PACKING HOUSE WORKERS TO ADMIT JAPANESE TO UNION

That the most effective way of meeting the competition of the Japanese is to organize him, was the decision made by Butcher Workmen's Local Union No. 186, at its weekly meeting, held in the Labor Temple last night. As a result of the decision, the union will admit to membership Japanese now employed in Seattle packing houses. About thirty Japanese are said to be affected by the decision.

The constitution of the Amalgamated Association of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, with which Local 186 is affiliated, contains no provision excluding Asiatics from membership, and the local union therefore found itself free to solve the local problem to suit its own conditions.

The union concurred in the action of the Central Labor Council in indorsing and recommending for adoption a resolution introduced in the City Council by Councilman T.H. Bolton for the establishment of a central rental bureau to deal with the housing problem and to eliminate rent profiteering by abolishing all private rental agencies.

Seven new members were initiated.