The San Francisco call., 1906-07-12
EDITED BY O. NJ. BOYLE.

There are forty more claimants who
will receive immediate attention on the
receipt of more funds.
Beginning last week the three cot
ton mills in Augusta, Ga, cut down the
weeks working hours from sixty-six
TO sixty-three. The cut was agreed to
by the mill management as being in
the interest Of the employees. and was
made without request on their part.
The scarcity of labor in the cotton
mills of Alabama is causing considera-
bic trouble TO the mill corporations
All kinds of foreigners are now being
induced to go TO Alabama and no small
amount OF this labor will be directed to
the textile districts.
Never before in the history of or
ganized labor in Chicago have so many
unions secured an advance in wages
without a strike as this year, and at no
time in recent years has this season
seen such peace in the labor world as
is seen today. Commenting on this
state of affairs, the Chicago Inter
Ocean says: Arbitration and concilia-
tion have been the methods by which
this condition has been brought about,
and the unions and the employers con-
cede that it is better to meet together
in conference and discuss their griev-
ances with one another first than to
start a fight and try to talk IL over
afterward. Nearly every union in Chi
cago has asked for and received some
advance in wages, or some improve-
ment in conditions, and IT is safe I'd
say that the pending difficulties of the
street railway men, both surface and
elevated. the truck drivers, molders and
. h. H. -
and so far as can be seen there is moth
ing 10 indicate that there will be any
strikes this year similar to those Chi
cago has had for the past five or six
years"
Meeting the request of President
Roosevelt TO inform him whene the
eight-hour law was being violated in
Government work, the Washington
Central Labor Union, through Frank
Morrison, secretary of the American
Federation of Labor. will inform the
President that the cement workers en-
ployed at that eity's filtration plant are
working ten hours a day.
Bakers Union No. "a. at its meeting
last Saturday. elected the following
officers President, Anton Wahl; vice
president. Herman Wollmer; financial
y.
Schwarting; treasurer, Emil Eisold
trustees-Ed Hoffman. Theodore Lin
quist and Emil Rougk: sergeant at
arms-Frank Duffy, William Wright
and Fritz Hoffman,; members of exec
utive board-Anton Wahl, Herman
Wollmer, John NOll, Theodore Linquist.
S. Lehman, Marcel Willie, Dick
Schwarting, Hugh McCabe and Henry
Braunagel
A Joint meeting of Bookbinders'
Union No. 81 and Bindery women's
Union No. 125 was held the other night
in Twin Peaks Hall The hall was
well filled. this being the first evening
meeting since the big fire. An inter
esting report was made by the return
ing delegate to the international con-
vention in Washington, Mr.. Booth The
eight hour day will go into effect
throughout the country some time dur
ing the fall of 1907. The eight-hour
day is now in effect in San Francisco
and surrounding towns. Seven candi-
dates were obligated and several an
plications for membership are await
ing action Trade is reported some
what better. Machinery is arriving
and by August ! at least three-quar-
ters of the membership of the two
locals will be at work. About $4,000
has been distributed to distressed mem
oers since the big fire.
All the union window, bottle and
flint glass factories in the country
that have been in steady operation dur
ing the season closed last week for the
usual summer stop. over $4,000 men
and boys will thus get an enforced va
cation. The suspension of the flint
glass plants will be for two weeks. but
in the window and bottle trades
the regular stops are two months,
and this year they may be prolonged
The wage scale for the next year will
not be settled for some time but under
an agreement between the American
Flint Glass Workers Union and the
National Association of Manufacturers
of Pressed and Blown Glassware. work
must be resumed on the date fixed un-
der the previous wage scale. pending
The annual convention of the ''hints"
is being held this week at Sea Isle
City. n. J. Propositions from the man
ufacturers will be considered and
changes desired by the workers will
be arranged for presentation at the
wage conference to be held in Atlantic
City at the close of the convention The
membership of the union numbers
about $500 skilled workmen, but four
times as many. or $4,000, are thrown
out Of employment by suspension of the
flint glass factories.