The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-08

it is rapidly marching toward it. In the
meantime he says there are benefits at
hand. They have enlisted number of
producers in great variety of different
lines, "and, ," he says, $50 soon as we can
make complete circle in this way, cover
ing all the necessaries of life, great step
will have been taken, and the members in
the circle will be certain of such comforts
as their own efforts entitle them to.
"Our aim is to secure building to be
used as a depository and exchange-one
central depository first, which should de-
velop into great department store. AS
the movement progresses others could be
established in different districts, railroads
could be built, and so the exchange would
reach out TO distant points, just as we see
the qualifications of trade under the ham,
pering restrictions of money. A branch
up in Oregon is even now building rail-
road to connect with trunk line. But
am sensible that the chief interest is felt
by those who might seek the benefits of
the movement now, as to what it offers and
how 1T works IN its present inciplent stage.
We are working hard to secure members
and to complete the circle speak of. The
list of business houses and workers in this
city who will now accept Labor Exchange
checks for goods they have for sale or
services they can perform includes the fol-
lowing:
street; R. Allsop, bricklayer, 936 Harrison;
Barker d Co., cooperative rooIning-house, S29
and and e3l Stevenson; c; BuTgm4a1ns tailor, 4lo
Cont Cont rubber stamps aape 1883 M Market S.
Danielewicz, barber, 634 Green II. Eye
berg blacksmith, c 2o38 Bryant; = Eneberg,
1179 Market; P. Freebooter, blacksmith, 351
Third; G. w. Fox, lawyer, 40 Montgomery; L.
Goetz, carpenter, 634 Green; J. Fl. Hartman
doctor, 1884 Mission; H. Hutton, tailor, 50S1a
al h. A
horn-Jones, Ceylon tea, West of England cloth
and orange marmalade, 315 California, room
| 2; Leutholtz d Co., manufacturers of bed
ding and upholstering, 81 Ninth street;
Labor Exchange Restaurant, 26-2S Tenth;
w. D. Lambert, sign painter, 1921 Market;
Mrs. NJ. Monster, plain sewing, knitting, mend
ant, So Eighth; C. E. Perry, shoemaker. 1877
Market q. Outflow, lawyer, 215 Larkfn; NJ. ].
Reynolds, wood carpet and inlaid floor, COZ
Market; Otto SIM, matchmaker, 124 Eighth /;
Smith & Patrick, carpet beating and laying,
SAT Natoma; Henry Warfield, electrician, 1924
Natoma; c.. X. Welsh, laborer, SO Mary; -
rim, fire insurance, 313 California; Phi A.
Posenthal, machinist and locksmith 81 Ninth !;
Schmiedt, plumbing and timing, 432 Tehama ;
Fred Wyttenback, sign-writer and bookbinder,
613 Mission.
"You see how easy this system could be
put into operation if only people were
willing. And | know that the rapidity of
its growth is merely matter of the time
required to educate the peop.e up to it.
It's application here would soon set every
idle man in the city to work, and with that
accomplished every branch of business
would take on boom and soon all the So
called floating population would be per-
manently absorbed.
'This proposition that we make to the
city about the bonds is not new. 1t has
been tried and very successfully. In
Pfafftown. N. c., three-story brick build
ing has been erected on the principle of
paper checks not cent of legal tender
being used in any way in its construction.
1t has no debt for interest hanging over it,
A college has been started ON this principle
in Texas, the students working in the
fields and paying. the professors with the
product of the labor of their hours of
physical exercise. The school thus pro-
vides an education of the highest order,
technical instruction going with moral,
mental and physical development, and
when the students graduate they already
have knowledge of practical affairs that