The San Francisco call., 1906-11-15

uate OF the election.
John Mitchell, president of the Unit
ed Nine Workers of America, has in
timated that he will retire from active
participation in the labor movement.
mitchell day was being celebrated by
iuiiy 5000 miners at Coaldale, Pa, and
mitchell was the principal speaker. At
the close of his address he said that
the meeting would probably be the
last he would attend. For ten years
he has neglected his family and given
his time to the union labor cause.
Mitchell, in part, gave this excellent
advice TO his hearers: Since 1900 your
conditions have been bettered, your
wages increased and the standard of
living raised. Failure to maintain your
organization means a reversal of the
order of things and a condition that
viii appaH and enslave not only your
selves, but your dependents. The union
can only be maintained by solidity. and
if you expect to go before the opera
tors at the expiration of the arbitra-
ton treaty. your numbers must be in
creased and your union strengthened.
Without a solid membership an effort
toward the signing of an agreement
viii be fruitless. The operators are
preparing, and I hope that the anthra-
cite mine workers will realize the ne
CN1SAN@ VI IAOAC VI 6dnlCdNlOAs
It depends upon you as q body to main
tain the union which has done much
to assist you"
Las Vegas, n NJ. sheep and cow
herders have organized a union. The
scale Of pay is $40 month and board.
Sheep herders have secured eight-hour
shifts and two out of three Sundays off.
President Gompers says that during
the fiscal year ending September 80,
1906, the American Federation of Labor
issued the following charters; Interna-
tional unions, S; State federations. 4;
city central bodies. So; local trades
unions, 167; Federal labor unions, 81;
The charters issued to International
unions were: Lake Pilots Protective
Association of the Great Lakes. Litho-
graphers International Protective and
Beneficial Association of the United
States and Canada, Amalgamated Win
dow Glass Workers OF America, Steel
Plate Transferers' Association OF
America, international Association of
Steam and Hot Water Filters Gre
issued). Switchmen's Union of North
America. The State federations ad-
mitted are as follows: Colorado. North
Carolina, Maryland and the West In
dies. There were affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor by char
ter September 80, 1906; International
unions, 11s consisting of approximate
ly 27,500 unions); State federations, s6:
central labor bodies, 5Ss; local trades
and Federal labor unions. 75S.
Railroad managers with headouar-
ters in Chicago say that scarcity of
labor is greatly retarding railroad
building all over this country. It is
estimated that $4,000 unskflled men
could now be given employment in
railroad construction if they were to be-
had. Transportation and $3.50 a day
do not seem 10 lure any considerable
number of men for this class of work
Here are few systems in the market
for help: Western Pacific, 5000 men:
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul, 1000
men for its extension to the coast;
Southern Pacific, 5000 for its extension
northward through California to Port
land; North Coast Line, large force for
road from Walla WaIla to Seattle. More
railroad building is being done in
Texas than any other State and there
many men could find employment.
AT special meeting of the National
Association Of Erectors of Structural
Steel and Iron the other day in New
York City the open-shop policy of the
organization was reafirmed. The con-
Germs represented at the gathering IN
cIuded the American Bridge Company,
the Pennsylvania Steel Company. Nc
Clintock & Marshall, the Phoenix
Bridge Company. the Riter-Conley
Manufacturing Company, the Pittsburg
Construction Company, the Fort Pitt
Aridge Company, the HoyIe & Patter-
son Company, S. P. Mitchell, the IlIi-
nois Steel Company. Post & McCord,
the Cooper Iron Works, and MiIli-
zen Bros (0nferences f0 dfSctsss fha
present state of the trade with unions
were not received with favor. The as
sociation decided to lend financial as
sistance to the corporation in Gary
Ind, which is lighting the unionizing
of that town.
President ]. ]. Fields called the meet
ing OF Iron Molders' Union No. 164 to-
gether last Tuesday night at the Labor