The San Francisco call., 1906-09-11

--~SSls ANSiNInoS ana 1oel, viii have
some very interesting data to give to
the next meeting about the occupations
and numbers OF japanese who are set
tling in this city. The committee is in
debted to Chief Dinan and a detail of
officers for much Of the information
round. In the district bounded by Van
Ness avenue, Steiner. Market and the
bay the following japanese were To-
Gated Residing in so-called boarding
houses missions etc. and whose occu-
pations could not be determined. e5I:
shoemakers, so; bazar s.; house clean
ers, l5i restaurants. 80; doctors, 2; fruit
stores, ls; BARRIERS. Is; groceries. s;
hanks, Il; tailors. q: billiard parlors,
s furnishing goods. II: stationery
stores, 4 employment Offices, rs; laun-
dries, TO- tin stores, S; florists. 2; jew
elry stores. 5; bath houses, 10; bakeries.
II; carpenters, 2; real eastate, 8. Total
number residing in the district. 9s2
4he Following is a list of Japanese
ana their occupations residing in the
alstrlct west Of Steiner from Haight,
north TO Pacific avenue. thence to the
ocean; Laundries, 2; house cleaning,
lS' shoemakers, g; employment agents,
- florists, ]; curio stores. l: res
thurants, i. general merchandise ~
porter. /; employed by Chutes Company,
3; no occupation. 13. Total, 4s.
The report states that owing to the
cunning ways OF the Orientals the po-
lice experienced great difficulty in OBJ
tanning any information. Chief Dinan
believes that the number Of Japanese
n the district covered greatly exceeds
the number found. When a large num-
Der Of japanese were found herded To-
gether the information given was that
they were all visitors" The report
does not touch upon the number Of
japanese domestics because employers
refused 10 divulge the number en-
ployed. From the above list, necessar-
lily imperfect, Il will be seen the num-
her Of occupations the Japs have al
ready entered, and there is not a day
that the number is not added TO.
This information will be sent all over
the country by the league as showing
the inroeds the orientals are making
in this city.
Bishop Samuel Fallows OF the Episco-
pa Church took for his subject in a re-
.1ent sermon IN Chicago, a Plea for a
Sweated Industries Exhibition" The
reverend gentleman said in part:
VIII not one OF our great daily
papers DO for Chicago what the Daily
News OF London did for that city a
few months ago? This journal organ
lied a 'Sweated Industries Exhibition.
It established booths in the very heart
OF the prosperous West End OF the me-
tropolis in which the sweating was
vividly reproduced. A woman and her
brother carded buttons for fifteen hours
between them daily and together
earned 81 cents a day. A young girl made
cigarette cases for nearly eighteen
hours day and received from 81 to
$3.50 a week A woman making pima
fores at so cents a dozen earned $3.50
weekly for twelve hours toll daily.
''I spent a portion OF my summer va
cation in visiting the Ghetto. the cen
Ter OF the sweatshops Of Chicago
found the wages paid the workers on
mems clothing corresponded to those
paid the London toilers. Women and
children We're ekeing out a livlihood
among the most reprehensible sur
roUndings. Some Of the tumble down
frame structures in the back yards were
far worse on the average than any
found in the anthracite regions during
the great coal strike. Let the Ghetto
be brought by photographs and by its
actual sweating industries to our
West End through an exposition and
be witnessed by the so-cailed better
classes Of Chicago. Then our faithful
building and sanitary inspectors who
4 have just been reused TO these deplora-
be conditions existing in the very
heart Of the city would be sustained
by an overwhelming public opinion in
their efforts to end the evil The Ghet-
sweatshops must go Manufactur-
ers must cease growing rich out of
the underpaid working women. We
must all be willing to pay a fair price
for q fair article and not crush out the
toiIer's life in our mad rush for un-
just bargains.
II a communication read at the last
meeting Of the Labor Council is true.
we San Franciscans need not go as far
away as Chicago to find Ghetto. A
letter from q number Of girls was read
relating the deplorable conditions under
which they were working. They de-
clared that they were required TO labor
under the most unSanitary condi tions
for seven cents an hour. Many Of them
are attempting 70 support mothers and
small brothers and sisters on this mis-
erable pittance. Here is work for our
local philsnthropic settlement workers,
II the letter can be relied upon.
A conference OF Chicago settlement
workers Is TO map out campaign
against further fncroachments OF the
Sweating" system in the industries OF
that city. An exhibition following
similar and successful affairs given ir
Berlin and IN London viii contain
booths modelled in exact reproduction
Of the typical -sweatshops," with men,
women and children at work IN
them Organized labor in Chi
cago is taking deep interest in
the movement. It is certain that union
labeled products Will become more pop
ular as q result OF this exhibition.
An Allied Printing Trades Council
has been organized IN San Diego 1t
consists Of the following unions: typo
graphical, pressmen's. stereotypers' and
bookbfnders'. Any differences which
may arise in the printing trades will
hereafter be referred to this council.
The following officers We're elected:
President, z /. Miller, of the Typo
graphical Union; secretary, George j.
Schierholz Of the Pressmen's Union.
Grouad was broken for Nhe new
Building Trades Council Temple to be
located al Fourteenth and Guerrero
streets by President P. H Mccarthy
inst before he left for the East to at
tend the Niagara Falls convention 1t
is estimated that the new building VIII
cost s65, 900. II is to be OF Ionic archi-
lecture, three stories high and OF steer
freproof construction. There will be
from twelve 10 fifteen Offices for the