The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-23

At the meeting of the BARRIERS union
| Monday night it was announced that
! contributions are coming in from a
number of the local labor unions. 1t
was also stated that many encouraging
letters are being received from citizens
who announce that they will abstain
from patronizing places that are I'M
fair to the cause the BARRIERS are con-
tending for
The bar tenders union at its meeting
last Monday night was Informed that
list is being prepared of all the sa-
looms in this city in which Japanese
and Chinese are employed, either as
cooks, janitors or cellarmen.
Seventeen elected candidates were
| initiated and p applications were pre-
scented.
TIL joint council of transfers at it's
meeting last Monday night seated two
delegates from the recently organized
union of vegetable wagon drivers Of
Alameda county. The chauffeurs re-
ported. that the international body has
approved its wage scale.
Carpenters union No % will at it's
next meeting take a referendum vote
| on proposed amendments to the inter-
/ national constitution. Such a vote was
| to have been taken on the occasion of
! the last meeting, but was passed be-
! cause of the comparatively small num-
| Der of members in attendance.
The janitors' union at its last meet
| ing adopted a resolution to fine any
member the sum OF S. who shall be
! found patronizing any Japanese or any
place in which Japanese or Chinese are
employed.
| Two of the janitors employed in the
/ school department and all of the jani-
! tors working at the Chutes were mi
tiated at that meeting. Several applf-
/ cations were received from janitors in
| the public service who want to join the
union.
| The federated trades council of Sac
ramento has placed itself on record as
! favoring Fairgrounds for children for
the reason that "the rapid advance
ment of the city is fast obliterating
/ the vacant lots on which the city's
/ children are wont to find recreation and
amusement, and for the further reason
! that it will be but a comparatively
| short time when the children will have
no Fairgrounds but the public streets.
The central labor council has received
letter from Frank Morrison, secre-
tary of the American federation of
labor asking for the names and ad-
dresses of ministers and clergymen in
this city that he may mail each spe
cisl literature.
The Sacramento labor temple asso-
! citation has negotiated loan of $4,000
from one of the city banks. the money
to be used in the erection of the struc-
ture that has been designed. Sealed
bids for the erection of the building will
be considered in few days.
The anti-Japanese laundry league has
obtained information that the com
plant about Japanese doing washing
for the nurses at the affiliated colleges
will soon be a thing of the past, for
the laundry that is being put up there
will be ready TO be put in operation in
a few days
The committee appointed TO prepare
a set of resolutions. indorsing a bill
introduced by Congressman Hayes.
which, it had been proclaimed, would
check the further admission of Asiatics,
announces that since 1T had secured
copy Of the bill, had given it careful
consideration and had been unable to
discover in il anything that would
Justify the league in indorsing it. The
committee says that it will watch the
bill, and if anything transpires that
warrants favorable action by the league
action will be recommended.
n. F. McMahon. president of the anti
Japanese laundry league, speaking Of
the recent effort of the Los Angeles
chamber of commerce to secure modi-
hcation of the immigration laws so as
to permit the entrance of Chinese la
! int he fafe ~
terday that he can not understand yhy
the chamber of commerce should take
such a position, for said he, Los An
geles is at this time one of the most in
tested centers, so far as Japanese are
concerned. Why, only the other day we
received communication from the
California laundry company of that city
containing the deplorable and startling
information that the number of Japa-
! nese laundries in Los Angeles had
reached so. The comparatively few
white laundries remaining are ekeing
out precsrious existence.
II am at a loss to understand why
the chamber of commerce of that city
does not appreciate the Importance of
the situation and realize the amount
of injury that is being done American
citizens by the encouragement of Ash
attic competition. The greater number
of Asiatics in this country the greater
VIII NC hilt ~ the white
working classes
Butchers union No. ! had ladies'
night in the Labor temple last night
which was attended by about 500 per-
sons. The hall was decorated with
American flags and streamers in honor
of the day. There was an unusually
| interesting vaudeville program con-
tributed by Charles Butterworth, Fred
erick and Miss Olivia, J. Duhane, Fred
Everett, William Walsh, William Kretz-
mer. Louis Kuntz Lyman Baker, Harry
Curran and Birdie Callaghan. The pro-
gram was followed by an order of
dances. The affair was under the di-
rection of Charles Wenk, j. J. Kretz-
mer and NJ. Maxwell.
During the evening Supervisor John
o. Walsh, on behalf of the members
and their families, presented to Den
mis- J. Murray, secretary of the union,
a watch fob and diamond set locket
as a token of his earnest endeavors in
behalf of his fellow members and those
dependent upon them"
The drum corps of the union gave
him a floral horseshoe.
Vice President William Harmon. of
the international association of Ma
chinists was visitor at the meeting
of machine hands union No. It's. in
the labor temple last night He de-