The San Francisco call., 1906-08-02
EDITED BY .. NJ. BOYLE.

and fifteen applications from shoe clerks
in the Mission district were received.
The o'clock closing movement will be
agitated in that district and it is hoped
no trouble will be experienced in en-
forcing il. The union appointed COM
mlttee of three TO confer with the other
clerks unions looking to the establish
ment of general headquarters. The
local was reported as progressing
nicely.
New Bedford, Mass, has experienced
the hrst streetcar strike in its history.
serious riots near the carbarns marked
the progress OF the trouble. in which
several policemen were injured Ii is a
remarkable fact, however, that most of
the missiles that did the damage were
not thrown by union men, but were
hurled by men and boys who gathered
at the scene of the trouble. The senti-
ment. of the people of New Bedford
was shown by the fact that large
number OF citizens not connected in any
way with the carmen paraded with ban
uers expressing their sympathy with
the strikers. District Organizer D. S.
Fitzgerald directed the fight of the
union men.
cooperative home wherein 125
families will unite, the work of house
keeping being equally divided and exc
euted under the most approved fashion,
is being formed by an organization in
Philadelphia as the outcome of the
pure food agitation. Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel K. Young are leaders in the
movement. Young is a relative of the
tanderbilts In the colony will be ten
cooks, who will prepare the food for all
the families. One set of walters will
serve the food. One lighting plant will
ic n f,afa Of TI,s
colony 10 raise its own products and
slaughter its own meat. The expert
ment In co cooperation will be watched
with great interest by organized labor.
Plumbers Union No. i442 met in Sym
postum Hall Monday night. Twenty
five applications for membership are
not to parade on Labor day. Business
is reported brisk and all the members
are working
BARRIERS Union No. I4S met Monday
night with a large attendance The
following candidates were initiated
Joseph Rothenberg, J. J. Lucy, Oney
T Peterson. Joseph S. Dresser and r.
Label. Nine travelling cards We're de-
posted and ten reinstatements Of
former members took place The even
!ng was mainly taken up with a dis
cussion OF the new bylaws, which
were read for the last time. The prin-
cipal change III the laws is prescrib-
ing the duties OF the business agent
Hereafter he will have the same hours
as a journeXman. Many difficulties are
being Strengthened out and the shops
are closing promptly.
An Injunction commanding the build
ing trades unions of Bridgeport. Conn.,,
to refrain from in any way interfering
with the work of the Master Builders
Association or to in any way influence
or threaten men in its employ has been
issued by Judge Edwin 3. eager of the
Connecticut Superior Court. This is
claimed TO be the most decisive blow
aimed at the building trades unions in
that State. and 1t comes as the climax
of war which has been waged for
the past six months when the masons
and those connected with them went
out on a strike. In the suit a per-
manent injunction is asked with dam
ages at $4,000.
The injunction commands all mem
bers of the defndant unions and asso-
Citations, in a penalty of $1,000, forth
with wholly and absolutely TO refrain
from in any manner interfering with
the men now in the em0loy of the
plaintiffs or with any person who may
be willing to enter the employ of the
plaintiffs, by way of threats, persua-
sion, with common purposes and unoer-
standing, personal violence. intimida-
ton, coercion, or by following, inter-
viewing, bTibing. cajoling. or in any
other way interfering with the en-
ployes of the plaintiffs or with taking
any action calculated to induce such
persons to refuse to enter or to leave
the employment of the plaintiffs, or
from boycotting the plaintiffs The
plaintiffs admit that the boycott was so
effective that their business was ma
terially injured.
The Waltham -Bleachery and Dye
Workers Union No 1906 of Boston
viii be enJoined from interfering with
the business, customers and employees
Of a certain firm in that city If an in
junction asked for is granted. The.
aggrieved company claims that its busi-
ness is being destroyed and that the
townspeople are refusing TO patronize
it at the instigation of the members
of the union, and that many have gone
elsewhere.
A two-story and basement frame
building is being erected by the Labor
Bureau Association on McAllister
street; near Cough. as permanent head
quarters. The building will cost up-
ward Of $4,000 and will be finished
in September. There will be two lodge
rooms. reading-room. Offices and a
fpr