The San Francisco call., 1910-01-30
MUSICIANS union
TO AID EXPOSITION
Committee Appointed to Fur
ther Plans for Panama
Pacific Enterprise
Retail Clerks Are Gaining Sup
port From Labor Organiza-
tiOns in the State

hOnCOVleTl, III. y. stewart, ". SctO, ~
Greenbaum and himself a committee to
represent the local in aiding the gen
eral committee that is promoting the
Panama international exposition to be
held in this city in 1915.
Members of the local were granted
permission to volunteer for a benefit
to be given under the auspices of the
Spanish war veterans for the relief
of the widow and orphans of the late
Captain J. ]. Foley, who was a veteran
of the war with Spain.
The local will be represented in the
Alameda labor council by ]. H. Gray,
vice w. H. Ramsey, resigned.
The board of directors of the local
has reinstated R. H. Basset, r. D. Bar
ton, r. A. Gott w. A. Keyt and j. II.
Rogers, who had been suspended for
nonpayment of dues. l.. G. Caufield,
NJ NJ Moore and W. j. Starp were ad-
mitted to membership on transfer and
the resignation of E. r. Gottwald was
accepted.
The Oakland branch of the union
will hold a meeting February 3 for
the election of officers.
President NJ. E. LIGHT of the inter-
national association of retail clerks
returned from San Luis Obispo last
Friday. where he spent several days
organizing a union of retail clerks with
a charter list of 45 members.
President Eicht has received the as
surance from a large number of the
county building trades councils of the
state that they will support the clerks
in their fight for union conditions by
refusing to patronize stores in which
the clerks do not carry union cards.
The officers of the council will en-
nounce to the affiliated unions that it is
desired that this policy shall be car
ried out.
The walters unions headquarters
and meeting place will be transferred
from Larkin hall to 81 Turk street to-
morrow. The new headquarters will
be kept open every night until IL
o'clock. At the last meeting of the
union it was decided that all members
who are delinquent for dues for Decem-
Der and January and do not pay up by
February will be suspended.
The management of the Argonaut
hotel, against which a boycott has
been asked by the cooks and cooks
helpers union. has written a letter to
the San Francisco labor council decIar-
Aii5 that every tnln6 mas Deen QOne 10
conduct the kitchen of rhe hotel on
union lines and asking for a confer
ence with a view to adjust any diff
Guilty that may exist.
The book binders union has notified
the labor council that while nearly all
the postal cards on the market are
made in Germany. there is one Iitho-
graphic establishment in this city that
unions affiliated with the council ask
its members to patronize home indus
try.
The San Francisco Typographical
union No. 81 will hold its regular meet
ing in the San Francisco labor temple
this afternoon, when the proposed
mortuary benefit law, which is to be
voted on February 10, will be discussed.
This union now has 20 of it's members
on the pension list
Branch of the amalgamated society
of carpenters and joiners at its la ast
meeting made arrangements for a So
cial evening, to be given during the
early part of the month of February
One member was admitted on transfer
card and two elected candidates were
initiated.
San Francisco lodge No. 6S, interna-
tional association of machinists has
requested the labor council to notify
the affiliated unions that the report
that the California saw works is "all
right" from the union standpoint is not
correct, asihe management is still un-
fair to the machinists.
The various unions belonging to
county building trades councils of the
Cfnf or0 n ha fa1
building trades council to affiliate with
the central labor council of the county
This order will go forth during the first
days of February.
The direct legislation league has ad-
vised the San Francisco labor council
that the evening of March j. H.
White. the well known advocate of di-
rect legislation, will address the coun-
ell on that subject.
The journeymen horse shoers' union
at its last meeting voted to donate
$3.50 a month for six months to the
fund that is being raised for the or
ganization of the migratory labor of
the state.
After having been in existence for
more than IL years local No. of the
international association of iron shin
builders. boiler makers and helpers of
America, located in Boston, has decided
to disband and permit the members to
act as individuals in the matter of de-
posting their cards with the interna-
tional body.
The district council of painters made
the following nominations Wednesday
night:
For president, V. Kress; vice presi-
dent, T. Meagher. L. r. Mackree and t.
Moran; for secretary, Edward Fuller
and w. L. Reed financial secretary,
William Burchell; trustees, William Pc
terson and F'ranA Hamilton: warden,
]. Force; business agent, William Wolf
incumbent) and II. Smith.
This union will give a banquet to it's
members next Saturday night
Electricians union No. heard a re-
port Wednesday evening from r. G.
Alexander of the work of the recent
session of the state building trades
council w. II. Urmy was installed as
treasurer and r. G. Alexander as vice
president. The union will vote next
Wednesday on proposed amendments
TO the bylaws.