The San Francisco call., 1906-12-30

I Bickford, George Porter and Frank
Holt; alternates-Georg Jones, Harry
I Fries and Fred Duprey; delegates to
! Labor Council-Anton Balslow, George
Rowe. stephen Drake. Henry Fahrman.
1 Joe Bader, and Owen E. Healey and O..
/ T. n. Ledwith were tied; board of trus-
tees-George Jones, Al Ferrier and
Harry Fries executive board--Henry
/ Fahrman, Charles Wagner, Ed Meusor,
William Kress, Louis Berke and John
/ DeSin. There was a tie vote for bust
ness agent The contestants were
Stephen Drake and George Rowe. The
1 installation will take place at the first
meeting in the new year.
Janitors' Union No. 10, 1857 at the last
meeting initiated three candidates and
receiged seven applications for men,
bership. The next meeting will be
held at the Labor Council Temple on
January g. The local has decided to
affiliate with the State Federation of
Labor. Installation of officers will
take place at the next meeting.
The eight-hour day has been ac-
cepted by two of the mines in the Grass
! Valley district and the miners believe
that before many weeks every company
! in the region will have conceded its
men the shorter workday. The men
!
more leisure under the new schedule,
but that the mine owners also will find
that they will get as good days work
in eight hours as has been given in
the past in nine hours. The new sys-
! tenn also will enable the employers to
work three shifts instead of two as in
/ the past.
The following officers have been
elected by Gas Workers Union No sS40:
President H. s Cleveland; vice presi-
/ dent, Thomas Clasby; recording secre-
! tary. A. +. Colman; financial secretary,
j. ]. Breslin; treasurer, Peter V.
kearns; guide, ]. V. Russell; guardian
Joseph Lawless; business agent, George
! w. Bell; executive board-C w. As
mussen, George w. Bell, Thomas Clas-
! by. Bernard Cert, Clifford Ellis, J. S.
Fisher William Hoey, Chris Lutz,
James B. Russell and ]. ]. Sullivan;
delegates to Labor Council-George W.
Bell, j. J. Breslin, A T. Colman and
Peter v Kearns; delegates to Japanese
and Korean Exclusion League-H. s.
Cleveland and H Senna- The installa-
tion will take place on January 10.
At the last quarterly meeting of Ma
chine Coopers' Union No. 161 the fol-
lowing officers were elected: President
H Wierda; vice president f. Graham;
recording secretary, S. Toussaint; finan-
cial secretary, NJ. Whalen; treasurer, s.
Hollis; sergeant at arms, T. Keohen;
inside guard, C. Prignitz; trustees-T
Graham, H Morton and H. Wierda !.
delegates to Coopers' Local Joint
Executive Board-M. Whalen. S. Hollis
and W Prignitz; delegates to Labor
Councils Hollis and H Wferda; dele
gates TO japanese and Korean Exclu-
sion League-H. Wierda and IL Whalen.
Inc installation will take place at the
meeting on January 10.
Machinists' Lodge No. 6S at its last
meeting was visited by NJ Ford, one of
the executive officers of the interna-
tionaL The lodge gave the guest a
banquet Ford win leave for Los An
seles in day or two.
Electrical Workers Union No 6 Gn-
side electricians) at its last meeting
elected the following officers: President
w. s. Rush; vice president. e. p. Rnr,
chard; recording secretary. A E YoelI:
financial secretary, A Kempston: treas
urer, f. e. Haskill; inspectors. p. Con-
way and ]. Cook; foreman. H. B.
Lampke; trustees, ]. z. Allen and G. A.
Russell; finance committee, A. E. Cohen.
k h Thompson and D. Holmes; busi-
ness agent, Z. c. Loomis; assistant
gate to Stockton convention of State
Building Trades Council, E. C. LOOMS.
memorial was ordered engrossed in
the memory of Charles J. Fields Three
candidates were initiated, five members
admitted on travelling cards and six
applications received. The union has
opened business office at 707 Franklin
street, at which place a representative
may be seen at all hours of the day.
who will furnish electrical help. Reso-
lutions protesting against the action of
President Roosevelt on the Japanese
question In his annual message to Con-
gress were adopted. Copies of the
same were ordered forwarded to the
President and the California delegation
in Congress.
Pie Bakers Union No. 274 met in
Turner Hail. Eighteenth and Valencia
streets, and elected the following off,
GERS: President, Frank Nelk; vice pres
ident, J. Schubridge; corresponding Sec
retary. N. Weiss; delegate to Labor
Council, John Bathman; financial score
tary, Walter Burkley. Eight members
were obligated at the meeting. The
union is in fiourishing condition
Weiss, the newly elected corresponding
secretary, is well and favorably known
in this city. He has been engaged in
missionary work and has been the in
strument Of doing much good The
union is to be congratulated upon se-
curing such competent officer.
notwithstanding repeated denials it
seems certain that there is a movement
on foot in Chicago which has for its
object the unionizing of the police, fire
department, school teachers and all
public service employees of that city 1t
is stated that the object of the proposed
organization is not to federate with or
ganized labor, but to form an independ-
ent organization which will deal as 1t
pleases with the problems of remunera-
tion and working hours. The work of
forming the new union is proceeding
slowly and is meeting with consider
able opposition, particularly among the
fremen. The latter, however. are pre-
pairing demands for 10 per cent in
crease in pay.
Alfred p. Thorn, general counsel of
the Southern Railway Company, and
p. j. Conlon, first vice president of the
Int