VOL. HLII UJIRSHIUGTOn, D.,[. noIEu BER, 1943 riO. 11 2/e'mY's a,&o or Brother Marshall Leavitt of T>. . No. 124 ras been *,,bittedin rvialn, /r.ms by others of ou, memhership. Mr. leavitt says that the po., as here pated wan recently recited in its entirety at a union gotherisg, by Brother t. U. electrician in Kansas Cit! in Ly,'elyn, o ldest point of union msmberahip. Brother Lern' ,ommittedit to memonrg at the time it was pr~inted in I.e Et"CMICAL Woxkyas' JOtiaNAt 4ome 40 tyears ag. sends us the ftllowiug poem whih AT THE GOLDEN GATE St. Peter stood guard at the golden gate With solemn mien and heart sedate. A shrewd figure came and stood Beside St Peter so great and good. "Oh thou who guardeat the gate," said he. "I have come hither beseeching thee, To let me enter the heavenly land And play a harp In the angel band. "Of me. St. Peter, there is no doubt, There is nothing in heaven to bar me out; I've been to servies twice a week And almost always I rise and speak. 'I've told the sinners about the day When they'd repent fron their evil way. talked to I've talked to them loud ed I've them long, For my lungs are good and my voice is strong. "You see I've always been content to live On what the conipies agreed to give. I've never grumbled, T'e never struck Ive never mixed with union truck. "Hlere s a compsay's letter of recommend, Which I hope you'll read before you send For the angel guide to the throne of grace It might gain for mn a higher place. "And I ought to have a large reward For never owning a union card, S.o open, St. Peter, and let me in Out of this world of sorrow and sin." I'lve heard of you and your gift of gaba You're what is known on ear;h as a scab," Thereupon he rose to his stature tall And pressed a button upon the wail, And he said to the imp who answered the bell, Eacort this fellow around to hell." But say even the devil couldn't stand tho meell Of a cooking scab on a griddle in hell! "It would caus a revolt, a strike. I know, If I send you down to the imps below. r on earth and tell Go back to you master That They don't even want a scab in hell'" TAi. q""p came to us a faw years back. It's etU good& CURRENT COMMENT A woman in a drugstore looking at an electric shaver asks the clerk, "Now will this work an AD and BC current?"' CHARLSS MAUNSELL, L. U. No. 316 WHEN THE "OLD TIMER" LEARNED) TO CLIMB They didn't use safety belts, when the "ld timer" learned to climb. They didn't strap themselvesto poles they couldn't take the time. They carried the crass-arms up the poles and lagged them in the gain. The wires they carried up also, and burried down again. They didn't tarry on a pole when they hung on, with one heel. They dug the holes and raised the poles and while resting bucked the reel. Grnts didn't loaf around the poles just to send material up. The lineman cheerfully did all that when"old tinmer" was a pup. They never heard of splicing sleeves and gadgets we think nice. They took the old connectors in hand and served a Western Union splice. The spurs they used were the western typr that strapped outside the shin rubber for goods; they They didnt go mnih trusted to skill to win. They slng the praise of the good old days, when life was most sublime. But we know there were no "good old days" when "old tiner" learned to climb. E. L. HAPPEN, L. U. No. 77. * * * Linen,,,, Lonnie of I.. fl. No. r*oe sent Is this reflection on Election Day several yars ago. TV, 'na bmlsh it lp and apply it aprin Pay no heed to ballyhoo But help, Lthe nb who have helped you, And so this fall. let's vote our thanks., friends of Labor's ranks. To the proven THE SERVICE STAR Cv/wa Brother 0. Gardner, press seretrary /or L. U. No. 34R, Calgay, Alta., Canada, sent us. theofollnig son, "The Alask. Highway." It i a parody on one entitled "Working on the Railway.," whibh tnan.y n. our members probably know. THE ALASKA HIGHWAY In nineteen hundred and forty-ore, The Alaska Highway was begun, The Alaska Highway was hegan, The great Alaska Highway. Chores: Patal - sats - ori - a, patal - atsi - or - a, - a, ti -o Patsi Working on the highway. Tn nineteen hunireu I found myself with I found myself with Working on the and forty-two, nothing to do, aothing to do, highway. In nineteen hundred and forty-three, The overseer said to me, The overseer said to ae, Go work upon the highway. In nineteen hundred and forty-four, My hands were red and my feet were sore, My hands were red and mly feet were sore, Working on the highway. In nineteen hundred and fortyfve, I found myself more dead than olive, I found myself mnre dead than alive, Working on the highway. In nineteen hundred and forty-six. I jumped upon some dynamite sticks., I jumped upon some dynamite sticks, Laying beside the highway, Tn nineteen hundred and forty-seven, I found myself on the way to heaven, I found myself on the way to heaven, Working on the highway. In nineteen hundred and forty-eight, I found myself at the pearly gate, I found myself at the pearly gate, Working on the highway. A symbol oT the prestL hlue, o'field white, Engraved on red-edged It stands for warriors bravo and true, Who gave their utmost in the fight! In nineteen hundred and forty-uin, I got my harp ard my wings divine, I got my harp ard my wings divine, Working on the highway. A symbol of thye purest gold, Engraved on rededged field of white, It stands for heroic feats untold By those who gave all in the fightt In nlneteen hundred and forty-ton, If you like this song I'll sing it again, If you like this song I'1I sing it again, Working nn the highway. And[ Father Time In our hearts shall In golden letters all their sacrifies Their precious lives lost for a cause so Forever in mankind's memory shall engrave spell, brave dwell! A Bit o' Luck, ADS CLICK, L. U. No. a. Where, oh where, are all the folks Who used to send us clever jokes? "Lnnhie" and "fDuke" and "Sleepy Steve' And others from whom we did receive Poesi and quips and other joys. So cone, nn now how's about It, bnys? 0j4Jhx4 o'4At. Otfaf InTEnnRTIlnnH ELECTRICAL WORKERS nd OPERATORS PUBLISHED MONTHLY Q.M Aaq",aia ,e4 dda Frontispiece-Ihdustry 1~200 4294 teen4 Si., AV. Ownership vs. Control of Manpower Slowly A. T. & T. Tolls Are Whittled D)own A. F. of L. Sees Economic Changes in United States Brown's Broadcast Cements South American Friendship Cartels Are Super-Governments Rulirg Trade L. U. 110 Maintains Fine Apprentice Program - - _ 397 398 400 401 . 402 403 406 _ 408 409 421 424 426 429 1. E.E. W. Dominates Electric Utility Field - Woman's Work Correspondence - Official Business - - II Memoriam Death Claims Paid - Official Receipts 396 - Formulae Developed for Estimating Labor on Jobs Inspectors See Value of Maintenance Work Brotherhood Votes to Aid Military Membership Necessity for Proposed Assessment - 389 390 391 392 394 395 The Yanks Are Coming, East, West, South, North Editorials t" 5, Lb. e. Page 386 387 The Second Front Local Union Sees Research Basis for Planning If We Don't Plan, Unemployment Inevitable *4/ . - .... * This Journal will .... t hI held responsible or iews expressed by correspondents. Tho first of each montL is the dosing date; all elp3 must he in our honds on or before. Chato We are always glad to hear. frotn o)lr members oln the firing line. A V-nail letter ha recently come froII. anmhembe of L. 1L Nt. 226, George E. from sote Sout h Pacifitc iplan, place ting flwII, I writes us he is in charge of the electrical work o, this island nl bas I all, membeas of the BrothrIhood under his directio. All of ther ate zealous for the halrtt, welfare of the union ill fatU,'e years. Alldrew J. "Amog labo, can Icitt-rnaitkrpna] tprel, i 1201 ]5th Sr., S. n.. 'l. E~iW ARY, A. thOL, IVIign 5 T. ( bllternullioy'al TrifisLhlr. VW . A souIth Sixth Ae., MI. Vern... VICI', PlRESIIMENTS First Diztrklt E. rhlrk Disttric It WILLAM Di W l.ER ...... 102. Iity prll{, n Bld.I. 121 N rtrh Rroad St , P'hiamlelphia 7. Pa. ];earth Di Iistrict Rltgo 15 T17, N.H.( Fifth Ttistrict (Hi W iodward Sixth Diitrict 1301 LEnk Sh.,i ATU, I] Ilhl, t..NNE.I 14, (hit Ch.(Itllnd C. X. BaTtKE {IrII. l. a-IiimghII . Ala M .1. IoyI Dl'm I hiawo 13, III Tdvtl Ditliet ! W. L, INGaM, 11641 [,,ightoril St.i f Eighth District 511 Deliver Ihbllre Wiortlh4, TIe, II W. lKI, lidgif ... r.. .I 2, (,)oI NOith J)istrict J4 S'OTl ~]iINt; 910( f(etlral Tu.er,. SLL F.ra'.cisco 3 Calio S10 a.uth WVells St.i Il,,I. oI.. f hI . III 1;oi N. y. the sthimulatig voice and infuenee of the labor press- sta r.d high. U'nhmn papers, pubIishld by and for (FIAJa RS .1l. N'AIY-,EN. i'h b. ...... isttrsit F. L, K,.r, 95 BeatoL St., }lyrh PIlki 3$1.Mss Ihird Disitrict WiiA~lllJA C( I;TI 21014 5 Laix & linire Blbci. Fourth District ' },. pRati2iD St , N. E, Wiishingba 21 ). C, Fifih District DlN MAlNIN.; 1:1mm No, Wells St. O'hiciilg, C, T1]. Si xh Dist ridt I. W T ,LA(:, Ž025 2id lCdtI'mtoite ArparnhltrnlI S evertLb istrijet arid the th len. Call atrousIl wotrki-s' awareness ef the u1nremitting ailll ever-ifitreasilgticed forp irodut-thti for more snti production until the final great day of the Axis' uner.mlitional surrIfrr. TI seemIlclS ...iy to add thatI the labr presshasI... g ben doing it 4!!37 W, (uyle, Ave,, (Chiam,41. Ill. first Dlistrict IIAR¥ VAN AnIIS.A...,II. 130I E. 25th St., New York II), N Y. S'egold s mole G0 7 INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVECOUNtIL .'r,I;,E R. R. 3, [,IIio ( t, Canada See ri.dI litrict Jo."N J. RIAN lira. 239. Park SI.Lu.,r BLr. l Bostint lIIIa 11O[AN. special SIIIghlt, anri tmaintain Ititertiiitio iil Secretary I; M . [i (,1iAZ T. I-h S201St., N. W- Washin.rgt on 5, D. ( iler, the coti hirhulhios wh ih matke,II these cays df uibOd men EXEC LTIVE OFFICERS hien sistaIt to vice 'hra oIItin if the lahor production oilice, V'PH. has this to say about the labor pess: 1Vaglhh, (:1II 211fGue..rrero St. San Ir:drhmh Ilistriet .J ~.h --'.L iii ~ 1 tlOn 5. I) ( fime job i, that dihection. "But the laor press and the o,gla...at cns fol which it speaks ]ansi he eVeir nore}zeabout in irdei that our c(untry may ie ablh Io meet the in(](!iug dernan&- forl tlal',itioT.s. ma.11 nl~ terial and eqlp.enl.nt which the quick(tIllig tempo lmd theexjIaidiing scope or the fight aguimct irut ",ne ,ie,rake Illie vit.al every day. S 4. P4otH N 3rnlio 2. (Ilfii L MOlI T~lpe (hi (over phlItgrnlph, can 'ur flontispiece ibis iil ,cr- hc .... tr I-S- of tlhe It. S. ItMiea- of Re.lania- 386 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operalots INDUSTRY. THE SECONlD FRONT, HAS ALWAYS HAD ASPECTS OF THEI fATTLE LINE THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL WORHERS And OPERATORS OFFICIAL PUDLICATIO aM rt Wn ,4o VO)L. XLMI ^ RANGE -Alen at Work' yThis fain is vritten Inage a1hove the poliies and activities of the War Mi..n..power CoTimission. This agency ha. been in operation for mire than a year Ind has failed to nnly ze the labor supply question honestly ai.d fully, and IDilia s has failed to bring forth policies tiat fit into the factual picture of available workers inl this c.untry. Sch uniskiiled performance is destinedd to brine disaster upon the handling of ranpowe a r 1d grief to the labo .mo een in the United States. Hey nleans of a series of bludering elforts the War Mlanlpower (oul mission has finally adopted policies that look very much like coercive and dictatmIal eontro] of the working force in this country. It is true that there is a labo managment ..advisory committee at the top levwl but there is no i..licatibn that labor's advice has ever been taken. It is true hlso that In ..r .. anage.n/. t committees are supposed to ,pe ate at the regional and diis triet levels of the national structure of the Wur Manpower Comm ission, hut except for two or three cities, there is little evidunce that Ia .o.s D. ce a the ellunsels. op leadership of the War Man- power{ o..mmissionl headed by Lawrence A. Apple, a former bi ortant oji industry ~xerutjv e, goes . strongly for eooig administrative activities and usually all that labor -n.anagenent groups have is a veto after' the fact. 'AUL McNUTT BIEADS ('M MISSION The War Manpower Corm ission is headed by Paul V. MeNutt, former gove-nor of Ih..diaa. Whether M,. MeNtitt does any more than act Ilon the policies created by the Coinmission, ev ilence iS not cler. Mr. McN1utt certainly does not strike one as in adminstrative control of his agency. Then too, the Army, through its rep.res etatives on the War Manpower ('on.mision, appear.s to have inrpe than its OF .Cta. NENTOA I-Ll I ~ V ,, clt~ RTEHO bHOF ELECTRICAL W0RIAtRS 1 A~ .ptnc .. , - . rd 4, .i. m d v1 "rO 4 ., ri WASH INBnTON. I). C.. NOVEMBER. 1943 OwneAhq2 aSe The I weighted influence on policies. Only recently there was a hitter battle behind the scenes in Washington between the administrative group in the War Man- eMaNPWE 4 MANPOWER Government policies on manpower moving toward head-on crash against labor's main interests NO. It None of these things tok Pa.. in this country. The War Manpower Coamission has by a series of edicts and mandates virtually set up a National Service Act without any safeguards for labor save for the specious and tenuous attachnment of labor - ianageruet committees sute whe,, along the administrative line. Three outstanding policies of the Wan Manpower CoInl issbio drive directly against labors vesteId interests ,i Trspect to 1. appienticmship training 2. wage strueture 3. job control. Without the contr.l of apprenticeship Production Division. headed by doseph 1}. training, without the preservation of the 50-year-old wage strutuet and withea job control. the labor union passes from the senei. as nItbiig, mlore than a wrkingtanIs club or Iraternity. Keelan APPFENTICE TRtA IN ING [O.... (C .ml.issin Production Board. and groups In the War including the Labor Al, order issued by Bawrence Appley promulgating a new administra- tive plia would havevirtually elinated the Labor Production Division of the War P rod.u ction Boar-d fior.a y control or infltenIe oni m,,anpower problems in the shipyards and airplane factories il California and the West. That tangle was resolved by an order by Jame Byrnes,. stahbiliatio director. Mr, Byrnes institutded . o-ca ole dt BllufTad 'an on tile California roast. The Buffalo plan is a pln. instituting priorities Oil labor, pretty rn"ci,as priorities were placed in materias in the early stages of the ,ar.The Buiffah Idlall sets up a priorities co"mittee which places labor in any givei industry on a weekly priority list and coIntol~s the ingress of wokers inPto re speaetive ndustles on an essentinlity basis, CRISIS P'ROMPTEI) BY ANTI-LARIBORTES The ;j,,s,,ti tcris/s isS toth i[/ no. .th,,e ¢ I thlo of . lo,g seriesof ?i.neutel.trflagn w hich /abor belien trc, prompted tot by war eme yealey bil by the anyliay adil sio, to get When the Army ,t of rlti-labor peo pie hi the r (.. mis,odb'lof the labor ferc', War Manpower Comissio' the IIIr ManwIe wag allthrizod it was done in lieu of :1 National Service Act. Labor opposed the National Service Act on the ground that labor was patriotic and could handle the manpowr question on a voluntary basis. Gr-eat Britain had a National Service Act. but Gloeat Dritain had aninvasion to goaud peoipe to prompt action., It also had built the labor movement into the top ranking positions of the government. Apprenticeship taininjg now ill eftet is under the Fedecral Committee oI Aiprenticeship. The federal apprenticeship service was set up by in act of ( Oigrles. It functioned originally in the U. S. Labo Department ,id thin vas transferred 1o the War Manpower Commission, It is I going concern, operating effectively z... with full coojeiati, of labor unins., It is staffed by about 200 feld melt who aid hl'al joint lnbornanageinent cotmaiitto to function in the Ipprenticeship trainiig field. Neatly all of these staff members are former ,o o.n 1n. ohers. When the President transferred the Federal Co.. mittee on Apprenticeship to the Wa Manpower (o...iss.ii, . he nad"e d n exception and plaed in his executive ordr the decree that the federal apprenticeship sei-eie 'should n-main an organizational entity." Labor unionists took this toIne thJt the integrity if this service as it developed over the last, decade should remain intact and shold not be broken down by the administrators of the War Manpower But Bommissio., this last fear has mateializd. Administrator Appley has continuously .oved to get control of the Apprentiee T'raining Service aT.dIha recently sought to take over the right if appointing fiel men and in allocating funds-two functions of the federal alIprentice.hip service that W. I_, Patterson says are .ssen.iali, and fundamenwlly a part of the or anization set up, WAGE ST'RtUTURF The wage structure laboriously up by collective b.rgaining in this built ,uIl The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operalors the Atlantic Chantc, and the clains it infalibi] ity of the State Departnleit. this great nation, whose r.. volutionary . clfLion kindled the minds and hearts of the masses in Europe at the end of the eigh. teenth century with the ideal. ,f .i..'s le.not'...tic f-et'dom. and rekindled them toward the end of the last -ar. has at this mreat j uneule iF history .alas. nath. lag really to say to them. "The masssof Eulrope have hrcon distrustful of us "Not one Am~rtill in ten tihlusar, probably realizes it bul this youtlhfi tpubu lic, 'Iei" the ¢o;mmm man , is fill the backbone of the nation . is eornll U r represent to the mass of the peoples of the outside wojrd a sterile and black reaction, frightened to death of the great popular forces which this ,ar-like all world wvars-has unleashed, insisting only that the haff-starved, brutalized peopie 0f the continent maintain 'law and order,' and prepared to .o ilo almost any lengths, prepared to tramffi with a miserable little Italian king or his reactionary henchman. Badogila. or the fascist Franico as it once trafficked with a Petsin, a D~arlan, Peyrolton, to avoid revolt' or 'tro ble.' WORLD LEAlDERSlHIP' PAUl, V. MeNUTT Is he aloilnS a100 r;ent Job on mnalpowei, CLASH OVER AI'PRENTICESHIP TRAINING (lashes between bibor and the War Manpower Conmission. have already been apparent in the field of federal apIprenLi.eship training. That clash is imnliien, over both the incentive plan and the con. trol of the indivduaI workerl by the ne, L. S Employment Service. This is a serious situatin. Labor expresses itself r essimisti:ally ahout this situation i erever it .. eets. Labor takes the position it is part of the black reaction that is enveloping this country. Labor believes there is a ,,elIformulated, strategic plan influencing the W.*ar ManLaowe. C .. L.isson ill the ditwcJOR CONTROL tioa of anti -labor poities. Labor believes also that the President of the United The thirl traditional right of labor has tdowith, job contrlt. A labor union L; States is tot aware of how this stiategic plan is deliberat ely at work to afIront a job control agency, traditionally so. labor, and labor belieyesa thatthisstrategic Many strikes have resulted from inplan is only a part of a general plan on fiingceant of the powers of the hining a wider basin to move. democratic U1rited hall. The United States Emnphlynlenl States nearer to ftscism than to Service, when it xas operating under the fi ILoa .e. y. Social Security lba]d. duly recognized EUROPEANS HAVE JOST this traditional Inthority of the labor FAITH IN US anion over job Ip..or..ent. The War ManLabor heard re,,ntly a statement by power Comnission has been incl..Id to William L. Shimre, author of "Berlik ignore or to openly affront this tight. Diary,'' for striy ijaltirths b oaldcaster The War Manpower Commission has Berlin, who warned this country placed this machinery in the control of from that the United States is beginning t. another youtng mianItrea. the oil industry, blse all of its former influence with the Albert L. Nickelson. Mr Nickerson lImlirds and hearts of the masses nlJt, Emliape. lieves that the individual worker exists Mr. Shirer sai[: for the state and has not recognizel "Despite all the brave wards of the President, the glitterinig generalities of labor's traditional right to job pont Ili. try has developed over a period of 50 'ears. It has been built lar'gely on hourly and day rates. Traditionally, organized labor has opposed piece rates on the grounds that any system of piece rtes becomes unintelligible to a working man, and the woiking man as a ,esult can Lever figure what is possibly due him, for.. his service. The WXlr Manpower Co.nmisson has moved against this waite structure now by appointing eon.ittees to get what they call incentive waste plans acceptld. When incentive wage plans are analyzed, they appear to be nothing more than piece and speed tilt systems of the old Bedaux variety, THRUST fPPN IS "At the moment when the fate of history has thrust world leadership uip.on u.s (whether Colonel McCormick and the rest of us like it or not), We Larat in oul foreign afraIs like fossil, dead to change or to progress.' Ruben Levin , writing in LABOR, leading Washingtoil weekily, organ of the railroad unions, recalls that one of the reasons that th,.re is a stringecy of manpower in this country is due to th. oversized army that has been developed against labor's advice to the govern ment, Mr. Levin says: Manpower sontinue! to be about Itle ,wessiest probtie, facing adr.ia sitraifn officials in Washington. The clamor fo, mor, w'orkers has risen to a din and drastic moves are il the making to dredge up enough men and wo..nn. to meet the den.ands. Between no.. and next dl uly at beasi ,t600.,000Q re tolers mt ithe fblnnl officials deciared. T1no million,t- ale quired to replace men going into he a rmed forces end 1.600fl000 to ke,' 1, lrot ductinn up to goals, Schedules call for boosting onutput ,f var supplies to 700 per cent ibove the levels of November, 1941. War agencies said only a 593 per ten t advance ,a~ been scored so far. LIBOR WAS RIG;r Paul V. McNutt, chief of the \Vat- Mv, power Commission, contended -cccoj Ny that the only way to reach the quotas will be to foIrce several millition workers out of n nn-essential i ndusties in war plants, vital eivilian occupations and transportation. Eil declared.. Jo, thail employment inretaiil trade wilf have to be stripped to 1940 figures. fcontirued on Lagc 418} NOVEMOER, 1943 383 iSlou 4*4. HT .&T .LETl 4t. WHITTLED HE latest in the lone list of redluuiotI.S in telephone tolls whieh welh ordered by the New York Public Sevicie ((.mn.is.ion oi September 2, 194;, will ... stilt ill estin aoted sa[vigs or approxim.ately $2,200,000 annually in tlhe I itriastate rates If the N,, i Y.o..k TLhphone Cor,,lap.Y At the sae time the (oninzs~k]n arnlil uonIced changes in the i,trustate toll ultes of ilidel'rtndtnt Cin-. patlies givJr g hong-distacel srvice by connection with the New York Telephoriu Cronpany atuuranting to $128.000 an Itually. These zeidttctiolns er eorth, red h, the Public Service , ommission l oder to eluiminate So.l.e of the ditte ie...'.snow existing bethwoel i tratstate lind inteistate rates for the same distaLnces, and are in line with the Federal Conumneatilns Ce..... isshion policy or bring ing Ill intristat, ates in line with the existin rates of the Boll sy sten. AMERI(C N PEOPILE EAR BRUNT On April 20. 1943, the hIdins Public Service C ommission snli the Iludiana Bell Telephonm Company, ann ltbor subsidiary of A. T. & T., anunolunced that as aI e "lit of confeli.ac.s, rerilductins in certain ttlephltne tts would .. be ut into effect May l. which would result in total savings t, subscribers estii ated at $175,000 a Near Theste retidoufls were also in the hag-rlstance rates. These arto nly the latest esults of tile effrts of the FCC aIu.. the various si t( coliitssoais to ,rdtl(!e the charges which the A. T. & T. hae, been cle.tbtig rojn thte Ae rican pteople. The grcat profits which this nonoipoly has been realping at the, expense of th, Aniercan peop h, were discussed in in earlier series of articles in th(e JOUIINAL. In 1934 (Coltes passed the tomnninaleri...s Act trarisferring the rgulatory juris dictioni of all comni. .mications ft(I-on the Irtleus tate toni meace (Jlon iniission ta) the Federl (tInn.ti..ieations (pa lmission. The Act graIlted to tho cofl0issiorI poler tt) investigate the various ctnl parileS con~trolling the. l.n....... icatio r$, systems and instructedtthe ./.n.ssion [o report th rst, i of ILs. iavestiga. tions to Ce¥g es As a reslIta of the nlifolrl yshin of accounts whiih the cnllnisstio orereid the Varhns ,:((nlt,ni.ations rorttiuni-s to adopt, it becanl. possible foi the tilst tinn, to rnake ae,,orate coin I aiisltnbetwteen aruOth opt elating ttltiyanlies Iatld tO nliT at holiest estiinate of thl profits they wt' nottling. A study of IhI' t'ports If the Federal (om.ianunIIatiaa Commisioll inveitig, , tions into the' lie'' s iystem ala(ttiolos re. v~Ils the fat tihit sinee these it,, etiga- reductions of tlht M lun taut St[ars Telephone and Telerrplph Company, the $178,000 reduced rate! of the Northwestern iell Company, id th.e reduction by the Pacific Tehlphone and Telegrapb CoILpany, the total ann Un savirngs would be .. ueh ~5ui State commissions under leadership of Federal Government attempt to recover profits for public tiun's ,ic- instituted, substantial ate reductiens have b-en effcted in evreIy yeat since 196. Thie following tthid ation lists the anmount of rLte redctbions by years frio< 1986 to 1948: Rate Rtedtctions by Years .. .. $3:5.000,000 ....... - - ___ 22.000,000 1940 I -,500,000 4.000,000 1938 ..... ---- 1 4,500,000 t937 22,000,000 1936 --- - .... __ 24,000,000 1941 The list totals $125,000000, These figrares do not includh reductionls ordered by the State Public Servbice Co missions such as those discussed at the beginning of this artide but are only rductions In aftts which were made by the An.eri carn Telephone s. id TelegaLph larent eompany. If the table we'e expatdedi to include all of the rate rdluetiols in itr'astate rate' which were ngotiated as a coollary to the red uctions made by the parent ompally such as thy $250,000 ,ut initiated by ihe New Engla rid Telephone and Telegraph Company, $:,16.500 shown greater than the $125,000,000 inthe table. "WE'RE PATRIOTI('" Invariably wln, of o this, an Ihotilceatflets of toll reductions is trade the telephone co. pan heads. when . ( i n.ilnig the (stablishnent of the new rate,- de cOaute that the redu'diotis ire un waltranted hut that they Ife actepted bcatlse the company does itot wish to diverit its !fforts from serving the public to fightilg th, 'ommishl¥1s. Forin in anunotcng the $2,200,000 a v'al iedldtion in New York state rates. John W, Hubbell. president of the New York Telephone Company, stated that thie Ied uetios were tilwarranted utll that they were being accepted because the company could not divert any of its effort or its technica staff fro imnportant wrll jobs ill order to continue ara tr ton tOro v In like nlarlner. Wiltber F. Giff rtd, piesidenit of A. T. & T., il omnmenting on the agreement between A. T. & T. and the Ffudeial CI Inr...nications Co0n ission which ended thte tat ease which resulted in a $35.000000 edLuction to the public for Iong-dstance telephone calls inl i94d stated: "The extraorinary volumen of long distaunce business Indl the overlawtded con ditions of thie lng-liu's plant have isuited, in all ptobahility only temporaIily, in a ate of eal'ltbigS fot the long-lines department of the coL.ipany wlhil is in excessof the avelage for the Beldl teh. phoe system as a whoIe,. '4The long liins department intes are rulder the excl usive Jur sdicti .r. of the ocootllnatd Ot ... l.. ]I4) The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operalors 390 4. #o/CR. Sea ECONOMIC There is a complete analys, of the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill showing the need and easons for the int]odtiction of someial security C.as..i.. The hi ltpojl says: ded Sl CHANGES , , d i 1It 1 .. .et.tiiOi .. fletsa l thR s con yeal of our paI.tiipation in World War' U drais to a close, while for Europe the fifth year of "ar began Sellternbee 1. While the American ountlios that most have thus far been ,pared of our grilling ordeal of war, bombing cI hrove eitjes and civilian populations with ail other nations experienc'ed the nutg tiler aind women saceride (If oura y as well as the discipline that cones from ,ubordlmating personal choice and coin fort to cO....o.n need and dangerl. Necessities of war already are controlling our habits of life and work with each continued will assume greater month of war propo ii ...il. WORTH EVERY SAt RIFICE "We inl the labor movement have been oclose to the happenings to hSbor in countries ruled by dictators that we know the preservation of personal freedom is worth every sacrifice that war demands. The Unted States has been mobilizing its resources without reservation, and realizing that global war necessitates inenalIllaal cooperation and pooling of resources, we have stood solidly behind the President of the United States and isresponsible assistants for the winning of this war,.l While we are devoted n as our way of life, we to trade unioni owe a prior allegiance to our country which assures us an oppirtinity fodemocratic way of life. Executive officials of the American Federation of Labor have Continued to O[II I$ STATION. BOS[ON, WEIER Executive council report is document which all American citizens could read with profit give majpt eons idation to those prob- lems of war goveqrnnlent which vitally concerned labor It.d inl connection with which we were rquipped to make an especial eontmibutin of experience and in formation. We believe progress has been made in the mlminiistration of war pro- duction on which we report. As to the the COnitstt'ation, war manalpower ad operati)n of labor has not yet been fully recognized aid accepted as essential to the program. In addition to loepeots on our relations to war adIlnbstratiuzi 'Te submit a record of efforts to unify the labor movement and to meet internal labor difficulties. "With all the difficulties of a complex situation, however, it is our responsibility to keep the faith and honestly maintain principles cf democracy for war in order to have them fot' pcace'" SOUND DOCUMENT With this stirring introduction the Executive Couneil of the American Federation of Labor launches its report for 1943. For a period of many years this report has been one of the soundest docuissued by ay organizationl in ments America. This year the report is of special interest. MAJORITY OF A, Fr OF L, DKrOGATES ARRIVED " tidet the stress of wIr needs. for bhefirst imn in our history there a e jobs for all able to work, anid oulr national incotrse has reached a new high of $140. 4tofoodm0r00. The citizens of this detnteracvy ill not be patient with ess ifter In xaL. We shall insist upon jobs for all. WI kcow also that no tuain stittu Cu n is perfect, so there wvil he eh, usulting in loss of jobs a n.I gnemtie ~ interference with individual workers e JireiTl. ta, ings, temporarily or per manently. While we have jobs we want to be able to invest iN instranee to Under provid, against the emergencies. Security Act all Siesent Socia the workers cannot carry insuran-Ce for in come aifter retirement at 65 or fur pendrents at the time of their death, and for ineome during limited unempioyilent It is the right of all citizens to h""' .. Ii opp)oJrtllity to invest in retir'ese..t sa ranee or to provide for their depelldents ill case of their death, This ,pportunitY is just as much needed by agricultural wkers and by nmaIl busins a.d..I workers who lless operators as by the niw enjoy this protectioli. It is essenltihd to that dignity of living which aeotitThe insulance panies self-dependene,. benefits paid should be adequate to roM ataint the self dependence which the per earn, d noring the years when hr was .Irk," able to DRIFT TOWARD FASCISM One of the astounding indications of the drift toward fascism in the United States is a list of the anti-labor bills introduced in the United States Congress. The nun> ber is 61. The report points out: "When this war ends the return of the filliies in the armed forces and the adJustnent of industry from a war to a consumer basis will create an unemploy nent problem never previously kimown." A sharp attack is leveled against the acts enacted by state legislatures Crippiing labor. The counnil rightly points out that the "wave of anti-labor propa ganda ill the daily press assumed dangerouIs proportions it, the past year." There is a strong section on the need apprenticeship training ued foy contin under peace-time standards. The Harvard trIde union policy plan is supported The mismanagement of the war man poae, program by the War Manpower Comamission is excoriated. The Internation Labor Office is given continued support. Price control and rationuig are discussed. The plans of the Amerilan (noaLieued oil Iage4281 NOVEMBER, 1943 Mt1 'IAjtuolocer: This is Santiag., Chile, speaking, ad}I transcribing our ~]eciaJ greeting to the workers of the United States y the Mut ual Ne work. Three fo.....ost }adilrs of organized labt. of the UniteI States of NotLh Ai..n. a ha, hbavp b on a tour of Voarious American" reptd±.s. They are the first ,eglatiowi to lt IIIsentlth unaitd inteAgSt Of hIlat l "f thei eoIi. try in lvelno{ g aBc < aI aqlutao n ,,I ..nt I sianding willt the ptIrtpi, of the /ller A nwib tTn rep ublicSJ liia SI la 'otz' ... 1 ir , ter-Aller'icall (&i(}leItinhI They tie( he~t' ill ( dile aSk I111g'cstof thel C(u ftd r:l, ti..I of Chilean W, oe!, whose leatdel, Ir iiasdoi Jbann~, W£s hit.in.eif a gutst of the IT. S. labor moe ment lamt sba pin. Ou.. United Stat's. labor teklation is coI lItIsl iof Ed,,itld J. Br wnt, presidenl of the hNlernatiol] [.rotherhood of Ilectrcal W\rkels. wlho was appointed to 1h' derfiation hy William (ieel, prekL$!t of the Anerican FealeratioI of Labor: David J. M'Donald. seUietalyireaauteI of the nited Steel Wnokers. who was dcsiginated by ]'rbsiuin. Philip Murray of lip' C ongr']s of 1,/duistiial Organ..za tit~ms;and .S.auel Phillips, vice presidentIt the ]llthehal df loocoimotiv Firemen ... Ti.d i.ie..e. tdh. wag askd to s rve as i mijn blhr of Lti, d*IekIt;ati by javki Ro, ltrtst.., priasilde't of thal th, Raiload UJ ,a t ioit. Messrs. el)i~nJiris(, Executivte' ... (ileelh \l1111ty t, f j j{P]-js dtlt [ t(} Assoeia anld R~ohertson vIt'V[]Ls Vi to iv Luh.... nintittI'e and they are directly ,epcsetiteld hel, by M, McDonald, M,. hoig In, and M.. Phillips, respectively. Hvi mll{he studio, in Santiago are ;...... MIA lod tt) ..... '.l.tlItiVet s of V. S. labor an, ofdcials of IIhe Chilean Confedg'ration of Worke', headed hy its presileint lernim Io lba, ez. O..t first speaker will lIe S,. lian'z. who will ad drhs, you pfollptly in Spardsh a.d whost} addtlress w~ill Le iimmed. Iiately tranislat l..d []ow pi)est/1 I r. A&aw4 A4aadcad CEMENTS South Atneaicn FRIENDSHIP American delegation to sister republics heard inl United States. Friendly poliey stated tiht tLLUs hf jtii ie ..l.d IdIer[ 3 ired aey , ill be. he, th ,y iIUh to1i) [ti p I it, I S tates, th' lo'sL ]I/Litiilettls of ih, dt Amit of th, worli'it (.laiss itt Chile Iw mi le clos 'ly the ir fuateijugl hila thi lls a Iddesire tif ooI ... le] ign with hIeworkers of North Amgrkca. ThbouhI these reilre: ntalivet, I salu e la better futu.r If. the Aii.t'.Iwos ati t] world.d" I now priesnt idwirId B-twi'g. whig I{ ep...... 0, [lie A i eritanF niedt,irgi of Labor. .11I. t/Ite 2I : lla¥ hi g I t-th ll, t hi it, Chile fto} ,ore that, a wek. I have had ail oD pIr.u.i.ty Ic observe something of the 1 oii it izcd a tI d unorganiz, ed ty.iglIt of ('hit. As I representative of thl Arie,iconI Fedratin of labor ald pIrsident of the Jnter-atinnal l'othm'hood i f l~lec triel WXurkers, ] have been jnt''tcl ill the efforts naali by the (hilea,, workers iat titIeir wary of life, while at thl, sai ... gu . Ie t cib liai g II tIle w a r Ith In visit a tiienld Ip(ople. sati'iftc if;l i Idiouing so that all forems of diwtatlaslhg. f ascism,itoz ism, and Jatiat-ism will li, h,:±t11is d f mlil Lhe earth, South Aneric;t gid Ngorth Amli'i,;i. havilg baen joined together LI the r(eatr, the tpICs of he Americas shoultd ;dso he, u.nited jrgJ] Jr bLh benefit of both. "ih ii £tei-e t II{ hieA ngg'riemi F]ed era~ton o£ Labao ll Ig [h wt(,ktil> If ho... tidle labor. .rga hizat tets of tine AtneI c'at republics in not ni . It date, hack to th, preside~ncy o~f81 S+aelP] u...rs. pt WIh kneui that the iigIrest II tho unietied torkrs of the United StAtes should riot be iso lated from those f the .f githI, .tbrks ng the I'ft trd Natioins,. ships aTd far....,. I fit drllnocrlat ic<(Ott n ries, Oui belief ix that iL a g('r tiite legigi d ni .ot.. ttie tvi'd niiot{ ItDvcamt.... is a byw old of 1Wige l 'acy. W, ar Vt') pl.eased to know that the Chilean Confeldi-ali.. of WX.rkers was in the forefront t'Ii Y, (If the I llement in this coun.1tr-y to brea k relatitnship1s with the Axis atd thus (1,able Chiti LI ' I naort, diret co>tihbu pon to tlhe gi~t. t -rIi tad, gainst I Lava ati, IIhp, agi nstuJ, d a.n.... . Bilii i]isni. t[,Iai tmItg d I'l oaso' 411 Jbantz, Sr. ira fez: (Speech il Span ih.) A........ e.;: M,. lba,,, has just said -It is a glent hnoir for ite to greet yot fton. Chile, whose o-rgi.. zed workers I represent, inl 1n ,vhOS ,m I salUte yOU. Ilinfg the last fIw days an [mp[.rtanlt delMation of organized labor of your great country has viAtled the insIitiatiobs of our (onfederlation of Workers in (bile. inl PHri ipal centers of econ.omi act vi ties iI oir tounty the coal mines of Lot. copper' m ines ot RI aiiec ,ag dcl Sa, r dt' factories in Santiago }and Vlp)araiso. Ohi fi.end.s Idward Br own, of til, Aelican Federationl of Labor; David Mcl)onal d, of lbh Constress of Industrial Orlzanizations, titl Raliroadman Samuel PhillipP are in these mines in Chile, reei vi rg the honla,. t that the workers of aUa coutanly wish to express to the 12,000,000, organized workers of the Uaitb.d Stabts whom they rep.es.nt. They are in this way also paying tribute to the gigatt i effort that th, people If the n.or.th {ie suathlw to defeat the Axis. in their Aese to izi1 a jiSt rd p eiitia n{t!]l ](lt- !t~ 1'O l gld iir'rlp lt s. Sic(? Birwn,. m Donald. .. anit Phillips will It'll you of the samfiies of our workers for dig, Ittt'irel rla ir vgl Pr side tl wilt, <otiter I aode .L tig.. IepJest... .. a ,es rt',adj to I The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 392 SUPER- IO"e.a GOVERNMENTS HENEVER Anericans inentofa bnd'~a;:? look across they see defnes a cartel as telnatiornal dictlly binnation among mnanufaeif ( It fornl tures by which the ide pendent films and establishmnitts in a pasrticuia tiade or process, contract to regulate thenr output and, in certain cases, their prices. When two or more industrialists in different countries agree to exchange technical information and to restrict the crcumstances under which the nfo.rn.atilon each gives to the other may be used and exploited, a "cartel" or "international contract" is created. The word cartel hIs acquired a sinister meaning because it is plain that cartels are bad as a result of at least three factors: I1) Restrictions on raw material pro duction contrary to the public interest. 12) Conditions or restrictions imposed on the use or exploitation of the infermatrion (3) A long listory of opprcssion and exploitation of labor. I"ak4 Ie Dual citizenship basis created with divided allegiance. Dividends paid during war. New arrangement seeks labor endorsement mnet. These transactions were of a global character before the word global was commonly used. While the aun, total of such corporations an individuals was relatively small, they exerted enormous power. This power is still increasing. DUAL-CITIZEN STATUS The prime motive of the participants in these deals was transaction of business and trade. Since 1920, as international relations of this character became closer, the carte] managers found themselves in a position where their paramount interest lay in the maintenance of the connectioa. These individinternational uals, whether they knew it or not, had entereld into a dual-citizenship status. For instance, a man might be a citizen INTERNATIONAL TRADE WARS of the United States, but simultaneously Internatonal cartels are the result of he was a citizen of a small international community of business men. the efforts of business men to circumvent In an article in the September issue of the estrictions imposed upol trade since the last war, by nations ill the grip of Harpers Magazine, W. V. Archawski disthe fever of nationalism. They are. ill cusses cartels. As executive director of the Bank Transatlantique, he has had an etlect, private, econiroic super-govern. ments ruling over whole segments of intimate experience with these organizations, The article entitled "Switzeland: our economy. Originally, these cartels Foster Mother of Cartels" describes in were organized ~ithin national boundadetail the efforts of the members of this ries and, in the event of war, the trust small international community of business went to war on the side of its own nation. During periods of peace great corpotamen, who are members of the director management of international busibess, to tions of separate nations fought trade profit by experience which taught them wats of their own. One of the most that there must be at least one "neutral'* memorable was the fight in the 1920's spot on the globe where cartels could tI between the Standard Oil Company and business in tihte of war. "Switzerland, the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company for adopting a long tradition (of neutrality) foreign markets and sources of petrle[u.l to the necessities of the period, proved BDat in time it was perceived that the to be tile ideal ground where internaidea that agreement and a high price investment tio.afly owned holdings, were more profitable than a trade war, funds, patent pools, license agreements, and price cutting had just as much appli and multiple contracts grew and proscation internationally as it hall had in other days inside of national frontiers. prerd," says Mr, Archawshi. "['he most International price-fixing agreements bestrenuous efforts were made by cartel managers in Europe and America. to came comlon, Gernmany was the headdesign the organization of the cartels quarters for experiment and discovery so that, in the v.ent of warn, the colnparticularly in chemistry and metalorgy-,which resulted in the enormous po.ent parts of each cartel could go oil expansum of the applied sciences o..vr ia functioning aed be easily .eassembled when the war was over. Nothing could period of years. Along with this expan.ere be more natural than for these mneagers int.r..atbmIal corporations sitn. being set up in Europa with citizens if to utilize the facilities of a leutral nation the various nations on the boards of like Switzerland." directors. Simltaneously a cross-]icens DIFFICULT TO TRACE CO'URiSE ing of patents was going on, the jegFor purposes if concea.lent, where istration of processes and the cutting up owieslhip of patents, processes and coneternatlional market by agreeof the celnter of eoopelilles, Beatiliftl Stockhol, match I, e. aItels ,eaeaped no' has n/aufeelurin.g tro shoutd not be made public, it has been possible for such ownership to pass from one corporation through several changes of ownership, making it almost impossible to trace the course from, the original owners. The article points out that this has gone on until at the present time Switz.erland has become an enormous cartel of interna.tinal interests of all descriptions, and that the stockholders of these cor-porations-- American, British, German, French-Araw dividends from the world conflagration. This is an internationalism of a sort which the protagonists of cartels do not discuss. An an example of how this irterie tionalisin operates. authorizations and licenses have been granted by cermlans to Sohiss inustries for the sale to the British of machine tools without which certain parts for planes could not have been manufactured in England. But these sales were Iiade with the express condition that the British would pay in efined copper. This illustrates how a neutral timefor collusion can be used in war between belligerents when suih collusion their mutual advantage, but for is to obvious reasons cannot ocur inl plain sight. The international carfel in other w.ords. is all expression of the effort to escape from the restraints which political nationalism imposed upon expanding industry. They represent an effort to restrict production or parcel it out among the domains of the great trusts. Of course, the sponsors of the cartels wanted to make maney, or. in the ease of the German cartels, to prepare for war. But the basic explanmtion of caitels is that political nationalism prevented the worlwide distribution of the products of the great industries. and the industrialists NOVEMBER, 1943 attenpted to defeat ptlitical by stealth. m .t.i..;di.l.. CARTELS ARE DANGEROUS whigh had a veto power tin American hritiction udrit the aitel agi......nt. d u Piro~ll ed 19t110 hinSt or 'In.ost half the wIrld suipply i9l0; n the United States I"rlt le e d only 5{{O tons, Or 14 p er cent. N,;O tiLgzl`1UTI t, first p.rodc.d corn nItleld/{ In [hnhtiled States, adl the ),Ov('icujal Ii qnllanx eglt,.ll..lheftm- Cartels solve nothing because Iher purey e.on.oImic fuInti(ms are te ..ftc, suboldinated to nati .a..list i..t. . as in the ,ase of (}erin... . Bc aigise ef the iat lhat nulneprotLi Auerin, lsiIit t(I....en It tpim int I (;(if patents. heSS nell andil eorl)1[tiors hai heIr iii ' I?1 this reaagln the l)(r/X n tlalny Wais vowved ii Jl. elaies ith nry F~lc llt1 ni Ie,, lthe t0i, t'ln,nItthl tl~i(nt toInk,ewII8agin, bt,ll ii nih the (leranini itItlyat y tll t thiest etqaiona. (;l'lntriS. AI,('(,LCO italrd }lenl pi suit in m1anly istialices. inlved the use and [ii ftroco Dliw it'', line. Ili, tit wag control of attiles and processes vitally dropped afttei agtiettieiitzl irBe xvorked essential tLo ainatuin 'atwar, the altti.. rlust )rlt ili l[ lotrJ 12ii&.tI( I/I (,ditlet!oi divisi.n of Inl! DqI2'ttentt o, Jugdee O11t and farhication A, a I ilt if tis ea !N during the past two o three II [rs calitrl, o fIenay IVs ;be to li p .. .ost If edoninvfjgttitni pxteisive inlb the the p .odiei.n .f rhis vital meial in that operati.ns ..f internat ifhlal carels, Thes, cuntry, and thei [Unit,l Stltes enteled investigathins bruhght out fats whch lhe war ith a critical shitag& in tINs appeared . to e...I.l....I( the let].ia';tin,' vital totalh,, ], . ...... s It Of this if not ine loYalty, If Atel,AUIT,,'OS str~intget eontii)] (If }nvclr~d ign, Ihe g')v.eans. Tfh itivestigitttiis, res.lt(d(I i] in i'nInct, through ius Ic'enso plart. dlictnts rmi volath oif the Shjalaii potitilbi-~, Wrls flog[ed to invest $:250(h.Act being blought agminst such conpanies 10(0 in all Off.. t to piodhe the IeeeisIa as DOpolt. .. ationl l.ad ('ltfI.jtmyL nlagnleghi.. TPhi, was the ,ice the Standard Oil. Alunti..un. (n'C{po rtjia of United States paid i.. .i.I. as al Anmerica dllI many thems, The Assistant rtsu 'of the cartel with I. (. Farben. Attrmney General t, te' United St,,es presenetd .. S.n .tIwal testhinorly in these IN FAVOR OF lATENT SI STEM eases and ;leo at hleari n s hell by the Senate Patents C....i. tee cancerm..ln In eontrast to [he pictue paint..edI hly the ThutmanAl ..rl.old( or colltIl, f idipit tes t elation of irvt i.n ... anld 'y latiels Io American fOir eeoi.n. Y. both dfllnstie inteIrn titinal cartels as a 1alult of shap ing and eontiIhilz domestic tnld in t er. and international.ie painted aI praer of p"atents s an ii.ti Ulelnt of i.....stic atilmal t)1odtctioit and pines i,,el i]s distribution, I)I. Lawrence L.ngner, dean and interntinal business policy IIher by of the Ilnited States Patent Bat, presents economically pI...e.f.l (t'g.anizations IcasI i favor of the patent system. IIis the Unitvd States ind ].oveabroad ,nthesi is thin cartels are intruments of trolled antl exploited the iatent gI..nt to ,ebdilency whereby discveries public disad.vantageg TII has charged that and teahings of fmi,' i}1 sclen ti.s, an.d artiimlt..lationial cartels }.ave donitlated 1 Sanls [LI{ 5ee[t'ed for u'w it the United markets at home an abtr.oad, and have been usId as a weapj.n to cIr at, and States. He mainmtains that only by such enforice a Tkiy of scarcity and to destry lgiepil, etsIt e}ai, we· ]tsure the. i pirta tion ilto the Uniteud States of such or discourage indep~endent enterpri se. inventions conc eived abroad. i anenc points out The alti-trust divis.i, has presented that the long list of war products such case histories which, if accepted at thei face valt. betnotistrate that an.y .eces- as teol'aizne, pilex.ias. cambolny. Bu., u~bhr. synthetic totuoh atebrimt, 161sities of life. basic tetrials required irl war and even medical supplies anld drugs, have beell curtailed irn fdnotion or have been denied to the A, my, Navy. or .ubl i by unlawful tonti-ol divices. etalne gLIllgite. ntagnsium now being utilized in winning the war wud not have been awvalable to America if the far-sighted el teL m.n..gert had iot tirlded this information it of I;<t.n...y Itllher satellIite powl i However, in this euTimhetionl it Is peltileln to paot out [hat hlwaus e of the caretels An...rican [1d ue i in of several of the articles istt, b hr D, Lanzmner. particularly l!/agsiunil anlnd Iuna ulihb,. 'was so spy. ylvrestrited that not til the government seized all foreign patents when the Irdted States entered the wa, was this eturitly able to take full advanrage of ]latnts arid ln"ledze olbtained by the agX,,e1noit, tinny wiI U,doubtedly lihh il resOt Lt ptieti.t.. inll these alId nOi(1' [iodulcs o, Ieu dlist[int military advatageg. ARE CARTEI.S A MENAtCE TO LAIHOR ? All ambitious planl has heen l[aullehod in Lonldon to hitti wrltid industry an c,d meree after th, war the ctrol' of a griant systeni of uterlurq~k~ing cartels. hich v eotito ,iuhl the otpult and u'lce of both W:.t l mateials and n danwt , Oetl goods. This ;wopl"l la, ittl dulllance extend the p .- -.. a.' S.YStn of cartels to the broadest ptsshble eXel.t. CItiltla. tins in the United Stales are searehing for loopholes iI, the anti-tust laws ,hieh would })(..'ll.it their participaton, in this lan. ALtOA and others have found that they cal get airound the law by forng ,eW carnpatnies in Canada and doing bhusi ness with the cartels through these, oinpanics. The allice is headed by Sir Edgar R. J(o.s. chlajinmn of the international Tin Plate Cartel. The pIn defends cartels as "essential to keep productlon equitably allocated between c..un.ties a id. enD)panies .. inTt O with the n.t.xin.uni denand attainable." The British mmanfaetn..eis who are }interested iI the alliance "do not deny that it is theoretically possiblie that these IOjinIhluerl oalt 426) CARTELS CAUSE SHORTAGES Wh enthe United States entired the war, ser..Iu shortaies of essential jllteri-Is such as rubher, m'agnesiun, hm inl and o.thers ;re ilisoveredI. Thege shortagLepSvt wIIaI... on eartel agreemelits. For exallie, the Aluminutm (Orporation of A....ric-a had enjoyedl ;gleemnerts to pI"elet its. enoh..p.ly p ,intl Iol of the rich llU..l.. m indus.l.y. Magnesiun, a metal one-thhud lighter than alu mi... ..., is mltade frI, sea Wiitel Inl i d l avail able ,oes.By virtue or .no.iopol. agree nients with the Dol Ilhimnical Cnnllipanv and 1. B. Palhenildust'ip, the Geimnn chemical rust AILOA, kept the pric, of Iagnesium at a lev]el inbird hinher thian alumial..n.I...thus p'ielntilig (,ertli lion between th* t,,,o iii'tal£s.agHesjna] Was vitally ineded itlile 0 new ald ri'pidly expanding ltie elaft indlstry. Ge","ny, SWITZEIRLAND) IS NOW CALLED MOTiE, OF CAT-ELS"OGENEVA I OOKING LOWARD OLD CITY, The Journal ot ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 394 2.. V 110 Af4daia qln APPRENTICE P INETEEN apprentice eletrliaI wir,men, the first group to finish their training under the provisions of the joint apprenticeship agreement of L. U No. 110, I. B. E. W., of St. Paul, and the St. Paul Electrica Contractors Associaawarded thei' certilltiob, were recIetly "ates by Frank G. Musla+ statedirectoe of apprenticeship. In spite of wartime complications. including entry of apprentices into the armed services, L, U. No, i10 las maintaened its apprenticeship program ard expects to have a sufficient number inrolled to permit coltinuance of its classes in related trade instruction it St. Pauli Vocational High School this fall. Guit Brissman, president of Local 110, who is also chairman of the joint apprenticeship committee, points out that thei action in fostering a continuance of apprenticeship is in line withthe directire to all locals from Ed J. Brown, international president. BIRTH OF SYSTEM local Union 110 established its apprenticeship system originally in 193f. It was then known as the Union School in which it was necessary for youngo mei leari. ing the electrical wiring trade t. attend classes in supplementary instruction. Classes were run by the St. Paul school system and funds for the instrictors were supplied by the union. At that time there were no written standards of apprenticeship, and the related instru'ton provided in these classes consisted of lcture courses and a discussion of genn the job. . erat problems encountered These classes later came under the p'ovisiois of the Smith-Hughes and George Despite war conditions trained men are inducted into skilled roles Dean Act.s In that way federal and local school funds became available for payof teachers. n the Minnesota VoIuntaly Appreniiceship Law which follows the pattern of federal apprenticeship standards, wa. passed April 21, 1939. In the fall of that year Local Union 1It appointed its nmembers of a joint apprenticeship comittee which, together with committee uenilhers appointed by the St. Paul el'etrical contractor, began a study of trnthing standards for vremen apprentices, After more than a year of study and work by the joint committee, the set of writtrn slandards which the, developed received the approval of both Local Union 110, L. B. E. W., and the St, Paul Oeetrical contractors on April 20, 1941 The Minnesota Apprenticeship Council added is approval on May 5, 1941- About 40 apprentices were indentured under the program. including those who were new already advanced in their class work and under the old plan. These experienc job latter were given p.roper credit in heour to apply on finishing their apprenticeship iilrier the new joint standards of the in lu st Y. INDIVID)UAL REQUIREMENTS MET Last year the joint committee le0t, texts nmined to adopt the instructionl and material of the W.isconsin Schools of \vcatittrial and Adult Education prepared for the electrical wiring trade. This is a supplementatary schonling progta, di, U ic. veloped for a full four-year Ion 's. hite d trade trabring, a ranged so that the appre ntice can start in at the point where bh ,,d s trahiirig and continue to the end of the couIne. in this way it fits imdividual equirenments regardless of whether one eones. into the program with much or no kriwledre of electrical work. This course has proved so practical in the apprenticeship class that it is to be offered as a regular part of the day classes at St. Pauli Vocational High School. Now the extension ofIpprunticeship standards to the electrical shp rep airIlll iS under consideration. nd al delo rical shop repairmlen in St. Paul have beconme m.embers of ,ocal 110. If this addition to the present program is successfully negotiated, it is believed it will be the inst time in the history of the trade indistry that training in both of and these branches has heen included under one joint coremiite.. All) TO NATION In line with the nation.s manpower training needs and the best interests of the electrical trade, the Joint Committee on A pprlntices hip of Local Union Ilft. 1. B. E. W., and the St. Paul electrical contractors, plans to continue its work to prote apprenticeship training standands in that indusivis aciordingz to Conmittee Chairman Gust BRissman. The committee is composed of six men, three fronm the union and three fromI manage,niet. The secretary of the eanttee is August E. Hansen, representing the St. Paul Ekectrical Contractors' Association. Consultants to the committee arc: Frank G. Musala, state director of apprcnticeship; A. C. Taylor, vocational coordinator, St. Paul Vocational High School; James Roach. instructor of day school classes and night apprenticeship supplenentary training classes; and Baldwin P. S.endsetn, field representative, Ap Service. War Manpowprentice-Trainimn cr ormmission. Both Mr. Roach and Mr Svendsen are members of local Union No. 11i. ('hAIRACTER OF THE ELECTRICAL TRADE The electrical trade, unlike some trades, is mechanical, technical, and professional. Nierkong the award of he filt cerlflea es n the elIctrical Oralen under the pinneotla Volunteer App1,nticshtP Law me (Iort to right : GOuit BrigiIan. president F IF No. 110. and chairman of St Pafel Sl;ctrical Indusiry Joint A pIrenotteshl p Crenrnlttee: RiNme[nd SI, Piet Eii4 preident ...n Id Ketne. I unifi n.r Igneic o preseno t y on coem en let: mittl e Cliorles Contractors ^Asoeiation: Paul C. qhorr. cmo tructjoni representatve o co seretary, St paul Elenlrica] U No 110: AUgUFt C HRnsonn, teanagerF.. ri-t.fbussnes of Joinl Apprentcee Commitee: Frank C MtJea,. and s~ecllr"r Coantractor<' AMitatlon , oIII 0YI rePresente c1onstrutinni r~ectior o..a..nentcehip,: I'illItm R Lindlierg. II'il, t I S.I' it,, P S'-endse . L X 110, fl rld ........ ci'.I. t,, A ,1 ,,1 reni,~Tce-rra mittee: flalr" It must draw men who have a natural in using tools and it must at the aptitude same time attract men who are gifted enuounh tIo master the intricacies of eletrical science. Training must be given in the intelligent selecting and handling of measuring rules and scales; saws. drills, and taps for various purposes and metals; ropes aind blocks; and a ],actkal knowledge of the application of levers, gears,. and pulleys, along with the ability to rig efliciently for hoisting and ereting eenip,rent and materials, Moreover, mathe na ties, as in most cra fts and professions, is basic to full miastery. Ton frequently, ilie electrical trade is regarded m.erely as a mechanical art, whereas it is a combioation of tie mechlanical, technical and professional, for it shades in at the top engineer relectrical ork of the to t for lean dords 4 No \ial A,,re tilcelsip hte -icr-)e(T;ast .. t.. o? Indu stry. the NOVEMBER, 1943 a9s Th./ YANKS 44e C omen, Cad,, */a4d StA'cvdh rhe bln,,rd tyftd rnr) ,hd hiind. i, Oht tt. f JDolt II~9,11rr Il I ftir> f'h, t', jor x )!'Ut, .Iihl. l ;rjnto, fh it, of ki, Atlol, Ry THE PHILOSOPHER ",I, T HESE mnlituatirls statted tellitlg to the! 'auiitr, ~hile proil'alin o[t f(or ~lu1.1e i lonth. cal "I I.ear America Singilg?' Ill, eaptiot was taken fromi a.leld by WitWhitrlal X1II Walt Whit .. an. is the 'irkes's poet. He was a rngl'a[ut carp e tr it1 his ay. aid sai.g his sortg, lot of the lif, that h, knew, the lif, of hte, .uhI...I .. erpee Strang, I thoughl, that a t[tl 'di, piroglm .ould bWsi it, tijlt'il oIna pIoet tha ott st ii ;,I Iu Wits hltuiktd . Iti..... It a k in ,>f hjo h:prtpr1 It oltll?;lL MItlye this vtts' .ignifiealt. I [av1,e the Ait:.i ¢IcIp feople a'' CatacIrT America, the amalgam of many races, cemented closely by the bonds of liberty [is [h n, hI s b e, a lip with A or tI' e Here is wlt TI . Dit ' r !,. . ftA , ' i, 'i ring ?h . . A....: I ir s ho(rt i*thtd', ho0.ifd ii.,ut'*t Ke I c K, pi , ,tn'orlunit, r ittltlO lt t;IsL t, , t) ~ dO~ pu i. thu,itj/ p, jrtf blr , oP* o,.r,lo.t,# ANOTUtER PEinIT OV lt A, I'. t/ ul , 4s pro onb ; to /I e d. ,,¢ Fu: x . iif,,ltt A,e i t(rx Sift ll ,u, u I, sthht a: , rh. oIn,~?o III, t pp,, o. ,,~ n/. I e k r~ti ,rt t r ti r~ r ,r[; tj*-u ft fith,' In AMERICpro A Aft It, tl t T]he h'p, l U,,' i S,tat ]1( , owlll~ to hi, toiet, :Illt] f . ...li I ..~Il... by It B, Feftw(IL ,f LU f r'. Thiis, uu97 ,dard g I.i, y b bth th, t... , onop rit.,(,inta tse t fi ct, h inll ,; rirh. I ,rt / it llihtli-, wit tod wilh11 hip~, A et', e is ] th'e, If ru itl I'tiicI it lo-nei gI uo,h1 1w l itl ¥;bi1 htr , dt iT againl. 'l'; YANI(KS 'ktE (GOIINC ( r.1ltlt e,! frur,,r t fightir. our!,' riobt' r riO i t~(rr ?r, gc .~.... .,> qc]¢$rtg Det-;Ss IN!...: I* urn Jtp[db'u Il/purrl, (flit, . K jhttirt*)p~c; IslfGtt , t frrk4 '.a[1 I,s :Xte II i ('t YohRvI .t Phd I 0]" i, r,, I It... . III t Is.rj ,rd '!ltr I .. T.. I tI, Iputr llrt ,1 c I o t rues ~ ~o , &t, et' on,? bIed sure,ipele ruhse I the races i /[~ AMERRtA IlIMIF OF pAe h;... I h, ratap 7hc,, ) / t'dr .. I, a ti, III,, (u,[ he. [ I.... rI a lhl - ,? nlt tcut~s y ?;¢h, ft,* r -uI .hI 'uAppi'.,," t I, I ,J , r r or I 1 e It. rIp ,dh , lsM ' rrri,b. .. I. t.. r 7', 0, ,,dkrp lp ,t I . I,I n I, t-;, H/ n A L i,tr h..l !f olIt TIh AII ''ri b 7'hr IA ,. A SINGS Whimmn's Iloilo I..... iert /o.ir ... I -mid: rl]n 1 i tub :l~f "l i,-ro LISTEN: AMERUI IthI (;I m~l t'hb cd ,ti Ipott 1 lit[ , Whiltlmalt lecalt , WVhihit;.. . usuu'cleul w pr¥k oitp loved ~olkerg, adu hi beliveId forthrightly in (l('m~rac, Al .. , . ... rr~ Shor.I td.,I" A ... ihr AI'd "lnfi~ lItbr I (h..I o yt!" P[~ it , k "ot ,I, all, I t ct Igha ttft .. ~... I. I t tott , tit}I, I ve~I - ruin%f/to V re**~,tf-h($ , irS Ir f ut 'T A r, 'u..... K 11 Thus AnIe. I, II9rat cdout'v It Cuvr.a ,u ti .....t arid h ... bors I,, its itt-at eey wpCC race i I, 1hr o To be, se, eIl euj try to use IIIerace (>fl~tlI"1I' tinpage4lq1 1 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 396 Reae~,h Aaaa fr PLANNING By M. L. RATCLIFF, L. If. No. 569 [ILL time emplbyrent oler de1etrier trades blnch h workers ill the buidinJg or inside eletricians is a rar go)al tO UNl 559 has [lit Ibu Ini.o. achieve, h 1¥(1,,'the ll, the peait aned f'i,,i the eni ioy ment leIn glant'bg ev port fromtthe Itc.... ah IeDpartrloat ibl my latest JOUIRNAL, I canI see where an/d how our participation has and will be 'f estimable value not only to Local 5fl, but to the International Oliice for ILhAir postwar planning in the southern Cali- F Research reports basis for quick change from one type of work to another utilize the power from Boulder Dam. Bebig granted the jurisdiction of Imperial County, we were success.ful in completing negotiations with the con tractors for a closed shop on imperial )am, and also the rural electrification of the Imperial Valley and the five subsequnt pnwer fernin area, units that were to be built on the All Starting back in 11K13 when I was Americau Canal. This work kept many of elected business manager, I saw the umeed our old nmembers employed and hrought of factual data with which to (equilie us many new ones SO that by July, 19319, such records and was very luch in ft when most of this work was completed yet of the universal work card systenl aind the early pre-war work was getting which the International Office asked each under way we had grown to a local with o alequir this about 350 mnembers. I local union to put into use data, and I get considerable satisfaction In August, 1939, the war work took on in looking over the reports I have sent real significance, in that Cutup Callhn in since the start of our ptrosral i I 1933, was started and our problems really bearid lnoting the changes up to the pre*.c.it gan in regard to securing members of time. the I. B. E. W. to handle this closed shop job along with several other camp DUES ON IPERCENTAGE BASIS jobs, Camp Elliott, Camp Pendleton and It was quite a problem to get the Ca..p Loekett, which were being started members into the swing of the program in this area. We put out the 'alt for of making out the work cards until I union electriciais, and as we did no. hit upon the idea of paying dues on the basis of the amount of money earned by the member. The dues of Local Union No. 569 are $11.00 per month, and one per cent of the member', earnings. Therefore, if the member does not work, say in August, he will only pay the minimum allowed by the International Office of $3.00, when he pays his Septenbei due,. as he pays the August earnings' percentage when paying his September dues, the percentage being based on the previous month's wages, There have been meally arguments from areawalltmembers who are now in this Pig a flat rate per month for dues, but all members who have become ae./uainted with our system If dues do not want to go back to the old system,. The percentage is the big system of dues collection factor in getting the COOleratlen of the members in turning in the worl cards upon which the pelcentage is computed. Ihnjow how hlog thest, .[ohs would last, we worked all viiting brethLer5 oi a clearance basis, oilless their cards were fgvL year's old or .... With Pearl I arebr, and our close p roximi, ty Ito the wr activities, the defetse work in this :lies reaill boo.med. ataptd to increase the size 'bhe Navy of the marine base, an old institution in Sant D)ego, more than doubling the size of the nlaval traininr station, and taking in almost the entire bay waterfront Ior the d.1estroyer lase. The naval hospital now occupies nearly ill of Balboa site, 'ome Paric (thie former expositio 1,400 acres By July and August, 1942, we reached .or peak with approximately 1,1500 non working out of our office, aid peak continued antil the first of tOits 1945 when the work in the construction field began to wiand up and at the pres,ittin, we are working members of No. 569 only in this fiell, and our mew beiship is slightly over 700, AIRCRAFT EXPANSION IS 19135, the Consolidated Aircraft d,cided to eave Buffalo, New York, and selected Sa nDilego as the city with greatest possibilities for the ailcraft ield with the result that they now have One of tie largest air'plaii factories in the worhl ld ated here. All construetion ]00 tV work fIr these plaIts was rent uiton and soeni of ,nh(brs No. 569 have been employed on this job since the start of the poject and many of them have gone to work for the conpalty on maintenance. With the Consobidated Aircraft coming to San Diego, it was the incentive for otherairplane factories starti g to exlpand, and we flow have ohr,, Solar, Ryan. and many (Coilt, pnur OC E... 41I GROWTH OF LOCAL NO. 569 In 1933, Local Union No, 569 had shoit 16 members who had survived the lejtression. We started to organize in the coeastruction field andi in 19W4, the San Diego Exposition was beginning to take shape and we jumped to over 200 members with this activity. In 1935. tile fair being con eluded, we had the 1936 fair which tided us over anaotbh year,. Tbhn cam the cI c- tribeation of San Itfieo hI..k eountry to WELL EQUIPPED OFFICE OF I, 1. NO 599. SAN Dt)EO. flUSINESS MANAGER RATCLIFF SElIN AT }Its TDSK NOYEMBER, 1943 39T TODAY our armed forces are fighting in thentots of oper.ation the worl Tove. They arc fighting a long, hard, bhtot habtte so that tomorrow the world will be a botter' place to live iH. And what about that tmorrow? Will it bring a realization of peace and happiness that those boys who are fighting today are giving their lives for, or will it bring an era of i enploy .. er;t and economic,] hah that will .onsign our returned heroes to bIcadlines and apple stands on stret cor nots? That is a question that cn.. ly be answered by tho talks who am, l ft at home and dlepends upo. their ability to thint ahead and mnake plan s tow that will prevent a reI.re..ntc of thu aft,math of World War 1. Ol'gallized laboe is thinking ahead and has taken a fteward step in the right directio. by appointing am '"A nrrel'un FerI,'ratibm of labor Postwar Planning Cuemiltee"' of whch Matthew Woll in chaI.manla &.nd the following ary nrobera: David Dubinsly, Agnes Nestor, John Childs, George M. Harrison, Richard Gray, Q. Lynch, RIOhe, St..e,Qeorge stroc and Milton P. Webster At .heir equest, John II. G. Pierson, Chh(f of tht, Pestwru Diviimon, eureau if Labor Statisties of the U. S. Departlimnt. of Labor, has wviitten a significnt anmphlet called "Enphlvyrent After the Wa,." This bookle. prenats in concise and ,p rehen .iv Fifn a picture of the Problem whioh ipostwa, memploymort will rato and suggesls plans or pcLeis to be adopted to I .event this problota fmai arising or at least to keep it welI in cheek and eliminate it at the first possible WORST TIIREAT IN Tui'; WOuIlI) The worst, threat on the postwa r or*i zoll is the possible ret of i mncasIell- ployiert sn,[h as existed in the tildies, A job is a simpl/]e ncessity and many ave haunted today by th fIalr that this i phe necessity will be denied then.. BEshb I9/ We .o'1 PlaMn, UNEMPLOYMENT Ynmeuta/de A. F. of L. and U. S. Lahor Department cooperate in painting picture, when peace arrives. Dismal if planning fails Just as some lesions will be affected more than others by demobilization, so will its effects on the different industrial components of our economy differ in intensity. Manufacturing faces the largest total decline. Contrsted with a war peak employment around 18 million, a peacetcne level of 13 million is possible under in munitions n.anaIictue. thoei will be expan.sion Ih i olthe lire, sine o/ which is litely to occur c tlt/ nlatieally aid some of which cail be ecumgnzld by costrue tive national policies. wcve, for the favorable eircuntStances. Gover first six to iinc .....lnths Ilmolr orer s will be laid off than can be biped in reguhTr lines of worh, no matte, how favorable conditions .a..y he,,d it appears inmprobable that the. eneloy ment problrem Can be ted .. d.t. simall dimensiona illess than a year and a half. UNEVEN DISTRIBUTION The impact of demohltiiization will not be distrbuted evenly over he country but ill affect seine aras, nldustries and occupatons mole svevly than others. In some sectio ns of the eonrly I, lihe Seattle, Wash., and No `,lk, Va., the nu.n ber of factory wage e...les has inreased mole than 2W0 per cent. Naturally such cities and they are p'laid throughout the United States Whever inuse aircraft, ordnance aId explosive plaitis ar located, will be hard-hit hen the fovtqnment stops bhlying products for War. nment em- ploynent-swenecd to nearly six and a half million will bear the second great,st reducifii, a cut-back of perhaps two million. TPanspiortatinn and public utilities are likely to decline slightly, On the other hand, trade a nd eonstructi.n should expatnd cosideably and sole increases should be expected in finallee and services, and agriuleture, whose manpower the war has cut, will probably absorb a million workers. MANIIFACTIURING WILL BE H AIDI)EST lilT Theil,OSt speehacular decline in ,anufacturing will be found in the key war industries. In aircraft production and sh ipll ih ing the reduction wi Ill be dastic Another large con traction will occur in the nianp act ore of iacdnel'y and mac hl. ti...Is ['he ironz, steel, alumhinn , ind other metal industries are expected to declhe. As far Its ,cd pations are concerned, Lhousa.nds of wddlers, rivetars, turrt (Ctollnlallt (11opage 427) this ditle connection between his iob ani his chance efo happiness, the workIer recognizes that an unoloynietit situa- titor, pt'luees cihllpetiti..n fr tihe scarce existing: .iobs that tends to unIderine baigaining power and wage rates. It will be in tlc harrier to maintain u ion stn.I- aids in the demobilizatio, period if there is no onrvictio. that the shortage l johs in indusary at that time is only temporary. Now xyhal ale the litespee'US jFbr when th, war is ov(r? At thie Io..e..nt wh.hen peace conics w. will probably have 1I million n.. innie arims. A m..ch larger arned force will he retained than that which we ha.I in the pry-war period but it oill be ,afe ino ay that between eight andinine milli.nl eservicemen wi. shortly be looking for jobs or goinig hadc to school. Meanw.hil ott war industries are. bound to release millions.f working men and women, since it lakes tine to change back to making cars and hobses instead of tanks and (lestroyers. This industrial denobillization will probably d(isplace six million persons. The brighter side of the pictue is that at the same Rinle shrinkage is oaetldeil DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO AMERICA Wl all wks Ag.ecy rhoto The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 390 negoia uture Ihe process by whiih all f tions shall b, onldetesd ad gnvernig the sips betveel the ing basic work rnt i of the I. H. (los to e h two. e. s i,, the lectri-opeowe and E.\WS ... by sue uc ihtlighi. ndtry ken agreenents. in effct cOlitialu'bLh, contract rflunln ldifid iii the uamnol 41uly, ot; nil ...... mutual loy ad,tld thereil. But gri.va.c.. iidd lispultc, il/cluding iflter)lt'eoiont lniI iJint uil of existing and [> 1}pf.... .. agtllnhts. hI:C] f~irontime to tne,. .Leon ., k la. op DiOet..ss. .ip.l bil..dicpity in disposirl of such dif ferences a..e essen tial to mai- tajiting industrial peace. Preferably they td at the source where they should develop, iather thst by a decision hnoled .. n. town realona I.o...te spot by peOsn familiar witblbeloral situation. Illy =4 TOWERS CARtYING POWER ACROSS CONTlINN'[NS 2.Et W Ybwnisa4 a 9lchwIcUTILITY Oidd But if thre is lo possibility of .. o..I ing a dflicualty di ret.y. some mu chinerv i,-eviisly agreed ofpn n-must be aaiable to each party as an impartial corut of ultimat appeal. tnes, in the settlement of dis. Pron .. ptrtes suid grievances is another fundamental tene of good labor relations:; fl if allowed to rmiahn unadjusted the digaatI my furhr if...menr... t ull. bt mode, cover. finally breaking out with violoa and unfortunate lostilts. It is i ...portant. therelafre, that tine limitations be applied at each sh.ccessive step in the grievance machinery, in o,-de that the proceedings nay not drag out indefinitely, (Seeo..d ii; a series of airelee il Mlh private electric atility field.) AST month we discussed in these pares the tremendous growth of the private electric powe.r industry between the first and second World Wars, We noted the manner in which the utility company, the employees who work on its properties and the comieanity which it serves all have mrtnal stakes in each other. We observed briefly sonm of the changes in economic structure and internal or- ganization which have occurred in the inoldding Condustry as a result of the pany Act of 1935, then turned to an examintwion of the working relationships betweeun an operating electric company and its employees, as exemplified in a typical labor agreement. In the electric power and light industry the INTERNATIONAL BROT H E R HIOO D OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS is by far and away the largest employee organization. The Brotherhood embraces every phase of the power industry, from the erection of lines equipment, through and installation of the generation, transmission and distribution of current to the final billing and crediting of customers. In addition to its size and its all-e,bracing coverage, the 1. B. E. W,, because of its age (dating back almost to inception of the industry itself)Col the of its long eperience in dealing with labor relations, is also the most stable or ganization of workers in the electric utility field, This month we wish to turn our attertion to the roles played in utility employer-employee relationships by three topics Brotherhood has long record of good contract relations with great power systems . t of vital con.ern .y.ievlabor, namley arie..machinery, seniority rules aniid upprenticeship t-ilning. [low has theunion been abl, to imliltWil its recognized position of stability for well over half a century without sacrifieing its principles or the interests of its members? Primarily it has been through the steadfast piursuit of the policy that tiere are other and better methods of attaining objectives than by resort to midiof e.onomic demo nstrations tancey, strength andi violence. This does not mean that there his been a lack if shap and acid dis.greement. between the union and its power.e..pany eli) ployerns. Far from it. It .. ai. natur. being as it is, no emplnyernaiployte* relationship, however crdal, is ent irely and forever free fioul dfiff,.e.ees of ophnion, It does nlean that the union alid its ln,ployers h}ave, for the must pll', been sti.csssfuI in working out mluLua ly [ict'otable machinery fir hiandling any disputes Pr grieva nces wbich may arise between table thln, by Ihr alhlphln if ,,on'eel methodsand itrue clletive bargain ig. UNION AGREEMENT INSURES AMICABLE RELATIONS rets The enibodIi..[t If this proced.l..I executed duly in the uni,,, agreement, a tehwen he parties klelie.catJng cuntract HOW 1. B. E. W. SETTLES DISPUTES The L B. E. W. has a wide variety of pans in effect in the dispute settlement ecicrio utility industry. One of the conmmanest forns provides that when a presmed in justice or aOl argument cannot be solved directly by the worker involved ant superv.ior, . . immediate his foreman then the matter shall be taken up between the business manager of his local union (who may or may not be accompanied by nembers of grievance committee of the person (or persons) desiglocal) and a hated to repr'oent the company. In the event of continued failure to resolve the difficulty, the matter may be referred., upon the request of either party, to a six-alan ( occasionally two mIllS board, members being selected in equal nu, bers by the union and the company. ; fhis board cannot reach a maorilty decision within the agreed time limit (as within 10 days or 30 dlays) they must procedI . le d iateily to select a seventh ineilber to serve with them. If, however, the six are. unable to ninteaully aree upon a seventh member withIb10 days, the iss, is automatically ie- forred ixt the p residents of the I. B. E. W. and of the compfany, or their designated represen/tat iyes, whow,,H then seek t, ... he, natter. Failing to do so ciliato in tie the two must select violhi a lbsitedtCbo a thbir, disitemrested member to serve a three-uia Ifboard of a.rib with thel ei t ratkm if unable to select such third meeber in t0 days, then he aIllleement provides that the third moember shall be appointed by the dire.tor ol conciliation of the U S. NOVEMBER, 1943 399 Department of trbor, by the chief iL~tic I Of t e su prenie eouthd of that 1tao. by he feldenl judge of the IT. S. distlict cuiti't .uch ITathaving juIiisrlitiorn. or by s.... ...aj.rity decikien If ithe ''le I I...ity. ll parties. .. I...aidis iiiial and bimljrtig eirl RTHY PRAISEWO SYSTEM \A IFI'RATION At.nu. ng th ,Ilany Lttilitel Icivin ' :i'lhi ,-ystemcis 1 hitol t aitt- thiese I. L tr'itiUi .. e might ..yt'itiTll ;I [&Iv ,tal lines plyed /Mkbii a giwL dirlIxc11 t~tLt" , h thcIp..si.io. That d off and re' Iilat f iat IIi [l injui't 1ii[~ l11( 'It That ij(i IT Itl, Lt, mlloyp[Hi it hkl 1 t/ lI M1 NY 'CRIFEMl2E8 RULS hIIllulA. KL tiIaii Mn il [ " I f, OTt). IiiVV[l ,/okoLl si ~ ~ Xl)CtatI ... e a ot o nly s uf IeI loses sec ir it, f o ntillue tI~ II\MI< . ..I ~ )(i Ill~litV il.' II~~~~~ltl ~o qe iIi3B the, cnlploy,, ~'ueouh o~IT pl rd ult h~kiI lI'l la: wffihi , taki, laid Il Public Sei'' ic (%. Heat. Lih.ht an.. Iater N)orthen Indianlat priod ...... zIe .1 I.w.r. yeal,.,.. , i~ Ill[:lh ( [ndidbma Ill& ,)th' Northern Public Sn vice C(. (of Indh/ar (ary et lahi) sttillda 'ds e tis iB r e¥ ial ijII'(a... l iDts "Ir If~il [1ll 'ijo ixwa ifro. bhil job . e c Tls II oJr ill- eCritith. co tit mll , Ito SHR " e ioriiy hsetce. ,ir .o. IIlliteld hi, Ile Illilg 'tells; b 4't% teiI i lt e TI tUlUttt the o t'ti1.ti ntI th, fornlation If 4f th, dispute! tatbiI rying the eam arbitaian bml]v. by Imm'uciiate supe' su...essively frolm thk visLr to the co[ptily's lOCal or elistni(:t h,; miantager. then to its division nyanag(ll. ~ Itsop1 r atintg vice ]Iresident Ut' dif ctIir p.'so)nItel and finally to it, p}'esiduht SUCh a procedure has bbth advaniallia and disadvanltages. It probably ice the opportunity for settICft....t by lI familiar with lhe local cI'iu."sla...'fs. but it a ls o ci ter. s g r' att'i' ,liI o i'tt iti t P re enlded delay in rea, hing the ulthiale Tll/ 1 i I i'lt, u h a~ fo, :ix Duiqljths aaaaV 1g 1 he applied oIn the Seiioritvy rti r le('pihc (i)eratitig di(*i t o th. CO h . Fip;il (lastia particubir o(uiapti o Iiddlh hiUl actually Ipirpeihts fe~alill Till is I i{t ,. I wi thin a %L itii ill U. it c motspnIolty s)11l prlacii, IItl'lns iI... (Hlf I[ B. E. W\ utility enhlpoyees Ieo....lhii t .... ..if t leptesent a fl '. two baset s , yV pij vid that seliorhmy shall bh crnputed girIull withtti~hin a spweific wceupazitnri giihplf[VtI' I I. . I.... "ISbI r4I1{*fIII 41 , l. tPI, I A leat ' pi,,Ia,'itv pa. a i I t paeIueITIVP ,wmma divisaion of lhe, e"npby,' inr Fa rllll -I/hiTlity ) il'S lI~q~lk [bat [,Ita iroblem should dither side dtkhIttL , totets withilt given ulat-ii' sh'e to prolonglf the case,..A few algretnr~en t , eel b <dij pl'ovie for i.... ne.. ti ii'*,'etddlh e tU :)thi ,. tie~a }leL(t g,'(t I) ...tIt [ e l 't;.tivP(''i oCf la k of wolk, p.r.'n . . In~t i.... tpth rit chiibl the lil t iImlmS illosz libhild Mml be fir~t klitil of;those cent]> laidi off shall, wb'n foir es aT. . SEN(IOITY UI( LFS eI, firs I'-eCploy d. ('elias11 agai.n, ,seui, a hilt al' t By ftRules of :en ir]ily arll available and ulIip it'vidtig' tthe hnrg;uintng. Thles fo.' genuine collctive e x .ii W'etd for thil a n,{Hl t'ially !u1ified a eist il justic! : oLd Lit' fot dedI I.po.. ii roipally hisists That J Fi'q, nlv th, the feeling of "right t¢, one's job'' which dlvelol. thl'ugh yelts ,f faithf'ul ser i< lb ic. Ised as, the basis for pT./nit... tall'e and rehiring niattc, tmeiiorly ll}y 4 ]'OU pr'oviSilI fulfill offs, senioit'yyuntu..us uplLI]1OSt We shall lIailtin, oLly a N.I. First, they preve]t t.njuistifiable h...... tins Dr' transfers with ]/s, of status. cir 'eftsils of 11}1o t' Itsist'itll C uitLV 1 tlins, and protct avrat]st ilisvrlinlillatlu Y hi)l ledtie 'offs or . T..-r ei{Is tl )lt t lay worki,,g roi ts. ,mentingof tioi, or au Second, they act as I bar to the £Illi[try LS hlo] if im 'xpriTree'td Woitke. I.. at ats ex,),ipte, tedI .l.. , a', loki.. g for job,. eltmde tbt> $och] Third, they nmtely :whow ii 1k. necessity for shieldin, the older who, btcause ,I with a long ser.vicereo'I his axe, ,ill have reataer lifficult than . le I iTl findilng, iw empllhy mIIt. at} l ;nger Fiinallvy, em ioyeis }ave ge. .'Ially .. i.... co n/ .. .lio of fillitfmh to pelt VI> Tlhat er loyalty l,, 1, l 'lt 9 me1tl MehyI(,T 1is ei lhe pa t tit' I w or'ker. I(ioxt ,hle t hat hi rtpr ;l- d f ind [h lt he door is tflleit is a plll to him to pI o rss, as far ns hi, ahility toik, reluctant hln will perrail, makes swer to the The rb sehll 1)III CnI[ fIIItes' It holdIbe noted that when stmaight iJiisit.r.tl seniotity phls are adopted the long service record 'nilphill)yee with a sh.uld ,i protooied. hilth event of neeesSuity la; -offS or dIi t iot S, by pei'lliitithw transfer to S(tile lthihb lpor 'tuity' of flivlse ... ... ~Ibe, " hich hb Cltl qualif rieon ,in.. I n.p..lsfere tr.. NVhet an '~eelpa illttl gi'l/HdP elu 'liviiort to autothei delicate question f'i'IIauttly arises as to his ,enioity status reative to the grai/., lie heave and to the group ibi Ihbejoins [f fair play to both [it sinking a balance . h(,' t.n.ploye o.....'t I tLe rild the grou I p lhe nl'al ag Lcei\4'ilts p rtllii e, illi snce,. that the eanplt y,.'e ,lcla) exei6cs ill pae, group thea sciiot'ilvy whih bye ha t,p uTIIil sch tin* hiI I.uilt tp within Ihat It lis seniority ii the new l'oup equal that which IT had ill the I]l g.rou.i o (a wvhich time his sinitLty tig!hts in the old wroup) cease) ad aito providing that fr sx irst j.IOths Ilf his efltploynlenl ilt th. l ay not exrcise his ih new gt'ou p IT that group. ,snioirity 'ights hitn plltt'rs, sI bjet of seniilI)fOur utility these clattsc~ Sons'[JnwgQ agreem(nte:t, t i.... . agtiL. v.. . LneIi'S.....V L itle the asc Miitary ity rules aPBO ]'ty hiaee servIc i in uiily clau ses h p(,11 Ii( ey'mniI his cOI dII' ;ICiIAT basw I Bbiht granted unldi'd the sective service law' Tmnhly. tbat .elt,mrst discharged of ]940, flora military servk'e'hall be eIcT.pleyed "xithoui ITss of ',niclity" adid "to positioui of like era t M Status and play.provided they are still qualified to pir, t'lat,' Io ,1 tIe duties arid apply within ,y lniatt of 40 days after discharge. Cacl li At iii pajI,) ill S4U ie'ta'ihHI o~'f se i e. (lil1ihid\'l&' tiS Orill itu't * 511)1l' hns off'for' u'eItsoI ill I)~lIDd~I) y. lie y ;Vig !eti ltt. It .IL.y be hld'fit.d, .IIPr tji ..fi..$ eit.... Iris lemhc[b of ith til' i... i;h yeI'. ']II oi....dIrhs? 'de e 'vi(e I...... t I . L powie cTnl, iry of yrIJe tsiLy h' ILI Ili AGItEEMMENTS INSUREI] FAIR PLAY '1:MiR iii', , I Soitie 'if O ut' a} qit ihut. N DUTSTRIES SERVED BY EILECTRICAL P]>VF[ 42L) The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 400 q 040 ma~z heaeloped fr tdivakoin~ LABOR on /4s By FRANK METZGER, L. U. No. 602 (Secon oif w ltie) A PRO(JET SELECTED FORI COMPARISON 0 show the effects and applicatin of tenotations that appeared in last Tmonth'sarticle, as, applired to latirnat- ain, it will be convenient to exhibit, for comparison, the labor r.eot'd of a ,on, pieted projeet.The project selected, while not a large one, was, eornlpieedtunde,-r the supervision of the PWA. The building with a full basement tdi thlet firms, built in an L shape, was an addition to a hospital. The outside wall,, as well as the inside corridorlswawee brick and wall bearing. * Floor Construction. - Corridors were 5-inch flat concre.e,slabs. Baths and toilets wel. 2-inch flat concrete slabs, inured on high rib lath. The lath was placed on 0. T. steel joist. 0. T. steel joist and wood flooring were used on al the room doorm. Ceiling.-Metal lath. The ceiling was installed first, and then the partiLions were built. The room partitions were 2ihr ti tal t ib channel with metal lath on each side. I, the stel joist constrtetiont, the conduit were goose-necked into the tack of the outlet boxes. Thts placed the conduit conveniently t. tie agatis the lattice Estimator of long experience gives valuable tips on evaluating labor costs work of the joist, and also facilitated the wire pulling and spotting the outlets. The outlets wore in alignment the conduit was cut for the center to center of r'oolns; easurement .. taken fromn the floor plans. After this operation, the conduit was impelled through the lattice work of the joist, lined up and tied. The ceiling outlets that were in alignmeat required only one-third the time to install as those that were not in alignnmeet, in this case, the same floor construclion, and the same nmhber of condu.itS entering tih outlet box. The outlets that were not in aligntent required consider'able more time ill measti.ing and spotting to their location. The 25 Ml int static, amirine16t.tot 6electrc- panels tI tlphone cabinlet a ~arety SSwttALo .3 h~a~r lutet I lelph nue ,erv i 'Tfi, project has a total of 379 outlets. I list fmaterial given below was taken T f. ..... e invceps Iot the material shipped to tbo job. It will be convenient to list this ,aterial in two parts. (1 roughingin, and !2) finishing. The roughing-in time should Ie sepataw from the finishig timw, if for no other r..ason than for comnpar son, The man-huras on this job can be di,tided ibt thrte parts; II r hing-in; (2) finislIe ; and )a lared of time belonging to joh expense. This part and palmel of tinte Lay vary in nagmitude in different orgm.izationts In this list of maeria. for estitatitng the roughing-in labor, a unit "C" factor will be utilized. 31atbem. .t~ei 2IM ' rg nr...itfol 2" ' (totd ittt SI)e J11g I 20tt 20' " trrduit oildulit $0l t2~0' 225 Switrh tnxgs 225 conduit Ou tlet Iboxes I00.8; 50 · I c,,867 210{t8 80 2(00Q 100 951,x8 I33 428lg; 2100 22&x$ 40 225x$ 40 9.75 16.00 172.40 45.00 45.00 following is a break-down on the outlets for this particular project: 122 ceiing outlets 1 (utside bracket 4three-way switches 99 79 ]0 20 single pole switches flUSh reeep Iaeles tetlephoE outlets signal lights ver d ',orsi A'tn L e~l to r 2n1 5 x 6.75x0.253 1.95 ILizhttig 7.20 3[Ain liflit p[:tnelo~ safety pwit, %witthel 100 amnip. safety switeh swite hlI FE41h)41;1ed t6rl/e 417.55 The atualt tin e t install the rouhhing-in material for this job was ,105.5 hours. There was a small amount of the ahove .... tctrial retur.ned. apparently, the estimatedtite is just a mite short. Tie estimated timpie in tho fini.,ihn caption, while apparetuly long, could be reduced. Fortunately no difficulties were oneounlt'eId il fiishing. Ext¢.M3ttte Im s itruglo S~iXIt,hi', 3. waY chit i ns lea Q tr...-. titles 100 4 .l tn e tal c(~uecptlo 10 100/1oft I ,0.00 4/10'xt .40 lOx 3/lOOxl lx 80/100xl ,30 8.00 1x ic mwtchrs ticejptadl~e 2 so {CozitliluEl on page 4S2) NOVEMBER, 1943 40I YnrAIecNTENA See Val"e o$MAINTENANCE *1"o4 The Itfer...i o.... AsIoeti,lhi. of/ Ehe,rioal Ik.sperlF.h , Oth ( -o lil frtil, vf cI ctriedl )ftlpeei')rn ehtacged tw /ith hfl ,jp~igbilit 1; of upholding hlfig ihtN/i/(luft, s/antd(,rdn, C/ Cc? i g a? .... Crf/dh ('u(Itcilolt It) it F I ) Ce Wi k. .tiffraldrlrS3 Intelnational Association of Electrical Inspectors issues gui d to effective electrical maintenance GENERAL FFI TIV ... aiit.e..ane.. o. el.. tie'aI Equtipn>'iet btgins with cation eiii andi inslallat.blt rt IrI'ol per li- Mall1l iters of equipunion{ are usial]y th, best Iraii~les to proper.. pplieatl tth. 'The Natiehal Elhct al Code. is lIh hec ted standaid fir safe installalhur. 'Th e T ir, )OSe Of r[ aj .tetia e' i In Ilr V it the otrutlr t' ulvle of tl.t.h.. ii', ca] equipmenlnt. This k best a.c..nl.ished hy pl'epariig a (0 itlhwti lnlttit JLatrflee soh r'bile, etiVit luP. all ('(] iIp lnelt~ ;:l, lolloximri it mgis 'ly. The ft)]hwblg ijafpiri dh Ilohk h olin~ 'i for o~ ~ Ffl'qt...... ,,} I'ilalce F I i It'of gtnt.'s] rfIrahie tiheI I, maim electrical eqlltuiineltl. MIore treqiter/db spectionls may bte requn'cd for ('qtii]pnll'rt In dirty or lanjI Ioeatoris. or ilr equipment subjcctd h) severe .li.l.mg ndiLion.s. Whepe},, issible. iJhlaili the .teeolnpazyirlg etch aid{ follow' i11oi ]ileee il ,equi......t Vi'(,nrnilliiIi[t12frs SUBST VI ION EQUIPMENT Tiransforers Teost tcn~e,*;ttqti*('s ei [tiatusfitiinei.s op- el sting at full boad at least .m.. . nIonth. Oil temflperature of nil-im,'rs,' selfciooled transforers should niew... exceed 90 Centigrade Ill such t,'...r.'ers siltmid not he I.rmi.ted to opernle for It...g periods of time above .. }80 Cericgide. (heck oil level in tralsf tners evely three month inld replace I.lkage and evil)o vatioh i Iloss, Insp('eL for oil leaks in transfor'me? tankdis, Check gj'ou..In lug [d g.otit. l chtntit. Co.,i l.... ..I tlnsloIrm r iil shtlhJ be tested at it nce each yar. II the dielectric stiengil Js less than ;Is 0?. oil soubld beg entdlithined. New ilh he ilested befoe heing placd' ii i'rIls furnier ani shOtlild have I iieh t,(Hi sirongth of lt last 18 lv Lightning Arreslers Inspect all lightnias arr'ster (iiictilns in early sring just behfi lr. htnintt Seasol anI . .I eiely ether .... ni til, s.l... .r. before exNe lfea t lightlingt (ids i', le g ,.ld simt iihl ... ,] t mi'eiklm)Niii bleinhs; I... l .e.esi cnieial " ijury w,n!essire and pipe *ire bainded together. S if F it hii,- p~ovetnefits to lowcr it to five hi...s or less. Never ' rOliid , wire iItugh iron or steel pipe for plot etion agahlst le - WIRING Wires l(I (abl)ls Wh'bmg ys n s Mblt('t lI to vibration s he i..e.te ..o..tbly. All .. eha. ieal vi),let", )i'tlssgh aI ieeknuts, bhush hing-, 'i.. shoiuldl be tiffhtened. Bowl wilt's nti, griuifu (4 o elt ionJl ls s bould he (bo li 'd Chetk systtInU to ... ke ('lltini that hrazirrls barv devmblejd since last iwqme tilt sch is oil or w;iti laks k1ear a I/llyS, leth.1.. pipes {iiititle] real, ellili's n'mlceuwiys, high temp&'rature.ol...itiqIui rh'v'lohped inl Vau]l:s o1' Swciatl FOOllS, et(. [ yari ub' all w¥r1t1I i tl swi tch boxes, CI~e ' ioll ee~tion s, ode,, flor possible ilol'I'mikili'i nju ry. w~,"¥[hfati.I e-huIlienl W in e i r at o e i,s h,,ipt iuieseiit, this inlspeet~tiot shiith] be tinl/lb lEIxninnie itop etids arid portable Idh's (,very three tmo..ths when inr filgula use. . Rplai:... y danmage e r sevre weal' such as fleoid a pIi..it where v ire tiit en t soc, 0I.....ets . l) s* a nd I .l qpplldibutcs. Keep ext-'nsimI ords a'txay I..... ljLto] s!ea11 dipa'., nails, hboks, all d FIcvfl iee ib.it'ets, K(etp ru"bb, coinl, o1ii iOf SIll] hite Rs illIch as possihle aIld fetVk K/l oi, ef h.l.p,guards 8'ilcltc1 Boxes. VI( ] 1'P ilid chejidticls. ie anoe] BHips's e(c. Victor 'oU ,l-y V eli-known ail lVI tar, ol i..t. ts orga , at, er(- of overheathi am sia 'sult i[ high resist auice cotictt s or overloads. I'heel o]el-aionl of "'cjii-k-,reak'' ftatlures, 0et. LIGHTING EQUIPMENT Need for Rg tlar ai te.....eI ... Lark ,f nlIitit(,llllee of ightimg' equilpnIent nmay reAt tu available IighE by as mu,,ch as 50 ,i (it en .r .1.{... This loss i'p'esenl~ ]hss in inv e ttirett, hinceased 'pce-ait[ijg e'xtp/Ise, and nitty catLie cned- deIts and l)rodtltm t loss. en Type of tain tensnce sheldutle nleeded will var widely wth type of plant Ind size if installation hIt it shtmld i...lude the following five Inih t lir g ...... 1. Provide easy access ]lndllarhca to all 2. Cleani hunmiuaries regublly with soup aId /ater 3. Repilae hIuni outage8 prttmnptly 4. Paint walls and eililig light olor and keep thei light 5,M~aiitait rated voltage at. Itmn ar~ties Insete. all i]mtaI i I, if the wlin/g nlorhilbby. (hi .le.Ltions that gie plrhtilarly dusty, h .,;cs should li 1 lehaer d ..Itt weekly.) Mke cerain that ill eil fit tightly a."d are inl plae; all itisu l 'lknoe k tij' holes pll tg el[ tight ly. Il in. w ires l...d git'O ncl (uilI etorus shoubl he eckedlu. (ONTROL EQT 1PMEN'P VystclI/ Fuses lin. Switches llspi''t all fas.s twice aceh year to aseeitini that cicuitsirt . unoivt rFuui d. K ie, fuse l'p.. and I ight and ehek ib[] ..i.nt.'tioims I0 I'('V.T.. oV...eathli. hI pee}'ct cblsely fot- heathl iru slimy (!vitle'iee of dryer- s a It'cstnI, (d' hig'h ]'esistamn' fmmscs, mte]htciIng cI'[ ipt~ cases, ll~ lt certaitl th~mt. cases artrtefilhld w''pb liumks o[ ,I'Iuopn r tatihtg', asse'n bled tightly. lnsllect s\ith('h aj1e chke]f. Inspee ixid that itt same t fuses ir e time fuses clbmly for vkilde,/, Keep Equ pi tCI('lean In dusty lo h ions, (lea... a.l. b[).lw out ali star'tinig swit.ches, eomfnelc sattors. con trollers, adinliir ticult breake.'s at least weekly. DIo nIt allow lulst l dirt. tO Iell/tlat, ol high voltage h ushings or termins. h )o not per..it an aeteurI tion it' dirt, oil. g' cease or water ... the tpe] rIti[ g pa ,ls Cl ti l eq tIpi..... . In ilanmp ni c..r..oseii atmosphere, i I. conitrol ) atts ItItitemlq VIll c' aI ... alll 'y. I5i clan ]ocations S(..llal.. lu.I clainings wil suffice. C Mheck Mechanical (nd iions The mi/chai...l ci ndilioi fIall ('ity]ol eqIuipmen.t sh u..tl he checked w,'kly if subject to vlbration er n..i.tbly otb e/'wise. Tightem ill its and .s..c. . . ximnhinc etertie an dl] mechaniicl corniceCoaliimled ona page 427) The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 402 Aid MILITARY Aem4uhqz r by HIE s..si.n Wa' p[ies tlelOVe Chairman PauIsfn. All nehers lported present. o. roll catI, to wit: C7M. Paulso n C. F. PrIler. Charle, Foehr, D. W. Tracy, F. 1- Kelley, William G. Shord, Ha[I} VaI Aridale. Jr., J, L. McBride, D. A. Manning. The minutes of the June, 1943 council leetilNg were read. aid approved. International Secretary Bugniazet I ported that Mrs, Did Donovan, widno of mehmber David Donevan, had written with reference to the action of the Intelnational Executive Council on her request for further consideration of prior pension payments. The International Secretary advised that he had acknowledged the letter and furnished Mrs. Donovan the further information she had requested. and that he had received no further conmunication fromt her with reference to iris last letter. Other matters eferred to the internotier al officers for action at the June, 1D94: council meeting will be taken up fur disposition later on in the council's wok. Chairman Paulsen appointed Execuitive Council Metals C}.F. Prolefatd, Charles Foehn as the committee on audit. They were instructed to examine the audit of the 1. B. E. W. for the three no.ith,,' period ending dune 0. 191l3, a, reported by the firm of Wayne Kendrlck and Company, C. P. A.s employed by the International Executitie Council, and ti -eport their findings to the council before its adjournment. The chaiman referred the audit of the Electrical Workers' Benefit Association for the first half of 194, as submitted by the firm of Wayne Kendrick & Company, C. P. A.'s, to the committe on audit with instructions that they report their findings back to the comci, for the council to act upon and pres'nt a report to thi tr..tees of the E. W. R. A. at the semiamnual ,oieting of the, t0rues. foro pension which The applications were Presented by the following nanled inebet Minutes of third regular quarterly }neeting of the International Executive Council L. V. N, I (neck. August %itliar I ayes, John B. B...ner.r, Adrian o1wden, Walter 2 I arrap, Philip A. Valkeiberg. John (mrow, John W, Hagrup. Henry Itarsb,. Charles Mattes, Gustave A. 9 IHARLES PAULSEN A. ]lushes, William HI. KeneskE. Anthony J. 2N Nwhel JoIhT 3 O'Neill, Jane= Ituekle. Louis ] 3 SAheuplein. 11enry A. 3 Schneider. Charlesl i 3 >c,, 3 Shapiro. Jacob JSnlth, GeCrge. ierney, Harry M[. ] P0' oihaan. (irailI Flugun, Joseph M. ul.OhArthur 9 Juhncon, Alfed '0I)wd,John E. , Perry. Hear rut tie, George E. 9Wilson, Charles C. W okersin.l IlTenry 7 Landy, Edward J. 17 Taylor, Richard (hale eves, A. 34 2S Stahl. Miller >young. W~illinn J. K. I. .1! l1 41 44 40 48 No. IPhilip I, (9 [;rv. Valt Zehbn Hermain (!airoll, Frank EF ()este rre.eh, Albert IhLrry J. Warcren N ycee Fipte)h C. John II. RIhrTrdso,, h AS Zy, V. J. ,iae, W illia..mI a2 (;at a;mmisoit, \Vllit, aS ;jr .dnsII. liarry B Fitlalk S, LJnirdrUl,, 5Spiger, Chris J. 31 Killiori. DoSk B. (;. L. 71 Manl.q. 104 Donohuv. Thomls 3104I LI~tnla , Trhomnas [t I) rn, Joseph W, li .Swur. HlIman 12a Norris, (buries A. PR I29WVard, litlie MilloT, Bort C. UT 134 MIatthies. Willm IL. 134 NeIl... John (, }lh.nsrtodl, Egil K. 15l 160 at veew examiuned: 1.IF. C, chaunltan r k, Eugene M. I64 186 95 22 '11 214 31IJ 32, :/~ :4r : 1, F. Inaukhal, (reore Keevly, William Edwa rId Frnok A hi E nb:ch. L....., West F. ('till or, Wallter A. Weir. Thpomas R. Morgan. R. Il. MeLGta'ey. Jai"os F Willi.", Friuli Irstw , Iemtlderson Duncan Lamb, John Thomas. D¾' Bois, Robert TI, 537 2 5 Wilson, lore~z IL, ginpl, I'lliu't, F. 7112 8I7 Reed. Willi:a.. E. Zydel,Mi chael Pr,,,sI L. I % o. I.0. .0. 1.0. 1.0. L 0. ] .0 [.O. I. N. Ad,.ls, Ernst I,. arry (. .. pater, Dallaa, Hserbert A Davis, Car i.I IEvanla. Johni layes, Morgan Wheeler Kenney, William .1. Nayle., Willpam H. Trautnitan. (Charle G ]. IO. Weihr. Willi ... 702 Il, The cuuneil f.u... tinled applications (,dine, wilh hbe provisions of the In1 trnIiililonal Constitution, nd that the lli Suppoit the applicants' .ffi. ia[recrds IlS; to PeI.hn age tan continuous r'lkt st ia..dinl in the I1iOTIltllOfl therefotre 86 SI; 81 7 139 19)7 that the aforemen made in ac wer, D, A. MANNING 1 C secretorI. E it was dee.e..,. motion. which was i upon f'rlhnitleJicd oul pace 4 OI NOVEMBER, 1943 403 AeCC&U14/OP4OpOd4ed T IHE 19-1.... .owm...ioi Mwd t4'rnari~hlrtal ] xec'll~e IIh< (tiurreil ... , on', It,,, 'IoI ,d ,<-, ' t. do. 4A"edlmma i IoIu.i.. nit Dnce:it? Of a.......Il the htl.. , In, 1lie p'i in q' D ., l1 ord't. -da Iefr ,e.Iit.... s bioitted tt, the m, , bership r .co .n.nidf stuil , iI ,itei to niaku rvoui ndil irorw tlo IlU te m oniig il, Id.pljion: that starting Janluar, 1044. to am] ... Iciding ¥etti :A, tile conmfllti,)IIb;lh b p14 ostptnl.I .... It, IlIe .n..mofr- j...e,. I 44, each heneficia membter pa, a .. e dollar ($1.i)(1) ,h ip I, .cc...l..toif h], a I '. lllt' IitiinlLI I] in ('ol.ilI .u.ie :ts1esmnellt p.r .. iiith; and Ihat starting .Jul3, Ig44. and each propc'ses, ; pii t. take (:le T he aIcIli ..f the 1941 ers' Benefit A \sociati.n, Ill lV a ses liilt 1,lilt'siliu tion. .... titin of hile ihlatTici .... e.tioi ... o.t.. tile left the si I'il h.I..... I,( to the trt..Ii, ,, tiru to i I aie tII is benefit asSo.iati p.. I.... trustees wit], pow sessmient rate, o thie itHIe1 of rsesst'til p C the laws [oo tb e ,illvetiol sitiattion, for the rast.... vide th, . ....1 (..l this :1 per tn.oi.tl. i nlipbthereafter until the text cOn\Cillon, StId ss .S.ll'.t.t c edu... td to bitV cents (q0c) p.t II..I.tlth; <tihpaym.ent to Ie dklil~t.11 follos: Of thr' ; 1.00 a.sessn..m. 70 cents to [t' plaeid ina thie person flln.. tarid , ceInsI et th e ttr ttto;ir 5- t.i.ul. of the bene lt ,so- , btt .. id s.h.I.. .. pt1l tb, law s of tihe Bi...ierl.o..l that tbe ..r...lil.t of p rI capiat \V ,rk tlthat (qtch it... .Tle..llbe m ust pay, ard to make ;Hi% khulnk. e inlih, 211o IIl i, I.i.......t by theII. em. er. requir . s ' eTni'... I on ;I l.ii .ee ... of the mem bership, in order to IlL.il.ti te th, . .iccc..it,.I{ i.nl...(dtng s everal sect o... of thl consltirins hit in K g that hlsk to be done [)y the next Cot..n.th The International lxec.i.,'i 'ouInci propoal .. It tie care of this Sit,:'tio.. and lhe pe ns, ,ion ru.. n It) .n; .. .. ......t plan to operate until thfI.x. con.l'. 0ir,. dbpoeS if both propositions without the ntcc>4iU of [nakmnlg cilai.e. ineither const It ustiul. slit tOf bcf f ...nd. .0 cents assessmn....t, 20 cents to IIlaced in the pen centrs irl th, ' ... tua. fimi of the ben fit a1>1 C'tatitol. Adoption if the ahoe pln [nulets bhat for the lirst six rutoni lih of 1944 each benefciald .... nhc, ilI lie pavi ng into the Wtiomn plani SI,(t per month fr aI$40,00 tier montpt penion /t)I....l a,rtnd rime.lthen until tile nixt 57 cents 5tyefltiOri r[ niHIh tin thie s Imu purpose: . rd until the n.eIt o n tf lotion pat ng $·.20 a I.onth, into th, F, \V. 1. A. for the de;ath Ie.efit p'an. T be ahoitve ant. un~-., stat-eidor tO r oloid are thie c{Imbnetd i...,t'U , of the per capita dppo) rtii.nilleIlt ill the ConisrtitutOll to thes Iunis. pIus h. tihe p tti. .t Ilie, a t$'[inleri ;i'tl t K t ldto the two fuds D. C. INS[RAN(E [)EA ItFIMENT ACTS The IIns. . ip' uranc e of the ID)isrikl it (i,i..hia has just .I amnined the }N 'fir aisSoc t l.. .l..d ratie tioeld I.com.. nl.dalton, an, the I.lqnhers.hip. inl aCTir,, lap aLib at this imie on the recI . .iimmenlation of thr IIte r..atio..al I~E c titr P Council to meet tie re.. iO.iiiirtdatb1ij oi ti.e r.ur. .. .. .r t meat of the District of Cilu..bhia, as well as tie 'itiatio,eist ig w ith the 1\Iichifg n I......an/..' )ijal'ITI li ,on CtIt t ot the wordmig of the Michil.an Ste, I..s..rance ,, lCd', will lI building for the future soIun.ess of the benefit : csneiati.Il, and making pr fot pin imeetiig its itr e ohligatmrns. Should the me... erslp fail to adojpt tile plan, pisente, the onIV thing that teIh iuntees of the hem'flt ;.s.cU.titJri caI . do to meet this important (ohligation is to lower tie henifits l 50 per cent meatin the present 90 ents pav I.t .. (tomeet that obligation. This means that iembn lrs witle )'t ea ... rotiti..I ols standinm would he Ip tacted for a M .l IHIJ) deith ,lrnit, and .n.i..b1 rs fwith it I 't r ;IIr .......CIiti]iOiiSt st n... ltig w.uII be protected for a $500.00 death hbjflit, , ith all thle'r iett eitq the nIllriiTlUrll a.. .. t.I i..i l...i hlkn ts tioId dcrin tIle stone manner. The trIsttteesakrl, vi[ ht pohei ti...... ndi I prese... laws ai.d hi tctiof totId riotlief ...e .ital, tillhea...pld ment if the lawI b , reieren.I . irI , XV are sare hInh ii.. ... hers do not dcsire that htl Irust eI ht t(ooe. to rake this ation. bh, ~.e.. c.....s.it .... , ...aoull ,ke the ...itl.. i pa I..ent by each ni..i..er. to the benit lrsoalh ,Si.20 .. less than 30 cetns a .eek it this wlv abhrle p. o.ec..rtoo For the benefit of tile i..:ohership. all ti, omarial ill' pubhiihed inthe Noierlher issue of be \VrWORK1R, illtItlimlt Id1 pensiO n dat, furni sheI l,: t tilion , tor i... ¢illilflhttll,,, alnd the verhatim reeonne.t dathi s of bie i rm'hlr;air departmerit of the I)itrk Iof Col.t.bia. AMOUNT OF PIOPOSEID ASSESSMENT Thbe Execljrile Coi ril'l plan to sol e for th o.l.....It h COMPA/RED WITH PRIVATE INSUIRANCFS l[nlurntri e .o.pani..s would cbat ge, tor a ten dollar ($10.00) Ihl tih'1 sl carrYing it reaches ithe age of 65, appriximatelv as shown m the following table. I.er n.. th :llilntuitv. payable wi, I'le plans of ifis.r.nic c ori , dliftE .. m.ew.. hat rirml ours. bitt inl the table of costs leblo, is estimated what would be thbei chmre if tbey .w.d.. write t.l.. pla. he year periods belng used to show the difte.. c... it cost it those ,iars that the ;irItlitaill Marts paving fur th teIl tholllat a .... timhr.n.u.i.y whikb hl is tO rceive ftom. the time hnreaches 65 until II [i pHtivislt u si1 iilai to that of .... pe'nsion pla.; lrpproximate Cost per Month prt $10.00 tt~ Intit dtnnui'ty 2!) · · -5 $ .28 45 59 40 It$ I I le, flgure-;re he snartdrLId lars ,f i I .o.pany. reduced to .It... I l. I II i their trite to ;low fto tIhe difterence in their ph:..manii .... \liItiplh tit' o, in the above table h5 4 and tn will ha;1 the c,. for a 54000 a onuth annuity. Colm itot'ies (edid contact ilr Igrltt ;ilcr III their rates tor sini btr ot..i rI; .-. If cour-e 01.. phla . ip.. tIlaa e a tiifor. ri rate, rcg;[rdh~'s oi the agze at which the III.t.iib 'r iS aInti. ed tdoer hu plan. V N ow ~,mi-I seet[i's is supportel h} a percentage ctIIrrlhulionD f(1 l th b( orke.. .tit arid.I simiiat i[....UIrt paid hy Ihi ,I1lphlPI Ai thl, premt 11tio, he rate is uric per cen[t of tII' ,orker 'S salar, and a hi...lr ..il[.... lt paivabie II his enl ,I/x. ( )IX oltrding I he taIhh, tib 20-year hiasi will giv yut Ia iwriteml , t' Cost. like hbe$1 5(].00) .n.... l ejittnli.. of le hae 778 mc-heis 6 realrs of age or over, but not 62, an employee-it would cost hi. $1.5D n month aid tlhe .n. it Il 6i) b srointiinuntus standing. th plover would pal the same amount, or ; totalof $3.00)a actually pii in for .0 )Cars, IoC the eanplote, on reaching (35 WV hanc 775 .ne.I.he.s 60 year' of age or o -utbe r not 61, . .... n.th, arid the {it pe, cetl rerit'c,36 0 a rears of a t, with 15 years' continuous standing. rate now pl.., hUtd i1i xtill he increased to two per cent for There nlav be some for instance among tilh 60-scar old e ,ear. inaking ia total pa.yiment Hnd rnphl; ,r ,n-, C,,n1loVC btelnher rwII , have }8 or 19 years' contimluous standing, hat p (arniligN, .li.ees if foul per cent ol e i/ I bate given vy the. minb num cars' standlin, which is 15 groups. \ears for that gmrp. The same applies to all the o ther SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS St. y .o. can see how mains-if they mainrain their stand min -will be eigilhe when thet- ale 65. It means that oe r a The present law provides as pm the fidlw in table: itve lear periodl unless deathintervenes or thei drop their me.mbtship, we ma, have 5,948 n.e.hbes eligible for the penMonthly Pay .. Alg~eragr monthly pay 3 ....... oo" $ 50 . g; _. 100 . 150 ....... 250. $ so -- 1010 150 250. c..ra.e: $50 100 I2 year' to JWorker ait (5 $ ?of6,l 25.75 3"190 41.20, $ 21L01) 2625 i3,50 42.410 $ 22m0) 2750 33- (1 -44100 sinT. This is a ua'immn possibility. As to our death rate at present a.t..o.. .e.n .erls n pension, I had a comIptation male to cow-r tile last live years. 'This com. putaion thows a la;grr number of deaths than in anr pIeduring the operation of the pension plan. It imis peiod shomS tlhat th(le a,;\g&t of 77 ne...hers, a year died while on pension. da.ing that period. The airage [ength if l....i. pn>... ne..tS is about. fit years and se'en .mthbs. This a.erage is Iow ecause our plan is o.ung. We will not get a real areage titnie nrplan has rut 30 to 40 ;fars. LOW PENSION RATES went into effect in 1928. a little he. than 5 '11h paymenr to tile fund is 37 cents a month per isen..lheI ,,it $4.44 a tar. I 24.1)1 $ 5o. ,1 A a le ca]culation..-ou.r plan provides that when a * 130.00 rember rteaches 65 sars of age, a.d has 20 ears' continuus 36.00 I II 1I .00 aroinsg. he nax appl- for the pension iif he is retiring from 250. the tllae, and if admitted Ihereceives S40.00 each month. '1ihe 15) rm] pas s his per capita tax, whcih is now $2.00 a month, to I I $ $261 nlainrain his continuous standing, and when he dlies $1/000.00 -3250 39.041 150is paid i ton the death bem,fit I.n.rd to his heneficiary. Ftr the 252.00 250 pens.ioan: .. dIhene. he r l.s he pss his local union dues, and the 1001 I...e from thosed ues, pays t, tile ,. 0. a per capita 4t0years r~,rr'Jf: tax ol .2.00f a m.n.th, of which 37 cents is placed in the pension $ 2g JI $]O.} fnid, 90 cents iin the death benefit Hnad, anti the remaining 73 42.00 1511 ,ts per capita is diiddc among . the other funds, in accrdance * 56,110 250( with the pr...s.on of the constituthln. NOw our problem urnder oul preseltt law is that we h}ax, Thelrefore, our member, if he establishes 20 years' con1,558 members on pensh], arnd abo..t 60 nu. tho are ten.piPtirnmlt ... nlngand reaches the ate of 65, a.d is adm.itted to b. in the war ffort,. hut rarily off the pension list - work persion. is in jine to eciye S480.00 a year, besides which the will return to tile pension list whe1n their enlplo, rent ceilses. peIrlison fund pays $24.00 a rearI.h.i as his per capita tax, \Ioreover, the folhlwirg additioinal n.t..l.ell f ...e. hers andhiI, standinhag is mantain d at no cot to him until lie dies. mla go on pension in the next tlve year,,s, wlveui w ild ...ateNew ;Mat is the co.t fot the aboCe? WVell, the member riallv increase the above figure: p-its f.r the pensbin $4.44 a ?ar. Iultiplv that hr 20 rears, has paid a otaIl We }.ave 1,004 meinh'rs wh.. I. uIe iear; ohl or o anddtr, and the re.sult is that in 20 years I he milii, s.um nf.88.80 m the pesin fund. Now if cous our e penwho il.-. 20 years or i..o.. c.C.mtintlos Standinr. making theimi stim fund,s inot that old-it is onI i5 I ears oAll-and we have all eligible to be placed in pension in..ediatel; if they shiu.ld beer pat hig m bhers' pension for that length of time. The first make application. ,emheis-idmnitted to persim lad paid onily three months into Then the following: the iety I estaibllshed pension fund. We have 533 ..m.. hers 64 Vlers f age .. .. r ' r, hbt ..ot 6q, with 19 years' contin .. us sta; tdirg. TYPICAL MEMBIER'S PAYMENTS We have 606 membIiers 63 years of age or over, I.t l.t 64, with 18 rs' conth yea to it' irdn. I*he following is an exampIe of one pensioed nieriiher who has passed a y he was on pfissi.n for 177 months, or 14 We have 634 mereers 62 years .f ag, or iA/t, hut .i.t 63, arid 9 ...oiuthis,an.I he teem ed $7,080.00 fot the above y.ears with 17 years' conthinUs stand.ling. Nowv our plan Cears NO VEMBER, 1943 405 ktecea4 jo pramd. in Atddit Ii ,i &II I, the pe. imirr ..r.. p tax of $2.01)1 a th ain ... tng to $354l.00. Example: R e...d S7.'..... is Itid per capita ..is ~.08 (I /~ P~cpded Yqd"umeni .0 0 $3~4.()0 a 4-l~rI I -per ndthcaritl parid for hut' ]J)(}0()(G [eath hcmjip paid hii lih · $';434.0 lie lcuam , tiu..r...r lntilrtionf ee and $e' Iree, [>a 2 (Irm fiCtiiti, Drlb)eceber II, 19.02. paid a ,11 05I Of )enifi.l illApri. 1928: th ,r- (}t[i, 1013 to GS ilt ft ,:iro... I, uirls otf t l'h hi ', ts a i t niber, d it I, 'ti.l..ated that thl lLi..Il.ll[heI paid lor iniatiamn fe fill k h hh..j....t iS kr 'l, Iri, and d(lrt ior 25 Ill the econ ,ear., wI. 52,1 800, I.ic en. fit, for and besides rtce i/mr whinch li joined tih organina fionl, at tie t..i. expectnkg nothing tise-as beneits these 1)CpL..le efflec ive 25 >car> ater lie .jimn d he iirganEzalt fir tihe aib>l pa l"iit' s hit, hh nztadl ithe l o(' C UriOrv le waS ii Hlt1meqm er as i.o..thld due,--I and hI heirs rec.i..,l VALUATION Aat D.ecin... .31. 1942, the a'ss*ial o had t60.2q1 ipme ,fiers ha, hzlu k tithil in force a.... untii.t to S85.30 3 I,S00i. A tist x a, i [he as'ociation's r nla mit rn io a..er ,rife trim if th re w a II, it uirce card forl, aci I Ie....r ud tl ,Utah cards proper1v .e.e tabuoate& Thl insurance Iaws Ii the District If CI.u...Iii doi require leneilt isoeiiai(}ll' to inIIueI res...e s ill their annu, d statilelnts. theeft r ' ;' niave o, itt.ed . i.l.I.. iil preptri lite financial (In order statenlent in this report. tn dier.fli nl ]11 t til amo so / ho .. lId haxe oi haIn d to pay its future (ligatom wvithou.t cI.an . I, the ask if coilctioIm , in the . .st..iipt.o.lthat its ralhiv will he thec same as that set f.hl, in tile Namao[.rI Fraternal Conigless niorialli table. and thai the rate of inI rest vwillhe 4 per cent or ore. .. w Ih..e adIIded to thle toal act ali m norttuar; ttii] assets as .howt. in the finan.c..ial qlate nmnt. a coiltn.gent asset .nounIn.g to S27.143.927.10 ior lwi present alue of fu iture I rItir ilt... , . T i. .liii.t? I irfund liabiIlrtihhI ;l'e iben innceased hx the sum of S5 .779 'em63 31, whllh reT esents the present I e if pronied ... benefits. Ti le resulit shjiws tilt, asset$--actulal alid ci~ltltir ~elit to 62.88 per cent of the act ual aId coItim nt liabilitis. For tile pellod rcviewd, the ittllf T. expecied mnal , " i, fto][lows 1938 1939 1940.... I -4- 19412 - -, ....---_ ~ ------- he 5 )92,48pI, ciet S .(,(9 per cent 88.07 per cent K394 8- per cent 77.73 per cent COMMENTS As at 1)ecenlbe, 31, 1 42. tihe A,siA atnit, ld bIen h. i opcratl.. for t"e1tv' one (21) ...ears. l)ui.in tain prirod it acquired a n.....slIp of 160,291. with [wer.fits In force ol 8, tL[A)50.00(), TIh admitted asets re $,315,7.46 arid elias'igried ..ilds amounted to $8.1/9,21if139. A,\ pe) .t. ly mentioned, onyI one firia of certfiwate is issued. It s a whole, life .oot.act with detl benelits In graded alI [i frts t}hr lrst tfi e years aid ,s ilth.ut other sur[uMitVa /e. l"rrn it. Oi (ile 9) {lcepri Oll t.i , s.ociat.i',i its tip litred on a iflat tiltS a. ll..ll. er per iTiof li, al SillCC [av , P942, has applied 84 cents of such Larout, ir l1008 a r Ic Illal to tiel' to benefit or n.ortujary fund pII... de ithe p.o..lis/d benefit 'lhl rate is iadefII Ilial ,, Ofi lne lmhir of the Natimial Fraternal C(Irlcs.. tablle it 4 pr f. mortality Cel. - DI.ecimber 31, 1942, the average titt:iild hhe ge of ... hnbi-rlip wa 43.22 3ears, ;md it' .er.iga. ..oullt of be nfit v;:, S532(t0, For the twenlor.. ( 21) years ,, ith A: iiciatior'' (iptrationls thle ave ze frllt 'Ift I b.enefit was )f •687.10. F~il.o..in lb a c...ari.o. of thl i¢ lates, currently ill II, I) te .-\ssnriamior with th os has ed ... the Nati. alI I`rit-rn l Co lgjr~,s abltbeof l all..llint sl 4 per cent il ith, ivt:l1ige I11,111ir ts ofI 532IS0) arid '6 .87lJO, ind tileul timate ® ; l/t11t (It SI (JI}L 'l tJe Hles ie or thl att ined ates as at ]),celber I3I 1(42. Ni t Fall CtlrrentI ini use In A ,ci;ition Net rate, Nrtilnd Fraternal (011;Dss, amlunt of S532.00 Net rate, N ationatl lr' amol.un..t (If .687.0 Net rate. National razl - oil . on ... Congrss, ] aierage 1217 , Fratella arnount of $1300o0l) -- C. $1(I00 ..a.erage Iq17 - on ultimate -- 22.87 At thie presentI tuIlle l. issoci.tlion is, If coilhse, ain tion to pay its ciajims hut it is far i n.. i [ eing in ia positin. io cr out its c'intraeci witFout th, calinmg of extrl ass(ssmnts (hr tile readjnlstmi'ilt of its .ssessel.l. t rate tor all .I.t...bers. Tle l nsul:'rce law-' if the District of Columbllia do not retilt' cI;ugirig of adequp te rates m (hirs by Ii iieft asOCila (Imls; howex ir, it till'D reasonable to pisstrt that 4much jssO cretitiris sliiiuid enid i;, (II t. provide aleti r tatl! tes. [ hi EI cnal M Vorkrs' }en-fit Associati. .n .ould certitlyIv thro Iloptrlu se e hi ii if it, piesent rat{. was suf:[ien ttn plox d, a I l ;lIt ;u least ((qIui to it, rwetit u-ont e (21) years averag,, [amle;1 aI ;'-e fg/Inouit if •6S87,0 and a net an atv[ lial rate tf $1q.71. Further,. it wo(ld . re. in lire that the ssIIo-ia loll, Inl tuille( 1 gra lull i[r1m Im es Ii1 rmat, Jir...ld tltain a net rare slflcjr'lt t provide for the fllI Ipomised [elefit of $1/,000.00. In a tiecview of tile I.s.ociatuilds nlistitutioi ntld lw-law s, it WIas noted that .. it Of its Ibjects is tIn,stilhlsh a s'st.em(.f II111tl~cll 11-c] benevlc e and relief in case of dtrath, sickness, accil-lit, or d i ralbilit\ if its inlti.hers. Vlhilc tire hls; sso iation sucI a.ithrlty . U.de it constitution ..nd ceI lh;ate of incorpo- rlrti-l. no SiSteli pruvI Il.ed If 1lneIfit other thian hdt'i has ever been The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 406 JOURNAL OF ELEETRICAL WORHERS OFELECTRICAL WORH1EPS OFFICIAL PUULICTIOFn IfTERMfATIonlflL BROTHERHOOD Vohtim X1i' W¶ashington, D. C., N.oyer'!lit. 11143 Drift to The report of the Executive Council of the Fascism A. F. of L. to the A. F. of L, convention in Boston indicates that 61 bills have been introduced in the United States Congress, offering crippling restrictions on labor unions, This is only one indication of the drift toward fascism in wartime of this great republic. Despite the fact that everyone who can read knows that attacks on labor unions are an index of the state of democratic feeling in any country; and despite the fact that the United States has viewed the spectacle of Hitler and Mussolini trampling unions under foot, the United States Congress has seen fit to receive 61 crippling bills. There is something in wartime psychology that always tends to stifle freedom of speech. Men fear, and when men fear, they tend to retreat back to old slogans and old ways of doing things. The loud talker and the professional patriot are given an opportunity to cut their capers and to establish artificial and shallow standards for the measurement of man's contribution to his country. Because of this psychological reaction, it is a wise nation that knows how to steer its ship of destiny into the turbulent democratic channels and keep it there. The Electrical Workers Journal believes there has been a lessening of the democratic spirit in this country during the last three months. We fear that this reaction will increase. We have confidence in the heart and spirit of the American people to right itself and return to democratic ways. One of the reasons that the United States was able to perform "the miracle of production" during the last two years was our tremendous concentration of machines in industry. But this same concentration of machines has presented a problem of unemployment to America for the last 20 years and will continue to present that problem. Elliott R. Sands, one of our members in Portland, Oregon, faces this problem in the following words: "I read with considerable interest the first two editorials in the September Electrical Workers Journal. These are the first articles I have read in any labor publication which approached the subject of unem- Machines and Men ploymenl, I c hological and otherwise. during and after this war program. It ties in very well with a recent irpo't of the U. S. Department of Commerce in which was pnedicted an unemployment figure of b9,000,000 workers by 1946, due to technological development. This did not include the returned anred forces. Corp(a'ute enterprise was unable to supply jobs for the army of unemployed during the lean years of 1930-36 and they will be unable to supply jobs in the postwar period, due to these same technological trends. "I have been a member of the I. B. E. W. for approximately 25 years and have watched labor lose the battle against technology. I feel that some solution is needed al once. I have always considered the I. B. E. W. the most advanced of any of the unions and now is the time for them to really step out in front with soric real constructive action." The amazing transformation of the German people into a nation of savages is dramatized in contrast by the fact that a monument has been built in Washington, D. C., for Baron von Steuben, German, who gave his services to the American army as chief drill-master. He was born, of all places, bi Prussia and came to New Hampshire in 1777, and offered his services to the United States Congress as a volunteer. The next year at Valley Forge, when American morale was at its lowest point, von Steuben began to take the inexperienced soldiers and train them into fighting men. Von Steuben wrote a book entitled "Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States," and sat on the court-martial which convicted Major John Andre as a spy. Interesting enough, von Steuben died in New York State at Steubenville. lie was living there on a pension granted to him by the United States Congress. What a story this is of devotion to the ideal of liberty. In 1777, not even Prussia had developed the bitter anti-human philosophy that the Hitlerites now exalt into a religion. von Steuben Thomas C, Blaisdell, Jr., formerly of the National Resources Planning Board, now with the War Production Board, writes in the New York Times: "While preparation for rapid conversion is essential so that unemployment can be reduced to a minimum, there is no doubt that the need for an integrated system of social insurance will be accentuated during this period. Even during the full employment provided by war there are millions of civilians who are dependent on public provision for their daily bread. The major risks of life-old age, unemployment, disability and sickness, and family dependency-can all be provided for by ato adequate system of social security. Attacks on Social Security NOYEMBER, 1943 When the costs of fighting a e ar have been Iif ed rorn the backs of the people, they can better afford lt security than at any other time. The advance provision of an adequate systerm adjusted to p1oph1 retu rndng to civilian life from the artmed fores an(d to those released from war industry is still to he aet> nplished." Despite the reason that lies behind Ibis Imint of view and despite the need for social in stamc ib a ctIuntry where technological advancemnt m' nejui ¢ rapidly, clandestine attacks are going forwardl ever? day against sociat security as it now exists i order to head off any reforms Of the system. These attacks are uSually based upon half-truths or quarter-trutis. For instance, one chain of newspapers is insphling fear by claiming that the wage records kept by the government might invalidate pension benefits to those covered I5 the insurance plan. There is, of course, no truth in this statement whatsoever but the unwarranted attacks have caused hundreds of thousands of inquiries at the Social Security Board offices. Physicians, too, have organized to create the impres- sion that any health insurance program as advocated by the American Federation of Labor will fasten state medicine upon the United States. This, too, of course, is an effort to deceive and defraud working people who need insurance coverage. About Strikes It takes time to catch up with lies. The inpression created by the daily press that American labor was engaged in sabotage in the war program with strikes is being slowly dissipated by facts. For example the Corps of Engineers, Army Service Forces, reports that on its six-billiondollar construction program during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1943, strikes amounted to only 2 100 of one per cent. Can any other section of the con,munity match this record of labor in this particular field? In all of 1942 the ratio of strike man-hours lost to hours worked was only 6100 of one per cent, which is almost nothing. This was under the voluntary ilO,strike pledge. l)espite this magnificent record the Smith-Connally bill was enacted to prevent strikes and it certainly has had the opposite effect. National Just as there has been confusion in the Service Act public mind about the effect of strikes in war production. there has been confusion in the public mind on shortage of labor. Actual facts cannot be produced to prove that there has been a total shortage of labor in the United States,. It is true there has been, a shortage of certain crafts. It is true there has been a shortage of men in certain war production areas. Indeed the true issue behind the 497 so-called inlnpower shortage is One of poor managetrent on lhe part of the natioual War Manpower Commission and not an actual shortage. The danger, of coupse, in thi; hotched painting of the War ManpTo wer Comminssion is, it is going to be used jo inroeduce in Congress a bill for a national service act. Labor does not want a national service act for niatry reasons, chief of wh ich is, it is not needed. At no time in the last two years has there been danger or an invasion in this country. The United Stales has a margin of time in military operations that Great Britain has never had. The Four Decencies For some time labor in the United States has felt that there could be an implementation of the four freedoms in terms of nations, states and regions. Now the British Trade Union Congress has undertaken to do this with British labor under tle term "the four decencies." According to a dispatch by David Anderson to the New York Times the four decencies are a little closer to the average man than the loftier four freedoms. "The average Briton wants a decent home, a decent job, decent education, decent social security which means cash to pay the doctor and an independent old age." Mr. Anderson goes on to report that what the British people want is as plain as day. On the question of the four decencies there is to he no compromise. Incentive Taxation A resolution has been sent to the American Federation of Labor convention which is of interest to all American citizens. It is on incentive taxation: "The federation recommends the principle of levying higher taxes on corporations and individuals who leave their money idle and lower taxes on those who promptly use it to provide employment as an incentive to full postwar employment by private enterprise." It has been frequently pointed out in this Journal that the American taxation system is in a hopeless muddle. There has never been a social philosophy underlying our taxation syslem. It has been a patchwork thing reflecting somewhat the changes of public opinion over a period of generations. The trend has been largely away from taxes on real estate and property toward taxes on income. The incentive taxation plan originated by Clarence Ilazelett, an electrical engineer, does take a social point of view. Mr. Hazelett undertakes to apply the principle of single tax to money. People who hoard money in banks ought to be taxed heavily. People who invest money or put it to work to give employment are to have lighter taxes. The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 4i8 Eh/9tt 01VI cfpE 'I. MOTHERS, GUARD THE FUTURE ly A WOtRKER'S WIFE W, bellvers in the "Iamlk to .e. fire schoo" Letoky for the chillhen of the has Sttes. The situatire United grown quit serious., In 1942, 901,l00 bays and girls between theages of 141 and 17 E obtained eertl-cates permit risg them work. Of 0it Fu inuer I 15.0(a were only 11 or 15 y'ars of age. In addition large umaberS of children have entered in ploymnet without certificates beelse I hey are not required by the ocupation . cause the children have gone to woik illegally. Many of these young workers, particularly those under I6. ate in j.ib: that are not essential to the war effort and offer little training for usefuless after the war. It is quite easy to understand why so many of our children are anxious to work, In the first place they feel that they arie helping in the war effort, and in th second, they are filfilling a normal dieslire to earn their own money (which eincentally is very sand ...oney these daysl and buy the goods and sdrvices they have always longed to have, Yes, the prospeel is very bright and promising, but what of tomorrow? That picture is not so inviting- a scarcity of jobs and a great niany young persons, untrained and uneducated, will he cla oring for those that are available. Times will have changed and tlhe employers' natural reaction will be, "Sorry, things are different now. No education no job." Mothers, think what a, tremendous price your children may have to pay far a couple of years' good employment at good wages-a lifetime of inseurity and frustration overpowered always with the feeling of being a misfit. The brief present-weighed against all the rest of their lives, That is a snbject not to be passed over lightly. There are other considerations to the problem also. It has often been said that education is the most can envaluable gift with which parents dow their children. You may not have blessed theni with good physical appearance; you may not have money to ,eave them, but these things are passing after all, and if you ,e, that they get a good education, you will have given themn a gift that no nan can take from them and ,omething that will probably enable themi to get out of life the most of the things that really count. Another point--keeping your children in school keeps them young, insures healthy fuli and good times for them flow, keeps them fronm growing old beforethei tlin. .nd ad WC..Idly-wise gives them a happy youth to look back on. Some fiildden ire going to object to school ,i or COntllnuing their education trier gradlaPing fiom high school on lhe grounds that it is not pat,ljlie and that their duty lies ini aiding the war MlIrt all they'ait. Let's set what ctLiin.and In-chief of our P Ind .resident the arm.il f.r.es has u say abdout this: ~romn: hacIk "We nIst have weli-educated and intelligeat citizens who have sound judgme nt in dealing with the diflficut problenm of today. We must also have sciettlsits, enrgreern, eronom ists and other people with specidized knowledge to plan for na iraal defense as well as for social inI economic piesess. All our energies at the present bus le devoted to wi n i ng Ihe war. Liue Yet wi..u ing the war will h, taolid if we daod n.t,thoughout the periold ol winning, oI r people .repared ta .. ake a lastkee l ... hisg id worthy peace." Thit is how the President of the United Staten mId the person most responsible for the welfare of this nation t hiks about tile problem. N.ow a word on advanced education selection of .o..r.s by yon]r boys girls who have finished high school. There are opportumities today young mene and wealell to train to take and and for in 'Back to School" Lunches The schol lunch ]'can be a highlight of the day for the children if it is intersting. Keep the "daily eight" in mind for health. Little airtight wax cups may be obtained at the Ten-Cent Store for packing salads and soft desserts. ai.d n.iniafor jam and tllre (nils available are jelly, pickles or other cI.ndin.ents. SUGGESTIONS Sand,,lcht*--Slired egg. egg salad. a Si-.,I cheeses, rho ppid ¥Pgetabi, chopp,*d jeily, . ,,Ue g, pea it iinblUuttr. l~eft-lver narnalade,. gIol, nieat o; fresh or clanedl iA. A threedcker l ol btration' zanldirh provides ivteresting variety in Ile sandwich 'ille,. (Ca-paek, - ioatat" slad. sliced colelhIw. /leked frui or herries iustard. rusia;ril, rile beanls. cu ,heoolate, fruit cornItareh. or blread pu ding. Cal'rot sticks, celery cnrls a ripe tamale, a deviled egg, a little packet of nuts, are all healthly additions i..n.v. tions and will prove .wel. o. to the scholoI lunch box. perta. l Ilanes Never bIas such in ll postwar world ounld tiading at so little os't been afforded. When peace comes the fields of aviation, rad., medicine, chem istry, physics and many of the trades will bO alerv centers of oeeupation. Ti-aining and educaion .. owL.winbhritg success arid happiness in an interetimn work a few years from n1w. These fields are open to ritl well as boys. A particulaaly fib opportn.ity is offered to girls who have graduated from high school, in the newly irgan zed United States Cadet Nrs, Corps, Under the plan authorized by the Balton Act, funIds are admlinistered to nursing schools by the Public Health Service to ployldr aI-expeiSe scholar,hips covering the cost Iftuition, fees and ...anilenlan.(%. The ns will es be paid mon thly allowances of from $15 to $30 de- Pending on theirgrade and will be issu,'d ,,ifer.is. .outh should be trained. Whether still in high school or looking toward higher edIneatkltY.,you mothers should encou rage Year boys and girls lo get the cdiilation and training that will bent fit them for intelligent, self-satisfying service to the country in the days when peace comes. There is already a shortage of manpait iI tile iUnited States today, palr Iarly the lght kind of m.anpower. We are a nation of 134.000.000 people and there is no nation like us in he world, But we do not have to look farther than our Army and our war industrles to realize that U]nloss we Cal train a huge force of men and women rapidly we face a long and bitter struggle. Strength aitd patriotism and courage are not enough. We need these three hut we neel them mixed with training and skill This war is being fought hy specialists and we aren't getting theni at the present induction centers. Our Army totalled S0P,000 men in the winter of 1942 aid there was already a shoratoe of 800,01)0 specialists in the 'arkfl and orn military leaders predicted a shortage of 2,000,0044 if our youth did no[ z(t proper training immediately. Li[,utl.n..t General rihon B. Somervell, ComimandLig General of the Army's Services of Supply, srtated Lh cold facts: "For every 1,000 solders, 15 men inl radio are needed. At present only one such Fer every 300,000 sotman available. is dies, 4,501 medical technologists are needed; 166 are available, Foro the saime 300,000 soldiers 1,562 master mechanics are needed; only 14 ar available." There ar e the facts. Please do your NOVEMBER, 1943 m6 ojeUtcae C=]~ . L U. Elect rem is Part EdCitor: ¶11,4l iti [!0.lee f.teh a gliis, tith nmembe~crs he di] his part in gubidig theiilocal oly rsespiitrtt'le Ipt. to an eminenler, ibaL MO. NO. I, ST. LOUIS, R - A D) [sTw l)eiup'sl. L. V. No. f30 has organni-ed a fine hi rou~hrh whosep colitii't art tot-e-~tirlg tdi,. sian .... New agreement for nFit leal,. L. 1. No. 1019 L. I . No. 28 tells of its , orb in' the marine field A fe~ quest},ons about OPA ... irrlti*l rtot oild river the tube: is iita vetry tmportrHiitl ill hite1 iet e. t I I ru. I 1il..ge Iltern try lieritt11e i~ tr fi 2iiid Ahipii I tIl....t. eInt into direct I reil"tit nuagnesium pie.IsuilIllst h-ave dilt i.wer SystetII Ns t-laIost purl the itatitiItl eitjely afterimti r ruirient, pltruowyD hi intl 2. Photo l....eti.i. Pubes: riilOst e'eryunp nalld art- used to slisr id urll'{ atuil on in/aehtnes. FIthtulmin utfurna(tv h il litwdbtLmiiig~ ;rodtct'ii .... I[ifIt defects 1mallL'st iY, that catcelt's PIet light hea..,, va~riationi in the liutunation Ray tube>: air iued ui tile 3 Cathopli ip {kht visioni ati[ pick up tie variatif. t, nid shilon a> thi- picture flashesie i 4. Kenetrip,, t{iihe are user] bp Coed X it ;;ill pretiplor tubets. antI hi -,lpioperate have nmarty ctOuputlrt4 at uses ufteli the warix over. 5. X-rays. have 'ie~rp -a I;tiilar n~ror'e- fu>r $1) years. Today the X ray tuhb rioe mort iru hune ,; ay IlIe peek at people> ti ex[andine ilhe r'uiistrurtioxt ofP ninaps -iiliri obIjects for flawys. or s: lS ,,.llOy Itu... ~L Thyr tyit It is ire used for ImItop iin welding roitr tetmp,' t/leS Himdfol .i.iihitg uits used Ior rtr Most levels p ewower iBL~ly other uses ul l all o( idulstry is-s wedilng te..lly7. plyIItron tlphs: arc pra t of the ere h If1g'ale No lessening of nilmedijiH Jr (UIll'{cals a m-Iri uli .... i l ShUinus, I. Var tI LItlir oil h alt k I. 'the pI/e iL it i lip-,, I lyies of iTLit tal. Loal Ni. p e -a m' l t mmrp : o u ive inglous I mclst rPi , I hI- I >t. L lw e I. t I , Jt iL [F nm mt'pL nlv. ih 'h e tmn 0l ti~Ie at th eir o ' iW eir t In- m. i mhrlni li d ioinig,l it-m BI rother t..llih, i was ri n-rttnio' .r lper th-exhighly J,> his Blr ther tipemp ack -'l with lent Il nkre he ad iielh.lt e.~ae I Xie1he1lvl, ]Rus.l{I \cIocal It ithPl At the at itl,'tixlw Of l ie Ipresol-ent If rank Jacobs. the prei.ress pI.I IIr a motion f tt local. P.lert...i.eA was [p;is-.}i*11J [tiOlDpt erpntnpiittee' w~hm titmIe L-mpr No. l tmrusl~. Trhi ix ht fis It wit fI.ur.. ,mminittoe ha-. ever hadil '-t-p. tot lhion with re-gp±t.~o lirlnging t .upttldst ilMs Ienim'tnruoim iton. llfornlti speakers. chepit-llM mz~llgh t eme.rnt,rm n flie- mi-wet tyvp r''' iii ipmi lal u[-itiitee Qoumieerpiiimt itistallntii ti-nsnee in theI -leut r,1 e't ong .t-t.out idlus - -y Aflter lhe Su',ih1-niir arti'le wlls writtl NL.a] N. I was inviled by membership of the i,bt~SiTS lalI P t thu [. fec £> the " >I +Louis eh,u plu[Fr mI , u t r g]..tp t sportsoreid WAs m tpttimtio. r i-Iem I,hai* , II. E :h miuttataeits to, %'hlpihi antiy ito 1innr- of It~i,]i*ilpg-:*ltnl a r e r'i ibt-u , I UI ; Tih- rrlJt-ct of the enm~ltioytrs is to fitt t~le- ~ litlza ti iP the le gtnptr-y al. The orgim e tItIF . ers if I,. I ti tF es ilt vist(-tlC NO I .t..l thi- Elevi tiupd (Iiit aL..rs ASite],frit-ens..... d ,INh¥- ltr e e,I r'I tmi . w hip taA ]y et ,mplti e r etmpluiNiei tte uct to n, i{ of "Light' Ihe ]iover rec/nvened sad[ showing the ing about ho have made rute r..r 7 ittetieeizm A ilt bhtel than ~r:,tor. about 53. :nid ,me-third rt es'eltitVes. ...... dI 150. were WVmrl, tf the irc-.eset w'htt th, t.'el fell The papers that litte si...e and ,;pt n tI,- -rck avnv in tIhe back ,,here ILI J¥erite 1101, it iilpul never piage ill ...e.t.i.. s-ee it. NIlhii,, ''as saId :1"h .r salbrtagiii' :he- ~ar efforr hy; cxn'ressrnwan. I., .h.u.. .. t pis-,tl-l 'it be meiioz~ciiirr whal if /t'iey it very hle-re frierds of tv-i delinqlten< tapers itiunzledl t-rpteiscr? or wyorkers in l; ghi1 yarpl wtII i titill the a group Suppqose or airphani Iflan~t dc-ided in theiiidst of the war that they ,werled , vIIat ion, s ( lnrress diid, atid then half pit the end of the ¥aeatiol periodi..Il/y tIf theil show l ip for worhf? (piH /L. pi, re the lbt,,II lte? iiy the })tilers that til' anti W ls[,itt, ,lt w'rlkirrg tIt tp tie satisst rike iawt p"e"et <attn c1f mid 14,), fo)r instetd I, ing trikes it ILt(LLaII legal:'zi, hitnL- It IS evert rerpcmrti that the Natiunnl MauIl taetu-have the action aking to i-s Ass-oial on I, t arid .f eomuse ha' irg L tilore iaw repeat. st ningent rite aoaed. . e.. y tealhIr pit rrgu.elzd i.It Gihlv> hi weIiht ir,ti>Iid to Wo to legin to thr',, the tnt that i,'nItier o.f tnnlfrrre- itnl1te that !at~or ,wilS}SS ot its right tp liheheard on leit~suthont n:tfi tints labor's iwelfarp' strirJ'S is fightirig to do away WIhile big , .ill with relletro ttiiprp tt roalrarts which cut down tlhj-r ulnlholy pro'ls, aild /ql..O.,Ii intltati.n lid.I kteeI subsidjjies that will lreit tltn ]i¥1l, tums. it has exitpadl its ad retising to Il 0 per cent ,f tthe piewat level This last i''t, is taken, fromx, the ('Iniiercc l)¢partuoent's s/lrey of current htisitliuns for Thit at a time whll, there is anl extiertie paper shoprt~age reerttrot.P 'The average newspaper the tremendous i!,VHuse in Ihel~ notrcjrt s i11 praetieily ill the Ieadingr ru/ll-pl e September. .(.siali)era. ])y 1itii/tieilly all the iniustries r his apdi ,pHILlei-iKrlgwr SWipi,,t n by the pidl is ind ieetly vertising. whipl r t]/g:Lged il L. I. NO. 3, NEW YORK C'TY, N. Y. /dmiiiPitprt I-fighlighis e. eO ,OW FIM wh ich mfy af ito iglhtijg form radio systim. L nil have a piriceitt drahitthrniy an~d high fru-quillv nrldtuctiomi healw t i hisidi antid ..ut. iel ettins hentifilt, ,eg,- alinqns by L. I. No,. 271 does -ary L. f, No. 794's press s.Ire s4olme clea*r uh~iiiiin~ ott aI rcifiC~l I. Th, cournter ill wlkS of half o[ the picnic l. piresent tme then- Lire A science. At (eli&ttx..e tites. te s diffir-'I ti 750fInIeI art high . inIe gi'-fille d and S~onle art trpiel of differet-i At 1e,4il slee Van-ownl thf tidies are on liii- l~trirket tporhta+. mtl<] fr benefit of tho-i' "ho. lik~e a g'o\ifphiig t< withl tube uses, the fitlltwini qualintance er No. 377 tel-, of ils 'pre-" ar" L. I ff 1p,1 il1; n(ue- itt bylsel 1hi pnpers that IIrligve$~ this ontlh atl whLtt a1 rlir We Trade, and Labor I....g:ress he ]I3 L. IT. No. 353 ylI nulel ... I i it lie,. We wit h hi.. thI blst ,f ittk ar.d an early retita to health for hhnI III I hd wlife. ''Military" O.pngiltee ac-tert like a vale with electriity, has rI t>iateily ixeer ti'LL. 'th,-re xi ether Lype of [010½ riot be, w-li known, that hII*e lctronic i..ltthsty alnd wellin~g up in th, , ... k tales il the f:ailirhaIl whole feats mind 0 by fltiB, H rItil [re, ,,loi...I f publir-shio llr l J~e r['ro`lrcwk VLi; ~l,,,t Fi~I it ii....I imp, hilin-r of t ue idh aime IL I 52,, wit , h tH tiiti It reat .eerel of li tplhrr k N . h~i I., od ihnlt we h, ... I IBert llilk.im ti. up W utal ii ii I:s l m....... tIm ie!ofth a t th". ],I ev rread i t eiettie nI i Ii- . I ii' lo nil, t yhB i p r h -r. pt i... p-l t hI t ,t tol i ltml lr . fi f-itt Wtriri ami~ru-stsixD teirc to fltithien I afC imp]pltnmme rllf tip mh'¾-lihe the ft'eliov ii, Fpr ottfir h-f l ...is ', he eiiie5 of the lo al sttt-uirrh toh light th, nt[hi , gh i si' pirestl lui all imit p -e irx g as prestiletit ]w, jpTesimlIe l tt hi imi I miclieit .1' the nifit-er'- t111] W ith the (tllH v-opimlinrtlu-n gIerIi..nt tlax otl Lie ttroL.h loss i f`xe s p,.fit, jid Fito the ...tvertising poit)klritS serves to k... the nIewspa ers }i. .i..?so that news and i~pf~rmriltirni dernugal Ne to these rft pedalled~ Etnlistr' hiope that all he rtdicrs WV I:le" ,, will ot niut ..i.. -I t e el 'I n ,,-ilt y e ,en though it iI, iil piff >year. last y. r 'Ewi aI h~aug" too, many voters of ear for labtor I{ vote with tI- Iesttit that iler,' 'tio buy" a lot o-f real thmxarieis slippedi mit, ( t~nigre~s and other ehti-'fuffr J,:rE P SI l tN,P. S. L. U. NO. 7. SPRINGFIELD. MASS. ellt I'llet yingill r11 Edict.r: As I Wits s that labor is Iceing hard hit HIregard tlr 410 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators anid Iiyilvmgt weve , uon Ito the tioinu ,ien lhat thIe reat body known as Congress, pass laws thuil aeI desigied to be specific aid vet III can pick 12 lawyies at ralndloe, InII hays .heal iiterpret the laws in 12 dligsent was .iiitl hl,, 12 dlifferent piiitlns, So, who canO exl t .. a poor, ,in i'gIIlleiant. wtuI.le seri., esd profess tIo Ie, tI cmiiipete with Ri-eat le,:ll TnIIuIJS who apipare, thy can't traYe tiht icitten, wocrd agree with {lie spokan ward? In I'lul",I words. consider this a pia far the plrolj.r uniil..tanding of OUr efforts, l)Dn't !ry to read between the lines where onIl blank rialereally appear,[n other wordA try "t liy on the bean,, And row we rain tell you that the pipp.ie wafyto illth ne amie ,f lur 1; i ial seretary 'hould be Gerge Neuko,,m. At i.i last megthilg we learned that: War Bond Contest TrIe, ievfileens at TVA s Foreitan War Bfonds. Before the argulenl Dam . I ot arguing about whlo Was OVer, they hod bo1.ht $.7,000 would buy the most oirth of Bonds Ill additinn to sizable deductions through the payroll savings ppian. ro left to right are G E. Mutplhey, Construelioti Supelillteuldtut, ClIdt HoIeieom, Construction Aide: Frederick C. Sehlcmnmr, Project Maiage;: and Ihe Ihree Bond buyers. A. C SivrIs. Wilbur xV. Steed, and E F. "Don Flerss, eleetr/Iianl foieremanl Hesse bought tHree $1,000 Bonds tlteder two. and Bivins, wo These purchases chinaxeid a drive in which 9251 per cent of the Fontina employees pledged 168 per cel t of theiriota l payrol Ior governneni War 1Bonds our ieibers going into the armed forces. But yesterday I surely was surprised to have our business manager, Charles (affrey. come areund to the job and teil us he is suing to start working for Uncei Sau, It certainly was a surprise, for Charlie has been a wo0derfu] and harddworking business manager and really will he missed by his Brother members andd the contractors and the outof town members who havle come and gnt,. But our country always comes first and Charlie has been commissined a captain, sIl I know he will surely be a great help to Uncle Sam aid to the boys in our armed forces who will be working ailder him. We all hope and pray he will nit be away from us very long and will come baick in good health, ready to start where he left off The executive c.ommittee held a meeinrg and ppointed Bill Bailey to take Charlie's office while he is gone, and I know Bill will ry his best to take the place of Charlie ,whilehe is in the service. My friend t.arold Bueba bid the boys all gooAbye for awhile yesterday. for he is going into the Seabees. It is Harold's see ond hitch, for he was in World War I and caIme out without a scratch, aid we all hope he eomes back safe and sound again, lie has a son inl the Navy who w also as a membher of Local No. 7. so we have one father and son from the local in the armed fnrces, Theboys will miss Harold for he was a goyd friend to everyone. Another one of our meibers, Steve Swotehok, who has just beeome the pIrinu.I father of a baby girl, expects o Ile called intot ile service in shh. tine,., We don't know when it will end, tlt I surely hope the war will end real Boon or we wont have entugh members to hold a meeting. We will have to back our inenr, I's [by buying all the War Bonds we at, to hielp put this Thid War Lin, e thise top anid bring our boys back hone lIl the sooner, It su rely would be a iimiralel to have our ys home for Christmas. but aylthilg Canl happim in these ages with all the diffe rent kinds of guns aid ships, et., i L{is war,. It's a lot difftrent froni the last one. bF. MUitirAniy, p. S. L. U. NO. 28, BALTIMORE. MI). Editor: This writing finds the greater pr- o picks of cigarettes were purchlased fr the Lays in service Ibei. iS an llniovation which meets oul hearty apprnval--new prospective members are now exanlaired first by written exeinations arid made to prove themselves befro being ¥oted on. A nil JaPry assessmeint i 7i,eits per uartur was passeid on, raising dues by just that amount. Above all and by all means corresp;>ni{ with the hoys overseas. They cra. e a letter now Ind then from their fellow workers and Brothers. Organize labor dis urged to i.nate blood., Our sick list has 21 members noted. Harold Slater claims to be on good behariir. centage of the boy busily engaged in; the marine field. Together with the worthy aid Nrtli Ar, and Charles St. IsIan importan} and assistance f the out-of-ta heboyswee corner to somie of the boys. busy winng the assorted collectmio of boa.its Joe Selhcirst vnd his crew of Efford and brought to this port. McNeil bowl Wednesday nights. The perenOue of the oal contractors evidentlIy mrade nial ste ' 'ardusea his faniIs sweeper all" ,ood as he is the only one, out of a IeInthy on them. Jolhn Raynr please take IIte. list, still in this particular field Needlless to R. S, RlOsv&N, P. S, say the excellent superyisory force built up or the local hoys was the chief reas., for L. U. NO. I8. PORTLAND, ORE. the great suc.es. enjoyed by the above tin. Editor: One of the curr.it topics of di, tractor, One must bear in mind that marine work cussios ir.,undl here concerns the reent atis a neew ite on the Sidt of 9 per cenit of ticles which have appeared in Peier's Digrat the boys. After a lotn period of nhevat ion regarding labor management relations.Seen we're firmly convineed that a gIooi bI ilding ingly a ninorlty of ]ahor-.anagement ciitratte mechanic makes a general all.around mittees hove functioned extremely well aid good electrician inl ahnost any line. Due to lend encouragement to efforts to establish his varied experience he appies the latest similar set-ups. Apparently failure result, methods and improvements and shart euts only when parties concerned are not actively whether it he on shipa. railroad or any .ther interestel ia progress for both sides. With line in which he find, himself, Ineted Of fophope that I lot of nlokhuill," can be elimlowing in the groove worn deep by the reguinated, suggestions have bee-n made to Sillie Iar nieehanic engaged it, say marmnt, work, brodecast stations for a sitiliar arrange the "building trader'" immediiately iooks Ieat. Rules and regulaions to P overn uch I around for a short cut and i nprm}vemne'it in procedure will probably be necessary.Any existing I netbeds, The result is time saved, information Y.our local has would be wil possibly ]ess iaterial and nachinry coined. quired. {ere we finid improved methods ill Have you noticed the swell page the puitir long n runs of cable with a nilhniua B.,E. W. gang at WIW-WSAI have in ih, amount of effort and repetition and damage N. B. C. company union magazine? Wonder We Kine an easy, anfe method for jockimg u, why they lon't get over on our side all the heavy reels of cable. We find a quick. easy way? way for instaIling large groulings of kick Several times il the past sonie of our pIpe, and stulffing tubes whether it be ia drerk menbers have indicated , total lack of .n. or bulkhead. 'Tes, are only a few iteen that ettrnldilng of Inion jurislsictilon. An iscome to mind, As the boys go along experistance arose where several fellows wanted eece finds the, getting wiser and bette r ii to take it easy and let announcers do wurk every way, This Is a concete etxailpe of by relays rather thati e bothereld by patching the versatility of the building truths le trl- for a heavy schedule of reites, Somle meire. ilan. a genutine li ii ilte war effort. bers even yet fail to unIerstand that all After a long period If "tril and errtic" iT; tehnieIal work should be performed by tech. these pages we still find the effort in Iryitg Iltias. TIhis brings to minil the though to put words o paper l and have theil read that a little education might be in lin.. iaetly the way we inten d..d themin by nihers, for all of us. Some local stations still have still an extremely Ififileu task. We, ind ,uu announcers doing our stuff, hut the stations efforts often interpreted and misin terlIreted, that take pride in their work have techniciai, tInilerstod anl inllsnderstood. We atteri pt to availablh for everything. sort of steer a middle course to keep off of I wondecr how aniny of your loetis hare sore toes and., by gosh we find luriseyes it discussed the possibility of having a travel times unconsciously wading right in on then,, lng reprsestntatie for each i tern ationil After a long periot of pondering, thinking district to ceordinate broadlrat efforts? $eetns NOVEMBER, 1943 iLydidtli, o such a ,sItem.. woud t hat wouIdnit it 11e evenl mor , *y, gLTli~tit> roth r Ke ). ih ] l i,, , t ar ,,wvrll to have W iid r in;t 'rl tltli al ,,fleei 'arii'' eltativi reiich hnat ice Preideet Miln ratrnia\ if br' tueI-d in? hatIe ILeIr W-] FAX ciet~i G it Gimtg ha' ang c nsaLa ni turkish llts al! Stul~nte. Seejin~ aI if F. C I' slFge-tt doors bn rid thus teIiperIItu e s',a 's [i) lolked lb ,ahe. yea there Te onle iii1 and ven e'etiing biil paaini air Ilmkara fillt tnner eL. -rt ennsist Jf hatld ai' frIII {if aullinig 'th-h :t Dress room af newspLar, Operalti nid stale tiLL [KIt pretty dopey with heat [Iu se. IhIve 'cen thlreit earey o] anid IhoI.., can the guy8 if loors are left unaniin{ OLL lorked. X..tp. opter'atr. glad tlibt ,ot where it's hot hut you can I.raath e fresh air (pollen thiloy ii free-hi, Of, lijei.war aItLteriaii. flr ii'nllf, bI amd dkug- Mfany If the 1e, hi, siear- arp their lives iu the fight for freedoni Iiviug haunln hi is p~i ali per' his ]artpagandaj isliI h<di,r eil 'dhlnr 1lnps Inure than a eITtaVtr Iih . ,h,I I rotindrd(,Lsn By Bill Huston Elii *II t St ...Ih ku-I.. II ip n' , A:nee lea> ca4ittd 1 x~pe fihlla 4iQi N 1 liii o£ sorncn vitek it 1 Il. 29 nd was ' 110 ali-td ,tn Iu that the ihi ialitmitoi, ouI nlill,,,I I'l, nattonal Imd 'L'~. outi awifiy. . Iha' ri-alk,nial By the IbanI~ksLILthe l, 1ju/Itmnp'h Siliht' trilhat tegeuds s ekiie.s ay 'Thundt.bIhirdIlvl Ie priuld KOIN KALE X mt:. /lgn have aILrge, a haltit fila to clear oui th, hit airli r nl aIt OLiecooled bottles. Rum01a' ha., it thaL the Yeatis h; sluithere'' uidst tile fir terS air coniio ] f thl ectrio is being il nIl ilean of wilIf a New IWO caIne snys jookwalter Chief Itowever, densorsaeeloh [rllnhi it the . .ltyilD Ilyi iaies of pIngleS to tie right the ilntes are at And f frlee10Tm thait it liegi. anidI it's a lot of hoey. Aniyway te[ifue perature is better. lreait , arid thu theyL}. ul.i. Thus they The idside wirenien Of 48 are of coLulrse shared their Irram. a nation And hip,all busy and hitting the hail. 0Oegon While the elatter of te rivets ships into the . hi Kaisery are sendIiL yards ( Echoed wvhere the sen gullP stream. Willamette river this nionItk andt tooling up is gtui g stron/g ta turn out the nlew eitory ives and eaugteis, 51on by hibuuanhd, w ,hips. Vanicouver is sidng out flat-tops. Mon ilads a..ni swe. t. d their hearts and (;ove fromn 48 are in all the plants everywhere. they fashianedr plies And the ]nigh'. Our local is sponsurlni a scries of public not been e([ualhledl 5e'. i1eetit' gs to discuss post war conai lions. Bus Vi- There have is pitihulag hard t ].toli hess Manager Joe Phoe nix-tilke £he bi rd has risen keep the gang goig when the let-aown iroin tile flats by Pu get Soui id+ conieb, It's greeA, this rot putting off for gne Arl the thunder of hiL enl from tou.arrw. As one a. said. "It's di'amI, Now is heari,d the w hridaround. which stuff is niade." PresidentMrQuarie . II. airH anld tharles Foster. Guy Davis, tres Flyrig F, rot ess, Flyig Fo rison-. I. L. orland and Mel lettingell of tOhe Flagging hearts are hold again. i the'ir tine executive hoard are all putting As volt wing your way no so rei5 rgaiiilzaton ol an even keel. to kefp the .fmen, Par s.>ive the h-aunts Brother Bru.t double-hecks the hbuks arid There are keeps all our records ship shipi. rhdt of those who build the Fohrtress? to no better oficers aywhere andt not kn.w 'ach aunne, Hilory hnay thein for every thing. nowi h liau each buildr buildet S, J. A. 1l.W... N, fan. l 'hirt' are aImor rtw. "Ihan IL U. NO. 79, SYRACUSE. N. Y. r ruhltId shouh i..rs wi t horse thiyevsa rai hOldlI wreckers? I have, ard noted how thIty were tolerated by their chance .issoiettd wor'kmen-. They did their work with a zest .nitd jest that was sort seemed to mitigate their isarmiig, aIt of d nii.ual turpitude. TheY were iay lie rLeanL O. t 'a..iedl Yet I ... ...traIIci ed hy t certain section of my readers ifor biLIg 'too rligious,, whatever that is- Too religious in defense of a land disiraarel. esplored, 'et Y"u tied, and defeided hy religious me! Wile too much honor, do Is he tryfine ilsciple of Valiare asks: rig to convert us3" ALdM answer. 'Y's. cunversinn to alt...t aLythig shoulld he preferable to the sLb fish, petty. purblind state You ill in now." Mr OlljettIr. afew ye-ars back if you dlraove iL shnv enr wiIh sueh grace or disgrace as riclinatia.n permitted; if yo. nature a..i had say $1.100 in the tank; if you euuld enuinmlat platnitudes with npressive .]l mill run Nonh nity you likely passeid for being supported hy sL ppitrt i IO AniebtIii thle American stauidlardt of livingTrile, ehillr a did nat enter intoillt y ai sI fishlTies lYutUg of thinfs, schemi { f/ y et ,1% could not risk such i Ithreat with the sh,:d I 4f ago, we, said, And nw inductive . .rvi,' alabove s, f'cunditv lhaai. . forth in long-whiile suril" ',lil in the fnirrit of tiny heirs to selfish I]lia's inheritane~. Editor: Have you or ur children shalt reilIember, "As t~he natioji' dan$ger grow, e pulled trigethor ILpo All tinb Anal they iulled hurki cuntry through' .uilldee'sspirit SinlethLy ,les of this .ashrined in everyai irt,. I' vin elTi-uehw Si, their hlanes i are h andasoul and hatlrt With a miri By the Wrig~s 'an ks of the [3iiutanish are once again un furled are winging Thunderbirds the Anrid On their way across the wrhld WeVInir t, the war babies! Mathy they liv with shame arid I ' fill Iheir forebears trititirn Oh what ar tenet c ouuple If million En glar dlI in,pie ,If he' 1 would ILe turn t.nlnr iwK illth rates] antil United Sta.tes' yes. we l<,~ed oirenI...itly, hbut w hvLoed A s nrt. Ibpr.L I. U. NO. 81{. NOIFOLK, VA. aIlumII if Edkril.I: IofteR we d' r at utah it Ipl.e rIleeps-I wepllI ut 'iMh, or if hi sIleep ra.Ig if all o her ,th lI tI JU iaL 1 ~dl I wI nder' ox the nia'n w hi itr. fa in ntei'ci anit nlarii trItIre d.an...ers and Tilakn' fivre t eriflees. while he itfs eiomforlai-ly in his natl-itu of Inalny rUOtns am1 laths, built raeentlywith l k ,f It i the ,afleQ ldiD urtll I~1if$ o (ouaprie I~the,' b bbIIItr , ',ories xI.III By rdibtil, lih t, illdt I> iih u tlOI duct IiiohtlIZ -*uii*I r, nd,*1 Llrha li'-his l'egler 'II le, wrk ,1dl I>f I I'LI.L IlzlIIsII'T V e O h rutl, I I;Io II "fll.unvh .f t ~eTi1lttlo'l L sanme groTunds he rohLT atit~llaLr A rnIy fridNavy It dIL iemocracy evtIy I'rv iLI of lanle the oia'n'rvali ,he eftrinea ehijil 'u extrc'la radical sheull h14 peranditteI to) IIe h...IL, hut there should he inL i'n.n... for suth never yLt its Peglel's flho haI elIll I ral ittfrt'al ally constructive eIlil Iism or.ma.fl fair or scnsible suggestrin. Ils staff has been all ,F gutter variety disel'dtis hhiiu with firwhich lat onli aI alsont lt veI, I ileIceIIt peophILI, Iut hde anILd'tii, Ilitt spread hi. Pil puhiiratiiis ,tigiiu garbage, ale repoirttd sick h All the InLcters whI, hrsiitnls are back oni ill in thLt'r hoIses. the IAb Will be hack next I.o.rith. in lte meantlile. foictie andI our meroIl blies our i chanlt se{amen{. Buy) inure Wrr Bonds. M" I, MAIits, V. I. I L. U. NO. 102. PATERItSON, N-. . seenhe Editor: The geliaIt election wil candidate to ILe elected in ]h, iai li'tr nh New Jesfy is the grileror WIhn i it to> he? any candida.te is fonil Thb liepublica, trme amnijasf U. S. nefatu,j iir,>Litocifr~e E. edge,. Edge is adir to IFrance. Vttr 72 years nld a. w.heri hi was a United eke he votedl States senator a geatnittalin agatlist the soliers ' I.ious. Is history to rqIait itself? rididata is Vincent J rrhe Democratit Murphy, one of our own. gince served in the Navy in the last waI, Vilct is 53 years ir of the N. 3. State 4II, seetary trtasu uayor of the . l''a'ih'ratun of Labor, city of Newark. The Irarty shouldII hI inii....teutiaL So let Vince is t he the eaidiuatns lib emineIn rlansprirbg of the '*institute of Labor" which lniversit Rlulars baen conducted hids hy in roopeatueel with the N-J . State Federatiull of Laoar, and the Wnrhers Education y13arli reau of America fitr the lostl When these iistitutys started, u.e.nploynueiit andl soial security were lust heIlsinilae merirca, '['hee institute, insg pse,,'ered in A brought together elawarL Ih,lhpkig mem.erL of e'lof the labor inoventetlt. [)rIf'Lorsu forwardierlelis, pirominenfit stnta'-iment and buslnessmen toI, fIu their Lattelntlon lehitna of us ali-eling ill ili teeonamiic probcIai ('bhit is the way aiul this possible soilutionsv Murpihv's nmind runs, At the time this is xwritten, Edgle is Coil laig to Paterson 'lhursrday, September l ([pro are some. quotes fm-.,n iin nrticle :ppTalnui ang mi the I'ateraso, ~Jen t a, New s of Sep r 26: "E.dge wilIlihe thet Itouest of1 a nilranitbem ler of lbusinessnmen ii t lnac]~haen[I affair at the flrttl at Thursday nloon Alexaudier Ilarnihuna · he session wa~ called I, ffive Iluciti'-" ne in vimtidttity to me , and jDro~fassinnlo Tina S't Ed aelnd ,lidsru" prhlderls of the damy the buisiinessmniti ftel thiat Edgea is their eILil iiale!. They know how Edges mind runs. I ealirot uunderstand, or ale I, how rertan llge, soi ailed labor leaders cLi be uactve for 412 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators If they have energy til spate, why don't they use it for the labor olleItonelt by unionigin g the typographIical depiart ments of the two locnl InewPlplr? When I was tctive In tih, IN strike i ont year n,,Lo 'jiM we attempted tu launch a ]lngr-.eonitrnolld 'Plipt~gtLn to lhe 'tol-k texs[ saper [n ilbat, I felt that certalinr lolh loNl'r~ wie i lukewarn iJn both IrIeares N.,, soHi( of the'tn lille rp 'Plittcally witlh the edil,,, n 'It th two ,aperI, that Firkhe the stlike a....I.. .. l, non Poyunion Pliinters, Is this Utelly a cojtlltei'[te lrntheis, after the wa thedvonnIestie jrobIlem will again i te t e fore. The main problem l,1"I Ibe Thill the marvelous Proluetion mallchine y ihat we have, Il al bowe(I to cause misery ytold XXnllt ir shrl tin proiluction machinery Ib eon..Iellll tl, pll dlure abundance fIr all ev1-ri art the expense of a suiler-sper alainilanc[ fol a r:. ? Who will be hlst able to hell, solve hat problem to our aPl, trigeb, Fre ,1ho thibks in terms of usinestrst aId any h it to labor as a eIre by-produtot. or M urphy who thinks In terms of w for alt Olfare Obviously there is [ut pie fii )r lwe(uS Mklrphy. Th'e tinit we caitn IPto, ile i bitter or sweet, Pill hi' theireult-s of the ~eeds we sow iy 191l8 aid 1941. Think it over. tirothers. Fo~llow 1olntpers' ad vice. Vnte for the fellow who wil give you the e1st hreak- D.o not r yollly c-onoll]Pour effOrt, oil Ith political ljleJ! Don't eitP it the ],a.- "For Conspicuous Gallantry A Silver Star with citatin for eonspic'uous gallantry andi intrepidity has been awarded lbosthuiously to M5arine Pet. John J. Gi]ligatg. who I.,s a, i, prentice electriciar in L. U. No. 52, Newt, k. N, J.. mut th! sori if L. If. 5 2's finracial sec-etary, John J. Gilligas. John 2ifligan, Jr, volun leered tihe day aftrel Iear}, ltal-bot. Te Was I9 years old w hun he was killed August 8. ]1942, on Itling. SootIqnw Islands. Onl ollrt haeabill front I ain reportilg that 1,cgil 212's lhase'ti.ll alean lost out in the iLIt. W¥e halg a very glood teai. fiue season and our boys '.ere beaten by 1 beter sealn. lIs- PiPinrnn sincere congrxutulialilun. to the troph$y siglrers and, thanksO, ,iourown l tenam for their tine sho,,ing. CoI~n luck t,, then next P 1, r li~lring eb- jat month our lblU- htSi,,e!g represenliarive hill Ieeto') labor fIegatilob, eonveatntio in (ld-l 0!h',., aid ... a ah Ky. I k-nios Irit is theilest Igiiel bill al,bassodor I]Real 212 has ever had! Kee p it up. lot lox! t ]I'*¶EO ilIruItIi~aKz, L. p' NO. 130, NEW ORLEANS, LA. Edtilo: At thik tint.. teg I wishes to dedicate. its rp nInn Ne, l3&! t. IIs xry pDrPise wo rilhY mila liIi y ' i jittee. This Iiern is absoutt.ly unlpaid, ex¢It for glor, they eiveye rII led by (Illailrlrg..rl nf .rnp t.+.I To( the K noxville, TenP, Iocal At thb* writilt )You hblaI three of our swell nbgg.. Jn il y,)tgr iietI. namIely: (liftorld (luke f tht. bnn~ IB. R'all this commgirnittee Stages1-PI-N prlrties on the thild F ib tay of ea.h l.nnlth atonu unionblhal The elitire procees6 of these men in ser ice. As oftei, 1:30 se"I'll our figthti fuyr $.00 affairs,go I') Lowry. tr-erge C~rap~) 31orris :rnd Edwardl Car w1i,11' Rini[[g. These hys n-,, groil nlelt alnd teal 1t,,i-chlnic. Thanks for yi',,- JOHIN GILLIGAN. JR on( kindnes ns posible L- I I No. Blruthtrs each a rhee- for ciga rettes or an 5 other uPthey nay find for it. At this wrti,, el( lo-al has a total of If! mlen in rveiie arid this total is i ncreasingw (ekly fleeently this toi/nniltoe had an odid ex pt'rfen-c when it had Iuleg of it, rheIs r,turned wbth the fsllo nig Ataternesit frontlt-e 1. S. government: i'Th' enclosedi chcck, wl ihc addressed to an Areri-an pris*ner of war hewd in enelly territory is reItrned to 1he s*laider. 3,]iling of SUCh property tI I...ni err itrry it pro hibitod by the Trt-ar*r lIepllartn.e.,t. Yuir letter which enclosed this property has beer, fIgorardd." The commlitee r hoever, decided to senI LCiicheek to lhi blys re IT who s live ill oIown city. NT this eoIlgnlitter- goes the heart felt respect of every lvtbeh- in the local. M'ay find see fit to allow thish grop of Illen to continue their tine work without interrupIt takes the eleetricieins to 'rove that thele is still time for furn in a world of wtr. On Saturday, August 21, the e er iar-s' Pleasure Club"'f ]/igibn Iin dustrie s staged It whale of a sm oker Pt the White Kitchen The membershlip turled Out 00 per ,ent for the show andll Suppr,. 'hings Ioninerg-' happening earlyIrhet at $130 1'. R the floor show started. Iiieh tally it, 'as on, of tli best shows presented by the chb to date. ImIdildiately fdolowing thi tefrggmlnce e a Id.,lilusu chIckell .l..erwIr served- DuriPg thle fteI thie offieers f the lubiinvited a few seirviemen to jgin in the fl., )'ie of tIl, soldiers who was inivit!d turned out to hl- it I-ly renlarkhleiI nillgl., Aft,, he had his lile)' lare always glad to he able to IeniI cur li ttle hit of sript, toward ou r IiOlltNAI.'S puhlicatioa IVe nnle l hill Arthiur Gans, Jr. (onR of O.s aleother. Artlilur Gamsre, St.I, has arrived honPe withaill holurP'oe niediea, dischrage fronlhe thr Allry All {torps. We aire all sorry Art, Jr. Is in wIsh him thi best of lick. I also wih tn sate that while we are on miiatt ,- objeg[. note that Wilhiam Rultd CrI Cvi]ie,las joined the Navy. Blilly liehler hb joined the aSIeabees". Al, bote thitha lglil its' Bertk e is 1,ow in the Arluy ....d luck toi each and every Igrg. of our menio th e service of our oil otbt-! We ire- s orryto report that ('rl I G qz snietere hthu is,~J his faihet, harII C.oet. o SIt, iegl''lhe 21, 104.4. The entile local stuld it. ie- ..-. s. . p ly to (a il and hi, ,tmr fIrljPi Mllay h> MiLd I rot IgOw, aiIt ,it'leer. On our sick list we notice (lit Far aley has undilegone an operation as has o.r Will ant WViukcra, To both we w;i h speegly re. ove ry-. Waild that GtIs Biggs is ,el aai Andi kee, up the good work (a i-I Voellmenienke. The citation signed by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, l.arN: "Fat conspicuous giallantry and iftrepPdity ill action while serving with the First Marine RaWdr Battalion during the attack amianst Cnelily Japanese for..es 1, Tulargi, August 7. 1942. Realizing that his platoon leader wase Uusi ly woundPetd. Privatr Gilligan with utter dfisrelgard for his own personaal aftey rushed forward to his assistimce hilt was n/ltally W(,undetl ill the attept. "Ils heroic co, dt was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service, lie galIantly gave up his life in the defense oIf his ,oultry.' fill of refreshmelts, hI really did ti jIb of eitertaining the .rn-...L l ¢luslt, do we wish to thank the officers of Utr eutgb for a fi]I, fille. May they he blhe to e-gntinu~e shi)W 9 1 ellswer to stage to I our tltese svtry 1,Vat- Sav ing we wish to report thai the{eslm.. enjoyable Bloia drive. frgil. .. ur nlge~~luu-shi has been rely sAttifac-;i/y. We art, {!rldca oroiitg t, placetill, I. I. 1r, W .,, halie no ils gitnay jeeps 1:s potssible. IlAROLP I[Sllf lIl, P. S. 1. U. NO. 212, CINCINNATI. O110 Eftdkr, Another cdiiotl relly fCot tile nillinr pre.sss of our J...tINAt W,e I..r.. in to then. Believe m, wI of 212 lhose things. G.oo luck, Ilike. Ed allnt GenIgit So 'ailtil ir net isse I shall say goe again 'Aul revoir." apirceiiIt' E- M[ SM... . 212's, New. H]oud. L I'. NO. 226, TOPEKA, KANS. itor: *oW a.ain sendt greeting, to all Brothers of the Internationnal tad tr, Trrthr If the homle lcill whertever they may he. ].fenIse work ot the projects entr TijDek, has henn1 euimlyltetri except for a few minonr additonnP', all] 1''ay of the nien have lIft for other jouhs or have joine soew- h,Initch oi the serviee, I am, now workin, in. Ig list i,!f the lin is ri n thne branh in whieh they are St rin, whieh may possibly I .ly e for the next issue. A few incy ber are wnrkin (in lmain te na. ae Ponhg at the Winter General ilnsi Topeka AImv Air Base, and the suiipply de .t. BusRihlleSS Mnager TRoy LeWis rt-port th01 i'me are hard to locate ill tin.ea of variois calls, sg to alI indications all Ir1iothers are workiytg. \Xv svr'uh] Ilk.. to [ieill fro/n till Iroth*+rs of our loalll. Sg I wish to take thi, uppe r unllity to l1sk thenl, t drop a card ]ettiltg us k...I. how they are doing. Oh Yc,, have yon hbard of the little rit,rll who cut his lilgers uiff ill order to wtite, sh(lhra-ilnnl ' For a good-bye., BUY WAR BONtrlS. PHTlI, MAM1tT?, P S L. U. NO. 245, TOLEDO, 01110 'littg Og'inober asaih and with it the bowling, hutnt in and foothall s.easoi, eac NOVEMBER, 1943 413 with itl attentianI oHfb fIrI failure,. Il bowliwrg season has opened for the d soniLea .d is 1now it fill] swing. Local 245 is barkinbg twe Learns hi the labor league. V., liht. that they 'Ire riotlgLvery well. Brother' lIowll (Shorty to yo..) is dling pli.aes Lin{I . oif,,i thinif in this ltming stuff, at re.t.ltI IIatchl gn tie kept the ,lid ajo..LI :tTi tIitg t -lk, to II Ltune If 201] ,L¥ ;ra e. M,] ak .i. W alter MeKittlaatl is ti' new Waipttaia .f thi Rig cers' l. Mait iLt Barry enj o ys thlb, [tarn I.arl/e rI*olic and ,it'e, tiit is II liutjl t e tililr. II, rIi t dn i both at ne. Ili adn it' t hat it lib ,s riot he lp the lmt Ic/tt. iI', ,eLS if Nu., AImaI- iI rOpjl ,,lO d hb ftita teats thi, yI a- tlrtdltuck JSIe gMlllI of AltmI ;Y(L the uI; o[ I; nol ook-set diit[,. ?(. fGr/lltate vitLmi attI I 'Thil .ithiir, e lloawt thuil] I vltay fl.ini i ..If :Ln the cat- lIftM fendt'rs /itad ...I I ttst hbl temlher. 1ssIItr Ardh1a-f,rmirr aain af I fly, i, with ikck Mikdl oaic'whelre in ahe Pfit ll he curlb Witht .. u' aMikr-i a )rnt Patrol mullh, C."orpItls chw ienhter IIs ;I . f theb Ciali}m Aih Itlenadid offer [ni{ I,, Ai'tl 17 ye...s ,id. ['aiit ShMluriz hII rhat eld t rand IL,, pi.,se.... .A Viyr Don't l>k /ow. l c1t{h{ thel b, illt 'till intat . The I'a I, gc, r eloser hz to Aim I1[i (ptUth! ~'.teut- rwpeeps have Jlive woi irt I l t hl &tWii e turbine ryo itt I nd , tr h, Soif tife I..k [thie hrewitLf a iorder 0, a law passed freezing w..ges, arid nloig with it the people were ilf oymd that the al-ices on forod would be frozen but at this time the pItices, as se l.he.t, I blue sky. You ao doubt riaa.e.....e sit n ev ,aler ';; very cYnWi - ~ Iraghter d hi ;x a;plida- bIuyldultp a shLI i itilt tht, idI , I IL I gt hat /I s fittIt nJZr Navy Wjtch ,'' Ill ...... Tokio' h* hWIiLL" M a rtia r .a .r I I' tild New York in~o mp! 4 du { ~,1[,] { b (o hi pak f I ai,i tI Ian that n -ta, or iv,1a1iad itat the prr/n: ,[£ patitaliii,*iLii~O , IVr eOt ? \V -I if ri Le I ittl i u swlI if evT~ofarid oIL aii wha'irt,it [lak thts IL, , {ha tie fa rrartt a> Ith-l euri[t ani it- O lPA h.,ve to Art' {in a-netis Aknt-v tart l Oi} tat Itd i, r vI1y al the rarxt Wha, lit things ]tia k flat it i, Iblc..rt that tuill.. took I -h o n uit thO V o p l itil baird irt l thi it IV tir ul rae- ga'e ).b. If, I Ita>Ltatl. Now let u>f what the, s?,ta itta4t ..... .4 lheir tlat, 1 Nut , [ang time tid Oi, at hr-aa' x:i...]phe s...e.. Ihihnk .. Sensior Rt... I ;,,I[ (on.r.s.tairitlli Nke s of Jltaa'ir were hlere in Aiehilaru a' ah- wa'. a hilid aOt ll at ,e I>.-,q l th 1,a hI id It Ii ..a. areait .qalups i n W'r h inrrta y n. l*ut tit- ri ll ri tA nainti a r otin a templk- I t tu, a idi, diff'ere t I kaow .atof, i, Il ILI ii I1 craflt Ch ailier oI th rat Blhc fitTu r. I ut 'th tll litnakl]btf of fllnt. VIMr 'te the ti Oh 3I-. R iel, ) r. It i,. an{ rIt. I air-[, ,ttiand all nh nf yI ARtE NOI CO. ING IA(XK TO WA>IIIN(]ON. 'theai '<)ir] tI-ralh...at.Y\ are tIu got a..> I, IfuNIN ck for te a'est at thit senata, . ,perh 6h. xi- t k al,t anI rcO a thr ra',o Aa%' , k1, .w ;tuLr hilia n I-VII ia-j II biii T lh- p ut 1h ap-btl~ ito the rarry Ilnihe l and eita,- ha-li.r. \,hy Wht W it Ilfriaiie folr Ih.at tra er rf w,,ti? (*tllI it In thi we will r edi ; that I th w ''[till t ip l irt irt the &htl i l} illI fI[If rl m I tth I t, r t bkaa i£ Iotat oi li'aIIWgIIi IC lic ii hIa lndif lI..tttef:' biall, Iiy ~~ this Ilnt tin t b.h t- it-a t-l t ai lai qi o-tb l u.lik 1 f iliult Ii I I li]...tia y fitr w ive frar . ;v'ix t . ILL) I pik up thil, p'pier araI real wiher- diii ha'' hair cut and an Orllctr' austhdi- I ~-i iairae r , bra~sb e ii1 Jlttiitt v~l ie ti lite Oil '<h 1k It o -.nti o' t lik r c c ,,vt' ct ra d t l Itiiti i s ,LO~ w£ lLt][ at flbhik.i *;~v tu Ifoeed II~1l; hf i t belier ai .. s,{IW le il{2...}, Il Ihfti when aetir the O fs L I raili I.L il very wririn n-a a'H ' y-o o ,exr 'a ll FL iell< daft Erothlet ,iaileIy irs to ta.-, out -)halp lit lak the Axis thl ¥ 'r mLi* "'aia, ai. fair - IaI irInIf E, I. and [,t{. P' LI f. I. NO. 313. W LM31INGTON. D)I.. lIt u- o a aa ell with thai W fiii f lan d drive whih (in abrr [lay. illal ] I, No. : ;~11 .. it- i..a ...i,.r- pura hasea. ,i v $58,oo tfit1itri htoriTb Il I .i.ra truk. ,or IInausti- ft , it... i. . .nI.r... Ic].. I hdi A , be aeia q i D.J iI l. , It'u ii i la aii ti I tI i- returned homte fruil the hospital It is wilh "rLI.. th' lIt: th if lhhallrv .,,rker re..retIhat W. [;I aolijllailIlirl,: Wa- , Jtfa in lbe I'hoitt Ir fraIternit, Id I lIl!, anti ail lye niaaieT tay ai host of irienik. Nt-ar ril'itl stall o cur. f iiit lil tf lines in 1h' To leoP ILOM, rlyly af{li1 i P' f ctL t11int I .i; al 245 $4,000 '(itrIl Ih If the I if hIeIl- haI l bILh durik,, t at l ti al pPil )tet. l..r. t 'loilitg fai j oad fll Ioll ..f Local Ž15 art awake. thlie walt 1',t Itr, Ithitk of theji wn t-eas inl .rst,.. aIllI ILLhr avcnrdingly i Iate t he I11p 'i, u1 aitrarched l in the i..li.b tnradtl ea~ry it tile rvriit lht]]ltzh raid I[hl ~itloni~iiiai].Th 1it weather . huaIIogc I, gr' n-i g yWe b uta~dy ahId ia 1o reach the 1tct hal ill had thota*hts whatI, lvhrty e h-l t o llv a tintarl If Iluire's wit-hing ¥uLI (i ItzOO~tl hiaralii1t, Ca,- 'l h nitk ga va,ig kiili,1 ,, natn d x lirhlidi of II 'fhiiiik~riviitr. i'helh, i, it ta,e it Tieitahiln a-11l a~])l~ ni ~ a Ttit ~ D. 1). TIErRO. L. I. I'.,. NO. 271. WICHITA, KANS. Ediel/, I al, oult hnnting }It this writ ing,. hutlint flt OPA rIll Iheir .IilhIli pILI Jev tt . ut t~ eiI HOW I h av e,, ieultaI fitMi whiff I harti bIe ]okin0hg fair Atlt e 'ttnit VlroAh r trai.. -Wh et, has fllIitl 'yhrii I It ln. rlea s ui i a itv il l r , t tbtil lg f Wir. Ii, orace TI 3ota w ill1 noithie ~ih~urant w altk iota, a StaIT tfl w ill an doubt filid 11 lI~ll rilelir., "OUli ( tILING PRICES", bat ll] IL where lfe ti'LI OP'A CETLING PlICEl-:S? V. I. NO. 276. StIPEIIOOR, WlS. i.'daiai .. N, l 2N pi grinig strong rr preI. n. t. fle h" .va i.... a....e ber htip c.n.idenahily in fh, tI't vel, ht'w thiayaids here are pr{>/I-..i.Pg I....aui ]'] jie I ri ed S tate s arid otanm Io is a rt datinlg ti wit ai 't, en t.lteaL A s th e e i l re~ospyairhuat gr~iata shocw-, elee trarrans. wherever lhay may h, :a. ire the boysa wh it ,raeTT' st n d o ut ]I i a l~irian tinig to e to h LOWJle at w5heal Sernadaol ai ,oh,,at . Ta F.,,) [tl'thr Moore htie. 3,., ml:ade anz inl pP'a] ioal h p ~larotiglh l1ht At Iint: .Ia 2> IUtpen 'iai ceW l tI o t iu I ,11 II pIr ald IL~rlI" III I LILlhe a I~ .me Hulee • a~ t at -r t.]. a tre. u na tlT h r S otZr. ti ol] riatt Whit, Oifl...sti allale. ti"fin- l... two, ', az lt.i.. ;irr i 'aa L} ur ,t0uH wociai,1pe feairhu ;oa-d th-i a ... tenjo d uhitaetctadt'i euaud~i'ille tOitentmtailav. unarmra g. rand s uaita ltld arid1 r m iulat r u-f res hltaaat-r1 the-~~~. h haug Eaa~T a fltarin~ 1±totaf]isihaiptqlt I LIi. T,;t. t itf ] w a oi lr tltil, ee. jA}^ME ]3 limitu. W~alt~er Budltr ship' Drirl in .SIIpa'nrtr }1., had h ks pictuirt taken 'yath .tar riCf ou r i:teiibTt- . the fiotliiwrri~, 'e >,k Si-ely itor W tilt, the ju n iO r -.o -ato F frrtta '\ is orai lit ;vit go in g thiraui the (la lie hlity:rd Ien' IIh i .alfta ri a n~d wh en~ h,- ;and i; tr]anl~b ot> Ciap] trLiat ] ~ tahi, uf the I' . A. C hart their pctue itake , 'hi, I yr ith the mi'd le h, roh liaudtItiGfr'ilf n. I eleh trpu-i ai. S ag n Sf ate w iff uiflui . i L. if l,ar(c tUiii NV. 15[fof Er' Iak trait. ThesI lilphto iat , af t o i ytlict I aSn -AIurtba I wit l\tira I . l lr pi()bLT ]IS~ i fzaL Iire" Ita nt . to a,tas I jurdh uln ph,eti f aIlli'Ll/ I ?} ' ltiy eitniai I. L. I'. NO. 319. MIAMI. FLA. P , , L, ti'I / ] tI i, it' IvIt -taI Itedl ait I L a. th t t would not caniillct with ;any wt:..work{ naIiaaigthe tiny it stiartaer to r laiu '-ary Itlard jair't n- th e }Tliriaa]' tart uutadli~ay N],L s,,' Jil() IS (f..,t (ol~~!71 II 1 0ilS OS it]l 'S -t-I iti th ere {tuk iuir [ a irlt If it. ] ] I} ~ ii du t-, iIf Ia ia I LLt oIa, rtri il, I t h..e I' l a , 1 rri... L i¥ IIO- i l f ill a ll the i-k, lar d fi Tbi}h dlialp fa tdail tiCi t.f i l otih i ti li . TheI Ill I ! x,, ] IIb ~, I,, Illout nlr,bL 1Ih I sa id including tll tho,), ,ho nrraheid. \' OlsutI, ha, r been u-aIIIitilai oit thi Ihia/ .ar t]te vt-nra tutu ra tibip"gioes oia sIet qis to gNI i uan e.if aI. I ick ( isiOi iri tv-la /*, 3. a i o .. i IO Ihn o {he niutve. as raavnrdmi l'~'ar-etary i111< flurar ('unsrlrr is vias.{prosidtraii ,tgaiiU Y tura ltIla is fira 'a.iiil, e a.. trIry rI trIo D(l ei , I hqO ta . LItil I ti ttHatttiilH roiulipt tein the icptre1I1here al e ralir railiaile nest heat at ~ IT ll bIi- ilr Lb-thul I tIrts af Lhe l tim e help illotit r ' .i11 p a il pa- I iaf SstFL r watch t , pI ,ndi T hu iIita iniuta ] .art -itilha nI u t Lt WeI ai n] [ia Ilei joh in 'hI" hind Writ. r di OuI ;i ~ P r...IeidDtrive. It is i ,Itf i I]iI fi aIliltnifI wo lb. Not tbIal toi I a aIifle h ip Ii t ailld if tIis nitaal.ha a tlt.- a lire .j; in thI nf, irii'l d rlca es. A ltot tfa thtl dough wits ITtralild in St. Louis. BHatilaiI. a The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 414 The Fighting Electricians L. 1. NO. 353, TIORONTO, ON'T. /dit,, I:Igsnizcd la hr. as represented ib iltal< Chief Eietticjli' Mate. J. R. Hood, i. il ith, the "SInbtee' sf~Iewhere in the lulp ji, of electrical Pacif"c, doing a ba; ... H- the hi[TLade and Labor (.nnlges,. held its atn'ui einvenion ill the hituFrle abl tit; u~ Qt le ee ila1 w"tiL (r . t...r I.,ii , urt luaihiterln.. iaS IFl g lissl.tini d w ilh the present go ;ltnehlt> lablotr Ipulley. faithne..rmir"ters were .r.. l IINdr a..i jls Iyso, for theh attitude tow, Id that sl( tiol of tour Ilpulatio, whih i ltin one' IhnId were praised for theli 1r)routtivt efarts to'ioFd rl itnijnr$gthe wr. at.l cI lhe other were bing delliberately iLlnoed ;heI labor Ioards anti eonhTittiTiee were f. rrned. ] sometimes wonder. after Ilisteln, to these heated qlieussions at labor ceun'etII~hns, i[ we re not wasting our erley g andI breath by eIttcizirig the eleted re-preseatliLi'es in r.'uIrItilerlt. After all tOiel ain nly blffers hjetween the people wh actually coIItruol the ounItry snd tihe people who try o work amil live ini it. The we ,ooner turn our attention Tf the ita nnfactares' asso.iations and hnardsof trade anld seruthinze with gre. Ilr car, their "siggebtlons" to our rhv~tfiflefts the sooner we will win this war and prevent any fur the, massacres in the future. Of course this igilante will ha.e t< Ihe inIitaileil tile world ever because capital, as we have known it, neve- had any fixed natiouMity or Iligi.. Another feature of the cuntctat.i)a that ilipre'%ed [lmewas the difference of op'nlio..lU between the old French Can.alilLa dilegates antI the younger generation of habitant declegates. Various roenaluiens wore iniu ducid b3 orgniiatiot outsiide of Quebe with a view to raising the standard of living of French-Canadian workers. The nitfrence that their living eonditi..s were a.n worse than Ihla f man'y other parat of Canada was protested by the older residents while i wa oneur'red in by their younger oI.. foresl. Both sides agreed, however, that in the niatter o organization Quebec had plelty of rool. for ipcroemer.t. I think tile other plrayImoe< will agree that in this respect they could all put a greater effort i lto rn ggin the unorganized. I again had the pleasure of meeting Brother Ji, Brairk, who keepf hye is watchful il ]nattcr5 pertaining to the Eleetris.al Wo r ers in Quebec along with George Melvin firoe consturution for our Navy. Brother H.ood is a member of L. U. No. 505 of Mobile, Ala. le has eight "wire twistsrs" waLkillg Ill hil and they ar, all nlImSt. JoIM, \Xew Brt.'swk, IIHope d Emil[l bers of the L. B. E, W. from Witndsor. Ross froI /ancouver. In fat the eleetrial workers in Canada had ap, ('hlintnati, Washington, Ii. C.. Louisville and pittshaegh, Pa,, Blrather A. B. Dixon iu ol e Nick lisi at preI it. Dick is one of our oldest nenib, r. 37 years in. I believe he cante here from i,. . No. :a in 1916. Address 2790 Shippintg Ave., Miami, Fla. ,I .l.ok as th...g. w*'here we had it in IS27, $1.75. Now if the work will hbld ouy it looks like w, will Ie able to buy .rt.i... Inct and a Iew extra war stmpes Th. Plorilia FJtclleatiorauil atlild Plriuteetive o"tnI itleei's lnIr-nled irm o te ill alrksrptiille under the guidane. of Jit ae..rLt, who ha' bee with te Treasury Dihlartmetlt for the past few years. We expeet to see me real actkin strt within the nst few . oonths. Airpad b Cuf'...g..s..atl Triey of Thorold. Hi efforts aog thi, io, late at night, were rewarded by the lanage. enelltof the hotel inviting our parth outside far a midnight smack I ex(.us tie, i tuaek i. we hl ve 6Inally trotter our senle on soie of nwork that was con,,.ct awarded after AulgusI 3. 1943I, back up to pioxlnlatly 26 Fdelegates there. The ,ocial side of the gathbering wa iAly Ilpooked aflter by the local c.mitt[.ewhile the [trIIrriully singing was cndtucteil by Nig. t)annini is trying to explain Ip lhtbr why he didn't try , Itefeal the Sminth-(n..naIlly hill The sanI thing Ioes for Senator elr[per,'o Bth hae ehenIbefore tiemhers of organized labor here iil Miami recently. Quite ullusual? A bit .leo late no rtoubt. HIruIthir Iarprell (]omranle, afiel gleat effor Slid self sacrifice ta, appointed teller for the electi i ti . n a-ring rio one tense ,ito.tlIt durini the proIlceedinil f.u.nd himlself the onp a il onlly pillar of suppolrt for Preiideal JBensgough lle cane through. however. with flyiig colors and ealloutses .. hi, feet. Brther Farquhlar had a little trouble rat the first with the language but gradually picked itup until today yt can't u ndterst ard him at all. Well, Mrl Editor, if you Calltugiatago to et this a]ll in wvithout rutting aiy ouit, I 'i~.)rrni it ta be, biefl reft month. J. firl AND, P. S. L. U. NO. 377, LYNN, MASS. ll,;dt,,: Al the new eorrespundert I will try n) convey the nexs it 1 see it, aniid alao wish luck to Brother Melnerney the eal in his jiirur arounld Pittsburgh. Yesi.dIday ]y;eIFteniar 18 we ha... our out{;y( fi-thgid nInuh tS to bIe said in high praIise the coI..mlittee in charge, Broth Il q Sltdrafhihv, C, g. Hurns Mll, arid Dalton. naslurIIh as we i he0 ii the elst are rationed s,, ihsly everylody ha'd quite I surprise in K at in tre fOr th.nn fro' we starteI .Lit with the r( tidLnr han0l anp, the u[al (lectrieiahs tqIeI1II,, Ih unt anhd I half innings, game alIled biehe till players laid out nit the gratund t exhaustedl. By cotincidence a beer tuck II, ke rlowI right outside the gate jL*> hefth e rm.. Latedl. swIar ] will rover ulTpire ntiphel nit, nf those games aulin. I Welt, Brother ltiee, who hy the way. was sporta conductor, luyked over the tug if-war rope, whieh wt Iiig 3 limp, on the grass antI dec-idI not to aIIbLie he poor thing ano n.uru, sU he got the dash races lined up ahd leady to go when the cook yelled frant Ile rilin Ipat.e, "Cine and get your corn with BUTTERt" All I ran say is that it's a gat...l thing we hod a lot of priae pencil bteeause everybody wel. TheI camp the suOrprise, tvtryue got two lobterV h i each hand, two chickens, friedand cut up in his r. coffee to hold in his fingers (if lucky) Fn ear pf corn Ibuttererd stuck in between his teeth. All then tadle their way to the tables to partake of a pro-war meal. They were gorgngt thse chirken aInd .Irktng away onl the lobsters when Io and behold, right in the center there was our little giant Ill. M.) with hi, little knife antI fork sllieng away on a thick piece or tenderllin STEAK. There wasn't a sound much F. Wel,. everything was back to normal when a shriek sounded from the far end of the tabils nid Brioher F rinchstAod up with a chicken leg int his hand yellng. "Look at the band on the leg My Bessie" (Moans.) Murder will out, as it scents the ommittee fourid not the ,ear Brother owns a big thicken ranch up in New lamnishire. Then there war ai loud chuckle over in the other corner when one said, 'You should laugh Brother le.r.y. wait until you see the broker padlock on your lohater ear.' Seriusly though, we had one of our best nims. a nl it really did scent like pro.war lays. Arid we will thaik God when Ie ear, git brak to then, I suppose i f we want to contine m to write ilt public and read these artices, We ¢ u LUdbehd on extra effort to buy just one niore extra War pond to make that day that much nearer. Don't they say the third drive never fails! It seems that this locality ii slowing dawn to a walk. We are about to wind up our last mlajor project. With another member gonu in the servIfe (Brther Gove.. nnl several of the boys going out to other territoriea and the shillyardls, the loeal con ractours are pretty buy uytakin care of the reImItinder. ]'her- is a good glean in the future though. Ware anlticpiatilig the ...nIzg A. F. of I.. p'uriveittio.i in Bosto.. next I onI,. where we lihtjl titel our i]ternatioat.I Office officials and to. get a belring Oil our potwOr ftiture. St, nt il then I will sign iff. ~ DON l'ts,it.iLtN, P . 8 U,. NO. 429, NASH[VILLE, TENN. P'roof thfit L IT No. 429 h4 dinrig its hll u the war fronIt as well as the home front is t.eneihd with nines of our 9 i,en i Ihe armed forees as of Sotptmber 19, Many if thnsp in n, havye ,hi ,veil high Ililks in thil particular ,ranllch of services but our Iet trd lirl qulit Ihcrar.te, themrelre we give On.ly the names with apiologies where cre dlit is Ine. Sorry! I Iark uf aT.ir will not pernit us It publish , your list.) AX... T. those re ar(ing whn L the 'righhet ftlt that i Ialiltile ilnubItful war contrihutions NOVEMBER. 1943 415 to dlIreetly If) the if y oI the ovIfI. d for('tIr the. yihe should <,l 1 ili,, the 'fiWe of ftir to ,.tt somre of the 11ititr ulL neild reiLllv the boys to whotn we Ia. ri~ct'irt froc, d I 'ci',r t ~ ,aLdeigh ·I halfk ''r' f , . {b.. ha I I~ieled liav b tillse Ofn d, hhald]h* ofl fLoat, in the 'Ih rlr %a ]'Pp Zn[lew''l~l' l~nnii ladtltt Day Rep~orts onL the hal IL'aIIV exceededi $V~{OHit.00 ditic [> S. p...ukv. [pyx, L. L. NO. fill, ALBItIQIERQUE. N. MEX. 'flip h exrif~i'iertfe Lmal 61ii is havinl 6i1h the three,..ar coali'aet with the Al .. s & atlifG l CI OI i erestitig I i.....rIue coet.itet in these three yeJi' 'Iit' hie offa Th' l , revmrnl . .s ilnieS II itninus l in Itsi,' Septu'mli St ,n...I. 'nt"er l i no, Idtil unft, tIlk run Iirl i'al¢,l fer art ajpprioximtme 1. e. 1941. Wil1k average on ofllce¥, e,> O ot u~, , ifI Ik, hioard's regii.na offier in lDencer for to grant anti rI'eeer' the in.rrea> perIfii .lOfl it wr> idl, ie'i , IhtIIIt prejui.. i' y Ihestahnilizattot .dir.lt... eonslsting of ftlir rifIr'lleuattt ,e% iif tld IfOU f r thit.,i ff.r o for inlau tr? jilhlbe [ { Was $uIrlisitc I to oathek hnad tho' miven iili(itlate rosth' they alight lnt have Il *ziiilicacien if the contract ,'ratbin to the [t wa eteIAtl the niT.pa.hl) and the lnion, plnil nut that thc cIlItIlat its agreed ipot the tiit nlicths before Ih e e'laitiPnt o v Price I( ttiil A.I Itn.I in Inl wILY nl'>, en pec Il tteId the act; that he tI..litInywvas will [Iq ill the I to grant the in ri;i aggreti get i ttttlact; that the rIm, irn lhi "ost of living t't'edls the waLge inicaIIis0; thai the coat 'ohIll to tlite eInlaImer th ...l,y ,it lIe passed nit sitt;; , lthitt in linrease farther knstitig living It gn'rntncIt WlgeS wxold enable Ihe ti miore icome tax frtiII th, workers Ind ,ldl/e ent.iLd the workers l hllyj tior~i War blot"il pleprieseitrtives were ci riply the tIrlid einable the tlI thdt tho den the rtalk wuhl To ta,. .. xces priits (rIf.. any to pay mIote to the ,;rilait ith raise woil be,tIntrary ul* of the Little , Steel fkttillh aInt th l lre laid udown ii1 thi' NaieBal War lIh i oe TO~l o >eveni lhe arI] .. .o Iber, ease hai, AI in Washington uxyilv Il i( Lif the lIeh :t al... t l s for iii art aeCCutit If al. 'l ' .i...ri. ma' he f, illit The Amti idi,!iet that happ' in''! i Swil llria, eyi take if hill II IIIIedl II' Isi, hing throutgh ,,Irnlant. Ciffric,,l w. the Ilh whole hill 'hei glasses $r,>:, , lhh,. Itoi tets bI long I cIrnI lb,hmn~ loin AlI thill" rould Il settia was lllery ·ia ' ati' InIoke ari. I aind dJInt nile ,,fS, r renilt]ked. th at tIttk h i, ' Lit Iak'iit I'llh t i ia vea' hill,'I lik. the I iiaitidoai Wf liki hThoeefl( hi, en e' ctteni~toipt], !h o cadire elf ou b ou'. 'v; H b ' ,'he NX jobli at Ik et.'d I I AIills S'hiproek. N, the Hluilw INIl). .ltc,,t tA'ii,i r holk, i 1,win, ieali'u, r'wnl'ti I.,rd I hi' ,i;113 as I thoulghts ceiling. (M], 61epe r ah., I greatl ltiiun we all lielong to? If ,hir I rk llitiaLtikoits ".u.al tn ! bila tIr. B y III . [ . IV , bill c c ' tFL ti -an the hih raI.IreitIp of exert!- our our helm. nitr oid 'liwhi through I Pank alid file menIdrsh .. cuItl. n g ill rieitata g, with I no, Lt.hat in ,a, teltig B o her i, th ie , I't'ii..) ethti'l I.ocials, the I l, tllu are wilth i. few xceptiotns aN of 'guys'" nic, winhl like' t hbave as ntighhf)r' in hcis owtL lIIo. te tow n. '['hie un r "natal t I(lk who Ire only oIlkp.ortutist.. In/a and never will lie ui~iic n/el Ili accolict in of ihe nIariowI.gtilfi h helt ialed a bod, which hey live. t Is the bile. rietidi'l al,[ fraternal spirit perfad i o. ut locals that makes the 1. B 'KL'rwkrW', II' P. S. L. I'. NO. 716. HOUSTON, TEXAS s {;reeti ( fie local '.I[linte N , 7Df;, 11Ibmtoa. rex ThIl 'lga ixii Lio. I... . .i. ii bilitI drive ii, Ioi{jliuttiidn with the [hblrd War Iloan Drive in, proshes, Ild we aire to happi it- the Electrical WiLrters or the vI Ili Iha. hihou.hu"i tilts jiiri di'til po tuIle johl Wi feel iIih .is' $2i0fflri wrth of WI, Ihnds that our urerbership I,,aN iinsole *tliI effort (in this drivh , a,]d Iifn.....illm 1hich the aljpit'tcatils fop honds bihnnds will h. ' rolle. We hple' that tst' their part tl som ' s t'ltser to vietory. Iti se, vice arn which will ?niltill W'iiy in lirh]igiT/g W, Irist that all the lly C]Iti' li k Io a pjIt, rnIkf their sairifices ''rtwhile Liuil IUt11 1, Nio 716 is latincin it, alp o.raui.. fur the year le prcntict trailnng ,iI'cilg Septem ber gI. 194:13 ol.. we tirl glhing to enforce rigid rtiles alqn( psidlltie rake all alpLreittiee and other cti ,iia,' tI ,IS wincueni attend this shool. for we feel Itt JiL the Tiostwr era, we will se, a pt Il'i..iir nI,'l whIh will (a iic hope that m st o,f mIIch iitie knowledge it.i. ..... th.eri iil, Ihl IfI Iligi'le for school will aafil themIselves of this trcii[nfg. bIt Oc. he tither hatid. we will IIakI it 'onirilsee? for the flw whoi ni ,t Iail it that way. hi- t ille hliton ,-tnl Ifral'- of stw ard< S'hipliuildinc sprinsored ill e nftg in t I it slelk er s on prlratio' the Tr-b iLabor Dayi ' PregranIt ftip,lhiuriching fi the N' P'illfi],al (herlfl of place on acceptan, of tickets for CO]I niortex 'makin In, new Greetings ar"d welcm' Wrids of encOi..'.gtp'iiiitI wo ikeri presi dent. Praise to the o'.n.il.l. nenil th, ErastsI Slkith. pirgractl 'er, I uhl, 0] Ernesh O4 'IhoII..T"s(I. rl lItc..ad ( or.t state of' Iexis' aLnd Mr. ])aa W. mii"ist I ra; , aL cstaflt secrtllr' eif i ahrl, . Th, mit I n I slur, [irrie.aI it w a, w' ll killnn. 'dl (hi' a1ld rcni tes '¥e i muich firti.tizefd haine , ifI gL ttietleit iIf I',o 'L II IiT exten'liI by I, l hI -ra tl..M If iti far-d inl p... itti iciL thI poi 1 if fni 716 pre alwiy' rtlbil to have Dit, "ilt lrae> hak it rInIuI timiT for it short vis t. to the over lhaisi'an 'hi of wIrk, atUally does it gotd lill, Kindcomiments o, the wilrk of thl' of ticirs and I olTritt,,,. ( .ns. ructive e'itiesl t. Suibscription to oaiich Prompt r organ. 'sponsQ Li co Iauspondthnlc Offer of service,. (kIorit'ihutiont o tIl he pLbioets of yoI, otganiza ti on. All of tleuse gifts will be ,mch more in the elfTctive if aftefully wpi p.. ... Iooperation, white paper of loyalty an ho..d with the bright libb..n. of cheerriness and seatled wih f'ieidship seals. Con . tsy of the 0,'), Jour ... nal, f No. 716 is Wlok in the iurlsdictioi. lirithaig up. We ha." serifcal large projects will ,till going, but our rbib r progranl finish in part by late fltL We have Ilk new and so we work sehpdtied at tille pre, set union feel that 1941 wi hi ll brgILis ]oila hile to normal times hwii l. F ronm the amount f wiresreceived ii the hikisines, office of the orgaltnizatiori we surmi)se, wait in ealIlhy throughout the f'tu Es irtishing up itry. L J, (;Ai.[Mi(tiE. P. S' i'otiet~1 results a th' lre very gratifying ide'dk The stewards ~m the iols are due t gre at leal] of ri'llit the efficient fil ite effort put or.i,. alti iit lRegu a r attendahoryc. The fn'iendl¥ reception rth.,r is seed well E. W. so outstanding, given the travelin E tllia,,: Will this be your gift to your organi'tatitll? ni's. fi.~ Ilottin g smloke tIt lt ,I Season's Greetings uiittees. IPur,' aŽ. M tI¥tEL, I . L. I . NO. 697, (GAR' AND IIAMMONI). nik.w lhe union then sent IwI, tel)!esetatitils DenverIt get Ihe case li-fore the eftdrlI bI IIIIrl joh to a non de'nse work starteO . I'fle I -thi giit" tlf i on, Llifr thfre .. (L.ni rI' tl litItu after findldig thal the eomnpany was willing to granti the jl it' i:La[ as per contrat¢ . mail attrpl tctht>is t,, the Nti,dnalW1 ni I; wlih lhe enpard itL're nis Wney. Which year' riprI>acheI fir lheiirl , s the time and II increase ilel i/ wages of 5 per i-e' fIr the >,,nr and :gain for rhe third year. idnik If I h,i' Ih ' Irk iclif'., eo/1 e'Ll tip' w ,r I oer. 4, Wi 'cant to aftc* 1f11 ha! I- s its Ir Iofa I 0L, rocih - gift " f tiff, , .Ion', ftal liy 'well folk, i-1,k ho',, An... "'Thanks for th, kidt rIfl.e..). r:ArleI+ il'' a ~refit feeliii2 to L i'l,' th ma so lptn anIiL hIioouli i', neilredl.' areillil ha ,e.t ot 'iq'el any dtioid that w( atr 3-nl hsjp iil to keep up I .i...rl.he of our fitlg i] /; to rilrlw li s bv these Fitrt hIll h'lpihlt .,is tnto L l 7A' ]l prpaa l ae r lu r atssistai with Lt.. lgain it tlke~ c L. U. NO. 791. CIIICAGO, ILL. AIbto: Grreetitgs. Thu rsday, August 26. edic i iate plaqut it s.r. ice e in 19 ,otr f local hon or of our felt w melnhers who are at. ounty ill the armed present sewiiag their f this dedica14 i.es. There were i present, a tin. th, mothers of thaie .o.s whom we had e-dui('cia.ly inviteld ti witlits this dedication by the post Ibil ediietio wa eantuhted . froll the Alnerilen Leglon. wha didl a splet did pih. '['hirsay. August 109, 1It4, al our regular me very iportanil Iiee'titi we diseussil s }usiness. The high lWiht if the dilscussion andTrades Labor wifs i h'ttr read fiom the iititil 'if South Ihiragf! A. ;'.of L. request big our ktial to set,]fdelinattes to I meeting of Mlaiial interest arr'al.ged. by a joint legis rport r hli thI h~il, 'ontniitee to, hatl T Sctit ],luc;s, I ,S Senator; Honor l[, inraulc alehi Williat A. Ri ,wan. Inaqlir of Congres., 2nd district, IHli.o.s. atild Iloieorable Fred cord. arid their at . BUdby, on their past i toward organizd laboir' legilatixe tilaet pr train. inludini prire rollba k, subsidies. na Act, the [Ioi6hh bill, the the Smith ( vmf talk ther While X Itinkehl cii! and manai in, lhLlit leIlatlon ] wan( to take this Ilp lnocutllitv t<) state' I ie coiin ittree. hert the ninporttine (if Fo. rir I e Iproth''r tili,, gelroal lhairrilln BIt Railroad,. Chi with) is 1ir, I'hkr...,I if the le il Iat alv''e 'i nitre' iff L call Nr. 794 has been giving a great part of hi, time and enertgy in mee'timg with coInti.itteo. I ro . othi, rail the ,,iimd work fr IffflwalIbsy~n th' so linl whet r tilruld workers in ('heit',u ill aind our voti, g strengtlh 1944 cral, The Joural of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 41G be realized anl whe n we Io to the polls Wi' will have that fifr determination that we are going to defeat o r enemy. For your in fnrrantion, *rr'ailemernts are ecomplote fot a politicai actioni onference in the third eIaiigressinati]l Ilst ilt, Colonial Hall, I43 Wentworth Ave., (I iago. Friday, Octber 22, 1943, 7:30 P. Ml, Another im .. tatt Iue-tion was the resignsaiton of OUi fit.a rnicI l secretary. rother Ia s te h hart{l]> say the loss o, this Brother ti our Isnea I n not be oval uato/. For seven lung )ears y ISr'other Haeus kelt np the good w offrkthis locah giving practi'ally all of hTO time. Our nssoeiaions with hill have mntletId ia friendship ofi uer standing that will it b3eforgotten Ir year, to come, Brother W,lat s mad' foremati on the N, Y. C. lailatl at ist Ruimt ~llet coach yards. (hia.,,, [IL The nlern.lhtr, Here is a I, hLlrum'' f one of out' iln('bers, Pie. Allied Pillow, who wts journeyman wireenu i;t L. I.. Nol 140, Riverside, Cal if., hef,4i'e he began I.. wrk for Uncle Sam. This pshot sa was IOken on Alfred's rent furlough when hi, was elected president,Tothis men we pIr seatled the to> .f shouldering all th tilials anti tri}3ilatinous of our nIlnlbership, itI (Goi.th isa lrott sdidIl i..a aIti hnuhl Ill iale to standri Ip 11,,1 AI 'A inW peweC! Here onl bera and sion nl'uCoinfressinan clrefili l'ngce ixiVrt' when sat inhg the offages various classes of wo,,rki.rs. Mr. Engel tkm's grilt paiMns to give l dletail'd statement in wage for nstkflIed workers as he put it, usmig astrononlical figures. lle averages silie oif the wt- workers' wages sayin that they make from $214 to $2.11 per month. Ie gites a statement fom a Iousewife now linig th. welding torch. 'iTe work is hard. she says, but he fidrs it ..o hadter than her ever <lay hou.ework, still she earns $270 a .... n.th. In one pilant, says M,. Engel, and.] I qIluo, "II took the InInn...s of 25 fliers oni incline uns. These men llr . no ge. tinl frit.. . $t,200 to $8.001 i sear," This Iakes n ie. readiug ard sotunim.s like a lot of more. and no doubt it is. and whIn we real thi,, we begil to compare our wages aonld it inaku ils Jealous and discontentei. We take thnse statements illto Pair nwit sh(ops, show their to our fellow workert-'such liarge sullt, of ,tiey fr uniskilled labor and her, I [iIm a skilled w re and wI Io ]ot earn /early Ihat. aimoiunt. AndI so Ihe tilk goes around. or {mursI stun{! nf It oIntl fall far thin; w, just accept it It it Cae value. believe lihebest way to answe r Mr. EagseI wi/lh be to ask afew questions Mr. 1]ngOl states ini his a 'tike that he haid access to the honk of payroll with tnlulS, wages a."d iircupllimnt. 1. What about the Inook. of the employers and the falIihluts Irofits they art nilking? hous~e, the I'. N, 0. & 2'. P. I call,l if the tr,/ahid' go Ithet, tiaint , eitli be a oided , s$~ing mittaK' hoits delay, if there wit anl electrician present at the time. As I hea,- o th, Elktmtern Lilies there is al rltadi a mlma tr tItt aIIsirned to the pit'Isl rew vwhith t,'y .ll Ightt shoulde an ite, "1nskilled Workers: $214 a Month." by Alblrt and inlpet- }I3I ltat [)0 Jpr cent So nutc.h for this part If the } Inins, read an article i, he Sieptember isgtl, if R ¢de¢r',*I)ipe t, At the lop left corner in small print "Check ithfintion at the sanroe!" In bold print in hearlies it reads as rg hooks, WilhaIt aw has made it ali ..n.. antly deaer to me why our war is ,t tug so much and why inflation is on the tmarlh. The story of intyal t is to he fill ill the payrolls of our wir fatories." The writer of thhin lit l gCoe o,, to 4ttot that he has ertifiled clpies of the acttal payrolls, lI, gives a lIst nf names, wages rird occupa tions welils, drfiHlrs. filers. ast-in , ntilele rnr aLi t,' i lo 1ral in regard . .. chie... ha.Ln rltli I itl th JlIit . h, tous electrical witkIrs I h iTltily aIree with this t'orrerlinilit'ti kit thi: iattttc~ ant iter he 'adid the PD.el ih nothbig let, than~ a roll engraved. Local 79.4, 1. B. E, W. plants interviewing personnel L. U. NO. 85S8, SOMERSET, KY. Editor: It hat been iuite awhilu sitr' thils ltcal ha, suliltitteld any news, but we will tly to be milorefreuerit iil the future, We have hlhl i.ur telal electii.t. rIoll/acing all the old oflicer's Ihut one. W. ,. (t1om'1tlt l-peal No. 7941 wih hi.. the best of lak in his new vocation in life and as a llke (if appreciation for his ever devoted efftrts andI loyalty to this local, the membrstarp roisented Brother Bacus with wrist tatth J. Engei, m embrof (on gross from M! hhitgal,. I have read thfil tittle verO. caefflly fore omamenting ot this artile I wa.ld like to quote a few of the high lights fro.. it: `I IIm a Imelber of the house eki,, Init..I %which looks after War I.earttneitt approprlt' tions. I believe it to ho my duty , nt metI to provide funds fur this war biut tI Ite what isbeing do., wih them, Trr tiilt out why a 30-te, tarnk easts $0.000 ant a 1fI .. gunl Costs $21.(100. I have visited 17 aniswered this to tito hest of my abilit;. I hope I have dhared away SOmIie of the injat. W. S. McLAI, P.S. It s'eems to ie :if this , oul be a filold s'Ie aOritlies to look ilt> uT's lltter, atnti (bI, a little howling in behalf of the Iltell that they are working for, Ar so slmuldi all Id tlmr local mttemtbers Iel, to gItII er a,d trod ottI rqIrl sentatie s itk uoijirn a litth in'.sti. atiri g. May be wi he,,re nit the SoutheIrnear 'tip thi, in the bIl, We have six tea. rs ill the arlnedt fee atld twoI Lf our oldest .i.'l n'(,'s hall retllies , in errlie. Mr. A. E. urns has a sot it, ihl Army, and WV.L Todd ha, at gran.Isoi itl Ihe Air FIrre, ItI1 of lhoa, ,r1 do,ingn gIatlI Oine for dad, J. F. Pihlw, also a member of L. Ill No. 440, took three (lays needed vaeation from his imnporta 'it defenlf,, wtml,. and with the ,it of the family joined Alfred m a ftw days hunting and . ish. im. Pfe. Pillow is witl, the Antlbibia engineers arid he ays his electrical train' rig has been most helpful to hinl in Itis iew work. our 'ciii hotaT IH N[: [ wonder if Mr. Eliige, had 4cerI their }3ooks? 3. Why dlues not Mr. Ergel stale the profits of tls'e c.i..apnles along side fith' wages of the workers. for we would like t, compare theml 4. Why (Ion't Alr, EligI of man give he iiulhe, hours of thotse xorkers? 5. Why is it thla a congressman t and it mtem,,ber of the house .attti...ittee* which lo.ks after W ar Iepalrtleiit apraiIri ots iv ii detailed statermerit of wages of war workers 'ithout stating the profits of the emplayers for whom they work? Think those i ies.a iosdrawver and yiur twit con clu sons. It is not my i'tention to challenge Mi. ingel's figures, IuMfi it to say that I til int dlined to believe there is another rret.tt. hI' hind it all, While MrI Etgel is Ih,,ld, CI rned abLI iitnlilttian. I notice he fails to lentian the high salaries if pr and ,,idens vice .residents, of tIhIose ,I..n.u.ieits who ]r*, w fnit $80,000 tam $00,0ll)0 a vear, not to mtention the preerte'l oldetsh arn foek there are nltany of thon,. I Ouppore that fill nolhlt[ii, to rio with tle cause if inflation. I wish I hal the tile and space'' t)o go into detail on this tItterl 'ul I will hay,. til eaIt.elude whit lhis cIos'ii,1' s a. l n......m lI W in tust. he In' on,n ' m l tad i11reading such artidles as this, Surely we knlow ft-nl Inst experienc that eIIl... vrs ,were vry caiefulin payits their workets high wage, Ili. i, teli recall the lleniy Fords, the Girdlers. the MeC(orticls wheni ie tinkers' }3lend flowed in the streeOs, fI course this was int peac, timie, It is tot sn easy to lismiss this fi'lU our I in ld. I haye P. S. L U7.NO. 921, ELIZABETH, N. J. Edilte: LOeal Un'Mn X,. 921, Ellzabelh, N. whos hif n is cntposed e'ployees <if G.nera. In-trument (Iorpuritiu.t, mtanufacturers of radii noin.unicati.n oqui D intlt .'oildenise]s, ''amirl}3 ins teard from through the medium pages for t (In tittw, MIch ha. transpirdi here, the iver to war riroduea'oIin, the loss of riot h...... rif these ihanging mantty oii .ur stelwart niiimls nhveriil'rs to the railitary firces, arid an outstsanding event, lhi award nIf the A 'ny aoIl Nay r'l" in Jui IeI13, , We hear reg~iIarly f ronil ntu ratrem,,be r' ser'r int I'w it, tIll I.nrta of the worlld. [lappily they are all till i ttrested in 921', pr.i ,'itsS ut' fortti,vr tusiiness nanagyr. I. l O;innill, is a flilng eadet In the Army Air ( orps, and ,,r;Letel B],oard feinl}3er Milhie itwick is It 'ergeant i, the War, S,'gtn Litwick, while hbet.e.il furlough, attelnh' a ...ember½.liplmeetingttf No. 921 an, ait lid't] the meml3ers t, kv,,, thl union strorng TIht award if the Artmy arid Navy "E"Iwas pr-e seatet with el a}e certllies ill the rwin fities Stadium. ElizalIeth. N, .1 rid wia atttendedtr hyv various state dilinitarie's atnd lntertntjt~Mtn Itoh iesenatatioe Willilmin hee wag aui h..r.r.. g.Ld or, the phIOform. it rt'i'ornit ll i ofl h vs i, ntiri t,, i' 's in t cal No. 421. Our labor l,,aagtmenle t rloi.imlttei iI ftll'. tiimlng full bla t attd is responsible for iiall, ilprovetl..nts it, thI factory. Our tew a...ree t mleltt with Iht I tIi...ali,. aftei lo. . g a. arduous tiegelt iotitiS, was fin,/Ily sig.n.T on March 12, 1943, In het rrt.oative to Feobmry. 1943 Vnfortil n.lly %,e are still iirtitn/g NOVEMBER, 1943 decision oil wages fror 4Al the W[il. T..lay Movies for War Plants of iovet.l i. el.t with ard we huIge yet t~ .ea..I labor has a cl/iglionelri'ti}t lbiar.ls Io diea at fniy iabor hI..ard cairie iletion taking ITrec new movies are now availahle for exhibition in war plants. They are: "December 7th." "The Life and Death of the Hornet'. ad "The Navy Flits O(.' Get then, 'OlI In r.iaIdu.st [nentive Division, Navy D(!part,.nt, Washington, Dl.C. "I)eember 7th" shows the events Icad ing up to the Japanese sn.eak attack on Pmarl Hiarbor and shows the dest ru I wrought at the bas,. Good documentary. "The Life and heath of the opi-ret" i the complete fl,m story of the Shalghi La flom, whole, Maij. el Jimrie D.,ulittle's fliers took ff It.mp .o..hu Tokio. Filh shows her sinking to,. "The Navy Flies On" traces the dra,tnti, historyef the NaVYysair am Lots pront and[ Ill Our rie.otiatitins .. r IT new agreeme.ont and icllilased wages wlrl toulh as usual, hut [Iternational teirresntative Bill jeedie ~,ifgdt was always there when the wa. teugh e .t, a tid tilh m em ers oIf No,. )21 lie ¥ , as t',oretary of State ef Ne aidh, Jaseph Jersey the Honir Brophy said at; ohe Army arid presenttatirii, "Bill Navy ,E" [teelie i uf Oi the u trndinfl I,-t ifrl.r ...... IIllar le[ era" ltnfl the eola ..oe..s' g.ir, ruiuT .t, p ieaotts are testiib...itt t hhi' lpternailtuluuail Signing off 'ti ne'IL P, I A. MT, uIm L. U. NO. 980, NORFOLK. VA Editor: Labor i or on the or, pon .r'''etl hy the N. folk ( airti'Ml i bla or I m of plant picturoes. ai program ill hueheNt~d ,tvr 3 Siuriay eve ring, at :lit) l'.i AL [. v !]I A, I,,f . kt h l in this lruiiitx iil fuprin . .. the paiubii aI.. The corpnanies' r(ltiniu somnte of the goot things that la[or nui IalltS ,o doif, things that crtami cot uoniits ser Tue er oi hheard of. 'the lill Ie [la.,i oier llation &.SAF' at PortsrIoruth. \ a. Oiii ron-tract tiegefii/t1niiO hallye rogressed eer niely, but due to .thor lressing bhi nos they hail It, be nhIsernI.tintield [,r two wee-ks JIoli~ver. uii, hope to telte Ihlrt fit O(tober I. e ar all II x uios t.o hugiri ,.o,-kitg urnler a Teal I. II O W IIVriraI t thoerhr Preston froet h] aihllllrn t irill Oficee is essltins Ilepresenitative Reilly and t they are dut,i,rg Wie re.ret bite job i d-d t o repitut r Ilother Stol wat r1ecently uiijiillj e oni the job. At jtleleat he ix still confined h, hi, fore. jut xte htile thut hi ,ill fooi t tlehh he to return, t hi, jb. Atei hilve su t,r i Id.i terrih , dila-ler hire ,ince otr last report. CO September 17. a nIuimber or depth Chilti*i expided ]t the ~aj] opratpngz base ueirunh, h'iig a hangar anlo se¥ira hL iiplitl ih i eixpllol io, klled 14 27 pcerons anod ijlred aboult others, A ....... er <if the viil Ti- '.ile 'till in a critical condition. The Nn, gave high praise for {th quick inobil~iatio; of nll e7~lpgelue 'Igauitatii>ns. Thus i, the ,orst disaster her, situe the lurnbug of he ii-ship R lIIc in h, 20¥, Gro;ss that i- etli;]ugh tip n.Driur (or 11iw. HA(K TIlE AITA( K 1uys. Wi ;ire raIsiri q[iota olr hill HI C. I lOPAIND, H f L. 1. NO. 1001. WlLKES-BAlRRE, PA. reap ljrt E do , A tih pa.,t teverail 3eari th, I full3 .]iti N Lt f[li realize the Tiot Oiioa scribe lhad w~ishul tiitn h im , N (e¥eri el o h(Is. ;Lu 1il ul iuulel s~ e l ]the . the .haiireian of the pe ,,nsa Ivuutjia Sqtate As precarious firlst altenl. t lo fill thli, s Si O]/l,,eiitA ii K,-st of ni yahuilit> if space will iei it. Ddleguta s te thi i'ii sx1,ivanil State AS,. lily tih e-iotin deirivedl of [le2tor ical WV lwkers tuijo i rel lintd m uch lu ueteit f tultu Ja rul' ;Ihrl Htet-t ogr htehl in lhe lity uuf ;rril ,urg,.Pi., Slitt.. ld f13. lt4: Do, to arrol ru uIenls 1ait(I. will Mr. KeIu oh liie WVar PiriaNee {>liiiTil tee of D1enul v uinlit a mssu rift(,i tuith I hb. C TerS wV D)epart iiOeI if the Unitel SItte, M1, Laimeni. reil ils ti/ [ative itf tih ItIo ,l I ('uu hirt v I I...iittee., %as lelepi uel h, spiouik to the nIuPln hui of the ssaeii... ui... e arer rrtiui the lli'ud IB.undil D ri e. She ga . s t.. ry ]nsptriii ilire~s, supplied lit'riitLr arid .. very uly outtie ilmumrt:nt. of the sup..irt expectedl of ]auor. She lsktrli eald, delegali I..nutel WEAis YOUR SERVU'E STAlR 'The hbove emim , nl .desiguud for I B. E. WV. ,,I[nh.s hauing nnu1l,,'s of their family ill the servie, lair maplt i plastic. with celhfloid lapel buto[,. and IoI otr woln(.ri I.t(..n..('ils thets' ik 2p u-dilary pin auituieheul, fol faslutifluig to the grtamet, 'The sel'city oif netals for ~ar uses has madeit necessary to itOi£ttctuie the I..ltle... .I the abov. .iateijals. We 'an Inish them %ithout, I t or hrfee stars. andltlh price of tin em.blem, is Ith .ents. 1tt carr. her nIes'utz Jo rt IIIII nIuII. I I ies Ilruth.r P. ric I . ¥arious totals li IaII of the Internattifonp .eehnitg this ruted the srit onupldium d iealy :uf ttumle' d eI iii to lbi Iti i I up ,d' thu stuate ]i1it erulnl~tonal T.i hpl -tdeui W,alkel ad, l,, lhe ,euul'l],{,is anti p ointed o ut the miilatl ]zn'[lc-rri ct~ufr.iialnk the eIPetrlca ttuiuke lS amd the ui;. ? c]la itiges anuticipaite d after the war Ia m].i I he uItirrt-ei~e)le ola{ilk'tiuonm with the gr[ti' ;.s...a.ti'ln wa diu lscu[,d eialilg with egi s- Ifative 'm atliers anti mtiy i other uesti m s ltiut rtiueH iu z th e vlcutm-irh M w umrke'r< hiole ireely 4]m oies .. til v ffto, lttl fims I Iit , ro utf ionting th uli, I ca"s a nd uIsua lly 0t1eh s, one h elpful] .al'ie. (roun umher d~ e $fates, whoci have pleah t will, ,...tilmih ,rhilohs. .UPgH'ut A feW if tOle oetutlf alre is ollrows A Wages hrouvht to tslalludaril bhalu file. It Ant djustahle .slidio, waiie scale on the uiul) nt iient of le w eivpi i} e(. Of as5~. M. FmOOr, 1'. S%. Cati C... Ipointed to lonk after thee- differenee~. C All ;11ut highly o1 pwer neau O lectric Lighl, aid letireau Trans.n.s lui, C'..) appoinied their committee to meet our iownictmiitttee to discuis the s mat,ve etsr lhlugh these, n.e..itlat lori ao agree eiont ,as drawn up ir'a[ sfueuh jointly by both criirudttees anl pIrost'trald to the NIltilala Wir- LEabor ]oairl on July 27, 1913, This was ratifiled ly rite War Lahor Itoarti oIn SepTember II. 1943. a... thI agreemnits Aire IlOw iI the harids of the toilipalt. i}i.T they ire now orking ol it Iso that we will eecleoi our new rate it* the first hee-k it October with the itirfeise retroactive frolit the Igt of Aprtl, 143. There are -tiIl a fe. mainordetails to be ironed out, but Ioutliutte.s hatve been ah CoSt of livuinge l it HIolidiays wilh beelnl griltod beui e. it ii No ol verti s Id jmy , ln..eS made a bert lilmi staph none for had I, pe tlnt. ree I ;Inluh] like to, itt l[ here that a great leal of credit *holuhl l tei ... to uniI ,,lli c -e mind coui u3ttte rs t-l theilr iu utl rirug il> n olir phehlf, aI[ also it, toi the fact thai Iu1rhial relalu us hIehy.Ie.. the eOImpiottl JuTl1 o lu O l-1l otlo s I-iI. ntaiiu I ]nai thIr tigh ouu the wholi hu, t i Irul 'it-,gs. I oitiIi U ly rI veu It. he er o pqe 'ltive In those ... .. got i. Ut A letter. as rill ,iv l frlnil A.l I N, II SOTL. .. I eTurl- iteilt I nd l.ene.a.I alti agor of ihe (Gatit-alot Tit"we Cu, expresshi his gratiica toi of the mannler in which all L. I. NO. 1039. lit LL, QJUB. lousin.ess w.as e.rried .utIt. mildt he eIll ordil )elaliollf, kb hi h .i.s.I, ollIioiled that the' lEh : iti,first .ontrihitiutio of W."lI eOntinue. iPWS from thi scti'p £ifthe IL B. E. W, O.Ri. . M. INCLATR, 1'. S irt-giusigt~ iu i, h.t. it h mlmr to he has g. .o.I ,,ews hupt' s fOi- s this lot.al is (lertetd. anud w( tim ontiituc writing items for the, tI s-tart 6I0L. umr locai was or[r oiund the first pTit of 1943 anii um,,eha uit r ,va-,grantLd1 on l¥eli ntTy 27. lIast WelH l~ilvlzd Siiae bhentour offleer.s ice-re ulitel.e[ exeeuitivt;O lS ov{ fOt-ic-le , and lhr various shoph stt'w turus ,jlq~u~iifllc l, In, tlil f ollow ing niu iuths the puresihlerut aiuiu e, uimj.ivti¥ Cn til~ittee have gil-ni mullehof their utwu .1tinl in~ orderl to (irmuw pip a wage~shcmhedtle aituu butter workiitg emSlith ai fo]. al t ts. L. U. NO. 1067, WARREN, 01110 l'diftr: Hello, everyk...ly. HeIre we ,]re sufain, Local Nti. 1067. W.arrenu, Ohio., lIlc phoi.i. o]}erLttllrk We are gZetting runtl (hri~shTm~i bouxes ready rtiiTthe I.. thhse same s last year. with plrizJes for theI ust.rigrinal arid Itest paicked hoxus $O.I'I tirst prize, $3.01] .9etniid prize, $2. third T prize. 'hese lire b fir oth overseas aio U.. I. A. boxes. hin delegales to tMHmal,.e Jnvehti, it (tinnllt~uhs were Mi ssj Jan John ston. oulr The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operalors 418 a Lens, fihat ,i nj7ed labor of the IllJnid ttitt[ has enphas~ied again and again I h'oirfII the ofliecal poral.n........ Ill (,1 the (oni\ Liti, ln f o.r.. ... igt.iZati"or. Ilhis ih the tduth that otitjztid hl ... tI hust iV{o by, if it ib to [i¥1. it all, Jl', romt dictatorial runil... This is am: of view wherevr we inay go. J 1,greetings to nt.y I1 in1,IebeI. lhl A,.er 1Pan . .eder ,ioni oii I Lif ando dl[ij..Asll to Presiden~'t 'i ilIliait t.,eet hid my i ,hd A, have tcLtne&l to Ma\ hi Salhth . - I president, and Miss Sally Parks, a Iong diftanee supervisor. WI are planning to entertain the from Camp Reynolds, (eenville,. P. whirh is a training center near here,. We raised over $1,627 in Iln a.. for Pie Third War Loan Drive. Will have more to write about t Il Ime u Yours for virt~iry son,~l VADA T. LALLY. i. S L. U. NO. 1214, MANDAN-BISM ARCK, NORTH DAKOTA Editor: It seeIs that Presidet Curt Due ain of Local 1214 (Mandan- Bimarekn is the owner of a steam roller. Perhlmp~s the reade rs are Indnlering wh.t a steam roller i ldoing in the ranks of the I,. I. E W.' It's a long story, but we will try to condneot t, steam-roller is tot the hi l used to pack pavement or roadbeds, lJut ihe kinl used to make some poor Brother the goat when it conIes to paying the check. (Perhaps we ,h.uld get Brother Chernich to epaini.i When, we hav a new 'nenIber all sinied up. we have a steak feed bI .ur tit .e.thlig thereafter. This is where the steam-roller comes in. It takes ear. of the ititiation and the check. The same method wat tHrId on Brother laosn aind yours truly for a fish dinner after we retturne fron our vacation to the lakes. It looked e though it had filfleId an Brother C(ur had a saIvage coIlector giv him an estimate on the contraption. How ever, we did give them the fish feel.and a very nice one at that, hut not until another Brother promisen a pheasant feast luring hunting season. (By the way. Brother Curl had to have his jaw reaet, It dropped a f.nt when he saw the fish.) Perhaps we can give out aime 'ery good news in the not-too-distant future. We liave several ]itt]e matters in the fire that should materialize very so One .n. of them night be new contracts. BDo K¥iLnansTAn, P, S BROWN'S BROADCAST CEMENTS SOUTH AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP (Contintud firon page 391 geailnst the brutal nazism, aind against the corruption If fascism. In the lands of .. r enemies, there is no genulin/e trade union movemnen, This is l,~! :le pI IelI nf d E]gii, mei Mtr. Pit.p52 Sinti@UUr arriItI [ltnIl] we if the North Ameroic an Paluu dlg:.. hInu been. dmeeply mIold by the wariir hi i eaIl of the offii r and nii tei y o, fIII Itihelil Idmr neveineatt anid eIpt iuht by thnse knndaems es that have /een sin graciously extended to us by its willPig leader, Blerinards larez These nittelatansI hile heaped upIn u6 aI idiv iduaIs. do xIt tuop IIn. They ynbotize the Sn eept rind rIzetad liJd by 'iIe Chilet I' Wyorkers for their fellow workers in North A.neria. VhenlreInident Dfavid ]. Rlb,n.,i... of the Birotherhod of Lp.oa.na.tive lre andi Elnginel en. akelaIe to repreIInt him it thl nission of gaodw.ill he was partieularly keen that I lear., mnt-ihing If the railroad organization here in South Ameriea. You L~ill be interested to knu, hat the oldest cont. i.ns trald uiints in I hils. like those of the United States, are thbI> of the railroad workers, the en gi ers. ire inen, and apprentices of such grnuip hai, fsirst organized so ite $4 years ng,.o, around the y'ear 1889. Si[1ce rIFnlin here. I have had the pleasure of riding in the casl of steam, electric and Diee Ioeomo lies to attend meetings of railroad wInrera and to fraternize with tilen, generallty. arid here I find among this grou thsil me eonir~adeship that railroad .ten i.lI slhaFS with one another, The labor organization whih it i isy pliluzeK~ to represent has for lila'ly veliS lbeen concerned in the welfare .f wi,rkras in nier Coatres, arid ith iourlley ill nihih I am new participating with the lenders of the A. F. of I.. and C. I. 0 is 1he latest vidiene of our traditional into rest e--l vel opinig a broader nude rstanudi Hg amontii i all /rniteirs of all countries. 'resnl,hgt Robertson had this in mind whet he appointed rne In serve as a member of the ilabor eIegatiot now touring the great SouIth Ame wian lepntlie af Chile. ie alan haid Ii: mind tbat as itien's and workers, organized labor has a stake uteiiiqoraey i,1 ahto ale /a n-i', I kld il.'f gri'td Ie It.r tSI, .. U[' ad ox Iure'. t .IilaLS the uit et' ii I ' li to, L n'i I .. grerit .S naiidy ''aihte', b~uni, Lg ntl~er northernJ stanhhni,i I ilt ii tooirul,'k, Itlte p}ltiiu. ii ila itha , laity lo/a!Npe'd ronnun~atut.I' IoIhng hills, nvineial dlro*t', its Ii;theri land af LakIes, nuagllicen hillbi,> inhliJt nIl tCities but of eourse, Ino thi erI~ Aan'na ~ glII (,i agi"r~l, trlaveler %I,elll hein [Jonic, IUIt, whether ['e..l ~id ,,a~ll. oI ifwln,]l,~land.i, ~M ~,. Philip, political aind iunjust ra]t itwllar to Ui alit resem. Inlle in inter-Americas, cooperattion. anid Ilit interest iur [in]ringing IthPnlleles 4f North, C'ental. and South AIerica yn,, lioety together is an andortnk rin worthy oif 'he constai and untirinig etaruIs arid o tinuou consideration or all e,,neerte,..I and! thiron! It) this process, it i. irseeitablt that abor of the western hemisphere will .i.. effeetivdy contribute tOU h, prgiil tll wan etrrolt and more fully' ilevehltl titerAt.,.riran reb l ins. Anpn, , Ici':Arid n.. w the third i adel(' of the U S libtr detegatinn, Mr. Diavid Mel)orind Jf tIhe of Iaeiess industrial Ir 31, ' ,tl)~...rald: The lirtt imptn...i. I "ived ef 'hi!e was that the peullIe are lill those aIf the United States iti nIlarny respeet,. tatluieolty their '!b~igii i' ntrigin, ale thI I anIe Ia, r Their cinlec hiabits of work, art, archItecture nspirtIItons I forit better economic life, aid des ro too litallly i..lnemnt their tie and itell.oened 'The wraith, of ('bile ia still iaupped. It's a It,[d of the future Much relnauns to hle (lone. The people with w hinn,, I Inl crie I eontact look foruxard to the day "hni their h nt-iliries and resuure's wit [i dLerlcptria ia point where Chile will In' outsrai~taindl r~anriufaeturing nation. Ihey uidnire the indiusrial enterprise ,if the United State about it. iand Io Iol hellto eii ask The working men aInd women ofI l enjoy the hlneflt antid protection of 'tr, labor uninl wIhich ()perate In, a denoIrntie fahion. TheI, organjiztioss have stealfast Iy aJdvaned Idecause oifthe All ied Nt, int They have fi resworn strikes for the dluttinn of the war, as organized labor has d..... in the Untied States,. The .i..n OintheI reel out Irakien la ifindlIp hi, fIr tIne Ulnited tates Al every meeting which I h,,e tenlId the, ere mention Of the,ehit'IleiftS of the ie.ipje of the IJitd Stales on the fishirli and productin" f hnn rnught dnl.n tile house. The ChilI.., feels and knows thet this is his war, this wIar of free II n ii the defese of their fr.ed,,*11 -a sI ru~rth .f free men who will staiy [let These lecluratiun and erptions are ntalchenl nil pIrson by rankinv omciais of the ,Ioerrcii. lhe A.m.. at. I Navy. "blhal caIl we to b, he 1ll you win the war?' i the qusenWt I hear froli countless siftSl ,I And the a.s..er . s: prod]ue the raw material, ineriaset yulr production, and rintinn your strt, gth it us and for us. And ho.l U, II natin thu ti togethr? I ha Ieni hinnry made i, Mie, Sehene<" tadl', and Pittshtrgh by members of nor union, hntatht iy Mr. Philip Murra, now utilized efficienitly for the moIh.r, rrieessng orf vital for our war effort. lteris I fervently htpe lhat down hrn . h the years Ittl ititlial ,anifestatioi of friend' ahilp will result in a practie a irnrnvneit If the b fe f the people of all AA .e rica ot,rnh he proper utilization oif the re oilurres of a C(rdi-hessed henIlTnhere, Annn,,n...' IYn. havp j11n[ herr,, f'in..t the U. S. lahor delegation who art 'kiting Santingo. Chile. Labor . f. r.... ma m ChiP. ..o..d*.as 1 onni 1 MW,,(r*{I Vefulor'A IOthe /Ict'nird sftten, F, blhfi, A agt s S0. 1913, 6 :?;5. Str: p. II.. EW..T. MA N P0 WE K r('1i utied from. page t8) ltnoders of organized labor, hoi,,a , put'n f'r,..d a different vie.. They Iontended that the present Ailnationi Droves ha, r was right when early this year it warned that thh army idas .lanington large a military force and that production would suffer. ie Bark ini Maich, the A. F. if L. tee' that a 11,20(h000-man army, insisted p,, by the "brtss hats," .ould "strip industry of skilled workers.'" The Fede rabi I. I 419 NOVEMBER, 1943 .Is that, with America servi,r eonteIdll ll] f ]emit' llJ yev ,it W,as lst' ;ill g arse rtni tiilgenl ittaint~aifl tO at] trial force: than bulild itn tad{,qtuate al miy. to the, lUSTIFY WAIRNIN(; EVENTS aW., of Ih~ M aIry Presidetntl Older of Ritilway Cr..u.tors, who is it lel/inber, if Ihn labo.-ntatl eTlllenlt IoicIiy ~ m COnam ittet(I, the'l~ ¶aTI])o e ('nmt s Lt... lab..l htve p[lov.II ohhlared that "tvettS ill wir' ing gaainat tI), lalir 'r)[(t!i c Wa m; ;titilital}[oee now 'W, situation that tilp sCacI kilbol tlh, ;gainsa Iall.,.Y, pe fiieted rnclusiqn hIhl IIIIIshe s'Iv, s she, II p aal,!i(' rIF~ O thlia t, lXahf~t r(][lkl %t~rItILhI h , fltIols brire I, h icl [ lt I,(Sl; lect-i l bIy ilii taiati [i UtI .l,*ill I, ,It ~ PItLIWt¥ill , g VIeItl[ l t Lhir II, ,, T I ~ , t D r IT lIJl $g I 1 ll h Iclnes I * SLOWLI A. T. & Ti.Toi.Ls ARE WIHITTLEl) LOCAl. I'NIN SE'S lE$EAtRIl ! I l T'( Cal lar ,, Ih Thie ( a,lox IItrrt zr~ ...I Navy, st I.leat moiizii :1ii ;~tty t(s , la-avet aIlr few weih l to i..le F , bu'or .r.li i n the al-eltal If F piint ed Iut- hiul rI, ,I/eI hr, [Mther olu ~ ~ I " II I / tI,,i lb,e it1 I%, ] . IIarieIi : ir vI taeF.lII1 e vI Ig jusi ll I ~ I I, in I I w IaI e Three so[,hLz il' darLI inlulhs. sxee ivel]y Ill/g( n I ,l h "Il ih l tlt;lfeileiees pr Iite. . two i ivantjages, while the shipb ulibl 1ng ' tructhi i (a , scale ish, lss than theI (.o.ist. fill nwe'halitsc ides the nlecessltr it pr the 'hi pyl .ds which soreiy need ithe enea llt'atind t ri- gilsthe coristyttetion 'I'd, s ... t±elV -lttle, w lltb tie eVQh et tI..[. TIv¥sh' i tSLf hlhl .. Lolt I t ,ie tttXes all of es. to a,it-t irail Ilii that got to~ winningr the wvar. I wish to take this opportunlity to i trail Iocals thank Ill if the si.t, r iP h1ol,-hea, ttal nie nb,'rs Yfot their [;pa If thl o polt ill helping us io gtl.ih t!I k ull .. I eo..ijl if'd ciIll Wvar pre(lg a bh sh...ttt 1,s lhibl, ti' lli, ;lad mel'er iii I1 alek futtit' tlineab we 1 if at ,ot,( U ) I il , itlpplying assist a iliwl il YN1t oe-bll, work, or weok Fill ~ oL1r' ' ac I to ea.t alyVkys beliebve willinK to gladly gixe that asMttaice. TIlE YANIKS ARE ('O1I> niLaedI frt rI1 (i a(;nttiluec 3,11I l ('om }it satinl Is 0 111t11tLiieatit ( Federal ate vt ve inttt whieh IlaS. jtrisdicti ti rates only, Tlh coImltissiiFT inisted thalt ttS sh ath]d Inthe earitinlS. froI "'tI , considered hy themselves teg;..dl-e of hielri td As< ite earniilgs ;td , over-all eoc r nsitllred. th 3 prollucti wh that. e a i'eturn grret-tter than t'oalhl h{ j- il~ t *The rtdti&reirs il rates w kelea re to by the c(..pany becausel f this Do'si tio,, of the commessotin, which the ep], is unsouli under p ev pajny bi .s Mlti(ah the minlussiont coM(-/,,fition Isl.. siderell is within its discrttion; aliid bcau.se the c(inpany felt it imPlortilnt tf have thle rate proe.efdiig di eontiniua so> that it .coldget ..t. with the btmiltlt of helping wtin the wa," It is interesting to 1i..ot il.rilv t. e altopted by the Iwi llp, qutatcll roasotlinl I r ill w'hic h This illustrate' the l irlrrIt',h Bell nladslctrJruttes all of hir s;±t*l lilte t )I , palries aed how the d)Itines ]aid dl, the healds of the systI'em atre ftlowetd ilight (dnw11iith 1 in, Abother sgficeant filat wiat arila-1iA ie atnlllyzinCg the. rejllrts rif lhee rate r.,tirt, ,e s.I1 lase,all cases the rasiduciras lion o -lered liet...Li.. the (.oll/ rlsSion, felt 0hai the profilts thinh the c......rluie w ere e(arn ing could Int i! j3usti.Ird. Andil in almal, , tele phrI},Tc o11htrar[I(s the jnsltjric lery e inestigtatimts which 'u-re irlstitultet cnouin I 'rt nut if the~ (tLS true dr *ietttt .It il. l... kof he L t l l v e l- hy Il T is a ,t tiht lb 'n. li ure ielsart ti:t-ll th i-r-stI'(-l in rat, t, wxh[i itlxestij1:t dhtI. r., I D]sillg the 5 I. Id h lt eori1vra,-t~le that 1reablictiori irt tatle}~ii~lI 1 4 d to aI ae]cIrata I llI-tr/ r dio rates 'v ilId A. lt hadl <o pan ', ;I'milities a.lqltJ ,.h{lle th, e ,L~;i, r the Ibo14 int t, t h . Iv ertaxI.d ,ere pa tl pl]i hi a sy siat, i1 sar y - to Ilo ng dhist1 .l.e .rcils. Itow ivar, ItASIS FOIR I)O%%N It p rin ril jes t ... wd h -n t .l.rita]lr atlhtal 'ilth IIh11is$1oill auIsis~tII oa I]ol In~to the, I'rliltts of ,vtstigratlall PL;INNINt; 1 a , 391 ,,Cl i here business other i tlrs plitav doing that wals ullnhblid Cf befole the wi,. 'I'hel, h('eatise ol* itilllr coast city ~vith hiewar .lougrhft fe.sinai. boat )ads,. a us other things to think Illut, and with f the the Navy taking o..r many la't. ,ltir boat y;Ids fishing boati, oni the took oiu aIt w Civeta li I,. ( ur t0 re. .... ll. two -lfroml that had amploed len boat v t elecricians now have h yun 10 to threy t 15 nl(,, in the smiaIlh-st, to oveI 00 largest. All 1old s0enthilg like in the 300 men. are n1. . ItrLillg in thie sill) ~lleke({ly i l lIne, th,', ' na aCRlnnl IthI Ille ve VIIry t a-c other,h uth [ f C] helo. The fact is. that tilt eon of (ve for libh-ltv hlo, I llld these Iraolle inrescap:lhly together f, 2010 1111{7 lb(t bolel] i cml teds. 3'ears. grr alti Itl st1O Ten~(,l khalt e ver. for very n olT b...I.l idrlut rv. ya it The QiIc lett ship .a.d is -ather .... qt of irl that th*y are btibllin narges tIld eone ete I'll Iu} lannelwd ]i1, ha.. this tint. Soeni of these, barges hav' made no'e than o.i.. [rip to the: /hal' it the Slohnns. loaded jilt theate oil, and have prIIveI vely satisfatoly eonre"te Iln for this type of .,rrk. shipyari hlte, il tile otnly yaris building COncretXe shills or bargzes that did llot hta~e nirilitie eortrl lct eaI.e. l n]iI ]:ls their mon t hwheI. big <teel agreed to fuI-aisb steel for boats, and the concIete slhily-ad will finish its ¢ rignid;a eotraut for 22 Ibargze s. IiE( (RI) WORK c 'RDS PERO(RICESS lotis ;'nal Air In hltitt ilng back liver rt erd Siuie I1:3/. x; hen we startU u lthe l'tifying l nlote work eI..ls, it is Ir'l Iur. p lgr-tass affid had we not baelln iHig the stalistfia]calfis it wonli be i..t.sess ali while a siblh to note this flIrg fil, il, 1 dit i ..... t if .... g1e £ IIailly s.I....iIdi the> xCk (airds , 1ra)t see( tit yillr,iha .l .'ialssilKy [ll* tmlpl ing li' w e h a'~ a reay I fi1 hed <tlsfne/tct-y 3,ly )I's e.ifb fltetI, l Ih A r. &I' sIootI P1111 lines .. I ItilI,,rat¥ ig <I t t r, ailsl, iril r all a reIhr]]l irl eella ti"1 t,1 th il Ive btigrttitII i tia i n li Ia dI']aarlt nlae,t ,;laa h 'I [,l 1, of A . 1'. I l ' 1 hI)TIt l 111 ,ll IItl tesI h l "IeIa ts1ltl E I t , l ll graph wi res;s wveil as Iha [,a-s ing r)F bit ite tt*yile It] Il alC v rietlilla , [, lilt<1 it, jol. i d rl r c e e in g iln th e ir'v - -tt g tin he dlys h ir vei t tg r'e s ll d llorl'n t lv thent buildihg ships, enid h keep wa hl tvr YIt1 ,ili shilya dal, that 'vary olStU.l..iO.. ]s )IILII' Ci ii Na T IIi, 'nn LocaIll Newt N 4 *- laat, tlh JIlt It The' ia]y essen[]i;i Adfil vs Nld Adlb ss til lit IF tv au ty t"fl y ~ i, a h Ir"ttI We IIi lht 1%. ;Iat worked] ; LI i ri c tsir]e El 1,N li t ilt, W e ktiant //Itl H . avd UiT ,ib-er-w.Irk do the itar If ,u it thl s;lttsla;.tilllly tli a r e. i n1 nva-ai of 1] l tl, III 11s(0 ilL[i' kte p itas ib ie, wh cn s1 l eic r](1 to k-pI wtlr a:. 4i* Inte i'l i.lall Iraathlrhlai..d I(f Il tie-al \V'SrlterN 1200 ]f5h S[., N. XV, WOl'k gling that is ],,aeOssly.. lhis Ihs 1 420 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators BIROTIHEIRHOOD VOTES TO AID MILITARY MEMBERSHIP Conttnued from page 402) carried, that the applications of the aforementioned mlleu.er: be appruved, and that the 1nmes of these applicants be Ipl n.ed ii pon the pension roll, and that their pension payments arc to begin when the applicant shall have filled out itnd filed with the International Siecretary the sptecial withdrawal card which is to hr Stlit hi... by the International Secretary. The appcitiamn tf Charles Hagerl.nal, I. O. memnber. flo a change in his age Iecrrld, a.grianted: his requested c..anIge leink supporltd by written evidence Ihich substantiates his claim to birth as August 6, 1882. The application of Albert W. Go....odw. L U. No, 58, for international pension was denied because. the applicant hias not established twenty years' cOnti Iuoti staticling in the BROT!IERHOr*. The application for international petn sion of [larry Yeskc, L. U. No. 1147, was denied because of lack of twenty yar "clitntinos standing in the BROTIHtRHtohi. The appeal of William MeQuade, I. U. No. :3, far reinstatenment to good standing as of JaniUary, 1941, aid the ssuanece of a military service card as of the same date (January, 1941), was granted, due to the fart that the evidence proved that the member had complied with all the laws pertaining to military service cards and the payment of dues, but that due to the mialaing of correspondence, which was pIacd in the wrong file, this me, her had been denied his rights under the constitution. William MeQuade's military service card therefore was ordered accepted. The executive council exaaiinied all the wriitte evidence submtted, including lette's under date of Septe..ber 9, 1943, and fLepternher 20, 1943, anti found not.h ing iI this evidence to prove that Furi..in J. Luhigchcr. L. /, No. 18, had conmplied with the B.. T..... H"ODl military m.ryice mabnership laws: therefore his request for inlilitary servic iie.. ersh. was denied. Iht v'videniee presented in the furnl oi tln flfnial reatipt a n correspondencc. in the c:tse of W J. Erert,, L. U. No. 870, showid lhatt the nlnler had complied with til tilies gnvern rB~g he lay nen1t of doues and Thou 1d have been teclared delhituant. The standira, f M. J. Erects in the BiDiTHt;lle0lle wils nidneeld reinsttedlarciis to show no Leed, in atl.ndin, for the period involved in thi, case. The International president, at the of ih executive e council in the J.un. Illn iUt~diiu. mItrde a further investigation of tll et@ f DunickKing, L. - Xci. N -,In an'd sub, alitted n rep.rt if this investivtiation tohe coo,,il, The counch reviewed thisa ISi preiiUS evildence submi tted. In] agreed that the dherisii..n of the Internst.1nal Presidet as renudereid in this eas,, which waIs that il dlecisioni if International Vice President Ingrami as of eblruary I8, 1943. which sts trineil the action of the execntive board if L. U, No, B-P4, wps ,,ade in accorllan.o with the l.w and ix hereby sustained by tle rit The written evid[cie p rese ntad ndr eaunel, pertaining to the eef (hCrleq 1. Sigler, Jr., Card No. 7074GL of -. IT. No,. US. showed that the meilber ha' ompilied with the laws of the ]nterntlional Constitut ion overning his neinhelship, but that dlue to the war -Ircin..stannes h L4a d trige to thea olver whi-h ht, had no centre,, }, 0<, el,,ed his nmeme rshii standing to beclouied; therefore the Ul.in.i. ordered that his st anding [ie 'adte eo ntil'lUll in so far aa the latle involved it this I ase e e aLI airnd neer ed, that he be admitted to military service ... nebership. International S.erets W B ugila replorted that the referendumn .ece..tlv .. the mehiership, rehatil e to itlakhlg Ihe assessment 25 cents per I..n.h ll h(Ine ichll u.ennber flr nilitary nrcrh., Ie' anIId the referendum voted LJ[11 hy Lth nonbeneficial mebers (B 010Tth nrT", ) re tIaiulg the no,-0enefcial n .. a..eer~I[ ,nrrbem>rs ptaiIii nilitr.i service eadts when in ilic iserivie,, as prIerilbed by one con IilutlJn, wlts Ldopted by th, fnliox hw vet': Brufc/it-itr Members' I'otc IIi the 25 cents per nonth military tssessmeit IIi the 25 cents per riaoth aii- .gainst tary assessment 01 22.051 ,Lajority 9,s5an 'on-Bcnefricl 1cfleshcrs Vr,te IFor tlh granting of military service -a tnrtis rs to B mbeblhers Against granting military service ea rid grats to B meabesr, 494 25 Majority ,lag The Intriational Secretary informed the council that he had conplied with the inandate, and will puhlish the result in the offieial Journal had nutilied (see page 4211, the different hloal aud that unions he to thiseffet. with instarutions to place the chiangeb ia effect. The council co...u.rr.d in ' tile t lion of thehlttrnational Socrtary . In onfi,,rntiy with an action tiken by the executive council at the Jalle. 1943iterting. with reference to the Hollywood, aLir.. stuai. liIn the I]nternationa1 Presilkt al.d] the In. ternatolna Secretary made further -ports. whieh were fully reviewed anid further in st ruetios were issued by the council to the Inter, tLonal President. local Miliuti NI. 1914 appiaed fr.n i e dkncsion of the internatuimuil President, as rnedtred under dhate nf May 18. 194., whir in tile local nioJn was denild the- right to ]I.. eha 're a certain piece of property . The eiun Ill. aftel examining al1 the guh,viduncniittd, sustained the [eekii..n of the, Iter nalionWI President. On motion which wa propier-ly . ,lde. seconded andt arried. the lnternatinal See rotary was authorized to open a ,,ec , with the Bank of Nova Seot i inl he city of Wir,nipIg. Manitba. C ranada; thi al.cn.u..t I¢ be il the naitte nf the I. IB. E. W.. and withil'fiwia' l{he miadpe hy checks siged hk th, lnterattininl Secretary of he I., B. ]. W, This atis Ircoto he klnoIn as a ]nsion acc nt. idf ptitg Sitnd 5 toLb uel fir ty iprtie Brrltherhon p ension iau tnt {'ainiitan ieni d mten ers. Local [,nil No. t--30i' t]lir.alill fro.n the drsitun, rif lit...ational Presidlent d ruwn. wherein he granted 11ernLi-,ir ts tilthe Ine he1rs f L. 1],No. B 30o known as inside eeall a] workers,. to transfer their nIenlership, fra 1,. . iN,.B-(t9 to L. T. No. B-274: the lahit.r loal union having recently been chartered to take into itsmemership. inside eletrical workers of L. U. NX, B-10! App eariuf in defense of the appeal ( 1._m tT. Ne. B 31in were B, S. Reid nIl Roy Canerer A/pearlng in defense of the Initerlal ontlh Presldent's decisicn in the case was A. B. 'iichette, L. U. No. B 274. Appeaifr in lefense of the appeal, hut not iepesti.. A, either loral union were . MLlonn nle nd Clhr Fe Fischer, members of U.. No, B-274 The ouncil r viewed the evidece submitted,. i, rinestiotrming the witnesse S,le.ti..iony als giyen by one of the conttendis parties which was nt denied It}y Ih ipposin g ide, and which caused the tetmnit rlequest the International p.rosiiel tt investigate this anrle of the ta/ an{d report back to the exe.u.iv e con Tic at their niex nleeting, when ih coi / will act LIlpi the ase. I'he 1¶41 (St. Loui) con .-entlon law commii,ittee no n-concurred in Ial resolutions erutalnnL.g to the Brotherhood pension aild the E, W, B. A., and instructed the International E*]xecutive Council to la ke il ex,tendled and thorough invstitation of "iath fn(d," and to report to the 1043 .oaven .. in rpostp.inteinl) their findinffs a -I reeinle n ti .S for changes, ig the h,,, I vr',,rrnlin oith the penslea fund and the E, II B. A. funds. bti a, to place both of I hbasis. y.,r council. in o.rijunt .n [nternatlonal Prasheil ~, at suOder with your nternatio,al ar:i Snecretary. has grivn munh [r.ne tonhego]enh lens. iach mea ber hais s''nuhl antd rceived advice from the membhe rship in hi. dstrict, as well as having had the advice of men I, his district w hose life-work has lI{re Iito insurance and pensions. Your lIternntional Secretary has given much of his time to safeluarding these benefits against enero.achiients by state insurance departmtnte (state of Michigan), and he has had Lrare for t the council a full and detailed report of the action of the Insurance Depart r..ut of the State off Michigan, and of the recent cxanuorialn amid report in thn E. W. D, A. by the Insurance Departtent of the Duistrict of Columbia. 7he council. havinIg devted several days to an examination and discussion of thes. reports, concluded a follows: That the International Secretary ia ta insert in the official JOURNAl. the full text of the report of the recent insurance d'part,win] examination under the caption of "Veluation-" That fur ther,he to publish in the ofL fieal JOURNAL the compilationu anild ateril that he furnished the local unions for the use of pensionl connittees: That he prepare and Iuhmlt to the saemhership a referenidum which will have for its purpose the plaing of an assessment cf $1.410 a month per he'lfitiil .'embur this /Isse smeat to be tpplied for the first six ailon his of 11144, bnningi Ta,,unary I, 1944, and ending Junle I0, 1944, and weilnning July 1. 1944, aid cootinuing, thereafter the assesm,,bent to he cut from $ .00a nonth to 50 celts it ]nonth per heneficial mlember; That the $1.00 assessment be divided as follows 70 teieIs to be placed in the pensIon fuill, an i 30 rents to le l/laced in the Fl. W. I. A. fund: and That the 5In ts .c , ssessment ie divided as follows 20 cents to he placed{ sionfund. and t0 entsto F. W. I3. A, fund. in the, pen beplaced in the Beocause the I94g conventlion wals postpkolieIhyouir council, ir, kerpiud, with the reeonlnenLatioit of the law eotimrtttee of the 1941 i't ernatinlal co.ven utn f(iages 2i5 21]¢ of conventio til .. e..edin,), which Wilt, lllpertcd lh, a vote of the eL.nvenhin. sihmilit the alie h.,then....lbership, with or'l r1emiIentlatilon thai it he nadipte'. The comm itteeon auldi ,xeeuive Counoil Mdembers rellier anid Feu... 4 p.r... I that they had examined the aud{t uf the 1. B. E, W, aitd E. W. B, A accounts as stbmlitted to the counc il the y firm f Wayne Kendrick & Conpiny, (Ceriifled Public ACeoni na), ts, and founnd that all accou n ts ehecieked and that the records were ia order. It was novel and seconded, that the report of the committee be approved. Whotion nIaried. The council reviewed the reprts of the council members, of thir activte in their districts since the last meeting. The International President and the Intlr(Continued on page 4231 NOV EM BER, 1943 0#jU;rd-13""fte" ~ni .. .hpbitthe ¢.cel. , .I .. gtll XXIX, sqetar... / If the C~.tslftutfc.. ~oU Thll am2d1 ,l iI lbllIbd b~y th. tBy eCotnc[] aii ,,, Atlal,1, IX, 8o u I I ... Ii A*[ti~21*3 XXIX, s'l'Lb2 II o Ihe(Il~itli, XIV, Soe 8 AlI b1tcibci, i 1nterlblalioaal OInpix 'bliaad l ~fsad a, prbvid~d a,,. hilt mlb1,i fDILI y,"b' Ia*[ mII.....ID A~ll 1il, crlbbt~al Ofblil, I... l)( emer IIIeSrrt. Ii.11 1)c~ ~ ~ ~~I~a .may m,,ke Itch It II Dboll d~ibcls do~ .. ,... ai~al~l~lbollt ,Ilh locy]l la, [eiaiL I.,O~ Ul biell irbbellU Itlch se f., ad 1hall ,iot bb¢ l]2liti.I [oll ~ ,lL~y iy[lZll lOaIllyOll benbfits .,til IDhe,1i reeoAt }ill, l. cax t(rice [}loa hin ,Ablyl At IIIe eiis ... l ittiie 1aubibinl Inifll .. ,,lb~zO []l'y l ..... [ lit,, ill fite m' il~ita i....... iii1 Otil( 'If ([I, L. . 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I~; 14 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operalors JJ F.tI., OVoaer Midland, T&`\1j Aurora, Ill QIasgw. I<v Sa." Diego· (all, Charleston, W. Va Stamford. Cenit, Haverhill Mass Millinicket. MaMne Paducah, K San S~ernarcilno, Coel f Oswego N, Y. BEaunent, T.xa. Indiaflgp01is, hid Eureka, Calif. I IooiBa, Was;h haib ll Ill IIi kjlg ])oi-t Coni,, IMa ttoon, Ill Molnt{ cal Quo, AVtinchester,"ri Milwaukee, Wi.J WHImington N C, Slver City N Mhx. Des Moinsl l owa. San Antonio, Tctas Vynkers. N, V Meadville, Pa, Moaile. Ala. Savallnah, Oa. i~anid Falls Nfd, Akiot a, Or'g, M it ,,, A rl, Astill, Texas Coar field, Pa Wahpeto N. Dak, Mwaukee, Wis, Srma Ont, Michigan City. hid Chicago, Ill, Rnswell, IN, MLX. smn Fvaneico. Calif E iriton, Ohio IHar{chi gen, Toxas St. Joseph, MO. Nehr Lincoln ] [ ntington, W Vii, Gary, ind Lewistown MoiMt. Dfurham,, N. C, Watertown, N. V Sagihaw,. Mich Sheffield. Ala. Montreal. QIe. Wenatchee. WaSh. Middletown, P. Rn:htbond, Inl.d BrIdgepor t. CaoN. Portland, Maine Montrleal, Qe,. San Viego, Calif. Frucscn, Ariz Ely, Nov. Warren, Ohlo Brener~tfln, Wasqh AiexandrJa, La, Olympia. Wash, Moristown, N. Pocatello. Idyhol El Paso, Texas Tulsa, Okh, Otlawa, OIt New Orleans. La. Lowell, Mass, JSmaica, L. L. N. V. Stockton, Calif DonIkirk, N. V. Santa osa,. Cant Dflt il}le, Ill. Iowa City, Iowa Tnrrington, Coan, Champaign, IlL Easton, Pa, Fithiken. N., ., Jackson. Mss, Sh,,,nokin, Pa, S,.nta Cru, Calif. Atlnta, Ga, 1in lrafael, Cali[ GCand Leland. Neo, San Mateo, Calif Omaha, Nelbr Hot Springs, Ark [lute, Moot, Panamla City, FL silvs, Il, M(,,!.ton. N. B. t.ethbridge, Alt, Nwburgh, N, V¥ Parson, Ka.s. ToioiI G t, (in, OnI 'hoen Iv Ariz, {Carlsbad, N. Mex. nor"> ¢Creek. rexas ]Ktne tr, N. Y Thani tn Ohio Alt.,n, I1{, ,lt lake City, UVt, r[ Relao, O©i, M1ie' Cil didon, ChesI¢r, Pr Char lotteville V., lNt rave, Opposed L rcrxjo 4] Bhrnldiklhali Ali~ 7 2 Jerone Ar],. Medforad, Oug, 29 H{UiIlit{lasrin 95 0 Lansting Mieh 64 0 Ilichmond, VI 32 35 Pueblo., (ol, 12 0 Ldafyette, hill FI'flt ROnya Va 11 2 531 24 Boston, M B 675 EDiabeh N IJ 105 0 676 P¢l'saeola Fl 19 4 149 0 677 Cr7itobl, C Z 679 Wit]Ii{j,g. Manl 32 0 V I. 56 0 St Petersburg b,, 183 ColuBiuhis, Ohmi l"I 0 71 2 B-684 Modesto., Cali Ii o 51 685 TlnoominEgiCo 7 } { if. 68" San Frani Casco, al B-688 Ma...field Ohio 32 5 B-690 Mitchell. S .ak 52 0 692 Bay City MNich. 27 I 139 697 Gary. Intd 0 64 698 Besemaer, Ala. 123 112 B-702 West Frankfort, I 0 ii 704 Dflbuque. Iowa 2 5 13705 Lincoln, Nebr 707 HDoyyoke. Mass, 14 2 6 16 709 Liverpool N. S. 19 0 710 Noftharptrl[,, tlh1i s. :1 290 B-71n ChIcago, Ill 7 3 715 MflwaukeeYVWI 12 59 716 Hi[i.tof Texa, 17 4 717 Botton, Mapsl 11 IC 719 Ma cheIter. N. If E195 0 Ir-721 Chata{1ooga, Tent B-723 Ft Wayne hid, 207 0 0 30 724 Albaty, N. Y¥ 73 0 725 TO]ere IaEtt, hid 01 29 726 El Paso. Tex.s Ia. 67 0 728 Ft LauiderdaIle F 13-730 Newark, N J 34 0 731 International Fall 2 Minnt 733 Pasr gotilad, Maiis 80 10 ?34 Nor.folk, Va 52 0 B-739 Columibus, Nebr, 110 0 743 Riea~dI9g. Po 345 0 744 Philadedphia. Pa 2 8 S.745 Dt .. hanii N C 66 0 B-749 La Cr~ose, W[S. 75I p1ll, BlufE, Ark 50 0 0 115 751 Mu±it uou WI, 754 Yanktol, S. Dak 22 0 1 0 N (. 755 Wilnstn.-Sale. 757 Jotiet Ill . 46 0 0 14 758 Glasgow. Men1 0 10 i/-759 Fl TI.a Iderda Pr, Ft 762 Ashtabula Ohl, 15 0 10 14 B-703 Omaha, Nibr. 65 704 Ket,,e, N, H 22 I) B-766 HUron, S. Dlk. B-767 Baton RougeI.la 24 1 3 6 III lalmpell, Moot 24 58 770 Albaiy, N ¥. 14 3 B-773 Windsor, Ot. 41 10 774 Cincinnati Ohio 27 1I 775 Cheyenne. Wldi 44 9 776 Chariesto, S C a, Ga. 779 Col, ...l. 17 A 44 6 780 COIl~baS, Ga. N. Y. i0 0 781 Plldtsbury. 52 8 783 St. POul, MinIs, 784 Ind.anapol.1 Iad. 17 17 B-7B,, Weleetha, 0kba 0 10 B-788 .qSperior, Nebr 790 Jacksonvlflh, Tea; 38 0 209 0 791 Boston, Mass 300 0 794 Chii,,ago. 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Iii, 2 Il theCils [,iJ~tion,li ThilI... amedmet1 L, ~tllbmitedf Py Ili, EYXl~If,, C.lnc,[ as per,, Altill, IX, SIe,'ill, 6 a.d Article XXIX SeetlIII 2 d~the £'ontit~itidn: p-ROpOSlITON: Arli¢{c XV~ SltlO~l I9, All1 f'lall 'llnlmber haiving twc11i, months o~,boc of cllitimlous. Itanddit.g, ,Whd all drafte'd orl ente. ctillr nIlia¥sriIIe shal b, i~/io1d-~i Ppp]JlldtolI$ , the m ber . .... ar.. ric car, L andII OllC desiglay¢,( p k iiI Id th.cad i$, II b, 1ent Id fh,, In,,,[~atilo.I O©fil by thel ffinai~i;al sc tar~ .ofIIthe, ldcl ub, dblh lb",h~t (lay,, -A nolil-Nelfle ... member ] issued stl, a, Iad lhadl, I.O bli' demo~bilized from Ille~cv ilc~ Iimmod~la, Ke ~ t o"Ht pntio... ..Palid card L ud to Wild~ ll, thelS .fnIlc~l oray ~ ,O .. I pla ..... .o f his ,,tthly local nion alie V"Tie IihrtIoa .. ... Ieol, h~al l ii~l~a n 1 s Ilanidi. dilibnl the, pl~bll~I he it in lictill All~e b thel ahOldt Ilh m sham e b.r olf Iall. .mion, excepSidIlIt tba~~evlc crd sI~ll be isltcd to t'll"Ii by 11ldleiernatiln- $ttrct.ry Imimt feiitc Iort', 'I~tnac f ~uh bencfils P(. memberil, aiv srvi ce WIl*.re a Iocal uiolk l de.. I ma~ke provision1 forl the mabdineh0 of loca ftdl,~~ btlil[il~ th(, mem-, PntI .. h.. Ilip.s:,dt ullm[~ ~ ~ ~ s~ luv aid a~il Iihd P.¢ .,I. I...Ib"ft Ill Fd,,o~' Opllloeif H- L~ Loui, MI> B3N~,. Yor1k. 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Alf, Ibilvi~ll!, II] 1 13 13 2 1 B 1 1 I I I 1 2 6 :1 7 1 2I 1 4 1 1 2 1 $3 1 1 1 i 0 1 1 § 0 0 1 1 I 1 2 I I1 21 1 5 CaIlIol, nhim Asb,,y P.rk, N, J 3Jl!T.y City, I, I [illim.911.ad, Al. D(blr iI Mich 0 1 49 Ck eland ON,1o PatrIm." N, J vl]'T,,,, G a W scollsil Illpkl W ,s (!itIici~lfi Fhim 0i!... l~lo, N~ ~ ]'l~I, II II..." fi'l ....... I If, It.'I adj ..;Iled sinIdie lc lI(o11~ .. fti~B lllgo .!o) of k-992 1/-997 }ilit A.igles, W:ElL, NB-10001 Pi, bit 10OH1 Wlilge~Badr, NSl 1100 I,~wenee M."~ NB-100 B-1010, IIIw York, Nl Yf B-1011 B." WI. B-1012 Sl~tffge Hatfor1d, Cmlin NB-1013 NB-1014 Elyera. Ohio Lilt Angele,, Calif. B.23 St, Pa.I, Mid., Cdldv {idld, Fhit -_ }1-48 PortUlad~d, Oe K2idiLd Cit, M,, l{-37 Sald "Lak City Ut, B-Sg Derrol, MIIl~ II. )4l, NB-95, Faorl I Ill bill, Va H.,r "hill, M.,,i hnm, VOTES TO All) mIIrTARY MEMBERS1 Il' All L1. U, B-I1 Al Iet t, I; I , I. M. [VU{SEN Ih}m~ blomw 1), A. M{NNING; til cr Itry. WI holl, orte~][s,sf ; I~~l]~ lb, Anwr{i ,ael(la f ta1, th,$, ttmO fa, II I I i{f, or d1fath hl~y, I,s InI ~he pill aI Ir , i I.... ,~xlnI ; lr l...I fter lh, wai I e l,,4 f;,, Ih, , Op.. ..... .flaIIo,,, of Bilki], Ill ... I}u idg -1,-, ~dl.s far C o.If l1111i, A~l:i,¢,r i I,[ 1 h[ i I, 1{ r s {l t , ' D...I.{,tr y II II{ wd { I/ [h, w"o ,t lll/a~. 1, c n be full I~ 6D][o I} ~} hx ]l i'l~~ i~"I f 7[ vII,[ c ... I[[ p,~,llt, ~ de. i bihh ,,il} pllo i,i jobIs illr preare to moe ,11, b l i n ly swiftly tt , ,ilelittht last fful il th{~, %~a is finlrl prlstenI..Aillla d iem fL Pr, Tlh, S The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators 424 IIHrace A. Turner, 1. Ui. No. 856 aI L:il retie Flyn, m L. U. No. 6 iilur tn'l{d .%lardi 2~, 1~136 WVli/iera A hltg[ty Oild, in His wisdom, has seern lit oLIa i alum ourP ilidist OUr esteemene and "Ot ]i, hItntlwr. La~wrvmin e Flyinr, who has been a tLat aLL lm oal BrBttler of Loeal I1o Nn ILL Ii, Piee OO be it Besolved, That We pay trioute to PI is .n1eo1]l bD epN),JassKg to his tanlily aid illends our sincere $np.lUi:,; and be Il lhlre ResolVied, That a copy of htis rtsoXLutoio be sent o thr L'aiiMI, our Iate leprttled Brothe, . thai tey be spialed in full .,or tile minuts off locaJ Union No. [. arld a copy be senL to l, Electrical Workers' Journal or. puaiicatilyni ind he it falther Resolved. Thit the meibels stand it sileice Lot a,itied of one ilintite and oti1 chat tel drapedp fol 30 days as a tribute to hi1 I'ierinry. J. NUNAN. C. FOSTIN, tt. MADDEN. Sa. Fra.ncico, Calif. Committee J. C. Kiggins, L. U. No. 125 Initiated September L2. 1917 Agah hll, COnic to L. U, No. 12T the sad necessity of Closing its files on a long and use., ful meibershi with the passIng onward of Brother J. C, Kiggals The deep frleildship$ formed over a period of years make stronger tihe bonds ofryrnpatI , and intensify the feeling of mutual loss which we haie with his lOVed . e.. z. O, hearts go out in orrow to thein. The charter of our Local Union shall be draped for,0 days in memory if Brother Jtiggins and a copy of this resaoltion shall be spread upon the minues of pir mreeting Copies also shall be sent to his bereaved fan,ily and to our Journal for tlblkcetion M RU ETZ, ED ARMSTRONG, F. F. RUETER, Portland Oreg0 Committee Reid C. Schultz, L. U. No. 125 Inttitted AUgUSt 28, I930 Anothermember. Brother Held C. Schultz, has pased onlward arid sorrowfully L. t No. 125 clOss the files his of membership record. A true friend and valued member of hi's union, his absence Will be keenly felt. Our fraternal Tyinipat[ly IL vs ended to his beloved ones and we grteve with them as we share his luss, The charter of Local Union No. 225 shall be draped for 30 days and a copy of this tribute to the memory of Brother Schultz shall be Ipread upon the minutes of this meeling. Copies shall also he sent to hiL bereaved faily,. and to our Journal for publication M, <UPETZ. ED ARMVSTRONG. F. F, HUTTER. Portland. Oreg. Committee Henry BrowLworth L. U. N,. 9 Initiated March 14, I9M, i. L. U No. 142 Pilade PaolieehL L. U. No,. 9 Inituited July 16, 1916 It a1with prfound sorrow that Local Union No. 9 of the International Brotherhood ef Electrical Workers records the dLath of Its two mnebers. whose names are mentioned above, These men were known by 1te mhemnbership of Local Union No. 9 for their fne attachment to uniniisn iand as inelgIbene. A oil Broh. erhood for their good leaenple in punrnsinLg these aims The zeal shown by these nmn In he problers of our Brotherhood was a great incenltive to all the members of our Lcal Union., anI they shall long be remepbered for their eneourageMOelt, and work In our behalf, Whereas we deere it fMtting mid Proper that thie mremabOrs of Local union NO. 9 oier their trLbute to the memory of o..r deported Brothers for their loyalty to otI, [lrnthelhond nld eountry their, faithful .ne.. to their Local UGnion and their friends: therefore be it iesolved, Tha the sin.ere symnDtit of the mnember'~hip of the Tnternatinesl Brotherhood Electricas ,f Werker be hr eby extended to their boreaved fami'll'. WIJ, TAM STORS., JAMSF BRFNNAN. RARUY SLATEl Ch cag., Ill Commotiee T omaroii Charles, (larhe, L. U. No. 773 Reint1tilllid Niaelarber 14, 1[$3, It is With iellcee feeling or soLtOW and reOret that we report Ilhr loss amd pissilS (i[ one of our faith fijilt urthiets. Ciharlie Clark(, lie was a good loyal ienieI and always worked for he good 01 the I, B. E WV.and Local No 773 /i particular: therefore be it Resolved, Thai the cLilllen r, of tie 4nganization be extended to his wile anLd amOy. to his brother JiO, a member it Ilocal NO. 773. and to his cousU. Brother- J Ralyiond, elallehmo of our executlle board, aid be it further t ttilf, ThIa InIi chatter be drapd btor J0 days in resect and nory of tiBother Clrke; adll be it urthlr Resolved, That a CO , of tihiese lesohlions bIerecorded i our DIiLIhUtes, a copy he sent to the International Offite for publieatitltm IM the Joufral, and a copy' be sent to the iatni] of Lretiler Clario, F DARK. A, ROBINSON. G THOMAS Windsor, Ont. Conmiittnee Prank E. Alexander, L. U. No. 65 ifil tatdiotL. 12, 1915 It is with a Silelr' feeling of Io rrow and regret that .e, the members of the L U No. 65, record the las$ing of oIu frlied and] Brother, Frank , Alexander. It is hereby iesolved. That we pay titninte to ]Ils memory by expresing to his failt, and frilends our sinere sym pathy in Ihcr hour ot sorrow: and he it further Resolved. That we irape the c.hartr fnr a period o 30 days,. and that copies of these resolutions be entl to his family, to the Ju..rhat tMo publication, and that a rally be eriered In the Mnnute, of nor oaer C, J, SPRINGER, T. , GIJBRIDX. THOMAS BOUTiEIO, Selle,Mont. CiOlnIllyte Dan Sheehan, L. U. No. 65 Init/oded March 22, 1929 AL it must c-oere to all mten. death carie to our Brother. Dan Sheehan. August 24. 143 He died as a Noldier in battltcin the line of duty. As a ftincle official of Local No ,. 1, B E, ILL. as an exellenL workman, ns Soyal a and sincere Friend, we desire to pay hit [h. last tribute of cateem and affeetinn. We wish to extend to his wife, family and friend. our deepest and nlot sincrol svmnath5 in his their tirne oI grief: therefore be it ReSolved, Tiat in trlbute to his mmoryn. we, as a body in meetog assembled, stand in silenee for a period of one minute. ald be It further Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions he sent to the fal¥ Of our atle, Br.th'er: intl a copy be spread upon the minults of our L1oeal No. I nd a Copy be ciii tin th~ ,LtkIa Journa[ for publicetion snd be it further ReSolved, That the charter of Local No. 65 te draped In mourning for a period of HI dfav as a sign of respect to Lur Iepill . tned C, J. . ESSrtSC}IWARDT. J, A. PHERICK A. p, COOPITS, Rtte. M1%ont, Ccininl tee Robert Krieger. L. I. No. 125 T ti nted Tute 11, 1937 To L, U, 125 again falls the regretful duty of reCOrding th passing onward t f a valued ri~rmpnhbcr, as we rise lhe membership file of Brother Robert Krenter We extend I LI, loved onres ai ... I n il .vinpirlhv for we share Ithe ols of a friend 1'he charter OfT 13. No 12.5 s*'l;l he rirapid fIr 30 days in ,,nlory of Broteher KrlegIe and o eooI of tbMs. lil0ln h.lall be igerlbLyd on th. minutes of this neetn. Copies shall alp he senlt In h, hernaved faimily. and t oIr .. oe]atl for publication, mml,~ A P~AY C, F DI]"'OVyN FRED M, DAVIS, oliladnd. Org. Ci....mm, Line Re1nittated July 7, Ia3l, il 1. 0. It Is w itth deep sorrow add regret that the members of L- U. NO 056 record the death, of our iale Brother. Horace A. Turnder theirfore he it Reslied, That Je extend our yniepallh IC the berea ,-d fatily in his Ihr, e of their great 'orlo, alnd be it toltthor He o1l vd, TDat a copy of these esol ution be spread upon the records ot our meeting, a coly be sent to his faminly, and a copy he sent to the oeital Joernal Lop Dub eaflico, I'. D. PACE. ReoordihLg Secretary Cedar Falls, Wash. Leroy Snyder, L. U. No. 481 initiated Augudt 21, J926 %Vt. the nemlber of * U, NO. 481. I, E V.. with a sintere fllUig lf -1snrrowand regrel rccord the pasilng oe Brother Leroy Sim¢er, htI',core be it Resolved That we express our sy'opatliy to the fanily who mourn I.s loS; and be it Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be S .reald iponi the miiuIet of this nmeting, a copy bm sent 1.o the official Jonnal fol puIb lication fnd a copy sent to Ins bereaved hinlLI: and be It urtiher ReI.lcl That the nrnenberl. ktand in silence for one minute as a tribute to his rueltorl arid hal our charter -rilain draipd Let a puri od of 30 doys1. ROY CREASEY, lodiaapoILs, pid, Finenial Sccrtehar (larke Nordqtiuit. L. IU. No. S56 In itriaed Otober 23. 1917. Ib L. U, Nt, 416 It hillh dee sorrow and rngrct that we, tile mnbers c L. U, No,. $56. record th, >psang of our esIceried mlember, rothel, Clarke Notladuist: theilcore be it Rlsoived. That in tribute to his mnemory. as a body ill meeting aseinblel, siahnd ill silence for a period of one nhlute: and be it further ]Reolvcd, That we extend our deepest syipathy to the fI and latives rily of our l1te eparted ltother: arid be It further Resolved,. That a copy of thOse reolutionns be sent to Ite faTiily of the late Brother, that a COpy be spread upou the minutes of tL U. NO , $50 anad a copy be sert to the omeiat Journ, aIr p ublcatiot. F, D, PACE. Cedar Falls, Wash. Secordtig Sercrtary Eugene $ohnson. L. U. No. 59 ReInitlted December 4. 7922 Wbhereas wtlh deep st regt we, he mtrinw bers ot L U, No, 5, record the passing of t)ur worthy Rrother, Eugene Johsonl; theretore be it Resolved, That we extend o. sincere r sTmrpathy to his bereaved family; and be it further kesllvted, That as a ToILL of respect our charter be draped for a lriod of 30 days, and ltl. these~ rre.solutions be mode a part of the mintutes of our meeting. and copie. be sent to the family and to the officite So al. C A. BENEDICT, S, D PERIGO. a, L. EVERITT, S. L. NHEALY. t. J3 SLATER. Dallas, Texas. Coorstlee James F. Cooney. L. 1. No. 18 friloxedl No,,erlnr /i 1940 Wvhrreas Almighty God, in His infinite wiwslocn, has seen fit to take II..m our midst. BEil-Iher Jam(ue F Cooniey Ind Whereal the passing of this Brother To ILLs eternal P warld hba deprivd U. No 18 of a loya and respected emthber therefor be it Resolved, That tnis meeting stand for one mInute ii silent tribute to his miemory; and be it furthyr Resolved Thiat the charttr he draped ToL a period of 30 da'$; and he it further Resrolv~ d, That we aL thislimn expri.ss o iu condolences to the famly of inother Coonev ill thnir hbrcavernent; and be It further Resoilvedh That a copy or these resolutirols~ be incori-liated in the mrnutes of this local ,,nhionaiii p sent to hO faneily of the late lBrntr ~r orney: and a COpY to the Internatonal Of,,,e for publicalionh in the Electrical Wcqi~ilor ' J otirial. IRequtescat in pae. W D. IcNNIS. F. WV.BARTHOLOI4tW.t, I M FOST'I.iR L,,, Ai,gt,-I, Ciht. Committee 425 NOVEMBER, 1943 Louis J. Schulz, Forrest Jordun, L. U. No. 6 Reimitinted Docember 6, 1937 Whereas Alwighly God, in Ius Wi~dllo. has I,e ei fi t c all fr o w,u mi dst ou., ee e and worthy Bfothier, Forlest SotdaI, Who ias been a true and loyal Brother of L, I. No. 6: therefore be it Resolved. That we pay tribLitie to his [Init,cry by expressing o his family and fhieiSs our sincere sympathy arid be it further Rensolved, Thai 'a opy of these I.esulition, be sent to the faiII y of our late depda rted rother. that they beIspr ad ,n full upon the minutes of L. U. No. 6. atid a coyd be sent Io the Electrical Workeis' Journal for puiblic"tion: and be it further Resolved. That the ]weiibers stand i, tileitece for a period of one minute and our charte he diapeld fmll I day3 a a iribute im Ihk ~ men'or5 Sani Francisco. Callf Jr NUNAN. C. FOEHN, H. MADDEN. cll?, (r 1tite' George S. HenrO. L. U. No. 18 Wiereas Almiglhty God. hi His iolfnate wiIsdoln,,. hs seell it to take from oulr imidsi [iothe r Georg, S. lienr; anld WIhereas tihe pas.irig of this lrothtcr to his eternal reward ha.s deprived U. U. No ] memnez; thietlfole of a loyal and es11 eeie he .I Resolve dThat this meeting stand. for one ] anid idi ule, in sdlent tribute to his nlhen lo be it flurther Resolved, Thai Ohl chaltl be draped Jf(i period of 30 dab s, and ie it tlrf bei Resolved. Thi we at this time exprcs.I >tt condolences to he fi ly OffBent Brother in teill bereaveier;l. aind be it further Resolved, That a lop;' of Ihese resyuuIIions ant I ilv thes nilnutes of this IocaI lie i orp of th¥e lat nion; a cop' sent R amil Brother Henry; and a copy to the Interml'. in the Electrical tinalI Office or pulUc'atIon Workers' Journal Req' icescatilplc W, L. MeNNIS F W. BARTHOLOMEW, ]1 M. FOSTER. Los Ageles. Ca.lif CruIiiitt Earf B. Guidroz, L. U[.No. 130 Iwitieid DeIceber 20, 1942 It is with deepest sorrow and regret dila we, the nieibe's of I., U, No. 130. record 'ihe passing of Brother Ealt IA GOudtoz. whose diathi oci red oii Augu.t 13. 1943,and Whereas we wit, harftld, to express to his and relatives our dleepsI tympathby: thereir, 114=it Resolved. Thai a cIji rif these 'esohl tion be ;ent to his fidily. ,Fyp be sent thioul Electrical Wilorkis' Johit i, for pdbicaliton' and be it further Rlesolved Thai ourcrrbe di',d for a ... iod of 30 dcays iIn ii i ciii o. IH, C, FIS lfl. L3J ISLE¥ Nyw Olelans. L Criinii~Iet fore CIa re.. e GraItz, L. (T. No. 61 leivi6ihifed April , I9'l It is with dee pesit 'eget that w., the nyLIt, hrs of L U No. 6.! idnlioUle thde P].' ig if Brother Clarenice Gua. who diedoi, JSl, 14, 1943; the]'efi'o I,. it Resolved That ,I a, "Illhute II his witi and< f~u~nIl} b c'spictssng our mnost iiicere¥ i .lililIIiib filthyqf ur t he ill' ylnp-i-11y; V i ,li t hi : idti lhs$ lved Thai a copy of th ese resrluirin" he s icald on the .Im. .Itl and a copy I . to the Elet"rirta Wnyrk''' Jouii'n=a llu D i ifi ion and be it flrther R, o hied T hat IIh c'hl,,tt of L ;ir' N,> 6I be dliaped oi 30 day iidi i .t.en.orI ROBERT S, BATES, TIOMER NORD{lUIST CIIARLES BOWDICIT you ngstcI Ohh, I IIlnlil In, I be ii Ie-olv dt, '['hit a copy of these 'esoitions I ...Iy a copy .l e sebt to Our le sent to I Electrical Wo.kei>' Joutmal to, puilicatioz. and be it futtLher Reso)ltd, That Iur eharter cl diaped for a Ieriod Of 3O tia in his eroeot , H C Fl HER. L J. ISLE¥. New Orleans, La. Comntlttee Pred W, iloagland, L. U. Nc. 349 ReuIlimaletd I'ml,.191* in' L. U. No. 35' With deep orrow..... 'egret w,. the inembers of L. No. 349. aecord the death of our yl late friend arid Brothe. Fed W Iloagland. who padwed away on Atiu9ts 12 ]943 Resolved, qhat we. hi metitng aisxe..ifled, stand for onec inile in silent jiedilaldin as a tlrblte Io his..... iryh.; and tic it ffi',Jdh Resolved. Thiat a e opy Ift itese, iI.I t(irios be sent to his bereaved fanily with our deepest sypl [zh ;hihot a copy be sprlad Jpon the minutes of U, No. 349 and a copy be sent to the oftIh'ial J*lttial for publication: and that olr ebarter be draped for a pietod of 30 days. EARL CORDON. Miamdi Fill Recording sele'taIy J. R. Mrdnock, L. U. No. 319 Initialed February 3, 19S, in L U. Ni. 134 With Iorrowand rerte we. the nelmbel's of L, U, NO. 34, record t death he of oIii late friend and iroller. JS. Ray Mhrfiuek who passed away on August 5. l943 ResolvedI Thai we. in, neeting oi.snbled. stand fot one midlute in s'ient meditation as a tribute to his m-emtior,: and ae it further Resolved, That a co y of tlhese rvltittons be sent to hisbeicaved family will, oui deeDest sympathy. that a co y be spread u on the minutes of . U. NO 34,9 and a copy be sent to the official Jotililiol for publIcation. and tlat our- chalter be draped for a period of 313 days Miami, FJa, EARL GORDON. Recordhiri Serer.taly Woods 13. Spawn, L. U. No. 571 thintead May 5, 19223 Whereas it is with deepest and ost sincere feeting or sorrow tI a we. it, ...c.hers of L U o. 574. I. B. E. W, ay our last tribute of respelt to our ate Brother, Woods B. Spawn, and wish to extend io the bereaved faily or eartfelt sympah and con.d.olen' in Ohlrd houir of sorow: tv,"e fore be it Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be scit t ,lis faintl y, a Copy be splead oi, the minutes of tps local union, and a co;py be sent to our official Journal for tiblicatlon J. L VAN Rl SSUM. EDW. J. DOWNING. C. S OAKTEY, Bfi'leyierto,' W ilsh Co n. .tlee A- P. Zulle, L. U. No. 748 /litliated Deccm let 4, 294, It is ttithl a sinerie feeling of sorrnw and 'egiet that .e,. the members If L, U No ?41, record the passing of our friend and Brother A, P, Ztille; therefolre be i Resolved, That We ply tribute to his iteml ou'y by bxpr'essig to his fa ily and frrcnl't in their hour of s)tirow, otur minceresvirihpaihi Ihd all It Ithrift eThal ,, ha...ape hle cOnatter ofr a pei'od of ad da ,, nI Ihat copies of I".e reWoluiions Ie sent In his falmily, o the jourawl for .. ibhie atati. rId : ciopy entereld intol Jy iuntite, of o Iii local ~tail , J KIOIAU C'a iford N J. R coi'ding St,,etlii Jr., L. U. NO. 130 Initated M., 31, 1D4I It is with dee 4 SOtrow and mret thai we. the mem~n~bers ~ . Ul No. 130. record the passutg of Brotlher Louis J Schulz, iJ. whose on Au.gust 2, I942., and death occurredl WheIi ai. we wislh to express to lii, ialiily l vlid e111vs oudr deepest sympath; there- Leon E. W ... dwardt. L. U. NO. 176 latildted J ... Jry6, 1942 With the dee.. t sorIw and r..el we,. the members of L. U N,. 776. record the pasSing lf our Brotei]. Leh, F., Whnod ward: litelefore be it Resolved. That wvepay tribute to his fain ily by expie'nig o.. most since'i rsympathy; and be it funlner Resolved. That a copy of ihleg re61litlons tie pread in the n~innles of ourl local inl,,l,,. snId a p', he sent to Ihe Flee rIeal W" k ers Journal for pubiiication: and be i filt her Resolv.,d. Thai hur charter be dirapied i a pleiod of 30 dIiy~. FRANK CON-DON. R. A, BUTRIS. JR C;ILBERT DAVIS. Charleston. S C. (Oili..ill,,he losina 'raliercin, L. U. No. 921 inttiited Ma, 22, 1942 Vhereas it Is with deep sorrow that we. the nlenibers of . U. No. 921, pay ott last tribute of respect to the memory of Sister Rosina Taier ejo: Wherel, We wish to extend lo Ile members of tier family our deep and heartfelt sWipathy: therefore be it Resolved, That we as a body, in me'e ling assembled, stand In silencee fol onle inI3L Ic as a i rltiel Iribute to her memory: and he Resolved. That a copy of Ill",' eI'sotitionis be spred uphaonthe mInLutesi oI our leeting, a copy he sent to her bereaved fainily, copy be sent to our ofifcial Jicirnal for publicalion. and that our charter be draped ior] period of 30 days. YOLANDA DELLA SALLA. Ehlibeth, . J. . Recording Secretar Katie Tortericlo. L. U. N,. 921 Initiated ApriL 17, 19,2 With a sincere feeling of sorrow and regret. we. the ueicbers of L. U. No. 921 record the death of our departed friend and Sister. Katie Towtnirell,. Resoled. 'Tila we pay tribute to ther alenit ory by expressing to he,' family and friends ollr sIncere sy iiathy; and be It furl hr Resolved, r~hat a copy of these resolutions cad on our he sent to hc[ family, a copy b~ mnuhtes, and copy be sent to theI Electrical Workers' Journal for publicalon; and be it fiirt her Resolved. That the ntembcr1 stand in silence for a period of one ...innte as a "ilbute to le, inen/ory, and hat our charter tie draped for a period of 30 days. VOLANDA DELLA SALLA. J. Recording Secrelary EliZabeth. N Jon, V. Tierney, L. 1. No. 25 lnitiated OtoDber 6, 1927, ill L. U. No. 3 It is with deep sorrow an.d re.grel. that wec the ime'nel, of L, U. Ni. 2M I B. E. W record the pIasing of our Brother, Sohn V Ti oned. Resolved. That we pay trllibtto his meritory by expressing to his 1ife and family ou nIost sinceei symipathy in thoir hlli of so.row: and be It further Resolived, That a copy or thsel "solutions be selt to his family and be entered irt lthe minutes of the local union aid a copy be sent to he Electrical Wor-kers' .ournal; and be it further Resolved, 'that our charter IC dadped for 30 days in his .enoiy. WM N HIALLERAN. Miteota, N. Y Reordln Secretary William V. Mc(CalL L. IU. No. 661 felninnLted October tid, '39 With thIe deepest sorrow we, ie members of L. U. No. 664. mourn the deat of Brother h William V. Mccall. He was one of the niogi active ineniber,' Hlieserved Mitl dlistibcof th{ i ol u'Jion tion as treasu.rer and as ainf nlieI' of the executive board and on a great number of important committees. He was a most loyal and Iearlessworker and stood by his eon- victilths Resolved, That we pay tIhbulte 1hIls ceIifry by expressing our sinceree sympathy to hi. wi.vfe and by for 30 . draping i iu[ clc days, Resolved, Thiat th es es lii tIons be placed in OUr mlilutes and that a copy be sent to his family and to lie Electrical Worker' .Journal tri publicationa. New York EFAIar *'Yy W, FURY, J SKFLTON. P MAURO. ComJitlee taley. L. l. No, 915 rudited Maop 9. 1943 In sorrow we, the mend.hers ni U. U ,o 915, recoid tihe lasag of oIl Bdother,. Edeai Raley, antd our hearts go (it iii extressk Of synnl lih 1 his Iadlv, nd loved ones May his inimewly death lead LIS to fuither uiiicertand itlfe sacilfices being, made on duty CGodfrey Wilmer. L. U. No. 138 by others, that we waiy dile, .It conditions Intin hd Matnd I 1928 so that mni like Edgar shall no1, have died in Wvhereias it is with at sincere retleirw if %Sl* vain; therefore be it Resolvdd. That we stand ill Iody In iclteing liw alld egreay that we. the 'i¥enllerds of L. U assembled for one minlte inl liilnt meditation: NO. hi. 'icod the passilng of lb,,ohsr '.olIfrey WilIner: therefore be it Resolved, 'ilnt weselnd a Copy of tlrele r-so I ttlons to the famlyli of dhe dchi atd. a copy Resolved. That ,e pax' trdiute to Ilii mereI the Elyet'ical Workers and that a copy be oFS by expe pgil ,li, deep lynipathv to Ill spread nupoi the hhilntes Of L. U. No. Oh: I ife n(d fanily, and be, it fiitlihel and I' it tlurher Re'olvecI. Tlhat o, ] charter hi dIn... i tr . Resolved That we dra;pe our thidriel for 30 period of :0 clays ani a cop. of theis reI.... uda3,s in inltliritiil, and resPec~t 10 ei' deate., tIons hb sent to n me iimbers b ,f hL~ faiIniv ]Broth~er' he si[iu'ikdon 'or titlinifle.-. ,in~da ceei'' GORDON TURPIN. he seal io tlhe F.itellCal] W oi fersr Jotiriulat LOUIS ROMINSON. for pubd'atiint ED THACKER (IHAS P. STARKEVY Dan.ile h. Ky. Coa . uihee Hlamnilto r. ),tu'i u. R .e.rditi...tSeert' ry ~1copy The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Oporatf.r 421~ Patric Furraile,, L. U . N.. 1026 litta~d Septabet,9, 1940, in L.. Ul N.. bill It i, with gr.. .... a.tI a SIro idel IIhil1 ,,tWe IhmemerhitfP L. U. No.. 1020. recorlh, pass. mg nf mir Broher Patrik rafab .... eh IloIn b, 11 ResolveId Thait intibueI his neI'mTnO[~11 v I. inbody ,PemIed. sthld Lor I pithily Of rie lJlte a]id be R1 itilht l);II l;~¢ idlel i~ld IT it hP r li ]{eo,," JiI , ;L i ely It "I'l', resohltfiffi be$~n nl~ JJ:i ,, ;"ee f;JiiLi, alcopy l .... Up01] I Iie z JiLIi ol llil~ ",,,f ~iig, l~d tha,1i itARVE'f I.ARCHlIBAILD . 5IsRden. NU.,.s [{codbl ... ..eimS...ri HerbertJ, ...nson L. IU.NI. 951 /?Itt.led Novl.III Der , 19.I~ V.hrea III Ab Hl~ I litiod ll ... I. .inriin l]s oI, fily 21 I94.'/ esndeu.... our ;~I l,1i;. BroiheIL~bt lh~nacat*mme of L~. U.*N..o 95):] Uthirl~l tie 1! IRe ... ed, That we le:<ta/ I. h, bt~liul falhly~ our probyound rid~ OIee 1~ni, I inl Whill hou, ofI.Ilflr; ,ud h, 1t (4i111c1 ReN.oLvd, Tha. Ii 1e apr;IIIn olt}irllil till periodW~3days,. and thai C~Dle ¢f I'lle ,,;-lle l Uen hi, fIl/liy ]eal De,in Joul~a Po ithlb]iOb.Hin Lhi{ ; euL,I eiIltnd; Pint HIthe mhuefi tI Lhi~ loatif WILTOHN BROWN POe;;d ni CLIFFORD SEN( le Platt birg N ¥ Re¢'ordi.g Aelill Igntiu KirstinL. U. N.. 501 IL U.t !¢, II I~ h .. WC Ihu WBH~".ftml W, PRre~ 1,H ;I ef P'lM. x1 M~,If ~dR Hn G ~mI ]"I I, 1,,u illn ,: I]ull~o 17~ HIIH 1,h mad4 thr.... Fh il IP hsd1 r iS.dq~ s4 1oo ou the,enrqei; of thera buillg ILI .i~ts of Bill iI... tiahiio... nII ducteld hy the I/pr .nf ,lt~.~ss airt AtorneyL General Toil]. I'. Ih k ksaid "If free enteHIlseisto suieeffetl h l o.f 'hi, Wilal war. the power, of carel I f.kih prilate t-xllttea, cIontrl Oiteenlin. f'ind dig rupl fi rhtrade. Ill.( be broerI'Mu to elmiminat cartel c otof hiewoi eLLofon'nay we"h,1ll lose~h le ee i'ller!e ifo aftlvitie ae Li stopped before pe'L ¢nli a they ,Awillhlp create d une .... ... ipo cause of ~h. demonsPtrated absefHTh pitn ~ygt.a by 0art.{s, th. Bieptnrl of fuathi'e h.,avoae a v ifino the . ptent D. B. LoganL. U. No., 278 fit'hln ifl~if 1prHl 1', ]91,j PI e.l ttPIhe llbL Of L,)eal IUnLo N., 278, tiLb sincr feb"i of sadot.a an t .. re... reodthe usn T oDfiP B rte. B, Lunar WhotWas ia]l¢ Wro Xs ,on ,pen,-lif.,94 "yPathily bll h1s £Blrlly t ft:[~hhld Uhm-IIre, De il Itiliediret.hai ou loca1 union. fltad Lir on, m.fI..,l re ereilillee III.nd. our, elml1if LIe draipd fr A perio hi "O days,, s a tribute 'Io hi. memhr ; ad LeIt 11 rther. Resolve,d tl II copy If thesei feslut/.... thy selt PI,, h i falil L"I copy b, s red UDi thl, IPfltt If mir, Ienl HITPIP n. ~Oi¥ PI sent t, our oficia Jo..T.ta fri . oTAbhIatio J Ill MAT"HW'UL LUIRRV RAPOLAIS. N1 E. NOAKE, C~lTP pUf~ his Te.tas comie lhe x~~, iIIi, il ii ,do....f ni If sm i +h a ori, wideI i IrL{Iwnud be, I ... anful of Ih, r~ihs and privlh"' le e? rlabo as it Ioli nf th.l wn/fal. eif thel dkolll$, miIxetdilth, hunincas IThe hiPtor/ of lb, groth of cartel is elt with Jstsun 8hoilgthat i thel profit n~tlnle kitlhl dnLnnt'iugII {nfluene ilta{ v£l /hese .organiations . Money mia il Ig, is alIa yI p laced ahead of mura ohIigtins". 'hnee ~ hIc must, he F.e,o thi, Te....il } iS III l~hat cartells IIlv i1 de~]l ld Iiiren If l "t wlfa andi p igr lf hLi;, " i 'pile . i d/f g r Ili le1l11arl iT )Ih ;1"Ihl tra'de, ilc E,~¥drie is iteeliiait th.t the Axis I al helifylng fadm ,l' theHi vffit Wtmar %lfinPi]~thei ecoPI~iom whre. c if they ]us,, }lIe Il~itary la. Beas f thdi ifnlqthen oif hlines~~t meI If f11 nio$ il l inlhe NOte .mltions[al caItl eyltmn, wih itlhadqrll .. ~i, Wn Sit .er. iad. Hiliee hoilds pineru wealpon.. forl ~oflin thel ters lit [)eik Bus inI ..in Amertica, flainta ,w ilt haI anI ifltt'lrt whir tile peac .IIL IeIs.y i.< Iiaei 47ll n~ HL ~ 11It Pil h . dee I feeling ofsulhi tha.t we, asfee, 0W m~fb~oLOhil U.Wof N., Mi. . thet InternaionalP Brotherhood f Ehl~tieaLL Workrs recrdIht, paINBg If ... loyal Brother. Ilyn~iu K/estei fo, OILl we III,, a, trI, fhried ad felilow~ workerha depaltid from our nPBst and therefore b, It Rslved.? a,ouTharter PI drape for peid o 0d ys in hono o! hi~i memPrs. and ac.pyo tN e, et reouion, Lo hi, hea fYeaCpy he Inteald .,.I P~w .... B, ,and"Lapco2,' bei tol the ht InTenlioaal Officell ~o PL*~R. ulction Hth Jouliiha] JOHN W. RATCLIFF, y.Illkel. iN Y¥i P if IiSe,, in~ " rIteIdI IoIn l I~ i ..rI fI f IkI, inLf.... fL Ir II Ileittl ..... O the,I Jm lit Ithe Ili i ;1]no im IhIn Ie h ~hy, TU~,] III the A~ chirman chaLgtfeR ilb, tepatet anlI an~tilitiut laws to makeit ......... y to rgistel all phlan for cartl al'outw ith the, federl ovrn meat for Liprva ... I P, n eafI If control wilhih will) probably I ~,tLI u In the, Inunr ~*]X~r~er,egind I il wr ,i h., lpparently taught ahdkl,,lie tatse Chit the, tlti~ ma tINoa] If piiosta order aniprmnn peace, can nnly I.. attand by some- IIIm of CARTELS ;Continuecd /rum page N39 natia.s, nt due to Lily ililgl, causesu¢l~) are combwinatonmay devote themselves, Lo "exNploiting the.consumer insteadP of uinj exilteltce of elate*I. ILbut a mutipllit ofly IT &heir ,pecialefllclc Io serv hlim.... good.IP, so l{*tii which cannotLI satisfied Ir One ofthe purlose oF the Britisi hplanis DEATH CLAIMS PAID FROM SEPal1ev/ated merely by the signnf a ,ie... inutl cinTEMBER I TO SEPTEMBIER 30,1943~ "to encourage such form of 4 Lt...ty II thel establishing of a whli oaNi peti ioLs ae c nuivetthe pubi c fiter. aio. it ii hitprai v that any Ldju.OnlPln eatl; onversely IT d, ... isorewatfulii and aimeild at ...... cting "auses sthouldI h, insird desO~truti competitio.f Nationl. enterpise by a Inns-rage v~isio rpresentingf the inasI itwo is aided if tdi~dduami s su Iitaily the, gle poweirs lhut of Legulahed, This Mitt if r euaionfeteres not only If all h,,,,, bein wh, stugle, suffer, at{ independen enterprisehy earte] Lhat nt~ maide for efiiee orproved Lo hI, in th wfhat the statesmen wh sekI. sha~petheir puh'll, interest i, ilthepat dOStily hav titl~l i I. The, Britih, world eartell arran,,me dis,Anothi pIan which mtight elminate Bte cussed. Ibv 1ish prseteI"inI terms friendly necesslity for the Iomtn f Laltels would Lit lahor and the c osue IThedene consis't If the adohptionby the, goernlenPts uuIllinff Phelan ITr this a11lh', Ill ijs pr 1 1 ITI.,~ 215 surdto tbe Kilgore, ITomm Pittee tlyThr0 oif the, ofwrl honr L'r arhitratiln trade, disputes invoI ln natonl iners.. Ilnle ea)ih,for "the general adllh/..aIIn.. rill I Khr~~~~~~~oh~ ~ mm I~mIt Arol1d, sofn t*) gchpla is ...opted huslhiess n/eu 6iH extenion If work council8 ad poPerio... rou1tjinue I.o fly o conftrol the slt"l~ai. I with commfit teaBlreadyTI peatig. snct, sfl in tho P,,Ifil miuseful insr yetd~eo p forh cerltain industries" Iin Lrertgive laho.. II. }, the p,,jpoe, erlils The raet that these, J ~Caloll.. .. I ~ %hlose cot~ac fill assocliationl with PILt9Ie f~il I RmU I I...io pr"i,a" ag~lel ftel, flullfy iLOIa lat nIe t." exlt~ltheltl'lrt Li f s Cteinr to dopt At; a lunheon Io Mtllih IIIe world trade neighbo, po iesi a}] tad{e "Tteeiil allane sscition, John IInowni, ,h~i ..... I IhiLs hA~h~ h1.l I aa~ il maike,, it inptqativei H that aiosaothe of the economic eImmittee 07 the British thil, prnh'lem Tr de Union Congress, ha1ilethe WP, ~ ~loo NOVEMBER, 1943 427 INSPECTORS SEE VALUE OF MAINTENANCE WORE i Continued Il ... page 401) tions on both panels and resistors. Cheek condition of "pigtail" connections cosely especially i.. corrosive atmosphe e, Repace any danaged or wrn parts,. and inspct c.ndition of magret contact rurfaces. See that con... mechanism opec ates freely lndoil or grease if necess. v. Do not lubricate contact surfaces! Check operation of mechanical oI ehlct ri a in tei-lwk devices. Maintain Contacts Control equipment subject to severe operating .ond itions should have cotacts inspected weekly. A nonthly check is stincielt for aver'ag'e oelatng conditions. Adjust, file clean. or reneu (on burned.(Ortacto tips if badly worn oi dihary roughening of contact tips due to arcing neeId not h serviced but laige projections should he removed with a file. If there is evidence of overheatipg, oxide surfface should he removed by a few strokes with a file.) Examine closely for any high resistance joints in contactor circuit. (A new combination a-c/d c mili voltmeter is available for checking re sistance of bolted joints and contact lubricate cotact Do not surfaces.) surfaces. Check Oil Condition Make semiannual inspection of oil level and condition in starting compensators, oil switches and circuit breakers. Replace leakage and evaporation loss; replace oil if dirty or gummy. (In dirty ordamp inspectoil level and condition location, quarterly or monthly according to severity of conditions.) Test Overload De ices Circuit breaker tripping points should be checked monthly, Replace dashpot oil if thick and gummy. Keep orifices in plunger clear. Keep leather bellows soft and pliable with neat's foot oil. Be sure that heater toils for thermal overload elays are the correct size. Check overload relay settings every six months. MOTORS Fillow Specific Instructions Wherever specific naintenanie ins ructions for a particular motor are available, they should be followed closely. In the al. se net of such specific instructions, the Iol lowing periodic checks should be made. The.. are based on average conditions with regard to severity of duty and dirtincas, of localiln The frequency of the inspections 4ll ci be varied to suit actual plait coiittions. 31M" -AS 6. Openstype iotors in dusty location,hould be blown nut thorsoughly. 7. (heck air gap between rot-or and stater The differeice in width ,1 gap around eIl cumferen. e will indio es eIIv,Lt wcur oC on ieari gs. hlbis check '.l d If made Ieekly on motors operatrin, wtlh Ox~re ye belt lenoon; otherw L, U:k air gap setiannuallly. f- thatit i brou.gh $. Start lotar and] ul tn speed In Tormal Illme (hekI motr aLi blea.rlng Ieniperature under actua losd eortiions by feeling Iiih ' ff hand. InspectIlns and Operations Semiannual I. (lean motor thorrughly, blowing out ,ilt rron. %iidingi altd ipe comnlutato, alufl brushes. 2. ln'peet coinittiltetr claomping ring. 3. (bhek hrn .he ad renew anIy that are moare than half worn. 4. i~xanllnie bruh lholders and chal then, if diry Make sure ihat F brushe ride s froe 5. Cheek brush press.ie. oi n sl~~ 6. (teeltk rtush fosithtm . l l ev 7. ]Train. Wa h out, and rnl ) Iearbigi 5. heck grease In ball or roller bearings. 9 Check operating speed or speeds. 10 See thst end Ilay of shaft is nirmrlal. 1, lipect avil tighten connections on motor and control 12. Check curent input ald compare with a,tEIcnrdo SM dnt$oaenil m tnn lr P0~ni5oty. A ouick,suapii rd , dy tdffc r indcmtct oam!ttlmtnctaonazd O F ELECTlont N COT * AUDELS HTANDY praucz:I M 1OO oi IIodr. a*xadt a had inmlzl~tnnnA neta~bk sautc that ans~ea ~o~ qurjtkn · help ON NI£tRAbjINFORMATION chir~tLC.andO.C. Moox-Anmaewe W~nd~g ·and Rpak-i ~W nintr D az ,-U w Lightm g-?ow Qmctc m~a R a dtl~ y. Dcl sb xa iTpler "r &TFlaenel~ThoneInigon-Rdio ). [lt~igeXaLo~ CondcLdonf-O.Dt and manyM odern t W. 13. RIu motor an.i examine drive critically for smooth runn 1g, a lsenic of vibiation, welln gears, chains, or belts. 14. Check mot.o fool bolts, end shield bolts, pulley, coupling, gear and journal setscrews, and kevs, 15. See that all motor covers, belt and gear guards are in gofd order, in place and securely astened. ,m Dr*r . Ap1l cati n x ~ t ** b t ~ w . at &CO,4 ~ 0W n..flfltn~ , N wtwit aII lhh~- Annual Inspections and Operations 1. Clean out and r'enew hall grease il or roller hearing housings. 2. Test insulation by meager. 3. (leaI out .mgnetic firt that may he hanging on poles. 4. Cheek clearan. c between shaft and jolunl1 boxes of sleeve bearcig motors, to prevent operatioi with worn beatings. 5. lean our undercut slots in conm utator. 6 Examine connections of roimmutator xaarmature coils. 7 hiipeet armIatour ...ha,. ( onplete Overhauls. Motors should generally be given af overhauling at intervals of five years or so. normally , if the service is more sever. e more frequently. Such a practice is ienefiicia in avoiding breakdowns and i extending Ihe useful life of the eqoipo e;t. IF WE DON'T PLAN ,Continued hroi page 397} lathe operators, machinists, tool and die makers and other skilled and semi-skilled workers will have to transfer to other kinds of work. Unskilled laborers are likely to face a shortage of jobs in many parts of country. the To prepare to meet this situation, the general outline of which can already be clearly foreseen. trade unionists along with other Americans need immediately to address their thoughts to at least six major issues. These issues and a suggestion of policy are hereby given. THE ISSUE AND THE POLICY (I) First and foremost, what can and ARC WELDING SETS Special Consider~at ions The general ai IiteInac schedueI relat log to motors and motor co-trois will appy generally to arc xtding sets. Oroud conections should he checked periodically Con.titlea of cable leads should be inspected Weekly Inspections aid Operations freqIlently to prevent flow of short ircuit current which may load generator over a 1. Examine commutator and brushes Ilong peri o of time n roper ventilation 2. Check oil leel iI, bearings but do not should be provided, and machines operated over lubricate. outdlo.s should inot If cvuered with tax . S., that oil rings turn with shaft. and paulins in such a way as to impede t any xcessiye endil play il shaft. ventilation 4. See that shaft is fle 'f oil anid grease HRpo r if th, IAEl Mofinte.a..e e Corn,frlo, Ibearings. i,,oseph W'hitbe,- (CCairman). A. 5. E.xani,, stater swith.u, f and uses x Lrndbhog, R. D. MWcmvid, W..I. Ma/ha other controls, as well as gronn.. Iontraction and motor leads. (lif J. G. .ll et, should be done to assure quick reconversion and create an environ.ment favorable to continued high-level business activity, so that normal enterprise may as quickly as possible prov-ide a real job for every able bodied American who wants to work? This issue can be met by formulation of policies that will go to the roots of our system of individual initiative and free, competitive enterprise. These polt cies should settle the disposal of governmont-owned war plants and surplus stocks of war goods and release of priorities on terms that will help pirivate enterprise. They should cover loans reconversion. for credit and capital facilities for small 428 ME3lEIEIlS' LIE A T~lI l F 1 POCKTEl It 9 I'D Dli The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators into tern io..a r ..ven. e i p ea e on ra ts (5) What can and should be done to make it easier to prov.id fll employment by reducing the ] uIer of men and women who want jobs or by rutging down the hours in a the working week? Social security Iad education Pl i cie s should le formula eld to iake possible the handsome voluntary withdrawal from the labor market of wmenu who prefer to work in the home., folder soldijers and other young people who have to contain not yet completed thp edueation they should have, and workers who have reached retireOfficial nlerIt age. Pollcis should be formulated with respect to the length of the workweek. (6) Finally, hiat can and should be done rown or black to promote labor's ability to move not only from job to job Nut also from place to place Pr.e..~l and from one type of work to another, and (A: (gng in this way lower the barriers that somesupply IAS/s, times keep workers and available jobs apart? Measures are needed to bring labor tie di, maud and supply together. Policies should 35 remits b,,eformulated to providt Amlericari workers with a federalized joh placement service equlipped to handle quickly and effectively the largest voleme of job applications in our history as a nation. Wounded soldiers and sailors will need physical rehabilitation business. Policies are net ,ded to assure before they can resume normal civil life, that the consumer deman I will he large - t over the country All en andi women rust enough at all times, but have new training to fit them for newlines hand not too large, to buy* the maximum r work. output of goods and ser rices that the We must find ways and means for per nation is capable of produ cing. manently solving our unem.ployment pro (2) Second. what can and should be clone em, for employment is our peoples greatest to make it possible to give j ohs at fair rates reed and must he satisfied. Furthermore the who of pay on public work projoees to t those soundness of our foreign policy rests on our otherwise will he jobless in the transition domestic policies and whether or not these policies assure jobs to all who are willing pieriod ? It will be impossible to a, oid sever. unelnand able to work. Finally peace itself for ploymen t in the transitlon period without which we are fighting this horrible war, is a public works program. Since it takes a at stake. For if, after victory is won, .e are so coaplled by confusion or weakness at long tiie to get such apr ugram into the blueprint stage and ready t start. workers home that we are unable to stad square y have a respnosibility to thi Imselves to see for cooperation with the rtn a the that the plans are made noe odtierwise ; it peoples of the world, the pressure of eve its may be too late. A large ni numbet of small, will ovenltually force us to the hrlnk of widely scatte red con structieon projects will another and even Inore terrible .ar. probably be better than a few big ones. Planning of public works should allow for I. B. E. W. DOMINATES a number of work projects in the fields of ELECTRTC UTILITY FIFID public health, research, education and gen(Continuled from~ page 3991 eral public welfare as well as in construction. (3) What can and should be done to proThese phrases are seen to be somewhat am vide temporary linancia support for deIohiguous. It remains for OUr courts yet to biltied servicemen and war workers to heII determine whether such terms were intendetd tide them over the interval hefore they Ih t assure tht tehonorably discharged secure anty job at all? servicemenia ]n ay etaeii his f,,oe. 8$ni oe ty Returning soldiers and sailors night and position or (21 to conserve to him anly justly be given a cash bonus-in the form rights or henefils based on the c. . ultp.. of furlough pay, mustering-out pay, or somie seio'ily which would have accrued to hin, tither forr--at the time of demobilization had he remalineild in his employenet instead when they are likely to want it most. All of entering the military serviee. workers, including. x servicen.en, should Several of our agreements provide more have adequate compensation while unemliberal se nioi-itv renulation s for m ailitar servployed. iceenlrthan the law provides. Our contract (4) What can and should belone to lesseI between the Northe ,n St tesPower Conipariy the abruptness of military and industrial deand L. U. No. 160. Of Minneapolis, for- exmobilmiation so as to cut down the rumbher of ample, stipulates: workers appearing in the labor market in "Arty imployee of tahe companly covered by the most critical period, the first six monbths after the end of hostilities? this agreemnt who may be called to the < alo'r shall con tinue Policies sh1o1 beformulated with respect to crer, aMfe se~o,ity to the rate at which our armed forces are with the comdu pany ring his absence,. Ipot to be demobilized. Anything that slows this written notice within sx raolths after. he is process down will gain precious time while eligible for ilscharge from the service, the the up-swing of peacethige prodction is just slove employee may return to work, provided getting under way. On the other hand orhe is physically qualified to do so, and the justified delays will he strongly reselted by gular. rues of seniority will Prevail for the average man in uniform and his family. those below hi, oil the seniority list." (Italics which means that action along this line has oilrs. obvious limits. So far as war industry is conocrtned, most of it will While the I. B. E. W. seeks continually to have to be demobilized very rapidly to (lear the road for protect the position of the employee of long peace p ouctio uthis is not so in ever y service it also concerns itself with the re. ase, anti policies are needed to decite what sp.osibility for training newcomeis to the var con tracts ought to he either on tinued trade. Long a leader nlaong unions in the ap and gradually tapered off or else tra'3sfo Tad prcitieshp and formalized supervision of rising young mechanics, the BRtotn{anoon has been highly in istrumental recent years inl persuading its enployers in the electric tl] ity field to adopt systematic, on-the-jol training programs on their properties for the proper instruction of ,entats to the trade. Such a program assures to the newcomer, possessing the necessary natural mechanical aptitude, of both acquirirg a well rnuled knowleIdge of his chosen craft an/l the oppor tonlity t labor. risea bove the ranks of uiskilled Normnally the apprenticeship pro.ram ex tends over a period of about four years. with wages increasing at semi,-yearly or yai-ly intervals as the ability of the apprentice anti his value to the em ployer progress. For the mutual protection of the novice ani oifthe compay's property, the union agree neat provides that he must work at all times under the imnediate supervision and iust rution of a skilled mechanic (or "journeyman". or a foreman. Under most apprenticeship programs in utility companies the trainee is not permitted to work on live lines during his first year or longer,. Later he learns assist to journeymen on energized lines rot exceeding some agreed-upon power, as 440 or 600 volts. At the close of the trainling period the apprerntice is examined by the examination board of his locaI union. Occasionally the board also ineludes a representative of the company. Sometimes, if the apprentice fails to pass his journeyman's examination he is allowed an additional six months in whilh to qualify, but if he continues to fail, then the copapny is free to demote or d ischarge him. Most agreements prohibit the employer' from trying to employ an unreasonable pro portion of cheap, poorly trained labor in the trade by establishing definite apprentice ratios, such as one apprentice to each five journeymen, or an apprentice to each workaig crew of a designated size range. The first six months of apprentiesahip are generally recognized as a probationary pereio. If the selectee proves incompetent or unsatisfactory to the employer he may be demoted or laid off without any further obligation upon the part of the union to train him, If retained, the union staidls illthe position of trustee to hin the period for of his apprenticeship A. F. OF L. SEES ECONOMIC CHANGES IN UNITED STATES (Continued from page 90}) Federation of Labor for the postwar world are adequately revealed. In short, the report continues the high standard of economic discussion which has d istinguished this report for more than a quarter of a century. DON'T SEND SOLDIERS CHECKS; SEND MONEY ORDERS Don't scud a soldier a check drawn onl a bank in the U. S., the American Red Cross advises relatives, friends and for met employers of servicemen, Sicee it is practically impossible for him to cash a check, send money by postoffice money ordr,. Red Cross workers overseas report that soldiers constantly ask them to aid in cashing checks sent from this country. Postofflee money orders can be cashed wherever there is an Army postoffico, while checks are valuleess to soldiers receiving them. NOVEMB ER, 1943 429 I,OCAI, UNION OFFICIAL, RECEIPTS FROM AUGUST IL If 19431 INC. 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Ill .llal-a 11111li. 117. Illill ti ne to intllJ thl am m aeia oldlb Date a table of f~atmol' III any given, 523.17 hours,. The actuad time reqired oloclity. (c. oitimild ITrom pag. 400) All projct should be Itreated asl acomincluding hanging the f xue,la 529.5 hours. To this must be ,,addedI ... paceof plex job, that is, factor "C" shold,,,have time 98.5 hoursThis poll... In pmme of decimal vle tiIe. the jounemen... in the job had]ne Imets angers, and pip, racks, lhoud Signal co Tntro This pro~ject ban a diebit vr to treated a, s part operation. The 20I0 10x 2 1100x1 2(> fixtar~ balanee of 628 hors label on..hesitems, iDsnn-~ g may Signal exedthe pdpe labbor. Proximately 16 noercent of the man, 2,50 fox 25/100xl 25 statlons 2 0wlre 225' l3138 n=,10x. hera's.. this poject was not affected in Whe .. o...pletiml tate a projectis '2 ,"I any way by the conditionof the job, or the ,oecnhlr1~, l 10.000x] abor and materalo 270' 100 ft. per hourxI 2~7f No, the working conditionsthereon., nor trav- seem toIoI.. theirs infcnegain, the, I bOO' 10f.orh x 500 No. eling thime·It does.relect however. , o the wire cln ain may arise where thUmn,' a 3.50' 10 t ehurx 50 N.. efficiency o2 the organization., Ilih is ln- is only a point in opaio to the label wire Ran' 653(x0. G5 1000,lI 317 No.. 12 dependent of jobma oeatio.. wlire 15000' 41017x 15110001 involve~d. /n suc ..... the esnt a hat ims 61.61 N. 14 Illy onhi, own ingenuity Con. Ilsion.-As building ... ndition ..... 0x No. 1wIref8028. 5Sgq Addendum,--Th, job in illusintration h eontmnually lhanging, and liner prac.tille 115 ,;I t imeI Es"I, It imatd wa completedl o a sit,, jolt finjshed, on is different in dffefrenmt localities, alande oif factor for "C" if given here, the the ,ester side of the continental divide· The time required to intaI all the The job was sIeleted fior it, aiuarte proal-bilities are the average woud Ine too finishin material, a-d han the fixtures ant geographical hoabtion.The estimated man o~te, d too high Inr was, 124 hours. Fixtures Ilire. anl ,,tra Ilow Ionom time shown here.in was not ms~pciatedl ]n .the... It r eursno great Av ... nI of cons ide...etln. ,ny ay with the milliona e~tfimate. Under this ..... eption the estimated mental fatigue, or resarch mok to cornFORM1ULA.E DEVELOPED FOR ELIM[INATING LABOR ON JOBS1 aatactioe fnion Sap plia * nJUIP W.I $50 100 (er Arrears, Offical Notice of. .90 Book, Teastr er's Accotnt { 2.25 Book. 5*1in4te for It. S. (snall) 3.00 Book, M inute for R. S. (larg4, 1.75 ... BooOk, Dfay 1.50 flook, ROll Call .05 Carbon for Receipt Books - 1.00 D.plicate (hIA.ter. 25.00 it IIl. Complete Loal (halter 7.50 Coll~t~ltn~oji,per "00 .10 single copies Eleetrical Worker. Sumbscrilptioil per - 2.00 t oI Year 1.25 ,*k laaoch rdni.m (1.0 . EnvIlopes, Oflfa], per 1)0 .20 LAbill. DOeealeot a la (lare, per 10 .15 eraieomania (smlall), per t0o labiels, . 0 Labels, MetIol, per 100 .2 f~abels, Pape r, Neon. her '00 .20 LAbels, paper, per Ill .... s. LAbels. Paper, large size tiIr 35 lg. per 100 hlal-a Ledger, loose leaf binder Fl .,50 Index tab 26 ieeretary' Ledger paper to ft above ledger, 1.5* P.,r 0 0 Tt'nn "cial Seerotar)'s Ledger, 2.50 pages 210 rinancial Secretary', L-edger. 375 -----ae --------P . 4*0 Secertary'S, Financia Ligaer 80 gl ages lild~ik) p - Ex,,a Hay Ledger, loose-baI research, including 12.50 ......... labs ~lri 2.25 Iedgr sIheqs to, above. per 10t .50 Pap, r, { hitl1 Letter, per 100.. -..... RIltuals, extra, each reReceipt [O$RIl, Aliplira ts (30 1.5 - -.. - . ceipis) Receipt Book, Applilcants (750 re3.10 ---ceiptl) Reeei p1 Book Members (300 reeipts) 1.75 Receipt ,oolk, Membhers (750 rJle ptS) 3.50 lecelpt Book, Misce{1llaeous (300 ro1.75 ........eelpts) Reeeqlit 13.ok, Miscellaneous (750 r,ertlne assessentt 1.75 OverItile asse.s..prit 350 -Temporary (750 re-c- -l-- -- --- 3 .50 tool., T~emporary (300 re.e.e ipt 1.75 ¢e~ip-) .... Receipt BlOOk, Temporary (90 we.75 - t'ji,10 I - I ---- ----*25 Rgeceipt Pookl Frin~nla l S cretary's Z5 2 … tereipt Boo..0k. TreaslirerS ...... leather M1etibers' Reeeipt ploldetHt, .3$ - -pooket. Fotdtni g, ea, Receipt l lH Members' Pockett, olders, Celluloid, sold oly in bulk, Small- .. - - e,1 lot. 50 . . -3.00 .per 00) .40 Research weekly report cardd, per 100 -1.1{ .. I Seal, cut o- . Receipt lieok, (300 ,CoIiolp ) Reei'pt Book, (750 reI 1ts) Receipt lieok, { ~ I Il 2150 .50 .75 7.50 .10 .25 JEWELRY I-old No. Filled Bittte Gilt Tic No. P-l0 k¢. Gold [t0Al Button,.... Gold Pin (for ladles)No. 3Holled N o., 4-R lled Gold "Lap1 l S to rr. k1. Gold Buttn Rolled NoI.. --1 . Gold Tie Clasp 10 kLt. Gold Lapel fliuttoi-_ No. --1 kt. Gold Lfpel Button No. Utoil Rolled No. --10 kt. Gold4 . Gold Tie Clasp No. 9-l0 kt. Gold Vest Slide Charm.. No. 1(--10 lit Gold Ring........... No. 11 10 kt. Gold fladge of onor..-No. 12-10 Id. Sold Emblem: Rolled Gold Chain Tie Clap -----Jewelry not sent C. 0. D. it I no ADDRESS, G. M. BUGNIAZET, I. S. 1200 Fifteenth St. N. W. .40 .30 FOR E. W. B. A. LABEL METAL Cidt., ..................... Book, Minute Charters, DPtplkleateS -......... ....... Blanks* per 100 Reinstatemen£ Consttu£tof and lBy-Laws, p!e, 100.--Single Copies................. …................. Rituals, each anoun£ ... isite of Cash occompoanes artcres imill iti supplied hien the re NOTE The (bo-I hoe ploatap0 hts Othenx'ia the order twill not he reco Wzcd. Ali ,ti.Mpliet sett by order. the ),,,,.repaid. Or express C,(l, tyxo for Bin!'Sz I 2 I 4 I I I I I2011 1215 AI 5.00 7.50 free Seal (pocket) .............. Traveling cards ..... ithm T... Withdrawal Cards, per dozen ....................... Warrant Book, o., ], N......... Washington 5. D. C. 1.10 .75 .75 1.75 ........... 1.25 172.5 ......... 4.00 0, 2.25 4.00 A ! URGENT PUBLIC NOTICE! HE tremendous gains made against Ttuberculosis are in danger of being wiped out. Crowded housing, abnormal eating conditions, overwork, and all the other by-products of war can give the dread TB a new lease on life. We found this out in the last war. Your help is needed, urgently. To carry on the year's fight against TB, we rely on your purchase of Christmas Seals. Please send in your contribution today, as much as you can give. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS Because of dte importance of the above message, this space has been contributed by The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators