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6 NEWS OF THE LABOR WORLD O. M. BOYLE r *jsTrj5 C>^ At tho special mooting of bridge >s £j£^re3Ss*^ and structural iron workers' union " the charges pre ferred against Husiness Agent R. W. Smith, after a thorough examination, were dismissed and Smith was given a .vote of thanks by the 'local. W. BurK* was elpriod marshal for tlio parade and he will name Ills aids later. Repre sentatives from the home industry- com mittee were Riven the privileges of the floor and the subject will receive con sideration at the next meeting. All mcniliers are requested to be present next Monday night in sheet metal xvorkers' hall. President Ilickey was in the chair at ihe last meeting of united laborers of San Francisco. Fourteen were added to the roster. The sum of $175 was paid as the weekly assessment to the metal workers on strike in Los Angeles. A imsnber of rneinhers turned in the peti tions for the proposed charter amend ment and asked for more. It will require 12.r.00 signatures of voters. In the last two or three days. 2.000 names have been secured. Committees are visiting the various unions to get signatures., and they are meeting with . success ' everj-where. The business agent re ports all members working. \u25a0r» -: \u25a0•">•; \u25a0\u25a0: ••$:? At last nighfs meeting of the united glass workers' union it was decided to discontinue the assessment on the mem bers levied several months ago to as sist those members not employed. All members are. now working. It was from this assessment that funds were raised to support the mountain camp. Th^re will be a rpecial meeting of upholsterers' union No. 2S next Tues- day night to receive a committee from the furniture trades association. This committee will address the local on the proposed wage scale. It increases the daily wage from ?4 to $*.00. Two can didates were obligated at the last meet ing. It was voted to spend $400 for regalia on labor day. A donation of $500 was made to further the union label campaign and to agitate for home industry. This* sum was placed in the hands of the committee handling these matters. Stablemen's union met Tuesday night p.X. its headquarters and the acting busi ness agent reported that two stables 3iad decided to give union conditions during the last week. Several addi tions were made to the roster '. • v--~s • --• • Members of sheet metal workers' union No. 104 are requested to leave the size of hat wanted for labor day parade with the financial secretary before the next meeting on Friday night. At the last meeting the usual weekly dona tion ©f $112.50 was paid to the Los Angeles strike fund. The apprentices will all be in the parade. The uniform decided upon 1 is blue, overalls, while shirts with black elbow sleeves, red neckties and white hats. -:\u25a0'-/ •; * • Fourteen candidates will be obligated at the next meeting of chauffeurs' union. The union has been successful in unionizing an auto company In Crarrell street. A special meeting will be held next Saturday. • • •> Stationary firemen's union Xo. 46 will have no meeting next Tuesday night owing to the primary elecetion. At the last meeting a donation was made to the Los Angeles strike fund. " \u25a0: •;':..•\u25a0 • ... '\u25a0\u25a0 • '\u25a0- Secretary George Sandman of the iron trades council reports that the Los Angeles machine blacksmiths' union before the strike had just enough members to hold the charter. Since the agitation In the southern city was L^gun the membership has increased to 10 fc — over tenfold. I Marine cooks'- and stewards* union at its last meeting voted the sum of $30.0 for the strikers in Los Angeles. This union has no representation in .the labor council, but believes it should share its part of the burden to union ize Los Angeles. • • \u2666';=-:; Reports come from Contra Costa county that the labor market is short of men. It is said several thousand can find work in the county, especially at Walnut Creek. Martinez and Con vord. Any laborers out of work can •find work in these places. Reports from Treasurer George Gun rey were received at the meeting of Smolders' union No. 164 Tuesday night. He was more encouraged than ever over the situation in Los Angeles. -Thfe usual weekly donation of $175 was paid into th« strike fund. In -drawing for position in the third division of the Labor day parade the molders drew first place. They have a drum corps and the division will be preceded by a band. Therefore, the local is anxious to exchange places further down the line- with pome union, otherwise the band and drum corps would follow each other. The local's baseball nine I m^ I'kr^ ' -... " ' ~ - . ' j^P^jjl * BrtJverys OvTV.Botding^haCsy Important: IrS^^ . , JOHN WIELAND ' BREWERY, J-Sah ! Francisco has sent a challenge to any .picked nine of the building trades council's unions, the proceeds to be given to the Los Angeles strike fund: Two ad ditions were made to the membership and two honorary cards issued. At the last meeting of marine fire men's union Tuesday night $30 was contributed to metal workers on strike in Los Angeles. There is a movement on foot for Tcafliiiation- of this; organ ization with the state . federation . of labor. It has not be^V identified with the federation for several years. ,The local will make nominations for dele gates to the international in the near future. • • • Griscom Plan Rejected . -^t . MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 10.— The Gris com district plan in connection the international typographical union, providing that the executive board be empowered to institute districts for furthering educational .work, was .'one of the important subjects for discusßjon when the convention met today. :' Another important question consid ered was the provision governing the apprentices. One proposal considered was that ap preutie-es employed in offices *• where •^> -tting devices are handy must be how to operate them. '; . • priority law, which opened the v.a.. ... .-r the oldest "sub" printers in the nev.s;j;ip<rr offices of the country, was upheld by tl" % convention in the adop tion of the unfavorable report of the laws committee on local option. -\:% . The proposition was submitted by the New York delegates ;>nd called for an amendment to, the general laws t>y leaving the filling of vacancies to the local union as a substitute for the pri ority rule. The laws committee made; ftn- un favorable report' on the Griscom propo sition and. the convention upheld the committee report on the ground that it | was not feasible. . . The proposition -of the Chicago union asking for, one label for all branches of the printing trades was referred to the laws committee. Delegates to the international typo graphical union tonight enjoyed an opt ing at Lake Minnetonka as the guests of the Minneapolis committee. The vote on the place of the next convention will tak« place" tomorrow morning. San Francisco and Salt Lake City are said to be the only places un der consideration. Mine Workers' Convention INDIA:\APOLrs. Aug. 10.— With sev eral western and ; eastern delegates \ already lfere, the special national con vention of the united mine workers of America will open tomorrow. About 1,000 delegates are expected. An attempt is being made to cover up the factional fight between Presi dent Thomas L. Lewis of the national organization and' President' John 11. Walker of the Illinois body. - President Lewis refused to discuss the breach. Lewis admitted that con ditions facing the. miners' union .were the most critical in Its history. , SAN FRANCISCO FIRMS MAY HAVE PREFERENCE Contracts to Be Let. for Fur- nishing Custom House \u25a0;. V W. W. Stevens, head of the division of equipment for the treasury depart ment, who is here relative to the fur nishing of the new custom house, as sured Congressman Julius Kahn yes terday that the local merchants would be given the preference in furnishing the new federal building, providing their bids were as low as the eastern firms*. •It will cost $50,000 to furnish the building. Although a local house sub mitted the lowest bid ' for the electric and gas fixtures in the building, the contract was awarded to an eastern house. Stevens said this had been done because the easterners had agreed to install the fixtures 30 days earlier than the San Francisco house. They failed W live up; to the time part of the contract, and Congressman Kahn" said yesterday that he intended taking the matter up with the treas ury department at Washington, D.^C. ECCENTRIC WILL IS FILED FOR PROBATE Testator Wanted Funeral to Be Merry Festival The- strange- will of H. C* Massie, druggist, details of which were pub lished ex*luslv>iy in The Call two weeks ago. was' filed-' with the' county clerk yesterday- for probate. Massie, "who was a druggist, directed that "beer, sandwiches and lively music" be fur nished at the ceremony of cremating his remains, if he left enough. moneyi to pay for It. He directed further that his THE .SAN, FRANCISCO. GALL, ' -THURSDAY,- AUGUST- 11^: 1910: bodylbe carried to the crematory in a plain -deal ; box in<a> common- express wagon.^that "•- cycle -be - Invited * to Physicians R^miriend Castoria V^- Societies^ £^ ph^cMsflwith: "\ remilte most result of tiiee facts: evidence that it is hafmles^ secofli#--^at it-not only '^^ lates the f00d :7%/r^-^^ fcr dastbriOiL It is absolutely safe. It does &tc^^ and does not stupefy. It iSviinpeiSodtiiiiig Syrups, B^inaji's'Drops^Gop^y'S; Oordial^ e^ TMs is a gop^ ever, is to^ expose danger and record th^m^ for poisoning im ought to end. To our knowledge, Castoria is a remedy which produces comppsureVand health, by regulating tie sysiem— not by stupefying it— and our readers are entitled to. the tormatioru-^^ \u25a0 :. v Letters from Prominent Physicians — ~~~1 addressed to Chas, .H. Fletcher, B|Sl|! rifiWl. PJBIiL. ! Dp * B ' Halstead Scott t of Chicago, Ills., says: "I have prescribed you? fePln^ ; lldylabi^^3i I CaBtorla ot teo * or infants during my practice, and find it very eatisf actory." jIIJpS |-, . . . -^^^^^^^^ I Dr * William Belmont, of Cleveland, Ohio, saya: "Your Castoria stands- \u25a0ffi^S i first In its class. In my thirty years of practice I can say. I never have E|m '! -• oSfc^nSßßl found any t n^g that bo filled the place." , , - Wfisk \ PUSS > I-U Kill I " Dr * J * H " Taft ' ot Brookl y n « N - Y - • 35 MI nftve UB « d yoir Castoria and |p tfjofiiH Rjgjjpi^^i^gßjl||| found it an excellent remedy in my household and private practice for PPgP% : ;I }~T | ; ,^~ =^l ' man y y ears - The formula is excellent." . /vi '- . : , HPfilii I alcohol 3 per cent j Dr * R# J * Hamlen » <>* Detroit, Mich., sayarri prescribe your Castoria B?!^S' : AV^getablelTcpanaionferAs-I extenslvel y» as X.haTe never found anything to equal it for children's fisgi 8" Similating t&cFbotf antlße^iila I troubles - lam a^are that there are imitations in the field, but I alwaya fiafija 1 " tin^tl« Stomachs andßwdstf | Bee that mr P atienta sH Fletcher's." ST^mmmmymßSßßßM McCrann, of Omaha, Neb., Bays: "As the father of thirteen. H [ ; p >w>< y-^v i> *»«f tl[Js?it^| children I certainly kno,w something about your great medicine, and aside X S^W ' ] * Tom my own family experience I have in my years of practice found Caa» PiiifN Promotes DigpstionJChrerfU- , toria a Popular and efficient remedy in almost every home." Wwi : ncssandßCTtrontainSKitter Dr * J :*~ Clausen, of Philadelphia. Pa., says: "The name that your Cas* ; ; OpiunuMorphine norMioeral. " torla haB mad e for itself in the tens of thousands of homes blessed by the v §fi]pjfij'i NOT NARCOTIC i presence of children, scarcely^ needa to be supplemented by the endorse- BpSllji : !""* 1 ment °* tne Medical profession, but I, for one, most heartily endorse It and Irlgpj! ISxptefoU]kS942LfllW& j believe It an excellent remedy." ,'. \u25a0. ,;.... W$ I S^fT^ \ I Dr - R - M- Ward . of Kansas City, Mo., says : "Physicians generally do not 1 §fw ~"Jk&ffeSi&- I prescribe proprietary preparations, but in the case of Castoria my expert BPSp I */te££! \ ence * Ilke of many otiier P n yBiciana, has taught me to make an ex- • Ej^gj! I j^MakSsiß* i ception. I prescribe your Castoria in my practice because I have found It fe&tf SJt. I to be a thoroughly reliable remedy for children's complaints. Any physl« gfgtt 1 !' i&y**7*m * ' j dan T7ho has raised a family, as I have, will join me in heartiest recon* pSSSS;; ApcrfectßeiwdyfbTCotts^- mendation of Castoria." - % . gg| J WorrasjConvulsioTisJOTrish GBWUIWE \#A9 lUX I A ALWAYS g&'| .\u25a0 nessandLossoFSittP. >* Bears the Signature of \u25a0l^P^i The Kind You Have Always Bought B»ct copy of Wtapper. \u25a0" In Use For Over 30 Years. i \u25a0'\u25a0 -: ' -•:\u25a0\u25a0,\u25a0 -\u25a0•«^->. \u25a0.* TMC CCNTAUR cOMPART, TO MU*MAV *T*CCT, NCW YORK CrTT. 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S. fc If^^JJA S7S- Market St., Flood Bldg. 42 Foivetl Street I i&i£pllir San f ranciica San Francisco ifliif^^B Crystal wmSm **>omino ZlTahdO-SEAIIDBOXIS! I BEST SUGAR FOR TEA AND COFRE! . r ""^- '^ BY mm p/ERYWHERE! ' . \u25a0\u2666- — \u25a0 \u25a0 : 'rr \u25a0 \u2666 | ; f Eeal Estate Bargains Abound in The Sunday Call J