The San Francisco call., 1910-05-28


t-eA2ss lSSicsst COUNCIL outing and family
reunion of book
binders union No. 81 will be held to-
morrow at Fairfax park. Boats will
leave Sausalito ferry every half hour.
valuable prizes will be distributed.
Ihere will be dancing, with NJ White
as hoorl manager and j. Osterloh
assistant. President I. P Garrity
Is chairman of the reception commit
zee. At the last meeting of the local
$40 was donated to the leather>worker
on strike for the eight hour day
At the last meeting of sailors union
or the Pacific a committee was named
10 handle the shipwreck benefits of the
members of the crew of the i'll fated
steamer Marhoffer. The federal grand
jury IN Honolulu has acquitted the sail
ors arrested on a mutiny charge for re-
fusing to leave port with certain off,
GERS, charging them with brutal treat
ment. The union some time ago decided
to subscribe $4,000 to aid the strikers
on the great lakes. At the last meeting
the payment OF half this sum was
authorized. The remainder will be for
warded shortly to the striking sailors.
Branch 8, amalgamated society of
carpenters and joiners, turned the last
meeting into a smoker after the routine
business had been transacted. A debate
followed the reading of paper on THE
Registration of the Unemployed" Music,
vocal and instrumental, was interspersed
and the affair was voted a success by
all who were present,
Molders' union No. 164 met Tuesday
night in the labor council temple, with
President Doorley in the chair. The
sum of s45 was paid out in sick bene-
FITS. The union decided that as next
Monday was Memorial day all members
would cease work on that day Four
candidates were obligated and one ap-
plication received.
AT a recent meeting of web press
mems union No. Daniel Murphy was
chosen delegate to the international
convention which meets in June in
Cleveland. Murphy will leave for the
east in day or so.
Final report has been made to MILL
mems union No. 428 by the committee
having the recent ball In hand. The
affair netted neat sum for a member
of the union who had met with mis-
fortune.
The home industry committee made a
full report OF its work. Two candi-
dates were obligated and two members
admitted on clearance cards.
Support for the Union Mans orphan
age was voted at the last meeting of
San Francisco lumber clerks associa-
tion. Business was reported good. The
following committee has charge of the
smoker and high jinks to be given
shortly: Charles Miller, Charles va
ger. B. Devaney and ". A. Sullivan.
The officers recently elected by typo
GRAPHICAL union No. 81 will .be installed
at tomorrow afternoons meeting in
the labor council temple
Word comes from Spokane that all
union cooks and walters are out on
Erike and that trouble may be looked
for at Seattle. Members of the culinary
craft are asked to give these north
ern cities a wide berth during the
trouble.
International Vice President Robert
Hesketh will leave for the north next
Friday. His mission to San Francisco
was wholly successful
President Samuel Gompers in his re-
cent address before the farmers in st.
Louis said that it would not be long
before they would be working in one
federation with trades unionists. He
said: We will fight our battles to-
getherS buying each others products
that bear the union label. I want to
do my part in cementing the unity
between the wealth producers of the
country so that in the battles for JUS
tice, peace and equality before the law
the farmer and the wage Garner will be
found shoulder to shoulder, determined
that we shall hand down this republic
untarnished to the myriads unborn
At the last meeting of moving picture
opera tors No. 162 ii was reported that
two nickelodeons were employing nom
union help. 1t was decided to call the
attention Of the labor council to the
matter. The local donated SO to the
striking leather workers.
President Woods was presented with
q diamond locket and chain for his
earnest services on behalf of the union
B. B. Rosenthal vice president of the
labor council, who is an honorary mem
Der of No. 162, made the presentation
advancement of the organization and
the labor movement in general and also
paying tribute to President Woods
for his unfailing, persistent efforts
toward the upbuilding of the local.
At the suggestion of Chairman A. L.
Hollis of the labor council Panama-Pa-
cific exposition committee the building
trades council has added to that COM
mittee the following named: John Bell,
J. II. Ault and ]. Leary.
The executive board of the interna-
tional bakers union, recently in ses-
sion in Chicago. has ordered the stle
of 5000, 900 government bonds, the pro-
ceeds to be invested in Milwaukee city
bonds. This move was made when it =