The San Francisco call., 1906-09-30

y. Nj. BOYLE
vice president, John Bacon; financial
secretary, Miss Anna Gill; recording
secretary. Dan Tierney; treasurer,
William B. Cannon; executive board
William Groth, C. Peterson, William
Roach, John Bacon, NJ Walsh. ]. Ma
goonis and F. Peterson: delegates to
Labor Council-F. Early, j. ]. Cal
laghan, w. L. keevan and William
Cannon; trustees-F. Early, w. Conner
and W. Groth; delegates to the Japan
csc and Korean Exclusion League
Frank Early and William Cannon;
sentinel ]. ]. Calaghan; conductor,
William Heggarty.
At the last meeting of Pie Bakers
Union No. PA at Turner Hall, Eight
eenth street near Valencia, two mem
bere were admitted upon travelling
cards. The union is reported to be
In flourishing condition. All MEM
bers are working. The union meets
every second and fourth Wednesday in
the month. John Bathman was chosen
delegate to the Labor Council in the
place of z. Scherbaum.
Business Agent S. S. Shelley of Car
penters' Union No. 15S of Los Angeles
-SPOA - At4dt MS union lTa0S-
portation for fifty members to come
TO this city. Tt was also stated that
weekly benefits will be paid all union
carpenters now on strike in that city,
provided they register daily between
and II a at the carpenters head
quarters at the Labor Bureau.
over 20 delegates attended the re-
cent convention in Chicago of the In
Of
approved the statement OF the presi-
dent Charles Sherman. that no nom
producer, however rich or socialistic,
could become a member Joseph
Medill Patterson was pointed out as
coming under the ban. Much dissatis-
faction concerning the organization
exists in Chicago labor circles, because
in including non-union men in its
membership it compels the unionist to
associate politically with the man who
he fights on the street. 1t is also al
legged that members Of the Industrial
Workers, by working for less than
union wages, are helping to injure eff
forts to improve conditions.
Organizer L. D. Biddle of the State
Federation of Labor, stationed in the
southern part of the State. will soon
call a meeting of all workmen con-
Los Angeles County-milkers cheese
makers, bottle-washers. stablemen and
others-for the purpose of forming a
Union. Many such organiza-
tions are aourishing and are chartered
by the American Federation of Labor.
in the absence of an international
body AS a rule employees of dairies
work long hours and receive poor re-
muneration. Systematic organization
d.. l.
just returned from San Diego. where
he organized the machinists. AS soon
as the mixers are formed into a
labor union Mr. Biddle will turn his
to organizing the bakery
wagon drivers.
in resolutions adopted at the recent
session of its annual convention held
in Atlantic City the New Jersey Mas
ter Builders Association affirmed its
former position as to the open shop,
denounced attempts of labor unions to
restrict American youth in learning
trades and advised all builders to in
sist upon the use of the uniform con-
tracts as the only effective protection
against losses caused by strikes. The
National Association has declared
itself opposed TO the proposed creation
of a national association of builders
TO control employers in the building
trades by copying the methods OF
trades unions The resolution declares
such bodies oppressive
After a strike of six weeks duration
the union cigarmakers of New Haven,
Conn. accomplished practically all
their demands. Unlike most strikes, the
adopted a plan the re-
verse OF the ordinary. Generally the
goods tabooed are boycotted- The eli
garmakers. in this instance. would ac-
cept none but a cigar made in a factory
boycotted- This was done to exhaust
the stock on hand as speedily as posi-
BILE and then leave the manufacturers
stranded. when they would be compell-
ed to give in. For some time it has been
difficult to procure a local-made cigar
in New Haven.
with the opening of the public
schools in Philadelphia the Board of
Education established a system which
will be watched with interest in all
parts of the country. A school was
opened for the registration of pupils in
the study of mechanical arts. The boys
and young men viii receive practical
and not theoretical instruction in the
crafts of brickIaying, carpentering
plastering. painting. lettering, black
smithing. printing, bookbinding. cleo
trical construction. and, in fact, all the
trades most useful in present-day civil
lied communities. A three-year course
of diligent drill is expected to give the
students a mastery of the trades they
may severally elect to study.
In 1880 one weaver ran twenty five
spindles and In 1890 he ran sixty five
When an English silk throwster was
told that in American mills the speed OF
machinery had been increased 5000 to
1900 revolutions a minute, he said;
IF our machinery were made to go SO
fast all our girls would run away"
Today there are mills in this country
running at the rate of $4,000 revolu-
tions a minute. In Germany a black
smith makes twenty bean hangers a
day, while in America a machine makes
700 a day. In Adam Smiths day one
pinmaker made 1890 pins a day; today
one pinmaker makes 100000 pins q
day The cost of printing cotton in
England is half a cent a yard, and
only one-twentieth of a cent here The
Massachusetts factory worker gets 81
per cent Of what he produces. while
the unorganized South Carolina worker
only gets 10 per cent; but the Massa-
chusetts man produces in a year S7I5
more than the other for his employer
This shows the folly of comparing
wages without comparing workers.