The San Francisco call., 1906-06-21
EDITED BY o. NJ. BOYLE.

international Bricklayers' and Masons'
Union has received the following let
ter from Edward J. Brandon, third
vice president of the organization, To-
Gated in this city, and it will doubtless
be read with interest, as it voices the
opinions Of one of the foremost labor
leaders Of San Francisco:
Work has commenced among the
large class A buildings that were par
tialiy damaged on the inside. and it
looks as ii in the course of a few
months things viii be humming. No
building permits are being granted at
present except for temporary, one-story
frame buildings. A large committee
has been appointed TO frame a new
building ordinance and I am sorry to
say that no representative of our craft
Is member Of it. great effort is
going to be made 20 place the rein
forced concrete building in a class
above the brick building. This is due
70 the fact that the fire walls of near
ly every building in town came down
with the shake, and In many cases the
whole structure collapsed. In others
the walls fell out leaving the loaded
noors standing intact, resting on the
wooden posts and girders. In my opin-
ion all these failures of brick are due
70 poor workmanship and even poorer
materials. There are many brick
buildings standing, and they do not
snow crack anywhere. Most of the
latter have been built by the day, or
else there was a superintendent of con-
struction employed have tried to
interest the Master Builders Associa-
tion in the matter, with little success
70 date, but viii keep plugging along
DONG the best that 1 can. There is
another problem. We will want many
more brickiayers; in fact, we need them
now, but cannot bring them here until
we have sleeping accommodations for
them We have about fifty members at
present sleeping in tents, and we are
making arrangements TO put up cots
In our headquarters which will accom-
modate about this number. I am re-
ceivlng letters every day asking for
brfcklayers from the small nearby
towns, but we have none TO spare
Santa Rosa wants twenty men, and
presume they can work there steadily
Tor year or more. If men are too
scarce IL is going TO make brick build
ings cost too much, and this will be an
other argument against them. especial
" since reinforced concrete is cheaper
/ would like you TO think over this
matter. and when there is a demand
for men and we can give them sleeping
accommodations 1 viii notify you"
AA4NAd-H DA " alLEES Union NO. 90 are
loud IN their denunciation of the way
in which the eighteen soup kitchens of
Shattuck & Desmond are conducted
Aside from the fact that the food is
often not ft for human consumption. it
is claimed that the firm has so en-
trenched itself that the sanitary laws
are being openly violated The Board
OF Health viii have several matters
brought TO its attention, which, the
walters affirm, should speedily be rem
eoied- Then loud complaint is being
made at the manner in which the help
Is being treated. 1t is claimed that
starvation wages are being paid to
some employees and by many the soup
Kitchens are looked upon as a greater
evil than the numerous Japanese res
taurants that are springing up every
where.
The following officers were chosen at
the last meeting of Longshore Iurn-
bermen's Protective Association: Pres
ident, Matt T. Kerr; vice president,
William Baker; recording secretary
George A Hansen; financial secretary.
Lawrence Buckley; treasurer. Ed
Jones; sergeant at arms, Thomas Cum
mings; sentinel and janitor, NJ Dali
ton; business agent, J. c. Williams;
board OF trustees, J. w Sullivan. Ed
Schneider, Miles Kehee. D. K. Com
MN l. a. 4-eAE tCfls \. AQlllnS and
George Dunar; delegates TO City Front
Federation, George F. McManus, j. c.
Williams and r. F. Calvin.
Governor Joseph K. Toole of Mon
tsna made the principal address at the
twenty-eighth anniversary of the Butte
Miners Union last Wednesday. The
entire town of Butte turned out to do
honor to the occasion. In the course
he
cannot stop to recount all your unions
achievements In legislation which have
anleliorated the conditions of the min
ers of this State. Foremost among these
was the establishment of an eight-hour
day IN certain hazardous employments
and the creation Of Labor day. The
establishment Of this and other hel-
idays has cenle to be regarded as BEN
e6cial, not only to the empioye but to
the employer. 1t finds able support
and apt illustration in the line of
Horace, Dulee est desidere in loco
which, being IIberally Interpreted, sig
ni7es that that man knocks down the
most ore in a day who stops once in a
while to sharpen his pick. At least,
that is what II means in the vernaeular
of Missouri"
A spirited election took place for Off
GERS at the last meeting of Steam Laun-
dry workers Union No. 26, with the
following result: President, Guy F.
Thurber; vice president, Miss Annie
Mullen: secretary, Miss Carrie Farmer;
treasurer, John Flanagan; sergeants
At arms, Louis Matter and John Nor
ris; business agent, Robert Z. Ewing;
executive eommittee-James Farren,
Joseph Jaubert, I. A Greenlaw, Mrs.
Emma OfKeefe, Charles Liniger. George
Tbeison and ]. E. Bolts; delegates to
Labor councif-Guy F. Thurber, d. ].
Gorman. Frederick Graham, George
rbeison. Miss Annie Mullen, Joseph
Johnson, Charles Liniger. Miss Annie
brown and Mrs. Emma o'Keefe.
There will be no half-holidays this
summer on Saturdays for machinists at
ne Boston navy yard. Chairman Foss
81 the House naval committee states
mat the application urged by dele
"a tion. headed by a Boston machinist,
Tvas made too late in the session OF
Congress. The Navy Department, ii
Gems. has given the plan no encour-
! sser,ent The machinists' application
80 been returned TO the House COM
,ssftee without favorable Endorsement.
4 .1,,',,ceompanying IL was statement that
:. .raat the half-holidays would cost
- S-~----,.,e,,f p s200. 900.