The San Francisco call., 1906-11-09
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE

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during the next sixty days by paying
the nominal sum of $3.50
BARRIERS Union No 14S met for the
last time at s35 Webster street. Here
a1ter the local will meet at the Labor
council Temple Monday nights. The
meeting at .SS5 webster was large
and enthusiastic. Five candidates
were obligated and nine applica tions
received An active boycott will be
lhaugurated against the barber shops
d 1foz hlllmore street and 1915 Point
Looos avenue. The organizing COM
Mittee was instructed to enlist the CO.
operation of the Retail Clerks and the
Shoe Clerks in these boycotts.
President Shea of the international
Brotherhood of Transfers is at nresen+
IN New York City aiding the chauffeurs
n thelr strike for better conditions.
fariey strike breakers have been in
Jected INTO the difficulty and trouble
may occur before the strike is settled
me men are out for 50 for a ten-hour
Gay. The Farleyites are being paid
Sz-So day' with board and lodging
Ihe nrst day the strike breakers were
engaged one valuable auto was smash
cd through the ignorance OF the driver
Inc strikers have organized a union
and President Shea is making arrange
menJs TO pay each man SIS waelx 9
long as the strike lasts. About sa0
men nave Joined the new union in New
YORK City. Chauffeurs are being or
gained in several other cities Of the
country.
The board of directors of the .,enn-
sylYania Railroad Company at a meet
ing iast tuesday in Philadelphia or
oered an advance of 10 per cent in the
wages OF all employees receiving less
than $500 per month. The increase
VIII begin December /. The directors
gave as their reasons for the raise
the increased o-st of living and tbe
present prosperity of the country.
About 10000 men will be benefited.
The Ottawa tCanada) Typographical
Ohlon' with 400 members, and the sec
ono largest local in Canada, it is re-
ported, has decided to secede from the
International and start a purely Cana
dian association. to be known as the
Ottawa typographical Association.
After the business meeting. of Butch
ers Union No. lis last Wednesday
evening a highjinks and social was
gwen PRESIDENT A. F. Breslin pre-
sided. Nineteen candidates were obli-
gated. The large hall at the Labor
Council Temple was packed with
friends of the organization. The fol-
lowing programme was rendered: Songs
and recitations, Matt NARROW: humor-
Gus stories. T. Guska; song. Ed Schuv-
Ter; remarks by Secretary McCabe Of
the Labor Council. President Cornelius
of the Garments Union and Leo Michel
son or the Typographical Union; song.
James NARROW; boxing exhibitions be-
tween William Johnson of the Olympic
Cluo and George Johnson of the Haw-
thorne Club, Jack Gates of the Eagle
Club and Martinez Anderson of the
Hawthorne Club, William Conole and
Al Emmick. champion bantam of the
coast Light refreshments were served.
The arrangements committee was as
follows: Joseph NJ. Lyons, F. Zimmer-
mann, James Mum, Herman Nav and
William FLYNN.
The meeting between the conference
board of machinists of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul road and the
company officials has ended in Mil
waulsee and the members of the Ma
chinists. committee have gone to Chi
cago to confer with the officials there.
No agreement was reached upon the
question of hours and wages which
were the main points under discussion
The machinists asked for a nine-hour
day for all shops and an increase from
the present wage of 34k-35 1-5 cents
an hour to a straight scale Of SO cents
an hour. The former request was fatty
refused, but compromise was offered
in regard to wages, the exact amount
not being divulged.
Milwaukee cigarmakers deny the re-
port of a raise in wages of the en-
ployes Of the American Cigar Com
pany recently telegraphed all over the
country. While the company has no
branch in Milwaukee, I know that it
has not advanced ages to it's en-
ployes anywhere" says Secretary John
Reichert of Local Union No. 25.
D. D. Mulcahy. general president of
the international Woodworkers' Union,
has been in Chicago trying to straight
en- out the tangle between his organ
ization and the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners of America. He
is downcast at the antagoniSm dis
played on both sides and says il con-
tinued much longer ii will unquestion-
ably weaken public faith in the trades
union movement.
The preliminary conference between
the official boards of the Glass Bottle
Blowers and the American Flint Glass
Workers Unions before Secretary Nor
rison of the American Federation of
Labor, as arbiter, in an effort to settle
the Jurisdiction dispute between the
two bodies, is now on in Pittsburg.
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