The San Francisco call., 1906-09-14
EDITED BY o M. BOYLE.

month. The union will have a SO sick
benefit after November l. The last
meeting was one of the largest and
most enthusiastic held since the great
fire.
There will be an aggregate meeting
of the Amalgamated Society of Car
penters and Joiners tomorrow night at
Dolores Hall, corner Sixteenth a2d Do
lores streets. The meeting Will be
called at o'clock sharp and every
member is requested to be present, as
matters Of great moment will be dis
cussed.
Branch will meet at Union Hall.
Fourteenth and Church streets, next
Monday night for initiation.
The Trades Union Congress now in
session in Liverpool, representing al
most 1000, 600 trades unionists. has
adopted resolutions. in favor of an
eisht-hour day for all organized labor.
The American delegates offered greet
irgs from the American Federation of
Labor. F. K. Foster. one of the dele
gates. described the labor situation in
the United States, saying that If the
workingmen of Great Britain and
America would unite it would assure
complete victory for the labor move
ment Pensions for everybody at the
age of so was among the resolutions
adopted The advocates of the meas
ure contended that the money neces-
sary for the pensions could easily be
raised from among the wealthy by tax
ing land values.
A resolution in favor OF treaties of
arbitration. coupled with an emphatic
protest against the increase of arma-
ments or insidious attempts to intro
duce conscription in Great Britain, was
aise carried The congress instructed
the labor members of Parliament to in
sist on trades union rates of wages be-
ing inserted in all Government con-
tracts and the esta blishment of a ma
ticraI minimum wage to protect the
working people against the evil of
sweating"
1t Is stated from Glassboro, N. j.,
that an erroneous statement has gone
out to the effect that the Amalgamated
Window Glass Workers have withheld
the wage scale from the manufac-
turers. Members OF the organization
there say that the scale adopted at
Cleveland on August 28 was presented
tn the manufacturers on September l
and accepted by them. and that they
can start up their plants tomorrow
The twelfth annual convention of
in session in Wheeling, W. Va, last
week. There were delegates from Vir-
g.nia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The In
dustrial Workers of the World and the
National Union of Cigarmakers each
had representatives on the ground
asking aff1liation.
In order to force the abolition of
Sunday funerals the Baltimore Hack
Drivers Union has declared a strike,
and as result undertakers all over
that city are having difficulty in get
ting drivers to take charge of car
riages at funerals. No notice of the
strike was given and when the men
walked out it left several undertakers
in a serious predicament.
Former Governor Chamberlain of
Connecticut the other day refused to
pay car fare on the Consolidated road
In New Haven unless given seat. The
conductor turned over the former Gov
ernor TO a policeman, who recognized
him and declined to interfere in the
dispute.
Who says the Orient is slow to learn
of the Occident? Listen to a cablegram
from Toxic:
The trouble between the street car
companies and their employees cui-
minated last night in riots in several
districts OF the city. Fifty-two cars
were damaged and forty-seven motor
men and conductors and eleven police
men were more or less injured. Ninety
one arrests were made"
T. W. Rowe, president of the Ameri-
can Flint Glass Workers Union, ac-
companied by several members Of his
executive board, was in Pittsburg the.
other day. 1t is understood that their
presence there was in connection with
the injunction against the organization
and its officers and other individuals
asked for by the Macbeth Evans Com
pany. Rowe would not discuss the
merits Of the injunction. not consider
Ing IL the proper thing to do. He said
that the affairs of the union were never
in better shape nor the general feel
ing more harmonious. Secretary John
L Dobbins is at present in Europe on
a vacation granted him by the organi-
zation in recognition of faithful serv-
ices. with the hope that the rest will
restore his health, which was badly