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ANTI-UNIONISTS BUMPED. Sacramento, Cal.-Trade union opponents who insist on being known as "open shop" advocates-have received some hard bumps at the hands of the California legislature. The antis are headed by President Koster, of the San Francisco chamber of commerce, which recently started a million dollar campaign in favor of "law and order." This element favored the Goetting bill, providing for "compulsory mediation in strikes on public utilities." Legislators were not tricked by the contradictory term "compulsory mediation," and the scheme received only 16 votes in the assembly, where 41 votes is necessary to pass.

The Ballard bill, outlawing the secondary boycott and the sympathetic strike, was another piece of legislative wisdom, according to President Koster, but it received only two votes in the senate judiciary committee. The Rominger bill, which would pro

hibit unions from passing apprentice regulations, received eight votes in the senate, where 21 votes is necessary to pass.

And to add to the woes of antiunionists, the senate has passed an anti-injunction bill favored by organized labor and drawn along the lines of the Clayton law.

AN ALARMING INQUIRY.

A patient coming out of ether in the ward after an operation exclaimed audibly, "Thank God! that's over!"

"Don't be so sure," said the man in the next bed, "they left a sponge in me and had to cut me open again."

And the patient on the other side said, "Why, they had to open me, too, to find one of their instruments."

Just then the surgeon who had operated on the patient stuck his head in the door and yelled, "Has anybody seen my hat?"

The patient fainted.

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In Memoriam

Philadelphia, Pa., May 21, 1917.

Local No. 5, I. U. E. C.

Whereas, It has pleased the Almighty to remove from this earth Brother JOHN CROSSIN, a member of Local No. 5, I. U. E. C.

Whereas, In view of the loss which our organization has sustained, as a just tribute to the memory of the departed, who was always a loyal member, therefore, be it

Resolved, That Local No. 5 share in the condolence of the family of the deceased brother; that the charter to be draped in mourning, and these resolutions be spread on the minutes of the Local.

W. B. MACALISTER,

Recording Secretary.

CHAS. P. FISHER,

President.

In Memoriam

SAN FRANCISCO'S PIONEER ELEVATOR MAN

The cycle of time has claimed its reward in the passing to the great beyond of COFRAN I. HALL, April 9, 1917, and Local No. 8, International Union Elevator Constructors, joins with the family in sorrow at this, their sad hour.

Mr. Hall was born in the state of New Hampshire in the year 1845, and while yet in his teens, he enlisted in the Union Army, where he served four years in the preservation of the Union, and at the time of his death was a member of the G. A. R.

After the war he took up mechanical engineering, coming to California in 1870, where he followed various occupations, and while employed as a stationary engineer he conceived the idea of the Hydro-Steam elevator.

Associating himself with Patsy Cahill, they formed the company of Cahill & Hall, with offices and a shop at 111 Mission street, San Francisco, in the year 1888, where he continued in business until the time the company was absorbed by the Otis Company (1900). Mr. Hall went with the Otis Company at that time as superintendent of hydraulic work, where he remained to the time of his death.

Many improvements in the elevator industry are due to his inventive genius. His uprightness of character and sterling qualities have won for him many friends in the business community of San Francisco, and our little world is better by his having lived in it.

Our small band of elevator constructors here in the West have witnessed the coming and going of "the young and the old and the low and the high," as we will all more or less pass on and out unnoticed; but the peculiar characteristics of our lost friend and benefactor, his solicitations for the welfare of us, who worked under his supervision, his many humane acts in behalf of his associates calls forth these expressions of the sentiment of his many friends of Local No. 8, I. U. E. C.

Mr. Hall's life stands out as the fruits or an example of the fruits of honesty-in that he died a poor man.

His charities extended throughout a long and useful life-not beginning with his ending.

His orders were delivered without thought of poetic expression, but a kindlier heart never beat under a rougher nature.

He gave to the world his best and robbed it of nothing.

His many kindly acts are indelibly written in the hearts of those who knew him best.

His word was his bond and who can say more of his fellowman? He died as he lived-a MAN.

Sincerely and respectfully,

ED. POOLE,

Secretary, Local No. 8.

SAFE LOADS FOR STEEL “I” ́BEAMS, 10 Inch.

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to spring and strain structure.

LOW-WAGE EMPLOYERS

CHECKED BY GOMPERS

Washington. Newspaper claims that President Gompers is against strikes in war times is discussed as follows in the current issue of the Trades Unionist, published in this city:

"То а man who has not lost his head in these martial days, it looks as though President Gompers outpointed those patriotic citizens who are interested in the question of cheap labor, and he also sobered up a lot of organized workers immediately following the declaration that war exists.

"Many state legislatures were in session at the time and certain employers took advantage of the excitement to insist that all labor restrictions be removed, under the false theory that this would increase production. Long hour advocates were in their element. Officers of the New York State Federation of Labor were even caught in the swirl and signed a plea that the labor laws of that state be set aside during the war period.

"This sentiment grew in volume and its logical ending would annul the efforts of years of sacrifice by organized workers who have secured legislation that protects the lives and limbs of the toilers of our land.

"Sam Gompers knew it was useless to argue with excited men or those whose motives were sinister. Besides, the time was too short for educational work. So he made a flank move as a member of the council of national defense and urged that no labor law be annulled unless sanctioned by that body and that no strike that would jeopardize the successful prosecution of the war be called unless considered by the council.

"The plan silenced the low-waged folks, who imagined they won by another route. This opinion was voiced by the daily press in sensational headlines, 'Gompers Is Against Strikes.'

"And some trade unionists who ought to know better, and who have forgotten their denunciations of the

'capitalistic press,' have swallowed as gospel truth the big headlines, which had no connection with the story these newspapers printed of the council's denunciations.

"For 50 years Sam Gompers has insisted that the worker owns his own labor power and that no one, be he president, legislator or judge, can say him nay. This principle has been woven into the warp and woof of the organized labor movement, and while our movement welcomes the mediation and concilation offers of any institution, it is a reflection on a trade unionist's thinking ability when he points to sensational headlines in newspapers as proof that the one individual most responsible for the principle of man's ownership of his own labor power has abandoned it overnight and announces he will carry the trade union movement with him.

"We suggest these unionists 'book up' on the rights accorded them in the charter issued to their organizations by the American Federation of Labor -that they have sole jurisdiction over their own affairs.

"And after they have done this, let them recall the frenzied zeal of cheaplabor employers for the abolishment of labor laws, and let them answer this question:

"How was this movement sidetracked?"

ANCIENT LAW IS BATTERED.

Hartford, Conn.-The state senate has passed a bill that would prohibit the attachment of the body of a union man in a court action growing out of strikes. Connecticut is the one state that permits the sheriff to place a man in jail, in default of bail, where an action for damages has been started against him.

The workings of this law were shown in the case of Bridgeport striking iron molders who were sued for damages by their employers, and then arrested and held in jail under $50,000 bonds. Trade unionists have protested against this practice.

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