The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-02-24
AS The WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events Of the
Week, Here and Abroad

Organized labor won a sweeping
legal victory in the supreme court in
New York, February Is, when Justice
Wasservogel denied the application of
the Interborough Rapid Transit Com
pany for an injunction forbidding the
American Federation of Labor and
the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
from attempting to unionize the 1.
R. 7. employees.
Four railroad section workers were
burned to death as a Boston & Maine
railroad train jumped the track and
piled up against the Balloch, N. H.,
station, overturning a stove in the
building and setting fire to the wreck
age.
Heads of the German metal indus
try decided February 13 to declare
a countrywide lockout, affecting
more than 100000 metal workers and
involving many big concerns.
The senate Interstate commerce
committee February Is unanimously
approved the resolution of Senator
Johnson, of California, calling for an
investigation of the soft coal strike
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir-
ginia.
Speakers before meeting of min
ers at Timmins, Ontario, held COM
pany officials responsible for the loss
of 80 lives in the recent Hollinger
gold mine disaster.
The appeal Of 18 Yale students who
were sentenced to pay fines Of So each
for distributing handbills calling for
sympathy for strikers in the neckwear
industry was sustained February ID
by Judge Pickett, of New Haven.
The existence Of a power lobby,
the most formidable ever concentrat-
ed in Washington" which is working
to prevent an investigation of the
electric industry by congressional
committee as proposed by Senator
Walsh, of Mantana, was charged
February IL in statement by Gift
ford Pinchot, former governor of
Pennsylvania.
Following a vote Of censure, Nor
ways first labor government resigned
February 10 after being in office only
two weeks.
Dispatches from Berlin to the
United States department of COM
merce say that there is a probability
of big strike on April 80 in the
chief German coal fields centering
around the Ruhr valley.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail
road announced February IL that au-
tomato train control will be installed
from Chicago to Omaha, making the
| longest stretch of automatic train
control in the world.
Representative Victor L. Berger, of
Wisconsin, has announced that he will
seek the passage by congress Of bill
to put ''teeth" into the first amend
ment to the constitution; the repre-
sentative characterized as dead let
ter" the first amendment, which guar
antees religious liberty, freedom of
the press and the right to peaceably
assemble and petition the govern
ment for redress Of wrongs.
The Dan River Mills, Danville, Va,
one of the largest textile mills in the
South, employing nearly 5000 work.
ers, went on four-day week basis
February 10.
! Ten workers were killed and many
injured when ten oil stills exploded
February 10 at Everett, Mass.
The United States senate February
10 went on record against third
term by a president Of the United
States by passing the La Toilette res
olutions declaring any departure
from the anti-third- term precedent
would be "unwise, unpatriotic and
fraught with peril to our free in