The San Francisco call., 1906-09-18

TIoN. WHO HAS RESIGNED.
cided to change its headquarters from
f31 Ivy avenue to 1928 Ellis street,
near Pierce. At the last meeting of the
union. eight candidates were initiated
and seven applications for membership
were received. The union indorsed the
reorganization plan of the Allied Pro-
vision Trades Council
A serious labor situation affecting
the entire Burlington Railway System
has developed following the adoption
Of a new and radical rule by the COM
pany. This rule affects the engineers
and establishes q standard for eye
sight Men obliged to wear glasses by
the provision of this rule are reduced
in rank and assigned TO unimportant
and unremunerative runs. The reduc-
tion applies to all engineers regardless
of length of service for the company.
The effect of the order was so sweep
ing that Grand Chief Warren S. Stone
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers telegraphed to President J. j.
Hill at St Paul, requesting an imme-
date conference A protest to the COM
pany has already been filed, but at
last reports had not received favorable
consideration from the officials OF the
company The engineers OF the en-
tire system took a vote on acceptance
or rejection of the new rule and it is
said that the returns now IN the hands
of the grand officers Of the Brother
hood show an overwhelming majority
in favor of taking extreme measures
to oppose the order. According to the
rules of the Brotherhood vote in ia
vor of rejecting the new rule places
the matter absolutely in the hands of
the Grand Lodge officers, who are en-
powered to call q strike without fur
>ther action. With the hope of pre-
venting walk-out Mr.. Stone decided
to appeal to Mr.. Hill.
Fifty members Of the Metropolitan
Opera Chorus have arrived in New
York. A theatrical agent, John ].
Barry, has fled complaint with the
Department of Commerce and Labor in
Washington and with the immigration
authorities in New York, in which he
alleges that the chorus singers come
under the contract labor law in that
they are'laborers brought to this coun-
try under contract The chorus may
have TO go 10 Ellis Island TO prove
that its members are not contract la
borers.
The most important features of the
convention of the international Broth
erhood of Stationary Firemen recently
held in Omaha was the election of Off
GERS and the raising Of the per capita
tax The following officers were
named: President Timothy Healey of
New York: vice presidents. NJ. B. Flan-
nigan of Boston, H. w. Bausch of To-
ledo, Thomas T. Kane, l. S. Smith of
Newark P. L. Farrell of Minneapolis,
N A James of Washington, D. c., and
Thomas Musgrove; secretary-treasurer
c. L. Champ of Chicago; delegates to
the American Federation of Labor,
Timothy Healey, ]. w. Martin and c. L.
Camp. The next convention is to be
held in Detroit in 1908.
The thirteen carpenters unions in
this city, representing about 5000 work.
men, made demand for SIS a day to
take effect yesterday morning, and the
contractors generally acceded to the
request. The raise is fifty cents day.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Joiners has decided to raise
the initiation fee from $40 to $50 for
journeymen and from $40 to SIS for
apprentices. There is no change in
the fee for old-age members.
Mrs. J. NJ B. Kehlor of st. Louis
has set an example which some Of the
very wealthy in any large city would
do well to follow. Mr.. Kehlor is one
Of the notable women of st. Louis. She
is noted for her deeds of charity and
her reputation for generosity is not
bounded by her native State, The last
claim she has upon the notice of the
public is the lavish manner in which
she entertained all the young ladies
in one of the large stores of st. Louis
in her spacious country residence. The
young ladies enjoyed the day exceed
ingly and will ever cherish the bounty
of Mrs Kehlor-
The Plumbers International conven-
ton opened in Toronto yesterday. The
headquarters of the 400 delegates is at
the Arlington Hotel. 1t is expected
that some disposition will be made of
the jurisdictional question between
them and the steamftters.
From reports received by the editor
OF the American Federationist, the Of
nciaI organ of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, it is shown that of 699
unions making returns last month,
with an aggregate membership of 63.-
500, there were Ia per cent without
employment In the previous month
9s7 unions. with a membership of S5,-
500. reported .1.5 per cent unemployed.
Arbitration has been decided upon
by Carriage and Wagon Workers
Union No. in regard to the new wage
scale presented to the Carriage and
Wagon Makers Association. The de-