The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-14

0. Guthrie of Chicago, connected with
the constructors of the canal that is to
connect Chicago with the Illinois River, will
be one of the speakers.
''Let him speak, said Mr.. Scott, $50
that we can get some Chicago ideas. If
you can only get Chicago ideas into San
Francisco you will double your population
in a short time"
1t was decided that the addresses should
be reduced to writing and limited to ten
minutes as it was not the desire of the
committee to tire the visitors with long
speeches.
Reception-rooms will be kept open in the
Grand Hotel.
W. 7. Y. Schenck, A. A Watkins, L. F.
Dundon, ]. F. Merrill, Paul B. Perkins, H.
L. Davis and II. T. Scott were appointed a
committee on resolutions.
A. S. Hallidie offered the following reso-
luton, which was signed by the president
and secretary and telegraphed to the Legis-
lature:
turers Convention, to be held in this city on
the 10Th inst, respectfully requests the sup
port of the Senate and Assembly OF California,
that, al! things being equal clause should be
inserted in every State contract that the ma
terial should be of California manufacture.
A motion to strike out the words "all
things being equal was made by Mr..
Scott, who said ''San Francisco's manufac-
turers are equal to any Eastern men to fur
| nlsh material, and any one who thinks he
is not let him go out of business.
The committee will meet again at 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
In view of the antagonism that has de-
veloped in labor circles to the proposed
convention, the opinions of some of the
most prominent participants in that move
ment are herewith given touching the part
that labor is to play in the upbuilding of
the new California.
H. L. Davis, president of the Board of
Manufacturers and Employees of Califor-
mia, who signed the call for the proposed
convention, said:
II labor antagonizes this movement it will
antagonize only its own interests. We are
working for the best interests of the State and
whatever action may be taken will certainly
effect the laboring man favorably. We have no
objections to labor unions and would be willing
to cooperate with them if they would agree to
abstain from boycottS and from preventing
onunfon men earning living when strike
rs on The association, OF which I am presi-
dent has made no attempt to cut wages and
does not contemp plate such a thing, nor is it
contemplated by the projectors of the APP
preaching convention. The Board of Manu-
facture is not connected with this movement
as body, though most of its members are
taking an interest in it. There are MANY in
dividuals not members of the Manufacturers
Association, as it is sometimes designated who
are active in the affairs of the proposed new
organization.
fornia Wire Works, said:
The interests of the manufacturer and tba
mechanic identical. They should not
quarrel. They should come together and adopt
policy for the general good. l am sure there
would be no objection to union men participat-
ing in the convention. They might be invited
to read papers, which, you know are to be
limited to ten minutes. Any differences might
thus be made more easy of adjustment
n. A. Judd of the printing and bindino
establishment of the Hicks-Judd Company
said:
We desire to educate the unthinking into
patroniZing home products. That is the prin-
cipal object of the convention. There will be no
attempt to interfere with wages or labor unions
in any way. OF course, people Will buy that
which they can obtain the cheapest, other
things being equal; even union men do this,
regardless OF whether home industry is being
discouraged or not. What we shall endeayor
to do is to show the advisability of sometimes
paying even trife more for home-manufac-
tured goods Every dollar kept from going
East to pay for goods that made here is SO
much gained toward the permanent prosperity
OF our home industries
M. M. Barnett, secretary of the advisory
committee of the proposed Manufacturers
Convention, said:
Labor and capital should be in harmony in
all things. If the labor schedule is higher here
than in the East, we cannot compete with our
rivals there. When permanent organization is
effected at the convention the labor organiza-
tions will certainly be consulted in devising
means to secure the desired ends of the people
interested. They must be taken into consider
alton, for it remains, in this connection, largely
with the unions to solve the problem of the I'M
employed.
A. Mclaughlin of the National Brewery
said:
If the labor leaders-and l don't say union
laboring men-will not be so ready to en-
courage strikes and boycotts, they can msteri-
ally aid the Industrial progress of the State.
These evils make capital Iimid aud prevent its
| investment in enterprises which create work
for the real laborng man.
Walter Macarthur, editor of the Coast
Seamen's Journal, delegate to the Labor
Council, said:
At the present time have not the slightest
idea how united labor viii stand with regard
to the forthcoming convention of manufac-
turers and employers. The trades unions have
| the convention. However, we shall probably
| elect delegates at the next meeting OF the
Labor Council. They Will be given proper
| credentials and sent TO demand admission to
| the floor of the convention as regular members
OF that body. Ii they are rejected-well, then
We Will have to set our wits to work and adopt
such measures the case may demand. We
| shall consider that the movement is total
| failure so far as encouraging and fostering
| home industries are concerned. How on earth
! can manufacturing be discussed without taking
labor into full and free consideration? Again,
! how can labor be discussed ii it is not repre-
! scented? The sum and substance of the whole
| matter is, that home industries cannot be en-
couraged or set on basis of success if labor is
| at enmity with those whose capital is invested
| in the home industries. Labor is not only the
! great producer but also the greatest consumer.
| If labor has little or nothing with which to buy
home products home industries will naturally
wither and die. That proposition has been
| proved in the pest.
| The Federated Trades and the trades unions
are heartily in favor of the proposed convcn-
tion, provided that the movement is not made
one-sided affair wholly inimical to labor's
/ interests, was the case with the Manu-
| facturers' and Employers Association. AS
set forth in the expressed purposes of
! that body it was primarily organized to
regulate trades unions and resist their