The San Francisco call., 1909-04-28
MATTRESSES UNION
WILL FINE MEMBERS
Those Who Leave Work With
out Notice to Employers
Must Pay $3.50
Cement Worker Barred From
Holding Office for Misrep-
resenting Facts
Complaint having


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mattresses union
that some of the members had left
their employers In a lurch, that is,
quit the job without notifying the
employer in advance. notice was given
at the meeting of the union Monday
night that in future the unions laws,
which impose a fine of $3.50 for such
action, will be strictly enforced. The
union received 15 applications for
membership and admitted 10 accepted
candidates by initiation.
The San Francisco labor council has
been notified that the central labor
body of Omaha, Neb., has asked the
sign Raymond Robbins, the well
known labor lecturer, to visit that
city to counteract the talk of persons
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the central bodies of San Francisco,
New York, Boston, Chicago and Den
yer in this matter.
L. B. Higgins, a member of the ce-
ment workers union. who was tried
by the building trades council on
charge of having. while an officer of
his union. located in this city, made
statements not in accordance with the
facts to the international convention
of the brotherhood of cement workers
of his union. was punished by being
precluded from holding any office for
five years.
The BARRIERS union, local No. 14S,
made donation to the fund for the
benefit OF the hatters of America on
strike, Monday night. Three eligibles
were admitted to. membership by ini-
tiation and five applications were re-
ferred to the committee on investiga-
ton.
The bar tenders union, local No. Al.
at its meeting Monday night indorsed
the movement in favor OF the unem-
ployed of this city: The number of
during the week, as only $2S was
paid for benefits. One candidate was
Initiated and six applications were pre-
sented. The local will have jinks
and smoker in its new quarters in
Market street near Eighth, Monday
night.
In reply to an assertion recently
made in the east that the movement
for an eight hour day for women was
of comparatively recent origin, DIR.
wisconsin says that the movement for
an eight hour day for women is an old
issue that has been revived, a move
ment in that direction having been
tory girls in Lowell. Mass. in 1884.
result of that agitation was the
passage of laws in factory states. linn
iting the work of women to 10 hours
a day. The doctor has produced evil
dence that the tailoresses We're the
first women to form union in this
country, having organized in New York
The craftsmen of the Los Angeles
building trades council are all to
contribute labor and material to build
modern bungalow that shall be dis
played as a float in the parade of the
Elks in July, to display the handt-
work of the mechanics affiliated with
the council. Somebody remarked to
one of the leaders of the council that
the Elks was not a labor organization
and it was a question why labor should
help that association make dis
play. The reply was. 1T will help
bring the labor movement before the
people and will show that it is not
selfish"
The woman's label league OF Los
Angeles has advised the label organ
izations of this city that it has made
label by giving grand label fair
in the label temple of that city dur
ing the current week. The managers
of the affair assert that they have
tiops but have not discovered that
they are doing much in the way of
bringing the union label prominently
before the public.
The building trades council of Los
Angeles has the secretary keep
register of persons who are, out of
work and he is instructed to keep a
list of those who are in need of crafts
men. Secretary Goodwin reports that
the applications for men have in the
past month averaged SO a week.
Union Sues Former Officers