The San Francisco call., 1906-10-27

NisNndnics ana $5 for helpers. Ine
ne" union is growing nicely.
The japanese League will hold its
regular monthly meeting tomorrow
afternoon at Twenty-second and Fol-
som streets. Complete records of each
OF the California delegation in the last
congress on the question of Asiatic
immigration have been secured and
they will be read at this meeting.
There will be q brief read on the Pan
ANA Canal question.
Hereafter the headquarters of the
Labor Council will be located in the
new building, 312 Fourteenth street.
near Mission. The secretary will be
found there from this date on. The
council will hold it's first meeting there
next Friday night. The board of di-
rectors has assigned halls to a large
number OF unions. Unions desiring ac-
commodations should apply as soon as
possible Those wishing TO engage
halls should address J. J. O'Neill, Labor
Clarion.
Typographical Union No. q viii hold
its moRthly meeting tomorrow after
noon al ? o'clock in the Labor
Council building. 3I2 Fourteenth street
IL Will g6 the UDlOn 10 IuCCL III tAC
new building erected by the Labor
Council. The offices of No. 81 will be
removed 10 the new building in the
course of a week or so.
Members of the Chicago Laundry
Drivers Union. which organization Sc
ceded from the international Brother
hood Of Teamsters and cast its lot
with the United Teamsters Of America
of the old members have elected to stay
under the banner of Cornelius P. Shea.
They have formed a new organization
and received a charter from the inter-
national last week Dissension is
spreading among the unions of team
drivers in Chicago.
Hugh L Dickson. grand counsel of
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men and Engfnemen, is a notable char
acter. During the recent Milwaukee,
pressed the claims of Dickson so elo-
quently that the plum fell TO the San
Bernardinian. The following is taken
from paper in Southern California
about Dickson: The new grand coun-
sci OF the order was formerly a rail
road man. one day train wreck was
impending. lives were in danger. Fire
man DlChSUu slOUu DA HIS puSl. ne
came out of the crash with two hand
less arm stumps. Some men would
have been discouraged, but the injured
railroad man applied himself to the
study Of law, was admitted to practice
and has since made a record of which
many a university trained jurist might
well be proud In Arizona he cast his
lot, where his name became a terror 10
the lawless. for as public prosecutor he
sent many an outlaw to the peniten-
tiary."
The Iowa Central Railway announces
that beginning. with November l all
telegraph operators on the entire sys-
tenn. with the exception Of one branch,
The increase ranges from $3.50 to IS
a month. Many roads in the East are
compelled TO pay better wages in or
der to keep their operators.
II is stated THAI Governor Warner
and Attorney General Bird Of Michi-
gan have been petitioned by the State
Federation Of Labor to stop the man
ufacture Of cigars by the convicts in
the Marquette prison. The petition is
based on recent decision or the Su-
preme Court. holding the manufacture
Of brooms by convict labor at the Jack
son prison to be contrary to the con-
stitutional provision prohibiting the
teaching of mechanical trades in penal
institutions Of the State. Tt is said
that there is no statutory law under
which il is possible TO carry out the
provisions of the constitution as in
terpreted by the Supreme Court.
President P. H. Mccarthy of the
state Building Trades made a flying
tri7 TO Los Angeles the other day and
this is what he has to say about the
growth Of labor unions in the southern
metropolis; Organized labor is grow
ing rapidly in Los Angeles. Every
time 7 go there I am impressed with
this fact Especially is this true of the
building crafts. Not a week passes
that there is not an increase in the
membership Of the carpenters. brick
layers. plumbers. painters. electrical
workers and other unions of that city.