The San Francisco call., 1908-10-04
BUILDERS AT OUTS
WITH PLASTERERS
Workmen on First National
Bank Building Refused to Set
Ornaments Under Orders
Architects Determined Labor
Will Be Continued and Gener-
al Strike May Be Called
Yesterday morn

H nrp Yesterday morn
I <Hf5zTclzzp of the plasterers'
I union who had been
| employed in the First national bank
building at Montgomery and Post
streets went there TO work and were
/ ordered by the contractor to put GER
tain ceiling ornaments in place in ac-
| cordance with instructions previously
! issued. This" said Willis Polk. the
architect. ''the men refused to do.
\ claiming that they couldn't do IL under
! the rules OF the union. AS they refused
to do as they were told they were dis
! charged"
| The work. said Architect Polk. will
go on this morning. nevertheless. This
\ is in accordance with the instructions
OF Burnham & Co, the architects. to
! the contractors. and the work must not
/ be delayed. as the building has TO be
4 finished by a certain time and the
/ ornaments must be put on, plasterers
/ or no plasterers, and that not later
than Monday morning, and must be
pushed to completion
/ The architects assert that to have
/ the ornaments put on as the plasterers
want would involve an extra expense
| amounting to almost double what il
will 10 do IL as ordered
What the result Of the determina-
tion of the architects will be. as an
I nounced yesterday. can not be pre-
dicted, as those interested on the labor
4 side of the question would not say
F! yesterday what will be done IL non
union men are put to work this morn
/ ing, but il is thought there may be a
calling off OF the men employed in
| other crafts.
/ Yesterday afternoon the executive
committee of the plasterers' union held
a meeting I'm the building trades tenn
!. r1a ht1f d{d "a in
relation to the situation The chair
man of the committee said: TT Is
true that the men did not go to work
this morning, because they would not
work in the manner instructed This
/ committee will not do anything in the
premises, but the matter will come up
for discussion at the regular meeting
Monday night. Until then nothing viii
be done"
There was an impression at labor
headquarters that an effort Will be
made to settle the matter in manner
that will be acceptable and honorable
to all parties concerned
A dispatch from Cincinnati. O.. re-
ceived by The CaH yesterday. con-
veyed the information that the big
strike against the National printing
and engraving company, show house
printers. which was instituted a year
ago by the international printing press
men and assistants union. was settled
yesterday. The demands OF the press
men were granted and they nv Will nrde- Te-
the eight hour rule The agreement
was signed by International President
President e. H. Mccoy for the COM
pany.
| At the last meeting of the Anti-Jap-
anese laundry league the reports pre-
sented show that the committee Of 10
appointed by the French laundry pro-
prfetors to perfect their organization
in order to work with the league is
| making excellent progress; that the
white laundries in Oakland and Berke-
ley are organizing to work on the same
lines; that the white laundrtes OF Stock
ton have sent for list of the supply
houses in San Francisco that furnish
/ goods to white laundries only; that
/ from the reports Of the agents OF the
league 1t is apparent that the Japanese
IaundrieS are being deeply cut 1ntOs
also that the league is receiving fnan-
cial support from the entire white ele-
ment engaged in the laundry industry.
The league passed a vote OF thanks
to Manager Walstein of the Chutes
cafe for having, at the request OF the
league, replaced his Japanese employees
by white help.
Upon the request of the joint council
of teamsters, the San Francisco labor
council will notify each union afhliated
i with il that many of the dealers in the
i Mission district employ drivers who do
not belong to the retail drivers union.
them to join. The notice will request
i the members Of unions. through their
families. not TO receive goods at the
house unless delivered by driver
wearing the union button, but to send
such back to the store.
Arthur S. Morey has been appointed
Temporary treasurer of musicians
union local No. s. vice Theodore Els
i feldt, who has been confined TO his
home by illness for some time.
/ At the last meeting of the allied pro-
that the secretary had consulted with
/ two of the mineral water hrms which
had been reported as unfair to organ
lied labor, and that these have prom
ised to unionize their factories
The Vallejo trade and labor union
will be represented in the state fedora
tion of labor at San Jose by is dele
gates. They are pledged to support J.
B. Dale Of the federal union Tor the
federation of labor.
The hackmen's union at it's last
meeting received notice OF the. death
i of two of it's members The union re-
ceived two into membership BY initia-
tion and reinstated three members who
l'had been temporarily suspended 1or
nonpayment OF dues.
The international association OF
bridge and structural iron workers,
now in session in Indianapolis, Ind.
has elected Eugene A Clancy Of the
local OF this city to the Office OF first
vice president.
The retail clerks, union will give a
ball in honor OF the fair sex friends
of the members in Retail Clerks hall:
on Van Ness avenue. on the evening OF
October Z.
4 The unions connected with the beer
industry in this city will give ball IN
its new headquarters at III Capp street
on next Saturday night
II A dispatch from Indianapolis. Ind.
conveys the information that Walter
Il OConnell of plumbers union No 422
of this city was. at the convention or
the united association OF plumbers. gas
filters and steam filters helpers OF the
United states and Canada, elected nrst