The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19


obligated.
The committee having the boycotting
of the American bakery In hand made
a progressive report. The local will hold
its annual picnic at Fernbrook park,
Niles canyon, May 4. Label prizes will
then be distributed.
The joint executive board of bakers
met in Oakland Sunday and considered
and italian bakers. 1t was decided to
secure the services of competent man
for this work Immediately.
The walters and bar tenders have
succe eded in unionizing the NJ and NJ
hotel at the beach. Several interviews
with the proprietor and pickets in
front of the hotel brought about the
change.
In the near future the bar tenders
and walters expect to bring several
other places on the beach under union
conditions. notably the Cliff house.
Colonel H Weinstock will address the
san Francisco labor council next Fri
day night the subject of appointing
a general committee of "a for the pur-
pose of arbitrating disputes between
employers and employees.
Grocery clerks union will have a
class of % to initiate at its next meet
Ing
The janitors union at meeting last
Sunday morning appointed a commit
tee to attend the meeting of the super
visors that is tosJiscuss the proposition
to secure a central place in which to
house all the city officials The object
of the committee will be to see that in
the proposed change provision shall be
made for the employment of only union
Janitors.
Four candidates were admitted by
initiation and several applications were
presented. Proposed amendments to
the bylaws will be the special order of
business at meeting to be held on the
third Sunday in May.
The following, from the annual re-
port of the federal commission of labor,
shows the amount of money paid by
labor organizations out of benefit
funds:
Temporary disability .............. 1892, $50. 50
Death of members: :........ o,164, $50 o6 6
Death OF members wives. ........... 55.020.00
Death of widowed mothers. ....-... 1,240.oo
Permanent disability. .............. 6s4. 100
SupeFahhuatlon .....-...-...-.. ISo,oIo.oo
Total ........................ .s29. .121. .o3
This includes only such organizations
as during the year reported to the COM
mission and does not include contribu
tions to members in distress.
The latest issue of the cigar makers
official organ says:
We published the following in this journal
16 years ago. and the only ones to be hit by
the law far the hatters. The real
trusts-monopolies and combinations in re-
straint of trade-have so far escaped At
the time the antitrust law was passed it
asserted that it not intended to in
any way affect organized labor:
Organized workingmen should beware of all
antitrust and anti monopoly laws. In nine
cases out OF ten all such laws contain cague
provisions, however. that are neatly covered
up and hidden by cunning phraseology that,
when occasion may require, are turned into
instruments of torture for the very people
whom the law was supposed TO benefit, and
they never injure or in any way control
monopolies."
The photographers of Europe have at
this time three representatives In the
United States studying the conditions
of the trade with a view to preparing
a plan that will result in the adoption
of q working agreement between the
organization of the two countries to
the end that mutual aid may be rem
dered in case of any trouble.
The chairman of the finance commit
ton has sent word to the constituent
bodies that hereafter the working of
men on Sundays is to be abandoned in
the works where it is possible to do so.
In the past about one man in five of the
100000 working for the company had
a Sunday off.
Secretary Paul Sharrenberg of the
state federation of labor received a let
ter yesterday from President Samuel
Gompers of the American federation of
lafor conveying the information that
the executive council of the American
federation of labor will not go to the
Pacific coast this month and possibly
not this year.
Branch of the amalgamated society
of carpenters and joiners will be host
this evening at a ladies night" In its
hall in the Building Trades temple to
be held under the auspices of the social
committee of the society. A program
of musical numbers has been arranged.
There will be whist also for those who
wish to play that game. Ice cream will
be served.
whist party May T.
The executive committee of the San
Francisco labor council had a busy ses-
sion last night, inquiring into a num-
Der of matters referred to it. Among
these was the charges preferred by the
laundry wagon drivers against the
business agent of the stablemen's union
and the trouble between a member Of
the soap makers union and the Metro
politan laundry.