The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-03-23
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad


member of the United States tariff
commission on March Ia and in a let
ter to Senator Robinson charged that
President Coolidge's course has i'm
paired the usefulness of the commits
sion and that two of the commission
ers have formed a combination with
the chairman which has prevented
the lowering of tariff duties by SO
dividing the commission that at is
incapable of performing its duties un-
der the law"
A provisional estimate by the CEN
sus bureau made public March Ia
placed the population of the United
States as of July l, 1928, at 120,o13,-
600, an increase of Ia per cent over
the actual count of 105,710,620 on
January /, 1920.
Augistina Sandino, the Nicaraguan
leader, in message sent to the
| United States senate March ID, de-
manded the recall of American ma
rines from Nicaragua and declared
that the coming elections must be
supervised by Latin American repre-
| sentatives instead of American ma
rines.
| The engineer, fireman and a mail
clerk were killed March IA when a
! Santa Fe railroad train was derailed
at Yampai, Ariz.
In a decision given March IL, the
supreme court held that New York
contractors engaged in work in
Washington, D. c., will be obliged to
pay their workmen on the same scale
of wages as effective in New York
city, or pursue the alternative of en-
ploying non-union labor.
The general strike of Berlin metal
+, workers, which lasted two weeks, was
| ended March IL when the German
government made use of it's legal
tpower to order the strikers back to
work, and the employers to call off
their lockout.
The communist party of Argentina
has nominated woman as presiden-
tial candidate.
John j. Raskob, chairman of the
finance committee of the General Mo-
tors Corporation and a vice president
of the Dupont Powder Company, was
quoted recently as predicting that the
time was coming when every work
ing man would have two days holi-
day each week.
The first complete state ticket has
been nominated in Ohio by the So
cialist party, which has named Joseph
w. Sharts, Dayton lawyer and novel
ist, as it's candidate for governor.
The Atlanta Journal said March II
in an interview with Edsel Ford,
president of the Ford Motor Company,
that the Fords as a private expert
ment are investigating metal dirigi-
bles and their possible use for ocean
passenger service in the belief that
planes would not be feasible for that
purpose.
With the number of unemployed in
Pennsylvania estimated at 100000 and
the number in Philadelphia alone at
from 10000 to 100000, four affiliated
utility companies are about to speed
up a $20,000,000 construction program
in the Philadelphia area to furnish
jobs to several thousand more men.
Speaking in New York city recently
Magnus w. Alexander, president of
the National Industrial Conference
Board, said that taking the country
as whole, employment conditions had
been slowly improving since last De-
cember, although it was not until Feb
ruary that the fact that there was an
unemployment problem was brought
home to the public.
The authority Of President Coolidge
to supervise the Nicaragua elections
next November was challenged March