nativist leanings. While McCarthy's administration was largely scandal-free, it suffered from a number of political failures, including the contentious effort to import water from the Hetch-Hetchy dam in Yosemite to San Francisco. Reform-minded businessmen chose James Rolph, Jr., known as "Sunny Jim", to run against him. Rolph won and the ULP faded from the scene. McCarthy returned to the Republican Party, serving as a delegate to Republican National Convention in 1920. See also Olaf Tveitmoe Footnotes Further reading Walter Galenson, United Brotherhood of Carpenters: the First Hundred Years. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983. Michael Kazin, Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. Robert Edward Lee Knight, Industrial Relations in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1900-1918. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1960. External links Collection of vignettes of the history of California labor History of the 1907 streetcar workers' strike 1863 births 1933 deaths Mayors of San Francisco People from County Limerick United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America people Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Irish carpenters American carpenters California Republicans