The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1929-03-29
AS THE WORKER
SEES HIS WORLD
Summary and Digest of
Important Events of the
Week. Here and Abroad

Troops were ordered out March 1S
in strike of 5000 rayon and textile
mill workers at Johnson City and
EliZabethtown, Tenn.
Addressing the Florida State Bar
Association on March II, Senator Will
| liam II. King, of Utah, accused the
government of fostering a policy of
| militarism, as evidenced by military
and naval expenditures, inconsistent
with its expressed stand for world
| peace.
While there was unemployment
among building trades workers, owing
to unusually severe weather in many
sections of the country in February,
the volume of industrial, or plant and
factory employment, was we'll main
tanned, and the outlook fora the next
thirty days is bright, according to a
survey made public March II by the
federal employment service.
DR.. John Munroe, of Long Island
University, announced on March II
that a 16year study of 5000 school
children had convinced him that poor
food is directly responsible for low
intelligence.
The dispute between John w.
Shook, warden of Atlanta penitenti-
ary,, and the department of Justice
over the planting of spies in the
prison by the latter reached a eli
max with the disclosure that the de-
partment had demanded the warden's
| resignation within thirty days.
Eight English miners were killed
March Is in fire in a mine at Hales-
owen, Worcestershire
Union telegraphers employed in the
| thirty American and Canadian Offices
of Logan & Bryan, New York stock
brokers, went on strike March 18 in
protest against the manning of tele-
graph printing machines by non
union men.
Eight thousand shopmen on the
Southern railway system are taking
strike vote following failure of the
management to give consideration to
a request for an increase in wages,
Labor, organ of the railroad labor or
ganiZations, announced on March %.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
road announced March IA that it had
granted a wage increase to about
2,200 shop workers, effective March l..
A nationwide campaign for new
members will be begun April / by the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, the
campaign to last six months, Grand
President George NJ Harrison recent
ly announced.
Twelve hundred employees of the
Ware Shoals Manufacturing Co. at
Greenville, S. c., returned to work
March 18 after short strike, claim
ing victory, saying that they had
been assured obnoxious working con-
ditions would be abolished.
The citizens committee to enforce
the Lands award, formed in 1921 to
war on Chicago building trades
unions, has been disbanded, the COM
mittee's chairman recently announced.
Arthur 0. Wharton, president of
the international Association of Ma
chinists, has addressed letter to his
local lodges suggesting that each
member contribute 10 cents to the
Gompers monument fund in addition
al to the contribution made by the
international.
A strike of 10000 textile mill work
ers in Bombay was called March 20
in protest against nation wide often
sive of the Indian police against trade
union leaders, many of whom were
arrested and charged with being COM
munists and with conspiring and wag-
ing war against the government.
Nineteen persons were killed. some
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