The San Francisco call., 1906-08-25

ago the Company let the work TO In.
GiFidual contractors. and frequent
strikes and delays were the result. For
the past six years the employees have
been organized. It has proved a most
successful plan TO keep wages from
decreasing.
The business agent of Journeymen
BARRIERS Union No. 14s reports that
the barber shop at 1852 Eighteenth
street, which has been unfair for some
time. is now unionized. There is 4
strong union sentiment IN the neigh
borhood OF the shop, and after it's Gus
toners began to express their opinion
on the subject ii did not take long for
the proprietors to decide TO unionize
the place. 1t now gives union condi-
tions from top to bottom
Cooks Helpers Union No. 11o met
Wednesday night in It's headquarters
-. Ivy avenue. Five candidates were
obligated and several applications for
membership are on the secretary S
sitien to bring the twenty-six uniens OF
the Allied Provision Trades Council
into a closer compact.
President Duffy was in the chair at
the last meeting of Bricklayers' Union
No. at the hall. corner Central ave.
nue. and Geary street Twenty five
candidates were initiated. mostly for
eigners. Thirty were admitted by
travelling cards. Several applications
for membership were held up because
the applicants had not taken cut their
first papers. The motion of Secretary
Bagley that any member patronizing
Mcngolians or employers of Asiatics be
fined $40 was passed unanimously.
President Duffy was elected marshal of
tho Labor day parade. The aids will
shortly be named. A communication
from the international Office asked for
a photograph of the Building Trades
Temple soon to be erected, so that IL
might be printed in the official journal
There will be a special meeting this
evening of Golden Gate Lodge. Plas-
terers' Union No. b6. at Fourteenth
anC Church streets. The business of
the meeting will be the election of a
ma rshal for the Labor day parade and
other officers. The lodge has 425 names
On its roster.
Extensive preparations are being
made to take care of the large crowd
that will be present at the mass meet
ing of the japanese and Korean Ex-
Twenty and Howard streets. to-
morrow afternoon. Congressman julius
Kahn and E. A. Hayes will make ad-
dresses In addition there will be
speeches by several gentlemen prom
inent IN the labor world.
Governor Johnson OF Minnesota pays
a high tribute to labor in his Labor
DAY proclamation. He says:
have all set apart enc day. In each year
when labor shall lay aside its avoea-
tions and meet to discuss problems of
vital interest to the body polite is
and fair discussion, earnest yet pas
sionate, can capital and labor find that
common ground that is essential to the
prosperity and happiness of all. La
Dor in this country has attained dig
nifty that is second to no service. La
strength and vtriity are vertebrae in
the nations spinal column. Its prob
lens are identical with those OF the
urably be FASTENED by the proper OBJ
servance of Labor day and fair and
earnest effort at mutual recognition
and Cancellation between organized la
emily are institutions that will endure
as long as the republic shall last, and
IL is to be hoped that better under
standing Will come out of successive
The Brlcklayers' Union OF Washing
ton, D. c., has gone on strike because
non.union plumbers were placed on a
building IN which it's members were
working. In speaking of the strike an
official OF the union said:
We are doing exactly what $4,000
union men of New England States have
done. We have gone out In opposition
h. me e o4ra - u
Ing over the country under the guild
ance of the so-cslled Citizens Indus
trial Association. The hand OF this or
ganization. which is bitterly opposed to
organized labor, can be plainly seen in
the open shop tendency In this city, and
there is already long list of the open
shops In the district IT Is TO stem this
tide as well as TO help the plumbers
say we mean business and will not go
back until the atmosphere is cleared
and organized labor is fully recognized
by the organized employers
The brskemen. conductors. engineers
and fremen on the California North
western Railroad are asking for an
increase in the present rate Of wages.
A circular Is being extensively signed
by the men asking the company for
better pay.
The first labor organization TO send
aid to the stricken Chileans was
Ma schinists' Lodge No. 6S At the
Wednesday night meeting 1t was
voted to donate 800 to the earth
quake sufferers. The lodge also voted
SIS to the American Federation of
Labor campaign fund asked for by
President Gompers. In addition to the
above another contribution of $40 was
made to the machinists on strike on
the Santa Fe Railroad. New members
are being admitted at each meeting,
fifteen having been received at the last
session.
IIIinefs and Missouri lead the coun-
try in the amount of prison-made
goods they place on the market. Illi-
nois produces in value far more than
any other State. Illinois and other
Central Western States are affected
particularly by the competition of CON
victs. In 1904 there were 2451 con-
victs employed in making goods for
sale and the market value of their out
put was $2,261.542. Twenty years be-
fore the number of convicts employed
was 2214 and they turned out goods
which were sold for sS.2S4.2ss. The
number of cenyicts in Iowa increased
in the twenty-year period mentioned
from 587 to 100 and the value of their
product from s4os,s7S to S5I0,5O6.
Indiana Sboved slight raductfan in