The San Francisco call., 1906-09-11
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE.

them had gone back to work. Here
after the regular payday will be every
other Tuesday. This difficulty with the
company was settled by conferences
with the officials of the Building Trades
Council.
The executive board of the State
Federation of Labor will meet next
Sunday at $50 Webster street. 1t is
expected that the full board will be
present.
The regular monthly meeting of
Musicians Union No. will be held at
Eagles Hall next Thursday at 1880
p. m. The following propositions will
be acted upon: Report OF the board of
directors; monthly reports of officers;
report of the committee on revision of
price list; price list amendment relat-
ing to dance-hall engagements: action
on standing resolution proposing that
any member collecting money due
members and not paying off within
forty eight hours shall be fined not
less than $50" Dues and assessments
for the third quarter are now payable
and will become delinquent on the first
of next month. The constitutional de-
linquency fine of so cents will be charged
to the accounts of members whose
dues and assessments are not paid
by the end of the quarter. The total
amount of the third quarters dues and
assessments is sl.5o.
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Joiners met Saturday night at
Union Hall. Fourteenth and Church
streets. The committee recommended
to the various unions that they issue
no quarterly cards for the October
quarter until the members pay their
assessments for the Building Trades
Temple.
The officials of the Bootblacks' Union
have sent East for a new seal, charter,
etc. the old records of the union
having been destroyed by the great fire
of April. 1t is expected that the neces-
sary paraphernalia will arrive next
week, when the union will begin to
hold regular meetings. Union cards
will be displayed in all bootblack
stands entitled to them.
Branch No. of the Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters and Joiners will
meet next Monday night at the hall at
every member is requested to be pres
ent, as business of great Importance
will come up for discussion.
The officials of Waters Union No. 80
state that they are now able to furnish
relief and extra men for all occasions
There is no necessity for any employer
to display signs in the windows. Wait
ers wanted. 1t is said by the officials
of the union that the trouble lies in the
fact that the proprietors are not will
ing to pay the union scale and they
hope by this means to induce nom
union men to apply to tide them over
temporarily and thereby save a few
dollars This practice is especially in
vogue during Sundays and holidays, at
which times the orders in the union
headquarters are light and the signs in
the windows most numerous. One pro-
prietor has gone so far, IL is said, as TO
print in his bill of fare that he pays
the highest wages when as matter
of fact he pays the minimum.
There will be meeting of the Allied
Printing Trades Council this evening at
the headquarters, 43l Ivy avenue The
meeting will be called promptly at $50
o'clock All delegates are expected to
be in their seats. Much business. has
accumulated.
The first union to engage a hall at
the new headquarters Of the Labor
Bureau Association was Carpenters
Union No. 1882. The FIRST meeting will
take place the first Friday night in
October. The Labor Bureau has opened
fine headquarters at 677 McAllister
street, and unions wanting meeting
halls in a central locality would better
apply quickly, for the secretary states
that they are being rapidly taken
At the last meeting of Electrical
Workers Union No. s (inside electri-
cians) four candidates were obligated
,, Il,
received. Seven were admitted on trav-
cling cards. 1t was unanimously voted
to have a Saturday half-holiday, the
same to go into effect next Saturday.
new local of the American Fedora
ton Of Musicians has been instituted in
Santa Barbara Its first work under
union conditions was to appear in the
Labor day celebration in that town.
The local will be known as No. S0s. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, ]. H. Mall; secretary, A. l. New
berg; sergeant at arms A Schildkret'
An expression of the growing popu-
larity of trades unionisn with the con-
sumer rests in the report Of President
Charles Dold of the Piano, Organ and
Musical Instrument Workers to the re-
cent convention of that union. He said:
The sale of labelled pianos has
/ increased more than threefold during
the last two years"
typographical Union No. 21 last week
signed a contract with the German
Demokrat which has been non-union
newspaper for many years. Hereafter
that paper will comply with all union
conditions and will have the privilege
Of printing the Allied Printing Trades
/ label.
Terence V. Powderly. formerly gen.
eral master workman of the knights
Of Labor, who has written a history
of Labor day. gives credit to Robert
Price a coal miner of the order in
1882, for suggesting the name which
has clung to the holiday. Price was
born in Wales and came to this country
when 81 years of age and worked as q
coal miner IN Pennsylvania and Mary
land He died in Helena in 1904.
with the title Of National Leagu,
of the Employees of the Navy Yards
Naval Stations, Arsenals and Gun Fac
tories of Continental America, the frs
national union of naval employees wa:
/ organized in New York the other day
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