The San Francisco call., 1906-07-02
NOTESOF LABOR UNIONS

The strike recently declared on Cit
ron & Brett by the C!oakmakers' Union
has been declared of. the firm agreeing
10 pay union wages hereafter This is
the first strike won by organized labor
IN san Francisco since the great fire.
The. Steel Plate Transferers' Associa-
ton was granted charter as a national
organization by the executive council of
the A F. OF L at its recent Washington
meeting.
Trouble of a serious character is
brewing in the building Industries of
St. Louis. The master builders have
sent out a circular saying that unless
the difficulty between the Building
Trades Council and the bricklayers and
the strike Of the structural iron work
ers are not settled by tomorrow they
VIII Immediately discharge all members
OF the Building Trades Council and de-
clare for the open shop. The officials
OF the Building Trades Council state
that their organization Will fight 10 a
finish and prolong the strike indeh-
nitely.
Carpenters Union No 4ss will meet
this evening at ss9 Noe street.
Three important matters are TO come
up The question Of assessing each
member 70 aid in the erection of the
proposed building trades temple will be
discussed A vote viii be taken on the
question OF the amalgamation of the
United Brotherhood with the Amalga-
mated Society on the plans submitted
by the conference committee to the
general executive board. Delegates TO
the next general convention will be
elected Working cards for the quarter
VIII be distributed at this meeting.
Trade rules viii be in. full force from
this day, including the Saturday half
holiday
Varnishers' and Polishers' Union No.
I34 viii meet next Saturday night at $50
Church street. The assessment for the
proposed building trades temple viii
be taken up. and all members are ex-
pected TO be present and vote on the
, proposition Fines viii be imposed on
absentees
At the recent eighteenth annual con-
ventfon Of the International Printing
Pressmen's and Assistants Union, held
in Pittsburg, a delegate from Los An
geleS offered a resolution creating a
fourth vice president and filing the
Office with a Pacific Coast man, but IL
failed Of passage. The next convention
viii be held in New York City next
June.
The Essex Trades Council Of New
Jersey found after its bylaws had been
printed that the binding had been done
IN a non-union bindery- The statement
created somewhat Of a breeze at q re-
cent meeting, and 1t was resolved not
TO use them and institute proceedings
against the printer who had the con-
tract and who had agreed 10 use union
men in compiling the book. The print
ers were trades unionists, but the
binding, 81 is said, was done by non
union help.
Cigar-makers' Union No. 22s will
meet at 3Ss Noe street next Saturday.
More than half the membership is back
at work, and ii viii not be very long
before all will be working. over $4,000
has already been spent in alleviating
the sufferings Of those members who
lost by the great fire.
The headquarters of Journeynen
TaiIors' Union No. 2 has been changed
from Oakland TO pose Fifteenth street
this city The officers report that the
members generally are working, and
the outlook is bright The internation-
al was very prompt TO send out dona-
tions. and they were most generous.
The national couxention.of the Boot
and Shoe Workers Union, now in ses-
sion in Milwaukee. had a lively tilt be-
cause some delegates thought the
union label was not sufficiently IN evi-
dence. One delegate exclaimed: when
your president appears at a union
meeting wearing necktie that does
not bear the label of the allied trades.
how can the members of the union be
expected TO do otherwise7' The next
convention win be held in Toronto.