The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-11-15
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week. Here and Abroad

The senate in Washington will not
go into the social lobby in its general
lobby investigation thus passing over
what many consider the most danger
Gus, insidious and effective lobby of
them all 1t would never do, per-
haps, to rip the lid off the whole
works.
Albert B. Fall has been fined $780,
000-just the amount he got from Do
heny-and given a year in jail which
nobody expects him to serve. Admit
edly the judge went easy" and
that's all right, but seldom do judges
go easy when union is at the bar.
Senator Brookhart recently told a
grand jury about booze party given
for some senators. That will, it is
perceived help the farmers ever so
much.
The British house of commons on
November voted, 324 to 1919, for re-
sumption of diplomatic relations with
Soviet Russia. The vote was the first
test of strength of the labor govern
ment.
A plan has recently been proposed
for the building of workingmens
college in Tampico, Mexico, the
United States labor department re-
ports. The building would be paid for
by the workers Of Mexico and would
be open to all students who have
completed their elementary training.
Believing many violations of labor
laws are due to misunderstanding,
Isabelle Summers, chief of the buraeu
for women and children, New Jersey
labro department, organized three
conferences with employers, employees
and welfare workers to explain the
provisions of statutes. This, she says,
is part of d campaign of education to
accompany enforcement
Arizona has decided to go into court
to test validity of the Boulder Can
yon Dam act. The state holds that
it will not benefit by provisions for
sharing in the surplus because, it
holds, there will be no surplus under
present plans Arizona has from the
outset stood against the project as
desired by the other states.
In two cases the District of CO.
lumbia court of appeals has decided
against litigants who asserted prop
erty right in radio wave lengths
This may have bearing on future
cases. Labor, backing VIGIL, has de
clared the trust stations would seek
to claim property rights and vested
interests. The two cases tried back
up that assertion, but seem to indi-
cate they may not get away with it.
Henry Ford has strike on his
hands and he doesn't like it. Workers
in his Mexico City assembly plant are
out, the flag of the Mexican Fedora
tion of Labor nailed across his front
door, as is always done in Mexican
strike. Ford's manager refused to
meet labor demands. And, in addition
to that, Ford says he will quit Mexico
if the Portes Gil labor code becomes
law. 1t is recalled that Ford quit
Sweden when labor relations didn't |
suit him there.
Utah has just paid the first 20 old
age pension checks under the law en-
acted this year. State Representative |
Chris Greenhagen, author of the law, |
got No. |. The law provides pensions |
of not over $25 a month to qualified |
persons 65 years of age or over, quail
fications including residence during |
the last Is years within the state, in
to earn living and record |
devoid of conviction for crime during
10 years.
Building contractors of the country
will meet in Pittsburgh, November 49,
19 to draftplans for machinery to
settle jurisdictional disputes, it is an
nounced, these plans then to be sub
mitted to the executive council of the
A. F. of L. building trades depart
nent.
In Gastonia, N. c., Fred Erwin Beal,
communist dual union organizer, has
oeen freed on bail, pending appeal of
lis conviction in the murder case.
Testimony in the inquiry into the Ella
Nay Wiggins murder continues, with
Wheeler. One witness testified to see
ng Wheeler fire the shot that killed
he women; two others swore they
aw him nearby Immediately after.