The San Francisco call., 1910-07-14
Edited by o. M. BOYLE

@N1p1 United laborers OF
slss26 296esls.:sssIs9ss9I7 San Francisco, at the
zzEsS meeting Tuesday
night voted to take $4,000 worth OF
Geary street bonds. A donation of $50
was made to the striking miners of
Illinois, The treasurer was instructed
to draw $20 as the locals monthly con-
tribution to aid the organizing of the
unskilled labor of the state The tally
one instance of a tie vote for business
agent. One of the candidates served
notice that he would take an appeal to
the building trades council. The local
by resolution indorsed the candidacy of
William H. Bemiss for clerk of the
supreme court. Andrew Furuseth will
leave tomorrow for Liverpool to be the
prlnclpal speaker at a mass meeting of
seamen. He will remain in England
about week as the guest of j. Have
lock wilson, president of the British
national seamen's union. He will then
hasten to Copenhagen to be present at
the international transport workers
convention. which will convene August
20. At this meeting there will be rep
resentatives from the various organi-
cations of transport workers by sea
The purpose of the meeting will be to
assist each other Especially is the
purpose to endeavor to come to an
agreement upon legislative program.
The following changes in the maritime
laws will be advocated:
l.. Abolish an Imprisonment for leaving a ves-
sci in any safe harbor.
2. Abolish all imprisonment for refusing to
obey commando while lying in safe harbor. sub
stitnting therefor the payment of such money as
to do the work refused.
8. Abolish all continuous discharge certificates,
place certificate Of eficiency. to be kept by the
seaman himself.
either directly or indirectly.
3. Abolish all allotment of wages, except to
near and dependent relatives.
O. Adoption Of standard Of efficiency for
sailors providing for at least three years service
at sea on deck.
I. Adoption of standard of efficiency for
nremen, providing for at least six months sery-
Ice as trimmer.
8. Manning scale under which at least 75 per
be able seamen and understand sufficient of the
language of the officers to obey the command.
The mana ging committee of this con-
vention has selected Furuseth to pre-
sent to the gathering the situation
application and influence of interna
tional legislation upon the social and
legal position OF, the seamen."
Timothy Healy, international presi-
dent of the stationary firemen's union,
is expected to arrive in this city today.
Upon his arrival the local union will
be called together to give him welcome.
AT the last meeting of molders' union
No. 164 the resolutions of the Asiatic
exclusion league against legislators
who had violated their pledges at the
last session of the legislature were in
dorsed. The subject Of buying Geary
street bonds will be brought up at the
next meeting of the union. Two can
didates were obligated. The local paid
$175 as strike benefits to the Los An
geles metal workers.
The advices received at labor head
quarters yesterday from Los Angeles
were that the stu sion was improving
The manufacturers, It is said, have been
unable to get men to take the places
of the strikers in the metal trades and
several of the smaller shops will break
away in about a week A conference
view. The proposed ordinance against
picketing, it was predicted, would fail
of passage.
J. w. Bibby, organizer for the united
brotherhood of carpenters and joiners,
is IN STOCKTON IN cnarge or the night of
the carpenters for an increase in wages.
His latest report was that the men
were standing out for the increase and
would not return to work until the con-
tractors agreed to their terms.
Installation of officers took place at
the last meeting of mattresses union
Three of the retiring officers were pre-
sented with a money donation as a
token of their past services to the
local. An assessment of 25 cents was
leviede upon the members, to be sent to
the Los Angeles strikers. The treasurer