The San Francisco call., 1910-12-11
CARPENTERS ELECT
OFFICERSFORYEAR
Union No. u Indorses Proposed
Constitutional Amendments
Almost Unanimously
Edited by o. M. BOYLE

nous vote at the last meeting. The
following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, L. B. Regan; vice president. Ed
| ward McGlennon; recording secretary.
John T. Burns; assistant recording sec
| retary. w. E. Foley; financial secre-
! tary. W. E. Smith; treasurer, Patrick
Connor conductor. John L. Cliff; war
| den, Charles Jackson: trustee. John
Clark auditors, c. f. Knight and John
| Hughes; trustee for mill stock. l.. p.
Regan; trustee for laundry stock, l. B.
| Regan; trustee for organized labor
stock. P. H. Mccarthy; delegates to the
bay counties district. council of car
penters. P. H. Mccarthy. L. b. Regan.
John Clark. John T. Burns. W. f.
Smith and F. P. Nicholas: aIternates.
| Theodore Wicks. John L. Cliff. John ].
Tierney, W. w. Lawler, John J. Swan
son and Edward McGlennon.
T. V. O'Connor. president of the in
| ternationaI longshoremen's association,
| in recent address said: THE affairs
of the organization were never in bet
ter shape. The international now en-
braces 40 locals, extending along the
American and Canadian waters on the
Atlantic, Pacific. the gulf. Great Lakes
and the large rivers. The total MEM
bership is $4,000. and 1t is constantly
growing. In 1909 there were but three
locals on the Pacific. while now Al
unions are on the coast. extending from
San Diego to Vancouver.
Newspaper carriers union al its last
meeting elected the following officers
for the ensuing term: President. ].
! Beckman; vice president John Walsh;
| recording secretary. NJ. Bohem; guide.
e. T. Heath; warden, P. Coakley; dele
gates to the labor council, E. G. Harri-
son and E. T. Heath.
The annual election of musicians
union No. 6 will be held next Thurs
day at headquarters. The polls will be
open at II a. m. and close at s p. m.
The following names have been added
to the ballot by petition: Delegates to
the state federation of labor, z. Mag
nus and G. Selo; executive board, H.
Bellman, E. V. Gracia. A. Paulsen, L.
Rosebrook. F. Rossi and Max Walten;
delegates to the American federation of
musicians convention, ]. L. Callaghan
and ]. F. Fitzgerald.
At the last meeting of the Drummers'
club A. L. Fourtner was elected presi-
dent and j. F. Wilson, secretary treas
urer. At the next meeting Wednes-
day. December II, at D. m, all drum
mers are requested to be present.
A. s. Morey. financial secretary. has
been spending his vacation in Placer
vile with relatives.
The list for the directory of 1911
is still open, and members can have
changes made if they apply at once
Strike assessments for October. $1.25 +;
November, 81, and December. $1.35, will
become delinquent the last day of this
month To avoid suspension. members
| should pay these assessments. Dues
and death assessments for the fourth
rY11o orfn Fft,e- .
| due and payable to the financial secre-
| tary.
The labor council has adopted a reso-
luton condemning the authorities of
japan for passing sentence of execu-
Many labor organizations throughout
the country have taken similar action.
Delegates from the cemetery workers
union protested to the labor council
that the authorities at Holy Cross
union, and the union was instructed
to place its charges in writing and
send the same to the council.
The delegate from the steam engi-
neers' union notified the labor council
Friday night that the North Point laun-
dry had become fair to his organiza-
tion.
Delegate Wright for the bakers
| union stated that the co-opera tive
French and Italian bakery recently
started by the local to furnish union
| label bread was meeting with marked
success He asked all delegates in the
| labor council to report back to their
unions and when buying bread at the
grocers to insist on the union labeled
article.
The Commonwealth club has asked
the labor council to cooperate with it
In framing reformatory law. The
law and legislative committee was in
structed to comply with the request.
The organizing committee of the
labor council requests all parties in
terested in the jurisdictionaI dispute
between the granite cutters union and
the curb settlers union to be present
at the meeting of the committee next
Friday night at 7:3O o'clock
The request for a boycott on the
Washington Square theater bv tbeatri-
cal stage employees union was. upon
recommendation of the executive com
mittee. laid over for a week by the
labor council.
The amendment to the constitution of
tne labor council changing the mum
Der of members of the law and execu-
tive committee from five to seven will
come up for final action next Fridav Y
night.
The officers of the chaufeurs' union
claim to be making progress in their
strike.
President Murphy was in the chair
at the Tuesday night meeting of united
la ahorers of San Francisco Fifteen can
| didates were obligated. The usuaI
weekly assessment of SITS was paid the
Los Angeles campaign strike commit
tee. The proposed amendments to the
constitution were adopted. Nomina-
tions for officers will be made at the
next two meetings. and the election
will be held December -.
O. A. Tveitmoe secretary of the
building trades council, has been
elected fourth vice president of the
building trades department. of the
American federation of labor.