The San Francisco call., 1899-07-22
WANT SOLDIERS
TO co HOME TO
MUSTER OUT
Sentiment of the La
Dor Council.
MAY CROWD LABOR MARKET
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO
TAKE ACTION.
It Is Believed That This Is to the
Best Interests of the Volunteers.
Regular Semi Annual
Nominations Held.
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Under the head of Good Of the Order"
last night members of the San Francisco
Labor Council expressed their disapproval
of having returned volunteer soldiers
mustered out in San Francisco. The chief
reasons given were that the men would
be paid off in this city, would spend their
money here and then finding themselves
stranded. would either be dependent upon
the charity of the community, driven to
starvation and thence back into the
ranks, or forced into the ranks OF labor,
where necessity would cause them to take
work al any wages offered.
The ball was set rolling by Andrew Flu
ruseth of the Sailors Union. he said;
The Oregon regiment has elected to be
mustered out here and this brings US face
to face with a serious question. If the
men from Oregon have chosen TO say
farewell to army life in this city, the
chances are that other soldiers Will 1ol-
low their course. 1t is long distance
from the Pacific Coast to the MISSISSIPPI
River. When the men who nave Deen
suffering privation in the Philippine Isl
ands for months receive money IN civil
ized city, their first impulse Will be 10
spend it. In the course of few weeks
the majority of them VIII pc pehhieSSS
and San Francisco, which has prohted
for a season from the soldiers, VIII mnd
itself called upon to support them. Inc
railroad is chary of giving transportation,
particularly East. What, then, Will pc
come of these men? All trades are rep
resented among them, and they are men
who will work for anything rather than
starve or beg. This is serious question.
We cannot have the ranks or labor aug
mented by starving and pennleSS men,
and il is our duty to see that proper steps
are taken toward having them mustered
out in their home towns.
Other members of the councn spoke
along the same lines. Secretary Rosen-
berg claimed that the whole thing was q
scheme to force the discharged and pen
| nilesS soldiers back into the army IN OF
der that there would be no dlfhculty IN
| organizing a sufficient force to carry on
an aDDarently endless war in the Phillp-
mines He said that both the administra-
ton and officers of the army We're connlN-
ing to this end and that the men We're De-
ing prompted to choose San francisco as
the mastering out place by their SUPERB
/ ors The whole matter was finally placed
in the hands of the executive committee
and the suggestion was made that cir
CuIar be addressed to the Governors OF
the various States requesting them TO lay
the whole matter before their respective
troops and urge the men to come nome
to be mustered out.
/ Nominations for the regular seml-an-
nual election of officers to be held next
/ week resulted as follows: For president
I / w Lamont Fred Westcott. A. Dijeau
| vice president-E. L. Clapp, P. j. DietZ
/ Henry Meyer; secretary, Ed Rosenberg
/ financial secretary, {. ii. Parker treas
/ urer. Ernest Koenig; sergeant at arms
! NJ Quinn; executive cOmmittee-W. H
/ Goff, NJ. Monahan. P. Davis, Ed Rosen
/ berg Ernest Koenig, August Item, j. I
/ MCAuliffe; organizing commlttee-A. X
! Andre H. Myers, w. H. Goff, NJ. Mona
committee-W. ]. Macarthur, c. H. Par
! ker, ]. X Phillips. c. Schuppert, j; Gas
/ ner ] T MCAuliffe: trustees-P. J
Dietz. P. Brown, W. ]. Macarthur.