1 4 shirts" to watch Now we h, ne ano l ther tm... to watch. the "Christlin Front." The irony of the whole thing is that they wouldl connect the Prine of I'aIe, lie who preached the Oei-tline of ivy thy neighrill with a militiry organization puplairently realdy to fight a,,d kill to gain it1r Ollns. We are glad to see that m.ore a.n olnre the Cralel are .,ttili imbued il the iideaL of the six-hour lay 30-hour week. It has heen our ex perienrce, thollgh. in talking with me. nher, froom dierent prts of Ilh country, that ,,ir gr n:4 obstacle in gelujg tiCle six hol, day in hill, electrical worker hireself. Oh hie les, oh 'like the six-hour day but he wants eigh, hours pay for it the very tirgt da1 he oi I k
FEBRUARY, 1940 tions are weak and ineffective for that very reason? Not so Local o. 104. In these times when organ ied labior must be on its toes to take advaaitaz, i f tihe ripjnrirtunitieis oftcred to it and tol holId in cheek those forces that wild work it woe Local N., 104 hits itiast of nembers who never fail to itentd te lietings anti take an active and intelligen t part in the runining of the ioal. <strong>Of</strong> curs e a set-up like this is quite disnionertini to the offiers ltt himes, but in genleral, it is ex'elen,, for the 'il arid good.l for 11l noislatit as a whole. And s fallthil. loyal. anl true iellelbets, Local Nt, 11 ss 'tin orchid to y,' NOTICE Leal iUnion No. 194, of Shreveport, La., wihes to war.n traveling mie ':blers that there is ,n work for the,,l in its jurisdic.tion at pirese t n that reports atd beilrg broadcast over local radilo sathions to the ffe(t: that thr.,. is lack of .'cnmipetent nitehanies in the luiliding trndiec in this vicinity are untrue If you oe oin templating coming here for the piuIrt , ,f workllg. kindly entact Business Man.i.t, r It , Thmran P. 0. Biox 740. Shro;ep'ell, L I T'7. KEfLY, Jil, ]I I l inf, Seretary. This should he a very busy year anid also one that will require plhnty of thinking before acting, this being rlecion year. We will be bleseeched to eniorse this man and that one, non-partisan hlror leagues will want our support. Study these so-called leagues. see who is the "big light" in the laekgrou.ni trying to swing or vote. Romem lbr, stulidy the candidatert lalor Iaklgrounhi, not hii platfornl or what he is promising to do when l elected, ie will hiis do just as lie Ion in the past. This will tconehi&d ry ritinz fr this month; until next time ",II ost Or Cause. L. U. NO. 11-106. JAMESTOWN, N. Y. Edlitnr: Work alonil here is not v .ry pIlti(riiL ulthough most of the boys n Ianare to It in some time each week. If aiy local cr loeals are in ro,l of any extra wiureion rleikmter this local has ii few gn',d wireilen wIhto re willilg to [llos All Iikr .oys are ilt oc iene andt natu.ally sonie are ionirln, IBrothe, ilarm]1 Wen.gr, one of our eecsi tire board ,nvrniils, llas acevpted a pistlion with the gver llnl...t alti he has ttr,nsferrled into Local No. 121. What i ou ilrls is someone ee> ' iril We inalli hare succeeed in getting otlir Master LUe....e and Jurreyren icense Bill threugh land toight tilhe it.arl ailli be tonirmrel by the cii e 'nf mli iarid after 0 ildays every wirnmlarl, in this vility will have to show his iclrise or pay a lif fine. So all oiut of town liii nolng in tiere ti, do work will take notin andr act laedorI.in.gy, We Inave ihen sucessful ill organizing the Monarcit Fuse Co. 100 per cetit with a sifil aigriel.enti., seility rights, oIeO week's va- Ataien with pay, 2'e an hour iiinr(ase, We lre very forint ilt this past year in this loca ilit i hnini m th anount of work that we hadil Ollr lIcal i, prespiretld filnanriali a well s as I hinvini sai.eel.tle( in renel - ing our eeniuttrrtrts with the iontractors again ~ for the ec]ittitE year The Clenient fTli..tri'nl Fletr¢i Co. has the power hiuise job for the new water pipeline ihieh runs fr'ioi ],ake Michigan to Grand Rlap1 idh, aplrrointlteyx 85 ]iles. it is a ver nliee jolt and it Ilis the latest thing in remote lliterol s'i'tels.. When it is coin pietedl i will bI r of the finest ii stailations in thie ciirluntf We hav'l "eera] rilir i~nir jnb- going on at lie ireent tame. hut jlust ahnut enough . k'eop onr own boys husy .lhe fluoressent lighting r(divih of the Crand Rapi re El upidsetore C. orpo ration has been a great li'p to loeal No. 107, employing a n,.i..irtr of our i...ohei rs. The ,ultitig comiittee will neet this week to aull it the books. ill the past. we have audited evi,,y si moniths. lint are considerin chagnging thils period lo thire months, to make the job aii little eashir. .. U. NO. B-121, KANSAS CITY, MO. Editor: ird,' Tayl or is sick. Mtybe that dolsni'I mean much to the Brotherhooiidol at large. Or course you have iwiys it seenis like a ways seen his hnmn , in the leial oiot direl tories: "Ka, isas City, I,. I, No.. 124 -II N Taylor, Fin. Sec." There ale lots if "Fin Sees." in the it .diretory, Illere is only one Herb lTaylor. And his sick(ess i, iitltler of deep and solicitous ernr.. to the neil>trs of thi lrali To go inti the ffice anrd neot see him at his desk gives the nellt,, rs the feeling that the loeal hlas uspendl ipeiations for tile htime being. (If eourl, it hlrit.'r really; the liusines, of ite organiation i going along as usual With Roy Sniley acting as HlerIls commpetent sbiltitiihte But tile oldi wheel horse is pir ediii foir the nmoeiert. nid the membership mie. him. You're bound to miss a seeretary s hosli lilrest in. a.iI long service to a local, eldit, s him to ilnrembe r the card nunbers o all thie mem..ers, moist of whom ean't rmenllinbr their own card num, hers without referrinii to their receipts . While we are p/lhlieintg o aplpreiution fur and another r2"c increase il May; 45 Iler hour onininl u. for women ,IId bLe per hour mtaiinium for iieri, Signed i Ireaitunt 'or one year andi the lilion label of the I 13, X W. on ,evr y lu4 they henld olut So please ask frr the uniun lalel on every fuse you usc,. O'ganier John i l y assisted us. On Jan.mnry 1 1S40. 9. eight from this local Some of our hoys who have been out of town on tllie, different jols have come hailk with .:od Ireports of itr different sister locals. lind we thank tliee loals for their fine pirll of cooiersition, I was very erory to hear that the [ . .FW. lIst out ns sole a rg;i'iinin agent for Cnnsumers Power Conmpari inl this state. and it and our hopes for an enrly recovery of Brother Tla ylior. permit is to explress our appreciation of whileel horses everywhere There ia a group of them in every Iloal. 'hey always attend the meetin gs; they are always appointed ,>i co.ni.itteis they shoulder all the burdens. They are tihe gilntis of a al11 body. YI..U tk tahem as a matter of roirse went to luffale arid attiilend, with albiiit 00 nimrer froii othier insi. a testinil,,iil dinner for th( retiring iusmss manager t of L. U. No 41. Beether Bill Fisher. We alt late to se H Iil go, but he wias electl Inst behooves ls to he on the alert anti see that the C I . doesn'tf et a stronger foLhold than it alr.a.ily has. F [. PE. risON, until one of them ceases to funltion. Then the bones aid muscles. which is to sy the rank and file. realiie their iepsrt.n ee With out thee hut,,n l..tds the locals inicedi the <strong>Brotherhood</strong> itself-- would cease to exist fall as chairi/as i of the eOninmO council ia Buffail. It "t. i aswell taifoi, and n"Iobody who atttl.enid will ever regret it, But Bnliffali, L. Editor . NO. .-108, TAMPA, FLA. as organ ireri entities. Pickings here beinig it their seasonal low. soni, of the Birother have scattered to vn is sure to hale a gonl uiioion [la in the ounlcil of the city of Buffalo. So it goes, here Time ,and tiide wait for no man:, nor does, the press int., if our JoiRNAL. Time is hang- rious points on the mop to fill out the wel known wrinkles. Bernie Jackson. Oscar Sims, todbay and gone tonmorrow. Wishing every ieamher of the <strong>Brotherhood</strong> lots of work ing on my hands, as I am reeovering from a hea.i operatioi. and how can it he spent in Jimmioe o somewhere oi' rani Jimilie Thotipson are the lliiilisii front. Jimmie ilay. and a Yert prosperou s year in i 191. MAC. a better manner than by writing my monthly article fo r .lir own ililiurious JOURNAL? {ere in 'lampa it feels as if some one anl Bob Jones are in Abilene, Kans. Bob, you kLnow, is one of our talented holibbyit. Ilis whimrsicai verse often ippert is onl the On L U.N , h07. 7.GAND O ) RAP,1DS, MCth Editor: left the deor of natures refrigerator open. It is unusualhy cold f'ir ltorda. but we have nlways nur friend. the an,. which soon has Every Jol" page, over the initials 'B. J." His chief dliversioii hoover, is song-wriL in. YoulII all be whistling his "Fresh We now have our electriciai school for the us feeliua wairmer There is one thing we Paint," nr one of hiis other coa liositions. journemen illn progress, and have been very can always lnok forward to here, and that is one of these lays. fortunate in selurinfg the .er.viees of several of the eleCtricaI engineers from the ConsinmerN Powr Ciinpoany who have devoted these cold snaps are usually over in a few lars. theili irt sleeves are in order again. We have leo n forLtiunar in being able to Our diatribe agalast MoIilization Day" and "War'" brought a response in the foro of a couple of paiphlets on war, phblished much of theirt time to instructing the boys it hooking up transformers, Iin voltage re1g - keep our men,hers husy for the past few months. anl it is our hope that it will con- by the National Labor Party. While we can't wholly subscribie to sani of the conclusions ulators antd nities, and also in the fudaitental prinmilisr of all meters. We meet LtwO nights a week at the Vocatiotal Schlool, each member paying a nominale fiee of $3 a year, tinue to ). thailt way for some time to come- It is withl ireait sorrow that we record the passing of our friend and Brother, Theodore Krant To itis family we extundl our henrt- therein. the sentimets are entirely rnesonable, Recent events lihave proven the socialist doctrine-that only caiitilisnt is resprins ibe for wars is untenable nn Ler test, The fan Our helpers' school is supposed to startln felt symialthy in their hour of bereavement. tasti claim of Russia thl. it was mienacedl hi January 27, so I presume that ihy the time this letter appears in the Jo1,rxAl.. the sthool Brother Kralt was i loyal member of I. i. No. B1-I08, lhhoui(h during the Jlast few years little Finliand I. draws the world's derision. Stalin has give socialisn a permanTen , black will be pretty well under way. Our schooI hoard. consistin of Brothers Reynolds. he had beer, West Ihurin! yorkiig tihrorhhout the M4iddlI the sunmmer. lie will be misned eye. In this coun try ertain laws which wouli Winn. Visser nlid erman, have worked very hard to get this tin goi and they deserve a great [Cal of credit for it. by us oler members with hint and friendship who knew and worked rnjoyie each other's have considered ,been snilAlltiec a few y.ars ago are now on the statute liooks. The heartening trend is toward blending the most II -j
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