The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
LABOR REPORTS
ON LABOR LAWS
Tenth Annual Convention
of Workingmen's
+. f. Delegates. !.
Governor .Budd's Rock -Crusher
Law. for Convicts Is
Condemned.
Delegates From Sacramento Make
81. Report On the Status of
Various Measures.


The tenth annual convention of the
: California Labor Convention was IN ses-
sion all yesterday afternoon at 9l513 Mar
ket street. ... -.
%; The proceedings were characterized by
heated discussions on 5iects of interest
q to organized labor; and the convention
adjourned after condemning the bill now
: pending before the Assembly on the con-
vict ia Dor =problem-a measure that pro-
:vides. that conylcts may crush rock for
public works~and that the State buy an
improved rock.crusher: e.:
Delegates Rose. and Macarthur, who
were sent to"Sacramento few weeks ago
to-urge the uassing Of certain bills favor
Ing.la Dor, made a report on twenty-three
measures, as follows: .... -
Minimum compensation bill; passed the
House; no action in the Senate. !.
Bill to enforce the prompt payment of
wages; passed on favorably by the House
BiIiremitting court costs in certain cases;
third reading in the Senate; nothing done
. IN the House. =
Department: of labor bill; reported on
iayoTaDly by the Ways and Means Com
mlttee OF The House; nothing done by the
.Sehaie.-... g.
Regulation of hours of labor in lum her
camps; no action in the Senate; favorable
.Teport by the House com mittees.
Nothing has been done with the bill pro-
yluing for the payment of wages IN scrip.
The eighI-aour bill has been favored by
The House and has reached the second
reading in. the Senate.
e.. Bill regulating pioyment agencies and
.puulshlng colluSion between agents and
EN- ployers; nothing done in the House;
'seccnd' reading in the Senate r.:
. The law giving laborers a iien on public
works; nothing done in the Senate; read
he first time in House
=. :FltZgerald's employment bureau
scheme; nothing done by the Senate; first:
: reading in: the House. g.: '+.i
- Oh.the boiler ins pection law and on the
appointment OF an inspector for barber
shops, nothing was done. The same re-
port was m made on the poll tax law.
=. Bill regulating BAKERS hours; second
reading in The Senate; nothing in the
: House. ~. co..
Law exempting the wages of seamen and
.hshermen; favorable re ports. by both
branches with amendments.
-; After. considerable deliberation the body
put itself on record as opposed to the
arbitration law now before the Assem- bly,.
- The Supervisors OF san Francisco were
censured in resolutions for allowing in
mates of almshouses and others TO do
work. at less than union wages. John
: Bean of the Painters Union said the
board had recently paid $1270 for about
$50 worth of calsomining.
Resolutions were adopted condemning
all measures to employ convict labor in
any form, whether on county roads or
. elsewhere. 80
a. II. Bingham, who was not a delegate,
was allowed to speak. He said he repre-
sented $50 600. and 250O men who belong
to no.untons. This Is Budd scheme to
force convict labor on the State" he said
"and we should fight it to the end. We
have 10000 names on petition against
the bill"
. The delegates to Sacramento reported
that the rock crusher bill was a Guberna-
toriaI scheme, and they believed it would
pass, but the body denounced it.
Julius Raphael of New York, represent
ing the CIgarmakers' Union thAre, was
allowed to speak. He denounced certain
brands of cigars as tenement made goods
and urged the aid OF all unions. He was
allowed to circulate thousands of cards
running as follows:
TO THE FRIENDS. OF HONEST LABOR WHEREVER
FOUND.
You are hereby officially informed by the
International Cigar.mskers of New York City
that the gar manufactured by kerbs, Vert
hel N & Schiller. factory Nos. 1l16 aud Is.
third district, New York, are made in filthy
tanement-houses by nou-unionisls. They are
d. also machine made. You are earnestly re-
Quested 10 smoke otner cigars until such time
as kerbs, Wertheim & Schiller see. Fl TO recog-
nizs the-Fight OF labor 10 organize and to pay
living wages. '...'
The brands are as follows: General Arthur,
Round Trip, Bank Note, Arbitrator, Dark
horse, Merchant, Turks Head, Sandow, World
Beater. Pdn.y Bouquet, Sweet Repose;. K. w. &
S. Cubas, Waitt d. Bonds No. /, Speckled
Beauties. Roses GlIt Edge. Sweet Marie, Min
nesota Queen, Prince Albert, Faunteroy,
Cameo. Reputation, Plcador, Reception, Our
Boys, La Tampa. Our. Pledge, Nanon, Arthur
.etie, Franklin McXeagh's Diamond Crown.
INTERNATIONAL CIGAR-MAKERS OF NEW YORK.
Resolutions: were. passed condemning
the decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States in the Arago case, wherein
1T was held that sailors may be arrested
and Imprisoned for failing to work after
signing articles to go on voyage. 1t was
announced that there will be a mass-meet-.
ing at Metropolitan Temple tomorrow
night, at which Mayor Phelan will speak
for the sailors.
A committee was appointed to solicit
further funds so as to MAINTAIN delegates
at Sacramento.