The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-06-29
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

| An increase amounting to 61a pei
cent of the daily wage scale was
awarded the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers on June 19 by the con-
ference of managers of the western
railways, affecting approximately
22,500 employees and totaling $4,500,-
900 year.
The official tabulation of the vote
cast in the recent election of officers
of the International Typographical
Union shows that the entire "pro.
gressive" ticket, headed by Charles
P. Howard for president, was elected
Howard receiving 37,057 votes as
against 2O,944 for James M. Lynch.
Senator Henrik Shipstead, of Min
lnesota, scored sweeping victory ir
the primary election June IS, winning
the farmer-labor nomination for sen.
ator by a 10 to / vote over his oppo.
nent, William Watkins, of Mime
apolis.
Five miners were killed and sever
others injured June 20 by an explo
sion in a mine near Morgantown, w
Va.
The republican party, in convention
at Kansas City, nominated Secretary
of Commerce Herbert Hoover fol
president Of the United States ant
Senator Charles Curtis, of Kansas
for vice president.
Clarence O. Pratt, well known
labor leader Of Philadelphia, and az
national organizer for the Amalga
mated Association of Street and Elec
trio Railway Employees of America
died June 13 at the agae Of 60.
!, The twenty-sixth anniversary Of the
Broadway limited, the crack Pennsyl.
vania railroad train between New
York and Chicago, was celebrated or
June Is.
In report advocating an aggres-
sive campaign for world peace, the
Northern Baptist convention in ses
sion at Detroit on June 18, deploreC
the confidential circulation of black
lists" by individuals or organizations
which are masquerading under the
cloak of patriotism" as detrimental
to "the spread of deals of world peace
and justice"
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, famous
leader of the English militant suffra.
| gists, died in London June IA after
brief illness.
The international Labor Conference
adjourned at Geneva, Switzerland
June, 16, after unanimously voting tc
put the question of industrial acci.
dents on the agenda of the 1929 con-
| ference. In the meantime the gov
ernments will be asked to express
their views as to how the problem
can best be handled.
Robert w. Stewart, chairman of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
was acquitted June IA by jury in
the District of Columbia supreme
court of contempt charges arising
from his refusal to answer questions
at the senate committees oil inquiry.
The questions concerned profits of the
Continental Trading Company.
Edwin T. Meredith, Des Moines pub
Usher and secretary Of agriculture in
President Wilson's cabinet, died at
his home in Des Moines June IL.
A. Philip Randolph, organizer of
the Brother hood of Sleeping Car Por-
ters, issued a statement June 19 in
which it was said that the recently
threatened strike of Pullman car por-
ters had not been called off, but mere
ly postponed, and that the union was
Strengthening its position in the in
terval until such times as strike is
actually called.
The New York workmen's compen-
sation law is being honestly admin
istered, charges Of fraud are unsub-