The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
CLERKS TO FORM
ATHLETIC CLUB
Retail Association Will EStab=
lish Quarters for Both Indoor
and Outdoor Exercise
Delegates to International Typo
graphical Union Will Leave
for Boston Next Week
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! SIRA6Es ysnseess (coUEofI C a tion has
>SdQS65NcISs caught the athletic
club fever. The
! several branches have decided to start
an athletic club at the new headquar
| ters, 321 Van Ness avenue, corner of
| Fulton, which are to be opened early
In August. The clerks are to have
grounds where athletic games will be
conducted and at headquarters there
| will be apparatus for indoor exercise,
also all the appointments of an ath-
! letic club house. This feature is to
be maintained by the payment of a
small amount monthly. The privi-
! leges of the new idea will be limited
to members in good standing.
At the last meeting of the board of
directors of musicians union local No.
S. Stech and G.. NJ Peralta Jr. of
| Goldfield, New, and M. S. Karp of Los
Angeles were admitted on transfer
cards. Several applications for mem
berShip were presented and referred
| to the committee on investigation. M.
| Bluth, G. Brayle. r. A. Scott, c. II.
Leonard, J. B. McCann, Mrs. C. Meow
an-Noonan, F. H Oestreich, G. ]. Pierce
and A. Sternitzky, who had been sus-
pended for nonpayment Of dues, were
reinstated.
]. F. Fitzgerald was appointed di-
rector, vice John Wenzel. who left for
the east few days ago.
w. H. Ellis and Philip Johnson,
San Francisco delegates to the inter-
national typographical union that is to
meet in f1fty-fourth annual convention
| In Boston, August 10, will leave for
destination next Wednesday On the
way they will visit Salt Lake
| City, where they are to be joined by
the delegation from Los Angeles and
| Boise, and then stop at Colorado
| Springs to look over the printers
home; Denver, Omaha, Chicago and
Niagara Falls. L. F. Compton, one of
the San Francisco delegates. for rea-
sons of his own, will go to the con-
vention city by the northern route.
l.. Israelsky, Robert Sleeth and A. F..
| O'Neil of the union will accompany the
delegates.
The building trades council of Stock
ton has decided to parade on Labor
day. The following have been ap-
pointed committee to make the ar
rangements for that event: e. c. Davis
| of the inside wiremen; D. B. Farrell,
carpenters; ]. V. Beck, painters; c. A.
| Carrou, lumber handlers; F. A. Bell of
| the Lodi painters; Joseph Arlington,
| plasterers; w. NJ. Porter sheet metal
workers; ]. Happell, carpet mechanics;
l.. H. Bartlette. hod carriers; William
Gaskell, cement workers; J. c. Crea-
son, lathers; f. C. Roberts, teamsters;
F. H. Reynolds plumbers.
The laundry wagon drivers union
will give an entertainment and dance
! in Golden Gate commandery hall on
the evening of next Wednesday.
! G. B. Benham, we'll known in labor
! circles and an agitator against Asiatic
immigration, will deliver a lecture this
Asiatics' before the social science
league in Jefferson square hall
The cement workers. union No. l,
will hold a summoned meeting next
Wednesday night to elect delegates to
the annual convention that will meet
in Milwaukee, Wis: September 2.
Philip Johnson, delegate from the
typographical union to the San Fran
cisco labor council, has been granted
! five weeks leave OF absence to enable
him to take trip east
Mailers' union No. Is, at its last held
meeting, voted to support the move
ment against Japanese laundries and
resolved to fine any member SIS who
patronizes such a laundry.
|
Carpenters union No. % at its last
meeting decided to parade on Labor
day in uniform with a band OF %
pieces. The meeting was addressed by
c. r. Gore a prominent member of the
| craft in st. Louis.
The shoe clerks of this city won the
| first of a series of whist games with
the clerks of Oakland. Tomorrow the
Oakland boys will visit this city to
play the second game.
| Carpenters union No. 1910 has de-
cided to postpone action on the propo-
sition to divide the work in the trade.
so as to help out those members who
during a lull are out of a job. At the
! last meeting five elected candidates
were initiated.
| The attention of the local building
! trades has been called to the method
adopted in New Bedford, Mass, to Sc
cure first class workmen. Three unions
| of carpenters and joiners there have
| appointed a committee to examine ap-
| plicants for admission into either union.
| The applicant must demonstrate by
working out 10 or 20 problems with his
| tools, and If he can do that he is ad-
mitted, otherwise rejected This rule
has been adopted because of many COM
plants that membership in a union is
not absolute proof of competency.
| At the next meeting of the district
council Of painters there will be nomi-
| nations for officers who shall be Sc
lected to serve for the next term. The
! election will be held August 8.
| Secretary Tveitmoe of the building
| trades council says that several men
are working merchants for adver-
tisements which they say they will in
sert in the official building trades
council souvenir program for Labor
day. There will not be any official
souvenir program" said the secretary