The San Francisco call., 1909-02-07
LABOR COUNCIL MAY
PAY ITS PRESIDENT
Amendments Also Include Conn
pensation for Members
of Committees
Home Industry Carnival Week
in This City Being
Considered

dUMEns The labor council
f7k16f 1lusm.o2ss COUNCIL has appointed W.
~sNSSzacTE1 r. Heggerty, NJ. ].
Sullivan and the
secretary committee to confer with
the structural steel and ornamental
iron workers association in the matter
of arranging for home industry car
nival week in this city.
The council heard the first reading
! of three proposed amendments to the
councils laws. One Is that none but
delegates shall be eligible as officers of
the council and when a delegates term,
has expired or he has been withdrawn
| by his union all offices he may hold
shall expire with the ending of his
term as delegate to this council The
second provides that the president of
the council shall be paid $40 a month,
and the third that members serving on
| committees shall be paid for the time
they may lose while working for the
council.
The request of the musicians union
for the councils Endorsement of bill
before the legislature providing that
professors of music shall be certified
was referred to the law and legislative
committee
The tailors' union reported that it's
trouble with Steigler Brothers had been
amicably and satisfactorily settled. At
the request of the union the boycott
against the firm was lifted
At the meeting of musicians union
local No. to be held Thursday the
| following special matters will come up
! for consideration: Reports of the Off
GERS and the board of directors; report
of the special committee on proposed
! funeral laws; proposed constitutional
amendment to create the office of
steward for all regular engagements
| At the last meeting OF the directors
| of the union j. II. Bremen was REIN
stated to membership and w. G. Stell-
man of Cripple Creek and c. w. Knapp
of San Jose were admitted to member
| ship on transfer credentials.
| Carpenters union No. % will at its
meeting February % vote on the new
| bylaws proposed by the district council
| OF carpenters. The new laws are in
! tended to govern the trade in this city
for several years
Beer drivers union. local No. 227,
will give a ball in Brewery Workers
hall. IN Capp street, on Saturday. Feb
ruary 20.
The elevator conductors and starters
union had jinks in Sheet Metal Work
ers' hall last night under the direction
of ]. H. Maloney. L. s. Coates and M;
music, songs and boxing bouts and an
address by ]. H Maloney, chairman of
the evening. The members of the
| elevator constructors union were the
guests of the host union.
The milk wagon drivers union was
| informed by its special committee
| Wednesday night that all dairies Wis
tied since the previous meeting are
| Thoroughly unionized and that every
thing is satisfactory. The union initi-
ated two candidates for membership
received annllCatiOnS-
/ Golden Gate lodge. painters appren-
| ing Trades athletic association. The
lodge adopted new bylaws
The Sacramento Labor Temple asso-
citation has elected the following board
of directors for the current term: j. r.
Younger, e. ]. Heffner, F. ]. Bonetti.
| A. l.. Wulff, George Best, d. D. Sulli-
van, J. Blair and R. N. Chandler. An
effort was made to have Alfred Dalton
Jr., who had served as president since
tinue in the position, but he declined.
A committee was appointed to prepare
resolutions expressive of the associa-
tons thanks for the service he rem
Henner was chosen president for the
term.
The court of appeals of Georgia has
decided that a stenographer is a laborer
and entitled to have his salary exempt
ed from garnishment. The court held
that proficiency in stenography is the
reward of steady practice and expert
ence; that stenographer exercises no
discretion; that If his employer '.in-
dulges in the pastime Of numbering the
kings English, he must become a par
ticips criminis and join in the assassi-
nation No one who has gone through
the back breaking ordeal Of taking
shorthand notes will hesitate to range
1t in the category of hard physical
labor. A stenographer is entitled to a
laborer's wage. exemption
The grocery clerks union at its
meeting Thursday night decided to in
vite Secretary Gallagher of the San
francisco, labor council and John O
Walsh, chairman of the organizing
committee of that body, to address a
meeting February Is in Clerks build
) ing. At that time the union viii dis
of meeting from the first and third
Thursday nights to the first and third
Sunday afternoons of each month.
, Last Thursday night the local of the
} brotherhood of teamsters voted 500 tc
the fund being raised for the defense
of Gompers and others In the injunction
case now on appeal
The union discussed the right of way
. ordinance recently passed by the board
asked to comply with its provisions
The cooks union at its meetine
Thursday night unanimously Endorsed
, Stephen p. Drake, Its secretary ant
business agent, for the position Of
membership on the auditing committe,
, OF the international hotel employees
! union.
. J. D. Ripley, w. Borden, J. J. Warren
F. A. Monahan and j. A. Himmel hav,
been added to the executive committe,
of electrical workers union No. 49,
2 All the locals of the brotherhood O.
painters, decorators and paper hanger,
of America will be called upon durfns
the month of June to determine if ther,
shall be general assembly this wear
7 There has not been such an assembl,
e since 1905. This matter has beer
e brought to the attention of the locals
by the district council of painters o
Delaware which in its communicate,
gives many reasons why there shoult