The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-01-11
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week. Here and Abroad

In statement summarizing condi-
tions in the leading industries, Fran
els |. Jones, director general of the
United States employment service
said that the employment outlook at
the beginning of 1929 is brighter than
1T was year ago.
The Rumanian government an
nounced December 81 that it had con-
cluded negotiations for the purchase
of all remaining privately owned rail
roads in the kingdom, the main trunk
lines already being owned and oper-
ated by the state.
H. l.. Loucks, 80, former national
>president of the populist party and
of the National Farmers Alliance
died December % at Clear Lake, S. D.
The American Association of Uni
versity Professors at the closing ses.
sion Of its fftieth annual meeting ir
New York city authorized specia
committee to cooperate with the
American Association for the Ad.
vancement of Science to combat the
spread of ani-evolution Legislation
and other efforts to restrict the free.
dom of teaching of science The ap.
| polntment of such a committee was
authorized in a resolution strongly
'deploring" all restrictions in the
freedom of teaching scientific sub
jects.
The League to abolish Capita
Punishment recently announced that
1t will work in the 1929 New York
state legislature for legislation elm.
mating the death penalty.
The Ford Motor Company on De
cmeber 30 officially announced the
adoption of a new policy by which
1t Will maintain a six-day week fol
Its plants, but retain five-day week
for its employees by employing 10000
more workers.
The National League of Womer
Voters recently announced survey
of the results of the November elec.
tion shows that 1929 finds the names
Of l45 women ON the rosters of thirty.
eight state legislatures, representing
gain of nineteen over the record es,
tablished in 1928, when 1876 -womer
served in the state legislatures.
President Gil of Mexico on Decem.
ber 20 told foreign correspondents
that his government would fight the
use of alcoholic drinks by establish.
ing a desire for clean amusements
such as music, sports and other means
to keep the people away from vice.
Charging a conspiracy to defrauc
the United States, the government or
| December 20 began suit against two
| Sinclair oil companies to recover the
profits made out of the sale of 90.
100000 barrels of royalty oil taker
from the Salt Creek field in Wyoming
States are /held to be powerless to
fix the price of gasoline by decision
of the supreme court January 2 set
ting asidG as invalid such a law ir
| Tennessee.
A shivering, jobless army of mer
estimated to number $4,000 applied at
the Ford Motor Company plant in
Detroit for work, following the an
nouncement December 81 that the
company would hire 10000 more
| workers.
| A plan to operate New York Cen
trail railroad trains between New York
and Buffalo with electric power from
Niagara Falls is under consideration
according to the New York Times of
January 3.
An investigation of charges that
college professors have accepted
money from public utility interests
for disseminating doctrine and data
favorable to the utilities was asked
December 20 by the American Politi-
cal Science Association, which re-
quested the American Association of
University Professors to conduct the
inquiry.