The San Francisco call., 1910-03-01
UNION PRINTERS
MAKE NOMINATIONS
Ind0rse Texan for President and
George A. Tracy for First
Vice President

AoI oliceIS ol the lnteTIdlIOHdl DOuy
last Sunday:
For president. William NJ. Reilly of Texas;
! first vice president George A. Tracy. San Fran
cisco secretary treasurer Robert c. Albrook,
Denver Colo: agent union printers home, Ed
win a Kitchens, Cincinnati; delegates to the
| American federation of labor, Samuel de Nedry,
Mo-: Frank Morrison, Chicago; Max $. Hayes,
| liam N. Daniel. NsshyiIle: Michael Powell. OF.
iowa; W. j. White. San Francisco.
The executive committee presented
an amendment to. the scale of prices
which requires an increase of 81 day
in all composing rooms that are not
up to the standard of state and
municipal laws governing sanitation in
workshops This will be made the
special order of business at the March
meeting
A communication from the allied
| printing trades council in which was
| proposed the abolishment of the joint
conference board and the creation of a
printing trades section of the A. F. of
L. was discussed at length and, by
unanimous vote, tabled.
The union indorsed the measures
/ now before congress that provide for
vacations for employees of the postoffice
department to amend the classif flea ton
law regarding promotions in the postal
service and the AZ hour week bill.
! Benjamin Schoenhoff was elected to
represent the union in the label sec
| tion of the la abor council.
The union declared against the pro-
posed increase of second class posta ge.
Forty light members were admitted
| on transfer, AZ took withdrawal cards,
eight candidates were initiated and
three applications were received.
1t was announced that two members
! had been admitted to the tuberculosis
/ sana torium at the union printers home.
The union received information yes
! terday that the increased mortuary
benefit plan had been defeated on refer
endum vote by 90I. The vote for was
1865 and against 1925.
The San Francisco labor council will
next Friday night be asked TO adopt
the following resolution:
Whereas The government order for the eX-
animation for foreman boiler maker and
foreman molder for the Mare island navy
yard. held at the Philadelphia navy yard. is
direct reflection the ability Of Cali
fornia mechanics, well unjust dis
elimination particularly barring them from
an opportunity. through excessive cost and
lack of time. 10 attend the meeting by the
examining board;
Resolved That the labor council earnestly
protests TO the secretaTyof the navy against
the unprecedented discrimination against the
mechanics of this coast and urges upon the
senators and representatives from California
10 use all means at the command 70 cause
the revocation Of the order for the eNami-
nation at Philadelphia. and TO ask for the
appointment of board To meet in me are
island navy yard to examine applicants Tor
the posts at the navy yard.
1t is said that the new order was to
satisfy the spite of Naval Constructor
Evans, who was complained of as un-
fair to organized labor while a Mare
island and who was recently trans
ferred to an eastern yard.
For number of years there has
been "a controversy between the team
sters firemen and brewery workers
over jurisdictional rights and the mat
ter has been threshed out in locals,
central bodies and in the American
federal tion of labor. AT the last ses
sion of the American federation of la
Dor in Toronto the committee that, had
the case under Investigation presented
q report that was unanimously adopted.
In this the committee says that the
united brewery workers have ignored
the decisions Of the American fedora
tion of labor in refusing to comply with
them and have not only refused to rec
ognize the mandates of the several
conventions, but have openly for the
last three years gone along disrupting
stationary firemeu, especially in st.
Paul where a local union organized
and chartered by the international
brotherhood of teamsters, engaged in
driving beer wagons, was forced to
give UP its charter and affiliate with
the brewery workers union or have
the members forfeit their positions
drivers because of the fact that the
united brewery workmen had threat
n n a hrPwpripS
the employers forced the members of
the team drivers union into the
ganization of united brewery workers
In the cities of Providence, Columbus
and Pittsburg the same condition has
existed, local unions of stationary fire.
men organized and chartered by the
international brotherhood of stationary
firemen were forced to become mem
bers of the united brewery workers
union by threats of the brewery work
men that unless they became members
OF that organization they would for
felt their positions; and in every in
stance where the members of the sta
tionary fremen and team drivers union
working in breweries or agencies of
breweries refused to become members
of the brewery workers union they
did lose their positions
THE report orders that these men
who have been so forced into the
brewery workers union be restored to
their former standing and that the
three organizations named cease all
hostilities for the period of one year
upon the following conditions: That all
employees now members of the three
organizations named continue their
membership in their respective unions
during the period of this truce. and
that when negotiating wage agree
ments the organizations now having
contracts with the employing brewers
shall have the right to negotiate new
agreements without interference of any
kind on the part of the officers or mems
bers of either organization named in
the report"
The international body of the gar
nent workers has informed the San
Francisco labor council by letter that
several cases of nonunion made goods
had been shipped from st. Louis to a
firm in this city and requesting the
council to use it's influence with the
firm to have the goods returned to the
shipping manufacturers. on the ground
that the goods do not bear the label.
Complaint has been made to the San
Francisco labor council that the bureau.
Of labor statistics is not enforcing the
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