The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13
COMPLAINTS MADE
TO LABOR COUNCIL
Delegates Report Firms They
Consider InimicaI TO Princi=
pies of the Unions
Secretary Gallagher Advises the
Members TO Make Inquiries
Before Placing Charges

Francisco labor council Friday night
that he had secured the arrest and
conviction in the police court of L. E
Cummings for using the label Of the
allied printing trades without authority
10 do so, and for fraudulently using the
number that belongs 10 a fair shop.
Delegate stephens of the coopers re-
ported business dull and said that ow-
ing TO the Introduction recently Of
improved machinery in cooper shops
many Of the members Of his union are
now walking the streets. He asked
the council to use its influence 40 have
q. boss cooper act fairly with the mem
bers Of the union, complaining that
while he was apparently fair to the
men he seemed inclined to carry out
the open shop idea. The delegate was
requested to confer with the secretary
Of the council in relation TO tris matter
The delegate from the steam shovel
men warned members of unions against
Erickson & Peterson of Auburn, who
until recently were living up TO union
rules but have changed. They for
merly paid the men, lie said, by the
month and boarded them. but now pay
them by the day and make them pay
for their board.
Delegate Fitzgerald Of the laundry
wagon drivers and representing the
Anti-Japanese laundry league reported
the stand of the management of the
Emporium as 10 the employment of
Japanese in the cloak department and
the threat TO put the orienrals in other
departments. The delegates were re-
quested TO report This matter back to
their unions.
The delegate from the retail delivery
drivers reported that a firm in Haight
street which is patronized by many
workingmen has refused to employ a
union driver. but is employing a boy
a. IS a month. He asked tEa- the mat
ter be looked into by the council He
also reported that shoe firm of this
city was hiring a nonUnion express
company 10 deliver its parcels 10 Gus
toners and asked for strong action in
the premises.
Secretary Gallagher said that the
proprietor OF this particular store had
been very good friend Of the unions
that the matter had becn taken up
with him and that it would be rene
died, as he did no. know at the time
he engaged the services o. the COM
pany that il was not union concern.
He added: 1t would be well for dele
gates with complaints of this nature TO
communicate with the officers Of the
council so they may have an oppor-
t1nity 10 see if the cause Of complaint
may not be removed instead of drag
glng such people out on the floor of
the council without giving them half a
chanee."
Communications from Congressman
Hayes were read. These were in re-
gard to the efforts he had employed in
carrying out the protest Of the council
against discrimination by the navy de-
psrtment in ordering an examination
for foremen at Mare island. TO be held
in Philadelphia. He offered TO render
any assistance to the council to the
end that ii shall obtain justice for its
members
The secretary read q letter from
Congressman Julius Kahn in reply to a
Telegram sent him on the same sub
ject. when Delegate Liddy asked: rs
IL not waste of money to send teIe-
grams TO Kahn?'' No one seemed ready
TO answer.
The chauffeurs' union asked the
council to take action in the case of
the Consolidated motor company.
which positively refuses to discharge
its japanese help.
Cooks helpers union. local 10. made
a request for q boycott against a waf-
f1e kitchen in Market street because
the management after repeated re-
quests 10 discharge its japanese crew
had positively refused to do So"
Each of these requests was referred
TO the executive committee.
The council Endorsed resolutions
adopted by the Riverside farmers
union calling upon the labor orZaniza-
tions to act in conjunction with the
farmers in a united effort to wrest the
vegetable industry from the Japanese.
who have gained control all over the
state. The resolutions ask the mem
bers of both organizations not to pur-
chase any product of the farm or
garden that has been produced by Jap
anese labor.
The executive board of the bakery.
cookery, confectionery and pure food
exhibition sent a request TO the coun-
ell to name a day during the exhibi-
ton to be known as Labor Council
day" and to appoint a committee on
reception for that day The commu-
nication was filed on the objection of
Delegate Drake of the cooks union.
who charged that the Exhibition is to
be dominated by the citizens alliance.
The delegates were requested to go
to their unions and suggest to the
members the advisability of attending
the lectures given by the San Francisco
Society for the Prevention Of Tubercu-
losis and to heed the admonitfons of
the lecturers.
The council made a donation of $40
TO the men who are in trouble in Spo-
kane about speaking in public places.
and $40 TO the bakers on strike in
Porto Rico.
EDWIN A Brown Of Denver, Colo.
who stated that he is not railroad
official, but a relative of a prominent
railroad officer. from whom he does not
receive any money. nor a millionaire
as represented. but well to do, ad-
dressed the council on the subject of
having a municipal lodging house for
workingmen who may be stranded and
have no place to go. He urged the Ia
boring people to have the authorities
tablish such a house as there is in
New York city. In very interesting
manner he told OF his experiences in
several of the large cities while col
lecting data on how the UNEMPLOYED
are treated by the authorities In
speaking of the difference in the treat
r11ent of the homeless who go to city
prisons for place TO sleep and those
who go to a municipal house he said:
I'm the one instance the treatment
and the accommodations knock all the
spirit and energy out of a man; while
IN the other, where he has had a sleep
on q. good soft bed, between clean
sheets under clean blanket, he feels
refreshed. and in condition to start out
looking for work"