The San Francisco call., 1907-03-01
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE

No 4s. Miss Ida Wayne was selected
as the delegate to the local Joint execu-
tive board. The union decided to do
all within its power on street cleaning
day. The union is fiourishing and all
members are at work.
The ball recently given in Oakland
by the branches of the Amalgamated
Society of Carpenters and Joiners at
tracted almost 400 visitors. Mayor Mott
was among those present. The affair
was managed by the following commit
tee: L. c. Carpenter, T. Westoby and
G. Lock. The reception committee was
composed of c. NJ Wardell, A Fowbert,
j. Wyckoff. H. p. Atkinson and H. E.
Peterson Besides the sixteen numbers
on the programme w. NJ. Smith. a Scot
tish dancer from Aberdeenshire. danced
the Highland fling, the sword dance
and other fancy steps in Highland cos
tune. The unions treasury received a
neat sum from the entertainment. In
viii give an open-air fiesta in one of
Oakland's parks.
The Los Angeles Brotherhood OF
Teemsters has inaugurated the plan Of
lowering the initiation fee for .one
meeting night in the month. The first
meeting under this plan will be held
Sh SlAC 4IQIbQdY evening IN ADIl,
when the entrance fee will be 81. A
smoker and social: will also be held
on the last Thursday night in March.
officials of the Waterloo, Cedar Falls
and Northern Electric Railway of
Waterloo. Iowa. have summarily dis
missed all the officers Of the union re-
Gently formed among it's platform men
Other employees who were active in
fzfr he I1F
dismissed also and their places filled
with on-unionists.
Laborers' Protective Union No. Ss44,
with President Murphy in the chair,
at its last meeting initiated twenty-five
candidates. The union is reported to
be in a prosperous condition and all
the members are working.
Tanners Union No. 9 viii give
smoker and social in Maennerbund
Hail, Twenty-fourth street and Potrero
avenue, on March 20. The programme
being prepared will please all who may
attend. The members are all working
and the union is f1ourishing.
Building Laborers' International Pro-
teetiNe- Union No. IL has applied for
affiliationr with the Building Trades
.COAlNll-- I-Ol4OW1uE are ~lne OIlceTS or
the new union: President, H. E. Muir
ray; vice president, A. B. Curry; fnan-
cial secretary, Arthur Jordan; cores
ponding secretary. Walter Pemberton.
The union is not afiliated with the
American Federation OF Labor. nor is
il connected with the Industrial Work
ers OF the World.
The Cleveland United Trades and
Labor Council is exerting all of it's
influence in the Ohio Legislature to
make the bill requiring all products
OF convict labor to be labeled become
effective The bill has already passed
the lower house and will soon be pre-
sented TO the Senate.
The Board Of Trade OF Winnipeg es-
Inmates that upward Of $4,000 men will
be required for railway work In West
ern Canada during the coming summer.
Where TO get this vast army of work
ers is giving the contractors much con-
cern. 1t is estimated that the Canadian
Northern will need 10000 and the labor
bureaus OF this country are being
secured for them Ten thousand more
men could find employment along the
line being built from Winnipeg to
Portage la Prairie.
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lC4 Is WOtklnB AcllNely Tor. system
of interchange cards, which would
eliminate jurisdictional disputes to a
large degree. Under present laws a
miner by any chance unable to obtain
employment at the trade in which he
carries union card must pay an in
itiation fee into the union of any other
trade.
An additional $4,000 viii be put into
circulation March -: the first nav dav
under the new scale for flremen on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, of which
announcement has just been made. In
addition several other concessions have
been gained by the 1remen. The an
nual wage increase by the corporation
on its entire system will not fall far
short of s25O.00O. The increase is to
date from February /.
Besides numerous views OF the Auto
Show, the auto number of News Let
ter contains 160 illustrations and spec