The San Francisco call., 1906-09-15

The convention OF the United Broth
erhooo OF Carpenters and Joiners which
assemblies next Monday at Niagara
Fails' n. Y, has some very important
work laid out for itself. II is rIo-
posed 10 form some plan of amalgaIna-
.lon OF the two great bodies of carpen
ters forming one monster organization.
IN addition to the sick and death bene-
nts now paid by the union. it is in
tended TO introduce a superannua.ed
oeneht of SO a week for members ,vko
nave been in good standing for period
OF twenty-five years and who have
reaehed the age of 55 years Members
who have been in good standing for
Twenty-Five years and who have
reached the age of 60 years will re-
ceive IS week for the rest of their
lives.
BY order of the National Council,
construction gang of the telephone
system in Monett, Mo, have been or
dered on strike. The strike is gen
eral over Missouri, and 500 men are
out in the Kansas City district. Gen
eral Manager Harry King stated that
he believed the strike would be of short
duration, but would not give his reas-
ons for the prophesy.
Orthodox Jews of the East Side, New
York City. will go without chicken
at their meals until the strike of the
shochtim is ended. The shochtim ere
the men authorized by the rabbis to
slay the poultry eaten by the faithful,
and unless chicken has its life taken
by the "kufar" of shochter, the or
thodox may not eat of it. The head
kufar wielder and president of the
Shochter Union called the strike be-
cause some Of the market men put their
shoehters on salary instead of keeping
to the old piece system. Ninety shoch-
tim are in the union, and the vote
to strike was unanimous.
Paul Blatchford, secretary of the
Metal Trades Association of Chicago,
has predicted a termination of the
strike of the 500 iron molders in the
result of an important discovery made
by local manufacturers AS an expert
ment 100 molding machines We're re-
Gently installed in the big foundries
where ii had been found impossible to
secure strike breakers to replace the
foundrymen who walked out May l.
The trial proved successful to the en-
ployers.
Judge n. P. Conrey of Los Angeles
has granted the Crescent Wharf and
Warehouse Company of San Pedro a
preliminary Injunction against the
Longshoremen's Union of San Pedro,
restraining the union men who are on
strike from picketing or otherwise in
terfering with the non-union men en-
ployed to unload vessels, and held that
the distribution of circulars in which
the word "scab" is used is unlawful.
Lumber Clerks Union met at the
hall, Twenty-second and Folsom |
cf Tua nj
A Nelson, business agent for the Build
ing Trades Council. was present and was
called on for a speech. He spoke on
trades union topics and pointed out the
policy Of conservatism always pursued
by the Building Trades COUNCIL He
admonished the union to be conserva-
tive likewise. He told how the lumber
dealers generally had volunteered to
raise the minimum wage TO 81 per day, |
a raise of fifty cents. the same to go
into effect Immediately. Past President |
simpson was presented with a hand |
some locket, and Mr.. Nelson made the |
presentation speech. Mr.. Simpson re- |
piled and his words showed that the !
little surprise touched him greatly |
There will be a special summoned |
meeting next Tuesday, and matters of |
vast moment TO the organization will !
be brought UP. All members are asked |
to be present.
The annual convention of the Indus
trial Workers of the World will be
held in Chicago next Monday. Dele |
gates from Montana and other States |
in the West are on their way to the |
Windy City.
The union cooks and walters of
Butte, Montana, are agitating for an |
eight-hour workday. The matter is to |
be brought up at the meeting of the |
union this week Recently the bar
tenders made demands on the propri-
etors of the Butte saloons and won.
The financial report of the Piano.
Organ and Musical Instrument Work
ers' Union shows that organization to |
have initiated to membership during |
the past year 1914. Very few have left |
the occupation and the trade is re-
ported brisk throughout the country.
The Houston Labor Journal thus
points out the advantages of organized
labor to any community: The advan-
tages that labor organizations bring
TO the people generally are TO be found
in the fact that better wages bring
about a more equitable and more
just distribution of the wealth of the
country. The better the wages the
more money is put in circulation, and
the more money there is in circulation
the more money there is to pay the
butcher. the baker. the grocer, the
druggist, the doctor and the merchant.
Everybody shares in the good wages of
the man who tolls, and no injustice
is done anybody"
At a conference held recently be-
tween the officials of the Pennsylvania
Railroad and the representatives of the
Telegraph Operators Association. the
company granted an increase of wages
to all telegraphers on the lines east
of Pittsburg. 4e new scale is to be
figured from September / and 1t is ex-
pected that the monthly payroll will be
augmented $4,000. The operators on
the lines west of Pittsburg have taken
UP a similar question with the Off
cials, but no action has yet been an
nounced.
Pittsburg won the next convention
of the National Stogiemakers' League.
The annual meeting closed in Wheeling,
w. Va, with the election of the fol-
lowing officers: President, w. H. Ri