The San Francisco call., 1906-09-09
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE.

The coast delegation TO the Niagara
rails. \. Y. convention Of carpenters
snG joiners left last night in special
car. The convention will convene Sep
tember Il. Some thirty-fve or forty
were in the party. President Mccarthy
says that some very important matters
viii be up for settlement, the most
important being a plan for the ANAL
samation OF the United Brotherhood
ef Carpenters and Joiners of America
and those branches of the Amalgamat-
ed Society Of Carpenters and Joiners
which have been formed in this coun-
try.
Boot and Shoe Cutters Union wants
'hetter conditions for its members
They are working ten hours for s275
Il day They have asked for a nine
hour day and So The demands Will
Charles ". Petry, recording secretary
and business agent for the Alameda
County Trades Council, as its arbi-
ter and the employers have chosen
a Carrigan OF Dunham, Carrigan 6.
Hayden. The third member will be
selected next Tuesday. when the board
is expected to get 10 work.
The election for international Off
GERS viii be held next Thursday. Polls
viii open ar noon and close at 10 p.
~. The election viii be held at head
quarters.
A special meeting Of members Of
Millmens Union TO. 425 has been
called for tomorrow night. All mem
Sers are requested 10 be present as
business Of Importance viii be dis
cussed.
Mixers Protective Union No. 1851
has adopted a label which will be
placed on all milk cans. bottles con-
tanning cream or milk, butter and
cheese which is made under union
conditions. There is a movement on
foot 10 unionize all The mixers in the
state. This viii take time. as there
sre something like 1000 employed
Wherever union agreements are signed
the dairy win be given the privilege
: of using the label II is expected that
al friends OF organized labor will see
lat their grocers have the label on
the milk cans. as well as on the butter.
cream and cheese. The label will be
a guarantee that the goods are pro-
duced under sanitary conditions as
well as being handled by union men.
Labor day OF 1so6-the twentieth
since the day became a legal holiday
the twenty-ffth since its first actual
observance-fnds the workers of Am
erica vastly better of in many re-
spects than they have ever been IN
history. SAYS an exchange. According
10 many labor leaders and economists,
e. workers are today better paid by from
10 TO 80 per cent than two decades ago
Their hours are shorter, and It is as
serted that they are better fed. bet
ter clothed and better housed; that
ed
that their environment is happier, and
that they have more leisure to enjoy
the dement's OF all The refining infu-
ences Of life. Twenty years ago there
were few labor laws. Now there are
many in almost every State. In 1856
the number OF labor laws on the New
York statute books was few and all
q were unfnportant. Today there are
scores OF important faws providing
protection and safeguards for labor Of
every sort In the infancy Of Labor
day wa age-earners were poorly organ
ized. Today upward OF two millions
OF toilers are on the rosters Of trades
unions. Reports Of the State Labor
Bureaus show that capital and labor
in many important industries are
working in closer harmony and that
trade agreements have N numerous
n Instances supplanted the strike and
ekoUt methods Of settling industrial
disputes Some close observers, among
whom was the late Senator Hanna,
have within recent years predicted
that the era OF strikes is nearing its
end Public opinion twenty years ago
was. almost hostile to labor. Now it
o. IS largely enlisted on the workers
side, and, with the employer and the
employe himself. is active in providing
many betterments for the increasing
mass of toilers.
These are a few OF the most no.