The morning call., 1891-02-21
WAR TO THE KNIFE.
Federated Trades and the Anti
Boycott Bill.
A Mass-Meeting in Protest at Sacramento.
Opposition to Police Interference The
Shoemakers' Strike.

At the weekly meeting Of the Council OF
Federated Trades last night the credentials
of j. G. Gildea, delegate from the retail
Clerks Early Closing Association, vice X.
S. Dvas esigned, was received and the dele
gate seated also of David Collins. delegate
from the 10 urneymen Horse-shoers' Union
also Thomas Neian, from the Core-makerS
Union, vice George Webb, resigned
DelegategNeares,f from Bakers Union, No.
81, reported that the trouble with Merrlck,
in Oakland, who had defed the Alameda
Federation, had been satisfactorily settled
Merrick having surrendered nnconultlon-
a lly. The boycott against Davis, In this
city, had been suspended temporarily pe-
cause of threats by the police.
Delegate Gildea of the Retail Clerks re-
lated that while one of the members of his
union was distributing boycott circulars on
Kearny street he was accosted by police
man, and warned, under penalty of arrest,
to deSist. The warning was unheeded, and
the promised arrest followed. The man was
kept imprisoned three hours. and when re-
leased on bail he was unable to learn what
he had been arrested for. The delegate fur
Their asserted that one of the members of the
firm OF Wolf q Frank had been seen to take
the policeman who made the arrest into a
saloon and bride him for that purpose.
The matter of boycotts in this city, and
the threats of the Police Department
against those who practice it, was referred
to the Executive Committee. If legal adj
vice is needed the committee is authorized
to secure it.
QUESTION OF RACE.
Complaint was made by the delegates
from the Cooks and Walters Union that
the Miners Restaurant, On Commercial
street, where n great many laborlng men
resort daily, is being conducted wholly by
Japanese, and 1t was asked that boycott
be levied on the place.
This gave rise to pr9tracted discussion
of the race problem, inasmuch as 1t was
shown that the Japs offered TO join the
union and conduct the restaurant on union
lines The question was finally postponed
for one week.
Tully Boyce, President of the Miners
Protective Association of British Columbia,
was present and gave detailed narrative
OF the DunSmulr coal strike In that coun-
try. The main point made was that With
out the undivided su pport of organized labor
in San Francisco the strike could not hope
to succeed. Tie mines are nov about flied
with ''Seab" labor. Ii has cost the owners
more than million dollars already to carry
on the fight: they are ready to spend
another million before giving it up. With
the complete support of San Franclsco's or
gained labor the Dunsmuirs can be made
to yield.
The Executive Committee was delegated
TO call upon the city authorities and learn
whether the city could not be induced to
purchase other than Wellington coal.
THE LEGISLATIVE SITUATION.
Delegate Valentine, President of the
MOlders' Union, said that seven "scabs"
had been sent out of town during the week.
The work being done by them in the Fulton
and other shops is proving very unsatSfac-
tory. The bosses are disguised with the
workmen, ana are diScharging them. He
regarded the outlook very good for the
strikers.
Z. j. Boyle, one of the delegates who is
representing the council at Sacramento in
length on the situation. He said that every
establishment in this city ever under the
ban of the council, now under it, or liable TO
be in the future, had concentrated every
conceivable force and influence in Sacra-
mentn 10 carry what is known as the Camp
bell Conspiracy Bill. IL is necessary now
for the labor element, not only of San Fran
cisco, but of the entire State, to dn likewise.
The struggle may not be an even one ex-
actly, but the chances for labor's cause are
good. There must be speedy and powerful
action.
Many plans were proposed, among them
that labor mass-meetings be called all over
the State at once to protest Want of time,
however, made this plan appear impractc-
able SO it was finally decided to urge the
strong and demonStratiye maSs-meeting on
Monday night next to protest against the
Objectionable law; also that every union
affiliated with the council be requested to
call a special meeting and frame vigorous
protests to be sent to the Legislature.