The San Francisco call., 1906-08-03


statements and applications
for membership were received duting
the month Of July. The remainder of
the donation 10 Mattresses Union No.
IS. $50, was ordered paid. as was the
remainder owing upon the interna-
tional per capita. The insurance money
recently collected was ordered turned
.nto the general fund. The board Of
trustees rendered its monthly report.
Receipts for the month amounted TO
1919, and expenditures to s77s. All
members who have not paid their June
dues are now suspended. All outstand-
ing bills viii be paid upon presenta-
tion.
The headquarters committee reported
on several locations. but none was ac-
cepued. The committee was instructed
10 look for site upon which head
quarters can be leased or built Busi-
ness Agent Thomas Aylward is busy
presenting the wage scale TO all houses
in the city. The following minimum
wage scale was adopted. to take effect
next Monday: All wages TO be paid
weekly, except for extra work, which
viii be paid for as soon as the work
is completed Steady work. ten hours
or less, within fourteen. six days per
week. All overtime per hour or frac-
rion thereof, SO cents.
Restaurants, cafes. hotels and eat
Lighthouses in general-Steady walters,
six days per week, 81 per day; single
meals, excepting in clubs. week days,
three hours or less. 81; same Sundays,
Sl.50. Single meals IN clubs, week
days three hours or less. $50; same
sundays, 81. Extra or relief men
Week days. first three days or less,
S2-5e per day; after three days same
as steady walters; ten cents additional
for carfare when distance from Office
. exceeds one mile. Extra full time for
al special occasions. Sundays, holi-
days, conventions etc per day Of ten
hours within fourteen, 81.
For parks, picnics, concert halls and
grOttOs-The scale for parks. excur-
siOns. balls and parties where liquid re-
freshments are dispensed. salary serv-
ing the same is upon the basis Of a
commission A fat rate OF 20 per cent
on every dollars worth Of goods sold
Except champagnes, the rate shall be
on quarts so cents. on pints % cents).
Where five-cent drinks are sold the
rate shall be twenty hve-cent checks
for eighty cents. Any member vioiat
ing the above scale will be subject TO
the following penalties: First odense.
sne Of s.; second ofense, fine OF $40;
third offense, expulsion.
The first annual picnic Of the Dis
trict Council Of the Bridge and StrUc-
tural Iron Workers viii be held at
Schuetzen Park Monday. September 10.
Admission viii be fifty cents. children
half price.
The District Council Of Carpenters
met Wednesday night at $40 Golden
Cate avenue for the transaction of
usual business, with President F. P.
Nicholas in the chair.
Branch No. Of the Amalgamated
Society Of Carpenters and Joiners viii
Folsom streets for initiation and gen
era1 business.
D. Branch No 8 OF the society will meet
IN its new headquarters at Fourteenth
and Church streets next Monday.
= There viii be an aggregate meeting
\ of all the branches Of the society in
san Francisco for the purpose OF form
ing managing committee TO take
charge OF local affairs pertaining to
6be society. The meeting will be held
Monday night. August l3, in Jefferson
Hail, Golden Gate avenue, between Oc-
tavia and Laguna- All members are
urgently requested TO be present. as
matters Of great Importance will be
discussed.
The japanese and Korean Exclusion
League viii meet next Sunday at TWen-
ty-secOnd and Folsom streets. The
meeting viii be open to the public.
Residents of the Western Addition are
particularly invited. The executive
board viii submit q report on the
growth Of the league and also upon
the mass meeting held IN San Jose last
Saturday night 1t viii decide where
the next mass meeting in the series
that the membership is growing and
that the financial returns are salts
factory.
Retail Clerks Union No. 4s2 will hold
its annual outing and family reunion
Sunday, August 1s. at Schuetzen Park.
san Rafael Boats viii leave Tiburon
ferry at $50 a. m, and special boats at
II a. N. and 1885 p. m Admission,
fifty cents.
II seems after all that there is a
modification Of the eight-hour law by
the Government. dispatch from
Washington says that the final draft
as issued to the service OF the order by
Brigadier General Crozier, Chief of
Ordnance, relative 10 the enforcement
Of the eight-hour law in the case OF
Government contractors shows a
change in one point as compared with
the oraft originally prepared and pub
lished IN the press q few days ago. In
the first draft the Secretary OF War is
said. to have decided that 1t was the
duty Of ordnance officers to prevent
the violation Of the eight-hour law
Notwithstanding the opinion of the
Attorney General published in General
orders No. 81 Of 1892" In fact il ap-
pears that there is reason TO doubt 4
whether that opinion warranted the /
construction thus placed upon il, so
on that point the modified order now
reads: Notwithstanding the previous
Interpretation Of their. duties in this
regard"
Acting Secretary Oliver, with the
view Of securing an opinion from the 4
highest authority in reach of the ex- /
ccutive and securing uniformity of ap- /
plication OF the eight-hour law in the
various branches Of the Government, 1
has called upon the Attorney General
for the construction OF the law so far
as it relates to Government contractors. /
II has been the custom in this city 1
for business agents TO be allowed on 4
during working hours. Since
the earthquake and the advent of East
ern contractors much friction has aris-