Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-27

y. an international organizer being in
charge When October 1 arrived we were
In good shape, as the result shows Re-
porting on the situation Organizer Brady
has this to say:
1 can safely say that we have been
victorious In Kansas City, as five months
ago there were nearly two hundred nom
union printers in the city, and we had
no contracts with any of the shops. We
have gained several shops we never had
before, two of them large and important
ones. We never had any overtime rate
other than single price, and we get all
we asked for this time at the end of
fifteen MONTHS"
Local 81 Journeyman Tailors' Union Of
America, is locked out by the Merchants
Protective association When asked about
the situation yesterday c. Verchota and
William Schneider of the press commit
tee said
For some time prior to September 49,
when the lockout occurred pressure was
brought to bear upon the Merchants Pro-
tectfve association, with whom we had
signed contracts for a year, by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association,
the chamber of commerce and the Bank
ers' association of Los Angeles, to dis
continue the employment of union labor.
The Merchants Protective association
Claimed that should they ignore the re-
quest they would suffer loss of patronage
to such an extent that it would be i'm
possible for them to employ any men at
all, and as consequence ali members of
the taflors' union had the alternative of
quitting their Jobs or their union They
stuck by their union to a man and the
lockout occurred as a result.
''The Merchants Protective associa-
oil AI.1.
have $4,000, besides the support of the
three organizations which 1 mentioned
before, to fight us with, but we are not
worrying at all. Our local Is in better
condition financially now than ever be-
fore, and our membership has doubled
since the lockout. We have opened a CO.
operative tailoring shop, which gives en-
ployment to large number of our men,
and see no reason for discontinuing It.
even should the differences now existing
be adjusted.
"One thing I wish to speak of is the
unfair way in which tailors are induced
to come to Los Angeles. Mr. HalIer of
the firm of Sens & Ealler has gone east
to employ men to take our places, and
while In Cincinnati employed six tailors,
p0ld their fares and even went so far
as to buy out two of them who had gone
In business for themselves. The men
existed in Los Angeles and that wages
were much higher than they are or ever
have been here. The men are here, not
working, and the union is assisting them"
Members of the tailors union said yes
terday afternoon that, taken as a whole,
tailors In Los Angeles do not average
throughout the year s12 a week, and be-
tween the 4th of July and 1st of Septem-
ber, do not average 81 a week.
Local rs of the Plumbers union report
everything moving along smoothly, with
plenty of work for everybody.
w. A. Engle, secretary of the Central
Labor council, was unanimously elected
last Friday night at the regular meeting
of the Central Labor council as a dele
gate to the national convention of the
American Federation of Labor to be held
at Norfolk, Va, beginning November IL
Walters and Mattresses union, local II.
reports better conditions existing than
for many months past. They will hold
their grand semi-annual ball Saturday
evening November 2. Many tickets have
been sold and success seems assured.