The San Francisco call., 1908-04-28
PRINTERS Plan TO
ELECT new men
Nomination of Officers for En-
suing Term Made by
Union
The following were
nominated by Typo

/flb MErsa The following were
S1EA1Tsl slSysss5eeSsl SsseS SslcogEC1 nominated by Typo
"a fEINTIsS graphical union No.
2f at its meeting
last Sunday as candidates for offices to
be filled by election at the next meet
ing:
For president. George A. Tracy; first vice
president, W. j. Higgins; second vice presi-
dent, George Branch: trustee, Leo Nicholson;
clerk. Mrs. c. E. Hawkes.; sergeant at arms,
d. G. Lewis; executive committee, Leo Michel
j. French, W H. Ellis; delegates to- to Asiatic
exclusion slsT, lsagne, g. H. Parker, J. K. Phillips.
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son. J. X Phillips, c. Il. Parker, WIN ].
oSeiii; auditing committee, ]. - w. Sii Muilin, ".
A. Gallagher, Lyle Slocum; delegates to In
ternat tional L, tyPogTaphicsl union (three to be
johnson. L. T. Compton. ]. s. Adams, J. F.
Corey W; H. Ellis, b. S. White, D. G. Lewis,
The union voted SIS to send one of
its members to the union printers
home at Colorado Springs as soon as
his application is passed upon by the
advisory committee of the home.
In addition to the bonus offered by
the international union TO those print
ers who will take the correspondence
course of instruction, the union voted
to give IS to each who shall take such
course to the end
BY communication the union has
been asked to use it's influence to bring
about fair condition between the
Methodist book concern and the
printers.
withdrawal cards were deposited and
2S issued.
One OF the attractive features on
! the occasion of the opening and dedi-
cation of the building trades council
/ temple was the hall that has been
assigned to the amalgamated carpen-
ters and joiners and the united glass
workers. The hall was decorated with
potted plants and flags. On the altar
was column of flowers 10 feet high.
During the evening, in view of the
/ fact that the main hall where theNliter-
ary exercises were being held was so
crowded that admission was barred,
| the occupants of this hall improvised
an impromptu program. During the
evening the assemblage was addressed
/ by Thomas Maxwell of the carpenters,
who is known in the labor circle as
''the worker for progressive unionism."
and w. 1. Flagler. "the orator" of the
united glass workers.
The BARRIERS union of this city has
received information from the craft in
| Cleveland, Ohio, calling attention to
/ the fight on in that city against Sun
day work. The information is to the
/ effect that "the fight of the BARRIERS
against Sunday work is becoming bit
ter They are responsible for so ar
| rests and convictions for violations of
the Sunday law and they promise to
! continue the crusade until the law is
obeyed by every one in the trade The
BARRIERS say that they work liz hours
each day and Is hours on Saturday and
believe that that is enough for week
and that they are entitled to Sunday
for rest and recreation"
The glass blowers association of this
city, at its meeting last Saturday night,
nominated the following as candidates
/ for delegates to the convention of the
glass bottle blowers association of the
United States and Canada, to be held
in Baltimore, Md. July Z: G. Reeves,
lG. Morgan, T. Simmon. w. O'Brien. ].
Biggan aud c. Hemmerr. The election,
to be held May 9, will be for two dele
gates
The San Francisco locals of electrical
workers have received information
from the executive board of the in
ternational union of the United States
and Canada that 'it has voted to in
crease the unions defense fund from
100000 TO 81 900. 900 and that it also
proposes to increase the death benefits
for widows and orphans"
The label committee of the local labor
council is advised that the American
/ federation of labor, through a recent
meeting of the executive committee,
decided to further the union labor
movement by more extensive advertis-
ing in the local papers. streetcars and
i daily press. The local committee is
advised to do likewise.
The members of the printing press
mems union employed in the Schmidt
label company, at a special meeting of
that body last Sunday, decided to walk
out on the ground that the company
is employing boys to do mems work
and that the boys do not belong to
any union or auxiliary.
The members of the bottle Gamers
union who went to work in the Pacific
and the Illinois glass factories yes
terday morning were informed by the
managers of each that there would be
a cut of 10 per cent in all wages The
members refused TO accept the terms
1T was decided to refer the whole mat
ter to the executive committee of the
labor council
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