1984-07 July IBEW Journal.pdf - International Brotherhood of ...

dId, and even bas his 111m Il~ed the way l'.es,dcnt
Kennedy used 10. Thus It should be obVIOUS 10 you
that the "image" criteria is being used today by
candIdates running fm I'uhllr. office. One sc~mmt
of the voting population is supporting thur candi·
d~le "mply becausc Ihey feel that they Can id~lUifr
w'lh hIm. They call his suppotecn yuppit$ Good
name 10. them. Wha t else can you call peoplc Ih~1
can ",delltify" wllh a polnieal eandid~te that proj"
ects a (Quuterfclt 'magd
There ate some ""c,csling "birds" In politle,.
In polilics if il walks hke a duck, quacks like a
duck, and looks like a duek, it could luro oul CO
be lun anOlher IUlker
J guess AlVin Moure could h~vc allr ~ clcd. cool
200 vUles if he wanted 10 run on a different image.
Try 10 visualize him as, for example, Marilyn
Monroc. Boy, what a votc-atuue"ng Image thut
would be. But with Alvin, what you sec iJ whut
you gel. I'm p,euy much lIke that myself
Right now, my b'Unt ~'C~ of concern i~ no! in
I:~lllng reeJetted, bu t III cOtnmUflltallng to you
thaI YOUl iob 15 III ieopardy. It IcaJly is, Another
group of Americans are dtl~mpllng to replace ),011.
Right now, 'omchody wanu you11Ob, and they are
makmg a tOnUnuous, agg rcssive and Jetummcd
eFforl to t~ke it away Irom you U you arc Interested
m continuous employment, then you are going !()
have !U make an equally continuous, aggre'Slvt
and delermln~d d fmt to keep Ihem lrom tak,ng
you r lob away lrom you. I'll tell you one Ihmg. fOI
most 01 you, your P'CSent SlatUS as a government
employee, may wei! 1M: your only long "'nn in ·
veSlment m your fUlu,e
How Important IS your lob to you! A hnc m a
song 'hal was popular seyeral years ago wenl, "You
am't nOlhlO' but a hound dog," and that must be
preuy well how a guy leels when he's 1051 hIS ,ob.
There is a lo's of self-uleem, and if yOU are OUt
of work long ~nough, you arc gOIng to lu'e an
awlul lot of othel things The be5t possible Illdt­
"~UJr ul huw ""punam the IU!"~ '" the ",J,v,J".1
11 b,s attendance record No matter wh~t else you
may have gOlllg for yOU in the way of cxp~nencc,
trainlllg Or educallon, you arc not much good 10
your superVLsor Lf you Qr~ not thel. when you are
supposed 10 be.
Most of you \leVe' heatd of KeVin Wood KeVIn
IS your Iyplcal nJC~ , unauuming, ~oung Idlow H~
docs hi' Job, iii there wben he L$ ,u pp o~ed to bt
and is 5erlOU5 .bout hI' work On~ day in April
Kevin learned thaI he had been sclL'ctcd lor mechamc
of the month, Everybody Ihal was anybody
Camr m to pay trthll!c' tn Krvm I ran tell yo" Ihal
thM dee,sion must bave g,ven his supervisor, M,
Flane Clevenger, a Icw sleeplcss lIlghlS, You ,ec,
Kevm 15 not the only "ace," in that scetlon In
that section meIdy bcmg good Isn't J:ood cllou~h .
I can also tell you thD! I have not heard one slIIgle
ptotCst The honor was well dcserved, It could not
have happened to a nkct guy.
One day durmg the monlh 01 April, the shIpyard
commandel, Captalll E. J Stheyder, mUlatcd Ihe
n~wly mstalkd shIpyard publtc addlen syStem
"'lIh an mnoyatlve ltddrCSl, lit' u~ed thIS I)CUSIOII
to pay t"bute to some of OUt fellow workers. I-k
spoke of the ,ndrvldu.l aceompltshmenu of a
number 01 ou. shlpya,d employees on ~ fipeclal
assignment, He mentioned Ihem by name, and
assigned 10 Ihem th~ ,ueccssful OUlcome 01 that
uSlgnm~nt. I dId man~g~ to catch some uf Ih~
name. 01 people ,hat wue famlh~r to m~J they
were Chris LaBorde. LIIl Yan ior was il Lm Chanl.
(b Don Garre." Milton Pong., Keyin Wood, and matty
a. others.
~ a~:;Sth:h;~:~:: o~~~l::ns~~~~~ r ~' ~:: ! d~~~;:~::'~~
.., to malty. One of
Ihe separatcd enmle., ATaT Inj orm~li