The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-02-15
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week, Here and Abroad

The Senate Judiciary Committee on
February favorably reported to the
Senate resolution urging the Fed
eral Trade Commission to reopen the
case against the Continental Baking
Corporation, controlled by interests
that have taken leading part in the
fight against the Bakery and Con-
fectiOnery Workers Union
Gov. Leslie of Indiana has named a
special committee to investigate dis
tress in the coal fields of southern In
diana, where miners have been exist
ing on charity for year or more.
Charging that the "padrone sys-
tenn which was uprooted by the
strike of 1910 in the cloak and suit
industry, has again returned to
plague our industry" Benjamin
Schlesinger, president of the Inter
national Ladies' Garment Workers
Union, recently addressing group
of shop chairmen IN New York City
urged them to tear out the evil root
and branch SO that it may never show
its face again"
A resolution opposing the fve-day
week was adopted by the National
Association of Building Trades EN-
ployers at the organization annual
meeting in Chicago recently.
The bill providing for the build
ing of fifteen cruisers was passed
by the Senate on February by
vote of 68 to IL.
The plant of the Italian anti-Fas-
cisti daily newspaper, II Nuovo Monde,
in New York City, was entered during
the night of February by intruders,
! believed to be Fascist, who took parts
from linotype machines, cripplng the
papers mechanical equipment
Twenty-six members of the crew of
the German steamer Deister were
drowned February 3 when the steamer
sank in the Duoro River, Portugal,
after being driven on the rocks dur
ing a violent gale.
A total of 9,753 miles of Federal-aid
highways were improved in the year
ending December 81, 1923, by the 48
State highway departments and of
Hawaii, in cooperation with the Bu-
reau of Public Roads, according to
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture.
Wages of copper mine and smelter
employees in the West were advanced
per cent by the larger producers CO.
incident with an increase in the price
of refined copper.
The index Of the general level of
farm prices declined from 1874 to 1873
per cent of the pre-war level from
December Is to January Is, according
to the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics United States Department of
Agriculture. There were slight ad-
vances during this period in the farm
prices OF most crops, all meat ami
mails, wool, mules, and chickens, and
slight declines in the farm prices of
cotton, horses, and milk cows; slight
seasonal declines in the prices of dairy
products, and an abrupt seasonal drop
IN the farm price of eggs.
Sale of the United States and
American Merchant lines to private
interests, said to be planned by the
Shipping Board for February 7, was
blocked February with the passage
by the Senate of a resolution offered
by Senator McKellar and requesting
the Board to suspend action on the
ship by the Senate Commerce Com
mittee.
Henry Ford on February e.. ex-
pressed determined opposition to capi-
tai punishment, declaring that he
doesn't care to belong to or be part
of any corporation or commonwealth
that deliberately takes mems lives"