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He moved to San Francisco in 1886, where he rose through the ranks to become president of Carpenters Local 22, then President of the Building Trades Council in 1896. He was one the founder of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion League that 2 years later renamed into the Asiatic Exclusion League .
Millmen 550—A History of the Militant Years (1961–1966) of Local 550, United Brotherhood of Carpenters. Self-published, 1990. Kazin, Michael. Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1987. ISBN 0-252-01345-X
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At the same time the union's old enemy, the Carpenters union, resumed its jurisdictional war with it. Conditions improved somewhat with the advent of the New Deal and the Roosevelt administration's creation of the Works Progress Administration , a public works project that employed thousands of iron workers and other construction workers.
The locals were forcibly merged into a new affiliate, Local 803, which was in turn supervised from McCarron's Los Angeles offices. In 1992, carpenters' international union president Sigurd Lucassen and McCarron ordered a snap one-day election to select new Local 803 leaders. Nominations and the election were held on the same night.
The image shown in the Instagram post does depict a protest of Trump’s layoffs and was included in an article by the San Francisco Chronicle about the Feb. 22 incident at Yosemite National Park.
The carpenters, then the second-largest union in the AFL, withdrew from the Building Trades and initiated a series of jurisdictional strikes against the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers at job sites nationwide. The BTD retaliated by asking AFL president Samuel Gompers to revoke the carpenter's union charter. Instead, Gompers led the AFL ...
Carpenters February 22, 2011 Local 361 Hermantown, MN Carpenters December 15, 1887 Local 427 Papillion, NE Carpenters March 20, 2012 Local 464 Mankato, MN Carpenters January 1, 2003 Local 548 St. Paul, MN Millwrights December 4, 1900 Local 587 Sioux Falls, SD Carpenters July 13, 1949 Local 606 Virginia, MN Carpenters May 8, 1953 Local 678 ...