The San Francisco call., 1906-11-08
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE

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burton. Martin Egan and A T.
wynn. 1t is very difficult to getsa suit
doie nail Business Agent Sullivan
VINO was sent to Los Angeles. reports
having formed a strong union of mold
ers in that city.
At the last meeting of Brewery
Workmen a donation of $40 was sent
70 the bereaved family of Editor John
r. Weigel of the Brauer Zeitung. who
died recently in Cincinnati A donation
OF $50 was sent to the striking cement
workers at Napa Junction. and an
other contribution of $40 was for
warded TO the Longshoremen of San
Pedro. In addition to these. a donation
was sent to comrade in Louisville,
KY, who recently lost his eyesight.
After the longest and bitterest labor
war ever known in Indiana with the
Chleago unions, Walter B. Conkey,
puphsher and proprietor Of one of the
largest printing establishments in the
country, and the unions have reached
an agreement by which the unionizing
OF MS immense plant in Hammond. Ind.
has begun The scale has been signed
with the Chicago Printing Pressmen's
Union, and in the future the Conkey
Printing Company will employ none but
A-A-oA RASSSll6n- 1nGr6 are now 100
people In the Conkey pressroon1s and
all have signified their intention of
Joining the union. Mr.. Conkey has
been known as one of the bitterest foes
or union labor. He left Chicago and
erected a plant in Hammond to escape
Chicago's labor jurisdiction, but it fol-
lowed him there and for over four
years his plant has been in constant
friction with strikers. till Mr.. Conkey
frightened the Hammondites by assert
ing that he would again move his
plant, this time to some town in Mich
tgan. Then decisive action was taken
looking to shutting out union labor
agitators and walking delegates, with
the result that Mr.. Conkey has given
up the fight against unionism. Dur
ing the coming week he will be ap-
preached with a proposition to employ
union typesetters. 1t is an established
fact that Mr.. Conkey has been paying
more than the union scale.
The announcement is made that
Sadie J. Gompers, daughter of Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor will make her
debut in Washington this coming week
She will appear in vaudeville as a So
prano singer.
In the United States District Court
in Louisville Judge Evans held that
section 10 of the Erdman act. which
seeks TO prevent Interstate carriers
from keeping their employees out of
labor unions, is void. The court ruled
that the section is not a regulation of
commerce within the meaning of the
constitution, and is therefore beyond
the power Of Congress to enact The
case was brought against J. NJ Scott.
train dispatcher for the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. on instructions
from the Attorney General of the
United States. Scott had discharged
an operator in the employ of the road
and the Telegraphers' Union took the
matter to the courts The court sus-
tanned a demurrer to the indictment
and discharged Scott.
Judge Selwyn N Owen, president of
the Ohio Board of Arbitration, and
Joseph Bishop, secretary of the same
body, who are now in Cleveland at the
request Of the Mayor Of Nottingham,
who notified them of impending dis
putes between many railroad men liv-
ing in that city and the railroads, have
had a conference with the men. ''Of
course, this trouble extends over a vast
territory and affects many hundreds
of men," said Mr.. Bishop. I'VE hope to
extend our good offices in the matter
and help by holding conferences with
both sides to assist In adjusting mat
ters. believe that the men are taking
a sane view of the situation. The CEN
ter of the trouble seems to be in Cleve-
land, as the railroad men have their
international offices there. The board
hopes to have conference with some
of the officials soon to determine just
where they stand in the matter.
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