The San Francisco call., 1910-04-16

"A
G1kAgE k2E I2sss99fsllcogEcI1 will mean much to
SkR4SSAs" organized labor in
this city will be held at the labor coun-
ell temple Sunday, May 8. Plans will
then be discussed for the erecting of
structure sufficiently commodious to
house the local labor unions. The CEN
tral body finds itself cramped in its
present quarters al Fourteenth and
Mission streets. Executive officers of
all affiliated unions are expected to be
present at this meeting, when SOME
definite action Will be taken.
Beginning today strike benefits will
be paid to members of the union of
leather workers on horse goods En-
couraging reports have been sent from
eastern centers. In the local field no
break has been made in the ranks of
the strikers
Speaking of dividends which trades
unions declare, Organized Labor in its
last issue said:
There is not bank, business or
fraternal institution that pays divi-
dends that the trades unions do. For
an illustration: Each member of the
brotherhood of carpenters pays to the
general office 25 cents per month"; or So
per year. Laying aside wife's funeral
receives after one year a death benefit
of $500. That is, he would have to
pay dues for over &c years in order to
pay in the amount he gets in death
benefits alone.
If he lives 33 years after the day
Of joining, he will have realized 200 per
cent per annum profit on that one item
alone. But more than that. There is
not a union carpenter in San Francisco
who does not get from 81 to $3.50 more
a day by reason of his organization
than does the nonunion man. To be
conservative. let us say he only gets
81 more a day and works only 200
days year. On his investment of s12
in dues he viii have realized $500, or
over 1850 per cent
The building trades council at its
meeting Thursday night at which P. II.
Mccarthy, the president, presided, re-
ceived a report from the United glass
workers to the effect that the agree
ment reached with the employers had
been ratified by the workers and that
all had returned to work, except some
in the mirror department, which in
cludes the silverers and the bevel men,
who are staying out as individuals.
The council received a Communication
from w. P. Fuller & Co. and the Whit
tier Coburn Co, employers, complain
turned to work and asking that action
be taken in the matter. The council
instructed the secretary to notify the
glass workers that they must go to
work under the agreement and that in
case of failure to do so the laws of the
council would be maintained. That
means, said Secretary Tveitmoe, in
telling of the action of the council,
that If the men who have not returned
to work under the agreement do not
do so, their places will be filled by
men who viii work There are not so
many of them that their places can not
be filled on short notice"
Brick layers union No. advised the
council that ii had voted to affiliate
with the San Francisco labor council
and the state federation of labor
Complaint was made that the Clark
construction company was subletting
contracts for street excavation to a
Chinese contracting firm. This is to
be made the subject of an official in
quiry.
The council was asked to assist in
unionizing the stables of the Santa Fe
lumber company. The matter was re-
ferred to the business agents.
The council was invited to attend a
meeting of the Asiatic exclusion league
in the San Francisco labor temple sun
day afternoon, when the announced
candidates for the Office of governor of
the state and prospective candidates for
the state senate will be discussed.
w. Bemiss, w. II. Urmy, J. Crane,
]. T. Burns and f. @. Mcdonald were
named a committee to arrange for the
celebration of the second anniversary
Of the opening of the building trades
temple in the auditorium April 2S
The committee arranging an enter
tainment to be given Saturday, April
80, in the building trades temple audi
torium was increased by the addition
Of the following members of the coun-