The San Francisco call., 1910-05-14


cessful outcome of this long drawn out
struggle places every planning mill in
San Francisco under union conditions.
A. L. Hollis, chairman of the labor
councils committee for soliciting funds
for the Panama Pacific exposition, re-
ports that, in addition to the unions
already listed, the following subscrip-
tions have been made: House movers,
SlVO; moving picture men, 500; ele-
vator conductors and starters, $3.50;
printing pressmen, $500; marine engi-
neers, $500; casters and modelers, 500;
lumber clerks, S1O0. The following
unions viii take up the matter at their
next meetings: Carpenters No 1910,
granite cutters, patent chimney build
ers, stone cutters, bridge and structural
iron workers and hoistiag engineers.
Carpenters union No. 1852 subscribed
$500, but asked the committee to ap-
pear before the members to get the
amount Increased. The two nights
work of the committee brought the
subscriptions to more than $4,000.
At the Thursday night meeting of
the anti-Japanese laundry league it
was stated that the anti-Japanese
laundry league of Reno, New, had be-
gun crusade against the Japanese,
with j. II. Kehoe as business secre-
pose the encroachments OF the Japa-
nese in the laundry business, but in
other branches of business as we'll
communication was received from
the secretary of the state federation
Of labor stating that circulars had
been issued calling upon every cen
tral labor council in California to or
ganize anti-Japanese laundry and
Asiatic exclusion leagues.
A delegate He'd atfanfiOp IA
fact that property owners and resi-
dents in the vicinity Of 1852 Sutter
street had filed petitions with the su-
pervisors protesting against the grant
ing of laundry permit TO S. Hori,
japanese at that address.
Secretary Ellison of the sailors union
of the Pacific at the last meeting re-
ported shipping fair in this port.
Agents up and down the coast gener-
ally report shipping fair and in ports
men scarce.
The last reports from the building
trades department of the American
federation Of labor showed that 20 in
ternationals, % state councils and 153
local councils Were affiliated.
Henceforth cooks union No. A will
meet but twice month. the first and
third Thursdays. In compliance with
the new bylaws members two months
in arrears will be suspended Initiation
and full installment fee will be $3.50
Any member suspended twice within a
year must appear before the executive
committee for examination Nomina-
tions Of officers for the ensuing term
viii be made at the meeting Thurs
day, May 10. The election will be held
Wednesday, June %, at headquarters
SOB Howard street The polls will be
open from a. m. to z. M
The report OF the bureau of labor on
conditions at the Bethlehem, Pa, steel
works, which was recently submitted
TO the United States senate stated that
1922 men worked IL hours day seven
days week, a large pecentage of these
laborers earning only 121z cents an
hour.
Iron molders' union will give the
thirty-seventh picnic and family re-
union at Shell Mound park Sunday, June
ls There will be games for old and
young Gate and game prizes will be
awarded. Following is the committee
in charge: A T. Wynn (chairman), D.
Niano secretary, J. o. Walsh. J. J.
Field, William p. McCabe, J. J. Nolan.
George Schwager. NJ. Egan, H. Blint, G.
Bitterlin, James Simensen, E. Barthold,
A. B. Griffith, F. Cation, Frank Enos. F.
Swanstrom and William Cobb.
Donations were made to the locked
out mirers at the Homestead mine and
strikers on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad at the last meeting of ma
chinists lodge No. es.
BY resolution at the St Louis farmers
educational and cooperative conven-
ton, held last week, it was decided
that hereafter organized labor and or
ganized farmers would work together
in preserving the rights and liberties
of each class. The farmers have a
membership of 100000.
Ten candidates were obligated and
seven applications received at the last
meeting of barber shop porters' and
bsthhouse employees union. Business
was reported fair, and it was said that
Sutro baths was sti1l refusing to give
union conditions.
Andrew Furuseth and Samuel Com
pers were the principal speakers before
the American Academy of Political and
Social Science in Philadelphia recently
when the subject of Government by
Injunction" was under discussion. Fur
useth said in part:
The modern useE of the writ of
Injunction, especially in labor dis
putes, is revolutionary and de-
structive of popular government.
Our government was designed to
be government by law. said law
TO be enacted by the legislative
branch. construed by the judiciary
and administered by the executive.
An injunction is IAN extraor-
binary writ issued out of equity
enjoining a threatened injury to
property or property rights. where
there is not plain, adequate and
complete remedy at law"
The constitution confers equity
power upon the courts by stating
that they shall have Jurisdiction
in law and in equity In the same
way that it makes 1t their duty to
issue Writs of abeas corpus and in
substantially the same way as it
provides for trial by jury. Equity
power came to US it existed in
England at the time of the adop-
tion of our constitution, and it
was so limited and defined by Eng
lish authorities that our courts
could not obtain jurisdiction in
la Dor disputes except by the adop-
tion of a ruling that business is
property.
II business be property in the
case of a strike or a boycott. and
can therefore be protected by the
equity court against diminution
of its usual income. caused by