The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-06-01
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

At least 221 miners were killed in
four mine explosions in four states
within five days, beginning with a
disaster at Mather, Pa, on May 10
which took toll Of 1877 lives.
The senate on May % passed the
Capper-Zhlman child labor bill for
the District of Columbia, which had
already been approved by the house
land now awaits the presidents sig
nature to become law.
Denouncing the McNary- -Haugen
farm relief bill as deceptive, un-
workable and unconstitutional price
fixing scheme, President Coolidge on
May %, for the second time, vetoed
the measure.
The German socialists made sweep
ing gains in the national election May
20, winning 152 members in the
reichstag, twenty-one more than were
elected four years ago.
A citizens committee of 1000 on
May % asked the aid of the city au-
thorities in finding a way to legally
eject from Kenosha, Wis, strike
breakers employ ed at the Allen-A
plant, manufacturers of hosiery.
Tom Moore, president of the
Trades and Labor Congress of Can
ada, will attend the annual meeting
of the International Labor Office at
Geneva, Switzerland
Two were killed and many hurt in
disturbances growing out of a general
strike at Rosario, Argentina, called
in support of striking stevedores.
A steady increase in the volume of
employment in April which was ex-
pected to continue through May was
reported May 20 by the employment
service of the United States depart
ment of labor.
Owners of British cotton mills have
decided against reducing wages of
employees, London dispatches report
ed May %.
Virtually all the workmen in Stock
holm, Sweden, quit work on May %
in protest against government bills
which are intended to prohibit
strikes and force the settlement of
industrial disputes by decisions of a
labor court.
Officials of the Tide Water Oil
Company at Bayonne, N. j., ended a
strike of 2,100 employees when they
granted on May % five of the most
important of seven demands made by
the men
Train service employees Of the Kan
sas City, Mexico & Orient railroad,
who threatened a wage strike in
April, were advised May q by pres
idential board of investigation to ac-
cept the roads offer of wage in
crease. 1t was also suggested that
| the company associate itself with
other railroads in the southwestern
board of adjustment for the purpose
of determining operating agree
ments.
Mrs. Edna Sybil Neville, wife of
William P. Neville, treasurer of
Labor, organ of the railroad brother
hoods, died at her home in Washing
ton, d. c., May 20
Prof. Hideyo Noguchi, bacteriolo-
gist of the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research, died at Accra,
Africa, May 21, from yellow fever,
which he contracted during labora-
tory experiment. Professor Noguchi
arrived at Accra in November to in
vestigate this disease.
William d. ("Big Bill') Haywood,
once secretary Of the old Western
Federation of Miners and long a
leader Of the /. w. W., died in Mos
cow, ON May 18, after an illness of
several months.
The fireman was killed, the engi-
neer seriously hurt and three others
injured when the crack New York