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Loc'al 3 .. ma:11 for Boston

er leaves 1meeting·

Victor Swanson, general manager of Local 3, left immedi­ately after the local convention of the Union Labor Party for the annual national meeting of the American Federation of Labor being held this year in Boston:

Swanson is the only delegate from Local 3 at the big meet--,t A.FL. unions ·and shipyard ing. Prior to the AFL session he was to confer with General .J managements on the West President · William C. Maloney of the I. U. of o·. E. on craft , f Coast put··up an unusual pro- jur:.isdictional matters. He is expected to return to San .Francisco

r posal to the National War La- on October 1-5 . .

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·,·.:.: bor Board. Harry Metz is acting manager during Swanson's absence. Tl · · . k d th b . d fo I Metz il)St completed an assignment in the Westwood-Suisun-

' ·' appr6~r a a;la; of jot re~~~sifica- ville. sector whe.re Loc_al _Na.. 3 _ have won 1several N. L. R. B.

tion and pay increases for 33,000 elections govermng 1unsd1ction m the wooas. , i f hipouilding workers, which w ill ! . ~efore he le_ft ~or the_ ~ast ~wanson mged all me.mbers liv­·1-r/save Uncle· Sam eight times as , mg m . San Francisco to vote m the mumc1pal elections to be

. 'much as the wage · outlay. . . held November 2. ··• ;;. joint committee of the unions and the employers appeared at a WLB hearing on behalf of the pay

'* * arm pet,ce issues debated

in AFLils annual com1ven.tion revisions. As •a demonstration of t heir unity on the question, both sines agreed upon H'arry F. Mor­'tpn, attorney for the Kaiser · ship-building interests, as their spokes- Boston- With the double objective of doing everything i:r:an. ~ possible to win the war and to win the peace', mor/:; than 500

;. ,: Morto1{ pointed out that the job delegates converged on this city .for the 63rd annual conven­r-· !' reclassifications are ·essential be- Eon o'f the American Federatior, of Labor.

,cause of new' tecl~niques .and p;·o~ As the representa)ives of . six million American workers cesses in West Coast shipbuiJdihg. gathered in the lobby of the Statler Hotel awaiting the con­

j, Twenty-four classifications would ventiGn opening the consensuk of opinion was that the Amer­;; br, affect~d. ,.., · ican Federation of Labor and 1ts ·affiliated unions are now at

. Th~- changes W<>;ulc:1 yield pay peak strength. •' . •·>· . boosts ranging · up . to 33 . cents tn Reports ,from delegates coming in from every ,section. of the

" ·hour-, qut the average; for all 33,- · country indicate · that- war produc- i ·. . . · . . · • • . 000 would be 10 cents". ]';.forum I' ' .'· . . . ,·.,·'a· t ' ,. 'dl ., · - I wt11ch . can ·be put mto op_erat10n ...

!\1 ... ,,. . ,~. • • , . t,on ,.1s procee mg a a _ap1 y m . . ,, . . . -- ,,., "d ' · o-· -'c-· l ·· -,' l · b .;.,__ th t J • • · · • . : • · :. , a~ soon as ·the ·.,fightm o-·1ends,· ·.

sa1 ·,.:,,. fl,, a11 anl).ua .. ,·" .. i:<S\~; ·.' _a . 1.areas,ng · pa,ce: tn the nat10n's s1lip- ' <' r, ' . -·: -' '.le, 0 - -· 1.

>v_ould.:r~e approximately $8,500,0_~0 yards, mu.nitions factories- a:iid air- Md's~ of the"/''delegates, ·arrived_ . ;ad_ded to the payrolk5': craft. plants. early m . Boston to'. attend the de-

Morton pol,nted · out, . however, partmental, _c9nv~n~i_ons_ which .. The chief issues disturbing the - that as a'Te~ult of the reclassifica- ·serve as a prelude for· 'the AFL's

· · · labor leaders were the failure 'of ,tions, lar:ge' 1}umbers • of." worke·rs, annual conclave. Unusually larg_e· the Government to keep the cost maµi ly . in .t-he '1 Boilermakers' craft, attendance was. reported. at: t .he.

. of . living down to the levels at \~,Jio had. ,heretofore been confined meetings ·of the AFL Metal Tredes, which wages have been stabilized

. to ~s'pecfalized work; will be free to d 1 1 . ff t f Building Trades , arid Union Label . : ,. . , an t 1e a armmg e1 ec s o var- . - -

, .. P .. ~.r .. Jorr,n_. a,,ny wo. rk they are capab:e p·ut 1.11t 0 , Trades annual meet;1ng;;. ious manpower co_ntrols • o'f .do;ing,. ·and ·it will be possible· to effect by the Government. ·* * * ·

living costs go up-Up-UP.

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Eureka : .. ... : ...... .-..... : ....... ___ 2

· , ,Fin. Secretary ~.: .......... ___ 2

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milHon ·,o fight labor pr(ess

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Oakland ............. '. ., .. C' ....... 5 San Jose -........ .. -.............. 7, .

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Snn Rafael .: ............. -.... . 1 .

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,Shift' ,. them ;i.bout where most eorn._:e Re. Hlv, .. labor'~ ~L,;~/~.:. 'needed. A growing demand was openly s~n Fr.a~cisc@ ~ 11 ~ ~n~[!j~~

· · expressed for prompt and decisive · ·~ f! @ · ~ That will :result in an eS

timated action by the Gov1ernment to bring re~ .... c.r·ts dr.o~ in ~§ ~.,an ,imrancmsco avor .

·s3;.ving of over 50,000,000 man- . ~ §F'

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th:qu~t:~~:sit::;at~!ns~!~; i_@bS.· }!ro area . Georqe R. Reiliv will be the ,aptly terme~ it "a bi;l to enslai~

coast shipyards, equivalent to al- ~ - - ' with the wage income of workers. next mayor of San . Francisco ' the American worker,'' yet, t hi_s most $70,000,000, ·or more than P. E. Vandewarl.:, Treasurer

e ight times the amount of the At the same time, . opposition to and Business Representative if organized labor has any- measure was fostered by candidite 'adaed payroll, Mortoff,explained-. any form of compulsory labor working out of the ,S an Fran- thing to say about it. ' Lapham.

, - "U11der-Secr.etary of the Navy draft ,vas galhering momentum. cisco Office, repm·ts: Local Unions of the A . F. of George Reilly has a perfect ia-·l 'Ralp.h Bard is preparing to certify These and many other vital na- L., the Railroad Brotherhoods, bor record. As a member of Hie

. . Sari Francisco-\Vo_rk in the San l' h C I O · "to the board, if. it wishes, that the tional issues of particula1· -interest as 'Ne 1 .as t e . . . . t.are Board of Supervisors · he spon-:0\ adjustment . will mean a substan- to labo1' will be presented to the F rancisco Area has been good l\11~. united in their determination sored many labor measures a.rid 1 . 't iai' s.3.ving to the ,government in convention, debated, and_ voted til this laSt week._ Since that time to elect a friend of the work- has not one bad labor vote o.n h is f. - . f b 'ld' I. " M t t1po11·. Tl'.e _po11·c1·es , de"t.dPd upo11 there has . been a considerable· . t th h . h t 1 1 d A l h' , f . \ he cost o m mg s 11ps, or on · - - mg man o . e , 19 es oca recor . s an emp oyer is rec-\i.':s :said. by the convention will guide the drop noticed. office ., "' ord toward those who wor!k for, i, * * * American Federation of Lal9or Several of the large j@bs are 0-11 Climax of the union _ backed wages is equaliy good. : _

t'.. during t he coming year. the fini shing ·end· Pacific Bridge As an official of the ·state Board

'::.{' -A.FL p~es"!dent at Hunters Point is nearly fin-· campaign to put a progressive. man .

T.h f t th ·t t l C 11 S ·t1 · ti c·t H 11 · · tl of ·Equalization his kee11- k_nov_<V-.:· e ac . a 1e onna y- m1 1 ished-:only abo'ut two weeks left. m . le 1 y a , came recen · y ... I~ ~ f 'ct h b th' . hl d' C d wl th u . L b p t . ledbae of . t ax matters ha" . ofteri ii\ · , · · T - ,.,_ as . een oroug y 1s re - Barrett and . Hilp about the same. · 1en e mon a or ar y gave v

~ as -~- S.~pp.c. r. " ,·. or 'ited during its brief ·beriod of ex: Eaton and. Smith . al'€ working Reilly an overwhelming vote. This been used to furtp..er the lot of the ~ .L" DI A · L:"H . t . 'tl . d h ·· . f ' t tl t d't' 1 1·t· I common man. Because of . this he . (HiT~-n._ ,Om ? .. :11x .;_·eu 1S ence pr ov1 e C eermg news or on tpe housing project at the par Y, 1e· r a,, I 101).a . C po l !Ca

_ F.'' the convention, which wili-'unques- Hunters Point, with several of our branch of t he Central Labor Coun- has earned the aniniosi(JT of c~r-. Washing,ton, D. c.:_AFL P~esi- tiona:bly demand that Congress re- · members still employed: cil, the · Building' and Co~struction tain large financial interests, which

aJnt Wili!.iam G~·een asked ' of.ficers peal this vicious anti-labor law· at Metropol~tan Housing project . is Trades Council, and the indepen- are now "getting even" through a ~C nati<m:a:r' an.ci -international un:~ ~nee. Strong disapproval .wa,s ex- still un·der .construction with the dent Railroad Brotherhoods · program of vilification in the em.;

r.:-, .. · d,'---;t~'e federations· of labor, pressed of the effects of anti- public utilities and streets to be plumped itself squarely behind ployed-owned daily papers.. t. mt· I b d'· d t 1 lab~r \ ui.ws ad~pted in several pu" t 1·11 . · · Reilly,· .mving him 116 votes out .Other endorsements made by _the . c1 y ce;; ra . o 1es an cen r~ . b"

~, : 1"ab0 1~ · u,nions-' to urge members of States, w hich are .now beiJ').g chal- A large fiH job -'for tlie .Army; of a · possible 1$4 on the first . bal.- A. F . of L. co.µtrolled Union Labor · " ·' the· United States Senate to s'up- lenged in the com;ts. . ' for warehouses, is to start this lot. '.... ' (:Cbfitinued on Page o) _, •.

~ and now ·un_der consideration by war plans as· in pushing the vie- be kept busy. ,lotes. The incumbent, Mayor

. • p'ort · H. · R. 7 providing for t ~e For the first time· since the '/Var week at' Sixth and Channel Streets. Chester MacPhee, who has ,been I · abolition of the . poll . ta·x, passed began; as much interest was being All . imported. dirt fo; this job, so regarded by some as , a strong .con­

,. \ by the Hou.~e of. Representatives displayed by the delegates in. J:>OSt- soi:ne of the shovel Qperators will tender, ran a poor second with 57

~7"' the Sen~te J;l'.l~iciary,.::'Committee. ' tory drive. Reflecting th:e ·assur- Several other smaH jobs are in Rossi could garner no more than , r· "No .doubt ~'., a niaJority in the anee that_ eventuai victrori,1\ tor ·,if*'. prog:ress ~bout the · city, but no 14 votes and Roger Lapham, labor­!{ . fenate \VHi . v6!~?\P f1lvor of tllis Un,ire~ Nations is now ~ert~,\n; ~~~· prospects for y~ry many new ones baiting- shipowner,· just 'managed ~' legislation ini<t Jie· event' a vote is delegates voiced deepening 'c:oIJce~h bei~g. let. :.__> · ' , to Ste!&' Ol'l ·. U1e ballo{ with four \ ' ak(m/' M . . t%i{ saiµ, ; ''.F01'. that over . the effects of peace upon in~ .. tiKit;~~ra(6;s 'at Mai-in£hip held votes . .

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~ 1\8~SQ11, .th , , -w~~!-,ity . who ~ppm;,~ dus'trial activity. :' a pfcin'iP 'af '.,s~ikAnselmo Octohei· Lapham is wen known to every , fih1s leg1s1at1~ , w,!ll, accordmg ., to ._From t~~ir conv~rsations, it ·can. 3rd, and I am sure a swell time worker ' ih the Sa!'1 ' Francisco: bay ileports whi-~h ai'Ei .. widely circu- be said tl)atthe union representa- was had by in. A ,'"basebail gain~ area '{b.r hLs 'anti 0 labor tactics, and lited, conuhct a filibtist~r. They· tfves believ('. the only way to avert was played betwee1; ';'.the day and . for his s~onsor;hip ' o;f the vicious "'t ll atte1~pt ·tb ,·defeat this legis~ a majbr · depressfom with serious graveyard shifts, with the grave- anti-iabor bill known. as Proposi­

,.-lation through resort to this form u~emplciyment a{ter 'the was is to I !ard coming out wirmer. Surpri.s- tiom: No. 1. The measure was _vig0r­of parlia:qi.entary· ·procedure. This i:nepare now f.or a large-scale mg how wen those boys can see m ously opposed by the Ca,l1fornia

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ENGINEERS' NEWS

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Pay dues whe:r1· due; =

Financial Secret asks

October 15, 194:3

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I Eureka S~}f § fher Ct!Jf! U;Se 1 more engn1e.ers. n1 iun1l1er

conternpiaied T. M. Bynon, Financial Secretary, working .out o& the San Francisco office, reports:

indi1st1~y fi re:preseniative says. Otto Never, ,Busi~~ss Representative, working o~t of John DeLagrange and Les

'Collett; ·:Btislness "·Represeiltii:­tives working· out ·of the Reno ·Joffice , r.eport:

Looking over our report to tl).e G~neral Oflice for the last month I yws Vf?f.Y much surprised to see such a large num­ber of members suspended for non-payment of dues.

the Eureka office, reports: ·, . . '• :L :i ··,0c 'J.i:ih.

. Eureka:-:-The news from Eureka is full of progress and .what we need now is more Local 3 men for the Lumber industry.

· Reno-=There is no riew work i _contemplated for Nevada as far as I can learn from information re­ceived. The airport job at Love­lock, Nevada, being ·constructed by Hunt and Frandsen, is going along nicely. We have 33 men on this job.

It seems strange that the members now· steadily em. · ployed, would allow themselves to become suspended . and then put up the cry that they were not notified by the office. We all know when our pay is due, and we all know when our bills come due. Therefore, we should make arrange­ments to meet our obligations on time; instead of having to

To begin with, Marshall H_anrahan is now working at :Red Hen and also at Fort Dick, near the Oregon line . Part of .this work will be finished before the rain sets in, but the Fort Dick job will carry over into next Spring. It rains up there about an average of a hundred arid ten inches . ·

The chrome mine at Orick will I · pay a penalty. . start up any day now, and will put Brother Foss, at San Rafael,. will Article 20, Section 5, of the Internat1onal Constitution, about t wo dragline operators and '.1ave the placing of men on thi two heavy-duty mechanics to vrnrk, I Job as soon as the equipment eight hours and seven days a week. I leaves Eureka, which will be· Oc-

. vVe also 11ave a new housing p1;oject just let at Carlin, Nevada, and two projects let at Sparks,. Nevada. Both projects are under· way.

reads as fo llows: . '

The Yancey Constructioh Coip.­pany has about three more weeks on .their bridge job north of Elko.

Morrison Knudsen Company has completed its work at Elko and has moved 12 miles south of Carlin.

"Any member who is suspended or expelled from a Local Union or by the General Executive Board, for any reason whatsoever, .and later becomes . reinstated -must,. be a member in good standing f.or one year after his re­instatement before his beneficiaries shall be erititled to q.eath benefits, cr...,d then his bene.ficiaries. .shall be . entitled to the amount only in his class, according to the length of time that he is a 1nember in good standing

The town of Eureka has the Jo- tober 15t11- The job should last cal .shipyards which keep about a ! untill . the middle of May. Bill hun.dred and fifty brothers busy i B~rtlett and ~~Y Dudal, formerly all the time. The , local housing I of the Mach,msts, and now, by j.ob has started here. This is about 11 your_ business agent's sales talk, a $500,000 job. In addition to this, '.uember_s of Lo:al No. 3, arc · go­the· Carlin Construction Co. has mg with Carlrn as heavy-duty the dirt moving .j~b for Teichert mechanics.

after such reinstatements." ·

Isbell Construction Company re­ceived, a n extension on the- airport at E°ly, Nevada, which consists of one new runway and· one taxi-way.

That means that if the suspended member has been a memher of the ·International for ten years,~ or more, his beneficiaries would have been entitled to two hundred and fifty. dollar:::. as death benefits, but because, cif the suspensions the members' standing in the death benefit fund is the sarne as the newly initiated members.

on . the Airport at Fort Bragg. We are badly L11. _ need · of rig­This . will take 32 cat skii1ners, six gers at $I). 7, choker men -, ~t oilers, six mechanics and one drag- I $l_-.02 ½,s.lo_ader.· men· at $1.27½ =-ano

· line . operato_r. · · $1.07 ½ · for .~ the redwoods. This work is somethii:ig -new . in , the .Engin_eers here; but we . are tak · ing , them.· .in ·· here .· and showing theh1 ·'what . Local 3 can .. do for ·its membe~. · If any brother knows of a lumper , jack who can -come up __ here, let's ]).ear. about it.

We have furnished . Andy Drum o{ the Silver State Construction Company witl1 several- men in the past three weeks. He is going along very nicely.

PA¥. DTJES . PROiv'.IPTLY-Do not allow yourself to be suspended! Stockton sets

record in war bond purchases

Associated General Contractors of Nevada had a meeting Septem­ber 25, but failed to sign. a state· wide agreement.

Fresno o ice. rep·orts . no.t much new h, ... dJsfr:ict

. \Ve- -ca.n'.t build up · this field "Bill" W.aack, Business Reµ-

sentative working out of the· without evePy-member helping. Vie Stockton Office reports:- also have fogging engineers an_d

Harms and Larsen have finished the job at Minden and have moved off.

We have had several calls for ·merf, from contractors .at Sacra­mento and San Francisco for the

Thomas D: Bryson, Business Representative working out of the Fresno Oifice reports:

Fresno-There is very · li t tle of interest .to r eport from the Central Valley district this month, there

Tonopa-h,. Nevada job, which is are no new jobs starting up in this scheduled to be completed within vicinity and we have ieveral men 45 days. This job is in the jurisdic- idle as some of the small jobs are tion of .. Loc~l No. 12, but as ·far as finishing up. I kn,ow, Local No. 3 has the ma- The_ Phoenix Construction Com-jority of men on this job. pany has just about · completed

The ·FaHon Pre-Flight Naval · their job at Coalinga and have Training ·s tation has been post- moved part of their equipment on poned until October 15. their Highway job near Merced.

Isbell Construction Company is At the rate they are going they making fine progress On their I Should finish that job in about 30 stripping and mining· job for the I days. Consolidated Copper Mines Cor- L&rsen and Harms are going poration at Kimberly, Nevada. We right along on the Friant Ivfadera _are stili working in the metal min- Canal, they . are using two drag­ing industry in the State of lines and six cats on the job all Nevada, but hope to have more manned with Local No. 3 mem­news pertaining to this industry bers. They have sub-let the con­in our next Monthly Bulletin. crete work on structures to L. H.

Robert E. J\l[cKee has about onec Hansen & Sons and they are going half his ·foundation , in for his new

Vlhich is also at Sparl,s, Nevada.

along okay with om· members. Piazzi & Huntley are going right

along on their Highway job at Lemoore with about eight_een of our members working there.

The Brown JVIaterials Company firemen, siacker and donkey engi-have moved _ one of their draglines . Stockton-:---Stockton is_ proud :of I neers, saw filers, stationery fire­to Corcoran to set up the dredge I its r ecord- to be the first m.aJor I men, and mHl mechanics, cat that has just beeri brought in to city . in California to go over the

I skinners and blade. and shovel men:

work on the Tulare Lake, strength- top 111 bond purchases. Although· the scale at this time is

ening the levees. . ·1 Labor came ·thru magnificently/ !c,wer than constru~tion wo~~, it Truett Shields and Fisher has I and labor has given the community

11s st.eady an.d workrng cond1t10ns

fdur cats and one dragline working at least something to shout about. , are ideal. · on the Kings river flood control At Pollock's the average purchase One_ .of our: outstand_ing Stew­w~rk near-• Lemoo~e; they _are ! per employee; in,cluding of course i ards _m the redwoo~~ rs __ Brothe7 gomg along 100% with the muon. the purchase of management was I Marvm Neal, who · ·IS with the

I spent a couple of days in the $46.00 per employee. · Northern Redwood Lumber Co. at Kettlemen Hills-Avenal~Coalinga ·other groups topped the engi- Korbel as cat doctor. Another new district rounding up some of the neers purchases, but our , gang · brether, H. R. C-annon, is steward men working in the Oil-fields, they average $6.5.00 ·per man. That's a at Brown · Brothers mill at Bridge­are sure hard to find as they a1·e fine record. o. K. Wilson did a ville, and i a donkey puncher. It scattered over an area of about good job on swing as did Brother is a pleasure to meet and sign ui;i 20 by 45 miles; did not find all of Bob Warnick on days. This yard these new brothers in the red­the men working in the oilfields, of about 5,000 employees produced woods as they are a credit to but I think I located most of them. $230,000. Local 3.

The Rock Sand and Gravel pits Once more and we will can· it a On September 26,th we had are workin_g just about the same year. The combined War Chest- Brothers Pat Cla11cy, Secretary as usual, they are an eyesore in Red Cross drive. Let us put this Mathe,vs, Financial Secretary Tom this district, and I don't seem to be important contribution to the Viar I Bynon, Business Manager Vic (the . I , able to get anywhere v,·ith them. effort over in the . same manner. I Swede)· Swanson, and Treasurer

The office girl has been on vaca- Om· progress on construction is . Vanderwark as guests and speak-tion the past two weeks and it has routine. Biassotti, Teichert, French, 1 ers at the Engineers shind.ig and kept your business agent pretty M. J . B. and Ed Thorpe are keep-· special meeting. busy trying to take care of the ing their gang infact. McGaw Some of the brothers came a: office work and get out on the operates with the same tempo. hundred -miles to attend and every jobs at the· ,same time . The logging industry is of out- member enjoyed himself.

· F. C. Stolte is progressing with the bridge job for Western· Pacific Railroad at Doyle, California, with two rigs and a dozer an~l all Union crew on the job.

Winston Brothers Construction Company is still at work on the railroad project for Red River Lumber Company. The shovel is on two shifts with the cats working

Over-h~ad er~~es g@hig brr@ · @f;ti@!i"1 ,rt .. ~~Vil . Ge~1ev'1 _ pBar1t

standing interest to all engineers. I Our next meeting· wm be an­Here as on all the other jobs our · nounced in . the next issue of The men are in key positions. Brother News Letter. · Al Herbert is logging engineer for/ In closing, let all brothers keep Calaveras Land and Timber: B. ·J .

1 in mind the fact that we must

H. L. "Cur1y" Spence, Busi­out of the Provo· Office re­port§:

single shift. Provo, Utah-Pomeroy-!l".[orrison E. B. Bishop Company is still

_doing .work ·at Honey Lake for the Company at .the Geneva Plant is Sierra Ordnance Depot.- putting some ov~rhead cranes into

Radich and Brown Company is operation setting machinery and going ahead with the airport at pouring concrete and our members Honey Lake with about one-half are manning these jobs as fast as the equipp.1eµt on a double shift they are available and our supply and are waiting on water. of unemployed members is rapidly

Sierra Construction Company diminishing. has two shovels going on a: single Curlee of U. P. M., Art With-shift. row, Midwest Pipe · and Supply,

David A. Richardson Company Jerry Foote, F . H . McGraw Co. is now pouring concrete on the . and Charlie Pruce, Koppers Co. flume job at Vvestwood, California. have all been very cooperative in

Have received report of a round- correcting all matters of dispu'te house job at Portola, California, concerning the Operating Engi­

.on the \Vestern Pacific and will neers. - cl'i:eck on this. I have been informed that warm-

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(!Continued from Page 1) -means then that the parliamentary rule of cloture must be applied if the Senate · is · accorded the priv­il'ege of voting upon this measure. If will require a two-thirds vote bf the Senate to pass the cloture

ing up_ operations at the No. 2 Battery at the coke ovens will be­gin approximately Nov. 1st. The reason for ·the delay thus far has been the lack of enough gas being available.

The Amer-ican Bridge Co. is rap­idly progressing with the . erection of steel at. the Geneva Plant.

\:Ve are glad to at least. be Hodges is operating a 2½ yard build our organization so that it called upon to suP._ply Union men N.W. at Cooks Station in the High I covers all industries employing to Vv. W. Clyde Cont., who has a Sierras. McD01iald Lumber Com- Engineers, and that after the war job at Schofield Dam and to Reyn- pany has 25 years of operations in no broth/ff need go without work. olds Constr. Co., who has a job this area. at Ironton and Eureka. The Aluminum Company _at

It is with _ deepest regrets that Riverbank went . unanimous fcir we report · the death of Brother I A. ·F. of L. at their rec~nt elec­Calvin Teague who was electro- tion. cuted while wnrking as an oiler at Ryberg Strong and Grant Constr. Co. at the Gravel Pit at American Fork.

Hy d r au l i c Dredge "Papoose" wound up the Stockton job. It is tough going on dredge crews thes'c days. Short handed rigs are the * * * or.der. The men are just not to be

• had. · Army (;@rastr!.!Jt.'!'G'h:m jobs. One more thought in closing. If

hoiv~ fevJ st@p[?~ges we are to 1·etain our standing as 'Washington, D. C.-Vvork stop- i Trad.es Unions, if we are to keep

f 11 . 1 d' I intact our sfatus in this great pages rom a causes, me u mg . democracy, if we are to return to

strikes, · on its $6,000,000,000 con- our brothers now fighting on the struction program, initiated and · battle fronts of the globe our or­supervised by _the Corps of . Engi- ganizations as they left them will neers, Army Service Forces, dur- be with the assistance of our ing the fiscal year ended Jtine 30, ballot. A patriotic engineer will not 1943, amounted to one 2/100 of one shirk his duty to vote. per cent of the total man hours , Elections vital to your everyday encompassed by the program, the life where food, clothing, prices, \Var Department . announced. rents, schools are coming up. But

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the daylight after wor},~~~-~

yard for a year!

Also, a tug-of-war-and ·again

graveyard was winner. Brother Gus Castell was caught in the bite of the line on a false · start and was dragged the length of the field on his back-much to his sorrow! '·-c

Muc,1 of the success of the out-1

ing was due to Brother Jack Tay/ lor's diligent work. Let us in on the secret of the steaks, Jack, with ;\ all the mea_t rationing it sure would be welcome!

Work at , Matson Navigation Company has slowed up consider­able with the entire night shi°rt · ·' laid off.

Bethlehem Shipyard are about the same

.......__ measure." The Blast Furnaces at the· Plant

are also nearing completion .

The record, covering what is be- to vote you · must first register. In lieved to be the greatest construe- I Stockton its at 227 .East Weber tion program of all time, embraces Avenue. In otp.er areas, ask your

-14,469 projects. . business agent.

At di tions usual.

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:F'J:,sip:ef:t,s\ ,r .··, ~nqi'ateer~- -Li1hing-costs-UJJ-23o/o ~ince :·Artny''~teH$ . . • IJA h l~ e ~ ·~L war--began~tl_i__a_}_'s offiF. ial,·. t I . L : ; & :J ' . ~:::-.,. 1n . ·, Tei ·ur:m .l[swrrn new . . . . ·"' · · . . . :m·ll'~fJFl'mea~~ers .··

· · · · ·· · · ' ·, ' ' · · · · · . This is jpst for fhe .:re<iprd, in caS\l your boss tries to giye yo_u a sop.g . , .. ,. · ·. ~ = · ~ :- . • c. L ·· ;·:;J ' '>, .',. \~Ff;mlii!uar·,~ and. 4~qC;!'l :~.bpt1tho\v .thecost ,oflh;inghasn'trisenasmuchassome .,,I 1- ..

',,10_--~--- s c·gU8,;_::;,H1?1ftie_ :_ .. ~,--,· ~-- i '_;·_., ~ .lfui_'. ~ -~ peOQf~·"saf 1it ) ias. ;The: figllres ~re f~'.om:th\l u. s.-:omce _-or_w~r!ntp~- ,OU· U:r. rti);(H1S. ,, . µiafion -and .~h!)W- thlil comparative l'ISe Ill the cost of essential items m ' if" ·

' ,·_ . '' Brothers C; ·1: C~s~:Boldt T. 1.-·ci~rk a~cl' B'. M. -Stew-art, large ':ci~ies th1'0tlg·hout the nation: ' : . . ., Washington;' D. C.-As Ani.erica;s

i · )usiiles·i ··it~'pfesenJcitive,' wotkirig out of the.: $alt:Lake · Cost of Living, in Large Cities armed force's . were c r a s' tt 1 ng ] , office~ rep9rts: ' . ·. . .; . :a' .. '·>' }<•,f, ;:-•· ,·;;, .• .;,(;~ ,: IT,~,, ,.,lC ~-:i; ,,.,} {9,3f~? ,·.,'. :ioo'i : "r'.'' ;:; ;' tll,J,]Plli?;P : to ,/ e,y~ v},c;,tq1;:ie~J ~;J t~l'.f.,:. - b ~r -~ ·. . · .. . . , . , ·. · . ·, . . , F't1ei' 'Hous13~ ·. ' ::.::9-, __ (J:i; ,) :,::. c;;.'.:c, :::-;:;i,:·c;::::t,::.:j.·,'.;st,oi;

. 'S_alt ·i.pk~ , qty:..::... The futiir~< 0£ Oper'dting ·,Engineers ' in' Utah' . Au- -: '·,,-c,>· - ~le"<i.' fu~·nish:~'Misc~l- the nation!s soldiers of produc,tton is :very-bright: ij~vf :constructi'Qr\ is due in .the· irµrrtegiate future . D,~te : -~terns Food ·. Clothing . Rent & Ice ings laneous were given a first-hand picture of · .. Co'untry Club Villa is a '·$5;500,000 :apartment house prsi.ject 19·39 : Aug·. 15···· ·· ,9$.G ~~{ 100·3 l04.3 9.7·5 ' 100·6 109·4 the ·milifar,y sit uation by Under .

. _an" d .h·. as been ·oe·f1·n· 1'tely ,· oke' ~,ed·_ ''end · ·w· .1·11. st_a:rt immed_ iatel_y·. . 'iil!l: .Jan. lL .. .' ,lO!).S lO!L7 105·0 ·· 1°0·8 lOO.l :i.o1..9 · , "" 194.2: l\fay 15 .... ,. 116.0 121.6 126.2 109.9 104..9 122.2 110;9 Se~retary of War . Robert P. Pat .. · ' " Work s'oon to 'be r esumed •on the Deer Creek Aqueduct to . , Aug·. 15:.. ... :117 .5 126.1 120;2 108.0 106.2 123.0 ni.1 . terson.

Bri'ng -~;t~r) o Salt' 'Lake City and , surrounding comm1.1.riity J19!3: July :j.5 ...... 12q.8 139.0 128:6 108.0 1~7.7 · 125.4. __ )15.~ shortly. Several million aollo:rs wj ll_be spent on thi::fjob ... ·· · _ · Aug. :i.5 ...... 123·2 ' i 37,2 128·9 168·0 107·8 ' 125·5 - 116·2 ·At a two-day, conference in the

Peµtagpn Building, Secretar·y Pat7 Gibbons and Ree<tl; '2ls't South job is ·almostflnished, . This

CQmpa~-iy is 'stiil. workirig at Toof le ond St. Johns cind going W~rk ,sh,wing baa+, ;ple.ntiful in olor:ig nicely. Th~y _are calling for men to go to Nevada. S · A ~Al "H

· t~rson, G~neral George C. Mar• shall, ·Chief of Staff, and othet• )1.igh-ranking Army leaders con: -veyed to labor and industry IJ.ead­ers a confidential report ,on the progr~ss of the war and the major equipment needs that fice t he

· Kel~ogg jpb, Ut~h Oil , going _ (!H!'f(lffle&'h·()·;;;mi:,rySVine,.lCflreOJ ". okey. Thirty-fiv~ Brothers · on this Housing Units ap.d going . along

job,

· Ma1;,k B. Garff, Power Hou~e, Utah Oil plant, 100 per · c~nt ·union. Chicago Bridge Company, Utah Oil jbp nearing completion. . Saint

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·Marl~s Hospital job progressing okey. ·

o!_,;.ey. The Re~mold Construction job at

Ironton required some adjustment b~t are now going along allright. Their Eurek;:i. job has three Broth­ers workin~, everythiog is satis­factory.

Frank Lawrrµce, Business Representatiye W(lrking ,out of the Sacramento office -;_.eports:

Sacramento-After a coupl~- of very busy mo1~ths things hav~ slowed down somewhat although there is still 'much wort going on in this area.

company is now getting reap.y to do the road work with Brother C. W. Stevens ·in charge.

At the Hemstreet & Bell Shop some trouble was adjusted by or­ganizing all mechanics. Form_ No. 10 has been prepared to try _to ob­tain an increase in rates for these

armed forces. . ~ -...._ __ _

,The Army leaders emphasized that labor ·and industry a-re ;,the Army'·s partners on the prod~ction front."

· . j _ R. -Daum Hqusing Project just commenced. Engineers are being

'cle~red to the project. -_Salt Lake

W. W. Clyde was successful bid-der for the Schofield Dam. Eleven At Rio Vista inost of the "cats" mechanics. AFL President William Green

* * * and the heads o_f m any AFL inter- · ~ of our Brothers on the job at 'pres- have been faid off.' Thre~ million \!i!ll I I cnoant1f· oenr·eanl ctemiao

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1Jt1·hee~ Airport No. l, Floyd J. Whiting ent and more being put to work

has a contract -and expects to em- dail;( -Mr. Clyde is directing . the pioy a large number of Cat Skin-· bpnding o_f !his project. in person i 1ers. ·. . and we wish to thank him for tile ·. Deal Mendenhall hfl,s excavating splendid cooperation he •has given

-~nd- paving work ,at Tooele Prisoi-i -the Operating Erigineers on 'his Camp.; ; Going . -alo~g okey. J. R,

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recent constructic,;i work. Barnes and . Company at Tooel~ .At Helper, Utah, t~ey let a large Housing finishing up. Moss and •Government Trailor -Court. It is

• :tyiurp.ock still working at St. Johns. being established and 125 Unit s\<ull ·Valley Road · job, o. · A. Housing project will s?on b_e· tinder Thm;ne, going along ;100 per cent1 way. union. . · · ·. At Price, Uta:b, The · Building ' Fo.rd J. Twaiti;; run-wa.y ·pav.ing ·Cqnstruction Trades Council main-

job, Dug~v_ay, . ~bout fihi~hed. 'Phls ti;tjn . a~ office which o_ur Brothers

yards of dirt _moved in 7 weeks, ·wwa. lfflt">t& ! , .u#llr~6.! which is fast moving, The job is · · ~~'G" VIV!~ u..zi still going, . however, with a 3~~day ' fair-mers 'an@Jinst '·s-entatives and business spokesmen. ' ' extension for the draglines, , .

9 • ':I! "As our troops begin larg e-SCflle ·1·

' The McGillivray Co~stru; ti6n anti~l.abor talk' operations on the contin~·Rt -'·'* ---~ . Company has · practically· fini§hed · · - · · · Europe, we are · calling together

Wa!,hingtm1, n. C.-Viee Pr·esi- tp.e representatjves of those on its worl,{ on the \7V-i11ters-D.~vis Ail'.- . ·

,de_n~ !"Iemy A_ . Vl~llace warns farm- whom we depend for -t_ he inst,·ru- • port. A few machines ·· are · still ers against incessant a1id unjusti- men ts of war so - that they m~y .

working there, .do,ing finishi!].g_ . The fied criticism of labor in an inter- know precisely the military job. Hot · Plant · is s_till going as their ·

· · · ·- · · · · view published ·by "Spade," na- that_ lies ahead," Mr. Pattei:son road job from Vacaville t6 Winters

qonal farm ,pub,lication. I-Ie said: said . is expected to last another .two

"I have notjced thi;tt in the last "A confere_ nee of this tyo.e.,_.1·1~--..:.: weeks. . _ -~ 20 years far·m income and labor which our military General Staff :J.,~rfi,!)n & Harms have a few income go up and down together. t t · t · f -m9re werks of work on their lev!c\e · repor s 0 - a cros$-Sec 10n o our

. , I have noti~ed .that anylhing that industrial General Staff on th~ j9b neat" vy9op.Jand with . the ,possi- . cuts labor's income cuts the in­

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The n~~t IvI~ethigs of Local No. 3, in Utah, will be a~ .foHow~:

1-Salt Lake City J:,ATU!1D~ Y, '.No;veinber :1 L 1943, 8:00 _P. l'{I. - Lqbpr Tempi~. :Provo, Utah --, .,. · ·· · · . .

b.ility of ·1l;nother mile to do at war situation, the strategy we are come of all farmers, except those countin

00- on for victory and the ~nother location. . .

on the export market. I have ·also probable cost in ·men and mater1·a1, ·. Freperickson & Watson and Cas-noticed that all agricultural legis- · t f th d ·son & Ball are still trying to finish is par· o · · e way emocracy _ -~·.,r. lation has been dependent upon r· ht · w f'd ,.. - - ' th·e Fail'fie-ldcSuisun· Airport. ·1g ·s a war. e are con 1 en,

Chittenden & Chittenden- are the votes of . congressmen re pre- that the results . will be of th? ut• ,. dping ~ome i'ailrciad work from senting labor constituencies. most benefit to the effective pi:ose-:,,--. __ ,~

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,;.., '' -· ) . ; SUNPiff; No:yember H, 1943, 10 A. Iyl.-35 North 3rd Vlest . . Ogclelf, Utah · , · · 'ffUbAY, . Nov.emb~r ~~, 1943, 8:00 P. _.M. _: isI-25tJt Stree.t. -Visiting Brother-s _cprdially invited.

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"The point I am making is that cutiori of the war." · ' Cisco to Emigrant Gap . . · · · if agriculture, by incessant criti- After· P_ attersoi1 stated t·he con-Hel'nsti·e¢t .& Bell are working

. c'ism · of labor, finally succeed_s in ference's aims, General Marshall on a small· railroad widening job . . furn1·shes· em- turning labor . into an enemy there outlined the_ stat,1s of military at Marysville which ' -.._

Of may be a very -difficult sftuation operations in all combat zones._ 0

i~ ployment for some 9ur mem-compa11y has- secured additioni;tl in t;hat part of the state can secur~ . for agriculture se.yeral years hence },1aJ'or General George v. Strong~ · bers. contra~ts for this· ~place. Vic New- information a,::i.d clearences to McClellan Field is so'inewhat when markets ·are not as good as Chief of the Military Intelligen~e man is the sub-contrfl,ctor on this various· jobs in Carbon County. they are now. Service, ga_ ve a con_ fidential ap-quieter now in so much as con- - --.,, jo_b: Ryberg-Strong a:nd Grant ~r:e ·struction is' con·cerned as most of "I have never heard an impoi;- praisal of the military . and ·eco-. " Morrison-K. nudson have finished. bt._1_ilcling· a_ 3§0 adclitio_ n to the_ 400. · · · d · tant 'labor· leader criticize agricul- n. omic strength of the Axis. · the. comparnes ·have fm1she their

R. R : Ballast job at Stockton. They 110rri~s that they have just C(!m- work and have . movecl out. J. R. ture. I ~a_v: . heard, many farm

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°From Lieut. Gen. Joseph T : Mc-, still have ditching and shouldering pleted a-t qregerton, Utah. The Reev.es is still ; doing some· street leaders cnticize labor. . · Namey, Deputy Chief · of Staff,

J'ob at Tooele. Their 'Ra_ il.roa. d aob. Link Belt Con1pany have, co .. m- k h' h k f · "Farmers, if · ·only from the ' the . conference heard an explan• , · wor w 1c .. ee:ns a ·ew engmeers in Salt Lake · City; is just started pleted tenplet at Sui:n:v.stde, Uta•h, on the job · aJ!d Moore {k. . Ro]:lerts standP0 int of th..eir own helf inter- ation of United ' 'Na lions strategy, a nd •· ordering ·m, en to the J'ob in· and hav,_ e la_ id 'off the crew. 'I t'll k' th , est, muSt be concerned about labor. the time and equipment requireL ar.e $ 1 ·wor ·1µg . ere. .· . , · - -~ Fa .. ris, Idaho,-: to w_hich. _· we· se_nt ·m. en ·T-lie •Utah Fu-, ·Company ar··e sti'll c t c · d · Labor makes the farmer s market. to prepare an operation and the ""'- - arpen . er o:qipapy IS . OJ}1g a Farm · · - · ' , • . recently. This company , still has: ,;vorldng at ·Surinyside; Utah; T·he · srp:all jqb at the Sacramento Jm1ior leg1slat10_n .depends upon relative part which air and ground some men working· in Wy9ir1ing, Henry J. Kaiser · hiwe -almost ·-fin--' Cqllege. labor as well ·-as · farm votes. forces 'have to play. Eye-witness filled . :from ·Salt . Lake_ office. A:lsa- ish~d . up their work at Sunnysid:e. -:r,ii·k!Jr and F_ I 9-nrahan !clj.[:h hav.e "TM important thing : is that- accounts were presented of bomb·

. . both :of tliese great ·groups work . 'd . 'G ' . . r 'b the1~ Well:, ··Ne.v~da ~op is prq~-- 9.rap.ing at ifaiwat-h~ is fl.bout ;co111- a ,few 1:tgs W?rting-, at c ~mr>-:I3eale. . mg ra1 s over ermany, amp 11 •

resslllg. ·~at1sfactor1ly · All of the1·e · 1 d d together for their mu-_tuai welfar:e ious 'landings in Sicily ·and the set,. ·. · · ·· · ~ · ·. - ' ' · · · .- · · . ' plete· and Enoch 'Smith & Sons ar.e The Rice M_il at Wo9 lan k . . . , · f . . and in so 'doing ·they will serve the ' ting· up of ovei_·seas b_·ases. w.011. lS ·gomg -a~ong umpn as ' ar mof ing:·ovei.'' to ' Waftis ' oii"aiiotfier' '_Wniclf rs·-beingJ;oristr\.(ctea. by : the

as ·, -th~ -engineers :is_ concerned. . :ho~sing project. . . Dihwidclie _. 0:bnstructioh _<::ompany welfare of the whole nation." 'Ai,iny Service Forces and . ·Ai!!

, '-The ··tl'tah . Construction ·have . fin- The "much -'talked -about Marys- i~ \rirt~a11? ~?IYJ?leted. . - *, * * _Forces geherals highlighted the isn~d at -' Jtiab JJUhctiO!J 'ang trrio:ve'd vale Aluminum Plant has failed to Two shifts _will soon be . put on predges still in n~,d degree' to which military plans· t!i.. . . . . ' . ' . '- 1- . ' th J d H ttl t t · · b t f f rriust "·be limited ' by ,prodi:tction · .·· ·e_n···-~qu,_pment m_ ·i 'they ·have. a so dev,elop so''far. ' Ufah Coi:fatructiort+ e:_ one~ an . . .. _e . es _ e ter JO .a Q· m ,e _._n, •. ; .O __ s_t, ~-r_, sa.~. s

' ' · · L d' T · · h ,,. schedules ' and ·the maimer · Tn: ~o:ved·'t,ljeir · eqU:ipn: ent, ffom Du- ~ork "for ·the . Cfolorado ,··Fuel-· ·arid Kmghts . an 1pg" h!s 1s t e con- j~ck F,ost\l-!'• f}t~siy.e~~ R~pre-·che.sne Ti.mnel tothe•sh0ps at ·@ar.- · I · t.· c · d c· ·t .;,, :, :,·: .... : , 'Struction of a Rice· Mill also. · . - ·· which battle ' e'xperience forces · ' - · · ·· . · · - · ron a . e ar 1 Y, progressmg · ·· se!l~atiyf\ · 'Y!>f1•~-i:ig out of the alt·er·a·tions· I'n de'sign ·a·nd ~e·q·uir·e- · field · where they axe· ·having' 'large · · · ' \Vork is,· s_till gain .. _ g on __ . on Teich- 1 · · • ·

. __ >, · . . _· ·. . -. , • .. . ·, . . nicely. Fourteen Brotners . are San ·F!'!!JlCis_co _.Off~c~ .-r_\lP!lrts: ni .ent·s fo'r specific weapons_. -c-rews1:--overhaul ---and ·,repair ·· their .· ' k' th· ·t . . .. . . . ert's Levee -job at Col us.a. Th 1 1 .. . . . . . . : . •.· :wor mg is op.en p1 ll'Op mme. Lor·d ' . & _. )3·1·shop· ·. ·a· re also . st1·11 . . 'e c,i:ec t'~~ conclitiqns . 1!f~ Lieut. . Gen. Wi11iam S. Knudsen, eqmpment;.· preparatq;y · to· gomg , . · · . . .,..,,,._, , . b t th th ·

&.- :--~n'" fo ·~· large: job··which'.,wi'll start . ~he l\'I1llforcl -~ousmg proJect_ IS .wo'rkinit at Colusa unloadiilg cars, a pu . . e sam~ : . . . e companies , .{\riny Dir.ector of Producti'on, i'e• II"" . iri' t!he·"near -future. . . gomg along allnght for the En- The Roell:; Sand and Grava! Plants arr ~~ort p~fi-~, _and qmld µse . a 'ported .· on w·hat our ·equipment· is

, \ Cpriners; and•;·MendhaH have ··ah gineers. Moss and J4urdock doing continue .about the same. n~m ~r o ... Jt~ _.hanps. ~:1d Leve~--- doing in the ·freld, based·:on his 6b· $80;000 dob in ' WE:?dover, which· is the excavating and pouring of· the Teichert has finished at both ;;n m t~e Ba~ at~d Riv~ , _area\ servations during his ~ecent 30,000·

t t. t k F con'cre, te. l\'f~ather F1'eld and . Mun1·c1·pal A1'r- e _ p~y is _goo ' _1e wor is no mile trip to the South Pacific 'With S· ar -mg o· wor ;. · ord J. ir.waits . t h d ·1r also has a --·pa:ving job just -starting, Also in Southern Utah, Cliff port and nearly all of the members oo . ar ... anyone_ w1 mg to try Under ·secretary Patterson. The . ----... at' Wendover. iPriµce has three small Bridge jobs: who were working on those jobs ci;t,n make goof:l · · : and· there is I job . still to ,be, done on 'the home

._r.<µ1,1,11th ·has a gr-.avel plant· set This firm is also on the unfair list h t T I N a alway~ an oppqrtumty- to advap.ce front was discussed by C. E. Wil-~,. .., ave ·o onopa 1, , eva a. to tlie Top job., . ·UP ··fl.t Wendover and is starting to and· a ll Brother Engineers are Lord & Bishop hav.e two rigs son, executive vice-chairman of the

The comparjies and the Union W p d · B d ·· get ·out a!:!:grat_e tor r_oad and faun- warurd to stay away from these workin_ g driving p_1_·1es. One at ar ro uct1011 oar .

~ . will appreciate your calling at any dation work. ·This firm has just jobs. Dixon on a bridge job and the .of the Union offices to obtain com- , , • . , •. * * * moved into· our territory from The. Geneva - Steel Plant being other at Courtland wl~ere they are Wcsrmnt"!I on tax -- plete information concerning this ~ Wyoming. and has-been using Local built , at Geneva, is progressing making a weir. When you· change an em_ployer; ., type_ of work. If :YOU are interested, . No. ·3, Engineers exclusively for a splendidly as far as Operating En- The Clements Company have a or' if your famil y status is chariged~ or know any friends vvho might be , long pe.rfod of time. gineers ,.:-are · concerned. We have few rigs working on a road job notify the employer at · once · of interested, plE!ase pas·s the worc;l

Mullins and ·wheeler Company enjoyed good cooperation from the at Arbuckle. Work on the Chico your exemp.tions.' under the new along, . are working at Tooele and Orem,· various contractors and their su- Airport . is ~ practically · completed. Withholdin!:!: Tax program. , Jobs are open at Corcoran, Cali- ~ Utah. All Ur.ion Engineers. , perintendents and equipment dis- The Nicholaus, Bridge job is still fornia, Sacramento; Hunters Point, . T,his ·warning last we~k poinf ed ·

·Hebe Glenn ancl Jim Sumptions patch'ers. This is ·1argely clue to going with A. Soda & Son ba~k on Tul~r'e Lake and other part; of the . out "that all e~plpyers 3:re required jobs are on the unfair list and all the influence of the Ufah-Pomeroy the job. George French's work on Bay Region. by ' law to ·hol? ·back a full 20 'per 'of ou1;· Brothers .a;~ .:w:;irned to st_ay and Morrison··· comp.any, who -were the Vina Airport. keeps· a · few· of - * * * cent of · all wa~es, unless the ex:--aw.;iy from •their: w.orf ·Th¢ir 1~ain the· f~rst to , sign with the Unions. .our members busy. Mai:k T\~ain d~cl~recl that an emeptions are 'claimed. joq at this time _is. pa-ving Provq We also greatly appr~ciate the On the Lawrence Construction Irish~;_n's ' stomach is line'cl . witll " ~* *-: : * r.

1· Cah¥OP. r.011,d. s~lengid : ~o~perl}tion _E;Xtenpgd to Corripan_y HousiD:g Proj~c_t at Val- cdiper" a11,i{ heer'_'-~,QrrQ.\Ies ' it, 'qµt . ~}v~ry Jlll!:U takiis fb.e pi:ni,ts_.,of' L'!\ :• . f{he.~Ley: ; Er?t11~f~;::.. ,.~~-r doin~: Qpetjitfn_~ ~ngirieers_'by Dispatcher- lejo.' s~131e . trouol: .'\ e'gar'ding ' 'the I ~~?~L,P..?-~~h~\_ lhe . copp!)r, an~} !i~:.o\~n' !W~ !>! Y{~i?~.J-<Jr tl1_f lµ1iits. . ;.'.i tnost of the ,exc~v1;1t!ng·. pf .Provo ·,(p ontrnued ··on ·Page '8) .. ·· ·trencher was · ·adJusted and . tha.>t ii, the ·savmg of Jinn. _ , Qf the wor}d,~SCHOPE~-g1q.~'l> -,.,,, j.j{ /. .. ~ U.! . ~

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-ENGJ:NEERS6: ,NEVJS ' Foi:·merly Monthly News Letter

published each month by

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Northern California1 Northern Nevada State of Utah

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· ·- T1laeJ\llnction of Labor in the War ·, ' ' ,.::·>, - '' - ' ld~---By AJ~flDREW: J. BIEMILLER i Sp:c:fo:Jl. ~s:sist~nt to .the Vice Chairman, La~~r Pr~duction 1 -, Office,,, WlPB- . . . . ,

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. . W'lh\ell.'i. anyone asks, "What I Ameri_can F_ederation of Labor, the

ha9 : l:ibor done in this war?" Congress of Industrial · Organiza­

_}, · he deserves to get a · qµick, a tions, _the United _ States Chamber

' dear .:· cmd a concise answer: of Commerce and .. the National

\ labor's • ccn tribu tiori has been L. _:pr.oba.bly the most signifi~ant 1 and fhe rnostconstructive made f . by cmy group in this country.

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believes it · can and must fill · in

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T _:.the job of production-and they PAPERS IS NEEDED rJ l~a_ ve ' done that job remarkably (- Among the contributions which ~.c,-"WclJ, _ _J'hey have operated the ma-

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. , :October '15, 1943

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Editor,-The Hat Worker (For the ALPA)

Greasers, Sheenies, Dagoes, I Wops,-just a bunch of foreign­ers and how can any iorth­right superman like Westproo'k Pegler, a member of the Her­renvolk, who had the foresight to be whelped on the pure and unsullied soil of i::r Chicago gutter consider these · people as real Americans?

They may have run away from intolerance and oppres­sion, they may have risked

' th~ir lives to ·uphold .. freedorrr and democracy, their sons and their daughters may-right now be ' facing- deqth ,on the high sec(s j::md on the battle . fronts

' . for the pr:eservation .of, ,,Amer­ican -id,eals of' liberty and hu­man: dignity: but '· in .· the-' eyes of Professor.0 Pegler· they: ,aie · a lesser caste of men. . j

He does not approve of their forebears, • he .noes not ap.:i

' ' prove: of-riaturalized:A:mericans1

dhemse-Ives ,; and . he does not :• approve ·ev'eri of 'their children;:

_, .··born in Americct', but holding: y':'S'-_'"'.'.,o::-::o,,...·c8:-;l/''"'.'." _____________ ___.'.·-··''--D,-,,-'!n_fc_or~O-f-fic_e_o_f_Wil_r_ln-fo-,m.--a_h_.oit,, _to stronge,.- helief that' 'aI! men:

are ' born· free arid "equaf arid are· endowed by ;their -Creator~ with certain inalieriahle rights, ' among them the right to as- · sociate with their fellow men . in labor organizations and to

The President · Speaks By FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT President of the D'nited States of America

No_te: Lab.or Day is past but the President's Message s~emed im!?orta_nt enou~h to .print even though laJe. · . chineS 't:r.at chariged raw materials labor can make in these days of

struggle, the stimulating voice and Fifty-six years ago .Labor Day was observed for the first into th€ w ols of war, and they . . . . . .

vote for men and policies o.f their own liking. · The guttersnipe from Chicago does not approve.

have made the machines that influence of the labor press stand time in the United States. Since then we have fought one World

tr;:tq.sport those tools. of war, and the m1.m to use them ,to the fight-

high. Union papers, published by War to victory and now are engaged in another and even and for union men and women, greater conflict upon the result of which depends the future of can.arouse and maintain the work- freedom-loving people the world over.

ing fron ts. American labor, work-ing whh its hands, has been using its head, too. So far in this war, nearly ?;';,(l,000 ideas and sugges-

ers' awareness of the unremitting and everincreasing need for pro­duction-for more and more pro­duction until the final great day of

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·tions .'J'or improving and speeding the Axis' unconditional surrender. up p:rod'uction have come from the It seems only fair to add thalt the wo rk e rs themselves, expressed labor press has long been doing a through tneir labor organizations fine job in that direction,

,,r.r and thro· gh labor-1nanage1nent · But the ·labor press and the or­comm:ltte,,s; and if the labor-man- ganizations for which it speaks

With that priceless heritag'e at stake we are determined that this World W cir, too, shall result in victory so that life, liberty and _the p1.1 r,suit of happiness shall me the lot of man when he wills it and ·that he .be not the downtrodden serf of brutal Axis rrias'fers. Thaf determination is shared by all Americans:. by management and by farmers.

It is altogether fitting that . these gioups of free Americans are working today, many laboring on round-the-clock shifts, that our fighting men on land, on sea and in the air may have the weapons with whii:::h to bring about a victory as speedily

agement movement continues to must be even more .zealous in order as possible. · spreacl, H:e workers _ may come that our country may be able to - To make time and thus save lives and suffering, our Amer~ t_)1i;ough "'Vith 750,000 more. _ meet the increasing . demand_s for· icon workers, employers and farmers will need not only to

munitions, material and equipment . ORGA\IJJIZ,E:D LABOR maintain their production pace but to increase it. Their recorc! which the quickening tempo and · pESlifJEVE:S THE CREDIT the .expanding scope of _the fight to date ho;s been magnificent and in keeping with the true

Almost as impressive as the pro-1

against our enemies make more Amer-ican spirit of all-out effort for those fighting so valiantly duction records that have been vital every day, and so successfully in all parts of the world.

_ made since the war's ou tbreak are These demands are not being That increased production elfort 1Nill b~ forthcoming . !t _will the ·Li::;arnwor k, the cooperation, met as fu lly as they could be. Our be given gladly for love of country s_nd ror liberty, as 1t has which hc,s oeen developed between production is great, but not as been given since Pearl Harbor, to set up a record that never labor, rnsmagement and the gov- great as we could make it; our 1· has been equaled. We well may be proud of that achievement ernme:nt, and which has resulted output is · high, but not as high as , for it has done much to make possible the successes o,f the in a s_pei:'d and efficiency of out- our engineering plants, equipment · arm_ed forces of the United, Nations. Its continuation will spell put never before dreamed of, even and genius should make possible; the defeat of our enemies-the preservation -of our way of life. in · this cJc.mtry where efficiency we have been working hard, but and speed have long been glorified. not as hard as we can.

Organized labor deserves major THIS 'WAR IS STILL credit f.or t he accomplishments

TO BE WON achieved by American workers in the war production :program. The If all it takes to beat Hitler and reci;rrds show that contractual r ela- the Japs is cockiness, we've got

. tionsh:ipg between labor and man- them whipped today. ·But if it ageme:nt ex ist in plants employing takes work and sweat and near- 1 apout 8_5-S-b of the total number of exhaustion, day after day . and

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war wor:t"rS. In other .. words, most month after month, behind the war production workers are em- machines as well as behind the ployed :in plants where the union guns; where do we ·stand? .

HOW HIGH ARE .TAXES 1 .

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For the record, therefore, we hereby present two exhibits. They are · w r i t i n g s. which appeared a hundred years apart in these free and tolerant United States:

Exhibit A · reads as follows.; ­"Now this · fol~'alTed par'ty is

not American ·but European. That must be · emphasized. Much of its membership is European by birth and subject to the European huddling or herd political instinct (it's dif­ferent in the Solid South), and rr,any of its bosses are Euro­pean who bring to their un- . ions and their political careers , in this country the philosophies and methods of the · Old World ... "

You guessed it. . Exhibit A is straight from the ulcerated typewriter of Westbrook Peg­ler.

Take another dose of it. . Here is more of Exhibit A: : "They bring to American union · affairs and policies also cun- : ning deviou-sness which has · never been more shockingly; expressed than in this prooosal of Hillman (about the Amer- · ican Labor Party), a man ·who . nevertheless has enjoyed the favor of the New Deal . .- ', "

And here. is Exhibit B: "The foreigner is inured to

monarchical gov er nrrients . W om by oppression and toii, he brought along all his for- . eign habits, prejudices and predilections. There is a rapid · and .:management have establishe_d American labor has always in­

agree:mt::n's controlling w ages, sisted that free men could out­_hours .a:nd conditions of work. produce slave workers. _ Our record

· So :mudi for the work in the up to now proves· that American - , plantB. But it lies in labor's power production can-and will.:_defeat

' to -ach':i.ev;e still greater results, and the Axis. Our record in the future to reuch this goal, still more com- can-and· must-be -even g1~eater,

. plete :iabor - management - govern- American workers can no more ment cooperation will be necessary. afford to relax their efforts now.

,For a lo:r:g time·, labor has heen than can American soldiers. , asking for a greater opportunity Organized labor has helped tre-

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/ and extraordinary increase of : the foreign population which ere long will expose the inshtu- · tions of the country to serious danger. Led by artful dema- ' gogues, foreigners might eventually be -used as the in­struments of the overthrow of this now· happy ' and~ envied

to participate in the policy making mendously to make the reco'rd as and :in the administration of the good as it . \s·. It must now help war program. Labor has believed even more; it must cope with and that,. the practical experience of defeat the many . problems that labor leaders fitted ·them to fill face it~bad living conditions, in-. piaces of as much responsibility adequate facilities, poor transI:!or-

, in the- ·war program· as those held tation; it must. join with manage­-by :·inclust:rial leaders, ment _in findi11g ways to shor_t-cii_t

Tpda:y, with the establishment the production road to victo'ry; it by ~Donald M. Nelson of the Wai· must join- with government in sur­_pr,Q(]uct'lon . Board, of a · M~nage- :mounting home-frorit probie_ms.

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··· __ ;rn$_nt-Labor Council of eight men, Labor, the nation believes, .is equal f1 '·· .,,.- ·,.: ·. ~- , · ,. , , . ·~~ _r _ .,. • • •• _- ·

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They are up - And they pay

republic." · This bit of prophecy 'an_d:

diatribe w·as presented to Con­gress in the year f838, more·: thar:i a hundred years ago, by) a party known as the Native. Americans which later became : the Kri6w~N6things. , . '

, ,but up Jess .. than totaLir.comes. ·• .. 01-1Jv:a small part of our war .costs . , , .· . . . . ,,

The immigrants a g a in s t • whom the Know-Nothin,gs ' di­rected ,' their .,. veriom , .were ' Jhe ' Irish . CathoHcs. · In '.'t}~{e; the

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Brothers Al Clem, Ed Doran,

and Joe ·Walthe~·s, working· out IIN ·THE GOOD- o:·· (L, 'n,--: ··DAY s. of Oakland office, report: . · -Brother Justin F. Schatto-en, . . .

Piazza and Huntley are finishing . their pa_ving job between Martinez

and Pinole. Brother Jack is still on the Hot Plant in Concord. "

b We have heard considerable d1scuss10n among our ·very good, The rate of pay was 62½c per hour. The member of Local 3 has received -

, -H. C. Ruthe!'ford Col)'lpany a; ~ busy on their .excavating_ .job jor

· , members,_ :w-ho are -employed in the :shipyards, about · men were required to work on the cranes and whe_n his Selective Service , invitation to

· · " ·, the s·cale of wages they are · now receiving, and It there was no work to be done on the oranes tliey join the other boys.

Funeral services were held in the East for Brothe_r·. John Orlando Solem, Locai. 3 member who passed away September 18. Brother Solem was employed- by Donahue Steel Compahy in East Oaklan1, ·

Several of. om· members have 'g~ne to Tonopah, Nevada during : t he past month. ,, - '

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is otfr opinion that they have a just _complaint, but were to work on the floor. A great difference in the Housing Project . in Rodeo. Approximately 12 members are on the job at the present time.

owing to various Government directives. and Pro- what we have at this _time, we would say! ciamatiohs that at this time uiere seems to be a very In 1935, through the ui1tiring efforts of the In­re~ote pos,sibility of changing same, we would . like ternational Uniqn of Operating Engineers, and some to t;ke· them: back to the turn of the Century and . of the old timers in our organization, the Interna; try: -~nd giv~ them_ a ,picture of what the Engineers tional Union of Operating Engineers were success- We are glad to r eport that

· · · · Brother- Fred Tuttle is now n·onie have worl_{ed for · throµgh the years. fi.il, in getting an agreement with Moore Dry Dock

from the hospital and is making At the time the . Moore . Dry' bock Com_pa!ly bmlt Company and raised the wages to 72c per hour:, a speedy recovery.

· · Working conditions were now -also cons_ iderably a Shipyard on th~ Estuary_ in Oakland, located at

better. the_ foot of Adeline Street, in 1908 there were ap- · Brother 1:I· E. Bryar:it, member

·_ proximately four' engineers employed in the yard. Your Union was ag~in successful in getting a employed in Yard IV, who _ was re-. St f Le . raise for the Brothers employed by . Moore Dry Dock cently· confined in the . h~_'spital is 1

-: En.,o-_ineers- over the _ top again! The only equipment used at that time was i f g C . D · k d th · t f th · · d ompany, this time to $l.OO per hour. n~w abl_e .to b._e_ home, · an(d_ is re-_. 'Th_ e -. O_perating Enginee rs ·in Ya_, rd er,nc s an e opera ors o e crane_s receive . . , h f . . f 55 h f th . 1 b Then · came World' War Number Two and · your cuperatfog· niceiy.: , _ ... "

. : III, 'Richmond,-. -purchased th_ e gran_d· t e · magni 1cent :sum o . c per our or eir .. a or. U _,. _, 0 d t d: . th·· " th ·y d t· . d 1 · nion and the . Bay City Metal Trades Council wa:s .j, ,:,. ' ·u . . _.·_ ._: _· .,.-\,·\ · i -

-':to. tal . of ;$6',7_ 70:75,: i~ :-theh' re_cent ur .un ers an m.g<is . a, · e · ar con mue 'a ong . . . . ... · . · · · · .successful in . negotiating ari agreement . with .the Brothe_ r Ge,ni;·g· e An. derso .. -11-, mem-• ' at this ·'rate until ·World _War Number O~e __ . ____ , .. ,., ,... -

: ·' War J3ond.:: di·iv~; '. '.]hi_s_:;figure does - - "Own-ers ;of:the ·Shi~building _Com·r_>any and:the vari?US _ ber , employed in , )'."a~·d :JV, Rkh.; . not--jp.clud.e 'theii.· :reg~lar payroll .. There :was ·quite a ,bcfom - irr , the , yard sifuated ·· G , · t · Th l · . · · . . , . · .. · .. :· .. · ... . ·. -. · · -.. · · · . ,: .o':;ernmen ' agencies. · e - sca _e was again -raised,.;l)'lond, is reported on the -sick list. , ,dedtic.tions> ·, · . . ,,., - on the--banks pf:th.e;J:jlstuary,in .Oakland. 'lJ1~r,e\ were . , ' a1i'd\ the;Wo'rking·corrditions gr.eatly' ·improved, where-·

The .,Engin~rs in . Ya1;d II, .Rich- several ,£:r:own._.·Hoists .erecte·d and there weqi ,ap-. ·· ·mond::,w.eri.~ ,-over: !,.the' ;tpp-·.:w,ith . a :proximately_.,150.'. op.ex:ators emplqye.d ,througho.ut.-, this ,

purchase :6L$34,()0Q:,!i'i W.ar; Bonds boom; :A, great ,por.~iO!l· of them ~!d; not ·e!].j{)¼'. .t:h~ towa1;d:t 1:i4il4fiig:;a 'Lr'ti:~i·ti, ·ship. : .· benefits ·.of. being : members· bf · .the International .

; < ·_: ·; t/- '-: ·,;:i,i,,,;_. i. -. , <it/::, :· ___ · Yr_!o~ ',9f_ Q.pe.ri>:iing; :.:13;~gine~.r;,_ ,a~ci ,t.ii~"·t .~~?i-!t! ~&t

by . we have ·t,h_e -~resen_t , ~caI~-as,.,: e_stablisjied1 the. We , .offer.· , our , sympathy to: ";-,Jiii-~imu1:1 of' jl::29: ·and ,the ; maxi_inum of'$1A8. . . .. Brother . -George- . Marler, . shovel

'• I have ,beeit'.-piforined_ by ,~ome . of thi '. old-timers operat~r on .. the. St_olte job, ~ho in- the ·y£:rd that 'they used _fo be' ·~alled:, to, ·-,w:or-k,'. has ,. 'had. ·some • m_ore 'tough luck~

' .::-New-"stewards::"oii;: .. tbe ::, ;va1,1ous .them'·received ·652 per hour. . , . ' ' . ' . '.jo'bs:' ~Th'e ·-ifol:l~\yJiig: brothers _: 'Were , . In· ·:the0:ye'ars io~lowiiig the . bo6m-- 'bf-.Wo;Id, ~ar

.- el~decf;st~;·Y.,.trdj .in ' the ,RichI11_i nd- N11nfr5ef 0rie the busin~ss: of the conip~ny;ell 'oft· ~; yards: . B.rothe,r ·· Jack' bloyd, _Yard a great :extent, cons~quently a number 'of .the .ope­I, day shift; .c13rother .. Doug. Alman, rators migrated to other .work. Still there was con-

. Yard )II, ·:aciy· shift, :'and: Brother siderable 1:epair . work don~ in the' Yard, but · the -.Jack Wo1lf; Yard III; , swing shift. k ' · · · d·t· d t'll · tl · ·. · wor mg con 1 ions an wages were s i grea y -un-

Brother L~s Wyant was elected . steward -in -~~oore :Dry · D.q,!lk · C.o,npany ·West ¥ar_d, ,g,i:aveyarc;l · shift; - .Brother Pete Vie_rra· was 1·ecently ,, appointed steward 11,t

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favorabie to the operators. '

· Around _l:~32 part of the .yard was conv_erted to a .Str,m;tural Sj'l_op: ,\;itfiuGtural Steel . was fabrica!'eil for .,b_ui)qijl,gs and . bridges. The men who . operated the cranes were organized by the Structural :s~er

. Union, however, the agre~ment they had was not

· '-'.WOUld, -~ork··anl:h?l,lr,:·or' twb : t~e~·,,be· ,seri:t:hpme. : In ;:f{-e-. just:_•l0sLa .. thumb . and . rfow .ni . :· ,flla!lY i; r~ses, .barely ,,returning ,c- home · be'fore " being. ·has: ·:· losL the .. sight . of' \ ohe · eye} ' called ·_b8:ck ~o '~he, job. - ,, ·.. ,. . ,· .... -· . .:C, ~r_othe; :l\-1;,arler was ·,removing . a .

.·. · We-·are .hap.py; to \ie ·that ~the mai:uigerii:;rit :liis' icoiiar :off . the , shaft when a·: piece. .· seen 'fit to · change these conditions and now we· have of . steel- fle;v into his_ eye. The- · the day and_· half day established -in all the yards'. · .doctors expect to be able to oper-: . _,There· are n-0w approximately 500· crane ·opera- ate in_ a c.ouple of month_s ai1d re ..

tors working in the East and West Yards at Moores. store sight. The ten different types ~f cranes in these yards range· from small air .hoists on the boats to the 60 Brother Pete Freisen, while em ..

.ton .Clyde and Washington .Whirleys. These men :are pl0yed . at.. Duncanson al).d 'Harrel.. _, all members of.the Operating _Engineers and are ,get~ son, . foot 'of 5th ::Avenue ·iJL,-Ql:lk-..---­ting the above mentioned rates according to· the . land, had the mis.fortune to fall

[ capacity of _the crane . and break his collar bone. \Ve are glad to ,repod that when he was

! . .News from the .Jobs: . Charley Harney c;ompany is:finis_hing their highway job at Orinda this week

Richmond. There are five shovels J Brother Art Davisdon, plant

on the job at the present time and engineer .on · the --A. J. Raisch

~hey anticipate moving another . Company job in Richmond, is

B1.·other Leo Spiva is now push-

I • fast in our office the· cast ha<I

been remove_@. ing . for Macco Construction Com-

I pany job at the Army Port. Quite · Brother F1·ank Erhart, member .. _. __ .., Uni?n P_avi)lg _ Com_~13,ny have ·-' . ~filffshed th~tr· i urfacing job on the

Walmit Creek·· ~oad. They now h~.v'e a small job in Danville.

Brother Elmer (Tiny) Carlton, master mechanic for McQuire and Hester, reports they are moving into their new shop. ·We hope you like it, Elmer!

doing a good ·-'.job, although he siys he'd.' rath~r -be' on a crane·!

a number of the old timers are on of Local 3, was operat\ng_ a shovel--t he job with Leo. for J. L. Martin and had the mis­

fortune to cut the tendon of his Austin · Company are still busy Brother Loren Lit.tie · is now finger. His doctor reoorts it will

take appi~oximately six ·: weeks to.~--

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. J. L. i\:Iartin Company are quit~ busy on their fill . jobs around

on their job a:i: Albers Mill. We foreman for Barrett and Hilp on have six engineers employed on their job at Camp ·Parks i'n Pleas-the job at the present fime . anton.

Gre.en .assails labor baiters a_s fascists in strong speech to American Legion

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Services held, for Vandeleur , sees action-and

plenty in N aYy Omaha, Neb.-In a spirited ad- lynching all of labor's rights. Such Green urged close co_-op~ration Funeral services for Edward D.

San Bernardino - Jack Green, dress before the American Legion an attitude is un-America,1. It is, between the American Legion and v a 1 t w t c t l former member of Local 364, an e eur, ve eran es oas a--conv.eotion, AFL President Wil- in fact, typically Fascist. There is .the American Federation ·of Labor liam Green assailed labor baiter.s no place for it in our free country. for the attainment of two major as F ascists and warned _the -legion "Organized labor ·in America has postwar objectives. T he s e , he t o beware -advances from powerful voluntarily surrendered the. ex.er - stated, are the establishment of groups who wish to use the veter- cise of its right to strike for the permanent world peace and the ans' organization •for "special and duration in order · to help win the initiation of a peacetime produc­selfish economic interests." war: Our 'no-strike' pledge to the tion program which will provide

United Association of Plumbers and Steam Fitters of the United States and Canada (AFL), has been in t he Navy a lit tle more than six months, but in that short space of time he's been places and done things. ·

bor figure and secretary-treasurer-

of the Califor_nia Sta te Federation. __ ~_

of Labor who died October 6, at his home, were held last · Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at the N,.

Gr ay & Co. chapel at Divisadero · Without puHing his punches, . president has been religiously kept jobs for d~mobilized soldiers and Green, 19, a fireman, first class, and Post Streets.

Green charged tha t r epresentatives by 99 and nine-tenths of the mem- the millions of. war workers. recently visi t ed his local here and M v d 1 h 57 of the American Legion have at bers of the American Federatio•:i He added: 1 r. an e eur, w O was , was

related some of his experiences born in Napa County. He came to times "been · guilty of rash and un- of Labor. "American workers who are eli- 'since J'oining t he Navy. During

San Francisco in 1915 and went to reasco able statements" concerning "'vVe know that in order to keep gible to ·membership in the Ameri- thai- ti·me he sa·,·d 11e had trav·elled • work for the Market Street Rail-

labor. America fre.e and to preser ve the can Legion have shown , and 49,000 nautical miles and had par-. way as · a platform- man _afid later· · ','Our -- workers hav.e done just as right to strike agai:nst injustice grasped an understanding of the 1 ticipated in three maj_or batt es. transferred to the Municipal line.

good a job as _ our soldiers," Green for all time, we: must keep· _on potential benefits ,of .. unity .and co- Fireman Green .was wounded declared, "yet instead of praise and working without inte,rr.~1~ti~n until operation .. between . t~ American during the invasion of Sicily. He a pat on the back, they haye been final . v:i_cJory is won. ,Ever si:nce the Federat_ion of Labor_ and American _said he was stationed aboard a de-.taking a ter~ibJe b.e'at:irig in the war starte,d tl:ie e!forts ··o·f the· na- Legion. T-h~s is eyidenc.ed by the strayer when the invasioii was P,:~ss, on the radio and· in the pub- I tional and local officers of Ameri- fact that 82 Union Labor Ameri- launched and at the "zero h0tir"

He was_ e1,ctive in -organizing · the . Municipal. Street -Carmen's Unio_n,­Division 51Jl, and _ served seven yearly terms as president up ·to 1936.

lie forums of our country. can Federation of Labor unions can · Legion Posts have been 'formed. they climbed into landing barges ., · · · 82 In 1933. he wa~ chosen president "Speaking for more _than six mil- hav.e been concentrated on pre- All . the members of these posts and headed for the shore. Their

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lion hard-working and · thoroughly venting strikes by any . and all are also· members o.f'. the American objective was the docks and of the San Francisco Labor Coun-, f h A. · - · · t cil and served for years. patriotic members o t e menc_an pqssiqle mean~. Federation of Labor. bea~hes and they were met with

· · h As president of the State Feder .. Federcition of Labor, I can truth- "I '!!ave spoI:cen to you t us · "I am sure I will in no way be a hail of machine gun bullets · - ation of. Labor .he served : during fully say that they bitterly resEnt -frankly b.ecause I .feel there is misunderstood if I suggest ·that when they reached the shore. ·

· · · · 1935 and 19.36. When Paul . Schar .. _ the - slurs an·d denunciatim:is that some danger -of organizations liKe a.dditional· Union Labor Legion -"The job took us a little ti;tne, have been h_eap.ed upon the organ- the American _-Legion being used Posts be chartered whenever and but whe1} we were through we had ized workers of Ameri_ca by people by powerful .gi;oups to ·advance wherever · such posts can be wiped out most of the machine gun vvho ought to know better. Even special and.·seifish economic inter- formed.- Those members of the nests and the remainder cif the spokesmen for the American Le- ests. I trust that the American American Federation. of Labor who enemy were our prisoners," Green

renburg, federation secretary, -re- , signed in April, 1937, Mr. Van-< deleur was made executive secre-, tary and held the position to thet time of his death.

gion have at times be.en guilty of I Legion will reject any such ad- become members .o~ these Union said. • , · He is survived by his widow., rash and unreasonable statements. vances ~10 matter how attractively Labor Legion · F'osts · are inspired It was during this battle that he· - - Gladys; a daughter, · Mrs, M<!,rt!1a

"It is _quite -understandable for they are disguised. · by the ,_)lighest and most commend- was wounded. Hart; a son, Edward E. Vandeleur;l people to become incensed over "More than anything else, if it able ,. pa_triotic and c_ivic motiv.es. The former union man also saw three sisters, Mrs. Mayme Fisher,; s_ome . i,;1dividual incident or situ- 'i· is to retain and·.extend its 'effe_ctive They seek ·uo personal advantage. action in Tunisia. Mrs. Anthony Payan, and Miss ation, but it is wholly repr.eh'en- influence for aU that is best ih the They aridrispired by a sincere pur- * * * - - ., ·, · · ··· - Martha_ Vandeleur, all of ·. Napa,, sible . to · ci.enciunce on. that account American way of life, the '. Amer- pose. and.·: determination to carry , T_he. deadening effect of repres- · · , and t wo stepdaughters, .Patricia: the entire lab.or. movem. ent, includ- . .ican Le_b.;.io; 'must_ ·pre_ s_er_ve. its in.- out: .. ·pq1ic_ies_· which- are forme_d in sion · op. the thought and life of , Sullivan of San Francisco;.· and.

. in,· g . \.Yorkers and lapor · urga, i1.izaa ·de._ pe_hctence 'of . though( aii.d_ ~ctjon. democri tfo .': fashion -·at : conve'nti:ons thoSe living-in dictatorships Should. - · · · -. · · ·· t · k th· t · ·1 Sister . Peggy -Sullivan, . ·of · -the . tioi1.S that

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h~ve l!ontributed tre~ -Only 15y so d;ing clin it -iu·cces.s- of the American Legion. The·y wilf wl' arn'.us o·.ma ·:ehsure . . a 1. our civ:

.. · . · · · , . - ... ,., . . · , · · · · · · · ·. ·. 1berties ·are· ne1t er wb1tt ed away Providence· Novitiate.s, in Seattle. r,nendou~ly ,. _t,c;>: the S;li_<;sess of . our .fully ta~e. · _ _full '.:~van ~~ge · 9f , the de~9te : .tl}JI_r: •. ef_fort~, t,ow~r:_cl _the in-th~ th:ne. cii peace nor submerged * * * war ~f~~;t. : __ .,, .. , . , __ , , . .. , . · ', 'q_p_povtunities ~0-r _g~q:"tfl , .. ~,qd __ e_~-- yr;o~otipn Qf _a :b~tter:, ~:11,d-~:!'it<:t:11,d.:-, . under,,,th~ .,supposed. necessities of Life is the art of drawino- suf ·'

,. \ ''.~_y~~r ;!~~().::~:~ ~ i~?lated ' stFi~e. pansion-_ a_nd;c '-servfr:~ :: _that foon'l'Jing' i b'eJw~en';·otif:iized .. labor- and' .~ar:: -PROF: ROBERT E~ CUSH- f~cient con1clu~ion's fr~m ms':im~i= ' PC.Curs, ,.a hue ·a_n,i;l:·.crY, df.VE!'lops ' f~r ;ahea·d.?"- · ·· · ... , ._. . · .· - · . . · . : the ~J:11~pcaµ ·L~gwp.." _ : ·· , · . · ·MAN; . . .' . . .. , .: .:· . . · -... _ /. <es.,-,,SAMUEL ·BUTLER., ·

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..::_S=ari1=Jese· reports -plans 1 Labor1 s candidate for Mayor S:an . Mafe.o

fQ s-t~r·i ste\vard syste1m ~,gf:~f~rmanenje ~eeting l :i'\, _V-v7m~· A .. SJ:eers, .. Bu~i~ess :ijepr~sent~tive, w.qrkip,g out Ii pf. Siu!n ]o.s,~:off1ce,. _repor,s. . .

.:~~San Fo~e·..:.c..Our<last mo~thlY meeting, . held · on Friday, S;p­. 'te(.~l;E'ir 241h, proved to · be ' of real interest to those attending. , : What really contributed to · the success. of the meeting is -the fact that first, it was well attended ·by our members, especially . from the -Parmanente plant. Second, becouse of the presence 9! · som e of · our · officers, including Pat Clancy, President; . Clarence Mathews, Secretary, and our Business Manager, Vic

~wa r1son. · j · .

These Didsional monthly 1;1eet- 1 ents, Foremen, . and m som~ caS~$, ings are accepted foc:al points for lP,admen, then 1t ,bec.omes 1mper1J,~

· tive that something must be done a better. m1derstanding of ·the prob­ to challenge impositions of employ-

ment · contrary to the agreement. This calls fpr -the policjng of all

expression of the individual mem- classifications, from the unloading / " ber, v;,•:y often resulting in a operator ' in the stripping area, to

~learer u:nc.ersfanding of t.he prob- II the shovel operator in the quarries. lem. a;1d manner of adJustment. A systematic steward system is

l · R esJp"oimrlU:ng to many ql!es'tions what we want, and to start the concernin g the advantages of or- ball rolling,' we are calling a meet­

·1' ganizatio:n. Brother . Swaqson, rec- ing of all members employed iq

len1.s aflr;;'ng · in given 'areas. It allows ~he opportunity for freer

ognizing ' that many of us are not ,condenser operation in the Mag­,.., as well infor med on labor matters i:esi1Jm Plant on_ Friday, . October S° as the :more experienced members, 15, 1943, . S:00 p. m. at the Engi-

devoted ahout twenty minutes to (Continued on Page 7)

~i · ~ yery inspiring talk on the sub-1 ~ect, emphasizin~ t hat a Union is ::1.

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. ~~ strong, or as weak, as its mem-ers choosE- to mal,e it, · T he ·nature at' comp\aints are

) inariy, and varied. What has '; proven to- be the source of much

- ., ·unrest among the members gen-

Q_gden m,mbers ~back -,the .attack' 'Nith War ··eonds

George R. Remy

·Reilly labor's cGndidate­·as San Francisco's Mayor

) Joseph Riley, Business, Rep~

erally at Permanente,' is the fact resentative working out of the ' tl t ··h · r t f llow (Continued from Page 1) that if the above slate, headed by r~j .· ia ,,:., ei:r po _1cy seems o o . . Og~en Office, r~ports:

ti ''b · · d " 'O es~ Thi, Reilly, is el~cted to office on No-

. ?. roce'?:IT;J.·E- . when ace_ omp,anjed by · vember. 2nd, · the war program will was the purchaser of the first War for Sheriff; .Mathew Brad_y for

says \V@rk cni :up,r-ade~ ~-~ ·

Pat Clancy, President ·cmcf J~ysines_s . Ji~pr~s~?1ati!~~ · wo:rkiµg . out, pf the · S.an . Frand~co c,'ffice, .-·r~po'ffs: -· San Mateo-Work li.as been

tmproving in S a n M at ~ o _ ' County. · ·

I Pipmbo Bros, at Mills fielcf

is going ahead rapidly, with o: number of our members em­ployed there. Three piledrivers are working on hangers at Mills Field-two of McGowans and one "of Raymond Concrete Pile Driving Corporation and also a Northwest erecting steel for the Bethlehem Steel Corpor~ . ation. Barrett & Hilp have qne fuachine of t,hefr own and on~ rented machine there.

Piombo Bros. have a number o! cat skinners working on the Fi_eld. This has amounted to a pretty good job so far.

Pacific _Bridge at Redwoqd City, . js winding up. L . . c. Smith has a fill job at Mills Field and small jobs · at various locations in Sari Ma.'teo County. ·

California Paving Company. has been doing a little work along the .Coast. Harms Bros. job ·below Half Moon Bay is completed. The men employed there are now. up in the Sacramento, Valley on a levy job.

The Ebright Company has a 'job resurfacing the roads· in the Belair Shipyard, three members of Local No. 3 •being employed. Also two 1

--,~· -~ · eanng own. p1 c ~- s Ogden-,-Brother Hobert Sneed Party include Daniel C. Murphy

1ts r mmrng mate ·"disregard ·com- be stepped up, and the lot of the , . • Bond, sold at the dedication of the District Attorney, and the- follow- d h ,

3. plaints" c1crtainly is not included · men an women in t e post-war -machines wo,rking for the City ·of

Victory House, built by the Qgden ' -_ in the <'Urrirulum of Labor Rela- ing for the Board of Supervisors: world will be materially bettered. South San Francisco cleaning the

j 'lions, ini.H_•, ded to promote the best Builq_i.Qg & Construction Trades Dewey Mead (President of the San It's up to the individua~ mem- ditches adjacent' to . Mills Field_

C Council. Franc1·sco Bu1'ld1·ng ,.,..rades Cou11- bers no"', wl1ether· they "'a11t ,a - interest of either the ompany or i " " which is done every year. ' the Un:iml. - The amount of the Bond was cil), John J. Sullivan, Fr:ancis Mc- friend of labor in the City Hall or Western Pipe and Steel have a·

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C 'I • t b ·tt d f rad one-thousand dollars ($1000.00) and Carty, Fred Meyer, and Alfred one of the most ant1·-u111·011 men f 11 _ -:-· pm11,:B1m s :µ-e su m1 e o . - ew sma arguments that a _re justmen1.s ; repeated requests brmg we're · mighty proud of Brother Roncovieri, and Edward M. Man- to appear on the political scene in being cleaned up. :· no resuH.s: days and weeks go by- Sneed for his Patriotic action. All cusco. recent ye;i.rs. "If everyone votes, McDonald and Kahn is building nothing cone; retroactive wage of our other members are to be It is the opinion of most bona- we will get a square deal in .. the warehouses for the vyestern Pipe

r-pay is ~sI,1:d, s~bject _ to adj~st- commended for their purchases of fide labor 'leaders iµ S1J,n Francisco four years to come.:' and Steel with one pile driver a:nd ment m <::omplamt ; still nothmg War Bonds also. ----------- ------------------- thr,ee RD. S's, one ~hovel anq a <lone. lViemb~rs' become unrestful We all know that · the members well-boring machine. - more cc;mplaints, then bad feel- over here are buying Bonds and Corporations ;~pend $50 million In other words, San Mateo , doing their part fo llelp the Boys C b · .ngs. · t .!J,, ,1, I L. aunty _has een boommg with

'Fina:tly, a meeting between Un- over there. so. that the twelve- year .· 0 COUlrhrerac1· aoor press orders .for large work. ion and Company representatives hundred _(1200) enlisted members I am sorry at this time to report lq helcl, and · some of the com- of Local 3 may soon return home. New York - Success of union of these company publications are that Brother Robert Rone was -plaints discussed. Then the , whole Vle have been receiving very newspapers since the war ·began trying to bridge the gap between accidentally killed when the In¢1us­matte:r is again discussed between close co-operation from Local 285 has focussed the - attention of cor- labor and management through an trial Brownhoist of Barrett and t he Ma:oageme'nt, Superintendent, in Ida,ho, Local 32~ in Wyoming poration publicjsts on the house h?nest story of ~he companies' ·1 Hilp's turned over pi-nhing him µn-Forema:n, etc. Then a report of and Local ::)70 in Washington, organ field. aims and problems. · . derneath. Brother Rone has been, the whole subject is compiled and which has made it possible to place At present, there are some 3,000 One of the problems, it appears, , operating- this machin~ for .q.µit~ . ,submitted -to a hi

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.,.her Company many of our members on 9ut of d is to fool the worker into think- spme time, was a very good oper- · company newspapers an maga----.A, __ ,,_thoJ.·i·ty· deaJin

0.,. wi'th lab~r rela,- state jobs. It is due to the efforts . 'th b' . . ing that the paper is published in ator and a very good member of , zmes w1 a com med circulat10n . · · ' ·· ·

iions. · of ·Brothers _Fred Rodc,:1ske, A_Q.- of · -d · ' . . the mutual rnterest of employer this o·rganizatiqn. The passing of aroun 40,000,000, published I d 1 "Th k k " ·

·, To· 1uiuii1l: it in a few words, . this drew Olson and Brpther Merry,_ 1 · an emp aye. e war ers now, Brother Rone is a great loss to .

. week y and monthly at a cost o_f the ace.aunt goes 011, "that 1·t 1·s -0elayed rrocedure on. the _part · of that these con¢1itions have come $50 OOO OOO Tl range f this organization.

f t abcut. ; ' · ley ram the company which pays the edi- Oiitside of numerous 11 · • b

·the . Company is -most un ortuna e. mimeographed· sheets to magazines srp.a JO ,s vVe kn ow our iignts, . within the We fe~l sure that our ~emb.ers ,~:hich rival the ·most elaborate tors' salary, so the burden is on· scattered a1:ound in San Mateo i na· -i.11,w, ancl :would freely acc.ept a re- emP.loy(;d . in their area$, will live found ·on "the newsstands. More the editors to prove that they are San Francisco, that is about all ~ . ·f~1sal of any d~mands, contrary up to theJr workinis rules just as are being published now than ever not ' merely company spokesme!). ·1iave to report at this time. ,: , ·t,bereto. p pr complaints deal with they have her:e and l:)elp them to before. _ . "As yet no publicatior.is are is-·· * * * ,~onditions . of employment in clas- preserv.e the working cpnditions A·survey conducte'd by The ·wan sued on a mutual basis, .with la- --~; _ -.s1_'ficati.o·._··.·. 1:1lre.~d_y_embrace_d in a_ n_ t!Jey_ have wo1:ked so hard to eS··1 Street .. ·Jour nal recent_ly by ·_staff bar and management sharing the 11.-'Aro An . . .

I b h expense, but that may come. This m"'-" G ~ ;agr:eeme.m.,.;_and 1t 1s ?ract1ced dis ta lis · . . · . . · Reporter F , B.·Dezendorf, indicated U ~B · h• • -t,ortion. of these conditions that I There IS about t~ree m11l10n .dol~ ti1at ' the ' main purpose . of these is indicated by the method of ptib: -n:nGW~Aot HU'J1Sffl ·we so 'l:Cg_ ently ... ,-vant adju$ted. Jars to . be spent 111 Tth1s. area on I qomp_ anycfi_na,nced ' "employe" pub- lishing •the Copper Commando of . ' .

U , l h th two new hospitals ""e ha e j the ·Anaconda Copper cpmpany at (Continue. d from_· Page· 4) .

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,, p UJh:, · now, owever, ere 1· . . .- vv · v, c~n- -Jic'ations is -to · overcome the· rising 11as been little . relief. Oh! . Yes! .s1derable ,amount of :new hqus.mg. prestige of.the· labor press. Butte, Mont. The company ··· en- · Know-Nothings' became··. in::. '

:Severa} adjustments of wages and un'der ccnstruction. W.e contel1'1- "Industrial manage~ent · is con- gaged an outside expert t6 pub- fo:iiteiy more powerfui than 'the · o{!_pndiHons have been ma.de, at our plate a two-hundred-thousand dol~ vinced,, •he reports "that · the $50 lish the magazine. · While he has Ku Klux Klan. - They wer~ ~sG · -.. -requ~st, ·put our unfinished com- lar .. pipe-line job in the near, future .. millio~ it ' spends ; 11 these 'house final say on copy to be · used, he powerful · that they controlled' · · ·a b d J t b t 11 f ti A . · · is advised by a committee com. · t · bl · C · -plamts are .. _pyram1 ing eyon us ,_ a ou .. a o . · 1e rmy- pubHcations' will be repaid manv . . . an en ire · oc 1n ongress. , ,i N t t . . . · posed of three AFL members, ·A d t f C th ·

11oping for · anything like satisfac- avy cons rue 1011 1s nearmg com- times over in . improved employe , .. · · , n ou Q _ ongress ey were I t . d . · · ' three CIO and three from m. an- f 1 d thl 1;ory adj"ustment. P e 1011 an our operat10ns are cori- morale and a sustained high tern- so power u an so ru ~ss .

ae:ement." h t th bl · · . The Company's local Eublic and fined mostly to housing · projects. po of war . production. - t. a ey were a e to mc1t~ · "' h , t f I t I The biP: shot corporations want · t d 'th h' h th. Labor R~'ations Staff with con- » e . ave p,en -Y o wor, o <eep us "They also give managemen t an - no s compare Wl w 1c e

:s _pltation is · fully competent to busy. •Ev.eryone is employed at the opportunity to show the commu·- t<i get their money's worth for that recent race outbursts we're

I 50 million bucks. S d S h 1 · ·

11andle the problems of employ- present. . nity of interest in laboi-, company un ay c oo p1cmcs. ·:i:nent, ·and it is to be hoped tha t There 1s. a oeed for vast amount executives and stockholders. Edi- * * * They · vilified priests, nuns 1;he wi:sdo!:1 of this wm be recog- of new highway construction and t ors are frank to admit that they H\lltel li.miori · !'.HJJrehases and laymen. They ravagy~

. -:11ized . I highway repairing. In the event li ave missed many opportunities $2,200,000 Vi<Jr fiiorids and plundered Irish homes and --- • . the present amount of this work to improve relations between Washington, D . . C.-Hugo Er nst, stores. They burned churches

A s1mn·wey -of Pai,manente em- slackens . off, there are possibilities workers and employers, and · their general secretary'-treasurer of the and Catholic schools. They ]:iloyment operations, particularly of a large amount of this vvork publications too often have read Hotel and Restaurant Employes' violently prevented Irish Cath-c,1,mder such adverse conditiqns .as being r el:asecl. like 'puff' sheets for management."· Intematfonal Alliance and Bar- olics from holding public offii:;e . . now ,exist. and have for some Accordmg to a survey, there is As a matter of fact , the reporter tenders' International League of These were the doings of the ~time, -defin itely call fo r . Union or- about · one-hundred-fifty million hints, it wasn't until manage- -America, in formed . AFL Secre- Know-Nothings of a hundred -.ganization of the "Steward" sys- dollars to be spent i.n this ar-ea- Gn I ment got worried about mounting tary-Treasurer George Meany that years ago. Is the outstanding ·t~m. Post vVa~ Construction work. We

I r-eacler interest in union . organs the international union has pur- Know-Nothing of the present

.This., pl2n has .been thm:ot1g11ly are . makmg every effort to see . and other -labor ,papers that the chased . $200;000 worth of ·war day trying · to stage. a revived? ,oiscussecl, and. as loqg as it is to that our Union gets proper recog- . idea teak• hold of -usina the house bonds in the Third War Loan dri-ve - . . . · * _ * * . , . . . . l)e the Company po11·cy to· "bear n,ition on this wo.rk and are w, ark_· - . organs to cou·nteract "'un1·on pub- br·ng1·n t·he t t I t f b d ' Pacific coast war production· IS . • , . ,, . .•: , _ . ,. , I . g _ ·o _a amo_u_n O on. S not Up to its quota, buf 'n~b~dy · . ·

'<down" ... ;QJl . our member~.

0•·. ,t_hrot_1gh i!'lg -to_ward ma __ king_ propos_ed Post 11·c·1·t,y· and. educ·a.t1·on. bought by the 1nternat1~·1al tr'eas I ' · · . . . ' ; . . ; c.,. ._-, ik~ows _w_lieth_er it'~ -the' coasfs ,fault ··.:.;.

- ~ heir organizations :o)iS~ _J ~oj.e.cts a reality. "Now," · he. continued, "editors ury to $2,200,000. · . .·· ·or -the.,quota.ls, · .. ·. ,. ,,,,rf ~ .....,__ _~ - ~~;_ \

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October 15, 1943

Fo.s-s ··rep~crf s iobS"·m~vinn I ) ~J

along' ®-etly , H. O. ·Foss, business repre­

s~ntatiye°:\vorkiµ g 'out '.<lf ' tlie . ··:-qj:• ·t ,~:-,, . .i. . ; -<.,/'. :;·:uyr'},· .,gr San Rafael off ice; reMtts : · .

.. -. -~~1 J,j . :',,·'.'I•~ - -. j:

San P..afael- A. G: Raish Co.

Se.rn J@se t@ d@!r't stev,Ml~rd system·

(Continued from P age 6) neers H all, 40 N . Morrison at The

' Alameda. · '

Following this m eeting, the next ½ill be a meeting of all employed in t he l'etort area, including paner

\ . ., operators, assistant operators, help-ers, and all of those employed on the retort tops.

All are requested ·to give a lot of t hough t to who you want' to represent you as Steward. They will be chosen by your vote.

Meeting of al! other classifica­tions will follow, but . don't forget t!Te monthly meeting-on the fourth Friday of each m onth . This m on thly m ~eting is also intended for all of our m embers employed in -any of the five counties com. I pr ising the San J ose Division.

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Heavy Jap Naval bombardment of our fo_rces on a Pacific island · d,estroyed our communications. Then Marine Corporal George J. Conlon went out to help_ lay a telephone truisk l ine between head, qua rters, the base radio and other strategic poin ts. Caught in the open, he kept on working th roughout fi ve bomb ing attacks, and vital com­munications were restored. He won th e Silver Star. Will you keep 9n investing everythin g you can in Payro ll Savings? ·

.1.J. S. 'Ireas11r;;, Departmeii$ -::i .

force for. the wa·r at home but I do not think they are as yet edu­cated fer it. Labor people :?.re the most r.eceptive groups in the-world. They must be mobilize·d-now-by adult education in economics and· social legislation, in politics

of our Engineers employed. ·Pon{­

eroy Pittsbui;g, De m oines are still

on .the job. Stolte has t&.~,en ~om e

the gang. Also one from M/Sgt; Lewis, Redden H q. Co. 821, Eng; Avn. Btn. A.J;.0 . 913 c/o Post-

and in the plain horse sense that t heir own economic self-interest

m as:ter, San Francisco. Drop him dems.nds.

a l ine, too. He is on some .island. On the home front, there are God knows where and a letter

two main problem_s which must from you would sure cheer _him. be solved; first, ma,ximum produc- Let's not let them think we ha-re tion ; second, equitable distribut-tion. The pressure of 'the war has led us, · so far, to concentrate on the first, and to tend to ignore the

forgotten them. Drop just a lin~. That's about p-Jl except~Brother

Charles Steel is on the way to re- · covery after his automobile acci-

secoJ1cl. dent which occured on Ii.is way But what of the people who home from the job a few days ago.

do t his producing? Their interests * * * have been shamefully overlooked, You can say anyt1iing about the when they ha_ve n_ot be.en actually .

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average man because no average abused. Special mterest groups, man ever thinks of him5eif ·as an

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Utah o ict! says things loo!t ~ri~hit -

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ENGINEERS' NEWS ~

'~ The regular meeting of Local abuse of power by the Tenth Re- J who requested that the bond be

Union No. 3 was called to order : gional War Labor Board in regard ] drawn in favor ,of Brother Douglas 1 at 8 p.m., October 2, at the Build- to substituting dates of agreernentsf Cline, 233 Windi/,'lg Way, San . .Frnn­ing Trades Temple, Sah Francisco, between employers · and unions cisco, and that C. R, Hale be President Clancy presiding. Roll that were retroactive. Regularly named co-owner.

October 15, 19,43

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call shov, ed Vice-President Foss, moved and seconded to endorse At 9:15 p.m. Brother Pant ac- Washington, D. C.-The Allied

Br-other John M. Curlee of · this Cond-tictor Riley, Guard O'Brien, ,Company. Manager· Swanson and Secretary

Mathews absent. Brothers . Swan-

this resolution. Carried.

Resolution ·from ' Bay City' Metal' Trades Council denouncing andi condemning the high-handed arbl­trary acts of the State Manpower Director of Northern California.

knowledged · his willingness to pro- Military Government has pro­ceed·· with ,the= trial. ·Brother .Doran ; claimed a free labor movement in called upon··Steward Hayward and Sicily and has abolished all Fascist Jack O'Brien to testify and called labor and corporative organizations During . the past month, seven

construction firms have signed ag~·eem(•.1ts in the Southern portion of the state.

In the Northern, Ogden district, there are no non-union con.tractors.­They have all signed a Building Construction Trades · · -Agreement

son and Mathews were excused to Convention. on Brother Pant for questioning.

Questioning was completed and

Regularly moved and seconded this Brother Pant was permitted to Tl~e minutes of the regular resolution be adopted. Carried. question Brothers O'Brien, .H~y-

meeting of September 4 were by · . . ward and Noce, after which motion adopted as printed in the From ~- S. :'faval Hospital, Oak- Brother Doran called on Brothers Monthly News L'etter. ,land, -Callforma, letter of thanks Noce and Clem.

in the recently .conquered island.

and are operating Union. rou The minutes of the E xecutive ·know this is Brother Joseph Riley's Board meeting of September 18 tetritory and these conditions . are were read and the acts and recom­Jargely . due to the effort hE/ has' mendations of ·the Board were by

for 25 service kits donated. Re-. d d f'l d Brother Pant questioned Brother ceive an 1 e . p . .

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. eter Wi iams. Brother Hayward From Oakland Fire Department I talked· ·irom the floor. Brother

Relief Fund Association letter of Do~·an raised point of order, thanks for purchase bf tickets to Brother Vandewark called for

Itaiian workers 'will have as much freedom as American or British labor, subject temporarily to military restrictions. All of t he rights takEn away from the work­ers more ti1an 20 years ago will be r estored, the War Department reports.

Worked out by Captain David Morse, the AMG labor · program was nut into effect September 4, following the abolition of the Fas~ cist labor organizations. The pro­

put forth. , motion approved . . Ball.

Organizing · Bingham Canyon A synopsis of the minutes of the Second rea.ding ·of resolution re-· garding publishing of· Monthly News Letter. Regularly moved and seconded resolution . be adopted. Carried unanimously.

questioning. The trial was com­pleted at 9:45 p.m. ·op.en pit n1ine of The Utah Copper Executive Board meeting of Oc­

Company is progressing .. according tobe1· 2 was read and the acts and to schedule. This mine comes under recommendations of . the Board the jurisdiction of Local 353. Pres-· were by motion approved.

Te)lers were appointed. Brother gram provides for a civilian direc­·Pant appointed Brother Huff; tor of labor for each province. The Brother Doran appointed Brother director's office will establish em­John DeLagrange and President ployment office~, vocational train­ident Oustler and Secretary Hib­

bard of Local 353, are on their toes ·an of the time, and Local 3 ex­.tends to the official members of Local 353 greetings· and all best wishes for their success in the coming election.

We wish to close this edition of the News in memory of Brother

COMMluNICA l~ONS ·FTom Building and Construction

Trades Council of San Francisco, letter from Cameron King regard­ing reso~ution. Received and filed.

From Captain H. T. Petersen, former Vice-President of Local Union No. 3 stating that he would appreciate hearing from any mem-ber of Local No. 3. Received.

From Mrs. Allie M. P olson and ing and make wage and cost-of­

daughter Lois, card of thanks and · Patters, resultin0g in the following

living studies. letter expressing appreciation. Re- tally: Guilty 44; not guilty 39; dis-

Clancy appointed Brother Lee

cei;ved and filed. Workers will choose their own qualified 3; blank 7. It was regu-

From · American War Mothers thanking Union for ' contribution. Received and filed.

Card of thanks from Mrs. Eliz­abeth Theodore and children.

Report fro'rµ.

delE;gates to represent them in an larly moved and seconded that office of conciliation, mediation Brother Pant be reprimanded. and arbitration. In the event that Motion amended that Brother Pant

this office is un<;1.ble to come to be fined $50; fine suspended. agreement, the provincial director .Amendment car ried.

will appoint impartial arbiters. There being no .further business

From National War Labor Board tary-Treasurer

the General Secre­read by President

Bill Schope who passed away dur­ing the month and Brother Calvin L. Teague, who died from injury

regarding resolution sent by Oper­whil2 working OR the job. ating Engineers. Received and

Clancy. to come before the meeting, it ad­journed.

I Respecti_vely submitted,

Dm·ing· the military occupations, it was said, no strikes or lockouts would be permitted.

* * * filed. Wm. C. Waack, Secretary pro tern.

Until the provincial labor offi­ces are able to complete investiga­ticn of the existing contracts be-

EdMcator te!h; crge.uiized _l©Ibor . stlJ!dy for pec~ce

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From Building and Construction Trades Council requesting support for Supervisor Dewey Mead in the coming election. Concurred in.

From Building and Construction Trades Council regarding Seabees after October 31, · 1943; stating no more ratings will be given upon enlistment in the Seabees, that en­listed inen must earn their ratings after enlistment.·

Resolution from Bay City Metal

President Clancy called Brother E. · Pant to answer charges pre­ferred against him by Representa-tive Ed Doran for violat ion of the working rules. Charges were read and clarified by Brbther Waack, secretary pro tern: Brother Pant pleaded not guilty and requested

, tween employers and .employes, the !foisei· y@Jrd W~!drnrs I provisions covering wages, hours

get pro©lMdttm~ ~~@lli@rs I and . worki?g . con~i~ions win be

W h. t D C T t . . contmued m the 1merest of sta-as mg on, . .- wen y-s1x bT workers whose ideas have contri- 1 ity.

AMG is now studying the labor buted to the · amazing production

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picture in each province to adjt1st a recess of 15 minutes which was records established by the Hrnry

··"' , pitifully low wages the worker~ granted. J. Kaiser shipyards made a clean . . . . . . . received. Agncultural workers i

Dunng the recess the drawmg sweep of nat10nal product10n 'd . d ' . . . · · I was sai receive from one to

with enormous i:ofluence in Con­gress and· in the press, have strived 'without ceasing, and have far too often succe.eded; in foisting on the' American ptfople laws, rules and . Trades Council coridemning the

was held for the door pnze and I honors announced by War Produc- i th . . 1. ' d ( ·

. . . - ree ire a ay one to three won by ticket held by ·c. R. Hale, t10n Dnve headquarters, )

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· cents p us €nough oo to · ·eep .regulations vvhich . react to the ben~fit. of. their own districfgroUps, an'd to the detriment of the public as ' a whole .

* * * * * * alive. The new ·plan, it was reported,

was set up after consultation with the old labor leaders in Sicily, in-eluding representatives of all of the liberal political groups. It

Review the record of the last few months with me. Just a little. :while ago, an action that drastic­ally .. harmed every consumer in the cou(1try v~as taken, when alCpos­:sibility of enfor cement of grading

Green Asks Secretary I-Iull 1s Aid· To Protect Jews 1n Hitler

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s Europe . makes possible th.e resumption of

·washington, D. C.-At a con- J 0th.er available mean~ of comn:iu.ni- cial process of criminal la,v. Vle the syndical mov.emen,t .basis of ference with Secretary of State cat10n-all those guilty of aidmg appeal to our Government to warn, the Ital~an labor movement before

Cordell Hull, AFL President Wl.1_ the Nazi leaders in thi.i r inhuman the German people to r efuse open- Mussolini's Fascists abolished the . or Jabe'ing of d' ·~eren· qu JT s campaign of exterminating t he de- ly to be identified with the cruel- trade unions. of go'od~ was ;bol\~hed. ~ro;:: :1:: liam Green urged the Government fenseless Jewish population of' ties perpertrated by their leaders * * *

to warn Hitler that his Nazi = th t th ·1· b · ld d b - th · d f on, it will be· impossible for buyers ~urope, a ey w1 l e ne ac- an mem ers or · ell' arme orces,

· to knov, the true quality of the goods they a r e spending their money for , until the transcation

stooges will be punished for their countable as war criminals, and against the J ews, and to expose all . .wholesale execution and persecu- will be punished for every inno- those guilty of these crimes, lest tion of the Jews of Europe, cent life they have taken. thethe German people themselves

of buying has actually taken place, At the same time, Mr. Green ap- "In the years of his rule, Hitler be regarded as partners of the

O@M@i11.~ imgi~e£h glHs- f~r s;@Mieifs

(Contlnued from P age 5)

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Let's all help inake our Service and the money has b.een spent, pealed for . the reli~f of Jewish has destroyed millions of Poles, ,

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Nazi criminals. refugees by any and all means Russians, Serbs, Czechs, French- "Only thus will German honor Iv1en's Xmas a merry one by send-

How can price co:1trols be en- · · 'ft forced when all indications of the quality of goods have been taken away ?

possible. He was accompanied in men, and Greeks, and has laid be saved. mg a gi · overseas.

Nor is tha.t all. The Office of Price Administration is so piti-

his visit to the State Depar tment waste cities and towns. But, for _"At the same t ime, we appeal to by President David Dubinsky, of the Jews of E1,1rope, t he Nazis the Government of · the United the International Ladies Garment have prepared a special . doom : States to do all that is humanly Workers Union; Adolph Held, total extermination. possible, and consistent with our Chairman of the Jewish Labor "Time and again . the desperate successful ptosecution of the war,

fully understaffed that black mar-. Committee and J. Raymond Walsh, cry of the Jews languishing in the to br.ing immediate aid and succor

· kets are flourishing all over the representing the CIO. ghettos, death-chambers, and con- to the Jews •in the Nazi-occupied·

· country, and violations of ceiling A joint statement presented to centration camps has reached us countires: The Jews in the ghettos

·prices· ·Jrave come to be almost the Secretary Hull said: here. Time and again the President can po longer be regarded as civil-. acci:!pted thing. -

"Adolph Hitler has solemnly of the United States, the Secretary ians. They are prisoners of wa1--; The American people must be warned· the civilized world that of State, and Americans of. all and should be legally regarded as

·brought to realize that maximum should the Nazi hordell face de- walks . of life, of all creeds and such. · production and equitable distribu- · feat, they will not leave a single colors, have declared their revul- Ways and means must be found fion are interdependm,t. They; must Jew alive in their retreat. The sion at the abominable crimes per- to feed the hungry men, women, l~ai:n th.at the housing shoi·tages same dictum of terror has been petrated by the Nazis upon a de- .and children who are doomed to a from w:hich th~Y sufJer ~re col-

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made by: Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the fenseless p~op!e.' But to n© · avail. death of starvation.· We also ap~ lated with housmg .programs, that voice of Hitler, and by Robe:ct Ley, "The Unite{! States, therefore, peal to our Government and to the

· housing programs ar€ col;lated with his henchman il,1 the destruction must warn the German people that · governments of the United Nations ·.rent control, that price controls o fthe free Gemnan labor move- the United Nations have decided to admit to all territories under are collated with wage controls, ·

Any member desiring to donate a gift may deposit same in our box which is located in the Union Hall.

The following are a few sug­gestions of accef)table gifts:

Shoe Lac,es (black arid tan), Shoe Polish, Pocket Comb amI Clip, ];>laying Cards, Wash Cloths/ Me1i's Handkerchiefs (White), Razor, Razor Blades, Nail Clip­pers, Tooth Brushes, Shave · Cream, Soap, Shears, Siµety Pins, Needles, Buttons, Dental Powder, Talcum Powder for Men, Stationary, Env,elopes, Cig;' arettes, Pipe and Pipe Tobacco, Pipe . Cleaners, Pocket Knives,· Hard Candy, Current l\'.Iagaziues,

(Pocket size.) ment. to establish the identity of those their control Jewish refugees who wage controls with taxes, taxes ''Today Hitler stands on the Germans who are responsible for may succeed in escaping from the Do Not Send =

with soci~l insuramce and the pos- brirrk of defeat. Italy has sur- the acts of •savagery against the Nazi hell . Now is the time to sal- Written Messages, L iquids, Wear-sibility of forced savings. The pub- rendered unconditionally; on the Jews and other peoples; that as v,age those Jewish people who are ing Apparel, Matches or Inflam­llc, as a whole, today is blind to Eastern Front the Nazis are each of the:;;e criminals deeds is still alive and who can still be ables of any kiTids,

. the implications Gf these things, crumbling; the German legions are committed, it is be1ng i•nvestigated, saved. -'r Vie will see that these gifts are bu t it can be taught, in retree.t eve,rywhere. and evidence is relentlessly being "America:n labor, on its part, in wrapped aTid mailed.

net it be the f,mct,ic,;:i of or- "Free American labcr', which pil€d up for the purposes of jus- answer to the mass horror that ~ * * * -ganized labor to teacl¾ its own feels a kinship with the victims tice. ·:r.. being infl,i,cted on our broth€rs in I filltl the great thi11g in th1s

b d world · is not so mu:ch where we mem ers an the whole working of Nazi terror, J;J.as been JiJ,Qrror- "American labor seeks l'lo mass Europe, plte\ige again to use all its · · I f h . . . stand, as in wi1at direction we are peep e o t e coi,mtry that lesson, stricken by the slaughter being reprisals against the enslaved peo- efforts m the future, as 1t has done ·:m

O Vin .g .-OL.1.-vER WENDELL

. . Only by so doing Cali! @rganized carried on a,gaiRst the Jews. ple of Germany. But the ni:lrde1;- in the past, for the c01nplete de- ,HOLMES. , labor fulfil_! its role as the articu- "We, therefore, take this occa- ers of our fellow humaFI beings, struction of the enemies of democ- _· _ _______ _

' late anel. ef.fective implement of the sion to urge the Government of the ·ring-leaders . and their aides, racy and its iegions of death. we Histor,y is a race between edu.-people's war for economic freedom the United States to wan,- must me' na:mlild, app.rehEinded, and shall fight on until our enemies cation and catastrophe.-H. G. and 'seourity. thro1J1.gh sJ;J.oct-wav.e ras.io and all t1,ied in accordanee witli the judi- have surrendered unconditionally." WELLS.

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