The San Francisco call., 1906-06-17

gene Mulligan, Twenty-fourth street
and Potrero avenue.
Gas Workers Union No. 9S40 meets
in Sheet Metal Workers Hall, Market
street and Duboce avenue, every sec
ond and fourth Saturday in the month.
The election of officers will take place
at next Saturday nights meeting. The
local has $40 members on the roll. Ini-
tiations take place every meeting.
Five were obligated at the last meet
ing. There are now twenty five appli-
cations on file awaiting action
Cloakmakers' Union No will hold a
special meeting next Tuesday night at
8 o'clock The meeting will be held
in the Geary-street Synagogue, be-
tween Octavia and Laguna. This will
be the first regular meeting ofythe local
since the earthquake. All members
should attend, as matters of great i'm
portance will be brought up. The com
munication of NJ. Siminoff to the Labor
Council viii be discussed.
Printing Pressmen's Union No. "a re-
Gently held a large and enthusiastic
meeting in Carpenters hall. 339 Noe
street A portion of the relief fund
was distributed making a total of
about $500 disbursed. The regular
i-CENAHSS VI lltS uItiOi Will ASItdi lci
be held at 539 Noe street on the first
and third Sunday afternoons of each
month At the next meeting, which
viii be held on the first Sunday in
July, the relief committee-Messrs
Benham, Berry and Lyons-will make
another distribution from the relief
fund The following officers were
elected: President. George L. Berry;
secretary. James II. Roxburgh; treas
urer, John Lyons; delegates to the Id
Dor Council. George b. Benham, George
L. Berry. r. G. Rice and d. Doggett.
Frank O'Neil was elected delegate to
the convention of the international
Printing Pressmen's Union. which be-
gins in Pittsburg tomorrow.
At a recent meeting of Marine
Cooks and Stewards Association of
the Pacific Eugene Burk was in the
chair. Secretary Steidle reported that
the steam schooner owners were will
ing to submit the proposition of an in
crease of s5 TO the men paid at the
rate of $50 per month on steam schoon-
ers to the United Shipping and Trans
portation Association, with a view of
getting their permission to grant
such increase proposed in the modi-
fed scale The union refused to ac-
cept this proposal, and as a conse-
Quence all men engaged in the associa-
lAOA > hcGoclo ull NOIA. SUBSEQUENTLY
a general lockout followed on all the
steamers belonging to the Pacific
Coast Steamship Company and the San
Francisco Portland Steamship Com
pany, including longshoremen. About
twenty -four steam or gasoline schoon-
ers not belonging to the association
have complied with the new scale.
The agents in San Pedro and Aberdeen
have reported that all steam schooncrs
in those ports have paid the new scale.
Balloting for officers was proceeded
with. The agent at Seattle in his last
report stated that shipping was brisk.
The agent at San Pedro reported the
death of Comrade H. HenniHEsen, who
was buried by the union.
There is to be a grand labor union
rally at Crockett next Saturday P. II.
Mccarthy and George B. Benham, two
Of the most eloquent and forcefui
speakers in me labor movement, will
address the meeting. The affair will
be under the auspices of the labor
unions of Crockett.
Cooks Union No. ~ is in fsurishing
condition. The proprietors generally
are giving union conditions and the
members are finding work The relief
committee is kept busy dispensing aid
10 those who suffered by the fire. Many
members who left the city just after the
calamity are returning, and the mem-
bership will shortly be as strong as
ever.
Three hundred egg gamblers of Chi
cago recently went on strike for bet
ter conditions. The work is done most
ly in dark Easements. and the Gamblers
assert that ten hours work at stretch
lis injuring their eyesight and general
health. They wish an eight-hour day
at their present wage of So day.
The seven anti-injunction bills before
Congress, which have been watched
with great anxiety by organized labor
of the country, have received their
quietus, but may be brought UP next
December. Those responsible for this
cannet hope for political support from
union wage-earners.
The international Printing Press
mems Unien and other Eastern labor
organizations have sent to Press Feed
ers and Assistants Union No. 33 nearly
$1,000 for its relief fund.
News Genes by way of Salt Lake City
that fifty deputy sheriffs, armed with
rifles, were sent to GARFIELD, where near
ly 500 Creeks, Italians and other for
eiRners who have been employed in
railroad csnstructien and in building
new smelters are on strike. The strik-
ers are threatening to drive out some
100e men who remain at work, it is
afirmed. The deputies have arrested
several of the leaders, and 1t is thought
that order will sseh be restored. The
strikers demand a rihe-hour day and
the same pay that they have been re-
ceiving fer ten hours.
Retail Clerks Unien Ne. 1872 Retail
Shoe Clerks Union Ne. 41o and Drug
Clerks Upjsn Ne. 472 have their head
quarters at 1922 Steiner street, where
relief is given distressed members and
their families. Over 1920 has already
been expended. The secretary is at