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Partial "iew of delegates attending the general session of Ille Seventh
District Progress Meeting.
Panlal view 01 delegates attending the general sesSion 01 the Seventh
District Progress Meeting.
tions with both their members and
the news media.
NECA Fleld Representative Jack
Ru sell presented the John Jenner
Award to the Outstanding In side Apprentice
Alfred Lawson, Jr., of Local
271 , Wichita, Kansas, who had an
overall grade of 97 percent. mEW
Represen tative Ray Hill presented
the Jack Grimm Award to the Outstanding
Outside Apprentice Tim
Riddle of Local 304, Topeka, Kansas,
who bad an overall grade of 93 percent.
Both were personally congratulated
by President Pillard and Vice
President Tate.
Bill Aston, president, Dalla Power
and Light Company, presented a
movie on the utility industry and
predicted an increase of electrical
consumption in excess of 3 pcrcent
a year due to the baby boom of the
late 1 950s and early 1960s that created
80 million new Americans who
arc III the 25-to-35-year age group.
Vice President Tate then introduced
our new International Secretary
Jack F. Moore, past mtemational
Vice President of the Eleventh Districl.
mtemational Secretary Moore
was given a standing ovation on his
first Progress Meeting as International
Secretary. He cautioned the
de legates on the mcre.sed audits by
the Department of Labor and advised
them of reviewing their bonding requiremcnts.
He reminded them of
the necessity of keeping their Death
Benefit Beneficiary Certificate up to
date and the need to start pension
app lications six months prior to the
planned retirement date.
International Treasurer Thomas
Van Arsdale spoke on the changing
situations of union labor and suggested
we would have to experiment
with new approaches to represent
workers.
Suzanne Estes of the City of Hope
spoke on the progress being made in
the war against cancer and showed
a movie to the delegates. Sbe also
presented plaques to Locals 960 and
114 1 for their contribution.
Vice President Tate announced,
following the luncheon hosted by
Locals 59, 69, and 1176, that Bill
Potts, Local 59, had won the COPE
raffle, which was a trip to the Super
Bowl. During the Progress Meeting
$1,880 was collected for COPE.
International Executive Council
Chairman Wesley I. Taylor explained
the duties of the lEC and talked about
Arvin Industries, which has 15,000
employees with only 100 of these in
the United States. Their products are
distributed by Sears and Roebuck and
J.e. Penney. He stated that the sale
of Con-Rail could result ill the loss
of 10,000 mare jobs in the railroad
industry and further hurt the Rail-
PiC1ured speaking to the delegates is William
Aston. preSident. Oallas Power and Ughl
road Retirement Act.
NECA Field Representative Jack
Russell spoke on the recent NECA
Convention.
Harry Hubbard, president of the
Texas State AFL-CIO, talked about
their computer-printing operation. He
stated they have 340,000 names in
their setup and shortly will be able
to run several mail-outs simultaneously.
He ta lked about Texas labor's
political contributions and stated they
could take their entire income a year,
about $1 million, and it wouldn't
buy one good national TV slot_
Sixth District lEC member Thomas
H. Pursley waS our first speaker on
Tuesday. He spoke on procedures to
follow on appeals of charged mem-
Partial VIew of delegates attending the Construction Workshop
Panial view 01 delegates attending the workshop held lor lhe Manufac·
luring, Mainlenance, Telephone, and Utility Branches
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