The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-04-29

VSlueHb l.. D. 1ODll. MEMBERS VI
subordinate unions are invited to be
present.
John Mort White, president of the
central labor council of Great Falls,
Mont, and the leading officers of a
dozen unions there have sent a warn
ing to the labor council here saying:
All the international unions here are
in serious trouble and friends are
asked to stay away from this city until
they receive notice of settlement of the
difficulties"
Members of broom makers union are
waging a war against an unfair firm
and they ask all union men to see that
only brooms and brushes bearing the
union label are taken into their homes.
The union broom makers say that gro
GERS will carry the union label broom
when there is a demand for it.
Secretary Emil Musi states that the
contracts between the brewery workers
and employers in Seattle will expire
May l. Referring to a renewal of these
contracts, Muri says: IF the Rainier
brewery is looking for trouble the
brewery workers are prepared, but l
hope that the contracts in Seattle will
be settled amicably."
Al the last meeting OIL DOIlSI
makers and ship builders. lodge No. 205,
the resolutions of the printing press
mems union in regard to the printing
for the California canneries association
being d home product and done in fair
offices was Endorsed. The lodge will
hold a special meeting May 4 to discuss
the proposed conference on trade con-
ditions between the iron trades council.
the metal trades association and the
/ y cir Of
lodge say that this is an important
matter and should be fully considered
by every member.
This is the sixth week of the strike
of the leather workers on horse goods
union for an eight hour day. The strik-
ers are as firm in their demands as
the day they walked out. Encourag-
ing reports reach the members from
eastern and northern centers.
Eleven candidates were obligated at
the last meeting of street concrete and
asphalt workers union and "a appli-
many members were employed by the
park commissioners. A donation was
given to aid the work of organizing
unskilled migratory labor.
Eight candidates were ob1Tgated and
16 applications received at the last
meeting of cooks helpers union No.
10. The business agent stated that
business was good. He was instructed
to proceed against a downtown cafe
if union conditions were not main
tanned.
Representative Henry T. Rainey of
Illinois inquired before a congressional
committee recently where government
| hoincr a The
chief of ordnance, General Crozier, re-
| piled that all the work was being done
at government plants. The men on
strike at the Bethlehem steel works
'-Schwab's shop" declare that at the
time that statement was made the cast
ings for the IA inch guns were being
made at the Schwab plant, and the ma
chinists assert that the government
plant at Watervliet, n. Y, was at that
time running at one fifth its capacity.
John W. Kline, general president of
the international brotherhood of black
smiths and helpers. has sent in a gen
eral communication to all the locals
as follows:
Is he right or wrong? If right,
what are the duties of American
voters?
ant corporation counsel and at one
time holding an honorable position
in Chicago, in an address before the
lawyers association of Illinois,
said:
The large corporations exercise
a vicious influence on every branch
of our government - executive
| legislative and judicial Corpora
tions have entered every state gov
eminent of this union. They have
seized every opportunity, planted
themselves athwart every avenue
of industry. They cajole our rep
| resentatiYeS, control our governors
and influence our courts. These
specially privileged and highly pro-
tected artificial persons have or
ganized themselves into a sort of
mutual benefit association to pro-
tect themselves against the people
Their paid agents go abroad
throughout the land, spreading the
doctrine that the people can not
! control public utilities, that the
people are ignorant, too venal, too
vacillating TO be Entrusted with
any business of Importance.
| The corporation press proclaims
this false and pernicious doctrine
on our streets, the people see. day
after day, decisions from the high
est courts contrary to the spirit of
equality before the law. and find
! themselves harboring the suspicion
that corporations do control our
judiciary.