The San Francisco call., 1909-12-09
RETAIL CLERKS IN
PROSPEROUS STATE
Membership Of Union Increasing
and the Finances in the
Best Of Shape
Various Labor Organizations
Make Nominations for OFF,
GERS for Coming Year

International President M. E. LIGHT
OF retail. clerks. resident of this city.
reports that letters received in the last
two weeks from different parts of the
national jurisdiction show that there
| has been great deal of activity In
all the subordinate unions and that
| membership and finances are increas-
| ing at a rate that has not been known
in the last five years In a short time
he will start on tour of visits to the
| subordinate locals in this state and
! Nevada, on which tour he will be
| joined by the international secretary.
At the conclusion of that tour he will
make round of visits to other states.
The retail shoe clerks at its last
meeting indorsed the Hetch Hetchy
water system bonds and those for the
acquirement of the Geary street road.
A committee was appointed to visit,
after the hrst of the new year, all
unions in the city and urge the mem
! bers ito get into the habit of asking
| the clerk in the store for his union
card, and IL he can not produce it, walk
| out, The union has organized the
| ..Shoosters' social club 1t will give
| It's first dance In Clerks hall on Fri
day, January IA.
| Following is list of those who want
! to serve millmen's union No. 423 as
| officers for the ensuing term, as they
| allowed their names to be placed IN
nomination at the meeting held last
| Tuesday:
For president Henry Kemnitzer. William Sea-
grave; vice president, Charles Eizalda; recording
retary j. q. Fallon, F. NJ. Pendergast; conductor
r. J. Carlisle; trustee, +. Heller; T. Farmer
council OF earpenters-Willism seagrave. c. Hell
bling, Z. Kerker o. W. Fredericksin. ]. Hurley,
oBrisn f. f nester @ delegate Ell to the
Organized Labor. T. oBrien.
Carpet mechanics association, local
No. l. has nominated the following
candidates for Office for the next term,
and to be voted for Tuesday, Decem-
| Der 21:
For president, 8. J. Gibson. Frank Backe Jr. !;
| vice president, F. Frank Ryan; recording sec
retary, ]. H. Paul; financial secretary. e.. H.
| Hardy; treasurer William Flynn, John Bar
| RIFLES; sergeant at arms, John Carey; trustees
W. S. Harrison H. Jacson; delegates to the
| building trades council-Ioseph Foley, George
1 Heissner and William Flynn delegate TO the
state building trades convention. J. Foley; dele
! gate TO Organized Labor, c. r. Smith; delegate
dell. dc tne e0-0p''''''e 'eA' e'''p~'S "
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| The marble cutters union. local No.
a. at its meeting Tuesday night placed
itself on record as favoring municipal
ownership of the Hetch Hetchy water
| system and the Geary street road. The
union has made the following nomina-
tions for officers to be elected for the
ensuing term: For president, Frank
T. McGlade: vice president. Louis Fou-
card; recording secretary, D. S. Looney;
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CAST; treasurer, Lee Lydon; warden,
Walter Hanback,; delegates to the
building trades council, F. T. McGlade.
James Francisco McLeer, D. s. Looney.
The street excavators', concrete and
asphalt workers union is to give a
smoker and jinks in Sheet Metal Work
ers' hall in Guerrero street in cele-
| bration OF the success of the labor
party in the recent election. At the
meeting of the union last Tuesday
night the president named the chair
men of committees that are to have
charge of this affair: Reception, P. j.
Leary; entertainment, Bryan Hickey;
smoke and refreshments. John McMa-
hon. Next Tuesday night the union
will hold called meeting for the pur-
! pose OF discussing many matters az
fecting its welfare.
|
officers for the ensuing term at the
meeting of January 8. At the session
of that body held last Thursday In the
labor temple the following named were
placed in nomination.: For president,
B. J. Moran; vice president, Timothy
| Gill; secretary, c. M. Gillon; treasurer.
p. J. O'Shea; conductor. Thomas Thomp-
son; guide, William Gordan. and dele
gate to labor council, Philip Murphy.
|
A. S. Howe has been elected and in
! stalled at president of the San Jose
typographical union for the current
term.
President D. d. Sullivan of the state
| federation of labor. a resident of Sac
ramento will attend meeting in this
! city December 19 for the purpose of
assisting in the organization of the
unskilled labor of the state
/ The retail bakery salesmen's union
of Oakland and the walters union of
Los Angeles have given notice to Sec
retary Paul Scharrenberg of the state
| federation of labor that each has voted
to join the federation.
.
At the next meeting of the feder-
ated trades council Of Sacramento an
effort will be made to amend the con-
stitution to the extent of making II
obligatory for every delegate to wear
union made hat.
| Firse Vice President ]. B. Bowen of
the state building trades and w. A.
Cole OF the united brotherhood of car
penters' international council are MAX
! ing a tour of the southern part of the
state in the interest of the building
trades.
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