The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
LAUNDRY WORKERS.
sign AGREEMENT
Few Minor Changes Are Made
in Terms That Have OBJ
tanned for Three Years
Edited by 3. M. RoYLE


xr1g 1gEg1R An agreement was
G5a6ss ssssGsssIs9gseI9 reached yesterday
sGEaAs6 and signed by the
steam laundry wsrkers' union and the
employers. The agreement is prac-
tically the same as that under which
the union has been operating for three
years-a As hour week. A few minor
changes are made The present com
pact expires June 1. Meetings have
been going on for week or two be-
tween the interested parties. and it viii
be welcome news to organized labor in
general that the laundry workers have
been granted all their demands.
There seems no indication at present
of settlement of the trouble in the
brewery industry in Los Angeles. Sec
retary Muri who was called from this
city a week ago. returned yesterday.
and reports all negotiations at an end.
International Secretary PrOebstle is i'm
Los Angeles and will remain until the
return of Muri. Many conferences We're
mad, and arbitration was proposed by
each side choosing three representatives
and they selecting a seventh member.
prletors made the proposition to leavN
the disputed matters to their own -
ecutive board, but this the men wouY
not countenance. In reference TO the
reinstatement of the men who are out.
the employers would only agree to en-
ploy them as they are needed.
1t is more than probable that the
difficulty between the firemen's union
and the Metropolitan light and power
company will be amicably settled.
president Kelly of the labor council
to settle the one remaining point in
dispute.
John o. Walsh raised his voice Friday
night against charging children any
admission to the picnic and literary
exercises to be given in Shell Mound
park on Labor day. He thought the
tots should be welcomed with a free
and generous hand.
The committee appointed to report
upon a site for the proposed new labor
temple reported to the council that i'm
a short time a recomme ndation would
be made.
| The labor council is In receipt of a
/ communication from the building COM
mittee of the Native Sons of the Golden
| West, in which it is stated that new
/ plans have been submitted to manu-
facturers for the proposed building and
that local firms will be given the pref
erence. The plans call for a s6J.OOO
structure.
a summoned meeting Of hackmen's
union No. 23S will be held Thursday
evening at the labor council tempie
After the routine business is transacted
light refreshments will be served.
| The Orchardists of the state of Wash
| ingtOn claim a shortage of at least
/ 5000 men to pick the crops now rfpen-
I ing. 1t is urged that a state la bor
bureau be organized in connection with
the present publicity bureau OF the
secretary of states Office to help rem
edy the matter.
The semiannuaI meeting Of the CaIi-p
fornia cooperative meat company will
/ be held today in the building trades
/ headquarters. Oakland. Officers will
\ be elected. From the financial state
ment issued it appears that the net
profit for the year is $4.9241S.
The Scottish Rite temple association
has decided to patronize home industry
in erecting it's building now in course
Of construction
A new union of retail grocery clerks
has been organized in San Jose by In
| ternatiOnaI President Max E. Licht
The local starts with 100 members.
Trouble is expected by the union
teamsters of Portland next WEDNESDAY.
and Vice President Peter Burke of the
international is now in that city The
men are asking for a slight increase
in pay.
The twenty-third annual outing and
| family reunion of the union printers
mutual aid society will be held in Fair
fax park Sunday, June 10.
The trouble with the Nugent wagon
| company and the carriage and wagon
workers union and laundry wagon
drivers union has been referred to tho
executive committee by the labor
council.
Tomorrow being a holiday the bar
bers union has decided to work until
noon.
] A delegate from the boot and shoe
workers union stated to the council
/ that the boycott was still being prose-
/ cuted against Calm, Nickelsburg & Co.
He also said that the initial mass meet
/ ing held in the Mission TO further hopla
| industry in the shoe business was -
4 unqualified saccess. Other meetinzy
/ will be held. The meeting was wen
/ attended and the manufacturers as well
as the employees showed an interest in
4 the movement
I The executive committee of the labor
council will not be in session Monday
night because of Memorial day.
The boycott is still being prosecuted
against the Mckenzie factory by the
broom makers union delegate from
that union reported to the labor couH-
/ ell that a new menace confronted the
members. Last week the first consign-
ment of 1000 brooms was received di-
/ rect from Japan. They are being dis
| tributed by a wholesale grocery, so
/ the delegate stated.