The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22


as the managing committee of
the Amalgamated Society OF
Carpenters and Joiners. held its first
regular meeting last Saturday night at
S24 Laguna street. The following on
GERS were elected: President, Charles
A. Nelson; secretary, R. H. Bell; treas
nrer, Thomas Maxwell; trustees. Rob
ert Miller and David Bell
The managing committee ordered
each Of the branches in thas district to
elect auditors and proceed at once to
audit the books of the several
branches. II was also ordered that
all moneys should be turned over TO
the central body which belongs to IL.
The managing committee will remit at
once $1,000 for current expenses. The
business agents Of the Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters and Joiners,
". W Freeland. r. H. Bell and r. H.
Dglow, were requested to report 10
that body once a week, which body
viii attend TO the financing in this dis
trict. Its duties will also be 10 attend
10 all matters pertaining to carpenters
afhliated with ii. The managing COM
nittee will meet next Saturday night
at S24 Laguna street
Miss Eveline Strachan has taken the
place Of Miss Sarah Hagan. the Labor
d Council stenographer. who is now on
her way TO the Toronto convention OF
the garment workers. The position is
a responsible one and requires the ser
vices of an expert operator
Printing Pressmen's Union No. "a
held its last meeting in the hall at
S3s Noe street About s25o0 was dis
tributed among the members from the
relief fund. Owing to the rapid rise
IN the necessaries Of life well as
the rapid rise in rents. committee
was appointed TO interview the pro-
prietors and ask for an increase in
wages. The intention is to ask for a
50-cent increase in the daily wage. The
printing pressmen are about the only
skilled craft which has not asked for
an increase. IAe members md that
they are unable to pay the butcher,
baker and clothe their children on the
present wages. Resolutions inoorslng
the carmen in their endeavor TO better
their conditions Were passed and
pledging them the moral and financial
support Of the printing craft in their
struggle.
The attention Of the union being
called to advertisements appearing in
Eastern papers and also on this coast
for pressmen to come to san Fran
cisco, means viii be taken TO contra
dict these misleading advertisements.
The secretary was instructed 10 notify
unions throughout the country that at
present there are plenty Of pressmen
IN this city and that all such adver
tisements are misleading
A telegram received. In this city yes
terday from Cincinnati announced the
death Of J. P. Weigel. editor of the
.ofhcial organ Of the international
Brewery Workers. Mr.. Weigel has
been sfling for some time He was
widely known and prominent few
in nrRanfZinR the
bottlers. He was gifted writer and
speaker
Arthur E. ireland, special organizer
OF the international Association of
Machinists, who has been stationed in
Ptttsburg for some time in furthering
4 the eight-hour campaign, is now in
= Washington, d. C, comforting with the
toncials Of the international in regard
70 sending additional organizers into
tho Pittsburg field for at least three
months. The machinists are being
:. strengthened materially throughout
western Pennsylvania
c ]. McAIorrow. representing the In
ternational Boot and Shoe Workers
= Cnfon. is travelling throughout the West
in the interest of his organization. Re
Gently he was in Butte, Mont, and he
says he was greatly surprised at the
strength OF the American Federation
OF Labor IN that part of the country
He had an erroneous impression that
the Western Federation Of Miners mo-
ncpolized the labor movement in Mon
tsna-
The strike OF the switchmen in the
New Haven yards of the New York
New Haven and Hartford Railroad has
been declared of by Second Grand Vice
President Val Fitzpatrick of the Broth
- Eog who has
rot only ordered the strikers TO return
70 work IL they can secure their places,
but also has directed all local unions
70 assist the grand officers in filling
the vacancies with competent men
Tho order 10 end the strike was given
in the form Of a notice to the chair
men Of local grievance committees on
the New Haven system, and by the
posting OF a duplicate copy so that 1t
could be read by the striking switch
men.
The situation as developed by the
rererptory ending of the strike is saic
10 be unique in the labor world. Fitz-
r,strick maintains that the sincerity
OF purpose Of the brotherhood in its
dealings and agreements with the New
York New Haven and Hartford Kali
road must be upheld and as he hnds
that the strike was both illegal and un-
warranted, and as the company would
refuse 70 take back the strikers, the
duty OF the brotherhood, through the
grand officers, is to fill every strikers
place with competent, trustworthy
men. even IL the men must be taken
from other railroads for the time be-
ing. There were 26O switchmen in
volved.
rhe tugboat strike in New York is
about over Nearly all the men en-
Moved fn the New York Central, the
Erie and the Baltimore and Ohio lines
are hack az work and the boats are
moving without interruption. The de-
rDends OF the men were for an increase
OF SIC q month for first deckhands and
s. q month for second deckhands. A
corapronise OF IS a month increase was
reached
seven members Of the United Mine
workers in the Pittsburg district have
been committed TO jail in default OF
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