... { ( ; , "\ j } ~\ -r ' / ~ . ·JPUJRK:.ili.§lilEIDY JRY (())JeEillA1FJING lENGRNJEIEJR§ 9 JLOCAJL lUN]O.N·. N(E}).o 3 Loc'al 3. .ma:11 er leaves for Boston 1meeting· Victor Swanson, general manager of Local 3, left immedi­ ately after the local convention of the Union Labor Party for the annual national meeting of the American Federation of Labor being held this year in Boston: Swanson is the only delegate from Local 3 at the big meet- -,t A.FL. unions ·and shipyard ing. Prior to the AFL session he was to confer with General .J managements on the West President· William C. Maloney of the I. U. of o·. E. on craft , f Coast put··up an unusual pro- jur:.isdictional matters. He is expected to return to San .Francisco posal to the National War La- on October 1-5 . ·,·.:.: bor Board. Harry Metz is acting manager during Swanson's absence. Tl · · . k d th b . d fo I Metz il)S t completed an assignment in the Westwood-Suisun- . ' ·' appr6~r a a;la; of jot re~~~sifica- ville. sector whe.re Loc_al _Na.. 3 _have won several N. L. R. B. rtion and pay increases for 33,000 elections govermng 1unsd1ction m the wooas.1 , i f hipouilding workers, which will ! . ~efore he le_ft ~or the_ ~ast ~wanson mged all me.mbers liv­ ·1-r/save Uncle· Sam eight times as , mg m . San Francisco to vote m the mumc1pal elections to be . 'much as the wage · outlay. held November 2. living costs go milHon ·,o ··•;;. joint committee of the unions and the employers appeared at a '* * WLB hearing on behalf of the pay up-Up-UP. fight labor pr(ess .. ~ revisions. As •a demonstration of arm pet,ce issues debated see p~ge 3 see page 6 t heir unity on the question, both sines agreed upon H'arry F. Mor­ in AFLils annual com1ven.tion 'tpn, attorney for the Kaiser · ship- building interests, as their spokes- Boston- With the double objective of doing everything i:r:an. ~ possible to win the war and to win the peace', mor/:; than 500 ;. ,: Morto1{ pointed out that the job delegates converged on this city .for the 63rd annual conven­ r-· !'reclassifications are ·essential be- Eon o'f the American Federatior, of Labor. ,cause of new' tecl~niques .and p;·o~ As the representa)ives of . six million American workers Dredges ..........· ... ... , ......... __ 3 Reno ......................... __ _.. __ ... 2 cesses in West Coast shipbuiJdihg. gathered in the lobby of the Statler Hotel awaiting the con­ Eureka :.. ... :...... .-..... : ....... ___ 2 • Sacramento ·..... -..... :: ... _.. .. 3 j, Twenty-four classifications would ventiGn opening the consensuk of opinion was that the Amer­ ;; br, affect~d. ,.., · ican Federation of Labor and 1ts ·affiliated unions are now at · , ,Fin. Secretary ~.:.......... ___ 2 Salt., Lake City ................... 3 . Th~- changes W<>;ulc:1 yield pay peak strength. •' . •·>· . 1 ...,,.... • . Fresno ...... :............ .. -........ _ Z . , ,_,,_,a boosts ranging · up . to 33 . cents tn Reports ,from delegates coming in from every ,section. of the . San Francisco ........ _, __ )'~. " ·hour-, qut the average; for all 33,- · country indicate · that- war produc- i ·. · . ·• • Oakland ............. '. ., .. C'....... 5 San Jose -.......... -.............. 7, . 000 would be 10 cents". ,·.,·'a· t' ,. 'dl ., · - wt11ch . can ·be put mto op_e rat10n... !\1 ...,,. ,~. • • , ]';.forum. I't,on' .'· ,.1.s. procee. mg a a _ap1 y m I . ,, . 1 -- ,,., "d' · o-· -'c-· l ·· -,' l · b .;.,__ th t J • • · · • . : • · :. , a~ soon as ·the·.,fightm o-· ends,· ·. 0 ~\;_Q_gd,9n.,-~-- "...... :. a· --........ __ __ -~ -_ , ~· San·· Mateo, .:'~--: --·--- .... ·-- ·;;: 6 sa1 ·,.:,,. fl,, a11 anl).ua .. ,·" .. i:<S\~; ·.' _a . 1.areas,ng · pa,ce: tn the nat10n's s1lip- ' <' r, ' . -·: -' '.le, - -· 1. >v_ould.:r~e approximately $8,500,0_~0 yards, mu.nitions factories- a:iid air- Md's~ of the"/''delegates, ·arrived_ . ;ad_ded to the payrolk5': craft. plants. early m . Boston to'. attend the de- Snn Rafael .: ............. -.... 1. Morton pol,nted· out, . however, partmental, _c9nv~n~i_ons_ which.. The chief issues disturbing the Minutes of October 2 meeting ............. ...: .. .......... ___ _____ $ - that as a'Te~ult of the reclassifica- ·serve as a prelude for· 'the AFL's · · · labor leaders were the failure 'of ,tions, lar:ge' 1}umbers • of." worke·rs, annual conclave. Unusually larg_e· the Government to keep the cost maµily . in .t-he '1 Boilermakers' craft, attendance was. reported. at: t.he. of . living down to the levels at \~,Jio had. ,heretofore been confined meetings ·of the AFL Metal Tredes, which wages have been stabilized . to~s'pecfalized work; will be free to d . ff t f Building Trades , arid Union Label . : ,. , an t 11e a 1armmg e1 ec s o var- . - - ,.. P..~ ...rJorr ,n_. a,,ny wo. rk they are capab:e ious manpower co_ntrols p·ut 1.11t•0 , Trades annual meet;1 ng;;. o'f .do;ing,.·and ·it will be possible· to effect by the Government. ·* * * · ,Shift' ,. them ;i.bout where most Re. Hlv,.. ~L,;~/~.:. 'needed. A growing demand was openly s~n Fr.a~cisc@ eorn~._:e 11 labor'~~ ~n~[!j~~ · · expressed for prompt and decisive · ·~ f! @ · ~ t 1 That will :result in an eS imated action by the Government to bring re~.... c.r·ts dr.o~ in ~§ ·s3;.ving of over 50,000,000 man- . ~ §F' ~.,an ,imrancmsco. ·avor J . th8 th 'hou.rs of labor annually in ~:~~:s i:~0 :qu~t:~~:sit::;at~!ns~!~; i_@bS.· }!ro Georqe R. Reiliv will be the ,aptly terme~ it "a bi;l to enslai~ coast shipyards, equivalent to al- ~ area .1 - - ' most $70,000,000, ·or more than with the wage income of workers. P. E. Vandewarl.:, Treasurer next mayor of San . Francisco ' the American worker,'' yet, t hi_s e ight times the amount of the At the same time, . opposition to and Business Representative if organized labor has any- measure was fostered by candidite 'adaed payroll, Mortoff,explained-. any form of compulsory labor working out of the ,S an Fran- thing to say about it. ' Lapham. , -"U11der-Secr.etary of the Navy draft ,vas galhering momentum. cisco Office, repm·ts: Local Unions of the A . F. of George Reilly has a perfect ia- ·l 'Ralp.h Bard is preparing to certify These and many other vital na- L., the Railroad Brotherhoods, bor record. As a member of Hie . Sari Francisco-\Vo_rk the San l' h C I O · "to the board, if. it wishes, that the tional issues of particula1· -interest in as 'Ne 1 .as t e . t.are Board of Supervisors · he spon- :0\ adjustment . will mean a substan- to labo1' will be presented to the F rancisco Area has been good l\ 11 ~. united in their determination sored many labor measures a.rid 1 . 't iai' s.3.ving to the ,government in convention, debated, and_ voted til this laSt week._ Since that time to elect a friend of the work- has not one bad labor vote o.n his f.f .\ -he. cost o f b m'l d'mg s I.11ps, " M or t on t1po11·. Tl'.e· _po11·c1·es , de"t.dPd- - upo11 there has. been a considerable· mg. man t o th. e ,h 19. h es t 1oca 1 recor d . A s an empl oyer h'is rec-, \i.':s :said. by the convention will guide the drop noticed. office., "' ord toward those who wor!k for, i, * * * American Federation of Lal9or Several of the large j@bs are 0-11 Climax of the union _ backed wages is equaliy good. : _ . during t he coming year. the finishing ·end· Pacific Bridge As an official of the ·state Board ' -A.FL p~es"!dent at Hunters Point is nearly fin-· campaign to put a progressive. man . t'. T.h e f act th. a ·t tl1 e Conna 11 y-S m1·t 11 ished-:only abo'ut two weeks left. m· .ti le c·t1 y H a 11 , came· recen· tl · y of ·Equalization his kee11- k_nov_<V-.:· '::....{ I~ ~ 'ct h b th' . hl d' C d wl th u . L b p t . ledbae of . t ax matters ha" . ofteri ii\ · , · · T -f ,.,_ as . een oroug y 1s re - Barrett and . Hilp about the same. · 1en e mon a or ar y gave v ~ as -~- S.~pp.c. r. ",·. or 'ited during its brief ·beriod of ex: Eaton and. Smith . al'€ working Reilly an overwhelming vote. This been used to furtp..er the lot of the ~ .L" DI A · L:"H . t . 'tl. d h ·· . f ' t tl t d't' 1 1·t· I common man. Because of. this he . (HiT~-n._ ,Om ? ..:11x .;_·eu 1S ence pr ov1 e C eermg news or on tpe housing project at the par Y, 1e· r a,, I 101).a . C po l !Ca _ F.'' the convention, which wili-'unques- Hunters Point, with several of our branch of t he Central Labor Coun- has earned the aniniosi(JT of c~r- . Washing,ton, D. c.:_AFL P~esi- tiona:bly demand that Congress re- · members still employed: cil, the· Building' and Co~struction tain large financial interests, which aJnt Wili!.iam G~·een asked ' of.ficers peal this vicious anti-labor law· at Metropol~tan Housing project . is Trades Council, and the indepen- are now "getting even" through a ~C nati<m:a:r' an.ci -international un:~ ~nee. Strong disapproval .wa,s ex- still un·der .construction with the dent Railroad Brotherhoods· program of vilification in the em.; -,.. ·d,'---;t~'e federations· of labor, pressed of the effects of anti- public utilities and streets to be plumped itself squarely behind ployed-owned daily papers.