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EDITORIAL 

COMMENT 

The Failing 

Economic Recovery 

Dictates A Change 

In The White House 

"A full economic 

recovery will never 

take place until there 

is full employment, 

with substantiallyreduced 

federal deficits 

and low interest 

rates," 

• At the recent Mid-Winter Meetings of the AFL-CIO Executive 

Council, the Council was furni shed with valid statistical evidence 

proving that the unrealistic budget and economic policies 

of the Reagan Administration are still threatening the soundness 

of our economy for years to come. 

So, in spite of the Reagan Administration's highly publicized 

claims that the nation is fast on the road to a real economic 

recovery, that road the Administration is so proudly following 

and ballyhooing is running out of correct directional signposts 

and is still the wrong road to follow. 

A full economic recovery will never take place until there is 

full employment, with substantially reduced federal deficits and 

low interest rates. These economic factors are needed now in 

order to bring about a real recovery. 

However, the ever-rising high federal deficits are pushing up 

the already too high interest rates and threa ten to soon start us 

on an even worse "Reaganomic" recession. 

The so-called economic experts cannot deny that huge budget 

deficits raise interest rates causing curtailment of public and 

private job-creating investments. High interest rates also contribute 

to the over-valuation of the dollar, which prices U.S. 

goods out of overseas markets and encourages more flooding of 

imports, which ca uses more American workers to lose their 

jobs. When workers lose their jobs billions of dollars are lost in 

production, which in turn means billions and billions of dollars 

are lost in badly needed revenues. 

Exorbitant interest rates, coupled with high unemployment, 

is .lIsa not the way to fight inflation, which robs workers am 

of realizing full value of their wages earned. This lowers their 

buying power on the consumer markets. Today the buying 

power of the worker's paycheck is lower than in 1979. 

When President Reagan goes 0 11 TV and smilingly sa ys, 

" Everything is going to be rosy, just have patience, stay the 

course," those and other innuendoes are simply used to cover 

up his supply-side, trickle-down experiment that has failed, and 

will continue to fail, unless the direction of the nation's economic 

policy is reversed and the fundamental problems are 

addressed. 

It is very evident that the Reagan Administration has no 

intentions of changing its policies. Therefore, it is time for a 

change in the White House. Jobs, fairness, and opportunities for 

the future are the key issues in the forthcoming November 

elections for workers and for all the peoples of our nation. Only 

the election of a new president will restore a proper administration 

of workers' basic rights that are being undermined by the 

Reagan Administration. 

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Charles H. Pillard 

International President

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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD 

OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS 

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JOURNAL • APRIL 

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Volume 83, No. 4 

FEFlTLlFIES 

CHARLES H. PILLARD , Editor 

AFL·CIO Mid-Winter Meetings 

1984 NJATC Annual Meeting 

Mandale Rebuilding America 

Mondale-Fact Sheet on the Future 

International Representative John W. Dalton Dies 

Eleventh District Holds Manufacturing Conference 

U.S. Savings Bonds 

Supreme Cour1 Bankruptcy Ruling Threatens 

Collective Bargailling 

Annual Statement of EWBA 

DEPAFlTIVIENTS 

Editorial Comment 

Research and Education 

Safety Tips 

Local Lines 

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Pension and Death Benefit Payment Report 62 

In Memoriam 

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Reflections 

ON OUR COVER-NaliOna/ elections, 

stale pnmalies, and caucuses are 

"elY much In the news these days 

November 6 WIn be a mosl IfT\portant 

election day IOf wonung people and 

thelf families 

Our lronl cover In 

photographs and ecluOfIal copy urges 

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ISEW members to be active 

partJClpanlS in the enllre pollllcal 

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Pictured sealed on the upper righ t Is Internationsl 

President Charles H. Pillard partic 

Ipating in the Mid-Winter sessiOf'ls 01 the 

AFl-CIO ExectJllve Council. President Pillard 

is also a vice president 01 the AFL 

CIO. The Council considered matters pertaining 

to unemployment, wages. high In· 

lerest rales. Innation, housing. health care, 

Social Security, civil rights. International 

trade, OSHA and other issues important to 

organized labor and all WOO(lng people. 

Several members of Congress appeared 

before the Counal 10 discuss theIr policies 

and posillOOS on lebo(s issues 

Ounng tho AFl-CIO Executive Council 

sessions. a most Important meeting was 

held by the standing AFL·CIQ Committee 

on HOUSIng Chairman 01 the Committee is 

PreSIdent Pillard, who is pictured preSiding 

0'0'91 the meeting of the AFL-CIO Housing 

CommlnM President Pillard made the repoll 

01 the Committ ee to the AFL·CIO Executive 

Council 

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During the Mid-Winter AFL-CIO Meellngs, the ExecutIVe Board 01 the AFL-CtO Metal Trades 

Department met In seSSlOll. President Pillard Is pictured sea.led to the right of Dopanmont President 

Pa.ul Bumsky, who is seate

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During the AFL-CIO Executive Council Mid-Winter Meelmgs, Ihe 

AFL-CIO Mantime Trades Department mel in sessioo Shown on 

the left attending the Depar1menfs meeting is George Knaly, di· 

rector, IBEW Government Operations Director Knaly is a member 

of the Man\lme Trades Department Execullve Council. Sealed 

next to him is Justin 05110. VICe president, Machinists Union and 

Western Area E)(8C\Jlrve Board member. Manbme Trades Depart 

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President Pillard Is 

shown In diSCUSSion 

dunng a break of [he 

AFl·CIO Executive 

Council Meeting with 

United Association 

President MaNin 

Boed. 

The IBEW-Carpentsr's JUrisdiction Committee hetd a meeung dUring 

the AFl-CIO Mid-Winter Meetings Shown seated at the meeting 

represenllng the IBEW are. lel1 to right. InternatIOnal Aepresentatlve 

Arlie Heald. Director 01 IBEW ConstruclJOn and Maintenance Ted 

Moseley. Second OIsmct VICe PreSIdent John E Flynn. International 

Execuwe Counol member Harry Bexley and Ninth DlStr1Ct Interna 

Iional Representative Ken Johnson 

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AFl·CIO President Lane Kirkland and President Pillard are shown 

being interviewed while on the informational piCket line at the Fontainebleau 

Hotel during the ABC Contractors meellng. Directly behind 

President PlliaH:! is Ed Stephenson. preSident. South Florida AFl· 

CIO. who arranged lor the Council's parllCipatlon Brother Stephen· 

son is a member of the IBEW 

AFL-CfO President Lane 

Kirkland and President Pil· 

lard are shown leading the 

AFL-CIO Execullve Council 

members who JOined 

the Miami Building Trades 

Counal In picketing the 

ABC Contractors meellng 

being held at the Fontainebleau 

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Prior to the AFl-CIO Meetings. President Pillard and International Secretary lelgon mel With the IBEW International 

Vice Presidents and International Executive CounCil members to dlSCllss policies and plans of programs lor the 

progress 01 the Brotherhood. Shown is the entire group 01 officers attending one of the sessions 

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Shown In sessions during the NJA TC Annual Meeting are members 01 the CommUl88 during a dlscusslOfl Of\ a training Issue of vital Interest to the 

electncal industry 

1984 NJATC ANNUAL MEETING 

Center is International PreSident Charles 

H P,Uard, who serves as co-chalrman 01 

the NJATC. On his right is C W Stocker, 

Jr", also co-d'lalnnan, who repreS8f\1$ 

NECA on the CommfUee. On the len Is 

Anthony Salamone, Adminlstrallve AsSIII· 

aol 10 President Pillard, who serves as 

secretary of the NJATC. 

The Annual IBEW-NECA 

National 

' Oint Apprenticeship and 

Tramlng Committee Meeting was 

held in Washington, D.C., on March 

19, 1984. The meeting was Jointly 

co-chatred by IBEW International 

President Charles H. Pillard and C. 

W. Stocker, JT ., vice president, District 

5, National Electrical Contrac- 

tors Association. 

The Important meeting covered 

numerous sub,ects relating to the 

aCllvltics of the NJATC. Nallonal 

Director A. J. Phillips gave a comprehensive 

report concerning man· 

power training. further courses 

planned, BAT regulations and o ther 

important NJATC activities Vital to 

the tralnlOg In the electrical con· 

struction industry. 

The members of the Committee 

who were present contnbuted to thc 

meaningful discussions concerning 

the development and programs of the 

NJATC. 

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Pictured here are the members of the National Join! APO'enlic:eshlp and Training Committee lor the Electrical Industry. who attended the 1984 

Annual Meelmg held in Washington, DC 

MEMBERS OF NATIONAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP AND 

TRAINING COMMITfEE FOR THE ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY 

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REPRESENTING THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION 

c. W. Stocker, Jr., Co·Chm. 

Thomas A. Powell Wilham D. Shlrd Gary Bruno 

Burlon Brothers Elcc. Co . 

Powell Elcc., Inc. Waleo Elccme Company Bruno Electric 

P.O. Box 9071 

III S. 21st St ree t 4707 S.W. Kelly Avenue P.O. Box 9399 

Fon Worth, TX 76107 

Newark, OH 43055 Portland, OR 97201 Fresno, CA 93792 

Anton KiLngcr Robert E. Doran, III Robert B. Hoppe 

Mark W. Hughes, Treasurer Klmger Elcc. Corp Capital Elcc . Const. Co. of The L. E. Meyers Company 

Oir., Labor Relations, NECA P.O. Box 6803 Kansas, Inc. POSI Offke Box 27046 

7315 Wlsconsm Avenue Jackson, MS 39211 Post Office Box 148 Salt Lake City, UT 84127 

Bethesda, MD 20814 

Leavenworth, KS 6(,().l8 

James R Solem 

Leonard L Kevclder 

Henry P. Scalfo Barker-Fowler Elecmc Z"ck Brewer, Ir High Voltage Systems 

Scalia Electnc, Inc. Company Elcclric Service Co. POSt Office Sox 92 

POSt Office Box 802 500 North Larch Street POSt Office Box 420 192 Marc Avenue 

Vineland, NI 08360 Lansmg, MI 48914 Casper, WV 82602 Cuyahoga Falls, O H 44222 

REPRESENTING THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS 

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Charles H. Pillard, Co.-Chm. 

lnternauonal PreSident, IBEW 

1125- 15th Sueet, N.W. 

Washmgton, D.C 20005 

Anthony I. Salamone, 

Secretary 

mEW 

112S-15th Street, N.W. 

Washmgton, D.C 20005 

Robert F. Regan, DIl.·IATC 

Local Umon No. 10.3, IBEW 

80 Crescent Avenue 

NeWlOn Center, MA 02159 

Howard Grabert, S.M. 

Local Umon 126, IBEW 

2827 West Ridge Pike 

NOITIstown, PA 19401 

Neal Boyce, 8.M . 

Local Umon 972, IBEW 

3 II Second St rcet 

Manetta, OH 45750 

Doug WatkinS, 8.M . 

Local Umon No. 558, lBEW 

Post Office Box 578 

Sheffield, AL 35660 

Fred J. Smith, B.M 

Local Umon No. 117, !BEW 

400 Federation Pbce 

Elglll, IL 60 120 

Kenneth R Edwards, I R 

!BEW 

1l2S-15th Suect, N W 

Washington, D.C 2000') 

Robert D. Grinstead, 8.M . 

Local Umon No. 12, IBEW 

818 East 4th Street 

Pueblo, CO 8100 I 

A. J. PhilliPS, Director 

Roben M. Chessler, ASSlst;l.nt Director 

A. J. Pearson, Assistant Director 

Wilham J. Grosuck, B.M 

Local Umon No. 76, IBEW 

3049 South 36th 

Tacoma, \VA 9840-1 

Emil Ducoulombler, 8.M 

Local Umon 124, !BEW 

P.O. Box 8727 

Kansas City, MO 641 14 

B I Lowery, B.M 

Local Umon No. 175, !BEW 

2922 Volunteer Drive, Suite 9 

Chaltanooga. TN 37416 

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The best leaders. history lell:, 

us time llnd again, are tho:,c who 

cam tl"U!:'t. reiipcct and ~upport 

by doing. by building. Th~tl':, why 

the AFL·CIO endorsed the 

candidacy of Waller F. ~Ionclah.· 

to be Prc:-;idcnt of the 

United St;lte:-;, 

WalleI' ~ l ondale i:-; a budder. 

He welcomes the future a)o\ an 

opportunity to rebuild America 

Like any builder. he know:< ,vou 

can't erecl :I ~ol1nd and :-;aft, ~l l"u e· 

ture without a firm foundation. 

The foundation Wahel' :'Ilondale 

bclicvfJ:; Amcl'ita IllU"l I't'ly 

on i~ the ~t l'ength anel well-twill!! 

of all of its people. Thl' buildillK 

block:, of this foundation al'l~ full 

employment and ,1 I'i:;ill~ :;tandal'(I 

of living fo r workel':'. 

Waller i\londale belic\'l':- that 

when people \\"ork hard. pay 

their laxe:;, ;\I'C g'ood parent:- and 

CilizCIl~, obcy the law and play 

by the 1'Ulc~, they have a I'ilrht to 

expect ('cl'tain thin~:;. from th('ir 

country - thing:;.. ~uch

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FACT SHEET ON THE FUTURE 

Walter Mondale says: 

Every generation has itS own special 

challenge. But each generation has the 

same baSIC responsibility: to leave [heir 

children a beHer world than the one they 

inherited. We cannOt go back We cannot 

)olv(: uur children's problems by rcpc:n- 

109 our parents' answers. 

Walter Mondale has a plan to build 

for America's future. 

• Renew our comffillmCnt 10 educational 

access and excellence, from pn· 

mary school 10 graduate school 

• Ensure fair treatment fo r every member 

of our workJorcc by vigorously en· 

forcmg all anudlscrlmmatlon statutes, 

lla .~" lng the FRA. ami workmg toward 

pay equity. 

• Promote sCience and technology by 

restoring a proper balance between Clvlhan 

and military acuvIIICS, and by 

refurblshmg laboratones In our n3110n's 

grea t univerSity research ccnters 

• Return to full cllfulLcmcnl of all en 

vlronmcntallaws and regula lions, renew 

the altack on tOXIC wastes, and address 

I ~n o red probl ems such as aCid ram. 

• Recommit our COUntry 10 energy secunty, 

through Innovallve technologies 

and new energy sou rces, more conser· 

vallon, and stepped-up filling 01 the Stra· 

teglc Petroleum Reservc. 

• PromOte small bUSiness with meas· 

ures to reduce Interest r,lIes, foster cap 

Ital formation, and mcrease the supply 

of skilled researchers and engineers. 

• Improve cooperation with our allies 

by : 

• abandonmg diVIsive expon control 

policies, 

• acting more firmly to address and 

resolve divisive trade issues, 

• renewing our suppon for human rights 

and democratic values around the world, 

• dc-escalating the rhetoric of military 

eonlronl3tion with the Soviet Union and 

working firmly and p:ltIcntly to reduce 

tensions. 

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• Gel serious once again about nuclear 

arms con trol by: 

• ratifymg SALT H, 

• adhering to the ARM Treaty, 

• tightly controllmg the flow of weap' 

ons-grade matenal, 

• re-emphaslzmg non-proliferation, 

• ralsmg the nuclear threshold In Eu· 

rope, 

• Improving cnsls commumcatlons 

with the SOV iet Umon, 

• beginmng to b:argaln toward a mu· 

tual and venfiable freeze on strategIC 

arms, 

• convening a summit conference to 

gCI the START and TNF talks back on 

track 

The Reagan Administration has 

failed to build for the future. 

• The future requITes the beSt educated 

and tramed generation m Amencan hiStory. 

But the Reagan Admlmstratlon has 

slashed fundmg for educallon by S2 hll 

hon (13 percent] m FY 1984 alone. 

• The future requuc.'i Amentan ~rlrncc 

and technology second to none, across 

the board. But the administration has 

radica ll y skewed rcse3rch and develop· 

ment funds toward nulttary acuvltles a 

24 percent re31 IOcrease In FY 1984 mt! 

Itary R & 0 , and a four percent decrease 

III the civlitan sector. 

• The future reqUires unpolluted land, 

water and :ur. But the Admintstratton 

has faded to enforce environmental laws 

and regulations now on the books and 

has hlatantly betrayed the publi c truSt 

10 li S management of the EnVironmental 

Protection Agency . 

• The future requITes renewed movement 

toward energy Independence. nUt 

the Admintstrallon has slashed funding 

fo r programs that promote conservation 

and the development of new and renewable 

cnergy sources. 

• The future requ ires ;I healthy small 

bUSiness sec tor- the pnllle sou rce of innovallon 

and jobs in our economy, But 

the Admimstrallon's poltcies have de· 

prlved small busmcss of affordable credit, 

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reduced theIT access to trained personnel. 

and lilted the tax codes In favor 01 cor 

porate giants 

• The future requITes revlla!tzed haslc 

mduStrles. But the Admmlstrauon has 

preSided over their decItne while dOing 

almost nothmg to hah and reverse n 

• The future requires the full, fau, and ...; 

equal partlClp:mon of all Amen cans In 

our economy. But the AdmlOiStratlon 

has backtracked on mmorllY employment, 

weakened support for mlnomy 

smail busmess, and opposed measures 

such as the ERA that would help ensure 

fairness for women 

• The fUlure reqUires s tro n~ alhanccs 

and diplomacy based squarely on Amer· (/I 

Ica 's values. But the Admlnlstratton has 

weakened our tradlllonal alliances with 

the wOlld '!o detnO{;rac ies and undermIned 

the credlbtlllY of our commitment to 

human nghts around the world 

• Above all, the future dcmanrl~ dfreli 

ve nuclea r arms control. But the .,. 

Administration has moved us away 

from-not toward- thiS vnal goa l 

MONDALE FOR 

PRESIDENT 

by AI Goodfader 

"One of the real Issues In 1984 IS 

whether we're gomg to restore a nallon 

10 which people h3ve the nght In fa ctthe 

umnumldated right-to p3rtlCIpate 

In the fullest sense of the word under 

the nghts and prOVisions of the National 

Labor Relattons Act ... I stand strongly 

for mdependent. effective umons." 

With those words, Walter F. MondaJc 

reaffirmed his conSIstent belief III the 

nght of Amencan working people to 

meet their employers fallly across the 

b3Tgaining table and to have a vOice In 

deciding the condItions under which they 

work. His commitment to free collecllve 

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International Representative John W. Dalton Dies 

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The Brotherhood was saddened by 

the death of International Representative 

John W. Dahon, who passed 

away suddenly on March 8, 1984. 

Brother Dahon was born on March 

17, 1926, and was initiated mto Local 

175, Chattanooga, TClmcsscc, on May 

17, 1948. Brother Dalton became active 

10 the affairs of Local 175 and 

served as a member of the ExecutIve 

Board from lune 1961 unul July 1963. 

Brother Dalton became bUSiness 

manager-financ ial secretary In July 

1963 and served III that office until 

February 1, 1974. While serving Local 

175 as business manage r-financial 

secretary, he also served as a 

member of the Apprenticeship and 

Training Committee and trustee of 

the Health and Welfare Committee. 

Brother Dalton became a well-known, 

active trade unionist in the Chattanooga 

area and worked hard to promote 

the trade union movement as 

a member of the Chattanooga Build 

Ing Trades and Chattanooga Central 

Labor CouncIl. International PreSIdent 

Charles H Pillard appointed 

BrOlher Dalton as an International 

RepreSentative and assigned him to 

the internatIOnal Office In Washington, 

D.C., effecllve February i, 1974. 

At the lime of hiS death, Brother 

Dalton was serving the Brmherhood 

as a member of the Agreement Approval 

Department at the International 

Office, where he proved to be 

a great asset to that department. 

Sincere sympathy IS expressed to 

Brother Dalton's famdy and friends 

Eleventh District Holds Manufacturing Conference 

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Leaders of the Manufactunng Branch In the IBEW Eleventh 

DIStrict 3t!cnded 3 one-day workshop on FcbruMY 21, 1984, 

held In Springfield, MISSOUri. Eleventh DISlTlct VICC Presidcnt 

Jack Moore welcomed the variOUS loca ls attending and partie· 

Ipated In the vanous topiCS covered throughout the day. 

lnternauonal Representative Craig Hoepner chatred the workshop 

and was assisted by International Representative Doug 

Wiegand of the Research Department. Representative Wiegand 

covered Work Measurements and Job Evaluation. Representauve 

Hocpner covered the new Alcohol and Drug Test just 

Introduced at Alcoa, the tcehnolof:lcal change concerning 

malllten:lOce, arbitration trends and the selection of arbllrators, 

stnke sanctions, local umon elecllons and, most Importantly, 

COPE and the politics of 1984. Thlrt~,- threc delegates from 

aeross the Eleventh District attended and partiCipated aCllvely 

throughout the day. Due 10 active participation of the delegates, 

Ih(' conference was most mformallve a.nd very successful 

Eleventh DIS1rict Vice PresIdent Jack Moore is shown addreSSing 1he 

Eleventh DIS1rict ManufactUring Workshop Seated on his right is Inter· 

national Represen1atJVe Doug Wiegand. and seated on his teh is Inter· 

national Representative CraIg Hoepner 

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Partial views 01 the local union leaders who participated In the Eleventh 

District Manufacturing Conference. 

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INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS 

l125-Fifteenth St. N,W. 

Washington. D.C. 20005 

Charles H. Plilard 

International 

President 

Relph A. Lelgon 

International 

Secretary 

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Dear Brothers and Sisters , 

The United States Savings Bonds Program has long had the support 

of this union , and all organized labor. That's because Savings Bonds 

help protect working men and women and their families from financial 

hardship while also strengtheni ng the nation ' s economy. 

Always a good deal in the past. Savings Bonds are now better than 

ever thanks to market- based interest. This interest formula gives 

bonds the flexibility to keep pace with market rates, no matter how 

high they may go. If rates pl ummet, bonds have the added protection 

of a guaranteed minimum return of 7.5 percent. All bonds held at least 

five years are eligibl e for this variable rate, including old Series 

£ and £E Bonds and Savings Notes. 

Savings Bonds can be purchased at banks or through the popular 

payroll savings plan. The plan provides an easy , convenient, systematic 

method of accumulating financial reserves. You decide how much to 

set aside from each paycheck to buy bonds, and when the purchase price 

is met , the bond is issued. 

Every bond you buy helps build a more secure future for you and 

for America, too. Bond sales help reduce the Treasury's need to borrow 

in the open market, making more funds available for business expansion 

and modernization, which creates new jobs. 

Bonds are also guaranteed safe. If they 

they are replaced free of charge with no loss 

are lost , stolen 

of interest. 

or destroyed, 

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has been a 

longtime friend and enthusiastic supporter of the Savings Bonds Program , 

and we urge you to join us in supporting the program. If you are presently 

enrolled in the payroll savings plan for Savings Bonds, consider increasing 

your rate of saving. If you are not enrolled in the plan, think about 

how bonds can help you and your family to a more prosperous future , 

and then sign up. 

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Charles H. Pil lard 

International Pres i dent 

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Get more mileage 

for your moneywith 

New Variable Rate 

U.S. Savings Bonds 

Now offering you: 

* Excellent market-based rates 

* Guaranteed minimum return 

* Maximum security 

... and as always. YOU choose 

how much to save in the 

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Savings Bonds 

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SUPREME COURT BANKRUPTCY RULING 

THREATENS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING 

Organized labor will step up ItS efforts 

to move Congress to amend the federal 

bankruptcy code as a result of the recem 

U.S. Supreme Court mhng which permits 

even solvent compames to ImmedIately 

cancel umon contracts by Ahog 

for bankruptcy. 

Pluggmg what labor considers to be a 

gaping and unfair loophole In the bankruptcy 

law now "has the lOp prlom)' on 

labor's agenda, -, AFL-C10 Legislative DIrector 

Ray ncm.~on hll .~ ~:l1cl 

Labor leaders attendmg the AFL·CIO 

Executive Council meeting In Sal Harbour, 

Florida, when the deciSion was 

handed down expressed dismay Imd anger. 

Bm they added that the ruling W3S 

not u nexpected and thaI legislation has 

been introduced to correct H . 

The AFL-CIO, saId the Council, will 

"do everything in ItS power to ensure 

that Congress corrects the Supreme Court 

mistakc and vindicates national labor 

policy." 

The CounCil declared, "The Supreme 

Court of the United St:ltes, in accordance 

with It s normal pro-business lealllngs, 

has now granted employers Wide permission 

to use the banknlptcy laws to 

destIoy collecuve bargallllng agreements_ 

"The Supreme Court was able to make 

tlll:S JCI.:ISlon because Congress has not 

spelled out the proper relationship between 

the bankruptcy laws and the labor 

laws," the Council continued. 

"Given an opening. the Court'S conservative 

majority fashioned a legal rule 

that is best for busllless and worst for 

workers," it said. 

The high Court's February 22 rullllg 

carne in two parts, the first part unanimous 

and the second spin ;'j-4. 

In the unanimous deCision, the Court 

ruled that a bankruptcy COUrt may free 

a company from Its union contracts with 

Out requITIng proof that the COntr3CtS 

thre3ten the comp3ny's survival. The 

company must Simply show that the 

contracts arc a financial "burden." 

In the closely spilt rullllg. the Coun 

said a company m3Y abrogate a coll ccllve 

bargaimng agreement as soon as It files 

for bankruptcy while awaltlllg the deci' 

sion of a bankruptcy Judge . The hank· 

ruptcy court could later restore the 

contract by rejecting the bankruptcy 

petition. 

The Council noted that the COUrt rnaiority 

in the 5-4 ruling h3d ignored lhe 

reasoning of a minority dissent written 

by Associate lustlee Wilham I. Brennan, 

J" Brcn n"" Wlute that the malorlty "Ius 

completely Ignored Important poliCies 

that underlie the National whor Rela · 

tlons ACt " of 1935 In pcrn1lttlng a com· 

pany " Unilaterally to alter ;I collective 

bargaining agreement " 

Pernllttlng thiS, s[lId Brennan, l!o a 

"threat to bbor peace." He added 1113t 

the mllng will mean that " resolution of 

the parlles' disputes will indeed be left 

to the relative slfcngth of the comendlll):: 

forces. " 

A~ I'xamplcs, Hrennan notes that the 

union workers at Continental Airlines 

and Wilson Foods had gone on strike 

after the compames last year tore up 

their contracts. 

The effect of the rullllg on the Conti· 

nental case was uncle:I!. Airlines 3re 

covered by the Railway Labor Act rather 

than the NLRA. The Court noted that 

Its ruling pertained to contracts under 

the N LRA, not the Railway Labor Act, 

where the bonkmptcy l:iw is specially 

restricted from being used to get OUI of 

union contracts. 

AFL-CIO Spl.: .... lal Ce wa.,> 

movlllg through the coun s, Contlllental 

Alrltnes last September used the bank· 

ruptcy petition deVIce 10 cancel colleclive 

ba rg:lllllllg agreements with pilots, 

flJght 3t!endants and machinists even 

though the company wasn't short of cash 

or :lbout 10 collapse. The :lidines' unions 

arc sull on Strike and the AFL-CIO has 

c311ed a national boycol! 10 support them. 

AFL-CIO attorney Gold noted that followlllg 

the enactment of b:mkruptcy law 

amendments in 1978, making it easier 

for both companies and individuals to 

declare -bankmptey, there has been a 

trend by employers to usc bankruptcy to 

break or weaken ItS unIOns. 

Gold s;ud the Supreme Court ruling, 

unless reversed by Congress, will " Lll 

crease the level of distress between employers 

and unIOns, lllercase the number 

uf lalNI Jll>pl,Jlt;~, "ud ClcalC greater lli' 

stabilIty in coll ective bargallling." 

Regardlllg the court 'S standard that 

companies seeking to void thelT union 

contracts through bankruptcy need only 

show that the contracts 3fe a "burden," 

Cold said "collective bargaming agree· 

ments arc always, If they're worth the 

paper they're wnttcn Oil, an economic 

burden on employers-cverybody would 

Itkc 10 pay the mmlmum wage or 

below." 

Edllor'. NOle : As this issue of the Journal 

was going to press late in March the U.S. 

House of Representatives passed legis· 

lation 10 save bankruptcy COl/rlS lrom a 

March 30 shutdown while saleguarding 

labor oonllacts from lirms that want them 

scrapped during bankruptcy proceedings. 

Similar legislation hali been passed by 

the Senate. The legislation. which is elfpected 

to go to joint Conference Committee 

shorlly to Iron out any dil/erences 

botween the House and Senate versions. 

is aimed at rescuing a bankruptcy system 

that the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional. 

Eventual passage of such leg· 

Islliliun is a top priority for organized labor. 

Nelft month's Journal will carry more de· 

ta!!s on this importa nt legislation as it 

moves toward enactment Into law. 

• 

12 \ IBEW JOURNAL I APRIL 1984

.. 

ANNUAL STATEMENT OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS' BENEFIT ASSOCIATION 

In compliance ""'111 the requirements or the Fraternal Act 01 vanous 

stales, we afe publlshmg below Inlormallon conlalned In the annual slatemeni 

01 the Electnai Wor1

NOTICE 

SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT FOR IBEW MEMBERS PENSION PLAN 

This is a summary of tha annual report lor the IBEW Members 

Pension Plan, Employer tdenlJlication Number 53-0088380. lor the 

fiscal year ending June 30, 1983. The annual report has been liled 

with the Inlemal Revenue Service, as required under the Employee 

Retirement Income Security Act 01 1974 IERISA) 

Basic Financial Statement 

I. An accountant's report 

2. Assets held fOf Investment; 

3 Loans or other obligations in default. 

4 Transactions In excess of three percent (3%) of plan assets 

Benefits under tha ptan are prOVided by members' dues and 

investment income Plan expenses were $54,442.571 Thesa ex· 

penses included $1 ,539,497 in administratIVe expenses and SSI. 780, 743 

In benefits paid to participants and beneficiaries, and $1 ,122.331 in 

other expenses. A tOlal 01 351.168 persons were parliclpanls in or 

beneficiaries 01 the plan at the and of the plan year, although not all 

01 H19se persons had yet earned the right 10 receive benefits. 

The value 01 plan assets. after subuacting liabilities 01 the plan. was 

$353.270.379 as of June 30.1983. compared to 5270.041.557 as of 

July I. 1982. During the year the plan experlen~ed an Increase in its 

net assets of 583,228,822. This Increase includes unrealized appreelatiOn 

or depreciation In the value 01 the plan assets. thaI is. the 

dlHererlCe between the value of lhe plan's assets at the end of Ihe 

year and the value of the assets al the beginning of the year or the 

cost of assets aCQUIred dunng the year. The plan had a tOlal income 

of 571 ,402,402. Including members' dues contnbutions of $33.018,357. 

gains of 53.632.342 from the sale of assets. and earnings from 

mvestments of $34.75t.703 

Your Rights to Additional Inlormatlon 

You have the nght to receive a copy of the full annual report. or 

any part thereof. on reQuest l'he Items I.sted below are irICluded In 

that report 

To obtain a copy of the lull annual report, or any pan thereof. write 

or call the office of Ralph A Leigon, who Is the Plan Administrator. 

1125-t5th Street, N.W,. Washington. D.C. 20005. Telephone: (2021 

833·7000. The charge to cover the copying costs will be $11.00 for 

the full annual report. or $.25 per page for any pan thereof. 

You also have the right to receive from the plan administrator, on 

request and at no charge. a statement 01 the assets and liabilities 01 

the plan and accompanying notes, or a statement of income and 

expenses of the plan and accompanying notes. or both. lf you request 

a copy of the full annual rePOn from the plan administrator. these two 

statements and accompanying notes will be included as pan of thaI 

repon The charge \0 cover copying costs given above does not 

Include a charge for the copying of these portions of the rapon because 

these por1ions are furnished wlthoul charge 

You also have the legally protected light to e~amlne the annual 

repon at the main oNice 01 the plan. I 125-15th SlIeet. N W. Wash·_ 

jngton, D.C. 20005. and at theU S Oepanment of labof in Washinglon, 

DC., Of to obtain a copy Irom the U.S. Department 01 Labor upon 

payment of COpying costs Requests to the Department should be 

addressed 10: Public Disclosure Room .. N4677, PenSIon and Welfare 

Benefll Programs. Depanment of Labor. 200 Conslnutlon Avenue. 

N W . Washington. DC 20216 

MONDALE 

Continued /mm Po}.:(' R 

hargalOlOg ~lIld to the goal s of soc]:11 and 

economic progress for which the trade 

unton movcment works has never wav ' 

ered dunng his long and well·docu· 

menled career III publtc Itfe. 

II siems from a life long conVictIOn that 

a decent, productive lob fo r all who want 

to work, and a faIT share of the frUitS of 

thcIT la bor, arc baS IC clemen IS of Amcr· 

lcan prosperu y, and Ihal our federal gov· 

ernment must reassert Its central role III 

the just stewardship of labor·manage 

men! affairs. 

From hiS entry on the nallonal scene 

as a U.S. senatOf 10 1965, Mondale has 

fough t for falf pi:ly m the enactment and 

enforcement of federal labor·manage· 

ment law. At the same lime, he has 

supported programs to bnng our nallonal 

goal of full employment closer to reahty. 

In the Senate, Mondale stood at the 

Side of workers on repc-1I1 of Secllon 14(bl 

of the Taft· Hartley Act which pamlts 

states to negate federal guaT:llltecS of the 

nght to organtze; on endmg of the bracero 

program which exploited foreign migrant 

farm workers; on stTengthelllllg of federal 

OSHA programs) and on the preservation 

of umon rights to partlCl p:II C in the po· 

lillcal process 

Mondale never fatled to defend respon· 

sLble trade Unionism from ever'1Ilcreastng 

attacks by radI cal :mu-unton forces 

seebng to stnp workers of theIr umon 

nghts. He helped to beat hack ~ I senes of 

assaults on the Davls·Bacon Act, whIch 

now is being undermined hy the Reagan 

Adm1lllstration. He opposed repeated attempts, 

fostered by the Nallonal "Rlghtto· 

Work" CommLttee, to cripple union 

voter registrallon and poltocal educallon 

aCIlVllles. And he was on labor's SIde 111 

cfforts to reform the Hatch Act, which 

restncts polillcaJ actlvltles by federal 

employees. 

Through the yea rs, Mondale has demonstrated 

hIS conV Iction that th e fedeT:lI 

government has a responSIbility 10 fosler 

job· training and lob·creallon programs as 

a means of moving toward lull employ· 

ment. He 10lned with labor In support of 

a Wide range of measures to create, 

strengthen and maintain federal iobs and 

iob·tralnmg programs; to aid Victims of 

technological change, of reeeSSLon ' m 

duced unemployment, of dLscnmmallon; 

and to overcome other roadblocks to 

gainful employment. 

He continues to show a pracllcal un· 

derstanding of the role of labor utllons 

in American society. Speaking al the 

1983 AFL-CIO Convenllon, Mondale de· 

clared that, as preSident, "I'd enforce 

workers' nghts and Aght for the adoption 

of the Labor Law Reform Act. " 

HIS publtc statements hammer at the 

theme that workmg people have a right 

to partiCipate, through thetr utlLOns, III 

the rebUIlding of a strong AmeTican econ· 

amy and faIr social climate- that orga· 

IlIzed labor is, III his words, "a legitimate, 

propcr, and necessary pan of a healthy 

America." He makes it clear that he 

Lntends to end the usc of federal agenelcs 

as uillon busters, which has become rou· 

tine praclLee III the Reagan AdmllllStra· 

lion. 

" When (the Reagan) Administration 

says what our country needs is a uOlon· 

free ntlllOn, I tell them what we need IS 

a nalLon of free unions," Mondale de· 

c1ares. 

The AFL·CIO's endorsement of Walter 

F. Mondale's presidennal candIdacy, 

whIch was based on conSldera\lon of a 

Wide variety of Issues and grassroots 

consuitalLons among union members, 

reflects the conViction that worklllg peopte 

must be Illvolved dtrectly and can· 

!lnually Ln the ciecllon campaign from 

ItS beginning. 

It also allies the t rade union movement 

with a program and effective national 

kadcr in a drive to return American 

government to its proper role of promot· 

Lng the well·being of all Amcncans. 

.. 

,. 

14 I IBEW JOURNAL / APRIL 1964

department of Research 

and Education 

. 

THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENCY 

The Executive Branch and Legislation 

. 

The IradUlonal rHC of clt.'UIll~ the 

President of the United St.lIes IS under 

way, as pn::sldcnual hopefuh VIC for the 

nom mating VOtes of Amerlcll '!> registered 

voters. Voters should be carefully eva l· 

uatlng the candld:w.::s, looklll!: beyond 

the photogenic, humorous, chan'>m:lIIC, 

personable characteristics of the IlllhvuJ. 

ual candidate-to seck a camhd:Hc who 

IS hcalthy, able to wHhM:lIld the Jcm:mrJs 

of the office, ltltclltgcnt, experienced, 

accountable to the voters, knowledgeable 

and understanding of the problems of the 

U.S. and the world, and responsIble III 

his exercise of preSidential powers. 

Voters must look beyond the facadebeyond 

the mdlvldual c;ulllHJatc at wh,1t 

the preSidency cl\l:l1ls. For, 11\ addu Ion 

to the obV IOUS reference to thc office of 

the PreSident, the pn.!'>Idency, tl!o defined 

In Webster's DictIOnary, IS " the Amencan 

governmental Institution comprL!olng 

the office of PreSIdent and v:tnous :t!o!oo' 

ci:tted admllllswltlve :tnd polLcy-makmg 

agencies." That, rcfcrnng to the current 

preSidency, would be synonymous with 

the Reagan Admmlstratlon, The Ineffec· 

tual, uncanng performance of the Reagan 

Admllllstr:1I10n (the PreSIdent, hIS dulyappomted 

Cabmet, hiS allPolllted While 

House staH, hIS appoll1ted fedcmlludges, 

and hIS hundreds of al)pOllltees to fedc r:tl 

agencIes, comnUSSLOns, task fo rces, 

worklllg groups, etc.lls one of the malll 

reasons why organized labor has endorsed 

Walter Mondale 10 be the next 

PreSident of the United Stales 

The President's I'owers 

The PreSident of the United St3U;S has 

the power 10 propose leglslatlon and to 

have leglslatlon lIltrodueed III Congress 

easLly, 10 veto \eglsJauon that has been 

. passed by Congress; and, through hiS 

appolmees 10 federal agencies, bureaus, 

and commISSions, to change eXI~tlllg regula 

tlons and to affect Ihe Implement:I' 

tlon and enforcement of eX isting legIS' 

lauon. The PreSident also Issues 

presldenllal documents, usulIlly III the 

form of prochllnlltlons or executLve orde 

rs, both of which have an IIlcreaSlIlg 

Impact on the dally li fe and activit ies of 

Amen cans and which often involve ne i 

ther consultatI on wit h Congress nor su b 

stantial nou fica tion to the pubt. c. 

Under the Creull Cuntrol A(,;t uf 1%1), 

the PreSident has the authonty to direct 

the Federal Reserve Board to reduce interest 

r;lIes :lnd It) allocate credit We 

have :tll suffen::d throllgh these Ihn:e 

ye.LrS of the Reagan Admlll l ~tr.lll1m, a~ 

the slow growth of the money ~upp l y 

and high IIltere", r.L1es dev:l.,t,lted the 

Amenc.m economy :md PUt the ~4ueeze 

on employment and a!o the lobs of mdhans 

of Amencan~ were lo~t bee.lu,e nf 

cutbacks Itl constrUctIOn, manufaLturmg, 

and salcs_ It appe;\!s now th.u the 

Federal Rc!oerve I~ under pre~~llre to keep 

the money supply IIlcre;l!>lng III .111 dton 

to expand ecotlnnllC growth through 

Elecllon D.IY 

The Executive Brandl ahu doc, the 

actual negotiating of tr.lde agreements, 

lind Amenca's worker .. h.IYC seen the 

export market for U.S plOduct~ eroded 

by unf.llr and IcStncttve trade pra(';lIces 

of cenam countries, whLle IInport·sen 

Sluve IIlJustnes III the U.S .LTe at a 

comllCtllu'C dl~JdvJnt.lge bee.IUse of the 

relax.lt lun of U.S. tanffs and the ullw!llmgness 

of the Re;lgJIl Adlllllll~tr'Hlon to 

enforce our tr.lde IJws. 

Abi lit y to Get Leg islation 

T IL rough C on J,: r es~ 

The Pres uJent and hIS allies III Cun· 

gress use .tli uf thcl r persuasive powers, 

Slnnegy, and lohhYlllg to sway legls\;HLon 

their WJy. MO~I n:cent PreSidents hilve 

depended on strong lohhYlng III Congress 

to enact theH lcg"lallve proposals, and 

Presillent Re.lgJI1 'S 10hbY IM has been no 

excellllOll, mdeed, he ha::. heen credited 

wnh many successes III getting the Pres· 

Idenl's Jcgl~latlon passed In the carl)' 

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX- CANADA AVERAGE 

SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA 

JANUARY, 1984 

1981 '" 100 

He/lllh' RIte.e.- 

AIl It. ml T./ln,po.· p ••, onal lion & 

M."," V .., Comblnea 'ood Houllng CIOlhlng 1I IIon C ... R.adlng 

January 1984 1202 1146 1231 1090 1242 1203 1164 

December 1983 1196 1125 122.7 111 1 1227 120,0 117.5 

November 1983 119,2 1121 1223 111 4 121.3 120,1 118,0 

October '983 119,2 1127 1222 111 1 121 1 119,7 1179 

Seplember '983 118,5 111 5 121 4 1106 121,6 1195 117.7 

August '983 1185 1126 t208 110,3 1226 119,0 1173 

July ' 983 1179 112.7 1199 1097 1220 1188 116,9 

June '983 117 d 1120 1195 1102 1214 118.2 115,3 

January 1983 114 1 '06 5 1175 1055 1170 115 1 112 1 

January 1982 1054 

January 1981 946 

January 1980 845 

January 1979 77. 

NOTE Canada s COntumef PfIce Inde~ !of /Ill ".ms .--e••• MII 06 points 00,.09 tile paSt monln. or 0 S·. 

ThI$ equalled an aMu/l1 .ale 01 1FICI'.as. 016 0" 10!i' 12) TIle.nerease '" CPI OOn"9 tile paS! 

year was 6 I pooIlts orS 1 

Pef

days of hL!> adLnlOiStla tlOll, PreSIdent 

Reagan dectu red that he had a mandate 

for chanKc from the VOIeTS, even thouKh 

he had won only 50.7 percent of the 

popular vote 11\ 1980. Congress, with Its 

RepublIcan-controlled Senate, rubberstaml)cd 

his legislative program and 

qUI ckly passed the baSIC Jaws establish· 

mg Rcagan0I111 CS, whIle dCSlroYlIlg the 

progresSIve social IcgLslalinn !)f til(' p:l~' 

50 years. 

Presldem RCllgan's hudgel pobcH.!s, tax 

poliCIes, tr:lde poliCies, monetary pob· 

CICS, and regulatory policlcs h:lvC a common 

goal- take from the average Amer 

Ican worker and from the poor and give 

10 the nch and 10 powerful bUSinesses. 

One of the ildmlnlStraliOn's first acts was 

to slash tax niles for hUSlIlCSS and the 

wealthy. The Reagan budget CUIS destroyed 

the essence of social and welfare 

progr:II11S, unfavorably affecting badly 

needed housmg programs, unemploy· 

ment compcn5allOn, black lung pro· 

grams, Jobs programs, Medicare and Med· 

Icald funds, dlsabdlty bencfhs, SOCial 

Security and penSion benefits, ellVlron· 

mental and lob safety rules, civd service 

and nuhtary rctlrement beneAu, and 

federal workers' pay. The President's re· 

peated efforts to create a youth sub· 

mllllmum wage arc iust another example 

of the cxplOitatlon of those who need 

work. 

Presidential Appointees 

The PreSident hasthe power to appoint 

hundreds of people to CablllCt poSitiOnS, 

federal agencies, com nUSSlOns, task lorccs, 

workmg groups, etc. HIS appollltments 

mvanably reflect hi S own philosophy, 

and many, of COUfse,;He polillcal payoffs. 

Since It is Impossible for the White House 

to check everythl1l~ that IS done by the 

Pn::sldent's appOllltees, sume of hiS ap· 

pam led people 1.lke adv:lllta~e of the 

OpportUlllty 10 promote their own phd· 

osophlcal gOJ\s, whIch may be even more 

extreme than the President's. Some of 

these people do not consider the Jaws 

and progr:llns entrusu::d 10 theu care 

worth enforcmg. Some display theIT anll· 

unwn bias through their lack of enforce· 

ment and through their admllllStrallve 

deCISIOns. (Sec "NLRll N:ltlon:11 Labor 

Rq,'l.Ilations I~u s t e rs!" m th" M:lrch, 1984, 

18EW /o!lflllll.1 

The lIIali illlPUlllted hy PreSident Rca· 

gan to head the Occupational Safery and 

Hc.:Jlth AdmInistration (OSHA lc:lme from 

a firm that had been cllcd 2.l tlm"~ fnr 

OSHA safety viOlatHlns. Workers no 

longer can dcpend on OSIIA to ensure 

thelT safety and heJlth on the lob. The 

Reagan Admlnlstral10n hilS tried to un· 

dcrmllle the Inw by nlterlllE: the rules 

throllE:h wluch It IS enforced. Budget cms 

have forced th e AnnA of comrlt'1nce of· 

REVISED CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR URBAN WAGE 

AND CLERICAL WORKERS 

UNITED STATES CITY AVERAGE 

SOURCE: u.s. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 

REFERENCE eASE, u.s. AVERAGE 1967 • 100 

JANUARY. 1984 

Appa.al 

AIL Ltaml 

• 

Tla"lpo,· Medlnl 

Monl!! Vel' Comblned Fooa Housing Upkeep lallo" Cant 

January 1964 302.7 2994 324 7 195.3 3079 367.5 

December t983 301 .5 294.0 324.2 198.1 308.2 364.3 

November 1983 301.4 2926 324.5 1997 308.2 362.9 

October 1983 301.3 292.9 325.2 1998 3069 360.9 

Seplember 1983 300.8 292.6 325.3 1993 3055 359.2 

AugUSI 1983 299.5 292.2 324.3 1963 3041 357.9 

July 1983 298.2 292.1 323.1 1940 301.9 355.6 

June 1983 297 .2 292.2 322.3 1947 299.6 353.3 

January 1983 292. 1 2884 317 .0 190.0 2943 345.3 

January 1982 282. 1 

January 1981 260.7 

January 1980 233.3 

January 1979 2047 

NOTE ConllUmllf Pllce IfIde. lor an l1emS !tIC"ased I 2 poonts dunng lhe pest monll! Of 0 4' ThI$ equaned 

en e.nnual 'Ile at increase 01 • 8". 10 4 '( 12) The !tIC.ease m CPI Ourlng lilt past 1'11" was 106 

potfllS, Of 3 So .. 

Percent lnC"ase between two dates IS calculated by IlUbilaCilng lilt 0Ilde. numDe, lor lIIe earlie< 

date lrom lhat lor the la te. dale and dividing i/Ie "suI! by lhe index number IoIlhe ea,l"

DANGERS In BUYING NON-PRESCRIPTION DRUGS 

SWlIlg open the door of any med 

ICInC chest and you'll find :I colleelion 

of pills, salves and lotions for 

headaches. upset stomach, Insomma, 

hemorrhoids and other conditions 

afnlcling modern man and 

woman. Actually, there are over 

250,000 non-prescription or over-thecounter 

(OTC) drugs aV;l1lablc to the 

pubhc, and Americans spend some 

$3.5 billion a yeaT on them. 

OTC drugs can offer rebel for many 

minor conditions and ,u lmcnts not 

warrantlllg a visit to the doctor. 

However, with incrcasmgiy more 

powerful drugs rcaching the market, 

careful thought is necessary for selfadministering 

these drugs. Improper 

usc of even sa fe preparations can 

result in problems fOJ the lIser. 

People arc taking the art of diagn 

OS IS IIHO thelT hands more than 

ever. Contributing to thiS, of course, 

is the recent trend towards self·health 

care and greater interest In lust what 

IS gOing on in our bo

LOCflL LII\IES 

" 

A Description of 

Union-Busting Tactics 

L U. 1II,f.RI •• p.a.nsJ. ST. LOU1S, MO.- A prevIous 

&lucie dCKnbtd, 10 I ~CDCIII OIIUlf, the role of 

.he mlna,cmcm conlultlnn In (11..11111 the to 

Cliled " union-I'e" cnvuonmcm " To brio, .he 

lub;c:CI inl0 I more IpcdRc 1I&ht.. il may 1M: boncftciaitoiocul 

on the;. Hmman Allcnliance: ,anlu 

froRl JO to 100 mln'I:cmcnl rep.nenlilivu wilh 

feu vuym, from $WO 10 $500 101 the Iwo-day 

IIth"'!n", .nd ;lucelo" normally Ill. I psychol 

opu I nd. II"'YCI, ~lIh vcry well vcned in theu 

rClpccuvc Rclds 

Th" induurill psychologill usually begm5 .he 

forum Ind Is lomcwhat dn,rmmg in appearance, 

he: I, cUllllly d.ened, open shin, sleevn rolled 

up, Ind comn ac,o •• In I cool, 10v,al malmcr ,hal 

il • villi 1001 of hi, ulde The openmg approach 

11 thllaU.ncmblcd hue I common problem with 

ors:anL~ed labo. and Ihal Ihe P05111VC tltp. 10 Ihit 

lie 10 make union. unm:ee"a,y The types uf 

" dulr~ble " ~ •• onnd needed in ~ wo.kforce. Ie 

lecl;vlIy In ind!vldual .olu. and a!lliude mamp· 

ulaiion .. e the p.olo,ue 10 Ihe methodo!olY The 

nUl theme n.und IS Ihll lOb lecumy hes In 

workin, la, I lueeenlul eomp~ny Ind nOI In ~In' 

I p~n of In o',lnlted wo.kfo.ee Eumplcs de 

pitied cneourase I deep. peuonal eomp~ny com 

rnilrnent, e I . if you hlp~n 10 wo.k 10. lntern~ 

Ilonal BUI!nen MleMne Corpora lion. you lie 

rdenllAed as an IBM ·e,. if II Tun Inluumenrs 

you Ire I n ·e,. tiC II i. Ihe eomflanYlhll 1110 be 

rdenuAed wllh on a pe' lonal hUll, nOI the labo. 

O.pniUllon Thil concludes the fillt nUlon 

The .eeond pelloo beS1n1 wnh the plyeholollil 

iOleo,IIyin, hi' p.ueorallon via Ihe ,ole of the 

irnmediate IUperv150. Thll i. the frool hnc, II 1$ 

Ihe lupe.VllOr who h .. the day ·to·day contael Wllh 

.he wo.klo.t;e. On a contlou'"g bUI' the ,upe.Vl5o. 

i. to be ernita] 01 the uOion. prUSUle il 10 be 

ine.eued. w!llk dlnupllonl Ire .0 be bllmed on 

the "IIlelfl~je"'" U'"O'\ lulu. co ... uactllall~n,uale 

i. 10 be pOln.cd 10 .. "ouldated" and Ihc,dole 

detrimental to indivldll.llecurlIY, the luperVISUI 

il 10 p,omole ICir Ind anxlclY. c.pilliite on pc,· 

lon~1 InICCllnty, and IIl1lin Ihe lupenor .ole 10 

emphu!te the benlsn potirlon 01 the company as 

Oppond to the IOmewh" diuant potlllon of the 

I.bor o'lanlullon At thll po,nt the p,ycholollSI 

tUrDl the p'oteed'n., ovel 10 the iawyel. 

The NUII,e,', appur~oce I. in .hup conllan 

'0 hi. rredcculOr_ true-c ·pICCC lUll (neutral wlo •• 

Ituched eollarl. a luther bndc'K from which 

.pceeh no.u ale laken, "Dice and ,ont colde. Ind 

mo.e method!tll. HIJ P'(Jf:DIaIlUn be,lnS p.edom 

Inanlly .lIon, the hnu of management nJhIl Ihe 

company h .. , nJh' to leplace slIIkelS. a n,hl 10 

'UIS' un.on demand •• , n,ht to sh,ft opcfillloni 

and therdo.e the wo,kJo'Ct. and a nJh' ' a dcl~y 

and ,dun This \I followed by ,he melhodolop 

of enlo,eemtnl What is the Itlll w~y to delele 

people. whl! cireumvenu Ihe Itlll Inltot 01 a 

labu. bw..d hUlln&. huw 'u 'c. around ~emotlly 

darml. how to .pp.oacb dect:rllficanon d'KOIlion, 

and lI.y wllh,o .he lechnltaJ JegalllY of the 

NlRB. t I. luve Iile' llu.e luneled around the 

lunch lira or the .eSl .oom•• and If ~me one -sh 

~bou, i, ,he . upontc II. " We tin tell you whit 

,he I,w IIY'''' lrom the. t the SUb,eCI II open 

The .ynop. b " siven 10lnlly wi lh Ibe l.wyer 

d,Yerlln! from an urlan.nnn nl the law Imn a 

pmt pl.n lor the avoid.nce 01 ,h.t vcry I,w Ind 

the S,mmlckt Inibble 10t;IICUmveo" t while the 

psychololiu olten CDmpI.U m.nallcment·, ~p . 

proleh to worke .. with ,he p.llem. uled In Ihe 

dinitll Dblcrv.nce of cKperimenlll anImal, 

Pluu be advised 01 the lollowins member deaths 

dUllnllhe rn onthlof Decembe. and ' I nullY Theo 

doff Flamm. malO'en.nce on pen~. o n . IOlUlled 

Apnl IllS.!, Adnao W,lli. wneman on peMlon. 

o.:tobe. 1952, Marp.el Clark.l'.oouellon on pen 

lion. Octobe. 1114.3, Lloyd Ihllebllnd. m'lOlen~n C e 

on penslon. lune 11111, RiChard Hlkt. m.,nlenanee 

on penSIOn. lune 11142. Gco.,c G.yda.. Wileman 

on penllon. Oc'Obe, 11162, Harold BailY. Wllem.n 

on pension. M~y 1926; N o 'm~n MOil. IU ldenul1 

un pcn~lon . lune 11152, Orren Tate, Wllcman on 

penSIOn, June 11142/ Alvah Phocnl~ maIntenance 

on (ltnSlon. May 1944, Howard !'y'II. Wileman on 

pen' lon, AUIUII 1940, ~ml Geo'le Wille. m.lOle 

nlnce on penSIon. lune 19n 

Local 3 Honors 

Over 300 Members 

LU. j (l.o.~ m , u .'Q.. ta.mo). NEW YO RK. N. Y.- A 

sudden .~nnWMo.m on Sund~y . Fehru .. y S. 19114 

dId not dampto .he IpmlS of Ihe 300 plu. honor 

mcmbc.s. who we.e loined by thell famlhu and 

SUUII. from a"endlol tbe p.esentallon of tlono, 

Sc.olls to those memberl 01 Local J '. m~nula c lu, 

101 d,VIsion who have .cached Ihe ',e 01 60 yuu 

and have accumulated 20 yea.s 01 CODJeeutrve 

Krv.ce The cvent marked the 17th ilonol Scioli 

Ceremooy aod • loul of 10.268 I"onol Sc,olll 

Iwuded 

On these occasIons. membe'_Aath~ 1 l o~ethe l to 

hono' Ihe men and women of locll J fur thell 

loyalty and Illth/ulnn, 10 the tilde uOl on mov~ · 

meo, Th.oush IhdlllruMlu and .,crIAen. fired 

by tbe tul of common purpose 10. the '1I11nmtni 

of ,he common good. they h .... e bUIlt thll orllOl 

UIIon, and Local J laku pride In the Slory ... 

honor mcmbers .ymbohu In the .. ~de Un.On 

movemen. 

The honu'en we,e Cum mended lUI thell ,elVlce 

to loc.1 J and the unlOo movement by George 

Schutk. " . p.esident of Loc.1 J. who na.ed Ihlt 

;. IS ooly th,ougb the colleellve dlolll of , hos

t( 01 Enruv,lIe on Decembel 16 As IS alwaY5 the 

un, the .. IInce was a hu~e IUCCUI wllh a bountiful 

amount 01 lood and 1pm .. on hand for ~ueM I 

The Winner of Ihe danceconlut was Pam Rlchler 

whod.d. ,.nl " Watus. ·' "op one oI.he fouma,"s 

It', h •• d '0 .maglne that elgin yea.s a.(0 the 

dance WIS $ILII being held al our unIOn hall WLlh 

JO o. 40 couplc:~ In allendanct AI Ihat lime I don't 

r-, Ihlnk anyoot envuloneo;! that such a small pally 

... ould evolve InlO whal has b«:ome a p ia eVem 

Ih.t a J .ut malomy of our local looks 10 ... ·a.J tu 

yu ... lte. yea. 

On February J, IS a!,!,renuee w"cmen took the 

oath 01 Illeglance u admm15lered to Ihem by Our 

pru.dent, Brother larry ScOIl, and .... ere "'ek omed 

InIO the mEW lold 

While I stood IIsten.ng to the yuung m~n reput 

... the (),1 th olohligation, many thoupus raced Ihruugh 

my mmd [wondered what they felt a$ they uttered 

the ... ords hurd by UI so many ILmu belore I 

IhlllK Ihat some 01 thcm mIght have felt ap pre 

hellllYC, lor evcn though they were now pUI uf 

Ihe o'ganlzatlon, they WCIC unsu.e II Ihey .... ould 

be IUdlly aeccpled a5 one 01 the body I also thInk 

that Ihey lelt wme pnde for ach,eYlng th e s\a'u, 

01 a unIOn eleetncun 

I would uk of Ihem nevel 10 let Ihe ~ I o ... 01 

p"de .hat ... as Idt thaI nlpll to d.m o. dun,nuh 

In any way Don'1 rUlt be a membcr, bUI bc ~n 

"clive member of you. loc.1 Ge. 1010 rhe habll of 

eommg to umon mccung,. If .here \I 10mc.h.n, 

thaI you don'l undc.nand. uk quulIOnJ 

AI .... ay.'emembe. that YOUI unton o ... es you b" 

.eprucntauon and an orronunny 10 make a "lOll 

hVln&. but that oppnnunlly won 't alwaYI be thele 

.f you beGomc paSSIYC and decldc 10 let t h~ o.hc. 

,uy make your deCISIon, for you 

The newut mem"" •• of loc.116a.e R.ck DiYld 

R, ch .. d DtlL Scon Glrflnd. Ron Gtnet, MIke 

Kuester. lohn lasher, '1m t.ocsch. RIchard Mayo. 

RobclI M"wry. NIck Rcbnock. Rick Rog ers. Idl 

Seng, Mike Spacl11. Alan Staple! and T.m Unllled 

COnl. llulalto"" men, .nd always lemcm""t 

that our futulc .Ut5 0" the ,houldcrs of cach 01 

you Ind mny mOre hke you who .... 11 foll" w 

ST[vt lit "'NINe, P S 

Safety Awards Presented; 

Negotiations Continuing 

LU. 17 lo"u), DETROIT, MICH.-There wu I 

,olOt Safety A ... uds D,nn(I for Bad All' and San 

dUSKY Serv.ce Ccnlc., Dcccm"", 1. 19SJ. B.ld Au 

. WII awarded a T .... o· Yur Safe w ".k.n, Cen .flcalc. 

and thc men "fSanduIKY .... elc .....,ded a ccrn ficlle 

101 II ycan of oUl5land,nl ulety practlcc ~ . Con 

"atulallons, men of Sandusky. 10' YOUI saft wOlk 

LOI Pla CUCCI 

Negollallons a.e contlnu'ng wIth thc 6'17-A 

Ag. eemcnt Also. B,othclI who arc lIavelin" 11>01. 

closely thiS year II the deductions 10. trayellO, 

Jo. Many deducllons that a !,ellon Wli ablc to datm 

In Ihe paSt cannot"" clalmcd thIS yur and. II Ihe 

same time. many new tlcms may he ded ucted 

when II comn to 1 ...,dlnS 

Wo.k I' slowly be,lOnlnl on the 6,17-8 A,ree 

men! The Sellndgc All Ban bId was aw arded to 

an IBEW cnnllacto. OUI 01 C.hlo.011. and mllny 

small iob, have been bid .nd awarded to our 

Contr.ctors 

Wc anllclpate pUlnn, on I lew mOle cre ... s of 

lice mmmeu ""fore srnn" and 'anuary .. Ihe 

Ulllny Tne Tnmmcrs had a ClimbIng Clan al 

the un,on hall as pall of thell .pprcntlcesh,p 

At Thumb ElecIrle, mlnl,ement has a, recd ' 0 

• lop Lobo./Manaccmcnt Conferencc as a mtthod 

01 Kuhnl .ssuu bclolc they ""come rloblems 

The ,tcwa,d, II Ihe Co-op lie In favor 01 thIS 

Three Importanl lIems have Ilready ""en ,ched 

ultd to "" dlKuncd at thc fial meetIng 

On O'pnlZlnL £kilO" D,VI.,OO Macomb Mete. 

Ruden met wllh UJ .luling the hollda.,.. and 

Inothe, m~c"nl IJ K hcdulcd lOOn. Also du""g 

Ihe hulidaYI, we con"nu~d ou' dlort' 10 o'ganlZlllg 

cable comp.nies 

AI the lanuary ,enelll mem""nhlfl mee. in&. 

loc.l 17 had Iheu Wheelbarro ... of Chee. Dllwin,; 

The winner of the wheelbarrow Ih,s year ...., Run 

Shevnock and the neward who IOld Ihe "'lOnl", 

lIekct was Mike Scheible 01 Ma.ysv.lle 

For II~Yclen on Ihe .oad, to update you, "'e arc 

plann.n, on a,am hum, I RCllrtment ~mmar m 

btc Sp"'" alon, "'L1h a CPR Cia" fo. f,mlioc. 10 

partlClpatc m. We .1,., arc plan01n, on hlYln, an 

App.enllCC G,adu.tlon Dmner/Dance SOmet.me 

m AplIl of 1984 

Until nut \slue, ... ork »fe and God blus 

Pnu I Mc;M"NIIS, B M F S 

Discussion 

Shown in thi! pieltlle a.c, ltlt to ri,ht, Paul M.an _ 

ninL ~en;o, apprt nlituhi p con~u lt. ntl La"" S u ~ 

m.n, pfu onnel ,"illaot III l ylt E . lek~o n , public 

fadl;I;fl admini)ttalo' l SltVf ," OIO, public ladl, 

iliu f lecu iul foltmAn, and AI luko, auiSlant 

bUiinui mana,t._ 

Apprenticeship Program, 

Agency Shop Begin 

L.U, 18 luI. lOS ANGELES, CAI..-The loc.l and 

Ihe ellY 01 ru.deu IU5t ilgned the neGen"y 

documents to bc&ln In deetnClan~' 'rp,cnucuh.p 

plOlum, Ihe fiul In .lmo,1 15 yun Pnu. 10 thiS 

p.ogram. the cLlY 1J11'.~ adena u$ed to contract OUt 

ItS complcx electrIcal work, lU~' UVlIIg the rouline 

mamten.nee 1m (tu. OmOn Blolhc., Wllh Ihe 

,dvcn. of UUI a"cement, mOre of the clly's ... ork 

WIll slay "'lIhlO Ihe local's IUII5dl(l111n, ~nd "'lIh 

lime the technlc.1 upelll5c dCYeloped by the 

'pprent",eJ and Halllcd lourneymen wLlJ r~ma.n 

w"h,n thc local purvle'" 10 the bcllermenr of .11 

our union Bltlh.en 

On Ihe l{>1: An,tlu scene, the pnor neIOl"'~ 

.,enGy·,hop r,ov,slOn IS ,om, ",to dfeCl, helpIng 

the local cope wllh ,he mc.ca~d UpcndUUICS of 

leprescnun, almou , thud mo.e members Thu 

.gency ihop pro~,,'oo OJ bnnglllg .he local .nll) 

the lOth ccntu,y .... lIh the purchaH 01. new mIni 

compute. _ mOle sraff 10 adiusl ,,,ev.nces and more 

dCllul hdp to .nswer the .ncrened .dephone 

calls 

The elllu of lO1 An,cles, Pasadena and Azut.l 

all conduded 198J negOllal1onl ...."h conllaet, 

tolal"" ove. 6 pelcenl per year '" cach 01 thc 

emu The CIIlU of lIurhank and AtUil w,]1 enle. 

.ntO Iheu 1964 Contract negoll.uon, III I few 

monlh, 

TurnIng tU anC/lher 8ub1GCI. II any of uur B.othe" 

and SISltl5 in Olhe. locals need a lob. the CIlY 01 

['asadena needs an IIUtrumcnt tech'lIClan 111 Ihe 

powel plant and I couple 01 d""lbullon hnemen 

o. cahle spltcer, 10 the Power DePUlmMI I'lcase 

call the luul fOI .he .cicnal 

At lMKu, I' S 

Xmas Party, Elections And 

Recent Deaths Are Outlined 

LU, 22 (i.ru'hpa), O M. AII A, NE B,_On £kccmhe. 

18 thc Annual Chllllmas Party .... u hcld for the 

ch,ldren 01 local n mem""n Each Ghlld had a 

chance 10 ~lsLl and put In thell .cqUCSt 101 Chlln, 

mas MOYln werc !ihown and .tflcshmellls were 

scr~ed A uck of un.Jy was handed OUt 10 the 

chIldren 

Thc unemployment "tC 01 locd nls 11111 about 

JO to JS pc,ecnl Wc Ire hop",g thl' WIll Improve 

th .. ~pnng when the wcalher brelk., There 'ii a 

lot of d,scussiQn IboUI the amOunt ul work Ihat .s 

com"'g up Ihis SP''''g But as we .11 know, a 101 

of th15 ",,11 ,0 11.1 the non·ulllOn .. de 

" lot of Important things are comins up One of 

Santa 

Dlyll, l(elle, I nd Micharllhmihon vi)itin, ,,'ilh 

S.nta, The, arf Iht eh;ld'fn 01 Bro. het lim H.miLton 

of LoCl I 11, Omah., Neb, 

Ihem I. the clceuon of offlcc •• IOJ Loul 2.l The 

mo., .mpo't.lnt thtn! " Iht clccuon 01 a Dc'" 

p.CJldent lor Ihe UnLled StatU Eve.y BrOlhe. and 

S.SICt and thelf lam.ltu and frIends hu tU ,Ct oul 

and "ote lUI Waltel Mondale /I We don't gel thiS 

rob donc II'S lOIn, to "" a vcry rough nut lou. 

YUrs, 

Local 12 Went lor quae ~ while without losm. 

~ny oltht Urothcrs The mumh 01 Decembel ... a~ 

rou~h ., we lost three Drothers They lie lohn 

KOC Il. llcnntnl leth and Wliitan. McW.lllaml We 

cxprct, our .ymr~thy wlhell .cI.,,'·es and Inends 

Talktng to a lor of Brolher, .nd Smeu, hapPIness 

II 10 be _hIe to ~o out and wurk 40 hours I ... eek, 

but 10 a lot of casu Ih'l "nOI polS.ble any more 

So We a.e harpy to bc ablc .0 work whatevel hours 

arc aV~llable Ind try .0 make ends mecl 

He surt fO VOIC 

Scribe Outlines 

Huge Tunnel Job 

LU. H (i,ipa,U"Cllvl, BAl T I.'otORf, ,"'D.-WOlk 

pro!luscd !lud.ly throuK,h thc wlntc. at B.[u 

more', fort Mcllenry Tunnel r'OICCt The tunnel. 

now undel COIISIIUCIIOn .... Ill pr OVIde I \'lIal hnk 

to complele Interstate 9S Ihrou,"" the Baltlmo,e 

Irea The area tcleGtcd fo, the roadway (fonts Ihe 

PaupJ

20 

In Tunnel 

A'" I hoWIi in the lunnr l Ir' Of:llob W"'W'I'_I, 

lear,,] fonmallo , Kt:ilo KarpP;olll,lupe,intudrnl, 

' lId funk UMfUII' I, !"'''Iun. 

"P", JO clr..,110mc .. ana nCr mC$ulc "I'u.• nd 

.n "MfM amenn. w,1I be r'ov,ded lor (ommu 

nlL.II",,, OV~ I 410 mIl"" of IU1.1 ,)"n:m, "'11m, 

wjJl 1M: ""eded for wmpleuon of the Foley PI()Jerl 

.Ione 

The ,ener.1 IDleman II Ih,s time " IX"nI' 

WUYfr Dlolhers frank Llbe,~to,e ~l1d Bob H .. ~ 

!lOp are !oremen Sob Rankm 15the shop &lcward 

The Foley phue lUlled In runc, 1983, and II 

tcheduled 10 flnl.h In Augusl, 1985 n ...", .re 10 

men on the ,Db nOW .nd 11 .5 uJI"cled 10 'f\C'.k" 

.\ around 80 men In 1985 

I would hkt 10 thank Gen"".! Supcnmcndcnt 

Kel,o K'rppmen 101 hi, cooJICratlon and UItMlve 

Informallon I'UII dUlin, the lOur 

The I 7'm,l", fon McHenry Tunnel II the IllICit 

plOJIct evel unden.kr" 10 the history 01 Ihe N. 

Ilonal Inter$ule and DdcnK H,gh""y DI~lllOn 

II is .1.$0 Ihe lal,Cn under ... uel Iunnel In Ihe 

","r1d Thc III,al COli on comple,,"n IS Cfl1ma.ed 

II S815 m,llion 

Many eOllllaellll5 "'111 be lO~olved on Ihe lunnel 

P I OIC~ I aud ... e ... ill mOnilOllhcll plo,ren 10 lutu.e 

anidca IIf Ihe lournal 

Local Has Active, 

Productive December 

ROCla M LAs .. , I~ P 5 

L U. 2S II.0,tuIl.ClIVI. LONG ISLAND, N.Y.- Ik 

cembel ... as I busy mOlllh 101 many of the com 

mlttcn 01 Local 15. In ,ddu,on 10 the legulll 

meeting' 01 the va n llUI committees, the '0110"'10, 

evenn "'cle held 

Slaning ... ith the elec',on of the electrified "Su 

IOn', Cleeting'" si,n by Ihe apP,cnllcn, Ihe 

Chliumu Commlllce undel the chailmansh,p of 

John Cou,n had Ihe .... nnual Ch" "mu Pany on 

December 4 The.e ... as cmcnlmment and enough 

food .IId ICC cleam to 10 around Santa Claus 

p,"en,ly hSiened to the leqUtS" 01 the child.cn. 

.nd II Ihe end of Ihe mornlOll Ind lilernO(ln 

KU'on. (lch ch,'d rece,ved 111ft In IlIlhe.e ... ere 

• 10tal of 406 boys Ind J9J girls ... ho '!lended 

Ihese KSSlons. 

.... 1 Ihe .e8ular meeting on ~eembc l 13. the 

Commullhy ServlcC5 Commhlee p.esented Mr. 

CUrry , di.eciol of the BOlld of Cennal Sullolk 

Hoapita[, ... ilh a check fo r S[O,671 to be ul ed fOl 

Ihe pu.chase uf a dialysis machine. This Commit· 

tct. chahed by BIl] Myen. wu formed fm Ihe 

PU' pOK of elCltins I pOlilive im.ge of o. gamnd 

DonatIon 

Bill Myels, chalrm. n of Ihe Commun;l, Servicu 

Commillce 01 Loul 25, lollll Island, N.Y., piC· 

u .nlin,' ch«k 10 Mr. Cuu )', direClor oltht Board 

nl CUllal Suffolk lIolphal, lor thtil pUlch.se of 

• dialysis machine. 

Pklu.ed i1 a pollion 01 tht Clowd thai alluded 

Local 25's Ch.btmn Pan,. 

labor 10 tbt communltYI ,nd undcl fhothe. Myel! 

they hue done a ~Iut Inb 

On ~cember 17, the Entcnamment Commillu 

.an a bus "'P III RadiO Clly MU$'c Hall lONe ... 

Yo,k CIlY 10 5(e Ihel' Chlillmas Sho ....... h,eh h.~ 

become a elulle After Ihe sho ... the.e "'31 a tOUI 

IIf back.nagc RadIO ellY .nd the equ'pmenl undrl 

thc 51age ... hele the mechan'sm IS localed that 

operates the 5lage 10 m.ke fIO",on5 of" d,f,apPCII 

dUllng the sho ... It .1.,0 lOciuded 5«'", the largesl 

theale, 01l'./ln5 In Ihe world and Ihe plO\eeuon 

booths ... hele Ihc stage Lop"n,'s ellnlfolled Irom 

.... hel Rad.o CII1, ,he gloup hid .:I Ie ... houlS 10 

spend on Ihell own 5(elnll the lights IIf New YOlk 

Cuy at Chll,.mas Kason before lelum.nll: til Ihe 

bus lor lhe I1dc back to the local The Enltlliin 

men. Commltlee to ehallcd by John Clanton 

On IXcembel 18 the 8]ood Bank Committee, 

challed by JellY Mcycl, had Ihe!! sem,·annual 

Blood DI1~ e IXsp .. e. ve ly nuty d.y that &flected 

Ihe tU.nOUI. Ihe Commtllcc dId a good Job of 

keeping thinp movms The Createl Ne ... York 

Blood Plogum Irp.eeulcs us hav.ng Ihc dllve on 

thl~ tlay as Ih.5 " Ihc lime Ihat Iheu 5url"Iy Is .. 

its lowesl ebb 

Til top the month ofl, Waite. , Sk.elch lellled 

IS VIce p.n.denl and chai.man of Ihe Eueullvc 

Board. Wahc. had done an taeellenl lob, and the 

members Wish h,m .11 the beu In hIS .(t!lcment 

The E:reeullvc Board . ppo.nled An.hony Vaeeh!o 

10 selve Ihe .cmamd(1 of Waltel" telm U v'ce 

plcsldent 

Scribe Writos About 

Union Participation 

LU. 34 li,em .I1I,lplllCllvl, PEORIA, ILL-Th" 

monlh I would hke 10 .epnnl an arucle "''''tCn 

by Mark AyelS that appeared In OUI loc,1 I.bo • 

paper. [Ieclthat thc meISISC " "'ollh .cpealing. 

"'Just Ca.d Carne", The Downlal! 1If .... 1! Union •. ' 

A great ploblem I. lac'nll our olgamzallon and 

othcr organizations across ,he nation. It " not. 

new problem. but .alher one ... hich ,s lut KCl1inS 

eomple.dy OUt of lund It II no, a popular subicct 

10 m.ny 0/ us, bUI III Importance " conll~nlly 

SlowIng and buildIng. and ". efieci is dcva".lmg 

IU uu' IIrull,c.I",.,.J .. uti ~1I ulhc. lI .mh ~ l huo

kno ... n O'~ I .he YUI$, and hopdulI~, Ih~ uniting 

of Ih~ Dufblo BUI ld,ng T .. du wIll be ~tr~ngthenrd 

by Ih'IIOInt Vtnlu,e As IUllhel newl 01 the famIly 

Plcn,c devdop" It ... ,11 be ~nt OUI 

It stem, II If ... e all gc t I 101 01 mall f,om the 

local In III v.no.1S uraclllu I kno ... that we all 

keep every p,cee 01 mall on file In III propcr pb~c 

If you have m'spbced IoOmeth,n" O. haven" Ie 

(elnd tome,hlO, becauK you haven" nOllncd uS 

01 you. addlus ch.n,e, I'U lIy and bllng you up 

.0 IU.C on .ame OIhe. (venU m Loul 41 

The C'edll UnIon ha. now PUt luelf 10 I POS'tiOn 

,,·he.e 1\ tin Ind WIll be .ble to ItrVlce 'he mem 

be.shlp even be.,er ,h.n belOle When you IhlOk 

you WI ll nced money 1011 CII, boa., ulvd home, 

o •• ruck, check Wllh the C.ed .. UnIon Arn lor the 

be.1 .ates In 'Own 

lourneymen Eduullon II ~jt;l1n olftnn, ~ "'Ide 

.,oge of ell,emdy ImpofllOl COUrKI for you 10 

• ake pan 10 The Idus 01 ,he COmmmee and Ihe 

Anal ItCp, th.t of "amnl ,he dUI Itstlf, playa 

,'U' pall In Ihe nevel endml hallie to keep ahead 

01 Ihe chlnln In OUI IOdu5IIY 

The Telephone Proglam w,1I ~glO '" Ap r,] .nd 

concl ud e in May. After 32 hO"'1 ul tr~""ng, il IS 

hoped Ih.1 Ihe yurs 01 It hoolln~ and Acid expe· 

"ence of Ihole who attend w,lI be able to adapI 10 

,h.s ne ... Acid 01 OUI IOdusny Hands·on namlOg 

WIll be • I:'cat pall 01 Ihe p' og.,m and thould hdp 

than who allend I'UP the .nd,Ully much fOOnel 

The . esponK to attend ,he p.opam hIS been "cat 

.nd plans I .e under .... y '0 h,vc .ddlllon.1 KUlOns 

to handle.ll Ihose ... ho hue upleued.n Inlelest 

On~ Ana! ,hlOg- ,he Eiecunn '84 Camp"", IS 

.n h,ll,wIOg, have you and you. f.m.ly taken Ihe 

IlISI slep necessalY 101 vounl: 10 1984 have you 

.e"s,e.ed! If yoo have .ny que""onl le1-'ldlO, 

.e"suallon, elll the lOCI! unIOn olAee and you 

... ,11 be "ven all .he dttatb yoo need Labo. mo)t 

.cally be o.,~nl2Cd ,h" yur .nd elect ou r fllends 

Please do YOUI shale 

Local Nominations 

To Be Held May 2 

L U. 42 !0,u ,,·, tlb&.'0~11, II ARTfORD, co .........· 

It IS thlt lime al:~IO' Th.n yca" hai ce ltalnly 

nown by 

Local umon tl~ellonl lie 10 bt held thIS yeu 

NomlO.tlonS .hall be moved up On~ week 101110'" 

. addillona! lime fOI Ihe mall billols Thclefore, 

nomlnallon, shall be held on Mol' 2, IY84, at a 

p,m. in Ihe I

" 

~udlfncf ,like ... c.e ~n.h"~II'II" .n hmh P"u", 

pallon and co'fce ""nklnl 

[conom" lcu'Hry has ~en slo ... 10 V'tll (kn 

~el ho\oeve" .he '~neh" eount " S660 ~n 

Stree, d,d drop by about tOO m 'he rUt mon,h 

Thlt .... . , due I",cly '0 sub,,,n,,a] hm nl on the 

IIlInalOUnd II Ihe FOil SI. "',I.n IPbnulllej Nu 

dur Po ... er ptanl Ind u the Amellcan Bell Com· 

pute, CeOle, Thne twO lobs uc shon Itrm bUI 

lome 'malle, )olK h~ve also been hm nS Howeve., 

.helc I,C still (lveT SOO on Ihe ou\·of "'o,k hst and 

full employmen .... m be slow in .c, urnlnjl 

The Anh.:use, lIusch Brewery clea, cd InOlher 

hurdle on February 1, ... hen , he fOil Coli"" ClIY 

CounCIl voud to Innu the proposed bu.ld.n, ,IIC 

Th,. will a/fo,d Ihe brewery the eny le'VlCn, If 

.a"fled, 10 I euy· ... ,de deellon on May I 19U 

Recent slCkncssel and dlulnhun lie u follow, 

Bob 5

.hat will help. Why not tall .hc )ATC oflh:c ond 

put your name on the liS! for Ihe next clanr 

I overh u rd onc of the of Ace secretaries Idling 

another, " [t's strangc how u",mponanl you, lob 

is when you·re askIng for .. rlue. bUI how imponant 

It can be when you w.nt to takc a day of! "IHow 

u\le 1 

Th" Imele may well b.:; my lUI one 10 Wille. 

. due to my assuming the poSitIOn of OIlCClor of 

TrainIng fOl Local 666 In RIchmond. Vllg,nla I 

must"y that o"cr Ihe past 16 yurs as yoor pres. 

M:c rc'JlY, .t hu been .cwardlng 10 me In many 

w.ys I've ,ecc.ved many letters, not only from 

our member' and thell famIlies, bUI from BrothelS 

and Slller$ of ,he IBEW.II over Ih.s great bnd of 

ours, m rega rds 10 my Willing. Ilhank you all It 

- has been a pleuure "mltng for our local untOn and 

I will m,H " 111 sl1l1 be .. member of Local 80 

and w,]] be IItendlng the Saturday meellngs of ou, 

Brotherhood Should oor prcsident. lack HICks, 

wllnl me to connnue bemg .he prus Seerctlry, 

even thou,l\h myfull·ume lob WIll be In RIchmond, 

I'd be h.ppy 10 cont.nue God bles, you all, and 

Ihank you for ht-mg ,uch 'althfu! readers and 

cont" butor. 

Rememht-r our s,ck BrolhelS Ind S,slers m you, 

pllyers and V,SII when you can Someone once 

uid. "It's 50 n"e loget nowers wh,le you can st.ll 

.mell the fragrance." Eutel Sund.y IS only a few 

day, away Ilow aboutllk.ng you. bm.ly to church 

• Clv.ees ,h" special day In the hfe of Chl1sllan, 

cvuy ...·here, EUle. IS a Hry spe(i~l day-ClmS! 

arose WOld 10 the WISC· For God .w loved the 

world, that he ga~c hIS only begolten Son, that 

~ whosoevel In b,m should nOI pCTlsh. but h~vc 

.ve.lulln~ lile lohn 316 

1 0 II()Ll04QN, II< . I'S 

Local Wi ll Miss 

Bishop O'Connor 

t.U. 81 H!. SCRANTON, [, A.-The members of 

Local 81, as well a all of the Union tradesmen In 

OUI commumty, w,1I dearly Illin Bishop lobn r 

. O'Connor who bas bccn deSIgnated 10 succeed th. 

latc Cardmal Terence Cooke., ArchbIshop of Ihe 

Archdloctse of New York B"hop O'Conno, wu 

a true f"end of the working men and women In 

01,1. communny. and particularly the bUIlding and 

conStruction I"dts. The bishop" late falhe. had 

been a member of the hUlldln~ tradn, .ffllllied 

with ' he P,.nteu and held I gold ca.d fOJ 50 yean 

~ (If membc"hlp 

BIshop O 'Connor was an ,nsp,rallon to all 01 uS 

.n Scran ton and would wUlk with us '0 ;ssure Ihal 

OUI memht-rs w.re g.ven 'he 0rportunlty to work 

on any Ind .11 diocesan conSllU.l!on and renova· 

liOn. HIS comrassl(ln for the homeless and th. 

poor ,n our community led to the CreallOn 0/ 

,helteu to house the homeless and Ihe expans,on 

of laellmes 10 feed 'he poor 

.. Recently he ~tabhshtd. Oooce511n Synod. charged 

w"h revamp.n& Ihe Dloce~'s Canon l..aw '" hne 

wnh th •• ecenl .ev".On5 '" Rome I was honored 

10 ht- ,nv.ted ' 0 partICipate to Ih. Synod along with 

a number of labor rep,uenta\lvu. whIch was an 

other "gJI of h.s ",'erUI 10 h .... labor people 

.e.ogOlled Deltv.llng the malar address a1 our 

Labor Day Rally In 198.3, "'e ""II n.ve.lorgel h.5 

word5, "Any Industry who w,ll 001 locate," the 

• Scran,on area lor I.a r of ht-Ing o.g;tnl:ed InlO a 

bbo. unIOn does nOI d.5.,ve 10 be In Ih!s tom· 

mUOlty .... nh you. fine people" 

We WISh Ih. new Archh!shop of New York the 

but of luck. W. wao, all of th.mEW.n New York 

10 know Ihat 01,1. Ion IS eelt:unly your g;ttn. The 

cOlile communilY he •• has upressed Ih." SlIdn." 

at lusing luch an inspIrational ind.vidual One of 

Our local news repon ers summed It up for all of 

. us when he wrote, " Johnny, w. hardly knew you" 

lOIiN I Mc:::Nul n, B M 

Scribe Gives Insights 

On Politics and Economics 

L.U. 84 10,u.t&'caIY), ATLANTA, G A . - L oc~! 84 

members 01 Un;, 84. U ae Statesbo. o. Geo rgll, 

Club 

Member$ 01 "T he Rodtin& Cha;r Club" of Local 

84, Atlanta, Ga. 

recently donaled cwo .ocklllg chaus 10 two d.fin 

ent ~onvale5cenl hnmeo Th.5 IS the ,hlld donallon 

ChallS have been p.eYlOusly donlled 10 .he Bullock 

COUnlY Memon.l HO$pllal The Slatuboro mem o 

ber, voluntaltly cOntnbule One dollar pcr member 

I! the clOM: of uch monthly Untl mcellOlIo. Mem· 

bers who conmbule c.lIlhem~el ves "The Rocklllg 

ChI." Club " The club ha~ been 10 UlSlence lor 

aboul 'wo yurs now Members of Un" 84 12 

should cenatn!y be reeogntzed for thell commend· 

able purpo~5 of "The Rock,ng Ch.l" Club." 

I ",ould Itke 10 announce Ihal the.e " a !tmllcd 

number of [BEW hats 10' ",Ie 10 Oil. membersh,p . 

Theeo,I" $4 OOeach II you would hke 10 pUlchase 

a hal, scc your unil chaIrman or shop 51ewud and 

arrangements can be made 10 deltyer your ha, a, 

one of our 18 unu mcellngs. The buslneu manage. 

or one of hl5 "SIStants WIll ht- glad 10 hltnllo Ihem 

co the mCC lt n~ 

S,nce th" IS • ~rC5ldentlai clecllon yen, 'here 

are a few ,hlOgS I would ltl

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We u-ttml to DorOlhy, hi' wife, Ind 10 h'$ 

d.u~llIen Ann and Lynn, OUI .mcele .ympathy. 

C"d. un be sen. 10 Do. olhy Sommers, 529 S 

Penlnsul. Ave .. New Smyrna Beach, Flonda, 32069 

R'OIAIW M'TClnLl .. P S 

Local Endorses Mondale 

For President 

LU. 9Q ,i6.em), N EW IIA VEN, CONN.-AI ou, 

Feb.u .. y meellng OUI local announced I .. 5upporl 

101 Waller Mondale .n .he upcomIng p,u.denlial 

e1ecllon The dec.slOn was unanimous among the 

member.Mp in ancndance. OUI local'. dcc"ion 

Wit ~nd on Mr. Mondale'. pUI I>C'riOlmance 

When he wu • U.S Sen .. o., he comp.led .. 93 

I>C'tcenl " 10 fno. ol labol" vOllng leco.d on libo. 

endOr1Cd blilt. H.! $Uppofl 01 the Oult·Bacon loCI, 

n wellu many other ,mpolunt labo. bills, r ' oves 

he baa been I "cal uset 10 organiZEd labo. 

Ruh;ulg Ibe strength Reagan hu ",ned In 

luecumbmg to the demands of bl, buslnc,., .nd 

the onuldednell of hIS admmllu llion, we must 

.~cepl Ihe bel thai If we'.e IIU"'5 tu dclClOt RUII ~ " 

we mUI, concentrate OUI effo. ts by supporting 

Waite. Mondale. 

The Dav.a·Bacon loCI, which hal come under 

wonant cn UCI!m by Ibe Rugen admmlstratlon, 

wu .ecemly dealt a selback. FOUl of the five 

.e",launa p.oposalt made by See.et ..,. of Labo. 

Rlymond Donovan had the bl""i,,,. of the U S 

COUll of Appub for the O'StllCI of Columbia 

Dupne Reagan's man,. .nempts Ind fa,lules 10 

elimlnale or weaken Ihe law th.ou,h Con"UI, 

OUr country' •• ep rescntallvcs IUltio:

, 

Ih~ 

college cdueilion of 1""0 0/ our members' 

ch,ld'en Duc 10 tht newly founded tDEW Local 

tOJ SchoJauhlP fund, our local was .ble to awa rd 

Donn. Bowser Idllughtt. of B'Olhe. Mike Bowse. , 

and lohn O'Oonnel (.on of Brolher lolln O'Donnell 

IWO ~ Jl.lraI C S 1,(X)(l check. Congululal'OIlI, Donna 

and lobn, we ",,'Jh you Iud. and I p.O$J>C'Ous 

future 

t· On Milch I the burden of runmng and management 

ruponJlb,lmu .... u J.fted from the Ihnulde.s 

of our BUlldmg Commlllcc Pc. hop, Ihe decIsIon 

10 leuc the !uncllon h.1I and lounge 10 In outsIde 

firm ,s ,n the Ixll Lnu:rulJ of ,II By PUSIn' sl.Ich 

• mouon, we w,]] now Ix .«elvm,. ,u,unlt~ed 

Income on 01.11 bClllly, and QUI office •• and Enc 

UIIYC Boa,d memM" ... ,11 be able 10 deyole Ihell 

~ lime 10 more Import.nl IUUU Hopdully Ih.s .5 

Ihe .MWCI we h,ye been .carchlng 1m Lei 's ho~ 

11 .... Dlk, DUll bt:CIUse ., mcc IS OUI bUilding IS, 

.... c can't ,fford 10 lei au. decled oIRCI,I. _pend 

v,luable IImc on rnaue" concernIng .UIaU"nI5 

and funcuon halls Thcle •• c III too man~ mou 

Important IJSues which muSt be conllomd b~ Ihe 

people .... ho hold olRer 10 1.«..1 100 Flnaneul 

Sec. Clary John Fandl has .cpolled thai Ihc rno" 

.... pge on OUI bUlldlng.hould bt: paid off In a Intlc 

ove. IWO ycus So m.ybt:, IUS! maybe. We mlshl 

srilliu Ihc da~ when 1S6 Frceport Street .... 111 hdp 

suppon Loca! 100 Innnd nl sceklng fln,ncl'! 

IUPPOI! from the members 01 our loc,1 unIon 

I a,k Ihal ~OU keep In mind the S69 ,b,lhon trade 

deficit the Umted Stalu Iw,lIowed m 198J ,nd 

Ihe prolecled SI OO billton !lade gap the US Will 

be bomb"dd with In 1\11\4 PluJe do not look II 

ilt.. tbue Agu lu as melt It.tl,IIe.. but rathe. look at 

Ihern IS lob" 1051 ,ob,' !-low rnucb mo.e un thlt 

country lakd h '. lime 10 fight back_buy unIOn, 

buy Amellcao made plothlCIS 

KrNNV NI\lIll\U. I'S 

Brothers Retire; 

Work is Picking Up 

L U. 104 [oAt.ul, BOSTON, MA SS.- h ', been a 

'l whIle SlOct my last lelle •. 10 I would like 10 say 

htllo 10 . lIthe Brmhers who have mined the 1rx:.1 

newsletter 

The hl,hltghl 01 nur Ch""mlS mcellng ... ·u Ihe 

prcscntluon of I 35·yur pin 10 Brolhe. F,ed"c\. 

"Sh,pwTeck ' Kelley un hiS .etlremenl by Imer 

nalloui Rep.uenllllvc Pili! loushl.n BlolheT 

Harold LaRose .ho lecelved • SC.VICC ptn for J3 

... yU., I would like 10 Wish Brolhc. Kelley a lon,r; 

and happy IClllcmenl After Ih~ meelln, a buffci 

and holidlY cheel WCle cnloyed by .11 

At thiS lime I would I,kf 10 lake. belated 

orpo"unny to wl)h D.~e B.g Din Dlnle], a 

long .od happy IClllemCnl 

The wOlk rlctu.c hun'l ch.nged much Itn~e my 

Ian ICllrl, hUI 1984 looks a ILItIe b",htt. with. 

few lobs n.nlOg up I'm Iiso harpy to 1~r

26 

arn Hopefully, Ihlllpllng will uke adyalluge of 

lowered IDle rest IItn, .nd the peOI 'UP dem.nd for 

new ~ru.ru",on will brnk loose There were 

·.boUI 350 ,ourneymen on Book I JI Ihe turn of Ihe 

yur 

Spe.k,ng of lower .nurut rues, they arc u · 

pt'cled '0 conILnue and perh.ps evell to drop more 

throu&hout 1911

.: Stewards Seminar Held; 

Board Screens Proposals 

l.U. 131 (II), ALBANY, N. Y.-On Suurday. Feb· 

luary 4,1984, a slcwards scmmar wos held al the 

Thru,uy H~ a t l Houst In Albany Stewards and 

ollken wc,e ,n ... ""d fr om locals JJl, 1369, 1311 

and IJ8S of our hSltrn D,vls10n, and In splle of 

" the "'mIn ,,·cathe. conrlulOns, auendan .... w.s 

very good 

Dave Wnghr, Don Ragone and Ri ll Cu"e., prt~ 

.denlS of locols 137. 1385 and 1371, rc~pccllvdy. 

",mdy presIded Over the JllOg. am, whIch was pre 

sented by the New YOlk School of Indu5mal anJ 

labor ReiatlOnso! Cornell Unlyelsr.y. The m~"uc 

.,,1$ were Bernard Flaherty. boor relauons 51'" 

111._ claliu, .nd Alice Brody. Jalm. educatlun spec,.),sl , 

both 0/ Cornell Unlv • • ~"y 

Ms. 810dy opened the Semma. ","h a pw~r.m 

on the PlOP'" h.ndhn~ of gll ...... ncu, whIch con 

SISlcd of. que!lJon and an~w~r sess,,;m with ..ome 

d~balt amQng Ihe rarllC;lpant~ Mr f1ah~rly Ih~n 

p r e.en t ~d .n instruCtive $e5510n on " The UnIon 's 

Duty of Fall Representallon " ThIS, 100, consIsted 

... 01 ud,cnce palll(lp3110n Df qU(StloM, answerS and 

de bale, along WI th .ome val u .b l ~ InSUUCllon Irom 

MI flah~lIy _ Ms Brody Ihen presc;nted. blld 'hde 

Jl log .. m enlltled " VDT'S and the WOIkplact " 

Th" IMtruCllon period waS lollowed by IWO 

gucsi speakers who sharcd SOme of thell own 

Inslghl anJ CXPC II ISC on loday" Uluon mallCU 

flank M. n saId a few WOlds on havIng mOl e 

seminan 01 ,h,s type IIIvolvlng • g, cat" ' numbe l 

. of u"l lt y unlOM throughoot the Thlld D'SUltland 

Jl lovldmg • wldN !lnge for the exchange 01 Ideas 

Ed laspel, [nIClnallon.[ Rep lell"nlatlV( and mem· 

1>1:. 01 Local IJ7, Ihen spoke briefly .oout Ihc 

dangers In loday's Con UaCI negotiations 01 "take· 

>way'" by companlU, Illoleby weakening the ba.· 

ga""ng pOJ IU On 01 t h~ U nlOIl . nd, of course, .e· 

sultmg In wtahl Contlacts Ed .Iso mcnUOlled the 

ImPO'lanCe of olganl~mg a~ many new groups as 

poSSIble, especl.lly m Ihese days of dec.easlng 

umon membe. shlp A buffel lunch wu plov,ded, 

'/' making Ihe entlle p.opam ~(ty Informauve, ~n 

t~nalning and enloyable 

On Monday, lanuary 30, 1984, Ihe Executive 

Boald mel in a special .eulon for th~ ,,,.ecmng 0/ 

p.oposal. submlllcd by the mcmbe.~hlp 1m our 

~ pcomlnC conn.ct negotlallons_ The!;e proposals 

We le Sent to the Easlern D'VISlon 100ni 8oa.,d for 

lunhel .clccnlng and Ihen to System Coulicll U · 

.. 11 10l finahzatlon bdo. e being exchanged wnh the 

company ,n Malch 

ThaI '. all 10' now See you al Ihe nnt umon 

meeung 

ROBERT I FAlIY, I'S 

Unions and Contractors 

Must Work Together 

L. U, 119 li &ul, ELM IR A, N. V._Thl~ ~p'lOg Ih( 

wOl k P'CtUIC In our arc. IS a bn b" ,hlel. W,th 

wOl k al St loseph'. Ho'pnal and upcommg wOl k 

,n otbel pa" , 01 QO. t~ .. nory, we m.y sec SQme 

01 our lonc· travelilng B,olhe.s coming home 

The Sialt of ou. ,ndustry IS not whal any 01 u, 

would h ke il to bc The ad ve nt of Reaganom,cs IS 

lUst one morc arrow In Ihe backs of unions and 

wm ktng men and wOmen of OUr counllY_ T be laoo. 

pol]cIU 01 thIS dmlnlSllallOn h,nt of 19th·centory 

Ihlnk,ng Ann-unton and anu·labo. arc wltcb· 

words 01 Ih,s .dmlnl5t.auon Anyl hlOS Ihat sop· 

portS Ot guards the working force of IhlS counuy 

" now ,ub,(el to slanderous SC lutlny and unbe· 

lievable degradallon 

Tht union conS!rUCIlOIl penon IS sublecled 10 

speclalanenllOn /rom thlS nOn·umOn f.ellon T he 

thmking 01 10 yurs ago or evCn five year. ago 

muSt be ebanged ,f We arc 10 sUJv'~e ,n many 

areas Non·un lon .hop' have taken OVe r most II 

nO I .11 of Ihe res,den lial .nd hghl comme. clal 

work . These a.e the blcad' l nd·buttc' accounn Ihat 

union COnll.cI015 depended on fOI so many yu. s. 

Now IhlS wOlk " fil lin& the bank acc;ounlS 01 non· 

umon contratlon en abling them 10 grow lugcr 

and l."el, thus .. kIng th., wOlk away to"m Iht 

trllned un,on ("It,n,an 

Thc dlY, of conttactors and unIOns S,tlU'j( on 

oppUSHe "des 01 the I~ble ~ r c (o m m~ 10 all end. 

The wodd and OUI IIIdu$uy are ch.nglng bSICI 

than We lie kecrlllK up with II The.~ lie W'Y', 

and we must find them !O ,ecoplure Ihe wurk thn 

We have losl and are losmg 

The unIon contlaetot ~nd un,on membe. have a 

vested In le''''1 \0 Ih,s bus,ness We prov,de a 

"~Incd and suptl"" wo,ker The contl.tlu. agrees 

10 hlle unly union ~mp l uycu Tlus .g.cemenl can 

work unly ,f Ihe CQntr.clulalld unUIII. can t aplure 

Ihe work aVailable 

Throullh Ihe yca". unlun member. have had to 

lace many advelsarlCS and SC;lbaek. We nlU'1. lnd 

we ""II 11)111 togelhr as In Ihe put, In uverCume 

IhlS late.t th,e3t 10 Ihe hc~ collcct""~ bJIj(JIn108 

.ystem 

The Annual Stag OUIlng w,ll be hdd un luly 21, 

1984, .t Ihe H~IfIS H,ll Youth Camp 1 bave 1\ un 

gd soo.ce that Ih,S IS gom& to be Ihe be" oOllng 

In ,everal years_ The Outm~ Commlilee IS wOl k,ng 

hald to plOv,de mOl" .ellYlIIU .nd betlcr food and 

dllnk to r the best lime ever, 10 ma.k thu dale 011 

your calcnd., and we will ~ee you Ihele 

TOM B~£ClII:K_ I' ~ 

Members 

Shown at Ih Decembel mtt ting 01 Local 141 , 

Wh u ling, W. Va., wht l t tht y let tind Ihri. 1C,,·ic;t 

pin ~, alt, left 10 tight, Rob"l L. I"cuughlin, 20 

YU ISI Cha.les S"ahl, 1S yu n; Robert L itelfer, 

lS run, and Geolge E, Nc" 30 yurs. 

MOlt mt mbt n who rfetl~ td pins at Iht mutiog 

&It, Irft 10 light, Ironl l OW: Louis W. Youlkoyic;h, 

30 yun, I.'an Lu Lewis,)5 YU'" u(Ond .ow: 

Btrnard P. Kdly,)O yu u , lIarr y T. Ollh, 25 yu •• , 

Ch .. lu Kni ght, 25 yca,,] Il ro.y C. MiliCI, lS yca," , 

,\trlvio A, Fankhou$tl, )5 YUI., Chu tt . A. Lapin. 

kl,)S yurs; and, back row: Myles B. Wilchey, 

35 YU ll. 

Christmas Party Held ; 

Service Pins Awarded 

L.U. 14 1 Ii,o,u& eatv), WIt EEUN G, W.VA .- AI our 

Ircul .. meellngof December 16, a Christmas pany 

lor the membersh'p wu held WIth the dual pu .pose 

of dI Smbut!l1S1cnK,h·of 'setvICe p,ns to Ihote d~· 

se. VlO g NO I all ihole eligIble we I

tended OUt thanks to B.otheu Bob ~nd Russell 

Solleder, committee chalrmcn and Ihelt commit 

ree lor another fine holiday celebra"on 

Abo at thIS bollday party, pillS were prc:sen.ed 

10 members ""ho have atumed IS th.ou,h 45 yurs 

"""h the IIrotherhood 

Thc Annual Ch,ldren 's Chnstmu Party was hdd 

on Deccmber II, 1983 It was a fine afternoon for 

all Ihe eh.ldren '"'ho allended, "",th ~n ahundanl 

~mount of .d.c,hmenu and g.fts fOI Ihe hohday 

oc:cu,on A /inc ,ob Wa~ done by Sinta Claus, and 

our Ihanh tn Brothel lor Gaus.dms and h.1 com 

mttler lor thl< Rn~ holiday celebrallon 

KEN"'ETII T N"'(;EC P S 

Members 

E. Meye., N~ncy II Mlchehn., Helen M M.hahe. 

Jack L M.lle •. Frcd F ,'I.10nd., Sr Charles I' Moran. 

Hury P MU'phy, LO •• lne M Newmes. lobn II. 

Nord. IOKph C. OUonntll. Harold Opthoh, Thornas 

E OUtc, lohn I O'Shu, Roulle O·SuU,un, Teresa 

Pauhn&. Charles A Pe.kms, Vl1pma I I'el.;l.venlo. 

LA. Pcre:.scn, R.chard F PIerce, Ch ... les I Qu«n.n 

Charles T Relchwald, Datle~n F Rogers, luha A 

11.""', lohn D Auge, Lou,,.., V Saffold, StanLey W 

Sahcl, heiyn S Sands, Lola M Schultz. Bogum.1 

M Stachurskt. Thomas L Stah., lohn I Stanton. 

Raymund C Strudeman, V,nccnt SWan,",n, Ches· 

ttr SWldenk., Donald II.' Tnckle, W,lllarn R Two· 

hlg. He:.ben Vuth, Glady, M W.ianus, luhn Walsh, 

Margaret E WaLsh, M.nhew Walsh. Roy Wessman 

Ignauu, S woln.k. Cenrudc L Yumel and Harry 

K Zer,.., 

tht local un.on rnceung., has been a memb.r til '!t! 

sood standIng for 36 years Imllllled May 17, 1948). 

and has made many contnbuuons 10 the lucees. 

and ol\lom~ of .hlS tude. WIlbur shared wllh me 

that II would take .11 of hIS "rne now 10 tab calc 

of hIS caule: and ke:cp the larm Ul' God's best 10 

you, B.othe. w.lbur 

B.Other 11m W"p' lone 01 rny apprcntlce: class 

matn, 19721 •• the p.oud grandf.ther of. hulthy '1 

8 Ib ~ 0% baby boy. All ale healthy and well 

Makes UJ, upecully me, know that wc are leu,ng 

older 

A b" of w,sdom Tru.h.s DOl only 5uangtr than 

fictton these daY_II's a 10' deanel, tOO 

Expcllenee The brttemeu 01 poorqu.luy l.ogelS 

lOll, after the sweetnen of a cbeap pnee .s 101gOl- 

"" Buy union. buy Amcncan and k«p JOM here: at ,. 

home. whe.e Ihe:y belong. May God bless' 

C·U at Ihe nnl un.on m«"I\I. 

c.r. DuNr..'1NC, P S 

KEN ,....'l.U, A.!sT P.S 

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Shown in this photo are, leflto lithl, lIob Cuen.her, 

lim O'Malley and lIob Askin 01 Loul 16S. 

Scribe Announces 

1983 Re1irees 

LU. 165 111. CIIlCAGO,ILL-AIl Local16S Broth · 

en and S".c" who rtllled lut yur j1 9831 from 

the I1ltnolS IIdl Telephone Company were honored 

at the lecenl dmner·dance held In thell honor a. 

.he Sable Room m H,ckory H,li., IIhnOI! Due .0 

the lel'Up of matenallor the Journal. the p,cture 

01 the youp won'l be pnnted unltl lune Hnwever, 

I have mcluded a puna] ItSt of those lelUlnl wllh 

.h.1 leue. 

Th.1 be,nl elecuOll yUr, nom.natlons 101 ,11 

unu)tf oUkes w,ll be accepled al the May mem 

be"hlp meellnl Ele:clton w.1I be by ma,1 ballo. on 

lune 

The lollowlng a.e SOme 01 Ihe 198J IIhno,' IIdl 

.eureu lUyrnond P Aplew, ErnUllne Ak,nl, 

Fredrtck P Beals, Leonud G Berenl, Lawrence F 

IIlehl, Gerald W Bowker, R E Boye., lohn M 

Brennan, Mlrtha A Bretsnyder, Kenneth H IIUII' 

ne., Robert E, C ... I, frank I Charbonnuu, luSlc 

II CO:l, Edw.n I Cummmg5, Ch.rln A DaVIson, 

losephine D. Dudek, Robel! I Dunne, 10lel'h A 

Egan, lohn P Egan, Beny M Fernandez, lames I 

FOlies., C.nel 11., 

forsberg. Robe .. A Frane.s, 

CLarence W Fredetlck, Charles R Frey, Thomas 

E. Fllne, AljI;crd A G.llls, EUlene I Colden, Ir , 

f.cdench W GOllman, Robert B C"dL, lohn 

Gruchol, N.ck I G,uszynsk., francIS H Hall, 

George: M Hancoc:k, Alb." Harmsen, M.,vm S 

Hamson, lohn W Hawk, Thomas I Hendcnon, 

Dorothy C. H'&lml, Leroy II. Hodgman, Raymond 

G HogCl, loan Hldllcka, Rob." II.' Humer,Ioleph 

I Huslcldt, Clare E Johnson, Rose ~h'y John,on, 

I. Motion lohnnone, Anthony L K.sky, Robe .. F 

K,df~r , lo.eph KleIn, Edwud L Kohlc., M~ry , 

Landem, DoIOlc. Lang. Roben II. Lapkiewict, v,,· 

gm,a A Le,melltr and Carole L Lin 

Aho reliring were BernIce M,.unew, kl , Ed 

mund T McHuKh, Ri chard L McMillon. Ravmond 

Local Kicks Off "Share 

And Care" Program 

IIHlth". Wilbu. Keyn, 

ont 01 Ihe faithful few 

01 Local 175, Chan" 

noola, T"nn., nlitfli. 

We will miss you, Wil· 

bUI, 

175 li,o,em,cA n'I ), CII ATTANOOGA, 

TENN._The "Calc and Sharc Prog.am";s a Com· 

mUni ty scrVlCe project for .he dderly and handl· 

capped, ,nHlated In the I rea,c. Chattanooga area 

by Local 115, to plov,de frcc repall lor mmOl 

eLe,,"eal prublcms Sponsorcd by Local 175 and 

the NECA COntraCiOlS of the Ent Ttnntssec Ch~p· 

'e, of NECA, the plan wtli p.ovlde a 24·hour 

Itlephone numb.1 1892 WORK), to field any elcc· 

Inul .eqUUt w"hlll a fou, county rad,us, III and 

around the Challanoop area Members of 175 

donalC thelT IImc to handle thc5c problem. aDd 

NECA conUactors p.ovlde ma.enals and equlpmen, 

ThIs IS one of the prtme uDmpJes of labor 

and management 5lnv,nl and uempltfytng to our 

community .. 'hat Can be done when We wOl k 

,ogether lor a cOmmon ;ntC' CSI and cause We arc 

dec ply gratdul.o OU r eon.ractors lor thelt ,nvolve· 

ment and Comrn,trnent to thIS program and lII'erc:51 

m Ih,s Kl!!:ment of ou. cornrnunuy, Thll prograrn 

has proven to b. vcry succcssful III the Atlanta, 

Ccmg,a, area, and we a.e Indebled 10 Brotber Harry 

Be_Icy, busmen manage., Loul 61J, lor hIS hell' 

and su"csuons. To Our mernbers who are do,n, 

th,s wOlk aftcI hours, and on Ihell own ume, We 

$.Iy, "Thank you 10' you. eDtln,-you arc specill 

10 rhlS Brotherhood May Ihe good Lord ,ncruse 

your !libe'" 

B,other B,ll Lowtty, OUI buslnc," manaler, .e· 

cently rccc.vtd, lellel of eommendauon from the 

M t':. M Man Candy Company. concern'ng a lob 

Insulled by Duncan Eleem. Co, 0' Cha11anooga, 

TcnnC55ce, one of our NECA COnllaCI015. Th,s 

partleub, d,vlS,on 01 M a M IS localed In ,he 

Cleve:land, Tenncssee, area and the letter hllhly 

cornrnendcd Duncan Ele:cttlc Co, and thclt em· 

ploycc:s 101 a JOb well done AI our las. unIOn 

meellng. Brother Lowery ,ud a letter 01 com' 

mendauoo from Brother Ben Pa'nter, Cooslruclloo 

lupenntendcnt at the Bellelonle Nuclear Planr 

[TVA ), commendllll the elecure"ns on that lob 

tor a bUll installation prOlect complctcd thele. It 

IS refreshing and, yel, lewaldlng to hu. Ih,s Iype 

of newS ,nstead 01 ,ome of the o.hcl kind we hear 

mO re fr equently, We commend you al50, feLlows- 

you know who you ne, Thankll 

1Ir.he. W.C. " Wilbu," Keye, . cccrn!y IC'II.d to 

h,s farm In CLeveland, Tennulee, and we w.nt to 

w .. h hIm .he very best of everything, Brother Kcyes 

has heen one of nu, f."hful memhers .0 a11end 

Business Manager Becomes 

CIR Member 

LU. 181 [il. UTICA, N,Y.-The work ",ene IS 

unchanged StIlce lut Willing. A spircmg Ichool 

was held recen.ly, and 37 Journtymen look .dvan 

uge of Ihe courK ..·h,eh was complettd 10 tWO 

eye:nlng Kn.on, 10slluclO'S fo, the course wert: 

Wayne Busoc:k, Al Cor and Chuck Paul. All 01 

them dl~ I gle" lob. More courSes should be offcred 

on the nea. future ,,; 

The PolitIcal ACllon Commlllce 01 181 , aJong 

with the Ioc:al COn trlclors, d.d SOme advertlSmg 

on b,Hboard$ The billboards we.~ located through· 

out Ihc Cl tics of Uuca and Rom~ Those . dverti'lOl 

along with Local !81 were Onc,da Eleclric, Waten 

Electric, Engler Electnc, Bud Smith Elccttlc, Cu· 

a.eH, Electflc and Kogut Elccllic. A~vclltstng like 

this il a •• ep toward geltlng back ,orne 01 the work 

lost Ove r the past few years to non·unton Ihops 

The nC~1 thIng pLanncd .s to PUt up "grli at job 

Sties nOlin, the contractor and Local 181 

'o"! 

BUSiness Manager Ken W,lham, ha, been ap· 

po,nled 10 the Coune,1 on Indu,"flal Relations by 

Inlernattonal Pre:"den. Charles Pllla,d ThIS " , 

g'Cat honor fOI Ken a5 " 'ell as the eottre loc,1 

Also, con""uluions tollrother Georle Walen, 

S', ""ho has been appointed to Ihe Nallonal Code 

CommIttee, He Is onc of 2J COntraC tOrS appointed 

to the 10'ycar POSI They couldn't have made, 

belle. chOIce, and we wuh h,m the b.st of luck. .. 

StIlee the las. wn.m&, t"'"o rnote Brother. have 

deCIded 10 hang up the lools BrOlhel Lee FUI.a 

Icured as of lanuary I, 1984. He was initiated Ap.il 

12, 1946 lI,olher Mark Wheaton ,elllcd lune I. 

19s..J, Mark was Inmated ID March, 1946 

A few months 1&0 ""e recerved the Slicker, Ihlt 

,ud, "TillS ~ymen. made poss.ble by Un,OlI la· 

bo. " Plea,.., UK Ihem on your check. or paymenl 

nOllces In !aCI. ,f you ~ste them on .11 of your .. 

ehe:cks before:hand, you won 'I have 10 Ih.nk aboul 

II, they w,ll already be there: whe:n you WIne: nul 

~ou r checks to banks, bus,nesses, CIC 

11M O'LlAU, la , PS 

Secrelary Re1ires; 

Blood Drive a Success 

LU. 212 [i .. o), CINCINNATI, OHlO--L,1 Koc:h 

.ell/ed the firSt of lanuary. 1984, after 15 yUrI of 

devoted SerVice 101 Local 212 as offi ce tc:c reury 

Th.oupout he. lCrv,ee .o Loc:al212, Lil has K'vcd 

!lve bu,mess managell ',"hlully We can be.t 

remember Ltl Koc:b by the SUtementS rn.de.1 her 

rell/cment parly on I.nuary 18 by F,nancul Sec· 

retary Bob Webmann "Throupou, her .ery,CC to .... 

Loc:al 212, L.l hu leen our membenhip grow .nd 

P' OSPCI She will be remembe. ed by the younlel 

mcmhers as • grandmother; to Ihe eu.bli.hed 

membe • • he w,1t be remembcrcd as mom. Ind .0 

the lenlot d. ,e,i.ed memb.r s h~ will be reca lled 

.. thelt union girlfnend." As a lu.ing tribute to 

Lt!, .he mcmberlhip of Local 212 unanimously 

ptlilioned the mEW 10 altow Local 212 to accept

Blood Drive 

Trophy 

,.....,..---. 

Business Managers 

Solidarity 2 12 C hairman I).n lunker of Loul 2 12, 

... Cincinnati, Ohio, is 5hown hC' f u .h wcro 

8100d D ...· ~ on I.nuary 19, 198.1. 

L.l Koch as an huu(uuy rn~mbcr 01 Lheu uIlIun 

Si mply stated, "Thank you lor a illh .... ell d"n~ " 

In an attempt W Improve lhe pubhc Itn.)(" of 

organized labll' In [he C"'CUlnali comrnunllY, Ihe 

Sohd.m y 212 CO'nmll,ce, chaired by nan IlInhr, 

.. toopcrJ lcd with WCI'O tc!evLSlOn at .hell Annu.,1 

Ill ooJ Dlive 10 help make thu evCnt • success. 

So m ~ 78 mcmb,·rs ol the local can proudly say thaI 

they were responSIble for malong Ib.s bli,.,d dnvc 

a buge .... Cct5~ 

As lor Ihe crnpJuymcnt IOlccas! w,.h'lI Ihe Loc al 

111,uJls ia Avenue Car ShoPJ. 

CNW Restores Atl 

Suburban Runs 

LU. 214 !u ), C IilCAGO, Il l . In I-cbruary "I I \I~~ 

the CNW ~dded back all the subu.ban d"'15IOn 

run~ Ihat II had .aken away a YUI ago Wllh these 

l\lnS back In ou. d~tly ,chedule. the compallY WIll 

be lo.ced tu rebuJletm .he lobs that we'e abuhshed 

. 

Every lob Ihu We can recover 15 " ery 5lglllfic~nt 

In the lurnmg around of .he present p"lIcy .he 

camer 15 trym/l 10 uphold That polICy 15. whCIl a 

lob 15 abolished and a man ,s ludou~hed .• hal ,ub 

and thot man WIll ncV

30 

JO yu.s Vmeent Delolcn~o , 10hn P hssd, Frank 

Scheller, 1' , lamn Schmu~, Thomas ShomelS, 

Allan Smuh, Robe .. SIcwan, Go.don Wallaee and 

RIchard Woolcult, 3S yea.~ RONrt C!uks.on, lames 

Lowes and .... thu. McCill 

The followmg .etl.ees also rccc.vcd SUVlte Plll$ 

Scan O'Shea, 2S yurs, V,elO. McBride, 30 yurs, 

F.ank D ...·o.eek" 3'; yur~, Theodo.e Bottlcelh, 40 

yean, James Butler, 40 YUrs, Donald Calle., Sr, 

40 years, LoU I' Rosen, 40 years, Joseph Werne., 

40 YUIS, and Robe .. yo.k, S., 40 years 

[BEW walches were presented ro the 11183 .ell 

IteS, Harold Allen, Ron P,e.ee, Chades Moyt., 

Rod MOYN, GUido Colucc. and Charles Augerol 

BClIlgan avId movie fan, I can'l help rebtlIlgour 

local B.OIh.,rs' ncapades .... lIh the Iate5t mOVIC5 

"Uncommnn Valor"-advcnture of "Dyna·man" 

DIC k, "Sudden Impacl"-Dan Lowes dockIng hIS 

boat and dnving loh pickup truCki, "Scarhcc" 

namng Ed Johnson, only .he scar locallon has 

Nen changed, "Neve. Say Never AI-".n"-A.n,e 

Littlewood's announcemenl of h,s new marnage, 

''To Be Or No. To Be"-Jack Kcnnedy and hIS 

loremanshlp deCISIons, "Blade Runner"-Dave 

Kllld~la 'l SIdeline advcnturcs, "Two of. Kllld" 

The CaMdlln capers 0/ Je/f Lown and Brran Park· 

hIli , "The BIg Chlll"-" A'Iuanum" JIm SlOneham 

lalll llltO a flooded d1lch,'Reckless"-Blll "Moun· 

lalll·Top" Chowboy sho .... s how to bottom out a 

truck 

Don'l fo.ge. Ihe thIFd Thursday al Ihe Elk's, II'S 

vour Unlnn meellng 

riM n"RtR'.RRV, pS 

Pins 

Receiving lS·yut i ervie~ aw. rds al Ihe rtcent 

Local 246, Situbenvillf, Ohio, Chr iU n,as Dinnt .· 

Oane~ we'f, '.ont . ow, lell 10 d,hl, Brolhers John 

H.buh .nd H"old ay~t 5; bnk . ow, lell to .ighl, 

B.olhers Clyde Shelton, a"sinns Manale. Ken 

GantT, Phil Brtls, Intetnational Rfp.estnlll;v. 

Gto.g~ Chapple, Chuck Do.sey, Tom Slraighl and 

John MOI,.n, 

The lO-yeu se. vice awa.d .... inn~" include, lelt 10 

ri,hl, Brolhers Geo . ~e Brindle,.. Jim Devlin and 

Chuck Rilchie. 

Local Awards Service Pins 

At Christmas Party 

L U, N6 [i,o,rt$,eu8llU, V P P S 

New Assistant Business 

Manager AppOinted 

L.U. 266 (u ), PHOENIX, ARIZ,-WILh th!S new 

~u r , our local has a newly appoInted aSSIStant 

bUSIness managcr T CII,. MIller hn been named to 

IhlS POSI, Terry recently lelll his time and talents 

10 the form.non 0/ the Salt River PloleCt 1984 

EI.c\IIc Safely Pouel Calendar The calend4l, plO' '1 

duced by Ihe O"IIIel Cenual Safety Commlltee, 

.s probably one 01 the moSt unusual and appealing 

p,eces eVef dc~clopcd Vanou, ~afcty themcs and 

slo,.ns, whIch lie drawn ~nd tilled by Phoenix, 

Clendale, Tempe, Mesa, Tolleson and Guadalupe 

studcnlS )glldes 2 through 6), .ep,es.1II each of the 

12 months, Nor only arc Ihese ch.ldren talenled, 

bUI II'S amaz.ng how well Ihey clearly e""p'us 

POllltS of safety , It would be wi,e of U5 10 he.d ." 

.heil safelY tips and adv.ce' We all ntend our 

haods and OC$! w\Shes to B.other MIller In his neW 

capaclly' 

Our local IS pleucd tn announc. the follo .... lIIg 

memocrs have completed thell apl".enlLcesh.p 

tll,nlllg Gilhert Napoleon, aulOmOtlVe mcchanlc, 

r.nuarV I, 19B4, Sue N Lashbrook, cleelfician, 

December JI, 198J, la"'Tence A EXnef, cleelllcal 

hneman, November 7, 1983, RIChaid Overfidd, 

e1cClILullrncman, Novembe. 7, 198J, and Ccorge 

llaycs, plant mechanIC, December 2, 1983. Con· 

gralulationS, B.olhelS and Sister' The many bours 

of hald work and $ludy .hat you.ll PUt fOllh have 

ocen worth all your effons, .nd we uc all proud 

of YOUI ...·cll·earn.d accomphshmenll 

Welcome aboard 10 Ihe ne ...... members of ou' 

unIOn· from OUI Page Unll, M,ch.el Begay, /Iom 

our S •. John's Unll, Jeuy Anaya, TellY DeMoss. 

Don Evans, Allen ,anke, Edwatd Uhballl, ClLspln 

Rodllgue:, Roben Ron, Rlcha.d Wl1kllls, Mary 

Koger, Dan McKcnzie. Ralph Sanchez, Thoma, 

SlOne511 •• I, Paul Ackerman. DaVId McMullen. 

WLllllm Johnson and Raymond Sec, hom Ihe Val· 

ley, Marlene Edel, Tammy FIllmnre, Bobby len· 

killS. W,ll,am McCausl,n, loe Rubcrry, [s.hel 

Rleh~rdson, Georgc Santa Cruz, Gary Hogsed, 

CeOTge ,almes, Rick Joy, Mae JOIne., Mall KInch, 

Paul Tones. HenlY Co.k.ll, Tom Crawford, Mar· 

celino FIgueroa, Carl Fisher, Manucl l.mlnez. Jnhn 

Johnson. Jeuy Lnn~, James Neilson and Jernld 

Pcrera 

Four of our Brothers . ~ tll ~d In 'anuIfY· John 

Bllee, Power OpelaUOnS, local 266 m.mbe. smce 

1953, Orner Lee Ho&~n, Jr, Westcrn Cl'l.M, Local 

266 membcl "nce 19';0, Andy Eoas. Soulhslde 

Cl'l.M, Local 266 member since 1948, and Wilocr 

H Thrash, Sou.hsrde C&M, Local 266 m~mbe, 

smtt 1966. We join in wlshmg you the best of 

he~hh and happmess III the years ahead' 

The 19B4 Centr.1 Safety Commillee Co·Cha,,· 

men ."cnded a Safely Plann.ng Meetlnll m Feb, 

. ua.y Rep. esentmg Salt RI~el PrOleC! Managemen. 

we te Dave SIan ley, Photnul llTlgallnn, Ed Ponel, 

MaIn tenance, ' ohn R,ley, Engmeel1ng; and Keuh 

McClanahan, llu,ld"'g SCrVICe$, Local 266 repre· 

SClllativts fo.labor were lohn Reeves, KYlene land 

OUt VICC prcs.den!). 11m Morn" Mamlenanee, Jot 

ROlh, Support S. r~leu, and Don PaJlY, Ground· 

Water Cl'l.M A ICpo .. of rhe 1983 ACllvl11ul 

AceomphshmenIJ and a prevIew 0/ 1984 Goals 

and ObleCtlVeS we. e among n"mernuS ISSUes d, s, 

cus~ed 

au. h~arl f elt sympalhy and prayers go .0 the 

families of ou r deceased Brnthe". David Cervanles 

and Donald F Shc.ts 

fu. .. cu M I'I.TTu.aH" P S 

Members Laid Off ; 

Contract Expires 

LU. 294 !i,,,,~m, rtb , rtdupa ), IIII1BING, ,,"INN. 

The one lob that was pUlling on m.n and .... 45 

gOIng very well hn Illd off all bur a handful 01 

men Hleplpas Inc., whIch has a eOntratt III the 

lIorse Cascade I'aP~1 MIll ,n Inlerna.ional F.lls, 

had If) SlOp ConS n uellOn We hope .hey "'Ill be 

call1llg for m~n In th~ ncar IUlure Even when" 

WlS fullv manned Ou r oul of· work lisl still had 

many names on" Fnr Ihe .eS! of Ihe ru"sdlclion 

II" Sill! very slow 

I 

) 

.J

Many ot ou. locil lhothe., h~~c been wOlk.n& 

amOn& the 5J)(JO fJtcltlcians, 1I0ile.m~kell, P.pe· 

filters, lIOn Wo. ke., lnd olhe. un.on cflhsmen at 

the huge coal gUIAcallon pbnl in Beulah, Nonh 

Oa koll One Local 194 8IOthc., Roge. Be.glund of 

Eveleth, Mlnnnotl, hu been runn'ng I bus brlnS' 

109 conStruCllon wnrke .. lIome on weekends hom 

Ihe ikul.h lob There h.ve been layolfs the. e IOU 

.,. as Ihat lob It m In IInal lugu 

OU t contract wllh Ihe Northern Electric Coop· 

eraUve .an Out on December Jl 1983 We ha~e 

uhd fOl a wase h ene but the company II pushIng 

for a wage Cut The Brot he.s and 51 "ell ore 11111 

wOlkmg on Ihe old contu , t We lIope Ihele w.1l 

be a settlement loon 

We lie ve ly p.oud \0 announce Iwo .eCent hlllhs 

. - lI'Olher Telry S-eh,cle. and hit w.le I_k, 0/ I li hb,ng. 

Minnesota, h.d • baby gill named B. yanna born 

on Fehnmy 2, 1984, and on January 23, 1984, 

S.olher Roge r lIellqulst and h.s WIle R05e had a 

baby gill namcd Etndy Ma"e. Certainly we extend 

our healllCS' c,m~rali.LlatlOnl 10 ou r tWO SfOth~ .. 

and Ihell WIVU on the luut addllltlni \0 thell 

faml h.s 

.. B.o,her Huw."d Eme ry 01 Local 194 .s In J edd~h, 

Saodl A,ab,., working lur 'he SaudI Alahian /:"v· 

e,nmcnt', du tn ca llnln"l~ de palllnen, llowa,d 

Will be JOIned by hIS wife Madd~lne and h,s Ion 

le.n P.ul In the vc,y ntal fUlu,e It hu t~ken m.ny 

mnnth. of I~d tape to ~ct ~ISU 1m h" lamily 

Th,. yell Ou r ve,y uIU(ncc, as wOlkc" who 

belong ro org.nued lallor, w,1I be ,n Oil' hand, 

We must get ' fl end, 0/ lallt;Jl In all politlcsl ofA ccs 

t. such as fedetal, 'Ule, County and City elected scats 

5() when you ate uked to buy Ihose COI'E tickets 

please be gene.ous II well as w.th your time to 

help our pollliul CamlUlgllI We can gCI IlIendJ 

of labo. mtO those olficu wuh youl help 

Unlll nUl month buy Amcllun becauBe yuu 

ue one .• nd look 1m thMe union label. 

E LLRo¥ LA"t)L, I' 5 

Unit Meeting 

Pinu.cd at a reeellt Conuructlon Unit mrellng 

are, left to right , Iholhrn John " B. be" Glgnr, 

ltalph Sc hman ~ " and All Gllod.kh of Loul 300, 

Montpelirr, VI. 

Agreements Settled ; 

Construction Work Steady 

LU. JOO (i~ul, MONTPELIeR, VT,_BrOlhet John 

W Man.RrJd of Ihe COnltlU(ILOn Unll I. home 

.etoVCllng h om a heall IlIack lie stopped .n at 

h the hall to let UJ .11 knuw he wa, leelmg beltCI 

Bell 01 luck to you, John' 8wthers MUll TaylOl 

and Ralph T.ylm are bolh home .ecove. lIl, from 

!ulKery We UpeCI they'll both be b~ck to wmk 

~o 

Work In Ihe Con'"ucllnn Unll .emaLns "e~dy 

wllh moS! member, working The loc.I·, arp.en· 

IIcuhlp prug.am took In seven new 1Il •• de ~r pl cn 

IIeeS leeeMly They ile Jun Ba" , Raymond B.ad 

ISh, Kelly Ible, David Hughes, 0"11011 L.w. y, 

David Muster and Bllan W.mble All Goodllch, 

long·time lupervlsor 01 the IATC, hn handed ,he 

.einl o ~ c . 10 Tom Zcno as the ncw SUpe.vlSor Art 

w,1I continue IU Sr lVe Ihe JATC as a \lustec 

Wa ge ·o p~n clS at W.,hlll!lton Elec,,,e Co-op and 

CLlizens U\Llit;es hut been ~e ttled , The Ntso\l' 

adng Committee 101 WEC included T,m I'udvah. 

I'e.cy Bft .., Robert L.CI~II .nd Jim Me.rlgan The 

Recuperating 

B.Olhel John W, t\hnsAdd, Irh, Itoppt"d by Ihe 

hall to let Businru Maug •• lim M r rr l~a n know 

hr wu fc.lin~ better. 

Committee 101 CLI.~c n $ Indudctliltucc Munlllllny, 

MIke Alla.d .nd JIm M tlllg~n 

Lyndonville [leetlle an d Ve"nolll Elec tll c Co 

0 1' have new agreements, Lyndnn~.llc wllh I IW U 

year connact wllh wag ~·o p .ne. III one relll and 

VermOnl Eject". with a one·yeO! cnnllael VCI 

mon' Electric's NeguII.llng Comm!lI ~e wu SIan 

Ell"w, Bruce Lamb, BIll Lamb, h>e ".chette, Cordon 

Smilh (Enginee.lIlg DcpOllmenlllnd 11m M c"'~.n 

The Cummitlee at L yndnn~,lle tl.etlle wu com 

p"sed 01 lenna,d Ca,HIIl, Ken Newman and 11m 

Me."~.n 

Ill( HAIlI) I

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co honll. IIU' eoncr~el The T·J Sysl~rn CouncIl 

local. 134, IloS, 336, and 399 h~ve filed an unlau 

tabor r"CIlCe charge IgllnSC A T& T, Inc. with the 

NlRB A rtilUInmll orde r wu requelled bued on 

che new entity ag.cement elgned by ludsc G.eene 

1'''01 '" dIVe~I"ule 

mlnoi, Bell Communicallons, In Co.pOl.led, a 

.~Hh~l

Fruit Baskets 

Given to Retirees 

L. U. l S4 !i,cm,ml ,. u Mu pl), SALT LAK £ CITY, 

UTAH-This ras! Cbn $lmu uur betullv,", Board 

decided, J&~m , 10 g,ve frUIt bukcIs ,o each .t\Hed 

member of Our local who lives In the Salt lah 

aDd Provo "us ..... nd now smee local 217, OBdcn, 

was amalpm"cd IntO Loclt 354, Ihose .clUcd 

members receIved /rUIi basket$ ,15

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Mos. 01 the BlOth .., hood hu known hlln n "P., 

131 "buSlnesl mlnag ..' " 0 1 "I"' geanl at arms' or 

olhe. labor rel a,ed ,e. ml and '1I1u 1o0me ,un 

kn .....· h,m as a "I".. nd "These lie very r .oper md 

,usuAd wayt of ••'mcmbe.m, h,m beeauu ,11... 

IBEW was hot h,e He worked IUclenly ,nd w"h 

u .., "",ul,I~'n'n,l:'" \o"ucYe•• nkal ~",I .. uulol alwaYI 

be counled on 10 do the lob th.t needed '0 be done 

,\1y mother Ann knew h,m n "Ern,e" Ind always 

aflecuonat .. ly called h,m thaI They had a specIal 

rclauon$h,p and .ehe 5100d by h,m throu,l:h IhlCk 

and thm II .. v ... Ihe uyon" 'fIehlnll eve.y ,nod 

man naods a ,nod woman" had mumn~ ".1•.1 In 

their very spectal.e!auon,h,p 

I bave known Pa t E Oamtam 10. d~ ,,, Ihllly 

" " yeall I have called hIm "Oaddy,'·D.d and, 

.n ,he last uveral yurs "PO "The B ... t WO namn 

lie obvious m thell munon, bu, " PO" hnld, the 

m OSI n casu.ed memo"u for II , . m Ihe 1.51 yUIi 

of hIS hfe thai Ih'l n.ckname Jlnod for a new bond 

be tWeen us We d'Kuucd many ,hou,hll on many 

Jub,eCl! hom very pe. sonal 10 Ihe h,Slo,y of Ihe 

tBEW UK of ,he mcknMme " PO" stood for • more 

mal ure me and I very !flCcial adult relationship 

be tween f"he. and IOn, him ,hc "Mcntor," me 

the " Prole,e." It WIS alloO .n l/feCIlona,e name 

thll could be used for him, In public, Ihat sho .... d 

IUflCCI for III thaI he had aceomrhlhed wh.1t lull 

ma.n'a,n,n, IoOme IOn of plolullonahim around 

my place of wo.k, the imemallonal Office My 

WIfe Mary, and I both rtlerr .. d 10 h.m .n th.s way 

be ... 4UrK" ,u~1 ~«me.J..u ,,&'11 II ...... ,11 be ,",,,... cd 

durly Thll specIII twmkle In h,s eyn, thar 

seemed espec,ally bll,l:hl when he ~Isfled Ihe In 

lemall{)na/ OfB«, w,lI never ~ lorltolltn and WIll 

a/way. be UUlured 

Inlemlltonal Rerr..,..,nt.Ilve Robel! A D.tm,~m 

,member 01 Loul 363, a$Sll\J\rd 

10 1M Imemlllon.1 Ofhce 

B-Day Pickets 

Local 1" , Rockford, III" memb ~ 1Ii p k k~1 Pru id ~ nl 

Rca,an in IUb'lCIO .... Cllh~r in Dixon, III. left to 

ri,hl arf Mikr fra,u, u sbllnl bUl inu. maU Kttr 

Grr, 8ladlburnl lerry Meyerhofn, plnlden" .nd 

Mikr Ton, ut, ruordin, lu r e l~'y , 

Undu Ihe Irehu in Dixon, Ill .. for f' ruidenl 

Ru,an'.71rd birthd.y lit, Idl 10 .IKhl, Roy BabIn, 

It£! Green ..... It, l ' rr y Ki ~ .K ... d and IIo.old Wi" 

d tb. 

Labor Must Act to 

Improve Programs 

l .U. 164 (I,em,rn,sTI.&catv), ROC KfORD, Ill. 

Ma l" " " lllon, I.ck 01 med.cal eove '~ l\e 10 ' Ihe 

dderly Ind IOU jew ,Obi a,e ">lne I,t ,he UJOCC IDS 

.h~r ~re fac.n, Ihe American fI

y- enem,es h~ven ' t rcally dC5uoyed the mob.llty of 

the ISEW. 10 we have ~ lot of Brot hers u guests 

In s,sler locals Ihroughout Ihe country 

The advant~ge to the out·of·work Brother m the 

IBEW is Ihe .btl"y to And work somewhere, . lso 

meeung Ihe Brothe., 01 other locals and Ihel r mput 

on how slm.lar problems are sol"ed etC_. etc_ II 

can he an enhgiltenmg expelJence, provIdIng yoo 

bnng thIS added kno .... ledge home' 

. The bIg di !iadvanlage 10 Ihe local ...."h a hard 

corps of Brothers In "an$" •• thc loss of Inpot at 

the local onIon meell ng. My ob'ef"allon, regard 

leu of the confhct 01 md,vtdlul idus, or solutIons 

Ihat these BrothelS possess, IS thac as a groop, Ihey 

arc the most on.on-orlented of .ny local and the 

most suppo/Uve to uDlon progreu. There lie m~ny 

ways .... e pay for the b ck 01 econom,c .cllVlty 

. Income IS only one lacetl 

[woold I'ke 10 make some Com men" on a pll>lul 

' Idcshow of one world hlstoncal movement, n,mely. 

Ihe Slupld atllons of ~ prcsldent electcd 20 years 

aher h,. death at Ih e box office. Ahhou~h elccted 

wllh the lie of balanclII K the budKel and redUCing 

the nUlonal deht, by February 198~ we WIll h~ve 

IIIcrcased the national deht 30, 7 percent, the lugest 

10 our short hi ~ t o ry Unltke FDR. who had a !July 

. global war of survIval, makIng a tW O occan Navy 

Irom sCla!(h. 50,000 plane$ a ycar and [3 nulbon 

se r~ln g m ,he Aimed Forces, he hu, tcg3rdlll~ Ihe 

nallon's !iulvival, (om bat W!SC, a fc "" lD ' trn~'wnal 

skllrnlshu, He has redlstrlbu!ed Our n"IUnal, rcu, 

ure. Redlstllbullon, in word spukesc, can me~n 

thdt! 

Regardmg world hlstoflcal facts- no capltaltsl 

country has, In the 20th C~ntO I Y, come OU t of a 

depreSSIon .elYlDg On the b05IDCSS (Ommunlly ' 0 

provide the muns of Iccovery But your president 

plans thlS. Regardless of the results of ,he 1984 

eleellon, Ihe Federal Reserve Notes fOI thIS huge 

deficit WIll bJJ due around lanuary, February and 

March 1985 It WIll he a debt IDc r e~se of ollc-thud 

ovcrmght ThIS WIll compet~ w"h and, ID my 

op,n,on, dcsuoy ~Jl venture capHal ID oU r country 

Th,s "',ll cause a nlaS51Ve dcp.esslon, probably 

"",-pled .. ·"h e:uremc mUallon Even manlVe pomp· 

pllmmg. If wllhour controls to the tnlCflllllonal 

flow of funds, w.ll foel the fites. Hc coold uke thc 

CnU re weSlern wo rld down wllh hIm/us. PremIer 

MJlterand Stated Ihe abovc also at Wt! lIamshu,g. 

VUglllta, but w~sn't leally I[uoted 10 the Amclltan 

med". Why! The really scary solullun uf the past, 

If such a SI1 UallOn ansu, " war 

Wc he tter push out !hc VOle fOi Mondalc and 

then reUC Cllvely thmk how wc can pIck lip the 

l\ piecu In 19H5. Rona ld, you fUlIl cd fuu r Ch ri,,· 

males tn a row for the AmCllc~n people, if we 

don 't plan, you could rUIn Chds!mu 19~5 l!l 

ab.enlla. Le ch Wal esa, the Pohsh cleeUlClan. 15 

the "Man of the Year." nOI yuul 

Au EN M ( E"cHl"

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congptubt ol~ lemarks. some old tales ~nd some 

sound ~ dvI ~t. Good luck wishu go 10 app . cnll~n 

B~rt Andu'on. W.lham BIschoff. Con~n Bowers. 

M.chael FItt~ . Dale Holden. Robert Johnson. DavId 

Poorbaugh. aradford Seh.llmg and R.ck S!"'ocer. 

A pat 00 tbe back also gocs to aus.ness Manager 

Bo"'en and the other fathe.s pr~ ~nt. Brolhers 

Doug fltts. Paul Poorbaujth and Wally Schllhng. 

A s!",clal thankJ to Brothers SIeve Lo!"'z and 

Denn" W ,lh~ms lor Ihe" dfort s wIth the bee. 

bust 

Our annual Spllng A ...·a.d' Dmner-Dance will 

tJt, held on Apl11 14, 1984. m Santa I'ohna, Cahfor· 

mOl. M yron Robertson, our only hvmg challer 

member w.1l be our spec.al guest of honor Myron, 

wllh cleven other members, slgncd the Local 4 L3 

chane. On December I , 1911. I h ope to See the 

DES Hall filled WIth membe.s to sha re thIS C"enln, 

...·lIb reu.ed Brothe . Roben son 

RICl1I\IlD I Loru. P S 

Work Slow; 

True Brotherhood Shown 

LU. u s (i,spd:.rts1, BAITtI CREEK . MICH. 

Greenngs to all OUI Brothe.s and Sisters m umon· 

ISm lrom Local 44S. Work IS slow be.e In Battle 

Creek, whicb 15 natu.al 10. Wm tel months hcre 

A!J fa. as future work goes, Kelloggs let the bIds 

for theu new office comple ~ the fiut of Ma.ch 

F.om rumo.s gomg around hele. it's gomg to be 

"ery plush, whIch IS natural lor Kelloggs. Plus. the 

Clly 01 Battle Creek.s plannmg a five,slO ry parkmg 

complu ncxt to Ihe Kellogg Arena and Stouffe. 's 

Hotd which WIll allevlale quite a few of the 

parking pr obltm~ for the downtown a.ea wh,ch 

has been a sore SpOI lor qUlle a long lime 

A I~w 01 Ou r membe.s saw true fellowshIp and 

concern for each OIhe. IhlS monlh. Alone 01 the 

lobs here In OUr local, th.ee men we.e asked !U 

uke IWO weeks off IMtead of a lay·olf, .eason 

bemg Ihat Ihe.e wun'l enough wotk to keep 

eyerybody gomg for Ihe lime bemg, but takIng the 

lime off would hdp 10 a lleVIate Ihe problem until 

th.ngs d.d pIck up. The .UI of Ihe c.ew, unde.· 

standing the general loteman's poSItion, wanted 

to help; Ml they .equested Ihal e"erybody take IWO 

day ~ off rather than Ihree men lake IWO ...·eeks off 

If Ihat '5n't what Url100l5m IS aboUI, I'm glavely 

'OIstakcn about my Idea~ of the BlOthcrhood. UnIOn 

membershIp 10 me ISn't, " I don't care whal happens 

to you as long as I gel my check." II'S eon cern for 

each other's well beIng and health. In the world 

loday there IS Strife tn the Middle East, deterio.at· 

Ing rclallons with the $oYlet UnIOn. and murdel 

and bloodshed all o~e r . We need everybody 10 stand 

up together and say, " Yes. I ~m concerned about 

you and I want 10 hdp you .... Ih your problems." 

We Can 'I keep On wnh the back-stabbing and Ihe 

childIsh pIcking and fighting amongSt each other 

One of the besl laclles to dissolve any o.gamzalion 

15 to d,VIde and conque. Well, righl now ... ·e arc 

becommg dIVIded, and we w.lI be conquered .f ",'e 

Conllnue 101l0wlOg the palh IhaT we' re on We ha"e 

to sllck togethu In the bad umes as "'ell as the 

,nod. Try uym, someth.ng n;ce to you. neIghbor 

rather Ihan cumng hIm down, and smtle when 

you JTe ha","g problems, Ihey WIll be eaSlel 10 

face 

Have a good mon.h and keel' smlitn,. 

'OW" F Mc AI.lUfFE P.S 

Work Scene Gloomy; 

Fruit Baskets Distributed 

LU. 449 (i,o.nb.n dupa), POCATEll O, IOA. 

When I agleed.o Wtlle ,he arllcJcs to the/oumal. 

[ wanled 10 wrlle some gnod news each month. 

Hete ,s my filSI leiter and Ihele isn'l any good 

oe ...·• this Ume. 

Thc weather IS very cold right now, and work 10 

the local 1& almost non ·e ~i5Ienl A lew small jobs, 

bU I nOlhlng substant",1 ProjeCt X has staned bUI 

mOSt 01 the wo.k will be broken down into s mall 

busmess package. llOder $100,000. Weslinghouse 

at the site has taken a fe ...· men, but "'t sllli have 

Baskets 

local 449, Pocatello. Ida., memben shown wilh 

Ih~ fruil buk~ 1I thaI we.e dislfibu.ed 10 trliled 

mcmbfls, (OntUCIO.S Ind widows. From left 10 

right are Ed ,. Shepard ; Roben Reno, Tfd C. ' In.en, 

pluident, and Neil Tillouon. 

O"cr 80 mfn on the book Ou. local Isgmng through 

some hard limes WI" t can "'C do to change 111 

One way would be 10 altend unIOn mee1lngs_ Last 

meellng I was dlsappomted to see lrss than 15 

Brothen attending. II we don 't care about au. 

unIon. who WIll i We need all member. to aHend 

and get Involved 

Elecllon tlmelsgro"'mg ncal We need 10SU pport 

and elect people who Cafe aboul Ihe wo.klDg man 

There also ale many upgude JOurneyman classes 

5tallmg. Let's g~t SIgn ed up and become Ihe best 

qualified ...·ucme n we can We need to be the beM 

Ihere IS In oldcr 10 gCI work and draw good w3ge ~ 

Dunng the hohda)' season, NECA, local mem o 

bets and the ApPlenliceshlp Commlllee under the 

direction of Don Ivory gave OUt hUll baskets 10 

.ctlred membe.s and COntraC tors. This was a small 

loken of our app.CClallon to those who have wo.ked 

so hard for us so we may enjoy a hIgh standard 01 

ltVlDg, May we lake ca.e of our IDhe"lance. 

Local 456 Holds 

Annual Picnic 

BUTCII COMNHL, P S 

l.U. 456 (iAn), NEW BR UNSWI CK, N.J.--On Sep· 

tember \7, 19SJ, Local 456 held 115 plcmc at 

Reichlel Park In South Bl\lDSWICk, New lersey 

The ...·calhe. waS ...·a.m and the sky clea., maklDg 

II a wonderful day for outdoor festlvlllcs. The 

P'CnIC got nnder way at 11,00 a.m. wllh breakfast 

belDg served to the ea rl y arr.vals and the P,cn.c 

Comm,,'ee, As Ihe af ternoon arl1"cd, so dId mo.e 

of OUI local BlOlhers. Plenty of aC1I"lIIelt, from 

card games and horseshoes 10 egg IOSsn and soft 

ball, filled the day .... Ih both fun and laughte. 

Pr,zes ...·e.e awa.ded to ~IC t OIl0US COnteStanlS 10 

games and evems. If you prc/errcd 10 sil back and 

watch, plemy of Int e re~ung conyersauon and re ' 

mmlscmg were heard where.·el a gloup of Brothers 

was gathe.ed The alOma 01 fine food and the 

abundance of good cheer uused many of us 10 

Indulge OU' selves, and a few 01 us 10 ovenndulge 

~ bl! II was qUlle a pleasure 10 See many of OUT 

.et"ccS presem and enloymg themseh'c, 

Slnce.e thanks go OUI from us all 10 the PICniC 

Committee, who once agam 01.01 an outstanding 

,ob 01 OrgaDlZmg a wonderful c,'em You. hard 

wOlk and I1me Invesled payoff III great dl"idends 

when one can look around and see all of the local 

B.olhers m allendance that day wllh $m.le~ on 

thell /aees and happlOess lO the IT heans 

Get Organized 

And Vote, Writer Says 

KEVIN S'·'£CKER. P_S. 

L.U. ~ 59 (u,emAees1, JOH NSTOWN, PA.- T he 

election yea. bittz " currently being ca rried OUt 

by all of Ih~ media. Th,. bhl% IS pfOb.bly onc 01 

the ,"asonS the medIa has liS conslilllllonal "ght 

of f.ee speech conSlantly PIOICClcd by Ihe couns 

of \he land. Theil "Clive cove ra~c , reponing, and 

'ld·blowlOg keeps many a polll,cI.n aWarf of \he '" 

IaCI that his actions arc being wa lched and Ihus 

ca n Iccounl lor SO me 01 the .. WOO lOg of the p.ess 

Othe. groups do Ihe same-coahllons for Ih,s and 

thai. nallonal g.oups concerned aboul this and 

Ihal. freedom gfOUpS, Nc 

We. too. can aher the pohllcal thoughts and 

actiOnS of OU I representallves First we must leg' 

Is ler 10 vote. We can'l leave the voting p

n (\ 

Meeting 

\ 

Graduates 

Honored 

Picnnt d . 1 the l. n ulfY mudn, 01 the Reli,ers 

CI"b 01 Loci' 47'. lIullmonl, Tn., 1ft, Idt 10 

'is hl, Lr l ll y Fa il, Ollt MIlI,r, Ihe .pUhf ' Flre/dl 

Nonl.) . o cl lohn C. No" I •. 

Shown ,n Ihis plNu re Itf, lell 10 .il hl, Tom 

SpOrt,n" 1' ., lay Spollinl, lI iII L,ndsey, bu,lnu, 

"UI, Lot al l5, Thomu Spollini. St., ,nd Frank 

J. Cau oll, l." b.ulnul man'ltc. , LouI 488, 8. ,dltf· 

po. t, Coon. 

. 

Hut 1ft the mtmbtn who . Htndtd the I'n" .. ,. 

meeli "l . F,onl,ow, Id t lo .I,h',.re HOliet Hcath· 

man, lI ow .. d Nubile!, " lI uu "n,ilk" M.,,;· 

OIlU"., Lu MeNul, Ind Dick H.nuln, Itcond 

'O W, IUld.1 Ihr I, blt, Irt Wilton Glro .... d, Loyd 

Ra y ancl M. I. lhmlh on , II.nellnl, 1.11 10 .I,hl , I.t 

lock Ball • • d, Joh .. C. NOIII., M.rnell lIu thm. n, 

.'\~il d r t d hil, Std.li. 8.II. rd, I.,tod. Coptl. nd, Vi. 

olt t Girolllld, lunt III,nllion, htdtll Norr;" Sibyl 

Ray. Norm. IIndricb Ind hmet lI ud,lckl. 

Work Improves; 

Softball Season Under Way 

L U. 4ao li t-em), JACKSON, ""55.-0111 work has 

. Improycd .I'ghlly We h.ve app.u~lmucly JJ m(n 

left On UnJl II at Crand Culf UnH I hu pIcked up 

SOrne of OUr men that were Ilid off hom URI! II 

Fonunucly I was one of Ihem A few Journeymen 

h'Ye been lent to ,obi In IOWn, hut there lie stili 

.bout 20 men on the bookl. I've been IOld the.e .. 

a good amount ul wmk commll UU I m lown this 

spring and lummel Hope/lilly we WIll ge t somc 

of th'I, Non-Union contlaClOn ore .ca lly K,Yin~ u5 

Some ha.d co mpet'110n 

! would like 10 Ule",j uu r deepUI 'Y"'l'a,hy to 

Ihe lamilt es uf tWO III IIU I local BrothelS. BIOthel 

Charles B Wll eo~, SI , p~ned ~w.y un Decem"el 

30,1983 B' Olhel W,k o~ wu Inlu.ted on August 

8, 1913. BrOt"(1 W,lcol will I>c m"led .,y hll 

I.iends and B'olheu Brolhe' W D McDanIel 

passed away on lanuary II , 1984 Blother MeDanic! 

wu ,nullted on July 15, 195 I, and reli' ed ,n lune, 

1916 Brolhe. MeDan,el w,1l be nllued by h,. 

friends and B.olhers 

We haye twolQftb_U tum._,aln Ih'l yur They 

, el tucked up w"h their fi . " lIa me Ih" month I 

know they have been pr.ctlc'"K hard and are .cady 

to ,0 They made. good Ihow,", I.n YUI and I'm 

Su.e they w.1I th •• yur Lalry Nipper •• dOln, a 

t:ood lob of head,ng up the telmS aga,n th .. yel. 

,. Any 01 you who can, come OUt and luppon Ihe 

team •. They arc . ep. esenlL ng our locI I 

In thue limn of bad unemployment We really 

need 10 pull 108elhe. So plelSe . ttend you. loc.l 

meellngl 

., Local Honors Graduates; 

Offers Courses 

LU, 48 1 (l,em ,lpduul, INIlIANAPOI,I S, IN I). 

Tht 34th ApPlcnl1cuhip Cumplc'"," Banquet was 

held ,ecently, and Ihelt wu quite . luge glOUp, 

Thue ne w lourneymell Ind WOmen .eplCle nt two 

clanes dUI completed the proglam 10 1983, Smce 

tWO clasl g' oup. WCle lep.ucn tcd, the Commlt. ee 

Bob De nny and R;c h. ,d Ri le ICfdvlnJ their Applenl;u 

01 th~ Yu. AWlld" 

honored IWO mcmbc", R,chu.J RLfe and Bob [xMny, 

WHir Ihe "Outstand'ng App.enllce of Ihe Vea r 

AWlld " Also honored fm pOlII( 'pa"On .n theu 

local unLOn were r.m Pillerson Ind Ku Edward • 

Conglatulatlons lie In o.de. 10. au. Kraduatel 101 

I lob wdl done 

ThcO( men and women represent Ihe Ix:II named, 

rnost·qual.fled people ,n our .ndustry Thuc e.e 

denu.ls come only Ihloullh hard work .nd lIudy 

W,, 1r Ihe .ap,dly cxp.ndmK tcchnoloKlcs We "'e 

laced WHir tod.y, ,II of UI un bcndh from 10UI 

neyman .mrrovcmerll CQu.,n 0". lutal un"m 

has many courses on hne al Ih.s lime. Elccllon.c., 

PIO

Party 

Outing 

Hopefully 10' "'. th" WIll be Ihe yur 10,,, lId 01 " 

Ihe IIU 

Unul n(ll month, lellow members • • uppon yoo, 

loc.1 by ,,'endllll the meelln" 

ScoTT L ConlAlID. P oS 

0"", H ConlAlID. P 5 

Brothers With 132 Years 

Total Experience Retire 

• 

Thnc If' tomt: of tht ''''Illi who rn;o)'d tht 

Anoull Chth tmu '1", of Local 50S, Mobilr, Ala., 

br'oI 00 D«tmwl ,•. 1911. 

1m nOl Uylne ,hi, polouCJ IS .he whnk an)wr, 

bUI n " • nan WI: mu~1 makr I concrnlll":',J 

dlon 10 put undld~t~s In oiflce who art lavo'.ibk 

10 labor Wc h.v( I Anc Polmcal ACllon Commu 

Ire. of which I am proud to be a mrmM" .lon, 

wl,h Brothe .. James SWlflZ oul (h.llman, RIch 

mood Htodellon. lo~erh Romagnano and MIchael 

Fuhel If any of my 10.:,1 BrOlhe,,; hay, any !juts 

lion) .bout the current pohuc,1 program w, a.e 

1nuoduc1n~ contact one of the (ommm!:r mcm 

"'" 0". Annu.' Chllslmu Pany wu held Detcmb.., 

18, 1911J A 1I00d ume wu had by alJ 1 wan, 10 

UP/UI OUI 'prICt,"uon and thanks 10 the follow 

.n, brothe, members Ind .he" wIVes '0' hdplng 

In the p'rr'"lInn ol.he pany. They lie toIr and 

Mrl Leo I C~In, 51, M" Clemelll H 5eelhol5t 

MI and M" laeob GodWIn, Mu Ronald Mc ' 

CormIck and ou r Santa Cbu •. Mr lack Walker 

Campaign lor Ih.., candidates Ihat you. loul 

unroll cndo.sn Buy Unlon. buy Amc"un Attend 

your union mectr ngs IInd partlClrarC 

DoN"Ul L An"M) I' ~ 

Campaigning 

,\t tm~n of Loul 508 tnlorio, Iht 'pi.il of Itl· 

lowship ,nd ~unlh;nt dIllin, I.nu,ry', Family 

OUlin,. lelt 10 .i,hl lie I. let, M. tbllison. W. 

Crawfo.d. T. M"lunel', M Ra lntl', I. ~ hi" . 8u ~ i. 

neSi MIUler Counih.n and A, "lImtl. 

COn$,ruCtlon Induit.y N.chols blamed the Na 

lIon,l tabor Reb"ons Bo.;rrd .nd rht courr, ·'The 

SY'lem, he walllcd '·IS collap5lng "ound OUI 

ear ... He .1,0 llaled Ihar '·lon,·C5labh, hcd collec· 

IIV", b"ltll"III, •..,lallon1h,pl lh .. hue bern bo.h 

UPO" • multI employe. hUll a ... bem, d,sr"ptcd 

by labor co"sulran" who have eUIly acqUired 

the ' !,ec!al ry of "§III, rhe NIIIOIIIIL.bol Rdallon, 

ACI to aVOId (olltctrve hllgammg Inpon5.b,h· 

IICS ,. 

One oh..,oul rnull. he uld, '1' 10 lUI up well , 

C5"bl.,hrd ba rgalnlnK pattellls Ind promole ma]!}r 

Slnku ~nd lockour. " Iic (lied .• masSIve Incrc ...., 

In 1"'l'IlIon anJ IR ",olk hOUB 1lKllh.ough smku. ~ 

NIchol, »Id In 19/10 rhelt were .bour 6.000 sep· 

aralt agleemenn m Ihe Conurut\lon Indu"ry Ht 

predIcted Ihe number mlghl lkYlocktl If rhe trend 

to b,eak up multr employer "II>.. conlin un. ahcl 

ted by Ihe '· Laool Hoard'i Igno. ante of ou r IIIdu, 

try·· Collcecive ba rgaining In ,hc constructlOO 

Industry "I~ at I ""Icuhed," NIchol, testified 

"SICPS must be taken 10 .cstore collccuve bargam· 

In& •. The ah ern.trve. he Slid, would h( ro lepeal 

the fcderal la", .nd "let u, .ccrrate bargamlng 

StrUCIUrU III rhe fre e, "n!cgulaled market .. "'C 

dId IInor HI the W.ltner .... CI .. 

T",o loc.1 iamltrel celebllled ne'" 1I1I,·al,. lay 

and S~nd) Whlfe, a Ion. T,ey Eldcl, and lohn and 

Kelley Por:IO. IV, a Ion. lohn Domlnrck, V 

Nom,n,uoM 10' loc.1 unIon officer' II.., sched 

uJed fOI May of 1984 followed by the elecllon '" 

' une Absenlee b~lIou arc avall,ble llpon lequut 

Ma,l rht reqllelt 10 fflEW Locil Unron 50S. PO 

1Io~ 91S4 Sn.nnlh. CeooK" 31412 

CnAW r\\ CntJN"I"N, P S 

LU. 551 (l.o,lI,ulV,nb,n l,em&'.p' ), SHEFfiELD • 

.... LA.-C.ecl/np. BrothelS Wllb lhe com III, 01 

'r"n.:. "'e have hopei our consrlUcllon wOlk w,ll 

pIck up We lI,ve had luch, long out of "'ork loll 

fOlIO long now Ih,r tVen • hllle .ehd wOllld be 

welcome Wllh m"o. decllo", (Omlll, IhlS fall. 

we w.ll hopefully 60 our p.n 10 ehln&e Ihe Iilu .. 

a"on 101 the belle. Th" WIll hi: a golden appa. 

lunrty for labo. 10 show Ihue fanc, ntWSp~pel 

"'II.n.I"" Ind butlnenmtn IU. I how well I.bo, 

tan dehvel SUlci, Ih"", of u. who make OU.1rYlIll 

IhlOOgh Jabo, lit Imarl enOUllh to kno", Ihar III 

order ro ,ur"'v..,. we mull hue polltlc.1 ludels 

",ho bvo. labor III office I know a min hu to 

thInk lbout mo re Ihan hl5 ,ob dUlln,!: electron., .A 

bur] .IM! know hll ,ob belt.." h.v.., lOp pnonlY I 

Un wnte 10 my elecled officlIll hom the pruldent 

on down when I di .. g".., "'irh lopin 1uch IS the 

IIml bUIld up, rroop mvolvemenl III 8ellul, 01 

Irquor berng .erved In rhe While HOUle, bUI when 

my ,ob IS le.ked Dill from "nder mt bec.ule Ihe 

,!:o.. ernmcm " offclln&' till ,ncentlve fOil IIla nr 

dOlIng Dr Ihe company" movln, OVtr«u. I juSl 

don't h.ve lime for corrcspondence. dISCUSS Ions of J 

dec.Slon. We mlIJ! Iteltogcther 10 slren,then I,bol 

aod lei thl' .treo,lh be shown ' 

The Elccillcal IXIlIrlmenl at Rcynolds Alloy. 

Ll stClhl1i Planr "'ill m,n the III years of c.rr:~rr · 

cnce Ihat Almon Wh itehead. Raymond Cro",e ll 

Em cry McDonald, Ind Lou IS S"l1ivan rook ""th 

them ",hen they !ellred III January . Thne four 

Brothers ga ined 98 rOil) yells upcncnce ","h 

Reynolds These men w~ . e a bIg lIar r of the local 

as wdl as th.., Elecmul Department of Reynolds 

They WIll bo:o lo.dy m'5$cd by Ih~ planl u wdlu 

,he Blothers who have had rhe pleuu. t of wOlklll& 

wllh Ihem B.othel Tommy Wall.ce, Ihe eleclli 

Clan Slew.rd , wanted 10 $ubmn I P'CI"lt of these 

fou r ~Iong wllh Ihll IIlform.llon, bUI wu unab!e 

'0 do so bcca"J~ of the !CCC'PI of rcqutfll born 

several d,ffercnl camera manufaclulell uklng that 

Ihell PloduCI nOt be used to ," ~m pr Ih" task 

Cong.atlllallOnS, Brothcrs, on yaur r~lII emtn r May 

" be • long .nd tntoy~ble one !IIi 

ClVNrt Mu" ...... v PS 

38 

81Uintu Mana,u Miehatl I. Counih,n, loc,1 SOl, 

Sn' ..... h. Ga., di)euuio, camp,j, n luun ... i, 1I 

prtsidfo,i.1 1I0pdui Frill ,\tood,lf, 

Scribe Notes Unionist's 

Comments on NLRB 

L U. SOl U&.ol, SA VANNA II , G .....-On Sunday 

lanuary I, Loul SOSlIdd liS Annual family OUlln, 

" 5unbC'.m Park, loe"ed In Sav,nnall A fully 

ca,e.ed ba,bC'eue dlnne. ","h hOI dOIS on rile "de 

.nd I vlllcry of beveralc, m.de for an cnloy~b!e 

d~y for all Tht pl'Yllound "'as ,,·ell equI!,ped. and 

u one mOlher PUI n. '·a bleuln,·· There WIS One 

nOl.ble .ch,cyemenl for Ihe day lay Whiff was 

only ,ble to ea, thlee barbecue pl.,u .nrl four hor 

dOIS heryonc ... ho ."ended enjoyed the food. 

ftllowlhlp.nd lunshlne. Ananlement, were made 

by 8u)lne., MaulCI CouOlh,n and Prnldelll 

Crawford BrOlhcr Robert Kramel asslsled III rhe 

setlln, up md deanup of rhe arU 

The m.nrpul.llon of fedelll labor law .nd man 

'gemelli "lthts hn placed Ihe con"rucllon "'Dike. 

III .n unforrun'I e poslllon An d .ccordlng to Char· 

Ue NIChob, CarpelllcU·llc~~U r C' In Scartle fo r Ihe 

unwn. In rhe lUI Ave yUII buildln.r: uades unions 

h.ve leen "Ihc hclllllnhlg of the colilpl.., of muh,· 

employe! collecllve ba.gtlnllll III the construction 

IIIdu~tr y .nd I ,eplac..,ment of that sYStem by a 

CO ntlnu . n go~n ,nd".tnal bUlle" Ihroolhout rhe 

Weather Helps Work ; 

Negotiations to Begin 

LU. 55 1 11,0 &.~m ), S .... I\'TA IIOSA, CAL-Creer· 

111';5 BrolhelS .Ind Slueri. from Iht home,owlI of 

LUlhtr Burb.nk The wfllher has been OnSUIoOII· 

,bl, good As. result, thelt wne mOlt drsparches 

III ,anll"y Ihan In lOme of the 'prmg ~nd summer 

monlh$ Ho",ucr. wOlk I. 'till not qUlle ,ood 

enough to b .., lbout 

A Cencl,1 Pre"dentS r.h,ntcnancc AI •..,emenl 

h .. been l1"ned by Ihe 10 and SMUD for Iheu 

geolherm~1 po ... el pl.m, lohn Ifoldene. of Kel· 

scyvlllc has uken ,hll ull ,ohn'. experlcnce III 

the "ad..,. hIS kno",ledge of geolhnm.1 plams. ~nd 

h'l generally I.,d b.ck "IIludc ,hould m~k.., hIm 

rhe perfeci m.n fUI the ,ob The!e IS nO news on, 

Ilmllu Igreemenl with I>C&E 

Speak"" 01 a,,,..,menl •. ne,olllllonl ,,·,11 soon 

hI:"n On our local .greemrnl For those of th.., 

~"ulS,on. I,,·. P"y fOI those who IIen't .h.s 

may be .,ood lime to "lit 

Tht wrrrrIS 01 thll alllcic hate to keep butin& 

Ihe same drum uch lime. but II shoold be made 

dcaf to .11 01 the mcmh

Honorees 

.....--- 

-Sho WII I I the .fll "ia. union mct'lInl I .e COLlnt, 

CommiuiOIl"" MI .,tet Dennilon . nd "nlony 

Lalnl, on Iht It' h , ",hh Drill he.! Tom Wain" and 

William M. ki, fur, 

lI~m Mak._ Ken Hecke. and Tom W~II1C rcec,v~,j 

plaquu and IClle.s of commcnd~tion fur Ih~ w",k 

they did 10 rUlorc our courthouse bt:JI til w, CA L,·-The lulllt Ap 

p.cnucuhlp ~nd Tramlllg Commlllee "ATCI t1pclll 

up lor Ippliuuo"s every IWO years. The pasl hn 

brought as m~ny as 1.000 applicants Intu Ihe 1,0. TC 

offi ce 111 I IO·day peuod The Ilgn up daY510r the 

.n"de Wileman arp.enuccship p.Ofl.Iam were March 

S Ih.ouxh March 16 J\ the IATC olflce 

The ' A TC, al ..·.y.lookmg 1m Improved "'''"''g 

10' apprenllces .IId Ihe luurneyman w1lemen of 

L()(:.I W~, hu Se t Ill' one 01 the m01l1 (umpletc 

lJalnlll~ bCII,ue' \U be l!lond anywhe. e The center 

conslSU of clU5100nU, lab arca, IUIll arca, and 

WIIIIIII arc. tn Ihe !ah a.ea we have 10 lah volt 

units ~"d rcl~led e

40 

Union-Built 

Showli h ~ ' f aft ",me of Ibt building' of tht 

Armand Hammel Untied Wn.ld Colle,. of .bt 

Ameriun WUI, which "u built b, union labo •. 

IPhoto . uhmitltd b~ Polito C rint , member of Loul 

6 11 , Al buquUqUf, N. M.I 

mc. United World COJl~'f o~nfd In doon 10 10l 

nudentS hom 46 (OuntrlU The 'all of 19M $;I W 

the College obtam 115 mUlmum .lIlotlmen. ,,1200 

students ,ep,ucnllng DV". 60 CDun.un 

The C

' bers with any new additions to their iamlltu Also 

fat tbose members aod their familIes who have 

been sick or hOIPuali:ed, ler '. see you 00 your 

feet rul sooo Don't forset we hive i very .cuve 

~ Commuolty ServIce Commmee who are always 

rudy and wllltoS to help those In Med. Unul latCf 

let's thInk brothNhood, Ind leI's hear from wme 

of you reund memben 

R.u POLHKY, P S 

Scribe Urges Members 

• To 'Build Our Union' 

LU. 647 (u), LITTLE ROCK, ARK.-Dropouu ,nd 

people who WIll not lOin the unIon m,y nOt re,lIze 

!hat the unIon sull controls them IS long u they 

. hold a lob wHhln the barplnlnS unit The umon 

\I also legally requued to represem them Non· 

membe .. cannot Vote on proposed eonuacu or 

elect Iheu oUkers ,nd Icplcsemallvu They do 

.., ~ot haH Ihe Aceldenul Death and DIsmember 

mem Insurance from Amcncan Income Life thaI 

is coooecled 10 UOIOO membershIp Also, they may 

not rullze that union due. aoe lax deduel1ble 

l. It 15 our lob as umon members to comact every 

Dew workef and explain that the nbry aod benefits 

we enlDy hne b«n negotiated over many ye", by 

!he unIon ThIS 'sn'l expl,med by m,nagement 

We ale fon unlle If they even menllon the uOion 

. TherefOle, illS up to us, ,fter new employeu have 

been told by mausemeot of the salary and benefits 

they cao receIve, to explain Ihal the eomp'oy ,5 

DOt !lvln,; these of Ihelr own Inc Will They are 

~ pall of the un,on eootract 

New emrloyen frequently uk. "Whlt Sood " 

the unum!" Wnhout , umon, the employer can 

be a dlct,uor People who have worked for nOll' 

uruon employers reahze the Import,nce of a umon 

.... JI they ha"e been .duKd a lalK, we.e replaced by 

some new automated equlpmeOt 01 dlupeed with 

Ihel1 emplo)'er's pohc,cs and dCClSlons Wllhoula 

uruon md,vldWlIs arc SUb'KI 10 cvery llrbnrllry 

deCISIon 01 mana,;ement The umon prOVIdes Ihem 

wnh a ,"cvance procedure $0 they are nOI subJecl 

~ tOarb,trllrydeCLSIOnS. Managcmenl dee'5mns must 

ab,de by Ihe conllactual slindards. Without .. 

uOlon mana,;emeOl can promOte theu favorltcs 

UnIons provIde, scOlomy system for qualified 

"'orker~ of lon~ servIce Without II UnIOn Ihe 

A :mployer seu the salary aod hours of work In 

wmc CiSCI a minimum wage law 5en Ihe mInImum 

wage A5 pall of a unIon you have s!lenglh 

10 numben, and through colltttl~e bar,;alnm,; you 

ot negotiate wa,;u, houn and wo.k",g (ondmons 

wllh members of managemeOl on II bUls app.oach- 

109 equahty. You WOO 'I find answclI 10 all your 

problems by beeomln,; a unIon member; but as a 

unIon membe., you WIll hive Ihe light to cxP'C$s 

• your ,ob problems and have them consldcred 

The ongm of !lade un Ions IS usually dated alound 

,he late 17005 You could say Ihey were born oul 

of necessHY, and mOjI 01 oul general10n has 10' 

... gorten Ihe v,olent employer reSlSliince 10 union 

OfpOIUIIOn. BuslOUS and profeSSIOnS havc Iheu 

"unIons" by Ihe ddinlt10n of the word In Webner's 

d,Cllonary, "a coniederlllon of mdlvlduals las na· 

.... lIons o. JlCrsonsl lor $Orne common purpOse. " 

althou,;h they arc known as ISSOClatlons O. $Orne 

other ",Ie 

The National ubor Rclallons Act s,~n emrloyecs 

Ihc ",;hI to self·o' g.;IOIutlOn, to form, ,om o. 

- aSSISI labor or,;antZil10nS .nd It makes It an unlau 

labo. praCllce for Iny employer 10 IntCrlele with, 

rcstulO or coerCe employees 10 Ihe exerCIK of 

theu IIghn ,;uarllnteed 10 the ACI 

.,. It IS Imperative Ihat we remam a $lIon,; union 

to be able to mllntliln OUI standard 01 llvml(, 

rrosperny. sccumy and mdlvldual dlgnuy 

801 Moon, P ~ 

Apprentices Graduate; 

New President AppOinted 

" L.U. 649 li,o,u,rtS,spa&'caty), ALTON , ILL.- The 

monlh 01 December brought the gradUilon 01 10 

app.entlces. A dinner Wall given In th eir honor by 

the Local 649 App.entlceship C"mrmltee and WaS 

Graduates 

M.m ...... ol the 1983 Local 649, Aholl, III" lopp.cntieuhip 

Craduating Clan arc _hown with 

guulI;. Fro llt row, IcEtlo ri ght, iIIf Brian McMllhonr 

R.lph Bechtold, Robert Whitlock, business m,n· 

.ger; fred Redd, apprentieu hip ullinins dilfetOI 

chai.man; Rick Corman, App.tnticeship Com· 

mittte !;tcrelary/treasu. er. Back row, lelt 10 .ight, 

arc D.ve McGivtl, G,ry lenki,,!, It .. D"'ayne 

Stllars, W,yne Robeen. lohn Mi lloy Ind Randy 

Malone. 

30-Year Members 

Thirty·year-pin rnipienlS sho ..·" here II Ihe Local 

6-19 , No\"Cmber of, ]913, Pin Prcunlation Aw.rds 

arf, f.ont row, kneelin" lefl 10 ri,hl, Rod Bailey, 

lohn Downn, Hen.,. ,~ cCoy, Howard Siever ,lid 

John Stricklin; back row, lefl In riSht, Vic Wtber, 

Don lIorney, Dale Barttls, Calt B.imer, Bob Coli· 

man ,nd Bob Kulp. 

held at Lottco ' ~ Rntau'~nt 10 Codlrty, IIhoolS 

Dinner Inv"allons were extendC'Cl to Ihe aprren 

nces' ...·Ives, luche.s and thell SpOUKS. wllh PlcstS 

",clud",g Busmess M,nager Roben Whtllock, 

Wegman Eteclllc V,ce p.es,dent Doo Wegman and 

hl~ WIle BellY, and former Apr'CnIlU,hlp Commlllee 

member lack Tuclh and hIS WIle Charla 

Our cong ' ~lul,"ons ale extended 10 the new 

lourneyman Wiremen for completion of theu .p' 

prenllceshlp tr~mlOg, The oe .... w"emen arc Den 

n,s Underwood, Wayne Robeen, John Malloy, Bllao 

McMahoo. Dwayne Scll •• s, Ron Cllomen, Cary 

Jenkm,. Ir, R,ndy Malone, Dave McClvel and 

R,lph 8echlold 

The A .... a.d' Dmner held Novembel 4, 1983, 

prOVided II muns to g.;Ilher members of Local 649 

loselhe. and ~y tIlbu.e to IhOje members wllh 

miny lUIS of stU"eC to the IBEW I know I have 

meolloned the pm prcsenUllon preVIously, how 

eve., there Ire members slIlI yet 10 be lecoSOlZed 

In thiS column Shown In the photo arc members 

WIth 30 yeau of KrVlce. Brothers, thaI IS qune a 

long span 10 thIS mduslfY_ The pm p.esenlitlOn 

award, hllYC gIven thiS local a ehaoce aod a stall 

10 pthe. loose IlU wllhln the un,OO body C,,'en 

time, IhlSIISk WIll be IceomphshC'Cl I would hke 

10 apoloSlze to Brother 8,11 Downey for m1Ssrclllng 

hIS name. 8111'5 pholo for 4.0 years ,e,Vlce was 

featured III the Februuy Issue of "Local Lmcs." 

A sad note was brought 10 everyonc's .lIenllon 

at ,he February 10, 1984, umOn mceting BIOIher 

James 8asl, a hneman al Umon Elcctllc, passed 

away In February. Brother But was another of the 

long lisl of 649 members With 35 ytan of 5clVICe 

10 the umon. 

At ,he regular umon meetmg m lanu~.y, PIes, 

dent Ga r)' Walker's reSlgnallon Ictte. w~ . ,ud to 

the union body. Brother w al ker, elccled in the 

1993 clecflons, hiS chosen to leave the duties 0/ 

president As many know, BrOlhe. walker pel 

fOlmed hi. duties well 10. the short time he "O'ed 

A flne electriciao and good umoo BrOlher, Cary is 

thanked for hll Involvement and WIshed Ihe best 

10 the lutule 

B.other Cordon Admue was appOInted by the 

Eucutlve Board 10 fill Brother Walker', term IS 

prC$ldenl Cordon has been IOvolved in the local 

10. many yean sC!vlOg dlllerent funellons, such IS 

the App.enueuhlp Commlnee and u:ccuuve Board. 

He 15 wlShC'Cl the ben IS he executes hiS new 

dUlln 

1983 was qUlle a yu. 101 Local 649 No! oilly 

have we seen Ihe beSlnn.nl ala ne .... localadmm· 

15111110n .nd the forw~.d movement 01 tbe local 

IIself, but every malor eonUICI was up lor nego· 

nation. The lasl conuact belO'; worked On was 

Apu Oli llormerly Clark Olil. The new manage 

meO! was very ,ough to deal with and a few (onces 

lion. wele made. bur In all, the plant elKtllCtanS 

malOtalned an alleeahle worklOg cOntract A5 

mentlooed p.evlously 10 Ihe last irucle, Union 

Eleelllc .. IIf1ed thell COntract as dId Shell Oil and 

the Olin Corpor.llon The Wileman agreement 

bem,; sell lcd, thln~s may qUlel down a bit, bUI 

neve. lor IonS A personal oOle to D~d Rawwn, 

your lime IS coming up neKI, Pop More latel 

TU.R" WILI1ITE P S 

Scribe Urges Members 

To Become Involved 

LU. 659 (I,o,u,cml!t.eatv), MED FORD, ORE.-Well 

here we go on a new yell I certnnly hope 11 15 a 

belief one allifound lor organu:ed labor. He.e, as 

everywhere, thlnl5 are pretty bad Seems hke we're 

n,;ht back to the same " bull c.ap" that our ex 

Prn,dent NIxon was shovehng OU1, only Ih .. lime 

they don'l evrn 5peak ola pnce Iteeze-II '5 Slllctiy 

drop Ihose wll';CS' It's worklOg~lhcy a.e d,v,dlO'; 

Ihe worklO'; class mOle each day. All seCllons of 

Ihe loc.1 are under attack by Ihe employers who 

want 10 like advantage 01 !he limeS 

On Ihe bn,;hlel Side, the Central Labo. Council 

10 the Rosehu.,; I.ea appealS 10 be gCl1lng , hnle 

betlc.orpnlt-ed Throu,;h a combmed dlort of the 

different local unIons, a nIce. Chllstmu "'as en 

loyed by members 01 the Woodworkers fam,hn 

that lie 51111 on slnke aploS! lOUls,ana Pac,fic 

Corporallon. Donations 01 everylhlOg Itom cloth· 

lOS and food '0 toys for the kIds mide Ihmgs a 

lillie OICer dunn,; Ihe holidays for Ihose IOvolved 

The employe •• are IIkm,; advan'age of hard 

times 10 lurther d, ... de Ihe trOOpS by semng up 

MIckey-Mouse arbllra1lon cases to PUI financ .. 1 

burden, on unions, It seems_ Everyone should 

Ihlnk about these Ihlngs when problems come up 

on the ,ob. Don'l play mto the umon bustelS' 

hands Rcad YOUI ag.eemenl and know where you 

lIand. It's you. umon and II only ..·,11 Clast II liS 

membets arc In!(rested m 11 It's not lust an office 

clew and ElICCUllve Board aod dues thar ale "neve. 

low enou,;h "Gel 011 your buns, become IOvolvcd 

So to a meeun" go 10 Ihe polls and ICI 's look like 

Ihe grut organ,zallon we a.e' 

The work SlIuauon lemllns the same Uoem 

ployment 10 th .. local umon IS hlghe. Ihan (Ve. 

U rverywhere elst HOpelully. IhlS win chin,;e In 

the luture. I luess If nothlllg else, the Amellcan 

people can take p"de 10 the fact thar Ihey hne 

fioally made Ronald Rugao Ihe ictOr be neHI was 

In Holly .... ood. bu. It sure a5 hell IS cosunl them 

mare Ihan a matinee ticket. As everywhere ciS(, 

walcs arc ';010'; down and pncn arc gaIn, up 

NegotlatlOnS lie harder Ihan e"cr Ihls )'ur It 

seems as though Ihe employers "',11 g~d Ihe hands 

1010 more .nd mOre "blllltlon In an ellort to b.eak 

umons 

The Wlremeo have lUst completed another loor' 

neyman HalOlOg class III ,hell effort 10 upgrade 

Iherr craft I would hke to mentlon here that the 

Oregon ilale license qu~lIflcatlons are changms as 

01 thl' year They lie gOlOg ' A requlle code and 

othcr ~I"OU' classes belore lenew'ng O r ~goo JOU l' 

neyman inSIde wileman licenses SlllllOg In 1985, 

So, you Brolhe.s and SISters from out·ol·stare locals 

holding Oregon license, may want to contaCI Ihe 

Departmen t 01 Commerce to gel ill the detaIls. 

Dun't leI your liecnse uplre! I've been thlough 

that 10 mnother 51ate and u', no. wOll h lhe husle 

"

BU ~ lnU I Man ~ge . MtLun senl OUI a " Mal~ 01 

lhe local leuer" 10 the lotal unlOll members In 

lanuary. [t hued thai Exe cu li~e Board meellngs 

WIll be held on the Ilut Saturday of each month 

n 100 p m In the UntOn oUlte In Medfo. d, wllh 

the txcepllon of S.:-ptemlJ.er 7, 1984, October 13, 

1984, and lanuary 5, 1985. HI' fellC . also covered 

thanges In (he lOE W COnnHuuon and ~ome faclS 

concerning Unton membershIp 

Remember Ihls 15 an e!e(1l0n yur_ both In your 

lotal union and on Ihe government level. Everyone 

ge l oul and gel regUI(red 10 Vote and remmd your 

nelghbo" and Inends to do the ume We tan'l 

stand another lour yurs 01 the grut plOspelllY' It 

WIll be a 101 tbupel to walth RonnIe on the lale 

Olght mOVIes Ihan on .he SII o'd ock news TIll 

nt~1 lime 

New Jail 

H .... ot.O I K ~Lvt. P S 

Local Cetebrates 

70th Anniversary 

L U, 669\i&f.m), SPRINGFIELD, O IlIO-Fcb. uary 

2S was Ihe 10th AnnIversary 01 Local 669. It i, 

abo the b

~ ~n d 8. L~st ye~l, the inItIal show was a Ilemcnduus 

success. wuh mOrc mcmbcn than e~pected exhib· 

!ling Ihdl hobbles. We expect this yCH'S show to 

be bigger and beller. 

l ocal 683 members have been don~tul~ ume to 

Icpall some of the laullY Wiling at our lot~1 Hu· 

mane Society animal shelle, We need to do Ihis 

kmd of vol un leer work 10 build organtzed labol's 

image w,th Ihe public. We arc happy ~nd proud 

~ Ihal our membels ale WIllIng 10 duoate umc to 

worthy causes 

Our local Union eJeclion IS commg up, wllh 

nomin~t\ons nen mOlHh and Ihe clecuun in lune. 

~ W e hope all IllE W mcmbefS exc'tlse Ihe" oplion 

to vole. The lBEW Can only be as gre", U Ihe 

members make it 

Members Vote on Plan 

To Increase Local's Work 

• L. U. 6\l2Iil!i",~p ' I, RAY CITY , MI CII ._ A .peelal 

meeling was held January 30. Bus,,'en di~cu~sed 

was Ih. ma/kel recovery outlook A eommll'te 

:lo was hllmed and vO led 011 by the body and ~pl'rovcd 

The ,dea of Ihe rna/hI recovery " 10 find way, 

for conl/aclors 10 be able to go and bId smalle, 

)ohs al a more C(lmpClltlve ,calc In orJC! 10 rc~",n 

4 ' larger pOll1on 0/ Ihe work In Ihe 3rC3. whIch We 

currently, a. ullmn member ~, have 10", Ihrough 

non'union shops'lowel hld s. The VUte was p","cd 

unall1mously and hope/uUy Ihe nurkel recovtry 

~ concepl WI ll produce more work 101 our h)c.1 

• Again, ple.se make >u'C y,jU rc· .. gn ~hc buuk 

the firol day 0/ each monlh, OJ semi in a post~ard 

da,.J after Ih~ 10lh of Ihe monlh and before Ihe 

JOth ollhe month rherc He 3ppt be SIC k Is Ihal 100 

much 10 uk filiI I don'~ Ih",k '0 and I'll "and on 

Ihat pickel line .s long u it uku III gOI what I 

Mllevc 1$ bIT It won 'I be easy. My landlord n ys 

If I'm 1~lc with Ihe ,ent ~galll he'll leal down my 

home, and my b,lIs ue uverdue. lIul lomehow 

we'll P'Y every penny .nd yuu CI" b

e(HlU'''O'. No. there "'" no r~.,.,., .n ... a~e. to 

speak of or any of the multLlude of OIlICI Items 

sought by the body But the,c "'15 no ""&C "CU t" 

a, 'n some loc:als. and ... c Itlll hueou. contrac. ors 

and oUl loca! Wh cn ... e own.he footbaU. then we 

tan be qu,Jle,back, h.1I IIl0then. It IS aU we tan 

do no ... 10 SIIY rn the game 

A true tU I of our Brothcrhood ., y~t tl) tomc 

The

appreciated VIce PresIdent HightllW" r being ab le 

to be wIth llJ 101 Ihls event. 

As everyone know!. wOlk IS temble and I dun't 

see a light at the cnd of the tunnel Everywhere I 

call the locals havc hundreds on Ih clr books. many 

1~ bf them their own membu!. TVA', Dlvis'on of 

Power Construction 16 in the midst oflayinj: nil 

and Dillard Smith COn6lfuction Company hn been 

workmg 32 hours a week fnr qUite a while. 

We IIOve becn In negOllallon. wl\h ,evual of our 

co-ops. and ra ises have been in the 4 percent range. 

We arc turr ently in negollations wah the Chat· 

lanooga ElecIIie Powel Board. OUI Negotiallng 

.. Committee COOSIS" of Huold Beckum. Pat Mauldto. 

10m GIlliam. Lemon Thomas. lohnny Robells. 

John Noll and myself. 

We have seen attendance at OUr regular umon 

mcetings /all off. Everyone that can needs to attend_ 

Regubr meetings u e the third Thursday of every 

month and the Executive Boord mecling 15 thf firSt 

Thursday 0/ evcry month. See you there 

• 

Scribe Calls For Retirement 

Of Reagan, Republicans 

L.U. 861 (j&.ol, LAKE CIlARLES, LA.- We cllt~nd 

OU I condolencu to the bmily of IlrO!her Ronnie 

Lane Ronme died In a moto"yde aC'-'ldent lanuary 

21. 

.... It seem!! Amellca Isn·t slandlng u tall as I'lesl' 

dent Reagan would hh us to believe nOr is Ihe 

economy on Ihe ups wlllg at th~ ra le he would hke 

us to believe. If II I' 18 Mr. Reagan says. then why 

~ are linu at the employmem 01 should I say unemployment 

office so IOIl~1 These good people 

aren'l standIn g tall. They have to swallow thclI 

plide and ask fOI unemployment benefits which 

some have never bdorc;n thc lI lives had to do. In 

.... the Ihree months I was off work I drove by the 

unemploymem office ahnost daily gom~ III and 

fr om the doclOl, therapIst and ou r union hall and 

not once did I see anyone who looked happy to be 

there. These people Want \0 wOlk bUI can't find a 

lob because Mr. Reagan and M. Tleen gave Ihelr 

~ lobs 10 non-union and oUI -o/-state wOlkers. You 

won't find Mr. Reagan nOI Mr Trcen III any of 

these lincs. You won't see th"m 10 the soup kItchen 

lines. commodi lY hnes. Ilgmng up for food stam ps 

_ Or welfare. SlIlce they're nOl III any of these Iincl, 

.... how can they sec the hunger in the ution. These 

non-union and out-n/"tUe workers didn't gel the 

jobs because they work for leu, but because thcy 

don't b~long \0 a unwn. They are n't asktd to lake 

• pay cuts. Ooly ulllon members arc. I quOtc in pMt 

from an amcle whIch appeared III the Lake Cha rles 

Ameflean Press recently. datelmed Washington. 

IThe BUleau of Labol Sta"~lic5 . III anothcr rcpOIl 

• ~~~~~~;i;fgl~~ee~~nn:ml;~~:~ t;aa!'~i~~s~~~a~!~: 

beeo heaVily uOlorl1zed. said Ihc findlllgs reflected 

" lower avoragc pay gains for blue-collar workcrs. '·1 

The Republicans want tWO c1asscs 0/ pcoplc- 

...: the rich and the poor, and Brothers. if We Sli on 

OU r hands and don·t get out th., yur and retire 

M,. Reagan and a lot of olhcr Republicans they 

Will have It thCH way bdo.e 1989. So IIrothers. 

... let·, gel out and do in Washmgtnn ... h31 ... e did 

helc to LOUISiana lut October-give Mr. Rcagan 

and Ihe OIhel Republican, ea rly I~urement They·"c 

ram ed it. They ....·orked hard day and night for 

three yeau to ge t u' and Ih,s nallOn mlO the mess 

we are today with unemployment and hunger 

When they get ud of us they will tum on the non· 

UIIIOn WOlkers and everyone w,1I wOlk for minimum 

wage Or less. It 's not go"'g to be usy. 

Brothers. If it·5 good fm Ihe wQ.king people. u', 

ne vu easy to accompli sh. bUI logethcI we can 

achIeve our Koal-early .etiremcnt for RcpubHcans 

NC~I month_ hunger In Amenca 

M"Ml·IN T~ov. I' .S 

Local Struggling for 

Full Employment 

L. U. 873 (iacml, KOKOMO.IND.- Atlhis "'flling 

Local 873 is 5lrugghng to kee p full cmployment 

for our "'SIde wircmen We have only I~ local 

hands on Ihe bench. we hope only tcrnporalily. All 

01 our apprenllce. arc work",&. bUI Ihe thud-ye ar 

dan., 51111 IfY"'!,: to get enough ltme In to be 

Indentured In\(} the unIon I rcgret to rcpoft the 

unpredi ctability of the ncar futu re/ what', new I 

Local IJ7J had hoped HI employ mOlt travde.s than 

II seems we WIll. Maybe work wUl pIck up 

The manufactullng sector of Our local at Kolux 

Is nO w in ncgoliatloO$. We w,sh Ih em the best of 

lu ck and all of ou . support 

I can'l help bUI menllon the evcr prescnt fact 

tbat this local. like many othe rs. IS loslIlg most of 

the small constr"Clion lobs such .s reStaurantS 

an d small m.nuf.Clurers. 11 Seem! .hat all 01 .he 

lo ... ·proflt lobs 10 tJus area get overlooked or IUSI 

dls.egarded Many of these lobs have been brllu~ht 

to the allcnllon 01 ou r contr'C\(}1! and 51111 no bids 

turned In and no contrac.s ,worded. "Tou small. 

no pr Onl," IS all I hear Th .. rea lly maku me JO re. 

bu t I don 'l have a 50lu\lon I wISh! did We used 

to make money on tlllS work I H~" e we "15t ~"tten 

g.eedy. accepllng ,,"ly Ihe '· b,~ " lob./ 

See you all at the UOlOII nlectln~ 

Workload Increases; 

Forrestal Refloated 

M"'fl~ llll"'''ti I'S 

L. U. 902 lsoV II, I'IIILADELPIIIA . PA .-One of the 

nrSt malar m.tc9tonc' to be achieved In the l)VCr 

h~ul of thc USS f'o "e$l~1 wu ~ c~llmplished on 

lanulry 26. 1984. Appr O~llllatc!y IWO monlhs ahuJ 

of sthedule, the f"0"f51~1 was tJken OUt of drydock 

and scta/loa! Her bollom work, propdlc". shafts. 

sea va lves. palr ll "'~. CIC .• wa~ completed and .e&ted 

,allsfactorily The emph ~s " ,s now on getlln~ her 

ens",cellng space re~dy lor "Ught off e,,"mlOalion." 

Shuing Ihe spolitghl "'I\h the cngmeerlllg 

spaces arc Ihe catapull •• wupons c!evatou, raJlrs. 

commumcallons equipment anJ missile SyStems. 

Thnc arcn now I re 10 Ihe I1ls .. 1lallon phase of 

h~ r overhaul There 15 pl enty of work to be done 

doWn5tream. bu t Ihe push is un '0 complete Ihe 

1'011(5111/ ahead of schedule 

Munwh,le wmk on the waterfront contlOUCS 10 

be heavy. At presenl three w~r shi p s arc in Ihe 

,h,pyard fo t thell regulat ovclhaols, WI th mOle 

sc heduled 10 amve wllhln thc next few months 

The work furct III Ihe Electflcal Group (onllnue5 

10 Inc reast as Ou r wOlkload incrcasu Let ' ~ hope 

thi' tr cnd con\lnue, 

Due to lhe Illcreue of eieetrllnlc mechamcs and 

~ l cc ll itl~ns wOlklllg oUl5Ide the Electrical GIOUp, 

BUSiness Mana;:cr Steve DiTomo has appointed 

many new ! l c w~ld s \() covel 0111 Il5ter shops. The 

101l0wIIIg I!! a new. upd~ted LOCAl 902 st(ward~ 

USI showing thell areas of re ,poll5lhilllY CI. rk 

LUZI er. Shop No 3. High Vohage Seell"n/ Alan 

TUllle, Shop No. 6. Num""c~1 Control/lohn Doyle. 

Shop No.7, Public SyS tem , T,m U. banskl. elec- 

1I0nic lU~II11 C lOr. Appren\lee Sehoul/ John Annan, 

Shop No 51. Roild"l~ 1000, Rob I). Icy. Shop No 

51. USS Forre lw/I Paul Gu.nacma. Shop No 5 1. 

USS 1'011 (.11111/ !oe Natarclla, Shop No. 51, USS 

Forlnra// [)~nni8 1\~I\ler. Shop No 51. USS For 

rtJla/, Eulonce I'olk. Shop No 67. BUlldlO~ Il l , 

and LallY PackMd. Shop No. 99. USS FOlres!al 

1' ... 1J1 I 1'f.MI·U.lI .... F S 

NLRB Issues 

Anti-Worker Decisions 

L.U. 915 (;&'ml). TAMI'A, FLA.- The I\e~/:an 

admlnlsuolion c"nllnuu lt~ anll-workc. poliCIes 

The new Nallon.1 Labor Rel~llon~ nOlld (NLRll! 

maiolllY ithree mcn,bers appOInted by Reaganl has 

jU5t recently overlUfIl~d a 1975 precedent redU CIng 

job prot(ctirllliur wmkcrs No longer con ..... e count 

on the NLFlJl f'lI rceour$C ah cr belnll fir ed for 

plole~tin/: unsa fe worklll8 conditions. Recent de· 

clsions affect a truck dllver re/us"'l; 10 dllvc a 

Iruck because of malfunct luninl\ brakes. which 

caused hIS firing The truck could not be nHd and 

... as scrapped. AccordlnK \0 Ihe NLRB 110 /edc r ~1 

law was broken! They tunher uld. " We arc nM 

empowcred U) correC t all Im morall ly··1 The con, ' 

Bell Ringers 

Shown, leh to ri ght, Irf Brothers Mihon Peru. 

Thomu Kaistr. Marcclino Rodriguez Ind Chulie 

Wadf, part 01 our annual Solvation Arm)· workforce. 

Once again Local 915, Tampa. Fla., . urp" . ed 

. Il othH labo. unions in Iht .' e ~ ;n .oul coll tc 

I;ons. 

pany responded by ,"YIn!;. ·· We Can t have people 

calli n~ Ihe poitte all the t"n~ .. Althou~h Ihi. case 

did not Involve any unIOn Or organizing clfon. II 

was deAnllc1y a poltey .eversal from prevIOus 

admlnlStrallons. Only one Demoerotlc oppmntce 

opposed Ihlll dccmon. He was a holdover from the 

Carter admllliStratlon 

These kllld! of dec,slOlu ~I e bccomlOg mOre and 

mote commonplac e wilhln the frame ..... ork of the 

current rro - bu~lnu$ IclmintSlfallon Often we don't 

always hcarof every m.ndate that alters our qualilY 

of IHe, we only Itve wllh the consequences of nOl 

beIng able 10 have mcantll~/ ul Input If polllies 

have , lt ercd OUr hfe /or Ih e worse. Ih en poJiIl~ 

can aho alter our h fe for Ihe bellerl The time fOf 

change IS rapidly ap plflach,ng. Our opportunity 10 

http ou15el"e5 comes nn Ihc IlrSI Tuesday of No· 

vembe. ne sure you ore quahned 10 make thIS 

change by nnt only reglstcflng, but vOllng as ..... ell 

We need to sUP POrt Ihose people who have a proven 

hiStory 0/ hclplllg Ihe ... or king people The AFL· 

CIQ has endorsed Walter MOlldale as Ihe m~n who 

can make Ihe d,fference Ithlllk he can. 

Bo~ K,,"£Il. P S 

Brother 

licit Is I pJc.u.~ olllrOlher lIu.eh Glau 01 Local 

953. bu Cllirf. Wi ~ .• with . ht sn,;lt thai madt 

him h iend~ ... hercvtr he Wfnl. 

Brother Glass Retires; 

Scribe Stresses Unity 

L.U. \153 (i.o, t .~ m .cat'·&.5p'l. EAU CLAIRE. WI5. 

from all the memb~r s of th" grca. local to our 

good IIl(lld an d U!uon IIrothtr. Butch Gbss. we 

wanl 10 say drank, Thanks for your many COnt,,· 

bUlluns du"n~ Ih ose m~ny thankless yurs you 

served Uf on lhe E~ ecu "ve Board. Our sincele 

wishes 10 you and yours Ih •• logelher you Will 

ell!0Y many hiPPY and hC3lthy. well ·deserved ye~" 

of !("rement We ..... on't lor~c. you. BUlch. and 

when you 're "oveltng .ruund the good old USA. 

dlllp uS ~ card W"h Ih,~ arllclc IS a pIcture 01 

Hu.ch wllh Ihat smile he had 1m evelybody. Th. 

smile that made Jum f"ends wherever h~ Went 

Kecp on ,mllin!;. Bmchl 

Wdl. looks hke Howard and hIS cummlttee 

settled the Dalfyland I'owe. AII;rce.ncnl . Mort on 

thn next time 

Oenllls and hi' commlttCe arC Sill! gIVIng If hell 

wllh Ihe "'''cmen', ~gr~emcnt What can 1 .ay; 45

Hlnglll thClc docsn't scem quite applopllate. We 

all know that togtther, united as one, you'll do 

the iob When the economy srallS to gel back 10 

normal 'altel the neu eleclionl and Ihe wOlk 

plClurr staltS 10 look beller and Ihe recession 

comes 10 a hah, Ihen and only Ihen will ""e know 

thaI you succeeded Remembel, Blothels and SISleIS, 

unllY IS the backbone of OUI ,,"cat unIOn and 

unnrd "'e ,hall lema", 

Ag"n as a rcmmder 10 .11, I(gisle. and VOle 

Your onc VOle docs count. You hive an obhga"on 

to YOUISc!VU as free American C'''%.tnS 10 eXerCiSe 

Ihn one freedom you .,,11 haYe left Do it! Vote! 

Ahuys look for Ihe olllon label and buy Amel' 

• can made Support YOut Brothen .nd S.uus 

Attend your union meet.ngs, Kel IIIvolved. You arc 

Ihl' nnr, I h~1 m~kr it ~"nng Thl~ 1~ ynur ulllnn. 

B Lt.uc~ M'CHAU£, ASST. II.M 

Instructor 

Mdv; 1I and Gladys h de u on at the Retirement 

B.nquet Kivu in their hOllor by Loc.1 970, 

Kdso-lonKv ir w, W'lh 

Banquet 

Aplil hn IWO mam holidays Kno ... whal they 

lid 80\h Involve a lamb Look up Genu.s: 11 and 

[ Pelc. 1'9 Our proyerb fOI thc moolh IS, " A fool 

veolS all his feelings, but a W,J( man holds Ihem 

back" PR 19· 11 

1.0 " HODCIE" HODGu, P.S 

Award 

ShOwn prutnl;ng Iht IB EW life S. ~in g 

Ri cha,d Long, Ct nler, . rt Pru idtOI David 

Rogers, ItI., , "d Buslutu r\hn. gcr Nul S. 8yu, 

'ight, .11 of Loul 972, Mariena, Ohio. 

Member Receives 

Ufe Saving Award 

L U. 972 (I), MARIETTA, 0 1110-1.1 the January 

4, 111114, 'f_I!"lal meeting nf tocal 971, an IflE W 

L,fe Savmg Award was presenled 10 BrOlhel R.ch· 

lid L Lon" along ... "h a lette. f'om International 

Pre"denl P.llard .nd Intelnatlonal Secretary LeI' 

gon commendm~ Brolher Lon~ lor h,s qUick re· 

sponst 10 c.lls 101 help and h,s dec.s.vc ICl10n .n 

pulltng lohn 8,edenback and VllleeOl ,..\tlle, from 

Ihe wuer ahel Ihell boal had caps.zed on IUM 4, 

1983. and was luponsrble 101 s.vlllg thell 11ves 

DAVW B ANe ERT, P S 

On the Job , 

lillf men Irom Lou1988, SIdney, Monl., t mployed 

by Monllna-Dlkou Utililin II!d lowtl Yellow, 

StOnt RE C, wo.k 10gClhf' to ciUI' pole during . 

h ou~e mOHo 

aVOId havmg somcone Iry 10 s ... ay YOUI vo te. it'S " 

my hope Ihal you will huen 10 all the .ssues. 

bo ring .nd . epMilive 38 Ihey may be. m.ybe even 

do a lillIe home·study, and th~n gc t Out .nd vO le 

There ale Ih05e who .,C belling on you nO I 10 

vote, betting Ihll you won 't become involved and 

try 10 make. difference They lIand 10 gain .f you 

don'l vote Our prcsent .dmmisuiuon would be 

Included 'n th,s gloup belling apm" you s.- 

In fUlure articles I WIll be poLIIling 10 ploblems 

wllh cunent government po11cy .nd 111 III effects 

on I.bo, (Ihat's usl _ Please don 'l Ihro ....... ay you. 

,uue lUSI 10 1Y0.d Ihe poILues 

As summtr i. app r ~thlllg .nd wOlk will be 

plcbng up, lel' •• 11 make.n dfort 10 ""olk safely 

In Summer Ihere lie alway. plenty of dislr.cuons 

10 keep you, mmd mmepiace Olher Ihan whe.e II , 

should be Work logelhel with YOU I crew members 

10 nOld h.vlIIg those dllllacllons hUll mmeOnt 

STCVR C_ MlRRllL, B.M. 

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46 

Fifty ,foul Luul970 members and "I"ndl lurn oul 

lor Ihe b. nqutl hunoring Mel', 22 yu .s of lelching 

' pp.enlicel. 

Instructor Retires; 

Negotiations Continue 

U I. 9711 I I ~rI.Ol , "f.U O-LONGVIEW, WASH. 

Melv.n Pede.son completd 22 yurs as .ppren 

Ilcrsh.p ,nstructOI 10' Local 1170. He has laughl all 

fOUl yeals, and for several ycars all four glldcs at 

one I1mr, spend.nlt lour n.lthts a week ,n class. We 

Ihank h.m and h,s ... ite Gladys for Iheil slIong 

eonmbul1on 10 Ihis Joc.l Among Ihe S4 pelSons 

allendmg Ihe banquel [mosl of whom we.e h,s 

aprrenllCU at One IImc) wne several e,,·busLDen 

"""nlS and !nlemananal ReprtsentallVes, such as 

Woody Woods, Hank Conovtr and E IL &avers 

Dan Jacobs ... u the maIn speaker. Md, may YOUI 

rell rement be ,real, and if ... t know you, il won 'l 

be spent 111 a lockm' chall' Mel has taught Over 

100 'ppICnl.CU OUI of a 2.s0·man local, Ihal'S nOI 

bad! 

At thIS wlllmg there 11 nothmg ne ... 10 repoll 

on th~ WEveO ~glCeUlcul n.ey ~1J1l tb,h'''" 'u 

go open shop In qUUllon is $1.50-600 million of 

wOlk. Loss of money by g01ll8 union! I douht II 

wllh lut yeu', WEyeO plofi15 up In pelCent! 

The hosp,ce IS completc ~nd functionmg. Tht 

Cnllre bu.ld.ng ... as done by ~olon\Ccr umOn cr.fts, 

lIIc1udmg mOle th.n 34 volulllcers from IBEW 970 

Thank!, Idln"".1 

We '''' C wQuld I.ke 10 gel ou, IOQ·plus Book 

Ont mm back til wOlk Wish I could give a good 

report, but the work p.clu.e nill looks down. 

Scribe Asks All To 

Get Involved and Vote 

LU. 988 (u), SID NE Y, MONT.-It hn been ~veral 

months Imee I wrOle one of Ihue ILltle eompO~i· 

1I0n~ lorihe /oulna/ I IIUU' I lacked the .nsp"llIon 

10 sil do""n 10 Ihl' lype ..."ltl) bUI "nce Mr. Reagan 

has announced h,s fOlmal 'nltnllOn 10 seek re· 

cl~cllon, IIIspII.tion "n'l hud to find We must 

VO l e him OUt of offlct 

h's probably gOLOgtc) be a d.,mal sum me l, with 

all of us bemg ovelwhelmed by politicians and 

poltucal advertising lIelicvc me, I'd ralhe. be 

fish.nR, bu. hc'n~ mvolved m politlc~ IS un. void 

ahle. You ... ould haYe 10 be • complete hClmJ( 10 

Many Honored Guests 

AMend Christmas Party 

L U. 993 (i,O,Cllvllem ), KAM LOO PS, B.C.-On 

Decemhel 16, \1183, Loca!993 ... n honoled 10 hlvr 

m me speclII guests p,cselll II our Annual eh",,· .. 

mas PallY 

Brothers LauILe ROlison . nd Hllry S.mp&On lie 

two out of II membe., who chartered Local 993 

on November 1, I!N7 80th Brothers arc the only" 

aellve chartci membe.s slLll wo.king II !ourneyman 

wiremen 8,0Ihe,s HallY .nd laUriC ""tIC 

pru.nled "".Ih plaquu of 'PPlccial1on. The offl. 

CtTS and membel. would like 10 thank them for .. 

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I 

I Address CHANGED? : 

I Brothers and SIsters, we NAME ............. , ..................... ... ...... . I 

want you to have your E ADDRESS ~ 

I JOURNALI When you N W ............................... ... . . I 

I have a change of ad- 

....................... , ............. I 

I dress, please lei us C'I)' Sill. I Ip Coda I 

I know. Be sure to in- ~ 

elude your old address PRESENT LOCAL UNION NO .......... . ............ . . I 

and please don't forget CARD NO . . _.............. .. ....................... I 

to fill in l. U. and Card (II un~n .... n - cll.ck Willi Loc.! UnIon, I 

No. This information will PENSION MEMBER 0 '" 

be helpful in checking 

and keeping Our rec. OLD ADDRE SS . . .. .. ........ .. . ....... . I 

:rd:o:ra~:: changed ...... C;I; ............... '5;~'; . . . . .... ii p ' i:od. !' 

loca' union •• ... e mu.' 

FORMER LOCAL UNION NUMBER . . .. .. •.•...... I 

have numbe,. 0' bolh. Mail To· Circulation Department I 

International Brotherhood .f Electrical Wolten :~ 

1125 151b Street, N.W., WashlnltOll, D. C. 20005 I 

I 

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Charter Members 

La.it Rori~oD . Idr, Ind tlarry SimplOD, ." 1"'0 

cha,,,, mtmbeu of loul 9'1J, Kamloopt, B.C., 

who art l,iII workins II iourntymln wiremen. 

Hut Ih,y a.t "UtDld wilh plaquu 01 .pp.td.· 

lioll_ 

, Award 

• 

Peu. P~ .chc" ..... p.ueow:l wllh the IB EW lile 

$.aviol "word lor hil ItKllf 01. woman from ;'" 

WI'tn. from It II 10 rich • .,t Rllilorn ."'.n'lt' 

W • .,at de Oflle1'. Ptlf' PM-until, and ',uldtol 

Aioh Hovt. 

th,,, lona. hl.d foulht blnlu wh.eh maku th'J 

o'l!:an'UlIon .. plu,u" 10 M • p.ft 01 

B,o,he. PtlU Pouchtk wu p.ucmw with Ihc 

. IRFW 1,1 .. "'''111£ ,,"... anl Ptu:, I11l1 k hiS hfe Inlll 

h,s own hand, when he dOH mtO ICy walt" 10 

""e I woman from d,owDml ahe. ,he had dnven 

hc, car over an embankment mUI Mart Lakf The 

OffiCCIS and mcmb

48 

Gifts 

lI.~tiru Pauline Winklrr 01 Loul 1106, Muon, 

Mich., 5bows off ont 01 many 8;£1, lino 10 hn by 

olher membcts ,nd hirnds. A parly Wat 1'Illd lor 

htl On 'anuuy 6 which mlny m rm b ~ n , hiuds 

and reline. lurndrd. 

January brought the rClIIcmcnl of P~ulinc Wink· 

In P~uhnc was • ]ong'llmc member_ and served 

'5 a steward and traffie delegatc 10 SyStem CouncIl 

T -3, whLch preceded our present on

~ 

Costumes 

Some of Ihe IK.I', "It druled up lor IlIlIowun. 

The, Ire, back row, It il 10 .I, hl, Amy l unol, 

Donn. Hamlin .nd ".,b k h"d\, illih f.on t row 

is TUI POIU. 

ctmMr ]0. Then SIRI ••.rInd and rallr.td 10 III 

the chIldren and pa n d 0111 .,ft, The dinner wu 

followed by , dAnce and lun WI' h.d by .11 

Runl 1 '''UflUk~T, P S 

On Job 

Hou~ and Senate and WI) "I:ned by Govern ul 

Cuomo. However. he made 1\ p!.m tha, he wu 

SIgnIng" wnh a5'U,anCCI tha, the b,ll wouldn, 

It. uud CO Inte.fe.e wllb Marcy·Soulh In addrnon, 

Governor Cuomn and Po ....,. AUlho."y Char rman 

Dy!;On leccntly made a!lan~emcnu 10 pu,ehaJC 

IdJruonal powe, h om Qucll«, 10hn Dyson ,e' 

cently l uned up Ihe "nollh country·· by w C'"n .... ~~.\ ta nt 

bus,on. m,na,e, .nd Ulrnln, d" .. cto. , 10. hll 

leceHl apllUlOlm.n. by the ,ovcrno,.o Ihe po.lILon 

of member, Milne AdVIsory CounCIl on Voe.ILonal 

Edu~allon 

ItILtM CII

50 

of the h~cuuye B ~I(I. w~ ~II mIss JIm and h,s 

knowledge of $I~am StatiOns and other uen To 

»y r,m is OUlspohn would be an understatement, 

but thIs trait I p e r ~o nally mlU. In hll off hours, 

Ihe raismg, Ixurdmg, and training of horses, and 

hrs recent vcnture In ralsmg reJllslcred Polled 

Herefords [hts plldc and lOY), along wilh 97 acres 

to fa rm, kecp 11m, h,s father, ',m, SI" and brother 

DaYid, who now "vu m OhIO, on the run 11m and 

hi, WIfe MIlly haye two daughtcn, Denls.c and 

Tncla, who have Ihell own pony "Doc" to care 

fOI . 

In NIagara Fall, lut Ch"Slmn leuon the city 

put On a " festlyal Of llghl'" dIsplay, thanles 10 

OUI members from Ihe Falls. Besldu In utide .n 

Ihe Falls papel thanking them lor the ll help, a 

leiter wu sent to Vice President Sob Cleary com· 

mending those who helped 101 their community 

Splilt. In ,hatletlel Henry I Kallas, fesllval eha,,· 

man, staled hIS npllmism on the continued success 

of the Fes1JHI 

Now that "'e have a home, Buslnen Managcr 

flanagan and Pruident Banks ale trymg to locate 

p,ClUrl'S 01 Ou r pUt and present members on the 

lob. II you should have any and thm k they would 

be usefulm doc umenting the h,story of thIS loul, 

please gCt m touch w.th the office. larger pnnn 

arc deslled, and prov.s.on, may haye 10 be made 

for those warllmg to keep their O1iginals Morc on 

thIS later 

[will close WIth a commenl For ycars no",' large 

Amellcan corporations have been movmg thel' 

manu(actunng operation! oyerseu Ruson cheap 

labor Now that labor force whIch rece,yed uten 

live ua,mng by thc Amencan corporations are 

busy counterfellmg and drasllcally under~dllng 

the s.ame Who losul Not lUst Amencan I.bor, but 

Amencan bu.mus .n tums 01 bl/horlS of dollars 

III profitl 

MA RK II STf. FI'" ..., PS 

Many Traveling; 

Agreement Reached 

LU. 1140 Ii,0$.eml, NEWPORT NEWS, VA.- Work 

for our mdoor w,remen 15 better Ihan II was onc 

year ago, but II hu a long way to 10. Many of OUI 

Brothers arc work.ng out of town, thanks to our 

s.s ter locals who arc wo.kmg OUI u ayehng Broth 

elS. 

Our NegotIating Committee reached an agree· 

ment with our conuaclon on a conllact for ,nshle 

wiremen. Thanh to our Ncgollatmg Commatce 

who wele Kermit Ames, Tom Eyeret, Ho ward Day, 

Cene )ourdan and Steve Stump 

On March 10, 1984, our local held III Annual 

&'nquel. More mlormation In the May /ouTna/ 

Remember, hemg • good uOlon membe. staru 

wnh be.ng a good Amencan, If you are nOl reI'" 

{(fed to yote-reg,ster ThIS 15 the year we can get 

cYen WIth Rooald Reagan 

EDDtti Con , V P.lp,S 

Scribe Urges Union 

Members to Stick Together 

LU. IlS9 luI, CIIlCAGO, I.LL.-On lanuary 16, 

1984, our local unioo s wore .n Robert C. Kell cr as 

our new local pres.denl. AboJworn In were Steycn 

Martinez as V.ee pre"dent and r-"chael M.lclI. as 

Eneullve Bou d member at Crawford Slallon Th" 

Isdue to the re cent retirement of Ou r past pruldent, 

Ralph Phelps, Ralph has always bee n an aC\lve 

membcr 10 union malleu and .n the pU t sllI·and· 

a·half years he served u union pruldent, he brought 

about a great deal 01 changes, all for the benerment 

of the local and It' member •. Ralph will be mhsed 

by us all, and we all wish hIm the yery ben m h,s 

rtrirement. Good luck, Ralph_ 

Now II the lime for all 01 us .n iJS9 to pye Bob 

Keller all the support he needs In the coming ~eau , 

as he 5ervu u our new president It seems to me 

Ih.t in the past yean our local has been dIvided, 

which only SerVe! one purpose-the decay an d 

destruclion of • grcat umon body. The Company 

loyes to I(e this flghtmg and endlcss argumg. 

"Sule," you say , " let 's all coope.a.e, but 1 don '. 

Award 

Ralpb Pbllp' 01 lIKal I3S9, Chiu,o, m., .bi.d 

frOOl Ith, atnpll I n .llf1ulI of apprcciltion from 

thc NAACP. From Ilh to .Igh. arl William Frank. 

lin, Fisk S.ation/Donald Pi.u, Fisk Station, retilcd , 

Ralph Phelps, lo.mrr local prnldent r and Robert 

C, Krlllr, Crawford S t~lion, Inca l pre ~ ldent . 

hke th'5 guy as a union offlcel, or I don't iLke the 

wa y my 6hop slewa rd handled my grleyance." GIYe 

them. chance, they mIght make a mIStake now 

and then, bUI haven't you at one IImc or anothe. 1 

Start attendIng the re~la r mon.hly meetings, meet 

the offlcers and steward5. Get small, get Inyolved 

Con~ntUlallon5 to Ihe mcn an d Womtn II Craw· 

ford Station's Electllc.1 Mamteunce and Electllcal 

Opcra tlng D e p~f\mcnts. hoth wllh 30 ye ars 

and no 10$[,"me accidentsl keep up the good work 

Also at C raw lord Stallon, M,chael Albano, Op 

~rallDg Dtpartmcnt, was named Proof the Ouartcr, 

congiat ullllOn5, M.ke 

Hltlo off also 10 the men and women In the 

Electrical Operating Department at Fl5k Stillion 

wnh 14 years and no 10sI-IIme aCCIdents Also It 

FISk SlIlIon, good luck to lack Webster and WII · 

lIam Bucnho/er on thell rtCCnt .curcmcn'5, Re' 

cent rctlrement! at Crawford Ire Ken T oman, 

Harold DaYis, MIk e Kusecck, lohn Galni.k, and 

!'re d H a~Jc r Cood luck to al1 of you, 

In thc future, anyone wh o ha newsworthy m· 

formallon concerntnJl our locll's members and 

fam.l,n should contact DanIel FIIl:maullcc, fIsk 

StallOn, 01 Clarence A 2..mon, Crawford Station 

CLAIlUOU A Zr'lON, P S 

Linemen 

liere Ire SOmt of the ntW Hnlmen ofl,oul 1367, 

Chicago, III., It Chingo Sout h, overhud. From 

Ifft ,0 ri ght 1ft Mike F.oSt, Plul WUlhersby, Puc 

Cooney, StUt Schulu, Dtnni, Ma"n i~, Bill Don· 

o~it( h , and Ray Su omek. lIenr, Gomn i~ nOI 

piellurd. 

Pension Benefit 

Agreement Outlined 

LU, 1367 luI, CHICAGO, ILL_Stamng the month 

0/ April, we will be recflvlng OU ! pay Incrcase that 

we accep.ed in 1983_ a two' year ~~rcement. Al so, 

our pension rc,opene. was voted on .nd counted 

February 6, 1984 lust a parllal summary- the offel 

on the penSIon plan IS C5u mated 10 avera~e 4633 

cen lS pc. hour It movu our ullmated funge 

bc:neflts to a new average oiaboul S6 8678 In hour 

There is I new fOlmub for harga.ntng Unl1 em· 

ploytes rellllnr; early tn 1984--rctirce', tnC renes 

an lY~rage of 19 pClcem or .n avcra]te ,"Clta~ o( 

51 9000 Ind full penSIon al a8e 60. The prov,"on 

w.1I be rc .. lsed to proy.de . spouse'l beneAt lor the 

s urvlvltlg SpOUSt of an em ployee who dies belole 

. ell r~lO cnt after complcllnJ\ iO o. mOrc years of 

Anniversary 

loseph StAO and his wifl Julia celebrale their SOth '" 

wddinr; In niYClury. Congrallllarions 10 the happy 

couple. 

credit se rv,ce PenSIon beneflts will be calculated 

as th ough the employee rellTed at age SS the day 

before h •• death The spo\l $e .... 11 continue to 

reeclve medIcal npen~e plan coverage with pte· 

mlums plld for tnmely by Ihe Company_ Tbe ... 

med.cal (oyerage Will be IClmtnalcd .f the surviv· 

.ng spouse r(marlles 

The pensIOn plan, effecllye January I, 1984, for 

Se rV. Ce aher December 31, 19J6, the sum of 1.40 

percent of the h.ghe" average annual base pa y 

'llal ned dunng a pen od of /lye Con.Ccullve years, 

multiphed by a clcdit scry.ce to a maxImum of 3S 

yurs plus (was 1.2S percenrl. The Social Security 

adjustment w.ll be reduced to 30 percent ladjust· ... 

ment was 4() pe rcent). Th.s was just apulia! 

summary, evtryone was milled the complete 

apeem~nl 

AI the regular mcellng of Loca! 1367, held It the 

HIlIstde Hohday Inn, President AUen Young an· , 

nounced the new appointment of stewards to Brothel 

Ronald Royse, stockman, Chtcago South, and 10 

Blother Arthur Tuckcl, Purchasing Dcp.rtment, 

office apphllrlce. ., 

CongrallllallonS to the follow.ng on thell recent 

promollons, B.other lerry Clo'nI~ k promoted to 

crew leader, \lndergrouod, ChIcago Sout h; Brother 

Raymond Stakenas prom()lcd to s.cnlor \tee tnm· 

mer, Brother Henry Ctllen promote d 10 s.cnlor lice 

1I1mmCl; and Brothel )nc Wasek Ichld steward 

overhead) p.omoled 10 crewleadet, Ch,cago South. 

Atthe Decembel uecul1ve Board meellng, Pres· 

Ident Allen Young announced thai Ihe Utility 

Conferenee, held Fe bruary 21-24, was to be attended 

by Vice Prcsldent John Quealy, Execull ye · ~ 

Board Chi llman Bill K o ~l owsk i and ExeCUllve !Ward 

Sec l et~r y Gabc figunoa. The IlhnOls Sute Con· 

fer ence and U-2S Council meeting was held March 

5-8 and was to be attcnded by President Allen , 

Young, V,ce Presidenc John Ouealy and E~ecu llve 

Board officer RIch Rubas 

Ne ws from ChIcago Central-congratulallons to 

the followlOg on theu promollons co hnemen on .. 

Dtcember 19, 1983 Bro thers AntOniO Cun· 

nlngham, LUll R.yell, Steven Shereyk and Dennis 

Duckworth 

Celebrating a company ann.yersary, wllh 30 J 

years, congratulations to Edward Biehnski, oyer· 

head (IiCUllman, April S, 1954. 

The nClIr legoLar mee llng of loul 1J67 will be 

heldon Apnl II at Ihe HLilside Hol .day Inn starting 

al 800 pm The ExeCUllve Board wili meet on ~ 

Ap,,1 2S al 7;00 I' m 

W'shlnl all our members and thell bmlhcs a 

h.ppy and blcs'

Picnic Fun 

Socializing 

wtlh Prizes ,.ven OUI] ISomelh.ng hke our 1" 

onee ... l11 you are ",!erested, all you have 10 do IS 

Knd me you. Plme and address. Send It 10 me, AI 

V. Cellno, 1 Cemnl Avenue, Kurny, New Jeney, 

[BE W Local 147007032 I th.nk th., '$ a wonderlul 

,dea, and each yca. we can all sec each olhel one 

day a year. Se nd your Iellel n soon as pOSSIble, 01 

it 'I too late 

Many 01 Out ,cured members ",.11 b

52 

clanduunc patch of cannabl~. A reprC$cmauve of 

Ihe local conslabulary was ,ummoned ,mmed" 

alely 10 dlSpalCh the IlIepl weed. Doc. 01 course, 

QUerw hIS §(C,VICU and flaIled Ihe hItless stalks 

unlll Ihe all was ahve wIth pollen. Well done, 

B, Olhe. James 

Everybc)dy hku 10 be promoted, even cici muns 

haVing 10 move. Brother James Johns, IlOubleman, 

!)eLand, has ldl us for greener pislures. 'ames has 

been WIth us for IWO yean and bas comflbuled 

pcaliy 10 Ibe effiCient 'Yllem IkLand is known 

lor I w,lI eSpCzed nalLon In the world, e:r:cepl the Untied Slalu, .. 

bas a Ict of Indusln.1 snateg'ts for deYdopmg 

IDduSlnal compelitlveness and ,obs. No longer can 

we rely on the Rep ... bhcan clllm Ihal what's good 

for b'g b ..."nen II good for the economy. ]n .ecent 

years we have seen Ihe profits of co, p or~t l ons rise » 

wh,le they IIlvcst more and mOle in overseas 

manufactu.ing. In to

Dinner-Dance 

Andy and 8,,10 Zitlinski (Dtp •. 121) 11 .hc union 

danet tniO)'ed a d.ink Iotlo.t .ht donei .. , 5untd . 

Almond. and Cra., Shorr for o .gan':In~ "u, party 

a,a,n 

A good lime W1$ had hy all 

local 1516 also mourned .he sudden death 01 

B.othe. r,m S,mk, .... who WI5 k.lled ,n an au.o 

ace.dent lU51 before Chnslmas Donations we,e 

colkcted. and a nus. fund wu 51arted fOI hIS small 

chIld ht Iell behmd 

We .Iso slarted nc,Ol1aUOM 101 OUI new '84-'86 

COntrael 

RAv Huu •• F S 

Christmas Party Held, 

Retirees Attend 

LU. 1607 (em). MILWA UKEE, "-IS.-On Dccem 

bo:. 10, 198.3, ou. Aonual Chnslmas Pany wu 

held The local's ICtHCes wert Invlled and many 

"tended We had a buffctlunch (tha. was plepared 

by OUI members) and nume.ous door pnus (also 

&>nated by the membersl Aftel lunch a short skrt 

was p.c5ented A ,nod ume was had hy all 

We hope to see m o.t membels and ""lItts at 

nCI' yur's Ch""mas Party 50 we can make 1984 

blgge. and better 

RUTlI C""VltWHI, F S 

Santa 

'~.nta·' 1810110., , UO'OI Wellsl. Already plans are 

bem~ fOlmed lor a b.gge. and better pUly for nell t 

year 

10 luly, 1983. , new bUSiness agent, Mike HoI· 

land. took office along wllh a new Elleeulive 80ard 

Thest men have betn wo""nl hard to (leate new 

IIIte.esU III tht local. Commrnees have been fe' 

kmdled, aod .mplovcmenu arc beeommll ev.dent 

The Bu.ld.nl Commlt' ce. SafelY Comm,ttee, Con· 

Itaet Commlllee, En.cnltnmen. Commlt.ee Ap· 

p,enucesh.p Comm.ttee, cle arc all aeUve and 

show.n, results 

Ahhoullh work m OUI area " not 100 plentiful. 

morale IS up The economy shows ""I! of .m· 

p,ovement and hopefully 1984 w,ll see more 10M 

fo, OOJ I members In cio.,ng, local 1852, C'J'C 

8leton, Sydney. Nova SCOl1~. Canada, ..... hc. all 

18EW lQ(:als ,ood health and SueetsS In .ht ne w 

yu r 

New Officers 

• enon for mo~on, 

Don'. the!.C w mpan,u ,uIo:" 

we Imle ptople dOll'1 Ioke tuu enhel' OUf home 

.cspons,b,htlcs make II utlemely dllfieuh to mOve 

hke 1ar,t compan,n do It seems to me the ,ov' 

--_,m,."",, u "'ell as bl,e compan.u, fa.1 to ,uh:e 

ou. iobs made them whal they afe ,oday If no One 

works, no one buys' Whn ,oad ue p.oduets .f no 

one un affold 10 buy Ihtml 

Upse.un&.o me '5 Ihe &'lvernment offieral' who 

you .hemStI~ti a faiSt. yel we hllie pt09k ale 

ouppoHd tu takc cu" on pay and f"nce benefits 

No way' We lousht lon, and hard 10 ,C. thc h " l" 

w" have ~ •• he offictals make the conCtsS'OnS 

.hos "mc The ptople pay theu salanes, .he ptople 

should hav" the .. ,lot .0 vOle them a uose d. no. 

I don't , cmembe, rcadon, thc rapt's and Stconll 

ne ..... about any I"".blors Cutlln, the" IlIa"es 

T ax time IS he.e W"h unemployment up we 

w,1l se" how Ru,anomlCJ app.eCllt eS Itss tn 

doll.1S to make the budget balance h w,1l take 

SOme ,,"cky pcnc,1 work and pruhably be at the 

up"nse of Ihc 1o"lc pcople. as u,ual 

Please ,ememhe, 110" even . hc unemployed have 

thc lIghl '0 vOle! Lct you, lovernm"n. offiCIals 

koo .. · how you fecI about UIts, unemploymenl, 

socIII scrvlee c .. h,p 

LUi:.1 1898. you can stand plOud because you .11 

p.oved th.t you ale No. I 

All of ou, membe .. on lav 'off hive been lecalled 

Ind .he work ,eenc looks (ltce llen. at "u, lime 

We would s.y welcome 10 ,he nc'" employers 

Also the employn .hat have relocated he.e f.om 

Ihc varrou, closm, laClhilU 

The sad Ume II> be Icmcmbc,td was .he .. eppmg 

down 01 Pasquale Gino.5 ples.dent of Local 1898, 

P. es,d~ n. GinO accep.ed Ihe pos;Ilon of IBEW Thi.d 

Dlstllct IntClnallon.1 Rcp.csentatrve. He WIS pru· 

Ident 01 Loc.l 1898 fOl!5 yurs and EM ·J Counc,l 53

54 

Ilr~sldem for 11 ye ... s Congraudallon5, M. GinO, 

on your new pos'tion and goad Iud: in the fUIlITe 

We lake Ihl' opportunity to ",dcome VIce P.n 

Idenl Be. nard S.oh;15 p. uldem of Local 1898 and 

Geo.ge Grosby a5 "'CC p.uldcnl of LocII 1898 

Their dedlcauon u shown In Ihe p .. SI " a ,oad 

u:ample of Ihe ClIcellent le .. de.shlp wc will hne 

with MI Sroka and M. Grosby 

Visitors 

GLADYS Wtllr

hard n work 10 destroy us We m ust fight bad; tf 

we arc to surVI ve. Sell eve m e. Srothers alld Sisters. 

they Wanl 10 destroy all those things ,hat we In 

orgam zed la har have worked 10' all om lives. 11.13\ 

,,!.t:w k al 0 lew' The Rusiness Roundtable-nut 1[1 

ehminate collective bargaining Irom the con~lIuc· 

tion Industry, PA TCQ-viJluaJly destroyed, Hell, 

they endorsed Rugan. What In the wo rl d would 

he do to those 01 us who did not1 Continemal 

l\" hoe1--a ban kruptcy 01 convenience, 10 cancel 

collecl1ve batgaming COll tracts legally negollltcd, 

fac loTles closed and re-Iocated to whal are called 

~(}{)d l.bo. chm ~t c._" !l gh t · l o·wo rk " Ifor leul 

,"states, 

Involvement In polItIcs" certaInly nOl the Single 

answer to the many problems lacmg us, Howevc., 

we working people must unitc and elect poilllclAnl 

al every level of governmem who a.e on ou r side 

The.e tan be nO doubt tlut we Oemocrau elected 

Ronald Reagan and h.s henchmen There can be 

no dlluhl th., wf mlJ'T 'I"nd Itwm h~r~ TIl \~Iiln r ' 

.. 111. wllh Tlicky Dicky N,xon, Ge .. ld Ford and all 

the orhers who are l,Ving well and laughing It am 

exp ense. Srothe.s and S,S ters, we must ~ct flOW III 

this election yea!, Get Involvcd as neveT bdole 

Get ~Cllve, It may bt our last Clt3ncc_ Be pwud of 

. organized bbor Talk II up Se p.oud to be • u",on 

electrtcI~n Keep III mllld, Srolher. and S,sten, 

,h., polmcs h

hive bren done differently How could they know 

thn thml' could be done dilferenlly, II Ih" I. Ihe 

only way Ihey l'Vet did 111 l.bnagement'. aunude 

tYPlc,ll y 15, " If you dOn'l like Ihe way we do .hing, 

here. kG back where you came from" 

Sf: .1'111 If II may, contildCI Ihe YOU bc.or You 

have I specific ,upons,b,lity to youl JOb You 

cannOI IccCI" one plcmne on ru)(juc!lvIlY .nd 

,Clcct Ihe olhc. BOlh SltU'II0nS ale Intc,,~1ated. 

Wc •• e lookmg al IWO side. 01 Ihe umc coin We 

may br lookllll " I CauSe Ind cffeci condllion 

Attitudes and Indl~ldual 

values Kern to be In' 

"olved II bOlh man.semenl and employee Inds, 

fOrnCllmu In conn,el 

AIII.ude' Say, aren'l you Ilad Ihu you don'l 

work In r"vate Industry! They leally Kcm 10 havr 

Ihell rroblems O,d you know Ihal m,oy good 

WOlken 'Urn 1010 bad bosKd Do you know Ihal 

.he b"ul nllns Amellcan eXJIOrI IS Amelle,n 

,0b.1 Do you know Ihal a vut numbt:r of Ihe 

Amenean unemployed In Ih" COUnt I)' would live 

Ihcli eye .telh to hive Ihe JOb you h"'e "ti" now, 

wuh .11 of Iherroblems' Iha' .oulonlle you, II 

half 01 .he p,y you IIC geHinAI lowe you .n 

ohllgulon U. union olficer In Iell you how I! IJ 

These I re chang"'!: 1\mc~ 

IOSlPIl s/';AV,,';() ye,,, I!; , member ()f 01,11 BIOIh 

elhood l1e wu mmlled 10 1932 In local 561, Ind 

n ,hal lunc he wu wOlkmlllol C,nld,an PaclAe 

Railw~y We InvIted him to attend Our .CglJlll ,_ 

monlhly meellng 10 Novcmbcl 1983, .. whICh 

Ilme we handcd hIm, ee.ufiule l!tetonn, 10 hI, 

SO years H a memNI ,nd also the bUllon thl! 'OU 

wllh II AII.he officers and membrrs Plesent wcre 

,mrrened w1Ih Ihe vIIII"y and Ihe enel/O' entoyed J 

by B,olhe. Foley ..... ho IS now SO yun old l1e WII 

accomr.n,!d by hIS son, Donald, who lifO wOlkl 

U an eleell,e,an II CP 11.111, and ..... e were mlolmrd 

hn \1'01,1,"" WU ,Iso 10 ,oad hnlth 

Srolhe. Foley 101.1 1,1, a Ie ...· UOTIU 01 whcn he 

Ix:gan In w

Shown illlhi, piCIUf~ a", rur, It I! 10 fiShl. Brolh· 

tr5 1. fredtriek. R. Larocht, W . ... Redhud and M. 

LamMrt. frOOI .ow, It II II) riShl, R. LansuaFf, R. 

WilionlOlympkeonlendtr}aod I. Trtmbby, prtl· 

idtnl 01 Local 2253, Montrul, Qut. 

Retiree 

In thi$ pholo a.t lhoWIl, Iff! 10 rishl, B,olh!n G. 

Talbal, rteo.dillS $ttrtllry, Donald Folcn Ttlirc~ 

Leo f olty rectivins his eertificalc from I. Trtm· 

bl" , pruidenl 01 LOCiI 2253, C. LeulrMau ... ice 

ttlidenl 1 ,..". L:amM rt, Iinancial ltCrtlar" and W. 

K. Redhud. Stnelll chairman, Syuem Cou ncil 3'. 

IBEW. 

14 Ihey un CooUnue eo,oy.nl a well dCHned 

.cU.emcnl 

The olhcr C"enl Ihl! hu haJlpc::ned '$ Ihc one 

cODcem.nl B.othel ROMI! WlboTl. eleClnCI,n at 

CP Rail Angus ShoJls a memMf of ou.local umon. 

wbo represenled OUr counlry. Canada. I! the Win 

.. Ie. Olymp'cs beld al SaralCvo, YUlosl,vla. In 1984 

He was ,he bfa.eman 00 Ihe babslClgb lum of 

four He was on Ihe same lum In 1976 al Ihe 

Wmler Olymrllcs hdd .n lake PlaCId. New Yo.k. 

I: and .t wu h., l,,{ pan.c.pauon .n any Olymplu 

m the fUlur e 

B ..,>Ihe. Wdl4n began hIS app.cnucnhlp for CI' 

Rill In 1972. He beume an eleclllc.an m 1976 

and preuntly wo.k$ as an eleelllclID at AD"" 

Sho P l OUI local UnIOn .uhzes that the cho.ce of 

Btolher w,lwD "a .er.tsenla\lve of our country 

I{ the Olymp'u " an honor of whIch we lie pToud, 

and a cOmmittee wat lo. mtd .n o.de. to bdp h,m 

.... delray SOme upcnlCS not eo .. ered by Ihe OlympIC 

Commmet. B,orhel I,mes ffedellck wu Ihe co· 

old'nilOI 01 thIS campallfl of SUbseTlpllon Ma ny 

nems we' e 141d. and Ihe camp"ln wu a ,uccu, 

_ Our employer, CP Rill, dId nOI want 10 COntnbUle 

a cem for IhlS eVCnt, and tbts IS one 01 Ihe reuons 

we deCIded 10 do lomelhm, ro help Brolher Wilson 

'J\CQlJU T"l.Ma ...... 't', P S 

Vice President Ripp 

Is Guest At Party 

LU. 2270 ' n }, WILMINGTON, DEL_On o.:cem· 

M. 10, 191U, Our local held the member Chn"ma~ 

ParlY 10. children and the memMI ChriSlmas 

Parl Y. The pitUU Wele he!.l" the Corpus ChILs lL 

Soclll Hall In El, mele, Debware The chl ld.en's 

parly was allended by 120 child.en II was the 

mOSt-attended children ', p"ty .n Ihe local's b.s· 

tory. The children were enlenained by • Sltal 

.- malic ac t perfo.med by .etired membel Brothel 

Mclvin lannan. Cafl oons we.e , hown and story· 

book cbaracte., Raggedy Ann, Ragedy Andy, Frosty 

the Snowman and Rudolph the Red·No.ed Rein· 

deer we.e also present There WII, 01 course, I 

ShOwnlllhe Local U70, Wilminglon, Del., Ch,in· 

mu hrtf "1' rtli.ed members, leI! to tilhl, back 

row, Bill Hubelski, lohn Mfen. And, E!t.ue.owin, 

8i11 Barbie, Charles Socono, GeorKC Ih u 

Ind Nick Christianl, front .ow, lim McKinne" 

Jim Ha,,·tr, Charlu Wortham, E.nen Garyantn, 

I ~ Zoli , loho Dick, GC-O'Ke Seidle. lohn BUllon, 

John Falkow5ki and Lou Dionisi. AliO . ho,,·n ne 

Inle. natiOo&l Vice p.uidcnl And.ew ,\\. Ripp, 

Internllional Rep.t5cn,alivc limes McA lcc. and 

P,esident William Bohnc. 

Showll at Ihe Chriumas Parry lor the ehild.tn uc 

Miu Christina Bobnc lioowmanl. Blolhrr Albtll 

O' Ne ill. I'.,ISanll CIaLU!. Mil. Cath, l ohne IRag· 

,c-cI, Annl, .~ i" Liscllc .\\uhlcib ' Raged, Andy!. 

Min Annelle Yi iSle. (Rudolphl, Thomas Bohnc 

and Yiilliam Bohne, III. 

"ISII Irom Sanll Claus who banded J.1t Slock.o,s 

10 the chlldlen 

ThaI ~~enmg the membel Ch,ulmu P,ny ... a~ 

held It " 'as well a"cnded wllh 11>0 membe.s and 

tCUreCl p.tunt A surp"sc lue$l wa$ Inle.nallonll 

V.ce PrcSldent Andre"" M RIPP V,ce PleSldcm 

RIPP WiS a key 1111 labol lude • • esponSlble for 

uv,nl tbe Ra.lroad ReILtCmenl SYllem du. ms .hll 

laS! sesSIOn of Congress Accompany.n,; V.ce PIU 

Ident RIPP was Intemallonal Rep,ucnlauve !ames 

McAteel V.ce PleS1dcm R.pp ... sLled the pa'ly 

whIle on hiS way 10 Washm,lOn, D C 

DUling .he Pi"y Vice P.eSldenl RIPP utended 

holIday greeun,s 10 the local members VICe Pres 

,dent Rlpp commended the local 101 115 SUPPOfl of 

IBEW·COPE ICOPE 15 the political ICllon arm of 

the Aft·ClOI ind ul,ed continued membersh.p 

.upport. Tb.ougb member support. COPE RgblS 

Ihe temble anlL'r,,1 labo. pollc.et of ,he prcscol 

adm.n.slrauon lu ~t as member VOLeet Wele nec 

elSary 10 uve RlIlr~d Retlremem, SO w.1! memM. 

"01Cet be neccsury at the poUs th" c1eclLon yea r 

10 yOle "plnSt ann-Ta.1 pohucuns The huffet 

dlnne •• ncluded pnme lib and ente .... nmem wlS 

supplied by Ihe band WTPM Doo. r"Zt5 wt.e all4 

gryen away 

Mlny Rne people we.t .esponSlble 10' makLll' 

the partlCS successful. The Or ... m2l1l0n WIshes 10 

Ihank Ihe 10ll nwLllS the I'ell mal.eun, B.othe. 

MelVin larman. our le."fie Santa Cl~us, B'o,hcl 

AIMI! O'Ne.II, Raggedy Ann played bf Mn Calhy 

Bohne, Raggedy Andy played by MI n LISette Mec h 

lelb, Rudolph played by M.ss Annelle W,slel. 

flouy the Snowman played by M.ss ChllSllRI 

Bohne. Ibe w.ves of membe .. who helped wLlh the 

childlen's party and ,hose memM .. who sold the 

lIekels, kd by uccu.ive, William Connell 

An add.lLonal word of thanks 10 Brolhets Chlrles 

Wortham, III, and Michael McConnell who used 

thei ..... deo camera equipment 10 tapc hiShllllh l$ 

of Ihe ch.ldren's party and showed Ihe hi,h1i&bu 

n the evening party. 

KAM.U AHMED, P .S. 

These IWO plelD.n show shop newardJ P'rllt!· 

patin, in the All P,o .. ince Shop Stewards Mce tinl 

held on October I , 1983, in Fredelicton.IPic.u.u 

COUll tly of Local 2309, f . ede.icton, N. B.I. 

Members Retire Early; 

Provincial Meeting Held 

LU. 2]09lu), fREDERICTON, N.B._Thl,local's 

ma)Ol emplo~., The New Brunsw.ck ElteULC PO"'Cf 

COmmlfJlOn, lecendy offeTcd an early leUlement 

schemeol whIch 26 members look ad"lIIlage They 

lie lohn Temp1cmen Lyle foley. Thomas Lynch. 

Eileen Qul"ef. Phllhp M.lls. Iuilus Vahl. I. MUriel 

Scali. lamC$ lackRln. Smclur MacDonald, AII,n 

Theriault. RUlh Canley, Lorena Birch. Mane Bo· 

urque, Brydon McKmgbl, Glen Cunnmghlm law 

tence Hoyt, The.ese Arsenauh. ROMI! V,ulour, 

Vilma Mllchdl, Lc-o C,ulreau. Stephen Chnlten 

Hn, Clarence Spence. Carohne R.ckard, lames 

SeOLL, Ed .... Tlrd.ff and James O.aon Tnhule wu 

raod to .CILleu I! pa.tLrs Ihroughout the provIDce, 

"'c w.sh them Ihe ben 01 luck In Ihe fUIU'e 

LocallJ09 Jnd Ou r S.~ler local. \133. h,,-e de 

cllied to ,hare olRce faC.hIICS; a mm'e should r.ove 

MneRe,"1 10 both Iroups. ThIS " hy no means Ihe 

IllSt !lep 10 amallJmillOn, II 15 SImply a way lor 

both locals to upand olfke space, Implove eov' 

elise and uuh::c sec.ctanal help mO.e efRclently 

Our ncw add.u, '$ 127 MILn Street, f.edencton, 

N B I the phonc numbel, 412-3295, lemaLOS un· 

cban,ed All memben a.c ",dcome to drop .0 and 

LOspecl Ihe new prem,"cs BusLOess f.hnagelS John 

Cole and Bert Enns ,Iways have the coffee On and 

maybe evcn stale b.nd from Ihe bikery down' 

StaLlS 

Well nC,OllaILOnS 10. oul lechmcal youp ha~c 

Mgun and •• e prOSlCSSlnl slowly wLlh the empha· 

s •• thIS yell bem, on umon ueulLlY, layoffs, and 

plld eduulIooal lea ..... Del"ls 01 talks w.1I M 

d.seuIHd at all unll meellnl' dunnlthe nUl few 

monlh., memM., Ire urged 10 anend The memo 

Mrs nl Ihe NelolLalLons CommJl tee arc BusLOen 

Mana,er lohn Cole, Pr(S.dent Cohn N.chols. shop 

Itewa.d, Dan McCask.l. lack Maynl.d, Chff Hum 

ble and SI Sierhen unll chamnan Grant Good 

We cannot nelOUlle ID a yacuum 14 ke~p .n roucb 

and above all ,.ve us YOUI suppo" 

Th., local was a cO'SpanSOI 10. meellAls of the 

Atlanuc Uuhly Councd .n SlLnt lohn's on feb· 

ruary nlnd 24 There were dele",le5 Irom all lour 

Atlanuc Provmccs wLlh a ,DOd cachan,e 01 .dcas 

and compaTlson 01 each local's IlIualLon Delllis 

of theu mccune' Will M ava.lable .n luture lour 

n .. 1t 

On Oclobel I, 1983, we held a .. cry succusful 

All Pro"',"ce Shop S.cwards Meeting '0 F.edellc 

ton Nearly all a.us of the p.o .. mce we.e reple· 

sentcd and we dIScussed a host of lIems .nc1udmg 

ne,olLalions, grievances, boycons. One main .d· 

unllie to this type of meetinl was thaI members 

from the d.fle.ent a.eas olthe p.ovlnce gotlo meC! 

one another and app.ec.ate the dLlle.em problem, 

other ueas h .... e and 10 Stall thinkm, as One local 

.atbe. thin diffe.ent l ' OuP ' 57

58 

The loeal mOUrnS the sudden loss 0/ Alan Kut 

In" Op

·nd Add·Ben Lc~ sc ht / I al,o Flo/cncc DonRiomo, 

wI le of Dick Bongiolno They wIll hc R'C'lly mlued 

by aiL 

. We regrcl Ihll OUI FIn.nelli Seclcl.ry Lu~e. 

JQ[ul v.h.ll has ,ulgned hia po$1tion .nd wIsh to 

Ihank h,m for h,s umillng dlons on behalf of OUI 

eh_ plc. 8.0lher Bill Sm.lh hn Ivctd 10 finish 

LUlu', Icrm 01 offlec and we wllh hnn well 

Brolhet Allhul Mansfldd hu been appOInted In 

Ihe Bw,ngnew letoreU 

... . nlo OUI chapler Frank Camma/~I" Mlchad Cn 

celh, Richard Conway, Slinley '.ckewlh.l, !'clcr 

Nowak .nd M.ke Smmkov,ly, We ho~ Ihey enlOY 

the good lellowsh.p .nd comr.ny 01 OUI ChaPICI 

memben. We look forwald 10 wdcomlnll.1I new 

.elHen InIO our ch.plcr We meel Ihe aecl>nd 

Wednesday of Ihe month II Ihe Ikrgcnfleld Rec· 

ruuon Cemcl, l.eglon DI1ve, BC I ~~nfleld, New 

lersey al 100 p m 

Festive Occasion 

.....- 

.. 

are SO Ult of Ihf rf lheel enl"y lll ~ Ih cocklall 

hOIl' n Ihf Chr;~lm" rarl y, 

Retirees Enjoy Party; 

Good Year In '83 

RETIR EES CLU II Of l..U. 6, SAN fIl.ANCISCO, 

CAL- Elghly member~ .nd Ihell w've, Ind II1cnd, 

"\ &'Ilhe red at our unIOn hall 10 celebrale Chl1'lmU 

on December IS, 198J. The l.d.es 0111 did Ihem 

selves .. 'uh Ihc wondelful lood unelulu, salld~, 

lurkey, ham and baked bean5, uku and cook,e) 

- , can't glv~ enuugh pla.,e 10 Sam Schneller ud 

hiS crew, who IOlIk c ar~ 01 Ihe kllcben and sc.Vlllg 

Ihe lood NOI un I ovellook Ihe m~n whu pilI up 

th e ubles and challs and Ihe w"m~n whu 5CI ~nd 

deCOlalcd Ihem wllh beaulIIIII Chflumn dc~orl 

tloo, 

MIS. Bub Lyle played Ihe p .. no, and we .11,1,""Cd 

.n s.nglllg Chl15Ima$ ulO15 We .Iso had aquancI 

- wh o dId some ~rcal ha"nonl~lIlg There wele gil" 

for Ihe lad,u and bottled loud, IlI r Ihe mcn ,$ 

Prizes The bU'lIlc5!i agcot, Franz Glen, hIS tllff 

_nd Ih~ ~lfl' lrum Ihe olflce 10lned .n the lun 

Befo.e the plrty We had a Ihotl meetlllg and 

ag,eed Ihal 1983 was a guud yur 101 U5 We rece.ved 

an IncrCUe In OUI penSitm checks IhloLlj\h Ihe 

hndneu and efforu 01 OIL. workll1/; Bruther, We 

had many good ' peakcrs at uur meellng. a"d I 

_V1511 10 Ihe maIO PG.!I.E Power 1'1,"t In San F.an· 

cisco, We lie looklnll lorwald to ,"mhe, good ycu 

.n 198. 1 

Wllh leg. et we InnOUilce ..... e 1011 OUr oldnl 

leuree, 94·ycar·old Ma unce O'Connor who Waf 

known lor h.s work on ship rcpall durll1~ WOIJd 

W" II We shall ml~S h,m 

We Ife looklog lorwa.d II> _ fun·packed mp 10 

Reno and Sparh. Nevada tn April 

Hu,,,,,,,"1 DU""I, 1'11.£\ 

Talented 

IJrolh~1 Ellgf nt and Sisl., lIu Cole, lI.lirer, Club 

of weal I I, l.os An gelu, Cal., display Ihd r baud. 

e"nd .. ·/l"d bi.d, .nd aR;,n. ls at an All Ft

Party 

• 

AnnLl~1 Ch.iumu Pan)' of .he Re 

A ..,ndi"l Ih~ 

,i,uI Club of Loc:~1 175, Chlll'Don,a, Tun" 00 

Dcumbe.12 wnt, lell 10 ,i,hl, Mn. Ann MCCOld, 

M ... Ma.,ie Bank. and ROlf f loyd. 

Club Varies Site of 

Monthly Meetings 

RETIRJ;ES CLUB OF LU, US, ASII EV I!..U, N.e. 

I! wu dcclded by the membel5hlP for vallelY and 

a change 01 scenery 10 meet II dllferent placu. fa, 

OUI Noycmbc.r meeling we met 1\ Wtilem Stter 

FanHly Stelk Houst In MOlllnlon. The ..... ulhcr 

cooperated beluufully./ W IS InEd by those dn ... mg 

down the mountain from the weSlern artl It WII 

I lovely drive 

At OUI Oectmbel mettlng al Ihe Iiallmuk C.f· 

cttl;a, Tunnel ROld, AsheYllle, we carned OUI the 

Ch" nmll theme A 5IOg'alon& QI ChoJtmu songs 

and the .elaung of ~hlldhnod mem

January Meeting Features 

Distinguished Speakers 

RETIREES ASSOCIATION Of L U. 358, PEATII 

A MBOY, N. j._As plOrn.ud by Pres,dem frank 

Smuh, th~ january mectlng would be a mon en 

IIghtcn.ng and a fully Important mecl1n, 10' our 

group, and" was 

We were very plcutd and qUilt honored 10 have 

a5 oul ,ucst spukers, M. lamn E MeG/cevey, 

EsqUlrt, prcKn,]y wo.klnK "'lIh the SlltC legull' 

lUre and as the ]cpl adVIsor 10. B.shop Theodore 

""Mteamk and the Dux:cn of Metuchen, and Mrs 

Edith Edlnan, who ;s affhncd wllh .he N I Fed 

nallon of Semo. Citizens, and ccrtaml y no !!ranger 

10 Our group Both M. McGree"cr Ind Mrs Edleson 

gave most .nform,lIve talks on the RlSIn!: 

Health Cafe Cos. 10' .he ScnIO' Cuuen and the 

Dugnosllc Rda.cd Croup System. and wme Qf th .. 

ma,o. drawbacks of the system The need 10' " 

belie. home CI.C syslem wu ~]so rdleeted on by 

the .wo very .nformed ~~~k.tu 

The Med,ca.e p.og.am and IWO recommend. 

tlOoS that should be totally unacceptable to Ihe 

5eOl or clllzen liVing on a fixed mCOme were al~o 

. dIscussed by the group The fiut being the Mun. 

Te .. aod second the HSIao Plan A$ Staled by NCSC 

Executive DucctOI W,lliam R HUlton, " MedIcare 

"a program fOI wtllch evcry Amcncan contnbutu 

.a ponlon 01 hIS Income Ihrou,hout h.s worlung 

hfe .... 11 Amel1uns thelefore a.e entllied 10 bene 

fiu thn lenCCI theu COnl11bUIlOnS 10 the system, 

Med,care I. nol welfare, .t ., a pro,ram of soclIl 

Ins ... rance, '0 apply a Muos TeM ' 0 Med.care IS 

to du •• oy .he very fo ... nda\1on on whIch Ihe pro· 

gram was bUIlt 

80lh ~h McGreevey and MIS Edlesun WeTC 

thanked for .hell dlorlS on behalf 01 Ihe SCOIO. 

""zens and were Invited back whenever thell very 

busy sched ... les would pe.ml! 

A specul meeting was also called by PrClldeo. 

Smllh to convene on January 2.B to .eVlew and 

change. whue n«ded, ,he bylaws of Ihe group 

We ,hank reUrCeS ,... hus Donees, Dan.el Zboyan, 

Andre ... Do.uch, Sam ... el K ...,hman, W.lham So 

fidd. PreSIdent Frank Smith, V.ce P,n.dcol W.I 

ham Coyle and Sec.c.ary Don POllen,cl lor the 

una dian they putlouh on the new bylaws W"h 

appmval we wIll 1M: known as ,he "IBEW RClllcd 

i> Mem""-u CI ... b of LocaI3S8." 81mhel .e\lrees. you, 

club g'oup, association o. whatever name yuu g'V( 

thIS galhe .. ng can only endu.e so long as each 01 

yo ... gIve of yoursdf by your acuve paruClpal10n 

_ As you are aware. we celebrated OUI 14th yur a5 

ao organ.~ed reluees group on March 21, Some 

thlOg we cao all be very ploud 01 You U .n 

md, .... d .... 1 arc rcsponslble lor ,h,s, keep up the 

effo.t by conllou.ng to attend youl meetings and 

by aCllvely pafllc'l'~ung Cong.atulatlons and con 

tmued Success each and every one 01 you vely fine 

gentlemen and Brothe. s 

II IS IOdced ... lIh buvy hurt and a deep l(ellnK 

. of I

Our club et..·(lIon of "£flee,, fur the next tWO 

yu.s comn up In M~y Then OUI annu~1 P'CniC 

wIll M In lune We look forward to th.1 

Cu¥ C ... rn\. P S 

Retirees Kick Off Year 

With Two Great Meetings 

RETIR EES CLUB Of LU. 419, BEAUMONT, 

TEX._The 479c15 kIcked olf84 "'lIh ''''0 ~rut 

mcetill&l If OUI comm.llen keep up the ,00II "'olk 

we un look fo ...... d to .nothe. luper yeal 

Oul JanualY meeun, lutured Dale ~"Jler . IIIIn 

tn8 director of OUI are' lATe. Dal .. brou~ht UI an 

tnfOrmallve n.rr allye Ind queillon period ~on' 

cerning the hl. tory, methods, "m, .nd resu!15 of 

OU I ve ly ,ueeenlu! ap P,entlee rraintnll p,oVam 

He left ul "'lIh Wllm leprd, for hIm penonally 

and lot of lcaptCt 101 the vaSt knowledge fOI h'5 

wo.k that he evulenced Dale even lI.ye uS nld 

limen a pat on the blck ... hen he uld thlt the 

ucuAcct we made "'CIC nor In vain Then he also 

poroted out that the lourneyman Wileman II slIlI 

Ihe most Import.nt I.tl(ll In the education 01 an 

appreouce 

In Febluary we enloyed a V.lenune PallY and 

welcomed fOUl new mem~.. Bob l'II,cr. lack 

Taylor, and Dor01hy and Paul Smllh IOlIled uS In 

,he coronation of ou, "Sweethurt 01 the D.y," 

5In"n, of V.lentlne son", pteknlalJ(ln of OU· 

merOUl ~Ift" .nd Ihe enloyment of I vcry laSlY 

luncheon prepated by Oul lady membC"lf-aJl of 

thiS alon~ WIth ou"e,ulal bUllncl, meelln~ Vcral 

Nerilnd was our "sweethea,t and she Won eyery 

body', hUrl with he. charmro, penonallty Jt WI5 

I ,rell pally Ind thelc .re 1-0 many people 10 think 

Includln~ Lteand Aby McNeel. JohnOle Ind Faedcll 

No.m, Mildred F.,I, M.udmr ~nd Harold W,I 

illms. R L Webb, Lu cy FOICC, VI Clrouard, Lou. 

ena Young. Sedalll Balllrd, Leoda Copeland, June 

H.mllton, Ind Emml DavlJ A spec,,) lhlnks ,ll:OCf 

OUI 10 Gamet Lee who furnIshed the musIc fo, our 

HlngleS! 

Brother lack Taylo. was .eeo,ltOl:cd for h.s 60 

yurmem~l5 hlp.n Ihe IDEW leelnd AbyMeNeel 

were ~Iven In ovallOn on then SSth ... eddm, 

anOlvelUry We.ll welcomed Druce '.cobson, our 

"eumer, blck f,om h" ~IIIt wnh hi' d,u,l;h,e. tn 

Wnhln~ton , DC 

We mee, II 1000 a m the flu, Saturday 01 each 

monlh In the un,on hill, 10 .11 you arel retllces 

come and loin 10 the lellowsh,p 

It.oy F",,~. S(C 

Scribe Notes Labor's 

Fight for Survival 

RETIRED ,'"EMBERS CLUB OF L U. 728, IT. 

LA UDERDALE, FLA._ We filSt ~clm( ac· 

quamted wllh the labol moYCmenl, lxil In .nolhel 

crafr in the carly 19JOs ,od Ih,' 'I the WOIS' antt· 

un",n. anll-labor penod we've evcr c.xpellenccO 

Do you know we arc the only eounlly In the free 

.. orld whe.e ,he labo. movement 15 fipunll for 

sun'Ival 

The Food Workc" Imem.llonll Unum worltCIJ 

are bC"In~ thlown OUt of ... ork by the thousands 

and rcplaeed by nonuOlon employee. fOI lUI th.n 

half Ihen hourly wa,u. Ind to ordcr 10 lurVlve, 

th~y h"'e 10 accept 11. Automobile, Stcel. Rubber, 

Mmlng and Trochu arc leally taktn~ I be.llng 

ThiS anli·labor altitude he,.n wilh the IIrin, of 

Ihe II, 4OOal . ".flle controllers l,thc.e"Clalion 

somewhere' The economy,s now up.ndlO,I; and 

labor should be .el('lnln~ the" fOrint. b.rA.mmA 

muscle, but Ihey h.,·c fa.led to do 50 M.naAemenl 

d"ms , hat liS taclles arc ncce".,y for survival 

Isn'l II IUS' plato old unlnn·busunA' What un we 

as labor .ell.en do' 

Many Members in Florida: 

Others Busy at Home 

RETI REES CLUB OF LOCA L 948, FUNT, Mlc n. 

OUf femen club IS sull r'O'IeS!lO~ and keepln~ 

aCtIVe e,'en though a 101 of OUI mem~,s Ire sl111 

In Floncb lookIng lor wa,m 'pou 

Had a Irtte. from Slrm S.mmons. who was south 

of S, PettlSbur&. flonda Scems lIke Slim, AI,el 

Ruthe.ford, Grant Wilcox, V,,!ll Haake Ind thell 

Wlve$ had qWlr a P'CniC and lei to,ethel_almos, 

enough to Slart a flollda branch of 948 rellleCi 

On January 25, 1984, OUI club mem~ r l and Ihell 

Wives ancnded a buffellunchcon II Pecl', Restau· 

rani here In Fhnt, John Bond, local 948', bu"nen 

man'Ae" wlS a ",e$t. Thelc wele no speethe. 0 1 

formahltes. JU"' ~ood food 

S,nce my last lelle" Tom LeWIS. one of ou. 

relllCCS, pISsed away. Tom was 78 ycar50ld Mem 

ben ... ho h"'e worked 10 our IUII~,cllon m the 

pUt WIll 'emem~, Tom U I lupertOlemlen. of 

lohn Jl,hllci E1ectoe Co. 11m "BuIBcr" Dav" I' " 

home reeuperanng f,om open hun su"ery " lISt 

rcpoll Jim 15 51111 plenty SOTe 

Relllee 11m Plllen,cr has bC"~n havmg 'Iune a 

Nllie over • streel·w,d,.nln, p.Olcet 10 Holly, 

Mlchl,an I.m IS protestlO, the Jl IOtrct because of 

the Ananc .. 1 h •• d~hlp to the P'opc"y owners on 

low .nd find tncomes. Our group IS suppomn, 

hm In hIS plOteSt 

To III IBEW membeu pilnnln, a Vleallon Ih" 

.umme., we would hke to uk thll you try to VIlli ~ 

Au,oworld, fhnl's oew Iheme palk opening luly 

" 1984 Maybr we wtll see you thele 

GOOllel NtCHoLS, Pau 

Meeting Speakers Discuss 

Income Tax and Health Costs 

RETIR EES CLUB Of BREVARD COUNTY [La· " 

CAL 2088 SPONSOR)--AI our Februlry meel1ng. 

newcomcis Elht .nd Marione Norton, Dan and 

Mary Connolly, and !amcs Williams were wei· 

cumed EIIII rC'lIed from Local 177, Dan hom 358, 

.nd 11m frOm 20R8. We app,eciate Ihem showtn, 

up, .nd look forward ro ,helt pafllClpallon Iwe 

need.lI the help we c.n gel l] 

Gunts introduced wele Ed Lone'gan and Lew ~ 

lohnson Ed ,•• membC"1 of the Steelworkerl, and 

i. consldelln, .. amng I locil S,ecl ... orker .etl,ce 

, roup Lew il from Ihe lTV Ind Newspaper GUild 

He wOlked In New York ducctly under Crolge 

Melny, Ind helped And uylum fO I lIade unlon •• ts 

PlllOlled in CommuniS! or fl5{:l5\ countries 

Ceo.ge ~hlltl of the AARP an$,.,e,cd in detail 

'IuClIIOnt .ubmnted aboul Income .., prOVISion, 

Ceorge .• ellled from ,he U.S Deparlment of State . .... 

m.nafiU the IRS·AARP Tn Counsehn, for Ihc 

E.lderly [TCE! Plogram ,n B.evard and Indran R,ver 

CounuCi 

On ,he Itate !ellul,IIVe hont, a bill to permn 

lenlOl1 the usc of absentee bllton hIS been .t 

introduced In the House ThIS IS Ihe ume b.lllhat 

AOI c1ob~,ed tn I Sen"e comm", .. e lUI YU I, due 

to pan to a eommumcallon I"Jure Imon~ InIC. 

eSled pallles 

Of much VUle, Imponance 15 a bill 10 .r,"ato 

skYlockelin, hospital COSts DUlin, lhe pUt th.ee 

yurs, Ihey hve n$Cn at a ra te ,h,ee limes that of 

the CPI Thele IS no IUSI1AUIIon lor Ihls nulla· 

Keou, ,0u,lOg The b.1I would hmlt tnc.eases to 

Ihe CPt plus 4 percent ClI.eepl in most unusual 

CllcumSlancCJ. A. 500n u the bill ~elS a numbe" 

we .hould III gel bC"hmd II with phone call, and 

letteu SllIe Senato, lohn Vogt II I eo·spon50r 

Alon~ onc w,"1 of Ihe CLC hall was the Mondale 

phone bank_till phone • • n all bpen.e of Ihc bank . 

IS paid from the Mondale camralgll fund, and a 

nommal hoully IIle pard Hours arc from S ro 9 

pm-which generally doel nOl appell to rellleca 

who hke 10 be home ~f(l l e dalk. However, we 

can-and will- hclp 10 olhel way •. to thr dayhght ' • 

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Internallonal Brotherhood of Electrical Workers-Pension and Death Benefit Payment Report 

NUMBER ADMITTED TO PENSION LAST MONTH 

TOTAL NUMBER ON PfNSION 

IB£W P(NSION 

8ENEfIT fUNO 

639 

76.804 

ELECTRICAL WORKERS' 

BENEFIT ASSOCIATIO N 

NATIONAl rurnlCAL 

BENEFIT FUND 

327 

34.755 

TOTAL PfNSION PAYMENTS LAST MONTH 

S 4,343.805 .81 

$ 6,554,706.75 

TOTAL PfNSION PAYMENTS LAST 12 MONTHS 

S51,649.176 .05 

$75 ,446 ,381 .02 

DEATH BENEFITS PAID LAST MONTH 

S 136.027 88 

S 983,219.05 

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forget those 0/ our Brothers and Sisters who have departed this life. Welcome th em into your glorious 

home, so th ey may dwell with You in a life where spring Is eternal. Amen. 

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RESEARCH AND EDUCATION 

(Conflllued fTom Page 16) 

prcmc Court rullOg that a company declaring 

bankruptcy may lermlll:II C UlHon 

contracts-cut ling wages, the work force, 

ami fnnr,r ht'ndlrc;-wllhnut "hnwlny, Ihar 

the contract threatens Ihe comp.my'!> 

survival 

Ability to Affect Existing Ltgisl:uion 

Congresl> passcs Icglslatlon, but II nCI 

ther Implements nor cnforces that kg 

I:.I .. IIUII Thu:.c puwcr:. afC dclq,:Hcd IU 

the executive-branch agenClcs and the 

Jud iCial system. The execullvc-branch 

agcncles havc the 3\1thomy to carry out 

thc day-to-day adminIstration of federal 

laws and rCb'\datlons. The:.e executIve 

and admu\1strauve powers elllrustcd w 

thcse agenclcs allow them to Issue regulallons 

that Involvc occupallonal health 

and safcty, consume r product safety, cnvlrnnmrnul 

PrIll/'C II on, food and dntf, 

standards, tnlde pollcle:., work rules, and 

many other areas that affect the Itves of 

American workers and consumers. 

tn lUSt one speCific example of the 

admmlstratlon's abIlit y 10 affcct eXlsllng 

leglslalJon, the DOL revi sed regulations 

for the admlnlstrallon of the ServIce 

6-4 I IBEW JOURNAL I APRil 1984 

Contract Act of 1965 (SCAI, thereby 

cutung back thc numbel of service contract 

workcrs protected by the prevailing 

wage standards COnt.1UlCd III thc SCA. 

An example of the admllustratlon's 

lack of proper enforcelllcnt of an adequate: 

statute IS cle:arly seen In the DOL's 

failure to enforce the Landrum·Gnffin 

Act requirement that employcrs' labor 

relallons consultants filc reports dlsclos 

IIlg their actiVIties and financial arrangements. 

According to a ma)onty report 

Issued by thc House Edue3110n and Labor 

SubcOlnl1l1t1 ec 0 11 Labol -ManagelUclH 

Rc1:mons, only about J percent of DOL's 

Labor-Management Standards Enforcc· 

mcnt DIVISion (l.MSE\ time IS now devOied 

to employer and consultant rcporllng 

requIrementS, while more than 

50 percent of LMSE time IS spent on 

union audits and criminal investigations 

Yet, the LMSE dIrector mamtalnS that 

hiS agcncy has "scarce cnforccmelll rcsources" 

Spacc hmllations on thIS artlclc do not 

perml! more examples of thc vcry many 

abuses of presldcntlal powcrs rcgardmg 

legisl atIon. Another pOilU to remember 

IS the fact tll:H the platform commlttec 

of each political pa rty submJls to JlS parly 

convenliOn a sel of prmclples and poll 

CICS on Issues(the platform!, which forms ,f 

Ihe nucleus of legIslation to be proposed 

to Congress. When a PreSident IS runnmg 

tor reelection, he has the dommant vOIce 

m shapmg hiS party's platform. 

[t IS obvIOUS that the powcrs of the 

preSIdency ex lend far beyond the of Ace 

of one mdl vtdual. They are delcgated 10 .. 

and arc Imp[emcnted and enforct.'d, by 

bundreds of presldcntial appomtees m 

thc exccullve branch and m thc ludlclal 

syStem It IS our mtent to ca ll attentton 

to the enormity of thesc powers and 10 

a:.k evcry registered votcr III the U.S. to 

give serious conslderallon to the mdlvtdual 

they put mto thc of Ace of th c Pres· 

Ident. 

ADDRESS CHANGES! 

Brothers and Sisters, we want 

you to have your JOURNAL! When 

you have a change 01 address, 

please let us know. Be sure to 

Include your old address and 

please don't forget to fill In L.U. 

and Card No. this Information wilt 

be helpful In checking and keep" 

Ing our records straight. Use 

coupon on page 46.

REFLE T 

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Brother Bill 

r need to tell you, Brotherhood, 

about my brother, Bill. 

He died, you know, peace at lasl; 

memories are with me sti ll. 

It seems like only yesterday, but in 

1945, 

A 14-year-old electricity buff would 

line us up around his bench, 

And holding hands (with such 

trust), he ran a current through 

all of us. 

We could nol tell our folks 

(weren't we dumb?) 

Or we would miss out on the tricks 

to come. 

Brother Bill. 

As yea rs went by, high lining was 

the love of any hour. 

He was proud of his " lin es," those 

big structures, carryin' power. 

The tornado at Belmond and Ames 

the ice storms around the state, 

The men on the job, unending 

labor through the night 

Till all the folks had heat and light. 

Brother Bi ll. 

In Sioux City, l. E. Meyers Hdq., 

1974, 

My sis and I showed up one day to 

pull a trick on Bill. 

With goofy hats, st reet-ladies' talk, 

the station lady gawked; 

Before Bill could speak, we laid it 

on; the lady knew he'd hit the 

skids. 

We got him good for all the tricks 

he pulled on us when we were 

only kids. 

Brother Bill. 

So it is the master plan called 

Brother Bill to rest. 

He loved his work on this old 

earth , he always gave his best. 

He was a Brother, yours and mine, 

a generous kind of guy; 

I think he might be organizing a 

local in the sky. 

10100. Enenluch 

S i s l ~r of 8i11 W .. lerbury 

Loeal 55, Des Moi,,", Iii. 

which Are You? 

Some members keep their union 

strong, 

While others just belong. 

Some serve with pride, 

Some go along just for th e ride. 

So me work for the union, and do 

their share; 

Some lay back, and just don't ca re. 

Some always show on meeting 

night, 

While there are those who never 

go. 

When we have non-union men 

Working in our city, 

What's really on my mind is, 

" Where is the picket line?" 

Henry 1'. II«k 

Relired member of locilJ 477 

Soln lXm"rdillO, c.1. 

Parents 

Thank you, Mom, thank you, Dad, 

For holding me when I was sad, 

For teaching me how to tie my own 

shoe, 

For being there when I needed 

you, 

For helping me throughout the 

years, 

For making me laugh, and for 

wiping my tears, 

For being there by my side, 

For giving me hope, and for giving 

me pride, 

For loving me as I grew, 

Mom, Dad, I really love you! 

J~ R .. boos 

10-yur-old .... n of Richard Rubols 

lou11l67, ChicaSO, 111. 

Jack Frost's Season 

Jack Frost closes his icy grasp, 

It seems that winter is here at last. 

Snow covers the houses and lands, 

Jack Frost has it all in his hands. 

"Winter Wonderland" fits this 

season well, 

Let's sing a verse of " Jin gle Bells." 

The snow covers the land like icing 

on a cake, 

Ice and snow now cover th e lake. 

Finally the land starts to thaw, 

Spring is here. hurrah, hurrah! 

SMn Refli .... ge Il 

O .. ughler of Mib Refli 

loe,,_ 88, Chillicolhf, ot.io 

My Brothers 

My brothers are both union men , 

I watch them every day 

Go off to work and do their jobs; 

They excel in every way. 

Their work is so demanding, 

They travel very far, 

Returning home late each night 

Clothed in soot and tar. 

M y father was a union man, 

His dad before him, too; 

And so it was only natural 

Thai my brothers would pursue! 

My brothers are both union men 

And on this yo u can rely: 

W hen you really need them 

They are always nearby. 

You can count on them for 

anything, 

Emergencies or whim. 

I wish you all could meet them , 

My brothers, Tom and Jim! 

Nancy .... Sapey 

SiS ler of Tom and Jim Roberts 

loe.IS01, Whi le I'I"ins, N.Y.

Historically. the IDEW has maintained 

a strong Interest in the safety of Its members 

both on the job and at home. Each 

local union Is mandated by the IBEW 

Constitution in Article XVII, Section 16, 

to establish a Safety CommlHee. 

We know the importance of on-tha-Job 

safety in our industry, In particular. Including: 

personal protection equIpment, 

guards and safety devices, the eUmlnatlon 

of hazards, safe design and construction, 

good housekeeping, and good 

maintenance of equipment. 

One 01 our most important perlOna' 

alsetl In doing our jobs and earning our 

paychecks ara our ay.s. The following 

guidelines on face and eye protection 

were ISlued by a large electric utility. 

They clln help you work ... ely on 

your job. Know your specific employ"'. 

safety rules and follow them. 

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Approved gogo," ""ell '- wom ..,.,..,., Ihe 

d.nge, of ftytng pertlcJes. dusts, or redlaUon 

•• ilt • . 

Face shlekl. sha ll also be wom ...... the 

poaibility of face Injury e.'sts from .... 

heurcts. .~ 

Approved voogtes or face shields .. app,. 

pMI. shall be used and property acljuslecl 10 

aflord adequate pt'01llCtion ......: 

1. Riveting or chipping. 

2. Using grinding whHI ... 

3. Breaking or drtlNng concrete, .,..,.,..,.1, 

rock, brick, etc. 

4. Working in boll., fire chambers. 

5. Exposed to dltSl 110m handling ..... and 

..... 

6. Closing cutouts with link type htan and hook 

sUck operated line tanslon dlaconneclL 

7. Driving tq screwl or bolts whe,. galvantzed 

flak .. or pieces 01 metal mar becomrt dI .. 

lodged. 

6. Performing other operations .... re ftrjng :;,j 

partk:fH are a known hazard and a,. ..... 

10 cause ere Injuries. 

9. Charging air conditioning aqulpment. 

10. Steam cleaning opIIl1IUons. (In addition 10 

approved toni .. or face shields, approved 

rubber glo ..... and apron shall also be worn). 

Gogo'" and face shield ..... 11 be used when 

working with or on aquipmenl containing acids, 

causllcs or herbicides. 

Combination respirator and goggla units wll 

be used where there II • concentraUon or dull 

or flynh. 

Approved hoodl wll be used when unciblasting. 

The outside of 00ft1 .. should be wJped orr 

before ramovlng Utam from 8)'81. 

Either approved goggl .. or shields shall be 

used when burning, welding or babbltlng. 

Approved erewear shall be worn when work 

Ing around microfilm equipment where ultra viole' 

rare mar be emllled. 

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