The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-06
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE


After the business of the meeting was
over high jinks was given and an ex-
cellent programme was rendered. The
remarks of J. Fl. Connolly were timely
and well received. Next meeting nomi-
nations and election of officers will be
in order. Business was reported good
and all members working.
Another dispute has sprung up in
Chicago over concrete work between
the Master Builders Association and
the Bricklayers Union. The bricklay-
ers have an agreement with the build
ers by which bricklayers get all con-
crete work at bricklayers' wages. The
union has sent an ultimatum to the
builders to the effect that in all cases
where concrete walls are faced with
terra Gotta the bricklayers must have
the work.
There will soon be much discord in
union musical circles in New York
City. It is announced by delegates of
the Actors Protective Union that as
the Musicians Mutual Protective Union
and the Theatrical Protective Union
would not order their members IN
strike in the Metropolitan Opera house
to force the unemployment of the old
chorus their organization would order
strikes in seventeen theaters and
amusement places, which 1t is said it
controls, against the Musicians Union
and the Theatrical Protective Union.
It was also decided that the engineers
and others employed in the theaters
should strike, and that until the two
unions obeyed the order to call strikes
none of the affiliated unions in the
central body would employ members of
the Musicians Union at balls or enter
tainments.
The grievance committee of the
American Federation of Labor has eyi
IDENTIFY laid the law down to the New
York City Central Federated Union.
I The New York body has for the mast
year or so been a law unto itself. and
the time has arrived when such CON
duct must be curbed. The charter has
been ordered revoked on January if
the organization does not live up to
the laws of the parent body. Because
1t was supposed by the New Workers
that there was no backbone to speak
of In the American Fedora ton of La
Dor it's laws have been defied Several
local unions which were regularly af-
fliated with the international organ
ization have been denied seats in the
Central Federated Union and seeding
and independent unions have been
seated These things must stop or the
charter will be revoked and the execu-
tive council of the American Federation
of Labor will organize another central
body in New York which will obey the
laws. The labor unions composing the
New York Central Federated Union are
q great power, but there is an organ
ization which is supreme in the labor
world in this country and that body
is the American Federation of Labor
1t would be we'll for the New Workers
to get off their high horse and become
law-abiding trades uni9nists. If they
do not they will certainly be ostra-
cised.
President Lynch was in the chair
at the recent meeting of Railway Con-
struction Workers Union lately organ
lied Members are being initiated at
each meeting, and at present there are
over two hundred applications for
membership in the hands of the COM
mittee. Nominations for officers will
be held at the next meeting.
An important conference of the dele
gates representative OF all grades of
employees of every railroad in Eng
land and Wales was recently held in
Birmingham, with the object of formu-
lating a national programme looking
to the betterment. of the condition of
all classes of railroad men. The en-
ployes of the Scotch and Irish rail-
ways have already drawn up demands
When the programme, which includes
an eight-hour day, an Improvement in
wages and recognition of the AmaIga-
mated Society of Railway Servants by
the companies, is completed, it will be
presented to the companies as the
united demands of all the railroad en-
r~11
The fourth anniversary of Carpen-
ters Union, No. 1913, of Redlands. was
celebrated the other night and delega-
tions from San Bernardino and Los An
geles attended. A banquet was served
and much speech making INDUCED in.
Secretary Wheeler of the Los Angeles
Carpenters Union made the principal
address. He claimed to have had much
to do with the forming of the union
and said some nice things about it's
membership. In speaking of trades
union affairs in Los Angeles, he said
the carpenters alone had increased
wages over $4,000 day through or
ganization. He stated that by reason
of a reduction in working hours that
500 more men find employment than
formerly. The brotherhood of which
the local is a part, Mr.. Wheeler said
HdQ PAID out III SICK DeHeHtS the past
six months the sum of 5000. and had
spent over s2,000,0o0 in sick and death
benefits during the past twenty-five
years. Among the reforms secured by
legislation at the behest of organized
labor were mentioned the Australian
ballot, the Chinese exclusion law, the
eight-hour day law, the child labor
laws, the safety appliance law and the
employers liability law.
be granted a wage increase of prob
ably two and one-half cents an hour,
or twenty-five cents day of ten
hours, as a result of a conference be-
tween a delegation representing that
portion of the system between Buffalo
and Chicago The increase will date