1984-11 November IBEW Journal.pdf - International Brotherhood of ...

Officials
Thanks
Graduates
Piclu"d I . t . he judge . od It UtU who (ondutlt.d
the drcllon 01 officefJ 01 Lonl 114 on l u"t I.
P;clLud.1t the ntW olfltcu 01 Loca1 124, ".nul
.. City,Mo., who Wr rt ~ woln in by the pU t pluidr!!t
01 Loul 124, Frank VOCh .llfl.
to-
The big A TI!I.T lob hu bc'tn b,uking ground for
$tv" ••] momhl, and by 'rnn! at the latcst should
tIC' ""Hlng 10 lake on wuemen
A ll'ge gillen, prOlecl hu been proposed by the
B. E. Saul Comp.ny nf Chevy Chan, Maryland,
fOf the Overland Park, Kln.n, arCI. Similar to
suucturea now clIll llng 1R IIOU51On and DaU •• ,
the projt:cl Will Include. 4S -IiGry hotd, oillee
. space, condos and I large ,hopp;n, mall. If Ip'
proved, the proltCI may nal' In 1985
Another PIOICCI prOpOsed by the R II S.llou
ComJ'lany is I condominium complu on the Coun·
try Club Plaza. Onglully de' lgncd as a Ic.ies of
high·risc buildings, zoning obSlldn lie Cluslng
.edeslgns of Ihe structures. Itowever, the I"oleel
is eommitt~d to be In the $300 mUlion UeI, so
.... whltev.:r the layout, thaI's I 1I,~c prolect
[ would like to congr.tulale and compliment the
following Srmher, on the fine job they did con
dUCling thc Local 124 elecuon of officers on lune
L [ personally know a lot 01 hOUri of hud work
wenl inlo whal ended II beillg a smooth alld nOli '
problemlilc clectlon. The following members we. e
tellers It thi. fleclion : Guy D.uhclI, Paul Kidu,
George Garrison. Karl Schmidt, Ga ry Williams,
Charln McCormick alld Fred Wilion. The Iud,.:
for the elecuon wu Brother MIke OWen5.
Thin y·cight membe.s of Loc.1 124 recclved Ihel.
IS·Yel. krvice pins at the gener.! meetlog on
AuguSt 8 Tholc prUent wue Kelln~th N. Coun
ney, Rlchud E. fallis, BUly C . Ferrell, Stcphen I
Cocthals, Rodge r K. lbflingloo, ' amel Hood, Rob
ell D_ Klmb.lI, Joseph A Lynch, 'r., and Dould
,," L. Pluce. and the followlI1g member, we. e .eeog
nilCd for IS yells of IUVlee; ',ck 0
8.umll,
Edwlfd L. Bedsworlh, Ja ck G Keeney, Evclett
McNutt, Carl L. Stevent, Jr., Ihrohl Wills, Jlmes
C. Albright, Evelel! M Dorr, Phil Mook, Sterhen
H McAuley, Bell C. Shuley, Rodney A Sommer.,
Vince I. V.nCamp, Jr, Frank W WalJ.ce, Ir , Edwll1
Hanley, Frank S. Emery, Norman A Goodm.n,
Otis V. Smilh, lames L. Crouch, Rllph 0 liarmer,
Raymond G Huluy, Ronald W Jonet, Richud F
Miller, David L. Morri$, jay W RUJhton, Richard
D. Smilh, J.tk L. Sleele, Donald Brandon .nd
Leonard E. lIahn.
Broth er Raynal
Steps Down as President
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L U. 130 (181.0), NEW ORLEANS, LA.-The aCtom·
panying pic ture, submit led by a rothN Jim Loomi',
,hQw, President·eleci loc ra rdo giving oUlgoing
President Benny R.lynll I cake from the membe"
Pluldtnl·tlUI loe
Pardo, .ighl, of LOCi I
no, New O,lunl, ~ .,
&lvu oUlloins PI",.i·
de DI BtDDy lIyn,1 a
u h from Iht memM ..
of LOOCiI 1l0 .
of Local 130. The mltllpllOn says If .lL, "LocI I
IJO thanks you, Benny" Brother Rlynal deCIded
nOI to run for reelec tion and WIll be retlling loon
Benny has K rvcd thIS local well nOI only u pres'
idcnl, but al,o II an 1I"5lant bu,incu agenl. I
memb~r of tht Exccutive Hoard and variQu, com·
mI lIeu. Among Ihe committees h~ served 011 were
the NcgoUating Cornmlltce hWltei.nd Ihe Ileahh
and Welfare COlllmillce lor nine yca",
I want to Wish tvcryon( a liappy Thanklglving.
I know if you only look al all tht n~j(auve Ihing'
happening, like the work SItuallOn not being vuy
good at the present IIIIIC, or&ani~ed lalwr IlwlY'
fighling jun to lIay alive, Iht ullta-conservative •
u5mg all the news medii Ihal they own to keer
lelling the public tht orga lll;CJI bbor h., OUt·
lived 'IS u5eiulness, onc could gel very depressed.
Wdl, leI me lell you Ihat you have a lot to be
thankful fo,. You I.ve m I country th.t 11I0wl you
co live your life your own way, spl:.k OUI for or
agam~1 anylhll1g you have an Opll110n on .nd mlny
other Ihll1gl. I .It-O W,lli 10 say thlt or~.nized
labor has nOI outlived HS u,dulneu. We hIVe 10
tonVlnce che general public Ihat we help them,
too AU Ihe rub!.e has 10 do tS to look II al\ the
lawl organized labor hIS fought for thai benefited
everyone, nOt IUJ! us. When orp-nlled 1.bC'cl.1 people. These
cho,en members arc this yeal's graduating appren
lieu lohn Arnold, Myra Ch""ianson. R.ck Colbeck,
Jeff COl, Jon Dcarnbarger, Doug Ford, Lynn
H.rner, Bob Hlwbakcr, Ma.k Maples, Bill Smgle·
lOn, Fred Smith. I'" and Rick WIllenborg. On Jun e
14, 1984, there WII a banquel g,ven at our locil
ball The evenin, was quile • lOece" and. very
cnloyable lime for all who attended.
Being one 01 Ihe new ,ourneymen myself, I 1m
very th.nkful for the opportunity 10 h.ve served
my apprcnlltuhlp and our unton as I whole I
rcalbe how fortunate we were to have even heen
klectCJI, and, for mOSI 01 UI, to hlye finIShed il1l1
• lIule oye, four yean. Howeyer, 1\ tould jUst IS
cully not have hap(>C'n~d It .11
We wrre I bit lucky though. Our c1u, wu laken
In 1980 befole Rugan'. r~glme came 11110 power
Work beca1l1e .taree. IS it did for many other local,
acrost Ihe country. The workIng c111S, 111 gcn~ .. l.
wu huded for hard urnes. Had It not be~n for the
Clinton Power PI.nt job, our 10ClI would have hod
in uee .. of 50 pctcelll unemployed for th~ pa"
couple 01 years. Ncvellhcleu, our "fine" p.esident
usu red everyone Ihat betler limes were ahead But
101 whom! Surely 1I0t the working middle dna,
, he eldelly 01 Ih e poor "lUng Ronald" (anOlher
ch"atter in a leries of lDiesl hu attacked Ihe very
he~'1 of Americ • .
Four yt," ago, our labor lude'li endorsed ~nd
IU PflOrted Ihe l)cmocrallc Pany's cand.date, )unmy
C.rter IIUI for some penonal, Ind.vidual reasonl,
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! Address CHANGED? I
1 Brothers and SIsters, we
I want you to have your
JOURNAL! When you
have a change of address,
please lei us
know. Be sure 10 Include
your old address
and please don't lorget
10 fill in l. U. and Card
No. This information will
be helpful in checkIng
and keeping our records
straight.
" you have changed
local unions, we must
heve numbe,. 0' bolh.
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PRESENT LOCAL UNION NO ...... " .............•...
CARD NO ..................... " .................. .
ell \lnknown - ei'leck witll loe.l Union)
PENSION MEMBER
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OLD AODRESS ........ , .. , ........................ .
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FORMER LOCAL UNION NUMBER
Mail 11: Clrtulitian Department
Interutlonll 8raUterhDad af Eleclrlc31 Warker1
1125 15a Street, M.W., Wu~ingtOll , D. C. 2DDIl5
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