The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-29
DEMOCRATS
ARE FALSE TO
THEIR PLEDGES
PIacards Printed by
Non-Union Labor.
ELECTION LAWS VIOLATED
MATTER MAY BE BROUGHT BE-
FORE THE GRAND JURY.
Printing Freely Distributed Which
Bears Neither the Union Label
Nor the Name Of the
Printer.
ELECTION LAWS VIOLATED
MATTER MAY BE BROUGHT BE-
FORE THE GRAND JURY.

The Democratic party has broken not
only the pledges made in both state, leg
islative and municipal conventions pul
also portion Of the law to regulate 'he
purity of elections by issuing number OIL
posters bearing neither the name OF the
printer nor the label Of the Allied Print
ing Trades Council, and from present IN
dications somebody will be obhgeo 10
.'pay the fiddler" Section 10 of the purity
of election law reads as follows:
Every bill, placard, poster, pamphlet or other
printed matter having reference 70 an @ fca
thereof the name and address Of the printer
and publisher thereof, and no payment :; sha ~
be made or allowed unless such ADDRESS - 81
printed.
The State convention of the Democratic
party Endorsed the label of the Aineq
| Printing Trades Council, the municipal
convention Endorsed this action and can
didates individually have promised thaI
all their work should. bear this guarantee
of union workmanship. Yet, in spite OF
all these pledges and in spite of the STATE
law, placards were freely distributed
along Market street yesterday afternoon
bearing neither the label nor the imprint
of the printer-simply the name or the
publisher, who has Ueen a notorious
patron of non-union offices for years.
Added to this is the fact that the party
must have known what 1t was about, as
officers of the Allied Printing Trades
Council affirm that lists of all the offices
in the city privileged to use the label
were freely distributed at the headquar-
tiers Of the parties and copy mailed to
each candidate. There are other reasons,
too, which prevent these self-styled
friends of organized labor from claiming
ignorance. Before the job in question was
off the presses the officers of the Allied
Printing Trades Council knew what was
being done, and in order that no cry or
snap judgment" might be made visited
the headquarters of the County Commit
tee and several of the candidates in per-
son and made plain statement OF the
case. The story was listened to, there
was a little scurrying around of political
hangers-on and the placards went up just
the same.
The matter was brought up at the meet
ing of the Labor Council last night and
the following resolution, presented by j.
K. Phillips of the Typographical Union
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved That is is the sense OF the San Fran
cisco Labor Council that the unfair printing
firms of John Partridge and Charles Boldemann
be denounced for not complying with the laws
of the Allied Printing Trades Council and also
section 10 of the purity Of election law.
which explicitly provides that the name and
be placed thereon, and further that all candi-
dates for political office who fail to have the
label Of said Allied Printing Trades Council
placed upon their printing be placed on record
The placard in question bears a half
tone portrait of every candidate on the To-
cal ticket, from Mayor Phelan down, and
framed copies are placed in conspicuous
places in almost every saloon ana cigar
stand of prominence along Market street
Much indignation has been expressed
over the matter by union men throughout
the city who are accustomed to look for
the label before they look at the job, and
it is broadly limited that the matter Will
be brought to the attention of the Grand
Jury, as the offense is punishable by
fine Of from $1,000 to $4,000, or proportionate
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