The San Francisco call., 1908-08-23
MUSICIANS PLAN
TO REVISE PRICES
Engagements in Siege, South
City and Tanforan Call for
Transportation Allowance
Labor Council Will Prepare
Question for Submission to
Political Candidates

Sl5tt szErEs At the last meeting
EIs4DEs gsas42e) gss2c l)cogscI1 of the board of di-
SeEFFzNcIss rectors of the
musicians union,
local No. 6, it was announced that
there would be a meeting of the COM
nlttee on price list revision to consider
proposition to revise the section of
the rules that applies to cent dances.
Notice was given that in future en-
gasements to play in Siege, Contra
costa county, and South City and Tan
roran, San Mateo county, were to be
governed by the rates charged in San
FRANCISCO, with transportation added.
Members Of the local who have not
yet been engaged or do not express
Willingness TO play on Labor day will
be considered ineligible for engage
ment after next Wednesday.
Since the previous meeting of the
ooard 5. L. Heilbron Of this city, Mrs.
NJ 4. Wilson and C. T, Williams of
bakersfield, M. o. Gutierrez of Tacoma,
A NJ. Mathews of Tonopah, Mrs. K
Murphy of Fresno, and z. Arriola and
Z. j. Murphy of Bakersfield have been
admitted to membership. O. Mans
Held and Joseph Goetze were reinstated
and {. Burger resigned from the local.
The union at its last meeting
amendment relative to regulation uni
forms J. F. Fitzgerald was elected a
director, vice John Winzel. resigned.
The anti-injunction committee of the
San Francisco labor council has de-
cided to recommend to the 10 unions
affiliated with the council to give as
much as possible to the fund that is
being raised to fight injunctions and
to suggest that in addition individual
members contribute to the same fund.
The special committee of the San
Francisco labor council will meet this
afternoon in the labor temple to decide
upon the line of action to be followed
IN interviewing candidates for office
as to the position they occupy regard
ing wage earners and to frame the va
rious questions to be asked each one
interviewed.
Woman's auxiliary No. IS to typo-
graphical union No. q will, at it's
meeting to be held in the residence of
Mrs. l. A Bickell, Oakland, tomorrow
afternoon, consider an offer from the
board of directors of the San Fran
cisco labor temple to occupy one of the
halls in the temple as a permanent
meeting place.
George S Hollis, ]. ]. Chaudet L.
Nicholson, W. L. Slocum, P. ]. Cotter,
Louis Bickell and E. Sullivan have com
pleted arrangements for the printers
picnic at Fairfax park September g.
good program of athletic events will
be presented in addition to tug of
war and there is to be a good order
Of dances.
f14 oil 1~et.
fed the parade committee of the San
Francisco labor council that it will pa
rade on Labor day and will do all it
can to help make the event a success.
1t had been reported that in conse-
quence of grievance it has against
Livernash as orator of the day it would
not parade.
There is to be a meeting this after
noon in Van Ness hall under the aus
plces Of the Anti-Japanese laundry
league for the purpose of enlisting the
proprietors of the local French Iaun-
dries to assist in the campaign against
the. japanese laundries. Prominent
speakers will address the meeting.
George W. Bell, secretary of the state
federation Of labor, has been appointed
to act as Secretary of the San Fran
cisco labor council, during the tempo
rary absence of Secretary Gallagher.
He will enter upon his duties on Mon
day, September 81.
Harry Barnet of the plumbers union
has been selected as the marshal of
that organization for the Labor day
parade. He will name six aids to
assist him in marshaling the 500 men
who are to turn out behind the plumb
ers' banner.
George Dunbar has been elected
marshal for the Labor day parade for
the longshore lumbermen's protective
association. Edward Snyder was ap
pointed to represent the association in
the building trades athletic association.
question of jurisdiction between
the housesmiths and the sheet metal
workers is to be thrashed out before
the Jurisdiction committee of the build
ing trades council at 1 o'clock this
afternoon in the building trades tenn
pie
Tailors' union No. at its last meet
ing decided to have picnic for its
members at BRUSHES park in the Mis-
sion road Sunday, October 4.
Sarah Hagan, a member of the gar
ment workers union of this city. fill
ing the position of Office clerk and
stenographer for the San Francisco
labor council, left for Milwaukee, wis.
Friday She will represent the local
union in the annual convention of the
united garment workers of America in
that city next Monday. Miss Nav
Wheeler Of the telephone operators will
fill her position during Miss Hagan's
absence.
A letter from the united mine work
ers of Americas secretary, received by
Secretary Gallagher of the labor coun-
ell yesterday, says that persons inter-
ested in mines in Alabama, in which
union men are on strike, are sending to
all industrial centers offers for men to
work in the mintes. The writer re-
quests the council to use its influence
to warn men about going to the Ala
bama mines.