The San Francisco call., 1910-06-14
ONE MORE LABOR
BOOST FOR CURRY
Federated Trades Council at
Sacramento Cuts Loose
From Anderson

Charles F. Curry, candidate for the
republican nomination for governor, has
made another inroad upon the union la
Dor backing of the state that is offici-
ally supposed TO belong to Alden An
derson. Curry received the indorse-
ment last week of the Sacramento fed
Grated trades council. one of the strong
est organizations of labor in the in
terror
Ellery's campaign manager, j. ]. Nc
Carthy, returned from Sacramento Sun
day prepared to put the damper on the
Curry claims of union labor support in
that city. He cited, in proof of his con-
tention, a. recent Endorsement of Curry
by the stationary engineers and fire.
men of Sacramento, declaring that only
nine members of the order had been
present at the meeting when the reso-
luton was passed and taht two of those
were men employed at the state cap
itol through Curry's office. In the face
of this. however. came the announce
ment of the federated trades indorse-
ment
CURRY LABOR'S FRIEND
This last action in Curry's favor was
taken on the suggestion of j. ]. Breslin,
and the resolutions were signed by
President d. d. Sullivan, Secretary
Frank Cooke and several delegates and
Representatives to the council from
affiliated bodies. The substance of the
resolution was:
BE it known TO all labor organ
izations:
That. this council recognizes in
Hon. Charles r. Curry a friend and
coworker in the advancement and
we'll being of the laboring man.
That he has in all his acts as
a stanch and true friend of union
ism and union labor; and, judging
from his long and consistent
friendship for unionism we have
every reason to believe that he will
continue that friendship if called
TO higher station than his present
one
Therefore, in consideration of
these facts this council believes,
If elected governor of the state of
CALIFORNIA, that he Will be of great
benefit to organized labor and will
make an unprejudiced governor for
all the people at large.
The fight for the office of governor
is warming up a bit, for all the can
didates. with the exception of Hiram
". Johnson, are in the field campaign
ing, and Johnson, after more than two
months of speech making, is merely
taking a weeks rest. He will start out
next Monday for run through Contra
Costa and Salinas counties. visiting the
smaller towns in the daytime and
speaking the first four nights at Mar
tinez, Point Richmond, Petaluma and
Healdsburg, respectively. Then he will
go down the peninsula and make
speeches at San Mateo and Redwood
City Friday and al East San Jose and
Santa Clara Saturday night.
ANDERSON on AUTO TRIP
Alden Anderson has started out to
liven UP his own campaign in person.
The beginnin gof activities has taken
the for mof an auto trip north, on which
Anderson is accompanied by George W.
Peltier of Sacramento. He spent Sat-
urday and Sunday in Chico, yesterday
in Oroville, and is now booked for Yuba
City, Red Bluff, Dunsmuir, Sisson and
the smaller towns of Shasta county.
The Anderson headquarters is run
ming over with reports of newly devel-
oped Anderson strength all along the
line. but the reports In the Curry head
quarters fail to show any defections to-
ward the organization candidate and in
the Lincoln Roosevelt camp il is smil-
ingly remarked that if Anderson is
gaining anywhere it most certainly
isn't-at oJhnson's expense. J. J. McCar-
thy, Ellery's manager, reported that he
had seen several bets made that Curry
WOuiQn county ana
that Anderson wouldn't be even second
in the race in the capital district, but
he failed to specify just who was picked
as the winner.
Bert Farmer of Los Angeles, the new
bidder for the nomination for lieuten-
ant governor, reached San Francisco
yesterday from Tahoe, where he attend
ed the grand parIor of aNtive Sons, and
called at the Anderson headquarters.
He is busy getting his petitions started
in various counties, and will have dep
uties at work in San Francisco next
week.
POLITICS AT TAHOE
There was good deal of politics in
the air last week at Tahoe aside from
strictly fraternal matters. The Curry
people are smiling over a straw ballot
taken among 341 delegates to the grand
palor, which recorded the following re-
25. Bell 80. Senator Charles NJ. Bel
shaw, who was spoken of earlier in
the srrimmage for the Lincoln Roose-
welt nomination for governor. which
went to Johnson, was pinned down by
some of the politicians at Tahoe for
statement as to the direction of his
personal sympathies. He had carefully
avoided this question prior to the grand
parlor session, but there the demand
was insistent. He finally submitted
ignored five chances to pick a repub-
lican and declared himself for Theo-
dore Bell.
San Francisco registration has broken
all records for the same period of any
former new registration. At this time
two years ago the new registration roll
contained 37,6zA names, while at present
there are 52,574 names on the new roll.
There were $4,000 registered for the
August primaries in 1908, while now,
with no local fight to come in August,
less than 5000 names are needed to
pass the former mark, and the total is
increasing every day. Indications are
that the registration may pass the
65, 600 mark before the roll is closed.