The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-10-17
UNION MEN Of
POTRERO ARE FOR
TAYLOR TICKET
Organize a Club, Beginning
With 225 Names on
the Rolls
CASEY WILL PRESIDE
Meeting Is to Be Held Next
Monday to Perfect Plan
for Campaign
MCCARTHY MENACED
Good Government Club of
Carpenters Opposes
His Candidacy
MCCARTHY MENACED
By George A. Van Smith

Organization of union labor men
for Taylor, Langdon and the good
government ticket is the latest night
mare in the Mccarthy camp. Hun
dreds of card bearers have already
signed their names to the rolls OF
union mems clubs organized for good
government and for Taylor and Lang
don, and the indications are that the
hundreds will be thousands before the
end OF next week.
A Taylor and Langdon club, COM
posed OF 225 union labor men, was
organized last night in the Porero.
The good government club organized
in the councils OF carpenters union
VIII throw it's roll open to all union
labor men on Saturday night.
P. H. Mccarthy must face open and
organized opposition IN the ranks Of
union labor as well as the great silent
vote OF the labor men who believe that
real industrial peace and prosperity can
be theirs only as the result OF good
government
The organization OF the Taylor and
Langdoa union mems club in the Po-
trero was one Of the most Significant
indications Of hezsa large proportion Of
,hs union labor vote viii be cast on
November &
The organization. which viii be
known as the Thirty-frst District Tay-
Tor and Langdon Union Mems club,
started with membership OF 225 union
men and in what was recognized as the
banner Schmitz district. Meetings viii
be held each Monday evening at the
Methodist church at Tennessee and
Nineteenth streets and a union labor
mems good government campaign will
be wsged with unremitting vigor.
Michael Casey, president of the board
of public works. better known as the
president of the teamsters' union and
its leader through all it's most strenu
Gus times, viii preside at the meeting
10 be held next Monday. The officers
Of the new club are: President. ". A
Mcdonald: vice president, J. R. Mathe-
son, and secretary. ]. Hopkins. all
me bers Of the teamsters' union.
Among those who assisted in the
organisation OF the club were Law
renee J. Dolan and N. J. Hynes. candi-
dates for sheriff and public admins
traitor, respectively, on the good gov
ernment ticket; George Uhl, the fnan-
cisI representative OF the Good Govern
ment league: Ralph McLeran of the
nnillmen-s union and a good government
O'Lesry. James Mcnamara was the
temporary chairman.
MCCARTHY HARD HIT
The organization, of the good gov
eminent club in the carpenters union
strikes close 10 the ramparts OF the
Mccarthy fortress. The Mccarthy
forces have persistently declared that
the organizations in the building trades
council would be solidly for Mccarthy.
Carpenters unions Nos. 4ss and 1852
have a combined membership of 400,
and they are not for Mccarthy. Car
penters' union No. 4ss has a member
ship Of 2.7eo, and the fact that it has
contributed $3.50 week for Is con-
secutive weeks to the strike fund
leaves no opportunity for Mccarthy to
attack its loyalty to the cause of
unicnism.
At its meeting Monday night car
penters' union No. zss, instead of in
dorsing the candidacy OF P. H. Nc
Carthy, organized a Good Government
club for the support OF Mayor Taylor
District Attorney Langdon and the
Good Government ticket Carpenters
union No 1852 will cooperate with
No. zss. instead OF organizing an in
dependent club, and the leaders of the
movement. actuated by the desires OF
other union men not affiliated with
their organizations. have decided to
throw their roll open to all organized
labor men at a special meeting which
will be held Saturday night.
The Significance of these organiza-
tions OF union men for Taylor. Lang
don and good government lies not
alone in the fact that the members be-
long to the organize cations of the build
ing trades council but also TO the fact
that the hundreds of men enrolled are
residents of San Francisco. are regis
tered and will vote. Their efforts can
not be laughed out of court by the Nc
Carthy or Ryan boosters, who are prone
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