The San Francisco call., 1908-04-29
ANNUAL REPORT
OF CIGAR MAKERS
international Union Pays Out
Nearly sS,0OO,OOO in Twenty
eight Years

(zSzsIal gs2sla ssllasEsD the cigar makers.
/ SHS5TTclSt union has received
from the Office OF
international union at Chicago the an
nuaI report for 1907, also an account
OF the amount of benefits paid by the
cigar makers international union
since the payment of benefits was in
iaugurated, November, 1879. or period
of % years and two months up to the
date Of closing the report. The latter
| shows that during that period the
union loaned to members $1,092. 1895;
paid in strike benefits s1,15s,4S4.26;
in sick benefits S2,537,67 death and
total disability benefits s1,so7, 5000;
out OF work benefits Us years. S1,0S9,-
274.61; grand total of all benefits paid
in that time, $7,7S6,527.S7. The high
est paid per capita in any one year by
members to meet all benefits was
$15.74 lilo in 1884 and the lowest was
in 1881, $1.11 4-10.
| The total amount of BENEFITS paid
during the year 1907 was SAFE, ,279.5S.
The general fund increased during that
period $60.7s9.19. The International or
ganization now has 480 locals in the
United States.
| The BARRIERS union at its meeting
last Monday night by a large majority
defeated the proposed amendment to
|
fcers. An amendment that would au-
thorize the, opening of barber shops at
| Z o'clock in the morning was also de-
feated.
A report was made to the effect that
the proprietors of shops are all salts
fed with the o'clock opening. 1t was
decided that shops that violate this
rule will have their shop cards taken
from them and will be placed on the
lunfair list.
/ Two shops in the Latin quarter were
unionized by Business Agent Currier
last week. 1t was also reported that
the union is now out of debt and that
there is a snug sum in the treasury.
The committee that was appointed
to arrange for a meeting of the
branches Of the amalgamated carpen-
tiers and joiners to receive w. D. Huber,
international president of the brother
hood of cafpenters and joiners OF
America and Canada, decided to have
a meeting in the building trades
| temple tonight. In addition to an
address by the guest of the evening
there will be short talks by President
Mccarthy of the building trades coun-
Gil. James Kirby. president OF the re-
Gently organized building trades sec
ton of the American federation of
labor, and j. A Gray, organizer for
the state building trades.
Sheet metal workers union local No.
/ 279 has decided to abandon the propo-
sition to have a picnic this year and
instead have an excursion on the bay
May in order to give the members
an opportunity to see the fleet. This
local at its last meeting indorsed the
protest of the brewery workers against
the prohibition wave that Is now
sweeping over the country. The local
initiated two strangers elected to mem
bership and received three applications.
The mattresses union on last Monday
appointed Louise Larue, Cora Schade
and Maud Younger a committee to at
tend the next session of the repub-
lican convention at Sacramento to urge
that body to insert in it's platform a
plank favoring equal suffrage. The
union initiated four elected candidates
| and made donation to members of
the craft who were rendered destitute
by recent fire in Massachusetts,.
The anti-Japanese laundry league, in
session at 4S3 Guerrero street, elected
! the following officers for the current
/ term: 7. r. Angove, president; j. Gra-
ham. vice president; Robert Sulsberg,
secretary, and j. Corey, treasurer The
league is preparing an appeal to be
| sent to the people on the subject of
patronizing white instead of Asiatic
| laundries.
| Branch No. of the amalgamated
| carpenters and joiners met on the night
of last Monday for the first time in
| the building trades temple and was the
| first labor organization to meet In that
building. After the transaction of rou-
tine business and the reception of ap-
plications for membership there was
social hour with Scotch songs and reci-
/ tations.
| Bar tenders union local No Al voted
5000 last Monday night for the relief
OF the members of the craft who were
rendered destitute by the great fire In
Chelsea a short time since. This was
In response to an appeal from the in
ternatfonal body. The local paid s53
| in sick benefits received four applica-
tions and obligated two elected candi-
! dates.
| The barber shop and bathhouse por-
/ ters have asked the manager of the
! Sutro baths to arbitrate certain differ
| ences said to exist at that place be-
| tween employees and employers The
| matter is now before the labor coun-
ell and If there is no arbitration the
| ~onnrf1 will fake other sfanc witt,