The San Francisco call., 1909-12-11
CONTRACTORS sign
UP WITH UNIONS
Building Trades Win Their Fight
for Recognition in Santa
Clara County
City Authorities in Los Angeles
Investigate the Construction
of Public Buildings

The building trades council at Its
meeting Thursday night, received re-
port from the Santa Clara building
trades council to the effect that all of
the employing contractors in the
county have signed up with the unions
except two or three, and of these two
have promised to sign before the close
of the year, so that on January l there
will be but one contracting firm, Eng
strom & Co, building the state hospi-
tai at Agnew. and the normal school.
San Jose, that viii not have been
signed up. The communication states
further that the city authorities of Los
Angeles have ordered an investigation
into the construction Of public build
ings that Engstrom & Co. are putting
up in that city, upon a complaint that
contractors are not doing the work ac-
cording to specifications.
II. j. Stryker and Edward Mcclure.
representing the carpenters union of
Alameda county, made an appeal to the
council for financial assistance on be-
half of union laundry started in Oak
land The after was referred TO the
executive committee for investigation.
James French, J. Beahr and f. a.
Clancy were appointed a committee TO
investigate the union labor orphanage
in Alameda county, which the council
has been asked to assist in managing.
The gavel. awarded by the Labor
day committee TO the council in COM
memoratio of the joint observance of
Labor dayby the two local central labor
bodies was formally presented. and
was accepted by President Mccarthy
on behalf of the council. He declared
that he looked upon it as the symbol
of perfect and lasting harmony in all
the labor organizations of the city, not
only in the unions, but between en-.
ployers and employees
Walter F. O'ConnelL business agent,
was granted a leave of a bsence to at
tend the general executive board meet
ing OF the united association of Jour
neymen plumbers, gas and steam fit
ters. al a meeting in Chicago.
The council adopted resolution re-
questing the members of the affiliated
unions not TO purchase bread that does
not bear the label of the bakers and
cOnfectioners' union, showing that the
same is made under fair conditions.
The council sustained the appeal of
J. Bracegirdle from fine of $100. inn
posed on him by bridge and structural
iron workers union No 81.
On recommendation of the executive
board. the mosaic workers union will
be reinstated on payment of the per
capita tax, and working cards viii be
issued as soon as the organizing COM
mittee shall have reorganized the
members according to the law of the
building trades department of the
American federation OF labor.
Local No % of the international
brotherhood of felt and composition
roofers at its last meeting unanimously
indorsed municipal ownership of the
Hetch Hetchy water system and the
Geary street railroad, pledging it's
The union also indorsed the bakers and
confectioners label on union made
bread
The association voted to assess the
members 10 cents per capita to assist
I'm financing the campaign againt the
Asiatics throughout the United States,
and levied an assessment of 81 per
member to create a funeral benefit for
the beneficiaries of the late George
Fisher, an old time member.
complaint was received from the
millwrights' union against machinists'
lodge No. 6S to the effect that some of
its members are infrin ging on the work
Of the millwrights. The matter was re-
ferred to the machinists' union for in
vestigation and report.
The council was asked, by commu-
nication, for financial assistance for the
locked out stone cutters Of Bedford,
Ind. The appeal was referred to the
state building trades council
There was a formal presentation to
the union of the handsome gavel
awarded to it by the prize committee
Of the Labor day parade for having
turned out on Labor day more than rs
per cent of its membership.
The journeymen's stone cutters union
has levied an assessment of so cents
per day for an indefinite period on each
member to assist the members of the
craft who have been locked out in
Medford, Ind
The twenty third anniversary of the
organization of the brewers and malt
sters union of this city will be ceIe-
brated by a bali in Brewery Workers
han in Capp street tonight