The San Francisco call., 1906-08-22
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE.

mated Society of Carpenters and join
ers' as well as President Latimer, Sec
retary Lack and Business Agent Poin
ton Of the Oakland branch, was present
ana each, made a stirring address on
trade union topics. Each received
vote of thanks There was a dele
gation from the various carpenters
unions present. which urged that some
action be taken TO increase the wages
OF carpenters. The branch selected a
committee to aid the movement The
branch remitted $1,000 10 .ne manage
ment committee. Thomas Maxwell was
chosen marshal for the Labor day
parade. He will soon appoint his
captains and aids.
Seventeen candidates were obligated
al the last meeting Of Painters Union
No. 1s, and eleven were admitted on
travelling cards. The local appointed
President John B. Flemming marshal
for the Labor day parade. His aids
will be w. G. Walsh. T. c. Lynch.
Frank Scollin and c. H. Moore. Eugene
F. Fields was appointed standard
bearer. The minimum wage scale will
be $3.50 on and after september L. The
union donated $3.50 to labor union in
distress in Lafayette. Ind The local
will expend at least $500 in fitting up
its quarters in the new Building Trades
Temple. at Fourteenth and Guerrero
streets.
The summoned meeting of Shoe
Clerks Union No 410, at its headquar-
ters. 1922 Steiner street, crowded the
spacious audience room. A resolution
was passed that all shoe stores be
closed at 10 o'clock Saturday nights
after September !. Six candidates We're
initiated and four applications were
received. Vacancies were filled as fol-
lows; Second vice president, w ].
Hennessy; guide, c. A. Davis; inside
guard, G. W. Delahanty. The minstrel
committee made a progressive report.
The show will be held about the middle
Of October.
Eleven arrests were made in fight
the other day near Pittsburg between
union and non-union miners One of
the non unionists was fatally stabbed
and score or more We're hurt. The
fight was oecasioned by the non
unionists taking the places of the
union men and working for less wages.
Firemen on one branch of the Penn
sylvania Railroad struck the other day
because they each wanted a helper.
There is at one place on the road a
and the firing is too l.Iuch for one man.
it is contended. 1t is claimed that a
round trip means the shoveling of at
least $4,000 pounds of coal and the
men say they cannot stand IL. The
company has offered the brakemen an
extra cents an hour to assist the
hremen' but they positively refuse to
shovel coal at that figure.
The Retail Clerks relief board will
meet this evening at headquarters. 1922
Steiner street. for tile purpose of wind
ing up its business and preparing a
final report There are now no more
cases Of distress and the business of
the board viii come to close.
Barbers' Union No. 14s met Monday
night at its headquarters, S35 webster
street, and decided that no barber shop
would be open on Labor day. A fine
viii be imposed on any violation of
this provision. Five candidates were
obligated. nine reinsratements reported
and nine applications are on the sec
retary's desk Circulars are to be dis
tributed telling of an unfair shop on
Eighteenth street, near Castro.
The Shoe Clerks Union announces
that the Philadelphia Shoe Company
has made application and been granted
the oflcial store card.
Housesmiths and Architectural Iron
Workers Union No. rs will meet at
Sheet Metal Workers Hall this even
ing. All members are requested to be
present. fine of 81 will be imposed
OF each absentee.
The 1900 employees of the Missouri
Pacific shops at sedalia, Mo. have been
put on nine-hour instead of a ten
hour a day schedule This settles the
dispute between the company and the
rlachinists, who have been working ten
hours day, but were refused time and
one-half for the tenth hour.
Twelve cents year is all the Jap
anese and Korean Exclusion League
asks from each individual to help carry
on the work of Oriental exclusion. The
league is doing a good work and should
not be Handicapped by lack of funds
Here are some OF the things that
machinery has accomplished: One man
does today the work of fifty hand-loom
weavers. One man in a pottery does
the work of 1000 potters. One man and
two boys do the work of 100 hand
spinners. One man running a horse
shoe machine does the work of 5oG
-
machine does the work OF 1000 old
tire ;;ailmakers.
Wages of captains and engineers en-
ployed on the municipal ferries at New
York City have been increased, the cap
tains from $1,000 to $4,000 a year and
the engineers to $500, according to the
length of service.
The fine recently imposed on Walter
Damrosch for importing foreign mu-
sicians must stand. Damrosch paid the
fine under protest some time ago, and
the recent convention Of the American
Federation Of Labor upheld the action
of the subordinate body.
Strike Ends After Two Years.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 21.--At the
headquarters of the District No. 20.
United Mine Workers OF America, this
afternoon, the statement was made Of
hcially that the local unions have voted
TO call off the strike of miners, which
So 81 a