The San Francisco call., 1909-01-09
IOBJECT TO CLOSING
CITY MACHINE SHOP
Labor Council Committee Viii
Make Protest to the
Supervisors
Superior Judges Will Be Asked
TO Make Change in Manner
of Drawing Jurors
At the meeting OF

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SSSzzSTss55/ labor council last
night a committee
composed Of President Sweeney, Sec
retary Gallagher. AIisner, Nolan, Sande-
man, J. A. Kelly, NJ Kelly, BOlan, ROs-
enthal, ReardOn. Post, Roche. Parker,
LIGHT and Decker will visit the board
of supervisors next Monday for the
purpose of protesting against the clos
ing of the municipal machine shop and
to prevent the joint board of f1re com
miSSioners and department OF cleo
trieity from having the fire alarm
boxes manufactured in the east.
Steve Costello, by letter, called the
attention of the council Ito the manner
of drawing trial jurors, and asked it
to appoint committee to wait upon
the superior judges and urge upon
them to select jurors other than from
the well to do and professional class.
Delegates Roche, Rosenthal and Presi-
dent Sweeney will serve on commit
tee that was Instructed to give this
matter immediate attention.
An invitation TO have the San Fran
cisco labor council send representa-
tive to act as a vice president at
mass meeting of socialists to be held
in Dreamland pavilion next Sunday
to protest against the sentence pro-
nounced on Gompers and others by
Judge Wright Of Washington. d. C.,
led to prOtracted discussion. The OBJ
lection raised was that the socialists
are a political party and that in the
I
is to be done at the meeting the cOun-
Gil should not give it's sanction to the
proposal.
Andrew Furuseth declared that the
socialists do not know anything about
injunctiOns. He expressed his belief
that from what he CLEANED in his talks
with socialists in Europe and the east
he believed that they are in favor OF
| injunctions. He said that he did not
object to any member of the council
going to the meeting as an individual.
but not as a representative of the
council.
Walter Macarthur. H. Elbing, E. H.
Misner and others also spoke on the
The motion to send a representative
was lost by a large majority.
\ The council decided to celebrate the
one hupdredth anniversary Of the birth
4 of Abraham Lincoln by a mass meet
/ ing, and to invite good speakers to
| mittee was authorized to make the
/ ARRANGEMENTS for the celebration.
| Delegate Nolan. legislative agent. an
I nOunced that a bill has been introduced
! In the Legislature to make the centen-
/ NAL legal holiday. The law and
legislative committee was directed to
prepare memorial to the Legislature
/ urging the passage OF the bill.
4 The council indOrsed a bill offered by
Delegate Rosenthal OF the upholsterers'
union, providing that all shoddy goods
/ shall be marked or stamped. A similar
bill was passed in 1908, but was vetoed
Iby Governor Pardee.
/ Credentials were received from the
machinists, laundry workers, railway
employees, bakers. walters photo en-
gravers, metal pOlishers. cigar makers
and cooks union and the delegates
/ The council for a long time discussed
a motion by Delegate Haggerty that
/ the council urge the Red Cross society
| to forward to the earthquake sufferers
\ In Italy the surplus or the money con-
tributed for the sufferers by the disas-
ter in this city. Walter Macarthur op-
posed the motion. He argued that
/ there was no need to send the money
there at this time, and if there was any
need for it the National Red Cross So
/ ciety will send it without being asked
or told to do so.
Action on the motion was deferred
for a week
]. ]. FreeI of New York city. inter-
national president Of the stereOtypers
and efectrOtypers' union of North
America, is in this city on official busi-
ness relative to wage scale for the
members of the local union. 1t is the
/ intention Of the president to visit all
the unions on the coast before he re-
turns to his home
The Sacramento building trades
council is confronted with a peculiar
condition of affairs in regard TO the
japanese. A strictly enforced rule OF
! the council requires that every part
\ OF building In course of construction
| must be the handiworlS OF members OF
an afHsated union That is to say.
l carpenter must not work on a building
\ in which clustering. electrical wiring
painting. etc, has been or is being
/ done by any one not member of a
union OF the craft he represents. IN
der that rule a member OF the plum
/ bers' union Is not permitted to put in
the work In house built wholly or in
part by Japanese. AS the JaDanese
4 can not secure white men to do the
plumbing they do the work themselves
4 and violate the law OF the city. which
/ declares that plumbing work shall be
done only by licensed plumbers. and
/ they are not licensed.
This matter Is to be presented to the
| plumbing inspector and the board OF
\ health OF that city by a committee
composed of representatives OF the
carpenters and the painters.
/ The following have been elected as
/ the officers of the bakers and cOnfec-
toners union for the ensuing term: E.
Shearer. president; r. Winter. vice
and corresponding secretary; f. Eisold,
treasurer; Paul Cfriderley, M. Willie. r.
Winter, Oscar Helbing. Ernst Selig-
man. z. Kahn. Richard Schwarting. W
board; Marcel White. business agent.
/ The following officers OF the retail
/ clerks union were installed Wednesday
I in Clerks building in Van Ness ave-
nue.; Bert Kahn, president; Max Men
delssohn and S. A. Fewster. vice presi-
dents: A L Post. financial secretary
/ and business agent: S. Mackay, treas
urer; A. Leavitt. guardian; j. j. Lor-
yea. sentinel; Bert Kahn. A. Nil1en. A.
/ Gil; George Millen. G. Bonn. 5. Mackay
s. A. Fewster. A. l.. Post and T.. Sulli-
van. delegates to the state council OF
retail clerks. The installation was fol-
lowed by a short business meeting and
I social hour