The San Francisco call., 1910-04-28
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uEoyEErS President D. j.
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AEEABclz ternational brother
hood of teamsters will address team
sters' union No. SO this evening. Some
years ago this influential local severed
its connection with the international
owing to the misconduct of former in
ternational officers. Under the guild
ance of President Tobin the objection
able features against which No. IS re-
belled have been eliminated and the
international is now in competent
hands and governed on strictly trade
union lines.
Tobin has had the satisfaction of
seeing this organization grow under
his management, and many of the
unions which could not stand for Shea
ism have returned to the fold of the
international. There is every reason
to believe that Tobin's mission to this
city Will be successful and that No. S5
once more will become allied with the
international
In speaking of labor conditions
throughout the east Tobin said that
the movement was growing fast, and
that organized labor in eastern centers
was ever trying to emulate San Fran
cisco.
Tobin is not optimistic in regard to
the formation of national labor party,
and quotes Samuel Gompers as averse
to such a movement.
The building trades council of Oak
land voted at its last meeting to ad-
wise its membership to exclude the Ex-
aminer from their homes on account
Of its wanton Misrepresentation and
gross cartooning Of the San Francisco
labor administration.
committee from the boot and shoe
workers union solicited financial aid in
It's present controversy with a local
firm.
1t was stated that there had been
a conference between the building
trades, teamsters. lumber handlers and
clerks union and employers looking
to a settlement of the controversy over
wages Another joint conference Will
be held next week.
At the last meeting of millmen's
union. No. 422. the resolutions passed
by carpenters union. No. %, denouncing
the Examiner for its outrageous mis-
representations Of the labor admins
tration OF this city were irdorsed, and
the paper was tabooed from the homes
of the unions members.
delegate from the local painters
union stated at the last meeting of the
Vallejo trades and labor council that
100 members of his union who had
been working on Mare island had been
displaced by sailors and prisoners. "At
present" he said, only IL union paint
ers are working in the yard.
The delegate from the steam filters
union reported that a special meeting
Of all steam filters in the bay coun-
ties would be called in San Francisco
next Sunday at the labor council to
consider the intention of the Union
iron works to return to a nine hour
day.
II. l. Freudenberg was chosen a
Leo Cavanagh was elected to the ex-
ecutive board.
John l. Nolan, secretary of the
molders' union, was expected at the
meeting of that organization Tuesday
night. but instead there was received
a telegram from him announcing that
he would not leave Cincinnati where
he attended a session Of the executive
council of the international union, until
next week
A report from the secretary treas
urer of the international was received.
It showed that during the last three
months $4,000 was paid in benefits to
the sick.
Financial Secretary Dillon reported
that he had visited the Samson iron
works in Stockton. where there had
been a strike for more than 10 days
and as there was no prospect of a
settlement, he, by order of the iron
trades council. ordered the molders out
OF the works.
Two candidates were obligated and
one honorary card granted.
An effort will be made by the friends
of organized labor at the Forthcoming g
constitutional convention of Arizona to
have a clause against the indiscrim-
mate use of the writ of injunction in
serted in the organic law. Another
measure which will be strongly in
dorsed by organized labor will be an
eight hour day for employees on state
work.
Stationery hremens union No Sc OF
San Francisco is the fourth in the list
Of membership in the international, only
New York, Chicago and Boston leading
No. SO.
Joseph G. Armstrong, director of the
department of public works in Pitts
burg, Pa, when questioned a short time
go as TO the employment of union men
in his department, replied.
From now on ] shall employ none
but union men in the department OF
public works. and 1 will get them in
by hook or crook. civil service or nc
civil service"
When the director desires man for the
public works department in Pittsburg he
must apply to the civil service commits
sion for a certified application. The
commission furnishes him with the
names of the first three on the list ot
those who have passed the examination
The director may then select any OF
the three.
When the commission furnishes me
with the list" added the director, "the