The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-31
MECHANICS Warned
AWAY FROM COAST
OyercrOwded Condition of Labor
Market Prompts Carpenters
TO Issue Circular
Edited by o. M. BOYLE

council OF carpenters has found it; nee
essary TO issue a circular and send it
throughout the east. warning building
e mechanics to. stay away from the Pa
cific coast. For. months advertisements
and reading notices have appeared in
eastern papers unfriendly to organized
labor advising all building trades me-
cbanios who could DO so TO come to
California The result is that this mar
ket las been Hooded with men who
ind II Lard TO get anything to do.
"A conference was held Monday be-
tween representatives Of upholsterers
union and the employers. at which the
secretary. and president Of the labor
council were present Nothing definite
was accomplished and another meeting
Will be held in q day or so. Meantime
TIE men are al work. They are ask
ing for an increase in wages.
Business Agent Price was chosen
marshal of Labor day parade by bar
hers. union No. I4S. His aids will be
appointed later. There will be fine
OF $3.50. imposed for nonattendance at
the parade. Three candidates were
INFLATED at the last meeting
Tie Joint executive council of team
STEERS met in Oakland Monday night.
John Mclaughlin was chairman in the
absence Of the president and vice presi-
dent. In reference to the appeal from
san Mateo local No. j so, the secretary
was Instructed to communicate with all
locals IN the council requesting aid for
the san MateO members. The appeal
from the Vallejo local of teamsters was
taken up and it was decided to await
the return Of International Vice Presi-
dent Peter Burke before action was
taken. An Oakland delegate desired
that the unions across the bav should
have 4 council OF their own. The mat
ter was referred TO the various unions
or the council 10 report back at the
next meeting. Delegate Castro of local
No 30 was instructed to take up the
charter and seal Of vegeta blemen's local
30. 45, and return them 10 the council.
las next meeting viii be neId in San
Fra0cisco, September -
The secretary of blacksmiths' and
helpers union requests all members
10 call at the Office between s and $50
O'Clock Monday morning to get badges
and be In time TO form in line Tor the
parade.
At the last meeting of sailors union
OF the Pacific, il was decided to send
three delegates to the convention of
the international which convenes in
Detroit next December. Nine mem
bers. were given shfpwreck benefits.
Final instructions VIII be given to
the marshals of the Labor day parade
at the meeting Saturday night of the
Labor day committee. After the parade
literary exercises will be held at. She'll
Mound park, to. which women and
children VIII BE- admitted free. Sunday
afternoon the marshals and aids will
trades council and receive sashes and
regalia.
All members of the Mattresses union
40. IS are requested to report prompt
y on the morning of the parade in
front Of building trades temple and
take seats in carriage The marshal
IS Bertha. Cooper and her aids are
May Beck and Edith Reynolds At the
last meeting two candidates We're
Initiated and u applications received.
Louise Earue, Laura Molledd and Lo-
fetta Anderson were appointed a COM
nlUee to sell buttons, the proceeds
10 so to the union mans orphanag e.
an Institution being supported by the
state building trades council.
Bar tenders league No Il met Mon
day night in the headquarters at
Eighth and Market streets. Five can
dldates were obligated and three APP
plicauons received. The. sum of s35
was paid for sick benefits.
So.
The executive. council of the Amer
ican federation of labor announces that
q clothing trades department is to be
organized as an adjunct to the fedora
ZION. The unions. in this new DEPART
ment viii be the united garment work
ers, the international women's garment
workers. the jeurneymen tailors' union,
the united matters, the glove makers
union, the cloth hat and can makers
union and the textile workers union.
-
All petitions for the charter amend
ment pertaining TO the raising of
wages from 81 to SO per day for la
oorers must be returned by tonight to
AZ E--DDyer- at the Building Trades
Council temple: Members. of united
laborers Of San Francisco are requested
10 call Immediately at Headquarters
Tor hats and regaiia- for Labor day
parade.
z. V. Mccain has been elected mar
shall of.the Labor day parade by. hoist.
ing engineers union No: 90 His aids
are J. j. Murphy and Robert Wilson
Members of the union are requested TO
attend the. meeting next Saturday night
Tor final instruction about the. parade.
The. executive committee of bakers;
union No 24-is sending out circulars to
each member OF the union stating that
the local viii not parade Labor day
The union had hired a band and in.
tended participating in the procession.
but finds that IT., is impossible to get
The uniforms and caps with the union
label The firm promising 10 deliver
them is unable at this late dav to ar
the order. The members of No. "a will:
however, go over 10 Shell Mound park
and enjoy the literary exercises.
"A 5oiHt executive meeting was held
by the beer drivers Sunday afternoon
At the hail., Iz7 Capp street F.. G.
Rothenbush represented branch 3 of
stockton Charles Matzcnauer branch
OF Oakland. but Sacramento branch 4
was. not represented. Besides the usual
routine business strike matters were
discussed and complaints and griev-
ances were adjusted.
The rumor that Theodore Bell would
not make an address at Shell Mound
park Labor day is unfounded. He WIN
be there. as viii J. Stitt Wilson.
Encouraging reports are daily COM
ing into the Anti-Jap laundry leasue
from persons who have ceased natron-