t - International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers

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. Of 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
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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 Brotherhood 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 Brotherhood 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
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