resume full time opera tions!
 New York State Socialist Party in convention endorses LaFollette for Rre- sident adopts plank denouncing Ku Klux Klan.
 Several New York taxicab cornpan- ies reduce rate to 20 cents per first mile.
 Prohibition referendum will be taken in Ontario, Canada, on October g.
 Militia officers ordered to Providence Ky, in anticipation of possible mine riot
 International Labor Office of League of Nations will use pressure to prevent abolition of eight-hour day in Germany.
 U. 5. Railroad Board will press con- tempt cases against railroad brother hood representatives who refuse to tes tify in enginemen's wages dispute with western railroads.
 American Engineering Council coal storage committee urges coal storage as means of Eliminating panic prices. President Coolidges regarding "Mobili-
 Anti-American feeling in Japan, aroused by U. s. Immigration bill, re- suits in loss to American motion pie ture producers of 65 per cent.
 4hSll IN SJStSiIi oI CN comes effective in Japan
 New glass plant begins operations in Pa.
 National Get Out the Vote Club or ganized by Simon Michelet, Washing ton lawyer and writer on political sub jects.
 Brazil revo1utionists evacuate Sac Paulo; government troops occupy city. |
 Gov. Bryan of Nebraska express un- to carry out suggestions of l President Coolidges regardles "Mobili- l zation Day"
 John Zahnd, presidential nominee of National Independent Party, withdraws | n favor of LaFollette- Wheeler ticket. |
 Executive Council of American Fed eration of Labor convenes in Atlantic City, N. J.
 German Communist Party plans armed revolt on August 4, says Ham