List of Members of the A. F. G. W. U.

LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

By J. M. Price

Well, it looks like the most of us have pulled through the worst of the storm. At our last regular meeting the reports from the factory committees were all very good with the exception of Santa Ana, where our members are getting three days a week but even that beats these 50 cents per hour jobs in this man's town. They surely make you hit the ball for that old 50 cents per. And by the way our last meeting surely was well attended, over 50 members being present so I am led to believe that the members are taking more interest in their old friend, the A. F. G. W. U. Now if the members at Long Beach would drop around some meeting day I surely would be pleased and the men working at the McLaughlin plant might also drop in once in a while. Some of these days I may let the trade know that we have members here whom I have never seen in the meeting hall in the seven years I have been a member of Local Union No. 141. No doubt these members are getting slong all right but I often wonder if they should get in a jam if it would induce them to attend. If there is anything about the local union that is keeping you away come out and tell us about it.

Te Mission Glass Company is only operating a feeder machine on jellies at present. The Technical Glass Company has put on five shops making punch tumblers and jugs.

Here is a list of the members of Local Union No. 141: F. Abrahamson, Rex Aldridge, L.J. Anchor, T. Anderson, Paul Anderson, Bert Anderson, Ralph Bates, Russell Bates, William Beck, C. Beck, J. Bichel, Joe Blomgren, Lee Brannon, Ralph Brown, Ed. Brunner, L. Boettcher, L. D. (Jacker) Brannon, S. Carlson, Roy Chilcoote, A. Crammer, Gus Courdson, Nels Courdson, Mart Conroy, G. Cornell, F. Cornell, C.F. Daly, R. Dawson, A. Driesch, John Elmore, F. Foyt, N. Forbes, B. Franzen, H. Faught, F. Gordon, O. Glassen, Sig Glassen, Fred Glassen, F. Goodnow, C.C. Higgins, W. Henderson, F. Houk, H. Hugg, J. Hartman, C.W. Irwin, P. Higgins, A. Hartman, O. Keeley, Joe Kavanaugh, F. Kranz, C. Kerr, C. Leonard, S. Littleton, G. Littleton, W. Ludlum, Charles LaPrell, J.C. McKelvey, L. Mossbrook, H. Meyers, R. Moor, Thom O'Connell, J.M. Price, C. Peterson, B.E. Platt, J. Rohan, W. Rosseler, George Roche, B.C. Renegar, B. Rutter, William Sanderback, F. Senn, C. Schroder, A.F. Stagni, S. Schulic, George Schenk, F. Simkins, C.C. Sullivan, A. Shulick, W. Sullivan, P. Thrasher, H. Foger, Joe Sweeney, A. Vogel, William Wagner, Charles Wilson, Sam Woods, C. Zimmer, L. Zimmer, J. Eraison, E. Betyholtz, Ed. McGowan, C.C. Kerr, C. Rydbrink. Well, that is the list If I have missed any of you, come around to the meeting hall and tell me about it. Quite a bunch and from every port, old timers and new ones. Look them over brothers, you may find the name of someone that you have often wondered about. I suppose there are lots of other Flints out here working at something else.

I have had no word from Brother Jim McGee lately so I guess everything is O. K. on the chicken farm. The city is all hot as the census just finished gives it better than a million and a quarter and if they don't stop the Mexican and the Filipinos we ought to have two million in a few years. Don't forget that Ford has done his share in helping lots of these people to get here and I suppose some of them would like to have him help them leave. The old boy has put in a big plant at Long Beach and his wage list surely makes the C. of C. feel bad. The city has just voted $38,000,000 for improvements in the water department and claim they will put 3,200 men at work. Now don't rush out here looking for one of these jobs unless you are pretty well tanned. You folks back east may want to knov something about big business out here Well this may give you an idea of how she works. About three years ago an oil company out here sold an over issue of stock and from what the papers say took in about 40,000 customers to the tune of over $100,000,000 (read the figures and weep). Two men so far have been convicted and are now in the pen. Now for the strange part of this story. Your Uncle Sam convicted these men, not our state courts. Oh well, it's a great life if you don't weaken. Stay in there Bros., for you will surely live until you die. You came into this world all naked and bare, when you leave you know not where. Just be a good fellow here, we feel you will be a good fellow there.

It surely is going to be tough on the umpires now with this night baseball for they will have to fight the bugs as well as the wolves. Of course if they get in a jam, they can pull a fuse and they would be hard to find.