The San Francisco call., 1907-03-22
EDITED BY o. M. BOYLE

be no trouble There is an active de-
mand for men and the craft is well or
ganizeo- The present wage is $2.75
Gay The next meeting viii be held
the first Wednesday in April and cleo
tion OF officers will take place. All
members are requested to be present
The eighth annual convention OF the
brotherhood OF Railroad Trainmen will
be held next month in Atlanta, Ga. The
brotherhood numbers $4,000. The con-
vention Will last for from nine to
eighteen days and many important
measures are to be discussed.
The Seattle Electric Company has
voluntarily raised the pay of its en-
ployes Apprentice trainmen viii now
receive rs cents an hour as against
p, and experienced hands are to be
paid 80 and 32 cents an hour. The
advance viii take effect next month.
Bookbinders' Union No. 81 viii give
its seventh annual ball in Pickett
Cotillion Hall. l5s Church street, Sat-
urday evening, April 13. The COM
mittee in charge is as follows: T. f.
Garrity (chairman), D. T. Bowers. f.
j. Dever. J. d. Kelly. E. Barry,
John Reding and George Buehn
The local joint executive board has
investigated the situation in Gold
field, and as large number Of the ho-
tel and restaurant employees are af-
hliated with the Western Federation
OF Miners working at their respective
crafts in that district vigorous meas
ures viii be taken TO see that no mem
bers Of the locals in this city go to
Goldield and thus complicate the sit
uation.
The Central Labor Union OF Omaha
interested itself In the proposed street
car strike of that city which had been
ordered, and after an investigation of
the controversy recommended to the
carmen not to cease work. The presi-
tral Labor Union formed themselves
into a court. the employers side be-
ing represented by President Wattles
OF the Omaha Street Railway Company,
while the streetcar men We're repre-
sented by Vice President Behmer of
that union.
At the last meeting OF Water Work
ers' Union II was announced that an
agreement had been signed with the
company for year. This is a new
union, but it is reported to be growing
nicely and adding to its membership
at each meeting.
The Painters Union of Chico has
resolved TO aid the new Clerks Union
in every way possible. The painters
have levied a fine on any member who
does not ask for the card of the clerk
waiting on him when he purchases
anything. The clerks are asked to
report any union painter who does not
ask for the union card when buying
In this way the painters propose 10
union and nonunion clerks. They Will
throw their custom to the stores which
are fair TO the members Of the Clerks
Onion.
The annual statement OF the Union
Labor Hospital Association of Eu-
reka shows II to be growing financial
ly. The net gain for the year was
s527940. This hospital is run exclu-
sively by organized labor in Eureka
Because the sixty-two operators in
the Postal Telegraph Company's Office
at New Orleans did not receive the in
crease in their wages, they have gone
on strike. The men say that it was
recently announced that there would
be q general advance in salaries OF 10
per cent and that IL has only been al
lowed to the regular men. The extra
men walked out and the regulars went
with them.
Union cards have been issued to all
members of the Building Trades in
Bakersfield. That is simply following
the custom in vogue in the building
industry in this city. The object of
issuing the cards is that men working
on a building may tell whether work
ers in other trades employed on the
same building are union men. In -ad-
dition IL is contended that better work
can be done by the unions collectively
than II they work separately. The
unions to which these cards have been
issued are the Carpenters, Electrical
Workers and Painters.