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$0 ·\ The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators omycett L. U. NO. 1-., NEW YORK, N. Y. week will, Nanli)b six [.m a day, 30 hour, hes even as the horse and buggy for Editor: a week, with ii reasonaI, I onlpienisao to conveyancC. nLiietai Despite the purhier Mgm reports of power business for tin, being workr. By this time up the readers of this lJOURNAl to and ill many cases OnI exceeliing ilotlion the workers record ,lloy.ld lit 4ii hours are fi, iair with the Mix-hur day, :30 hour year of I139, we ate tll in the doldrums i of eek, wonld mean 44,000(,000 work hours. eek canil)alg Ii if local Uiiio No. 1-3. En- uiemployreant. ihy The answr is (!Utli"ig siupl theel to a mainiuml of 30 hours a eourag ll reports ire comingi in froIt locnals enough for those -eek, weulfd who care give and us want 14,0(0,000 to woirk-hours for all over the country that have taken ip the undiratirid true facts the and riot .ow uenelo a lot LI yed. lame Divide the six-hour day banner for this most practical solution for into excuses. Il,O,(000 would give us a gri nId total unenploylneInt, Prtilln,,s have been sent to of 2.:l3,333 more Each workdays, year I ki g into in these enited all oLr States si'ter we local bayr (Ithrugh bout the eiuntry consilleratin that this figure is approximtely only based to be signed by any and all workers one-half who million are young men on 1,000,900 and workers women anid who an eighlt-hoi, hve r completed work- citizens of the i ired States andi in favor their re ing day, it ran readily ie sleetive seen how ectaeatilo, the six of thils pla lie carly SuccessiI of this s in vne,- our schools adi are, hour practiiclly lay would.i speaking, solve the on the uCnemploymert ture, aml Sucess it nmust market lie for the for future jobs aid pionli.Lis in the business problem prosprlity worlidl. of oitr nation, They dlipnds on each and start out uill of holpe alId thie keen eCllau- Another article appiea"bg in a more or every Itn.i.ber of the I. B. i. W. and others siani of youth, only to meet failure. Their less popuinr nationwide ilagazin.i states getting its lar]y signatures aa possible so as requests for employinent ale usually met 'All economists agree that the one principal, to Subh it this plan for Tlegislatlon. with arygin aiswers, such if not , the We principal are reason for our continued Thirefore, let us all solemnly resolve, that layI u uRf. "lNot hiringl'." You mu;t depression have is the dearth of new building." in this New Year of 1940, we will l-ld our previous experience"*' tIhen goes WhaC on is to put to the become blmenic of oi rganized bert efforts to Illiillg the grsat hidp of them? ilere is one answer Il.bor, to th buidling at qIuery, i it trades unions in particular, Ainler: -an Labor out of the doldlruns of un- can he called an Preposterous, answer, or just of another course, frir to assume that one employ n ito jien the t rde winds of the of gereil avoidiulg of and puttietg local unions ofT the in issue, this that irgoe was nation is six-hoir (lay, 30-hour week andi jobs for Ill, recently pubished res onsible i onI e of New for York the City's depression. Yet, they WaLTER G IASER. iing dailly newspapers. woulidi have ynlu "Cive helieve Youth such a rot, No Imlenotilon Chance, Job Sur.ey risks U. is S." nale of inivestigations bcin nin de of the L. {. N{). 7, SI'I4INGFIELU, MASS. building This material so culled job survey, marufacturers, made by a grou.p regarding Editor: the high coLtS of materies. Why of is industrialsts this ill and educatiors under the It sire is great to know how far our vestigeAtitn going on? name Simply of tile because AnieiCriic it Youth has C orimissiilo, was JOlURNAL seems t tio trel every month. for ac been definitly established proven by the liat American the cost CoIIuncil Iof libr of IEd. eordnlrg to the article in MlIgazlne (ht you has ilnthiog at all tW l,, with the cation, high a non-government costs. os.n.izi [ott. have I hey r r.i.ests ,eceived for the JOUFaNaL from Still labhor gets the blaie, have finally Notwithstin omIe to the ding conrIlusion, after frr Norway and Italy. that they, the long laborlr years of g elasses, study, that wonlid ne-thiird be the of All any our reader has to do iS look on p,.c 1 first to iinvest in homes if tihe big if ig atpproxinatoly It,000.000 unemployed, at "Conntents" are ald you know yu" are startineg busiless woulr youths, d illvest between its capital the ages and of coop- 15 and 24 y2lrs. to real iin interesting JOURitNAL. I have read erate they with admit labor that in for the years shortenin rg there has of bIee, the Itlly blooks and a newspapers indi very few of workday arid workweek, disq.uietin thereby g" ende reating iy to a these exlude give begin,,irs lus tIe real facts as dos our demiid frm for emloiyme both labor and new blliiinIis t and that sonmething Is should JPUNA, a I nind I an, not sur.Pised oi ho- be done it about posslile it. liere to ibring is their bak plano pIrosperity by breakmany of my friends outside tile trade have ing down the standard A reonimendation of tie American asked rnite for the ioan to of my the government Jtual, to of Ceald. a workers, by fienrn g them relief or a possi- program of It is public pretty hard work, that to judge should which be story or bility of part-time work for little more than planned article with speciel is the best regard hut I to its really eluca- got a laugh one dollar a day? Or is it more feasible to from the Old tLonal WirePatcher qualty, that shoulii over provide the story opportiiri- of ereate a market for labor? how ties "Overtime to try Bilossomed various kinds in of Henry work. The the jobs. The press hits turned a deaf ear to our Eighth's Tay." they say. need not be full titme, and individ- pleas for publicizing the six hour ual day, expenditures 30- And the article on. the National <strong>Electrical</strong> need not exceed $400 a year. hour week. It. millions of readers an only Code, which sure has gone- through plenty of This. dear readers, is supposed to be liro consume what is of Intorst to its advertisers argulments pro and eon, has at last gone to ross, in a supposedly enlightened age. Just and supporters (big business). You can rest print and I well know onir liatcrnatioal think, the mgnificenrt sum of $400 a year, assured that the six-hour day, 30-heur week <strong>Of</strong>fice had plenty of representatives to take exactly thirty-three dollars and thirty-three is not one of their favorite topics. Therefore, . cere of our interests. and one-third cents a month, to pay rent, this medium of acquainting the entire pub- I would be very much disappointed if my lothe, anlid feed these individuals Not alone lic with the vital need for a shorter work- JOURNAL was lost and I was unable to get that. hbut they have been big-lheartedl enogh day is closedt to us. Our only recourse is to another one. to advatce this plan to the government for thoroughly acqtunitt ourselves with the vir- There is not much news from Springfeld; financing. A govertnent already with a notuoe of this campaign, discuss it whenever work seems to be at a standstill just low. It tional deirt of over 40 billion dollars, incurred the opplortunity present, itself, at union seemed the bottom dropped out of verything since 1931 and still on the increase, due to meetings, clb meeting, social gatheringrs, the last month arid our business manager is V-ri.uu pJtdets to aid the unemployed! They etc. It is not a radical movement by any quite worried with so manly men coming on make no attempt to aid the g overnment rian meanls, as some diehards will try to make him at orie time, iat the boys have had a cialy in this Latter. Neither do they attenlipt you believe. but justifiable by the technologi- good spell for the last six months and it to solve this problem of oli r unenmployel cale improvemnts in industry that are sure as, a lot better than it was last year youth and others in a more sane and i.ra.ti- steadily depriving men artid wnin of the at this time. This cold spell we have been cal nanrter, that of relucFign the wr akday right and ,opportunity to earn a livelihood. It haiviag the whole ,0onth of January has and weekly hours. is not our intention that modern i.achinery stoppedr l ui i ri haut we hope for ii good In 193S, our Seventy-fifth Congress passed andi itll .rove.teerit. shoull be done away with) spring nod saumer. K. MULLARKEy. the minimum Wage at'd Hour Law. No doubt Oa the eontraiy! We oly isk thilat the work- it has aided considelirably. lerever, it is day and weekly hours he adjusted to these L. U. NO. 8, TOLEDO, 01110 hardly drastic enourh, as is evidenced by the advancenetnts. that ILthey may e considered Editor: ever-incresing worklisa pliphlation,. There- a help to mnioklind instead of a detriment Writintg this collrrpo dnce, for this fore, it does not solve the problem, ilt a The time has lopng since passed that tilhe month is a painful task, for I have the still shorter hourly workday and work- eight-hour workday has outlived its useful- sad news to imipart to the membership of
FEBRUARY, 1940 the death af the wife of your writer. Mrs. were not lived up to, refuse them a hook-up Conway hall beenl ailing sine Iast February, hut still maintained her sunny dispositi.on to he ,ry end. The Almighty C(reator eilmed her for Il own on January 5. 19411. It is, m? hope that she has elt this worid of strife t, enter, to the linldnom of Fernal Rest. At this momelt work is almost at a standstill here, diu. to the enild weather. last week the meneury drOpPed to ]2 below nill it ir't lmuch higher tlow. There isn't great deal going on, a"Y way, a.id ullot or the bhys olre pulttillg in their tilme thinkig of other plilaces they woull rather Tbe than iii Teletdo. S;pe iiffilny somewhere that it is warm enough .. tog iln swimmrning, 1'rospcpts for Ilie eaunillg year are nilt so bright with th exception of l, exporteid honm in smnal hii.. e construction anld these jois do i1ot keep w remen warking very [I..g Thoer are a few big idiustrial joly ill the hipper, hut he,, and if they get out is still a inUter of time. Maybe they are holding off long ernough to fiid out w]]o is likely to be our next 1President. ioplii that olther locals have better pro pelts for the future. will sign off ItL£ COwAY. O REAlD Fire loss on farms, by L. U. No. 16. Jobless youth, by L* U. No. B-3. Cause of wars. by L. U. No. B-124. Success for radio men, by L. U. No. B-1010. Conditions on a non-union utility system, by L. U. No. 1-904. Pahblic P'oerr in Tennessee, by IL. U. No. 11-816. Thurman Arlnold and the law, by IT. INo. 665. They try ery-l-op resuscitation. by I.. U. No. 11-77. Safely and conscietious ',orkers. by IL. I. No. B-723. The "Thurman Act.," by IL. i[. No. 363. That N.. .. It, . teh. pbiue. by L. U. No. B-76;. J.o dip.lacement on railroads, by L.I U. No. 912. to the energized lines. This report could he published in the WO1IIR t iand would Iake goo{d reading. This idea of some state dlepartment Is well as the L11 . A, ill haiving' group iietnigs to instrrt these farm boys "'how to learn to wire a liinie over night"' should be stoiped, as well as hainng some cleri at Sears-RoeIuek or Monttgomery Ward give a n lii i] structions aloerg the me line fljust so they may be able to sell him a $50 order of material, a prt Ifl which is lialle to be sub-standard. I suppose that's enough for one month, but I ,,pwet to hae morn illanter on on this same subject. E. E. TIOSINSON. L. U. NO. B-28, BALTIMORE, MD. Editor: Thlt little tiffl r si aged join.tly by Locals No, 26 and 28 went over in a really hig way, It wais ilianirious 5 vrteId a hu.e suecrss. Drinks andi ratl wre plentifully supplied and the boys futrnishetd their own enteltaliment. which wa of a varied lature Oysters in all 57 vairig'tie' (0 the shell, in the shell, and out of the shell. At any rate. Eddie Garila ari,,l his able asistats ¢er- L. U. NO. 16, EVANSVILLE, IND). Editor; due to inlproper wiring. lare rapilly inetres ing and I belleve thle oases will be much heavier as the electrifiec tt io of the farms intoinily pat it over onl this er'l while Brother Palher orf I- I. N,.. 26 pit it over il a big way on hliq end. T tope we w credited Anlothei year haos Tlllssedl oend it has been a very faii olne for thi hernlerrs of Ilocal No. 16. While we have nnt had so much work in our own TOcehity. our men have been able to find work in he juris(li'tiol of soine of our nearby sister locals; nialy thlimks tb, them for their f ie 'display of brotherly loae. It has Ileen real wi ter here for the last three weeks. Below rinormil teMlleratures have prevailed and plenty of ttow. It's wnarmer toiaiy, which will allow builhing work to resume litI give the boys a chance to go to work. For over a year I have in my letters take to task the clafs of work being int.ltill on the rural electrification projects, which. except it a few istilallces haoe been what I have termed "lousy," This applield to iloth outside coristtruetin nod aile especially to the type of work instiletd ill the farm holes and buildirltr . I have said that the type of construction anl tile materal!s ,i lsel wold be the cause of much trouhle and that ill the course of a few years it oulil ill have to be doae over creases all river the countl' y. So there it is Finlily thely realize that it takes skilled mechailcs , to wire eve,, a ifaln home and the buildinfigs adjacent. fr. it}vis has made very .enar story with one exceptrl, anil that is where he says "scarcity . of electrlians work"' for such Tihere exists no such a learth of wiremlen There is net ta tuoal ia Lhe L. B. E, W. that could not furnish men for that type of work. anti weuld not be glad i. sentd .hen out ,n thosel jebl, if the iinen were assured of a lecent wage scale,. There are nllany wireea i who would be glad to tie upi with that sort of work. I might offer the suggestion that Our RISEaAIIJ DEPPI{TMENT go tin thils and obtain froan each state fire marshals o/ice the anttoint of nlo..ey atll loss of lives involved ill farrm fires for the past two or three years. I inlagine the increase in sre losses wouid [,e staggering and might open the eyes of the heads of R. E A. A. wl would and should etabliish rules that would make for safety both as to life ani Ii r. If these rules everyhody,) In glancitll through these liges we were astounded by the news that we would no oiLger fin] ' i]rother Ililehie tanlon the contribtotrs. Tllhse colins carL ill aftron to lose a scribi of such ability. Yet there it was, atl toi true. Balhie gult himself a Job as inspector oif the Atlantic (ity EIle.trienl Buarau. OuLr [est wishes-, lhii, I ,for your success andil itl the ine time our regrets at thile loss tl te JOUiiNAL. .F youllr servies. Mllaybe you'l nmke a contribution now and then, it will go over in a bis way with the boys, What we cion sider a great piece of news was the reains iat these elumnas that the Eiletrical (iode came through ailmost entirely unltiuhed except for a few iminor chaages, That ilderl was grttifying news, for i one recalls the progriam called for ,uite bit of miuliation fri.nl various grops. Hlad this conic tiout we wotld nilaee'l be in a sad plight hiut us it is we have somnething to be thankful for. Adii now eotes i fasinrinting item on the again so that it would be safe both fronl the angle of Iifi protection anl ire protection. The, general rul of the work up to the subljeet of "fire wir,'" a new item that if successful biis fair to ill'crease our working opportunities, somnethim of whith we're all present has been lioth a ir all ,, a lre in dirt neied. ]read ,ver this interesting letter hazardi. To bear out my contentions. I am quoting an artiele ill the Janilury issue of the h Q. ali led Co nt crtor,'' on la.e 30. In that issue i. ar'aticle Pi;'t ' is eaed, ;Frm %os ire in V. S, up 10 to 15 per cent in 1939." It goes on to say that filt rt re losses have increased I10 to 15 million dollars to a total by i.. U. No. 77 in the January issue. A new product put out by Ioltz. r Cabot. New products are one of our chief hopes il overcoling the vlarioS set-backs we receive whin various labor sayigs tools are th'rown on the market- Ill our last letter ,we inclu'led a few names of some of the boys we had the pleasure of of $I10,000.000. This report was made by meetin g duri g the year. Well, a few Ilore to the farm fire protection committee of the sort of Corn[ilete tle list is herewith pre- N. F. P. A. ia Chictago on December 5, 1930. senltId. We start off with Jack Bartlett. Fire Ialrshall Davis of Nebraska declared, "The rapid rwthl of faLrm ,eletrificition both serius nild othier handll thre conscientious, while on the is Marty Cutlip who just is creating a grave problem for fire protec- eant't be serious and never heard or the word. tion and prevention hladers.' Marty is a great cou..anion of Slim. whose I also qnttt him ftrther when t he says: "rhh i s rouhie i to hi fround in the nmatter of Lnan. for the mlelmeni e scapes us Tlheni there is Al Jahn.s, that marvel with the camera, to wri rl farm hollmes. It is a matter of ,xtreime diffiulty to get wi rilln done ia ac- hear him tell it Al iiesr,'t ii iss a siap with the camera. Joe Frick. who appeared to be cordane with the National l]ectrical (Code operating either a iarley D avidson or Indian reqlirTemerits - or nmiybe just a plaia air haliner. anyhow, "Scarcity of eletririians for such work in the trural sections and the diffieuly of getting farm.rs or their sons to follow the prescribed sdethids It I precautions are seriuos obstal-s., In the meantime farm tires. Eletr ic itl crew of L. . N a. B- 25. oft on g Itland. on a halt-miillon dolar slte Job. I Dow ik the , ontr tol , I tht e Picture. left to right Bro"lers I V. Everett. torean: Gweorge L'L40)med'eu. helper; IlI.ny ](alkowsky, wlreman ask Joe, he ought to know While Rudy Worlh isn't the worst pusher by a long shot., lRuy car lienl.. a .y roll of )rlints that conles aionS, R. S. IROSE.AN. 8I
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