The San Francisco call., 1908-09-01
men ARE HELPED
TOGOOD POSITIONS
German municipalities Have a
Unique Method of Assisting
the Unemployed
Pretty Girls Drum Corps VIII
Lead Plumbers in Labor
Day Parade

cIs1 ssErrss> In a report to the
fTRS6ss psss5eeSS tcoINcTs department of com
>ssN S6oaelssS merce and labor at
Washington ID. c.,
Vice Consul w. A. Leonard at Kehl,
Germany, tells of the public employ
ment bureaus, whose services in plac
ing laborers are gratuitous. These ex-
ist in all the larger cities and towns
of Alsace-Lorraine, and are being more
or less developed in all parts of Ger
many. He says:
Fifteen different Municipalities of Alsace-Ior-
| raine, ranging in population from 5000 to 49,
900, conduct employment bureaus which aim to
keep in close touch with the various organiza
tons or employers and employees. In the smaller
towns the directors of these bureaus are usu-
ally acquainted personally with the employers
is the aim of the city to give the dictatorship
of these employment bureaus only to city Of
hcals who can work tremendously and effectively
with employers and the laboring element.
In many of the cities employers never think
+ of turning to any one but the city employment
bureau for help. and Industrial organizations
likewise depend uDOn this agency ITO place its
members when. they are cut of work. In some
cases there is contract between certain trade
organizations and the city bureaus, TO the effect
that only the cfty shall have the privilege of
placing it's members. Such fixed agreements,
however, have pot always been found practicable.
because there may be times when private
agency can to advantage find employment for
an agreement naturally forbidS:
At the monthly meeting of the San
Francisco Typographical union last Sun
day it was decided to send six dele
gates to the convention of the state
federation of labOr.., The committee
on picnic reported that all arrange
ments for that event have been conf
pleted: During the month Al cards Were
deposited and 81 issued. Three candi-
dates. We're initiated, six applications
We're received, one member asked to be
placed OH the veterans list and two
made application to be admitted to the
printers home:
At: the last: meeting of plumbers
and gas filters. union No. it was an
nounced that during the parade on
Labor day the union will be preceded
by the girls drum corps of Genevieve
parlor of the Native Daughters Of the
Golden West. The members of the
union will appear in. new Uniforms,
consisting: of black cap, black sateen
shirt, red tie, blue overalls, and will
carry red; white: and blue Gaines. Each
will have a red brassa rd on the right
arm. Frank Vivian will be the mar
shal of the union: :
The. glass blowers union of this city
has been advised that the representa-
tives of the international union. of glass
blowers of America won a notable vic
tory on the last day of the conference
with the manufacturers at Atlantic
city, when they obtained d wage scale
at the same figures and same hours as
prevailed last year.
E. f. remnant, T. Flaherty Thomas
Doyle and Henry ullner of the cement
workers union of this city will leave
for Milwaukee, Wis. this week to at
tend the sixth annual convention of
the. American brotherhood of cement
workers.. that is. to meet in that city
September s.: -:
From and after October /. i'm the
state of New York. the inspection of
mercantile houses as to sanitary CON
ditions for those employed there will
be taken. from the health boards and
placed in the hands of the department
of labor
THE executive board of the state
federation; of labor will hold. its last
meeting before the convention next
October at headquarters in this city
September. 13.
An extraordinary meeting will .be
held tonightin the labor temple Of the
membership of the telephone operators
unions; at which many matters of un-
usual Importance will be brought UP.