Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-18

which is awaiting the arrival OF Mrs.
Thrasher from her home In Seattle.
The funeral will be in charge of the
Machinists' union.
Business Agent G. N. Hughes Is per-
fecting arrangements for an open
meeting and high links to be given by
the Machinists union next wednesday
night. Invitations have been issued to
ali machiniats in the city, both union
and nonunion, to attend, and prepara-
lions are being made to entertain
large crowd in the social hall that
night.
BARRIERS union No. 295 held an open
meeting in social hall Thursday night
which was attended by about 800 MEM
bers and their friends. The program,
which was a long and varied one, con-
sisted of songs, Rotations, instru-
mental music, speech by Arthur A.
Hay, organizer of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, and several four-round
bouts by local mitt artists Refresh
ments and cigars were served during
the evening, and several applications
for membership were received by the
business agent, G. M. Fielder. This
union is rapidly growing In numbers
and strength, having doubled its mem
bership in the last year.
w. e. Jones, who is high in the coun-
ellis of the Mine Workers of America,
and who has been In the city for sew
eral weeks, appearing before the yari-
Gus unions, will leave tomorrow for San
Diego to visit the unions of that city.
Workingmen generally are interested
in the effort Of the city council to In
duce the Los Angeles & Redondo rail-
way to reduce it's fare between Man
chester Heights and the business sec
ton of Los Angeles. The fare now is
Is cents.
When that section of the city was
opened up it presented an opportunity
for the man of moderate means to own
q home of his own, and many bought
lots there and built houses, expecting
ultimately that 1t would be taken into
the city, as the indications seemed to
point to the city expanding in that
direction. Now that the shoestring
strip has been annexed and become part
of Los Angeles without police or fire
protection or electric lights, 1t is but
natural they seek some of the accom-
modations of the city. Fifteen cents
is far too much for the laboring man
or clerk to pay out of his meager salary,
and societies of worlxingmen are being
formed to seek redress for this condi-
tion.
An echo of the recent telegraphers'
strike is heard in the report which
comes from the headquarters or the
Western Union in New York When the
strike occurred and was practically lost
many of the best operators took up 9TH
err pursuits rather than return to the
service of the company at the meager
wage offered. Now an order has been
issued by the Western Union that the
pay of operators on the western coast
be increased Is per cent for first class
hot so In rieq xRX
month, and the others will be increased
proportionately.
Officials of the company frankly state
that this step is taken to obtain the
services of competent operators, ana
that since the strike the service on the
coast has been unsatisfactory both to
the company and the public. To induce
the return of the competent operators
who went out on strike 1t has been
found necessary to advance the sal
aries.
DR.. John B. Andrews of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin is authority for the
statement that the campaign for an
eight -hour day by the Women's Trade
league of this country is an old issue
recently revived. DR.. Andrews says the
movement started during a strike OF
factory girls in Lowell, Mass, In 1884.
After several years of agitation ten
hour law for women was passed by
the legislature of New Hampshire in
1S47.
In support of this DR.. Andrews has
produced evidence that the tailoresses
in New York had a union in 1925, which
was the first organization OF woman
workers in this country of which there
is any record.
III. S. McManus, business agent of the
Plumbers union No. IS, and recently
appointed marshal of the trades and
labor union division of the Elks parade,
has notified Motley H. Flint that the
plumbers will be represented by float,
accompanied by 250 men in uniform, in
the midsummer floral and allegorical
festival to be held in July. Many of
the organizations are now casting
about for appropriate designs with
which to appear, and altogether this
division promises to be most imppr-
tant part of the festival.
Reports from the north indicate that
many more Japanese are leaving the
country than are coming into 1t at
present. The reason for this is that
many of the cities are following the
example set by Stockton and Sacra-
mento, in which places the brown man
is being relieved of his duties in GER
tain capacities and white men substi-
tuted Should this plan be followed out
it would be but short time until the
vexed Japanese question would solve
itself.
Carpenters union No. 1853 is arrang-
ing for an evening of sociability and
general good fellowship at it's opening
meeting next Tuesday night, when the
members will entertain their friends
in social hall at the Labor temple. Be-
sides several good vaudeville stunts
there will be vocal and instrumental
music, buck and wing dancing and adj
dresses by HI. l.. Clotworthy, Stanley
B. Wilson and Dick Ferris. The ar
rangement committee has everything
we'll in hand and a general good time
is expected by those who have in the
past partaken of the carpenters hos
pitality. To this meeting the public is
invited.
Cigarmakers' union has decided to !
take a booth at the coming bazaar of
it will advertise homemade goods,
having display of all cigars manufac-
tured in this city. The cigarmakers
are persistent and consistent boost
ers for home products and will preach
the gospel of boost Los Angeles dur
ing the four nights of the display.
Circulars have been received here
in the last few days from the Mon
tana State Federation of Labor.
calling attention to the fact that the
larger cities of the country are being
flooded with advertisements to the eff
feet that Montana is the Mecca of all
tradesmen and laborers, and stating
that work is plentiful and wages
high. These statements are branded
as false by the circular which states
that fhara are idle man i'm all branches |