The San Francisco call., 1910-02-25
Labor Notes

Labor OteS Is
The walters union at its meeting
last Wednesday night decided that
hereafter no member shall wear the
union button in any restaurant or
hotel in which Chinese or japanese are
employed
An effort will be made to have the
mattresses union adopt the same rule.
The business agents were instructed to
see that the order of the union, so far
it applies to male walters, is rigidly
enforced.
The union admitted Is candidates to
membership by initiation.
The boosters club of the San Fran
cisco typographical union, Frank
Wan6ress president, at its last meet
ing discussed plans to secure the con-
vention of the international body for
this city in 1911. 1t was reported that
every typographical union in the state
has indorsed the proposition. There
was a discussion as to the character of
souvenir badges to be distributed by
the delegates from this city.
san Francisco lodge No 6S of the
International association of machinists
was occupied last Wednesday night in
considering a set of new bylaws. The
lodge donated $40 to the BARRIERS union
Of this city. a like amount to the men
who are out of the shops of the Amer
lean steel trust and also paid s35 in
benefits to members on the sick list.
The drug clerks union will give
smoker and iinks to its members in
Clerks hall on March +.
Cooks helpers union No. 10 at its
meeting Wednesday night accepted the
resignation of c. Odgers, additional
business agent, and elected Louis Spi-
mas to fill the vacancy. j. King. the
regular business agent, who two weeks
before resigned. recalled his resigna-
ton and was reinstated in his position
Business was reported a fair Several
candidates were initiated.
The executive board of the state
beer bottlers' association. composed of
the unions in this city. San Jose, Oak
land. Stockton, Sacramento. Napa and
Salinas, will meet in Brewery Work
ers' hall next Sunday afternoon to dis
cuss a new wage agreement TO take
the place of the one now in force.
which will expire May Is. An effort
will be made to have a uniform agree
ment adopted.
The beer bottlers' union of this city
will give a dance in Brewery Workers
hall in Capp street March 10. Fred
erick Mendler, R. E Ackley, F. Vent
feldt, G. Demmng. w Schultz. T.
Chiosso. j. Karuza, L. Helm, F. Hart
wick, w. Sorrich and f. Horan We're
named a committee to arrange the de-
tails.
Emil Muri. secretary of brewery
workers union No. will leave next
week for Cincinnati, o., to attend the
quarterly meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the international body. He.l
will be absent a month and during his
absence l.. Sovoye, president of the
union, will act as secretary.
In the appeal from the American fed
Grafton of labor asking the labor unions
of the country to assist the men who
were turned out by the American steel
trust is the following:
a crisis in the affairs of labor
has arisen; The gigantic trust,
has used and is using its great
wealth and power in an effort to
rob the toilers not only of live
ihood, but of their right of Amerf-
can Renhood and of the oppor-
tunitF to resist its further en-
croachments.
June /, 1909, the company pro-
claimed its decree of, hostility
toward labor. The right of the
workers to associate for their COM
mon protection was no longer to
be recognized or tolerated. Ac-
companying that decree was a no
tice of q further reduction in the
already scant wages of the work
ers.
Under these circumstances what
was left for the workers to DO?
Could they be expected to calmly
submit to be bound hand and foot
n
moloch of grinding steel, this jug
gernaut, of modern monopoly?
The safety of the workers, their
fellows. their dependents, the hope
for their future and the future Of
all the working people compelled
resistance. They did resist, and
are resisting manfully, grandly
and heroically.
Then follows an appeal in behalf of
the men who are out against the steel
trust All the unions in this city are
considering this appeal, and those that
have not already donated to the fund
that is being raised for the strikers
on the basis of 10 cents per capita will. |
it is believed, make the donation.
The label department of the Ameri- |
can federation of labor is using the
following from a speech by John Mitch
ell at the Toronto convention of the
federation as an argument why labor |
ing men should not patronize the places
that do not sell union labeled goods:
Each man for himself must deter
mine for himself, where he. is going
to bestow his patronage. ] deny most
emphatically that any merchant or any
manufacturer has property right in
my patrona ge. It is mine to give or
withhold as suits my own pleasure
The department holds that this being
the correct view of the matter of
patronage that the laboring classes, !
bound by obligation to support the
cause of labor, should withhold patron
age from those persons who do not
carry goods bearing the union label and
patronize those who do.
A fund is being raised, so the local
engineers union is informed, to erect
a monument over the grave of the
late Frank 3. Mona CHAN in Forest Hill
cemetery, Boston. Mass. 1t has been
started by the Massachusetts state con-
ference of steam engineers unions and /,
it has been decided that no outside
person or organization will be asked