The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-14
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest Of
Important Events of the
Week. Here and Abroad

IoiioW wing ueCfSiOH OI lno workers
and employers to accept arbitration
by the minister of the interior, work
ers in the great metal plants in the
Ruhr, Germany, resumed work on
December 3 after being locked oft
since November L.
John Moody, president of Moody's
Investment Service, said recently that
the next few years should bring
"the greatest boom in the history of
this country and without precedent
in its wide and general distribution
of prosperity"
Charging that the management
failed to live up to its contract to
employ only union men, 5000 workers
went on strike December 3 in the
Hule banana region of Vera Cruz,
Mexico
The Rev. James E. Cassidy, of Fall
River, Mass, speaking at the first
New England meeting of the Catholic
Conference on Industrial Problems, at
Hartford, Conn, on December 3, said:
THE operatives in the cotton indus
try of New England are being forced
into conditions closely akin to indus
trial peonage because of low wages"
A 40-hour week for day men and
a wage increase of SIS for night men
who now work 40 hours was demand
ed by the Photo Engravers' Union in
New York city at conferences with
the employers beginning December a.
When Lady Astor appeared in the
house of commons recently wearing a
bright red dress and red hat, labor
members cheered her and wanted to
know if she 'had joined the Red
army"
Ezra Meeker, famous Western pi-
oneer who took his family to Oregon
in 1852 over the Oregon trial, died
December 3 at Seattle, Wash, at the
age of 81.
Implying that Henry M. Blackmer
was a political refugee, although not
expressing that opinion officially, the
French extradition court at Paris on
December refused to hand the Den
yer oil man over to authorities of
the United States. His extradition
had been requested on the basis of
federal Indictment. charging him
with perjury and growing out of al
legged false income tax returns.
Clarence Darrow and Arthur Gar
field Hays will defend John Brophy
and Patrick Toohey, leaders of strik-
ing coal miners in Pennsylvania, who
will be tried on charges of~riot and
melting to riot in Pittsburgh on De-
Der by the American Civil Liberties
Union.
The Actors Equity Association won
legal victory in New York city on
December A when Federal Judge God
dard dismissed temporary injunc-
ton restraining the organization from
enforcing regulations against book
ing agencies.
Bills introduced into the last con-
gress by Senator Robert F. Wagner,
of New York, for the compilation of
unemployment statistics, long-range
planning of public works and coop
erative effort by the states to obtain
jobs for idle men, have won-wide ap-
nouncement by the senator.
A proposed law aimed at child la
Dor, establishing an 8-hour working
day and providing for proft-shar-
ing plan in the factories was made
public recently by DR.. Fl. III. Kung.
minister of industry, commerce and
labor in the Chinese nationalist gov
ernment.
Emilio Portes Gil, who was inaug-
urated as president of Mexico on No
vember 80, declared in his inaugural
speech further improvement of the
lot of the Mexican workers would be
one of the chief concerns of his ad-
The interstate commerce commits
sion announced on November 80 that
it had decided to refrain from COM
pelling railroads to make further in
stallations Of automatic train control
or stop devices.
Steps intended to prevent the
spreading Of public utilities propa-
ganda in school books and newspa-
pers were taken by Senator Walsh, of
Montana, in two bills which he intro