The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1928-12-21
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

The Executive Council of the New
York State Federation of Labor de-
cided December z, to make bill to
curb the writ. of injunction in labor
disputes the main legislative demand
of organized labor at the coming ses-
sion of the Legislature.
The Board of Mediation, establish
ed by the Railway Labor Act of 1926
to settle disputes between the rail
roads and their employees, adjusted
1145 controversies in the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1923, according to the
annual report of the Board, made pub
lie recently.
An Associated Press dispatch of
December from Mexico City report
ed that President Luis N. Morones of
the Mexican Federation of Labor (the
CROM) told the organizations con-
vention if there was any violence
against its members he unions
throughout Mexico would lay down
their tools and refuse to work.
Garden homes in suburban commu-
nifty centers were held to be the So
luton of city housing problems at the
annual New York City Conference
of Social Work recently.
One in five of all women employed
in the manufacturing industries of the
United States are foreign born, ac-
cording to figures compiled by the
Women's Bureau of the Department
of Labor and made public December
II.
Lack of vessels of suitable speed
type and equipment to compete sue
cessfully with privately-owned vessels
flying foreign flags constitutes one of
the greatest handicaps to the lines
operated by the Shipping Board, the
chairman of the Board r. V. O'Con-
nor, stated in his annual report.
Dispatches from Berlin under date
of December 10 say that wage dis
putes threaten stoppage 70 work in
the textile industries involving near
ly 100000 workers.
The ong-continued peaceful rela-
tions between the United States and
Canada, living side by side on an un-
defended boundary line, offers an ex-
ample to the Old World which augurs
well for future international peace
said DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, pres
ident of Columbia university, in his
address as toastmaster recently at the
dinner of the Pilgrims of the United
States in honor of Vincent Massey,
first Canadian minister to the United
States, and group of Canadian of
ficials.
The New York Central Railroad re-
Gently announced that it had complet-
ed the largest installation of auto
matte train control in existence, COW
ering 5,031 miles of track.
Serious clashes between troops and
large numbers Of strikers in the fruit
zone of Magdalena, Columbia, were
reported in recent dispatches from
Bogota.
Officers of the Public Health Serv-
ice estimate that there are 100000
cases of influenza throughout tho
country, experience indicating that
only about one-fifth of the cases are
reported to the federal health authori-
ties when the disease prevails in a
mild form.
Two engineers were killed and ten
persons were injured in head-on COL
llsion on the Forth Worth and Denver
City Railroad 4l6 miles north of Fort
Worth at a. M, December 8.
Savings in the United States for
the year ended June 80 show the
greatest gain for a single year ever
recorded, bringing the total savings
deposits in banks to more than s28.-