The San Francisco call., 1910-08-16
CHANGES MADE in
GUARD OF HONOR
Grand Marshal Kelly of Labor
Day Parade Announces
Shift in Personnel
Edited by o. M. BOYLE

Edited by o. M. BOYLE
Mwrp Grand Marshal John
e1Sz5Tsg ss2S (as9EslO A Kelly announces
EEEAEN the foIlowing
changes in the guard of honor for the
Labor day parade: w. H. Mcdonnell
in place of w. E. OConnell; William
Wright in place of Paul Scharrenberg;
William Pugh in place of Henry Ullner;
N 4. Smith for T. c. Lynch: J. Z. Dill
lon for Emil Muri, and H. Wissing for
u. Evans. The guard of honor will be
mounted on coal black horses. The
regalfa will be black hats, gauntlets
and sashes. There will be eight divi-
slons In the parade. The parade will
form at Fourteenth and Valencia
streets, proceed down Valencia and
Market to Van Ness avenue, to Turk,
countermarching to Market, thence to
the ferry. The judges will review the
parade from the gore at California,
Drumm and Market streets. Thomas
Bryant VIII be the marshal for the La
Dor day parade division composed of
the city front federation. His aids are
A. E. Brande and H. Huntsman The
unions will appear as follows: Band,
rlggers and stevedores, drum corps
pile drivers No. II (two f1oats), band
of "a pieces, teamsters No. S5, drum
corps bay and river steamboatmen and
Alaska fishermen.
Secretary Maxwell of the bay coun-
ties district council of carpenters has
returned from his visit to Stockton
He reports that it will be but a short
time before a complete settlement of
the labor troubles in that city will be
announced. The open shop program
of the contractors and milImen's as
-
well says. The master plumbers and
master painters, who went into the
open shop movement have been forced
to withdraw and are now employing
union men only. The imported nom
union men are leaving the city. Those
who remain are, according to Maxwelrs
report, very Indifferent workmen. He
looks for satisfactory settlement on
union conditions in short time.
At the last meeting of the building
trades council in Point Richmond it
was voted to have the members of it's
subordinate unions patronize only those
boarding houses and restaurants where
Asiatics are not employed Commit
tees will visit those places at present
employing orientals and endeavor to
have them displaced by white men.
The controversy which has existed
for some weeks between the Sacra-
mento cement contractors association
and the cement workers union has
been settled by compromise. The new
wage scale as agreed upon is: Finish
ers, $3.50 per day; mixers. 1925 per
day.
At the last meeting of plasterers'
union No. sc Charles Gunther was
elected delegate to the Los Angeles
of
labor. The usual weekly assessment
to the strikers in Los Angeles was
made. Two candidates were initiated.
Building material teamsters' union
initiated three candidates and received
seven applications at the Saturday
night meeting. The members were ad-
vised to vote at the primary A COM
mittee from the label league addressed
the union and asked that two delegates
be sent TO the league meetings. They
Will be named at a future meeting. At
the next meeting the returning dele
gates from the international conven-
tion will make reports on the proceed
ings.
A metal trades federation is to be
formed in Sacramento. Delegates from
every iron trade union in that city
Will be seated
Richard Cornelius has just returned
from Stockton, where a years agree
ment has been signed up by the street
car mems union of that city with the
Central California traction company
The contract is satisfactory to the men
and company. This company is about
to open line from Stockton to Sacra-
mento.
Cornelius will start east tomorrow to
attend the meeting in Detroit of the
executive board of the international, of
which he is a member.
Book binders union No. 81 at its
last meeting elected j. Frank Dever
delegate to the Los Angeles convention
of the state federation of labor The
local voted not to participate in the
proposed new allied printing trades
council. President Garrity was chosen
marshal of Labor day parade, and he
will appoint his aids later.
The labor council has advised sta
tionary engineers union to withdraw
its members from firms employing non
union flremen. The stationary f1remen
charge that union engineers have been
in the habit of working with nonunion
iremen. This matter has been before
the executive committee and the coun-
Gil has been advised by it that the
charges in some cases are true.
In 1888 the brotherhood of railway
trainmen was organized in a boxcar- by
nine brakemen. 1t now has SO lodges
in the United States. The president
receives $1,000 per annum, the assist
ant president gets $4,000, and the six
vice presidents receive s3,600 each and
expenses when on the road. The broth
erhood has a strike fund of s500OOO
sometimes termed a protective fund.