The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
EDITED BY o. NJ. BOYLE.


and Shoe Cutters Union will continue
to. work. pending the findings. of the
arbiters.
The Labor Council has just published
an official statement of the donations
IT has received for the relief of suffer
ers from the recent fire and the dispo-
sition made of the money. The total
received was s244725.
Millwrights' Union No. 766 has de-
cided to demand SIS day after Sep
tember 1. The day will be eight hours
for straight work, For out-of- town
work hotel and travelling expenses
must be paid In addition. The mem
bers are compelled to demand these
conditions because of the increasing
high prices in the necessaries of life.
Reports have been received from the
Lithographers' international Protective
and Beneficial Association of the
Urfted States and Canada for the week
ending August II, showing that sixteen
additional shops had granted the lith-
ographers' demand for forty-eight
hours work per week instead of fifty
three. The listsof establishments that
have now accepted the forty-eight
hour schedule numbers ITS, in the fol-
lowing cities: New York Az Buffalo 8,
Boston and vicinity I. Chicago II. ST.
Louis 5. Cleveland 3. Milwaukee 4. Gin
cinnati s, st. Paul 2. Rochester s.
Washington 2, Philadelphia 19, Denver
4, Louisville s. San Francisco 2s, Bal
timore Z, Coshockton (Ohio) 2, Akron
(Ohio) Q, Springfield (Ohio) 8, Pitts
burg 6. Providence /, Montreal l.
The Pittsburg Plate-glass Company
has asked for an Injunction against
Workers. 1t is charged that when the
company refused to sign the union
scale the miners in question, with 9TH
ers. damaged property belonging to the
company.
The Chicago Railway Company has
granted another increase in wages to
Its employees. The electric linemen will
be Obliged to work only nine hours in
stead of ten for SO a day.
Secretary Marcel Willie Of Mixers
Union No. 1861 is unionizing the milk
ers at the Guadaloupe dairy and sew
eral others. A union labe1 will shortly
be placed on milk cans and bottles, and
it will be a guarantee that the contents
are absolutely pure and produced under
the best sanitary conditions. No union
man will be allowed to work in a dairy
which violates the sanitary laws. This
union meets the first and third Tues
days in each month at 2 p. m.
Thirty-two candidates were obligat-
ed at the last meeting of Carpenters
Union No. 1882, and three were ad-
mitted by cards. The local appointed
the following committee to make the
necessary arrangements for parading
on Labor day: o. Nelson. A. E. Lind
strom and Frank Maxwell.
Six hundred cloakmakers of New
York City. are on strike for higher
wages and better conditions. Herman
Grossman, business agent of the Cloak
makers Union, states that the cutters
are on strike for s24 a week. He also
states that the proprietors have of
fered SIS week to some of the strik-
ing cutters if they would leave their
union and return to work in the shops
where the c1oakmakers are on strike.
This offer was indignantly refused.
A peculiar case of working" bust
ness agents Of labor unions has de-
veloped in Detroit. A Judge has been
called upon to decide whether strike
breakers are to be allowed with i'm
punity to work" the walking delegate
of a union for money to take them out
of town and then stay right on, doing
their best to fill the places of the