Show KEEP CLEAR OF OFSAN SAN FRANCISCO Leader Says Ruined City Is no Place for Skilled Workmen I I I There is nothing doing for labor in San Francisco for some time said M 11 MJ J 5 Sullivan vice president of the Inter International International International national Electrical cal Workers addressing the Utah Federation of Labor at its regu lar mr meeting last evening Many men are rushing rushin in there who will have to be fed In some way the impression has bas gone abroad that there Is unlimited work to be had at S 8 or 10 a day dat d This is wrong When there is work there organized labor will let organized orga labor know it We have had our troubles since the fire We have every ever eve right to be proud of the laboring man in San Francisco After the destruction of everything he was the first to come to the front The Tho Building Trades council offered to wipe out Its trade jurisdiction and the elec dee and other workers were not be hind The employers were not so gen generous generous generous erous While we were willing to take our share of the burden we were not prepared to meet the proposition of ot work worl ing lug ten hours a day da at single time and on Sundays and holidays This would not be fair when men were walking about the streets idle and looking for a chance to work Not Willing to Shut Men Out We met them in everything else We offered to do everything to facilitate the setting of things in order We would drop trade distinctions and allow a union man of some trade to work on another trade if he could do the work but we were not willing to shut men out by working any such hours I took a firm stand on this Because we would not give ghe in on this the employers misrepresented mIsrepresented misrepresented us I must repeat this Is no time for a tradesman n to go to San Francisco The only work offering is cleaning brick There will be nothing else doing for some time tim timeA timeA e eA A large portion of the time of the meeting was taken up in discussing a question not new to the Federation that of the establishment A number of the unions had bad demurred atthe at cost It was finally determined to give the committee in charge of the matter two weeks more to lay the plan before the affiliated bodies and get their definite views |