The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-11-23
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

Laws that regulate women's work
benefit wage-earning women and raise
the standards of working conditions
of their male fellow employees, ac-
women's bureau Of the United States
suburbs and that eventually the cleo
department of labor.
An increase to 1923 in the number of
individuals who reported incomes of
81 100000 or more, is revealed by
statistics made public by the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau, showing incomes
of all classes which were reported for
the calendar year 1927 and upon
which taxes are being paid in the
present calendar year. This is high
record and is an advance of 52 as
compared with the previous year.
Five thousand cigar makers parad-
ed the streets of Havana, Cuba, on
November IL in demonstration
against the ever-increasing entrance
into Cuba of cigar making machines.
Business in the Ruhr, Germany, is
reported suffering severely as a re-
suit of the big lockout of iron and
steel workers.
The Reading railroad announced on
November IL that it will electrify 110
miles of track in Philadelphia and its
suburbs and that eventually the cleo
trifcation will be extended to New
York city.
The Kenoshaw, Wis, Chamber of
Commerce recently appealed to Cir
cult Judge Belden to direct a grand
jury investigation into the strike at
the Allen-A hosiery plant at Kenosha.
The British house of commons on
November IL rejected the labor
party's motion to censure the govern
ment for its unemployment policy by
321 votes to Isl.
In sharp attack on the policy Of
increasing the naval strength of the
United States, DR.. Nicholas Murray
Butler, president of Columbia Uni
versity, characterized naval rivalry as
mot only ridiculous but wicked" He
added: ITO insist on naval expansion
now, with the ink of the pact of Paris
hardly dry would be worse than a
travesty. 1t would be the most COM
plete confession of national insin-
cerity."
The Austrian Republic on Novem-
ber IL celebrated it's tenth anniver-
sary with parades and outdoor fetes
throughout the nation.
Plans for the formation of ma
tion-wide committee to work for the
release of Tom Mooney and Warren
K. Billings, serving life sentence on
charges of participation in the San
Francisco preparedness parade bomb
ing of 1915, were made at meeting
in New York city November 16.
More factory workers were en-
ployed in New York state in October
of this year than in March, the first
time since 1926 that fall production
has equaled the spring peak, Indus
trial Commissioner James A. Hamil-
ton announced November IL.
Lynn Sills, engineer, was killed in
stantly and several persons were in
jured November IL when Louisville e.
Nashville passenger train No. 101,
from Cincinnati and Louisville, ran
through an open switch and crashed
into a switch engine in the yards at
Memphis, Tenn.
The women's bureau of the United
States department of labor reports
that beginning with April, 1929, wom-
en- will not be allowed to work under
ground in the mines of India, al
though they still may be employed in
quarries or other surface workings.
Certain provinces are given 10 years
to comply fully with this government
order, but they must make reduc-