The San Francisco call., 1910-01-06
MASTER PAINTERS
MEET TO CONFER
State Convention of Employers
Opens Today in Oakland
for Annual Session
Organized Labor Throughout
World Has Membership
TotaIing 100000

The master painters and decorators
association OF California will meet in
annual session in Oakland today and
viii hold meetings Friday and Satur-
day. There will be a large delegation
from this city and representatives from
almost every county in the state.
A number of papers on various topics
relating 10 the craft viii be read and
discussed
convention will be the guests of the
Alameda county local, which has pre-
pared a program of entertainment The
officers Of the association are: w. II.
Herman. president; o. w. Wendt, vice
president; w. T. Beck, secretary; H
Kern. treasurer. It is said that there
will be & contest this year for every
office, particularly for that of presi-
dent
Statistics for 1903 show that there
are at this time 100000 members of
labor unions in good standing in the
world. being an increase OF 100000
over the preceding year. OF this num-
Der, there are in the United States and
diction, in round numbers 2.3oo,ooo
members; Germany has 2,215,00O, and
Great Britain 1.sSS.oOo
The upholsterers' union. last Tues
day night, installed its officers for the
current term, Past President Louis
Harris officiating. This was followed
by a program OF vaudeville entertain
ment and congratulatory addresses by
B. B. Rosenthal and L. Harris. There
were several exhibitions of boxing by
members of the Buffalo athletic club.
Local No. Is4 OF the international
molders' union will celebrate the
twenty sixth anniversary of it's insti-
tuition by a ball in Germania hall, Oak
land. Saturday, January Is
The sugar workers union will give
its seventh annual ball in Brewery
Workers hall Saturday evening, Janu-
ary 2s.
Those in England engaged in the
printing and allied trades have started
a campaign for an eight hour day or
As hours a week as working time. IT
is proposed to reach this by a graduated
reduction OF time in the several trades,
at stated periods, during 4 prescribed
limit, until the hours asked for shall
have been obtained.
The various subordinates of the in
teTnationaI association of printing
pressmen and assistants have under
consideration proposition to con-
tribute annually one days pay TO a
fund TO be used for the construction
and maintenance OF a tuberculosis es-
tablishment for the members of the
craft.
The biennial convention of the inter-
national union Of brick layers and ma
he hH1 in he
current month.
The Alabama state federation of
labor has declared in favor of a ma
tionaI sanatorium for the treatment of
tuberculosis
In the order Of rank as to member.
ship the leading labor organizations
OF the country are: Miners, carpenters,
painters and garment workers.
The library of the Union Printers
home, Colorado Springs, is the largest
and best owned by any labor organiza-
ton in the United States.
There is to be a strong effort on the
part of the American federation of
labor 70 have congress separate the de-
partTnent Of labor and commerce and
have cabinet officer for labor and one
for commerce.
During the last year ST International
labor organizations paid an aggregate
Of death benefits amounting TO
s1,1s7.o4S.
International President NJ E LIGHT
Of this city, head of the retail clerks, is
advised by the local in Sacramento that
the conditions in that city are better
for the clerks than in almost any other
city in the United States. The hours
are shorter, wages more liberal, and
the large stores do not require the
clerks to work Saturday nights.
G. S Brewer will represent carpen-
ters' union No. 1,640 and John J. Nor
ris the material teamsters' union in
the ninth annual convention of the
state building trades council, that is to
meet in Monterey this month.
The officers Of marble workers union,
No. 44. were installed in the building
trades temple Tuesday night by Past
President J. F. McAleer.
The union appointed committee to
prepare for q smoker and high jinks,
and voted 10 do all it can to help the
Panama canal exposition in San Fran
cisco. It declared in favor of Hetch
Hetchy and opposed TO the Spring Val
ley proposition.
The rammer mems union at fits meet
ing in the Labor temple Tuesday night
elected officers for the ensuing term
as follows: 2. ]. Moran, president: j.
H. Crowley and Timothy Gill, vice pres
idents; C. NJ. Gillon, secretary (re-
elected; P. J. OShea. treasurer;
Thomas Thompson. conductor: william
Gordon, guard; Philip Murphy dele
gate 70 labor council.
The felt and composition roofers az
their meeting Tuesday night voted in
favor of the Hetch Aetclly water propo-
sition and against Spring Valley. The
union will not commence work until 10
o'clock. January, IA, so that members
may 90 TO the polls TO vote.
The officers of millmen's union, No.
423. were installed Tuesday night in the
building trades temple by retiring
President William Seagrave.