Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-18

Semble IN their new quarters oh 4NOlt III
Main street.
After the regular meeting tomorrow
night the BARRIERS union will open the
doors to the general public, and an open
meeting will be held to which non
union BARRIERS especially are invited. or
late this union has been particularly
unfortunate in having a number of its
members drawing sick benefits and
large amount has been paid out for
their support The wants of one man
who has been suffering from paralysis
for two years are being looked after
by the organization. although the laws
provide for benefits for sixteen weeks
only
Since the opening of the new halls on
the third floor and the consequent mi
grafton from the basement of the
Labor temple, greater interest is
at the different meetings is grow
ing steadily larger. The basement
meeting rooms used for so long because
of lack of room had a depressing effect
upon the membership, resulting in a
falling off in attendance. Now that
more cheerful quarters are at hand this
trouble will be obviated. The Labor
Temple association is pushing the work
of completing the halls and it will not
be long before the structure Will be 40
blaze of light from the first to the
seventh story. Many organizations and
social clubs which heretofore met else
where are now endeavoring to get space
in the building, more applications being
received than can be accommodated.
The theater is now receiving attention
from the workmen.
Next Thursday there will be a mass
meeting of the building trades in the
social hall, to which all building me
chanics union and non-union, are in
vited. Victor Kingsbury is chairman
of a committee which has been at work
on this meeting for some time and has
arranged an attractive program, in
which vocal and instrumental music
will be feature. Postmaster Flint has
been invited to be present and address
the gathering and has signified his will
ingness to do so. Others who will add
to the success of the occasion and speak
on labor conditions are Stanley B. Will
son and Jack Woods. big crowd
doubtless will be present when the
doors of social hall are thrown open to
the building mechanics and their
friends.
Arrangements have been completed
for the celebration to be given by the
Central Labor council at Chutes park
May %. On that day organized labor
the workshop and proceed, with wives
and families, to enjoy an outing. Many
special features of interest have been
added for the day, and in some of these
members of the different unions will
take part. The council has secured
the consent of Walter Macarthur, ed
itor of the Coast Seaman's Journal of
San Francisco, to be present and adj
dress the gathering on the subject of
1.-THE Labor Movement as a Social
Force" Mr.. Macarthur is one of the
most eloquent and convincing speakers
on the western coast and close stu
dent of social and economic conditions.
Typographical union No. ia has suf-
fered the loss of its oldest member, L.
T. Fisher having passed away Wednes-
day at the Clara Barton hospital. For
many years Mr.. Fisher was employed
on the newspapers in this city and was
the founder of the Santa Monica Out
look. A few weeks ago Mr.. Fisher was
taken dangerously i'll and was removed
to the hospital, where he succumbed
on his seventy-eighth birthday. The
funeral was in charge of the Typo
graphical union and the decedent was
buried in the printers plot in Rose
dale.
In an effort to solve the labor prob
lem the National Employment bureau
was incorporated in New York last
month The project is backed by sew
eral wealthy men who are interested in
obtaining work for needy applicants
and are opposed to the present-day en-
ployment agencies. There is to be no
fee exacted from the workman nor the
employer until after his wants have
been supplied, and the movement is
purely a philanthropic one. Bureaus
will shortly be established in Chicago,
Pittsburg Cleveland, Cincinnati and
other western cities.
In accordance with instructions con-
tanned in a bill passed by the Califor-
MIA legislature the state bureau OF Ia
Dor statistics has begun gathering data
regarding the employment of Japanese
in the state This is for the purpose of
discovering to what extent the Japan
ese have encroached upon the white
laborers, the relative wages and con-
ditions under which they live. Every
employer in the state will be furnished
with a blank on which he will be COM
PEELED to give list of those in his en-
ploy, nature of the work done, whether
or not under contract, wages paid with
and without board, and all information
which will tend to enlighten the citi-
zens regarding the employment of the
brown men. 1t is also desired to as
certain the relations existing between
the white and Japanese employees and
the opinion of the employers as to the
relative efficiency of the two races. The
work will occupy several months in
compilation, $4,000 having been appro-
priated for this purpose.
Plasterers' union has appropriated
$225 for the purchase of motorcycle
to be used by its business agent, Frank
Evans, in attending to the work of his
position. The large territory covered
by this organization, including foothill
and beach towns, made it Imperative
that something be done to expedite the
work Of the agent.
Max Morris, secretary treasurer of
the Retail Clerks International Protec-
tive union and fourth vice president of
the American Federation of Labor will
attend the convention of the Interna-
tional Federation of Employees at Ge-
neva, Switzerland, in August. This will
mark the first union of the clerks or
ganizations of the two continents, and
the countries of Europe. Mr.. Morris is
well known in this city.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, will
visit Europe this summer and investi-
gate the trade schools in operation
there reporting to the central bodies
on his return. Mr. Gompers realizes
the Importance of this question and
will make it the subject of an edifress
before the American Federation OK La
Dor at its next convention.
Secretary Butler of the Central Labor
council has issued a call for delegates
from all unions to meet June z at the