The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-31
A|'L]OCAL
MABOR
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN IN
NIGHT CAR SERVICE

NIGHT CAR SERVICE
A campaign for aIl-night car serv-
ice will likely be launched in the
Spokane Sectional Central Labor
council at it's regular weekly meet
ing tonight. It will be launched in
earnest, it is declared and every
union in the city, affiliated with
the central labor council will be
asked to take up the matter in the
form Of determined campaign i'm
mediateiy.
| Stress of work along other lines
has prevented some of the city's la
hor leaders most heartily in favor
OF the all-night car service, from
taking up the matter in the regu-
lar meetings of the central labor
body before this time. 1t is believ-
ed that practically every business
man in the entire city, as well as
all the labor unionists, are willing
to declare themselves in favor of
| the movement.
| Work is beginning to pick up at
a lively rate for the common labor
, ers and the transfers about the
I city now, but with the painters
| there is sort of slump. Nothing
| more artistic or serious than to
! smoke rainy day" cigars and to
play cards is now wearing it's way
into the minds of many of the city's
wfelders of the brush and colors.
Things promise a general pick up
in the work of the union painters
| soon, however, and there will be
few of the decorators and painters
out of job in a short time.
Officers for the next six months
will be elected by the Spokane Sec
tional Central labor council tonight.
Henry Jarvis of the machinists'
union has clear field for the presi-
dental race. He looks good enough
for the most of them, and no one
else was put up against him. Thorn
ton of the Electrical Workers
union and A. J. Jermain of the
pressmen are the only candidates
for the vice presidents chair. Jim
Morford is running alone for the
secretaryship, and Business Agent
Horn of the bakers union is hitting
up solitary gait for the job Of
chief custodian of the councils
treasury.
w. j. Coates, who for two terms
has been president of the Central
Labor council, is retiring from the
limelight of officialdOm in order
that he may get in some work on
the floor His services at the head
of the big labor body has been
more than satisfactory throughout
the time he has held the chair, and
it is with reluctance that many Of
| the labor uniOnists will allow him
| to retire, and suggest his old right
hand bower" Henry Jarvis, to con-
tinue the work that he has started
That proposition of securing a
raise in the wages of the common
labOrers on city work and the team
sters, which for the last several
| weeks has been batted about be-
tween the city council, chamber of
commerce and Mayor N. S. Pratt,
until it's experiences have become
almost as varied as that Of a typi-
cal outcast, may come in for a
share of the discussion in the Cen
trail Labor council tonight. Some
of the influential delegates in this
body declared this morning that
they were almost afraid to tackle
the matter again, since the cham
Der of commerce has given 1t an
official lick in the forward bow, but
that it is a matter of necessity, and
that labor is likely to keep up the
fight for the raise in pay until 1t
| has won it,