The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-04-20
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

Dispatches from Germany report
that disputes now troubling industry
indicate the likelihood of great con-
flict between capital and labor be-
ginning May L.
All the barber shops in White
Plains, N. Y, were closed April 10 by
a strike of BARRIERS who demanded an
increase in wages and commission.
The japanese government has
ordered the dissolution of Ronoto, the
League of Proletarian Youth and the
Japan Labor Council as communist
organizations. Ronoto, which has two
members in the diet, replied with
manifesto repudiating communism
and accusing the government of at
tacking the labor movement under
cover of preservation of the law
A machine age is casting middle
aged workers into the discard and
often into old-age dependency, while
science is lengthening the span of hu-
man life and making life more worth
living, Edward B. Lyman, director of
the New York Home for the Aged for
the Protestant Episcopal Church, told
the First National Conference on Old
Age Security in New York city re-
Gently.
The British labor party gained an
other seat in the house of commons
April as the result of by-election
in the Linlithgow division of West
Lothian.
Federal prosecution of citizens and
officials who have any part in lynch
ings is proposed in a bill introduced
by Representative Victor L. Berger, of
Wisconsin. Citizens would be liable
to five years Imprisonment and $4,000
fine for taking part in a lynching
mob, and police officials who delib-
erately fail to take necessary precau-
tions to prevent lynchings would be
liable to twice that penalty. Commun-
tiles in which lynchings occur would
forfeit $4,000 for each lynching.
A compromise agreement between
workers and employers ended on April
8 the strikes and lockouts which have
been in effect in the wood pulp and
saw mill industries of Sweden since
January
More than % million motor vehicles
were registered in 1927, according to
information collected from state reg
istration authorities by the bureau Of
public roads of the United States
department of agriculture. The total
registration of 23,127,315 vehicles rep
resents an increase Of 1,125,922, or 5
per cent more than in 1926.
Officials of the Ku Klux Klan spon-
sored lynchings, urged additional riots
like the one which cost life in Car
negie and generally wanted to oper-
ate on basis Of terror, according to
the testimony before Judge Thompson
in federal court April 8 by witnesses
called in the suit between rival fac
tions OF the invisible empire"
The engineer of Williamsport-
Philadelphia express train Of the
Reading Cor Hpany was fatally injured
and twenty other trainmen and pas
sengers were hurt when the express
collided head-on with northbound
Reading freight two miles east of
Sunbury, Pa, April 9,
Two hundred workers in the Dar-
lington textile mill, Pawtucket, r. l.,
went on strike April 9 in protest
against a 40 per cent reduction in
wages.
Jeanne Eagels, star of "Rain" and
"Her Cardboard Lover" was suspend
ed April by the Council of the Act
ors' Equity Association until Septem-
ber /, 1928, and ordered to pay fine
equal to two weeks salary. A brief
statement given out by Equity said
Miss Eagels had been found respon-