1984-02 February IBEW Journal.pdf - International Brotherhood of ...

who bagged a deer wun"t euy Congratulauons to
jeff Budish of Department 101, lecond .h,lt He"
Ihe only one from Ihe ,hop who lIot • de er th.t I
Ir.now of.
Slow lithe ben descriptinn 01 work III our shop
at thll time, A company nnuce poued in December
bungs hoP'C' lor more wo.k in Feb.uary Beller
production methods hopelully Will cut Ihe coS! of
Ihe lights aDd b.ing III orders"
So much lor now Beline It or nOl, .pring Will
soon be here Soon we un PUI the snow shoyels
away and look lorward to lower he.ung bills. Gel
the seed calalog. OUI .nd browse through Ihem
and plan your /lower or yegetable prden.
Nexl monlh I'll have. repon on our Ch"nmlS
Dance lor Iholt of you who could nOI a"end
February 12, 1984, I. Ihe d.te lor the monthly
meellng at PulaskI Inn at 10 a m I'll be therel W.ll
you be Ihe.el
N ... N CY M ..... sIMu, P.S
New Residential
Agreement Negotiated
L.U. IS47 (l,o,u,e,rrSi.em), ANCIIORAGE, AK.­
Things have been moving fight along he.e III
Alaska, A new 'Uldenual .greement has been
... nfgnrl~I~c1and fnrwarded to Ihe 1.0. The rULdcnliaJ
hands got $1 00 IIlcreue ,mmed"lely, and .SOc: III
wage and fringu April, 1984 The ncw Mate.i.l
Handlers Agreement hu come .fter many yun of
frustrltillll neJl:OIianon •. Effecllve Immediately they
w.ll receive SI 75 pay increase
AI the Novembe. Unit 101 meellnl!, we liked
Bud how many .cuve leuers of usenl haYe been
• s,,,,ed III the lilt two YUli Answer-57 new
lellers 01 ultnt have been SIgned maklllg I loul
of 16S. This amount. 10 a S2·pereenl lnerealC
The filiI organiulionai meeling 01 Ihe IBEW
IS47 " Remee Club" met mSeptembc:r Earl Plumb
sugguled a mOllO, whIch we .11 ,ud III Ihe Re'
porter, .nd I qUOle ' "Old age and lTeachery will
ovclcome youlh and ability every lime " Hen Ihal
you yO\lng wh'P!'C'nnappers, beller SCt off .nd on!
Pruidenl 01 the Remec'. Cluh i5 10lge fh~ , v,ee
preSIdent .s Martin L. Anderson, see.etary/lleu·
.. ~;'~~a~el~'~e~~;~,E~:~~;~~~::~a~leM~b e~::
be" allendlllg and JOIning Ihe new " RCIHCf Ch.h"
we re John LanCUlel, Clyde T Ingle, Edwin A
DIxon, MartIn L Andellon, C.rI E. Jenkina, Mel
Rokeburg, Mdvm W Thompson, Jorge C. H,.,
Ollie Gill. hm Watson, E.rlPlumb and Earl Wri~l .
Whe,e we re Ihe reS! of you rethenl Remcmbc:1
this is you. club, you're the founders of IhlS, our
• firS! IBE W Retirees Local 1547 Club, the heglnning,
Our ,ock, and OU r lound.llon 10 bUIld upon, iuS!
li ke you've been In all your ycars with our ulllon
You who have worked .nd given your . uppo" III
the5e many ycals We salule you, .ll Ihe leured
.. Brolhen and S,sle .. of our IBEW We hope 10 make
you IS proud of us tn Ihe yun \0 come as we 've
been of you III tn III the yea .. PI$I . Thank youl
Our December meeting wenl very well, but il
• wa5 sull a lar cry from the mee\lng 1\ should hive
been. I'm Ialk"'g ~oout "ullObe,., we ml,,1 h.ve
approx.mately 3,000 members here tn AO(horage,
and how many we,e It Ihe Ikeembel mceun,1
17S-J7 wele "aveler., 141 wele 10Clls, and I
whole lot of Ihose wnc 3pprenlieel To Ihe ap
plenlleC$--you'le 10 be commended, .nd the lUI
01 us "nld " "mers-shame! If the unIon .s ever 10
have Ihe strength and unity it was alwlYI meant
" 10 hav,",. 11 nr~d. all lt~ membeu supponmg II
Remembel- YOu get OUI of anythtn" euclly what
you PUt tnto 111 It's like wilh Ihe n.ttoMl dec\lons,
Ihe people who ale too "busy" to go 10 Ihe polll,
.... IU" as sure as yo u' re hom a.c the vny ume Jleople
Ihlt will stand and CliuCIU any and ,II .esulu I
know that Ihele are llrolhets and Sinels who neVel
IIcend a meeung for one bme excuse or another
Ihal arc COnstantly bellyaehlllg, To you I "y,
honey, if you can'l hunt, don't howl!
The Norwcgtall$ have a good mOllo for uur
people, and it sure All good union people evcry'
where "Yel milt! 1 del nyc uret"--"To . "Ive, 10
.eek, 10 find,- but never 10 yiehl"l1
Lo .. 1 ProUTS, I' S
Brother Victor Mourned
By Local Members
L.U. 1$76(u), LO WER ALLOW", l'S C RI!E K. N./. __
Loul 1516 of S.lem GenuuIIlg StJllon In Han
cock'. Bridge, New reney, legleu Ihe p"""g of
Blolhel Ylctor l. WaiSOn, II" on November.J, I IIRJ
Brother YICtOI, an .clive local mem~r , wu • lOY
to be around on Ind off Ihe work site Ii,. lenle
01 humor Ind Ihe good limes Will be $O.dy m"!lCd
by all
Co nd olences wele m~dc to hIS w.fe, N.ney
Sc hU ~le r Watson, and famIly at the vlewmg wh.eh
was Inended by most of Ihe UDlon BrolhelS and
S'llell. BrOl her Ylelol, age 26, died of • celcblll
aneurysm, aftcl • gallanl two·week .lrul!J!le HII
passmg is a great lOll to the IIrolhen and ~,nc r s
01 Local IS76 and alllhe people who wele counled
among hIS fnends and ae'lu'lIllln~es
" Bull" M.oo re loolts on.
Electricians Contribute
To Shriner's Hospitals
R,.,VMONU IiUMI", F S
lI""u"'llA BRUER, I' S
L.U. 1.579 (;&tlll, AUGUSTA, GA.--OII ,I'e C'''"'''II
of Satulday, November 26, DUJlness Manager T S
Yllbrough and Mrs Yarhlough IUden), thl' re
panel, and Carolyn Imy ~ucul, we.e dlUlnctly
honoled Ind prlYlleged 10 hi! In .ttendance ~t Ihe
Augusli Shnne Club fOl an dabOlate dlllner and
Ihe Club's Annual InSlallation of OIAcen fa. the
ensuing yur of 11184
OUI group', jnvlI~rlnll rn ,hi. p.r . 'I~ull"~ r. rlvlly
was inilined and e~lcndd byou. own 1571111fOthc.
Kenneth illulll Moore, who IS, In hi. capacity as
Aut Vice president of the Augusli Shrine, • rno"
devoted and conscientious worker in , II Ihelr
objectives III prov,dlllg free con.idcrauon and care
lor crippled and burned childlcn In . 11 Shl!ner'l
Hosp"al, Thei. , logan IS, .. A Man Nevel Slinds
So TaU, A. When He StOOp' To lielll A Crippled
or flulned Ch,ld "
in the COUfSe of Ihe cycnlll~" ce.emOlllet, Bu"
ness Manager T 5 Yllbrough, hom fund~ COnlllb
uled volumanly by ciccI Ileal wOlkers on UIIOU.
proJects wOlklng OUt of Local 15711 In nU l lUll' .!'"
lion, presented a check III the amount of 51,628 65,
10 Noble Bubw Tedder, "haumlll of Paper Salts
Allee Temple" 1o. uSe directly to IheM: Shune
1I0sp"lls' enduvor.
Spuklllg on behalf ol lhe olAce .. and members
01 Loc.1 1579, we take pleasule In ollellng con
gratul.tlon. 10 the Augulla Shlll!e Club for all
conlllbuuve eUo.1t III Ihelt commr n ! l ~hlr ~Im~
May God conltllut to bt:ttuW hll many blen mgs,
bolh md,vldually and eolle,,,vciy, and In h., WIll
and I!rae~. IIranl Ihem cuntlllullllliove ."d .uppnrt
At a re(elll mcttlnk, and unde! Report. of Del
ClIatC! and Comnutteu, Ou r I ~79 dcle)i;~llon 10 the
Oclober AFL ·CIO Convenllon III AII',,'a IlIus"'cn
Malla!;er T S. Yarb,uullh, I'ruldcnl nal Cromer,
and Execullvc Board member A,ble Thum~ sl Kavc
a very tonCL$e and inlo "n ~llVe rcpoll 01 Ihue
convcnllon aCIlVllicslD uur Il.cmheuhlp It's cn
lighlening 10 ciCCI and lend luch (onicleniioul
delegalcs with Ihe capabilltie. of lenderlng com·
plehenslve reports Thank you, B,olhe .., on a job
wtll done
lIu Jinc .. Manage. T. 5, YUbIOUgh, upon return·
IIlg from hll fillt 1(lIlOn u an appointed CounCIl
member 10 Wuhlllgton, D.C., leports both, re o
w"dlllg Ind mformative lusion and eage.ly looks
lorward to.1I ensuing lelivlties 10 Ihue regard.
OUI wo,k IIIUallOn , emams slable comparable
to 1151 .epolI, WIth frequent referrals 10 various
p,o,ecu We arc lookmg lorward 10 an overall
bUIldup (manpower wlte), hopefully ,n ,he fir~1
quarter 01 1984
Concermng our eomnbulions 10 the 5hnne HOI
pllals, we .. e proud 10 add an addllional amounl
of SlG6 to OUI prevlou. report.
Good nlghl, good luck and God bless
GENE B ... N15, PS
Working
, .
Volelns hi. opinion II • local union meeling II
M.y IlIydUl, I chlfltr member 01 Lot.1 170 1.
Local Fully Employed
Through Winter
L.U. 170 1 {1,o,u,6.en), OWENSBORO, Kl' . __ Greel"
lngt and Happy Va!enllne'. Day from Local 1701
11m h.ppy 10 repon Ihal the contractors at D. 8.
W,I,on Powerh ouse IIldiclte thaI Ihere should be
enough wor" 10 keep Ou r local fully employed
thloughout the wlllier
Dy".Iec.Il .. uf OwclI~LuIU. wll o has the brgol
conllact at Ihe powerhouse, recently hlfed lour
"ews 01 men 10 pull wIre on. mshl ShIft, bllng.ng
Ihe lotal number 01 Iheir tmployment to a ppr o~·
Im.tely 170 men The n."'1 Ihllt II only 101 4 10
6 weeks and should be OVCI by Ihe Ilme Ihis article
I. published Dynaleetne u!'c'cu 10 be fimshed
wllh thell cunllael wo,k m latc spnng or early
_",m me.
Shamb.u'" Eleclflc OUI 0/ FOil Wayne, Indtana,
hu I few men working on check,oul al the car
dumper .nd u acker leclalmcrs, bUI Ihe ma!OIllY
of IhelT 125 art wo rking on 38 miles of conveyor
.ynenu and tran,fer lOWell, Work ' I scheduled
fur complellon un the co n~eyou III Ap,,1
M W Kellogg, a conllaclor oul of HouSton,
currently employ, 45 men WHit onc CreW wOlking
a nlKltl .hlft. Ihq Antshed construcllon on Ihe
.c.ubben on Deccmber 23 and hue a layoff, keep·
Ing only. lew fOI malnlcnance and Anal ehcck
."'
Rudy El e~ t"~ , out 01 Loui.ville, employ9 IWO
creW I wOlking on I hUllng .nd I n condilioning 55