The San Francisco call., 1907-03-06
EDITED BY O. M. BOYLE


egation from No. sc of this city visited
Oakland Monday night and witnessed
the installation. The charter has ar
rived and the new organization starts
with thirty-six charter members. The
union will meet the first and third Mon
days in the month.
The carpenters of San Jose now re-
celVe 90 cents an hour. Last summer a
demand was made upon the contractors
ana the six months notice given. There
has been no friction. The former price
was so cents an hour.
The New York Unionist, the printers
trade paper, has been rechristened and
issued in a new and handy form. 1t
Will hereafter be known as The Print
ing Trades News. and will be published
monthly.
The West Side Lumber Company of
Sonora will make general raise in its
scale of wages from S. to $40 to take
effect about April 1, when work will be
started up in the woods and mills.
The Grass Valley Miners Union re-
Gently held spirited election with the
following result: President Charles
Bone; vice president, William Trathen;
Ahdhciai secretary clarence Jenkins;
recording secretary, T. j. Stewart;
treasurer, Samuel Mills; conductor, w
j. Bennett; warden, Cleve Moore; out
side guard E. Roscorla; finance COM
mittee, E. +. Whiting, S, ]. Clark and
A. Jelinek; trustees, John Temby and
Richard Hales. The installation will
take place at the first meeting in April.
International President Bahlhorn and
In far ,o1
will be invited guests at the twentieth
anniversary celebration of Bostons
Painters Union No. IL, March IS, in
historical Faneuil Hall.
At the last meeting OF Eureka Labor
Council il was resolved 10 ask the State
Federation of Labor 70 indorse the
maximum wage scale of the Woodsmen
and Sawmill Workers Union and have
the Executive Council appoint the Eu-
reka vice president to act with the
committee of Woodsmen and Millmen
in the adjustment of the difficulty 1t
will also be asked that Secretary Bowl
ing inform the mill owners OF the ap-
pOintment
The Offices Of the State Building
Trades Council have been removed from
the corner of Laguna and McAllister
streets TO 10 Turk street. The Japanese
and Korean Exclusion League has also
moved to 10 Turk street
The vote Of the Butte Miners Union
on the increase of the wage scale was
2349 for and 1868 against the new
scale, which is to take effect on May 1.
The mines of Butte will continue in op-
GRAFTON notwithstanding the demands,
but development work in all of the
Amalgamated properties will cease Of
ficers of the union say, however, that
there viii be no strike. 1t is said upon
authority that compromise between
the copper companies and the Butte
Smeltermen and Miners Union Will be
reached within a few days, probably
upon a basis of a five-year scale con-
tract The demands of the Butte
Workingmen's Union have generally
been granted, and most of the men are
at work The members asked an in
crease from So to $3.50 day. The
City Council, which formerly had re-
fused the demands. later had a special
meeting and granted them.
Dues and assessments of the first
quarter of 1907 are now due and pay !
able to Musicians Union No. 6 before |
April l. Two assessments of % cents !
each have been levied on account of
deaths, making a total of $3.50 to be |
ent quarter. The committee on advisa- |
bic classification of halls has been made |
permanent and viii report regarding
any halls that may be prepared for
dancing purposes. The Alameda Coun- |
ty branch will hold its regular monthly |
meeting next Thursday at its head
quarters, sos Washington street, room
2, Oakland, at II a. IN. Members are re-
quested to be present much business
of Importance will be discussed.
The appropriation OF $150,O00 by Con- |
gress to investigate the status of wo- |
men in gainful occupations is not what |
the friends of thet bill had hoped, but /
IL viii at least provide enough to allow
the Commissioner of Labor to make |
beginning in this important work The !
object will be to find how many wo-
men are engaged in the various indus |
tries of the country, and to what ex-
tent they have affected the wages of |
men; also, what effect such encroach- |
ments have on the health and morals |
of the women This is of vital i'm |
portance to the welfare of the State, !
and the findings Of the commissioner |
will bSlooked for with interest.
Max Morris, international secretary
of the Retail Clerks Protective Asso- |
citation, announces that he has been |
appointed one of the vice presidents Of |
the National Arbitration and Peace |
Conference to be held in New York |
April 1417 next.