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January  1987 


United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  &  Joiners  of  America 


Founded  1881 


GENERAL  OFFICERS  OF 

THE  UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  of  CARPENTERS  &  JOINERS  of  AMERICA 


GENERAL  OFFICE: 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 


GENERAL  PRESIDENT 

Patrick  J.  Campbell 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

SECOND  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

John  Pruitt 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

John  S.  Rogers 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  TREASURER 

Wayne  Pierce 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 


DISTRICT  BOARD  MEMBERS 


First  District,  Joseph  F.  Lia 
120  North  Main  Street 
New  City,  New  York  10956 

Second  District,  George  M.  Walish 

101  S.  Newtown  St.  Road 

Newtown  Square,  Pennsylvania  19073 

Third  District,  Thomas  Hanahan 

9575  West  Higgins  Road 

Suite  304 

Rosetnont,  Illinois  60018 

Fourth  District,  E.  Jimmy  Jones 
12500  N.E.  8th  Avenue,  #3 
North  Miami,  Florida  33161 

Fifth  District,  Eugene  Shoehigh 
526  Elkwood  Mall  -  Center  MaU 
42nd  &  Center  Streets 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68105 


Sixth  District,  Dean  Scoter 
400  Main  Street  #203 
RoUa,  Missouri  65401 

Seventh  District,  H.  Paul  Johnson 
Gramark  Plaza 

12300  S.E.  Mallard  Way  #240 
Milwaukie,  Oregon  97222 

Eighth  District,  M.  B.  Bryant 
5330-F  Power  Inn  Road 
Sacramento,  California  95820 

Ninth  District,  John  Carritihers 
5799  Yonge  Street  #807 
Willowdale,  Ontario  M2M  3V3 

Tenth  District,  Ronald  J.  Dancer 

1235  40th  Avenue,  N.W. 
Calgary,  Alberta,  T2K  OG3 


William  Sidell,  General  President  Emeritus 
William  Konyha,  General  President  Emeritus 
Peter  Terzick,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 
Charles  E.  Nichols,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 


Patrick  J.  Campbell,  Chairman 
John  S.  Rogers,  Secretary 

Correspondence  for  the  General  Executive  Board 
should  be  sent  to  the  General  Secretary. 


I  an  tssi  1^'i  : 


Secretaries,  Please  Note 

In  processing  complaints  about 
magazine  delivery,  the  only  names 
which  the  financial  secretary  needs  to 
send  in  are  the  names  of  members 
who  are  NOT  receiving  the  magazine. 

In  sending  in  the  names  of  mem- 
bers who  are  not  getting  the  maga- 
zine, the  address  forms  mailed  out 
with  each  monthly  bill  should  be 
used.  When  a  member  clears  out  of 
one  local  union  into  another,  his 
name  is  automatically  dropped  from 
the  mailing  list  of  the  local  union  he 
cleared  out  of.  Therefore,  the  secre- 
tary of  the  union  into  which  he  cleared 
should  forward  his  name  to  the  Gen- 
eral Secretary  so  that  this  member 
can  again  be  added  to  the  mailing  list. 

Members  who  die  or  are  suspended 
are  automatically  dropped  from  the 
mailing  list  of  The  Carpenter. 


PLEASE  KEEP  THE  CARPEISTER  ADVISED 
OF  YOUR  CHANGE  OF  ADDRESS 


NOTE:  Filling  out  this  coupon  and  mailing  It  to  the  CARPENTER  only  cor- 
rects your  mailing  address  for  the  magazine.  It  does  not  advise  your  own 
local  union  of  your  address  change.  You  must  also  notify  your  local  union 
...  by  some  other  method. 

This  coupon  should  be  mailed  to  THE  CARPENTER, 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C.  20001 


NAME. 


Local  No 

Number  of  your  Local  Union  must 
be  given.  Otherwise,  no  action  can 
be  taken  on  your  change  of  address. 


Social  Security  or  (in  Canada)  Social  Insurance  No. 


NEW  ADDRESS. 


City 


State  or  Province 


ZIP  Code 


THE 
COVER 


ISSN  0008-6843 


VOLUME   107 


No.  1 


JANUARY  1987 


UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 

IN  THIS  ISSUE 

NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

Undocumented  Workers  Take  Davis-Bacon  Jobs 2 

Rewarding  Our  Friends CLIC  Report  4 

A  Great  Election,  But John  Perkins  5 

Legislative  Agenda  for  1987 Bob  McGlotten  5 

Safety  and  Healtli:  Action  in  tfie  99tli  Congress 6 

The  Burning  Question;  How  IVIuch  Will  Be  Union? 7 

UBC,  Other  Crafts  Protest  Toyota's  Plan 9 

American  Express  Nonunion  Construction '. . . .  10 

Continued  L-P  Campaign  Efforts  in  1987 10 

Nationwide  Effort  for  'Blueprint  for  Cure' 11 

Labor,  Management  Against  R-T-W  in  Oklahoma 13 

Reports  from  Quebec 15 

Chicago  IVIembers  Install  Trade  Show  Exhibits 24 

Employers  to  Tough  Out  1987  Negotiations 25 

Ontario  Commission  Denies  Pension  Withdrawals 25 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 12 

Ottawa  Report 14 

Labor  News  Roundup 16 

Local  Union  News 17 

Members  in  the  News 19 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 23 

We  Congratulate 26 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Administering  Medicine 28 

Retirees  Notebook 29 

Plane  Gossip 30 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 31 

In  Memoriam 37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


Published  monthly  at  3342  Bladensburg  Road.  Brentwood,  Md.  20722  by  the  United  Brotherhood  ol  Carpenters 
and  Jokers  of  America.  Subscription  price:  United  States  and  Canada  $10.00  per  year,  single  copies  $1.00  in 
advance. 


Our  January  cover  is  both  scenic  and 
symbolic.  On  the  one  hand,  it  shows 
nature  in  its  rugged  splendor  along  the 
South  Rim  of  the  Grand  Canyon  in  Ari- 
zona. On  the  other,  it  portrays  the  des- 
olation of  a  region  of  the  United  States 
which  is  now  suffering  high  unemploy- 
ment— over  10%  in  some  areas.  It  also 
is  an  introduction  to  our  lead  article  in 
this  issue  of  Carpenter,  which  describes 
the  inroads  of  alien,  undocumented 
workers  in  the  job  markets  of  the  South- 
west. 

Our  view  of  the  Grand  Canyon  is  from 
Mather  Point,  the  most  popular  tourist 
lookout  spot  along  the  South  Rim.  Even 
here  unemployment  is  evident.  Young 
Indians  from  nearby  reservations  spread 
trinkets  on  blankets,  hoping  to  sell  them 
at  any  price  to  passing  tourists.  They  run 
for  cover  when  park  rangers  arrive,  since 
they  are  breaking  rules  against  vending 
in  a  national  park. 

Unemployment  in  Arizona  rose  from 
6.5%  in  September  1985  to  6.9%  in  Sep- 
tember 1986.  In  New  Mexico  unemploy- 
ment stood  at  8.4%  in  September  1985; 
it  rose  to  9%  last  September.  The  State 
of  Texas,  meanwhile,  had  an  overall 
unemployment  in  1985  of  7.2%;  it  now 
is  at  9.1%  because  of  the  continuing 
recession  in  the  petroleum  industry. 

This  month,  snow  blankets  much  of 
the  region's  scenic  beauty,  but  there  is 
the  promise  of  another  spring.  Hope  for 
better  days  pervades  the  thoughts  of 
Southwesterners  as  we  begin  a  new 
year. — Photo  by  E.  Cooper  for  H.  Arm- 
strong Roberts 


Printed  in  U.S.A. 


The 
houses 
and  hovels 
of  Mexicans 
line  the  hillside 
in  Cuidad  Juarez, 
at  left.  The  Rio 
Grande  River, 
which  can 
be  waded, 
the  fore- 
ground. 


Undocumented  Workers 
Take  Davis-Bacon 
Jobs  in  El  Paso,  Texas 

Blue  license  plates  from  Juarez 
surround  construction  sites 
at  Fort  Bliss,  Biggs  Field,  other 
federally-supported  installations. 
Alien  workers  converge  on  many  other 
towns  in  four  Southwest  states. 
While  the  Immigration  Law  is  new, 
Davis-Bacon  has  been  around  for 
40  years.  It  must  be  enforced! 


Every  morning  their  cars  and  trucks 
line  up  at  the  bridge  on  the  Juarez  side 
of  the  Rio  Grande,  and  the  U.S.  Border 
Patrol  waves  them  through  into  El  Paso 
— hundreds,  sometimes  thousands,  of 
Mexican  workers  and  Central  American 
refugees  looking  for  jobs  or  holding 
down  regular  jobs  without  the  required 
green  temporary-worker  cards. 

The  line  gets  so  long  at  the  bridge 
that  many  Mexicans  simply  wade  the 
river  and  crawl  through  holes  in  the 
fence  at  the  international  border. 

It' s  cheaper  for  them  to  live  in  Mexico 
and  work  in  the  United  States,  and  the 
understaffed  U.S.  Border  Patrol  is  lim- 
ited in  what  it  can  do  to  stop  the  daily 
flood.  Border  Patrol  leaders  expect  that 
it  will  be  several  months  before  the  new 
U.S.  Immigration  Law  takes  effect,  and 
even  then,  more  border  security  than 
the  law  allows  will  be  called  for. 

A  beefed-up  Border  Patrol  is  sorely 
needed.  The  lower  Rio  Grande  Valley — 
the  area  stretching  from  McAUen  to 
Edinburg  to  Mission,  Tex.,  already  has 
the  highest  unemployment  rate  in  the 
United  States:  19.9%. 

To  fight  the  inroads  of  illegal  aliens, 


Below,  left:  Mexican  license  plates  are  on  many  of  the  cars  and  pickup  trucks  which  line  the  parking  area  in  El 
Paso  at  the  new  sergeant-majors  academy  at  Biggs  Field — another  Corps  of  Engineers  project,  this  one  with  R.D. 
Lowman  as  general  contractor.  •  Below  right:  A  Davis-Bacon  miUtary  housing  project  at  Biggs  Field,  Fort  Bliss, 
Tex.  Laborers  from  Mexico  are  installing  the  flashing. 


Ofg.-^ 


A  truck  belonging  to  a  Mexican  demolition  con- 
tractor, Servicio  Particular,  at  a  U.S.  Corps  of 
Engineers  construction  project  at  Fort  Bliss,  El 
Paso.  Gourdan  and  Nobles  was  the  general  con- 
tractor. 


San  Diego  -r-CALiF 


Calexico 


ARIZONA 
Nogales 
Nogales 


Pacific 
Ocean 


Ciudad 
Juarez 


\ 
UNITED  STATES 

NEW  MEXICO 


,EI  Paso 


Chihuahua 
MEXICO 


TEXAS 


Del  Rio 


''Ciudaa\ 
Acuna 


.Laredo 

NuevoT  McAllen 
Laredo 


Reynosa* 


Brownsvillf 


Matarrvoros 

300         / 


MILES 


Gulf  ol 
Mexico 


These  are  the  main  pressure  points  along  the  U.S.-Mexican  border.  Every 
Mexican  town  along  this  2,000-mile  border  has  its  share  of  former  U.S.  jobs. 


leaders  of  UBC  Local  1245,  El  Paso, 
and  the  city's  Sheet  Metal  Workers 
local  union  met  on  December  9  with 
Border  Patrol  officials  to  discuss  the 
situation  and  see  what  can  be  done. 

Under  the  new  immigration  law  passed 
by  the  99th  Congress,  employers,  even 
those  with  just  a  few  employees,  are 
forbidden  to  knowingly  hire  illegal  al- 
iens. However,  enforcement  does  not 
begin  until  after  a  six-month  grace  pe- 
riod, and  first  offenses  won't  be  subject 
to  penalities  for  another  six  months. 
After  that,  employers  must  keep  rec- 
ords verifying  that  they  saw  certain 
documents  from  job  applicants,  such  as 
a  birth  certificate,  driver's  license,  or 
passport.  They  aren't  required,  how- 
ever to  check  the  documents'  authen- 
ticity. 

Meanwhile,  construction  contractors 
along  the  Mexican  border  are  breaking 
that  law  every  day,  and,  in  many  cases, 
breaking  two  .  .  .  breaking  the  Davis- 
Bacon  Prevailing  Wage  Law  as  well. 

Labor  representatives  recently  ac- 
companied a  Swedish  television  crew 
around  El  Paso,  as  it  filmed  evidence 
of  undocumented  workers  in  U.S.  jobs. 


The  Swedish  technicians  were  amazed 
at  the  laxity  of  guards  at  the  gates  of 
various  U.S.  military  installations.  It 
was  easy  for  the  foreign-  newsmen  to 
move  onto  each  base  unquestioned  and 
see  how  Mexican  workers  can  drive  to 
and  from  construction  jobs  on  the  mil- 
itary installations  without  being  asked 
to  identify  themselves.  Foreign  news 
media,  conscious  of  terrorist  activity  in 
Europe,  commented  on  the  easy  access 
to  U.S.  defense  facilities. 

Adding  to  the  problems  at  the  Mex- 
ican border  are  the  runaway  jobs  being 
transferred  from  U.S.  to  Mexican 
communities  under  the  so-called  Ma- 
quiladora  ("golden  mills")  program, 
whereby  U.S.  firms  set  up  tax-free 
manufacturing  and  assembly  plants 
in  cheap-labor  areas  of  Mexico  to 
avoid  unionization.  (Editor's  Note: 


^^  ^aso  border  »  ""^ 
set  record  fnf   ^'^'''^ 

Sonlerp,,,''"^  month 

••Thai's  ,h.  ^.  ^''"m 

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on  Page  9  of  the  December  1986  f 
Carpenter.)  te«*«.- 

The  amnesty  provision  of  the  new 
immigration  law  allows  illegal  aliens 
who  came  to  the  U.S.  before  Jan.  1, 

Continued  on  Page  27 


^' ""^^^^  he  said. 

^L  Paso 


er  3, 


1986 


Below,  left:  An  automobile  with  Chihuahua,  Mexico,  plates,  belonging  to  a  construction  worker  employed  at 
DelValle  High  School,  El  Paso — a  local  Davis-Bacon  project.  •  Below,  center:  This  automobile  has  a  Mexican 
license  plate.  It's  owned  by  a  construction  worker  employed  by  R.D.  Lowman  at  Biggs  Field,  another  U.S.  military 
installation.  *  Below,  right:  Private  nursing  facilities,  with  Mexican  vehicles  in  the  foreground. 


W^f 


REWARDING 
OUR  FRIENDS 


A  report  on  political  action  during  1986  by  ffte 
Carpenters  Legislative  Improvement  Committee. 


The  United  Brotherhood's  General  Offices  sit  on 
the  Senate  side  of  the  Capitol.  This  year,  the  view 
to  that  marble  and  stone  wing  will  be  a  whole  lot 
friendlier,  thanks  to  the  work  and  contributions  of 
UBC  members. 

The  U.S.  Senate  and  all  its  committees  and  sub- 
committees will  be  controlled  by  the  Democrats 
starting  in  1987.  Edward  Kennedy,  a  true  friend  of 
labor,  will  chair  the  Senate  Labor  and  Human  Re- 
sources Committee,  where  our  enemy  Orrin  Hatch 
has  been  presiding.  The  UBC  was  deep  in  the  fight 
for  control  of  the  Senate,  and  every  member  who 
gave  to  the  Carpenters  Legislative  Improvement 
Committee,  who  volunteered  in  a  campaign,  and  who 
cast  a  vote  shares  in  the  victory. 

The  UBC  contributed  to  the  campaigns  of  old 
friends,  and  those  we  plan  to  have  as  new  friends  in 
Congress.  CLIC  funds  went  to  30  Senate  races,  of 
which  we  won  23.  CLIC  also  supported  the  efforts 
of  293  House  of  Representatives  hopefuls,  where  241 
were  winners. 

In  the  hard  races,  critical  to  control  of  the  Senate, 
the  UBC  had  the  funds  to  give  the  maximum  contri- 
bution allowed  by  federal  law.  Candidates  Shelby  in 
Alabama,  Wirth  in  Colorado,  Graham  in  Florida, 
Fowler  in  Georgia,  Mikulski  in  Maryland,  Sanford  in 
North  Carolina,  Conrad  in  North  Dakota,  Reid  in 
Nevada,  Daschle  in  South  Dakota,  and  Adams  in 
Washington  will  be  going  to  the  Senate  this  year 
thanks  to  the  CLIC  contributions  of  thousands  of 
UBC  members. 

But  the  money  we  gave  is  only  part  of  the  story 
of  the  UBC's  rising  political  power.  Political  action 
by  members  volunteering  in  campaigns  throughout 
the  country  was  a  major  factor  in  our  success.  Friends 
of  labor  need  money  for  campaigns,  but  they  need 
good  organizers  and  workers  too.  UBC  locals,  state, 
and  district  councils  supplied  hundreds  of  experi- 
enced volunteers. 

A  union  organizing  campaign  is  similar  in  many 
ways  to  a  get-out-the  vote  drive,  and  UBC  members 
were  able  to  use  their  organizing  skills  to  good 
advantage  as  political  activists.  "Every  millwright  in 
the  State  of  Nevada  was  registered  to  vote,  and  we 
made  sure  to  get  out  our  absentee  ballots,"  said  Al 
Benedetti  of  Local  1827,  Las  Vegas,  Nev.  Carpenters 
and  millwrights  in  Nevada  ran  phone  banks,  walked 
precincts,  and  put  up  lawn  signs  to  ensure  Harry 
Reid's  victory  as  the  new  senator  from  Nevada. 

In  California,  Carpenters  joined  with  other  labor 
and  minority  voter  networks  in  a  get-out-the  vote 
effort  that  was  credited  with  turning  out   166,000 


Democrats  who  would  not  have  voted  otherwise. 
This  drive  was  a  key  factor  in  returning  Alan  Cranston 
to  the  Senate. 

Brock  Adams  was  actively  supported  by  UBC 
locals  which  "kept  a  steady  barrage  on  the  members 
about  the  need  for  a  change  in  their  senator,"  ac- 
cording to  Jim  Kerlee  of  the  Washington  State  Coun- 
cil. Members  received  special  mailings,  and  heavy 
emphasis  was  placed  on  registering  and  getting  out 
the  vote. 

Along  with  the  national  races,  UBC  members 
participated  in  hundreds  of  local  campaigns  and 
referenda  efforts.  It  is  members'  political  involvement 
at  all  levels  of  government  that  is  giving  the  UBC 
the  strength  to  promote  work-producing  legislative 
goals.  Congratulations  to  the  winning  candidates,  and 
most  of  all  to  the  UBC  members  who  helped  make 
them  winners. 

CLIC  is  gearing  up  for  the  1988  elections.  Hope- 
fully, we  will  make  further  gains  in  the  Congress  and 
help  elect  a  friend  in  the  White  House.  To  bring 
these  goals  into  reality,  CLIC  needs  the  financial 
support  of  our  UBC  membership.  If  you  have  not 
contributed  to  CLIC,  but  want  to  help,  your  contri- 
bution would  be  appreciated.  Only  personal  checks 
or  money  orders  will  be  accepted.  No  local  union 
funds  can  be  used. 

The  UBC  Executive  Board  thanks  you  for  your 
continued  support. 


The  United  Brotherhood's  political  action  group  is  the  Carpenters 
Legislative  Improvement  Committee,  known  familiarly  as  CLIC. 
More  financial  support  of  CLIC  is  needed  in  the  year  ahead. 


f 


Yes,  I  want  to  help! 

Here  is  my  contribution  to  the  Carpenters  Legislative 

Improvement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 

counts. 

D  $10  n  $15  n  $20  n  $25  n  other 

Name 

Address 

City 

Zip 


State. 


LU.  No.. 


We're  required  by  law  to  request  this  information: 

Occupation 

Employer 

Make  checks  payable  to: 

CLIC 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  DC  20001 

Contributions  to  CLIC  are  voluntary  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  refuse  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contributions  from  persons  other  than  UBC 
members  and  their  immediate  families.  Contributions  from  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


CARPENTER 


A  GREAT  ELECTION 

...  but  where  were  the  voters? 


By  JOHN  PERKINS 

Director,  AFL-CIO  Committee 
on  Political  Education 


UBC  members  and  the  trade  union  movement  at  large  can  take 
pride  and  satisfaction  in  tlie  results  of  the  November  4  general 
elections — pride  in  our  contribution  through  political  programs  to 
victories  by  66%  of  all  labor-endorsed  candidates  for  the  U.S. 
House  and  Senate,  and  for  governorships;  satisfaction  that  these 
victories  will  lead  to  better  legislation  for  ourselves,  our  families, 
and  our  nation. 

The  figures  speak  for  themselves:  We  helped  take  control  of 
the  U.S.  Senate  out  of  the  hands  of  anti-union  ultra-conservatives 
by  helping  to  make  possible  a  net  gain  of  eight  friends  of  labor 
and  the  working  population.  The  incoming  Senate  will  be  55-45 
Democratic,  a  dramatic  shift  from  the  present  53-47  Republican 
margin.  We  helped  to  increase  a  slightly  pro-worker,  pro-union 
control  of  the  U.S.  House.  We  also  helped  to  limit  conservative 
gubernatorial  gains. 

Nothing  to  complain  about  .  .  .  right?  Wrong. 

The  fact  is,  it  was  a  great  victory  .  .  .  but: 

Only  37%  of  all  eligible  citizens  voted  on  Election  Day,  Novem- 
ber 4. 

Only  about  50%  of  all  eligible  union  members  went  to  the  polls. 
(The  years  of  effort  by  labor's  political  programs  add  up  to  a 
higher  turnout  among  unionists.) 

The  other  side  of  the  coin  of  this  50%  union  member  turnout  is 
that  50%  of  union  members  "went  fishing."  We  hope  that,  among 
UBC  members,  voting  exceeded  50%  by  a  huge  margin.  We  have 
no  figures  from  which  to  judge. 

But  a  few  words  to  those  who  didn't  vote: 

•  Our  right  to  vote  freely  and  secretly  is  a  right  enjoyed  by  less 
than  25%  of  the  world's  people.  Because  it  is  so  rare,  it  Is  precious 
and  should  be  used. 

•  Our  right  to  vote  freely  and  secretly  is  the  foundation  of  our 
democracy.  It  is  what  most  distinguishes  a  free  people  from  a 
people  not  free,  a  democratic  society  from  a  totalitarian  state. 
Because  it  is  the  basis  of  democracy,  it  should  be  cherished  and 
it  should  be  used.  Like  muscles,  your  voting  franchise  needs 
exercise. 

•  From  a  purely  selfish  point  of  view,  election  results  could  have 
been  even  better  November  4  if  union  members  who  "went  fishing" 
had  gone  to  the  polls  instead.  In  New  York's  27th  Congressional 
District,  labor's  endorsed  U.S.  House  candidate  lost  by  only  511 
votes.  In  Indiana's  Third  District,  our  endorsed  candidate  lost  by 
just  66  votes,  and  in  Minnesota's  Seventh  District,  our  candidate 
was  beaten  by  a  mere  121  votes  (both  pending  a  late  recount).  In 
North  Carolina's  Sixth  District,  we  fell  short  by  82  votes. 

There  were  a  lot  of  other  cliff-hangers  November  4  that  went 
against  labor-supported  candidates  by  a  small  number  of  votes. 
How  many  of  them  could  have  been  elected  if  just  a  few  more 
union  members  turned  out? 

One  of  the  beautiful  things  about  elections  is  there's  always 
another  one  coming  along.  A  lot  of  communities  will  have  municipal 
elections  in  1987.  And,  not  far  down  the  road,  is  1988  and 
presidential  and  congressional  elections. 

To  those  of  you  who  voted  in  the  last  election,  who  participated 
in  the  democratic  process,  a  commendation.  To  those  who  didn't 
go  to  the  polls,  let's  resolve  now  to  get  there  next  time.  There  are 
few  trips  more  important  than  the  one  to  the  polling  place. 


A  LEGISLATIVE  AGENDA 
.  .  .  what  to  expect  in  1987 


Report  from  the 

AFL-CIO  Legislative  Committee  to 

the  UBC  Legislative  Department. 

By  BOB  McGLOTTEN 

AFL-CIO  Legislative  Director 


Now  that  the  election  battles  have  all  been  decided,  many  in 
Washington  have  begun  to  settle  down  to  the  task  of  assessing 
the  accomplishments  of  the  99th  Congress  and  planning  new 
legislative  campaigns  for  the  coming  year. 

Many  issues  of  concern  to  working  Americans  were  the  focus 
of  congressional  attention  during  1986.  Some  of  these  legislative 
initiatives,  including  tax  reform,  immigration  reform,  strengthening 
of  Superfund  and  other  environmental  protections,  an  anti-drug 
program,  sanctions  against  South  Africa,  and  the  elimination  of  a 
mandatory  retirement  for  most  workers,  were  only  resolved  during 
the  last  frantic  weeks  of  the  session. 

On  each  of  the  key  fights  that  we  won  in  1986 — including  the 
derailment  of  Reagan's  proposed  tax  of  employee  benefits  and  the 
defeat  of  the  Hobbs  Act — concerted  grass-roots  lobbying  by  CLIC 
and  union  members  made  the  difference. 

However,  a  number  of  important  AFL-CIO  supported  legislative 
issues  were  not  passed  into  law  and  are  expected  to  reappear 
during  the  100th  Congress.  The  most  notable  of  these — trade 
reform — will  be  high  on  Congress'  1987  agenda,  according  to  both 
Senate  Democratic  Leader  Robert  C.  Byrd  and  the  new  House 
Speaker,  Jim  Wright.  The  Omnibus  Trade  Bill  of  1986,  like 
legislation  which  restricted  the  use  of  polygraphs  by  private 
employers  and  the  Double-Breasting  bill,  passed  in  the  House  but 
did  not  make  it  through  the  Republican-controlled  Senate. 

Although  the  new  Democratic  majority  in  the  Senate  should 
facihtate  the  passage  of  some  of  labor's  legislative  agenda  for 
1987,  future  support  for  labor  issues  can  by  no  means  be  taken 
for  granted.  It  was  a  Democratic-controlled  House  which  failed 
to  override  the  presidential  veto  of  the  Textile  and  Apparel  Trade 
Act  and  that  rejected  a  bill  which  directed  the  Administration  to 
re-hire  1,000  of  the  fired  PATCO  air-traffic  controllers. 

Despite  a  friendlier  Congress,  new  attacks  on  existing  labor 
legislation,  especially  efforts  to  undermine  the  Davis-Bacon  and 
Service  Contract  Acts,  are  expected  to  be  serious  threats  next 
year.  Your  contact  with  your  elected  representatives  will  be  just 
as  vital  to  the  outcome  of  these  battles  during  the  100th  Congress 
as  they  were  during  the  99th. 

Our  legislative  issues  of  interest  to  the  Building  Trades  which 
the  new  Congress  will  take  under  consideration  are:  federal  tax 
deductions  of  construction  workers'  travel  expenses,  which  did 
not  make  it  onto  the  House  or  Senate  floor  this  year;  a  bill  to  curb 
double-breasted  contracting,  which  passed  in  the  House  but  not 
in  the  Senate;  allocations  and  labor  protections  for  the  Highway/ 
Mass  Transit  bill,  which  will  be  one  of  the  first  items  considered 
next  year;  and  allocations  for  construction  of  federally-funded 
housing  projects  which  this  year,  despite  labor's  best  lobbying 
efforts  and  the  increasing  number  of  homeless  in  America,  were 
diverted  by  the  Reagan  Administration  to  be  used  exclusively  for 
renovations. 

The  same  budget  constraints  which  hampered  the  99th  Congress 
will  be  in  effect  during  1987;  the  same  anti-labor  forces  will  be 
working  against  us.  Your  personal  involvement  in  the  legislative 
battles  to  protect  your  rights,  benefits,  and  your  health  and  safety 
will  be  needed  as  much  as  ever;  1987  will  be  a  challenge  for  us 
all. 


JANUARY     1987 


Health  and  Safety  on  the  Hill 

What  we  got  from  the  99th  Congress  .  .  .  What's  left  to  do  in  the  100th 


The  99th  Congress  took  two  steps  forward 
and  one  step  back  in  the  area  of  job  safety 
and  heahh.  Two  major  bills  were  passed 
which  included  important  job  safety  and 
health  protections:  Superfund  legislation  and 
the  Asbestos  Hazard  Emergency  Response 
Act.  Two  other  bills  died  in  committee:  a 
bill  containing  protections  for  workers  han- 
dling pesticides  and  the  High  Risk  Notifi- 
cation Bill,  a  top  priority  for  labor.  These 
will  be  reintroduced  in  the  new  Congress 
convening  this  month. 

What  We  Gained 

Superfund — Just  before  it  ended,  the 
99th  Congress  reauthorized  Superfund  leg- 
islation to  help  clean  up  the  nation's  toxic 
waste  sites.  President  Reagan  signed  it  under 
threat  of  a  Congressional  veto  override.  The 
bill  increased  fivefold  the  amount  to  be  spent 
on  the  cleanup  to  $9  billion  and  mandates 
375  cleanups  be  started  over  the  next  five 
years.  It  sets  standards  for  cleanup,  allows 
citizens  to  sue  for  violations  of  the  law, 
begins  a  program  to  clean  up  leaking  under- 
ground storage  tanks,  and  requires  compa- 
nies to  keep  inventories  of  the  chemicals 
they  have  and  report  emissions  of  wastes  to 
the  EPA.  There  were  three  important  job 
safety  aspects  to  the  bill:  a  community  Right- 
to-Know  section,  new  OSHA  standards  for 
hazardous  waste  work,  and  money  to  train 
cleanup  workers  in  job  safety  and  health. 

The  OSHA  Hazard  Communication 
Standard,  which  went  into  effect  last  May 
in  most  manufacturing  plants,  requires  com- 
panies to  keep  Material  Safety  Data  Sheets, 
which  describe  the  hazards  of  chemicals  in 
the  workplace,  and  make  them  available  to 
workers.  This  regulation  was  created,  in 
part,  to  head  off  a  movement  by  states  and 
cities  to  pass  laws  giving  workers  the  right 
to  know  the  hazards  of  the  chemicals  they 
work  with.  The  state  laws  went  even  farther, 
though,  extending  this  right  to  industries 
other  than  manufacturing  (such  as  construc- 
tion) and  to  the  local  community.  The  courts 
have  ruled  that,  in  general,  the  state  laws 
are  only  pre-empted  by  the  federal  law  in 
the  manufacturing  industry,  where  the  fed- 
eral law  applies.  OSHA  intends  to  extend 
the  federal  law  to  other  industries  this  year, 
as  a  result  of  another  court  decision  requiring 
them  to  do  so.  But  OSHA  does  not  have 
authority  to  expand  the  law  outside  the 
workplace.  That  is  EPA's  jurisdiction.  The 
Superfund  legislation  now  mandates  that  the 
information  employers  must  keep  on  haz- 
ardous chemicals  in  their  workplace  be  made 
available  to  the  surrounding  community. 
These  rights  now  extend  beyond  the  states 
that  have  their  own  community  Right-to- 
Know  laws.  Companies  must  submit  their 
chemical  lists  to  local  emergency  planning 
committees  for  public  access. 

The  Superfund  bill  also  requires  that  OSHA 
enact  new  standards  to  protect  hazardous 
waste  workers.  The  standards  must  include, 
at  a  minimum:  a  formal  site  analysis  and 


worker  protection  plan,  medical  exams  for 
workers,  protective  equipment  require- 
ments, engineering  control  requirements  to 
minimize  exposure,  exposure  limits  and 
monitoring,  training  programs,  work  prac- 
tices for  handling  wastes,  decontamination 
procedures,  emergency  response  require- 
ments, and  new  technology  programs  to 
improve  worker  protection.  OSHA  was  re- 
quired to  issue  interim  standards  in  Decem- 
ber 1986  and  final  rules  by  next  October. 

Lastly,  the  Superfund  bill  set  aside  $10 
million  per  year  over  the  next  five  years  for 
training  of  workers  doing  hazardous  waste 
removal  or  containment  or  emergency  re- 
sponse. The  money  will  be  awarded  as  grants 
to  nonprofit  groups  with  experience  in  worker 
safety  and  health  training  who  can  do  out- 
reach to  hazardous  waste  workers.  A  request 
for  grant  proposals  should  be  made  shortly. 

Asbestos  Bill — The  Asbestos  Hazard 
Emergency  Response  Act  of  1986  was  passed 
because  of  the  growing  concern  about  as- 
bestos hazards  in  schools  and  other  build- 
ings. While  EPA  has  an  aggressive  Asbestos 
Action  Program  doing  outreach  and  provid- 
ing information  and  guidelines  to  the  public, 
they  have  thus  far  refused  to  publish  rules 
requiring  asbestos  cleanups  and  control.  De- 
spite lawsuits  and  pressure  from  unions, 
EPA  rules  only  require  that  schools  inspect 
their  facilities  and  notify  parents  and  teach- 
ers that  asbestos  is  present.  EPA  refused  to 
establish  definitions  of  what  should  be  con- 
sidered hazardous,  thereby  avoiding  correc- 
tive measures. 

Under  this  new  law,  however,  EPA  must 
publish  proposed  rules  within  six  months 
and  final  rules  within  a  year  covering  the 
following  areas: 

•  Proper  procedures  for  building  inspec- 
tions for  asbestos 

•  Triggers  for  determining  when  correc- 
tive action  is  needed 

•  Proper  methods  for  abating  the  hazard 

•  Periodic  inspection  and  operation  and 
maintenance  procedures  until  asbestos 
is  removed 

•  Transportation  and  disposal  of  asbestos 
waste 

•  Written  asbestos  management  plans  for 
each  school  which  are  reviewed  by  the 
states 

These  rules  apply  only  to  asbestos  hazards 
in  schools.  Schools  have  between  one  and 
two  years  to  comply  with  the  rules  once 
they  are  finalized.  EPA  must  also  do  a  study 
of  the  asbestos  problem  in  all  public  buildings 
by  October,  report  to  Congress  on  the  prob- 
lem of  contractors  and  schools  obtaining 
liability  insurance  by  October  1990,  and 
provide  financial  assistance  to  states  or 
schools  to  inspect  and  prepare  management 
plans. 

In  addition  persons  who  must  inspect  for 
asbestos,  prepare  management  plans,  or  de- 
sign or  conduct  corrective  measures  have  to 
be  accredited  by  the  state  or  take  EPA- 
approved  training  courses. 


What  We  lost 

Two  bills  containing  health  safety  provi- 
sions never  made  it  through  the  last  Congress 
and  will  likely  be  top  priorities  in  the  next 
session. 

FIFRA — In  the  early  1970s  Congress  passed 
the  Federal  Insecticide,  Fungicide,  and  Ro- 
denticide  Act,  the  law  governing  the  use  and 
handling  of  the  nation's  pesticides.  After 
two  years  of  negotiations  and  14  years  of 
stalemate.  Congress  overwhelmingly  passed 
the  FIFRA  Reform  Act  to  strengthen  and 
improve  the  law.  This  carefully  crafted  com- 
promise was  supported  by  chemical  com- 
panies, environmental  groups,  consumer 
groups,  the  American  Farm  Bureau,  and  the 
labor  movement.  With  regard  to  health  and 
safety,  it  required  the  full  testing  of  hundreds 
of  pesticides  to  determine  their  toxic  effects 
(such  as  abihty  to  cause  cancer,  birth  de- 
fects, nerve  damage,  etc.).  It  also  required 
that  EPA  adopt  rules  to  protect  workers 
from  exposure  to  pesticides  and  require 
certification  and  training  of  pesticide  appli- 
cators. The  bill  failed  because  of  irreconcil- 
able differences  between  the  House  and 
Senate  versions;  a  dispute  over  how  long 
patents  for  pesticides  should  last.  It  will  be 
reintroduced  this  year. 

High  Risk  Notification — One  of  labor's 
priorities  in  the  last  Congress  was  passage 
of  the  High  Risk  Occupational  Disease  No- 
tification and  Prevention  Act.  Government 
agencies,  such  as  the  National  Cancer  In- 
stitute and  the  National  Institute  for  Occu- 
pational Safety  and  Health,  routinely  do 
studies  of  hazards  in  the  workplace  and  the 
risk  to  workers  exposed  to  toxic  chemicals. 
When  those  studies  are  completed,  however, 
the  workers  are  rarely  notified  that  they  are 
at  risk  of  disease.  If  they  were  told  they 
might  be  able  to  take  steps  to  prevent  the 
progress  of  the  disease  or  apply  for  com- 
pensation. This  bill  would  have  set  up  a 
system  for  identifying  workers  at  risk  of 
occupational  disease  based  on  government 
studies  and  notifying  them  of  these  results. 
Workers  would  then  be  directed  to  health 
care  facilities  for  continuing  follow-up. 

The  bill  ran  into  opposition  from  the  Rea- 
gan Administration,  the  U.S.  Chamber  of 
Commerce,  and  industry-dominated  groups 
such  as  the  American  Industrial  Hygiene 
Association.  The  U.S.  Attorney  General, 
Secretary  of  Health  and  Human  Services, 
and  Secretary  of  Labor  all  signed  a  joint 
letter  to  Congressman  Joseph  M.  Gaydos 
(D-Pa.),  chief  sponsor  of  the  bill,  opposing 
the  legislation. 

The  House  bill  was  approved  by  the  com- 
mittee 20-8,  but  the  Senate  version  did  not 
come  up  for  a  subcommittee  vote.  With  a 
Democratic  Senate  and  Senator  Howard  M. 
Metzenbaum  (D-Ohio)  as  the  chief  sponsor 
of  the  Senate  bill  and  one  of  the  ranking 
members  of  the  Senate  committee,  the  bill 
should  have  an  easier  time  in  the  100th 
Congress. 


CARPENTER 


The  Burning  Question: 
How  iVIuch  Will  Be  Union? 

Waste-to-Energy  Industry  Construction  Shows  Rapid  Increase 


This  Job  ls\ 


This  is  the  first  of  a  series  of  articles 
which  will  appear  in  Carpenter  high- 
lighting various  industries  in  which  con- 
siderable construction  work  is  being 
performed. 


Americans  generate  more  than  400,000 
tons  of  garbage  every  day,  and  we're 
running  out  of  safe  places  to  bury  it. 
Heightened  awareness  of  the  potential 
dangers  and  the  limited  supply  of  land- 
fills as  a  primary  method  of  waste  dis- 
posal has  stimulated  increased  con- 
struction of  large  waste-to-energy 
facilities.  The  hazards  of  creating  large 
dump  sites,  particularly  those  contain- 
ing toxic  waste,  have  made  landfills 
more  expensive  to  create  and  operate. 
Landfills  are  most  often  located  at  sites 
some  distance  from  population  centers, 
making  waste  transportation  expensive. 
Waste-to-energy  facilities,  on  the  other 
hand,  can  be  erected  closer  to  the 
population  centers  they  service. 

The  waste-to-energy  industry  began 
amidst  the  conservation  and  recycling 
surge  of  the  1970s.  Since  that  time  both 
the  procedure  used  and  the  resulting 
products  have  been  modified.  The  sys- 
tem most  widely  utilized  today  is  the 
mass  burn  concept.  The  refuse  is  dumped 
into  a  large  pit — unprocessable  or  haz- 
ardous items  are  removed  when  pos- 
sible— and  the  rest  is  burned  in  a  huge 
boiler.  The  resulting  steam  is  either 
sold  as  is  or  converted  into  electricity 
on  site  then  sold. 

The  significant  growth  of  the  waste- 
to-energy  industry  during  the  past  two 
years  has  provided  a  wealth  of  con- 
struction opportunities.  In  1985,  over 
$2  billion  worth  of  construction  in  this 


industry  was  awarded  to  engineering- 
construction  companies.  Although  it  is 
unknown  just  how  much  the  industry 
will  be  affected  by  the  new  tax  reform, 
a  long  term  projection  is  for  a  $15-18 
billion  industry. 

There  are  approximately  63  opera- 
tional waste-to-energy  facilities 
throughout  the  country.  Until  recently 
most  of  the  plants  were  concentrated 
in  the  Northeast,  where  landfill  space 
is  at  the  greatest  premium,  and  in  Flor- 
ida, where  a  high  water  table  threatens 
contamination  of  drinking  water  by 
landfills.  Currently  there  are  more  than 
350  facilities  throughout  the  United 
States  that  are  in  an  advanced  state  of 
planning,  under  construction,  or  re- 
ported to  be  in  the  planning  stages. 

To  date  a  major  portion  of  this  work 
has  been  awarded  to  nonunion  contrac- 
tors. In  order  to  regain  the  market  share 
that  we've  lost  and  to  capitalize  on 
these  job  opportunities,  the  Brother- 
hood's Special  Programs  Department  is 
closely  monitoring  the  construction  ac- 
tivities in  the  waste-to-energy  industry. 
Information  is  being  gathered  on  the 
construction  contractors  as  well  as  the 
users/owners. 

In  the  waste-to-energy  market,  some 
of  the  leading  participants  include  The 
Henley  Group  (a  spin-off  of  the  Allied 
Signal  Corp.),  Ogden  Martin  Systems, 
American  REF-FUEL  (a  joint  venture 
of  Browning-Ferris  and  Air  Products 
and  Chemicals),  and  Combustion  En- 
gineering. In  addition  to  these  leaders, 
the  union  and  nonunion  affiliates  of 
Blount  Inc.,  Foster  Wheeler,  Waste 
Management  Inc. ,  Dravo  Constructors, 
Consumat  Systems,  Westinghouse,  and 
Katy  Industries  are  active  in  this  in- 


A  waste  facility  serving  nine  communities 
is  being  built  at  Bristol,  Conn.,  by  carpen- 
ters and  millwrights  of  UBC  Local  24  and 
other  Building  Tradesmen.  The  plant,  un- 
der contract  to  Ogden  Martin,  a  German 
firm,  is  the  first  to  accept  commercial  and 
residential  waste  from  multiple  inde- 
pendent communities. 

dustry  in  many  municipalities. 

In  many  instances,  the  companies 
not  only  construct  the  facilities  but 
often  operate  as  the  owner,  operator, 
construction  manager,  and/or  financier 
of  these  facilities. 

The  ownership  strategies  of  industry 
participants  vary.  Both  The  Henley 
Group  and  Ogden  Martin  Systems,  for 
example,  own  most  of  their  facilities. 
Combustion  Engineering,  on  the  other 
hand,  has  to  date  not  taken  an  owner- 
ship role. 

Waste-to-energy  projects  typically  are 
several  years  in  the  planning  and  per- 
mitting-approval  phases  which  provides 
ample  opportunity  for  union  involve- 
ment in  the  processes.  Project  delays 
occur  often  due  to  site  opposition,  en- 
vironmental permit  challenges,  and  dif- 
ficulties in  securing  financial  backing, 
which  often  takes  the  form  of  public 
financing  such  as  bond  issuances.  It  is 
essential  that  we  closely  monitor  these 
various  approval  processes  with  a  goal 
of  participating  in  these  processes  when 
necessary.  Project  Owners  should  be 
contacted  as  soon  as  possible  in  order 
to  determine  who  will  be  selected  to 
bid  the  project.  Early  commitment  from 
the  owner  to  use  union  construction 
could  allow  for  union  political  support 
of  the  project.  Conversely,  a  lack  of 
commitment  by  an  owner  to  employ 
area  craftsmen  at  union  standards  should 


JANUARY     1987 


mobilize  us  against  these  projects. 

One  such  case  in  which  the  UBC  is 
involved  in  community  action  is  in  Ocean 
County,  N.J.,  where  Business  Repre- 
sentative Frank  Krajacich  of  Local  2018 
serves  on  the  Ocean  County  Citizens 
Advisory  Committee  and  Resource  Re- 
covery Waste  Energy  Committee.  Ac- 
cording to  Representative  Krajacich  "the 
siting  and  construction  of  these  waste- 
to-energy  plants  becomes  very  involved 
due  to  public  opposition  and  environ- 
mental constraints."  He  urges  all  UBC 
members  to  become  involved  in  com- 
munity action  in  order  to  "provide  input 
and  have  control  over  activities  con- 
cerning this  very  important  segment  of 
our  industry." 

In  another  case,  this  one  in  San 
Marcos,  Calif.,  Business  Representa- 
tive Dan  Fleming  of  Local  2080  has 
aggressively  fought  the  participation  of 
the  nonunion  general  contractor  Brown 
and  Root  in  a  planned  waste-to-energy 
plant.  Representative  Fleming  was  orig- 
inally informed  that  the  $212  million 
facility  was  going  to  be  built  by  a  union 
contractor,  but  further  research  showed 
that  a  company  called  North  County 


This  Job  May  Bel 

Dan  Fleming,  business  representative  of 
Local  2080,  Escondido,  Calif.,  leads  pick- 
ets from  his  own  local  union  and  Local 
2078,  Vista,  Calif,  in  a  demonstration 
against  North  County  Resource  Recovery 
Associates,  a  project  developer,  planning 
a  $212  million  waste-energy  facility  in 
Southern  California  and  using  Brown  and 
Root  Construction  Co.,  a  nonunion  gen- 
eral contractor. 


Resource  Recovery  Associates  was  the 
project  developer  and  that  Brown  and 
Root  was  the  general  contractor. 

Fleming  immediately  started  devel- 
oping his  local  network,  attending  San 
Marcos  City  Council  meetings,  lobby- 
ing city  council  members,  meeting  with 
the  San  Diego  Board  of  Supervisors, 
and  developing  what  Fleming  stated 
was  "a  strange  relationship  with  the 
Concerned  Citizens  of  San  Marcos" 
and  other  citizen  lobbying  groups.  Al- 
though Fleming's  opposition  is  based 
solely  on  the  use  of  a  nonunion  con- 
tractor who  undermines  the  fair  area 
work  standards,  he  recognized  the  im- 
portance of  allying  with  other  groups 
to  help  him  achieve  his  goal.  The  project 
is  currently  delayed  due  to  a  legal  suit 
involving  conditional  use  permits  and 
Fleming  reports  that  prospects  for  con- 
tinued successful  opposition  to  the  proj- 
ect have  increased  with  newly-elected 
city  council  members. 

Fleming  believes  that  the  message 
conveyed  by  such  participation  is  sim- 
ple: "If  the  project  is  not  built  under 
fair  area  standards,  we'll  fight  to  ensure 
that  it's  not  built." 


Scheduled  Waste-Energy  Plant  Openings,  1987-1990 


1987 

Calif.:  Commerce. 

Conn.:  New  Haven. 

Fla.:  Hillsborough  County. 

Ga.:  Savannah. 

La.:  Shreveport. 

Me.:  Biddeford. 

Mass.:  Holyoke,  Nantucket. 

Mich.:  Jackson  County,  Mu- 
skegon County. 

Minn.:  Mankato,  Red  Wing, 
Newport. 

N.li.:  Claremont,  Hudson. 

N.Y.:  Poughkeepsie. 

Ohio:  Dayton,  Franklin. 

Pa.:  E.  Stroudsburg. 

Tenn.:  Edna. 

Tex.:  Liberty,  Palestine. 

Utah:  Davis  County. 

Va.:  Alexandria,  Petersburg, 
Portsmouth. 

Vt.:  Rutland  County. 

1988 

Ala.:  Huntsville. 

Alaska:  Juneau. 

Ark.:  El  Dorado,  Fayetteville. 

Calif.:  Contra  Costa,  Comp- 
ton,  Long  Beach,  Fremont. 

Conn.:  Bristol,  Bridgeport, 
Hartford,  Wallingford,  Water- 
bury. 


Fla.:  Leesburg,  Key  West. 

Hawaii:  Honolulu. 

Ind.:  Bloomington,  Indianap- 
olis.. 

Me.:  Bangor/Brewer,  Orring- 
ton,  Portland. 

Mass:  Millbury,  Springfield. 

Minn.:  Hennepin  County, 
Olmstead  County,  Perham. 

Mo.:  St.  Louis. 

N.H.:  Concord,  Derry,  Man- 
chester. 

N.J.:  Somerset  County,  War- 
ren County. 

N.Y.:  Islip,  Long  Beach,  St. 
Lawrence. 

N.C.:  Morgantown. 

Ohio:  Cincinnati. 

Pa.:  Erie. 

S.C:  Charleston. 

Tex.:  Lubbock. 

Wise:  Eau  Claire,  La 
Crosse,  Waukesha  County. 

1989 

Calif.:  Irwindale,  Lancer,  Ox- 
nard,  San  Bernardino,  Sander, 
San  Marcos,  Stanislaus. 

Conn.:  Middletown. 

Fla.:  Broward  County  North, 
Palm  Beach  County. 

Mass.:  Holyoke. 


Mich.:  Grand  Rapids. 

Minn.:  Minneapolis. 

N.J.:  Camdem  County,  Edi- 
son Township,  Gloucester 
County,  Hudson  County,  Pas- 
saic. 

N.Y.:  Babylon,  Brooklyn 
Navy  Yard,  Erie  County, 
Hempstead,  Oyster  Bay. 

N.C.:  Gaston  County. 

Pa.:  Bethlehem,  Berks 
County,  Pennsauken,  Reading, 
York  County. 

Tex.:  Austin. 


1990 

Calif.:  Pomona,  Southgate, 
Spadra,  Visalia. 

Conn.:  Preston. 

Fla.:  Broward  County  South, 
Jacksonville,  Pasco  County. 

Mich.:  Kent  County. 

N.J.:  Bergen  County,  Cape 
May  County,  Little  Egg  Har- 
bor Township,  Newark,  Union 
County. 

N.Y.:  Huntington,  North 
Hempstead. 

Ore.:  Portland. 

Pa.:  Lancaster  County. 

Tex.:  Pasadena. 

Wash.:  Spokane. 


-as  reported  by  Waste  Age  Magazine,  November,  1986 


CARPENTER 


UBC,  Other  Crafts  Protest 
Toyota's  Plan  to  Build 
Kentucky  Plant  Nonunion 


At  top  right.  General  President  Patrick  Campbell, 
standing  at  center,  and  First  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lu- 
cassen,  left,  with  other  Building  Trades  leaders  •  Above, 
General  Secretary  John  Rogers  displays  a  placard  for  a 
TV  camera  •  At  far  left.  Second  General  Vice  President 
John  Pruitt  and  General  Treasurer  Wayne  Pierce  join 
another  hard-hat  demonstrator  •  Below,  Building 
Trades  Secretaiy  Joe  Moloney  is  interviewed  by  Tojo 
Broadcasting  •  Lower  left,  UBC  demonstrators  from 
Baltimore  •  Lower  right,  the  UBC  District  of  Columbia 
contingent. 


Hundreds  of  building  trades  workers 
recently  demonstrated  at  the  Japanese 
embassy  in  the  nation's  capital  to  pro- 
test Toyota's  refusal  to  use  union  con- 
struction workers  to  build  an  auto  as- 
sembly plant  in  Georgetown,  Ky. 

UBC  general  officers  and  staff  mem- 
bers joined  Brotherhood  members  from 
Baltimore,  Md.,  and  Washington,  D.C., 
in  a  show  of  determination  to  obtain  a 
satisfactory  project  agreement. 

Placards  and  leaflets  protested  the 


policy  of  Toyota  and  the  Japanese  con- 
struction management  firm  in  charge  of 
the  project  to  use  nonunion  contractors 
and  bypass  union  hiring  halls. 

Secretary-Treasurer  Joseph  Maloney 
of  the  AFL-CIO  Building  and  Construc- 
tion Trades  Department  and  presidents 
of  a  number  of  affiliated  unions  briefed 
reporters  on  the  tactics  of  the  Ohbay- 
ashi  Corp.,  the  Japanese  firm  Toyota 
brought  in  to  oversee  the  construction. 

They  emphasized  that  labor's  quarrel 
Continued  on  Page  27 


JANUARY     1987 


American  Express:  Leave  Home  Without  It 


American  Express'  Nonunion  Construction 
Challenged  at  Conferences;  Handbilling  Underway 


Much  to  the  dismay  of  some  corpo- 
rate officials,  American  Express  was  a 
hot  topic  at  two  recent  conferences  for 
benefit  fund  trustees.  As  we've  seen  so 
many  times,  companies  believe  that  the 
injustices  they  commit  will  soon  be 
forgotten.  American  Express  is  finding 
out  that  their  problems  will  not  go  away 
until  real  changes  are  made  in  their 
construction  practices. 

At  the  1986  conference  of  the  Na- 
tional Coordinating  Committee  for  Multi- 
Employer  Plans,  representatives  of 
American  Express  subsidiaries  were 
challenged  when  they  stated  that  the 
problems  with  their  construction  prac- 
tices had  been  solved.  It  was  made 
clear  that  American  Express  was  still 
being  boycotted  by  the  UBC. 

Many  subsidiaries  of  American  Ex- 
press rely  on  union  pension  funds  for 
their  business.  While  not  subject  to  the 
boycott,  these  companies,  such  as 
Shearson  Lehman  Bros,  and  The  Bos- 
ton Co.,  are  finding  it  difficult  to  get 
new  business  because  of  the  obvious 
connection.  As  one  fund  trustee  said, 
"We  don't  need  to  do  business  with 


AmEx  companies.  There  are  plenty  of 
companies  who  are  both  good  managers 
and  respect  the  labor  movement." 

The  NCCMP  consists  of  more  than 
1 80  multi-employer  pension  and  welfare 
plans  and  is  chaired  by  Robert  A.  Geor- 
gine,  president  of  the  Building  and  Con- 
struction Trades  Department.  Over  three 
hundred  people  attended  the  confer- 
ence held  in  Palm  Springs,  Calif.,  on 
November  12-14. 

A  few  days  later  at  the  32nd  Annual 
Employee  Benefits  Conference  held  in 
Las  Vegas,  Nev.,  members  of  Carpen- 
ters Local  1780  Las  Vegas,  Nev.,  and 
Millwrights  Local  1827,  Las  Vegas, 
Nev.,  were  present  to  distribute  leaflets 
about  our  American  Express  boycott. 
Again,  representatives  from  American 


Let  American  Express  hear  from 
you  .  .  . 

Mr.  James  D.  Robinson  III 
Chairman  &  Chief  Executive 

Officer 
American  Express  Company 
World  Financial  Center 
New  Yorli.  New  York  1028S 


Express  subsidiaries  had  to  explain  why 
all  problems  were  not  solved  between 
the  company  and  labor. 

This  conference  was  attended  by  ap- 
proximately 5000  people,  including  union 
officials,  benefit  fund  trustees,  admin- 
istrators, and  fund  managers,  present- 
ing an  excellent  forum  to  get  our  mes- 
sage out.  According  to  Clifford  Kahle, 
business  representative  for  Local  1780, 
one  of  the  conference  leafletters,  "We 
were  well  received  and  felt  we  had  the 
support  of  those  in  attendance." 

As  this  issue  of  Carpenter  goes  to 
press,  a  nationwide  handbilling  effort 
against  American  Express  will  be  un- 
derway. In  over  20  cities  across  the 
country  members  of  our  Brotherhood 
will  be  out  in  front  of  American  Express 
offices  distributing  our  "Leave  Home 
Without  It"  message. 

"American  Express  has  done  nothing 
but  give  lip-service  to  our  concerns  and 
we  are  not  satisfied,"  stated  General 
President  Campbell.  "We  will  continue 
to  resist  the  efforts  of  American  Ex- 
press to  sweep  this  issue  under  the 
rug." 


Convention,  General  President,  and  Delegates 
Urge  Continued  L-P  Campaign  Efforts  in  1987 


"The  Louisiana-Pacific  campaign  that  be- 
gan in  1983  is  testimony  to  the  will  and 
determination  of  the  Carpenters  Union  to 
stand  by  workers  being  trampled  by  a 
corporation  attempting  to  raise  profit  mar- 
gins on  the  backs  of  working  people  and 
break  their  union." — Industrial  Commit- 
tee Report  to  the  35th  General  Convention 

As  we  begin  the  new  year,  UBC 
General  President  Patrick  J.  Campbell 
has  called  upon  every  BrotherJiood 
member  to  continue  his  or  her  support 
of  the  Louisiana-Pacific  strike  and  boy- 
cott. He  had  this  to  say: 

"The  Brotherhood's  L-P  campaign 
has  meant  many  things  to  many  people 
in  our  union.  For  some,  it  has  meant 
long  hours  on  pickets  and  boycott  lines 
or  attending  environmental  hearings  and 
company  shareholder  gatherings.  For 
others,  it  has  meaiit  the  hope  for  a  more 
secure  future  for  themselves  and  their 
families.  No  matter  what  their  involve- 
ment. Brotherhood  members  have  con- 


veyed an  unselfish  commitment  to  the 
effort  to  protect  the  interests  of  the 
striking  L-P  workers  and  the  thousands 
of  other  UBC  members  working  in  the 
wood  products  industry. 

"These  actions  have  worked.  In  an 
environment  of  tremendous  hostility 
towards  workers  and  their  unions,  the 
determination  that  our  members  have 
shown  in  fighting  L-P  has  helped  secure 
a  solid  future  for  our  members  in  the 
wood  products  industry.  While  other 
unions  are  losing  their  positions  in  in- 
dustry after  industry  in  this  country, 
our  efforts  have  stemmed  the  tide  of 
anti-unionism  in  the  wood  products  in- 
dustry. 

"The  job  is  by  no  means  over,  though. 
As  I've  said  many  times  before,  we 
finish  what  we  start,  and  we're  not 
finished  with  L-P  yet.  Once  again  in 
1987,  L-P  and  its  union-busting  chair- 
man, Harry  A.  Merlo.  will  be  the  target 
of  a  wide  range  of  actions  by  Brother- 
hood members. 


"Our  goal  must  be  to  ensure  that 
never  again  does  any  company  in  any 
industry  where  our  members  work  chal- 
lenge the  livelihoods  of  Brotherhood 
members  and  their  families,  without 
first  understanding  our  commitment  to 
fight  such  actions  as  aggressively  and 
as  long  as  it  takes.  Our  efforts  against 
L-P  have  helped  to  spread  that  mes- 
sage. 

"In  the  coming  year,  I'll  be  asking 
you  all  again  to  help  in  the  L-P  fight  to 
help  protect  your  own  standard  of  liv- 
ing. L-P's  attack  on  fair  worker  stand- 
ards and  the  dignity  of  our  members  is 
not  an  isolated  event.  We  confront 
similar  challenges  from  companies  in 
every  industry  in  which  our  members 
work.  Your  actions  in  support  of  the 
L-P  strikers  has  made  L-P  and  Merlo 
regret  the  day  they  challenged  our  mem- 
bers. In  1987  we  are  challenged  to 
reinforce  and  spread  the  message  of  the 
"will  and  determination  of  the  Carpen- 
ters Union  to  stand  by  workers.' 


10 


CARPENTER 


Nationwide  Fundraising  Effort  for  'Blueprint  for  Cure' 


"Blueprint  for  Cure"  activity  has 
been  high  in  recent  months,  with  mem- 
bers in  areas  all  over  the  country  joining 
in  the  drive  to  raise  money  for  the 
Diabetes  Research  Center  in  Miami, 
Fla. 

According  to  Local  149,  Tarrytown, 
N.Y.,  the  star  at  the  annual  clambake 
this  year  was  the  "Blueprint  for  Cure" 
campaign.  The  local  conducted  a  raffle 
for  a  1987  Chevy  Blazer  that  was  a 
"total  sellout,"  raising  over  $5,000  for 
the  diabetes  fund.  In  fact,  the  executive 
committee  of  the  640-member  local  has 
issued  a  challenge  to  all  locals  to  come 
up  with  a  higher  per  capita  donation 
than  the  $8.00  per  member  they  have 
raised.  Are  there  any  locals  out  there 
willing  to  take  on  that  challenge? 

Selling  chances  on  a  rifle  was  the 
innovative  way  chosen  by  Local  2750, 
Springfield,  Ore.,  to  raise  money  to 
fight  diabetes.  The  local  raised  $450  for 
the  fund. 

Local  829,  Santa  Cruz,  Calif.,  con- 
ducted an  85th  Anniversary  Picnic  raf- 
fle. With  just  10  days  before  the  picnic. 
Business  Agent  and  Financial  Secretary 
Chuck  Neve  and  President  Jonathan  H. 
Boutelle  organized  the  raffle,  securing 
the  donation  of  89  prizes  from  local 
unions,  businesses,  and  individuals.  A 
check  for  $400  was  sent  to  the  "Blue- 
print for  Cure"  campaign  fund  as  a 
result  of  the  raffle. 

Millinocket,  Me.,  was  home  to  Local 
658's  fundraiser  in  support  of  the  UBC's 
efforts  to  raise  $10  million  for  the  Di- 
abetes Research  Institute.  A  VCR  was 
awarded  as  part  of  the  fundraiser,  which 
earned  $600  for  the  fund. 


Local  149,  represented  by  Business  Representative  Garry  Playford,  left,  and  President 
Gary  Omboni,  right,  present  a  check  for  $5,149  for  the  "Bhieprint  for  Cure"  fund  to 
General  Executive  Board  Member  Joe  Lia. 


UBC  Retiree  Club  19  of- 
ficers and  wives  at  their 
banquet,  front  row,  from 
left,  are  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Domenic  Fiorention, 
Mrs.  and  Mr.  Rocco 
Giardinelli  (recording 
secretary),  Mr.  Anthony 
Spadaro  (vice  presi- 
dent), Mr.  Carmen  Di- 
Donato  (president)  and 
Mrs.  DiDonato,  and  Mr. 
Domenic  Paone  (trustee) 
and  Mrs.  Paone.  Back 
row,  from  left,  are  Mr. 
Joseph  Bellis  (president 
of  Local  1050,  Philadelphia 


Pa.),  and  Mrs.  and  Mr.  Anthony  B.  Lalli  (treasurer). 


Jim  Hendri.x.  Local  2750.  Springfield. 
Ore.,  won  the  rifle  raffled  off  by  his  local 
union  in  support  of  "Blueprint  for  Cure." 


And  Retirees  Club  19,  Philadelphia, 
Pa.,  deserves  proper  recognition  for 
their  efforts  in  raising  $1,500  for  the 
Diabetes  Research  Fund.  The  club  con- 
ducted a  gala  banquet,  dance,  and  raffle 
to  raise  money.  Reports  Treasurer  An- 
thony B.  Lalli,  "The  officers  and  their 
wives  worked  hard  and  harmoniously 
for  the  success  of  this  deed  for  such  a 
worthy  cause." 

Recent  contributions  have  been  re- 
ceived from  the  following: 

203,  Poughkeepsie,  New  York 

204,  Merrill,  Wisconsin 
715,  Elizabeth,  New  Jersey 
1338,  Charlottetown,  P.E.I. 
Santa  Clara  Valley  D.C. 

Florida  Assn.  of  Carpenter  Business  Agents 

International  Insurance  Associates,  Inc. 

In  Memory  of  Willard  L.  Cuskaden 

Working  Assets  (VISA) 

Patrick  J.  Campbell 

William  Dickhoff 

E.  Louis  Heath 

Agnes  &  Anthony  Piscitelli 

John  Poyer 


Check  donations  to  the  "Blueprint  for  Cure" 
campaign  should  be  made  out  to  "Blueprint 
for  Cure"  and  mailed  to  General  President 
Patrick  J.  Campbell,  United  Brotherhood  of 
Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America,  101  Con- 
stitution Ave.  N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20001. 


During  ihe  lOOth  anniversary  celebration 
of  Local  142.  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  Financial 
Secretary  Nick  Paplia  and  Treasurer 
David  Hohman  presented  General  Presi- 
dent Patrick  Campbell  with  a  $1,000  check 
for  the  Blueprint  for  Cure  campaign. 


JANUARY     1987 


11 


Washington 
Report 


RULES  PERMIT  HOME  WORK 

The  Labor  Department  has  proposed  new  regula- 
tions to  allow  employes  in  six  industries  to  work  in 
their  homes  as  long  as  the  companies  get  a  gov- 
ernment certificate. 

The  industries  that  would  be  affected  are  wom- 
en's apparel,  jewelry  manufacturing,  gloves  and  mit- 
tens, buttons  and  buckle  manufacturing,  handker- 
chief manufacturing,  and  embroideries. 

The  new  rules  would  apply  the  same  restrictions 
on  those  six  industries  as  have  been  applied  to 
manufacturers  of  knitted  outenwear  since  December 
1984,  when  a  40-year  ban  on  such  work  was  lifted. 

The  department  proposed  the  new  regulations 
following  a  1  y2-year  review  of  the  certification  sys- 
tem that  was  established  for  the  knitted  outerwear 
industry. 

The  certification  system  would  permit  employers 
in  the  six  industries  to  legally  employ  workers  at 
home  if  they  get  certificates  and  pay  the  homework- 
ers  at  least  minimum  wage  and  overtime  pay. 


SCAFFOLD  RULE  PROPOSED 

After  years  of  discussions  OSHA  published,  on 
Nov.  25,  1 986,  a  proposal  to  revise  their  safety 
standards  for  scaffolds,  ladders,  stairways,  and  fall 
protection.  This  is  the  first  time  such  revisions  have 
been  proposed  in  the  1 6  years  since  the  OSHA  Act 
was  passed. 

Many  of  the  requirements  have  been  consoli- 
dated, clarified,  or  made  more  "performance-ori- 
ented" (giving  employers  more  flexibility  to  comply 
with  them).  OSHA  would  like  comments  on  many 
issues  including:  Should  body  belts/harnesses  be 
required  during  suspended  scaffold  erection  or  dis- 
mantling? Should  scaffolds  less  than  10  feet  be 
guarded?  Should  cross-bracing  be  allowed  instead 
of  guardrails?  Should  scaffolds  be  inspected  before 
each  shift?  Each  use?  Should  OSHA  prohibit  or 
regulate  the  use  of  stilts.  Comments  on  the  pro- 
posals are  due  by  Feb.  23,  1987.  Copies  of  the 
proposals  are  available  from  the  UBC  Department 
of  Occupational  Safety  and  Health  or  from  your 
local  OSHA  office.  These  safety  standards  are  cru- 
cial to  the  safety  of  our  members  and  we  urge  you 
to  review  them  and  send  us  your  comments. 


HOUSING  STANDARDS  UPDATED 

The  American  Public  Health  Association  and  the 
U.S.  Centers  for  Disease  Control  revised  recom- 
mended housing  standards  to  reflect  new  concerns 
for  safety,  security,  indoor  air  quality,  hypothermia, 
and  toxic  exposure. 

Included  among  the  new  recommendations  are 
requirements  for  smoke  detectors,  locking  devices, 
and  allowable  concentrations  for  such  toxic  sub- 
stances as  formaldehyde  and  asbestos. 

To  reduce  the  risk  of  hypothermia  among  the 
elderly  and  infirm,  the  groups  say  that  housing  tem- 
perature should  be  maintained  at  70°,  compared  to 
the  68°  temperature  previously  thought  to  be  ade- 
quate. 

Also  emphasized  is  the  need  for  adequate  venti- 
lation, especially  where  kerosene  or  other  space 
heaters  that  burn  carbon  fuel,  are  used.  Poor  venti- 
lation also  may  cause  the  accumulation  of  high 
levels  of  chemicals  and  airborne  fungal  spores  and 
other  indoor  biological  hazards. 

The  recommendations  are  included  in  "Housing 
and  Health:  APHA-CDC  Recommended  Minimum 
Housing  Standards,"  available  for  $7.50  from  the 
American  Public  Health  Association,  1015  15th  St., 
N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20005. 

WORKPLACE  TRAINING  STUDY 

Innovative  ways  to  make  learning  on  the  job 
more  effective  will  be  the  focus  of  a  new  Labor 
Department  study.  Assistant  Secretary  of  Labor 
Roger  D.  Semerad  has  announced. 

A  two-year  $750,000  grant  has  been  awarded  to 
the  American  Society  for  Training  and  Develop- 
ment, an  Alexandria,  Va., -based  training  and  devel- 
opment firm,  to  evaluate  entry  and  mid-level  work- 
place training  methods  used  by  employers  in  the 
private  sector.  The  study  will  examine  ways  to  en- 
hance basic  skills  and  remedial  education  training 
in  selected  service  and  manufacturing  industries. 

"We  want  to  look  at  techniques  used  in  the  pri- 
vate sector  that  can  be  adapted  to  public  sector  job 
training  programs  under  the  Job  Training  Partner- 
ship Act,"  Semerad  said.  "This  study  will  enable  us 
to  keep  pace  with  changing  technologies  in  the 
work  place  as  we  move  toward  the  year  2000." 

FOODSTAMPS  FOR  STRIKERS 

A  federal  judge  has  ruled  invalid  a  1981  law 
passed  by  Congress  at  the  Reagan  administration's 
urging  that  excludes  strikers  and  their  families  from 
food  stamp  aid. 

District  Judge  Louis  F.  Oberdorfer,  appointed  by 
President  Carter  in  1977,  called  the  amendment  to 
the  Food  Stamp  Act  a  violation  of  strikers'  rights 
under  the  First  and  Fifth  Amendments. 

Oberdorfer's  order  said,  in  part:  "Defendant  (the 
government)  may  not  lawfully  withhold  food  stamps 
from  any  individual  plaintiffs'  household  solely  be- 
cause (it)  includes  a  striker  for  the  reason  that  the 
striker  amendment  to  the  Food  Stamp  Act .  .  .  vio- 
lates rights  guaranteed  ...  by  the  First  and  Fifth 
Amendments  . .  ." 

The  United  Auto  Workers  and  the  United  Mine 
Workers  in  1984  had  contested  the  amendment 
which  had  been  used  to  deny  food  stamps  to  mem- 
bers and  their  families  of  both  unions. 


12 


CARPENTER 


Labor  and  Management  Join  Forces 
Against  'Riglit  to  Work'  in  Oklalioma 


Cartoons  drawn  by  John  W.  Wilson,  business  repre- 
sentative of  Local  2008,  Ponca  City,  Okla..  shown 
here,  appear  on  flyers  distributed  in  Oklahoma  to 
fight  "right  to  work" . 


Launching  what  could  be  a  new  era 
of  labor-management  accord  in  a  state 
long  viewed  as  hostile  to  unions,  the 
Oklahoma  State  AFL-CIO,  manage- 
ment, and  state  officials  are  putting  their 
heads  together  to  help  lift  Oklahoma 
out  of  the  economic  doldrums. 

For  the  first  time  since  it  was  orga- 
nized 22  years  ago,  the  Oklahoma  Acad- 
emy for  State  Goals  has  included  the 
state  labor  federation  in  deliberations 
on  how  best  to  deal  with  an  economy 
plagued  by  mounting  unemployment, 
declining  oil  and  gas  revenues,  tumbling 
farm  prices,  and  a  rash  of  bank  failures. 

This  marked  a  giant  step  toward  what 
Oklahoma  AFL-CIO  President  Jim 
Freeman  has  been  calling  for:  "labor- 
management  cooperation  as  the  key  to 
economic  development  to  replace  the 
divisiveness  of  'right-to-work'  provi- 
sions." 

Henry  Bellmon,  the  newly  elected 
Republican  governor,  agreed.  "Okla- 
homans  should  not  look  to  'right-to- 
work'  as  a  cure  for  all  their  ills,"  the 
chief  executive  said  following  the  acad- 
emy session. 

The  group — first  organized  in  1964 
and  revived  two  years  ago — received  a 
study  commissioned  by  the  legislature 
and  prepared  by  Belton  Daniel,  a  Bos- 
ton consultant  who  helped  spark  an 
economic  resurgence  in  Massachusetts. 

Daniel  told  the  400  statewide  civic 
leaders  that  "there  is  no  statistical  evi- 
dence" that  having  an  open-shop  law 
on  the  statute  books  "has  anything  to 
do  with  economic  development."  He 
laid  out  a  five-year  plan  keyed  to  revi- 
talizing existing  industry  and  attracting 
new  companies  through  public  and  pri- 
vate financing. 

To  be  successful,  Daniel  said,  any 
economic  development  program  must 
have  the  endorsement  of  all  parties — 
the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Na- 
tional Association  of  Manufacturers, 
the  governor,  and  the  State  AFL-CIO. 
The  inclusion  of  labor  in  the  decision- 
making process  was  a  radical  departure 
in  Oklahoma. 


The  action  came  as  the  National  Right 
to  Work  Committee  targeted  Oklahoma 
for  its  major  push  in  1987 — flushed  with 
victory  after  winning  a  referendum  in 
November  that  made  Idaho  the  21st 
state  with  a  compulsory  open-show  law. 

AFL-CIO  Legislative  Director  Rob- 
ert M.  McGlotten  has  responded  to 
Freeman's  request  to  help  strengthen 
legislative  action  committees  across  the 
state  and  mobilize  them  to  beat  back 
the  open-shop  threat  in  the  Republican- 
dominated  legislature. 

Organizing  and  training  for  the  grass- 
roots lobbying  campaign  will  be  con- 
ducted by  Mike  Gildea  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Legislation  at  two  on-site  train- 
ing and  education  workshops  this 
month — one  in  Oklahoma  City,  the  other 
in  Tulsa.  Attending  the  orientation  ses- 
sions will  be  local  union  leaders,  shop 
stewards,  political  and  legislative  activ- 
ists, and  other  volunteers. 

With  the  R-T-W  forces  focusing  money 
and  political  influence  on  this  state, 
McGlotten  said,  labor  is  going  ahead 
with  its  "multi-faceted  grass-roots  lob- 
bying campaign  aimed  at  stopping  'right- 
to-work'  dead  in  its  tracks  in  Okla- 
homa." The  key  to  success,  he  said, 
wiU  be  shop  stewards  who  have  the 
"potential  for  networking  on  the  job 
site." 

The  stakes  are  high — and  not  just  in 
Oklahoma. 

Should  the  R-T-W  forces  succeed  in 
making  this  the  22nd  compulsory  open- 
shop  state,  McGlotten  warned,  it  would 
give  momentum  to  their  efforts  in  such 
vulnerable  states  as  New  Hampshire 
and  New  Mexico,  and  would  greatly 
enhance  their  fund-raising  efforts. 

Moreover,  he  added,  the  closer  the 
Right-to-Work  Committee  comes  to 
reaching  the  goal  of  having  a  majority 
of  states  with  anti-labor  legislation,  the 
greater  will  be  the  intensity  of  its  efforts 
at  the  national  level  to  push  through  a 
federal  compulsory  open-shop  law. 


Rats  gnawing  away  at  the  collective  bar- 
gaining agreement  symbolize  three 
enemies  of  workers — unemployment  "right 
to  work,"  and  "Davis-Bacon  reform." 


More  Contributors 
To  L-P  Strike  Fund 

Local  unions  and  individual  members  con- 
tinue to  support  the  "Adopt  an  L-P  Striker" 
Fund.  The  following  contributors  have  been 
added  to  the  list  since  our  last  report: 

80,  Chicago,  111. 

1596,  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

2162,  Kodiak,  Alaska 

James  J.  Andrews 

Fred  M.  Issel 

Thomas  Kay 

Steve'  Lange,  a  member  of  Local   1185, 

Chicago,  111.,  who  is  a  brother  of  one  of 

the  strikers  and  who  won  Local  1185's 

monthly  L-P  raffle. 

Contributions  sliould  be  sent  to:  L-P  Stri- 
liers  Fund,  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters 
and  Joiners  of  America,  101  Constitution 
Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20001. 

Support  for  Borski 


Among  the  many  winning  candidates  sup- 
ported by  the  Carpenters  Legislative  Im- 
provement Committee  in  the  November 
elections  was  Congressman  Robert  Borski, 
who  represents  the  Northeast  Section  of 
Philadelphia,  Pa.  He  is  shown  at  the  pres- 
entation of  a  contribution  to  his  campaign 
by  the  Philadelphia  Metropolitan  District 
Council.  Left  to  right,  Council  President 
Ed  Coryell,  Congressman  Borski,  and  Sec- 
retary-Treasurer Pro-tem  Harrison  Lan- 
gley. 


JANUARY     1987 


13 


OttaiMfa 


SOCREDS  WIN  BIG  IN  B.C. 

The  reelection  of  the  Social  Credit  government  in 
British  Columbia  under  Premier  Bill  Vander  Zaim 
does  not  bode  well  for  the  province's  trade  union- 
ists. 

The  Socreds  won  in  a  landslide  decision  which  is 
indicative  of  a  shift  to  the  right — a  trend  evident  in 
area  elections.  Municiple  elections  held  not  long 
after  Vander  Zaim's  victory  followed  the  same 
trend.  Even  seats  with  a  long  New  Democratic 
Party  tradition  were  won  by  the  right. 

Trade  unionists  were  grim  about  the  province's 
future  prospects  and  were  predicting  a  sharp  rise  in 
unemployment  over  the  winter,  while  the  reaction  of 
big  business  employers  was  optimistic. 

Vander  ZaIm  made  it  clear  during  the  campaign 
that  his  economic  policies,  which  are  blamed  for  the 
worsening  B.C.  recession,  will  not  change.  And  his 
20  years  in  public  life  show  us  that  British  Columbi- 
ans probably  don't  have  much  to  look  forward  to. 


KOREAN  CAR  SALES  TAKE  JOBS 

Howard  McCurdy,  a  member  of  Parliament  for 
Windsor-Walkerville,  Ontario,  recently  appealed  to 
International  Trade  Minister  Pat  Carney  regarding 
her  decision  not  to  seek  voluntary  restraint  quotas 
on  importing  Hyundai  cars. 

McCurdy  told  her  that  top  Canadian  car  industry 
officials  and  union  executives  have  warned  that  un- 
less the  government  acts  now,  Japanese  and  South 
Korean  automakers  could  soon  capture  more  than 
half  the  Canadian  car  market  at  a  cost  of  40,000 
Canadian  jobs. 

For  the  fiscal  year  ending  in  March  1986,  South 
Korean  car  imports  soared  163.1%  over  the  pre- 
vious year  to  capture  7.6%  of  the  total  market, 
moving  Hyundai  into  the  number  four  spot. 

In  contrast,  under  a  (now  expired)  Voluntary  Re- 
straint Agreement,  Japanese  car  imports  increased 
only  marginally  from  17.4%  to  17.7%.  Japan's  Min- 
istry of  International  Trade  and  Industry  has  indi- 
cated on  several  occasions  that  Japan  will  not 
agree  to  further  restraints  unless  the  Canadian 
Government  acts  to  limit  shipments  of  South  Ko- 
rean cars  or  backs  off  from  some  of  its  local-con- 
tent demands  for  new  plants  being  constructed  in 
Canada  by  Japanese  automakers. 


UNITING  AGAINST  OPEN  SHOPS 

Open-shop  construction  may  be  making  inroads 
in  Western  Canada,  but  if  the  annual  convention  of 
the  Ontario  building  trades  is  any  indication,  it  may 
have  inadvertently  unified  the  construction  labor 
movement  in  that  province. 

Carpenters,  laborers,  electricians,  and  plumbers 
put  aside  their  differences  at  the  Provincial  Building 
and  Construction  Trades  Council  of  Ontario  conven- 
tion, and  they  collectively  cast  a  nervous  glance  at 
Western  Canada. 

There,  the  Alberta-based  Merit  Shop  Construction 
Association  is  providing  workers  with  pensions  and 
benefits,  setting  up  training  programs,  and  even 
establishing  hiring  halls — all  nonunion. 

Two  resolutions  and  several  speakers  at  the  con- 
vention addressed  the  growing  threat  of  nonunion 
construction  in  Canada. 

Ken  Martin,  executive  secretary  of  the  Canadian 
Executive  Board  of  the  AFL-CIO's  Building  and 
Construction  Trades  Department,  was  the  first  in- 
vited speaker  to  confront  the  issue. 

Martin  stressed  Ontario  unionists  should  pay 
close  attention  to  developments  in  other  provinces, 
and  cited  as  an  example  a  recent  agreement  in 
Newfoundland. 

Contractors  there  have  promised  to  stop  double- 
breasting  and  using  nonunion  subtrades — in  ex- 
change for  wage  rollbacks  and  freezes. 

Martin  praised  the  agreement  as  a  fair  and  inno- 
vative one. 

"If  we  can  stop  double-breasting  all  over  Canada, 
then  we're  way  ahead  of  where  we  are  now." 


WORKER  SAFETY  SYSTEM 

Millions  of  Canadian  workers  could  be  better  pro- 
tected from  hazardous  materials  under  a  system 
proposed  by  federal  and  provincial  ministers. 

Under  the  plan — the  Workplace  Hazardous  Mate- 
rials Information  System — employers  would  be  re- 
quired to  teach  wprkers  how  to  decipher  the  data 
and  respond  to  emergencies. 

The  plan  was  proposed  to  the  ministers  by  a 
group  of  business,  labour,  and  government  officials 
which  has  been  meeting  for  three  years  to  devise  a 
system  of  dealing  with  hazardous  materials. 

Business  representatives  see  the  system  as  a 
way  to  reduce  accidents  and  illnesses  which  result 
in  significant  jumps  in  the  cost  of  employer  premi- 
ums to  cover  compensation  benefits  for  lost  time. 

The  Canadian  Centre  for  Occupational  Health 
and  Safety  says  more  than  a  million  people  were 
injured  at  work  last  year. 

Such  legislation  would  set  national  standards  for 
producers  and  suppliers  of  hazardous  chemicals. 
The  provinces  would  follow  with  changes  to  occu- 
pational health  and  safety  laws  covering  their  juris- 
diction. 

Ontario  has  introduced  right-to-know  legislation 
which  would  force  employers,  suppliers,  and  manu- 
facturers of  hazardous  chemicals  to  inform  their 
workers — and  anyone  else  who  asks — about  the 
dangers  of  substances  and  the  best  way  to  handle 
them. 


14 


CARPENTER 


'Refunt^  ^^umv  2,ueJ^ 


From  time  to  time  Carpenter  publishes  news  and  com- 
mentary from  the  Province  of  Quebec.  For  the  benefit  of 
our  French-speaking  members  in  Eastern  Canada,  here  is 
one  such  report  in  French,  below,  and  translated  into 
English  at  right. 


Voix  Discordantes  Chez  Les  Patrons 
Et  Les  Syndicats  De  La  Construction 

Le  manque  d'unite  chez  les  patrons  de  la  construction 
est  un  obstacle  clef  a  la  dereglementation,  selon  les  con- 
ferenciers  a  un  colloque  recent  de  la  Federation  de  la 
Construction  du  Quebec. 

"Le  probleme  d'unite  est  beaucoup  plus  grand  du  cote 
patronal  que  syndical,"  affirmait  M.  Gerard  Hebert,  pro- 
fesseur  de  relations  industrielles  a  I'Universite  de  Montreal. 
Malgre  les  recommendations  du  rapport  Scowen  visant 
Tabolition  de  regies  gouvernementales,  il  parait  que  les 
employeurs  ne  sont  pas  tous  d'accord  sur  le  sujet. 

Le  reglement  de  placement,  par  exemple,  est  contro- 
verse.  Dans  I'industrie  de  la  construction  ce  reglement 
fonctionne  comme  les  regies  d'anciennete  en  vigueur  par- 
tout  ailleurs.  Au  lieu  de  I'abolition  pure  et  simple,  la  voie 
d'amendement  a  ses  adherents.  On  dit  meme  que  la  majorite 
des  employeurs  se  sont  habitues  au  systeme  de  reglement 
present  et  ne  veulent  generalement  pas  de  changement. 

En  citant  les  prises  de  positions  divergentes  et  la  mul- 
tiplicite  des  associations,  M.  Hebert  concluait  que  c'est  le 
point  du  cote  syndical  qui  va  passer  si  I'industrie  continue 
a  envoyer  des  messages  divergents  au  gouvernement. 

En  ce  moment,  pourtant,  on  entend  egalement  des  voix 
discordantes  chez  les  metiers  de  la  construction.  II  s'agit 
de  la  fagon  dont  la  derniere  convention  collective  a  ete 
impose  par  les  dirigeants  de  la  FTQ-Construction.  Plusieurs 
groupes,  y  inclus  la  Fraternite  Nationale  des  charpentiers- 
menuisiers,  reprochent  aux  dirigeants  d'avoir  fait  fi  d'un 
vote  majoritaire  contre  les  dernieres  offres  des  patrons  de 
la  construction  et  d'avoir  signe  la  convention  sans  autori- 
sation. 

Cette  contestation  qui  commence  a  s'exprimer  publique- 
ment  pourrait  signaler  un  mouvement  de  reforme.  Pourtant, 
U  parait  que  la  F.N. CM.  n'arrive  toujours  pas  a  I'emporter 
au  sein  de  la  FTQ  malgre  son  importance  numerique,  et 
on  n'attend  pas  a  voir  une  direction  qui  serait  issue  des 
menuisiers.  Tant  que  persiste  cet  etat  de  choses  les  membres 
affilies  auront  a  vivre  avec  leur  probleme. 


Dissension  and  Discord  in  the 
Quebec  Construction  Industry 

The  lack  of  a  united  front  among  Quebec  construction 
contractors  has  frustrated  their  efforts  to  bring  about 
deregulation  of  the  industry  so  far.  The  extent  of  the 
disarray  was  reflected  in  the  remarks  of  various  panelists 
at  a  recent  conference  sponsored  by  the  Quebec  Construc- 
tion Federation. 

"The  problem  of  unity  is  much  greater  on  the  manage- 
ment side  than  the  union  side,"  confirmed  speaker  Gerard 
Hebert,  professor  of  industrial  relations  at  the  University 
of  Montreal.  Despite  the  recommendations  of  a  June  1986 
report  aimed  at  the  abolition  of  governmental  regulations, 
it  seems  that  the  construction  employers  are  far  from 
unanimous  on  the  issues. 

One  of  the  most  controversial  points  was  the  proposal 
to  do  away  with  the  regulations  on  hiring  and  placement 
of  workers,  which  have  been  in  effect  since  1978.  That 
body  of  rules,  which  among  other  things  links  hiring  to  the 
number  of  hours  previously  worked,  serves  the  function 
in  the  construction  industry  of  the  seniority  systems  typi- 
cally prevailing  in  other  industry  sectors.  There  appears  to 
be  a  considerable  sentiment  in  favor  of  modification  rather 
than  wholesale  repeal.  Some  commentators  have  observed 
that  the  construction  employers  have  grown  used  to  the 
present  system  and  are  not  highly  motivated  to  make 
drastic  changes. 

The  multiplicity  of  employer  associations,  with  differing 
positions  on  critical  issues,  was  cited  as  a  major  problem 
for  the  contractors.  In  a  pointed  summation.  Professor 
Hebert  concluded  that  as  long  as  management  continues 
to  send  conflicting  messages  to  the  governmental  authori- 
ties, the  unions'  point  of  view  should  prevail. 

At  the  same  time,  however,  the  union  side  appears  to 
be  having  its  own  problems  maintaining  internal  harmony. 
The  most  recent  controversy  involves  the  actions  of  the 
FTQ-Construction  Trades  leadership  in  imposing  the  latest 
collective  bargaining  agreement.  Several  affiliated  groups, 
including  the  National  Federation  of  Carpenters  (a  rival  of 
the  UBC),  have  been  expressing  substantial  dissatisfaction 
over  the  FTQ's  signing  of  the  contract  despite  a  majority 
vote  rejecting  the  employers'  final  offer. 

This  internal  dissension  has  begun  to  be  aired  publicly, 
and  some  observers  have  speculated  about  a  possible 
movement  for  reform  in  the  FTQ-Construction  Trades.  It 
appears,  however,  that  the  National  Federation  of  Carpen- 
ters is  a  long  way  from  making  its  views  effective  in  the 
FTQ  and  would  be  unlikely  to  succeed  in  gaining  a 
controlling  position  in  that  body's  leadership.  So  long  as 
this  state  of  affairs  persists  the  affected  members  will  have 
to  live  with  their  problem. 


TOUGH  STRIKE  LAW  THREATENS  HEALTH  CARE  WORKERS  IN  QUEBEC 


The  Liberal  government  of  Premier  Robert 
Bourassa  in  Quebec  has  brought  in  one  of 
the  toughest  labor  laws  in  Canadian  history 
to  counter  illegal  strikes  or  slowdowns  in 
hospitals  and  other  health-care  institutions. 

Bill  160  threatens  Quebec's  134,000  hos- 
pital and  health-care  workers,  including 
nurses-:-and  their  unions  and  union  lead- 
ers— with  an  unprecedented  array  of  sanc- 
tions and  penalties. 

The  emergency  law,  rushed  through  to 
halt  a  threatened  series  of  illegal  24-hour 
walkouts  in  health-care  facilities  decrees: 

•  Any  employee  illegally  absent  from  work 
or  failing  to  carry  out  his  regular  duties 


would  lose  one  year  of  seniority  for  each 
day  or  part  of  a  day  the  offence  lasted; 

•  Fines  ranging  from  a  minimum  of  $10,000 
to  a  maximum  of  $50,000  a  day  for  any  union 
officer  who  "contravenes  or  incites  or  en- 
courages a  person  to  contravene"  the  illegal 
work  stoppage  ban; 

•  Fines  for  individual  offenders  starting 
at  $25  and  going  up  to  $10,000; 

•  Fines  for  unions  ranging  from  $20,000 
to  $100,000  per  offence  for  declaring  an 
illegal  work  stoppage  or  failing  to  induce 
their  members  to  obey  the  law.  Employees 
involved  in  a  work  absence  or  slowdown 
would  be  docked  an  additional  day's  pay. 


up  to  20%  of  total  salary  per  pay  period, 
with  the  government  giving  the  money  to  a 
charity; 

•  Unions  held  liable  for  damages  resulting 
from  a  violation  of  the  law  would  be  assumed 
guilty  unless  they  proved  their  innocence,  a 
reversal  of  the  usual  burden  of  proof 

Bourassa  said  the  legislation  was  neces- 
sary because  Illegal  strike  action  in  hospitals 
has  become  "intolerable"  in  Quebec. 

The  hospital  and  health-care  workers  are 
among  300,000  public  servants  who  have 
been  negotiating  with  the  Quebec  govern- 
ment for  up  to  18  months  for  renewal  of 
their  three-year  contracts. 


JANUARY     1987 


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Labor  News 
Roundup 


strike  activity 
siiowed  increase 
in  1986 

Last  year  was  a  busy  year  for  work 
stoppages,  with  31  major  stoppages  com- 
menced during  the  January-June  period, 
compared  with  only  17  in  the  first  six 
months  of  1985.  The  record  low  in  1985 
for  a  39-year  period  was  only  54  major 
strikes  (those  involving  1,000  or  more 
workers).  In  the  first  six  months  of  1986, 
280,000  workers  were  involved  in  the 
strikes — a  total  which  fast  approaches 
the  324,000  1985  total. 


Construction 
industry  pension 
plans  improving 


Although  a  recent  survey  shows  that 
pension  plans  are  becoming  healthier  in 
most  industries,  construction  experi- 
enced the  best  record  last  year  among 
all  industries  with  85%  of  industry  plans 
having  vested  benefits  that  are  fully 
funded.  Construction  plan  experts  con- 
sider, however,  that  15%  unfunded  lia- 
bility is  still  a  serious  problem.  After  12 
years  of  ERISA,  enacted  to  safeguard 
pension  plan  assets,  even  15%  is  an 
unacceptable  number. 

All-union 
runners 
In  St.  Paul 

In  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  the  labor  movement 
is  not  entirely  preoccupied  with  wages 
and  hours  and  dollars  and  cents.  This 
was  shown  when  the  State  AFL-CIO 
announced  formation  of  a  competitive 
runners'  group.  The  first  event  is  cer- 
tainly not  for  sissies  because  it's  a  100- 
kilometer  run.  That's  not  a  misprint;  it's 
a  62-mile  relay.  Union  leaders  predict 
that  if  the  runners  (all  of  them  union 
members)  aren't  in  top  shape  when  they 
start  out,  they  will  be  when  they  finish. 

Frances  Perkins  first 
female  unionist  in 
"Hall  of  Femme" 

In  Boston,  Mass.,  "America's  Hall  of 
Femme,"  comprising  the  nation's  25  most 
notable  women,  recently  acquired  its  first 
1     female  unionist.  Named  to  the  women's 
j     hall  of  fame  was  Frances  Perkins,  first 
j     N.Y.  State  and  U.S.  Secretary  of  Labor 
and  pioneer  of  innovative  labor  legisla- 
tion. 


Idaho  votes 
to  keep 
R-T-W  law 

Idaho  remains  the  21st  Right-to-Work 
State  as  a  result  of  a  Nov.  4,  1986, 
referendum  in  which  54%  of  the  voters 
favored  keeping  the  law  and  46%  voted 
for  repeal.  The  margin  of  victory  was 
wider  than  many  observers  anticipated. 
A  poll  published  six  days  before  the 
election  by  the  Idaho  Statesman  showed 
voters  evenly  split  on  the  issue.     ■ 

The  referendum  initiative  began  Jan. 
31,  1985,  when  the  Republican-domi- 
nated legislature  overrode  Democratic 
Governor  Evans'  veto  of  a  bill  barring 
union  shop  contracts  making  union  mem- 
bership a  condition  of  employment.  Al- 
though organized  labor  quickly  rounded 
up  enough  petition  signatures  to  force  a 
referendum  on  the  law,  the  Idaho  Su- 
preme Court  denied  a  union  attempt  to 
block  enforcement  of  the  law  in  the 
period  between  enactment  and  the  date 
of  the  referendum  vote. 

Generation  gap 
evident  in 
work  attitudes 

A  study  by  the  School  of  Business  at 
Harvard  University  shows  a  dramatic 
difference  in  work  attitudes  between  peo- 
ple over  and  under  40. 

Those  over  40  accept  authority  and 
see  work  as  a  duty  and  an  instrument  to 
support  the  family.  Workers  under  40 
distrust  authority  and  believe  work  should 
be  socially  enjoyable.  The  older  gener- 
ation expects  promotions  to  come  only 
after  years  of  experience,  whereas  the 
younger  generation  believes  people  should 
advance  as  soon  as  their  competence 
permits. 

People  over  40  see  fairness  as  treating 
everyone  the  same,  while  people  under 
40  believe  fairness  requires  that  individ- 
uals be  allowed  to  be  different.  Finally, 
the  older  generations  cares  about  status 
and  possessions,  while  the  younger  gen- 
eration values  experiences. 

California  official 
charged  with  neglect  of 
state  labor  laws 

The  Painting  and  Drywall  Work  Pres- 
ervation Fund  Inc.,  representing  unions 
and  employers,  filed  suit  in  Superior 
Court  in  San  Francisco,  Calif.,  charging 
that  Gov.  George  Deukmejian's  appoint- 
ees in  the  Department  of  Industrial  Re- 
lations are  failing  to  enforce  state  labor 
laws.  The  California  AFL-CIO  News  said 
the  complaint  alleges  failures  to  enforce 
prevailing  wage  laws  and  apprenticeship 
standards.  The  News  noted  that  the  labor 
standards  division  is  headed  by  a  Deuk- 
mejian  appointee  who  previously  worked 
for  a  union-busting  law  firm. 


Cole  retires  from 
Meany  Center; 
Walsh  signs  on 

Gordon  Cole,  who  taught  newswriting 
and  other  media  courses  at  the  George 
Meany  Center  for  Labor  Studies  in  Silver 
Spring,  Md.,  has  retired  after  nearly  50 
years  in  the  union  movement.  Cole,  74, 
was  a  long-time  director  of  public  rela- 
tions for  the  Machinists  before  joining 
the  Meany  Center.  Prior  to  that,  he 
worked  as  a  .reporter  at  the  Syracuse 
(N.Y.)  Post  Standard,  The  Wail  Street 
Journal,  the  PM  news  bureau  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  and  Labor  Relations  Re- 
porter. He  was  the  first  president  of  the 
International  Labor  Press  Association 
and  served  on  its  board  for  12  years. 
Louis  Walsh,  the  editor  of  the  Washing- 
ton Post's  national  desk  and  a  former 
UPI  editor  and  reporter,  has  been  chosen 
as  his  replacement. 


Amtrak  fined 
for  incompetence, 
employee  harassment 

Despite  a  $1  million  penalty  from  Con- 
gress for  management  incompetence  and 
employee  harassment,  Amtrak's  abuse 
of  employees  has  grown  worse  on  a 
national  scale,  charged  Michael  Young, 
chairman  of  the  Railway  and  Airline 
Clerks'  Amtrak  System  Division  and  the 
Amtrak  Service  Workers  Council.  The 
$1  million  penalty  stemmed  from  an  in- 
vestigation in  the  Chicago  region.  How- 
ever, Young  said  the  number  of  unjus- 
tified disciplinary  actions  against 
employees  has  "dramatically  escalated" 
in  Miami,  Fla.;  Tampa,  Fla.;  New  York, 
N.Y.;  Washington,  D.C.;  Los  Angeles, 
Calif.;  and  Boston,  Mass. 


Buildings  in 
U.S.  will 
double  by  2040 


According  to  a  report  by  the  Dodge/ 
DRI  Corp.  and  Real  Estate  Corp.,  if 
current  growth  trends  continue,  the  num- 
ber of  buildings  in  the  U.  S.  will  double 
by  the  year  2040.  The  study,  claiming  to 
be  the  first  of  its  kind  to  reliably  estimate 
an  inventory  of  15  different  types  of 
buildings  at  national,  state,  and  county 
levels,  indicated  that  75%  of  all  com- 
mercial floor  space  standing  in  1985  was 
built  before  1970.  This  percentage  varies 
regionally  from  a  high  of  91%  in  the  Mid- 
Atlantic  states  to  a  low  of  61%  in  the 
West  South  Central  region.  From  1970 
to  1984,  based  on  square  footage,  total 
inventory  showed  an  average  annual 
growth  of  1.66%.  In  the  nonresidential 
category,  average  annual  growth  was; 
commercial,  2.02%;  manufacturing,  .30%; 
and  institutional.  1.86%. 


16 


CARPENTER 


locni  union  nEuui 


Arkansas  Members 
Build  Biggest  Sundial 

In  celebration  of  Arkansas'  1986  sesqui- 
centennial  anniversary  of  statehood,  vol- 
unteers from  throughout  central  Arkansas 
recently  gathered  to  construct  a  sundial  in 
North  Little  Rock.  Carpenters  Local  690, 
Little  Rock,  Ark.,  was  joined  by  electrical 
workers  and  bricklayers  to  complete  the 
project,  which  will  be  listed  in  The  Guinness 
Book  of  World  Records  as  "the  world's 
largest  horizontal  sundial,  serving  as  a  clock, 
calendar,  and  compass."  The  North  Little 
Rock  Volunteers  for  Improvement  and  Pres- 
ervation Committee  acquired,  from  more 
than  50  nations,  the  contribution  of  either  a 
stone  or  brick  from  a  historic  structure  to 
be  included  in  the  face  of  the  Sesquicenten- 
nial  Sundial. 

As  excerpted  from  the  invitation  to  the 
dedication  ceremony  sent  to  President  Rea- 
gan: "Among  the  contributions  is  a  brick 
from  the  house  where  the  Jewish  child  Anne 
Frank  and  her  family  hid  from  the  Nazi 
terror.  A  specially  inscribed  piece  of  marble 
from  the  Vatican  was  sent  by  Pope  John 
Paul  II.  The  Republic  of  China  sent  a  1 ,000- 


Union  \olitnleeis  at  woik  on  Arkansas 
Sesquicentennial  Sundial,  expected  to  be 
the  world's  largest. 

year-old  stone  from  their  Great  Wall  .  .  . 
Granite  from  the  Holy  City  of  Jerusalem  .  .  . 
a  brick  from  the  building  in  Senegal  that 
served  as  the  gateway  for  slaves  leaving  that 
country  en  route  to  the  United  States,  and 
many  others,  are  all  united  in  this  historical 
project." 


Arkansas  Pipe  Firm  Signs  With  Local  2111 


Local  2111,  a  newly  chartered  UBC  local 
in  Siloam  Springs,  Ark.,  recently  signed  an 
agreement  with  Jet  Stream  Plastics  Pipe  Inc. 
The  contract  provides  a  grievance  and  ar- 
bitrating procedure,  safety  and  work  tools, 
a  seniority  clause,  reporting  and  call-in  pay, 
and  many  additional  benefits,  including  im- 
proved and  adjusted  wage  rates. 


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UBC  Representative  Jim  Tudor,  right,  with 
Local  2111  members  Willie  Reed,  Tom 
Squire,  Kenneth  Allen,  and  Lonnie  Davi- 
son. 

Council  Trustees 


Local  2111  Negotiating  Committee  Chair- 
man Bill  DonCarlos  signs  the  agreement. 


Lonie  Ellison,  left,  and  Lois  Seesoltz,  cen- 
ter, were  recently  sworn  in  as  trustees  of 
the  Mid-Eastern  Industrial  Council  by 
Council  Secretary  Joe  Farrone.  The  cere- 
mony was  held  dining  a  regular  meeting  of 
the  Council. 


Illegal  Aliens  Used 
For  Cheap  Labor 

Fifteen  illegal  aliens  were  arrested  in  Olathe, 
near  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  recently,  highhght- 
ing  what  Kansas  City  District  Council  Ex- 
ecutive Secretary  Virgil  Heckathorn  calls 
"a  serious  and  continuing  problem."  Illegal 
workers  were  employed  at  an  apartment 
complex  in  Overland  Park,  Mo.,  where  52 
alien  workers  were  arrested  the  prior  year. 

Heckathorn  described  conditions  as  "de- 
plorable" when  alien  workers  were  discov- 
ered living  on  construction  sites  as  "virtual 
slave  labor,"  and  not  even  making  minimum 
wage.  He  told  the  Kansas  City  Labor  Beacon 
that  by  using  such  cheap  labor  without 
providing  benefits  or  paying  Social  Security, 
withholding,  or  unemployment  taxes,  out- 
of-state  subcontractors  can  come  into  town 
and  make  bids  for  construction  work  that 
"not  even  the  local  nonunion  contractors 
can  match." 


Are  union  dues 
too  high? 


If  you  smoke  a  pack  of  cigarettes 
a  day  at  950  per  pack,  in  50  years  you 
would  spend  $17,349.38. 

If  you  go  to  the  beauty  shop  once 
a  week  at  a  cost  of  $10  per  visit,  in 
50  years  you  would  spend  $26,000. 

If  you  get  a  haircut  every  two  weeks 
at  the  barber  shop,  and  you  pay  $7.00 
per  visit,  in  50  years  you  would  spend 
$9,100. 

If  you  drink  one  soft  drink  a  day, 
at  a  cost  of  500  each,  you  would 
spend  $9,125  in  50  years. 

If  you  spend  $10  a  month  for  union 
dues,  you  would  spend  $6,000  in  50 
years;  $20  a  month  union  dues  would 
come  to  $12,000;  and  $30  a  month 
union  dues  would  amount  to  $18,000 
over  50  years. 

Your  union  is  your  security  for  the 
future.  If  we  didn't  support  our  union, 
we  could  no  longer  have  the  protec- 
tion of  a  contract  and  a  grievance 
procedure. 

When  you  stop  and  think  about  it, 
the  security  provided  by  your  union 
isn't  really  all  that  expensive,  is  it? 


-St 


Louis/Southern  III. 
Labor  Tribune 


JANUARY     1987 


17 


Two  New  District  Councils  Created 
In  Southern  and  Central  Illinois 


Corral  Construction? 


Two  new  district  councils  have  been  or- 
ganized in  Illinois — one  in  the  southern  por- 
tion of  the  state  and  one  in  the  central  portion 
of  the  state. 

The  now-operating  Southern  Illinois  Dis- 
trict Council  of  Carpenters  has  jurisdiction 
in  33  counties.  The  new  council  is  the  result 
of  the  consolidation  of  three  councils  in  the 
southern  Illinois  area — Madison  County  and 
Vicinity  District  Council;  Tri-Counties,  Il- 
linois, District  Council:  and  Southeastern 
Illinois  District  Council.  Approximately  5000 
members  are  under  the  council's  jurisdic- 
tion, comprising  14  local  unions.  The  busi- 
ness office  is  at  4  North  98th  Street,  Belle- 
ville, 111.;  meetings  will  be  held  in  Mt.  Vernon, 


III.  Officers  include  Noel  Carny,  president; 
Charles  Muenstermann,  vice  president;  Jim 
McGuire,  secretary-treasurer;  Hubert  Car- 
man ,  warden ;  Jim  Kennedy ,  conductor;  Jack 
Boyle,  trustee;  Lloyd  Arras,  trustee;  and 
Jerry  Bookman,  trustee. 

Also  formed,  from  the  consolidation  of 
the  East  Central  Illinois  District  Council  and 
the  Central  Illinois  District  Council,  was  the 
Mid-Central  Illinois  District  Council  of  Car- 
penters. The  new  council's  area  encompas- 
ses 41  counties  and  34,000  square  miles.  The 
new  council  will  meet  at  the  former  East 
Central  District  Council  offices  at  1435  North 
Water  Street  in  Decatur,  III. 


Presenting  the  charter  to  the  new  Southern 
Illinois  District  Council  are,  from  left, 
General  Representative  Don  Gorman, 
Third  District  Board  Member  Thomas 
Hanahan,  Council  Secretary  Jim  McGuire. 
General  Representative  Dean  Beck,  and 
Council  President  Noel  Cernv. 


On  hand  for  presentation  of  the  Mid-Cen- 
tral Illinois  District  Council  charter  at 
Springfield,  III..  Local  16' s  hall  are.  from 
left.  District  Council  President  Lariy  But- 
ler, District  Council  Secretary-Treasurer 
Phillip  G.  Burnett.  Board  Member  Hana- 
han. Second  General  Vice  President 
Pruitt.  and  General  Representative  Gor- 
man. 


It  seems  some  over-eager  workmen  con- 
structing a  water  waste  treatment  plant  in 
Maryland  didn't  want  to  let  the  sawhorse 
get  away.^rom  Martin  Schweiger,  Local 
101.  Baltimore,  Md. 

100th  Anniversary 
Celebrated  in  Texas 

Local  198,  Dallas,  Tex.,  recently  marked 
its  100th  anniversary  with  a  grand  celebra- 
tion and  the  publishing  of  a  lOOth  anniversary 
commemorative  history  booklet. 

When  the  local  was  first  formed  in  1886, 
early  meetings  were  in  members'  homes  with 
a  password  needed  to  gain  entrance.  For 
over  50  years,  the  local  was  headquartered 
in  the  Labor  Temple ,  a  co-op  building  owned 
by  several  local  unions.  Membership  over 
the  years  has  fluctuated,  from  as  low  as  200 
members  during  the  Depression  to  over  3500 
members .  But  throughout  the  years ,  the  local 
has  kept  strong  by  not  only  emphasizing  the 
trade  but  by  emphasizing  apprenticeship  and 
training,  activities  that  include  the  family, 
and  keeping  abreast  of  pohtics. 


Florida  Council  Convention 


The  newly-chartered  Florida  Council  of  Industrial  and  Public 
Employees  gathered  for  a  convention  and  swearing  in  of  the 
new  officers.  Pictured  above ,  from  left,  are  Charles  "Buddy" 
Brown,  council  vice  president.  Local  2044,  Fernandinu  Beach: 
David  Allen,  acting  executive  secretary:  Walter  Gray.  Local 
2044:  Pal  Davies.  council  trustee.  Local  2038.  St.  Augustine: 
Jim  TurbeviUe.  council  conductor.  Local  2002,  Palatka:  James 
Willis,  Local  2038:  Louis  Thomas  Collins,  Local  2357.  Cross 
City:  Rodney  Smith,  Local  2460,  Clearwater:  Samuel  Kighl, 
Local  2357:  Robert  Alexander,  council  president.  Local  2460: 
James  Young,  council  trustee.  Local  2357:  Cecil  Raulerson. 
council  trustee.  Local  2502,  Glen  St.  Mary:  Walter  Morrison, 
Local  2081,  Jacksonville:  Eldridge  Wheeler.  Local  2502:  Doug- 
las Dycus,  council  warden.  Local  2081:  Mike  Vignoul.  Local 
2460:  Willard  Masters,  UBC  representative:  and  Earl  Hamilton, 
UBC  representative. 


Members  of  Local  198,  Dallas.  Tex.,  gather  to  celebrate  the 
local's  100-year  anniversary. 

Massachusetts  Carpenters  Rally 


Before  election  day.  Local  1305.  Falls  River,  Mass..  joined  in 
for  a  "Massachusetts  Carpenters  for  Dukakis  Rally"  in  Boston. 
Mass.  Seated,  from  left,  are  Philip  Sanchez:  Dave  Faggioli: 
Don  Rogers,  president:  Bernie  Skelly,  business  manager:  Kris 
Perez:  Raymond  LaFleur.  recording  secretaiy:  and  Ronald 
Rheaume.  Standing,  from  left,  are  Robert  Benetti:  Carl  Soder- 
quist.  representative  (behind  sign):  Edward  Lima,  warden:  Gov- 
ernor Michael  Dukakis:  Acacio  Oliveira:  Norman  Diimont:  and 
Leo  Guay,  conductor.  Governor  Dukakis  was  re-elected,  receiv- 
ing 69%  of  the  vote. 


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CARPENTER 


Members 
In  The  News 

Parasynchuk's  Creations 


Parasynchuk  displays  his 
stage  coach.  He  doesn't  sell 
his  creations  or  enter  compe- 
titions for  fear  they'd  be 
damaged.  He  plans  to  hand 
them  down  to  his  children. 


Bennie     Parasynchuk     can 
make  just  about  anything,  and 
the   Medicine  Hat  News   re- 
cently told  its  readers  about  it. 
In  his  house  you'll  find  furni- 
ture, tools,  wall  ornaments,  and  elaborate  wood  mosaic  floors — 
all  his  handiwork.  Yet  this  charter  member  of  Local  1569,  Medicine 
Hat,  Alta.,  has  never  had  a  lesson  in  carpentry  or  woodcarving. 
Talent,  patience,  and  imagination  have  been  enough  to  take  his 
ideas  and  designs  from  his  head  to  his  hands  with  a  beautiful  piece 
as  the  finished  product.  And  he  rarely  even  needs  to  make  plans 
or  sketches.  Power  tools  assist  him  on  some  projects,  but  Brother 
Parasynchuk  often  improvises  to  make  small  things.  He  made  his 
own  lathe  and  chisel  as  well  as  some  metal  gardening  tools. 

The  35-year  UBC  member's  father  was  a  blacksmith,  and  as  a 
child  Parasynchuk  would  help  shoe  horses,  repair  plow  shears, 
and  fix  the  sleigh.  The  blacksmithing  held  a  fascination  for  him^ — 
he  could  make  or  fix  all  sorts  of  things. 

This  fascination  stayed  with  him  throughout  the  years.  From 
toys  for  his  three  children  and  eight  granchildren  to  kitchen  utensils 
for  wife  Margaret  to  a  sausage  press  made  out  of  metal,  if  he  can't 
buy  it  or  afford  it,  he'll  make  it  himself. 

Parasynchuk  worked  as  a  laborer  for  a  construction  company 

until  an  accident  laid  him  up  for  a  while.  His  boss  came  to  visit 

him  and  after  seeing  some  of  his  work,  offered  him  a  job  as  a 

carpenter. 

His  specialty  at  work  was  cupboards  and  one  look  at  his  kitchen 


This  picture  hangs  in  the  liv- 
ing room.  The  water  is  made 
of  plaster  of  Paris,  the  moun- 
tains of  particle  board,  and 
the  boat  of  wood.  Parasyn- 
chuk handcarved  the  wooden 
frame  and  highlighted  his 
picture  with  a  metal  star- 
burst. 


shows  you  why.  He's  used  rotary-cut  veneers  throughout,  creating 
a  beautiful,  continuous  pattern  on  the  cupboard  doors. 

Parasynchuk,  who  works  mostly  in  mountain  ash,  apple,  oak, 
and  maple,  often  picks  up  the  wood\during  strolls  through  his 
neighborhood.  For  his  stage  coach,  shown  in  an  accompanying 
picture,  the  only  thing  he  bought  were  the  hinges,  making  the  nuts 
and  bolts,  wheels  and  spokes,  lanterns  and  window  blinds  from 
scratch. 

The  stage  coach  is  his  pride  and  joy,  but  he  gets  a  great  deal  of 
satisfaction  from  everything  he  makes.  The  boyhood  fascination 
is  still  there. 

"I  have  the  pleasure  of  making  something,  and  I  enjoy  it,"  he 
says. 


Not  content  to  supplement  his  work  with  slore-buught  items, 
Parasynchuk  generally  makes  everything  from  scratch.  The  wa- 
gon above  is  one  of  his  more  involved  creations. 


The  details  of  this  wooden  floor  with  its  starburst  center  parquet 
surround,  and  unusual  border  show  off  the  marquetry  skills  of 
Brother  Parasynchuk. 

Sladojevic  Saves  Life 

The  last  thing  Michelle  Nixon  remembers  was  feeling  like  she 
was  "drifting  off  to  sleep."  She  knew  she  was  drowning,  and 
couldn't  do  anything  about  it.  But  George  Sladojevic,  a  16-year 
member  of  Local  1618,  Sacramento,  Calif.,  could.  Sladojevic, 
relaxing  on  a  sandy  beach  downstream  from  where  Nixon's  raft 
hit  a  bridge  piling  and  dumped  her  and  two  friends  in  the  water, 
jumped  in  a  canoe  and  pulled  Nixon  out  of  the  river,  said  the 
Sacramento  (Calif.)  Bee.  The  two  friends  swam  to  safety. 

"I  saw  her  out  there  trying  to  make  it  in  the  current,"  said 
Sladojevic.  "When  I  got  to  her  she  was  underwater.  I  jumped 
from  the  canoe  and  grabbed  her  by  the  hair  and  pulled  her  into 
the  boat.  She  coughed  up  some  water,  smiled  and  that  was  that." 

Carmichael  Fire  Department  member  Henry  Ogg  told  the  Bee 
that  in  going  in  and  puUing  someone  out  of  the  water,  Sladojevic 
had  done  what  few  people  would  do,  while  firefighters  at  the  scene 
discussed  recommending  Sladojevic  for  the  department's  livesav- 
ing  award. 

Building  Bubbles  in  the  Air 

George  Story  delights  in  the  world  of  fantasy  and  dreams.  In 
fact  he  spends  a  great  deal  of  his  time  marketing  the  magic  of 
bubbles.  But  this  Local  43.  Hartford,  Conn.,  member  isn't  dealing 
with  bubbles  of  the  tiny  variety.  According  to  an  article  in  the 
Journal  Inquirer,  the  South  Windsor  native  is  selling  super-size 
soap  suds. 

A  carpenter  by  trade,  Story  is  working  as  a  foreman  on  the 
Connecticut  state  Capitol  renovation  project,  and  for  nearly  two 
years  he's  led  another  life — the  life  of  a  "Bubble-Thing"  salesman. 

The  Bubble-Thing  creates  a  swirling  globe  of  rainbow  colors  in 
incredible  sizes  and  shapes.  To  demonstrate.  Story  dunks  what 
looks  like  a  carpet  rod  into  a  pail  of  soapy  water,  holds  it  up  to  a 
slight  breeze,  and  within  a  magical  moment  has  produced  a  ten- 
foot  by  three-foot  bubble. 

Story  and  David  Stein,  the  creator  of  the  Bubble-Thing,  are 
marketing  it  for  $9.95.  It  was  a  big  hit  on  the  beaches  of  Cape 
Cod  last  summer  and  the  orders  are  coming  in  faster  than  they 
can  fill  them. 


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CARPENTER 


RPPREnTicESHip  &  TRiiininc 


Apprentices  Build 
Wheelchair  Ramps 

Community  service  projects  are  an  im- 
portant part  of  union  membership  for  ap- 
prentices, members,  and  officers  of  Local 
690,  Little  Rock,  Ark.  One  weekend  last 
summer.  Local  690  Busines  Representative 
Jim  Osburn  and  Local  690  apprentices  ig- 
nored the  103°  weather  to  pursue  their  on- 
going project  of  donating  labor  to  build 
wheelchair  ramps  for  disabled  area  resi- 
dents. 

The  Bass  brothers,  Joe,  Charles,  and 
Jimmy,  all  wheelchair-bound  as  a  result  of 
Muscular  Dystrophy,  gained  a  ramp  from 
materials  donated  by  Mt.  Sinai  Baptist  Church 
and  by  the  apprentices  doing  the  labor. 

Robbie  Clifton  not  only  received  a  much- 
needed  ramp  but  a  new  pet  rabbit  to  replace 
the  one  he'd  recently  lost.  The  materials  for 
Robbie  Clifton's  ramp  were  donated  by  the 
Knights  of  Columbus  #6253,  North  Little 
Rock. 


Robbie  Clifton  receives  his  pet  rabbit  from 
a  Local  690  apprentice. 


Job  Corps  Training 
Seminar  a  Success 

The  UBC  Job  Corps  staff  recently  gath- 
ered in  Denver,  Colo. ,  for  a  training  seminar. 
The  week  was  used  to  share  and  exchange 
ideas  to  better  serve  and  teach  the  pre- 
apprentice  students  enrolled  in  the  Broth- 
erhoods' Job  Corps  program. 

Eugene  Shoehigh,  fifth  district  board 
member,  Ted  Sanford,  president  of  the  Col- 
orado Centennial  District  Council,  and  Steve 
Sanford,  administrator  of  the  Colorado 
Statewide  JAC,  addressed  the  group.  Leon 
Anderson,  director  of  Human  Resource  Pro- 
grams, Washington,  D.C.,  and  Fred  Todd, 
director  of  Job  Corps,  Department  of  Agri- 
culture, Washington,  D.C.,  also  addressed  the  group,  expressing 
their  appreciation  and  support  to  the  Brotherhood.  Anderson 
reported  on  a  recent  GAO  report  indicating  the  centers  that  involve 
the  union  crafts  in  vocational  training  have  a  far  better  training/ 
placement/wage  retention  rate  than  those  centers  that  do  not  have 
the  union  crafts. 


Joe.  Charles,  and  Jimmy  Bass  happily 
watch  the  progress  of  their  new  wheelchair 
ramp. 


James  Tinkcom .  UBC  director  of  appren- 
ticeship and  training,  left,  and  Eugene 
Shoehigh.  fifth  district  board  member,  on 
the  dais  at  the  Colorado  training  seminar. 


Public  Institutions 
Are  Support  Services 

Early  apprenticeship  legislation  in  North 
America  provided  that  public  schools  would 
be  the  institutions  primarily  concerned  with 
craft  training.  Over  the  years,  however, 
unions  and  vocational  schools  became  more 
and  more  responsible  for  apprenticeship 
training. 

Today  the  role  of  the  public  institution  is 
basically  that  of  a  support  service. 

And  that  is  as  it  should  be,  according  to 
a  panel  of  training  leaders  at  the  UBC's 
recent  Mid-Year  Training  Conference  in 
Boston,  Mass.  The  panelists — Joseph 
D' Aries,  director  of  the  New  Jersey  training 
program,  and  Leonard  Liebelt,  training  co- 
ordinator at  Tacoma,  Wash. — told  the  con- 
ference: "When  an  instance  of  negative 
effect  arises  in  relations  between  a  program 
sponsor  and  a  public  institution,  the  program 
sponsor  should  point  out  to  the  public  insti- 
tution that  the  industry  describes  the  training 
process  that  is  needed  and  required  and  that 
the  role  of  the  public  institution  is  only  to 
be  a  support  service,  as  it  transfers  funds 
from  their  source  to  the  program." 

Conference  participants  learned  that  most 
public  institutions  have  supported  appren- 
ticeship programs  that  wanted  to  acquire 
their  own  facilities  so  they  could  conduct 
hands-on  training  and  have  a  greater  control 
over  their  own  programs.  Pubhc  institutions 
have  accepted  their  role  of  being  only  the 
funnel  through  which  state  and  federal  funds 
are  distributed  for  training  purposes. 


Buy  U.S.  and  Canadian-made  products 
with  the  union  label. 


Santa  Ana  Graduates 


Attendants  to  the  Job  Corps  seminar  convened  for  discussions. 
JANUARY1987 


Graduates  of  Local  1815,  SaiUa  Ana,  Calif,  recently  received 
their  journeyman  certificates.  Scaled,  from  left,  they  are  Luis 
McCormick,  John  Olson,  David  Hughes,  Harvey  Gradilla,  and 
Brian  Marsh.  Standing,  from  left,  are  Bill  Perry,  Orange  County 
District  Council  secretaiy-treasurer;  Doyle  Archer,  Orange 
County  District  Council  president:  Paul  Cecil,  UBC  representa- 
tive: Baldwin  Keenan,  Local  1815  president:  Mike  G.  Lucio, 
Local  1815  business  representative:  and  S.E.  Cobs,  Local  1815 
financial  secrelaiy. 


23 


It  was  one  of  the  biggest  in- 
ternational trade  exhibitions 
ever — the  1986  International 
Machine  Tool  Show  at  Mc- 
Cormick  Place,  Chicago,  111., 
September  3-11. 
There  were  1,400  exhibitors, 
nine  miles  of  aisles  for  the 
110,000  show  visitors,  with  one 
million  square  feet  of  exhibit 
space  sold.  There  was  almost 
enough  heavy  machinery 
shipped  in  from  all  over  the 
world  to  "sink  a  battleship," 
according  to  one  UBC  member. 
A  total  of  669  carpenters 
from  locals  in  the  Chicago  and 
Northeast  Illinois  District 
Council  worked  on  the  show. 
In  addition,  there  were  500 
union  riggers,  325  electricians, 
150  decorators,  57  plumbers, 
and  175  teamsters — an  all-union 
production  which  took  up  not 
only  the  main  exhibition  area  of 
McCormick  Place  but  all  of  the 
display  space  in  a  new  annex  to 
the  big  facility  on  the  lakefront. 
McCormick  Place  was  the 
site  of  the  United  Brother- 
hood's Centennial  Convention 
in  1981.  It  is  one  of  the  most 
spacious  exhibit  facilities  in 
North  America,  and  it  bears  a 
union  label. 


Chicago  Members  Install  Exhibits 
For  Big  International  Trade  Show 


24 


CARPENTER 


Employers  to  Tough  Out 
1987  Negotiations 


Employers  intend  to  Keep  up  their 
increasingly  aggressive  bargaining  at- 
titude towards  unions  during  1987,  ac- 
cording to  a  survey  by  the  Bureau  of 
National  Affairs. 

BNA,  a  private  publishing  company, 
said  its  second  annual  survey  of  em- 
ployer negotiating  plans  shows  "no  ap- 
preciable decline  in  employers'  tough 
bargaining  strategy." 

The  confidential  survey,  entitled 
"Employer  Bargaining  Objectives, 
1987,"  is  based  on  responses  of  181 
companies  with  union  contracts  expir- 
ing in  1987,  and  outlines  their  negoti- 
ating plans. 

The  "most  startling  find"  of  the  sur- 
vey, which  was  conducted  over  the 
summer,  is  that  three  out  of  four  em- 
ployers said  they  would  consider  re- 
placing their  workforces  to  keep  oper- 
ating during  a  strike,  BNA  reported. 

According  to  BNA,  the  major  con- 
tract expirations  in  1987  are  transpor- 
tation pacts  between  the  United  Auto 
Workers  and  General  Motors  and  Ford 
Motor  Co.  Other  contracts  are  expiring 
in  aerospace,  airlines,  food,  health  care 
service,  insurance,  and  utilities. 

BNA  said  other  survey  findings,  which 


show  no  appreciable  differences  with 
last  year's  survey,  include  these  points: 

•  77%  of  surveyed  employers  are 
planning  to  bargain  pay  hikes  averaging 
2%  to  4%  a  year; 

•  Nearly  a  third  of  surveyed  firms 
said  they  will  seek  two-tier  wage  struc- 
tures; 

•  If  employers  meet  their  goals,  they 
will  do  away  with  cost-of-living  clauses 
and  pattern  bargaining; 

•  Employers  showed  little  interest  in 
negotiating  improvements  in  paid  time 
off,  job  security,  and  insurance,  and 
virtually  no  interest  in  setting  up  legal 
services  or  child  care  programs; 

•  Health  care  cost  containment  pro- 
visions were  prevalent  in  the  contracts 
surveyed,  but  many  employers  said 
they  would  seek  higher  deductibles,  and 
increased  worker  contributions; 

•  More  than  80%  of  surveyed  em- 
ployers who  said  they  had  restrictive 
work  rules  reported  they  would  try  to 
relax  them; 

•  Nearly  half  the  employers  said  they 
would  be  more  willing  to  bargain  pen- 
sion benefit  hikes  than  other  benefit 
improvements. 


Ontario  Commission  Denies 
Pension  Withdrawals 


In  a  move  its  supervisor  describes  as 
unusual,  the  embattled  Ontario  Pension 
Commission  has  rejected  one  company's 
application  to  withdraw  $35-million  in  sur- 
plus funds  from  its  pension  plan  and  told 
another  to  negotiate  a  settlement  with  former 
employees  who  oppose  its  attempt  to  get  a 
$l-million  refund. 

In  an  interview,  John  Kruger,  the  chair- 
man of  the  pension  commission,  would  not 
identify  the  company  whose  application  was 
rejected. 

He  said,  however,  that  a  majority  of  the 
workers  covered  by  the  company's  pension 
plan  are  in  Quebec,  whose  laws  prohibit  the 
withdrawal  of  pension  surpluses  except  when 
a  plan  is  being  wound  up. 

"There  was  some  question  of  the  company 
moving  [its  head  office]  to  Quebec,  so  ob- 
viously [it]  was  trying  to  get  in  under  the 
wire,"  Kruger  said. 

As  for  the  smaller  case,  which  has  pitted 
a  number  of  former  employees  of  MAN  ■ 
Lepper  Inc.  against  W.  J.  [Bill]  Sinclair,  a 
businessman  from  Oakville,  Ont.,  Mr.  Kruger 
said:  "We  had  written  representations  be- 
fore us  from  both  Mr.  Sinclair  and  some  of 
the  employees  and  [the  latter]  cast  some 
very  strong  doubts  on  the  viability  of  the 
application.  .  .  . 

"So  what  we're  saying  is  that  [Mr.  Sin- 
clair] cannot  withdraw  the  surplus  .  .  .  and 


that  he  should  get  back  to  the  employees  to 
determine  whether  he  can  negotiate  a  settle- 
ment that  is  agreeable  to  them  and  to  the 
commission." 

Failing  that,  he  added,  the  matter  will  be 
"forwarded  for  judicial  review  before  the 
courts." 

Mr.  Sinclair  bought  MAN  Lepper  from 
its  West  German  parent  last  July  and  promptly 
closed  its  two  plants — one  in  the  Toronto- 
area  city  of  Scarborough,  the  other  in  Na- 
panee,  west  of  Kingston,  Ont.  He  folded 
their  operations  into  those  of  his  Canada 
Machinery  Corp.,  which  is  based  in  Dundas, 
Ont. 

Despite  reiterating  statements  he  made 
that  the  MAN  Lepper  pension  plan  "states 
clearly  that  any  surplus  is  to  accrue  to  the 
company,"  not,  as  his  opponents  argue,  to 
the  employees,  Mr.  Sinclair  said  he  was  not 
surprised  by  the  commission's  move. 

One  person  who  will  be  pushing  Mr. 
Sinclair  hard  for  concessions  is  Karl  Maier, 
who  was  president  of  MAN  Lepper  from 
1977  to  1985  and  its  operations  manager  for 
nine  years  before  that. 

"I  have  not  only  a  personal  stake,  but  the 
stake  of  the  former  employees  who  I  still 
feel  are  my  responsibility,"  Mr.  Maier  said, 
adding:  "The  pension  fund  belonged  to  the 
employees.  It  had  never  been  considered 
anything  else  by  the  board." 


Standard  Designs  Couici 
Reduce  Nuclear  Costs 

Future  nuclear  plants  employing  stand- 
ardized designs  could  be  built  in  the  United 
States  at  a  cost  that  is  55%  or  more  below 
recent  "best  cost"  experience,  according  to 
an  Atomic  Industrial  Forum  study  group. 

With  standarization,  a  nuclear  plant  au- 
thorized today  could  begin  commercial  op- 
eration in  1992  for  an  estimated  capital  cost 
of  $1186  per  kilowatt  of  capacity  (current 
dollars),  a  report  by  the  AIF  study  group 
concludes.  This  compares  with  $2650/kw  for 
a  custom-built  plant  whose  costs  mirrored 
1985  best  cost  experience  and  which  took 
11  years  (until  1997)  to  complete. 

If  the  U.S.  had  a  standardization  pogram 
in  place  in  1980,  a  nuclear  plant  authorized 
at  that  time  would  have  reached  commercial 
operation  in  1986  at  a  capital  cost  of  $938 
per  kilowatt,  the  AIF  report  says. 

The  AIF  study  group  said  such  a  first- 
year  cost  of  electricity  from  a  standardized 
nuclear  power  plant  is  believed  to  be  com- 
petitive with,  or  cheaper  than,  any  other 
energy  resource  for  providing  new  electricity 
generating  capacity. 

Further  cost  reductions  could  be  achieved 
by  reducing  the  construction  schedule  to  five 
years  or  less,  as  has  been  achieved  in  other 
countries  and  in  the  U.S.  in  the  1960s  and 
early  1970s,  the  AIF  study  group  pointed 
out.  The  average  construction  time  for  nu- 
clear plants  brought  on  Hne  in  the  1981-85 
period  was  11.2  years  in  the  U.S.,  versus 
5.3  years,  for  example,  in  Japan. 


Nobody's  Perfect .  .  . 
but  Unions  Come  Close 

Union  officials  are  honest,  hard 
working  individuals,  dedicated  to  up- 
holding the  law  and  helping  their 
members.  Elections  for  union  office 
are  held  regularly.  In  99.9%  of  the 
elections  studied,  there  was  no  evi- 
dence of  improper  conduct. 

Union  officers  also  have  a  keen 
sense  of  protecting  the  member's  dues. 
The  Surety  Association  of  America 
studied  the  insurance  rates  of  insti- 
tutions that  insured  against  illegal  or 
negligent  conduct  by  their  officers. 
The  study  found  that  union  officials 
were  a  significantly  lower  risk  than 
government,  business,  or  financial  of- 
ficials. Less  than  1%  of  unrecovered 
losses  by  bonding  companies  ($.8  mil- 
lion out  of  $113  million)  were  union 
losses.  Bank  losses,  by  contrast,  were 
$45  million;  business  losses,  $42  mil- 
lion; stockbrokers,  $8.7  million.  Even 
government  officials  lost  more — $1.4 
million.  More  bank  presidents  are 
convicted  of  embezzlement  than  are 
union  officials. 

So  the  next, time  anyone  claims  that 
unions  are  corrupt,  tell  that  person  to 
compare  the  union  record  to  either 
business  or  government.  The  record 
is  a  good  one. 


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.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  pubUc  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


RESTORATION  AWARD 

A  restoration  project  directed  by  Merle 
MuUikin,  a  Local  496,  Kankakee.  111.,  mem- 
ber was  honored  with  two  statewide  awards 
recently.  Gov.  James  Thompson  awarded 
Kankakee  with  a  first  prize  for  economic 
development  and  a  general  third  place  award 
for  a  volunteer  program  in  its  population 
class. 

Kankakee  Neighborhood  Housing  Serv- 
ices and  Kankakee  Community  College  joined 
forces  to  restore  a  two-storied  home  in 
Upper  Riverview,  III.,  under  the  direction 
of  a  union  carpenter  and  a  union  painter.  A 
class  project  for  KCC  career  education  stu- 
dents, the  effort  involved  150  hours  of  vol- 
unteer labor,  $27,400  in  private  funds,  and 
$48,599  in  government  funds. 

KNHS  is  a  private,  nonprofit  community 
housing  organization.  Once  restoration  is 
completed  on  a  home  it  is  sold  and  the  profits 
rolled  into  the  next  renovation. 

TO  J.T.P.A.  COUNCIL 

Mickey  Holzman,  business  manager  for 
Local  1539,  Skokie,  III.,  has  been  appointed 
to  the  Illinois  Job  Training  Coordinating 
Council  by  Governor  James  Thompson.  The 
appointment,  which  was  effective  as  of  May 
1986,  continues  until  the  end  of  June  1987. 

The  council  consists  of  42  members,  in- 
cluding three  other  representatives  of  orga- 
nized labor,  who  are  to  advise  the  governor 
on  the  operation  of  programs  funded  by  the 
Federal  Job  Training  Partnership  Act. 

LITTLE  LEAGUE  WORK 

The  Little  League  in  Kodiak,  Alaska, 
boasts  over  400  youths  and  100  adult  super- 
visors, making  it  the  largest  youth  organi- 
zation in  the  city.  Among  the  adults  partic- 
ipating are  representatives  from  Local  2162, 
Kodiak.  The  local  has  been  sponsoring  a 
team  in  the  league  for  three  years  and  has 
donated  labor  for  the  maintenance  of  ballfield 
buildings  for  the  past  two. 

NEW  YORK  SCHOLARS 

The  Carpenters  District  Council  of  New 
York  City  and  Vicinity  awarded  32  schol- 
arships for  1986  to  sons  and  daughters  of 
members  of  the  New  York  City  District 
Council.  Scholarship  winners  are  shown  at 
riglit  with,  seated  center,  from  left,  Dis- 
trict Council  President  Paschal  Mc- 
Guinness,  UBC  General  President  Patrick 
J.  Campbell,  and  First  General  Vice  Presi- 
dent Sigurd  Lucassen.  First  District  Board 
Member  Joseph  Lia  is  at  far  right. 


James  Ellis,  left,  is  presented  the  Volun- 
teer of  the  Year  Award  by  William  Le- 
Blanc. 


FOR  HUNTER  SAFETY 

James  Ellis,  a  retired  millwright  member 
of  Local  2007,  Orange.  Tex.,  has  certified 
226  students  in  1 1  Hunter  Safety  Education 
classes  through  a  Texas  Parks  and  Wildlife 
Department  program.  The  volunteer  instruc- 
tor was  recently  honored  as  Hunter  Edu- 
cation Volunteer  of  the  Year  by  the  Sports- 
men's Clubs  of  Texas. 

Parks  Department  officials  have  nothing 
but  praise  for  his  conscientious  attitude  and 
dedication  to  increasing  students'  knowledge 
of  wildlife  conservation  and  natural  resource 
management. 

Ellis  cites  hunting,  shooting,  and  camping 
as  hobbies,  but  teaching  seems  to  come 
naturally  to  him.  He  attended  Louisiana 
State  Universtiy  and  completed  extension 
courses  at  Texas  A  and  M.  Since  his  hon- 
orable discharge  from  the  service  after  World 
War  II,  Ellis  has  taught  vocational  education 
in  California  and  at  Lamar  College  Beau- 
mont, Tex.  He  is  currently  teaching  the  adult 
men's  class  at  North  Orange  Baptist  Church 
in  addition  to  his  work  with  hunter's  edu- 
cation. 


LABOR  DEGREE 

Earl  DuVall  11,  president  of  Local  1024, 
Cumberland,  Md.,  recently  received  a  Bach- 
elor of  Arts  degree  in  labor  studies  from 
Antioch  University  through  an  external  de- 
gree program  at  the  George  Meany  Center, 
Silver  Spring,  Md. 

The  college  degree  program,  offered  by 
Antioch  with  the  George  Meany  Center, 
permits  participants  to  study  independently 
at  home  while  continuing  their  regular  union 
work.  DuVall,  36,  received  some  college 
credits  for  competencies  gained  through  his 
experience  in  the  labor  movement  and  for 
his  carpentry  apprenticeship. 

Since  enrolling  in  the  program,  he  has 
spent  one  week  at  the  beginning  of  each  six- 
month  term  on  campus  at  the  George  Meany 
Center  meeting  with  counselors  and  attend- 
ing classes  where  he  was  introduced  to 
courses  of  study  to  be  pursued  at  home 
during  the  following  six  months. 

The  George  Meany  Center's  external  de- 
gree program  is  open  to  all  leaders  of  AFL- 
CIO  affiliates.  More  than  140  are  now  en- 
rolled; 99  have  graduated. 


Eail  Ditvall  lecenes  his  diploma  jiom 
Isaac  Hunt.  Antioch  School  of  Law  dean. 


BOAT  RACE  CHAMP 

For  over  27  years  Mikel  Crawford,  a 
member  of  Local  91,  Racine,  Wise,  has 
enjoyed  the  sport  of  boat  racing.  This  year, 
during  the  July  Fourth  weekend,  Brother 
Crawford  won  the  American  Power  Boat 
Association's  1986  20  Modified  Run-about 
classes  national  title.  The  champion  was 
racing  in  Decauter,  III.,  when  he  realized 
his  goal. 


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CARPENTER 


Toyota  Protest 

Continued  from  Page  9 

was  with  the  management  of  the  con- 
struction project,  not  with  the  Japanese 
people. 

Inside  the  embassy,  Japanese  con- 
sular officials  from  cities  throughout  the 
United  States  were  meeting.  Their 
agenda,  an  embassy  official  confirmed, 
included  a  discussion  of  the  "Japanese 
business  image  in  this  country." 

Outside,  union  members  from  Wash- 
ington and  Baltimore  area  locals  carried 
placards,  chanted  protests,  and  distrib- 
uted pamphlets  explaining  the  dispute. 

Another  building  trades  protest  was 
held  in  New  York  on  November  21,  at 
the  site  of  a  meeting  between  the  Jap- 
anese ambassador  and  executives  of 
Japanese  firms  operating  in  the  United 
States.  Members  of  the  New  York  City 
District  Council  participated  in  this 
Manhattan  rally. 


Workers  Take  Jobs 

Continued  from  Page  3 

1982,  to  apply  for  legal  status.  Because 
of  this,  the  federal  government  will  set 
aside  $1  billion  a  year  for  four  years  to 
reimburse  state  governments  which 
provide  public  assistance,  health  care, 
and  education  to  illegal  aliens  who  gain 
legal  status  under  the  law. 

Meanwhile,  the  Labor  Council  for 
Latin  American  Advancement  warns 
undocumented  workers  who  are  con- 
sidering utilizing  the  recently  approved 
Immigration  Reform  Act  that  "a  pre- 
mature or  carelessly  prepared  approach 
to  a  government  agency  may  seriously 
jeopardize  their  opportunities  to  be- 
come documented  workers  or  U.S.  cit- 
izens. 

'  'The  Immigration  and  Naturalization 
Service  has  yet  to  complete  the  process 
of  drawing  up  the  federal  regulations 
under  which  they  will  administer  the 
new  immigration  reform  legislation.  Until 
that  process  has  been  completed  and 
the  new  regulations  pubhshed  in  the 
Federal  Register,  there  remains  a  con- 
siderable area  of  uncertainty  and  con- 
fusion. Undocumented  workers  could 
trap  themselves  unwittingly  in  a  tangle 
of  red  tape  and  bureaucratic  ineptness 
and  indifference  that  might  result  in 
grave  consequences  to  their  chances  to 
live  and  work  legally  in  the  United 
States." 

This  is  true.  However,  the  U.S:  na- 
tional civilian  worker  unemployment 
rate  stands  at  6.8%,  little  changed  from 
what  it  was  when  President  Ronald 
Reagan  took  office,  six  years  ago.  What 
are  their  chances  to  live  and  work  in 
the  United  States? 


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sleep;  help  remove  excess  fluid;  control 
high  blood  pressure;  induce  muscle  re- 
laxation; treat  a  stomach  disorder;  re- 
heve  the  symptoms  of  coughs  and  colds. 

If  you  know  what  the  medicine  is  for, 
you  can  help  the  patient  and  the  doctor, 
and  you'll  feel  much  more  confident  in 
caring  for  your  patient. 

If  you  knew  a  medication  was  being 
given  to  induce  sleep,  for  example,  it 
would  be  ridiculous  to  awaken  the  pa- 
tient in  the  middle  of  the  night  to  ad- 
minister the  medicine. 

On  the  other  hand,  an  antibiotic  may 
have  to  be  administered  according  to  a 
strict  schedule  if  its  full  therapeutic 
benefits  are  to  be  obtained. 

Get  a  notebook  in  which  to  keep  a 
daily  record.  This  is  essential  for  your 
own  peace  of  mind  and  the  well-being 
of  your  patient. 

On  the  first  page,  write  the  names 
and  phone  numbers  of  the  doctor,  the 
pharmacy,  and  the  hospital.  Next,  list 
all  medications  prescribed,  and  the  times 
and  dosage  ordered  as  well  as  the  date 
first  prescribed.  Then,  on  the  following 
pages — for  each  day — write  down  the 


AdministerUm 
Medicine  at  Home 


medications,  times,  and  dosage.  Leave 
room  for  other  observations  we'll  talk 
about  next. 

On  your  daily  record  sheet,  cross  off 
the  name  of  the  medication  after  it  is 


Frontlash 
American' 


'Buy 
Drive 


As  the  toll  of  American  jobs  lost  to 
imports  continues  to  grow,  Frontlash 
is  launching  a  "Buy  American"  cam- 
paign to  help  turn  the  tide  in  favor  of 
American  workers.  Symbolizing  this 
"get  tough"  on  imports  theme  is  the 
new  Frontlash  Buy  American  logo. 
Depicting  an  American  eagle,  the  logo 
reminds  consumers  that  it  is  time  to 
get  tough  on  imports.  Frontlash  vol- 
unteers began  going  "one-on-one" 
with  consumers  nationwide  during  the 
holiday  season  in  an  effort  to  persuade 
them  to  Buy  American.  It  will  not 
just  be  a  holiday  campaign,  however, 
but  an  on-going  program  in  support 
of  American  workers.  Frontlash  is 
the  youth  support  group  of  the  AFL- 
CIO  and  has  programs  for  high  school 
students,  college  students,  and  young 
workers. 


GITINIOIT 

POUnCS.  SOCIAL  ISSUES.  T>IE  LABOR  MOVEMB^. 


given.  If  it's  not  taken,  put  a  circle 
around  the  time. 

In  the  space  you've  left  on  the  page, 
write  down  the  reason  why  the  medicine 
was  not  taken.  Refused  by  the  patient? 
Not  retained  (vomited)?  Patient  was 
nauseous  or  weeping? 

Observe  the  patient.  Is  the  pain  med- 
ication working?  Does  the  patient  vomit 
the  medication  each  time  it  is  given? 
Are  there  any  visible  side  effects?  Any 
of  these  circumstances  should  be  re- 
ported promptly  to  your  physician. 

When  you  call  the  doctor,  have  your 
record  handy  and  be  prepared  with  a 
list  of  questions  you  may  wish  to  ask. 
Also,  be  prepared  to  answer  any  ques- 
tions he  or  she  may  ask  you.  Listen 
carefully  to  the  answers  and  write  them 
down. 

The  doctor  is  not  always  able  to  come 
to  the  phone  immediately.  But  the  peo- 
ple in  the  office  are  trained  to  answer 
many  of  your  questions.  If  they  can't, 
they  can  get  the  patient's  chart  and 
your  call  will  be  returned  by  the  doctor 
or  the  nurse  as  soon  as  possible. 

Keep  the  patient's  medications  to- 
gether in  a  safe  place — away  from  chil- 
dren and  away  from  the  patient. 

Nursing  care  is  a  tough  job  wherever 
and  whenever  it  is  called  for,  and  no 
two  illnesses  are  alike  and  no  two  pa- 
tients are  alike. 

But  a  careful  and  caring  attitude  has 
its  rewards — for  you  as  a  home  nurse 
and  for  the  patient  who  wants  to  get 
well. 

You  can  do  a  good  job  by  remem- 
bering the  "five  rights  of  medication" — 
the  right  medicine,  the  right  patient,  the 
right  dosage,  the  right  time,  and  the 
right  method  of  administering. 


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Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


IRS  Offers 
Tax  Assistance 

The  IRS  sponsors  a  free  Volunteer  Income 
Tax  Assistance  program  in  many  cities, 
aiding  primarily  low-income  or  elderly  dis- 
abled taxpayers.  Contact  IRS  for  further 
information.  Another  IRS-funded  service, 
Tax  Counseling  for  the  Elderly,  helps  those 
in  the  60s  and  older. 

Otherwise,  if  you  feel  you  need  help  with- 
out relying  on  IRS,  it's  wisest  to  deal  with 
a  tax  office  that  is  open  year-round,  not  one 
that  prepares  returns  only  at  tax  time.  If 
there  is  a  serious  dispute  over  a  return, 
you'll  want  the  tax  preparer  available  to 
help. 

Remember  you're  responsible  even  if 
someone  else  prepares  your  return. 

Should  there  be  a  major  IRS  challenge  of 
your  tax  return  or  troubles  over  state  or 
municipal  returns,  don't  hesitate  to  go  to  a 
tax  attorney — your  costliest  option  but  per- 
haps the  safest  step  you  can  take. 


St.  Louis  Retiree's 
Prize-Winning  Float 

First  prize  in  the  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Carpen- 
ters District  Council  Labor  Day  parade  float 
competition  was  captured  by  the  members 
of  Retirees  Club  21,  St.  Louis.  The  hard- 
working float  committee  was  chaired  by  John 
Drewer,  trustee;  and  C.  Ray  Collier,  presi- 
dent; Charlie  Bach,  vice  president;  Gene 
Hoppe,  treasurer;  Charlie  Robinson,  secre- 
tary; Carl  Reiter,  trustee;  Troy  Gregory, 
trustee;  and  Wally  Jaspering  built  the  award- 
winning  float.  Decorating  was  performed  by 
Fay  Drewer  and  Norma  Jaspering. 

The  prize  money,  $200,  was  added  to  the 
club  treasury.  In  addition  to  the  district 
council  win,  the  float  was  named  as  the 
"Best  Retirees"  float  in  the  Greater  St. 
Louis  Labor  Council  competition. 


Club  5  Float  Paraded  on  Labor  Day 


Retirees  Club  5  members  are  pictured  at  left  during  the  Bloomington,  III.,  Labor  Day 
parade.  In  the  front  row,  from  left,  are  Robert  Lanham.  Ed  Madix.  Leo  Passmore,  Earl 
Johnson,  William  Nance,  and  George  Harms.  In  the  back  row,  from  left,  are  Otto 
Moews,  Tonl  Harms,  LaVern  Craig,  Ruth  Brooks,  Robert  Craig,  and  Lota  Madix. 

At  right  is  club  member  George  Herms  showing  off  the  club  sign  after  the  parade.  He 
was  named  'carpenter  of  the  year'  at  the  Local  63,  Bloomington,  III.,  annual  picnic  last 
summer. 


Social  Security 
Increases  1.3% 

Social  Security  benefits  rose  1.3%,  effec- 
tive Jan.  I,  1987.. The  cost-of-living  adjust- 
ment is  based  on  the  Consumer  Price  Index, 
and  affects  37  million  beneficiaries. 

The  increase  boosts  the  Social  Security 
payment  for  the  average  retired  worker  from 
$482  to  $488. 

Besides  Social  Security  beneficiaries, 
COLA  recipients  include: 

•  Supplemental  Security  Income  recipi- 
ents, totalling  about  four  million  low-income 
aged,  bhnd,  and  disabled  persons.  Maximum 
SSI  benefits  will  go  to  $340  for  individuals; 
for  couples,  $510; 

•  Federal  civilian  and  military  employees 
receiving  civil  service  and  military  retire- 
ment pensions; 

•  Railroad  Retirement  recipients.  The 
COLA  applies  only  to  the  portion  of  the 
benefit  linked  to  Social  Security; 

•  Low-income  persons  receiving  veter- 
ans' pensions  not  based  on  service-con- 
nected disabilities. 

Originally,  no  COLA  could  be  paid  unless 


the  prices  rose  3%  or  higher.  In  October, 
Congress  eliminated  this  3%  "trigger"  and, 
from  now  on,  beneficiaries  will  receive  the 
full  COLA,  whatever  the  CPI  increase. 


Chicago  Heights 
Has  Active  Year 

The  retirees  of  Club  40  in  Chicago  Heights , 
III.,  report  many  activities  that  kept  them 
busy  in  1986.  Members  of  the  group  picketed 
for  three  months  last  summer  against  Motel 
6,  which  had  come  into  the  Chicago  area 
and  begun  nonunion  work.  The  picketing 
was  coordinated  by  the  Northeast  Illinois 
District  Council  of  Carpenters. 

A  check  was  also  donated  by  the  club  to 
a  new  Veterans  Hospital  in  Manteno,  111. 

On  the  social  side  of  the  agenda,  an  annual 
picnic  was  organized  in  June  and  was  an 
unqualified  success.  The  following  month,  a 
group  of  21  went  off  on  a  motorhome  trip 
to  Shipshewana,  where  they  spent  the  day 
at  a  huge  flea  market.  The  annual  golf  outing 
was  the  highlight  of  the  August  calendar  for 
many. 


!"€.-- ^ 


rNTERS  RETIREE'S  CLUB  N-^  21 


Retirees  Club  21  members  demonstrate  prize-winning  form. 
JANUARY     1987 


Some  of  the  members  of  Retiree  Club  40. 


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SEND  YOUR  FAVORITES  TO: 

PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NV/,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


CROSSED  SIGNALS 

Two  horseplayers  at  a  track  no- 
ticed that  every  time  a  priest  made 
a  sign  over  tine  tnorse,  the  horse 
won. 

Next  time  they  bet  on  the  horse 
singled  out  by  the  priest. 

The  horse  came  in  last  and  they 
asked  the  priest,  "How  come?" 

The  priest  said,  "You  must  be 
Protestants.  You  don't  know  the 
difference  between  a  blessing  and 
last  rites." 

—Wally  Kunz 
Local  964 
Rockland  Co.,  N.Y. 

ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 

WRITE  THIS  WAY 

Two  convicts  were  chatting  in 
their  cell  follow/ing  the  brief  visit  that 
morning  by  the  Governor  of  the 
state. 

"I  accidently  bumped  into  him  as 
we  were  walking  into  the  mess  hall," 
the  first  convict  said,  "I  said  'Pardon 
me,  Governor,'  and  the  Governor 
said  'Certainly.' " 

"You  should  have  got  it  in  writ- 
ing," his  cellmate  said. 


POOR  RECEPTION 

Two  regular  weekend  residents 
of  a  town  in  Nevada  happened  to 
pass  an  Indian  reservation  and  while 
talking  to  one  of  the  natives  re- 
marked about  the  weather.  The  In- 
dian said  it  would  rain  at  night  but 
the  sun  would  shine  for  the  next 
two  days.  Just  as  predicted  it  rained 
that  evening  and  the  sun  was  at  its 
best  for  two  days.  Every  weekend 
the  vacationers  would  visit  the  same 
Indian  and  as  usual  his  forecasts 
were  correct.  One  weekend  they 
were  surprised  to  hear  that  the 
Indian  couldn't  tell  them  what  kind 
of  weather  to  expect. 

"You've  been  right  for  the  last  six 
months,"  remarked  one  of  the  res- 
idents "and  I  can't  understand  why 
you  have  struck  a  sudden  blank." 

"It  was  easy  up  to  now,"  replied 
the  Indian,  "but  my  radio  just  went 
on  the  fritz." 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 

SUPPORT  'TURNAROUND' 


THAT  SHOWED  HIM! 

Boy:  "Mom,  I  was  in  a  tight  to- 
day." 

Mother:  "What  happened,  son?" 

Boy:  "A  naughty  boy  called  me 
a  sissy." 

Mother:  "And  what  did  you  do, 
dear?" 

Boy:  "I  hit  him  with  my  purse!" 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

There  once  was  a  woman 

a'wishin' 
To  try  her  hand  at  bass  fishin'. 
She  threw  out  her  line 
But  hooked  her  behind 
And  decided  to  stay  in  her 
kitchen  I  —Gerry  Noorman 

Local  1615 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 


QUICK  DIAMONDS 

"If  there's  anything  wrong  with 
me,"  the  man  told  his  doctor,  "don't 
scare  me  by  giving  it  a  complicated 
scientific  name.  Just  tell  me  what's 
wrong  in  plain  English." 

"Well,  to  be  frank,"  said  the  doc- 
tor, "you're  just  lazy.," 

"Thanks,"  sighed  the  patient. 
"Now  give  me  a  scientific  name  for 
it  so  I  can  go  home  and  tell  my 
wife." 

ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 

A  CHILD'S  LOGIC 

A  four-year-old  boy  was  at  the 
county  fair  looking  at  the  livestock. 
Coming  upon  a  mother  pig  with 
nursing  piglets,  he  turned  to  his 
mother  and  announced,  "I  know 
why  the  mother  pig  is  so  big.  They're 
blowing  her  up." 

— Marvin  Goes.el 
Rockford,  III. 

BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 

FISH  STORY 

Wit:  "I  dreamed  I  was  fishing  on  a 

deserted  isle  with  a  shapely  movie 

star." 

Nit:  "Well,  what  happened.  How  did 

it  turn  out?" 

Wit:  "Great!  I  caught  a  nine-pound 

bass." 

USE  UNION  SERVICES 

BROWS  TOO  HIGH 

"I  want  a  dog  of  which  I  can  be 
proud,"  said  Mrs.  Newlyrich.  "Does 
that  one  have  a  good  pedigree?" 

"Lady,"  declared  the  kennel 
owner,  "If  that  dog  could  talk,  he 
wouldn't  speak  to  either  of  us." 

BOYCOTT  L-P  PRODUCTS 

INVITED  OUT 

Overheard:  "How  popular  is  he? 
He  was  run  out  of  town  on  the 
Welcome  Wagon." 


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Elmira,  N.Y. — Picture  No.  1 


Elmira,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  3 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who   recently  received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


ELMIRA,  N.Y. 

Members  with  up  to  55  years  of  service 
recently  received  pins  from  Local  5032. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  John  Dombroski  Jr.  and  Robert  Walker. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  Willard  Oakes,  Donald  Bement,  and  Armin 
H.  Cilley. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  3Q-year  members,  from 
left:  Edward  Galvin,  Maxwell  Hoose,  and  Marion 
Sherman. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  James  Clearwater,  Robert  Galvin,  and 
Robert  Ryan. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  20-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Armin  B.  Cilley,  Alex  Yeomans, 
Richard  Wilcox,  Delwood  Gary,  John  Lighgow, 
and  Fred  Swartwood. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Elam  Carrigan;  Thomas 
Burhyte;  Niles  Newton;  Fred  Crandall;  Lloyd 
Shedden;  David  Purcall;  David  Stewart, 
recording  secretary;  Otis  Hollenbeck;  Mike 
Terwilliger,  President. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  President  Terwillinger, 
left,  congratulating  John  Domborski  Jr.  on  his 
Golden  Hammer  Award  for  his  many  years  of 
service  as  an  officer  and  member  of  Local  532. 
Presenting  the  award  is  business  representative 
Ed  Baker. 

Also  honored  but  not  pictured  were:  55-year 
member  Elmer  Osborne;  50-year  members 
William  Atkinson,  John  Billen,  George  Westlake 
and  Charles  Whipple;  45-year  members  Albert 
Boughton,  Donald  Brown,  John  DeBaradines, 
Sterling  Dennison,  Harry  Kellogg,  James 
Mahoney,  Warren  Mayhood,  Furman  Palmer, 
Carlton  Smith,  Hurbert  Thornton,  and  Henry 
Warters;  40-year  members  Alan  Cramer, 
Donald  Cronkwrite,  Lawrence  Dunbar,  Paul 
Garten,  Carl  Johnson,  John  Kauppinen,  Arthur 
LaForce,  Fred  McConaghie,  Rollie  Moss,  John 
Pyhtila,  Basil  Richardson,  Francis  Rohde, 
Samuel  Ruggiano,  John  Rusczak,  Walter 
Spearen,  Arthur  Thomas,  Theodore  Wardwell, 
and  Herbert  Wilcox;  35-year  members  Richard 
Benesh,  Joseph  Bourgeoius,  George  Braun, 
Orville  Chapman,  Frank  Dombroski,  William 
Griffin,  Kenneth  Hakes,  Robert  Hertel,  Warren 
Inman,  James  Jenkins,  Elwin  Jennings,  Arthur 
Jorgensen,  John  Kadar,  William  Kowalchik, 
Samuel  Lindblad,  Salvator  Moffe,  Reino  Pyhtila, 
Charles  Smith,  Arthur  Sweeny,  Paul  Terwilliger, 
William  Tinker,  and  Wilmot  Welliver;  30-year 
members  Carl  Gunshaw,  Harold  Jenkins,  John 


Elmira,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  2 


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Elmira,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  4 


Elmira,  N.Y. — Picture  No.  5 

C.  Mace  Jr.,  Ralph  Mohlar,  Gerson  Pfaff, 
Michael  Polovick,  Arthur  Shadduck,  and  Garrett 
Shuart;25-year  members  James  Davis,  Charles 
Deals,  Gerald  Flora,  Delbert  Henson,  Lauri 
Koski,  Carl  Kriston,  James  Lindblad,  Richard 
Lisano,  Craig  Mosher,  Raymond  Sauter, 
Frederick  Taylor,  and  Joseph  Viselli;  and  20- 
year  members  Archie  Anstey,  Raymond  Bagley, 
Walter  Bunce,  Donald  Carlyle,  Roger  Cornish, 
Duane  Fay,  Andrew  Gotham,  Richard  Hancock, 
Maurice  Hughes,  Jerry  Lindblad,  Frank 
Longwell,  William  Mangan,  Ira  Matejka,  Philip 
Munson,  Leo  Taber,  Lloyd  Taylor,  Raymon 
VanZile,  James  Walle,  and  Gene  Wilcox. 


Elmira,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  6 


PORT  CHESTER,  N.Y. 

Robbin  Russell,  Local  77,  pictured  left,  is 
congratulated  for  65  years  of  service  by  Joseph 
Gasperino,  right,  president  of  the  local. 
(Russell  was  misidentified  in  an  eartier  photo 
from  the  local.) 


Port  Chester,  N.Y. 


JANUARY     1987 


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Tucson,  Ariz.-^Picture  No.  1 


Tucson,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  2 


Tucson,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  4 


Tucson,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  5 


TUCSON,  ARIZ. 

At  the  85th  anniversary  dinner  of  Local  857 
at  Loews  Ventana  Canyon  Resort  in  Tucson, 
service  pins  w/ere  awarded  to  long-time 
members  of  the  United  Brotherhood.  UBC 
General  President  Patrick  J.  Campbell  and 
Arizona  State  District  Council  Executive 
Secretary  John  F.  Greene  were  present  to 
congratulate  the  members  receiving  awards. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  from  left:  50-year 
member  Walter  Johantgen,  President  Campbell, 
25-year  member  Ruben  L.  Moreno,  and 
Secretary  Greene. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Secretary  Greene,  Darrell  Young,  Wayne 
Adams,  George  Pierce,  John  Craven,  and 
President  Campbell. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  Adolph  Hauser,  Leon  Countryman,  George 
Stevens,  Financial  Secretary  Ed  Charvat,  Henry 
Avenente,  Manny  Felix,  President  Campbell, 
Secretary  Greene,  Manny  Ramirez,  Ramon 
Vasquez,  and  Luis  Mikesell. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  M.J.  Meyer,  Al  Martinez,  Fred  Gebelle, 
Peter  Klein,  George  Anastopolous,  Harold 
Fleury,  Art  Ramirez,  Don  McRoberts,  Paul 
Whitman,  Joseph  O'Malley,  President 
Campbell,  Oscar  Truex,  Secretary  Greene,  John 
Pfeffer,  John  Wagman,  Business  Manager  Don 
Fornear,  and  Charles  Taylor. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Duane  Jenness,  Alfred  Valles,  Earl  Kreck, 
George  Stecker,  Robert  Williams,  Joe  Fife, 
President  Campbell,  W.J.  Wightman,  Secretary 
Greene,  and  Everett  Grey. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Stanley  Cashmere,  Ignacio  Hermosillo, 
Melvin  Fenimore,  Jerry  Lafferty,  Clifford 
Turpen,  and  Louis  Phillips. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  James  Ricks,  Henry  Blayda,  Oscar 
Jaramillo,  President  Campbell,  and  Secretary 
Greene. 


Tucson,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  6 


Tucson,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  7 


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Decatur,  Ala. — Picture  No.  1 


Decatur,  Ala. — Picture  No.  4 


Decatur,  Ala. — Picture  No.  2 


Decatur,  Ala.— Picture  No.  6 


Decatur,  Ala.— Picture  No.  3 

DECATUR,  ALA. 

Local  1274  recently  honored  members  with 
25  through  50  years  of  Brotherhood  service. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Burton  Suite,  Arlon  Duboise,  L.  B. 
Williams,  and  David  Smith. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Vernon  Patton,  James  Fowler, 
Malcolm  Moore,  Ralph  Fleming,  William 
Loggins,  and  Jack  Sandlin. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Willard  Coffey,  Paul 
McGuire,  R.  H.  Clay,  Everett  Aday,  Floyd 
Woodall,  Wyman  Warren,  Davis  McRight,  Hollis 
Bates,  and  Stanton  Morris. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members  front 
row,  from  left:  William  Parker,  G.  B.  Vines, 
James  Duboise,  and  Flur  Berryman. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Phil  Morris,  William 
King,  Carl  Stevenson,  R.  H.  Clay,  Bobby 
Runge,  and  Almon  White. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members  from 
left:  George  Wade,  Melvin  Smith,  Robert 
Williams,  Joe  Loggins,  Billy  Haddock,  and 
Juddie  Chandler. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Paul  Johnson,  Paul  Pitts,  W.  N. 
Locke,  and  J.  C.  Hamaker. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Raymond  Reagin, 
William-Parker,  Virgil  Snoddy,  J.O.  Holderfield, 
Howard  Rutherford,  Carl  Parker,  M.R.  Sims, 
and  R.  H.  Clay. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  Willard  Nichols, 
business  agent,  left,  and  R.  H.  Clay, 
international  representative,  right,  presenting  a 
plaque  commemerating  his  50  years  In  the  UBC 
to  Lee  Dendy. 


Decatur,  Ala. — Picture  No.  5 


Ctiicago 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Local  434  recently  held  a  dinner  and  pin 
presentation  ceremony  honoring  25,  50,  and  60 
year  members. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members  with 
two  officers  of  Local  434,  from  left:  William  G. 
Beemsterboer,  president;  Theodore  Musil; 
Robert  Krause  Sr.;  Charles  Lester;  Patrick  L. 
Nelson,  business  representative. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  50-year  member 
Andrew  Jacobs. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  50-year  member  Marvin 
Bonnema. 

Also  honored  but  not  pictured  were:  25-year 
members  Raymond  Dahlman,  Warren  Meier, 
Henry  Grabowski,  Richard  Josephitis,  Arthur 
Provis,  and  Michael  Steger;  50-year  members 


Adam  Engelman,  Walter  Jellema,  G.  Ben 
Wiggen,  and  John  Slebos;  and  60-year 
members  Hilding  Westman  and  Gunnard 
Johnson. 


Ctiicago 
Picture  No.  2 


Cfiicago, 
Picture  No.  3 


JANUARY     1987 


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Santa  Ana,  Calif. 


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SANTA  ANA,  CALIF. 

Members  of  Local  1815  with  25  years  of 
service  to  the  Brotherhood  were  recently 
honored  by  Local  1815. 

Pictured,  seated,  fronn  left:  Roland  Cook, 
Enrique  Pena,  Ted  Rytel,  Ruben  Aburto,  Ralph 
Aguilar,  Richard  Giardini,  Robert  Matthews, 
William  N.  Harris,  Perry  Garnett,  and  Kurt 
Christensen. 

Standing,  from  left:  Frank  Doran;  Larry 
Kirsch;  Gary  Cochran;  Arturo  Lavenant;  Reuben 
L.  Rattai;  William  H.  Reimer;  Doyle  Archer, 
Orange  County  District  Council  president;  Paul 
Cecil,  UBC  representative;  Bill  Perry,  Orange 
County  District  Council  secretary-treasurer; 
Mike  G.  Lucio,  Local  1815  business 
representative;  Baldwin  Keenan,  Local  1815 
president;  Eugene  0.  Pearson;  Bill  Roslington; 
and  S.  E.  Cobb,  Local  1815  financial  secretary. 


Chattanooga,  Tenn. — Picture  No.  1 


CHATTANOOGA,  TENN. 


Members  with  25  and  50  years  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  were  recently  honored 
by  Local  74. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  James  E.  Lacey,  Wm.  Hershall 
Smith,  Wilburn  N.  North,  Roy  T.  Ewton,  Jameg 
L.  Thomason,  and  Jack  Brogdon. 

Second  row,  from  left:  Donald  K.  Henry; 
Ronald  D.  Henry;  Hillard  V.  Wall;  David  F, 


Abbott;  Glenn  L.  Smith;  Verlon  R.  Young;  E, 
Lee  Tullis;  R.  H.  Clay,  general  representative; 
Tommy  S.  Jenkins,  president;  and  George  L. 
Henegar,  general  representative. 

Third  row,  from  left:  Roy  L.  Swell,  business 
representative;  and  Howard  F.  Gray,  business 
representative  emeritus. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  50-year  members,  from 
left:  William  D.  Orr,  Roland  P.  Hill,  J.J. 
Burgess. 


Berksfiire 
Co.,  Mass. — 
Picture  No.  1 


Chattanooga,  Tenn. — Picture  No.  2 

BERKSHIRE  COUNTY 
AND  VICINITY,  MASS. 

Local  260  recently  held  an  outing  where 
service  pins  for  25  through  45  years  of 
membership  were  presented. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  George  Bushika,  local 
president;  Charles  Revord,  business 
representative;  Bill  Blanchard,  40-year  member; 
Alan  LaFleur,  40-year  member;  Larry  Deno,  40- 
year  member;  Arminio  Zucco,  48-year  member; 
and  Richard  Hynes,  45-year  member. 

Picture  No.  2  shows,  from  left;  34-year 
member  Charles  Revord;  33-year  member  Joe 
Santora;  36-year  member  Donald  Primmer;  33- 
year  member  Michael  Baluk;  35-year  member 
John  P.  Higgins;  30-year  member  Frank 
D'Agostino;  and  35-year  members  Ken  Streeter, 
Frank  Nolan,  and  Bob  O'Boyle. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  25-year  members, 
from  left:  Robert  Lefaver,  Harold  Finn,  Robert 
O'Hearn,  Brian  Mochon,  Frank  Casino, 
and  Norman  C.  Gwara. 


Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. — Picture  No.  2 
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Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. — Picture  No.  3 


CARPENTER 


N.  Brighton,  Pa.— Picture  No.  1 


N.  Brigliton,  Pa.— Picture  No.  2 


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N.  Brighton,  Pa.— Picture  No.  3 


NEW  BRIGHTON,  PA. 

Local  422  recently  held  a  service  awards 
banquet  where  long-standing  members  were 
presented  with  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  front  row,  from  left: 
45-year  member  Tom  Hosack,  50-year  member 
Carl  Hodge,  and  45-year  member  Anthony 
Villafranca. 

Back  row,  from  left:  45-year  members  Jack 
Miller,  Wilbert  Huffman,  and  Udell  Gallagher. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Espy  Spencer,  Mike  Skrabut, 
and  Bucky  Bucuren. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Clarence  Black,  Ray 
Sullivan,  and  Calvin  Strieker,  Jr. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Warren  Grimm,  international 
representative;  Charles  W.  Trgovav,  business 
representative;  Walter  Cochran;  and  Wallace 
McCartney. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Robert  Dierdorf,  William 
Vular,  Darrell  Sheets,  Paul  Grimes,  George 
Mason,  Stanley  Trzinski,  and  George  Stancik. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Lee  Weigel,  Clarence 
Clendenning,  James  Hodge,  and  James 
Tomasello. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Jack  Senior,  Robert 
Bruce,  James  Jones,  Robert  Wright,  and  James 
Osborne. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Robert  Lodovico, 
William  Puz,  and  Edgar  Snyder. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  25-year  members, 
including:  Ed  Senior,  Mack  Styles,  and  Jack 
Sinclair. 


ASHVILLE,  ALA. 

Gunnar  Berglind  recently 
received  special  recognition 
from  Local  1105  for  his  60 
years  of  service  to  the  UBC. 


N.  Brighton,  Pa.— Picture  No.  5 
JANUARY     1987 


Ashville,  Ala. 


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Marquette,  Mich.— Picture  No.  2 


Marquette,  Micli. — Picture  No.  4 


MARQUETTE,  MICH. 

Local  958  recently  held  a  pin  presentation 
ceremony  at  Northern  Michigan  University  in 
honor  of  members  with  20  to  50  years  of 
service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Lawrence  DeGrave,  Donald 
Magnuson,  and  John  Miljour. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Frederick  Jay  Parent, 
John  Raymer,  and  Frank  White. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Tauno  Alasimi,  Fred  Alderton, 
Edward  Anderson,  Louis  Blondeau,  Henry 
Burgers,  and  Warren  Contois. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Darrel  Dhaene,  Loren 
Gies,  Arthur  Hill,  Jack  Korpi,  and  Reino 
Rytilahti. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Donald  E.  Johnson,  Waino  Karl, 
Matt  Kokko,  and  James  Lahti. 

Back  row,  from  left:  William  John  Letts, 
John  Matthews,  and  Richard  Proksch. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Wilho  Aho,  Rudolph  Ballo, 
Leslie  Korpi,  Matthew  Lindfors,  Louis 
Maraccini,  and  Roland  Peterson. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Arne  Seppala,  Terrence 
Seymour,  Clement  Soldenski,  Carl  Sawanson, 
Edward  Therrian,  Wilho  Tuominen,  George 
Weber,  and  A.  Dale  Williams. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Dale  Olive,  Lon  Carr,  John 
Walter  Johnson,  and  Eino  Luokkala. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  45-year  members 
receiving  congratulations,  from  left:  Business 
Agent  Mike  Donnelly  congratulates  Elmer 
Anderson;  Leo  Tourtillott  receives 


Marquette,  Mich.— Picture  No.  6 

congratulations  from  Committee  Chairman  Art 
Howell. 

Receiving  pins  but  not  present  for  pictures 
were  20-year  members  Norman  Abramson, 
Emil  Anderson,  Douglas  Harder,  James  Kangas, 
Waino  Prusi,  Charles  Sandstrom,  John  Aper, 
Donald  Bottesi,  Howard  James  Ellis,  Raymond 
Finnela,  George  Fisher,  Stanley  Hintsala, 
Andrew  Keliin,  Thomas  Kelly,  Joseph  Kowalski, 
Chester  Kusmitch,  Leo  Laitenen,  Louis  Arthur 
Lee,  Clark  Lucas,  John  Macurio,  Wilfred 
Mannisto,  Elson  Merrill,  Earl  Mott,  Burnell 
Nelson,  Clark  Nelson,  John  Niemi,  Vernon 
Niemi,  Arthur  Nyland,  J.  Robert  Olsen,  Lester 
Perkins,  Frank  Phelan,  Robert  Pozniak,  H.  Ray 
Reynolds,  Lloyd  Rhino,  Darrel!  Richards, 
Theodore  Ruleford,  Leo  Ruona,  Toivo  Seppala, 
Birt  Solomon,  Charles  Vartti,  Walford 
Waananen,  and  Robert  Wagner;  25-year 
members  Edward  Ahlgren,  Edward  Antilla, 
Clarence  Beauchamp,  Nick  Borvich,  Arthur 
Carlson,  Alton  Carter,  Francis  Croasdell,  Walter 
Girardi,  Jarl  Hintsala,  Eino  Jaakola,  Roy 


Johnson,  Robert  Kellog,  Henry  Hiiskila,  Robert 
Larson,  Dallas  Little,  James  Marshall,  George 
Mattila,  James  McCaig,  Donald  Menard,  George 
Michaud  Sr.,  John  Moddie,  Edmund  Nault, 
Elmont  Quick,  Francis  Reiten,  Robert  Reiten, 
Walter  Seppanen,  Walford  Silverstone,  William 
Snail,  William  E.  Smith,  Richard  Sorenson, 
Dewayne  Stebbin,  Damos  Stetter,  and  Carl  S. 
Ongie;  30-year  members  Howard  Longhurst, 
James  Anderson,  Floyd  Beaudry,  Joseph 
Brazeau,  Aryin  Briggs,  Walter  Carlson,  Michael 
Chapman,  James  Dault,  Siguard  Engstrom, 
Milton  Erickson,  Harvey  Grismer,  Vernon 
Gumm,  Georyle  Halvorson,  Charles  Holley, 
Everett  Jackson,  Gordon  Jacobson,  Spencer 
Johnson,  Leo  Kanerva,  Waine  Kangas,  Ronald 
Kielinen,  Everette  Larson,  Oliva  Makinen,  Max 
Margoni,  Joseph  Meyers,  Reino  Niemela,  Arvid 
Salo,  John  Simonetti,  Anton  Stachowicz,  Harold 
Stolen,  David  Vanderlin,  and  Cecil  Wickman; 
35-year  members  John  Harder,  John  Kangas, 
Raymond  Beaton,  Richard  Absolon,  Alfred 
Antonetti,  William  Barkkari,  Carl  Berglund, 
Walter  Bray,  Bernard  Chiamulera,  Ardee 
Fauitersack,  James  Grieg,  Leo  Heikkila,  Eugene 
Hill,  Toiro  Lahti,  Alfred  Larson,  Reams  Larson, 
Eino  Maki,  Orville  Mitchell,  Onnie  Nummela, 
Wilber  Nye,  Kenneth  Sheldon,  Leonard  Sikkila, 
Charles  Syrjanen,  Adolph  Takela,  Edward 
Therrian,  Roland  White,  and  Joseph  Znorski; 
40-year  members  Fred  Brisson,  Adolph  Reira, 
Francis  Garceau,  Wiljo  Hautamaki,  Charles 
Holcomb,  Robert  Johnson,  Reino  Laine,  Emil 
Larson,  Albert  Leppanen,  Harris  Oust,  Robert 
Seybold,  Hugo  Sumen,  and  Karl  Welsh;  and 
50-year  members  Alt  Carlson  and  Ross 
Hendrickson. 


WAUKESHA,  Wise. 

Four  members,  Edward  Kuehl,  Henry  F. 
Schneider,  Conrad  Stark,  and  John 
Zimmerman,  pictured,  recently  received  50-year 
pins  and  a  commemorative  plaque  from  Local 
344.  The  plaques  were  presented  by  the  local's 
president,  Ray  Meidenbauer. 


Stark 


Zimmerman 
CARPENTER 


The  following  list  of  614  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,040,046.55  death  claims  paid  In  Oct.  1986,  (s)  following 
name  In  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members. 


Local  Union.  Cirs' 


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101 


105 
107 

108 
110 
112 
114 


121 
123 


142 
144 
149 
155 
166 
171 

174 
184 


Cincinnati,  OH— Peter  Galio. 
Davenport,  lA — Fern  Blesse  (s). 
St.  Louis,  MO — Alvin  F.  Vontalge,  Emil  Schmidt, 
Lawrence  P.  Dufaux. 

Minneapolis,  MN — David  Slechla.  Ernest  Anderson, 
Reuben  L.  Ness. 

Philadelphia,   PA — Harry   Berge,  John   Lichtwark, 
Joseph  F.  Weber. 
Buffalo,  NY— Richard  Banks  Sr. 
Chicago,  IL — Michael  C.  McShane. 
Syracuse,  NY — Harriet  M.  Gapski  (s). 
Chicago,  IL — Francis  Wenderski,  Louis  Kress,  Louis 
Krugly. 

Hackensack,    NJ — Gunnar  T.    Anderson,    Loretta 
Ackerman  (s).  Marion  Sabino  (s),  Newell  Pratt. 
Springfield,  IL — Ernest  Langford,  Theodore  F.  Ev- 
ans Jr. 

New  York,  NY — Edward  Boudreau. 
San  Francisco,  CA— Alice  L.  Samples  (s),  Carnie 
Harry  Hartman,  Roland  Musante. 
Central,  CT — John  Gleason,  William  Powers. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — OIlie  Brenson  Wray. 
Missoula,  MT— Carl  H.  Carlson,  Merschel  C.  Du- 
trow. 

Oakland,  CA — Velma  Josephine  Freilas  {s). 
Oakland,   CA— Adelyne   E.   Gilmore   (s),   Carl   A. 
Binder,  Ivar  Lundberg,  Thurman  Wade. 
Boston,  MA — Vincent  Palmer. 
San  Francisco,  CA — Elden  C.  Eddy.  Pedro  Cobo. 
Hartford,  CT — George  Cornier 
Champaign  &  Urbana,  IL — Alberl  D.  Rogers 
St.  Louis,  MO — Washington  I.  Goza  Jr. 
Lowell,  MA — John  A.  Mahar. 

Knoxville,  TN — Anna  Mae  Knight  (s),  Byron  C. 
Kelly,  Lonnie  Knighl. 

Boston,  MA — Albert  O.  Crowell,  Louis  G.  Bertucci. 
White  Plains,  NY — Louis  J.  Marsico  Jr. 
Denver,  CO— Anna  Cordelia  Randall  (s). 
Boston,  MA — Alfred  Gardner. 
Chicago,  IL — Claus  Gabrielson,  Jeannie  Mae  Naffin 
(s). 

Kansas  City,  MO — Conrad  J.  Eriksen,  Frank  Peak, 
Jerry  W.  Gatten.  Ora  R.  Ackerman. 
Bloominglon,  IL — Wanda  Jane  Sandage  (s). 
Louisville,  KY — Joseph  Romuel  Durbin.  Richard  Lee 
Lindemier. 

Boston,  MA— Clayton  A.  Nicholls,  ErnesI  W.  Detl- 
mann. 

Fort  Smith,  AR— Atha  Delois  Berdan  (s). 
St.  Louis,  MO — Earl  A.  Lowrance.  Esther  1.  Bal- 
estreri  (s). 

Chicago,  IL — Bard  H.  Valvatne.  George  Magnet. 
Henning  Bergstrom.  Vytaulas  Zemaitis. 
Halifax,  NS,  CAN— Elmer  Sedley  Kent. 
St.  Paul,  MN— Philip  Charles  Nelson. 
Mobile,  AL — Charlie  T.  Wiggins.  George  W.  Car- 
leton  Jr. 

Evansville,  IN — Carl  L.  Koenig,  William  L.  Paul. 
Ottawa,  Ont.,  CAN — Alphonse  Goulel,  Claire  Four- 
nier(s),  Emery  Mayer. 

Providence,  Rl — Angelo  Lanzi,  EmmaThibeaull  (s), 
Evelyn  Marie  Newton  (s).   Frederick  Ford,  Peter 
Tanzi,  Rene  Robillard,  Waller  Yehle. 
Spokane,  WA — Benjamin  Renner. 
Baltimore,  MD — Edgie  Misler.  Edward  J.  Bewley, 
Thomas  L.  Davis. 

Oakland,  CA — Claude  Complon,  Janice  M.  Hon  (s). 
Verl  Deen  Yingling. 

Dayton,  OH — James  L.  McMillen.  Joseph  H.  Schnei- 
der. Lermon  Poe.  William  F.  Carpenter. 
Cleveland,  OH— John  J.  McGralh. 
Worcester,  MA — John  Piolrowski,  Viola  H.  Burdulis   ■ 
(s). 

Springfield,  MA — Urbain  Letendre. 
St.  Joseph,  MO — Everett  E.  Hoffman. 
Butte,  MT— John  P.  Shea. 

East  Detroit,  MI— Aida  B.  Barterian  (s),  Charles  E. 
Wood,  Walter  Vincent. 

Bay  City,  MI— Emanuel  A.  Erikson,  Robert  W. 
Decourcy. 

Detroit,  MI — Dominic  Caputo.  George  Sands,  Ken- 
neth L.  Pascoe,  Lionel  Steed,  Thomas  E.  Hamill. 
Vineland,  NJ — John  W.  Fowler,  Solomon  Ostroff. 
Broward-County,  Fl^Paul  V.   Bales.  Roberta  A. 
Matis  (s). 

Miami,  FL — Catherine  F.  Prussiano  (s),  Edna  Susan 
Cornwell  (s).  Mary  C.  Enyart  (s),  Vernon  Drawdy, 
Wiley  C.  Tiplon. 

Palm  Beach,  FL— Allan  A.  Cameron.  Royal  Molli- 
neaux.  Jr. 

New  York,  NY— George  H.  Robinson,  Henry  Ryan, 
Kavin  B.  Hunter,  Nick  McKee. 
Pittsburgh,  PA— Peler  Crissman. 
Macon,  GA — Gladys  T.  Edwards  (s).  Oscar  D.  Toler. 
Tarrvtown,  NY— Frank  Belargc. 
Plainfield,  NJ— Gladys  I,  Smolinski  (s). 
Rock  Island,  IL — Marcel  M.  Vundcwalle. 
Younf;.stown,  OH^ — Eugene  Dalesandro,  George  L. 
Miller, 

Joliet,  IL — Ludwig  Gosack. 

Salt  Lake  City,  l)T— Larae  C.  Harding  (s),  Lester 
Brough,  Meretda  R.  McBride  (s),  Thale  N.  Cowan. 
St.  Louis,  MO—Hugh  E.  Funk. 


Local  Union.  City 

185  St.  Louis,  MO— Hugh  E.  Funk. 

186  Steubenville,  OH— James  P.  Chemnitz. 

198  Dallas,  TX— Harvey  J.  McDonald,  Ivy  Henry  How- 
ard. 

199  Chicago,  IL — Dewey  H.  Phillippe,  Mary  Smiljanick 
(s). 

200  Columbus,  OH — George  McCreary  Jr.,  S.  Jalmari 
Virta. 

203     Poughkeepsie,  NY— Walter  O.  West,  William  Man- 

fredi,  Sr. 
210     Stamford,  CT— Julius  Orto.  Patricia  Albrizio  (s), 

Salvatore  Coviello. 
213     Houston,  TX— Johnnie  M.  White 
215     Lafayette,  IN— Dessie  B.  Erskin.  Pearl  G.  Britton 

(s). 
218     Boston,  MA— Charles  O.  Hartman. 
223     Nashville,  TN— James  Noble  Gunn. 
225     Atlanta,  GA — Henry  E.  McLendon.  Oliver  Gaines 

Capes,  Ralph  C.  Paulette. 
232     Fort  Wayne,  IN— Mary  Pool  (s). 

246  New  York,  NY — Pasquale  Marino. 

247  Portland,  OR— Charles  W.  Runyan,  William  Brad- 
ley, William  S.  Ferguson.  Jr. 

248  Toledo,  OH— Robert  Dielman. 

250  Waukegan,  IL — Robert  Robertson  Jr. 

255  Bloomingburg,  NY — Fred  Abplanalp. 

257  New  York,  NY— Arne  Sorly,  Carl  Carlson. 

259  Jackson,  TN— Alvin  L.  Durbin. 

261  Scranton,  PA — John  Paulishak,  William  J.  Hartman. 

262  San  Jose,  CA — Felecia  Fotopoulos  (s). 

264  Milwaukee,  WI — Emil  Lifke. 

265  Saugerties,  NY — George  Manda,  Gertrude  Austin 
(s). 

272     Chicago  Hgt.,  Il^Philip  E.  Rupp. 
278    Watertown,  NY— Verle  Goutreniout. 

286  Great  Falls,  MT— Leo  Becker. 

287  Harrisburg,  PA — George  Dimoff.  Horst  F.  Zimmer- 
man. 

302     Huntington,  WV— Dallas  M.  Trainer. 
314     Madison,  WI — Harry  Droster. 

319  Roanoke,  VA— Helen  Lucille  Kelley  (s),  Henry  O. 
Franklin. 

320  Augusta,  ME — Bernice  Eleanor  Barbeau  (s),  Gary 
Lee  Landry. 

323  Becon,  NY— Suzanne  Ricottilli  (s). 

324  Waco.  TX— Jessie  O.  T.  Earle. 

329     Oklahoma  City,  OK— John  Theo  Turner. 

334  Saginaw,  MI — Juan  Martinez. 

335  Grand  Rapids,  MI — Patricia  Stephens  (s). 

342  Pawtucket,  RI— George  A.  Breault. 

343  Winnipeg,  MB,  CAN — Caroline  Marie  Rasmussen 
(s),  Joan  Beth  Berrie  (s),  Josef  Schlaug,  Ted  Hofto, 
Torstein  Nelson  Roisum. 

345    Memphis,  TN— Lula  Belle  Davis  (s),  Paul  E.  Todd. 
361     Duluth,  MN — Einar  Jensen. 

369  N.  Tonawanda,  NY — Emerson  Eva. 

370  Albany,  NY— John  David  Bugarin,  Robert  D.  Herb, 
Salvatore  Dibacco. 

372    Lima,  OH— Carolyn  L.  Alstaetter  (s). 

374     Buffalo,  NY— Branche  Bowman. 

379    Texarkana,  TX— Norman  E.  Rankin. 

387    Columbus,  MS — Herman  Hugh  Southern. 

393    Camden,  NJ — Frank  J.  Walinski,  Rosario  Archetta. 

400    Omaha,  NB— Elmer  E.  Demoret,  Sterling  H.  Plugge, 

Vernon  W.  Johnson. 
404    Lake  Co,  OH — Albert  L.  Adolphsen,  John  Eugene 

West. 
410     Ft.  Madison  &  Vic,  lA— Roy  T.  Lair. 
413    South  Bend,  IN — Guy  A.  Fox,  Samuel  I.  Hamman 

Jr. 
417    St.  Louis,  MO— Michael  T.  Aleto  Sr. 
433    Belleville,  IL — Louis  L.  Ruser. 
452    Vancouver,  BC,   CAN— Patrick   Keegan,   Wilbrod 

Julien. 

454  Philadelphia,  PA— Harold  W.  Kuhn. 

455  Somerville,  NJ— RoUin  Wellborn. 

470     Tacoma,  WA — Edward   Kjeliesvik,  Henry  Colcla- 

sure,  Ida  M.  Games  (s),  Kenneth  Folven,  Pete  Post. 
472     Ashland,  KY— Dewey  Arnett. 
480     Freeburg,  Il^Gottlieb  Busch. 
483     San  Francisco,  CA — Alvin  J.  Adams. 
494     Windsor,  Ont,  CAN— Dorothy  Hazel  Ross  (s). 
500    Butler,  PA — Anne  Theresa  Scaramuzzo  (s). 
513     Pt.  Albcrine,  BC  CAN— Rosabelle  Adelaide  Har- 

greaves  (s). 
518    Sistcrville,  WV — Anthony  Shields,  Estaleen  Marie 

Jones  (s). 
522     Durham,  NC — David  Washington  Adams. 
531     New  York,  NY — Joseph  Mule,  Thomas  Bieniek. 
535     Norwood,  MA — Grank  Griswold. 
542     Salem,  NJ— Hildreth  Noble, 
562     Everett,  WA — Louis  Hudon.  Markus  Johansen. 
586     Sacramento,  CA — Al  J.  Burkart,  Ernest  E.  Dralle, 

Farrell  Bascom,  Peter  Philips.  Robert  Fritzler,  Selma 

A.  Makiney  (s). 
600     Lehigh  Valley,  PA — Emma  Beatrice  Vallerschamp 

(s),  John  Kuzmiak,  Marshall  Neipert.  Ruth  C.  Evan- 

ochick  (s). 
608     New  York,  NY— Mary  Teresa  Leddy  (s).  Michael 

G.  Murphy,  Michael  Joseph  Carron. 
610     Port  Arthur,  TX— James  Floyd  Self.   Ura  Haslie 

Cole  (s).  Wyatt  G.  Ware. 
613     Hampton  Roads,  VA— Carl  B.  Wyrick.  Don  F.  Hobbs, 


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Herman  O.  Hackney,  Mary  Margaret  Kucharski  (s), 
Roscoe  C.  Stallings. 

Madison,  NJ — Arthur  Seaquist.  Herbert  Demarest. 
Atlantic  County,  NJ — Ralph  B.  Somers. 
Brockton,  MA — Reginald  Morency. 
Manchester,  NH — Denis  F.  Magher. 
Jacksonville,  FL — Jean  F.  Brown  (s) 
Madison  &  Granite  Citv,  IL — John  Sidney  Griffin. 
Millinocket,  ME— George  W.  Wilson  Sr. 
Amarillo,  TX— Vevel  L.  Kimbrell. 
Palo  Alto,  CA— Alexander  H.  McCullough. 
Little  Rock,  AR— William  Otho  Holter. 
Covington,  KY— Clem  B.  Schwabe. 
Long  Beach,  CA— Ruth  Giberti  (s) 
Baton  Rouge,  LA— Edward  D.  Wold  Sr. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Robert  Wood. 
Salt  Lake  City,  UT— Cecil  F.  Prier. 
Mansfield,  OH — Avery  J.  Hoeflich,  Thomas  Miller. 
Cincinnati,  OH — Fred  E.  Finke,  Thomas  Sauer. 
Bakersfield,  CA— Fletcher  G.  Hallstrom. 
Honolulu,   HI — Crispin  Dela  Cruz,  Edward  Lee, 
George  C.  M.  Lee,  Masami  Ifuku,  Masayuki  Ar- 
akaki,  Munemitsu  Gakiya,  Robert  Sueo  Higuchi, 
Shunzo  Sunaoka. 

Santa   Rosa,    CA — Edgar  J.    Schuette,    Frank   W. 
Speak,  Kenneth  Caven. 

Shreveport,  LA — Jackson  A.  Ross,  Mary  Lepoint 
Rains  (s),  Robert  Edwards. 
Yakima,  WA— Archie  B.  Carroll. 
Princeton,  NJ — Stephen  C.  Margemm. 
Dixon,  IlJ— Lloyd  Stabenow. 
Springfield,  NJ— Richard  W.  Roder. 
Santa  Cruz,  CA— Elizabeth  J.  Willis  (s). 
Beatrice,  NE— Gertrude  M.  Keller  (s). 
Des  Plaines,  IL — Adam  Walker  Neely,  Edward  Des- 
mith,  Gerald  F.  Krucek. 

Canoga  Park,  CA — George  A.  Reyer,  Harold  Wel- 
lington. Merlin  C.  Gentle. 

Clifton  Heights,  PA— Leroy  Campbell,  Robert  N. 
Rudolph. 

Lethbdge  Alta,  CAN — Andrew  A.  Thompson. 
San  Bruno,  CA — Eddie  Rainey,  Edward  A.  Drum- 
mond,  William  Rivaist. 
Hopkins,  MN — Archie  J.  Vetter. 
Brooklyn,  NY — Alfred  Rosa.  Joseph  Payne. 
Jacksonville,  IL — Elmer  Dale  Logsdon. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Jess  R.  Bradshaw. 
Tulsa,  OK— Zebbie  Eldora  Dunn  (s). 
San  Bernardino,  CA — Albert  L.  Sossman. 
Marquette,  MI — Robert  Wollney. 
Reno,  NV — Donal  O.  Nason,  George  H.  Bush. 
Wichita  Falls,  TX— Maurice  E.  Whitehili,  Robert 
Allen  Foshee. 

Petaluma,  CA — Arthur  G.  Lindberg,  Robert  James 
Rempel. 

Royal  Oak,  MI — Anthony  Potemski,  Shirley  Leem- 
huis  (s). 

Warren,  PA — Hilber  Adams. 
Parsons,  KS— Claude  Ellis,  Walter  D.  Lee. 
Chicago,  IL — Addone  Demarchi. 
Province  of  Ontario — Paul  M.  Menard. 
Plattsburgh,  NY— Jerome  B.  Felton. 
Gary,  IN — Robert  E.  Nowacki. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Alessandfo  Ferrara. 
Lincoln,  NE— Buena  J.  Barclay  (s),  Harold  F.  Sher- 
man. 

Santa  Barbara,  CA — Earl  W.  Crown,  Orville  E. 
Brady. 

Salem,  OR— Carl  Carter. 
Port  Huron,  MI— Rex  E.  Chappel. 
Eau  Claire,  WI — Morris  Oleson. 
Phoenix,  AZ — Albert  N.  Alexander,  David  K.  Terry. 
Rosemary  Cran  (s). 

Bismarck  Mandn,  ND — Edward  Barnhardl,  Martin 
Broe. 

Glencove,  NY — Rudolph  N.  Aufiero. 
Albany  Corvallis,  OR— Ole  K.  Iverson. 
Baton  Rouge,  LA — Antonio  Scavone,  Augustine  Cir- 
cello,  Henry  C.  Nolan,  Joann  Thornton  (s),  Ralph 
W.  Schenk. 

Detroit,  MI— Billie  J.  Woods.  William  R.  Ward. 
Woodlawn,  AL — Joseph  T.  Evans,  Ruby  McGowan 
Berglind  (s). 

Cleveland,  OH — Nicholas  Lane,  Richard  Olsen. 
Visalia,  CA — Celia  Turrey,  Clifford  Jansen.  Isabell 
Jane  Morrison  (s). 

San  Bernardino,  CA — Norma  Jean  Thompson  (s). 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Pierre  P.  Mandotte. 
Ml.  Kisco,  NY — Thomas  Verzeni. 
Toledo,  OH~Terry  T.  Mikolas. 
San  Pedro,  CA— Carl  Christianson.  William  S.  Wood.  < 
La  Crosse,  WI — Donald  J.  Secord,  Lloyd  Gleason. 
Seattle,  WA— Howard  Bruce  Wise. 
Olympia,  WA — Alvin  S.  Schumaker. 
San  Francisco,  CA — Robert  A.  Duncan,  William  L. 
Hynes. 

Yuma,  AZ — Ramon  Daniel. 
New  York.  NY—Albert  Kofler. 
Billings,  MT— William  L.  Coffin. 
Fargo.  ND — Anthony  T.  Huebncr. 
Chicago,  II. — Gertrude  Nugent  (s). 
Pensacola,  FL — John  H.  McNair. 
Charleston,  WV— Nancy  U.  Selbe  (s).  William  W. 


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Winebrenner.  1507 
1216     Mesa,  AZ — Sherman  Hammond. 

1222     Medford,    NY— Dorothy    Calamieilo    (s).    Stanley  1509 

Macksel.  1512 

1235     Modesto,  CA— Christian  Nielsen.  Lester  D.  Skaggs.  1522 

1240     Oroville.  CA— Charles  N.  Schaffer.  1529 

1251     N.  Weslmnstr,  BC  CAN— Peter  Sarnoske.  1532 

1266     Austin,  TX— Charhe  Grohmann.  1533 

1274     Decatur,  AI^Mable  Romine  (s).  Robert  L.  Moore.  1535 

1277     Bend,  OR— Ronald  E.  Rodman.  1536 

1280     Mountain  View,  CA— Kelly  L.  Seger.  Richard  C.  1565 

Hise.  1571 

1296     San    Diego,    CA— Edward   T.    Gootee.    Robert    E.  1587 

Rowland.  1592 

1300     San  Diego,   CA— Guillermo  C.   Prado,   Hugh   Mc-  1595 

Dugill.  1596 

1303     Port  Angeles,  WA— Walter  Archibald.  1597 

1305  Fall  River,  MA— Alfred  Lewis,  Avis  McCarthy  (s).  1598 
1307     Evanston,  IL — Edward  Henning. 

1311     Dayton,  OH— Robert  E    Booher.  Jr.  1615 

1319     Albuquerque,  NM — James  G.  Bell,  Newman  Smith  1632 

Peery.  Raymond  K.  Lawyer.  1650 

1325     Edmonton  Alta,  CAN— Bent  Harald  Leth.  Carl  My-  1665 

kietowich.  Joseph  Kuehn.  1673 

1329     Independence,  MO — Floyd  A.  Lancaster,  William  1685 

E.  Maples. 

1333  State  College,  PA— Joseph  Leskovan.  1689 

1334  Baytown,  TX— Mary  McDonald  (s).  1691 
1345  Buffalo,  NY— Charles  Steiner.  1707 
1351  Leadville,  CO— Margaret  Mary  Ewing  (s).  1723 
1363  Oshkosh,  WI— Gertrude  Eleanor  Helmuth  (s).  1733 
1365     Cleveland.  OH— Joe  Tekavec. 

1388     Oregon  City,  OR— Ernest  John  Link.  Kazuo  Ka-  1750 

wamoto. 

1396     Golden,  CO— Lawrence  W.  Blair.  Melvin  E.  Slaugh-  1752 

ter.  1772 

1402  Richmond,  VA— Carman  Milton  Hall.  1780 
1405     Halifax,  NS,  CAN— Edward  G.  Kelly. 

1407  San  Pedro,  CA.— Odilon  H.  Cortez.  1795 

1408  Redwood  City,  CA— Mary  Broughton  (s).  1797 
1418     Lodi,  CA— Lee  Vestal  Sullivan. 

1428     Midland,  TX— Lee  C.  Lawdermilk.  1806 

1437  Compton,  CA— Eugene  Boudreau.  Parley  W.  Elmer.  1815 
1454     Cincinnati,  OH— Clyde  A.  Witt,  William  Mason  Jr. 

1456     New  York,  NY— Edward  Pagan,  Fritz  Dehn,  John  1822 

Dyrness  Sr.,  Joseph  M.  Bonavito,  William  R.  John-  1823 

son.  1831 

1463     Omaha,  NE— Marie  A.  Kramolisch  (s).  1837 

1471     Jackson,  MS— Wendell  Ray  Wynne.  1839 

1478     Redondo,  CA— Rene  E.  Levesque.  1845 

1485  La  Porte,  IN— Dorothy  E.  Pliske  (s).  1846 
1487     Burlington,  VT — Alfred  N.  Davis,  Lionel  Ledoux. 

1506     Los  Angeles,  CA— John  R.  Fink.  1849 


El  Monte,  CA — Coa  Forsythe  Sirola  (s),  Elza  Moo- 
neyham,  Mabel  M.  Roberts  (s). 
Miami,  FL — Esary  F.  demons. 
Blountville,  TN — Berlha  Hixson  (s),  James  B.  Estep. 
Martel,  CA — Raymond  H.  Foster. 
Kansas  City,  KS— Bruce  J.  McCullough. 
Anacortes,  WA — Robert  E.  Korn. 
Two  Rivers,  WI — Joseph  J.  Barta. 
Highland,  IL — Fred  L.  Immer. 
New  York.  NY — Alfred  Andrews.  Natele  Tenaglia. 
Abilene,  TX — Billie  Idalene  McAlister  (s). 
East  San  Diego,  CA — Alfred  Vestergaard. 
Hutchison,  K^— Lynn  A.  Bunge. 
Sarnia,  Ont.,  CAN — Violet  Carver  (s). 
Montgomery  County,  PA — Mary  A.  Slody  (s). 
St.  Louis,  MO— Roy  E.  Butery  Sr. 
Bremerton,  WA — Wayne  E.  McCabe. 
Victoria,  BC.  CAN— Gerald  Margaret  R.  Zalopski 
(s).  Die  Jacobson.  Richard  D.  Weirmier. 
Grand  Rapids,  MI — Dorothea  E.  Lindley  (s). 
S  Luis  Obispo,  CA — Michael  Morris. 
Lexington,  KY — Ira  Edwards. 
Alexandria,  VA — Marjorie  O.  Embrey  (s). 
Morganton.  NC — Claude  A.  Owens. 
Melbourne-Daytona  Beach,  FL — Emory  S.  Edwards. 
Zella  Louise  Greene  Young  (s). 
Tacoma,  WA — Albert  Kratochvil,  Sr. 
Coeur  Dalene,  ID — Gail  E.  Carver. 
Kelso  Longvew,  WA — Norma  M.  Touraitle  (s). 
Columbus,  GA — Bernard  Benson. 
Marshheld,  WI — George  Wellner.  Jr.,  Leonard  W. 
Goldbach,  Linda  Winzenried  (s). 
Cleveland,   OH— Delbert   L.    Forbes,   Nicholas  C. 
Dinardo. 

Pomona,  CA — Alberta  B.  Smith  (s). 
Hicksville,  NY — John  Michaels. 
Las  Vegas,  NV — John  Chamberlain.  Robert  E.  Mor- 
gan, Vance  Ekanger. 
Farmington,  MO-— Lindell  F.  Maze. 
Renton,  WA— Geneva  Blanche  Cato  (s).  Wilford  B. 
Gerbracht. 

Dallastown,  PA — Pauline  E.  Seitz. 
Santa  Ana,  CA — George  R.  Smith.  Retta  E.  Weeks 
(s). 

Fort  Worth.  TX — James  Alan  Bounds. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Samuel  W.  Sayers. 
Washington,  DC— Orval  V.  Booth. 
Babylon,  NY— Otto  Skotiedal. 
Washington,  MO — George  R.  Girdner. 
Snoqualm  Fall.  WA— Oscar  B.  Miller. 
New  Orleans,  LA — Doris  E.  Williams  (s).  Leonard 
Wendel. 
Pasco,  WA — Gladys  F.  Paine  (s).  Joseph  Miller. 


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Minneapolis,  MN — Harley  E.  Clark. 
Manteca,  CA — Claude  Moberly. 
Cleveland,  OH — John  J.  Hawes. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Joseph  Trybala,  Patrick  P.  Brown. 
Van  Nuys,  CA — Albert  Krauk,  Leonard  J.   Lee, 
Michael  Chinze,  Steven  R.  Foote. 
Columbia,  MO— Lee  Hunt. 
Lewistown,  PA — Dorothy  H.  McMullen  (s). 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Robert  G.  Terrazas. 
St.  Charles,  MO — Edward  Peter  Dreisewerd. 
Los  Gatos,  CA — David  P.  Martin. 
Ocean  County,  NJ — Oliver  E.  Havens. 
San  Diego,  CA — Howard  J.  Theriot. 
Martinez,  CA — Ada  M.  Davis  (s),  Boyd  Markle. 
Gerald  P.  Garcia.  Leiand  Woods  Fereira.  Sven  B. 
Sjolund. 

Hartford  City  ,  IN— Robert  Wesley  Fulton. 
Gilbertville,  KY — Floyd  Arvin  Carner. 
St.  Helens  Vic,  OR— Albert  Hamilton. 
Milwaukee,  WI— Walter  F.  Schmidt. 
Vista,  CA — Anthony  M.  Zasadzinski.  Dale  R.  Roller. 
Crystal  Lake,  IL— Leslie  C,  Olsen  Sr. 
Calgary  Alta,  CAN — Andrew  Louis  Stipkala.  John 
L.  German. 

Napa,  CA — Leon  F.  Labarge. 
Centralia.  WA— Hugh  L.  Miller. 
Santa  Ana,  CA — Michael  L.  Bernier. 
Ackerman,  MS — Kathy  M.  Gill. 
Anaheim,  CA — Donald  Leroy  Sleight.  Marvin  L. 
Lawson.  Milton  Fred  Kropf. 
Goderich,  Ont.,  CAN— Edward  J.  Horton  Sr. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Lyle  G.  Farmer. 
Houston,  TX — Darrell  Austin  Davis. 
Little  Chute,  WI— Norman  Freier. 
Red  Bank,  NJ — Edward  Clayton.  Mary  E.  Bennett 
(s). 

Pittsburgh,  PA— Gerald  W.  Taylor. 
Detroit,  MI — Edward  Powers. 
Pittsburgh,  PA — James  Belice.  Robert  Malmgren. 
New  York,  NY — Robert  Pelliccaro. 
Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN — Harry  Grainger.  Songa  Wal- 
lace (s). 

Orange,  CA — Merle  Evelyn  Smay  (s). 
Vancouver,  BC,  CAN — Arne  C.  Anderson.  Dorothy 
Rachel  Davis  (s). 
Portland,  OR— Roy  E.  Knapp. 
Fort  Payne,  AL — Robert  Ray  Dupree. 
Ventura,  CA — Bonnie  Glen  Wear,  Hugh  K.  Gil- 
breath. 

Orange,  TX — Tom  Jackson  Suitl. 
Longview,  WA — Glenn  Thomas  Powers  Jr. 
Seattle,  WA— Alton  P.  Clay  Sr. 
Texarkana.  TX— Doyle  Odis  Clark. 
Cottage  Grove,  OR— Harold  E.  Wolfard  Jr. 
Tacoma,  WA — Freida  Sommer  (s).  Ted  Yuckert. 
Standard,  CA — Ismael  Amador. 
Hutlig,  AR— Warren  Bass. 
Lakeview,  OR — Edward  J.  Williams. 
Thompson  Fall.  MT — Frank  Lundy. 
Yakima,  WA — Paul  Benjamin  Lee. 
Kalama,  WA — Luella  Barrett  ts). 
McCleary,  WA — Bernard  Hoag. 
Potlatch,  ID — Richard  Sanderson. 
Morton,  WA — Christian  H.  Johnson. 
Coquille,  OR— Richard  Herold, 
Emmetl,  ID — Claude  J.  Collins. 
Quebec,  Que.,  CAN — Alphege  Mercier.  Antonio  Be- 
langer.  Francois  Trudel.  Ovide  Belaud. 
New  York,  NY — Nellie  Anderson  (s). 
Albany,  OR — Leo  E.  Cooper.  Sophie  Gingrich  (s). 
New  York,  NY — Angelo  Simone. 
Roseburg,  OR — Delbert  A.  Meeks.  Louis  E.  Davis, 
Mabel  Proctor  (s). 

Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN — Arthur  McAneney. 
Franklin,  IN — Thomas  Dale  Young. 
Cascade,  ID — Fred  S.  Logue.  Terry  L.  Stallsmith. 
New  York,  NY — Danookdari  Budhram. 
Province  of  Quebec  LCL  134-2 — Lionel  Leduc.  Paul 
Miron.  Rudolph  Aucoin.  Sam  Salvatore  Soccorso. 


Martin  Luther  King 

Holiday 

Commemorated 

On  January  19  the  United  States  will  mark 
the  second  observance  of  Martin  Luther 
King  Jr.'s  birthday  as  a  national  holiday. 

A  "Freedom  Trail"  poster,  tracing  the  life 
of  Dr.  King,  has  been  commissioned  to  honor 
the  slain  civil  rights  leader.  It  is  a  project  of 
the  Martin  Luther  King  Jr.  Federal  Holiday 
Commission,  and  it  has  received  the  support 
of  the  AFL-CIO's  Labor  Committee  for  the 
King  Holiday. 


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CARPENTER 


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Here's  a  small,  compact  level  that  per- 
forms under  many  conditions.  It  is  self- 
standing,  or  it  can  be  clamped,  magnetically 
held,  or  nailed  to  wood.  It's  useful  for  setting 
up  straight  studs  in  close  areas,  for  leveling 
adjustable  legs  on  appliances,  and  has  ap- 
plications in  electrical  work,  welding,  and 
plumbing. 

The  Magnetic  Combo  Level  is  six  inches 
long,  has  a  rugged  machined-aluminum  body, 
and  employs  three  magnetic,  impregnated 
strips  to  securely  hold  the  level  to  square 
corners  or  rounds  for  hand-free  operation. 
There  are  two  nail  holes  for  carpentry  work. 
You  can  use  two  Combo  Levels  and  a 
straight  2"x4"  to  make  a  level  any  length  you 
want. 

The  level  retails  for  $29.95.  To  purchase 
or  to  obtain  more  information  contact:  Cruise 
Industrial  Controls  Inc.,  P.O.  Box  8073, 
LaVeme,  CA  91750.  Telephone:  (714)  596- 
8337. 


INDEX  OF  ADVERTISERS 

Seniorshield 20 

Calculated  Industries 22 

CUfton  Enterprises 39 

Foley-Belsaw 27 

Hydrolevel 39 

Irwin 38 


A  new  girder  hanger  has  been  devised  for 
the  proper  installation  of  girders  to  concrete 
footings. 

Panel  Clip's  new  girder  hanger  eliminates 
the  need  for  a  pier  under  the  girder  at  the 
foundation  wall.  Inserts  in  the  foundation 
wall  or  pockets  are  also  no  longer  necessary. 
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for  an  anchor  bolt.  These  hangers  are  man- 
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PILE  REPAIR  GUIDE 

Symons  Corp.  of  Des  Plaines,  111.,  an- 
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Symons  is  the  manufacturer  of  a  wide 
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the  repair  and  protection  of  concrete,  wood, 
or  steel  piles.  The  system  is  based  on  a 
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work  is  usually  performed  on  piles  which 
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terioration from  marine  organisms  which 
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Symons  Pile  Restoration  and  Preservation 
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jacket  installation,  placement  of  reinforcing 
bands,  sealing  of  the  jacket  openings,  and 
grout  placement.  The  manual  details  both 
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5018,  Des  Plaines,  IL  60017-5018,  Attn: 
Publications  Department. 


NOTE:  A  report  on  new  products  and  processes 
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or  recommendation.  All  performance  claims  are 
based  on  statements  by  the  manufacturers. 


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39 


Getting  Back 

to  the  Business 

of  Government 


There's  more  to  reviving 

an  economy  than  handing 

out  government  money 


Last  month,  the  White  House  waded  knee 
deep  in  the  fallout  from  what  the  newspapers 
call  "Iranscam."  President  Reagan,  caught 
with  a  scandal  on  his  hands,  suggested  to  the 
media  and  the  nation  that  the  matter  be  cleared 
up  as  soon  as  possible  and  "we  get  back  to 
the  business  of  government." 

I  am  sure  that  the  general  public  agrees  that 
the  federal  government  should,  indeed,  get 
back  to  the  business  of  government.  It  now 
appears  to  many  that  America's  foreign  policy 
was  going  astray  last  summer  while  the  Pres- 
ident was  beating  the  bushes  for  Republican 
votes  in  the  November  elections.  It  also  ap- 
pears from  U.S.  Labor  Department  statistics 
that  more  and  more  Americans  are  joining  the 
unemployed,  and  the  Reagan  Administration 
has  no  new  solutions  to  the  problem. 

In  any  case,  I  don't  believe  that  Iranscam 
will  go  away  as  quickly  as  the  President  would 
like  it  to,  no  matter  what  he  says  in  his  State 
of  the  Union  speech  later  this  month. 

The  100th  Congress,  convening  on  January 
6,  will  surely  dig  deeply  into  the  whole  matter. 
The  Democrats,  now  in  the  majority,  have  a 
lot  of  disillusioned  citizens  behind  them. 

I  do  hope,  however,  that  the  crucial  issues 
still  facing  America  are  not  put  on  back 
burners  while  the  Iranscam  investigation  con- 
tinues. There  are  too  many  jobs  and  too  many 
lives  at  stake,  and,  for  that  matter,  too  many 
campaign  promises  unfulfilled. 

Workers  and  their  unions  demand  a  rebuild- 
ing of  the  nation's  entire  infrastructure.  They 
cry  out  for  a  fair  trade  policy,  which  would 
force  other  nations  to  remove  their  trade 
barriers  to  U.S.  goods,  if  they  want  to  compete 


in  U.S.  markets.  They  call  for  a  realistic 
program  for  putting  people  back  to  work,  not 
the  simple,  uncertain  policy  of  handing  out 
federal  funds  right  and  left  for  questionable 
state  and  municipal  programs  which  do  not 
get  to  the  root  of  our  economic  problems. 

American  workers  want  to  hold  employers 
more  accountable  for  their  actions.  They  want 
to  deprive  multinational  corporations  and  in- 
ternational investors  of  the  windfall  profits 
gained  by  moving  manufacturing  plants  over- 
seas. In  short,  they  want  a  new  deal  as  inspired 
as  the  one  which  lifted  us  out  of  the  economic 
troubles  of  the  1930s. 

It  has  been  said  many  times:  History  has  a 
habit  of  repeating  itself.  Let  me  cite  two 
examples. 

Soon  after  the  Wall  Street  crash  of  1929, 
America's  wage  earners  stood  by  helplessly 
as  the  depression  cut  into  production,  shut 
down  manufacturing  plants,  and  put  millions 
out  of  work.  Early  in  1930  President  Herbert 
Hoover  called  a  series  of  industrial  confer- 
ences in  Washington  at  which  employers 
promised  to  uphold  wages  and  maintain  em- 
ployment. Workers  and  the  unions,  which  at 
that  time  were  weak  and  oppressed,  accepted 
these  pledges  in  good  faith.  Recovery,  every- 
one thought,  was  "just  around  the  corner." 

There  were  no  collective  bargaining  agree- 
ments in  the  major  industries.  There  were  few 
contracts  which  established  satisfactory  wage 
scales.  Company  unions  were  powerless  to 
protest  their  members'  interests.  Dependence 
on  the  bosses  and  their  welfare  capitalism 
proved  to  be  ill  advised.  It  was  not  until  the 
National  Recovery  Act  and  the  National  La- 
bor Relations  Act  enacted  under  President 
Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  that  economic  recovery 
actually  began,  and  I  am  firmly  convinced 
that  it  was  the  release  of  labor  unions  for  free 
collective  bargaining  and  the  sudden  growth 
of  labor  unions  during  the  New  Deal  that  sped 
the  nation  toward  full  economic  recovery. 

History  proved  at  that  time  that  workers 
cannot  rely  on  the  promises  of  employers  to 
achieve  full  employment. 

Then,  after  all  this,  history  repeated  itself 
just  two  years  ago.  President  Ronald  Reagan 
told  his  supporters  at  his  election  victory 
celebration  in  1984,  we  hadn't  seen  nothing 
yet.  He  quickly  presented  to  the  Congress  the 
largest  budget  and  tax  cuts  in  U.S.  history  .  .  . 


the  two  combined  proved  to  be  the  most 
shameful  form  of  fiscal  irresponsibility. 

I  am  still  amazed  that  multi-millionaires 
who  once  pinched  pennies  and  diligently  bal- 
anced their  checkbooks  to  get  where  they  are 
today  can  still  call  themselves  true  patriots 
while  they  sit  back  and  watch  the  Reagan 
Administration  get  us,  our  children,  and  our 
grandchildren  deeper  and  deeper  into  debt. 

While  the  modern  world  is  going  in  one 
direction,  the  Reagan  fiscal  advisers  are  going 
in  another.  Under  the  so-called  "new  feder- 
aUsm,"  they  are  attempting  to  transfer  more 
and  more  social  programs  to  the  states,  which 
are  already  hardpressed  for  funds  and  tax 
revenue. 

President  Reagan  has  said  on  several  oc- 
casions that  he  admired  the  decisive  methods 
of  President  Roosevelt,  who  turned  the  coun- 
try around  in  his  first  100  days  in  office. 
However,  President  Reagan  proved  less  eco- 
nomically-effective when  he  came  into  office 
in  1981 .  By  1982  the  nation  underwent  a  severe 
recession,  and  there  was  an  unemployment 
rate  that  year  of  9.7%. 

President  Reagan's  method  of  deahng  with 
unemployment  proved  to  be  much  hke  that 
of  President  Nixon:  Tackle  inflation  first,  job- 
lessness second.  His  conservative  advisers 
said,  in  effect,  what  the  advisers  to  President 
Nixon  had  said  a  decade  before:  A  httle  more 
unemployment  doesn't  hurt  the  country.  Let's 
let  the  big  corporations  have  some  tax  advan- 
tages and  tax  write-offs,  and  these  corpora- 
tions will  plow  their  money  back  into  plant 
expansion  and  development  of  new  products, 
and  more  jobs  will  be  created. 

As  Mr.  Reagan  surely  knows  himself  by 
now,  it  didn't  work  out  that  way.  We  still 
have  an  unemployment  rate  of  7%,  and  our 
gross  national  product  has  risen  only  slightly 
over  a  year  ago. 

In  addition  to  more  than  eight  million  Amer- 
icans currently  unemployed,  another  seven 
million  are  discouraged  workers  who  have 
quit  the  search  for  jobs  or  are  underemployed, 
forced  to  work  part  time  because  full-time 
work  is  not  available.  It's  estimated  that  less 
than  1%  of  unemployed  workers  receive  un- 
employment compensation  because  they've 
been  without  jobs  for  26  weeks  or  longer  and 
are  no  longer  listed  in  federal  unemployment 
statistics. 


Carpenter  magazine  told  its  readers  in  Jan- 
uary 1946,  just  before  passage  of  the  1946  Full 
Employment  Act,  "There  can  be  no  question 
that  the  aim  of  everyone  should  be  develop- 
ment of  the  nation  to  the  fullest  extent  of  its 
resources  .  .  .  There  is  almost  no  limit  to  the 
extent  to  which  the  nation  can  be  developed 
in  the  future  if  labor,  management,  govern- 
ment, and  all  elements  devote  their  energies 
to  that  task  with  the  unanimity  of  purpose 
which  was  displayed  during  World  War  II." 

More  than  lip  service  is  needed  to  turn 
America  around  economically.  We  call  for 
recognition  by  business  and  government  ahke 
that  the  only  way  that  employment  can  be 
increased  is  by  putting  more  earned  money 
into  circulation  among  the  great  mass  of  the 
people.  More  pay  checks  and  more  purchasing 
power  among  wage  earners  will  cause  wheels 
to  turn  and  factories  to  perform.  This  is  the 
ultimate  answer  in  a  democracy. 


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PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


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THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

Address  Correction  Requested 


Non-Profit  Org. 

U.S.  POSTAGE 

PAID 

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FOR  THE  YEAR  1987 


ELIMINATE  DOUBLE-BREASTED  CONSTRUCTION-A  major  problem  still  fac- 
ing Building  and  Construction  Trades  unions  is  the  unethical,  immoral  practice  of 
some  construction  contractors  by  which  they  operate  both  union  and  nonunion 
work  crews,  with  the  dummy,  nonunion  company  underbidding  and  undercutting 
skilled  union  craft  workers.  A  resolution  outlawing  this  practice  has  already  been 
passed  by  the  U.S.  House  of  Representatives.  It  got  bogged  down  in  the  Senate 
last  year.  Blue  collar  workers  helped  to  defeat  many  conservative  Senators  last 
November  and  replace  them  with  true  friends  of  blue  collar  workers.  It's  time  now 
to  renew  our  efforts  to  enact  legislation  to  eliminate  double-breasting. 


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TRIM  THE  FEDERAL  BUDGET  SENSIBLY— The  federal  deficit  of  the  United 
States  remains  at  an  all-time  high.  For  the  first  time,  Americans  owe  other  nations 
more  than  other  nations  owe  them.  Under  the  slashing  methods  provided  by  the 
Gramm-Rudman  Law,  the  Reagan  Administration  has  cut  back  on  vital  federal 
services  for  the  poor,  the  disabled,  and  many  rank-and-file  consumer  expendi- 
tures. Labor  unions  have  called  for  a  hard,  sensible  look  at  the  defense  budget  to 
eliminate  $200  coffee  pots  and  $1  million  consultants  who  provide  nothing  of 
value.  They  support  a  reasonable,  fair  tax  system  which  brings  in  budget- 
balancing  revenue.  They  continue  to  fight  the  runaway  tactics  of  multinational 
corporations,  which  move  vital  U.S.  and  Canadian  jobs  overseas. 


ORGANIZE  THE  UNORGANIZED— It's  as  old  as  time,  but  it  must  be  said  again 
and  again:  "In  unity  there  is  strength."  "We  must  all  hang  together,  or  assuredly 
we  shall  all  hang  separately,"  as  Ben  Franklin  said.  "Solidarity  forever .  .  ."  What 
it  all  boils  down  to  is  the  fact  that  you  and  your  fellow  members  of  the  United 
Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America  don't  stand  a  chance  of  gaining 
your  fair  share  of  the  fruits  of  your  labor  unless  you  are  strong  in  numbers  and 
strong  in  trade-union  conviction.  Make  no  mistake  about  it:  the  U.S.  and  Canadian 
economies  need  shoring  up.  It  now  takes  two  or  more  members  of  a  family  to 
keep  bread  on  the  table.  Don't  turn  away  anyone  who  wants  to  join  the  United 
Brotherhood  and  is  qualified  to  do  so. 


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GENERAL  OFFICERS  OF 

THE  UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  of  CARPENTERS  &  JOINERS  of  AMERICA 


GENERAL  OFFICE: 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 


GENERAL  PRESIDENT 

Patrick  J.  Campbell 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

SECOND  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

John  Pruitt 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

John  S.  Rogers 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  TREASURER 

Wayne  Pierce 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 


DISTRICT  BOARD  MEMBERS 


First  District,  Joseph  F.  Lia 
120  North  Main  Street 
New  City,  New  York  10956 

Second  District,  George  M.  Walish 

101  S.  Newtown  St.  Road 

Newtown  Square,  Pennsylvania  19073 

Third  District,  Thomas  Hanahan 

9575  West  Higgins  Road 

Suite  304 

Rosemont,  Illinois  60018 

Fourth  District,  E.  Jimmy  Jones 
12500  N.E.  8th  Avenue,  #3 
North  Miami,  Florida  33161 

Fifth  District,  Eugene  Shoehigh 
526  EUcwood  Mall  -  Center  MaU 
42nd  &  Center  Streets 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68105 


Sixth  District,  Dean  Sooter 

400  Main  Street  #203 
Rolla,  Missouri  65401 

Seventh  District,  H.  Paul  Johnson 
Gramark  Plaza 

12300  S.E.  Mallard  Way  #240 
Milwaukie,  Oregon  97222 

Eighth  District,  M.  B.  Bryant 
5330-F  Power  Inn  Road 
Sacramento,  California  95820 

Ninth  District,  John  Carritthers 
5799  Yonge  Street  #807 
Willowdale,  Ontario  M2M  3V3 

Tenth  District,  Ronald  J.  Dancer 
1235  40th  Avenue,  N.W. 
Calgary,  Alberta,  T2K  0G3 


William  Sidell,  General  President  Emeritus 
William  Konyha,  General  President  Emeritus 
Peter  Terzick,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 
Charles  E.  Nichols,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 


Patrick  J.  Campbell,  Chairman 
John  S.  Rogeks,  Secretary 

Correspondence  for  the  General  Executive  Board 
should  be  sent  to  the  General  Secretary. 


Secretaries,  Please  Note 

In  processing  complaints  about 
magazine  delivery,  the  only  names 
which  the  financial  secretary  needs  to 
send  in  are  the  names  of  members 
who  are  NOT  receiving  the  magazine. 

In  sending  in  the  names  of  mem- 
bers who  are  not  getting  the  maga- 
zine, the  address  forms  mailed  out 
with  each  monthly  bill  should  be 
used.  When  a  member  clears  out  of 
one  local  union  into  another,  his 
name  is  automatically  dropped  from 
the  mailing  list  of  the  local  union  he 
cleared  out  of.  Therefore,  the  secre- 
tary of  the  union  into  which  he  cleared 
should  forward  his  name  to  the  Gen- 
eral Secretary  so  that  this  member 
can  again  be  added  to  the  mailing  list. 

Members  who  die  or  are  suspended 
are  automatically  dropped  from  the 
mailing  list  of  The  Carpenter. 


PLEASE  KEEP  THE  CARPENTER  ADVISED 
OF  YOUR  CHANGE  OF  ADDRESS 


NOTE:  Filling  out  this  coupon  and  mailing  it  to  the  CARPENTER  only  cor- 
rects your  mailing  address  for  the  magazine.  It  does  not  advise  your  own 
local  union  of  your  address  change.  You  must  also  notify  your  local  union 
...  by  some  other  method. 


This  coupon  should  be  mailed  to  THE  CARPENTER, 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C.  20001 


NAME. 


Local  No 

Numl>er  of  your  Local  Union  must 
be  given.  Otherwise,  no  action  can 
be  taken  on  your  change  of  address. 


Social  Security  or  (in  Canada)  Social  Insurance  No. 


NEW  ADDRESS. 


City 


State  or  Province 


ZIP  Code 


CAEESMER 

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ISSN  0008-6843 

VOLUME  107  No.  2  FEBRUARY  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 

IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

Tomorrow's  Workforce 2 

UBC  Fights  for  Shareholder  Voting  Rights 4 

New  Canadian  Embassy  Underway 5 

Retired  GEB  IVIember  Leon  Greene  Passes  Away 5 

UBC  Leaflets  Focus  Attention  on  American  Express 7 

Last  of  the  Liberty  Ships 8 

Who  Are  Union  Leaders? 10 

National  Reciprocal  Agreements 12 

Two  UBC  Members  Are  Authors 17 

Gains  and  Losses  for  the  Metal  Trades 18 

Safety  and  Health:  Portable  Ladders 24 

Little  Change  in  Work  Injuries 27 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 6 

Ottawa  Report 11 

Labor  News  Roundup 16 

Local  Union  News 19 

We  Congratulate 21 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 22 

Plane  Gossip 28 

Retirees  Notebook 29 

Consumer  Clipboard 30 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 31 

In  Memoriam 37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


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THE 
COVER 


U.S.  and  Canadian  policy  makers  are 
beginning  to  turn  their  attention  to  what 
the  North  American  work  force  will  be 
like  in  the  13  remaining  years  of  the  20th 
century. 

Statisticians  tell  us  that  by  the  year 
2000,  80%  of  all  new  entrants  into  the 
American  work  force  will  be  women, 
minorities,  or  immigrants. 

As  labor  unions  consider  the  tragic 
condition  in  America's  so-called  Rust 
Belt,  where  steel  plants  lie  idle,  and  the 
critical  need  for  low  and  middle-income 
housing,  they  wonder  if  the  American 
worker  will  survive  against  the  onslaught 
of  cheap  imports  and  the  manipulations 
of  unskilled,  low-wage  workers  and  non- 
union advocates. 

Though  service  jobs  are  increasing  in 
some  areas,  the  income  of  workers  in 
these  areas  is  substandard,  often  below 
the  minimum  wage. 

White  collar  jobs  continue  to  grow, 
while  blue  collar  jobs  in  some  industries 
have  declined  drastically. 

According  to  the  U.S.  Labor  Depart- 
ment, the  number  of  workers  on  farms, 
on  college  faculties,  and  in  many  manu- 
facturing industries  will  decline  in  num- 
ber. 

Canada  and  the  United  States  have 
both  suffered  high  unemployment  in  the 
1980s,  and  the  outlook  is  not  good  in 
1987,  if  we  are  to  believe  the  unemploy- 
ment statistics  supplied  by  public  agen- 
cies .  .  .  the  number  of  part-time  work- 
ers, the  number  of  families  with  father 
and  mother  both  struggling  as  wage  earn- 
ers. 

Our  lead  article  this  month  examines 
the  changing  shape  of  the  U.S.  work 
force.  It  is  based  upon  data  obtained 
from  several  sources.  We  expect  to  pub- 
lish a  similar  study  of  the  Canadian  situa- 
tion in  a  future  edition. 

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The  Year  2001  A.D.  may  not  be  like 
the  award-winning  movie  of  a  few  years 
ago.  Space  ships  may  not  be  routinely 
taking  us  to  distant  planets  while  we 
hibernate  in  time-stopping  capsules.  A 
computer  named  Hal  may  not  be  di- 
recting our  daily  lives  .  .  . 

Then  again,  maybe  all  this  will  come 
to  pass  .  .  .  eventually. 

In  any  case,  the  Year  2001  is  only  14 
years  away,  and  many  of  us  will  live  to 
see  it.  In  fact,  far  too  many  of  us  will 
live  to  see  it.  World  population  contin- 
ues to  explode  in  many  parts  of  the 
world. 

Workers  will  be  needing  jobs.  Fam- 
ilies will  need  food  and  shelter. 

The  workforces  of  the  United  States 
and  Canada  face  some  uncertainties 
under  such  conditions.  Researchers  at 
Johns  Hopkins  University  estimate  that 
the  average  American  today  will  hold 
eight  different  jobs  !n  his  or  her  lifetime. 
We  are  changing  jobs  in  many  cases 
because  of  factors  beyond  our  control — 
changes  in  the  local  economy,  changes 
in  family  conditions,  or,  perhaps,  the 
jobs  themselves  will  change. 

In  a  recent  interview,  U.S.  Secretary 
of  Labor  William  Brock  listed  some  of 
the  occupational  changes  expected  in 
the  United  States  in  the  next  two  dec- 
ades. The  occupations  expected  to  grow 


in  number  in  the  years  ahead  are  shown 
in  the  chart  at  the  top  of  Page  3.  Among 
them  are  carpenters,  whom  statisticians 
tell  us  will  increase  in  number  by  more 
than  10%.  General  maintenance  work- 
ers will  increase  by  approximately  17%, 
and  this  percentage  will  include  main- 
tenance carpenters,  millwrights,  and 
other  skilled  workers  in  the  UBC  main- 
tenance jurisdiction. 

Some  UBC  industrial  members  will 
be  covered  by  other  categories  in  the 
chart;  others,  unfortunately,  might  be- 
come victims  of  advancing  technology. 

Occupations  expected  to  need  fewer 
workers,  according  to  the  U.S.  Labor 
Department  include:  farm  workers,  col- 
lege faculty  members,  postal  service 
clerks,  pressing  machine  operators,  sta- 
tistical clerks,  textile  machine  mechan- 
ics, telephone  installers  and  repairers, 
household  workers,  stenographers,  in- 
dustrial truck  and  tractor  operators, 
sewing  machine  operators,  and  scores 
of  others. 

In  each  case,  computers,  robots,  and 
other  forms  of  new  technology  are  ex- 
pected to  perform  many  of  the  tasks 
now  done  by  humans. 

Meanwhile,  the  U.S.  working  popu- 
lation is  expected  to  grow  from  ap- 
proximately 25  million  today  to  well 
over  35  million  by  1995. 


A  basic  question  is:  Will  workers  be 
able  to  qualify  for  the  new  jobs  which 
become  available?  It  appears  to  many 
experts  that  the  younger  generation  of 
workers  is  relatively  unprepared. 

So  many  young  people,  high  school 
graduates  and  dropouts  alike,  do  not 
have  basic  reading,  writing,  and  arith- 
metic skills  that  fast-food  shops  and 
other  service  establishments  have  in- 
stalled cash  registers  with  pictures,  so 
that  the  cashiers  don't  have  to  worry 
about  price  totals.  They  leave  it  all  to 
the  computerized  machine. 

A  recent  study  by  the  National  As- 
sessment of  Educational  Progress  found 
that  many  Americans  in  their  twenties 
cannot  read  a  bus  schedule,  understand 
a  newspaper  editorial  page,  or  calculate 
interest  on  a  loan,  even  though  the  jobs 
that  will  revitalize  America  in  its  efforts 
to  strike  a  trade  balance  are  the  highly 
skilled,  "knowledge"  jobs. 

The  Washington  Post  predicted  in  a 
recent  edition  that,  by  the  Year  2000, 
80%  of  all  new  entrants  into  the  Amer- 
ican workforce  will  be  women,  minor- 
ities, or  immigrants. 

The  number  of  people  working  on 
assembly  lines  will  be  less  than  5%  of 
the  nation's  workforce. 

The  fastest  growing  occupations  are 
expected   to   be   those   of  paralegals, 


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THE  CHANGING    SHAPE   OF  THE  LABOR    FORCE 
OCCUPATIONS  WITH    LARGEST  JOB   GROWTH 

ESTIMATED    PERCENT  CHANGE 


Adapted  from  a  Chart  in  The  Washington  Post 


computer  programmers,  computer  an- 
alysts, and  medical  technicians — all  re- 
quiring high  skill  levels  and,  in  many 
cases,  college  training.  As  this  situation 
develops,  we  find  the  Reagan  Admin- 
istration calling  for  cutbacks  in  federal 
funding  for  higher  education  in  an  effort 
to  balance  the  federal  budget,  while 
voters  in  local  and  state  elections  are 
reluctant  to  approve  bond  issues  for 
new  and  improved  schools  and  higher 
teacher  standards  and  pay. 

The  gap  between  the  poor  and  the 
rich  grows  wider,  as  the  tax  burden 
continues  to  fall  hardest  on  the  middle- 
income  population,  and  inside  stock 
traders  on  Wall  Street  continue  to  play 
international  games  with  industrial  plants 
and  workers'  jobs. 

Labor  Secretary  Brock  told  reporters 
recently  that,  unless  the  business  and 
education  communities  change 
their  ways,  the  United  States  might 
evolve  into  "an  economic  class  soci- 
ety." 

If  we  are  to  have  in  the  United  States 
what  "is  called  "a  service  economy," 
we  can  expect  a  greater  economic  gap 
between  the  skilled  and  the  unskilled 
or  semi-skilled  workforce.  The  projec- 
tions of  the  labor  statisticians  under- 
score the  importance  of  full-fledged  ap- 
prenticeship training  programs  such  as 


that  of  the  United  Brotherhood,  if 
America  is  to  meet  the  challenges  of 
the  next  century. 

In  assessing  the  nation's  general  ed- 
ucational situation  as  it  applies  to  future 
jobs.  Labor  Secretary  Brock  minced  no 
words.  He  told  reporters,  "We're  still 
graduating  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
young  people  with  diplomas  that  they 
can't  read.  It  is  a  consummate  national 
shame  that  we  do  so.  But  it's  true  that 
we  do,  and  there  is  just  no  excuse  for 
that." 

The  labor  secretary  was  optimistic 
about  the  job  market  in  the  years  ahead, 
despite  the  problems  of  a  changing  work 
force. 


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U.S.  industry  must  modernize  its  infrastruc- 
ture and  apply  new  technologies  to  compete 
in  world  markets. 


"From  the  positive  side,"  he  noted, 
"the  job  creation  capability  of  this 
country  is  so  awesome  that  we  have  in 
the  next  seven  or  eight  years  a  chance 
to  deal  with  societal  problems  such  as 
youth  unemployment,  minority  unem- 
ployment, problems  that  we  have  failed 
to  deal  with  in  the  last  50  years.  The 
job  demand  is  going  to  be  enormous; 
the  demand  for  people  with  skills  is 
going  to  be  huge." 

Asked  to  describe  the  role  of  labor 
unions  in  the  Year  2000,  the  labor 
secretary  said  this: 

"The  role  of  the  union  has  to  change 
and  to  reflect  the  true  interests  of  the 
worker,  which  is  not  in  job  classification 
but  in  job  security  and  job  growth  .  .  . 
The  question  is  does  labor  have  to 
change?  You  bet  your  life  it  has  to 
change.  Does  management  have  to 
change?  Maybe  sometimes  even  more 
than  labor,  because  you're  dealing  with 
attitudes  that  were  put  into  place  in  the 
'30s  in  the  days  of  industrial  strife, 
where  it  was  a  confrontation,  almost 
certainly  for  survival  in  some  cases. 

"Now  that  isn't  going  to  hack  it 
anymore.  And  I  think  labor  is  moving 
pretty  much  to  modify  to  that  changing 
economic  role.  I'm  worried  that  I  some- 
times see  labor  indicate  more  self-eval- 
uation than  I  see  in  management." 


FEBRUARY     1987 


UBC  Fights  Corporate  Attempt  to 
Take  Away  Shareholder  Voting  Rights 


UBC  representatives  attend  a  U.S.  Securities  and  Exchange  Commission  hearing  to 
voice  opposition  to  tampering  with  shareholders'  voting  rights. 


Corporate  executives,  threatened  by 
the  recent  wave  of  hostile  takeovers, 
have  come  up  with  a  new  strategy.  It 
is  really  quite  simple:  Take  the  voting 
rights  away  from  shareholders,  so  they 
can't  vote  against  you.  At  a  recent 
hearing  in  Washington,  D.C.,  the  U.S. 
Securities  and  Exchange  Commission 
considered  whether  to  allow  corporate 
managements  the  right  to  institute  these 
unequal  voting  rights  schemes. 

For  over  60  years  the  New  York 
Stock  Exchange  has  required  that  com- 
panies who  want  to  be  listed  on  the 
Exchange  must  comply  with  the  "one 
share,  one  vote"  rule.  This  rule  is  the 
cornerstone  of  shareholder  rights  and 
ensures  that  each  share  of  common 
stock  is  entitled  to  one  and  only  one 
vote.  There  is  now  a  move  to  abolish 
the  "one  share,  one  vote"  rule.  Cor- 
porate managers  see  control  of  share- 
holder voting  rights  as  their  ultimate 
defensive  tactic  against  takeovers  and 
as  an  effective  means  of  protecting  their 
jobs. 

The  UBC's  opposition  to  tampering 
with  shareholders'  voting  rights  was 
voiced  at  the  SEC  hearing.  Ed  Durkin, 
director  of  the  Brotherhood's  Special 
Programs  Department,  argued  that  vi- 
olating basic  shareholder  rights  was  not 
the  proper  means  for  stopping  takeo- 
vers. While  emphasizing  the  Brother- 
hood's position  against  speculative 
takeovers  that  have  left  thousands  of 
workers  without  jobs,  Durkin  testified 
that  entrenchment  of  corporate  man- 
agement is  not  the  answer. 


The  Brotherhood's  testimony  urged 
that  the  SEC  not  only  retain  the  "one 
share,  one  vote"  rule,  but  that  further 
actions  should  be  taken  to  enhance  the 
corporate  voting  process: 

"So-called  'shareholder  democracy' 
has  become  a  euphemism  for  a  proxy 
voting  system  that  is  as  democratic 
as  Soviet-style  'elections' — the  vot- 
ers receive  a  'ballot'  listing  only  one 
slate  of  candidates.  Short  of  buying 
the  company,  the  system  provides  no 
way  to  monitor  and  correct  misman- 


agement on  a  widespread,  regular, 
and  continuing  basis.  In  the  absence 
of  an  effective  system  of  industrial 
democracy,  raiding  has  become  our 
only  industrial  policy." 

Union  Members  Are 
Corporate  Owners 

The  importance  to  union  members  of 
stopping  the  corporate  effort  to  restrict 
stock  voting  rights  is  revealed  by  one 
simple  fact:  Before  the  end  of  the  1990s, 
workers'  pension  funds  will  own  over 
half  of  the  corporate  stock  issued  by 
American  corporations.  During  the  1970s 
and  1980s,  private  sector  pension  funds 
have  purchased  neariy  half  of  all  new 
common  stock  issues.  Workers'  pen- 
sion funds  are  in  many  instances  the 
majority  owners  of  today's  major  cor- 
porations, yet  you  wouldn't  know  it 
from  the  anti-worker  environment  in 
which  we  work  today. 

While  the  pension  numbers  above 
indicate  a  strong  corporate  ownership 
position  by  workers  through  their  pen- 
sion funds,  the  power  associated  with 
this  ownership  position  is  not  being 
exercised  for  workers  by  workers.  In 
most  instances,  the  financial  institutions 
hired  to  manage  pension  funds  and 
provide  custodial  services  exercise  the 
fundamental  rights  which  attach  to  stock 
ownership,  the  most  important  of  these 
rights  being  the  right  to  vote. 

Considerable  work  is  necessary  in 
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U.S.  Pension  Funds 

^^     " 

^v                       Corporate 

\           1 — 1    Funds,  $1  Trillion 

/              66% 

\ 

/ 

\             Public  Employee 
\            Funds,  $488  Billion 

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^^ 

□   Taft-Hartley 

■1   Funds,  $112  Billion 

K/ 

y      Total: 

^ — ^ 

^          $1.6  Trillion 

CARPENTER 


New  Canadian  Enibiissy  Underway 


Canada 


The  building  design  miisl  conform  to  Pennsylvania  Avenue  Development  Corporation 
restrictions  to  harmonize  with  existing  structures.  Above  is  Erickson's  concept. 


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Ernoassy 

Site 

de  la  nouvelle 

Ambassade 

On  their  recent  trip  to  Washington,  D.C., 
General  Executive  Board  Members  Ronald 
J.  Dancer,  from  the  tenth  district,  left,  and 
John  Carruthers,  from  the  ninth  district, 
right,  took  a  walk  down  the  street  to  ob- 
serve construction  of  their  new  embassy. 


Construction  on  the  new  Canadian 
Embassy  on  Pennsylvania  Ave.  in 
Washington,  D.C.,  is  underway.  The 
building,  which  will  consolidate  facili- 
ties presently  housed  in  three  locations 
in  the  city,  is  due  to  be  completed  in 
early  1988. 

The  site  of  the  new  embassy,  with 
its  commanding  views  of  the  Capitol, 
the  National  Gallery  of  Art,  and  U.S. 
monuments  and  government  buildings, 
symbolizes  the  value  both  Canada  and 
the  United  States  place  on  their  rela- 
tionship. The  Canadian  Embassy  is 
unique  in  occupying  a  location  so  close 


to  the  U.S.  seats  of  power. 

The  185,430-square-foot  building  is 
to  include  office  areas,  public  areas, 
and  parking  areas.  It  will  contain  the 
office  of  the  ambassador,  offices  for 
political,  economic,  and  defense  divi- 
sions, public  affairs,  post  administra- 
tion, and  a  communications  center. 

Arthur  Erickson  Architects,  an  award- 
winning,  internationally-known  firm,  has 
designed  the  building  for  Canada.  The 
general  contractor  is  the  George  Hyman 
Construction  Co. 

Crews  are  scheduled  to  complete  the 
project  early  next  year. 


Retired  Board  Member  Leon  Greene 
Passes  Away  at  68  in  IVIinnesota 


Leo  Greene,  Fifth  District  general 
executive  board  member  for  25  years, 
died  December  22  at  his  home  in  Crys- 
tal, Minn.  He  was  68. 

Greene  was  initiated  into  the  UBC 
on  Jan.  20,  1943,  joining  Miilwights 
Local  548,  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  where  he 
maintained  membership  during  the  en- 
tire length  of  his  Brotherhood  career. 
In  his  44  years  of  membership  in  the 
UBC,  Greene  served  as  a  business 
representative  for  Local  548,  as  exec- 
utive secretary  of  the  Minnesota  State 
Council  of  Carpenters,  and  as  general 
executive  board  member  of  the  Fifth 
District  for  25  years.  During  his  tenure 
on  the  general  executive  board ,  he  served 
on  three  joint  committees  for  the  UBC — 
the  Machinists  Committee,  the  United 


Association  (Plumbers)  Committee,  and 
the  Boilermakers  Joint  Committee. 

Greene  once  worked  for  DuPont  Corp. 
in  Minneapolis,  Minn.   From   1934  to 


1937  he  saw  duty  with  the  Army  Air 
Corps.  During  World  War  II  he  served 
in  the  29th  Battalion  and  Special  Unit 
of  the  U.S.  Navy. 

In  honor  of  his  venerable  service  to 
the  UBC,  upon  Greene's  retirement  in 
May  1985,  a  recognition  dinner  was 
given  in  Minneapolis  where  UBC  Pres- 
ident Patrick  J.  Campbell  praised  Greene 
for  his  dedicated  service,  calling  his 
work  an  example  for  younger  leaders 
to  follow. 

Greene  is  survived  by  his  wife  Lucy, 
who  retired  from  working  with  the  UBC 
apprenticeship  and  training  department 
on  January  25,  1986,  two  sons,  and  two 
daughters. 

Funeral  services  were  held  Dec.  24, 
1986,  in  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


Washington 
Report 


AVERAGE  '87  WAGE  HIKE 

About  4.1  million  workers  of  the  8.8  million  under 
major  collective  bargaining  contracts  are  scheduled 
for  wage  hikes  averaging  3.7%  in  1987,  says  the 
Labor  Department. 

In  a  report  on  this  year's  collective  bargaining 
activity,  the  department  said  48%  of  the  workers  in 
private  industry  will  receive  "deferred  wage 
changes"  averaging  3.4%  as  a  result  of  earlier  ne- 
gotiated contracts.  State  and  local  government 
workers  will  average  5%  in  "deferred  wage  in- 
creases" in  1987. 

A  Labor  Department  spokesman  explained  that 
"deferred"  changes  means  increases  for  all  but  ap- 
proximately 1 ,000  workers  on  whom  wage  and  con- 
tract information  is  gathered. 

Contracts  affecting  3.1  million  workers  are  slated 
to  expire  or  reopen,  said  the  department's  analysts, 
or  more  than  a  third  of  the  8.8  million  under  major 
agreements.  Of  the  3.1  million,  2  million  are  in  the 
private  sector  and  1.1  million  in  state  and  local 
government. 

Industries  with  the  greatest  numbers  of  workers 
under  contracts  slated  for  renewal  are  transporta- 
tion equipment  manufacturing  (including  Ford  Motor 
Co.  and  General  Motors  Corp.),  construction,  and 
wholesale  and  retail  trades. 

State  and  local  government  contracts  to  be  bar- 
gained— about  half  of  this  group's  2.3  million  em- 
ployees under  major  agreements — are  expected  to 
concentrate  mostly  on  New  York,  N.Y.,  Florida,  Cal- 
ifornia, and  Hawaii. 


TAX  LAW  BUILDING  SURGE 

Construction  spending  rose  a  strong  1 .6%  in  Oc- 
tober as  builders  rushed  to  complete  projects  be- 
fore the  new  tax  law  took  effect  Jan.  1,  1987,  the 
Commerce  Department  recently  reported. 

The  rise,  however,  followed  a  revised  0.3%  drop 
in  September  that  previously  had  been  reported  as 
a  1 .4%  gain.  This  was  the  first  monthly  decrease 
since  last  March  in  a  sector  which  was  relatively 
strong  last  year. 

Nonresidential  outlays — mostly  for  construction  of 
apartments,  hotels,  and  office  buildings — rose  3.6% 
after  falling  0.8%  in  September.  Residential  spend- 
ing was  up  1 .3%. 


ASBESTOS  OUT  OF  SCHOOLS 

Congress  gave  final  approval  to  union-backed 
legislation  requiring  schools  to  get  rid  of  hazardous 
asbestos  and  directed  the  Environmental  Protection 
Agency  to  set  standards  for  safe  removal  by  certi- 
fied contractors.  Until  passage  of  this  legislation, 
schools  were  required  to  inspect  for  asbestos  haz- 
ards but  not  compelled  to  do  anything  about  it.  The 
EPA  has  balked  at  issuing  regulations  to  ensure 
effective  clean-up  operations. 

The  new  law  requires  EPA  to  issue  regulations 
within  one  year  for  mandatory  school  inspections 
and  reinspections,  and  to  set  standards  for  the  safe 
removal  of  asbestos. 

EPA  is  required  to  develop  a  model  program  for 
states  to  certify  contractors  whose  employees  are 
trained  to  identify  and  safely  remove  asbestos  haz- 
ards. 

The  legislation  also  requires  EPA  to  study  asbes- 
tos problems  in  other  buildings,  public  and  private, 
and  to  recommend  whether  they  should  also  be 
subject  to  asbestos  removal  requirements. 


TRILLION-DOLLAR  BUDGET 

President  Reagan,  while  continuing  to  attack 
Democrats  as  big  spenders,  began  his  7th  year  in 
the  White  House  by  sending  Congress  the  first  tril- 
lion-dollar budget  in  history.  A  Baltimore  Sun  colum- 
nist traced  the  budget  breakthroughs  back  through 
history.  It  was  noted  that,  in  its  first  three  years,  the 
U.S.  government  spent  only  $4,269,000. 

The  Civil  War  brought  the  first  billion-dollar 
budget,  reaching  $1 ,300,000,000.  World  War  I 
brought  1 1  -digit  budgets.  The  Vietnam  War  boosted 
the  budget  into  12  digits.  Now  Reagan  has  broken 
the  trillion-dollar  barrier,  and  in  peacetime. 


DCM  EXPOSURE  LIMITS  HIGH? 

The  Occupational  Safety  and  Health  Administra- 
tion announced  preliminary  action  on  a  possible 
revision  of  worker  exposure  limits  to  the  suspected 
cancer-causing  chemical  methylene  chloride. 

OSHA  called  for  public  comment  on  the  health 
risks,  exposure  levels,  protective  equipment,  pro- 
duction and  control  systems,  and  other  issues  re- 
lated to  the  widely  used  chemical. 

More  than  1  million  workers  are  estimated  to  be 
exposed  to  methylene  chloride,  which  is  called  dich- 
loromethane  and  commonly  referred  to  as  DCM. 

Long  known  to  cause  skin  rashes,  headaches, 
dizziness,  and  severe  problems  of  the  heart,  liver 
and  nervous  system,  DCM  currently  is  regulated  by 
OSHA  at  a  permissible  exposure  limit  of  500  parts 
of  DCM  per  million  parts  of  air. 

The  National  Institute  for  Occupational  Safety  and 
Health  has  recommended  that  worker  exposure  to 
DCM  be  reduced  to  the  lowest  feasible  level.  In 
addition,  the  Environmental  Protection  Agency, 
Food  and  Drug  Administration,  and  Consumer 
Product  Safety  Commission  have  moved  to  reduce 
the  use  of  DCM. 

DCM  also  is  used  to  decaffeinate  coffee  and  in 
consumer  products  such  as  paint  removers  and 
aerosol  sprays,  including  spray  paints,  hair  spray, 
and  insecticides. 


CARPENTER 


UBC  Leitflets  Focus  Attention  on 
American  Express  Nationwide 


In  20  cities  across  the  country,  UBC 
members  were  out  in  front  of  American 
Express  offices  spreading  the  message 
"LEAVE  HOME  WITHOUT  IT." 
From  Florida  to  Connecticut  and  New 
York  to  Cahfornia  the  public  and  cor- 
porate officials  were  getting  the  word 
that  American  Express  is  a  company 
that  has  not  lived  up  to  its  responsibil- 
ities as  a  corporate  citizen. 

The  Brotherhood's  consumer  boy- 
cott and  publicity  campaign  against 
American  Express  is  almost  one  year 
old.  While  the  company  has  tried  to  put 
forth  an  image  as  a  friend  of  labor,  their 
actions  have  been  to  the  contrary.  As 
reported  in  earher  issues  of  Carpenter, 
American  Express  has  had  substantial 
construction  performed  by  nonunion 
contractors  in  both  Greensboro,  N.C., 
and  Atlanta,  Ga. 

The  leafletting,  which  took  place  on 
December  17,  was  aimed  at  American 
Express  Travel  Related  Services  offices 
in  20  large  cities.  Morning  and  lunch- 
time  customers  and  Christmas  shopping 
crowds  were  met  by  the  leafletters  and 
were  very  receptive  to  the  message. 
According  to  one  report  many  people 
did  not  know  the  connection  between 
American  Express  and  its  subsidiaries, 
Shearson  Lehman  Bros.,  IDS  Financial 
Services,  Balcor  Co.,  and  the  Boston 
Co. 

The  response  from  American  Ex- 
press has  been  very  quiet  publicly,  but 
sources  close  to  the  company  have 
revealed  that  top  management  is  furious 
over  the  adverse   publicity   they   are 


A/  Benedetti.  financial  secrelaiy  Local 
1827,  Las  Vegas.  New.  left,  and  Douglas 
Matejovsky,  financial  secretary.  Local  971 , 
Reno,  New.  right,  pass  leaflets  out  at  Las 
Vegas  seminar. 

getting.  It  has  also  been  learned  that 
many  union  benefit  funds  are  looking 
closely  at  whether  they  really  benefit 
from  using  American  Express  subsidi- 
aries as  fund  managers  or  brokerage 
services,  although  these  companies  are 
not  a  target  of  the  boycott. 

This  recent  leafletting  effort  was  just 
one  of  many  actions  taken  in  the  Amer- 
ican Express  campaign  in  recent  months. 
"We  intend  to  follow  all  lawful  avenues 
open  to  us  to  show  American  Express 
we  mean  business,"  stated  General 
President  Patrick  J.  Campbell.  "In  our 
experience,  a  leaflet,  jobsite  picket,  or 
shareholder  action  by  itself  may  not 
change  a  company's  practices,  but  when 
many  legitimate  tactics  are  put  together, 
focused  and  maintained  our  message 
gets  through  loud  and  clear."         U^D 


Let  American 

Express  Hear  From 

You! 


Mr.  lames  D.  Robinson,  III 
Chairman  &  Chief  Executive  Officer 
American  Express  Company 
World  Financial  Center 
New  York,  NY  10285 

Dear  Sir: 

I've  been  in  the  United  Brother- 
hood of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of 
America  since  1961,  and  am  very 
proud  to  be  a  Union  Member.  After 
learning  of  the  feelings  of  American 
Express  toward  Union  craftsman,  I 
must  not  renew  my  membership  in 
your  Organization. 

I've  had  the  American  Express  card 
since  1980  and  had  hoped  that  I  had 
earned  the  valued  customer  status, 
but  apparently  you  do  not  want  or 
need  my  business  any  longer.  It  is 
therefore  with  regret  that  I  must  not 
renew  my  membership  with  American 
Express.  I  will  also  encourage  my 
Family,  Friends  and  Neighbors  to  do 
likewise. 

Sincerely, 

George  W.  Geiger  Jr. 
Carpenters  District  Council  of 
Jacksonville,  Florida  and  Vicinity 


The  Florida  Stale  Organizing  Program  rat  costume  came  in 
handy  when  South  Florida  District  Council  members  and  affili- 
ated unions  leafletted  American  Express  offices  in  Miami,  Fla. 


Members  of  Local  210,  Western  Connecticut  conducted  leaflet- 
ting at  a  Stanford,  Conn.,  location.  Pictured  are  local  members 
Richard  Warga,  Deborah  Mackenzie,  and  Walter  Rowe. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


Last  of  the  Liberty  Ships 


It's  been  more  than  40  years,  but  many  will  remember  the  "ugly  ducklings" 
constructed  during  World  War  II.  Thousands  of  UBC  members  played  vital 
roles  in  building  the  ships  and  serving  aboard  them.  Two  of  the  ships  bore 
the  names  of  Brotherhood  members. 


"Ships  for  Victory"  was  the  ral- 
lying cry  in  shipyards  across  the  coun- 
try during  World  War  II.  The  slogan 
was  part  of  a  U.S.  Maritime  Commis- 
sion campaign  designed  to  show  World 
War  II  shipyard  workers  that  their  labor 
was  not  only  a  means  to  a  paycheck, 
but  also  a  contribution  to  the  nation 
and  the  war  effort.  These  workers  set 
incredible  production  records  at  yards 
across  the  country  building  a  fleet  that 
became  known  as  the  Liberty  Fleet  or 
"Liberty  Ships." 

The  vessels  were  part  of  a  pre-Pearl 
Harbor  emergency  ship-building  pro- 
gram announced  by  President  Franklin 
D.  Roosevelt  to  aid  the  British  and 
Allied  effort.  They  were  a  vital  element 
in  the  "  bridge  of  ships  "  that  was  needed 
to  provide  support  to  soldiers  stationed 
beyond  their  home  shores. 

When  the  Maritime  Commission  was 
making  arrangements  to  standardize  the 
type  ship  to  be  built  in  the  emergency 
program,  speed  and  economy  were  ma- 
jor considerations.  Since  many  new 
shipyards  were  under  construction  in 
the  U.S.,  nationwide  standardization 
was  attempted.  This  would  allow  re- 
production of  drawings  and  specifica- 
tions on  a  large  scale  and  help  secure 
a  steady  flow  of  components  to  each 
yard.  Although  many  ships  were  under 
production,  this  nationwide  standard- 
ization was  most  successfully  applied 
in  the  production  of  the  Liberty  ships. 

From  the  beginning  they  were  very 
different  from  other  Maritime  Commis- 
sion ships.  Rather  than  taking  the  time 
to  develop  a  design  in  the  Commission's 
technical  division,  the  ship's  main  char- 
acteristics were  borrowed  from  a  Brit- 
ish 11-knot  freighter  under  construc- 
tion, although  American  modifications 
would  distinguish  our  Liberty  ships  from 
the  British  prototype. 

Some  changes  were  made  to  adapt 
the  ship  to  fit  common  American  prac- 
tices, others  were  made  due  to  the 
scarcity  of  steel,  but  most  were  to  speed 
construction  time  along. 

As  the  war  progressed,  there  was  an 
ever-increasing  need  for  cargo  vessels, 
and  shipyards  became  the  lifeline  for 


The  selection  of  the  names  for  each  Liberty  was  handled  by  the  Maritime  Commission 
Ship  Naming  Committee.  Names  of  individuals  were  used,  after  investigation  to  ensure 
suitability.  In  each  ship  there  was  a  brief  biography  of  the  person  whose  name  she  bore. 


the  AUied  war  effort.  The  Liberty  ship 
quickly  became  four  or  five  times  as 
numerous  as  any  other  type  in  the 
American  Merchant  Marine.  Known  as 
the  workhorses  of  the  war,  Libertys 


The  John  W.  Brown  was  built  al  the  Beth- 
lehem Fairfield  Shipyard  in  Baltimore, 
Md.,  the  same  yard  that  built  the  Patrick 
Henry,  America' s  first  Liberty  ship. 


saw  action  in  both  the  Atlantic  and 
Pacific  theaters,  and  their  valuable  cargo- 
carrying  capacity  made  them  an  impor- 
tant element  in  our  "bridge." 

Shipyards  around  the  country  were 
working  to  fabricate  Liberty  ships  and 
put  them  in  service  as  quickly  as  pos- 
sible. The  Kaiser  yards,  managed  by 
Henry  J.  Kaiser,  founder  of  more  than 
100  companies,  including  Kaiser  Alu- 
minum, Kaiser  Steel,  and  Kaiser  Ce- 
ment and  Gypsum,  were  notable  for  the 
outstanding  production  times  they 
maintained  and  the  records  they  set.  A 
Liberty  was  launched  at  Richmond  No. 
2  (in  California)  after  only  four  days  on 
the  ways — an  unmatched  feat.  By  the 
end  of  the  war.  Kaiser  yards  were 
dominant  in  Maritime  Commission  ship 
building. 

It  was  a  proud  moment  in  the  history 
of  the  United  Brotherhood  in  October 
1942  when  a  Liberty  ship  slid  down  the 
ways  in  a  Kaiser  yard  after  being  chris- 
tened the  Peter  J.  McGuire,  after  the 
UBC  founder. 

A  typical  Liberty  ship  had  a  dead- 
weight tonnage  of  10,419  with  five  cargo 
holds,  an  overall  length  of  441'  6",  and 
a  cruising  speed  of  11  knots.  A  total  of 


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When  the  production  of  Liberty  ships  began,  the  average  construction  time  per  ship  was 
over  200  days,  but  by  the  end  of  1942  it  had  dropped  to  under  50  days  and  was  still 
decreasing.  The  Brown,  launched  on  Sept.  7,  1942,  was  built  in  41  days. 


2,610  were  built,  and  more  than  200 
were  lost  during  World  War  II.  Today 
only  two  remain,  the  Jeremiah  O'Brien 
and  the  John  W.  Brown. 

One  of  these,  the  John  W.  Brown,  is 
named  for  a  labor  veteran  from  the 
Northeast  who  spent  most  of  his  adult 
life  advancing  the  cause  of  organized 


labor,  especially  in  shipyards.  Brother 
Brown,  who  was  born  in  1867,  started 
out  working  as  a  joiner  at  the  Bath  Iron 
Works  in  his  native  Maine,  where  he 
was  distressed  by  the  working  condi- 
tions. By  the  late  1800s  he  had  become 
a  strong  advocate  of  the  rights  of  the 
working  class  and  an  organizer  for  the 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters. 

Brown  spent  a  -time  organizing  for 
the  United  Mine  Workers  of  America 
and,  after  resigning  from  that  post, 
played  an  integral  role  in  the  organi- 
zation of  Local  Union  4  of  the  Industrial 
Union  of  Marine  and  Shipbuilding 
Workers  at  Bath  Iron  Works.  Of  par- 
amount concern  to  Brown  were  the 
conditions  at  Bath  and  the  indignities 
suffered  by  workers  there;  he  had  no 

The  Brown  in  wartime  livery. 


The  Jeremiah  O'Brien  is  preserved 
in  the  Port  of  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
and  a  movement  is  currently  under- 
way to  preserve  the  John  W.  Brown. 
The  ship  was  owned  by  the  New  York 
City  school  system  for  many  years 
and  was  kept  in  the  Hudson  River  on 
the  East  Side  of  Manhattan  where 
she  was  used  as  a  vocational  school 
to  teach  students  the  basic  skills  needed 
by  deck  hands  and  to  train  them  in 
the  maritime  trades.  Since  that  time 
she  has  been  towed  to  the  James  River 
in  Virginia  to  await  repairs  and  ren- 
ovation. A  group  of  former  merchant 
sailors,  Armed  Guardsmen,  and  other 
interested  parties  have  joined  to- 
gether to  raise  funds  to  save  this  proud 
ship.  If  you  are  interested  in  joining 
the  preservation  effort,  contact:  Proj- 
ect Liberty  Ship,  P.O.  Box  3356, 
Rockefeller  Center  Station,  New  York, 
NY  10185. 


preference  for  one  union  over  another, 
although  he  had  extensive  contact  with 
AFL  officials  in  attempts  to  affiliate 
with  the  crafts  organization. 

From  the  inception  of  the  interna- 
tional until  Brown's  death  at  age  74  in 
1941 ,  he  remained  an  honorary  member 
of  the  Shipbuilders'  general  executive 
board.  He  was  active  and  prominent  in 
the  leadership  of  the  union,  served  as 
consultant  and  advisor  to  the  interna- 
tional officers,  general  executive  board, 
and  Local  4,  and  authored  a  column  in 
The  Shipyard  Worker  called  "Workers 
Should  know."  Ijyg 


John  W.  Brown  was  influential  in  organiz- 
ing the  Bath  Iron  Works  and  securing  fair 
wages  and  treatment  for  workers  there. 


Aging  Fernald  Plant  in  Ohio  Still  Shows  Little  Safety  Progress 


Labor  representatives  from  the  Nu- 
clear Workers'  Safety  and  Health  Con- 
ference toured  the  aging  and  neglected 
Fernald,  Ohio,  Feed  Materials  Produc- 
tion Center,  featured  in  the  July  1985 
Carpenter,  where  the  Department  of 
Energy's  lax  regulation  allowed  nearly 
100  tons  of  hazardous  radioactive  ura- 
nium dust  to  be  released  into  the  at- 
mosphere. The  maintenance  workers  at 
the  plant  are  UBC  members  of  Local 
2380,  Fernald,  Ohio. 

The  32-year-old  plant  employs  about 


1 ,500  and  produces  uranium  metal  forms 
for  national  defense.  More  than  $100 
million  worth  of  claims  have  been  filed 
so  far  against  the  Fernald  plant.  Until 
January  1986,  it  was  managed  by  NLO 
Inc.  Now,  Fernald  is  under  the  man- 
agement of  Westinghouse  and  workers 
say  conditions  are  improving  slowly. 

While  company  officials  stressed 
workers  are  in  no  danger  at  the  plant, 
many  of  the  union  leaders  taking  the 
tour  were  not  convinced  of  the  health 
and  safety  of  the  workers. 


"It  looks  as  if  they  built  it  and  never 
did  anything  else  to  maintain  it,"  said 
Bob  Keil,  president  of  the  Oak  Ridge, 
Tenn. ,  Atomic  Trades  and  Labor  Coun- 
cil. "I'm  surprised  at  the  lax  safety  and 
security  inside  this  place." 

Westinghouse  Manager  Bruce  Bo- 
swell  promised  the  tour  that  the  com- 
pany is  working  to  reduce  radiation 
exposure.  The  company  also  is  pushing 
a  program  designed  to  change  Fernald's 
image. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


UNION  LEADERS 

Where  did  they  come  from?  Where  are  they  going? 


There  have  been  a  lot  of  studies  of 
business  leaders,  public  officials,  and 
politicians,  analyzing  their  careers  and 
their  opinions  on  public  issues. 

Dr.  Philip  Quaglieri  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Management  at  the  University 
of  Massachusetts,  Boston  Harbor  Cam- 
pus, felt  it  was  high  time  American 
labor  leaders  were  scrutinized  as  well. 
He  interviewed  60  trade  union  officials, 
54  men  and  6  women,  including  31 
presidents,  1  former  vice  president,  23 
secretary-treasurers,  and  5  executive 
directors  or  vice  presidents.  The  inter- 
viewees, not  all  typical,  represented 
craft  workers,  industrial  workers,  sem- 
iskilled and  unskilled,  and  some  public 
sector  employees.  This  is  what  he  found: 

BACKGROUNDS— The  average  age 
of  the  persons  interviewed  was  52. 
Ninety-seven  percent  were  American 
born.  Their  fathers  were  predominantly 
wage  earners  (62%),  and  their  mothers 
were  mostly  homemakers  (70%).  The 
parents'  incomes  were  either  low  (68%) 
or  middle  income  (22%). 

Of  the  60  leaders  interviewed,  29% 
stated  that  they  have  bachelor  degrees 
from  colleges  and  12%  have  advanced 
degrees.  The  average  years  of  formal 
education  were  14.1.  About  half  of  the 
60  began  their  careers  as  wage  earners 
(49%)  and  another  49%  were  salaried 
professionals. 

UNION  CAREERS— Most  joined  a 
union  by  age  23.  Some  joined  because 
it  was  a  condition  of  employment  (26%) ; 
some  joined  out  of  their  belief  in  the 
goals  of  organized  labor  (32%);  some 
joined  out  of  the  desire  for  better  pay 
and  working  conditions  (24%);  some 
were  pressured  by  others  to  join  (6%); 
and  others  wanted  to  settle  a  problem 
with  management  (5%). 

The  respondents  sought  election  to 
their  first  union  office  about  age  25, 
with  67%  starting  out  at  the  local  level. 
Positions  include  executive  board  mem- 
bership (22%);  steward  (10%);  local 
secretary-treasurer  (12%);  local  presi- 
dent (10%);  vice-president  (20%).  Less 
than  1%  ever  held  a  full-time  position 
as  an  organizer. 

The  majority  held  four  to  six  union 


positions  over  the  span  of  their  careers. 
Over  82%  of  all  positions  held  were 
elected  offices.  The  leaders  interviewed 
were  consistent  winners  in  local  elec- 
tions— 63%  never  lost  an  election,  27% 
lost  only  one  election,  10%  lost  only 
two  elections  during  their  careers.  Most 
respondents  moved  up  the  hierarchy 
after  an  incumbent's  resignation  or 
election/appointment  to  a  higher  office; 
25%  of  all  positions  held  were  won  by 
defeating  an  incumbent. 

Most  (66%)  had  a  mentor  or  a  major 
supporter,  and  some  (10%)  had  several 
mentors  during  their  careers.  Mentors 
listened  to  and  discussed  ideas  (98%), 
encouraged  the  discussion  of  disagree- 
ments (95%),  demanded  high  levels  of 
effort  (92%),  gave  career  advice  (72%), 


made  introductions  to  the  "right"  peo- 
ple (50%).  The  respondents  (89%)  in- 
dicated their  mentors  had  a  significant 
influence  on  them  personally  as  well  as 
on  their  career  success.  A  few  leaders 
appointed  their  mentors  to  high-level 
positions. 

Those  interviewed  in  the  survey  were 
generally  satisfied  with  their  careers; 
90%  rank  those  things  relative  to  being 
a  labor  leader  near  the  top  of  all  things 
important  to  them.  However,  22%  wish 
they  had  chosen  a  different  career,  and 
32%  are  sometimes  dissatisfied  with 
their  decision  to  become  a  labor  leader. 

The  60  labor  leaders  were  asked  to 
indicate  the  priorities  for  their  unions, 
as  they  saw  it.  The  accompanying  chart 
indicates  their  responses.  jj]jr) 


National  Priorities  For  Labor  Leaders  Interviewed 


High 

Level  of 
Moderate 

priority 
Low 

Not  at  All 

Gain  seat  on  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
employing'  companies 

19% 

37% 

31% 

12% 

Support  Protectionist  Legislation  against 
foreign  competition 

56% 

29% 

5% 

8% 

Support  legislation  restricting  the  amount 
and  type  of  work  people  can  do  at  home 

42% 

19% 

24% 

15% 

Help  organize  workers  and  train  labor 
leaders  in  foreign  countries 

32% 

32% 

27% 

8% 

Coordinate  collective  bargaining,  strikes, 
and  boycott  activities  with  unions  in  other 
countries 

31% 

32% 

25% 

12% 

Merge  national  unions  to  increase  collective 
bargaining  power 

39% 

42% 

12% 

5% 

Increase  the  numbers  of  women  serving  as 
union  leaders 

51% 

39% 

7% 

2% 

Ally  with  activist  organizations  (such  as  civil 
rights  groups)  in  support  of  economic, 
social,  and  health  reforms 

56% 

25% 

12% 

7% 

Establish  a  national  political  party  to 
represent  Labor's  interests 

17% 

10% 

32% 

39% 

Establish  compulsory  retirement  of  national 
union  leaders  by  setting  limitations  on  age 
or  number  of  eligible  terms 

22% 

15% 

31% 

29% 

Increase  the  number  of  minority  group 
members  serving  as  union  leaders 

41% 

47% 

7% 

3% 

Support  "equal  pay  for  work  of  comparable 
worth"  legislation 

51% 

27% 

14% 

3% 

Purchase  and  manage  large  scale  business 

5% 

37% 

46% 

2% 

10 


CARPENTER 


OttaiMra 
Report 


'87  BUSY  CONTRACT  YEAR 

Figures  released  by  Labour  Canada  show  1 987 
will  be  a  busy  year  for  union-management  negotia- 
tions. 

Some  1 .5  million  Canadian  workers — two-thirds 
of  all  employees  covered  by  major  collective  agree- 
ments— will  be  involved  in  about  600  separate  ne- 
gotiations this  year. 

Public  and  quasi-public  sector  bargaining  will 
continue  to  predominate,  as  agreements  expire  in 
the  airlines,  urban  transit,  telephones,  and  the  fed- 
eral public  service.  (Approximately  75%  of  employ- 
ees covered  by  negotiations  at  the  present  time  are 
in  the  public  and  quasi-public  sectors.) 

The  key  private-sector  negotiations  in  1987  will 
occur  in  the  auto,  steel,  and  pulp  and  paper  indus- 
tries. 

Since  wage  gains  in  major  agreements  have 
been  below  consumer  price  increases  for  the  past 
four  years,  wage  demands  will  likely  remain  a  major 
concern  for  union  negotiators  in  1 987.  Other  key 
issues  are  likely  to  be  job  protection,  contracting- 
out,  training  and  retraining,  seniority  rights,  income 
support  in  the  event  of  layoffs,  and  pensions  and 
early  retirement  plans. 

On  the  other  hand,  employers  are  likely  to  con- 
tinue their  emphasis  on  wage  restraint  (including  for 
example,  lower  start  rates  for  new  employees),  and 
on  greater  flexibility  in  work-force  deployment. 

NUCLEAR-FREE  ONTARIO? 

The  Ontario  Federation  of  Labour  has  endorsed 
the  campaign  for  a  nuclear-weapons-free  Ontario.  A 
resolution  on  declaring  the  province  a  Nuclear- 
Weapons-Free  Zone  was  to  be  introduced  in  the 
Ontario  Legislature  by  Richard  Johnston  (NDP, 
Scarborough  West). 

Seven  countries,  including  Iceland  and  Spain, 
have  declared  themselves  nuclear-weapons  free, 
OFL  Secretary-Treasurer  Sean  O'Flynn  noted  in  a 
letter  to  affiliates.  "In  Canada,  over  100  towns  and 
regions — including  the  Province  of  Manitoba — have 
done  likewise.  In  Ontario,  39  communities  have  de- 
clared themselves  nuclear-weapons-free." 

The  leaflet  on  this  campaign  noted  that:  "In  a 
Nuclear  Weapons-Free  Ontario,  there  would  be  no 
export  of  goods  and  materials  used  in  the  construc- 
tion and  deployment  of  nuclear  weapons  sys- 
tems. . . .  Existing  nuclear  weapons — related  activ- 
ity, such  as  at  Litton,  would  be  converted  to  civilian 
use,  ensuring  that  no  jobs  would  be  lost." 


NO  JOBS  FOR  STRIKEBREAKERS 

An  employer  who  hires  replacement  workers  dur- 
ing a  strike  cannot  insist  on  keeping  the  strike- 
breakers on  the  job  when  the  walkout  is  settled,  the 
Ontario  Labor  Relations  Board  has  decided  in  a  key 
ruling. 

The  decision  appears  to  close  the  door  in  Ontario 
to  the  type  of  bitter  issue  that  kept  workers  on  the 
picket  line  for  six  and  one  half  months  at  the  Gain- 
ers Inc.  meat  plant  in  Edmonton,  Alta.  In  that  strike, 
owner  Peter  Pocklington  had  refused  to  back  down 
on  his  promise  to  replacement  workers  that  they 
would  keep  their  jobs. 

The  ruling  by  the  OLRB  says  a  company  is  acting 
illegally  when  it  holds  up  a  settlement  by  insisting 
that  the  replacements  get  priority  over  strikers  for 
the  jobs  available  when  the  dispute  is  ended. 

The  board  was  ruling  on  complaints  laid  by  the 
United  Steelworkers  of  America,  which  represents 
about  40  workers  who  have  been  on  strike  for  more 
than  three  and  one  half  years  at  Shaw-Almex  In- 
dustries Ltd.,  a  machinery  company  just  outside 
Parry  Sound. 

BIG  BOSSES  GET  RAISES 

.The  corporate  effort  to  control  costs,  a  dominant 
business  theme  since  the  1982  recession,  doesn't 
appear  to  have  adversely  affected  the  salaries  of 
top  executives,  two  recent  surveys  indicate. 

Many  company  directors  received  pay  increases 
of  more  than  10%  in  1986,  as  well  as  topped-up 
annual  retainers  and  larger  honorariums  for  attend- 
ing meetings,  the  Conference  Board  of  Canada  has 
reported. 

Salary  increases  for  executives,  while  lagging  be- 
hind those  of  directors,  outpaced  those  for  all  other 
employee  groups,  as  well  as  the  rate  of  inflation,  for 
the  third  consecutive  year,  a  study  by  Hansen  Con- 
sultants Ltd.  of  Toronto  shows. 

The  Conference  Board  study  indicates  that  41% 
of  the  928  companies  surveyed  gave  their  outside 
directors  pay  increases  this  year.  Median  annual 
pay  climbed  by  15%  for  directors  of  financial  institu- 
tions, and  by  1 1  %  for  directors  of  manufacturing 
companies. 

Among  other  non-financial  companies,  pay  in- 
creases averaged  only  5%. 

QUEBEC  FUND  FOR  JOBS 

According  to  a  report  by  Wilfred  List  in  the  To- 
ronto Globe  and  Mail,  labor's  experiment  with  peo- 
ple's capitalism  in  Quebec  is  helping  to  resuscitate 
faltering  companies,  enabling  some  small  enter- 
prises to  expand,  and  in  the  process  saving  and 
creating  jobs. 

The  labor-initiated  fund  for  risk  capital  investment 
in  small  and  medium-sized  Quebec  companies  is 
unique  in  North  America.  It  has  raised  more  than 
$50-million  in  its  three  years  of  operation. 

The  fund  could  top  $100-million  by  next  year, 
Louis  Laberge,  president  of  the  Quebec  Federation 
of  Labor,  said  in  an  interview.  He  is  also  godfather 
of  what  the  QFL  has  dubbed  a  Solidarity  Fund. 

Since  its  inception  in  February  1984,  the  fund  has 
invested  nearly  $12  million  in  16  companies, 
breathing  life  into  one  business  that  had  been 
closed  for  nearly  a  year  and  keeping  another  from 
going  under  because  of  a  lack  of  capital. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


11 


NATIONAL  RECIPROCAL 
AGREEMENT  PROTECT 

MEMBERS'  BENEFITS 

Continued  effort  by  local  union 

officers  is  needed  to 

bring  reciprocal  benefits 

to  all  members. 


Responding  to  the  mandate  of  the 
delegates  to  the  34th  General  Conven- 
tion, new  national  Reciprocal  Agree- 
ments were  developed  and  distributed  to 
all  local  unions  and  councils  in  1983. 
These  agreements  protect  the  pension 
and  welfare  benefits  of  UBC  members 
who  find  it  necessary  to  take  work  outside 
their  local's  jurisdiction  for  a  period  of 
time.  (A  more  complete  explanation  of 
the  reciprocal  problem  appears  below.) 

If  there  is  a  recriprocal  agreement  in 
your  area,  find  out  how  it  works. 

The  new  agreements  help  to  secure 
your  future,  but  too  many  members  are 
still  not  enjoying  this  long-awaited  ben- 
efit. The  reason:  many  local  union  and 
district  council  representatives  who  serve 
as  trustees  of  benefit  funds  have  not 
pushed  for  approval  of  the  documents  at 
meetings  of  boards  of  trustees.  On  the 
pages  which  follow  this  article  is  a  list  of 
Pension  Funds  and  welfare  funds  which 
have  approved  the  new  Reciprocal 
Agreements.  The  General  Officers  are 
urging  all  members  to  contact  their  local 
union  officers  to  get  this  protection  in 
force  in  your  fund. 


How  the  Pension  Reciprocal  Agreement  Works 


If  you  work  outside  the  area  covered 
by  your  local's  negotiated  pension  fund, 
the  pension  you  have  already  earned  is 
protected  (and  you  can  be  adding  to 
your  ultimate  pension)  if  your  fund  and 
the  one  under  which  you  are  working 
have  signed  the  new  agreement.  There 
is  no  transfer  of  money  in  some  situa- 
tions. Instead,  your  pension  credit  will 
be  maintained  in  each  fund  under  which 
you  work  and  when  you  retire  you  will 
receive  pension  checks  from  several 
Carpenter  pension  funds.  This  is  called 
the  "pro-rata"  or  "partial"  pension 
agreement. 

For  example,  suppose  you  have  7 
years  of  pension  credit  in  your  local 
union's  program  (sometimes  called  a 
home  fund)  and  then  you  leave  to  work 
in  other  jurisdictions.  Your  pension 
credit  record  might  look  like  this: 


Pension 

Credit 

Home  Fund  1977-1983 

7  years 

Carpenter  Fund  "A" 

3  years 

1984-1986 

Carpenter  Fund  "B" 

5  years 

1987-1991 

If  you  retired  at  age  65  in  1992  and 
all  three  Funds  were  participating  in 
the  program  you  would  get  a  pension 
from  all  three  programs  because:  a) 
When  you  combine  the  credits  under 
all  three  Funds  you  would  have  more 
than  10  years  in  total;  b)  You  have  at 
least  one  year  of  credit  in  each  fund 
since  1955;  and  c)  You  meet  the  age 
requirement  for  a  pension.  Of  course, 
the  amount  of  the  monthly  check  you 
receive  from  each  of  the  funds  will  be 
based  only  on  the  credit  you  earned 
under  each  fund  and  on  each  fund's 
own  benefit  level. 

Another  possible  way  your  pension 
can  be  secured  is  if  the  funds  under 
which  you  work  sign  a  special  section 
of  the  Reciprocal  Agreement  called 
"Exhibit  B,"  or  the  Transfer  of  Con- 


Pension  and  welfare  agreements  which 
participate  in  the  national  program  are 
now  operating  in  43  states  and  the  District 
of  Columbia. 


tributions  arrangement.  Here,  contri- 
butions made  to  other  Carpenter  funds 
are  sent  to  your  local's  fund  periodically 
and  they  are  converted  into  pension 
credits  only  by  that  fund.  At  retirement, 
your  eligibility  and  the  amount  of  your 
pension  will  be  determined  only  by  your 
local's  fund.  And,  you  will  receive  a 
single  monthly  check  from  that  fund. 

For  example,  if  you  worked  under 
Carpenter  Fund  "A"  and  Carpenter 
Fund  "B"  as  shown  in  the  previous 
example,  those  funds  would  send  the 
contributions  back  to  your  home  fund. 
They  would  have  no  further  obligation 
to  pay  you  benefits.  Your  home  fund 
would  determine  the  value  of  those 
contributions  and  would  adjust  your 
pension  record  accordingly. 

Conditions — The  Transfer  of  Contri- 
butions arrangement  only  is  effective 
if: 

1.  All  the  funds  under  which  you  work 
have  signed  the  necessary  document 
(Exhibit  B)  and 

2.  You  sign  an  authorization  form  in- 
dicating that  you  want  the  contri- 
butions returned  to  your  local's  fund, 
within  60  days  of  the  time  you  start 
working  in  another  jurisdiction. 


12 


CARPENTER 


DIRECTORY 


FEBRUARY   1987 


Reciprocal  Agreements 
of  the  Pro-Rata  Pension  Plan 

We  Urge  You  To  Keep  This  Issue  For  Reference 


Here  is  a  listing  of  pension  funds  wtiicli  tiave  signed  tlie  National  Carpenters  Pro  Rata  Pension  Agreement 
(NCPRPA)  or  the  International  Reciprocal  Agreement  for  Carpenter  Pension  Funds  (IRACP-A/B);  also,  a  listing 
of  funds  which  have  signed  the  Master  Reciprocal  Agreement  for  Health  and  Welfare  Funds  (MRAH&W). 

The  funds  are  listed  by  state.  Councils  and/or  local  unions  covered  by  or  participating  in  a  specific  fund  are 
listed  following  each  fund.  (Is  your  fund  on  this  list— why  not?) 


ARIZONA 

Arizona  State  Carpenters  Pension  Trust 

Fund 
5125  North  16th  Street,  Suite  A104 
Phoenix,  Arizona  85016 

ARKANSAS 

Carpenters  Pension  Fund  of  Arkansas 
1  Riverfront  Place,  Suite  580 
N.  Little  Rock,  Arkansas  72114 


CALIFORNIA 

Carpenters  Pension  Trust  Fund  for 

Northern  California 
955  Market  Street 
San  Francisco,  California  94103-1769 

Carpenters  Pension  Trust  Fund  for 

Southern  California 
520  South  Virgil  Avenue 
Los  Angeles,  California  90020 

Mill  Cabinet  Pension  Fund  for  Northern 

California 
955  Market  Street 
San  Francisco,  California  94103 

San  Diego  County  Carpenters  Pension 

Fund 
4635  Viewridge  Ave.,  Suite  D 
San  Diego,  California  92123 

Southern  California  Lumber  Industry 

Retirement  Fund 
650  S.  Spring  Street,  Room  1028 
Los  Angeles,  California  90014 

COLORADO 

Centennial  State  Carpenters  Pension  Trust 

Fund 
789  Sherman  Street,  Suite  560 
Denver,  Colorado  80203 


CONNECTICUT 

Connecticut  State  Council  of  Carp.  State- 
wide Pension  and  Health  Funds 
10  Broadway 
Hamden,  Connecticut  06518 


DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA 

Washington  Area  Carpenters  Pension  & 

Retirement  Fund 
2233  Wisconsin  Ave.  N.W.,  Suite  216 
Washington,  DC  20007 


FLORIDA 

Central  Florida  Carpenters  District  Co. 

Pension  Fund 
P.  O.  Box  20173 
Orlando,  Florida  32814 

Carpenters  Local  Union  140  Pension  Fund 
7930  U.S.  301  North 
Tampa,  Florida  33610 

Jacksonville  &  Vicinity  Carpenters  DC 

Pension  Fund 
P.  O.  Box  16845 
Jacksonville,  Florida  32245-6845 


How  the  Health  and 
Welfare  Reciprocal 
Agreement  Works 


For  health  and  welfare  coverage,  a 
separate  Reciprocal  Agreement  was 
developed.  Here,  the  system  works 
the  same  way  as  the  transfer  of  con- 
tributions program  for  pensions.  If 
you  work  under  another  fund's  juris- 
diction and  both  that  fund  and  your 
local's  fund  have  signed  the  agree- 
ment, the  contributions  made  on  your 
behalf  will  be  sent  back  to  your  local's 
fund.  That  fund  will  convert  the  money 
into  eligibility  credits  and  any  health 
care  claims  will  be  processed  only  by 
your  local's  fund. 

Here,  too,  you  must  request  in 
writing  that  the  contributions  be  sent 
back  to  your  home  fund. 

Take  a  close  look  at  the  listing  of 
funds  which  have  signed  the  Recip- 
rocal Agreement.  If  your  fund  is  not 
there,  there  is  a  good  chance  that 
your  benefits  will  be  in  danger  any 
time  you  work  outside  your  regular 
fund's  area.  Make  sure  your  local's 
officers  do  everything  they  can  to 
have  your  funds  join  the  reciprocity 
program.  When  you  are  ready  to  re- 
tire— or  when  you  have  a  large  hos- 
pital bill  that  won't  be  paid  because 
you  lost  eligibility — it  will  be  too  late 
to  correct  the  problem. 

Copies  of  the  agreements  and  an- 
swers to  questions  about  them  are 
available  at  the  General  Office. 


Palm  Beach  Couiity  Carpenters  Pension 

Fund 
2247  Palm  Beach  Lakes  Blvd.,  Suite  101 
West  Palm  Beach,  Florida  33409 

South  Florida  Carpenters  Pension  Trust 

Fund 
P.  O.  Box  560695 
Miami,  Florida  33156 

Florida  Millwrights  Piledrivers  Highway 

Const.  &  Divers  Pension  Fund 
3500  Fletcher  Ave.,  Suite  105 
Tampa,  Florida  33612 

GEORGIA 

Carp.  L.U.  225  &  MW  L.U.  1263  Health 

&  Welfare  Fund 
3355  Northeast  Expressway,  Suite  110 
Atlanta,  Georgia  30341 

IDAHO 

Idaho  Branch  Inc.  AGC  Carpenters 

Pension  Trust 
P.  O.  Box  5183 
Portland,  Idaho  97208 


ILLINOIS 

Carpenters  Welfare  &  Pension  Fund  of 

Illinois 
28  North  First  St.,  P.O.  Box  470 
Geneva,  Illinois  60134 

Chicago  &  Northeast  Illinois  DC  of 

Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
12  East  Erie  Street 
Chicago,  Illinois  60611 

Chicago  &  Northeast  Illinois  DC  of 
Carpenters  Millmen  Pension  Fund 
12  East  Erie  Street 
Chicago,  Illinois  60611 

Carpenters  DC  of  Madison  Co.  111.  & 

Vicinity  Health  &  Welfare  Fund 
617  W.  Chain  of  Rocks  Road 
Granite  City,  Illinois  62040 

Danville  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
17  E.  Main  Street 
Danville,  Illinois  61832 

Local  Union  496  Insurance  Fund 
555  S.  Schuyler  Ave.,  Suite  220 
Kankakee,  Illinois  60901 

Carpenters  L.U.  496  Pension  Trust  Fund 
220  West  Court  Street 
Kankakee,  Illinois  60901 


FEBRUARY     1987 


13 


Central  111.  DC  of  Carpenters  Health  & 

Welfare  Trust  Fund 
512  W.  Main  Street 
Peoria.  Illinois  61605 

Const.  Industry  Welfare  Fund  of  Central 

111.  (L.U.  44  &  347) 
34  East  Springfield  Ave. 
Champaign,  Illinois  61820 

INDIANA 

Carp.  Central  &  Western  IN  Pension  Fund 

&  Welfare  Fund 
5  E.  Market  St..  Suite  1222 
Indianapolis,  Indiana  46204 

NW  Indiana  &  Vic  DC  of  Carpenters 

Pension  Trust  Fund 
2111  W.  Lincoln  Hwy. 
Merrillville,  Indiana  46410 

Eastern  Indiana  Fringe  Benefit  Fund 
3515  Washington  Blvd. 
Indianapolis,  Indiana  46205 

Evansville  Area  Carpenter  Health  & 

Welfare  Fund 
1035  W.  Franklin  Street 
Evansville,  Indiana  47710 

Local  Union  413  Health  &  Welfare  Fund 
315  N.  Lafayette  Blvd. 
South  Bend.  Indiana  46601 

Indiana  State  Council  Pension  &  Welfare 

Fund 
P.  O.  Box  55221 
IndianapoMs,  Indiana  46205 

Carpenters  LM  Pension  Fund 
5638  Professional  Circle 
Indianapolis,  Indiana  46241 

KENTUCKY 

Lower  Ohio  Valley  DC  Pension  Trust 

Fund 
620  East  22nd  Street 
Owensboro,  Kentucky  42301 

Lower  Ohio  Valley  DC  &  Western  Ky. 

DC  Health  &  Welfare  Fund 
620  East  22nd  Street 
Owensboro,  Kentucky  42301 

IOWA 

UBC&JA  L.U.  948  Retirement  Health  & 

Welfare  Funds 
The  Bankers  711  High  St. 
Des  Moines,  Iowa  50307 

Iowa  Builders  Retirement  &  Health  & 

Welfare  Funds 
P.  O.  Box  360 
Waterloo,  Iowa  50704 

KANSAS 

Kansas  Construction  Trades  Open  End 

Pension  Trust  Fund 
4101  Southgate  Dr.,  P.O.  Box  5168 
Topeka,  Kansas  66605 

KENTUCKY 

Falls  Cities  Carpenters  DC  Pension  Fund 
4017  Dixie  Highway 
Louisville,  Kentucky  40216 

LOUISIANA 

District  Council  of  New  Orleans  & 
Vicinity  Pension  Fund 


1407  Decatur  Street 

New  Orleans,  Louisiana  70116 

United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  Local 

Union  1811  Pension  Fund 
c/o  SW  Administrators,  P.O.  Box  4617 
Monroe,  Louisiana  71201 

Northwest  Louisiana  Carp.  Pension  Plan 
2715  Mackey  Office  PL,  Suite  207 
Shreveport,  Louisiana  71118 

Carpenters  Local  1098  Pension  Fund 

5219  Choctaw  Drive 

Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana  70805 

L.U.  953  Pension  &  Health  Welfare  Funds 

1715  Common  Street 

Lake  Charles,  Louisiana  70601 

MAINE 

See  New  Hampshire  &  Vermont 

MARYLAND 

Cumberland  Md.  &  Vicinity  Building  and 

Const.  Employees  Trust  Fund 
72  Greene  Street 
Cumberland,  Maryland  21502 

Carpenters  Pension  &  Welfare  Fund  of 

Baltimore,  Maryland 
432  Eastern  Avenue 
Baltimore,  Maryland  21221 

MASSACHUSETTS 

Mass.  State  Carpenters  Annuity  Fund 

69  Winn  Street 

Burlington,  Massachusetts  01803 

Mass.  State  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 

69  Winn  Street 

Burlington,  Massachusetts  01803 

Carpenters  L.U.  624  Health  &  Welfare 

Fund 
30  Cottage  Street,  Room  23 
Brockton,  Massachusetts  02401 

Carpenters  L.U.  1305  Health  &  Insurance 

Fund 
239  Bedford  Street 
Fall  River,  Massachusetts  02721 

MICHIGAN 

Michigan  Carpenters  Council  Pension 

Fund 
241  E.  Saginaw,  Suite  601 
East  Lansing,  Michigan  48823 

Carpenters  Pension  Trust  Fund  Detroit  & 

Vicinity 
30700  Telegraph  Rd.,  Suite  2400 
Birmingham,  Michigan  48012 

Detroit  Carpenters  Health  &  Welfare  Fund 
20300  Civic  Center  Dr.,  Suite  205 
Southfield,  Michigan  48076 

Local  Union  9005  Health  &  Welfare  Fund 

7301  Schaefer 

Dearborn,  Michigan  48126 

MW  Local  1 102  Health  &  Welfare  Fund 
1145  W.  Long  Lake  Rd.,  Suite  100 
Bloomfield,  Michigan  48013 

Resilient  Floor  Coverers  Pension  Fund 
30700  Telegraph  Rd.,  Suite  4601 
Birmingham,  Michigan  48010-3787 

Lathers  Local  1028-L  Health  Care  Fund 

P.  O.  Box  1132 

Bay  City,  Michigan  48706 


Detroit  Millmen's  Health  Welfare  Fund 
1 145  W.  Long  Lake  Road 
Bloomfield,  Michigan  48013 

MINNESOTA 

Twin  City  Carpenters  &  Joiners  Pension 

Fund 
2850  Metro  Drive,  Suite  404 
Bloomington,  Minnesota  55420 

Lathers  Local  190  Pension  Fund 
708  South  Tenth  Street 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota  55404 

Minneapolis  Lathers  Plasterers  and  Plaster 

Tenders  Welfare  Fund 
708  South  Tenth  Street 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota  55404 

MISSOURI 

Carpenters  District  Council  of  KC  & 

Vicinity  Pension  Fund 
3100  Broadway,  Suite  505 
Kansas  City,  Missouri  64111 

Carpenters  Pension  Trust  Fund  of  St. 

Louis 
1401  Hampton  Ave.,  Carpenters  Bldg. 
St.  Louis,  Missouri  63139 

Carpenters  Shops  &  Mills  Pension  Plan 
1401  Hampton  Avenue 
St.  Louis,  Missouri  63139 

MONTANA 

See  Idaho  &  Washington 

NEBRASKA 

Lincoln  Building  &  Construction  Industry 

Pension  Plan 
100  North  56th  St.,  Suite  211 
Lincoln,  Nebraska  68504 

Omaha  Construction  Industry  Health 

Welfare  &  Pension  Plans 
8707  W.  Center  Road 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68124 

NEVADA 

Northern  Nevada  Carpenters  Pension 

Trust  Fund 
1745  Vassar  St.,  P.O.  Box  11337 
Reno,  Nevada  89510 

Construction  Industry  &  Carpenters  Joint 

Pension  Trust  Southern  Nev. 
1830  East  Sahara  Ave.,  Suite  100 
Las  Vegas,  Nevada  89160-1320 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

Northern  New  England  Carpenters 

Pension  Fund 
490  Valley  St.,  P.O.  Box  970 
Manchester,  New  Hampshire  03105 

NEW  JERSEY 

New  Jersey  Carp.  Pension  Fund 
130  Mountain  Avenue 
Springfield,  New  Jersey  07081 

EC  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 

76  South  Orange  Avenue 

South  Orange,  New  Jersey  07079 

Carpenters  &  Millwrights  Local  31  Pension 

Fund 
31  Airpark  Road,  CN62 
Princeton,  New  Jersey  08540 


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CARPENTER 


Carpenters  Resilient  Flooring  Local  2212 

Pension  &  Welfare  Fund 
1503  Stuyvesant  Avenue 
Union,  New  Jersey  07083 

Carpenters  Specialty  &  Shopmen 

Severance  &  Pension  Fund 
2424  Morris  Avenue 
Union,  New  Jersey  07083 

NEW  MEXICO 

New  Mexico  District  Council  of 
Carpenters  Pension  Trust  Fund 
1200  San  Pedro  N.E.,  Box  1 1399 
Albuquerque,  New  Mexico  87192 

NEW  YORK 

Hudson  Valley  District  Council  of 

Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
632  Route  9W 
Newburgh,  New  York  12550 

Nassau  County  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
1065  Old  Country  Road 
Westbury,  New  York  11590 

New  York  City  District  Council  of 

Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
204-8  East  23rd  Street 
New  York,  New  York  10010 

Suffolk  County  Carpenters  Pension  and 

Fringe  Benefit  Funds 
Carpenters  Building,  Route  112 
Medford,  New  York  11763-9990 

Westchester  County  New  York  Carpenters 

Pension  Fund 
10  Saw  Mill  River  Road 
Hawthorne,  New  York  10532 

Carpenters  L.U.  964  Pension  Fund 
130  North  Main  Street 
New  City,  New  York  10956 

VIRGINIA 

North  Carolina  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
P.  O.  Box  13487 
Roanoke,  Virginia  24034 

NORTH  DAKOTA 

Bismarck  &  Mandan  Health  &  Welfare 

Trust  Fund 
4410  13th  Avenue,  S.W. 
Fargo,  North  Dakota  58121 

OHIO 

Ohio  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
3611  Chester  Avenue 
Cleveland,  Ohio  441 14 

Cleveland  &  Vicinity  Carpenters  District 

Council  Hospital  Fund 
3611  Chester  Avenue 
Cleveland,  Ohio  441 14 

Miami  Valley  Carpenters  District  Council 

Pension  Fund 
201  Riverside  Drive,  Suite  3A 
Dayton,  Ohio  45405 

Ohio  Valley  Carpenters  District  Council 

Pension  Fund 
200  Central  Trust  Bldg.,  309  Vine 
Cincinnati,  Ohio  45202 

Construction  Industry  Health  &  Welfare 

Trust 
Delta  Lane  &  Old  Rte.  52,  P.O.  Box  1014 
South  Point,  Ohio  45680 


OREGON 

Oregon-Washington  Carpenters  Employers 

Pension  Trust  Fund 
3220  S.W.  First  Avenue 
Portland,  Oregon  97201 

PENNSYLVANIA 

Carpenters  Pension  Fund  &  Medical  Plan 

of  W.  Pa. 
495  Mansfield  Avenue,  First  Floor 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania  15205 

Carpenters  L.U.  261  Annuity  Fund 
431  Wyoming  Avenue 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania  18503 

RHODE  ISLAND 

Rhode  Island  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
14  Jefferson  Park  Road 
Warwick,  Rhode  Island  02888 

TENNESSEE 

Carpenters  Local  109  Pension  Fund 
907  Two  Mile  Pike 
Goodlettsville,  Tennessee  37072 

Middle  Tenn.  District  Council  of 

Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
907  Two  Mile  Pkwy.,  Bldg.  C 
Goodlettsville,  Tennessee  37072 

Tri-State  Carpenters  DC  of  Chattanooga, 

Tenn.,  Pension  Trust  Fund 
P.  O.  Box  11509 
Chattanooga,  Tennessee  37401 

Carpenters  Local  Union  345  Pension  Plan 
750  Adams  Street 
Memphis,  Tennessee  38105 

TEXAS 

Texas  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
6162  E.  Mockingbird  Lane,  #207 
Dallas,  Texas  75214 

Houston  DC  Carpenters  Pension  Health  & 

Welfare  Plan 
7151  Office  City  Dr.,  Suite  101 
Houston,  Texas  77087 

UTAH 

Utah  Carpenters  &  Cement  Masons 

Pension  Fund 
.3785  South  7th  East 
Salt  Lake  City,  Utah  84106 

VERMONT 

See  New  Hampshire 

VIRGINIA 

Southwest  Virginia  Trust  Fund 
P.  O.  Box  13487 
Roanoke,  Virginia  24034 

WASHINGTON 

Carpenters  Retirement  Trust  of  Western 

Washington 
P.  O.  Box  1929 
Seattle,  Washington  98111 

Millmens  Retirement  Trust  of  Washington 
2512  Second  Avenue,  Room  206 
Seattle,  Washington  98121 


Wash-Idaho-Montana  Carpenters 
Employment  Retirement  Trust 
E.  123  Indiana,  P.O.  Box  5434 
Spokane,  Washington  99205 

Tacoma  Millmen  Pension  Trust  Fund 

P.  O.  Box  1894 

Tacoma,  Washington  98401 

WEST  VIRGINIA 

Chemical  Valley  Pension  Fund  of  West 

Virginia 
401  Eleventh  Street 
Huntington,  West  Virginia  25701 

Carpenters  Health  Fund  of  West  Virginia 
401  Eleventh  Street 
Huntington,  West  Virginia  25701 

WISCONSIN 

Wisconsin  State  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 

P.  O.  Box  4002 

Eau  Claire,  Wisconsin  54702 

Bldg.  Trades  United  Pension  Trust  Fund- 

Milw.  &  Vicinity 
500  Elm  Grove  Road 
Elm  Grove,  Wisconsin  53122 

Racine  Construction  Industry  Pension 

Fund 
1824  Sycamore  Avenue 
Racine,  Wisconsin  53406 

WYOMING 

Wyoming  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
200  Consolidated  Royalty  Bldg. 
Casper,  Wyoming  82601 


Blueprint  for  Cure 


Recent  Blueprint  for  Cure  contri- 
butions total  $5,588.54: 
In  memory  of  Leon  W.  Greene  from 

Santa  Clara  Valley  DC 
In  memory  of  Leon  W.  Greene  from 

Norman  D.  Neilan 
In  memory  of  Carol  J.  Lane  from 

Local  44 
Local  964,  New  City  N.Y. 
Local  1305,  Fall  River  Mass 
Local  1338,  Charlottetown  P.E.I. 
Local  1607,  Los  Angeles  Calif. 
Local  1693,  Chicago  Illinois 
Diane  Baumler 
Joseph  L.  Becker  Jr. 
David  Braunstein 
Patrick  J.  Donnelly 
Brigid  Fahy 
Thomas  Flurry 
A.  Frangella 
Adeline  Grimme 
Leonard  Grimme 
Ellen  G.  Hogan 
Robert  E.  Hayes 
Arthur  J.  Hopkins 
George  Judt 
Michael  J.  Keenan 
Jessica  Krulfeifer 
Francis  Lamph 
Mark  A.  Maloney 
Richard  J.  Maragni 
Thomas  C.  Ober 
Fred  Petrie 
Ben  Salir 
August  Saks  Jr. 
Mary  Suleski 
Edith  R.  Taussig 


FEBRUARY     1987 


15 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Looking  for 

the  union 

label ...  in  China 

One  question  was  paramount  among 
Chinese  children  in  Peking  questioning  a 
small  group  of  visiting  athletes  from  the 
United  States.  Looking  at  the  American 
tennis  racquets,  the  Chinese  youngsters 
pointed  to  the  union  label  and  asked, 
"What's  that  ...  the  name  of  the  man 
who  made  it?"  A  perfect  opening  for  a 
discussion  of  American  trade  unionism. 


AFL-CIO  delegation 
denied  visas  to  meet 
Solldarnosc  leader 

AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland  was 
denied  entry  to  Poland  to  meet  with 
Solidamosc  Chairman  Lech  Walesa  after 
Kirkland  refused  the  Polish  govern- 
ment's condition  that  he  also  meet  with 
official  state  unions. 

The  denial  came  in  the  final  days  of 
the  Polish  government's  six-month  am- 
nesty against  the  independent  trade  union 
and  its  leaders.  During  the  amnesty, 
hundreds  of  political  prisoners  were  re- 
leased while  the  union  reformed  some  20 
regional  committees. 

However,  harassment  of  Solidamosc 
activists  continued,  and  reports  indicate 
the  government  intends  to  step  up  efforts 
against  the  union  at  the  end  of  the  am- 
nesty period. 

Kirkland  said  that  the  Polish  authori- 
ties had  informed  the  delegates  that  the 
condition  for  visas  would  be  to  meet  with 
the  official  trade  unions  created  by  Gen- 
eral Jaruzelski's  government  after  it 
banned  the  independent  trade  union  So- 
lidamosc. 

"As  a  matter  of  principle,  we  refused 
to  do  so,"  Kirkland  said.  "We  will  not 
be  coerced  by  any  government  into  meet- 
ing with  company  unions.  We  reject  the 
assertion  of  the  Polish  government  that 
Solidamosc  does  not  exist  and  that  the 
new  unions  speak  for  Poland '  s  workers . " 

Sales  of 
manufactured 
homes  up 

Almost  one-third  of  all  new  single- 
family  homes  sold  in  America  in  1985 
were  manufactured  homes,  according  to 
the  Manufactured  Housing  Institute.  The 
association  says  that  deliveries  of  man- 
ufactured homes  in  the  Northeast  during 
the  first  six  months  of  1986  were  up  10% 
over  1985.  The  East  North  Central  region 
saw  a  3.8%  rise. 


Firms  returning 
to  manufacturing 
in  the  United  States 

Some  firms  are  returning  plants  to  the 
U.S.  after  problems  abroad  offset  cheap 
labor  costs.  Industries  ranging  from  high 
technology  to  sporting  goods  are  taking 
another  look  at  manufacturing  in  the  U.S. 
Some  economists  and  consultants  say 
the  trickle  of  companies  now  choosing 
U.S.  manufacturing  will  turn  into  a  steady 
stream  in  a  few  years  as  companies  wake 
up  to  the  hidden  costs  of  offshore  pro- 
duction. 

Lionel  Trains  moved  its  manufacturing 
to  Mexico,  thinking  it  was  a  no-lose 
proposition — 55(Z  an  hour  wages.  Quality, 
supply,  labor,  and  communications  cre- 
ated a  situation  where  the  company 
couldn't  fill  two-thirds  of  its  orders  and 
returned  production  to  its  home  in  Mich- 
igan. 

Robert  Burrows,  president  of  Rawlings 
Sporting  Goods  Co.  of  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
thought  offshore  production  would  be 
cheaper.  But  such  expenses  as  inventory, 
customs,  and  transportation  costs,  he 
says,  create  "a  lot  of  pitfalls,"  sometimes 
enough  to  offset  the  savings. 

Arrow  Co.  was  importing  about  15% 
of  its  dress  shirts  from  the  Far  East. 
Now,  the  West  Point-Pepperell  Inc.  sub- 
sidiary is  importing  only  5%  to  10%  and 
expects  soon  to  halt  imports  completely. 
KBX  Corp.  is  considering  again  making 
in  the  U.S.  a  stereo  recording  device  that 
it  has  imported  from  Japan  since  1980. 
Micro  Technology  Inc.,  makers  of  semi- 
conductor chips,  returned  its  assembly 
operation  to  Boise,  Ida.,  from  the  Phil- 
ippines and  South  Korea.  The  percent- 
ages of  usable  chips  out  of  total  produc- 
tion has  risen  15%  to  20%. 


UBC's  health  and  safety 
director  reappointed  to 
OSHA  advisory  committee 

Five  employee  representatives  were 
reappointed  to  the  Occupational  Safety 
and  Health  Administration's  Advisory 
Committee  on  Construction  Safety  and 
Health  for  terms  ending  June  30,  1988. 
Those  reappointed  include  Joe  Adam, 
Plumbers  and  Pipefitters;  Joseph  Durst, 
UBC;  George  E.  Smith,  Electrical  Work- 
ers; Jim  E.  Lapping,  AFL-CK)  Building 
and  Construction  Trades  Department; 
and  Robert  E.  P.  Cooney,  formerly  with 
the  Ironworkers  and  now  a  safety  and 
health  consultant  in  Cleveland,  Ohio. 


Editor's  Mole:  An  item  on  our  Labor 
News  Roundup  page  in  the  November 
1986  issue  o/ Carpenter  contained  inac- 
curate information  concerning  IBM  Corp. 
plans  to  reduce  its  workforce.  According 
to  the  director  of  information  at  IBM 
headquarters,  "IBM  has  not  laid  off  any 
workers,  nor  do  we  plan  to." 


George  Meany  MDA 
Fellow  discovers 
muscular  dystrophy  gene 

A  Muscular  Dystrophy  Association 
supported  research  team  has  discovered 
the  hereditary  unit,  or  gene,  which,  when 
defective,  causes  Duchenne  muscular 
dystrophy — the  most  severe  form  of  the 
disease.  MDA  grantee  Louis  M.  Kunkel, 
Ph.D.,  who  led  the  Boston  Children's 
Hospital  research  team  that  discovered 
the  gene,  is  a  former  recipient  of  MDA's 
prestigious  George  Meany  Postdoctoral 
Fellowship. 

Dr.  Kunkel's  efforts  to  isolate  the 
Duchenne  gene  commenced  in  1981 ,  when 
he  was  awarded  the  special  two-year 
fellowship  named  in  honor  of  Meany,  the 
founding  president  of  the  AFL-CIO  and 
an  MDA  corporate  member  from  1967 
until  his  death  in  1980. 

"It's  hke  George  is  still  watching  over 
us,  doing  everything  he  can  to  help," 
said  MDA  National  Chauman  Jerry  Lewis. 
"Twenty  years  ago  he  told  me  that  MDA 
would  'find  the  American  trade  union 
movement  right  at  your  side,  helping  in 
every  way  we  can.'  And  that  it  has." 


Labor  Department 
newsletter  to  focus 
on  cooperation 

A  new  bimonthly  newsletter  from  the 
U.S.  Department  of  Labor  highlights  some 
of  the  issues  and  trends  emerging  from 
a  changing  labor  relations  climate  in  the 
United  States  and  focuses  on  many  of 
the  creative  programs  and  policies  that 
foster  cooperation  between  labor  and 
management  in  the  American  workplace. 

Labor  Relations  Today,  published  by 
the  department's  Bureau  of  Labor-Man- 
agement Relations  and  Cooperative  Pro- 
grams, seeks  to  encourage  a  less  adver- 
sarial, more  harmonious  climate  that  will 
result  in  greater  productivity,  improved 
competitiveness,  and  a  better  quality  of 
life  for  workers  on  the  job. 

"There  will  always  be  situations  where 
labor  and  management  will  need  to  bar- 
gain over  issues;  what  we  are  seeking  to 
highlight  are  those  areas  where  labor  and 
management  can  share  ideas  and  com- 
municate for  the  good  of  all  parties," 
said  Stephen  I.  Schlossberg,  deputy  un- 
der secretary  of  labor  for  labor-manage- 
ment relations. 

The  newsletter  supplements  an  array 
of  informational  materials  available  from 
the  bureau.  For  a  copy  of  the  newsletter 
or  a  catalog  of  publications,  write:  Editor, 
Labor  Relations  Today,  Bureau  of  La- 
bor-Management Relations  and  Cooper- 
ative Programs,  U.S.  Department  of  La- 
bor, Room  N5419,  200  Constitution  Ave. 
N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20210.  Those 
requesting  these  materials  will  be  placed 
on  the  bureau's  mailing  list  to  receive 
future  issues  of  Labor  Relations  Today. 


16 


CARPENTER 


WEST  COAST  PIONEERS 


Dramatic,  Turbulent  History  of 
Pile  Drivers  Told  in  New  Booh 


The  turbulent  history  of  union  pile 
drivers  from  ancient  times  to  the  pres- 
ent day  is  described  in  words  and  pic- 
tures in  a  new  book,  Pilebutt,  by  Mi- 
chael S.  Munoz,  a  member  of  UBC 
Local  34,  San  Francisco,  Calif.  It's  easy 
reading,  and  we  recommend  it  to  all 
"pilebutts"  and  "piledoes"  (a  term 
which  is  sometimes  applied  to  women 
pile  drivers)  in  the  United  Brotherhood. 

Munoz's  book  is  the  result  of  10  years 
of  research  into  his  craft.  It  all  started 
back  in  1977  when  Munoz  was  injured 
while  working  at  Pier  39  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. 

"With  free  time  on  my  hands,  Local 
34  President  Gary  Bakke  appointed  me 
as  an  unofficial  historian,"  recalls  Mu- 
noz. "I  searched  the  union  hall  for  old 
files  and  any  artifacts  I  could  find.  While 
reading  the  minute  books  of  past  meet- 
ings and  looking  at  pictures  in  the  hall, 
I  came  to  understand  that  I  was  a 
product  of  generations  of  working  men. 

"Pilebutts  who  had  taught  me  my 


trade  gained  my  respect.  In  turn,  they 
had  been  taught  by  men  they  respected. 
This  process  has  gone  on  for  genera- 
tions." 

Munoz's  interest  in  the  history  of  his 
trade  took  him  to  many  libraries  and 
many  historic  files.  He  has  assembled 
48  pages  of  text  and  40  historic  pictures 
describing  the  work  of  pile  drivers  in 
many  parts  of  North  America,  with 
special  emphasis  on  West  Coast  Pile 
Drivers,  his  fellow  members. 

Munoz  describes  in  detail  how  Pile 
Drivers  became  Carpenters  during  the 
period  of  1910-1920,  when  Samuel 
Gompers  of  the  American  Federation 
of  Labor  and  William  Hutcheson  of  the 
United  Brotherhood  were  playing  lead- 
ing roles  in  the  American  labor  move- 
ment. Early  pioneers  of  the  UBC  on 
the  West  Coast  docks  are  described — 
Don  Cameron,  who  fought  the  employ- 
ers' antiunion  "American  Plan"  and 
later  played  a  major  role  in  organizing 
the   lumber  and   sawmill   workers   of 


"PILEBUTT" 


STORIES  AND  PHOTOGRAPHS 

ABOUT  PILE  DRIVING 

COLLECTED  BY 

MICHAEL  S.  MUNOZ 


Northern  California,  and  Jack  Wagner, 
a  leader  of  dock  builders  in  the  San 
Francisco  Bay  area  for  more  than  a  half 
century. 

Pilebutt  sells  for  only  $6.50  (check 
or  money  order).  Order  from  Pilebutt 
Press,  14628  Elm  Street,  San  Leandro, 
CA  94579.  Be  sure  to  include  your  full 
name  and  address  (printed  legibly)  for 
mailing.  Ulji; 


SINCE  THE  MAYFLOWER 


Bay  State  Carpenters'  Story 
Published  by  Temple  University 


The  history  of  the  Carpenters  in  Mas- 
sachusetts goes  back  to  America's  be- 
ginnings. Most  of  the  men  aboard  the 
Mayflower  with  the  first  colonists  to 
Plymouth  were  carpenters,  we  are  told. 
It  was  Boston  caulkers  and  carpenters 
who  dumped  the  British  tea  into  Boston 
harbor  at  the  famous  tea  party. 

Mark  Erlich,  a  member  of  Carpenters 
Local  40,  Boston,  Mass.,  for  the  past 
16  years  who  teaches  and  write  about 
labor  history  and  current  labor  issues, 
has  picked  up  the  story  of  Massachu- 
setts carpenters  from  the  early  days  and 
described  their  evolving  history  over 
two  centuries,  with  particular  emphasis 
on  the  growth  of  the  United  Brother- 
hood in  the  state  since  the  union's 
founding  in  1881. 

Mark  Erlich  authored  a  special  eight- 
page  supplement  to  the  March  1982, 
Carpenter,  entitled,  "Peter  J.  McGuire, 
The  Story  of  a  Remarkable  Trade 
Unionist."  He  began  work  on  the  Mas- 
sachusetts state  history  about  the  time 
the  UBC  marked  its  centennial  in  1981. 
At  that  time,  the  Brotherhood  urged 
state  councils  to  initiate  histories  of  the 


Brotherhood  in  each  state.  Many  ex- 
cellent histories  were  produced,  and 
they  are  now  residing  in  hundreds  of 
local  and  state  libraries  and  in  the  ar- 
chives of  the  General  Offices  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  Eriich's  book,  which  runs 
239  pages  and  contains  115  photo- 
graphs, is  one  of  the  most  definitive  of 
these. 

The  manuscript  came  to  the  attention 
of  the  Temple  University  Press  in  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.,  which  published  the  vol- 
ume recently. 

Entitled  With  Our  Hands.  The  Story 
of  Carpenters  in  Massachusetts,  the 
book  has  been  praised  by  scholars  and 
public  officials  alike.  Early  this  year, 
the  Massachusetts  State  Council  and 
the  Boston  District  Council  plan  to  hold 
a  book  party  to  present  With  Our  Hands 
to  the  membership  and  to  the  general 
public. 

Through  the  efforts  of  Erlich,  the 
book  is  being  offered  to  union  members 
at  a  fraction  of  the  publisher's  retail 
price  of  $29.95.  The  reduced  price  for 
union  members  is  $9.00  plus  $1.55  for 
shipping  and  handling,  for  a  total  of 


[fliOu 


The  Story  o(  Carpenters  in  Massachusetts 


Mark  Erlich     w., 


$10.55.  (Massachusetts  residents  have 
to  add  5%  sales  tax  or  45(i,  so  that  the 
total  price  for  Massachusetts  union 
members  is  $1 1.00.)  Make  checks  pay- 
able to  Carpenters  History  Project;  send 
your  order  to:  Carpenters  History  Proj- 
ect, 92  Green  Street,  Jamaica  Plain, 
MA  02130.  Please  print  your  name  and 
address  clearly  and  allow  six  to  eight 
weeks  for  delivery.  jjyg 


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LEGISLATIVE  UPDATE 

Gains  and  Losses  for  Metal  Trades 


The  AFL-CIO  Metal  Trades  Depart- 
ment, with  which  the  United  Brother- 
hood is  affiliated,  recently  talhed  up  its 
legislative  gains  and  losses  in  the  99th 
Congress,  which  adjourned  last  year, 
and  considered  what  has  to  be  done  by 
the  100th  Congress,  now  in  session. 

Basically,  the  Metal  Trades  are  push- 
ing policies  to  help  preserve  shipbuild- 
ing jobs,  strengthen  the  nation's  indus- 
trial and  defense  base,  and  protect  the 
safety  and  health  of  members  of  Metal 
Trades  craft  affiliates. 

Metal  Trades  unions  have  been  equally 
aggressive  in  opposing  Reagan  Admin- 
istration policies  that  would  encourage 
the  construction  and  reconstruction  of 
ships  in  foreign  shipyards;  the  "con- 
tracting out"  of  service  functions  by 
federal  agencies;  the  crippling  of  the 
Davis-Bacon  and  Service  Contract  Acts; 
and  efforts  to  further  erode  worker 
health  and  safety  protections. 

In  all  of  these  MTD  legislative  strug- 
gles in  1985  and  1986,  the  new  MTD 
Grass-Roots  Legislative  Action  Pro- 
gram has  played  an  important  role. 
Many  members  of  affiliated  interna- 
tional unions  have  participated  in  the 
program,  sending  to  their  Representa- 
tives and  Senators  special  communi- 
cations on  key  legislation — timed  to 
achieve  the  maximum  possible  impact 
on  the  outcome  of  votes. 

Metal  Trades  victories  included: 

•  The  600-ship  Navy  construction  program 
was  maintained,  although  at  a  slower  pace 
because  of  Defense  budget  restraints; 

•  New  awareness  of  the  importance  of  main- 
taining a  strong  U.S.  defense  industrial 
base  and  a  more  fair  trade  policy  was 
indicated  by  a  number  of  measures  ap- 
proved in  the  House — a  comprehensive 
foreign  trade  bill  to  help  U.S.  workers  and 
industries  compete  with  foreign-subsi- 
dized imports  and  a  number  of  "Buy 
American"  amendments  to  other  legisla- 
tion to  help  preserve  manufacturing  jobs; 

•  Enactment  of  a  cargo  preference  amend- 
ment to  the  1985  farm  bill,  raising  the 
amounts  of  government-owned  farm  com- 
modities shipped  in  U.S. -flag  vessels  from 
50%  to  75%  over  three  years; 

•  Enactment  of  legislation  to  restore  ade- 
quate operating  funds  for  Coast  Guard 
operations,  including  construction  of  ves- 
sels; 

•  Blocking  of  Reagan  administration  efforts 
to  again  authorize  construction  of  vessels 
for  Jones  Act  domestic  trades  in  foreign 
shipyards; 

•  Blocking  of  administration's  pian  to  ex- 
port Alaskan  oil  to  Japan,  which  would 
endanger  U.S.  tanker  fleet  so  essential  to 
our  national  security; 

•  Enactment  of  major  water  resources  and 
port  development  legislation  to  deepen 
channels  for  ocean-going  vessels; 


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•  Again  blocked  legislation  to  re-flag  for- 
eign-built cruise  ships,  while  passing  a  bill 
to  declare  a  two-year  moratorium  on  such 
re-flagging  to  permit  U.S.  cruise  ships  to 
be  built  in  U.S.  shipyards; 

•  Enactment  of  legislation  to  authorize  and 
provide  funding  to  NASA  to  continue 
efforts  for  construction  of  the  manned 
Space  Station. 

Other  legislation  with  which  MTD 
was  concerned  met  a  variety  of  session- 
ending  conclusions: 

•  Efforts  to  pass  a  commercial  vessel  "build 
and  charter"  program  to  build  military 
useful  ships  in  U.S.  shipyards  was  de- 
feated by  opposition  from  the  Reagan 
administration  and  the  Senate  Armed 
Service  Committee; 

•  A  comprehensive  national  shipbuilding 
program  to  rebuild  the  U.S.  Merchant 
Marine  with  new  construction  of  U.S.- 
flag  vessels  did  not  emerge  in  the  99th 
Congress; 

•  The  Title  XI  government  mortgage  loan 
guarantee  program  of  the  Maritime 
Administration  was  further  weakened; 

•  Final  action  on  major  occupational  safety 
and  health  legislation  was  not  taken  prior 
to  adjournment. 

Other  actions  dealt  with  Reagan 
administration  procurement,  person- 
nel, and  defense  poUcies.  President 
Reagan,  Defense  Secretary  Casper 
Weinberger,  and  Navy  Secretary  John 
Lehman  were  formally  advised  by  Pres- 
ident Paul  Burnsky  of  MTD  about  con- 
cerns over  the  erosion  of  the  U.S. 
shipbuilding  industrial  base  and  its  threat 
to  our  national  security;  of  MTD  op- 
position to  administration  "contracting 
out"  practices,  job  reduction  at  Naval 
shipyards  and  "low-ball"  bidding  prac- 
tices by  nonunion  shipyards. 


Support  for  CLIC 


The  District  Council  of  Baltimore,  Md., 
and  Vincinity  recently  collected  $8,596.23 
for  the  Carpenters  Legislative  Improve- 
ment Committee,  the  political  action  arm 
of  the  UBC.  William  Halbert.  right,  dis- 
trict council  secretary,  presented  a  check 
for  that  amount  to  General  Treasurer  and 
Legislative  Director  Wayne  Pierce. 

CARPENTER 


locm  union  heuis 


Local  475  Puts  United  Brotherhood  on  Parade  in  l\/lassachusetts 


Local  475' s  playhouse  float  won  first  prize  in  the  Marlborough 
Labor  Day  Parade,  part  of  the  Marlborough  Labor  Day  Festival 
which  drew  80,000  people  to  the  town. 


Some  700  strong,  red-shirted  members  of  Local  475  carry  the 
day  for  labor  in  the  Marlborough,  Mass.,  Labor  Day  Parade. 


When  the  central  Massachusetts  city  of 
Marlborough  staged  its  34th  annual  Labor 
Day  parade,  only  one  labor  union  was  rep- 
resented: the  United  Brotherhood  of  Car- 
penter and  Joiners  of  America.  Local  475, 
Ashland,  Mass.,  carried  labor's  standard, 
surrounded  by  marching  bands,  antique  cars, 
pom-pom  girls,  and  politicians. 

Business  Agent  Marty  Ploof  reported  "We 
have  100%  employment.  Things  are  really 
looking  up  for  us." 

In  conjunction  with  the  parade.  Local  475 
apprentices  constructed  a  child's  playhouse 
which  won  first  prize  as  the  Best  Designed 
Float.  Publicly  raffled,  it  raised  $5,575  for 
New  England  KIDS  Missing  Children  Fund. 


Schoolmates  United 


Illinois  Double-Breasted  Job  Picketed 


Jack  DeBoer  of  Wichita.  Kans.,  is  building  a  "residence  inn,"  a  new  concept  in  motels 
with  fireplaces,  kitchens,  and  home-like  accomodations,  near  Elmhurst,  III.,  and  similar 
units  in  other  parts  of  the  United  States.  General  Contractor  on  the  northeast  Illinois 
construction  project  is  J.S.  Alberici  of  Denver,  Colo.,  a  company  signatory  to  an 
international  agreement  with  the  UBC  and  working  union  in  many  parts  of  the  West  and 
Midwest  but  working  nonunion  in  northeast  Illinois.  A  nonunion  subcontractor,  Dorssey 
and  Son,  also  of  Colorado,  has  the  rough  carpentry  contract.  In  protest,  members  of 
Local  558  have  been  picketing  the  Job  site  for  three  months. 

Contractor  Bolin's  Safety  Sweepstakes 


Edgerton  School  in  Edgerton,  Mo.,  has 
been  kind  to  the  UBC,  grooming  three 
schoolmates  for  financial  secretaries'  posi- 
tions-with  UBC  locals  in  the  area.  Mildred 
Lober,  center,  financial  secretary  with  Lo- 
cal 110,  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  invited  her 
schoolmates  Charlie  Wilson,  left.  Local 
1904,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  financial  secre- 
tary and  Howard  Johnson,  right.  Local  61, 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  financial  secretary  to  a 
recognition  dinner. 


Lee  Bohn  and  Associates,  one  of  Southern 
California's  leading  framing  contractors, 
launched  last  July  a  comprehensive  "Safety 
Sweepstakes"  to  remind  employed  members 
of  Local  1913,  Van  Nuys,  Calif.,  and  others 
that  safety  is  a  major  company  concern. 

The  contest  involved  workers  at  all  of 
Bolin's  construction  sites,  and  prizes  in- 
cluded a  4x4  pickup  truck.  Club  Med  va- 
cations, and  100  other  prizes.  To  qualify  for 
a  prize,  a  field  employee  had  to  stay  viola- 
tion-free and  accident-free  for  30  to  90  days. 

The  first  phase  of  this  year-long  safety 
campaign  was  completed  November  15  when 


the  company  hosted  a  picnic  for  its  2,500 
employees  at  Griffith  Park,  Los  Angeles, 
CaUf.,  where  prizes  were  awarded.  An  awards 
banquet  was  held  last  month. 

The  sweepstakes  idea  proved  to  be  a 
success.  Almost  every  construction  em- 
ployee proved  eligible  for  prizes,  the  com- 
pany reported. 

Lee  Bolin  and  Associates  hopes  to  post 
one  of  the  best  safety  records  in  the  industry. 
It  has  produced  safety  manuals,  created 
safety  programs,  given  bonuses,  and  estab- 
lished labor-management  safety  committees 
to  reduce  accidents. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


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Local  63  Builds  Award-Winning  Float 


This  prize-winning  float .  constructed  by  Local  63,  Bloomington,  111.,  look  second  place 
in  the  town's  Labor  Day  Parade.  The  theme  of  the  parade  was  "Liberty  and  Justice  for 
All,"  honoring  the  Statue  of  Liberty  and  the  Hay  market  centennial.  The  Carpenters 
entitled  their  float  "Building  the  American  Dream." 

Local  63  also  hosted  the  annual  Labor  Day  picnic,  serving  1500  people  on  the  local's 
grounds  beneath  a  new  pavilion  built  last  spring  with  donated  labor.  And  to  finish  the 
day,  the  Carpenters'  team  came  in  second  in  the  Labor  Day  Softball  Tournament. 


UBC-VISA  Correction 

The  United  Brotherhood  has  just  re- 
ceived word  that  the  banlt  administering 
the  UBC-VISA  program  mistakenly  in- 
serted the  wrong  informational  insert  in 
billing  statements  sent  to  UBC-VISA  card- 
holders in  January  1987.  That  insert  listed 
charitable  beneficiaries  funded  under  a  sep- 
arate, non-UBC  program  by  holders  of  a 
"Working  Assets  VISA"  card.  The  infor- 
mation in  that  insert  does  not  apply  to 
UBC-VISA  cardholders. 


The  donations  generated  by  UBC-VISA 
cardholders  have  always  been  limited  solely 
to  a  charitable  recipient  designated  by  the 
UBC.  Currently,  and  since  the  beginning 
of  the  program,  the  UBC's  designated  char- 
ity is  the  Diabetes  Research  Institute 
("Blueprint  for  Cure").  In  1986,  approxi- 
mately $15,000  was  raised  in  this  UBC- 
VISA  credit  card  program. 

We  have  asked  that  the  bank  include  a 
corrective  notation  in  future  statements. 
All  UBC-VISA  cards  (which  have  4131- 
498  as  the  first  seven  numbers)  are  gener- 
ating donations  solely  for  the  UBC  desig- 
nated charity  and  not  for  other,  separate 
Working  Assets  charitable  programs. 


Carpenter  Steers 
Union  Team  to  Victory 

Rod  Spencer,  a  Carpenter  in  Local  316, 
San  Jose,  Calif,  and  John  Neece,  a  member 
of  Ironworkers  Local  377,  San  Francisco, 
Calif.,  and  executive  secretary  of  the  Santa 
Clara  and  San  Benito  Counties  Building  and 
Construction  Trades  Council,  have  shown 
race  fans  that  they  are  something  to  be 
reckoned  with.  They  have  won  three  out  of 
five  trophy  dash  starts,  numerous  heat  race 
wins,  final  heat  wins,  and  have  won  or  been 
in  the  top  three  finishers  in  the  main  event. 
They  currently  are  running  fourth  in  NAS- 
CAR points  and  if  they  continue  with  their 
hot  streak,  they  may  move  into  points  lead, 
a  remarkable  accomplishment  since  this  is 
only  their  second  year  in  modified  sprint 
cars. 

Neece,  the  car  owner,  says  "without  Bud- 
weiser  (their  major  sponsor),  K  &  C  Drywall 
and  Ceilings,  Mimco  Construction,  Quaker 
State,  and  the  unions  in  the  local  area,  it 
would  be  impossible  for  us  to  have  our 
current  win  record."  Spencer,  the  driver, 
comes  from  a  family  of  union  carpenters. 
His  father  Gerald  has  been  a  union  carpenter 
all  of  his  adult  life  and  has  joined  Spencer 
as  have  Spencer's  brothers.  Brad  and  Jerry, 
in  car  and  motorcycle  racing.  The  car  is  very 
well  accepted  with  union  members  and  the 
public  at  large  and  shows  the  union  move- 
ment in  a  very  positive  light. 

Spencer  and  Neece  also  have  a  race-ready 
sprint  car  that  they  are  hoping  to  put  on  the 
track  this  year  for  the  World  of  Outlaw  Tour 
in  California.  The  pit  crew  is  made  up  of 
Bricklayers,  Machinists.  Carpenters,  and  a 
Plumber,  illustrating  how  well  the  construc- 
tion unions  can  work  together. 


Local  316  Member  Ron  Spencer  driving  John 
modified  sprint  car. 


Neece' s  Budweiser  and  union-backed 


Ironworker  John  Neece,  left,  and  Car- 
penter Ron  Spencer  pose  with  trophy. 


Here's  a  tip  . . . 
a  Tax  Tip. 

If  you  have  at  least  one 
dependent  child  living  with  you 
and  your  income  is  less  than 
$11,000  a  year,  you  may  qualify 
for  the  Earned  Income  Credit 
smd  receive  money  back  from 
the  IRS.  Publication  596  can  tell 
you  how.  CaU  1-800-424-FORM 
(3676)  or  the  IRS  Tkx  Forms 
number  in  your  phone  book  to 
get  a  copy. 


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CARPENTER 


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.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


SEABEE  TRAINEE 

William  R.  Woods  II,  son  of  Local  60 
Member  William  R.  Woods,  Indianapolis, 
Ind.,  has  graduated  from 
the  Great  Lakes  Naval 
Training  Center  in  Illi- 
nois, and  is  now  in  car- 
pentry training  with  the 
Navy  Seabees.  Woods 
is  following  a  long  fam- 
ily tradition;  his  grand- 
father Hardin  C.  Woods 
is  a  recently  retired  39- 
year  member  of  the 
UBC;  and  his  great 
grandfather,  William  R.  Woods,  was  also  a 
member  of  Local  60. 


NASSAU  SCHOLARS 

Nassau  County  District  Council  recently 
announced  the  winners  of  the  Albert  Lam- 
berti  Scholarship  Award  for  1986:  Laura 
Scholz  and  Brenda  Doscher.  Both  winners 
will  receive  a  $2000  scholarship.  Scholz  is 
the  daughter  of  Edward  Scholz,  a  member 
of  Local  1921,  Hempstead,  N.Y.  Doscher's 
father,  Herbert,  is  also  a  member  of  Local 
1921. 


UNITED  WAY  LEADER 

Virgil  Heckathorn,  Kansas  City  District 
Council,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  secretary  was 
recently  honored  by  Heart  of  America  United 
Way  for  his  six  years  of  service  as  chairman 
of  the  Community  Services  Committee.  Heart 
of  America  United  Way  President  John 
Greenwood  was  on  hand  for  the  presentation 
of  a  plaque  to  Heckathorn  in  appreciation 
of  his  contribution. 

NAVAL  GRADUATE 

Jeffrey  L.  Hornber- 
ger,  the  son  of  Jack 
Hornberger  of  Local 
174.  Joliet,  111.,  has 
been,  commissioned  an 
ensign  in  the  U.S. 
Navy  following  his 
graduation  from  the 
U.S.  Naval  Academy 
at  Annapolis,  Md. 
Hornberger  has  been  assigned  to  a  three- 
month  tour  as  a  sailing  instructor  at  the 
Academy  before  reporting  to  the  U.S.S. 
Mount  Whitney  out  of  Norfolk,  Va.  He  is 
the  third  Hornberger  son  to  go  on  active 
duty  with  the  Navy. 


Scholar  winner  Brenda  Doscher,  second 
from  left,  with  Business  Manager  Harti- 
gan.  President  Fuchs,  and  Brenda' s 
mother,  brother,  and  father. 


SYDNEY  SCHOLARS 


Local  1588,  Syd- 
ney, N.S.,  recently 
made  its  annual 
scholarship  presen- 
tation. Receiving 
scholarships  were, 
from  left,  Colin 
Campbell,  son  of 
John  A.  Campbell; 
Marilyn  Long, 
daughter  of  Russell 
Long;  Patricia 
Hardy,  daughter  of 
John  Hardy;  and 
Edward  Maclver, 
son  of  Angus 
Maclver. 


Scholarship  winner  Laura  Scholz,  third 
from  left,  with,  from  left,  Eugene  Harti- 
gan,  business  manager.  Local  1921;  John 
Fuchs,  president.  Local  1921;  Edward  and 
Mrs.  Scholz,  and  Laura's  brother. 


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1987  Conference 
In  California 


The  1987  Carpentry  Training  Conference 
has  been  scheduled  for  May  4-7,  1987,  at 
the  Oxnard  Hilton  Inn,  Oxnard,  Calif.  The 
conference  will  begin  at  9  a.m.,  Tuesday, 
May  5,  and  it  is  suggested  that  conference 
attendees  arrive  in  Oxnard  on  Monday,  May 
4.  Under  present  plans,  the  conference  will 
conclude  at  4  p.m.,  Thursday,  May  7,  ac- 
cording to  an  announcement  by  First  General 
Vice  President  Sigurd  Lucassen  of  the  United 
Brotherhood  and  Arthur  Ledford  of  the 
Associated  General  Contractors,  co-chair- 
men of  the  International  Joint  Carpentry 
Apprenticeship  Committee. 

A  block  of  rooms  has  been  secured  at  the 
conference  hotel  at  a  special  rate,  and  train- 
ing representatives  attending  the  conference 
are  advised  to  tell  the  hotel  that  they  are 
attending  the  conference.  Reservation  in- 
structions are  contained  in  a  memorandum 
issued  January  9  by  the  UBC  General  Office. 

Any  attendees  wishing  to  suggest  topics 
for  discussion  at  the  conference  are  advised 
to  submit  them  to  Vice  President  Lucassen 
at  the  General  Offices,  101  Constitution 
Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20001. 


Washington  Asbestos  Certification  Awarded 


A  class  resulting  in  Washington  State  certification  for  the  liandling  and  removal  of 
asbestos  materials  was  recently  completed  by  16  tnembers  of  Local  1849,  Pasco,  Wash. 
The  class  was  under  the  auspices  of  the  Eastern  Washington-Northern  Idaho  Carpenters- 
Employers  Journeyman  and  Apprenticeship  and  Training  Trust.  The  members  receiving 
licensing,  front  row,  from  left,  are  Don  Verhei,  apprenticeship  coordinator:  Jerry  Hig- 
gins;  Darrell  Higgins;  Mama  Rhoades:  Ketsy  Sanders:  and  Dal  Long,  Local  1849 
business  representative.  Second  row,  from  left,  are  Pat  Lawrence,  Marion  Bouta,  LaVon 
Walker.  James  Vickerman,  and  David  Sanders.  Third  row,  from  left,  are  Alex  Titttle, 
Don  Kincaid,  Dean  Bolt,  Lyle  Moffatt,  Herb  Bender,  and  Larry  Lenharl. 


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The  graduating  apprentice  class  of  Millwrights  Local  2235. 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and  members  of  the  J  AC  are  pictured  at  right. 
Seated,  from  left,  are  Ed  Kavanagh,  recording  secretary:  Ray 
Mitchell,  business  manager:  George  Walish,  Second  District 
board  member:  Howard  Pfeifer,  JAC:  and  L.  Paid  O'Donnell, 
president.  Middle  row,  from  left,  are  Richard  Stone  Jr,  graduat- 
ing apprentice:  Tom  Mullen,  treasurer:  Bob  George,  JAC:  Deb- 
orah Surchin,  graduating  apprentice:  and  Bill  Trauterman,  JAC. 
Back  row.  from  left,  are  Roger  Sutton  and  Peter  Milan,  gradu- 
ating apprentices:  James  Kempton,  vice  president:  Greg  Kozak. 
graduating  apprentice:  and  Ed  Panza,  conductor. 

Greg  Kozak  received  a  $100  savings  bond  for  high  scholastic 
honors,  and  Kozak  and  Richard  Stone  received  12"  precision 
levels  with  cases  for  perfect  attendance. 


Surrounded  by  the  apprentices  who  made  up  his  last  class. 
Carpenter  Instructor  George  Sakaguchi  celebrated  his  retire- 
ment from  the  Carpenters  46  Northern  California  Counties,  Dis- 
trict Office  5,  covering  the  five  local  unions  in  Santa  Clara 
Valley.  George,  a  member  of  Carpenters  Local  316,  San  Jose, 
Calif,  for  33  years,  has  taught  in  the  apprenticeship  program 
since  1978,  and  pioneered  the  daytime  instruction  program  in 
his  area.  Pictured,  front  row,  from  left,  are  John  Curci,  Mark 
Jordon,  Steve  Piziali,  and  David  Rienecker,  with,  standing  cen- 
ter, George  SakagUchi.  Middle  row,  from  left,  are  Mark  Hinz, 
Russell  Hajik,  Steve  Hermosillo,  Phillip  Hayes  Jr.,  and  Sam 
Lippert.  Top  row,  from  left,  are  David  Beausoleil,  David  El- 
wood,  Neil  Corbella,  and  Robert  Baldini. 


22 


CARPENTER 


Graduates  of  the  Western  Pennsylvania  Joint  Apprentice  Committee  assembled  after  certificate  presentations. 


New  Journeymen  Honored  in  Western  Pennsylvania 


The  1986  graduating  apprentice  class  of 
the  Carpenters  District  Council  of  Western 
Pennsylvania  Joint  Apprentice  Committee 
recently  gathered  at  the  William  Penn  Hotel 
in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  to  be  presented  journey- 
man certificates.  Graduates  honored  are  as 
follows:  Frank  Anania,  Local  142,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.;  Robert  Armstrong,  Local  541, 
Washington,  Pa.;  William  Arndt,  Local  211, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Larry  Broeren,  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  Cory  Bruce,  Local  422,  New  Brighton, 
Pa.;  Ronnie  Burney,  Local  422,  New  Brig- 
ton,  Pa.;  John  Burton,  Local  165,  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.;  Joseph  Cipriani,  Local  422,  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.;  Karl  Cook,  Local  142,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.; 
Richard  Crampton,  Local  211,  Pittsburg, 
Pa.;  Richard  Creighan,  Local  142,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa;  Joseph  Dickerson,  Local   142, 

Pre-Apprenticeship 
Registry  Guidelines 

One  of  the  topics  discussed  at  the  1986 
UBC  apprenticeship  training  conference  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  was  the  growing  desire  of 
many  training  programs  to  require  pre-ap- 
prenticeship  work  experience  before  entry 
into  formal  apprenticeship  training. 

The  panel  leading  the  conference  discus- 
sion on  this  topic  offered  the  following  guide- 
lines for  setting  up  a  pre-apprenticeship 
registry  so  that  candidates  for  training  can 
gain  such  experience: 

1.  The  status  of  membership  for  pre-ap- 
prentices  shall  be  described  in  the  local 
bargaining  agreement. 

2.  The  term  of  pre-apprenticeship  shall  be 
stated  in  the  bargaining  agreement,  and  it 
should  not  exceed  one  year. 

3.  The  percent  of  journeyman  scale  shall 
be  stated  in  the  collective  bargaining  agree- 
ment and  in  the  standards  of  the  program 
sponsor. 

4.  There  shall  be  a  structured,  related 
training  program  for  the  pre-apprentices  which 
will  provide  for  them  the  defined  basic  skills 
and  knowledges  they  must  acquire  so  that 
they  may  enter  the  apprenticeship  program. 

5.  All  entrants  to  apprenticeship  shall  serve 
a  pre-apprenticeship  term,  and  all  entrants 
into  apprenticeship  shall  meet  all  of  the  basic 


Pittsburgh,  Pa. ;  Alex  Dixon,  L. U .  2 1 1 ,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.;  Kenneth  Faux,  Local  142,  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.;  Daniel  Gaston,  Local  165.  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.;  Jerome  Grady,  Local  33-L, 
Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Dereck  Hall,  Local  165,  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.,  Robert  Hvizdos,  Local  333,  New 
Kensington,  Pa.;  Jay  Johnson,  Local  230, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa;  Robert  Kinderman,  Local 
142,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  John  King,  Local  165, 
Pittsburg,  Pa;  Cynthia  Kurek,  Local  142, 
Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Kenneth  Kushik,  Local  211, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Jeffrey  Landau,  Local  211, 
Pittsburg,  Pa.;  Craig  Leonard,  Local  142, 
Pittsburg,  Pa.;  John  Lukacena,  Local  230, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Linda  Lachimia,  Local  230, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Fred  Matt,  Local  333,  New 
Kensington,  Pa.;  Mark  Miller,  Local  211, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Joseph  Odorisio,  Local  142, 


Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Francis  Rebel,  Local  142, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  John  Ross,  Local  422,  New 
Brighton,  Pa.;  Gary  Saltsman,  Local  165, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Patricia  Selby,  Local  422, 
New  Brighton,  Pa.;  Michael  Senko,  Local 
211,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Kevin  Shirley,  Local 
462,  Greensburg,  Pa.;  Fred  Siciliano,  Local 
165,  Pittsburg,  Pa.;  William  Stehle,  Local 
33-L,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Steven  Stubenbort, 
Local  230,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.;  Keith  Szalan- 
kiewicz.  Local  333,  New  Kensington,  Pa 
Wayne  Thomas,  Local  142,  Pittsburgh,  Pa 
Gerald  Tortella,  Local  142,  Pittsburgh,  Pa 
Daniel  Tracey,  Local  462,  Greensburg,  Pa 
John  Vavro,  Local  230,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. ;  Matt 
Vular,  Local  422,  New  Brighton,  Pa.;  and 
Michael  Zervos,  Local  142,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 


Alberta  Apprentice  Contestants 


The  Northern  Alberta  Carpentry  Apprenticeship  Competition  Committee,  made  up 
equally  of  members  from  Local  1325,  Edmonton.  Alta..  and  the  Edmonton  Construction 
Association,  recently  hosted  the  Alberta  Provincial  Carpenter  Apprenticeship  Contest  for 
apprentices  from  all  over  the  province. 

The  winner  was  Local  I325's  Robert  Krislensen,  pictured  above  far  right.  He  was 
presented  with  the  Wes  Stanton  Apprenticeship  Award  of  Excellence  by  Gordon  Mc- 
Pherson,  Secretaiy  of  the  Northern  Committee.  The  contest  runner-up  was  Jack  Kramer, 
Local  846,  Leihbridge,  Alta.,  pictured  above,  far  left.  These  two  lop  contestants  repre- 
sented Alberta  at  the  Canadian  Carpentry  Apprenticeship  Contest  in  Vancouver.  B.C. 

Other  contestants,  pictured  above,  second  from  left,  are  Ronny  Schutull,  Local  1325: 
Brian  Carlson,  Local  1325,  Harold  Van  De  Kidlen.  Local  21032.  Calgaiy.  Alta.;  and 
Gerald  Bengert.  Local  1569.  Medicine  Hat,  Alia. 


competencies  and  skills  and  knowledges  re- 
quired of  the  pre-apprentice  for  completion. 
6.  Pre-apprentices  shall  be  registered  with 
the  registering  agency,  as  are  apprentices, 
and  the  process  of  their  training  monitored 


by  the  registering  agency. 

The  pre-apprenticeship  status  shall  be  part 
of  the  apprenticeship  training  standards  for 
those  programs  incorporating  pre-appren- 
ticeship into  their  training  structure. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


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JOB  SAFETY  AND  HEALTH 

PORTABLE  LADDERS 


Falls  from  portable  ladders  are 
a  major  source  of  serious  injury. 

Being  aware  of  possible  hazards 
and  taking  precautions  can  pre- 
vent you  from  falling. 

Examine  a  ladder  for  defects 
such  as  broken,  loose,  or  miss- 
ing rungs,  or  damaged  side  rails. 

Do  not  use  a  painted  wooden 
ladder  as  the  paint  hides  defects. 

Reject  a  ladder  with  defects  and 
have  the  ladder  repaired  or  dis- 
posed of. 

CHECK-LIST 

DO: 

•  USE  the  right  ladder. 

•  TAG  and  REMOVE  a  defec- 
tive ladder. 

•  GET  help  when  handling  a 
heavy  or  long  ladder. 

•  INSPECT  the  ladder  before 
and  after  use. 

•  KEEP  the  ladder  away  from 
electrical  circuits. 

•  SET  up  barricades  or  warn- 
ings around  the  ladder  in 
doorways  and  passageways 
where  there  is  a  danger  of  the 
ladder  being  struck. 

•  CLEAN  muddy  or  slippery 
boot  soles  before  mounting 
the  ladder. 

•  MAKE  SURE  that  only  one 
person  is  on  a  ladder  at  a 
time. 

•  FACE  the  ladder  when  as- 
cending or  descending. 

•  TIE  OFF  the  ladder  at  the 
top  and  bottom  as  required. 

•  KEEP  the  center  of  your  body 
within  the  side  rails. 


DO  NOT: 

•  DO  NOT  carry  objects  in 
your  hands.  Hoist  materials 
or  attach  tools  to  a  belt. 

•  DO  NOT  stand  higher  than 
the  third  rung  from  the  top. 

•  DO  NOT  use  makeshift  items 
such  as  a  chair,  barrel,  or  box 
as  a  substitute  for  a  ladder. 


3-4x 


Place  the  ladder  with  the  feet  Va 
to  V-i  of  its  working  length  away 
from  the  base  of  the  structure. 

Extend  the  ladder  3'  (.9m)  above 
the  landing,  if  used  for  access 
to  a  platform. 

Locate  the  ladder  on  a  firm  foot- 
ing using  slip-resistant  feet  or 
secure  blocking,  or  have  some- 
one hold  the  ladder. 

Rest  both  side  rails  on  the  top 
support,  with  the  top  secured  to 
prevent  slipping. 


Reprinted  from  CCOHS  CCINFOGRAM 


New  Ladder  Safety 
Standard  Proposed 

Ladders  can  be  dangerous. 
OSHA  estimates  that  about  21 ,000 
ladder  accidents  occur  in  con- 
struction each  year,  about  half 
resulting  in  lost  workdays.  They 
also  estimate  that  about  35  people 
die  each  year  in  construction  lad- 
der accidents.  The  hazards  of 
ladders  include:  metal  ladders  in 
contact  with  energized  electrical 
wires  causing  electrocution,  im- 
properly secured  ladders  falling, 
job-built  ladders  being  over- 
loaded and  collapsing,  and  defec- 
tive rungs  or  rails  breaking. 

Currently  ladder  safety  is  cov- 
ered in  the  OSHA  construction 
standards  in  subpart  L  (section 
1926.450).  OSHA  is  now  propos- 
ing revision  in  the  standard  and 
creating  a  new  subpart  X  for  lad- 
ders and  stairways.  The  proposed 
ladder  standard  (new  section 
1926.1053)  primarily  updates  the 
OSHA  standards  by  making  ref- 
erence to  or  incorporating  the 
most  recent  versions  of  the  ladder 
safety  standards  put  together  by 
the  America  National  standards 
Institute.  It  also  adds  a  new  train- 
ing requirement. 

Ladders,  under  the  proposal, 
will  be  required  to  be  built  to 
safely  support  their  intended  loads. 
This  requirement  has  become 
more  "performance-oriented"  to 
give  the  employer  more  flexibility 
to  comply.  The  ladders  must  be 
set  up  with  sufficient  clearance 
and  with  the  proper  inclination. 
They  have  to  be  secured  against 
displacement  and  on  stable  level 
surfaces.  Ladders  cannot  be 
moved  or  extended  while  occu- 
pied. They  must  be  visually  in- 
spected for  defects  before  each 
use  and  tagged  or  withdrawn  from 
service  until  repaired  if  defective. 
Employees  using  ladders  must  be 
trained  and  retrained  on  fall  haz- 
ards, fall  protection,  proper  lad- 
der construction  and  use,  load 
capacities,  and  the  OSHA  stand- 
ards. Job-built  ladders  must  meet 
the  same  specifications  as  man- 
ufactured ones. 

Comments  on  the  proposal  are 
due  February  23,  1987.  Copies 
are  available  from  the  UBC  De- 
partment of  Occupational  Safety 
and  Health. 


24 


CARPENTER 


ECHELLES  PORTATIVES 


Les  echelles  portatives  sont  fre- 
quemment  la  cause  de  chutes 
qui  entrainent  des  blessures  gra- 
ves. 

On  peut  eviter  ces  chutes  en  se 
renseignant  sur  les  risques  pos- 
sibles et  en  prenant  les  precau- 
tions suivantes. 

S'assurer  que  I'echelle  a  bien 
tous  ses  barreaux,  que  ceuxci 
ne  sont  ni  casses  ni  ebranles  et 
que  ses  montants  ne  sont  pas 
endommages. 

Ne  pas  utiliser  d'echelle  en  bois 
peint  pouvant  receler  des  defec- 
tuosites. 

Refuser  d'utiliser  une  echelle  de- 
fectueuse  et  demander  qu'elle 
soit  reparee  ou  remplacee. 

LISTE  DE  CONTROLE 
RECOMMAND  ATIONS : 

•  UTILISER  Fechelle  appro- 
priee. 

•  ETIQUETER  et  METTRE 
DE  COTE  toute  echelle  de- 
fectueuse. 

•  OBTENIR    DE    L'AIDE 

lorsque  le  poids  ou  la  lon- 
gueur d'une  echelle  la  rend 
difficile  a  manipuler. 

•  EXAMINER  I'echelle  avant 
et  apres  I'usage. 

•  TENIR  I'echelle  a  I'ecart  des 
fils  electriques. 

•  ENTOURER  I'echelle  de 
barrieres  ou  d'affiches  si- 
gnalant  sa  presence  lorsqu'on 
s'en  sert  derriere  une  porte, 
dans  un  couloir  ou  dans  un 
autre  endroit  passant. 

•  ENLEVER  toute  boue  ou 
autre  substance  rendant  les 
semelles  glissantes. 

•  S'ASSURER  que  personne 
ne  se  trouve  sur  Fechelle  avant 
de  s'y  engager. 


•  FAIRE  FACE  a  I'echelle  en 
montant  comme  en  descen- 
dant. 

•  ASSUJETTIR  le  haut  et  le 
bas  de  I'echelle  comme  il  se 
doit. 

•  SE  TENIR  le  corps  en  equili- 
bre  entre  les  montants  de  I'e- 
chelle. 


Placer  le  pied  de  I'echelle  a  une 
distance  egalant  environ  V4  a  '/s 
de  sa  longueur  operatoire  a  par- 
tir  du  pied  de  la  structure  d'ap- 
pui. 

Lorsqu'elle  sert  d'acces  a  une 
plate-forme,  I'echelle  doit  de- 
passer  de  3'  (0,9  m)  au  dessus 
de  cette  plate-forme. 

Assurer  I'equilibre  de  I'echelle 
en  maintenant  le  pied  ferme- 
ment,  par  blocage  ou  a  I'aide 
d'une  base  anti-derapante  ou  en 
la  faisant  tenir  par  quelqu'un. 

Bien  appuyer  les  bouts  su- 
perieurs  des  deux  montants  con- 
tre  la  structure  et  les  assujettir 
en  place. 


INTER  DICTIONS: 

•  NE  PAS  TRANSPORTER 

d'objets  a  la  main.  Utihser  un 
appareil  de  levage  ou  fixer  les 
outils  a  une  ceinture. 

•  NE  PAS  MONTER  plus 
haut  que  le  3*=  barreau  en  par- 
tant  du  haut. 

•  NE  PAS  UTILISER  d'ob- 
jets  improvises,  chaise,  baril 
ou  boite,  au  lieu  d'une  echelle. 


Reprinted  from  CCOHS  CCINFOGRAM 


Canadian  Centre  for 
Occupational  Health 
and  Safety 


# 


The  Canadian  Centre  for  Oc- 
cupational Health  and  Safety  was 
founded  by  an  Act  of  Parliament 
in  1978  "to  promote  the  funda- 
mental right  of  Canadians  to  a 
healthy  and  safe  working  envi- 
ronment." The  Centre  is  an  au- 
thoritative information  service  in 
occupational  health  and  safety 
available  free  of  charge  and  in 
both  official  languages  to  all  Ca- 
nadians. It  has  extensive  com- 
puterized information  on  such 
topics  as:  chemical  hazards  in  the 
workplace  and  what  can  be  done 
about  them;  noise,  vibrations,  ra- 
diation, poor  lighting  and  stress; 
physical  hazards  and  safety 
equipment.  CCOHS  also  has  data 
bases  on  health  and  safety  in 
Canada,  legal  standards  on  oc- 
cupational safety,  and  sources  of 
further  information. 

National,  regional,  and  local 
union  offices  now  can  be  con- 
nected to  this  CCOHS  service, 
particularly  useful  for  joint  health 
and  safety  committees. 

The  information  on  ladders  re- 
printed in  English  and  in  French, 
for  our  Canadian  readers,  on  these 
two  pages  comes  from  the  Centre's 
CCINFOGRAMS,  available  in 
three  series  covering  Abrasive 
Wheels,  Materials  Handling,  and 
Ladders. 

For  more  information,  contact: 
Canadian  Centre  for  Occupa- 
tional Health  and  Safety,  250  Main 
Street  East,  Hamilton,  Ontario, 
Canada  L8N  1H6. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


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Little  Change  in  Work  Injuries,  Illnesses  in  1985 


There  were  3,750  work-related  deaths  in 
1985,  10  more  than  in  1984,  and  the  number 
of  job-related  injuries  and  illnesses  rose  by 
nearly  100,000  in  1985,  the  U.S.  government 
has  reported. 

But  because  of  increased  employment,  the 
rate  of  injuries  and  illnesses  in  the  private 
sector  fell  slightly,  from  8  for  every  100  full- 
time  workers  in  1984  to  7.9  for  every  100  in 
1985,  according  to  the  Bureau  of  Labor 
Statistics. 

The  rate  of  injuries  and  illnesses  had  gone 
up  sharply  in  1984,  from  a  record  low  of  7.6 
per  100  workers  in  1983. 

"This  strengthens  our  belief  that  we  are 
making  progress,"  said  John  Pendergrass, 
head  of  the  Occupational  Safety  and  Health 
Administration. 

Labor  unions,  however,  renewed  their 
complaint  that  Reagan  administration  changes 
in  OSHA  enforcement  policies  encourage 
employers  to  underreport  job-related  injuries 
and  illnesses. 

In  an  unusual  disclaimer  on  the  cover  of 
the  report.  Commissioner  Janet  L.  Norwood 
also  expressed  "concern  about  the  com- 
pleteness of  the  record  keeping  upon  which 
the  survey  is  based." 

The  data  is  compiled  from  a  survey  of 
OSHA-required  injury  and  illness  logs  from 
280,000  of  the  nation's  5  million  workplaces 
employing  11  or  more  full-time  workers. 

Two-thirds  of  the  3,750  work-related  fa- 
tilities  in  1985  occurred  in  the  construction, 
manufacturing,  transportation,  and  public 


utility  industries. 

Injury  rates  in  industries  represented  by 
the  UBC  fell  slightly;  however,  the  number 
of  lost  work  days  per  100  full-time  workers 
in  construction  went  up.  While  the  construc- 
tion industry  represents  only  5%  of  the  total 
workforce,  26%  of  all  work-related  fatalities 
were  in  the  construction  industry. 

Survey  results  are  as  follows: 

Eleven  Most  Hazardous  Industries 
Injury  Cases  per  100  Full  Time  Workers 

#  Cases 

1 )  Lumber  &  Wood  Products  18.2 

2)  Fabricated  Metal  Products  15.8 

3)  Food  &  Kindred  Products  15.8 

4)  Special  Trade  Contractors  15.3 

5)  General  Bldg.  Contractors  15.1 

6)  Furniture  &  Fixtures  14.6 

7)  Heavy  Construction  Contractors  15.1 

8)  Trucking  &  Warehousing  13.8 

9)  Stone,  Clay,  Glass  Products  13.6 

10)  Rubber  &  Misc.  Products  12.9 

11)  Water  Transportation  12.9 


1986  Injuries,  Illnesses  Posting 

Employers  with  1 1  or  more  employees 
must  post  from  February  1  to  March  1  the 
total  number  of  job-related  injuries  and 
illnesses  that  occurred  during  1986,  ac- 
cording to  OSHA.  These  posted  logs  are 
used  by  OSHA  to  exempt  some  workplaces 
from  inspection.  If  there  are  any  discrep- 
ancies, please  notify  the  UBC's  Occupa- 
tional Safety  and  Health  Department  in 
Washington,  D.C. 


Tvrelve  Most  Hazardous  Industries 

Lost  Workday  Cases  per  100  Full  Time  Workers 

#  Cases 

1)  Lumber  &  Wood  Products  9.2 

2)  Trucking  &  Warehousing  8.5 

3)  Food  &  Kindred  Products  7.7 

4)  Water  Transportation  7.7 

5)  Transportation  by  Air  7.2 

6)  Special  Trades  Contractors  6.9 

7)  General  Bldg.  Contractors  6.8 

8)  Fabricated  Metal  Products  6.7 

9)  Stone,  Clay,  Glass  Products  6.5 
10)  Heavy  Construction  Contractors  6.2 
!  1)  Furniture  &  Fixtures  6.1 
12)  Rubber  &  Misc.  Products  6.1 


Eighteen  Most  Hazardous  Industries 

#  Lost  Workdays  per  100  Full  Time  Employees 

#  Cases 

1)  Anthracite  Mining  442.6 

2)  Water  Transportation  248.4 

3)  Trucking  &  Warehousing  209.3 

4)  Bituminous  Coal  Mining  197.7 

5)  Lumber  &  Wood  Products  168.4 

6)  Oil  &  Gas  Extraction  143.0 

7)  Special  Trades  Contractors  132.5 

8)  Food  &  Kindred  Products  129.1 

9)  Heavy  Construction  Contractors  126.7 

10)  Stone,  Glass,  Clay  Products  124.2 

11)  Local,  Interurban  Passenger  Trans.  119.9 

12)  General  Bldg.  Contractors  119.5 

13)  Transportation  by  Air  115.0 

14)  Primary  Metal  Industry  111.1 

15)  Metal  Mining  109.3 

16)  Fabricated  Metal  Products  105.7 

17)  Rubber  &  Misc.  Products  101.4 

18)  Furniture  &  Fixtures  95.9 


More  Contributors 
To  Helping  Hands 


In  addition  to  the  United  Brotherhood's 
strong  support  of  the  fund-raising  campaign 
for  the  Diabetes  Research  Center  in  Miami, 
Fla.,  known  as  "Blueprint  for  Cure,"  many 
UBC  members  are  also  contributing  to  Car- 
penters Helping  Hands,  the  fund-raising  ef- 
fort initiated  a  few  years  ago  for  Alice 
Perkins,  the  little  girl  in  Tennessee  born 
without  a  face,  and  for  other  worthy  pur- 
poses. 

Plastic  surgeons  in  Tennessee  continue  to 
make  progress  in  bringing  greater  normalcy 
to  the  adopted  daughter  of  Ray  and  Thelma 
Perkins  of  Marysville,  Tenn.,  although 
AHce's  rehabilitation  is  expected  to  continue 
through  her  teenage  years  and  thereafter. 

Alice  is  now  11  years  old,  and  she  is 
undergoing  special  training  at  a  school  for 
the  blind. 

Helping  Hands  reports  a  total  collected  to 
date  of  $173,414.32.  Recent  contributors 
include  the  following:  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph 
A.  Klinke,  Local  8;  John  W.  Muldoon,  Local 
417;  Tom  Duggan,  Local  264;  Michael  Po- 
piela.  Local  1401;  Robert  Colquhoun,  Local 
608;  John  O'Connor,  Local  1462;  Edwin 
Deveau,  Mary  Maiellaro,  and  Tom  Duggan. 

Contributions  should  be  sent  to:  Helping 
Hands,  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters 
and  Joiners  of  America,  101  Constitution 
Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington.  D.C.  20001. 


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FEBRUARY     1987 


27 


Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


BUY  UNION  *  SAVE  JOBS 


OWN  MEDICINE 

A  woman  sent  a  dinner  invitation 
to  the  new  doctor  in  town.  In  reply 
she  received  a  totally  illegible  letter. 

"Why  don't  you  take  it  to  the 
druggist?"  suggested  her  hus- 
band. "They  can  always  read  a 
doctor's  handwriting." 

The  druggist  studied  the  letter, 
went  away  and  returned  with  a 
bottle. 

"That  will  be  five  dollars,  please," 
he  said. 

—Nancy's  Nonsense 


PET  SHOP  STOP 

After  finishing  her  dinner  in  a 
fancy  restaurant,  a  young  mother 
called  to  the  waiter  and  asked  him 
to  wrap  up  the  leftover  steak  for  the 
family  dog. 

With  that,  her  little  boy  piped  up, 
saying:  "Oh  boy,  we're  finally  going 
to  get  a  dog." 


DON'T  BUY  LP 

GREENER  GRASS? 

Things  are  pretty  evened  up  in 
this  world.  Other  people's  troubles 
are  never  as  bad  as  yours,  but  their 
children  are  always  a  lot  worse. 


ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 


GOSSIP 


SEND  YOUR  FAVORITES  TO; 

PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


EXPERIENCE  TALKING 

Cop  to  lady  driver  who  had  just 
gone  through  a  red  light:  "Don't  you 
know  what  it  means  when  I  hold  up 
my  hand?" 

Lady  driver:  "I  ought  to,  I've  been 
a  school  teacher  for  25  years." 

— Maurice  Howes 


SUIT  YOURSELF 

"I'm  sorry,  the  manager  just 
stepped  out,"  said  the  clerk  to  the 
pompous  individual  who  had  strut- 
ted in.  "Is  there  something  I  can  do 
for  you?" 

"No,"  snapped  the  visitor,  "I  never 
deal  with  underlings.  I'll  wait  until 
the  manager  returns."  About  an 
hour  later  the  pompous  one  be- 
came impatient.  "How  much  longer 
do  you  think  the  manager  will  be?" 

"About  two  weeks,"  the  clerk  re- 
plied. "He  just  left  on  his  vacation." 

— Maurice  l-iowes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

A  man  by  the  name  of  McKees 
Felt  like  he  had  to  sneeze 
No  hankie  could  he  find 
He'd  left  his  behind 
And  without  it,  he  caused  quite  a 
breeze! 

— Gerry  Moorman 
Local  1615 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 


JW 


FULL  STORY,  PLEASE 

The  beautiful  young  blonde 
woman  was  having  her  fortune  told. 
"I  see  you  married  to  a  very  wealthy 
man  50  years  your  senior."  said  the 
fortune  teller,  "However  you  must 
prepare  yourself  for  tragedy.  Your 
husband  will  meet  a  violent  end." 

"Go  on,"  prompted  the  blonde, 
"Will  I  be  acquitted?" 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 

HORSE  TALES 

A  foreman  on  a  big  construction 
job  is  waiting  for  his  men  to  come 
to  work  but  they  are  all  late.  After 
about  one  hour  the  first  carpenter 
shows  up  and  tells  his  boss  that 
his  car  broke  down  on  his  way  to 
work  and  he  stopped  at  the  first 
farmhouse  and  bought  a  horse  from 
the  farmer  so  he  could  get  to  work 
but  the  horse  dropped  dead  half 
way  down  the  road.  Then  the  sec- 
ond carpenter  shows  up  and  tells 
the  same  story.  Then  the  third  one 
arrives  with  the  same  excuse. 

When  the  fourth  one  gets  there 
the  foreman  tells  him,  "I  know  all 
about  you  being  late,  your  car  broke 
down  and.  .  .  ." 

"You're  wrong,"  interrupts  the 
fourth  carpenter. 

"My  car  didn't  break  down.  You 
won't  believe  this  but  I'm  late  be- 
cause I  spent  the  last  couple  of 
hours  removing  dead  horses  from 
all  over  the  highway!" 

BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 


PRIORITIES 

Granddad:  "Well,  well,  Timmy— 
and  what  do  you  think  of  your  new 
baby  sister?" 

Timmy:  "She's  OK — but  there's 
surealotof  stuff  we  needed  more!" 

— Catering  Industry  Employee 


28 


CARPENTER 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


UBC  Retiree  Clubs 

To  date ,  65  clubs  have  been  organized 
across  the  U.S.  and  Canada. 


Club 
No. 


Officer  and  Address 


Club 
No. 


Officer  and  Address 


19.  Carmen  DiDonoto,  President 
638  Carpenter  Street 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania  19147 

20.  Robert  Burns,  President 
3056  Lynrose  Drive 
Anaheim,  California  92802 

21.  C.  Ray  Collier,  President 
19  Montague  Court 

St.  Louis,  Missouri  63123 

22.  Nick  Kira,  President 
608  Surf  Avenue 
Beachwood,  New  Jersey  08722 

23.  Aubrey  Van  Horn,  President 
2325  West  State  Route  579 
Curtice,  Ohio  43412 


Club 
No. 

Officer  and  Address 

24. 

Clarence  L.  Mallory,  President 

811  Palm  Street 

San  Luis  Obispo,  California  93401 

1. 

James  West,  President 
1038  Melody  Lane 
Roseville,  California  95661 

25. 

William  Woltz,  President 
813  Yale  Street 
Cumberland,  Maryland  21502 

2. 

Daniel  Reynolds,  President 

4719  Parallel 

Kansas  City,  Kansas  66104 

26. 

Lionel  H.  Rowley,  President 

1223  6th  Avenue 

Des  Moines,  Iowa  50314 

3. 

Carl  Andrews,  President 
P.  0.  Box  1069 
Visalia,  California  93279 

27. 

Duke  DeFlorio 

712  Highland  Street  ■ 

Hammond,  Indiana  46320 

4.  Marvin  D.  Hargrove,  President 
6274  Mount  Ranier  Avenue 
Las  Vegas,  Nevada  89115 

5.  Leo  L.  Passmore,  President 
c/o  Local  Union  63 

2002  Beich  Road 
Bloomington,  Illinois  61701 

6.  Claude  Agasse,  President 
1109  Vista  Way 
Oceanside,  California  92054 

7.  William  Wolf,  President 
537  Bramhall  Road 
Rahway,  New  Jersey  07065 

8.  Albert  R.  Gasink,  President 
1734  W.  Dakota 

Fresno,  California  93705 

9.  Fred  McQuain,  President 
995  Hancock  Avenue 
Akron,  Ohio  44314 

10.  Omar  Lowery,  President 
808  West  Broward  Boulevard 
Fort  Lauderdale,  Florida  33312 

11.  Bernard  W.  Rowe,  President 
R.R.  #1,  Box  70 

Moline,  lUinois  61265 

12.  Leroy  C.  King,  President 
832  Colgate 
Lancaster,  Texas  75146 

13.  Alva  Davis,  President 
245  Sycamore  Road 
Salinas,  California  93905 

14.  Grady  Pinner,  President 
5025  Elizabeth  Lake  Road 
Pontiac,  Michigan  48054 

15.  Harold  Uren,  President 
Highwater  Road  256 

Saddy  Daisy,  Tennessee  37379 

16.  Patrick  Armen,  President 
2825  Frink  Street 
Scranton,  Pennsylvania  18054 

17.  R.  E.  Hashberger,  President 
13225  Machias  Road 
Snohomish,  Washington  98290 


28.     Peter  J.  D'Achile,  President 
207  Glenwood  Road 
King  of  Prussia,  Pennsylvania  19406 

30.  Samuel  M.  Weldon,  President 
Post  Office  Box  363 
Lithonia  Springs,  Georgia  30057 

31.  Harrison  D.  Seeley,  President 
4860  South  94th  Street 
Greenfield,  Wisconsin  53228 

32.  John  R.  Talbot,  President 
203-D  Cedarcrest  Apartments 
Lower  Burrell,  Pennsylvania  15068 

33.  Cloyd  Bennett,  President 
4419  Eaton  Drive 
Rockford,  Illinois  61111 

34.  Guy  Hodson,  President 
9054  S  W  Line  Drive 
Cornelius,  Oregon  971 13 

35.  Lawrence  Dewes,  President 
8128  Merrillville  Road 
Merrillville,  Indiana  46410 

36.  Michael  P.  Homer,  President 
Box  151,  R.D.  #2 
Frankfort,  New  York  13340 

37.  George  A.  Carlow,  President 
2526  S.  114th  St,  Apt.  3-C 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68144 

38.  John  C.  Gundry,  President 
100  Wickatunk  Village 
Morganville,  New  Jersey  07751 

39.  James  H.  Seigler,  President 
96  Gary  Drive 

St.  Peters,  Missouri  63376 

40.  Robert  Sweeten,  President 
195  East  25lh  Street 
Chicago  Heights,  Illinois  6041 1 

41.  B.  R.  Upton,  President 
956  West  Ridge  Drive 
Jackson,  Mississippi  39209 

42.  Charles  M.  Miller,  President 
729  Grand  Court 

Topeka,  Kansas  66606 


43.  John  J.  Boyle,  President 
2543  Webb  Street 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania  19125 

44.  Gerald  Anderson,  President 
305  Belmont  Road 

Grand  Forks,  North  Dakota  58201 

45.  Harold  Mahl,  President 
332  Grayson  Road 
LaPorte,  Indiana  46350 

46.  Samuel  Durso,  President 
926  South  Harrison  Street 
Park  Ridge,  Illinois  60068 

47.  Frederick  F.  Coluzzi,  President 
7737  Richards  Street 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania  19152 

48.  Frank  L.  Cox,  President 
9  Benson  Drive 

Glenolden,  Pennsylvania,  19036 

49.  Anthony  C.  Pietrovito,  President 
8  North  Lyon  Street 

Batavia,  New  York  14020 

50.  Joseph  John  Dosio,  President 
24  Styvestandt  Drive 
Poughkeepsie,  New  York  12601 

51.  Donald  P.  Donovan,  President 
R.D.  1 

Bradford  woods,  Pennsylvania  15015 

52.  W.  Ed  Chambers,  President 
6735  Ridge  Boulevard 
Brooklyn,  New  York  11220 

53.  John  Schibh,  President 
9-2750  Quadra  Street 

Victoria,  British  Columbia  V8T  4E8 

54.  Johnny  H.  Walsh,  President 
15003  Monrad  Drive 
Houston,  Texas  77053 

55.  James  Lokofsky,  President 
POBox  11123 
Trenton,  New  Jersey  08620 

56.  Harold  Devine,  President 
548  High  Street 
Warren,  Ohio  44483 

57.  Edward  Kammerer,  President 
112  Haverford  Ave. 

North  Cape  May,  New  Jersey  08204 

58.  Edward  Murawski,  President 
803  Illinois  Street 
Lemont,  Illinois  60439 

59.  Johnny  C.  Harston,  President 
203 1/:  North  Highland  Avenue 
Jackson,  Tennessee  38301 

60.  Ralph  B.  Brawner,  President 
23401  Mound  Road 
Warren,  Michigan  48091 

61.  Orvis  Roy,  President 
402  South  Broadway 
Lexington,  Kentucky  40508 

62.  Charles  Stein,  President 
P  O  Box  272 
Lafayette,  Colorado  80026 

63.  Philip  Sweeney,  President 
495  Mansfield  Avenue 
Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania  15205 
(Western  PA  Central  Retirees) 

64.  Joseph  Jansen,  President 
208  Elfinwild  Road 

Allison  Park,  Pennsylvania  15101 

65.  Anthony  S.  Rachuba,  President 
1332  Tyson  Avenue 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania  19111 


FEBRUARY     1987 


29 


If  You  Were  Rich,  What 
Would  You  Buy  And  Where 
Would  You  Vacation? 

Nationwide  Survey  Also  Names  Safest,  Riskiest  Investments 


If  money  were  no  object,  what  would 
you  buy  and  where  in  the  world  would 
you  vacation?  Which  investments  are 
the  safest?  Which  have  the  greatest 
risk? 

A  just-released  nationwide  survey, 
which  asked  these  questions  of  a  cross- 
section  of  Americans,  generated  some 
surprising  answers. 

The  study,  which  was  based  on  a 
representative  national  income,  age, 
marital  status,  and  geographic  sam- 
pUng,  consisted  of  in-depth  interviews 
with  100  male  and  100  female  heads  of 
households.  It  was  developed  by  Car- 
olyn Sekac  Associates,  Hempstead, 
N.Y. -based  financial  planners,  and  was 
conducted  for  the  Sekac  firm  by  an 
independent  research  company.  Caro- 
lyn Sekac,  the  firm's  president,  said  the 
survey  was  undertaken  to  "find  out 


what  people  would  purchase  and  where 
they  would  travel  if  they  had  substantial 
financial  resources  and  to  also  examine 
their  attitudes  toward  key  invest- 
ments." 
Here  are  the  results  of  the  study: 

If  you  had  the  money  to  buy  anything 
you  wanted,  what  would  it  be? 

"If  you  had  predicted  that  yachts, 
private  jets,  or  diamonds  would  top  the 
list,"  said  Ms.  Sekac,  "you'd  be  com- 
pletely off  the  mark." 

The  number  one  choice — by  far — 
was  real  estate:  30%  of  the  respondents 
said  they  would  buy  a  house  or  a  new 
house,  7%  opted  for  land,  a  farm,  prop- 
erty, or  other  types  of  real  estate,  while 
only  1%  selected  a  summer  house  or  a 
second  house. 

Vehicles  were  the  next  most  popular 


category:  18%  of  the  people  surveyed 
said  they  would  buy  a  car  or  a  new  car, 
and  3%  chose  a  van,  motor  home,  or 
recreational  vehicle. 

What  would  the  other  respondents 
do  with  their  money?  Their  choices 
were  almost  equally  divided  among 
boats,  furniture,  children's  education, 
charitable  contributions,  and  paying  off 
debts. 

If  you  could  afford  a  vacation  any- 
where in  the  world,  where  would  you 
go? 

Nearly  half  of  all  the  people  polled 
(48%)  said  they  would  prefer  to  vacation 
in  the  United  States.  Hawaii,  which 
was  selected  by  23%  of  the  respondents, 
headed  the  list,  with  4%  casting  their 
vote  for  California  and  the  West  Coast 
and  4%  choosing  Florida. 

Continued  on  Page  38 


Robot  Toy  from  Taiwan  Has  Lead  Poisoning  Hazard 


The  U.S.  Consumer  Product  Safety  Com- 
mission recently  issued  a  safety  alert  re- 
garding potential  lead  poisoning  dangers  in 
certain  Voltron  Lion  Toys,  urging  the  man- 
ufacturers. Matchbox,  to  recall  them  and 
exchange  them  for  non-hazardous  versions. 

Deluxe  Voltron  Lions  are  robot-type  me- 


chanical toys  which  break  down  into  five 
separate  lions.  They  are  about  1 1  inches  tall. 
Miniature  Voltron  Lions  are  about  six  inches 
tall  and  resemble  the  deluxe  version,  but  the 
body  parts  do  not  separate.  Some  of  these 
toys  made  in  Taiwan  and  sold  since  1985 
contain  lead  paint,  potentially  poisonous  if 


children  put  them  in  their  mouths.  If  any  of 
your  children  have  such  toys,  call  Matchbox 
to  obtain  a  free  replacement.  Telephone: 
800-445-8697;  in  New  Jersey  800-445-0012. 
If  there  are  questions,  the  Consumer  Prod- 
uct Safety  Commission  can  be  reached  toll 
free  at  800-638-CPSC. 


How  to  identify  recalled 
Miniature  Voltron  Lions 


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BANDAI 

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How  to  identify  recalled  Deluxe  Voltron  Lions 


SILVER  STICK-ON  LABEL 
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EMBOSSED  ON  UNDERSIDE 
OF  JAW  OF  LIONS  FORMING 
ARMS  AND  LEGS,  AND 
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YELLOW  LION-LEFT  LEG  , 


EMBOSSING       LABEL 

ASSEMBLED  DELUXE  VOLTRON  LIONS 


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To 

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Brotherhood 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who   recently   received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


EDMONTON,  ALTA. 

Local  1325  recently  presented  service  pins  to 
those  with  many  years  of  service. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  William  Besuijen,  Noel  Douville, 
Borge  Jensen,  Frank  Principe,  and  Ernest 
Levesque. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Eduard  Ehm,  Patrick 
Jordan,  Michael  Panas,  Alex  Kelm,  Wayne  Lee, 
and  Walter  G.  Rosenberger. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Matt  Obrigewitsch,  Gybertus 
Westmaas,  John  Lukash,  Helmut  Krause,  A.  T. 
Mortensen,  and  Walter  Ussyk. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Theo  Schultheiss, 
Arnold  Linder,  Tom  Dornan,  Gordon  Burrell, 
Edmund  Quast,  Earl  Kepke,  Julius  Seifner,  and 
Yrjo  Mantere. 


Edmonton,  Alta.— Picture  No.  1 


Edmonton,  Alta.^Picture  No.  2 


Oklahoma  City,  Okla.— Picture  No.  1 


Oklafioma  City,  Okla.— Picture  No.  2 


Oklahoma  Citi 

^  Okla.— Picture  No.  4 

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OKLAHOMA  CITY,  OKLA. 

Local  329  recently  held  a  pin  awards 
ceremony/dinner  dance  to  honor  members  with 
longstanding  service  to  the  brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  James  W.  Basham  and  Ernest  M.  Moore. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  Leroy  M.  Rider,  Louis  J.  Kennedy,  and 
Eugene  F.  Damron. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Thomas  0.  Cartmill,  Daniel  J. 
Takach,  Man/in  R.  McLin,  Elmer  B.  Hogue,  and 
Frank'J.  Mansfield. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Henry  Baldridge, 
secretary-treasurer,  Oklahoma  State  Council  of 
Carpenters;  J.  R.  Beall;  Leonard  Grail;  Marshall 
R.  Hand;  and  Howard  W.  Ray. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  P.  E.  Brawdy,  Herman  Graber,  Clarence  E. 
Hunter,  and  Edward  Thele. 


Oklahoma 
City,  Okla.— 
Picture  No.  3 


Picture  No.  5  shows  some  50-year 
members,  from  left:  Albert  Thornhill,  assistant 
business  representative;  Henry  Baldridge;  Edgar 
W.  Keel;  and  Robert  Yoachum,  business 
representative. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  50-year  member  T.  L. 
Friend,  right,  receiving  his  watch  from  Business 
Representative  Yoachum. 

Also  honored  but  not  pictured  were:  45-year 
members  E.  Ray  Burgess,  John  B.  Green  Sr., 
Grant  M.  Hamilton,  E.  C.  Lewis,  J.  M. 
McCrory,  A.  E.  Miller,  T.  J.  Noah,  Ralph  D. 
Smith,  E.  R.  Wrinkle,  and  J.  T.  Wyatt;  40-year 
members  Leslie  N.  Bleigh,  V.  J.  Brock,  N.  W. 
Coleman,  C.  A.  Dickson  Sr.,  Henry 
Frankenfield,  I.  L.  Hamilton,  H.  L.  Holsapple, 
N.  B.  Hudson,  Warren  M.  Johnson,  Thomas  P. 
Keathley,  Max  E.  Larson,  Clyde  L.  Modena, 
Lonny  G.  Montgomery,  Frank  Rethford, 
Leonard  Webb,  and  Raymond  V.  Young;  35- 
year  members  Ira  Brown,  J.  L.  Dye,  Earl 


Oklahoma  City,  Okla.— Picture  No.  5 


Oklafioma  City,  Okla.— Picture  No.  6 

Frawner  Sr.,  Jackie  D.  George,  Clarence 
Hilburn,  James  L.  Hughes  Sr.,  R.  D.  Kilpatrick, 
Rudolph  C.  Leek,  James  A.  Little,  Lloyd 
Preston,  and  Raymond  F.  Schultz;  30-year 
members  R.  F.  Allen  and  Luther  H.  Grimmett; 
and  25-year  members  Alfred  M.  Blecha,  Harold 
L.  Jones,  Mollison  T.  Jones,  George  Pettyjohn, 
and  W.  F.  Seiter. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


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Madison,  Wise. — Picture  No.  8 
MADISON,  Wise. 

Local  314  recently  held  an  awards  banquet 
where  longstanding  members  were  presented 
with  service  pins,  Thomas  Hanahan,  general 
executive  board  member  for  the  Third  District, 
was  on  hand  to  present  some  awards. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  Local  314  Business 
Manager  Knute  Larson  and  Board  Member 
Hanahan  with  71-year  member  Jas.  Lendborg. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  General  Representative 
Ron  Stadler  and  Board  Member  Hanahan  with 
60-year  members  Robert  Strenger  and  John 
Ponti. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  Representative  Stadler 
and  Board  Member  Hanahan  with  50-year 
members  Leonard  Boeker  and  Walter  Croft. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  George  Clark,  Clyde  Lange,  Carl 
Nelson,  Glen  Olson,  Edwin  Feller,  and  Eric 
Matteson. 

Back  row,  from  left;  Board  Member  Hanahan, 


Madison, 


-Picture  No. 


Clarence  Lewison,  George  Spoerl,  Eric  Pridoehl, 
Representative  Stadler,  and  Local  President 
Mack  Blomstrom. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  some  40-year 
members,  front  row,  from  left:  Theodore  Bates, 
Everett  Blomstrom,  Fred  Bonzelet,  Vernon 
Brown,  Albert  Danz,  and  Raymond  Faust. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Representative  Stadler, 
Leroy  Herbeck,  Mertin  Dauck,  Business 
Manager  Larson,  President  Blomstrom,  and 
Board  Member  Hanahan. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  more  40-year  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  William  Meyer,  Raymond 
Vernig,  Joseph  Pederacine,  James  Tetzlaff, 
Harold  Jochmann,  and  Theodore  Thielen. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Board  Member  Hanahan, 
Eldon  Stearns,  Michael  Moloney,  Marvin  Torke, 
Representative  Stadler,  Business  Manager 
Larson,  and  President  Blomstrom. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  some  35-year 
members,  front  row,  from  left:  Leon  Slauson, 
Paul  Thering,  Frank  Strmlska,  Milton  Thorpe, 


Gerald  Yelk,  and  Milton  Vandehey. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Leo  Vilbrandt,  Joseph 
Yelk,  Edwin  Wealtl,  August  Straussman, 
Representative  Stadler,  and  President 
Blomstrom. 

Picture  No.  8  shows  more  35-year  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  Donald  Lucey,  Norman 
Pettey,  Jerome  Nordess,  Maurice  Ranum, 
Oscar  Rortvedt,  and  Robert  Simon. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Donald  McCance,  John 
Robertstad,  George  Parks,  Robert  Skolaski, 
President  Blomstrom,  and  Vice  President 
Kenneth  Fischer. 

Picture  No.  9  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Lawrence  Aide,  Arthur 
Anderson,  Charles  Campbell,  John  Haug, 
Mllford  Hellem,  and  Kurt  Hentschel. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Eugene  House, 
President  Blomstrom,  James  Hermanson, 
Representative  Stadler,  Lawrence  Henn,  Paul 
Kapral,  Ernest  Lehman,  and  Business  Manager 
Larson. 


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Lakewood,  Colo  — Picture  No  4 


Lakewood,  Colo. — Picture  No.  5 


Lakewood,  Colo. — Picture  No.  1 

LAKEWOOD,  COLO. 

Golden  Local  1396  recently  held  their  annual 
pin  presentation  at  the  White  Fence  Farm. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  front  row,  from  left; 
50-year  member  IVIartin  Neimes  with  his  wife 
Effie,  and  50-year  member  James  McFall  with  a 
guest. 

Back  row,  from  left:  45-year  member  George 
Pech  with  his  wife  Netra,  and  45-year  member 
Neil  DeKok  and  his  wife  Fern. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  40-year  members  and 
their  guests,  front  row,  from  left;  William  and 
Cathy  McGaughey,  and  Betsy  and  William 
Galloway. 

Back  row,  from  left;  James  and  Nancy 
IVIcFarland,  Bernadine  and  Royal  Jackson,  Helen 
and  Norman  Horvey,  a  guest,  CharlesiPeters, 
Lucille  and  Gerald  Pelzer,  and  W.J.  and  Geri 
Wallachy. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  some  of  the  35-year 
members  and  their  guests,  front  row,  from  left; 
a  guest,  Clarence  Zancanella,  and  Josephine 
and  James  Ortega. 

Back  row,  from  left;  Dorothy  Myers,  Edwin 
Allen,  Jewel  IVIyers,  Edna  Allen,  George 
Henckel,  Ersie  Kitsmiller,  Virginia  Henckel, 
Claude  Kitsmiller,  and  Anton  and  Donna  Zyla. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  more  35-year  members 
and  their  guests,  front  row,  from  left;  Vincent 
Moses,  Viola  Kissell,  and  Mary  and  Virgil  Bird. 

Back  row,  from  left;  George  and  Jeralyn 
Westerhoff,  Donald  and  Dorothy  Schroder, 
Patrick  and  Rose  Callahan,  Joy  and  Edward 
Lutz,  and  Wilton  and  Beulah  Harr. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members  and 
their  guests,  from  left;  Edwin  and  Mae 
Rowland,  Douglas  and  Inge  Miles,  Lloyd  and 


Irene  Mills,  Mike  and  Virginia  Stasevich,  Donald 
and, Joan  Fabrizio,  Roy  and  Irene  Nix,  and  Jerry 
and  Joanna  Aune. 

Picture.  No.  6  shows  25-year  members  and 
their  guests,  from  left;  William  and  Sharon 
Kirts,  Todd  and  Nancy  Suessmith,  Larry  and 
Connie  Grenemyer,  and  Vic  and  Mildred  Raley. 


Lakewood,  Colo, 


Picture  No. 


SACRAMENTO,  CALIF. 

Longstanding  members  of  Local  586  were 
awarded  their  50-year  pins  at  a  recent  meeting. 
The  six  were  presented  with  plaques  and  pins 
by  Local  President  M.B.  Bryant  and  Local 
Financial  Secretary  L.D.  Lansdon. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  50-year  member 
Clarence  E.  Leiby. 

Picture  No.  2  shows,  from  left,  Landson 
with  50-year  members  Edmund  Redgate,  John 
Long,  Victor  Virga,  Laine  Wicksten,  and  Jules 
Decuir,  and  Bryant. 


Oroville,  Calif.— Picture  No.  2 


OROVILLE,  CALIF. 

Local  1240  recently  made  pin  presentations 
to  members  with  25  to  40  years  of  service  to 
the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows 
40-year  member  Grover 
Self. 

Picture  No.  2  shows, 
front  row,  from  left; 
35-year  member  J.  0. 
Wrangham  and  30-year 
member  Chas.  Eddy. 

Back  row,  from  left; 
40-year  members 
Wilber  Nesmith  and  Ed  Wickersham,  and  25- 
year  member  Elwin  Schoeneck. 


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Picture  No.  1 


Correction:  In  our  December  1986  issue.  Axel  Swanson  in 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  Local  1865  was  incorrectly  identified  as  de- 
Sacramento,  ceased.  We  thank  Brother  Swanson  for  his  understanding  of  this 
Calif. —  error.  It  was  one  of  the  Brotherhood's  centenarians  Axel  Larson, 
Picture  No.  1  of  Local  162,  San  Mateo,  Calif.,  who  passed  away  last  year. 


FEBRUARY    1987 


33 


MARTINEZ,  CALIF. 

At  a  recent  gathering,  pin  presentations  were 
made  to  mennbers  of  Local  2046  witli  more 
than  25  years  of  service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  50-year  members,  from 
left:  Tony  Viola,  financial  secretary-treasurer;  A! 
Sangimino;  Leslie  Buck;  Robert  Kellogg;  and 
Frank  Castiglione,  senior  business 
representative. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Wilfred  Cabral,  James  O'Reilly, 
Roy  Van  De  Veer,  Jack  Metez,  Darwin  Millar, 
Lloyd  Miller,  and  Robin  Hornback. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Tony  Nobriga,  Ralph 
Foster,  Theodore  Gibson,  Charles  Allen  Jr.,  and 
Walter  Gerths. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Raymond  Coday,  Alva 
Coday,  Robert  Walker,  Jessie  Oakley,  and  Louis 
Walker. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Delbert  Secrist,  R.  E.  Voss, 
John  Lewis,  and  Theron  Pollard. 


Middle  row,  from  left:  Kenneth  Martens, 
George  Matthews,  Robert  Blikeng,  and  Clarence 
Lindgren. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Charles  Hickman,  Walter 
Reinhardt  Sr.,  Milton  Kotter  (30-year  member), 
Cecil  Smith,  Lawrence  G.  Dates,  and  Leslie  Rowe. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  more  40-year  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  Warren  Almqulst,  Charles 
Carroll,  Sal  Russo,  and  Leo  Marquez. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Hubert  Irons,  James 
Peterson,  Paul  Berg,  Carl  Maxwell,  and  Thomas 
Traughber. 

Back  row,  from  left:  John  Angi,  J.  M. 
Moose,  S.  A.  Roberts,  L.  J.  Silva,  and  Paul 
Miller.  ' 

Picture  No.  5  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Richard  Cannella,  Floyd  Terry, 
Paul  Anderson,  Raymond  Cortez,  Keith  Braga, 
Neno  Bruno,  Peter  Bonanno,  Horace  Costanza, 
Henry  Grenon,  and  Sidney  A.  Burrows. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Ralph  Voss,  Alois 
Schatz,  Ralph  Hiebert  Jr.,  James  DiMaggio  Jr., 
D.  F.  Wortham,  and  Johnny  Wilson. 


Back  row,  from  left:  John  Ryan,  Jerome 
Girolami,  Eugene  Beadleston,  Earl  Crawford  Jr., 
and  John  Batts. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left;  Joe  Cardinalli,  Guy  Ventrice,  and 
Mario  Volpone. 

Second  row,  from  left;  Ray  Winner,  James 
White,  Willie  Garcia,  William  Olsen,  S.  J.  Leal, 
Delbert  Miller,  Sam  Kern,  and  Robert  Reed. 

Third  row,  from  left;  John  Kelly,  James 
Chamberiin,  William  Lamb,  Lawrence  Devall, 
Roy  North,  and  Harvey  Cunningham. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Milton  Kotter,  Bernard 
Theis,  Anthony  Cardenas,  Norman  Jewett, 
Morris  Hillstead,  and  Ove  Floystrup. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Gilbert  Romero,  Frank  Favaloro, 
Clifford  Scares,  and  Randolph  Watson. 

Middle  row,  from  left;  Jasper  Whisler,  Gerald 
Chaney,  Loma  Crider,  Marvin  Terrell,  and  Garry 
Ross. 

Back  row,  from  left:  John  Nourse,  Russell 
Watts,  Elzie  Knecht,  and  David  Wohlwend. 


Martinez,  Calif. — Picture  No.  2 


Martinez,  Calif — Picture  No.  3 


Martinez,  Calif. — Picture  No.  7 
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Martinez,  Calif.— Picture  No.  6 


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Sydney,  N.S.— Picture  No.  1 


Sydney,  N.S.— Picture  No.  2 


Sydney,  N.S.— Picture  No.  3 

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Sydney,  N.S.— Picture  No.  5 


Sydney,  N.S.— Picture  No.  4 

SYDNEY,  N.S. 

Local  1588  recently  hosted  a  dinner  dance 
and  pin  presentation  for  members  with 
longstanding  service. 

During  the  evening  a  plaque  was  presented 
to  Pat  Pertus  by  Donald  Morrison,  in 
recognition  for  his  many  years  as  an  executive 
member  of  the  local. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-  and  30-year 
members,  from  left:  Roger  Goodick,  Creighton 
Bungay,  Everett  Feltmate,  Robert  Mesher,  Fred 
White,  and  Donald  Morrison. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  35-year  members,  from 


left:  Tom  Pratt,  Melvin  Peach,  Edgar  LeBlanc, 
Fergus  Fiynn,  Bill  Hodder,  Howard  Peach,  and 
Sylvester  Jessome. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  Wilfred  Sawlor,  Leslie  Peach,  and  William 
J.  Burke. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Jack  O'Neil,  Leo  Doyle,  Gordon  Peach, 
John  MacLellan,  Calixte  Deveaux,  President 
Robert  LeBlanc,  Edward  Williams,  John  Lynk, 
Alex  Stanley,  Horace  Allen,  Alex  Morrison,  and 
John  Peach. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  Donald  Morrison 
receiving  his  plaque. 


San  Antonio,  Tex. — Picture  No.  3 


SAN  ANTONIO,  TEX. 

Locar  14  recently  awarded  pins  to  members 
with  25,  45,  and  50  years  of  service  to  the 
Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  member  E.W. 
Schomberg. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  25-year  member  John 
E.  Gill. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  25-year  members, 


Santa  Rosa,  Calif. 


San  Antonio,  Tex. 
Picture  No.  1 

seated,  from  left:  Kermit  Simon,  Sam  Wright, 
and  Henry  Sanchez. 

Standing,  from  left:  Richard  R.  Arispe, 
financial  secretary  and  treasurer;  Daniel  M. 
Jackson;  William  J.  Mitchell;  Victor  Riba; 
Richard  D.  Morris,  and  Vernon  L.  Gooden, 
business  representative. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  50-year  member  Paul 
Stroud, 


SANTA  ROSA,  CALIF. 

Local  751  recently  awarded  service  pins  to 
members  with  45  years  in  the  UBC.  Pictured, 
from  left:  Al  Preblich,  Hugh  McName,  Art 
Ellsworth,  Fred  Hanson,  Allan  Stiles,  and  S. 
Lovelace. 


San  Antonio,  Tex. 
Picture  No.  2 


San  Antonio, 
Picture  No.  4 


FEBRUARY     1987 


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Oswego,  N.Y. 
Picture  No.  1 


Oswego,  N.Y. 
Picture  No.  2 


OSWEGO,  N.Y. 

At  the  85th  anniversary  dance  of  Local  747, 
members  with  longstanding  service  were 
awarded  UBC  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  70-year  member  Herb 
Tanner. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  member  Rich 
Castaldo. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  Robert  Rookey,  Sewell  Silvalia,  Harold 
Shurr,  Loyal  Wolven,  and  Jim  Starks. 

Picture  No.  4  also  shows  40-year  members. 


from  left:  Carl  Cullen,  Joe  Bonono,  and  Bill 
Hamilton. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  more  40-year  members, 
from  left:  Joe  IVlorabito,  Charles  Pilon,  and  Paul 
Pontante. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  35-year  member  Fran 
Hoefer. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  35-year  member  Sam 
Ormsby. 

Picture  No.  8  shows  35-year  member 
Charles  Caroccio. 

Picture  No.  9  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Dave  Batchelob  and  Louis  Sereno. 


'.—Picture  No.  3 


Oswego,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  4 


F1 

Oswego,  N.Y. — Picture  No.  5 


Oswego,  N.Y. 
Picture  No.  6 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Local  1  recently  paid  tribute  to  a  member 
with  70  years  of  service  in  the  United 

Brotherhood.  John 


3^^' 


Oswego,  NY. — Picture  No.  9 


ti 


Leibrock,  who  was 
initiated  on  May  5,  1916, 
has  the  oldest  initiation 
date  in  that  local.  A 
special  remembrance  was 
printed  at  the  general 
offices  for  Liebrock  as  a 
token  of  appreciation  for 
his  long  and  loyal 
service. 


Oswego,  N.Y. 
Picture  Uo.  7 


Oswego,  N.Y. 
Picture  No.  8 


The  "Service  To  The  Broth- 
erhood" section  gives  rec- 
ognition to  United  Brother- 
hood members  with  20  or  more 
years  of  service.  Please  iden- 
tify members  carefully,  from 
left  to  right,  printing  or  typing 
the  names  to  ensure  reada- 
bility. Prints  can  be  black  and 
white  or  color  as  long  as  they 
are  sharp  and  in  focus.  Send 
material  to  CARPENTER 
magazine,  101  Constitution 
Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.C. 
20001 


Fresno, 
Calif. 


FRESNO,  CALIF. 

Local  701  recently  presented  service  pins  to 
longstanding  members  of  the  United 
Brotherhood. 

Pictured,  front  row,  from  left:  45-year 
member  Victor  Taylor;  and  40-year  members 
George  Hanoian,  Mel  Ramos,  Reid  McCarter, 
Moses  Nororian,  Ervin  Langston,  and  Ray 
Hampson. 

Back  row,  from  left:  40-year  members 
William  O'Neal,  Veit  Johnson,  and  Lester 
Godbehere;  and  30-year  members  Ben 
Walschots  and  Henry  Miller. 


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CARPENTER 


The  following  list  of  440  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $773,893.27  death  claims  paid  in  November  1986,  (s) 
following  name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members 


Local  Union,  City 

3  Wheeling,  WV— Norma  Jean  Allen  (s),  Richard  H. 
Moore.  Wilford  P.  Rose. 

4  Davenport,  lA — Carl  W.  M.  Sneddon. 

7    Minneapolis,  MN — Edner  Erickson.  Edward  Ro- 

seen.  Eric  H.  Bodin.  Walter  C.  Burandt. 
9    Buffalo,  NY— Edwin  Seeger. 

11  Cleveland,  OH— Gerald  Szabo.  Herman  W.  Gordon. 
Roman  A.  Hummer. 

12  Syracuse,  NY — Edward  Croyle.  Edward  Rufus  Dark. 

13  Chicago,  IL — Edmund  I.  Anderson. 

15  Hackensack,  NJ — Louis  Francis  Semon,  Louis  M. 
Takacs. 

16  Springfield,  IL — Carmelo  Graziano.  Paul  Holt. 
20    New  York,  NY— Allen  Checke,  Herman  Lee. 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Caesar  Gorsi,  Iver  Nelson, 
Ralph  Nelson,  Silvio  J.  Bessone. 

24  Central,  CT— Stanley  C.  Ksiazkowski. 

25  Los  Angeles,  CA— Ernesto  Loya,  Glenn  D.  Wells. 
Louis  A.  C.  Debaca. 

27    Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN— Bruno  Pelliccione. 
34    Oakland,  CA — Marion  Frances  Verbrugge  (s). 
36    Oakland,  CA — Lorraine  J.  Ferguson  (s).  Robert  W. 
Thomas  (s). 

50  Knoxville,  TN — Benjamin  M.  Alford,  Georgia  Alice 
Morgan  (s),  Ina  McNabb  (s). 

51  Boston,  MA— Santo  C.  Brigandi. 

53    While  Plains,  NY— Alva  McKinlay.  Carl  H.  Johnson. 
55    Denver,  CO— Gladys  Louise  Kalanquin  (s). 

60  Indianapolis,  IN— Harry  W.  Webb,  Robert  W.  Ku- 
truff. 

61  Kansas  City,  MO— Brenton  R.  Hall,  Jewell  B.  Davis 
(s). 

64    Louisville,  KY — Florence  Allen  Casey  (s).  Guy  W. 

Nicholson. 
69    Canton,  OH— Harold  Westhafer. 

73  St.  Louis,  MO— John  D.  Spieler,  Lou  Ellen  Taylor 
(s). 

74  Chattanooga,  TN — James  M.  Locke.  James  W.  Hud- 
son, Paul  M.  Glass,  William  M.  Riddle. 

80  Chicago,  II^Marie  1.  Haydon  (s),  William  J.  Groh. 

83  Halifax,  N.S.,  CAN— Stephen  Henry  Legge. 

90  Evansville,  IN— Albert  J.  Kissel,  Nobel  Enlow. 

94  Providence,  Rl — William  Panciera. 

98  Spokane,  WA— Ralph  S.  Moore. 

100  Muskegon,  MI — Robert  Tracy. 

101  Baltimore,  MD— Dean  J.  Gardner.  Robert  E.  Rat- 
cliff. 

103    Birmingham,  AL — Donald  Davis,  Eva  Lee  Hobson 

(si,  Ralph  Garren. 
105    Cleveland,  OH — Edward  Judice,  John  M.  Preseren. 
108    Springfield,  MA — Eugene  O.  Boulanger. 
110    St,  Joseph,  MO — Doyle  Blanton,  Fred  Lee  Wiseman. 
114    East  Detroit,  MI — Alva  L.  Samsell,  Sr..  Sebastiana 

Baffo.  Willie  Pearl  Huntsberry  (si. 
118    Detroit,  MI— Charles  Roberts.  James  Koss,  William 

H.  Jones. 

120  Utica,  NY— Jeannette  L.  Decarlo  (s). 

121  Vineland,  NJ— Aurelia  H.  Mattle  (si. 

123  Broward-County,  FL — Charles  E.  Mentz.  Leo  Mark, 
Lester  C.  Radcliffe.  Virgil  M.  Britton. 

124  Passaic,  NJ — John  Turasik,  Sidney  Bergsma. 

125  Miami,  FI^Bernard  Troklus.  Ralph  Crabtree.  Wal- 
ter C.  Behrmann. 

128    St.  Albans,  WV— Gladys  Ruby  Lilly  (s). 

130  Palm  Beach,  FL — Allan  A.  Cameron.  Erick  S.  Jaak- 
kola,  James  E.  Lynch,  James  L.  Lawlor.  Oscar 
Clarli  Weaver. 

131  Seattle,  WA— Peter  Majewski. 

135  New  York,  NY— Heimo  A.  Riultala. 

142  Pittsburgh,  PA — Frank  J.  Fanelli,  Vincent  Merlino. 

144  Macon,  GA — Henry  J.  Loyd, 

161  Kenosha,  Wl— Eligio  Bianchi. 

163  Peekskill,  NY— John  J.  Arnica. 

165  Pittsburgh,  PA — Fortunala  Lora  Colaizzi  (s). 

166  Rock  Island,  IL — Jay  D.  Klemmer. 

171  Youngslown,  OH — Chester  Kocinski,  John  G.  Toth. 

182  Cleveland,  OH— Paul  E.  Kinnunen,  William  Lehr. 

183  Peoria,  11^ Arnold  V.  McCarey. 
188  Yonkers,  NY— Herman  Rapp. 

198    Dallas,  TX— Carlton  Y.  Godwin,  Joseph  C.  Little. 
200    Columbus,  OH— Millie  E.  Landis  (si.  S.  Jalmari 
Virta. 

202  Gulfport.  MS— Merrell  Curtis  Parker. 

203  Poughkeepsie,  NY — Edward  Petty. 

210  Stamford,  CT— Frank  E.  Mills.  Ray  S.  Lucas. 

211  Pittsburgh,  PA— John  Tobias. 

218  Boston,  MA — Catherine  Prizio  (s).  James  V.  Simp- 
son, Julius  Lux. 

222  Washington,  IN — Gervase  A.  Grannan.  Irwin  R. 
Stearns. 

242    Chicago,  IL — Joseph  Schaller. 

246  New  York,  NY — Erich  Blachetia,  Pasquale  Abbruz- 
zese. 

250  Waukcgan,  IL — Herbert  J.  Reiker,  Joan  C.  Sandri 
(s),  Ralph  H.  Bederskc. 

255  Bloomingburg,  NY — Albert  H.  Bronner. 

256  Savannah,  GA — Benjamin  H.  Ridgdill. 

259  Jackson,  TN— Wilmoth  Ernest  McKinnie. 

260  Berkshire  Cnly.,  MA — Conrad  E.  Holmberg. 

261  Scranton,  PA — John  Grum. 

264     Milwaukee,  WI— Arnold  Nagel,  Richard  H.  Schill- 
ing, 
268    Sharon,  PA— Dudley  T.  Wentz.  Edward  J.  Sitterle. 


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Danville,  II^Austin  C.  Thomen.  Charles  G.  Ha- 
worth. 

Chicago  Hgl.,  Il^William  B.  Moore. 
Augusta,  GA — William  B.  Hodges. 
Collinsville.  IL — Virgil  K.  Robinson. 
Denison,  TX — Alma  Bussell. 
Joplin,  MI — Laura  A.  Boaz  (s). 
Pullman,  WA — Joy  M.  Schumacher  (s). 
San  Jose,  CA — Avis  McCoy  (s),  Joseph  Burriesci, 
Joseph  R.  Nevarez. 
Beacon,  NY — Francis  Mayen. 
Oklahoma  City,  OK — James  Patrick  Thompson,  Lu- 
cille Newby  (si. 

Saginaw,  MI — Juan  Martinez,  Sophia  Larose  (s). 
Seattle,  WA— Helen  Rose  Walt  (si. 
New  York,  NY— Albert  Philipbar. 
Marietta,  OH— Betty  K.  Brooks  (si,  James  D.  Bell. 
Duluth,  MN — Nels  O.  Wennberg,  Roy  E,  Johnson. 
Elgin,  IL — Albert  Flentge,  Eric  Peterson,  Harriet 
L.  Nelson  (s). 

Albany,  NY — Francis  Shepperdson.  Harold  Ogden. 
Alton,  IL — Percy  L.  Kortkamp,  Urban  E.  Sibley. 
Omaha,  NE — Hugh  T.  Jones. 
Lake  Co.,  OH — Marian  Theresa  Panuzzo  (si. 
South  Bend,  IN — Robert  Lee  Jones. 
Hingham,  MA — Verge  Seigel  Wagner. 
Portsmouth.  OH — Robert  H.  Amburgey. 
Vancouver,  B.C.  CAN — Ernest  Mann. 
Philadelphia,  PA— Clifford  E.  Morgan. 
Somerville,  NJ — Ada  Cressy  (s}. 
Chester  County,  PA — Frank  Lichtfuss. 
Ashland,  KY— Clyde  E.  Clark. 
San  Francisco,  CA — William  N.  Howell. 
Windsor,  Out.,  CAN— Silvio  Pettovel. 
Leavenworth,  KS— Virgil  C.  Whitworth. 
Butler,  PA— Henry  O.  Koester.  Paul  W.  Lewis. 
Colorado  Springs,  CO — Donald  E.  Smith. 
New  York,  NY — Giuseppe  Affinito. 
Concord,  NH — Felix  Pencence. 
Baltimore,  MD — Doris  L.  Marshall  (s). 
Minneapolis,  MN — Alvin  C.  Kuchenbacker. 
Elmhurst,  IL — Raymond  F.  Sipple. 
Glendale,  CA— Lula  Yeakley  (s).  Maude  Clair  Bahr- 
man  (si,  Vern  Leroy  Halvorson. 
St.  John,  N.F.,  CAN— Albert  Bussey. 
Sacramento,  CA — Clarence  D.  Jones.  Raymond  H. 
Jensen.  Samuel  C.  Simmons. 
Lynn,  MA — Denis  Amirault. 
SI.  Paul,  MN— Norbert  T.  Kerkvliet. 
Morganlown,  WV — John  R.  Conaway. 
Va.  Eveleth,  MN — Anton  Haugen. 
Hampton  Roads,  VA — John  B.  Larsen. 
Madison,  NJ — Christopher  Lynch. 
Wilmington,  DE^Donald  R.  McFarland,  Harry  J. 
Candler,  Sr.,  Jason  C.  Taylor. 
Boise,  ID— Helen  Marie  Wilmeth  (s). 
Ml.  Vernon,  IL — Emmitt  Conley. 
Akron,  OH— H.   B.   Shoemaker.   Irwin,  R.   Dye. 
Robert  L,  Cockrell. 

Richmond,   CA — Alexander   Martz,   Eino  Adolph 
Ryosa. 

Amarillo,  TX — Bessie  Melton  (s).  Irma  Dean  Ham- 
ilton (s). 

Pala  Alto,  CA— Robert  R.  Wright. 
Toronto,  Onl„  CAN— Daniel  Joseph  Plante. 
Little  Rock,  AR— Debra  Kay  Russell  (si.  Theodore 
J.  Oehrlie. 

Lockland,  OH — Victoria  Brunke  (si. 
Olalhe,  KS — Joseph  J.  Groszek. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Cesaria  Sintich  (s).  Curt  Richter, 
Cyril  Robinson.  Ernest  E.  Turney.  Marvin  Hesbol. 
Sr. 

Davenport,  lA — Lester  J.  Noble. 
Bakersfield,  CA— Fletcher  G.  Hallstrom. 
Honolulu,  HI — Masajiro  Ishihara 
Santa  Rosa,  CA — Arthur  Hanson,  George  Altherr, 
Michael  Weeks. 

Beaumont,  TX — Thomas  P.  Eddy. 
Shreveport,  LA — Cora  Lee  Guilliams  (si. 
Yakima,  WA — Jean  Margaret  Loop(s),  Olin  D.  Hill. 
Sioux  Falls,  SD— Lester  Sterling. 
Rockford,  IL — John  L.  Gostol,  Lawrence  Triplett. 
Wise  Rapids.  Wl— Rudolph  Molter. 
Santa  Cruz,  CA— Robert  H.  Allan. 
Des  Plaines,  IL — John  C.  Mollenkamp. 
Canoga  Park.  CA — Arthur  F.   Hovious,  Eric  O. 
Olson. 

San  Bruno,  CA — Adolph  Coruccini,  Margaret  Wen- 
din  (si. 

Anoka,  MN — Richard  G.  Thomsen. 
Tucson,  AZ — Lawrence  Lee,  William  M.  Shcehy, 
Jr. 

Cincinnati,  OH— Shirley  A.  Kabbes  (s). 
Hopkins,  MN — Geraldine  R.  Jacobsen  (s). 
Jacksonville,  IL — Jesse  Leo  Beasley. 
Kalispell,  MT— Hazel  E.  Smith  (s). 
Salinas,  CA — James  R.  Tutt,  Lee  Long. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Jess  R.  Bradshaw. 
Rockland  Co.,  NY— Archie  G.  Holl.  Reba  V.  Lhomme 
(s). 

Texas  City,  TX— August  Osterholm.  Edith  H.  Ur- 
baucr  (si. 
Wichita  Falls,  TX— Estes  L.  Smith. 


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Springfield,  MO — Herschel  E.  Bacon. 
Petaluma,  CA — Ira  Mae  Sides  (s). 
Chicago,  II^Thaddeus  R.  Kita. 
Plattsburgh,  NY — George  A.  Laforest. 
Gary,  IN — George  C.  Sowards. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Thelma  Dirocco  (s). 
Milwaukee,  WI — John  Romagnino. 
Lincoln,  NE — Harold  F.  Sherman. 
Santa  Barbara,  CA— Orville  E.  Brady. 
Eau  Claire,  WI— John  G.  Grzyb. 
Phoenix,  AZ— Willie  T.  Basham. 
Albany  Corvallis,  OR — Susie  Lillian  Kammerer  (si. 
Baton  Rouge,  LA — Frank  E.   Williams.  Louis  H. 
Hudson. 

Flagstaff,  AZ^Harley  C.  Milner,  Riley  Roberds. 
Detroit,  MI— Biliie  J.  Woods. 
Tyler,  TX— Helen  Florene  Beard  (s). 
Cleveland,  OH — George  Miller,  Jeffrey  H.  Franz, 
John  Mitro,  Louis  Pay,  Michael  Flynn,  Paul  Petlo- 
wany. 

San  Bernardino,  CA — Emil  G.  Gales. 
S.  Milwaukee,  WI — Jacob  M.  Haase. 
San  Pedro,  CA— Lester  P.  Watson. 
Rochester,  NY— Anna  C.  Allisat  (si. 
New  York,  NY — Joseph  Haczka,  Kurt  Grigo. 
Fargo,  ND— Henry  Bell. 
Chicago,  IL — Marion  A.  Finucane  (si. 
Medford,  NY— Edmont  J.  Remski. 
Austin,  TX — Helen  Grace  Syme  (si.  Walter  A.  Jones. 
Decatur,  AL — Verona  Lillian  Bailes  (si. 
Bend,  OR— Emil  Hugo  Wirch. 
Gainesville,  FL — John  H.  Pearson,  Jr. 
Anchorage,  AK — Martin  C.  Larsen. 
Fall  River,  MA — Grace  Quenlal  (si. 
Albuquerque,  NM — Fillmore  Roach. 
Edmonton,  Alia,  CAN— Wilfred  S.  Halletl. 
Baytown,  TX — Adela  Anna  McManus  (s).  Ambrets 
W.  Gray. 

Charlottetown  Pei,  CAN — Lincoln  Ross. 
Owensboro,  KV — Charles  T.  Lanham. 
Irvington,  NJ — Anna  Sardo  (si,  Giovanna  A.  Bel- 
lomo  (s). 

Buffalo,  NY— Theodore  Strzalka. 
Gadsden,  AL— Clifford  E.  Odell. 
Toledo,  OH— Pauline  Patterson  (si. 
North  Hempstad,  NY — Louis  Menne.  Nancy  Mar- 
cello  (si,  Peter  Andon. 
Halifax,  NS,  CAN — Maurice  Peter  Doucetle. 
Redwood  City,  CA— William  N.  Link. 
Greenwood,  MS — Peter  G.  Williams.  Sr. 
Kingston,  ONT,  CAN— Dalton  R.  Sadler. 
Lodi,  CA— Howard  B.  Hall. 
Corpus  Christie,  TX — Atilano  H.  Gonzales.  Robert 
M.  Lewis. 

Compton,  CA — Curtis  M.  Lane. 
Warren,  OH— John  H.  Piatt. 
Winnipeg  MANI,  CAN— Heinrich  Vogt. 
Lansing,  MI — Lloyd  J.  Matlson. 
Huntington  Beach,  CA — Richard  L.  Nelson.  Robert 
O,  Botkin.  Jr. 

Cincinnati,  OH — Ervin  Hebel,  Robert  Borne. 
New  York,  NY — Stanley  Hagen. 
Traverse  City,  Mi — Joseph  Rosinski. 
Redondo,  CA — Martin  E.  Forlson. 
La  Porte,  IN — Harold  Bruemmer. 
Burlington,  VT — Achille  Therrien. 
E  Los  Angeles,  CA — Clarence  Townsend. 
Provo,  LT— Stanley  J.  Ness. 
El  Monte,  CA— Ralph  Collins 

Kansas  Citv.  KS — John  J.  Gulh.  Marilyn  Dougan 
(si.  William'  C.  Clifton. 
Wilmington.  DE— Richard  M.  Scoll, 
Napoleon,  OH — Genevieve  I.  Peters  (s),  Joyce  Ann 
Moore  (si. 

Englewood,  CO — Harold  E.  Sundquist. 
Svdnev  NS,  CAN— John  R.  Morrison, 
Victoria  BC,  CAN— Ole  Jacobson, 
Grand  Rapids,  MI — Adolph  Siemion. 
S  Luis  Obispo.  CA — Roy  Gearing. 
Kansas  City,  MO — Franklin  D.  Furey. 
Naples,  FI^-Brenda  Sue  Gessmann  (si,  Elton  M. 
Davidson.  Geneva  Scribner  (si. 
Lexington,  KY — Ira  Edwards. 
Alexandria,  VA — Joseph  A.  Miller. 
Ft  William,  ONT,  CAN— Lome  Pugh. 
Melbourne-Daylona  Beach,  FL — Lee  H.  Whitley. 
Vancouver,  WA — Rosanne  G.  Thomas  (si. 
Marshfteld,  WI— Edward  J.  Wenzel.  Frank  A.  Lei- 
chey.  John  H.  Schalow.  Louis  H.  Herkert.  William 
J,  Zinthefer, 

Cleveland,  OH— Walter  V.  Bruno. 
Pomona,  CA — Ben  A.  Hesemann.  John  M.  Miles. 
Columbia,  SC— Lacy  C.  Wise. 
Monroe,  LA — Frank  L.  Burroughs.  Sr..  Malroy  O. 
Mayer. 

Fori  Worth,  TX— Monroe  E.  Wilcox. 
Snoqualm  Fall,  WA— Rena  A,  Sayah  (s). 
New  Orleans,  LA — George  L.  Ducombs,  Vernon  E, 
Hansel. 

Bryan,  TX — Sven  Ewald  Swanson. 
Philadelphia,  PA— Helene  Schaffling  (si. 
Milpilas,  CA— Emilc  L.  Plise. 
Campbl  Riv,  BC  CAN— Sidney  Bourdon. 
Clinton,  MO — Eriing  Johnson. 


FEBRUARY     1987 


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Local  Union.  City 

1916    Hamilton  ONT,  CAN— George  Roy  Israel. 

1931     New  Orleans,  LA— Clarence  J.  Casey,  Sr.,  Joy  P. 

Sallalamacchia  (s). 
1953    Warrensburg,  MO — Irvin  A.  Lynde. 
1959     Riverside,  CA— Edwin  Collins. 

1961  Roseburg,  OR— Paul  G.  Prudler. 

1962  Las  Cruces,  NM — Eugenia  O.  Gonzalez  (s),  Wylie 
W.  Cathey. 

2018  Ocean  County,  NJ— Alvin  L.  Lewis. 

2020  San  Diego,  CA— Harold  Mendenhall. 

2046  Martinez,  CA — Lawrence  P.  Larsen,  Sr. 

2047  Hartford  City,  IN— George  Wright,  Raymond  Bole. 
2078  Vista,  CA — Bennic  R.  Mosher,  Laurenza  DuBois 

(si. 
2112    Antigo,  WI— Francis  Schmidt. 
2164    San  Francisco,  CA — ArthurB.  Fabian,  James  J.  Hill. 
2168    Boston,  MA— Merle  D.  Collier,  William  John  J. 

Tully. 
2172     Santa  Ana,  CA— Edward  J.  Wenski. 
2182    Montreal  QUE,  CAN— Nicole  Briere  (s). 
2203     Anaheim,  CA— Peter  Matson. 
2205     Wenatchee,  WA— Mary  E.  Morgan  (s). 
2232     Houston,  TX— Darrell  Austin  Davis. 
2274    Pittsburgh,  PA— John  R.  Cramer,  Meryl  E.  While, 

William  L.  Hann. 
2279    Lawrence,  KS — Howard  W.  Linneman. 

2287  New  York,  NY— Albert  Danelius. 

2288  Los  Angeles,  CA — Alfonso  Berru.  Sr..  Ignacio  C. 
Ocampo,  Velma  E.  Lantz  (s). 

2308  FulJerton,  CA— Donald  R.  Vannatta. 

2309  Toronto  ONT,  CAN— June  Veronica  Edwards  (s). 
2396    Seattle,  WA— Arne  Bendickson. 

2398  El  Cajon,  CA— Elohia  Lopez  (s). 

2416  Portland,  OR— William  J.  Finucane. 

2435  Inglewood,  CA — George  C.  Watson. 

2461  Cleveland,  TN— Kathy  Sue  Thompson  (s). 

2486  Sudbury  ONT,  CAN— Marjatla  Mattson  (si. 

2554  Lebanon,  OR — Benjamin  Franklin  Shurts. 

2734  Mobile  Vic  AL — Ferdinand  Miles  Koppersmith. 

2755  Kalama,  WA— Charles  R.  Stalder. 

2784  Coquille,  OR— Barry  L.  Reeves. 

2817  Quebec  QUE,  CAN — Fernand  Francoeur,  Maurice 

Mongrain. 

2819  New  York,  NY— Anthony  Mancuso. 

2881  Portland,  OR— Gustav  Erickson. 

2942  Albany,  OR— William  N.  Parks. 

2947  New  York,  NY— Alfio  Barbera,  Cosmo  Falcone. 

2949  Roseburg,  OR— June  Irene  Trent  (s). 

2993  Franklin,  IN— Radford  W.  Holland. 

2995  Kapuskasng  ONT,  CAN— Hector  Levasseur. 

3054  London  ONT,  CAN— Daniel  J.  Roger. 

3127  New  York,  NY — Leonides  Nieves  Rivera. 

3148  Memphis,  TN— Cathey  William  Locke. 

3161  Maywood,  CA — Carmen  A.  Medina  (s),  Pasqual 

Medina. 

7000  Province  of  Quebec  LCL  134-2— Adrienne  Bertrand. 

Conrad  Payant,  Rejeanne  Laroche  (s).  Tommy  Gray. 


OVERHEARD  ON  A 
CONSTRUCTION  JOB 


"Be  sharp,"  said  the  tack. 

"But,  drive  an  honest  bargain," 
said  the  hammer. 

"Be  square  and  on  the  level,"  cho- 
rused two  familiar  voices. 

"Hold  your  temper,"  said  the  knife. 

"Keep  your  wits  whetted,"  said 
the  file. 

"But,  don't  grate  on  other  people," 
advised  the  rasp. 

"It  is  better  to  smooth  the  way  for 
them,"  suggested  the  plane. 

"Hold  fast  to  all  you  get,"  spoke 
the  vise. 

"But,  don't  be  too  grasping,"  ad- 
vised the  pinchers. 

"Hew  to  the  line,"  remarked  the 
saw. 

"Screw  up  your  courage,"  coun- 
selled the  screwdriver. 

"And  turn  your  difficulties  into  vic- 
tories," said  the  wrench. 

"Carve  out  your  own  destiny," 
advised  the  chisel. 


— submitted  by  Philip  Johnson,  Car- 
penters Local  958,  Marquette,  Mich. 


Shareholder  Rights 

Continued  from  Page  4 

order  to  ensure  that  the  voices  of  work- 
ers, as  corporate  owners,  are  heartj  in 
the  corporate  decision-making  process. 
Better  monitoring  of  the  voting  prac- 
tices of  fund  managers  handling  pension 
funds  is  a  starting  point.  Money  man- 
agers and  others  with  voting  rights  re- 
sponsibilities for  worker  pension  funds 
must  be  made  to  justify  voting  deci- 
sions. 'New  avenues  for  nonmanage- 
ment  shareholders,  such  as  pension 
funds,  to  raise  important  corporate  is- 
sues must  also  be  created.  More  im- 
portantly though,  the  basic  voting  rights 
of  corporate  shareholders  which  are 
now  under  attack  by  corporate  man- 
agements must  be  protected. 

Worker  Pension  Funds 

UBC  members  participate  in  Taft- 
Hartley  pension  funds  and  welfare  plans 
with  assets  approaching  $9  billion  dol- 
lars, and  as  such  are  major  holders  of 
corporate  stock.  These  funds  are  part 
of  the  total  universe  of  worker  pension 
funds  that  totals  nearly  $1.6  trillion 
dollars.  These  worker 
pension  funds  fall  into 
three  basic  categories: 
(1)  Taft-Hartley  joint- 
trusteed  plans;  (2)  public 
employee  pension  funds, 
and  (3)  corporate  plans. 

The  Taft-Hartley  seg- 
ment of  worker  funds  is 
composed  primarily  of 
Building  Trades'  pen- 
sion funds  and  Teamster 
funds.  Several-other  ma- 
jor unions  have  a  limited 
number  of  Taft-Hartley 
funds.         Taft-Hartley 


funds  are  joint-trusteed,  affording  union 
representatives  a  good  opportunity  to 
exercise  considerable  influence  in  the 
selection  of  fund  managers  and  partic- 
ular investments.  Public  employer  pen- 
sion funds  are  characterized  by  boards 
of  trustees  representing  employees, 
management  and  public  interests,  mak- 
ing it  more  difficult  to  influence  plan 
investment  and  voting  decisions.  Cor- 
poration pension  plans,  which  in  a  ma- 
jority of  instances  are  collectively-bar- 
gained plans  on  which  no  worker 
representatives  serve  as  fund  trustees, 
are  effectively  controlled  by  the  com- 
panies sponsoring  the  plans.  Industrial 
unions,  whose  members  are  typically 
covered  by  these  plans,  have  at  times 
attempted  to  secure  trustee  positions 
on  the  plans  during  collective  bargain- 
ing. 

The  accompanying  chart  indicates 
the  amount  of  assets  held  by  each  group 
of  pension  funds.  The  common  feature 
of  these  funds  is  that  the  plan  assets 
are  the  retirement  income  of  workers 
and  in  the  coming  years  will  hold  the 
balance  of  power  in  corporate  America. 


The  UBC's  views  were  delivered  to  the  SEC  Commis- 
sioners by  Ed  Durkin.  director  of  the  Brotherhood' s 
special  programs  department .  second  from  left.  Also 
testifying,  from  the  left,  were  Greta  E.  Marshall,  invest- 
ment manager  for  the  California  Public  Employees  Re- 
tirement Program:  James  E.  Heard,  deputy  director. 
Investor  Responsibility  Research  Center;  and  Kenneth 
Codlin,  executive  director  of  the  State  of  Wisconsin 
Investment  Board. 


What  Would  You  Buy? 

Continued  from  Page  30 

Here  is  how  those  who  opted  for  a 
European  vacation  were  divided:  Eng- 
land and  Ireland  (4%),  Italy  (3%),  France 
(2%),  Germany  (2%),  all  other  Euro- 
pean countries  (8%).  As  for  the  rest  of 
the  world,  6%  picked  the  South  Pacific, 
followed  by  the  Caribbean  (5%),  the 
Orient  (4%),  Canada  (3%),  Africa  (2%), 
South  and  Central  America  (2%),  and 
the  Middle  East  (1%).  Five  percent  said 
they  preferred  not  to  travel  anywhere. 

What  type  of  investment  do  you  con- 
sider tlie  safest? 

Real  estate,  which  was  first  on  the 
list,  was  chosen  by  28%  of  the  respond- 
ents. Next  came  government-secured 
bonds  (13%),  savings  accounts  (11%), 
individual   retirement  accounts   (8%), 


certificates  of  deposit  (6%),  stocks  (3%), 
mutual  funds  (2%),  and  gold  (1%). 

What  type  of  investment  do  you  con- 
sider the  risltiest? 

"There  was  no  contest  here,"  Ms. 
Sekac  noted:  42%  said  that  stocks  had 
the  highest  risk  factor,  not-so-closely 
followed  by  oil  (5%),  real  estate  (5%), 
buying  a  business  (4%),  savings  ac- 
counts (3%),  and  commodities  (2%). 

Ms.  Sekac  said  one  question  was 
designed  to  measure  attitudes  toward 
tax  revision: 

Do  you  believe  you  will  be  paying  more 
in  federal  taxes,  less,  or  about  the  same? 

"Many  people  believe  they  will  have 
less  money  with  which  to  make  pur- 
chases or  take  vacations,"  she  said, 
noting  that,  while  30%  feel  they  will 
pay  the  same  and  11%  think  their  taxes 
will  be  lower,  49%  are  convinced  that 
they  will  have  to  pay  more.  JJrjfj 


38 


CARPENTER 


FASTER  FLAT  BIT 


SIDE  STEPPER 


Auto  and  truck  manufacturers  no  longer 
add  running  boards  to  the  sides  of  vehicles 
coming  off  the  assembly  lines,  and  there  are 
times  when  you'd  like  to  "get  a  leg  up"  on 
the  side  of  your  pickup  or  your  van. 

A  backyard  inventor  named  Ralph  Walters 
of  Meridian,  Miss.,  got  tired  of  trying  to 
reach  up  into  the  cargo  area  of  his  pickup, 
scratching  the  paint  with  his  belt  buckle,  and 
scraping  his  ribs  on  the  side  panels,  so  he 
made  a  set  of  steps  and  installed  it  on  each 
side  of  his  truck. 

Now  Walters  and  four  local  investors  have 
formed  RPM  Products  Inc.,  and  they  are 
marketing  the  Sidestepper.  Made  of  heavy- 
duty,  extruded,  rust-proof  aluminum,  the 
Sidestepper  comes  in  four  lengths — 10",  16", 
24",  and  30".  You  can  gel  the  Sidestepper  in 
anodized  colors.  For  example,  a  black  pickup 
might  take  a  gold  step  with  a  silver  diamond- 
tread  step  plate.  Installation,  we  are  told,  is 
simple 

For  more  information:  RPM  Products  Inc., 
P.O.  Box  4420,  Meridian,  MS  39304  or 
telephone  (601)  483-3643.  There  might  be  a 
local  distributor. 


INDEX  OF  ADVERTISERS 

Calculated  Industries 26 

Clifton  Enterprises 21 

Estwing  Manufacturing  Co 39 

Foley-Belsaw 18 

Nail-King  Enterprises 21 

Vaughan  &  Bushnell 27 


The  Irwin  Co.  has  introduced  the  Speed- 
bor®  2000  flat  bit.  The  new  electric  drill 
wood  bit  will  bore  twice  as  fast  and  last 
three  times  as  long  as  conventional  flat  bits, 
according  to  the  manufacturer. 

With  a  patented  new  design,  the  Speedbor 
2000  features  a  micro-grooved  point  and 
extended  spurs  on  the  cutting  edge.  These 
elements  enhance  the  longevity  of  the  bit 
and  allow  for  faster,  cleaner  boring. 

The  Speedbor  2000  comes  pouched  and  is 
available  in  17  sizes,  ranging  from  'A  inch 
to  lYz  inches. 

The  Irwin  Co.  pioneered  the  development 
of  the  flat  bit  under  the  name  Speedbor®  88 
and  Speedbor®  "88-Plus." 

For  more  information  about  the  Speedbor 
2000,  contact  Pat  Payne,  product  manager, 
Hole  Boring  Tools,  The  Irwin  Co.,  92  Grant 
Street,  Wilmington,  Ohio  45177,  or  call  (513) 
382-3811. 

CEMENT  SLATE 


Eternit,  the  world's  largest  manufacturer 
of  mineral-fiber  reinforced  cement  panels, 
has  announced  the  introduction  of  a  rigid, 
fiber-reinforced  cement  slate.  These  archi- 
tectural roofing  slates  are  non-combustible 
and  contain  no  asbestos.  They  are  appro- 
priate for  new  construction  as  well  as  re- 
modeling. The  blue-black  slates  can  also  be 
used  for  fascias,  mansards,  and  facades. 
They  enhance  both  residential  and  commer- 
cial structures.  The  slates,  available  in  either 
a  smooth  or  textured  finish,  carry  a  30-year, 
non-prorated  warranty. 

Call  or  write  for  a  color  brochure:  Eternit 
Inc.,  Village  Center  Drive,  Reading,  PA 
19607.  1-800-233-3155  (In  PA  215-777-0100). 


NOTE:  A  report  on  new  products  and  processes 
on  this  page  in  no  way  constitutes  an  endorsement 
or  recommendation.  All  performance  claims  are 
based  on  statements  by  the  manufacturers. 


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FEBRUARY     1987 


39 


Poverty,  Idleness, 
Drugs,  Crime, 
Or  Paying  Jobs? 


A  child  learns  moral  and 
social  values  in  a  happy, 
economically  secure  family 


From  time  to  time  I've  read  that  certain 
sociologists  and  psychologists  say  that  there 
is  no  connection  between  poverty  and  crime, 
that  people  are  going  to  commit  crimes  in 
good  times  and  in  bad  times.  It's  in  the  genes, 
some  say. 

I'm  not  sure  I  agree  with  that. 

I  don't  have  the  statistics  in  front  of  me,  so 
I  don't  know  how  today's  crime  statistics 
compare  with  those  of  the  1950s  and  the  1960s 
when  we  had  relatively  good  economic  con- 
ditions and  less  poverty,  but  we  are  told  by 
the  U.S.  Department  of  Justice  that  today  25% 
of  American  households — one  out  of  every 
four — is  "touched  by  crime"  each  year.  This 
might  be  through  car  thefts,  burglaries,  lar- 
ceny, or  any  number  of  violent  crimes.  These 
crimes  touch  households  of  all  races,  we're 
told.  In  fact,  in  1985  (the  most  recent  year  for 
such  statistics)  26.5%  of  black  households 
were  affected,  and  24.8%  of  white  households 
were  affected. 

That's  a  sad  commentary  on  social  condi- 
tions and  law  and  order  in  America. 

Abraham  Lincoln  once  said  that,  inevitably, 
we'd  always  have  some  poor  people  among 
us.  In  the  same  way,  I  suppose  mankind  will 
always  have  some  criminal  elements. 

When  I  was  growing  up  in  New  York  City 
back  in  the  1920s  and  1930s  there  were  places 
like  the  Lower  East  Side  and  Hell's  Kitchen 
that  you  walked  through  very  carefully.  Today 
there  are  areas  in  the  Bronx  and  Harlem  where 
you  wouldn't  be  alone  on  a  dark  street  or  up 
an  alley  at  many  times  of  the  day.  Other  cities 


have  other  areas  of  high  crime.  According  to 
a  popular  song,  "Mac  the  Knife"  hung  out  on 
the  south  side  of  Chicago.  There  used  to  be 
an  expression:  "He  was  born  on  the  wrong 
side  of  the  tracks." 

In  each  case,  the  notorious  crime  area  was 
also  an  area  of  relative  poverty.  It  certainly 
wasn't  Westchester,  Oak  Park,  or  Nob  Hill. 

My  point  is  that,  regardless  of  what  some 
sociologists  and  psychologists  contend,  pov- 
erty breeds  crime.  Idleness  among  the  able- 
bodied  young  men  in  our  inner  cities  breeds 
crime.  Unfortunately,  this  idleness,  com- 
pounded by  the  availability  of  drugs,  breeds 
increased  crime. 

The  situation  is  also  complicated  today  by 
the  fact  that  our  penitentiaries  are  bursting  at 
the  walls  with  inmates — bitter,  hardened  crim- 
inals who  are  not  being  rehabilitated  and  may 
never  be.  In  many  courts  of  the  land,  the 
dockets  are  so  crowded  that  many  who  are 
charged  with  petty  crimes  are  released  through 
plea  bargaining  and  probation  and  may  never 
be  penalized  for  their  crimes  and  misdemean- 
ors. 

One  conservative  writer  recently  suggested 
that  poverty  is  not  the  root  cause  of  crime 
and  that  the  opposite  is  true  .  .  .  that  crime 
breeds  poverty.  I  would  certainly  agree  that 
the  person  whose  welfare  check  is  stolen 
becomes  poorer.  And  I  agree  that  the  man 
who  robs  because  he  has  a  $100-a-day  heroin 
habit  is  certainly  a  deprived  individual,  and 
poor  in  every  sense  of  the  word.  In  the  long 
run,  job  creation  is  more  important  in  reducing 
poverty  than  additional  and  costly  police  pro- 
tection in  the  inner  cities. 

I  will  concede  that  some  measures  taken  to 
reduce  poverty  have  not  worked.  Some  public 
housing  and  "model  cities"  programs  of  the 
past  have  become  graffiti-covered  slums. 

In  a  publication  called  Policy  Review  the 
National  Institute  of  Justice  describes  the 
deterioration  of  a  neighborhood  into  poverty 
and  crime: 

Neighborhood  deterioration  usually  starts 
with  an  increased  sense  of  vulnerability. 
Commerce  slows;  people  stay  off  the  streets 
in  the  evening,  alarms  and  window  bars 
proliferate,  going-out-of-business  sales  in- 


crease,  while  the  quality  of  merchandise 
declines  and  prices  rise.  Buildings  get  shab- 
bier and  some  are  abandoned.  Investments 
and  loans  dry  up.  Disorderly  street  behavior 
increases.  Those  who  can  afford  it  move 
out;  schools  deteriorate,  and  the  whole 
community  slides  into  economic  and  social 
decline. 

In  this  same  sense,  crime  does  create  pov- 
erty, but  let's  look  further. 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  primary  solution  to 
the  twin  evils  of  crime  and  poverty  is  a  general 
improvement  in  the  quality  of  living  and  less 
class  distinction  in  our  society  between  the 
very  poor  and  the  super-rich. 

It  all  goes  back  to  jobs  and  purchasing 
power.  More  attention  to  repairing  the  na- 
tion's deteriorating  infastructure  might  be  one 
way  of  putting  people  back  to  work. 

It's  a  well-established  canon  among  social 
scientists  that  the  family  is  the  primary  agent 
for  influencing  an  individual's  moral  and  social 
values.  The  lack  of  a  family  structure  may 
influence  an  individual's  tilt  toward  crime. 
The  strength  of  a  good  family  should  bring 
about  proper  social  behavior.  Children  grow- 
ing up  today  in  broken  homes  are  often  un- 
prepared to  meet  the  shocks  of  today's  job 
market. 

The  United  States  was  once  the  world's 
leading  economic  power,  but  it  now  spends 
less  of  its  collective  wealth  on  maintaining 
jobs  and  insuring  the  quality  of  life  than  any 
other  industrialized  nation.  Most  Americans 
are  worse  off  today  than  they  were  15  years 
ago. 

A  New  York  writer  stated  recently  that 
television  creates  a  world  of  personal  isolation 
and  presents  a  glittering  world  on  the  screen 
which  does  not  exist  in  real  life.  MiUions  are 
lulled  into  accepting  the  dream  world  of  tele- 
vision, even  though  they  know  that  privately 
things  are  not  well  off. 

The  truth  is  that  millions  of  Americans  and 
Canadians  are  still  unemployed.  The  number 
of  "discouraged"  workers — those  who  have 
used  up  their  jobless  benefits  and  are  still 
looking  for  jobs — is  well  over  a  milUon.  The 
number  of  involuntary  part-time  workers,  those 
who  want  fulltime  jobs  but  can't  find  them. 


rose  from  3.5  million  in  1979  to  5.6  million  in 
1985.  So  what  we  actually  have  in  the  United 
States  is  approximately  15  miUion  Americans 
either  unemployed  or  underemployed — far 
more  than  the  8.3  million  reported  to  be 
officially  out  of  work. 

I  read  in  a  newspaper  the  other  day  that 
the  City  of  New  Orleans  is  one  third  above 
the  national  average  in  unemployment  be- 
cause of  a  depression  in  the  domestic  petro- 
leum industry.  The  newspaper  also  reported 
that  crime  in  the  city  has  increased.  These 
twin  conditions  may  evolve  in  other  cities  of 
North  America  if  unemployment  funds  run 
out  and  people  become  desperate  for  jobs. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

Address  Correction  Requested 


Non-Profit  Org. 

U.S.  POSTAGE 

PAID 

Depew,  N.Y. 
Permit  No.  28 


^<n     ^<^ 


A  poem  by  Linda  McCarthy,  wife  of  John  McCarthy  of  Local  218,  Boston, 
Mass.,  dedicated  to  John  and  to  "thousands  and  thousands  just  like  him." 


He  builds  tilings. 

He  makes  them  strong,  or  straight,  or 

safe, 
or  square  or  right. 
Like  sturdy  stairs, 
or  skeletal  halls, 
or  framed  up  walls, 
he  nails  them  tight. 

He  tiammers  things. 

He  measures  and  judges  and  splits  and 

saws. 
He  tears  apart  other  peoples  flaws. 
Sometimes  he  splinters  and  breaks.  .  .  . 
Lots  of  the  time  he  just  aches. 

He  sees  things. 

Like  plans  and  lines  and  notes  in  his 

head. 
He  makes  little  marks  with  pencil  lead  . 


(flat  white  pencil  from  lumber  yards — 
with  advertising  like  business  cards.) 
He  counts  and  weighs  and  oversees, 
he  tears  through  pockets, 
and  wears  through  knees. 

He  hears  things  .  .  . 

like  steel  on  wood,  or  dogs  in  the  street, 
or  bees  near  his  head,  or  mice  near  his 

feet. 
Like  traffic  and  drills  and  chisels  on 

stone— 
...  or  the  sounds  of  himself 
when  he's  working  alone. 

He  carries  things. 

Like  tools' and  tapes  and  2  by  4's. 
And  chalk  and  heavy  awkward  doors. 
Like  shoveled  dirt  and  cinder  blocks, 
cement,  and  sand,  and  unearthed  rocks. 


He  trusts  things, 

like  staging  hung  by  other  men, 
and  ladders  with  missing  rungs  .  .  . 
and  unseen  things  that  could  hurt  his 

eyes, 
and  dust  that  could  find  his  lungs. 

He  tolerates  things  .  . . 

like  scorching  sun  too  hot  to  bear, 

and  blistered  shoulders  and  sawdust  hair. 

And  dealing  with  people  who  don't  give  a 

damn. 
And  brown  bag  lunches  of  cheese  and 

ham. 
And  coffee  gone  cold,  and  snow  crusted 

gloves, 
and  giving  up  so  much  of  all  that  he 

loves  ... 
he  tolerates  things. 

He  loses  things. 

Like  money  and  patience  and  time  and 

sleep, 
and  dreams  that  could  be  important  to 

keep. 
He  loses  his  temper,  but  not  very  much — 
and  sadly  sometimes,  he  loses  touch 

with  people  and  feelings 
that  should  be  close.  .  .  . 
.  .  .  it's  then,  I  suppose,  that  he  loses  the 

most. 

He  wears  things. 

Like  leather  boots  with  hard  steel  toes, 
and  tar,  or  mud,  or  paint  on  clothes. 
And  cuts  that  bleed  a  little  while, 
but  when  he's  home,  he  wears  a  smile 
that  almost  seems  to  melt  away 
the  work  that  wears  on  him  all  day. 

He  honors  things.  Like  truth  and  pride 

and  promises  made. 
Like  meeting  deadlines,  or  debts  to  be 

paid. 
He  loves  his  son,  and  daughters  and 

wife  .  .  . 
he  respects  himself  and  believes  in  his 

life. 
And 

He  builds  things 

like  tomorrows  and  hope  and  a  home 

secure, 
he's  my  husband  and  friend  .  .  .  he's  a 

carpenter, 
and  he  builds  things. 


March  1987 


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GENERAL  OFFICERS  OF 

THE  UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  of  CARPENTERS  &  JOINERS  of  AMERICA 


GENERAL  OFFICE: 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 


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GENERAL  PRESIDENT 

Patrick  J.  Campbell 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

SECOND  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

John  Pruitt 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

John  S.  Rogers 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  TREASURER 

Wayne  Pierce 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 


DISTRICT  BOARD  MEMBERS 


First  District,  Joseph  F.  Lia 

120  North  Main  Street 
New  City,  New  York  10956 

Second  District,  George  M.  Walish 

101  S.  Newtown  St.  Road 

Newtown  Square,  Pennsylvania  19073 

Third  District,  Thomas  Han  ah  an 

9575  West  Higgins  Road 

Suite  304 

Rosemont,  Illinois  60018 

Fourth  District,  E.  Jimmy  Jones 
12500  N.E.  8th  Avenue,  #3 
North  Miami,  Florida  33161 

Fifth  District,  Eugene  Shoehigh 
526  Elkwood  Mall  -  Center  Mall 
42nd  &  Center  Streets 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68105 


Sixth  District,  Dean  Sooter 

400  Main  Street  #203 
Rolla,  Missouri  65401 

Seventh  District,  H.  Paul  Johnson 
Gramark  Plaza 

12300  S.E.  MaUard  Way  #240 
Milwaukie,  Oregon  97222 

Eighth  District,  M.  B.  Bryant 
5330-F  Power  Inn  Road 
Sacramento,  California  95820 

Ninth  District,  John  Carruthers 
5799  Yonge  Street  #807 
Willowdale,  Ontario  M2M  3V3 

Tenth  District,  Ronald  J.  Dancer 
1235  40th  Avenue,  N.W. 
Calgary,  Alberta,  T2K  OG3 


Willum  Sidell,  General  President  Emeritus 
William  Konyha,  General  President  Emeritus 
Peter  Terzick,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 
Charles  E.  Nichols,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 


Patrick  J.  Campbell,  Chairman 
John  S.  Rogeks,  Secretary 

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VOLUME  107  No.  3  MARCH  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


THE 
COVER 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

Banner  Bright 2 

National  Healtli  and  Welfare  Plan 5 

The  Social  Security  Notch 7 

Millwright  Job  of  the  Year 8 

Membership  Action  Produces  Results  in  American  Express  Campaign  11 

National  Health' Care 12 

Louisiana-Pacific  Anti-Union  Tactics  Evident 13 

Legislative  Update:  Clean  Water  Bill  Becomes  Law 14 

■Just  Wait  Until  '88' 15 

San  Francisco  Bay  Shipwrights  Aid  Presidential  Yacht 19 

OSHA  Recognizes  Risks  Posed  by  Glycol  Ethers 20 

Mill-Cabinet  Conference  Holds  First  Meeting 24 


DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 6 

Ottawa  Report 10 

Labor  News  Roundup 16 

Local  Union  News 17 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 21 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Hair  Loss,  Telephone  Fraud 23 

Retirees  Notebook 25 

Plane  Gossip 26 

We  Congratulate 29 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 30 

In  Memoriam 35 

What's  New? 37 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  39 


Published  monthly  at  3342  Bladensburg  Road.  Brentwood,  Md.  20722  by  the  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters 
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Spring  will  blossom  officially  at  10:52 
p.m.  Eastern  Standard  Time  on  Friday, 
March  20. 

Since  the  world  began,  the  vernal  equi- 
nox has  occurred  at  precisely  the  moment 
the  sun  crosses  the  Equator.  As  the  tilted 
earth  continues  its  journey  around  the 
sun,  more  light  falls  on  the  Northern 
Hemisphere.  The  days  become  increas- 
ingly warmer  and  longer,  the  National 
Geographic  Society  says. 

The  first  day  of  spring  may  not  be  a 
spring  day,  however.  In  many  parts  of 
the  United  States,  March  is  a  blizzardy, 
blustery  month. 

Spring  life  returns  north  at  a  leisurely 
pace  of  about  15  miles  a  day.  Like  an 
invisible  stream,  the  season  flows  across 
the  countryside,  filHng  valleys,  and 
climbing  into  hills.  Little  by  little  it  cap- 
tures all  but  winter's  last  redoubts  on 
high  icy  peaks. 

Some  plants  thrust  up  from  thawing 
soil  to  greet  the  verdant  season.  Crocus 
and  skunk  cabbage  are  among  the  early 
risers. 

Other  plants  do  more  than  sprout.  The 
oval  fronds  of  aquatic  duckweed,  sub- 
merged all  winter,  fill  themselves  with 
buoyant  gas  and  pop  to  the  surface  to 
greet  the  new  season. 

As  foliage  opens,  insects  appear.  Later, 
flowers  seed,  lawns  turn  green,  and  the 
land  seems  glutted  with  food  resources. 

The  rich  banquet  of  reemerging  plants 
and  insects  tempts  billions  of  birds  back 
north  from  winter  habitats.  Studies  sug- 
gest that  birds  make  use  of  environmental 
signs — warming  temperatures  or  the  on- 
set of  green  after  rain,  for  example — that 
herald  the  coming  of  good  feeding  con- 
ditions. 

— Photograph  at  upper  left  and  three 
at  far  right  by  Scott  Kramer.  Crocuses 
in  snow  by  W.H.  Townsend.  The  barn 
and  boat  photographs  are  by  Steven  J. 
Danielczyk. 

NOTE:  Readers  who  would  like  additional 
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500  in  coin  to  cover  mailing  costs  to.  The 
CARPENTER,  101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001. 


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Look,  my  comrades,  see  the  union 

Banners  waving  high; 

Reirtforcements  now  appearing. 

Victory  is  nigh.* 

BANNER 
BRIGHT 


When  labor  marched  a  century  ago,  it  marched  with  a  flourish 
and  a  roll  of  drums  seldom  seen  today.  Large,  silken  banners, 
elaborately  painted,  displayed  union  slogans  and  emblems.  Union 
members  wanted  their  bosses  to  know  that  they  were  forces  to  be 
reckoned  with  when  push  came  to  shove. 

The  parading  of  banners  was  a  tradition  which  went  back  to  the 
earliest  labor  demonstrations  in  Europe.  At  a  May  Day  march  in 
London  in  1896  it  was  claimed  that  trade  union  banners  valued  at 
more  than  20,000  English  pounds  were  displayed  in  the  line  of 
march. 

Some  of  the  banners  illustrated  the  dangers  of  the  trade— a 
construction  worker  falling  from  a  high  scaffold  or  a  railway  worker 
crushed  between  two  trucks.  Others  painted  a  romantic  picture  of 
a  better  life  to  be  gained  by  unity  and  reason. 

Each  banner  was  followed  by  the  workers  of  the  organization, 
and  most  were  led  by  marshals  wearing  elaborate  sashes.  Once 
the  parade  was  over,  the  banners  were  displayed  in  the  union  hall 
or  furled  and  stored  for  the  next  display. 

Today,  many  local  unions  of  the  United  Brotherhood  preserve 
such  banners  and  hang  them  in  places  of  honor.  Though  they  have 
been  replaced  by  paper  placards  and  broadcloth  streamers  in  most 
labor  demonstrations  today ,  traditional  silk  banners  are  still  colorful 

Continued  on  Page  4 

*  Originally  a  song  of  the  American  Knights  of  Labor  in  the  1880s,  "Storm  the  fort, 
ye  Knights  of  Labor." 


1  •     One  of  the  many  unions  serving  the  con- 
struction workers  of  Great  Britain  in  the  1920s 
was  the  National  Builders'  Labourers  and 
Constructional  Workers  Society,  which 
evolved  from  the  United  Builders'  Labourers' 
Union  founded  in  1889.  The  banner  at  right  of 
the  Camberwell  Branch,  made  in  1921,  fea- 
tured the  100-pound  (English  coinage)  disabil- 
ity payment  available  to  union  members.  The 
slogan  "Labour  Conquers  All  Things"  on  the 
Camberwell  banner  is  the  English  translation 
of  the  Latin  phrase  on  the  United  Brother- 
hood's own  slogan,  which  you'll  find  on  the 
UBC  embletn:  "Labor  Omnia  Vincit." 

Za     The  executive  committee  of  the  London 
United  Trades  Committee  of  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  assembled  for  a  picture  during  a  1891 
strike.  Note  the  emblem  on  the  union  banner, 
which  contains  some  of  the  same  motifs  as 
our  UBC  emblem — the  dividers  and  the 
square  emblazoned  on  a  shield.  This  was  the 
emblem  of  the  Carpenters  Guild  of  the  Middle 
Ages,  founded  at  least  300  years  earlier.  The 
dividers  and  square  also  appeared  on  the  em- 
blem of  the  Carpenters  Company  of  Philadel- 
phia in  1724.  It  was  at  Carpenters  Hall  that 
the  Continental  Congress  met  during  the 
American  Revolution. 

3i     The  banner  of  the  Surbiton  Branch  of 
the  National  Builders  Society  of  Great  Brit- 
ain. It,  too,  features  the  100-pound  disability 
payment  available  to  members  and  the  prom- 
ise of  union  support  in  the  case  of  industrial 
injury.  This  union  eventually  amalgamated  in 
1952  with  the  Amalgamated  Union  of  Building 
Trade  Workers,  which  in  turn  became  part  of 
the  Union  of  Construction,  Allied  Trades  and 
Technicians  in  1971.  It  was  the  latter  union 
which  sent  its  assistant  general  secretary,  J. 
Hardman,  as  a  fraternal  delegate  to  the  UBC 
general  convention  in  Toronto  last  year. 

4.     In  1960 — 100  years  after  its  founding  as 
the  Amalgamated  Society  of  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  Great  Britain — the  Amalgamated 
Society  of  Woodworkers  created  a  new  pa- 
rade banner,  shown  above.  The  author  of 
Banner  Bright  describes  the  two  figures  in  this 
modern-day  banner  as  "strangely  crude  and 
perhaps  demonstrating  that  the  art  of  the 
banner  painter  is  beginning  to  die."  Note  thai 
this  banner  also  contains  a  shield  with  the 
square  and  dividers. 

5m    A  picture  of  Ernest  Bevin,  one  of  the 
most  powerful  British  trade  union  leaders  of 
the  20th  century,  appears  on  a  banner  of  the 
Dock,  Wharf,  Riverside  and  General  Workers 
Union.  As  a  young  man,  Bevin  was  a  carter 
(what  we  call  a  teamster).  In  1910  he  led  his 
carters  union  into  the  Dock,  Wharf,  Riverside 
and  General  Workers  Union.  He  later  became 
the  first  general  secretary  of  the  British 
Transport  and  General  Workers  Union.  He 
eventually  became  minister  of  labour  under 
Winston  Churchill  during  World  War  II  and 
Great  Britain' s  foreign  secretary  when  Clem- 
ent Attlee  formed  his  Labour  Parly  govern- 
ment in  1945. 

6a     Colorful  sashes  were  the  order  of  the 
day  when  many  unions  paraded  decades  ago. 
Though  the  custom  has  faded,  some  unionists 
still  wear  sashes  in  Labor  Day  observances  in 
North  America.  This  picture  shows  members 
of  the  Amalgamated  Union  of  Building  Trades 
Workers  of  Reading  standing  before  the 
branch  banner  during  the  1920s.  The  picture 
was  taken  on  a  Sunday  morning,  and  branch 
members  were  dressed  in  their  Sunday  best. 


Banner  Bright 

Continued  from  Page  2 


additions  to  some  modern  parades. 

Over  the  years,  trade  union  banners  have  presented  a 
visual  history  of  worker  struggle  and  progress.  Today, 
many  of  the  banners  are  relics  of  the  past  stored  in  damp 
cellars  and  the  closets  of  meeting  halls. 

John  Gorman,  a  member  of  the  Sign  and  Display  Trades 
Union  of  Great  Britain  and  son  of  a  member  of  the 
Amalgamated  Society  of  Woodworkers  and  the  Union  of 
Construction,  Allied  Trades,  and  Technicians,  began,  many 
years  ago,  to  preserve  the  banners  in  pictures  and  story, 
and  in  1973  his  book.  Banner  Bright,  was  first  published. 
Last  year,  a  new  edition  was  issued,  and  we  received  an 
advance  copy,  thanks  to  Jimmy  Hardman,  general  secretary 
of  the  Construction  Workers  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland, 
a  fraternal  delegate  to  our  general  convention  in  Toronto 
last  October.  The  illustrations  on  Page  3  are  from  Banner 
Bright.  JJ3fi 


Many  local  unions  of  the  United  Brotherhood  still  carry  on  the 
tradition  of  showing  their  banners  on  special  occasions.  Mem- 
bers of  the  Western  Pennsylvania  District  Council  held  their 
banner  high  among  the  placards  of  other  unions  at  a  recent 
demonstration  of  45,000  Pittsburgh  trade  unionists  protesting 
open-shop  construction.  Shouting  "We  want  worii,"  the  Build- 
ing Tradesmen  marched  past  local  nonunion  construction  proj- 
ects, including  the  renovation  of  the  old  Pennsylvania  Railroad 
Station.  Photograph  from  Press  Associates  Inc. 


A  banner  displaying  the  portrait  of  Peter  McGuire.  founder  of 
the  UBC  and  Father  of  Labor  Day,  was  mounted  on  a  Jeep  and 
borne  down  the  streets  of  New  York  City  on  Labor  Day  in  the 
1940s. 


The  Brotherhood's  emblem  and  its  name  in  French  appeared  on 
a  banner  during  a  labor  demonstration  in  Quebec  in  the  1890s. 
Photograph  from  the  Public  Archives  of  Canada. 


This  was  a  demonstration  for  the  eight-hour  work  day  in  New 
York's  Bowery  in  1872.  The  eight-hour  day  was  not  achieved 
until  almost  15  years  later,  when  Carpenters  led  the  campaign 
to  victory.  Illustration  from  AFL-CIO  News. 


On  July  4,  1916,  the  American  Federation  of  Labor  opened  its 
headquarters  at  9th  Street  and  Massachusetts  Ave.  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  The  Machinists'  banner,  shown  here,  was  among 
many  displayed.  Photograph  from  AFL-CIO  News. 


CARPENTER 


UBC*s  National  Health  and 
Welfare  Plan  Gathers  Support 


Participation  in  the  United  Brother- 
hood's National  Health  and  Welfare 
Plan  continues  to  grow.  Launched  in 
January  1986  to  increase  the  health  and 
welfare  options  available  to  Brother- 
hood members,  the  Carpenter's  Na- 
tional Health  and  Welfare  Fund  has 
steadily  won  support  from  union  and 
management  representatives. 

The  plan  supports  a  full  range  of 
health  and  welfare  benefits,  including 
member  life  and  accidental  death  and 
disability  insurance,  as  well  as  coverage 
for  hospital  expenses,  surgery,  anes- 
thesia, laboratory  costs,  x-rays,  and 
doctor  visits  for  members  and  their 
dependents.  The  plan  will  even  pay  for 
a  second  opinion  when  surgery  is  rec- 
ommended. Maternity  is  treated  similar 
to  any  other  disability  under  the  Broth- 
erhood's plan. 

The  exact  amount  of  support  and 
coverage  provided  under  the  National 
Health  Plan  depends  upon  the  employer 
contribution  negotiated  by  participating 
locals.  At  present  five  different  options 
are  offered,  with  employer  contribu- 
tions for  nonconstruction  funds  ranging 
from  $.55  to  $1.35  per  hour  (slightly 
higher  for  construction  funds). 

Participants  currently  eligible  under 
a  health  and  welfare  plan  negotiated  by 
a  United  Brotherhood  affiliate  are  eli- 
gible for  benefits  as  soon  as  contribu- 
tions are  received.  New  construction 
participants  are  eligible  after  complet- 
ing 300  hours  work  in  any  three  month 
period,  while  nonconstruction  partici- 
pants are  eligible  after  completing  450 
hours  of  covered  work. 

Protection  from. 
Work  Fluctuations 

United  Brotherhood  members  are 
protected  from  changes  and  fluctuations 
in  employment  under  the  National  Health 
Plan.  An  "Hour  Bank"  account  is  es- 
tablished for  each  member  of  the  plan. 
For  each  hour  of  covered  work,  an  hour 
is  credited  to  the  account,  up  to  a  total 
of  300  hours  for  construction  workers 
and  450  for  nonconstruction  workers. 
The  account  is  charged  100  hours  (for 
construction  members)  or  1 50  hours  (for 
nonconstruction  members)  for  each 
month  of  National  Health  Plan  cover- 
age. A  member's  eligibility  for  coverage 
ends  only  when  his  Hour  Bank  balance 
falls  below  100  for  construction  mem- 
bers and  150  for  nonconstruction  mem- 
bers. 


As  further  protection,  members  in 
erage  due  to  lack  of  work  may  add 
hours  to  their  Hour  Bank  account  by 
making  the  equivalent  of  the  employer 
contribution  themselves.  If  coverage 
under  the  National  Health  Plan  does 
end,  the  member  has  the  option  of 
converting  to  an  individual  policy  is- 
sued by  the  plan's  insurance  underwri- 
ter. The  Union  Labor  Life  Insurance 
Co. 

Benefits  of 
ParticipcLtion 

The  Carpenters  National  Health  and 
Welfare  Fund  offers  several  advantages 
to  participating  locals: 

Better  Benefits  at  Lower  Cost — Num- 
bers are  important  when  it  comes  to 
insurance.  The  more  people  covered  by 
a  poHcy,  the  better  the  terms  that  can 
be  negotiated.  Because  the  Carpenters 
National  Health  and  Welfare  Plan  com- 
bines the  buying  power  of  union  mem- 


UBC  Members 
On  Saturn  Project 
Covered  by  Plan 

The  General  Motors  Corp.  is  build- 
ing a  $3.4  billion  automobile  plant 
near  Nashville,  Tenn.,  known  as  the 
Saturn  Project.  Satellite  industrial 
plants  surrounding  Saturn  are  ex- 
pected to  cost  $3  billion  more. 

General  contractor  for  the  huge 
project  is  the  Morris-Knudsen  Co., 
and  there  are  22  subcontractors,  many 
employing  members  of  Carpenters 
Local  223  and  Millwrights  Local  1544, 
both  of  Nashville.  The  AFL-CIO 
Building  Trades  signed  a  project 
agreement  with  Morris-Knudsen  in 
November  1985,  and  the  project  is 
expected  to  reach  its  peak  employ- 
ment level  next  fall  when  approxi- 
mately 3,000  workers  are  on  the  job. 

To  protect  UBC  members.  Broth- 
erhood representatives  negotiated  an 
agreement  with  the  general  contractor 
for  participation  in  the  UBC  National 
Health  and  Welfare  Plan.  More  than 
80  members  now  employed  on  Saturn 
are  already  eligible  for  coverage.  More 
will  be  eligible  as  the  work  progresses. 
Some  members  of  Local  223  were 
previously  covered  by  a  plan  arranged 
with  the  Tennessee  Valley  Authority. 
These  members,  too,  now  will  enjoy 
the  benefits  and  the  reciprocity  pro- 
visions of  the  UBC  National  Health 
and  Welfare  Plan. 


bers  from  all  across  the  country,  it  can 
negotiate  good  coverage  at  a  low  rate. 
Creation  of  the  National  Health  Plan 
allows  us  to  turn  the  tables  on  the 
insurance  industry  and  to  force  them 
to  compete  for  our  business  on  our 
terms.  The  result  is  better  coverage  and 
higher  group  discounts.  As  the  number 
of  local  unions  and  local  benefit  plans 
participating  in  the  Carpenters  National 
Health  and  Welfare  Fund  grows,  so  too 
will  our  collective  bargaining  power. 

Lower  Administrative  Costs — Partic- 
ipating locals  find  that  many  of  the  time- 
consuming  administrative  details  asso- 
ciated with  benefit  management  are  now 
handled  by  the  National  Health  Plan. 
This  frees  up  staff  for  other  tasks  and 
reduces  the  administrative  burden  at 
the  local  level.  As  a  consolidated  na- 
tionwide plan,  the  National  Plan  can 
also  make  use  of  the  latest  in  claims 
processing  and  administrative  technol- 
ogy to  reduce  administrative  problems 
and  costs  even  further. 

Increased  Union  Identification — 
Members  receive  health  and  welfare 
benefit  as  a  result  of  union  represen- 
tation through  the  collective  bargaining 
process.  And  yet,  in  far  too  many  cases, 
the  employer  gets  the  credit.  Partici- 
pation in  the  Carpenters  National  Health 
and  Welfare  Fund  can  help  change  that. 
Benefit  checks  clearly  identify  the  source 
of  the  benefit.  They  provide  tangible 
proof  of  the  value  of  union  membership 
and  reinforce  union  solidarity  and  iden- 
tification. In  an  era  when  our  union  is 
under  increasing  attack,  this  can  make 
an  important  difference. 

Union  Label 
Insurance 

The  benefits  provided  by  the  Carpen- 
ters National  Heakh  and  Welfare  Fund 
are  underwritten  by  ULLICO  an  in- 
dependent, union-owned  insurer  with 
more  than  60  years  of  experience  in  the 
group  insurance  area.  Participating  lo- 
cals are  thus  assured  of  100%  union 
label  coverage,  with  the  National  Health 
Plan's  staff  handling  the  administration 
and  ULLICO  and  its  experienced  staff 
providing  the  professional  insurance 
expertise  and  backing  needed  to  keep 
the  plan  on  a  solid  footing. 

For  more  information  about  the  Car- 
penters National  Health  and  Welfare 
Fund,  contact  First  General  Vice  Pres- 
ident Sigurd  Lucassen  at  202/546-6206. 


MARCH     1987 


Washington 
Report 


NEW  BENEFIT  REGULATIONS 

The  U.S.  Department  of  Labor  has  proposed  revi- 
sions to  the  annual  reporting  and  disclosure  regula- 
tions affecting  employee  benefit  plans. 

The  proposed  regulations  would  reduce  the  re- 
porting and  disclosure  burden  to  plans,  especially 
small  plans  with  less  than  26  participants,  filing  the 
Form  5500  Series  under  the  Employee  Retirement 
Income  Security  Act  of  1974. 

The  regulations  are  necessary  to  update  the  cur- 
rent rules  to  reflect  changes  in  the  annual  reporting 
requirements. 

Included  in  the  proposal  is  an  amendment  to 
raise  the  threshold  for  reporting  transactions  involv- 
ing plan  assets  from  3%  to  5%.  It  also  would  re- 
quire that  filers  of  the  Form  5500,  with  100  or  more 
participants,  report  certain  information  about  service 
providers  and  trustees  on  a  new  Schedule  C  at- 
tachment to  the  form. 

If  adopted,  the  amendments  would  be  effective 
for  reporting  for  plan  years  beginning  on  or  after 
Jan.  1,  1987. 

LABOR  DEPARTMENT  JOB  AID 

President  Reagan's  Fiscal  1988  budget  request 
for  the  Department  of  Labor  calls  for  new  initiatives 
to  help  dislocated  Americans  and  disadvantaged 
youth  secure  jobs  in  a  changing  economic  climate. 

President  Reagan's  budget  proposes  a  new 
Worker  Adjustment  Assistance  Program  to  respond 
to  dislocation  pressures  triggered  by  international 
competition,  technological  change,  economic  shifts, 
and  changes  in  consumer  preferences,"  according 
to  Secretary  of  Labor  William  E.  Brock. 

Under  this  proposal,  the  existing  Trade  Adjust- 
ment Assistance  and  Job  Training  Partnership  Act 
dislocated  worker  programs  would  be  merged  and 
expanded  in  a  single,  integrated  program  of  coun- 
seling, job  search,  basic  education,  literacy,  and 
skill  training. 

Budget  authority  of  $980  million  will  be  requested 
for  the  program  which  will  serve  an  estimated 
700,000  disclocated  workers. 

The  second  major  legislative  proposal  would  cre- 
ate a  program  to  target  training,  education,  and 


support  services  to  youth  most  in  need — those  from 
households  receiving  Aid  for  Dependent  Children. 

Under  the  $800-million  proposal,  the  existing 
summer  youth  job  program  would  be  restructured, 
giving  localities  the  option  to  conduct  year-round 
programs,  summer  programs,  or  a  combination  of 
summer  and  year-round  efforts  for  AFDC  youth. 

In  addition,  Brock  said,  "The  budget  provides  ad- 
equate resources  for  the  full  range  of  other  Labor 
Department  responsibilities  such  as  job  safety  and 
health  and  employment  standards." 

BANK  FAILURES  ON  RISE 

A  post-Depression  record  138  U.S.  banks  col- 
lapsed during  1 986,  federal  regulators  say,  with 
most  of  the  failed  institutions  in  economically  trou- 
bled oil  and  farm  states. 

And  nearly  one  of  every  10  banks  nationwide  is 
considered  to  be  in  some  kind  of  financial  trouble 
by  the  Federal  Deposit  Insurance  Corp. 

The  agency  said  1 ,484  banks  as  of  mid-Decem- 
ber were  on  its  list  of  troubled  institutions  needing 
special  monitoring  out  of  the  14,948  banks  whose 
deposits  are  insured  by  the  FDIC. 

During  1986,  Texas  had  26  bank  failures,  the 
most  of  any  state,  followed  by  16  in  Oklahoma,  14 
in  Kansas,  10  in  Iowa,  and  9  in  Missouri.  California 
and  Louisiana  had  8  failures  each;  Colorado  and 
Wyoming,  7  each;  and  Nebraska,  6. 

"Economic  performance  has  not  been  favorable 
for  all  sectors  of  the  economy."  FDIC  Chairman  L. 
William  Seidman  noted  in  recent  congressional  tes- 
timony. "The  agricultural  and  energy  sectors  have 
been  exceptionally  weak  and  are  in  the  midst  of  a 
painful  adjustment  process. 

Mr.  Seidman  said  many  banks  were  reluctant  or 
unable  to  diversify  their  lending  and  thus  were  more 
vulnerable  to  economic  woes  in  oil  and  farming. 

PAY  RAISES  DECLINE  IN  '86 

Wage  and  salary  increases  last  year  averaged 
3.5%,  down  from  4.4%  in  1985,  as  more  employers 
heaped  year-end  bonuses  on  their  workers  in  lieu 
of  larger  pay  raises,  the  government  reported. 

Continuing  a  trend  begun  in  1983,  nonunion 
workers  won  larger  percentage  increases,  3.6%, 
than  union  members,  2.1%,  the  Bureau  of  Labor 
Statistics  said. 

But  because  the  weekly  income  of  union  mem- 
bers is  about  33%  more  than  that  of  full-time,  non- 
union workers,  there  was  little  indication  the  dollar 
gap  between  them  was  narrowing  significantly,  BLS 
analysts  said. 

Figures  on  the  dollar  differences  between  union 
and  nonunion  wages  are  not  yet  available  for  1986. 
But  in  1 985,  according  to  Labor  Department  statis- 
tics, median  wage  earnings  were  $41 9  per  week  for 
union  members,  compared  with  $315  per  week  for 
nonunion  workers. 

In  private  industry,  pay  increases  averaged  3.2% 
last  year,  compared  with  3.9%  in  1985.  But  manu- 
facturing workers  this  year  outpaced  those  in  the 
rapidly  expanding  service  sectors  of  the  economy. 

In  1985,  wage  increases  for  service  workers  av- 
eraged 4.4%.  This  year  raises  fell  to  3.2%.  Manu- 
facturing workers,  meanwhile,  saw  their  paychecks 
increase  an  average  3.3%,  the  same  as  in  1985. 


CARPENTER 


The  Social  Security  *Notch' 


Nobody's  being  cheated.  An  earlier  mistal<e  was  corrected,  we're  told. 
Fixing  the  'notch'  could  jeopardize  benefits  for  future  retirees. 


Retirees  under  U.S.  Social  Security  who 
were  bom  between  1917  and  1921  are  being 
told  that  they  are  "notch  babies"  and  that 
they  are  being  cheated  out  of  Social  Security 
benefits. 

In  recent  weeks  the  General  Office  has 
received  letters  and  telephone  calls  from 
tnembers  wanting  to  know  what  it's  all  about. 

To  answer  their  questions,  we  have  checked 
several  reUable  sources  in  Washington,  D.C., 
and  come  up  with  these  answers: 

We  are  told  that  nobody's  being  cheated 
and  that,  unfortunately  for  the  Social  Se- 
curity Fund,  some  earlier  retirees  were  "ov- 
erpaid." 

The  National  Council  of  Senior  Citizens 
tells  us  that  the  confusion  goes  back  to  1972 
when  Congress  made  a  very  expensive  mis- 
take in  setting  the  formulas  for  computing 
Social  Security's  first  automatic  cost-of-liv- 
ing adjustment.  That  law  also  adjusted  Social 
Security  benefit  tables  to  guarantee  that 
benefits  for  future  recipients  would  increase 
automatically.  This  combination  of  actions 
unintentionally  overindexed  benefits,  with 
some  getting  far  higher  benefits  than  was 
ever  intended.  Left  unchanged,  these  benefit 
levels  would  have  bankrupted  the  system, 
according  to  some  financial  experts. 

In  1977,  Congress  decided  to  fix  its  mis- 
take. The  lawmakers  did  not  want  to  lower 
the  benefits  of  workers  who  had  already 
retired,  nor  did  they  want  to  bankrupt  Social 
Security  by  continuing  to  pay  those  mistaken 
high  benefits. 

Instead,  Congress  devised  a  plan  to  grad- 
ually lower  the  replacement  rates  over  five 
years  for  future  retirees.  Those  five  years 
are  the  so-called  "notch"  years. 

As  a  result  of  this  Congressional  correc- 
tion, two  workers  with  equal  wage  histories 
and  records  of  paying  Social  Security  taxes 
can  receive  different  benefits  if  one  was  born 
in  1916,  for  example,  and  the  other  in  1917. 
Under  the  transition  formula,  the  benefit 
granted  to  the  worker  born  in  1917  would 
be  lower,  assuming  that  all  other  elements 
are  equal.  The  accompanying  chart,  supplied 
to  us  by  the  American  Association  of  Retired 
Persons,  shows  some  of  the  decreases  since 
the  new  formula  took  effect. 

Wilbur  Cohen,  former  secretary  of  Health, 
Education  and  Welfare  and  one  of  the  na- 
tion's foremost  Social  Security  advocates, 
told  the  American  Association  of  Retired 
Persons,  "The  fact  is  that  no  one  is  being 
dealt  with  unfairly.  Just  because  someone 
else  gets  more  than  you  does  not  mean  that 
you're  getting  less  than  you  should. 

"Those  born  between  1917  and  1921  re- 
ceive quite  equitable  benefit  amounts,  es- 
pecially if  you  consider  what  they  paid  into 
the  system  and  the  increases  they've  re- 
ceived from  annual  cost-of-living  adjust- 
ments." 

MARCH     1987 


The  problem  is  that  many  of  those  who 
retired  in  the  late  1970s  and  early  1980s 
(those  born  in  1915  and  1916)  receive  higher 
benfits  than  were  intended;  the  "notch  ba- 
bies" receive  an  actuarially  correct  amount. 

At  that  time,  the  Carter  administration 
and  some  senior-citizen  organizations  sup- 
ported a  10-year  transition.  However.  Con- 
gress adopted  instead  a  five-year  phase-in. 


So,  there  are  now  three  benefit  formulas 
to  consider: 

•  the  "old"  benefit  table  that  applies  to 
those  born  before  1917; 

•  the  "new"  formula  that  applies  to  all 
those  born  after  1916; 

•  the  "transition"  formula,  adopted  by 
Congress  in  1977  to  ease  the  change  from 

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SOCIAL  SECURITY  ^TSTOTCH'^ 


Average  Earner's  Benefits 

for  Retirees  Born  1909-1923, 

Retired  at  Age  65 

«„  S647  S663  ^^^^   ^^^ 
$563  S581  ^2  _  M  ■  ■  ■  M  ^  S579  m  S576  S5«8'  $576- 


WM!l 


11989  19   11    '12   13   14   15   'IS   17   'Ig   "19   '»   71   "22   73 


Average  Earner's  Benefits 

for  Retirees  Born  1909-1923, 

Retired  at  Age  62 

S443  S4M  S456  S468  S475  S479  ^  S497  S507  ^^^  ^^^  ^  ^^^  ^^,  ^^. 


19M  16   11   '12   13   14  15   'It  17   H   18   7i  71   72   7i 

Source;  Social  Security  Administration.  Office  of  Policy. 
*  Projected  benefits  at  retirement  in  1986  dollars 
(II  B  assumptions) 

Chart  courtesy  of  AARP  News  Bulletin 

7 


Local  1693  Millwrights  Win 

SC  &  RA  Award  with  Extruder-System 

Installation  'Done  the  American  Way' 


Ladder  rails  move  down  the  assembly  line  at  the  Franklin  Park  plant  in  an  early  test  of 
the  completed  extrusion  system.  Millwright  skills  proved  micrometer  true. 


Nobody  working  on  the  project  was 
out  to  win  an  award,  but  the  skilled 
Millwrights  of  UBC  Local  1693,  Chi- 
cago, 111.,  did  such  a  good  job  of  in- 
stalhng  German-made,  high-tech  ma- 
chinery in  a  local  ladder  and  scaffolding 
manufacturing  plant  that  their  work 
couldn't  be  ignored. 

The  Specialized  Carriers  and  Riggers 
Association  decided  that  their  Taft  Con- 
tracting Company  installation  of  Alhaus 
equipment  at  the  R.D.  Werner  Com- 
pany plant  in  Franklin  Park  was  the 
1986  "Millwright  Job  of  the  Year."  Taft 
officials  who  were  presented  an  award 
at  the  SC  &  RA's  recent  convention  at 
Hilton  Head,  S.C.,  praised  the  work  of 
its  Local  1693  millwright  crew  as  out- 
standing. The  job  was  accomplished 
"the  American  way,"  and  not  in  the 
way  that  German  millwrights  and  en- 
gineers might  have  done  it,  they  told 
Convention  delegates. 

This  is  the  way  John  Bianchi,  Taft's 
general  superintendent,  explains  the 
difference: 


"We  installed  this  very  long  extru- 
sion line  complete  and  with  precision. 
The  overall  leveling  requirement  for  this 
line  was  within  three  millimeters.  Tnere 
were  internal  tolerances  through  part 
of  the  line  that  were  one-half  millimeter. 

"While  I  don't  want  to  sound  overly 
modest,  that's  the  reason  people  choose 
Taft.  We  can  do  this  kind  of  job. 

"That's  not  to  say  everything  goes 
smoothly  all  the  time.  At  one  point 
during  the  job,  we  would  install  a  day's 
work,  then  level  it.  When  we  started 
the  next  day's  installation,  we  took 
readings  and  found  that  yesterday's 
work  was  no  longer  level. 

"In  Germany  the  crew  would  go  back 
and  level  what  had  already  been  in- 
stalled before  proceeding.  American  in- 
dustry today,  however,  uses  what  is 
called  'fast  track'  installation  methods. 
We  were  installing  half  of  the  equip- 
ment, while  the  other  half  of  the  con- 
crete was  being  poured. 

"We  know  that  new  concrete  foun- 
dations and  footings  settle  at  a  rate  of 


.0157day  for  six  to  seven  days,  follow- 
ing an  initial  setting  time  of  five  days. 
So  we  scheduled  installation  to  begin 
five  days  after  the  concrete  was  poured. 
As  the  line  was  installed,  we  leveled  to 
a  good  approximation  and  went  on  with 
the  remainder  of  the  installation.  Once 
the  whole  line  was  in,  we  went  back 
and  re-leveled  to  precision  tolerances. 

"Our  method  allowed  us  to  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  natural  curing  time  of 
the  concrete.  If  we  had  used  the  German 
methods,  we  would  not  have  been  able 
to  begin  the  installation  until  at  least  a 
week  later.  In  'Yankee  lingo'  that's  a 
week  of  production  capacity  that's  not 
available.  That  costs  the  customer 
money." 

The  job-site  demands  on  a  millwright 
are  heavy.  A  typical  American  engi- 
neered and  manufactured  project  comes 
with  complete  drawings  and  all  fitting 
parts.  A  typical  European  project  works 
with  on-the-spot  decisions  made  by  the 
craftsmen.  It  is  their  decision  as  to  how 
to  make  connections  and  fittings. 

The  R.D.  Werner  Company,  a  major 
manufacturer  of  ladders,  scaffolding, 
and  similar  industrial  equipment  where 
the  prize-winning  Taft  job  was  com- 
pleted, had  been  purchasing  its  alumi- 
num components  from  other  manufac- 
turers. The  company  decided  to  set  up 
its  own  extrusion  system  to  produce  its 
own  extruded  parts.  Almost  30  mill- 
wrights worked  on  the  job  over  a  period 
of  three  months. 

"This  job  was  a  perfect  example  of 
the  kind  of  unexpected  situations  our 
people  have  to  resolve  all  the  time," 
explains  Taft  Executive  Vice-President 
Joe  Gaynor.  "I  was  a  millwright  myself; 
and,  although  the  machinery  and  tools 
have  gotten  more  complex,  it's  still  the 
people  on  the  job  who  put  it  all  together. 
Our  people  have  worked  on  so  many 
different  kinds  of  jobs  that  they  seem 
to  have  a  sixth  sense  about  the  way 
things  work  and  why  they  are  designed 
a  certain  way.  This  level  of  experience 
and  understanding,  combined  with  the 
basic  skills  of  our  trade,  add  up  to  what 
used  to  be  called  Yankee  ingenuity." 

The  millwright's  job  is  continually 

changing.  From  the  days  of  peg  and 

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ings one  last  time. 

3.  Two  working  partners  set  a  beam  in 
place. 

4.  Level  on  the  floor  doesn't  necessarily 
mean  level  eight  feet  up.  Another  check  is 
taken. 

5.  Two  Millwrights  mount  a  rack  and 
pinion  with  the  bearings. 

6.  Working  in  close  quarters  is  not  always 
comfortable,  but  the  work  is  accom- 
plished. 

7.  The  equipment  is  large,  but  the  adjust- 
ments are  tiny. 

8.  The  Local  1693  members  assemble  for  a 
coffee  break. 

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UNSAFE  WORK  REFUSAL  RIGHT 

Employees  who  use  their  right  to  refuse  unsafe 
worl<  should  be  paid  for  the  time  they're  off  the  job, 
the  Law  Reform  Commission  of  Canada  has  said  in 
a  paper  on  workplace  pollution. 

The  commission  said  the  right  to  refuse  unsafe 
work  has  little  impact  and  may  pit  employees 
against  one  another  unless  there's  a  provision  for 
payment  of  wages  while  they're  off  the  job. 

It  said  there  were  854  fatal  on-the-job  accidents 
and  more  than  half  a  million  disabling  accidents  or 
work-related  illnesses  in  Canada  in  1982. 

The  working  paper  indicated  these  figures  are 
only  the  tip  of  the  iceberg. 

The  most  conservative  studies  indicated  there 
were  1 ,600  work-related  cancer  deaths  a  year  in 
Canada — 700  of  those  in  Ontario. 

Yet  only  95  such  deaths  were  reported  to  the 
Ontario  Worker's  Compensation  Board  in  one  re- 
cent year  and  only  44  resulted  in  compensation. 

Many  metals  and  chemicals  used  in  the  work- 
place posed  long-term  threats  to  the  health  and  life 
of  workers. 

The  commission  recommended  Parliament  pass 
legislation  to  deal  with  cases  in  which  employers  do 
things  which  risk  injury  or  illness  to  employees. 

It  said  the  right  to  know  what  dangers  they're 
facing  in  the  work  place  should  be  built  into  the 
same  law  allowing  employees  to  refuse  unsafe 
work. 


LOW  IN  SOCIAL  SPENDING 

In  trying  to  justify  cutbacks  in  social  program 
spending,  the  federal  Conservative  government 
keeps  saying  that  it  just  cannot  afford  to  fulfill  peo- 
ple's expectations  in  that  area. 

A  report,  released  by  the  International  Monetary 
Fund,  indicates  just  the  contrary.  It  shows  that  in 
fact  Canada  is  one  of  the  lowest  spenders  on  social 
programs  among  the  West's  biggest  industrial  coun- 
tries. As  a  result,  it  adds,  Canadians  may  have  less 
than  others  to  worry  about  in  paying  future  bills  on 
such  programs. 

Canada's  ratio  of  government  spending  on  pen- 
sions is  the  lowest  of  all  the  members  of  the  so- 


called  Group  of  Seven — Canada,  the  U.S.,  Japan, 
West  Germany,  France,  Britain,  and  Italy — ^the  re- 
port from  this  ultra-conservative  agency  revealed.  In 
both  France  and  Germany,  the  average  pension 
benefit  from  government  is  about  double  the  $3,702 
(U.S.)  paid  in  Canada. 

The  Canadian  government's  social  spending  ra- 
tio— 20.2%  of  gross  domestic  product — was  third 
lowest  of  the  seven  countries  in  the  1980  base  year. 

Many  of  Canada's  social  programs,  moreover, 
are  indexed  to  prices,  whereas  in  other  countries 
these  are  linked  to  wages,  which  tend  to  rise  faster 
and  push  up  the  cost. 

The  lowest  social  spender  is  the  United  States. 

END  CORPORATE  TAX  BREAKS 

Corporate  tax  breaks  cost  the  federal  government 
$10  billion  a  year  in  foregone  revenue,  the  New 
Democratic  Party  pointed  out  in  a  report  on  Tax 
Probe  '86.  The  corporate  tax  breaks  are  a  major 
factor  in  the  escalating  federal  deficit,  according  to 
the  NDP  study. 

"Corporations  must  begin  to  pay  their  fair  share," 
added  Michael  Cassidy  (Ottawa  Centre),  the  NDP 
finance  critic,  "We  must  study  new  ways  to  make 
sure  that  public  monies  produce  new  jobs  and  not 
just  higher  profits." 

Key  findings  of  Tax  Probe  '86  include  the  follow- 
ing: A  total  of  79,000  profitable  corporations  paid  no 
corporate  tax  in  1983;  64  of  these  each  earned 
profits  of  more  than  $25,000,000.  The  corporate 
share  of  income  tax  will  drop  to  almost  20%  by 
1990,  down  from  25%  last  year  and  35%  in  1970. 
In  this  same  period,  the  share  paid  by  individuals 
and  families  has  increased.  Foregone  revenues 
from  corporate  tax  breaks  total  $10  billion  a  year. 
The  tax  burden  of  small  businesses  with  assets  of 
$1 ,000,000  to  $25,000,000  is  almost  twice  that  of 
corporations  with  assets  of  more  than  $25,000,000. 
A  recent  Employment  and  Immigration  study 
showed  that  a  personal  tax  cut  would  create  five 
times  as  many  jobs  as  a  corporate  tax  cut  of  the 
same  size. 

ONTARIO  ARBITRATION  DISPUTE 

Four  Ontario  nursing  homes  have  lost  a  court 
challenge  of  the  Ontario  law  that  bans  strikes  and 
lockouts  at  any  provincially-licensed  nursing  home. 

The  homes  had  argued  that  compulsory  arbitra- 
tion in  disputes  with  their  employees  had  resulted  in 
pay  deals  that  were  too  high. 

After  hearing  two  and  one-half  days  of  argument 
from  lawyers  for  the  homes.  Associate  Chief  Justice 
Frank  Callagahan  announced  that  he  and  two  Divi- 
sional Court  colleagues  were  in  agreement  that  the 
challenge  "must  be  dismissed." 

"It's  obvious  to  me  that  you  can't  just  leave  the 
elderly  out  in  the  cold  in  the  middle  of  the  winter," 
Justice  Patrick  Galligan  said. 

The  homes'  lawyers  had  contended  that  Ontario's 
Hospital  Labor  Disputes  Arbitration  Act,  passed  in 
1965,  is  unconstitutional  at  least  insofar  as  it  pur- 
ports to  apply  to  their  clients. 

The  challenge  was  opposed  by  both  the  Ontario 
Government  and  the  Canadian  Union  of  Public  Em- 
ployees, but  when  the  court  decided  no  case  had 
been  made  by  the  applicants,  the  Government  and 
CUPE  lawyers  didn't  have  to  speak. 


10 


CARPENTER 


Membership  Actions,  Economic  Power  Producing 
Results  in  American  Express  Campaign 


Aggressive  publicity  actions  and  sup- 
port by  UBC  members  nationally  have 
produced  significant  results  in  the  year- 
long American  Express  campaign.  In 
late  January,  a  project  agreement  was 
signed  on  a  $25  million  hotel  being  built 
in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  by  American  Express 
affiliate  Robinson-Humphrey.  Charter 
Builders,  the  project  general  contractor 
and  a  large  nonunion  contractor  in  At- 
lanta, signed  an  agreement  with  Local 
225,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  which  assures  the 
hotel's  construction  will  be  done  union. 

On  another  Robinson-Humphrey  job 
in  Atlanta,  E.L.  Thompson,  a  union 
contractor,  was  called  in  to  replace  the 
Austin  Co. ,  a  nonunion  contractor  from 
Austin,  Tex.  The  Austin  Co.  had  orig- 
inally secured  the  contract  to  do  the 
interior  work  on  a  new  office  building 
but  was  removed  after  the  Brotherhood 
began  to  focus  public  attention  on  the 
Atlanta  projects. 

New  Job  Goes  Union 

American  Express  also  announced 
the  selection  of  Continental  Heller  Inc . , 
a  union  general  contractor  based  in 
Sacramento,  Calif.,  to  build  its  new 
credit  card  facility  in  Phoenix,  Ariz. 
The  $35  million  structure  is  similar  to 
the  American  Express  facility  built  in 
Greensboro,  N.C.,  by  nonunion  general 
contractor  Carlson  Builders  Inc.  of  At- 
lanta. The  use  of  Carlson  Builders  by 
American  Express  on  the  Greensboro 
project  prompted  the  Brotherhood's 
consumer  boycott  of  American  Ex- 
press. Carlson  was  in  line  for  the  Phoe- 
nix project  since  they  had  done  the 
design  work  on  the  building,  but  they 
recently  were  dropped  from  consider- 
ation as  general  contractor  apparently 


New  York  City. 

N.Y.,  and  Vicinity 

District  Council 

members  distributed 

leaflets  at  American 

Express  headquarters 

as  a  part  of  the 

Brotherhood  effort  to 

make  the  public 

aware  of  the  cotnpa- 

ny's  use  of  nonunion 

construction  firms. 


A  union  contractor, 
E.  L.  Thompson,  has 
put  members  of  Lo- 
cal 225,  Atlanta, 
Ga.,  to  work  on  this 
multimillion  dollar 
project.  Thompson 
was  called  in  to  re- 
place a  nonunion 
firm  which  had  been 
performing  the  work. 


due  to  the  increasing  public  pressure 
generated  by  the  Brotherhood's  con- 
sumer campaign. 


Grassroots  Efforts 
And  Pension  Awareness 

American  Express'  actions  to  insure 
that  the  Atlanta  and  Phoenix  projects 
were  built  union  followed  on  the  heels 
of  handbilling  of  American  Express  fa- 
cilities in  major  metropolitan  areas 
throughout  the  country.  These  dem- 
onstrations helped  heighten  public 
awareness  of  the  boycott  and  produced 
thousands  of  canceled  credit  accounts 
and  cut-up  cards.  The  handbilling,  cut- 
up  cards,  and  other  imaginative  appeals 
by  UBC  members  have  helped  drama- 
tize to  the  company  the  intensity  of  the 
concern  and  anger  generated  by  the  use 
of  nonunion  construction  contractors. 

An  independent  issue  which  has  de- 
veloped for  American  Express  and  its 
subsidiaries  is  an  awareness  among  union 
pension  funds  trustees  of  the  company's 
use  of  nonunion  labor  to  construct  its 
facilities.  Several  major  American 
Express  Co.  subsidiaries,  such  as 
Shearson    Lehman    Bros.,    Robinson- 


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Humphrey,  and  the  Boston  Co. ,  receive 
considerable  money  management  and 
stock  brokerage  business  from  Brother- 
hood and  other  union  pension  funds. 
While  the  Brotherhood's  boycott  cam- 
paign has  targeted  only  American  Ex- 
press' travel  related  services,  pension 
trustees,  have  been  examining  the  ac- 
tivities of  all  members  of  the  American 
Express  corporate  family,  and  have 
been  taking  a  good,  hard  look  at  whether 
it  serves  their  plans'  and  participants' 
interests  to  direct  business  their  way. 

Actions  Speak  Louder 

Last  summer  American  Express  pub- 
licized a  one-page  document  outlining 
their  construction  labor  relations  policy 
as  a  response  to  the  UBC's  "Leave 
Home  Without  It"  campaign.  In  the 
policy  statement,  American  Express 
claimed  that  they  would  use  union  labor 
on  all  their  facilities.  Despite  the  poli- 
cies embodied  in  the  statement,  the 
Greensboro  project  continued  on  its 
nonunion  course  and  Robinson-Hum- 
phrey embarked  on  two  nonunion  proj- 
ects in  Atlanta. 

For  many,  the  release  of  the  com- 
pany's construction  policy  statement 
marked  the  end  of  their  efforts  against 
American  Express.  In  the  absence  of 
action  by  the  company  to  apply  its 
policy  in  Greensboro  and  Atlanta,  the 
Brotherhood  intensified  its  American 
Express  campaign.  "A  written  policy 
regarding  union  construction  isn't  worth 
the  paper  it's  written  on  in  the  absence 
of  actions,"  stated  UBC  General  Pres- 
ident Patrick  J.  Campbell.  "It's  actions 
by  which  we  will  judge  American  Ex- 
press and  other  construction  users," 
continued  Campbell.  The  recent  actions 
by  the  company  to  ensure  that  the  work 
in  Atlanta  and  Phoenix  will  be  per- 
formed by  union  craftsmen  are  steps  in 
the  right  direction.  jj|jfj 


MARCH     1987 


11 


Labor  part  of  broad  coalition 

National  Health  Care  Campaign 
Seeks  Coverage  For  All  Americans 


By  CALVIN  G.  ZON 

PAI  Staff  Writer 


A  major  campaign  to  reform  the  na- 
tion's ailing  health  care  system  has  been 
launched  in  27  states  and  the  nation's 
capital  by  a  broad  coalition  of  more 
than  60  labor,  senior,  religious,  con- 
sumer, minority,  women's,  children's 
advocacy,  and  chronic  illness  organi- 
zations. 

The  National  Health  Care  Campaign, 
as  it  is  called,  will  organize  grassroots 
support  for  public  policy  changes  at  the 
national  and  state  level  "to  make  health 
care  coverage  affordable  and  to  bring 
good  health  within  the  reach  of  all 
Americans." 

Some  37  million  Americans  today  are 
without  health  care  coverage,  private 
or  public,  and  another  50  million  are 
without  adequate  protection,  according 
to  a  report  released  by  the  campaign. 

"It's  going  to  take  a  grassroots  cam- 
paign of  major  proportions  to  make  high 
quality  health  care  accessible  and  af- 
fordable for  every  American, ' '  said  AFL- 
CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland  in  a  state- 
ment issued  at  a  news  conference  where 
the  campaign  was  announced. 

The  AFL-CIO  joined  the  campiagn 
in  calling  on  the  100th  Congress  to  hold 
early  hearings  on  the  health  care  crisis. 


including  consideration  of  a  national 
health  care  system.  "The  United  States 
must  join  as  .rapidly  as  possible  the 
other  industrialized  nations  of  the  world 
in  making  access  to  affordable  quality 
heahh  care  a  right  for  all,"  the  feder- 
ation said. 

"Recent  developments  have  under- 
scored the  inability  of  our  country's 
patchwork  health  insurance  system  to 
assure  all  Americans  access  to  health 
care,"  it  continued.  Massive  job  losses 
in  basic  industries  and  the  increase  in 
part-time  and  contractual  employment 
have  left  millions  of  workers  and  their 
families  with  little  or  no  health  cover- 
age, it  said. 

Arthur  Flemming,  who  served  as  sec- 
retary of  Health,  Education  and  Wel- 
fare in  the  Eisenhower  Administration, 
is  chairman  of  the  campaign.  Flemming 
and  others  at  the  news  conference  said 
grassroots  support  for  health  care  re- 
form has  grown  strong  and  that  the 
political  climate  in  Congress  and  in  state 
legislatures  is  now  favorable. 

"At  the  outset,  the  Campaign  will 
marshal  grassroots  support  for  getting 
all  states  to  implement  the  law  passed 
by  Congress  providing  for  the  extension 


of  Medicaid  to  all  pregnant  women, 
children  under  six,  the  elderly,  and 
persons  with  disabilities  whose  incomes 
are  below  the  poverty  iine,"  Flemming 
said. 

Further,  the  campaign  will  push  for 
state  legislation  to  expand  access  to 
health  care  by  setting  up  state  health 
insurance  pools  and  programs  to  pay 
for  charity  care  by  public  and  nonprofit 
hospitals,  to  provide  group  insurance 
at  reasonable  rates  for  those  now  unable 
to  buy  insurance,  and  to  require  busi- 
nesses to  provide  health  insurance,  said 
Bert  Seidman,  head  of  the  AFL-CIO's 
Occupational  Safety,  Health  and  Social 
Security  Department. 

Seidman  said  the  campaign  will  seek 
to  make  health  care  more  affordable  for 
the  nation's  elderly  by  Hmiting  out-of- 
pocket  costs  under  Medicare  and  set- 
ting up  prescription  drug  programs. 

William  Hutton,  executive  director 
of  the  National  Council  of  Senior  Citi- 
zens, told  reporters,  "The  skyrocketing 
cost  of  health  care  has  so  increased  the 
co-payments,  deductibles,  and  premi- 
ums under  Medicare  so  that  today  older 
people  are  paying  more  out  of  their  own 
pockets  for  health  care  than  they  did 
before  the  Medicare  program  was  en- 
acted." 

Hutton  said  the  NCSC  "is  committed 
to  the  enactment  of  a  universal,  com- 
prehensive national  health  care  pro- 
gram for  all  Americans,  young  and  old 
alike.  We  beheve  that  access  to  quality 
health  care  is  a  right  for  all  citizens  and 
not  a  privilege  for  the  wealthy  few  .  .  . 
Together,  we  will  make  health  care  a 
major  issue  for  the  100th  Congress." 

Dana  Hughes  of  the  Children's  De- 
fense Fund  said  12  miUion  children  in 
the  U.S.  lack  full  access  to  regular 
comprehensive  care  because  they  lack 
health  insurance  coverage.  She  said 
erosion  of  Medicaid  and  maternal  and 
child  health  programs  resulted  from 
budget  cutbacks  in  the  early  1980s. 

Highlights  of  campaign's  study, 
"Facing  Facts,"  are: 

*  In  1966,  the  per  capita  annual  cost 
of  medical  expenses  was  $201.  By  1984, 
the  cost  had  risen  to  $1,394. 

*  In  1982,  there  were  37  states  where 
fewer  than  50%  of  those  in  poverty  were 
eligible  for  Medicaid. 

*  Of  the  37  million  uninsured,  two- 
thirds  to  three-quarters  are  working  peo- 
ple, and  20%  are  children.  jj^f) 


Editor's  Note:  The  United  Brotherhood 
is  participating  in  the  legislative  fight  to 
prevent  cuts  in  Medicare  and  Medicaid  and 
is  calling  upon  Congress  to  provide  more 
financial  aid  to  those  v/ilh  catastrophic  ill- 
nesses. As  we  go  to  press,  there  are  no  bills 
introduced,  but  it  is  likely  that  several  will 
be  introduced  in  late  February. 


12 


CARPENTER 


Louisiana-Pacific  Anti-Union 
Tactics  Evident  in  New  Areas 


The  anti-union,  anti-community  ac- 
tions Louisiana  Pacific  has  displayed  in 
their  effort  to  break  the  wood-workers 
unions  in  the  Pacific  Northwest  are  now 
being  exhibited  by  the  company  in  other 
parts  of  the  country.  L-P  recently  pur- 
chased three  wood-product  facilities  in 
East  Texas  from  Kirby  Industries  Inc. 
and  promptly  closed  two  of  the  facili- 
ties, putting  nearly  1,200  workers  on 
the  unemployment  rolls.  The  two  closed 
facilities  were  union  facilities  organized 
by  the  International  Woodworkers  of 
America;  the  facihty  which  remained 
open  was  unorganized. 

Despite  assurances  from  L-P  officials 
prior  to  the  completion  of  the  Kirby 
sale  that  every  effort  would  be  made  to 
preserve  the  jobs  of  the  mill  workers, 
the  shutdown  was  announced  immedi- 
ately upon  completion  of  the  sale. 
Workers  in  Northern  California's  Son- 
oma County  and  in  Jasper,  Tex.,  may 
face  the  same  fate;  L-P  has  recently 
purchased  wood-product  facilities  in 
those  locations. 

Published  reports  of  the  closures  raised 
questions  regarding  the  anti-union  in- 
tent behind  the  company  action.  One 
unidentified  Wall  Street  analyst  cited 
L-P's  anti-union  background  as  an  ex- 
planation for  the  shutdowns,  but  not 
unexpectedly  Wall  Street's  largest  bro- 
kerage firm,  Merrill  Lynch,  came  to 
L-P's  defense.  Merrill  Lynch's  chief 
forest  products  analyst,  Evadna  Lynn, 
challenged  the  anti-union  label  placed 
on  L-P  and  indicated  that  the  closing 
of  the  union  plants  was  justified  on 
sound  economic  grounds. 

Figures  on  Merrill  Lynch's  owner- 
ship of  L-P  stock  were  obtained  from 
the  brokerage  firm  last  spring.  The  com- 
pany reported  that  it  held  over  4  million 
shares  of  L-P  common  stock — nearly 
12%  of  the  outstanding  shares  of  com- 


pany stock.  This  large  ownership  po- 
sition made  Merrill  Lynch  the  largest 
holder  of  L-P  stock  and  explains  in  part 
why  Lynn  has  been  a  consistent  pro- 
moter of  the  company. 

Board  of  Director  Connections 

Consumer  handbilling  was  conducted 
at  the  headquarters  and  branch  offices 
of  U.S.  Bancorp  in  Portland,  Ore.,  to 
protest  the  bank  chairman's  recent  de- 
cision to  join  the  L-P  board  of  directors. 
John  A.  Elorriga,  U.S.  Bancorp  Chair- 
man and  Chief  Executive  Officer,  ac- 
cepted a  position  on  the  L-P  board  of 
directors,  a  group  of  individuals  hand- 
picked  by  L-P  Chaimtan  Harry  A.  Merlo. 
The  handbill  challenged  Elloriga's  as- 
sociation with  the  anti-iinion  company 
whose  actions  have  destroyed  the  liveli- 
hoods of  thousands  of  workers  in  the 
Pacific  Northwest. 


GET  OFF  THE 

UNION 

BUSTER! 


This  flyer  will  be  distributed  by  UBC 
members  at  U.S.  Bancorp  facilities  in  the 
Portland,  Ore.,  area. 


Environmental  Suit  Goes  to  Trial 

A  court  action  by  Brotherhood  Local 
3074  in  Chester,  Calif. ,  seeking  to  stop 
the  construction  of  a  L-P  waferboard 
mill  was  scheduled  for  trial  early  this 
month.  The  union  suit,  which  has 
blocked  construction  of  the  plant  for 
nearly  two  years,  claims  that  the  town's 
supervisors  violated  the  California  En- 
vironmental QuaUty  Act  when  they  is- 
sued a  "negative  declaration"  clearing 
the  way  for  construction  of  the  plant. 
In  issuing  the  "negative  declaration," 
the  county  failed  to  prepare  an  envi- 
ronmental impact  statement  as  required 
under  state  law. 

L-P  Buys  Favorable  Coverage? 

L-P  took  an  interesting  approach  to 
an  environmental  problem  in  Wyoming 
where  it  is  challenging  the  Forest  Serv- 
ice's Bridger-Teton  National  Forest 
management  plan.  In  order  to  generate 
public  support,  the  company  purchased 
600  subscriptions  to  a  local  newspaper 
for  local  residents.  Not  coincidentally, 
the  newspaper,  the  Riverton  {Wyo.) 
Ranger,  is  a  strong  supporter  of  L-P's 
efforts  to  increase  the  allowable  timber 
harvests  in  Bridger-Teton. 

A  letter  from  the  Ranger's  publisher 
that  accompanied  the  first  free  issues 
said  the  community  needed  to  work  for 
a  compromise  that  would  allow  for 
greater  harvests,  yet  failed  to  mention 
that  L-P  had  provided  the  free  subscrip- 
tions. The  pubhsher  insisted  that  the 
subscriptions  will  not  effect  the  paper's 
editorial  position  on  the  issue,  but  the 
owner  of  the  cross-town  paper,  the 
Dubois  {Wyo.)  Frontier,  saw  it  differ- 
ently: "It  would  appear  to  be  a  move 
by  Louisiana-Pacific  to  be  sure  that  the 
people  of  Dubois  have  only  one  view: 
the  company  view."  jjfjjj 


L-P  Strikers  Fund  Still  Growing;  Many  Contribute  Regularly 


The  list  of  contributors  to  the  L-P  Strikers 
Fund  continues  to  grow.  In  recent  weeks 
several  first-time  donors  sent  checks  in  to 
the  General  Office.  We  have  also  received 
offerings  from  many  of  the  faithful  who  have 
consistently  supported  the  L-P  strike  in 
many  ways. 

2,  Cincinnati,  Ohio 


44,  Champaign,  Illinois 
81,  Erie,  Pennsylvania 
203,  Poughkeepsie,  N.Y. 
1024,  Cumberland,  Md. 
1185,  Des  Plaines,  III. 
1489,  Burlington,  N.J. 
1526,  Denton,  Texas 
1583,  Englewood,  Colorado 
1596,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


2834,  Denver.  Colorado 
Chicago  District  Council 
Cleveland  District  Council 
Los  Angeles,  D.C. 
Miami  Valley,  D.C. 
Mid-Central  Illinois,  D.C. 
Thomas  Kay 
Stanley  Sobotka 
Local  465.  Chester  County, 


Pa. 


MARCH    1987 


13 


cue  Legislative  Update 

Congress  Votes  for  Clean  Water, 
Hands  President  First  '87  Defeat 


"The  American  people  want  clean 
water." 

Acting  on  that  mandate,  the  100th 
Congress  dealt  President  Reagan  a  stun- 
ning defeat  by  overriding  his  veto  and 
enacting  a  labor-backed  $20  billion  pro- 
gram to  clean  up  the  nation's  polluted 
water.  The  House  overrode  the  veto  by 
401-26  and  the  Senate  by  86-14,  well 
over  the  necessary  two-thirds. 

Some  members  of  Congress  viewed 
Reagan's  second  veto  of  the  vital  pro- 
gram as  a  major  political  blunder  and  a 
futile  attempt  to  rebuild  his  credibility 
in  the  wake  of  the  Iran-contra  arms 
scandal. 

The  clean  water  bill  was  seen  as 
urgently  needed  in  every  congressional 
district  in  the  nation  to  continue  the 
fight  against  pollution,  to  protect  the 
environment,  and  to  create  jobs. 

The  bill  amends  and  reauthorizes  the 
Clean  Water  Act  of  1972,  which  was 
passed  over  President  Nixon's  veto. 
That  law  limited  wastewater  discharges 
to  lakes  and  streams.  The  new  bill 
provides  $18  billion  through  1994  to 
state  and  local  governments  for  the 


construction  of  sewage  treatment  plants; 
another  $2  billion  goes  for  pollution 
control  programs. 

Work  on  the  extension  bill  began  in 
1982  and  what  was  basically  Republican 
legislation  last  year  passed  the  House 
by  408-0  and  the  Senate  by  96-0.  Rea- 
gan pocket  vetoed  the  bill  by  refusing 
to  sign  it  before  the  99th  Congress 
adjourned. 

When  the  100th  Congress  took  over, 
an  identical  clean  water  bill  was  intro- 
duced as  H.R.  1  and  on  January  8 
passed  the  House  by  406-8.  In  the 
Senate,  the  Administration  offered  a 
$12  billion  substitute  bill  and  it  was 
beaten,  17-82.  The  Senate  then  passed 
H.R.  1  by  93-6  and  sent  it  to  the  White 
House. 

Rep.  John  Chafee  (R-R.I.),  the  num- 
ber three  Republican  in  the  House, 
urged  Reagan  to  sign  the  bill  and  take 
credit  for  it.  Reagan  also  could  have 
allowed  it  to  become  law  in  10  days  by 
neither  signing  nor  vetoing  it. 

Instead,  Reagan  attacked  the  clean 
water  bill  as  a  "budget-buster"  and 
vetoed  it  for  the  second  time.  Chafee, 


who  chaired  the  panel  which  wrote  the 
legislation  last  year,  called  the  veto  "a 
serious  mistake."  Chafee  said  the  bill 
was  "fiscally  responsible  and  lives  up 
to  our  national  goal  of  making  the  na- 
tion's waters  fishable  and  swimmable." 

Senator  Quentin  Burdick  (D-N.D.), 
who  heads  the  Environment  and  Public 
Works  Committee,  called  the  veto  an 
"exercise  in  futility"  and  said,  "The 
President  stands  alone  on  this  one." 
After  the  override  vote,  Burdick  said  it 
was  clear,  "The  American  people  want 
clean  water." 

Senator  George  Mitchell  (D-Me .),  the 
bill's  manager,  said  the  $18  billion  clean- 
up program  is  "a  small  fraction  of  the 
total  need."  Some  environmentalists 
believe  that  $100  billion  will  be  required 
to  wipe  out  and  control  pollution. 

The  bill,  which  will  automatically 
phase  out  the  federal  role  in  the  1990s, 
authorizes  $9.6  biUion  in  grants  to  local 
go  vernments  for  construction  of  sewage 
treatment  plants;  $8.4  biUion  in  grants 
to  states  during  fiscal  1989-94  to  estab- 
lish and  capitalize  state-run  revolving 
loan  funds  for  local  sewage  facilities; 
and  $2  billion  for  pollution  control. 
Some  $400  million  of  the  latter  program 
is  aimed  at  controlling  the  run-off  of 
farm  pesticides,  car  oil,  and  street  grime 
which  are  thought  to  be  responsible  for 
nearly  half  the  pollution  in  streams, 
lakes,  rivers,  and  waterways. 

Once  funds  are  allocated,  UBC  locals 
should  make  sure  union  contractors  and 
union  craftsmen  do  the  work. 


Support  CLIC's  1987  Program 

The  United  Brotherhood's  political  action  arm  is  the  Carpen- 
ters Legislative  Improvement  Committee,  known  familiarly  as 
CLIC.  More  financial  support  of  CLIC  is  needed  in  the  coming 
months.  Fill  out  the  coupon  and  mail  it  in  today. 

Recent  contributors  have  included:  John  Campbell,  Local  131 
retiree,  Mariposa,  Calif.;  Clarence  Briggs,  Local  1149  retiree. 
Walnut  Creek,  Calif.;  James  R.  Harrington,  Local  33,  Boston, 
Mass.;  Walter  Jacobsen,  Local  2287,  White  House  Station,  N.J.; 
Steve  Naglich,  Local  1172  retiree,  Red  Lodge,  Mont.;  Joe 
Dajczak,  Local  182  retiree,  Lake  Wales,  Fla. ;  Stanley  L.  Delitko, 
Local  599,  Cedar  Lake,  Ind.;  Robert  Leach,  Local  1222,  Med- 
ford,  N.Y.;  Sture  Peterson,  Local  1397  retiree,  South  Daytona, 
Fla.;  Sigmund  A.  Szabelski,  Local  1185  retiree.  Oak  Park,  111.; 
Antone  Balenunas,  Local  2633  retiree,  South  Tacoma,  Wash.; 
Henry  M.  Kolbaba,  Local  668  retiree,  Holstein,  la.;  Olav  Gerde, 
Local  131  retiree,  Seattle,  Wash.;  Norman  T.  Spaulding,  Local 
586  retiree,  Sacramento,  Calif.;  and  Thomas  Kay,  Local  359 
retiree,  Morrisville,  Pa. 

Highway  Jobs  Must  Go  Union 

The  federal  government  in  Washington,  D.C.,  will  be  launching 
a  highways-and-bridges  rehabilitation  program  in  the  coming 
months.  States  will  be  expected  to  produce  matching  funds  to 
get  the  program  underway.  On  Capitol  Hill,  Congress  has  for 
consideration  H.R.  2  and  S.  387,  which  would  provide  the  needed 
funds  for  the  rebuilding  and  repair  of  our  U.S.  highways.  This 
would  amount  to  some  $60  billion  for  highways  and  mass  transit 
projects.  UBC  legislative  advocates  and  our  representatives  in 
various  states  are  reminded  to  keep  track  of  pending  state 
appropriations  and  see  to  it  that  union  contractors  get  a  fair 
chance  to  bid  on  the  work.  Your  diligence  on  this  is  urgent. 


Yes,  I  want  to  help! 

Here  is  my  contribution  to  the  Catpenters  Legislative 

Innprovement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 

counts. 

n  $10  D  $15  n  $20  n  $25  n  other 

Name — 


Address . 

City 

Zip 


State. 


LU.  No. 


We're  required  by  law  to  request  this  information: 

Occupation 

Employer 

Make  checks  payable  to: 

CLIC 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  DC  20001 

Contributions  to  CLIC  are  volnntaiy  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  in  tiie  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  reftise  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contribations  from  persons  other  than  UBC 
members  and  their  immediate  families.  Contribations  from  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


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.AIRP>OR  r 


Mike  Fishman,  director  of  the  UBC  indus- 
trial department,  opens  the  discussions  in 
Portland.  He  outlined  elements  of  the  cur- 
rent campaign. 


Jim  Bledsoe,  executive  secretary  of  the 
Western  Council,  leads  discussions  in  Red- 
ding. To  his  left  is  Bert  Carr.  recording 
secretary  of  Local  2927,  Martell,  Calif. 


In  the  sessions  at  Redding,  Denny  Scott  of 
the  international  staff  explains  how  job 
stewards  and  volunteers  conduct  one-on- 
one  job  canvassing. 


'Just  Wait  Until  '88'  Is  Forest  Products  Theme 

Area  workshops  to  provide  local  mformation  prior  to  negotiations. 


"Just  Wait  Till  '88"  is  the  theme  for  a 
far-ranging  program  to  prepare  for  1988  na- 
tional coordinated  negotiations  in  the  forest 
products  industry. 

A  full  year  before  contract  negotiations 
open,  the  Western  Industrial  Council  has 
started  a  series  of  area  workshops  to  provide 
information  on  industry  conditions  and  trends, 
to  build  membership  solidarity,  and  to  create 
an  improved  communication  system  among 
local  unions. 

In  the  opening  meeting  January  21  in 
Portland,  Ore.,  James  Bledsoe,  executive 
secretary  of  the  Western  Industrial  Council, 
said,  "This  program  puts  the  companies  on 
notice  that  our  membership  will  do  every- 
thing in  its  power  to  achieve  economic  justice 
in  the  next  round  of  contract  bargaining." 

The  program  has  several  elements.  First, 
a  20-question  survey  is  being  distributed  to 
every  member.   It  asks  opinions  on  such 


things  as  national  bargaining  strategies,  is- 
sues that  should  be  stressed  in  bargaining, 
and  how  members  now  get  information  about 
union  activities.  Survey  forms  are  being 
handed  out  by  job  stewards  to  some  20,000 
members  with  results  expected  sometime  in 
March  or  April. 

The  second  phase  is  a  series  of  seminars 
that  will  be  conducted  throughout  the  West- 
ern States  to  achieve  as  much  membership 
participation  as  possible.  The  first  was  held 
in  Portland,  Ore.,  on  January  21  and  the 
second  in  Redding,  Calif.,  on  January  31. 

Over  200  local  union  leaders  attended  the 
two  meetings.  They  heard  about  the  goals 
and  operations  of  the  U.S.  Forest  Products 
Joint  Bargaining  Board.  This  board,  estab- 
lished in  February  1986,  was  formed  by  the 
Western  and  Southern  Industrial  Councils 
of  the  UBC  and  the  corresponding  regional 


councils  of  the  International  Woodworkers 
of  America  to  coordinate  national  contract 
negotiations. 

These  area  meetings  also  received  reports 
on  company  profits  and  on  regional  trends 
of  the  forest  industry  corporations.  The 
national  operations  of  several  major  inte- 
grated firms  were  examined  since  these  com- 
panies will  likely  set  the  contract  settlement 
patterns  in  1988. 

Lastly,  one-on-one  job  canvassing  was 
discussed.  This  is  a  face-to-face  communi- 
cation system  which  allows  job  stewards  and 
additional  canvass  volunteers  to  contact  ev- 
ery member  concerning  a  preselected  issue. 
It  is  a  formalized  way  to  make  sure  every 
member  gets  information  and  news  and  will 
be  used  primarily  to  pass  along  facts  about 
bargaining  issues  and  bargaining  tactics  as 
1988  negotiations  approach.  jjfjfj 


The  seminar  in  Portland,  Ore. 


The  seminar  in  Redding.  Calif. 


MARCH     1987 


15 


Ldbor  News 
Roundup 

Portland  Building  Trades 
wins  pay  raise  for 
prefab-home  workers 

Portland  building  trades  unions  won  a 
pay  raise  for  nonunion  workers  building 
prefabricated  homes  for  the  U.S.  Navy, 
the  Oregon/Washington  Labor  Press  re- 
ports. The  Navy  claimed  the  $56  million 
project  was  exempt  from  the  Davis-Ba- 
con Act,  which  requires  workers  to  be 
paid  prevailing  wages,  but  the  Wage 
Appeals  Board  agreed  with  the  unions 
that  the  project  is  covered  by  the  law. 
Marc  Furman,  UBC  general  represent- 
ative, estimated  that  retroactive  pay  will 
total  some  $4.5  million  if  the  ruling  stands 
after  the  Navy's  appeal.  When  building 
trades  unions  picketed  the  project  last 
year,  they  said  that  many  of  the  workers 
hired  for  the  project  were  in  minimum- 
wage,  federal  work-release  and  job-train- 
ing programs. 

New  music  cassette 
by  labor's  troubadour 
Joe  Glazer  available 

Labor's  troubadour,  Joe  Glazer,  has 
completed  a  new  album  and  cassette.  Old 
Folks  Ain't  The  Same.  It  includes  classics 
like  "Too  Old  To  Work"  and  "My  Get 
Up  and  Go,"  and  new  ones  like  the  title 
song,  which  blasts  stereotypes  about  sen- 
ior citizens.  Another  song  which  tells 
bitter  truths  with  humor  is  "Never  Get 
Sick  in  America,"  sung  by  Steve  Jones 
and  Ann  Schurman.  The  album  and  cas- 
sette are  available  from  Collector  Rec- 
ords, 1604  Arbor  View  Road,  Silver 
Spring,  MD  20902  for  $7.50. 

AFL-CIO  information  director 
takes  post  with 
Radio  Free  Europe 

AFL-CIO  Information  Director  Mur- 
ray Seeger  has  resigned  to  become  di- 
rector of  corporate  affairs  for  Radio  Free 
Europe/Radio  Liberty  Inc.,  the  federa- 
tion has  announced. 

AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland  cited 
Seeger's  contributions  to  the  federation's 
communications  program  and  the  Labor 
Institute  of  Public  Affairs,  the  video  pro- 
gram which  Seeger  helped  estabhsh. 

Prior  to  joining  the  federation  staff  in 
January  1982.  Seeger  was  a  long-time 
newspaper  foreign  correspondent. 

In  his  new  position,  Seeger  will  direct 
press,  governmental,  and  private  orga- 
nization contacts  for  RFE/RL,  which 
operates  radio  stations  that  broadcast 
news  and  information  to  Eastern  Europe 
and  the  Soviet  Union. 


Solidarnosc  first 
communist-country  union 
accepted  by  ICFTU 

Solidarnosc,  the  independent  Polish 
trade  union,  is  the  newest  member  of  the 
International  Confederation  of  Free  Trade 
Unions.  The  ICFTU  executive  commit- 
tee voted  to  accept  the  Polish  union  after 
Lech  Walesa  and  other  Solidarnosc  lead- 
ers sent  a  letter  requesting  the  affiliation. 
The  British  Trades  Union  Congress  pro- 
posed the  affiliation,  which  was  sup- 
ported by  all  national  trade  union  leaders 
on  the  committee.  Solidarnosc  is  the  first 
union  from  a  communist  country  ac- 
cepted as  a  member  of  the  ICFTU. 


AFL-CIO  Union-Industries 
Show  in  Atlantic  City 
June  19-24 

The  1987  AFL-CIO  Union-Industries 
Show  will  be  held  June  19-24  in  the 
Atlantic  City,  N.J.,  Convention  Center. 
This  annual  exposition  of  American-made 
products  and  services  is  produced  and 
managed  by  the  Union  Label  and  Service 
Trades  Department,  AFL-CIO. 

The  show  was  started  in  Cincinnati  in 
1938,  was  discontinued  during  the  years 
of  World  War  II,  and  has  been  held 
annually  since  1948.  The  1987  show  will 
be  the  42nd. 

Over  300  colorful,  exciting  exhibits  of 
AFL-CIO  unions,  corporations,  govern- 
ment agencies,  and  community  service 
organizations  will  demonstrate  the  skills 
of  America's  union  workers  and  the  prod- 
ucts they  make.  Many  action  exhibits  are 
planned  to  interest  show  visitors.  Over 
$100,000  worth  of  product  sarpples  are 
given  away  and  free  raffles  for  valuable 
prizes  are  a  continuous  feature  of  many 
exhibits. 

Admission  is  free.  Doors  open  at  1 
p.m.  each  day  and  close  at  10  p.m.  The 
public  is  invited,  but  children  must  be 
accompanied  by  an  adult. 


Minnesota  coalition 
hails  plan  to  close 
loopholes,  lower  taxes 

Minnesota  Citizens  for  Tax  Justice 
hailed  Governor  Rudy  Perpich's  proposal 
to  conform  the  state's  income  tax  to 
federal  tax  reform  as  a  "giant  step  toward 
making  Minnesota's  taxes  both  simpler 
and  fairer."  The  coalition  of  labor,  reli- 
gious, farmer,  and  civic  groups  said  the 
plan  would  close  loopholes  for  the  wealthy, 
lower  taxes  for  middle  and  low  income 
taxpayers,  and  remove  very  low  income 
families  from  the  income  tax  rolls.  The 
coalition  expressed  misgivings,  however, 
about  the  governor's  proposed  levels  of 
individual  income  tax  rates  because  of 
the  state's  deficit. 


TV  tube  anti-dumping 
petition  filed  by 
five  union  groups 

Five  labor  organizations  have  peti- 
tioned the  Commerce  Department  to  halt 
alleged  illegal  dumping  of  color  television 
picture  tubes  from  South  Korea,  Japan, 
Singapore,  and  Canada. 

The  joint  petition  was  filed  by  the 
Electronic  Workers  (lUE),  the  Electrical 
Workers  (IBEW),  the  Machinists,  the 
Steelworkers,  and  the  AFL-CIO  Indus- 
trial Union  Department.  The  petition  seeks 
a  tariff  surcharge  on  the  picture  tubes  to 
offset  their  sale  in  the  U.S.  market  at 
prices  under  the  selling  prices  in  their 
country  of  origin.  Dumping  is  a  tactic 
used  to  capture  greater  market  share  or 
destroy  domestic  competition. 

The  petition  is  the  latest  move  in  a 
more  than  10-year  effort  by  unions  "at- 
tempting to  stem  the  tide  of  unfairly- 
priced  imports  of  color  televisions,  and 
more  recently  their  component  parts.  As 
a  result  of  these  imports,  thousands  of 
jobs  have  been  lost  and  numerous  fac- 
tories have  been  closed,"  lUD  Secretary- 
Treasurer  Elmer  Chatak  said  at  a  news 
conference. 

Construction  firm  presidents' 
average  compensation 
for  1987  at  $243,502 

Average  total  compensation  for  pres- 
idents of  construction  firms  reporting 
over  $100  million  in  revenues  was  $243,502 
led  only  by  the  board  chairman  which 
reported  an  average  total  compensation 
of  $261,674. 

The  1987  edition  of  the  PAS-FMI  Ex- 
ecutive Compensation  Survey  For  Con- 
tractors details  the  salaries,  bonuses, 
benefits,  and  perquisites  currently  being 
paid  to  executives  in  construction  firms, 
from  president  through  general  superin- 
tendent and  controller. 

In  all  responding  firms  paying  execu- 
tives both  salaries  and  bonuses,  the  av- 
erage total  compensation  for  presidents 
is  $143,972.  The  most  popular  perk  re- 
mains the  company  car  with  91%  of  the 
firms  providing  the  benefit.  Professional 
dues  (78%)  and  club  memberships  (67%) 
followed  as  the  next  popular  perks. 

Once  again,  construction  management 
firms  provided  the  highest  total  compen- 
sation for  presidents  averaging  $230,342 
with  electrical,  mechanical,  other  spe- 
cialty, and  general  contractors  clustered 
between  $110,765  and  $141,097.  Heavy/ 
highway  contractors  reported  the  highest 
average  base  salary  at  $105,945  with 
building  contractors  at  the  low  end  with 
$88,720. 

The  1987  Executive  Compensation 
Survey  for  Contractors  is  an  annual  pub- 
lication of  Personnel  Administration 
Services  Inc.  of  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  in 
cooperation  with  The  Fails  Management 
Institute  of  Raleigh,  N.C.  The  third  an- 
nual survey  covers  compensation  on  2,453 
construction  executives  in  over  3 1 5  firms. 


16 


CARPENTER 


locni  union  nGUi! 


Detroit  Council 
Cited  by  Contractor 

Sending  a  congratulatory  message  to  the 
Detroit  Carpenters  District  Council  for  a  job 
well  done  was  important  for  Detroit,  Mich., 
contractor  Walbridge  Aldinger  to  make  a 
point:  give  credit  where  credit  is  due.  The 
job  was  Rouge  Steel's  continuous  casting 
facility  where  6,190  anchor  bolts  were  set 
accurately  in  place. 

Walbridge  Aldinger  attributed  this  accom- 
plishment to  the  teamwork  between  field 
engineers  and  the  affected  carpenters.  "The 
project  carried  with  it  a  certain  pride  and 
sense  of  commitment  by  all  involved  par- 
ties," the  message  said. 

It  is  only  right  that  the  council,  the  ap- 
prenticeship program  that  developed  the 
workers,  and  the  locals  share  the  pride  that 
the  company  was  taking  for  this  accomplish- 
ment, the  letter  continued. 

"Moreover,"  said  project  director  Mi- 
chael R.  Haller,  "it  is  this  type  of  quality 
workmanship,  efficiently  performed,  that 
reinforces  the  position  of  unionized  con- 
struction in  the  marketplace,  from  which 
both  labor  and  management  will  benefit." 


13  in  Toledo  Get 
Lathing  Upgrading 

Thirteen  Local  248,  Toledo,  Ohio,  jour- 
neymen recently  attended  a  journeymen  up- 
grading class  in  lathing.  The  class,  funded 
by  a  grant  received  from  the  Job  Training 
Partnership  Act  through  the  Ohio  State 
Building  Trades  Training  Foundation  in  con- 
junction with  the  Maumee  Valley  Carpenters 
District  Council  Joint  Apprenticeship  Com- 
mittee, consisted  of  a  13-week  program  of 
two  classes  a  week  for  four  hours  each. 


Frontlash  Joins 
Local  1005  Picket 

Carpenters  Local  1005,  Merrillville,  Ind., 
was  recently  joined  by  volunteers  from  In- 
diana Frontlash,  the  youth  support  group  of 
the  AFL-CIO,  in  protesting  the  nonunion 
construction  of  a  new  Veterans  Administra- 
tion clinic  at  Crown  Point,  Ind.  Local  1005 
Business  Agent  Joe  Manley  joined  North- 
west Building  and  Construction  Trades 
Council  President  Vince  Panepinto  in  calling 
for  a  demonstration  against  the  nonunion 
firm  of  Hamstra  Builders.  An  informational 
picket  line  was  then  established  at  the  ground- 
breaking ceremony  for  the  new  facility.  In- 
diana Frontlash  Director  Todd  Wilkinson 
and  other  Frontlash  volunteers  participated 
in  the  protest. 


Volunteers  manned  picket  lines  at  the  VA 
clinic  ground-breaking  ceremony. 


Hardship  Fund 
Established 


Throughout  his  years  in  the  UBC,  Brother 
Lincoln  Ross  of  Local  1338,  Charlottetown, 
P.E.I.,  promoted  the  idea  of  establishing  a 
fund  to  assist  members  in  times  of  hardship 
and  sickness.  Last  May  the  members  of  his 
local  set  up  just  such  a  contingency  fund 
toassist  members  in 
maintaining  their 

membership  in  times 
of  difficulty  and  to  of- 
fer scholarships  to 
union  members  and 
their  dependents. 

After  the  death  of 
Brother  Ross  last  Oc- 
tober, his  fellow  Local 
1338  brothers  and  sis- 
ters voted  to  name  the 
fund  the  Lincoln  Ross 
Memorial  Fund.  It  is  funded  completely  by 
a  three-cents-per-hour  dues  check-off  from 
the  working  members  of  the  local. 


Ross 


Lucky  Strike 


Last  fall  a  Local  400  member  had  a  "lucky 
strike"  while  chopping  firewood  and  sent  in 
to  us  a  photograph  of  his  lucky  log.  Mike 
Bartnik,  an  Omaha,  Neb.,  journeyman,  was 
cutting  up  a  recently  purchased  load  of 
firewood  in  his  driveway  when  he  heard 
metal  hitting  metal.  Bartnik  looked  into  the 
log  and  saw  a  throwing  horseshoe.  After 
quartering  the  stump  and  trimming  away  a 
bit  more,  half  the  shoe  was  revealed.  Bartnik 
hopes  the  shoe  will  continue  to  bring  him 
luck.  "After  all,"  he  says,  "I  didn't  hit  it 
with  my  saws." 


Participants  in  the  Local  248  journeymen  upgrading  classes,  pictured  above,  front  row, 
from  left,  are  Mike  Grimes,  Mike  Null,  Bob  Holliday,  Pete  Dailey,  and  Don  Neal. 
Middle  row,  from  left,  are  Stan  Bucksey,  Tom  Holliday,  Ron  Slubleski,  and  Ed  Danford. 
Back  row,  from  left,  are  Don  Neely,  Dan  Lajti,  Mark  Kennedy,  and  Wayne  Chaney. 


Mike  Bartnik  displays  his  lucky  log. 


MARCH     1987 


17 


Union-Suited  Rat'  Piclcets 


Connecticut  Stewards  Train 


The  organizing  staff  of  the  Florida  State  Council  of  Carpenters 
had  this  full-body  suit  made  by  a  local  International  Association 
of  Theater  and  Stage  Employees  member  for  use  at  various 
picket  and  rally  locations  around  the  state.  The  above  photo 
was  taken  at  the  1 10  Tower  in  Fort  Lauderdale,  a  30-story,  $70- 
million-dollar  project  at  which  the  council  has  conducted  a  12- 
month  campaign.  The  contractor  on  the  project  is  Stratton. 


Members  of  Local  43,  Hartford,  Conn.,  recently  participated 
in  a  steward  training  workshop  conducted  by  Robert  Loubier, 
local  business  representative,  and  Steven  Flynn,  general  repre- 
sentative. 

Pictured  top,  from  left,  are  Bob  Corriveau,  Ray  Haley,  Dave 
Gosslin.  Rich  Aldrich,  Tom  Gorman,  John  Coyne,  Earl  Leavitt, 
and  Instructor  Loubier. 

Pictured  bottom,  from  left,  are  Jim  Feron,  Marc  Haley,  Dan 
Bouchard,  Dan  McDonald,  Billy  Gendron,  Gary  James,  Joe 
Negri,  and  Instructor  Flynn. 


Local  345  Tribute 


Pennsylvania  Local  Hammers  It  Home 


Evelyn  Cornelius,  right,  an  employee  of 
Local  345,  Memphis,  Tenn.,  for  over  40 
years,  receives  a  plaque  from  T.  A.  Jack- 
son, Local  345  financial  secretary,  in  ap- 
preciation of  her  many  years  with  the  lo- 
cal. 

Youngsters  Receive 
Needed  Addition 

A  much-needed  addition  for  youngsters 
attending  Camp  Happy  Valley  in  West  Vir- 
ginia became  a  reality  last  summer,  thanks 
to  the  generous  volunteer  work  of  members 
of  Local  128,  St.  Albans,  W.  Va. 

Under  the  direction  of  Local  Business 
Manager  Johnny  Harris,  a  team  of  five  car- 
penters built  the  walls,  windows,  and  roof 
of  the  24-by-40-foot  structure  for  the  Sal- 
vation Army  Camp.  The  foundation  had 
already  been  finished. 

About  140  man-hours  were  required  to 
complete  the  project.  Volunteer  carpenters 
were  Thomas  Harmon,  Calvin  Holstein, 
Cluther  Ray,  Keith  Karnes,  and  Dewey 
McCallister. 


After  94  years  of  ex- 
istence. Local  333, 
New  Kensington, 
Pa.,  purchased  a 
building  in  Novem- 
ber 1985  to  serve  as 
their  union  head- 
quarters. To  make 
the  building  uniquely 
theirs,  the  door  han- 
dles of  the  front 
doors  were  personal- 
ized— by  a  pair  of 
ripping  hammers. 
The  hammers,  pic- 
tured at  right,  were 
donated  by  Vaughan 
&  Bushnell  Manufac- 
turing Co. 


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75th  Anniversary  Celebration  For  Local  1050 


Carpenters  Local  1050,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
commemorated  its  75th  anniversary  re- 
cently at  a  gala,  black-tie  banquet.  Many 
state  and  local  officials  were  guests,  and 
service  pins  were  presented  to  senior 
members.  State  Senator  Joe  Rocks  made  a 
special  presentation,  and  a  plaque  was 
presented  by  Philadelphia  District  Council 
President  Ed  Coryell,  center  above.  Re- 
ceiving the  plaque  were  Local  1050  Busi- 
ness Agent  Joe  Ippolito,  left,  and  Presi- 
dent Joe  DeBellis,  right. 


18 


CARPENTER 


San  Francisco  Bay  Shipwrights 
Aid  Presidential  Yacht  Project 


Shipwrights  and  Boatbuilders  Local 
1149,  Oakland,  Calif.,  is  assisting  Mayor 
Lionel  Wilson  of  Oakland  and  his  board 
of  governors  in  an  effort  to  restore  the 
U.S.S.  Potomac,  which  was  once 
Franklin  D.  Roosevelt's  "Floating  White 
House." 

Local  labor  unions  and  public  offi- 
cials plan  to  turn  the  historic  vessel  into 
a  floating  classroom  so  that  school  chil- 
dren may  learn  more  about  the  work  of 
the  U.S.  Presidency. 

The  Potomac  was  originally  the  Coast 
Guard  Cutter  Electro,  but  in  1935  it  was 
recommissioned  as  the  Presidential 
Yacht  U.S.S.  Potomac.  Until  recently 
it  was  moored  in  Clipper  Cove  at  Trea- 
sure Island  Naval  Station,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Calif.  Plans  are  to  create  an  FDR 
Pier  and  a  visitors  center  at  Jack  Lon- 
don Square  in  Oakland  where  the  Po- 
tomac will  be  permanently  moored. 

The  executive  board  of  Local  1149 
has  created  a  non-profit  fund  raising 
committee  known  as  the  San  Francisco 
Shipwrights  Association  for  the  pur- 
pose of  assisting  such  historical  mari- 
time projects  in  the  San  Francisco  Bay 
area.  The  committee  bears  the  name  of 
the  original  shipwrights  organization 
founded  in  1857,  thus  representing  the 
oldest  continuously  operated  labor  or- 
ganization west  of  the  Rocky  Moun- 
tains. 


A  special  pin  has  been  created  for 
presentation  to  persons  who  donate  $5 
or  more  to  the  FDR  Potomac  Fund. 

Among  the  labor  participants  in  the 
project  are  retired  UBC  leader  Clarence 
Briggs,  who  has  also  served  as  secre- 
tary-treasurer of  the  Pacific  Coast  Metal 
Trades  District  Council,  and  Rick  An- 
derson, financial  secretary  of  Local  1 149. 

The  contract  has  been  let  for  the  $1.5 
million  first  phase  of  the  project.  The 
steel  work  began  at  the  mooring  site 
last  month. 

The  commemorative  pin  used  in  the 
fund-raising  effort  was  designed  by  An- 
derson. Readers  of  Carpenter  may  ob- 
tain a  pin  and  support  the  project  by 
sending  a  check  or  money  order  for  $5 
or  more  to  "USS  Potomac"  Fund,  San 
Francisco  Shipwrights  Association, 
Local  1149,  117  Broadway,  Oakland, 
CA  94607. 


The  U.S. S.  Potomac  pin. 


A  Presidential  welcome  for  King  George  VI  and  Queen  Elizabeth  of  England  during  a 
visit  to  Washington,  D.C.  The  royal  couple  boarded  the  U.S.S.  Potomac  at  Washington 
Navy  Yard  in  1939. 


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Safety  and  Health 


OSHA  Recognizes  Risks  Posed  by  Glycol  Ethers 


The  Occupational  Safety  and  Health 
Administration  has  made  a  preliminary 
determination  that  exposure  to  four 
widely  used  glycol  ethers  may  cause 
serious  reproductive,  developmental, 
and  hematological  health  problems  for 
workers. 

OSHA's  formal  recognition  of  the 
hazard  was  in  response  to  the  Environ- 
mental Protection  Agency's  referral  in 
May  1986  under  the  Toxic  Substances 
Control  Act  after  EPA  found  that  most 
exposure  to  the  four  glycol  ethers  oc- 
curs in  the  workplace.  Under  TSCA, 
EPA  may  refer  chemicals  to  other  agen- 
cies for  regulatory  action. 

EPA  found  that  glycol  ethers,  at  cur- 
rent permissible  exposure  rates,  caused 
damage  to  the  testicles,  nervous  and 
immune  systems,  and  bone  marrow; 
reduced  fertility;  and  caused  maternal 
toxicity  and  fetal  abnormalities  in  lab- 
oratory animals.  Epidemiological  and 
clinical  studies  have  demonstrated  that 
glycol  ethers  can  cause  reductions  in 
sperm  count,  gynecological  and  blood 
disorders,  and  neurotoxicity  in  humans. 


Ethylene  glycol  ethers  are  the  main 
ingredient  in  the  trade  name  solvents 
Cellosolve,  Poly-solve,  Dowanol,  and 
Oxitol. 

OSHA's  current  permissible  expo- 
sure levels  to  2-Methoxyethanol,  2- 
Ethoxyethanol,  and  their  acetates  range 
from  25  to  200  parts  per  million  parts 
of  air  averaged  over  an  eight-hour  work- 
day. 

An  estimated  200,000  to  350,000 
workers  are  exposed  to  potentially  un- 
safe levels  of  glycol  ethers,  according 


Toxic  Chemical 
Hearings  to  Begin 

The  Occupational  Safety  and  Health 
Administration  will  begin  hearings  on 
March  24  on  its  proposed  standard  to 
reduce  exposure  to  toxic  chemicals 
for  one  million  laboratory  workers. 
The  hearings  were  requested  by  the 
Steelworkers  and  Standard  Oil  Co. 


to  the  EPA.  Some  90%  of  those  at  risk 
are  wood  and  metal  workers,  painters, 
printers,  furniture  finishers,  and  auto 
body  workers  who  are  exposed  to  the 
chemicals  in  paints,  inks,  lacquers,  var- 
nishes, stains,  and  cleaning  solvents. 

Glycol  ethers,  which  are  made  from 
ethylene  oxide,  also  are  used  as  fuel 
additives  and  in  adhesives,  photo- 
graphic chemicals,  electronics,  plastics, 
and  rubber. 

OSHA  said  that  revised  standards  for 
the  glycol  ethers  to  reduce  worker  ex- 
posure "appear  economically  and  tech- 
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stringent  OSHA  standards  could  reduce 
that  risk." 

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posed a  timetable  for  the  rulemaking 
process  to  revise  the  exposure  stand- 
ards for  glycol  ethers.  According  to  an 
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38  Industrial  Shops  Combine  Efforts  to  Train  Apprentices 


The  opening  last  September  of  the  Car- 
penters Specialty  and  Shopmen  Apprentice 
Training  Program,  Local  821,  Union,  N.J., 
was  the  result  of  over  two  years  of  concen- 
trated effort.  Jointly  administered  by  the 
union  and  the  employers,  the  school  covers 
38  industrial  shops.  It  is  the  first  cabinet- 
making  school  in  northern  New  Jersey  and 
an  example  for  other  areas  around  the  coun- 
try. Operating  for  only  five  months,  the 
school  will  be  locating  in  its  own  building 
as  soon  as  a  suitable  site  is  found. 


The  first  class  of  32  students  of  Local  821 's  Catpenteis  . 
tice  Training  Program  on  opening  day. 


and  Shopmen  Appren- 


Pittsburgh  Millmen  Grads 


Graduates  of  the  Millmen's  Local  1160  JAC,  Pittsburgh,  Pa., 
for  1986  were  recently  honored  at  an  annual  recognition  cere- 
mony at  the  William  Penn  Hotel,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  Seated,  from 
left,  are  committee  members  Donald  Cupp,  Donald  Hack, 
Thomas  Pinney,  Kenneth  Unger,  and  Gregoiy  Siak.  Standing, 
from  left,  are  apprentice  graduates  William  Parker,  Timothy 
Sullivan,  Howard  Dick,  Earl  Brauedigam,  and  Raymond 
Schmitt. 


Local  532  Training  Commended 


The  New  York  State  Department  of  Labor  has  awarded  Local 
532,  Elmira,  N.Y.,  a  certificate  of  comtnendation  for  sponsoring 
a  quality  apprentice  training  program  that  assures  a  continued 
source  of  skilled  workers.  Edward  F.  Baker,  Local  532  business 
representative,  center,  accepts  the  certificate  from  Lois  Gray, 
New  York  State  apprenticeship  chairperson,  left,  and  Lillian 
Roberts,  New  York  State  commissioner  of  labor,  right. 


On  hand  for  the  northern  New  Jersey  apprentice  school  opening 
were,  from  left,  Robert  Ash,  instructor;  Albert  C.  Morante, 
employer  and  apprentice  fund  trustee;  John  Mielach,  employer 
and  apprentice  fund  trustee;  John  Anello,  UBC  representative 
assigned  to  help  organize  the  school;  Fred  Jimenez,  Local  821 
business  manager;  and  Vince  Albrecht,  Local  821  financial  sec- 
retary and  organizer. 

Laser  Operation  Learned 


Over  70  apprentices  and  journcytnen  attended  a  one-night  class 
on  laser  operation  conducted  by  Local  12,  Syracuse,  N.Y.,  at 
the  training  center.  Pictured  above  are  Jeff  Smith  ofJ.C.  Smith, 
a  local  contracting  supplier,  and  Robert  Ross,  regional  manager 
from  Spectra  Physics,  presenting  the  course.  Operator  certifi- 
cates were  issued  to  all  who  attended. 


Lima  Graduates  Six 


Local  372,  Lima,  Ohio,  recently  welcomed  six  apprentice  gradu- 
ates to  journeyman  status.  Pictured  above,  from  left,  they  are 
Bryan  Fair,  Gregory  Griffith,  Max  Miller,  Dean  Rosengarten, 
and  Joseph  Schroeder. 


MARCH     1987 


21 


Florida  Graduates  Honored  at  Gulf  Coast  Building  Trades  Banquet 


Three  graduating  apprentices  received  their  journeyman  mill- 
wright certificates  al  the  Gulf  Coast  Building  Trades  apprentice- 
ship banquet  and  awards  ceremony  last  year:  Bobby  T.  Bayne, 
Stanley  E.  Czerniak  Jr..  and  Joseph  G.  Porterfield.  Pictured  at 
the  awards  banquet,  from  left,  are  Czerniak,  winner  of  the 
Florida  Millwright  Apprentice  Contest.  Local  1000,  Tampa, 
Fla.:  Fal  Johnson,  chairman  of  negotiations,  Florida  Union 
Contractors  and  Sub-Contractors  Association;  Elmer  W.  Tracy, 
financial  secretary,  business  manager,  and  apprentice  coordina- 
tor. Local  1000:  Gerald  Smith,  Florida  State  Council  of  Carpen- 
ters organizing  staff  and  past  apprentice  coordinator  for  Local 
WOO:  Porterfield;  and  Bayne. 


Local  WOO  top  apprentice  Stan  Czerniak,  third  from  left,  at  the 
Carpentry  and  Millwright  Contest  held  in  West  Palm  Beach, 
Fla.,  with,  from  left,  Robert  W.  Young,  Local  WOO  president; 
Business  Manager  Tracy;  Local  2411,  Jacksonville,  Fla.,  Top 
Apprentice  Chris  Doyle;  and  Local  2411  Business  Manager 
Lariy  Manges. 


First  from  Cal  Trans  Pre-Apprenticeship 


David  B.  Sutton  of  Local  1437,  Compton, 
Calif.,  is  the  first  UBC  member  to  achieve 
journeyman  status  via  the  California  De- 
partment of  Transportation's  pre-appren- 
ticeship  program,  which  is  operated  in  con- 
junction with  the  Southern  California  Joint 
Apprenticeship  and  Training  Committee. 

Cal  Trans,  as  the  state  department  of 
transportation  is  familiarly  known,  operates 
the  pre-apprenticeship  program  with  federal 
funds  supplied  under  the  Jobs  Training  Part- 
nership Act.  Pre-apprentices  referred  to  the 
program  are  learning  their  trade  by  rehabil- 
itating houses  along  the  1-105  Century  Free- 
way. They  complete  their  craft  training  un- 
der the  Los  Angeles  PETS  program. 

Frank  Rabelais,  who  administers  the  Cal 
Trans  program,  reports  that  two  young  women 
who  got  started  in  Cal  Trans  pre-appren- 
ticeship are  expected  to  receive  journeyman 


certificates  soon,   needing  only  additional 
work  hours  to  qualify. 


David  Sutton,  left,  receives  his  certificate 
of  completion  from  Don  Watson,  Cal 
Trans  district  director. 


Graduation  for  Northwest  Illinois 


The  Northwest  Illinois  District  Council  of  Carpenters  and  JATC  recently  held  a  comple- 
tion banquet  for  apprentices  who  have  completed  their  apprenticeships  during  the  past 
year.  Seated,  from  left,  are  Becky  Snider,  Brenda  Boynton,  and  Deborah  Seebruck,  all 
members  of  Local  792,  Rockford,  III.  Standing,  from  left,  are  Bill  Buckler,  North  Illinois 
District  Council  of  Carpenters  president  and  JATC  member;  Dick  Smith,  Local  195, 
Peru,  III.;  Allen  Musch,  Local  792;  Jerry  Artz,  Local  792;  Trinidad  Rangel,  Local  792; 
David  Zaugg,  Local  792;  Leroy  Anderson,  apprentice  coordinator;  and  Edward  Nadol- 
ski,  Local  195. 


Apprentice  Transfers 
Follow  GEB  Policy 

It  is  a  tradition,  particularly  in  construc- 
tion work,  that  United  Brotherhood  mem- 
bers "follow  the  work."  Provision  for  a 
transfer  of  membership  from  one  local  union 
to  another  for  journeymen  is  provided  in  the 
UBC  Constitution  and  Laws. 

To  serve  the  needs  of  the  construction 
industry  and  of  apprentice  members,  a  policy 
statement  for  the  processing  of  transfers  of 
members  who  are  apprentices  was  formu- 
lated by  the  UBC  General  Executive  Board 
on  Jan.  24,  1966,  which  provides  the  me- 
chanics for  transfer  of  apprentices  from  one 
local  or  geographical  area  to  another. 

When  an  apprentice  has  been  accepted 
into  a  local  union  by  the  transfer  process 
outlined  by  the  GEB  policy  statement,  the 
local  program  sponsor  accepts  the  appren- 
tice for  training  at  the  level  of  apprenticeship 
achieved  in  the  previous  program. 

The  program  sponsor's  obhgation  is  to 
facilitate  the  apprentice's  adjustment  as  much 
as  possible  so  that  the  apprentice  does  not 
lose  credits,  tasks,  or  standing. 

When  an  apprentice  transfers  from  one 
PETS  program  to  another,  the  receiving 
program  should  accept  all  accomplished  tasks 
as  recorded  by  the  program  from  which  the 
apprentice  comes,  whether  or  not  their  grid 
and  requirements  exactly  match  the  require- 
ments of  the  prior  program. 

When  an  apprentice  transfers  from  a  non- 
PETS  program  to  a  PETS  program,  the 
receiving  program  accepts  that  apprentice 
at  the  period  of  indenture  according  to  the 
contract,  and  credits  that  apprentice  with 
past  training  records  as  to  blueprint  reading, 
optic  and  transit,  welding,  etc.,  and  gives 
appropriate  credit  for  that  task.  The  receiv- 
ing program  then  determines  with  the  ap- 
prentice the  work  areas  in  which  the  ap- 
prentice has  had  no  project  experience  and 
determines  the  tasks  to  be  accomplished  that 
will  best  service  the  apprentice. 

The  most  important  aspect  of  apprentice 
transfers  is  to  make  certain  that  the  transfer 
of  training  does  not  penahze  the  apprentice, 
and  that  the  transfer  builds  on  the  strengths 
of  the  prior  experience. 


22 


CARPENTER 


HAIR  LOSS:  Fact  and  Fiction 


By  PHILLIP  L.  POLAKOFF,  M.D. 

Director,  Western  Institute  for 
Occupational/Environmental  Sciences 

The  first  sign  of  baldness  is  a  moment  of 
excruciating  distress  for  many  men. 

"I'm  losing  it,"  they  moan  silently  to  the 
reflection  in  the  bathroom  mirror.  And  they 
don't  mean  just  their  hair. 

With  so  much  psychological  and  social 
significance  attached  to  hair,  it's  no  wonder 
that  the  30  million  American  men  who  suffer 
from  hair  loss  are  eager  for  information  to 
help  untangle  the  facts  from  the  fiction  sur- 
rounding their  condition. 

First,  some  factual  statistics:  By  age  35, 
about  40%  of  all  men  will  show  some  degree 
of  hair  loss,  according  to  the  American 
Medical  Association.  That  percentage  in- 
creases to  65%  among  men  65  and  over,  and 
the  odds  are  seven  to  three  that  a  man  will 
experience  hair  loss  in  his  lifetime. 

Whether  you  beat  those  odds  depends  to 
some  extent  on  heredity.  However,  don't 
blame  your  genetic  predisposition  to  bald- 
ness entirely  on  your  mother's  side — a  pop- 
ular, but  false,  belief.  The  father's  side  plays 
an  equal  role. 

In  addition,  researchers  have  noted  a  greater 
incidence  of  hair  loss  among  certain  racial 
and  ethnic  groups.  According  to  the  Harvard 
Medical  School  Health  Letter,  "The  ten- 
dency varies  from  one  race  to  another. 
Caucasians  are  most  susceptible,  Asians 
least  so.  The  exact  way  in  which  baldness 
is  inherited  has  not  been  worked  out." 

The  most  common  reason  for  hair  loss  is 
male  pattern  baldness  (MPB),  which  doctors 


call  alopecia  androgenetica.  MPB  accounts 
probably  for  as  much  as  95%  of  all  hair  loss 
among  men,  according  to  Jerome  L.  Shu- 
pack,  M.D.,  of  the  New  York  University 
Medical  Center. 

Several  prescription  drugs  have  been  un- 
der study  recently  to  treat  male  pattern 
baldness,  but  no  medication  has  yet  been 
cleared  by  the  government  for  use  in  this 
country.  As  for  now,  MPB  must  be  consid- 
ered irreversible. 

Fortunately,  not  all  types  of  baldness  are 
permanent.  Crash  dieters  who  inadvertently 
deprive  their  bodies  of  essential  protein  and 
iron  frequently  experience  hair  loss,  but 
returning  to  a  balanced  diet  can  reverse  the 
effect  within  months. 

Reversible  hair  loss  can  also  be  caused 
by  chemotherapy,  thyroid  disease,  and  high 
fever;  by  pulling  the  hair  too  tightly  into 
styles  such  as  pigtails  and  cornrows;  and  by 
wearing  hats  or  other  headpieces  that  fit  too 
snugly. 

Contrary  to  one  myth,  however,  frequent 
shampooing  does  not  cause  hair  loss.  Here's 
how  that  fiction  probably  got  started:  It's 
normal  to  lose  as  many  as  100  strands  of 
hair  daily.  This  normal  loss — which  is  going 
on  all  the  time  (and  being  replaced  to  some 
extent) — is  simply  more  concentrated  and 
noticeable  in  the  sink  or  tub  after  shampoo- 


ing or  showering.  It  should  cause  no  concern. 

However,  other  hair  care  habits,  such  as 
vigorous  brushing  or  blow-drying,  can  cause 
hair  to  fall  out  or  break.  As  Dr.  Shupack 
notes:  "People  sometimes  literally  attack 
their  hair,  causing  a  condition  called  'traction 
alopecia'  which  can  cause  hair  to  be  pulled 
out  or  broken  off." 

As  for  blow-drying,  the  physical  trauma 
of  brushing  the  hair  associated  with  this 
practice,  combined  with  the  additional  effect 
of  heat  can  damage  the  protein  fiber  of  the 
hair,  increasing  the  likelihood  of  breakage. 

Although  headpieces — hats,  sweatbands, 
toupees,  wigs,  etc. — that  are  too  tight  can 
cause  problems,  the  belief  that  simply  wear- 
ing a  hat  or  hairpiece  contributes  to  hair  loss 
is  unfounded,  according  to  the  experts.  Hair 
doesn't  have  to  breathe.  And  if  a  hat  or 
other  headpiece  was  so  tight  it  was  cutting 
off  the  blood  circulation  to  the  point  that 
your  hair  would  fall  out — you'd  take  off  the 
offending  object. 

Finally,  if  you're  still  clinging  to  the  hope 
that  science  can  cure  baldness,  drop  in  on 
a  dermatologists'  convention  and  count  the 
shiny  domes! 


Spanish  Language 
Items  for  Consumers 


The  Consumer  Information  Center  has 
issued  the  1987  list  of  75  Spanish  language 
publications  prepared  by  the  federal  govern- 
ment on  consumer  topics  like  child  care, 
federal  benefits,  health,  credit,  cars,  and 
food. 

The  "Lista  de  Publicaciones  Federales  en 
Espaiiol  para  el  Consumidor"  is  free,  as  are 
the  publications  on  the  list.  Copies  are  avail- 
able from  Department  579R,  Consumer  In- 
formation Center,  Pueblo,  CO  81009. 


Before  you  buy  a  product ...     FTC  Working  to  Stop  Telepiione  Fraud 


the  label 
!Ck  the  package 


anything  seems  wrong,  tell 
the  store  manager. 
5^When  you  open  it,  CHECK  IT  OUT 
again.  If  It  looks  or  smells  wrong, 
it  back. 


take 


-  A  mossage  Irom  this  mogatine  and  the  Food  ond  Drug  AdminlsUotion 


Federal  and  state  law  enforcement  officials 
have  announced  a  joint  crackdown  on  tele- 
marketing fraud,  which,  they  claim,  bilks 
consumers  of  an  estimated  $1  billion  a  year. 

"Telemarketing  fraud,  or  the  deceptive 
peddhng  of  goods  and  services  over  the 
telephone,  has  become  a  major  law  enforce- 
ment problem,"  said  Federal  Trade  Com- 
mission Chairman  Daniel  Oliver.  "It  is  a 
problem  that  threatens  a  broad  cross  section 
of  Americans,  from  widows  who  are  duped 
into  buying  phony  investments  to  small  busi- 
ness owners  who  are  conned  into  buying 
shoddy  office  supplies." 

Telemarketing  is  particularly  prevalent  in 
investment  scams  forgemstones,  oil  and  gas 
leases,  rare  coins,  and  cellular  telephone 
systems,  an  FTC  staff  member  said. 


Joining  the  FTC  in  the  crackdown  is  the 
National  Association  of  Attorneys  General. 
It  is  the  first  effort  involving  the  two  groups. 
NAG  and  the  FTC  have  agreed  to  set  up  a 
clearinghouse  so  they  can  track  companies 
that  move  across  state  lines  and  change  the 
name  of  their  telemarketing  business. 

"We  want  to  frustrate  the  people  who 
perpetrate  this  fraud,  and  we  want  to  give 
them  a  dose  of  deterrence,"  said  Iowa  At- 
torney General  Tom  Miller.  "The  best  way 
to  do  this  is  through  consumer  education." 

"Anytime  a  consumer  is  being  pushed  to 
make  a  decision  [by  a  telephone  marketer], 
that's  a  danger  signal,"  Mr.  Miller  said.  "If 
it  sounds  too  good  to  be  true,  it  is  too  good 
to  be  true." 


MARCH     1987 


23 


Waller  OUveira.  seaetary  of  the  Ontario  Industrial  Council,  second  from  right,  describes  the  mill-cabinet  situation  in  eastern  Canada 
during  a  session  of  the  Mill-Cabinet  Conference  Board.  Other  participants  include,  from  left,  Glen  Jackson,  business  representative,  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  District  Council:  David  Langston,  business  representative.  Local  1635,  Kansas  City,  Mo.;  Mario  Venneri,  business 
representative,  Local  359,  Philadelphia.  Pa.:  Frank  Gurule,  business  manager.  Local  721,  Los  Angeles,  Calif;  Irving  Zeldman,  New 
York  City  District  Council;  First  General  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lucassen;  Mike  Fishman,  UBC  industrial  department;  Ibrahin  Leon, 
business  representative.  South  Florida  District  Council;  Ron  Aasen,  Pacific  Northwest  Industrial  Workers  Council;  Pete  Budge, 
business  representative.  Local  1865,  Minneapolis,  Minn.;  OUveira;  and  Walter  Malakoff,  UBC  industrial  department. 


Mill-Cabinet  Conference  Board  Holds  First  Meeting 


The  first  meeting  of  the  recently  appointed 
Mill-Cabinet  Conference  Board  took  place 
at  the  General  Office  in  early  February.  The 
board  grows  out  of  recommendations  made 
by  the  Industrial  Committee  to  the  35th 
General  Convention  and  meetings  of  mill- 
cabinet  representatives  at  the  Industrial 
Conferences  in  French  Lick,  Ind.,  and  To- 
ronto, Ont.,  in  1986. 

General  President  Campbell  has  charged 
the  board  with  making  recommendations  to 
him  on  programs  and  strategies  needed  to 
deal  with  problems  facing  Brotherhood  mill- 


cabinet  locals. 

The  board  spent  much  of  its  first  meeting 
looking  at  the  UBC's  membership  in  the 
industry  and  collective  bargaining  develop- 
ments that  are  affecting  these  members.  A 
comprehensive  industry  survey  had  been 
mailed  earlier  to  mill-cabinet  representa- 
tives, and  the  results  of  that  survey  were 
used  as  the  basis  for  the  Conference  Board's 
discussion.  In  addition.  First  General  Vice 
President  Sigurd  Lucassen  led  a  session  on 
issues  relating  to  the  union  label. 

The  board  noted  that  architectural  wood- 


work and  store  fixture  shops  are  increasingly 
competing  in  large  regional  and  national 
markets.  Because  of  this,  the  board  saw  the 
need  to  develop  industry-wide  programs  to 
deal  with  the  common  problems  that  are 
now  facing  mill-cabinet  local  unions  in  dif- 
ferent areas. 

The  UBC  Industrial  Department  is  pro- 
viding research  and  other  support  for  the 
board,  and  all  inquiries  from  business  rep- 
resentatives concerning  the  board's  activi- 
ties should  be  addressed  to  that  department 
at  the  International  address.  lJi)B 


Proposed  Amendments  to  the  Constitution  &  Laws 

...  as  submitted  by  Local  Union  452,  Vancouver,  B.C.,  Canada,  in  accord- 
ance with  Section  63- A  is  hereby  published  in  the  March  1987  issue  of 
the  Carpenter. 


The  first  proposed  amendment: 

To  amend  Section  45-D  of  the  Consti- 
tution and  Laws  to  read  as  follows: 

"Each  Local  Union  shall  pay  to  the  General 
Secretary  fifteen  dollars  {$15.00)  on  each 
new  member  admitted  and  covered  by  Ben- 
efit Schedule  1,  except  first-year  appren- 
tices, and,  except  as  provided  in  Section  54, 
five  dollars  and  seventy  cents  ($5.70)  per 
month  for  each  member  covered  by  Benefit 
Schedule  1  in  good  standing  or  person  work- 
ing in  construction  for  whom  an  agency 
shop  or  similar  fee  is  received,  of  which 
three  dollars  and  seventy  cents  ($3.70), 
together  with  all  monies  received  from  new 
members  covered  by  Benefit  Schedule  1, 
shall  be  used  for  the  general  management 
of  the  United  Brotherhood,  and  two  dollars 


($2.00)  shall  be  used  for  payment  of  death 
and  disability  donations." 

The  second  proposed  amendment: 

To  amend  Section  45-E  of  the  Consti- 
tution and  Laws  to  read  as  follows: 
"Each  Local  Union  shall  pay  to  the  General 
Secretary  ten  dollars  ($10.00)  on  each  new 
member  admitted  and  covered  by  Benefit 
Schedule  2,  and  three  dollars  and  eighty- 
five  cents  ($3.85)  per  month  for  each  mem- 
ber covered  by  Benefit  Schedule  2  in  good 
standing,  or  person  not  working  in  construc- 
tion for  whom  an  agency  shop  or  similar 
fee  is  received,  of  which  three  dollars  and 
sixty  cents  ($3.60)  shall  be  used  for  the 
general  management  of  the  United  Broth- 
erhood and  twenty-five  cents  ($.25)  shall  be 
used  for  the  payment  of  death  donations 


prescribed  by  the  Constitution  and  Laws." 
The  third  proposed  amendment: 

To  delete  Section  45-F  of  the  Constitu- 
tion and  Laws. 

The  fourth  proposed  amendment: 

To  amend  Section  63-E  of  the  Consti- 
tution and  Laws  to  read  as  follows: 
"Ail  amendments  to  the  Constitution  and 
Laws  submitted  by  Local  Unions,  District, 
State  or  Provincial  Councils  and  General 
Executive  Board  for  the  consideration  of  the 
Convention  shall  be  filed  with  the  General 
Secretary  not  later  than  sixty  days  preceding 
the  holding  of  the  Convention,  and  the  said 
amendments  shall  be  published  in  The  Car- 
penter in  the  issue  immediately  following  the 
expiration  of  the  filing  deadline  by  the  Gen- 
eral Secretary.  No  further  amendments  shall 
be  considered  by  the  Constitution  Commit- 
tee, other  than  those  submitted  in  accord- 
ance with  the  above  or  submitted  to  the 
Constitution  Committee  by  the  General  Ex- 
ecutive Board;  however,  amendments  may 
be  offered  from  the  floor  to  any  Section 
while  it  is  being  reported  on  by  the  Consti- 
tution Committee." 


24 


CARPENTER 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees.. 


Retired  Member  Seeks 
Battlefield  Officers 

Daniel  S.  Ebeling  of  Local  372,  Lima, 
Ohio,  retired  from  carpentry  last  year,  and 
has  maintained  his  membership  in  the  United 
Brotherhood.  Meanwhile,  he  is  a  recruiter 
for  the  National  Order  of  Battlefield  Com- 
missions. 

The  NOBC  was  founded  in  1979  and  is 
seeking  a  charter  as  a  veterans  organization 
from  the  U.S.  Congress.  Its  members  are 
veterans  of  the  U.S.  armed  forces  who,  while 
serving  as  enlisted  men  or  women,  were 
given  commissions  while  in  combat  because 
of  leadership  or  gallantry. 

Ebehng  is  a  veteran  of  World  War  IL  who 
received  a  battlefield  commission  while  serv- 
ing with  the  102nd  Infantry  Division,  9th 
Army,  in  Europe.  For  the  past  seven  years 
he  has  been  seeking  former  service  personnel 
who  are  eligible  for  membership  in  NOBC 
and  has  located  70.  The  national  membership 
is  now  at  482.  Ebeling  feels  sure  that  there 
are  battlefield-commissioned  members  in  the 
UBC. 

For  more  information:  write  Daniel  S. 
Ebeling,  4396  Stemen  Street,  Lima,  Ohio 
45807,  or  telephone  (419)  642-3561. 


For  information  on  organizing  a 
retiree  club  in  your  area,  write  Gen- 
eral Secretary  John  S.  Rogers, 
UBCJA,  101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001. 


Canadian  Club 
Has  Full  Agenda 

Retirees  Club  53,  Victoria,  B.C.,  is  alive 
and  well  and  still  very  much  applauding  the 
decision  of  January  1986  to  apply  for  a 
charter. 

The  club  now  has  a  total  of  62  members, 
23  of  whom  are  wives  of  retired  UBC  mem- 
bers. Dues  are  a  modest  $12  a  year  for  a 
single  and  $15  for  a  couple,  with  no  affiliation 
fees. 

Monthly  meetings  are  held  on  the  third 
Tuesday  at  1:30  p.m.,  followed  by  enter- 
tainment arranged  by  different  individuals 
each  month.  An  example  of  the  entertain- 
ment was  a  one-day  train  trip  last  May  to 
Qualicum,  B.C.,  and  back. 

Jlowever,  there  are  still  a  lot  of  the  local's 
retired  members  who  have  not  yet  joined 
the  club  and  who  are  missing  out  on  the  fun. 
They  are  encouraged  to  get  involved  and 
spare  one  afternoon  a  month. 

Box  and  Plaque  Maker 


Retired  Member  Wallace  Parker  Jr. ,  Local 
14,  San  Antonio,  Tex.,  poses  with  some  of 
his  creations — domino  boxes,  musical  jew- 
elry boxes,  playing  card  boxes,  shadow 
boxes,  and  name  plaques.  He  has  name 
plaques  in  18  states,  and  has  made  185  of 
his  favorite  name  plaque,  Jesus. 


Local  1043  Honors  Recent  Retirees 


Charter  Member 
Turns  101 

The  members  of  Local  1735  re- 
cently gathered  for  a  birthday  party 
in  honor  of  a  very  special  member  of 
their  local.  Brother  George  Scott,  a 
charter  member  of  the  local,  a  former 
president  and  treasurer,  and  an  80- 
year  member  of  the  United  Brother- 
hood, was  presented  with  birthday 
greetings  and  a  specially-made  UBC 
service  pin  on  the  occasion  of  his 
101st  birthday. 

Scott  joined  the  Brotherhood  on 
July  28,  1906,  in  Duluth,  Minn.,  then 
traveled  to  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
where  he  worked  to  rebuild  the  city 
after  the  earthquake  and  fire  of  1906. 
In  1908  he  arrived  in  Prince  Rupert 
with  only  his  tool  box  and  a  few 
articles  of  clothing  and  by  that  fall  he 
and  other  area  carpenters  were  hold- 
ing meetings  and  organizing  cam- 
paigns to  improve  wages  and  working 
conditions.  On  August  8,  1909,  Local 
1735  was  chartered  and  Brother  Scott 
has  been  a  valuable  member  of  the 
local  ever  since. 

On  the  occasion  of  his  101st  birth- 
day. Board  Member  Ronald  Dancer 
extended  the  best  wishes  of  General 
President  Campbell  to  Brother  Scott 
along  with  his  own,  and  several  other 
UBC  officials  were  also  on  hand  to 
wish  the  centenarian  well. 


Brother  George  Scott  with,  back 
row,  from  left.  Pal  Mattel,  general 
representative;  B.  Cox,  Northwest 
District  Council;  and  Ronald 
Dancer,  Tenth  District  board  mem- 
ber. 


Millwright  Local  1043,  Gary,  Ind.,  1986  retirees  were  honored  recently  at  an  awards 
banquet.  Pictured  above,  from  left,  are  Nick  Adams,  Jim  Pierce,  Joe  Smith,  Tom  Taylor, 
John  Bailey,  Don  Forrest,  and  Garrett  Holloway. 


"Get  a  group 
together" 


The  IRS  Community  Outreach 
Program  provides  groups  of 
taxpayers  such  as  retired 
people,  farmers,  self-employed 
people  and  many  others  with 
free  tax  help  and  information. 
Call  the  IRS  number  listed  in 
your  phone  book. 


—A  Public  ServlcE  of  the  IRS 


MARCH     1987 


25 


GOSSIP 


NOT  IMPRESSED 

A  man  was  stopped  by  police  for 
speeding.  The  officer  noticed  a  re- 
striction on  his  license  requiring 
glasses. 

"It  says  here  you  should  be  wear- 
ing glasses,"  said  the  officer. 

"But  I  have  contacts,"  explained 
the  man. 

"I  don't  care  who  you  know,  you're 
still  gettin'  a  ticket. 

— Catering  Industry  Employee 
BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 


TESTING  THE  LAW 

A  motorist  was  flagged  down  by 
a  policeman  and  made  to  pull  to 
the  side  of  the  road. 

"I  suppose  you're  going  to  tell 
me  you  weren't  speeding,"  the  po- 
liceman said. 

"I  was  speeding  all  right,"  the 
motorist  said.  "I  was  just  testing  to 
see  if  you  were  paying  attention." 

— Nancy's  Nonsense 


BUY  UNION  *  SAVE  JOBS 


SPACE  TAKEN 

Sergeant:  "Stand  at  the  end  of  the 

line." 

Recruit:  "There's  somebody  back 

there  already." 


ONCE  IS  ENOUGH 

Sam  found  a  dollar  too  much  in 
his  pay  envelope  but  remained  quiet 
about  the  error.  The  next  week, 
correcting  the  overpayment,  the 
paymaster  deducted  one  dollar  and 
Sam  complained  mightily. 

"You  didn't  say  anything  last  week 
when  I  overpaid  you,"  accused  the 
paymaster. 

"Well,"  said  Sam,  "a  guy  can 
overlook  one  mistake,  but  when  it 
happens  twice,  it's  time  to  com- 
plain." 

ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 

THAT'S  FARE 

Plastic  surgeons  never  pick  up 
hitch  hikers.  They  believe  that  every 
one  should  pay  for  a  lift. 


TOE  TO  HEAD 

"Yep,"  said  the  man  proudly,  "I'm 
the  one  guy  who  can  really  say  he 
started  at  the  bottom  and  finally 
reached  the  top." 

"How's  that?" 

"I  began  shining  shoes  and  now 
I'm  a  barber." 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

There  once  was  a  big  guy  named 

Clyde 
Slid  down  a  big  water  slide 
But  no  water  went  down 
And  so  with  a  frown 
He  came  down  a'burnin'  his  hide. 

— Gerry  Moorman 
Local  1615 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 


UP  IN  SMOKE 

A  high  school  graduate  applied 
for  a  job  for  the  summer  with  a  road 
construction  company.  One  of  the 
questions  the  boss  asked  was,  "Can 
you  operate  a  steam  shovel?" 

"You  can't  catch  me  on  that  one," 
said  the  young  man.  "Nobody  can 
shovel  steam." 

— Maurice  Howes 

ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 

OUT  OF  CONTROL 

The  patrolman  asked  the  driver 
how  he  was  involved  in  an  accident. 
"As  I  backed  out  of  the  garage," 
the  driver  explained,  "I  hit  the  ga- 
rage door,  ran  over  our  son's  bi- 
cycle, tore  up  the  lawn,  rolled  over 
our  cat's  tail,  smashed  the  curbing, 
hit  our  neighbor's  house,  creased 
a  stop  sign,  and  crashed  into  a 
tree." 

"Then  what  happened?"  the  pa- 
trolman inquired. 

"Then  I  lost  control  of  the  car," 
the  driver  answered. 

— Nancy's  Nonsense 

IMPORTS  HURT  *  BUY  UNION 

SHARE  THE  SCARE 

A  mother  bought  her  young  son 
a  $27.50  costume  to  wear  for  trick 
or  treating. 

"Should  I  take  off  the  price  tag?" 
asked  the  boy. 

"Leave  it  on,"  replied  mom.  "We'll 
scare  your  father  too." 

— Maurice  Howes 

USE  UNION  SERVICES 

SMART  MOVE 

A  nurse  in  the  maternity  ward 
asked  a  young  intern  why  he  was 
so  enthusiastic  about  obstetrics.  He 
said  sheepishly.  "Well,  when  I  was 
on  medical  rotation  I  discovered 
that  I  had  a  tendency  of  hypochon- 
dria, I  suffered  from  heart  attacks, 
asthma,  and  gout.  In  surgery,  I  was 
sure  I  had  ulcers.  In  the  psychiatric 
wards,  I  thought  I  was  losing  my 
mind.  Now,  in  obstetrics,  I  can  re- 
lax. 

— Maurice  Howes 


26 


CARPENTER 


New  Feet-Inch  Calculator  Solves 
Building  Problems  In  Seconds! 

Simple  to  use,  time-saving  tool  that  works  with  ANY  fraction  to  1/64th 


Now  you  can  solve  all  your 
building  problems  right  in  feet,  inches 
and  fractions — with  the  all  new  Con- 
struction Master'™ feet-inch  calculator. 

This  handheld  calculator  will  save 
you  hours  upon  hours  of  time  on  any 
project  dealing  with  dimensions.  And 
best  of  all,  it  eliminates  costly  errors 
caused  by  inaccurate  conversions  using 
charts,  tables,  mechanical  adders  or 
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Diabetes  Fund 
Raising  Continues 

It's  been  over  a  year  since  the  "Blue- 
print for  Cure"  appeal  began  and  the 
generosity  of  UBC  members  continues 
to  bring  us  closer  to  a  cure  for  diabetes. 
However,  our  goal  today  is  no  less 
imposing  than  it  was  last  year;  the 
Diabetes  Research  Institute  center  will 
cost  an  estimated  $10  million.  That  is 
in  addition  to  the  tremendous  amount 
of  funds  that  are  needed  for  ongoing 
research  to  develop  a  cure. 

The  center,  which  is  to  be  built  at 
the  University  of  Miami,  Fla.,  is  a 
symbol  of  hope  for  the  12  milhon  to  14 
million  Americans  and  their  families 
who  suffer  from  diabetes.  The  "Blue- 
print for  Cure"  fund-raising  plan,  de- 
signed by  trade  union  leaders,  has  proven 
to  be  an  innovative  and  creative  way 
for  American  labor  to  make  their  dream 
a  reality. 

As  many  UBC  members  already 
know,  proceeds  from  the  UBC  VISA 
card  have  been  dedicated  to  the  cam- 
paign and  other  fund-raising  efforts  have 
been  conducted  throughout  the  coun- 
try. Every  effort  is  being  made  to  raise 
the  necessary  capital  for  the  project — 
and  every  contribution  helps  to  make 
a  difference. 


Local  1305,  Fall  River,  Mass.,  recently 
presented  a  $1,000  check  for  the  Blueprint 
coffers  to  First  District  General  Executive 
Board  Member  Joseph  Lia,  left. 

Recent  contributions  to  "Blueprint 
for  Cure"  have  come  from: 

10,  Chicago,  Illinois 

469,  Cheyenne,  Wyoming 

1026,  Miami,  Florida 

1338,  Charlottetown,  PEI 

1889,  Downer's  Grove,  III, 

In  Memory  of  Betty  Loro  from  Ladies 

Auxiliary  No.  462. 
J.  E.  Dunn  Construction  Co. 
Patrick  J.  Campbell 
J.V.  Chacon 
Barney  DeSantis 
Francis  Lamph 
John  F.  Scully 

Check  donations  to  the  "Blueprint  for  Cure" 
campaign  sliouid  be  made  out  to  "Blueprint 
for  Cure"  and  mailed  to  General  President 
Patrick  J.  Campbell,  United  Brotherhood  of 
Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America,  101  Con- 
stitution Ave.  N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20001. 


Social  Security 

Continued  from  Page  7 

the  old  table  to  the  new  formula  for  those 
born  between  1917  and  1921  who  were  near- 
ing  retirement  age.  Had  this  alternate  benefit 
calculation  not  been  adopted,  benefits  for 
those  born  between  1917  and  1921  could 
have  been  lower  than  they  are  now. 

Those  bom  between  1917  and  1921  can 
have  their  benefits  calculated  by  the  transi- 
tion formula  or  the  new  formula,  whichever 
gives  them  the  higher  benefit.  In  many  cases, 
the  transition  formula  results  in  the  higher 
benefit. 

It  is  difficult  to  generalize  about  the  con- 
sequences of  the  notch  since  an  individual's 
benefits  depend  on  four  major  variables:  the 
year  of  birth,  age  at  retirement,  level  of 
earnings  during  working  life,  and  the  pattern 
of  the  working  life. 

However,  the  benefit  difference  between 
the  1916  and  1917  birth  years  could  be  as 
little  as  $3.20  per  month  for  a  lifetime  low 
wage  earner  who  retires  at  age  62.  The 
greatest  differences  are  for  those  who  work 
beyond  age  65  at  high  wages.  Those  who 
retire  at  age  62  with  average  or  low  earnings 
are  subject  to  much  smaller  differences  in 
their  benefits. 

Many  "notch  babies,"  concerned  that 
benefits  for  other  Social  Security  recipients 
are  higher  than  they  shoud  be,  have  peti- 
tioned Congress  to  increase  their  own  benefit 
levels. 

There  is  now  before  the  100th  Congress 
House  Resolution  1917,  which  would  "re- 
store and  protect  the  benefit  levels  of  work- 
ers reaching  age  65  in  or  after  1982  and  their 
widows  and  widowers"  by  eliminating  the 
"notch."  It  is  sponsored  by,  at  last  count, 
123  Congressmen. 

Most  knowledgeable  senior-citizen  orga- 
nizations do  not  support  this  proposed  leg- 
islation. They  feel  that  "fixing  the  notch" 
could  jeopardize  benefits  for  future  retirees 
and  their  families.  Congressman  Claude  Pep- 
per, a  respected  advocate  for  older  Ameri- 
cans, has  not  endorsed  any  legislative  pro- 
posals to  "fix  the  notch." 

In  1983,  when  the  Social  Security  system 
was  faced  with  bankruptcy,  everyone  gave 
up  something.  Retirees  in  1983  gave  up  a 
six-month  COLA.  The  so-called  baby  boom- 
ers agreed  to  pay  substantially  higher  payroll 
taxes  and  receive  a  lower  level  of  benefits 
upon  retirement  than  current  retirees — all  in 
an  effort  to  ensure  that  Social  Security  would 
be  there  when  they  need  it.  |J{l{j 


Winnipeg  Local 
Was  Province's  First 

In  the  September  1986  Carpenter 
article  on  the  history  of  the  United 
Brotherhood  in  Canada  there  was  an 
error  in  an  accompanying  chart.  Local 
791,  Brandon,  Manitoba,  was  listed 
as  the  first  local  chartered  in  the 
province,  but  Winnipeg  Local  343 
which  received  its  charter  on  Oct.  6, 
1887  was  the  first. 


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CARPENTER 


UIE  COnCRIITUiniE 


.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


GOLF  CHAMP 


GRAND  MARSHAL 


Lyke 


A  senior  member  of 
Local  1659,  Bartles- 
ville,  Okla.,  was  se- 
lected as  the  grand 
marshal  for  the  town 
Veterans  Day  parade. 
Samuel  Lyke  St.,  a 
4 1  -year  member  of  the 
UBC,  is  a  World  War 
I  veteran  whose  son 
and  grandsons  have 
followed  his  footsteps 
into  military  service. 

Because  of  the  fam- 
ily's connections  to  the 
armed  forces.  Veter- 
ans Day  is  no  empty 
holiday — making 
Lyke's    selection    as 


parade  marshal  something  special  indeed. 
His  son  says,  "Dad  is  proud  to  be  an 
American  and  proud  to  have  served  his 
country."  Although  the  senior  Lyke  tried  to 
downplay  his  honor,  the  family  looked  for- 
ward to  the  event  with  enthusiasm  and 
respect. 

The  90-year-old  veteran  remembers  quite 
a  bit  about  his  days  at  Camp  Pike  (then 
Camp  Robinson)  in  Little  Rock,  Ark.,  during 
the  war.  Among  his  unfulfilled  ambitions 
during  those  days  was  a  wish  to  be  overseas 
on  the  front  lines.  But  because  of  his  skill 
and  training  in  carpentry  and  plumbing  he 
was  considered  too  valuable  to  be  sent 
overseas. 


Wood  Badge 
Scholarship 


Since  one  out  every  four  Boy  Scouts 
leaders  is  a  union  member,  the  AFL- 
CIO  offers  a  Wood  Badge  Scholarship 
to  assist  selected  union  members  in 
acquiring  skills  that  will  better  equip 
them  to  serve  the  youth  of  their  com- 
munities. 

The  scholarship  program  covers  two 
Wood  Badge  courses;  an  eight-day 
course  for  Scout  leaders,  and  an  eight- 
day  course  for  Cub  Scout  leaders. 
There  will  be  two  scholarships  awarded 
annually  in  each  BSA  region. 

For  more  information,  or  scholar- 
ship applications,  contact:  J.  Robert 
Miller,  Director,  Labor  Relations,  Boy 
Scouts  of  America,  1325  Walnut  Hill 
Lane,  Irving,  Texas  75038-3096.  Tel- 
ephone: 214-659-2000. 


N.J.  SCHOLARSHIP 

Michael  Schlagle  was  one  of  eight  New 
Jersey  students  to  be  named  as  a  1986 
recipient  of  the  Peter  J.  McGuire  Scholar- 
ship. Schlagle,  who  is  attending  Gloucester 
County  College,  was  presented  with  his 
award  at  a  Labor  Day  Observance  by  Local 
393,  Gloucester,  N.J..  Business  Manager 
Thomas  C.  Ober. 


Pictured  at  the  McGuire  Memorial  in  Ar- 
lington Cemetery,  Pennsauken,  N. J.,  from 
left,  are  Schlagle  and  George  Norcross, 
president,  AFL-CIO  Central  Labor  Union, 
Camden,  N.J. 

BENCHPRESS  CHAMP 


Fritz  Fischer,  financial  secretary  of  Local 
657,  Sheboygan,  Wise,  and  business  rep- 
resentative with  the  Fox  River  Valley  Dis- 
trict Council,  has  once  again  won  the  Wis- 
consin State  AFL-CIO  Golf  Tournament. 
Fischer  won  the  tournament  in  a  rain- 
shortened  27  holes  with  a  total  score  of 
128,  two  over  par.  Fischer  last  won  the 
tournament  in  1983. 

MEANY  AWARD 

Grant  Keefer,  a  retired  member  of  Local 
333,  New  Kensington,  Pa.,  was  recently 
presented  with  the  George  Meany  Award  at 
a  retirees  club  luncheon.  Keefer,  retired  on 
disability  for  six  years  after  having  both  legs 
amputated  below  the  knees,  has  enjoyed  an 
active  role  in  Scouting  since  1957  and  has 
had  even  more  involvement  in  recent  years. 

Beginning  with  the  Westmoreland-Fayette 
Council  of  Boy  Scouts  as  assistant  cub 
master,  Keefer  has  held  the  following  posi- 
tions: committeeman,  A.S.M.,  S.M.  com- 
missioner, camp  ranger,  and  camp  master. 
He  is  a  Vigil  Member  in  the  Order  of  the 
Arrow  and  has  received  the  Award  of  Merit 
and  the  Silver  Beaver. 

A  strong  sense  of  tradition  exists  in  his 
family.  Of  the  four  Keefer  sons,  three  are 
Eagle  Scouts,  and  two  are  in  the  carpentry 
trade. 


Gregg  Ferris,  Local  624.  Brockton,  Mass.. 
recently  won  the  North  American  Bench- 
press  Championship.  Ferris  has  been  a 
member  in  good  standing  of  Local  624  for 
10  years,  and  his  local  reports,  "We  are 
all  veiy  proud  of  Gregg  for  this  accom- 
plishment as  well  as  for  being  a  journey- 
man carpenter  from  our  local." 


George  Meany  Award  winner  Gram  Kic- 
fer.  center,  is  pictured  above  with  Aime 
Girard  Jr.,  left.  Local  333  business  agent, 
and  Retiree  Club  President  John  Talbot. 


MARCH     1987 


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S«rvi«o 

To 

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■rolhorhood 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who   recently   received   pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


Gloucester,  N.J. — Picture  No.  2 


Gloucester,  N.J. — Picture  No.  3 


GLOUCESTER,  N.J. 

Local  393  recently  awarded  service  pins  to 
members  with  longstanding  membership  in  the 
UBC. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  Kenneth  Collins,  Franklin  Dowell,  Herbert 
H.  Hayes  Jr.,  Reynolds  McAdams,  and  William 
G.  Tessing. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Gerald  E.  Seneski,  William  A.  Marshall  Jr., 
John  H.  Lang  Jr.,  David  H.  Jones,  and  Steve 
R.  Florig. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  30-year  members,  from 


left:  Leonard  A.  Bertett,  Edgar  E.  Forour,  Leon 
A.  Hudson  Jr.,  John  A.  Nordbert,  and  Anthony 
Vitchell  Jr. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Thomas  Gber,  Russell  C. 
Naylor,  John  F.  Sadesky,  Mario  Polidoro,  and 
James  J.  Hanson. 

Back  row,  from  left;  Raymond  Dobbins, 
Bjarne  Dalene,  Libero  A.  Batalino,  Henry 
Delano,  Ed  Mazak,  and  Walter  A.  Reed. 

Picture  No.  5  shows 
40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  John  P. 
Kelly,  Elmer  Mayers, 
George  Potter,  William 
Wade,  Charles  L. 
White,  John  Winslow, 
and  John  H.  Hoover. 

Back  row,  from  left: 
Gustave  Anderson, 
Edward  Catlett,  Hugh 
Curran,  Ealing  Dahl, 
Leroy  Emory,  and  John  Sicardi. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  50-year  member  Harry 
J.  Kirsche. 


Picture  No.  6 


Also  honored,  but  not  pictured  were:  60-year 
member  Michael  Vernamonti;  45-year 
members  Raymond  Abbott,  James  H.  Curran 
Jr.,  Thomas  Heinbaugh,  John  Humes,  Charles 
R.  Hunter  Jr.,  Joseph  Lisa,  Clyde  R.  Lumadue, 
Martin  V.  Schramm,  Joseph  Scully,  and  Gunnar 
Stromback;  40-year  members  Dominic  L. 
Albano,  William  A.  Blackburn,  Eugene  Carrigan, 
George  A.  Christofferson,  Norman  Christy, 
Anthony  J.  Cimino,  Charles  Cooper,  Leslie  E. 
Davy,  Kenneth  Harvey,  Wayne  Hurd,  Lincoln  M. 
Mosher,  Ernest  Powell,  Wilbert  Randolph  Sr., 
Peter  Ruggeri,  Roy  R.  Smith,  Fiowandi 
Ummarino,  Charles  Walter  Jr.,  Charles  J. 
Wilhelm,  and  Henry  F.  Wojcik;  35-year 
members  Edward  M.  Ablett,  Gene  Angelino, 
Clyde  Babb,  Robert  J.  Bair,  Sandow  Di  Gang!, 
Sammuel  Flynn,  James  E.  Hannold,  John  J. 
Humphreys,  John  Reed,  Frank  Reed,  Roland  L. 
Taggart  and  John  D.  Tussey;  30-year  members 
John  Kane,  Leon  J.  Malasky,  and  Richard 
Saccamanno;  25-year  member  Joseph  H. 
Wright;  and  20-year  members  Robert  L. 
Anglino,  NIcolo  Duda,  Alfred  F.  Garaguso,  John 
S.  Gorecki,  and  William  Smith. 


Gloucester,  N.J. — Picture  No.  4 


Gloucester,  N.J. — Picture  No.  5 


Rockford,  III.— Picture  No.  1 

ROCKFORD,  ILL. 

Members  of  Local  792  recently  received 
membership  pjns  for  25  and  50  years  of  service 


to  the  United  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  from  left:  Roland 
Edwards,  25-year  pin  recipient;  Elmer  Jones, 
Local  792  president;  Dee  Roser,  25-year  pin 
recipient;  and  Leroy 
Anderson,  Local  792 
financial  secretary. 

Picture  No.  2  shows 
50-year  member  David 
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ST.  JOSEPH,  MO. 

Members  of  Local  110  with  25,  35,  45,  and 
50  years  of  service  recently  received  pins  from 
the  local. 

Receiving  pins  were  50-year  members 
Harold  Christian;  45-year  member  Everett  Hays; 
35-year  members  George  Wyckoff,  N.D. 
McCauley,  and  Harold  Frazee;  and  25-year 
members  Robb  Elder,  John  Frazier,  Fred  Lewis, 
Maurice  Power,  Don  Wiedmaier  Sr.,  and  Gene 
Wilson. 


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Philadelphia,  Pa.— Picture  No.  6 


PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 

Local  1050  recently  held  a  gala  celebration  to 
honor  the  local's  75th  anniversary.  As  part  of 
the  event,  pins  v/ere  awarded  to  members  with 
25  to  62  years  of  service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  62-year  members,  from 
left:  Pietro  Londra  and  Salvatore  Turco. 

Picture  No.  2  sliows,  from  left:  Anthony 
Pino,  48  years;  Charles  Bonafino,  48  years; 
Philip  DiRocco,  45  years;  Domenick  Fiorentino, 
45  years;  and  Charles  Castagna,  46  years. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40  to  45-year 
members,  from  left:  Alfonzo  Barbier,  IVIario 
Londra,  Guido  Boschetti,  Frank  Falamone  Sr., 
Albert  Casanova,  Walter  Broda,  Joseph  Calio, 
Salvatore  Pigliacelli,  Larry  Casanova,  and  Frank 
Manucci,  38  years. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  Joseph  DiDio,  John  Anello,  Raymond 
Armellini,  Edward  Brigandi,  Eurogo  Caccamo, 
Mario  Casadonte,  Vincent  Catanzaro,  George 
Cherneky,  Emanual  Ciaschi,  Michael  Ciotto, 
Leonard  Cipriano,  Joseph  De  Carolis,  Carmen 
DiDonato,  Peter  DiGuiseppe,  Victor  Federici, 
Frank  Fendo,  Charles  Frick,  Rocco  Giardinelli, 
Hugh  Giardinelli,  Anthony  Lalll,  Joseph  Lucis 
Sr.,  Frank  Palamone,  Frank  Palestine,  Domenic 
Paone,  Roger  Parker,  Victor  Prestianna,  Sal 
Prestianno,  Joseph  Prestianna,  Ernest 
Ricchezza,  Dominic  Ruffolo,  Angelo  Sapienza, 
and  Ralph  Zagrabbe. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Joe  Andreozzi,  Dominic  Bruni,  John 
Calabrese,  Sylvester  Capozzi,  Joseph  Ippolito 
(business  agent),  Joseph  J.  Giardinelli,  Eugene 
Castoria,  Peter  Cifolelli,  Thomas  Ciotto,  Thomas 
Cola,  Ralph  DelCiotto,  Daniel  Fecca,  Virgilio 
Goncalves,  Henry  Silas  Green,  Teddy 
Haraburda,  Harry  Howell,  Victor  lannecce,  Bond 
Martino,  Dante  Molinaro,  Joseph  Peraino, 
Joseph  Raiolia,  Antonio  Regalbuto,  Burley 
Tunnell,  Sam  Verderamey,  John  Winterberger, 
Harry  Weise,  and  Matthew  Dudik. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Vilis  Abrams,  Joseph  Barbieri,  Vincent 
Barbieri,  Joseph  Bianco,  Joseph  DeBellis 
(president),  Edward  Bobbin,  Neil  Bracelin, 
IVIichael  Carpino,  John  Chirico,  Angelo 
DiDonato,  Walter  Fish,  Edmund  Kruopas, 
Joseph  Mancino,  Stanley  Materna,  Nick 
DelCiotta  Jr.,  Matthew  Owens,  Frank  Palamone 
Jr.,  Nicholas  Pierno,  Nicholas  Raimondo,  Frank 
Rizzo,  Fred  Rossi  Jr.,  Felix  Russo,  Leonard 
Testa,  John  Umstetter,  Frank  Vento,  and 
Vernon  Williams. 


LIMA,  OHIO 

Pins  were  awarded  to  members  with  20  to 
45  years  of  service  at  Local  372's  Christmas 
Par^. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  Kenneth  Ridenour,  Mark  Steinbrunner,  and 
Fred  Zeits. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Jack  Bitters,  Lee  Kesler,  Harold  K.  Stimmel 
Jr.,  and  Darl  Weaver. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year 
members,  from  left:  Bill  G.  Allen 
and  Walter  Long. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  45-year 
member,  from  left:  Leslie 
Wittenmyer  with  President  Ken 
Cummings  who  presented  the 
pins. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  past 
president  Ted  Kennedy  who 
received  a  pin  for  his  service 

MARCH     1987 


Lima,  Ohio — Picture  No.  1 


Linfia,  Ohio — Picture  No.  3 


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Lima,  Ohio — Picture  No.  2 


Lima,  Ohio — Picture  No.  4 


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Memphis,  Tenn. — Picture  No.  1 

MEMPHIS,  TENN. 

Local  345  held  their  annual  pin  presentation 
ceremony  recently  to  honor  longstanding 
members  of  the  UBC. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  Willie  Ray  Anglin,  Alfred  T.  Atkins,  Charles 
R.  Buzbee,  Johnny  Smith  Jr.,  James  F. 
Sanders,  Frank  Bennett  Jr.,  John  A.  Hill,  John 
A.  Beasley,  Samuel  L.  Ford,  Donald  A. 
Hutcherson,  Floyd  Leo  Nunn,  and  Floyd  E. 
McGee. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Joe  E.  Boyd  Sr.  and  Joseph  Dobias. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Joe  R.  Bryant,  Floyd  A.  Parker,  and 
William  Y.  Stone. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  J.  D.  Cook,  Ivan  W.  White,  and  James  H. 
Stanford. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  some  40-year 
members,  from  left:  John  Denton,  Allen  A. 
Jaco,  C.  H.  Jernigan,  Henry  F.  Hawkins,  Homer 
C.  Williams,  Rodney  L.  Jones,  W.  G.  Lackey, 
Lamar  Mc  Millan,  Otis  A.  Miles,  and  H.  C. 
Patterson. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  more  40-year  members, 
from  left:  OIlie  Richardson,  Enos  D.  Norville,  C. 
H.  Albright,  R.  J.  Ballard,  Robert  H.  Boyd, 
Carrell  C.  Campbell,  Leiand  Cross,  and  Fred  L. 
Dacus. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Harry  W.  Owen,  Clinton  Arbor,  H.  K. 
Livingston,  E.  S.  Autry,  Edward  B.  Thompson, 
Norman  D.  Davenport,  Joseph  A.  Thompson, 


Woodrow  Goodrich,  D.  W.  Walker  Jr.,  Rimer 
Yarber,  Herman  W.  Grantham,  J.  0.  Haas, 
William  M.  Hicks,  and  Thomas  Lewis. 

Picture  No.  8  shows  50-year  members,  from 
left:  Cleo  H.  Jones,  D.  T.  Lewis,  James  B. 
McKell,  Otto  Schlafer,  and  Hershel  Wade. 

Also  honored,  but  not  pictured  were:  50-year 
members  R,  J.  Wade,  Will  G.  Davis,  Elbert  R. 
Dill,  Burton  S.  Estes,  Brinson  Gardner,  and  J. 
C.  Tucker;  45-year  members  C.  E.  Barbee, 
Miles  S.  Beauchamp,  Carl  H.  Bishop,  Roy 
Blanchard,  Russell  Buntin,  James  H.  Clark, 
James  W.  Collins,  William  D.  Crum,  Tom  H. 
Crump,  Joe  0.  Edwards,  Earlie  Evans,  Jones 
M.  Hartsfield,  David  F.  Hoffman,  Jessie  Kerley, 
Ted  G.  Lawrence,  D.  A.  Miles,  Talford  W. 
Oglesby,  C.  C.  Priddy,  Roy  Rice,  H.  G.  Sealey, 
and  Richard  E.  Sherman;  40-year  members 
Ralph  Bledsoe  Sr.,  Randolph  Brown,  C.  W. 
Cannon,  L.  W.  Casteel,  Edward  R.  Cook, 
Ernest  L.  Dalton,  Harold  B.  Davis,  John 
DeHoff,  Nathan  R.  Delk,  Albert  Floyd,  0.  T. 
Glover,  Leonard  C.  Gould,  Charles  L.  Klipsch, 
Herman  Ladd  Jr.,  Henry  V.  Lovelady,  Smith 
Luttrell,  Joe  Nicholas,  Mell  Pruett,  Gus  E. 
Richmond,  Everett  C.  Sanders,  George  E. 
Trumble,  A.  T.  Tutor,  Ernest  T.  Williams,  and 
Richie  J.  Willis;  35-year  members  Howard  W. 
Brown,  James  F.  Cannon,  Alfred  L.  Jameson, 
Jimmie  L.  Lamb,  Willie  Moore  Jr.,  George  F. 
Parish,  and  Paul  B.  Vaughn;  30-year  members 
James  M.  Belk,  John  T.  Carson,  Jerrold  W. 
Eason,  V.  L.  Greenslade,  William  G.  Marshall, 
Raymond  Navaree,  Gerald  I.  Pratt,  and  Austin 
West  Jr.;  25-year  members  Vernon  Y. 


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Armstrong,  Paul  E.  Bryson,  William  Ray 
Godwin,  Sammy  Mc  Lennon,  Dale  L.  Smith, 
and  Sollie  Sneed  Jr.;  20-year  members  Withers 
Anthony  Sr,,  James  E.  Arnett,  Charles  W. 
Cross,  Johnny  W.  Drown,  Thomas  Ezell, 
William  T.  Ferrell,  Bobby  Gay,  Richard  D. 
Glass,  Joe  M.  Harrison,  Dennis  Hensley,  James 
C.  Jeffery,  Pete  L.  Kerley,  Harvey  R.  LaGasse, 
Henry  L.  Ryder,  Elbert  F.  Starnes,  James  E. 
Taylor,  and  Rotiert  L.  Tolbert. 


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Mansfield,  Ohio— Picture  No.  1 

MANSFIELD,  OHIO 

At  tlie  annual  Old-Tlmers  Night,  Local  735 
awarded  pins  to  members  with  25  to  40  years 
of  service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  from  left:  John 
Constance,  25  years;  Nick  Olivieri,  30  years; 
Paul  Florence,  25  years;  and  Fred  Lutz,  30 
years. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  Harry  C.  Peter,  George  Dill,  James  Wynn, 
Richard  Surman,  Robert  Kershner,  and  William 
Bogantz,  Local  735  president. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Verne  Cole,  Gale  Smith,  and  Robert  Grove. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  Business  Representative 
Herman  Bogantz,  left,  with  John 
Brumenschenkel,  the  Old  Timer  of  the  Year  for 
Local  735.  Both  men  have  38  years  of  service 
and  joined  the  union  on  the  same  night. 


Mansfield,  Ohio — Picture  No.  3 


GARY,  IND. 

At  Millwright  Local  1043's  annual  retirement 
banquet,  members  with  20  to  40  years  of 
membership  in  the  Brotherhood  were  honored. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  Clifford  Stringer  and  Ron  Selin. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  John  Tonello  and  Dale  Morford. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  O.G.  Barley,  Frank  Kark,  Allen  Wright,  and 
Eugene  Long. 

Picture  No.  4  shows 
35-year  members,  from 
left:  Carl  R.  Robinson 
and  Robert  Trujillo. 

Picture  No.  5  shows 
40-year  member 
Raymond  Keesey. 

Picture  No.  6  shows 
40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Don 

Forrest,  Kenneth  Picture  No.  5 

Bowman,  and  Daniel  Kestner. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Anthony  Wrann  and 
Andy  Cihal. 


CHAMBERSBURG,  PA 

Hugo  Kabbel  at 
age  84  is  Local 
616's  oldest 
member.  A  65- 
year  member  of 
'the  Brotherhood, 
he  recently 
received  a  pin  at  a 
presentation  by 
I  his  local. 
Kabbel  joined 
Kabbel  the  Brotherhood 

in  New  Jersey  in  1921.  According  to  his 
local,  "He  worked  from  East  Coast  to 
West  Coast  and  back  again  and  .  .  . 
believes  he  drove  20  tons  of  nails  and 
handled  and  sawed  50  boxcar  loads  of 
lumber." 


Mansfield,  Ohio — Picture  No.  4 


MERRILL,  Wise. 

Local  2344  recently  held  its  annual  pin 
presentation,  awarding  pins  to  members  with 
25  to  40  years  of  service. 

Pictured,  from  left,  are  En/in  Herdt,  25  years; 
Laurence  Zoellner,  30  years;  Harold  RobI,  Local 
2344  president;  Alvin  Kleinschmidt,  40  years; 
Ray  Pfingsten,  30  years;  and  Robert  Beyer,  30 
years. 

Not  pictured,  but  receiving  pins,  were  30- 
year  members  Harvey  Berg  and  Louis  Blum; 
and  40-year  member  Wilbur  Howard. 


Mansfield,  Ohio — Picture  No.  2 
MARCH     1987 


Merrill,  Wise. 


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JOHNSON  CITY,  N.Y. 

Local  281  recently  celebrated  75  years  as  a 
UBC  affiliate  and  awarded  gold  cards  to  tfiree 
50-year  members.  Cards  were  presented  to 
George  Hoyt,  William  Ailing,  and  Roger  F. 
Kane. 

Picture  No.  1  sfiows,  from  left:  Local 
President  Rudy  Colton  with  52-year  member 
Rictiard  Brogan,  and  51-year  member  Donald 
Vosburgh. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  all  the  members  with 
25  to  52  years  of  service  who  were  at  the 
anniversary  celebration.  Front  row,  from  left: 
Rudy  Colton,  35-years;  Sebastian  Paterniti,  33- 
years;  Duane  Kane,  28-years;  William  Winfield, 
33-years;  and  Bruce  Pierce,  32-years.  Second 
row,  from  left;  Charles  Osman,  33-years; 
Herbert  Barnes,  46-years;  Richard  Brogan,  52- 
years;  Richard  Wm.  Hamilton,  45-years;  Floyd 
Hohn,  30-years;  and  Frederick  Powell,  38- 
years.  Third  row,  from  left:  L.  Vincent  Huff,  33- 
years:  Joseph  Bernhardt,  31-years;  Paul  Guiton, 
40-years;  Dave  Hamilton,  40-years;  Harry  A. 
Stratton,  45-years;  Chester  Nezeiek,  25-years; 
Donald  Vosburgh,  51-years;  John  Frederick, 
45-years;  Lynn  Markham,  40-years;  Francis 
Clark,  40-years;  and  Henry  Cerinetti,  28-years. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Warren  Smith,  26-years; 
Allen  Merritt,  39-years;  Kenneth  Laurie,  35- 
years;  Leroy  Linville,  34-years;  Thomas  Bassett, 
35-years;  Lee  Pickering,  40-years;  Melvin 
Pickering,  44-years;  William  Bernhardt,  40- 
years;  and  Louis  Lesyshyn,  41-years. 


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HICKSVILLE,  N.Y. 

IVIembers  with  25,  35,  45,  and  50  years  of 
service  to  the  Brotherhood  were  recently 
honored  by  Local  1772. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25  and  35-year 
members,  front  row,  from  left:  Joseph 
Springer,  retired;  George  Decker,  recording 
secretary;  and  Frank  Bukowy,  retired. 

Back  row,  from  left:  William  Hydeic, 
president;  Joseph  Tenga;  Joseph  Ingenito; 
Henry  Young;  and  Ernest  Dunekack,  business 
representative. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members, 
seated,  from  left:  Al  Brant,  William  Hill,  and 
Stephen  Slanina,  with  President  Hydeic  and 
Business  Representative  Dunekack. 

Picture  No.  3  shows,  seated,  from  left:  Peter 
Hansen,  57  years;  and  Glen  Kerbs,  retired 
business  representative,  50  years;  with 
President  Hydeic  and  Business  Representative 
Dunekack. 


Hicksville,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  2 


Hicksville,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  3 


Hicksville,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  1 


Correction:  One  of  our  members  has  brought  to  our  attention  that  we 
were  supplied  with  incorrect  photo  identification  information  for  the  above 
photo  in  our  November  1986  issue.  Picture  No.  3,  Regina,  Sask.  The 
correct  photo  identification  is  as  follows:  Picture  No.  3  shows  30-year 
members,  from  left:  Leo  Fritz,  Sam  Zerebecki,  Jerome  Vertefevine,  Ervin 
Ryba  (partly  hidden).  Ken  Block,  Bill  Filleul,  George  Zink,  Clarence 
Saville,  and  Greg  Borowski. 


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The  following  list  of  864  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,550,411.73  death  claims  paid  in  December  1986;  (s) 
following  name  indicates  spouse  of  members 


Local  Union.  City 

2  Cincinnati,  OH — Charles  Boothby. 

3  Wheeling,  WV — Freda  Mae  Aumend  (s),  George  E. 
Tolbert. 

5    St.  Louis,  MO— Elmer  H.  Vogel,  William  J.  Immer, 
William  P.  Karius  Sr. 

7  Minneapolis,  MI — Gloyd  W.  Boyum,  Herman  John- 
son. Nels  W.  Loberg,  Phyllis  J.  Zurek  (s). 

8  Philadelphia,  PA— William  E.  Gordon,  Stephen  J. 
Mishon 

12  Syracuse,  NY— Herbert  W.  Haase 

13  Chicago,  IL — ^Julius  Zacker,  Leonce  Giguere,  Pearl 
Kostrzeski  (s),  Thomas  J.  Mulvey 

15  Hackensack,  NJ — Charles  Daly,  George  R.  Sojka. 
Irma  M.  Monda  (s),  Ivar  Larsson,  Walter  Jansson. 

17  Bronx,  NY— Brunetta  Milano  (s),  Joseph  Bueti. 
Joseph  Janetti,  Lillian  Glanville  (s),  Luigi  Mennella, 
Max  Finkel,  Nathan  Sacks,  Rosalie  V.  Washington 
(s). 

18  Hamilton,  Ont.,  Can. — Mona  MacLean  (s). 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Jesse  Howard,  Matvai  Bogda- 
nov,  Ralph  Cyril  Smith,  Shirley  Ann  Westfall  (s), 
Sophie  K.  Gavron  (s). 

24  Central,  CT— Emil  Knoblock,  Isaia  Bernabi. 

25  Los  Angeles,  CA— P.  J.  Daniel. 

27  Toronto,  Ont.  Can. — Albert  Neilson,  Frank  Gulycz. 

28  Missoula,  MT— Roy  C.  Duncan 

31    Trenton,  NJ — Samuel  J.  Christopher. 

34    Oakland,  CA— George  H.  Freeland,  Henry  H.  Grant, 

Margaret  Jean  Lindell  (s). 
36    Oakiand,  CA — Kaarlo  August  Rapp.  Roosevelt  Smith. 

41  Woburn,  MA— Charles  F.  Paladini. 

42  San  Francisco,  CA — Demetrio  Gonzalez.  Lois  Marie 
Buzzell  (s),  Maijorie  Melita  Perry  (s),  Ricardo  Ca- 
brera. 

44    Champaign  &  Urbani,  IL — Willard  L.  Cuskaden. 

47  St.  Louis,  MO — Harry  Franklin  Hixson,  Russell 
Walker. 

48  Fitchburg,  MA— Wayne  Nord. 
50    Knoxville,  TN— James  A.  Gentry. 
53    White  Plains,  NY— Vincent  Groppa. 

55    Denver,  CO— Esther  T.  Laub  (s),  Peter  A.  Ochs. 

Thomas  Hammons. 
58    Chicago,  IL — Edwin  B.  Johnson.  Fred  G.  Gustafson, 

Robert  K.  Brandt,  Simon  B.  Gustafson.  Toivo  Ki- 

viranta. 

60  Indianapolis,  IN- Bert  Hyatt,  Chester  Ballard.  Jo- 
seph P.  George.  Kenneth  M.Jenkins,  Richard  Stern, 
Sr. 

61  Kansas  City,  MO — Elec  A.  Jarboe,  Harrel  W.  Farmer, 
Joseph  B.  Wolverton,  Lee  C.  Peterson,  Oma  Lee 
Hughes (s). Thomas  W.  Dobbins.  William  O.  Carroll. 

63  Bloomington,  IL — Lloyd  O.  Walden. 

64  Louisville,  KY — Anna  Elizabeth  Hopper  (s),  Thomas 
Durbin. 

65  Perth  Amboy,  NJ— Edna  M.  Jost  (s). 

66  Olean,  NY — Barney  Zeck. 

67  Boston,  MA — Eric  A.  Olson.  Joseph  Pedranti,  Wil- 
liam R.  Doyle. 

69    Canton,  OH— ChaHes  Kanagy,  Jr. 
74    Chattanooga,  TN — Melgina  Young  (s),  William  N. 
Daughtrey. 

76  Hazelton,  PA — Joseph  W.  Kalinowski. 

77  Port  Chester,  NY— Harold  E.  Riehl. 

80    Chicago,  IL— Jacob  Huizinga,  Peter  Schoenmeier. 

83    Halifax  N.S.,  Can.— Arthur  Henry  Young. 

85     Rochester,  NY— Nelson  Stott  Sr.,  Sara  E.  Murray 

(s). 
87     St.  Paul,  MN — Alma  Schwanz  (s).  Edwin  J.  Moser. 
89    Mobile,  Al^Lottie  Peari  Lewis  (s).  Smith  O.  Murff. 

Ulyss  S.  Turner,  Vera  Cox  Jernigan  (s). 
91     Racine,  WI — Agnes  Smith  (s),  John  Friesema.  Peter 

Thellefsen. 
94    Providence,  RI— Frank  A.  Peter,  Jr.  John  Dibiase. 
98    Spokane,  WA— Elsa  E.  Ziegwied  (s).  Robert  V. 

Summers,  Robert  W.  Johnson. 

101  Baltimore,  MD — Cornelia  Wasilevicz  (s).  Dean  J. 
Gardner.  Edwin  F.  Oleary.  Frances  L.  Lessner(s). 
John  A.  Dalton,  John  J.  Papandreas. 

102  Oakland,  CA— Clarence  C.  Castro.  James  P.  Flippo, 
Lolave  Lucretia  Hunt  (s), 

103  Birmingham,  AL — Leroy  Hendrix,  Noah  M.  Pen- 
nington. 

104  Dayton,  OH— Charles  G.  Siebel.  Elizabeth  Dawn 
Procuniar  (s),  Theodore  S.  Sizemore.  William  H. 
Schulte. 

105  Cleveland,  OH— Johnnie  James,  Maximilian  Jerin. 

106  Des  Moines,  lO— Thomas  G.  Spragg. 
109  Sheffield,  AL— Mamie  E.  Woodis  (s). 
HI     Lawrence,  MA — John  E.  Dunn. 

114    East  Detroit,  MI — Martha  Naoma  Tines  (s),  Melvin 

Eisenhardt,  Roy  L.  Eison. 
116     Bay  City,  MI— James  C.  Benford. 
118    Detroit,  MI — Alice  Pearson  (s).  Anders  Alex  Schou, 

Casper  Sekoian,  Charles  H.  Riopelle,  Charles  R. 

Patrick.  Evelyn  F.  Provencher  (s).  Harlan  Ruark, 

Leo  Homrich,  Theodore  Misiak. 
120    Utica,  NY— John  F.  Duppert,  Kathyrn  E.  Turner 

(s),  William  Walter  Rice. 
123    Broward   County,    Fl^-Carlton   F.    Patton.   Helen 

Mary  Kimbrel  (s),  Lowell  G.  Patrick,  Robert  L. 

Burleson,  Roswell  R.  Rollins, 
125    Miami,  FL — Andy  Lee  Hopper,  Joseph  Calhoun, 

Joseph  Fred  Thompson. 
130    Palm  Beach.  FL— Carrie  R.   Fitts  (s),  ChaHes  C. 


Local  Union.  City 

Pearson.  Jr.,  Eino  Lunden,  Reba  L.  Gamett  (s). 

131  Seattle,  WA— Aage  Jensen,  Carl  E.  Smith.  Charles 
E.  McKeag,  Edward  A.  Lord.  Everett  Hising.  Hugh 
Gray  Webster.  Joseph  P.  Ruff.  Robert  D.  Roderick. 

132  Washington,  D.C.— Bettye  June  Thomas  (s).  Dale 

D.  Johnson,  Ella  M.  Horton  (s),  Frank  Dotson, 
Frank  M.  Chisholm,  Fred  Zimmers,  Jacob  W.  Cole, 
Morris  Hall,  Sr..  Noah  B.  Lyon,  William  T.  Vance. 

133  Tcrre  Haute,  IN— Edgar  C.  McGee.  Ivan  R.  Pell, 
Lewis  E.  Chickadaunce. 

135  New  York,  NY — Anthony  Montemarano,  Sam  Bes- 
dansky. 

140  Tampa,  FL — Arthur  Ray  Humphrey,  Marion  H. 
Kimm,  Myrtice  Inez  Peacock  (s). 

141  Chicago,  IL — Carl  Wessman.  Edward  Powers,  Jo- 
seph A.  Bielawski. 

142  Pittsburgh,  PA— Thomas  F.  Lamb. 

149  Tarrytown,  NY — Dominick  Ulacco.  Fileno  Menna. 

162  San  Mateo,  CA— Agnes  S.  Utne  {$). 

165  Pittsburgh,  PA — Antonio  Colaizzi,  Joseph  A.  Senge. 

166  Rock  Island,  Il^Charles  A.  Wilcox. 
169  East  St,  Louis,  Il^Casimer  F.  Kostecki. 

171     Youngstown,    OH— Alfonso    Doonarumo.    George 

McGarry. 
174    JoHet,  Il^Cecil  Cavitt,  Gilbert  Woodman,  John  P. 

Nelson,  Wayne  Pemble. 

181  Chicago,  II^Alice  G.  Lesniak  (s),  Christ  E.  Miller, 
John  E.  Warner,  Leonard  E.  Olson. 

182  Cleveland,  OH— Adam  Nitz,  Matt  Nelson.  Norman 

E.  Tober. 

183  Peoria,  IL—Cecil  R.  Gittings.  William  J.  Williams. 

184  Salt  Lake  City.  UT— Hans  A.  Fella,  Marie  Vreeke 
(s),  Mark  Lovato. 

186  SteubenviUe.  OH— Donald  Dunlevy,  Patty  D.  Tope 
(s). 

187  Geneva,  NY — Leo  Camevale. 

198  Dallas.  TX— Harry  P.  Hemdon,  Leonard  L.  Har- 
grove, Richard  Summe  Wigginton,  Sam  S.  DufT. 

199  Chicago,  IL — Adolph  Erickson,  John  J.  Burgess, 
Norman  A.  Bloom. 

200  Columbus,  OH— Charles  E.  Stitt,  Nella  Faye  Caudill 
(s),  William  J.  Davie. 

210    Stamford,  CT— Hilbing  A,  Gustavson,  Paul  Kantor. 

Robert  J.  Armstrong,  Jr. 
213    Houston.  TX— D,  H.  Lumpkin.  Hedwig  Hintz  (s), 

Paul  A.  Gebert,  Thomas  H.  Mixon  Sr. 
220    Wallace.  ID— John  P.  Ferguson. 
225    Atlanta,  GA— Elizabeth  Louise  Smith  (s).  Forest 

Homer  Duncan,  James  C.  Rish,  Lewis  A.  Lackey, 

Lile  N.  Durham  (s). 
232    Fort    Wayen,    IN— Claude    Jessup,     Herman    P. 

Kleinschmidt.  R.  Dennis  Griffith. 

246  New  York,  NY — Charie?  Cardona.  Edmund  Wondra, 
Ernest  Grunhut. 

247  Portland,  OR — Anneas  Loger,  Emanuel  Schunk, 
Fred  H.  Cloyd,  Howard  C.  Pahl.  Norman  Davis. 
Roy  O.  Lacroix,  Walter  Kinnan. 

254    Cleveland,  OH— Henry  S.  Brzeski. 

256  Savannah,,  GA— Rothell  Wasson  Sr. 

257  New  York,  NY— Ame  Sorly.  Julia  Schiapparelli, 
Katheryn  Schwartz  (s),  Luca  Reich,  Rose  Varone 
(s). 

258  Oneonta,  NY — Marguerite  Southard  (s). 

259  Jackson,  TN— Jimmie  Neal  Holt. 

260  Berkshire  County,  MA— Elsie  I.  Root  (s). 

261  Scranton,  PA — William  Keisling  Jr. 

262  San  Jose,  CA — Ayres  Byron,  Barbara  Navarro  (s), 
Felipe  Espinosa,  Marino  Proni. 

264  Milwaukee,  WI — Henry  A.  Schultz. 

265  Saugertjes,  NY — Leonard  Corcoran. 
275     Newton,  MA — Edward  French. 

278    Watertown,  NY—  Jesse  R.  Hamm. 

280     Niagara-Gen.  &   Vic,  NY— Beryl   F.   Bidwell  (s), 

John  E.  Pitman,  Ruth  M.  Edwards  (s). 
283    Augusta,  GA — George  G.  Daniel. 

286  Great  Falls,  MT— Glenn  H.  Randall,  Joseph  A. 
Cobb.  Nils  Ballestad,  Raymond  Wilson. 

287  Harrishurg,  PA— Alvin  D.  Miller,  Ruth  Dubs  (s), 
Wilmer  H.  Sheaffer. 

296  Brooklyn,  NY — Jack  Cooper,  Martin  Johnson,  Rich- 
ard Palmer,  Sigmund  Keryc,  Sol  Eisenberg. 

297  Kalamazoo,  MI — Robert  E.  Johnson. 
302    Huntington,  WV — Clarence  Spears. 
304    Denison,  TX— Ernest  E.  Holland 

316  San  Jose,  CA — James  Curtis  White,  Mary  Rose 
Polizzi  {s),  Otis  Porter,  Virgil  L.  Maxwell. 

317  Aberdeen,  WA— Clinton  Betterley. 

319    Roanoke,  VA — Mertie  Worrell  Newman  (s). 

329    Oklahoma  City.  OK— Dorothy  M.  Coon  (s).  Edward 

W.  Miller.  Elmer  Alfred  Ross,  George  B.  Heaton. 

Kenneth  N.  Taylor. 
340    Hagerstown,  MD — Betty  Ann  Price  (s). 
342     Pawtucket,  RI— Aurele  St.  Hilaire.  Nelson  A.  For- 

lier,  Rosaire  Marceau. 
348    New  York,  NY— Henry  Legoff.  Joseph  Maurin.  Ludo 

Neuser,  William  Schackner. 
356     Marietta,  OH — Joseph  P.  Tornes. 
359     Philadelphia,  PA— Henry  B.  Spohn,  Walter  Bair 

361  Duluth,  MN— Gerhard  Grotberg.  Roberi  L,  Moe- 
bakken. 

362  Pueblo,  CO — Henry  C.  Drewes.  Leona  Reynolds 
(s),  Philip  Berg. 

370    Albany,  NY— Albertine  Bissonnette  (s).  John  A. 

Elkins.  John  R.  Schmidberg. 
377     Alton,  IL— Fred  Glassbrenner. 


Local  Union.  City 

379    Texarkana,  TX— Ernest  B.  Perkins,  Sidney  Alfred 

Prince. 
388    Richmond,  VA— Albert  H.  Theimer,  Perry  E.  Lah- 

mon,  Raymond  Hall,  Wilbert  W.  Martin. 
400    Omaha,  NE— Elam  J.  Rupe,  Ronald  D.  Larson. 
402    Northmptn-Greenfd,  MA— Norma  H.  Slafursky  (s), 

Serky  G.  Selivanoff,  William  P.  Baranoski. 
404    Lake  County,  OH— Dwight  E.  Westcott. 
413    South  Bend,  IN— Bayard  Delong  Taylor.  Harley  J. 

Devereaux,  Robert  V.  Harringer. 
417    St.  Louis,  MO— Robert  C.  Schaffer. 
424    Hingham,  MA — Sylvio  W.  Bergeron. 
434    Chicago,  IL — Ann  Bako  (s),  Ralph  Wals.  Theodore 

Alexander. 
437     Portsmouth,  OH— Ray  Moore. 
452    Vancouver,  B.C.,  CAN— Edwin  Bond.  Frank  Mess- 

mer,  George  Morosky.  James  Ball.  Peter  Kirkhus. 
454    Philadelphia,  PA — Anthony  Troise,  Mark  K.  Lash- 
ley. 

469  Cheyenne,  WY— Harold  E.  Melcher,  Loren  M. 
Sanders. 

470  Tacoma,  WA— Earl  McWilliams,  Robert  G.  Grant. 
Robert  Woodard,  Ruben  T.  Morgan. 

472     Ashland,  KY— Marvin  L.  Wickware. 

475    Ashland,  MA — Enoch  Peterson,  George  A.  Hildreth. 

480    Freeburg,  II^Alma  Bischoff  (s). 

483    San  Francisco,  CA — Henry  Dickerson. 

492    Reading,  PA— Joseph  A.  Tetlak. 

500    Butler,  PA— James  Harvey 

510  Berthoud,  CO — Clayton  V.  Anderson,  Monna  Lee 
Schwander  (s). 

514  Wilkes  Barre,  PA— Eleanor  K.  Spaide  (s),  Frank  T. 
Gaiteri,  George  S.  Slilp.  Joseph  Borkowski. 

518    SisterviUe.  WV— Denton  E.  Hall. 

531  New  York,  NY— Fred  Dalpiaz,  Henry  Hilmer.  Jo- 
seph McCabe. 

537    Aiken,  SC— Betty  Louise  Kitchens  (s). 

548    Minneapolis,  MN — Sandra  Johnson  (s). 

562  Everett,  WA— Myers  W.  Barnett,  Rose  L.  Chonzena 
is). 

563  Glendale,  CA— J.  B.  Chappell. 

586  Sacramento,  CA— Billy  Murrel.  Jr..  Eliott  Allen 
Law,  Harry  Ishoy.  Leroy  Dowling.  Roy  Crow,  W. 
Wesley  Trimble. 

599  Hammond,  IN — Erma  Mae  Crouse  (s),  Grace  Olson 
(s),  Lewis  Hyde.  Roy  Blanchard. 

603    Ithaca,  NY— Arland  Cretser. 

606  Va  Eveleth,  MN— Kenneth  John  Pagel. 

607  Hannibal,  MO— Norris  P.  Lacey. 

608  New  York,  NY— Anthony  P.  Nolan.  Bert  Gustafson, 
Dona!  J.  Kelly,  Eamon  P.  Fitzgerald.  Eleanor  M. 
Barrett  (s).  James  Ross  Hendry.  Peter  Sheridan. 

623  Atlantic  County,  NY— George  Phy,  Raymond  H. 
Smith. 

624  Brockton,  MA — Richard  Curry. 

627    Jacksonville,  FL — Ottis  Eugene  Jones. 
635    Boise,  ID— Yula  Mary  Sporer  (s). 

638  Marion.  IL — James  Minor.  Leroy  George  Ahlheim, 
Phillip  Cripps. 

639  Akron,  OH— Clyde  M.  Sutton,  Earl  L.  Esteb,  Harold 
L.  Moss.  James  L.  Croft,  Ralph  E.  Drumheller, 
Thomas  J.  Hoff. 

640  Metropolis,  IL — Fred  M.  Baugher. 

642    Richmond,  CA— Agnes  Mabel  Arneson  (s). 

644    Pekin,  IL— Muriel  Ella  Green  (s).  Robert  E.  Skelton, 

Zane  V.  Nicholson. 
653    Chickasha,  OK — Luia  Bess  Sampson  (s). 
660    Springfield,  OH— Harold  R.  Roller. 
665     Amarillo,  TX— Charles  Reno  Jr.,  Dick  Stover,  Dora 

Kilpatrick  (s).  Homer  L.  Jordan,  Loletta  H.  Mon- 

crief  (s),  Yancy  A.  Litle. 
668    Palo  Alto,  CA— Doc  Field  Griffin,  Raymond  O. 

Tracy. 
678     Dubuque,  lA— Cecil  Hines. 
690     Little  Rock,  AR— Bill  W.  Rowan, 

703  Lockland,  OH— Dallas  Timothy  Wilcoxon.  Kalhryn 
Whittaker  (s).  Max  Koolman. 

704  Jackson,  MI — Annelies  Lenfcstey  (s).  George  Gobba, 
710    Long  Beach,  CA— ChaHes  B.  Helin.  Daniel  D.  Davis, 

Ralph  E.  Schaffer. 

720  Baton  Rouge,  LA— Carroll  Erwin  Duffy.  Edward  J. 
Terrell,  Frances  F.  Amato  (s),  Frank  L.  Doughty. 
Mildred  C.  Willie  (s).  Robert  S.  Riddle. 

721  Los  Angeles,  CA — Andrew  Talamantes,  Clayton 
Babcock.  Edward  Pilon.  Ernie  H.  Anderson,  Henry 
M.  Foole,  Hildegarde  Reithmaier  (s),  Rhea  Dorothy 
Joseph  (s). 

725     Litchfield,  ll^Ralph  Totsch. 

739  Cincinnati,  OH — Daniel  D.  Escnwine,  George  H. 
Young, 

742  Decatur.  Il^DoroIhy  J.  Brimm  (s),  Orville  E. 
Dempsey. 

743  Bakersfield,  CA— Avon  Guy  Rutledge,  Max  Martin, 
Wilbert  Buford  Eldridge. 

751  Santa  Rosa.  CA— Arnold  Ahlstrom. 

753  Beaumont,  TX— Ethel  Kathryn  Guillory  (s).  Sam  R. 

Wolff. 

764  Shreveporl,  LA — Emmett  S.  Brown,  James  L.  Willis. 

770  Yakima.  WA—Harry  A.  Popp.  O.  Merle  Chcshier. 

780  Astoria,  OR— Everett  C.  Groat. 

781  Princeton.  NJ — Edwin  A.  Toussaint. 
783  Sioux  Falls.  SD~Lloyd  Gerry. 

785    Cambridge,  Ont.,  CAN— John  Fritz. 
792    Rockford.  lU-HarricI  Clausen  (s). 
797    Kansas  City,  KS— Lee  Ed  Watkins. 


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815     Beverly,  MA — Anita  E.  Dash  (s),  Joseph  Degagne. 

821    Springfield,  NJ — Maria  J.  Agostinho  (s). 

824    Muskegon,  MI — Thomas  Kuiper. 

839     Des  Plaines,  IL— AMce  B.  Cormier  (s),  Everett  Osar. 

Mario  Pieroni,  William  A.  Weide. 
849    Manitowoc,  WI — Joseph  Sieger. 
889    Hopkins,  MN— Frank  Ardolf. 
902    Brooklyn,  NY— Anthony  Taormina,  Eugene  Wies- 

beck,  Eugenia  Levardsen  (s). 
906    Glendale,  AZ— Anthony  R.  Damico.  Binetta  Fanning 

(s),  Robert  G.  Jolly. 
921     Portsmouth,  NH — Alexander  Peireault. 
929    Los  Angeles,  CA — Irving  R.  Lattray. 
932    Peru,  IN— John  J.  Kumler, 

943  Tulsa,  OK — James  L.  Lester,  John  Herold  Janzen, 
Sr.,  Lemuel  D.  Jones.  Leslie  A.  Redfem. 

944  San  Brnardno,  CA — Gertrude  Stephens  (s),  Maxine 
Fern  Anderson  (s).  Robert  L.  Nelson,  Woodrow  W. 
Smith. 

951     Brainerd,  MN— Arthur  O.  Lee. 

964    Rockland  Co.,  NY— Robert  Conklin. 

971    Reno,  NV— Alfred  David  Odle,  Carl  Eugene  Cheat. 

Verna  May  Braunschweig  (s). 
973    Texas  City,  TX— Paul  Winn  Baker. 
977     Wichita  Falls,  TX— Frank  Eggert. 
998    Royal  Oak,  Ml— Charles  W.  Hutchinson.  Jack  R. 

Tarket.  Roy  McBride,  Stanley  B.  Chachulski.  Thelma 

White  (s). 

1005  Mcrrillville,  IN— Helen  Alberta  Bundy  (s),  Joseph 
P.  Tombers.  Lillian  L.  Selkow  (si. 

1006  New  Brunswick,  NJ — Louis  H.  Heick,  Louis  Teza, 
P.  Lester  Dayton,  Walter  Lesneski. 

1010    Uniontown,  PA — Maxine  L.  Hensel  (s). 
1024    Cumberland,  MD— Gloria  Jean  Reel  (s). 
1027    Chicago,  IL — Abe  Martin,  Bruno  Fritz  Kuehn,  Dom- 
inik  Zyga.  Joseph  Altmann,  Method  Duchon,  Peter 

C.  Spizzirri. 

1043    Gary,  IN— Charles  E.  Yeoman,  Nicholas  Ordean. 

1050  Philadelphia,  PA — John  Calabrese,  John  Klase,  Luigi 
Decicco. 

1053    Milwaukee,  WI— George  Husli. 

1055    Lincoln,  Nt^lra  H.  Barclay. 

1062    Santa  Barbara,  CA — Benjamin  C.  Dismuke. 

1065  Salem,  OR — Alfred  Desmond  Brown,  Clarence  F. 
Goddard,  M.  C.  Farrell.  Orin  Schollian. 

1078    Fredericksburg,  VA— Willie  McDuff  Harding. 

1084  Angleton,  TX— Doris  C.  Keels  (s),  John  T.  Ander- 
son. 

1088  Punxsutawney,  PA— John  Polito. 

1089  Phoenix,  A^— Alton  T.  Lewis.  Don  C.  Edwards, 
Nellie  Clara  Patton  (s),  Roy  Hermit  Longshore. 

1091    Bismarck,  ND— William  S.  Miller. 

1097  Longview,  TX— Isaac  Morris  Clark. 

1098  Baton  Rouge,  LA— Arthur  B.  McDaniel.  Michael  J. 
Hebert,  William  E.  Payne. 

1102    Detroit,  MI— Archie  B.  Chapman.  Edwin  D.  Miller, 

James  C.  Jackson,  Victor  Lindgren. 
1108    Cleveland,  OH— Frank  J.  Szakacs. 

1113  San  Bernardino,  CA — Mary  Irene  Trumbull  (s). 

1114  S.  Milwaukee,  WI — Marvin  John  Borchardt. 
1120    Portland,  OR— John  J.  Erickson. 

1138    Toledo,  OH— Alice  E.  Hoffman  (si.  Evelyn  Komo- 

rowski  (s). 
1140    San  Pedro,  CA— Virgilio  Cavedoni. 
1149    San  Francisco,  CA— Charles  W.   Hogan.  John  T. 

Ring,  Marie  E.  Christofferson  (s). 
1155    Columbus,  IN — Avery  S.  Martin. 
1160    Pittsburgh.  PA— Henrietta  Geissler  (s). 
1164    New  York,  NY — Antonino  Macaluso.  Florence  Klee 

(s),  Herbert  Lang. 
1176    Fargo,  ND — Hugo  E.  Anderson. 
1184    Seattle,  WA— Arthur  Roland  Winbeckler. 
1187    Grand  Island,  Nt^Ralpli  R.  Palu. 
1207     Charleston,  WV— Claude  P.  Sullivan. 
1216    Mesa,  AZ— Sherman  Hammond. 
1222    Medford,  NY— Charles  Cushman.  Frederick  Norton. 
1235    Modesto,  CA— Fred  J.  Davis. 
1240    Oroville,  CA— Robert  L.  Fulton. 
1245    Carlsbad,  NM— William  S.  Primrose. 
1251     N.   Westminster,   BC,   CAN— Dean  John   Ninnis, 

Thorbjom  Wilmann. 
1258    Pocalello,  ID— Esther  Ruth  Johnson  (s).  Telmar 

Clive  Seibert. 

1273  Eugene,  OR— Roy  W.  Bailey  Jr. 

1274  Decatur.  AI^AIfred  J.  Ezell. 

1280  Mountain  View,  CA— Allen  Joe  McDonald.  Ray- 
mond Hardie. 

1292    Huntington,  NY — Alfred  Swenson.  James  Ryan. 

1296  San  Diego,  CA— Adan  Ortiz,  Delia  Maxine  Bell  (s). 
Ellen  Theresa  Fortner  (s),  Fred  F.  Hill,  George 
Tooker.  Henry  P.  Lam,  Hugo  A.  Peterson,  Ida  C. 
Abeyta  (s).  Leon  G.  Warner,  Miguel  Chavez.  Robert 

D.  Stivers,  Ronald  C.  Smith.  Willie  Lee  Fenison. 
1305     Fall  River,  MA — Felix  Gaudreau. 

1307    Evanston,  IL — Eugene  Sapinski. 

1310    St.  Louis,  MO— Caroline  Clark  (si.  David  P.  Schwab. 

1319    Albuquerque,  NM — Gus  T.   Argeanas,  Lewis  A. 

Dvorak. 
1325     Edmonton,  Alta,  CAN— John  Juba. 
1333    State  College,  PA— Roy  L.  Douty. 
1337    Tuscaloosa,  AL — Edgar  Harrison  Brown. 

1341  Owenshoro,  KY — Erman  Girvin. 

1342  Irvington,  NJ — Alfonse  Palo,  Cari  Arvidson. 
1355     Crawfordsville,  IN — Fay  B.  Conkright. 
1359    Toledo,  OH— Felix  Szymanski. 

1362  Ada  Ardmore,  OK — Earl  L.  Barrick. 

1363  Oshkosh,  WI — Lorraine  Salzsieder  (s). 
1397    North  Hcmpstad,  NY— Joseph  Milewski. 
1402     Richmond,  VA— Clinton  B.  Layne. 
1404     Biloxi,  MI— Joseph  C.  Burton. 

1407     San  Pedro,  CA — John  Ramirez. 
1418    Lodi,  CA— Frank  H.  Bailey.  Gladys  R.  Peterson  (si. 
Henry  Gronroos.  Louis  Al  Borge. 


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1780 


1797 
1815 
1822 


Johnstown.  PA — Clifford  Little.  John  A.  Stephens. 
Corpus  Christie,  TX — Ramiro  Soltz,  Warren  Lester 
Caddell,  William  H.  Smith. 
Sudbury,  Ont.,  CAN— Barzil  L.  Heggan. 
Topeka,  KS— Russell  H.  Fairchild. 
Detroit,  MI — Anthony  B.  Gambino. 
Huntington  Beach,  CA — Edward  M.  Perry.  Keith  H. 
Pelkey,  Pete  Wilson,  Robert  F.  McDermoll  Sr. 
Cincinnati,  OH— Gilbert  H.   Adams,   William  O. 
Sears. 

New  York,  NY — Marion  Johnsen  (s). 
Omaha,  NE — Orrin  L.  Rumage. 
Mankato,  MN — Harold  Wayne  Mutch. 
Auburn,  CA — Marilynn  C.  Gomes  (s). 
Internt'l  Fals,  MN — Duane  Stenberg. 
E.  Los  Angeles,  CA — Felix  D.  Lopez,  Helen  Vi- 
ckonoff  (s),  Joe  Martinez,  Refugio  0.  Bejarano. 
Tony  C.  Parra. 
Provo,  UT— Allen  Hudson. 

Los  Angeles.  CA — Constant  J.  Campbell,  Mary  Eliz- 
abeth Webb  (s),  Richard  D.  McKee. 
Blountvillc.  TN— John  C.  Richardson. 
■ronton,  OH — Kile  Junior  Lake. 
Algoma,  WI — Geraldine  Sibilsky  (s),  Glenn  Magle, 
Harry  Cjrasley. 

Kansas  City,  KS— Julia  Isabelle  Hoffman  (s). 
Highland,  ll^Frieda  Walter  (s). 
New  York,  NY — Grace  M.  Gargano  (s),  John  Yan- 
kovich. 

Casper,  WY— Merrilyn  S.  Cherni  (s). 
East  San  Diego.  CA — James  B.  Werner. 
West  Allis,  WI — Patricia  Alice  Tenant  (s). 
Englewood,  CO — Oscar  Garza. 
Washington,  DC— John  Edgar  Van  Allen,  Lela  Whit- 
mer  Smith  (s).  William  Underwood. 
Montgomery  County,  PA — Henrietta  Gilmour  (s). 
St.  Louis,  MO^Frank  Steinhoff.  Harry  Vonromer, 
Rudolph  Becker. 

Bremerton,  WA— Ellis  S.  Custodio. 
Victoria,  BC,  CAN— Beverley  McDonald  (s). 
Redding,  CA — George  D.  Mathieson,  George  W. 
Stone.  John  E.  Englert.  Leaman  Holley. 
Hayward.  CA — Francisco  Placeres,  Jess  Marshall 
Carty.  Joaquin  Peixotto.  Lillian  E.  Penland  (s).  Mark 
L.  Araujo.  Talmage  Hicks. 
S.  Luis  Obispo,  CA — Carl  E.  Haydon. 
Naples,  FL — Joseph  F.  Helton. 
Minneapolis.  MN — Carole  R.  Zimmerman  (s).  Walter 
M.  Eicher. 

Bloomington.  IN — Homer  White. 
Ft.  William,  Ont..  CAN— Joe  Kushner. 
Melbourne-Daytona  Beach.  FL — Frederick  Andrew 
Lorimer. 

Tacoma.  WA — Ivan  D.  Queen.  James  H.  Summers. 
Chicago.  IL — Deforest  F.  Kress.  Thomas  A  Grosso. 
Buffalo,  NY — William  J.  Summers. 
Auburn,  WA — Kenneth  G.  Bartrum. 
Milwaukee,  WI — Donald  G.  Wolfe.  John  Krenn. 
Anniston.  AL — Ben  L.  Moore. 
Cleveland.  OH — Russell  E.  Dent.  Sam  Chernin.  Sam 
Riemer. 

Pomona,  CA — Edward  B.  Nickerson,  Elmer  R.  Ea- 
ton, Harry  Taylor,  L.  Hariey  Anderson,  Samuel 
Priven. 

BuiTalo,  NY— Felix  Kaczmarek. 
Marion,  VA — Hazel  M.  Blevins  (s).  James  L.  Cook. 
Orlando.  FL — Joan  Louise  Bilski  (s). 
Hicksville,  NY — Karl  Eriksson. 
Las  Vegas.  NV — Bill   Fred  Meeks.  Carol   Ranae 
Connor  (s),  Edward  C.  Weese,  Lavar  Hirschi,  Louis 
Caruso,  Ronald  C.  Bain. 

Renton,  WA — Cariyle  E.  Mattison,  Wynon  Orville 
Wilkerson. 

Santa  Ana,  CA — Aaron  Joe  Maldonado,  Joyce  Fay 
Jamar  (s),  Otis  L.  Capps.  Walter  L.  Ingham. 
Fort  Worth,  TX— Clarence  E.   Fuller.  Lloyd  G. 
Miller. 


Seniorshield 
Described  in  Kit 

A  new  health-care  insurance  called 
"Seniorshield."  designed  to  supple- 
ment Medicare  for  senior  union  mem- 
bers, is  now  available  from  the  Union 
Labor  Life  Insurance  Co.  It  has  the 
endorsement  of  the  United  Brother- 
hood, and  it  is  exclusively  for  UBC 
members  and  their  spouses  over  age 
65. 

There  was  detailed  information 
about  Seniorshield  in  the  January  1987 
Carpenter.  In  addition.  1987  enroll- 
ment kits  have  been  mailed  to  all 
members  65  and  over  on  the  Carpen- 
ter mailing  list.  For  additional  infor- 
mation call  800-368-5724. 


1837    Babylon,  NY — Antonio  Damico,  Florence  Grotz  (s). 

1846  New  Orleans,  LA— Dillon  A.  Wilkins,  Eugene  Mar- 
tinez, John  C.  Valenti,  Joseph  F.  Coco  Sr.,  Lurline 
C.  Orlando  (s).  Martin  Melerine,  Willie  J.  Phillips. 

1856     Philadelphia,  PA— Samuel  Craven. 

1889     Downers  Grove,  IL — Henry  Bormann. 

1897  Lafayette,  LA— Nola  Roy  Latiolais  (s),  Norris  La- 
tiolais. 

1904     North  Kansas,  MO— Herbert  Reames. 

1906     Philadelphia,  PA— Edward  Hancock. 

1911     Beckley,  WV— Edward  Alton  Legg. 

1913  Van  Nuys,  CA— Charles  M.  Desoto. 

1914  Phoenix,  AZ— Arvil  C.  Hamilton,  Guillermo  Crock- 
well. 

1921     Hempstead,  NY— Michael  Reimondi,  Salvatore  J. 

Marchese. 
1929     Cleveland,  OH— Edward  F.  Hayas. 
1954     Brookfield,  IL — Julius  Labeeuw. 
1985     Province  of  SASK.— Frank  Mazur. 
1987    St.  Charles,  MO— James  F.  Finch. 
2007    Orange,  TX— Charles  E.  Navarre,  Violet  1.  Robbins 

(s). 
2015    Santa  Paula,  CA— Clarence  A.  Olein.  Ryalls  H. 

Morgan. 
2018    Ocean  County,  NJ — James  McKee,  Kathryn  Banko 

(s). 
2027     Rapid  City,  SD— Donald  J.  Pengra,  Otto  C.  Tafl. 
2035     Kingsbeach,  CA— William  J.  Harmon. 

2046  Martinez,  CA. — Frederick  A.  Scharf. 

2047  Hartford  City,  IN— Clifford  Schwarzkopf.  Eldo  C. 
Rogers,  Olive  Gilland  {s). 

2073     Milwaukee,  WI — Joseph  Konieczny,  Russell  J.  Rothe. 

2077  Columbus,  OH— Paul  Wheeler. 

2078  Vista,  CA— Bennie  R.  Mosher. 

2103     Calgary  Alta,  CAN— George  B.   Evans.  John   H. 

Rimmington. 
2141    Scottsbluff,  NE— Glenn  A.  Smith. 
2164    San    Francisco,    CA — Albino    A.    Bonovitch,    Ole 

Stromsheim. 
2172    Santa  Ana,  CA — Maurice  R.  Morales.  Rachel  Jones 

Fouste  (s). 
2205    Wenatchee,  WA— Belva  Mary  Mulkey  (s). 
2212     Newark,  NJ — Angelo  Maggi,  Ernest  Roveillo. 
2222    Goderich,  ONT.   CAN— Antanas  Zelionis,   Harry 

Buckley. 
2231     Los  Angeles,  CA — Elizabeth  Cornelia  Hassoldt  (s). 
2239     Fremont,  OH — Andrew  J.  HofTman. 
2244     Little  Chute,  WI— John  G.  tamers. 
2250     Red  Bank,  NJ— Violet  Poole  (s).  William  P.  Wallace. 
2252    Grand  Rapids,  MI — Chester  Andrews,  Harriet  Chard 

(s). 
2265    Detroit,  MI — Douglas  Nietubicz.  Lawrence  Yamar- 

ino,  Ross  John  Baker. 
2274    Pittsburgh,  PA— Boyd  P.  Painter,  Harry  W.  Dillin- 

ger.  Louis  J.  Forni. 
2288    Los  Angeles,  CA — Edgar  L.  Dowdle,  Jose  G.  Rios, 

Orpha  Estella  Calzia  {s),  Varnel  O.  Jordan. 
231 1     Washington,  DC— August  Delattre,  Robert  C.  Plank. 
2313     Meridian,  MS — Isom  Lonzo  Torrence,  Lemuel  E. 

Craven. 
2350    Scranton,  PA — Madelyn  Delvecchio  (s),  Marie  Jac- 

kowicz  (s) 
2361     Orange.  CA— Clifford  Odonnell.  Samuel  S.  Crowe. 
2375     Los  Angeles.  CA— Sydney  W.  Lentz. 
2396    Seattle.  WA— Eugene  C.  Olson.  Johan  Edward  En- 

glund. 
2398    El  Cajon,  CA— Joe  Curiel. 

2404     Vancouver,  BC  CAN — Theresa  Mary  Henderson  (s). 
2408     Xenia,  OH— Lawrence  A.  Fry,  Ruth  Marie  Dunn 

(s). 
2410     Red  Deer,  Alta  CAN— James  Earl  Paul. 
2431     Long  Beach.  CA— Roberta  Pike  (si. 
2435    Inglewood,  CA — Lloyd  C.  Scheidemantel.  Lorena  1. 

Little  (s). 
2463    Ventura.  CA — Leacle  McDonald.  Robert  E.  Baker. 
2477    Santa  Maria.  CA— Cleto  Sinay,  Ormond  White. 
2484     Orange.  TX— Huey  Olasford  Scott. 
2530     Gilchrist,    OR— Kerncy    William    Rolison,    Turner 

Westerham 
2565    San  Francisco,  CA — Jasper  Paul  Glover. 
2637     Sedro  WoUey,  WA— Bennie  L.  Bogusz. 
2652    Standard,  CA — Antoinette  V .  Tarango  (s),  Benjamin 

B.  Tarango. 
2659    Everett,  WA— David  Skoglund,  Frederick  W.  Tee- 
pie. 
2667    Bellingham.  WA— Howard  A.  Bailey. 
2693    Pt.  Arthur,  Ont  CAN— Claude  Dube. 
2739    Yakima,  WA— Paul  W,  Anderson. 
2756    Goshen,  OR— John  M.  Currence. 
2761     McCleary,  WA— Mary  Wakefield  (s). 
2767    Morton,  WA — Clarence  Dicu,  Ira  L.  Smith,  James 

Ockfen. 
2791     Sweet  Home,  OR— Brian  K.  Lablue. 
2819    New  York.  NY— George  McCann. 
2834    Denver,  CO— Charles  T.  Helton. 
2845    Forest  Grove,  OR— Clifford  D.  Epiing. 
2851     La  Grande,  OR— Ralph  Berry. 
2902    Burns,  OR — Bert  Francis.  Elmer  O.  Morris.  James 

A.  Wood.  Marian  Lorrain  Hutchins  (s). 
2942    Albany,  OR— Clara  M.  Dittraer  (s). 
2947     New  York,  NY— Joseph  K.  Crider. 
2949    Roseburg,  OR— Charles  Mitchell,  Jasper  W.  Jame- 
son, Loman  C.  Baker,  Roger  H.  Blevins.  Virginia 

Lee  Ahlvers  (s). 
2993    Franklin,  IN— Chester  L.  Speas 
3009     Grants  Pass,  OR— Hugh  R.  Haddock. 
3088    Stockton,  CA— Glennie  Mae  Harris  (s). 
3099    Aberdeen.  WA— Stanford  L.  Gotchy. 
7000     Province  of  QUE.  Lcl.  134-2— Lucille  Heroux  (si. 
9033    Pittsburgh,  PA— Zoltan  Lukacs. 

9073  St.  Louis,  MO— Emil  E.  Anderson. 

9074  Chicago,  ll^John  A.  Olson,  Walter  D.  Schutter. 


36 


CARPENTER 


STEP  BRACKETS 


Now  being  introduced  nationally  by  Con- 
crete Tie,  Compton,  Calif.,  new  Speed  Step 
Brackets  represent  a  major  step  forward  in 
forming  concrete  steps  compared  to  the 
centuries-old  method.  Using  these  patented 
brackets  and  the  three-step  system,  concrete 
steps  can  be  formed  at  savings  of  more  than 
50%  in  costs  and  time,  reports  Concrete  Tie. 
In  addition,  the  new  precision-formed  steps 
are  more  uniformly  accurate,  neater,  and 
architecturally  beautiful.  After  one  use,  the 
manufacturer  states  that  these  polystyrene 
plastic  brackets  pay  for  themselves. 

No  special  tools  or  training  are  required. 
The  brackets  are  self-adjusting  with  degree 
marks,  and  will  automatically  set  toe-in. 
They  are  adjustable  for  4"-8"  rises  and  10"- 
18"  treads.  Reusable,  they  are  easy  to  strip, 
clean,  and  store. 

Preassembling  of  stair  forms  and  storing 
them  offsite  are  also  options  available  with 
the  brackets.  While  on  thejobsite,  they  serve 
as  a  kneeboard  holder  to  prevent  the  worker 
from  stepping  in  wet  concrete  when  finishing 
the  steps  while  providing  for  an  overall  easier 
work  space. 

For  more  information  and  prices,  contact 
Concrete  Tie,  130  Oris  St.,  Compton,  CA 
90222(213)774-1870. 


INDEX  OF  ADVERTISERS 

Calculated  Industries 27 

Clifton  Enterprises 28 

Cline-Sigmon 19 

Diamond  Machining 38 

Estwing 37 

Foley-Belsaw 19 

Hydrolevel 28 

Irwin 20 

Vaughan  &  Bushnell 38 


FLOORING  GUIDES 

Two  new  publications  on  sources  and 
application  of  plywood  underlayment  for  use 
beneath  thin  resilient  floor  coverings  are 
now  available  from  the  American  Plywood 
Association. 

APA  Data  File:  Preparation  of  Plywood 
Underlayment  for  Thin  Resilient  (Non-tex- 
tile) Flooring,  Form  L335,  contains  complete 
application  recommendations,  including  grade 
selection,  panel  preparation,  spacing,  and 
nailing. 

A  companion  APA  Source  List:  Plywood 
Underlayment  for  Use  Under  Resilient  Fin- 
ish Flooring,  Form  L330,  lists  approximately 
two  dozen  APA  member  manufacturers  pro- 
ducing one  or  more  of  the  recommended 
underlayment  grades.  Available  panel  thick- 
nesses are  also  listed  by  manufacturer.  Typ- 
ical APA  plywood  underlayment  facsimiles 
are  contained  in  both  brochures. 

APA  trademarked  plywood  grades  rec- 
ommended for  use  beneath  thin  resilient  floor 
coverings  have  a  smooth  sanded  surface  and 
special  inner  ply  construction  to  resist  dents 
and  punctures  from  concentrated  loads. 

Single  copies  of  both  the  Source  List, 
Form  L330,  and  the  Data  File,  Form  L335, 
are  available  free  of  charge  by  contacting 
the  American  Plywood  Association,  PO  Box 
11700,  Tacoma,  WA  98411,  (206)  565-6600. 

SONG  BY  CONLEE 


Country-Western  singer  John  Conlee  has 
a  new  song  out  called  simply  "The  Carpen- 
ter." It's  an  inspirational,  contemporary 
ditty  sure  to  please  those  who  handle  the 
tools  of  the  craft. 

Conlee  has  recorded  the  song  on  the  CBS 
Records  label,  and  it's  available  on  cassette, 
LP  album,  and  compact  disc. 

For  more  information,  there's  a  toll-free 
telephone  number  you  can  dial:  1-800-FOR- 
A-HIT  and  mention  Harmony  Recording 
No.  40257,  or  you  can  write:  CBS  Records, 
34  Music  Square  East,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
37203. 


Estwing 

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HAMMERS 

First  and  Finest 
All-Steel  Hammers 


Our  popular  20  oz. 
regular  length  hammer 
now  available  with 
milled  face 

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(milled  face) 


16"  handle 


Forged  in  one  piece,  no  head  or  handle 
neck  connections,  strongest  construc- 
tion known,  fully  polished  head  and 
handle  neck. 

Estwing's  exclusive  "molded  on"  nylon- 
vinyl  deep  cushion  grip  which  is  baked 
and  bonded  to  "I"  beam  shaped  shank. 


Always  wear  Estwing 
Safety  Goggles  wtien 
k  using  liand  tools.  Protect 
your  eyes  from  flying  parti- 
cles and  dust.  Bystanders 
shall  also  wear  Estwing 
Safety  Goggles. 


See  your  local  Estwing  Dealer.  If  he 
can 't  supply  you,  write: 


Estwing 


Mfg.  Co. 


2647  8th  St.  Rockford,  IL  61101 


MARCH     1987 


37 


Millwright  Job 

Continued  from  Page  8 

wood  chisel  to  the  robotics  of  today, 
the  millwright's  capabiUties  have  grown 
to  meet  the  challenge.  Taft  has  been 
growing  with  the  trade  for  almost  100 
years.  Founded  by  the  Taft  Family  in 
1888,  the  company  has  been  hauling, 
erecting,  installing,  and  maintaining  the 
machinery  of  industry  for  nearly  a  cen- 
tury. 

In  order  to  install  the  Werner  job 
properly,  the  Taft  team  had  to  over- 
come cultural  barriers  as  well  as  a 
language  barrier,  translating  German 
specifications  and  instructions  into 
American  know-how. 

Taft  is  a  firm  which  has  much  contract 
maintenance  work. 

"What  we  learned  at  the  Werner 
plant,  we  will  put  to  use  on  hundreds 
of  future  projects,"  says  Joe  Gaynor  of 
the  Taft  Company.  "And  the  projects 
continue  to  grow  both  in  terms  of  scope 
and  sophistication.  The  manufacturing 
plan  of  the  21st  Century  will  be  filled 
with  sophisticated  instrumentation, 
computers,  robots,  and  there  will  be  a 
handful  of  highly-skilled  workers  who 
will  be  the  'foremen'  of  the  electro- 
mechanical workforce. 


"More  companies  will  be  installing 
the  type  of  equipment  which  is  our 
specialty.  They  will  be  using  outside 
contractors  to  do  a  great  deal  of  their 
maintenance.  We  have  always  done 
some  of  this  work.  We  have  several 
plants  now,  where  Taft  crews  are  part 
of  the  normal  work  force.  We  keep  the 
equipment  on-Une,  perform  routine 
maintenance,  cover  for  vacations,  keep 
our  people  trained,  and  just  generally 
free  the  cHents'  people  to  do  the  job  of 
making  their  product. 

"The  other  area  that  has  become  a 
routine  part  of  our  business  is  construc- 
tion management.  Once  a  building  is  in 
place,  the  millwrights  arrive  on  the 
scene  to  begin  making  the  measure- 
ments necessary  for  installation.  They 
coordinate  with  the  other  trades,  such 
as  electricians  and  pipefitters,  to  make 
sure  scheduling  dovetails  with  the  ar- 
rival of  equipment.  And  at  the  end  of 
the  job,  the  millwrights  are  there  to 
make  sure  everything  is  running  prop- 
erly. As  a  result,  some  chents  are  look- 
ing to  us  to  act  as  construction  man- 
agers.'-' 

As  Gaynor  says,  "It's  stiU  our  peo- 
ple, the  guys  with  the  tool  boxes,  that 
make  all  the  hi-tech  engineering  marvels 
work."  \JBG 


Pat  Robertson 
Wants  to  Abolish 
Social  Security 

Evangelist  Marion  (Pat)  Robertson,  who 
has  taken  the  first  step  towards  seeking  the 
1988  Republican  presidential  nomination, 
said  he  favors  abolishing  Social  Security. 

In  an  interview  published  in  the  Baltimore 
Sun,  Robertson  said  he  would  replace  Social 
Security  with  a  private  system  that  would 
force  workers  to  finance  their  own  retire- 
ment. 

Robertson  was  quoted  as  saying  that,  if 
nothing  is  done  to  change  the  present  Social 
SEcurity  program,  "a  catastrophe  of  uni- 
magined  magnitude  is  going  to  develop  on 
the  young  workers  of  our  society."  The  tax 
burden,  he  said,  is  going  to  be  "absolutely 
unbehevable." 

Under  Robertson's  plan,  workers  would 
be  forced  to  join  a  private  retirement  plan, 
"a  compulsory  IRA,"  as  he  put  it.  An  IRA 
is  an  Individual  Retirement  Account.  Those 
currently  receiving  Social  Security  would 
continue  to  get  benefits,  using  federal  rev- 
enues, he  added.  Robertson  said  he  has 
asked  some  experts  to  study  his  idea. 

In  1983,  a  bipartisan  reform  commission 
put  Social  Security  on  a  sound  financial  basis 
for  the  next  50  to  75  years.  Experts  say  that, 
as  a  "family  protection  plan,"  Social  Se- 
curity offers  more  than  any  private  insurance 
plan  at  any  price. 


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The  Diamond  Whetstone^M 
sharpener  by  DMT  will  hone  perfect 
edges  every  time  with  just  a  few  light 
^strokes.  Excellent  to  carry  in  your  pocket. 
The  6"  Bench  model  is  our  most  popular 
sharpener  for  general  use.  The  8  "  comes  with 
mounting  tabs  for  secure  bench  installation. 
Super  on  carbides.  X-coarse  Japanese  water 
stones.  Satisfaction  guaranteed. 


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Make 
Safety  a 
Habit! 

These  common  abuses  of  striking 
tools  are  all  dangerous.  Each  carries 
the  potential  for  serious  personal 
injury.  The  hardened  stril<ing  face  of 
a  carpenter's  hammer  is  designed  to 
be  struck  against  common,  unhard- 
ened  nails.  Misusing  the  tool  by 
striking  it  against  another  hardened 
steel  tool  may  result  in  chipping  and 
consequent  serious  injury  from  flying 
particles.  Removal  of  embedded 
nails,  for  example,  should  be  done 
with  a  nail  puller  and  a  hand  drilling 
or  light  sledge  hammer. 


DON'T  strike  one  hammer 
with  another! 


DONT  strike  a  hatchet 
with  a  hammer! 


To  protect  your  eyes  from 
dust  and  flying  particles, 
always  wear  safety  goggles 
wtien  using  striking  tools. 

VAUGHAN  &  BUSHNELL  MFG.  CO. 
11414  Maple  Avenue,  Hebron,  Illinois  60034 
1815  648-2446 

We're  concerned  about  your  safety. 


DON  T  strike  a  nail  puller 
with  a  carpenter's 
hammer! 


38 


CARPENTER 


A  Message  from 

the  General 

President 


Included  in  this  issue  of  Carpenter  are 
several  amendments  to  the  Constitution  and 
Laws  of  the  United  Brotherhood  which  have 
been  proposed  by  Local  452,  Vancouver,  B.C. 

These  amendments  are  printed  pursuant  to 
Section  63  of  the  Constitution  and  Laws  so 
that  you  will  know  what  has  been  proposed. 

The  amendments  will  be  presented  to  the 
General  Executive  Board  at  its  April  1987 
meeting. 

The  proposed  amendments  are  designed  to 
reduce  the  per  capita  tax  payable  to  the  United 
Brotherhood  by  reversing  actions  taken  at  the 
35th  General  Convention  held  in  Toronto, 
Canada  in  October  1986. 

The  General  Convention  approved  and 
adopted  a  progressive  program  proposed  by 
the  General  Executive  Board  to  provide  for 
effective  organizing  and  other  services  aimed 
at  recovering  our  recent  losses  of  membership, 
strengthening  our  position  in  the  industrial 
sector,  and  regaining  the  portion  of  the  con- 
struction market  which  has  been  lost  to  non- 
union contractors. 

The  program  included  the  establishment  of 
a  Defense  Fund  to  provide  financial  support 
and  assistance  to  our  local  unions  and  councils 
in  our  efforts  to  achieve  our  goals. 

If  the  per  capita  tax  is  reduced,  our  efforts 
will  be  crippled,  and  there  is  no  way  we  will 
be  able  to  do  what  is  necessary  if  we  are  to 
reestablish  our  position  in  the  construction 
market,  regain  full  employment  opportunities 
for  our  members,  and  protect  the  benefits  of 
collective  bargaining  to  which  our  members 
are  entitled. 

The  elected  delegates  to  the  Brotherhood's 
35th  General  Convention  in  Toronto  voted  on 
a  number  of  proposals  to  move  our  Brother- 
hood ahead  in  the  coming  years.  It  was  a 
democratic  convention  and,  as  those  who 
attended  can  testify,  there  was  a  good  deal  of 
debate  on  the  floor.   Our  Constitution  and 


Laws  state  that  the  General  Convention,  while 
in  session,  is  vested  with  all  the  authority  of 
the  United  Brotherhood,  and  the  delegates 
took  that  responsibility  very  seriously. 

Your  General  Executive  Board  submitted 
a  package  of  proposals  to  put  our  Brotherhood 
on  a  firm  financial  footing,  able  to  deal  with 
the  challenges  that  face  our  organization.  The 
most  important  of  these  were  the  increases  in 
the  per  capita  payment  and  initiation  fee,  tied 
to  creation  of  a  UBC  Defense  Fund  and 
expanded  UBC  benefits  and  services.  I  want 
each  of  you  to  know  why  the  Board  proposed 
these  increases  and  why  the  convention  del- 
egates agreed  with  these  proposals. 

In  the  past  several  years,  it  has  become 
clear  to  us  that  the  times  demand  new  pro- 
grams and  new  strategies  if  our  Brotherhood 
is  to  move  ahead.  All  around  us  we  see  the 
anti-union  forces  growing  by  leaps  and  bounds 
and  unions  reacting  defensively  trying  to  hold 
on  to  past  gains.  In  many  of  our  locals'  and 
councils'  jurisdictions  we  see  open  shop  con- 
tractors and  employers  taking  a  bigger  and 
bigger  share  of  the  work. 

We  have  seen  from  Louisiana-Pacific  and 
American  Express  what  our  Brotherhood  is 
capable  of  when  we  all  work  together  and  use 
our  resources  in  coordinated  effort.  In  the 
case  of  American  Express,  we  have  made  a 
tremendous  impact  in  fighting  the  spread  of 
anti-union  construction  practices.  We  have 
sent  the  message  to  major  industrial  employers 
and  construction  users  that  we  intend  to  put 
substantial  resources  into  public, nationwide 
campaigns  on  all  fronts  to  fight  back  and 
protect  our  rights.  What  we  have  done  so  far 
is  only  a  beginning.  We  can  achieve  a  lot 
more.  Our  great  Brotherhood  is  capable  of 
leading  the  entire  labor  movement  in  turning 
things  around  for  working  people.  The  cor- 
porations and  contractors  that  are  trying  to 
take  advantage  of  our  members  and  pushing 
open  shop  agendas  are  not  letting  up  and  we 
can't  afford  to  either. 

Our  Brotherhood  needs  a  healthy  defense 
fund  to  use  in  our  campaigns  and  to  assist  our 
locals  and  councils;  we  need  expanded  orga- 
nizing programs;  we  need  better  coordinated 
bargaining  and  industry  conference  boards  in 
our  industrial  sector;  we  need  more  resources 
for  our  successful  Special  Programs  Depart- 
ment, which  is  recognized  as  a  model  for  other 


unions;  we  need  to  provide  even  more  training 
for  local  and  council  agents;  and  we  need 
more  International  representatives  to  carry 
out  all  these  programs.  Our  membership  has 
called  for  ever  greater  efforts  from  the  Inter- 
national, and  the  delegates  to  the  35th  General 
Convention  in  Toronto  granted  us  the  means 
to  follow  through. 

This  is  what  the  per  capita  and  initiation 
fee  increase  is  all  about.  It's  about  making 
gains  for  our  members,  organizing  new  mem- 
bers, and  taking  the  initiative  away  from  the 
open-shop  movement. 

The  actions  taken  by  the  delegates  in  To- 
ronto are  even  more  important  when  you  recall 
that  the  United  Brotherhood  had  already  post- 
poned as  long  as  possible  the  implementation 
of  needed  revenue  increases.  The  34th  General 
Convention  in  1981  adopted  a  constitutional 
amendment  giving  the  General  Executive  Board 
the  authority  to  increase  per  capita  by  400  in 
1985  and  another  500  in  1986.  That  authority 
was  not  used.  During  the  period  1982-1986  it 
became  apparent  that  increases  were  neces- 
sary because  even  though  the  General  Office 
has  been  keeping  its  overall  expenses  to  a 
bare  minimum,  our  per  capita  income  was  still 
declining  due  to  a  loss  in  membership.  We 
had  been  spending  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars  on  the  L-P  campaign  and  on  other 
industrial  and  construction  industry  cam- 
paigns, yet  the  per  capita  rate  has  not  in- 
creased since  January  1981. 

Nonetheless,  the  General  Executive  Board 
did  not  increase  per  capita  in  1985  or  1986 
even  though  it  had  been  given  the  authority 
to  do  that.  We  instead  waited  until  we  could 


put  the  matter  to  a  vote  of  the  convention 
delegates.  And  that  is  what  occurred  in  To- 
ronto. We  wanted  to  explain  the  need  for  a 
Defense  Fund  and  the  other  programs  to  which 
I  have  referred.  We  did  this  because  we  knew 
that  without  membership  understanding  and 
support  our  Brotherhood  is  not  going  to  be 
very  strong  no  matter  how  many  innovative 
programs  we  come  up  with. 

We  made  our  case  to  the  Finance  Commit- 
tee, a  committee  made  up  of  nine  convention 
delegates.  For  ten  days  that  committee  met 
and  extensively  reviewed  the  financial  records 
at  the  General  Offices  of  the  United  Broth- 
erhood and  in  Toronto,  and  the  Committee 
had  open  hearings  to  hear  all  views  from 
convention  delegates. 

The  Finance  Committee  issued  its  findings 
in  an  eight-page  written  report  which  was 
distributed  to  all  delegates  for  their  consid- 
eration the  day  before  the  vote  on  the  Con- 
vention floor.  The  Committee  also  made  an 
oral  report  to  the  Convention  when  the  issue 
came  up  on  the  floor.  Following  this  report 
there  was  debate  and  then  a  vote  to  accept 
the  Committee's  report. 

One  question  that  was  raised  both  before 
the  Finance  Committee  and  by  delegates  was 
why  an  increase  was  needed  when  our  General 
Fund  has  substantial  interest  income.  That 
issue  was  addressed  in  the  Finance  Commit- 
tee's report,  parts  of  which  we  have  reprinted 
below.  The  fact  is  that  our  programs  have 
been  costing  more  than  we  take  in  from  per 
capita  tax.  If  we  are  to  provide  a  UBC  Defense 
Fund  and  all  the  other  programs  that  are 
needed,  as  well  as  continue  the  services  that 


Excerpts  from  the  Finance  Committee's  Oral  Report  to  th 


Mr.  Chairman  and  delegates  .  .  . 

The  finance  committee  met  in  Washington,  D.C.,  on 
September  24  at  10:00  a.m.  at  the  General  Office  and, 
as  set  forth  in  the  Constitution,  has  remained  in  session 
since  that  date.  In  the  past  two  weeks,  we  have  thor- 
oughly reviewed  the  financial  records  of  the  United 
Brotherhood. 

The  committee  thoroughly  reviewed  all  the  factors 
relating  to  the  General  Executive  Board's  proposals  to 
increase  per  capita  tax  and  initiation  fees.  Because  of 
the  importance  of  this  matter,  I  will  review  some  of  our 
major  findings  .  .  . 

First:  Because  of  our  loss  in  membership  and  the  fact 
that  our  per  capita  tax  has  not  increased  since  1981  and 
the  initiation  fee  has  not  increased  since  1975,  our 
income  from  these  sources  has  shown  a  substantial 
decline  over  the  past  five  years. 


Second:  In  accordance  with  the  directive  of  our  1978 
Convention,  the  General  Officers  and  Executive  Board 
have  made  every  effort  to  operate  the  Brotherhood 
within  the  limits  imposed  by  our  declining  per  capita 
tax  and  initiation  fees.  For  example,  retiring  represen- 
tatives have  not  been  replaced  in  many  instances  .  .  . 

Third:  The  1980s  have  been  a  very  difficult  time  for 
the  labor  movement,  including  our  Brotherhood.  This 
has  meant  that  simply  to  survive,  our  Brotherhood  has 
had  to  initiate  new  programs,  such  as  the  establishment 
of  our  Special  Programs  Department,  and  corporate 
campaigns,  such  as  those  against  Louisiana  Pacific  and 
American  Express.  These  and  other  programs  have  cost 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars. 

Fourth:  Due  to  all  these  factors,  the  Brotherhood, 
despite  every  effort  by  the  General  Officers  and  Exec- 
utive Board  Members,  is  unable  to  operate  within  the 


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have  been  requested  and  provided,  and  we 
do  not  increase  our  per  capita,  our  expenses 
will  greatly  exceed  our  per  capita  income  over 
the  next  five  years.  We  would  have  to  take 
large  amounts  from  our  General  Fund  and  this 
would  begin  a  process  that  would  seriously 
hurt  the  future  economic  stability  of  our  Union. 
We  felt  a  decision  had  to  be  made  by  the 
Convention  delegates.  Either  vote  for  the 
resources  to  fund  the  needed  programs,  or 
watch  our  Brotherhood  begin  a  downward 
spiral  of  dipping  further  and  further  into  our 
General  Fund  until  so  little  is  left  that  our 
Brotherhood  will  be  powerless. 

The  Executive  Board  realizes  these  in- 
creases may  present  a  hardship  to  some  Coun- 
cils and  Local  Unions  that  are  suffering  through 
hard  economic  times  and  have  a  large  number 
of  members  out  of  work.  The  Executive  Board 
will  continue  its  policy  of  considering  requests 
for  assistance  from  those  affiliates  on  a  case- 
by-case  basis. 

To  those  who  say  the  increases  were  not 
needed,  I  can  only  reply  just  watch  what  we 
can  accomplish  in  the  next  few  years  if  we  all 
stick  together  as  one  Brotherhood. 

It  will  be  my  recommendation  to  the  General 
Executive  Board  that  the  proposed  amend- 
ments be  rejected.  If  all  important  decisions 
made  at  our  General  Convention  are  going  to 
be  subject  to  an  immediate  attempt  at  repeal 
by  piecemeal  amendments,  our  Brotherhood 
is  going  to  become  unmanageable  and  inef- 
fective. 

Whatever  is  decided,  let  me  repeat  what  I 
said  to  the  delegates  at  the  General  Conven- 
tion: The  Brotherhood  is  one  family.  There 


are  no  islands.  When  we  act,  we  act  together. 
That  is  our  strength,  and  that  is  how  we're 
going  to  move  ahead  in  the  future. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


meral  Convention 


limits  imposed  by  our  declining  per  capita  and  initiation 
income. 

Fifth:  The  Committee  made  a  series  of  projections  for 
the  1986  to  1990  period  using  detailed  information  on 
the  Brotherhood's  revenues,  expenditures,  and  member- 
ship. We  found  that  if  we  do  not  increase  our  per  capita 
tax  and  initiation,  and  if  we  continue  to  lose  membership, 
our  expenses  will  exceed  our  per  capita  and  initiation 
income  by  almost  $56  million  over  the  next  five  years. 
That  would  deplete  our  General  Fund  by  a  large  amount 
and  serio.usly  weaken  our  International. 

Our  projection  allowed  the  Brotherhood  to  replace 
the  Representatives  we  have  lost  since  1981  and  make 
other  essential  adjustments  .  .  .  But  our  projection  did 
not  allow  for  necessary  new  programs  such  as  a  Defense 
Fund  .  .  . 

We,  therefore,  did  another  projection.  We  looked  at 


what  would  happen  if  we  did  not  increase  our  per  capita, 
but  the  International  was  to  institute  the  defense  fund 
and  other  new  programs.  Let  us  assume  that  the  new 
programs  stopped  our  membership  loss.  Even  under 
these  circumstances,  that  is  no  further  membership  loss, 
we  could  not  afford  these  new  programs.  The  Interna- 
tional would  be  forced  to  operate  at  a  serious  deficit, 
and  our  General  Fund  would  be  depleted  by  a  substantial 
amount. 

The  Committee's  findings,  based  on  our  thorough 
review  and  projections,  is  this:  There  is  a  definite  need 
for  an  increase  in  per  capita  and  initiation  fees  as 
proposed  by  the  General  Executive  Board  if  this  con- 
vention wants  to  provide  our  International  with  the 
necessary  resources  to  move  the  Brotherhood  ahead  in 
the  coming  years.  We  therefore  support  the  General 
Executive  Board's  proposals. 


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THE  UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  of  CARPENTERS  &  JOINERS  of  AMERICA 


GENERAL  OFFICE: 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 


GENERAL  PRESIDENT 

Patrick  J.  Campbell 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

SECOND  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

John  Pruitt 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

John  S.  Rogers 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  TREASURER 

Wayne  Pierce 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 


DISTRICT  BOARD  MEMBERS 


First  District,  Joseph  F.  Lia 

120  North  Main  Street 
New  City,  New  York  10956 

Second  District,  George  M.  Walish 

101  S.  Newtown  St.  Road 

Newtown  Square,  Pennsylvania  19073 

Third  District,  Thomas  Hanahan 

9575  West  Higgins  Road 

Suite  304 

Rosemont,  Illinois  60018 

Fourth  District,  E.  Jimmy  Jones 
American  Savings  Building 
16300  N.E.  19th  Ave.,  #220 
North  Miami,  Florida  33162 

Fifth  District,  Eugene  Shoehigh 
526  Elkwood  Mall  -  Center  Mall 
42nd  &  Center  Streets 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68105 


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401  Rolla  Street  Suite  2 
RoUa,  Missouri  65401 

Seventh  District,  H.  Paul  Johnson 
Gramark  Plaza 

12300  S.E.  MaUard  Way  #240 
Milwaukie,  Oregon  97222 

Eighth  District,  M.  B.  Bryant 
5330-F  Power  Inn  Road 
Sacramento,  California  95820 

Ninth  District,  John  Carruthers 
5799  Yonge  Street  #807 
Willowdale,  Ontario  M2M  3V3 

Tenth  District,  Ronald  J.  Dancer 
1235  40th  Avenue,  N.W. 
Calgary,  Alberta,  T2K  OG3 


William  Sidell,  General  President  Emeritus 
WiLUAM  KONYHA,  General  President  Emeritus 
Peter  Terzick,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 
Charles  E.  Nichols,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 


Patrick  J.  Campbell,  Chairman 
John  S.  Rogers,  Secretary 

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cleared  out  of.  Therefore,  the  secre- 
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should  forward  his  name  to  the  Gen- 
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VOLUME  107  No.  4  APRIL  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

The  World's  Rain  Forests  Must  Be  Managed,  Too! 2 

Industrial  Advisory  Committee  Meets 5 

Coordination  Pays  Off  In  Flooring  Industry  Negotiations 5 

Baggage  Handling  System  Installed  by  Chicago  Millwrights 7 

Fibreboard  Litigation  Poses  Mounting  Problems  For  L-P 9 

Carpenter's  Guide  from  the  Time  of  Andrew  Jackson 10 

100th  Congress  Faces  Critical  Legislation .  11 

AFL-CIO  Union  Industries  Show 13 

Dun-Par  Chose  to  be  100%  Union! 14 

Carpenter  of  Nazareth  Edified  in  Bronze  by  Cleveland  Carpenter  ....  15 

Retirees'  Needs  to  be  Studied  by  15  Unions 28 

Ode  to  the  Hole  in  the  Road R.  H.  Williams  29 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 6 

Ottawa  Report 8 

Labor  News  Roundup 12 

Local  Union  News 17 

We  Congratulate 20 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 21 

Steward  Training 22 

Members  in  the  News 23 

Safety  and  Health:  Right-To-Know  Teleconference 24 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Test  Smoke  Detectors 25 

Plane  Gossip 26 

Retirees  Notebook 27 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 30 

In  Memoriam 37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 

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COVER 


Many  of  the  underdeveloped  nations 
of  the  world  are  turning  to  their  timber 
resources  for  much  needed  revenue. 
Struggling  to  pay  off  their  debts  to  inter- 
national banks  and  supply  farmland  to 
their  people,  they  are,  in  some  cases, 
seriously  depleting  the  world  supply  of 
hardwoods  and  exotic-grained  woods  used 
m  wood  paneling  and  cabinetmaking. 

Evidence  of  the  strong  emphasis  being 
placed  on  native  timbers  as  a  marketable 
resource  is  found  in  the  large  number  of 
stamps  being  issued  by  many  emerging 
nations  of  the  Tropics.  Our  front  and 
back  covers  for  April  show  some  of  these 
stamps. 

In  some  cases  the  names  of  these 
nations  have  changed,  as  native  govern- 
ments take  over  from  their  colonial  mas- 
ters. There  is  no  longer  a  British  Hon- 
durus,  for  example.  It  is  now  the  Central 
American  nation  of  Belize.  The  African 
nation  of  Malawi  was  once  the  British 
protectorate  of  Nyasaland.  Cameroon, 
Gabon,  and  the  Central  African  Republic 
were  once  divisions  of  French  Equatorial 
Africa.  The  stamp  showing  Queen  Eliz- 
abeth and  a  logging  truck  was  once  issued 
by  the  British  protectorate  of  the  Solo- 
mon Islands  in  the  Southwest  Pacific.  In 
1978  this  island  chain,  known  so  well  to 
thousands  of  World  War  II  veterans,  was 
granted  its  independence.  Republique  dii 
Congo  was  once  part  of  the  Belgian 
Congo,  which  is  now  Zaire.  The  stamp 
showing  an  elephant  lifting  a  log  is  from 
Laos. 

Timber  from  the  world's  rain  forests 
were  once  predominantly  controlled  by 
the  colonial  powers.  Today,  many  new 
emerging  nations  are  beginning  to  rec- 
ognize that  conservation  practices  must 
be  instituted,  if  their  natural  resources 
are  to  be  maintained  for  future  genera- 
tions. 

The  stamps  on  our  covers  are  from 
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^-T'Bo'         int^lfflBI-  ■  Must  Be  Managed,  Too! 


The  world's 

RAIN  FORESTS 

must  be  managed,  too! 

Priceless  tropical  woods,  mahogany, 

rosewood,  teak,  and  lignum  vitae  are 

being  destroyed  in  many  areas. 


By  Pamela  Johnson,  World  Bank 

Loading  a  truck  with  logs  at  Lalara  in  Gabon,  Central  Africa.  The  logs  are  being 
removed  for  a  road  project.  About  two  thirds  of  Gabon  is  covered  by  a  dense  equatorial 
rainforest  containing  more  than  3,000  species  of  vegetation,  including  Gabon  mahog- 
any, a  hardwood  that  forms  the  backbone  of  the  nation's  forest  products  industry. 


Photo  by  World  Bank 

Loggers  on  a  river  in  the  Philippines,  moving  logs  to  the  mill  for  Sarmieto  Industries 
Inc.,  a  beneficiary  of  IPC  Plywood  Investments.  Sarmieto  Industries  is  a  plywood 
producer  and  exporter. 


Photo  by  World  Bank 

A  Kenyan  woodworker  cuts  timber  for  the 
Panafrican  Paper  Mill. 


"Years  ago,  rain  forests  circled  the 
earth  in  abundance  from  South  America 
to  Africa,  Malaysia,  and  Indonesia.  Yet 
in  the  time  it  takes  you  to  read  this 
sentence,  another  eight  acres  of  rainforest 
will  have  been  bulldozed  and  burned  off 
the  face  of  the  earth." 

That's  what  the  World  Wildlife  Fund 
states  in  a  recent  letter  to  potential 
members. 

"The  vast,  lush  emerald  rain  forests 
immortalized  by  Kipling  are  rapidly  dwin- 
dling, whether  they  are  in  Asia,  Africa, 
or  South  America.  The  culprits?  Insatiable 
raw  material  demands  from  the  industial- 
ized  world  coupled  with  mounting  popu- 
lations in  the  developing  countries." 

So  states  Science  News  in  an  article 
entitled  "Saving  Tropical  Forests." 

"The  World  Bank  funds  projects  re- 
sponsible for  the  destruction  of  an  esti- 
mated 100  acres  of  rain  forest  every  minute 
.  .  .  It's  been  estimated  that  half  of  the 
world's  species  exist  in  rain  forests.  It's 
imperative  that  the  World  Bank  consider 
the  environmental  consequences  of  the 
projects  it  funds." 

Those  words  were  uttered  outside 
the  World  Bank's  headquarters  in 
Washington,  D.C.,  a  few  weeks  ago, 
by  Russell  Wild,  spokesman  for  a  group 
called  the  Rain  Forest  Action  Network, 
during  a  sidewalk  demonstration.  As  he 
said  this,  three  members  of  the  network 
rappelled  down  the  side  of  the  building 
and  unfurled  a  huge  banner  stating, 
"World  Bank  Destroys  Tropical  Rain 
Forests,"  before  they  were  taken  into 
police  custody. 


CARPENTER 


And  so  it  goes  .  .  .  one  medium  and 
one  activist  group  after  another  noting 
the  growing  ecological  problems  of  the 
world's  tropical  rain  forests. 

Judging  by  the  smoke  rising  from  this 
environmental  issue,  we  decided  that 
there  must  be  "fire"  in  the  depths  of 
the  world's  jungles  and  on  tropical 
mountain  tops.  There  must  be  some- 
thing of  concern  for  this  generation  and 
future  generations  of  woodworkers  .  .  . 
something  of  concern  for  our  union. 

These  are  some  of  our  findings: 

Many  leaders  of  developing  nations 
view  their  rain  forests  as  a  ready  source 
of  cash.  Their  governments  have  not 
instituted  or  enforced  conservation  pro- 
grams or  tree  farm  systems  which  will 
preserve  woods  for  future  generations 
or  set  up  harvesting  quotas  such  as  are 
established  in  U.S.  and  Canadian  na- 
tional forests. 

Although  rain  forest  soil  is  poor  and 
quickly  depleted  by  agriculture,  slash- 
ing and  burning  the  forests  for  culti- 
vation is  the  single  largest  cause  of 
tropical  forest  loss  around  the  world. 

In  Peninsular  Malaysia,  where  rain 
forests  are  being  converted  to  profitable 
oil  palm  farms  and  rubber  plantations, 
less  than  half  of  the  forests  of  a  gen- 
eration ago  remain.  Although  conver- 
sion is  not  taking  place  as  swiftly  as 
envisioned  10  years  ago,  environmen- 
tahsts  fear  all  Malaysian  rain  forests 
will  be  gone  in  another  generation. 

In  Indonesia,  which  contains  the  larg- 
est rain  forest  in  Asia  (nearly  one-tenth 
the  world  total),  much  has  been  har- 
vested already.  Log  production  multi- 
plied sixfold  during  the  1960s  and  1970s. 
Farmers  and  transmigrant  settlers  also 
are  eliminating  large  areas,  but  Indo- 
nesia's plan  to  carve  big  settlements 
out  of  the  forests  is  being  implemented 
more  slowly  than  expected. 

In  Africa,  Cameroon  has  experienced 
extensive  disruption  by  timber  com- 
panies and  farmers.  On  the  Ivory  Coast, 
more  than  70%  of  the  primary  forest  at 
the  turn  of  the  century  is  now  cleared, 
and  the  rest  may  be  gone  within  a 
decade. 

Much  of  Africa  makes  up  a  similar 
casualty  list:  Nigeria,  most  forest  dis- 
rupted; Sierra  Leone,  very  few  areas 
undisturbed;  Ghana,  little  or  no  virgin 
forest  remains;  Madagascar,  much  slash- 
and-burn  farming.  Still,  an  estimated 
two-thirds  of  Africa's  remaining  tropi- 
cal lowland  rain  forests — one-fifteenth 
of  the  world's,  mainly  along  the  equator 
in  Zaire — seem  most  Ukely  to  survive 
without  drastic  change  into  the  21st 
century. 

South  America's  Amazon  basin  con- 
tains the  world's  largest  rain  forest — 
ten  times  the  size  of  Texas.  Ecuador 
pumps  oil  from  its  share  of  Amazonia; 


Peru  beheves  its  future  lies  in  defores- 
tation of  the  jungle  for  agriculture;  in 
Brazil,  cattle  ranches,  iron  and  gold 
mines,  and  extensive  highways  have 
been  carved  out  of  the  jungle.  The 
coastal  portions  of  the  forest  in  Brazil 
and  Ecuador  have  been  heavily  logged. 

Peter  White  of  the  National  Geo- 
graphic Society  reports  that  in  the  Am- 
azon Basin  "the  cutting  has  been  great, 
but  the  forest  is  so  much  greater  that 
all  in  all  it  seems  like  a  drop  in  the 
bucket."  But  he  adds  that  some  ecol- 
ogists  claim  Amazonia  could  be  com- 
pletely deforested  within  35  years  if  the 
rate  at  which  cutting  in  certain  areas 
has  been  increasing  should  continue. 

John  Spears,  forestry  adviser  of  the 


World  Bank,  says  that  if  a  significant 
part  of  the  world's  remaining  tropical 
forest  is  to  be  preserved,  there  will 
have  to  be  a  shift  in  the  emphasis  of 
forestry  aid  to  developing  countries — 
to  focus  on  how  to  improve  the  income 
and  quality  of  life  of  200  million  small 
farmers  living  in  the  forest. 

Others  call  for  sensible  development 
plans.  Large  chunks  of  forest  should 
be  left  entirely  alone,  they  say,  provided 
other  substantial  chunks  can  be  put  into 
sustained  and  profitable  production. 

Spears  told  White  that  since  1900  the 
wet  tropical  forest  area  has  declined  by 
more  than  half.  Of  some  one  billion 
hectares  (4  million  square  miles)  left  in 
1980,  about  12%  will  go  by  the  year 


By  James  P.  Blair  ®1983  National  Geographic  Society 

Ripping  through  a  virgin  stand  of  tropical  rain  forest  in  Papua  New  Guinea,  a 
lumberman's  chain  saw  destroys  another  part  of  earth's  most  complex  natural  habi- 
tat. Since  no  two  rain  forests  are  quite  the  same — not  even  parts  of  the  same  forest — 
the  destruction  of  even  a  small  area  can  result  in  the  extinction  of  uncounted  species. 


By  James  P.  Blair  ^1983  National  Geographic  Society 

A  gold  mine  spills  down  the  mountainside  at  Serra  Pelada  in  the  Amazon  forest  of 
Brazil.  Mining,  development,  and  agriculture  are  carving  vast  areas  out  of  the 
world's  largest  rain  forest  in  South  America's  Amazon  basin. 


APRIL     1987 


An  international  task  force  reported  in  late  1985  thai  more  than  27  million  acres  of  tropical  forests — an  area 
about  the  size  as  the  stale  of  Indiana — are  lost  each  year.  The  single  greatest  factor  in  forest  destruction  is 
the  spread  of  agriculture,  which  includes  raising  livestock  as  well  as  crops,  according  to  the  task  force 
convened  by  the  World  Bank,  the  United  Nations  Development  Programme,  and  the  World  Resources 
Institute.  At  this  rate,  more  than  a  half  billion  acres  will  be  cleared  by  the  year  2000  .  .  .  13  years  from  now. 


2000,  leaving  about  900  million  hec- 
tares. 

"If  nothing  is  done  to  check  world 
population  growth  and  to  control  trop- 
ical deforestation,"  he  said,  there  may 
only  be  500  million  by  the  middle  of  the 
next  century;  by  2100,  nothing. 

Of  what  concern  is  this  to  us — lumber 
and  sawmill  workers,  carpenters,  and 
cabinetmakers? 

If  you're  a  cabinetmaker,  do  you 
know  what  you'd  have  to  pay  for  a 
sheet  of  rosewood  as  it  becomes  more 
scarce.  What  about  the  scarcity  of  ma- 
hogany? Teak? 

If  you're  a  lumber  and  sawmill  worker, 
you  should  know  that  some  multina- 
tional corporations  of  the  forest  prod- 
ucts industry  are  already  importing  tim- 
ber from  many  cheap-labor  countries, 
sometimes  as  ballast  in  the  cargo  holds 
of  merchant  vessels,  sometimes  as  spe- 
cial veneers  for  plywood  mills  in  North 
America. 

Plentiful  or  scarce,  imported  wood 
products  will  affect  American  and  Ca- 
nadian markets  in  the  years  ahead,  and 
labor  and  management  alike  should  be 
aware  of  the  consequences  of  changes 
in  the  world's  supply  of  valuable  timber, 
whether  it  be  in  the  tropical  zones  or 
the  temperate  zones  of  this  commer- 
cially-shrinking world.  UDIJ 


Wildjires  in  Rain  Forests  .  .  .  THEY  HAPPEN 


It  may  be  the  biggest  forest  fire  on  record — 
certainly  one  of  the  worst  environmental 
disasters  of  the  century — burning  out  of 
control  from  January  to  June  1983,  destroy- 
ing more  than  8.6  million  acres  on  the  island 
of  Borneo. 

And  it  occurred  where  no  one  thought  it 
could  ever  happen:  a  rain  forest. 

Once  considered  immune  to  burning,  the 
world's  already  shrinking  tropical  forests  are 
now  threatened  with  a  new  danger — wild- 
fires. 

What  sparked  the  1983  blaze  in  an  isolated 
area  of  East  Kalimantan,  in  the  Indonesian 
portion  of  Borneo,  is  still  not  fully  known. 
But  Indonesian  government  officials  and 
environmentalists  believe  several  forces, 
natural  and  human,  combined  to  touch  off 
such  devastation:  a  rare  prolonged  drought, 
the  effects  of  logging  operations  in  the  forest, 
and  slash-and-burn  land-clearing  methods 
along  its  fringes. 

Logged  rain  forests,  even  when  timber  is 
selectively  harvested,  are  more  vulnerable 
to  fire.  Cutting  down  trees  opens  up  some 
of  the  forest  canopy,  drying  out  places  that 
were  once  dripping  wet.  Crude  paths  and 
roads  cleared  for  logging  provide  a  route  for 
the  rapid  spread  of  fire.  Often  sloppy  logging 
practices,  which  leave  wood  debris  on  the 
forest  floor,  add  fuel  for  the  fire. 

In  some  places  in  the  eastern  Amazon 
area  of  Brazil,  about  40%  of  the  canopy  has 
been  lost  to  logging,  reports  botanist  Chris- 


topher Uhl  of  Pennsylvania  State  University. 
When  grazing  land  adjacent  to  a  logged  rain 
forest  is  burned  for  weed  control,  fire  fre- 
quently spreads  into  the  forest. 

"It  is  really  striking.  A  pasture  fire  will 
stop  at  the  edge  of  a  virgin,  unlogged  rain 
forest  and  die  out,"  says  Uhl,  who  has  spent 
eight  years  in  the  Amazon  basin. 

Logging  is  expected  to  increase  in  the 
Brazilian  Amazon  during  the  next  20  years, 
Uhl  says,  putting  even  more  rain  forests  in 
a  fire-prone  condition.  In  the  northern  part 
of  the  vast  state  of  Para,  he  visited  15  cattle 
ranches  with  logging  operations  and  found 
that  the  forests  on  more  than  half  had  caught 
fire  shortly  after  being  cut. 

When  the  Brazilian  government  offered 
financial  incentives  to  develop  cattle-ranch- 
ing on  a  large  scale  in  the  Amazon,  it  required 
that  half  of  each  landholding  be  reserved  in 
virgin  forest. 

But  when  ranching  eventually  failed  to  be 
profitable,  ranchers  started  exploiting  their 
timber  resources,  selling  logging  rights  on 
virgin  tracts.  Enforcement  of  the  "50%  law" 
was  generally  ignored. 

Often  more  trees  are  cut  than  are  actually 
harvested,  Uhl  says.  "Thousands  of  square 
kilometers  of  cut-up  forest  end  up  scarred 
with  bulldozer  tracks  and  littered  with  dead 
slash,"  he  says. 

—JOY  ASCHENBACH 

National  Geographic  News  Service 


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CARPENTER 


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Industrial  Advisory  Committee  Meets, 
Reviews  Industrial  Sector  Activities 


The  Industrial  Advisory  Committee, 
which  is  composed  of  nine  leaders  of 
industrial  locals  and  councils  appointed 
by  General  President  Campbell,  met  at 
the  General  Office  in  late  February.  At 
the  meeting.  President  Campbell  charged 
the  committee  with  providing  guidance 
both  to  him  and  to  the  Industrial  De- 
partment on  industrial  sector  activities 
and  issues  including  industry-widebar- 
gaining  and  organizing,  training  pro- 
grams and  materials  for  business  rep- 
resentatives and  members,  the 
Organizing-Industrial  Bulletin,  and  the 
Brotherhoods'  Constitution  and  Laws 
as  applied  to  the  industrial  sector. 

The  committee  began  its  two  days 
of  meetings  by  taking  an  in-depth  look 
at  the  UBC's  industrial  membership  and 
the  councils  and  locals  that  service 
them.  Reports  were  then  presented  on 
the  Forest  Products  Board,  the  Mill- 
Cabinet  Board,  the  Canadian  situation, 
and  plans  for  training  conferences  in- 
cluding the  1988  Industrial  Conference 
and  the  October  1987  seminar  for  new 
business  representatives. 

A  lengthy  discussion  was  held  on 
new  directions  taken  toward  industry 
and  company-wide  strategies.  The  com- 
mittee saw  that  in  many  cases  in 
the  past,  agreements  were  negotiated 
on  a  plant-by-plant  basis  with  limited 
coordination  with  other  UBC  units  of 
the  same  company  or  industry.  The 
committee  discussed  how  better  co- 
ordination and  other  company  and  in- 
dustry-wide approaches  might  help  lo- 
cals in  bargaining  and  in  maintaining 
decent  union  standards. 

Targeted  organizing  was  presented 
as  part  of  this  approach.  Target  orga- 
nizing means  identifying  plants  and 
companies  in  UBC  industries  which,  if 


The  Industrial  Advisory  Committee,  pictured  above,  front  row,  from  left,  includes  R. 
Denny  Scott,  UBC  collective  bargaining  specialist;  Ray  Wljite,  secrelaiy  Southern  Coun-^ 
cil  of  Industrial  Worliers:  General  President  Campbell;  Milce  Fishman,  assistant  to  the 
General  President.  In  the  bacli  row,  from  left,  are  Wally  Malakoff,  industrial  department 
economist;  Fred  Miron,  president  Local  2693,  Port  Arthur,  Ont..  Charles  Bell,  secretary 
Indiana  Industrial  Council;  Peter  Budge,  Local  1165,  Wilmington,  N.C.:  Joe  Lia  Jr., 
executive  secretary  treasurer  N.  Y.  Slate  Council;  and  Alan  Maddison,  business  repre- 
sentative Local  2076,  Kelowna,  B.C.  Not  pictured  is  James  Bledsoe,  secretary  Western 
District  Council  of  Lumber' Production  and  Industrial  Workers. 


organized,  would  strengthen  our  bar- 
gaining position  and  our  members' 
working  conditions.  Organizing  would 
thus  be  tied  directly  to  collective  bar- 
gaining and  to  the  needs  of  our  existing 
members.  In  turn,  councils  and  locals 
will  be  called  on  to  assist  in  these 
organizing  efforts.  The  committee,  af- 
ter reviewing  current  organizing  efforts, 
determined  that  this  participation  by 
councils  and  locals  is  absolutely  essen- 
tial if  we  are  to  organize  enough  new 
members  to  make  the  UBC  grow. 

The  Advisory  Committee  then  turned 
its  attention  to  structures  and  programs, 
such  as  the  Carpenters  National  Health 
and  Welfare  and  Pension  Plans  and 
special  status  for  laid  off  members, 
which    would    help   the    Brotherhood 


maintain  closer  links  to  current  and 
former  industrial  members.  In  cases 
where  a  UBC  represented  shop  moves 
or  closes,  members  may  lose  their  ties 
to  the  Brotherhood  even  though  they 
have  a  continuing  need  for  represen- 
tation at  new  workplaces.  The  Indus- 
trial Department  was  directed  to  pre- 
pare working  papers  on  these  and  other 
issues  for  the  committee's  considera- 
tion. 

The  Industrial  Advisory  Committee 
provides  a  valuable  means  for  the  UBC 
to  develop  programs  and  directions  best 
suited  to  the  needs  of  the  industrial 
membership.  The  existence  of  the  Board 
is  another  indication  of  the  Brother- 
hood's strong  commitment  to  the  in- 
dustrial sector.  line 


Coordination  Pays  Off  in  Flooring  Industry  Negotiations 


The  Joint  Bargaining  Committee  from 
Tenness'ee  included  Local  2825  members 
Larry  Franco,  Tonnie  Mosley,  Debra  Burr, 
Jimmy  Cobbs,  and  Ray  Mayfield;  Local 
2509  Members  David  Cole,  Herbert  Lus- 
ter, Nancy  Sipes,  Linda  Nunnally,  and 
Larzell  Smith;  and  SCIW  Representatives, 
Alvin  Smith  and  Tim  Byrd;  and  SCIW  Ex- 
ecutive Secretary  Ray  White. 


The  new  emphasis  in  the  UBC's  in- 
dustrial sector  is  on  better  coordination 
through  industry-wide  and  company- 
wide  strategies.  The  UBC  Forest  Prod- 
ucts Joint  Bargaining  Board  has  used 
this  approach  successfully  in  dealing 
with  the  major  forest  products  corpo- 
rations, and  the  recently  appointed  Mill- 
Cabinet  Board  is  looking  into  ways  of 
applying  this  strategy  to  that  industry. 

In  recent  negotiations  with  Bruce 
Hardwood  Floors,  unity  and  coordi- 
nation paid  off  in  winning  a  solid  three- 
year  agreement  for  1 ,200  employees  at 
two  UBC-represented  plants  in  Ten- 
nessee.  The   policy   was   coordinated 


with  the  help  of  the  UBC  Industrial 
Department,  but  it  was  the  activity  of 
the  Southern  Council  of  Industrial 
Workers  and  the  membership  that  re- 
sulted in  a  successful  settlement. 

The  two  keys  were  thorough  prepa- 
ration and  coordination  between  UBC 
bargaining  units  in  negotiations. 

Preparation  began  six  months  in  ad- 
vance of  negotiations.  With  materials 
on  the  company's  structure  and  fi- 
nances prepared  by  the  UBC's  Indus- 
trial and  Special  Programs  Depart- 
ments,    education     programs     were"" 

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APRIL     1987 


Washington 
Report 


DISLOCATED  WORKERS  AID 

Secretary  of  Labor  William  E.  Brock  announced  a 
total  of  $1 ,058,486  in  grants  for  dislocated  workers 
in  Iowa,  Minnesota,  and  Vermont,  who  are  dis- 
placed due  to  plant  closures  and  foreign  and  do- 
mestic competition. 

The  funds  are  authorized  under  Title  III  of  the  Job 
Training  Partnership  Act  and  will  provide  dislocated 
workers  with  retraining  and  other  supportive  serv- 
ices to  re-enter  the  workforce. 

"Through  JTPA,  we  are  able  to  address  these 
problems  at  the  community  level,  where  local  lead- 
ers can  make  the  decisions  that  affect  businesses 
that  are  familiar  to  them,"  Brock  said. 

Workers  will  receive  career  assessment;  job 
search  assistance;  and/or  classroom,  on-the-job,  or 
entrepreneurial  training  as  necessary.  Supportive 
services  may  include  personal  and  financial  coun- 
seling, child  care  and  transportation  reimbursement, 
work  clothing  and  tools,  and  medical  care. 

The  dislocated  worker  program  aids  workers  who 
have  been,  or  are  about  to  be,  laid  off  due  to 
technological  change,  foreign  competition,  or  the 
permanent  closing  of  a  plant  or  facility.  Training  is 
also  provided  for  workers  who  are  unlikely  to  return 
to  their  previous  industry  or  occupation,  with  little 
prospect  for  local  employment  or  re-employment. 

NUCLEAR  EMPLOYMENT  RISING 

The  U.S.  Department  of  Energy  forecasts  that 
employment  in  the  nuclear  area  will  rise  slightly 
between  1986  and  1991. 

The  DOE  data,  which  is  based  on  an  analysis  by 
the  Oak  Ridge  Associated  Universities,  shows  total 
employment  rising  from  248,200  to  255,500  over 
the  five-year  period. 

The  fastest  growth  is  seen  in  the  area  of  com- 
mercial waste  management,  with  moderate  growth 
seen  for  reactor  services  and  defense-related  work. 
Growth  in  these  areas  is  expected  to  offset  declines 
in  the  areas  of  reactor  manufacturing,  design  and 
engineering,  and  special  materials  production. 

The  number  of  scientists  employed  in  the  nuclear 
area  is  expected  to  grow  from  8,000  to  8,900,  while 
the  number  of  engineers  is  expected  to  decline 
slightly  from  51,200  to  50,200. 

However,  the  outlook  for  graduates  of  nuclear 
engineering  programs  is  expected  to  remain  bullish. 


ECONOMIC  ACTIVITY  DROPS 

The  government's  main  gauge  of  future  economic 
activity  dropped  1  %  in  January,  its  steepest  decline 
in  30  months,  reflecting  a  sharp  slowdown  in  busi- 
ness spending  resulting  from  the  new  tax  revision 
law. 

The  drop  in  the  index  of  leading  economic  indica- 
tors— which  is  designed  to  foreshadow  economic 
activity  of  the  next  three  to  six  months — followed  a 
rise  of  2.3%  in  December. 

Many  economists  said  they  had  anticipated  the 
decline  because  businesses  speeded  up  purchases 
of  goods  at  the  end  of  last  year  to  take  advantage 
of  tax  breaks  that  expired  Jan.  1 ,  creating  a  bulge. 

UNEMPLOYMENT  6%  OR  HIGHER 

Unemployment  rates  were  6%  or  higher  in  28 
states  in  December,  the  Labor  Department's  Bu- 
reau of  Labor  Statistics  reported. 

Fourteen  states  reported  jobless  rates  between 
6%  and  7.9%,  while  10  states  had  rates  between 
8%  and  9.9%. 

Double-digit  jobless  rates  were  reported  by  Loui- 
siana, with  13.7%;  West  Virginia,  with  12.1%;  Mis- 
sissippi, with  1 1 .7%;  and  Alaska,  with  1 1 .0%. 

States  with  the  lowest  unemployment  rates  in  De- 
cember were  New  Hampshire,  2.5%;  Delaware  and 
Massachusetts,  3.1%;  Connecticut,  3.5%;  and  New 
Jersey,  3.9%. 

Over  the  year  ending  in  December  1986,  unem- 
ployment rates  declined  in  29  states,  with  12  states 
reporting  decreases  in  joblessness  of  1%  or  more. 
The  largest  declines  were  registered  in  Nevada, 
with  2.7%  drop,  and  Pennsylvania,  with  a  2.6% 
decrease. 

Of  the  1 6  states  reporting  over-the-year  increases 
in  unemployment  rates,  eight  states  had  increases 
of  1%  or  more.  The  largest  jumps  in  joblessness 
occurred  in  Texas  and  Louisiana,  with  increases  of 
2.4%  each,  and  Mississippi,  with  a  2.3%  increase. 

STANDARD  MEDICARE  PAYMENTS 

An  expert  advisory  panel  created  by  Congress 
will  soon  recommend  a  standardized  national  fee 
schedule  for  payment  of  physicians  who  treat  the 
31  million  elderly  and  disabled  people  under  Medi- 
care, the  federal  health-insurance  program. 

Members  of  the  panel  said  a  fee  schedule  would 
reduce  the  geographic  variation  in  doctors'  fees  and 
make  the  cost  of  physician  services  more  predict- 
able for  consumers. 

In  its  first  annual  report,  the  panel  calls  for  major 
changes  in  the  payment  system  used  by  Medicare 
for  two  decades. 

Members  of  the  panel,  the  Physician  Payment 
Review  Commission,  said  the  current  system  was 
inherently  inflationary  and  had  become  so  complex 
that  neither  doctors  nor  patients  understand  it. 

Dr.  Philip  R.  Lee,  chairman  of  the  13-member 
commission,  said  a  fee  schedule  would  help  control 
the  cost  of  Medicare  payments  to  physicians. 

Medicare  spending  for  physician  services  has  in- 
creased by  an  average  of  18%  a  year  since  the 
mid-1970s,  he  said.  The  government  paid  doctors 
more  than  $19  billion  last  year.  The  total  is  ex- 
pected to  rise  further,  in  part  because  of  the  grow- 
ing numbers  of  elderly  people.  Dr.  Lee  said. 


CARPENTER 


Sort  piers  are  the  final  desti- 
nation of  baggage  upon  com- 
pletion of  the  automated 
sorting  process.  There  are 
now  80  such  piers.  The  new 
system,  which  has  the  capac- 
ity to  sort  and  distribute  at 
the  rate  of  60  to  75  parcels 
per  minute,  is  synchronized 
and  controlled  by  computers. 


Computer-Controlled  Baggage  Handling  System 
Installed  at  O'Hare  by  Chicago  Millwrights 


Members  of  Millwrights  Local  1693 
of  the  Chicago  and  Northeast  Ilinois 
District  Council  recently  completed  the 
installation  of  one  of  the  most  sophis- 
ticated airport  baggage  handling  sys- 
tems in  the  world. 

The  system  was  installed  for  Amer- 
ican Airlines  at  Chicago's  O'Hare  In- 
ternational Airport,  one  of  the  world's 
busiest  terminals. 

The  manufacturer  and  contractor  for 
the  installation  of  the  equipment  was 
B.A.E.  Automated  Systems  of  Dallas, 
Tex. 

The  system  is  contained  in  an  under- 
ground structure  with  an  overall  size  of 
300  feet  x  350  feet,  which  provides 
more  than  100,000  square  feet  of  space 
to  house  the  three  tiers  of  conveyors. 

A  concrete  structure  above  the  bag- 
gage handling  system  is  used  for  parking 
and  passenger  loading  of  the  aircraft. 
The  carpentry  talents  necessary  for  the 
unusual  structure  were  provided  by 
members  of  UBC  Local  181,  Chicago, 
and  members  of  the  Chicago  and  North- 
east Illinois  District  Council  of  Carpen- 
ters. 

The  installation  of  the  computer-con- 
Continued  on  page  38 


The  new  baggage  handling  system  at  O'Hare  International  Airport  is  explained  by 
airport  managers  at  a  large  model  of  the  huge  terminal.  Around  the  display  case,  from 
left,  are  William  Gundich,  financial  secretary  of  Millwrights  Local  1693;  George  Vest  Jr., 
president  of  the  Chicago  and  Northeast  Illinois  District  Council:  Earl  Oliver,  president 
and  business  representative  of  Local  1693:  Douglas  Banes,  secretary  and  business 
manager  of  the  Northwestern  Illinois  District  Council:  Mel  Sharp,  president  and  chief 
executive  officer  of  BAEI  Automated  Systems:  Thomas  Rush  Jr.,  general  foreman  on  the 
project:  Kenneth  Borg,  president  and  business  manager.  Carpenters  Local  181:  James 
Davis,  assistant  to  the  UBC  General  President:  Charles  Manchester,  manager  of  facility 
maintenance  for  American  Airlines:  Carl  Clause,  manager.  Chicago  operations,  BAEI 
Automated  Systems:  R.L.  Neuman.  supervisor  of  facility  maintenance,  American  Air- 
lines: and  W.  Bud  Hine,  business  manager.  Local  1693. 


Color  graphic  monitors  detect  overloads  and  jams  in  the  system.  Another  view  of  the  baggage-handling  system. 

APRIL     1987 


OttaiMfa 
Report 


JOB  FATALITY  RATE  HIGH 

Every  six  seconds  in  Canada,  a  worl<er  is  injured 
on  tlie  job.  More  than  70  million  working  days  are 
lost  every  year  tfirough  job-related  injuries  and  dis- 
ease. 

Canada's  job  fatality  rate  is  one  of  tfie  world's 
highest — ^far  above  comparable  rates  in  the  United 
States  and  Europe.  On  a  per  capita  basis,  for  ex- 
ample, five  times  as  many  Canadians  are  killed 
each  year  in  manufacturing,  and  six  times  as  many 
in  construction,  than  the  numbers  of  Americans 
killed  in  those  industries. 

Canadians  are  twice  as  likely  to  die  from  job 
hazards  as  in  car  accidents,  18  times  more  likely  to 
die  violently  at  work  than  to  be  killed  outside  the 
workplace,  28  times  more  likely  to  suffer  injury  on 
the  job  than  to  be  the  victim  of  a  criminal  assault  off 
the  job. 

Nor  is  this  work  carnage  confined  to  private  sec- 
tor industries.  The  public  sector  is  not  safe,  either. 
Every  year,  nearly  200  public  employees  in  Canada 
are  killed  at  work. 

If  you  work  for  the  federal  government,  your 
chances  of  being  injured  on  the  job  are  greater  if 
you're  employed  as  a  clerk  or  typist  than  if  you're 
an  Royal  Canadian  Mounted  Police  officer. 

UNIONS  FIGHT  PRIVATIZATION 

Unions  representing  271 ,000  provincial  govern- 
ment employees  from  across  Canada  have  decided 
to  join  forces  in  their  fight  against  the  privatization 
of  pubUc  services. 

Representatives  of  Quebec  unions  described  the 
problems  they  have  been  having  with  privatization 
and  developed  strategies  to  reverse  the  trend. 

"It  became  clear  from  this  meeting  that  privatiza- 
tion is  not  saving  governments  money,"  said 
NUPGE  President  John  Fryer  at  a  news  conference 
following  the  meeting.  "It  also  became  clear  that  it 
doesn't  lead  to  improved  services — it  does  the  re- 
verse." 

RETAIL  HOLIDAY  ACT  UPHELD 

In  a  five-two  decision  recently  announced  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Canada  upheld  the  Ontario  Retail 
Holiday  Act.  The  act  requires  most  stores  to  close 
60  days  a  year,  including  all  Sundays;  with  penal- 
ties as  high  as  $10,000  a  day  for  those  that  remain 
open. 


The  judges  of  the  Supreme  Court  were  divided 
as  to  whether  the  Ontario  law  infringes  the  freedom 
of  religion  guarantee  of  the  Charter  of  Rights  and 
Freedom.  But,  in  upholding  the  law,  the  majority 
said  that  any  infringement  was  reasonably  justified, 
in  view  of  the  respite  for  retail  workers  intended  by 
the  law. 

"The  act  was  not  a  surrepticious  attempt  to  en- 
courage religious  Vi/orship,  but  rather  was  enacted 
for  the  secular  purpose  of  providing  uniform  holi- 
days for  retail  workers,"  Chief  Justice  Brian  Dickson 
stated,  in  writing  the  majority  judgment. 

"The  desirability  of  enabling  parents  to  have  reg- 
ular days  off  from  work,  in  common  with  their  child's 
day  off  from  school  and  with  a  day  off  enjoyed  by 
most  other  family  and  community  members,  is  self- 
evident." 

The  Ontario  law  permits  some  retail  outlets,  such 
as  gas  stations,  drug  stores,  and  corner  groceries, 
to  remain  open  on  Sunday. 

The  ruling  does  not  affect  already  legal  Sunday 
shopping  in  Alberta  and  B.C.  In  1985,  the  high 
court  unanimously  rejected  the  provisions  of  the 
Lords'  Day  Act,  which  has  been  used  in  Alberta  to 
regulate  Sunday  shopping  there. 

RIGHT-TO-KNOW  LAW 

What  workers  in  Canada  need  is  a  comprehen- 
sive right-to-know  law  that  gives  full  information 
about  all  workplace  hazards,  and  chemical  products 
in  particular.  We  need  to  know  the  chemical  name 
of  the  hazard,  all  the  available  information  about  the 
hazard,  and  how  it  can  be  effectively  controlled — in 
other  words,  full  education  in  the  prevention  of  inju- 
ries due  to  the  health  hazards  of  dangerous  mate- 
rials. Government  administrators  are  currently  draft- 
ing legislation  that  will  require  labels  and  other 
measures  to  protect  workers  from  hazardous  mate- 
rials. 

A  project  called  the  Workplace  Hazardous  Mate- 
rials Information  System  produced  a  report  in  April 
1985  built  on  a  consensus  between  labour,  busi- 
ness, and  representatives  of  the  federal  and  provin- 
cial governments.  The  report  has  been  submitted 
as  a  standard  which  the  new  rules  should  follow. 

The  report  calls  for: 

•  a  label  for  all  hazardous  materials; 

•  a  data  sheet  (MSDS)  for  all  hazardous  materials 
giving  further  information  about  the  material,  toxi- 
cological  data  (how  poisonous  it  is)  and  precau- 
tions for  safe  handling  and  use; 

•  a  worker  education  program  about  the  precau- 
tions to  be  taken  in  handling  or  using  dangerous 
materials,  to  be  developed  and  delivered  in  con- 
sultation with  the  joint  health  and  safety  commit- 
tee in  the  workplace. 

All  workplaces  will  be  covered,  which  means  that 
workplaces  like  hospitals,  schools,  offices,  and  pub- 
lic works  will  have  to  have  hazardous  materials 
labeled,  with  a  proper  Data  Sheet  and  a  worker 
education  program  covering  all  the  dangerous  ma- 
terials used  in  the  workplace. 

The  main  thing  is  to  know  what  is  in  the  products 
being  used,  and  there  are  rules  in  WHMIS  requiring 
the  disclosure  of  chemical  names  of  the  hazardous 
ingredients  of  a  product.  So-called  genuine  trade 
secrets  are  protected  under  WHMIS,  but  the  sup- 
plier has  to  justify  the  claim  against  strict  tests  for 
secrecy. 


8 


CARPENTER 


Fibreboard  Litigation  Poses 
Mounting  Problems  for  L-P 


L-P's  1978  acquisition  of  Fibreboard 
Corp.  is  once  again  coming  back  to 
haunt  the  wood  products  company.  L- 
P's  recently  released  consolidated  fi- 
nancial statement  for  the  year  1986 
contains  a  qualified  opinion  from  Arthur 
Anderson  and  Co.,  an  independent  au- 
diting firm  retained  to  audit  L-P's  fi- 
nancial statements.  The  source  of  the 
problem  for  L-P  is  a  growing  number 
of  asbestos  exposure  liability  lawsuits 
being  filed  against  the  company. 

As  health  risks  related  to  asbestos 
exposure  have  received  more  attention, 
claims  against  Fibreboard  and  other 
manufacturers  have  increased.  Johns- 
Manville  Corp.,  the  nation's  largest 
producer,  was  forced  into  bankruptcy 
in  1982. 

To  date,  insurers  for  L-P's  Fibre- 
board  operations  have  paid  more  than 
$150  million  in  court-awarded  and  out- 
of-court  settlements  relating  to  personal 
injury  lawsuits  filed  against  the  com- 
pany which  for  years  produced  asbes- 
tos. However,  the  number  of  new  law- 
suits are  mounting  at  a  rate  greater  than 
that  anticipated  by  L-P,  raising  the 
possibility  that  the  company's  insur- 
ance will  not  cover  the  full  extent  of 
their  liability. 

An  independent  auditor  commenting 
on  the  qualified  financial  statement  in- 
dicated that  a  qualified  audit  always 
raises  concern.  "The  auditors  don't 
know  the  extent  of  the  company's  lia- 
bility, but  it  could  be  a  material  amount," 
said  Harold  Mayhew,  an  independent 
Portland,  Ore.,  forest  industry  financial 
consultant. 


Fibreboard  Acquisition: 
A  Problem  from  the  Start 

As  far  back  as  1981,  L-P  was  involved 
in  a  federal  court  case  in  which  the 
company  was  accused  of  committing 
acts  of  fraud,  market  manipulation,  and 
misrepresentation  in  connection  with 
its  acquisition  of  Fibreboard  Corp.  in 
1978.  The  suit  charged  that  both  com- 
panies conspired  to,  and  did,  depress 
the  price  of  Fibreboard  common  stock 
by  issuing  false  press  releases.  L-P  paid 
$17  per  share  for  the  Fibreboard  when 
some  estimates  of  the  company's  value 
ran  as  high  as  $32  per  share. 

The  jury  returned  a  guilty  verdict 
against  L-P  after  a  trial  that  included 
tape  recordings  of  crucial  conversations 
which  had  been  erased  "without  con- 
scious thought,"  four  cartoons  of  doc- 
uments that  disappeared  wtiile  in  L-P's 
possession,  and  witnesses  who  couldn't 
recall  or  who  contradicted  their  own 
earlier  testimony.  L-P  agreed  to  a  $5.3 
million  damage  settlement  prior  to  the 
jury  returning  a  damage  finding. 

There  were  so  many  inconsistencies, 
said  juror  Joseph  Gallagher  of  Spring- 
field, Penn.,  "that  sometimes  I  got  a 
laughing  spell  and  couldn't  have  stopped 
if  my  mother  and  father  dropped  dead . ' ' 

Despite  the  legal-  difficulties,  L-P 
Chairman  Harry  A.  Merlo  defended  the 
acquisition.  "We  got  140,000  acres  of 
timber.  We  got  one  of  the  best  high 
temperature-insulation  businesses  in 
America  .  .  .  We  have  two  box  plants 
that  have  made  nothing  but  money." 
What  L-P  also  got  in  the  bargain  is 
some  45,000  lawsuits  that  now  seriously 
threaten  L-P's  financial  performance. 


Keep  Up  the 
L-P  Boycott 

The  Brotherhood's  nationwide 
boycott  of  L-P  wood  products 
has  proven  to  be  an  effective 
means  of  curtailing  company  sales. 
Over  the  course  of  the  past  couple 
of  years,  field  reports  from  boy- 
cott coordinators  indicate  that 
nearly  600  retail  lumber  stores 
have  stopped  selling  L-P  products 
as  a  direct  result  of  UBC  con- 
sumer handbilling. 

It's  important  that  there  be 
continuous  inspection  activity  at 
the  lumber  yards  within  your  ju- 
risdiction to  determine  whether 
or  not  L-P  products  have  been 
reintroduced  into  the  store.  UBC 
Representative  Steve  Flynn  re- 
ports that  locals  in  Massachusetts 
and  other  New  England  states  are 
closely  monitoring  lumber  retail- 
ers in  the  area  for  L-P  products. 

After  word  circulated  that  a 
Medford,  Mass. ,  lumber  yard  had 
restocked  Louisiana  Pacific  prod- 
ucts since  the  local  boycott  was 
launched.  Organizer  Joseph  Rob- 
icheau  visited  the  yard  and  was 
taken  on  an  inspection  tour  by 
the  yard  foreman.  No  L-P  prod- 
ucts were  found. 

The  rumor,  though  unfounded, 
got  Local  218  members  to  think- 
ing about  the  situation.  Now 
they're  planning  a  full  inspection 
of  all  lumber  yards  in  their  area 
to  be  positive  that  no  L-P  prod- 
ucts are  being  stocked  and  sold, 
and  they  suggest  that  other  UBC 
locals  should  do  the  same. 


SUPPORT  THE 
UBC  BOYCOTT 


L-P  Waferwood:  Key  Boycott  Target 

L-P's  major  profit  product,  waferboard,  is  a  key  UBC  boycott  target. 
Next  time  you  visit  your  local  lumber  dealer,  check  for  tfiis  and  other 
L-P  wood  products.  The  L-P  waferboard  is  easily  recognizable  by  its 
bright  orange  edge  color  and  the  L-P  logo  imprinted  on  the  side  of  the 
stack. 


Don't  Buy  These  Louisiana-Pacific  Products 

Unfair  L-P  Brand  Names  include:  L-P  Wolmanized;  Cedartone; 
Waferwood;  Fibrepine;  Oro-Bord,  Redex;  Sidex;  Ketchikan;  Pabco; 
Xonolite. 


APRIL     1987 


Carpenter's  Guide 
from  the  Time  of 
Andrew  Jackson 


When  was  the  last  time  you  sat  down  to  a  drawing  board 
and  laid  out  a  cuneoidal  soffit  or  a  winding  soffit  or  an 
ascending  or  descending  groin  with  jack  ribs?  Have  you 
ever  designed  a  polygonal  roof  or  laid  out  an  irregular  roof 
in  ledgement  with  all  of  its  beams  lying  bevel  upon  the 
plan? 

These  are  some  of  the  brain-boggling  exercises  in  prac- 
tical geometry  contained  in  The  Carpenter's  New  Guide — 
Being  a  Complete  Book  of  Lines  for  Carpentry  and  Joinery, 
a  157-year-old  book  handed  down  through  the  generations 
to  the  late  John  Mooney,  who  was  a  member  of  Carpenters 
Local  101,  Baltimore,  Md.,  and  who  passed  the  book  on 
to  his  son,  John,  of  Laurel,  Md. 

Old  timers  in  the  construction  trade  will  often  say  to 
you,  "They  don't  build  houses  like  they  used  to."  This 
book  will  support  the  old  timers'  argument,  for  it  shows 
clearly  that  master  carpenters  of  the  19th  century  were 
able  to  stretch  their  imaginations.  Time  and  a  more  leisurely 
world  permitted  many  architectural  masterpieces  in  home 
and  commercial  construction.  Peter  Nicholson,  author  of 
the  ancient  volume,  describes  how  to  draw  niches,  arches, 
and  groins  along  circular  walls  on  irregular  bases.  He  shows 
how  to  install  skylights  into  a  dome  of  multiple  sides  of 
one  foot  each.  For  joiners,  he  offers  tips  on  installing  rails 
with  butt  joints  and  plans  for  intricate  stairs. 

Published  in  1830  by  John  Grigg,  No.  9  North  Fourth 
Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  (William  Brown,  printer)  the  well- 
worn  volume  bears  the  signatures  of  more  than  one  owner — 
craftsmen  carrying  on  a  worthy  tradition  to  the  present 
day.  DDfi 


The  author's  drawing  for  a  cylindro-cylindric  arch,  also 
known  as  a  Welsh  groin.  It  is  an  under-pitch  groin  for 
which  the  side  and  body  arches  are  both  given  semicir- 
cles, or  they  may  be  similar  segments  of  circles  cutting 
through  one  another  whose  intersections  do  not  meet  in  a 
plane  surface.  The  place  of  the  ribs  will  not  be  straight 
upon  the  plan,  but  will  generate  a  curved  line. 


Nicholson  describes  the  intersecting  angle  ribs  of  a  groin  stand- 
ing upon  an  octagonal  plan,  with  the  side  and  body  ribs  being 
given  to  the  same  height. 


The  author  explains  that  this  is  a  bevel  groin  and  that  the 
ribs  must  lie  in  the  same  direction  as  the  plane  of  the 
groin,  which  will  make  them  longer  than  their  corre- 
sponding top  arches. 


10 


CARPENTER 


cue  Legislative  Update 

100th  Congress  Faces 
Critical  Legislation 

The  100th  U.S.  Congress  quickly  got 
down  to  the  nation's  unfinished  busi- 
ness when  it  convened  in  January.  The 
Water  Quality  Act  of  1987  was  quickly 
passed  over  the  president's  veto.  This 
legislation,  which  calls  for  an  expend- 
iture of  $1  billion  for  waste-water  proj- 
ects, is  expected  to  generate  a  demand 
for  as  much  as  161,500  tons  of  steel 
products,  alone—enough  to  get  the  na- 
tion's steel  industry  back  on  its  feet. 
Construction  jobs  should  mushroom  as 
appropriations  from  this  legislation  are 
spread  through  the  states. 

Medicare,  Medicaid 
Costs  Under  Attacl( 

The  Reagan  Administration's  budget 
calls  for  some  $36  billion  in  spending 
cuts  from  current  services,  excluding 
the  impact  of  the  proposed  increase  in 
military  spending.  The  major  cuts  are 
focused  on  health  benefits  for  senior 
citizens,  the  poor,  and  veterans;  edu- 
cation; and  welfare.  Medicare  would  be 
cut  by  $4.6  biUion  and  Medicaid  by  $1 .4 
billion.  New  Medicare  beneficiaries  over 
65  would  have  to  pay  insurance  pre- 
miums amounting  to  35%  of  the  cost  of 
coverage  for  doctor's  services  and  out- 
of-hospital  care,  up  from  the  present 
25%.  Medicaid  would  be  cut  by  $1.4 
billion  through  the  capping  of  the  reim- 
bursement. 

Millions  of  retired  Americans  depend 
on  these  benefits — benefits  they  have 
earned  through  decades  of  labor.  Re- 
tirement can  be  a  time  of  financial 
uncertainty,  and  it  is  the  responsibility 
and  purpose  of  these  programs  to  ease 
that  uncertainty. 

In  a  recent  letter  to  representatives 
and  senators,  General  President  Patrick 
J.  Campbell,  First  General  Vice  Presi- 
dent Sigurd  Lucassen,  and  General 
Treasurer  and  Legislative  Director 
Wayne  Pierce  wrote: 

"Our  union  has  tens  of  thousands  of 
retired  members.  We  urge  you  to  work 
for  preserving  the  reality  of  a  secure 
retirement  for  all  Americans." 


Legislation  to  curb  contractors  who  get 
around  union  agreements  by  setting  up 
nonunion  subsidiaries  is  urged  by  Building 
and  Construction  Trades  Department 
President  Robert  A.  Georgine  at  House 
hearings.  With  him  are  BCTD  Legislative 
Director  Leo  Zeferetti.  left,  and  General 
Counsel  Laurence  Cohen. 


Double  Breasting 
Battle  Resumes 

The  100th  Congress  now  in  session 
in  Washington  has  before  it  House  Res- 
olution 281 — The  Construction  Indus- 
try Labor  Law  Amendments  of  1987. 
This  is  the  so-called  double-breasting 
bill  designed  to  prevent  construction 
contractors  from  underbidding  their 
union  construction  work  crews  with 
low-paid,  nonunion  crews  through 
"dummy"  companies. 

H.R.281  has  passed  the  U.S.  House 
of  Representatives  three  times,  once  by 
a  margin  of  56  votes  and  twice  more 
on  voice  votes.  It  was  stalled  for  a  time 
in  the  Senate  last  year,  and  a  veto  by 
President  Reagan  was  anticipated. 

The  bill  has  been  reintroduced  by 
Congressman  William  L.  Clay  of  Mis- 
souri, and  it  is  co-     j 

sponsored  by  62 
Democrats  and 
two  Repubhcans. 
Senator  Edward 
Kennedy  of  Mas- 
sachusetts has  in- 
troduced a  com- 
panion bill,  S.  492, 
in  the  U.S.  Sen- 
ate, and  his  bUl  is 
cosponsored  by 
Senators  Alfonse 
D'Amato  of  New 
York,  Bill  Bradley 
of  New  Jersey ,  and 
Lowell  Weicker  of 
Connecticut. 

The  bills  are  de- 
signed to  amend 
the  National  La- 


bor Relations  Act  "to  increase  the  sta- 
bility of  collective  bargaining  in  the 
building  and  construction  industry," 
and  they  have  the  full  support  of  the 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  America  and  other  unions  of 
the  Building  and  Construction  Trades. 


'87  Highway  Bill 
Would  Create  Jobs 

The  United  Brotherhood  is  urging 
U.S.  senators  to  support  Senate  Res- 
olution 387  which  would  provide  badly 
needed  funds  for  the  rebuilding  and 
repair  of  U.S.  highways. 

"This  bill  is  both  a  job  saver  and  a 
life  saver,"  General  Treasurer  and  Leg- 
islative Director  Wayne  Pierce  told  sen- 
ators. "The  highways  of  our  nation 
present  a  range  of  structural  problems 
which  are  the  natural  consequence  of 
age  and  increased  usage.  It  is  imperative 
for  citizen  safety  and  continued  acces- 
sibility for  transport  that  we  undertake 
the  long  task  of  rebuilding  our  high- 
ways." 

The  bill,  if  passed,  would  create  many 
jobs  across  the  nation.  The  work  in- 
volved is  labor  intensive,  so  that  much 
of  the  $52  billion  proposed  in  the  leg- 
islation would  go  toward  wages  of  the 
workers  involved. 

The  Carpenters  Legislative  Improve- 
ment Committee  is  urging  members  to 
write  to  their  senators  in  favor  of  this 
legislation. 


Using  the  coupon  at  right,  these  UBC  members  have  contrib- 
uted to  the  Carpenters  Legislative  Improvement  Committee  in 
recent  weeks:  William  Farkas,  Local  54,  Chicago,  III,;  N.J. 
Mikus,  Local  721,  Westminster,  Calif.:  William  Downs,  Local 
964,  Yupon  Beach,  N.C;  Scott  Shelley,  Local  8,  Mt.  Laurel, 
N.J. :  John  Souza,  Local  36,  Corning,  Calif.:  Vance  Marvin, 
Local  1498,  Provo,  Utah:  Douglas  W.  Scott,  Local  2042,  White 
City,  Ore.:  John  M.  Quick,  Local  2064,  Klamath,  Calif:  and 
Anthony  Piscitelli,  Local  188,  Bronx,  N.  Y. 


Yes,  I  want  to  help! 

Here  is  my  contribution  to  tiie  Carpenters  Legislative 
Improvement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 
counts. 

n  $10  n  $15  n  $20  n  $25  n  other 

Name 


Address . 

City 

Zip 


State. 


LU.  No. 


We're  required  by  law  to  request  this  information: 

Occupation 

Employer 

Make  checks  payable  to: 

CLIC 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  DC  20001 

Contributioiis  to  CLIC  are  voluntary  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  refuse  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contributions  iVom  persons  other  than  UBC 
members  and  their  immediate  families.  Contributions  firom  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


APRIL     1987 


11 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Labor  for  international 
action  to  prevent 
toxic,  nuclear  disasters 

The  AFL-CIO  joined  in  the  Interna- 
tional Confederation  of  Free  Trade 
Unions'  call  for  a  global  effort  to  prevent 
industrial-environmental  disasters  like  the 
one  in  Bhopal,  India,  where  2,500  people 
died  in  1984. 

The  ICFTU's  14-point  proposal,  which 
pledges  trade  union  cooperation  in  shar- 
ing information  and  continuing  research 
on  chemical  dangers,  calls  for  specific 
action  by  Congress,  the  International 
Labor  Organization,  and  corporations. 

Following- the  Bhopal  tragedy,  a  12- 
member  union  fact-finding  committee  went 
to  India  and  wrote  a  report  on  Bhopal  in 
July  1985.  Margaret  Seminario,  the  AFL- 
CIO  specialist  on  health  and  safety,  rep- 
resented the  federation,  an  ICFTU  mem- 
ber. 

"Americans  should  not  regard  Bhopal 
as  unrelated  to  our  workplaces,"  Semi- 
nario said.  "The  fact  is  that  none  of  the 
conditions  which  led  to  the  disaster  would 
have  been  violations  of  specific  standards 
or  regulations  of  the  Occupational  Safety 
and  Health  Administration  or  the  Envi- 
ronmental Protection  Agency." 

Consumer  Price  Index 
reference  base  to 
change  in  1988 

Unions  using  the  Consumer  Price  In- 
dex in  their  wage  bargaining  will  want  to 
make  note  that  beginning  January  1988, 
there  will  be  a  change  in  reference  base 
for  the  Consumer  Price  Index.  As  of  the 
first  of  next  year,  the  reference  base  of 
1967=  100  for  CPI-W  and  CPI-U  will  be 
changed  to  1982-42=100. 

The  change  in  the  reference  base  makes 
no  difference  in  percentage  movements 
in  CPI  from  one  period  to  another — but 
it  does  make  a  difference  for  COLA 
clauses  that  use  index  "points"  rather 
than  percentage  changes  in  their  calcu- 
lations. 

Right-to-work 
bill  spurned 
in  New  Mexico 

The  New  Mexico  House  of  Represen- 
tatives overwhelmingly  rejected  a 
compulsory  open-shop  law  which  had 
been  pushed  by  the  National  Right  to 
Work  Committee. 

Unions  efforts  to  block  the  bill  included 
a  legislative  action  committee  of  more 
than  800  union  members  and  television 
and  radio  ads  featuring  House  Speaker 
Ray  Sanchez. 


Ed  Asner 
to  be  honored 
at  BCTD  dinner 

Former  Screen  Actors  Guild  President 
Edward  Asner  will  be  honored  for  his 
commitment  to  the  labor-backed  "Blue- 
print for  Cure"  Campaign  with  a  dinner 
during  the  AFL-CIO  Building  and  Con- 
struction Trade  Department's  legislative 
conference  in  Washington  D.C.,  on  April 
6.  Proceeds  from  the  dinner  for  the  Emmy- 
Award-winning  actor  will  go  to  the  Dia- 
betes Research  Institute.  The  Building 
Trades'  campaign  to  build  a  center  for 
the  institute  at  the  University  of  Miami, 
Fla.,  is  in  its  second  year. 


Plymouth  Rubber 
added  to 
unfair  list 

The  Plymouth  Rubber  Co.  of  Canton, 
Mass.,  where  members  of  Rubber  Work- 
ers Local  573  have  been  on  strike  since 
May  15,  1986,  was  added  to  the  AFL- 
CIO  Unfair  List  for  a  national  boycott. 
The  company's  inflexible  demands  in- 
clude sharp  benefit  cuts,  nonunion  work- 
ers performing  bargaining  unit  work,  and 
limiting  union  representation  rights. 
Plymouth  makes  insulating  products  un- 
der the  brand  names  Plymouth,  Slipknot, 
Plyvolt,  Plysafe,  Bishop,  Plyflex.  and 
Plytuff.  Its  rubber  bands  are  sold  under 
the  names  Plymouth,  Revere,  Patriot, 
and  Cambridge,  and  its  vinyls  are  sold 
as  Plyhide  and  Plytron.  Other  products 
include  upholstery,  bookbinding,  luggage 
materials,  shoe-upper  materials  and  Un- 
ings,  coated  fabrics,  rubber  shoe  sohng 
materials,  hospital  sheets,  and  water- 
proof crib  sheets  and  pads. 


Shipyard  workers 
use  marches  to 
protest  wage  cuts 

Portland  Ore.,  Metal  Trades  Council 
unions  are  protesting  deep  unilateral  wage 
cuts  imposed  on  900  workers  at  Dil- 
lingham Ship  Repair.  The  UBC  is  one  of 
the  unions  involved  in  the  dispute. 

The  members  of  nine  unions  chose  to 
conduct  daily  protest  marches  en  masse 
to  work  to  demonstrate  solidarity  rather 
than  strike,  while  the  unions  pursue  un- 
fair labor  practice  charges  against  the 
company.  About  750  workers  have  been 
laid  off,  with  production  off  60%,  ac- 
cording to  Mike  Fahey  Sr.,  executive 
secretary  of  the  council. 

The  company  hired  nonunion  workers 
"off  the  street"  and  brought  in  54  pipe- 
fitters from  East  Coast  Machinery  Inc. 
of  New  York  after  laying  off  100  union 
pipefitters.  But  Fahey  said  that  most  of 
the  replacement  workers  lacked  the  nec- 
essary skills  and  have  been  laid  off. 


USA-made 
flatware  used 
at  US  Capitol 


Members  of  the  House  of  Represen- 
tatives scrapped  imported  flatware  used 
in  the  members'  dining  room  after  the 
Steelworkers  and  American  steel  manu- 
facturers presented  them  with  180  sets 
of  American-made  stainless  steel  flat- 
ware. 

At  a  luncheon  sponsored  by  the  USWA 
and  the  Specialty  Steel  Industry  of  the 
United  States,  several  hundred  congress- 
men, union  members,  and  industry  offi- 
cials replaced  flatware  imported  from 
Japan,  Taiwan,  and  Korea  with  the  "Made 
in  the  U.S.A."  brand. 

Representatives  of  the  USWA  and  the 
industry  trade  group  met  with  House 
members  to  discuss  the  import  restraint 
program,  which  is  scheduled  to  expire 
July  19.  The  industry  and  union  have 
petitioned  to  extend  the  program  for  four 
years. 

The  petition  said  that,  "the  restraints 
have  proven  beneficial  to  the  domestic 
industry,"  but  measures  of  the  industry's 
health,  including  production,  employ- 
ment, and  factory  use,  remain  below  the 
levels  that  existed  before  the  "massive 
surge  of  imports"  in  1981  and  1982. 


Coors  replaces 
lie  detector  with 
drug  test,  survey 

The  AFL-CIO  Union  Label  and 
Service  Trades  Department  in  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  reports  that  the  Adolph 
Coors  Co.  replaced  its  lie  detector  tests 
for  job  applicants  with  a  new  form  of 
harassment. 

Coors  now  requires  applicants  to 
take  drug  detecting  urine  tests  and  fill 
out  a  12-page  survey  on  views  about 
lying  and  cheating,  unions,  sex,  and 
politics. 

Since  the  AFL-CIO  and  Teamsters 
launched  nationwide  boycotts  against 
Coors  in  the  late  1970s,  the  company's 
sales  have  dropped  by  millions  of  bar- 
rels of  beer  a  year.  Supporting  the  boy- 
cott efforts  are  minority,  women's, 
church,  and  community  groups. 

Boycott  activity  is  expected  to  inten- 
sify in  1987  as  Coors  expands  distribu- 
tion from  a  new  plant  in  Virginia  to 
New  York  and  New  Jersey.  The  two 
states  represent  nearly  10%  of  the  U.S. 
beer  market. 

Since  1960,  Coors  has  busted  from 
its  plants  the  Teamsters,  Asbestos 
Workers,  Boilermakers,  Brewery 
Workers,  Bricklayers,  Carpenters,  Ce- 
ment Masons,  Electricians,  Glaziers, 
Iron  Workers,  Lathers,  Linoleum  Lay- 
ers, Millwrights,  Painters,  Pipefitters, 
Plumbers,  Roofers,  Sheet  Metal  Work- 
ers, and  Tile,  Marble  and  Terrazzo 
Workers. 


12 


CARPENTER 


June  19-24,  1987 
Atlantic  City,  N.J. 


AFL-CIO 

Union- 
Industries 
Shoiv 


The  AFL-CIO  Union-Industries  Show 
is  about  people — people  in  labor  and 
management  who  together  produce  the 
products  and  services  we  use  every 
day.  The  show  offers  consumers  an 
unusual  ghmpse  behind  the  scenes  to 
see  how  products  are  made  and  services 
performed.  The  show  is  about  quality — 
the  quality  design,  material,  and  work- 
manship which  make  American  union- 
made  products  and  union  services  among 
the  world's  finest. 

The  show  spotlights  for  visitors  the 
skills  American  craftspeople  bring  to 
their  jobs — in  manufacturing,  building, 
and  construction,  the  service  indus- 
tries, merchandising,  public  service, 
education,  and  special  crafts.  The  show 
presents  Hve  demonstrations  and  dis- 
plays on  topics  from  culinary  skills  to 
safety  at  home  and  on  the  job,  energy 
conservation  to  theatrical  arts,  personal 
health  to  aerospace  science.  Special 
skills  demonstrations  in  industries  in- 
clude textiles,  construction,  printing, 
and  much  more.  Working  representa- 
tives from  unions  and  business  will 
discuss  career  and  apprenticeship  train- 
ing. Many  exhibits  are  designed  to  let 
visitors  try  their  hand  at  a  special  skill. 

The  over  300  exhibitors  at  the  show 
include  the  unions  of  the  AFL-CIO, 
corporations  whose  products  and  serv- 
ices are  produced  by  union  workers, 
government  agencies,  and  community 
service  organizations. 

Admission  to  the  Union-Industries  Show 
is  free.  The  general  public  is  invited, 
and  schools,  clubs,  and  other  organi- 
zations are  encouraged  to  arrange  group 
visits.  Children  must  be  accompanied 
by  a  parent,  and  school  groups  must 
have  an  aduh  supervisor. 

Make  it  a  point  to  come  to  the  beach 
in  Atlantic  City,  N.J.,  in  June  and  see 
Americans  making  a  better  America.UUC 


GETTING  TO  THE  SHOW 


Consult  your  local  newspaper  for  ads 
featuring  day  trips  to  any  Atlantic  City, 
N.J.,  casino  hotel.  The  buses  usually 
arrive  in  Atlantic  City  before  noon  and 
stay  about  six  hours — ample  time  to  visit 
a  casino  and  the  AFL-CIO  Union-Indus- 
tries Show.  Passengers  pay  a  fare  and 
receive  a  casino  "package" — a  roll  of 
quarters  for  the  slots,  a  discount  meal 
coupon  and  other  bonuses. 

After  you  have  tried  your  luck  at  the 
casino,  stroll  the  famed  Boardwalk  to  the 
convention  center  and  take  in  the  Union- 
Industries  Show.  Admission  is  free,  but 
a  ticket  is  required.  Tickets  may  be 
obtained  from  your  state  federation  of 
labor,  central  labor  council,  union  label 
council,  or  the  Union  Label  and  Service 


Trades  Department,  AFL-CIO,  815  -  I6th 
Street,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.  C.  20006, 
(202)628-2131. 

Another  possibility  is  chartering  your 
own  bus.  A  partial  listing  of  area  union 
bus  companies  is  provided;  for  names  in 
areas  not  listed,  contact  your  state  fed- 
eration of  labor,  central  labor  council,  or 
local  transportation  union. 

If  you  are  some  distance  from  Atlantic 
City  you  may  wish  to  put  together  an 
overnight  visit  on  a  chartered  bus.  Over- 
night packages  can  be  made  at  a  casino 
hotel  or  a  non-casino  hotel  or  motel.  For 
a  listing  of  hotels  and  motels  contact  the 
Atlantic  City  Convention  and  Visitors 
Bureau,  2314  Pacific  Avenue,  Atlantic 
City,  NJ  08401,  (609)  345-7536. 


UNION  BUS  COMPANIES 

Carl  R.  Bieber,  Inc. 

Post  Office  Box  180 
Vine  and  Baldy  Streets 
Kutztown,  Pa.  19530 

215/683-7333 


Blue  Bird  Coach  Lines,  Inc. 

502  North  Barry  Street 
Olean,  N.J.  14760 
716/372-5500 


Bonanza  Bus  Lines 

Post  Office  Box  1116 
Providence.  R.I.  02901 
401/331-7500 

Brush  Hill  Trans.  Company 

109  Norfolk  Street 
Dorchester,  Mass.  02124 
617/287-1920 


Gold  Line/Gray  Line 
of  Washington 

333  "E"  Street,  S.W. 
Washington,  D.  C.  20024 
202/479-5988 

Greyhound  Lines,  Inc. 

2206  Atlantic  Avenue, 

Room  lA 

Atlantic  City,  N.J.  08401 

609/344-7550 

New  Jersey  Transit  Bus 
Operations,  Inc. 

180  Boyden  Avenue 
Maplewood,  N.J.  07040 
201/761-8331 

Peter  Pan  Bus  Lines,  Inc. 

1776  Main  Street 
Post  Office  Box  1776 
Springfield,  Mass.  01102 
413/781-2900 


Raritan  Valley  Bus  Company 

Box  312 

Metuchen,  N.J.  08840 

201/549-1212 

Red  and  Tan  Lines 

437  Tonnele  Avenue 
Jersey  City,  N.J.  07306 
201/653-2220 

Short  Line  Bus  System 

17  Franklin  Turnpike 
Mahwah,  N.J.  07430 
201/529-3666 

Starr  Tours 

253 1  East  State  Street 
Trenton,  N.J.  08619 
609/587-0626 

Trans-Bridge  Lines 

2012  Industrial  Drive 
Bethlehem,  Pa.  18017 
215/868-6001 


APRIL     1987 


13 


One  extremely  important 
facet  of  the  UBC's  Operation 
Turnaround  program — ajacet 
that  needs  to  be  continually 
emphasized  at  union  meet- 
ings, on  and  off  the  job — is 
the  necessity  of  "giving  8Jor 
8. "  That  is  the  best  answer  to 
a  member's  frequently  asked 
question,  "What  can  I  do?" 
Give  our  fair  employers  their 
money's  worth,  eight  hours 
workjor  eight  hours  pay. 


The  following  is  a  prime  ex- 
ample of  the  importance  of 
union  construction  productiv- 
ity. It's  an  open  letter  to  our 
members  from  a  large  con- 
crete contractor  who  employs 
our  members  throughout  the 
United  States.  The  message 
comes  through  loud  and 
clear.  We  needn't  move  back- 
wards to  compete  with  the 
nonunion  sector,  but  we  do 
need  to  work  smarter,  safer, 
and  more  productively. 


Dun-Par  Chose  to  be  100%  Union! 

'Did  We  Make  the  Right  Choice?' 


Construction  employees  of  the  Dun- 
Par  Engineering  Form  Co.,  Raytown, 
Mo.,  recently  received  the  following 
letter  from  management. 

Dun-Par  Employees: 

Dun-Par  Engineered  Form  Co.  started 
its  concrete  form  business  in  1968.  I 
joined  this  team  in  1969  as  a  laborer 
progressing  to  a  carpenter,  carpenter 
foreman,  district  superintendent,  and  I 
am  now  vice  president  of  field  opera- 
tions. 

Dun-Par  and  its  union  employees  have 
been  fighting  the  open  shop,  double- 
breasted  contractors,  and  at  times  even 
your  membership  to  remain  union.  There 
has  been  enough  talk  and  complaining 
about  the  open  shop  and  our  position. 
It  is  time  that  we  unite  and  make  some 
positive  changes.  Even  if  they  are  wrong, 
they  are  better  than  complaining  and 
doing  nothing.  Our  employees  are  our 
company,  and  we  did  make  some  pos- 
itive changes.  Together  our  union  team 
fought  to  be  safer,  more  productive, 
better  organized,  and  still  maintain 
quality.  Because  we  had  pride  in  our- 
selves and  our  union  team,  we  did  lower 
bids.  We  proved  that  we  could  choose 
union,  but  we  need  your  support  to 
guarantee  our  choice  was  right.  If  I  can 
show  you  a  plan  that  will  make  you, 
our  company,  and  the  union  winners, 
would  you  try  it?  I'm  betting  you  would. 
I'm  aware  of  the  problem,  and  my 
solutions  may  seem  elementary  to  some 
of  you.  The  success  of  my  plan  depends 


on  your  total  commitment.  That  means 
giving  all  that  you  have  to  prove  that 
being  union  is  the  right  choice.  Those 
who  think  they  have  time  to  complain 
about  the  open  shop  but  are  not  com- 
mitted to  doing  something  about  it, 
please  throw  this  letter  away.  I  only 
want  people  who  believe  in  the  union 
and  who  are  willing  to  make  changes 
to  regain  our  work. 

There  are  two  areas  of  construction — 
safety  and  production — that  can  dras- 
ticly  influence  a  bid.  These  two  areas 
are  also  controlled  entirely  by  your 
commitment. 

Accidents  cause  more  than  pain,  lost 
wages,  and  increased  insurance  pre- 
miums. They  cause  higher  bids  through 
lost  productivity,  accident  investiga- 
tions, paper  work,  and  loss  of  morale. 
Even  those  not  involved  in  an  accident 
stand  to  lose.  As  insurance  goes  up  and 
productivity  goes  down,  it  is  difficult 
for  our  company  to  compete  for  new 
jobs.  You  know,  as  well  as  I,  that  new 
jobs  mean  steady  employment  and  a 
chance  for  you  to  plan  your  future.  We 
have  schedules  to  meet  and  budgets  to 
stay  within;  and  safety  and  productivity 
are  inseparable  in  meeting  our  challenge 
from  the  open  shop.  Are  you  beginning 
to  see  how  you  can  affect  bids  and  why 
being  productive,  working  smart,  and 
paying  attention  to  safety  will  benefit 
you  and  the  company?  There  are  thou- 
sands of  dollars  being  put  into  bids 
simply  because  of  errors  in  our  past 
performance. 

•  Craning  the  wrong  material  to  the 


top  and  then  losing  the  crane. 

•  Bracing  a  beam  side  off  a  ladder 
from  the  bottom  instead  of  the  top. 

•  Cutting  full  sheets  of  plywood  when 
scrap  could  be  used. 

Think  about  the  job  you  are  on  now. 
I'm  sure  you  can  add  to  the  list  with 
very  little  effort.  Now  put  a  dollar 
amount  on  these  errors  and  take  it  times 
25  jobs  or  times  a  year.  Surely  you 
agree  with  me  that  cutting  wages  further 
is  not  the  only  way  to  be  competitive. 

When  we  get  a  job,  about  20%  of  our 
work  force  are  people  who  have  made 
these  changes  and  prove  they  work. 
Your  local  supplies  the  other  80%.  Cer- 
tainly we  can  see  that  100%  commit- 
ment would  make  a  drastic  change  to 
our  union  marketplace. 

At  the  beginning  of  this  letter  I  said 
that  you,  the  company,  and  the  union 
can  be  winners.  If  you  are  willing  to 
work  eight  hours  for  eight  hours  pay, 
your  efforts  will  be  rewarded.  Simply 
put,  working  safer  with  better  organi- 
zation and  a  commitment  to  working 
smart  will  result  in  more  jobs  for  the 
company.  It  would  mean  steady  work 
at  union  wages  for  you  and  a  growing 
membership  for  your  local. 

Talk  to  your  fellow  members  and 
vote  to  do  something  positive  with  a 
union  contractor.  Hopefully  my  solu- 
tions are  more  appealing  than  cutting 
wages  further. 

Sincerely, 

Jeff  Klewein 

Vice  President,  Field  Operations 


14 


CARPENTER 


This  Agency  Is 
Working  for  You 

Dear  UBC  Brothers  and  Sisters: 

Each  day.  your  member- 
ship in  the  United  Brother- 
hood is  working  Jor  you, 
helping  assure  you  of  decent 
wages  and  good  benefits. 
You  know  that  should  you 
need  help,  your  brothers  and 
sisters  stand  ready  to  do 
whatever  they  can. 

It  is  the  same  with  United 
Way.  Though  you  may  not 
hear  about  it  every  day.  it  is 
quietly  working  behind  the 
scenes  in  thousands  of  com- 
munities across  America,  365 
days  a  year.  And  if  you 
think  United  Way  is  Just  Jor 
the  "other  person,"  think 
again.  If  you  have  kids  in 
the  Scouts  or  Camp  Fire,  you 
have  probably  used  a  United 
Way  service.  If  you  have  ever 
taken  a  life  saving  course 
through  the  Red  Cross  or 
taken  an  exercise  class  at 
the  Y,  you  have  probably 
used  a  United  Way  service. 
Of.  if  you  have  an  elderly 
parent  who  gets  a  hot  meal 
delivered  by  Meals  On 
Wheels — you  guessed  it — you 
have  probably  used  a  United 
Way  service. 

In  a  short  time,  the  1987 
United  Way  campaign  will 
begin.  As  always,  I  urge  you 
to  be  generous — and  not  Just 
Jor  reasons  of  self  interest. 
You  will  be  helping  other 
people  who  may  not  be  as 
Jortunate  as  you. 

Giving  to  United  Way  is  a 
good  investment  in  thejuture 
oj  America's  communities.  I 
urge  you  to  buy  a  share. 

Thank  you. 
Sincerely  andjraternally. 

PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


Norman  Poirier  at  work  in  his  slii- 
dio,  right,  and  the  figurine  "Aurora 
Corpus,"  above. 


A  bronze  figurine,  "Aurora  Corpus," 
the  resurrection,  stands  among  the  art 
collection  of  the  Most  Rev.  James  Hiclcey, 
Roman  Cathohc  archbishop  of  Washing- 
ton, D.C. 

A  seated,  five-foot  figure  of  the  Ma- 
donna, cast  in  nickel  silver  and  bronze, 
rests  beside  a  studio  wall  in  St.  Jude's 
Church  in  Richmond  Heights,  Ohio. 

These  and  many  other  sculptures  on 
display  in  Midwest  cities  are  the  work  of 
a  retired  member  of  Local  1750,  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  Norman  Poirier,  a  man  who 
has  pursued  two  craft  skills,  carpentry 
and  sculpture,  much  of  his  adult  life. 
Now  retired  from  carpentry,  Poirier  con- 
tinues to  accept  commissions  for  his 
sculptures.  He  is  currently  making  wax 
models  for  a  proposal  to  the  Ursuline 
College  at  Pepper  Pike,  Ohio — seven- 
foot  figures  to  be  cast  in  bronze. 

For  12  years  Poirier  was  a  working 
carpenter.  His  grandfather  was  a  carpen- 
ter, and  his  father  was  a  building  con- 
tractor. He  was  initiated  into  Local  1750 
in  October  1967  and  has  been  a  dues- 
paying  UBC  retiree  for  the  past  five 
years.  While  he  plied  the  carpentry  trade, 
he  still  found  time  for  his  metal  and  stone 
creations.  In  the  1960s  he  created  six 
heroic  bronze  heads  for  the  Cleveland 
Cultural  Gardens  and  he  completed  a 
marble  bust  of  Dr.  Enezio  Tuason,  foun- 
der of  Blue  Cross  for  the  Philippine 
Islands,  which  was  commissioned  by  the 
doctor's  widow.  Schools  and  colleges 
commissioned  his  work.  In  the  early 
1980s  the  International  Brotherhood  of 
Tentmakers  and  Upholsterers  commis- 
sioned a  22-foot-high  piece,  which  was 
cast  in  alumnite,  stainless  steel,  and  wire 
mesh,  for  its  headquarters  on  Christ 
Church  Way  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


Poirier  began  his  apprenticeship  as  a 
sculptor  at  the  Rhode  Island  School  of 
Design  in  Providence,  R.I.,  in  1940  at 
the  age  of  17.  With  financial  help  from 
his  family  and  a  stipend  from  the  school, 
he  pursued  his  studies  through  the  un- 
certain years  of  World  War  II.  In  1944 
he  received  commissions  from  the  newly- 
formed  Monterey  Guild,  based  at  Ports- 
mouth Priory  in  Rhode  Island.  He  com- 
pleted life-size  stone  figures  and  deco- 
rative bronze  sculptures  for  the  convent 
agency. 

In  1947  he  married  Jesse  Buckles,  a 
painter  and  poet,  and  the  young  couple 
moved  to  Cleveland,  where  Poirier  exe- 
cuted his  first  sculptured  work  in  that 
city — a  seven-foot  figure  in  granite. 

Over  the  years,  Poirier  has  won  many 
awards  and  commissions,  but  the  life  of 
a  sculptor  is  often  a  hard  one,  filled  with 
uncertainties.  Carpentry  filled  the  gaps 
in  the  lean  years. 

Poirier  continues  to  pursue  his  art, 
edifying  his  church  and  his  community 
in  lasting  metals  and  stone. 


The  modern-day  carpenter  is  de- 
picted in  this  statue  by  Poirier. 


APRIL     1987 


15 


Is  Your  Local  or  Council 
Registered  for  Action? 

If  not,  why  not  join  the  Club?  The  votes  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  UBC 
members  and  their  famihes  mean  pohtical  power  to  push  our  legislative  goals  of 
gaining  jobs  and  improving  working  conditions.  To  encourage  more  of  our  members 
to  vote,  the  Legislative  Department  is  starting  the  REGISTERED  FOR  ACTION 
CLUB. 

UBC  representatives  attending  the  Building  and  Construction  Trades  Legislative 
Conference  this  month  will  be  given  lists  of  their  members  showing  who  is  registered 
to  vote  and  who  is  not.  The  representatives  will  be  asked  to  take  these  lists  home 
and  start  registering  to  reach  a  minimum  goal  of  75%  registered  members.  Each 
newly-registered  member  will  receive  a  personal  letter  from  the  Carpenters  Legislative 
Improvement  Committee  and  an  "I'm  Union  and  I  Vote"  bumper  sticker.  Locals 
and  district  councils  that  reach  at  least  75%  registration  will  become  part  of  the 
REGISTERED  FOR  ACTION  CLUB.  Locals  and  councils  in  the  Club  will  receive 
a  special  newsletter  on  legislative  events  and  political  action,  special  targetted 
computer  services  for  pohtical  campaigns,  and  invitations  to  political  education 
training  program. 

If  your  local  or  council  would  like  to  work  to  join  the  Club,  contact  General 
Treasurer  Wayne  Pierce  at  the  General  Office.  We  will  send  you  a  list  of  your 
registered  and  unregistered  members  and  helpful  suggestions  for  getting  members  to 
register.  Take  some  action  that  will  really  make  a  difference — Register  for  Action 
and  join  the  Club! 


Flooring  Industry  Coordination 

Continued  from  Page  5 

conducted  at  Local  2509,  Jackson, 
Tenn.,  and  Local  2825,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

Bargaining  goals  for  negotiations  were 
developed  through  a  survey  and  meet- 
ings with  members  to  review  and  dis- 
cuss survey  results.  The  UBC's  pro- 
gram for  industrial  local  union  negotiating 
committees,  "The  Bargaining  Proc- 
ess," was  shown  at  both  locals  so 
members  would  fully  understand  how 
negotiations  would  be  conducted. 

The  preparation  also  included  an  in- 
plant  organizing  program.  Tennessee, 
where  both  plants  are  located,  is  a 
"right-to-work"  state.  A  one-on-one 
campaign  was  started  both  to  sign  up 
new  members  and  to  get  feedback  on 
the  upcoming  negotiations.  In  the  Jack- 
son local  an  in-plant  organizer,  working 
with  local  officers  and  stewards,  signed 
up  130  new  members  using  the  UBC's 
"Get  On  Board"  organizing  program. 
Both  locals  also  held  socials  during  the 
holiday  season  to  build  up  union  spirit. 

The  final  part  of  the  strategy  was 
coordination  at  the  bargaining  table. 
The  Indiana  Industrial  Council  repre- 
sents a  plant  owned  by  the  same  parent 
company,  so  it  sent  its  representative, 
Elmer  Howerton,  to  the  negotiations  to 
show  solidarity.  The  UBC  represents 
workers  at  a  Bruce  plant  in  eastern 
Texas.  Their  Local  2713,  Center,  Tex., 
was  affiliated  with  the  Southern  Council 
of  Industrial  Workers  which  represents 
the  two  Tennessee  plants  to  allow  for 
better  coordination.  International  Rep- 
resentative Greg  Martin  was  also  pres- 


ent in  negotiations  to  provide  overall 
coordination  and  a  link  to  the  Interna- 
tional's resources  and  programs.  On 
the  union's  negotiating  team  were  SCIW 
Secretary  Ray  White  and  SCIW  rep- 
resentatives and  the  negotiating  com- 
mittees for  Locals  2509  and  2825. 

The  result  of  this  thorough  prepara- 
tion and  coordination  at  the  bargaining 
table  was  a  solid  three-year  agreement 
ratified  by  90%  of  the  members.  The 
agreement,  which  covers  both  plants, 
provides  for  a  5%  wage  increase  in  each 
of  the  three  years,  improvements  in 
health  insurance,  including  a  new  dental 
plan,  and  a  pension  improvement  of 
$2.00  per  year  of  service. 

Commenting  on  the  negotiations  and 
the  settlement.  Local  2509  President 
and  bargaining  committee  member  David 
Cole  said,  "We  were  better  prepared 
and  organized  for  these  negotiations 
than  in  the  past,  and  it  paid  off  for  our 
members." 

Industry  and  company-wide  ap- 
proaches will  increasingly  be  applied  in 
other  areas  of  the  industrial  sector. 
General  President  Campbell  has  di- 
rected the  Industrial  Department  to  de- 
velop programs  and  materials  toward 
that  end.  In  a  recent  issue  of  the  Or- 
ganizing-Indiistrial  Bulletin,  President 
Campbell  stated,  "This  coordinated  ap- 
proach is  being  adopted  by  the  General 
Office  and  the  Industrial  Department 
because  it  is  the  only  way  we  can 
establish  decent  wages  and  working 
conditions  in  our  industries.  Our  indus- 
tries have  changed  their  structure  and 
our  structure  must  change  as  well  to 
allow  for  more  coordination."         llijfi 


Layoffs  Called  Last 
Resort  for  Employers 

Layoffs  should  be  avoided,  if  at  all  pos- 
sible, as  an  employer  decides  which  policy 
options  will  best  save  money  and  increase 
productivity,  contend  an  economics  profes- 
sor and  a  spokeswoman  for  one  of  the 
world's  leading  multinational  companies. 

They  urge  corporate  managers  to  consider 
first  the  benefits  of  a  job  security  policy  to 
retain  key  workers  or  other  alternatives  to 
slashing  the  workforce  in  troubled  times. 

Pink  slips  should  be  the  last  resort  for  an 
economically  hard-pressed  employer  in  most 
cases,  especially  one  trying  to  keep  a  cushion 
of  ready  money,  according  to  Gary  Hansen, 
Utah  State  University  economics  professor. 
He  says  layoffs  demand  massive  and  im- 
mediate cash  outlays  for  severance  pay- 
ments and  such  matters  as  unused  employee 
leave.  "A  ballpark  guess  is  that  most  com- 
panies only  realize  about  half  the  savings 
from  a  layoff  that  they  had  projected," 
Hansen  says.  "As  a  cost-saving  tool,  the 
viability  of  layoffs  has  dropped  considerably 
over  the  last  five  or  10  years." 

The  official  company  policy  of  IBM  is  to 
avoid  layoffs,  says  spokesperson  Theo 
Chisholm. 

"We  have  a  tradition,"  she  says. 

The  computer  giant  uses  a  number  of 
strategies  to  preserve  the  core  workforce, 
among  them  an  80%  reduction  in  overtime; 
the  mandatory  use  of  accrued  vacation  leave 
by  employees;  and  encouragement  of  unpaid 
leaves  of  absence  through  such  devices  as 
the  company's  medical  leave  policy,  which 
allows  workers  to  take  as  much  as  a  year 
off  for  parental  leave  or  other  medical  rea- 
sons, coupled  with  the  guarantee  of  a  job 
upon  return.  According  to  Chisholm,  IBM's 
ability  to  roll  with  the  punches  dealt  by  a 
soft  economy  stems  from  long-term  planning 
that  has  as  an  objective  the  retention  of  a 
prime  corporate  asset — a  well  trained  and 
flexible  workforce. 


"Here's  a  NEW 
TAX  LAW  tip" 

The  new  tax  law  requires  that 
all  employees  file  a  new  Form 
W-4  before  October  1, 1987  . .  . 
but  file  it  now  so  you  can  make 
sure  the  right  amount  of  tax  is 
being  withheld.  Your  employer 
or  the  IRS  has  the  forms  and 
instructions. 


i4  Public  Service  of  the  IRS 


16 


CARPENTER 


locni  union  nEuis 


Indiana  Local  Aids 
Semi-Trailer  Project 

Members  of  Local  2323,  Monon,  Ind., 
were  recently  involved  in  a  charitable  project 
which  resulted  in  a  gift  of  a  28-foot  semi- 
trailer to  the  Mid-North  Indiana  Food  Find- 
ers Inc.  Food  Bank.  The  local  requested  the 
cooperation  of  Monon  Corp.  management, 
and  the  company  and  the  union  worked 
together  to  provide  over  182  hours  of  do- 
nated labor  which  was  coordinated  and  over- 
seen by  management.  Management  then  chose 
a  suitable  trailer  to  provide  the  most  road- 
worthy  vehicle  for  Food  Bank  use. 

The  trailer,  with  the  Food  Bank  logo 
painted  on  its  side,  will  provide  valuable 
storage  space  and,  once  matched  with  a 
tractor,  will  be  used  to  pick  up  donated  food 
from  around  the  state  and  to  deliver  it  to 
other  food  banks  in  and  out  of  the  state. 
The  food  will  then  be  channeled  to  various 
affiliated  agencies  and  organizations  who 
distribute  the  food  to  the  hungry.  Last  year 
approximately  one  million  pounds  of  food 
were  disbursed. 

Twenty-six  members  gave  of  their  time 
and  talent  to  make  the  project  a  reality.  They 
were  Daryl  Doyle,  Dianne  Brown,  John 
Myers,  Cindy  McElroy,  Jackie  Mc- 
Cutcheon,  Clyde  McCutcheon.  Dawn  Hen- 
derson, Nancy  Clark,  Mary  Garling,  Linda 
Elmore.  Diana  Smith,  Jerry  Crane,  Mike 
Page,  Richard  Hutson,  Jesus  R.  Marrero, 
Candy  Minniear,  Becky  Myers,  Jamie  Myers, 
Doug  Terria,  June  Nance,  John  Roark,  Dan 
Beckefeld,  Jim  Keys,  Davey  Gordon,  Fred 
Mayotte,  and  Bob  Allen. 


On  hand  for  ihe  presentation  of  the  trailer 
to  the  Food  Bank,  from  left,  were  Diane 
Brown,  Local  2323  vice  president:  Chris 
Stolfe,  Monon  Corp.  vice  president:  Aad- 
ron  Scott,  Food  Finders  director:  Nancy 
Clark,  Local  2323  community  service 
chairman:  and  Elmer  Howerton,  Local 
2323  business  manager. 

Released  Reporter 
Member's  Son-in-Law 

Gerald  F.  Seib,  the  Wall  Street  Journal 
reporter  who  was  recently  detained  by  Ira- 
nian officials,  is  the  son-in-law  of  a  UBC 
member.  Seib  was  released  after  a  few  days 
of  confinement  with  little  explanation  for  the 
action.  Seib  is  married  to  the  daughter  of 
Chester  Rosewicz,  a  Local  168  member  from 
Kansas  City,  Kan. 


Saskatchewan  Pickets  Win  Refinery  Pact 


Members  turned  out  in  large  numbers  to  demonstrate  their  support  for  fair  union  wages 
and  working  conditions. 


The  power  of  unified  strength  and  coop- 
erative action  was  demonstrated  at  a  Regina, 
Sask.,  refinery  where  an  agreement  was 
signed  ensuring  that  the  Co-op  Refinery 
would  be  built.  100%  union  with  Kilbom- 
Fluor  as  engineers  and  prime  contractors. 

The  job,  a  major  expansion,  was  picketed 
by  building  trades  workers,  members  of  the 
Energy  Chemical  Workers,  and  members  of 


the  Saskatchewan  Federation  of  Labour  and 
affiliates.  The  action  was  led  by  Michael 
Wright,  business  manager.  Millwrights  Lo- 
cal 1021,  Saskatoon,  and  Robert  Todd,  busi- 
ness manager,  Local  1985,  Province  of  Sas- 
katchewan. In  addition,  a  "Do  Not  Patronize" 
campaign  was  instituted.  After  10  days  of 
action,  an  agreement  covering  all  building 
trades  was  reached. 


Halifax  Local  Renovates  Children's  Center 


When  Wee  Care  Developments  ap- 
proached Local  83,  Halifax,  N.S.,  for  help 
with  the  renovation  of  a  child  development 
center,  the  local's  response  was  to  sign  on 
and  get  started. 

Wee  Care  was  started  to  teach  preschool 
children  with  physical  disabilities  and  de- 
velopmental delays  how  to  take  care  of 
themselves  before  starting  school.  The  group 
was  occupying  a  100-year-old  building  leased 
from  the  community  center  for  a  yearly  fee 
of  one  dollar.  However,  when  the  City  of 
Halifax  deemed  the  building  unfit  for  use. 
Wee  Care  had  no  money  for  renovations  and 
no  place  to  go. 

Local  83  President  and  Business  Repre- 
sentative William  Boudreau,  hired  by  the 
local  to  supervise  the  job,  got  together  with 
Wee  Development  Member  and  Architect 
Charles  Ritcey  and  soon  Local  83  members 
were  working  on  the  building. 

The  renovation  of  the  building  proved  to 
entail  much  more  work  than  was  originally 
expected,  but  the  Carpenters  kept  at  it  with 
close  to  60  members  volunteering  their  time 
for  the  cause  and  a  Nova  Scotia  Institute  of 
Technology  carpenter  apprentice  signing  on 
to  build  the  cabinets.  By  the  time  the  project 
was  completed,  the  Carpenters  had  donated 
$7500  in  cash  and  close  to  $50,000  worth  of 
labor. 


Contractors  that  contributed  to  the  project 
were  Yorkdale  Dry  wall,  Eaton  Construction 
Ltd.,  Guildfords,  and  A.R.  Hemming  Build- 
ing Systems  Ltd. 


The  Wee  Care  Developments  building 
nears  completion  in  Halifax,  N.S. 


Wee  Care  volunteers  included,  from  left, 
Bill  Broudreau,  Local  83  president;  a 
YMCA  volunteer:  and  Local  83  members 
George  Underwood.  Walter  Drinovz,  Ger- 
ald Dentv.  and  Mike  Chittick. 


APRIL     1987 


17 


Charlottetown  Efforts 
Turn  Job  Around 

When  put  into  action,  Operation  Turna- 
round works.  Local  1338,  Charlottetown, 
P.E.I.,  can  speak  from  experience. 

When  Local  1338  Business  Representa- 
tive Lou  Bradley  discovered  a  72-unit  mo- 
tel was  going  to  be  built  nonunion,  he  got 
together  with  a  union  contractor  to  work 
on  getting  the  owner  to  reconsider.  When 
the  owner  finally  relented  and  considered 
the  union  proposal,  the  union  bid  was  the 
lower  of  the  two.  The  job  was  awarded  to 
the  union  contractor. 

Afterwards  the  union  contractor  wrote 
the  union:  "I  wish  to  thank  you  as  busi- 
ness agent  and  the  United  Brotherhood  of 
Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America,  Local 
1338,  for  consideration  in  this  matter.  I 
think  that  it  shows  that  through  mutual 
cooperation  we  can  expand  the  unionized 
sector  and  very  aptly  compete  with  the 
nonunion  forces  on  this  size  of  project." 

Alberta  Carpenters 
Hold  35th  Conclave 

Members  of  the  various  local  unions  and 
the  district  council  in  the  Province  of  Alberta 
gathered  for  their  recent  convention  at  the 
Carpenters  Building  in  Calgary. 

The  convention  agenda  included  much 
debate  on  resolutions  concerning  the  future 
direction  of  the  Brotherhood  in  the  province. 

Elections  were  held  to  determine  who 
would  lead  the  group  until  its  next  conven- 
tion. Martyn  Piper,  Local  2103,  Calgary, 
was  elected  president;  Alf  Weisser,  Local 
1322,  Edson,  was  elected  executive  secre- 
tary treasurer  after  serving  for  many  years 
as  the  council  president;  William  Mc- 
Gillivray,  Local  1569,  Medicine  Hat,  was 
elected  first  vice  president;  and  Corby  Pank- 
hurst.  Local  846,  Lethbridge,  was  elected 
second  vice  president. 

Convention  speakers  included  Derrick 
Manson,  UBC  Canadian  research  director; 
K.  E.  Christiansen,  fraternal  delegate  from 
the  British  Columbia  provincial  council;  John 
Paterson,  administrator  of  the  Alberta  Car- 
penters pension  plan  and  president  of  the 
Calgary  district  council ;  and  Ronald  J .  Dancer, 
general  executive  board  member  from  the 
Tenth  District. 

ITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  '"ARPENJ^HS 
r*    JOINT        OF  Mf^\Zk    ^     > 


Charter  Members  In  Laredo,  Texas 


Ten  charter  members  of  Local  1726,  Laredo,  Tex.,  joined  with  five  other  members  for 
a  final  group  photograph  before  becoming  part  of  Local  14,  San  Antonio,  Tex.  Pictured 
above,  front  row,  from  left,  are  Alberto  Ramirez,  Charter  Members  Andres  Saldivar, 
Teodore  Vargas,  Alberto  Vargas,  Alfonso  Contreras,  Eusedio  Contreras,  and  Antonio 
Canto,  and  Leandro  Blanca. 

Back  row,  from  left,  are  Manuel  Mata,  Charter  Member  Gilberto  May,  UBC  Repre- 
sentative Pete  McNeil,  Charter  Members  Eujenio  Almendarez  and  Celso  Castillo,  llde- 
fonso  Serna,  Charter  Member  Carlos  Moreno,  and  Manuel  Duarte. 

Not  pictured  were  Charter  Members  Fidel  Moreno,  Julian  Jimenez,  and  Jose  Alonzo. 

Awards  Presented  at  Indiana  Convention 


Charlie  Bell,  council  executive  secretary,  rear  and  center,  with  those  presented  Bell 
Awards  at  the  recent  council  convention. 


Newly-elected  officers  of  the  Alberta  Pro- 
vincial Council.  Pictured  above,  from  left, 
are  William  McGillivray ,  Alf  Weisser, 
Martyn  Piper,  and  Corby  Pankhurst. 


The  Carpenters  Industrial  Council  of  In- 
diana held  its  11th  Biennial  Convention  re- 
cently. Presentations  covering  negotiations, 
pensions,  and  health  and  safety  in  the  work- 
place were  offered,  and  Council  Executive 
Secretary  Treasurer  Charles  E.  Bell  pre- 
sented the  traditional  Bell  Awards  to  union 
members  who  had  gone  beyond  the  call  of 
duty  for  their  unions. 

Among  the  group  pictured  are  award  re- 
cipients Mary  Layman,  Local  1690,  Wabash; 
Tom  Jones,  Local  2601,  Lafayette;  Bob 
Noggle,  Local  1 199,  Union  City;  Frona  Day, 
Local  3056,  LaPorte;  Jules  Berlin,  interna- 
tional representative;  Lonnie  Froedge,  Lo- 
cal 3125,  Louisville,  Ky.;  Jerry  Crane,  Local 
2323,  Monon;  Pam  Farner,  Local  2601;  State 
Representative  Sheila  Klinker;  Gary  Chelf, 
Local  2993,  Franklin;  Mary  Holt,  2930,  Jas- 
per; Diane  Payton,  Local  2930;  Melvin  Rob- 
erts, Local  1155,  Columbus;  and  Sara  Slay- 
ton,  Local  1199. 


Amstore  Jobs 
Return  to  Michigan 

Chalk  one  up  for  the  UBC  Michigan  Coun- 
cil of  Industrial  Workers.  Amstore  Corp., 
the  Muskegon,  Mich., -based  manufacturer 
of  store  fixtures,  is  bringing  back  the  work 
it  moved  six  years  ago  to  Liberty,  S.C,  with 
a  predicted  gain  of  50  jobs. 

At  Amstore,  where  management  several 
years  ago  said  adversarial  labor  relations 
contributed  to  the  1979  decision  to  move 
some  production  to  South  Carolina,  an  im- 
proved labor-management  climate  and  new 
flexibility  by  the  union  were  said  to  be  factors 
in  the  recent  northward  reversal. 

Amstore  also  cited  rising  demands  for  the 
custom  fixtures  made  by  its  skilled  Muske- 
gon work  force,  members  of  the  United 
Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners. 


18 


CARPENTER 


District  Survey? 


That's  First  District  Board  Member  Joe 
Lia  floating  with  outstretched  arms  be- 
neath a  parachute  in  the  picture  above. 
He  is  purported  to  be  conducting  an  aerial 
inspection  of  a  construction  job  some- 
where in  North  America,  according  to  a 
letter  to  UBC  General  President  Pal 
Campbell,  but  the  Carpenter  staff  suspects 
he's  relaxing  where  the  weather  is  balmy 
after  some  tough  assignment. 


IVIcGuire  Honored 
by  Illinois  Society 

The  Illinois  Labor  History  Society  each 
year  inducts  men  and  women,  no  longer 
active  in  union  affairs,  but  whose  contribu- 
tions to  the  labor  movement  over  the  years 
mark  them  as  worthy  of  a  special  place  in 
history,  into  the  Union  Hall  of  Fame. 

At  the  annual  ILHS  dinner  last  year,  Peter 
J.  McGuire  was  among  the  four  leaders 
inducted  into  this  mythical  shrine  before  a 
crowd  of  over  250  local  union  activists  and 
labor  historians.  Robert  Lid,  business  agent 
for  the  Chicago  and  Northeastern  Illinois 
Council  of  Carpenters  accepted  the  citation 
on  behalf  of  the  United  Brotherhood. 


NY  Local  Collects 
Toys  for  Tots 

For  the  fifth  year  in  a  row,  the  membership 
of  Local  163,  Peekskill,  N.Y.,  extended  the 
spirit  of  sharing  to  their  community  through 
a  Christmas  toy  collection  for  less  fortunate 
children  in  the  Westchester  County  area. 
The  toys  were  donated  by  members  of  the 
local  and  turned  over  to  the  U.S.  Marine 
Corps  for  distribution  as  part  of  their  "Toys 
for  Tots"  program. 


Pictured  above,  during  the  presentation, 
from  left,  are  Joseph  M.  Jacobs,  chairman 
of  the  ILHS:  Robert  Lid,  Chicago  Council 
of  Carpenters;  and  Thomas  Suhrbur,  ILHS 
trustee. 


The  Local  163  and  Marine  representa- 
tives pictured  above,  from  left,  are  Sgt. 
Bill  Evans;  William  Rehak,  local  chairman 
and  trustee;  Gordon  Lyons,  local  business 
representative;  and  Sgt.  James  Rodak. 


Merged  Local 
Deeds  Building 

During  the  recent  reorganization  in  Indi- 
ana, Local  694,  Boonville,  was  merged  into 
Local  90,  Evansville,  and  the  members  of 
Local  694  deeded  their  building  and  property 
in  Boonville  over  to  Millwrights  Local  1080, 
Boonville.  The  locals  are  affiliated  with  the 
Southern  Indiana  District  Council. 

The  2000-square-foot  building  was  built 
by  the  local  in  1969  with  volunteer  labor. 
Before  turning  it  over  to  the  millwright 
group,  the  carpenters  put  on  a  new  roof  and 
installed  a  water  heater.  The  building  has 
two  offices,  a  coffee  area,  and  a  large  meeting 
room.  The  seven-acre  property  also  includes 
a  lake. 


Volunteering  Member  Goes  Full  Circle 


Jerry  Otis,  a  former  officer  of  Lumber  and 
Sawmill  Workers  Local  2519,  Seattle,  Wash., 
has  seen  his  life  go  a  full  circle.  A  serious 
health  problem  left  him  confined  to  a  wheel- 
chair with  medical  experts  giving  him  only 
a  fifty-fifty  chance  of  walking  again,  but 
today  he's  out  there  building  ramps  for 
others  in  wheelchairs — leaving  his  at  home. 

Brother  Otis  had  volunteered  his  time  to 
the  Labor  Agency  prior  to  his  health  troubles 
in  1984.  After  his  release  from  the  hospital, 
the  agency's  wheelchair  ramp  crew  provided 
him  with  a  ramp  for  his  home  and  Otis  was 
on  his  way.  As  soon  as  his  recovery  allowed, 
Otis  began  a  strenuous  physical  therapy 
program  and  enrolled  in  the  University  of 
Washington  Vocational  Rehabilitation  pro- 


gram. Now  he's  back  to  volunteering  with 
the  labor  agency. 

These  days  Otis  has  an  array  of  activities 
on  his  agenda.  He  drives  elderly  clients  to 
medical  appointments  and  shopping,  has 
helped  to  break  out  and  repack  bulk  foods 
for  a  food  bank,  picked  up  and  delivered 
donated  clothing  and  household  items,  and 
cleaned  and  repaired  donated  electrical  ap- 
pliances. 

His  years  of  experience  have  taught  Brother 
Otis  the  value  of  safe  work  habits  and  he 
follows  these  practices  faithfully.  He  has 
quite  a  bit  of  work  laid  out  for  himself  these 
days  and  quite  a  few  people  in  his  area  are 
glad  to  see  him  up  and  about  and  able  to 
share  his  talents  once  again. 


Pictured  above  exchanging  the  deed  to  the  property  in  Boon- 
ville, Ind.,  from  left,  are  James  Patterson,  international  repre- 
sentative; Ralph  Litherland,  Local  90  service  representative  and 
former  service  representative  for  Local  694;  Larry  Bendzen, 
former  president  for  Local  694;  Steve  Richards,  Local  1080 
president;  Charles  Lanny  Rideout.  Local  1080  service  represent- 
ative; and  Donald  G.  Walker,  Southern  Indiana  district  council 
business  manager. 


Brother  Jerry  Otis  at  work  on  a  handicapped  access  structure 
for  a  home  for  infants  and  children  with  birth  defects. 


APRIL     1987 


19 


Est^ving 

FRAMING 
HAMMERS 

First  and  Finest 
All-steel  Hammers 


Our  popular  20  oz. 
regular  length  hammer 
now  available  with 
milled  face 

#E3-20SM 

(milled  face) 


16"  handle 


Forged  in  one  piece,  no  head  or  handle 
neck  connections,  strongest  construc- 
tion known,  fully  polished  head  and 
handle  neck. 

Estwing's  exclusive  "molded  on"  nylon- 
vinyl  deep  cushion  grip  which  is  baked 
and  bonded  to  "I"  beam  shaped  shank. 


Always    wear    Estwing 

■^    Safety     Goggles     when 

■  ^^.ffp^  using  hand  tools.  Protect 

^"'^'^    1  your  eyes  from  flying  parti- 


V  /^'    y^V^^**''  *^'®^  ^"^  dust.  Bystanders 
ff\0^    shall    also    wear    Estwing 
Safely  Goggles. 


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See  your  local  Estwing  Dealer.  If  he 
can't  supply  you,  write: 


Est^^ing 


Mfg.  Co. 


2647  8th  St.  Rockford,  IL  61101 


uiE  concRnTuiniE 


.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  pubUc  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


SPORTS  FAMER 

Al  Gutknecht,  a  Local  333,  New  Ken- 
sington, Pa.,  retiree,  was  recently  awarded 
an  Allegheny-Kiski  Valley  Sports  Hall  of 
Fame  Award  and  also  honored  for  his  career 
at  a  retirees  club  luncheon.  Brother  Gut- 
knecht's  sports  career  spanned  32  years: 
from  the  years  he  played  football,  basketball, 
and  baseball  at  Arnold  High  School  in  Penn- 
sylvania to  a  short  career  as  a  member  of 
the  Brooklyn  Dodgers  football  team  and 
some  playing  time  with  the  Cleveland  Rams 
to  a  stint  as  a  baseball  pitcher  with  a  local 
team  until  1967. 

All  of  his  accomplishments,  while  note- 
worthy in  and  of  themselves,  are  also  ex- 
amples of  courage  and  determination — 
Brother  Gutknecht  lost  an  eye  at  age  seven, 
yet  never  let  this  stop  his  winning  streak. 


^f 


■^ 


-'^^ 


^i 


Al  Cintknecht  with  sports  career  honor. 


MASS.  STATE  SCHOLAR 


The  Massachusetts  Slate  Council  recently 
awarded  a  scholarship  to  Eric  L.  Mc- 
Donald, the  son  of  Wilfred  P.  McDonald, 
Local  33,  Boston.  Pictured  above  at  the 
presentation  of  the  $2,000  award,  from 
left,  are  Andrew  Sarno,  business  repre- 
sentative: Michael  J.  Molinari,  state  coun- 
cil executive  secretary:  Eric  L.  McDonald: 
and  Mrs.  and  Mr.  Wilfred  P.  McDonald. 


OLYMPIAN  AWARD 

Franklin  Blasi,  business  agent  for  Local 
201,  Wichita,  Kan.,  was  singled  out  from 
over  5000  volunteers  in  the  state  of  Kansas 
to  receive  the  Kansas  Special  Olympics 
"Outstanding  Volunteer"  award. 

The  award  recognized  Blasi's  leadership 
role  in  constructing  a  storage  facility  for 
equipment  used  by  Kansas  Special  Olympics 
in  its  many  activities  for  retarded  citizens. 
After  Local  201  donated  land  for  the  ware- 
house, Blasi  spearheaded  the  drive  to  get  it 
built. 

"Frank  secured  thousands  of  dollars  worth 
of  materials,  obtained  the  use  of  equipment, 
and  secured  volunteer  manpower  for  the 
construction  as  well  as  handling  all  the 
coordination  for  the  project,"  said  Peggy 
Buck,  a  Special  Olympics  volunteer.  Buck 
said  Blasi  "spent  many  hours  and  made 
hundreds  of  phone  calls"  securing  donations 
of  supplies  and  labor.  In  all ,  43  firms  donated 
to  the  project. 

Blasi's  contribution  to  Kansas  Special 
Olympics  was  not  limited  to  his  work  on  the 
warehouse.  He  also  helped  organize  the 
construction  of  the  structures  for  the  Olym- 
pic Village,  home  to  the  summer  games  of 
Kansas  Special  Olympics.  His  assistance, 
according  to  Buck,  included  providing  a 
construction  site,  painting  the  structures, 
and  hauling  the  structures  from  one  location 
to  another. 

Blasi  is  married  and  has  10  children  and 
1 1  grandchildren,  but  still  finds  time  to  con- 
tribute to  organizations  like  Kansas  Special 
Olympics. 


Kansas  Special  Olympics  "Outstanding 
Volunteer"  Franklin  Blast,  right,  receives 
award  from  Steve  Walsh,  Kansas  Special 
Olympic  executive  director. 


20 


CARPENTER 


RPPRGIITICESHIP  &  fRRIIII 


Ohio  Local  Union  Presents  Certificates 


Local  437,  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  recently  presented  journeymen  certificates  to  graduating 
apprentices.  Pictured  above,  front  row,  from  left,  are  Gaiy  E.  Price,  director,  adult 
education,  Scioto  Co.  vocational  school:  Larry  Gullett,  apprentice  instructor:  Gene 
Johnson,  apprentice  instructor:  Carl  Tolbert,  graduating  apprentice:  Joan  Flanagan, 
graduating  apprentice:  Mark  Howard,  graduating  apprentice:  Patrick  Day,  apprentice 
instructor:  and  Marvin  Knapp,  JAC  coordinator  and  secrelaiy,  Tri-State  Council. 

Back  row,  from  left,  are  Norvel  Thomas,  business  representative:  Thomas  Hanahan, 
general  executive  board  member  for  the  Third  District:  and  Gregory  Martin,  general 
representative. 


Los  Angeles 
Millwright  Grads 

Graduating  millwright  apprentices  cele- 
brated their  elevation  to  journeyman  status 
at  a  dinner  hosted  by  Local  1607,  Los 
Angeles,  Calif,  right,  at  Steven's  Steak 
House.  Pictured,  front  row,  from  left,  are 
Bruce  Morgan,  Gary  Benoit,  Clarence  Ri- 
gali,  and  1607  Business  Manager  Bob  Na- 
konieczny.  Back  row,  from  left,  are  Debbie 
Terry,  Robert  K.  Wilson.  Steve  Contreras, 
and  Keith  Corsen.  Also  graduating  but  un- 
able to  attend  the  dinner  were  Robert 
Wohlgemuth,  Randal  Booker,  John  Brick, 
Daniel  Lee,  John  Meyer,  and  Dan  Sattler. 


Local  24  Apprentices 
Aid  Senior  Crafts 


Apprentices  of  Local  24,  Central  Con- 
necticut, brought  Christmas  to  the  Walling- 
ford  Senior  Center  a  Uttle  early  last  year. 
The  center  had  a  problem  because  the  wood- 
working shop  and  craft  classes  had  to  share 
space  in  one  long  workroom,  and  dust  and 
noise  from  the  woodworking  area  was  finding 
its  way  to  the  opposite  side  of  the  room  and 
disturbing  the  seniors  who  were  working  on 
their  crafts. 

The  solution  to  their  problem  appeared 
simple:  construct  a  partition  to  divide  the 
room  into  two  equal  spaces.  The  state  pro- 
vided a  grant  of  $1,600  for  the  materials  for 
the  divider,  but  funds  to  pay  for  the  labor 
eluded  them. 

After  the  materials  had  sat  in  a  corner 
unused  for  several  months,  Edward  Musso, 
a  senior  member,  had  an  idea.  He  persuaded 
the  apprentices  from  the  Local  24  JATC  to 
donate  their  talents  to  complete  the  project. 

The  story  has  a  happy  ending.  The  ap- 
prentices completed  the  project  in  two  days, 
saving  the  center  anywhere  from  $2,500  to 
$4,000,  and  14  apprentices  got  on-the-job 
experience,  a  round  of  applause,  and  hot 
fudge  sundaes  from  the  grateful  seniors. 


Carl  Tolbert,  left,  was  presented  a  gold 
hammer  award  as  the  outstanding  fourth 
year  apprentice  in  the  program.  Pictured 
with  him  is  Board  Member  Thomas  Hana- 
han. 


Apprentices  at  Robotics  Class 


Local  845  Honors  Graduates 


Apprentices  of  Local  1755,  Parkersburg,  W,Va.,  along  with 
their  instructors,  recently  attended  a  robotics  class  at  Washing- 
ton Technical  College  in  Marietta,  Ohio,  Pictured  above,  from 
left,  are  Mr.  Baird,  robotics  teacher:  Paul  Schultz;  Larry 
Hayes:  Kevin  King:  Ken  Whited:  Phil  Kaiden,  instructor:  Mike 
Collins:  Joe  Starkey:  Dave  Farrar:  and  Tom  Valentine.  Absent 
from  the  picture  is  Instructor  Fred  Abrams. 


f!  G  ^ 


At  a  recent  gathering  of  Local  845,  Drexel  Hall,  Pa.,  several  of 
the  local's  graduating  apprentices  were  honored,  including  two 
who  had  significant  academic  achievements  over  their  four 
years  in  the  apprenticeship  program.  Pictured  above,  from  left, 
are  Apprentices  Sal  Mililello,  Chris  Mahoney,  and  Dan  Moran, 
number  one  in  academic  achievement:  Local  President  Frank 
Smith:  Apprentices  Brian  Stumm,  third  in  academic  achieve- 
ment, and  Dan  McGinnis:  and  Local  Treasurer  Lany  Dunn. 


APRIL     1987 


21 


steward  Training 


Those  who  attended  the  Southwestern  Michigan  Steward  Training  Program  are  pictured  above. 


Steward  Training  for 
Southwestern  l\/lichigan 

The  Southwestern  Michigan  Carpenters  District  Council  re- 
cently hosted  a  steward  training  class  for  all  members  interested 
in  attending.  Members  of  all  local  unions  affiliated  with  the 
council  attended  the  class  conducted  by  Representative  Rob 
Konyha. 

Pictured  in  the  above  photo  by  Ed  Cressy,  Local  898,  St. 
Joseph  and  Benton  Harbor,  from  left,  are  Ed  Cressy,  Local  898; 
Steve  Badgley,  Local  898;  Roy  Ca vender,  Local  871,  Battle 
Creek;  Carroll  Eaton,  Local  297,  Kalamazoo;  Lawrence  Larsen, 
Local  898;  John  Leedle,  Local  871;  Garald  Bohn,  Local  898; 
Dave  Miller,  Local  871;  Nate  Bitely,  business  representative. 
Local  297;  Mike  Smith,  Local  2252,  Grand  Rapids;  Carl  Badg- 
ley, Local  898;  Jim  McCulley,  Local  871;  Rob  Konyha;  Art 
Huff,  business  representative.  Local  2252;  Greg  Horn,  Local 
871;  Rick  Fleming,  business  representative,  Local  871;  Bob 
LeClear,  (hidden),  Local  871;  Thomas  Schieffer,  Local  335, 
Grand  Rapids;  Patricia  Kuncaitis,  Local  100,  Muskegon;  Lee 
Knitter,  apprenticeship  instructor,  Local  898;  Carlos  Washing- 
ton, Local  871;  Donald  Bammann,  district  council  secretary- 
treasurer;  Dick  Morehead,  business  representative,  Local  898; 
Alan  Hamstra,  Local  335;  John  Nagelhout,  Local  335;  Richard 
Brown,  Local  335;  Nancy  Gleason,  Local  100;  James  Slaghuis, 
Local  335;  Orville  Hubert,  business  representative.  Local  335; 


Ronald  Ecker,  Local  335;  Andrew  Zamarripa,  Local  335;  and 
Gale  Pierson,  Local  335.  Not  pictured  is  Thomas  De  Korte, 
Local  2252. 

Steubenville  Stewards  Train 


Members  of  Local  186,  Steubenville.  Ohio,  pose  with  comple- 
tion certificates  from  a  recent  steward  training  class  conducted 
by  representative  Rob  Konyha.  Seated,  from  left,  are  Bob  Phil- 
lipson.  Local  186  business  representative;  Rob  Konyha:  David 
Yasho;  David  Miller:  and  Joseph  Miller,  apprentice.  Standing, 
from  left,  are  Joseph  Cionni;  Frances  McCidlough,  Wheeling, 
W.  Va.,  Local  3  apprentice  and  wife  of  Local  186  member  Alan 
G.  McCullough:  John  S.  Martina:  Roy  Wells:  Okey  B.  Nestor 
Sr.:  Kenneth  Wells:  Charles  Greene:  and  James  R.  Hannan  Jr. 


Illinois  Millwrights 
Steward  Training 


Steward  training  course  graduates  from 
Millwrights  Local  1693,  Hinsdale,  III.,  pic- 
tured at  right,  from  left,  are  Edward  Zay- 
lek:  William  Cook,  district  council  vice 
president:  Charles  Schwere  Jr.:  John  Bur- 
dew:  Michael  Kaminski:  James  Atton:  Wil- 
liam Olson:  and  Anthony  Jendrzejak. 


22 


CARPENTER 


Members 
In  The  News 


Featherweight  Champ 


To  help  prepare  for  the  title  bout.  Espinosa  sparred  with  two 
Local  906  apprentices  who  also  boast  impressive  boxing  rec- 
ords: Johnny  Vasqiiez,  an  amateur  bantamweight  who  is  ranked 
ninth  in  the  world,  and  Pete  Solarez,  who  acheived  success  as 
an  amateur  and  has  racked  up  a  4-1  record  since  turning 
professional. 

Just  over  two  years  ago,  we  heard  of  a  rising  star  in  our  ranks; 
a  carpenter  apprentice  on  his  way  to  a  world  championship  in 
boxing.  In  October  of  1984  we  reported  that  Louie  Espinosa, 
Local  906,  Glendale,  Ariz. ,  had  a  record  of  11-1  with  six  knockouts. 
Since  then  he's  improved  his  record  to  22-1  with  17  KOs,  and  he 
recently  won  the  World  Boxing  Association  junior-featherweight 
championship. 

In  January,  with  a  fourth  round  TKO,  Espinosa  won  the  title 
in  his  home  state  by  defeating  a  strong  contender.  An  impressive 
contingent  of  UBC  and  other  union  members  were  at  Veterans 
Memorial  Coliseum  in  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  to  support  the  third-year 
apprentice.  Local  906  members  were  especially  proud  to  cheer 
Espinosa's  victory  after  all  the  work  they  had  done  to  promote 
the  match-up.  A  rousing  cheer  came  from  the  group  between 
rounds  when  the  announcer  thanked  the  Carpenters  for  all  their 
help. 

Photos  and  newspaper  clippings  about  the  champ  are  displayed 
on  the  walls  at  Local  906.  The  members  recently  presented 
Espinosa  with  a  plaque  honoring  his  accomplishments  and  telling 
him  how  proud  he's  made  them  feel. 

Despite  the  hype  and  hoopla,  like  headlines  in  The  Arizona 
Republic  and  The  Phoenix  Gazette,  Brother  Espinosa  remains 
"unpretentious,  well-mannered,  reserved,  and  hardworking"  ac- 
cording to  Local  906  Business  Representative  Richard  Mills. 
"Louie  is  dedicated  to  being  the  best  carpenter  he  can  be.  .  .  . 
Even  winning  the  title  hasn't  changed  him,  the  following  Monday 
morning  he  was  at  the  hall  ready  to  go  to  work." 


Moose-Hunting  Member 

Some  people  ride  horses  on  their  time  off  from  work.  UBC 
Member  Terry  Cox  used  his  time  to  ride  a  moose. 

The  Fairbanks,  Alaska,  Local  1243  member  made  the  Fairbanks 
News-Miner  when  he  and  a  friend  went  bowhunting.  Cox's 
coworker  at  the  Markair  Co.,  Al  Bravard,  wounded  a  bull  moose, 
but  the  two  were  unable  to  track  the  animal  in  the  dark.  They 
marked  the  last  place  they  saw  the  animal  and,  because  it  was  the 
last  day  of  moose-hunting  season,  called  Fish  and  Wildlife  Pro- 
tection Troopers.  Bravard  was  sure  he  had  fatally  wounded  the 
animal  and  informed  the  Troopers  of  his  intent  to  go  in  and  get 
the  animal. 

The  next  day,  Bravard  took  to  the  air  to  look  for  the  carcass. 


The  moose  hunters  from  left  are  Allen  Bravard,  with  the  arrow 
that  originally  found  the  moose;  Terry  Cox,  rider:  and  Tony 
Letuligasenoa,  with  the  machete  that  saved  their  lives. 

while  Cox  and  another  friend,  Tony  Letuligasenoa,  searched  on 
foot.  Assuming  the  moose  was  dead,  the  two  did  not  carry  guns. 

It  was  Cox  who  found  what  he  thought  was  the  dead  moose, 
but  as  he  approached,  it  jumped  and  charged  him.  Letuligasenoa 
heard  Cox's  yell  and  came  running  to  find  the  moose's  head  down 
and  Cox  on  the  bottom  in  front  of  his  horns.  Letuligasenoa  was 
sure  his  friend  had  been  gored. 

But  Cox  had  his  position  right  in  the  middle  of  the  moose's 
horns,  and  for  the  next  seven  minutes,  rode  the  animal  while 
Letuligasenoa  attacked  with  a  two-foot-long  machete.  "All  I  was 
trying  to  do  was  kill  it  before  it  killed  me  and  Terry."  Much  to 
the  two  men's  relief,  he  succeeded. 

Bravard,  watching  from  the  air,  called  the  flight  service  tower 
for  help,  certain  that  both  his  two  friends  had  been  gored.  Troopers 
were  at  the  scene  with  an  ambulance  almost  immediately.  They 
found  a  dead  four-year  old  moose  with  a  36-inch  antler  spread, 
and  the  two  survivors. 

After  the  ordeal.  Cox  promised  to  never  make  fun  of  Letuliga- 
senoa's  machete  again;  Letuligasenoa  was  thinking  of  taking  up 
fishing. 


Another  Liberty  Ship 


In  the  February  Carpenter  article  on  Liberty  ships,  no 
mention  was  made  of  the  Santiago  Iglesias,  another  Lib- 
erty dedicated  to  a  UBC  leader.  Named  for  a  pioneer 
UBC  and  AFL  organizer  in  Puerto  Rico,  the  Iglesias,  was 
launched  on  March  30,  1943,  in  Fairfield.  Md. 


APRIL     1987 


23 


Safety  and  Health 

Right  to  Know  Teleconference 
Links  Unionists  on  1 7  Campuses 


A  nationwide  AFL-CIO  teleconfer- 
ence April  23-24  will  focus  on  federal 
and  state  right-to-know  laws  covering 
workplace  toxic  chemicals. 

Labor  educators  and  union  members 
at  17  universities  will  be  linked  via 
satellite  with  Washington,  D.C.  The 
conference  will  discuss  how  to  obtain 
and  use  chemical  hazard  information, 
the  history  of  right-to-know  laws,  and 
requirements  of  the  federal  Hazard 
Communications  standard  and  state 
right-to-know  laws. 

The  conference  will  be  opened  by 
AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland,  and 
participants  will  include  job  safety  and 
health  specialists  from  the  AFL-CIO 
and  affiliated  unions. 

It  is  designed  to  teach  local  union 
members,  particularly  local  union  offi- 
cers and  safety  and  health  committee 
members,  how  to  use  their  rights  under 
these  new  right-to-know  laws. 

The  teleconference  is  produced  by 
the  Labor  Institute  of  Public  Affairs, 
the  AFL-CIO's  television  arm,  and  co- 
sponsored  by  the  AFL-CIO's  Depart- 
ment of  Occupational  Safety,  Health 
and  Social  Security,  and  the  George 
Meany  Center  for  Labor  Studies. 

A  list  of  universities  with  satellite 
links  appears  below.  Trade  union  mem- 
bers interested  in  attending  the  confer- 
ence should  contact  and  register  with 
the  university  site  in  their  area. 

University  of  Arkansas  at  Little  Rock 

Contact:  James  E.  Nickels 

33rd  and  University 

Little  Rock,  Arkansas  72204 

(501)  371-5406 

University  of  California-Berkeley 

Contact:  Robin  Baker 

2521  Channing  Way 
Berkeley,  California  94720 
(415)642-0320 

University  of  California-Los  Angeles 
Contact:  Marianne  Brown 

lOOl  Gayley 

Los  Angeles,  California  90024 

(213)  825-9603 


University  of  Connecticut 
Contact:  Saul  Nesselroth 

U-13,  Room  204 

One  Biship  Circle 

Storrs,  Connecticut  06268 

(203)  486-3417 

University  of  the  District  of  Columbia 

Contact:  Edgar  Lee 

1321  H  Street,  NW,  Mezzanine 
Washington,  DC  20005 

(202)  727-2326 

University  of  Illinois 
Contact:  Helen  Elkiss 

Rice  Building,  Suite  214 

815  West  Van  Buren 

Chicago,  Illinois  60607 

(312)996-2623 

Indiana  University 
Contact:  Michael  Parsons 

Owen  Hall  101 

Bloomington,  Indiana  47405 

(812)  335-9082 

Dundalk  Community  College 

Contact:  Everett  G.  Miller 

7200  Sellers  Point  Road 
Dundalk,  Maryland  21222 
(301)  522-5785 


Michigan  State  University 

Contact:  Neil  VandeVord/Scott  Tobey 
432  South  Kedzie  Hall 
East  Lansing,  Michigan  48824 
(517)  355-5070 

University  of  Minnesota 
Contact:  Larry  Casey 

437  Management  &  Economics 
Building 

271  19th  Avenue  South 

Minneapolis,  Minnesota  55455 

(612)  624-5020 

University  of  Missouri 

Contact:  George  Boyle 

Room  417  Lewis  Hall 

Columbia,  Missouri  65211 

(314)  882-8358;  882-8359;  882-4074 

University  of  Nebraska  at  Omaha 

Contact:  John  Kretzschmar 

Peter  Kiewit  Conference  Center 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68182 
(402)  554-8340 

Cornell  University 

Contact:  Mary  Lehman 

ILR  Conference  Center 
Ithaca,  New  York  14853 
(607)  255-1507 

Ohio  State  University 
Contact:  Brenda  Cochrane 

1810  College  Road 

Columbus,  Ohio  43210 

(614)  422-8157 

Indiana  University  of  Pennsylvania 

Contact:  Martin  Morand 

413  John  Sutton  Hall-IUP 
Indiana,  Pennsylvania  15705 
(412)  357-2645 

West  Virginia  University 
Contact:  Paul  Becker 

710  Knapp  Hall 

Morgantown,  West  Virginia  26506 

(304)  293-3323 

The  University  of  Wisconsin 
Contact:  John  Lund 

422  Lowell  Hall 

610  Langdon  Street 

Madison,  Wisconsin  53703 

(608)262-2111 


Massachusetts,  Missouri  Take  Note 


Pilot  Audit  for  Injury,  Illness  Records 


A  pilot  audit  of  employee  injury  and 
illness  records  at  a  randomly  selected 
sample  of  200  manufacturing  firms  in 
Massachusetts  and  Missouri  began  in 
January.  Designed  by  the  Bureau  of  La- 
bor Statistics,  the  program  is  being  car- 
ried out  by  OSHA  inspectors,  who  plan 
to  complete  the  inspections  within  six 
months. 

OSHA  says  the  goal  of  the  pilot  study 
is  to  serve  as  a  foundation  for  a  larger, 
long-term  project  to  assist  BLS  and  OSHA 
in  assessing  the  accuracy  and  compre- 
hensiveness of  establishments'  injury  and 
illness  records,  and  to  eventually  im- 
prove such  records.  Eight  OSHA  com- 
pliance officers  in  the  two  states  have 
received  additional  training  from  BLS 
and   will  conduct  inspections  at  firms 


selected  by  the  bureau,  according  to 
Joanne  L.  Goodell,  manager  of  the  proj- 
ect at  OSHA.  BLS  will  then  evaluate  the 
data  and  complete  its  assessment  "within 
several  months"  after  OSHA  finishes  its 
work,  Goodell  says. 

Compliance  officers  will  "recon- 
struct" a  log  of  work-related  injuries  and 
illnesses  and  compare  the  reconstruction 
with  the  employer's  log  to  assess  com- 
patibility. Also,  employers  and  employ- 
ees responsible  for  recordkeeping  will  be 
interviewed  to  determine  their  under- 
standing of  agency  requirements.  A  sep- 
arate random  sample  of  other  employees, 
as  well  as  their  representatives,  will  be 
interviewed  to  determine  if  injuries  or 
illnesses  were  not  recorded. 


24 


CARPENTER 


At  least  once  a  month,  especially 
during  the  home  heating  season,  con- 
sumers should  test  their  smoke  detec- 
tors and  replace  batteries  if  needed, 
according  to  the  U.S.  Consumer  Prod- 
uct Safety  Commission.  Owner  neglect 
of  testing  and  battery  replacement  has 
been  a  cause  of  smoke  detector  failure, 
often  resulting  in  tragedy. 

Every  year  in  the  United  States, 
approximately  5,000  people  are  killed 
by  residential  fires.  Most  fire  victims 
die  from  inhalation  of  smoke  and  toxic 
gases,  not  as  a  result  of  burns.  Most 
deaths  and  injuries  occur  in  fires  that 
happen  at  night  while  the  victims  are 
asleep. 

Properly  installed  and  maintained, 
the  home  smoke  detector  is  considered 
one  of  the  best  and  least  expensive 
means  of  providing  an  early  warning 
when  a  fire  begins,  before  the  concen- 


PLACE  ONE 
DETECTOR  ON 
EVERY  FLOOR 


MULTI- 
STORY 


SMOKE 
DETECTOR 


SINGLE  LEVEL 


DR 


LR 


SMOKE 
DETECTOR 


BR 


BR 


BR 


Make  sure  detectors  are  placed  either  on 
the  ceiling  or  6-12  inches  below  the  ceiling 
on  the  wall.  Locate  smoke  detectors  away 
from  air  vents  or  registers:  high  airflow  or 
"dead"  spots  are  to  be  avoided. 


Test  Smoke  Detectors; 
They  Save  Lives 


tration  of  smoke  reaches  a  dangerous 
level,  or  before  the  fire  becomes  too 
intense.  There  is  no  doubt  about  it — 
smoke  detectors  save  lives,  prevent 
injuries,  and  minimize  property  damage 
by  enabling  residents  to  detect  fires 
early  in  their  development.  The  risk  of 
dying  from  fires  in  homes  where  detec- 
tors are  not  installed  is  twice  as  high 
as  in  homes  that  have  functioning  de- 
tectors. 

Smoke  detectors  should  be  tested 
monthly  to  make  sure  they  are  operating 
properly.  Test  the  smoke  detector  and 
replace  batteries  according  to  the  man- 
ufacturer's instructions.  Fresh  batteries 
should  last  approximately  one  year.  If 
your  battery-powered  detector  begins 
to  emit  its  low-power  warning,  remove 
the  weak  battery  and  replace  it  imme- 
diately with  a  fresh  one. 

If  you  are  bothered  by  "nuisance" 
alarms,  don't  disable  your  smoke  de- 
tector— you  could  be  sorry.  Consider 
relocating  your  detector.  Smoke  from 
the  kitchen  may  cause  the  detector  to 
alarm.  Emissions  from  a  space  heater 
or  fireplace  may  set  off  the  detector. 
You  may  wish  to  try  a  different  type  of 
smoke  detector. 

At  least  one  smoke  detector  should 
properly  be  placed  on  every  floor  of  the 
home.  The  most  important  location  is 
in  the  bedroom  area. 


CPSC  also  urges  that  consumers  de- 
velop and  rehearse  an  escape  plan  so 
when  the  smoke  detector  sounds,  fam- 
ily members  will  react  appropriately. 

Smoke  detectors  don't  need  much 
attention,  except  for  regular  testing  and 
prompt  replacement  of  weak  batteries. 
But,  neglect  these  few  requirements  and 
your  detector  won't  do  its  job  if  a  fire 
starts. 


TEST  YOUR 

DETECTOR 

MONTHLY 


Follow  manufacturer's  directions  for  test- 
ing the  detector. 


Foresight:  The  Favored  Firefighter 


Is  there  a  fire  in  your  house  just  waiting 
to  happen?  Experts  estimate  that  just  in  the 
United  States,  a  house  catches  fire  every 
minute. 

Taking  the  time  to  make  sure  your  home 
isn't  going  to  be  the  next  one  isn't  an  idle 
precaution.  According  to  the  American  Red 
Cross ,  "  Fires ,  burns ,  and  other  emergencies 
produced  by  fire  are  the  third  leading  cause 
of  accidental  death  .  .  .  Some  four  out  of 
five  deaths  due  to  fire  occur  in  the  home." 

Faulty  electrical  equipment  and  wiring 
have  sparked  many  a  fire.  Consider  a  blown 
fuse  or  a  tripped  circuit  breaker  a  warning 
of  possible  trouble.  If  the  wiring  in  your 
home  is  old,  have  it  checked  by  a  profes- 
sional. Also,  extension  cords  that  go  under 
rugs  or  around  door  jams  may  gradually 
have  the  insulation  worn  away,  leaving  hot 
wires  dangerously  exposed. 

Flammable  liquids  present  a  host  of  dan- 
gers. Fumes  from  gasoline,  oil,  paint  thinner 
and  other  flammable  fluids  are  often  ex- 


tremely combustible  and  can  travel  consid- 
erable distances.  It  is  best  to  use  and  store 
flammable  fluids  outside.  Keep  them  in  the 
type  of  sturdy  containers  which  are  made 
especially  for  such  storage.  Rags  that  have 
been  used  with  flammables  have  been  known 
to  ignite  spontaneously.  Dispose  of  such 
items  in  tightly  sealed  containers. 

Everyone  knows  you're  not  supposed  to 
smoke  in  bed,  yet  both  smokers  and  their 
families  continue  to  die  horribly  when  a 
cigarette  accidentally  starts  a  bed  on  fire. 
Don't  think  this  warning  is  just  for  some 
stupid  guy  down  the  street.  If  you  smoke, 
it's  for  you. 

Some  other  potential  fire  hazards  include 
piles  of  old  rubbish  or  newspapers,  barbe- 
cues, aerosol  sprays,  stoves,  hot  water  heat- 
ers, fireplaces,  household  heating  systems, 
and  even  hobby  equipment  and  materials. 
When  you  use  any  of  these  things,  keep  in 
mind  their  potential  dangers.  Take  precau- 
tions to  keep  your  family  firesafe. 


APRIL     1987 


25 


GOSSIP 


SEND  YOUR  FAVORITES  TO. 

PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


NICE  TRY 

An  81  -year-old  woman  who  prided 
herself  on  not  looking  her  age  vis- 
ited a  drugstore  on  a  hot  summer 
day,  and  commented  to  the  clerk, 
"Going  to  be  97  today." 

The  clerk  reached  across  the 
counter,  shook  her  hand  and  re- 
plied, "Happy  birthday." 


SUPPORT  'TURNAROUND' 


LAZY  LOAD 

A  building  contractor  hired  three 
fellows  to  carry  material  to  the  third 
floor.  Two  of  the  fellows  set  off, 
each  carrying  two  2  x  4s.  The  third, 
following  behind,  carried  only  one 
2x4. 

The  foreman  watched  this,  came 
over  to  the  third  fellow,  and  asked 
"How  come  these  two  each  carry 
two  2  X  4s  and  you  carry  only  one?" 

"Ho!"  said  the  fellow.  "They're 
just  too  lazy  to  walk  up  there  twice! " 

— Jack  Weitzman 
Local  721 
Los  Angeles,  Calif. 


CONDOLENCES 

One  fine  summer  day  a  big  sedan 
sporting  Texas  plates  pulled  up  in 
front  of  a  fine  ol'  Maine  farm  a  way 
back  from  nowhere. 

"Glad  to  meet  you,"  said  the 
Texan,  spotting  the  owner  sidling 
towards  him.  "Nice  place  you  got 
here.  How  many  acres  is  it?" 

"Bout  two  hundred,"  came  the 
crisp  reply. 

"Where  I  come  from  that's  a  pid- 
dlin'  size,"  remarked  the  Texan. 
"Why,  I  can  drive  for  most  of  the 
morning  before  I  even  get  to  the 
corner  of  my  ranch." 

"Ayeh,"  the  Down  Easter  com- 
miserated, "I  had  a  car  like  that 
once  but  I  got  rid  of  it." 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 

ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 


VITAL  STATISTICS 

The  new  copilot  called  the  tower 
for  landing  instructions.  "Give  us 
your  height  and  position,"  said  the 
tower.  "I'm  5'10"  and  I'm  sitting  in 
the  right  seat." 

BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 

SEA  SMARTS 

What  did  one  fish  say  to  the  other 
fish? 

Shut  your  mouth  and  you  won't 
get  caught. 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

There  once  was  a  cowboy  named 

Pat 
By  mistake,  on  a  cactus  he  sat. 
No  help  could  he  find 
He's  in  quite  a  bind. 
He's  still  pulling  prickers  out  yet! 

— Gerry  Moorman 
Local  1615 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 


MEAN  OL'  WOMAN! 


The  foreman  told  the  psychiatrist: 
"Doc,  we  gotta  do  something  for 
my  wife.  She's  completely  imma- 
ture!" 

"That's  too  bad,"  replied  the 
headshrinker.  "How  does  this  con- 
dition manifest  itself?" 

"Sometimes  she  gets  violent,  doc. 
Just  last  night  I  was  taking  a  bafh 
and  she  stormed  in  and  sank  every 
damn  one  of  my  boats!" 

USE  UNION  SERVICES 

HOOKED 

A  family  sat  down  to  dinner  with 
a  guest  at  the  table.  The  young  son 
said,  "Mother,  isn't  this  roast  beef?" 

"Yes,  what  of  it?" 

"Well,  Daddy  said  he  was  bring- 
ing a  big  fish  home  tonight." 

ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 

WHOSE  CASE? 

"Say,"  said  the  stranger,  "I  need 
help.  Do  you  have  a  criminal  lawyer 
in  this  town?" 

Native:  "Well,  we're  pretty  sure 
we  have,  but  we  can't  prove  it." 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 

BOYCOTT  L-P  PRODUCTS 

ON  ACCOUNT 

A  pretty  little  girl  of  seven  entered 
a  store  in  a  small  town  and  said: 

"I  want  some  cloth  to  make  my 
dolly  a  dress." 

The  merchant  selected  a  rem- 
nant and  handed  the  child  the 
package. 

"How  much  is  it?"  she  asked. 

"Just  one  kiss,"  was  the  reply. 

"All  right,"  said  the  child,  as  she 
turned  to  go.  "Grandma  said  to  tell 
you  she  would  pay  you  when  she 
came  in  tomorrow." 


26 


CARPENTER 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Retiree  Directs 
Harmonica  Club 


New  Jersey  Club  55  Holds  Annual  Party 


Retiree  Don  Delin  and  the  Wynmoor  Vil- 
lage Harmonica  Club  are  music  to  the  ears 
of  various  charitable  organizations  in  the 
Boca  Raton,  Fla. ,  area.  The  52-member  club, 
formed  by  Delin,  a  retired  carpenter  from 
Local  608,  New  York,  N.Y.,  meets  twice  a 
week  to  play  under  their  director  and  makes 
bimonthly  visits  to  a  home  for  children  with 
cerebral  palsy. 

Orchestrating  this  sort  of  activity  is  what 
keeps  the  76-year-old  young  at  heart.  Delin 
has  been  playing  the  harmonica  for  over  50 
years,  including  a  time  with  the  original  troup 
of  Borrah  Minevitch's  Harmonica  Rascals 
in  the  1920s. 

Since  retiring  from  carpentry  and  moving 
to  Florida  nine  years  ago,  Delin  has  contin- 
ued to  charm  friends,  family,  and  other 
audiences  with  his  tunes.  He's  been  featured 
on  the  cover  of  Harmonica  World  Interna- 
tional, was  recently  featured  on  the  program 
of  the  Boca  Raton  Symphonic  Pops,  and  the 
Wynmoor  Village  Club  has  an  active  agenda 
of  performances. 


Retirees  form 
New  Ohio  Club 


Another  new  retirees  club  has  signed  on 
the  UBC  bandwagon  recently.  This  one. 
Club  No.  66,  is  in  the  Portsmouth,  Ohio, 
area  and  boasts  27  charter-signing  members. 
Their  president  is  Harry  R.  James,  P.O.  Box 
456,  Portsmouth,  Ohio  45662. 


Retirees  Club  55  of  Local  31,  Trenton,  N.J.,  gathered  for  a  group  picture  before  their 
annual  Christinas  party  at  the  union  hall.  Not  all  of  the  club's  42  members  were  able  to 
attend  the  festivities,  but  a  fine  time  was  enjoyed  by  those  who  did. 

Club  14's  Good  Times  in  Detroit 


The  membership  of  Retirees  Club  14,  Detroit,  Mich.,  enjoyed  the  food,  drink,  and 
company  at  their  annual  holiday  party.  The  get-together  included  a  gift  exchange  as 
well.  All  retired  tradesmen  affiliated  with  the  Detroit  Carpenters  District  Council  are 
welcomed  to  come  and  join  the  festivities  at  one  of  the  club's  meetings. 


Club  40  Installs 
New  Officers 

At  a  regular  meeting  earlier  this  year,  the 
members  of  Retire.es  Club  40,  Chicago 
Heights,  111.,  installed  their  new  officers. 
William  Cook,  executive  vice  president  of 
the  Chicago  and  Northeast  District  Council 
of  Carpenters,  acted  as  the  installing  officer 
for  Roy  Farmer,  president;  Kay  Bekeza, 
vice  president;  Adele  Shampine,  secretary; 
James  Adams,  treasurer;  Robert  Sweeten, 
trustee;  Frank  Shampine;  trustee;  and  Steve 
Franczek,  trustee. 

Following  the  installation  ceremony,  the 
retirees  and  their  guests  Tom  Hasse,  Local 
272,  Chicago  Heights,  111.,  business  repre- 
sentative, and  Dennis  Farmer,  Local  272 
financial  secretary,  enjoyed  a  delicious  pot 
luck  luncheon. 


Club  57  Charter 


At  a  recent  gathering  of  Local  845.  Drexel 
Hall,  Pa..  Retirees  Club  57  was  presented 
its  charter.  Pictured  above,  from  left,  are 
Edward  Kammerer.  club  president;  John 
Vandergast,  vice  president:  Michael  Kes- 
sler,  recording  secretaiy;  Frank  Smith,  lo- 
cal president:  and  Larry  Dunn,  local  treas- 
urer. 


New  Officers  For  California  Club 

New  officers  in- 
stalled for  UBC  Reti- 
rees Club  3,  Visalia, 
Calif,  from  left,  are 
Orvil  Buckmaster, 
president:  James 
Ward,  vice  president: 
Carroll  Brokow,  fi- 
nancial secretaiy: 
Open  Buckmaster, 
recording  secretary: 
Woodrow  Zackery, 

warden:  and  Trustees  Busier  Parker,  Arlie  Crase,  and  Gtenard  Bruce:  with  special  guest 
Charles  E.  Nichols,  general  treasurer  emeritus.  The  club  prides  itself  on  being  very 
active  in  civil  affairs  and  promoting  unions  in  the  community . 


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The  United  Brotherhood  has  joined 
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mark study  of  older  workers  in  the 
North  American  labor  movement  and 
their  special  needs  upon  retirement. 

The  study  is  being  coordinated  by  a 
new  organization,  the  National  Institute 
for  Work  and  Learning,  and  the  project 
is  assisted  by  an  advisory  group  com- 
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retirees;  their  participation  in  retiree 
clubs  and  activities;  the  extent  of  their 
use  of  union  and  community  services; 
their  need  for  additional  services:  and 
their  attitudes  on  retirement  and  other 
issues. 

The  second  component  is  an  exami- 
nation of  current  union  retirement  and 
pre-retirement  programs  and  services 
through  a  survey  of  a  sample  of  the 
affiliates  of  the  15  participating  unions. 
NIWL  will  collect  information  on  the 
retirement  programs  offered  by  the  lo- 
cals, including:  program  goals  and  ob- 
jectives; materials,  services,  and  activ- 
ities; numbers  of  participants;  and 
linkages  to  other  community  resources 
for  retirees.  Case  studies  of  five  com- 
munities will  be  conducted  to  obtain 
more  detailed  knowledge  about  the  op- 
eration of  retirement  programs  and 
services,  to  identify  common  elements 
and  innovative  approaches  in  retire- 
ment programs,  and  to  be  able  to  make 
recommendations  for  improving  exist- 
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The  project  findings  will  be  relevant 
to  the  needs  of  a  wide  variety  of  con- 
cerned groups,  including  the  AFL-CIO, 
national  and  international  unions,  local 
union  affiliates,  the  National  Council  of 
Senior  Citizens ,  providers  of  retirement 
and  pre-retirement  programs  and  serv- 
ices, policy-makers,  retiree  groups,  and 
program  developers. 

Participating  unions  include;  Amal- 
gamated Clothing  and  Textile  Workers 
Union;  American  Federation  of  State, 
County  and  Municipal  Employees; 
Bakery,  Confectionery  and  Tobacco 
Workers  International  Union;  Com- 
munications Workers  of  America;  In- 
ternational Association  of  Machinists; 
International  Brotherhood  of  Electrical 
Workers;  International  Longshore- 
men's Association;  International  Union 
of  Bricklayers  and  Allied  Craftsmen; 
International  Union  of  Electronic, 
Electrical,  Technical,  Salaried,  and  Ma- 
chine Workers;  International  Union  of 
Operating  Engineers;  Service  Employ- 
ees International  Union;  United  Auto- 
mobile Workers;  United  Brotherhood 
of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America; 
United  Food  and  Commercial  Workers 
International  Union;  and  the  United 
Steelworkers  of  America. 

The  20-month  project  began  Oct.  2, 
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Ivan  Charner,  Project  Director,  Na- 
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28 


CARPENTER 


Ode  to  the 
Hole  in  the  Road 


The  smoothly  paved  road  touched  our  lane. 
Oaks  and  maples  stood  in  the  sun  and  rain 
And  watched  over  the  road  under  the  Hoosier 

sky. 
The  cars  and  trucks  passed  safely  by. 

Where  did  it  come  from?  We  really  don't 

know. 
A  tiny  crack  in  the  road  that  wasn't  there  so 

long  ago. 
Then  came  the  first  winter  with  it's  freezing 

snow. 
When  spring  cleared  the  road,  there  was  the 

hole. 
No  need  to  worry,  they  would  fix  it  right  away. 
But  the  weeks  went  by  and  the  hole  grew 

each  day. 
We  called  for  repairs  and  heard  the  man  say, 
"We'll  be- out  tomorrow.  Why — Maybe  yet 

today." 

The  hole  became  deep  and  wide. 
It  breached  the  road  from  side  to  side. 
Shrieking  brakes  and  crashes  all  night  long 
Sent  bumpers  and  hub  caps  to  litter  our  lawn. 

It  had  filled  with  water  when  the  next  spring 

rolled  around. 
It  began  to  grow  by  metes  and  bounds. 
"No  money  for  repairs,"  the  highway  man 

said. 
A  new  sign  appeared,  "Danger — Rough 

Pavement  Ahead." 

One  morning  I  couldn't  see  the  other  shore. 
I  didn't  think  it  could  grow  anymore. 
That  was  the  year  the  first  boat  sailed  by. 
Where  had  my  road  gone?  I  wanted  to  cry. 

A  man  from  the  Capital  rowed  ashore  and 

said  with  a  frown, 
Pointing  to  the  hub  caps  and  wrecks  there  in 

a  mound. 
"Look  my  friend,  here  is  the  truth  of  it, 
You  can't  have  a  salvage  yard  without  a 

permit." 

We  cleaned  up  the  mess  and  had  it  shipped 

away. 
I  called  for  repairs  again  that  day. 
"You're  at  the  top  of  the  list,"  I  heard  him  say, 
"We'll  be  out  tomorrow.  Why — maybe  yet 

today." 

The  fourth  and  fifth  summers  were  much  the 

same. 
The  lake  now  covered  most  of  the  lawn  and 

the  lane. 


Campers  and  fishermen  would  knock  at  the 

door. 
And  ask  to  use  our  bathroom  or  phone  once 

more. 

I  built  a  pier  where  our  mailbox  once  stood, 

And  bought  a  ferry  boat  made  of  wood. 

If  I  couldn't  get  the  road  fixed,  then  I'd  make 

a  buck. 
I  went  into  business  hauling  cars  and  trucks. 

My  ferry  boat  business  came  to  a  halt. 
The  state  man  said  I  was  at  fault. 
■I  had  no  Captain's  license  nor  ferry  permit. 
The  OSHA  man  said  my  boat  was  not  fit. 

The  ducks  and  geese  paused  in  their 

southern  flight. 
They  came  by  hundreds  at  dusk  and  stayed 

all  night. 
A  new  sign  appeared  and  I  was  quite  wary, 
When  I  read  our  lawn  was  a  bird  sanctuary. 

I  miss  our  road,  I  surely  do. 

I'll  stay  right  here  and  see  it  through. 

Why  the  highway  man  told  me  just  the  other 

day, 
"We'll  be  out  tomorrow  sure;  Maybe — yet 

today." 

My  wife  ran  away  the  other  night. 

With  a  sailor  on  a  sailboat,  that  sailed  out  of 

sight. 
The  kids  are  staying  at  my  mother's  home. 
The  dog  and  I  are  still  here,  all  alone. 

I  don't  leave  the  house  at  night  anymore. 
There  are  strange  things  out  there  just  off  the 

shore. 
They  scream  and  fight  and  thrash  around  out 

there. 
They're  big  and  dark  and  covered  with  hair. 

I'll  not  give  up,  for  I  have  a  plan. 

I'll  get  the  road  fixed  and  get  back  the  land. 

I'll  secede  from  the  Union,  declare  myself  a 

nation. 
Then  its  war  and  a  fight  for  the  duration. 

That  is  my  plan  and  that  is  what  I'll  do. 
I'll  dig  a  fox  hole  and  see  it  through. 
I'm  going  to  lose  the  war,  I'm  afraid. 
But  I'll  fix  the  hole  with  reconstruction  aid. 


—R.H.  Williams,  author  of  this  poem,  is  a  member 
of  Local  1016,  Muncie,  Ind. 


APRIL     1987 


29 


Service 

Tbe 
Brotherhoed 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood  who   recently   received   pins  for  years  of  service  in  the   union. 


BELLiNGHAM,  WASH. 

Local  756  recently  held  two  "get-togethers" 

to  honor  longtime  members  of  the 

Brotherhood. 
Picture  No.  1  shows  H.E.  "Bud"  Haggen, 

honored  at  a  dinner  and  dance  commemorating 

his  retirement  from  a  trustee's  position  with  the 
local.  Haggen  has 
served  as  an  officer 
with  the  local  since  July 
1948.  With  Haggen, 
left,  is  Emil  Olsen, 
honored  for  66  years  of 
membership  In  the 
Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  2  shows 
Maynard  Johnson,  left, 
honored  for  50-years  of 

membership  in  the  UBC. 


Belllngham,  Wash.— Picture  No.  1 


Hinsdale,  III.— Picture  No.  1 

HINSDALE,  ILL. 

At  Millwright  Local  1693's  annual  pin 
presentation,  members  with  25  and  50  years  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  received  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Ernest  Musiiek;  Thomas  Rush 
Jr.;  W.  Bud  Hioe,  business  manager;  William 
Cook,  Chicago  and  Northeast  Illinois  District 
Council  executive  vice  president;  William 
Dunlop;  James  Blake;  Kenneth  Hegyi;  Dick 
BIyton. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  SO-year  member 
Michael  Sedwick  receiving  a  plaque  from  Earl 
Oliver,  president  and  business  representative  of 
Local  1693. 


Augusta,  Ga.— Picture  No  3 


Hinsdale, 


-Picture  No.  2 


Augusta,  Ga. — Picture  No.  4 

AUGUSTA,  GA. 

Local  283  recently  awarded  pins  to  members 
with  20  to  45  years  of  service  to  the 
organization. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  Tom  Overstreet  and  Willard  Watson. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  Rufus  Culbreath,  Henry  O'Neal,  Vernon 
Rachels,  and  Ira  Hendrix. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  W.G.  Fox,  Ernest  C.  Mundy,  and  J.  Harold 
Dye. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  45-year  members, 
seated,  from  left:  W.A.  McAlhany  and  Woodrow 
W.  Toole. 

Back  row,  from  left:  W.L.  Stevens,  G.L. 
Matthews,  and  Ralph  L.  Waters  Sr. 

Receiving  pins  but  not  pictured  were  20-year 
member  Donald  Parker;  25-year  member 
Manis  T.  Davis;  35-year  members  Harold  E. 
Craig,  Calvin  Chance,  Henry  Deese,  Dennis 
Funderburk,  Ansel  Hand,  John  W.  Logue,  John 
T.  Mathls,  J.C.  Mllburn,  Larry  Q.  Posey,  Carl 
D.  Rabun,  John  0.  Sheppard,  Raymond 
Snipes,  W.T.  Taylor,  and  W.G.  Wellmaker;  40- 
year  members  Johnnie  H.  Freeland,  Grover 
Hammond,  R.H.  Partridge,  Marlon  L.  Reid,  and 
Durward  Wright;  and  45-year  members  Edward 
Bruggeman,  L.T.  Daniels  Jr.,  Albert  Denard, 
J.B.  Kendrick,  Arlington  Milford,  J.R.  Smith, 
and  W.L.  Templeton. 


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CARPENTER 


FORT  LAUDERDALE,  FLA. 

Local  123  recently  awarded  service  pins  to 
those  with  many  years  of  dedicated  service  to 
the  United  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows 
60-year  member  Oscar 
Lembit. 

Picture  No.  2  shows 
50-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Steward 
Clemenger,  Carl  Ourso, 
Sture  Gustavson, 
Ernest  Weaver, 
Clarence  Whitehead, 
and  Peter  Nordin. 


Picture  No.  1 


Back  row,  from  left:  Business  Representative 
Carl  Mayes,  Representative  Walter  Darnell,  and 
Business  Representative  Eugene  Perodeau. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Clarence  Allen,  Joseph 
Castiglione,  Ludwig  Ploski,  Eugene  Radcliffe, 
Edgar  Sirois,  and  Reese  Strother. 


Back  row,  from  left:  Business  Representative 
Mayes,  Representative  Darnell,  and  Business 
Representative  Perodeau. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Carlton  Bush,  Howard  Coulter, 
Joseph  Dolvin,  John  Evers,  Roy  Fetzer,  and 
Rudolph  Fuller. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Harold  G.  Ramey,  R,D. 
Griffin,  B.R.  Russell,  Roy  M.  Helton,  Arthur  E. 
Higbie,  Emil  J.  Serio,  Raymond  Janicki,  Francis 
Spinnenweber,  Harold  F.  McCartha,  Daniel  W. 
McCall,  and  Willy  Pruetz. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Clifford  Adams,  Horace  Brown, 
Robert  Allen,  Vincent  Bryan,  William  Buckley, 
and  Oliver  Cochran. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Harry  Devlin,  Donald 
Feagan,  Matthew  Gassner,  Stewart  Hensley, 
John  Home,  A.H.  Leatherwood  Jr.,  and  Evert 
Miller. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Arnold  Moss,  Robert 
Wolff,  Arthur  Rode,  Edward  Waitinas,  Bernard 
Roy,  Marion  Walden,  William  Racavich,  and 


Charles  Strain. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  John  Bales,  Astor  Borge,  Jasper 
Brown,  Robert  Bryan,  William  OeBarry,  and 
Warren  Byard. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Fred  Haberstich,  Leslie 
J.  Harrington,  George  Howes,  Paul  Luge,  Buck 
Lyons,  and  George  Matis. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Angelo  J.  Piciullo, 
James  Price,  Ray  Stokes,  Harrold  Stranahan, 
Luther  Symonette,  and  William  Orton. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  John  lannella,  Frank  Kotula, 
James  McLean,  Walter  Toloczko,  Edward 
Richardson,  and  Jose  Timoteo. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Business 
Representative  Mayes,  Representative  Darnell, 
James  Short,  Donald  Frantello,  Bruce 
Etheredge,  Ken  Maierhofer,  Cyril  Pinder,  Eddie 
West,  and  Business  Representative  Perodeau. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Goldie  Simmons,  Carl 
Augustin,  Bobby  Carroll,  Robert  Volk,  Rubin 
Patterson,  Willard  Rokos,  and  Carey  Norwood. 


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Elizabeth,  N.J.— Picture  No.  2 
ELIZABETH,  N.J. 

At  Local  715's  annual  service  pin  awards  night,  members  with  25, 
35,  and  40  years  of  continuous  service  were  awarded  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  40-year  members,  from  left:  James  Sarama, 
Jim  Bridgman,  Ralph  Karvetsky  Sr.,  Ole  Skjoldal,  Lou  Strohmeyer, 
George  Danko,  and  Robert  Stephens,  in  rear,  with  Frank  Chirichello  in 
front. 

Picture  No.  2  shows,  from  left:  John  A.  Williams,  business 
representative;  Louis  Rotunno,  25  years;  Bradley  Burns,  25  years; 
Henry  Hill,  25  years;  Henry  Mesgleski,  35  years;  Pete  Caravano,  35 
years;  Kenneth  Thum,  35  years;  George  Pagano,  35  years;  and  John 
Vella,  president. 


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Oakland,  Calif.— Picture  No.  2 


OAKLAND,  CALIF. 

Millwriglits  Local  102  recently  iield  a 
luncheon  and  pin  presentation  to  iionor 
members  with  25  to  45  years  of  service, 
included  were  two  charter  members,  Luther 
Shocl<ey  and  Ed  Hedlund,  who  received 
combination  portable  radio/TV  and  cassette 
recorders  in  special  recognition.  Approximately 
225  members  and  spouses  were  in  attendance. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  charter  members  Ed 
Hedlund,  left,  and  Luther  Shockey. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Ed  Hedlund,  Sam  Beavers,  and  Luther 
Shockey. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Arthur  Yandell,  Cecil  Dell,  Art 
Talburt,  Bill  Rickard,  and  Manuel  Gomes. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  William  Hill,  John 
Presler,  Gen  Hollibaugh,  Charles  Nelsson,  and 
John  Miller. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Ray  Sprague,  Wilbur 
Hiebe,  Leiand  Wolford,  Paul  Woofter,  Ken 
Parker,  Jim  Clarke,  and  Al  Walhood. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Elmer  Wiesenborn,  Ray  Stevens, 
Norman  Scott,  Joe  Allen,  and  John  Napier. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Jesse  Sivyer,  and 
Lloyd  Luras. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Harold  Toms,  Charles 
Florness,  Dewey  House,  Chalmer  Raymer, 
Merle  Wray,  Verne  Hearold,  and  Bruce  Brown. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Paul  Phillips,  Norman  Kleckner, 
Orville  Zierman,  Charles  Sossamon,  Bob 
Brown,  and  Jim  Area. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  William  Billa  and  Paul 
Arnerich. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Fred  Rockwell,  Marvin 
Gallego,  George  Hill,  Ora  Graham,  Mario 
Cavallero,  and  Bill  Evans. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Wesley  Meek,  Don  Thompson, 
Andrew  Smith,  Oswald  Drews,  Herman  Kuster, 
and  Jerry  Harelson. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  John  Liptrot,  Mark 
Knox,  Arthur  Leaf,  Al  Priebe,  Pal  Littleton,  and 
Howard  Douglas. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Rudy  Jovanovich,  Roy 
Station  Jr.,  George  Gremich,  Bill  Cole,  Audie 
Carroll,  Bill  Hunziker,  Jim  Meek,  and  Bob  Saric. 


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San  Francisco,  Calif. — Picture  No.  1 


San  Francisco,  Calif. — Picture  No.  2 


TAMPA,  FLA. 

Millwrights  and  Mactiinery  Erectors  Local 
1000  recently  awarded  pins  to  members  with 
20  to  45  years  of  service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Pictured,  front  row,  from  left:  T.IVI.  Loomis, 
20  years;  C.C.  Peterson,  20  years;  J.H.  Dale, 
20  years;  A. A.  Alfonso,  35  years;  W.  Atkins,  40 
years;  R.E.  Watson,  20  years;  B.L.  Grubaugh, 
40  years;  and  M.T.  IVIartin,  45  years. 

Back  row,  from  left:  R.W.  Young,  20  years; 
E.G.  Mannschreck,  30  years;  B.  Johnson,  25 
years;  H.E.  Parker,  25  years;  E.  Killebrew,  25 
years;  and  S.E.  Hart,  40  years. 


San  Francisco,  Calif.— Picture  No, 


SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIF. 

Local  483  recently  awarded  pins  to  members 
with  25  to  50  years  of  service  to  the 
Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left;  Donald  Murphy,  Michael  Bem, 
Pier  Sciaroni,  and  Lloyd  Paff. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Bill  Wise  and  Thomas 


Bazley. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Melvin  Porfue  and  Tim 
Regan. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Arthur  Gerstenkorn  and  Wilfred 
Cormier. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Clement  Pretty,  Bosko 
Bosnic,  Fred  Braito,  and  Patrick  Murphy. 

Picture  No.  3.  shows  35-vear  members. 


San  Francisco,  Calif. — Picture  No.  5 


front  row,  from  left:  James  J.  Veitch,  Peter 
Amoroso,  and  Russ  Pool. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  William  Perry  and 
Joseph  Razon. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Joseph  Yrigoyen, 
William  Behnken,  Anthony  Riddell,  Charles 
Cipponeri,  and  Rufus  Arrington. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Rufus  Brinkley,  Angel  Garcia, 
Otto  Vogele,  Adolph  Acker,  and  Clyde 
Wortman. 

Second  row,  from  left:  Cecil  Beaton,  Charles 
Banford,  Lawrence  Stoeckle,  Charles  Greene, 
Ivery  Horde,  Ross  Marshall,  Carl  Peterson,  and 
Archie  Fabbri. 

Third  row,  from  left:  Cliff  Christensen  and 
John  Symkowick. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Marshall  Ellis,  Russell 
Gearhart,  James  Bretz,  Harry  McDonald,  Lewis 
Wells,  and  Edgar  Reite. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  William  Amoroso,  Albert  Ruefli, 
and  Patrick  Lee. 

Back  row:  Alexander  Gyorfi. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  50-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Elmer  Rettig,  Steve  Silvestrini, 
Fred  Sunquist,  Kenneth  Fives,  Henry  Derner, 
and  George  Koeff. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Thomas  Hurst,  Charles 
Anderson,  Louis  Foss,  Al  Figone,  and  Al 
Pardini. 


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Harrisburg,  Pa.— Picture  No.  1 


Harrisburg,  Pa.— Picture  No.  2 


Parkersburg,  Va. — Picture  No.  1 


PARKERSBURG,  VA. 

An  awards  luncheon  was  recently  sponsored 
by  Local  184  to  tionor  senior  members.  Pins 
and  certificates  were  issued  to  13  25-year 
members  and  2  50-year  members.  Members 
with  35,  40,  45,  and  over  51  years  of 
continuous  service  were  also  honored. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  honored  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  L.R.  Jeffries,  Severn  D. 
Loder,  Maurice  Lyman,  and  Stanley  Jensen. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Donald  R.  Keathley, 
Morris  L.  Severson,  Gale  Westerman,  Jack 
Westerman,  and  Joseph  E.  Atkinson. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  honored  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  John  Harper,  Evan  V. 
Long,  Lavor  Allen,  and  Wesley  H.  Lesher. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Arthur  Thompson,  Edsel 
Nelson,  P.M.  Pilati,  James  E.  Willden  Jr.,  and 
Lewis  M.  tHepner. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  honored  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  Merrill  Leetham,  Adolph 
Case,  Rudolph  L  Christiansen,  and  Jasper 
Graff. 


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Parkersburg,  Va. — Picture  No.  2 


Parkersburg,  Va.— Picture  No.  3 

Back  row,  from  left;  William  E.  Chaplin  Jr., 
Andrew  Tucker,  Everett  Robertson,  and 
Raymond  A.  Gilley. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  honored  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  Carl  F.  Lange,  Jay  W. 
Dunham,  S.L.  DiBella,  and  Ronald  C.  Fors. 

Back  row,  from  left:  E.  Louis  Heath,  Pat  M. 
Eyre,  Otto  Pinnau,  and  Dee  Slagowski. 


HARRISBURG,  PA. 

At  the  annual  Christmas  meeting  of  Local 
287,  pins  were  presented  to  members  having 
25-50  years  of  continuous  UBC  service.  Robert 
H.  Getz,  past  president,  and  Robert  Loslewicz, 
current  president,  presented  the  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  front  row,  from  left: 
Jay  R.  Stouffer,  40  years;  Eugene  Freet,  45 
years;  Peter  Begani,  45  years;  Miles  Briner,  40 
years;  Herbert  Lenker,  45  years;  Donald 
Requist,  45  years;  J.  Lester  Wirt,  45  years;  and 
Leo  Hackenberger,  45  years. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Thomas  Freet,  45 
years;  Howard  Noss,  40  years;  Verling 
Brightbill,  40  years;  Sylvan  Anderson,  40  years; 
Lester  Lautsbaugh,  45  years;  Rudolph 
Kammler,  40  years;  William  Swearingen,  40 
years;  Gervis  Sponseller,  40  years;  John  E. 
Nell,  40  years;  Leo  Gipe,  45  years;  and  Elmer 
Potteiger,  40  years. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Clayton  Buckwalter,  45 
years;  Robert  D.  Zimmerman,  40  years; 
Richard  V.  Sponseller,  40  years;  Leighton  P. 
Zenge,  50  years;  John  P.  Evitts,  45  years;  Roy 
E.  Noss,  40  years;  Louis  K.  Shaffer,  40  years; 
Richard  R.  Krick,  40  years;  and  Joseph  Via,  40 
years. 

Picture  No.  2  shows,  front  row,  from  left: 
Harold  Black,  34  years;  Robert  M.  Stevens,  25 
years;  Edgar  Beitzel,  45  years;  Charles  B. 
Baker,  45  years;  Paul  Watkins,  35  years; 
Robert  Hanula,  35  years;  and  Loy  S.  Findley, 
30  years. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Walter  A.  Miller,  25 
years;  Harry  B.  Stickler,  35  years;  Paul  Black, 
35  years;  John  Luzik,  35  years;  Paul  G.  Staver, 
35  years;  Donald  Dieffenderfer,  30  years;  Paul 
T.  Lehmer,  35  years;  William  C.  Fickel,  25 
years,  and  Norman  Trump,  25  years. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Ray  Oberlin,  25  years; 
Donald  Hosier,  25  years;  Robert  G.  Lukens,  30 
years;  Eugene  H.  Snyder,  25  years;  Oscar  M. 
Eppley,  35  years;  James  M.  Troutman,  35 
years;  Kenneth  Getz,  30  years;  and  Paul  C. 
Klinger,  35  years. 

Picture  No.  3  shows 
the  highlight  of  the 
evening:  the 
presentation  of  a  50- 
year  pin  to  Leighton 
Zenge,  who  came  all 
the  way  from  Canton, 
Mo.,  to  receive  his  pin. 


Picture  No.  3 


Parkersburg,  Va.— Picture  No.  4 

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Jefferson  City,  Mo.— Picture  No.  1 


Jefferson  City,  Mo, — Picture  No.  3 


Jefferson  City,  Mo.— Picture  No.  2 


JEFFERSON  CITY,  MO. 

IVIembers  of  Local  945  recently  celebrated  the 
local's  85th  anniversary  with  a  dinner  and  a 
presentation  of  service  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Richard  Kroll,  Lawrence  Welder, 
Gerald  Belmar,  Dennis  Zimmerman,  and  Tony 
Jurgensmeyer. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Frank  A.  Puckett, 
Francis  Frank,  Leander  Berendzen,  Hubert 
Bisges,  Ronald  Sapp,  William  Shaefer,  and 
James  Verslues. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Robert  Kliethermes  and  Maurice 
Schulte. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Carl  Trinklein,  Joe 
Lepper,  Hugo  Kremer,  Robert  Wade,  and  J.D. 
Scrivner. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Bernard  Schwartze,  Milo  Burris  Sr.,  Leroy 
Rand,  and  Henry  Balcer. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Rudolph 
Buscher,  Tom  Harmon, 
Eugene  Thompson,  and 
Buel  Vincent. 

Back  row,  from  left: 
Wilburn  Linhardt, 
Vernon  Dalstein, 
Clarence  Lueckenotte, 
Jay  Frost,  and  James 
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Picture  No.  5  shows 
40-year  member  Lee  Mason. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Clyde  Conrad,  Ed  Mertens,  Ed  Frank,  Elmo 
Bret,  Francis  Lindhart,  Ernest  Linhardt,  Earl 
Long,  and  Frank  Schmidt. 

Picture  No.  7  shows,  from  left:  50-year 
members  Henry  Luebbert  and  Clarence 
Schubert. 

Receiving  pins  but  not  pictured  were:  20- 
year  members  Homer  Barnhart,  David  Bax, 
Jake  Berendzen,  Virgil  Borgmeyer,  William  R. 
Braun,  Milo  Burris  Jr.,  Stanley  Cassmeyer, 
Glen  Eads,  Murl  French,  Palmer  Goldammer, 
Don  Henson,  Al  Hentges,  Norbert  Kolb,  Dan 
Linhardt,  Bennie  Morland,  Bazil  Murray,  William 
Popplewell,  Dennis  Schulte,  Donald  Schulte, 
David  VanLoo,  Harold  Wilbers,  and  William 
Wilbers;  25-year  members  John  Albin,  Ray 
Gilliam,  Ed  Knaebel,  Ray  Koenigsfeld,  Charles 
Pearre,  Robert  Schnieders,  Cletus  Schulte,  and 
Henry  Steinman;  30-year  members  Bill  Buster, 
Ed  Engelbrecht,  Richard  Fercho,  Virgil  Moreau, 
Stanley  Rackers,  Clarence  Schepers,  and 
Emmett  Walter;  35-year  members  Charles 
Higgins,  James  Meller,  Preston  Nicholas,  David 
Richter  Jr.,  Truman  Seitz,  Ted  Welder,  and 
Richard  Woods;  40-year  members  George 
Ferguson  Jr.,  Paul  Gallatin,  Robert  McDow, 
and  Ed  Schepker;  45-year  member  Ed  Criger; 
50-year  members  H.C.  Coil,  Louis  Hinderer, 
and  Herbert  Linhardt;  and  55-year  member 
Louis  Burbach. 


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Visalia,  Calif. 


VISALIA,  CALIF. 

At  Local  1109's  Christmas  dinner,  members  with  30,  35,  and  40 
years  of  service  to  the  Brotherhood  received  pins,  presented  by  Charles 
E.  Nichols,  general  treasurer  emeritus. 

Pictured,  front  row,  from  left:  Clyde  Weaver,  40  years;  Lester 
McMahan,  40  years;  Glenard  Bruce,  30  years;  Buster  Parker,  35  years; 
Carroll  Brokow,  40  years;  Woodrow  Zackery,  40  years;  and  Charles  E. 
Nichols,  40  years. 

Back  row,  from  left:  James  Ward,  30  years;  Ervin  Ward,  35  years; 
Carl  Andrews,  40  years;  John  Redman,  40  years;  and  Kenneth  Glentzer, 
40  years. 


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The  following  list  of  577  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1 ,026,594.83  death  claims  paid  in  January  1987;  (s)  following 
name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members. 


Local  Union,  City 


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Chicago,  IL — Irving  R.  Aim. 
Cincinnati,  OH — Charles  Louis  Beverly,  John  N. 
Dhonau. 

Wheeling,  WV — Raymond  Robinson. 
Minneapolis,  MN — Arvid  Hanno. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Howard  L.  Grove. 
Chicago,  IL~-Gunnar  Mortenson. 
Cleveland,  OH — Frieda  Gvozdak  (s),  Louise  GHozzo 
(s). 

Chicago,  IL — Frank  Polloway. 
Hackensack,  NJ — Robert  Goeglein. 
Springfield,  IL — Louis  Henry  Marcy.  William  W. 
Trueblood. 

Bronx,  NY— Nathan  Sacks. 
New  York,  NY— Herbert  Carlson.  Hugo  Forsell. 
San  Francisco,  CA — Robert  Jensen. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Helen  J.  Davenport  (s).  John  A. 
Daley. 

Boston,  MA — John  F.  Cavanaugh,  JohnJ.  Joy.  Mario 
Cuozzo. 

Oakland,  CA — Charles  C.  Cameron,  Icyle  R.  Jones 
(s),  Reuben  E.  Phelan,  William  Peoples  Sr. 
Boston,  MA — Catherine  M.  Beaudoin  (s),  Charles 
G.  Wood.  Joseph  R.  Mastrangelo,  Karl  Pettersson. 
St.  Louis,  MO— Robert  A.  Ruyle. 
Lowell,  MA — Elmer  L.  Talbot. 
Knoxvilte,  TN~Hubert  V.  Simpson.  Wyatt  Atwood. 
Chicago,  IL — Edwin  T.  Inda. 
Chicago,  IL — Carl  Johanson.  William  Huss. 
Indianapolis,  IN — Lloyd  C.  Millikan. 
Kansas  City,  MO— Clifford  F.   Hardesty.  Roy  L. 
Hodgen,  William  P.  Burke. 
Chicago,  IL — Jeff  Bryant.  William  H.  Davidson. 
Perth  Amboy,  NJ — Frank  Dragan,  Marian  H.  Dragan 
(s),  Michael  Semansky,  Patrick  White. 
Boston,  MA — Margaret  C.  Pegurri  (s). 
Chattanooga,  TN— Pleas  E.  Ladd. 
Hazelton,  PA — Dominic  R.  DeStefano. 
Chicago,  IL — Anton  A.  Carlson.  William  F.  Ponshe. 
Erie,  PA — Lawrence  E.  Hicks. 
Anaconda,  MT — Harold  L.  Mayers. 
Evansvitte,  IN — James  Leonard  Dietz. 
Providence,  RI — Walter  Dinges. 
Spokane,  WA— Albert  L.  Maahs.  Gertrude  B.  Wie- 
man  (s). 

Baltimore,  MD — Edwin  H.  Kotras,  Guy  G.  Lemas- 
ter.  Joseph  Palumbo. 

Oakland,  CA — Cora  Bernice  Doan  (s),  Myron  Roy 
Woods.  Ray  Marcus  Green.  Thomas  Elmer  Gilbert. 
Cleveland,  OH — Gordon  N.  Forsylhe. 
Springfield,  MA — Arthur  Lamagdelaine.  Marcel  F. 
Bolduc. 

Sheffield,  Al^Albert  J.  Jones,  Fred  B.  Vanderford. 
James  Riley  Pounders. 
Lawrence,  MA — Clarence  Eichhom 
East  Detroit,  MI — James  J.  O'Donnell. 
Detroit,  MI — Bernadine  S.  Davis  (s).  Mmarion  Rho- 
darmer,  Oliver  E.  Prevo,  Roy  Swisher. 
Utica,  NY — Frederick  G.  ErhardI,  James  J.  Lynch 
Sr..  Joseph  Goulet. 

Philadelphia,  PA — Clarence  Higgins,  Horace  C.  Hays, 
Leslie  Schrey. 

Miami,  FL— Daniel  W.  Sweat.  Roy  A.  Dykes. 
Palm  Beach,  FL — Allan  A.  Cameron.  Erick  S.  Jaak- 
kola. 

Seattle,  WA— Belty  J.  Anderson  (s),  Carol  L.  Nel- 
son. George  W.  Dahl.  Helga  B.  Sandin  (s).  Lena  C. 
Peterson  (s).  Ona  Baber  (s). 

Washington,  DC — Emory  A.  Barnard.  Mildred  1. 
Keiser  (s). 

Tampa,  FL — Elsie  Aileen  Shirley  (s). 
Macon,  GA — Arthur  J.  Kilgore. 
Tarrytown,  NY — Christine  A.  Reimann  (s). 
Kenosha,  WI — Thomas  J.  Romaine. 
San  Mateo,  CA— William  W.  Slremme  Sr. 
Pittsburgh,  PA— Anthony  W.  Schuster,  Felix  Cip- 
ullo. 

East  St.  Louis,  IL — Virginia  M.  Minor  (s). 
Youngstown,  OH — Ralph  Clark. 
Chicago,  II^Arvid  Hall. 

Cleveland,  OH— Martin  Weinhold.  Rudolph  A.  Hei- 
mann. 

Peoria,  IL — Lee  R.  Buschbom.  Margaret  Norville 
(s). 

Salt  Lake  City,  UT— Fay  L.  Campbell.  Fred  E. 
Vranes. 

York,  PA — Marlin  I.  Myers. 
Peru-,  IL — Olga  Aimone  (s). 
Dallas,  TX— Betty  Rose  Light  (s). 
Chicago,  IL — Gust  C.  Johnson. 
Columbus,  OH— Walter  J.  Wyckoff. 
Gulfport,  MS— Bert  E.  Adams. 
Newcastle,  PA — Anthony  Perrotta. 
Stamford,  CT— Charles  CaHson.  Donald  R.  William- 
son, Frank  Yannelli,  Louis  Diotallevi. 
Houston,  TX — George  W.  Christensen,  Theodore  J. 
Babineau. 

Nashville,  TN— Hattie  C.  Cripps  (s). 
Atlanta,  GA — Thomas  M.  Farrill. 


229    Glens  Falls,  NY— Laura  Elizabeth  Duross  (s). 
232    Fort  Wayne,  IN— Rudolf  Loose.  Scott  William  Hefty. 
242    Chicago,  IL — John  Skudris. 

246  New  York,  NY— Frank  Budronis. 

247  Portland,  OR— Jessie  Alean  King  (s).  Walter  Kin- 
nan. 

250    Waukegan,  IL — Roy  A.  Nordstrom. 

254  Cleveland,  OH — Elmer  Stedman,  Fortunato  T.  An- 
zalone,  George  Tychan,  Joseph  P,  Nemetz. 

255  Bloomingburg,  NY — George  E.  Winters. 

257    New  York,  NY — Anders  Johnson,  Arthur  Sandberg. 

264  Milwaukee,  WI — Alf  M.  Paulson,  Verle  Nicholas. 

265  Saugerties,  NY — Abraham  Abrahamsen. 

275     Newlon,  MA— Charles  Belfrey.  John  W.  Borovick, 

Vincent  Scalese. 
278    Watertown,  NY— Ruth  A.  Smithers  (s). 

280  Niagara-Gen.  &  Vic,  NY— Lyman  F.  Bigford. 

281  Binghamton,  NY— Adelbert  Ferriton,  Bertha  M. 
Stefko  (s).  John  Frederick. 

283    Augusta,  GA — Harry  Frank  Williams,  James  W. 

Wren.  Mack  Freeman. 
304    Denison,  TX— Georgia  D.  Moore  (s),  James  B.  Crow. 
314     Madison,  WI— Frank  R.  Ponty. 
323     Beacon,  NY— Walter  Kock. 
329    Oklahoma  City,  OK— Luther  H.  Grimmett,  Mary 

Etta  Rethford  (s). 

333  New  Kensington,  PA — William  A.  Wagner. 

334  Saginaw,  Ml— Donald  Roberg^. 

343     Winnipeg,  Mani.,  CAN — Maurice  Taillieu. 
345    Memphis,  TN — Herman  E.  Houston,  William  Thomas 
Fiveash. 

347  Mattoon-Charleston,  IL — Orval  N.  Frazier. 

348  New  York,  NY— Henry  Dailledouze. 
354    Gilroy,  CA— Jerry  John  Bracco. 
359     Philadelphia,  PA— Albert  J.  Berry. 
361     Duluth,  MN— Bemhard,  Toft. 

369  N.  Tonawanda,  NY— Gene  Keller. 

370  Albany,  NY— John  H.  Fucci,  William  Cole. 

374    Buffalo,  NY — Elaine  Ralzamowski  (s),  George  A. 

Nablo. 
379    Texarkana,  TX— Harold  L.  Eakin.  Ray  E.  Gammill. 
400    Omaha,  NE— Carl  Axel  Fors.  Emanuel  J.  Ward. 
422    New  Brighton,  PA— Charles  P.  Carroll.  Henry  C. 

Henning. 
440    Buffalo,  NY — Leslie  F.  Kopasz.  Vincent  Liberatore. 
452     Vancouver,  BC,  CAN— Ewald  Ginter. 
462    Greensburg,  PA— Robert  J.  Stouffer. 
470    Tacoma,  WA— Edward  R.  Fagg.  Eleanor  Nakamura 

(s).  Fritz  Jensen.  Orval  G.  Bratvold. 
472     Ashland,  KY— Harold  Howard. 
493     Mt.  Vernon,  NY— Charles  Biddle. 
499     Leavenworth,  KS— Kenneth  C.  Miller. 

502  Port  Arthur,  TX— Carlis  H.  Bullock,  Clayton  C. 
Brown. 

503  Lancaster,  NY— Dorothy  A.  Zynda  (s). 
512     Ann  Arbor,  MI — Kurt  A.  Baessier. 
515     Colo.  Springs,  CO — Henry  Lyon. 

531  New  York,  NY — August  Elbrecht,  Michael  Benven- 
uto. 

532  Elmira,  NY — Edna  M.  Newton  (s),  Lawrence  M. 
Dunbar. 

548     Minneapolis,  MN — Sigurd  Strand. 

558     Elmhurst,  IL — Frank  Boyer. 

563    Glendate,  CA — Elbert  Thomas  Barrington,  Louis  E. 

Haglund, 
576     Pine  Bluff,  AR— Willie  J.  Ray. 
579    St.  John  N.F.  CAN— Thomas  Burke. 
586    Sacramento,   CA — Carl   Gobel,   Conrad   P.    Luna. 

Ernest  M.  Himenes. 

599  Hammond,  IN — Clint  E.  Lear.  Gunnar  Hultman, 

600  Lehigh  Valley,  PA— Janet  E.  Cramer  (s).  Morris 
Fidler.  Oswald  Meyer. 

602     St.  Louis,  MO— Warren  H.  Platter. 
604    Morgantown,  WV — James  L.  Shue. 
608     New  York,  NY— Bernard  Brady. 
611     Portland.  OR— John  E.  Hedwall. 
613    Hampton  Roads,  VA — Charles  Carroll  Foreman  Sr., 
Herbert  G.  Ramsey. 

620  Madison,  NJ — Byard  Piringer,  Daniel  Struble,  Elmer 
Mayberry. 

621  Bangor,  ME^Donald  W.  Willey. 
624     Brockton,  MA — Richard  Curry. 

626  Wilmington,  DE — Dominick  Pedicone. 

627  Jacksonville,  FL— Ernest  M.  Walls.  Lillie  Mae  Toth 
(s). 

634    Salem,  IL — Frank  E.  Roney. 
636     Mt.  Vernon,  II^Louis  B.  Rath. 

638  Marion,  IL^— Denver  Crews,  Eva  H.  Nance  (s), 
Kurby  Sniderwin. 

639  Akron,  OH — Lawrence  A.  Cariile,  Robert  Swartz- 
lander. 

657     Sheboygan,  WI— Anna  Kading  (s). 

665  Amarillo,  TX— Claude  H.  Pendley.  Jule  L,  Cheshire. 
Leoniel  L.  Echols. 

698    Covington,  KY— Robert  Hemmerle. 

701  Fresno,  CA— Nellie  Mae  Adkins  (s),  Norman  L 
McLaughlin. 

703  Lockland,  OH— Clarence  Edward  Cleveland.  Flor- 
ence C.  Glaug  (s). 


710    Long  Beach,  CA — Evelyn  Ethel  Heywood  (s),  Frank 

Peden.  Herbert  S.  Wright. 
715    Elizabeth,  NJ— Rudolph  Schaar,  Theodore  Evanski. 

720  Baton  Rouge,  LA— Layton  H.  Alford  Sr. 

721  Los  Angeles,  CA — Charles  Rakunas,  James  F.  Prin- 
cipe. 

735    Mansfield,  OH — Adam  Lamp,  Dorothy  Campbell 

(s),  Mildred  McLaughlin  (s). 
745    Honolulu,  HI — Alfonso  Aquino,  Charles  C.  Yano, 

Ernest  K.  Y.  Mack  Jr. ,  Harry  H.  Murashige,  Noboru 

Okikawa,  Raymond  S.  Nakasone,  Wilfred  T.  Shi- 

buya,  Yasuo  Maki. 
747    Oswego,  NY— David  R.  Batchelor,  Joseph  Len  Sha- 

ben. 
756     Bellingham,  WA — Horace  G.  Cupples,  John  Schauer. 

770  Yakima,  WA — George  Jos.  Riches,  Ira  N.  Clayton, 
Jay  H.  Allred,  Thomas  G.  Hyle. 

771  Watsonville,  CA— Fowler  Belcher. 

777    Harrisonville  MO — Dewayne  W.  Daniels. 

780  Astoria,  OR— Harlan  O.  Poppino. 

781  Princeton,  NJ— Stephen  Koltun. 
790     Dixon,  IL — Everett  Martin  Stanbery. 

792    Rockdord,  IL— Merlin  Fritz,  Richard  G.  Picken. 
821    Springfield,  NJ — Robert  Groomes. 
839    Des  Plaines,  IL— Alvah  W.  Favors,  Frank  H.  Moore, 
Frank  Stolley. 

844  Canoga  Park,  CA— Jonah  C.  Ketchum. 

845  Clifton  Heights,  PA— Evan  S.  Hanby. 

848  San  Bruno,  CA — Clarence  Freddy  Goldman,  Patrick 
J.  Colhns. 

857  Tucson,  AZ — Meivin  Fenimore.  William  M.  Sheehy, 
Jr. 

889    Hopkins,  MN— Archie  J.  Vetter,  Florian  M.  Geiser. 

898    St.  Joseph,  MI— Dorothy  Tanner  (s). 

900    Altoona,  PA— Frank  R.  Derose. 

902  Brooklyn,  NY — Albert  Daino.  Eugenia  Levardsen 
(s),  Leif  Levardsen. 

911     Kalispell,  MO— Hazel  E.  Smith  (s). 

940    Sandusky,  OH^Henry  R.  Jarrett,  Sr. 

944  San  Brnardno,  CA — Eileen  Diane  Adair  (s).  Wood- 
row  W.  Smith. 

953     Lake  Charles,  LA— Hoyt  E.  Williams. 

958     Marquette,  MI — Alf  Carlson,  Marian  Brisson  (s). 

971     Reno,  NV— Everett  R.  Hunt. 

973    Texas  City,  TX — Barbara  Edmundson  (s). 

976     Marion,  OH— Artie  Kazee,  Lowell  D.  Nutter. 

981     Petaluma,  CA— Julius  J.  Thiele. 

998  Royal  Oak,  MI— Felix  Gamcarz.  Mildred  Almasy 
(s). 

1013  Dallas  Ft.  Worth,  TX— Orville  Galen  Sandmeyer. 

1014  Warren,  PA— Hilber  Adams. 

1026  Miami,  Fl^Dean  W.  Averick. 

1027  Chicago,  Il^Campbell  D.  Rees. 

1040    Eureka,  CA.— Gordon  Henry  Mellon,  Harold  Hal- 
stead. 
1042    Plattsburgh,  NY— Louis  H.  Hare. 
1050    Philadelphia,  PA— Giulio  Devecchis. 
1053    Milwaukee,  WI — Louis  Recklinghausen. 
1065     Salem,  OR— Keith  Farmer. 

1073  Philadelphia,  PA— Rubin  Grobman,  Vasily  BRajew. 

1074  Eau  Claire,  WI— Harold  F.  Fetter. 
1078    Fredericksburg,  VA — Leslie  A.  Haynie. 
1080    Boonville,  IN— Vivian  Shullie  Chambers. 
1095     Salina,  KS— Helen  E.  Eis  (s). 

1098     Baton  Rouge,  LA— Floyd  P.  Sibley. 

1102     Detroit.  MI— Charles  H.  Wilson,  Johnny  W.  Sovey. 

1108  Cleveland,  OH— Audrey  Emrick  (s). 

1109  Visaha,  CA — Fred  Lampman,  Mabel  Raney  (s). 
Ralph  M.  Howell. 

1125    Los  Angeles,  CA — Edward  P.  Johnson,  Floyd  R. 

Mautz. 
1136    Kettle  Falls,  WA— Donald  H.  Downing,  Helen  F. 

Downing  (s). 
1140    San  Pedro,  CA — Alice  Frances  Battung  (s),  John  F. 

Gillis. 
1149    San  Francisco,  CA — Elmer  Swanson. 
1153    Yuma,  AZ — James  Hutchins. 

1164  New  York,  NY— Albert  Sommer. 

1165  Wilmington,  NC — Homer  Montier  Bordeaux. 

1184  Seattle,  WA— Hans  Sather. 

1185  Chicago,  IL — Leo  B.  Zuleger. 
1207     Charleston,  WV— Roy  S.  Martin. 

1216     Mesa,  AZ— Floyd  E.  Morgan,  Marie  E.  Whited  (s), 

Wesley  P.  Leigh. 
1222     Medford.  NY— Olle  Petersen. 

1240  Oroville.  CA— Clarence  L.  Stimson. 

1241  Columbis,  OH— Ralph  Fair. 

1245  Carlsbad,  NM — George  Hendren,  Jessie  Margaret 
Porter  (s),  Joaquin  P.  Ramos,  William  S.  Primrose. 

1255    Chillicothe,  OH— Harley  F.  Goft^. 

1281     Anchorage,  Al^Carl  A.  Hallback. 

1296    San  Diego,  CA — Casper  A.  Amundson. 

1303    Port  Angeles,  WA — Jay  Joseph  Herb. 

1305    Fall  River,  MA— Thomas  W.  Turner. 

1307     Evanston,  IL — Allan  B,  Lindslrom. 

1311     Dayton,  OH— Jesse  R.  Wentworth. 

1319  Albuquerque,  NM— Silas  S.  McGuire.  William  S. 
Corbin. 

1323    Monterey,  CA— Warner  H.  Dodge. 


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2006 

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2030 
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2083 
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2203 


BufTalo.  NV— Michael  Wynne.  Wjlbert  Gehl. 
Leadville,  CO— Clinton  Cyr. 
La  Jolla,  CA — Ruth  Glencora  Branchflower  (s). 
Cleveland,  OH — Danied  Huszar. 
Quincy,  ll^-Clifford  Plunk. 

Rochester,  MI — Clara  Maine  Haugland  (s).  Joseph 
Douglas  ASP. 

Province  of  New  Brunswick — Douglas  Rosvall.  Jo- 
seph Valardo,  Leo  Rousselle. 
Toledo,  OH— Valentine  Irvine. 
Santa  Monica,  CA — Andrew  J.  Hasara. 
BufTalo,  NY — Henry  Makuch.  Norman  Grimm. 
Biloxi,  MS — Almo  Nwedia  Saunders  (s),  Mary  Eleanor 
Stuart  (s). 

Redwood  City,  CA— Bertha  V.  Horst  (s),  Charles 
A.  Brady,  Franklin  Hinman.  William  D.  Breiten- 
bach. 

Lodi,  CA — George  Purinton,  Neva  M.  Lewis  (s). 
Arlington,  TX— Lawrence  W.  Penfield. 
Complon,  CA — Angielene  Lee  (s). 
Warren,  OH— Louis  Pela. 
Lansing,  MI — Ellis  Oxendale,  George  Warner. 
Detroit,  Ml — Frank  Adamski. 
Huntington  Bch,  CA — Jim  Myer. 
Cincinnati,  OH — Edward  Farris,  Sr. 
New  York,  NV— Betty  Isaksen  (s). 
Jackson,  MS — Jesse  W.  McBride. 
Redondo,  CA — Charles  B.  Rowland. 
Auburn,  CA— James  H.  Pyatt.  Lars  J.  Wold.  Luther 
Appleby  Dugger.  Neal  B.  Kidd. 
Burlington,  VT — Arthur  Durochia. 
E.  Los  Angeles,  CA— Curtis  M.  Hatcher.  Erik  G. 
Nelson,  Maude  Maria  Ruppert  (s).  Romeo  Delgado. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — George  Baumgartner. 
El  Monte,  CA — Charles  A.  Boultinghouse.  Elmer 
Waline,  Geal  Alice  Sharp  (s).  William  Hamilton, 
Woodrow  Wilson  McCormick. 
Blountville,  TN — Wayne  G.  Garland. 
Denton,  TX — Eugene  F.  Seymore. 
Kansas  City,  KS — Josephine  Katherine  Sellers  (s). 
New  York,  NY — Victor  Blasucci. 
Culver  City,  CA — John  Glenn  Bueno. 
West  Allis,  WI— Paul  J.  Wiedmeyer. 
Napoleon,  OH — John  Buckingham  Harman. 
Washington,  DC — Graham  Kelly,  Lizzie  Lea  Willis 
(s),  William  J.  Suitt. 

Montgomery  County,  PA — Elizabeth  Bard  (s). 
St.  Louis,  MO— Adolf  Laschober.  Geneva  M.  Bowen 
(s).  Leopold  Mattes,  Walter  W.  Kerch. 
Bremerton,  WA — Lloyd  E.  Straw. 
Redding,  CA— Arthur  L.  Morefield. 
Hayward,  CA — Bemadus  J.  Bodewes,  George  L. 
McCarthy.   Mack   Smith,   Michael   Peter  Amato, 
Theodore  W.  Harris. 
Washington,  DC— Walter  L.  Nash. 
S  Luis  Obispo,  CA— Elbert  Dutch  Owen.  Harley 
Carothers. 

Kansas  City,  MO — Joe  A.  Baxter. 
Alexandria,  VA — Henry  P.  Kulikowski. 
Chicago,  IL— Bemice  G.  Pent  (si.  Robert  L.  Oliver. 
Hartford  City,  IN— Robert  F.  Woollen. 
Kirkwood,  MO — Anita  M.  Reising  (s). 
Milwaukee,  WI— Oscar  Staats,  Peter  Pless,  Walter 
Kurd. 

Portland,  OR— Owen  E.  Lynch. 
Cleveland,  OH— Walter  Kroll. 
Pomona,  CA — Mary  Ellen  Giese  (s). 
Buffalo,  NY — Peter  Kazmierczak. 
Marion,  VA — Donna  M.  Rouse  (s). 
Orlando,  FL — Louise  F.  Garrison  (s).  Marvin  M. 
Barksdale. 

Las  Vegas,  NV — Lee  Roy  Pounds,  Louis  Caruso, 
William  L.  Parish. 

Farmington,  MO — Almon  Paul  Barton. 
Renton,  WA— Ben  M.  Willis. 
Monroe,  LA — Earl  T.  Simpson,  George  L.  Roth. 
Babylon,  NY— Elizabeth  Packard  (s),  Richard  Mom- 
eyer,  Roy  Chopping. 
Faribault,  MN — Marie  Joan  Teske  (s). 
New  Orleans,  LA — Anna  Wiltz  (s),  Arthmise  Genive 
Molezion  (s).  Belle  M.  Laborde  (s),  Joachim  Diage. 
Sterling  J.  Breaux, 
Philadelphia,  PA — John  Fulton. 
Minneapolis,  MN — Joseph  M.  Beck. 
Cleveland,  OH— Henry  J.  Ehlert. 
Downers  Grove,  IL — John  E.  Birch. 
The  Dalles,  OR— Burdell  Smith. 
Van  Nuys,  CA— Charles  M.  Desoto,  Charles  Milton 
Sampson,  Edwin  Nelson,  Karl  Dahlsten. 
Clinton,  MO— Elba  L.  Brown  (s). 
Bemidji,  MN— Charlotte  Aldrich  (si,  Gladys  Stout 
(si. 

Temple,  TX— Ely  Thomas  Wiley. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Albert  Wise. 
Province  of  Saskatchewan — Annie  Konkin  (s),  Walter 
Gnius. 

Los  Gatos,  CA — John  F.  Geringer,  Milton  Von 
Camap. 

Grand  Forks,  ND— David  Kiltie. 
St.  Genevieve,  MO — Mary  L.  Stolzer  (s|. 
Kingsbeach,  CA — Robert  C.  Gerlack. 
Oxnard,  CA— Ralph  E.  Harris. 
Martinez,  CA — Cora  Faye  Glover  (s),  James  M. 
Weisend.  Lorraine  Dorothy  Bischel  (s|,  Muriel  N. 
Murphy  (s). 

Medford,  OR— John  O.  Lane. 
Vista,  CA — Eleonore  A.  Groezinger  (s).  Ernest  J. 
Hassel.  Saben  L.  Armstrong,  Steve  Dzivi. 
Red  Wing,  MN — Gordon  Forsberg. 
Napa,  CA— John  H.  Dyke. 
Hillsboro,  OR — John  A.  Olovson. 
Rock  Island,  lU-Glen  A.  Osburn.  Hugh  B.  Maho- 
ney,  William  Theodore  Moss. 
Montreal,  Que.,  CAN — Marcel  Moreau. 
Anaheim,  CA — Ann  Elizabeth  Pember  (si,  John  A. 


Local  Union.  C/'O' 

Dili.  Joy  Edress  Sage  (si. 

2209  Louisville,  KY — Larry  Nelson  Coomer,  Leroy  Liv- 
ers, Lottie  K.  Mullins  (si. 

2212    Newark,  NJ — Rose  Marie  Dzielak  (s). 

2232  Houston,  TX— Darrell  Austin  Davis,  Stella  Mae 
Carter  (si. 

2274  Pittsburgh,  PA — Carlo  Versino,  Cleophis  Gray,  Eu- 
gene J.  Berardi.  Harry  W.  Dillinger. 

2288  Los  Angeles,  CA — Christian  Hunger,  Clarence  Alfred 
Grinager,  May  Albert  Allen,  Pauline  J.  Fennell  (si, 
Peter  Patterson. 

2309    Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN— Anton  Forster. 

2352    Corinth,  MS— Ina  Lou  Prince  (si. 

2375     Los  Angeles,  CA — Joseph  H.  Mabery. 

2416    Portland,  OR— Bernard  G.  Hyde. 

2429  Fort  Payne,  AI^Thomas  H.  Gifford,  William  R. 
Horton  Sr..  William  W.  Hammon. 

2430  Charleston,  WV — Benjamin  F.  Sanders,  George 
Nutter,  Jr. 

2463     Ventura,  CA—Aron  M.,  Phelan. 

2477     Santa  Maria,  CA — Joseph  Roinestad.   Maniey   B. 

McNinch  Sr.,  Ormond  White. 
2522    St.  Helens,  OR— Lloyd  T.  Douglas ,  Viola  Armstrong 

(si. 
2536    Port  Gamble,  WA— Robert  Whitman. 
2601     Lafayette,  IN— Charles  Purkhiser. 
2608     Redding,  CA— Clifford  E.  Black.  Robert  F.  Dowd. 
2633    Tacoma,  WA — Helga  Swaleson  (si.  Joseph  P.  Smith. 
2637    Sedro  Wolley,  WA— Betty  M.  Benson  (s). 
2639     Bruce,  MS— Hubert  Richard  Tramel. 
2714     Dallas,  OR — Melvin  Louie  Spady. 
2739     Yakima,  WA— Frank  C.  Kordes. 
2750    SpringHeld,  OR— Felon  Golden,  Samuel  W.  Fried. 
2761     McCleary,  WA— Gerald  R.  Erickson,  Howard  L. 

Wakefield. 
2767    Morion,  WA— Chester  Averill,  UlandaJ.  Klassytsl. 
2791    Sweet  Home,  OR— Steven  P.  Selensky. 
2817    Quebec,  Que.,  CAN— Fernand  Chretien. 
2S98    Gliddcn,  WI— Floyd  M.  Eder. 
2902    Burns,  OR— John  J.  Brophy. 
2949    Roseburg,  OR— Carlos  E.  Cooley,  John  S.  Lemos, 

Marjorie  P.  Doyle  (si,  Raymond  A.  Swenson.  Thomas 

D.  Holloway. 
2995    Kapuskasng,  Ont.,  CAN— Gerard  Doiron,  Raoul  Pa- 

quin. 
3090    Murfreesboro,  NC — James  Garfield  Ricks  Jr.  (si, 

Oletha  Fulrell  (s). 
3157    Wausau,  WI— Robert  Weiler. 
3175    Pembroke,  Ont.,  CAN— Ronald  J.  King. 
3257    Gatlinburg,  TN— Frank  P.  Reed 
7000    Province  of  Quebec  LCL  134-2— Rolland  Desrosiers. 


Baggage  System 

Continued  from  Page  7 

trolled  baggage  handling  system  began 
in  February  1985  and  was  completed  in 
June  1986,  providing  in  excess  of  120,000 
hours  of  employment  for  the  Chicago 
Millwrights. 

The  system,  which  has  the  capacity 
to  sort  and  distribute  at  a  rate  of  60  to 
75  parcels  per  minute,  is  synchronized 
and  controlled  by  computers.  Accord- 
ing to  spokesmen  for  American  Air- 
lines, this  unique  system  will  greatly 
enhance  the  airlines  ability  to  accu- 
rately route  passenger  baggage. 

The  major  components  of  the  system 
installed  by  the  millwrights  consisted 
of  the  following:  approximately  28,000 
feet  of  conveyor,  nearly  60,000  feet  of 
conveyor  belt,  256  super  pushers  which 
are  crucial  to  the  sorting  process,  160 
slides,  approximately  25,000  square  feet 
of  mezzanine  which  support  the  second 
tier  of  conveyor,  supports  for  66  scan- 
ners which  have  the  ability  to  monitor 
360  degrees  around  a  conveyor,  an 
excess  of  300  feet  of  stainless  steel 
conveyor  shrouding,  approximately 
28,000  feet  of  conveyor  support  steel 
consisting  of  wide-flanged  beams,  and 
channel  and  angle  iron.  113!) 


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39 


We  Can  Do  Better 

Than  'The  Good 

Old  Days' 

Many  social  problems  remain 

to  be  solved.  We  are 

our  brothers'  keepers. 


When  we  talk  about  "the  good  old  days," 
the  term  has  a  different  meaning  for  each  of 
us. 

For  some  who  came  off  of  farms  it  means 
drawing  rusty  water  from  a  well,  milking  cows 
before  sunup,  stumbling  through  deep  snow 
on  cold  winter  nights  to  creaky  outhouses. 

For  younger  members  of  the  Brotherhood, 
it  might  mean  trying  to  turn  a  1950s  Studebaker 
into  a  souped-up  automobile  and  not  being 
able  to  find  the  parts,  trying  to  keep  enough 
grease  in  your  hair  to  look  stylish,  maybe 
standing  around  a  street  corner  with  your 
buddies  and  discussing  the  draft  and  whether 
or  not  you  should  drop  out  of  school  to  get  a 
job. 

In  my  case,  what  some  people  would  call 
"the  good  old  days"  meant  growing  up  on 
the  streets  of  New  York,  and  that  wasn't 
exactly  the  good  old  days  either.  Lower  Man- 
hattan at  that  time  had  its  flophouses,  its 
saloons,  its  cheap  cafes,  much  worse  than 
they  are  today.  Skid  row  was  the  Bowery, 
and  the  depression  of  the  1930s  added  many 
human  derelicts  to  the  sidewalks  and  streets 
of  the  city.  Garbage  piled  up  at  the  curb,  and 
the  smells  of  the  city  changed  from  good  to 
bad  in  a  single  city  block. 

How  you  feel  about  "the  good  old  days" 
is  determined,  to  a  great  extent,  by  what  your 
own  "good  old  days"  were  like.  To  use  a 
term  which  has  become  popular  today,  you 
have  to  know  where  you're  coming  from. 

If  life  was  hard  in  your  youth,  you  might 
have  mixed  feelings  when  you  see  a  human 
being  dressed  in  rags  and  sleeping  on  a  park 
bench  or  on  a  heat  grate  in  the  inner  city. 
Once  that  human  being  would  have  been  called 
a  bum;  today  he  or  she  would  be  called  a 
street  person.  On  the  one  hand,  you  might 
say  to  yourself  that  he  or  she  should  have 


been  around  when  it  was  really  tough  and 
forget  about  it.  On  the  other  hand,  you  might 
say  to  yourself,  I  hope  that  poor  soul  doesn't 
have  to  endure  what  I  went  through  or  what 
my  parents  or  grandparents  went  through. 

There  are  growing  numbers  of  street  people 
in  our  cities  today,  waiting  for  volunteer 
agencies  to  bring  them  food  and  provide  shel- 
ter. We  don't  have  the  hobo  jungles  of  the 
good  old  days;  we  have  helpless  people  curled 
up  in  abandoned  tenements.  We  have  men- 
tally-ill people  and  drug  or  alcohol  victims 
either  begging  from  passersby  or  talking  to 
themselves  and  cursing  the  skies. 

It's  a  tragic  situation,  one  which  none  of  us 
likes  to  see.  But,  tragic  as  it  is,  it's  not  yet  so 
bad  as  it  was  back  in  the  1930s.  In  fact,  in 
many  ways  it's  completely  different.  Today, 
we  have  extremely  rich  individuals — multi- 
millionaires and  their  multibillionaire  corpo- 
rations— on  the  same  streets  which  serve  as 
home  for  thousands  of  destitute  people.  In  a 
nationwide  depression  no  one  really  escapes 
the  economic  downturn,  and  the  financial 
tycoons  suffer,  too. 

The  1980s  have  been  marked  by  this  sharp 
contrast  between  the  rich  and  poor.  We  have 
young  people  trying  to  scrape  together  enough 
money  to  make  a  down  payment  on  a  house, 
and  senior  citizens  being  evicted  by  greedy 
landlords,  while  our  more  fortunate  citizens 
are  laying  out  money  to  lobbyists  to  keep 
from  having  to  pay  taxes  on  second  homes, 
vacation  homes,  yachts,  and  penthouses. 

It's  a  sad  commentary  on  our  times.  I 
wonder  what  the  Carpenter  of  Nazareth,  who 
spoke  well  of  the  widow's  mite,  would  have 
thought  of  television  evangelists  who  dress 
and  live  like  miUionaires,  build  Holy  Land 
settings  like  Disneyland,  and  promise  financial 
success  to  their  followers  if  they'll  send  in 
donations  of  $100,  $500,  $1,000. 

Have  we  lost  sight  of  the  basic  tenets  of 
our  society?  Do  we  do  unto  others  as  we 
would  have  them  do  unto  us?  Are  we  our 
brothers'  keepers? 

Perhaps  I'm  delivering  a  sermon,  but  my 
point  is  this:  The  so-called  safety  nets  with 
which  our  governments  protect  the  interests 
of  the  needy — meshed  together  over  a  half 
century  of  state,  provincial,  and  federal  leg- 
islation— are  becoming  frayed  by  abuse,  and 
there  are  gaping  loopholes  which  must  be 
repaired. 

•  Unemployment  insurance  has  run  out  in 
many  states. 


•  The  current  minimum  wage  does  not 
allow  a  family  to  rise  above  the  poverty 
level. 

•  The  cost  of  hospital  and  medical  care  has 
risen  so  much  that  supplemental  Medi- 
care and  Medicaid  benefits  and  cata- 
strophic insurance  are  needed. 

•  Something  must  be  done  to  provide  in- 
stitutional care  for  those  mentally-ill  peo- 
ple released  to  the  tragic  life  of  the  streets. 

•  Those  suffering  from  drug  and  alcohol 
abuses  and  the  terrifying  certainties  of 
AIDS  must  find  hope  of  recovery. 

We  can't  solve  these  and  other  safety-net 
problems  overnight,  particularly  when  con- 
servative governments  place  more  emphasis 
on  defense  expenditures  than  on  public  wel- 
fare. But  we  can  make  a  serious  start,  and  we 
can  start  in  1987. 

Labor  unions  such  as  ours  have  always 
concerned  themselves  with  what  are  called 
"bread  and  butter"  issues — putting  bread  on 
the  table,  keeping  loved  ones  housed  and  fed. 
It  will  always  be  so.  American  and  Canadian 
labor's  record  of  wartime  service  and  disaster 
service  is  unsurpassed,  so  we  can't  be  accused 
of  being  fence-sitting  doves.  We  are  as  aware 
of  our  national  defense  needs  as  any  segment 
of  our  society.  But  surely  it  is  time  to  balance 
the  scales. 

It  was  Herman  Goering  who  once  said, 
"Guns  will  make  us  powerful.  Butter  will  only 
make  us  fat." 

Nazi  Propaganda  Minister  Joseph  Goebbels 
echoed  this  belief  when  he  said,  "We  can  do 
without  butter,  but,  despite  all  our  love  of 
peace,  not  without  arms.  One  cannot  shoot 
with  butter  but  with  guns." 

You  can  consider  what  this  philosophy  got 
for  these  twin  sons  of  evil. 

It  seems  to  me  that  the  voters  of  the  United 
States  made  it  quite  clear  last  November  that 
they  have  waited  long  enough  for  something 
to  be  done  about  the  nation's  domestic  prob- 
lems .  .  .  about  the  low  and  middle-income 
poor,  about  job  losses,  about  dangerous  spec- 
ulations in  the  stock  market,  about  plant 
closings,  about  the  flood  of  aliens  needing 
social  services,  about  the  sad  state  of  public 
education,  and  about  the  continuing  problems 
of  taxation. 

A  few  weeks  ago,  I  sat  down  with  other 
members  of  the  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council 
to  deliberate  some  of  these  issues.  We  had 
reports  and  resolutions  on  health  care,  nursing 
home  care.  Social  Security,  and  much  more. 


We  found  ourselves  to  be  unanimous  in  de- 
termining that  all  such  matters  require  the 
immediate  attention  of  our  members  and  our 
public  officials — those  who  represent  us  in  the 
Congress  and  the  Parhament. 

I  know  of  no  better  time  than  now  to  write 
or  visit  your  Members  of  Congress  and  Sen- 
ators and  tell  them  where  you  stand  on  the 
issues  I've  mentioned.  This  is  a  new  Con- 
gress— the  100th  Congress  in  our  two  centu- 
ries as  a  nation — and  it  has  many  new  faces. 
It  has  people  who  campaigned  on  promises 
which  must  be  fulfilled.  Our  retiree  clubs  and 
our  auxiliaries  are  writing  letters.  I  urge  you 
to  join  their  letter-writing  campaign.  It  only 
takes  a  sheet  of  paper,  an  envelope,  and  a 
220  stamp. 

More  than  that,  it  takes  that  patriotic  hu- 
mane spirit  which  says  to  your  friends  and 
neighbors  that  the  good  old  days  are  behind 
us.  Better  days  are  ahead,  if  we  work  at  it. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


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May  1987 


We  the  People  of  the  United 
States,  in  Order  to  form  a  more . 
perfect  Union,  establish  Justice, 
insure  domestic  Tranquility,  pro- 
vide for  the  common  defence,  pro- 
mote the  general  Welfare,  and  se- 
cure the  Blessings  of  Liberty  to 
ourselves  and  our  Posterity,  do  or- 
dain and  establish  this  Constitu- 
tion for  the  United  States  of  Amer- 
ica. .  .  . 

—Prologue  to  the  U.S.  Constitution,  1787 

Congress  shall  make  no  law  re- 
specting an  establishment  of  religion, 
or  prohibiting  the  free  exercise  thereof; 
or  abridging  the  freedom  of  speech,  or 
of  the  press;  or  the  right  of  the  people 
peaceably  to  assemble,  and  to  peti- 
tion the  government  for  a  redress  of 
grievances. 

— First  Amendment  to  the  Constitution,  1791 


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Washington,  D.C.  20001 

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Sigurd  Lucassen 

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Washington,  D.C.  20001 

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WiLUAM  SiDELL,  General  President  Emeritus 
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VOLUME   107  No.  5  MAY  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

The  U.S.  Constitution  as  Guardian  of  Free  Labor 2 

Plant  Shutdown  Bill  Demands  Action 5 

Labor  Asks  Presidential  Contenders  for  Their  Views  . .  .  Calvin  G.  Zon  7 

L-P  National  Boycott  Day  on  June  20 9 

SCIW,  IWA  Hold  Conference  On  Forest  Industry  Talks 10 

Hotel/Motel  Industry:  Is  Labor  In  or  Out? 12 

New  Immigration  Law  Will  Mean  Major  Changes 14 

Installation  of  Officers 17 

We  Need  Strong  Trade  Legislation 19 

Angered  Workers  Protest  Raid  of  Pension  Funds 21 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 8 

Ottawa  Report 16 

Labor  News  Roundup 18 

Local  Union  News 22 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 25 

We  Congratulate 26 

Safety  and  Health:  Concrete  Can  Burn  You  Badly 27 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Insurance  Agents  Who  Bilk  Consumers 29 

Retirees  Notebook 30 

Plane  Gossip 32 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 33 

In  Memoriam 37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


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THE 
COVER 


Two  hundred  years  ago,  this  month, 
55  delegates  from  12  states — Rhode  Is- 
land sent  none — assembled  at  the  Penn- 
sylvania State  House  (now  Independence 
Hall)  in  Philadelphia  to  revise  the  Articles 
of  Confederation  of  the  new  United  States. 
From  May  25,  1787,  until  September  17, 
that  same  year,  they  labored  over  their 
task,  arguing,  discussing,  writing,  con- 
vening, arguing  some  more,  until  they 
had  created  an  entirely  new  document — 
the  Constitution  of  the  United  States  of 
America. 

George  Washington,  the  new  nation's 
first  president,  presided  at  the  conven- 
tion. As  the  painting  on  our  cover  shows, 
he  was  surrounded  by  some  of  the  best 
brains  of  the  time — Benjamin  Franklin, 
George  Mason,  Robert  Morris,  James 
Madison,  Alexander  Hamilton,  and 
others. 

With  the  addition  of  the  first  10  amend- 
ments to  the  Constitution  in  1791 — the 
Bill  of  Rights— the  United  States  had  as 
its  basic  code  of  laws  one  of  the  most 
enduring,  democratic  documents  of  all 
time. 

Perhaps  the  most  important  of  the 
amendments  to  the  Constitution  is  the 
First  Amendment,  also  reproduced  on 
our  front  cover,  which  guarantees  free 
speech  and  assembly,  as  depicted  by  the 
artist  Norman  Rockwell  in  the  lower 
painting. 

Though  the  U.S.  Constitution  has  en- 
dured many  assaults  in  the  courts  of  the 
land,  it  remains  the  bedrock  upon  which 
American  workers  have  created  the 
world's  foremost  free  and  democratic 
labor  movement. 

The  painting  of ' '  Washington  Address- 
ing the  Constitutional  Convention"  by 
Junius  Brutus  Stearns  is  courtesy  of  the 
Virginia  Museum  of  Fine  Arts.  The 
"Freedom  of  Speech"  painting  by  Rock- 
well is  courtesy  of  the  Saturday  Evening 
Post  Society. 


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The  U.S.  Constitution  as 
Guardian  of  Free  Labor 

It  didn't  start  out  that  way,  but,  200  years  later,  the 
U.S.  Constitution  has  become  truly  the  voice  of  "we  the  people." 


Or 


'n  a  hot  and  humid  day  in  May  1787, 
55  men  from  12  of  the  former  colonies 
of  England  assembled  in  the  Pennsylva- 
nia State  House  in  Philadelphia  to  make 
changes  in  the  Articles  of  Confederation, 
the  constitution  they  had  drawn  up  for 
the  new  nation  six  years  before. 

They  were  the  landed  gentry — prop- 
erty owners,  men  of  higher  learning, 
lawyers,  gentlemen  farmers,  some  former 
officers  in  the  Revolutionary  Army.  None 
of  them  were  workers  or  mechanics. 
Benjamin  Franklin,  once  a  printer's  ap- 
prentice, was  then  a  diplomat  and  states- 
man. 

"Workingmen  had  been  neither  di- 
rectly or  indirectly  represented  at  the 
Constitutional  Convention,  and  little 
consideration  was  given  in  its  delibera- 
tions to  either  their  rights  or  those  of 
the  common  people  generally,"  wrote 
Foster  Rhea  Dulles  in  his  scholarly  his- 
tory, Labor  in  America. 

Yet  the  men  who  sat  down  in  the  same 
room  where  some  of  them  had  declared 
their  independence  12  years  before  were 
able  to  draft  an  entirely  new  constitution 
for  the  nation  which,  with  26  amend- 
ments enacted  over  two  centuries,  is 
today  generally  recognized  as  the  fore- 
most expression  of  democracy  and  free- 
dom ever  devised  in  a  single  document. 
It  was  the  first  of  many.  Two-thirds  of 


the  world's  constitutions  have  been 
adopted  since  1970.  In  fact,  only  15 
were  adopted  before  World  War  II. 

The  U.S.  Constitution  has  become  over 
the  years  not  only  the  blueprint  for  the 
nation's  federal  system  of  government 
and  the  document  of  last  resort  for 
America's  judicial  system,  but  it  is  today, 
in  most  instances,  a  guardian  of  orga- 
nized labor  in  a  free  society.  Labor  must 
often  plead  for  its  constitutional  rights 
before  the  Supreme  Court,  but  it  knows 
that  its  voice  will  be  heard. 

Labor's  rights  under  the  Constitution 
have  come  only  after  two  centuries  of 
struggle — mass  demonstrations,  lobby- 
ing before  the  Congress  and  appeals  to 
countless  courts. 

First,  workers  had  to  acquire  the  basic 
right  of  every  adult  citizen  to  vote.  Ini- 
tially, only  those  male  citizens  who  were 
property  owners  or  paid  taxes  could 
vote.  Today,  because  of  amendments  to 
the  Constitution,  the  right  to  vote  be- 
longs not  only  to  adult  white  males,  but 
to  women,  blacks  and  other  minorities 
and  citizens  18  years  of  age. 

The  Founding  Fathers  would  be  as- 
tonished to  learn  that  more  than  150 
million  people  are  now  eligible  to  vote. 

Now  after  five  amendments  extending 
voting  rights  and  privileges,  election  day 
in  the  United  States  measures  up  to  the 


way  Alexander  Hamilton  and  James 
Madison  theorized  things  should  be, 
writing  in  the  Federalist  Paper  in  the 
early  1800s. 

"Who  are  the  electors  of  the  federal 
representatives?"  they  asked.  "Not  the 
rich,  more  than  the  poor;  not  the  learned, 
more  than  the  ignorant;  not  the  haughty 
heirs  of  distinguished  names,  more  than 
the  humble  sons  of  obscure  and  unpro- 
pitious  fortune.  The  electors  are  to  be 
the  great  body  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States." 

It  was  organized  labor  that  carried 
voting  a  step  further.  It  fought  long  and 
successfully  for  a  secret  ballot.  In  his 
book.  Seventy  Years  of  Life  and  Labor, 
the  American  Federation  of  Labor's  early 
president,  Samuel  Gompers,  described 
the  situation  before  citizens  were  able  to 
vote  in  secret: 

"In  New  York  City  and  Brooklyn  and 
in  many  other  cities  of  the  country,  the 
only  way  by  which  men  could  find  em- 
ployment on  the  street  railways  was 
through  the  endorsement  of  the  alder- 
man or  the  other  ward  politicians.  These 
held  their  places  at  the  will  or  the  whim 
not  only  of  the  company  but  of  the  ward 
politicians  who,  of  course,  controlled  the 
votes  of  workmen  so  employed.  This 
practice  was  supplemented  by  the  influ- 
ence of  the  saloonkeeper  over  the  work- 


The  U.S.  Constitution  has  not  been  fixed 
in  concrete  during  its  200  years  of  service 
to  the  republic.  It  has  been  amended  26 
times.  The  first  10  amendments  are  the  Bill 
of  Rights,  which  form  the  very  heart  of  the 
document.  After  that  came  amendments 
which  established  the  Electoral  College, 
abolished  slavery,  protected  civil  rights, 
repeated  prohibition,  gave  voting  rights  to 
women,  limited  the  Presidency  to  two 
terms  and  gave  18-year-olds  the  right  to 
vote. 

In  recent  years,  there  havn  been  efforts 
to  ratify  a  proposed  Constitutional  amend- 
ment granting  equal  rights  for  women,  the 
ERA;  to  grant  statehood  to  the  District  of 
Columbia  and  to  require  that  the  Federal 
budget  be  balanced.  The  first  two  have 
failed  in  attempts  to  get  them  approved  by 
the  states.  The  last — requiring  a  balanced 
budget — has  not  made  it  through  the  Con- 
gress. Labor's  opposition  to  that  proposal 
is  illustrated  by  a  Seaman  cartoon  in  the 
AFL-CIO  News,  last  December. 


CARPENTER 


Source:  Miracle  At  Philadelphia  Bicentennial  Exhibition;  Research:  Anna  Coxe  Toogood;  Art:  Bob  Terrio 

The  Constitutional  Convention  was  held  in  the  Pennsylvania  Slate  House,  just  a  block  from  Carpenters  Hall,  where  the 
First  Continential  Congress  had  convened  during  the  Revolution.  The  owner  of  Philadelphia's  City  Tavern  invited 
President  George  Washington  to  stay  at  his  establishment,  but  the  President  chose  Mary  House's  Boarding  House  at 
Fifth  and  Market  Streets  instead.  Some  delegates  did  stay  at  the  City  Tavern.  George  Mason  lodged  at  the  Indian  Queen, 
where  rates  were  lower.  Most  of  the  buildings  that  the  delegates  saw  during  that  memorable  summer  in  Philadelphia  are 
now  gone.  Notable  exceptions  are  the  State  House,  now  Independence  Hall;  Carpenters  Hall  and  several  churches.  City 
Tavern  was  demolished  in  1854,  but  the  National  Park  Service  reconstructed  it  in  1975. 


men,  particularly  workmen  who  were 
employed  in  and  around  the  streetcar 
service  and  the  river  fronts.  It  was  due 
to  these  conditions  that  organized  labor 
initiated  a  movement  to  bring  about 
secret  voting,  then  known  as  the  'Aus- 
tralian Ballot.'  " 

Achieving  the  vote  was  only  one  hurdle 
in  achieving  full  equality  under  the  law. 
Workers  had  to  gain  the  right  to  form 
unions  and  bargain  collectively.  Though 
the  American  Revolution  was  fought  by 
many  members  of  guilds  (the  word  at 
that  time  for  early  unions) — men  like 
Paul  Revere,  Benjamin  Franklin,  and  our 
own  forebears,  the  Ship  Caulkers  of 
Boston  who  held  a  "tea  party"  aboard 
a  British  ship  in  Boston  harbor — it  was 
more  than  a  century  after  the  Constitu- 
tion was  adopted  before  working  men 
and  women  were  able  to  gain  an  inter- 


pretation of  the  Constitution  by  the 
Supreme  Court  which  stated  that  they 
were  freely  able  to  unite  into  labor  unions 
and  bargain  for  their  betterment. 

In  1827,  labor  history  had  been  made 
when  unions  banded  together  in  the 
Mechanics'  Union  of  Trade  Associations. 
This  was  the  first  effort  of  unions  of 
different  callings  to  join  together  in  what 
was  virtually  a  "union  of  unions".  This 
development  was  a  forerunner  of  our 
central  bodies  of  today.  The  Association 
grew  out  of  a  carpenters'  strike  in  which 
the  workmen  were  demanding  a  10-hour 
day.  The  carpenters  had  obtained  sup- 
port from  other  building  tradesmen — 
bricklayers,  painters,  glaziers,  etc.  Al- 
though the  strike  failed,  the  experience 
led  to  the  formation  of  a  more  permanent 
organization. 

In  the  ensuing  years,  unions  formed, 


and  many  employers  and  employer  as- 
sociations tried  to  suppress  them.  There 
was  a  time  when  a  worker  had  to  sign 
"a  yellow  dog  contract"  with  his  em- 
ployer in  which  he  promised  not  to  join 
or  support  a  union.  It  was  the  U.S. 
Constitution  and  its  instrument  of  jus- 
tice, the  U.S.  Supreme  Court,  which 
eventually  outlawed  this  practice. 

America's  founding  fathers  wisely  wrote 
the  Constitution  in  broad  terms  so  that 
it  would  not  have  narrow  interpreta- 
tions. Many  unions  have  been  saved  from 
injustice  because  the  Constitution  states 
that  they  and/or  their  members  must  not 
be  deprived  of  "the  due  process  of  law." 

Union  members  finally  began  to  come 
into  their  own  during  the  Depression  of 
the  1930s  and  the  administration  of 
President  Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  and  the 
New  Deal. 


MAY     1987 


The  anti-labor  injunction,  one  of  man- 
agement's earliest  weapons  against  unions, 
has  plagued  working  people  for  decades. 
Enactment  of  a  relief  law,  offering  some 
protection  against  the  vicious  impact  of 
the  injunctive  legal  device,  was  a  goal  of 
the  labor  movement  for  many  years. 

Some  efforts  to  prepare  corrective  leg- 
islation got  bogged  down  in  technicalities 
and  maneuvers.  The  American  Federa- 
tion of  Labor  stepped  up  its  efforts  in 
the  1920s  and  early  1930s  to  champion 
legislation  with  particular  emphasis  on 
outlawing  the  "yellow  dog"  contract. 

Victory  finally  came  in  1932  under  the 
sponsorship  by  two  of  liberalism's  great 
figures:  Senator  George  W.  Norris,  Pro- 
gressive Republican  from  Nebraska  and 
Representative  Fiorello  LaGuardia,  Re- 
publican of  New  York  City.  Topheavy 
margins  marked  passage:  75—5  in  the 
Senate  and  363—13  in  the  House.  Pres- 
ident Herbert  Hoover  signed  the  Norris- 
LaGuardia  Act  March  23,  1932.  The 
AFL  Executive  Council  said  the  legisla- 
tion represented  the  "outstanding  legal 
accomplishment  of  the  American  Fed- 
eration of  Labor.  It  marks  a  great  step 
forward,  reflecting  as  it  does  the  culmi- 
nation of  years  of  effort  to  secure  the 
enactment  of  injunction  relief  legisla- 
tion." 

The  power  of  Federal  courts  was 
sharply  curtailed;  striking  and  payment 
of  strike  benefits  were  exempted;  yellow 
dog  contracts  were  made  unenforceable 
and  careful  procedures  were  established 
for  use  of  the  injunction  by  the  Federal 
judiciary.  The  Norris-LaGuardia  Act  is 
unanimously  regarded  as  one  of  the  great 
labor  landmarks  of  our  time. 

Passage  of  the  National  Industrial  Re- 
covery Act  June  16,  1933  was  one  of 
the  most  spectacular  efforts  made  by  the 
New  Deal  to  fight  the  Great  Depression. 
Under  this  Act  codes  of  fair  competition 
were  drawn  up  by  representatives  of 
industries  under  the  NRA,  the  National 
Recovery  Administration.  Maximum 
hours  and  minimum  wages  were  fixed; 
child  labor  and  sweatshop  labor  were 
outlawed;  and  the  Blue  Eagle  was  the 
symbol  of  code  compliance. 

A  great  wave  of  unionization  devel- 
oped and  in  the  great  industrial  cities 
parades  were  held  honoring  the  Blue 
Eagle  and  pledging  enforcement  of  the 
NRA  codes.  Seldom  had  the  country 
seen  such  an  atmosphere  of  enthu 
siasm  and  pubUc  demonstration 
in  peacetime. 

Section  7-A  of  the  Na- 
tional   Industrial    Re 
covery  Act  protected   ,  < 


labor's  right  to  unionize  and  bargain 
collectively.  The  great  impetus  to  union- 
ization resulted  in  growth  of  the  Amer- 
ican Federation  of  Labor  from  2,000,000 
in  1932  to  more  than  3,000,000  by  1935. 
Freedom  from  restraint,  interference  or 
coercion  by  employers  was  guaranteed. 

The  Blue  Eagle  was  shot  dead  by  a 
decision  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  May  27,  1935  holding  the  NIRA 
unconstitutional  and  soon  thereafter  came 
the  Wagner  Act.  But  the  steps  taken 
under  NIRA  and  especially  under  Section 
7-A  will  always  remain  landmarks  of 
labor  during  a  difficult  period  of  eco- 
nomic depression. 

On  July  5,  1935  President  Franklin  D. 
Roosevelt  signed  into  law  a  bill  estab- 
lishing a  National  Labor  Relations  Board. 
The  statute  known  popularly  as  the 
"Wagner  Act"  broke  new  legal  ground 
in  the  area  of  labor  relations. 

Under  the  new  law  the  right  of  workers 
to  organize  and  bargain  collectively  was 
upheld  and  employer  interference  was 
expressly  forbidden.  Company-domi- 
nated unions  were  outlawed  and  the  law 
was  designed  to  advance  bona  fide 
unionism.  A  National  Labor  Relations 
Board  of  three  members  was  established. 

The  Wagner  Act  has  been  called  "La- 
bor's Magna  Carta"  and  is  most  certainly 
one  of  the  great  landmarks  of  labor  of 
our  time. 

President  Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  on 
July  5,  1935  had  signed  the  bill  enacting 
into  law  protections  for  unions,  but  the 
Act  had  met  stiff  resistance  from  em- 
ployers who  were  reluctant  to  give  up 
company  unions  or  to  make  concessions 
to  bona  fide  labor  organizations.  The 
new  law,  as  upheld  by  the  court,  declared 
to  be  within  the  province  of  Congress, 
under  the  commerce  clause  of  the  Con- 
stitution, the  power  to  regulate  labor 
relations  in  interstate  commerce. 


Charles  Evans  Hughes,  Chief  Justice 
of  the  United  States,  on  April  12,  1937, 
read  a  momentous  opinion  marking  a 
5-4  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  up- 
holding the  constitutionality  of  the  Na- 
tional Labor  Relations  Act. 

Another  Constitutional  milestone  for 
labor  was  the  Fair  Labor  Standards  Act, 
known  also  as  the  wage  and  hour  law, 
which  established  through  the  Federal 
Government  "a  floor  under  wages"  and 
"a  ceiling  over  hours".  Effective  Oct.  24, 
1938,  the  law  set  a  25-cents  per  hour 
level,  to  be  raised  in  seven  years  to  40 
cents.  Today  the  law  has  placed  the  wage 
at  $3.35  per  hour,  and  labor  is  pushing 
for  a  boost  to  $3.85  in  1988. 

On  Aug.  14,  1935  the  U.S.  Congress 
passed  the  Social  Security  Act,  one  of 
the  controversial  legislative  proposals  of 
the  New  Deal.  It  was  soon  under  attack 
in  the  courts. 

An  Alabama  corporation,  the  Charles 
C.  Steward  Machine  Co.,  sought  to  re- 
cover $46.14  from  the  Collector  of  In- 
ternal Revenue  that  it  had  paid  in  Social 
Security  taxes.  While  several  arguments 
were  made  in  court,  the  basic  question 
involving  a.  matter  of  constitutional  law 
rested  on  this:  is  the  tax  imposed  under 
the  Social  Security  Act  an  unconstitu- 
tional invasion  of  the  state's  rights?  Nu- 
merous arguments  were  advanced  in  an 
effort  to  upset  the  law,  but  basically  the 
question  was  the  age-old  one  of  federal 
versus  state's  rights. 

Four  justices  vigorously  dissented,  but 
their  views  were  overridden  and  the 
constitutional  question  was  resolved  in 
favor  of  upholding  the  law. 

Another  legal  landmark  in  the  pro- 
tection of  labor's  rights  is  the  U.S.  Su- 
preme Court  decision  in  the  case  of 
Thornhill  v.  Alabama,  a  case  decided  in 
April  1940. 

Byron  Thornhill,  a  member  of  the 
American  Federation  of  Labor,  was  ar- 
rested for  peacefully  picketing,  an  act 
which  was  in  violation  of  an  Alabama 
law  which  had  been  passed  a  short  time 
previously.  Thornhill  was  arrested  and 
sentenced  to  59  days  in  jail  or  a  $100 
fine.  He  appealed,  and  the  case  eventually 
got  to  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 

Thornhill  was  freed  when  the  Supreme 
Court  held  the  state's  law  to  be  in  conflict 
with  picketing  rights  in  the  Federal  Con- 
stitution. 

This  case  is  a  great  landmark  and 
while  the  doctrine  has  been  some- 
what impaired,  the  decision  still 
stands  as  basic  to  labor's 
fundamental  rights.      UuL 


CARPENTER 


Plant  Shutdown  Bill 
Demands  Action 


For  the  past  15  years,  legislation  to 
require  employers  to  share  the  burden 
of  plant  closings  along  with  the  wounded 
workers  and  communities  has  lan- 
guished in  Congress  even  as  the  prob- 
lem has  spread  throughout  the  nation 
and  to  many  types  of  industries. 

In  a  move  to  lessen  business  oppo- 
sition and  boost  its  chance  of  passage, 
a  watered-down  plant  closing  bill  was 
offered  by  House  Democrats  in  1985. 
Gone  from  that  bill  were  earlier  pro- 
posals for  severance  payments,  transfer 
rights,  continuation  of  health  and  life 
insurance,  and  compensation  to  com- 
munities for  tax  losses.  The  previous 
proposal  for  a  full  year  of  advance 
notification  and  consultation  with  work- 
ers to  seek  alternatives  was  pared  down 
to  90  days. 

Unlike  the  earlier  legislation,  that 
modest  bill  was  able  to  move  out  of 
committee  to  the  floor  of  the  House, 
where  it  was  defeated  in  a  208-203  vote 
in  November  1985. 

As  families  and  communities  contin- 
ued to  be  devastated  by  shutdowns  and 
mass  layoffs.  Labor  Secretary  William 
Brock  appointed  a  task  force  of  gov- 
ernment, labor,  business,  and  academic 
leaders  to  study  the  problem  and  make 
recommendations.  This  January,  the 
task  force  proposed  a  wide-ranging  pro- 
gram to  assist  dislocated  workers  in 
returning  to  the  workforce. 

Its  proposals  formed  the  basis  of  the 

pending    Economic    Dislocation    and 

Worker    Adjustment    Assistance    bill. 

Continued  on  Page  6 


Where  We  Stand 

Whereas,  the  United  Brotherhood 
of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  Amer- 
ica promotes  policies  that  encourage 
the  development,  innovation  and 
continued  growth  of  business  and 
industry,  both  large  and  small, 
which  with  organized  labor  has 
made  this  nation  an  economic 
leader;  therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  that  all  levels  of  gov- 
ernment (1)  support  legislation  to  al- 
leviate the  problems  workers  sud- 
denly face  when  plants  close  down 
or  relocate,  when  companies  change 
ownership  through  merger,  acquisi- 
tion or  divestiture,  or  when  they  re- 
organize in  bankruptcy  court;  that 
such  legislation  amend  existing  sec- 
tions of  the  tax  code  to  remove  the 
economic  incentive  existing  for  suc- 
cessor owners  and  management  to 
exploit  the  bankruptcy  courts  and 
discard  employees  and  unions;  that 
such  legislation  require  provision  for 
sufficient  prior  notice  to  workers 
and  municipalities  and  provide 
training  for  displaced  workers  and 
funds  for  the  affected  communities; 
and  (2)  require  companies  having  a 
union  contract  to  furnish  all  finan- 
cial records  to  a  federal  court  for 
determination  of  the  validity  of  their 
Chapter  1 1  Declaration;  and  be  it 
further 

Resolved,  thai  the  35th  General 
Convention  of  the  United  Brother- 
hood of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of 
America  goes  on  record  to  develop 
and  support  this  resolution. 


Action  on  Plant  Bill 
Urged  by  Labor 
Leaders,  City  Mayors 

Top  union  leaders  representing  workers 
in  a  variety  of  industries  threatened  by 
shutdowns  told  a  House  panel  that  a  plant 
closing  advance  notice  and  dislocated  worker 
assistance  bill  is  long  overdue. 

Food  and  Commercial  Workers  President 
William  Wynn,  Auto  Workers  President  Owen 
Bieber,  and  AFL-CIO  Industrial  Union  De- 
partment President  Howard  Samuel  were 
joined  by  Yonkers,  N.Y.,  Mayor  Angelo 
Martinelli  in  urging  swift  action  on  H.R. 
1 122,  the  Economic  Dislocation  and  Worker 
Adjustment  Assistance  bill. 

But  business  representatives  maintained 
their  stiff  opposition  to  the  bill's  advance 
notification  requirement  at  the  March  17 
joint  hearing  by  the  House  Labor-Manage- 
ment Relations  Subcommittee  and  the  Em- 
ployment Opportunities  Subcommittee. 

Rep.  William  Clay  (D-Mo.),  chairman  of 
the  Labor-Management  Relations  panel,  noted 
that  the  first  plant  closing  legislation  was 
introduced  some  15  years  ago.  "At  last  a 
consensus  is  emerging  that  recognizes  the 
very  real  plight  of  dislocated  workers.  It  is 
now  understood  that  dislocation  adversely 
affects  all  regions  of  the  country  and  causes 
hardship  for  workers  in  every  occupation 
and  income  bracket."  Clay  said  dealing  with 
the  problem  is  vital  to  the  nation's  economic 
competitiveness. 

Clay  noted  that  H.R.  1 122  is  largely  based 
on  the  recommendations  of  a  task  force 
appointed  by  Labor  Secretary  William  Brock. 
The  21 -member  task  force  of  government, 
labor,  business,  and  academic  leaders  issued 
its  report  in  January.  While  agreeing  that 
early  notice  of  plant  closings  was  vital  to 
cushion  the  effects  on  workers  and  com- 
munities, the  task  force  could  not  reach  a 
consensus  on  mandatory  notification  by  em- 
ployers. 

UFCW  President  Wynn  said  H.R.  1122 
would  help  remedy  the  shortcomings  of  the 
current  displaced  worker  assistance  pro- 
gram, Title  III  of  the  Job  Training  Partner- 
ship Act,  which  he  said  included  underfund- 
ing,  inadequate  implementation  by  many 
states,  and  the  lack  of  "critical  income 
support"  during  training. 

"What  this  bill  does,  for  the  first  time,  is 
to  estabfish  a  structure  at  the  federal  and 
state  levels  to  assure  that  adequately-funded 
programs  are  delivered  effectively  and 
promptly  to  the  workers  who  can  most 
benefit  from  them,"  Wynn  told  the  panel. 
He  said  the  program  would  "halt  the  eco- 
nomic drain  of  wasted  skills  and  discarded 
workers.  It  is  a  recycling  of  America's  hu- 
man resources." 


The  Plant  Shutdown  Bill,  H.R.  1122,  is  vital 
to  your  future  welfare.  Write  your  repre- 
sentative today  and  tell  him  or  her  that  you 
expect  support.  Address  your  letter  to  Con- 
gressman or  Congresswoman  So-and-So,  U.S. 
House  of  Representatives,  Washington,  DC 
20515. 


MAY     1987 


Plant  Bill 

Continued  from  Page  5 

Democratic  leaders  of  both  houses  have 
given  the  labor-backed  bill  high  priority 
and  have  promised  floor  action  this 
spring. 

The  bill's  requirement  of  advance 
notice  of  shutdowns  or  mass  layoffs, 
from  90  to  180  days  depending  on  the 
number  of  workers  affected,  and  con- 
sultation with  worker  representatives, 
remains  the  sticking  point.  The  Brock 
task  force,  whose  business  members 
opposed  it,  could  not  reach  a  consensus 
here  although  it  agreed  that  "experi- 
ence has  shown  that  the  earliest  noti- 
fication possible  leads  to  more  effective 
delivery  of  public  and  private  services 
to  dislocated  workers." 

At  recent  House  and  Senate  subcom- 
mittee hearings,  business  officials 
dredged  up  their  old  arguments:  worker 
morale  and  productivity  might  suffer; 
suppliers  might  get  nervous  about  ex- 
tending credit;  businesses  are  too  dif- 
ferent for  a  single  rule;  litigation  against 
employers  might  result;  a  decision  to 
close  a  plant  is  a  last  resort  that  can't 
be  reversed.  They  said  advance  notice 
usually  is  a  good  idea,  but  that  it  should 
be  strictly  voluntary. 

Yet  during  the  course  of  the  hearings, 
each  of  these  arguments  was  stripped 
of  its  merit  by  subcommittee  members 
who  cited  studies  of  shutdowns  and,  by 
labor  representatives  with  extensive  ex- 
perience in  dealing  with  the  problem. 
They  offered  evidence  that  the  bill's 
provisions  for  nearly  $1  billion  a  year 
for  counseling,  relocation,  education, 
re-training,  and  other  assistance  to  dis- 


placed workers  would  be  much  more 
effective  with  advance  notice. 

Thomas  Fricano  of  the  United  Auto 
Workers  told  a  House  panel  how  the 
Trico  Products  Corp.  gave  more  than 
a  year's  notice  that  it  would  close  two 
of  its  three  wiper  blade  plants  in  Buf- 
falo, N.Y.,  and  build  a  plant  on  the 
Texas/Mexico  border.  "The  union  seized 
upon  that  advance  notice  to  try  to  find 
ways  either  to  reverse  or  lessen  the 
impact  of  the  decision,"  Fricano  said. 

New  York  Gov.  Mario  Cuomo  of- 
fered the  services  of  the  state's  office 
of  economic  development.  A  Cornell 
University  professor  conducted  an  eight- 
month  study  of  the  plants'  production 
methods.  New  methods  were  suggested 
by  the  workers  and  adopted  by  the 
company.  The  plants  were  saved. 

Rep.  Matthew  Martinez  (D-Calif.)  put 


his  finger  on  the  basic  reason  for  the 
stiff  resistance  of  American  business  to 
advance  notice  and  consultation.  "They 
don't  want  government  or  anyone  else 
interfering  with  their  corporate  deci- 
sions. They  don't  give  a  damn  about 
the  people  involved  and  the  trauma  they 
cause,"  Martinez  said  at  a  hearing. 

The  Catholic  Bishops'  recent  Pas- 
toral Letter  on  the  U.S.  Economy  ad- 
dressed the  issue.  "At  a  minimum, 
workers  have  a  right  to  be  informed  in 
advance  when  such  decisions  are  under 
consideration,  a  right  to  negotiate  with 
management  about  possible  alterna- 
tives, and  a  right  to  fair  compensation 
and  assistance  with  retraining  and  re- 
location should  these  be  necessary." 

It's  past  time  for  the  U.S.  to  join  the 
world's  other  industrial  democracies  in 
ensuring  these  rights.  \i3b 


Canadian  Workers  Already  Receive 
Advance  Notice  of  Plant  Closings 


As  the  debate  over  whether  to  require 
employers  to  give  workers  advance  no- 
tice of  layoffs  or  plant  closings  contin- 
ues in  the  U.S.  Congress,  lawmakers 
are  turning  for  some  guidance  to  Can- 
ada, where  both  provincial  and  federal 
laws  require  some  form  of  advance 
notice  as  part  of  a  comprehensive  pro- 
gram to  aid  dislocated  workers. 

For  some  U.S.  lawmakers,  an  ad- 
vance notice  consensus  is  the  corner- 
stone on  which  dislocated  worker  leg- 
islation should  be  built. 

In  the  Senate,  all  Democratic  mem- 
bers of  the  Labor  and  Human  Re- 
sources Committee  favor  an  advance 
notice  requirement,  we  are  told.  Some 
Republican  members  are  "interested." 


On  the  House  side,  most,  if  not  all. 
Democratic  members  of  the  Education 
and  Labor  Committee  favor  including 
an  advance  provision  in  a  dislocated 
worker  bill,  a  committee  staffer  says. 
Among  Republicans  on  the  committee, 
he  notes,  at  least  Rep.  Jeffords  (R-Vt.) 
is  not  opposed  to  an  advance  notice 
provision. 

Federal  law  in  Canada  has  two  types 
of  advance  notice  of  termination  pro- 
visions, one  for  layoff  of  individuals, 
the  other  for  the  termination  of  groups. 
The  provinces  have  one  or  the  other  or 
both.  The  federal  provisions  apply  to 
all  federal  workers  as  well  as  employees 
in  regulated  industries  such  as  trans- 
portation and  banking  and  finance.  The 


provincial  regulations  apply  to  both 
public  and  private  sector  workers  in  the 
provinces.  Workers  in  certain  indus- 
tries such  as  construction  and  agricul- 
ture are  not  covered. 

Under  federal  advance  notice  provi- 
sions covering  individuals,  employers 
must  give  two  weeks'  notice  of  termi- 
nation to  employees  who  have  worked 
at  least  three  months.  Under  federal 
group  termination  law,  employers  of  50 
or  more  workers  must  give  at  least  16 
weeks'  advance  notice. 

It  appears  that  the  advance  notice 
controversy  in  the  United  States — where 
only  two  states  have  such  laws  on  the 
books — has  a  long  way  to  go  before 
being  settled. 


CARPENTER 


cue  Legislative  Update 


Labor  asks  the 
Presidential  contenders 
for  their  views 


By  CALVIN  G.  ZON 

PAI  Staff  Writer 

The  15  declared  or  likely  presidential 
candidates  have  been  asked  by  the 
AFL-CIO  to  address  four  issues  which 
organized  labor  considers  to  be  "of 
critical  importance  to  America's  work- 
ing people." 

The  presidential  hopefuls  were  asked 
to  respond  in  writing  to  questions  con- 
cerning trade,  the  federal  deficit,  the 
role  of  government  in  meeting  human 
needs,  and  the  role  of  unions  in  the 
political  process.  In  addition,  the  can- 
didates will  be  asked  to  respond  on 
videotape  to  a  question  about  presiden- 
tial leadership. 

The  purpose  is  to  provide  members 
of  AFL-CIO-affiliated  unions  "with  in- 
formation helpful  to  them  in  making 
their  own  choices  in  the  primaries  and 
in  the  November  1988  general  elec- 
tion," AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirk- 
land  said  in  a  March  13  letter  to  seven 
Democratic  and  eight  Republican  hope- 
fuls. 

The  queries  also  represented  the  start 
of  a  process  to  involve  the  rank-and- 
file  in  a  possible  AFL-CIO  endorsement 
of  a  presidential  candidate  at  the  fed- 
eration's convention  this  October, 
Kirkland's  letter  explained. '  'Once  union 
members  and  their  families  have  read 
the  written  responses  and  viewed  the 
videotapes,  they  will  be  better  able  to 
exercise  their  judgments  and  inform 
their  leadership  of  their  preferences," 
he  wrote. 

The  responses  will  be  released  by  the 
federation  in  a  special  publication  in 
early  May  and  distributed  to  affiliated 
unions,  state  federations,  and  local  cen- 
tral bodies  for  use  in  their  publications, 
Kirkland  said.  He  said  "a  video  ques- 
tion concerning  your  views  on  the  unique 
leadership  role  of  the  presidency"  will 
be  released  at  the  same  time  for  showing 
in  union  halls  and  at  labor  meetings 
across  the  country. 

The  Democrats  who  were  queried 
were  former  Arizona  Gov.  Bruce  Bab- 
bitt, Senator  Joseph  Biden  of  Delaware, 
Senator  Dale  Bumpers  of  Arkansas, 
Massachusetts  Gov.  Michael  Dukakis, 
Rep.  Richard  Gephardt  of  Missouri, 
former  Colorado  Senator  Gary  Hart, 
and  Jesse  Jackson,  head  of  Operation 
PUSH. 


The  Republicans  were  Vice  President 
George  Bush,  Senator  Robert  Dole  of 
Kansas,  former  Delaware  Gov.  Pierre 
S.  du  Pont  IV,  former  Secretary  of 
State  Alexander  Haig,  Rep.  Jack  Kemp 
of  New  York,  former  Nevada  Senator 
Paul  Laxalt,  television  evangelist  Pat 
Robertson,  and  former  Illinois  Con- 
gressman Donald  Rumsfeld. 

At  a  March  16  press  conference  at 
AFL-CIO  headquarters,  federation 
Secretary-Treasurer  Thomas  R.  Dona- 
hue said  the  list  of  15  declared  and 
potential  candidates  includes  all  the 
"serious"  ones  who  haven't  ruled  out 
a  candidacy  in  1988. 

"We  want  to  give  our  members  a 
chance  to  read  the  candidates'  own 
words  and  to  watch  the  candidates  as 
they  articulate  their  own  bid  for  lead- 
ership of  the  country,"  Donahue  said. 
As  to  whether  labor  will  endorse  a 
candidate,  "The  answer  is  that  at  this 
point,  we  don't  know.  That's  up  to  the 
members  of  our  affiliated  unions,"  he 
said. 

In  response  to. a  reporter's  question, 
Donahue  said  the  candidates'  answers 
to  a  particular  question  should  not  be 
regarded  as  "a  litmus  test"  for  labor's 
endorsement.  "We're  not  saying  that 
any  single  issue  is  a  litmus  test  issue," 
he  said,  adding,  "The  general  attitude 
of  candidates"  should  be  weighed.  II3C 


UBC  Protests  Navy 
Officers'  Actions 

The  United  Brotherhood  has  formally 
protested  to  U.S.  congressmen  and  sen- 
ators who  represent  states  with  naval 
facilities  that  the  Navy  and  its  assigned 
service  officers  are  interfering  in  labor- 
management  relations  at  some  West 
Coast  shipyards. 

Wayne  Pierce,  general  treasurer  and 
director  of  legislation,  sent  the  follow- 
ing letter  to  12  key  congressmen  and 
four  senators,  including  members  of  the 
armed  services  committees: 

"It  has  come  to  our  attention  that 
the  U.S.  Navy  and  its  West  Coast 
assigned  officers  are  interfering  in  col- 
lective bargaining  matters  between  Na- 
val contractors  and  their  unions.  It 
seems  the  Navy  wants  to  undermine 
traditional  craft  structures  and  lower 
the  wage  scales  in  West  Coast  ship- 
yards. 

"This  concerns  us  for  any  number  of 
reasons.  As  you  know,  the  labor  move- 
ment has  always  stood  for  a  strong 
national  defense.  We  believe  that  this 
calls  for  quality  in  military  material. 
Weakening  craft  structures  may  pro- 
duce some  short-term  cost  savings,  but 
could  result  in  disaster  in  time  of  na- 
tional emergency,  when  skilled  and 
highly-trained  labor  is  essential  to  meet 
quotas  and  timetables. 

"It  also  concerns  us  that  the  Navy 
would  be  attempting  to  undermine  ex- 
isting wage  structures.  The  UBC  feels 
that  unions  freely  negotiating  with  em- 
ployers must  not  have  their  efforts  un- 
dermined by  the  federal  government. 
This  would  establish  an  extremely 
frightening  precedent. 

"I  urge  you  to  join  in  calling  for  an 
investigation  into  these  matters.  .  .  ." 


The  Four  Questions  Asked  of  the  Contenders 

FOREIGN  TRADE — How  would  you  propose  to  reduce  America's  trade 
deficit  and  encourage  the  fair  exchange  of  goods  with  other  nations,  while 
maintaining  and  improving  our  standard  of  living? 

BUDGET  DEFICIT — How  would  you  reduce  the  federal  budget  deficit 
without  hurting  working  Americans  and  the  poor?  Would  you  rule  out  raising 
federal  revenues,  including  tax  increases,  as  a  component  of  deficit  reduction? 

HUMAN  NEEDS — What  role  do  you  see  for  governments — federal,  state, 
and  local — in  such  areas  as  education,  employment,  training,  health  care, 
housing,  equal  opportunity,  the  environment,  and  programs  for  the  elderly? 
At  your  first  Cabinet  meeting,  what  instructions  would  you  give  to  the  heads 
of  departments  with  responsibilities  in  these  areas? 

THE  POLITICAL  PROCESS — Unions,  like  many  other  membership 
organizations,  have  historically  played  an  active  role  in  the  political  process 
by  assisting  their  members  in  registering,  by  conununicating  with  their 
members  on  the  issues,  and  by  endorsing  candidates  whose  positions  further 
the  best  interest  of  their  membership.  What  are  your  views  of  organized 
labor's  proper  role  in  the  political  process? 


MAY     1987 


Washington 
Report 


SCHOOL  ASBESTOS  REMOVAL 

A  congressional  resolution  which  orders  the  Envi- 
ronmental Protection  Agency  to  distribute  $47.5  mil- 
lion for  school  asbestos  removal  has  been  signed 
by  President  Reagan. 

The  Administration  early  this  year  had  urged 
Congress  not  to  spend  the  money  to  help  remove 
and  contain  cancer-causing  asbestos  in  schools  at- 
tended by  an  estimated  50,000  children.  In  early 
March,  however.  Congress  passed  the  joint  resolu- 
tion requiring  the  EPA  to  make  available  the  funds 
for  loans  and  grants  to  schools  in  time  for  the  work 
to  be  completed  during  the  summer  vacation. 

RECORD  HOME  PURCHASE  RATE 

The  lowest  interest  rates  in  nearly  a  decade 
prompted  Americans  to  buy  existing  homes  at  a 
record  pace  late  last  year,  but  rising  prices  may  put 
a  damper  on  things,  a  trade  association  said. 

While  sales  soared  to  an  annual  rate  of  4.37 
million  units  during  the  fourth-quarter  period  last 
year,  the  median  home  price  climbed  6.5%  from  the 
fourth  quarter  of  1985,  according  to  the  National 
Association  of  Realtors. 

The  organization  predicted  a  median  price  in- 
crease of  an  additional  4%  this  year,  which  seems 
to  have  been  borne  out  by  the  Commerce  Depart- 
ment figures  in  for  January:  the  median  home  price 
exceeded  $100,000  for  the  first  time  on  record. 
New  home  sales  fell  6.8%  in  January. 

But  interest  rates  are  expected  to  wind  up  in 
1987  about  where  they  were  at  the  end  of  1986, 
and  that  would  sustain  sales  at  a  strong  level. 

WORK  STOPPAGES  UP  IN  1986 

Major  work  stoppages  increased  in  1986  after 
declining  steadily  for  the  previous  six  years,  the 
Labor  Department  reported. 

Strikes  and  lockouts  rose  in  1986  as  measured 
by  the  number  of  stoppages  involving  more  than 
1 ,000  workers,  the  total  number  of  idled  workers, 
and  the  number  of  lost  work  days. 

Major  work  stoppages  had  declined  from  235  in 
1979  to  a  record  low  of  54  in  1985.  But  the  number 
jumped  back  up  to  69  in  1986  as  533,000  workers 
either  walked  out  or  were  locked  out  of  their  jobs, 
compared  to  324,000  in  1985.  Nearly  11.9  million 
work  days  were  lost  to  strikes  and  lockouts  last 
year,  a  68%  increase  over  1985. 


TO  AUTOMATE  Ul  SYSTEMS 

Assistant  U.S.  Secretary  of  Labor  Roger  D.  Se- 
merad  has  announced  the  allocation  of  $20  million 
to  23  states  to  assist  them  in  automating  their  un- 
employment insurance  systems  and  procedures. 

"These  awards  reflect  our  investment  and  interest 
in  helping  state  agencies  meet  Ul  automation 
needs,"  Semerad  said.  "We  encourage  automation 
because  it  improves  states'  capacity  to  serve  claim- 
ants and  employers  accurately  and  on  time." 

The  Unemployment  Insurance  Service,  a  division 
of  the  department's  Employment  and  Training 
Administration,  selected  the  proposals  of  those 
states  on  the  basis  of  established  criteria. 

Proposals  were  reviewed  for  urgency,  administra- 
tive and  Ul  Trust  Fund  savings,  improved  system 
performance,  technical  merit,  and  some  aspect  of 
state  payback  of  funds  to  the  federal  government. 

The  jurisdictions  receiving  grants  are:  Arizona, 
Arkansas,  Colorado,  Connecticut,  Hawaii,  Indiana, 
Iowa,  Kansas,  Massachusetts,  Minnesota,  Missouri, 
Nevada,  New  Hampshire,  New  Jersey,  North  Caro- 
lina, Ohio,  Rhode  Island,  Tennessee,  Texas,  Ver- 
mont, West  Virginia,  Wisconsin,  and  Wyoming. 

BOARD'S  CASELOAD  UP 

Unions  and  employers  filed  41 ,639  cases  with  the 
National  Labor  Relations  Board  in  fiscal  year  1986, 
1 .7%  more  than  a  year  earlier  and  the  first  increase 
since  1983. 

NLRB  General  Counsel  Rosemary  Collyer  noted 
in  her  annual  summary  of  operations  that  unfair 
labor  practice  cases  increased  3.8%.  The  number 
of  those  cases  climbed  to  33,780  while  the  total  of 
representation  cases  fell  7.5%  to  7,228  in  1986. 

The  agency  settled  9,312  unfair  labor  practice 
cases  in  1986,  up  from  8,988  settlements  a  year 
earlier,  while  issuing  3,135  complaints — an  increase 
of  3.8%. 

Collyer  reported  that  $27.8  million  in  back  pay 
was  won  for  workers — a  slightly  higher  amount  than 
in  1984,  but  55.4%  below  last  year's  record  $62.2 
million.  The  amount  of  fees,  dues,  and  fines  paid  to 
workers  increased  300%  over  the  previous  year  to 
a  record  $1 .4  million,  the  report  noted. 

ASSISTANCE  TO  HOMELESS 

A  bill  passed  by  the  House  on  a  264-121  vote 
would  authorize  $725  million  over  four  years  for 
housing,  health,  and  food  assistance  to  the  nation's 
homeless. 

The  vote  on  H.R.  558,  which  would  nearly  triple 
federal  spending  on  homeless  programs,  was  heav- 
ily weighted  along  party  lines  after  Republican 
amendments  to  require  spending  cuts  in  other 
areas  to  pay  for  the  aid  and  mandatory  testing  of 
the  homeless  for  AIDS  were  voted  down. 

The  bill,  which  now  goes  to  the  Senate,  would 
authorize  $500  million  in  Fiscal  1987  for  shelter  and 
health  care  for  the  homeless  and  $225  million  for 
food  and  nutrition  programs  for  the  homeless  in 
Fiscal  1988  through  1990. 

In  addition  to  increased  funds  for  emergency 
shelter  programs,  the  bill  includes  a  provision  which 
targets  $20  million  for  rental  and  utility  assistance 
vouchers  to  low-income  tenants  to  help  prevent 
eviction. 


CARPENTER 


Forrest  Pool,  a  representative  of  the  IWA  Western  States  Re- 
gional Council  III,  distributes  handbills  at  U.S.  Bancorp  Tower. 


Another  IWA  Western  States  Regional  Council  III  representa- 
tive, Chuck  MacRae,  also  handed  out  the  flyers. 


L-P  National  Boycott  Day  on  June  20 

Preparations  for  Boycott  and  Sliareholders  Meeting  Demonstration  Have  Begun 


With  next  month  representing  the 
fourth  anniversary  of  the  Louisiana- 
Pacific  strike  by  1,500  Brotherhood 
members,  General  President  Campbell 
is  urging  locals  and  councils  throughout 
the  country  to  take  to  the  L-P  boycott 
lines  on  Saturday,  June  20,  in  a  show 
of  national  solidarity.  "This  union's 
aggressive  campaign  against  L-P  for  the 
past  four  years  has  helped  protect  the 
livelihoods  of  thousands  of  workers  in 
the  wood  products  industry,  but  the 
fight's  not  over,"  stated  Campbell.  "It's 
necessary  that  this  union  continue  to 
demonstrate  its  determination  to  fight 
any  challenges  to  our  members'  liveli- 
hoods," continued  Campbell. 

On  June  20,  the  National  Boycott 
Day,  UBC  members  are  being  asked  to 
conduct  L-P  boycott  handbilling  activ- 
ity at  local  lumber  retailers  carrying 
L-P  products.  The  AFL-CIO-sanc- 
tioned  boycott  of  L-P  has  been  ongoing 
for  nearly  three  years  and  it  has  shown 
very  positive  results.  Reports  from  UBC 
field  boycott  coordinators  indicate  that 
approximately  600  retail  lumber  dealers 
have  stopped  selling  L-P  products  as  a 
result    of  consumer-directed    boycott 


handbilling.  Recent  strong  sales  by  wood 
products  companies,  including  L-P, 
make  this  a  particularly  important  time 
to  redouble  boycott  efforts. 

Instructional  material  and  boycott  ht- 
erature  will  be  sent  to  each  local  and 
council  in  preparation  for  the  National 
Boycott  Day.  The  material  will  outline 


GET  OFF  THE 

UNION 

BUSTER! 


This  flyer  was  distributed  by  UBC  members 
at  U.S.  Bancorp  facilities. 


the  proper  procedures  for  conducting 
the  boycott  handbilling,  which  urges 
non-patronage  of  the  lumber  retailers 
selling  L-P  products.  The  intial  step  for 
preparing  for  handbilling  is  a  thorough 
survey  of  the  lumber  retailers  in  your 
area.  A  quick  visit  to  the  retailers  will 
confirm  whether  or  not  L-P  products 
are  being  sold  at  the  location.  A  letter 
from  the  General  President  will  be  sent 
to  stores  carrying  the  product  prior  to 
the  scheduled  handbilling  to  inform  re- 
tailers of  the  pending  action. 

As  Carpenter  goes  to  press,  plans  are 
underway  for  a  major  labor  demonstra- 
tion at  L-P's  annual  shareholders'  meet- 
ing on  May  4,  in  Montgomery,  Tex.  At 
each  of  the  company's  last  three  share- 
holders' meetings,  a  delegation  of  L-P 
strikers  has  been  joined  by  the  local 
labor  community  in  a  demonstration 
against  L-P's  labor  and  anti-community 
policies.  Major  issues  on  which  L-P  will 
be  challenged  include  its  plant  closing 
actions  in  Texas  where  it  closed  two 
recently-purchased  union  mills,  its  mul- 
titude of  environmental  problems  and 
its  anti-community  actions  in  many  cit- 
ies where  it  maintains  operations.  Ui)!/ 


AT^Please...  DON'T  BUY'^ 

Pv}  Loinsim-PAciFic 

V*>^WOOD  PRODUCTS 


UNITED  BROTHERHOOD 

OF  CARPENTERS 

AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 


MAY     1987 


More  than  80  delegates  par- 
ticipated in  the  conference. 
In  the  front  row  above,  from 
left,  are  three  members  of 
Local  2268,  Monticello, 
Ga. — Henry  Long,  Charlie 
Ridley,  and  Bobby  Devereau. 
At  right,  Ed  Durkin,  director 
of  UBC  Special  Programs, 
speaks  to  the  group.  Beside 
him  is  Ray  White  ofSCIW. 


optimistic  1987  projections  for  the  wood 
products  industry.  In  addition,  the  15% 
surcharge  imposed  on  Canadian  lumber 
imports  has  also  caused  lumber  prices 
to  move  upward  during  this  spring 
building  season. 

Most  major  companies  have  been 
through  restructuring  programs  which 
have  meant  mill  closures,  sales  in- 
creases, construction  of  more  high  tech 
mills  and  upgrading  existing  facilities. 
These  programs  have  increased  log  re- 
coveries and  reduced  costs  for  every 
unit  of  lumber  or  board  products  turned 
out.  This  has  greatly  improved  the  profit 
margins  for  these  integrated  corpora- 
tions. 

Another  noteworthy  trend  has  been 
underway  since  the  early  1980s.  There 
has  been  tremendous  growth  in  the 
volume  of  panel  products  manufactured 


SCIW,  IWA  Hold  Joint  Conference 
On  Coordinated  Forest  Industry  Talks 


Representatives  from  lumber  and 
plywood  locals  of  the  United  Brother- 
hood and  the  International  Woodwork- 
ers of  America  met  recently  in  Myrtle 
Beach,  S.C.,  to  consider  plans  for  con- 
ducting national  coordinated  contract 
negotiations  in  1988  and  1989. 

The  joint  conference,  held  March  26 
and  27,  drew  more  than  80  delegates 
from  UBC  and  International  Wood- 
workers of  America  locals.  They  heard 
a  discussion  of  the  goals  and  methods 
of  the  U.S.  Forest  Products  Joint  Bar- 
gaining Board,  which  was  formed  in 
early  1986  to  carry  out  national  bar- 
gaining programs.  The  board  is  com- 
posed of  the  Western  and  Southern 
Industrial  Councils  of  the  UBC  and  the 
Western  and  Southern  regions  of  the 
IWA.  All  four  bargaining  board  mem- 
bers, in  fact,  attended  the  Southern 
conference  and  delivered  speeches. 

In  his  opening  remarks,  Ray  White, 


Representatives  of 
UBC-SCIW  and 
IWA  local  unions 
pooled  their  collec- 
tive bargaining  ex- 
periences at  the 
two-day  conference 
in  South  Carolina. 


executive  secretary  of  the  UBC's 
Southern  Council  of  Industrial  Work- 
ers, said,  "We  have  worked  closely 
with  the  IWA  in  the  South  to  produce 
better  contract  settlements.  Now  it  is 
time  to  tie  our  strength  with  the  strength 
of  our  West  Coast  counterparts." 

"This  is  the  only  way  our  members 
in  the  wood  products  industry  will  ob- 
tain a  proper  share  of  the  tremendous 
profits  being  generated  by  forest  prod- 
ucts corporations  and  it  is  the  only  way 
we  will  be  able  to  address  the  wage  gap 
that  exists  between  Southern  and  West- 
ern operations,"  he  added. 

The  delegates  heard  a  comprehensive 
report  from  the  UBC  Industrial  De- 
partment concerning  current  trends  in 
the  forest  industry.  A  combination  of 
low  mortgage  interest  rates,  strong  con- 
struction trends  for  single  family  homes 
and  continued  strength  in  the  repair  and 
remodeling  market  have  led  to  very 


from  wood  chips  or  wood  fibers.  This 
was  made  possible  by  technological 
breakthroughs  concerning  the  align- 
ment of  fibers  for  strength  and  the 
application  of  improved  glues  and  res- 
ins. Output  of  these  products  in  North 
America,  called  waferboard  and  ori- 
ented strand  board,  has  grown  from 
nearly  zero  in  1980  to  5. 1  billion  square 
feet  in  1986.  With  nine  more  mills  under 
construction,  output  will  grow  by  an- 
other 32%  in  the  next  several  years. 
These  board  products  are  cheaper  than 
plywood  and  are  replacing  plywood  in 
many  uses.  They  now  account  for  13% 
of  the  total  panel  market  in  the  United 
States.  There  is  no  question  that  this 
percentage  will  grow  in  the  years  ahead. 

Year-end  profit  reports  for  1986  al- 
ready reflect  these  trends.  For  example, 
net  profits  for  seven  major  forest  prod- 
ucts corporations  rose  by  40%  from 
1985  levels.  Further  improvement  is 
forecast  for  1987. 

As  one  speaker  noted,  "The  national 
coordinating  program  put  together  by 
the  Joint  Bargaining  Board  is  well  timed. 
It  comes  when  the  companies  in  the 
industry  are  showing  great  prosperity." 

The  delegates  also  received  infor- 
mation concerning  the  national  and  in- 
ternational operations  of  the  major  firms 
that  gives  them  the  ability  to  reach  all 
of  the  regional  U.S.  markets  and  foreign 
markets  and  do  so  with  a  wide  assort- 
ment of  wood  and  paper  products.  These 
same  corporations  wield  additional  eco- 
nomic power  because  most  control  pro- 
duction from  timberlands  to  the  retail 


10 


CARPENTER 


outlet.  This  economic  strength  and  abil- 
ity to  generate  large  profits  and  cash 
flow  underscore  the  need  to  develop 
and  pursue  national  bargaining  pro- 
grams for  forest  industry  workers.  This 
is  the  only  approach  that  will  balance 
off  the  bargaining  power  now  held  by 
the  giant  corporations. 

Delegates  broke  into  workshop  ses- 
sions during  the  afternoon  to  cover  two 
topics.  The  first  dealt  with  building 
improved  communication  systems  in 
local  unions,  called  one-on-one  job  can- 
vassing. This  is  a  formalized  program 
of  speaking  to  every  member  on  a  face- 
to-face  basis  concerning  any  pre-se- 
lected  topic.  This  technique  will  be  used 
in  the  future  to  provide  members  with 
better  information  about  bargaining  is- 
sues and  strategies  being  used  for  na- 
tional coordinated  negotiations. 

The  second  workshop  covered  pen- 
sion plans  that  are  prevalent  in  the 
forest  products  industry.  The  provi- 
sions of  plans  in  the  west  and  south 
were  studied  and  goals  for  improving 
those  retirement  benefits  were  dis- 
cussed. 

James  Bledsoe,  executive  secretary 
of  the  Western  Industrial  Council,  ad- 
dressed the  conference  Friday  morning. 
He  laid  out  some  of  the  central  goals 

'The  national 
coordinating  program 
put  togetlier  by  ttie  U.S. 
Forest  Products  Joint 
Bargaining  Board  is 
well  timed.  It  comes 
when  the  companies  in 
the  industry  are 
showing  great 
prosperity. ' 


Jim  Bledsoe,  left,  executive  secre- 
tary of  the  Northwest  Council, 
makes  a  point,  as  leaders  of  three 
international  unions  huddle.  From 
left,  clockwise,  are  Bill  Hubbell, 
president,  IWA  Western  Region: 
Mike  Fishman,  assistant  to  the  gen- 
eral president  in  charge  of  the  UBC 
industrial  department;  Joe  Brad- 
shaw,  vice  president.  Paper  Work- 
ers; Ray  White,  SCIW  executive 
secretary;  Charles  Campbell,  presi- 
dent, IWA  Southern  Region;  and 
Arnold  Brown,  vice  president.  Paper 
Workers. 


of  the  Joint  Bargaining  Board.  They 
include  such  things  as  wage  parity, 
pension  uniformity  and  greater  protec- 
tions for  workers  when  mills  close. 

The  program  concluded  with  a  pres- 
entation by  Ed  Durkin,  director,  UBC 
Special  Programs  Department.  Durkin 
described  how  workers,  through  jointly- 
trusted  pension  plans  own  large  blocks 
of  corporate  stock.  Department  of  La- 
bor studies  estimate  that  by  the  mid 
1990s,  65%  of  outstanding  corporate 
stock  will  be  held  by  worker  pension 
funds.  Until  recently  these  pension  plans 
have  not  exercised  their  stockholder 
rights  with  respect  to  how  corporations 
are  run.  The  pension  funds  looked  only 
at  the  investment  returns  achieved  from 
those  shares  of  stock. 

Recently,  Durkin  reported,  the  UBC 
has  identified  the  stock  held  by  Broth- 
erhood pension  funds  in  wood  products 
companies,  and  has  encouraged  those 
funds  to  exercise  their  shareholder  rights. 
Several  of  the  Brotherhood's  pension 
funds  have  submitted  resolutions  for 
shareholder  consideration  in  an  effort 
to  change  certain  corporate  practices. 
At  Weyerhaeuser  Co.,  a  plant  closing 
notice  resolution  was  submitted,  as  well 
as  a  proposal  to  change  bylaw  provi- 
sions which  allow  management  to  en- 
trench themselves.  A  management 
"golden  parachute"  at  Georgia-Pacific, 
which  would  provide  severance  pay- 
ments to  the  top  five  corporate  officers 
of  nearly  $8  million  in  the  event  of  a 
corporate  change  of  control,  was  at- 
tacked by  a  shareholder  resolution  sub- 
mitted by  a  Brotherhood  fund. 

The  growing  awareness  of  the  role  of 
workers  as  corporate  shareholders  has 
stimulated  greater  interest  on  the  part 
of  unions  in  monitoring  corporate  op- 
erations. Through  our  pension  funds, 
UBC  members  and  other  workers  hold 
important  positions  as  owners  in  most 
American  corporations.  Aggressive  ac- 
tions as  shareholders  are  being  under- 
taken in  the  wood  products  and  else- 
where in  an  effort  to  protect  our  interests 
as  workers  and  investors.  UUL 


Industrial  Collective 
Bargaining  Training 
Program  in  Use 

Councils  and  locals  in  the  industrial 
sector  are  using  the  Brotherhood's  new 
training  program  "The  Bargaining 
Process,"  for  local  bargaining  commit- 
tees. The  slide-tape  program  shows  a 
bargaining  committee,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  business  representative,  per- 
forming such  tasks  as  gathering  infor- 
mation for  bargaining,  surveying 
members,  helping  to  draw  up  proposals, 
presenting  evidence  at  the  bargaining 
table,  and  making  a  recommendation 
to  the  membership  on  the  settlement. 
At  each  stage,  the  program  makes  clear 
the  responsibilities  of  committee  mem- 
bers, such  as  taking  notes  during  ne- 
gotiations and  explaining  the  tentative 
settlement  to  members  at  the  ratifica- 
tion meeting. 

The  program  is  intended  to  make 
bargaining  committees  more  knowl- 
edgeable about  the  negotiating  process 
and  more  effective  in  helping  win  the 
best  possible  settlement  for  their  fellow 
members.  The  program  includes,  in 
addition  to  the  slide-tape  program,  a 
manual  for  bargaining  committee  mem- 
bers, a  guide  for  the  trainer,  and  a 
Survey  for  Negotiations  form.  The  pro- 
gram should  be  shown  well  in  advance 
of  bargaining  to  allow  the  committee 
adequate  time  to  prepare  for  negotia- 
tions. 

Business  representatives  may  order 
the  program  through  their  executive 
board  member  or  the  Industrial  De- 
partment at  the  General  Office. 


MANUAL 

FOR 

tNDUSTRlAL 

LOCAL  UNION 

COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING 

COMMITTEE  MEMBERS 

United  Brotherhood  of  CarpciUcrs 
and  Joiners  of  America 


& 


The  training  manual  runs  through  the  bar- 
gaining process  step-by-step  to  help  famil- 
iarize committee  members  with  negotia- 
tions. 


MAY     1987 


11 


Hotel/Motel  Industry:  Is  Labor  In  or  Out? 


Significant  Construction  Could  IVIean  Opportunity  for  Union  Jobs 


This  article,  the  second  in  a  series 
highlighting  industries  in  which  consid- 
erable construction  work  is  being  per- 
formed, reviews  developments  in  the 
hotel  industry  and  the  growing  amount 
of  nonunion  construction  in  it. 

In  nearly  every  community  in  the 
country,  you  are  likely  to  find  a  hotel 
or  motel  construction  project.  The  ho- 
tel/motel industry  has  experienced  tre- 
mendous growth  during  the  early  1980s, 
and  while  the  new  tax  law  and  over- 
building will  slow  hotel  construction  in 
some  markets,  the  industry  will  con- 
tinue to  be  a  major  construction  user 
in  the  coming  years.  It  is  estimated  that 
several  billion  dollars  will  be  spent  on 
construction  in  the  hotel  industry  during 
1987. 

Even  in  traditionally  strong  union 
areas,  it  is  becoming  increasingly  com- 
mon to  see  hotels  and  motels  being  built 
nonunion.  The  hotel  industry  is  unlike 
any  other,  and  a  good  understanding  of 
the  industry  participants,  the  relation- 
ships between  project  participants,  and 
the  developing  trends  in  the  industry  is 
vitally  important  to  efforts  to  recapture 
this  work. 

The  two  most  significant  factors  which 
will  determine  the  amount  of  new  con- 
struction in  the  hotel  industry  and  which 
hotels  get  built  in  the  coming  years  are 


the  1986  tax  bill  and  the  overbuilding 
which  has  effected  certain  markets.  The 
tax  bill  eliminated  various  tax  advan- 
tages which  were  driving  many  hotel 
construction  projects.  By  limiting  in- 
vestors' abihties  to  write-off  tax  losses 
associated  with  hotel  operations,  new 
projects  must  be  able  to  generate  suf- 
ficient cash  flow  to  justify  their  con- 
struction. 

The  effort  to  establish  a  proposed 
hotel  project's  profitability  is  growing 
increasingly  difficult  in  certain  markets 
due  to  overbuilding  in  recent  years.  The 
tax  loss  write-offs  formerly  associated 
with  hotel  construction  stimulated  ov- 
erbuilding in  many  cities.  However, 
even  in  markets  where  there  is  excess 
capacity  of  hotel  and  motel  rooms,  new 
construction  may  occur  as  certain  cus- 
tomer needs  are  targeted. 

MARKET  SEGMENTATION 

One  of  the  more  noticeable  devel- 
opments in  the  industry  has  been  the 
trend  toward  market  "segmentation." 
Hotel  operations  are  looking  for  seg- 
ments of  the  business  that  are  not  being 
served  and  are  implementing  expansion 
plans  to  address  the  needs.  Segments 
within  the  market  include  upscale,  mid- 
scale,  and  budget  facihties,  as  well  as 
super-luxury,  and  strictly  business-ori- 
ented hotels  and  motels. 


6  iUE 


This  Job  Wasl 

The  Willard  Hotel  in  downtown  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  recently  underwent  major  reno- 
vations after  many  years  of  neglect  and 
disuse.  The  job's  general  contractor, 
George  Hyman  Construction  Co.,  kept 
skilled  union  workers  from  several  UBC 
and  other  building  trades  locals  busy  at 
work  on  the  exhaustive  project. 


"All-suite"  hotels  are  the  newest  and 
most  significant  example  of  market  seg- 
mentation. All-suite  hotels  are  aimed  at 
the  frequent  traveler  who  is  willing  to 
pay  more  for  luxury  and  homelike  com- 
forts. Industry  estimates  indicate  that 


Profile  of  a  Non-Union  Hotel  Construction  Deal 


This  Job  Was  Not! 

Holiday  Corp.,  l he  parent  company  of 
Holiday  Inns  nationwide,  has  its  name  on 
this  new  hotel,  in  Arlington,  Va.,  but  the 
nonunion  construction  of  it  was  arranged 
and  performed  by  corporate  entities  of  the 
Donohoe  Co..  a  resolutely  nonunion  com- 
pany. Know  who's  behind  local  hotel  con- 
struction— /(  could  make  the  difference  be- 
tween jobs  thai  are  and  are  not. 


The  circumstances  surrounding  the  recent 
construction  of  a  Holiday  Inn  in  Arlington, 
Va.,  illustrate  clearly  the  value  of  doing 
land-records  research.  Because  Holiday  Inns 
are  almost  entirely  owned  by  individual 
franchises,  the  focus  of  our  research  had  to 
be  the  owners  of  that  particular  hotel  rather 
than  the  parent  corporation,  Holiday  Corp. 

A  trip  to  the  Arlington  County  Courthouse 
began  the  search  to  determine  who  owned 
the  hotel  and  what  institution  financed  the 
construction.  The  tax  assessor's  office  iden- 
tified the  name  of  the  party  paying  taxes  on 
the  property.  A  review  was  made  of  the  land 
records  with  the  taxpayer's  name  and  a  copy 
of  the  deed  showed  that  the  land  and  the 
hotel  were  owned  by  a  Virginia  partnership 
called  Ballston  Hotel  Associates.  Next,  the 
partnership  papers  registered  in  the  court- 
house indicated  that  Ballston  Hotel  Asso- 
ciates was  formed  on  the  same  day  as  the 
land  purchase  was  made,  and  that  three  of 
the  five  members  of  the  partnership  were 
corporate  entities  related  to  or  bearing  the 
name  of  the  Donohoe  Co. 

Further  land  records  research  revealed  a 


deed  of  trust  that  indicated  that  First  Amer- 
ican Bank  of  Virginia  had  financed  both  the 
land  purchase  and  the  construction  of  the 
hotel. 

The  fact  that  the  Donohoe  Co.  was  a 
principal  owner  in  the  project  made  it  no 
surprise  to  learn  that  Donohoe  Construction 
Co.  obtained  the  building  permit  for  the 
project,  and  proceeded  to  build  the  hotel 
nonunion,  as  it  is  one  of  the  Washington, 
D.C.,  area's  largest  and  most  resolutely 
nonunion  construction  companies. 

This  highlights  the  importance  of  identi- 
fying the  participants  in  hotel  construction 
projects.  In  a  franchised  hotel  operation, 
such  as  the  Holiday  Inn  operation  identified 
here,  it  is  crucial  that  you  identify  the  real 
owners  and  financiers  of  the  project.  As  this 
example  makes  clear,  the  Donohoe  Co.  and 
not  Holiday  Inn  was  the  party  most  respon- 
sible for  determining  who  would  do  the 
construction.  And  while  the  relationships 
identified  here  indicate  that  efforts  to  secure 
the  work  would  have  been  difficult,  such 
information  must  be  obtained  to  enhance 
organizing  efforts. 


12 


CARPENTER 


15%  of  all  hotels  in  the  1990s  could  be 
all-suite. 

FINANCING  TIGHTER 

With  cash  flow  and  profitability  be- 
coming the  bottom  lines  for  successful 
hotel  operations  today,  lending  insti- 
tutions are  becoming  more  conservative 
in  backing  deals  in  the  industry.  Fea- 
sibility studies  must  show  good  cash- 
flow potential  and  a  solid  management 
track  record  must  be  documented  to 
secure  project  financing.  Numerous  ho- 
tel foreclosures  have  dried  up  institu- 
tional lending  sources  for  many  proj- 
ects. Public  sources  of  funding  such  as 
state  development  bonds  or  federal  Ur- 
ban Development  Action  Grants  are 
popular  funding  sources  in  the  industry. 

In  this  tight  money  environment,  first- 
time  borrowers  in  the  industry  are  not 
finding  financing,  and  unless  the  bor- 
rower is  putting  his  own  funds  at  risk, 
funds  are  not  forthcoming.  Developers 
of  franchise  operations,  such  as  Holiday 
Inns  and  Days  Inns,  are  better  able  to 
secure  financing  because  of  the  security 
provided  by  their  national  support  serv- 
ices, such  as  a  national  reservation 
system,  strong  name  recognition,  and 
brand  allegiance. 

RECAPTURING  WORK 

The  recent  developments  in  the  hotel/ 
motel  industry,  such  as  the  tax  law 
implications  and  the  locahzed  over- 
building, need  to  be  considered  in  the 
context  of  future  efforts  to  secure  up- 
coming construction  work  in  the  indus- 
try. The  increasing  need  for  a  new  hotel/ 
motel  to  generate  a  positive  cash  flow 
and  maintain  profitability  suggests  an 
increasing  vulnerability  to  job-site  pick- 
eting and  consumer  boycott  activities. 
A  missed  scheduled  opening  or  a  poor 
occupancy  rate  produced  by  lawful 
picket  and  boycott  actions  take  on  greater 
significance  in  today's  market. 

Due  to  the  numerous  participants 
involved  in  a  typical  hotel  construction 
project,  it  is  important  that  we  are  able 
to  identify  accurately  each  participant 
and  its  role  in  the  project.  Determining 
the  owner  of  a  project  is  crucial.  While 
the  hotel  may  be  a  Holiday  Inn,  Mar- 
riott, or  another  brand  name  operation, 
the  actual  owners  of  the  specific  hotel 
in  question  may  be  local  businessmen, 
developers,  bank  officials,  etc.  It  is 
these  individuals  who  can  influence 
contractor  selection. 

Determining  the  actual  ownership  of 
a  particular  hotel  in  a  "chain"  is  im- 
portant for  legal  purposes,  as  well.  In 
a  consumer  boycott  or  publicity  cam- 
paign targetting  a  user  of  non-union 
construction,  for  example,  it  cannot  be 
assumed  that  all  branches  of  the  hotel 
are  owned  or  operated  by  that  same 
construction  user.  The  law  may  prevent 


Upcoming  Construction  Plans  for  IVIajor  Cliains: 

Despite  the  market  adjustments  mentioned,  billions  of  dollars  will  be 
spent  in  the  industry  in  new  construction  and  major  renovation  in  the 
coming  year.  Outlined  below  are  the  expansion  plans  of  several  of  the 
nation's  best  known  hotel  operations: 


MARRIOTT  CORP.:  Marriott  Hotels, 
Marriott  Suite  Hotels,  and  Courtyards 

In  late  1984,  Marriott  Corp.  initiated 
a  building  plan  that  will  total  $3  billion 
by  the  early  1990s  to  build  a  nationwide 
chain  of  moderately-priced  motels. 
Marriott's  mid-priced  motels,  called 
Courtyards,  are  to  be  located  primarily 
in  suburban  areas  near  business  parks, 
highways,  hospitals,  and  shopping  cen- 
ters. In  addition  to  southeastern  cities 
such  as  Atlanta  and  Augusta,  Ga.,  the 
company  plans  to  build  "clusters"  of 
Courtyards  in  New  Jersey/New  York, 
Chicago/Milwaukee,  and  northern  Cal- 
ifornia. Marriott  has  also  embarked  on 
another  $2  billion  five-year  building  pro- 
gram which  will  include  40  all-suite 
hotels  and  40  smaller  hotels.  Areas 
targeted  for  all-suite  hotels  include  Chi- 
cago, California,  New  York  City,  and 
Arizona. 

HOLIDAY  CORP.:  Holiday  Inn 
Hotels,  Holiday  Inn  Crowne  Plaza 
Hotels,  Embassy  Suites,  Residence 
Inns,  and  Hampton  Inns 

Holiday  Corp.'s  Embassy  Suites  are 
the  leader  in  the  all-suite  hotel  market 
with  nearly  75  such  hotels  built  or  under 
construction.  Holiday's  Residence  Inns, 
which  are  residential  style  all-suite  ho- 


tels, are  a  rapidly  growing  component 
of  the  company's  business  with  nearly 
100  in  place  and  300  planned  by  the 
early  1990s.  Hampton  Inn  Hotels  are 
HoHday's  economy  line  and  plans  call 
for  a  rapid  expansion  to  approximately 
130  hotels  by  early  1987. 

HYATT  CORP.:  Hyatt  Regency,  Park 
Hyatt  Hotel,  and  Hawthorne  Suites 

In  late  1986,  Hyatt  Corp.  announced 
a  $750  million  expansion  program  in- 
cluding 40  smaller  hotels  geared  for 
individual  business  travelers  in  smaller 
city  and  suburban  markets.  Hyatt  re- 
cently announced  that  it  is  planning 
development  of  a  nationwide  chain  of 
hotels  called  Hawthorne  Suites.  Plans 
call  for  franchise  development  of  200 
new  Hawthorne  Suite  hotels  over  the 
next  three  years. 

HILTON  CORP.:  Hilton  Hotels 

Hilton  has  an  ongoing  $1  billion  ren- 
ovation program,  as  well  as  plans  to 
grow  in  the  next  five  years  to  more  than 
380  hotels  from  its  current  280  prop- 
erties. Most  of  the  new  properties  for 
Hilton  will  be  the  "courtyard"  type 
hotels,  with  less  emphasis  on  the  luxury 
end  of  the  market. 


including  in  the  campaign  certain 
branches  owned  by  unrelated  individ- 
uals or  firms,  such  as  franchise  owners. 

Likewise,  determining  the  source  of 
the  hotel's  financing  is  a  critical  aspect 
of  organizing  in  this  industry.  Whether 
the  financing  source  is  a  local  bank,  a 
national  insurance  company,  a  state 
development  bond,  or  a  public  em- 
ployee pension  fund,  establishing  the 
identity  of  the  money  can  provide  ad- 
ditional avenues  by  which  to  influence 
the  contracting  decision. 

The  sources  of  such  information  can 
include  Dodge  Reports,  newspaper  ar- 
ticles, or  project  site  signs,  but  you  may 
need  to  become  familiar  with  the  local 
land  records  filing  system  in  order  to 
obtain  accurate  information.  The  land 
records  will  identify  the  property  owner 
and  any  outstanding  mortgages  or  deeds 
of  trust  securing  construction  loans  or 
permanent  financing  arrangements.  With 
this  information  in  hand,  you  are  better 
able  to  develop  an  organizing 
strategy.  J3C 


UBC  Hotel 
Industry  Survey 

In  the  next  several  weeks,  local  and 
councils  throughout  the  Brotherhood 
will  be  receiving  a  letter  from  the  Gen- 
eral President  requesting  information 
on  recently  completed,  ongoing,  and 
upcoming  hotel  projects  in  your  area. 
The  General  President's  letter  will  iden- 
tify the  hotel  projects  on  which  infor- 
mation is  requested.  The  survey  re- 
quests information  on  the  identity  of 
the  contractors  on  the  projects  and  their 
union/nonunion  status. 

The  information  will  be  collected  by 
the  UBC's  Special  Programs  Depart- 
ment and  used  to  assist  affiliates  in 
efforts  to  secure  work  in  the  industry. 
A  comprehensive  database  of  hotel 
projects  will  enable  us  to  identify  prob- 
lem hotel  chains  and  contractors  in  the 
industry  and  assist  in  developing  or- 
ganizing efforts  on  a  local,  regional,  or 
national  basis. 


MAY     1987 


13 


New  Immigration  Law  Will 
Mean  Major  Changes  for 
Undocumented  Workers 
and  Their  Employers 


,^f^  1,^'^iifil  \r^i\ 


THE  DO'S  AND  DOWVS 


Last  year,  the  U.S.  Congress  passed 
the  Immigration  Reform  and  Control 
Act  of  1986,  the  most  sweeping  change 
in  our  country's  immigration  policy  in 
more  than  30  years.  The  law  provides 
new  opportunities  for  legalization  for 
undocumented  workers  who  have  been 
in  the  U.S.  since  Jan.  1,  1982.  The  law 
also  imposes  penalties  on  employers 
who  hire  undocumented  workers  or 
who  fail  to  keep  proper  records.  Un- 
documented immigrants  must  apply  for 
temporary  legal  resident  status  in  the 
year  beginning  May  5,  1987. 

It  is  estimated  that  five  million  or 
more  individuals  reside  illegally  in  this 
country,  the  majority  working  in  indus- 
tries ranging  from  restaurants  to  con- 
struction to  agriculture  to  manufactur- 
ing. Many  work  in  UBC  industries 
including  construction  and  furniture. 
The  large  majority  of  undocumented 
immigrants  are  unorganized,  often  ex- 
ploited by  employers  and  contractors 
who  pay  substandard  wages  and  create 
sweatshop-like  working  conditions. 
Unions,  including  the  UBC,  have  found 
it  very  difficult  to  organize  these  work- 
ers because  of  their  lack  of  legal  pro- 
tection and  fear  of  being  deported. 

The  Brotherhood  has  faced  problems 
relating  to  immigration  laws  among  our 
own  membership.  Some  UBC  local 
unions  represent  workers  who,  though 
hard  working  and  responsible  union 
members,  entered  the  country  illegally 
and  thus  cannot  attain  U.S.  citizenship. 
While  protected  by  union  agreements, 
these  workers  still  live  with  an  uncertain 
future,  fearful  of  being  apprehended  by 
immigration  authorities. 

An  undocumented  worker  will  be 
eligible  for  temporary  legal  status  under 
the  new  law  if  the  individual: 

•  has  been  in  the  U.S.  continually 
and  illegally  since  Jan.  1,  1982  except 
for  brief  trips; 

•  has  not  received  a  substantial 
amount  of  welfare  or  certain  other  types 
of  assistance; 

•  has  not  been  convicted  of  any  se- 
rious crime  (felony)  or  of  three  or  more 
less  serious  crimes  (misdemeanors); 

•  can  prove  he  can  support  himself 
and  his  family. 

Eighteen  months  after  being  granted 
temporary  status,  a  person's  status  would 
be  adjusted  to  a  permanent  resident  if 
the  individual  could  show  a  basic  un- 
derstanding of  English  and  knowledge 


14 


of  U.S.  history  and  government  or  is 
obtaining  instruction  in  these  areas. 
Separate  provisions  of  the  law  apply  to 
undocumented  workers  employed  in 
agriculture. 

The  UBC  has  developed  materials  in 
English  and  Spanish  to  assist  our  brother 
and  sister  members  and  other  workers 
in  our  industries  to  apply  for  legal  status 
and  eventually  citizenship  under  the 
new  law.  Pilot  projects  will  be  under- 
way shortly  in  Texas  and  in  the  Los 
Angeles  area,  the  latter  coordinated  by 
the  Los  Angeles  County  District  Coun- 
cil of  Carpenters. 

Commenting  on  the  UBC's  efforts, 
General  President  Campbell  has  said: 
"I  beHeve  the  Brotherhood  represents 
all  workers  in  our  industries,  and  our 
goal  is  to  bring  everyone's  conditions 
up  to  union  standards.  We  can't  do  that 
when  greedy  employers  are  exploiting 
undocumented  workers  and  paying  them 
sweatshop  wages.  The  new  immigration 
law  doesn't  do  everything  we  wanted, 
but  it  gives  undocumented  workers  al- 
ready employed  here  a  chance  to  apply 
for  citizenship.  It  also  penalizes  em- 
ployers for  hiring  illegal  immigrants  in 
the  future.  That's  what  the  law  says. 
So  we  can  either  continue  to  gripe  about 
the  problems  and  see  more  of  our  work 
go  non-union,  or  we  can  build  our 
Brotherhood  by  lending  a  helping  hand 
to  those  workers,  members  and  non- 
members,  who  qualify  for  citizenship. 
I'm  for  building  our  Brotherhood,  and 
that's  why  we're  starting  these  immi- 
gration efforts. 

"The  Brotherhood  is  one  family  and 
that  family  is  open  to  anyone  who  works 
in  our  jurisdiction.  That's  how  we've 
grown  in  the  past,  and  that's  the  key 
to  our  future." 

The  next  issue  of  Carpenter  will  con- 
tain more  information  on  the  new  im- 
migration law  and  the  Brotherhood's 
program.  Materials  on  the  new  law  are 
available  from  the  General  Office.  UUC 


Pamphlets  with  information  on  the  new 
law  are  available.  Contact  the  interna- 
tional, if  you  have  questions  or  need  help 
concerning  the  new  immigration  law. 


Folletos  con  informacion  sobre  la  ley 
nueva  estdn  disponibles.  Comuniquese  con 
la  internacional  si  tiene  alguna  pregunta  o 
necesila  ayuda  con  respecto  a  la  nueva  ley 
de  inmigracion. 


AMNESTY 


The 
Immig 
La 


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CARPENTER 


tion 


IS 


La  Nueva  Ley  de  Reforma  de 
Inmigracion  Significara  Cambios 
Importantes  por  las  Trabajadores  sin 
Documentos,  Sus  Empleadores 


^jgtMjH 


El  ano  pasado,  el  Congreso  de  los 
Estados  Unidos  paso  la  Reforma  de 
Inmigracion  y  el  Acto  de  Control  de 
1986,  el  mas  radical  cambio  en  la  poli- 
tica  inmigratoria  del  pais  en  mas  que 
treinta  aiios.  La  ley  provee  nuevas 
oportunidades  para  la  legalizacion  de 
trabajadores  sin  documentos  que  ban 
estado  en  los  Estados  Unidos  desde  el 
1  de  enero  de  1982.  La  ley  tambien 
aplica  sanciones  a  los  empleadores  que 
contratan  los  trabajadores  sin  docu- 
mentos o  quienes  no  mantengan  notas 
corectas.  Los  inmigrantes  sin  docu- 
mentos tienen  que  solicitar  un  Permiso 
de  Residencia  Temporal  en  el  ano  que 
comence  en  el  5  de  mayo  de  1987. 

Esta  estimado  que  cinco  millones  o 
mas  personas  viven  ilegalmente  en  este 
pais;  trabajando  en  los  restaurantes,  la 
construccion,  la  agricola,  y  la  manufac- 
turera.  Muchos  trabajan  en  las  indus- 
trias  de  la  UBC  incluyendo  la  construc- 
cion de  los  edificios  y  de  los  muebles. 
La  gran  mayoria  de  inmigrantes  sin 
documentos  no  estan  organizados,  mu- 
chas  veces  explotados  por  los  patrones 
o  contratistas  quienes  pagan  sueldos 
inferiores  y  crean  condiciones  como  las 
"sweatshops"  (fabricas  donde  se  ex- 
plota  al  obrero).  Las  uniones,  inclu- 
yendo la  UBC,  ban  encontrado  muy 
dificil  organizar  estos  trabajadores  por 
la  carente  de  proteccion  legal  y  miedo 
de  ser  deportado. 

La  Fraternidad  ha  afrontado  proble- 
mas  relacionados  a  las  leyes  de  inmi- 
gracion entre  nuestros  miembros.  Al- 
gunas  uniones  locales  se  representen 
trabajadores  quienes,  aunque  son  bue- 
nos  trabajadores  y  miembros  respons- 
ables,  entraron  al  pais  ilegalmente  y 
por  eso  no  pueden  llegar  a  ser  ciuda- 
danos  de  los  Estados  Unidos.  Aun  pro- 
tejidos  por  los  convenios  de  la  union, 
estos  trabajadores  viven  todavia  con 
una  futura  incierta,  con  miedo  de  ser 
aprehendido  por  las  autoridades  de  in- 
migracion. 

Un  trabajador  sin  documentos  sera 
elegible  para  un  Permiso  de  Residencia 
Temporal  bajo  la  ley  nueva  si  el 

•  prueba  su  residencia  consecutiva 
ilegal  en  los  Estados  Unidos  desde  el  1 
de  enero  de  1982,  a  excepcion  de  breves 
viajes. 

•  prueba  su  identidad  y  antecedentes 
de  empleo.  Debe  tambien  probar  que 
se  mantiene  con  recursos  propios  y  que 
no  depende  de  asistencia  publica. 


•  no  ha  sido  condenado  por  haber 
cometido  un  delito  grave  (delito  de 
mayor  cuantia)  o  mas  que  tees  deiitos 
leves  (deiitos  menores). 

Dieciocho  meses  despues  de  haber- 
seles  concedido  el  estatus  temporal,  el 
estatus  de  una  persona  sera  cambiado 
a  residente  permanente  si  el  individuo 
puede  mostrar  una  comprehension  bas- 
ica  de  ingles,  y  conocimiento  de  la 
historia  y  el  gobierno  de  los  E.U.  o 
esta  obteniendo  instruciones  en  estas 
areas. 

Materials  estaban  desarroUando  en 
ingles  y  espanol  por  la  UBC  para  ayudar 
nuestros  hermanos  y  hermanas  y  otros 
trabajadores  en  nuestras  industrias  so- 
licitan  un  estatus  legal  y  eventualmente 
realizan  ciudadania  bajo  la  nueva  ley. 
Proyectos  pilotos  estableceran  pronto 
en  Texas  y  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  este 
coordino  por  el  Concilio  de  carpinteros 
del  condado  de  Los  Angeles. 

Comentando  las  esfuerzas  de  la  UBC, 
el  Presidente  General  Campbell  ha  di- 
cho  "Creo  que  la  Fraternidad  repre- 
sente  todos  los  trabajadores  en  nuestras 
industrias,  y  nuestra  meta  es  de  traer 
las  condiciones  a  nuestra  nivel.  No 
pueden  hacerlo  cuando  los  empleadores 
avaros  esten  explotando  trabajadores 
sin  documentos  y  estan  pagando  sala- 
rios  como  "sweatshops."  La  nueva  ley 
de  reforma  de  inmigracion  no  hace  todo 
que  quisimos,  pero  le  da  una  oportu- 
nidad  solicitar  cuidadania  a  los  traba- 
jadores sin  documentos  todavia  em- 
pleados  aqui.  Tambien  penalizara  los 
empleadores  que  contratar  inmigrantes 
ilegales  en  la  futura.  Esto  es  lo  que  dice 
la  ley.  Asi  podemos  seguir  a  quejarse 
acerca  de  la  problems  y  ver  mas  de 
nuestro  trabajo  desaparecer  y  conver- 
tirse  en  "none  union"  o  podemos  con- 
struir  nuestra  Fraternidad,  dandoles  una 
mano  a  ellos,  miembros  o  no,  que  estan 
elegibles  para  ciudadania.  Estoy  a  favor 
de  construir  nuestra  Fraternidad,  y  por 
esta  razon  comenzamos  estas  esfuerzas. 

"La  Fraternidad  es  una  familia  y  esta 
familia  esta  abierta  a  algien  que  trabaja 
en  nuestra  jurisdiccion.  Asi  fue  como 
crecimos  en  el  pasado,  y  esta  es  la  Have, 
a  nuestra  futura." 

La  proxima  edicion  de  CARPENTER 
contendra  mas  informacion  sobre  la 
nueva  ley  de  reforma  de  inmigraci6n  y 
la  programa  de  la  Fraternidad.  Mate- 
riales  sobre  la  ley  nueva  estan  dispo- 
nibles  de  las  Oficinas  Generales.     fl3C 


MAY     1987 


15 


Ottavra 
Report 


$10  BILLION  TAX  BREAKS 

Corporate  tax  breaks  now  cost  the  federal  gov- 
ernment an  estimated  $10  billion  each  year  and  are 
a  major  factor  in  the  increase  in  the  federal  deficit, 
a  National  Democratic  Party  study  says. 

The  study  shows  that  more  than  79,000  profitable 
corporations  with  total  earnings  of  $13  billion  paid 
no  corporate  tax  in  1983.  Sixty-four  of  the  compa- 
nies had  more  than  $25  million  each  in  profits  but 
paid  no  tax. 

In  1951  corporate  income  tax  revenues  totalled 
$1 .24  billion  while  personal  income  tax  revenues 
were  $1.16  billion.  By  1984  corporate  taxes  were 
$12  billion  while  personal  taxes  were  $38  billion. 


ONTARIO  PENSIONS  INDEXED 

The  Ontario  Government  says  it  is  committed  to 
having  private  pensions  increase  with  the  cost  of 
living,  but  first  wants  a  task  force  to  spend  up  to  a 
year  determining  how  this  can  be  done. 

The  formal  commitment,  which  would  make  On- 
tario the  only  Canadian  province  to  require  inflation 
protection  in  private  plans,  was  made  when  the 
minority  Liberal  Government  introduced  a  package 
of  far-reaching  pension  reforms. 

These  reforms  will  not  be  passed  into  law  for 
some  time,  but  are  designed  to  change  the  rules 
retroactively  to  Jan.  1,  1987.  From  that  point,  pri- 
vate pension  plans  will  be  made  more  portable  and 
worker  benefits  will  be  "locked  in"  after  two  years 
employment  instead  of  the  current  10  years. 

The  bill,  giving  effect  to  what  is  being  called  the 
federal-provincial  consensus  on  pension  reform,  in- 
cludes a  number  of  substantial  changes: 

•  Workers  will  be  fully  entitled  to  their  plans  after 
two  years  employment — as  opposed  to  the  usual 
rule  at  present  that  a  worker  must  have  been  em- 
ployed for  10  years  and  be  at  least  45  years  old. 

•  After  these  plans  are  "vested"  in  the  employee, 
they  can  be  transferred  to  other  plans  or  to  a  pre- 
scribed retirement  savings  arrangement  to  ensure 
greater  portability. 

•  Part-time  employees  will  be  eligible  to  join  a  plan 
after  two  years  service,  provided  that  they  earn  a 
certain  minimum  amount. 

•  Private  plans  will  have  to  include  a  procedure  for 
early-retirement  payouts  for  those  wishing  to  retire 
within  10  years  of  normal  retirement  dates. 


FEDERAL  WAGE  FLOOR  ENDS 

Federal  Labor  Minister  Pierre  Cadieux  scrapped 
the  minimum  wage  contractors  handling  federal 
construction  must  pay  their  workers  for  a  three-year 
trial  period  beginning  April  1 . 

Mr.  Cadieux's  decision  to  change  the  procedures 
in  the  Fair  Wages  and  Hours  of  Labor  Act,  which 
came  into  existence  50  years  ago,  was  contained  in 
a  letter  to  the  federal  building  and  construction 
trades  department. 

"There  are  sufficient  government,  market,  and 
trade  union  forces  in  place  to  ensure  that  the  major- 
ity of  workers  are  paid  such  wages  as  are  generally 
accepted  as  current  for  competent  workmen  in  the 
district  in  which  the  work  is  being  performed,"  the 
letter  says. 

It  adds  that  part  of  the  reason  for  the  change  is 
that  Quebec  and  Manitoba,  which  account  for  about 
one-third  of  the  country's  population,  have  provin- 
cial fair  wage  legislation,  so  the  impact  of  the  fed- 
eral act  is  "minimal." 


UNEMPLOYMENT  AT  9.6% 

The  unemployment  rate  edged  down  slightly  to 
9.6%  in  February  because  the  number  of  new  jobs 
created  only  barely  exceeded  the  number  of  people 
who  started  looking  for  work. 

Statistics  Canada  estimated  the  seasonally  ad- 
justed level  of  employment  rose  by  30,000  jobs  to 
1 1 .78  million  between  January  and  February.  But 
because  27,000  people  entered  the  work  force,  the 
unemployment  rate  declined  a  minuscule  0.1  per- 
centage point. 

Although  it  was  the  seventh  consecutive  month  of 
increased  employment,  some  economists  said  the 
growth  was  too  slow.  "Sluggish  is  the  best  way  to 
describe  it.  We  are  muddling  along,"  said  John 
Clinkard,  senior  economist  at  the  Canadian  Imperial 
Bank  of  Commerce.  He  noted  that  the  economy  is 
now  in  the  "mature"  phase  of  the  business  cycle 
when  companies  tend  to  cut  back  their  hiring. 

On  the  positive  side,  however,  Statscan  said  the 
new  jobs  were  mostly  full-time  positions.  That  re- 
verses a  trend  that  has  persisted  since  the  late 
1970s  of  growing  part-time  employment  at  the  ex- 
pense of  full-time  jobs. 

Regionally,  most  provinces  saw  little  or  no 
change.  The  only  winners  were  Quebec,  with 
22,000  new  jobs,  and  British  Columbia,  with  16,000. 
Economists  said  this  reflected  the  recent  strength- 
ening of  forestry  and  other  resource  industries. 
However,  because  more  Quebeckers  started  look- 
ing for  jobs,  that  province's  unemployment  rate  rose 
slightly. 


COURT  REVERSES  Ul  RULING 

Money  held  in  holiday  pay  trust  funds  but  paid  to 
construction  workers  when  they  are  unemployed  is 
savings,  not  earnings,  the  Federal  Court  of  Appeals 
in  Ottawa  said  in  a  recent  ruling.  The  court  re- 
versed the  ruling  of  an  unemployment  insurance 
umpire.  Mr.  Justice  A.  J.  Stone,  in  a  3-0  ruling,  said 
money  paid  to  laid-off  workers  from  the  fund  is 
neither  earnings  nor  income — either  of  which  would 
have  been  deducted  from  Ul  payments — but  sav- 
ings. 


16 


CARPENTER 


General  President  Emeritus  William  Konyha,  at  the  rostrum,  administers  the  oath  of  office  to  the  general 
officers  and  board  members.  In  the  front  row  from  left  are  General  Treasurer  Wayne  Pierce,  General 
Secretary  John  S.  Rogers,  General  President  Patrick  Campbell,  Konyha.  First  General  Vice  President 
Sigurd  Lucassen,  and  Second  General  Vice  President  John  Pruitt.  In  the  back  row  are  Board  Members 
Joseph  Lia,  George  Walish,  Tom  Hanahan,  E.  Jimmy  Jones,  Gene  Shoehigh,  Dean  Sooter,  H.  Paid 
Johnson,  M.B.  Bryant,  John  Carruthers,  and  Ronald  Dancer. 

General  Officers  and  Board  Members  Installed 
In  Ceremony  at  General  Offices  in  Washington 

The  general  officers  and  general  ex- 
ecutive board  members  of  the  United 
Brotherhood,  elected  at  the  general 
convention  in  Toronto,  Ont.,  last  Oc- 
tober, were  sworn  into  office  March  27 
as  provided  in  the  UBC  Constitution 
and  Laws. 

As  has  been  the  custom  for  almost  a 
century,  the  ceremony  was  held  at  the 
General  Offices  of  the  UBC,  which  have 
been  in  Washington,  D.C.,  since  1961. 

The  installing  officer  was  General 
President  Emeritus  William  Konyha. 
Several  retired  officers  were  present  to 
witness  the  ceremony,  including  Gen- 
eral Treasurers  Emeriti  Peter  Terzick 
and  Charles  Nichols,  Retired  Second 
General  Vice  President  Peter  Ochocki, 
and  Retired  Board  Members  George 
Bengough,  Al  Staley,  Cecil  Shuey  and 
J.O.  Mack.  The  audience  also  included 
wives,  staff  members  and  representa- 
tives of  several  local  unions  and  coun- 
cils. 

In  a  brief  speech  General  President 
Patrick  J.  Campbell  told  the  gathering 
that  "there's  a  major  job  to  be  done  in 
the  next  five  years,  and  we  are  going 
to  see  that  it  is  done."  He  called  this  a 
time  of  greed  among  many  elements  of 
our  society  and  noted  that  the  United 
Brotherhood  must  do  its  utmost  to  pro- 
tect the  rights  and  standards  of  the 
membership. 

"We  are  part  and  parcel  of  one  of 
the  greatest  unions  on  earth,"  he  said. 
"We  must  keep  it  that  way."  UUC 


At  left.  General  President  Emeritus  Konyha  extends  his  congratulations  to  President 
Campbell.  At  right,  three  veteran  retirees — Former  Board  Members  George  Bengough, 
J.O.  Mack  and  Al  Staley — talk  with  the  general  executive  board's  newest  member.  Gene 
Shoehigh  of  the  5th  District. 


Educational  Regional  Seminars  Scheduled 


General  President  Patrick  J.  Camp- 
bell announced  April  1  plans  for  a  series 
of  educational  regional  seminars  to  be 
held  in  the  fall. 

In  a  memorandum  to  all  full-time 
officers  and  business  representatives  of 
construction  locals  and  councils.  Pres- 
ident Campbell  directed  these  leaders 
to  plan  to  attend  the  seminar  for  his  or 
her  particular  district.  Attendance  by 
these  local  and  council  leaders  is  man- 
datory. 

The  five  seminars,  encompassing  all 
10  districts  of  the  Brotherhood,  are 
scheduled  as  follows: 


Sept.  20-25,  1987:  Toronto,  Ont., 
Districts  9  and  10. 

Sept.  27-Oct.  2,  1987:  Lowes  Glen- 
pointe,  Teaneck,  N.J.,  Districts  1  and 
2. 

Oct.  4-9,  1987:  French  Lick,  Ind., 
District  3. 

Oct.  11-16,  1987:  French  Lick,  Ind., 
Districts  4,  5,  and  6. 

Nov.  8-13,  1987:  Westin  Hotel,  Se- 
attle, Wash.,  Districts  7  and  8. 

Detailed  information  regarding  res- 
ervations and  other  pertinent  data  will 
be  forthcoming,  the  President's  office 
states. 


MAY     1987 


17 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Two-tier  wage 
contracts  level  off 
after  sharp  rise 

Two-tier  wage  plans  specifying  lower 
rates  of  pay  for  new  employees  were 
mentioned  in  only  10%  of  all  noncon- 
struction  agreements  reported  in  1986, 
down  slightly  from  11%  in  1985,  accord- 
ing to  a  study  of  the  database  of  current 
contract  settlements  maintained  by  the 
Bureau  of  National  Affairs'  Collective 
Bargaining  Negotiations  and  Contracts 
service.  In  1984,  8%  of  settlements  called 
for  two-tier  plans,  up  from  4%  in  1983. 

For  the  fourth  year  in  a  row,  such 
settlements  were  more  popular  in  non- 
manufacturing  (16%  of  contracts)  than  in 
manufacturing  (6%).  The  percentage  of 
airline  industry  contracts  providing  such 
plans  continued  to  rise  sharply,  increas- 
ing to  70%  in  1986  from  62%  in  1985  and 
35%  in  1984.  In  manufacturing  the  plans 
were  most  prevalent  in  settlements  in 
transportation  equipment  (24%)  and  lum- 
ber (19%). 

A  majority,  or  58%,  of  two-tier  plans 
negotiated  in  1986  were  temporary,  per- 
mitting pay  of  new  workers  to  catch  up 
with  that  of  more  senior  employees.  Plans 
permanently  lowering  pay  for  new  hires 
were  specified  in  14%  of  settlements.  In 
the  remaining  28%  of  settlements,  there 
was  inadequate  data  to  make  a  determi- 
nation whether  the  plans  were  temporary 
or  permanent. 


Congressional 
food  service  workers 
vote  for  union 

Food  service  workers  at  the  U.S.  House 
of  Representatives  recently  voted  to  join 
the  Hotel  Employees  and  Restaurant 
Employees,  the  first  time  workers  on 
Capitol  Hill  have  won  collective  bargain- 
ing rights. 

An  18-month  organizing  drive  culmi- 
nated in  a  National  Labor  Relations  Board 
election  in  which  a  majority  of  1 13  work- 
ers voted  for  HERE  as  their  bargaining 
agent  while  52  voted  for  the  Machinists, 
and  36  voted  for  neither  union.  Some  225 
waiters,  waitresses,  counter  workers,  grill 
cooks,  and  dishwashers  are  employed  in 
House  dining  rooms,  cafeterias,  and  car- 
ryouts. 

Capitol  Hill  food  workers  have  pro- 
tested low  pay,  poor  working  conditions, 
and  lack  of  grievance  procedures  for 
nearly  20  years.  However,  House  and 
Senate  employees  are  among  the  few  in 
the  United  States  who  lack  the  right  of 
collective  bargaining  because  Congress 
exempted  itself  from  labor  laws. 


Norway  leads  way 
in  construction  of 
timber  frame  housing 

New  techniques  now  make  it  possible 
for  Norwegian  builders  to  put  up  timber 
frame  houses  almost  twice  as  quickly  as 
their  opposite  numbers  in  countries  like 
Canada  and  the  U.S. 

Reflecting  a  corhbination  of  old  hand- 
icraft traditions  with  modern  technology, 
this  performance  results  from  the  devel- 
opment of  more  effective  construction 
methods.  Norwegian  suppliers  of  build- 
ing materials  and  factory-built  homes 
offer  products  with  a  much  higher  degree 
of  prefabrication  and  finish  than  was 
previously  normal. 

Norway's  preeminence  in  timberframe 
construction  is  easy  to  understand  in  light 
of  the  fact  that  80%  of  all  Norwegian 
dwellings  are  built  in  wood. 


Coors  boycott 
rejuvenated  in 
New  York  State 

The  New  York  State  AFL-CIO  and 
members  of  the  Northeast  Council  of  the 
State  AFL-CIOs  plan  to  intensify  re- 
gional boycott  efforts  against  Coors  beer 
as  the  company  seeks  a  distribution  foot- 
hold in  the  New  York-New  Jersey  area. 
New  York  State  Federation  President 
Edward  J.  Cleary  said  that  unions  "want 
to  make  it  absolutely  clear  to  this  cor- 
porate bully  that  it  will  not  be  welcome 
in  the  tri-state  region  until,  and  unless, 
it  radically  alters  its  approach  to  business 
and  human  relations."  He  said  the  union 
groups  will  launch  a  "massive  informa- 
tional campaign  to  inform  our  member- 
ship and  other  consumers  about  Coors' 
anti- worker  reputation."  The  national 
labor  boycott  of  Coors  has  been  under 
way  since  1977. 


Teachers  succeed 
in  removing  brakes 
with  asbestos 

The  United  Federation  of  Teachers 
convinced  the  New  York  City  Board  of 
Education  to  stop  work  on  asbestos- 
contaminated  brakes  and  clutches  at  22 
vocational  and  comprehensive  high 
schools  and  equip  school  automotive  shops 
with  devices  to  keep  asbestos  from  es- 
caping into  classrooms  during  brake  drum 
work.  The  action  is  expected  to  stop 
unsafe  exposure  to  the  cancer-causing 
substance  of  about  50  teachers  and 
hundreds  of  students  every  year.  The 
union  and  board-sponsored  training  ses- 
sions for  the  city's  automotive  teachers 
on  how  to  use  the  asbestos  removal 
equipment  and  information  about  asbes- 
tos will  be  integrated  into  the  automotive 
curriculum  so  that  students  will  under- 
stand the  dangers  of  asbestos  exposure. 


Air  traffic 
controllers  want 
new  union 

The  nation's  air  traffic  controllers  are 
working  to  organize  a  new  union — S'/i 
years  after  their  predecessors  were  fired 
by  President  Reagan  for  going  on  strike. 

Claiming  that  they  are  more  over- 
worked and  understaffed  than  ever,  the 
controllers  are  seeking  representatives  to 
lobby  for  them  in  Congress  and  in  the 
media,  said  John  Thornton,  coordinator 
for  the  National  Air  Traffic  Controllers 
Association.  A  vote  could  be  scheduled 
as  early  this  month. 


Minnesota  lawmakers 
consider  parental 
leave  proposal 

A  parental  leave  bill  introduced  in  the 
Minnesota  legislature  in  St.  Paul  would 
require  employers  to  grant  an  unpaid 
leave  of  absence  of  up  to  one  year  to 
parents  upon  the  birth  or  adoption  of  a 
child.  The  legislation  would  require  em- 
ployers to  allow  workers  to  return  to  the 
same  or  equivalent  jobs  without  loss  of 
seniority  and  pension  benefits  and  make 
group  health  insurance  available  to  the 
employee  during  the  leave,  though  em- 
ployers would  not  be  required  to  pay  for 
the  insurance. 


Avoiding  immigration 
problems  may  lead 
to  Title  VII  breach 

The  Equal  Employment  Opportunity 
Commission  has  issued  a  policy  state- 
ment warning  employers  against  illegal 
reactions  to  the  Immigration  Reform  and 
Control  Act  and  emphasizing  that  some 
provisions  sanctioned  under  that  statute 
may  nonetheless  violate  the  broader  pro- 
visions of  Title  VII  of  the  1964  Civil 
Rights  Act. 

"Employers  should  not  mistakenly 
conclude  that  they  can  avoid  problems 
under  the  immigration  act  by  ceasing  to 
employ  individuals  of  a  particular  na- 
tional origin  or  that  the  act  in  any  way 
sanctions  less  than  full  equal  opportunity 
for  employees  of  all  ethnic  back- 
grounds," the  Commissioners  stated. 

The  agency  cites  a  series  of  hiring 
practices  that  might  violate  Title  VII  if 
used  by  employers  "to  avoid  immigration 
law  complications,"  including  hiring  re- 
strictions based  on  citizenship,  English 
fluency,  or  height  and  weight  consider- 
ations that  are  illegal  if  they  have  an 
adverse  impact  on  persons  of  a  particular 
national  origin  and  are  not  shown  to  be 
job  related.  In  addition,  the  Commission 
cautions,  the  citizenship  preference  per- 
mitted under  the  immigration  law  may 
nonetheless  violate  Title  VII. 


18 


CARPENTER 


For  the  good  of  the  country,  and 
for  the  good  of  the  international 
trading  community,  the  100th 
Congress  must  pass  trade  legis- 
lation that  is  based  on  a  strong 
and  effective  trade  deficit  reduc- 
tion provision.  Such  a  provision 
must  require  any  major  trading 
partner  that  maintains  excessive 
surpluses  with  the  United  States, 
and  is  found  to  engage  in  unfair 
trading  practices,  to  reduce 
those  surpluses. 

AFL-CIO  Executive  Council 
Bal  Harbour,  Fla. 
February  1987 


We  Need  Strong  Trade  Legislation 

Labor  leaders  urge  100th  Congress  to  pass 
an  effective  trade  deficit  reduction  provision 


As  the  U.S.  trade  deficit  hovers  around 
$170  billion,  a  four-fold  increase  from 
the  1980  level,  top  leaders  of  organized 
labor  are  rallying  to  urge  Congress  to 
enact  legislation  to  stem  the  nation's 
job-destroying  and  economically  des- 
tabilizing trade  deficit.  Mines  and  fac- 
tories are  closing;  communities  devas- 
tated. No  sector  of  the  economy  has 
gone  untouched.  Countries  with  large 
trade  surpluses  with  the  U.S.  must  be 
pressed  to  reduce  their  exports  here  or 
raise  their  imports  to  reduce  trade  im- 
balances. 

In  manufactured  goods  alone,  the 
U.S.  has  gone  from  a  trade  surplus  of 
$17  billion  in  1980  to  a  deficit  of  $148 
billion  in  1986.  Japan  has  a  $77  billion 
trade  surplus  with  the  U.S.;  Germany, 
a  $29  billion  surplus. 

Yet  while  spouting  free-trade  rheto- 
ric, the  Reagan  Administration  has  fi- 
nally taken  measures  to  help  American 
farmers,  machine  tool  makers,  and  other 
industries  in  battUng  foreign  competi- 
tion. 

Some  recent  actions  to  protect  Amer- 
ican industry: 

•  Citing  national  security,  import  re- 
straints were  placed  on  machine  tools 


from  Japan,  Taiwan,  West  Germany, 
and  Switzerland  to  give  time  to  Amer- 
ican manufacturers  for  modernizing  their 
plants. 

•  Under  pressure  from  the  adminis- 
tration to  shield  the  domestic  textile 
industry,  Japan,  Hong  Kong,  Taiwan, 
and  South  Korea  agreed  to  sharply 
reduce  textile  exports  to  the  United 
States.  (At  the  same  time.  President 
Reagan  vetoed  a  bill  to  limit  imports  of 
textiles  and  shoes.) 

•  To  head  off  protectionist  legisla- 
tion, Japan  extended  for  another  year 
its  "voluntary"  quotas  on  car  exports 
to  the  United  States,  making  this  the 
seventh  year  of  such  quotas  designed 
to  shield  the  American  auto  industry 
and  its  workers. 

Other  major  U.S.  trade  restraints 
firmly  in  place: 

•  A  quota  agreement  with  the  Eu- 
ropean Communities  limits  steel  im- 
ports, and  "voluntary"  quotas  have 
been  initiated  by  Japan. 

•  The  Jones  Act,  which  dates  to  the 
1920s,  bars  foreign  ships  from  carrying 
U.S.  freight  or  passengers  between  any 
two  American  ports. 

•  U.S.  products  are  required  to  be 
used  on  many  construction  jobs  that 


are  federally  financed.  Seventeen  states 
have  similar  requirements. 

•  The  U.S.  spent  $25  billion  in  farm 
income  subsidies  last  year  as  part  of  its 
policy  to  drive  down  farm  export  prices 
so  American  agriculture  could  compete 
internationally.  The  sugar,  peanut,  beef, 
cotton,  and  dairy  industries  are  also 
shielded  by  import  restraints. 

•  Foreign  makers  of  light  trucks  and 
ceramic  floor  tiles  face  stiff  tariffs  on 
imports  to  the  U.S. 

At  best,  the  Reagan  Administration 
is  sending  out  mixed  signals.  At  worst, 
the  Administration  is  aiding  the  destruc- 
tion of  the  U.S.  industrial  economy  and 
the  standard  of  living  of  the  American 
worker. 

On  Capitol  Hill,  where  the  United 
States  is  depicted  as  a  haven  for  foreign 
goods  unfettered  by  tariffs,  quotas,  or 
other  restraints,  the  general  feeling  is 
that  the  Administration  is  doing  too 
little  too  late.  "The  United  States  has 
permitted  imports  to  gush  ashore  freely 
while  not  demanding  comparable  ac- 
cess abroad,"  says  Senator  Lloyd  Bent- 
son,  (D-Tex.),  chairman  of  the  Senate 
Finance  Committee. 

Recently  testifying  before  the  Senate 
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WE'RE  FIGHTING  FOR  YOUR  LIFE 


Working  Women's 
Awareness  Week 

In  the  past  20  years  women  have 
accounted  for  one  half  of  the  total 
increase  in  union  membership  in  the 
United  States  and  Canada.  Today,  one 
out  of  three  union  members  is  a  woman, 
according  to  statistics  supplied  by  the 
Coalition  of  Labor  Union  Women. 

To  call  attention  to  the  growing  num- 
ber of  women  in  the  work  force,  CLUW 
is  sponsoring  its  second  annual  "Work- 
ing Women's  Awareness  Week,"  May 
10-16. 

In  the  occupations  represented  by 
the  United  Brotherhood,  most  of  which 
have  been  traditionally  male  for  gen- 
erations, a  growing  number  of  women 
have  joined  the  ranks.  The  UBC  now 
has  on  its  rolls  more  than  23,000  women 
employed  in  industrial  plants  and  more 
than  5,000  in  the  crafts  of  carpentry, 
cabinetmaking,  millwrighting  and  the 
other  building  trades. 

In  1985,  women  in  unions  earned  $88 
more  per  week — nearly  $4,600  more 
per  year — than  those  women  who  were 
not  union  members.  Women  in  unions 
have  a  recognized  voice  in  determining 
the  pay,  hours,  working  conditions,  and 
other  benefits  of  their  jobs. 

In  1985  10.5  million  families  were 
maintained  by  women.  A  total  of  61% 
of  these  women  were  in  the  labor  force 
in  1985. 

High  divorce  rates  are  making  it  in- 
creasingly necessary  for  women  to  work. 
Almost  62%  of  married  women  with 
husbands  and  with  children  under  18 
are  in  today's  work  force,  compared 
with  45%  in  1975.  The  increase  is  partly 
due  to  the  increases  in  living  costs  over 
the  past  decade,  making  it  necessary 
for  both  parents  to  work. 


Former  Dockbuilder's 
Memorial  Donation 

Each  month,  as  donations  for  Blue- 
print for  Cure  arrive  at  the  General 
Office  in  Washington,  D.C.,  the  staff 
finds  memorial  contributions  in  memory 
of  loved  ones  who  died  of  diabetes. 

In  a  recent  letter  addressed  to  Gen- 
eral President  Patrick  Campbell,  retiree 
New  York  Dockbuilder  Ted  Saamanen 
sent  a  check  in  memory  of  his  late  wife, 
Caroline  Ross  Saamanen,  who  passed 
away  last  February  12.  Mrs.  Saamanen 
was  a  member  of  the  National  Diabetic 
Society  and  a  diabetes  victim.  She  suf- 
fered a  heart  attack  at  the  Tampa,  Fla., 


General  Hospital,  "probably  because 
she  was  weakened  by  her  diabetic  con- 
dition," says  Brother  Saamanen. 

Other  recent  contributions  are  from 
the  following: 

Recent  Blueprint  for  Cure  contribu- 
tions include: 

61,  Kansas  City,  Missouri 
258,  Oneonta,  New  York 

264,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 

265,  Saugerties,  New  York 
344,  Waukesha,  Wisconsin 
388,  Richmond,  Virginia 

424,  Hingham,  Massachuseetts 

512,  Ypsilanti,  Michigan 

1026,  Miami,  Florida 

1053,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 

1314,  Oconomowoc,  Wisconsin 

1338,  Charlottetown,  PEI 

1456,  New  York,  New  York 

1539,  Chicago,  Illinois 

1573,  West  Allis,  Wisconsin 

1693,  Chicago,  Illinois 

1741,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 

1752,  Pomona,  California 

1889,  Downers  Grove,  Illinois 

2073,  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 

Hudson  Valley  District  Council 

Milwaukee  &  Southeast  Wisconsin  District 

Council 
Delegates  to  the  Minnesota  State  Council 

Convention 
Patrick  J.  Campbell 
Ted  L.  Knudson 
Francis  &  Adelia  Lamph 
Ted  E.  Norcutt 
Gene  Slater 
In   Memory  of  Audra  Root  from   Ladies 

Auxiliary  No.  170 
John  T.  Kurtz 
Peter  Nagy 

Frank  and  Adelia  Lamph 
George  Vest  Jr. 
George  Zurow 

Third  District  Millwrights  Seminar 
In  memory  of  Leon  W.  Greene  from 

Russell  Domino 
In  memory  of  Michael  Lorello 
In  memory  of  Caroline  Ross  Saamanen  from 

Theodore  H.  Saamanen 
In  memory  of  Lawrence  Wallace  from 

Local  698,  Covington,  Kentucky 
Charles  P.  Fanning 
In  memory  of  George  At  well  Jr.  from  James 

C.  Johnson  and  Local  121 


District  1  members  contributed  more  than 
$30,000  to  Blueprint  for  Cure  through  a 
recent  raffle.  General  President  Pat  Camp- 
bell drew  the  ticket  stubs  of  the  three  win- 
ners in  the  lobby  of  the  UBC  General 
Offices  as  1st  District  Board  Member  Joe 
Lia,  right,  looks  on. 


20 


CARPENTER 


Angered  Workers  Protest  Raid  of  Pension  Funds 


The  recent  experience  of  a  local  union 
of  Clothing  Workers  is  a  warning  to  all 
unions  to  take  whatever  precautions 
are  necessary  to  protect  the  full  value 
of  their  pension  funds. 

The  hourly  workers  of  Reeves  Broth- 
ers Inc.  of  Cornelius,  N.C.,  a  form 
rubber  manufacturer,  voted  a  year  ago 
to  be  represented  by  the  Amalgamated 
Clothing  and  Textile  Workers  Union. 
Now,  as  members  of  ACTWU  Local 
2500,  they  are  still  bargaining  for  their 
first  contract,  and  Reeves  officials  have 
been  charged  by  the  ACTWU  with 
unfair  labor  practices  for  not  telling  the 
truth  about  the  company's  pension  plans. 

The  workers  are  concerned  their  pen- 
sion will  be  chopped  out  from  under 
them  soon.  Reeves  has  already  applied 
to  end  the  pension  plan  for  salaried 
employees. 

While  the  pension  pillaging  may  af- 
fect just  two  Reeves  plans  covering 
about  7,000  workers,  the  ramifications 
could  touch  nearly  every  pension  plan 
in  the  country.  Reeves  Brothers  became 
an  attractive  takeover  target  in  January 
1986  when  actuaries  reported  that  the 
company's  pension  plans  were  "over- 
funded"  by  more  than  $23  miUion. 

In  May  1986,  Schick  Inc.  finalized  a 
takeover  bid,  and  the  excess  pension 
funds  became  part  of  the  repayment 
scheme  set  up  by  Drexel  Burnham 
Lambert,  financial  advisers,  with  Na- 
tional Westminster  Bank  in  New  York 
as  the  leading  bank.  Corporate  finger- 
pointing  has  already  begun  as  the  com- 
pany and  the  banks  each  disclaim  au- 
thorship of  the  pension-raiding  condi- 
tions. 

Other  banks  involved  are  Sovran, 
American  Security  Bank  of  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  Canadian  Imperial  Bank  of 
Commerce  in  Toronto,  Empire  of 
America  Federal  Savings  Bank  in  Buf- 
falo, N.Y.,  National  Bank  of  Canada 
in  Montreal,  Bank  of  Tokyo  Trust  Co., 
Bank  of  Scotland,  and  Nederlandsche 
Middenstandsbank,  N.V. 

The  Reeves  scheme  is  unique  be- 
cause the  nine  banks  that  lent  Schick 
$100  million  to  aid  its  takeover  required 
that  Schick  and  Reeves  "agree  to  use 
their  best  efforts  to  terminate  (the  pen- 
sion plans)  as  soon  as  practicable."  The 
loan  document  requires  the  companies 
to  "prepay  the  outstanding  principal 
amount  of  the  term  loan  in  an  amount 
equal'  to  the  amount  of  such  excess 
funding"  up  to  $20  million. 

AFL-CIO  Secretary-Treasurer 

Thomas  R.  Donahue,  in  a  letter  to  the 
American  Bankers  Association,  said 
that  this  "covenant-inspired  raid  on 
workers'  pensions  appears  to  be  un- 


precedented." He  stressed  labor's  con- 
cern that  this  "may  signify  a  broader 
move  by  the  banking  community  to 
directly  usurp  pension  fund  surplus  as- 
sets which  rightfully,  as  workers'  'de- 
ferred wages,'  belong  to  plan  partici- 
pants." 

ABA  President  Mark  Olson  has  not 
responded  to  Donahue's  query  as  to 


whether  the  bankers'  association  sup- 
ports such  pension  skimming  activities. 
Because  of  a  legal  loophole,  compa- 
nies can  request,  and  often  receive, 
permission  from  the  Pension  Benefit 
Guaranty  Corp.  to  siphon  off  excess 
funding  of  pension  plans  after  provi- 
sions are  made  to  cover  the  anticipated 
Continued  on  Page  31 


North  Texas  Pension  Funds  Put  Members  To 
Work  on  Major  Dallas-Area  Project 


A  new  office  coinplex,  now  under  con- 
struction in  the  Dallas,  Tex.,  area,  is 
plowing  union  pension  funds  back  into 
jobs  for  union  members  who  will  some 
day  benefit  from  these  same  pension 
funds. 

The  Multi-Employer  Property  Trust, 
the  nation's  largest  commingled  real  es- 
tate investment  fund  specializing  in  union- 
built  construction,  has  announced  a  com- 
mitment to  provide  a  $12.5  million  par- 
ticipating mortgage  loan  for  Phase  I  of 
Presidential  R&D  Park,  a  research  and 
development  office  complex  under  con- 
struction in  the  Dallas  suburb  of  Rich- 
ardson, Tex. 

The  Multi-Employer  Property  Trust  is 
a  pooled  real  estate  equity  fund  designed 
for  multi-employer  and  public  employee 
pension  plans.  MEPT  invests  in  high- 
quality,  union-built  commercial  real  es- 
tate properties  in  communities  where 
participating  pension  plans  are  located. 
Launched  in  1982,  MEPT  currently  has 
assets  of  $332  million  and  83  participating 
pension  plans. 

Two  Texas-based  pension  plans  are 
participants  in  the  MEPT: 

•  the  North  Texas  Carpenters  Pension 
Fund 

•  the  Texas  Iron  Workers'  Pension 
Fund 

Phase  I  of  Presidential  R&D  Park  con- 
sists of  two  two-story  buildings  contain- 


ing 210,000  square  feet  of  space  designed 
for  tenants  in  high  technology  industries 
who  need  office,  light  assembly,  and 
distribution  capabilities.  Presidential  R&D 
Park  is  being  developed  by  Ambassador 
Development  Corp.  Thos.  S.  Byrne  Inc., 
of  Fort  Worth,  Tex.,  is  the  general  con- 
tractor. 

"The  Richardson  project  accomplishes 
two  key  objectives  for  us,"  explained 
MEPT  policy  board  member  Landon 
Butler.  "First,  by  investing  in  a  high- 
quality  property  in  one  of  the  nation's 
top  markets,  the  Trust  is  meeting  its  long- 
term  investment  objectives.  Second,  we 
enable  our  Texas-based  clients  to  rein- 
vest their  assets  in  Texas." 

MEPT's  real  estate  portfolio  includes 
35  properties  in  17  states  from  Alaska  to 
Florida.  The  Trust's  asset  size  places  it 
among  the  ,top  five  bank-pooled  real- 
estate  funds  in  the  country. 

The  Trust's  investment  advisor  is  Ken- 
nedy Associates  Real  Estate  Counsel  Inc. 
of  Seattle.  KAREC'S  real  estate  assets 
under  management  exceed  $600  million. 
KAREC  is  an  affiliate  of  Kennedy  As- 
sociates Inc.,  a  major  investment  advi- 
sory firm  with  more  than  $2.5  billion 
under  management. 

The  National  Bank  of  Washington  is 
trustee  and  custodian  for  MEPT.  NBW 
has  assets  of  $1.6  billion. 


MAY     1987 


21 


LonL  union  nEUi! 


Houston  Trains  for  Trade  Shows 


Harkness  Honored 


The  Houston,  Tex.,  and  Vicinity  District 
Council  lias  taken  the  lead  in  providing 
carpenters  with  training  to  enable  them  to 
provide  the  best  service  at  tradeshows.  Ac- 
cording to  Tradeshow  Week,  the  manage- 
ment newsletter  of  the  tradeshow  industry, 
Joe  Cones,  the  district  council's  business 
representative,  offered  to  train  a  class  of 
carpenters  in  the  specialized  skills  required 
to  install  and  dismantle  exhibits,  and  George 
Schwan,  southeast  regional  manager  of  In- 
stallation and  Dismantle  Inc.,  added  his 
expertise  to  their  training. 

More  than  50  members  of  the  UBC  at- 
tended a  one-day  presentation  which  focused 
on  exhibitors'  needs  and  what  they  look  for; 


the  phases  of  exhibit  setup;  and  the  tools 
and  skills  required.  The  pilot  class  was  so 
successful  that  a  six-week  training  course 
was  planned  and  follow-up  classes  are  also 
being  scheduled  to  handle  the  overflow.  The 
classes  are  being  held  at  the  apprenticeship 
school  in  Houston  with  I&D  Inc.,  Freeman 
Decorating,  and  Omni  Group  Inc.,  donating 
booths  for  the  training. 

Those  completing  the  course  will  receive 
completion  certificates,  a  small  card  which 
states  that  the  bearer  has  completed  the 
required  hours  for  the  course,  and  a  shirt 
with  the  Brotherhood  emblem,  the  carpen- 
ter's name,  and  an  "Exhibit  Carpenter" 
designation. 


Two  Local  Unions  Merge  in  Nova  Scotia 


The  merger  of  Local  392 ,  Liverpool,  N.S.,  with  Local  83,  Halifax,  N.S.,  was  celebrated 
at  a  recent  dinner  in  Halifax.  Dinner  guests  pictured  above,  front  row,  from  left,  are 
Brian  Cooper,  Local  83  business  representative  and  Peter  Vaughan,  Local  83  treasurer. 
Middle  row,  from  left,  are  William  Moores,  David  Tarr,  Leroy  Huskins,  Danny  Hirtle, 
and  Walter  Manthorne .  Back  row,  from  left,  are  Raymond  Doggitt,  Bill  Boudreau,  Tim 
MacKinnon,  Evverette  Conway,  and  Greg  Baker. 


Wal-Mart  Handbilling 


Members  of  Local  510,  Berthoud,  Colo., 
spent  a  week  distributing  informational 
handbills  at  a  Wal-Mart  store  in  Fort  Col- 
lins. They  estimate  that  nearly  600  hand- 
bills were  given  out  during  the  store's 
grand  opening  celebration.  Five  Wal-Mart 
stores  in  the  area  have  received  the  same 
treatment  from  Local  510. 


New  Officers  Sworn 
in  Puerto  Rico 

Local  2775,  Ponce,  P.R.,  was  recently 
reactivated  and  new  officers  were  sworn  in 
by  Representative  Guillermo  Ryan.  Honored 
guests  at  the  swearing-in  ceremony  and  cel- 
ebration that  followed  at  the  Siboney  Res- 
taurant were  Joseph  Lia,  general  executive 
board  member  for  the  First  District,  and 
Manuel  Colon,  president  of  the  Puerto  Rican 
District  Council. 

Board  Member  Lia  spoke  briefly  to  those 
gathered,  outlining  the  importance  of  unity 
and  the  value  of  strengthening  the  union  to 
enhance  the  future  and  well-being  of  its 
workers  and  their  families.  A  new  organizing 
program  has  recently  begun  on  the  island. 


After  many  years  of  dedicated  and  meri- 
torious service  to  the  United  Brotherhood, 
Thomas  G.  Harkness  retired  from  his  or- 
ganizing position  with  the  UBC  in  Canada. 
Harkness'  years  of  outstanding  work  were 
recalled  by  members  of  Local  1030,  Prov- 
ince of  Ontario,  and  other  friends  who 
gathered  in  Ottawa  for  a  send-off. 

He  and  his  wife  are  pictured  above  with 
a  gift  that  was  presented  to  them  at  the 
affair. 


'Get-on-Board' 


Local  1764,  Marion,  Va.,  members  are 
continuing  their  successful  organizing 
"Get-on-Board"  campaign.  In  less  than 
six  months,  more  than  114  new  members 
were  signed  on— with  more  to  come.  Mem- 
bers who  received  UBC  jackets  for  their 
campaign  efforts,  pictured  above,  from 
left,  are  Linnie  Leonard,  Sammy  McClure, 
Danny  Havens,  and  Benny  Lyons.  Havens 
was  also  awarded  a  watch  for  signing  up 
23  new  members. 


22 


CARPENTER 


Carpenter/Red  Cross  Blood  Drive  in  LA 


Responding  to  a  call  from  the  UBC  to  join 
the  AFL-CIO's  first  national  blood  drive 
since  World  War  II,  the  members  of  the  Los 
Angeles  District  Council  of  Carpenters  turned 
out  in  force  on  a  recent  Saturday. 

By  the  end  of  the  day,  66  pints  of  blood 
had  been  collected  by  the  Red  Cross  vol- 
unteers. The  event  was  organized  by  Council 
Secretary-Treasurer   Paul    Miller  and   Ar- 


Iowa  Members  Aid 
Hospital  Families 

Members  of  the  Five  Rivers,  Iowa,  Dis- 
trict Council  of  Carpenters  and  Laborers 
Local  1238  installed  new  playground  equip- 
ment, picnic  tables,  benches,  and  a  handi- 
capped access  ramp  at  the  Iowa  City  Ronald 
McDonald  House.  About  25  volunteers 
worked  in  90°  heat  to  erect  the  redwood 
playground  equipment  that  had  been  pur- 
chased from  Miracle  Recreation  Equipment 
Co. 

The  facility  itself  was  built  on  leased 
ground  owned  by  the  University  of  Iowa 
Hospitals  and  Clinics.  It  houses  families  who 
have  children  at  the  University  Hospital, 
providing  a  low  cost  and  supportive  atmos- 
phere for  them  during  their  stay. 


mando  Vergara,  his  administrative  assistant, 
with  the  cooperation  of  the  Joint  Appren- 
ticeship and  Training  Committee.  The  blood 
drive  received  the  full  support  of  all  the 
affiliated  locals  and  their  families.  A  barbe- 
cue meal  was  prepared  for  all  the  donors  by 
Gary  Young  and  Gene  Van  Winkle. 

Red  Cross  representatives  thanked  the 
Carpenters  for  their  support  saying  that 
"Without  the  generous  support  of  union 
members  and  their  families  we  could  not 
begin  to  meet  the  need  for  blood." 


Local  1607,  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  appren- 
tice Robert  Bridges  lends  the  grill  and 
serves  up  a  burger  to  a  fellow  Local  1607 
member,  John  Foster. 


Donors  lined  up  at  the  door  to  sign  in,  proceeded  to  the  nurses 
to  have  their  histories  and  health  checked,  and  then  climbed 
onto  the  tables  for 
the  donation.  USS  ESSeX  ReunJOII 


UBC  members  from 
the  Five  Rivers  Dis- 
trict Council  in  Iowa 
worked  hard  to  com- 
plete the  playground 
at  Ronald  McDonald 
House  so  that  the 
children  there  could 
enjoy  it. 


Max  R.  Boschke  of  Local  2337,  Milwau- 
kee, Wis.,  is  searching  for  shipmates  for  the 
18th  annual  reunion  of  officers  and  men  who 
served  aboard  the  aircraft  carrier  Essex.  All 
ship's  company,  air  groups,  and  embarked 
staff  are  cordially  invited  to  Milwaukee, 
Wis.,  June  10-12.  For  more  information, 
Boschke's  address  is  5057  S.  19th  Street, 
Milwaukee,  WI  53221. 


Southern  California  Billboards  Show  Brotherhood  Pride 


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the  measure  of  quality 


As  part  of  an  ongoing  program  to  show  pride  in  their  craft  and 
to  raise  public  awareness  of  the  benefits  of  using  all-union 
labor,  the  Southern  California  Conference  of  Carpenters  has 
placed  billboards  like  this  in  locations  throughout  the  region. 


Shown  from  left,  at  the  unveiling  of  the  first  of  the  boards  are 
Jack  Scott,  San  Bernardino-Riverside  District  Council.  Paul 
Miller  and  Doug  McCarron,  Los  Angeles  District  Council,  and 
Bill  Perry,  Orange  County  District  Council. 


MAY     1987 


23 


Official  Counts  Don't  Include  Nearly 
Half  of  the  ^Real'  Unemployed 


Nearly  14.9  million  Americans  are 
unemployed  or  underemployed,  ac- 
cording to  the  National  Committee  for 
Full  Employment.  That's  nearly  double 
the  8  million  counted  by  official  tallies; 
and  the  real  unemployment  rate  of  12.3% 
is  also  close  to  twice  its  official  coun- 
terpart, 6.7%. 

The  NCFE  calculations  take  into  the 
account  the  5.8  million  people  who  are 
forced  to  work  part  time  because  they 
can't  find  full-time  work  and  the  1.1 
million  who  have  given  up  looking  for 
work,  as  well  as  the  official  8  million 
counted  by  the  Department  of  Labor. 

In  February,  the  number  of  people 
working  part  time  who  wanted  full-time 
jobs  rose  dramatically — by  almost 
300,000.  While  job  growth  kept  pace 
with  the  normal  growth  in  the  labor 
force  and  showed  a  gain  of  340,000, 
85.6%  of  the  increase  was  in  the  service- 
producing  sector  where  both  lower-paid 
and  part-time  work  are  concentrated. 

The  NCFE  also  reports  that  real 
weekly  wages  continue  to  stagnate,  af- 
ter falling  1.2%  in  1985  and  failing  to 


rise  in  1986.  Av- 
erage hourly  earn- 
ings (in  current 
dollars)  did  not  in- 
crease in  Febru- 
ary, leaving  hourly 
earnings  only  1 .7% 
greater  than  one 
year  ago. 

According  to 
NCFE  Executive 
Director  Calvin  H. 
George,  "The  eco- 
nomic upturn  since 
the  1981-82  reces- 
sion has  remained 
flat  for  more  than 
two  years  now  with 
joblessness  hover- 
ing in  the  7%  range. 
Our  economy  is 
churning  out  pre- 
dominantly service 
sector  jobs  that  give 
people  few  oppor- 
tunities ..." 


Unemployment  Rates— February  1987 


112.3% 


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June  19-24,  1987 

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Tickets  may  be  obtained  from  your  state 
federation  of  labor,  central  labor  council, 
union  label  council,  or  the  Union  Label 
and  Service  Trades  Department,  AFL- 
CIO,  81 5-1 6th  Street,  N.W.,  Washington, 
DC  20006,  (202)  628-2131. 


24 


CARPENTER 


HPPREIITICESHIP  &  TRIIIIIinG 


Apprenticeship  Coordinators  IVIeet  at  General  Office 


The  Apprenticeship  and  Training  Department  Field  Staff  re- 
cently met  at  the  General  Office  in  Washington,  D.C.,  to  pre- 
pare for  the  upcoming  training  conference  scheduled  to  be  held 
in  Oxnard,  Calif.,  this  month.  Pictured  above,  from  left,  are 
Danny  Harrington,  Duane  Sowers,  Keith  Ivy,  Anthony  Nosu- 


chinsky,  Peter  Gier,  Roger  Whitney,  First  General  Vice  Presi- 
dent Sigurd  Lucassen,  Project  Coordinator  Spurgeon  Styles, 
Charles  Allen,  Technical  Director  James  Titikcom,  Dennis 
Scott,  Henry  Boone,  Doyle  Brannon,  James  Rushlon,  John  Cas- 
inghino,  and  Jay  Shiflet. 


Apprentices  Build 
Temporary  Fire  House 

Last  November  The  North  Chittenango, 
N.Y.,  Volunteer  Fire  Department  Fire  House 
was  completely  destroyed  by  fire.  The  trucks 
and  ambulance  were  saved,  and  the  city 
suddenly  found  themselves  in  need  of  heated 
housing  for  five  fire  trucks  and  the  ambulance 
for  the  winter. 

Within  days,  a  crew  of  volunteer  appren- 
tices and  journeymen  carpenters  were  lead- 
ing in  the  construction  of  a  temporary  fire 
house.  In  less  than  four  hours,  the  crew  of 
workers  installed  over  6000  square  feet  of 
sheet  rock,  insulated  the  walls  and  ceiling, 
and  completed  the  metal  framing. 

The  project  started  at  8:00  a.m.;  at  3:00 
p.m.,  the  ribbon-cutting  ceremony  com- 
menced and  the  first  fire  truck  was  driven 
into  the  new  building. 


Van  Nuys  Journeymen     Mental  Health  Service 


Joining  the  ranks  of  the  journeymen  in  Lo- 
cal 1913,  Van  Nuys,  Calif.,  are  the  four 
apprentices  pictured  above.  From  left  are 
Joe  Steiner,  Charles  Camarillo,  North 
Hollywood  Training  Center  Coordinator 
Kashiff  All,  Keith  Averman,  and  Dennis 
Enriquez. 


Apprentices  from  Local  49,  Lowell,  Mass., 
were  recently  involved  with  a  volunteer 
project  for  the  Mental  Health  Association 
of  Greater  Lowell.  The  group  is  building  a 
new  clinic  and  the  apprentices  donated 
their  services  on  the  job.  Each  year  the 
apprenticeship  commiltee  volunteers  on 
four  or  five  nonprofit  organization  commu- 


Helping  on  the  North  Chittenango.  N.Y..  Volunteer  Fire  De- 
partment temporary  fire  house,  above  left,  front  row,  from  left, 
are  M.  Olmsted,  S.  Hunter,  B.  Cole,  R.  Matthews  Jr.,  and  R. 
Scott.  Back  row,  from  left,  are  Coordinator  R.  Matthews,  D. 


Matthews,  M.  McCarthy.  D.  Scott.  R.  Frigon.  J.  Gonyea,  E. 
Beickert,  F.  Brooks.  Not  pictured:  Financial  Secrelaiy  C.  Den- 
nis, Vice  President  L.  While,  and  W.  Gardner.  The  fire  house, 
before  its  repair,  is  pictured  above  right. 


MAY     1987 


25 


lUE  loncRniULnTE 


.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  ofifices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


SAVES  WITH  CPR 

J.  Sam  Copeland,  business  representative, 
Local  215,  Lafayette,  Ind.,  was  honored 
recently  by  the  Tippecanoe  County  Chapter 
of  the  American  Red  Cross  and  the  Randolph 
Township  Volunteer  Fire  Department  for 
outstanding  volunteer  service. 

Copeland,  who  is  a  member  of  the  fire 
department,  was  cited  for  his  performance 
while  on  a  medical  run  earlier  in  the  year. 
He  and  another  fireman  found  a  man  slumped 
over  the  steering  wheel  of  his  car  showing 
no  signs  of  life.  The  volunteers  immediately 
began  CPR  and  continued  their  attempts  to 
stabilize  the  man  while  waiting  for  an  am- 
bulance. Their  efforts,  performed  beside  a 
country  road  in  sub-freezing  weather,  were 
successful,  and  the  grateful  patient  is  now 
fully  recovered. 

UNION  COUNSELORS 

The  Eastern  Kansas  AFL-CIO  Commu- 
nity Services  Tri-County  Labor  council  re- 
cently graduated  21  from  a  union  counselor 
training  program.  Among  the  graduates  were 
two  UBC  members:  Bill  Stephan  and  Gordon 
Burnett  from  Local  168,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 

CONGRESS  INTERN 

After  working  on  a  variety  of  jobs  with 
other  members  of  Local  190-L,  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,    for   six    years, 
Mark  Ericson  decided 
to  take  a  gamble.   He 
returned  to  school  and 
recently     received     a 
^^       Bachelor  of  Science  in 
■"^•■^      Public     Administration 
from  Winona  State  Uni- 
versity in  Minnesota. 

Ericson  found  that 
understanding  contrac- 
ERICSON  tors  were  willing  to  give 
him  work  during  summer  months  and  school 
breaks,  while  his  savings  from  previous 
years  carried  him  through  the  other  months. 
The  choice  to  go  back  to  school  was 
prompted  by  a  Frontlash  representative's 
visit  to  an  apprenticeship  meeting.  (Front- 
lash is  an  organization  of  college  students 
supporting  programs  of  organized  labor.) 
Ericson,  who  followed  the  meeting  by  at- 
tending a  Frontlash  retreat  in  Washington, 
D.C.,  was  bitten  by  the  political  bug.  He 
has  served  an  internship  on  Capitol  Hill  with 
a  Member  of  Congress  and  looks  forward  to 
bringing  a  labor  perspective  to  the  Minnesota 
State  Legislature  in  a  few  years. 


LEGISLATIVE  AWARD 

Robert  Burleigh,  recording  secretary  of 
UBC  Local  3073  at  the  Navy  Yard  in  Ports- 
mouth, N.H.,  recently  received  a  special 
award  from  the  Metal  Trades  Department 
of  the  AFL-CIO  for  his  work  on  behalf  of 
federal  legislation  protecting  and  expanding 
the  U.S.  shipbuilding  industry.  Burleigh  was 
one  of  21  members  of  MTD  union  affiliates 
who  performed  "outstanding  leadership  in 
contacting  senators  and  representatives  in 
the  last  Congress." 

"This  grassroots  effort  was  coordinated 
by  a  legislative  committee  targeting  key  bills 
and  amendments.  The  timing  of  grassroots 
letters  from  Local  3073  and  other  local 
unions  enabled  the  department  to  maximize 
its  ability  to  oppose  President  Reagan's  build- 
foreign  program  and  support  cargo  prefer- 
ence and  charter  legislation"  according  to 
Paul  Burnsky,  president  of  the  Metal  Trades 
Department. 

COMMUNITY  SERVICE 

At  the  20th  Annual  AFL-CIO  Community 
Services  Conference  in  Indianapolis,  Ind., 
the  Community  Service  Award  was  pre- 
sented to  a  UBC  member  for  the  first  time. 
The  honored  recipient  was  Ed  Brumbaugh, 
business  representative  of  the  Central  Indi- 
ana District  Council.  Brumbaugh  has  con- 
sistently dedicated  his  time  and  talents  to 
worthy  causes  in  his  area  and  has  been 
recognized  on  previous  occasions  for  his 
community  service  work. 

The  Local  912,  Richmond.  Ind.,  member 
was  joined  by  several  other  United  Broth- 
erhood members  at  the  conference.  Many 
of  them  reported  it  was  their  first  attendance 
at  the  event.  Among  the  UBC  representa- 
tives were  Local  2323  members  Gina  Sor- 
dinalli,  Sanita  Bagrhast,  Nancy  Clark,  and 
Candy  Minniear,  Representatives  Jim  Pat- 
terson and  Lan  Zimmerman,  Central  Indiana 
District  Council  Business  Representative 
Harry  Gowan,  Retirees  Club  27  President 
Duke  DeFlorio,  and  Third  District  Board 
Member  Thomas  Hanahan. 


Edward  Brumbaugh,  with  plaque,  and 
other  UBC  members  attending  Community 
Services  conference. 


Take  Another  Look 
At  U.S.  Savings  Bonds 

Dear  Brothers  and  Sisters: 

This  union  made  an  all-out 
ejfort  last  year  to  inform  you 
about  a  major  improvement  in 
the  Savings  Bonds  Program — a 
market-based  interest  system 
for  bonds.  Many  of  you  de- 
cided to  sign  up  for  bonds 
through  the  payroll  savings 
plan,  but  many  did  not.  Those 
of  you  who  didn't  should  take 
another  look  at  the  benefits  of 
bonds  and  reconsider. 

When  you  buy  market-based 
rate  Series  EE  Savings  Bonds, 
you  help  yourself  to  a  more  se- 
cure financial  future,  and  you 
help  America  by  narrowing  the 
Treasury's  need  to  borrow  in 
the  open  market,  thus  lowering 
interest  costs. 

The  flexibility  and  fairness 
of  the  market-based  rate  are 
evident.  Savings  Bonds  keep 
pace  with  market  rates,  no 
matter  how  high  they  may  go. 
Moreover,  a  guaranteed  inter- 
est floor  protects  buyers 
against  steep  declines  in  mar- 
ket rates.  Bonds  are  also  eas- 
ily replaced  if  lost,  stolen,  or 
destroyed. 

The  payroll  savings  plan  for 
Savings  Bonds  offers  a  disci- 
plined, automatic,  and  pain- 
less method  of  savings,  pay- 
day after  payday.  An  amount 
of  money  you  choose  is  set 
aside  from  each  paycheck  to 
buy  bonds.  Within  a  short  pe- 
riod of  time,  savings  accumu- 
late and  grow,  providing  a 
cushion  against  the  uncertain- 
ties of  tomorrow. 

I  hope  you  will  carefully  con- 
sider Joining  the  payroll  sav- 
ings plan  for  Savings  Bonds.  If 
you  are  presently  enrolled  in 
the  plan  consider  stepping  up 
your  rate  of  saving.  There  is  no 
safer,  easier,  or  more  conveni- 
ent way  to  build  a  savings 
nest  egg  for  you  and  for  your 
family  than  with  market- 
based  rate  Savings  bonds. 

Fraternally, 

PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 

General  President 


26 


CARPENTER 


Safety  and  Health 


WARNING:  Concrete 
Can  Burn  You  Badly 


This  article  appeared  in  a  recent  issue 
o/New  England  Builder.  We  reprint  it 
here  for  the  well-being  of  our  members 
working  with  concrete. 


Too  few  workers — whether  do-it- 
yourselfers  or  professionals — realize  that 
wet  concrete  can  severely  burn  you. 
We  know,  because  a  colleague  of  ours 
recently  suffered  second-  and  third- 
degree  burns  to  his  knees  and  shins 
while  screeding  a  garage  slab  for  IV2 
hours. 

The  burns  were  caused  by  the  bleed 
water  and  wet  concrete  that  leaked  into 
his  trousers  through  holes  in  the  knees. 
While  the  flesh  was  being  destroyed, 
the  only  sensation  he  had  was  a  slight 
irritation.  Like  many  others,  he  thought 
he  was  protected  by  rubber  boots,  long 
pants,  and  leather  gloves.  And  besides, 
he  thought,  concrete  is  only  an  irritant. 

The  ready-mixed-concrete  industry 
and  the  government  have  been  lax  in 
informing  workers  about  this  risk,  ac- 
cording to  Bruce  Stockmeier,  an  indus- 
trial hygenist  with  12  years  of  experi- 
ence in  the  concrete  industry,  and  an 
expert  witness  in  many  concrete-burn 
cases.  Although  bags  of  dry  portland 
cement  are  accurately  labeled  as  a  "skin 
irritant,"  he  says,  cement  that  has  been 
mixed  with  water  becomes  a  "very 
serious  caustic  agent."  Cement  is  even 
more  dangerous  when  mixed  into  con- 
crete because  of  the  abrasive  action  of 
the  aggregate  and  other  caustic  sub- 
stances that  might  be  present. 

Furthermore,  says  Stockmeier,  to- 
day's concrete  is  generally  more  caustic 
than  it  used  to  be  because  of  changes 
in  the  manufacturing  process  (the  re- 
claiming of  "fugitive"  dust)  and  the  use 
of  additives.  The  degree  of  alkalinity 
varies  greatly  from  supplier  to  supplier 
and  from  batch  to  batch,  he  says. 

The  main  caustic  agent  in  concrete 
is  calcium  hydroxide  which,  along  with 
sodium  and  potassium  hydroxides — 
lyes — and  other  caustic  agents,  readily 
dissolves  flesh  and  can  seriously  dam- 
age the  eyes.  In  fact,  an  alkali  is  more 
damaging  to  flesh  than  an  acid  of  equiv- 
alent strength,  he  says.  The  problem  is 
that  most  people  know  enough  to  fear 
and  respect  acids,  but  not  alkalies. 

To  protect  yourself,  know  the  risks, 
and  what  precautions  to  take.  In  gen- 
eral, workers  should  wear  protective 


CAN  CAUSE  BURNS  AND  EYE  WJURYt 

®  Wear  Protective  Clothing 

®  Avoid  Skin  Contact 

•  Wash  Exposed  Skin  Areas  Proroptiy 

with  Water 

If  Concrete  Gets  into  Eyes  Rinse  immediately 

with  Water  artd  Obtain  l^rompt  Medicai  Attention 

KEEP  CHILDREN  AWAY  FRCM  FHESH  CONO^ETE 

The  slicker  above  will  be  offered  this  '  ^^ 

spring  by  the  National  Ready-Mixed 

Concrete  Association  to  its  member 

contractors.  Workers  who  ignore  the  warning  can  end  up  with  severe  burns  such  as 

these,  above  right,  suffered  recently  by  a  man  screeding  a  small  slab. 


Safety  Precautions 

Take  these  simple  precautions  to 
avoid  skin  contact  with  cement  pow- 
der, freshly  mixed  concrete,  grout,  or 
mortar. 

•  Wear  rubber  boots  high  enough 
to  keep  out  cement  products. 
Tops  of  boots  should  be  tight  to 
protect  feet. 

•  Wear  rubber  gloves  to  protect 
hands. 

•  Wear  long  pants  tucked  inside 
boots  to  protect  legs. 

•  Wear  knee  pads  when  finishing 
concrete  to  protect  knees. 

•  Wear  long-sleeved  shirts  buttoned 
on  the  sleeves  and  neck  to  pro- 
tect upper  body  and  arms. 

•  Wear  tight-fitting  goggles  when 
handling  cement  powder  to  pro- 
tect eyes. 

Don't  take  chances — "An  ounce  of 
prevention  is  worth  a  pound  of  cure." 


clothing  and  promptly  wash  off  any 
concrete  that  comes  in  contact  with  the 
skin.  If  it  gets  in  someone's  eye,  flush 
the  eye  repeatedly  with  clean  water  and 
seek  medical  help. 

To  increase  awareness  and  protect 
themselves  from  liability,  some  ready- 
mix  contractors  now  include  a  warning 
card  with  the  job  ticket,  such  as  the 
one  shown  above.  Also,  the  National 


Ready-Mixed  Concrete  Association  will 
soon  make  available  to  its  members  a 
warning  decal  for  their  concrete  trucks. 
A  pamphlet  that  contains  the  basic 
safety  precuations,  caUed  Working  Safely 
with  Cottcrete,  is  available  for  45  cents 
from  the  Portland  Cement  Association, 
5420  Old  Orchard  Road,  Skokie,  IL 
60077. 

Comment  Period  On 
Proposed  Construction 
Standards  Extended 

The  U.S.  Occupational  Safety  and 
Health  Administration  has  extended  until 
June  1  the  public  comment  period  on  its 
proposed  revision  of  existing  standards 
covering  scaffolds,  fall  protection,  and 
stairways  and  ladders. 

The  proposed  revisions,  published  in 
the  Federal  Register  Nov.  25,  1986,  would 
update  and  clarify  standards  protecting 
an  estimated  3.9  miUion  workers  in  the 
building  industry. 

Comments  and  requests  for  a  public 
hearing  on  the  proposal  were  originally 
due  February  24.  However,  because  of 
the  number  and  complexity  of  the  issues 
involved,  the  agency  has  extended  the 
deadline.  Comments  and  requests  for  a 
hearing,  in  quadruplicate,  must  be  post- 
marked no  later  than  June  !,•  and  sent 
to:  OSHA  Docket  Officer,  Room  N3670, 
Third  St.  and  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  DC  20210.  Comments  on 
scaffolds  should  be  sent  to  Docket  No. 
S-205;  fall  protection  to  No.  S-206;  and 
stairways  and  ladders  to  No.  S-207. 


MAY     1987 


27 


New  Feet-Inch  Calculator  Solves 
Building  Problems  In  Seconds! 

Simple  to  use,  time-saving  tool  that  works  with  ANY  fraction  to  1164th 


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Insurance  Agents 
Who  Billc  Consumers 

Insurance  companies  have  been  overcharging  Amer- 
ican consumers  to  the  tune  of  $5  to  $10  biilion,  says 
Consumer  Federation.  Here  are  the  hard  insurance  facts 
that  can  affect  your  own  family  pocketbook. 


Life  insurance  policies  are  overpriced 
and  insurance  agents  are  reluctant  to 
provide  consumers  with  the  product 
and  cost  information  necessary  to  make 
effective  cost  comparisons. 

The  result  is  excess  costs  to  con- 
sumers of  $5  to  $10  billion  per  year,  the 
Consumer  Federation  of  America 
charged  in  a  report. 

The  report  entitled  "Confusion  and 
Excess  Cost:  Consumer  Problems  in 
Purchasing  Life  Insurance"  is  based  on 
over  200  interviews  by  researchers — 
posing  as  young,  first-time  customers 
attempting  to  buy  life  insurance — in 
eight  states  (New  York,  Massachusetts, 
Maryland,  Virginia,  Ohio,  Wisconsin, 
Minnesota  and  Illinois). 

"The  industry  is  pushing  very  com- 
plex policies  (called  universal  policies) 
that  combine  an  insurance  and  an  in- 
vestment component,"  Dr.  Mark 
Cooper,  CFA's  Director  of  Research 
said,  "but  agents  are  very  reluctant  to 
give  consumers  the  information  they 
need  to  make  informed  choices.  We 
found  that  consumers  would  be  better 
off  buying  a  good  basic  (term)  insurance 
policy  and  putting  what  they  save  on 
premiums  in  the  bank." 

•  A  25-year-old  consumer  would  be 
about  $200  per  year  better  off  over  the 
first  20  years  by  buying  the  best  term 
policy  available  instead  of  the  average 
universal  policy  we  received. 

•  Even  compared  to  the  best  uni- 
versal policy  received,  the  25-year-old 
consumer  would  be  about  $100  per  year 
better  off. 

Based  on  these  comparisons  and  a 
conservative  estimate  of  the  cost  of 
current  insurance,  the  report  estimates 
that,  over  the  long  run,  excess  costs  of 
$5  to  $10  billion  per  year  can  be  weeded 
out  of  the  system  with  more  informed 
consumer  choices.  It  identifies  three 
sources  of  excess  cost  to  consumers. 

•  high  agent  commissions  on  non- 
term  policies, 

•  high  insurance  costs  embedded  in 
existing  policies  and 


•  potentially  inferior  returns  on  the 
investment  component. 

"Agents  should  have  been  very  in- 
terested in  a  first  time  buyer  because 
there  is  a  great  deal  of  repeat  buying  of 
insurance,"  Cooper  said,  "but  agents 
act  as  if  they  are  afraid  to  give  out 
information  to  consumers." 

•  Agents  go  so  far  as  to  ask  the 
consumer  if  he  were  planning  to  com- 
parison shop  and  refused  to  send  the 
information  if  he  said  yes. 

•  In  many  cases,  before  they  mailed 
out  their  policy  illustrations,  they  tore 
off  the  pages  that  provide  the  most 
useful  cost  information  for  consumers. 

•  Agents  claim  that  there  is  a  1%  or 
2%  difference  in  costs,  but  we  found 
differences  as  large  as  200%. 

•  Agents  disparage  other  companies' 
assumptions  about  interest  rates  for 
purposes  of  cost  comparison,  then  they 
turn  around  and  try  to  sell  their  own 
company's  assumptions. 

Among  the  report's  key  finding  on 
information  practices  are: 

•  Only  56%  ofthe  agents  were  willing 

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New  Social  Security 
Wage  Base  for  1987 


The  new  maximum  wage  base  subject  to 
Social  Security  tax  deductions  in  the  United 
States  is  $43,800.  This  is  up  from  $42,000 
for  1986.  The  net  effective  tax  rate  of  7.15% 
remains  the  same. 

Social  Security  beneficiaries  under  age  65 
may  have  earnings  up  to  $6,000  in  1987 
without  any  effect  on  their  monthly  checks. 
This  is  up  from  the  allowable  earnings  amount 
of  $5, 760  for  1986. 

Beneficiaries  age  65  or  older  may  earn  up 
to  $8,160  in  1987,  up  from  $7,800  in  1986, 
One  dollar  will  be  withheld  from  the  Social 
Security  benefit  for  every  $2  in  earnings 
above  these  allowable  amounts. 

Beneficiaries  can  have  unlimited  earnings 
after  attainment  of  age  70  without  any  effect 
on  their  Social  Security  payments. 

For  further  information,  beneficiaries  may 
contact  their  local  Social  Security  office. 


New  Tax  Law  Requires 
Numbers  for  Children 

The  Tax  Reform  Act  of  1986  (Section 
1524)  requires  taxpayers  to  show  a  Social 
Security  number  for  each  dependent  five 
years  of  age  and  over  whom  they  claim  for 
tax  purposes  beginning  with  the  returns  filed 
in  1988  and  later. 

This  provision  is  designed  to  reduce  tax 
evasion  in  cases  where  parents  filing  separate 
returns  both  claim  the  dependent  for  tax 
purposes,  a  growing  area  of  revenue  loss, 
according  to  Internal  Revenue  Service  offi- 
cials. 

About  two-thirds  of  all  young  people  al- 
ready have  a  Social  Security  number.  Those 
who  now  have  a  number  will  not  have  to 
get  another  one.  It  is  estimated  that  about 
nine  million  additional  persons  will  need 
Social  Security  numbers  to  meet  the  require- 
ments ofthe  new  law.  The  agency  normally 
issues  about  six  million  new  Social  Security 
cards  and  six  million  replacement  cards 
annually. 

Bottlenecks — Because  of  the  possibility 
that  the  huge  volume  of  applications  may 
create  bottlenecks  in  Social  Security  offices, 
schools  and  community  organizations  are 
being  asked  to  assist  in  taking  applications 
for  Social  Security  numbers.  The  Social 
Security  office  will  provide  more  detailed 
information  on  the  nearest  place  for  applying 
for  a  Social  Security  number  in  the  near 
future. 

Parents — Parents  may  apply  for  a  Social 
Security  card  for  their  dependents  by  phone, 
mail  or  in  person.  They  must  complete  an 
"Application  for  a  Social  Security  Number" 
card  (Form  SS-5).  A  person  18  or  older  or 
an  individual  born  outside  the  U.S.  must 
apply  in  person.  In  any  case,  proof  of  birth, 
identity  and  citizenship  or  lawful  alien  status 
is  required  with  the  application.  A  parent 
who  visits  a  Social  Security  office  to  apply 
for  a  child  must  provide  proof  of  his  or  her 
identity  as  well  as  that  of  the  child. 

Proof — A  public,  hospital  or  religious  birth 
record  can  generally  be  used  as  proof  of 
date  of  birth  and  citizenship.  Acceptable 
proofs  of  identity  include  hospital  or  phy- 
sician records,  school  records,  vaccination 
certificates,  welfare  records,  library  cards 
and  membership  cards  in  youth  organiza- 
tions. 

Call  or  visit  your  local  Social  Security  office 
for  further  information. 


MAY     1987 


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Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Middle  Aged  at  65 
By  the  Year  2000 

By  the  Year  2000,  people  65  years  old  or 
older  will  be  America's  biggest  health  con- 
cern. But  these  senior  citizens  will  be  much 
healthier  than  the  same  age  group  today  and 
will  no  longer  be  considered  elderly,  ac- 
cording to  a  prediction  by  a  Chicago  health 
care  consultant. 

"The  life  expectancy  should  be  about  90 
by  then,  and  65  will  be  middle  aged,"  says 
Jeff  Goldsmith,  a  consultant  to  Ernst  and 
Whinney  of  Chicago. 

Annual  Hampton 
Retirees  Party 


Houston  Club  54 
Passes  100  Members 

A  recent  report  from  Retirees  Club  54 
President  Johnny  H.  Walsh  indicates  that 
the  Houston,  Tex.,  club  is  going  strong.  The 
club  has  surpassed  the  100-member  mark 
and  plans  to  continue  to  build  upon  this 
strong  base. 

Current  members  encourage  participation 
in  club  activities  such  as  holiday  parties. 
Last  December  some  70  members  and  their 
guests  were  treated  to  a  fabulous  spread  at 
the  club  Christmas  party.  Other  festivities 
are  in  the  works. 


The  Christmas  party  committee  of  Chib  54 
earned  praise  for  its  hard  work. 

Grand  Falls  Retirees 


Beware  High  Fees 
For  Benefit  Appeals 

Social  Security  regulations  in  the  United 
States  say  lawyers  should  not  be  paid  more 
than  $75  an  hour  for  their  work  in  appeals 
cases,  and  they  should  receive  only  slightly 
more  in  cases  deemed  exceptionally  com- 
plex. 

In  spite  of  this,  some  attorneys  are  gouging 
their  elderly  clients  for  their  legal  services 
on  social  security  benefits. 

Lenient  hearing  officers  have  ignored  reg- 
ulations and,  in  effect,  allowed  private  law- 
yers to  bill  Social  Security  disability  recip- 
ients up  to  $750  an  hour  for  legal  services, 
costing  claimants  millions  of  dollars  a  year, 
an  agency  audit  says. 

In  1984,  the  latest  year  evaluated,  people 
who  were  denied  benefits  and  then  won 
appeals  paid  $23.6  million  in  unreasonably 
high  fees  to  attorneys,  according  to  the  audit 
by  the  Department  of  Health  and  Human 
Services  inspector  general's  office. 

As  a  result,  the  auditors  recommended 
reforms  to  more  tightly  regulate  the  amount 
of  money  that  can  be  charged  for  legal 
representation  in  these  types  of  cases. 

The  audit  said  "vague,  complex,  and  in- 
adequate" regulations  are  allowing  law- 
yers— usually  working  on  a  contingency  ba- 
sis where  they  collect  only  if  they  win — to 
reap  up  to  25%  of  any  past  due  benefits 
owed  to  claimants. 


Local  3130,  Hampton,  S.C,  held  its  Eight- 
eenth Annual  Retirees  Christmas  Party  at 
the  James  A.  Parker  union  hall.  About  250 
retirees  and  their  guests  enjoyed  the  deli- 
cious meal  that  was  prepared  by  Muriel 
Mixson.  Each  retiree  was  given  a  box  of 
fruit  by  the  local  and  a  turkey  by  Westing- 
house. 

Honored  guests  included  several  union 
officials  and  Westinghouse  representatives. 
James  Parker,  the  former  director  of  orga- 
nizing at  the  UBC  General  Office,  was  on 
hand  for  the  festivities  in  the  hall  that  bears 
his  name.  He  was  instrumental  in  organizing 
the  workers  in  Hampton  in  the  early  1950s. 

The  local  began  honoring  retired  members 
who  had  worked  at  the  Westinghouse  Mi- 
carta  plant  in  December  1969.  Since  then 
the  number  attending  the  party  has  grown 
each  year. 


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Four  recently  retired  members  of  Local 
2564,  Grand  Falls,  Nfld.,  were  presented 
jackets  and  caps  by  the  local.  Pictured 
above,  from  left,  are  members  Benjamin 
Luff,  Ewart  Brace,  Alvin  Faulkner,  and 
Leonard  Quintan. 


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Angered  Workers 

Continued  from  Page  21 

liabilities  for  those  vested  in  the  plan. 

On  Jan.  29,  1987,  Reeves  Brothers 
notified  the  PBGC  of  its  intent  to  ter- 
minate the  pension  plan  covering  its 
salaried  employees.  The  PBGC  has  60 
days  to  decide  on  the  legality  of  the 
proposed  termination. 

For  a  chance  to  question  Sovran 
Bank  representatives,  the  Reeves 
workers  drove  eight  hours  to  Rich- 
mond. When  they  began  leafletting  out- 
side the  bank  headquarters,  they  were 
invited  inside  along  with  about  30  Rich- 
mond-area trade  unionists,  including 
Virginia  AFL-CIO  President  David  Laws 
and  Secretary  Treasurer  Daniel  Le- 
Blanc. 

The  group  continued  leafletting  pas- 
sers-by before  going  to  a  second-floor 
meeting  room  in  the  Sovran  Center, 
where  the  bank  provided  coffee,  pas- 
tries and  chairs.  The  workers  refused 
the '  'thanks  for  stopping  by' '  hospitality 
and  chose  to  stand  and  wait. 

Bank  officials  never  made  it  to  the 
meeting  room  during  the  half-hour  the 
workers  waited.  Twice  the  group  headed 
for  the  14th  floor  offices  of  the  Sovran 
executives,  but  bank  security  guards 
turned  off  power  to  the  elevators.  The 
group  was  reassured  that  Sovran  offi- 
cials would  meet  with  them. 

"Letmetellyou,"saidAnnetteWhite, 
a  leader  of  the  group,  "these  folks  didn't 
know  who  they  were  picking  on  when 
they  decided  to  take  our  pensions.  We're 
gonna  fight  them  all  the  way." 

Retired  hourly  workers  from  Reeves 
receive  pension  benefits  that  average 
less  than  $60  a  month.  Clifford  Graham, 
who  retired  last  year  after  17  years  with 
the  company,  receives  a  monthly  check 
of  just  $44.  "Without  that  little  bit  of 
money,  I  don't  know  how  I'd  make  it," 
Graham  told  reporters. 

"We  demand  that  the  excess  funds 
be  used  to  improve  our  pensions,"  said 
Sharon  Van  Auken,  another  Reeves 
worker.  She  explained  that  the  com- 
pany repeatedly  told  local  bargainers 
than  the  pension  plan  was  "under- 
funded" and  that  it  had  "no  plans  to 
terminate  the  funds." 

Reeves  hourly  workers  put  in  three 
12-hour  shifts  a  week,  with  no  time- 
and-a-half  after  eight  hours  daily.  Sa- 
laried workers,  who  are  on  a  five-day, 
40-hour  week,  are  paid  time-and-a-half 
after  eight  hours.  Van  Auken  said. 

Ree.ves  workers  left  the  bank  just  as 
city  police  arrived  in  the  bank's  lobby. 
After  boarding  a  bus  to  go  back  to  their 
motel  rooms,  the  workers  sang  "We 
shall  overcome."  They  promised  fur- 
ther demonstrations  at  other  banks  until 
their  questions  are  answered. 


Strong  Trade 

Continued  from  Page  19 

Finance  Committee,  AFL-CIO  Presi- 
dent Lane  Kirkland  voiced  criticism  of 
what  he  called  "the  systematic  mer- 
cantilistic  policies  of  other  countries  to 
discourage  imports  and  expand  exports 
to  the  U.S.  market."  Committee  Chair- 
man Bentson  no  doubt  summed  up  a 
majority  sentiment  when  he  stated  that 
reducing  the  trade  deficit  "demands 
that  we  put  in  place  a  coherent,  con- 
sistent trade  policy  for  this  country." 

UUfi 

Consumer  Clipboard 

Continued  from  Page  29 

to  discuss  exactly  the  policy  about  which 
the  consumer  inquired. 

•  Only  a  fifth  of  the  agents  were 
wilhng  to  provide  the  Interest  Adjusted 
Net  Cost  Index,  which  is  the  standard 
cost  measure  for  insurance  policies. 

•  A  third  of  all  agents  simply  refused 
to  discuss  cost  in  any  form. 

•  Over  60%  of  the  agents  failed  to 
send  enough  information  for  the  con- 
sumer to  actually  be  able  to  estimate 
the  cost  of  the  policy  and  compare  it 
to  other  policies.  DUG 


Double  Breasted  Bills 
Expect  Quick  Action. 
Write  Letters  Now! 

Action  by  the  U.S.  Congress  on  the  pro- 
posed Construction  Industry  Contract  Se- 
curity Act — the  so-called  Double-Breasted 
Bills — may  come  at  any  time.  It's  important 
that  every  UBC  member  who  values  his 
union  wages  and  working  conditions  writes 
to  his  or  her  congressman  and  senator  in 
support  of  this  legislation. 

Keep  your  letter  brief  and  get  to  the  point 
quickly.  The  House  bill  is  HR  281.  The 
Senate  bill  is  S.492.  You  might  write  some- 
thing like  this: 

Dear  Congressman  (or  Congresswoman 
or  Senator): 

The  practice  by  some  construction  con- 
tractors of  operating  both  union  and  non- 
union work  crews  ("double  breasting") 
through  two  or  more  competing  companies 
under  the  same  ownership  is  unfair  to  many 
workers  of  your  state. 

(HR281  or  S.492,  whichever  applies)  would 
eliminate  double  breasting  and  give  pre-hire 
agreements  in  the  construction  industry  the 
same  status  under  the  law  that  collective 
bargaining  agreements  in  other  industries 
enjoy. 

This  legislation  is  the  United  Brotherhood 
of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  number  one  leg- 
islative priority  before  this  Congress.  Its 
passage  will  be  of  value  to  every  union 
construction  worker  in  your  constituency. 

Sincerely 


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PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


OHE  PLUS  ONE? 

After  landing  on  Mt.  Ararat,  Noah 
said  to  tine  animals  of  the  ark,  "Go 
forth  and  multiply!" 

A  little  later  Noah  found  two  snakes 
still  on  the  ark. 

"I  told  you  to  go  forth  and  multi- 
ply!" 

"We  can't,"  said  one  of  the  snakes, 
"we're  adders." 


SUPPORT  'TURNAROUND' 


NO  SECOND  SHOW 

Passenger;  Do  these  ships  sink 
often,  captain? 

Captain:  No,  ma'am.  Usually  just 
once. 


ATTEND  YOUR  LOCAL  MEETINGS 


ASK  FIRST 

The  new/  bride  w/as  bragging  to 
her  husband.  "The  two  best  things 
I  prepare  are  meatloaf  and  peach 
cobbler." 

The  bridegroom  replied,  "Well, 
which  is  this?" 


JUSTICE  SERVED 

A  newly-appointed  justice  was 
not  familiar  with  the  code  and  when 
a  bootlegger  appeared  before  him 
he  was  at  a  loss  as  what  to  fine 
him.  He  called  up  the  old  justice 
saying,  "I've  got  a  bootlegger  here. 
What  should  I  give  him?" 

"Don't  give  him  over  $4  a  quart," 
replied  the  old  justice.  "I  never  did." 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 

BE  UNION!  BUY  LABEL! 

NOT  SO  FUNNY 

The  trouble  with  political  jokes  is 
they  often  get  elected. 

BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 


DISCONNECTED 

The  teenage  daughter  had  been 
on  the  family  telephone  for  half  an 
hour.  When  finally  she  did  hang  up, 
her  father  said  sarcastically,  "You 
usually  talk  for  two  hours.  What 
stopped  you  this  time?" 

"Wrong  number,"  replied  the 
daughter. 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

There  was  a  young  man  named 

Murray 

Who  said  to  his  wife,  "Don't  you 

worry." 

'Til  hammer  and  saw 

'Till  my  fingers  are  raw 

And  build  you  a  home  in  a  hurry." 
— Leslie  E.  Veit 
Retiree,  Local  1462 
Bucks  County,  Pa. 


SOUNDS  OF  SILENCE 

After  telling  his  patient  to  put  out 
her  tongue,  the  doctor  began  writ- 
ing out  the  prescription.  When  he 
had  finished  he  turned  to  her  and 
said,  "There,  that  will  do." 

"But  doctor,"  she  protested,  "You 
didn't  even  look  at  my  tongue." 

"Didn't  need  to,"  the  doctor  re- 
plied. "I  just  wanted  to  keep  you 
quiet  while  I  wrote  the  prescription 
for  you." 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


BOYCOTT  L-P  PRODUCTS 

BATTER  UP  AND  OVER 

Two  elderly  women  arrived  at  a 
baseball  game  just  in  time  to  see 
the  batter  hit  a  home  run.  Twenty 
minutes  later,  the  same  batter  hit 
another  home  run. 

"Let's  go,"  said  one  woman  to 
the  other,  "This  is  where  we  came 
in." 


LOOK  FOR  THE  UNION  LABEL 


THE  BREADWINNER 

Two  youngsters  playing  cowboy 
hitched  their  stick  horses  to  a  fence- 
post  and  swaggered  to  the  crate 
that  served  as  their  saloon.  The 
older  lad  pushed  back  his  hat, 
pounded  the  crate,  and  in  his  deep- 
est voice  demanded,  "Gimme  a 
rye."  The  younger  boy  imitated  his 
friend's  gestures,  then  sang  out, 
"And  I'll  have  a  whole  wheat." 


USE  UNION  SERVICES 


JUNGLE  JINGLE 

Overheard  on  the  telephone: 
"Hello,  operator,  I'd  like  to  speak 
with  the  king  of  the  jungle." 
"I'm  sorry,  that  lion  is  busy." 


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service 

To 

The 

Bir*llMirli««d 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who  recently  received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  2 


Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  3 


Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  4 

Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  5 
MAY     1987 


Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  6 


Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  1 

GLENS  FALLS,  N.Y. 

Local  229  recently  celebrated  its  100-year 
anniversary  at  Lal<e  Luzerne,  N.Y.  First  District 
Board  Member  Joseph  Lia  was  on  hand  for  the 
celebration  and  the  presentation  of  service  pins 
to  members. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  60-year  member  Francis 
Terry,  left,  receiving  a  pin  and  commemorative 
plaque  from  Board  Member  Lia. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members  Fred 
Carey,  left,  and  Cornell  Hall. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members  Allan 
Flewelling,  left,  and  Andrew  Borix. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left;  Hershell  Wright,  C.  Powell  South,  Harold 
Flynn,  and  Robert  DeMarsh  Sr, 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Edgar  Eggleston,  Joseph  Burlett,  Joseph 
Dadis,  Raymond  Allen,  Joseph  Winans,  Henry 
Allen,  James  D'Arrigo,  James  DIdio,  and 
Howard  Dickinson. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Robert  Combs,  Joseph  Whalen,  and 
Howard  Harris. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  James  Rivette,  Eugene  Blackburn,  John 
Sidusky,  Richard  Eggleston,  George  Sweet,  and 
Arnold  Graham. 

Picture  No.  8  shows  the  anniversary  cake 
with,  from  left.  Business  Agent  Phillip  Allen, 
President  Edgar  Eggleston,  and  Board  Member 
Lia. 


Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  8 


Glen  Falls,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  6 


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Manchester, 


Manchester,  N.H. — Picture  No.  7 


MANCHESTER,  N.H. 

Local  625  recently  had  a  service  pins  award 
banquet  at  the  Chateau  Restaurant  to  honor 
members  with  longstanding  service. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  from  left,  President 
Roland  Bellerose;  with  George  Chalmers  Jr ,  60 
years;  Aime  Lemay,  65  years;  Leo  Dion,  60 
years;  and  Business  Agent  Daniel  Courchesne. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  20-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Francis  Laughlin,  Paul  Quintal, 
Panagiotis  Lazos,  David  Gallagher,  and  Ronald 
Blais. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Richard  Trottier,  Ken 
Perkins,  IVlichael  Lacondrada,  Raymond 
Guiibeault,  Raymond  Bergeron,  and  Walter 
Allard. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Roland  Roy,  Roger  Lavalley, 
Michael  Wierzchoiek,  Paul  LaRoche,  and  Albert 
Parent. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Maurice  Dewyngaert, 
Armand  Boucher,  Aurele  Bellerose,  Lucien 
Breault,  Charles  Dusseault,  Roland  Bellerose, 
and  Andre  Zajac. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Paul  Goupil,  Raymond 
Courchesne,  Real  Breault,  and  Roger  Bellerose. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Robert  Martel,  Rudolph 
Roy,  Edward  Vigneault,  Fred  Temple,  and 
Richard  Plourde. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Walter  Martle,  Walter  Poulin, 


Marcel  Pinard,  and  Hector  Gemache. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Armand  Caron,  Harold 
Melhorn,  and  Alexander  Legence. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  George  Lacombe,  Armand 
Caron,  Edward  Bourbeau,  Fred  Ebol,  Edward 
Bernard,  and  Ziz  Koyiades. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Arthur  Kallenberg, 
Joseph  Isabelle,  Roger  Faucher,  Ernest  Herous, 
Julien  Blais,  and  Andre  Gelinas. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Leo  Lemaire,  Henry  Nadeau, 
Edward  Stepanian,  Edward  Soucy,  and  Edgar 
Rouleau. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Alphee  Lavallee,  Leo 
Ladieu,  Roland  St.  Pierre,  and  James  Wells. 

Picture  No.  8  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Samuel  Martel,  Gerard  Paquette, 
Henry  Gilchrist,  and  Robert  Bouvin. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Oscar  Dsekx,  Roger 
Weaver,  and  Alphee  Janelle. 

Picture  No.  9  shows  50-year  members,  from 
left:  Joseph  Proulx,  Carl  Anderson,  Leon 
Doiron,  and  Joseph  Keane. 


Manchester,  N.t-t. — Picture  No.  9 


Houston,  Tex. 

HOUSTON,  TEX. 

Local  213  member  Johnny  H.  Walsh  was 
recently  presented  a  45-year  pin  for  his 
dedicated  service  to  the  United  Brotherhood. 
Pictured  at  left  is  Brother  Walsh  receiving  his 
pin  from  James  Alfred,  Local  213  business 
agent. 


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Kansas  City,  Kan.— Picture  No.  1 


Kansas  City,  Kan. — Picture  No.  2 


KANSAS  CITY,  KAN. 

Local  1529  presented  pins  to  members  witti 
25  to  60  years  of  service  at  tiie  local's  annual 
picnic. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  longtime  members, 
from  left:  50-year  member  Russell  O'Dell,  and 
45-year  members  George  Abel,  Harry  Saltzman, 
and  Ben  Fergula. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  Arthur  Sage,  right, 
receiving  a  40-year  pin  from  his  son,  Local 
President  Arthur  Sage. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  members,  from  left: 
Franl<  Kandlbinder,  40  years;  Ervin  Knight,  40 
years;  Earl  Miller,  40  years;  James  Bevan,  40 
years;  Andrew  Redrew,  45  years;  and  Charlie 
Selig  Jr.,  40  years. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  members,  front  row, 
from  left:  Robert  Fellers,  25  years;  Ivan  Owen, 
25  years;  Ronald  Danaday,  35  years;  Charles 
Ralston,  35  years;  Glen  Dutro,  35  years;  Albert 
Lister,  35  years;  and  Foster  LaBar,  35  years. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Frank  Shomin,  25  years; 
Ivan  Barney  35  years;  Robert  House,  30  years. 


and  Richard  Reischman,  35  years. 

Receiving  pins  but  not  pictured  were  60-year 
member  Chet  Row;  45-year  members  John 
Bowman,  LeRoy  Galloway,  Ralph  Hasten,  W. 
A.  Heater,  Lloyd  Peterson,  Adam  Rider,  James 
Wilkerson,  and  Robert  Wilkerson;  40-year 
members  David  Binder,  Ralph  Brock,  Kenneth 
Burkhart,  Ross  Cole,  James  Edwards,  Fred 
Goss,  Edward  Guth,  Melvin  Hinkle,  Carl 
Hoffman,  Paul  Hultmar,  Francis  Kennedy, 
Lyman  Kreig,  Neithel  Lewis,  and  Tolly 
Lugenbeal;  35-year  members  Ivan  Barney, 
William  T.  Davidson,  A.  0.  Davis,  Clyde 
Dougan,  Robert  Gallagher,  Earl  Gard,  Edgar 
Gard,  H.  G.  Henerson,  John  Mathia,  Carl 
IVIcDaniel,  Charles  Neeland,  W.  D.  Peterson, 
Henry  Selig,  Rolla  Smith,  Eugene  Ward,  and 
Martin  Wright;  30-year  members  Ralph  Gerit, 
Leonard  McCale,  John  Schulte,  Louis 
Schmiedler,  Everett  Skaggs,  and  Maurice 
Sweeten;  and  25-vear  members  Ray  Carpenter, 
Oran  McClaskey,  Buddy  McDowell,  Leo 
Pfannes,  William  J.  Ruby  Jr.,  and  Sam  Waltrip. 


Kansas  City,  Kan. — Picture  No.  3 


Kansas  City,  Kan. — Picture  No.  4 


Rochester,  Minn. — Picture  No.  1 

ROCHESTER,  MINN. 

Local  1383  recently  held  a  pin  presentation 
ceremony  to  honor  members  with  longstanding 
sen/ice. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  40-year  members, 
seated,  from  left:  H.J.  Schoenmann  and 
Raymond  Adier. 

Standing,  from  left:  Ellsworth  Gunderson, 
Melvin  Betcher,  Frank  Domaille,  Charles 
Hammond,  Harold  Flanders,  and  Bernard 
Tlougan. 

Picture  No.  2  shows 
30-year  member  Lavern 
Olson. 

Not  pictured  but 
receiving  pins  were  45- 
year  member  Harley 
Lark;  40-year  members 
Robert  Ferguson, 
Halvor  Smidt,  Harold  Picture  No.  2 

Hovel,  Merle  Sawyer,  Michael  Balloy,  Laurence 
Crowson,  Joseph  Lamina,  Charles  Peterson, 
Ernest  Niemeyer,  and  Ralph  Anderson;  35-year 
members  Peder  Norman,  Raymond  Chapman, 
and  John  Rueb;  30-year  members  Frank 


Cheyenne,  Wyo. 

Reimers  and  Paul  Larson;  and  25-year 
members  Henry  Betcher  and  Walter  Rahrmann. 


CHEYENNE,  WYO. 

A  group  of  Local  469  members  recently 
received  pins  for  longtime  membership  in  the 
UBC. 

Pictured,  kneeling,  from  left:  Harrison 
Darrah,  45  years;  John  Gaines,  30  years; 
Melvin  Seymour,  25  years;  and  Dean  Van  Zant, 
30  years. 

Standing,  from  left:  Jamy  Romero,  35  years; 
Delmer  Anderson,  25  years;  John  Reid  Jr.,  25 
years;  T.C.  Stogsdill,  25  years;  Walter 
Moberger,  40  years;  and  Everett  Glenn,  30 
years. 

Also  receiving  pins  but  not  photographed 
were:  20-year  member  Charles  Listen;  25-year 
members  Gordon  Christensen  and  Perry  Moe; 
30-year  members  Val  Call  and  Ernest  Haskell; 
35-year  members  George  Brox  and  Bryce 
Newhouser;  40-year  members  Albert  Hobbs 
and  N.E.  Locke;  and  50-year  member  Horace 
Platek. 


Jackson,  Tenn. 
JACKSON, TENN. 

Local  259  recently  had  a  dinner  meeting  to 
award  lapel  pins  to  members  of  50  and  55 
years  of  service.  The  dinner  party  was  a  great 
success,  uniting  some  members  that  had  not 
seen  each  other  for  thirty  years. 

Pictured,  from  left;  55-year  member  Malcolm 
Jennings,  Local  President  Barry  T.  Mayo,  and 
50-year  members  George  Moss,  L.E. 
Murchison,  Albert  Fly,  and  Charles  Beard. 

Receiving  a  50-year  pin  but  not  pictured  was 
H.L.  Gaba. 


MAY     1987 


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Chicago,  III. — Picture  No.  1 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Local  1  recently  held  its  annual  pin  party, 
honoring  members  with  25  to  45  years  of  UBC 
service. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  President  Mancini,  Ernie  Reed,  and  Ex- 
President  Vollmer. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  30-year  members:  Fred 
Boyd,  Dan  O'Leary,  H.  S.  Brown,  Bob 
Coffman,  John  Fitzsimons,  Nick  Nikonez,  Dan 
Penar,  and  Joe  Sabath. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members: 
Casimir  Vrasic,  Joe  Ziubrzynski,  Wm.  Weiler, 
August  Vollmer,  Val  Sodeika,  Ernie  Rizzo,  Rich 
Resner,  Al  Paulin,  Vince  Palella,  Jake  McKenny, 
and  Frank  Maracic. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members:  Ed 
Blaha,  Joe  Budz,  George  Conner,  Perry 


Dalianis,  Fred  Dykstra,  Bias  Granato,  Ray 
Reideman,  Lou  Hirz,  Jessie  Ingalls,  R. 
Meentemeyer,  John  IVlotto,  George  Paulin,  Ray 
Poteracki,  Roman  Sliwa,  Ed  Szurgot,  Frank 
Westerlund,  Werner  Wick,  and  Leo  Witkowski. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members: 
Chas.  Claxton,  Mike  Connolly,  Jerry  Gialka,  and 
Bob  Soger. 


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Chicago,  III.— Picture  No.  2 


Chicago,  III.— Picture  No.  3 


Drexel  Hill,  Pa. 


Chicago,  III  — Picture  No  4 


DREXEL  HILL,  PA. 

The  members  of  Local  845  recently  gathered 
to  award  service  pins  to  those  members  who 
had  longstanding  service  to  the  United 
Brotherhood. 

Pictured  are,  from  left:  Ralph  Lowden,  35 
years;  Charles  DeFabio,  30  years;  Bill  Kohler, 
25  years;  Frank  Smith,  local  president;  Pete 
Holm,  45  years;  John  Vandergast,  40  years; 
Alan  Crampton,  30  years;  and  Joe  Gedeika,  25 
years. 

HAGERSTOWN,  MD. 

Members  of  Local  340  recently  received 
service  pins  ranging  from  25  to  50  years. 

Pictured,  seated,  from  left:  Robert  Jones, 
William  Diffenderfer,  Robert  Gordon,  Fred 
Davis,  Raymond  Moats,  and  George 
Armstrong. 

Standing,  from  left:  Wayne  Burger, 
Representative  Leo  Decker,  Kenneth  Palmer, 
Glen  Tarner,  Lee  Yeates,  Charles  Miller,  and 
Business  Representative  Kenneth  Wade. 


Hagerstown,  Md. 


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CARPENTER 


The  following  list  of  588  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,033,813.50  death  claims  paid  in  February  1987;  (s) 
following  name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members 


Local  Union,  City 

2  Cincinnati,  OH— Ollie  B.  Hall. 

3  Wheeling,  WV— Delbert  Lee  Wolff.  Martha  M.  Kinzy 
(s). 

4  Davenport,  lA — Alberta  Carter  (s),  Floyd  Winckler, 
Leonard  Nissen. 

6  Hudson  County,  NJ — Helen  Sullivan  (s),  Vincent 
DeMercurio. 

7  Minneapolis,  MN — Arvid  Hanno,  Eleanor  B.  Erick- 
son  (s).  Jerome  Hempel. 

8  Philadelpliia,  PA— Charles  J.  Wins. 
10    Chicago,  IL — Samuel  E.  Wenstrom. 

12  Syracuse,  NY— Robert  J.  Blewett. 

13  Chicago,  IL — Thomas  F.  Stennis. 

14  San  Antonio,  TX — Clarence  A.  Hazlegrove,  Frank 
A.  Hernandez.  Robert  L.  Ressmann, 

15  Hackensack,   NJ — David   DePaima,  John   Cleary, 
Walter  Wyszomirski.  William  J.  Brune. 

20    New  York,  NY— Edward  Paul. 

24    Central  Connecticut — Generoso  Grignano.  Stephen 

Bemay. 
28     Missoula,  MT— Ralph  E.  Sticht. 
33    Boston,  MA — Dominic  Puleo. 
36    Oakland,  CA — Joseph  A.  Ghiselli.  Martin  Bailey 

Loomis,  Morris  Bosley.  Nina  M.  Haak  (s). 
40    Boston,  MA— Arthur  W.  Gates. 
44    Champaign  &  Urbana,  IL — Carol  J.  Lane. 

47  St.  Louis,  MO— Elmer  O.  Strom,  Georgia  W.  Brey- 
fogle  (s),  Vernon  R.  Pursley. 

48  Fitchhurg,  MA— Roger  J.  M.  Richard. 

50    Knoxville,  TN — Gordon  P.  McCarrell,  Susan  Moore 

(s). 
54    Chicago,  IL — Charles  Irven  Ogden,  Grace  Burandt 

(s),  Louis  Krenek.  Paul  Baal.  William  Ferrari. 
56    Boston,  MA— George  H.  Butt. 
58    Chicago,  Il^Carl  G.  Wilson,  Herkki  E.  Vanninen. 

60  Indianapolis,  IN — Helen  I.  Buis  (s). 

61  Kansas  City,  MO — Alice  Olivine  Steva{s),  Micahel 
L.  Demint,  Roy  D.  Kirby.  Wayne  Evans. 

62  Chicago,  II^Ralph  Walstra. 

63  Bloomington,  IL — Clarence  A.  Rettke. 

66    Clean,  NY — George  W.  Briggs,  Helen  L.  Spence 

(s). 
71    Fort  Smith,  AR — James  A.  Frazier. 
74    Chattanooga,  TN— Mary  J.  Foote  (s). 
76    Hazellon,  PA— Olga  Kutskiel  (s). 
80    Chicago,  Il^Clara  D.  Krogman  (s). 
87    SI.  Paul,  MN— James  Colleran.  John  B.  Stache. 

Kenneth  Pedersen. 
94    Providence,  Rl — Agustin  Sanchez.  John  A.  Pagliar- 

ini.  Romeo  J.  Plourde. 

101  Baltunore,  MD— Luther  T.  Matthew,  Michael  E. 
Watnoski. 

102  Oakland,  CA— Arvel  Archie  West.  Donald  L.  Er- 
ickson. 

103  Birmingham,  AL — Edward  O'Drake. 

104  Dayton,  OH — Herschel  I.  Toman,  Mary  Mildred 
Rose  Stone  (s).  Russell  W.  Nicholas,  William  H. 
Zehr. 

105  Cleveland,  OH— Frank  James  Calvert,  Gordon  N. 
Forsythe. 

106  Des  Moines,  lA — Axel  M.  Jurgens. 

108  Springfield,  MA — Arthur  Lamagdelaine. 

109  Sheffield,  AL— Claude  M.  Haynes. 

114  East  Detroit,  MI — Alvin  Adams,  Edna  B.  Napole- 
tano  (s),  Hugh  Kay,  Michael  J.  Sammon,  Paul  Fritz, 
Robert  Gibbons.  Walter  Newman. 

115  Miami,  FL — Robert  King,  Samuel  Leib. 

118  Detroit,  MI— Charies  L.  Lowe,  Clara  Belle  Gosse 
(s),  Doris  Stiers  (s).  Ercelle  E.  King,  Frank  H. 
Henderson.  James  H.  Hagerman  Sr.,  Joseph  Misz- 
czak. 

120  Utica,  NY — Leon  F.  Marceau. 

121  Vineland,  NJ — Gunnar  Backlund. 

122  Philadelphia,  PA — Leroy  Martin,  Thomas  J.  Devlin. 
Viola  S.  Stoops  (s), 

123  Broward-County,  FL — Fritz  W.  Andersen.  William 
H.  Lofton.  William  Morris  Helton.  Wilton  I.  de- 
mons. 

124  Passaic,  NJ — Theodore  Scheppe. 

125  Miami,  FL — Elvin  William  Thompson.  Russell  H. 
Johnson,  Jr. 

128  St.  Albans,  WV— Myrtle  E.  Rutledge  (s).  Rosalie 
Gibson  (s). 

130  Palm  Beach,  FL— James  H.  Hicks. 

131  Seattle,  WA— Fred  J.  Huss.  Harold  E.  Storkel.  John 
E.  Case,  Russell  D.  Sleister.  Ted  Schindele. 

132  Washington,  DC — Leon  McCubbin.  Margaret  Hor- 
vath  (s).  Rossie  L,  Bullock. 

133  Terre  Haute,  IN— Max  Emil  Reed,  Oscar  R.  May- 
rose. 

135  New  York,  NY — Henry  Bara,  Herman  Koffler.  James 
Addario.  Sylvia  Piesman  (s). 

140  Tampa,  FL — Earnest  Jewel  Hudgins.  General  Lee 
Bryant. 

141  Chicago,  IL — Gunnar  Thulin. 

142  Pittsburgh,  PA — Anna  Mae  Federauch  (s). 
144     Macon,  GA — Mangham  E.  Griffin, 

161     Kenosha,  WI— Caleb  Johnson. 
165    Pittsburg,  PA— Carl  Josephson.  Charles  A.  Carlton. 
169    East   St.    Louis,   Il^Calvin   Dale   Barnetl.   Hallie 
Wawerzin  (s).  Rulh  Frazer  (s). 


Local  Union,  City 


Youngstown,  OH — Lee  R.  Hively,  Malvin  C.  En- 
yeart. 

Chicago,  IL — Albin  Johanson,  Christ  Larsen,  Robert 
J.  Feiler. 

Cleveland,  OH — George  Tomusko. 
Peoria,  II^-Frances  E.  Stegall  (s).  Glenn  P.  Hackett. 
Salt  Lake  City,  UT— Elna  Thompson  (s),  James  E. 
Willden,  Jr.,  Melvin  C.  Isbell,  Phyllis  Severson  (s). 
Yvonne  Swan  (s). 
Geneva,  NY — William  F.  Trickey. 
Yonkers,  NY — Ciro  Greco. 
Quincy,  IL — Raymond  L.  Cannady. 
Peru,  IL — Letitia  K.  Taylor  (s),  Verna  Vandervort 
(s). 

Dallas,  TX— Clarence  S.  Barrett.  Ella  Mae  Harde- 
man (s),  Fred  Alton  Irons.  Harold  Clifton  Cranford. 
Theodore  Binkee. 

Columbus,  OH— Arthur  R.  Peacock,  Charles  R.  Gue, 
Elsworth  G.  Hayes.  William  H.  Clark  Jr. 
Wichita,  KS— John  W  Siedhoff. 
Poughkeepsie,  NY — Felix  Berg. 
Stamford,  CT— Edward  G.  Kowalski.  Frank  Saiko, 
George  Bauer.  Joseph  Butkus.  Milton  Scharn. 
Wallace,  ID— Nels  G.  Nelson. 
Nashville,  TN — Margaret  Hayes  Walrond  (s). 
Atlanta,  GA— Ethel  Melissa  Malone  (s),  Marlin  W. 
Smith.  Theodore  R.  Wofford  Sr..  Walter  Benning 
Moon,  William  J.  Reeves. 
Glens  Falls,  NY— Gordon  M.  Gravelle. 
Pittsburgh,  PA— Julia  M.  Schratz  (s). 
Fort  Wayne,  IN— Elmer  Pool.' 
Riverside,  CA — Albert  Eari  McKerrihan.  Clarence 
Williams.  John  C.  Forbes,  John  W,  Richards,  Sid 
E.  Liebrich. 

Grand  Jet.,  CO — Leonard  Heighes. 
New  York,  NY — Gertrude  Rabinow  (s),   Mildred 
Hansen  (s).  Stanley  Urbanek. 
Portland,  OR— Paul  W.  Gartner. 
Waukegan,  IL — William  Franklin  Hendee. 
Savannah,  GA — Henry  Ashmore. 
Jackson,  TN — Barney  M.  Cobb,  Louise  Bernice 
Pyles  (s). 

Scranton,  PA — Edward  Kessler. 
San  Jose,  CA — Horace  Harold  Little.  Peter  C.  Dina, 
Raymond  Samuel  Wescott. 

Milwaukee,  WI — Cart  Borckmann.  Sebastion  Har- 
tinger.  Jr. 

Niagara-Gen&Vic,  NY — Joseph  D.  Demunda. 
Binghamton,  NY — Anne  M.  Ailing  (s). 
Great  Falls,  MT — Alexander  J.  Filipowicz,  Margaret 
E.  Powelson  (s). 

Harrisburg,  PA — Walter  N.  Bowermaster,  Warren 
L.  Lightner. 

Brooklyn,  NY — Signe  Hauge  (s). 
Kalamazoo,  Ml — Raymond  Kuzinski. 
Huntington,  WV— Ralph  Smith. 
Jophn,  MO — Delmar  Fullerlon,  Deveta  A.  Hill  (s), 
Vernon  W.  Boaz. 

San  Jose,  CA — James  W.  Rupe,  Leon  D.  Smith. 
Waco,  TX— Reuben  Otto  Kattner. 
Oklahoma  City,  OK— Richard  B.  Krey,  Shelby  R. 
Justus. 

New  Kensington,  PA — Alex  L.  Hochmuth. 
Waukesha,  WI— Carlyle  1.  Waite. 
New  York,  NY — Eugene  Garbiano,  Joan  Bignami 
(s).  John  Happ.  Peter  Kinzersky. 
Marietta,  OH— James  W.  Kuhn. 
Duluth,  MN — Delores  Lippo  (s). 
Alton,  IL — Henry  William  Manns. 
Ashville,  NC— Hazel  Bredel  McKenzie. 
Richmond,  VA — Woodrow  H.  Luck. 
Lewiston,  ID — John  L.  Pinckard. 
Lake  Co,  OH— Wallace  O.  Pomeroy. 
South  Bend,  IN — Frederick  D.  Leer. 
Belleville,  IL — Mae  E.  Nurdin  (s). 
Chicago,  IL — Acinelh  Jorgensen  (s). 
Hopkinsville,  KY — Harold  Franklin  Langley. 
Philadelphia,  PA— Paul  Ford. 
Tacoma,  WA — Albert  Johnson,  Charles  V.  Stone- 
burner.  Robert  W.  Hoskins,  William  C.  Thompson. 
Ashland,  KY— Ellis  Tackett,  Harold  Kitchen,  Scwal 
Rowland. 

Ashland,  MA — Donald  Dadmun.  John  Fiynn.  Paavo 
Rutanen. 

Reading,  PA— Helen  J.  Guiles  (s). 
Kankakee,  IL — Norman  V.  Johnston. 
Port  Arthur,  TX — Maye  Allyne  Coins  (s). 
Berthoud.  CO— William  T.  Wright. 
Wilkes  Barre,  PA — David  Wayne  Rozelle. 
Washington,  DC — Thomas  E.  Ragland. 
Elmira,  NY— Lauri  K.  Koski. 
Mamaroneck,  NY — Victor  C.  Salvo. 
Elmhurst,  IL — Evelyn  Rulh  Altera  (s).  Lawrence 
Francis  Krause. 
Paducah,  KY— Marvin  E.  Habeck,  William  A.  Voy- 


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Glendale,  CA— Stanley  F.  Eytner. 

Sacramento,  CA — Cart  E.  Pappa.  Leroy  P.  Madri- 

ago.  Louis  J,  Melavic.  Martin  F.  Knittel. 

Lynn,  MA — Earl  Douglas  Bowen. 

St.  Paul,  MN — Genevieve  Craig  (s). 


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Hampton  Roads,  VA — Joe  Sidney  Johnson. 
Madison,  NJ — Obert  Jacobsen.  Paul  Glanville. 
Wilmington,  DE — Howard  R.  Mackey. 
Jacksonville,  FI^David  G.  Carrin,  Robert  J.  Gibbs. 
Madison  &  Granite  City,  IL — Joe  H.  Rigsby,  John 
Wyrostek  Sr. 

Salem,  IL — Francis  Weslendorf. 
Marion,  IL — John  J.  Boyd  Jr. 
Akron,  OH — Elmer  Frey. 
Metropolis,  IL — Jacob  Clutts. 
Richmond,  CA— Byron  Mitchell.  Guthrie  John  Wil- 
liams. Lester  Stewart.  Marie  June  Dame  (s). 
Pomeroy,  OH — Rolland  Neutzling. 
Chattanooga,  TN — James  O.  Bankston. 
Millinocket,  ME — Lester  A.  Warman  Sr. 
Springfield,    OH— Carl    D.    Hardesty.    James    R. 
McEnaney. 

Palo  Alto,  CA— Lilia  S.  Lahde  (si. 
Dubuque,  lA — Fred  J.  Huseman. 
Fresno,  CA— Alfreda  Phillips  (s),  Lloyd  A.  Walker. 
Lockland,  OH— Ruth  L.  Terhar  (s). 
Jackson,  MI — Daniel  Raber. 
Long  Beach,  CA— Albert  J .  Dreiling.  Glen  W.  Miller. 
Baton  Rouge,  LA — Buck  Edward  Jones  (s). 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Clone  Eva  McDaniel  (s).  Rosaura 
Perez  (s). 

Houston,  TX — Michael  Gomez. 
Rochester,  NY— Carl  W.  Stewart. 
Portland,  OR — Darwin  A.  Oberkamper. 
New  York,  NY — Edwin  A.  Anderson. 
Decatur,    IL — Arthur   Girard,    Delbert    Raymond 
Mundy. 

Bakersfield,  CA— William  R.  Smith. 
Honolulu,  HI — Asano  Yamaguchi  (s),  Edna  F.  Mi- 
yamoto (s),  Francis  1.  Sato,  Jiro  Kawamoto,  Ka- 
zumi,  Ino.  Kenichi  Takeuye.  Michael  Asai,  Susumu 
Hirasa.  Yasuo  Amine. 

Bellingham,  WA — Frances  Elizabeth  Bailey  (s),  Or- 
rin  S.  Willet. 

Shreveport,  LA — Willie  H.  Sirman. 
Albert  Lea,  MN — Clarence  Becker.  Donald  L.  De- 
poppe. 

Yakima,  WA — Howard  Armin  Ruegg,  Melville  E. 
Masterman. 

Harrisonville,  MO — Jarrett  EIroy  Hawley,  Sr. 
Dixon,  II^Ada  R.  Zenk  (s).  Robert  C.  Hinrichs. 
Rockford,  IL — Arnold  Olson.  Clarence  Stombaugh. 
St.  Louis,  MO — Lee  Edward  Tankersley  (s). 
Muskegon,  MI — Stanley  Ransom. 
Des  Plaines,  IL — Carl  Edward  Green. 
Manitowoc,  WI — Leonard  C.  Reimer,  Virginia  Egan 
(s). 

Tucson,  AZ — Carl  E.  Fasel,  Leah  Longfellow  (s). 
Brunswick,  GA — Jewel  Miller  (s). 
Cincinnati,  OH — Earl  Lutz. 
Hopkins,  MN — Edward  H.  Pearson. 
St.  Joseph,  MI— Charles  William  Wahl,  Howard  S. 
Freed. 

Parkersburg,  WV— Curtis  Dale  Life. 
Brooklyn,  NY — George  Ericson,  Josephine  Kalin 
(s). 

Glendale,  AZ— Willie  S.  Camp. 
Portsmouth,  NH— Hervey  J.  Caplette. 
Salinas,  CA— Valdah  Edith  Myhre  (s). 
St.   Cloud,   MN— Christ  Stitch.  Francis  Anthony 
Fabro.  Melvin  J.  Kramer. 
San  Bernardino,  CA — Howard  J.  Williams. 
Appleton,  WI— Gertrude  T.  Cook  (s). 
Rockland  Co.,  NY— Mary  B.  Gizas  (s),  Theodore 
Perini. 

Texas  City,  TX— Albrecht  F.  Urbauer. 
Royal  Oak,  MI— Stella  Albiston  (s). 
Merrillville,  IN — Eric  Peterson,  Ralph  W.  Crume. 
Chicago,  IL — Josephine  Jakubowski  (s). 
Plattsburgh,  NY— EdwinC.  Patnode.  Fred  J.  Willetl. 
Gary,  IN— Robert  L.  Gold. 
Palm  Springs,  CA — Okia  L.  Lasley. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Louise  Leoneiti  (s). 
Everett,  WA — Peter  Lealy. 
Lincoln,  NE — Leali  Mae  Dean  (s). 
Peshtigo,  WI — Hubert  Wiedemeier. 
Port  Huron,  MI — Harold  Warner,  James  Gilbert 
Muldoon. 

Philadelphia,  PA— Abe  Gelbart. 
Phoenix,  AZ — Charles  F.  M.  Johnson,  Fred  Mc- 
Dowell. Leo  Houston.  Lyman  G.  McLane. 
Salina,  KS— Louie  C.  Feyh. 
Baton  Rouge,  LA — Ludric  J.  Doucet. 
Detroit,  Ml — Frederick  Jackson.  Mary  Robinson  (s). 
Cleveland,  OH — Nicholas  Marra.  Thomas  Botosan. 
San  Bernardino,  CA — Richard  Sylvester  Ueland. 
Toledo,  OH— Jane  M.  Stone  (s). 
San  Pedro,  CA— Richard  Rhodes. 
San  FrancLsco,  CA — Douglas  L.  Andrews.  Michael 
Schmidt.  Wilbur  A.  Evans. 
New  York.  NY — Lorenz  May.  Paul  Reutlinger. 
Seattle,  WA— Lester  G.  Flatum. 
Chicago,  IL — Edward  E.  Cupp,  Leonard  H.  Rodway 
Sr. 

Mesa,  AZ — Gene  E.  Tracy.  Roe  S.  Lichtenberger. 
Medford,  NY — Edna  Zeneski  (s). 


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Local  Union,  City 

U26    Pasadena,  TX— Clifton  M.  King. 

1227    Ironwood,  MI — Margaret  E.  Tilckanen  (s). 

1235    Modesto,  CA — George  Dewey  Burke. 

1241     Columbus  OH— Edgar  E.  Combs. 

1243    Fairbanks,  AK— Gary  R.  Corley. 

1245     Carlsbad,  NM— John  Michel. 

1266    Austin,   TX— David  Johnson  Hobbs,   Richard   P. 

Stamnitz. 
1274    Decatur,  Al^Andrew  West,  John  D.  Clifton. 

1280  Mountain  View,  CA— Edward  L.  Brooks,  John  J. 
Gatter,  Saturnino  Martinez. 

1281  Anchorage,  AK— Theodore  E.  Adamy. 

1292    Huntington,  NY— August  Hulsen,  Victor  Crepeau. 
1296    San  Diego,  CA— W.  George  Wilson. 
1300    San  Diego,  CA— Coy  J.  Southerland. 

1302  New  London,  CT— George  Orlando  Redfield,  Michal 
Wnuk. 

1303  Port  Angeles,  WA— Alfred  W.  Michelson. 

1305    Fall  River,  MA— Alfred  Caslonguay.  Cecile  Dasilva 

(s),  Howell  W.  Simmons. 
1307    Evanslon,  II^Edna  A.  Boisen  (s). 
1310    St.  Louis,  MO — Clement  Walchshauser.  William  D. 

Jaggie. 
1313    Mason  City,  lA— Ralph  R.  Gerdes. 
1319     Albuquerque,  NM— William  D.  Miley. 
1329    Independence,  MO — Junior  Leon  Swadley. 
1373    Flint,  MI— Francis  Nichols.  Joseph  Thomburg. 
1381     Woodland,  CA— Robert  L.  Tozzi. 
1418    Lodi,  CA— Rex  G.  Brown. 
1423    Corpus  Christie,  TX — Benjamin  Delapass. 

1437  Compton,  CA— Joseph  Luebbers,  Mary  B.  Wesley 
(s). 

1438  Warren,  OH— Earl  W.  Scott. 

1453    Huntington  Bch,  CA— Robert  O.  Botkin  Jr. 

1456    New  York,  NY— John  A.  Johnson.  Ruth  Haraldsen 

(s). 
1462    Bucks  County,  PA — Adolph  H.  Kraut,  Frances  Luckie 

(s),  Rudolph  Bakos. 

1485  La  Porte,  IN— Roberta  Keil  (s). 

1486  Auburn,  CA— Shirley  June  Moody  (s). 

1487  Burlington,  VT— Francis  Obrien. 
1497    E.  Los  Angeles,  CA— Robert  Bilney. 

1506  Los  Angeles  CA — Laura  Mae  Brydson  {s). 

1507  El  Monte,  CA— Domingo  Berdin. 
1522  Martel,  CA— Marland  Strickling. 
1536  New  York,  NY— Susie  Maragni  (s). 
1539  Chicago,  Il^Phillip  Meister. 
1585  Lawton,  OK— Charles  L.  Blair. 

1590    Washington,  DC— Charles  H.  Hancock,  Jay  Harley, 

Nathaniel  I.  Dopson. 
1594    Wausau,  WI— Ralph  Smith. 
1622    Hayward,  CA — Emmett  George  Sanders.  Jennie  M. 

Augusta  (s),  John  Lawrence  Richardson,  Mark  L. 


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Araujo,  Wilber  J.  Hadley. 
S.  Luis  Obispo,  CA — Jessie  Morris  (s). 
Minneapolis,  MN — Tage  Mander. 
Midland,  MI— Paul  Dilloway,  Sr. 
Alexandria,  VA — John  E.  Whorton. 
Chicago,  IL — Julius  Brawka,  Ladislaus  A.  Bedna- 
rek,  Robert  F.  Ebeling.  Russell  J.  Meek,  William 
Bell. 

Washington,  DC — Mark  Baumgarten. 
Pasco,  WA — Dick  Brandsma. 
Kelso  Xongvew,  WA — Clara  K.  Tover  (s),  Gunder 
Gabrielsen. 

Vancouver,  WA — Alfred  C.  Roberts,  Arthur  A.  Ka- 
sulka,  Ralph  E.  Sturdevant. 
Murray,  KY — Preston  Y.  Brandon. 
Milwaukee,  WI — Hugh  Sprester. 
Austin,  TX— Orville  Laird. 
Pomono,  CA — Harry  R.  Trembly. 
Orlando,  FL— Jess  W.  Moody.  William  H.  Robert- 
son. 

Las  Vegas,  NV — Clara  Helen  Weaver  (s).  Jack  L. 
Rhude.  Roy  L.  Dunne. 
Dallastown,  PA— Charles  E.  Hetrick. 
Monroe,  LA — Carl  O.  McGowen,  Elton  U.  Caples. 
Santa  Anna,  CA — Alfred  Arbeiters,  Ernest  W.  Whi- 
taker,  Irene  Irbe  (s),  Paul  E.  Bilodeau. 
Fort  Worth,  TX— Roy  E.  Gifford. 
Waterloo,  lA — Florence  G.  Heins  (s). 
Babylon,  NY — George  Carrington. 
Washington,   MO — Alphonse  G.   Brune,   Earl   H. 
Dohrer,  Eugene  F.  Eckhoff. 
Snoqualmie,  WA — Cecil  Simpson.  Ray  L.  Henson. 
Richard  L.  Cox,  Russell  Vaughan. 
New  Orleans,  LA — Carl  D.  Charbonnet,  Claude  J. 
Schexnayder.  Earl  J.  Martinez.  Oswald  P.  Boihem. 
Pasco,  WA — Howard  Wayne  Livermore.  Orpha  J. 
Drake.  Woodrow  Arnold. 
Philadelphia,  PA— William  Rieder. 
Manteca,  CA — Bernice  E.  Christner  (s).  Mildred  G. 
Durossette  (s),  Robert  Adam  Younger. 
Cleveland,  OH — Ernest  P.  Bystrom.  Francis  Mc- 
Millan. James  M.  Cameron. 

Lubbock,  TX — Georgia  Gladys  Jenkins  (s).  Harvey 
Owen  Wossum,  James  E.  Smith.  Vernon  E.  Fer- 
guson. 

Downers  Gorve,  IL — August  A.  Hintz 
Woodward,  OK— Kellard  S.  Booth. 
Cleveland,  OH — Bernard  J.  Needham. 
Santa  Susana,  CA — Domingo  Roman. 
Hollywood,  FL— Hans  Stunkel. 
Roseburg,  OR— Robert  H.  Boling. 
Las  Cruces,  NM — Ann  Inez  Bonnell  (s),  Monroe  W. 
Pierce,  Rudolph  H.  Muller,  Sr. 


1971 
1976 
2018 

2042 
2046 

2101 
2119 
2203 

2214 
2227 
2265 
2286 
2288 


2391 
2398 
2436 
2519 

2520 
2554 
2590 
2592 
2608 
2652 
2685 
26% 
2714 
2739 

2761 
2801 
2805 

2834 

2851 
2881 

2902 
2927 
2930 
2942 
2949 


2993 
3074 

3127 


Temple,  TX — Allyson  Jansing  Woods. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Jose  Bianes,  Sidney  Novick. 
Ocean  County,  NJ — Henry  H.  Krueger  Jr.,  Otto 
Sirkel. 

Oxnard,  CA— Walter  L.  Bell. 
Martinez,  CA — Ira  E.  Blanchard.  Mitchell  D.  Cox, 
William  J.  Ackerman  III,  William  John  Buchanan. 
Moorefield,  WV — David  A.  Hines. 
St.  Louis,  MO— Gail  E.  Hutson  (s). 
Anaheim,  CA — Anna  Lee  Blankenship  (s),  Emogene 
Simpkins  (s). 

Festus,  MO— James  Dale  Brown. 
MontevaUo,  AL — Stanford  Jones. 
Detroit,  MI— Calvin  Losey 
Clanton,  AL — Alven  Eugene  Johnson. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Gus  Lee  Lyles,  Herminia  Fer- 
nandez (s),  Ivan  Shubin.  Joseph  Effenberger,  Stew- 
art G.  Lynn 

Holland  MI— Ray  Barkel. 

El  Cajon,  CA — Earl  C.  Freeland,  Raymond  Laabs. 
New  Orleans,  LA — Eloise  Manton  Gregoire  (s). 
Seattle,  WA— Carl  D.  Hamlin,  Shirley  Faye  Hen- 
drickson  (s).  Stanley  Kolano. 
Anchorage,  AL — Harold  F.  Potter. 
Lebanon,  OR — Albert  Zentz. 
Kane,  PA — Mary  Ann  Argabright  (s). 
Eureka,  CA — Earl  Thomas  McGinnis. 
Redding,  CA — James  Wesley  Wilson. 
Standard,  CA — Howard  M.  Pierce. 
Missoula,  MT — Wallace  Weller. 
Milford,  NH — George  H.  Ambrose. 
Dallas,  OR — Jim  Alderson. 

Yakima,  WA — Carma  R.  Romjue,  Ralph  Hombuc- 
kle. 

McCIeary,  WA — Florence  White. 
Oroville,  CA — Richard  Elden  Brown. 
KUckitat,  WA— Raymond  C.  Shunz.  Wyndeli  W. 
Barger. 

Denver,  CO— Harry  A.  West,  John  E.  Winn,  Orin 
H.  Rising.  Percy  W.  Oaks. 
La  Grande,  OR — William  J.  Teribury. 
Portland,  OR — Arthur  R.  Lundeen,  Edna  Marie 
Mullendore,  Hans  Wilhelm  Hay 
Bums,  OR— Weslie  A.  Basey. 
Martell,  CA— Cord  Charles  MoUer. 
Jasper,  IN — Hershel  Burns. 
Albany,  OR — Richard  J.  Gushing. 
Roseburg,  OR— Charles  S.  McGuire,  Clarence  R. 
Hamm,  Edward  Gaylord  Byford  (s),  Gaylord  S. 
Busch,  Truman  R.  Harrison. 
Franklin,  IN— Will  E.  Shaw. 
Chester,  CA — John  F.  Fleming. 
New  York,  NY — Satrunino  Narvaez. 


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I  REPUTATION teUILT  WITH  Thfe^f  INEST  TOOLSS 

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38 


CARPENTER 


EXTENDABLE  LEVEL 

Paul  Semler,  a  37-year-old  Tucson,  Ariz., 
carpenter,  has  created  a  tool  that  will  plumb 
walls  of  any  height.  It  took  him  two  years 
of  weekends  to  design,  perfect,  and  patent 
his  invention,  but  what 
he  has  come  up  with 
is  a  level  that  can  be 
extended  from  4  feet 
in  height  to  over  10 
feet,  6  inches,  in  one 
model  and  from  5  feet 
to  12  feet,  6  inches,  in 
a  larger  model. 

As  any  journeyman 
carpenter  knows,  most 
tools  that  attempt  to 
do  several  things  or 
expand  in  size  either 
don't  do  anything  well 
or  lose  accuracy  as 
they  get  bigger.  Sem- 
ler's  invention  seems 
to  be  an  exception. 

Designed  primarily 
as  a  plumb-and-line 
tool,  it  comes  in  two 
models,  either  of  which 
fit  behind  the  seat  of 
a  pickup. 

The  cleverest  part  of  the  tool  are  the 
mechanisms  that  keep  the  extensions  at 
whatever  height  you  want.  These  are  not 
positive  stops  which  would  limit  the  number 
of  height  settings,  but  a  set  of  aluminum 
fingers  held  in  tension  by  stainless  steel 
springs.  These  dogs  press  against  the  edge  . 
of  the  extension  channel,  forcing  it  against 
the  I-beam  flange  of  the  level. 

Called  the  Plumb-It  Level,  Semler's  new 
tool  is  well  constructed  and  true.  It  has  a 
90-day  limited  warranty.  The  vials  are  re- 
placeable with  vials  from  Stanley. 
Model  48-126  weighs  8  lbs.,  14  oz.,  and 


INDEX  OF  ADVERTISERS 

Benda  Industries 30 

Calculated  Industries 28 

Clifton  Enterprises 39 

Foley-Belsaw 20 

Hydrolevel 39 

Irwin  Company 38 

Vaughan  &  Bushnell 31 


is  priced  at  $129.00.  Model  62-150  weighs 
10  lbs.,  11  oz.,  and  is  priced  at  $149.00. 

For  more  information  or  to  place  an  order 
contact:  Plumb-It  Inc.,  3045  North  Dodge 
Blvd.,  Tucson,  AZ  85716,  (602)  881-5777. 


QUALITY  TOOL  BELT 


Here's  an  interesting  innovation  from  one 
of  our  Southern  California  members.  Gil 
Stone,  of  Local  2078  in  Vista,  Calif.,  is 
offering  a  colorful  line  of  high  quality  car- 
penters' tool  belts.  Called  "Nailers,"  the 
product  consists  of  a  well-padded  belt  and 
three  nail  and  tool  bags.  Constructed  of 
DuPont  Cordura  nylon,  these  bags  will  last 
three  times  longer  than  their  conventional 
leather  counterparts,  we  are  told. 

Nailers  offers  more  in  terms  of  design, 
too.  The  rear  bag  is  shorter  to  eliminate 
"swing  and  bounce,"  and  it  has  a  padded 
upper  pocket  with  a  lid  for  keeping  calcu- 
lator, glasses,  earplugs,  etc.,  clean  and  se- 
cure. 

The  large  side  pouches  have  interior  tool 
sleeves  to  keep  pliers,  screwdrivers,  and 
such  within  easy  reach  but  out  of  the  way 
of  the  nails.  The  small  upper  side  pockets 
can  be  moved  around  or  removed  completely 
when  not  in  use. 

The  thickly  padded  belt  is  very  comfort- 
able and  adjustable  with  a  quick  release 
buckle  for  easy  on  and  off. 

Nailers  is  lightweight,  washable,  and  comes 
in  a  variety  of  colors.  Choose  from  black, 
brown,  blue,  green,  gray,  burgandy,  and 
orange. 

To  order,  send  check  or  money  order  for 
$124.95  plus  $4.00  shipping  and  handling 
(California  residents  add  6%  sales  tax)  to 
Nailers,  10845  Wheatlands  Avenue,  Suite  C, 
Santee,  CA,  92071-2856.  Or  call  (619)  562- 
2215.  Please  indicate  waist  size,  color  choice, 
and  right  or  left  hand.  Visa  and  Mastercard 
accepted.  Fifteen-day  satisfaction  guaran- 
tee. 


NOTE:  A  report  on  new  products  and  processes 
on  this  page  in  no  way  constitutes  an  endorsement 
or  recommendation.  All  performance  claims  are 
based  on  statements  by  the  manufacturer. 


Carpenters 
Hang  It  Up 

Clamp  these  heavy  duty, 
non-stretch  suspenders 
to  your  tool  belt  and 
you'll  feel  like  you're 
floating  on  air.  Take  the 
weight  off  your  hips  and 
put  it  on  your  shoulders. 
Made  of  soft,  comfortable 
2"  wide  nylon.  Adjust  to 
fit  all  sizes. 

PATENTED  SUPER 
STRONG  CLAMPS 

Try  them  for  15  days,  if  not  completely 
satisfied  return  for  full  refund. 

Order  Now  Toll  Free— 1-800-237-1666. 

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Please  rush  "HANG  IT  UP"  suspenders  at 
$16.95  each  includes  postage  &  handling. 

Utah  residents  add  5^/i%  sales  tax  (.770).  Canada  residents 
send  U.S.  equivalent.  Money  Orders  Only. 

Name 

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CLIFTON  ENTERPRISES  (801 -785-1 040) 
P.O.  Box979,  1155N530W 
Pleasant  Grove,  UT  84062 


LAYOUT  LEVEL 


•  ACCURATE  TO  1/32" 

•  REACHES  100  FT. 

•  ONE-MAN  OPERATION 

Snve  Time,  Money,  do  o  Belter  Job 
With  This  Modern  Water  Level 


In  just  a  few  minutes  you  accurately  set  batters 
for  slabs  and  footings,  lay  out  inside  floors, 
ceilings,  forms,  fixtures,  and  check  foundations 
for  remodeling. 

HYDROLEVEtf 

...  the  old  reliable  water 
level  with  modern  features.  Toolbox  size. 
Durable  7"  container  with  exclusive  reser- 
voir, keeps  level  filled  and  ready.  60  ft. 
clear  tough  3/10"  tube  gives  you  100  ft.  of 
leveling  in  each  set-up,  with 
1/32"  accuracy  and  fast  one- 
man  operation — outside, in- 
side, around  corners,  over 
obstructions.  Anywhere  you 
can  climb  or  crawl! 

Why  waste  money  on  delicate  ^lyV* 
instruments,  or  lose  time  and  ac- 
curacy on  makeshift  leveling?  Since  1950^ 
thousands  of  carpenters,  builders,  inside  trades, 
etc.  have  found  that  HYDROLEVEL  pays  for 
itself  quickly. 

Send  check  or  money  order  for  $16.95  and 
your  name  and  address.  We  will  rush  you  a 
Hydrolevel  by  return  mail  postpaid.  Or— buy 
three  Hydrolevels  at  dealer  price  -  $11.30  each 
postpaid.  Sell  two,  get  yours  free!  No  C.O.D. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed  or  money  back. 

FIRST  IN  WATER   LEVEL  DESIGN   SINCE   1950 

HYDROLEVEL"^ 

P.O.  Box  1378  Ocean  Springs.  Miss.  39564 


MAY     1987 


39 


Current  Goals  and 

Long-range  Goals 

for  the  UBC 


Our  wagons  have  been 

in  a  circle  too  long. 

It's  time  to  move  'em  out. 

A  few  weeks  ago  in  our  General  Offices 
auditorium  in  Washington,  your  interna- 
tional officers  and  general  executive  board 
members  took  their  oaths  of  office  for  five 
years  of  stewardship  as  the  top  leaders  of 
our  great  union. 

Though  the  oath  they  took  was  the  same 
one  taken  by  UBC  officers  a  century  ago, 
the  oath  has  broader  meaning  today  than 
ever  before.  We  are  a  union  which  carries 
on  its  collective  shoulders  the  hopes  and 
aspirations  of  almost  three  quarters  of  a 
million  workers  and  their  families  through- 
out North  America. 

And,  as  an  article  in  this  issue  of  Car- 
penter indicates,  we  are  joining  other  unions 
in  assuming  a  fraternal  role  with  regard  to 
thousands  of  alien  Americans  who  have 
been  declared  eligible  for  citizenship  under 
the  U.S.  Immigration  Law  of  1986. 

Your  officers  have  before  them  in  the 
next  five  years  a  broad  spectrum  of  re- 
sponsibilities— mandates  of  our  35th  Gen- 
eral Convention  and  the  traditional  duties 
of  their  various  offices  as  spelled  out  in 
the  Constitution  and  Laws. 

In  addition,  I  would  expect  them  to 
carry  out — with  your  moral  support  and 
day-to-day  assistance — what  we  might  call 
the  UBC  Five  Year  Plan.  These  are  some 
of  the  elements  of  a  five-year  plan: 

•  We  will  continue  to  firm  up  our  or- 
ganization and  streamline  out  operations  to 
achieve  the  most  good.  As  you  are  aware, 
each  general  executive  board  member  now 
has  more  direct  responsibility  for  Broth- 
erhood activities  in  his  particular  district. 
Each  state  and  provincial  council,  in  turn, 
is  expected  to  assist  when  necessary  each 


and  every  local  union  within  its  geographic 
borders. 

Population  changes  and  industry  changes 
in  the  U.S.  and  Canada  have  required 
from  time  to  time  that  some  of  our  local 
unions  consolidate  their  efforts  for  their 
common  good. 

Each  time  I  authorize  a  merger  of  two 
or  more  local  unions,  I  take  into  full 
consideration  the  history  of  each  union, 
its  membership,  its  financial  burdens,  and 
its  prospects  for  working  in  harmony  with 
the  other  unions  to  be  merged. 

Mergers  don't  come  easy  for  me.  Each 
time  the  charter  of  a  local  union  is  deac- 
tivated and  filed  away,  I  know  that  we  are 
also  adding  to  the  long-standing  archives 
of  our  union  the  names  of  charter  members 
who  once  served  long  and  well  for  that 
particular  union.  I  trust  that  their  dedi- 
cation to  this  one  local  union  long  ago  will 
carry  over  into  the  new  merged  union  left 
standing  today. 

•  Our  field  staff  must  be  maintained  at 
full  complement.  Today,  the  majority  of 
our  districts  have  full  slates  of  represen- 
tatives in  the  field,  servicing  local  unions, 
organizing  and  assisting  in  negotiations. 
Those  that  don't  have  a  full  crew  face 
only  a  temporary  handicap  because  I  ex- 
pect to  have  full  teams  of  dedicated  men 
and  women  representing  the  UBC  in  every 
state  and  province  in  the  United  States 
and  Canada. 

•  Organizing  is  the  key  word  in  the  years 
ahead.  We  must  not  miss  a  single  oppor- 
tunity to  sign  up  new  members.  The  local 
union  which  turns  away  a  prospective 
member — a  qualified  worker  who  wants 
to  join — is  doing  a  disservice  to  itself  and 
to  the  Brotherhood.  The  UBC  member 
who  doesn't  encourage  a  non-union  car- 
penter or  a  non-union  millwright  or  lumber 
and  sawmill  worker  to  cast  his  lot  with  us 
is  doing  a  disservice  to  his  union  and  to 
himself.  In  union  there  is  strength.  No 
truer  words  have  been  spoken. 

•  In  the  master  plan  for  the  next  five 
years  is  a  determination  to  get  our  locals 
to  the  financial  status  where  they  can  get 


some  jobs  done,  where  they  can  keep 
business  representatives  and  assistant 
business  representatives  finding  jobs  and 
negotiating  good  contracts  for  their  mem- 
bers. It  is  especially  important  that  a  local 
union  becomes  numerically  and  financially 
stabilized  so  that  it  can  assist  an  interna- 
tional representative  or  a  team  of  inter- 
national representatives  when  they  enter 
a  locality  to  assist  in  an  organizing  cam- 
paign or  in  contract  talks. 

The  way  for  a  local  union  to  become 
solvent,  of  course,  is  to  sign  up  new,  dues- 
paying  members  who  will  share  the  finan- 
cial responsibilities  of  job  protection. 

•  Besides  being  numerically  and  finan- 
cially sound,  our  local  unions  must  be  active 
in  the  community.  We  hear  of  peace  ac- 
tivists, environmental  activists,  and  gay 
activists;  let's  sound  the  bugle  for  union 
activists. 

The  Congress  has  just  passed  an  $80 
billion  Highway  Construction  bill  over 
President  Reagon's  veto.  That  $80  billion 
will  be  divided  among  the  states  on  infra- 
structure programs.  How  much  of  the 
work  will  be  union.? 

It's  not  too  early  for  UBC  activists  and 
Building  Trades  activists  to  let  their  leg- 
islators know  and  their  state  officials  know 
that  the  new  highways  and  new  bridges 
must  be  quahty  built  by  union  labor. 

UBC  activists  should  also  be  involved 
in  other  community  and  statewide  pro- 
grams, serving  on  school  boards,  sanitary 
commissions  and  county  councils.  Some 
of  our  members  serve  on  housing  com- 
missions and  pubhc  service  commissions. 
Labor  and  the  working  population  should 
join  the  bankers  and  the  realtors  at  the 
decision-making  posts  in  every  commu- 
nity. 

•  Our  members  must  be  politically  active 
as  well.  Union  members  individually  don't 
have  the  big  bucks  of  the  Wall  Street 
bankers  and  the  trade  associations  of  cor- 
porate executives,  but  they  have  votes, 
and  collectively  they  have  political  clout. 

Currently,  labor  is  waging  an  uphill 
battle  against  contractor  groups  that  want 


to  have  it  both  ways — union  and  non- 
union. 

Labor  is  trying  to  get  a  law  passed  by 
the  U.S.  Congress  to  prevent  construction 
contractors  from  operating  competing, 
dummy  companies  of  non-union  workers 
that  underbid  union  contractors.  Our  suc- 
cess in  1987  depends  on  the  forcefulness 
of  our  agreements  and  the  determination 
of  our  members  to  correct  the  wrong. 

Before  we  reach  our  next  general  con- 
vention and  our  five  year  plan  has  run  its 
course,  I  hope  that  we  have  been  able  to 
return  to  that  peak  of  membership  we  had 
in  1972  when  the  total  number  of  UBC 
members  passed  850,000.  We  can  surpass 
this  total  before  the  decade  is  done,  if  we 
get  our  fellow  members  pulling  together 
in  the  same  direction  for  our  common 
good. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

Address  Correction  Requested 


Non-Profit  Org. 

U.S.  POSTAGE 

PAID 

Depew,  N.Y. 
Permit  No.  28 


Keep  dad  warm  and  dry  in  our  dura- 
ble, waterproof  nylon  windbreaker. 
The  dark  blue  jacket  has  the  Brother- 
hood emblem  on  its  left  front  in  gold. 
With  a  snap  front  and  drawstring- 
waist  he'll  be  safe  from  the  elements. 
The  jacket  is  available  with  or  without 
a  warm  kasha  lining  in  sizes  S,M,L,  XL. 

$19  each  (lined) 
$16  each  (unlined) 


Father's  Day  is  Coming 


Show  dad  how  proud  you  are  of  him  and  the  UBC.  Give 
him  a  gift  he'll  wear  all  year  'round.  These  Brotherhood 
items  all  bear  the  official  emblem  and  are  sure  to  please. 


This  attractive  men's  timepieces  with  the 
Brotherhood  emblem  on  the  face  is  a  battery- 
powered  quartz  watch.  Made  by  Helbros,  it 
has  a  yellow-gold  finish,  shock  resistant  move- 
ment, and  a  written  one-year  guarantee. 


To  Order: 

Send  order  and  remit- 
tance—cash, check,  or 
money  order— to:  General 
Secretary,  United  Broth- 
erhood of  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  America,  101 
Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001. 
All  prices  include  the  cost 
of  handling  and  mailing. 


$54  each 


These  functional  and 
popular  belt  buckles 
bear  the  Brotherhood's 
emblem  and  the  name 
of  Dad's  trade.  Crafted 
of  sturdy  metal,  the 
buckle  is  3'/s  inches 
wide  and  2  inches  long, 
and  easily  attaches  to 
all  standard  belts. 

$55«  each 


Dad  can  dress  up  his  cuffs  and  hold  his  tie  in 
place  with  this  well-crafted  set  of  cufflinks  and 
a  tie  tack.  Gold-plated,  with  the  Brotherhood 
emblem  in  color,  they  add  polish  to  any  occa- 
sion. 


$85»  per  set 


United  Brofherhood  of  Carpenters  &  Joiners  of  America 


June,  1987 


Founded  1881 


Union  Products  and  Union  Services 

SYMBOLS  OF  QOALITY  IN  TODAY'S  WORLD 

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Patrick  J.  Campbell 
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FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

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Washington,  D.C.  20001 

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John  Pruitt 

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Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

John  S.  Rogers 

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Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  TREASURER 

Wayne  Pierce 

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Washington,  D.C.  20001 


DISTRICT  BOARD  MEMBERS 


First  District,  Joseph  F.  Lia 

120  North  Main  Street 
New  City,  New  York  10956 

Second  District,  George  M.  Walish 

101  S.  Newtown  St.  Road 

Newtown  Square,  Pennsylvania  19073 

Third  District,  Thomas  Hanahan 

9575  West  Higgins  Road 

Suite  304 

Rosemont,  Illinois  60018 

Fourth  District,  E.  Jimmy  Jones 
American  Savings  Building 
16300  N.E.  19th  Ave.,  #220 
North  Miami,  Florida  33162 
Fifth  District,  Eugene  Shoehigh 
526  Elkwood  Mall  -  Center  Mall 
42nd  &  Center  Streets 
Omaha,  Nebraska  68105 


Sixth  District,  Dean  Sooter 
401  Rolla  Street  Suite  2 
Rolla,  Missouri  65401 

Seventh  District,  H.  Paul  Johnson 
Gramark  Plaza 

12300  S.E.  MaUard  Way  #240 
Milwaukie,  Oregon  97222 

Eighth  District,  M.  B.  Bryant 
5330-F  Power  Inn  Road 
Sacramento,  California  95820 

Ninth  District,  John  Carruthers 
5799  Yonge  Street  #807 
Wiliowdale,  Ontario  M2M  3V3 

Tenth  District,  Ronald  J.  Dancer 

1235  40th  Avenue,  N.W. 
Calgary,  Alberta,  T2K  0G3 


Wiluam  Sidell,  General  President  Emeritus 
William  Konyha,  General  President  Emeritus 
Peter  Terzick,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 
Charles  E.  Nichols,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 


Patrick  J.  Campbell,  Chairman 
John  S.  Rogers,  Secretary 

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VOLUME  107  No.  6  JUNE  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

Building  Collapse  in  Connecticut 2 

Union  Industries  Show  Displays  Products  and  Services 5 

Double-Breasting  Tops  Agenda  of  Building  Trades Calvin  Zon  7 

UBC  Challenges  L-P  at  Shareholders'  Meeting 9 

UBC  Immigration  Efforts '.  . .  10 

Trade  Policy  Is  Always  About  Jobs 13 

D.A.D.'s  Day  Set 15 

Labor-Backed  Clean  Water  Act  Must  Be  Put  to  Work 17 

Brotherhood's  '87  Political  Action  Program  Kicked  Off 19 

First  1987  Labor  Studies  Seminar 36 


DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 12 

Labor  News  Roundup 18 

Ottawa  Report 20 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Nutrition  Labels 21 

Local  Union  News 22 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 24 

Retirees  Notebook 26 

We  Congratulate 28 

Plane  Gossip 30 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 31 

In  Memoriam 37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 

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THE 
COVER 


Modem  Mode  Inc.  of  San  Leandro, 
Calif. ,  calls  itself  "a  manufacturer  of  fine 
executive  office  furnishings  and  systems, 
serving  customers  worldwide  through  an 
international  network  of  representatives 
and  showrooms."  Using  its  panels  and 
furnishings,  interior  designers  produce 
"officescapes  for  many  major  corpora- 
tions." It's  high  quality  workmanship, 
and  we  would  add  that  all  of  Modem 
Mode's  high  quality  products  are  union 
made  by  members  of  UBC  Furniture 
Workers  Local  3141  of  San  Francisco. 

The  two  women  at  work  on  office 
furnishings  on  our  cover  are  part  of  the 
280-member  union  work  force  in  the 
Modem  Mode  factory  in  San  Leandro. 
They  are  among  a  growing  number  of 
women  in  UBC  industrial  locals  all  over 
North  America.  Protected  from  sanding 
dust  by  face  masks  and  wearing  gloves 
to  protect  their  hands,  these  women  en- 
joy wages,  fringe  benefits  and  working 
conditions  under  a  three-year  contract 
negotiated  with  the  company  last  year. 

The  company  recently  expanded  its 
headquarters  and  production  capacity  with 
a  new  240,000-square  foot  facility  in  San 
Leandro,  and  it  continues  to  maintain 
45,000  additional  square  feet  of  admin- 
istrative space  in  Oakland.,  Calif. 

Members  of  the  United  Brotherhood 
have  been  producing  quality  office  fur- 
nishings for  more  than  three  quarters  of 
a  century.  They  also  create  complete 
modules  for  prefabricated  housing  and 
multicolored  laminates  for  high  quality 
cabinetry. 

When  skilled  craftsmanship  is  re- 
quired, UBC  members  will  get  the  job 
done  .  .  .  and  done  well. — Photograph 
from  Modern  Mode  Inc. 


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Building  Collapse 
in  Connecticut 
Brings  Death  to 
7  UBC  Members 


.,  as  inspectors  sift  through  ruM^ 
Many  questions  remam  P  ^^^,^,3. 

and  rescue  workers  mourn  loss  of 


A  high-rise  apartment  building,  de- 
signed for  13  floors  and  bearing  the 
name  L'Ambiance  Plaza,  collapsed  on 
April  23  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

A  total  of  28  construction  workers, 
including  seven  carpenter  members  of 
the  United  Brotherhood,  died  in  the 
disaster. 

Something  came  loose  as  lift  slabs 
were  being  jacked  into  place,  and  in 
seconds  the  big  structure  began  to  fall 
apart.  Minutes  later,  all  that  was  left  of 
L'Ambiance  Plaza  was  piles  of  big 
twisted  and  bent  steel  columns  and  giant 
chunks  of  concrete  slab  meshed  with 
bent  reinforcing  rods.  Somewhere  in 
the  awesome  heap  of  debris  were  28 
men  working  the  job  that  afternoon. 

Alarms  all  over  the  city  had  hardly 
sounded  when  construction  workers 
from  other  building  sites  converged  on 
the  scene  of  devastation.  Union  men 
dropped  their  tools  in  Norwalk,  Hart- 
ford and  other  nearby  cities,  jumped 
into  cars,  and  headed  for  the  disaster 
site.  Nearly  300  turned  up  for  volunteer 
rescue  work. 

It  was  almost  10  days  before  their 
back-breaking  work  was  done.  Five 
unions  had  members  beneath  the  ruins — 
Plumbers,  Electricians,  Laborers,  Car- 
penters, Ironworkers,  Masons  and  Op- 
erating Engineers.  Teams  were  formed, 
and  the  men  began  working  around  the 
clock  with  public  officials,  under  the 
direction  of  the  city's  emergency  plan- 
ning director.  City  police  ringed  the 
area,  and  state  troopers  were  assigned 
to  escort  trucks  loaded  with  debris  to 
a  city  landfill  as  more  and  more  of  the 
shattered  building  was  hauled  away. 

The  13-story  apartment  complex  was 
being  constructed  by  the  lift-slab  method 
in  which  concrete  floors  are  cast  at 
ground  level  and  hoisted  into  position 
by  jacks  on  top  of  steel  columns.  The 
method,  invented  in  1948  by  Philip 
Youtz  and  Thomas  Slick,  has  been  used 


since  the  early  1950s,  with  only  one 
major  accident  recorded  since  that  time. 
That  accident  occurred  in  July  1954 
at  the  Sierra  High  School  in  San  Mateo, 
Calif.  Twelve  persons  were  hurt  when 
a  250- ton  roof  slab  fell  16  feet  as  it  was 
being  lifted  into  position.  Soon  after 
that  mishap  California  state  officials 
imposed  safety  measures  on  lift-slab 
operations.  Among  the  requirements 
were  that  cribbing  be  built  up  to  the 
underside  of  the  slab  as  it  is  being  raised 
and  that  slabs  be  prevented  from  sway- 
ing by  cables  attached  to  the  slab's 
corners. 


IN  MEMORIAM 

Of  the  28  men  lost  at  L'Ambiance 
Plaza,  7  were  Iron  Workers,  7  were 
Laborers,  3  were  Plumbers,  1  Elec- 
trician, I  Operating  Engineer,  1  Ma- 
son, 1  supervisor  and  7  Carpenters. 

The  Carpenters  included  John  Page, 
John  Hughes,  William  Varga,  An- 
thony Rinaldi  and  Nick  Nardella,  all 
of  Local  24,  Central  Connecticut; 
Richard  McGill  of  Local  43,  Hartford, 
Conn.;  and  Mitchell  Magnoli,  Local 
210,  Western  Connecticut. 


Lift  slab  techniques  are  economical 
because  they  eliminate  the  construction 
of  formwork  at  difficult  elevations.  The 
slabs  are  usually  post-tensioned,  which 
allows  longer  spans  with  thinner  slabs. 
Jacks  mounted  on  top  of  columns  hoist 
the  slabs  via  lift  rods,  a  fraction  of  an 
inch  at  a  time.  The  rods  are  connected 
to  lifting  collars  surrounding  the  col- 
umns. The  collars  are  cast  in  and  an- 
chored to  the  slabs.  Some  investigators 
are  said  to  be  focusing  their  attention 
on  a  particular  column  near  a  shear 
wall  at  the  interior  of  the  building.  They 
note  that  other  fallen  columns  radiate 
from  that  point. 

Meanwhile,  other  investigators  are 


checking  records  on  the  building's  foun- 
dation which  are  on  file  in  city  offices. 
Was  the  foundation  anchored  in  bed- 
rock or  in  fill?  Design  plans  for  the 
building  called  for  "undisturbed  rock" 
to  support  a  load  of  seven  tons  per 
square  foot.  Although  it  was  reported 
that  plans  stated  that  compacted  soil 
could  be  substituted,  the  geotechnical 
engineer  for  the  project  said  that  his 
work  was  based  on  the  assumption  that 
the  building  would  be  on  bedrock. 

The  city  of  Bridgeport  has  retained 
the  services  of  a  New  York-based  struc- 
tural engineering  firm  to  conduct  an 
investigation,  and  the  staff  of  that  firm 
is  now  gathering  evidence. 

L'Ambiance  Plaza  was  being  built 
along  the  side  of  a  hill  about  50  yards 
from  an  interstate  highway.  Exactly 
what  happened  remains  unclear.  Work- 
ers and  others  near  the  building  talk  of 
a  cracking  sound  that  preceded  the 
collapse  by  a  second  or  two  and  then 
an  explosion-like  boom.  There  were 
two  towers  in  the  building  design.  One 
tower  apparently  collapsed  first,  falling 
onto  the  other. 

UBC  General  President  Pat  Campbell 
flew  to  Bridgeport  soon  after  the  dis- 
aster occurred.  He  met  with  UBC  lead- 
ers in  the  state  and  with  public  officials 
to  offer  the  full  support  of  the  Broth- 
erhood in  the  rescue  effort.  (See  Pres- 
ident's Message  on  Page  40.)  A  citizens 
advisory  committee  was  formed  to  ad- 
minister a  relief  fund  for  families  of  the 
victims,  and  President  Campbell  an- 
nounced the  formation  of  this  nation- 
wide fundraising  effort  at  a  press  con- 
ference outside  St.  Augustine  Church, 
near  the  site.  Joining  him  in  the  for- 
mation of  the  committee  was  Frank 
Krzywicki,  president  of  the  Bridgeport 
Building  and  Construction  Trades 
Council. 

It  was  10  days  of  grueling  work  re- 
moving the  huge  heap  of  fallen  building, 


Tony  Tufaro  of  Stamford,  Conn.,  a  Local  210  apprentice,  below  left,  acquired  the  nickname  "Tony  the  Mole' 
because  of  his  heroic  searches  under  the  building  debris  for  possible  survivors.  Tufaro  spent  hours  and 
hours  crawling  through  the  shattered  building.  Hundreds  of  union  volunteers  searched  for  the 
28  missing  and  dead  workers  after  the  April  23  collapse;  Building  Trades  leaders 
contend  that  more  OSHA  construction  site  inspectors  are  needed  to 
prevent  such  tragedies. 


and  the  work  crews  did  not  know  until 
almost  the  last  day  that  all  of  the  missing 
28  men  were  dead,  probably  within 
minutes  of  the  collapse.  There  were 
many  acts  of  heroism  as  members 
crawled  beneath  the  broken  slabs  and 
tunneled  their  way  under  the  debris. 

They  continued  working  shift  after 
shift  until  all  bodies  were  recovered  late 
on  the  night  of  May  1.  Then  the  spot- 
lights were  removed  and  the  barriers 
taken  down.  The  cranes  came  down, 
and  all  that  remained  were  a  few  scat- 
tered tools,  safety  glasses,  work  gloves 
and  clothing  scattered  over  an  embat- 
tled landscape. 

On  the  edge  of  the  gaping  pit  which 
was  once  the  apartment  building  project 
stood  a  simple  memorial  erected  by  the 
workers  about  an  hour  after  midnight, 
Saturday,  May  2,  soon  after  the  last 
body  was  removed — that  of  John 
Mitchell  Magnoli,  a  25-year-old  mem- 
ber of  Carpenters  Local  210. 

A  crowd  of  about  300  gathered  in 
prayer  beside  the  memorial  that  night. 
Many  wept,  tears  falling  from  many 
dirt-covered  faces.  Thus  ended  10  days 
that  Bridgeport  and  its  surrounding 
communities  will  long  remember,    ti'db 


Construction  Industry  'Most  Hazardous, 
Least  Researched,'  Say  Building  Scientists 


Construction  is  the  most  hazardous  of 
all  U.S.  industries  in  terms  of  numbers 
of  fatalities  among  workers,  but  the  coun- 
try shortchanges  it  in  research  and  de- 
velopment funding,  the  National  Institute 
of  Building  Sciences  in  Washington,  D.C., 
said  recently,  following  the  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  disaster. 

In  1985,  the  latest  year  for  which  num- 
bers are  available,  980  workers  were 
killed  in  construction  accidents. 

Mining  was  the  most  hazardous  in 
number  of  fatalities  per  100,000  workers, 
but  construction  remained  highest  in 
overall  fatalities  because  of  the  greater 
number  of  persons  involved,  NIBS  said, 
referring  to  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 
data. 

During  April,  two  major  building  col- 
lapses drew  national  attention.  One,  in 
which  six  died,  involved  an  older  building 
in  the  Bronx  damaged  by  an  explosion 
and  did  not  constitute  a  construction 
mishap,  NIBS  said.  The  other,  involving 
a  partially  completed  high-rise  apartment 


building  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  killed  26 
in  what  the  Institute  termed  a  "construc- 
tion disaster." 

Construction  is  the  most  important  of 
U.S.  industries,  NIBS  said,  accounting 
for  $313  billion  in  annual  contributions 
to  the  GNP  and  8.6  million  employment 
or  8%  of  all  American  jobs. 

"That's  why  the  Institute  is  deeply 
concerned  over  proposed  federal  cut- 
backs in  construction  research  and  de- 
velopment," said  Rene  A.  Henry  Jr., 
president  and  CEO  of  NIBS.  "The  United 
States  spends  less  than  1 .9%  of  its  gross 
national  product  on  civilian  construction 
R&D,  less  than  that  of  any  other  devel- 
oped country  except  Australia." 

NIBS  is  a  10-year-old  Congressionally- 
authorized  nonprofit  organization  with 
the  principal  missions  of  improving  the 
building  regulatory  environment  and  ac- 
celerating the  introduction  of  safe,  in- 
novative technology  into  the  American 
building  process. 


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In  a  brief  conference  at  the  disaster  site,  General  President  Campbell  announced  the  formation  of  a  nationwide 
relief  effort  for  families  of  the  victims.  He  was  joined  by  several  local  officials  and  clergymen,  including  Frank 
Carroll,  vice  president  of  the  Bridgeport  Building  Trades,  shown  standing  beside  him  at  upper  left.  Ken  Warga  of 
Local  210,  Western  Connecticut,  described  the  relief  work  performed  by  UBC  members  at  the  site  in  the  picture  at 
upper  right.  They  were  joined  by  Representative  Steve  Flynn  and  Local  210  Business  Manager  John  Cunningham, 
lower  left.  At  lower  right,  a  memorial  set  up  at  the  site  by  UBC  member  Bob  Cunningham  and  others  contained 
two  plaques  listing  the  names  of  the  victims  and  a  4-foot-by-8-foot  cross. 


Union'Industries  Show  Displays 
Union  Label  Products  and  Services 

UBC's  Label  Dates  Back  to  1900 


For  six  days  this  month,  June  19-24 
in  Atlantic  City,  N.J.,  the  colorful  ex- 
citing exposition  that  is  the  AFL-CIO 
Union  Industries  Show  will  put  on  pub- 
lic exhibit  the  vast  array  of  quality 
American,  union-made  products  and 
services. 

This  entertaining  and  educational 
show,  which  began  in  1938,  is  produced 
and  managed  by  the  Union  Label  and 
Service  Trades  Department,  AFL-CIO. 
The  purpose  of  the  show,  which  is  open 
to  the  public  and  charges  no  admission 
fee,  is  to  illustrate  the  quality  and  di- 
versity of  American,  union-made  prod- 
ucts and  to  demonstrate  the  strong  bond 
of  cooperation  between  American  union 
labor  and  U.  S.  industry. 

Over  the  years  of  the  show,  the 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  America  has  hosted  a  variety 
of  eye-catching  displays  designed  to 
educate  visitors  about  the  trade  and  the 
UBC's  union  label. 

The  UBC's  union  label  itself  goes 
back  to  the  year  1900  when  at  the  1 1th 
General  Convention  of  the  United 
Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners 
of  America  held  in  Scranton,  Pa.,  Cab- 
inet Makers  Local  309  of  New  York 
City  presented  a  resolution  proposing 
the  adoption  of  a  Union  Label  for  uni- 
versal use.  This  was  to  be  attached  to 
all  products  manufactured  in  plants  em- 
ploying United  Brotherhood  members. 

On  Jan.  15,  1901,  the  General  Ex- 
ecutive Board  adopted  a  design  and 
directed  the  General  Secretary  to  have 
it  registered  with  the  United  States 
Patent  Office  in  Washington,  D.C.  On 
Oct.  24,  1902,  the  Patent  Office  replied 
that  the  Label  could  not  be  registered, 
for  "the  Trade  Mark  Act  provides  reg- 
istration to  an  individual,  a  firm  or  a 
corporation  ..."  and  the  Brotherhood 
did  not  fall  under  any  of  these  cate- 
gories. 

In  spite  of  this  rejection,  the  Broth- 
erhood was  determined  to  make  the 
Label  operative.  It  learned  that  in  order 
to  do  this,  the  Label  had  to  be  registered 
individually  in  each  and  every  state  of 
the  union.  By  May  1904,  the  Label  had 
been  registered  in  forty-one  states. 

Before  the  registration  was  com- 
pleted, a  different  label  had  been  adopted 
by  the  Brotherhood.  At  the  12th  Gen- 
eral Convention  in  Atlanta,  Ga.,  in  the 
fall  of  1902,  delegates  from  New  York 
City  proposed  that  the  Brotherhood  use 
the  New  York  Union  Label  in  place  of 


the  design  prepared  by  the  General 
Executive  Board.  This  action  was  ap- 
proved by  the  Constitution  Committee. 

The  Union  Label  quickly  became 
associated  with  high  standards  and  re- 
spectable work  conditions.  Pursuing  the 
goal  of  the  early  labor  movement  and 
the  American  Federation  of  Labor  to 
establish  an  eight-hour  day,  the  carpen- 
ters would  only  allow  a  shop  or  mill  to 
use  the  newly-adopted  label  if  its  work 
day  consisted  of  eight  hours  or  less  and 
if  it  met  minimum  standards  of  pay. 
Furthermore,  only  a  select  Union  Shop 
Delegate  was  authorized  by  the  Con- 
stitution Committee  to  apply  the  Union 
Label.  Under  no  conditions  could  an 
employer  handle  it.  This  stiil  applies 
today. 

In  1912,  at  the  17th  General  Conven- 
tion held  in  Washington,  D.C. ,  the  First 
General  Vice-President,  newly  assigned 
to  the  General  Offices,  was  given  full 
responsibility  of  administering  the  la- 
bel. 

At  the  18th  General  Convention  in 
Indianapolis,  September  1914,  it  was 


ATLANTIC  CITY 
CONVENTION  CENTER 

•  GLASS  BLOWING 

•  CAKE  DECORATING 

•  HAIR  STYLING 

•  WELDING  &  MUCH  MORE! 


Produced  and  managed  by 

Union  Label  and  Sen/ice  Trades  Department,  AFLCIO 


proposed  that  "...  the  affiliation  with 
the  Label  Trades  Department  of  the 
A.F.  of  L.  be  only  on  the  membership 
working  on  material  bearing  the  label 
of  the  Brotherhood."  These  recom- 
mendations were  adopted  as  law,  and 
they  also  still  apply  today. 

The  colors  of  red,  white,  blue  and 
gold  appearing  on  the  Union  Label  were 
selected  for  special  reasons.  Pale  blue 
was  chosen  as  it  signified  ideals  as  pure 
as  the  skies.  Red  symbolized  the  hon- 
orable red  blood  flowing  through  the 

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The  union  label  of  the  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America  is  made 
available  to  manufacturers  in  four  application  forms:  (1)  a  rubber  stamp  is  used  to  place  an 
impression  of  the  label  upon  millwork  and  manufactured  material.  (2)  a  brass  die  is  available  for 
sinking  an  impression  of  the  label  in  boxes,  flooring,  etc.,  (3)  a  transfer  label  is  made  up  in 
colors,  and  is  generally  used  for  finished  products  such  as  fixtures  and  furniture  and  also  musical 
instruments  and  (4)  a  special  cellophane  sticker  label  is  made  for  metal  trim,  metal  doors  and 
sash. 

The  Carpenter's  Label  appears  on  the  following  products: 


1^  Aluminum  doors,  sash  and  windows 

t^  Awnings  and  metal  products 

ly  Boxes 

k'  Barber  and  beauty  shop  furniture,  etc. 

1^  Bowling  alleys,  pool  tables,  etc. 

1^  Boats 

(^  Cabinet  Work  and  cabinets 

1^  Caskets 

1^  Concrete  forms 

K'  Church  furniture 

1^  Cooling  towers 

1^  Doors,  reg.,  fireproof,  etc. 

^  Displays 

t^  Furniture 

1^  Hardwood  floors  and  hardwood 

(^  Insulation 

i^  Laboratory  furniture  and  equipment 

1^  Lumber 

1^  Ladders  and  scaffolding 

C  Millwork 


1^  Mobile  homes 

1^  Musical  instruments 

1^  Metal  Trim,  doors,  partitions,  etc. 

t^  Overhead  doors 

(^  Office  Furniture 

1^  Prefabricated  garages 

1^  Prefabricated  houses 

1^  Prefabricated  House/Modules-Tri-Trades 

1^  Plastics 

1^  Plywood  and  veneer 

i^  Restaurant  Furniture 

1^  Refrigeration 

1^  Specialty  products 

1^  Screens 

1^  School  furniture,  etc. 

1^  Shingles 

f  Stair  builders  products 

1^  Trusses 

1^  Venetian  blinds 


JUNE     1987 


!     :       I 


The  buildings  at  right  housed 
at  various  times  a  big  retail 
store,  a  liquor  wholesaler  and 
warehousing  facilities.  The 
Northern  California  Funds 
took  them  over,  opened  up 
the  roof  for  two  atriums 
and  created  the  new  fa- 
cilities at  lower  right.  A 
small  portion  of  the  in- 
terior of  the  new  head- 
quarters building  is 
at  left. 


UBC  construction 
skills  recently  teamed  up 
with  UBC  industrial  skills  to  cre- 
ate one  of  the  most  modern  and  efficient 
office  complexes  on  the  West  Coast. 

What  was  once  two  abandoned  buildings- 
in  the  East  Bay  area  in  Oakland,  Calif.,  is 
now  headquarters  for  the  Carpenter  Funds 
Administrative  Office  of  Northern  Califor- 
nia. The  buildings  were  completely  remod- 
eled and  the  parking  area  modernized.  The 


interior  was  gutted  and  a  union-made,  open- 
panel  office  system  installed.  Even  the  fur- 
nishings bear  the  signs  of  quality  union 
manufacturing,  created  by  Modern  Mode 
employees  showcased  in  the  pictures  and 
article  below. 

The  new  structure  serves  UBC  members 
covered  by  pension  plans  in  the  46  counties 
of  Northern  California,  as  well  as  the  area's 
apprenticeship  and  training  trust  fund,  the 
46  counties  conference  board  and  several 


local  union  and  district  council  offices. 

Building  designers  made  the  most  of 
available  space  in  the  building.  Mezza- 
nines ring  many  of  the  work  areas,  and 
fund  records  are  compactly  stored  in  fire- 
proof files.  Work  stations  for  employees 
are  well  lit,  and  most  have  computer  ter- 
minals to  give  ready  access  to  a  member's 
health  and  welfare  data.  Reception  areas 
take  full  advan-  ^  tage  of  the  build- 
ing's open  ^^^\^  design. 


\  ■ -^  -fi  ^ 


All  of  the  furnishings  and  the  open-office 
paneling  system  in  the  new  Northern  Cali- 
fornia Carpenters  Funds  offices  in  San  Fran- 
cisco came  from  a  union-shop  manufacturing 
plant  under  contract  to  UBC  Furniture 
Workers  Local  3141.  Known  as  Modem 
Mode  Inc.,  the  company  was  founded  in 
1949  in  Oakland,  Calif.,  by  Anthony  Ratto 
as  a  family  enterprise.  Originally  the  firm 
produced  furnishings  for  the  hotel  and  motel 
industry.  In  the  late  1950s  the  marketing 
focus  swung  toward  high  quality  office  fur- 
niture. By  1962  the  entire  manufacturing 
effort  was  aimed  at  corporate  furnishings. 
In  the  1980s  the  company  also  began  pro- 
ducing complete  open-office  panel  systems. 

In  1982  Modern  Mode  opened  a  new 
production  plant  in  San  Leandro,  Calif.,  and 
in  1984  it  moved  its  corporate  headquarters 
into  a  new  building  beside  the  factory.  Its 
products  are  sold  throughout  the  United 
States. 

Modem  Mode's  factory  has  been  a  union 
shop  for  many  years.  Its  280  industrial  em- 
ployees are  currently  working  under  a  labor- 
management  agreement  that  was  negotiated 
in  1986. 


CARPENTER 


Senate  Majority  Leader  Robert  Byrd  re- 
ceived a  rousing  welcome  as  he  was  es- 
corted to  the  rostrum  of  the  recent  Build- 
ing and  Construction  Trades  Legislative 
Conference  in  Washington.  Senator  Byrd 
is  credited  with  leading  the  legislative  fight 
to  overturn  President  Reagan's  veto  of  the 
highway  funding  bill.  Joining  in  the  wel- 
come, from  left,  were  Painters'  President 
William  Duval,  Electrical  Workers'  Presi- 
dent J.J.  Barry,  UBC  General  President 
Patrick  J.  Campbell  and  Building  Trades 
President  Robert  Georgine. 


Three  of  the  speakers  at  the  1987  confer- 
ence, shown  at  right,  were  Rep.  William 
Clay  of  Missouri,  Sen.  Barbara  Mikulskl  of 
Maryland  and  Sen.  Edward  Kennedy  of 
Massachusetts.  Clay  is  leading  the  effort 
to  enacl  a  double-breasting  bill  in  the 
House  of  Representatives,  while  Senator 
Kennedy  pushes  for  companion  legislation 
in  the  Senate. 


'Double-Breasting'  Tops  Agenda 
of  Building  Trades  Conference 


Encouraged  by  the  congressional  en- 
actment of  the  highway  construction 
bill  over  President  Reagan's  veto,  local 
and  state  building  trades  leaders  have 
stepped  up  their  campaign  to  enact 
legislation  to  curb  "double-breasting" 
in  the  construction  industry. 

This  Construction  Industry  Labor 
Law  bill  was  at  the  top  of  the  list  of 
priorities  of  the  AFL-CIO  building  and 
construction  trades'  annual  legislative 
conference  and  Capitol  Hill  lobbying. 
The  bill,  which  passed  the  House  last 
year  but  died  in  the  then-GOP-con- 
troUed  Senate,  would  prevent  contrac- 
tors from  evading  union  agreements  by 
setting  up  parallel  non-union  operations 
with  substandard  wages,  benefits  and 
working  conditions. 

Building  and  Construction  Trades 
Department  President  Robert  A.  Geor- 
gine, in  his  keynote  address  to  3,000 
delegates,  called  double-breasting  "in- 
defensible" and  said  legislation  is  needed 
to  "restore  integrity  and  justice  to  the 
collective  bargaining  system  in  the  con- 
struction industry." 

Deploring  its   rapid  growth   in  the 


By  Calvin  G.  Zon 
PAI  Staff  Writer 


construction  industry,  Georgine  said 
that  by  1986,  80%  of  the  nation's  large 
contractors  had  double-breasted  oper- 
ations compared  to  only  19%  in  1981 
and  54%  in  1984. 

Georgine  said  the  National  Right-To- 
Work  Committee  and  anti-union  con- 
tractors had  launched  a  mass  media 
blitz  aginst  the  double-breasting  bill, 
including  a  30-second  commercial  por- 
traying labor  as  a  huge  gorilla  romping 
through  Congress.  "The  radical  right- 
wing  is  trying  to  make  it  an  issue  for 
the  1988  Presidential  campaign,"  he 
told  the  delegates. 

On  this  score,  Georgine  rebuked  Sen- 
ate Minority  Leader  Robert  Dole  (R- 
Kan.)  for  his  attack  on  the  legislation 
at  a  news  conference  with  R-T-W  head 
Reed  Larson.  Noting  that  Dole  had 
spoken  in  friendly  terms  about  orga- 
nized labor  in  a  speech  at  the  BCTD's 
1985  legislative  conference,  Georgine 
said  "the  new  Dole  tactics  are  an  ob- 


vious attempt  to  curry  favor  with  re- 
actionary, right-wing  elements  in  the 
Republican  Party."  He  said  Building 
Trades  workers  will  "conduct  door-to- 
door  campaigns  in  Iowa  and  New 
Hampshire  to  alert  voters  to  the  new 
labor-bashing  stance  of  presidential 
candidate  Dole." 

Two  keysponsors  of  the  double- 
breasting  bill — Senator  Edward  M. 
Kennedy  (D-Mass.)  and  Rep.  William 
Clay  (D-Mo.) — pledged  action  this  year 
by  the  two  Democratic-led  bodies.  "And 
if  the  President  refuses  to  sign  the  bill, 
we'll  be  working  to  override  his  veto — 
just  the  way  we  did  on  the  highway 
bill,"  Kennedy  told  the  cheering  dele- 
gates. 

"We've  had  six  years  of  the  most 
anti-worker,  anti-union  Administration 
in  modern  history,"  Kennedy  declared. 
"But  now  the  tide  has  turned.  We  have 
a  Democratic  Senate,  a  Democratic 
agenda  and  a  Democratic  majority  in 
Congress  to  enact  it." 

Clay  noted  that  his  Labor-Manage- 
ment Relations  subcommittee  had  re- 


JUNE     1987 


cently  approved  the  double-breasting 
bill.  "We  now  have  a  chance  to  pass 
some  legislation  of  vital  interest  to 
working  people"  and  to  undo  some  of 
the  damage  of  the  Reagan  years,  he 
told  the  conference. 

Senate  Majority  Leader  Robert  C. 
Byrd  (D-W.  Va.),  introduced  by  Geor- 
gine  as  the  architect  of  the  parliamen- 
tary strategy  that  overturned  Reagan's 
veto  of  the  highway  bill  by  a  single 
vote,  was  given  a  rousing  hero's  wel- 
come by  the  delegates.  Byrd  called  the 
override  "a  vote  for  an  active  and 
functioning  government."  Noting  that 
Reagan  had  called  the  bill  a  "budget 
buster,"  Byrd  said  its  defeat  "would 
have  busted  the  budgets  of  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  men  and  women  who  earn 
their  bread  by  the  sweat  of  their  brows." 

Byrd  criticized  Reagan  for  seeking  to 
use  a  broadly  supported  bill  affecting 
nearly  800,000  jobs  "to  rehabilitate  his 
prestige  from  the  mistakes  of  a  failed 
foreign  policy."  The  majority  leader 
warned  Reagan  that  "government  by 
veto"  would  "gridlock  the  country." 

Georgine  said  organized  labor  cannot 
count  on  the  new  Democratic  majority 
in  Congress  to  enact  labor's  program 
unless  trade  unionists  apply  strong 
pressure  from  the  grass  roots.  "Our 
pohcy  must  be:  Get  involved!  Get  in- 
volved today!"  he  declared. 

The  Building  Trades'  other  legislative 
priorities,  Georgine  said,  include  pres- 
ervation of  the  Davis-Bacon  Act's  pre- 
vailing wage  protections;  legislation  to 
allow  construction  workers  to  take  the 
same  kind  of  travel  expense  tax  deduc- 
tion as  business  executives;  legislation 
to  tighten  safety  and  health  enforcement 
at  construction  sites;  and  legislation  to 
permit  construction  of  coal  slurry  pipe- 
lines. 

Last  year  the  Reagan  Administration 
sought  to  exclude  construction  con- 
tracts of  less  than  $1  million  from  Davis- 
Bacon  coverage,  a  move  which  Geor- 
gine said  would  amount  to  the  act's 
repeal.  He  called  the  Administration's 
advocacy  of  the  change  a  repudiation 
of  the  promise  Reagan  "made  to  me 
and  all  Building  Trades  workers  not  to 
seek  repeal." 

Others  who  addressed  the  conference 
included  Senators  Joseph  R.  Biden  Jr. 
( D-Del . ) ,  Barbara  Mikulski  ( D-Md . )  and 
Alfonse  M.  D'Amato  (R-N.Y.);  Rep- 
resentatives Tony  Coelho  (D-Calif.)  and 
Claude  Pepper  (D-Fla.),  and  Gov.  James 
R.  Thompson  (R-Ill.).  Conference 
workshops  covered  such  issues  as  drugs 
and  alcohol  on  the  worksite;  pension 
fund  investment;  asbestos  screening; 
apprenticeship  and  training  and  presi- 
dential delegate  selection.  illjfi 


Area  Building  Trades  'Sly  Fox' 
Watches  Over  New  Construction 


Helping  consumers  combat  shoddy 
workmanship  is  the  mission  of  "Oper- 
ation Sly  Fox,"  a  newly-announced 
effort  of  the  Fox  Valley,  111.,  Building 
and  Construction  Trades  Council. 

The  program  is  a  natural  outgrowth 
of  trends  in  Fox  Valley  which  include 
an  increase  in  home  construction  activ- 
ity, Fred  J.  Smith,  chairman  of  the 
Trades  Council  Committee  creating  the 
"Sly  Fox,"  told  The  (Aurora,  III.)  Bea- 
con News. 

The  recent  onslaught  of  queries  to 
the  Building  Trades  unions  from  people 
with  house  problems  brought  to  the 
forefront  the  need  for  a  consumer  ad- 
vocate. As  Smith  pointed  out,  with 
more  firms  building  houses,  the  chances 
for  shoddy  workmanship  also  increase. 

"We  (the  construction  trades  unions) 
want  to  be  known  as  the  good  guys  in 
the  white  hats,"  Smith  said.  "Our  con- 
cern is  to  give  John  Q.  Public,  be  it 
Arthur  Andersen  &  Co.,  be  it  Cater- 
pillar or  be  it  the  woman  down  the 
street  .  .  .  their  money's  worth." 

The  unions  are  able  to  do  that  by 
going  back  to  the  contractor  with  in- 
formation about  the  complaint. 

"If  it's  a  union  contractor,  we're 
going  to  make  darned  sure  he  does  what 
he's  supposed  to  do,"  Smith  said.  And 
if  it's  a  non-union  contractor,  the  Trades 
Council  can  give  advice  and  informa- 
tion. The  service  does  not,  however, 
give  legal  advice. 


A  photo  from  the  "Sly  Fox"  brochure 
shows  area  tradesmen  at  work. 


Emblem  of  the  Fox  Valley's  "Operation 
Sly  Fox"  program,  which  appears  on  all 
of  the  promotional  material. 


Speaking  for  area  contractors.  Ex- 
ecutive Director  Frank  McGurn  of  the 
Fox  Valley  General  Contractors  As- 
sociation said  contractors  support  the 
unions'  consumer  watchdog  approach. 

Operating  in  three  Illinois  counties — 
Kane,  Kendall  and  McHenry — the 
service  is  free  of  charge  to  callers.  The 
"Operation  Sly  Fox"  number,  (312) 
888-0999,  is  staffed  from  9  a.m.  to  5 
p.m.;  a  machine  takes  messages  during 
other  hours.  This  main  number  gives 
the  caller  access  to  a  number  of  unions. 
Depending  upon  the  complaint,  the  caller 
is  referred  to  the  appropriate  union. 

Part  of  the  program  is  a  PR  packet 
with  information  on  area  Building  Trades 
unions,  a  listing  of  23  area  contractors 
employing  union  carpenters,  and  an 
explanation  of  the  program  emphasizing 
that  "Craftsmanship  remains  the  key 
to  quality  construction  ...  we  contin- 
ually monitor  the  professional  stand- 
ards within  our  crafts.  Extensive  train- 
ing, certification  and  continuing 
education  are  but  a  few  ways  we  assure 
the  high  level  of  workmanship  you  de- 
serve." 

The  folder  brochure  stresses  the  sta- 
bility and  continuity  of  the  Building 
Trades,  pointing  out  that  only  18%  of 
the  construction  cost  is  on-site  labor. 

"And  since  we  live  in  the  commu- 
nities in  which  we  work,  we'll  be  around 
long  after  the  last  piece  of  sod  is  in 
place.  .  .  .  It  pays  to  invest  in  the  best." 

Among  the  UBC  locals  participating 
in  Operation  Sly  Fox  are  Carpenters 
Local  363,  Elgin,  111.,  and  Carpenters 
Local  916,  Aurora,  111. 

Coordinating  much  of  Operation  Sly 
Fox  is  Jim  Hankes  of  AFL-CIO  Com- 
munity Services  and  United  Way. 


CARPENTER 


Loaisiara-Pacifh  Tower 


Li- 


NO  fAOK-E 


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UBC  Challenges  Louisiana-Pacific 
At  Shareholders'  Meeting 


L-P's  annual  meeting  of  shareholders 
in  Montgomery,  Tex.,  on  May  4  was 
quickly  ended  by  Chairman  Harry  A. 
Merlo  when  he  was  confronted  by  hard 
questioning  from  UBC  representatives 
in  attendance.  The  usually  quiet  share- 
holder proceedings  turned  adversarial 
when  Merle  and  other  L-P  officials 
refused  to  answer  questions  about  com- 
pany operations  from  UBC  represen- 
tatives and  nearly  a  hundred  displaced 
workers  from  a  nearby  mill  in  Silsbee, 
Tex.,  which  was  recently  acquired  by 
LP. 

Workers  from  the  Kirby  Industries' 
mill  in  Silsbee  who  lost  their  jobs  after 
L-P  completed  its  acquisition  of  the  mill 
earlier  this  year  came  to  the  meeting  to 
express  their  anger  over  the  closing  of 
the  profitable  mill  which  was  the  largest 
employer  in  the  town  of  8,000.  Over 
850  lost  their  jobs  when  L-P  closed  the 
largest  of  three  East  Texas  mills  it 
purchased  from  Kirby.  The  two  mills 
that  remained  open  were  non-union 
mills,  while  the  workers  in  Silsbee  were 
represented  by  the  International  Wood- 
workers of  America. 

Many  who  came  to  confront  L-P  had 
spent  their  entire  working  lives  in  the 
mill.  Following  the  introduction  of  the 
L-P  board  of  directors,  UBC  6th  Dis- 
trict General  Executive  Board  Member 
Dean  Sooter  cited  the  contributions  of 
the  Silsbee  workers  over  the  objections 
of  L-P's  Merlo.  While  being  shouted 
down  by  Merlo,  Sooter  introduced  to 
the  shareholders  James  Perkins,  a  mill- 
worker  from   the   Silsbee   plant   who 


worked  at  the  mill  for  39  years  prior  to 
the  layoff. 

Board  of  Director 
Conflicts  Questioned 

Also  challenged  at  the  meeting  were 
the  selection  of  L-P's  directors  and 
various  proposals  for  which  manage- 
ment sought  shareholder  approval. 
Merlo  refused  to  answer  questions  con- 
cerning the  personal  and  business  re- 


WANTED 


HARRYA.MERLO 


AND  THE  NOTOEIOUS 

LOUISIANA-PACIFIC  GrANGr 


STEALING- JOBS 


BOYCOTT  LP! 


Leaflet  passed  out  at  demonstration. 


lationships  which  exist  between  the 
members  of  the  L-P  board  of  directors 
and  the  company.  Questions  from  Ed 
Durkin,  director  of  the  UBC's  special 
programs  department,  identified  busi- 
ness dealings  between  the  directors  and 
L-P  which  raise  serious  questions  about 
the  objectivity  of  the  directors.  The 
board's  newest  member,  John  Elor- 
riaga,  is  chairman  of  U.S.  Bancorp,  a 
major  lender  for  L-P  through  a  subsid- 
iary. L-P's  national  headquarters  is  also 
in  the  U.S.  Bancorp  building  in  Port- 
land, Ore. 

The  questions  regarding  the  objectiv- 
ity of  the  board  members  were  impor- 
tant because  L-P  was  seeking  approval 
of  a  proposal  which  would  remove  any 
personal  liability  of  directors  to  the 
company's  shareholders.  Concerned 
about  the  high  insurance  premiums  on 
director  liability  insurance,  L-P  sought 
to  solve  the  liability  problem  by  chang- 
ing its  bylaws  to  relieve  directors  of 
personal  liability  for  "grossly  negli- 
gent" conduct.  L-P  argued  that  the 
"primary  purpose  of  the  amendment  is 
to  assure  L-P's  continued  ability  to 
attract  and  retain  individuals  of  the 
highest  quality  and  ability  to  serve  as 
directors."  Earlier  questioning  had  es- 
tablished that  gaining  a  board  seat  at 
L-P  may  have  more  to  do  with  business 
and  personal  relationships  than  with 
"quality  and  ability." 

It  was  during  the  questions  on  the 

directors'  qualifications  and  the  director 

liability     proposal     that     Merlo     ap- 

Continued  on  Page  16 


JUNE    1987 


UBC  IMMIGRATION  EFFORTS 


The  application  period  for  legaliza- 
tion under  the  new  Immigration  Reform 
and  Control  Act  opened  May  5,  1987. 
Last  month's  Carpenter  magazine  out- 
lined the  changes  for  undocumented 
workers  and  their  employers  and  de- 
scribed the  UBC's  policy  on  the  im- 
migration law. 

Some  UBC  members  are  undocu- 
mented and  will  be  applying  for  legali- 
zation and  eventually  citizenship  under 
the  new  law.  The  Brotherhood  has 
undertaken  efforts  to  help  these  mem- 
bers as  well  as  others  in  our  industries. 
In  this  second  article  of  our  ongoing 
series,  we  describe  the  Los  Angeles 
and  Vicinity  District  Council  of  Car- 
penters' immigration  program.  We  also 
present  information  to  business  repre- 
sentatives on  how  they  can  help  mem- 
bers who  will  be  applying  for  legaliza- 
tion under  the  new  law. 

Tips  for  Business 
Representatives 

Under  the  new  law,  an  undocu- 
mented individual  must  show  continual 
residence  in  the  U.S.  since  January 
1982  to  qualify  for  temporary  legal  res- 
ident status.  A  union  business  repre- 
sentative can  help  members  who  will 
be  applying  by: 

•  providing  records  of  dues  pay- 
ments or  attendance  at  union  meetings; 

•  helping  the  member  obtain  docu- 
ments from  employers  and  contractors, 
such  as  copies  of  payroll  checks; 

•  verifying  that  the  individual,  under 
whatever  name,  has  been  a  member  of 
the  union; 

•  providing  a  character  reference; 

•  protecting  the  member  from  dis- 
crimination by  an  employer.  Under  the 
immigration  law,  an  employer  cannot 
fire  an  undocumented  worker  who  is  in 
the  process  of  applying  for  amnesty.  In 
addition,  collective  bargaining  agree- 
ments offer  protection  against  unjust 
firings. 

Business  representatives  can  also  help 
by  identifying  organizations  in  their 
area  to  which  they  can  refer  undocu- 


UBC  members  or  business  represen- 
tatives in  Texas  with  questions  may 
contact  the  UBC's  Texas  Union  Im- 
migrant Assistance  Office  at  the  Hous- 
ton District  Council,  2600  Hamilton 
St.,  Houston,  Tex.  (713)  650-3031.  UBC 
members  in  the  Los  Angeles  area  may 
contact  the  District  Council's  immi- 
gration office  at  Local  1752,  1144  2nd 
St.,  Pomona,  Calif.  91766. 


Taking  Away  A  Big  Club  Waved 
By  The  Non-Union  Contractor 


The  Los  Angeles  County  Federation  of  Labor  held  a  briefing  session  for  unions  partici- 
pating in  the  area's  alien  registration  program.  Most  of  those  participating  in  the 
sessions,  shown  here,  were  United  Brotherhood  leaders.  They  included  Mike  Magallanes, 
organizer.  Local  1506;  Jesse  Martinez  Jr.,  financial  secretary  and  business  representative 
of  Local  1976;  Frank  Gurule,  Local  721  business  manager;  Victor  Nava,  business 
representative  of  Local  721;  Armando  Vergara,  administrative  assistant  to  the  Los 
Angeles  District  Council;  Wally  Bond,  organizer,  LADC;  Alfonso  Hernandez,  financial 
secretary  and  business  representative.  Local  1407;  Ronald  Hunter,  business  representa- 
tive. Local  769;  Gonzalo  Barba,  financial  secretary  and  business  representative.  Local 
3161;  Martin  Huerta,  Local  1752;  Pete  Arenobine,  retired  member. 


mented  members  for  help  with  the  im- 
migration process — such  as  churches, 
neighborhood  centers  or  labor  councils. 

Does  ttie  new  law  affect  union 
tiiring  hall  referral  procedures? 

No.  The  law  contains  penalties  for 
employers  who  hire  undocumented 
workers;  the  law  does  not  apply  to 
union  hiring  halls.  Business  Represen- 
tatives are  advised  not  to  question 
members  about  their  citizenship  status 
or  refer  members  on  that  basis.  Doing 
so  could  lead  to  discrimination  charges. 

Esfuerzos  de  la  UBC 
Sobre  Inmigracion 

El  periodo  de  aplicaci6n  para  legalizaci6n 
sobre  la  Reforma  de  Inmigraci6n  y  el  Acto 
de  Control  fue  abierto  el  5  de  mayo  de  1987. 

La  edici6n  Carpenter  del  mes  pasado 
contom6  los  cambios  para  los  trabajadores 
sin  documentos  y  sus  patrones  y  tambi6n 
describi6  el  curso  de  la  UBC  sobre  la  ley  de 
Inmigraci6n. 

Algunos  miembros  de  la  UBC  est^n  sin 
documentos  y  solicitarSn  para  legalizacidn 
y  eventualmente  para  ciudadania  bajo  la 
nueva  ley. 

La  Fratemidad  ha  tomado  esfuerzos  para 
ayudar  a  estos  miembros  y  igualmente  a 
otros  en  nuestras  industrias. 


Employer  Sanctions 
Take  Effect  June  1 

As  of  June  1,  1987,  the  I.N.S.  will  begin 
issuing  citations  and  fines  against  employers 
and  contractors  who  knowingly  hire  undo- 
cumented workers  or  who  fail  to  verify  the 
legal  status  of  new  hires  as  provided  by  the 
law.  This  means  that  as  of  June  1,  all 
employers  must  begin  checking  the  immi- 
gration status  of  new  hires  and  keeping 
appropriate  records. 

The  first  time  an  employer  is  caught  know- 
ingly hiring  an  illegal  immigrant,  the  em- 
ployer will  receive  a  warning.  After  that,  for 
the  first  offense  an  employer  faces  a  civil 
fine  of  $250  to  $2,000  per  worker.  For  further 
offenses  the  fines  get  larger  with  repeat 
offenders  facing  additional  fines  and  impris- 
onment for  up  to  six  months.  By  May  31, 
1988,  the  law  gets  stricter  and  there  are  no 
more  warning  citations. 

Undocumented  workers  already  on  the 
payroll  and  hired  after  Nov.  6,  1986,  but 
before  June  1,  1987,  are  protected  in  their 
employment  if  they  are  in  the  process  of 
applying  for  legaUzation.  As  of  June  1,  em- 
ployers are  prohibited  from  hiring  undocu- 
mented workers. 

Employers  are  not  required  to  check  the 
legal  status  of  undocumented  workers  on 
the  payroll  who  were  hired  before  Nov.  7, 
1986,  and  in  fact,  are  being  advised  by  their 
attorneys  not  to  do  so. 

UBC  members  who  are .  undocumented 
thus  have  some  protection  under  the  new 
law. 


10 


CARPENTER 


Los  Angeles  District  Council 
Assists  Immigration  Project 

With  less  than  24  hours  remaining  before  the  Immigration  and 
Naturalization  Service  began  accepting  applications  from  un- 
documented workers  for  legalization  under  the  provisions  of  the 
Immigration  reform  and  Control  Act  of  1986,  representatives  of 
the  Los  Angeles  District  Council  of  Carpenters  and  its  affiliated 
local  unions  made  final  preparations  for  the  start  of  an  ambitious 
countywide  program  to  assist  undocumented  members. 

Members  of  Local  1506  were  busy  refurbishing  office  space 
donated  by  Local  1752  in  Pomona,  Calif,  for  use  as  a  processing 
center,  while  representatives  of  the  district  council  and  Cabinet 
Makers,  Drywallers,  Lumber  and  Sawmill  Workers  and  Construc- 
tion locals  attended  a  final  briefing  on  the  legalization  process  at 
the  Los  Angeles  County  Federation  of  Labor. 

The  briefing  presented  by  members  of  the  Los  Angeles  County 
Federation  of  Labor's  Immigration  Assistance  Project  was  the 
culmination  of  a  month-long  process  of  gearing  up  to  meet  the 
anticipated  needs  of  many  thousands  of  union  members  who  will 
need  help  applying  for  legalization  for  themselves  or  relatives. 

Los  Angeles  District  Council  Administrative  Assistant  Armando 
Vergara,  who  has  played  a  central  role  in  organizing  and  raising 
funds  for  the  project,  explained  why  the  Brotherhood  was  putting 
so  much  time  and  effort  into  the  project. 

"In  Los  Angeles,  and  throughout  the  Southwest,  the  question 
of  the  undocumented  worker  is  one  that  we  have  been  trying  to 
deal  with  for  years.  Easily  exploited  by  employers  who  have  used 
them  to  undercut  wages  and  conditions,  they  have  been  a  real 
challenge  to  organize  because  of  their  fear  of  deportation.  But 
when  we  have  been  able  to  organize  them,  they  have  been  strong 
and  loyal  union  members. 

"We  believe  that  this  legislation  has  given  us  one  of  the  most 
powerful  organizing  tools  imaginable.  These  workers  have  come 
here  for  the  same  reasons  that  most  of  our  parents  or  grandparents 
did.  They  want  a  better  life  for  themselves  and  their  families.  If 
the  union  helps  them  achieve  that  goal,  first  by  legalizing  their 
residency  status  and  then  by  organizing  their  workplace  and  getting 
them  the  benefits  of  a  union  contract,  we  will  have  their  loyalty 
and  their  membership." 

Douglas  J.  McCarron,  secretary  treasurer  of  the  district  council, 
underscored  the  value  of  the  amnesty  program,  pointing  out  that 
by  removing  the  fear  of  deportation  "We  will  take  away  the  club 
that  the  non-union  contractor  has  held  over  their  heads  for  years. 
Once  that  is  done  we  will  be  able  to  make  great  strides  in 
organizing." 

As  a  result  of  the  commitment  by  the  district  council  and  other 
unions  involved  in  sponsoring  the  program,  union  members  and 
their  families  in  Los  Angeles  who  apply  for  amnesty  will  find  a 
battery  of  professional  workers  and  trained  volunteers  waiting  to 
help  them. 

In  order  to  insure  that  nothing  is  overlooked,  the  procedure  for 
filing  has  been  divided  into  four  segments.  The  first  part  of  the 
program  will  involve  a  detailed  explanation  of  the  law  and  the 
procedures  for  applying.  Because  of  the  severe  time  restrictions 
it  is  critical  that  every  applicant  understand  what  deadlines  must 
be  met.  During  this  stage  special  problem  cases  will  be  referred 
to  an  attorney  for  help.  Pre-forms,  designed  to  gather  essential 
information,  will  be  filled  out  and  key  punched  into  a  computer. 

In  the  second  step,  volunteers  and  document  counselors  will 
review  the  applicants'  documents  to  make  sure  that  all  the 
information  is  complete.  If  not,  further  work  with  a  counselor  or 
attendance  at  a  workshop  will  be  required.  Once  all  materials  are 
ready  there  will  be  one  last  session  with  the  document  counselor 
before  the  final  step,  a  technical  review  of  the  forms  by  attorneys 
at  the  central  location. 

It  is  hoped  that  by  using  this  exhaustive  process,  errors  will  be 
minimized  and  members  will  be  so  familiarized  with  the  forms 
and  process  that  the  actual  application  will  go  smoothly. 

This  aggressive  effort  by  the  Los  Angeles  District  Council  to 
help  union  members  and  their  families  achieve  legal  resident 
status,  freeing  them  from  exploitation  and  the  fear  of  deportation, 
is  in  the  finest  tradition  of  the  Brotherhood  and  the  labor  move- 
ment— workers  helping  fellow  workers  improve  their  lives  and 
care  for  their  families. 


Projecto  de  Inmigracion  LADC 

Con  menos  de  veinticuatro  horas  antes  de  que  el  Servicio  de 
Inmigracion  y  Naturalizacion  principle  a  aceptar  aplicaciones  de 
trabajadores  indocumentados  para  legalizacion  bajo  las  provisiones  de 
la  Ley  de  Reforma  y  Control  de  Inmigracion  de  1986,  representantes 
del  Consejo  de  Carpinteros  del  Distrito  de  Los  Angeles  y  sus  uniones 
locales  afiliadas  estaban  haciendo  los  preparativos  finales  para  atendra 
un  programa  interesante  a  nivel  nacional  para  asistir  a  los  miembros 
y  sus  familias  a  traves  del  complicado  proceso. 

Miembros  del  Local  1506  han  estado  ocupados  preparando  el  espacio 
de  ofieina  donado  per  el  Local  1752  en  Pomona  para  usarse  como 
centro  de  proceso,  mientras  que  los  representantes  del  Consejo  de 
Distrito  y  Productores  de  Gabinetes,  Encajonadores,  Trabajadores  de 
Madereri'as  y  Aserraderos  y  Locales  de  Construccion  attendieron  al 
toque  final  en  el  proceso  de  legalizacion  llevado  a  cabo  en  la  Confe- 
deracion  de  Trabajadores  del  Condado  de  Los  Angeles. 

Las  instrucciones  presentadas  por  miembros  del  Proyecto  de  Asis- 
tencia  de  Inmigracion  de  la  Confederacion  de  Trabajadores  del  Condado 
de  Los  Angeles  fue  la  culminacion  del  proceso  de  largos  meses  de 
preparacion  para  afrentar  las  necesidades  anticipadas  de  muchos  miles 
de  trabajadores  sindicalizados  quienes  necesitan  asistencia  para  aplicar 
para  legalizacion  de  ellos  mismos  y  sus  familiares. 

El  Asistente  Administrativo  del  Consejo  del  Distrito  de  Los  Angeles, 
Armando  Vergara,  quien  ha  desempeiiado  un  papel  central  en  organizar 
y  recaudar  fondos  para  el  proyecto,  explico  porque  la  Hermandad  ha 
puesto  tanto  tiempo  y  esfuerzo  en  este  proyecto. 

"En  Los  Angeles,  y  a  traves  del  Suroeste,  el  problema  de  los 
trabajadores  indocumentados  es  uno  que  hemos  estado  tratando  de 
sobrellevar  por  anos.  Facilmente  explotados  por  empleadores  quienes 
los  han  usado  para  reducir  salarios  y  condiciones,  ellos  han  sido  un 
reto  real  para  organizar  debido  a  su  temor  de  ser  deportados.  Pero 
cuando  hemos  logrado  organizarlos,  son  miembros  fuertes  y  fieles  a 
la  Union." 

"Creemos  que  esta  legalizacion  nos  ha  dado  una  de  las  herramientas 
mas  poderosas  imaginables  para  organizar.  Estos  trabajadores  han 
venido  aqui  por  las  mismas  razones  por  las  que  la  mayoria  de  nuestros 
padres  o  abuelos  lo  hicieron,  ellos  quieren  una  vida  mejor  para  ellos 
mismos  y  sus  familias.  Si  la  Union  les  ayuda  a  lograr  esta  meta, 
primero  legalizando  sus  estatutos  de  residencia  y  luego  organizando 
su  lugar  de  trabajo  y  obtenerles  mejores  beneficios  de  un  contrato  de 
Union,  tendremos  su  fidelidad  y  su  membresia." 

Douglas  J.  McCarron,  Secretario  Tesorero  del  Consejo  del  Distrito 
subrayd  el  valor  del  programa  de  amnistia,  indicando  que  una  vez 
quitado  el  temor  de  deportacion  "Desapareceremos  el  club  que  los 
Contratistas  sin  Union  han  sostenido  por  arios.  Una  vez  que  esto  se 
cumpla  sera  posible  tener  grandes  triunfos  en  organizar." 

Como  resultado  del  cometido  por  el  Consejo  de  Distrito  y  otras 
Uniones  involucradas  en  patrocinar  el  programa,  miembros  de  Unibn 
y  sus  familias  en  Los  Angeles  que  apliquen  para  amnistia  encontrarSn 
un  grupo  de  profesionales  y  voluntaries  entrenados  que  los  esperan. 

Para  asegurar  que  nada  se  ha  omitido,  el  procedimiento  para  aplicar 
ha  sido  dividido  en  cuatro  segmentos.  La  primera  parte  del  programa 
comprender^  una  explicacion  detallada  de  la  ley  y  los  procedimientos 
para  aplicar.  Debido  a  las  fuertes  restricciones  del  tiempo  es  critico 
que  cada  aplicante  entienda  cuales  son  los  limites  de  tiempo  a  seguir. 
Durante  esta  etapa  los  casos  de  problemas  especiales  ser^n  referidos 
a  un  abogado  para  su  asistencia.  Pre-formas  designadas  a  reunir 
informacidn  esencial  serSn  completadas  y  procesadas  en  la  computa- 
dora. 

En  el  segundo  paso,  voluntaries  y  consejeros  de  documentos  revi- 
sarSn  los  documentos  del  aplicante  para  estar  seguros  de  que  toda  la 
informacidn  estS  completa.  Si  n6,  serA  requerido  m4s  trabajo  con  iin 
consejero  o  asistente  del  lugar.  Una  vez  que  todos  los  materiales  estAn 
listos  habra  una  ultima  sesi6n  con  el  consejero  de  documentos  antes 
del  paso  final,  una  revisibn  t^cnica  de  las  formas  por  abogados  en  la 
ubicacidn  central. 

Se  espera  que  utilizando  este  proceso  minusioso  se  aminorardn  los 
errores  y  los  miembros  estarSn  en  esa  manera  familiarizados  con  las 
formas  y  el  proceso  que  la  aplicacidn  actual  serS  mSs  fScil. 

Este  esfuerzo  agresivo  del  Consejo  del  Distrito  de  Los  Angeles  para 
ayudar  a  sus  miembros  de  Union  y  sus  familias  a  conseguir  sus 
estatutos  legales,  los  libertara  de  la  explotaci6n  y  el  temor  de  depor- 
tacion que  es  la  mis  fina  tradicion  de  la  Hermandad  y  el  movimiento 
laboral.  Trabajadores  ayundando  a  sus  compaiieros  trabajadores  a 
mejorar  sus  vidas  y  el  cuidado  de  sus  familias. 


JUNE     1987 


11 


Washington 
Report 


GRANTS  FOR  DISLOCATED 

Secretary  of  Labor  William  E.  Brock  has  an- 
nounced a  total  of  $2,500,000  in  grants  for  dislo- 
cated workers  in  Alaska,  Massachusetts,  Ohio,  and 
West  Virginia,  who  are  displaced  due  to  mass  lay- 
offs, plant  closures,  and  the  downturn  in  demand 
for  natural  resources  such  as  oil,  gas,  and  coal. 

The  funds,  authorized  under  Title  III  of  the  Job 
Training  Partnership  Act,  will  provide  dislocated 
workers  with  retraining  and  other  supportive  serv- 
ices to  re-enter  the  workforce. 

The  State  of  Alaska  Department  of  Community 
and  Regional  Affairs  will  receive  $750,000  to  assist 
up  to  375  workers  affected  by  mass  layoffs  in  state 
government,  the  oil  exploration  and  extraction  in- 
dustry, airline  industry,  and  various  construction 
firms. 

The  Massachusetts  Industrial  Services  Program 
will  receive  $500,000  to  assist  up  to  970  workers 
dislocated  as  a  result  of  the  General  Electric  Tur-- 
bine  and  Aircraft  Division  closure. 


MERGERS  OUT-OF-HAND 

The  AFL-CIO  has  made  specific  recommenda- 
tions for  regulating  corporate  mergers  and  take- 
overs, contending  that  the  wave  of  "merger  mania" 
confronting  U.S.  business  takes  its  heaviest  toll  on 
workers  and  communities.  Outlining  the  federation's 
recommendations  before  the  Senate  Banking  Sub- 
committee on  Securities,  Secretary-Treasurer 
Thomas  R.  Donahue  called  for  revisions  to  securi- 
ties laws  as  well  as  new  legislation  to  protect  the 
labor  contracts  of  workers  in  newly  merged  compa- 
nies and  to  prevent  corporate  raiders  from  tapping 
large  surpluses  in  their  target  companies'  pension 
funds. 

Takeovers  hurt  workers  in  three  ways,  Donahue 
said — through  direct  loss  of  jobs,  reduction  of 
wages  and  fringe  benefits  or  raids  on  pension  funds 
and  destruction  of  the  seniority  of  long-term  work- 
ers. 

There  is  little  documentation  on  the  number  of 
jobs  lost  to  mergers,  but  the  AFL-CIO  estimates  as 
many  as  80,000  union  jobs  have  been  lost  directly 
and  another  80,000  indirectly  because  of  mergers. 


WELFARE,  TRAINING  OVERHAUL 

The  Senate  unanimously  approved  a  bill  de- 
signed to  target  long-term  welfare  recipients  for  job 
training  and  employment  assistance  while  a  House 
panel  began  markup  of  a  comprehensive  proposal 
to  overhaul  the  welfare  system.  The  Administration 
has  expressed  opposition  to  both  measures  on 
grounds  that  they  impose  additional  costs  and  ad- 
ministrative burdens. 

The  adopted  Senate  bill  (S  514),  the  Jobs  for 
Employable  Dependent  Individuals,  amends  the  Job 
Training  Partnership  Act  to  provide  states  and  com- 
munities with  financial  incentives  to  direct  job  train- 
ing resources  to  individuals  who  have  been  receiv- 
ing benefits  under  the  Aid  to  Families  with 
Dependent  Children  program  or  the  Supplemental 
Security  Income  program.  JEDI  also  incorporates 
the  Reagan  Administration's  proposal  for  providing 
employment  and  training  services  to  youngsters  in 
families  that  receive  AFDC. 

The  House  bill  (HR  1720),  the  Family  Welfare 
Reform  Act,  would  require  welfare  recipients  with 
children  over  six  years  old  to  participate  in  available 
education,  training  or  work  activities.  Participants  in 
such  activities  would  be  guaranteed  day  care  serv- 
ices and  other  support  assistance  to  facilitate  their 
transition  to  employment.  The  bill  is  in  the  midst  of 
markup  by  the  House  Ways  and  Means  Public  As- 
sistance and  Unemployment  Compensation  Sub- 
committee. 

OSHA  NEEDS  REFORMS 

A  federal  report  warning  that  the  Occupational 
Safety  and  Health  Administration  "risks  total  paraly- 
sis" recommended  needed  changes  in  agency  op- 
erations. But  these  reforms  will  be  "meaningless 
until  there  is  a  commitment  from  top  OSHA  officials 
and  the  Reagan  Administration  to  carry  them  out," 
the  AFL-CIO  said. 

OSHA  has  been  reviewing  the  report  since  Feb- 
ruary, and  expects  to  develop  some  form  of  re- 
sponse in  the  near  future,  the  agency  said. 

The  report  keyed  on  the  major  complaints  orga- 
nized labor  has  had  with  the  agency.  It  attributed 
long  delays  in  setting  standards  to  the  inability  or 
unwillingness  of  upper  level  management  to  make 
tough  decisions  and  urged  the  "infusion  of  fresh 
blood"  into  OSHA,  which  it  said  is  underfunded, 
understaffed  and  lacking  direction. 

INSURANCE  PREMIUM  PROPOSAL 

An  across-the-board  increase  in  insurance  premi- 
ums for  single-employer  pension  plans  is  preferable 
to  the  Administration's  variable  rate  plan,  labor  wit- 
nesses asserted  recently  at  House  hearings. 

The  government's  Pension  Benefit  Guaranty 
Corp.  wants  to  charge  substantially  higher  premium 
rates  for  underfunded  plans  which  constitute  the 
greatest  risk.  PBGC  told  Congress  it  needs  addi- 
tional revenue  to  meet  heavy  obligations  it  incurred 
in  recent  years,  mostly  because  of  the  collapse  of 
several  large  pension  plans  in  the  depressed  steel 
industry. 

PBGC  also  wants  to  stiffen  minimum  funding 
standards  and  to  allow  employers  to  take  some  but 
not  all  "excess  assets"  out  of  a  pension  plan  with- 
out terminating  it. 


12 


CARPENTER 


Trade  Policy  Is  Always  About  Jobs, 
Employment  Conference  Is  Reminded 


There  are  destructive  trade-offs  in 
the  trade  poHcies  of  the  United  States, 
D.  Quinn  Mills  of  Harvard  University 
told  a  recent  conference  on  employment 
policy  in  Washington,  D.C. 

"We  have  tried  to  purchase  inter- 
national security  at  the  price  of  Amer- 
ica's economic  strength,"  Mills  told  the 
conferees. 

"Trade  policy  is  always  about  jobs," 
said  another  top  U.S.  trade  official  at 
the  conference.  By  that  standard  alone, 
recent  American  trade  policy  has  proved 
a  disaster:  our  $150  bilhon  annual  trade 
deficit  has  cost  the  nation  three  million 
jobs  in  manufacturing  over  the  last  three 
years  and  reduced  the  gross  national 
product  by  almost  2%.  The  overwhelm- 
ing deficit  in  manufactured  goods  car- 
ries with  it  other  serious  implications. 
Sales  of  manufactured  goods  pull  along 
a  myriad  of  associated  services,  includ- 
ing financing,  construction,  mainte- 
nance, alteration  and  repair.  An  econ- 
omy that  loses  market  share  in  world 
manufacturing  also  risks  a  declining 
market  share  in  services — and  a  falling 
standard  of  living. 

"Today  there  is  widespread  agree- 
ment that  our  huge  trade  deficit  is  a 
national  problem,"  Mills  pointed  out. 


Why  has  the  government  done  so  httle 
about  it?  The  answer — which  remains 
generally  unrecognized — is  that  our 
government  is  prepared  to  sacrifice 
American  jobs  and  manufacturing  mar- 
ket share  to  gain  geopolitical  advan- 
tages abroad.  Our  trade  problem  is  the 
result  of  a  policy  success,  not  a  policy 
failure.  It  is  neither  a  conspiracy  nor  a 
fluke;  rather,  it  is  a  conscious  decision 
to  favor  geopolitical  interests  over  the 
interests  of  American  business  and 
workers." 

Mills  contends  that  the  current  trade 
crisis  in  the  United  States  stems  from 
"largely  avoidable  conditions  that  still 
cry  out  for  remedy."  He  listed  them  as 
follows: 

•  We  should  keep  international  ex- 
change rates  flexible.  "The  Treasury 
Department's  effort  to  institute  a  sys- 
tem of  managed  exchange  rates  is  ex- 
actly counter  to  American  interests. 
Over  the  last  several  years,  when  an 
overvalued  dollar  penalized  American 
manufacturing,  the  U.S.  government 
supported  freely  fluctuating  exchange 
rates.  True,  the  government  recently 
joined  in  efforts  to  reduce  the  value  of 
the  U.S.  dollar;  but  now  that  exchange 
rates  are  moving  in  a  direction  favorable 


to  American  interests,  the  government 
has  suddenly  bestirred  itself  to  attempt 
to  stabilize  rates. 

"It  is  especially  important  to  let  the 
yen  continue  to  appreciate,  both  to 
support  Japan's  long-term  interests  and 
to  put  our  own  industry  on  a  better 
competitive  footing.  It  will  take  a  mu- 
tual effort  to  move  Japan  away  from  its 
predatory  economy  and  toward  a  sys- 
tem of  balanced  international  trade." 

•  We  should  reduce  the  economic  de- 
pendence of  debtor  nations.  "Efforts  of 
debtor  nations  to  earn  dollars  to  pay 
service  on  their  debt  have  caused  Amer- 
ican exports  to  those  nations  to  decline 
precipitously.  The  drop  in  the  price  of 
oil  has  exacerbated  the  problem.  If  we 
want  to  exchange  goods  between  the 
United  States  and  debtor  nations,  we 
must  first  remove  the  roadblock  of  that 
debt. 

"Today  our  large  banks  are  in  a  far 
stronger  position  to  weather  the  shock 
of  writing  down  large  portions  of  debt 
than  they  were  just  a  few  years  ago. 
For  many  of  the  major  banks,  capital 
now  exceeds  foreign  loan  exposure,  a 
situation  that  allows  them  to  sell  or 
write  down  foreign  loans  without  im- 
periling their  solvency. 


JUNE     1987 


13 


"The  Treasury  Department  has  clearly 
chosen  the  wrong  path  in  dealing  with 
debtor  nations.  Its  approach  is  to  con- 
tinue to  extend  large  loans  to  those 
nations,  adding  more  debt  to  their  bur- 
den. In  exchange  for  these  new  loans, 
the  Treasury  wants  the  recipient  nations 
to  institute  growth-oriented  economic 
policies.  This  condition  is  a  positive 
step,  particularly  if  it  replaces  the 
squandering  that  typified  so  much  of 
the  initial  lending.  But  if  economic 
growth  is  pursued  only  in  the  context 
of  an  ever-increasing  debt  burden,  even 
the  growth  will  be  distorted.  Economic 
expansion  will  have  to  be  aimed  at  the 
export  market  to  the  United  States." 

•  We  must  disavow  sole  responsibility 
for  the  international  monetary  system. 

"What  began  in  the  aftermath  of  World 
War  II  as  a  collective  responsibility  for 
the  stability  of  the  system  has  giveii 
way  in  recent  years  to  a  unilateral 
American  burden.  Attempting  to  carry 
the  weight  of  this  burden  alone  will 
further  entangle  the  American  economy 
in  policies  that  benefit  others  and  hurt 
us.  The  declining  marlcet  share  of  the 
United  States  in  the  international  econ- 
omy clearly  shows  that  this  policy  is  a 
mistake." 

•  We  should  work  to  free  ourselves 
of  client  states,  not  to  acquire  them. 

"Dependent  relationships  are  not  last- 
ing ones.  Dependence,  whether  among 
individuals  or  among  nations,  only  breeds 
contempt  and  despair.  The  attempt  to 
use  our  nation's  remaining  economic 
power  to  protect  foreign  states  from 
both  outside  subversion  and  inside  re- 
volt continues  to  drain  our  resources, 
while  providing  only  ephemeral  secu- 
rity. 

"In  particular,  it  is  a  colossal  mistake 
for  us  to  compete  with  the  Soviet  Union 
on  a  country-by-country  basis.  Not  ev- 
ery less  developed  country  is  of  equal 
geopolitical  importance  to  the  United 
States.  Some  nations,  like  Israel  and 
Mexico,  do  represent  a  vital  interest  to 
the  United  States.  Where  that  is  the 
case,  we  should  extend  a  broad  package 
that  includes  not  only  direct  economic 
assistance  but  also  a  long-term  plan  for 
helping  those  countries  become  more 
self-sufficient.  Moreover,  we  should 
make  better  use  of  multinational  efforts 
in  economic  competition  with  the  So- 
viets, building  in  important  support  roles 
for  our  allies.  We  can  maintain  inter- 
national security  and  economic  strength 
simultaneously  if  we  avoid  the  temp- 
tation to  buy  short-term  political  de- 
pendence abroad. 

"The  basis  for  a  strong  American 
economy  and  a  healthy  international 
economy  is  mutual,  not  one-way  trade. 


Mini-Cars  for  tlie  Ciiinese 
By  Way  of  Briggs  &  Stratton 


,( 


Research  I 
Deyelopmjint 
"-ter      f  , 


The  complications  of  international  trade 
are  illustrated  by  a  recent  action  of  the 
Briggs  &  Stratton  Corp.  of  Milwaukee, 
Wis. 

A  few  years  ago,  Briggs  &  Stratton 
was  in  financial  straits,  partly  because  it 
produced  mostly  seasonal  products — 
lawnmowers  and  outboard  engines — and 
partly  because  it  had  labor-management 
troubles. 

Now  it  has  a  product  it  believes  will 
sell  on  the  international  market  year 
around,  and  its  first  customer  is  the 
People's  Republic  of  China.  It  hopes  to 
substitute  Briggs  &  Stratton  mini-cars  for 
all  those  bicycles  crowding  China's 
roads. 

The  mini-car,  developed  in  specific 
response  to  that  country's  seventh  Five 
Year  National  Plan  of  China,  was  intro- 
duced at  the  April  7-12  International 
Internal  Combustion  Engine  Expo  in 
Shanghai. 

The  car  features  a  French-made  Ga- 
teau body  and  is  powered  by  a  Briggs  & 


Stratton  16  horsepower  Model  32  single 
cylinder  cast  iron  engine.  The  heavy- 
duty  industrial/commercial  engine  has 
been  sold  primarily  in  this  country  and 
Europe  to  manufacturers  of  yard  and 
garden  tractors,  turf-mowing  equipment, 
pumps,  generators  and  other  construc- 
tion equipment. 

Engines  for  the  car  and  other  potential 
Chinese  applications  will  be  manufac- 
tured under  a  joint  venture  agreement 
between  Briggs  &  Stratton  and  Chong- 
ging  Puling  Machinery  Works.  The  ven- 
ture group,  called  Puling-Briggs  &  Strat- 
ton Engine  Corporation,  will  produce  a 
10  horsepower  engine  as  well  as  the  16 
horsepower  model. 

To  create  the  Chinese  mini-car,  which 
is  expected  to  travel  at  an  average  speed 
of  35  mph  and  can  hold  four  adults,  the 
original  Gateau  tires  and  wheels  were 
changed,  the  torque  converter  was  ad- 
justed and  the  frame  was  somewhat  mod- 
ified. 

The  car  will  be  marketed  as  a  vehicle 
for  short-distance  use  on  the  new  road- 
ways China  is  building  to  link  cities  and 
suburban  and  rural  areas.  According  to 
Briggs  &  Stratton,  the  Chinese  were 
looking  for  an  entry  level  vehicle  that 
might  be  used  for  a  broad  variety  of 
applications  including  urban  delivery  and 
taxi  service. 

Will  all  of  this  help  to  rectify  America's 
trade  imbalance?  Not  very  much.  The 
Chinese  insist  on  manufacturing  the  mini- 
car  engines  in  China.  Briggs  &  Stratton 
will  supply  parts,  and  Chinese  revenue 
will  flow  back  to  Milwaukee,  B  &  S's 
home  base.  As  Quinn  Mills  suggests  in 
the  accompanying  article,  it  does  "sup- 
port the  interests  of  American  Companies 
in  the  international  economy." 


The  United  States  should  renew  its 
commitment  to  that  objective  by  phas- 
ing out  efforts  to  manage  the  current 
system,  which  is  a  relic  of  the  past. 

"The  actions  we  should  take  to  change 
the  system  are  evident.  The  primary 
responsibility  of  the  American  govern- 
ment must  be  to  develop  multinational 
guarantees  of  international  security  and 
to  support  the  interests  of  American 
companies  in  the  international  econ- 
omy. 

"Where  free  trade  is  possible,  we 
should  give  it  priority." 

"Where  we  are  excluded  from  foreign 
markets,  we  should  retaliate  by  closing 
off  our  own  market,  without  the  re- 
straining hand  of  a  foreign  policy  per- 
spective that  sees  virtue  in  sacrificing 
American  jobs  to  gain  influence  abroad. 


"The  government  has  already  taken 
steps  to  limit  foreign  access  to  the 
American  market  under  certain  circum- 
stances: less  developed  countries  that 
do  not  meet  minimum  standards  of  fair 
worker  treatment  are  barred  from  ex- 
porting their  products  to  the  United 
States.  We  are  also  starting  to  enforce 
existing  free  trade  laws  more  strin- 
gently. Such  steps  are  crucial  for  the 
recovery  of  the  American  economy  from 
the  crushing  burdens  that  have  been 
placed  on  it.  The  result  should  be  a 
system  that  avoids  dependent  relation- 
ships among  nations  and  reduces  the 
burden  of  debt.  The  sooner  we  adopt 
such  a  plan  and  stop  squandering  our 
wealth,  the  better  we  will  be  able  to 
meet  our  commitments — both  to  our 
allies  around  the  world  and  to  our  own 
people." 


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14 


CARPENTER 


Recent  Contributors  to 
'Blueprint  for  Cure' 

Blueprint  for  Cure  contributions 
were  received  from  business  repre- 
sentatives attending  the  April  12-17, 
1987  Training  Seminar  at  the  George 
Meany  Center  for  Labor  Studies,  as 
follows:  Nelson  L.  Bard,  John  Bet- 
kowski,  Nathan  Bitely,  Mark  M. 
Briggs,  Thomas  C.  Cameron,  Robert 
Cherry  Jr.,  Jerry  Cooley,  James  Dal- 
luge,  Richard  Lee  Daniel,  Arnold  F. 
Dickson,  Michael  W.  Donnelly,  James 
Doyle,  Paul  Richard  Edler,  Richard 
A.  Fleming,  Ronald  C.  Fors,  Jack 
Gilchrist,  Phillip  R.  Helsius,  Arthur 
Huff,  Patrick  J.  KeUey,  Timothy  J. 
Kelley,  Thomas  F.  Kelly,  Edward  T. 
Kuhar,  Michael  Kuzemka,  Gary  A. 
Larson,  Frank  T.  Libby,  George  E. 
Long,  Gary  Lothenbach,  Henry  L. 
Lower,  Thomas  Marshall,  Harry  D. 
Melander,  K.  Michael  Miller,  Richard 
E.  Morehead,  Robert  Novak,  Edwin 
R.  Nyhus,  Eugene  Oakley,  Dennis 
Otterstetter,  Robert  Rhoades,  Dean 
Running,  Al  Semmler,  John  A.  Stef- 
fens,  Donald  W.  Stewart,  Kenneth 
Stewart,  Patrict  E.  Thomas,  Edward 
J.  Tock,  Kenneth  R.  Walker,  John 
Wallace,  Lee  Weigel,  Timothy  P.  Wells 
and  Fred  R.  Wright. 

Additional  contributors: 
Francis  and  Adelia  Lamph 
Dennis  O.  Spears 
Eugene  F.  Stone 
417,  St.  Louis  Missouri 
1026,  Miami  Florida 
1338,  Charlottetown,  P.E.L 
1861,  Mountain  View  California 
In  memory  of  Elmer  John  Richardson 
from  his  family,  the  Moulton  fam- 
ily, Mr.  and  Mrs.  Grover  Zeeck, 
Herb  and  Donna  Zeeck  and  Sons, 
August  and  Ester  Zeeck  and  Hen- 
rietta Tippey. 

Construction  Employers  of  the  Hud- 
son Valley,  Inc. 


DAD.'s  Day  Set 

For  Father's  Day  Weekend 


Union  Label 

Continued  from  Page  5 

veins  of  these  who  work  for  their  liv- 
elihood. White  was  added  as  a  gesture 
of  patriotism  as  it  completed  the  colors 
of  the  flag.  Finally,  gold  was  added  to 
give  the  label  a  more  artistic  appearance 
and  to  signify  proper  remuneration  for 
those  who  earn  their  living  by  the  sweat 
of  their  brow. 

The  Brotherhood's  Union  Label  can 
be  found  today  on  furniture,  in  churches 
and  schools,  through  the  halls  of  the 
Congress,  even  on  the  White  House 
rafters,  as  well  as  on  manufactured 
items  of  the  forest  products  industry 
and  the  building  trades  industries.  It 
stands  as  one  of  the  most  important 


Mark  your  calendar!  The  date  has  been 
set  for  the  "Dollars  Against  Diabetes"  fund- 
raising  effort — the  newest  phase  of  the  Build- 
ing and  Construction  Trades  Department's 
"Blueprint  For  Cure  Campaign."  United 
Brotherhood  members  are  being  urged  by 
the  UBC  general  officers  to  participate  in 
this  event. 

On  Saturday  June  20,  Father's  Day  Week- 
end, thousands  of  Building  Trades  workers 
will  be  drawn  together  by  the  spirit  of  com- 
passion and  giving  to  help  raise  some  of  the 
money  needed  to  build  a  new  Diabetes 
Research  Institute  at  the  University  of  Miami. 

Specifically,  D.A.D.'s  Day  will  work  like 
this:  Heavily  traveled  traffic  intersections  all 
over  the  country  will  be  manned  by  BCTD 
volunteers  who,  after  the  traffic  light  has 
turned  red,  will  approach  waiting  vehicles. 
Drivers  will  be  asked  by  volunteers  to  con- 
tribute whatever  money  they  can  to  help 
find  a  cure  for  diabetes.  It's  that  simple. 

The  D.A.D.'s  Day  event  is  modeled  after 
the  Institute's  "Hi- Way  Holdup,"  which 
raises  more  than  $100,000  in  Miami  and  Ft. 


Lauderdale,  Fla.,  every  year.  Busy  inter- 
sections have  raised  as  much  as  $3,000  in 
one  six-hour  period.  All  money  collected 
will  go  towards  building  a  new  Diabetes 
Research  Institute  facility  at  The  University 
of  Miami  School  of  Medicine. 

In  short,  D.A.D.'s  Day  represents  a  unique 
opportunity  for  building  trades  volunteers 
to  give  the  precious  gift  of  life  to  millions  of 
diabetics. 

A  complete  D.A.D.  "how-to"  kit  has 
already  been  assembled  and  sent  to  every 
local  Building  Trades  council.  In  addition, 
a  special  "D.A.D.  Training  Film"  has  also 
already  been  prepared  for  local  use.  More 
information  can  be  attained  by  contacting 
D.A.D.'s  Day  coordinator  Neel  Lattimore 
at  (202)  223-8700. 

BCTD  Secretary  Treasurer  Joseph  F.  Ma- 
loney,  a  co-chairman  of  the  event,  says  that, 
"We  can  raise  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
dollars  through  D.A.D.  to  help  find  a  cure 
for  diabetes.  1  am  asking  every  BCTD  mem- 
ber to  please  help  us  meet  that  goal." 


A  building  tradesman  gets  into  the  spirit  of  "D.A.D.'s  Day. 


pillars  in  the  structure  of  the  United 
Brotherhood,  a  source  of  strength,  as 
it  shows  that  the  products  produced 
under  this  label  are  produced  under  fair 
working  conditions  and  fair  wages  by 
workers  united  for  their  common  wel- 
fare. 

And  as  First  General  Vice  President 
Sigurd  Lucassen  stated  to  the  35th  Gen- 
eral Convention  in  Toronto  last  year, 
"We  still  have  that  source  of  strength 
.  .  .  The  union  label  is  still  potentially 
a  very  powerful  tool.  .  .  .  We  need  to 
make  our  members  understand  that  when 
they  promote  the  use  of  union  label 
goods  they  are  protecting  the  jobs  of 


brother  and  sister  members  in  the 
Brotherhood-representated  shops.  This 
means  buying  union  label  goods  as 
consumers,  and  most  importantly,  urg- 
ing our  contractors  to  use  union  label 
products  on  construction  jobsites." 

This  month  you  can  show  your  sup- 
port of  the  union  label,  and  everything 
it  stands  for,  by  turning  out  with  your 
family  and  friends  to  attend  the  AFL- 
CIO  Union  Industries  Show.  Tickets 
are  available  from  your  state  labor  fed- 
eration, central  labor  council  or  union 
label  council.  Show  that  you  know  a 
union-made  product  is  a  quality-made 
product.  U-Jfi 


JUNE     1987 


15 


Picketing  on  your  feet, 

or  working  on  your  knees? 


"Talk  about  walking  a  mile  in  another 
man's  shoes.  Try  walking  a  picket  line 
for  a  few  hours." 

That's  the  way  a  member  of  the  Writers 
Guild  comments  on  his  recent  experience 
pounding  the  sidewalks  outside  the  CBS 
studios  in  Washington,  D.C. 

His  description  of  a  picket  line  in  the 
April  6  issue  of  U.S.  News  and  World 
Report  will  bring  amens  from  UBC  mem- 
bers pounding  the  turf  this  month  to 
improve  their  wages  and  working  con- 
ditions. 

Andy  Purdy,  the  writer,  says  that  his 
union  was  in  a  long  fight  for  its  jobs  and 
that  jobs  in  the  broadcasting  network 
were  "dropping  like  flies." 

•  The  worst  things  about  a  picket  line 
are  obvious,  he  notes:  "endless  slow 
walking  in  circles,  boredom,  frustration, 
anger  at  the  apparent  hopelessness  of  it 
all.  You  feel  like  you  have  so  much  to 
offer,  but  there  you  are,  for  at  least  four 
hours  a  day,  in  the  dark,  in  the  cold,  in 
the  rain.  I've  felt  few  lonelier  moments 
in  my  life.  .  . 

"I  had  no  ideas  how  sore  your  legs 
can  get  from  hours  of  walking  slowly. 
It's  hard  to  get  out  of  bed  the  next 
morning  to  face  the  prospect  of  more 
hours  on  the  line  and  virtually  no  good 
news.  It's  easy  to  get  bitter  when  the 
union  negotiators  keep  passing  the  word 
down  that  they  are  'cautiously  optimis- 
tic' 

"We  knew  from  the  start  that  the 
company's  hidden  agenda  might  be  to  go 
all  the  way  and  break  the  union.  ..." 

Purdy  says  he  was  surprised  at  how 
personal  the  symbolic  importance  of  the 
picket  line  became.  "It  really  hurts  to 
see  a  friend  cross." 

He  adds,  "Don't  get  me  wrong;  pick- 
eting isn't  all  bad.  With  the  exception  of 
the  occasional  heckler  in  a  passing  car, 
the  mentally-ill  religious  fanatic  who  wants 
to  convert  us  or  the  recent  college  grad- 
uate who  wants  the  inside  story  on  net- 
work TV,  everybody  has  been  very  nice 
to  us.  That  includes  management  people 
who  are  working  overtime  to  do  our  jobs 


and  technicians  who  cross  our  picket 
lines  knowing  they  may  be  in  the  same 
boat  when  their  contracts  expire  in  a  few 
months.  .  .  .  Even  in  these  bad  times 
we're  still  proud  of  where  we  work  and 
who  we  work  with. 

"This  is  not  the  place  to  go  into  details 
of  the  dispute,  but  I  hope  that  those  who 
see  us  walking  the  line  understand  that 
job  security — including  how  freely  the 
company  can  use  temporaries  to  per- 
manently displace  staff  employes — is  the 
key.  We  can't  rest  easy  knowing  that  our 
careers  could  be  arbitrarily  snuffed  out 
so  easily. 

"We're  proud  of  the  work  that  we  do, 
and  we  want  a  chance  to  continue.  We 
don't  enjoy  the" picket  line,  even  on  nice 
spring  days.  But  we'd  rather  be  picketing 
on  our  feet  than  working  on  our  knees." 

Editor's  note:  The  Writers  Guild  settled 
after  eight  weeks,  with  small  increases 
in  their  contracts.  One  possible  setback 
was  a  "golden  boy"  clause  in  the  new 
contracts  whereby  25%  of  the  news  staff 
are  not  covered  by  the  seniority  protec- 
tions of  the  contract.  The  Guild  expects 
the  networks  to  whittle  jobs  away  until 
they  reach  these  "golden  boys." 


OSHA  Proposes  Revision  of  Excavation  Rules 


The  U.S.  Department  of  Labor  has  pro- 
posed a  major  overhaul  of  its  regulations 
covering  excavation  work,  including  trench- 
ing, one  of  the  most  hazardous  jobs  in  the 
construction  industry. 

"Accidents  in  excavation  work  not  only 
occur  more  frequently  than  in  construction 
in  general,  but  also  are  much  more  likely  to 
be  fatal,"  Assistant  Secretary  of  Labor  John 
A.  Pendergrass,  who  heads  the  Depart- 
ment's Occupational  Safety  and  Health 
Administration,  said. 


"Our  proposal,  which  stresses  perform- 
ance rather  than  detailed  specifications,  is 
aimed  at  reducing  these  workplace  tragedies 
while  also  updating  and  clarifying  OSHA's 
safety  requirements  at  these  worksites." 

OSHA  estimates  that  more  than  100  fa- 
talities occur  in  cave-ins  each  year,  primarily 
in  trenching.  The  fatality  rate  for  trenching 
alone  is  estimated  to  be  112%  greater  than 
in  construction  as  a  whole,  which  has  long 
been  one  of  the  most  hazardous  of  the 
general  industrial  sectors. 


UBC  Challenges  L-P 

Continued  from  Page  9 
proached  the  microphone  and  called  for 
the  immediate  adjournment  of  the  meet- 
ing. Upon  adjournment  Merlo  quickly 
exited  the  hall,  leaving  behind  the 
shareholders  and  a  hundred  local  high 
school  students  who  were  invited  to  the 
meeting  by  L-P  to  "see  free  enterprise 
in  action." 

L-P  National  Boycott  Day 
Preparations  Underway 

A  show  of  national  solidarity  with 
the  L-P  strikers  is  planned  for  Saturday, 
June  20,  1987,  when  Brotherhood  mem- 
bers across  the  country  will  be  asked 
to  conduct  L-P  boycott  leafletting  at 
local  lumber  retailers.  A  letter  from 
General  President  Campbell  to  locals 
and  councils  throughout  the  country 
urges  the  full  participation  of  Brother- 
hood members:  "We've  sent  a  strong 
message  to  L-P  and  every  other  com- 
pany in  the  wood  products  industry  that 
when  our  members  are  challenged,  we 
fight  back.  As  L-P  saw  at  its  last  share- 
holders' meeting,  this  Brotherhood  will 
not  turn  from  the  fight  until  justice  is 
secured  for  our  members.  'What  L-P 
thought  was  a  short-term  fight  with 
1,500  workers  in  the  Pacific  Northwest 
has  been  a  long-term  battle  with  a 
national  labor  union  that  has  no  inten- 
tion of  backing  off. ' ' 

In  preparation  for  the  June  20  boycott 
action,  area  lumber  retailers  should  be 
surveyed  to  determine  if  they  carry 
L-P  lumber  products.  The  names  of 
retailers  carrying  the  product  should  be 
sent  to  the  special  programs  department 
at  the  General  Office.  A  letter  from  the 
General  President  will  be  sent  to  the 
retailer  informing  them  of  the  strike  at 
L-P  and  the  upcoming  handbilHng.  Boy- 
cott handbills  can  be  requested  from 
the  special  programs  department. 


16 


CARPENTER 


The  Labor-Backed  Clean  Water  Act 
Must  Be  Put  to  Work  Now 


$20  billion  to  eliminate  pollution 


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wastes 
from  many 
sources  contam- 
inate ground  water  in 
North  America's  aquifer, 
as  this  simplified  diagram 
shows.  The  new  U.S.  water  pollu- 
tion bill  is  designed  to  attack  this  problem. 


Polluted  groundwater  represents  "a 
potential  time  bomb  slowly  ticking  and 
ready  to  go  off,"  an  Oklahoma  repre- 
sentative told  the  U.S.  Congress  three 
years  ago. 

"The  American  people  want  clean 
water,"  said  another,  last  year. 

In  1986  the  United  Brotherhood  and 
other  labor  unions  joined  with  environ- 
mental groups  to  push  for  legislation 
which  would  accomplish  that  goal.  Leg- 
islation proposed  last  year  would  have 
amended  and  reauthorized  the  Clean 
Water  Act  of  1972,  which  was  long 
outdated,  but  President  Ronald  Reagan 
pocket  vetoed  the  Congressional  bill  by 
refusing  to  sign  it  before  the  99th  Con- 
gress adjourned. 

Last  January,  the  first  bill  in  the 
Congressional  hopper  was  that  same 
clean  water  bill,  and  this  time  support- 
ers had  enough  votes  to  override  the 
President's  veto.  So  the  Clean  Water 
Act  of  1987  is  now  law.  There  is  a  $20 
billion  program  on  the  books  to  clean 
up  the  nation's  polluted  water — $18 
billion  through  1994  to  state  and  local 
governments  for  the  construction  of 
sewage  treatment  plants  and  other  fa- 
cilities and  $2  billion  for  pollution  con- 
trol programs  already  underway. 

But  the  campaign  for  clean  water  is 
not  over.  Labor  and  environmental 
groups  will  be  pushing  state  and  local 
governments  to  take  advantage  of  the 


available  federal  funds  set  aside  for  this 
purpose.  As  Representative  John  Cha- 
fee  of  Rhode  Island  has  stated,  "we 
must  achieve  our.  goal  of  making  the 
nation's  water  fishable  and  swimma- 
ble,"  and,  we  must  add,  drinkable. 

Here  is  a  list  of  some  of  the  contam- 
ination sources  in  the  United  States: 

•  16,000  identified  closed  hazardous- 
waste  sites 

•  1,500  active  hazardous-waste-dis- 
posal facilities 

•  93,000  landfills 

•  181,000  surface  impoundments 

•  1.5  million  to  2  million  under- 
ground storage  tanks 

•  20  million  septic  tanks. 

•  "Uncountable"  accidental  spills, 
illegal  disposals,  abandoned  mines,  oil 
and  gas  wells  and  pesticide  runoff 

And  it  all  pours,  trickles  and  seeps 
into  the  ground,  threatening  further 
contamination  of  aquifers,  the  perme- 
able underground  rocks,  gravel  and  sand 
that  contain  half  of  the  nation's  drinking 
water. 

"It  is  clear  that  the  problem  is  serious 
and  one  that  is,  in  all  likelihood,  going 
to  get  worse  before  it  gets  better," 
Philip  Cohen,  chief  of  the  Water  Re- 
sources Division  of  the  U.S.  Geological 
Survey,  testified  at  Senate  hearings  in 
1982. 

It's  estimated  that  U.S.  aquifers  hold 


as  much  as  100  quadrillion  gallons. 
That's  16  times  the  volume  of  the  Great 
Lakes. 

Only  about  1%  of  that  water  is  thought 
to  be  polluted.  But  low  percentages  can 
be  misleading  when  sophisticated  de- 
vices measure  pollution  in  parts  per 
billion  or  even  trillion. 

"Even  a  small  percentage  of  ground- 
water contamination  is  serious,"  Cohen 
said,  "because  generally  we  find 
groundwater  contamination  in  areas  of 
densest  population  and/or  industrial  ac- 
tivity." 

Since  1950,  he  testified,  an  estimated 
6  billion  metric  tons  of  hazardous  wastes 
have  been  disposed  of  in  or  on  the  land. 
Some  40  million  metric  tons  are  now 
being  added  each  year,  and  the  rate  is 
growing  at  about  5%  a  year,  Cohen 
said. 

At  the  same  time,  Americans  are 
increasing  their  use  of  groundwater  about 
4%  a  year.  The  volume  of  groundwater 
used  in  this  country  nearly  tripled  be- 
tween 1950  and  1980,  from  34  billion 
gallons  a  day  to  88.5  billion. 

Despite  the  mind-stretching  magni- 
tude of  the  problem,  however,  ground- 
water contamination  has  gone  largely 
unnoticed  until  recently. 

For  one  thing,  unlike  surface  water, 

groundwater  travels  slowly.  Much  of 

today's  pollution  originated  with  our 

Continued  on  Page  27 


JUNE     1987 


17 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Coors  boycott 
extends  to  Fenway 
Park  in  Boston 

Coors  beer  has  struck  out  at  Fenway 
Park  in  Boston,  and  it  won't  be  in  the 
refreshment  hneup  for  the  1987  Red  Sox 
season. 

A  group  of  heavy  hitters — including 
State  AFL-CIO  President  Arthur  Os- 
bom,  Boston  AFL-CIO  Secretary-Treas- 
urer Joseph  W.  Joyce  and  President 
Dominic  Bozzotto  of  Local  26  of  the 
Hotel  Employees  and  Restaurant  Em- 
ployees— teamed  up  to  keep  Adolph  Coors 
Brewing  Co.'s  product  out  of  the  ball- 
park. 

Backstopping  their  efforts  was  City 
Councilor  David  Scondras,  who  steered 
a  resolution  through  the  council  last  year 
supporting  the  AFL-CIO's  ten-year-old 
boycott  of  the  anti-union  brewer  based 
in  Golden,  Colo.  Harry  M.  Stevens  Inc., 
which  runs  the  Fenway  park  conces- 
sions, agreed  to  the  ban. 

Simon's  public  jobs 
bill  lauded 
at  first  hearing 

Witnesses  lauded  the  public  service 
jobs  bill  offered  by  Sen.  Paul  Simon  (D- 
111)  during  the  opening  hearing  on  the 
legislation,  although  a  prominent  civil 
rights'  activist  suggested  the  bill  is  flawed 
in  some  respects  and  needs  improve- 
ment. The  bill — the  Guaranteed  Job  Op- 
portunity Act  (S  777) — would  provide 
public  service  jobs  paying  minimum  wage 
to  the  unemployed  at  a  cost  of  $8  billion 
a  year  by  1990. 

Sen.  Daniel  P.  Moynihan  (D-N.Y.) 
praised  Simon  for  introducing  his  public 
service  jobs  bill  at  a  time  when  the 
nation's  infrastructure  needs  work  and 
millions  of  Americans  need  jobs.  Other 
sympathetic  witnesses  testifying  before 
Simon's  Labor  Subcommittee  on  Em- 
ployment and  Productivity  included  Sen. 
Harry  Reid  (D-Nev.)  and  Father  J.  Bryan 
Hehir  of  the  U.S.  Catholic  Conference. 

North  Carolina 
safety  and  health 
asbestos  project 

The  North  Carolina  Occupational  Safety 
and  Health  Project  is  offering  the  first 
hands-on  asbestos  safety  training  avail- 
able to  the  public  in  that  state.  The  two- 
day  program,  which  includes  practice  in 
safe  techniques  in  a  model  workstation, 
was  designed  by  NCOSH  for  mainte- 
nance workers  and  others  who  must 
handle  cancer-causing  asbestos.  The  pro- 
gram was  approved  by  the  Environmen- 
tal Protection  Agency. 


Women  closing 
pay  gap,  according 
to  recent  survey 

Between  1980  and  1985,  women  ob- 
tained two-thirds  of  all  newly  created 
jobs.  Most  observers  believe  that  this 
trend  will  continue  because  more  women 
are  obtaining  advanced  degrees.  In  ad- 
dition to  occupying  a  larger  share  of  the 
workforce,  women  are  earning  more  as 
well.  Their  annual  income,  adjusted  for 
inflation,  rose  by  5.6%  in  the  early  1980s. 
During  this  same  period,  men's  income 
declined  0.7%. 

Detroit  pension  funds 
commingled  for 
largest  project 

The  Multi-Employer  Property  Trust 
announced  it  has  issued  a  mortgage  loan 
commitment  of  $8.6  million  for  an  office 
park  in  the  Detroit  suburb  of  Troy.  The 
MEPT,  launched  in  1982,  says  it  is  the 
nation's  largest  commingled  real  estate 
investment  fund  specializing  in  union- 
built  construction,  with  $332  million  in 
assets  and  83  pension  plans  participating. 
Four  Detroit-based  Taft-Hartley  pension 
funds  in  MEPT  are  the  Detroit  area 
Carpenters,  Iron  Workers  Local  25, 
Electrical  Workers  Local  58  and  the 
Machinists.  The  National  Bank  of  Wash- 
ington is  the  trustee  for  MEPT. 

Boycott  of  Colt 
Firearms  follows 
UAW  strike 

In  spite  of  windfall  profits  in  1985,  Colt 
Firearms  maintains  its  stance  of  major 
take-aways  in  contract  renewal  negotia- 
tions with  members  of  United  Automo- 
bile Workers  Local  376  in  Hartford  and 
West  Harford,  Conn. 

Union  members  reluctantly  voted  to 
strike  in  January  1986  due  to  demands 
by  the  company  for  a  wage  freeze  and 
reductions  in  health  insurance  benefits. 
An  unconditional  offer  to  return  to  work 
was  rejected  by  the  company  who  has 
replaced  workers  with  scabs.  The  NLRB 
has  filed  unfair  labor  practices  against 
Colt  and  the  State  has  declared  the  im- 
passe a  lockout. 

A  majority  vote  by  members  of  the 
Connecticut  General  Assembly  and  State 
Senate  passed  a  resolution  urging  Con- 
gress to  forbid  future  government  pur- 
chases of  weapons  from  Colt  who  is  the 
sole  supplier  of  Ml 6s  to  the  Defense 
Department.  The  union  states  the  com- 
pany is  producing  junk  weapons  with 
untrained  replacement  workers  at  public 
expense  and  that  according  to  inspection 
reports,  quality  is  a  serious  problem. 

Colt,  which  manufactures  handguns 
and  rifles,  has  refused  to  resume  talks  at 
the  bargaining  table  since  August  1986. 
The  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council  has 
endorsed  a  national  boycott  of  their  prod- 
ucts. 


Union  allowed 
discretion  in 
referring  stewards 

A  building  trades  union  did  not  violate 
the  Taft-Hartley  Act  when  it  bypassed 
its  normal  referral  procedure  in  order  to 
ensure  the  appointment  of  its  preferred 
members  as  a  steward  on  a  construction 
job,  a  divided  National  Labor  Relations 
Board  rules.  The  Board  majority  of  Mem- 
bers Johansen  and  Babson  upheld  the 
decision  of  an  administrative  law  judge 
who  found  that  the  union  should  be 
allowed  some  discretion  in  "determining 
whom  it  should  appoint  as  its  agent  to 
carry  out  its  policies." 

Local  520  of  the  Plumbers  and  Pipefit- 
ters in  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  maintained  a 
referral  system  under  which  members 
were  referred  to  jobs  based  on  the  length 
of  time  they  had  been  without  work — 
those  out  of  work  the  longest  were  at  the 
top  of  the  list  for  job  referrals.  The 
agreement  between  the  union  and  the 
Mechanical  Contractors  Association  pro- 
vided that  "a  steward  shall  be  a  working 
journeyman  appointed  by  the  business 
agent  of  the  local  union."  When  a  con- 
struction job  on  an  Allis-Chalmers  proj- 
ect began,  the  union  appointed  Gerald 
Boyer  as  steward  and  assigned  him  to 
the  job.  Fred  Belair,  who  had  opposed 
the  union  leadership  in  the  previous  elec- 
tion, protested  that  he  should  have  been 
assigned  to  the  project  since  he  was 
higher  on  the  referral  list  than  Boyer. 

The  union  argued  that  it  had  exercised 
a  legal  and  contractual  prerogative  by 
sending  a  qualified  person  to  represent 
the  local  as  a  steward.  The  administrative 
law  judge  concluded  that  a  union  "must 
be  free  to  appoint  its  stewards  and  carry 
out  its  own  program  without  outside 
interference." 


Unsafe  communications 
major  concern 
to  rail  workers 

Unsafe  communications  systems  in  the 
rail  industry  are  a  major  concern  to 
workers,  rail  unions  told  a  special  Federal 
Railroad  Administration  safety  hearing. 
James  R.  Snyder,  national  legislative  di- 
rector for  the  United  Transportation  Union 
and  chairman  of  the  Railway  Labor  Ex- 
ecutives' Association's  Safety  Commit- 
tee, said  the  UTU  has  received  hundreds 
of  complaints  from  members  about  radio 
problems,  such  as  interference,  conges- 
tion, limited  range,  dead  spots,  lack  of 
reliability  and  durability,  and  poor  main- 
tenance. Locomotive  Engineers  Presi- 
dent Robert  E.  Delaney  said  that  it  is 
"inconceivable"  that  regular  mainte- 
nance, inspection,  and  testing  will  not  be 
mandated  by  federal  rules  because  fre- 
quent radio  defects  are  not  being  cor- 
rected without  them. 

Recent  train  derailments  and  wrecks 
in  which  hazardous  chemicals  have  spilled 
have  caused  concern. 


18 


CARPENTER 


Brotherhood's  '87 
Political  Action 
Program  Kicked  Off 
at  Building 
Trades  Conference 


Brotherhood  delegates  to  the  1987  AFL- 
CIO  Building  and  Construction  Trades  Con- 
ference in  Washington,  April  6-9,  firmed  up 
UBC  plans  for  political  action  this  year  in 
separate  caucuses  and  a  special  luncheon, 
April  8. 

General  Treasurer  Wayne  Pierce,  legis- 
lative director,  listed  some  of  the  Brother- 
hood's priorities  in  proposed  federal  legis- 
lation— a  "double-breasted"  bill  to  fight  open 
shop  practices,  stronger  safety  legislation, 
more  job-creating  bills,  fair  trade  legislation 
and  stronger  rules  protecting  workers'  pen- 
sions. 

Pierce  was  joined  at  the  luncheon  rostrum 
by  General  President  Patrick  J.  Campbell, 
who  described  labor's  uphill  battle  against 
the  entrenched  and  wealthy  lobbying  groups 
in  the  nation's  capital  which  attempt  to 
defeat  every  legislative  move  by  worker 
organizations.  He  emphasized  that  labor's 
political  action  groups  must  continue  to  work 
hard  in  the  Congress  and  in  the  state  legis- 
latures in  order  to  turn  America's  economy 
around.  He  reminded  delegates  that  the  rich 


The  Carpenters  Legislative  Improvement 
Committee ,  known  as  CLIC,  received  two 
healthy  donations  during  the  recent  Build- 
ing Trades  legislative  conference  in  Wash- 
ington. Russ  Pool,  financial  secretary  of 
Carpenters  Local  483,  San  Francisco,  pre- 
sented a  cashier's  check  for  $1,000  for  use 
by  CLIC  in  the  coming  year. 


are  getting  richer  and  the  poor  are  getting 
poorer  under  the  programs  of  the  Reagan 
Administration. 

Both  Pierce  and  Campbell  reminded  the 
delegates  that  the  1988  pojitical  campaigns 
for  the  U.S.  presidency  are  just  getting 
underway  and  that  local  units  of  the  Car- 
penters Legislative  Improvement  Commit- 
tee should  begin  evaluating  prospective  can- 
didates for  state  and  local  offices  for  the 


Bert  Dally,  secretary  of  the  Minnesota 
State  Council  of  Carpenters,  center,  and 
Jerry  Beedle  of  Local  87,  St.  Paul.  Minn., 
right,  presented  a  check  for  $5,350  to 
President  Campbell,  representing  funds 
collected  at  the  recent  Minnesota  state 
convention.  Raymond  Hamer,  who  was  a 
co-chairman  of  the  state  convention,  was 
not  present  for  the  presentation. 


primary  and  general  election  ballots  next 
year. 

Several  delegations  attending  the  legisla- 
tive luncheon  used  the  occasion  to  present 
checks  for  CLIC  and  for  the  Brotherhood's 
ongoing  campaign  for  funds  for  diabetes 
research.  Following  the  luncheon,  the  del- 
egations went  to  Capitol  Hill  to  meet  with 
their  representatives  regarding  pertinent  leg- 
islation. 


Active  Members  and  Retirees  Continue  to  Support  CLIC's  '87  Program 


Recent  contributors  have  included:  John  Lockwood,  Local 
857,  Tucson,  Ariz.;  Harry  Cohn,  Local  1539  retiree,  Chicago, 
111.;  Justice  P.  Bailey,  Local  125  retiree,  Hialeah,  Fla.;  Randy 
Pedersen,  Local  112,  Butte,  Mont.;  Gregory  A.  Hopkins,  Local 
2,  Worthington,  Ohio;  Francis  Martocci,  Local  2287,  New  York, 
N.Y.;  James  Knox,  Local  1305,  New  Bedford,  Mass.;  Clarence 
Foghtmann,  Local  16  retiree,  Springfield,  III.;  Christopher  R. 
Tock,  Local  1241,  Worthington,  Ohio;  Giles  Frank  Ackerman, 
Local  124,  Wanaque,  N.J.;  John  E.  Rammer,  Local  710  retiree, 
Nonvalk,  Calif.;  Alain  Petit,  Local  2287,  Port  Ewens,  N.Y.; 
Renato  Martini,  Local  348  retiree,  N.  Massapequin,  N.Y.; 
William  Weitsman,  Local  1921,  Lynbrook,  N.Y.;  Gordon  F. 
Bruce,  Local  393,  Camden,  N.J.;  Frank  J.  Tannert,  Local  250 
retiree,  Ontario,  Can.;  Milton  M.  Adam,  Local  1323  retiree, 
Monterey,  Calif.;  William  Wood,  Local  17  retiree,  Woodside, 
N.Y.;  Lee  Goss,  Local  751  retiree,  Occidental,  Calif.;  Ed  J. 
Buschmann  Sr.,  Local  124  retiree,  Haledon,  N.J. ;  Joe  Gonzales, 
Local  526  retiree,  Galveston,  Tex.;  Marvin  Hubbinga,  Local 
1052  retiree,  Los  Angeles,  Calif.;  John  M.  Dornbergh,  Local  829 
retiree,  Soquel,  Calif.;  George  Herzog,  Local  483,  Brisbane, 
Calif.;  John  C.  White,  Local  218  retiree.  Maiden,  Mass.;  Louis 
Kinsella,  Local  608,  Pearl  River,  N.Y.;  Herman  W.  Strieker, 
Local  1837  retiree.  Fort  Pierce,  Fla.;  Andrew  R.  Nezolosky, 
Local  348  retiree,  Santa  Rosa,  Calif.;  Glenn  L.  Wank,  Local 
105,  Richmond  Hts.,  Ohio;  David  Zube,  Local  114,  Taylor, 
Mich.;.Robert  E.  Rhodes,  Local  1397  retiree,  Ocala,  Fla.; George 
N.  Patton,  Local  15  retiree,  Westwood,  N.J.;  William  G.  Keers, 
Local  1243  retiree,  Cadiz,  Ky.;  John  S.  Munnelin,  Local  721 
retiree.  South  Gate,  Calif.;  Donald  Jenkins,  Local  267  retiree. 
So.  Zanesville,  Ohio;  Edward  F.  Blazejewski,  Local  514  retiree, 
Wilkes-Barre,  Pa.;  George  Utlak,  Local  1929,  Parma,  Ohio; 
Anthony  J.  Piscitelli,  Local  188  retiree,  Bronx,  N.Y.;  John  T. 
Byrnes,  Local  181,  Chicago,  111. 


Yes,  I  want  to  help! 

Here  is  my  contribution  to  the  Carpenters  Legislative 

Improvement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 

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JUNE     1987 


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Ottavra 
Report 


AVERAGE  WAGE  INCREASES 

The  average  annual  wage  increase  in  major  set- 
tlements reached  in  Canada  in  1986  was  3.4%.  The 
downtrend  since  1982  has  resulted  in  four  consecu- 
tive record  lows  in  the  level  of  wage  increases;  the 
1986  annual  average  of  3.4%  replaces  1985's  3.6% 
as  the  lowest  on  record  since  the  start  of  the  series 
in  1967.  The  514  major  agreements  reached  in 
1986  cover  approximately  1.1  million  employees, 
and  when  the  same  bargaining  parties  last  settled 
(from  one  to  three  years  ago  in  most  instances), 
negotiated  increases  averaged  3.7%.  Wage  in- 
creases were  lower  in  the  second  half  of  the  year, 
averaging  3.1%  in  the  third  quarter  and  3.3%  in  the 
fourth,  compared  with  3.5%  in  the  first  and  3.7%  in 
the  second  quarter. 


SOCIAL  CREDIT'S  MIXED  BAG 

Sweeping  legislation  recently  introduced  by  the 
Social  Credit  government  in  Victoria,  B.C.,  was  in- 
tended to  get  labor  strife  out  of  the  frying  pan  but 
union  leaders  said  the  unrest  will  go  straight  into 
the  fire. 

The  government  will  get  rid  of  its  controversial 
Compensation  Stabilization  Program  which  limited 
public-sector  wage  hikes.  Teachers  will  get  the  right 
to  strike. 

In  place  of  the  stabilization  program  is  the  pro- 
posed Industrial  Relations  Council  under  commis- 
sioner Ed  Peck,  who  heads  the  stabilization  pro- 
gram that  ends  October  1  after  five  years. 

The  legislation  would  give  additional  powers  to 
Peck  including  authority  to  end  "any  dispute  which 
is  deemed  to  threaten  the  public  interest." 

Previously,  the  government  had  the  power  to  end 
such  strikes  under  the  Essential  Services  Dispute 
Act,  which  would  be  repealed. 

Peck  would  also  have  the  power  to  order  workers 
to  vote  on  companies'  last  ofifers,  impose  a  40-day 
cooling-off  period  when  no  strikes  or  lockouts  can 
occur,  appoint  special  mediators  and  appoint  a  pub- 
lic interest  inquiry  board.  If  the  board  fails  to  bring 
about  a  settlement,  it  must  recommend  one  to  be 
voted  upon. 

The  labor  bill  would  also  allow  unionized  compa- 
nies to  establish  non-union  subsidiaries  to  bid  on 
projects,  a  practice  known  as  double-breasting. 


COURT  ON  CHARTER  RIGHTS 

In  a  major  blow  to  labor's  view  of  its  rights  under 
the  Charter  of  Rights  and  Freedoms,  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Canada  ruled  in  a  recent  4-2  decision  that 
the  Charter  does  not  guarantee  the  right  to  strike  or 
to  bargain  collectively. 

In  three  separate  judgments,  the  court  said  gov- 
ernments can  curtail  the  collective  bargaining  sys- 
tem by  limiting  salary  increases,  prohibiting  strikes 
or  lockouts  and  imposing  compulsory  arbitration. 

The  specific  rulings  dealt  with  bargaining  rights  of 
Alberta  public  servants,  dairy  workers  in  Saskatche- 
wan and  federal  employees. 

Writing  for  the  majority,  Mr.  Justice  Gerald  Le- 
Dain  suggested  it  is  not  the  Supreme  Court's  role  to 
second-guess  politicians  or  to  substitute  its  judg- 
ment for  the  legislatures  on  specific  labor  issues. 

Labor  leaders  expressed  disappointment  that  the 
court  had  given  a  very  narrow  interpretation  of  the 
Charter's  guarantee  of  "freedom  of  association." 

FEDERAL  SMOKING  CURB 

The  government  said  recently  that  smoking  will 
be  restricted  in  work  places  under  federal  jurisdic- 
tion by  the  end  of  this  year  and  that  tobacco  ads 
will  be  banned  by  Jan.  1 ,  1 989. 

The  measures  are  part  of  a  comprehensive  fed- 
eral policy  on  smoking  that  is  to  include  a  new 
Tobacco  Products  Control  Act  with  penalties  of  up 
to  $100,000  and  six  months  in  jail  for  violating  an 
advertising  ban  or  labeling  requirement. 

Under  the  policy,  smoking  by  public  servants  will 
be  restricted  to  designated  areas,  possibly  as  early 
as  October  1 . 

Newspaper  ads  for  tobacco  will  be  banned  as  of 
Jan.  1,  1988,  and  billboards,  magazine  ads  and 
sponsorships  the  following  year.  Tobacco  compa- 
nies will  be  allowed  to  sponsor  sporting  and  cultural 
events  if  the  corporate  name  alone  is  used  in  pro- 
motional material. 

JAPANESE  IMPRESSED 

Canada's  current  record  of  time  lost  from  strikes 
and  lockouts  shows  the  lowest  rate  in  20  years,  and 
Ottawa  is  using  the  figures  to  sell  foreigners  on 
investing  there. 

Labor  Minister  Pierre  Cadieux  told  an  audience  at 
the  Confederation  Club  in  Kitchener,  Ont.,  that  a 
group  of  senior  Japanese  businessmen  who  visited 
the  country  last  fall  were  impressed  that  Canadian 
unions  appeared  more  cooperative  than  they  had. 

Mr.  Cadieux  issued  a  booklet  that  he  said  is 
meant  to  dispel  misconceptions  held  by  both  Cana- 
dian and  international  investors  about  labor  rela- 
tions in  Canada.  He  described  Canadian  collective 
bargaining  as  "a  proven  system  that  works  well." 

In  1985,  for  example,  .13%  of  working  time  was 
lost  to  strikes  and  lockouts,  the  lowest  levels  in  two 
decades. 

The  1985  figure  of  3.1  million  person-days  of 
work  lost  to  strikes  and  lockouts  was  down  dramati- 
cally from  the  all-time  high  of  11.6  million  10  years 
before.  Figures  since  1980  show  a  steady  decline 
in  the  lost-time  rate  each  year. 

Mr.  Cadieux  said  more  than  90%  of  the  1 1 ,000 
collective  agreements  renewed  last  year  were  set- 
tled without  any  work  stoppage. 


20 


CARPENTER 


Take  A  Closer  Look 


CLIPBOARD 


At  Nutrition  Labels 


As  you  walk  down  the  aisles  of  your 
local  supermarket  trying  to  decide  what 
to  buy,  do  you  read  food  and  nutrition 
labels  to  help  make  those  decisions?  If 
you're  watching  out  for  calories,  so- 
dium or  fat,  reading  the  nutrition  label 
can  definitely  help  you  set  a  healthier 
table.  Today,  more  than  50%  of  all 
processed  foods  carry  nutrition  labels. 
Food  manufacturers  are  responding  to 
increasing  consumer  interest  about  the 
nutrient  content  of  food.  Here's  what 
you  need  to  know. 

Tips 

•  Nutrients  are  always  listed  in  the 
same  order  on  the  nutrition  label. 

•  The  nutrition  information  is  pro- 
vided per  serving.  Use  the  label  to 
compare  the  calorie,  sodium  or  fat  con- 
tent of  two  similar  products.  For  ex- 
ample two  cereals  may  be  very  similar 
in  taste  and  caloric  value,  but  one  might 
be  higher  in  sodium  than  the  other.  Be 
sure  to  check  the  serving  size  listed  on 
the  box.  Your  idea  of  a  typical  serving 
size  may  be  more  or  less  than  what  is 
indicated  on  the  label. 

•  The  nutrition  label  can  help  you 
determine  which  products  are  better 
sources  of  key  vitamins  and  minerals. 

Salt  and  Sodium 

What's  the  difference  between  salt 
and  sodium?  Should  you  look  for  salt 


Reading  the  nutrition  label  on  the  foods 
you  buy  can  help  you  make  informed 
choices  about  your  grocery  purchases. 

or  sodium  on  the  nutrition  label?  How 
much  salt  or  sodium  is  too  much? 

If  you're  confused,  you're  not  alone. 
Studies  have  shown  that  most  Ameri- 
cans have  a  hard  time  trying  to  read 
nutrition  labels  to  figure  out  what  foods 


'  1     ]^  teaspoon  of  salt  = 

//      Vi  teaspoon  of  salt  = 

/      Vi  teaspoon  of  salt  = 

%  teaspoon  of  salt  = 

1  teaspoon  of  salt  = 

=    250  milligrams  of  sodium 
=    500  milligrams  of  sodium 
=  1,000  milligrams  of  sodium 
=  1,500  milligrams  of  sodium 
=  2,000  milligrams  of  sodium 

The  amount  of  salt  in  a  product  is  not  listed  on  the 
nutrition  label,  but  you  will  find  a  listing  for  sodium. 
Common  table  salt  is  40%  sodium;  the  above  chart 
shows  the  equivalent  measurements  for  salt  and 
sodium. 


are  high  or  low  in  sodium.  Let's  take  a 
closer  look. 

The  difference  between  salt  and  so- 
dium is  easy  to  understand.  Common 
table  salt  is  40%  sodium  and  60%  chlo- 
ride. 

About  one-third  of  the  sodium  in  our 
diet  comes  from  table  salt  added  to  food 
as  we  prepare  it  or  at  the  table.  Another 
one-fourth  to  one-third  of  the  sodium 
in  our  diet  comes  from  the  sodium  that 
is  naturally  present  in  food.  However, 
the  largest  single  source  of  sodium  in 
our  diet  is  from  processed  foods.  So- 
dium, in  various  forms  such  as  sodium 
chloride,  sodium  nitrate,  etc.,  is  added 
to  foods  for  many  different  reasons — 
for  example,  as  a  preservative,  flavor 
agent  or  curing  agent. 

Label  Readers 

Until  recently,  even  the  most  con- 
scientious consumer  on  a  low-sodium 
diet  had  a  problem  figuring  out  which 
foods  to  eat  and  which  foods  to  avoid. 
A  shopper  could  look  at  a  product's 
ingredient  list  and  perhaps  see  some 
mention  of  sodium.  But  the  amount  of 
sodium  was  not  stated.  But  today,  there's 
good  news!  Things  have  changed.  As 
of  July  1,  1986,  all  food  products  that 
carry  nutrition  labels  must  also  provide 
sodium  information.  This  new  law  helps 
provide  more  information  about  the 
sodium  content  of  foods.  It  also  helps 
prevent  misleading  claims  by  manufac- 


turers about  the  sodium  content  of  their 
food  products.  Terms  such  as  "low 
sodium"  and  "reduced  sodium"  now 
have  legal  definitions. 

What's  in  a  Name? 

Sodium  Free — less  than  5  milligrams 

per  serving 

Very  Low  Sodium — 35  milligrams  or  less 

per  serving 

Low  Sodium — 140  milligrams  or  less  per 

serving 

Reduced  Sodium — processed  so  that  the 

usual  level  of  sodium  is  reduced  by  75% 

How  Much  Sodium 

A  reasonable  amount  of  sodium  in 
the  diet  of  an  average  person  is  2,000 
milligrams  daily,  which  is  equal  to  the 
amount  of  sodium  found  in  I  teaspon 
of  salt.  The  National  Academy  of  Sci- 
ences has  recommended  that  a  daily 
intake  of  sodium  ranging  from  1,100  to 
3,300  milligrams  is  safe  and  adequate. 
Most  Americans  eat  many  more  times 
that  much.  Ask  your  doctor,  nurse  or 
registered  dietitian  if  you  have  any 
questions. 

Shaking  the  Habit 

Do  you  know  how  much  salt  you  add 
to  your  food?  Try  this  test.  Cover  a 
plate  with  wax  paper  or  foil.  Salt  the 
plate  as  you  would  if  it  contained  food. 
Collect  the  salt,  and  measure  it. 

Remember  to  account  for  any  salt 
you  may  have  added  during  cooking. 


JUNE     1987 


21 


locni  union  ncuis 


Labor  History  Study 
Promoted  in  Illinois 

The  Illinois  State  Council  has  instituted 
an  important  and  innovative  program  to 
encourage  the  study  of  labor  history  in  the 
schools  of  the  state.  The  Council  requested 
that  the  Illinois  Labor  History  Society  design 
a  gift  package  of  labor  history  books  for 
presentation  by  local  unions  and  district 
councils  to  community  and  parochial  school 
libraries. 

The  package  contains  books  which  tell  the 
stories  of  how  people  suffered,  fought,  and 
died  to  form  unions  and  gain  the  benefits  we 
enjoy  today.  The  titles  cover  a  wide  range 
of  interests:  biography,  social  history,  and 
union  history.  They  should  add  a  new  di- 
mension to  many  hbrary  shelves. 

Every  local  and  council  is  being  encour- 
aged to  distribute  the  nine  books  in  the 
package  as  well  as  a  copy  of  The  Road  to 
Dignity,  the  story  of  our  United  Brother- 
hood. 


Winners  of  Tools  in  Montreal 


These  members  of  Millwrights  Local  2182,  Montreal,  Que.,  were  winners  in  a  drawing 
held  at  the  Dec.  16,  1986,  local  union  meeting.  Tools  and  other  items  valued  at  $1,500 
were  donated  by  the  following  companies:  Societe  Sandwell  Ltee,  Kamyr,  B.G.  Gheco, 
Connolly  Twizzel,  Universel  Pipe  Line,  National  Construction,  G.M.  Gest,  Ganotec, 
Gastier  Mecanique,  Groupco,  Tru-Way  Metal,  Liard  Mecanique,  Mecanique  Bee, 
C.C.L.,  Remec,  Courtier,  D' Assurance  Jean  Poitras,  Ecusson  R.  Cote  and  Laperriere 
and  Verreault. 


Ohio  Welding  Class 


Missouri  Charter  Celebrated 


Local  437,  Portsmouth,  Ohio,  recently  held  a  welding  class  with 
those  pictured  above  in  attendance.  Front  row,  from  left,  they 
are  Terry  Crowe,  Duane  Adkins.and  Ronald  Syroney.  Middle 
row,  from  left,  are  Tony  Canter,  Tony  Pile,  Larry  Gullett,  J.D. 
Tackett,  and  Clyde  Skaggs.  Back  row,  from  left,  are  Charles 
Jarvis  and  Insturctor  Randy  Childers. 


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Hundreds  of  members  of  Local  1839.  Washington,  Mo.,  and 
their  guests  turned  out  for  the  local's  35th  anniversary  celebra- 
tion. The  four  charter  members  honored  at  the  event,  front  row, 
from  left,  are  Eugene  Wilson,  Bud  Neier,  Ray  Steibel,  and 
George  Lawrence.  In  the  back  row,  from  left,  are  Local  1839 
President  Perry  Steele,  Vice  President  Ronny  Feller,  Sixth  Dis- 
trict Board  Member  Dean  Sooter,  Carpenters  District  Council 
Executive  Secretary  Leonard  Terbrock,  and  Business  Represent- 
ative Jim  Brooks. 


Jamestown  Shop  Stewards  Train 

Fifteen  industrial  shop  stewards  from  Local  2753,  Jamestown, 
N.Y.,  recently  completed  a  two-night  training  program,  "Justice 
On  the  Job."  The  program  was  conducted  by  New  York  State 
Council  Secretary-Treasurer  Joseph  S.  Lia  and  Representative 
Kevin  Thompson.  Pictured,  at  right,  front  row,  from  left,  are 
Robert  Seely,  Daniel  Ingerson,  Thomas  Blodier,  David  Rojas, 
and  Daniel  Taylor.  Back  row,  from  left,  are  Robert  Norris,  Rick 
Jewell,  Joseph  Ferraro,  David  Ingerson,  Kenneth  Louerme, 
Walter  Sheldon.  Carol  Lowery,  Barbar  Green,  John  Jewell,  and 
Raymond  Finch. 


22 


CARPENTER 


Konyha  Honored 


Workshop  for  California  Officers,  Stewards 


General  President  Emeritus  William  Kon- 
yha was  recently  honored  by  the  installa- 
tion of  a  plaque  recognizing  his  50  years 
of  service  to  the  United  Brotherhood  in  the 
entrance  hall  of  the  Cleveland  and  Vicinity 
District  Council  of  Carpenters  building. 
Pictured  with  Konyha  are  District  Council 
President  Dave  Quinby,  Secretary-Treas- 
urer Tom  Welo  and  General  Representa- 
tive Michael  Bekes. 


Get-on-Board  Awards 


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More  members  of  Local  1764,  Marion, 
Va.,  have  received  UBC  "Get-on-Board" 
jackets  for  their  work  in  signing  on  new 
members.  Pictured  above,  from  left,  are 
James  Rouse,  William  Hughes  and  James 
Martin. 


UBC  Films  on 
Rhode  Island  Cable 

Rhode  Island  cable  television  subscribers 
have  access  to  programming  broadcast  by. 
the  Institute  for  Labor  Studies  and  Research 
in  Providence,  R.I.,  on  Rhode  Island 
LaborVision.  Programs  are  broadcast  three 
days  a  week  for  an  hour  at  a  time  on  various 
cable  channels. 

Among  the  programs  recently  featured  on 
LaborVision  were  a  labor  history  series, 
informational  films  on  health  care  costs  and 
employment  situations  and  a  political  action 
video. 

On  the  schedule  for  the  summer  months 
are  two  Brotherhood  films.  "You  Make  a 
Difference"  and  "Skills  to  Build  America" 
are  set-to  be  broadcast  on  July  14,  17  and 
18.  We  encourage  New  England  members 
in  the  viewing  area  to  check  their  viewing 
guides  for  more  information  on  LaborVision 
and  to  note  the  times  the  UBC  films  will  be 
aired.  We  are  told  that  Local  94  in  Provi- 
dence will  be  notified  when  the  UBC  films 
are  scheduled  for  showing. 


Officers  and  shop  stewards  from  three  California  locals  recently  attended  a  workshop 
conducted  by  Representative  Norman  G.  Bashore.  Representatives  of  Lumber  and  Saw- 
mill Workers  Local  2927,  Sutter  Creek;  Local  3088,  Stockton;  and  Local  1522,  Martell, 
are  pictured  above. 

Seated,  from  left,  are  Warren  Sandoz,  Local  2927;  David  Long,  Local  3088;  Douglas 
Vanderford,  Local  2927;  William  Speas,  Local  2927;  Bill  Beach,  Local  3088;  and  Richard 
Haynes,  Local  3088. 

Standing,  from  left,  are  William  Long,  Local  3088;  Keith  Marshall,  Local  1522; 
Anthony  Peacock,  Local  1522;  Elden  Clymer,  Local  1522;  John  Hubbard,  Local  1522; 
Bon  Grosse,  Local  2927;  Kathy  Allen,  Local  2927;  Steve  Bonham,  Local  2927;  Chris 
Fillmore,  Local  2927;  Bertha  Mae  Carr,  Local  2927;  Jerry  L.  Kirchgatter,  Local  2927; 
Charles  Yocom,  Local  2927;  Paul  Wickham,  Local  3088;  Brian  Carlson,  Local  2927; 
John  Wang,  Local  2927;  Marc  Moehlman,  Local  2927;  and  Timothy  Mills,  Local  2927. 


Steward  Training  in  Portsmouth,  Ohio 


Several  members  of  Local  437,  Portsmith,  Ohio,  received  steward  training  certificates. 
Pictured,  front  row,  from  left,  are  Hager  Risner,  Gary  R.  Price,  Duane  Adkins,  Dan 
Bentley,  Gene  Johnson,  Kenneth  Blake,  Earl  Canter  and  Mike  Slack.  Second  row,  from 
left,  are  Gregory  Davis,  James  Tackett,  Business  Representative  Norvel  Davis,  Repre- 
sentative Greg  Martin  and  James  Hughes.  Third  row,  from  left,  are  Joe  Nickles,  Ezra 
Wright,  Larry  Gullett,  Patrick  Day  and  Dave  Deatley. 


Insignia  Creator 

At  a  recent  monthly  meeting,  the  members 
of  Millwright  Local  2182,  Montreal,  Que., 
presented  a  clock  and  souvenir  plaque  to 
Conrad  Boyer.  This  award  was  to  honor 
Brother  Boyer  for  the  creation  of  the  Local 
2182  insignia  in  1963.  From  left  to  right 
are  Jean  Guy  Godin,  president;  Conrad 
Boyer;  and  Germain  Parenteau,  business 
representative-financial  secretary  of 
Local  2182. 


JUNE     1987 


23 


HPPREnTICESHIP  &  TRIimmG 


Oxnard  Conference 
Delves  into  New 
Areas  of  Activity 

Asbestos  removal,  scholarshig^oans,  cit- 
izenship verification  and  drug  and  alcohol 
abuse  were  four  of  a  wide  range  of  topics 
covered  by  participants  in  the  1987  Carpen- 
try Training  Conference,  May  4-7,  in  Ox- 
nard, Calif. 

Almost  300  training  directors,  coordina- 
tors, instructors  and  committee  members 
attended. 

The  activities  of  training  coordinators  were 
more  clearly  defined  in  the  general  sessions, 
and  priorities  for  the  full  utilization  of  their 
work  day  were  discussed. 

First  General  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lu- 
cassen,  who  directs  the  UBC  apprenticeship 
and  training  program,  called  for  a  continued 
high  level  of  training  activity  by  all  joint 
apprenticeship  and  training  committees  in 
spite  of  the  economic  reverses  suffered  in 
some  areas  of  the  country.  Conference  par- 
ticipants discussed  ways  to  simplify  the 
apprenticeship  intake  process  by  more  fully 
preparing  Job  Corps  graduates  and  orienting 
pre-apprenticeship  trainees  toward  full  ap- 
prenticeship programs. 

The  conference  viewed  new  slide  training 
carousels  preparing  by  the  Brotherhood's 
apprenticeship  and  training  department,  in- 
cluding units  on  rigging  safety,  blueprint 
reading  and  arrangements  for  the  transition 
of  Job  Corpsmen  "from  Job  Corps  to  job 
site." 

A  timely  topic  was  the  matter  of  legal 
citizenship  for  apprenticeship  applicants.  The 
Immigration  Reform  and  Control  Act  of  1986 
went  into  effect  last  month,  and  there  are 
still  many  questions  about  compliance  with 
the  naturalization  program.  The  conference 
was  reminded  that,  at  the  present  time, 
federal  regulations  do  not  contain  an  explicit 
requirement  that  "union  hiring  halls  are 
involved  into  the  verification  of  the  status 
of  applicants  for  hire"  and  that  referrals 
from  hiring  halls  should  continue  as  they 
have  always  done,  without  requiring  addi- 
tional documentation  from  what  is  already 
requested.  The  General  Office  in  Washing- 
ton, D.C.,  will  notify  training  schools  and 
JATCs  if  this  situation  should  change,  con- 
ferees were  told. 

The  conference  held  panel  discussions  on 
journeyman  training,  apprenticeship  intake 
processes,  pre-apprenticeship,  pre-employ- 
ment safety,  industry  orientation  for  labor 
and  management,  daytime  training  of  ap- 
. prentices,  blueprint  reading  and  workman's 
compensation  insurance  for  apprentices 
who  are  not  on  an  employer's  payroll  and 
women's  participation  in  training. 

Editor's  note:  This  report  on  the  confer- 
ence is  prepared  as  Carpenter  goes  to  press. 
A  more  detailed  report  with  pictures  will 
appear  in  the  July  issue. 


New  Castle,  Delaware,  Graduates  23 


Twenty-three  members  of  Local  626,  New  Castle,  Del.,  recently  completed  the  appren- 
tice training  program.  Pictured  above,  front  row,  from  left,  are  David  J.  DiSanto, 
Stephen  E.  Cannon,  Heniy  Coleman  Jr.,  William  G.  Dorman,  William  J.  Ambrose  and 
Frank  L.  Masci.  Back  row,  from  left,  are  Alan  W.  Hubbard,  Richard  Pedicone  Jr.,  Alan 
M.  Dunfee,  Richard  J.  Wadsley,  David  A.  Neubauer,  John  Brown,  David  E.  Zimath  and 
John  E.  Magee.  Also  graduating  but  not  pictured  were  Mark  G.  Caserta,  John  J. 
Delaneyt  Joseph  E.  Guns,  Harry  R.  Lewis  IV,  David  G.  Marra,  Michael  K.  Monger, 
Charles  D.  Peterson,  Gaiy  S.  Shockley  and  David  W.  Talley. 


Des  Plaines  Grad 


Van  Nuys  Grads 


The  newest  journeyman  of  Local  839,  Des 
Plaines,  III.,  Thomas  A.  Matti,  is  seated, 
center,  with  T.  Richard  Day,  business 
manager  and  president,  left,  and  Robert 
Griskenas.  business  representative. 


Local  1913,  Van  Nuys,  Calif,  recently 
graduated  several  apprentices.  The  new 
journeymen,  pictured  with  North  Holly- 
wood Training  Center  Coordinator  Kashiff 
Ali,  center,  from  left,  are  Joe  Steiner, 
Charles  Camarillo,  Keith  Averman  and 
Dennis  Enriquez. 


New  Syracuse,  N.Y.,  Journeymen 

At  a  recent  meeting 
of  Local  12,  Syra- 
cuse, N.Y.,  graduat- 
ing apprentices  were 
presented  with  their 
journeyman  certifi- 
cates. The  new  jour- 
neymen, pictured 
above,  with  Business 
Representative  Neil 
Daley,  far  left,  and 
JAC  Trustee  Howard 
Smith,  far  right, 
from  left,  are  Dan 
Germ,  Charlie  Lovette,  Wynn  Callins  and  Mark  Getman 


24 


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JUNE     1987 


25 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Pittsburgh  Charter 


A  group  of  retirees  with  a  great  deal  of 
pride  in  their  years  as  members  of  Local 
211,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  banded  together  to 
form  Retirees  Club  No.  64.  Pictured  above 
receiving  the  charter  for  the  newly-formed 
club  is  its  president,  Joseph  Jansen.  Local 
President  William  Unitas  made  the  presen- 
tation to  Jansen,  who  was  a  driving  force 
in  the  creation  of  the  group. 


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30  day  guarantee.  If  not  completely  satisfied, 
return  lor  complete  refund. 

5  day  UPS 


Retired  Business  Rep  Writes  Book 
Of  Early  Life  in  Rural  Mississippi 


What  was  it  like  living  between  the  years 
1907  and  1925  on  12  different  farms  in 
rundown  shacks,  sharecropping,  attending 
one  and  two-teacher  rural  schools,  operating 
a  small  sawmill,  living  in  poverty? 

Marvin  Taylor,  who  served  as  business 
representative  and  financial  secretary  of  Lo- 
cal 387,  Columbus,  Miss.,  (recently  merged 
with  Local  2352,  Corinth,  Miss.)  describes 
his  life  under  these  conditions  in  a  book, 
Sharecropping  in  Leake  County,  Missis- 
sippi, Beat  Five,  now  in  its  second  printing. 

Taylor  retired  from  active  duty  with  the 
United  Brotherhood  in  1978,  when  he  reached 
the  age  of  70.  With  the  help  of  a  granddaugh- 
ter, who  typed  the  manuscript,  he  began 
compihng  the  history  of  his  early  life.  The 
book  was  copyrighted  and  published,  and 
copies  now  are  on  the  shelves  of  many 
Mississippi  libraries  and  in  the  homes  of 
UBC  members  throughout  the  state. 

Taylor  recently  informed  General  Secre- 
tary John  Rogers  that  UBC  members  can 
obtain  copies  of  the  book  postpaid  by  send- 
ing $13.00  to  Marvin  E.  Taylor,  Route  2, 
Hamilton,  MS  39746. 


Marvin  Taylor 

Taylor  is  now  working  on  a  sequel  to 
Sharecropping.  His  second  book  will  tell 
about  his  work  with  the  union  since  his 
initiation  in  1944. 


Atlanta  Club  Enjoys  Luncheon 


Members  of  Retirees  Club  30,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  have  been  very  involved  in  civic  and  political 
activities,  but  they  find  time  to  get  together  for  socializing  as  well.  Emery  and  Virginia 
Dallas,  pictured  above  right,  are  the  club's  recreation  committee  whose  efforts  resulted 
in  a  lovely  luncheon  enjoyed  by  many  club  members. 


Delaware  Retirees 


Several  members  of  Local  626,  New  Cas- 
tle, Dei,  joined  the  ranks  of  the  UBC  re- 
tired recently.  Pictured,  front  row,  from 
left,  are  Nicholas  Swyka  and  John  J.  An- 
ker. Back  row,  from  left,  are  Harold  Guns, 
Hershel  Jordan,  Philip  Messina  and  Holly 
Jarrett.  Also  new  on  the  retiree  rolls  but 
not  pictured  were  Harry  Fry,  Martin 
Moody,  John  Pedicone,  Charles  Pote,  Earl 
Ragan,  Robert  Rayner,  Ralph  King,  Wil- 
liam Lloyd,  Stanley  Sobieski,  James  Wil- 
son, Robert  Wiltbank  and  Joseph  Bru- 
nozzi. 


Walking  for 
'Made  In  USA'? 

Auto  Workers  member  Frank  S.  Pniewski 
has  suggested  an  interesting  strategy  for 
"Made  in  the  U.S.A."  campaign. 

Pniewski,  a  member  of  UAW  Local  6, 
Melrose  Park,  111.,  noted  in  a  letter  to  his 
union  magazine  that  walking  in  shopping 
malls,  where  it  is  warm  and  safe,  has  become 
a  popular  form  of  exercise  among  the  na- 
tion's senior  citizens. 

Perhaps  these  seniors,  many  of  whom  may 
be  union  retirees,  could  wear  T-shirts  or 
jackets  emblazoned  with  the  message:  "Look 
for  this  Label — Made  in  the  U.S.A."  Pniewski 
suggested.  "What  could  be  better,"  he  asked, 
because  the  message  would  hit  shoppers  in 
the  process  of  buying. 

In  the  future,  "when  buying  American- 
made  goods  is  the  rule  rather  than  the 
exception,  the  message  could  be  changed  to 
read,  'Look  for  this  Label — Union  Made," 
Pniewski  added. 


26 


CARPENTER 


Tony  Ramos,  Constitution  Committee  Secretary, 
California  State  Council  Officer,  Retires 

Tony  Ramos,  executive  secretary-treasurer  of  the  California 
State  Council  for  the  past  26  years  and  known  by  thousands  of 
UBC  general  convention  delegates  as  the  secretary  of  the  consti- 
tution committee  for  the  past  four  conventions,  retired  the  begin- 
ning of  this  year  on  January  1 . 

More  than  850  UBC  members,  community  leaders  and  friends 
honored  him  at  a  retirement  dinner  April  2  at  the  Sheraton-Palace 
Hotel  in  San  Francisco. 

Ramos's  membership  in  the  Brotherhood  goes  back  almost  50 
years.  He  served  for  many  years  as  chairman  of  the  international 
appeals  committee.  Robert  Hanna,  the  California's  State  Council's 
new  executive  secretary-treasurer,  announced  at  the  retirement 
dinner  that  the  state  executive  committee  has  designated  Ramos 
as  executive  secretary-treasurer  emeritus. 

A  native  of  Oakland,  Calif.,  Ramos  started  his  career  as  an 
apprentice  stair  builder  in  1938  and  soon  became  financial  secretary 
and  business  representative  of  Local  550.  He  has  served  in  many 
national  and  international  posts  since  that  time. 

Among  those  honoring  Ramos  at  the  special  dinner  were  Cali- 
fornia Attorney  General  John  Van  de  Kamp,  who  served  as  master 
of  ceremonies,  Lt.  Gov.  Leo  McCarthy  and  General  President 
Patrick  J.  Campbell  who  called  Ramos  a  true  personal  friend  and 
a  valued  leader  of  the  Brotherhood  for  almost  a  half  century. 


Tomy  Ramos,  center,  receives  the  gratitude  of  t lie  UBC  general 
officers  and  board  members  for  his  long  and  distinguished  serv- 
ice. With  him,  from  left,  are  General  Treasurer  Wayne  Pierce, 
General  Treasurer  Emeritus  Charles  Nichols,  General  President 
Pat  Campbell,  First  General  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lucassen, 
General  Secretary  John  Rogers,  8th  District  Board  Member 
M.S.  Bryant,  10th  District  Board  Member  Ron  Dancer,  and  7th 
District  Board  Member  Paid  Johnson. 


Clean  Water  Act 

Continued  from  Page  17 

parents  and  grandparents.  The  wastes 
we  add  today  will  be  our  children's  and 
grandchildren's  problem. 

The  Council  on  Environmental  Qual- 
ity noted  in  a  1981  repoil:  "With  con- 
tamination by  toxic  organic  chemicals, 
groundwater  can  remain  polluted  for 
hundreds  or  thousands  of  years,  if  not 
geologic  time,  because  nature  supplies 
few  if  any  cleansing  or  diluting  forces." 

Man  can  lend  a  hand,  however.  States 
and  localities  have  been  coping  with 
individual  pollution  problems  for  dec- 
ades, in  cooperation  with  the  U.S.  Geo- 
logical Survey. 

But  it  took  a  string  of  major  contam- 
ination catastrophes  to  arouse  public 
concern  and  press  the  federal  govern- 
ment to  begin  concentrating  on  long- 
term  answers  to  the  increasingly  critical 
dilemma. 

Love  Canal,  Valley  of  the  Drums, 
Times  Beach  and  Stringfellow  Acid  Pits 
became  familiar  places  in  the  geography 
of  pollution. 

"I  think  it  is  relatively  safe  to  assume 
that  groundwater  issues  have  finally 
become  part  of  our  social,  legislative 
and  scientific  conscience,  and  are  likely 
to  be  so  for  a  rather  long  time,"  Clinton 
W.  Hall,  director  of  the  federal  Envi- 
ronmental Protection  Agency's  Robert 
S.  Kerr  laboratory  in  Ada,  Okla.,  told 
a  House  subcommittee. 


Groundwater  pollution  is  like  an  ink 
spot  on  a  shirt,  said  Eugene  E.  Patton, 
chief  of  the  Groundwater  Branch  of  the 


Geological  Survey's  Water  Resources 
Division.  Once  it's  there,  you  never 
completely  get  rid  of  it.  UBfi 


Make 
Safety 
a  Habit! 

There  are  many  types  of  forged  steel 
fiammers,  each  for  an  intended  pur- 
pose. All  nail  hammers,  for  example, 
are  designed  and  made  to  be  struck 
against  nothing  harder  than  com- 
mon, unhardened  nails.  Striking 
one  hammer  face  with  another  is 
a  very  hazardous  misuse  of  the 
tools.  Besides  the  potential  for 
damaging  the  hammers,  which 
may  render  them  hazardous, 
there  is  real  danger  that  a  flying 
particle  from  either  hammer  face 
can  cause  serious  injury  to  an  eye 
or  other  bodily  tissue.  Removal  of 
embedded  nails,  for  example,  should 
be  done  with  a  nail  puller  and  a  hand 
drilling  or  light  sledge  hammer. 


Never  strike 
one  hammer 
with  another 


A  most  important  rule:  To 
protect  your  eyes  from 
dust  and  flying  particles, 
always  wear  safety 
goggles  when  using 
striking  tools. 


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JUNE    1987 


27 


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.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  pubUc  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


COMMISSIONED 

John  V.  De  Nuto,  son  of  Robert  De  Nuto 
of  Local  15,  Hackensack,  N.J.,  has  been 
commissioned  an  ensign  in  the  United  States 
Navy,  upon  graduation  from  the  U.S.  Naval 
Academy  at  Annapolis,  Md. 

Designated  a  Tri- 
dent Scholar  at  the 
Academy,  De  Nuto 
finished  fifth  in  his 
class  of  1150.  After 
completing  further 
training  at  New  Lon- 
don, Conn.,  he  will  be 
stationed  on  the  USS 
Cincinnati,  a  nuclear 
attack  submarine 

based  in  Norfolk,  Va. 


RANGER  HOUSE 

There's  a  new  ranger's  residence  at  Camp 
Parsons,  a  Boy  Scout  camp  on  Puget  Sound 
in  the  state  of  Washington,  thanks  to  a  team 
of  Carpenters  of  the  Seattle  District  Council, 
local  building  supply  companies  and  an  alert 
Eagle  Scout. 

The  residence  started  out  as  a  model  home 
erected  by  Seattle  DC  Carpenters  at  the 
Seattle  Home  Show  held  recently  in  Seattle's 
Kingdome.  Members  of  Seattle  Locals  1791, 
131,  2396,  1144  and  338  and  two  out-of-town 
locals,  1597  of  "Bremerton  and  1303  of  Port 
Angeles,  erected  the  1500-square-feet,  pre- 
fab structure,  installed  carpeting  and  worked 
with  other  craftsmen  to  install  fixtures.  It 
was  a  complete  ready-to-occupy  home. 

The  son  of  the  general  manager  of  the 
Home  Show,  a  recent  Eagle  Scout,  sug- 
gested to  his  father  and  the  Carpenters  that 
the  model  home  would  make  an  ideal  new 


MEANY  AWARD 


The  George  Meany  Award  was  recently 
presented  to  James  A.  Kirk  Jr.  at  the 
Monmouth,  N.J.,  Council  Annual  Boy 
Scouts  of  America  Recognition  Dinner  at 
Fort  Monmouth,  Gibbs  Hall,  N.J. 

Brother  Kirk,  a  member  of  Local  2250, 
Red  Bank,  N.J.,  was  presented  the  award 
by  Stephen  J.  Hornik,  president  of  the 
Monmouth  and  Ocean  Counties  Central 
Labor  Council. 


residence  for  the  ranger  at  Camp  Parsons. 
So,  as  soon  as  the  show  was  over,  Seattle 
Carpenters  dismantled  the  model  home  and 
moved  it,  section  by  section,  across  the 
sound,  up  the  Hood  Canal  to  Jackson  Cove 
on  Dabob  Bay,  and  replaced  a  small,  weath- 
erbeaten  800-square-feet  cabin  built  in  1938 
with  a  $60,000  replacement.  Phil  Bevins  of 
the  Seattle  Boy  Scout  Council  reports  that 
the  camp  ranger  is  now  ready  for  a  busy 
summer  encampment. 


Members  of  the  Seattle  District  Council  of  Carpenters  erected  a  model  home  at  the 
recent  Seattle,  Wash.,  Home  Show,  then  dismantled  it  for  a  Boy  Scout  camp.  Shown 
here,  doing  the  preliminary  framing  are,  from  left.  Gene  Bolton,  Paul  Anderson,  Walt 
James,  Ted  Higley  and  Wayne  Herrington. 

— Photo  by  Oregon-Washington  Labor  Press. 


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PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


CHICKEN  SOUP 

After  a  hectic  two-day  sale  on 
chickens,  a  butcher  was  about  to 
close  up  when  a  little  old  lady  hur- 
ried in. 

"Weigh  me  up  a  chicken,"  she 
said. 

Looking  into  the  barrel,  he  saw 
there  was  only  one  left.  He  laid  it 
on  the  scale  and  said:  "That'll  be 
$1.97." 

"Don't  you  have  a  bigger  one?" 
asked  the  customer. 

The  butcher  threw  the  chicken 
into  the  barrel,  reached  deep  in- 
side, drew  the  same  bird  out  and 
set  it  on  the  scales,  "That  one  is 
$2.57,"  he  said  slyly. 

"Great,"  said  the  little  old  woman. 
"I'll  take  both  of  them." 


SUPPORT  'TURNAROUND' 

LET  US  DREAM 

Fred:  I  had  a  terrible  dream  last 

night. 

Frank:  What  did  you  dream? 

Fred:  I  dreamed  I  was  a  salad. 

Frank:  What's  so  terrible  about  that? 

Fred:  I  tossed  all  night! 

— Krissi  Talamantes 
La  Puente,  Calif. 


NOTICE 

This  Place  of  Business  Requires 

No  Physical  Fitness  Program. 

Everyone  gets  enough  exercise 

Jumping  to  conclusions. 

Flying  off  the  handle. 

Running  down  the  Boss, 

Dodging  responsibility,  and 

Pushing  their  luck! 

— S.  Reese 
Daughter  of  Locall  62, 
San  Mateo,  Calif.,  member 

ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 

SAMPLE  QUIZ 

On  his  way  back  to  the  big  city, 
a  tourist  became  lost  on  a  country 
road.  After  driving  a  few  more  miles, 
he  saw  a  farmer  beside  a  field,  and 
stopped  to  ask  directions. 

The  farmer  obliged.  And  the  tour- 
ist was  on  his  way. 

Half  an  hour  later,  the  tourist  was 
shocked  to  find  the  same  farmer 
standing  beside  the  same  field.  The 
tourist  was  sure  he  had  followed 
the  directions  to  the  letter. 

"Why  didyou  give  me  these  di- 
rections?" he  angrily  asked  the 
farmer. 

"Well,"  the  farmer  replied,  "I  wasn't 
about  to  waste  my  time  explaining 
how  to  get  to  the  city  until  I  was 
sure  you  could  follow  simple  direc- 
tions!" 

BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 


GIVE  IT  A  TRY! 

Son:  Dad,  will  you  do  my  math 
homework  for  me? 

Dad:  No,  son.  It  wouldn't  be  right 
if  I  did  it. 

Son:  Couldn't  you  just  try  any- 
way? 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

Eating  was  tops  for  young  Pace 
His  goal:  to  consume  the  best  taco 
But  his  passion  soon  switched 
When  he  fell  prey — bewitched — 
To  a  sweet  dish  he  met  in  Morocco. 


JUST  OLD  AGE? 

Grandpa  Jones  was  complaining 
about  a  severe  pain  in  his  right  leg. 

"It  must  be  old  age,"  said  his 
long-time  friend. 

"Can't  be  that,"  Grandpa 
snapped,  "my  left  leg  is  just  as  old 
as  my  right  one,  and  it  doesn't  hurt 
a  bit." 

—Grit 
USE  UNION  SERVICES 

BLOODHOUND  PARENTS 

There's  a  wonderful  new  baby 
food  on  the  market.  It's  half  orange 
juice  and  half  garlic.  It  not  only 
makes  the  baby  healthier,  but  eas- 
ier to  find  in  the  dark. 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 

ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 

CONCRETE  JUSTICE 

A  cement  truck  collided  with  a 
police  van  that  was  transferring  a 
group  of  convicts.  Be  on  the  lookout 
for  12  hardened  criminals. 

— Nancy's  Nonsense 

BOYCOTT  L-P  PRODUCTS 

WHO'S  THE  TOUGHEST? 

Three  little  boys  were  bragging 
about  how  tough  they  were.  "I'm  so 
tough  that  I  wear  out  a  pair  of  shoes 
every  week,"  said  one. 

"That's  nothing,"  said  the  sec- 
ond. "I  wear  out  a  pair  of  blue  jeans 
every  day." 

The  third  and  smallest  piped  up: 
"You  guys  aren't  so  tough.  I  wear 
out  my  grandpa  and  grandma  in 
an  hour!" 

—Globe 
LOOK  FOR  THE  UNION  LABEL 

ARRIVAL  GUESSTIMATE 

Said  the  man  standing  at  the 
airline  counter  in  the  busy  airport. 
"How  can  anything  that  goes  650 
miles-an-hour  be  late?" 


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CARPENTER 


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Brotherhood 


Picture 
No.  2 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood  who   recently   received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


Cleveland,  Ohio — Picture  No.  1 


Cleveland,  Ohio — Picture  No.  5 


CLEVELAND,  OHIO 

Local  182  recently  presented  service  pins  to 
members  with  many  years  in  the  United 
Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows 
50-year  members,  from 
left;  Fred  Cashmir  and 
Elmer  Vogler. 

Picture  No.  2  shows 
45-year  member  Walter 
Dybiec. 

Picture  No.  3  shows 
40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Kenneth 
Wright,  Richard  Jasinski, 
Wither  Kless  and  Albert  Rotar. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Americo  Rollo,  Alfred 
Frey,  Charles  Miller,  Jacob  Dech  and  Frank 
Bendokas. 

Back,  from  left:  Harry  Wenzel,  Mike  Kvasnok 
and  Ted  Luczywo. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  John  Gib,  Hillerd  Custer,  John 
Rossi,  Louis  Nemeth  and  John  Laut. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Bernard  Hirchak,  Josef 
Sigmund,  Ray  Grewatsch,  Ben  Magistro  and 
Cal  Lis. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Albert  Hirchak,  Adolf 
Blaha,  Richard  Kebrdle,  Chester  Guzik  and  Ray 
Dorazewski. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  David  Roob,  John  Bovenzi,  Andy  Keba, 
Werner  Kunzi  and  Ronald  Grahek. 


Cleveland,  Ohio— Picture  No.  3 


Cleveland,  Ohio — Picture  No.  4 


Medford,  Wise. 
MEDFORD,  Wise. 

Local  1025  recently  paid  tribute  to 
longstanding  members  by  awarding  service  pins 
to  those  with  25-40  years  in  the  UBC, 

Pictured,  front  row,  from  left:  40-year 
member  Clifford  Peche  and  25-year  member 
Charlie  Tom. 

Back  row,  from  left:  35-year  member  Lee 
Bix,  25-year  member  Guenther  Gramann  and 
25-year  member  Casper  Olson. 

Also  honored,  but  not  pictured  were:  40-year 
member  Victor  Frey;  and  25-year  members 
John  Hebert,  Larry  Underwood,  William  Dube 
and  Carl  Anderson. 


New  Castle,  Del. — Picture  No.  1 


New/  Castle, 

New  Castle, 

Del. 

Del. 

Picture  No.  2 

Picture  No.  3 

NEW  CASTLE,  DEL. 


Local  626  recently  awarded  sen/ice  pins  to 
longstanding  members. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  20-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Claude  R.  Davis,  Leonard  V. 
Baker,  James  0.  Home  and  Peter  P.  Casarino. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Lawrence  F.  Caudell, 
Robert  V.  Kirk,  John  M.  Brown  and  Peter  W. 
Foraker. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  25-year  member  Robert 
Stone. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  member  Harold 
Guns. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  Alfred  Janaman,  William  T.  Russell  Jr.  and 
Edward  Sobieski. 


JUNE    1987 


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Jersey  City,  N.J. — Picture  No.  1 


Jersey  City,  N.J. — Picture  No,  2 


Jersey  City,  N.J.— Picture  No.  3 


Jersey  City,  N.J. — Picture  No.  4 


JERSEY  CITY,  N.J. 

IVIembers  of  Local  6  witli  25  to  75  years  of 
service  to  the  Brotherhood  were  recently 
honored  by  the  local. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  75-year  nnember 
Thomas  Pettit,  now  deceased,  second  from  left, 
with,  from  left,  Business  Agent  Sal  DeAnni, 
Local  President  William  DeRosa,  and  Business 
Agent  Al  Beck. 

Picture  No.  2  shows,  from  left:  Business 
Agent  DeAnni,  55-year  member  Rocco  Russo, 
President  DeRosa,  55-year  members  Vincent 
Amato,  Business  Agent  Beck,  and  55-year 
member  Joe  Femia. 

Picture  No.  3  shows,  from  left:  Business 
Agent  DeAnni,  60-year  member  Anthony 
DiChristoforo,  President  DeRosa,  45-year 
member  Ray  Kuenzler,  and  Business  Agent 
Beck. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members 
William  Zac,  left,  and  Edward  Lipka. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  some  35-year 
members,  seated,  from  left:  Ralph  Barberi,  Joe 
Sheehan,  Vincent  Abbatiello,  Hugo  Nicaretta, 
William  K.  Ebel,  and  C.  Linkletter. 

Standing,  from  left:  Suren  Tegrar,  William 
DeRosa,  William  Buttino,  IVIike  Russo,  and 
Donald  Rista  Sr. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  some  35-year 
members,  seated,  from  left:  George  R. 
Johnson,  Rudy  Lieser,  Thomas  Howes,  William 
Grogan,  Sal  Manfre,  and  August  Monahan. 

Standing,  from  left,  members  include:  John 
Santasiero,  Raymond  Licameli  Sr.,  Frank 
Scerbo,  Carl  Huber,  Louis  Rio,  Edwin  Sarti, 
and  Charles  Polk. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  some  35-year 
members,  seated,  from  left:  Calvin  Smith, 


Leroy  Smith,  and  Sal  Tucci. 

Standing,  from  left:  Ed  Sarti  and  John 
Tribastone. 

Picture  No.  8  shows  some  35-year 
members,  kneeling,  front  row,  from  left: 
Joseph  DiAnni,  Herb  DelVecchio,  Business 
Agent  DeAnni,  Ernie  Grabich,  Joseph  Femia, 
and  Ted  Gnida. 

Kneeling,  second  row,  from  left:  Anthony 
Malchiddi,  G.  Mercandante,  Ed  Schlatmann, 
Ray  Lindberg,  William  Alexander,  Joseph 
Abbate,  and  Anthony  DeCotiis. 

Standing,  back  row,  from  left:  Fred 
Habersaat,  Ted  Grasz,  Vincent  DiAnni,  Business 
Agent  Beck,  Al  Dazza,  Frank  Ancipink,  Anthony 
DeRos,  Gus  Collesides,  Joe  Cook,  and  Joe 
Finkel. 

Picture  No.  9  shows  30-year  members, 
seated,  from  left:  Joseph  Petti,  C.  DeTrizio, 
Frank  DiGiacomo,  Victor  Lindberg,  Vincent 
Diomede,  and  Arrigo  DeRos. 

Standing,  from  left:  Joseph  DiSalvo,  Joseph 
Cassella,  William  McFadden,  Harry  Jacobs,  and 
Raymond  Murro. 

Picture  No.  10  shows  30-year  members, 
seated,  from  left:  Walter  Kaligi,  Frank  Gentile, 
and  Ernest  Scerpo. 

Standing,  from  left:  John  Schultz  Jr.  and 
Gerald  Gundry. 

Picture  No.  11  shows  30-year  members, 
seated,  from  left:  Howard  Moses,  Nick  Morin, 
Joe  Petti,  William  Good,  and  John  Aston. 

Picture  No.  12  shows  25-year  members, 
seated,  from  left:  George  DeChristoforo,  Philip 
Miller  III,  Tom  Meyer,  Joe  Schlegel,  Tony 
Maori,  Charles  Morrison,  and  Stuart  Kopp. 

Standing,  from  left:  James  VanDerMeer, 
Santo  LoRicco,  John  Verbeke,  and  Robert 
Wehrenberg. 


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Jersey  City,  N.J. — Picture  No.  5 


Jersey  City,  N.J.— Picture  No.  6 


Jersey  City,  N.J.— Picture  No.  7 


Jersey  City,  N.J. — Picture  No.  8 


Jersey  City,  N.J. — Picture  No.  9 
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Jersey  City,  N.J.— Picture  No.  12 


CARPENTER 


Jersey  City,  N.J. — Picture  No.  10 


Jersey  City,  N.J.— Picture  No.  11 


ASHLAND,  MASS. 

Local  475  recently  held  its  Christmas  Party 
and  Awards  ceremony  at  the  B.P.O.E.  in 
Hudson,  Mass.  President  George  Heinig 
presented  service  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows 
25-year  members,  from 
left:  Rudolph  Carloni, 
Fred  Schouler,  William 
Barrett,  George 
Danahey,  Gilbert 
Crawshaw,  Ernest 
Savoie,  Robert  Forance, 
Nicholas  Tassone,  and 
Walter  Brazeau.  Picture  No.  3 

Picture  No.  2  shows  30- 
year  members,  from  left:  Thomas  Morrissey, 


Edward  Mandella,  Peter  Palaima  Sr.,  Acey 
Knowles,  Kenneth  Sheeran,  and  "Nesti"  Giargiari. 

Kicture  No.  3  shows  35-year  member 
Edward  Tighe. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  Retired  General  Representative  Richard 
Griffin,  Albert  Ravinski,  August  Hangos,  Louis 
Ablondi  Sr.,  Firmin  Collin,  Karlo  Hill,  and  John 
Hatagalakas. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Teddy  Bouvier  and  Elmo  Garofoli. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  50-year  member  Willis 
Beals  and  Business  Representative  Martin  Ploof 
Jr. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  65-year  member  Robert 
Eisenhower  receiving  a  plaque  from  Business 
Representative  Ploof. 


Ashland,  IVIass.— Picture  No.  2 


Ashland,  IVIass. — Picture  No.  4 


Ashland,  IVIass. — Picture  No.  5 


Ashland,  Mass.— Picture  No.  6 


MILWAUKEE,  WIS. 

Local  1114  recently  held  its  last  party  to 
award  members  service  pins,  before  merging 
with  Local  344. 

Pictured  are  some  members  receiving  pins, 
first  row,  from  left:  L.  Wing,  30  years;  R. 
Scheffner,  30  years;  T.  McConville,  30  years; 
H.  Santas,  30  years;  H.  Hintz,  35  years;  J. 
Drascic,  40  years;  C.  Gresser,  40  years;  R. 
Lisowski,  40  years;  and  B.  Ooda,  30  years. 

Second  row,  from  left:  G.  Trisco,  30  years; 
R.  Knaak,  30  years;  W.  Mikich,  30  years;  A. 
Baranek,  25  years;  and  G.  Herriges,  50  years. 

Third  row,  from  left:  R.  Kubacki,  30  years; 
E.  Judziewicz,  35  years;  E.  Nagy,  30  years;  T. 
Erickson,  25  years;  and  F,  Polasek,  50  years. 

Back  row,  from  left:  L.  Roed,  40  years;  H. 
Rinke,  40  years;  R.  Grasso,  25  years;  S. 
Kubacki,  35  years;  H.  Janka,  35  years;  L, 
Paquin,  35  years;  R.  Thibaudeau,  35  years;  and 
E.  Rudolf,  40  years. 


Milw^aukee,  Wis. 


JUNE     1987 


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COLTON,  CALIF. 

As  a  special  order  of  business  during  a 
regular  meeting,  Local  1113  honored  longtime 
members  with  a  pin  presentation  ceremony 
followed  by  a  buffet  reception.  President  Terry 
Miller  and  Financial  Secretary  Jim  Pester 
presented  pins  to  members. 

Picture  No.  1  shows 
25-year  member  Tony 
Pinto. 

Picture  No.  2  shows, 
from  left:  President  Terry 
Miller,  Raymond 
Cervantes,  Leo  Larson, 
Elvin  Tiffany,  and  Picture  No.  1 

Financial  Secretary  Jim  Pester. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  C.E.  Thompson,  Chester  Howlett,  Fred 
Jenkins,  Financial  Secretary  Pester,  and  Bill 
Skinner. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  from 
left:  Carl  Carlson,  Joe  Ellis,  George  P.  Johnson, 
Andy  Sedor,  and  Elmer  Pester,  with  President 
Miller. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Walter  Gerving,  Arrie  Covington,  and 
Merwin  Fleming,  with  President  Miller. 

Receiving  pins  but  not  pictured  were  25-year 
members  Dale  Eckles,  A.D.  Elmore,  Kermit 
Hill,  Alfred  Kerr,  Joe  Penacho,  and  W.  Eugene 
Porter;  30-year  members  Elliot  Anderson,  O.L. 
Anderson,  Frank  Angelo,  Jeff  Barnes,  Howard 
Bate,  Carl  Broadfoot,  V.E.  Carter,  Bill  Fait,  Fred 
Fortune,  Wallace  Lebeck,  Donald  Lerew,  David 
Oberlin,  Dewey  Whatley,  and  Robert  Whitlow; 
35-year  members  Roy  Crosswhite,  George 
DeBorde,  Claude  Hoffman,  Jesse  James  Sr., 
Joe  Latynski,  Harmon  McCombs,  Lester  Neff, 
Eugene  Sark,  Ira  Stevenson,  and  Bob  Moore; 
40-year  members  William  Bracken,  Paul 
Losson,  Virgil  Stevens,  and  Richard  Trail;  and 
45-year  members  Everett  Hicks,  Chester 
Horning,  George  R.  Johnson,  August  Kraemer, 
Floyd  Porter,  Ted  Read,  and  CD.  Schaak. 


Colton,  Calif  —Picture  No 


Kankakee,  III. 

KANKAKEE,  ILL. 

Local  496  held  a  service  pin  awards  banquet 
to  honor  those  with  20-50  years  of 
membership.  The  banquet,  attended  by  150 
members  and  guests,  featured  50-year  member 
Herbert  Potratz  as  guest  of  honor.  The  50-year 
member  is  pictured  here  with  Business 
Representative  Donald  Landis. 


St.  Paul,  Minn.— Picture  No.  1 


St.  Paul,  Minn.— Picture  No.  3 


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FULLERTON,  CALIF. 

Good  food,  good  fellowship  and  games  were 
enjoyed  by  all  at  the  Local  2308  annual  picnic, 
where  longstanding  members  were  presented 
with  sereice  pins  to  mark  their  years  in  the 
Brotherhood. 

Pictured,  front  row,  from  left:  30-year 
member  William  H.  Keen,  25-year  member 
Anthony  C.  Munio,  45-year  member  Herschell 
H.  Banks,  25-year  member  Harold  K.  Garling 
and  25-year  member  President  Robert  C. 
Carter. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Business  Representative 


LeRoy  E.  Miller,  40-year  member  Thomas  N. 
Presson,  35-year  member  Albert  J.  Caporaso, 
35-year  member  Charles  J.  Winget,  40-year 
member  Henry  R.  Tucker,  40-year  member 
Robert  E.  Conroy  and  35-year  member  Richard 
P.  Goodman. 

ST.  PAUL,  MINN. 

Local  87  recently  awarded  service  pins  to 
those  with  25,  35  and  50  years  of  continuous 
membership  in  the  United  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Joe  Opebraski,  Keith  Hanson 


and  Ron  Kammueller. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Don  Schmidt,  Merle 
Rychner,  Eugene  Sell  and  Dick  Zeien. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  George  Thury,  Ray  Kraska,  Mike 
Kropelnicki  and  Charles  Bednar. 

Back  row,  from  left:  S.  John  Larson,  Robert 
Forliti,  Gifford  Ovre,  Don  Hunecke,  Joe  Ogg, 
Cyril  Povlitzke  and  Tony  Lesnar. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  50-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Charles  Hussum,  Al  Wandersee, 
Tom  Roinestad  and  C.  Eric  Johnson. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Geo.  Donatell,  Paul 
Blue,  Walter  Eng  and  Richard  Durand. 


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Hastings,  Neb. — Picture  No.  1 


HASTINGS,  NEB. 

Local  1672  lield  a  combination  Christmas 
party  and  awards  ceremony  to  honor  members 
of  longstanding  service  with  commemorative 
pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows,  seated,  from  left: 
Russel  Parks,  business  agent  and  financial 
secretary,  20  years;  and  Lyie  Parks,  40  years. 

Standing,  front  row,  from  left:  Paul  L. 
Yardley,  25  years;  Bernard  V.  Buschow,  20 


Cfiicago,  III. 
CHICAGO,  ILL. 

In  the  January  Carpenter  a  group  of  25-year 
members  from  Local  434  were  incorrectly 
identified  in  an  article.  The  members  pictured 


above  with  local  officers,  from  left,  are: 
President  William  G.  Beensterboer,  Theodore 
Musil,  Robert  Krause  Sr.,  Charles  Lester, 
Patrick  Erklin,  Julius  Locke  and  Business 
Representative  Edward  L.  Nelson. 


Salt  Lake  City,  Utah— Picture  No.  1 

SALT  LAKE  CITY,  UTAH 

An  awards  luncheon  was  recently  sponsored 
by  Local  184  to  honor  senior  members.  Pins 
and  certificates  were  issued  to  13  25-year 
members  and  2  50-year  members.  Members 
with  35,  40,  45,  and  over  51  years  of 
continuous  service  were  also  honored. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  honored  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  L.R.  Jeffries,  Severn  D. 
Loder,  Maurice  Lyman,  and  Stanley  Jensen. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Donald  R.  Keathley, 
Morris  L.  Severson,  Gale  Westerman,  Jack 
Westerman,  and  Joseph  E.  Atkinson. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  honored  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  John  Harper,  Evan  V. 
Long,  Layor  Allen,  and  Wesley  H.  Lesher. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Arthur  Thompson,  Edsel 
Nelson,  P.M.  Pilati,  James  E.  Willden  Jr.,  and 
Lewis  M.  Hepner. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  honored  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  Merrill  Leetham,  Adolph 
Case,  Rudolph  I.  Christiansen,  and  Jasper 
Graff. 


Salt  Lake  City,  Utah— Picture  No.  2 


Salt  Lake  City,  Utah— Picture  No.  3 
Back  row,  from  left:  William  E.  Chaplin  Jr., 

Andrew  Tucker,  Everett  Robertson,  and 

Raymond  A.  Gilley. 
Picture  No.  4  shows  honored  members, 

front  row,  from  left:  Carl  F.  Lange,  Jay  W. 

Dunham,  S.L.  DiBella,  and  Ronald  C.  Fors. 
Back  row,  from  left:  E.  Louis  Heath,  Pat  M. 

Eyre,  Otto  Pinnau,  and  Dee  Slagowski. 


years;  and  Carl  M. 
Pedersen,  55  years. 

Standing,  back  row, 
from  left:  John  E. 
Everson,  15  years;  Paul 
J.  Kreinheder,  25 
years;,  William  C. 
Hamberger,  5  years; 
Robert  J.  Kent,  35 
years;  and  Forrest  G. 
Hammans,  35  years. 


Picture  No.  2 


Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members  John 
Ground  in  Grand  Island,  Neb.,  where  he  now 
resides. 

Not  pictured  but  receiving  pins  were  20-year 
members  Nelson  O'Keefe  Jr.  and  Warren  Reed; 
2S-year  member  Robert  F.  Turgeon;  30-year 
member  Elmer  L.  Lang;  40-year  members 
Lawrence  Helzer,  John  0.  Jones,  Robert  Van 
Burrus,  and  Arthur  C.  Home;  and  45-year 
members  Herbert  A.  Sydik  and  John  W. 
Ground. 


Kansas,  City,  Md. 


KANSAS  CITY,  MO. 

Walter  A.  Said  was  honored  on  his  80th 
birthday  by  Local  1635  for  55  years  of 
outstanding  service  to  the  UBC.  Said  served  as 
recording  secretary  and  business  representative 
of  his  local,  as  a  council  delegate,  and  then  as 
an  international  representative  until  his 
retirement  in  1972.  A  surprise  birthday  party 
was  given  in  Said's  honor  by  family  and 
friends,  with  about  80  attending. 

Pictured,  from  left,  are  Recording  Secretary 
Lyall  L.  Watson,  Financial  Secretary  Douglas  M. 
Cornett,  Said  with  a  plaque  presented  to 
commemorate  his  outstanding  achievements 
and  Said's  wife  Helen. 


Salt  Lake  City,  Utah— Picture  No.  4 


JUNE     1987 


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First  1987  Seminar  at  Labor  Studies  Center 

for  Full-time  Officers  and  Business  Representatives 


The  first  of  three  leadership  training  seminars  was  held  the  week 
of  April  12  at  the  George  Meany  Labor  Studies  Center  in  Silver 
Spring,  Md. 

Forty-nine  local  and  council  officers  attended  the  April  seminar. 
The  next  two  sessions  are  scheduled  for  July  19-24  and  August 
2-7. 

The  seminars  are  designed  to  acquaint  full-time  officers  and 
business  representatives  with  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of 
their  offices.  They  are  under  the  supervision  of  Second  General 
Vice  President  John  Pruitt,  working  with  Staff  Representatives 
Edward  J.  Hahn  and  James  Davis. 

Participants  in  the  April  training  seminar  and  their  local  or 
council  affiliation  are: 

Nelson  L.  Bard,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  1373,  Flint,  Ml 

John  Betkowski,  B.R.,  Western  Pennsylvania  District  Council, 

Pittsburgh,  PA 
Nathan  Bitely,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  297,  Kalamazoo,  MI 
Mark  M.  Briggs,  B.R.,  Local  635,  Boise,  ID 
Thomas  C.  Cameron,  Organizer,  Detroit  District  Council, 

Ferndale,  MI 
Robert  Cherry  Sr.,  B.R.,  Local  118,  Detroit,  MI 
Jerry  Cooley,  B.R.,  Northwest  Indiana  District  Council,  Hobart, 

IN 
James  Dalluge,  B.R.,  Mid-Central  Illinois  District  Council, 

Decanter,  IL 
Richard  Lee  Daniel,  B.R.,  Kansas  City  District  Council,  Kansas 

City,  MO 
Arnold  Dickson,  B.R.,  Local  1759,  Pittsburgh,  PA 
Michael  W.  Donnelly,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  958,  Marquette,  MI 
James  Doyle,  B.R.,  Local  105,  Cleveland,  OH 
Paul  Richard  Edler,  B.R.,  Local  1255,  Chillicothe,  OH 
Richard  A.  Fleming,  B.R.,  Local  871,  Battle  Creek,  MI 
Ronald  C.  Fors,  B.R.,  Local  184,  Salt  Lake  City,  UT 
Jack  Gilchrist,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  1144,  Seattle,  WA 
Phillip  R.  Helsius,  B.R.,  Local  235,  Riverside,  CA 
Arthur  Huff,  B.R.,  Local  2252,  Grand  Rapids,  MI 
Patrick  J.  Kelley,  Organizer,  Detroit  District  Council,  Ferndale, 

MI 


Local  118,  East  Detroit,  MI 
Local  114,  East  Detroit,  MI 
B.R.,  United  Counties  District  Council, 

,  Northwest  Indiana  District  Council, 


WA 


Timothy  J.  Kelley,  B.R, 
Thomas  F.  Kelly,  B.R., 
Edward  T.  Kuhar,  Asst 

Youngstown,  OH 
Michael  Kuzemka,  B.R, 

Hobart,  IN 
Gary  A.  Larson,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  1148,  Olympia 
Frank  T.  Libby,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  10,  Chicago,  IL 
George  E.  Long,  B.R.,  Miami  Valley  District  Council,  Dayton, 

OH 
Gary  Lothenbach,  B.R.,  Local  232,  Fort  Wayne,  IN 
Thomas  Marshall,  B.R.,  Local  56,  Allston,  MA 
Harry  D.  Melander,  Asst.  B.R.,  Twin  City  District  Council,  St. 

Paul,  MN 
K.  Michael  Miller,  Organizer,  Detroit  District  Council, 

Ferndale,  MI 
Richard  E.  Morehead,  B.R.,  Local  898,  Benton  Harbor,  MI 
Robert  Novak,  B.R.,  Northwest  Indiana  District  Council, 

Hobart,  IN 
Edwin  R.  Nyhus,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  512,  Ypsilanti,  MI 
Eugene  Oakley,  B.R.,  Local  114,  East  Detroit,  MI 
Dennis  Otterstetter,  B.R.,  Local  1303,  Port  Angeles,  WA 
Robert  Rhoades,  B.R.,  Mid-Central  Illinois  District  Council, 

Decauter,  IL 
Dean  Running,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  562,  Everett,  WA 
Al  Semler,  B.R.,  Local  751,  Santa  Rosa,  CA 
John  A.  Steffens,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  751,  Bremerton,  WA 
Donald  Stewart,  B.R.,  Local  118,  Detroit,  MI 
Kenneth  Stewart,  B.R.,  Detroit  District  Council,  Ferndale 
Patrick  E.  Thomas,  B.R.,  Local  889,  Hopkins,  MN 
Edward  J.  Tock,  B.R.,  United  Counties  District  Council, 

Warren,  OH 
Kenneth  R.  Walker,  Organizer,  Detroit  District  Council, 

Ferndale,  MI 
John  Wallace,  B.R.,  Local  35,  San  Rafael,  CA 
Lee  Weigel,  B.R.,  Western  Pennsylvania  District  Council, 

Pittsburgh,  PA 
Timothy  P.  Wells,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  1620,  Rock  Springs 

WY 
Fred  R.  Wright,  B.R.,  Local  316,  San  Jose,  CA 


MI 


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CARPENTER 


The  following  list  of  895  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,589,513.89  death  claims  paid  in  March  1987;  (s) 
following  name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members 


Local  Union,  City 

2    Chicago,  IL — Henry  F.  Burmeister 

2    Cincinnati,  OH — Cecil  R.  Muirheid,  Gaylord  A. 

Rein.  James  Dabney 
4    Davenport,  lA— Richard  Mueller.  William  Blesse 

7  Minneapolis,  MN — Ardine  B.  Cole,  Beatrice  1.  Vinge 
(s),  Conrad  W.  Husos.  Donald  D.  Widen,  Orvin  C. 
Berg 

8  Philadelphia,  PA— Ralph  Erickson 

9  Buffalo,  NY — Edwin  Nowicki,  Raymond  Miller 

11  Cleveland,  OH — Eustace  T.  Henderson.  Florence 
Mae  Zak  (s),  Frank  Prijatel,  Frank  Schanz,  James 
Vana.  John  A.  Januska.  Ruth  W.  Nicholls  (s), 
William  C.  Hedrich  II.  William  Ocie  Price 

12  Syracuse,  NY— Alfred  R.  Raymo.  Donald  C.  Duell. 
George  A.  Milliman,  Lewis  Redwood,  Lloyd  W. 
Homer 

13  Chicago,  IL — John  C.  Nowotarski.  Jon  N.  Brevik. 
Mary  Ellen  Cikesh  (s),  William  L.  Cagle 

14  San  Antonio,  TX — Abraham  Rodriguez,  Alfred  Henry 
Steinbring,  Arthur  F.  Hanson 

17  Bronx,  NY— Charles  Stone,  Eina  A.  Stenfors.  Wil- 
liam H.  Donegan 

20  New  York,  NY — August  Saks,  Elmer  Hjalmer  Lind- 
quist,  Martin  Bugge 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Alfred  L.  Maurice,  Edwin  Eu- 
gene Cary,  George  Zukas.  Harold  Taber,  Philip 
Diaz,  Raymond  Ralph  Allison,  Tom  Leroy  Robin- 
son. Victoria  Kurpinsky  (s) 

24  Central,  CT— Mary  Madeline  Stygar  (s),  Patricia 
Moreau  (s),  Theresa  Viscomi  (s),  Wendell  Higgins 

25  Los  Angeles,  CA— Walter  H.  Matlock 

27  Toronto,  Ontario,  CAN. — Armas  Karonen,  John 
Sertich,  Joseph  Docherty,  Vera  M.  V.  Proctor  (s), 
Victor  Kubicz,  Victor  Martinaitis 

33    Boston,  MA— Charles  B.  Dingwell 

35  San  Rafael,  CA — Edmond  J.  Bedecarrax.  Harold  R. 
Ellwood,  Wilfred  E.  Imeson,  William  H.  Thornton, 
William  L.  Lammers 

36  Oakland,  CA— Ancile  C.  Heisser,  Charlotte  A.  Ja- 
cobs (s).  Edward  K.  Lang,  Howard  Braskat,  James 

A.  Sutton 

38    St.  Cathrns,  Ontario,  CAN.— Chester  Wichmann 

42  San  Francisco,  CA — Anthony  Bander,  Lloyd  C. 
Burns 

43  Hartford,  CT— Oliver  Kirchhoff 

46  S.  Ste  Marie,  MI— Glenn  Walsh 

47  St.  Louis,  MO — Frank  Skrivan,  Kenneth  H.  Irwin, 
Richard  Brady  Hixson 

50    Knoxville,  TN— Hubert  V.  Simpson.  Luther  Murr 

53  White  Plains,  NY— Carlton  Carpenter 

54  Chicago,  DL— Charlotte  O.  Oswald  (s),  Ludwig  Wajda 

55  Denver,  CO — Arthur  Lee  Paulsen,  Clement  Morti- 
mer Wright,  Paul  Herman  Neufer,  Ruben  Frick 

58    Chicago,  IL— James  K.  Maeda 

60  Indianapolis,  IN — La  Vonne  Phillips  (s) 

61  Kansas  City,  MO — Caryl  N.  Saunders,  Darryl  L. 
Shockley,  Donald  E.  Sheley,  Gerald  E.  Barrett,  Lee 
M.  Anderson,  Raymond  Dickey 

62  Chicago,  IL — Alice  M.  Fox  (s),  Marcella  M.  Deleu- 
ran  (s) 

64  Louisville,  KY — Barnett  Carter.  Calvin  G.  Boston, 
Charles  T.  Miller  Sr.,  Robert  T.  Blye 

65  Perth  Amboy,  NJ — Caroline  Mausson  (s),  Florence 

B.  Springer  (s).  Rose  Tetomonti  (s) 

66  Olean,  NY— Charles  T.  Padgett.  Forrest  W.  Young, 
Guyon  E.  Palmer 

67  Boston,  MA — Victor  A.  Carrara 

69    Canton,  OH — John  M.  Hayne,  Kenneth  L.  Barrick, 

Mitchell  Brakus 
71     Fort  Smith,  AR— Johnny  C.  Cravens  Sr. 
74    Chattanooga,  TN — Arlon  J.  Carroll.  Lon  Frank  Led- 

ford 

80  Chicago,  IL— Marshall  G.  Haydon,  Norman  P.  West 

81  Erie,  PA— Edward  W.  Stone,  Lillian  M.  Thomas  (s)  ■ 
85    Rochester,   NY — Alfred   Moorhouse,   Everett   He- 

necke,  Frederick  B.  Heyden 
87    St.  Paul,  MN— Arthur  C.  Jacobson.  Charies  A. 
Johnson,  Frank  Leier,  Glen  Walter  Rickel,  Gordon 
Jorpeland,  Irene  Koep  (s),  Raymond  Galles 

89  Mobile,  AL — James  A.  Joslin 

90  Evansville,  IN — T.  J.  Freeman 

93  Ottawa,  Ontario,  CAN — Ernest  Legros,  Maurice  J. 
Tapp 

94  Providence,  RI — Edna  Cloutier  (s),  Henry  Farmer, 
John  E.  Mathinos,  Joseph  Francis  Morris,  Roy 
Leyland,  Ruth  E.  Smith  (s) 

98    Spokane,  WA — Georgia  E.  Zopfi  (s),  James  F.  Zopfi 
101     Baltimore,  MD— Cart  H.  Schwenke,  Marian  J.  Ha- 
gedorn  (s) 

104  Dayton,  OH — Ervon  S.  Gregory 

105  Cleveland,  OH — Joseph  Mersek  Jr.,  Sam  Costanzo. 
Thersa  Desico  (s) 

106  Des  Moines,  lA — Arthur  E.  Marlatt,  Demarise  Joann 
Terrell  (s),  Eugene  W.  Buchman.  Richard  I.  Dennis 

107  Worcester,  MA — Frank  C.  Marean  Jr. 

108  Springfield,  MA— Edward  R.  Hill,  Gertrude  P.  Dam- 
ours  {s).  Rita  Crochiere  (s) 

109  Sheffield,  Al^-Edgar  J.  Brown.  Eula  Belle  Ether- 
edge  (s),  Henry  Edward  Hovater.  William  L.  Scott 

110  St.  Joseph,  MO— Norris  D.  McCaulcy 

111  Lawrence,  MA— Raymond  J.  Lavigne  Sr. 

U2     Butte,  MT— Edward  W.  Sheron,  James  P.  Drain 
114     East  Detroit,  MI — Abel  Lindberg,  Emanuele  Chiur- 

ato,  Gecrtriuda  Wakker  (s),  George  Kozak.  Millard 

J.  Sharrow 


Local  Union.  City 

118  Detroit,  Ml — Bohdan  Jazwinski,  Constance  Speck 
(s),  Doris  M.  Pilon  (s).  Edward  R.  Hieriihy,  Harold 
A.  Matheny,  Hugh  D.  Murray.  John  D.  Cusson, 
John  David  Hill,  John  K.  Anvik,  Joseph  Rabinowitz. 
Paul  A.  Laforet,  Robert  L.  McBrien 

120  Utica,  NY — Malhew  Monaco,  Nelson  W.  Crawford 
Sr. 

123  Broward-County,  FL~Dominic  C.  Gallelta.  Harold 
M.  Rose,  Lewis  T.  West 

125    Miami,  FL — George  W.  Anderson,  James  M.  Harris 

130  Palm  Beach,  FI^Gladys  Davis  (s).  Hazel  S.  Lam- 
bert (s),  James  Thiem.  Louis  Roth,  Steven  Hubacek 
Jr. 

131  Settale,  WA— Chester  Westling,  Dorothy  Kistler  (s), 
Jane  Weigel  (s),  Steve  Granberg,  Victor  H.  Petty, 
William  F.  Martin 

132  Washington,  D.C.— John  A.  Campbell,  John  H. 
Magers,  Meade  C.  Mullinix,  Nancy  A.  Harris  (s), 
William  R.  Bollinger 

135    New  York,  NY — Harry  Buchman,  Nestor  Brunstrom 

140  Tampa,  FL — David  A.  Outlaw,  Edward  L.  Angle. 
Lawrence  C.  Heffern,  Ovidio  M.  Alvarez 

141  Chicago,  Il^Otto  Soderiund 

142  Pittsburgh  PA— Dewey  R.  Abbondanza.  John  V. 
Peacock 

162    San  Mateo,  CA— Ida  Mae  Bell  (s) 

168     Kansas  City,  KS— Gailard  Wyrick.  Michael  Hayes 

174    Joliet,  Il^-Joseph  S.  Botka 

180  Vallejo,  CA— Donel  I.  Long,  Elma  B.  Vela  {s), 
Halvard  Hansen,  Jack  R.  Porter,  Jane  Ann  Board- 
man  (s),  Leon  B.  Peevey,  Wilson  R.  Miller 

181  Chicago,  IL — Stanley  J.  Krengiel,  Thomas  Jacobsen 

182  Cleveland,  OH— Floyd  D.  Miller,  Gotthard  Wolf. 
John  F.  Bacho,  Katherine  Boltauzer  (s),  Michael 
Thomay 

183  Peoria,  II^Rudolf  K.  Gerdes 

184  Salt  Lake  City,  UT— Dan  Perry  Davis 

185  St.  Louis,  MO— John  Henry  Hill  Sr.,  Margaret  L. 
Haverstick  (s) 

187  Geneva,  NY— Leon  A.  Debolt 

188  Yonkers,  NY — James  Staniscia 

195  Peru,  IL — Letitia  K.  Taylor  (s),  Verna  Vandervort 
(s) 

198  Dallas,  TX— Eva  Lee  Day  (s),  Raymond  L.  Tiner, 
Robert  E.  Burfiend  Sr. 

199  Chicago,  II^Harry  Smith 

200  Columbus,  OH— Cecil  M.  Taylor 

201  Wichita,  KS— Freddie  Thomas  Dearing 
203     Poughkeepsie,  NY — Nickolas  Francese 

210  Stamford.  CT— Eva  B.  Halas  (s),  Joseph  McGrath 

211  Pittsburgh,  PA— Alma  P.  Beckert  (s) 

213  Houlson,  TX — Gus  Alfred  Kopecky,  Jesse  A.  Roege, 
William  Hobart  Davis 

215     Lafayette,  IN— Betty  ).  Loro  (s) 

220    Wallace,  ID— Harry  L.  Appelberg 

223  Nashville,  TN— Arthur  E.  Smith,  Walter  Edward 
Brown 

225  Atlanta,  GA — Harold  B.  Piper.  James  Carson  Cole, 
Jesse  Ernest  Black  Sr. .  John  Thomas  Hendon,  Ralph 
Amanuel  Latimer,  William  Thomas  Barnes 

229    Glens  Falls,  NY— Annette  Deschambault  (s) 

232  Fort  Wayne,  IN— Arthur  Lee  Ross,  Dwight  K.  Mor- 
ris, Edmund  J.  Johnson,  Kenneth  Huston 

235  Riverside,  CA— Edward  L.  Lilla.  Harold  H.  Hill, 
Robert  L.  Wooten,  Vernon  C.  Goudy 

242  Chicago,  IL — Genevieve  Czekala  (s).  Helen  Stuchly 
(s),  John  V.  Stuckly  Jr..  Kathlyn  Jenny  Benson  (s) 

246  New  York,  NY— Saul  Oppenheim 

247  Portland,  OR— Albert  E.  Dallmann,  Daniel  J.  Eraser 
Sr.,  Henry  J.  Borer,  Sarah  M.  Frey  (s) 

248  Toledo,  OH— Ellis  E.  Biggs 

250  Waukegan,  IL — David  Einar  Swanson.  Fred  Hicks. 
Gustave  F.  Bittner,  Margaret  P.  Gastfield  (s>,  Maude 
Lee  Sordyl  (s) 

255  Bloomingburg,  NY — Amadeo  F.  Faella 

256  Savannah  GA — Oscar  Beckworth 

257  New  York,  NY— Darwin  L.  Holbert.  Dennis  Kay. 
Tanya  Savage  (s) 

258  Oneonta.  NY— Lloyd  D.  Hudson 

260  Berkshire  County,  MA— Eli  H.  Felton 

261  Scranton,  PA — Doris  M.  Sisco  (s),  Joseph  Molell 
264     Milwaukee,  WI — Frank  G.  Granicki,  Walter  F.  Patzke, 

Willy  Gaschk 
267    Dresden,  OH— Robert  L.  Creeks 
278    Watertown,  NY— Edward  F.  Stiles.  Lee  E.  Hill, 

Stanford  W.  Nelson 
281     Binghamton,  NY— Frederick  Rosenzweig,  Jack  Pad- 

dleford 
283    Augusta,   GA — John  Thomas  Mathis.   William   I. 

Sherrer 

286  Great  Falls,  MT— Clifford  C.  Blomberg 

287  Harrisburg,  PA— Charles  G.  Tobias.  Clayton  M. 
Snyder.  Janice  M.  Seitz  (s),  Jonathan  W.  Hoffa, 
Richard  A.  Hurley 

296  Brooklyn,  NY— David  Behm,  Karl  Swartz 

297  Kalamazoo,  MI— Martha  Sue  Walters  (s) 
304  Denison,  TX — Russell  Lee  Heironimus 
314  Madison,  WI— Frank  W.  Muetz 

316  San  Jose,  CA— Anthony  Dugo,  Gustaf  E.  Wolf  Sr., 
James  E.  McCollum,  Josepli  Machado,  Larue  Ma- 
chado  (s).  Leonard  White,  Mack  1.  Bruno 

323    Beacon,  NY — Gesuelle  Jerry  Mirra 

329    Oklahoma  City,  OK— Roy  S.  Stevenson 

338    Seattle.  WA— George  Allen  Gowan 

340     Hagcrslown,  MD — Darrell  K.  Moser 


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342  Pawtucket,  RI— Olaf  J.  C.  Nordby 

343  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  CAN — Eric  Eastman 

344  Waukesha,  WI — Anella  Reineking  (s).  Emelia  Kolka 
(s),  Hilde  Engelmann  (s).  Merlin  Moldenhauer 

345  Memphis,  TN— J.  W.  Riggs,  James  W.  Atchison 
348    New  York,  NY— Albert  Fam,  Ernest  Celli,  William 

J.  Dowd 

350  New  Rochelle.  NY— Mary  Lanza  (s) 

355  Buffalo.  NY— William  Angenendt 

357  DraffenviUe,  KY— Guy  Barefield 

359  Philadelphia,  PA— Mary  T.  Pavarnik  (s) 

362  Pueblo,  CO— Roy  Vernon  Alber 

363  Elgin,  Il^Paul  R.  Bolger.  Robert  Allison  Sr. 

369  North  Tonawanda,  NY — Wilber  Border 

370  Albany,  NY— Donald  Campoli.  Donald  Rich  Meis- 
sner,  Frank  Fisher,  George  Face,  Leroy  R.  Hall, 
William  Herbst 

377  Alton,  IL — Denny  K.  Long,  Leo  John  Schmidt 

379  Texarkana,  TX— August  A.  Stuehrenberg 

388  Richmond,  VA — George  L.  Arvin 

393  Camden,  NJ — Leon  Keen 

397  Whitby,  Ontario,  CAN— Donald  Urquhart 

403  Alexandria,  LA — Curry  J.  Bordelon  Sr.,  Loyd  E. 
Fletcher,  Mack  P.  Maillet 

404  Lake  County,  OH — Wade  Lyman 

410  Fort  Madison  &  Vicinity,  lA — Eric  W.  Meilahn 

413  South  Bend,  IN — Edwin  D.  Sawyer,  George  Thorn- 
burg,  Henry  R.  Mroczkiewicz 

417  St.  Louis,  MO— Myrtle  I.  Korte  (s),  Samuel  E.  Hard 

422  New  Brighton,  PA— Steve  Chachin 

424  Hingham,  MA — Oke  G.  Monson 

433  Belleville,  IL — Leonard  P.  Kunkelmann 

434  Chicago,  IL — Edward  J.  Kooyenga 

440    Buffalo,  NY— Albert  Weigel,  Archie  H.  Smith 
452    Vancouver,  BC,  CAN — Daniel  Braun.  Gino  Bellio, 
Jonas  Fridrik  Eyford 

454  Philadelphia,  PA — Blanche  Anna  Stevenson  (s),  Ed- 
ward V.  Costello,  Francis  A.  McWilliams,  Robert 
J.  Mackfee 

455  Somerville,  NJ — Dominic  Lupini,  Eugene  Corish, 
Richard  R.  Heinrichs 

458    Clarksville,  IN — Margaret  Jane  Parr  (s) 

470    Tacoma,  WA — Faith  Deibert  (s).  Sheridan  Svendsen 

476    Clarksburg,  WV— Raymond  G.  Kerns 

483  San  Francisco,  CA— Gary  Robinette,  Russell  A. 
Gearhart,  Theobald  Esberg 

484  Akron,  OH— Robert  P.  Kissel 

493  Mt.  Vernon.  NY— Antonio  Cioffi. 

494  Windsor,  Ont.,  CAN— John  Buchek,  Samuel  Mc- 
Dermid. 

510    Berthoud.  CO— Clarence  Brown. 

514    Wilkes  Barre,  PA— John  Burnott,  John  J.  Sudek, 

John  Rudawsky.  Joseph  J.  Volvonas,  Michael  A. 

Lombardo,  Sr. 

517  Portland,  ME— Omer  J.  Belanger. 

518  Sisterville,  WV— Gail  G.  Buck. 
528    Washington,  DC— William  Maske. 

531  New  York,  NY — Fred  Schermerhorn,  Harry  A.  Pi- 
rone.  Stephen  P.  Jansky. 

537    Aiken,  SC— Roy  J.  Galloway. 

546  Vincennes,  IN — Frances  E.  Vansant  (s),  Lura  P. 
Rode  (s),  Roberta  Crowder  (s). 

548  Minneapolis,  MN — Joseph  J.  Schwartz,  Leon  W. 
Greene. 

558  Elmhurst,  IL — George  T.  Williams. 

559  Paducah,  KY— Clifton  E.  Baker. 

562  Everett,  WA— Clarence  J.  Olin,  Rachel  B.  Smith  (s), 
Sivert  Nelson. 

563  Glendale,  CA— Edward  Graham,  Orville  Ray  Griffin. 
569    Pascagoula,  MS — Relious  L.  Touchstone  Sr. 

586  Sacramento,  CA— William  J.  Birchard,  Charies  C. 
Davis.  Charles  L.  May,  Jr. 

595  Lynn,  MA— Roland  W.  Estabrooks. 

596  St.  Paul,  MN— Harvey  M.  Little.  Lloyd  M.  Parsons. 

599  Hammond,  IN— Elvin  Broach. 

600  Lehigh  Valley,  PA— Arlene  C.  Carrier  (s),  Barrett 
Robinson,  Sr..  Frank  Mate. 

603    Ithaca,  NY — Edna  Louise  Nielsen  (s).  John  William 

Henderson. 
608    New  York.  NY— Patrick  Walpole. 
613    Hampton  Roads,  VA— Gilbert  H.  Rieder.  Gilber  W. 

Driver,  Waller  M.  Williams. 
620    Madison,  NJ — George  Gray. 

622  Waco,  TX— W.  Sanford  Armstrong. 

623  Atlantic  County,  NJ— Robert  H.  Edmunds. 

626  Wilmington,  DE — Celesta  Karlsson  (s). 

627  Jacksonville,  FL — Leamon  Ellison. 

633  Madison  &  Granite  City,  IL — Oscar  Murray. 

634  Salem,  IL— Dwight  S.  Austin. 

635  Boise,  ID— Griffith  J.  Gohecn,  John  W.  Jackson. 

636  Mt.  Vernon,  IL— Verne  Hale. 

638  Marion,  IL^— Mildred  Virginia  Edwards  (s).  Ogle 
Ray  Nance. 

640  Metropolis.  II^Richard  F.  Taylor,  William  Wood- 
row  Cargill. 

644     Pekin,  IL — Josephine  L.  Brush  (s). 

658     Millinocket,  ME— Charles  J    Carter  Sr. 

665  Amarillo.  TX— Ben  Frank  Swires,  Walter  A.  Smith. 
Wiley  C.  Francis. 

668    Palo  Alto,  CA— Shirley  Ann  Johnson  (s). 

675     Toronto.  Ont.,  CAN— Andrew  Leskur. 

690    Little  Rock.  AR— Geraldine  Kohlman. 

698    Covington,  KY — Edward  Meyer. 

701     Fresno,  CA— Annie  C.  Smith  (s). 

70S     Lorain,  OH— Steve  J.  Thomas. 


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Long  Beach,  CA — Carl  A.  Speight.  Frank  L.  Smoak, 
Howard  J.  Repp.  Robert  M.  Tucker,  Tom  Koma- 
dina,  Walter  Heise. 

Baton  Rouge,  LA — Aubrey  D.  Lambeil,  James  Bur- 
ton McGowan  Sr.,  James  L.  Font. 
Los  Angeles,  CA— Cari  C.  Corsaut,  Harold  E.  Dill, 
Lucy  Myrtle  Brown  (s). 
Salt  Lake  City,  UT— Henry  M.  Denton. 
Houston,  TX— Esther  Riebeling  (s). 
Davenport,  lA — Florine  M.  Barko  (s).  Norma  M. 
Blaesing  (s). 

Mansfield,  OH— Arthur  V.  McLaughlin. 
Cincinnati,  OH — Lawrence  Berndsen. 
New  York,  NY — Edward  Forde,  Helen  Matullo  (s), 
Jennie  F.  Welsch  (s). 

Decatur,  IL — James  Strachan.  Leo  C.  Vail. 
Bakersfield,  CA — John  Maini,  Norma  G.  Fritts  (s), 
Roy  Fritts.  Jr. 

Honolulu.  HI — Thomas  T.  Kimura. 
Santa  Rosa,  CA — Hazel  Seekings  (s).  Jack  Marino. 
Willard  Benjamin. 

Belllngham,  WA — Harold  1.  Hanson.  Theresa  Duree 
(s). 

Shreveport,  LA — Autre  L.  Nelson  Sr.,  Joseph  L. 
Braud.  Melvin  Rigby. 

Pasadena,  CA — Gladys  W.  Anderson  (s),  John  W. 
Weigel. 

Rockford,  IL — Donna  Moyer  (s).  Lee  Epperson. 
Springfield,  NJ — Henry  Ferber.  Henry  Williams. 
Santa  Cruz,  CA— Harry  L.  Nehf. 
Des  Plaines.  IL — Henry  W.  Gieseke.  Ralph  M.  Lu- 
cas. Sr. 

Canoga  Park,  CA — Lee  B.  Sproule.  Pauline  Cun- 
ningham (s).  Wade  H.  Quinton. 
Brunswick,  GA — Allan  Homer  Bennett,  Ephriam 
Chancey. 

Brooklyn,  NY — Herman  Mathisen. 
Glendale,  AZ — Earl   Maurer,   Frank  J.   Huffman. 
Sylvia  Lazear  (s). 
Kalispell,  MT— Nils  Borck. 
Aurora,  IL — Harry  Lee  Smoot. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Carl  O.  Seiferline. 
St.  Cloud,  MI — Melvin  J.  Kramer. 
Richmond,  MO — Alvin  A.  Carmichael. 
Sandusky,  OH — George  Becraft. 
Tulsa,  OK— John  D.  Owen  Sr.,  Robert  L.  Metcalf. 
Samuel  Bibbs.  William  W.  Lile. 
San  Brnardno,  CA — Claude  Carper,  Elillian  M.  Tet- 
zlafT  (s).  Robert  L.  Nelson,  Sanford  S.  Thompson. 
Ridgway,  PA — Lena  A.  Streich  (s). 
Sioux  City,  lA — Leo  Marion  Coates. 
Lake  Charles,  LA — Joseph  Harvey  Cryar. 
Appleton,  WI — John  M.  Deeg,  Louis  Clarke.  Maur- 
ice J.  Carey. 

Marquette,  MI — Clarence  Beauchamp,  Edmund  J. 
Nault. 

Reno,  NV— Ralph  E.  Whylal. 
Texas  City,  TX — Aubrey  Edmundson  Sr. ,  Omer  Ray 
Stephens.  Wilburn  C.  Lang. 
Springfield,  MO — James  L.  Crews. 
Royal  Oak,  MI— Adolph  Hefke.  Clair  W.  Payne, 
John  Costo. 

Merrillville,  IN — Frank  E.  Hunter.  Howard  T.  Krull. 
Niagara  Fls.,  Onl.,  CAN— Ethel  M.  McMillan  (s). 
Warren,  PA — Kenneth  A.  Anderson. 
Parsons,  KS — Clarence  Smith.  Lawrence  A.  Sims. 
Roy  Edward  Stockton. 

Chicago,  IL — Alice  E.  Benco  (s),  Filip  Jost.  Jaroslav 
Chenicek.  Stefan  Bodnar. 
Cedar  Rapids,  lA — Lawrence  J.  Schirm. 
Plattsburgh,  NY— Peter  E.  Seguin  Sr..  Walter  T. 
Downs. 

Gary,  IN — Sara  Bougie  (s).  Wayne  W.  King. 
Everett.  WA — James  I.  Jones.  L.  D.  Pierce. 
Santa  Barbara,  CA — Norman  H.  Madsen. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Ihor  Zajac.  Ivan  Busch.  Solda 
Weinstock. 

Angleton,  TX — William  Blackman. 
Glencove,  NY — George  Gigante. 
Albany  Corvallis,  OR — G.  Albert  Sjoblom. 
Longview,  TX — Acme  E.  Brown.  Robert  L.  Tappan. 
Wesley  W.  Carey. 

Baton  Rouge,  LA — Grover  Alton  Corban.  Orellion 
J.  Guedry.  Jr..  William  David  Abies. 
FlagstafT,  AZ — Arnold  Jones. 
Detroit,  MI — Herman  Easley.  Thomas  Carey. 
Tyler,  TX — Helen  Louis  Hackett  (s).  Lilliam  May 
Brown  (s). 

Cleveland,  OH— Harold  Paytosh.  Walter  Watson. 
S.  Milwaukee,  WI — Delores  Ann  Oman  (s). 
Toledo,  OH — Corbett  J.  Ritzman.  Daniel  Napolski. 
San  Pedro,  CA — Daniel  L.  Knutson. 
Lacrosse,  WI — Arthur  P.  Olson,  Edwin  John  Pruess. 
Seattle,  WA— Richard  D.  Burke,  Victor  E.  Gary. 
Washington,  DC — Clara  Eliz.  Henderson  Scearce 
(s).  Landon  H.  Coats. 

Olympia.  WA — George  Edgerton.  John  Hoffert. 
Kenneth  A.  Shulls. 

San  Francisco,  CA — Clinton  E.  Clausen.  Dorothy 
M.  Wright  (s).  Harry  Greene.  John  T.  Ring,  Yvonne 
D.  Gillman  (si. 

Thunder  Bay,  Ont.  CAN. — Michael  Sawchuk. 
Yuma.  AZ — James  Gillaspie. 
Pittsburgh,  PA — Hermann  K.  Endler. 
Fargo,  ND^Norman  C.  Connelly. 
Chicago,  IL — Lester  D.  Finucane. 
Medf*d,  NY— Edward  Trill.  Frank  Rutkowski.  Wil- 
liam J.  Ross.  William  Neumann. 
Modesto,  CA — Lyman  C.  Converse. 
Oroville,  CA— Alfred  Hegland. 
Columbus,  OH— Albert  C.  Reed. 
Akron,  OH— Richard  P.  Michael. 


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N.  Westminster,  BC,  CAN— Horst  Boettcher.  Muriel 
Elizabeth  Vernon  (s).  Stanley  K.  Grisedale. 
Sarnia  Ont,  CAN — Edward  Van  Goethem. 
Iowa  City,  lA — Dorothy  F.  Sullivan  (s). 
Nevada,  MO — Mary  A.  Campbell  (s). 
Eugene,  OR — Dolores  Jean  Thaxton  (s). 
Decatur,  AL — Mary  Lorena  Stephenson  (s),  William 
T.  McCafferty. 

Bend,  OR— Alvin  R.  Atkinson. 
Gainesville,  FL — Linda  Jean  Morrell  (s). 
Mountain  View,  CA— Clifford  C.  Black. 
Huntington,  N.Y.— William  Hackett. 
San  Diego,  CA — Anton  Peck,  Edward  Smith  Jr.. 
Felix  A.  Cerasoli.  John  T.  Love,  Nellie  Ruth  Ed- 
wards (s),  PHilip  W.  Shue. 
Port  Angeles,  WA — Dewey  Admiral  Fisk. 
Fall  River,  MA— Lillian  Kirby  (s). 
Evanston,  IL — Edward  P.  Kioebge.  Frederick  Wis- 
brock.  William  Baker. 

Albuquerque,  NM — Cari  E.  Martin.  James  W.  Lu- 
kesh.  Nelhe  Leah  Knight  (s). 
Monterey,  CA — Carl  J.  Gideon. 
Edmonton,  Alta,  CAN — Otto  Romeike. 
Independence,  MO — Albert  E.  Bonkoski. 
Tuscaloosa,  AL — Jesse  S.  Duren.  Raymond  L.  Alex- 
ander. Scott  Hunter. 

Irvington,  NJ — Frederick  Dascoli,  Harry  Kurtz.  Kate 
H.  zTnk  (s).  William  Wargo. 
Vernon  BC,  CAN— John  M.  McDougall. 
Oshkosh,  WI — Walter  Cummings.  William  Robin- 
son. Jr. 

Cleveland,  OH — Eugene  Hoffmann.  John  J.  Hrus- 
chak.  Richard  E.  Zemba. 

Province  of  New  Brunswick — James  A.  Lewis,  John 
Godfrey. 

North  Hempstad,  NY— John  J.  Drago,  Kenneth  Ray- 
nor. 

BulTalo,  NY— Charies  Wein. 
San  Pedro,  CA — Lewis  Scheer. 
Redwood  City,  CA — Leonard  J.  McCarthy. 
Lodi,  CA — Leslie  Lancaster.  Merle  G.  Lewis.  Rob- 
ert Harrell. 

Johnstown,  PA — Anna  A.  Balogh  (s).  David  Price. 
Corpus  Christ!,  TX — James  Darrel  Orr,  Louis  G. 
Peters.  William  A.  Laird. 
Sudbury,  Ont.  CAN — Robie  Thomas  Cooper. 
Compton,  CA — Walter  A.  Jones. 
Topeka,  KS— Bonnie  R.  Ahlvers  (s).  Willis  Jellison. 
Lansing,  MI — Loy  Woolsey. 
Huntington  Bch,  CA— Donald  M.  Berry.  Ralph  Ed- 
gar. 

New  York,  NY— John  Degeilh,  John  MacPhail,  Otto 
Selander,   Robert  H.   Owens.   Walter  V.  James. 
William  F.  Hansen. 
Bucks  County,  PA— Walter  Rudzinski. 
Omaha,  NE-— James  L.  Higgins. 
Redondo,  CA— Garret  B.  Waltrip. 
Burlington,  VT— Eari  Bonnette. 
San  Diego,  CA — Howard  F.  Archer. 
Chico,  CA— Michael  G.  Walker. 
Provo,  UT— Glen  F.  Johnson. 
Ketchikan,  AK — ^Joseph  L.  Cornell. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Eric  E.  David.  James  S.  White. 
Algoma,  WI — Arnold  C.  Entringer.  Gladys  M.  Jan- 
drin.  Lavern  Werner.  Mary  Zimmerman  (s). 
Martel,  CA— Charlotte  Gertrude  Smith  (s).  Jack 
Clifton  Pinckney  Sr. 
New  York,  NY — Silvio  Louis  Wegher. 
Chicago,  IL — Rose  Prizant  (s). 
Vancouver,  BC  CAN — George  Spara. 
Nashville,  TN — John  Vanderpool  Jr. 
Wilmington,  DE — Hiram  W.  Tyler. 
CulverCity,  CA— Charles  Edward  Brackett.  Gariand 
E.  Benson.  Grace  W.  Sutter,  Richard  A.  Robles, 
Robert  Gonzalo  Mogollon. 
Miami,  FL — Julio  Moreno. 
Casper,  WY — Joseph  Edward  Todd. 
Napoleon,  OH — John  Edward  Rethmel. 
Sydney,  NS  CAN. — John  Alex  Leblanc.  Sophie  Ann 
Chiasson  (s). 

Washington,  DC— Brady  Hariey,  Charies  H.  Han- 
cock, Henry  J.  Tass. 

Redding,  CA — Camel  Hester  Matheson,  Leaman 
Holley.  Lily  May  Ohlin  (s).  Winnie  Mae  Wilson  (s). 
Hayward,  CA— William  H.  Drabble,  William  H. 
Maberry. 

S.  Luis  Obispo,  CA — Earl  E.  Sands. 
Minneapohs,  MN — Benjamin  Kenneth  Webster. 
Lexington,  KY— Cecil  Nichols,  Leslie  P.  Stull.  Lind- 
sey  Clark  Stull.  Lloyd  Hymer. 
Alexandria,  VA — Catherine  Webb  (s). 
Ft.  WilUam,  Onl.  CAN— Anne  Rasinaho  (si,  Michael 
Lazoryk. 

Melbourne-Daytona  Beach  FL — Fred  Congdon.  Nel- 
lie B.  Teague  (s).  Rudolph  Hudolin. 
Tacoma,  WA — Eric  Arndt. 

Pasco,  WA— Oka  llene  Marshall  (s).  Walter  E.  Ford. 
Jr. 

Vancouver,  WA — Eurotes  C.  Green,  William  J.  Ga- 
blehouse. 

Columbus,  GA — Andrew  Jackson  Hinton. 
Pr.  Rupert  B.C.,  CAN— Emil  Quasi. 
Milwaukee,  Wl^jeorge  HartI  Sr. 
Anniston,  AL — Berry  Bee  Smith.  Oliver  H.  Cruse. 
Cleveland,  OH — Fred  Badalamenti. 
Marion,  VA — Dickerson  Burkett,  Garland  G.  Scott. 
Oriando,  FI^Eari  D.  Groves. 
Hicksville,  NY — Janis  Veiss. 
Las  Vegas,  NV — Antonino  Panzarella,  Asa  D.  Fos- 
ter. Clifton  Chapin.  Ted  Tucker  Jr. 
Farmington,  MO — Muriel  Agnes  Turnbough  (s). 
Renton,  WA — Clyde  A.  Spooner. 


1822 


1832 
1837 


1840 
1845 


1849 
1856 
1861 

1864 
1906 
1913 

1916 
1971 
1976 
2002 
2028 
2046 

2067 
2068 

2077 

2078 
2093 
2119 

2127 
2142 
2158 
2146 

2168 
2182 

2203 

2212 
2214 
2222 
2230 

2264 

2274 


2288 
2292 
2300 
2308 

2309 
2311 
2375 
2391 
2398 
2416 
2429 

2435 
2453 

2463 

2467 
2484 
2519 
2564 

2608 
2623 
2629 
2633 
2693 

2714 
2817 
2819 
2851 

2860 
2902 
2927 
2947 
2949 

2979 
2995 
3074 
3088 


3099 
3127 
3161 
7000 

9047 


Santa  Ana,  CA — Alvina  E.  Anderson  (s),  Antonio 
Rodrigue,  Mae  Elizabeth  Strandstra  (s),  Naydean 
B.  Clark  (s),  Socorro  C.  Torres  (s). 
Fort  Worth,  TX— Elmer  Edwin  Gustafson.  Leo  P. 
Lance.  Myrtis  S.  Robinson,  Ray  C.  Corbin,  Urban 
Brown. 

Philadelphia,  PA— C.  Herman  Burkhardt.  Harry  P. 
Wagner. 

Escanaba,  MI — Leslie  E.  Maki. 
Babylon,   NY — Joseph   Bonamasso,   Nils   Larsen, 
Thomas  Kelly. 

Faribault,  MN — Joseph  D.  Hagerty. 
Snoqualmie,  WA — Clarence  E.  Francis.  Denton  C. 
McNeely.  Thomas  Bird. 

New  Orleans,  LA — Edna  D.  Jeansonne  (s),  Harold 
L.  Aubert.  Tommy  G.  Logan. 
Pasco,  WA — A.  Nile  Overton. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Ludwig  Antoni. 
Milpitas,  CA — Norman  J.  Callan.  Valentine  C.  Ei- 
sen. 

Grand  Rapids,  MN — Glenn  G.  Schmoll  Sr. 
Philadelphia,  PA— Robert  Robertson. 
Van  Nuys,  CA— Borghild  Gaskill  (s),  Clarence  Guy 
Hill,  Grover  Endsley. 

Hamilton,  Ont.,  CAN— Allan  Wilkie  Brown. 
Temple,  TX— Orval  F.  Chapman. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Ernest  V.  Palacio. 
Palalka,  FI,-Hilbert  V.  Boiling. 
Grand  Forks,  ND — Marion  E.  Eriandson. 
Martinez,  CA — Jimmie  B.  Austin,  Thomas  M.  Hayes. 
Willie  Ferguson. 

Medford,  OR — ^Jack  Doty  Austin. 
Powell  Riv,  B.C.,  CAN— Ernest  W.  Micks. 
Coliunbus,  OH — Belva  M.  Hartman  (s),  Lillian  Louise 
Nusbaum  (s). 

Vista,  CA — James  E.  Brown. 
Phoenix,  AZ^-Grace  A.  Olmsted  (s). 
St.  Louis,  MO— Deloris  M.  Hofmann  (s),  William 
E.  Reed. 

Centralia,  WA — Marzell  Joseph  Muller. 
Minto,  N.B.,  CAN— Mervin  Reeves. 
Rock  Island,  Il^Paul  H.  Tegeler. 
San  Francisco,  CA — Charles  Dalhstrom,  Dolores  M. 
Fifer  (si.  Ralph  E.  Hall. 
Boston,  MA — Richard  L.  Rubbico. 
Montreal,    Que.,    CAN — Marcel    Moreau,    Yves 
Grandmont. 

Anaheim,  CA — David  B.  Olguin,  William  John  Carl- 
son. 

Newark,  NJ — John  Doyle. 
Festus,  MO — Clarence  E.  Dorlac. 
Goderich,  Ont.,  CAN— Elmer  R.  Rivers. 
Greensboro,  NC — Buford  Gray  Shelton.  Dorothy 
Rumley  Delancey  (s),  Fannie  Allen  Simmons  (s). 
Pittsburgh,  PA— George  T.  Berthold. 
Pittsburgh,  PA— Bert  H.  Watkins.  Howard  E.  Ro- 
sendale. 

New  York,  NY— Bertiard  J.  Sullivan.  Charies  Tetro. 
Elaine  Sweeney  (s),  Mendel  Bergman.  Walter  Lev- 
erock. 

Los  Angeles,  CA — James  K.  Searcy. 
Ocala,  FL — tiemmie  Morgan. 
Caslelgar,  B.C.,  CAN— Fred  Makortoff. 
Fullerton,  CA — Ann  Carolyn  Haproff  (s).  Eugene 
L.  Faux. 

Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN— Lucien  Patry. 
Washington,  D.C. — Frederick  Tearl  Brown  Jr. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Lewis  G.  Boys. 
Holland,  MI — Jerry  Tenbroeke. 
El  Cajon,  CA— Ervan  Clegg. 
Portland,  OR— Bruce  L.  Watt. 
Fort  Payne,  AL — Millard  C.   Frasier,  Nora  Mae 
Potter  (s). 

Inglewood,  CA— Ruby  P.  Todd  (s). 
Oakridge,  OR— Edward  G.  Martin,  Hazle  E.  Ackley 
(si. 

Ventura,  CA— Irvin  F.  Gesswein,  Wilfred  P.  Hoh- 
olik. 

Florence,  CO — Ralph  Weinheimer. 
Orange,  TX— Huey  Glasford  Scott. 
Seattle,  WA— John  J.  Bonomi. 
Grand  Fall,  Nfl.,  CAN— Douglas  H.  Loder.  Lester 
Bauld. 

Redding,  CA — Guiseppi  B.  Rossi. 
Councilo,  ID— William  L.  Ogle. 
Hughesville,  PA — Harry  F.  Drawbaugh. 
Tacoma,  WA— Alfred  Strom. 

Pt.   Arthur,  Onl.,  CAN— Albert  Michaud.  Erkki, 
Jantunen.  Lawrence  Timmermans,  Maurice  St.  Jean. 
Dallas,  OR— Errol  Frank  Wright. 
Quebec,  Que.,  CAN— Jean  Rene  Berthelot. 
New  York,  NY — Jose  Gonzalez,  Richard  Dietzel. 
La  Grande,  OR — Everard  Burdette  Montgomery, 
Lee  Roy  Shawver,  Ralph  Berry. 
Darrington,  WA — Jerry  Helton. 
Bums,  OR — Francis  E.  Kirk,  Thomas  H.  Thompson. 
Martell,  CA— Harold  J.  Kincaid. 
New  York,  NY — Alfred  Amen.  Theodore  Andreala. 
Roseburg,  OR — Idella  F.  Kincaid,  Lectie  E.  Callison 
(s).  Worth  E.  Burdic. 
Merrill,  WI — Mark  Alen  Erickson. 
Kapuskasng,  Ont.,  CAN — Roger  Mercier. 
Chester,  CA — Thomas  J.  Smart. 
Stockton,  CA— Alfred  Page  Sr..  Elaine  Irene  Faulk- 
enberry  (s).  Eugene  Leonardini,  Margo  Mancuso, 
Ones  Blevins. 

Aberdeen,  WA — Charies  Hazelquist. 
New  York,  NY — Touraj  Rajabipour. 
Maywood,  CA — Agustin  Cisneros,  Rose  Bottala  (s). 
Province  of  Quebec — Andre  Thibault,  Benoit  Parent, 
Florian  St.  Jean,  Georges  Tsetsos. 
Cincinnati,  OH — Earl  Mason  Bonham. 


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38 


CARPENTER 


LADDER  GRABBER 


According  to  the  National  Safety  Council, 
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Some  Personal 

Thoughts  About 

Bridgeport 

The  full  meaning  of 

brotherhood  comes 

through  in  a  crisis 

A  report  on  what  happened  in  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  on  April  23  appears  in  the  opening 
pages  of  this  issue  of  Carpenter,  but  words 
and  pictures  on  printed  pages  do  not  convey 
the  feelings  of  those  men  who  struggled  day 
and  night  to  tear  away  the  concrete  and  the 
huge,  twisted  steel  columns  to  find  those 
buried  in  the  rubble. 

They  don't  convey  the  chills,  the  loneliness 
and  the  tears  of  those  who  stood  by  awaiting 
word  of  loved  ones,  the  anguish  of  waiting, 
waiting  for  days  with  fading  hopes. 

I  flew  to  Bridgeport  as  soon  as  word  reached 
me  that  the  L'Ambiance  Plaza  had  collapsed 
and  that  some  of  our  members  were  unac- 
counted for.  I  found  that  hundreds  of  our 
Brotherhood  members  had  preceded  me. 
Members  on  construction  jobs  in  Bridgeport, 
Hartford,  Boston,  Stamford  and  other  cities 
hurried  to  Bridgeport  to  volunteer  their  help 
in  rescue  efforts.  They  joined  Iron  Workers, 
Electricians,  Operating  Engineers  and  Labor- 
ers, whose  members  were  among  the  missing. 
I'm  told  that  men  were  digging  through  the 
rubble  10  minutes  after  the  building  collapsed. 

Hundreds  of  volunteers  converging  on  such 
a  disaster  site  might  have  created  chaos  for 
the  public  officials,  police,  fire  fighters  and 
volunteer  agencies  ordinarily  assigned  to  dis- 
aster work.  But  the  chaos  didn't  happen  at 
L'Ambiance  Plaza. 

Once  the  initial  shock  subsided,  union  lead- 
ers and  union  members  went  to  work  like  a 
well-trained  team  of  rescue  workers.  The 
city's  emergency  services  director,  Jonathan 
Best,  was  in  overall  charge.  He  worked  closely 
with  Mayor  Thomas  Bucci.  Though  the  city 
already  had  disaster  emergency  plans,  it  had 
not  anticipated  the  situation  which  developed 
on  April  23  at  L'Ambiance  Plaza. 

"It  is  unlikely  that  Best  would  have  forseen 


including  in  emergency  planning  the  more  than 
300  construction  tradesmen  who,  everyone 
agrees,  were  the  backbone  of  the  operation," 
according  to  The  Hartford  Courant,  a  nearby 
newspaper.  "Their  key  role  meant  that  city 
officials  needed  the  cooperation  of  union  lead- 
ers to  organize  the  work." 

"If  we  had  taken  out  the  business  agents, 
there  would  have  been  total  confusion,"  said 
Mayor  Bucci. 

The  business  agents  quickly  set  up  three 
shifts  of  work.  They  gathered  their  men  before 
each  shift  and  assigned  the  work  to  be  done. 
Without  architects  or  blueprints  or  formal 
planning,  the  men  went  to  work. 

"We  knew  what  we  had  to  do,  and  we  got 
it  done,"  one  building  tradesman  told  me. 

They  put  in  thousands  of  manhours.  Some 
had  to  be  bodily  pulled  from  the  rubble  and 
told  to  get  some  rest. 

An  official  of  the  Occupational  Safety  and 
Health  Administration  assigned  as  an  inves- 
tigator told  a  newspaper  reporter,  "This  res- 
cue couldn't  have  happened  without  organized 
labor." 

The  Red  Cross  and  the  Salvation  Army 
were  there,  serving  food  and  coffee  and  of- 
fering solace  to  men  who  were  on  the  verge 
of  tears.  High-intensity  lights  suspended  from 
cranes  lit  the  stark  scene  at  night.  Police  and 
state  troopers  directed  the  traffic  and  made 
way  for  the  heavy  trucks  carrying  away  the 
rubble. 

The  best  comes  out  in  many  people  in  times 
like  this.  I  found  that  out  in  the  Pacific  in 
World  War  II,  and  I  recalled  that  fact  at 
Bridgeport.  Many  of  the  rescue  workers  slept 
at  the  scene  after  hours  and  hours  of  work. 
An  Iron  Worker  told  us  he  had  been  spending 
all  his  nights  at  the  disaster  site,  and  his  lawn 
at  home  was  a  mess.  When  he  finally  reached 
home,  he  found  that  his  neighbors  had  cut  his 
grass  for  him. 

You  could  tell  that  the  strain  was  beginning 
to  tell  on  many  of  the  men.  They  shouted  at 
reporters  and  photographers  to  get  out  of  the 
way  as  they  removed  the  bodies.  In  some 
spots  they  even  put  up  barriers  to  keep  curious 
spectators  away  as  they  tunneled  under  the 
broken  slabs. 

Psychologists  say  that  the  stress  may  bring 
different  reactions  to  the  rescue  workers  after 
it's  all  over.  The  intensity  of  their  rescue 
effort  will  eventually  drain  away,  but  there 


will  be  moments  of  tears  followed  by  anger. 

"We  put  a  lot  of  trust  in  the  people  who 
design  these  things,"  one  building  tradesmen 
said.  "We  go  along  with  it.  We  have  to  feel 
it's  safe,  because  it  has  been  engineered  and 
everything  else." 

Another  complained  about  safety  inspec- 
tions. According  to  one  newspaper  report, 
OSHA  visited  the  job  site  only  once  during 
construction. 

"OSHA  used  to  be  a  big  force  on  the  job 
site,"  this  worker  said.  "You'd  see  them  all 
the  time  .  .  .  but  not  any  more." 

There's  bitterness  after  a  10-day  ordeal  such 
as  this,  but  there  is  hope  that  these  28  men 
have  not  died  in  vain  .  .  .  that  an  investigation 
will  find  the  cause  of  the  accident  and  that 
the  disastrous  error  will  be  corrected  forever 
more.  There  will  certainly  be  questions  about 
lift-slab  construction,  and  you  can  bet  that 
the  UBC  will  monitor  the  investigation. 

You  know  we  use  phrases  like  "We  are  our 
brother's  keeper"  and  "Workers  helping 
workers  to  better  their  lives"  in  much  of  what 
we  do.  These  phrases  have  particular  meaning 
during  a  major  disaster.  Our  brothers  in  New 
England  certainly  rose  to  the  occasion  at 
Bridgeport.  I  particularly  want  to  commend 
the  members  of  Local  24,  Central  Connecti- 
cut; Local  43,  Hartford;  and  Local  210,  West- 
ern Connecticut.  These  are  our  construction 
locals  in  the  state.  They  did  a  tremendous  job 
at  Bridgeport. 

The  disaster  scene  is  now  cleared  of  the 
twisted  steel  and  broken  concrete,  but  the 
stark  reality  of  death  remains. 

The  Associated  Press  quoted  me  as  saying, 
"A  lot  of  paychecks  are  going  to  have  to  be 
replaced.  If  children  and  wives  are  in  need 
they  can  get  it  from  the  international  union." 

This  was  said  at  the  time  that  I  announced 
the  formation  of  a  nationwide  relief  effort  for 
the  families  of  the  victims.  The  purpose  of 
setting  up  the  fund  was  to  broaden  the  base 
of  contributions  being  made  to  a  local  relief 
effort.  I  am  urging  all  UBC  locals  to  join  in 
this  fund-raising  program.  Contributions  should 
be  made  out  to  the  Bridgeport  Building  Trades 
National  Disaster  Relief  Fund,  and  they  should 
be  sent  to  my  attention  at  the  General  Office, 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington, 
D.C.,  for  forwarding  to  Bridgeport. 

A  group  of  local  leaders  formed  a  citizens 
advisory  committee  for  the  national  relief 


fund,  and  I  am  indeed  gratified  to  be  a  part 
of  their  effort.  The  committee  was  created  by 
Frank  Krzywicki,  head  of  the  local  Building 
Trades,  and  it  includes  Mayor  Bucci,  Rever- 
end Henry  Yordan  of  Norwalk,  Conn.,  Pro- 
fessor Morris  Fried  of  the  University  of  Con- 
necticut, Msgr.  Wilham  J.  Scheyd  of 
St.  Augustine  Church  of  Bridgeport  and  Bishop 
Peter  Rosazza. 

A  writer  for  the  New  York  Times  who 
prepared  an  article  she  entitled  "Plaza  of 
Tears"  noted  that  "the  people  of  Bridgeport 
have  come  together  in  adversity  and  don't 
look  for  praise;  they  are  tough  .  .  .  Bridge- 
porters  will  go  about  their  lives.  Of  course, 
the  construction  men  worked  to  exhausion  at 
the  site  of  the  city's  tragedy:  Bridgeport  was 
always  a  good  union  town." 

In  a  recent  letter,  John  Catelli,  a  retired 
member  of  Local  43,  Hartford,  calls  it  "the 
caring  and  sharing  universality  of  unionism." 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

Address  Correction  Requested 


Non-Profit  Org. 

U.S.  POSTAGE 

PAID 

Depew,  N.Y. 
Permit  No.  28 


SUPPORT 

DAD 


DOUARS 

AGAINST 
DIABETES 

Saturday,  June  20, 1987 

Is  your  union  participating? 


On  June  20,  Fath- 
er's Day  Weekend, 
volunteers  from 

Building  and  Con- 
struction Trades  De- 
partment affiliates  cdl 
over  the  country  will 
be  populating  busy 
intersections,  giving 
their  time  and  energy 
to  raise  money  for  a 
new  Diabetes  Re- 
search Institute  at  the 
University  of  Miami. 


See  Page  15 

for  story  and  details 


July  1987 


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1235  40th  Avenue,  N.W. 
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William  Sidell,  General  President  Emeritus 
William  Konyha,  General  President  Emeritus 
Peter  Terzick,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 
Charles  E.  Nichols,  General  Treasurer  Emeritus 


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COVER 


ISSN  0008-6843 

VOLUME  107  No.  7  JULY  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

AIDS:  You  Should  Know  the  Facts 2 

Where  the  Candidates  Stand  on  the  Issues 5 

This  Month's  Question:  Foreign  Trade 6 

Carpenters,  Iron  Workers  Window  Agreement 10 

Eagle  Carcasses  at  L-P  Subsidiary >  . .  11 

States  Enact  Meager  Gains  in  Unemployment  Benefits 12 

Amnesty  Aid  at  Texas  Office 15 

Profile  of  an  Undocumented  Worker 15 

Foreign  Firms  Earning  U.S.  Dollars 16 

Earsplitting  Noises  Harm  More  Than  Ears Donald  Frederick  17 

Kansas  City  Carpenters  Note  Wal-Mart  Move. 18 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 4 

Ottawa  Report 14 

Local  Union  News 19 

We  Congratulate 21 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 22 

Labor  News  Roundup 24 

Retirees  Notebook 25 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Is  Your  Babysitter  Prepared? 26 

Plane  Gossip 28 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 29 

In  Memoriam  36 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


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During  his  State  of  the  Union  message 
to  Congress  on  January  6, 1941 ,  President 
Franklin  D.  Roosevelt  declared  Four 
Freedoms  to  be  a  formulation  of  world- 
wide social  and  political  objectives  for 
the  United  States.  Roosevelt  stated  these 
freedoms  to  be  the  freedom  of  speech 
and  expression,  the  freedom  of  every 
person  to  worship  God  in  his  own  way, 
the  freedom  from  want,  and  the  freedom 
from  fear. 

This  month  our  cover  depicts  the  free- 
dom of  religion  as  illustrated  by  a  Norman 
Rockwell  painting.  Posters  of  Rockwell's 
illustration  of  the  Four  Freedoms  were 
reproduced  and  widely  distributed  by  the 
Office  of  War  Information  during  World 
Warn. 

The  first  freedom  stated  by  Roosevelt 
and  illustrated  by  Rockwell  was  shown 
on  the  May  cover  of  Carpenter.  The 
paintings  depicting  freedom  from  want 
and  freedom  from  fear  will  be  reproduced 
on  upcoming  covers  of  Carpenter  during 
the  bicentennial  observance  of  the  estab- 
hshment  of  the  U.S.  Constitution. 

Rockwell  was  a  careful  craftsman  with 
an  ability  to  represent  detail  realistically. 
The  subjects  of  most  of  his  illustrations 
were  taken  from  every  day  family  and 
and  small  town  life.  In  this  painting, 
Rockwell  shows  the  young  and  elderly 
ahke,  worshipping  side  by  side. 

He  is  best  known  for  his  magazine 
cover  illustrations  for  The  Saturday  Eve- 
ning Post.  He  sold  his  first  cover  to  them 
in  1916  at  the  of  age  22.  Over  the  next 
47  years  he  illustrated  317  covers. 

A  year  before  he  died,  Rockwell  was 
awarded  the  Presidential  Medal  of  Free- 
dom— the  nation's  highest  peacetime 
award — by  President  Gerald  R.  Ford. 

The  "Freedom  of  Religion"  painting 
by  Rockwell  is  courtesy  of  the  Saturday 
Evening  Post  Society. 

NOTE:  Readers  who  would  like  additional 
copies  of  our  cover  may  obtain  them  by  sending 
50i  in  coin  to  cover  mailing  costs  to.  The 
CARPENTER,  101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001. 


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AIDS 


There's  no  reason  to 
panic,  but  you  should 
know  the  facts  and 
the  preventive 
measures  to  be  taken. 


The  creeping  menace  of  AIDS — Ac- 
quired Immune  Deficiency  Syndrome — 
has  cast  a  pall  over  North  America  and 
the  world  as  no  other  disease  has  done 
in  a  lifetime. 

Said  by  most  medical  scientists  to 
have  come  out  of.  Central  Africa  by 
way  of  an  infected  monkey  population, 
the  disease  has  raged  through  Rwanda, 
Zaire,  and  Haiti  and  spread  through 
U.S.  inner-city  prostitutes  and  intra- 
venous drug  users.  Homosexuals  have 
been  hardest  hit. 

The  greatest  risk  of  becoming  in- 
fected by  this  killer  comes  from  sex 
with  multiple  partners,  including  pros- 
titutes, homosexual  males  and  intra- 
venous drug  users.  According  to  a  New 
York  health  official,  the  actual  number 
of  AIDS-related  deaths  among  intra- 
venous drug  abusers  may  be  twice  as 
high  as  current  data  suggests. 

Science  and  government  are  attack- 
ing the  problem  in  many  ways:  testing 
the  military,  immigrants,  certain  gov- 
ernment employees,  and,  in  some  areas, 
those  applying  for  marriage  licenses. 
Medical  scientists  are  seeking  to  im- 
prove testing  techniques,  screening 
blood  donors  and  seeking  better  screen- 
ing methods,  expanding  the  war  against 
drug  abuse,  and  increasing  public 
awareness  of  the  dangers. 


The  best  way  to  slow  the  disease 
down,  while  science  seeks  a  vaccine 
and  a  cure,  is  care  in  sexual  relation- 
ships, monogamous  relationships,  the 
use  of  contraceptives,  and  saying  no  to 
drugs.  The  -era  of  the  "swinging  sin- 
gles" is  about  over,  because  of  AIDS 
fears. 


These  are  the 
currentjacts 
about  AIDS 

Acquired  Immune  Deficiency  Syn- 
drome is  a  deadly  disease  caused  by  a 
virus*  that  damages  the  immune  sys- 
tem. People  with  AIDS  are  vulnerable 
to  life-threatening  diseases  that  do  not 
affect  others  with  normal  immunity. 
AIDS  is  most  often  spread  by  sexual 
contact  and  by  sharing  contaminated 
drug  needles.  AIDS  has  also  been  trans- 
mitted from  infected  pregnant  women 
to  their  infants  and,  rarely,  by  trans- 
fusion of  contaminated  blood  or  blood 
products. 

About  98%  of  all  AIDS  cases  reported 
to  date  have  occurred  in  the  following 
groups  of  people: 

*  The  virus  that  causes  AIDS  and  related  disorders 
has  several  different  names:  HTLV-III,  LAV,  ARV, 
and  most  recently,  HIV. 


•  Sexually  active  homosexual  and  bi- 
sexual men  (or  men  who  have  had 
sex  with  another  man  since  1977) 
(73%) 

•  Present  or  past  abusers  of  illicit  in- 
travenous drugs  (17%) 

•  Homosexual  and  bisexual  men  who 
are  also  IV  drug  abusers  (8%) 

•  Persons  who  have  had  transfusions 
of  blood  or  blood  components  (2%) 

•  Persons  with  hemophilia  or  other 
blood  clotting  disorders  who  have 
received  blood  clotting  factor  con- 
centrates (1%) 

•  Heterosexual  men  and  women  (these 
include  sex  partners  of  persons  with 
AIDS  or  at  risk  for  AIDS,  and  people 
born  in  countries  where  heterosexual 
transmission  is  thought  to  be  more 
common  than  in  the  United  States) 
(4%) 

•  Infants  born  to  mothers  infected  with 
the  AIDS  virus  (1%) 

About  2%  of  AIDS  patients  do  not 
fall  into  any  of  these  groups,  but  sci- 
entists believe  that  transmission  oc- 
curred in  similar  ways.  Some  patients 
could  not  be  followed  up,  or  died  before 
complete  histories  could  be  taken. 


CARPENTER 


Is  it  safe  to  have  a  blood 
transfusion  today? 

Today,  the  risk  of  getting  AIDS  from 
a  blood  transfusion  has  been  greatly 
reduced.  All  donated  blood  and  blood 
products  are  tested  for  the  AIDS  virus 
antibody,  and  donors  are  screened  for 
risk  factors.  The  risk  of  getting  AIDS 
from  a  blood  transfusion  has  always 
been  small.  Only  2%  of  all  cases  of 
AIDS  have  resulted  from  blood  trans- 
fusions. Another  1%  of  cases  have  been 
hemophilia  patients  who  received  blood 
clotting  factor  concentrates  to  treat  their 
disease. 

No  one  who  really  needs  a  blood 
transfusion  should  refuse  it  for  fear  of 
getting  AIDS.  The  risk  to  your  health 
from  refusing  a  blood  transfusion  your 
doctor  recommends  is  much  greater 
than  the  very  low  risk  of  getting  AIDS 
from  the  transfusion. 

Furthermore,  no  one  should  be  afraid 
of  getting  AIDS  from  donating  blood. 
You  cannot  get  AIDS  by  donating  blood 
or  plasma.  A  new  sterile  needle  is  used 
for  each  donor  and  then  discarded.  The 
need  for  blood  is  always  great,  and 
healthy  people  who  are  not  at  risk  for 
AIDS  should  continue  to  donate  as  they 
have  in  the  past. 


How  has  the  blood 
supply  been  protected 

When  scientists  first  learned  that  the 
AIDS  virus  could  be  spread  through 
blood,  they  did  not  yet  know  what 
caused  the  disease.  As  a  first  step  to 
improve  safety,  the  Public  Health  Serv- 
ice urged  that  people  with  signs  or 
symptoms  of  AIDS  and  members  of 
groups  known  to  be  at  increased  risk 
not  donate  blood.  Blood  collection  cen- 
ters included  questions  about  symp- 
toms of  AIDS  to  screen  donors,  and 
staff  were  taught  to  reject  those  with 
early  signs  and  symptoms  of  the  dis- 
ease. 

Also,  new  heat  and  chemical  proce- 
dures were  developed  to  kill  viruses  in 
clotting  factor  concentrates  manufac- 
tured for  use  in  treating  hemophilia. 

Help  came  in  1984  with  the  discovery 
of  the  virus  that  causes  AIDS.  This  led 
scientists  to  develop  a  laboratory  test 
to  detect  antibodies  to  the  virus  in 
people's  blood.  (Antibodies  are  sub- 
stances that  cells  make  to  destroy  spe- 
cific viruses  and  other  germs.)  By  spring 
1985 — less  than  a  year  later — the  test 
was  in  use  at  the  nation's  blood  centers 
to  screen  all  donated  blood  and  plasma. 

Together,  these  measures  have  nearly 
eliminated  the  possibility  of  getting 
AIDS  through  transfusions  of  blood  or 
blood  products. 


Health  workers  demand 
safeguards  against  AIDS 


Unions  representing  health  care  work- 
ers called  for  immediate  federal  standards 
on  occupational  exposure  to  blood-borne 
infectious  diseases,  including  AIDS  and 
hepatitis  B.  They  charged  that  foot-drag- 
ging by  the  Occupational  Safety  &  Health 
Administration  has  resulted  in  added  cases 
of  infected  workers. 

The  Atlanta-based  Center  for  Disease 
Control  reported  that  three  female  health 
care  workers  were  infected  with  the  AIDS 
virus  after  coming  in  contact  with  con- 
taminated blood. 

The  CDC,  which  issued  guidelines  for 
preventing  transmission  of  infectious  dis- 
eases in  the  workplace,  concluded  that 
chapped  or  cracked  skin  allowed  the 
virus  to  enter  the  workers'  bloodstreams. 

Gerald  McEntee,  president  of  the 
American  Federation  of  State,  County 
and  Municipal  Employees,  charged  that 
the  increasing  cases  of  exposure  to  the 
AIDS  virus  "clearly  show  that  employers 
will  not  regulate  themselves."  He  urged 
that  precautions  for  the  prevention  of 
blood-borne  and  other  infectious  diseases 
be  made  mandatory  and  enforceable. 

"Too  many  employers  have  been  cut- 
ting corners  when  it  comes  to  protecting 
their  employees  from  preventable  occu- 
pational exposures  to  infectious  diseases, 
chemicals  and  other  hazards,"  McEntee 
declared. 

After  nine  months,  OSHA  has  not  yet 
answered  petitions  filed  by  unions  rep- 


resenting more  than  800,000  health  care 
workers.  Last  September,  AFSCME  pe- 
titioned OSHA  for  an  emergency  stand- 
ard on  occupational  exposures  to  infec- 
tious diseases. 

A  week  earlier,  the  Service  Employ- 
ees, the  Hospital  &  Health  Care  Em- 
ployees and  District  1 199,  the  health  care 
division  of  the  Retail,  Wholesale  &  Dept. 
Store  Union,  had  petitioned  for  an  emer- 
gency standard  on  hepatitis  B.  Last  Feb- 
ruary, the  Federation  of  Nurses  &  Health 
Professionals,  affiliated  with  the  Teach- 
ers, petitioned  for  a  similar  emergency 
measure. 

The  unions  pointed  out  that  health  care 
workers  currently  have  no  legal  recourse 
against  employers  who  fail  to  comply 
with  the  CDC  guidelines. 

The  three  cases  reported  by  the  CDC 
are  the  first  of  health  care  workers  be- 
coming infected  without  sustaining  needle- 
stick  injuries.  In  two  cases,  gloves  and 
other  protective  gear  might  have  pre- 
vented the  infections,  the  CDC  said.  In 
the  third  case,  the  worker  was  exposed 
when  the  top  flew  off  a  blood-collection 
tube  and  spattered  blood  on  her  face  and 
into  her  mouth. 

Of  six  other  cases  of  workers  becoming 
infected  with  AIDS,  four  were  from  needle 
stick  injuries  and  two  involved  persons 
who  had  provided  long-term  nursing  care, 
but  who  did  not  observe  any  infection 
control  precautions,  the  CDC  said.  Uub 


What  does  a  positive 
AIDS  antibody  test 
mean? 


by  the  virus  and  can  transmit  it  to 
others.  A  positive  test,  though,  does 
not  mean  that  a  person  has  AIDS  or 
will  develop  either  AIDS  or  AIDS- 
related  illnesses,  but  it  means  that  he 


People  who  test  positive  for  antibod-      or  she  is  a  carrier  of  the  virus.  An 


ies  to  the  AIDS  virus  have  been  infected 


Continued  on  Page  38 


JULY     1987 


Washington 
Report 


SUPER-SCAB  FINE  ALLOWED 

Unions  can  fine  members  who  tal<e  supervisory 
positions  witli  non-union  contractors. 

Tliat  federal  labor  law  was  reinforced  by  a  U.S. 
Supreme  Court  ruling  upholding  a  9th  Circuit  U.S. 
Court  of  Appeals  decision  based  on  a  1981  dispute 
between  a  California  electrical  workers  local  and  its 
local  chapter  of  NECA. 

The  top  court  agreed  that  the  National  Labor  Re- 
lations Board  misapplied  a  provision  of  the  Taft- 
Hartley  Act  designed  to  prevent  unions  from  "coerc- 
ing" members  who  take  supervisory  positions  in 
which  they  represent  the  employer  in  grievance  and 
bargaining  matters. 

The  section  of  law  doesn't  apply,  Justice  William 
Brennan  wrote,  when  union  members  take  supervi- 
sory posts  with  "employers"  with  whom  the  union 
neither  has  nor  seeks  a  collective  bargaining  rela- 
tionship. 

MORE  AID  FOR  DISPLACED 

Secretary  of  Labor  William  E.  Brock  announced 
$3.7  million  for  dislocated  workers  in  eight  states. 
The  breakdown  of  disbursements  show  $1 ,350,000 
in  grants  for  dislocated  workers  in  California,  Ohio 
and  Oklahoma  while  a  total  of  $2,291,000  in  grants 
will  go  to  workers  and  farmers  in  Minnesota,  Mon- 
tana, New  York,  Oklahoma  and  Wisconsin.  The 
grants  are  designated  for  workers  who  are  dis- 
placed due  to  mass  layoffs,  plant  closures  and  ad- 
verse conditions  in  the  farm  economy. 

LABOR  PACS  OUTSPENT 

Corporate,  trade  association  and  conservative  po- 
litical action  committees  outspent  labor  political  ac- 
tion committees  by  about  5  to  1  during  the  1985-86 
election  cycle,  according  to  a  recent  Federal  Elec- 
tion Commission  report. 

The  FEC  said  the  first  comprehensive  look  at 
PAC  activity  in  the  recent  election  cycle  showed 
that  direct  contributions  to  federal  candidates  rose 
26%,  to  $132  million.  The  same  rate  of  increase 
occurred  in  the  previous  cycle,  rising  from  $87.6 
million  in  1981-82  to  $113.0  million  in  1983-84. 

The  FEC  reviewed  4,568  PACs  which  were  ac- 
tive during  the  1985-86  cycle.  The  FEC  said  only 
4,157  were  left  at  the  end  of  1986  and  only  3,152 
or  69%  actually  contributed  to  federal  candidates. 


MINIMUM  WAGE  PROPOSAL 

House  and  Senate  Democratic  leaders  revived 
one  of  their  traditional  causes  this  year  as  they 
launched  a  drive  to  raise  the  nation's  minimum 
hourly  wage  from  $3.35  to  $4.65  by  1990  and  to 
impose  automatic  increases  to  keep  pace  with  gen- 
eral pay  levels  in  future  years.  Congress  has  not 
enacted  a  minimum-wage  increase  since  1977,  and 
the  last  annual  adjustment  occurred  in  1981,  just  as 
President  Reagan  took  office. 

Noting  that  purchasing  power  of  the  minimum 
wage  declined  27%  over  the  past  six  years,  falling 
considerably  below  the  poverty  threshold  for  fami- 
lies with  children.  Senate  Labor  and  Human  Re- 
sources Committee  Chairman  Edward  M.  Kennedy 
(D-Mass.)  said,  "We  often  heard  this  administration 
talk  of  a  subminimum  wage  for  youth.  In  fact,  we 
already  have  a  subminimum  wage — for  everyone." 

Kennedy  and  House  Education  and  Labor  Com- 
mittee Chairman  Augustus  F.  Hawkins  (D. -Calif.) 
also  invoked  the  fiscal  realities  of  the  1 980s,  saying 
that  a  minimum-wage  increase  would  not  add  to 
federal  budget  deficits  and  instead  might  help  re- 
duce them  by  encouraging  people  to  move  off  wel- 
fare into  jobs. 

The  proposed  bill  would  raise  the  $3.35  hourly 
wage  floor  by  50  cents  to  $3.85  next  January  1 ,  to 
$4.25  in  January  1989,  and  to  $4.65  in  January 
1990.  Annually  after  that,  the  floor  would  rise  auto- 
matically to  a  level  equal  to  50%  of  average  hourly 
earnings  nationwide  as  determined  by  the  Bureau 
of  Labor  Statistics. 

14  SENATORS  RAISED  MILLION 

There  were  14  senators  elected  in  1986  who 
raised  more  than  $1  million  in  political  action  com- 
mittee contributions  for  their  campaigns,  according 
to  a  Common  Cause  study.  This  raised  the  number 
of  PAC  millionaires  in  the  Senate  from  10  to  24,  the 
citizens  group  said. 

Of  the  14  elected  last  November,  nine  were  Re- 
publicans and  five  were  Democrats. 

The  Federal  Election  Commission  also  reported 
that  congressional  spending  in  last  year's  elections 
exceeded  $450  million,  up  20%  over  1984  spend- 
ing. 

The  Senate  is  expected  to  debate  campaign  fi- 
nance reform  this  year,  the  first  time  a  comprehen- 
sive reform  bill  has  hit  the  floor  since  1977.  Majority 
Leader  Robert  Byrd  (W.Va.)  has  given  top  priority 
to  S.  2,  which  he  is  co-sponsoring  with  Senator 
David  Boren  (D-Okla.). 

Labor  has  called  S.  2  a  good  beginning,  but 
would  favor  tougher  restrictions  on  political  contribu- 
tions by  the  wealthy  and  a  crackdown  on  conduiting 
and  bundling,  devices  used  to  evade  election  regu- 
lations. Big  business  opposes  campaign  reform. 

REAL  EARNINGS  DOWN 

Real  average  weekly  earnings  decreased  1% 
from  March  to  April  after  seasonal  adjustment,  ac- 
cording to  the  most  recent  data  released  by  the 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  of  the  U.S.  Department 
of  Labor.  This  decrease  stemmed  from  a  .2%  de- 
crease in  average  hourly  earnings  and  a  .3%  de- 
crease in  average  weekly  hours  and  a  .5%  increase 
in  the  Consumer  Price  Index  for  Urban  Wage  Earn- 
ings and  Clerical  Workers. 


CARPENTER 


Where  the  Presidential 
CandidtUes  Stand 
on  the  Issties 


QUESTION  NUMBER  ONEl 


The  AFL-CIO  has  launched  a  mas- 
sive effort  to  involve  all  union  members 
and  their  families  in  the  process  of 
choosing  our  next  President.  The  UBC 
is  an  active  participant  in  this  effort, 
which  is  called  "Democracy  At  Work." 

The  first  step  in  this  project  is  to  help 
our  members  to  become  fully  informed 
about  the  positions  of  the  presidential 
candidates.  The  AFL-CIO  devised  five 
key  questions  which  14  declared  and 
potential  candidates  from  the  Demo- 
cratic and  Republican  parties  were  asked 
to  answer.  Four  answers  were  in  writing 
and  one  was  videotaped. 

AFL-CIO  state  and  local  central  bod- 
ies will  be  receiving  copies  of  the  can- 
didates' responses,  and  they  should  be 
making  these  available  to  as  many  mem- 
bers as  possible,  as  well  as  scheduling 
showings  of  the  videotape.  UBC  Leg- 
islative Director  Wayne  Pierce's  office 
can  assist  your  local  union  in  getting  a 
copy  of  the  videotape  or  the  written 
answers  to  the  candidates'  questions. 
Two  copies  of  the  videotapes  are  being 
sent  to  each  U.S.  District  Board  mem- 
ber, and  showings  can  be  arranged  in 
each  U.S.  district  by  contacting  these 
General  Executive  Board  members.  In 


addition,  the  Carpenter  magazine  will 
reprint  the  candidates'  answers  in  up- 
coming issues  over  the  next  few 
months. 

The  point  of  all  this  work  is  to  help 
our  members  and  their  families  be  as 
fully  informed  as  possible  as  we  work 
to  choose  the  next  U.S.  President.  At 
the  October  AFL-CIO  General  Board 
meeting  the  Federation  will  consider 
endorsing  the  candidate  who  gets  two- 
thirds  support  from  the  affiliates.  There 
will  be  no  public  endorsement  by  the 
UBC  of  any  candidate  prior  to  October, 
1987,  and  no  Local,  State  or  District 
Council  should  make  any  endorsements 
prior  to  this  time.  If  you  have  members 
involved  in  any  early  political  events 
prior  to  a  UBC  endorsement  announce- 
ment, they  should  vote  and  speak  as 
individuals,  not  on  behalf  of  the  union. 

UBC  members  in  the  United  States 
are  expected  to  be  actively  involved  in 
the  presidential  race.  It  is  critical  to  the 
UBC  and  to  labor  as  a  whole  that  we 
elect  a  friend  to  the  White  House.  Help 
to  get  your  fellow  members  informed 
and  involved.  We  must  be  sure  that  a 
President  for  working  people  represents 
this  country. 


Where  do  the  major  poUlical  parly  candi- 
dates stand  on  the  crucial  issue  of  presi- 
dential leadership?  That's  the  question 
posed  by  veteran  screen  actor  Ned  Beatty, 
which  was  videotaped  by  the  Labor  Insti- 
tute of  Public  Affairs  in  front  of  the  White 
House. 


How  Many  of  Your 
Members  Are 
Registered  to  Vote? 


If  the  answer  is  75%  or  more,  your  local 
or  district  council  can  join  the  Registered 
for  Action  Club.  We  are  happy  to  report 
that  the  UBC  legislative  department  is  hard 
at  work  keeping  up  with  your  requests  to 
join  the  club.  Many  requests  for  membership 
lists,  which  you  are  correcting  and  returning 
to  the  General  Office,  have  been  received. 
We  are  merging  these  corrected  lists  with 
the  COPE  voter  lists,  which  are  sent  back 
to  your  local  or  district  council.  These  COPE 
lists  show  which  members  are  registered  and 
which  are  not.  Your  political  committees  are 
working  on  registering  unregistered  mem- 
bers. These  new  voters  will  get  "I'm  union 
and  I  vote"  bumper  stickers  and  a  personal 
letter  from  the  Carpenters'  Legislative  Im- 


provement Committee. 

When  your  local  or  district  council  reaches 
75%  registered  members,  you  can  join  the 
club. 

Every  day  the  news  carries  more  stories 
on  the  coming  presidential  and  congressional 
elections.  Let's  be  ready  to  turn  out  more 
UBC  votes  than  ever  before,  and  put  a  pro- 
labor  President  and  Congress  in  the  White 
House  and  on  Capitol  Hill. 

If  you  have  not  requested  your  member 
list,  contact  General  Treasurer  Wayne  Pierce 
today  at  the  General  Office.  We  will  send 
you  your  member  list,  and  instructions  for 
beginning  the  job  of  registering  your  mem- 
bers. Take  action  that  makes  a  difference — 
Register  for  Action  and  join  the  Club. 


JULY     1987 


THIS  MONTH'S 


IIUESTION  FOR  THE  CANDIDATES 


FOREIGN 
TRADE 


How  would  you  propose  to  reduce  America's  trade  deficit  and 
encourage  the  fair  exchange  of  goods  with  other  nations,  while 
maintaining  and  improving  our  standard  of  living? 


4 


Answers  from 
DEMOCRATS 


Joseph  R. 
Biden  Jr. 

U.S.  Senator 

(Delaware) 

1973—; 

Chairman, 

Judiciary 

Committee; 

ranking 

Democrat, 

Foreign 

Relations 

Committee 


Today's  world  is  more  complicated 
than  the  simplistic  choice  between  free 
trade  and  protectionism.  Free  trade  is 
a  myth — something  that  never  existed. 
And  protectionism  would  be  self-de- 
struction— a  trade  war  now  would  be 
like  a  nuclear  war:  there  would  be  no 
winners. 

Both  options  are  defeatist.  Free  trad- 
ers say  we  are  powerless  to  change  our 
future.  Protectionists  say  we  cannot 
compete  against  our  rivals  and  win. 

Our  next  President  must  respond  to 
unfair  foreign  trade  practices,  not  with 
talk,  but  action.  He  should  sit  down 
with  trading  partners  and  put  "all  the 
cards  on  the  table":  negotiating  with 
them  over  trade  practices,  military  and 
foreign  aid  support,  and  the  value  of 
our  currencies.  If  needed,  the  President 
should  impose  tariffs  on  those  who  are 
unwilling  to  be  fair  traders. 

Our  goal  must  be  not  withdrawing 
from  world  competition  but  entering  it 
to  win.  Management  is  going  to  have 
to  worry  more  about  building  industry 
for  the  next  decade,  and  less  about  next 
quarter's  profits.  Management  must  give 


workers  more  say  in  how  industries  are 
run  and  a  share  of  the  profits;  workers 
must  accept  this  responsibility  and  help 
America  increase  productivity  and 
product  quality. 

Finally,  we  should  not  ignore  the 
human  costs  of  trade  problems.  As 
President,  I  would  use  tariff  proceeds 
to  fund  worker  retraining  and  reloca- 
tion. And  I  would  support  ideas  like 
wage  insurance,  plant  closing  laws,  and 
community  tax  base  insurance. 

I  don't  want  America  to  withdraw 
from  world  trade — nor  do  I  want  us  to 
concede  defeat  to  our  rivals.  Instead,  I 
want  us  to  prevail  in  the  world  econ- 
omy, and  I  icnow  that  we  can. 


Paul 
Simon 

U.S.  Senator 

(Illinois)  1985—, 

U.S. 

Representative, 

1975-1985; 

Lieutenant 

Governor, 

1968-1972; 

Newspaper 

Publisher, 

1948-1966. 


The  devastation  of  America's  indus- 
trial base  caused  by  the  massive  influx 
of  subsidized  imports  from  low  wage 
countries  represents  the  most  serious 
threat  to  American  industry  since  the 
Great  Depression — as  every  steel- 
worker,  autoworker,  machinist,  com- 
munications and  textile  worker  and  ev- 
ery other  American  worker  knows  so 
well.  We  are  in  a  trade  war  right  now 
and  we  are  losing  it. 

That  erosion  of  America's  industrial 
base  by  foreign  imports  must  be  stopped 
soon. 


Franklin  Roosevelt  wouldn't  have 
stood  for  it.  Harry  Truman  wouldn't 
have  stood  for  it.  And  neither  will  I. 

I  didn't  care  what  my  Republican 
(and  neo-liberal)  opponents  said  when 
I  co-sponsored  the  textile  and  domestic 
content  bills. 

And  today,  I  am  a  co-sponsor  of  the 
toughest  trade  legislation  currently  be- 
fore the  U.S.  Senate,  including  the 
worker  rights  and  bilateral  trade  reduc- 
tion measures. 

We  must  be  careful  that  the  rhetoric 
of  "competitiveness"  doesn't  become 
a  new  code  word  for  wage  freezes, 
concessionary  contracts  and  other  anti- 
worker  policies. 

Frankly,  we  must  see  how  the  cur- 
rently proposed  trade  legislation  works 
to  save  American  jobs. 

If  the  enacted  legislation  and  its  ac- 
tual execution  doesn't  work,  then  newer, 
tougher  legislation  may  be  called  for. 


Michael  S. 
Dukakis 

Governor  of 
Massachusetts, 
1974-1978  and 
1982—. 


The  trade  deficit  has  cost  two  million 
jobs,  betraying  the  hopes  and  dreams 
of  families  and  communities  across  our 
nation.  Debating  "protectionism"  ver- 
sus "free  trade"  misses  the  point.  Our 
goal  must  be  competitive  American  in- 
dustries and  balanced  trade  internation- 
ally. 

Some  say  America  must  de-indus- 


C  ARPENTER 


FOREIGN  TRADE/ l/l//7ere  the  Candidates  Stand 


I 


trialize.  I  disagree.  We  need  our  basic 
industries.  Our  national  security  cannot 
become  hostage  to  raw  materials  pur- 
chased, processed  and  manufactured 
abroad. 

To  win  in  world  competition,  we  must 
invest  in  education  and  job  training,  in 
first-rate  transportation,  in  clean  air  and 
water,  and  in  new  technologies  that  will 
help  both  new  and  older  industries.  And 
we  must  work  to  keep  plants  open,  help 
dislocated  workers,  and  provide  older 
workers  with  new  skills. 

We  must  address  unfair  trade  prac- 
tices that  subsidize  foreign  goods  and 
close  markets  to  our  products.  Where 
appropriate,  we  can  provide  limited 
rehef  from  foreign  competition,  but  we 
must  insist  that  the  industries  that  ben- 
efit from  that  relief  invest  and  modern- 
ize and  become  competitive. 

Finally,  we  must  get  our  fiscal  house 
in  order  by  reducing  the  record  deficits 
which  devour  savings,  inflate  the  value 
of  the  dollar,  attract  foreign  capital, 
make  America  a  debtor  nation  and  cost 
millions  of  American  jobs. 


Richard 
Gephardt 

Chairman, 

House 

Democratic 

Caucus,  1985—; 

U.S. 

Representative 

(Missouri), 

1977—;  Board  of 

Aldermen, 

1971-1976. 


I  intend  to  continue  pushing  this  year, 
as  I  did  in  1985,  for  Congress  to  enact 
a  tough  trade  policy.  The  Gephardt 
Amendment  would  give  this  country 
the  teeth  we  need  at  the  bargaining 
table,  in  trade  negotiations,  to  open  up 
closed  markets  abroad. 

Other  countries  found  to  be  engaging 
in  unfair  trade  practices  would  have  a 
chance  to  negotiate  a  fair  trade  agree- 
ment with  the  United  States.  But  if  they 
won't  come  to  the  table,  or  if  efforts  to 
negotiate  fail,  or  if  an  agreement  is 
reneged  upon  by  a  trading  partner,  then 
U.S.  sanctions  would  be  systematically 
imposed  under  my  policy.  And  we  would 
keep  them  in  place  until  that  country 
acts  fairly  and  agrees  to  reduce  its 
surplus  by  10%  per  year. 

No  other  country  in  the  world  can 
match  the  productivity  of  American 

JULY     1987 


workers,  but  other  countries  are  pre- 
venting us  from  competing  head  to 
head.  They've  erected  trade  barriers 
and  they  take  us  for  patsies  and  chumps 
because  our  government  won't  get  tough 
on  trade.  We  need  to  get  the  handcuffs 
off  American  workers  that  have  been 
put  on  us  by  unfair  trade  practices 
abroad.  Just  let  us  compete,  that's  all, 
and  I  know  we'll  win.  And  our  standard 
of  living  will  rise  when  we  get  America 
back  to  work. 


Jesse 
Jackson 

President, 

National 

Rainbow 

Coalition.  1984-; 

President, 

Operation 

PUSH,  1971- 

1983;  Executive 

Director, 

Operation 

Breadbasket, 

1966-1971. 


Fair  trade  is  essential  to  protect  our 
national  interests,  our  vital  industries, 
and  our  jobs.  An  effective  national  trade 
policy  includes  aggressive  federal  ini- 
tiatives and  coordinated  programs  to 
improve  competitiveness  and  increase 
American  exports.  We  must  negotiate 
trade  agreements,  through  GATT  and 
bilaterally,  that  are  fair  and  mutually 
beneficial. 

Second,  the  major  cause  of  our  trade 
deficit  is  President  Reagan's  record 
budget  deficits.  They  have  driven  up 
the  value  of  the  dollar  and  made  our 
products  uncompetitive  in  the  world. 

Third,  we  have  lost  our  industrial  and 
commercial  competitiveness  in  the 
world  because  our  research  and  devel- 
opment monies,  over  half  of  our  sci- 
entists and  engineers,  and  6%  of  our 
GNP,  goes  toward  military  projects; 
while  the  Japanese  have  75%  of  their 
scientists  and  engineers,  and  their  re- 
search and  development  monies,  work- 
ing on  industrial,  commercial,  and  eco- 
nomic development.  A  nation  does  best 
what  it  does  most.  We  are  first  in 
military  development  and  they  are  be- 
coming first  in  economic  development. 

Lastly,  I  support  international  labor 
rights.  American  workers  can  never 
compete  with  slave  labor  markets 
abroad — nor  should  we  try.  I  support 


efforts  to  oppose  foreign  governments' 
actions  which  blatantly  suppress  work- 
ers' rights,  imprison  and  kill  labor  lead- 
ers, and  have  virtually  no  health  and 
safety  standards. 


Albert 
Gore  Jr. 

i7.5.  Senator 

(Tennessee), 

1985—;  U.S. 

Representative, 

1977-1985; 

Reporter, 

Nashville 

Tennessean, 

1970-1976. 


America  is  in  a  trade  crisis.  Over  the 
past  six  years,  this  Administration  has 
spent  and  borrowed  us  into  a  very  deep 
hole.  We're  tired  of  leaders  whose  idea 
of  free  trade  is  to  tell  the  world,  "Here — 
we've  got  lots  of  jobs.  Go  ahead  and 
take  as  many  as  you  like!"  We  need  a 
strong  leader  who  won't  tolerate  a  de- 
clining standard  of  living  or  an  economy 
that  leaks  $170  billion  a  year. 

What  has  been  lacking  is  presidential 
leadership  and  presidential  willingness 
to  back  up  words  with  actions  in  our 
deaUngs  with  trading  partners.  Our  gov- 
ernment must  also  stop  making  Amer- 
ica's problems  worse  by  borrowing  more 
than  we  can  afford. 

We  should  target  our  resources  to- 
ward long-term  prosperity,  productiv- 
ity, and  people  for  a  change.  America 


FOREIGN  TRADE /IV/^ere  the  Candidates  Stand 


should  prepare  to  compete  by  making 
better  products  than  the  Germans — not 
by  paying  wages  that  are  lower  than 
Brazil's.  Our  next  generation  of  leaders 
should  know  that  to  win  back  American 
jobs,  Americans  need  the  best  training 
programs  and  schools. 

This  country  practically  invented 
world  trade,  and  we  used  it  to  build  a 
better  life  for  everybody.  The  next 
President  must  inspire  this  nation  to 
lead  the  way  again — and  join  with  work- 
ing men  and  women  to  bring  out  Amer- 
ica's best. 


Bruce 
Babbitt 

Governor  of 
Arizona,  1978- 
1987;  Attorney 
General,  1975- 
1978;  Attorney, 
Brown,  Vlassis 
&  Bain,  1967- 
1975;  Attorney, 
Office  of 
Economic 
Opportunity, 
1965-1967.' 


Free  traders  tell  us,  in  the  face  of  all 
the  evidence,  that  there  is  nothing  ba- 
sically wrong  with  the  system  of  inter- 
national trade.  Protectionists  want  to 
pick  fight  after  fight  about  unfair  trading 
practices  and  start  an  unending  cycle 
of  retaliation. 

My  approach  is  a  third  alternative 
entirely,  I  call  it  balanced  trade.  Bal- 
anced trade  concentrates  on  objective 
results  ("balance")  rather  than  subjec- 
tive rules  (such  as  "fairness")  which 
different  nations  interpret  differently. 

Balanced  trade  means  simply  that 
every  industrial  country  must  keep  its 
multilateral  trading  accounts,  the  sum 
total  of  all  its  foreign  trade,  in  approx- 
imate balance.  If  you  export,  you  im- 
port, and  you  do  it  in  equal  measure. 
The  overall  value  of  what  you  sell  to 
the  world  must  match  the  overall  value 
of  what  you  buy.  If  that  is  not  the  case, 
and  you  won't  balance  your  accounts, 
then  your  victims  will  balance  them  for 
you — with  across-the-board  tariffs  that 
increase  every  year. 

That  is  balanced  trade.  It  is  a  new 
idea  in  recognition  of  an  old  value: 
overall  parity  between  exports  and  im- 
ports. All  it  needs  is  a  President  who 
is  bold  enough  to  make  it  happen. 


^^%^ Answers  from 
REPUBLICANS 


% 


Pete 
du  Pont 

Governor  of 
Delaware,  1977- 
1985;  U.S. 
Representative, 
1971-1977;  Stale 
Legislator, 
1969-1971. 


We  should  never  forget  that  Ameri- 
can workers  are  today  the  most  pro- 
ductive workers  in  the  world.  Our  high 
productivity  gives  us  the  highest  stand- 
ard of  living  in  the  world,  and  we  must 
build  on  our  success  by  continuing  to 
improve  productivity  for  all  Americans. 
When  bad  government  tax  and  spending 
policies  don't  get  in  the  way,  Americans 
can  outcompete,  outproduce,  and  out- 
perform anybody  in  the  world.  Too 
often  politicians  have  blamed  American 
workers  when  their  liberal  high  tax,  big 
spending  policies  have  been  the  real 
guilty  party. 

We  must  reduce  taxes  which  make 
American  products  too  expensive  in 
world  trade.  We  must  reduce  unnec- 
essary regulations  that  hurt  our  ability 
to  compete. 

From  a  long-range  point  of  view,  we 
must  improve  our  education  system. 
We  simply  cannot  prepare  our  young 
people  for  the  future  with  a  system 
designed  a  century  ago.  If  America  is 
to  be  competitive,  education  and  train- 
ing must  continue  throughout  our  lives. 
We  need  to  help  those  who  must  pre- 
pare for  second  and  third  careers — for 
new  work  in  new  industries. 

Our  goal  as  Americans  is  to  com- 
pete— and  win.  We  should  never  hide 
behind  the  false  walls  of  protectionism. 
That  is  what  Herbert  Hoover  tried  to 
do,  and  it  brought  on  the  Depression. 
We  don't  need  to  hide  behind  tariff 
walls.  If  we  insist  on  open  markets,  we 
can  win.  Some  of  these  markets  are 
closed  to  us  today.  This  must  end. 

As  President,  I  would  negotiate  from 
strength  with  those  nations  that  use 
tariffs  and  other  barriers  that  keep  out 
American  exports  now.  For  example. 


as  President,  I  would  refuse  to  sign  any 
major  trade  agreement  that  did  not 
include  significant  reductions  in  barriers 
to  our  agricultural  exports. 

The  Japanese  want  access  to  our 
American  markets.  They  can  have  it  if 
the  Japanese  market  is  opened  to  Iowa 
beef  and  Kansas  corn.  It's  a  very  simple 
message  to  our  foreign  trading  partners; 
no  increase  in  efforts,  no  increase  in 
exports. 


Jack  Kemp 

U.S. 

Representative 

(New  York) 

1971—;  Pro 

Football 

Quarterback, 

American  & 

National 

Football 

Leagues, 

1957-1970. 


I  believe  the  American  labor  force 
can  compete  and  prosper  in  the  global 
economy.  America  is  the  most  produc- 
tive nation  in  the  world.  We  need  to 
increase  our  commitment  to  improving 
skills,  through  education  and  training 
and  further  investment  in  modern  plant 
and  equipment.  As  a  national  leader  for 
lower  tax  rates  on  both  wages  and 
investment,  I  believe  we  must  take 
further  steps  to  remove  artificial  bar- 
riers to  U.S.  competitiveness  in  order 
to  reduce  our  trade  deficit. 

First,  we  must  take  steps  to  reform 
the  world's  monetary  system  to  provide 
a  stable  dollar  and  help  bring  about 
lower  long  term  interest  rates.  Our 
manufacturing  productivity  has  begun 
to  rise  again,  but  this  has  been  swamped 
by  the  wildly  fluctuating  dollar,  high 
interest  rates,  and  the  global  recession 
among  our  trading  customers  who  are 
buying  less  of  U.S.  products. 

Second,  our  goal  must  not  be  to  raise 
tariffs  which  would  add  a  tremendous 
burden  on  working  Americans,  but  to 
open  markets  for  our  goods  and  raise 
the  U.S.  standard  of  living.  To  end 
unfair  foreign  trading  practices,  we  must 
force  competition  by  lowering,  not  rais- 
ing barriers.  I  have  introduced  legisla- 
tion authorizing  reciprocal  lowering  of 
trade  barriers — particularly  with  the  ex- 
port competitors  of  countries  that  re- 
fuse to  open  their  markets  to  U.S. 
goods — and  requiring  consumer  and 
taxpayer  impact  estimates  for  all  trade 
legislation. 


8 


CARPENTER 


FOREIGN  TRADE /l/l//7ere  the  Candidates  Stand 


George 
Bush 

Vice  President 
of  the  United 
States,  1981—: 
U.S. 

Representative. 
1967-71; 
Ambassador  to 
China,  1974-75; 
Director  of 
Central 
Intelligence, 
1975-77. 


The  President  should  always  look  out 
for  the  national  interest.  First,  I  support 
strong  and  strict  enforcement  of  our 
trade  laws.  We  must  remember,  how- 
ever, that  protectionism  helps  a  se- 
lected group  at  the  expense  of  all  Amer- 
icans and  overall  economic  growth. 
Limiting  imports  to  reduce  the  trade 
deficit  would:  (a)  raise  prices  to  con- 
sumers; and  (b)  invite  other  countries 
to  retaliate  against  our  exports.  The 
result?  Loss  of  American  jobs^ots  of 
them. 

Yes,  trade  must  be  fair.  We're  work- 
ing hard  to  make  sure  that  other  coun- 
tries do  not  subsidize  or  dump  their 
products  here.  But  the  best  way  to 
reduce  the  trade  deficit  is  to  expand 
exports,  not  restrict  imports.  We're 
pressuring  other  countries  to  open  up 
their  markets  by  self-initiating  unfair 
trade  cases  for  the  first  time  ever  and 
pushing  for  a  new  trade  round  to  bring 
down  barriers  to  our  exports. 

However,  getting  our  trading  part- 
ners to  compete  fairly  is  not  enough. 
Even  if  all  markets  were  open,  U.S. 
industry  must  still  work  on  improving 
its  fundamental  productivity.  That  means 
resisting  efforts  to  balance  the  budget 
by  raising  taxes.  Increasing  taxes  on 
business  at  home  can  only  raise  the 
prices  of  our  products  and  make  them 
less  competitive  abroad. 

Improving  our  fundamental  produc- 
tivity means  making  our  education  sys- 
tem second  to  none.  It  means  arming 
our  workers  with  the  best  technology. 
It  means  creating  a  new  partnership 
between  labor  and  management  to  strive 
for  excellence  and  quality  in  every 
product  we  make.  If  we  improve  our 
fundamental  productivity  and  ensure 
that  everyone  competes  by  the  same 
rules,  I'm  confident  that  we  can  keep 
America  number  one. 


Pat 
Robertson 

Founder/ 
Chairman, 
Christian 
Broadcastng 
Network.  1959— 
;  founder. 
Operation 
Blessing,  1978— 
;  Broadcast 
News  Analyst, 
197 5-; 
Chancellor, 
CBN  University, 
1978—. 


America  is  now  engaged  in  a  global 
economic  battle.  Our  steel,  our  auto- 
mobiles, our  heavy  machinery,  our  air- 
planes, and  our  farm  products  must 
fight  to  maintain  in  domestic  markets 
and  to  gain  a  share  of  world  markets. 
No  industry  can  produce  its  products, 
purchase  its  supplies  and  components, 
or  pay  its  labor  without  regard  to  world 
competition.  To  win  in  this  battle, 
America  must: 

1.  Reduce  the  federal  budget  deficit 
so  that  the  economy  can  be  free  of 
inflationary  pressures,  and  to  achieve 
lower  interest  rates.  We  must  avoid 
irresponsible  lending  to  foreign  borrow- 
ers. The  dollar  must  be  rescued  from 
the  up-and-down  roller  coaster  of  the 
past  several  years. 

2.  American  industry  must  learn  to 
compete  in  the  international  arena.  Our 
products  must  be  known  as  the  best  in 
the  world.  To  accomplish  this,  I  pro- 
pose a  partnership  between  govern- 
ment, management,  and  labor.  Man- 
agement must  encourage  laboring  men 
and  women  to  teach  them  ways  to 
improve  quality  and  production  tech- 
niques. Labor  in  turn  must  recognize 
that  wage  increases  depend  on  produc- 
tivity and  sales,  not  on  outmoded  tech- 
niques and  regulations.  Government 
must  provide  the  tax  incentives  for  job 
retraining  to  encourage  modernization 
and  research  and  development  for 
America  to  move  ahead. 

3.  The  Smoot-Hawley  tariffs  sent 
America  and  the  world  into  a  terrible 
depression.  I  favor  free  trade  as  the 
best  program  for  the  farmers,  the  work- 
ers, and  business.  However,  I  also  favor 
fair  trade.  If  other  nations  are  consist- 
ently cheating  on  us,  I  say,  "Either 
open  your  doors  to  American  products 
or  we  will  close  our  doors  to  you." 


Alexander 
M. 
Haig  Jr. 

Secretary  of 
State,  1981- 
1982;  Supreme 
Allied 

Commander  of 
NATO,  1974- 
1979;  Chief  of 
Staff  to 
President 
Nixon,  1973- 
1974;  founder/ 
President, 
Worldwide 
Associates, 
1982—. 


I  believe  that  America  can  compete 
with  the  best  on  a  level  playing  field. 
To  level  that  field,  however,  means 
much  more  than  the  elimination  of  un- 
fair trading  practices.  Only  a  small  part 
of  our  trade  deficit  is  due  to  such 
practices.  We  need  a  broad-ranging  pro- 
gram that  recognizes  the  mutual  interest 
of  both  America  and  our  partners  in  a 
more  balanced  exchange  of  goods,  not 
punitive  or  protectionist  measures. 

First,  we  should  get  our  fiscal  act 
together.  High  real  interest  rates  and 
an  unstable  dollar  due  to  a  massive 
budget  deficit  have  taken  a  heavy  toll 
of  our  ability  to  compete  abroad — and 
at  home. 

Second,  we  should  get  our  industrial 
act  together.  Management  and  labor 
must  forge  an  alliance  to  bring  America 
into  the  new  industrial  age  of  greater 
efficiency  and  higher  quality.  Govern- 
ment can  help,  for  example,  through 
worker  retraining,  tax  incentives  and 
regulatory  reform. 

Third,  we  must  at  the  presidential 
level  take  the  international  lead  in  ex- 
panding free  and  fair  trade  rules  to  cover 
investment,  services,  intellectual  prop- 
erty and  agriculture.  The  annual  eco- 
nomic summits  offer  an  opportunity  to 
accelerate  this  process.  The  President 
should  also  retain  the  flexibility  he  needs 
to  enforce  fair  trade  under  current  rules. 

Fourth,  we  should  make  clear  to  our 
partners  that  just  as  we  are  making  the 
hard  economic  choices,  we  expect  them 
to  do  so  as  well. 

Fifth,  we  should  work  together  to 
reignite  the  growth  of  the  less-devel- 
oped countries,  primary  customers  for 
our  industrial  exports,  not  just  prolong 
their  economic  stagnation  by  increasing 
their  debt. 

Continued  on  Page  10 


JULY     1987 


FOREIGN  TRADE/ 

Where  the 
Candidates  Stand 

Continued  from  Page  9 


Bob  Dole 

Senate 
Republican 
Leader.  1987—: 
Senate  Majority 
Leader, 
1985-86;  U.S. 
Senator 
(Kansas), 
1969—: 

decorated  World 
War  II  combat 
veteran. 


I  recommend  a  four-point  program. 
First  we  should  make  our  determination 
clear  to  foreign  nations  that  they  must 
open  their  markets  if  they  expect  access 
to  ours.  A  current  example  is  Japan's 
refusal  to  provide  a  larger  market  share 
for  American  produced  auto  parts  as 
well  as  the  reluctance  of  Japanese  auto 
producers  in  the  U.S.  to  purchase  more 
local  components.  This  requires  a  strong 
President  who  will  not  hesitate  to  take 
vigorous  action  to  promote  sales  of 
American  products. 

Second,  we  need  tougher  trade  stat- 
utes to  assure  injured  industries  of  swift 
and  effective  relief  from  unfair  foreign 
trade  practices.  The  emphasis  on  ad- 
justment should  be  increased,  so  that 
industry  can  get  back  on  its  own  feet 
and  the  jobs  of  American  workers  don't 
become  dependent  on  perpetual  gov- 
ernment assistance. 

Third,  we  must  address  the  broader 
economic  issues  that  contribute  to  the 
trade  imbalance:  budget  deficits,  global 
debt,  exchange  rates,  and  economic 
growth.  The  trade  problem  does  not 
exist  in  a  vacuum. 

Finally,  we  must  improve  underlying 
American  competitiveness.  This  means 
improving  our  research  capabilities, 
such  as  federally  supported  laborato- 
ries; increasing  our  stress  on  education, 
particularly  in  the  sciences,  increasing 
labor-management  cooperation;  raising 
our  savings  rate  to  increase  investment; 
eliminating  unnecessary  regulation  which 
hampers  business  productivity.  In  sum, 
the  American  worker  deserves  better 
than  to  be  cast  to  the  winds  of  fate.  If 
workers  are  allowed  to  compete  fairly, 
they  will  compete  well. 


Ironworkers  President  Juel  Drake  signs  the  new  window  agreement  as  UBC  General 
President,  to  his  right,  prepares  to  add  his  signature.  Participating  in  the  proceedings 
from  left  are  Ironworkers  Secretary-Treasurer  Jake  West,  UBC  First  General  Vice 
President  Sigurd  Lucassen  and  Assistant  to  the  General  President  James  Davis. 


Carpenters,  Iron  Workers  Reach 
Agreement  on  Metal  Window  Work 


For  many  years  the  installation  of 
metal  windows  has  been  the  subject  of 
dispute  between  construction  crews  of 
Carpenters  and  Iron  Workers.  Metal 
windows,  prefabricated  and  manufac- 
tured in  industrial  plants,  have  gained 
in  popularity  among  many  architects 
designing  high-rise  structures. 

On  April  19,  1951,  and  again  on  June 
18,  1957,  representatives  of  the  United 
Brotherhood  met  with  representatives 
of  the  International  Association  of 
Bridge,  Structural  and  Ornamental  Iron 
Workers  to  iron  out  differences.  Un- 
derstandings which  satisfied  both  par- 
ties were  reached  at  these  meetings, 
but  there  have  been  so  many  changes 
in  construction  technology  in  the  en- 
suing 30  years  that  representatives  of 
the  two  unions  met  again  this  year  and 
on  June  1  they  reached  a  new  agree- 
ment. 

The  new  understanding  says  in  part, 
"It  is  the  purpose  of  this  agreement  to 
improve  relations  between  the  two 
trades,  and  mutually  to  assist  each  union 
to  secure  work  coming  within  its  rec- 
ognized jurisdiction." 

These  are  some  of  the  understandings 
reached  in  the  agreement  signed  by 
Carpenters  President  Patrick  J.  Camp- 
bell and  Ironworkers  President  Juel  D. 
Drake: 

•  The  installation  of  window  frames 
and  sash  in  residential  construction  will 
be  performed  by  Carpenters.  Residen- 


tial construction  was  defined  in  the 
agreement  as  "all  work  in  connection 
with  construction,  alteration,  and/or  re- 
pair of  all  residential  units  such  as  single 
dwellings,  duplexes,  row  houses,  town 
houses  and  walk-up  apartments  not  to 
exceed  three  stories  in  height  excluding 
a  basement."  It  was  understood  that 
the  term  "high  rise"  applies  to  any 
structure  in  excess  of  three  stories. 

•  In  commercial  and  industrial  con- 
struction, the  installation  in  its  entirety 
of  window  frames  and  sash  placed  in 
wood  or  metal  stud  frames  will  be  done 
by  UBC  members. 

•  In  unprepared  openings,  Carpen- 
ters will  set,  stay,  level,  plumb  or  brace 
all  metal  windows  and  sash  as  is  nec- 
essary to  hold  them  in  position. 

•  Ironworkers  will  handle  in  its  en- 
tirety the  installation  of  metal  window 
frames  and  sash  which  must  be  attached 
by  clips ,  bohs ,  or  welded  to  steel ,  metal, 
masonry  or  concrete. 

•  When  an  installation  calls  for  metal 
window  frames  and  sash  which  attach 
to  a  combination  of  wood  and  metal, 
masonry  or  concrete,  such  work  will 
be  handled  by  a  composite  crew  of 
Carpenters  and  Iron  Workers  of  equal 
number.  This  will  be  either  side,  header 
or  sill  installation  work. 

•  The  installation  of  metal  for  curtain 
walls  in  its  entirety  is  recognized  as  the 
work  of  Iron  Workers. 

Continued  on  Page  38 


10 


CARPENTER 


Eagle  Caraisses  Litter  Alaskan 
Logging  Camp  ofL-P  Subsidiary 


"Not  only  is  Louisiana-Pacific  Corp. 
ANTI-UNION,  they  are  also  UN- 
AMERICAN,"  states  Ron  Kenny,  Lo- 
cal 1856,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  The  state- 
ment accompanied  a  newspaper  clip- 
ping of  an  Associated  Press  article  that 
reported  the  destruction  of  bald  eagles 
in  Alaska. 

The  Associated  Press  reported  that 
the  remains  of  an  estimated  19  to  30 
bald  eagles  were  found  at  a  logging 
camp  garbage  dump,  where  they  ap- 
parently were  shot  while  perching  in 
trees.  The  same  incident  was  reported 
in  1983  when  13  dead  eagles  were  found 
at  the  same  site. 

"The  place  was  Uttered  with  eagle 
feathers  and  bones,"  said  a  U.S.  Fish 
and  Wildlife  agent.  The  site  was  at 
LaBouchere  Bay  camp  on  Prince  of 
Wales  Island,  about  75  miles  northwest 
of  Ketchikan. 

Bald  eagles  are  considered  endan- 
gered or  threatened  in  every  state  but 
Alaska,  which  has  an  estimated  eagle 
population  of  30,000. 

The  agent  said  the  killings  discovered 
were  the  worst  he  could  recall  being 
reported  anywhere,  and  the  worst  he 
had  seen  during  nine  years  as  Fish  and 
Wildlife  special  agent  for  southeastern 
Alaska.  "I  think  they're  just  shooting 
them  to  get  rid  of  them  or  just  to  have 


a  target  to  shoot  at,"  he  said. 

The  dead  eagles  were  reported  by  a 
fisherman  active  in  the  Southeast  Con- 
servation Council.  The  council  opposes 
many  of  the  logging  policies  adopted 
by  the  owners  of  the  LaBouchere  Bay 
camp:   The   Ketchikan  Pulp  Co.,   its 


parent,  Louisiana-Pacific  Corp.  and  the 
U.S.  Forest  Service. 

Many  conservationists  say  some  log- 
ging companies  dislike  eagles  because 
the  federal  government  bans  logging 
and  road  construction  within  330  feet 
of  their  nests. 


OSHA  Extends  Comment  Period  to  August  14 
On  Some  Proposed  Construction  Standards 


The  U.S.  Occupational  Safety  and  Health 
Administration  has  extended  until  August  14 
the  public  comment  period  on  its  proposed 
revisions  of  existing  standards  covering  scaf- 
folds, fall  protection,  and  stairways  and 
ladders. 

The  public  comment  period,  originally 
scheduled  to  end  February  23,  was  previ- 
ously extended  to  June  1 .  However,  because 
the  agency  now  believes  that  the  initial 
extension  still  did  not  allow  sufficient  time 
for  interested  parties  to  comment,  it  has 
extended  the  deadline  a  second  time. 

OSHA  cited  the  complexity  of  the  subject 
matter,  the  extent  of  the  proposed  revisions 
and  the  fact  that  all  three  proposed  regula- 
tions request  comments  from  the  same  in- 
terested parties  as  reasons  for  the  extension. 
Further,  the  agency  is  announcing  its  inten- 
tion to  apply  the  proposed  fall  protection 
standards  to  all  steel  erection  activities  ex- 
cept initial  connection  .of  steel  framing  mem- 


bers. 

The  proposed  revisions,  published  in  the 
Federal  Register  Nov.  25,  1986,  would  up- 
date and  clarify  standards  protecting  an 
estimated  3.9  million  workers  in  the  building 
industry.  Comments  and  requests  for  a  hear- 
ing, in  quadruplicate,  must  be  postmarked 
no  later  than  August  14,  and  sent  to:  OSHA 
Docket  Officer,  Room  3670,  Third  Street 
and  Constitution  Avenue,  N.W.,  Washing- 
ton, DC  20210.  Comments  on  scaffolds  should 
be  sent  to  Docket  No.  S-205;  fall  protection 
to  No.  S-206;  and  stairways  and  ladders  to 
No.  S-207. 

Notice  of  OSHA's  second  extension  of 
the  comment  period  was  scheduled  to  appear 
in  the  Federal  Register,  June  2. 

The  Advisory  Committee  on  Construction 
Safety  and  Health,  on  which  the  UBC  is 
represented  by  Safety  Director  Joe  Durst, 
has  made  recommendations  to  OSHA  on  the 
standards. 


George  IVIeany  l\/lemorial  Archives  to  Be  Dedicated  Next  l\/lonth 


Construclion  of  the  George  Meany  Memorial  Archives,  a  $4- 
million.jhree-story  building  located  on  the  campus  of  the 
George  Meany  Center  for  Labor  Studies  in  Silver  Spring,  Md., 
is  being  completed.  The  archives  will  have  a  library,  class- 
rooms, reading  rooms,  meeting  space,  and  two  exhibit  areas — 
one  a  permanent  memorial  to  the  late  AFL-CIO  leader.  It  will 
house  records  of  federation  activities  including  newspapers, 
pamphlets,  photographs,  audio  and  video  tapes,  memorabilia, 
and  a  small  reference  library. 


Sunday,  August  16,  1987,  marks  the  83rd  anniversary  of  the  birth 
of  former  AFL-CIO  President  George  Meany.  The  following  day, 
Monday,  August  17,  the  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council  will  dedicate 
the  George  Meany  Memorial  Archives,  a  storehouse  of  labor 
hisloiy,  in  his  name. 


JULY     1987 


11 


""PoNTWoRRV-THiS 
6EniTLEl\4AN's  Go\Hg  To  SoU/E 
Out^  bMEMPLOI^ENT  PRoBl^M 


Only  32%  of  jobless  workers  in  the  United 
States  received  unemployment  Insurance 
benefits  in  an  average  month  In  1986,  the 
lowest  level  In  the  program's  52-year 
history.  State  laws  must  be  updated. 


Unemptoymenl  problems  plague  UBC  Ca- 
nadian members,  too.  Neither  the  Miilro- 
ney  federal  administration  nor  the  provin- 
cial governments  have  come  up  with 
satisfactory  answers.  George  Shane,  Ca- 
nadian political  cartoonist,  suggests  the 
administration  attitude. 


State  Legislatures  Enact  Meager  Gains 
in  Unemployment  and  Compensation  Benefits 


State  legislatures  made  spotty  im- 
provements in  workers'  compensation 
and  unemployment  insurance  during 
1986  legislative  sessions. 

Injured  workers  in  most  states  real- 
ized a  slight  increase  in  payments  or 
family  benefits.  But  jobless  workers  in 
some  areas  were  hit  with  budget  cuts 
and  new  restrictions  on  eligibility  for 
regular  or  extended  unemployment 
compensation.  Today  fewer  than  four 
of  every  10  unemployed  workers  qualify 
for  benefits. 

Overall,  injured  workers  in  43  states 
and  the  District  of  Columbia  who  are 
suffering  permanent  job-related  total 
disabilities  got  modest  increases  in  their 
compensation  payments.  Two  states 
reduced  benefits  and  five  maintained 
the  same  benefit  level. 

Disabled  workers  gained  ground  in 
Vermont,  where  maximum  benefits  are 
now  based  on  150%  of  the  state  average 
weekly  wage,  up  from  100.  In  Arkansas, 
the  maximum  weekly  benefit  for  totally 
disabled  workers  will  increase  from 
$175  to  $189  in  July,  to  two-thirds  of 
the  average  weekly  wage  in  January 
1989,  and  to  70%  of  the  average  a  year 
later. 

South  Carolina  raised  its  minimum 
weekly  benefit  for  workers  suffering 
from  temporary  and  permanent  total 
disability  to  $75,  but  added  that  benefits 
may  not  exceed  the  state's  average 
weekly  wage. 

New  Mexico,  however,  froze  the  av- 
erage weekly  wage  on  which  benefits 
are  based — now  $308.28 — through  June, 
and  Oklahoma  legislators  decided  that 
the  average  weekly  wage  will  be  deter- 
mined every  three  years  rather  than 


being  calculated  on  an  annual  basis. 

Maryland  legislators  voted  this  year 
to  reduce  maximum  weekly  benefits  for 
persons  suffering  permanent  partial  dis- 
abilities from  $122  to  $80  but  added 
labor-backed  provisions  that  will  raise 
the  rate  to  $82.50  by  1989.  The  state 
added  a  5%  annual  cost-of-living  ad- 
justment for  workers  with  permanent 
total  disabilities. 

In  a  few  states,  workers  suffered 
setbacks  in  maintaining  coverage  for 
occupational  disease.  In  Iowa,  the  leg- 
islature repealed  a  requirement  that  a 
worker's  last  employer  pay  compen- 
sation costs  where  exposure  to  particle- 
related  and  dust-related  lung  diseases 
occurred  for  at  least  60  days. 

The  state  also  eliminated  its  occu- 
pational disease  medical  board  and  called 
for  further  investigation  of  occupational 
diseases  by  a  panel  of  physicians  des- 
ignated by  the  industrial  commissioner. 

Kentucky  legislators  modified  cov- 
erage for  occupational  illness  by  requr- 
ing  that  workers  file  their  claims  of 
asbestos-related  disease  within  20  years 
of  exposure. 

Burial  allowances  were  increased  in 
five  states — Arkansas,  Colorado,  Rhode 
Island,  Tennessee  and  West  Virginia. 
Coverage  for  ambulance  workers,  res- 
cue squads,  police,  fire  fighters,  prison 
guards  and  workers  at  religious  insti- 
tutions was  added  in  some  jurisdictions. 

Under  state  unemployment  compen- 
sation plans,  maximum  benefit  rates 
increased  in  33  states  and  remained  the 
same  in  17  states  and  the  District  of 
Columbia. 

But  many  states  acted  to  reduce  or 
limit  unemployment  insurance  benefits 


so  as  to  accommodate  budget-cutting 
requirements  of  the  Gramm-Rudman- 
Hollings  Act. 

Kentucky  tied  its  weekly  maximum 
benefit,  now  $140,  to  the  state's  trust 
fund  balance,  while  North  Carolina  voted 
to  reduce  both  regular  and  extended 
benefits  by  similar  amounts. 

Louisiana  also  voted  to  reduce  ben- 
efits by  the  federal  share  of  any  budget 
reduction  resulting  from  the  Gramm- 
Rudman  plan. 

In  South  Dakota,  unemployed  work- 
ers involved  in  a  labor  dispute  will  be 
found  ineligible  for  benefits.  But  Ten- 
nessee workers  who  were  furloughed 
prior  to  a  labor  dispute  will  remain 
eligible. 

Labor  has  long  urged  the  Congress 
to  improve  the  funding  of  the  nation's 
UI  and  ES  system  by  indexing  the 
taxable  wage  base  (from  the  current 
federal  level  of  $7,000)  to  at  least  65% 
of  the  average  annual  wage.  In  com- 
parison to  last  year,  three  states  low- 
ered their  taxable  wage  base  and  14 
states  increased  their  taxable  wage  base. 

The  average  weekly  benefit  paid  for 
total  unemployment  increased  nation- 
ally from  $122  to  $129  but  actually 
declined  in  Kentucky,  Louisiana,  Mon- 
tana and  Wisconsin.  Thirty-three  states 
increased  maximum  benefit  amounts  for 
unemployment  compensation. 

Overall,  maximum  weekly  benefit 
amounts  were  increased  for  workers' 
compensation  in  42  states  and  were 
lowered  in  two  others.  The  largest  change 
was  in  Vermont,  where  the  maximum 
weekly  benefit  amount  for  permanent, 
temporary  and  permaneiit  partial  disa- 
bility went  from  $293  to  $465.         UDC 


12 


CARPENTER 


Unemployment  Insurance  Under  State  Laws,  Jan.  1,  1987 


Average 
Weekly 

Bensln 

Average 

Average 

Jurisdiction 

Paid  lor 

Weekly 

Weekly  Benefit  as  a 

(Rankail  Highest  to  Lowsst) 

Maximum 

Total 

Wegas  In 

age  Waekiy  Wages' 

by  Maximum  Banetlt 

WeaUy 

Unemployment 

Covered 

WItliln  Regkms) 

BanaHls' 

FY '86 

Employment* 

FY '86' 

Average  Employer 
Tax  Sate,  1986 

Percent- 

age of 
Clafmanls 

lEsOmated) 

Percent  ol 

Percent-        Percent- 

Unemployed 

Regular 

Wlio 

age  of           age  of 
Taxable          Total 

Deceiving 

Burathin 

Exfuusted 

Taxable 

Regular 

of  Benefits 

Benefits 

Payrolls         Payrolls 

Wage 

Benefits' 

by  Weeks' 

FY  '86 

1986             1986 

Base 

UnHed  States 

i  — 

$129 

$372 

35% 

29% 

— 

32% 

2.7% 

1.1% 

$  7,000 

Reghin  1 

Michigan 

197 

149 

429 

35 

25 

15-26 

30 

5.5 

2.0 

9,500 

Wisconsin 

196 

132 

342 

39 

26 

1-26 

30 

4.9 

2.6 

10,500 

Iliinois 

168-219 

140 

405 

35 

25 

26 

39 

4.1 

1.6 

8,500 

Indiana 

96-161 

97 

359 

27 

21 

9-26 

29 

1.5 

0.6 

7,000 

Regkin  II 

Oldaliama  

197 

143 

348 

41 

28 

20-26 

43 

2.2 

1.1 

9,100 

i(ansas 

197 

145 

336 

43 

34 

10-26 

35 

2.5 

1.2 

8,000 

Arltansas 

196 

111 

300 

37 

25 

10-26 

23 

2.4 

1.2 

7,500 

Missouri 

130 

101 

355 

28 

29 

10-26 

28 

2.4 

1.0 

7,500 

Regkin  III      District  ot  Columliia 


250 


155 


460 


34 


30 


17-26 


50 


3.1 


1.0 


8,000 


Pennsylvania 241-249 


142 


361 


39 


38 


16-26 


26 


4.7 


1.9 


1,000 


West  Virginia 


225 


137 


348 


39 


22 


26 


28 


4.5 


1.9 


8,000 


Delaware . 


205 


135 


370 


36 


26 


18-26 


24 


3.4 


1.4 


8,500 


Maryland . 


195 


135 


365 


41 


35 


26 


24 


3.0 


0.9 


7,000 


Virginia  

167 

119 

344 

35 

14 

12-26 

20 

1.3 

0.5 

7,000 

Regkin  IV 

Louisiana 

205 

145 

349 

42 

32 

12-26 

59 

4.0 

1.6 

7,000 

Texas  

203 

155 

379 

41 

24 

13-26 

44 

2.0 

0.7 

7.000 

Mississippi 

130 

91 

287 

32 

21 

13-26 

31 

1.9 

0.7 

7,000 

Regkin  V     North  Carolina . 


184 


109 


317 


34 


24 


13-26 


19 


1.9 


0.9 


9,600 


Rorida . 


175 


121 


329 


37 


19 


10-26 


36 


0.9 


0.4 


7,000 


Georgia 


145 


105 


349 


30 


25 


4-26 


26 


1.6 


0.7 


7,500 


South  Carolina 


125 


97 


308 


31 


27 


14-26 


27 


2.1 


0.9 


7.000 


Alabama 

120 

97 

325 

30 

21 

11-26 

24 

1.9 

0.9 

8,000 

Regkin  VI 

Hawaii 

212 

137 

326 

42 

36 

26 

24 

1.6 

1.1 

16,500 

Nevada  

171 

131 

351 

37 

39 

12-26 

27 

1.8 

1.0 

11,700 

CalHomia 

166 

113 

410 

28 

42 

12-26 

35 

2.4 

0.8 

7,000 

Regkin  VII 

New  Jersey 

228 

153 

414 

37 

44 

15-26 

37 

3.2 

1.4 

11.300 

New  Yorli 

180 

129 

433 

30 

32 

26 

36 

3.3 

1.1 

7.000 

Puerto  Rico 

95 

68 

206 

33 

24 

20 

46 

5.4 

3.4 

7.000 

Regkin  VIII      Massachusetts 220-330 


148 


386 


38 


38 


9-30 


26 


2.0 


0.8 


7,000 


Connecticut 204-254 


146 


419 


35 


31 


26 


16 


2.2 


0.7 


7,100 


Rhode  Island 191-236 


125 


327 


38 


57 


12-26 


24 


3.8 


2.1 


11,400 


Vermont 


154 


115 


313 


37 


32 


26 


15 


4.1 


2.0 


1,000 


Maine 152-228 


113 


300 


38 


36 


7-26 


49 


2.6 


1.1 


7,000 


New  Hampshire 


150 


108 


335 


32 


21 


26 


1.1 


0.4 


7,000 


Regkin  IX     Oregon 


216 


134 


343 


39 


31 


6-26 


25 


3.1 


1.9 


14.000 


Washington . 


197 


132 


364 


36 


35 


16-30 


26 


4.1 


2.1 


13.200 


Alaska .     188-260 


153 


551 


28 


48 


16-26 


57 


2.3 


1.6 


21.500 


Idaho. 


185 


125 


312 


40 


38 


10-26 


37 


3.0 


2.1 


16.200 


Montana 

179 

121 

301 

40 

27 

8-26 

42 

3.2 

1.9 

12.400 

Regkin  X 

Ohio. 

147-233 

146 

375 

39 

22 

20-26 

29 

3.7 

1.2 

8,000 

Kentuclcy 

140 

97 

326 

30 

25 

15-26 

26 

3.2 

1.3 

8,000 

Tennessee  

130 

90 

326 

28 

23 

12-26 

27 

1.6 

0.7 

7,000 

Regkin  XI     Colorado 


213 


153 


381 


40 


26 


8-26 


35 


2.2 


0.9 


8,000 


Wyoming . 


198 


160 


365 


44 


31 


12-26 


37 


3.2 


1.6 


10,300 


Utah 


197 


150 


333 


45 


33 


10-26 


34 


2.1 


1.1 


12,900 


New  Mexico 


158 


120 


322 


37 


25 


19-26 


38 


2.0 


1.1 


10,700 


Arizona 


135 


107 


352 


30 


22 


12-26 


28 


1.6 


0.5 


7,000 


Regkin  XII      Minnesota . 


239 


161 


369 


44 


29 


11-26 


36 


2.5 


1.2 


11,200 


North  Dakota . 


197 


147 


297 


49 


31 


12-26 


42 


2.9 


1.8 


10,800 


Iowa 162-199 


134 


311 


43 


26 


11-26 


30 


3.3 


1.9 


12,300 


South  Dakota 


129 


104 


265 


39 


14 


18-26 


13 


1.3 


0.6 


7,000 


Nebraska . 


126 


107 


301 


36 


27 


17-26 


32 


1.7 


0.7 


7,000 


'  Fiscal  year  ending  September  1986— latest  data  available. 
■  Where  two  figurea  are  shown,  the  larger  Includes  maximum  dependents'  alkiwancas. 

'  When  two  Rgures  are  shown,  die  biwer  represents  the  shortast  posalUe  duratkw.  In  moll  states  tills  Is  the  entitlement  of  a  dalmant  wlUi  minimum  weekly  benefits  and  mkiknum  gualHylng  wages. 
*  Maximum  woatdy  benelH  Is  a  speclfM  percenlaga  of  average  weekly  covered  weges  snd  Is  computed  annually,  or  In  a  lew  States  uml-ennualry.  Since  the  base  year  usad  lor  setting. 
the  maximum  la  not  necessarttv  calendar  19B6,  the  percentage  figures  may  vary  from  statutory  percentages. 
'  For  the  twelve  meoths  ending  June  1986. 
'  As  reported  by  the  Deparlnenl  of  Labor  tor  the  week  ending  September  13,  1986— latest  deU  available. 


Here  is  the  1987  chart  comparing  benefits  for  workers'  com- 
pensation and  unemployment  insurance  under  state  laws  that 
were  in  effect  on  Jan.  1 ,1987. 

States  are  listed  by  AFL-CIO  regions  from  highest  to  lowest 
based  on  maximum  weekly  benefit  amounts  for  unemployment 
insurance  and  workers'  compensation  (for  permanent  total  disa- 
bility). 

A  new  column  has  been  added  on  the  unemployment  insur- 


ance chart  this  year  showing  the  percent  of  the  jobless  actually 
receiving  regular  UI  benefits  by  stale.  These  figures  represent 
the  percentage  of  the  jobless  getting  benefits  for  the  week  end- 
ing Sept.  13,  1986 — the  latest  data  available  from  the  Depart- 
ment of  Labor.  For  the  U.S.  only  29%  received  benefits  ranging 
from  14%  in  Virginia  and  South  Dakota  to  57%  in  Rhode  Is- 
land. Annual  figures  for  1986  would,  in  most  cases,  be  slightly 
higher. 


JULY     1987 


13 


OttaiMfa 
Report 


KEEP  S.I.N.  SECRET,  SAY  MPs 

Canadians  would  no  longer  have  to  give  their 
social  insurance  numbers  when  applying  for  a  credit 
card  or  writing  a  check,  if  a  proposal  of  a  parlia- 
mentary committee  becomes  law.  In  a  dramatic  pro- 
posal, the  all-party  committee  said  it  would  become 
illegal  for  the  public  and  private  sector  to  ask  any 
person  for  his  SIN  unless  it  was  prescribed  by  law, 
such  as  for  income  tax  purposes. 

This  idea  is  part  of  a  sweeping  package  of  re- 
forms aimed  at  protecting  the  privacy  of  individual 
Canadians,  which  the  committee  said  is  being 
threatened  by  high-technology,  information-gather- 
ing society. 

The  committee  is  also  including  the  use  of  lie 
detector  tests  in  employment  interviews  and  secu- 
rity screening,  urinalysis  as  a  method  of  drug  test- 
ing, electronic  surveillance  of  employees  by  cohn- 
puters,  cameras,  electronic  pagers  and 
telecommunications  devices.  In  the  wide-range  re- 
view of  the  laws,  the  committee's  108  recommenda- 
tions are  intended  to  further  protect  individual 
privacy. 

BIG  B.C.  DEMONSTRATION 

In  a  massive  political  protest,  angry  British  Co- 
lumbia union  members  picketed  their  workplaces 
early  last  month,  shutting  down  mills,  mines  and 
schools. 

The  24-hour  general  strike  was  called  by  the  B.C. 
Federation  of  Labor,  the  umbrella  organization  that 
represents  about  250,000  union  members,  to  fight 
the  Social  Credit  Government's  proposed  changes 
to  the  province's  labor  laws. 

Within  hours  of  the  appearance  of  the  first  dem- 
onstrator, provincial  Attorney-General  Brian  Smith 
sought  an  injunction  from  the  Supreme  Court  of 
B.C.  to  prevent  a  repetition  of  the  one-day  walkout. 

"This  strike  is  an  offense  against  the  state  not 
just  the  Government,"  Smith  said. 

"It  is  an  attempt  by  unlawful  means  to  intimidate 
the  legislative  process.  The  union  leaders  are  at- 
tempting to  move  the  making  of  our  laws  out  of  the 
Legislature  and  into  the  streets." 

The  Attorney-General  sought  in  his  application  to 
the  court  a  prohibition  against  many  forms  of  action, 
including  slowdowns,  study  sessions,  breaches  of 
contract  and  resistance  to  legislative  change. 


All  those — trade  unionists,  translators  and  others 
involved  in  industrial  relations — who  already  knew 
Gerard  Dion's  Canadian  dictionary  of  industrial  re- 
lations will  be  happy  to  learn  of  the  recent  publica- 
tion of  its  second  edition. 

Much  more  than  a  mere  update  incorporating  the 
many  changes  that  have  taken  place  in  the  indus- 
trial relations  field  since  its  first  edition,  10  years 
ago,  the  new  dictionary  now  contains  1 9,442  entries 
including  2,552  new  French  terms;  a  total  of  12,812 
entries  in  the  English-French  Index;  and  a  new  sec- 
tion containing  some  600  Latin  expressions  or  locu- 
tions with  their  English  and  French  translations. 

The  updated  existing  appendices  (initials  of  organ- 
izations, labor  statistics,  chronology  of  legislation 
and  important  events)  have  been  complemented  by 
four  additional  sections:  a  list  of  all  the  conventions 
and  recommendations  of  the  International  Labor  Or- 
ganization since  its  founding,  indicating  those  rati- 
fied by  Canada;  a  list  of  all  emergency  legislation 
decreed  by  Canadian  and  provincial  governments 
since  1955  in  response  to  special  situations;  and 
the  wording  of  the  Canadian  Charter  of  Rights  and 
Freedoms  and  the  Quebec  Charter  of  Human 
Rights  and  Freedoms. 

The  dictionary  part  is  divided  into  two  sections: 
the  first,  French-English,  contains  the  definitions  of 
terms  (in  French)  in  addition  to  their  translation  into 
English;  the  second  consists  of  an  English-French 
alphabetical  index  of  the  terms  used  in  the  first 
section. 

Dictionnaire  canadienne  des  relations  du  travail, 
deuxieme  edition,  by  Gerard  Dion;  Les  Presse  de 
I'Universite  Laval;  993  pp.;  $65. 


MULRONEY  OPINION  SURVEY 

The  Mulroney  government  represents  big  busi- 
ness. That's  what  results  of  a  CLC  survey  show. 

Of  the  more  than  600  people  interviewed  by  tele- 
phone for  the  poll,  73%  agreed  with  the  statement 
that  "when  it  comes  to  handling  economic  matters 
generally,  the  Prime  Minister  Brian  Mulroney  and 
his  Conservative  government  tend  to  be  more  con- 
cerned about  the  interests  of  large  corporations 
than  ordinary  working  people." 

Only  9%  of  Canadians  think  the  Mulroney  gov- 
ernment represents  workers.  Even  62%  of  Con- 
servative government  supporters  think  the  Tories 
represent  big  business. 

New  Democrats  are  more  likely  than  average  to 
believe  the  Mulroney  government  represents  the 
corporations,  according  to  the  survey  results.  But 
the  view  is  widely  held  across  Canada. 


600,000  WORKERS  BOOK  OFF 

About  600,000  Canadian  workers — nearly  6%  of 
the  workforce — book  off  work  for  part  or  all  of  any 
given  week.  Statistics  Canada  says.  They  book  off 
for  illness,  injuries  or  personal  reasons.  Most  ex- 
perts believe  absenteeism  can  be  reduced  if  work- 
ers are  given  a  sense  of  some  control  over  what  is 
going  on  in  the  workplace,  Tee  Guidotti,  professor 
of  occupational  health  at  the  University  of  Alberta, 
said  in  an  interview. 


14 


CARPENTER 


The  members  of  Local  551,  Houston,  Tex., 
voted  to  house  the  Texas  Union  Immigrant 
Assistance  Project  in  their  building  at  no 
cost  to  the  project.  Pictured  above  in  the 
ojfice,  from  left,  are  Richard  Arispe  and 
Ruben  Cantu,  UBC  representatives  who 
have  been  assigned  to  help  undocumented 
workers  through  the  project.  Another  rep- 
resentative at  the  facility  is  Benito  Garza, 
not  in  the  picture. 


Amnesty  Aid 
At  Texas  Office 

Three  organizations  associated  with 
the  AFL-CIO  have  joined  efforts  to 
provide  assistance  to  persons  seeking 
amnesty. 

The  Texas  Union  Immigrant  Assis- 
tance Project,  sponsored  by  the  United 
Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners 
of  America,  the  Texas  Triangle  Orga- 
nizing Committee  and  the  United  Food 
and  Commercial  Workers  International 
Union  opened  an  office  in  Houston  at 
2600  Hamilton  Street  on  Monday,  May 
4,  1987.  The  project  offers  assistance 
to  both  union  and  non-union  persons 
who  are  seeking  to  apply  for  amnesty 
under  the  new  Immigration  Reform  Act. 
There  will  be  a  minimal  fee. 

Among  the  services  provided  are: 

1)  interviewing  and  screening  for  am- 
nesty appHcations; 

2)  assistance  in  filling  out  amnesty 
applications;  and 

3)  assistance  in  obtaining  legal  coun- 
seling. 

The  Texas  Union  Immigrant  Assis- 
tance Project  has  been  certified  by  the 
Immigration  and  Naturalization  Service 
as  a  qualified,  designated  entity.  Six 
counselors  are  on  hand  to  advise  people 
of  all  information  and  the  supporting 
documents  which  are  required. 

While  the  Texas  Union  Immigrant 
Assistant  Project  \will  assist  union  and 


Profile  of  An  Undocumented  Worlcer 


Manuel  Tovar,  a  23-year-old 
member  of  Local  724,  Houston,  Tex., 
feels  really  good  about  the  new  im- 
migration law.  He  left  Nuevo  Lar- 
edo, Mexico  in  1981  when  he  was 
16  years  old.  He  passed  through  the 
border  in  the  trunk  of  a  car  driven 
by  a  woman  who  had  been  paid 
$1,000  by  his  father  to  transport 
Manuel  and  his  brother  from  Mexico 
to  San  Antonio.  From  San  Antonio, 
Manuel  and  his  brother  were  to  travel 
to  Houston  to  join  their  father. 

When  their  trip  began  in  Nuevo 
Laredo,  Manuel  was  secreted  in  the 
trunk  of  the  car.  His  brother,  how- 
ever, had  a  "mica"  which  author- 
ized crossing  into  the  border  area, 
so  he  crossed  the  bridge  between 
Nuevo  Laredo  and  Laredo  inside 
the  car  as  a  passenger.  The  mica 
Manuel's  brother  had  would  not  be 
good  for  travel  beyond  Laredo,  so 
they  both  were  concealed  in  the 
trunk. 

Manuel  remembers  being  fright- 
ened throughout  the  entire  trip.  He 
had  never  before  attempted  an  illegal 
crossing.  The  danger  of  being  caught 
and  of  riding  bhndly  and  helplessly 
for  almost  200  miles  in  the  dark, 
confining  space  of  a  car  trunk  turned 
the  trip  into  a  horrible  ordeal  for  the 
sixteen-year-old. 

Once  across  the  border,  Manuel 
remembers  going  to  a  house  in  Lar- 
edo where  the  boys  were  allowed  a 
rest  before  the  150-mile  drive  to  San 
Antonio.  He  also 
remembers  the 
suffocating  heat  of 
the  trunk  which 
grew  steadily 

worse  as  the  muf- 
fler of  the  car 
heated  up  on  the 
trip.  At  the  U.S. 
Customs  check 
point  between 
Laredo  and  San 
Antonio  they  were 
almost  detected. 
During  the  day 
prisoners  had  es- 
caped from  the  jail 
in  San  Antonio  and 
INS  officers  were 
checking  all  cars. 


The  driver  had  warned  Manuel 
and  his  brother  not  to  move  or  breathe 
too  hard,  because  the  officer  was 
going  to  instruct  her  to  move  the  car 
forward,  then  to  make  a  sudden  stop. 
The  test  would  allow  INS  officers  to 
determine  if  there  was  an  overload 
in  the  rear  of  the  car,  suggesting 
there  might  be  persons  concealed  in 
the  trunk. 

When  Manuel  and  his  brother  ar- 
rived in  San  Antonio,  they  were  met 
by  another  friend  of  their  father. 
This  friend  helped  Manuel  and  his 
brother  reach  Houston  where  they 
were  re-united  with  their  father. 

Manuel  found  employment  soon 
after  reaching  Houston.  On  Aug.  26, 
1981,  he  was  hired  at  Fixtures  In- 
ternational, a  company  that  provides 
on-the-job  training  for  new  employ- 
ees. In  business  since  1946,  Fixtures 
International  has  an  agreement  with 
the  UBC.  Manuel  joined  Local  724 
soon  after  he  began  working  and  has 
been  a  member  since. 

Manuel  learned  the  benefits  of 
union  membership  very  early  in  his 
experiences  as  a  worker  in  the  United 
States.  Because  of  those  experi- 
ences, Manuel  is  adamant  that  he 
would  never  consider  working  in  a 
non-union  environment.  He  is  still 
employed  by  Fixtures  International 
and,  with  the  help  of  the  Texas 
Union  Immigration  Assistance  Proj- 
ect, is  applying  for  amnesty. 


Proj- 

m 


Brother  Tovar  at  work,  left.  As  a  result  of  the  IRCA, 
companies  like  Fixtures  International  will  now  be  able  to 
compete  more  effectively  against  firms  that  had  exploited 
undocumented  workers  with  unfair  wages  and  unsafe  work 
conditions. 


non-union  persons,  the  UBC,  under  the 
legalization  program  provision  of  the 
Immigration  Reform  Control  Act  of 
1986,  will  target  undocumented  union 
members  and  construction  workers  to 


help  them  obtain  temporary  legal  resi- 
dence. 

"The  short-term  objective  of  the  Texas 

Union    Immigrant  Assistance  Project 

Continued  on  Page  18 


JULY     1987 


15 


Adams' Rope  Art         Foreign  Firms  Earning  U.S.  Dollars 

m^  As  Construction  Contractors  in  America 


"Red"  Giles  Adams,  a  retired  member  of 
Local  56,  Boston,  Mass.,  became  inter- 
ested in  the  art  of  Knato  (the  art  of  fancy 
rope  work)  during  service  in  the  Navy.  He 
learned  the  art  from  two  shipmates  who 
picked  it  up  from  Chinese  laborers  while 
stationed  in  China  in  the  1930s.  The  his- 
tory of  Knato  dates  back  to  the  invention 
of  rope  itself  and  was  passed  down 
through  old  mariners  who  devoted  much  of 
their  idle  time  to  the  tying  of  knots  and  to 
contriving  many  beautiful  and  ornamental 
rope  designs.  Unfortunately,  the  art  never 
attracted  much  attention,  and  thus,  has 
begun  to  die.  Adams,  pictured  above  with 
Business  Representative    Thomas  Mar- 
shall, spent  more  than  50  hours  splicing 
and  tying  three  strands  of  rope  to  create 
this  rope  anchor.  This  particular  design  is 
one  of  only  three  in  existence. 


Of  every  dollar  earned  for  construction  in 
the  United  States,  more  than  five  cents  goes 
to  foreign  contractors,  Rene  A.  Henry  Jr., 
president  and  chief  executive  officer  of  the 
National  Institute  of  Building  Sciences  told 
Congress  last  month. 

Henry  said  that  U.S.  builders  and  the 
manufacturers  that  supply  them  are  unduly 
burdened  by  a  product  approval  system  that 
encourages  ill-founded  litigation,  the  ulti- 
mate costs  of  which  fall  on  the  American 
consumer. 

In  1985,  the  last  year  for  which  numbers 
are  available,  Henry  said,  "Of  the  estimated 
$134  billion  in  construction  contracts  awarded 
in  the  United  States,  $7.3  billion  went  to  59 
foreign  contractors.  That  was  24%  more  than 
in  1984,  and  double  the  amount  in  1983." 

German  and  Japanese  firms  won  most  of 
this  business,  he  noted,  but  in  one  case 
Yugoslavia  won  a  competition  to  provide  a 
steam  generating  plant  for  the  U.S.  Naval 
Base  in  Norfolk,  Va. 

Henry  testified  June  3  before  the  House 
Subcommittee  on  Science,  Research  and 
Technology  as  one  of  a  dozen  witnesses  on 
U.S.  construction.  NIBS  is  a  congression- 
ally-authorized  non-profit  organization  with 
the  missions  of  improving  the  building  reg- 
ulatory environment  and  accelerating  the 
introduction  of  safe,  innovative  technology 
into  the  American  building  process. 


In  many  ways,  American  builders  remain 
world  leaders  in  terms  of  ingenuity  and 
technology,  in  their  ability  to  work  within 
their  changeable  markets  without  massive 
subsidies  and  in  the  quality  of  their  products, 
Henry  said. 

The  American  building  community  faces 
severe  weaknesses  also,  he  said,  and  NIBS 
has  established  a  task  force  to  identify  the 
weaknesses  and  their  causes  and  to  suggest 
remedies. 

One  reason  for  U.S.  competitive  weakness 
in  the  construction  industries,  Henry  told 
the  subcommittee,  is  "the  low  priority  as- 
signed to  research  and  development." 

Sweden,  Denmark,  Britain,  Japan  and 
even  New  Zealand  spend  substantially  greater 
proportions  of  their  construction  resources 
on  research  and  development  than  does  the 
United  States  (12%),  he  noted.  Of  the  de- 
veloped countries  studied,  only  Australia 
spends  less,  he  said. 

Another  weakness  is  excessively  strict 
product  liability  laws  and  the  readiness  to 
sue  that  goes  with  them,  Henry  said.  He 
said  that  some  American  firms  have  begun 
sending  functions  out  of  the  country  and 
withholding  some  products  from  the  market. 
He  said,  "This  trend  will  continue  until 
action  is  taken  to  reduce  the  'deep  pockets' 
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Jolting  through  a  cloud  of  dust,  a  jackhammer' s  shattering  staccato  bangs  at  the  ears 
and  nerves  of  passers-by  on  a  street  in  Washington,  D.C.  Sound  levels  in  urban  areas 
have  been  doubling  every  10  years,  exposing  millions  of  people  to  increasingly  damaging 
noises.  Hearing-impairment  claims  show  a  sharp  upswing  across  the  United  States. 
Hypertension  and  physiological  disorders  are  often  laid  to  excessive  and  painful  noise. 


Earsplitting  Noises 
Harm  More  Than  Ears 


By  DONALD  J.  FREDERICK 

National  Geographic  News  Service 


Silence  may  be  golden,  but  mounting 
levels  of  noise  pollution  are  making  it 
harder  and  harder  to  find  this  golden 
treasure. 

Some  statistics  show  that  environ- 
mental noise  in  urban  areas  has  been 
doubling  every  10  years.  Nor  are  things 
much  better  in  the  country,  where  the 
decibel  level  of  many  farm  machines 
has  been  rising  higher  than  corn. 

About  9  million  Americans  are  ex- 
posed to  hazardous  sound  levels  on  the 
job,  according  to  a  report  prepared  for 
the  Environmental  Protection  Agency. 
Millions  more  encounter  damaging 
noises  while  walking  city  streets,  fight- 
ing rush  hours  or  enduring  noises  from 
low-flying  aircraft. 

BILLIONS  IN  CLAIMS 

The  consequences  have  been  costly. 
State  and  federal  employees  collected 
an  estimated  $2.5  billion  in  hearing- 
impairment  claims  in  the  past  10  years. 
Statistics  for  the  private  sector  are  not 
available. 

In  westernized  countries,  men  lose 
their  hearing  more  than  women  do,  but 
the  reason  may  not  be  biological.  It 
could  result  from  exposure  to  more 
noise  in  the  workplace. 

"At  one  time,  people  speculated  that 
loss  of  hearing  was  just  part  of  the  aging 


process,"  says  Dr.  Roger  Hamernik, 
director  of  the  Auditory  Research  Lab- 
oratory at  the  State  University  of  New 
York  College  at  Plattsburgh.  "But  now 
we're  finding  that  many  factory  workers 
and  others  who  have  labored  in  noisy 
environments  for  a  number  of  years  end 
up  with  severe  hearing  problems." 

In  Hamernik's  opinion,  the  ear  de- 
veloped as  an  organ  necessary  for  sur- 
vival, since  survival  sometimes  de- 
pended upon  the  ability  to  detect  such 
noises  as  the  stealthy  approach  of  a 
predator. 

"But,"  observes  Hamernik,  "while 
the  ear  has  evolved  into  an  exquisitely 
sensitive  instrument,  it  was  not  de- 
signed for  the  types  of  contemporary 
noise  environments  to  which  it  is  being 
exposed." 

Noise  also  has  been  linked  to  brain 
disorders.  "Our  studies  indicate  that 
intense  noise  exposure  for  lengthy  pe- 
riods of  time  can  alter  cells  in  the  brain 
stem,  causing  distortions  in  the  way 
people  hear  things,"  says  Dr.  Richard 
J.  Salvi  of  the  Callier  Center  for  Com- 
munication Disorders  at  the  University 
of  Texas. 

Barely  audible  sounds  or  conversa- 
tions suddenly  become  uncomfortably 
loud  for  people  afflicted  with  the  dis- 
order. 


INFANTS  VULNERABLE 

Newborns  seem  particularly  suscep- 
tible to  inner-ear  damage  from  loud 
noises,  and  may  suffer  loss  of  brain 
cells  as  a  result,  according  to  research 
by  Dr.  Edwin  W.  Rubel,  professor  of 
otolaryngology  at  the  University  of 
Washington  School  of  Medicine. 

"We  haven't  figured  out  why  new- 
borns are  so  vulnerable,  but  we  think 
the  noise  risk  is  heightened  for  at  least 
the  first  few  months  of  a  baby's  life," 
says  Rubel. 

He  advises  parents  to  avoid  exposing 
their  newborns  to  continuous  loud  low- 
frequency  sounds  such  as  those  emitted 
by  unshieldedjet  engines  or  chain  saws. 
"Certainly  anything  extremely  annoy- 
ing or  painful  to  an  adult  wouldn't  be 
advisable  for  a  newborn  child,"  Rubel 
says. 

Researchers  in  Sweden  have  cau- 
tioned that  noisy  toys  also  may  harm 
hearing.  A  University  of  Goteborg  study 
found  that  squeaky  rubber  squeeze  toys 
held  close  to  the  ear  emitted  noises  in 
the  108-decibel  level,  equivalent  to  the 
sound  made  by  a  chain  saw.  Some  toy 
guns  and  firecrackers  were  much  worse. 

For  most  normal  children,  hearing  is 
most  acute  at  about  age  10,  and  it  takes 
about  30  to  40  years  before  any  notice- 
able change  occurs.  Higher-pitched 
sounds  fade  first.  But  many  people  in 
their  70s  and  beyond  retain  the  ability 
to  hear  conversation  at  a  normal  pitch. 

Scientists  are  finding  that  youthful 
listening  habits  have  some  bearing  on 
how  well  people  will  hear  when  they 
get  old.  Dr.  David  Lipscomb,  director 
of  noise  research  at  the  University  of 
Tennessee,  found  that  many  young  rock- 
music  lovers  preferred  a  noise  level — 
just  short  of  pain — that  injures  the  ears 
of  guinea  pigs.  In  tests  of  college  fresh- 
men, he  discovered  that  six  out  of  10 
suffered  hearing  losses,  and  concluded 
that  loud  music  was  a  factor. 

EARPHONE  LEVELS 

The  current  stereo  earphone  fad  seems 
just  as  bad.  "The  noise  levels  going 
into  some  ears  are  outrageous,"  says 
Dr.  John  Mills,  a  noise-and-hearing  ex- 
pert at  the  Medical  University  of  South 
Carolina.  "Most  of  these  young  people 
won't  notice  a  hearing  loss,  but  as  they 
get  older  their  earphone  days  may  come 
back  to  haunt  them." 

Noise  has  been  implicated  in  other 
disorders  besides  hearing  loss.  It  has 
been  linked  as  a  contributor  to  coronary 
diseases,  hypertension,  physiological 
disorders,  and  emotional  stress. 

As  Dr.  Hamernik  puts  it,  "Noise 
doesn't  cause  anxiety,  but  it  does  am- 
plify it." 

A  French  report  blames  noise  for 
70%  of  the  neuroses  reported  in  the 
Paris  area.  U3B 


JULY     1987 


17 


Kansas  City  Carpenters 
Note  Wal-Mart  Move 
from  Small-town  Targets 

Major  Retailer  Still  Opposes  Unions 


"Wal-Mart  strongly  believes  its  as- 
sociates do  not  need  to  be  represented 
by  a  labor  union,  nor  does  the  company 
need  unions  to  tell  us  how  to  run  our 
business  or  handle  our  own  personnel 
relations." 

The  leading  paragraph  under  "Union 
Policy"  in  the  Wal-Mart  Associates' 
handbook  explains  the  attitude  of  the 
company  toward  unions  and  the  reason 
the  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  Carpenters  Dis- 
trict Council  continues  to  handbill  and 
protest  non-union  contractors  and 
workers  at  area  Wal-Mart  locations. 

A  company  which  has  focused  its 
market  primarily  on  a  small-town  tar- 
get, Wal-Mart  has  been  moving  closer 
and  closer  to  Kansas  City,  most  re- 
cently building  or  remodeling  existing 
structures  in  the  Missouri  towns  of 
Raytown,  Harrisonville,  Independ- 
ence, Gladstone  and  Excelsior  Springs. 

Virgil  Heckathorn,  executive  secre- 
tary of  the  Kansas  City  District  Council, 
said,  "As  far  as  I'm  concerned,  he  (Sam 
Walton,  founder  and  owner  of  the  Wal- 
Mart  chain)  broke  the  barrier  with  the 
stores  in  Raytown  and  Independence 
.  .  .  just  a  stone's  throw  away  from  the 
Kansas  City  city  limits." 

Wal-Mart  is  "running  the  small  town 
shops  out  of  business,"  said  Harold 
Wilson,  a  district  council  business  rep- 
resentative who  has  had  to  deal  with 
several  of  the  Wal-mart  stores.  He  ex- 
plained the  smaller  stores  can  not  buy 
wholesale  for  the  prices  that  Wal-Mart 
can  sell  retail  through  its  massive  pur- 
chasing power.  So,  they  fold,  one  by 
one,  while  shoppers  are  redirected  to 
the  outlying  areas  the  stores  often  choose 
for  locations,  turning  downtown  areas 
into  ghost  towns. 

Walton  wields  a  two-faced  image, 
with  his  "Buy  American"  campaign 
seducing  customers  with  visions  of  pa- 
triotism. The  other,  anti-union  face 
smirks  at  unions  and  union  workers  and 
continues  to  offer  no-benefit,  low-pay- 
ing, part-time  or  "temporary"  jobs. 

Wilson  said  that  out  of  every  50-60 
employees,  Wal-Mart  hires  only  10  on 
a  full-time  basis,  leaving  the  others 
without  benefits  or  unemployment  in- 
surance." 

"Wal-Mart's  bad  news  in  my  opin- 
ion," said  Larry  Burton,  also  a  business 


representative  for  the  Kansas  City  Dis- 
trict Council.  He  said  he  has  "heard  it 
through  the  grapevine  that  they  won't 
hire  union  contractors  because  of  what 
we've  done,"  referring  to  extensive 
handbilling  conducted  at  area  Wal-Mart 
stores. 

Wilson  and  Burton  said  they  have 
targeted  working  people  in  their  recent 
handbilling  campaigns,  handing  out  in- 
formational literature  in  front  of  the 
stores  from  3  and  9  p.m.  Working  under 
the  premise  that  if  Wal-Mart  does  not 
want  to  employ  Building  Trades  work- 
ers, then  they  must  not  want  the  busi- 
ness of  Building  Trades  workers.  Wil- 
son said  they  are  handbilling  at  times 
when  working  people  are  most  likely 
to  shop. 

Heckathorn,  Wilson  and  Burton 
agreed  that  all  of  Kansas  City  labor 
needs  to  unite  to  fight  this  anti-union 
company.  "Basically,  the  carpenters 
are  Uke  a  little  honeybee,"  Wilson  said. 
"If  all  the  Building  Trades  don't  join 
in  with  union  brothers  and  sisters,  we 
won't  get  anywhere." 

Leafletting  efforts  at  Wal-Mart  stores 
in  Arkansas,  Ilhnois,  Tennessee,  Mis- 
souri and  Texas  have  paid  off  for  UBC 
members.  Notify  your  respective  Gen- 
ercd  Executive  Board  Member  of  any 
local  Wal-Mart  construction  activity. 


Amnesty  Aid 

Continued  from  Page  15 

is  to  provide  counseling  services  to 
applicants.  Our  long-term  objective, 
however,  is  the  creation  of  a  relation- 
ship and  trust  with  our  clients,"  stated 
Richard  Arispe,  UBC  representative. 

Dean  Sooter,  UBC  General  Execu- 
tive Board  Member  from  the  6th  Dis- 
trict, had  made  Texas  the  priority  state 
to  assist  undocumented  workers  in  ob- 
taining temporary  legal  residence. 

According  to  Sooter,  "Our  Brother- 
hood has  served  the  needs  of  working 
people  and  will  continue  to  do  so 
through  the  Legalization  Program  of 
IRCA.  We  believe  that  our  involvement 
in  the  program  will  establish  a  bridge 
of  brotherhood  and  insure  that  the  rights 
of  workers  will  be  upheld  and 
maintained."  UDB 


DAD'S  Special  Day 
Gets  Diabetes  Funds 


Thousands  of  "hard  hat"  workers 
from  AFL-CIO  building  and  construc- 
tion unions  spent  part  of  Father's  Day 
Weekend  at  street  corners  and  shopping 
centers  across  the  nation  June  20  to 
raise  funds  for  diabetes  research. 

The  "Dollars  Against  Diabetes" 
campaign  was  conducted  by  the  15 
unions  affiliated  with  the  Building  and 
Construction  Trades  Department  of  the 
AFL-CIO  as  part  of  its  commitment  to 
raise  money  to  help  find  a  cure  for 
diabetes. 

Coordinators  were  hopeful  Ameri- 
cans would  reach  into  their  wallets  and 
purses  when  they  saw  construction 
workers  and  other  volunteers  with  DAD 
signs  and  buckets  approach  their  cars 
at  intersections  and  shopping  centers. 

In  addition,  DAD  fund  raisers  in- 
tended to  seek  contributions  at  several 
major  league  baseball  games  over  that 
weekend. 

The  DAD  effort  is  part  of  an  ongoing 
"Blueprint  for  Cure"  campaign  by  the 
building  and  construction  unions  aimed 
at  bringing  together  in  a  new  state-of- 
the-art  facility  at  the  Diabetes  Research 
Institute  in  Miami  teams  of  doctors  and 
scientists  from  throughout  the  world  to 
find  a  cure  for  diabetes. 

Over  $1.5  million  has  been  raised 
cilready  for  the  project  by  the  Blueprint 
for  Cure  campaign,  but  millions  more 
are  needed  to  make  the  program  a 
success. 

Among  the  recent  contributors  to 
Blueprint  for  Cure  are  the  following: 

Local  11,  Cleveland,  Ohio 
Local  135,  New  York,  N.Y. 
Local  248,  Toledo,  Ohio 
Local  1889,  Downers  Grove,  111. 

First  District  Raffle 
George  Knight 

Local  61,  Kansas  City,  Mo. 
Local  66,  Olean,  N.Y. 
Local  857,  Tucson,  Ariz. 
Local  1026,  Miami,  Fla. 
Local  1121,  Boston,  Mass. 
Local  1338,  Charlottetown,  P.E.L 

In  memory  of  Jo  Ellen  M.  Stanik  from  Local 

44,  Champaign,  111. 
Knights  of  Columbus  #4608  Hillsboro,  111. 
Lather  A.  Sizemore  Foundation,  Inc. 
Jim  and  Neva  Mack 


Contributions  should  be  sent  to  Blueprint 
for  Cure,  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters 
and  Joiners  of  America,  101  Constitution 
Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20001. 


18 


CARPENTER 


Locni  union  nEuis 


'Twin  Plant'  Demonstration  at  Border 


Members  of  Cabinet-Fixture-Millwork  Local  2218,  El  Paso,  Tex.,  and  other  West 
Texas  and  New  Mexico  local  unions  participated  in  a  recent  demonstration  at  the 
Mexican  border  against  the  unfair  practice  of  U.S.  corporations  setting  up  "twin  plants" 
at  starvation  wage  scales  in  Juarez  and  other  Mexican  border  cities. 

A  much-touted  " maquiladora"  program  that  was  supposed  to  set  up  "twin  plants"  on 
either  side  of  the  V  .S  .-Mexican  border  to  provide  an  equal  number  of  jobs  for  workers  in 
both  countries  is  a  failure,  according  to  Victor  Munoz,  the  bearded  man  facing  the 
television  camera.  Munoz  is  president  of  the  El  Paso  central  tabor  body.  He  pointed  out 
that  the  "maquiladora"  program  has  created  85,000  jobs  in  Juarez  but  only  5,000  jobs 
on  the  American  side  of  the  border. 


DiDonato  Honored 


Recently  Local  1050,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
honored  Carmen  DiDonato  for  his  out- 
standing service  and  dedication  to  our 
union  and  its  members.  Shown  above  are 
John  Anello,  international  representative: 
Carmen  DiDonato:  Joe  "Murph"  Ippolito, 
business  agent:  and  Joe  DeBellis.  presi- 
dent of  Local  1050.  DiDonato  visited  the 
General  Office  in  Washington  several 
months  ago. 


Two  New  Local  Unions  Chartered  in  Kentuclcy 


Two  new  UBC  locals  recently  had  charters  installed.  Local 
2185,  Owensboro,  Ky.,  is  an  industrial  local  affiliated  with  the 
Indiana  Industrial  Council,  and  Local  2501 ,  a  mill-cabinet  local 
in  Louisville,  Ky.,  is  affiliated  with  the  Kentucky  State  Carpen- 
ters District  Council. 

Pictured,  at  right,  the  charter  and  members  of  Local  2185, 
front  row,  from  left,  are  Steve  Breden,  Marcus  Smith,  Rex 
Payton  and  Joe  McBride.  Back  row,  from  left,  are  Dave  Wilson; 
James  Oakley;  Harry  Tidd;  Charlie  Bell,  Indiana  Industrial 
Council;  and  Kenneth  Duval. 

Pictured,  below,  the  charter  and  members  of  Local  2501 . 
from  left,  are  Nolan  Petty,  Dave  Humphreys,  Paul  Hammond, 
Bob  Whitaker,  Earl  Brumley,  Sieve  Mason,  Dan  Forbis,  John 
Marion  and  Nick  Edwards. 


Local  Holds  Party 
For  99- Year-Old 


A  birthday  celebration  was  held  recently 
for  James  Shipman,  retired  member  of  Local 
269,  Danville,  111.  Shipman,  now  99,  retired 
from  Elliott  Millwork  Co.  at  age  84.  Mem- 
bers of  Local  269  helped  Shipman  celebrate 
his  99th  birthday  and  honored  him  as  the 
oldest  member  of  the  Local. 


JULY     1987 


19 


'Bohemian  Local' 
Marks  100th  Year 


On  January  24,  1987  Local  54  celebrated 
its  centennial  anniversary  with  a  dinner- 
dance  for  its  members  and  guests.  Although 
it  was  not  the  first  carpenters  local  to  be 
chartered  in  Chicago,  it  is  the  first  in  Chicago 
to  celebrate  its  100th  year. 

Local  54  was  chartered  January  22,  1887 
by  carpenters  who  emigrated  from  Czech- 
oslovakia and  is  still  known  as  the  "Bohe- 
mian Local"  with  many  of  its  members  being 
of  Czech  descent.  The  original  charter  was 
signed  by  .Peter  J.  McGuire,  General  Sec- 
retary and  a  founder  of  the  Brotherhood. 
Nearly  a  thousand  people  joined  together  to 
help  Local  54  celebrate  its  centennial. 


Shrine  Project 


Local  54  proudly  displayed  its  hand- 
embroidered  flag,  approximately  50  years 
old.  The  upper  portion  is  printed  in  Czech 
while  the  lower  portion  is  in  English . 


A  shrine  was  erected  by  Member  Ernest 
LaRosa,  Local  101.  Baltimore,  Md.,  in 
memory  of  his  wife  Sallie.  The  shrine,  con- 
structed of  reinforced  concrete,  stands  9 
feet  tall  and  weighs  3.5  tons.  It  is  made  of 
white  marble  chips  and  white  sand.  La- 
Rosa  designed  and  constructed  the  shrine 
at  his  home  in  Edgewood,  Md. ,  and  had  it 
transported  to  the  cemetery.  The  shrine 
took  LaRosa  14  months  to  construct. 


Attend  tocat  meetings 


Pictured  above  are  Robert  Lid,  president  of  Local  54  and  district  council  business 
representative:  Wesley  Isaacson,  secretary  treasurer  of  the  Chicago  and  Northeast 
Illinois  district  council;  George  Vest  Jr.,  president  of  the  district  council;  Thomas  J. 
Hanahan,  Third  District  General  Executive  Board  Member;  Ken  Mocarski,  financial 
secretary  of  Local  54;  Eugene  Dzialo  and  Martin  Umlauf,  both  business  representatives 
of  Local  54. 


These  Members  Got  on  Board 


Union  Shopper's  Showcase 


More  members  of  Local  3090,  Murfreesboro,  N.C.,  have  re- 
ceived UBC  "Get-on-Board" jackets  for  their  work  in  signing  on 
new  members.  Seated  from  left  are  Patricia  Martin,  Naomi 
Britts,  Erdie  Boone  and  Celesline  Mutts.  Second  row,  Vernon 
Lewter,  Annie  Flood,  Bobby  Newsome  and  Andrew  Maddrey. 
Third  row  from  left,  Christine  Edwards,  Sherman  Vaughan,  Lee 
Demary,  W.O.  Boone,  Alphonza  Edwards  and  James  Edwards. 
Not  in  the  picture:  William  Pope,  Eddie  Tunner  and  Deloris 
Stephenson. 


AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland  checks  his  "Union  Label 
Shopper, ' '  a  six-page  mail-order  catalog  featuring  union-made 
products.  The  flyer  includes  bargains  on  housewares,  linens, 
clothing,  and  other  goods.  Left,  Marc  Schechtman,  head  of  the 
mail-order  company,  and  Union  Label  and  Service  Trades  Sec- 
retary-Treasurer John  Mara  answer  questions  from  reporters 
about  the  new  all-union  service. 


20 


CARPENTER 


uiE  [oncRnTUiniE 


.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


KODIAK  COALITION 

A  group  of  concerned  citizens  in  Kodiak, 
Alaska,  has  banded  together  to  form  a  co- 
alition to  strengthen  the  community's  econ- 
omy. Called  the  4-Kodiak  Coahtion,  the 
group  consists  of  local  merchants,  business 
people,  industry  representatives  and  labor 
representatives.  Representing  labor  is  UBC 
Local  2162,  with  Business  Representative 
W.  Bruce  Finke  on  the  steering  committee. 

The  coalition's  goals  are  to  increase  com- 
munity awareness  of  the  benefits  of  buying 
locally,  to  give  local  business  the  first  chance 
in  any  sales  transactions,  to  reinforce  the 
image  of  the  business  sector  as  a  responsive 
segment  of  the  community  and  to  establish 
local  purchases  as  the  policy  for  local  gov- 
ernment and  nonprofit  organizations. 

The  coalition  has  been  spreading  its  mes- 
sage through  the  area  by  way  of  advertising, 
letters,  window  decals  in  participating  store 
windows  and  word  of  mouth. 


Earl  Smith,  left,  was  presented  the  George 
Meany  Award  by  Scott  D.  Fisher,  secre- 
tary-treasurer of  the  Michigan  State  Car- 
penters Council  at  a  recent  Boy  Scouts  of 
America  Recognition  Dinner. 


ON  NATIONAL  LIST 

Norina  K.  Stahl, 
daughter  of  Charles  A. 
Stahl,  retired  business 
representative  of  the 
Western  Pennsylva- 
nia District  Council 
and  financial  secre- 
tary of  Local  165, 
Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  was 
recently  selected  to 
receive  honorary 

award  recognition  by 
having  her  biography  published  in  the  Na- 
tional Dean's  List. 

Students  are  nominated  by  their  college 
dean  for  inclusion  in  this  Hsting.  Only  one- 
half  of  one  percent  of  the  country's  college 
students  are  chosen  for  this  award. 

SCOUTING  AWARD 

The  George  Meany  Award  was  recently 
awarded  to  Earl  Smith,  a  retired  member  of 
Local  1449,  Lansing,  Mich.  The  award  was 
made  at  a  ceremony  conducted  at  the  South- 
west Michigan  Boy  Scouts  of  America  Coun- 
cil Recognition  Dinner  held  at  Western 
Michigan  University  Student  Center  in  Ka- 
lamazoo, Mich.  It  was  presented  by  Scott 
D.  Fisher,  secretary-treasurer  of  the  Mich- 
igan State  Carpenters  Council,  in  recognition 
of  Smith's  28  years  of  volunteer  leadership 
in  Scouting. 


ART  EXHIBITED 

Linda  Wysong,  UBC  member,  recently 
displayed  her  art  entitled  "Structures"  at 
the  Oregon  Museum  of  Science  and  Industry 
in  Portland,  Ore.  "Structures"  is  made  of 
metal  studs  to  show  what  is  underneath 
modem  office  buildings. 

"My  work  examines  the  beauty  of  con- 
struction materials  and  points  out  the  human 
factor  with  the  use  of  caryatids  (sculptured 
columns  in  the  form  of  a  woman,  as  in 
ancient  Greece)  in  the  piece.  They  are  a 
metaphor  for  the  people  who  put  up  the 
buildings.  Technology  only  works  when  peo- 
ple are  there,"  Wysong  said. 

Wysong  holds  a  master's  degree  in  art 
history  from  the  University  of  Maryland  and 
works  as  a  carpenter  by  day.  She  has  inte- 
grated her  skills  as  a  master  carpenter  with 
those  of  her  artistic  background  to  create 
her  pieces.  The  installation  of  her  piece  in 
the  OMSI  was  made  possible  in  part  by  UBC 
members  who  volunteered  their  time. 


STUDIES  IN  CHINA 


Sarah  Haga  of  Local  22,  San  Francisco, 
Calif.,  has  been  accepted  for  a  summer 
program  in  Peking,  China.  The  purpose  of 
the  program  is  to  study  planning  and  archi- 
tecture which  will  give  a  more  global  per- 
spective. Haga  is  currently  on  leave  while 
she  works  toward  a  master's  degree  in  ar- 
chitecture from  the  Massachusetts  Institute 
of  Technology. 


Make 
Safety  a 
Habit! 

These  common  abuses  of  striking 
tools  are  all  dangerous.  Each  carries 
the  potential  for  serious  personal 
injury.  The  hardened  striking  face  of 
a  carpenter's  hammer  is  designed  to 
be  struck  against  common,  unhard- 
ened  nails.  Misusing  the  tool  by 
striking  it  against  another  hardened 
steel  tool  may  result  in  chipping  and 
consequent  serious  injury  from  flying 
particles.  Removal  of  embedded 
nails,  for  example,  should  be  done 
with  a  nail  puller  and  a  hand  drilling 
or  light  sledge  hammer. 

/^^  \^\  To  protect  your  eyes  from 

A, \_/a&j)  '-'"^' ^"'-' "V'^S particles. 

W^'-^^^^%^  always  wear  safety  goggles 

\^f^J^  when  using  striking  tools. 

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1  815  648-2446 

We're  concerned  about  your  safety. 


DON'T  strike  one  hammer 
with  another! 


DON'T  strike  a  hatchet 
with  a  hammer! 


DON  T  strike  a  nail  puller 
with  a  carpenter's 
hammer! 


JULY     1987 


21 


HPPREiiTicESHip  &  TRnminc 


James  Tinkcom, 
Technical  Director, 
Retires  July  1 


James  Tinkcom,  who  has  served  as 
technical  director  of  the  UBC's  ap- 
prenticeship and  training  department 
since  1971,  announced  his  retirement 
last  month,  effective  July  1 . 

A  longtime  member  of  Carpenters 
Local  510,  Bethoud,  Colo.,  Tinkcom 
has  guided  and  expanded  the  activi- 
ties of  the  Brotherhood's  trainig  pro- 
gram since  1969,  when  he  was  called 
to  the  General  Office  to  help  train 
1,100  instructors  of  the  U.S.  in  a 
series  of  one-week  seminars.  He  had 
previously  taught  in  the  Colorado  ap- 
prenticeship training  program  and  in 
public  schools  of  that  state.  In  1971 
he  succeeded  to  the  post  of  UBC 
technical  director  with  the  retirement 
of  Leo  Gable. 

Under  Tinkcom's  directorship  the 
UBC  initiated  its  Performance  Eval- 
uated Training  System,  familiarly 
known  as  PETS.  He  instituted  prac- 
tical adjustments  for  the  apprentice 
intake  program  and  has  served  as  an 
advisor  to  the  Brotherhood' s  Job  Corps 
training  activity.  Tinkcom  praised  the 
unfaiUng  support  of  the  department 
staff,  as  new  programs  were  initiated 
over  the  past  16  years. 


James  Tinkcom,  as  he  summarized 
training  activities  at  the  recent  con- 
ference in  California. 


Winning  Apprentices,  Western  Canada 


Eight  four-year  apprentices  recently  competed  in  the  1986  Canadian  Carpenters  Appren- 
ticeship Contest.  Pictured  are  Dan  Cote,  Victoria,  B.C.,  third  place  winner;  Cameron 
Jeffrey,  Toronto,  Ont.;  Mike  Kazina,  Winnipeg,  Man.:  Jack  Kramer,  Lethbridge,  Alta.; 
Robert  Kristensen,  Edmonton,  Alta.,  second  place  winner;  Aime  Legros,  Thunder  Bay, 
Ont.;  Ken  Nakagawa,  Port  Alberni,  B.C.,  first  place  winner;  and  Hubert  Wu,  Saskatoon, 
Sask. 

Graduating  Apprentices  at  Red  Bank 


The  graduating  apprentices  of  Red  Bank,  N.J.,  Local  2250  are  pictured  above  with  Local 
President  Philip  Parratt,  left,  and  Business  Representative  James  A.  Kirk  Jr.,  far  right. 
From  left,  the  apprentices  are  Ronald  Walker,  Peter  Grover,  Eric  Mauer,  James  Kamin- 
ski  and  Robert  C.  Ellwood.  Other  graduates,  not  shown,  were  William  Applegate  and 
Jonathan  O'Connor. 


Conference  on 
50th  Anniversary 
of  Apprenticeship 

In  conjunction  with  the  Eastern  Seaboard 
Apprenticeship  Conference  to  be  held  next 
month,  August  17-23,  in  Washington,  D.C., 
the  AFL-CIO,  Building  Trades  Department, 
is  scheduling  a  special  conference  for  per- 
sons interested  in  apprenticeship.  There  will 
be  a  week  of  activities  of  speakers,  lunch- 
eons and  dinners. 

As  presently  scheduled,  there  will  be  two 
afternoons  for  persons  from  each  of  the  craft 
unions  to  meet  with  their  own  craft  union 
representatives. 

Hotel  room  space  has  been  arranged.  The 
registration  fee  for  the  conference  is  $150. 

The  registration  and  information  for  the 
conference  is  not  yet  prepared  by  those 
implementing  the  conference.  Upon  receipt 
of  that  information,  we  will  inform  affiliate 
members  from  the  Eastern  Seaboard  Ap- 
prenticeship Conference  and  other  inter- 
ested persons  on  the  conference. 


The  top  apprentice  in  each  year  of  training 
was  honored  by  Local  2250.  Pictured  from 
left  are  Kenneth  Rusin,  top  first-year  ap- 
prentice; Joseph  Arneth,  top  second-year 
apprentice;  Paul  Gutleber,  top  third-year 
apprentice;  and  Robert  C.  Ellwood,  top 
fourth-year  apprentice. 


22 


CARPENTER 


First  General  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lucassen,  left  above,  urged  affiliates  to  maintain,  and  where  necessary, 
expand  their  training  programs  to  meet  the  growing  threat  of  non-union  construction.  Sam  Heil,  secretary  of  the 
Ventura,  Calif,  District  Council,  second  from  left,  welcomed  the  delegates  to  Oxnard.  Arthur  Ledford  of  the 
Associated  General  Contractors,  third  from  left,  discussed  management  training  objectives.  J.D.  Butler,  fourth 
from  left,  is  secretary  of  the  Ventura  JATC. 


Speakers  Discuss  Current  Training  Problems  at  Conference 


Almost  300  apprenticeship  training  direc- 
tors, coordinators,  instructors  and  members 
of  joint  labor-management  committees  heard 
from  speakers  and  panelists  on  current  issues 
facing  craft  training  when  they  assembled  at 
Oxnard,  Calif.,  May  4-7,  for  the  1987  Car- 
pentry Training  Conference. 


Among  the  topics:  scholarship  loans,  pre- 
apprenticeship  registries,  pre-employment 
safety,  daytime  training,  activities  of  coor- 
dinators, asbestos  removal,  and  drug  and 
alcohol  abuse  awareness.  Carpenter  Maga- 
zine expects  to  discuss  each  of  these  topics 
in  upcoming  issues. 


Conference  speakers  discussed  ways  of 
simplifying  the  apprenticeship  intake  proc- 
ess by  more  fully  preparing  Job  Corps  grad- 
uates and  orienting  pre-apprenticeship  train- 
ees toward  the  full  apprenticeship  program. 
Conference  participants  saw  new  audio-vis- 
ual materials  at  the  conference. 


IVIembership  Changes  in  National  Joint  Committee  at  Oxnard 


The  National  Joint  Carpentry  Apprenticeship  and  Training  Committee  had  new  members  and  retirees  at  its 
recent  Oxnard,  Calif.,  sessions.  Present,  from  left,  were  Martin  Grant  of  Minneapolis,  Minn,  (management);  Glenn 
Zimmerman  of  Phoenix,  Ariz,  (management):  Peter  E.  Johnson  of  Anaheim,  Calif,  (management):  James  Tinkcom, 
the  UBC's  technical  director  (labor,  retiring):  Doug  McCarron  of  Los  Angeles,  Calif,  (labor):  Louis  Basich  of 
Steubenville,  Ohio  (labor):  First  General  Vice  President,  UBC.  Sigurd  Lucassen,  co-chairman  of  the  committee; 
George  E.  Vest,  Jr.  of  Chicago  (labor);  Lewis  Kimball  ofTowson,  Md.  (management);  Ollie  Langhorst  of  St. 
Louis,  Mo.  (labor,  retiring);  Len  Terbrock  of  St.  Louis  (labor),  succeeding  Langhorst  on  the  committee:  William 
Healy  of  New  Castle,  Del.  (management):  Arthur  Ledford  of  Chattanooga,  Tenn.  (management),  co-chairman  of 
the  committee:  and  William  fialbert  of  Baltimore ,  Md.  (labor). 

Hans  Wachsmuth  of  Belmont,  Calif,  (management),  a  longtime  committee  member  has  retired.  New  committee 
members  for  management  are  Carmen  Paterniti  of  Far  Hills,  N.J.,  representing  the  American  Wall  and  Ceiling 
Institute:  Paul  DuClos  of  Anchorage,  Alaska,  representing  the  Associated  General  Contractors;  and  Don  Chambers 
of  Mansfield,  Ohio,  also  of  the  Wall  and  Ceiling  Institute. 


JULY     1987 


23 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Union  members 
appointed  to  head 
state  labor  department 

Communications  Workers  members 
have  been  named  to  head  state  labor 
departments  in  IlHnois  and  Tennessee. 
Gwen  Martin,  a  20-year  CWA  member, 
was  appointed  lUinois'  first  woman  di- 
rector of  labor.  A  former  treasurer  of 
CWA  Local  4309,  Martin  served  as  a 
CWA  representative  based  in  the  union's 
Chicago  office  and  a  vice  president  of 
the  Illinois  AFL-CIO.  A  31 -year  CWA 
veteran,  James  White  is  Tennessee's  new 
commissioner  of  labor.  White  was  a  for- 
mer president  of  CWA  Local  3806  in 
Memphis. 

How  many  lives 
for  locked-in 
plant  cat? 

A  pet  cat  may  have  been  the  first 
casualty  in  Simplex  Wire  and  Cable  Co.'s 
lockout  of  300  members  of  Electrical 
Workers  Local  2208.  The  mascot  used 
to  live  in  the  plant's  boiler  room.  But 
Charles  Kelso,  a  union-busting  attorney 
from  Atlanta  who  represented  Simplex 
in  negotiations,  told  IBEW  bargainers 
that  the  cat  "has  been  terminated." 

"This  is  war,"  Kelso  replied.  "There 
will  be  casualties." 

Ban  on  parking  lot 
signs  ruled  unfair 
labor  practice 

United  Technologies  Corp.'s  enforce- 
ment of  a  company  rule  prohibiting  the 
display  of  large  signs  in  its  parking  lot 
violated  the  Taft-Hartley  Act  when  an 
employee  was  forced  to  remove  a  local 
union  campaign  poster.  Overturning  an 
NLRB  finding.  Second  Circuit  Court  Judge 
Altimari  says  the  company  failed  to  es- 
tablish that  "its  management  interests 
would  be  prejudiced  in  any  way"  by  the 
display  of  signs  in  the  parking  lot  and 
finds  "no  legitimate  competing  manage- 
rial interest"  to  the  protected  rights  of 
employees  that  would  justify  the  ban. 

In  December  1983  an  employee  at  the 
company's  Southington,  Conn.,  faciUty 
was  disciplined  for  driving  into  the  park- 
ing lot  in  a  van  with  a  large  sign  politically 
endorsing  a  local  union  candidate.  The 
Machinists  argued  that  the  company  rule — 
banning  cars  "with  any  type  of  large  sign 
or  banner,  political  or  otherwise" — con- 
stituted an  unfair  labor  practice,  but  the 
Board  dismissed  the  complaint,  finding 
that  the  rule  amounted  to  "a  very  hmited 
restriction  on  the  display  of  signs." 


Cooper  Union  marks 
centennial  of 
famous  Great  Hall 

A  year-long  exhibition  celebrating  the 
role  of  Cooper  Union's  128  year-old  Great 
Hall  in  New  York  City  as  a  popular  stage 
for  poHtical  movements,  civil  rights,  fem- 
inism, social  reform,  educational  lectures 
and  creative  arts  opened  June  15. 
"This  important  exhibition  reflects  the 
enduring  role  of  Cooper  Union  in  the 
intellectual,  political,  cultural  and  social 
history  of  New  York  and  the  nation. 
Through  this  unique  collection.  New 
Yorkers  for  the  first  time  can  see  depicted 
the  forces  that  shaped  the  city  and  the 
people  we  are  today,"  Bill  N.  Lacy, 
president  of  Cooper  Union,  said. 

The  exhibit,  which  centers  on  seven 
themes,  is  free  and  open  to  the  public. 
It  can  be  seen  in  the  Great  Hall  foyer  at 
the  Cooper  Union  for  the  Advancement 
for  Science  and  Art,  7  E.  7th  Street,  New 
York,  N.Y.  Summer  viewing  hours  are 
Monday  through  Thursday  from  10  a.m. 
to  5  p.m.  For  more  information  call  (212) 
254-7474. 


AFL-CIO  calls  for 
legal  restrictions 
on  right  to  fire 

In  a  major  policy  statement,  the  AFL- 
CIO  Executive  Council  called  for  na- 
tional and  state  legislation  to  protect 
workers  from  unjust  discharges.  The 
United  States  is  the  only  industriaUzed 
nation  which  still  gives  employers  the 
"feudal  power"  to  dismiss  employees  at 
any  time  for  '-any  reason  or  no  reason 
at  all."  This  puts  60  million  non-union 
workers  at  risk  and,  of  these,  150,000 
workers  are  unfairly  fired  each  year. 

While  some  state  courts  have  placed 
limits  on  the  "employment  at  will"  rule, 
these  developments  are  of  very  limited 
scope.  The  exceptions  apply  only  to 
terminations  that  violate  public  policy  or 
that  breach  a  contract.  There  are  also 
serious  practical  problems  that  prevent 
employees  from  taking  advantage  of  these 
rulings;  not  many  workers  can  afford  to 
hire  lawyers  to  pursue  these  claims. 

Currently  only  employees  with  a  union 
contract  are  protected  from  being  fired 
without  cause.  The  AFL-CIO  statement 
calls  for  laws  "to  assure  every  working 
American  the  basic  labor  standards  that 
are  the  hallmark  of  a  decent  society." 

To  be  effective,  legislation  must  con- 
tain the  following  elements: 

•  A  prohibition  on  discharges  without 
cause. 

•  Financing  of  a  mechanism,  for  en- 
forcing this  right. 

•  Prompt  review  of  discharge  deci- 
sions by  an  independent  tribunal. 

•  Mandatory  reinstatement  of  em- 
ployees who  are  wrongfully  discharged. 

•  Full  compensation  for  losses. 


Legislation  to 
cool  takeover 
frenzy  urged 


Leaders  of  the  AFL-CIO  and  four 
major  unions  urged  Congress  to  enact  a 
list  of  legislative  remedies  to  protect 
companies,  workers  and  communities 
from  victimization  by  Wall  Street  raiders 
and  other  profiteers. 

The  labor  leaders  told  a  Senate  panel 
that  legislation  was  urgently  needed  to 
prevent  further  job  loss,  pressure  for 
wage  and  other  concessions,  economic 
loss  to  communities,  growing  corporate 
debt  and  other  harmful  effects  of  "merger 
mania." 

In  testimony  before  the  Senate  Bank- 
ing, Housing  and  Urban  Affairs  Com- 
mittee, AFL-CIO  Secretary-Treasurer 
Thomas  Donahue  said  the  rising  tide  of 
"hostile  takeovers"  and  the  resulting 
corporate  "restructuring"  are  injuring 
workers  and  communities  in  three  basic 
ways.  First,  at  least  80,000  jobs  of  mem- 
bers of  AFL-CIO-affiliated  unions  have 
been  lost  due  to  the  need  of  the  raider, 
or  that  of  the  target  company  which  was 
able  to  fend  off  a  raid,  to  sell  off  assets 
in  order  to  pay  off  some  of  the  heavy 
debt  created  by  the  takeover  process. 
This  job  loss  has  an  economic  ripple 
effect  on  communities. 

Second,  these  debt-driven  corporate 
restructurings  often  "lead  to  a  reduction 
of  wages  and  fringe  benefits,  and  even 
to  raids  on  pension  funds."  Third,  take- 
overs bring  new  employers  who  may 
"destroy  seniority  and  other  expecta- 
tions that  employees  build  up  in  their 
jobs  over  a  period  of  years." 


New  labor  rights 
coalition  seeks  world 
labor  standards 

Former  Secretary  of  Labor  Ray  Mar- 
shall has  announced  formation  of  a  Labor 
Rights  Coahtion  to  promote  international 
labor  rights  standards. 

The  new  group  includes  leaders  of 
labor,  religious,  civil  and  human  rights 
organizations. 

The  success  of  the  Coalition  would 
help  neutralize  the  huge  advantage  of 
many  foreign  manufacturers  in  producing 
low-priced  exports  based  on  low  wages, 
long  hours,  a  lack  of  safety  and  health 
standards,  child  labor  and  no  unions. 

At  the  outset,  the  Coalition  will  pro- 
mote passage  of  a  workers'  rights  clause 
in  the  trade  bill  now  moving  through 
Congress.  The  workers'  rights  provision 
is  the  trade  bill  reported  to  the  House 
floor  by  the  Ways  and  Means  Committee. 

The  coalition  will  cooperate  with  ex- 
isting organizations  monitoring  human 
rights  violations  around  the  world  to 
ensure  that  U.S.  officials  implement  ex- 
isting U.S.  trade  and  investment  laws 
setting  minimum  labor  rights  with  trading 
partners. 


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Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Lifetime  Member 


Retirement  Life 


Brother  Louis  Rodriguez,  Local  S 141 ,  San 
Francisco,  Calif. ,  was  honored  recently  at 
a  celebration  of  his  fifty-one  years  of 
membership  in  the  Brotherhood.  Rodriguez 
was  presented  with  a  gift  from  fellow 
members  along  with  his  lifetime  member- 
ship card.  He  is  the  first  member  of  Local 
3141  to  receive  the  lifetime  membership 
card.  Pictured  above  are  Ivan  Bermudez, 
president,  Louis  Rodriguez  and  Mario  Ro- 
sario,  recording  secretary-business  repre- 
sentative. 

Brown  Joins  Retirees 

A  retirement  and  testimonial  dinner  was 
recently  held  in  Atlanta  by  the  Georgia  State 
Council  of  Carpenters  to  honor  General 
Representative  James  G.  Brown.  Brother 
Brown  has  been  a  member  since  1950  and 
has  been  a  leading  force  in  the  labor  move- 
ment. He  has  been  responsible  for  a  number 
of  UBC  jobs. 

Patrick  J.  Campbell,  General  President, 
was  the  keynote  speaker,  and  Herb  Mabry, 
president  of  the  Georgia  State  AFL-CIO  and 
president  of  Local  225,  Atlanta,  Ga.,  served 
as  toastmaster.  Brown  was  joined  by  his 
family,  pastor,  and  friends  within  the  labor 
movement,  who  wished  him  a  happy  retire- 
ment. 


Mario  Ponte,  Local  22,  San  Francisco, 
Calif,  age  83,  is  enjoying  life  after  22 
years  of  retirement.  He  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  UBC  for  65  years. 


Attempts  to  Pit 
Young  Against  Old 


The  National  Council  of  Senior  Citizens 
has  begun  an  effort  to  combat  a  spate  of 
recent  newspaper  and  magazine  articles  that 
have  urged  cuts  in  federal  assistance  for 
senior  programs,  claiming  that  older  Amer- 
icans are  now  no  longer  in  need. 

The  articles  attempt  to  create  a  portrait 
of  the  elderly  as  "affluent,"  suggesting  that 
they  are  no  longer  as  needy  as  other  popu- 
lation groups  and,  therefore,  receive  a  dis- 
proportionately high  amount  of  federal  as- 
sistance. 

In  a  letter  to  the  editor,  NCSC  wrote: 
"Senior  assistance  programs  reheve  middle- 
aged  family  members  of  some  of  the  financial 
pressures  involved  in  providing  for  an  aged 
parent,  allowing  more  resources  to  focus  on 
young  children.  They  provide  valuable  sur- 
vivors' and  disability  protection  to  younger 
families.  And,  by  encouraging  older  workers 
to  retire  in  exchange  for  compensation.  So- 
cial Security  opens  up  employment  oppor- 
tunities for  younger  workers." 

The  position  of  the  NCSC  on  this  issue 
has  the  strong  support  of  the  AFL-CIO  and 
leaders  of  i*s  affiliated  unions,  whose  retirees 
make  up  a  large  part  of  NCSC's  membership. 


Pictured  above  are  Waylon  Morton,  president,  Georgia  Stale  Council;  Estell  and  James 
Brown;  Patrick  Campbell,  General  President;  William  Nipper,  general  representative; 
Bud  Cross,  Georgia  Stale  Council  secretary-treasurer. 

JULY     1987 


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You're  out  to  dinner  and  your  children 
are  with  a  baby  sitter  and  suddenly  one  of 
them  gets  hurt  or  very  siclc.  What  would 
your  baby  sitter  do? 

The  answer  will  depend  a  good  deal  on 
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information  before  you  left  home.  The  Na- 
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•  Watch  who  you  trust  to  watch  your 
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he  or  she  is  reliable  and  alert. 

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neighbor  or  relative. 

•  If  a  child  has  some  special  health  prob- 
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•  Leave  a  schedule  of  when  the  young- 
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•  Even  if  your  sitter  doesn't  mind,  refrain 
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103,000  Infant  Walkers  Recalled  by  McCrory 


In  cooperation  with  the  U.S.  Consumer 
Product  Safety  Commission,  McCrory  Stores 
has  announced  a  voluntary  recall  of  Baby 
Walker,  Reference  Number  PHT417,  made 
expressly  for  York  Distribution  Company, 
due  to  seat  and  strap  designs  which  could 
result  in  injury  to  a  child.  Approximately 
103,000  walkers  have  been  imported  nation- 
wide since  1983. 

McCrory  is  recalling  these  walkers  as  a 
result  of  30  incidents  of  crotch  strap  slippage 
or  disengagement  and  tearing  or  stretching 
of  the  seat  material,  which  could  allow  an 
infant  to  fall  through  the  seat  to  the  floor 
and  become  caught  or  entangled.  One  inci- 
dent of  crotch  strap  slippage  is  known  to 
have  resulted  in  a  broken  collar  bone.  The 
walkers  involved  are  round  with  a  silver 
metal  frame  and  yellow  tray  with  three  play 
dials,  with  multi-colored  animal  print  vinyl 
padded  seat  and  six  yellow  plastic  wheels. 
The  affected  walkers  contain  a  silver  sticker 
under  the  tray  listing  Reference  Number 
PHT417  and  York  Distribution  Co.  (see 
drawing). 

McCrory  will  provide  a  full  refund  to  all 
owners  of  the  Model  PHT417.  The  walkers 
were  sold  for  approximately  $15  at  the  fol- 
lowing McCrory  Company  stores:  McCrory, 
T.G.  &  Y,  J.J.  Newberry,  McLellan,  H.L. 
Green,  Kress,  Silver,  Elmore,  Britts,  and 
Kittinger,  as  well  as  other  retail  stores  na- 
tionwide. Owners  of  affected  walkers  should 
return  them  to  the  place  of  purchase. 


To  check  the  reference  number  on  your 
baby  walker,  read  the  label  under  the 
walker's  tray,  as  indicated  by  the  arrow.  If 
it  is  Ref  No.  PHT417,  it  is  recalled. 

The  seat  strap, 
indicated  by  the 
arrow,  can  slip, 
which  could  al- 
low an  infant  to 
fall  through  to 
the  floor  or  be- 
come entangled. 

Consumers  wanting  more  information 
should  contact  their  local  stores.  Further 
information  can  also  be  obtained  by  calling 
the  CPSC  toll-free  hotline  number  at  1-800- 
638-CPSC.  A  teletypewriter  number  for  the 
hearing  impaired  is  1-800-638-8270. 


Scientists  Urge  Stronger  Saturated  Fat  Labels 


A  group  of  scientists,  coordinated  by  the 
Center  for  Science  in  the  Public  Interest, 
has  urged  the  Food  and  Drug  Administration 
to  strengthen  labeling  of  saturated  fats  in 
foods. 

The  scientists  said  that  consumers  may 
be  selecting  products  whose  labels  say  all- 
vegetable  oils  without  realizing  that  coconut 
and  palm  oils  are  high  in  saturated  fat,  which 
is  a  major  factor  in  high  cholesterol  levels 
and  heart  disease. 

The  group  urged  FDA  to  require  a  phrase 
such  as  "saturated  fat"  after  the  name  of 


the  coconut  and  palm  oils  in  ingredient  lists 
and  a  declaration  of  saturated  fat  after  phrases 
such  as  "all  vegetable  shortening." 

Signing  the  letter  to  the  FDA  were  Dr. 
Helen  Brown,  Cleveland  Clinic;  Dr. 
W.  Virgil  Brown,  Mt.  Sinai  School  of  Med- 
icine; Joyce  Lashof,  University  of  California 
School  of  Public  Health,  Berkeley;  and  Dr. 
Michael  Latham,  Cornell  University. 

CSPI,  a  non-profit  consumer  group,  filed 
a  petition  with  the  FDA  in  1986  urging  new 
saturated  fat  labeling  rules.  FDA  has  yet  to 
respond  to  that  petition,  CSPI  said. 


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sick  why  didn't  you  see  the  doctor 
I  recommended?" 

Jockey  McKeone;  "I  started  to, 
but  the  sign  on  his  door  said  '10  to 
1,'  and  I  won't  play  odds  like  that." 

— Nancy's  Nonsense 
LOOK  FOR  THE  UNION  LABEL 

AGAINST  IT  ALL 

A  lady  was  observing  a  man 
leaning  against  a  fence  in  a  No 
Trespassing  Zone.  The  lady  yelled, 
"Hey  Mister,  that  there  is  against 
the  law." 

And  the  man  replied,  "No  lady, 
this  here  is  against  the  fence." 

— London,  Ont..  Member 


SIPPING  SNAKE 

A  fisherman  who  had  run  out  of 
bait  saw  a  snake  nearby  with  a  frog 
in  its  mouth.  He  poured  some  whis- 
key near  the  snake,  and  when  the 
snake  dropped  the  frog  to  drink  it, 
the  fisherman  grabbed  the  frog  for 
bait, 

A  few  minutes  later,  while  the 
angler  fished  from  the  bank,  he  felt 
a  tap  on  his  leg.  It  was  the  snake 
with  another  frog. 

—Globe 
BUY  UNION  *  SAVE  JOBS 

LAZY  LAPPERS 

America  is  the  only  country  in  the 
world  where  people  jog  three  miles 
a  day  for  execise  and  then  take  an 
elevator  to  the  mezzanine. 

— National  Enquirer 
BOYCOTT  LP  PRODUCTS 


QUICK  STUDY 

The  teacher  asked  her  class  to 
give  her  a  sentence  containing  an 
object,  and  Johnny,  a  notoriously 
poor  student,  shot  his  hand  into  the 
air. 

"You  are  very  beautiful,"  shouted 
Johnny. 

Teacher  replied:  "Yes,  that's  a 
sentence,  but  what  is  the  object?" 

"I'm  angling  for  a  good  grade," 
said  Johnny, 

— Nancy's  Nonsense 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

You've  heard  of  the  "hanger" 

named  Moe 
A  union  "rocker"  who  made 

plenty  of  dough. 
His  apprentices  screamed  in  a 

snit: 
"This  piece  just  won't  fit!" 
"Ha,"  laughed  Moe,  "Just  turn  it 

around.  It'll  go." 

— F.  Paul  Kelly 
Mountain  View,  Calif. 


TRAGEDIES 

It's  strange  how  an  earthquake 
four  thousand  miles  away  seems 
less  of  a  catastrophe  than  the  first 
scratch  on  your  new  car. 

USE  UNION  SERVICES 


2  OUT  OF  3  AIN'T  BAD 

We  knew  it  was  going  to  be  a 
less-than-perfect  dinner  when  our 
waitress  announced  that  the  soup 
du  jour  was  "something  Ican'tpron- 
ouce  that  starts  with  m."  The  min- 
estrone was  mediocre  and  the  serv- 
ice slow,  but  we  were  rendered 
speechless  when  the  girl  served 
coffee  to  only  two  of  us  and  said, 
"One  of  you  drink  quickly,  so  I  can 
bring  the  third  coffee.  We're  out  of 
cups." 

— Good  Food 
ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 

TAX  TWIST 

"I  receive  fine  service  at  Denise 
&  Friends  Hair  Design.  Denise's 
fine  hairdos  sure  improve  my  82- 
year-old  image.  The  only  thing  that 
bothers  me  is  that  the  IRS  won't 
allow  me  to  list  the  charge  under 
'overhead  expense'  oh  my  tax  re- 
port!!" 

—Nancy  Green 
SUPPORT  'TURNAROUND' 

WORD  FROM  ABOVE 

A  car  going  70  miles  an  hour 
down  the  expressway  was  spotted 
by  a  flying  patrolman.  He  radioed 
his  partner  on  the  ground  and  the 
policeman  in  the  car  stopped  the 
speeder  and  began  writing  a  ticket. 
"How  in  the  world  did  you  know  I 
was  speeding?"  the  man  asked. 

The  patrolman  didn't  say  any- 
thing, but  pointed  skyward. 

"Do  you  mean  to  tell  me  that  even 
He  has  turned  against  me,  too?" 
the  man  moaned. 

—Grit 


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CARPENTER 


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Ironton,  Ohio 
Picture  No.  1 


Ironton,  Ohio 
Picture  No.  2 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who  recently  received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


VAN  NUYS,  CALIF. 

As  is  the  custom,  Local  1913  hosted  a 
dinner  to  honor  members  and  their  spouses 
whose  participation  over  the  course  of  the  years 
had  made  it  possible  tor  the  local  to  prosper. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Lee  Mevoli,  Bill  Adair,  Samuel  Pfaff  Sr. 
and  Dalton  Box. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Orville  Wills,  John  Den  Ouden,  Ben  Huff, 
George  Doherty  and  Robert  Lethbrldge. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Glen  Vannoy,  Paul  Ash, 
Christopher  Dunham,  Rudy  Lopez  and  George 
Carpenter. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Frank  Alvarez,  Anton 


Steiner,  Patrick  Finan  and  Manuel  Lopez. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Clarence  Markley,  John  Foote, 
W.C.  Montgomery,  Lawrence  Mogge,  George 
Meisinger  and  Einar  Nelson. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Robert  Timson,  Vern 
Lankford,  Ritsuo  Takeuchi,  Ted  Ishikawa,  Ray 
Gregory,  William  Gearhart,  George  Cox, 
Clarence  Neuhaus,  Paul  Irwin  and  George 
Ramirez. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Robert  Dahlquist,  Bill 
Adkisson,  Paul  Bennett,  Melvin  Miller,  Harold 
Bahrke,  Ralph  Davis,  Veno  Martinez,  Jack 
Ripley  and  George  Carr. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Robert  Monroe,  Lyie  Rendall,  Walter 
Garland,  Cecil  Gantrell  and  Eugene  Rowlett. 


Van  Nuys,  Calif. — Picture  No.  2 


Van  Nuys,  Calif.— Picture  No.  5 


Van  Nuys,  Calif. — Picture  No.  4 
JULY     1987 


IRONTON,  OHIO 

Local  1519  recently  held  a  pin  presentation 
ceremony  to  honor  members  for  their  years  of 
dedicated  service  to  the  UBC. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  45-year  member  Frank 
Webb. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  40-year  member 
William  Elliott. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  Ora  McKenzie,  Ivin  Tubb  and  Guy  Gibson. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Thomas  Piatt  and  Fred  Simmons. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  Mike  Caudill,  Doug  Dodson,  Ron  Kelly  and 
Gary  Piatt. 

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PORTSMOUTH,  OHIO 

Members  with  up  to  50  years  of  service  were 
recently  Inonored  by  Local  437.  Specially 
honored  was  50-year  member  G.C.  Woodrum 
who  is  96  years  old.  His  wife  Ella  will  be  100 
this  year;  they  have  been  married  75  years  and 
have  10  children. 


Picture  No.  1  shows,  front  row,  from  left: 
Representative  Greg  Martin,  50-year  member 
George  Gannon,  50-year  member  G.  C. 
Woodrum  and  Third  District  Board  Member 
Thomas  Hanahan. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Business  Representative 
Norvel  Davis  and  Tri  State  District  Council 
Secretary  Marvin  Knapp. 


Portsmouth,  Ohio — Picture  No.  1 


Portsmouth,  Ohio — Picture  No.  2 


Portsmouth,  Ohio — Picture  No.  3 


Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Edward  Strickland,  Henry  C. 
Tieman,  William  Warner  and  William  Tipton. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Davis,  President  Patrick 
Day  and  Knapp. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Richard  Berry,  Cecil  Campbell, 
James  Fox,  William  Haney  Jr.,  Paul  Justice, 
Charles  Lipker,  Estll  McClurg  and  H.  Ivan 
McClurg. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Davis:  Harold  Ruark  and 
Charles  Vanderpool;  Day  and  Knapp. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Chester  Bowman,  Harold  Davis, 
Andrew  Gagai,  Clarence  "Tag"  Hornikel, 
Andrew  Lutz,  Charles  Price,  Ray  Taulbee  and 
Arville  Spradlin. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Davis,  Day,  Gary  Price 
and  Knapp. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Waldo  Bowman,  Walt  Cooper, 
Ed  Crabtree,  Darl  Henderson,  Wayne  Howard, 
Winfield  Jenkins,  M.E.  Carpenter  and  Vernon 
Adams. 

Second  row,  from  left:  Albert  Storm,  Elmer 
Rowe,  George  Price,  Archie  Pelfrey,  Jesse 
Madden,  Charles  Liles,  John  Johnson  and 
Knapp. 

Back  row,  from  left:  James  Thompson, 
Robert  Taylor,  Charles  Williams,  Day  and 
Davis. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Frank  Allen,  Willard  Harned  and 
Eugene  McCleese. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Davis,  Hanahan,  Knapp 
and  Day. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  20-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Ralph  Blakeman,  Albert 
Crawford,  Willard  Dockery  Jr.,  Lotis  Fraley, 
Leroy  Easter,  Chalmer  Howard,  Homer  Jayjohn 
and  John  Kranyik. 

Second  row,  from  left:  Knapp,  Daniel 
Thomas,  Billy  Joe  May,  Vernon  Liles,  Charles 
Meyer,  Chalmer  Montgomery  and  Hager  Risner. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Davis  and  Day. 


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Portsmouth,  Ohio — Picture  No.  6 

CARPENTER 


Anchorage,  Alaska 

ANCHORAGE,  ALASKA 

Local  1281  held  a  special  called  meeting  to 
honor  members  with  longstanding  service. 

Pictured  front  row,  from  left,  are:  Kendall 
Muckey,  30  years;  Clarence  Pilon,  40  years; 
Anton  Shosten,  40  years;  John  Fejes,  35  years; 
Ken  Berggren,  40  years;  and  Robert  Masuda, 
35  years. 

Middle  row  from  left  are:  Jesse  Binns,  35 
years;  L.P.  Christenson,  40  years;  Stan 
Herman,  45  years;  Art  Fike,  35  years;  Robert 
Coburn,  45  years;  Hubert  Carlson,  40  years; 
Erving  Brooks,  40  years;  Rudy  Preiss,  25 
years;  and  Earl  T.  Jones,  45  years. 

Back  row  from  left  are:  Paul  Mammon,  25 


years;  James  Shields,  40  years;  Clyde 
WlcCurdy,  45  years;  George  Pearson,  25  years; 
Ron  Hodges,  30  years;  Bruno  Johnson,  40 
years;  Wayne  Collins,  25  years;  and  Ron 
Nathanson,  25  years. 

Also  honored  but  not  present  were  the 
following  members:  45-year  members  Robert 
Baird,  Ernest  Evans,  Alves  Kowalski,  Elmer 
Knudson,  Pete  Lannen,  Albert  Lausterer  and 
Ellis  Summers;  40-year  members  Carl  Aldridge, 
Herston  Cress,  Rudy  Flegel,  John  Guse,  Henry 
Hanson,  Milton  McCaughey,  Winfred 
McDermett,  Rene  Pellissier,  Adran  Sperling,  Art 
Stenberg,  William  Stevens,  Morgan  Storck, 
Joseph  Vangstad  and  Barney  Yodzio;  35-year 


members  Stan  Bigos,  Dean  Christopherson, 
Bernie  Easley,  Warren  Enzler,  T.  T.  Givens,  Ray 
Girves,  I.  W.  Green,  John  Ketcham,  Tsunao 
Kitagawa,  John  Makinson,  Robert  Masuda, 
Aarne  Moisio,  Glen  Rowsey,  Homer  Swires  and 
Vyron  Weils;  30-year  members  Leiand  L. 
Bailey,  Virgil  Clemenson,  Joe  Donald,  Lewis  L. 
Gray,  Max  Hardy,  Ira  B.  Jackson,  Leonard 
Johnson,  Benjamin  Lindgren,  Alfred  Sather, 
Arthur  Schultz,  Knut  Vik,  Clarence  Valine, 
James  Wheeles  and  Charles  Wellong;  and  25- 
year  members  Rodney  Beck,  Richard  Bowlby, 
Joseph  Egan,  Walter  Haines,  Marvin  Holmes, 
Wayne  Johnson,  Donovan  Larson,  Edward 
Laux,  Leiand  Netter  and  James  A.  pussell. 


Philadelphia,  Pa. — Picture  No.  1 
PHILADELPHIA,  PA. 

Local  1073  recently  gave  special  recognition 
to  two  members,  Ted  Feldman  and  Barnard 
Zayon,  each  with  45  years  of  membership  in 
the  local.  Feldman  served  for  35  years  as  a 
trustee,  Zayon  served  for  35  years  as  financial 
secretary. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  Feldman  receiving  a 
commemorative  plaque,  second  from  left,  with, 
from  left,  Bruce  Offner,  Stan  Foard,  Fran  Doerr, 
Business  Agent  Bob  Boggi  and  John  Retail. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  Zayon  receiving  a 
plaque  and  congratulations  from  the  same 
group. 

Special  recognition  goes  to  Halvor  Hansen,  a 
member  in  good  standing  of  Local  13  for  68 
years.  The  89-year-old  Hansen  joined  the  local 
in  1919. 


Philadelphia,  Pa. — Picture  No.  2 

BILOXI,  MISS. 

At  a  regular  meeting  of  Local  1404,  25-year 
pins  were  presented. 

Pictured  are,  from  left:  Walter  Johnston,  Vice 
President  Charles  Bishop,  and  President  Byron 
Agregard,  receiving  25-year  pins  from  Business 
Representative  Richard  Grady. 


Biioxi,  Miss. 


70  Years  of  Service 

A  few  weeks  ago  we  learned  of  the 
death  of  one  of  our  senior  members  in 
Iowa. 

Hugo  Lindahl,  96,  a  member  of  the 
United  Brotherhood  for  73  years,  died 
recently  in  Cedar  Rapids.  Born  in  Swe- 
den in  1890,  he  joined  the  UBC  at  the 
age  of  23  and  was  a  member  of  Local 
308. 

Lindahl  had  been  a  member  for  al- 
most three-quarters  of  the  existence  of 
the  UBC.  We  thought  we'd  check  to  see 
how  many  other  UBC  members  have 
attained  70  and  more  years  of  member- 
ship in  recent  years.  This  is  what  we 
found: 

Last  year  there  were  49  members 
awarded  70-year  service  pins;  in  1985 
there  were  18;  and  in  1984  there  were 
36 — 103  in  the  past  three  years. 

During  that  same  period  there  were 
24  members  who  received  service  pins 
for  75  years  of  service  to  the  Brother- 
hood— truly  records  for  any  organiza- 
tion, and  we  salute  them  all. 


JULY     1987 


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FAIRBANKS,  ALASKA 

At  the  annual  Christmas  Party,  Local  1243, 
awarded  service  pins  to  members  with 
longstanding  service.  Joe  Russo,  president  ot 
the  Alaska  State  Council  of  Carpenters,  Ed 
Perkowski,  Local  1243  business  representative 
and  Dan  Hoffman,  Local  1243  training 
coordinator,  presented  the  service  pins. 


Photo  No.  1 


Picture  No.  1  shows  45 
year  member  Alva  Ditch. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  40 
year  members,  from  left: 
E.  B.  "Burl"  Davis,  Louis 
Perme,  James  Mount  and 
Lawrence  Pippin. 

Picture  No.  3  shows 
35-year  members,  from 
left:  Business  Representative  Perkowski,  Nils 
Braastad,  Council  President  Russo,  Lee  Roy 
Parham,  Edd  IVIaddux,  Harry  Miller,  Thonnas 
Story  and  Grant  Nelson. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  30-year  member 
Richard  Hodges  and  Training  Coordinator 
Hoffman. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  25-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Martin  Cunningham,  Council 
President  Russo,  George  Murphy,  Noel 
Higgins,  Jurgen  Ziegler,  Walter  Yinger,  Carl 
Hoffman,  Joe  Coty  and  Business  Representative 
Perkowski. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Don  Swarner,  Gene 
Davis  and  Niles  "Whitey"  Coates. 

Honored  but  not  available  for  photographs 
were  25-year  members  Carl  Adams,  John 
Earley,  John  Maguire,  John  C.  "Jack"  Martin, 
Ora  Whittle,  Robert  Chappell,  Dan  Chavez, 
Roger  Edgerton  and  Richard  Hensley;  30-year 
members  Ray  Moran,  Richard  Barnett,  Anthony 
Dutton,  Francis  Earl,  James  Griffin,  Esko 
Helenius,  Doyle  Hutsell,  Thomas  IVlurphy,  John 
Verbeek  and  John  Vicars:  35-year  members 
Bjarne  Aune,  Sherman  Findley,  Noble  Ingram, 
Joseph  Manga,  William  "Slim"  Mosher, 
Maurice  Shea,  Warren  Story  and  Maurice 
"Cowboy"  Holvoet;  40-year  members  Carl 
Peterson,  Karl  Lind,  E.  B.  "Bud"  Dirk,  Charles 
Hurshman,  Frank  Leggett,  Frank  Lucas,  William 
"Jack"  Norman,  Oliver  Olilla,  Thor  Orrestad,  0. 
0.  "Bert"  Prestbo,  Robert  Smith,  Lawrence 
Wengelewski,  Frank  Westover  and  Mark 


Fairbanks,  Alaska — Picture  No.  3 


Fairbanks,  Alaska — Picture  No.  5 

Winfield;  and  45-year  members  James 
Dutcher,  Bruce  Robinson  and  Olaf  Thorgaard. 

DES  PLAINES,  ILL. 

Local  839  held  a  special  called  meeting  to 
honor  members  with  25  years  or  more  of 
service  to  the  Brotherhood.  The  meeting  was 
followed  by  a  buffet  dinner  which  was  enjoyed 
by  all. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  D.  Dolatowski,  William  L.  Swanson  and 
James  Schultheiss. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  3G-year  members  front 
row,  from  left:  James  Black,  Trevor  Bauman, 
Fritz  Blome,  Harold  Byrne,  Michael 
Czerechowicz  and  Hubbard  D.  Hicks. 


Back  row,  from  left:  Charles  P.  Koenig, 
Vitalijs  Lackajs,  Ed  Lenz,  Byrne  McClung,  Fred 
J.  Moeller  and  John  D.  Hoffman. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members  front 
row,  from  left:  Joe  Calabrese,  Don  Chartrand, 
William  Gartke,  Frank  Kofler  and  Don  Staab. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Bob  Zbikowski,  Alex  M. 
Alexeyuk,  Noel  Logan  and  Tom  Nebl. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Nick  Current,  Harry  Holm  Jim 
Iversen,  Albert  Kasubjak,  Ray  Lebal  and  Don 
Van  Pool. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Jack  B.  Fisher,  Hans  J. 
Repmann,  Curtis  E.  Roe,  Geo.  Schrambeck, 
Major  Cole,  Cornelius  VanDenwiel  Jr.,  Henry 
Wiegel  Jr.,  William  Wiegel  and  Chester  Peters. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  Albert  Greenenwald  and  Henry  E.  LItkea. 


Des  Plaines,  III. — Picture  No.  1 


Des  Plaines,  III.— Picture  No.  3 


Des  Plaines,  III.— Picture  No.  5 


Des  Plaines,  III.— Picture  No.  2 
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Des  Plaines,  III. — Picture  No.  4 


CARPENTER 


Phoenix,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  1 


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Phoenix,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  2 


PHOENIX,  ARIZ. 

Local  1089  recently  awarded  service  pins  to 
longstanding  members. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Lowell  Swope,  Mack  Traughber,  Norman 
King  and  Alexander  Boris. 

Picture  No.  2  sfiows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Bernard  Green,  Richard  Kraxner,  L.E.  Hunt 
and  George  Jones. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Emerson  Cahill,  Charles 
Timmons  and  Fred  Bell. 

Middle  row,  from  left;  Kenneth  Almond,  John 
S.  Guerra,  Myron  Brewka  and  William  Cran. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Vern  Mooney,  Lee  C. 
Johnson,  Robert  Lamm,  James  Waters  and  Earl 
Mulleneaux. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Emanuel  Mordini,  Larry  E. 
Harris,  Frank  Carioto,  Arthur  loli,  Ray 


Hernandez  and  Nathan  Orsburn. 

Second  row,  from  left:  Carl  Maletich,  Fred 
Pavlet,  Anthony  Hodor,  Arthur  Bailey,  Louis 
"Pat"  Patton,  Arnold  Brown,  Ralph  Elision  and 
Norman  Schalk. 

Third  Row,  from  left:  Martin  Nehrbass,  Fred 
Melander,  Robert  Chance,  Harry  Oldsen, 
Raymond  Powell,  Lawrence  McCollom  and 
Alvin  Perkins. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Charles  Foreman, 
Joseph  Shull,  Roland  "Joe"  Kies  and  Elmer 
Ward, 

Picture  No.  5  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  L.L.  Sanders,  Leroy  Bickel, 
Seldon  E.  Johnson,  Oakley  Salyers  and  Paul 
Terty. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Jack  Taylor,  John 
Durnavich,  Edward  Martin,  Alfred  Henderson 
and  Nick  Pela. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  50-year  members  W.A. 
Boardman,  left,  and  Ray  Christian. 


Phoenix,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  4 


Phoenix,  Ariz. — Picture  No.  6 


ALPENA,  MICH. 

Members  with  years  of  dedicated  service  to 
the  Brotherhood  were 
honored  by  Local  1132  at 
a  recent  luncheon  where 
pins  were  presented. 

Picture  No.  1  shows 
45-year  member 
Raymond  Januchowski. 

Picture  No.  2  shows 
35-year  members,  from 
left:  Edward  Przeslawski, 
Ray  Skiba  and  Harry 
Kraniak. 

Picture  No.  3  shows 
30-year  members,  from 
left:  Leonard  Sovs,  Ray 
Kraniak,  Ted  Pokorski, 
Jim  Burroughs  and 
George  Hinckley  Sr. 

Picture  No.  4  shows 
25-year  members  Elmer 
Kowalski,  left,  and  Ed  Yoder, 


Picture  No.  5  shows  25-year  member  Willard 
Klein. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  20-year  members,  from 
left:  Howard  Manning  and  Walt  Soltysiak. 


Photo  No 


Alpena,  IVlich. — Picture  No.  3 


Alpena,  IVIich.- 


■Picture  No.  6 


JULY     1987 


33 


Brooklyn,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  1 


BROOKLYN,  N.Y. 

Local  902  recently  awarded  service  pins  to 
several  senior  members  of  the  local. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  50-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  John  Mastrolimbo,  Stephan 
Pencak  and  Harold  Breghom. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Teddy  Andersen  and 
Max  Murphy. 


Picture  No.  2 


Picture  No.  2  shows 
45-year  member 
Michael  Barofsky. 

Picture  No.  3  shows 
40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left: 
Business  Representative 
Gus  Sabatino,  Business 
Representative  Rocco 
Cassano  and  Vito 
Dellasperanza. 

Back  row,  from  left: 
John  Demos,  Hans  Haivorsen,  Carmine 
Cassano,  Gilbert  Andersen,  Larry  Sitkawitz, 
Frazer  Stockley,  Sal  Perrone,  Erhard  Obry  and 
Tony  Giaquinto. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Anthony  Cunetta,  William 
Ericksen  and  Vincent  Blake. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Business  Representative 
Sabatino,  Walter  Harbour,  Henry  Hentze,  Peter 
Sandrib,  Joe  LaRocca  and  Business 
Representative  Cassano. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Sidney  Mcintosh,  John  Parrel, 


Lorenzo  Gentile,  Sal  DeSante  and  George 
Edwardsen. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Thomas  Gill,  Walter 
Lysuik,  Reldassaro  Ruggerio,  Jack  Barroneti 
and  Willie  Glover. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Ronnie  Rath,  Robert 
Covington  Jr.,  Ronald  Narducci,  Stanley  Seiper, 
Felice  Livia,  Gunar  Olsen,  Wilson  Maillaid, 
Thomas  Lezinsky,  Ben  DeDominices,  Ed 
Niewiarawicz  and  Ed  Wilson. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  some  25-year 
members,  front  row,  from  left:  Robert 
Covington  Jr.,  Umberto  Dantoro,  Frank  Saulo, 
Arthur  Nelson  and  Anthony  Santoro. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Gene  Kelly,  John 
Usevich,  Phil  Caraher,  Joe  Santillo,  Kurt 
Langjahr,  Joe  Kendall  and  Mario  Abruscati. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  more  25-year  members, 
front  row,  from  left:  Jean  Puchin,  Leonard 
Gustafson,  Joe  Cella,  Dominick  Costa  and 
Desmond  Smyth. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Stanley  Lezinsky,  Emil 
Babilon,  James  Mcintosh,  Giuseppe  OiNatale 
and  Roger  Sahm. 


Brooklyn,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  3 


Brooklyn,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  4 


Brooklyn,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  5 


Brooklyn,  N.Y.— Picture  No.  6 


Brooklyn,  N.Y, — Picture  No.  7 


San  Antonio,  Tex. — Picture  No.  2 


San  Antonio,  Tex. — Picture  No.  1 
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SAN  ANTONIO,  TEX. 

At  a  regular  meeting  several  members  of 
Local  14  were  presented  with  service  pins  for 
their  dedicated  years  with  the  UBC. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Rosalio  Reyes,  Business  Representative 
Vernon  Gooden  and  Mark  Hohmann. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  James  E.  Atkins,  James  A. 
Williams,  Harold  V.  Mobbs,  Abraham 
Rodriguez,  James  P.  Dietz  and  Clyde  G.  Ezzell. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Alfonso  Lopez  and 


Business  Representative  Gooden. 

Also  honored,  but  not  pictured  were  65-year 
member  William  Hugh  Ash;  60-year  member 
Carl  D.  Hale;  40-year  members  Clarence  L. 
Avant,  Earl  T.  Chaney,  Carroll  J.  Coffee,  C.B. 
Crawford,  Frederick  P.  Elbel  Sr.,  Orie  Goll,  S.P. 
Gooden,  A. P.  Hernandez,  Frank  A.  Hernandez 
(deceased),  Marvin  W.  Krueger,  Joe  Lopez, 
Armand  Sanchez,  Aubrey  L.  Sanders,  Pedro  P. 
Vasquez,  Walter  Wilke  and  Alfred  E.  Wolfshohl; 
and  25-year  members  Leroy  G.  Barrientes, 
Louis  0.  Gonzaba,  Marvin  J.  Klar  and  Phillip  C. 
Trammell. 

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The  following  list  of  963  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1 ,655,872.74  death  claims  paid  in  April  1987,  (s)  following 
name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members. 


Local  Union,  City 

1  Chicago,  IL — Euna  Trout  (s).  Francis  Murphy.  Wil- 
liam Henry  Holgate. 

2  Cincinnati,  OH— Frank  X.  Steinker. 

3  Wheeling  WV — Wm.  Oscar  Logsdon. 

5  St.  Louis,  MO — Adolph  Rhomberg,  Elsie  Marie  Fiala 
(s),  Frank  W.  Douglas,  Fred  Wehrle.  Hazel  E.  Cryts 
(s),  Leo  F.  Schwald,  Norman  W.  Kunz. 

6  Hudson  County,  NJ — Robert  Reilly,  Theresa  A. 
Smith  (s). 

7  Minneapolis,  MN — Charles  Karye,  Ernest  Olson, 
Harry  Peterson,  Ragnar  Emmanuel  Olson. 

8  Philadelphia,  PA— Edward  W.  Martin,  Vincent  D. 
Summers. 

10  Chicago,  IL — Ame  Bakkan,  Dewey  Burton  Elam. 

11  Cleveland,  OH — Rosena  Tallman  (s),  Tony  A.  Lap- 
inta. 

12  Syracuse,  NY— Donald  Gridley.  Edwin  M.  Soble  Sr. 

13  Chicago,  IL — Hubert  Raines. 

14  San  Antonio,  TX— Earl  E.  Drake.  Edwin  H.  Mandel, 
Emily  Jane  Haiie  (s),  Horace  W.  Waite  Jr.,  Robert 
Joe  Lopez. 

15  Hackensack,  NJ — Evelyn  Lombardi  (s),  Joseph  Ger- 
ber.  Victoria  Schuler  (s). 

16  Springfield,  IL — George  D.  Sullivan. 

17  Bronx,  NY — Charles  Stone,  Eino  John  Salo,  Frank 
Clements,  John  F.  Johnson. 

18  Hamilton,  Ont,  CAN— Harry  Hussey. 
20    New  York,  NY— Sadie  Morris  (s). 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Augustine  Ray,  Clement  An- 
thony Clancy,  Eskil  George  Ronn,  Frank  R.  Carlson, 
William  J.  Loscutoff. 

23  Wiliiamsport,  PA— Evelyn  G.  Miller  (s),  Michael  0. 
Duzick,  Richard  V.  Grafius. 

24  Central  CT— Beatrice  Parisi  (s),  John  Hulstrunk, 
Joseph  M.  Jacobs,  Joseph  Rinaldi,  Michael  Volpe. 

25  Los  Angeles,  CA — Adam  Miller,  Ariie  R.  Moultrie, 
Deloss  L.  Conger,  James  B.  Coker,  Neva  Coughlin 
(s). 

27    Toronto,  Ont.  CAN— Nathan  Brown. 
31    Trenton,  NJ — Salvatore  Fioto. 

34  Oakland,  CA — Leo  E.  Tonini,  R.  D.  Johnson. 

35  San  Rafael,  CA — Norman  B.  Campbell. 

36  Oakland,  CA — Eula  Mae  McCullough  (s).  Oilman 
S.  Schiager,  Helena  Johanna  Kemperman  (s).  Ken- 
neth H.  Mortimer,  Lester  A.  Repass,  Margaret 
Katherine  Holmes  (s),  Martin  Bailey  Loomis,  Nick 
G.  Zigenis,  Ruby  A.  Cooley  (s),  William  L.  Garrett. 

40  Boston,  MA — Frank  Prestigiovanni,  Pieretle  Goulet 
(s). 

41  Woburn,  MA — William  N.  Corcoran. 

42  San  Francisco,  CA — Edward  Lawrence  Banos,  Or- 
lando Ceasar  Montandon,  Wallace  Steward. 

43  Hartford,  CT— Michael  Addiego. 

44  Champaign  &  Urbana,  IL — Leiand  H.  Fish. 

46  S.  Ste.  Marie,  MI— Cleveland  Sullivan. 

47  St.  Louis,  MO — Carl  Paul  Larson,  Louise  C.  Fields 
(s). 

48  Fitchburg,  MA — Charles  Spoon,  Frank  Bambarola, 
Louise  Bernier  (s). 

50  Knoxville.  TN— Parion  A.  Morton. 

51  Boston,  MA — John  J.  Conway. 

53  White  Plains,  NY— Cari  Swanson,  Gladys  A.  Wis- 
nieski  (s),  Raymond  F.  Baker,  Rosemarie  Cyran  (s). 

54  Chicago,  IL — Theodore  Rexford. 

55  Denver,  CO — Harry  B.  Mackey,  Robert  A.  Matlock, 
Roy  C.  Rice.  Victor  Woxberg. 

58  Chicago,  IL— Belle  Goldberg  (s),  Daniel  C.  Deegan, 
Harold  Lamberg,  John  Anderson,  Klaus  Argens. 

60  Indianapolis,  IN — Gayle  L.  Donahue  (s),  Harvey  M. 
Baker,  iris  L.  Cody  (s),  Paul  E.  Kottlowski.  Roy 
C.  McFariand,  Samuel  F.  Davis. 

61  Kansas  City,  MO — Mary  Euphema  Woodward  (s). 

64  Louisville,  KY— Howard  Keith  Butcher,  John  K. 
Miles,  Odell  L.  Slater. 

65  Perth  Amboy,  NJ — Morris  Gelber, 

67  Boston,  MA — Alvin  J.  Marks,  George  V.  Douse, 
Matthew  Costantino.  Winifred  Gaine  (s). 

69    Canton,  OH — Andrew  Sonnlag,  Stanton  Crofut. 

73  St.  Louis,  MO — Hilmer  L.  Roth,  Kenneth  A.  Stiens. 
Lawrence  V.  Lowes,  Jr..  Raymond  Frank  Greifzu. 

76    Hazelton,  PA— Carl  R.  Smith,  Charles  H.  Laudeman. 

80  Chicago,  Il^Ralph  J.  Ebner. 

81  Erie,  PA — Howard  Sponsler. 
85    Rochester,  NY— Ralph  Brye. 

87  St.  Paul,  MN— Edward  Entenmann,  Joseph  J.  Si- 
mon, Oscar  E.  Klas.  Robert  M.  Lauer. 

89  Mobile,  AI^EIuid  Smith  Sr. 

90  Evansville,  IN— Cari  T.  Effinger,  Chester  H.  Willis. 
Owen  Nyhuise. 

94  Providence,  Rl — Alexandre  Sevigny,  Charles  Vaughn. 
Harry  Kallstrom,  Joseph  A.  Boutin,  Margaret  E. 
Valliere  (s),  Philip  Berge,  Salvatore  Camevale,  Stan- 
ley Bliss. 

98    Spokane,  WA~Robert  L.   Wilmoth,  Steven  Mc- 

Adore  Aldridge. 
101    Baltimore,  MD— Fred  M.  Ludwig,  Guy  B.  Goad, 
Michael  Paradise. 

103  Birmingham,  AL — David  R.  Grantham,  Raymond 
L.  Blair.  Roy  C.  Skelton. 

104  Dayton,  OH— Edagr  B.  Hayes. 

105  Cleveland,  OH — Andrew  Lloyd  Corley,  George  Zak- 
any. 

106  Des  Moines,  lA — Clyde  L.  Moore,  Pierce  G.  Som- 
son. 


Local  Union,  City 

107  Worcester,  MA — Elof  Larsson. 

108  Springfield,  MA— Russell  Gour. 
no  St,  Joseph,  MO— Glenn  Devooght. 
Ill  Lawrence,  MA — Helen  M,  Conlon  (s). 
114  East  Detroit,  MI— Ethel  Luella  Larson  (s). 
116  Bay  Citv,  MI— Horace  E.  Rasch. 

118  Detroit,  MI— Beverly  Jean  Throne  (s).  Hugh  Ward, 
James  E.  Haston.  Mariin  F.  Reddick,  Myer  Shifrin, 
Samuel  Koch,  Sidney  E.  Doughty,  Thomas  Baird. 

120    Utica,  NY— Helen  C.  Olenik  (s). 

123  Broward-County,  Fl^Fritz  W.  Andersen,  Harold 
C.  Fleming.  Nora  Lee  Clingan  (s),  Russell  B.  Willis, 
Walter  Bopp. 

124  Passaic,  NJ — Italo  Deluca,  James  Leroy  Vanorden, 
Susan  A.  Polizzi  (s). 

125  Miami,  FL — Arthur  Gerald  Fowler.  Fred  John  Flesch. 
Louis  M.  Jacob,  Luther  Goode  Jr..  Martin  Kuck, 
William  E.  Martin. 

128    St.  Albans,  WV— Harold  J.  Walker. 

131  Seattle,  WA— Alice  L.  Wasson  (s),  Floyd  Avis, 
Harry  L.  Doremus,  Richard  G.  Lloyd,  Vera  C. 
Odom  (s),  Waldo  E.  Christopherson. 

132  Washington,  DC — Annie  Mclver  (s),  Elizabeth  Jean 
Jeffers  Rezac  (s),  Henry  C.  Cox,  Howard  F.  Myers, 
Sr.,  John  A.  Campbell,  Joseph  M.  Hook,  Raymond 
J.  Corbin,  Sarah  Harvey  (s),  William T.  Humphreys. 

135    New  York,  NY— Christian  Sperber. 

140  Tampa,  Fl^Clifford  Charles  Cousineau,  Guy  Pres- 
ton Smith,  Harian  W.  Huriburt,  Nellie  N.  Hodge 
(s).  Rose  Clementi  Felicione  (s),  Vernon  Lee  Den- 
man. 

141  Chicago,  IL — Donald  Zafir. 

142  Pittsburgh,  PA— Dorothy  T.  lole  (s),  Joseph  A.  Sabo, 
Shiriey  A.  Vietmeir  (s). 

149    Tarrytown,  NY— Robert  Vanwart. 
155     Plainfield,  NJ— Anthony  Sanlangelo. 
159    Charleston,  SC— Robert  M.  Fabian. 

161  Kenosha,  WI — Anne  Loretta  Sauer  (s). 

162  San  Mateo,  CA— Allan  J.  Bear,  Carl  R.  Helmso, 
Fern  Bernice  Swadley  (s),  Gordon  A.  Cooper,  Jo- 
seph La  Salle,  Milton  Atkins. 

169    East  St.  Louis,  IL — Fred  C.  Genteman,  Henry  Waw- 

erzin.  James  W.  Ames  Sr. 
174    Joliet,  IL — Adam  Usinger,  Grady  Gilbert  Proctor. 

180  Vallejo,  CA— Jack  G.  Weiand,  Jack  L.  Cronhardt. 

181  Chicago,  IL — Trygve  Haegeland. 

182  Cleveland,  OH— William  C.  Mahoney,  William  T. 
Prior. 

183  Peoria,  IL — Herman  J.  Stickelmaier,  Roy  D.  Kelly. 

184  Salt  Lake  City,  UT— Amanda  L.  Beeson  (s).  Ano  J. 
Malaska,  Harold  E.  Jones, Harold  L.  Garrard.  June 
W.  Unck  (s),  Kenneth  Swartos,  Mary  Wiese  (s). 

185  St.  Louis,  MO— Alfred  W.  Wedepohl,  Bonnie  D. 
Braun  (s),  Regena  Pretto  (s). 

186  Steubenville,  OH— Rachel  Howe  (s). 

188  Yonkers,  NY— Anna  Miller  (s),  Francis  E.  Burg- 
hardt.  Jr.,  John  Dzubak. 

189  Quincy,  Il^Arthur  W.  Lepper,  Jr. 

195  Peru,  IL — Andrew  Seastrum.  Frederick  Holm.  Jen- 
nie Flahaut  (s). 

199  Chicago,  IL— Cari  J.  Newman.  Dennis  O'Neill,  Do- 
menico  Gennaro,  George  Deloney,  John  M.  Krogs- 
tad,  Walter  F.  Krall. 

200  Columbus,  OH— Alvie  T.  Brown.  Arthur  Ruhl,  George 
A.  Nelson,  Robert  G.  Jarvis,  Robert  W.  Luellen. 

210  Stamford,  CN— Adolph  Behrendt,  Arthur  Paddock. 
Edward  L.  Malota,  Peter  Brousseau,  Ulde  J.  Valade. 

211  Pittsburgh,  PA — Carl  V.  Silhanek.  Margaret  Psc hirer 
(s). 

213  Houston,  TX— Alvin  M.  Ballard,  E.  J.  Hudspeth. 
Eulah  Richards. 

218  Boston,  MA— Ingram  Hiscock.  Ralph  W.  Ritchie. 
Sarah  A.  Gosse  {s),  Trueman  B.  Mann. 

223  Nashville,  TN— James  Columbus  Trice.  Voyn  El- 
wood  Hogan. 

225  Atlanta,  GA — Anne  Mae  Nowlin  (s).  Cariton  John 
Harwell,  Gladys  B.  Jackson  (s),  Jesse  Barnell  Mar- 
tin, Randall  Mult. 

230  Pittsburgh,  PA— Robert  Michael  Ward.  William  Ver- 
non Hunter. 

235  Riverside,  CA— Hattie  Marie  Park  (s),  Howard  D. 
Mann. 

242     Chicago,  IL — James  Kajer. 

246  New  York,  NY— Anthony  Romano,  Elfriede  Milner 
(s).  George  Nelson. 

247  Portland,  OR— John  E.  Lovell. 

249  Kingston,  Ont.  CAN— Benjamin  E.  Smith,  Edward 
Joseph  Speagle. 

250  Waukegan,  IL— Dessie  Hall  (s),  Edward  M.  Lenzen, 
Sandra  L.  Gesky  (s). 

255    Bloomingburg,  NY — John  S.  Norman. 

257    New  York,  NY — Amfinn  Kaaveland,  Gertrude  Eiken 

(s). 
259    Jackson,  TN— Aaron  Cotner. 

261  Scranton,  PA— Lucille  Sweeney  (s). 

262  San  Jose,  CA — Mathias  Boesinger,  Sam  Miller,  Tony 
Fotopoulos,  Tony  Roman. 

265  Saugerties,  NY— Charies  Gaydos.  William  R.  Pleugh. 

269  Danville,  Il^Jenny  R.  Sams  (s). 

272  Chicago  Hgl.,  IL— Frank  W.  Fouts  UL 

275  Newton,  MA— Rita  M.  Flanders  (s). 

278  Watertown.  NY— Dorence  M.  Moses,  Robert  H. 

Merkley,  William  F.  Lowell. 

281  Binghamton,  NY — George  Larrabee. 


Local  Union,  City 

283    Augusta,  GA— Tafi  William  Faust.  Jr. 

286  Great  Falls,  MT— Tollef  Follinglo. 

287  Harrisburg,  PA— Russel  L.  Potteiger,  Thomas  W. 
Freet. 

296    Brooklyn,  NY— Charles  Belinsky,  Charies  Finkel, 

Edward  Matrose,  Jacob  Jacobsen. 
302    Huntington,  WV— Fulton  L.  Burchett. 
307    Winona,  MN— Joseph  D.  Kulas. 
316    San  Jose,  CA— Ernest  P.  Cartwright,  Gail  Edwin 

Cartwright,  Marian  Edgerton  (s),  Otis  E.  Gresham. 

319  Roanoke,  VA — Raymond  Oscar  Brown. 

320  Augusta,  ME— Philip  B.  Burke,  Walter  J.  Tobias. 

333  New  Kensington,  PA— Claude  H.  Clark. 

334  Saginaw,  MI — Alfred  Poineau,  Ernest  Goodeman. 
338    Seattle,   WA — Henry   Opie  Rundle,  Jacque  Char- 

maine  Blough  (s). 
340    Hagerstown,  MD — Jesse  H.  Warrenfeltz. 
334    Waukesha,  WI— Jerome  W.  Thiel. 

347  Mattoon-Charleston,  IL— Harold  Scott,  William  E. 
Maxey. 

348  New  York,  NY — George  Basche,  John  Fator,  Ray- 
mond Popielarski. 

350  New  Rochelle,  NY— Catherine  Toften  (s),  Michael 
Staus. 

356    Marietta,  OH— Albert  E.  Finkel. 

359  Philadelphia,  PA— Franz  Streng,  Thomas  T.  Gal- 
lagher. Walter  H.  Osborne. 

363    Elgin,  IL — Harry  E.  Lange,  Ruth  Hageman  (s). 

370  Albany,  NY— Dominick  Gisotti,  Patrick  Mc- 
Laughlin, William  M.  Carroll  Sr. 

374    Buffalo,  NY— Carl  Hagen. 

377    Alton,  II^Harold  Cheesman,  Roland  H.  Wilhelm. 

379    Texarkana,  TX— Earnest  Poag. 

388  Richmond,  VA — Chester  Overbey,  Thomas  Edward 
Quick. 

397  Whitby,  Ont.  CAN— Joseph  Foumier. 

398  Lewiston,  ID — Robert  L.  Thompson. 

400    Omaha,  NE— Cecil  W.  Krapp.  Daniel  A.  Muck. 

403  Alexandria,  LA — Irene  Rials  Allen  (s). 

404  Lake  Co.  OH — Henry  William  Dreier.  Raymond 
William  Cleer. 

417  St.  Louis.  MO— Jerrine  E.  Delbruegge  (s).  O.  C. 
Delbruegge. 

424    Bingham,  MA — Harry  P.  Tassel. 

429  Arlington,  TX— Albert  Fridy,  Allen  Glen  lley.  Ber- 
tha Ruth  McElroy  (s),  Edith  Hill  (s).  Henry  Clyde 
Brooks,  Herman  Sterling  Yancey,  Mary  Lorene 
Dennehy  (s).  Nora  Lee  Briggs  (s).  Owen  Clifford 
Rogers.  Preston  H.  Grounds. 

433  Belleville,  IL — Robert  E.  Zimmerman. 

434  Chicago,  IL — Evelyn  M.  Seelbach  (s),  Joseph  Mich- 
alik. 

452  Vancouver,  BC  CAN — Adolph  Tiefenbach,  Maynard 
Gillespie,  Sigfred  Anderson. 

453  Auburn,  NY — Richard  Dragone. 

454  Philadelphia,  PA— Diane  A.  Slezak  (s) 
458    Clarksville,  IN— Clyde  P.  Schindler. 

470  Tacoma,  WA— Hank  J.  Spolaric,  Hazel  Wills  (s), 
Helen  Irene  Branam  (s),  Marvin  J.  Kenney,  Michael 
Beitty  Sita.  Torvaid  Handeland. 

472    Ashland,  KY— Edward  E.  Fariey. 

475    Ashland,  MA — Rosemarie  Borghesi  (s). 

483    San  Francisco,  CA — Joshua  Tolliver,  Keith  L.  Lund. 

492  Reading,  PA— Ruth  E.  Himmelberger  (s),  Samuel 
L.  Bashore. 

493  Mt.  Vernon,  NY— Izak  Schachter. 

494  Windsor,  Ont,  CA— Tronda  Saragilov  (s). 

500  Butler,  PA— Aloysius  M.  Geibel,  Cariton  N.  Stew- 
an. 

502    Port  Arthur,  TX— James  D.  Johnson,  Ruben  Smith. 

510    Berthoud  CO— Glen  B.  Henry,  Joseph  B.  Slavec. 

512    Ann  Arbor,  MI— Rodger  F.  Etzel. 

515    Colo.  Springs,  CO — Mary  Jane  Fox  (s). 

518  Sisterville,  WV— Amanda  Crane  (s),  Howard  B. 
Jones. 

528    Washington,  DC— Fred  B.  McAleer 

531  New  York,  NY — Isabella  Calisi  (s).  Jeremiah  Thomp- 
son, Michael  Kadisch,  Robert  Gumbs. 

535    Norwood,  MA — Louis  P.  Ristaino. 

541     Washington,  PA— Ralph  B.  Thomas. 

546    Vincennes,  IN — Bessie  May  Murr  (s). 

548  Minneapolis,  MN — Raymond  J.  Walek. 

549  Owensboro,  KY— Ermal  Holt  (s).  George  Homer 
Bowers. 

558  Elmhurst,  Il^Clyde  C.  Newman,  John  Welter, 
Richard  B.  Divelbiss. 

562  Everett,  WA— Alma  R.  Erickson  (s),  Merrill  J. 
McMaster,  Ramon  Hashberger.  Robert  Day. 

563  Glendale,  CA— Harold  F.  Blaska. 

586  Sacramento,  CA — Donald  E.  Lewis.  Elmo  E.  Sea- 
burg.  Florence  J.  Hite  (s). 

600  Lehigh  Valley,  PA— Earl  E.  Willimet,  Florence  A. 
Miller  (s),  Michael  T.  Kontir,  Robert  J.  Feichtel, 
Stuart  C.  Sarson  Sr. 

608  New  York,  NY— James  M.  Mangan,  John  Falzon. 
John  Zemlyak,  Patrick  McGowan. 

615  Peru,  IN— Robert  G.  Coy,  Russell  R.  Miller,  William 
H.  Frush. 

620  Madison,  NJ— Elizabeth  Palmer  (s). 

621  Bangor,  ME — Earl  W.  Leclair,  Joseph  L.  Richard, 
Raymond  P.  Mace.  WiUiam  W,  Hansen. 

625  Manchester,  NH— William  Abbott. 

626  Wilmington,  DE— Alice  Reynolds  (s).  Chester  F. 


36 


CARPENTER 


Local  Union.  City 

Pheasant,  John  J.  Backof.  Stanley  Stryholuk,  Wil- 
liam R.  Gray. 
627    Jacksonville,  FI^Alton  C.  Snellgrove,  Robert  J. 
Gibbs,  Winston  Nettles. 

639  Akron,  OH — Carl  Tymcio,  James  W.  Horner,  Sey- 
mour E.  Houser. 

640  Metropolis,  IL — Grace  H.  Spillman  (s). 

642    Richmond,  CA— Jess  Willard  Dixon,  John  F.  Sten- 

vall. 
665    Amarillo,  TX— Homer  H.  Smith. 
668    Palo  Alto,  CA— Gail  P.  Darrin. 
678    Dubuque,  lA— Arnold  H.  Helmrich. 
701     Fresno,  CA— Albert  W.  Absher,  David  Delbert  Fisher. 
704    Jackson,  MI— Wilbur  H.  Adamson  Sr. 
710    Long  Beach,  CA — George  M.  Johnson. 
715    Elizabeth,  NJ— William  Lamorte  Sr.,  William  N. 

Zito. 

720  Baton  Rouge,  LA — Clarence  E.  Prevost,  Henry  L. 
Roddy. 

721  Los  Angeles,  CA — Edward  Leo  Johnson,  Frances 
Helen  Arrieta  (s).  Virginia  Lugo  (s),  William  S. 
Bailey. 

739  Cincinnati,  OH — Isabel  C.  Horton  (s),  Jean  Wegman 
(s),  Stanley  D.  Geiser,  William  Overberg. 

740  New  York,  NY— Wige  Danielsen. 
743     Bakersfield,  CA— Edd  French. 

745  Honolulu,  HI — Alice  Higa  (s),  Crispolo  S.  Manuel, 
Frank  A.  Hemmer,  Gregory  T.  Horikawa.  Herman 
Lee,  James  T.  Tolete,  Masagoro  Kawashima,  Ma- 
sahartj  Horikawa,  Nobuichi  Nakamura,  Ted  T.  Horio, 
Yoshikazu  Murai. 

747  Oswego,  NY — Charles  Frederick  Jacobs,  Ross  Ru- 
pert. 

751    Santa  Rosa,  CA — Alfred  Esposti,  Lester  Grooms. 

756  Bellingham,  WA— Howard  P.  Scarlett,  James  R. 
Amos,  Maynard  M.  Johnson. 

758    Indianapolis,  IN— Isabella  F.  Matlak  (s). 

764  Shreveport,  LA — Louisa  Haire  Primos  (s),  Robert 
Harrington. 

767    Oltumwa,  lA— Clarence  E.  Lock,  Clifford  E.  Kelley. 

769  Pasadena,  CA— Charles  H.  Ross,  David  I.  Moffat. 

770  Yakima,  WA— Ernest  Johnson. 

771  Watsonville,  CA— Manuel  F.  Santos. 

782     Fond  Du  Lac,  WI— Raymond  A.  Treptow. 

790    Dixon,  II^-George  J.  Mayfield. 

792    Rockford,  IL — Henry  Norquist. 

801    Woonsocket,  RI — Lucien  Joseph  Gignac. 

815    Beverly,  MA — Anthony  Ferrant,  Harry  H.  Cutler. 

829    Santa  Cruz,  CA— Ethel  Florence  Wright  (s),  Howard 

Walker. 
839    Des  Plaines,  II^Frank  M.  Burkman.  Harold  W. 

Warnicke,  Martin  O.  Anderson,  Valerian  Martin, 

Wilfred  E.  Donlea. 

844  Canoga  Park,  CA — Gertrude  Ann  Pfeiffer  (s),  Lonnie 
Ferren,  Sharon  Martin  (s). 

845  Clifton  Heights,  PA — Marguerite  Henninger  (s). 
848    San  Bruno,  CA — Erwin  Merrill,  Joe  Weiss. 

851     Anoka,  MI— Rudolph  H.  Mettler,  Swan  Westlund. 

857     Tucson,  AZ— Woodrow  Hughes. 

873     Cincinnati,  OH — Sanford  Wayne  Holloway. 

889    Hopkins,  MN— Isabelle  E.  Stepanek  (s). 

898    St.  Joseph,  MI— Charles  Tunecke,  Robert  V.  Kalin. 

902  Brooklyn,  NY— Albert  L.  Yori,  Amy  Dickson  (s), 
Dora  B.  Norton  (s),  Elsie  Webster  (s),  George 
Robinson,  Isadore  Slutsky,  Osmond  Dufont,  Primo 
Monti,  Robert  Davniero,  Walter  Koliner,  Wolodmir 
Slabicky. 

904    Jacksonville,  IL— Billy  Charles  Brunk. 

918    Manhattan,  KS— Blaine  O.  Erickson. 

940    Sandusky,  OH— Jeffery  P.  Wallace. 

943  Tulsa,  OK— Carl  J.  Johnston. 

944  San  Bernardino,  CA — Alva  Lynn  Whitworth,  Henry 
Daros,  Louise  R.  Kunzweiler  (s),  Marie  Maier  (s). 

947    Ridgway,  PA — Josephine  L.  Keen  (s),  Kenneth  A. 

Keen. 
953    Lake  Charles,  LA— Jacob  W.  Perkins. 
971    Reno,  NV — Arthur  B.  Christensen,  Lynn  Frazier 

Pennington. 
977    Wichita  Falls,  TX— Annie  Hickman  (s).  Homer  E. 

White. 

1001  N.  Bend  Coos  Bay,  OR— Edward  R.  Rauschert. 

1002  Knoxville,  TN— Sam  V.  Newman. 

1005  Merrlllville,  IN— Donald  Scott  Lawrence,  Roy  D. 
Bundy. 

1006  New  Brunswich,  NJ — John  Stankowitz. 

1008  Louisiana,  MO^Lonnie  M.  Dawson,  Rodney  B. 
Wallendori'. 

1009  St.  Johns,  Nlld,  CAN— James  Alton  Payne. 

1010  Uniontown,  PA— Sarah  M.  Raffle  (s). 
1014  Warren,  PA — Judson  Revere  Duell. 
1016  Muncie,  IN — Prentice  Raymond  Brown. 
1029  Peru,  IN— Harry  M.  Prentice  Jr. 

1040  Eureka,  CA— Otha  Clovis  Lunsford. 
1042  Platlsburgh,  NY— Fred  W.  Liberty. 
1050    Philadelphia,  PA— Albert  Alessi. 

1052  Holywood,  CA — Anthony  F.  Malatinsky. 

1053  Milwaukee,  WI — Arnold  Utech,  Clara  A.  Mueckler 
(s),  Vernon  C.  Hansen. 

1055     Lincoln,  NE^John  J.  Sloup. 

1058    Twins  Falls,  ID— Clarence  G.  Pope. 

1062    Santa  Barbara,  CA — Dolores  Feehan  (s),  Jannes  H. 

Eggens  Jr. 
1074    Eau  Claire,  WI— Wayne  A.  Barrett. 
1086    Portsmouth  Navy  Yd.  VA— Noble  B.  Sprinkle. 
1098    Baton  Rouge,  LA— Edith  K.  Bercegeay"(s).  John  H. 

Armstrong,  John  T.  Weems.  Omar  Taylor. 
1104    Tyler,  TX— Jack  Lynn  Collum  (s). 

1108  Cleveland,  OH— Edward  Raymond. 

1109  Visalia,  CA— Alice  Lucille  Schiesser  (s). 

1120  Portland,  OR— Dollie  V.  Hatfield  (s),  Elwood  J. 
Rollins,  Eugene  Lashbrook,  Harry  F.  Sigourney, 
Marvin  Kuykendall,  Maurice  Booth,  William  Glanz. 

1121  Boston  Vicinity,  MA — Lawrence  F.  Blute. 


Local  Union.  City' 


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1134 
1140 
1146 
1147 
1149 

1153 
1164 

1165 
1171 
1185 
1187 
1192 
1205 
1222 

1226 
1242 
1243 
1245 
1250 

1274 
1280 


1281 
1296 


1300 
1305 
1307 
1323 

1329 

1334 
1342 

1357 
1358 

1359 
1363 
1365 
1366 
1388 
1396 
1397 
1400 
1401 
1407 

1418 
1428 
1434 
1437 
1445 
1452 
1453 


1454 
1456 


1462 
1478 
1481 
1485 

1489 

1490 
1495 
1497 
1506 

1507 


1515 

1522 

1539 
1553 

1564 
1571 

1577 
1585 
1588 
1590 
1592 
1595 

1596 
1598 

1607 
1618 
1622 

1632 

1641 


Los  Angeles,  CA — .Alton  C.  Holley,  Delaine  S.  Barnes 
(s),  Gary  C.  Frost,  Louis  H.  Benton. 
Mt.  Kisco,  NY— Martha  1.  Rodin  (s). 
San  Pedro,  CA — Daniel  L.  Knutson,  George  Seibold. 
Green  Bay,  WI — Alvin  Vem  Plummer. 
Roseville,  CA — Stanley  Z.  Casey. 
San  Francisco,  CA — EinarJohanson,  Guy  Focaracci, 
Yvonne  D.  Giilman  ts). 
Yuma,  AZ — Bernard  Aguilar. 

New  York,  NY — Antonio  Tedesco,  Elizabeth  Martz 
(s),  Pasquale  Camera. 
Wilmington,  NC— Homer  B.  Chadwick. 
Shakopee,  MN — Donald  F.  Busse. 
Chicago,  IL— Herbert  A.  Krall.  Merle  R.  Miller  Sr. 
Grand  Island,  NE^Boyd  E.  Burnett. 
Birmingham,  AL — Elizabeth  Kendrick  (s). 
Indio,  CA — James  H.  Farmer  Jr. 
Medford,  NY — Alma  Thompson  (s),  Helen  M.  How- 
ell (s),  Joseph  Cavell,  Joseph  Cortese. 
Pasadena,  TX— Clifton  M.  King. 
Akron,  OH— Robert  S.  Hall. 
Fairbanks,  AK — Edmund  B.  Dirk. 
Carlsbad,  NM — John  F.  Sulser. 
Homestead,  FL — Carmel  F.  Widener,  Freland  L. 
Barfield. 

Decatur,  AL — Lucis  Clyde  Harris. 
Mountain  View,  CA — Erlean  Clara  Halstead  (s), 
George  Anderson,  Victor  Guzzi,  William  S.  Van- 
meter. 

Anchorage,  AK — Anthony  Leslie. 
San  Diego,  CA — Douglas  C.  Simpson,  Eva  Edith 
Love  (s),  Glenn  E.  Kellison,  Issac  Newton  Salyers, 
Ivy  Louise  Fanning  (s),  Orval  Franklin. 
San  Diego,  CA— Conceltina  Colla  (s). 
Fall  River,  MA — Herve  Bouchard. 
Evanston,  IL — Harold  Boisen,  Raymond  Painter. 
Monterey,  CA — Frank  A.  White,  Grant  S.  Risdon, 
Ruby  V.  Clements  (s). 

Independence,  MO— Danial  L.  Stephens,  Theodore 
J.  Messina. 

Baytown,  TX — Francis  D.  Zee. 
Irvington,  NJ — Joan  L.  Fischefta  (s),  Ross  V.  Chi- 
arell.  Salvatore  Dellanno,  Samuel  Nystrom  Jr. 
Memphis,  TN — James  Gardner  Doan. 
La  Jolla,    CA — George    Leonard   Sanden,   James 
Franklin  Voder,  Kay  Drummond  Goudreau  (s). 
Toledo,  OH— Brenda  Moody  (s). 
Oshkosh,  WI — Anna  Dushenski  (s). 
Cleveland,  OH— Betty  H.  Masula  (s). 
Quincy,  II^Robert  B.  Wilper. 
Oregon  City,  OR — David  A.  Patterson. 
Golden,  CO— Robert  D.  Plummer. 
North  Hempstad,  NY— Stanley  Obriskie. 
Santa  Monica,  CA — Lloyd  Osgood. 
Buffalo,  NY— Daniel  M.  Sikorski. 
San  Pedro,  CA— Eari  Woolard,  Lucille  Gloyne  (s), 
Russell  Seward,  Sebastian  C.  Sedillo. 
Lodi,  CA — Edwin  V.  Erickson. 
Midland,  TX— Aubrey  O.  Nichols,  Ernest  A.  Smith. 
Moberly,  MO — George  L.  Hillen. 
Coinpton,  CA — Jessie  Solomon. 
Topeka,  KS — Lloyd  E.  Johnson,  Louis  J.  Arb  (s). 
Detroit,  MI — Thomas  Burnett,  Wallace  Krywko. 
Huntington  Beach,  CA — Arlene  J.  Tyson  (s),  Emma 
C.  Walker  (s),  Hurvey  McClelland  Sr.,  Vance  Zeb 
Rich. 

Cincinnati,  OH — Arlus  McGowan,  James  O.  Clark, 
Lena  Taulbee  (s),  Mary  Gordon  (s). 
New  York,  NY — Arthur  E.  Olsen.  Caroline  Saama- 
nen  (s),  Francisco  Pichel,  Inger  Ramsvick  (s),  John 
G.  Kohler,  John  J.  Kelly,  John  J.  Wall,  Kari  Jo- 
hansson, Leon  Eatmon,  Mary  Jane  Koenecke  (s), 
Michael  Foley,  Walter  Michelsen. 
Bucks  County,  PA— Adolph  H.  Kraut. 
Redondo,  CA — Garland  F.  Adams,  Mary  Haas  (s). 
South  Bend,  IN— Edwin  P.  Kaplan. 
La  Porte,  IN — Eriand  Laurence  Skrogstad,  Frank 
Young. 

Burlington,   NJ — Philip  G.   Conover,  Thomas   E. 
Marshall. 

San  Diego,  CA— John  P.  Wyckoff. 
Chico,  CA — Boyd  Frazier,  Mike  Leveski. 
E.  Los  Angeles,  CA — Nicholas  Vandyke. 
Los  Angeles,  CA— Charles  O.  Wassell,  Harold  W. 
McCartney,  Wylie  C.  Knipp. 
El  Monte,  CA— Carl  M.  Sappenfield,  Elmer  S.  Beck, 
George  G.  Shively,  Harold  Lundquist,  Lohn  E. 
Rowe. 

Winnipeg,  Man.,  CAN — Harold  Kenneth  Lessard. 
Martel,  CA— Jack  Clifton  Pinckney  Sr.,  William  J. 
Henkel. 

Chicago,  IL — Catherine  Mary  Schummer  (s). 
Culver  City,  CA — Lillian  Catherine  Kocsis,  Lois 
Virginia  Simons,  Rex  Howard  Smith. 
Casper,  WY— Earl  W.  Silver. 
East  San  Diego,  CA — Harry  P.  Nelson,  James  F. 
Burke,  Mary  Luisa  Aburto  (s). 
BufTalo,  NY — Eugene  Schunk. 
Lawton,  OK — Thomas  Henry  Rucker. 
Sydney,  NS,  CAN— Donald  J.  MacLeod. 
Washington,  DC— Julia  M.  Parks  (s). 
Sarnia,  Ont.,  CAN — Cecile  Deslauriers  (s). 
Montgomery  County,  PA — Clara  Fautz  (s),  Jeanne 
Ziegler  (s),  Rudolph  Balogh. 
St.  Louis,  MO— Oliver  Wilcox,  Rudolf  Novak. 
Victoria,  BC,  CAN— Elsie  Hill  (s),  Helmut  Starke, 
Joseph  Solowey.  Norman  F.  Davies. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — James  R.  Gray. 
Sacramento,  CA — Chester  C.  Johnson, 
Hayward,   CA — Francis   Edward   Power,   Sanliaga 
Fierro  Olivas  (s),  William  A.  Johnson. 
S.  Luis  Obispo,  C A— Clifford  H.  Potter,  Erwin  W. 
Meyer. 

Naples,  FL — John  Arthur  Gibble.  Joseph  M.  Cole- 
man. 


Local  Union,  City 

1644     Minneapolis,  MN — Adrea  M.  Ostrue  (s),  Lowell  M. 

Larson. 
1650     Lexington,  KY— Noel  H.  Long. 
1665    Alexandria,  VA — Marvin  A.  Poole. 
1669     Ft.  William,  Ont.,  CAN— William  Faykes. 
1673     Morganlown,  NC— Glen  R.  Clay. 
1685     Melbourne-Daytona  Beach,  FL — Frank  Eric  Watson, 

Thomas  E.  Findley. 
1689    Tacoiha,   WA— Carl  Glaholt.  Louis  B.  Forsman, 

Richard  H.  Murphy. 
1693     Chicago,  Il^-Randy  T.  Molander. 

1707  Kelso  Longview,  WA — Marion  C.  Vanderpool. 

1708  Auburn,  WA — Geneva  Ann  Fleming  (si.  Vernon  T. 
Bugh. 

1739     Kirkwood,  MO— Herbert  G.  Barth,  Max  Leonard 

Bell. 
1750     Cleveland,  OH — Emery  Centivany,  Jerry  F.  Bejbl, 

Walter  Latigham. 
1752    Pomona,  CA — Carl  Smith,  Everett  Martin,  Maurice 

E.  Arivett,  Sidney  L.  Baliew. 
1759     Pittsburgh,  PA— Joseph  L.  Ryan  Jr. 
1764     Marion,  VA— Lockie  E.  Scott  (s). 
1770     Cape  Girardeau,  MO — Daniel  McMurtrey. 
1780    Las  Vegas,  NV — Aaron  C.  Mortensen,  Donavee  B. 

Fujii  (s),  William  B.  Ragland. 
1811     Monroe,   LA — Arma  Lee  Shackelford  (s),  Eutha 

Alma  Thornton  (s),  Guy  T.  W.  Barron. 
1815    Santa  Ana,  CA— Clara  C.  Lechner  (s),  Dorothea  Z. 

Kingston  (s),  Grace  T.  Austin  {s),  Joseph  J.  Sullivan, 

Mae  Elizabeth  Strandstra  (s). 
1839    Washington,  MO— Arthur  C.  Heitman. 

1845  Snoqualmie,  WA — Conrad  F.  Oscarson. 

1846  New  Orleans,  LA — Alvin  Torstenson.  Cart  D.  Char- 
bonnet,  Charles  C.  Johnson.  George  W.  Lange, 
Gerald  L.  Casanova,  William  Howard  Lester. 

1847  St.  Paul,  MN— Clarence  Warner. 

1849    Pasco,  WA— Otto  P.  Gross,  Perry  Freed. 

1856  Philadelphia,  PA— Robert  Burgess  Jr.,  Robert  Gle- 
bocki. 

1857  Portland,  OR— Dickson  McLain  Gilliam,  Robert  E. 
Phillips  Jr. 

1865    Minneapolis,  MN — Elsie  Marie  Carlson  (s). 

1871     Cleveland,  OH— N.  Grace  Houdeshell  (s). 

1875    Winfleld,  MO— John  T.  Stone. 

1884    Lubbock,  TX— David  C.  Cannon,  Edith  Marie  Mize 

(s),  Ernest  A.  Wossum,  John  A.  Evans,  Marjorie 

Lestella  Dunn  (s). 
1906    Philadelphia,  PA— Andrew  Cebula 

1913  Van  Nuys,  CA — Marvin  E.  Swan,  Mary  Dahlgren 
(s).  Syble  Johnson  (s). 

1914  Phoenix,  AZ— Jess  J.  Taylor. 

1921    Hempstead,  NY — Mary  Thomasino  (s). 
1929    Cleveland,  OH— Emil  A.  Berchak. 
1931     New  Orleans,  LA — Henry  Dufau. 
1934    Beraidji,  MN— Lloyd  R.  Burnham. 
1964    Vicksburg,  MS— Louise  H.  Collins  (s). 
1971     Temple,  TX — Georgia  Edmond  Wicker  (s). 
1987    St.  Charles,  MO— Hubert  Lee  Boyer. 
2006    Los  Gatos,  CA— Walter  E.  Peterson. 
2012    Seaford,  DE— Katherine  May  Burkew  (s). 
2037     Adrian,  MI — Merlyn  Ross  Barricklow. 
2042     Oxnard,  CA— Ralph  E.  Harris. 

2046  Martinez,  CA — Horace  R.  Carini,  Howard  C.  Wacker, 
Ira  E.  Blanchard,  Jose  Valadao  Rego,  Joseph  J. 
Ignacz,  Joseph  Pius  Enz,  Lennie  Bufford  Williams, 
Willie  Bartley. 

2047  Hartford  City,  IN— Robert  Howell. 
2067  Medford,  OR — Eugene  Dwaine  Hugo. 
2077  Columbua,  OH— Clarence  H.  Seidenabel. 
2093  Phoenix,  AZ— Frank  G.  Bilitzo. 

2101  Moorefleld,  WV— Ralph  Dwight  Alt  (s). 

2114  Napa,  CA — Ruby  Lee  Murray  (s). 

2127  Centralia,  WA — Wetona  Thormahlen  (s). 

2155  New  York,  NY— Bobby  E.  Rice. 

2158  Rock  Island,  IL— Milton  Dale  Lillie. 

2203  Anaheim,  CA — Alfred  M.  Vuocolo,  Estella  Vieyra 

(s),  Eyvin  C.  Petersen,  Harold  C.  Johnson,  Luther 

Martin  Coggin. 

2214  Festus,  MO— Herbert  B.  Sweet. 

2250  Red  Bank,  NJ— Arthur  Youmans,  Evelyn  Kiefer  (s). 

2252  Grand  Rapids,  MI— Donald  Mead. 

2264  Pittsburgh,  PA— Frederick  Miller. 

2265  Detroit,  MI— Harold  Wagner. 
2268  Monticello,  GA— Theo  Bullard. 

2274    Pittsburgh,  PA— William  G.  Chambers. 

2288    Los  Angeles,  CA— Alta  E.  Estrella  (s),  Arthur  N. 

Esseling.  Barbara  O.  Zimmerman  (s),  Benjamin  F. 

Browning,  Cari  Woods  Derr,  Paul  Herold. 
2298    Rolla,  MO— Arthur  T.  Willams. 
2308    Fullerlon,  CA— Opal  M.  Newman  (s). 
2311     Washington,  DC — Camille  Louise  Johnson  (s). 
2337    Milwaukee,  WI— Arthur  Radloff. 
2375     Los  Angeles,  CA — Thomas  J.  Cougler. 
2398    El  Cnjon,   CA— Charles   F.   Thompson.  John  A. 

Bemis,  Loys  V,  Franklin. 
2404    Vancouver,  BC,  CAN— Allan  Bystrom,  Marie  Ruth 

McNeil  (s),  Mary  C.  Erickson  (s). 
2408    Xenia,  OH— Earl  A.  Dunn.  Estill  Lewis. 
2416    Portland,  OR— Clyde  B.  Dorris.  Otto  R.  Anderson. 
2453    Oakridge,  OR — Samuel  M.  Graham,  Werner  W. 

Kokko. 
2463     Ventura,  CA— Joseph  J.  WendlerSr. 
2471     Pensacola,  FL — Dorson  J.  Duvall. 
2484     Orange,  TX — Berniece  Marie  Womack  (s). 
2498     Longview,  WA — Aldor  I.  Thorson.  William  Robert 

Pitts. 
2554    Lebanon,  OR— J.  R.  Joslin. 
2564     Grand  Fall,  Nil,  CAN— Lindsay  Goodland. 
2588    John  Day,  OR— Margaret  R.  MacDonald  (s). 
2601     Lafayette,  IN— Leslie  Huff. 
2623    Council,  ID— Esther  L.  Clarke  (s). 
2633    Tacoma,  WA— Edward  Miller. 
2652    Standard,   CA — Leo  T.   Ghiorso.   Louis  Olivieri. 

Steve  C.  Serrano. 
2659    Everett,  WA— Myrtle  Elvira  Veriinda  (s). 


JULY     1987 


37 


Local  Union.  Cin 


2693 
2761 

2787 
2816 
2817 
2902 
2947 


2963 
2995 
3009 

3011 
3035 
3088 


3202 
7000 


9009 
9027 


9065 
9224 


Pt  Arthur,  Ont.,  CAN— Elisa  Ailey,  Rejean  Godin. 
McCleary,  WA— Berthoid  Herman,  Mae  Belle  Beh- 
rend  (s). 

Springfield,  OR— Darwin  E.  Clifton. 
Emraett,  ID— Burl  Nichols. 
Quebec,  Que.,  CAN — Bernard  Prevost. 
Burns,  OR — Herman  Wilkerson. 
New  York,  NY— Frank  Rovito,  John  Giammarinaro, 
John  Thomas  Sr..  Robert  Sumpter,  Vincenzo  Gallo, 
Walter  Ciemniecki. 

Roseburg,  OR— Blanche  M.  Perry  (si.  Buster  H. 
Booth,  Joe  Tommie  Bruton,  William  C.  Callison, 
William  L.  Lange. 

Granite  City,  lI^Robert  Albert  Bradford. 
Kapuskasng,  Out.,  CAN — Gilles  Lehoux. 
Grants  Pass,  OR — John  H.  Brown,  Mary  C.  Brown 
(s). 

Wilson,  NC — Johnnie  Bush  Bissette. 
Springfield,  OR— John  L.  Woods. 
Stockton,  CA— Hugo  1.  Nystrom,  Reed  Roland  Cole, 
Ruby  Grimes  (s). 

Maywood,  CA — Albert  Redondo,  Leonardo  Moreno, 
Nat  Mendoza. 

Warrenton,  MO — C.  Margaret  Gibson  (s). 
Province  of  Quebec  Lcl.  134-2— Charles  Thibault. 
Emery  Hamel,  Johnny  Michaluck,  Lucienne  Cuil- 
lerier  Hamelin  (s). 

Washington,  DC — Jack  Jerome  Sykes. 
Kansas  City,  MO — James  D.  Sims,  Robert  E.  Shel- 
don. 

Los  Angeles,  CA — Robert  L.  Haynes,  Thomas  R. 
Guyer. 

San  Francisco,  CA — Joseph  Warren  Batts. 
Houston,  TX— Carolyn  Breed  Woelder  (s),  Vivian 
Louise  McGuire  (s). 


AIDS 


Continued  from  Page  3 

estimated  1  to  l'/2  million  Americans 
have  been  infected  by  the  AIDS  virus; 
many  of  them  show  no  signs  of  illness 
and  do  not  know  that  they  carry  the 
virus. 

Once  in  a  while,  an  initial  blood  test 
for  AIDS  antibodies  may  be  positive 
even  though  the  person  who  gave  the 
blood  is  not  infected.  This  is  called  a 
"false  positive"  reaction.  All  positive 
initial  blood  tests  are  repeated  to  con- 
firm the  results,  and,  when  needed,  a 
different  type  of  laboratory  test  is  done 
to  check  the  accuracy  of  the  first  test. 

Every  unit  of  donated  blood  with  a 
positive  test  result  is  discarded.  These 
units  are  not  used  for  transfusion  or 
for  the  manufacture  of  blood  products. 

People  whose  blood  tests  are  con- 
firmed positive  for  AIDS  antibodies  are 
notified  and  advised  to  seek  medical 
evaluation.  They  are  also  placed  on  a 
list  of  persons  who  may  not  give  blood. 

The  AIDS  antibody  test  is  also  rec- 
ommended for  people  at  increased  risk 
who  want  to  know  if  they  have  been 
infected  so  they  can  take  steps  to  pro- 
tect their  own  health  and  that  of  others. 
Physicians  and  state  and  local  health 
departments  can  tell  people  where  this 
test  is  available. 


How  reliable  is  the  AIDS 
virus  antibody  test? 

The  reliability  of  the  test  is  very  high, 
but,  like  all  blood  tests,  it  is  not  100% 
accurate  in  identifying  infected  persons. 
"False  negative"  results  can  occur,  just 
as  "false  positive"  results  can.   For 


You  should  not  donate 
blood  If— 

•  You  are  a  man  who  has  had  sex  with 
another  man,  even  one  time,  since 
1977. 

•  You  have  ever  taken  illegal  drugs 
by  needle. 

•  You  are  a  native  of  Haiti  or  central 
Africa  (including  Burundi,  Kenya, 
Rwanda,  Tanzania,  Uganda,  or 
Zaire)  who  entered  the  United  States 
after  1977. 

•  You  have  AIDS  or  one  of  its  signs 
or  symptoms. 

•  You  have  ever  had  a  positive  test 
for  the  AIDS  antibody,  showing  past 
exposure  to  the  AIDS  virus. 

•  You  have  hemophilia. 

•  You  are,  or  have  been,  the  sex 
partner  of  any  person  described 
above  since  1977. 

•  You  are  a  woman  or  man  who  is 
now,  or  has  been,  a  prostitute  since 
1977. 

•  You  have  been  the  heterosexual  sex 
partner  of  a  male  or  female  prosti- 
tute within  the  last  six  months. 


example,  an  antibody  test  from  a  person 
who  has  been  recently  infected  by  the 
AIDS  virus  may  be  negative  because 
the  person's  body  has  not  had  time  to 
develop  antibodies  to  the  AIDS  virus 
(which  takes  about  six  weeks). 

Because  all  of  the  people  at  increased 
risk  for  AIDS  are  asked  not  to  donate 
blood,  the  risk  of  receiving  transfused 
blood  from  an  infected  person  who  has 
not  yet  developed  antibodies  is  very 
small.  But  because  "false  negative" 
test  results  can  occur — however 
rarely — persons  at  increased  risk  of 
infection  by  the  AIDS  virus  ttiust  con- 
tinue to  refrain  from  donating  blood. 


To  sum  up  . . . 

The  measures  in  use  today  have  made 
the  blood  supply  very  safe.  No  one  who 
really  needs  a  blood  transfusion  should 
refuse  it  for  fear  of  getting  AIDS. 
Refusing  blood  when  it  is  needed 
could  cost  you  your  life. 

No  one  should  fear  getting 
AIDS      from      donating 
blood.  There  is  no  chance 
of  getting  AIDS  in  this 
way,  and  the  need  for 
blood  to  save  lives 
is  great. 

For    informa- 
tion on  donat- 
ing blood,  con- 
tact    your     local 
chapter      of      the 
American  Red  Cross, 
other  blood  collection 
agencies,  or  hospitals. 


More  information  about  AIDS  and 
AIDS-related  illnesses  can  be  obtained 
from — 

•  Your  doctor. 

•  Your  state  or  local  health  depart- 
ment. 

•  The  Public  Health  Service  toll-free 
hotline:  1-800-342-AIDS. 

•  Your  local  AIDS  organizatipn.  Con- 
tact the  National  AIDS  Network  for 
referral:  1-202-347-0390. 

•  Your  local  chapter  of  the  American 
Red  Cross. 


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Next  month  we  will  be  continuing  a  series 
on  AIDS.  We  will  be  covering  topics  such 
as  how  it  affects  personal  service  workers 
and  food  handlers,  how  to  deal  with  AIDS 
in  the  workplace  and  special  precautions 
that  can  be  taken. 


Window  Agreement 

Continued  from  Page  10 

Representing  the  UBC  as  committee 
members  in  the  discussions  with  the 
Iron  Workers  were  First  General  Vice 
President  Sigurd  Lucassen,  General 
Executive  Board  Members  E.  Jimmy 
Jones  and  M.B.  Bryant,  Representative 
Jack  McMillan,  and  Assistant  to  the 
General  President  James  Davis.  Former 
Second  General  Vice  President  An- 
thony Ochocki  participated  in  the  dis- 
cussions until  his  retirement. 

When  the  new  agreement  has  been 
prepared  in  printed  form,  it  will  be 
distributed  to  all  affiliates. 

Affilates  are  advised  that  the  agree- 
ment is  not  to  be  implemented  retro- 
actively. Each  trade  affiliate  is  to  use 
the  services  of  the  administrators  of  the 
union  jurisdictional  departments  for 
practical  implementation  of  the  agree- 
ment, uaj; 


38 


CARPENTER 


POWER  DRILL  LEVEL 


The  Tote-em  Pole  is  a  new  tool  that  gives 
the  framing  contractor  control  of  getting 
trusses  to  the  top  of  a  building.  Reliance  on 
costly  heavy  cranes  or  other  big  equipment 
is  eliminated,  according  to  the  manufacturer. 

The  Tote-em  Pole  is  low-cost.  The  average 
contractor  can  recover  the  Pole's  cost  in 
less  than  one  season  through  savings  in  rental 
of  heavy  equipment  and  through  better  use 
of  his  own  labor.  The  lightweight  Pole  tele- 
scopes and  travels  on  the  roof  rack  of  a 
station  wagon,  van  or  pickup  cap,  and  sets 
up  on  the  top  level  of  a  structure  within  20  . 
minutes,  electrically  lifts  500  pounds  to  first, 
second  or  third  floor,  spins  truss  around 
Tote-em  Pole  mast  and  sets  it  across  span. 

For  details  contact:  Ruger  Equipment  Inc., 
6 1 5  West  4th  Street ,  Uhrichsville ,  OH  44683 . 
Call  toll  free  1-800-25-RUGER;  in  Ohio  1- 
800-23-RUGER. 


INDEX  OF  ADVERTISERS 

Benda  Industries 25 

Calculated  Industries 35 

Clifton  Enterprises 16 

Foley-Belsaw 25 

G.  Rawlings 27 

Hydrolevel 39 

Irwin 16 

Nailers 39 

Vaughan  &  Bushnell 21 


A  recently  introduced,  three-level  system 
can  turn  a  hand  power  drill  into  a  precision 
hole  drill. 

By  simply  attaching  this  three-level  prod- 
uct called  the  Dril  +  Level  onto  the  back  of 
any  'A"  or  y»"  hand  power  drill  you  can  tell 
at  a  glance  if  the  drill  is  not  horizontal  or 
vertical. 

The  level  vials  are  made  of  acrylic  plastic, 
housed  in  a  rugged  ABS  plastic  case  to 
prevent  breakage  during  normal  banging 
around. 

Two  pressure  sensitive,  adhesive-backed, 
rubber  pads  attach  the  product  to  all  popular 
hand  drills. 

Retail  price  is  $5.95  each,  postage  paid, 
and  is  avilable  from  Dejon  Tool  and  Products 
Co.,  P.O.  Box  1346,  Lancaster,  OH  43130. 
The  product  comes  with  a  money-back  guar- 
antee. 

PANEL  GUIDE 

A  guide  covering  construction  applica- 
tions of  plywood  and  other  structural  panels 
is  now  available  from  the  American  Plywood 
Association. 

The  56-page  full-color  APA  Design/Con- 
stiiiclion  Guide:  Residential  and  Commer- 
cial includes  extensive  information  on  panel 
applications  for  floors,  walls,  siding  and 
roofs.  Diagrams  and  tables  cover  a  number 
of  options  applicable  to  residential  and  com- 
mercial installations.  Diaphragms,  fire-  and 
wind-resistance,  noise  control  and  energy 
conservation  are  also  discussed. 

Selection  and  specification  of  APA-trade- 
marked  panels  is  covered  in  the  book,  and 
new  APA  panel  spacing  recommendations 
are  covered. 

For  a  free  single  copy  of  APA  Design/ 
Construction  Guide:  Residential  &  Com- 
mercial, write  the  American  Plywood  As- 
sociation, P.O.  Box  11700,  Tacoma,  WA, 
98411,  and  request  Form  E30. 


NOTE:  A  report  on  new  products  and  proc- 
esses on  this  page  in  no  way  constitutes  an 
endorsement  or  recommendation.  All  per- 
formance claims  are  based  on  statements  by 
the  manufacturers. 


NailersI 


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JULY     1987 


39 


Regulation  and 

Deregulation: 

Where's  the  Line? 


How  much  regulation  is  too  muchi 

regulation?  And  how  much 

deregulation  can  America  afford? 


If  you  have  been  around  Washington,  D.C.,  for 
a  few  years,  as  I  have,  you  realize  that  governing 
the  world's  leading  democracy  is  a  complex  task. 
There  seems  to  be  a  pro  and  a  con  for  every  public 
issue.  Hardly  anything  is  strictly  black  and  white. 

Many  of  the  lobbyists  who  swarm  around  Capitol 
Hill  are  either  those  who  want  regulations  to 
protect  their  clients  or  those  who  don't  want  to 
be  regulated  at  all. 

In  the  beginning  of  the  American  nation,  there 
were  few  regulations  to  cause  any  outcry — the 
price  of  postage  was  regulated  by  the  postmaster 
general,  and  few  tariffs  imposed  on  imported  goods 
were  controlled  by  the  U.S.  Customs  Service. 

Today,  the  District  of  Columbia  is  a  beehive  of 
federal  government  activity.  There  are  more  than 
200  regulatory  agencies — some  established  by 
Congress  and  some  by  the  White  House,- and  all 
designed  to  either  correct  an  injustice  or  set  stand- 
ards for  public  and  private  activity. 

Workers  and  their  unions,  alone,  are  regulated 
to  some  extent  by  several  of  these  agencies:  the 
National  Labor  Relations  Board,  the  Equal  Em- 
ployment Opportunity  Commission,  the  Occupa- 
tional Safety  and  Health  Administration,  the  Bu- 
reau of  Labor  and  Management  Reports,  the  Federal 
Mediation  and  Conciliation  Service  ...  I  could 
go  on  through  a  long  list  of  bureaus  and  offices 
which  are  assigned  to  regulate  certain  federal  laws 
and  services  affecting  workers  and  their  jobs. 

There's  a  lot  of  discussion  in  Washington  these 
days  about  government  regulations.  Are  there  too 
many  or  too  few?  You'll  find  the  con  artists,  the 
patent  medicine  salesmen,  the  free-wheeling  finan- 
cial entrepreneurs  and  the  gypsy  truckers,  just  to 
name  four  groups,  saying  there  are  too  many  rules 
and  regulations.  On  the  other  side  of  the  debates 
you'll  find  people  like  small  depositors  in  savings 
and  loan  institutions,  workers  who  suffer  injuries 
on  the  job  and  air  travelers  waiting  for  hours 
around  airport  terminals.  These  people  would 
appreciate  a  little  more  federal  regulation. 


In  many  of  these  debates  you'll  find  liberal 
Democrats  defending  regulations  and  conservative 
Republicans  calling  for  their  elimination.  But  this 
is  not  always  true.  We  have  had  Republicans 
supporting  our  legislative  positions  regarding  em- 
ployment in  the  forest  products  industry  and  Dem- 
ocrats opposed  to  our  position.  We  have  had 
Democrats  and  Republicans  alike  endorsing  our 
legislative  stands  regarding  employment  in  the 
shipyards.  One  of  the  most  successful  regulatory 
congressional  acts  affecting  construction  labor  is 
the  Davis-Bacon  Act,  initiated  almost  a  half  cen- 
tury ago  by  two  Republicans. 

With  this  kind  of  up-and-down  and  back-and- 
forth  tug  of  war  regarding  too-much  government 
and  too-little  government,  you'll  find  that  the 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of 
America  is  not  a  "me  too"  organization.  We  judge 
a  regulation  on  its  merits.  You'll  not  find  us  taken 
for  granted  on  Capitol  Hill.  We  have  always  been, 
and  will  continue  to  be,  an  organization  of  craft 
and  industrial  workers  which  studies  each  issue 
and  each  proposed  regulation  carefully  and  estab- 
lish a  policy  only  after  serious  debate. 

We  have  fought  in  past  years  to  protect  collective 
bargaining  from  too  much  government  regulation. 
Our  record  in  NLRB-monitored  elections  is  good. 
Our  affiliates  have  filed  reports  with  the  U.S. 
Labor  Department  as  they  are  required  by  law, 
and,  though  it  is  often  a  burdensome  task  for  local 
secretaries,  we  have  complied  with  the  regulations 
of  the  Landrum-Griffin  Law. 

Ever  since  the  Wagner  Act  of  the  1930s  freed 
organized  labor  from  any  of  its  chains,  labor  unions 
have  been  under  the  close  scrutiny  of  federal, 
state  and  local  governments,  and  the  regulations 
have  increased.  This  has  created  mountains  of 
paperwork  over  the  years,  but  labor  has  borne  its 
burden  well. 

As  I  see  it,  it's  time  now  for  our  legislators  and 
our  government  officials  to  cast  a  good,  hard  look 
at  the  other  side  of  the  seesaw.  Take  a  look  at 
what's  happening  to  America's  industrial  manage- 
ment, to  the  brokerage  houses  on  Wall  Street  and 
to  the  small  businesses  in  countless  rural  com- 
munities across  the  country.  Take  a  look  at  the 
maneuverings  of  deregulated  banks. 

These  are  some  of  the  areas  in  which,  I  believe, 
we  need  consistent  and  careful  regulation  and 
others  where  there  is  little  or  no  regulation,  but 
regulation  is  needed:  ■ 

Regulation  of  the  food  we  eat — The  days  are  long  * 
past  when  most  North  Americans  grew  their  own 
food.  Fast  food  places  dish  out  all  manner  of 
edibles,  and  there  are  regulations  to  control  their 
activities.  Fast  food  operators  sometimes  complain 
that  "there  are  regulations  covering  the  type  of 
meat  in  the  hamburgers,  the  size  of  the  pickle  and 
the  number  of  vitamins."  Nevertheless,  the  public 
must  be  able  to  trust  the  food  they  buy  and  the 
people  who  serve  it.  Much  of  our  food  is  imported 


today;  much  of  it  is  treated  with  pesticides.  Poul- 
try, seafood  and  beef  must  be  inspected.  The 
conservatives  on  Capitol  Hill  are  wrong  when  they 
risk  the  nation's  health  by  proposed  budget  cuts 
eliminating  food  and  drug  investigations  and  in- 
spections. 

Regulation  of  the  money  we  bank — Since  U.S. 
banks  underwent  partial  deregulation  during  the 
early  years  of  the  Reagan  Administration,  we  have 
seen  a  tremendous  number  of  bank  failures,  par- 
ticularly among  small  banks  in  the  farm  belt. 
Meanwhile,  major  banks  have  been  playing  merger 
games,  buying  out  small,  convenient  banks  so  that 
bank  officials  and  shareholders  can  reap  quick 
monetary  rewards.  We  have  seen  many  banks  skirt 
usury  laws  by  opening  up  credit  card  subsidiaries 
which  deal  in  high,  revolving  interest  rates.  We 
have  seen  international  banks  gambling  with  big 
loans  to  third  world  nations,  while  collecting  in- 
terest on  the  U.S.  national  debt.  Surely  more 
regulation  of  banks,  particularly  interstate  banks, 
is  needed. 

Regulation  of  the  air  we  breathe,  the  water  we 
drink — I  need  not  remind  many  of  our  construction 
members  about  the  problems  some  of  our  local 
unions  have  had  with  environmental  impact  studies 
and  environmental  regulations.  Men  have  been 
idled,  without  paycheck,  at  power  and  reclamation 
projects  because  certain  rare  minnows  in  the  stream 
to  be  dammed  was  near  to  extinction.  Our  lumber 
and  sawmill  members  have  had  to  wait  for  envi- 
ronmental impact  studies  to  be  completed  before 
they  could  begin  logging  certain  new  areas  of  the 
Pacific  Northwest. 

Yet,  in  spite  of  such  setbacks,  the  United  Broth- 
erhood supports  many  environmental  issues — par- 
ticularly when  they  concern  the  future  livelihood 
of  our  children  and  future  generations. 

We  have  a  lot  of  fishermen  and  outdoorsmen  in 
the  UBC.  They  support  regulations  which  clean 
up  the  water  supply  and  reduce  air  pollution. 
Funds  which  help  to  clean  up  the  environment 
perform  two  worthwhile  objectives — they  make 
life  more  liveable  and  they  provide  jobs. 

Regulation  of  the  workplace — Unions  are  cur- 
rently pushing  for  a  law  which  will  require  advance 
notices  from  employers  when  plants  are  closed. 
Such  legislation  is  long  overdue.  Far  too  many 
manufacturing  corporations  are  picking  up  their 
marbles  in  one  community  and  moving  them  to 
communities  with  "union-free  environments" 
without  so  much  as  a  "beg  pardon"  to  the  workers 
left  behind.  Entire  communities  are  now  suffering 
because  of  the  lack  of  social  responsibility  shown 
by  absentee  plant  owners. 

Other  regulation  of  the  workplace  which  must 
be  re-examined  concerns  the  health  and  safety  of 
workers  on  the  job.  As  I  wrote  in  the  June 
Carpenter,  I  saw  the  tragic  results  of  weak  job- 
site  inspections  and  weak  state  laws  when  I  went 
to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  to  assist  our  local  unions 


recovering  the  bodies  of  seven  of  our  members  at 
the  cave-in  of  an  apartment  building.  The  Occu- 
pational Safety  and  Health  Act  has  been  on  the 
books  for  many  years  now.  More  manpower  and 
dedication  is  needed  to  carry  out  its  objectives. 

Regulation  of  corporate  takeovers — Last  month, 
a  corporate  raider  trying  to  set  up  a  conglomerate 
in  the  travel  industry,  divested  himself  of  United 
Airlines,  Hertz  Rentals  and  Westin  Hotels.  While 
he  played  the  takeover  game,  pilots,  flight  attend- 
ants, hotel  and  restaurant  employees  and  other 
"working  stiffs"  faced  uncertain  futures.  Anti- 
takeover laws  are  needed  to  curb  the  merger  fever 
raging  through  the  financial  world.  This  is  one  of 
the  most  pressing  problems  facing  the  nation's 
economy. 

So,  what  I  am  suggesting,  in  summary,  is  that 
the  regulation  heat  has  been  on  labor  and  the 
working  population  long  enough.  It's  time  that 
legislators  and  public  officials  turn  their  attention 
to  the  big  money  changers  of  the  world,  who  would 
do  almost  anything  for  a  fast  buck. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

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THE  FREE  RIDER'S  CREED 

The  dues-paying  member  is  m,y  shepherd;  I  shall  not  want. 

He  provideth  me  with  paid  holidays  and  vacation,  so  I  may 
continue  to  lie  down  idle  in  green  pastures  beside  the 
still  waters. 

He  restoreth  my  back  pay. 

He  guideth  my  welfare  without  cost  to  me. 

Yea,  though  I  alibi  and  pay  no  dues  from  year  to  year,  I  fear 

no  evil,  for  he  pays  my  way  and  protecteth  me. 

The  working  conditions  he  provideth,  they  comfort  me. 

He  anointeth  my  head  with  the  oil  of  seniority. 

He  fighteth  my  battle  for  pay  raises. 

Yea,  my  cup  runneth  over  with  benefits. 

Surely,  his  goodness  and  union  spirit  will 
follow  me  all  the  days  of  my  life, 
free  of  cost. 

And  I  shall  dwell  in  the  union  house  that  he 
hath  built  forever,  and  allow  him  to 
pay  the  bill. 


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United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  &  Joiners  of  America 


Calgary  prepares 

for  the 

XV  Olympic 

Winter  Games 


Founded  1881 


•  Presidential  candidates 
discuss  the  U.S.  budget  deficit 

•  50  years  of  federal 
apprenticeship  standards 


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FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

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Washington,  D.C.  20001 

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John  Pruitt 

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Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

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VOLUME  107  No.  8  AUGUST  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

Winter  Olympics  Bring  Jobs  to  Calgary 2 

50th  Anniversary  of  U.S.  Apprenticeship  Act 4 

BE  &  K  Targeted  by  the  UBC 7 

Legislation  to  Bar  Double  Breasting  Clears  House 9 

1987  Union  Industries  Show  in  Atlantic  City 12 

This  Month's  Question  for  Candidates:  Budget  Deficit ■. .  15 

Blueprint  for  Cure  and  DADs 20 

Canadian  Forest  Locals  to  Study  Contracting  Out 21 

AIDS  and  Your  Job:  Are  There  Risks? 32 


DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 6 

Ottawa  Report 14 

Local  Union  News 22 

We  Congratulate 25 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 26 

Plane  Gossip 28 

Labor  News  Roundup 30 

Retirees  Notebook 31 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 33 

In  Memoriam 37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


Calgary,  situated  in  the  Alberta  Prov- 
ince of  Canada,  was  selected  as  the  site 
of  the  Winter  Olympics.  Since  its  selec- 
tion in  1981,  much  construction  has  gone 
on  in  preparation  for  the  Games. 

The  union-built  luge  run,  pictured  on 
our  cover,  is  one  of  the  construction 
projects  in  the  Canadian  Olympic  Park. 
When  building  the  run,  Calgary  took 
every  precaution  against  any  warm 
weather  Mother  Nature  might  send  dur- 
ing the  Games.  Both  the  luge  and  the 
bobsled  runs  contain  40-odd  miles  of 
refrigerating  pipe.  Snow-making  equip- 
ment was  installed  on  the  Alpine  runs, 
and  a  roof  was  erected  over  the  speed 
skating  oval. 

Lugeing  was  first  introduced  to  the 
Olympic  Games  in  1964.  It  is  a  modem 
concept  in  iced-track  sledding,  where 
speed  is  the  ultimate  objective  and  ath- 
letes adopt  an  aerodynamic  prone  posi- 
tion. The  sleds  are  made  of  wood  or 
wood-and-iron  construction,  with  wide 
runners  faced  with  steel.  The  luge  is 
ridden  in  a  sitting  position  and  steered 
with  the  feet  and  a  hand  rope.  Top  speeds 
of  nearly  93  miles  per  hour  are  achieved 
at  some  tracks,  and  races  are  often  won 
or  lost  by  hundredths  or  even  thou- 
sandths of  a  second. 

Lugeing  is  traditionally  a  winter  sport 
in  Austria  and  dates  back  to  the  16th 
century.  Single  and  double-seater  events 
for  the  first  European  luge  championships 
were  held  in  1914  at  Reichenfels,  Aus- 
tria.— photographs  from  Mach  2  Photog- 
raphy Limited 

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Winter  Olympics  Put 
Calgary  Back  to  Work 


Times  are  hard  in  Calgary,  Alberta. 
It  has  been  called  the  Houston  of  the 
north  by  some  writers,  and,  like  Hous- 
ton, it's  feeling  the  decline  of  interna- 
tional oil  prices  which  has  put  the  un- 
employment rate  at  12%.  Many 
professionals  are  standing  in  govern- 
ment compensation  lines,  driving  taxis 
and  waiting  tables.  Or  like  Frank  King, 
committee  chief  for  the  Winter  Olympic 
Games,  they  work  on  the  Olympic  proj- 
ect. 

"There's  a  way  around  everything," 
he  said,  being  an  oil  man  himself. 

In  1981,  Calgary  was  given  the  op- 
portunity to  host  the  1988  Winter  Olym- 
pics. At  the  time  they  were  selected, 
the  city  was  doing  $2  billion  a  year  in 
construction.  But  soon  after  the  oil 
crunch  hit,  construction  fell.  Mayor 
Ralph  Klein,  a  former  TV  news  reporter 
who  became  mayor  in  1980,  said  the 
city  was  ready  when  the  Olympic  con- 
struction came  along. 

"Everything  was  there.  Materials 
were  cheap.  The  timing  worked  out 
well,"  he  said. 

So,  it  is  with  a  sigh  of  relief  that 
Calgarians  look  forward  to  the  Winter 
Olympic  Games. 

Before  construction  ever  began,  the 
project  was  guaranteed  to  remain  sol- 
vent, unlike  the  Summer  Games  held 
in  Montreal  in  1976.  Canadians  are  still 
feeling  the  effects  of  the  billion  dollar 
debt  left  from  the  '76  Games.  The 
Calgary  games  fell  into  a  television 
contract  with  ABC  for  $309  million  and 


$350  million  worth  of  government  con- 
tributions. To  be  figured  in  is  another 
$76  million  from  sponsors,  licensees 
and  donors  and  $36  million  from  ticket 
sales. 

With  this  preset  budget,  Calgary  of- 
ficials have  been  able  to  turn  the  city 
on  the  prairie  into  a  winter  sporting 
center  where  there  previously  has  not 
been  one.  Situated  65  miles  east  of  the 
Rockies,  Calgary  has  no  particular  tra- 
dition in  winter  sports,  with  no  real 
history  even  of  snow  in  significant 
amounts  and  with  weather  that  can  go 
impulsively  balmy  in  the  dead  of  winter. 
According  to  some,  Calgary  may  be  a 
new  breed  of  Winter  Olympic  sites, 
chosen  for  location  and  adaptability 
rather  than  tradition. 

Calgary  has  proven  this  when  they 
hosted  the  women's  World  Cup  down- 
hill races  in  March  which  served  as  the 
first  international  test  of  the  ski  slopes 
at  Mount  Allan.  This  year  was  a  banner 
Chinook  year.  Chinooks  are  clouds'  of 
warm  air  from  the  Pacific  that  occa- 
sionally come  over  the  mountains 
dumping  60-degree  air  on  Canada.  For 
81  straight  days,  starting  back  before 
Christmas,  temperatures  were  above 
normal.  The  worst  came  before  the  race 
was  scheduled  to  begin.  Organizers 
watched  their  worst  fears  come  to  life 
as  snow  ran  off  the  mountain  in  gushing 
gullies.  They  managed  to  get  one  down- 
hill race  in  by  nighttime  snow-making 
and  great  snow-moving  and  grooming 
efforts. 


Olympic  officials  are  hoping  that  1988 
will  not  be  a  repeat.  The  games  have 
been  lengthened  from  the  traditional  12 
days  to  16  days  to  accommodate  tele- 
vision viewers.  The  extra  time  should 
allow  for  any  repairs  to  be  made  on  the 
mountain  due  to  warm  weather. 

Calgary  has  taken  out  most  of  the 
weather  ifs  by  installing  40-odd  miles 
of  refrigeration  pipe  in  the  bobsled  and 
luge  runs,  snow-making  equipment  on 
the  Alpine  runs  and  a  roof  over  the 
massive  speed  skating  oval. 

Calgary  has  a  history  of  being  a  cow 
town  and  part  of  the  wild  Canadian 
West,  hosting  the  Calgary  Stampede,  a 
10-day  rodeo  and  cowboy  show  that 
draws  1  million  people  every  July.  Not 
being  known  as  a  center  for  winter 
sports,  it  has  had  to  create  a  winter 
sporting  atmosphere.  Already  present 
was  the  Saddledome,  home  of  the  Cal- 
gary Flames  hockey  team  and  site  for 
figure  skating  events.  The  University 
of  Calgary  football  stadium,  one  of  the 
few  pre-existing  sites,  is  being  ex- 
panded to  use  for  the  openng  and  clos- 
ing ceremonies. 

A  media  village  was  built  to  house 
5,000  journalists  and  sets  across  the 
highway  from  the  newly  buih  ski  jump 
by  Atco  Industries.  Industrial  Local 
13002  members  were  involved  in  this 
project.  Other  members  of  Local  2103 
participated  in  the  construction  of  the 
ski  run  and  jumps,  the  luge  run,  the 
speed  skating  oval,  and  housing  and 
educational  facilities  on  the  University 


CARPENTER 


Cross-country  skiers  test  the  Canmore  Nordic  Center  in  preparation  for  next  winter's  Olympic  Games. 
The  $14.3  million  center  will  be  the  site  for  the  cross-country  skiing,  biathlon  and  the  skiing  competi- 
tions. •  Calgary's  Saddledome.  reported  to  have  the  world's  largest  concrete  suspension  roof,  will  be 
the  site  of  the  hockey  and  figure  skating.  It  seats  17,000  spectators  and  is  located  in  downtown 
Calgary  near  the  Bow  River.  •  At  upper  right,  world  class  competitors  test  a  ski  jump.  The  Calgary 
jumps  have  plastic  surfaces  to  allow  summer  jumping,  but  warm  ch'mook  winds  blowing  down  the  east 
slopes  of  the  Rockies  have  already  created  problems.  Last  winter,  the  ice  base  for  the  70-meter  jump 
had  to  be  rebuilt  three  times. — Photographs  from  Wide  World  and  the  Washington  Post. 


of  Calgary  campus. 

Mount  Allan  was  turned  into  ski  runs 
with  parking  lots,  lodges,  snow-making 
gear  and  lifts.  A  few  miles  away  is 
Canmore,  the  Nordic  skiing  center,  re- 
garded by  some  as  the  toughest,  fastest 
cross  country  course  in  the  world. 

The  first  indoor  speed  skating  oval, 
a  huge  double  field  house  that  could 
encompass  two  football  fields,  has  been 
added  to  the  campus  of  the  University 
of  Calgary.  Another  addition  to  the 
campus  was  a  new  dorm  section  to  help 
house  the  athletes  who  will  be  staying 
on  the  campus. 

In  January  1986,  the  $5  million  state- 
of-the-art  Calgary  Olympic  Centre 
opened,  offering  theatre  facilities,  ani- 
mated exhibits,  graphic  displays,  meet-- 
ing  rooms,  office  space  and  a  central 
reception  area. 

Being  used  to  a  flood  of  people  in 
their  city  due  to  the  Calgary  Stampede, 
the  hospitality  industry  is  ready.  There 
are  numerous  hotels  and  bed  and  break- 
fasts in  addition  to  rooms  available  in 
private  homes.  The  city  is  also  capable 
and  used  to  handling  the  influx  of  traffic. 

Once  the  torch  has  been  extinguished 
for  another  four  years,  Calgary  will  join 
its  predecessors — Innsbruck,  Lake 
Placid,  Sarajevo — cities  whose  fame  was 
assured  after  hosting  the  competitions. 
It  will  no  longer  be  known  as  the  Ca- 
nadian cow  town  200  miles  north  of 
Missoula,  Mont.,  but  rather  Calgary, 
the  town  that  hosted  the  1988  Winter 
Olympics. 


Labor  Calls  for  New  U.S.  Revenues 
To  Come  from  Business,  Wealthy 


In  raising  revenue  to  cut  America's 
federal  deficit  and  meet  the  nation's  needs. 
Congress  should  be  guided  by  the  prin- 
ciple of  ability  to  pay,  the  AFL-CIO  said 
recently. 

AFL-CIO  chief  economist  Rudy  Os- 
wald urged  the  House  Ways  and  Means 
Committee  to  reject  "any  new  or  ex- 
panded sales,  excise  or  other  consump- 
tion taxes  as  regressive  and  contrary  to 
the  goal  of  tax  justice  and  the  intent  of 
Congress  in  enacting  the  1986  reforms." 

He  said  the  federation  also  strongly 
opposes  any  renewed  attempts  to  tax 
employer-provided  benefits  like  health 
insurance. 

Instead,  Oswald  urged  that  the  revenue 
be  sought  by  closing  additional  tax  loop- 
holes enjoyed  by  the  wealthy  and  cor- 
porations, and  by  maintaining  current 
business  and  top  individual  tax  rates, 
scheduled  to  decline  further  under  the 
1986  tax  reforms. 

The  budget  plan  adopted  by  Congress 
calls  for  $19.3  billion  in  new  revenue  for 
Fiscal  1988  and  $64.3  billion  over  three 
years.  The  staff  of  the  tax-writing  Ways 
and  Means  panel  produced  a  list  of  more 
than  100  revenue-raising  options  drawn 


from  President  Reagan's  budget  request, 
suggestions  of  committee  members,  and 
rejected  tax  proposals  from  previous 
years. 

The  AFL-CIO  condemned  as  "grossly 
unfair"  proposals  to  tax  employee  ben- 
efits. 

"To  tax  health  and  life  insurance,  pen- 
sions, education,  legal  services,  child 
care  and  other  employer-paid  benefits  as 
if  they  were  income  would  destroy  es- 
tablished social  policy  without  providing 
an  alternative,"  the  federation  charged. 

Raising  excise  taxes  on  gasoline,  cig- 
arettes, alcohol  and  telephone  use  has 
been  high  on  the  list  of  options  weighed 
by  the  committee.  But  "such  taxes  put 
an  unfair  burden  on  low  and  moderate- 
income  consumers  who  are  less  able  to 
pay  the  additional  taxes."  Oswald  said. 

The  Citizens  for  Tax  Justice  (CTJ) 
recently  issued  a  study  showing  that  a 
$19  billion-range  increase  in  excise  taxes 
would  "eliminate  the  entire  reduction 
gained  under  the  1986  tax  reform  for 
families  with  incomes  under  $30,000." 
CTJ  is  a  research  group  backed  by  labor, 
public  interest,  church  and  other  orga- 
nizations. 


AUGUST     1987 


Labor  and  Management  Commemorate 


An  Apprenticeship 

Anniversary 


Vocational  instruction  in  public  sclwols  increased  early  in  the  20th  Century  after 
Congress  and  the  states  passed  laws  outlawing  child  tabor. 

The  National  Apprenticeship  Act 


To  ENABLE  the  Department  of  Labor  to 
formulate  and  promote  the  furtherance 
of  labor  standards  necessary  to  safeguard 
the  welfare  of  apprentices  and  to  coop- 
erate with  the  states  in  the  promotion  of 
such  standards. 
Be  it  enacted  by  the  senate  and 

HOUSE  OF  representatives  OF  THE  UNITED 
STATES  OF  AMERICA  IN  CONGRESS  ASSEM- 
BLED, that  the  Secretary  of  Labor  is 
hereby  authorized  and  directed  to  for- 
mulate and  promote  the  furtherance  of 
labor  standards  necessary  to  safeguard 
the  welfare  of  apprentices,  to  extend  the 
application  of  such  standards  by  encour- 
aging the  inclusion  thereof  in  contracts 
of  apprenticeship,  to  bring  together  em- 
ployers and  labor  for  the  formulation  of 
programs  of  apprenticeship,  to  cooperate 
with  state  agencies  engaged  in  the  for- 
mulation and  promotion  of  standards  of 
apprenticeship,  and  to  cooperate  with 
the  National  Youth  Administration  and 
with  the  Office  of  Education  of  the  De- 
partment of  the  Interior  in  accordance 
with  section  6  of  the  Act  of  February  23, 
1917  (39  Stat.  932),  as  amended  by  Ex- 
ecutive Order  Numbered  6166,  June  10, 
1933,  issued  pursuant  to  an  Act  of  June 
30,  1932  (47  Stat.  414)  as  amended. 

Sec.  2.  The  Secretary  of  Labor  may 
publish  information  relating  to  existing 
and  proposed  labor  standards  of  appren- 
ticeship, and  may  appoint  national  ad- 


visory committees  to  serve  without  com- 
pensation. Such  committees  shall  include 
representatives  of  employers,  represen- 
tatives of  labor,  educators,  and  officers 
of  other  executive  departments,  with  the 
consent  of  the  head  of  any  such  depart- 
ment. 

Sec.  3.  On  and  after  the  effective  date 
of  ths  Act  the  National  Youth  Adminis- 
tration shall  be  relieved  of  direct  respon- 
sibility for  the  promotion  of  labor  stand- 
ards of  apprenticeship  as  heretofore 
conducted  through  the  division  of  ap- 
prentice training  and  shall  transfer  all 
records  and  papers  relating  to  such  ac- 
tivities to  the  custody  of  the  Department 
of  Labor.  The  Secretary  of  Labor  is 
authorized  to  appoint  such  employees  as 
he  may  from  time  to  time  find  necessary 
for  the  administration  of  this  Act,  with 
regard  to  existing  laws  applicable  to  the 
appointment  and  compensation  of  em- 
ployees of  the  United  States:  Provided, 
however,  That  he  may  appoint  persons 
now  employed  in  the  division  of  appren- 
tice training  of  the  National  Youth 
Administration  upon  certification  by  the 
Civil  Service  Commission  of  their  qual- 
ifications after  nonassembled  examina- 
tions. 

Sec.  4.  This  Act  shall  take  effect  on 
July  1,  1937,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  it 
shall  be  approved. 

Approved,  August  16,  1937. 


Fifty  years  ago,  this  month,  the  U.S. 
Congress  made  official  what  America's 
skilled  trades  had  been  practicing  un- 
officially ever  since  the  first  carpenters 
arrived  in  the  New  World  in  1620  aboard 
the  Mayflower. 

The  House  and  Senate  approved  the 
Fitzgerald  Act,  introduced  by  a  Con- 
necticut senator  and  signed  on  August 
16,  1937  by  President  Franklin  D. 
Roosevelt. 

What  the  Fitzgerald  Act  did  was  give 
official  recognition  for  the  first  time  to 
apprenticeship  training  as  a  method  of 
preparing  young  people  for  skilled  vo- 
cations. It  established  standards  for 
apprenticeship  training  and  eventually 
it  created  the  Bureau  of  Apprenticeship 
and  Training,  familiarly  known  as  BAT, 
in  the  U.S.  Department  of  Labor  to 
maintain  standards  and  encourage  such 
vocational  training. 

By  this  action  the  Congress  re- 
sponded to  56  years  of  effort  by  early 
labor  unions  to  obtain  uniform  appren- 
tice laws  in  the  United  States. 

The  platform  of  the  Federation  of 
Organized  Trades  and  Labor  Unions  of 
the  United  States  and  Canada,  meeting 
in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  in  1881,  the  year  the 
UBC  was  founded,  contained  this  state- 
ment: "Necessity  demands  the  enact- 
ment of  uniform  apprentice  laws 
throughout  the  country;  that  the  ap- 
prentice to  a  mechanical  trade  may  be 
made  to  serve  a  sufficient  term  of  ap- 
prenticeship, from  three  to  five  years, 
and  that  he  be  provided  by  his  em- 
ployer, in  his  progress  to  maturity,  with 
proper  and  sufficient  facilities  to  finish 
him  as  a  competent  workman." 

"Proper  and  sufficient  facilities"  in 
those  early  days  covered  a  lot  of  evils. 
Apprentice  bakers  were  sometimes 
forced  to  sleep  in  rat-infested  store- 
rooms behind  cellar  bakeries.  Appren- 
tice clerks  were  often  forced  to  attend 
the  church  of  their  employers'  choice, 
have  their  shoes  polished  to  a  high 
shine,  and  required  to  work  a  six-day 
week  of  10  hours  and  more  per  day. 
Apprentice  seamen  were  literally  at  the 
mercy  of  a  ship's  master. 

The  U.S.  and  Canadian  systems  of 
enlisting  young  people  as  indentured 
apprentices  goes  back  to  the  countries 
of  Europe,  whose  emigrants  flooded 
North  America  two  and  three  centuries 
ago.  Agreements  were  signed  between 
masters,  called  journeymen  or  master 


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builders,  for  example,  and  entering  ap- 
prentices. Often  sons  followed  in  the 
footsteps  of  theirfathers.  Agood  master 
kept  records  of  an  apprentice's  job 
experience  and  his  schooling  as  he  served 
out  his  time.  A  bad  master  cheated  a 
bit  to  get  more  work  at  apprentice 
wages. 

The  United  Brotherhood  and  several 
other  unions  for  which  apprenticeship 
training  was  traditional  were  concerned 
about  training  standards  from  their  very 
beginning,  and  they  were  also  con- 
cerned about  local  economic  conditions 
which  tended  to  destabilize  training 
programs. 

General  President  William  Hutche- 
son  told  delegates  to  the  Brotherhood's 
23rd  General  Convention,  "Our  Broth- 
erhood has  always  been  a  strong  ad- 
vocate of  the  apprenticeship  system, 
but  during  the  period  of  unemployment 
the  manner  of  dealing  with  apprentices 
in  various  localities  practically  col- 
lapsed, with  the  result  that  today  our 
apprentices  and  our  apprenticeship  sys- 
tem is  practically  nil."  He  urged  local 
unions  to  do  everything  possible  to 
assure  the  craft  and  the  industry  of 
qualified  mechanics. 

When  it  became  evident  to  union 
employers  that  they  could  not  use  the 
formal  apprenticeship  system  to  limit 
wage  increases,  many  tended  to  lose 
interest  in  it.  Small  contractors  some- 
times found  it  difficult  to  provide  steady 
employment  for  apprentices. 

Almost  every  UBC  convention  has 
dealt  with  apprenticeship  problems.  In 
1909  the  general  executive  board  rec- 
ommended that  no  one  over  the  age  of 


21  years  be  admitted  as  an  apprentice 
and  that  there  be  a  minimum  training 
term  of  three  years.  In  1912,  however, 
a  resolution  was  adopted  and  ratified 
setting  a  four-year  term,  initiated  be- 
tween the  ages  of  17  and  22,  with  the 
number  of  apprentices  and  the  wage 
level  to  be  set  by  each  district  council 
for  its  own  locality.  Any  apprentice 
breaking  the  agreement  was  to  be  barred 
from  Brotherhood  membership. 

The  upper  age  limit  was  moved  up 
to  25  at  a  later  convention  in  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.  At  a  San  Franscisco  convention 
special  apprentice  working  cards  were 
authorized  and  ratios  of  apprentices  to 
journeymen  were  established. 

Many  years  before,  in  1907,  Congress 
passed  what  was  known  as  the  Smith- 
Hughes  Act.  The  purpose  of  this  leg- 
islation was  to  provide  supplementary 
training  at  the  state  level  for  apprentices 
in  various  occupations.  Under  this  law 
a  state  board  of  education  was  provided 
for  in  each  state,  and  the  Federal  gov- 
ernment and  each  state  was  to  provide 
equally  for  the  funding. 

At  the  General  Convention  in  1936, 
First  General  Vice  President  George 
Lakey  reported  that,  since  1928,  the 
Brotherhood  had  had  a  number  of  well- 
established  apprenticeship  training 
schools  throughout  North  America. 

"But  by  1930,"  he  noted,  "which 
was  during  the  depth  of  the  depression, 
our  members  objected  to  apprentices 
working  while  journeymen  walked  the 
streets.  There  has  been  a  tendency  upon 
the  part  of  contractors  to  keep  appren- 
tices at  work  rather  than  pay  journey- 
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A  century  ago,  many  employers  complained  that  they  were  handicapped  by  the  reluc- 
tance of  unions  to  cooperate  in  the  training  of  young  workers.  An  antiunion  cartoon  of 
the  1880s,  below,  suggested,  however,  that  labor  leaders  stood  around  on  street  corners, 
indifferent  toward  youngsters  eager  to  learn  useful  trades.  Labor  leaders,  however 
insisted  that  plant  and  construction-site  foremen  disregarded  or  sabotaged  apprentice- 
ship instruction  standaids  and  that  child  laboi  law  s  »eie  needed. 


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AUGUST     1987 


Washington 
Report 


COURT  BACKS  WORKER  RIGHTS 

Ruling  in  favor  of  labor's  position  in  two  deci- 
sions, the  Supreme  Court  upheld  workers'  sever- 
ance rights  in  cases  of  plant  closings  and  runaway 
shops,  and  workers'  collective  bargaining  rights  in 
corporate  reorganizations. 

In  the  first  case,  the  Supreme  Court  in  a  5-4 
ruling  upheld  a  Maine  law  requiring  employers  to 
pay  severance  benefits  to  workers  laid  off  in  a  plant 
closing  or  relocation. 

Although  the  ruling  affects  only  Maine,  it  could 
spur  passage  of  similar  laws  by  other  states.  In 
1986,  18  state  legislatures  considered  bills  to  cush- 
ion the  effects  of  plant  closings,  mass  layoffs  and 
relocations,  including  mandatory  severance  pay  and 
continuation  of  health  insurance  benefits. 

In  the  second  case,  the  high  court  in  a  6-3  deci- 
sion upheld  the  National  Labor  Relations  Board's 
practice  of  requiring  a  company  that  buys  a  failed 
business  or  otherwise  takes  over  another  firm's  as- 
sets to  recognize  and  bargain  with  the  union  repre- 
senting the  predecessor's  employees. 

That  successorship  decision  is  especially  impor- 
tant in  the.  current  period  of  corporate  takeovers, 
mergers,  spinoffs  and  other  frequent  ownership 
changes.  The  court  upheld  the  NLRB's  interpreta- 
tion of  a  landmark  1972  Supreme  Court  ruling  when 
the  board  ordered  a  Fall  River,  Mass.,  firm  to  bar- 
gain with  the  United  Textile  Workers. 


RETURN  TO  SENDER 

Visitors  to  the  U.S.  Capitol  can  go  to  the  Senate 
gift  shop  and  purchase  picture  postcards  featuring 
the  Iwo  Jima  memorial — commemorating  one  of  the 
great  battles  against  Japan  in  World  War  II. 

The  postcards  were  printed  in  Japan. 

It  "doesn't  make  sense,"  Sen.  Robert  W.  Kasten, 
Wisconsin  Republican,  said  in  a  speech  on  the 
Senate  floor.  "Do  we  see  'Remember  the  Alamo' 
cards  printed  in  Mexico?  Has  anyone  heard  of 
Fourth  of  July  calendars  printed  in  Britain?" 

The  Republican  senator  suggested  that  the  Sen- 
ate consider  made-in-the-U.S.A.  postcards,  adding 
that  American  visitors  must  be  confused  by  the 
Japanese  imports  "after  hearing  our  speeches  on 
the  trade  deficit." 


UNEMPLOYMENT  TAX  DROP 

Secretary  of  Labor  William  Brock  has  announced 
a  reduction  in  the  rate  of  Federal  unemployment  tax 
for  U.S.  employers,  beginning  January  1,  1988. 

Under  the  Federal  Unemployment  Tax  Act 
(FUTA),  employers  pay  taxes  to  fund  administrative 
costs  of  state  employment  security  programs,  and 
the  federal  share  of  extended  benefits.  Next  year, 
the  rate  of  taxes  they  pay  decreases  from  0.8%  to 
0.6%. 

During  the  recession  of  the  mid-1970s,  the  Un- 
employment Insurance  Trust  Fund  was  forced  to 
borrow  large  amounts  of  money  from  the  general 
fund  of  the  U.S.  Treasury.  This  was  necessary  to 
pay  for  the  federal  share  of  the  permanent  program 
for  extended  benefits,  and  the  temporary  Federal 
Supplement  Benefits  program. 

In  1977,  the  debt  owed  to  the  U.S.  Treasury 
reached  $8.7  billion.  Congress  then  increased  the 
FUTA  rate,  for  employers,  to  repay  the  debt.  This 
increase  was  to  have  been  in  effect  until  the  debt 
was  eliminated. 

Secretary  Brock  has  asked  Treasury  Secretary 
Baker  to  make  the  final  repayment  on  the  debt. 

TUNA  TARIFF  TROUBLES 

Under  present  tariff  regulations,  it  makes  a  differ- 
ence to  Maritime  Trades  unions  whether  you  eat 
canned  tuna  packed  in  oil  or  canned  tuna  packed  in 
water.  Tuna  packed  in  oil  is  charged  an  import  duty 
of  35%,  while  tuna  packed  in  water  is  charged  a 
duty  of  only  6%. 

Frank  Drozak,  president  of  the  AFL-CIO  Maritime 
Trades  Department,  recenty  told  the  House  Sub- 
committee on  Trade  that  the  unbalanced  tariff  struc- 
ture on  the  popular  seafood  is  working  against  the 
domestic  industry.  He  pointed  out  that  imports  of 
canned  tuna  have  increased  nearly  300%  since 
1979  and  that  they  account  for  about  27%  of  U.S. 
consumption.  As  a  consequence,  many  tuna  ves- 
sels, baitboats  and  purse  seiners  have  been  tied 
up.  The  number  of  canneries  have  declined  from  22 
to  eight. 

Drozak  told  the  Congress  that  legislation  is 
needed  to  equalize  the  import  duties  on  oil-packed 
and  water-packed  tuna,  if  U.S.  maritime  workers 
are  to  compete  with  their  highly  subsidized  foreign 
counterparts. 

EXCAVATION  STANDARDS 

The  U.S.  Department  of  Labor's  Occupational 
Safety  and  Health  Administration  has  extended  the 
comment  period  to  October  14  for  its  proposed  revi- 
sion of  rules  covering  excavation  work,  including 
trenching,  one  of  the  most  hazardous  jobs  in  the 
construction  industry. 

The  public  comment  pehod,  originally  scheduled 
to  end  June  1 5,  was  extended  to  ensure  that  inter- 
ested persons  have  ample  opportunity  to  participate 
in  the  rulemaking  process. 

The  public  hearing  request  period  has  also  been 
extended  to  the  same  date,  and  procedures  for 
submitting  public  requests  have  been  clarified.  Re- 
quests for  a  hearing  must:  list  name  and  address  of 
the  requester;  outline  the  specific  provisions  a  re- 
quest involves;  and  give  a  detailed  summary  of  the 
evidence  to  be  considered. 


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B.E^K 


targeted 
by  the  UBC 


Paper  industry  general  contractor  has  strong  antiunion  commitment 


In  a  recent  letter  to  Building  Trades' 
general  presidents,  UBC  General  Pres- 
ident Patrick  J.  Campbell  outlined  the 
threat  to  union  members  in  the  paper 
industry  posed  by  the  industry's  largest 
general  contractor,  BE  &  K  Construc- 
tion. Campbell  cited  BE  &  K's  role  in 
the  destruction  of  fair  construction  work 
standards  in  the  industry  and  its  grow- 
ing role  as  a  strikebreaker  for  various 
forest  product  companies  engaged  in 
labor  disputes  with  production  employ- 
ees. 

"Failure  to  address  these  problems 
head-on  and  in  an  aggressive  fashion 
will  ensure  the  continued  decline  of  the 
standard  of  living  of  all  who  work  in 
the  industry,"  Campbell  stated  in  his 
letter  to  the  union  officers. 

In  response  to  the  growing  menace 
posed  by  BE  &  K,  the  Brotherhood 
has  made  BE  &  K  the  target  of  a 
national  campaign  designed  to  force- 
fully respond  to  its  anti-union  activities. 
The  campaign  will  include  jobsite  ac- 
tions against  BE  &  K  at  each  location 
where  BE  &  K  is  performing  construc- 
tion work,  and  public  exposure  of  con- 
struction users  of  BE  &  K,  as  well  as 
"corporate  and  economic"  campaign 
actions  against  BE  &  K  and  related 
companies.  At  present,  there  are  a 
growing  number  of  heated  disputes  with 
BE  &  K  at  numerous  locations  in  the 
United  States  and  Canada  which  will 
be  coordinated  as  part  of  the  national 
campaign. 

BE  &  K's  Rapid  Growth 

While  BE  &  K  has  been  in  existence 
since  1972,  it  wasn't  until  the  1980's 
that  the  company  began  to  experience 
rapid  growth  in  the  pulp  and  paper 
industry.  Started  in  1972  by  three  for- 
mer employees  of  Rust  Engineering, 
Christopher  P.  Bolvig,  William  F.  Ed- 
monds and  Ted  C.  Kennedy  (the  com- 
pany takes  its  name  from  these  individ- 
uals' last  initials),  its  early  operations 


were  confined  to  work  in  the  Southeast 
paper  industry.  Today,  with  $637.4  mil- 
lion in  contracts,  BE  &  K  competes  for 
and  performs  work  in  every  region  of 
the  country  and  recently  secured  its 
first  paper  industry  project  for  Weyer- 
haeuser Company  in  Canada. 

Although  performing  work  almost  ex- 
clusively in  the  paper  industry,  the 
award  of  a  $350  million  steel  mill  project 
in  Pittsburg,  Calif.,  by  USS-POSCO 
Industries,  a  joint  venture  of  USX  (for- 
merly US  Steel)  and  Pohang  Steel  of 
Korea,  marks  BE  &  K's  entry  into  a 
new  area  of  industrial  construction. 
Through  various  corporate  subsidi- 
aries, affiliates  and  joint  ventures,  BE 
&  K  participates  in  commercial  con- 
struction, cable  communications  oper- 
ations, and  provides  engineering  and 
consulting  services  to  the  paper  indus- 
try. 

Anti-Union  Posture  Clear 

BE  &  K's  strong  anti-union  commit- 
ment is  revealed  by  both  its  words  and 
actions.  BE  &  K's  president  and  foun- 
der, Ted  C.  Kennedy,  was  formerly 
president  of  the  Associated  Builders 
and  Contractors,  the  nation's  most 
prominent  non-union  contractors  as- 
sociation. BE  &  K  and  Kennedy  have 


BE  &  K's  president 
and  founder,  Ted  C. 
Kennedy,  who  is  also 
a  former  president  of 
ABC,  is  welcomed  to 
the  White  House  by 
President  Ronald  Rea- 
gan. Other  ABC  lead- 
ers beam.  From  left  in 
the  background  are 
John  Fielder,  Hubert 
Harris  and  Director  of 
Government  Relations 
Michael  Schoor. 


continued  to  play  active  roles  in  the  non- 
union contractor's  group.  A  recent  edi- 
tion of  the  Engineering  News  Record 
(March  19, 1987)  indicates  that  Kennedy 
accepted  the  chairmanship  of  a  newly 
established  "emergency  panel"  formed 
by  the  ABC  to  fight  Building  Trades 
organizing  initiatives.  BE  &  K's  com- 
mitment to  the  anti-union  fight  is  re- 
flected by  the  fact  that  its  communica- 
tions director  and  ABC  board  member, 
Scott  R.Robertson,  quickly  contributed 
$25,000  to  support  these  anti-union 
initiatives. 


BE  &  K  Challenged 

From  Maine  to  Florida  to  California 
to  Canada,  Brotherhood  members  and 
affiliates  have  taken  a  stand  against  BE 
&  K.  At  jobsites  throughout  the  coun- 
try, BE  &  K's  non-union  construction 
practices  and  its  growing  strikebreaking 
role  are  being  aggressively  challenged. 

In  Pittsburg,  Calif.,  where  BE  &  K 
was  awarded  a  $350  million  construc- 
tion contract  along  with  Eichleay  and 
Daemlin  Company,  the  Bay  Area  Dis- 
trict Council  has  lead  the  fight  against 
BE  &  K.  Demonstrations  at  the  Korean 
Embassy  in  San  Francisco,  jobsite  pick- 
ets,   environmental    challenges,    com- 


AUGUST     1987 


Florida  Carpenters .  left,  above,  conduct  informational  picketing  at  the  entrance  to  a  Georgia-Pacific  kraft  paper 
mill  in  Palatku.  Fla.,  where  BE  &  K  was  performing  a  three-week  shutdown  job  with  out-of-state  workers.  In  the 
picture  at  right,  three  Millwright  members  of  Local  1021  joined  with  a  crowd  of  North  Saskatchewan  Building 
Tradesmen  to  stage  a  rally  in  Kinsmen  Park,  Prince  Albert.  Sask.,  in  an  effort  to  make  other  union  members  and 
the  general  public  aware  that  Weyerhaeuser  Canada,  owners  of  Prince  Albert  Pulp  Co.  Ltd.  had  awarded  a 
contract  for  mill  expansion  to  BE  &  K  Construction,  a  non-union  firm  from  Birmingham,  Ala.,  which,  in  turn,  was 
using  Quadra  Co.  as  a  labor  broker.  In  the  picture  are  Clarence  George,  Rick  Bromstad  and  John  Stefanski. 


munity  outreach  efforts  and  good  media 
work  are  parts  of  the  comprehensive 
program  initiated  by  the  Council.  Mii<e 
Munoz,  the  coordinator  of  the  Council's 
BE  &  K  effort,  reports  that  the  job, 
which  began  recently  is  already  months 
behind  schedule. 

Beginning  in  May  of  this  year,  union 
members  in  Florida  established  an  in- 
formational picket  at  Georgia-Pacific's 
kraft  mill  in  Palatka,  Fla.,  where  BE  & 
K  was  performing  a  three-week  shut- 
down job.  Charlie  Padgett  and  George 
Williams,  state  organizers  for  the  UBC, 
were  able  to  document  the  high  per- 
centage of  out-of-state  workers  used  by 
BE  &  K  on  the  job  and  translate  that 
into  an  effective  community  issue.  The 
presence  of  out-of-state  workers  was 
well  documented  in  the  press,  putting 
both  Georgia-Pacific  and  BE  &  K  on 
the  defensive. 


Canadian  Activities 

BE  &  K  has  begun  to  spread  its  non- 
union operations  into  Canada,  where  it 
received  a  contract  from  Weyerhaeuser 
Company  for  a  $250  million  paper  mill 
project  in  Prince  Albert,  Sask.  The 
contract  for  the  installation  of  a  new 
paper  machine  was  awarded  to  BE  & 
K  despite  the  fact  that  the  low  bidder 
on  the  job  was  a  union  contractor  with 
considerable  experience  in  the  paper 
industry.  Ironically,  Weyerhaeuser  re- 
cently obtained  this  paper  mill  from  the 
provincial  government  under  an  agree- 
ment that  allows  them  to  forego  pay- 
ment on  the  purchase  until  the  plant 


turns  a  profit.  Political  opposition  to 
the  award  has  developed  and  public 
demonstrations  against  BE  &  K's  pres- 
ence have  been  held,  reports  UBC  Rep- 
resentative Leo  Fritz,  who  is  working 


Company  emerging  as  ma- 
jor strikebreaker  for  various 
forest  products  companies 
engaged  in  labor  disputes 
witti  production  employees 
in  the  United  States  and 
Canada. 


with  the  North  Saskatchewan  Building 
Trades  on  the  project.  A  drug  abuse 
policy  issued  by  BE  &  K  on  the  Prince 
Albert  job,  which  states  that  every 
worker  employed  on  the  jobsite  must 
submit  to  a  urine  drug  screen  test  as  a 
condition  of  employment,  has  been 
strongly  protested  by  the  Trades. 


Stril(ebreal(ing  Role 

Last  summer,  the  Paperworkers  at 
Boise  Cascade's  paper  mill  in  Rumford, 
Maine,  struck  the  company  over  a  con- 
tract dispute.  With  nearly  1 ,200  workers 
on  strike,  Boise  Cascade  was  able  to 
run  the  mill  with  the  assistance  of  BE 


&  K  which  was  brought  in  to  run 
equipment  and  train  strikebreakers 
hired  by  the  company.  A  deposition  of 
a  BE  &  K  employee  on  the  project 
indicated  that  in  strike  situations  BE  & 
K  is  able  to  draw  from  a  computerized 
database  workers  who  have  performed 
work  in  struck  mills  on  previous  oc- 
casions. An  attorney  for  the  Paper- 
workers  reported  that  when  the  strike 
was  ended  450  Paperworker  members 
had  been  permanently  replaced,  the  first 
time  a  worker  has  been  permanently 
replaced  in  the  history  of  the  state  of 
Maine. 

The  situation  is  repeating  itself  again 
this  summer,  as  BE  &  K  has  beer 
retained  by  International  Paper  Com- 
pany ("IP")  at  its  Jay,  Maine,  facility, 
where  the  Paperworkers  are  on  strike 
and  at  its  Mobile,  Ala.,  mill  where  the 
Paperworkers  are  presently  locked  out 
by  IP.  Late  reports  indicate  BE  &  K  is 
moving  into  other  IP  facilities  where 
upcoming  production  worker  negotia- 
tions are  scheduled. 

A  machine  technician  from  Texas 
brought  in  by  BE  &  K  to  work  at  the 
struck  facility  in  Jay,  Maine,  abandoned 
the  job  after  a  few  days  and  revealed 
BE  &  K's  "strikebreaking"  role  to  the 
press.  The  technician  described  de- 
plorable living  and  working  conditions 
in  the  plant,  and  indicated  that  BE  & 
K  was  well-schooled  in  its  role  of  op- 
erating paper  facihties  in  strike  situa- 
tions. He  indicated  that  the  $1,500  to 
$1 ,600  per  week  the  BE  &  K  employees 
were  earning  for  their  work  was  not 
worth  working  in  the  degrading  condi- 
tions he  experienced. 


8 


CARPENTER 


Legislation  to  Bar  'Double-Breasting' 
in  Construction  Clears  House  227-197 

NOW  IT  FACES  SENATE  FILIBUSTER  AND  VETO  THREATS 


A  bill  to  protect  union  jobs  and  stand- 
ards in  the  construction  industry  by 
preventing  union  contractors  from  si- 
phoning wori<  to  non-union  subsidiaries 
and  by  strengthening  "pre-hire"  agree- 
ments cleared  the  House  on  a  227-197 
vote. 

Legislation  to  ban  "double-breast- 
ing," the  Construction  Industry  Con- 
tract Security  Act,  has  been  among 
organized  labor's  top  priorities  in  recent 
years.  The  House  last  year  passed  a 
similar  bill  by  roughly  the  same  margin, 
but  the  bill  went  nowhere  in  the  then- 
Republican-controlled  Senate. 

Voting  for  the  bill.  H.R.  281,  were 
200  Democrats  and  27  Republicans.  It 
was  opposed  by  148  Republicans  and 
49  Democrats.  A  companion  bill,  S. 
492,  is  expected  to  reach  the  Senate 
floor  this  year,  where  it  may  face  a 
GOP  filibuster.  It  also  faces  a  veto 
threat  by  President  Reagan. 

The  filibuster  threat  came  from  Sen- 
ate Minority  Leader  Robert  A.  Dole 
(R-Kan.)  and  Senator  Orrin  G.  Hatch 
(R-Utah).  Earlier  this  year.  Dole  ap- 
peared at  a  National  Right-to-Work 
Committee  press  conference  and  pledged 
to  back  a  Senate  filibuster.  Senate  spon- 
sors of  the  bill  include  Republicans 
Alfonse  D'Amato  (N.Y.)  and  Lowell  P. 
Weicker  (Conn.)  as  well  as  Democrats 
Edward  M.  Kennedy  (Mass.)  and  Bill 
Bradley  (N.J.). 


Building  Trades  President  Robert  A. 
Georgine,  urging  the  Senate  to  follow 
the  House  action,  said  construction 
workers  shouldn't  be  "exploited  or  used 
in  the  shell  game  created  by  employ- 
ers." Georgine  said  the  bill  would  com- 
pel employers  to  "live  up  to  the  terms 
of  contracts  that  they  themselves  agreed 
to"  and  would  end  a  practice  "delib- 
erately designed  to  destroy  trade  unions 
and,  in  the  process,  reduce  wages  and 
exploit  workers." 

Georgine  told  a  House  panel  earlier 
this  year  that  the  double-breasting  prob- 
lem has  been  worsening  in  recent  years. 
He  cited  a  trade  publication,  the  En- 
gineering News  Record,  which  reported 
last  year  that  20  of  the  nation's  top 
union  contractors  now  have  non-union 
affiliates.  According  to  the  Labor  Dept. , 
the  percentage  of  construction  workers 
who  are  members  of  craft  unions  fell 
from  about  36%  in  1977  to  22%  in  1986. 

Georgine  also  testified  that  the  bill  is 
needed  to  affirm  the  legality  of  con- 
struction industry  pre-hire  agreements, 
which  Congress  authorized  in  1959,  but 
which  have  been  weakened  by  National 
Labor  Relations  Board  rulings  begin- 
ning in  the  early  1970s.  Pre-hire  agree- 
ments typically  establish  wage  scales 
and  work  rules,  and  provide  for  hiring 
through  the  union. 

The  bill  bars  employers  from  repu- 
diating pre-hire  agreements  unless  the 


workers  vote  to  decertify  the  union  and 
also  requires  employers  to  bargain  with 
the  union  after  a  pact  has  expired  unless 
the  workers  vote  the  union  out.  The 
NLRB  ruled  earlier  this  year  that  em- 
ployers don't  have  to  engage  in  such 
bargaining  once  the  original  pre-hire 
agreement  expires. 

The  legislation  would  bar  double- 
breasting  by  specifying  that  multiple 
construction  firms  in  a  geographical 
area  should  be  considered  a  single  em- 
ployer, if  they  have  common  owner- 
ship, management  or  control.  Employ- 
ers of  both  union  and  non-union  affiliates 
would  be  brought  under  the  terms  of 
the  union  contract. 

In  the  House  debate  on  the  bill.  Rep. 
Richard  K.  Armey  (R-Texas)  said  "If 
you  vote  'yes'  on  this  legislation,  you 
vote  'yes'  on  compulsory  unionism,  you 
vote  'yes'  against  the  rights  of  workers 
and  in  favor  of  the  extension  of  power 
of  unions  in  this  country." 

Rep.  William  L.  Clay  (D-Mo),  the 
bill's  sponsor,  replied  that  H.R.  281 
merely  requires  that  construction  in- 
dustry employers  "live  up  to  their  con- 
tractual agreements." 

Before  the  final  vote  on  June  17,  the 
House  decisively  defeated  three  Re- 
publican amendments  to  weaken  or  gut 
the  measure.  The  amendments  were 
offered  by  Reps.  Marge  Roukema  (N.J.), 
Steve  Bartlett  (Texas),  and  James  Jef- 
fords (Vt.).  U3C 


AUGUST 


987 


The  Vote  on  House  Legislation  to  Ban  Double  Breasting 

If  your  Congressman/woman  voted  YES 

onH.R.281,  the 

double- 

breasting  bill,  please 

thank  him/her.  If  he  or  she  voted  NO,  let 

them  know  how  dissappointed  you  are. 

This  is  how  they  voted: 

Among  the  227  members  who  voted  'YES' 

were: 

1                 Ackerman  (D-NY) 

Frost  (D-TX) 

Owens,  Major  (D-NY) 

Dorgan,  Byron  (D-ND) 

Mfume  (D-MD) 

i                 Akaka  (D-Hl) 

Gallo  (R-NJ) 

Owens.  Wayne  (D-UT) 

Dowdy,  Wayne  (D-MS) 

Miller,  George  (D-CA) 

1                Alexander  (D-AR) 

Garcia  (D-NY) 

Panetta  (D-CA) 

Downey,  Thomas  (D-NY) 

Miller,  John  (R-WA) 

»j                Anderson.  Glenn  (D-CA)           Gaydos  (D-PA) 

Pashayan  (R-CA) 

Durbin  (D-IL) 

Mineta  (D-CA) 

Andrews.  Michael  (D-TX)         Gejdenson  (D-CT) 

Pease  (D-OH) 

Dwyer,  Bernard  (D-NJ) 

Moakley  (D-MA) 

Annunzio  (D-IL) 

Gephardt  (D-MO) 

Pelosi  (D-CA) 

Dymally,  Mervyn  (D-CA) 

Molinari  (R-NY) 

Applegate  (D-OH) 

Gilman  (R-NY) 

Penny  (D-MN) 

Dyson  (D-MD) 

Mollohan  (D-WV) 

I                Aspin  (D-WI) 

Glickman  (D-KS) 

Pepper  (D-FL) 

Early  (D-MA) 

Moody  (D-WI) 

Atkins  (D-MA) 

Gonzalez  (D-TX) 

Perkins  (D-KY) 

Eckart,  Dennis  (D-OH) 

Morrison,  Bruce  (D-CT) 

Aucoin  (D-OR) 

Gordon  (D-TN) 

Pickett  (D-VA) 

Edwards,  Don  (D-CA) 

Skaggs  (D-CO) 

Bates  (D-CA) 

Gray,  Kenneth  (D-IL) 

Pickle  (D-TX) 

Erdreich  (D-AL) 

Skelton  (D-MO) 

J                Beilenson  (D-CA) 
^                Bennett  (D-FL) 

Gray,  William  (D-PA) 

Price,  Melvin  (D-IL) 

Espy  (D-MS) 

Slattery  (D-KS) 

Green  (R-NY) 

Rahall,  Nick  Joe  (D-WV) 

Evans,  Lane  (D-IL) 

Smith,  Christopher  (R-NJ) 

Bentley  (R-MD) 

Guarini  (D-NJ) 

Richardson  (D-NM) 

Fascell  (D-FL) 

Smith,  Lawrence  (D-FL) 

Berman  (D-CA) 

Hall,  Tony  (D-OH) 

Ridge  (R-PA) 

Fazio  (D-CA) 

Smith,  Neal  (D-IA) 

Bevill  (D-AL) 

Harris  (DAL) 

Rinaldo  (R-NJ) 

Feighan  (D-OH) 

Solarz  (D-NY) 

Biaggi  (D-NY) 

Hawkins,  Augustus  (D-CA) 

Robinson  (D-AR) 

Fish  (R-NY) 

St  Germain  (D-RI) 

Bilbray  (D-NV) 

Hayes.  Charles  A.  (D-IL) 

Rodino  (D-NJ) 

Flake  (D-NY) 

Staggers,  Jr.  (D-WV) 

Boggs  (D-LA) 

Hertel  (D-MI) 

Roe  (D-NJ) 

Flippo  (D-AL) 

Stark  (D-CA) 

Boland  (D-MA) 

Hochbrueckner  (D-NY) 

Rowland,  John  (R-CT) 

Florio  (D-NJ) 

Stokes  (D-OH) 

Bonker  (D-WA) 

Horton  (R-NY) 

Roybal  (D-CA) 

Kleczka  (D-WI) 

Stratton  (D-NY) 

Borski  (D-PA) 

Houghton  (R-NY) 

Russo  (D-IL) 

Kolter  (D-PA) 

Studds  (D-MA) 

J                Bosco  (D-CA) 
1                Boucher  (D-VA) 
'                Boxer  (D-CA) 

Howard  (D-NJ) 

Sabo  (D-MN) 

Kostmayer  (D-PA) 

Swift  (D-WA) 

Hoyer(D-MD) 

Savage  (D-IL) 

Lafalce  (D-NY) 

Torres  (D-CA) 

Hughes  (D-NJ) 

Sawyer  (D-OH) 

Lantos  (D-CA) 

Towns  (D-NY) 

Brennan  (D-ME) 

Jacobs  (D-IN) 

Scheuer  (D-NY) 

Lehman,  Richard  (D-CA) 

Traficant  (D-OH) 

i                 Brooks  (D-TX) 

Johnson,  Nancy  (R-CT) 

Schneider  (R-RI) 

Lehman,  William  (D-FL) 

Traxler  (D-MI) 

i                Brown,  George  (D-CA)             Johnson.  Timothy  P.  (D-SD) 

Schroeder  (D-CO) 

Leiand  (D-TX) 

Udall  (D-AZ) 

'                Bruce  (D-IL) 

Jones,  Walter  (D-NC) 

Schumer  (D-NY) 

Lent  (R-NY) 

Vento  (D-MN) 

Bryant  (D-TX) 

Jontz  (D-IN) 

Sharp  (D-IN) 

Levine,  Mel  (D-CA) 

Visclosky  (D-IN) 

Bustamante  (D-TX) 

Kanjorski  (D-PA) 

Sikorski  (D-MN) 

Levin,  Sander  (D-MI) 

Volkmer  (D-MO) 

Campbell  (D-CO) 

Kaptur  (D-OH) 

Conte  (R-MA) 

Lewis,  John  (D-GA) 

Walgren  (D-PA) 

Cardin  (R-MD) 

Kastenmeier  (D-WI) 

Conyers  (D-MI) 

Lipinski  (D-IL) 

Waxman  (D-CA) 

Carper  (D-DE) 

Kennedy,  Joseph  (D-MA) 

Courier  (R-NJ) 

Lowry,  Mike  (D-WA) 

Weiss  (D-NY) 

Carr(D-MI) 

Kennedy  (D-CT) 

Coyne.  William  (D-PA) 

Luken,  Thomas  (D-OH) 

Weldon  (R-PA) 

Chapman  (D-TX) 

Kildee  (D-MI) 

Crockett  (D-MI) 

Manton  (D-NY) 

Wheat  (D-MO) 

Clarke  (D-NC) 

Morrison,  Sid  (R-WA) 

Davis.  Jack  (R-IL) 

Markey  (D-MA) 

Williams,  Pat  (D-MT) 

Clay  (D-MO) 

Mrazek  (D-NY) 

Davis.  Robert  (R-IL) 

Martinez  (D-CA) 

Wilson,  Charles  (D-TX) 

Coelho  (D-CA) 

Murphy  (D-PA) 

De  Fazio  (D-OR) 

Martin,  David  (R-NY) 

Wise  (D-WV) 

Coleman.  Ronald  (D-TX)           Murtha  (D-PA) 

De  La  Garza  (D-TX) 

Matsui  (D-CA) 

Wolpe,  Howard  (D-MI) 

Collins,  Cardiss  (D-IL)              Nagle  (D-IA) 

Dellums  (D-CA) 

Mavroules  (D-MA) 

Wyden  (DOR) 

Foglietta  (D-PA) 

Watcher  (D-KY) 

Dicks  ID-WA) 

McCloskey  (D-IN) 

Yates  (D-IL) 

■                Foley  (D-WA) 

Nowak  (D-NY) 

Dingell  (D-MI) 

McDade  (R-PA) 

Yatron  (D-PA) 

Ford,  Harold  (D-TN)                 Oakar  (D-OH) 

Dioguardi  (R-NY) 

McGrath  (R-NY) 

1                Ford,  William  (D-MI)                Oberstar  (D-MN) 

Dixon,  Julian  (D-CA) 

McHugh  (D-NY) 

Frank  (D-MA) 

Obey  (D-WI) 

Donnelly,  Brian  (D-MA) 

McMillen,  Tom  (D-MD) 

Among  the  197  members  who  voted  'NO' 

were: 

Anthony  (D-AR) 

Hayes,  James  A.  (D-LA) 

Petri  (R-WI) 

Chandler  (R-WA) 

Edwards,  Mickey  (R-OK) 

Archer  (R-TX) 

Hefley  (R-CO) 

Porter  (R-IL) 

Chappell  (D-FL) 

Emerson  (R-MO) 

Armey  (R-TX) 

Hefner  (D-NC) 

Price,  David  (D-NC) 

Cheney  (R-WY) 

English  (D-OK) 

ll                Badham  (RCA) 

Henry  (R-MI) 

Pursell  (R-MI) 

dinger  (R-PA) 

Fawell  (R-IL) 

^                Baker  (R-LA) 

Merger  (R-CA) 

Quillen  (R-TN) 

Coats  (R-IN) 

Fields  (R-TX) 

Ballenger  (R-NC) 

Hilar  (R-IN) 

Ravenel,  Jr.  (R-SC) 

Coble  (R-NC) 

Frenzel  (R-MN) 

Barnard  (D-GA) 

Holloway  (R-LA) 

Regula  (R-OH) 

Coleman,  Thomas  (R-MO) 

Gallegly  (R-CA) 

J                Bartlett  (R-TX) 
i                Barton  (R-TX) 

"                Bateman  (R-VA) 

Hopkins  (R-KY) 

Rhodes,  III  (R-AZ) 

Combest  (R-TX) 

Gekas  (R-PA) 

Hubbard  (D-KY) 

Ritter  (R-PA) 

Cooper  (D-TN) 

Gibbons  (D-FL) 

Huckaby  (D-LA) 

Roberts,  Pat  (R-KS) 

Coughlin  (R-PA) 

Gingrich  (R-GA) 

Bereuter  (R-NE) 

Hunter  (R-CA) 

Roemer  (D-LA) 

Craig  (R-ID) 

Goodling  (R-PA) 

Bilirakis  (R-FL) 

Hutto  (D-FL) 

Rogers  (R-KY) 

Crane,  Philip  (R-IL) 

Gradison  (R-OH) 

ij                BJiley  (R-VA) 
^                Boehlert  (R-NY) 

Hyde  (R-IL) 

Rose  (D-NC) 

Dannemeyer  (R-CA) 

Grandy  (R-IA) 

Inhofe  (R-OK) 

Roth,  Toby  (R-WI) 

Darden  (D-GA) 

Grant  (D-FL) 

Boulter  (R-TX) 

Ireland  (R-FL) 

Roukema  (R-NJ) 

Daub  (R-NE) 

Gregg  (R-NH) 

Broomfield  (R-MI) 

Jeffords  (R-VT) 

Rowland,  Roy  (D-GA) 

Delay  (R-TX) 

Gunderson  (R-WI) 

Brown,  Hank  (R-CO)                 Jenkins  (D-GA) 

Saiki  (R-HI) 

Derrick  (DSC) 

Hall,  Ralph  (D-TX) 

Buechner  (R-MO) 

Jones,  Ed  (D-TN) 

Saxton  (R-NJ) 

Dewine  (R-OH) 

Hamilton  (D-IN) 

Sunning  (R-KY) 

Kasich  (R-OH) 

Schaefer  (R-CO) 

Dickinson  (R-AL) 

Hammerschmidt  (R-AR) 

1                Burton,  Dan  (R-IN) 
°                Byron  (D-MD) 

Kemp  (R-NY) 

Schuette  (R-MI) 

Doman.  Robert  (R-CA) 

Hansen,  James  (R-UT) 

Kolbe  (R-AZ) 

Schuize  (R-PA) 

Dreier,  David  (R-CA) 

Hasten  (R-IL) 

Callahan  (R-AL) 

Konnyu  (R-CA) 

Sensenbrenner  (R-WI) 

Duncan  (R-TN) 

Hatcher  (D-GA) 

10 

CARPENTER 

Kyi  (R-AZ) 
Lagomarsino  (R-CA) 
Lancaster  (D-NC) 
Latta  (R-OH) 
Leach,  Jim  (R-IA) 
Leath,  Marvin  (D-TX) 
Lewis,  Jerry  (R-CA) 
Lewis,  Tom  (R-FL) 
Lightfoot  (R-IA) 
Livingston  (R-LA) 
Lloyd  (D-TN) 
Lott  (R-MS) 
Lowery,  Bill  (R-CA) 
Lujan  (R-NM) 
Lukens,  Donald  (R-OH) 
Lungren  (R-CA) 
Mack  (R-FL) 
Mackay  (D-FL) 
Madigan  (R-IL) 
Marlenee  (R-MT) 


Martin,  Lynn  (R-IL) 
Mazzoli  (D-KY) 
McCandless  (R-CA) 
McCollum  (R-FL) 
McCurdy  (D-OK) 
McMillan,  Alex  (R-NC) 
Meyers  (R-KS) 
Mica  (D-FL) 
Michel  (R-IL) 
Miller,  Clarence  (R-OH) 
Montgomery  (D-MS) 
Moorhead  (R-CA) 
Morella  (R-MD) 
Myers  (R-IN) 
Neal  (D-NC) 
Nelson,  Bill  (D-FL) 
Nichols,  William  (D-AL) 
Nielson,  Howard  (R-UT) 
Olin  (D-VA) 
Ortiz  (D-TX) 


Oxley  (R-OH) 
Packard  (R-CA) 
Parris  (R-VA) 
Patterson  (D-SC) 
Shaw  (R-FL) 
Shumway  (R-CA) 
Shuster  (R-PA) 
Sisisky  (D-VA) 
Skeen  (R-NM) 
Slaughter,  D.  French  (R-V) 
Smith,  Denny  (R-OR) 
Smith,  Lamar  (R-TX) 
Smith,  Robert  C.  (R-NH) 
Smith,  Robert  F.  (R-OR) 
Smith,  Virginia  (R-NE) 
Snowe  (R-ME) 
Solomon  (R-NY) 
Spence  (R-SC) 
Spratt  (D-SC) 
Stallings  (D-ID) 


Stangeland  (R-MN) 
Stenholm  (D-TX) 
Stump  (R-AZ) 
Sundquist  (R-TN) 
Sweeney  (R-TX) 
Swindall  (R-GA) 
Synar  (D-OK) 
Tallon  (D-SC) 
Tauke  (R-IA) 
Tauzin  (D-LA) 
Taylor  (R-MO) 
Thomas,  Lindsay  (D-GA) 
Thomas,  William  (R-CA) 
Upton  (R-MI) 


Valentine  (D-NC) 
Vander  Jagt  (R-MI) 
Vucanovich  (R-NV) 
Walker  (R-PA) 
Watkins  (D-OK) 
Weber,  Vin  (R-MN) 
Whittaker  (R-KS) 
Whitten  (R-MS) 
Wolf  (R-VA) 
Wortley  (R-NY) 
Wylie  (R-OH) 
Young,  Bill  (R-FL) 
Young,  Don  (R-AK) 


Among  9  members  who  were 
'NOT  VOTING'  were: 


Boner,  William  (D-TN) 
Bonior,  David  (D-MI) 
Daniel,  Dan  (D-VA) 
McEwen  (R-OH) 


Rangel,  Charles  (D-NY) 
Ray  (D-GA) 
Rostenkowski  (D-IL) 
Slaughter,  Louise  (D-NY) 
Torricelli  (D-NJ) 


Active  Members  and  Retirees  Continue  to  Support  CLIC's  '87  Program 


Recent  contributors  have  included:  Giles  F.  Ackerman,  Local 
124,  Anaque,  N.J.;  Milton  M.  Adam,  Local  1323  retiree.  Sweet- 
home,  Ore.;  Justus  P.  Bailey,  Local  125  retiree,  Hialeah,  Fla. 
Antone  Balehunas,  Local  2633  retiree.  South  Tacoma,  Wash. 
Edward  F.  Blazejewski,  Local  514  retiree,  Wilkes-Barre,  Pa. 
William  Bowns,  Local  964  retiree,  Youpon  Beach,  N.C.;  Clar- 
ence E.  Briggs,  Local  1 149  retiree,  Walnut  Creek,  Calif.;  Clinton 
W,  Brink,  Local  1281,  Nikiski,  Alk.;  Jack  W.  Brosseau,  Local 
1693  retiree,  LaJolIa,  Calif.;  Gordon  F.  Bruce,  Local  393, 
Camden,  N.J.;  Ed  J.  Buschmann  Sr.,  Local  124  retiree,  Haledon, 
N.J.;JohnT.  Byrnes,  Local  181,  Chicago,  IH.;  John  P.  Campbell, 
Local  131  retiree,  Mariposa,  Calif.;  Thomas  B.  Clark,  Local 
1408  retiree.  Redwood  City,  Calif.;  Harry  Cohen,  Local  1539 
retiree,  Chicago,  III.;  Joe  Dajczak,  Local  182  retiree,  Lake 
Wales,  Fla.;  Stanley  L.  Delitko,  Local  599  retiree.  Cedar  Lake, 
Ind.;  John  M.  Dorivbergh,  Local  829  retiree,  Soquel,  Calif.; 
WilHam  S.  Farkas,  Local  54,  Chicago,  111.;  Clarence  Fochtmann, 
Local  16  retiree,  Springfield,  111.;  Joe  Gonzales,  Local  526  retiree, 
Galveston,  Texas;  Lee  Goss,  Local  751  retiree.  Occidental, 
Calif.;  Marvin  Habbinga,  Local  1052  retiree,  Los  Angeles,  Calif.; 
Henry  Hadenfeldt,  Local  902  retiree,  Clearwater,  Fla.;  Anthony 
Hammersky,  retiree,  SP170  Redding,  Calif.;  James  R.  Harring- 
ton, Local  33,  Boston,  Mass.;  George  Herzog,  Local  483, 
Brisbane,  Calif;  Jack  Hoeflinger,  Local  235  retiree,  Hemet, 
Calif.;  Howard  Holman,  Local  1739  retiree,  St.  Louis,  Mo.; 
Gregory  A.  Hopkins,  Local  2,  Worthington,  Ohio;  Walter  Ja- 
cobsen,  Local  2287,  Whitehouse  Station,  N.J.;  Donald  Jenkins, 
Local  267  retiree,  South  Zanesville,  Ohio;  William  H.  Julius, 
Local  62  retiree,  Colorado  Springs,  Colo.;  Thomas  Kay,  Local 
359  retiree,  Morrisville,  Pa.;  William  G.  Keers,  Local  1243 
retiree,  Cadiz,  Ky.;  Louis  Kinsella,  Local  608,  Pearl  River, 
N.Y.;  James  Knox,  Local  1305,  New  Bedford,  Mass.;  Henry 
M.  Kolbaba,  Local  668  retiree,  Holstein,  Iowa;  Albert  E. 
Lampitt,  Local  1693  retiree,  Kirbyville,  Mo.;  Robert  Leach, 
Local  1222,  Medford,  N.Y.;  JohnLockwood,  Local  857,  Tucson, 
Ariz.;  Renato  Martini,  Local  348  retiree.  North  Passapeque, 
N.Y.;  Francis  Martocci,  Local  2287,  New  York,  N.Y.;  N.  J. 
Mikus,  Local  721  retiree,  Westminster,  Calif.;  Steve  Naglich, 
Local  1172  retiree.  Red  Lodge,  Mont.;  Andrew  R.  Nezolosky, 
Local  348  retiree,  Santa  Rosa,  Calif.;  John  S.  Nummelin,  Local 
721  retiree,  Southgate,  Calif.;  Mike  Oranges,  Local  142,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa.;  George  N.  Patton,  Local  15  retiree,  Westwood,  N.J.; 
Randy  Pedersen,  Local  112,  Butte,  Mont.;  Henry  C.  Peery, 
Local  650  retiree,  Hudson,  Fla.;  Lance  W.  Pesetsky,  Local  1006, 
Matawan,  N.J.;  Sture  Peterson,  Local  1397  retiree.  South  Day- 
tona,  Fla.;  Alan  Petit,  Local  2287,  Port-Ewen,  N.Y.;  Anthony 
J.  Piscitelli,  Local  188  retiree,  Bronx,  N.Y.;  John  M.  Quick, 
Local  2046  retiree,  Klamath,  Calif.;  John  E.  Rammer,  Local  710 
retiree,  Norwalk,  Calif;  Herbert  Ray  Jr.,  Local  1607  retiree, 
Bellflower,  Calif.;  Robert  E.  Rhodes,  Local  1397  retiree,  Ocala, 
Fla.;  Douglas  W,  Scott,  Local  2042  retiree.  White  City,  Ore.; 


Scott  Shelley,  Local  8,  Mt.  Laurel,  N.J.;  Luther  Sizemore, 
Local  1319  retiree,  Albuquerque,  N.M.;  John  B.  Souza,  Local 
36  retiree.  Corning,  Calif.;  Norman  T.  Spaulding,  Local  586 
retiree,  Sacramento,  Calif.;  Herman  W.  Strieker,  Local  1837 
■retiree.  Fort  Pierce,  Fla.;  Sigmund  A.  Szabelski,  Local  1185 
retiree,  Oakpark,  III.;  Frank  J.  Tannert,  Local  250  retiree, 
Ontario,  Calif.;  Chris  R.  Tock,  Local  1241,  Worthington,  Ohio; 
George  Utlak,  Local  1929,  Parma,  Ohio;  Steve  Van  Nattan, 
Local  710,  Long  Beach,  Calif.;  Claude  H.  Vanover,  Local  102 
retiree,  Lenoir  City,  Tenn.;  Glenn  L.  Wank,  Local  105,  Richmond 
Hights,  Ohio;  William  Weitzman,  Local  1921,  Lynbrook,  N.Y.; 
JohnC.  White,  Local  218  retiree.  Maiden,  Mass.;  William  Wood, 
Local  17  retiree,  Woodside,  N.Y.;  Marc  E.  Yorgan,  Local  155, 
Fanwood,  N.J.;  Olav  Zerde,  Local  131  retiree,  Seattle,  Wash.; 
David  J.  Zube,  Local  114,  Taylor,  Mich.;  Greg  Folsom,  Local 
185,  St.  Ann,  Mo. 


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Here  is  my  contribution  to  the  Carpenters  Legislative 

Improvement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 

counts. 

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Contributions  to  CLIC  are  voluntary  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  refuse  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contributions  from  persons  other  than  UBC 
members  and  their  immediate  families.  Contributions  from  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


AUGUST    1987 


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Labor  and  industry  showcase  their  taients  in  Atiantic  City 


The  United  Brotherhood's  exhibit  at  the  1987 
AFL-CIO  Union  Industries  Show  in  Atlantic  City, 
N.J.,  June  19-24,  was  one  of  the  best  yet.  One  of 
more  than  300  exhibits  in  the  annual  labor-manage- 
ment extravaganza,  the  UBC  display  attracted  visi- 
tors throughout  its  six-day  run.  It  was  created  and 
manned  by  members  of  the  South  Jersey  District 
Council,  and,  with  pictures  and  demonstrations,  it 
showed  why  skilled,  union-trained  craftsmen  are 
best  for  construction  projects  and  for  industry.  The 
theme  of  the  show  was  clear:  American  workers  are 
still  the  most  efficient  and  productive  on  earth. 
"Given  half  a  chance,  they  can  and  will  produce  the 
best  product  at  the  best  price  to  the  best  advantage 
of  all  Americans — workers,  employers  and  con- 
sumers alike,"  AFL-CIO  Secretary-Treasurer  Tom 
Donahue  told  the  opening  day  audience.  Next  year's 
show  will  be  in  New  Orleans,  La. 


The  antique  tool 
collection  of  Local 
1489  member 
Charles  Kidetsky. 
at  right,  attracted 
Carpenter  members 
and  visitors  alike. 
Many  attending  the 
show  picked  up 
shopping  hags  at 
another  exhibitor's 
booth  and  filled  the 
bags  with  free  gifts 
and  literature  on 
display  throughout 
the  show. 


Awaiting  the  open- 
ing of  the  show, 
above,  from  left, 
were  Michael 
Di.xon  of  Local 
2098:  Don  Weir, 
assistant  business 
manager.  South 
Jersey  Council; 
First  General  Vice 
President  Sigurd 
Lucassen:  General 
Secretaiy  John 
Rogers:  Tom  Ric- 
curdi  of  Local 
2098:  and  Anthony 
Cipino.  retiree. 


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CARPENTER 


Journeyman  Tom  Riccardi  shows  a  visitor 
how  UBC  members  create  picture  frames 
from  plastic  sheets,  using  a  heating  tool. 


Michael  Dixon  demonstrates  the  next  step: 
setting  the  picture  frame  in  a  base  of  pre- 
cut  cherry  wood.  Finished  frames  were 
giveaways  at  the  show.  The  Council  also 
held  drawings  for  12  power  tools  (two  per 
day) — drills,  routers,  and  sabre  saws.  Ev- 
ery hour,  "knock-down"  saw  horses,  made 
by  members  of  Local  393  beforehand, 
were  also  raffled. 


Among  the  visitors  to  the  UBC  exhibit 
were  Second  District  Board  Member 
George  Walish,  AFL-CIO  Secretary-Treas- 
urer Tom  Donahue,  First  General  Vice 
President  Sigurd  Lucassen,  and  James 
Hatfield,  president  of  the  AFL-CIO  Union 
Label  and  Service  Trades  Department  and 
the  Glass  Bottle  Blowers  Assn. 

AUGUST    1987 


'Building  America'  Exhibit  Scores 
Success  Across  Country  in  IVIany  Cities 


The  UBC's  big  centennial  exhibit,  "Build- 
ing America,"  first  put  on  display  at  the 
General  Convention  in  Chicago,  111.,  in  1981, 
has  been  viewed  by  thousands  in  the  five 
years  since  it  was  created.  It  was  recently 
on  display  in  two  major  cities  in  Ohio. 

Designed  to  show  how  the  crafts  repre- 
sented by  our  union  have  helped  to  make 
the  United  States  and  Canada  great  since 
the  first  colonists  landed  on  our  shores,  the 
exhibit  has  been  on  display  in  such  major 
cities  as  Omaha,  Neb.,  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  Santa 
Fe,  N.M.,  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  Pittsburgh, 
Pa.,  and  Washington,  D.C. 

The  exhibit  is  designed  for  easy  erection 
and  dismantling.  Between  showings,  it  is 
housed  in  a  40-foot  trailer. 


"Building  America"  is  a  127-foot-long 
"walk  through"  display  which  commemo- 
rates a  century  of  labor-management  coop- 
eration in  the  construction  industry. 

The  exhibit  shows  in  a  series  of  dramatic 
and  historical  pictures  how  skilled  craftsmen 
have  helped  to  build  America  for  the  early 
colonies  to  the  20th  century.  Among  the 
many  photographs  are  early-day  pictures 
from  the  UBC  archives. 

It  is  still  available  for  showings  at  state 
fairs,  museums,  shopping  centers,  and  sim- 
ilar locations.  To  arrange  such  showings  in 
your  area,  your  local  union  or  council  should 
discuss  the  matter  with  General  Secretary 
John  S.  Rogers  at  the  General  Office  in 
Washington,  D.C. 


Anniversary 

Continued  from  Page  5 


men  the  full  rate  of  wages .  This  situation 
has  practically  wiped  out  our  appren- 
ticeship training  program." 

He  implored  the  delegates  to  keep 
the  Brotherhood's  apprenticeship  sys- 
tem intact  and  strengthen  it,  because 
"it  will  be  very  hard  to  reestablish  it." 

Organized  labor,  meanwhile,  was 
pushing  for  national  legislation  and  na- 
tional standards  to  correct  injustices. 
The  American  Federation  of  Labor's 
legislative  committee  called  upon  affil- 
iated unions  to  get  behind  Senator  Fitz- 
gerald's bill,  and  in  August,  1937,  it 
was  finally  enacted  into  law. 

Today,  the  United  Brotherhood's 
Constitution  and  Laws,  Section  43,  spells 
out  the  rights  and  conditions  of  appren- 
ticeship in  our  trades.  "An  apprentice 
of  good  moral  character  not  less  than 
17  years  of  age  may  be  admitted  to 
membership."  Today,  there  is  no  upper 
age  limit.  The  UBC's  apprenticeship 
and  training  department,  perhaps  the 
best  in  the  labor  movement,  works 
closely  with  the  U.S.  Bureau  of  Ap- 
prenticeship and  Training  on  national 
standards. 

At  our  general  convention  of  1940, 
three  years  after  passage  of  the  Fitz- 
gerald Act,  secretary  of  the  Committee 
on  Apprenticeship,  Elmer  Anderson, 
told  the  convention,  "The  carpentry 
trade,  through  long  and  practical  ex- 
perience, has  developed  standards  of 
workmanship  that  are  everywhere  rec- 
ognized." To  protect  the  new  federal 
standards,  he  called  upon  delegates  to 
endorse  their  adoption.  The  delegates 
did  so,  unanimously. 


L.' 


Video,  Film,  Cable 
New  Labor  Media 


Videotapes,  films  and  cable  television  are 
new  and  valuable  resources  for  labor  unions 
in  their  ongoing  efforts  to  reach  out  and 
educate  people  about  the  labor  movement. 

The  United  Brotherhood  has  been  in- 
volved in  the  production  of  videotapes  since 
before  its  centennial  celebration  in  1981. 
Members  and  others  throughout  the  country 
have  had  the  opportunity  to  view  our  various 
tapes  when  locals  and  other  groups  have 
borrowed  them  for  showings. 

In  addition  to  our  own  UBC  videotapes, 
the  AFL-CIO  Department  of  Education  has 
an  extensive  library  of  films  and  videotapes 
which  may  be  rented  by  schools,  libraries 
and  local  unions.  A  new  edition  of  the  A-V 
catalog  listing  films  and  videotapes  has  re- 
cently been  published.  Many  new  programs 
are  included  in  the  listing.  Contact  the  AFL- 
CIO  Publications  Department  at  815  16th 
Street  NW,  Washington,  DC  20006,  or  by 
calling  (202)  637-5000. 

Recently  the  UBC  was  spreading  the  word 
about  American  unionism  across  the  Atlantic 
Ocean.  "Building  the  20th  Century,"  a  60- 
second  UBC  commercial  was  aired  on  Brit- 
ish television  by  a  London-based  video  group. 

Another  United  Brotherhood  broadcast  of 
note  was  mentioned  in  last  month's  Carpen- 
ter, the  Rhode  Island  Laborvision  airing  of 
two  films,  "Skills  to  Build  America"  and 
"You  Make  the  Difference."  They  are  due 
to  be  broadcast  on  July  14,  17  and  18  on 
various  channels  in  the  New  England  area. 
We  are  told  the  videos  can  be  seen  in  nearly 
100,000  Rhode  Island  homes. 

The  videotape  and  film  resources  of  the 
Brotherhood  and  the  AFL-CIO  must  be 
shared  with  members  and  local  unions  to 
have  an  impact.  If  your  local,  retirees  club 
or  ladies  auxiliary  would  like  to  host  a 
showing  of  one  or  more  films,  contact  the 
General  Secretary's  office  or  the  AFL-CIO 
for  more  information. 


13 


Otta¥fa 
Report 


PROPOSAL  19  STRIKES 

For  one  day,  nearly  300,000  union  workers  in 
Vancouver  did  not  go  to  work  in  protest  of  proposed 
anti-labor  legislation  tiiat  included  allowing  compa- 
nies to  go  double-breasted. 

The  legislation,  Proposal  19,  would  allow  union- 
ized companies  to  establish  non-union  subsidiaries 
to  bid  on  jobs. 

Such  a  change,  labor  leaders  agreed,  would  en- 
courage abuses  and  swiftly  undermine  the  union 
movement. 

Proposal  19  would  also  alter  the  procedures  and 
powers  governing  labor  activity  by  bringing  the 
court  system  deeper  into  labor  relations.  Labor  dis- 
putes would  be  handled  by  a  new  Industrial  Rela- 
tions Council,  which  is  decidedly  pro-business. 

Picketing  of  their  own  workplaces  and  cross  pick- 
eting other  business,  the  massive  protest  of  one- 
fourth  of  the  province's  labor  force  had  a  wide- 
ranging  impact  on  the  economy  (estimated  loss  of 
$100  million)  and  government,  which  was  the  main 
target. 

During  the  one-day  work  stoppage  garbage 
wasn't  picked  up,  major  daily  newspapers  didn't 
publish,  schools  were  closed  and  even  elective  sur- 
gery at  area  hospitals  was  postponed.  In  almost 
every  phase  of  community  service  union  workers 
participated  in  the  general  strike. 


PROPOSED  DRUG  MONOPOLY 

Senior  citizens,  trade  unions  and  consumers  are 
among  the  groups  opposing  the  bill  to  amend  the 
Patent  Act  to  give  the  manufacturers  of  brand-name 
prescription  drugs  a  1 0-year  monopoly  on  new 
drugs. 

Drug  prices  would  increase  by  at  least  20%,  if  the 
monopoly  was  extended.  In  Canada,  with  generic 
alternatives  to  brand-name  drugs,  there  was  an  av- 
erage decrease  of  10.4%  in  drug  prices  in  the  four 
years  following  the  introduction  of  generic  competi- 
tion, while  in  the  United  States  drug  prices  in- 
creased by  2.1%  in  the  same  period. 

"The  federal  government  made  a  deal  with  the 
U.S.  that  it  would  bring  our  drug  patent  laws  more 


in  line  with  those  of  the  United  States.  The  multina- 
tional drug  companies  demanded  that  this  be  done 
because  they  fear  that  Canada  was  setting  a  'bad 
example'  which  other  nations  of  the  world  would 
find  attractive,"  was  an  explanation  offered  by  the 
CLC  for  the  change  in  the  bill. 

In  a  report  on  the  pharmaceutical  industry  made 
in  1985,  Dr.  Harry  Eastman  estimated  that  in  1983 
alone,  Canadians  saved  $21 1  million  through  the 
purchase  of  generic  drugs. 


UNPROTECTED  STRIKE  RIGHTS 

The  Supreme  Court  of  Canada  recently  ruled  that 
the  right  to  strike  and  to  bargain  collectively  is  not 
protected  by  the  Charter  of  Rights.  In  three  land- 
mark decisions,  the  Court  gave  governments  the 
power  to  curtail  collective  bargaining  rights  by  limit- 
ing wage  increases,  imposing  compulsory  arbitra- 
tion, and  forbidding  strikes. 

The  Court  ruled  4-2  against  the  Public  Service 
Alliance  and  in  support  of  a  federal  law  of  the  early 
1980s  that  banned  strikes  for  two  years  and  limited 
wage  increases  to  6  and  5%.  The  majority  said  that 
the  law  did  not  violate  the  Charter. 

It  also  ruled  4-2  in  favor  of  Alberta  laws  banning 
strikes  by  hospital  workers,  firefighters,  police  and 
other  government  employees. 

The  Court  ruled  5-1  in  favor  of  a  Saskatchewan 
law  ending  a  strike  by  dairy  workers  in  that  prov- 
ince. 

Charter  amendments  require  the  approval  of  Par- 
liament and  legislatures  representing  at  least  two- 
thirds  of  the  provinces  and  50%  of  the  population. 


DERil5Ui.ATiON  UNFAVORABLE 

Canadians  are  divided  on  the  issue  of  deregula- 
tion, according  to  a  recent  survey.  Only  38%  of 
those  asked  thought  it  was  a  "good  idea." 

After  Canadians  considered  some  specific  dereg- 
ulation of  health  and  safety  problems,  they  were 
even  more  opposed  to  the  scheme. 

When  first  asked,  more  than  half  the  respondents 
thought  deregulation  was  either  a  "bad  idea"  or 
they  didn't  have  an  opinion.  Union  members  were 
almost  10%  more  likely  to  disagree  with  deregula- 
tion than  Canadians  in  general. 

After  being  given  some  information  about  dereg- 
ulation, almost  half  the  sample  thought  it  was  a 
"bad  idea."  Union  members'  opinions  also  became 
more  representative  of  Canadian  opinion  in  general. 
•  Among  Liberals  and  Conservatives,  more  than 
40%  of  the  sample  supported  deregulation,  when 
first  asked.  A  majority  of  New  Democrats  opposed 
the  scheme. 

After  being  given  some  information  about  dereg- 
ulation. Liberals  were  less  likely  to  support  it.  New 
Democrat  opposition  increased. 

By  a  78-17%  margin,  Canadians  agree  that  "De- 
regulation sounds  like  a  good  idea  in  theory,  but 
when  I  think  of  rail  or  airline  safety — or  ensuring 
that  my  family's  drinking  water  will  be  safe — I'm  not 
sure  how  good  an  idea  it  is  to  let  corporations 
escape  being  responsible  to  the  public  and  the  au- 
thorities." 


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CARPENTER 


THIS  MONTH'S 

QUESTION  FOR 
THE  CANDIDATES 

The  AFL-CIO  invited  13  declared  and  potential  can- 
didates for  the  Democratic  and  Republican  Party  nomi- 
nations for  president  in  the  1988  election  to  provide 
written  answers  to  four  critical  questions.  Their  re- 
sponses to  one  of  the  questions  appears  below  and  on 
the  following  pages.  Answers  to  another  question  ap- 
peared in  last  month's  Carpenter.  Others  will  appear  in 
the  two  issues  to  follow. 


AFL-CIO  spokesperson  Ned 
Beatty  sums  up  labor's  ques- 
tion to  presidential  candi- 
dates in  a  scene  shot  at  the 
Federation's  Washington, 
D.C.  headquarters  building. 


BUDGET 
DEFICIT 


How  would  you  reduce  the  federal  budget  deficit  without  hurting 
working  Americans  and  the  poor?  Would  you  rule  out  raising 
federal  revenues,  including  tax  increases,  as  a  component  of 
deficit  reduction? 


A 


Answers  from 
DEMOCRATS 


Michael  S. 
Dukakis 

Governor  of 
Massachusetts, 
1974-1978  and 
1982—. 


We  cannot  create  economic  oppor- 
tunity for  all  Americans  if  we  are  bur- 
dened with  $150-$200  billion  budget 
deficits. 

Record  deficits  mean  record  interest 
payments,  an  over-valued  dollar  that 
damages  our  competitiveness  and  a  re- 
duced standard  of  living  for  Americans. 

There  are  two  ways  to  reduce  the 
deficit.  Control  spending  and  increase 


revenue.  We  must  do  both.  No  serious 
presidential  candidate  can  rule  out  new 
taxes.  But  instead  of  rushing  to  impose 
new  taxes  ...  on  income,  on  imported 
oil,  on  gasoline  .  .  .  we  should  first 
collect  the  taxes  that  are  already  due. 

This  year,  the  Internal  Revenue  Serv- 
ice will  fail  to  collect  $110  billion  in 
taxes  owed  to  the  Treasury,  but  not 
paid.  America's  working  people  pay 
their  taxes;  they  must  through  payroll 
withholding.  But  too  many  others,  in- 
cluding some  corporations,  do  not. 

We  can  raise  $70  billion  in  new  rev- 
enue by  bringing  tax  compliance  rates 
back  to  where  they  were  in  1965.  That's 
the  quickest— and  fairest — way  to  re- 
duce the  deficit. 

We  must  also  restore  sensible  prior- 
ities to  federal  spending.  We  need  a 


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coverage  purposes  may,  however,  be  quoted. 


strong  defense,  but  we  must  also  elim- 
inate the  waste  and  mismanagement 
that  weakens  our  security  and  diverts 
resources  from  other  urgent  economic 
and  human  needs. 


Joseph  R. 
Biden  Jr. 

U.S.  Senator 

(Delaware) 

1973—; 

Chairman, 

Judiciary 

Committee; 

ranking 

Democrat, 

Foreign 

Relations 

Committee 


The  Reagan  Administration  has 
amassed  the  largest  public  debt  in  the 
history  of  the  nation.  This  debt  will 
force  our  children,  and  perhaps  many 
future  generations,  to  pay  for  our  ex- 
cesses. 

We  cannot  reduce  the  deficit  unless 
we  achieve  economic  growth  greater 
than  the  sluggish  rate  we  have  now. 


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We  can  increase  growth  by  addressing 
Third  World  debt  problems  and  reduc- 
ing our  trade  deficits. 

We  must  take  steps  to  reduce  deficits 
steadily  over  the  next  few  years.  Spe- 
cifically, I  proposed  cutting  several  bil- 
lion dollars  from  the  defense  budget.  I 
would  also  convert  trade  quotas  to 
tariffs,  raising  more  than  $10  billion  a 
year.  1  would  also  seek  to  eliminate  all 
waste  in  government  spending  through 
better  management  and  collection  prac- 
tices. 

New  taxes  to  reduce  deficits  should 
be  a  last  resort.  If  we  need  to  find 
additional  revenues,  there  are  several 
principles  we  must  apply.  First,  any 
new  taxes  must  be  based  on  "ability  to 
pay"  and  must  not  make  the  tax  system 
less  progressive.  Specifically,  I  would 
oppose  a  value  added  tax,  which  would 
unfairly  burden  working  people.  Sec- 
ond, new  taxes  must  not  significantly 
impair  our  efforts  to  compete  in  the 
world  economy. 

Finally,  as  a  way  to  ensure  future 
budget  control,  any  proposed  new 
spending  programs  should  be  specific 
as  to  how  they  would  be  paid  for.  We 
should  be  honest  about  the  cost  of  new 
priorities.  And  we  must  ensure  that 
their  burden  falls  least  on  the  poor  and 
middle-class  Americans,  who  have  lost 
most  of  the  ground  during  the  Reagan 
years. 


Richard 
Gephardt 

Chairman, 

House 

Democratic 

Caucus,  1985—: 

U.S. 

Representative 

(Missouri), 

1977— :  Board  of 

Aldermen, 

1971-76. 


My  goal  isn't  to  raise  taxes,  it's  to 
get  America  back  on  a  steady  course 
and  moving  again.  We  absolutely  must 
balance  the  books.  The  budget  deficit 
is  throwing  our  economy  out  of  whack 
and  mortgaging  the  future, of  our  chil- 
dren. 

Current  budget  priorities  are  simply 
misplaced.  I  am  confident  we  can 
strengthen  our  national  security  by  in- 
vesting in  people.  We  can't  put  blinders 
on  when  the  question  of  defense  cuts 
or  revenue  increases  comes  up.  Nothing 
should  be  eliminated  from  the  budget 


debate  as  long  as  we  make  the  necessary 
investments  in  people — education, 
health  care,  job  training,  nutrition,  etc. 
Every  program  must  be  reevaluated, 
but  we  must  not — we  will  not — swing 
the  budget  axe  blindly. 

I  believe  Americans  are  willing  to 
invest  in  the  future  of  their  children. 
But  we  can't  ask  those  least  able  to 
afford  it  to  do  it  all.  I  would  propose  a 
budget  that  shares  the  sacrifice  among 
those  who  can  bear  the  burden.  So  I 
think  it  comes  down  to  a  combination 
of  cuts  and  investments,  less  wasteful 
spending  on  things  and  better  invest- 
ments in  people. 


Bruce 
Babbitt 

Governor  of 
Arizona,  1978- 
1987;  Attorney 
General,  1975- 
1978:  Attorney, 
Brown,  Vlassis 
&  Bain,  1967- 
1975;  Attorney, 
Office  of 
Economic 
Opportunity, 
1965-1967. 


As  governor  of  Arizona  I  balanced 
nine  budgets  in  a  row — simply  by  saying 
that  some  things  are  more  important 
than  others.  My  priorities  were  creating 
jobs  and  protecting  the  interests  of 
those  least  able  to  protect  themselves. 
Even  through  a  national  recession,  my 
government: 

•  repealed  a  regressive  sales  tax  on 
food, 

•  boosted  spending  on  public  edu- 
cation, public  safety,  health  and  human 
services,  and 

•  kept  state  spending  below  1%  of 
total  personal  income. 

What  you  need  to  know  from  every 
presidential  candidate  is:  What  are  his 
or  her  priorities?  And  how  will  he  or 
she  pay  for  them?  My  priorities  are 
outlined  in  the  following  answer.  I  would 
pay  for  them  both  with  budget  cuts  and 
revenue  increases,  all  of  them  targeted 
on  some  genuine  measure  of  need.  I 
would  not  give  a  mortgage  interest  de- 
duction for  mansions  and  vacation 
homes.  I  would  not  pay  subsidies  to 
corporate  mega-farms.  I  would  not  build 
three  new  generations  of  nuclear  mis- 
siles all  at  once.  I  would  not  pay  the 
Vanderbilts  and  the  Mellons  the  same 
tax-free  social  security  benefits  as  a 


widow  in  a  cold-water  flat.  In  short,  I 
would  balance  the  budget  by  setting 
humane  priorities  and  standing  by  them. 


Jesse 
Jackson 

President, 

National 

Rainbow 

Coalition.  1984—; 

President, 

Operation 

PUSH,  1971- 

1983;  Executive 

Director, 

Operation 

Breadbasket, 

1966-1971. 


President  Reagan  mortgaged  Ameri- 
ca's future  through  irrational  military 
spending,  unfair  tax  cuts,  the  use  of 
unemployment  to  fight  inflation  and 
misplaced  national  priorities. 

I'm  not  convinced  we  need  new 
taxes — though  I  have  not  ruled  them 
out.  For  example,  several  studies  have 
shown  that  there  may  be  annual  uncol- 
lected taxes  up  to  $100  billion. 

We  need  a  FAIRER  TAX  SYSTEM. 
If  new  taxes  are  needed,  I  will  fight  for 
a  fairer  tax  system  for  the  middle  class, 
workers  and  the  poor. 

Second,  we  need  NEW  BUDGET 
PRIORITIES.  We  need  a  strong  na- 
tional defense,  but  we  can  shift  spend- 
ing from  military  to  domestic  without 
hurting  our  defense.  We  can  have  job 
creation,  job  training  and  retraining, 
worker  safety,  education,  health  care, 
housing  and  a  clean  environment  with 
new  priorities.  A  working  America  is  a 
taxpaying  America. 

Third,  I  support  an  "INVEST 
AMERICA"  plan  where  greater  use  of 
$2  trillion  in  private  pension  funds  can 
be  earmarked  for  the  rebuilding  of 
America's  infrastructure;  legislation  that 
gives  workers  and  communities  six- 
month  notice  before  closing  plants; 
workers'  option  to  purchase  such  plants 
with  government-guaranteed  loans;  in- 
vestment tax  incentives  to  corporations 
conditioned  on  their  willingness  to  re- 
invest in  this  market;  and  encourage- 
ment to  corporations  to  joint  venture 
with  local  and  state  governments. 


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Paul 
Simon 

U.S.  Senator 

(Illinois)  1985— 

U.S. 

Representative, 

1975-1985: 

Lieutenant 

Governor, 

1968-1972: 

Newspaper 

Publisher, 

1948-1966. 


This  administration  has  mounted  the 
most  concerted  and  broad-scale  attack 
on  the  role  of  government  since  the 
1920s. 

The  stripping  of  government's  needed 
revenues,  combined  with  a  mean-spir- 
ited attack  on  public  employees  is  part 
of  a  right-wing  Republican  effort  to  roll 
back  every  progressive  program  en- 
acted for  the  benefit  of  ordinary  Amer- 
ican families  since  the  New  Deal. 

That  cannot  happen. 

We  must  move  immediately  to  re- 
store sufficient  revenues  to  meet  our 
nation's  pressing  domestic  needs.  We 
must  reduce  the  pressure  of  budget 
deficits  on  our  trade  deficit.  And,  we 
must  reduce  the  deficit  because,  as 
Harry  Truman  said,  deficits  only  help 
the  rich.  The  most  effective  method  of 
reducing  the  deficit  is  to  put  America 
back  to  work  and  increase  our  tax  base. 

I  alone  among  the,  announced  presi- 
dential candidates  opposed  the  1986  tax 
bill  because  of  the  unjustified  revenue- 
stripping  reduction  of  tax  rates  for  the 
super-rich. 

We  must  move  aggressively  to  close 
tax  loopholes  and  reverse  the  Reagan- 
inspired  erosion  of  the  tax  base. 

Similarly,  I  believe  public  service 
must  regain  its  respected  role  in  our 
country's  life.  The  Republican  effort  to 
destroy  public  service  through  privati- 
zation must  be  stopped! 


Albert 
Gore  Jr. 

U.S.  Senator 

(Tennessee), 

1985:  U.S. 

Representative, 

1977-1985: 

Reporter, 

Nashville 

Tennessean, 

1970-1976. 


America  took  176  years  to  accumu- 
late a  trillion  dollar  debt.  The  current 
administration  needed  only  five  years 
to  double  it.  This  administration's  bor- 
row-and-spend  policies  have  made  our 
products  more  expensive  overseas,  cost 
millions  of  American  jobs,  stopped  in- 
vestment in  economic  growth  and 
squeezed  important  social  programs. 

I  believe  America  is  ready  to  reduce 
the  deficit  in  a  fair  and  responsible  way. 
My  first  choice  for  reducing  the  deficit 
is  economic  growth,  with  more  jobs  for 
Americans  who  will  then  pay  taxes  on 
their  income.  But  we  must  have  con- 
tingency plan  as  well.  We  would  be 
willing  to  share  the  burden  equally,  with 
equal  contributions  from  three  areas; 
cuts  in  military  spending,  cuts  in  do- 
mestic spending  and  increases  in  rev- 
enue. 

A  tax  increase  would  be  a  last  resort, 
but  the  president  is  wrong  to  rule  it  out 
as  part  of  a  comprehensive  solution  to 
reducing  the  deficit.  We  should  not 
impose  a  regressive  value-added  tax 
which  weighs  most  heavily  on  working 
Americans. 

Instead  of  cooking  the  books  with 
phony  budget  proposals,  the  next  pres- 
ident should  put  all  the  facts  on  the 
table  and  lead  in  the  development  of  a 
broader  consensus  on  the  necessity  for 
a  responsible  fiscal  policy. 


REPUBLICANS 


Pete 
du  Pont 

Governor  of 
Delaware,  1977- 
1985:  U.S. 
Representative, 
1971-1977:  State 
Legislator, 
1969-1971. 


I  have  pledged  to  the  American  tax- 
payers, and  I  repeat  this  pledge  here:  I 
will  not  raise  taxes.  I  will  reduce  waste- 
ful and  over  spending.  The  federal  gov- 
ernment must  stop  thinking  of  our  tax 
dollars  as  its  piggy  bank. 

I  served  as  the  governor  of  Delaware 
for  eight  years.  Before  I  took  office, 
the  state  had  run  a  deficit  in  four  of  the 
previous  five  years.  By  cutting  taxes — 
not  raising  them — and  controlling  un- 
necessary spending,  we  in  Delaware 
balanced  the  budget  eight  years  in  a 
row.  Through  lower  taxes  and  dereg- 
ulation, we  built  a  solid  record:  today, 
one  job  in  five  in  Delaware  was  created 
during  the  eight  years  of  my  adminis- 
tration. 

As  president,  I  will  insist  that  able- 
bodied  people — now  on  welfare — go  to 
work  and  become  productive,  self-re- 
specting workers.  This  will  lower  the 
deficit.  And  I  will  end  subsidies  to 
corporations  and  wealthy  individuals 
that  continue   to  cost   taxpayers   bil- 


AFL-CIO  Presidential  Political  Process  Voluntary  Guidelines 


The  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council  has 
issued  the  following  advisory  to  its  affil- 
iates: 

1.  National  and  international  unions 
should  not  make  public  endorsements  of 
any  presidential  candidates  before  an 
AFL-CIO  General  Board  Meeting  ten- 
tatively scheduled  for  October  1987.  At 
that  meeting,  affiliates  will  vote  on  whether 
the  federation  should  make  any  early 
endorsement. 

2.  National  and  international  union  of- 


ficers and  staff  should  not  participate  on 
candidates'  committees,  solicit  funds  on 
behalf  of  candidates  or  provide  funds  or 
other  resources  to  candidates  before  the 
General  Board  meeting. 

3.  Unions  are  encouraged  to  extend 
equal  courtesy  and  cooperation  to  all 
candidates  for  the  presidential  nomina- 
tion. 

4.  Unions  are  urged  to  use  their  own 
methods  of  determining  the  views  and 
preferences  of  their  members  in  a  manner 


that  leads  to  a  bottom-up,  rather  than  a 
top-down  decision. 

5.  Early  1987  national  and  political 
events  should  be  reviewed  on  a  case-by- 
case  basis.  Generally,  each  international 
union  is  urged  to  ask  its  labor  delegates 
to  such  coventions,  conferences  or  other 
functions  to  vote  their  individual  pref- 
erences so  that  such  votes  are  not  viewed 
as  the  position  of  any  national  or  inter- 
national union. 


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lions — starting  with  the  $26  billion  in 
farm  subsidies  that  have  enriched  large 
corporations  and  hurl  consumers  and 
small  farmers. 

I  will  not  raise  taxes.  I  will  control 
spending.  And  we  will  balance  the 
budget.  We  did  it  in  Delaware,  and  with 
your  help,  we  can  stop  the  liberal  high 
tax,  big  spending  policies  that  have 
brought  us  the  deficit. 


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CBN  University, 

1978—. 

The  most  cruel  thing  that  a  govern- 
ment can  do  to  its  workers,  its  retirees 
and  its  young  is  to  load  on  such  an 
insupportable  burden  of  debt  that  future 
opportunities  in  the  American  market 
place  are  destroyed  either  by  ruinous 
inflation,  or  financial  collapse  and  de- 
pression. 

On  the  other  hand  government  serves 
well  its  working  people  and  the  poor 
by  doing  its  part  to  supply  paying  jobs 
through  a  vigorous  and  expansionist 
private  sector. 

The  key  to  cutting  the  federal  budget 
deficit  is  to  eliminate  waste  and  mis- 
management. Our  people  want  govern- 
ment services,  but  they  want  a  lean  and 
efficient  government. 

The  Grace  Commission  pointed  out 
that  $433  billion  of  government  savings 
are  possible  over  a  three-year  period. 
This  report  has  never  been  imple- 
mented. 

The  Packard  Commission  pointed  out 
savings  and  efficiencies  that  would  be 
possible  in  the  Defense  Department. 

Economist  Donald  Lambro  speaking 
of  "Fat  City,"  identified  $100  billion  of 
waste  in  the  federal  budget. 

Cuts  should  be  fair  and  across  the 
board.  The  question  is  not  whether  they 
are  possible  with  minimum  pain,  the 
question  is  whether  we  as  a  nation  have 
politicians  with  enough  guts  to  put  the 
interests  of  America  above  their  own. 


Jack  Kemp 

U.S. 

Representative 

(New  York) 

1971—:  Pro 

Football 

Quarterback, 

American  & 

National 

Football 

Leagues, 

1957-1970. 


I  would  rule  out  a  tax  increase  as  a 
component  of  deficit  reduction.  I  be- 
lieve the  most  compassionate  and  pro- 
gressive way  to  bring  the  budget  into 
balance  is  to  concentrate  on  a  compre- 
hensive economic  policy  aimed  at  re- 
ducing unemployment,  lowering  inter- 
est rates,  bolstering  trade  and  exports 
and  eliminating  corporate  welfare.  Un- 
Uke  many  in  both  parties,  I  believe  that 
the  high  interest  rate  policy  of  the 
Federal  Reserve  is  a  main  cause  of  the 
deficit,  not  an  under-taxed  work  force. 
The  U.S.  budget  cannot  be  balanced 
by  unbalancing  the  budgets  of  working 
men  and  women;  therefore,  I  reject  tax 
increases.  Our  government  must  be 
committed  to  full  employment  without 
inflation.  Through  strong  pro-growth 
initiatives,  the  unemployment  rate  can 
be  reduced — a  pre-condition  for  a  bal- 
anced federal  budget. 

Dramatic  steps  to  move  our  economy 
to  full  employment  without  inflation  and 
achieve  a  balanced  budget  must  in- 
clude: 

First,  stable  money  to  bring  down 
interest  rates  and  arrest  the  commodity 
price  deflation  hurting  our  farmers  and 
manufacturers;  lower  interest  rates 
would  reduce  the  cost  of  servicing  the 
national  debt  and  help  our  housing, 
automobile,  manufacturing,  farming 
and  other  interest  sensitive  industries; 

Second,  stable  exchange  rates  and  a 
reciprocal  initiative  to  eliminate  unfair 
barriers  to  U.S.  exports; 

Third,  labor  and  capital  must  be  lib- 
erated from  high  tax  rates  so  that  Amer- 
ican industry  can  reindustrialize  and 
workers  are  given  the  incentives  and 
tools  to  compete; 

Fourth,  a  strong  commitment  to  job 
training,  trade  adjustment  assistance, 
and  education — to  bolster  investment 
in  both  human  and  physical  capital; 

Finally,  corporate  welfare  programs 
must  be  eliminated  and  strict  limits 
should  be  placed  on  government  spend- 
ing; I  favor  a  line  item  veto  for  the 
president. 


George 
Bush 

Vice  President 
of  the  United 
Slates.  1981—: 
U.S. 

Representative, 
1967-71: 
Ambassador  to 
China.  1974-75: 
Director  of 
Central 
Intelligence, 
1975-77. 


Congress  is  now  considering  reducing 
the  budget  deficit  by  raising  taxes.  This 
approach  cuts  against  the  grain  of  com- 
mon sense.  Will  taxing  Americans  more 
make  us  work  harder?  Will  taxing  busi- 
ness more  make  it  invest  more? 

Arguing  that  higher  taxes  will  be  used 
to  reduce  the  deficit  ignores  the  record 
of  Congress.  In  1982,  the  Democratic 
leadership  promised  to  cut  spending  by 
$3  for  every  $1  increase  in  taxes.  That 
promise  remains  unfulfilled.  Pressures 
for  spending  in  the  Congress  suggest 
that  higher  taxes  will  not  reduce  the 
deficit,  but  finance  more  wasteful 
spending. 

The  challenge  of  balancing  the  budget 
illustrates  the  need  to  have  a  president 
who  can  protect  the  national  interest. 
Many  government  programs  are  well- 
intentioned.  But  these  programs  must 
be  financed  by  taxes,  which  hurt  all 
Americans,  or  by  borrowing,  which 
future  generations  of  Americans  will 
have  to  pay  back.  The  need  to  protect 
the  national  interest — both  now  and  in 
the  future — requires  a  president  who 
can  represent  all  the  people  by  con- 
trolling spending  and  keeping  taxes 
down. 

Yes,  there  are  cases  when  govern- 
ment needs  to  help.  One  good  example 
is  our  administration's  proposal  for  a 
new  $1  billion  program  to  retrain  dis- 
located workers  and  help  them  get  per- 
manent jobs. 

But  let  us  not  forget  our  ultimate 
goal.  Let  us  balance  the  budget,  but  let 
us  do  it  without  hurting  economic  growth 
and  weakening  the  security  of  our  na- 
tion. Keeping  this  strategic  goal  in  mind, 
the  President  and  I  have  achieved  the 
following:  13  million  newjobs;  inflation 
falling  from  12%  in  1980  to  just  1%  in 
1986;  interest  rates  dropping  from  21 .5% 
in  1980  to  7.75%  now  and  our  defenses 
strengthened.  In  sum,  I  believe  we  can 
ensure  that  our  best  days  lie  ahead  by 
controlling  spending  and  keeping  taxes 
down. 


18 


CARPENTER 


BUDGET  DEFICIT/ l/l//7e/'e  the  Candidates  Stand 


Alexander 
M. 
Haig  Jr. 

Secretary  of 
Slate.  1981- 
1982:  Supreme 
Allied 

Commander  of 
NATO,  1974- 
1979;  Chief  of 
Staff  to 
President 
Nixon.  1973- 
1974;  founder! 
President. 
Worldwide 
Associates, 
1982—. 


The  federal  budget  deficit  is  the  prod- 
uct of  long-term  growth  in  programs 
and  conflicting  theories  about  how  best 
to  raise  revenues.  Experiments  with 
supply  side  economics  and  monetarism 
have  reduced  federal  revenues  even 
though  they  have  contributed  to  eco- 
nomic growth  and  the  reduction  of  in- 
flation. Today,  I  believe  the  deficit  can 
be  brought  down  gradually  and  safely 
through  the  application  of  these  prin- 
ciples: 

1 .  No  one  section  of  the  budget  should 
bear  the  main  burden  of  reduction. 

2.  Every  area  of  expenditure  should 
be  scrutinized  before  undertaking  ad- 
ditional revenue  increases. 

3.  The  budget  process  itself  should 
be  reformed,  so  that  no  president  should 


be  faced  constantly  with  the  choice  of 
shutting  down  the  government  or  sign- 
ing a  "budget-buster." 

Clearly,  these  principles  will  require 
a  constructive  partnership  between 
Congress  and  the  Executive.  But  that 
is  why  we  elect  them.  The  alternative, 
such  as  constitutional  amendments  to 
balance  the  budget  or  arbitrary  "auto- 
matic" cuts  across  the  board  are  ab- 
dications of  responsibility  and  will  never 
work  if  the  will  to  carry  them  out  is  not 
there. 


Bob  Dole 

Senate 
Republican 
Leader.  1987—; 
Senate  Majority 
Leader, 
1985-86;  U.S. 
Senator 
(Kansas), 
1969—; 

'decorated  World 
War  II 
combat 
veteran. 


Working  Americans,  even  those  we 
seek  to  help,  are  especially  hard  hit  by 
continued  budget  deficits.  The  inability 
of  the  Congress  to  consider  realistic 
spending  cuts  seriously  hampers  our 
ability  to  increase  our  productivity  and 
growth. 

Getting  the  deficit  under  control  is 


critical  to  our  future.  But,  in  putting 
together  any  package  of  deficit  reduc- 
tion proposals,  it  is  inevitable  that 
someone  or  some  group  will  feel  the 
pain  of  spending  cuts.  I  would  propose 
that  we  try  to  insure  that  no  one  group 
is  singled  out  unfairly  and  that  we 
spread  the  reduction  across  the  broad- 
est possible  base.  For  this  reason,  I 
would  exempt  very  few  programs  from 
review,  including  defense.  But  there 
are,  of  course,  some  programs  which 
should  be  given  special  consideration 
as  they  provide  crucial  benefits  to  the 
neediest  in  our  communities,  for  ex- 
ample Medicaid  and  the  supplemental 
security  income  program  for  the  blind, 
aged  and  disabled. 

In  deciding  how  best  to  reduce  federal 
expenditures  the  federal  government 
should  cooperate  more  fully  with  states 
and  localities  to  determine  which  serv- 
ices would  be  most  appropriately  deliv- 
ered by  those  governments,  utilizing 
their  resources  as  a  complement  to 
ours. 

Before  proposing  the  actual  reduction 
of  benefits,  I  would  also  look  at  the 
way  our  programs  are  managed  in  the 
hopes  of  reducing  administrative  costs 
and  increasing  their  efficiency. 

Revenues  may  inevitably  play  a  role 
in  any  serious  reduction  effort.  But,  I 
am  opposed  to  any  modification  of  the 
individual  or  business  rate  structure 
which  would  have  us  break  the  com- 
mitment we  made  to  working  Ameri- 
cans last  year  in  the  tax  reform  bill. 


'Questions-for-the-Candidates'  project  draws  praise  from  news  media 


The  AFL-CIO's  "Democracy  at  Work" 
project — the  most  extensive  education 
effort  ever  launched  by  any  organization 
to  involve  voters  in  presidential  politics — 
is  drawing  attention  and  praise  from  the 
nation's  news  media. 

Favorable  reports  on  the  two-pronged 
campaign  have  appeared  in  major  news- 
papers, smaller  dailies  and  national  news 
magazines  as  well  as  on  television  net- 
works. 

Labor's  participation  includes  the  pub- 
lication of  the  Democratic  and  Republi- 
can candidates'  written  answers  to  key 
questions,  augmented  by  their  video- 
taped appeals  for  the  support  of  union 
members  and  their  families. 

The  Washington  Post  sent  a  reporter 
to  a  showing  of  the  video  by  Communi- 
cations Workers  Local  2001  in  Charles- 
ton-, W.  Va.  He  described  the  tape  pre- 
pared by  the  Labor  Institute  of  Public 
Affairs  as  "the  hottest  new  video  in 
politics — a  sort  of  sneak  preview  of  the 
1988  campaign." 

The  Post  reporter  referred  to  the  hour- 


long  video  as  "a  novel  supplement  to  the 
political  education"  campaign  for  which 
the  federation  has  long  been  noted — 
bringing  its  members  up  to  speed  on  who 
the  candidates  are  and  where  they  stand 
on  key  issues. 

On  the  other  side  of  the  continent,  Los 
Angeles  Times  labor  columnist  Harry 
Bernstein  noted  that  the  announced  or 
anticipated  candidates  from  both  parties 
have  "formally  asked  the  AFL-CIO  for 
its  early  endorsement"  in  the  primaries 
that  begin  next  spring.  "Every  well- 
known  Democratic  and  Republican  pres- 
idential hopeful  not  only  asked  for  it," 
Bernstein  wrote,  "they  have  been  plead- 
ing their  cases  on  video-tapes." 

The  Atlanta  Constitution  took  the  same 
approach,  reporting  that  the  four-minute 
segments  featuring  each  of  the  presiden- 
tial aspirants  "show  candidates  from  both 
major  parties  making  their  pitch  for  la- 
bor's support." 

The  San  Francisco  Chronicle  said  the 
AFL-CIO  undertaking  "will  probably  in- 
volve more  members"  than  any  other 


voter  education  campaign  either  under- 
way or  planned  by  any  national  organi- 
zation. And,  the  newspaper  said,  the 
campaign  will  "ensure  that  labor  issues 
are  talked  about"  in  the  1988  elections. 

The  use  by  labor  publications,  includ- 
ing Carpenter,  of  the  "Questions  for  the 
Candidates,"  in  which  candidates  ad- 
dress the  issues  of  foreign  trade,  the 
federal  deficit,  domestic  social  policies 
and  the  role  of  unions  in  the  political 
process  and  the  videotapes  in  which  the 
presidential  aspirants  described  the  kind 
of  White  House  they  would  run,  is  a 
"novel  plan"  for  reaching  members,  said 
the  Chicago  Sun-Times. 

The  New  York  Times  called  the  video — 
being  shown  at  union  meeting  and  avail- 
able to  members  for  personal  use  with 
their  families  and  friends — "an  unusual 
'home  movie.'  " 

Coverage  of  the  program  appeared  in 
the  National  Journal,  the  syndicated  col- 
umn written  by  veteran  political  observ- 
ers Jack  W.  Germond  and  Jules  Wil- 
cover,  and  many  newspapers. 


AUGUST     1987 


19 


DAD  Drive 
Spurs  Diabetes 
Contributions 


The  day  before  Father's  Day,  June  20th, 
over  20,000  building  and  construction  work- 
ers were  out  on  the  highway  intersections 
and  street  comers  of  more  than  120  cities 
across  the  country  in  a  "D.A.D.'s  Day" 
push  to  raise  funds  for  diabetes  research. 

D.A.D.'s  Day  Drive  was  part  of  a  "Blue- 
print for  Cure"  campaign  by  the  building 
and  construction  unions  aimed  at  bringing 
teams  of  doctors  and  scientists  together  in 
a  state-of-the-art  facility  at  the  Diabetes 
Research  Institute  at  the  University  of  Miami 
in  Florida  to  find  a  cure  for  diabetes. 

The  Blueprint  for  Cure  campaign  as  well 
as  the  D.A.D.'s  Day  Drive  have  been  sup- 
ported by  locals  everywhere. 

For  example,  during  the  convention  of  the 
Kansas  State  Council  of  Carpenters,  dele- 
gates contributed  to  the  fight  against  diabetes 
and  passed  a  resolution  supporting  the 
D.A.D.'s  Day  Drive.  Following  the  conven- 
tion local  unions  in  the  state  of  Kansas  issued 
a  call  for  volunteers  to  participate  in  the 
fund  drive. 

"Unions  don't  strive  for  recognition  of  all 
their  good  deeds  and  service  to  their  com- 
munities as  others  do  ...  it  is  part  of  their 
makeup  to  help  without  recognition  as  a 
prerequisite.  Pride  in  their  unions,  pride  in 
their  craft  and  pride  in  themselves  for  a  job 


well  done  or  a  helping  hand  extended  to 
another,  union  or  not,  is  thanks  enough," 
was  part  of  a  statement  released  by  the 
Cabinet  Makers  Local  1635  in  the  Kansas 
City  area. 

The  amount  raised  during  the  drive  was 
not  available  at  press  time,  but  over  $1.5 
million  has  been  raised  during  the  Blueprint 
for  Cure  campaign. 


Recent  Blueprint  for  Cure  contributions 
include  the  following: 
63,  Bloomington,  111. 
248,  Toledo,  Ohio 
512,  Ypsilanti,  Mich. 
839,  Des  Plaines,  111. 
1043,  Gary,  Ind. 
1338,  Charlottetown,  P.E.I. 
1846,  New  Orleans,  La. 
1889,  Downers  Grove,  111. 
1915,  Clinton,  Mo. 
1026,  Miami,  Fla. 

John  R.  Costo 

In  memory  of  Clarence  (Mike)  DeWitt  from 
Local  1597,  Bremerton,  Wash. 


A  Tribute  to  Labor's  Promise 


The  co-chairmen  of  the  "Blueprint  for  Cure"  Committee — organized  labor's  commit- 
ment to  raise  funds  for  the  construction  of  the  Diabetes  Research  Institute  at  the 
University  of  Miami — display  an  artist's  rendering  of  the  facility  at  a  recent  meeting  in 
Washington,  D.C. 

Added  to  the  construction  plans  is  the  I'/:  story  high  "Tower  of  Promise"  monument 
which  will  honor  organized  labor's  promise  to  help  find  a  cure  for  diabetes. 

From  left  to  right  are:  Patrick  J.  Campbell,  president.  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpen- 
ters and  Joiners:  Hank  Keller,  president.  Diabetes  Research  Institute:  Robert  A.  Geor- 
gine.  president.  Building  and  Construction  Trades  Department  AFL-CIO:  and  Edward  J. 
Carlough,  president.  Sheet  Metal  Workers  International  Association. 


Regional  Seminars 
Begin  Next  Month 

A  series  of  five  educational  seminars 
covering  every  region  of  the  United 
States  and  Canada  is  scheduled  to  begin 
next  month  for  all  UBC  construction 
affiliates. 

They  are  designed  to  bring  together 
for  informational  briefings  every  United 
Brotherhood  business  manager,  busi- 
ness representative,  assistant  business 
representative  of  every  UBC  construc- 
tion local  union,  every  district,  state, 
and  provincial  council  in  the  UBC's  10 
districts. 

"No  fulltime  officer  or  business  rep- 
resentative will  be  excused  from  joining 
the  seminar  in  his  region,  except  for 
compelling,  emergency  reasons,"  Gen- 
eral President  Patrick  J.  Campbell  has 
emphasized.  "If  this  office  renders  such 
excused  attendance,  the  individual  will 
be  assigned  to  attend  one  of  the  other 
scheduled  seminars." 

The  schedule  of  construction  semi- 
nars is  as  follows: 

SEPTEMBER  20-25,  1987:  Toronto, 
Ont.,  Canada — Districts  9  and  10 

SEPTEMBER  27-OCTOBER  2, 1987: 
Lowes  Glenpointe,  Teaneck  NJ — Dis- 
trics  1  and  2 

OCTOBER  4-9,  1987:  French  Lick, 
IN— District  3 

OCTOBER  11-16, 1987:  French  Lick, 
IN — Districts  4,  5  and  6 

NOVEMBER  8-13,  1987:  Westin  Ho- 
tel, Seattle,  WA— Districts  7  and  8 


Boycott  of  Consumers 
Union  seeks  to  prevent 
strike  by  Guild 

A  Newspaper  Guild  strike  against  Con- 
sumer Reports  magazine  was  settled  three 
years  ago  soon  after  the  U.S.  and  Canadian 
labor  movements  joined  in  a  boycott  of  the 
magazine  and  other  products  and  services 
of  Consumers  Union. 

Now,  again  faced  with  demands  by  CU 
management  that  its  members  give  up  key 
benefits  and  other  provisions  guaranteed  in 
their  union  contract  (expired  since  Dec.  31), 
The  Newspaper  Guild  is  doing  it  again. 

Conducting  another  boycott  of  Consumer 
Reports  and  other  CU  publications  and  serv- 
ices, that  is,  no  striking — at  least  not  yet. 

The  boycott — also  endorsed  by  the  AFL- 
CIO  Executive  Council  and  added  to  the 
Union  Label  and  Service  Trades  Depart- 
ment's "Don't  Buy"  list,  as  was  1984"s — is 
aimed  at  making  it  possible  to  bargain  ajust 
new  contract  without  having  to  strike,  ex- 
plained former  Newspaper  Guild  President 
Charles  A.  Perlik  Jr. 


20 


CARPENTER 


Canadian  Forest  Locals  to  Study 
Contracting  Out  In  Logging 


The  Canadian  Forest  Products  Con- 
ference Board  has  announced  that  it 
will  conduct  a  study  of  the  practices 
and  problems  surrounding  the  growth 
of  non-union  logging  contractors. 

The  Canadian  Conference  Board,  with 
representatives  from  every  local  having 
forest  industry  members,  came  to  this 
decision  at  its  semi-annual  meeting  in 
Montreal.  The  problem  of  an  increasing 
share  of  logging  work  going  to  non- 
union '  'packsackers , "  as  they  are  called 
in  Canada,  varies  in  each  province. 

In  Newfoundland,  for  example,  the 
provincial  government  allocates  a  spec- 
ified percentage  of  wood  harvesting  for 
the  independent  (usually  non-union) 
owner-operator.  If  one  of  these  opera- 
tors is  organized  he  risks  being  cut  out 
of  the  allocated  share  for  the  small 
owner-operators  and  being  thrown  into 
the  same  harvesting  pool  with  pulp- 
wood  company  logging  workers — thus 
losing  work. 

In  Quebec  the  big  pulp  and  paper 
companies  promote  independent  owner- 
operators,  because  this  allows  the  paper 
company  to  keep  delivered  wood  costs 
low  by  playing  one  operator  off  against 
the  other. 

In  Ontario  the  union  already  repre- 
sents a  major  share  of  the  owner-op- 
erator fallers,  skidders  and  haulers.  The 
union  has  traditionally  bargained  the 
labor  rates  for  this  work,  leaving  ma- 
chine cost  allowances  to  be  worked  out 
between  the  skidder  association  and  the 
pulp  companies.  This  has  not,  howev- 
ger,  produced  an  adequate  machine  rate 
for  union  member  skidder  owners. 

"Our  study,"  says  Claude  La- 
Fontaine,  financial  secretary  of  Local 
2817,  Quebec,  "should  help  us  under- 
stand the  variances  and  complexities 
from  province  to  province.  We  hope  to 
then  come  up  with  some  definite  solu- 


tions to  the  packsacker  problem.  Our 
solutions  may  be  different  for  different 
locals  but  we  must  jump  on  the  loss  of 
work  before  it  gets  completely  out  of 
control." 

A  representative  from  each  province 
will  compile  a  report  for  his  area  then 
a  final  report  will  be  drawn  together  at 
the  September  1987  meeting  scheduled 
for  Manitoba. 

Ed  Durkin,  director  of  the  Special 
Programs  Department,  presented  finan- 
cial information  on  the  largest  Canadian 
forest  products  companies.  The  inte- 
grated nature  of  these  firms  was  appar- 
ent from  the  discussion.  These  firms 
have  the  ability  to  tie  up  and  control 
raw  materials,  then  produce  a  wide 
range  of  pulp,  paper  and  wood  products 
from  mills  that  dot  the  entire  Canadian 
landscape — and  even  beyond  the  bor- 
ders of  Canada  in  some  cases. 

"New  union  tactics  must  be  explored 
and  used  in  order  to  deal  with  the 
immense  financial  muscle  of  these  cor- 
porations," commented  Roger  Nault, 
president  of  Local  2612  of  Pine  Falls, 
Man.  "After  all,"  he  continued,  "many 
of  our  locals  are  dealing  with  the  very 
same  employers." 

Ninth  and  Tenth  District  Board  Mem- 
bers John  Carruthers  and  Ron  Dancer 
attended  the  Montreal  meeting  to  par- 
ticipate in  the  decisions  and  aid  in  the 
development  of  a  strategy  for  our  forest 
products  members. 

In  other  action,  the  Canadian  Con- 
ference Board  asked  the  UBC  Industrial 
Department  to  draft  a  plan  to  improve 
the  flow  and  exchange  of  information 
between  forest  products  unions 
throughout  Canada.  This  plan  is  seen 
as  a  first  step  towards  greater  coordi- 
nated actions  and  joint  programs  in 
common  industries  and  with  common 
employers.  DDL 


Off  the  Old  Block 


Jerimy  Christy,  I'/j  years  old,  lives  in  Co- 
lumbia, Mo.,  and  has  had  a  hammer  in  his 
hand  since  the  age  of  six  months.  No  won- 
der, since  his  daddy  is  Mike  Christy,  Local 
1925,  Columbia,  Mo.  Jerimy's  grand- 
father, Charlie,  is  a  34-year  union  carpen- 
ter, president  of  Local  1925,  and  past 
business  agent.  His  uncle,  Pat,  is  former 
president,  recording  secretary  and  pres- 
ently treasurer  of  the  same  local.  Jerimy's 
grandfather,  father  and  uncle  have  cer- 
tainly done  nothing  to  discourage  Jerimy 
in  his  early  interest  in  the  trade. 


Mike  Fishman  Named 
Organizing  Director 

Mike  Fishman,  who  has  served  as 
assistant  to  the  general  president  for 
industrial  organizing  for  the  past  two 
years,  has  been  named  the  Brother- 
hood's director  of  organization. 

His  appointment  was  announced  last 
month  by  General  President  Patrick  J. 
Campbell. 

A  member  of  Car- 
penters Local  314, 
Madison,  Wis.,  since 
1972,  Fishman  has 
been  actively  in- 
volved in  recent 
months  in  setting  up 
industrial  organizing 
programs  in  the  for- 
est products  and  mill- 
cabinet  industries. 
FISHMAN  Prior  to  work  in  the 
industrial  sector,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  task  force  organizing  construction 
workers  in  Florida.  He  later  was  as- 
signed to  implement  the  labor-manage- 
ment cooperation  committees  of  Op- 
eration Turnaround. 

An  East  Coast  native,  Fishman 
learned  the  craft  of  carpentry  at  an 
early  age  from  his  grandfather,  who 
was  a  member  of  a  UBC  local  union  in 
Brooklyn,  N.Y.  Soon  after  he  joined 
Local  314,  he  was  hired  as  an  organizer 
for  residential  construction.  He  served 
in  that  capacity  before  joining  the  in- 
ternational staff  in  District  3  in  1977. 
He  was  assigned  to  the  General  Office 
in  1984  as  assistant  to  the  director  of 
organization,  Jim  Parker,  and,  upon 
Parker's  retirement,  he  became  the  as- 
sistant to  the  general  president  for  in- 
dustrial organizing. 


'Are  you  better 
off  now  than  .  .  .  ?' 

Candidate  Ronald  Reagan  used  a 
very  effective  campaign  statement  in 
1980  when  he  repeated  the  question, 
"Are  you  better  off  now  than  you 
were  four  years  ago?" 

A  similar  question  was  used  in  a 
recent  Wall  Street  JoiirnalfNBC  News 
Poll. 

The  Journal  ran  stories  about  the 
"splintering"  of  the  middle  class  and 
the  "general  anxiety"  about  the  na- 
tion's economic  future.  In  conjunc- 
tion with  the  stories,  the  newspaper 
ran  a  chart  based  on  the  question, 
"Compared  with  five  years  ago,  do 
you  think  it  is  now  more  or  less 
difficult  for  middle-class  people  to 
maintain  their  standard  of  living?" 

The  surprising  answer:  65%  of  those 
interviewed  replied.  "More  diffi- 
cult," Those  replying  "Less  difficult" 
totaled  22%. 


AUGUST     1987 


21 


locni  union  nEuis 


Trade  Show  Grads 


Dade  County  Youth  Fair  Promotion 


Carpenters  Dislricl  Council  of  Houston, 
Tex.,  recently  held  classes  in  skills  re- 
quired to  install  and  dismantle  exhibits,  as 
we  reported  in  the  May  Carpenter.  The 
picture  above,  taken  graduation  night 
shows:  Harold  Albaugh,  Freeman  Deco- 
rating Company:  Linda  Pilgram.  Exposi- 
tion Service  Contractors  Association: 
George  Schwan,  I  &  D  Inc.:  Floyd  Mills, 
general  foreman/trade  shows.  District 
Council  of  Houston:  Bill  Young,  Freeman 
Decorating  Company:  and  Joe  Cones,  ex- 
ecutive secretary,  District  Council  of 
Houston. 


The  Dade  County  chapter  of  the  South  Florida  District  Council's  Volunteer  Organizing 
Committee  recently  participated  in  the  Dade  County  Youth  Fair.  The  fair  is  held  once  a 
year  to  acquaint  students  with  career  opportunities  in  the  area.  The  Carpenters'  booth 
was  designed  and  constructed  by  volunteers  of  the  VOC.  They  used  mahogany  trim 
salvaged  from  a  union  rehabilitation  project  to  make  picture  frames  for  photos  of  major 
historical  union  projects.  They  also  displayed  some  antique  carpentry  tools.  Members, 
including  Mario  Alleva,  above,  took  part  in  manning  the  booth  and  passing  out  literaturt 
and  promotional  materials  to  students  and  the  public. 


Helping  A  Brother 


Underground  Atlanta  Must  Go  Union 


Carol  Horton.  a  Local  225  member:  Robert  Price ,  financial  secretary:  William  Worley, 
business  manager:  and  other  members  of  Local  225,  Atlanta.  Ga..  joined  about  2,000 
other  workers  who  inarched  to  Atlanta  City  Hall  March  25  to  protest  what  they  said  was 
a  lack  of  union  jobs  in  the  Underground  Atlanta  projects.  Atlanta  Mayor  Andrew  Young 
spoke  to  the  crowd,  which  represented  locals  ranging  from  Pipefitters  to  Sheet  Metal 
Workers,  saying  three  of  the  four  contractors  hired  by  the  city  so  far  were  union.  Herb 
Mabry,  state  AFL-CIO  president  and  UBC  member,  said  that  Fulton  County  was  not 
using  union  labor  in  the  construction  of  its  new  administration  building,  nor  was  it  used 
to  build  schools  or  other  government  buildings. 


Members  of  Local  123,  Broward  County, 
Fla.,  volunteered  their  time  to  help  clean 
and  paint  the  trim  on  the  home  of  Norman 
Chase,  a  retired  member  of  Local  1394, 
suffering  from  emphysema.  Shown  above 
are  Andrew  Casilli,  Ken  Maierhofer.  exec- 
utive director  of  the  joint  apprenticeship 
and  training  committee,  Charles  Farone, 
and  his  son  Mark. 


22 


CARPENTER 


Career  Day  Display 

Skilled  Crafts 


Local  899  Honor 


Chester  E.  Gates  was  presented  a  plaque 
by  Local  899,  Parkersburg,  West  Va.  Busi- 
ness Representative  Earl  D.  Johnson  in 
recognition  of  his  67  years  continuous 
membership  and  service  to  the  Brother- 
hood. Brother  Gales  became  a  member  of 
Local  899  on  September  24.  1919. 

He  served  most  offices  of  the  local  and 
missed  only  one  union  meeting  prior  to  his 
retirement  in  1976.  He  enjoys  gardening 
and  mailing  preserves  from  the  berries  and 
fruits  he  raises.  He  supplies  friends  and 
neighbors  with  homemade  fudge,  espe- 
cially during  the  Christmas  season.  He 
still  makes  picture  frames  and  other  proj- 
ects in  his  shop. 

In  the  picture,  Mrs.  Gates,  Chester 
Gates  and  Bus.  Rep.  Johnson. 


Members  from  Local  1305,  Fall  River, 
Mass.,  recently  participated  in  the  Career 
Day  held  at  B.M.C.  Duifee  High  School. 
With  the  display  set  up  for  the  occasion 
are  Business  Manager  Joseph  Barretto, 
Bernard  Skelly,  Al  Rapoza  and  Antone 
Lima.  Tools  and  equipment  of  the  trade 
were  displayed  and  their  uses  explained. 


Members  at  Ingalls 
OK  New  Contract 

Members  of  Local  569,  Pascagoula,  Miss., 
were  among  the  8,800  members  of  1 1  unions 
who  recently  ratified  the  master  contract  of 
the  Pascagoula  Metal  Trades  Council  with 
the  Ingalls  Shipbuilding  Division,  Litton 
Systems  Inc.  The  new  pact  is  for  a  three- 
year  period  and  has  better  medical  and 
pension  benefits  and  new  incentive  pay- 
ments. 


Achtmann  Honored 
On  100th  Birthday 

Members  of  Local  252,  Oshkosh,  Wise, 
gathered  with  the  family  of  Otto  Achtmann 
for  his  lOOth  birthday  at  a  party  given  by 
his  son  and  daughter-in-law,  Mr.  and  Mr. 
Ralph  Achtmann.  Brother  Achtmann  re- 
ceived recognition  from  the  Brotherhood 
with  the  presentation  of  his  gold  card,  an 
83-year  membership  pin  and  a  letter  of  rec- 
ognition from  President  Patrick  J.  Campbell. 
He  was  honored  by  the  members  of  Local 
252  with  a  Certificate  of  Recognition  for  his 
continuous  83  years  of  membership  and  a 
copy  of  a  1909  photograph  of  252's  mem- 
bership. Achtmann  is  the  only  living  mem- 
ber. He  also  received  cards  and  recognition 
in  honor  of  his  lOOth  birthday  from  the  Fox 
River  Valley  District  Council.  Achtmann 
turned  100  on  March  29. 


Honoring  Brother  Achtmann,  seated,  are 
An  Nickel,  conductor:  Ron  Kopp,  council 
business  manager,  and  John  Haskamp, 
president.  Local  252. 


Shop  Stewards'  Seminar  Held  in  Halifax 


Local-83,  Halifa.x,  N.S.,  and  Local  1392,  New  Glasgow,  N.S., 
were  joined  by  Millwright  Local  1 178  for  a  shop  steward  semi- 
nar held  in  Halifax.  Those  attending  were  (front  row)  Derrick 
Manson.  Canadian  Research  Director:  Gerald  Pettipas:  Steve 
Hiller:  Chris  Ward:  Steve  Robichaud:  Keith  Fulgere:  Paid 
Jardine  and  Brian  Cooper,  business  representative. 

Second  row:  Business  Representative  Bill  Boiidreau,  Victor 
Walker,  Walter  Drinovz,  Martin  MacDonald,  Gordon  Weddle- 


ton,  Gordon  Hope,  Wayne  Boudreau,  Donnie  MacDougall,  Tim 
McKinnon,  David  Small,  John  Tower,  Joe  Terrio,  Greg  Baker 
and  Camille  MacDonald. 

Third  row:  Jean  Louis  Comeau,  Steve  LaBouthillier,  Everett 
Pitts,  Allisler  Landry.  Ronnie  MacDonald,  Mark  Cooper,  Bernie 
MacDonald,  Sabastien  Spartinelli,  Leonard  Roberts  and  Keith 
Grant. 


AUGUST     1987 


23 


Southern  Forest  Products 
Delegates  Discuss 
Coordinated  Talks 

The  second  of  two  Soulhern  conferences  to  formiilale 
plans  for  coordinated  nationwide  bargaining  in  the  forest 
products  industry  was  held  May  II  and  12  in  Bossier  City, 
La.  More  than  70  delegates  from  UBC  and  International 
Woodworkers  of  America  local  unions  attended  the  joint 
meeting.  The  delegates  pictured  above,  left  to  right,  are 
David  Carhe,  Shelton  Richard,  Ocie  Pickens  and  Joe  Mon- 
tou. 

At  upper  right,  Floyd  Warren,  Local  2092,  Emerson, 
Ark.,  makes  a  point  during  the  discussion  of  current  pen- 
sion plans  in  the  industry  and  how  to  improve  them  in 
future  bargaining.  Seated  to  his  right  is  Norma  Melbert, 
Local  3101,  Oakdale,  La. 

Listening  to  a  talk  about  how  to  set  up  a  one-on-one, 
face-to-face  communication  system  in  local  unions  to  keep 
members  informed  about  bargaining  issues  are,  from  left  to 
right,  front  row,  Donny  Modest,  Mae  Smith  and  Wilma 
Breggs.  In  the  ne.xt  row  are  delegates  Lee  Gland  and 
Denny  Graham. 


Oahe  Dam  Reunion 

Some  of  the  construction  workers 
on  the  Oahe  Dam  power  plant  of  the 
late  50"s  and  early  60's  are  planning 
a  reunion  in  Pierre,  S.D.,  on  August 
28,  29,  30,  1987. 

They  would  like  to  contact  as  many 
people  as  possible  who  worked  on 
the  project.  Send  names  and  ad- 
dresses of  anyone  you  know  who  was 
there  during  that  period  to  Mrs.  Sid- 
ney Taylor,  as  shown  below. 

There  will  be  plenty  of  motels  avail- 
able, and  there  is  a  large  campground 
at  the  dam.  Everyone  would  be  re- 
sponsible for  their  own  accommoda- 
tions. Sponsors  would  like  to  have 
one  meal  catered  and  a  dance  on 
Saturday  night.  Would  you  be  willing 
to  pay  a  small  fee  for  this?  We  wel- 
come your  suggestions  and  ideas. 

We  need  your  reply  as  soon  as 
possible  in  order  to  finalize  our  plans. 
We  are  looking  forward  to  seeing  as 
many  as  possible  and  renewing  old 
friendships. 

Please  send  names  and  addresses 
to  : 

Mrs.  Sidney  Taylor  (Joyce) 

Rt.  4,  Box  385,  Alvin,  Texas  7751 1 

713-331-4061 

or  Dudley's  Valley  Tap  Bar 
Box  524,  Fort  Pierre  57532  223-2665 


Make 
Safety  a 
Habit! 

These  common  abuses  of  striking 
tools  are  all  dangerous.  Each  carries 
the  potential  for  serious  personal 
injury.  The  hardened  striking  face  of 
a  carpenter's  hammer  is  designed  to 
be  struck  against  common,  unhard- 
ened  nails.  Misusing  the  tool  by 
striking  it  against  another  hardened 
steel  tool  may  result  in  chipping  and 
consequent  serious  injury  from  flying 
particles.  Removal  of  embedded 
nails,  for  example,  should  be  done 
with  a  nail  puller  and  a  hand  drilling 
or  light  sledge  hammer. 

To  protect  your  eyes  from 
dust  and  flying  particles, 
always  wear  safety  goggles 
when  using  striking  tools. 

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DON'T  strike  one  hammer 
with  another! 


DON'T  strike  a  hatchet 
with  a  hammer! 


DON'T  strike  a  nail  puller 
with  a  carpenter's 


Were  concerned  about  your  safety. 


hammer! 


24 


CARPENTER 


UIE  lOnCRIITUinTE 


.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


SHRINE  POTENTATE 


Harold  G.  Mester.  Local  1739,  Kirk- 
wood,  Mo.,  was  elected  illustrious  poten- 
tate of  Moolah  Temple  Shrine  in  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  for  the  year  1987.  Mester,  second 
from  the  left,  is  shown  with  three  of  his 
aides,  all  members  of  Local  1739.  On  his 
left  are  Mester' s  two  sons,  Mike  and  Gary. 
The  Mester' s  operate  Mester  and  Sons, 
Foundation  Contractors.  On  his  right  is 
Gus  Uthoff,  former  lead  instructor  of  the 
carpenter  apprentice  program  until  his  re- 
tirement five  years  ago. 


ART  EXHIBITED 

Linda  Wysong,  UBC  member,  recently 
displayed  her  art  entitled  "Structures"  at 
the  Oregon  Museum  of  Science  and  industry 
in  Portland,  Ore.  "Structures"  is  made  of 
metal  studs  to  show  what  is  underneath 
modern  office  buildings. 

"My  work  examines  the  beauty  of  con- 


struction materials  and  points  out  the  human 
factor  with  the  use  of  caryatids  (sculptured 
columns  in  the  form  of  a  woman,  as  in 
ancient  Greece)  in  the  piece.  They  are  a 
metaphor  for  the  people  who  put  up  the 
buildings.  Technology  only  works  when  peo- 
ple are  there,"  Wysong  said. 

Wysong  holds  a  master's  degree  in  art 
history  from  the  University  of  Maryland  and 
works  as  a  carpenter  by  day.  She  has  inte- 
grated her  skills  as  a  master  carpenter  with 
those  of  her  artistic  background  to  create 
her  pieces.  The  installation  of  her  piece  in 
the  OMSI  was  made  possible  in  part  by  UBC 
members  who  volunteered  their  time. 


CHICAGO  STUDY 

Mickey  Holzman,  Local  1539,  Chicago, 
111.,  played  a  major  role  in  the  work  behind 
"Everybody's  Business,"  Chicago  labor's 
answer  to  the  busi- 
ness-oriented report  of 
the  Chicago  Financial 
Planning  Committee. 
Holzman  served  on  the 
ad  hoc  committee 
named  by  the  Chicago 
Federation  of  Labor, 
AFL-CIO,  to  study  the 
Financial  Planning 
Committee  Report. 
Since  the  study  was 
made  by  the  committee,  Chicago  labor  has 
asked  Mayor  Harold  Washington  to  reject 
the  report  and  name  a  committee  represent- 
ing government,  community  groups,  busi- 
ness and  labor  to  study  the  city's  finances 
and  make  recommendations. 


AID  FOR  HUNGRY 

Baltimore's  carpenters  recently  helped 
raise  $30,000  to  feed  Maryland's  hungry 
with  donations  to  a  charity  auction  co- 
sponsored  by  AFL-CIO  Community 
Services  in  Baltimore. 

The  Carpenters  District  Council  do- 
nated a  custom-made  doghouse  complete 
with  a  shingled  roof  and  ornamental  trim. 
Local  1548  donated  a  professional  indoor 
soccer  ball  autographed  by  members  of 
Baltimore's  soccer  team. 

A  total  of  39  unions  donated  items 
which  reflect  the  fruits  of  their  labor  such 
as  baskets  of  fresh  baked  bread  from 
Bakery,  Confectionary  and  Tobacco 
Workers,  AT&T  long  distance  gift  cer- 
tificates from  the  Communications  Work- 
ers and  round  trip  tickets  to  New  York 
from  the  Railway  and  Airline  Clerks. 
There  were  500  people  in  attendance. 


A  custom-made  doghouse  was  donated 
by  the  Carpenters  District  Council  of 
Baltimore  to  an  auction  co-sponsored 
by  AFL-CIL  Community  Services  to 
help  raise  money  for  Maryland's  hun- 
gry. With  the  gift  are:  Ernie  Grecco, 
president.  Metropolitan  Baltimore 
Council,  AFL-CIO  and  Thomas  Maz- 
zetta,  financial  secretaiy.  Local  1548. 


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25 


nPFREHTicESHip  &  TRninmc 


Advantages  of  Daytime  Training  Discussed 
At  Recent  Apprenticeship  Conference 


As  facilities  for  training  apprentices  in 
carpentry,  mill-cabinet  work  and  mill- 
wright work  improve  in  many  localities, 
many  joint  apprenticeship  and  training 
committees  have  begun  to  seriously  con- 
sider daytime  classes  for  their  trainees,  in 
addition  to  the  traditional  night  classes. 

The  General  Office  has  been  informed 
by  such  programs  that  the  training  is  more 
effective  and  that  apprentices  are  "positive 
about  the  training,  once  they  have  adjusted 
to  the  new  format." 

Panelists  at  the  recent  apprenticeship 
conference  in  Oxnard,  Calif.,  noted: 

"When  apprentices  attend  night  school 
after  a  day's  work,  they  are  fatigued  and 
ready  for  rest  as  are  the  instructors  who 
work  with  them.  The  evening  training  was 
a  second  priority  for  both  the  instructors 
and  the  apprentices  due  to  the  fatigue  fac- 
tor. 

"There  have  been  indications  that  the 
on-project  accident  rate  has  diminished, 
because  in  the  night  school  arrangement, 
by  mid  or  late  week  the  apprentices  were 
fatigued,  and  fatigue  and  stress  are  contri- 
butive  to  accidents. 

"Daytime  training  does  provide  for  suffi- 
cient time  for  the  manipulative  projects  in 
the  PETS  structure  to  be  completed  in  one 
session,  and  not  segmented,  with  the  flow 
of  thought  and  action  interrupted. 

"Daytime  training  reduces  the  number 
of  instructors  involved  and  consequently 
relies  less  heavily  on  incorporating  new 
instructors  into  the  system.  New  instruc- 
tors require  a  certain  amount  of  time  to 


become  fully  acquainted  with  the  program 
philosophy,  content  material  and  evalua- 
tive process.  Large  programs  using  a  great 
number  of  instructors  in  evening  classes 
find  it  difficult  to  maintain  an  overall  qual- 
ity of  training  because  the  part  time  in- 
structors are  not  always  completely  ac- 
quainted with  the  program's  objectives  and 
processes." 

Conference  on 
50th  Anniversary 
of  Apprenticeship 

In  conjunction  with  the  Eastern  Seaboard 
Apprenticeship  Conference  to  be  held,  Au- 
gust 17-23,  in  Washington,  DC,  the  AFL- 
CIO  Building  Trades  Department,  is  sched- 
uling a  special  conference  for  persons  inter- 
ested in  apprenticeship.  There  will  be  a  week 
of  activities  of  speakers,  luncheons  and  din- 
ners. 

As  presently  scheduled,  there  will  be  two 
afternoons  for  persons  from  each  of  the  craft 
unions  to  meet  with  their  own  craft  union 
representatives. 

Hotel  room  space  has  been  arranged.  The 
registration  fee  for  the  conference  is  $150. 

The  registration  and  information  for  the 
conference  is  not  yet  prepared  by  those 
implementing  the  conference.  Upon  receipt 
of  that  information,  we  will  inform  affiliate 
members  from  the  Eastern  Seaboard  Ap- 
prenticeship Conference  and  other  inter- 
ested persons  on  the  conference. 


Special  Training  in  Lathing  in  Toledo 

Local  248.  Toledo.  Ohio,  recently  sponsored  a  class  in  lathing  for  members  who  were 
unemployed  five  consecutive  weeks  or  more.  The  class  was  made  possible  by  a  grant 
from  the  Ohio  State  Building  and  Construction  Trades  Council.  All  the  participants 
completed  124  hours  of  training  and  have  all  been  referred  to  work  since  completion  of 
the  course.  The  instructors  were  Michael  Grimes  and  Art  Morris.  Participants  included 
Steve  Scholl.  Ernest  Wagner.  Jon  Williams.  Guy  Au,  Bob  Williams,  Jess  Isaacs.  Terry 
Ford.  Mark  Gederl.  Cathy  Smith,  J.C.  Smith,  Bill  Dressel,  Bob  Krieger,  Tom  Curtin.  Joe 
Moran,  Robin  Harshman,  Bob  Whaley.  Tim  Moran,  Terry  Bishop,  Don  Westfall  and  Joe 
Malazewski. 


Wood  Puzzler 

Wooden  puzzles,  hand-carved  by 
David  Lovelady.  secretary  of  the 
Tri-State  Chattanooga.  Tenn.,  Dis- 
trict Council,  have  become  a  popu- 
lar item:  he's  received  many  re- 
quests for  the  clever  interlocking 
cubes. 

While  in  Washington,  D.C.for 
the  Building  and  Construction 
Trades  Department  Legislative  Con- 
ference, Lovelady  and  Roy  Sewell. 
the  Tri-State  Council's  business  rep- 
resentative, met  with  General  Sec- 
retary John  Rogers  and  presented 
him  with  one  of  the  puzzles. 

The  oak  and  cherry  model  given 
to  the  General  Secretary  took  about 
two  hours  to  make  and  can  be  ar- 
ranged for  desktop  display.  First 
General  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lu- 
cassen  was  also  given  a  puzzle:  his 
was  made  of  oak  and  walnut. 

Lovelady,  a  15-year  UBC  mem- 
ber, creates  many  of  his  own  pat- 
terns for  toys,  puzzles  and  furniture 
as  a  hobby. 


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CARPENTER 


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GOSIP 


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AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


SWAP  OR  SWAT 

Lord  Highbrow:  "My  father  was 
Sir  Andrews,  Knight  of  the  Garter, 
Golden  Fleece,  Pearly  Teeth  .  .  ." 

Mr.  Lowbrow:  "Shake  hands.  My 
father  was  a  duke,  my  grandfather 
was  a  duke,  my  great-grandfather 
was  a  duke  .  .  ." 

Lord  Highbrow:  "Oh,  you're  look- 
ing for  an  argument." 

Mr.  Lowbrow:  "I'll  match  my  an- 
cestry with  yours  any  time." 

Lord  Highbrow:  "All  right,  put  up 
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ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 


VISE  SQUAD  MEMBER 

A  retired  carpenter  was  looking 
for  something  to  do  in  his  spare 
time.  He  decided  to  go  to  a  pet 
shop  and  buy  a  canary.  The  pet 
shop  owner  gave  him  instructions, 
saying  if  the  bird  didn't  sing  to  file 
its  beak  down,  and  warning  the 
carpenter  not  to  file  the  bird's  beak 
too  much  or  the  bird  would  drown 
when  he  tried  to  drink  water. 

The  carpenter  took  the  bird  home, 
but  returned  to  the  pet  shop  the 
next  day  with  the  bird.  The  owner 
asked  the  carpenter  if  the  bird  had 
drowned  drinking  water. 

The  retiree  replied  no,  the  bird 
was  dead  when  he  took  it  out  of 
the  vise. 

— Don  Furmanski  Jr. 

Grandson  of  Walter  Gagajewski 

Local  1590 

Washington,  D.C. 


SUPPORT  'TURNAROUND' 


FOR  THE  BETTER? 


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Apprentice  to  Carpenter: 

changed  my  mind." 
Carpenter:  "Good,  does  it  work 

any  better?" 


OUTBOXED 

It  was  the  minute  of  rest  between 
the  ninth  and  tenth  rounds  and  the 
battered  fighter  sat  on  his  stool,  his 
seconds  working  furiously  over  his 
bleeding  face. 

"I  think  he's  got  you  whipped," 
said  his  manager  in  disgust. 

"Yeah,"  agreed  the  boxer,  gaz- 
ing hazily  through  nearly  closed 
eyes.  "I  should  have  got  him  in  the 
first  round  when  he  was  by  himself!" 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

There  once  was  an  old  kangaroo 
That  suddenly  sneezed  a 

kerchoo! 
It  opened  its  pouch 
And  pulled  out  a  couch 
And  sat  down  and  tried  curing  its 
flu. 

—Clark  Griffin, 
Stafford,  Va. 


MATTER  OF  NEED 

An  anxious  wife  said  to  a  friend 
as  they  watched  her  husband  fish- 
ing in  a  bucket  of  water  in  the 
middle  of  the  living  room:  "I'd  take 
him  to  a  doctor,  but  we  really  need 
the  fish." 


SHOW  YOUR  BUMPER  STICKER 


YOU  NAME  IT 

A  friend  of  ours  who  had  been 
working  for  the  same  firm  for  five 
years  without  a  raise  decided  to 
walk  into  the  boss's  office  and  put 
his  cards  on  the  table. 

Friend:  "Boss,  I've  been  working 
here  for  several  years  now  and  my 
pay  check  is  still  the  same.  It's  only 
fair  to  inform  you  that  three  com- 
panies are  after  me." 

Boss:  "What  companies?" 

Friend:  "The  gas  company,  elec- 
tric company  and  finance  com- 
pany." 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  t\/lass. 


LOOK  FOR  THE  UNION  LABEL 


IRISH  ROGUE 

A  recent  arrival  to  the  United 
States,  Pat  wrote  a  letter  to  his  friend 
Mike  back  in  Ireland  with  this  ob- 
servation. "Come  on  over,  Mike. 
There  is  lots  of  work  here  in  Amer- 
ica. I  just  got  a  job  carrying  bricks 
up  fourteen  stories.  They've  got  a 
man  up  there  that  does  all  the 
work." 

—Kenneth  H.  Parnell 
Local  34 
Oakland,  Calif. 


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CARPENTER 


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AUGUST     1987 


29 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Frontlash  launches 
two-way  program 
with  local  onions 

Frontlash,  the  youth  arm  of  the  AFL- 
CIO,  has  launched  a  new  program  to 
increase  involvement  by  young  union 
members  under  the  age  of  thirty.  The 
Young  Workers'  Program  will  encourage 
young  unionists  to  become  involved  in 
the  total  spectrum  of  union  activities. 
Young  Workers'  chapters  will  be  formed 
within  central  bodies  with  a  director 
being  appointed  to  develop  activities  and 
coordinate  participation.  The  director  will 
work  with  affiliated  local  unions  to  bring 
young  union  member  volunteers  into  the 
program.  Locals  will  also  be  encouraged 
to  appoint  a  representative  to  each  chap- 
ter and  to  establish  young  workers'  com- 
mittees within  their  organizations. 

This  program  will  serve  as  a  two-way 
communications  tool  within  the  labor 
movement.  Young  union  members  will 
bring  their  experiences  and  background 
into  a  chapter  to  be  shared  with  their 
peers,  while  members  from  different  lo- 
cals will  gain  knowledge  of  other  unions 
through  their  chapter  experience.  Young 
workers  will  receive  information  about 
the  labor  movement  and  the  AFL-CIO 
to  share  with  their  locals. 

For  more  information  contact  Fron- 
tlash, 815  16th  Street,  NW,  Suite  404, 
Washington,  DC  20006,  (202)  783-3993. 


Former  KIngsport 
Press  goes  union 
after  24  years 

Twenty-four  years  ago  in  March,  1963, 
a  thousand  members  of  five  unions — the 
Bookbinders,  Printing  Pressmen,  Ma- 
chinists, Stereotypers  and  Typogra- 
phers— were  forced  to  strike  at  Kingsport 
Press.  Kingsport,  Tenn.,  because  of  man- 
agement refusal  to  bargain  in  good  faith 
as  well  as  previous  unfair  and  non-con- 
tractual practices  by  management. 

Kingsport  Press  management  brought 
in  hundreds  of  strikebreakers,  and  the 
AFL-CIO  put  the  company's  textbooks 
and  encyclopedias  on  its  unfair  hst.  In 
1967  the  National  Labor  Relations  Board 
decertified  the  unions  in  an  election  in 
which  only  the  scabs  were  permitted  to 
vote.  Several  organizing  campaigns  by 
other  unions  since  then  proved  unsuc- 
cessful. 

Kingsport  Press  is  now  Areata  Graph- 
ics, and  the  successor  company  recently 
tried  an  unfair  tactic,  too.  It  fired  283 


employees  and  replaced  them  with  tem- 
porary workers  paid  just  over  the  mini- 
mum wage.  Concerned  employees  began 
signing  union  authorization  cards  with 
the  Aluminum,  Brick  and  Glass  Workers 
Union,  and  in  June  workers  at  Areata 
Graphics  voted  union  2  to  1. 


Cause  of  collapse 
at  Bridgeport 
under  OSHA  study 

The  cause  for  the  April  23  collapse  of 
an  apartment  building  under  construction 
in  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  which  killed  28 
workers  may  take  months  to  determine. 
OSHA  investigators  have  looked  at  pos- 
sible causes,  which  could  include  whether 
improper  compacted  fill  was  used,  faulty 
jacks,  lack  of  proper  guide  wire  bracing 
and  errors  in  the  "lift  slab"  technique 
itself.  The  "lift-slab"  technique  is  used 
on  approximately  3%  of  construction 
projects,  according  to  an  OSHA 
spokesman. 


Check  the  playing 
cards  before  you 
cut  the  Aeck 

The  AFL-CIO  has  urged  all  union 
consumers  to  boycott  the  products  of  the 
U.S.  Playing  Card  Co.  until  members  of 
Locals  256  and  257  of  the  Retail,  Whole- 
sale and  Department  Store  Union  win  a 
fair  contract.  The  company's  brand  names 
include  Bicycle,  Bee,  Tally-Ho,  Aviator 
and  Congress.  Members  of  Local  256 
were  locked  out  of  the  plant  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio  last  November  when  the  company 
unilaterally  imposed  wage  and  benefit 
cuts,  destroying  30  years  of  harmony. 
The  office  employee  members  of  Local 
257  at  the  plant  have  honored  the  pick- 
etline,  but  since  have  been  asked  to 
accept  similar  concessions. 


Work  clothes  for 
women  In 
non-traditional  jobs 

Working  women  face  many  challenges 
in  today's  workplace,  but  one  of  the  most 
common  complaints  by  women  working 
in  non-traditional  occupations  is  their 
difficulty  in  finding  adequate  work  and 
protective  clothing.  Deborah  Evans 
Crawford  found  this  to  be  true  when  she 
needed  clothing  to  protect  her  from  the 
plant-care  chemicals  she  was  working 
with  and  had  to  wear  tennis  shoes  inside 
rubber  boots  that  were  too  large  for  her. 

"Women  have  been  ignored  by  work 
clothing  manufacturers,"  Crawford  said. 
Crawford  surveyed  thousands  of  women 
on  their  needs  for  work  clothes,  safety 
and  protective  clothing,  boots,  gloves, 
and  other  work  gear  and  tools,  and  began 


producing  special  apparel  for  WorkAbles 
for  Women,  a  woman-owned  company 
focusing  on  their  needs  in  work  clothing. 
WorkAbles  for  Women  now  carries  a 
quality  line  of  work  bib  overalls  and 
pants,  made  to  men's  clothing  standards, 
but  in  sizes  for  women.  More  information 
about  her  union-made  products  can  be 
obtained  by  writing  WorkAbles  for 
Women,  2  Valley,  Clinton,  Pa.  15026- 
0214. 

AFL-CIO  salutes 
40th  year  of 
Israel  federation 

The  AFL-CIO  reaffirmed  its  "long- 
standing and  consistent  support  for  the 
only  free  and  democratic  state  in  the 
Middle  East"  as  Israel  marks  its  40th 
anniversary  of  statehood.  The  AFL-CIO 
Executive  Council  also  reiterated  its  sol- 
idarity with  Israel's  labor  federation  His- 
tadrut,  which  it  said  "has  played  a  central 
role  in  shaping  the  social,  economic  and 
cultural  life  of  Israel.  We  salute  Histadrut 
for  its  defense  of  the  rights  of  all  Israeli 
workers,  irrespective  of  their  race  or 
national  origin." 

Magic  Chef  returns 
to  union 
approved  list 

The  Molders  and  Allied  Workers  Union 
has  announced  that  several  hundred 
workers  at  a  Magic  Chef  kitchen  range 
plant  in  Cleveland,  Tenn.,  have  ratified 
a  new  contract,  ending  a  bitter  four-year 
walkout.  Molders  President  Bernard  But- 
savage  said  victory  came  because  of 
solidarity  in  the  union  movement  behind 
the  strikers  and  the  unbroken  dedication 
of  the  Magic  Chef  workers.  Resolution 
of  the  strike  was  made  possible  largely 
when  Magic  Chef  was  purchased  last 
year  by  Maytag  Corp. 


TWA  must  give 
back  senior  flight 
attendants  jobs 

Trans  World  Airlines  must  replace  flight 
attendants  who  crossed  picket  lines  dur- 
ing a  strike  last  year  with  more  senior 
attendants  who  participated  in  the  walk- 
out, the  Eighth  Circuit  Court  has  ruled. 
The  decision  reversed  a  ruling  by  the 
U.S.  District  Court  for  Western  Missouri 
last  year.  The  appeals  court  upheld  the 
lower  court's  ruling  that  463  trainees 
hired  after  the  strike  ended  should  be 
replaced  with  former  strikers.  It  also 
agreed  with  the  district  court  that  those 
hired  as  strike  replacements  should  retain 
their  jobs.  An  Independent  Federation 
of  Flight  Attendants  official  says  the 
ruling  could  result  in  the  recall  of  1 ,500 
strikers,  or  about  one-third  of  those  who 
have  not  been  recalled. 


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CARPENTER 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Ellis  Island  Museum 
Wants  'Memorabilia' 

The  National  Park  Service  is  seel<- 
ing  objects  that  relate  to  Ellis  Island 
for  the  period  from  1892  through  1924. 
The  objects  will  be  made  a  part  of  the 
permanent  museum  to  be  established 
at  Ellis  Island  early  in  1989. 

Following  are  the  categories  of  ma- 
terials being  sought: 

•  Trunks,  baskets  and  luggage  that 
passed  through  Ellis  Island; 

•  Passports,  travel  papers,  inspec- 
tion cards  and  related  documents; 

•  Diaries,  drawings,  letters,  etc., 
which  describe  the  immigration  ex- 
perience; 

•  "Treasures"  and  artifacts  brought 
from  the  homeland,  including  house- 
wares, tools,  toys,  children's  wear, 
musical  instruments,  religious  ob- 
jects, clothing,  etc.; 

•  Photos  of  the  immigrants  in  their 
homeland,  at  Ellis  Island  and/or  shortly 
after  their  arrival  in  the  U.S.; 

•  Memorabilia  associated  with  for- 
mer employees  at  Ellis  Island. 

If  UBC  retirees  have  any  of  the 
above  or  any  items  appropriate  for 
an  immigration  museum  at  Ellis  Island 
or  know  of  someone  having  such 
mementos,  please  write  to:  The  Reg- 
istrar, Metaform,  Rothe/D  &  P,  15  E. 
26th  Street,  New  York,  NY  10010. 


Older  Americans 
On  the  Increase 

Since  1980,  older  Americans — those  65 
and  older — have  increased  far  more  rapidly 
than  any  other  age  group,  according  to  A 
Profile  of  Older  Americans:  1986,  an  annual 
publication  of  the  American  Association  of 
Retired  Persons  (AARP). 

The  65-plus  age  group  increased  by  2.8 
million  or  11%  since  1980,  compared  to  an 
increase  of  4%  for  the  under  65  population, 
the  AARP  publication  notes. 

Other  statistics  reveal  that  older  Ameri- 
cans are  living  longer.  In  1985  the  65-74  age 
group  of  17  million  was  nearly  eight  times 
larger  than  in  1900,  but  the  75-84  group, 
numbering  8.8  million,  was  II  times  larger 
and  the  85-plus  group,  numbering 2.7  million, 
was  22  times  larger. 

A  Profile  of  Older  Americans  also  looks 
at  the  future  and  notes  that  the  older  pop- 
ulation is  expected  to  continue  to  grow. 
During  the  1990s,  however,  this  growth  will 
slow  because  of  the  relatively  small  number 
of  babies  born  during  the  Great  Depression 
of  the  1930s.  Growth  will  pick  up  again 
around  the  turn  of  the  century  with  rapid 
increase  expected  between  the  years  2010 
and  2030  when  the  "baby  boom"  generation 
reaches  age  65. 

Other  statistics  in  A  Profile  of  Older  Amer- 
icans deal  with  marital  status,  living  arrange- 
ments, racial  and  ethnic  composition,  geo- 
graphic distrubution,  education,  employment 
and  health.  The  brochure  was  prepared  by 
AARP  and  the  Administration  on  Aging 
(AoA),  U.S.  Department  of  Health  and  Hu- 
man Services.  The  findings  of  AARP  are 
borne  out  by  studies  made  by  the  National 
Council  of  Senior  Citizens. 

Single  copies  of  thepamphlet  are  available 
free  of  charge  by  writing.  A  Profile  of  Older 
Americans:  1986,  AARP  Fulfillment,  P.O. 
Box  2240,  Long  Beach,  CA  90801;  for  mul- 
tiple copies,  write:  A  Profile  of  Older  Amer- 
icans: 1986,  Program  Resouces  Department, 
AARP,  1909  K  Street,  NW,  Washington, 
DC  20049. 


Indiana  Club  Hosts  Luncheon  Speakers 


Club  27,  Hammond,  Ind.,  celebrated  Valentine's  Day  with  a  luncheon  and  speaker 
presentations.  They  had  visiting  speakers  from  the  Health  and  Welfare  Department  as 
well  as  from  the  Social  Security  Administration.  A  lour  film  was  shown  of  Hawaii.  New 
officers  were  elected.  They  included  Dorothy  Nash,  treasurer;  John  Martis,  vice  presi- 
dent; Jesse  Wingard,  secretary;  and  Duke  Deflorio,  president. 


Carpenters 
Hang  It  Up 

Clamp  these  heavy  duty, 
non-stretch  suspenders 
to  your  tool  belt  and 
you'll  feel  like  you're 
floating  on  air.  Take  the 
weiqht  off  your  hips  and 
put  It  on  your  shoulders. 
Made  of  soft,  comfortable 
2"  wide  nylon.  Adjust  to 
fit  all  sizes. 

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satisfied  return  for  full  refund. 

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Please  rush  "HANG  IT  UP"  suspenders  at 
$16.95  each  includes  postage  &  handling. 

Utah  residents  add  5Vi%  sales  tax  (.77t).  Canada  residents 
send  U.S.  equivalent,  Koney  Orders  Only. 

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P.O.  Box979,  1155N530W 
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Full  Length  Roof  Framer 

The  roof  framer  companion  since 
1917.  Over  500,000  copies  sold. 

A  pocket  size  book  with  the  EN- 
TIRE length  of  Common-Hip-Valley 
and  Jack  rafters  completely  worked 
out  for  you.  The  flattest  pitch  is  % 
inch  rise  to  12  inch  run.  Pitches  in- 
crease Vz  inch  rise  each  time  until 
the  steep  pitch  of  24"  rise  to  12" 
run  is  reached. 

There  are  2400  widths  of  build- 
ings for  each  pitch.  The  smallest 
width  is  Vi  inch  and  they  increase 
Vi"  each  time  until  they  cover  a  50 
foot   building. 

There  are  2400  Commons  and  2400 
Hip,  Valley  &  Jack  lengths  for  each 
pitch.  230,400  rafter  lengths  for  48 
pitch>es. 

A  hip  roof  is  48'-9%"  wide.  Pitch 
is  7%"  rise  to  12"  run.  You  can  pick 
out  the  length  of  Commons,  Hips  and 
Jacks  and  the  Cuts  in  ONE  MINUTE. 
Let  us  prove  it,  or  return  your  money. 


In  the  U.S.A.  send  $7.50.  California  residents 
add  45<  tax. 

We  also  have  a  very  fine  Stair  book  9"  X 
12".  It  sells  (or  $4.50.  California  residents  add 
27*  tox. 


A.   RIECHERS 

P.  0.  Box  405,  Palo  Alto,  Calif.  94302 


AUGUST     1987 


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AIDS 

Are^  there  on-the-job 
risks? 

AIDS  IS  A  HARD  DISEASE  TO  CATCH,  WE'RE  TOLD 

Information  supplied  by  the  American  Red  Cross 


AIDS  (acquired  immune  deficiency 
syndrome)  is  a  frightening  disease,  but 
no  one  should  be  afraid  of  catching  it 
at  wori<. 

AIDS  is  caused  by  a  virus  that  does 
not  survive  well  outside  the  body.  The 
virus  is  not  spread  by  casual,  nonsexual 
contact.  This  means  that  you  can't 
catch  AIDS  from  a  cough,  a  sneeze,  a 
handshake,  or  a  hug.  Nor  can  you  catch 
it  from  the  food  you  eat,  no  matter  who 
prepared  or  served  that  food.  You  won't 
get  AIDS  by  working  closely  with  a 
coworker  who  has  the  disease.  Nor  will 
you  get  it  by  having  coffee,  going  to 
lunch,  or  sharing  toilet  facilities  with 
that  person. 

Careful  studies  have  shown  that  doc- 
tors, nurses,  and  medical  technicians 
who  have  taken  care  of  AIDS  patients 
have  not  contracted  the  disease  from 
them.  Scientists  have  not  found  a  single 
instance  in  which  the  AIDS  virus  has 
been  spread  through  ordinary  nonsex- 
ual contact  in  a  family,  work,  or  social 
setting. 

AIDS,  in  fact,  is  a  very  hard  disease 
to  catch.  Yet  recent  surveys  have  shown 
that  almost  one  third  of  the  American 
population  believes  AIDS  can  be  spread 
by  casual  contact,  in  spite  of  all  sci- 
entific evidence  to  the  contrary.  Fear 
of  the  unknown  may  help  to  explain 
why  some  people  react  in  this  way, 
since  people  tend  to  fear  what  they  do 
not  understand. 

As  we  discussed  last  month  there  are 
two  main  ways  the  AIDS  virus  is  spread: 
sexual  contact  and  sharing  of  contam- 
inated needles  and  syringes  among  users 
of  illegal  intravenous  (IV)  drugs.  In  this 
article  we  will  discuss  some  precautions 
you  as  a  worker  can  take  and  precau- 
tions carriers  of  AIDS  should  take  to 
protect  those  around  them. 


or  the  food  you  eat;  nor  is  it  spread  by 
routine,  nonsexual,  everyday  contact. 
For  workers  in  general,  then,  there 
is  no  need  for  worry  or  special  precau- 
tions. Following  are  guidelines  and  an- 
swers to  some  questions  that  may  arise 
for  workers  in  particular  occupations. 


Food  Handlers 

Because  the  AIDS  virus  is  not  trans- 
mitted in  food,  people  who  work  with 
food,  such  as  cooks,  caterers,  waiters, 
bartenders,  airline  attendants,  and  oth- 
ers, should  not  be  restricted  from  work 
because  they  have  AIDS  or  have  been 
infected  by  the  AIDS  virus. 

All  food  service  workers,  including 
those  with  AIDS,  should,  of  course, 
observe  good  personal  hygiene  and  san- 
itary food-handling  procedures.  They 
should  take  particular  care  to  avoid 
injury  to  their  hands  while  preparing 
food. 

Sanitation  guidelines  require  that  any 
food  that  becomes  contaminated  with 
blood  from  a  cut  be  thrown  away.  Food 
service  workers  with  AIDS  or  AIDS 
virus  infection  should  be  restricted  from 
work  if  they  have  open  sores  or  skin 
lesions  or  illnesses  for  which  any  other 
food  handler  would  also  be  restricted. 


AIDS  and  Your  Job 

Again,  it  should  be  emphasized  that 
a  fellow  employee  who  has  AIDS  or 
who  carries  the  AIDS  virus  does  not 
pose  a  danger  to  you.  Remember,  the 
virus  is  not  spread  in  the  air  you  breathe 


Personal  Service  Workers 

Beauticians,  barbers,  cosmetologists, 
electrologists,  manicurists,  and  similar 
personal  service  workers  routinely  ob- 
serve procedures  that  protect  them  and 
their  clients  from  bacterial  and  viral 
infections.  The  risk  of  spreading  the 
AIDS  virus  in  these  settings  is  very 
low,  but  when  instruments  that  could 
draw  blood  are  used,  sterilizing  equip- 
ment is  important. 

•  Instruments  that  penetrate  the  skin, 
such  as  ear-piercing  devices  and 
needles  used  for  electrolysis,  tattoo- 
ing, and  acupuncture,  should  be  dis- 
carded after  one  use,  or  thoroughly 
cleaned  and  disinfected  between  uses 
with  a  chemical  germicide. 

•  The  same  procedure  should  be  fol- 


lowed for  other  instruments,  such  as 
razors  or  cuticle  scissors. 
•  A  personal  service  worker  with  open 
sores  or  weeping  sores  should  refrain 
from  direct  client  contact  until  the 
wound  is  healed. 

All  instruments  used  by  personal  serv- 
ice workers  should  be  sterilized  or  dis- 
infected between  uses.  Information  on 
commercial  germicides  may  be  ob- 
tained from  the  Disinfectant  Branch, 
Office  of  Pesticides,  Environmental 
Protection  Agency,  401  M  St.,  S.W., 
Washington,  DC  20460. 


Workers  With  Jobs 
Requiring  Special 
Precautions 

Police  personnel,  firefighters,  emer- 
gency medical  workers,  and  prison  em- 
ployees may  be  exposed  to  blood  or 
other  body  fluids  of  people  with  AIDS 
or  AIDS-related  disorders  because  of 
accidents,  fires,  or  violence.  Fortu- 
nately, by  observing  a  few  simple  rules, 
workers  can  avoid  infection. 

•  Avoid  wounds  from  weapons  and 
punctures  from  hypodermic  needles 
used  by  drug  abusers.  Blood  on  these 
articles  could  cause  infection. 

•  Use  disposable  gloves  in  handling 
contaminated  articles. 

•  Place  contaminated  articles  in  a  cut- 
proof  evidence  bag  to  be  taken  to  a 
laboratory  for  examination  or  dis- 
posal. 

•  Clean  up  blood  spills  promptly  with 
freshly  diluted  household  bleach — 
one  part  bleach  to  10  parts  water. 

•  If  mouth-to-mouth  resuscitation  is 
necessary  for  a  person  with  AIDS, 
use  an  "S-tube"  or  a  hand-operated 
resuscitator  bag. 

•  Wash  your  hands  after  exposure  to 
any  possible  source  of  infection.  Hand 
washing  reduces  the  chance  of  spread 
of  infection. 

•  Wear  protective  masks,  gloves, 
gowns,  and  shoe  coverings,  if  there 
is  a  chance  of  exposure  to  blood  or 
other  body  fluids  of  someone  with 
AIDS. 

With  proper  precautions  taken,  the 
risk  of  contracting  AIDS  on  the  job  is 
minimal.  More  information  concerning 
AIDS  and  AIDS-related  illnesses  can 
be  obtained  from: 

•  Your  union  representative  or  person- 
nel department 

•  Your  doctor. 

•  Your  state  or  local  health  depart- 
ment. 

•  The  Public  Health  Service's  toll-free 
hotline:  1-800-342- AIDS. 

•  Your  local  chapter  of  the  American 
Red  Cross. 


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CARPENTER 


Service 


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BreHMvlMed 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who  recently  received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


Picture  No,  1 


Red  Bank,  N.J.— Picture  No.  4 


William  Haller  and  Bryce  Haldeman. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Frank  Peschek,  Joiin 
Orr,  Mike  Onuska,  Gordon  Marsiiall,  Mario 
Marino  and  Ed  Austin. 

Picture  No.  4  siiows  35-year  members,  from 
left:  Stanley  Richards,  Ralpli  Newman,  Eugene 
Gulovsen,  Robert  Levy,  Robert  Hembling,  John 
Hazard  and  John  H.  Hilbert. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  30-year  members,  from 
left:  Art  Roussell,  Karl  Nordin,  Dan  Hornik, 
Charles  Capro  and  Frank  Grabcwski. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  25-year  members,  from 
left:  Business  Representative  James  A.  Kirk  Jr., 
John  McKenna,  Thomas  Scala  and  Don 
St,  Germain. 

Also  honored,  but  not  pictured  were:  60-year 
member  Al  Carlson;  50-year  members  Emil 
Eilertsen  and  Walter  Michaelson;  45-year 
members  Leon  Britton,  Elmer  Havens,  Norman 
Jobes,  Al  Martin,  John  Mason,  Norman  Pharo, 
Ray  Pierce,  George  Ruppel,  Krist  Simonsen, 
Phil  Stafflinger,  James  Sunris  and  Arthur 
Youmas;  40-year  members  Don  Belvin,  Daniel 
Britten,  Charles  Britton,  William  I.  Buchanan, 
Mercer  Clayton,  Henry  Erving,  Ed  Horn,  Ed 
Irons,  Robert  Jagel,  Pat  Karinja,  John  Lamp, 
Kenneth  Miller,  Kenneth  Mount,  William 
Neihart,  Ray  Pinto,  Vincent  Porcelli,  Kenneth 
Rose,  Leroy  Sass,  Joe  Smith,  George  Spafford, 
John  Tantum,'  Edgar  Welch  and  Ed  Wenz;  35- 
year  members  Gordon  Allerton,  Harry  Bennett, 
Ralph  Conover,  Arthur  Cotgreave,  Louis 
Hartmen,  William  Levy,  Fred  Mann,  George 
Ostrowski,  William  Patton,  James  S. 
Pemberton,  Robert  Perkins,  Ken  Peterson,  Brad 
Piersall,  Ivan  Pulos,  James  Reed,  John  Regan, 
Ernest  Schanck,  Donald  Smith,  Thomas 
Stothart,  Walter  Windsor  and  Dick  Kirman;  30- 
year  members  Ray  Binaco,  Stanley  Boylan, 
Harold  Hayek  Sr.,  Richard  Kreiss  and  William 
McComas;  25-year  members  Nick  Barbato, 
Frank  Buonano,  Martin  Fehlhaber,  Robert 
Graber,  Frank  Hocko,  Robert  Lemay,  William 
Normand  and  Vincent  Schreck. 


Red  Bank,  N.J.— Picture  No.  2 


Red  Bank,  N.J.— Picture  No.  5 


Red  Bank,  N.J.— Picture  No.  3 


Red  Bank,  N.J.— Picture  No.  6 
AUGUST     1987 


RED  BANK,  N.J. 

At  a  recent  regular  meeting,  the  members  of 
Local  2250  awarded  service  pins  to  those  with 
longstanding  membership  in  the  United 
Brotherhood, 

Picture  No.  1  shows  60-year  member 
William  F,  Buchanan, 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members,  from 
left:  William  Hewitson,  Sam  Bennett  and  Joseph 
RImkus, 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  John  Sulenka,  George 
Schildknecht,  Robert  MacDonald,  John  Jones, 


Ctiicago,  III. 

CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Local  13  held  a  pin  presentation  during  their 
annual  holiday  party  where  60-year  member 
Elio  Cipriani,  left,  and  25-year  member  Nick 
Cortina,  second  from  right,  were  honored.  Also 
pictured  are  General  Executive  Board  Member 
Thomas  Hanahan  and  Local  Business  Manager 
Thomas  E,  Ryan,  right. 


CHICAGO,  ILL. 

Special  recognition 
goes  to  Halvor  Hansen, 
a  member  in  good 
standing  of  Local  13  for 
68  years.  The  89  year- 
old  Hansen  joined  the 
local  in  1919, 


Hansen 


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Monetery,  Calif. 
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Minneapolis,  Minn. — Picture  No.  4 


MONTEREY,  CALIF. 

At  a  local  union  meeting.  Local  1323  gave 
special  recognition  to  members  with  40  and  45 
years  of  experience. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  40-year  members,  first 
row,  from  left:  John  Foxworthy,  Ross  Ricks, 
Eighth  District  Board  Member  Bud  Bryant, 
Casper  Aliotti,  Russ  Hansen,  Clem  Savoldi, 
Representative  Paul  Richards  and  Serafin 
"Butch"  Caballo. 

Second  row,  from  left;  Wilfred  IWcGowan, 
Grover  Carver,  Dean  Nichols,  Manual  George 
and  Donald  Laycock. 

Third  row,  from  left:  William  Reynolds,  Lloyd 
Dickson,  Lee  Reyburn,  Orencio  Perez  and  Joe 
Torres. 

Fourth  row,  from  left:  Vince  Cal,  Bill  Ewing, 
Ron  Vining,  Sid  Whitaker,  William  Lingg,  Virgil 
Spencer,  George  Womack  and  Elford 
MacDonald. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Ray  Danielson,  Board  Member 
Bryant,  Maurice  Urquidi,  Lester  Vandervort, 
Harold  Burkam  and  Representative  Richards. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Theo  Wood,  Al 
Huffman,  Lloyd  Maybury,  Jess  Franco,  Carl 
Cardinalli  and  Tony  Perez. 

Honored  but  not  available  for  pictures  were 
40-year  members  Joseph  Aliotti,  Al  Augustitus, 
Robert  Baker,  Virgil  Baker,  CO.  Childress, 
W.B,  Danielson,  Warner  Dodge 
(posthumously),  Marion  Getz,  Carl  Gideon, 
George  Gile,  Vern  Henderson,  Elias  Houck, 
M.E.  Krebs,  OIlie  Layton,  Elford  MacDonald, 
Ray  Mann,  John  Martin,  Ralph  Monroe,  B.M. 
Neal,  Joe  Patrick,  Leonard  Piazza 
(posthumously),  Forrest  Rudy,  Bob  Rush,  John 
Senti,  Harold  Thomas,  Carl  Voigt,  Cecil  Walker 
and  Charles  Whiteman;  and  45-year  members 
Stephan  Bridge,  G.M.  Connelly,  Bill  Jensen, 
Vancil  Jones,  Harold  Myhr,  Glen  Nutter, 
Monroe  Parker,  Birt  Schaefer,  E.F.  Schafer  and 
Sam  Tunnell. 


Minneapolis,  Minn.— Picture  No.  2 


Minneapolis,  Minn.— Picture  No.  1 


MINNEAPOLIS,  MINN. 

Local  7  recently  honored  members 
celebrating  50  or  more  years  of  service  to  the 
Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  71 -year  member 
Richard  Otte,  right,  with  Local  President  George 
Zastrow. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  65-year  member  E.C. 
Habberstad,  right,  with  Financial  Secretary 
Reeve  Webster,  left,  and  President  Zastrow. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  60-year  members  Fritz 
Johnson,  left, and  58-year  member  Ted 
Hagfors,  right. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  50  and  over  members: 
William  Edwin,  Harry  Erickson,  John  Erickson, 
E.  C.  Habberstad,  Ted  Hagfors,  Fritz  Johnson, 
Mathias  Opsahl,  Richard  Otte,  Charles  Schleich, 
Harold  Sersland,  Donald  Stark,  Ernest  Strom, 
Aldor  Swanson,  Oscar  Swanson,  F.  0. 
Wallander,  Paul  Winje  and  Kenneth 
Zimmerman. 

Members  honored  but  not  photographed 
were  Stanley  Amundsen,  Albert  C.  Anderson, 
B.  A.  Anderson,  John  Arneson,  Sam  Burdman, 
Harold  Dahlen,  W.  E.  Dusterhoft,  Robert 
Eckers,  Gustaf  Ellefson,  Ernest  E.  Enquist,  W. 


Minneapolis,  Minn. — Picture  No.  3 

A.  Falk,  H.  V.  Forsen,  Emil  Gustafson,  Henry 
Hansen,  William  Hareid,  Roy  L.  Hess,  Arthur 
Huovie,  Edward  J.  Kunz,  Edmund  Johnson, 
Richard  C.  Johnson,  W.  Johnson,  John  R. 
Jones,  Alfred  Lindholm,  Wallace  Morin,  John 
C.  Nelson,  Paul  Nelson,  Ernest  Olson,  Henrik 
Olson,  R,  E.  Olson,  Thomas  Osborne,  Oscar 
Ramberg,  John  Sappa,  Charles  H.  Shaub,  John 
Skoglund,  Wilhelm  "August"  Soders,  Ernest 
Sundberg  and  Wm.  "Otto"  Widmer. 


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Hazelton,  Pa.— Picture  No.  2 


Hazelton,  Pa.— Picture  No.  3 


Hazelton,  Pa. — Picture  No.  4 


Hazelton,  Pa  —Picture  No  5 


Hazelton,  Pa.— Picture  No.  6 


Cincinnati,  Ohio 


HAZLETON,  PA. 


Local  76  recently  honored  members  with  25 
to  65  years  of  service  to  the  UBC  at  an  awards 
banquet.  The  honorees  were  photographed  by 
Financial  Secretary  John  J.  Bashago. 

Picture  No.  1 
shows  65-year 
member  Wallace 
Henninger. 

Picture  No.  2 
shows  25-year 
members,  front  row, 
from  left:  Jim  Blew, 
Joe  Burba,  Adam 
Dombrosl<y,  Mike  Jaricl<,  Nelson  Kehler  and 
Wayne  Lohrke. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Carl  Lute,  Bob  Mint, 
Ron  Welliver,  Steve  Peron,  George  Wolehesky 
and  Ted  Yatcilla. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  30-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Frank  Casey,  Bob  Clark,  Norbert 
Cotazza,  Charles  Dvorscak,  Jack  Hornack  and 
Leonard  Kalades. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Mile  LaRose,  George 
Mauray,  Paul  Minda,  Frank  Moran,  Howard 
Sandri,  Angelo  Serra  and  Bernie  Smitorvich. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Nick  Allegretto,  Jim  Belusko  Sr., 


Picture  No.  1 


Leonard  Capozzeli,  Robert  Jones  and  Roy 
Kleppinger. 

Middle  row,  from  left:  Robert  Klinger,  George 
Miller,  John  Pasierb,  Frank  Peron,  Stanley 
Ritsick,  Harold  Sheman  and  Mike  Siroka. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Carl  Smith,  Carl 
Valentine,  Bill  Walp,  George  Sikowski,  Vic 
Yanuskiewicz  and  Steve  Zanalini. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  40-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Joe  Bove,  Bill  Ooyne,  Charles 
Eroh,  Fred  Falls  and  Harold  Faust. 

Center  row,  fom  left:  Adolph  Folta,  Stanley 
GaLavage,  Steve  Garancheski,  Emil  Gera  and 
Bill  Kadis. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Alex  Krawczel,  Bill 
Marcinkevich,  Frank  Moshinski,  Corney 
Neiswender  and  Chet  Purnell. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  45-year  members,  front 
row,  from  left:  Joe  Adams,  Bill  Cresina,  Bob 
Ertwine,  Joe  Kutskiel  and  George  Lohrke. 

Center  row,  from  left:  John  McCready,  Adam 
Marcinkevich,  John  Marcinkevich,  Gerald 
Marion  and  Charles  I.  Reading. 

Back  row,  from  left:  Joe  Vadus  and  Paul 
Sell. 

Honored  but  not  available  for  photographs 
were  25-year  member  Charles  Marshall,  30- 
year  member  Fred  Baum,  35-year  member  Al 
Folta  and  40-vear  members  John  Anthony  and 
Harold  Schieb. 


CINCINNATI,  OHIO 

Local  415  awarded  its  members  with 
longstanding  service  at  its  December  meeting. 
Pictured  from  left:  Robert  Walters,  30-year 
member;  Elmer  Geiser,  35-year  member; 
Robert  Willsey,  45-year  member;  Earl  Brown, 
20-year  member;  and  William  Kloeker,  35-year 
member. 

Back  row:  Charles  Meece,  30-year  member, 
David  Meece,  30-year  member;  Elbert  Meece, 
30-year  member;  Alfred  Binzer,  20-year 
member;  Allen  Buschard,  20-year  member;  and 
Richard  Cahill,  20-year  member. 


The  "'Service  To  The  Brother- 
hood" section  gives  recognition  to 
United  Brotherhood  members  with 
20  or  more  years  of  service.  Please 
identify  members  carefully,  from  left 
to  right,  printing  or  typing  the  names 
to  ensure  readability.  Prints  can  be 
black  and  white  or  color  as  long  as 
they  are  sharp  and  in  focus.  Send 
material  to  CARPENTER  magazine, 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W.,  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  20001. 


AUGUST    1987 


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MORTON,  WASH. 

Members  of  Local  2767  were  presented  with 
pins  for  their  longstanding  service  to  the 
Brotherhood  this  spring. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  Frank  Strasser,  45-year 
member;  Hubert  Neeley,  50-year  member; 
Charles  Graves,  45-y8ar  member;  and  Wes 
Jones,  45-year  member. 

Picture  No.  2  from  left:  H.E.  Turner,  Robert 
Gottfyrd,  Woodrow  Vandeboe,  Richard  Rooda, 


Robert  Maitland,  and  E.L.  Parks,  all  40-year 
members. 

Picture  No.  3  back  row:  Don  Phillips,  35- 
year  member;  Robert  Gerard,  35-year  member; 
Fred  Thayer,  35-year  member;  and  Kenneth 
Thayer,  25-year  member.  Front  row:  William 
Hewitt,  35-year  member;  Donald  Stumm,  35- 
year  member;  Harold  Thayer,  40-year  member; 
Leonard  Lawty,  35-year  member;  and  Spencer 
Harmon,  35-year  member. 


Morton,  Wasti. — Picture  No.  1 


lyiorton,  Wasfi. — Picture  No.  2 


Morton,  Wasfi. — Picture  No.  3 


ST.  LOUIS,  MO. 

Local  1596  honored  its  members  of 
longstanding  service  to  the  Brotherhood  at  their 
annual  Christmas  party. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  Leonard  Terbrock, 
executive  secretary-treasurer;  Bernard  Fulwider, 
50-year  member;  Glen  Jackson,  business 
representative;  and  William  Steinkamp. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  50-year  member  Adam 
Mueller. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  60-year  member  Oscar 
Dressel. 


Picture  No.  2 


Picture  No.  3 


Picture  No.  4  shows  65-year  member 
Charles  Bentz. 

Picture  No.  5  was  taken  of  members 
awarded  for  longstanding  service.  From  left: 
Keith  Cobb,  trustee;  John  Schmied,  financial 
secretary-treasurer;  Glen  Jackson,  business 
representative;  John  Goft,  25-year  member; 
Kevin  Byrne,  trustee;  Leonard  Terbrock, 
executive  secretary-treasurer,  St.  Louis  District 
Council;  Thomas  Kern,  25-year  member; 
Bernard  Fulwider,  50-year  member;  Charles 
Bentz,  65-year  member;  Oscar  Dressel,  60-year 
member;  Walter  Roesch,  vice  president;  Adam 
Mueller,  50-year  member;  Raymond  Vogler,  25- 


year  member;  OIlie  Langhorst,  retired  district 
council  secretary-treasurer;  William  Carter,  25- 
year  member;  Michael  Lesinski,  25-year 
member;  Bob  Monroe,  president;  Leo 
Schroeder,  25-year  member;  William 
Steinkamp,  business  representative;  and  David 
McFerron,  trustee. 

25-year  pin  recipients 
for  Local  1596,  but  not 
pictured,  included 
Leonard  Kowalski,  Stuart 
Bruner,  Stanley  Curtiss, 
Leamon  Pender,  Louis 
Geen,  Jerry  Frenzel, 
James  McCabe,  Edward 
Kraus,  Sam  D.  Dolce, 
Melvin  Larson,  Bruce  Pangburn,  and  Donald 
Weiss. 

Other  members  eligible  for  awards  but  unable 
to  attend  the  celebration  were  Phillip  Mang,  60- 
year  member;  Ervin  Brachtendorf,  50-year 
member;  Phillip  Kreider,  50-year  member;  and 
John  Schnelker,  50-year  member. 


Picture  No.  4 


St.  Louis,  Mo. — Picture  No.  1 


St.  Louis,  Mo. — Picture  No.  5 
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CARPENTER 


The  following  list  of  860  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,563,809.58  death  claims  paid  In  May  1987;  (s)  following 
name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members 


Local  Union,  City 

i  Chicago,  IL — Charles  Edward  Mason,  Philip  F. 
Probst.  Philip  F.  Probst.  Robert  N.  Michalski,  Rob- 
ert S.  Nirva. 

2  Cincinnati,  OH — John  Washington  Eaton 

3  Wheeling,  WV— Charles  J,  Swingle 

5  St.  Louis,  MO— Elsie  C.  Bradley  (s),  Eugene  W. 
Payton,  Wilburn  I.  McKeethen. 

7  Minneapolis,  MN — Arlene  J.  Obrien  (s),  Charlotte 
E.  Johnson  (s).  Glen  A.  Ford,  Gustaf  E.  Ellefson, 
Steven  Havrish. 

8  Philadelphia,  PA — Fred  Frederickson,  Gilda  H. 
Leister  (s).  Walter  Lamont. 

9  Buffalo,  NY— Paul  Santospirito. 

10  Chicago,  IL — James  E.  Harry,  Oscar  Renman,  Ro- 
sielee  Braswell  (s). 

12  Syracuse,  NY — Harry  J.  Harvey. 

13  Chicago,  11.^ — Angela  Krawczyk  (s),  Irving  Pearson. 

14  San  Antonio,  TX— Alfred  E.  Wolfshohl,  George  L. 
Yose.  John  George  Geis.  Louis  E.  Zaieski. 

15  Hackensack,  NJ — Alexander  Lewis.  Charles  Grabe. 
Frank  Dvorak,  George  Nunnermacker,  Herbert 
Swens.  Jacob  Giardina. 

18     Hamilton,  Ont.  CAN— Martin  Berendt 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Carl  Eschler,  Frank  Kammerer, 
George  Marin,  John  W.  Little,  Joseph  B.  Mitchell, 
Princelia  Hendon  (s),  U.  L.  Beck. 

23  Williamsport,  PA— Harry  Howells. 

24  Central  Connecticut — Alice  Dubreuil  (s).  Frank  An- 
nunziala.  Frank  Tejral.  Joe!  A.  Whipple. 

25  Los  Angeles,  CA— Charles  A.  Willis,  J.  W.  Vercher, 
Jack  E.  Gray,  Robert  H.  Cook. 

27    Toronto,  Ont.  CAN— Mervyn  C.  Coert. 
31     Trenton,  NJ — Joseph  J.  Bronish. 

34  Oakland,  CA— William  J.  Yager. 

35  San  Rafael,  CA— Marie  B.  Dentkos  (s). 

36  Oakland,  CA — Arnold  L.  Chapman,  Clara  Lane  (s). 
Henry  Yee.  John  W.  Fields.  Martin  Bailey  Loomis. 
Mary  lone  Dockery-Porter  (s),  Mary  N.  Ferring  (s). 
Rita  Mae  Brooks  (s).  Stanley  J.  Bowers. 

■   42  San  Francisco,  CA — John  W.  Owen. 

46  S  Ste  Marie,  Ml—Wiliiam  D.  Mcintosh. 

47  St.  Louis,  MO— Edna  B.  Kapper  (s),  John  R.  Graber. 

48  Fitchburg,  MA— Wilho  Ojalehto. 

50  Knoxville,  TN — Edward  Carl  Donaldson,  James  Roy 
Lee. 

54  Chicago,  IL — Aloysius  Moskalski,  George  O.  Steele. 

55  Denver,  CO — Henry  Western,  John  J.  Solomon, 
Robert  Stevens. 

56  Boston,  MA — William  Harrington. 

58  Chicago,  H^Carl  L.  Nelson.  John  I.  Cleve,  Roy 
Frednck  Erickson.  William  Padgett. 

60  Indianapolis,  IN — Russell  G.  Lewis. 

61  Kansas  City,  MO— Charles  T.  Boyer,  Forest  C. 
Ireland.  Fredric  W.  Miller,  Joseph  W.  Niewald 

62  Chicago,  IL — Sven  Olson. 

63  Bloomington,  IL — Paul  G.  Meier. 

64  Louisville,  KY — James  R.  Keltner.  John  Cantrell 
Gill. 

65  Perth  Amboy,  NJ — George  F.  Martin. 

66  Olean,  NY — Arthur  W.  Peterson,  Mary  Gronski  (s). 

67  Boston,  MA — William  E.  Briggs. 

69    Canton,  OH — Garry  W.  Meese,  Raymond  E.  Fair. 
71     Fort  Smith,  AR— James  O.  Crabtree. 

73  St.  Louis,  MO— Charies  F.  Neal,  Charles  J.  Kahr 
Jr. 

74  Chattanooga,  TN — Benjamin  W.  Fletcher,  Jennie 
Bell  Shelton  (s). 

80  Chicago,  II — Emil  W.  Maxeiner,  Ernest  P.  Wavak, 
William  Strachan. 

81  Erie,  PA— Carl  F.  Bates. 

87  St.  Paul,  MN— Clarence  W.  Oletzke.  Donald  Jacob- 
sen.  Raymond  R.  Johnson.  Vincent  Kranz. 

89  Mobile,  AL— Ezra  B.  Turner.  Henry  W.  Watson, 
Nora  Mae  G.  Smith  (s). 

93  Ottawa,  Ont.  CAN — Alvin  Brownell.  Irenee  Vachon, 
Lawrence  Shaw. 

94  Providence,  RI — George  Espanola,  James  Walter 
Trojan.  Manuel  Corey,  Oscar  Laurienzo,  Raymond 
Jordan,  Thomas  Hines. 

101  Baltimore,  MD — Dorothy  Larue  Swartzbaugh  (s), 
Edward  NovarJne.  George  P.  Jordan.  Harvey  Ryck- 
man.  James  Leroy  Gardner.  Julius  L.  Holzar.  Ver- 
non S.  Weller. 

102  Oakland,  CA — Carl  Ivon  Carlson,  Jane  Rita  Vanover 
(s). 

109    Sheffield,  Al^— Dalton  Lee  Scott,  Roy  S.  Renfroe. 
Ill     Lawrence,  MA — Waller  A.  Bruce. 

114  East  Detroit,  MI— Albert  Parker,  Buster  Sewell. 
Donald  C.  Bennett.  George  A.  Peterson.  James  M. 
Needham.  Mary  Elizabeth  Needham  (s). 

115  Miami,  Florida — Salvatrice  M.  Lotauro  (s). 

118  Detroit,  MI — Andrew  Slocking,  Donna  Jane  Young 
(s),  George  V.  Bueche,  Howard  Brooke  (s),  Louis 
G.  Bernier,  Marie  V,  Pavella  (s),  Wesley  Frank 
Smitlj. 

120    Utica,  NY — Joseph  Desgrosillier.  Joseph  F.  Droski. 

123  Broward-County,  FI^Ben  Stolen.  Betty  E.  Gran- 
ados  (s).  Paul  K.  Maupin.  Walter  Bopp. 

125  Miami,  FL — Alfred  Anderson.  Eric  Makela,  George 
D.  Lusk,  Helen  I.  Stevens  (s). 

127     Birmingham,  AL — Ross  W.  Reeves. 

130  Palm  Beach,  FL— Albert  H.  Lilly.  Clifford  E.  Os- 
borne. Edwin  C.  Howe.  John  B.  Martin,  Nettie 
Whitaker  (s),  Rosemary  S.  Smith  (s),  William  J. 
Senior. 

131  Seattle,  WA — Benhart  J.  Peterson,  Eleanor  Benson 


Local  Union,  City- 
is),  Florence  Mary  Beaudoin  (s),  Joseph  D.  Ray, 
Louis  W.  Milliken,  Rachel  Mary  Covey  (s),  Robert 
E.  Potteiger. 

132  Washington,  DC—John  M.  Wist,  Louis  J.  Horvath, 
Paul  A.  Fender,  Richard  Snooks,  Jr.,  Russell  M. 
Dean.  Jr.,  Walter  L.  Pumphrey. 

133  Terre  Haute,  IN — Gretchen  A.  Meneely  (s),  Robert 
L.  Donham. 

135    New  York,  NY— Martin  Chanin.  Moilie  Baslow  (s). 
140    Tampa,  Fl^Beatrice  Moree  Smith  (s),  Clyde  L. 

Stough.  Joseph  I.  Frost,  Luther  R.  iSollenberger. 

Winnell  C.  Hurst  (s). 
142    Pittsburgh,  PA— Paul  C.  Schuster. 
144    Macon,  GA — Johnnie  V.  McEachern  (s). 
149    Tarrytown,  NY — Vincenzo,  Mastroianni. 
153    Helena,  MT— Clarence  A.  Whitten,  Violet  Henrietta 

Work  (s). 

161  Kenosha,  WI — Rose  Marie  Meitner  (s),  William 
Kornwolf. 

162  San  Mateo,  CA— Bob  Schaar. 

165     Pittsburgh,  PA— Charles  R.  Keough. 
174    Joliet,  IL — Carl  Lesnik.  Charles  Glagola. 

180  Vallejo,  CA— Clayton  Roy  Taylor,  Robert  R.  Young. 
Willie  P.  Powell. 

181  Chicago,  IL — Floyd  Mattheeussen.  Stephan  Sidor 

182  Cleveland,  OH — Clarence  Baylor.  Harry  Thomas 
Sawitzke,  Joseph  B.  Rote,  Juanita  Harryelte  Zackel 
(s). 

183  Peoria,  Il^-John  L.  Link,  Marshall  Koebel,  Otho 
G.  Eisterntz,  Otto  W.  Wendland. 

184  Salt  Lake  Citv,  UT— Pauline  R.  Angerer  (s).  Wilford 
B.  Schulze.  ' 

186    Steubenville,  OH— Carl  Raymond  Gilchrist. 
188    Yonkers,  NY— Joseph  Pierro. 
190    Klamath  Falls.  OR— Harold  A.  Davis. 
195    Peru,  IL — Henry  J.  Narwick.  ■ 

199  Chicago,  IL — Alexander  Zaklan,  Alma  Michaud  (s), 
Diann  Wagner  (s),  Margaret  C.  Mcllvoy  (s). 

200  Columbus,  OH— Benjamin  D.  Ault.  Donald  R.  Davis. 
Earl  E.  Swackhamer,  John  E.  Junkins.  Roy  E. 
Graham.  Virgil  Ballard. 

201  Wichita,  KS— Voye  McCarty. 

203  Poughkeepsie,  NY— John  J.  Seeland. 

204  Merrill,  WI— Arlan  E.  Moyer. 

206    Newcastle,  PA— William  J.  Sanfelice. 

210  Stamford,  CT— Andrew  Carriello,  John  R.  Fiorde- 
lisi. 

211  Pittsburgh,  PA— Floyd  G.  Yerkins.  Grant  J.  Lem- 
mon. 

213     Houston,  TX— Clarence  A.  Walker,  Eddie  A.  McKee, 

Gus  Alfred  Kopecky.  Loy  W.  Taylor. 
215     Lafayette,  IN — John  A.  Gregor. 
218     Boston,  MA — Arcade  Deveau. 
223     Nashville,  TN — Albert  Sims  Sampson. 
225     Atlanta,  GA-^Annie  Pelterson  Hill  (s),  Ben  Harold 

Parris.  John  Robert  Haynes.  Julian  Vance  Henson, 

William  C.  Annandale. 
230    Pittsburgh,  PA— Elmer  J.  Guerra. 
232     Fort  Wayne,  IN— Alva  Kemple,  Carl  E.  Resac,  Keith 

V.  Carroll. 
242    Chicago,  Il^Kennelh  S.  Brooks. 
244    Grand  Jet.,  CO-^Earl  Manspeaker,  Henry  Ramsey. 

246  New  York,  NY— Ole  Clementz. 

247  Portland,  OR— Catherine  Elizabeth  Goble  (s),  Don- 
ald E.  Kovar,  Elmer  Harry  Glines,  Merwin  R. 
Toolhaker,  Raymond  F.  Dumke.  Robert  S.  Acheson. 
Samuel  P.  Thornburg,  Wilbert  W.  Milbrandt. 

248  Toledo.  OH— Floyd,  Hall. 

255    Bloomingburg,  NY — Faith  M.  Lucas  (s). 
257    New  York,  NY— Carl  Olsson.  Charles  Dahlstrom, 
Herman  Meyer,  Peter  Adaskewicz. 

259  Jackson,  TN — Roderic  Franklin  Hardison. 

260  Berkshire  Cnty.,  MA — Gunnar  Hanson. 

261  Scranlon,  PA — Ceil  Marcinkus  (s),  Charles  Smith. 

262  San  Jose,  CA — Joseph  Herscher,  Raymond  L. 
McDaniel. 

264  Milwaukee,  WI — Carlton  A.  Johnson.  Edward  C. 
Felix. 

265  Saugerties,  NY — George  Yerry  Jr.,  Rita  Jones  (s). 
267     Dresden,  OH— Okey  P.  Henthorn.  Paul  Ford. 
272     Chicago  Hgt.,  II^Kelleen  E.  Szostek  (s). 

278     Watertown,  NY— Frank  J.  Diefendorf. 

280  Niagara-Gen  &  Vic,  NY— Bella  Marchildon  (s).  Fred- 
erick Alexander,  Mae  R.  Gibson  (s). 

281  Binghamton,  NY— Orvilie  H.  Hanson. 
283    Augusta,  GA— Gabriel  Dion  Sr. 

287     Harrisburg,  PA — James  C.  Heiser. 

296  Brooklyn,  NY — Clarence  Fitz  Cadogan. 

297  Kalamazoo,  MI — Alex  Vanderbeek,  Arthur  R.  Van- 
order,  Herbert  Clapp,  Isophene  Coville  (s). 

308    Cedar  Rapids,  ID— Hugo  Lindahl. 

316    San  Jose.  CA — Edmund  P.  Painchaud,  Ernest  J. 

Harvey,  Florence  S.  Gibbons  (s).  Harry  S.  Araki. 

Josephine  Lucille  BenskJn  (s).  Monroe  R.  Taylor. 

Peler  G.  Navarro.  Thomas  C.  Allan. 

319  Roanoke,  VA— John  Allen  Robertson,  Paul  Kyle 
Allen. 

320  Augusta,  MA — Richard  1.  Hariow,  Sr. 

329    OklahomaCity.OK-Elmer  Reagan  Wrinkle,  Myrtle 

I.  Shafer(s). 
335    Grand  Rapids,  MI— Cleo  Everett. 

344  Waukesha,  WI— John  F.  Grohall. 

345  Memphis,  TN — George  E.  Trumble.  James  E.  Jef- 
fery.. 

348    New  York,  NY— Arthur  Aarne,  Harold  MacPhce. 
350    New  Rochelle,  NY— Kristcn  Hansen. 


Local  Union.  City 

354  Gilroy,  CA — Lola  Robinson  (s). 

357  Draffenville,  KY— Leslie  I.  Myers. 

362  Pueblo,  CO— Joseph  A.  Dionese. 

363  Elgin,  IL — Gordon  Anderson. 

369  N.  Tonawanda,  NY — John  Max  Kollwitz. 

370  Albany,  NY— Floyd  Dennis,  Thomas  J.  Gietl. 

393    Camden,  NJ — Corbet  Johnson.  Frances  M.  Suden 

(s).  James  F.  Gorman.  Leonard  L.  Boye. 
400    Omaha,  NE— Aaron  Williams,  Joseph  J.  Krska. 
402     Northmptn-Greenfd.,  MA— Clarence  H.  Fiske. 
410    Ft.  Madison  &  Vic,  lA— Margaret  A.  Pullins  (s). 
413    South  Bend,  IN— Diane  M  Dylewski  (s).  Norma  H. 

Yeggy  (s),  Robert  H.  Yeggy.  Roscoe  M  Robinson, 

Russell  O.  Knowlton. 
422    New  Brighton,  PA— Donald  A.  McKee. 
424    Hingham,  MA — Ann  M.  Thayer  (s),  John  W.  Imlay. 
429    Arlington,  TX— J.  Gilbert  Venable,  J.  T.  Robertson, 

J.  T.  Wilson,  Joseph  Alburtus  Palmer. 
434    Chicago,  IL— Carl  Holmgren.  Theodore  DeYoung. 
452    Vancouver,  BC,  Can. — Adolphe  Leo  Jeroski,  Louis 

Ganzaroli. 

454  Philadelphia,  PA— Michael  Costello. 

455  Somerville,  NJ — Edward  Sakos,  Sr.,  Michael  Phil- 
lips, Percy  Brokaw. 

458     Clarksville,  IN— Leoda  R.  Pry  (s). 

465    Chester  County,  PA — Francis  J.  Mee,  Gunner  Nys- 

trom. 
470    Tacoma,  WA — Grace  Sondrud  (s),  Joseph  H.  Cam- 

peau,  Sr..  Robert  A.  Perry. 
483    San  Francisco,  CA — Carl  Michler.  Douglas  L.  Bruce, 

Fricis  M.  Jekabsons.  James  J.  Little.  Johnstone 

Latto  Taylor.  Paul  B.  Blondell. 
492    Reading,  PA— Elsie  K.  Guiles  (s).  Harvey  F.  Schneck, 

William  H.  Hoy  Jr.. 
497    Crossett,  AR— Elmer  R.  Bates. 

502  Port  Arthur,  TX— Fred  Morris.  Thomas  T.  Wilson. 

503  Lancaster,  NY — Eugene  W.  Palicki. 

510  Berthoud,    CO— Benjamin    F.    Siebert,    Lewis   G. 

Mc  Broom. 

512  Ann  Arbor,  MI — Abrum  Sloat. 

515  Colorado  Springs,  CO— Morris  G.  Piatt. 

517  Portland,  MA — Rebecca  M.  Cummings  (s). 

518  Sisterville,  WV— Wilson  N.  Potts. 
522  Durham,  NC — Parker  T.  Stephenson. 

531    New  York,  NY — Dudley  McCaulsky,  Guiseppe  Bor- 

tolin,  Julia  Hilgenfeldt  (s). 
535    Norwood,  MA^William  E.  Slaney. 
537     Aiken,  SC— Grace  E.  Wood  (s). 
541    Washington,  PA— Robert  D.  Hough. 
546    Vincennes,  IN — Earl  F.  Lewis,  Leonard  I.  Smith. 
549    Owensboro,  KY — Richard  C.   Logsdon,  Thurston 

Lloyd  Allen. 
551    Houston,  TX — Arthur  B.  Anderson,  Arthur  M.  Bon- 

durant,  Jr.,  Ila  Mae  Davis  (s),  Maggie  Grace  Williams 

(s),  WeldonG.  Powell. 

562  Everett,  WA — Albert  Ahlquist,  Arthur  L.  Deering, 
Fern  E.  Price  (s).  Henry  C.  Nissen. 

563  Glendale,  CA— Clarence  A.  Sexton.  John  D.  Mc- 
Dade,  Joseph  Roy  McNabb. 

569    Pascagoula,  MI — Eugene  Byrd.  Vernon  Oscar  Mes- 

sersmith. 
573     Baker.  OR— Charles  R.  Frayer.  Ivan  W.  Calhoun. 
576     Pine  Bluff,  AR— Roger  W.  Morgan. 
579    St.  John,  NF.  Can— Lillian  Lynch  (s). 
584    New  Orleans,  LA— Alfred  J.  Schloegel,  Julius  H. 

Goetz. 
586    Sacramento,   CA— Elmo   E.   Seaburg.   Shirtey   W. 

Sandage,  Stanley  E.  Brinegar. 
596    SI.  Paul,  MN— Genevieve  Craig  (s). 
599    Hammond,  IN— Cecelia  T.  Fleener  (s). 
603    Ithaca,  NY — Lawrence  Tracy  Parlett.  Martin  H. 

Gibson. 
606    Va  Eveleth,  MN— Helga  O.  Lindvall  (s). 
608     New  York,  NY— John  Falzon. 
613    Hampton  Roads,  VA — Rinaldo,  J.  Manzo. 

620  Madison,  NJ — George  Mayernik.  Majorie  Ann  Gra- 
ham (s),  William  J.  Morrissey  Jr. 

621  Bangor,  ME — Quintin  L.  Farmer. 

623    Atlantic  County,  NJ — Carl  P.  loppolo.  Virginia  Grouse 
(s),  William  Ditmire. 

626  Wilmington,  DE — George  L.  Pelkey  Sr..  Raymond 
M.  Foraker. 

627  Jacksonville,  FL — Bernace  E.  Dixon.  Dawman  S. 
Gay.  Elton  F.  Owens. 

633  Madison  &  Granite  City,  II^Francis  Willis  Rich- 
ardson. 

634  Salem,  IL— Joel  P.  Conley. 

635  Boise,  II>— Arvie  W.  Woodard. 

638     Marion.  IL — Levi  Ford  Ury,  Marie  Drury  (s). 
642     Richmond,  CA — Charles  E.  Hall.  Lewis  Ray  Dunn. 
644     Pekin,  IL— Doris  June  Hundley  (s).  Harold  R.  Mul- 

lins,  William  Paul  Byers. 
678     Dubuque,  lA — Magdalen  J.  Delaney  (s). 
690    Little  Rock.  AR— Charles  D.  Quinn.  Robert  L.  Horn. 
693    Lodi.  WI— Clark  E.  Elderkin. 
698    Covington,  KY— Lawrence  Wallace. 
701     Fresno.  CA— Harvey  B.  Smith. 
710     Long   Beach.   CA— Bessie   V.    Scott  (s).   Earle   F. 

Howard.  Elzie  O.  White,  Rosa  Mae  Robertson  (s). 
721    Los  Angeles,   CA— Clayton   E.   Strimple.  Guisela 

Aurora  Yauri  (s).  Hilda  Lucy  Moulton  (s),  Kurt 

Baldiga,  Nils  Kenning  Adolphson, 
740    New  York,  NY — Joseph  N.  Vandernoth. 
743    Bakersfield,  CA— Daisy  McKee  Dasch  (s).  George 

Tyree. 


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745  Honolulu,  HI — Akira  Shiniada.  George  Castillo  Sr., 
Meldon  John  Sowell.  Tadashi  Mizokawa. 

751  Santa  Rosa,  CA— Helen  Margaret  Berry  (s),  Karl 
Einar  Molin. 

764    Shreveport,  LA — Oscar  Derwood  Logan. 

769  Pasadena,  CA— James  L.  Behrens,  Ralph  Arre- 
dondo. 

771  WatsonvUle,  CA— Bettybelle  Petersen  (s),  Cledeath 
Amil  Pace. 

772  Clinton,  lA— Arthur  Stuckel. 
781     Princeton,  NJ— Waller  L.  Coan. 

783    Sioux  Falls,  SD— Bemice  C.  Michael  (s),  Frederick 

J.  Payne. 
785    Cambridge,  On[.,  CAN— Ezra  Brown. 
790    Dixon,  II^Merle  Wolf. 
792    Rockford,  ll^Raymond  Strait. 
804    Wisconsin  Rapids,  WI— Stanley  Ostricki. 
824    Muskegon,  MI — J.  Frank  Barnes. 
836    JanesvUle,  Wl— Harold  G.  Dixon,  William  Wilson. 
844    Canoga  Park,  CA— Erma  E.  Siddall  (s),  Eugene  V. 

Klaus.  Florence  M.  Doub  (s).  Fred  Amick  Day. 
846    Lcthbdge,  Alta.,  CAN— Alexander  Ross  Clarke. 
848    San  Bruno,  CA — Augustine  G.  Martinelli. 
857    Tucson,  AZ — Alves  Carnal,  Caesar  Ramirez. 
859    Greencastic,  IN— Russell  B.  Spurgeon. 
875    Panama  City,  FU-John  Ward  Sr. 
902    Brooklyn,  NY — ^Jose  R.  Crispin,  Joseph  Henry  Bishop, 

Raymond  Pettit. 
906    Glendale,  AZ— William  O.  Bowling. 
911    Kalispell,  MT— Ernest  Lundstad,  Helen  B.  Robinson 

(si. 
929    Los  Angeles,  CA — Ida  Louise  Rayford  (s). 

943  Tulsa,  OK— Carl  R.  Cleveland,  Charles  M.  Bum- 
gamer,  Clifford  M.  Parker.  Melvin  Lee  Waters,  Sr. 

944  San  Brnardno,  CA— H.  Beecher  Stowe,  Merl  C. 
Miller,  Mildred  C.  Dennett  (s),  Woodrow  W.  Jolly. 

948    Sioux  City,  lA— Doris  M.  Muckey  (s). 

964    Rockland  Co.,  NY— Hugo  Prozeller. 

971    Reno,  NV — Bennie  E.  Jones,  Ellen  M.  Tworzyanski 

(s),  John  E.  Trinchero. 
973    Texas  City,  TX— Robert  H.  Buchhorn. 

977  Wichita  Falls,  TX— Edward  Homer  Boyett,  Lottie 
Mae  Watson  (s). 

978  Springfield,  MO— Viva  Jean  Wright  (s). 
981    Petaluma,  CA— Dwight  L.  Herrick. 

1005  Merrillville,  IN— Harold  E.  Thoreson. 

1006  New  Brunswich,  NJ— Stanley  Chodkowski. 
1022    Parsons,  KS — Jonathan  Baldwin  Snyder. 

1026  Miami,  FU-George  E.  Devoid. 

1027  Chicago,  IL — Clarence  H.  Selle,  GunnarBeckstrom, 
William  Wurster. 

1031  Louisville,  KY— A.  Dale  Ingram. 
1042  Plattsburgh,  NY— Harold  James. 
1046    Palm  Springs,  CA— Blanch  Evelyn  Knight  (s),  Henry 

D.  Yandell,  Mary  Anne  Von  Schriltz  (s). 
1050    Philadelphia,  PA— Louis  Solometo.  Nick  Caruso. 

1052  Hollywood,  CA— John  Clayton  Ringer,  Nancy  T. 
Nimmo  (s). 

1053  Milwaukee,  WI — Edward  Emch. 

1054  Everett,  WA— Arthur  J.  Lewis. 

1059    Schyulkill  County,  PA— George  E.  Emery. 
1062    Santa  Barbara,  CA— Robert  B.  Bingham. 
1078    Fredericksburg,  VA— William  H.  Wilson. 
1084    Angleton,  TX— Willie  S.  Walden. 
1089    Phoenix,  AZ— Frank  D.  Poindexter. 

1097  Longview,  TX— William  0.  Irons. 

1098  Baton  Rouge,  LA — Austin  Boudreaux  Sr.,  John  B. 
Templet,  Jr.,  Robert  H.  Methvien. 

1102    Detroit,  MI— Eleanor  I.  Pritchard  (s),  Forrest  Dean 

Kee,  Jessie  Charters,  John  Williams  Potts. 
1108    Cleveland,  OH— Anne  Backus  (s).  Charles  Raymond 

I-app,  Harry  Anderson,  Harry  Daniel  Larsen,  Inga 

Ohm  (s),  Joseph  J.  Chamigo. 

Portland,  OR— Harlow  W.  Heim,  John  Miller. 

Mt.  Kisco,  NY— Anna  W.  Sefcik  (s). 

Toledo,  OH — Noble  Farmer,  Walter  J.  Wamsher  Jr. 

Seattle,  WA— Jack  R.  Delo,  Lester  R.  Brimhall. 

Green  Bay,  WI — Donald  Schmechel,  Harold  Frank 

Miller,  Paul  John  Anderson. 

San  Francisco,  CA— George  Jackson,  Robert  L. 

Hudson.  William  E.  Maynard. 

Thunder  Bay,  Out.,  CAN — Mary  Margaret  McCool 


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(s). 

Columbus,  IN — Elwood  Sprague. 
New  York,  NY— Henry  Herr. 
Fargo,  ND— Roy  C.  Slininger. 
Seattle,  WA— Denton  Chambers,  Egon  H.  Bran- 
holm,  Elmer  H.  Fix,  Joyce  Irene  Taubeneck  (s). 
Charleston,  WV— Arthur  J.  Lambert. 
Mesa,  AZ — J.  Frank  Matthev/s. 
Modesto,  CA — Everett  P.  Bower.  Roy  E.  Johansen. 
Oroville,  CA — Donald  D.  Anderson. 
Fairbanks,  AK — James  F.  Chandler. 
Carlsbad,  NM — Irenio  Monloya  Ortega,  Jewell  Marie 
Huggins  (s). 

Samia,  Ont,,  CAN — Charles  John  Lawrence. 
Pocatello,  ID — Roy  K.  Ritzman. 
Atlanta,  GA — Loyd  Woodrow  Setzer. 
Austin,  TX — Lindsey  Lemuel  Lewis. 
Eugene,  OR — Genevieve  C.  Bray  (s). 
Decatur,  AL — Vernon  Patton. 
Bend,  OR— John  W.  Wulf. 

Mountain  View,  CA — George  L.  Johnson,  Maynard 
Begley,  Steven  C.  Williams,  William  S.  Vanmeter. 
San  Diego,  CA— Douglas  G.  Logan.  Mary  Jane 
Sanders  (s). 

San  Diego,  CA— Eugene  F.  Arpia.  Harmie  K.  Friel- 
ing,  Phyllis  Helen  MacLeod  (s). 
Monroe,  Ml — Eugene  J.  Pokrywka.  Wesley  Rugila. 
Port  Angeles,  WA — James  Stanley  Newlun. 
Evanston,  IL — Raymond  J.  Dykier. 
St.  Louis,  MO — Leon  D.  Anderson  Sr..  Robert  E. 
Holdenried. 


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1929 


Dayton,  OH — Donald  E.  Brewer. 
Albuquerque,  NM — Edison  Miller,  Lee  Roy  Kne- 
blik,  Ricardo  Farfan. 
Independence,  MO — Leonard  E.  Shaw. 
Irvington,  NJ — Anthony  J.  Ciullo  Jr. ,  John  W.  Rucki. 
Virginia,  MN — Ralph  Hoopman. 
La  Jolla,  CA — James  E.  Cassidy. 
Chester,  IL — Leona  Nagel  (s). 
Rochester,  MN — Robet  B.  Ferguson. 
Province  of  New  Brunswick — Randolph  Tedford. 
Toledo,  OH— Kenneth  J.  Theiss. 
North  Hempstad,  NY— August  Schall,  John  Ceriello. 
Santa  Monica,  CA — Harold  O.  Fosnes. 
San  Pedro,  CA — Luis  A.  Torrez,  Panfilo  A.  Duarte. 
Redwood  City,  CA — Karl  Lischeid,  Mario  Covolo. 
Lodi,  CA— Clifford  L.  Wiles,  Neil  Orville  Baldwin. 
Arlington,  TX — Modena  R.  Williamson  (s). 
Corpus  Chrstie,  TX — Accilees  A.  Arnold,  Chester 
A.  Roberts. 

Midland,  TX— Albert  N.  Rutherford. 
Compton,  CA — Jacob  Schmitcke. 
Topeka,  KS— Elza  H.  Dean. 
Detroit,  MI — Edgar  R.  Weber,  Salvador  Tovar. 
Huntington  Bch,  CA — Francis  J.  Reynolds,  Roger 
William  Ward. 

New  York,  NY — Alfred  Mindermann,  Ann  M.  Nel- 
son (s).  Frank  J.  Woods,  Frithjof  Bentsen,  Levi  E. 
Axelson,  Samuel  Moyer,  Stephen  Hacker,  Thor 
Peters. 

Bucks  County,  PA — Hans  Martin,  Konrad  Peters. 
Omaha,  NE— Clayton  J.  Rhylander. 
Jackson,  MS — Victor  Ezell,  Willard  J.  Tumage. 
La  Porte,  IN — Donald  A.  MacArthur. 
Auburn,  CA— DoUie  Phillips  (s). 
San  Diego,  C A— Victor  H.  Gee. 
International  Falls,  MN — Leroy  J.  Crandall. 
E.  Los  Angeles,  CA — Manfred  Hiestand. 
El  Monte,  CA— Harold  Lundquist,  Lyda  Mae  Belts 
(s). 

Blounlville,  IN- Rellia  Mayme  Sanders  (s),  Wm. 
Edwin  Reedy. 

Kansas  City,  KS — Roy  L.  Hoffman. 
Anacortes,  WA — James  T.  Huff. 
New  York,  NY — Anthony  Barricelli,  Cyrus  Cohen, 
Giulio  Pederzolli,  John  Turner. 
Chicago,  IL — Samuel  Koznatz,  Theodore  Procanin. 
Casper,  WY— Roy  W.  Bohnet. 
Mdcne  Hat,  Alta,  CAN— Ruby  Bessey  (s). 
Sydney,  NS,  CAN — David  Timmons. 
Sarnia,  Ont.,  CAN — Roy  Stanley  Lucas. 
Wausau,  WI — Raymond  Arthur  Zimick. 
Montgomery  County,  PA — Marcella  Pieklo  (s). 
St.  Louis,  MO— Ellen  C.  Stearns  (s),  Helen  Hoppe 
(s),  Melvin  Kendall,  Virginia  F.  Kendall  (s). 
Bremerton,  WA — Harold  B.  Selfors. 
Victoria,  BC,  CAN— Reginald  Bavin. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Ben  Rodgers,  Ralph  H.  Troudt. 
Grand  Rapids,  MI — Ryn  Visser. 
Sacramento,  CA — Elmer  W.  Hislop. 
Hayward,   CA — Everett   Carpenter,   Fay   Mildred 
Wages  (s),  Frank  Joseph  Saitta,  Melvin  Dale  Heltzel, 
Walter  E.  Johnson. 
Minneapolis,  MN — Earl  L.  Belisle. 
Lexington,  KY — Arthur  B.  Reeve. 
Bloomington,  IN — Connie  Elaine  Droll  (s). 
Alexandria,  VA— Alfred  M.  Hoffman,  Walter  S. 
Thomas. 

Ft.  William,  Ont.,  CAN— Onni  Mendelin. 
Melbourne-Daytona  Beach,  FL — Edmund  D.  John- 
son Sr.,  Isaac  S.  Rawlins. 
Chicago,  IL — Kenneth  C.  Rundle. 
Vancouver,  WA — Mary  Ruth  Bridgman  (s). 
Columbus,  GA — Buford  Monroe  Huey. 
MarsWield,  WI— Frank  F.  Bohman,  Otto  F.  Verch, 
Virginia  Pionke  (s). 

Kirkwood,  MO — Anthony  Scopel,  Dewey  D.  Lewis, 
Dorothy  E.  Robben  (s),  Frank  Richter,  Ruby  M. 
Gaehle  (s). 

Portland,  OR— William  E.  Debeer. 
Anniston,  AL — Berry  Bee  Smith,  Sherman  Knigh- 
ten. 

Cleveland,  OH— Donald  A.  Ohmer. 
Pomona,  CA — Elmer  Reece  Yates,  Sophie  Rice  (s). 
Marion,  VA — Ira  Glenn  Prater,  Joe  B.  Osborne. 
Orlando,  FI^Ronald  A.  Cote. 
Hicksville,  NY — Homer  B.  Heisey,  William  Herman 
Fleischmann. 

Columbus,  IN — Elmer  V.  Spoor. 
Las  Vegas,  NV — John  Frederick  Pennington,  Ken- 
neth P.  Reid,  Marius  Call,  Raymond  L.  Glenn. 
Renton,  WA — Joseph  Henry  Gartrell,  Lawrence  H. 
Larson  Sr. 

Santa  Ana,  CA — Charles  E.  Kaeser,  Erik  Soder- 
strom,  George  Robinson,  George  W.  Stone,  Harri- 
son S.  King,  Leonard  E.  Conley,  Salvador  Lisardo, 
William  H.  Wolting. 
Philadelphia,  PA— Robert  J.  McGinley. 
Babylon,  NY — Ednar  A.  Ronanowski  (s),  Thomas 
J.  Williamson. 

Faribault,  MN — Mary  Mabel  Lonien  (s). 
Snoqualmie,  WA — Richard  Trombley. 
New  Orleans,  LA — Florence  Hernandez  (s),  Luke  J. 
Melancon. 

Pasco,  WA — Lois  H.  Mullins  (s),  Wayne  Tresham. 
Philadelphia,  PA— Clifford  Johnson,  Francis  J.  Doyle, 
Joseph  Bednar. 

Portland,  OR— Wilbur  Alfred  Westerlund. 
Manteca,  CA — William  A.  Durossette. 
Cleveland,  OH — Andrew  Gausman,  Dale  McQuaide. 
The  Dalles,  OR— Forrest  D.  Turner. 
Van  Nuys,  CA — Emil  Kastus,  John  Seifert. 
Hempstead,  NY — John  Duschenchuk. 
Cleveland,  OH — Frank  Adam  Wilamoskv. 


Local  Union.  City 


1931    New  Orleans,  LA— William  W.  Chancev. 

1934    Bemidji,  MN— Cliff  Fell. 

1962    Las  Cruces,  NM— J.  Earle  Mcintosh,  Joe  A.  Vigil, 

Ruby  Moselle  Mcintosh  (s). 
1964    Vicksburg,  MS— Willie  David  Johnston. 
1978    Buffalo,  NY— Patrick  Barrett. 
1998    Pr.  George,  BC,  CAN— Erwin  Piontek,  Herbert 

Eldon  Jones,  Siegmar  Bruno  Hesselbarth. 
2008  Ponco  City,  OK— Denver  Clyde  Hatfield. 
2015    Santa  Paula,  CA— Lewis  E.  Rushing,  William  G. 

Weir. 
2018    Ocean  County,  NJ — Andrew  Kartashev. 
2042    Oxnard,  CA— Wincie  Maness  Jr. 
2046    Martinez,  C A— Hodge  Powell. 
2067    Medford,  OR— Everett  Ernest  Burwash,  Jack  Doty 

Austin,    Leonard    Walter   Robinson,    Walker   A. 

Wright. 
2103    Calgary,  Alta,  CAN— Gunvald  Krangnes,  John  A. 

Krassman,  Walter  Smolis. 
2130    Hillsboro,  OR— Ejnar  Jensen  Gribskov. 
2132    La  Follette,  TN— Harvey  R.  Cooper. 
2203    Anaheim,  CA— Charies  W.  Cash,  Roy  Roberts. 
2205    Wenatchee,  WA— William  Charies  Motzkus. 
2212    Newark,  NJ— Hilton  J.  Fox,  Nicholas  Malarchak. 
2232    Houston,  TX— Ida  Bearl  Ayres  (s). 
2235    Pittsburgh,  PA— Frank  Grippe,  Sr. 
2264    Pittsburgh,  PA— John  J.  Weidner. 

2287  New  York,  NY— Charies  F.  Fitzpatrick. 

2288  Los  Angeles,  CA — Benny  E.  Costello,  Doyle  Berry, 
Elmo  Claude  Cole,  Joseph  C.  Washington  Sr. 

2308  Fullerton,  CA— Lawrence  E.  Arehart. 

2309  Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN— Bemadette  Bertha  Kelly  (s), 
Maurice  Reid. 

2311    Washington,  DC— Samuel  Leventhal. 

2317    Bremerton,  WA— Lyle  G.  Bobbitt. 

2350    Seranton,  PA— Robert  H.  Nebesky. 

2352    Corinth,  MS— Frank  Rix  Prather. 

2361    Orange,  CA — Bernard  Carlin. 

2375  Los  Angeles,  CA— Emma  Gilbert  (s),  Millard  F. 
Copeland. 

2396    Seattle,  WA— Edwin  A.  Brattain. 

2398    El  Cajon,  CA— George  L.  Jennings. 

2404    Vancouver,  BC,  CAN — Ame  C.  Anderson. 

2416    Portland,  OR— Ruth  V.  Paschild  (s). 

2431     Long  Beach,  CA — Gordon  Charles  Gesse. 

2435  Inglewood,  CA— Clovis  A.  Martinet,  Joseph  P.  Ol- 
son. 

2463    Ventura,  CA— Gunner  F.  Scharff. 

2467    Florence,  CO — Clara  Louise  Camerio  (s). 

2477    Santa  Maria,  CA — Asbury  Vance  Harp. 

2486  Sudbury,  Ont.,  CAN — Levis  Francoeur,  Maurice 
Masson. 

2504  Watertown,  WI— Violet  R.  Horn,  Wayne  R.  Schles- 
ner. 

2519  Seattle,  WA— Clifford  Drescher,  John  L.  Hendrick- 
son. 

2520  Anchorage,  AK — Beveriy  J.  Brown  (s). 

2559    San  Francisco,  CA — John  Anthony  Delfino,  Mason 

W.  Franklin. 
2592    Eureka,  CA— Opal  I.  Nelson  (s). 
2599    Lancaster,  PA— Kenneth  Rowland. 
2601    Lafayette,  IN — Leo  J.  Halsema,  Maxine  M.  Kinnen. 
2608    Redding,  CA— Warden  B.  Bates. 
2679    Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN— Christopher  Pamham,  Otto 

Hein. 
2693    Pt.  Arthur,  Ont.,  CAN— Edwin  R.  Taylor. 
2750    Springfield,  OR— Lester  L.  Parker. 
2787    Springfield,  OR— Donald  A.  Kendall. 
2791    Sweet  Home,  OR— Fred  Conaway. 
2817    Quebec,  Que,,  CAN— J.  Robert  Lemarier. 
2819    New  York,  NY— Jose  Ocasio. 

2941  Warm  Springs,  OR— Cynthia  Ann  Telfer  (s). 

2942  Albany,  OR— Dan  V.  Freeman,  Harold  L.  Ellis. 
2949    Roseburg,  OR— Charles  W.   Williams,  Claud  H. 

Howard,  Milo  G.  Palmer,  Sylvester  J.  Coltrin. 
2961    St,  Helen,  OR— Quentin  R.  Winner. 
3023    Omak,  WA— Harless  Caruthers. 
3054     London,  Ont.,  CAN— Kris  Mizzi. 
3074    Chester,  CA— Arthur  M.  Griflice,  Gerard  L.  Dunkly, 

Leslie  M.  I^nd. 
3088    Stockton,  CA— Weymouth  M.  Allen. 
3091     Vaughn,  OR— Louie  H.  Hartman. 
3099    Aberdeen,  WA— Orville  Elmore. 
3202    Warrenton,  MO— Harold  L.  GrifBn. 
3223    Elizabethtown,  KY— James  M.  Woodring,  Jessie  W. 

Petty. 
3251    San  Juan,  PR — Maximino  Mattel  Rivera. 
7000    Province  of  Quebec  LCL  134-2 — Gaston  Lavoie, 

Marcel  Senay,  Remi  Sabourin. 
9033    Pittsburgh,  PA— Eugene  D.  Schnell,  Pauline  Pyie 

(s). 
9074    Chicago,  IL— John  E.  Hooker,  Philip  Erzinger  Sr. 
9144    San  Jose,  CA— Charles  D.  Kalcic. 


CORRECTION 

We  would  like  to  apologize  to  Theo- 
dore Adamy,  Local  1281,  Anchorage, 
Alaska,  and  his  family  for  listing  him 
in  the  May  issue  with  members  who 
have  passed  away.  Mr.  Adamy  re- 
ceived a  disability  claim  not  a  death 
claim  from  the  Brotherhood.  We  apol- 
ogize for  this  mistake. 


38 


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39 


What  an  Economic 

Bill  of  Rights 

Should  Contain 


If  you  truly  want  to  bolster 
the  U.S.  economy,  Mr.  President, 
we  suggest  you  study  the  needs 

of  the  working  population. 


President  Ronald  Reagan  was  crisscrossing  the  nation, 
last  month,  talking  to  friendly  crowds  in  carefully 
selected  towns  and  cities  which  have  not  been  hard  hit 
by  unemployment  and  urging  his  listeners  to  support 
what  he  calls  his  "Economic  Bill  of  Rights." 

In  the  opinion  of  some  political  observers,  the  purpose 
of  these  speeches  in  the  hustings  is  to  distract  the  voters 
from  the  revelations  of  the  Iran-Contra  hearings  back 
in  Washington.  In  the  opinion  of  others,  it's  an  effort 
to  push  his  whopping  budget  proposals  through  the 
Congress  by  asking  voters  to  write  their  legislators. 

To  speak  of  an  economic  bill  of  rights  is  timely,  of 
course,  because  the  United  States  is  currently  cele- 
brating the  establishment  of  a  Constitution  and  another, 
and  far  more  important,  bill  of  rights — the  first  10 
amendments  to  the  U.S.  Constitution,  which  guarantee 
rights  and  freedom  as  no  other  document  before  or  since 
has  done. 

Whatever  the  reason  for  the  President's  latest  public 
relations  trips,  I  hope  that  his  audiences  will  take  a 
close  look  at  his  proposals  regarding  the  nations'  econ- 
omy. In  this  case,  as  in  so  many  others,  actions  will 
speak  louder  than  words. 

Let's  look  at  the  results  of  the  administration's  ex- 
periments with  supply-side  economics — what  Vice  Pres- 
ident George  Bush  once  called  "voodoo  economics." 
Let's  see  what  White  House  economic  policies  have 
brought  us  thus  far: 

The  nation  is  deeply  in  debt. — U.S.  foreign  debt  more 
than  doubled  from  1985  to  1986,  increasing  from  $111.9 
billion  in  1985  to  $263.6  last  year.  The  United  States  is 
now  the  world's  largest  debtor  nation,  a  situation  which 
could  have  profound  impact  on  U.S.  interest  rates  and 
our  ability  to  buy  homes  and  pay  off  consumer  debts. 

The  President  goes  each  year  to  Economic  Summits, 
where  the  prime  ministers  and  presidents  of  other  nations 
suggest  that  we  cut  our  deficits,  but  little  is  ever 
accomplished.  Then  the  world  leaders  pose  for  the  news 
cameras  and  go  home.  We  haven't  seen  any  mention  of 
the  President's  "Economic  Bill  of  Rights"  at  the  sum- 
mits, and  we're  not  likely  to  do  so.  That's  just  for  voter 
consumption,  it  seems. 

It's  ironic  that  during  the  first  two  years  of  the  Reagan 
administration,  the  White  House  blamed  many  of  the 
nation's  economic  troubles  on  the  previous  administra- 
tion of  Jimmy  Carter.  Well,  if  you'll  look  at  the  record, 


you'll  find  that  during  the  four  years  Mr.  Carter  was 
in  office,  the  nation  enjoyed  trade  and  investment 
surpluses,  not  deficits — a  $141.1  billion  surplus  in  1981, 
$137.0  billion  in  1982,  $89.6  billion  in  1983,  and  $3.6 
billion  in  1984.  It  dropped  precipitously  in  1984,  but, 
nevertheless,  the  nation  still  enjoyed  trade  surpluses  all 
during  the  Carter  administration.  In  fact,  it  enjoyed 
surpluses  during  the  Nixon  and  Ford  administrations, 
as  well. 

Some  nations  like  Japan,  Taiwan,  Singapore,  and 
West  Germany  have  accumulated  so  much  American 
wealth  under  President  Reagan's  "supply-side  econom- 
ics" that  they  are  now  forced  to  feed  it  back  to  us  by 
buying  into  American  enterprises  and  American  real 
property,  so  we'll  have  money  to  spend  to  buy  their 
products.  Taiwan,  for  example,  has  $62  billion  in  reserve 
U.S.  dollars — so  much  that  that  nation,  last  month, 
decided  it  was  all  right  for  its  businessmen  to  freely 
invest  their  export  earnings  overseas,  especially  in 
America.  By  the  end  of  last  year,  the  value  of  assets 
held  by  foreigners  in  the  United  States  rose  by  $270.2 
billion,  or  26%,  to  $1.33  trillion,  according  to  the  U.S. 
Commerce  Department. 

There  is  nothing  wrong  with  foreigners  investing  in 
this  country,  of  course.  Such  investments  indicate  a 
belief,  a  faith  in  the  American  system  of  free  enterprise. 
American  firms — and  Canadian  firms,  for  that  matter — 
have  been  investing  in  other  nations,  particularly  third- 
world  nations,  for  more  than  a  century.  This  is  how  we 
got  our  coffee,  our  spices,  our  rubber,  and  many  other 
commodities  not  available  in  North  America. 

However,  the  administration,  today,  supports  unfair 
trade  practices  in  the  name  of  "free  trade."  Much  of  the 
economic  difficulty  we've  experienced  under  the  Reagan 
administration  has  been  due  to  the  fact  that  foreign 
investors  have  tried  time  after  time  to  defeat  efforts  by 
North  American  unions  to  obtain  fair  wages  and  working 
conditions  for  the  employees  in  these  foreign-owned 
industrial  plants  and  financial  institutions.  Our  recent 
joint  effort  with  the  Building  Trades  to  obtain  a  project 
agreement  with  the  Toyota  Company  in  Kentucky  is  a 
case  in  point. 

Another  area  of  economic  conflict  concerns  government 
spending. — The  main  thrust  of  the  Reagan  administration 
has  been  that  its  opponents  in  Congress  are  wild  spend- 
ers, not  concerned  with  budget  deficits.  The  President 
fails  to  tell  his  audiences  that  the  White  House  staff  is 
bigger  than  it  has  been  in  any  previous  administration. 
He  fails  to  admit  that  his  high  defense  budget  has 
allowed  many  munitions  and  defense  manufacturers  to 
squander  millions  of  dollars  on  tanks,  missiles  and  other 
military  hardware  which  become  either  obsolete  or 
inadequate  before  they  are  mass  produced.  The  nation 
has  a  growing  population,  adding  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  immigrants  each  year.  It  costs  money  for  public 
services,  and,  yet,  he  threatens  to  veto  any  revenue 
bills  which  come  from  Capitol  Hill.  It  used  to  be  a 
Republican  policy  to  "pay  as  you  go".  Because  of  the 
President's  arbitrary  stand  on  taxation,  the  administra- 
tion's fiscal  policy  today  might  be  labeled  "pay  in  the 
next  generation."  Labor  has  told  Congress  that  its  quest 
for  additional  revenue  to  reduce  the  budget  deficit  can 
be  achieved  by  making  the  tax  system  fairer.  The  White 
House  had  turned  a  deaf  ear  to  labor's  proposals. 

When  the  President  speaks  to  his  audiences  on  his 
trips  to  various  towns,  he  warns  of  a  "new  round  of 
soaring  inflation,"   unless  his  economic  policies  are 


followed,  and  he  blames  this  possibihty  on  the  opposition 
party.  If  inflation  does  return,  it  will  be  due  to  another 
rise  in  interest  rates  and  the  continued  loss  of  American 
jobs  to  overseas  enterprises,  not  to  partisan  politics. 
This  cannot  all  be  blamed  on  the  Democrats. 

If  the  President  truly  wants  to  draw  up  an  "Economic 
Bill  of  Rights"  for  the  American  people  and  abide  by 
it,  I  have  a  few  suggestions  as  to  the  contents  of  such 
a  bill  of  rights: 

Article  1 :  For  the  good  and  welfare  of  all  citizens,  the 
federal  administration  will  strive  to  achieve  full  employ- 
ment, with  a  higher  minimum  wage  and  fair  working 
conditions. 

According  to  a  recent  report  of  the  U.S.  Labor 
Department,  most  the  service  sector  jobs,  which  have 
shown  the  most  increase  during  the  Reagan  administra- 
tion, have  been  "dead-end"  jobs — flipping  hamburgers, 
stacking  imported  goods  in  warehouses,  stocking  retail 
shelves  later  at  night.  Many  have  been  so-called  "part- 
time"  jobs,  which  are  actually  full  time,  but  the  employer 
doesn't  want  to  pay  the  fringe  benefits  of  a  full-time 
job.  Many  unemployed  Americans  have  exhausted  un- 
employment compensation  funds. 

Article  2:  The  federal  administration  will  assume  all 
responsibilities  allowed  by  the  Constitution  and  the  Con- 
gress to  promote  education,  particularly  vocational  edu- 
cation, so  that  its  citizens  will  be  ready  for  future  job 
openings. 

The  Labor  Department's  study  which  I  mentioned 
above  also  states  that  there  will  be  a  growing  number 
of  highly  skilled  technical  jobs  in  tomorrow's  world. 
"All  of  the  new  jobs  will  be  created  in  the  service 
sector,  and  they  will  require  workers  with  greater  skills 
and  education  than  do  today's  positions." 

In  spite  of  such  predictions  and,  in  spite  of  the  lip 
service  given  to  education  by  the  White  House,  the 
administration  continues  to  reduce  educational  expend- 
itures, sacrificing  educational  needs  for  defense  ex- 
penditures and  political  priorities. 

The  Russians,  the  Japanese  and  the  Germans  are 
placing  far  more  emphasis  on  the  teaching  of  science 
and  higher  education  than  we  do.  We  must  prepare  the 
next  generation  for  tomorrow's  highly  complex  world. 

Article  3:  A  goal  of  our  economic  system  must  be  to 
provide  adequate  shelter,  adequate  housing  for  all  of  its 
citizens. 

Under  today's  conditions,  it  is  almost  impossible  for 
young  famihes  to  own  their  own  homes  because  of  the 
high  cost  of  real  estate,  restrictions  on  financing,  the 
"points"  charged,  the  title  searches  and  the  fees.  More 
and  more  Americans  are  being  forced  into  substandard 
rental  housing,  built  by  unskilled,  non-union  labor. 
Today  we  have  hundreds  and  thousands  of  individuals 
and  families  sleeping  in  the  streets  of  the  U.S.  because 
we  aren't  building  housing  for  low  and  moderate  income 
people  or  providing  adequate  safety  nets  for  the  desti- 
tute. The  streets  of  many  major  cities  have  become  the 
hobo  jungles  we  knew  a  half  century  ago. 

Article  4:  We  must  maintain  the  family  as  the  basic 
economic  unit  of  today's  society.  We  must  strive  to  keep 
it  .economically  solvent. 

We  are  doing  untold  damage  to  this  generation  and 
the  next  generation  as  well  by  not  taking  steps  to  help 
create  a  wholesome  homelife  for  our  young  people.  By 
forcing  both  parents  to  work  in  order  to  gain  the  stability 
which  once  required  that  only  one  parent  work,  we  are 
leaving  young  people  to  shift  for  themselves  at  a  time 


when  they  need  counseling  and  adequate  moral  and 
mental  preparation  for  the  problems  of  tomorrow. 

Article  5:  In  our  society,  money  grubbing  should  not 
be  an  end  in  itself.  We  must  keep  the  money  changers  in 
check. 

In  this  era  of  expensive  revolving  charge  accounts, 
money  market  certificates,  CDs,  land  speculation,  mu- 
tual funds  and  other  money-changing  media,  greed  for 
money  has  become  an  end  in  itself.  Even  Fortune 
magazine  was  recently  moved  to  tell  its  readers,  "Money 
is  the  only  things  that  counts  these  days."  The  magazine 
quotes  a  bank  official  as  saying,  "It's  not  that  people 
value  money  more,  but  they  value  everything  else  so 
much  less — not  that  they  are  more  greedy,  but  they 
have  no  other  values  to  keep  greed  in  check.  They  don't 
know  what  else  to  value." 

There's  a  bill  in  the  Congress  which  would  curb  the 
corporate  raiders  who  are  playing  havoc  with  stocks 
traded  on  Wall  Street.  The  Reagan  administration,  as 
we  would  expect,  opposes  such  legislation. 

I  could  go  on,  adding  other  articles  to  a  labor  bill  of 
rights,  but  those  are  starters. 

We  don't  have  poor  houses  to  go  to  in  the  1980s,  as 
we  did  when  I  was  growing  up.  Labor  unions  have 
helped  to  keep  us  out  of  such  institutions  and  provide 
us  with  some  economic  security,  but,  Mr.  President, 
we  need  a  poor  person's  economic  bill  of  rights,  not  a 
corporate  economic  bill  of  rights,  which  your  adminis- 
tration seems  to  understand. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

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band.  Both  watches  have  a 
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guarantee  on  the  movement. 

Pocketwatch  $58.00 
Wristwatch  $58.00 


This  beautiful  gold-filled 
chain  will  dress  up 
your  UBC  pocket- 
watch.  The  12-inch 
chain  can  be  attached 
to  any  of  the  pieces 
shown  at  upper  left. 


Chain— $25.00 


September  1987 


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Founded  1881 


IN  THE  FUTURE  DAYS,  which 
we  see/f  to  make  secure,  we  lool( 
forward  to  a  world  founded  upon 
four  essential  human  freedoms. 
The  first  is  freedom  of  speech  and 
expression  —  everywhere  in  the 
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VOLUME  107  No.  9  SEPTEMBER  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

Housing,  a  Worldwide  Problem 2 

This  Month's  Question  for  Candidates:  Human  Needs 5 

The  Origin  of  Labor  Day Carpenter,  September  1937  10 

L-P  Boycott  Day .  . 11 

Words  and  Music  in  Labor's  Struggle 12 

Labor  Marks  75  Years  Support  of  Scouting 16 

Canadian  Building  Trades  Convention 19 

Dad's  Day  and  Blueprint  for  Cure 19 

Second  Business  Agents'  Seminar 32 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 14 

Ottawa  Report 18 

Local  Union  News 20 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 23 

Labor  News  Roundup 24 

We  Congratulate 25 

Plane  Gossip 26 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Pitchmen  Invade  Your  Mail  Box 28 

Retirees  Notebook 30 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 35 

In  Memoriam  37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


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THE 
COVER 


Freedom  of  speech  and  expression; 
freedom  of  religion;  freedom  from  want; 
freedom  from  fear.  These  were  four  points 
of  President  Franklin  D.  Roosevelt's 
message  to  Congress  in  his  1941  State  of 
the  Union  address.  They  are  facets  of 
American  life,  guaranteed  under  the  Con- 
stitution, that  were  being  threatened  by 
the  Second  World  War. 

This  month  our  cover  is  a  Norman 
Rockwell  reproduction  of  the  freedom 
from  fear,  part  of  the  Four  Freedoms 
collection.  He  illustrated  it  best  by  con- 
trasting the  innocence  of  sleeping  chil- 
dren with  the  banner  headline  in  the 
newspaper  held  by  the  father,  telling  of 
war  and  destruction  on  other  shores. 
Who  was  to  say  it  would  not  touch 
American  shores? 

As  we  celebrate  the  200th  birthday  of 
the  Constitution,  we  can  also  celebrate 
our  freedom  from  fear  that  is  protected 
by  the  document.  We  don't  have  to  fear 
unreasonable  searches  and  seizures  by 
authorities  because  of  our  protection  un- 
der the  Bill  of  Rights  (fourth  amendment). 
It  also  forbids  the  taking  of  life,  liberty 
or  property  without  due  process  of  law 
or  the  taking  of  private  property  for 
public  use  without  just  compensation 
(fifth  amendment)  and  it  abolishes  slavery 
guaranteeing  all  persons  bom  or  natu- 
ralized in  the  United  States  and  subject 
to  its  jurisdiction  are  citizens  (fourteenth 
amendment). 

Today  we  are  protected  by  the  Bill  of 
Rights,  and,  for  labor  members,  by  our 
union.  We  do  not  have  to  fear  the  loss 
of  our  jobs,  unreasonable  hours  or  work- 
ing conditions. 

As  American  citizens  and  union  mem- 
bers, we  have  the  assurance  of  freedom 
from  fear. — Painting  by  Norman  Rock- 
well, courtesy  of  the  Saturday  Evening 
Post  Society. 


Printed  in  U.S.A. 


the  world  faces  a  major  problem 


by  JOHN  HERLING 

From  John  Herling's  Labor  Letter,  June  27,  1987 


"A  quarter  of  humanity,  a  billion 
human  beings,  are  literally  homeless  or 
live  in  rudimentary  forms  of  housing, 
in  slums  and  squatter  settlements," 
states  a  report  on  housing  by  the  Inter- 
national Confederation  of  Free  Trade 
Unions. 

"This  problem  is  not  confined  to  the 
developing  world,"  the  report  contin- 
ues. "There  are  10,000  homeless  people 
in  Paris,  13,000  in  London,  and  in  New 
York  between  60,000  and  80,000  people 
live  on  the  streets.  The  squatter  settle- 
ments around  Istanbul  provide  'shelter' 
for  more  than  two  million  people." 

Unhealthy  housing  leads  to  a  high 
rate  of  infectious  diseases,  as  a  result 
of  which  approximately  50,000  people 
die  every  day,  with  women  and  children 


the  most  vulnerable,  according  to  the 
report,  which  also  states  that  many 
additional  lives  could  be  saved  if  prior- 
ity were  given  to  safety  in  the  construc- 
tion of  new  housing  and  renovation  of 
old  houses.  It  mentions  in  particular 
the  necessity  for  fire  escape  routes  and 
the  elimination  of  materials  containing 
dangerous  substances  such  as  asbestos, 
the  use  of  which  is  widespread. 

The  report  also  deplores  the  spread 
of  deforestation,  since  trees  "could  pro- 
vide a  major  natural  resource  available 
to  almost  every  country  for  the  purpose 
of  shelter  construction."  The  availabil- 
ity of  local  building  materials  could 
eliminate  the  need  for  expensive  im- 
ports. 

"In  most  countries,  loans  for  housing 


on  the  private  market  are  available  only 
to  middle-  and  high  income  groups,  to 
the  exclusion  of  the  poor,"  says  the 
report,  adding  that  government  action 
is  crucial.  Public  investment  has  proved 
to  be  a  profitable  investment  in  terms 
of  economic  growth;  since  construction 
is  labor-intensive,  increased  construc- 
tion can  reduce  unemployment. 

Other  recommendations  by  ICFTU 
include  support  for  housing  coopera- 
tives capable  of  providing  housing  at 
prices  accessible  to  the  very  poor;  cre- 
ation of  savings  and  loan  associations 
to  offer  long-term  credit  at  favorable 
rates;  and  training  programs  to  provide 
enough  qualified  construction  workers. 
In  each  of  these  areas  unions  play  a 
vital  part. 


CARPENTER 


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AMERICA'S  CELEBRATION  OF  CITIZENSHIP 

Stop  what  you're  doing  at  1  p.m.  EDT,  September  15 


Vnt^NT*^'^ 


It's  expected  to  be  the  big  event  of 
1987,  and,  potentially,  it  could  be  the 
biggest  participatory  event  ever — Amer- 
ica's "Celebration  of  Citizenship," 
Wednesday  September  16,  beginning  at 
1  p.m..  Eastern  Daylight  Time. 

President  Ronald  Reagan,  Chief  Jus- 
tice Warren  Burger  Retired  and  members 
of  the  United  States  Congress  will  lead 
the  nation  from  the  steps  of  the  Capitol 
in  Washington,  D.C.  in  a  brief  ceremony 
that  will  be  broadcast  live  and  worldwide 
on  both  television  and  radio.  All  Amer- 
icans are  invited  to  stop  whatever  they 
are  doing  and  join  together,  as  one,  at  1 


p.m.  EDT  on  September  16,  1987  to  pay 
tribute  to  the  United  States  Constitution 
on  the  200th  Anniversary  of  its  signing 
in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Over  66  million  students,  teachers  and 
school  administrators  in  110,000  schools 
will  participate  in  a  nationwide  "teach- 
in"  on  the  Constitution  to  study  the  rights 
and  responsibilities  of  citizenship.  Food 
stores  will  distribute  millions  of  "WE 
THE  PEOPLE"  Bicentennial  Commem- 
orative Emblems  nationally  for  all  Amer- 
icans to  wear  on  September  16,  1987  as 
a  patriotic  tribute  to  the  Constitution. 

The  Pledge  of  Allegiance  Broadcast 


from  the  steps  of  the  Capitol  will  be 
satellite  fed  to  10,000  radio  and  television 
stations  across  the  United  States.  There 
will  be  live  coverage  of  the  anniversary 
from  Germany,  Greenland,  the  Indian 
Ocean,  Hawaii,  Alaska  and  many  major 
cities.  Further  broadcasts  are  being 
planned  by  Voice  of  America,  Worldnet, 
Radio  Free  Europe,  and  the  Armed  Forces 
Network. 

The  initial  broadcast  is  expected  to  last 
for  one-half  hour,  and  in  those  30  minutes 
the  world  should  know  how  proud  Amer- 
icans are  of  their  Constitution  and  the 
freedoms  it  provides. 


Of  the  billion  people  in  the  world 
without  adequate  housing,  fifty  million 
are  children,  abandoned  and  homeless, 
according  to  the  ICFTU  report,  which 
adds  that  by  the  year  2000,  the  world 
population  will  have  grown  from  4.8 
billion  to  6.1  billion,  which  will  make 
the  problem  even  more  critical  unless 
strong  steps  are  taken  now. 

Almost  19  million  Americans  will  be 
unable  to  afford  housing  by  the  year 
2003  without  a  national  commitment  to 
provide  affordable  housing,  according 
to  a  study  by  Prof.  Phillip  Clay  of  MIT, 
commissioned  by  the  Neighborhood 
Reinvestment  Corp.,  a  nonprofit  group 
created  by  Congress  in  1978  to  revitalize 
neighborhoods  and  maintain  a  supply 
of  low-income  housing. 

In  1983,  the  study  reports,  there  were 


12.9  miUion  low-rent  housing  units  in 
the  country.  By  2003,  there  will  be  only 
9.4  million,  while  the  number  of  house- 
holds needing  low-rent  units  will  go 
from  11.9  million  in  1983  to  17.2  million 
in  2003.  In  other  words,  7.8  million  new 
housing  units  must  be  built  in  the  next 
16  years  if  everyone  is  to  be  housed. 

The  supply  of  low-rent  housing  is 
also  threatened  by  expiring  federal  con- 
tracts. About  900,000  of  the  1.9  million 
privately  owned  but  federally  assisted 
low-income  housing  units  could  be  re- 
financed by  1995  because  their  con- 
tracts will  have  expired,  according  to 
the  study.  This  means  that  the  owners 
would  no  longer  be  obliged  to  rent  to 
low-income  tenants. 

The  public  housing  program  was 
started  in  the  1930's  and  grew  steadily 


through  the  1960's.  Since  then,  units 
have  been  built  mainly  for  elderly  and 
handicapped  individuals.  Today,  "no 
new  family  public  housing  is  in  the 
pipeline  to  replace  units  lost  or  to  meet 
the  need  reflected  in  the  growing  waiting 
lists,"  says  the  study. 

Obviously,  federal  action  is  needed. 
"The  market  cannot  produce  or  main- 
tain housing  for  the  poor,"  the  study 
states.  It  calls  for  a  national  policy  to 
save  and  improve  the  current  supply  of 
four  million  public  and  subsidized  hous- 
ing units  and  to  build  new  low-cost 
housing. 

But  the  Reagan  administration  con- 
tinues to  rely  on  a  free-market  approach 
and  to  demand  severe  cutbacks  in  hous- 
ing programs  in  addition  to  cuts  it  has 
been  making  since  1981.  However,  la- 


Nine  out  of  10  adult  Americans  under 
35  regard  homeownership  as  their  high- 
est personal  priority,  according  to  a 
survey  by  the  Roper  Organization  in 
1984.  But  owning  a  home  has  become 
more  difficult  for  young  households. 
The  share  of  households  headed  by 
persons  aged  25-34  who  own  a  home 
has  steadily  declined  since  1978.  ac- 
cording to  the  U.S.  Bureau  of  the  Cen- 
sus.—The  chart  at  right  is  from  "To- 
ward a  National  Housing  Policy," 
published  by  the  National  Association 
of  Horhe  Builders. 


Homeownership  Rate,  25-34  Year-Old  Households,  1978-1986 


% 
55 


50 


45 


40 


45 


78 


79 


80 


81 


82 


83 


84 


85  86* 

•2nd  Quarter 


SEPTEMBER     1987 


Thf  inside  of  a  native  hut  in  Zimbabwe, 
Africa,  above,  and  an  alley  view  of  aban- 
doned slum  housing  in  Washington.  D.C.. 
right,  testify  to  the  growing  problem  of 
housing  for  the  world's  bulging  popula- 
tion. 


bor  was  able  to  secure  passage  by  the 
House  of  Representatives,  by  a  large 
majority,  of  a  housing  and  community 
development  bill  that  would  preserve 
existing  programs  and  start  a  few  new 
ones.  Although  fairly  modest  in  scope 
and  cost,  it  was  attacked  by  Reagan  as 
a  "budget  buster."  The  Senate  has 
already  passed  a  somewhat  smaller- 
scaled  housing  authorization  bill,  and  a 
House-Senate  conference  is  undertak- 
ing to  reconcile  the  differences. 

The  AFL-CIO's  Housing  Investment 
Trust,  created  to  channel  union  and 
pension  fund  money  into  homes,  health 
care  facilities,  and  residential  retire- 
ment projects  built  by  union  labor,  has 
been  gaining  new  participants  and  is 
expected  to  have  $200  million  in  in- 
vestments by  the  end  of  September. 
The  Trust  is  already  financing  a  number 
of  construction  projects. 

Several  union  pension  funds  are  help- 
ing to  alleviate  the  housing  crisis  by 


offering  mortgage  loans  at  rates  below 
those  of  other  lenders,  so  that  lower- 
income  workers  can  buy  their  own 
homes.  .  .  . 

These  union  efforts,  commendable 
though  they  be,  can't  be  of  much  help 
in  providing  housing  for  those  who  need 
it  most — the  poorest  of  the  poor.  After 
all,  the  pension  funds,  like  all  private 
investors,  have  to  get  a  return  on  their 
investment.  And  it  is  subsidies  that  are 
needed. 

Voluntary  programs,  low-interest 
loans,  housing  cooperatives,  and  self- 
help  ( ' ' sweat  equity ' ' )  housing  can  help, 
but  only  to  a  limited  extent.  In  the  long 
run,  it  is  government  that  has  to  do  the 
job  of  providing  housing  for  everyone. 
And  unions  and  other  concerned  people 
and  organizations  have  to  keep  exerting 
pressure  on  governments  everywhere 
to  get  the  job  done. 


One  UBC  Proposal 

In  1974,  William  Sidell,  then  general  pres- 
ident of  the  UBC,  suggested  to  delegates 
attending  the  32nd  General  Convention  in 
Chicago  that  "the  time  has  come  to  remove 
the  housing  industry  from  the  free  enterprise 
banking  system."  He  proposed  that  the  U.S. 
government  broaden  the  scope  of  the  Federal 
Housing  Administration  and  provide  funds 
directly  to  prospective  home  buyers  at  "in- 
terest rates  commensurate  with  the  needs  of 
the  industry  ...  not  the  9,  10  and  1 1%  where 
we  are  headed  today  but  more  in  the  4%  or 
5%  category.  ...  If  in  our  present  system 
monies  for  housing  must  compete  with  the 
money  market,  then  I  say  take  it  out  of  the 
money  market !  Remove  it  from  the  pressures 
and  the  transcience  and  the  oscillating  nature 
of  the  business  world  .  .  .  and  stabilize  it." 
Sidell's  address  drew  much  press  and  in- 
dustry comment,  but  the  problem  remains. 


Housing's  share  of  the  federal  budget 
declines.  Budget  authority  for  the  De- 
partment of  Housing  and  Urban  Devel- 
opment, which  accounted  for  7.4%  of 
the  total  federal  budget  in  fiscal  1978. 
is  proposed  to  be  less  than  1%  in  fiscal 
1988.— Source:  Budget  of  the  United 
States  Government,  Fiscal  Year  1988. 


Budget  Authority  of  HUD,  as  a  Percentage  of  the  Total  Federal  Budget ,1978-88 


% 
8 


78 


79 


80 


81 


82 


83 


84 


85 


86 


87'        88" 

*  Estimated 

•  Proposed 


CARPENTER 


THIS  MONTH'S 

QUESTION  FOR 
THE  CANDIDATES 

The  AFL-CIO  invited  13  declared  and  potential  can- 
didates for  the  Democratic  and  Republican  Party  nomi- 
nations for  president  in  the  1988  election  to  provide 
written  answers  to  four  critical  questions.  Their  re- 
sponses to  one  of  the  questions  appears  below  and  on 
the  following  pages.  Answers  to  other  questions  ap- 
peared in  previous  issues  of  Carpenter.  A  final  ques- 
tion will  appear  in  the  October  issue. 


Labor's  role  in  the  1988  presidential  elec- 
tion was  the  prime  topic  of  this  workshop 
at  the  AFL-CIO' s  Chicago  regional  con- 
ference. President  Lane  Kirkland  moder- 
ated the  discussions  with  the  help  of 
COPE  Director  John  Perkins.  The  work- 
shop was  one  of  four  at  the  two-day  con- 
ference, which  drew  more  than  700  trade 
unionists  from  a  dozen  midwestern  states. 


What  role  do  you  see  for  governments — federal,  state  and  local — in  such 
areas  as:  education,  training,  employment,  health  care,  housing,  equal 
opportunity,  the  environment,  and  programs  for  the  elderly?  At  your  first 
Cabinet  meeting,  what  instructions  would  you  give  to  the  heads  of 
departments  with  responsibilities  in  these  areas? 


HUMAN 
NEEDS 


4 


Answers  from 
DEMOCRATS 


Albert 
Gore  Jr. 

U.S.  Senator 

(Tennessee), 

1985—:  U.S. 

Representative, 

1977-1985: 

Reporter, 

Nashville 

Tennessean, 

1970-1976. 


Americans  want  a  better  deal  from 
government.  As  president,  I  will  set  out 
to  find  a  job  for  every  American  who 
wants  to  work,  and  make  sure  the 
minimum  wage  is  at  a  level  that  assures 
everyone  gets  fair  pay.  I  believe  we 


should  invest  in  people  for  a  change, 
by  creating  better  schools  and  job  train- 
ing programs.  We  should  launch  a  na- 
tional job  bank  to  match  jobseekers 
with  job  openings,  so  that  if  a  person 
is  out  of  work,  he  or  she  will  immedi- 
ately have  a  Hst  of  all  the  opportunities 
available.  We  should  widen  the  doors 
of  equal  opportunity  we  fought  so  hard 
to  open  in  the  first  place. 

America  must  insist  on  a  cleaner 
environment  by  cleaning  up  hazardous 
waste  dumps  and  demanding  clean  water 
and  clean  air.  America  must  guarantee 
all  citizens  the  right  to  shelter  and 
increase  the  supply  of  affordable  hous- 
ing. We  should  stand  up  for  social 
security  and  give  the  elderly  access  to 
better,  less  expensive  long-term  care. 
And  we  must  make  good  health  care 
available  to  everyone  at  a  price  they 
can  afford. 

Finally,  we  should  make  it  easier  for 
Americans  to  build  strong  families,  with 
good  schools,  quality  child  care  and 
meaningful  programs  against  crime  and 
drug  abuse. 


Bruce 
Babbitt 

Governor  of 
Arizona,  1978- 
1987:  Attorney 
General,  1975- 
1978;  Attorney, 
Brown.  V  lass  is 
&  Bain.  1967- 
1975:  Attorney, 
Office  of 
Economic 
Opportunity, 
1965-1967. 


Three  major  priorities: 

1.  Children.  One  American  child  in 
four  lives  in  poverty.  That  is  unaccept- 
able, and  I  see  three  urgent  tasks.  First, 
we  must  extend  Medicaid  benefits  to 
every  child  in  poverty — immediately. 
Second,  we  must  help  make  it  possible 
for  working  parents  to  find  decent  child 
care.  Third,  we  must  have  massive 
improvements  in  education. 

2.  Jobs.  You  create  quality  jobs  with 


SEPTEMBER     1987 


HUIVIAN  NEEDS/ l/l^/7ere  the  Candidates  Stand 


economic  growth,  and  that  means  giv- 
ing ordinary  woricers  a  piece  of  the 
action.  How  many  times  have  you  heard 
executives  push  for  wage  cuts — and 
then  reward  themselves  with  bonuses 
for  their  frugality?  No  American  com- 
pany should  be  permitted  to  deduct  an 
executive  bonus  as  a  business  expense 
unless  it  offers  productivity  pay  for  all 
of  its  employees.  I'd  say  to  every  Amer- 
ican worker:  If  you  make  first-rate  ef- 
forts— if  you  pay  attention  to  detail,  if 
you  improve  the  quality  of  your  prod- 
uct, if  you  find  a  better  way  to  do  the 
job — you'll  have  first-rate  rewards. 

3.  Environment.  We  need  legislation 
on  acid  rain,  groundwater  protection 
and  public  lands.  I  would  tell  every 
polluter:  If  you  poison  our  water  you 
will  go  to  jail,  and  your  money  will  be 
spent  to  clean  up  the  mess. 


Jesse 
Jackson 

President, 

National 

Rainbow 

Coalition,  1984- 

President, 

Operation 

PUSH,  1971- 

1983;  Executive 

Director, 

Operation 

Breadbasket, 

1966-1971. 


At  my  first  Cabinet  meeting  I  would 
instruct  Cabinet  and  department  heads 
that  our  government  will  assume  the 
appropriate  leadership  in  these  areas  to 
ensure  responsible,  effective  and  effi- 
cient performance.  We  will  meet  our 
responsibilities  to  the  nation.  My  prior- 
ities include: 

President  Reagan  proposed  cutting 
education  to  $14  billion.  I  proposed 
raising  education  to  $25  billion. 

Unemployment  during  the  Reagan 
administration  has  averaged  8.1%.  I 
propose  a  FULL  EMPLOYMENT  AND 
BALANCED  GROWTH  ECONOMY 
as  the  number  one  priority  of  a  Jackson 
administration. 

I  support  a  national  health  care  sys- 
tem that  provides  quality  health  care 
for  all  of  our  citizens  based  on  need 
and  not  solely  on  money,  and  a  new 
national  housing  effort  that  would  both 
shelter  our  people  and  help  put  our 
people  back  to  work. 

I  strongly  support  affirmative  action 
and  would  use  the  full  powers  of  the 


executive  branch  of  government  to 
firmly,  but  fairly,  enforce  the  law. 

A  major  role  must  be  played  by  the 
federal  government  in  cleaning  up  our 
environment.  We  can  clean  up  our  en- 
vironment, create  jobs  and  generate 
new  taxes  at  the  same  time. 

The  measure  of  the  moral  character 
of  a  nation  is  how  it  treats  its  young, 
poor  and  elderly. 


Michael  S. 
Dukakis 

Governor  of 
Massachusetts, 
1974-1978  and 
1982—. 


Consider  the  record  we  built  in  Mas- 
sachusetts. 

We  helped  working  families,  and  the 
elderly,  by  balancing  our  budgets  and 
by  cutting  taxes  five  times  in  four  years. 
But  we  also  made  concern  for  the  most 
vulnerable  members  of  our  society  a 
top  priority. 

Our  employment  and  training  pro- 
gram helped  welfare  families  lift  them- 
selves out  of  poverty  and  become  self- 
sufficient,  wage-earning  citizens. 

And  we  helped  30,000  low-income 
families  find  decent,  affordable  housing. 

We  were  the  first  to  use  state  funds 
to  supplement  the  federal  nutrition  pro- 
gram for  women  and  infant  children. 

We  quadrupled  college  scholarship 
assistance  and  increased  funds  for  pub- 
lic higher  education  by  a  greater  per- 


How  Many  Registered? 

Local  UBC  politiical  action  com- 
mittees, CLIC,  are  working  on  reg- 
istering unregistered  members.  New 
voters  will  get  "I'm  union  and  I  vote" 
bumper  stickers  and  a  personal  letter 
from  the  Carpenters'  Legislative  Im- 
provement Committee. 

When  your  local  or  district  council 
reaches  75%  registered  members,  you 
can  join  the  Registered  for  Action 
Club. 

Every  day  the  news  carries  more 
stories  on  the  coming  presidential  and 
congressional  elections.  Let's  be  ready 
to  turn  out  more  UBC  votes  than  ever 
before. 


centage  than  any  other  state. 

We  worked  hard  to  provide  quality 
health  and  home  care  for  older  citizens. 

We  committed  ourselves  to  batthng 
AIDS,  homelessness,  teen  pregnancy, 
adult  illiteracy,  drug  and  alcohol  abuse 
and  the  failure  to  provide  child  support. 

Now  the  time  has  come  to  provide 
that  kind  of  leadership  from  Washing- 
ton. 

That  is  the  message  I  would  deliver 
during  my  first  Cabinet  meeting. 

But  I  would  add  that  the  most  im- 
portant human  service  program  of  all 
is  full  employment,  and  that  will  be  a 
fundamental  goal  of  the  Dukakis  admin- 
istration. 


Richard 
Gephardt 

Chairman, 

House 

Democratic 

Caucus,  1985—; 

U.S. 

Representative 

(Missouri), 

1977— ;  Board  of 

Aldermen, 

1971-76. 


Government  has  one  major  function, 
essentially:  to  protect  and  defend  its 
citizens.  The  federal  government  must 
act  in  the  national  interest,  and  I  would 
reverse  the  policies  of  the  past  several 
years  that  pit  region  against  region  and 
which  divide  America.  All  govern- 
ments, at  every  level,  should  be  work- 
ing together,  pulling  together,  instead 
of  shucking  responsibility  off  on  the 
next  guy  down  the  ladder. 

Under  a  Gephardt  presidency  this 
country  would  see  an  unprecedented 
federal  commitment  to  education.  That's 
the  key  to  building  the  future  of  Amer- 
ica. We  must,  and  would,  do  more  to 
combat  adult  illiteracy,  prevent  drop- 
outs, help  people  train  and  retrain  for 
better  jobs  and  elevate  the  aspirations 
and  talent  of  all  our  people. 

We  will  never  be  a  secure  nation  as 
long  as  our  citizens  are  uneducated,  ill- 
housed,  ill-clothed,  ill-fed  and  unem- 
ployed or  underemployed.  We  will  make 
America  first  again  by  making — human 
resources — our  first  priority.  I  see  an 
America  where  all  leaders  share  that 
responsibility,  but  where  the  federal 
government  sets  the  tone  and  takes  the 
lead.  In  a  Gephardt  administration,  I 
would  expect  the  heads  of  all  depart- 
ments to  lead  in  that  new  direction. 


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Joseph  R. 
Biden  Jr. 

U.S.  Senator 

(Delaware) 

1973—: 

Chairman, 

Judiciary 

Committee; 

ranking 

Democrat, 

Foreign 

Relations 

Committee 


Our  primary  challenge  is  to  end  a 
decade  of  the  "got  mine,  get  yours" 
philosophy,  and  restore  our  sense  of 
community  and  common  concern. 

For  our  young,  we  must  insure  that 
all  have  decent  health  care  from  birth 
through  adolescence.  We  must  give 
them  the  best  education  system  in  the 
world.  We  must  expand  drug  education 
and  treatment  programs.  And  we  must 
sponsor  new  plans  to  put  higher  edu- 
cation within  the  reach  of  teens  from 
all  backgrounds. 

We  must  help  adults  in  need  by  pro- 
viding shelter  for  the  homeless  and 
training  and  opportunities  for  the  job- 
less. Government  must  give  these 
Americans  the  help  they  need  so  they 
can  help  themselves. 

We  must  insure  that  our  elderly  have 
a  retirement  with  dignity.  They  should 
have  the  health  care  they  need  without 
spending  everything  they  have  worked 
a  lifetime  to  save. 

Our  next  president  must  lead  the 
government  in  addressing  these  press- 
ing problems.  The  record  of  the  past 
seven  years — of  neglect  and  irrespon- 
sibility— must  be  ended. 

But  the  president  will  have  to  do 
more:  He  will  have  to  challenge  the 
American  people  to  work  for  these  same 
goals  in  their  neighborhoods,  schools, 


union  halls  and  communities.  He  must 
offer  moral  leadership  and  a  vision  of 
social  justice.  He  must  remind  the  peo- 
ple that  our  less  fortunate  citizens  are 
not  "them" — they  are  a  part  of  "us." 
This  is  not  something  we  should  do 
just  out  of  compassion  for  those  less 
fortunate.  Helping  fellow  Americans 
helps  all  of  us.  We  will  need  to  tap  the 
full  potential  and  energies  of  all  of  our 
people  if  we  are  to  remain  a  great 
country  into  the  next  century  and  be- 
yond. 


Paul 
Simon 

U.S.  Senator 

lltlinois)  1985— 

U.S. 

Rcprcscnlalivc. 

1975-1985: 

.Liculenanl 

(iovernor, 

1968-1972: 

Newspaper 

PiMisher. 

1948-1966. 


Some  beheve  our  nation  has  reached 
its  full  potential.  I  believe  there  are 
areas  where  government  action  is 
needed,  and  needed  badly.  I  will  not 
wait  until  my  first  Cabinet  meeting  to 
put  together  a  program;  I  will  move 
immediately  after  my  election.  At  the 
first  Cabinet  meeting,  we  wiU  have  a 
detailed  plan  to  begin  implementing. 

Quality  education  must  be  available 
to  all.  The  federal  government  must 
provide  guidance  and  direct  assistance 
where  appropriate.  We  must  raise 
teacher  pay  and  expand  incentives 
for  attracting  and  retaining  excellent 
teachers. 

We  cannot  tolerate  7%  unemploy- 
ment. As  Frankhn  Delano  Roosevelt 
did,  we  need  to  put  America  back  to 
work.  We  need  to  expand  private  sector 
jobs,  train  and  retrain  young  and  old 
workers  and  provide  jobs  for  those  who 
can't  find  work. 

Housing  programs  for  the  poor,  the 
elderly  and  those  who  are  handicapped 
must  be  revitalized. 

The  social  security  system  and  the 
Older  Americans  Act  must  remain  vi- 
able, providing  vital  services  and  sup- 
port. 

There  must  be  access  to  quality  health 
care  for  all.  Medicare  must  be  strong. 
All  Americans  must  have  insurance  and 
be  protected  from  overwhelming  med- 
ical expenses  that  leave  them  helpless. 

These  are  the  things  I  stand  for. 


^^^^J  Answers  from 
REPUBLICANS 


Pete 
du  Pont 

Governor  of 
Delaware.  1977- 
1985:  U.S. 
Represcnlutive, 
1971-1977:  Slate 
Legislator, 
1969-1971. 


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The  first  task  for  the  federal  govern- 
ment is  to  provide  for  our  national 
defense.  Without  a  strong  military — 
second  to  none — we  would  quickly  lose 
all  our  freedoms.  Poland,  Afghanistan, 
Cuba  and  Ethiopia  are  tragic  reminders 
of  what  it  means  to  be  weaker  than  the 
Soviet  Union. 

America  must  research,  build  and 
deploy  the  strategic  defense  initiative 
as  soon  as  possible.  Today,  we  have 
no  defense  against  Soviet  missiles  fired 
on  purpose  or  by  accident.  That  is  a 
scandal.  Some  liberals  say  we  should 
trust  the  Soviets.  I  say  we  should  place 
our  trust  in  the  ingenuity,  talent  and 
hard  work  of  the  American  people  to 
build  a  srong  defense — the  technology 
for  which  will  catapult  us  ahead  of  the 
rest  of  the  world  in  competitiveness. 

Another  important  task  is  to  get  drugs 
out  of  our  children's  classrooms.  The 
only  way  we'll  ever  guarantee  drug- 
free  classrooms  is  to  link  drug  use  with 
a  driver's  license.  Now  this  will  require 
random  drug  testing  of  teenagers  in  our 
schools.  But,  if  we  can  require  vacci- 
nations before  kids  go  to  school,  we 
can  require  drug  testing  while  they're 
in  school. 

Of  course,  we  must  provide  coun- 
seling and  help  for  young  people  who 
need  it.  But  we  have  to  let  them  know 
there  are  penalties — and  conse- 
quences— for  drug  use.  We  have  to  say, 
"If  you  use  drugs,  you  won't  drive  .  .  . 
because  you  won't  have  a  driver's  li- 
cense." 

For  a  long  time,  we've  gone  after 
drug  pushers.  Now  it's  time  to  get  tough 
with  drug  users,  too. 

Government  must  provide  opportu- 


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HUMAN  NEEDS /W/?ere  the  Candidates  Stand 


nities — opportunity  for  welfare  recipi- 
ents to  vault  out  of  poverty,  for  parents 
to  choose  the  schools  their  children  will 
attend  and  for  young  workers  to  save 
for  their  own  retirement.  My  campaign 
offers  specific  proposals  for  changing 
the  policies  that  keep  us  from  these 
goals. 


Alexander 
M. 
Haig  Jr. 

Sc'cieloiy  of 
SltiW.  1981- 
1982:  Supreme 
Allied 

Comintmiler  of 
NATO.  1974- 
1979:  Chief  of 
Staff  to 
President 
Nixon.  1973- 
1974:  founder/ 
President. 
Worldwide 
Associates. 
1982—. 


At  my  first  Cabinet  meeting,  I  would 
say  this:  The  best  government  is  the 
least  government  but  that  which  gov- 
ernment does,  it  must  do  well.  The 
American  people,  after  trial  and  error, 
have  estabhshed  a  social  compact.  Our 
task  is  to  do  well,  to  respect  that  com- 
pact and  to  encourage  social  progress. 

In  addition,  I  would  say  to  the  sec- 
retary of  labor  that  he  must  always  hear 
the  voice  of  labor.  Other  Cabinet  offi- 
cials, such  as  commerce,  treasury  and 
defense  must  do  so  as  well. 

The  American  system  of  federal,  state 
and  local  government  is  intended  to 
give  us  the  flexibiity  to  deal  with  prob- 
lems at  the  most  effective  level.  Over 
the  past  decade,  we  have  seen  a  strong 
revival  of  state  and  local  capacity  to 
handle  such  pressing  issues  as  eco- 
nomic development,  job  training  and 
welfare.  Recent  studies  show  that  state 
"workfare"  proposals  offer  more 
promising  results  than  traditional  fed- 
eral style  approaches  in  the  effort  to 
reduce  welfare  rolls. 

This  new  federalism,  however,  does 
not  relieve  Washington  of  responsibiity 
for  matters  that  it  can  handle  best. 
Environmental  protection  goes  beyond 
state  or  local  capabilities.  We  urgently 
need  changes  in  our  health  care  system, 
not  just  to  contain  costs  but  to  make 
sure  that  those  costs  do  not  lead  to  a 
catastrophe  for  the  elderly  and  poor. 


Ultimately,  the  federal  government  must 
also  take  the  lead  in  combatting  the 
plagues  of  AIDS  and  drugs,  both  of 
which  have  an  important  international 
dimension. 

While  education  remains  a  primary 
task  for  state  and  local  jurisdictions, 
the  federal  government  can  and  should 
help  to  restore  to  our  schools  a  sense 
of  discipline,  a  respect  for  humane  val- 
ues and  a  quest  for  excellence  that  are 
essential  to  our  future  as  a  democratic 
society.  It  should  also  assemble,  mon- 
itor and  evaluate  standards  of  education 
at  the  national  level.  I  welcome  the  new 
emphasis  on  mastering  the  fundamen- 
tals— reading,  writing  and  arithmetic — 
and  analytical  skills  necessary  to  suc- 
ceed in  our  changing  society.  Our  teach- 
ers, the  custodians  of  the  future,  de- 
serve our  encouragement  and  reward 
as  they  strive  to  improve  education, 
especially  at  the  grade  and  secondary 
school  levels. 


Jack  Kemp 

U.S. 

Representative 

(New  York) 

1971—:  Pro 

Football 

Qaarterhuck, 

American  & 

National 

Football 

Lea  fines. 

1957-1970. 


The  most  important  thing  govern- 
ment can  do  for  people  is  to  provide 
the  ladder  of  opportunity  upon  which 
aU  can  climb  and  a  floor  of  help  to  those 
who  can't  help  themselves  or  are  in 
temporary  need  of  assistance.  I  will 
instruct  my  Cabinet  to  foUow  policies 
that  will  lead  to  a  growing  economy  of 
at  least  5%  per  year  and  that  will  provide 
a  good  job  at  a  decent  wage  for  everyone 
who  wants  to  work.  I  will  work  to 
Uberate  labor,  capital  and  working  fam- 
ilies from  high  taxes  and  interest  rates, 
and  uphold  the  traditional  family  values 
upon  which  our  nation  was  founded. 

I  will  commit  my  administration  to 
not  only  fighting  but  winning  the  war 
on  poverty.  I  will  mobilize  the  power 
of  the  private  sector  to  create  jobs  and 
opportunity  in  distressed  cities  and  ru- 
ral areas  through  enterprise  zones.  My 
administration  will  give  public  housing 
tenants  the  chance  to  become  home- 


owners through  urban  homesteading 
legislation.  My  longstanding  and  active 
support  for  job  training,  trade  adjust- 
ment assistance,  magnet  schools  and 
protections  for  workers  in  the  work- 
place will  remain  unchanged.  I  will 
commit  my  administration  to  ensuring 
human  and  civil  rights  with  equal  op- 
portunity for  all.  I  believe  the  social 
security  system  is  the  bedrock  of  re- 
tirement security,  and  I  will  uphold  its 
integrity  and  continue  to  oppose  any 
effort  to  reduce  benefits  to  older  Amer- 
icans. 


Pat 
Robertson 

Founder! 

Chairman, 

Christian 

Broadcastini> 

Network.  1959—: 

founder. 

Operation 

Blessing.  1978—: 

Broadcast 

News  Analyst, 

1975—; 

Chancellor, 

CBN  University, 

1978—. 


In  my  own  organization  we  have  been 
involved  in  feeding,  clothing  and  hous- 
ing some  13  million  needy  Americans. 
We  do  it  with  '/2%  overhead.  Ninety- 
nine  and  one-half  percent  reaches  the 
ultimate  recipient.  Some  government 
programs  use  70%  for  administration 
with  only  30%  reaching  the  recipient. 

Welfare  must  be  used  to  bring  people 
into  dignity  and  productivity.  It  should 
never  be  used  to  create  dependency. 

The  greatest  problem  area  of  poverty 
today  centers  around  single  women  with 
dependent  children.  I  may  be  old-fash- 
ioned, but  it  is  my  feehng  that  if  a  man 
fathers  children,  it  is  his  job,  not  the 
government's,  to  care  for  them.  I  also 
feel  that,  with  the  exception  of  women 
with  children  under  the  age  of  six,  the 
concept  should  be  payment  for  produc- 
tive employment — "workfare"  not 
welfare. 

For  efficiency,  and  for  moral  and 
spiritual  support,  government  should 
work  in  partnership  with  the  private 
medical  agencies  to  care  for  those  truly 
needy  among  us. 

My  instructions  to  my  Cabinet  would 
be: 

"Under  no  circumstances  can  a  great 


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and  powerful  nation  fail  to  provide 
adequate  care  to  its  elderly,  infirm  and 
handicapped.  We  can  no  longer  tolerate 
the  heart-rending  sight  of  people  sleep- 
ing on  grates  at  the  heart  of  our  cities. 
"Current  welfare  legislation  must  be 
reformed  and  improved.  We  must  be 
compassionate — but  that  compassion 
must  be  tough  and  efficient  as  stewards 
of  the  taxpayers  of  America." 


George 
Bush 

Vice  PresklenI 
of  the  UniU'cl 
Sillies.  1981—: 
U.S. 

Represenlcilive. 
1%7-7I: 
Amha,\sador  lo 
China.  1974-75: 
Direclor  of 
Cenliul 
Inlellif^eine. 
1975-77. 


Americans  have  never  been  as  well 
off  as  they  are  today.  We've  created  13 
million  new  jobs,  cut  inflation  and 
brought  interest  rates  down.  At  the 
same  time,  we've  rebuilt  our  defenses, 
while  strengthening  social  security  and 
preserving  the  social  safety  net. 

I  have  always  believed  that  the  best 
social  program  is  a  job.  That's  why  the 
best  way  to  meet  our  social  needs  is  to 
protect  the  ability  of  our  economy  to 
produce  new  jobs. 

We  must  keep  moving  forward  with 
policies  that  will  provide  more  oppor- 
tunity, further  the  creation  of  new  jobs 
and  keep  inflation  and  interest  rates 
down.  We  must  not  reverse  course.  We 
must  not  make  a  U-turn  to  policies  of 


high  taxes  and  overspending.  Those 
policies  failed  before  and  they  would 
fail  again. 

We  need  to  build  on  our  progress  and 
keep  moving  forward.  Two  major  chal- 
lenges we  face  are  education  and  AIDS. 
Our  administration  has  led  the  crusade 
to  reform  American  education  by  bring- 
ing back  basics  and  emphasizing 
achievement  and  high  standards.  SAT 
scores  are  now  rising  again  after  almost 
20  years  of  steady  decline.  I  am  con- 
vinced that  education  holds  the  key  to 
restoring  our  competitiveness  in  the 
world  market.  I  would  also  seek  new 
ways  of  improving  the  ability  of  middle- 
class  families  to  meet  the  rising  costs 
of  college. 

As  for  the  AIDS  crisis,  I  pledge  my 
total  commitment  to  a  comprehensive 
national  effort  to  combat  this  disease. 
As  president,  I  would  coordinate  the 
efforts  of  health  care  professionals,  ed- 
ucators, clergy,  parents  and  all  con- 
cerned Americans  to  work  together  to 
end  this  threat  to  our  future. 


Bob  Dole 

Scnale 
Republican 
Leader.  1987—: 
Senale  Majority 
Leader. 
1985-86:  U.S. 
Senalor 
(Kansas). 
1969—: 

decoraled  World 
V/ar  II 
combal 


In  defining  the  role  of  government,  I 
begin  with  the  belief  that  people  at 
the  grass-roots  level — neighborhoods, 


church  congregations,  rank-and-file 
union  members  and  small  business 
owners — can  usually  fashion  better  ways 
to  meet  the  needs  of  their  communities 
than  can  Washington's  bureaucracy.  At 
the  same  time,  as  a  product  of  depres- 
sion-era Kansas  and  a  World  War  II 
vet,  I  understand  that  there  are  situa- 
tions when  the  government  needs  to 
step  in  and  lend  a  hand.  Government 
at  all  levels  has  a  rsponsibility  toward 
society's  less  fortunate,  though  the  de- 
gree of  that  responsibility  and  how  it  is 
divided  among  the  federal,  state,  and 
local  governments  can  vary  widely  de- 
pending upon  the  policy  objective. 

For  example,  in  an  area  such  as  civil 
rights,  I  believe  the  federal  government 
should  play  a  strong,  primary  role.  This 
is  why  I  have  supported  every  major 
civil  rights  law  and  was  proud  to  play 
a  leadership  role  in  the  1982  extension 
of  the  landmark  Voting  Rights  Act.  On 
the  other  hand,  in  areas  like  employ- 
ment, I  feel  the  federal  government 
should  be  a  partner  with  state  and  local 
governments,  as  well  as  labor  and  busi- 
ness, to  expand  job  opportunities  for 
America's  workforce.  Similarly,  I  be- 
lieve that  the  federal  government  shares 
an  obligation  with  state  and  local  gov- 
ernments to  help  the  economically  dis- 
advantaged. This  is  why  I  have  sup- 
ported the  Food  Stamp  program, 
Medicaid,  Medicare,  increasing  access 
to  legal  services  and  increasing  the 
availability  of  health  care  for  the  un- 
employed. 

The  central  theme  in  my  instructions 
to  all  appointees  would  be  to  seek  out 
ways  to  improve  the  effectiveness  and 
professionalism  in  the  administration  of 
programs,  and  to  the  extent  further  belt- 
tightening  is  needed  to  reduce  the  def- 
icit, fairness  in  proposing  cuts. 


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Here's  your  chance  to 
tell  us  which  candidate 
for  the  Presidency  you 
prefer.  Grade  them  1 
through  13  in  the 
column  at  right,  with  1 
being  tops.  Then  add 
any  remarks  you  care  to 
make.  We  don't  need 
your  name  or  local 
number.  Just  your 
opinion  .  .  .  and  thanks. 

DEMOCRATS 
Bruce  Babbitt 
Joseph  R.  Biden  Jr. 
Michael  S.  Dukakis 
Richard  Gephardt 
Albert  Gore  Jr. 
Jesse  Jackson 
Paul  Simon 

REPUBLICANS 
George  Bush 
Bob  Dole 
Pete  du  Pont 
Alexander  M.  Haig  Jr. 
Jack  Kemp 
Pat  Robertson 

REMARKS: 

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1     N.W.,  Washington.  D.C. 

1 

SEPTEMBER     1987 


The  Origin  of  Labor  Day 

N  May  8,  1882,  P.  J.  McGuire,  general  secretary  of  the 
Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America,  proposed 
to  the  Central  Labor  Union  of  New  York  City  at  a  regular 
meeting  of  that  body,  that  one  day  in  the  year  be  set  aside 
and  designated  ao  Labor  day  and  that  it  be  made  a  general 
holiday  for  wage  workers.  He  advised  that  the  day  be  dedicated 
to  peace,  civiHzation  and  the  triumphs  of  industry,  and  suggested  that  it  be 
celebrated  by  a  street  parade  to  show  the  strength  of  the  organized  wage 
workers  and  to  demonstrate  the  growing  spirit  of  fraternity  among  them. 
He  further  suggested  that  after  the  parade  a  picnic  or  festival  be  held  in  a 
grove  or  park  nearby.  He  believed  that  the  first  Monday  in  September  of 
each  year  should  be  set  aside  as  a  holiday  and  be  known  as  Labor  day  for 
the  reason  that  it  comes  at  the  most  pleasant  season  of  the  year,  nearly 
midway  between  the  Fourth  of  July  and  Thanksgiving  day  and  would  fill  a 
wide  gap  in  the  chronology  of  legal  holidays. 

His  proposal  was  accepted,  and  the  first  Labor  Day  was  observed 
September  5,  1882,  in  New  York  City  by  the  Central  Labor  Union,  10,000 
men  taking  part  in  the  parade  and  20,000  attending  the  picnic,  where 
speeches  were  made  by  John  Swinton,  Louis  A.  Post,  P.  J.  McGuire  and 
others.  At  the  fourth  annual  convention  of  the  Federation  of  Organized 
Trades  and  Labor  Unions  of  the  United  States  and  Canada,  afterward 
known  as  the  American  Federation  of  Labor,  held  in  Chicago,  October  9, 
1884,  A.  C.  Cameron,  delegate  from  the  Chicago  Trades  and  Labor 
Assembly,  introduced  the  following  resolution,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted:  "Resolved,  that  the  first  Monday  in  September  of  each  year  be 
set  apart  as  a  laborer's  national  holiday  and  that  we  recommend  its 
observance  by  all  wage  workers  irrespective  of  sex,  calling  or  nationality." 
By  act  of  Congress,  June  28,  1894,  Labor  day  became  a  legal  holiday. 

— From  Carpenter,  September  1937 


"Labor  Day  should  be  observed  as  one  festal  day  for  tribute  to  the  genius 
of  American  industry  .  .  .  It  should  be  dedicated  to  peace,  civilization,  and 
the  triumphs  of  industry." 

Peter  J.  McGuire,  Father  of  Labor  Day  and  Founder  of  the 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and  Joiners  of  America 


Bridgeport  Disaster 
Funds  for  Families 
Total  over  $35,000 

Members  of  the  United  Brotherhood, 
its  local  unions  and  councils  have  con- 
tributed more  than  $35,000  to  date  to 
the  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Building  Trades 
Disaster  Relief  Fund.  Funds  are  still 
being  received. 

The  United  Brotherhood  lost  seven 
members  in  the  collapse  of  the  high- 
rise  apartment  building  in  Bridgeport, 
April  23.  A  week  later,  the  widows  and/ 
or  next  of  kin  of  each  of  these  men 
received  an  initial  $1,000  and  a  letter 
of  deepest  sympathy  from  General 
President  Patrick  J.  Campbell  on  behalf 
of  the  Brotherhood. 

There  were  28  Building  Tradesmen 
lost  at  the  L'Ambiance  Plaza,  and  the 
funds  collected  by  the  UBC  and  other 
unions  and  forwarded  to  Bridgeport  will 
also  be  distributed  to  the  families  and 
victims  of  the  disaster. 

Contributions  for  the  Bridgeport  Re- 
lief Fund  are  still  being  accepted  at  the 
General  Office.  They  should  be  made 
out  to  the  Bridgeport  Building  Trades 
National  District  Relief  Fund  and  they 
should  be  sent  to  General  President 
Patrick  J.  Campbell's  attention  at  the 
General  Office,  101  Constitution  Ave., 
N.W.,  Washington,  DC  20001,  for  for- 
warding to  Bridgeport. 

Among  the  UBC  local  union  and 
individual  contributors  as  of  July  16  to 
the  Bridgeport  fund  were  the  following:- 

17,  Bronx,  N.V. 

20,  New  York,  N.Y. 

106,  Des  Moines,  Iowa 

123,  Broward  County,  Fla. 

131,  Seattle,  Wash. 

135,  New  York,  N.Y. 

261,  Scranton,  Pa. 

296,  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 

475,  Ashland,  Mass. 

608,  New  York,  N.Y. 

621,  Bangor,  Maine 

902,  Brooklyn,  Mass. 

964,  Rockland  County,  N.Y. 

964,  Rockland  Co.  Welfare  Fund 

1138,  Toledo,  Ohio 

1456,  New  York,  N.Y. 

1763,  Orlando,  Fla. 

2155,  New  York,  N.Y. 

2287,  New  York,  N.Y. 

Bay  Counties  District  Council 

Lake  Erie  District  Council 

Los  Angeles  District  Council 

Maumee  Valley  District  Council 

Miami  Valley  District  Council 

New  York  City  District  Council 

North  Central  West  Virginia  District  Council 

First  District 

Second  District 

Empire  State  Consulting 

J.  K.  Miller  &  Associates 

Continued  on  Page  34 


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CARPENTER 


BUILOERS 
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L-P  Boycott  Day 

Fourth  anniverary  of  Lumber  and  Sawmill 
Workers  strike  finds  Brotherhood  more 
determined  than  ever  to  obtain  justice. 


On  the  recent  L-P  Boycott  Day,  UBC 
members  in  every  region  of  the  country 
conducted  boycott  leafleting  against  scab 
Louisiana  Pacific  products.  The  1987  L-P 
Boycott  Day  marked  the  fourth  anniversary 
of  the  Brotherhood's  strike  against  the 
unionbusting  firm  and  signaled  the  Broth- 
erhood's continuing  commitment  to  fight  the 
company's  anti-union  actions  in  the  wood 
products  industry. 

UBC  locals  continue  to  advise  L-P  share- 
holders of  the  company's  antiunion  activi- 
ties. 

Patrick  J.  Campbell,  UBC  general  presi- 
dent, told  the  informational  handbillers  "The 
continuing  effort  of  thousands  of  Brother- 
hood members  in  support  of  our  campaign 
to  protect  fair  standards  in  the  wood  prod- 
ucts industry,  eloquently  illustrates  one  of 
the  basic  tenants  of  the  trade  union  move- 
ment: solidarity." 


At  top.  Jim  Tudor  and  Bud  Sharp  at  Build- 
ers Square  in  Tulsa,  Okia.  •  At  right,  from 
top  left  and  clockwise:  Alan  Keefe  and 
Stephen  Dunphe.  Local  517,  Portland. 
Maine,  picket  Fox  Lumber  •  Ken  Dunphe. 
Ken  Haynes.  Ivan  Westmon.  Local  517.  at 
Rufus  Deering  Co.  •At  Curtis  Lumber. 
Delmar.  N.  Y..  Local  370  pickets  John  Ra- 
gule.  Nick  Jegabbi.  Kevin  Burns  and  John 
Warnken  •  Lower  right.  J. P.  Long  and 
Rep.  Fred  Carter  at  Payless  Cashways  in 
North  Central  Te.xas  •  Members  of  Local 
622.  Waco.  Texas  distribute  handbills  at 
another  Payless  outlet  •  Another  of  four 
Curtis  Lumber  New  York  stores  handbilled 
by  Local  370  members. 


SEPTEMBER     1987 


11 


from 

Labor's  Struggle 

Labor  Arts  Exchange  Builds 
Worker  Solidarity  in  Annual 
Gathering  at  Meany  Labor 
Studies  Center 


Musicians  came  together  for  a  public  concert  at 
this  year's  Great  Labor  Arts  Exchange.  Pictured 
above  at  the  concert  are  David  Sawyer.  Anne 
Roinaine  and  Todd  Smith.  Below  is  a  group  at- 
tending one  of  the  many  workshops  held  at  the 
George  Meany  Center  for  Labor  Studies  during 
the  three-day  event. 


Songs  of  protest  have  helped  to  change 
history.  From  "Yankee  Doodle  Dandy" 
to  "La  Marseillaise"  and  "We  Shall 
Overcome,"  men  and  women  have  used 
songs  to  voice  their  opposition  to  ex- 
isting conditions. 

Union  members  have  marched  to 
"Solidarity  Forever,"  "Which  Side  Are 
You  On"  and  "Talking  Union."  Some 
would  like  to  echo  the  words  of  country 
western  singer  Johnny  Paycheck  when 
he  tells  the  boss  "You  Can  Take  This 
Job  and  Shove  It."  Then  there's  Dolly 
Parton's  "9  to  5"  and  Pete  Seeger's 
and  Peter,  Paul,  and  Mary's  "If  I  Had 
a  Hammer." 

Protest  singers  have  been  a  part  of 
the  North  American  labor  movement 
for  more  than  a  century.  They  were 
singing  in  the  first  Labor  Day  parade 
in  1882,  and  they  sang  when  they 
marched  around  the  automobile  plants 
in  Detroit  during  the  Great  Depression. 

Today  there's  a  new  crop  joi'^'ng  the 
old  time  labor  singers.  Names  like  Si 
Kahn,  Jane  Sapp  and  Hazel  Dickens 
are  joining  the  veterans  of  the  past  and 
present — Woody  Guthrie,  Joe  Hill,  Pete 
Seeger,  Joe  Glazer  and  Theodore  Bikel. 

All  the  songs  they  sing  are  not  protest 
songs.  One  expresses  pride  in  being  a 
"union  woman."  Another  has  a  title 
"I'm  Going  to  Be  an  Engineer." 


Each  year  scores  of  union  singers 
and  musicians  get  together  at  the  George 
Meany  Labor  Studies  Center  at  Silver 
Spring,  Md.,  to  compare  musical  notes. 

This  year's  Great  Labor  Arts  Ex- 
change brought  rank-and-file  union  mu- 
sicians, dramatists,  writers,  photogra- 
phers and  other  artists  from  20  states 
and  22  different  unions. 

The  9th  annual  gathering  was  the 
largest  and  broadest  ever,  said  Laurel 
Blaydes,  executive  director  of  the  La- 
bor Heritage  Foundation  (LHF),  which 
sponsored  the  three  days  of  workshops 
and  song  swaps  capped  by  a  standing 
room  only  public  concert.  The  event 
formerly  was  called  the  Great  Labor 
Song  Exchange. 

"The  sense  that  music  and  art  can 
promote  the  interests  of  working  people 
is  spreading  throughout  the  labor  move- 
ment. Every  day  union  men  and  women 
are  creating  songs  and  other  art  works 
to  help  them  in  their  struggle  for  jus- 
tice," Blaydes  said. 

Auto  workers,  office  workers,  steel- 
workers,  bus  drivers,  flight  attendants, 
letter  carriers,  actors,  teachers,  truck 
drivers,  nurses,  miners,  telephone 
workers,  farmworker  organizers,  labor 
educators  and  editors  were  among  the 
more  than  90  participants. 

The  exchange  also  drew  some  of  the 


best-known  names  in  labor  culture,  in- 
cluding folk  legend  Peter  Seeger,  author 
of  "  Union  Maid"  and  other  labor  songs ; 
Tom  Juravich,  a  labor  educator  at  Penn- 
sylvania State  University  who  penned 
"Rise  Again,"  fast  becoming  a  popular 
labor  anthem;  Guy  Carawan,  from  the 
Highlander  Center  in  Tennessee,  who 
is  credited  with  first  applying  and  pop- 
ularizing the  old  gospel  song,  "I  Will 
Overcome,"  to  the  civil  rights  move- 
ment as,  "We  Shall  Overcome." 

Also  on  hand  was  John  Handcox, 
who  wrote  the  famous  "Roll  the  Union 
On"  in  1936  when  he  was  an  organizer 
for  the  Southern  Tenant  Farmers'  Union 
in  Arkansas.  Handcox,  who  now  lives 
in  San  Diego,  Calif.,  led  the  concert's 
finale  in  singing  another  song  he  penned 
in  the  1930s,  "Mean  Things  Happening 
In  This  Land." 

Earl  Dotter,  America's  most  distin- 
guished photographer  of  working  peo- 
ple, presented  an  exhibit  and  slide  show 
of  his  work  and  led  a  workshop  on 
"What  Makes  a  Good  Picture." 

Other  workshops  included,  "Writing 
Picketline  Songs,"  led  by  Service  Em- 
ployees nurse  Julie  McCall;  "Improv- 
ing Voice  and  Performance,"  led  by 
Elise  Bryant,  director  of  the  Labor 
Theater  at  the  University  of  Michigan; 
"How  to  Captivate  an  Audience,"  led 


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CARPENTER 


Laurel  Blaydes.  executive  direclor  of  I  he 
Labor  Heritage  Foundation  is  a  singer  in 
her  own  right.  UBC  Lumber  and  Sawmill 
Workers  who  attended  the  Louisiana-Pa- 
cific shareholders  meeting  in  Rocky 
Mount,  N.C.,  will  remember  her  songs  on 
the  bus  trip  from  Washington,  D.C.,  and 
at  the  Rocky  Mount  rally. 


Pete  Seeger  earns  his  living  as  a  musician 
and  balladeer.  Perhaps  the  best  known  of 
those  attending  the  recent  songfest  at  the 
George  Meany  Center.  Seeger  has  been 
described  by  The  Encyclopedia  Britannica 
as  "the  principal  inspiration  for  younger 
performers  in  the  folk  revivals  of  the 
1960s."  Throughout  his  life  he  has  worked 
for  social  change. 


Even  the  AFL-CIO  president  gets  into 
the  act.  Presented  a  harmonica  at  the  re- 
cent Grain  Millers  convention  in  Las  Ve- 
gas, Nev.,  AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirk- 
land  let  loose  with  a  rendition  of 
'  'Solidarity  Forever. ' '  Enjoying  the  tune 
was  Grain  Millers'  President  Robert  Willis. 


by  musician/songwriter  John  Mc- 
Cutcheon;  and,  "Building  Humor  Into 
Labor  Culture,"  led  by  labor  trouba- 
dour and  LHF  chair  Joe  Glazer. 

"Clarence  Darrow,"  a  one-man  show 
about  this  lawyer  defender  of  workers' 
rights  who  is  best  known  for  his  role  in 
the  Scopes  Monkey  Trial  in  1925,  was 
performed  by  Tennessee  State  Univer- 
sity professor  Douglas  Davis. 

A  hit  of  the  concert  was  the  Harvard 
University  Pipettes,  a  choral  group  of 
five  women  and  four  men  who  are  using 
songs  in  their  campaign  to  organize 
office,  library  and  laboratory  workers 
at  the  university.  Their  Harvard  Union 
of  Clerical  and  Technical  Workers  is 
affihated  with  the  State,  County  and 
Municipal  Employees.  The  Pipettes 
sported  T-shirts  and  buttons  saying, 
"You  Can't  Eat  Prestige." 

The  concert  and  music  swaps  in- 
cluded songs  about  job-destroying  im- 
ports, about  forced  drug  testing,  about 
fighting  employer  concession  demands, 
about  workplace  health  and  safety,  about 
the  lives  of  illegal  immigrants  and  farm- 
workers, about  the  new  grape  boycott, 
about  the  Shell  Oil  boycott,  and  about 
the  TWA  Flight  Attendants'  boycott 
against  that  airline. 

In  recent  months,  LHF-sponsored 
arts  exchanges  have  been  held  in  Chi- 
cago, Seattle,  and  Santa  Cruz,  Calif.  A 
"labor  jam"  was  held  in  Ft.  Madison, 
Iowa,  in  May  to  support  the  Food  & 
Commercial  Workers  strike  and  lockout 
struggle  with  IBP,  formerly  Iowa  Beef. 
The  LHF  has  planned  arts  exchanges 
to  be  held  in  Detroit  in  October  and  in 
Nashville  in  November. 

The  work  of  the  LHF,  founded  in 
1984,  was  describerd  in  a  recent  issue 
of  the  Bakery,  Confectionery  and  To- 
bacco Workers  News,  "If  labor  culture 
has  been  the  fire  that  has  given  the 
'house  of  labor'  its  warmth  over  the 
past  century,  then  the  Labor  Heritage 
Fundation  is  the  bellows  that  has 
breathed  new  life  into  that  fire." 

The  LHF  promotes  the  use  of  labor 
music  and  art  works  in  union  struggles, 
meetings,  conventions  and  other  events. 
It  acts  as  a  referral  service  for  unions 
seeking  musicians  and  other  artists  and 
as  a  clearinghouse  for  information  about 
labor  songs  and  culture.  It  is  working 
to  support  labor's  new  "Jobs  with  Jus- 
tice" campaign. 

The  LHF  can  be  contacted  by  writ- 
ing LHF  Executive  Director  Laurel 
Blaydes,  815  16th  St.,  N.W.,  Room 
301,  Washington,  D.C.  20006.  Tele- 
phone: 202-842-7880.  Contributions  to 
support  the  work  of  the  Labor  Heritage 
Foundation  can  be  sent  to  the  same 
address. 


WORDS  AND  MUSIC 
for  Your  Enjoyment 

Pete  Seeger  and  Bob  Reiser  have 
collected  labor  songs  of  America's 
past  two  centuries  and  written  a  his- 
tory with  words,  music  and  pictures. 
Their  book,  entitled  Carry  It  On,  was 
published  last  year. 

Last  spring  the  Labor  Heritage 
Foundation,  a  group  dedicated  to 
"raising  the  awareness  of  workers' 
culture  within  the  labor  movement 
and  among  the  general  public,"  an- 
nounced the  issuance  of  a  long-play- 
ing record  album,  also  called  "Carry 
It  On,"  compiled  from  songs  in  the 
Seeger  and  Reiser  book.  The  album 
contains  in  a  two-record  set  21  songs 
and  bears  the  Flying  Fish  label.  Songs 
are  sung  by  Seeger,  Si  Kahn  and  Jane 
Sapp. 

These  two  new  releases — the  book 
and  the  album — assure  that  America's 
labor-song  heritage  will  continue  as 
long  as  words  of  protest  are  sounded 
across  the  land. 


If  you'd  like  to  order: 

The  book  Carry  It  On  is  available 
through  a  special  discount  price  to 
union  members  of  $9.00,  plus  $1.50 
shipping  charge,  for  a  total  of  $10.50 
from  Harold Leventhal  Management, 
250  West  57th  Street,  New  York,  NY 
10107. 

The  record  album  Carry  It  On  can 
be  ordered  from  Flying  Fish  Records, 
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SEPTEMBER     1987 


13 


Washington 
Report 


CONGRESSIONAL  SUCCESSES 

From  a  legislative  perspective,  labor  and  the  na- 
tion's workers  are  on  a  roll  in  the  U.S.  Congress.  In 
the  House,  labor's  agenda  is  off  to  a  quick  start.  In 
late  April,  the  House  approved  the  labor-backed 
Gephardt  amendment  to  the  trade  bill  by  a  218-214 
vote,  overcoming  much  big  business  opposition. 
White  House  lobbying  and  even  the  objections  of 
House  Ways  and  Means  Committee  Chairman  Dan 
Rostenkowski  (D-lll.).  In  mid-June,  the  Double 
Breasting  Bill  won  going  away  227-1 97.  In  late 
June,  labor  overcame  an  effort  of  airline  industry 
lobbyists  by  passing  merger  protections  for  airline 
employees  on  a  voice  vote!  Other  labor  issues  are 
also  moving — anti-polygraph  legislation  is  awaiting 
floor  action  along  with  the  high  risk  notification  bill; 
hearings  are  underway  on  minimum  wage  and  the 
textile  trade  bill;  the  parental  leave  bill  awaits  full 
committee  markup. 

On  the  other  side  of  Capitol  Hill,  after  six  long 
years  of  Republican  control,  labor  is  finally  on  the 
offensive  and  winning  some  crucial  fights  in  the 
Democratic  Senate.  Earlier  this  year,  a  right-wing 
Republican  amendment  to  the  highway  bill  to  emas- 
culate the  so-called  "13c"  collective  bargaining  pro- 
tections in  federal  mass  transit  law  was  clobbered 
70-30.  A  good  omen  on  this  vote  was  that  every 
Democratic  Senator  (all  55  at  that  time)  voted 
against  this  anti-labor  amendment.  Later,  in  a  major 
political  setback  for  the  Reagan  administration,  la- 
bor's "road  warriors"  helped  beat  down  the  Presi- 
dent's veto  of  the  highway  bill  when  two-thirds  of 
the  Senate  voted  for  the  override. 

Meanwhile,  labor  is  concerned  about  efforts  to 
raise  excise  taxes,  while  the  tax  rate  for  the  wealthy 
is  dropping  to  28%. 

More  recently,  one  of  the  AFL-CIO's  top  priori- 
ties— the  plant  closing  bill — was  amended  onto  the 
trade  bill.  A  Republican-led  effort  to  strike  the  60- 
day  advance  notice  provision  was  beaten  decisively 
by  a  60-40  vote.  Earlier,  on  another  crucial  vote  to 
weaken  a  key  section  of  the  bill  reining  in  Presiden- 
tial authority  to  refuse  to  impose  sanctions  against 
unfair  foreign  trade  practices,  labor's  position  pre- 
vailed again  by  a  55  to  41  vote. 

Each  of  these  battles  was  a  victory  for  labor's 
grass  roots  operation  and  a  testimony  to  its  effec- 
tiveness. 


EMPLOYEE  HEALTH  BILLS 

Legislation  was  introduced  May  12  that  would 
require  virtually  all  employers  to  offer  health  insur- 
ance to  all  fulltime  (17.5  hours/week  or  more)  em- 
ployees and  their  dependents.  Employees  would  be 
required  to  accept  this  insurance  unless  they  can 
show  other  coverage. 

S.  1265  and  H.R.  2501  would  require  health  in- 
surance plans  to  meet  extensive  criteria,  including 
hospital  and  physician  care,  diagnostic  testing,  pre- 
natal care,  well-baby  and  preventative  care  for  chil- 
dren. Also  required:  catastrophic  protection  against 
serious  illness,  featuring  insurance  to  cover  all  ex- 
penses exceeding  $3,000.  Employers  of  very  low- 
wage  workers  would  be  required  to  cover  the  full 
cost  of  insurance  premiums.  Higher  wage  workers 
can  contribute  up  to  20%  of  the  costs.  Small  em- 
ployers with  25  employees  or  less  would  be  able  to 
obtain  coverage  from  regional  health  insurance  con- 
tractors selected  by  the  government. 


RADON  GAS  LEGISLATION 

Radon  gas  is  attracting  legislation.  The  radioac- 
tive gas,  which  is  naturally  produced  in  some  rock 
formations,  has  already  been  identified  by  EPA  as  a 
factor  contributing  to  lung  cancer. 

Sen.  George  Mitchell  (D-Maine)  and  Rep. 
Thomas  Luken  (D-Ohio)  have  introduced  legislation 
that  would  authorize  $10  million  annually  to  help 
states  locate  and  deal  with  residential  radon  con- 
tamination. Additionally,  S.  744  and  H.R.  1697 
would  direct  EPA  to  conduct  surveys  of  school 
buildings  in  locations  identified  as  "high  risk"  areas. 

The  Administration  has  withheld  support  from  the 
measures,  preferring  that  local  governments  as- 
sume responsibility,  with  technical  assistance  pro- 
vided by  the  federal  government.  Hearings  on  both 
bills  have  already  been  held.  Prior  to  the  hearings, 
the  House  Science  Committee  approved  a  research 
measure  authorizing  EPA  to  spend  $2.9  million  in 
FY  1988-89  on  radon  research  and  mitigation. 


D.O.E.  MONITORING 

Senator  John  Glenn  (D-Ohio)  has  introduced  leg- 
islation which  would  give  OSHA  the  job  of  making 
nuclear  work  safer.  Nearly  100,000  workers  at  50 
nuclear  plants  were  exposed  to  small  but  measura- 
ble amounts  of  radiation  in  1 985,  the  latest  year  for 
which  the  Nuclear  Regulatory  Commission  has 
compiled  figures.  This  legislation  would  take  the 
responsibility  of  setting  radiation  standards  away 
from  the  Department  of  Energy. 

Allowing  DOE  to  continue  in  this  capacity  is  like 
"leaving  the  fox  to  guard  the  chicken  coop,"  said 
AFL-CIO  Safety  Specialist  Margaret  Seminario.  She 
said  the  problem  of  worker  hazards  in  DOE-run 
plants  is  "symptomatic  of  the  disturbing  pattern 
throughout  the  nuclear  industry." 

The  AFL-CIO  will  testify  on  the  Glenn  measure 
which  would  create  a  new  Nuclear  Safety  Board 
within  OSHA.  The  board  would  oversee  such  issues 
as  worker  protections  against  radiation,  the  environ- 
mental impact  on  surrounding  communities  and  the 
continuing  problem  of  nuclear  waste  disposal. 


14 


CARPENTER 


A  New  Idea  To 
Fight  Illiteracy 

It  doesn't  take  a  genius  to  look  at  Amer- 
ica's trade  deficit  and  know  something  is 
going  wrong. 

However,  it  takes  a  bit  of  foresight  to 
understand  that  some  of  the  solutions  to  the 
nation's  problems  with  international  eco- 
nomic competition  lie  beyond  the  realm  of 
imports  and  foreign  and  domestic  business 
practices. 

The  new  understanding  that  has  trickled 
in  over  the  past  few  years  from  study  com- 
missions, labor,  business,  educators  and 
economists  is  that  the  nation's  educational 
systems  have  fallen  far  behind  those  of  our 
major  industrial  competitors,  like  Japan  and 
West  Germany. 

Most  experts  analyzing  technological  and 
economic  changes  predicted  for  the  near 
future  agree  that  education  and  continuous 
training  and  retraining  of  workers  will  mean 
the  difference  between  America's  successful 
adaptation  to  those  changes  or  a  continued 
decline  in  the  standard  of  living  for  its 
citizens. 

However,  a  major  stumbling  block,  ac- 
cording to  the  experts,  is  the  incredible  fact 
in  this  country  of  free  public  education 
systems  that  an  estimated  one  in  every  six 
adults  over  19  years  of  age  is  functionally 
illiterate. 

If  a  person  cannot  read  a  simple  newspaper 
story  or  sign,  how  will  he  or  she  be  able  to 
read  and  comprehend  complex  technical 
manuals  used  in  job  training? 

That  is  why  a  group  of  Senators  decided 
it  was  appropriate  to  include  the  proposed 
Literacy  Corps  in  the  trade  bill. 

The  Literacy  Corps  is  an  innovative  idea 
for  college  students  to  provide  supervised 
literacy  tutoring  in  established  community 
agencies,  like  inner-city  schools.  Head  Start 
centers,  prisons,  adult  literacy  centers,  ju- 
venile detention  facilities,  and  in  agencies 
for  the  handicapped  and  emotionally  dis- 
trubed. 

In  return,  students  would  get  three  credit 
hours  from  the  elective  courses  to  be  estab- 
lished in  colleges  around  the  country.  They 
also  would  receive  valuable  work  experi- 
ence. 

An  added  bonus,  as  Senate  Labor  and 
Human  Resources  Committee  Chairman  Ed- 
ward M.  Kennedy  (D-Mass.)  and  former 
U.S.  Supreme  Court  Chief  Justice  Warren 
E.  Burger  noted  in  a  New  York  Times 
opinion  piece,  is  that  the  Corps  would  "har- 
ness the  idealism,  enthusiasm  and  social 
commitment  of  young  Americans." 

The  Corps  is  based  on  a  program  devel- 
oped at  the  University  of  Miami  in  1969  by 
then-student  Norman  Manasa.  Manasa,  who 
now  directs  the  Washington  Education  Proj- 
ect, persuaded  St.  John's  University  in 
Queens,  N.Y.,  to  establish  a  similar  program 
in  1986,  with  support  from  grants  from  the 
New  York  Daily  News,  Xerox  Foundation, 
and  the  American  Can  Co.  Foundation. 

A  Miami  school  principal  said  the  college 
student  tutors  there  brought  his  emotionally 


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Union  Carpenters 
and  other  craft  vol- 
unteers erected  this 
model  home  at  the 
recent  Home  Show 
in  Seattle,  Wash., 
and.  after  the  show 
was  over,  they  dis- 
mantled it  and  re- 
erected  it  at  a 
Scout  camp  on 
Puget  Sound,  so 
that  the  resident 
ranger  would  have 
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Press. 


The  project  manager  of  a  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  construction  job  describes  the 
work  of  AFL-CIO  Building  Tradesmen  for  members  and  advisors  of  an 
Explorers'  Post  (senior  scouts).  An  instructor  of  the  St.  Louis  Carpen- 
ters Apprenticeship  Program  is  the  post  leader.  The  group  meets  bi- 
weekly at  the  local  apprenticeship  school. — Photo  by  Sievers,  St.  Louis- 
Southern  Illinois  Labor  Tribune. 


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Orem,  Utah,  tests  his  balance  at  30  feet. 
Tree  climbing  is  just  one  of  many  chal- 
lenging skills  learned  in  Varsity  Scout- 
ing.—Photo  from  1984  BSA  Annual  Re- 
port. 


Members  of  a  Scout  troop  in  Bloomington, 
III. ,  led  by  Tom  Turpen  of  UBC  Local  63  and 
made  up  of  handicapped  boys,  enjoy  a  week- 
end outing,  preparing  their  meal  under  a  can- 
vas tarp. 


U,S,  lAMbor  Marks  75th  Year 
Of  Support  for  Scouting 

No  Militarism,  No  Implicit  Obedience  to  Employers,  First  Scout  Executive  Told 


In  124,896  meeting  places  across  the 
United  States  this  month,  more  than 
three  million  youngsters  aged  7  to  20 
are  raising  their  right  hands,  curving 
their  little  fingers  toward  their  thumbs, 
pointing  three  center  fingers  skyward 
and  renewing  their  oath  to  do  their  duty 
to  God  and  their  country,  "to  obey  the 
Scout  Law,  to  help  other  people  at  all 
times  .  .  ." 

As  their  voices  drone  on  to  the  end 
of  the  Scout  Promise,  they  are  joined 
by  the  adult  voices  of  more  than  30,000 
union  members  from  scores  of  national 
and  international  unions.  An  estimated 


one  quarter  of  all  Scout  leaders  in  the 
United  States  are  active,  dues-paying 
members  of  labor  unions  who,  on  their 
own  time,  are  showing  youngsters  in 
their  neighborhoods  how  to  pitch  tents, 
recognize  edible  wild  plants,  tie  knots, 
cook  food  in  the  outdoors  and  recognize 
and  respect  nature.  This  is  the  75th 
anniversary  of  American  labor's  in- 
volvement with  the  Boy  Scouts  of 
America. 

It  all  goes  back  to  an  annual  meeting 
of  the  American  Federation  of  Labor 
in  Rochester,  N.Y.,  in  1912,  when  AFL 
President  Samuel  Gompers  and  other 


early  union  leaders  conferred  with  Scout 
Executive  Jim  West  and  agreed  to  lend 
their  support  to  the  new  American 
scouting  movement,  adapted  only  two 
years  before  from  its  counterpart  in 
England. 

Not  only  did  the  AFL  endorse  the 
new  youth  movement,  but  it  quickly 
put  its  own  special  stamp  on  the  evolv- 
ing program  of  the  youth  organization. 

Two  scouting  organizations  had 
sprung  up  almost  simultaneously  at  that 
time,  according  to  the  record.  One  of 
them  quickly  received  labor's  disfavor. 


16 


CARPENTER 


This  is  what  the  AFL  reported  to  its 
affiliates  in  1912: 

"There  are  in  the  United  States  two 
Boy  Scout  movements — the  American 
Boy  Scouts  and  the  Boy  Scouts  of 
America.  The  ideals  and  activities  of 
the  Boy  Scouts  of  America  are  for  peace 
and  the  building  up  of  body,  mind  and 
character.  The  rifle  is  not  a  part  of  their 
equipment.  It  seems  that  in  the  launch- 
ing of  the  movement,  as  a  result  of 
increasing  and  and  insistent  demands 
for  information  from  all  over  the  coun- 
try, that  a  manual  was  hastily  prepared 
for  use.  In  this  rather  unwise  haste  the 
manual  was  taken  bodily  from  that  used 
in  England  and  was  not  carefully  edited. 
As  a  result,  there  appeared  in  the  man- 
ual considerable  emphasis  on  militarism 
...  As  soon  as  popular  criticism  called 
the  attention  of  the  (Boy  Scouts)  ex- 


Boy  Scouts  advance  in  rank  by 
passing  certain  tests  and  earning  merit 
badges.  At  one  time  there  was  a  merit 
badge  for  carpentry,  and  many  jour- 
neymen carpenters  today  got  their 
first  feel  of  the  trade  by  earning  this 
merit  badge.  These  were  the  require- 
ments: 

1.  Demonstrate  the  use  of  the  rule, 
square,  level,  plumb-line,  mitre, 
chalk-line  and  bevel. 

2.  Demonstrate  the  proper  way  to 
'drive,  set  and  clinch  a  nail,  draw 

a  spike  with  a  claw-hammer,  and 
to  join  two  pieces  of  wood  with 
screws. 

3.  Show  correct  use  of  the  cross-cut 
saw  and  of  the  rip-saw. 

4.  Show  how  to  plane  the  edge,  end 
and  the  broad  surface  of  a  board. 

5.  Demonstrate  how  to  lay  shingles. 

6.  Make  a  simple  article  of  furniture 
for  practical  use  in  the  home  or  on 
the  home  grounds,  finished  in  a 
workman-like  manner,  all  work  to 
be  done  without  assistance. 

Similar  merit  badges  which  a  Scout 
earned  later  were  Home  Repairs  and 
Woodworking. 


ecutive  board  to"  these  objections,  the 
board  directed  that  the  plates  of  the 
book  be  changed  as  soon  as  possible." 

Elsewhere  in  the  report,  the  AFL 
told  its  affiliates  that  it  particularly  took 
objection  to  sections  of  the  original 
manual  which  called  for  "implicit  loy- 
alty and  obedience  to  employers,  which 
was  most  offensive  to  labor."  A  clause 
which  stated,  "A  scout  is  loyal  to  the 
President  and  to  his  officers  and  to  his 
parents,  his  country  and  employers;  he 
must  stick  to  them  through  thick  and 
thin  against  anyone  who  is  their  enemy 
and  who  even  talks  badly  of  them," 
was  revised  to  read:  "A  scout  is  loyal, 
is  loyal  to  whom  loyalty  is  due — his 
scout  leader,  his  home  and  parents  and 
country.' 

Another  clause,  which  read,  "A  scout 
obeys  orders  from  his  parents,  patrol 
leaders  and  scoutmasters  without  ques- 
tion," was  revised  to  read,  "A  scout  is 
obedient;  he  obeys  his  parents,  scout- 
master, patrol  leader  and  all  other  duly 
constituted  authorities." 

The  union  representatives  praised  the 
Boy  Scouts'  goals  of  "getting  back  to 
the  elemental  things  ...  in  our  increas- 
ingly complex  civilization." 

Today,  labor  unions  continue  their 
support  of  the  BSA  through  year-round 
community  service  programs.  The 
Scouting  movement  now  has  Tiger  Cubs, 
Cub  Scouts,  Boy  Scouts,  Varsity  Scouts, 
Explorers,  Career  Awareness  Explor- 
ers, and  209  Lone  Scouts,  who,  because 
of  circumstance,  are  unable  to  partici- 
pate in  troop  activity. 

Coordinating  much  of  labor's  work 
with  Scouting  is  the  AFL-CIO  National 
Labor  Advisory  Committee  to  the  Boy 
Scouts  of  America,  made  up  of  25  union 
representatives  and  currently  under  the 
chairmanship  of  Ted  Reed,  research 
director  of  the  International  Union  of 
Operating  Engineers.  Robert  Harbrant, 
president  of  the  Federation's  Food  and 
Beverage  Department,  represents  labor 
on  the  national  council  of  the  Boy 
Scouts  of  America. 

Since  1965  there  has  been  a  fulitime 
labor  representative  on  the  BSA  staff 
at  its  national  headquarters  in  Irving, 
Texas.  From  time  to  time,  unions  are 
called  upon  to  help  the  Boy  Scouts  in 
updating  their  merit  badge  pamphlets, 
and  countless  union  members  in  the 
various  trades  have  served  as  merit 
badge  counselors,  advising  boys  on  their 
special  vocational  skills  and  crafts. 

In  1974  the  George  Meany  Award 
was  established  as  a  means  of  recog- 
nizing outstanding  work  in  scouting  by 
union  members.  More  than  800  trade 
unionists  have  been  honored  with  this 
award,  thus  far. 


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Report 


WAGE  RISE  UP  TO  '84 

After  six  years  without  a  real  wage  increase,  Ca- 
nadian labor  has  just  racked  up  its  best  bargaining 
performance  since  1984 —  a  signal,  say  some 
economists,  that  unions  may  be  about  to  become  a 
force  in  the  economy  once  again. 

First-quarter  wage  settlements  for  major  Cana- 
dian bargaining  units  (500  workers  or  more)  this 
year  show  average  pay  increases  over  the  period — 
with  or  without  cost-of-living  allowance  adjust- 
ments— up  4%  compounded  annually  over  the  life 
of  the  agreement. 

That's  20%  higher  than  during  the  previous  three 
months  and  more  than  in  any  three-month  period 
since  late  1984,  when  the  average  pay  gain  was 
worth  4.4%. 

John  Crispo,  dean  of  management  studies  at  the 
University  of  Toronto,  isn't  surprised  by  the  trend. 
Labor,  he  notes,  hasn't  had  a  real  increase  in  pay 
since  1981  when  new  wage  gains  came  in  at 
13% — ^three-tenths  of  a  percentage  point  above  that 
year's  rise  in  inflation. 

"It  (labor)  now  seems  to  be  saying  the  time  has 
come  to  make  up  for  all  that.  And  with  so  many 
industries  booming  in  southern  Ontario,  who  can  be 
surprised  if  it  wants  to  make  hay  while  the  sun 
shines?" 


GRAIN  FARMERS  SUFFER 

The  1987  grain  crisis  is  real  on  both  sides  of  the 
border,  but  it  is  more  immediate  on  the  Canadian 
side,  where  farmers  are  relatively  unprotected  from 
extreme  fluctuations  in  world  market  prices.  Their 
fields  might  be  lively  green,  but  the  crisis  has 
caused  their  bank  accounts  to  become  a  dark,  un- 
healthy red. 

The  problem,  put  simply,  is  that  the  world  has  a 
surplus  of  grain.  Countries  that  once  imported  great 
quantities  of  grain  are  now  self-sufficient. 

The  current  crisis  is  less  appalling  than  the  one 
envisioned  in  the  early  1970s  that  predicted  a  grain 
shortage.  But  the  crisis  is  serious,  and  it  threatens 
the  livelihoods  of  North  America's  grain  farmers. 
Their  worldwide  markets  have  stopped  expanding 
and  the  heavy  subsidizing  of  agriculture  in  Europe 
and  elsewhere  has  driven  world  prices  down.  Last 
year  Canada's  initial  wheat  prices  to  producers  fell 
by  19%  and  this  year  by  a  further  15%. 


ONTARIO  MINIMUMS  RISE 

Ontario  Labour  Minister  William  Wrye  recently  an- 
nounced that  the  general  minimum  wage  in  the 
province  will  rise  to  $4.55  per  hour  from  $4.35  per 
hour  beginning  in  the  work  week  in  which  October 
1,  1987  falls. 

The  20  cents-per-hour  revision  represents  an  in- 
crease of  4.6%  over  the  minimum  wage  that  was 
last  adjusted  in  October  1986. 

The  minister  said  that,  in  addition  to  the  increase 
in  the  general  minimum  wage,  there  will  also  be  20 
cents-per-hour  increases  in  the  minima  for  liquor 
servers,  hunting  guides,  domestic  workers  and  stu- 
dents under  the  age  of  18. 

A  20  cents-per-hour  increase  for  fruit,  vegetable 
and  tobacco  harvesters  will  take  effect  January  1 , 
1988. 

In  addition  to  the  change  in  minima,  the  minister 
announced  that  the  standard  that  permits  employ- 
ers to  pay  learners  10  cents  an  hour  less  than  the 
minimum  wage  rate  in  their  first  month  on  the  job 
will  be  revoked  on  October  1 ,  1 987. 

The  general  hourly  federal  rate  for  Canada  has 
been  $4.00  per  hour,  which  has  been  in  effect  since 
May  26,  1981.  This  compares  with  the  federal  rate 
of  the  United  States  of  $3.35  an  hour  (in  U.S. 
dollars),  which  has  been  in  effect  in  the  states  since 
January  1 ,  1 981 .  At  the  current  exchange  rate  of 
$1 .3424  to  1 ,  this  equals  $4.52  in  Canadian  dollars. 

SEVERANCE  CHANGES 

Workers'  access  to  severance  pay  was  broad- 
ened in  Ontario  June  29  as  the  provincial  legisla- 
ture wrapped  up  its  spring  sitting.  Yet,  reforms  in 
workplace  safety  will  have  to  wait,  according  to  the 
Toronto  Star. 

The  MPPs  passed  legislation  making  about  1.5 
million  workers  eligible  for  severance  pay  if  they 
lose  their  jobs  or  are  laid  off  for  35  weeks  in  a  52- 
week  period. 

Under  the  changes  to  the  Employment  Standards 
Act,  any  worker  with  at  least  five  years  employment 
at  an  enterprise  with  an  annual  payroll  of  at  least 
$2.5  million  is  eligible  for  severance  pay. 

The  amount  of  severance  pay  remains  a  week's 
pay  for  every  year  of  service  to  a  maximum  of  26 
weeks'  pay. 

Labor  ministry  officials  have  said  2,500  workers 
received  severance  pay  in  1 985,  the  last  year  for 
which  statistics  are  available.  The  officials  have  es- 
timated that  12,500  workers  would  have  collected  if 
the  new  legislation  had  been  in  place  then. 

RAIL  UNIONS  ON  CABOOSES 

The  disappearance  of  cabooses  from  Canadian 
trains  would  mean  insufficient  supervision  of  the 
cars  behind  the  locomotive  and  less  safety  for  train 
crews  and  the  public,  railway  unions  have  told  the 
federal  Railway  Transport  Committee. 

The  committee  has  been  holding  hearings  across 
Canada  on  requests  from  CN  and  CP  railways  to 
allow  monitoring  devices  to  replace  the  familiar  ca- 
boose which  has  brought  up  the  rear  of  Canadian 
freight  trains  for  more  than  1 00  years. 

At  hearing  after  hearing,  representatives  of  Cana- 
da's railway  unions  have  warned  against  replacing 
real  people  with  electronic  devices. 


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CARPENTER 


Canadian  Building  Trades  Focus 
Attention  on  Government,  Employer 
Policies  at  Biennial  Convention 


Amid  a  rising  tide  of  discriminatory 
policies  of  governments  and  employers 
in  Canada,  the  Building  and  Construc- 
tion Trades  Department  held  its  fifth 
biennial  convention  in  the  nation's  cap- 
ital city,  Ottawa,  July  29  and  30,  1987. 

The  convention  acted  as  a  forum  to 
focus  building  trade  objectives  to  resist 
the  apparent  concerted  attack  on  labor 
in  Canada  by  both  governments  and 
employers. 

The  United  Brotherhood  delegation 
to  the  convention  was  headed  by  Gen- 
eral President  Patrick  J.  Campbell,  9th 
District  Board  Member  John  Carruthers 
and  10th  District  Board  Member  Ron 
Dancer.  Carruthers  is  chairman  of  the 
Canadian  Building  Trades  executive 
council. 

In  addressing  the  convention,  Presi- 


dent Robert  A.  Georgine  told  the  155 
delegates  not  to  let  down  their  guard 
for  an  instant.  "We  find  governments 
not  only  unsympathetic  to  the  aims  and 
aspirations  of  working  men  and  women , 
we  find  those  in  high  public  office  ac- 
tually hostile,"  he  said.  "Unity  is  re- 
quirement number  one  if  workers  are 
to  succeed,"  he  counseled. 

Guy  Dumoulin,  the  Canadian  exec- 
utive secretary  of  the  Building  Trades, 
echoed  their  sentiment  when  he  stated, 
"We've  had  our  fill  of  anti-union  poli- 
cies such  as  double  breasting,  the  merit 
shop  philosophy,  and  foot  dragging  on 
improvements  to  unemployment  insur- 
ance benefits,"  and  warned  the  federal 
and  provincial  governments  that  labor 
issues  will  not  be  forgotten  when  Ca- 
nadian workers  go  to  the  polls. 


Resolutions  passed  at  the  convention 
condemned  federal  government  changes 
to  the  Fair  Wages  Act  ending  the  prac- 
tice of  issuing  wage  schedules  for  gov- 
ernment funded  consiruction  projects, 
called  on  governmenxs  to  ban  the  use 
of  asbestos  in  construction  and  called 
for  a  boycott  of  all  Hyundai  Corporation 
products  in  Canada.  The  Korean  giant 
Hyundai  Corporation  was  accused  of 
attempting  to  introduce  to  Canada  its 
same  anti-union  policies  and  practices 
of  unjust  treatment  of  workers  in  Korea. 

Principal  speakers  at  the  convention 
included  the  federal  minister  of  labor, 
Pierre  Cadieux;  the  minister  of  employ- 
ment and  immigration,  Benoit  Bou- 
chard; the  Ontario  minister  of  labor, 
William  Wrye;  and  the  official  Oppo- 
sition Party  Employment  Critic,  War- 
ren Allmand,  member  of  Parliament. 

Also  on  the  program  were  Tom  Mof- 
fat, president  of  the  Ottawa/Hall  Build- 
ing and  Construction  Trades  Council; 
Trevor  Byrne,  president  of  the  Ontario 
Provincial  Building  and  Construction 
Trades  Council;  and  William  Rivers  of 
the  Martin  E.  Segal  Company. 


DAD'S  Day  Adds  to  Blueprint  for  Cure  Total 


Members  of  the  Building  Trades  re- 
cently stood  on  street  corners  all  over 
the  United  States,  June  20,  in  rain, 
sunshine,  heat  and  humidity  as  they 
collected  money  for  the  D.A.D.'s  Day 
drive.  The  last  figure  received  before 
press  time  came  from  108  cities  and 
totaled  $413,022.64.  An  additional 
$53,803.65  is  expected  to  increase  the 
total. 

The  Kansas  City  District  Council  of 
Carpenters  worked  with  Sheet  Metal 
Workers  Local  2  in  the  drive.  Volun- 
teers made  collections  at  shopping  cen- 
ters and  street  corners  over  the  met- 
ropolitan area,  and,  when  the  donations 
were  tallied ,  they  had  collected  $  1 6,7 1.0. 

"We  used  Sheet  Metal  Local  2  ap- 
prentices to  collect  money  and  also 
Mason  and  Plaster  Tenders  Local  555 
journeymen,  under  George  Cutchlow. 
If  the  rain  had  not  stopped  us,  we  would 
have  collected  even  more  money,"  Bob 
Blackmore,  business  manager  for  the 
Sheet  Metal  Workers,  said. 

Members  of  Carpenters  Local  1000, 
Tampa,  Fla. ,  were  assigned  two  corners 
to  work,  one  in  Brandon,  Fla.,  and  the 
other  in  Mulberry,  Fla. 

Money  collected  during  D.A.D.'s  Day 
helps  to  bring  teams  of  doctors  and 
scientists  together  in  a  state-of-the-art 
facility  at  the  Diabetes  Research  Insti- 
tute in  Florida  to  find  a  cure  for  dia- 
betes. 

Continued  on  Page  38 


Local  1000,  Tampa,  Fla.,  covered  Mulberry  and  Brandon  diiriiig  the  D.A.D.'s  Day 
Drive.  Those  members  working  a  corner  in  Brandon  were  Geratdine  and  Riddley  "Joe" 
Mathews,  upper  left,  and  Frank  Taylor  and  Donald  Ernst,  lower  left.  Members  assigned 
to  Mulberry  were  Richard  Ferrell,  upper  right,  and  Marty  Bearry,  Bobby  Caruthers  and 
Larry  Polk,  lower  right. 


SEPTEMBER     1987 


19 


Locni  union  nEuis 


G-P  Workers,  U.S.  Forest  Products  Board 
Score  Big  Win  at  South  Carolina  Mill 


Arkansas  Pact 


In  a  stunning  victory  and  show  of  unity, 
workers  at  Georgia-Pacific's  Holly  Hill,  S.C., 
sawmill  voted  more  than  three  to  one  on 
July  29  to  join  the  UBC  and  become  part  of 
the  U.S.  Forest  Products  Board's  program. 

As  it  has  in  recent  elections,  Georgia- 
Pacific  mounted  a  strong  campaign,  but  the 
giant  forest  products  corporation  clearly 
underestimated  the  determination  of  its  largely 
young  and  spirited  workforce. 

The  Holly  Hill  sawmill  is  now  one  of 
seven  Georgia-Pacific  mills  in  South  Carohna 
that  are  represented  by  either  the  UBC  or 
the  IWA.  All  will  be  assisted  by  the  program 
of  the  U.S.  Forest  Products  Board,  which 
was  formed  in  1985  by  the  UBC  to  coordinate 
bargaining  and  target  new  organizing  in  the 
industry. 

A  UBC-represented,  G-P  fiberboard  plant 
sits  on  the  same  site  as  the  Holly  Hill 
sawmill.  UBC  members  there  receive  higher 
wages  and  enjoy  better  working  conditions 
than  at  the  sawmill.  But  during  the  campaign, 
Georgia-Pacific  thought  it  could  get  the 
workers  to  ignore  this  obvious  fact  through 
misleading  statements  about  strikes,  loss  of 
benefits  and  union  dues.  On  election  day, 
however,  the  Holly  Hill  workers  gave  their 
response.  It  was  as  if  no  one  had  paid  any 


attention  to  the  company's  captive  audience 
speeches,  its  "one-on-one"  meetings  to 
pressure  workers,  its  promises  of  benefits 
to  vote  no,  and  all  of  the  "vote  no"  t-shirts. 
Seventy-seven  percent  of  the  workers  saw 
the  company's  campaign  for  what  it  was  and 
voted  for  the  UBC.  As  one  member  of  the 
in-plant  organizing  committee  put  it,  "The 
company  thought  we  would  never  stick  to- 
gether. Well,  we  did  and  we  showed  the 
company  who  they  would  be  dealing  with 
from  here  on.  We  also  proved  something  to 
ourselves." 

The  UBC  welcomes  the  workers  at  Holly 
Hill  to  the  Brotherhood.  We  give  special 
recognition  to  the  in-plant  organizing  com- 
mittee which  played  a  big  role  in  the  cam- 
paign. Their  names  are  Joe  Louis  Green, 
Mark  Way,  Isiac  Brown,  Edward  Davis, 
Gene  Grimsley,  Nathaniel  Bryant,  Steve 
Walker,  Hampton  Jefferson,  Alain  Logeret, 
James  Vinson,  Stephen  Clinton,  Matthew 
Gaines,  Willie  C.  Brown,  Marshall  Anderson 
and  Nathaniel  Glover. 

Directing  the  campaign  for  the  UBC  were 
representatives  Ernie  Curtis,  H.  Mac  Rowe, 
Edgar  Fields  and  Sylvester  Hicks.  Assist- 
ance was  also  given  by  UBC  Local  2302 
president  Darnell  Martin. 


Happy  employees 
of  Georgia-Pacific 's 
Holly  Hill  S.C. 
sawmill  share  the 
joy  of  official  union 
recognition  in  a  3 
to  I  victory.  The 
mill  is  now  one  of 
seven  G-P  mills  in 
South  Carolina  rep- 
resented by  either 
UBC  or  IWA. 


Members  of  Local  2171,  Fort  Smith,  Ark., 
recently  ratified  a  new  contract  with  Hack- 
ney Brothers  Body  Co.  Pictured  above  are 
Daniel  Cinqmars,  Graver  Napier,  Linda 
Norby  and  Jim  Tudor,  who  composed  the 
bargaining  committee  for  the  Carpenters. 
The  15'/2-month  agreement  expires  August 
1988. 

40th  Anniversary 


Auxiliary  462,  Lafayette,  Ind.,  recently 
held  its  40th  anniversary  celebration  at 
Purdue  University.  Pictured  above,  from 
left,  are  Louise  Allyn,  condructress  and 
charter  member;  Wiltna  Benner,  vice  pres- 
ident; Betty  Loro,  treasurer;  and  Wendy 
Copeland,  president.  Back  row,  from  left, 
are  Mary  Johnson,  secretary  and  charter 
member;  Gloria  Holderfield,  anniversary 
party  committee;  and  Diane  Clark,  trustee. 
There  are  still  six  charter  members  active 
in  the  auxiliary. 


Local  199  Marks 
Its  Centennial 

Celebrating  its  100th  anniversary.  Local 
199,  Chicago,  111.,  extends  its  appreciation 
to  all  those  who  have  helped  develop  and 
establish  it  in  the  Northeast  Illinois  District. 
In  1983  Locals  578,  70  and  21  were  merged 
with  Local  199  to  form  the  Carpenters  and 
Piledrivers  Local  199. 

A  charter  was  granted  on  July  21,  1886 
and  the  local  started  with  56  members  .  .  . 
only  five  years  after  the  founding  of  the 
Brotherhood  itself. 


20 


CARPENTER 


steward  Training  in  New  Yoric  State 


Locals  255,  Bloomingburg,  N.Y.,and532. 
Elmira,  N.Y..  recently  completed  the  UBC 
steward  training  program  "Building  Union." 
The  program  was  conducted  by  UBC  Rep- 


resentative Kevin  Thompson  and  the  busi- 
ness representatives  from  the  local  union. 
Participants  received  a  certificate  of  com- 
pletion after  the  course. 


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Local  532  members  who  purtkipaled  in  the  training  classes,  front  row  from  left: 
Business  Representative  Edward  Baker,  Edward  Dayton,  Brian  Cilley,  Jim  Scrip,  John 
Lithgow,  Tom  Narde  and  Lewis  Dougherty .  Second  row  from  left:  Dave  Stewart,  Jim 
Diinfee,  Don  Hostrander,  Jerry  Lindbtad.  Nick  Scrip  and  Ken  Brenze.  Third  row  from 
left:  Carl  Whipple,  Mike  Rote,  Todd  Swimelar,  Gary  Cleveland,  Jeff  Steward  and  John 
Sproule. 


Those  participating  from  Local  255  are  pictured  above:  Business  Representative 
Charles  H.  Vealey  Jr.,  Roger  McLauchlan,  Christopher  Cosgrave,  Karl  Kullberg,  Ma- 
ihew  Mastowski,  Dennis  Yorke,  Daniel  Hopkins,  Peter  A.  Karnavezos,  David  Rose, 
Nathan  Browning.  Kenneth  DeWitt,  Bill  Ferguson,  Robert  Gerald,  August  Nolte,  Robert 
Weisner.  Walter  William  Davis,  Fred  LeRoy,  Steve  Freda,  Michael  Muller,  Chris  Cote, 
Harold  McCarthy,  Gregory  S.  Vealey,  Tony  Capozella,  Wally  Schultz,  Miro  Sauer, 
Joseph  Moliterno,  Ken  Fuller,  Daniel  Hughes  and  Raymond  G.  Pranga. 

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Lumber-Sawmill-Plywood  Local  2817,  Quebec,  Holds  Congress 


The  execitlive  committee  and  membership  of  Local  2817,  Quebec,  assembled  recently  in  Montreal  for  the  annual  congress  of  the 
organization.  Almost  40  delegates  from  throughout  the  broad  area  covered  by  this  forest  products  local  assembled  to  consider 
amendments  to  the  local's  rules  and  regulations  and  to  hear  from  the  UBC's  Director  of  Organization  Mike  Fishman  and  9th  District 
Board  Member  John  Carruthers. 

Also  present  were  Guy  Dumoulin,  now  assistant  director  of  the  Canadian  Building  Trades,  and  Representative  Claude  Cournoyer. 

Ramon  Horth  was  reelected  president  of  the  union.  Claude  LaFontaine  is  financial  secretary,  and  Denis  Vandal  is  recording 
secretary. 

Among  the  officers  and  guests  shown  in  the  picture,  starting  fifth  from  left,  first  row,  are:  John  Carruthers,  Mike  Fishman,  Ramon 
Horth,  Claude  LaFontaine,  Guy  DumouUn  and  Claude  Cournoyer. 


Georgia  Victory  Signs 


Millwrights  on  Nuke  Job 


The  in-plant  committee  smiles  with  success  after  winning  an  elec- 
tion 30  to  18  at  Door  Systems  Inc.,  Marietta,  Ga.  The  company  is 
a  subsidiary  ofWaynelDalton  of  New  Hope,  Ohio,  manufacturers 
of  overhead,  rolling  doors.  The  VBC  also  represents  employees  at 
another  Wayne-Dalton  plant  in  Florida. 

Rep.  L  L.  Bowling  and  representatives  of  the  AFL-CIO  indus- 
trial union  department  assisted  in  the  handbilling  and  organizing 
at  the  plant. 


Members  of  Millwrights  Local  201S,  Ocean  County,  N.J.,  re- 
cently completed  the  last  of  six  traveling  water  screens  at  the 
Oyster  Creek  Nuclear  Power  Plant  in  Forked  River,  N.J.  The 
four  pictured  above  are  among  the  last  of  47  men  employed  at 
the  IIR  Outage.  Pictured  above  from  front:  Robert  Stallings, 
foreman;  GPU  Supervisor  Weissenburger;  Ronald  Nichols, 
fourth  year  apprentice:  Welder  Stanley:  and  Seymour  J.  Kahn, 
shop  steward. 


Workers  Win  Union  Recognition  at  Razorback  Hardwood  Company 


Federal  labor  law  gives  workers  the  right 
to  union  representation  when  a  majority  vote 
for  the  union  in  an  NLRB  election.  But  what 
happens  when  an  employer's  illegal  threats, 
promises  of  benefits  and  questioning  of 
workers  makes  a  fair  election  impossible? 

Workers  at  Razorback  Hardwood  Com- 
pany and  UBC  organizers  recently  showed 
you  can  still  win  union  representation  even 
when  the  company  repeatedly  breaks  the 
law  and  makes  a  fair  election  impossible.  It 
is  an  important  victory  because  employers 
increasingly  are  resorting  to  illegal  tactics  to 
deny  workers  their  basic  right  to  a  fair  union 
representation  election.  Here's  how  the 
workers  and  the  UBC  won: 

In  September  1986,  after  a  majority  of 
workers  signed  authorization  cards  stating 
they  wanted  the  UBC  to  represent  them. 


UBC  organizers  filed  a  petition  with  the 
National  Labor  Relations  Board  to  represent 
65  production  and  maintenance  workers  at 
the  Razorback  Hardwood  flooring  and  plan- 
ing mill  in  Monticello,  Ark.  The  company 
carried  on  an  aggressive,  anti-union  cam- 
paign in  the  weeks  before  the  election  on 
November  21,  1986.  After  the  ballots  were 
counted  the  UBC  had  received  25  votes,  but 
"no  union"  received  37  votes. 

UBC  organizers  were  determined  to  fight 
for  a  rerun  election.  The  company's  union 
busting  conduct,  including  threats  to  em- 
ployees, promises  of  benefits  and  interro- 
gation of  workers  were  grounds  used  by  the 
UBC  to  file  charges  with  the  NLRB  against 
Razorback.  After  a  lengthy  hearing  the  NLRB 
Hearing  Office  determined  that  Razorback 
had  engaged  in  conduct  that  warranted  set- 


ting aside  the  results  of  the  first  election  and 
agreed  to  a  second  election. 

Even  as  the  NLRB  hearing  officer  was 
issuing  his  decision,  Razorback  was  contin- 
uing to  harass  and  intimidate  union  sup- 
porters. The  UBC  filed  a  charge  against 
Razorback's  unfair  labor  practices  in  March 
1987,  and  the  NLRB  regional  office  issued 
a  complaint  soon  after.  In  the  complaint  the 
General  Counsel  for  the  NLRB  stated  that 
the  threatening  and  coercive  acts  and  con- 
duct of  Razorback  were  so  serious  that  a 
fair  rerun  election  could  not  be  held  The 
NLRB  general  counsel  recommended  that 
the  company  be  made  to  recognize  and 
bargain  with  the  UBC  through  a  bargaining 
order. 

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Scott 


Dennis  Scott  Named 
Technical  Director 

Dennis  Scott,  who  has  served  on  the 
General  Office  training  staff  since  1976, 
has  been  appointed  as  technical  director 
of  the  United  Brotherhood's  appren- 
ticeship and  training  department. 

In  1963  he  began  a 
career  in  the  con- 
struction industry  by 
joining  the  Laborers 
Union  in  San  Mateo, 
Calif.,  and  remained 
a  member  for  two 
years.  In  1965  he  be- 
came a  carpenter  ap- 
prentice and  rnember 
of  Local  1408  in  Red- 
wood City,  Calif.,  where  he  currently 
holds  membership. 

He  served  two  years  in  Vietnam  with 
the  U.S.  Navy  Seabees.  After  returning 
from  duty,  he  worked  as  a  journeyman 
carpenter  and  resumed  his  membership 
in  Local  1408. 

In  1976  he  was  appointed  as  a  coor- 
dinator in  the  apprenticeship  and  train- 
ing department  of  the  General  Office. 
He  worked  out  of  his  California  office 
conducting  task  analysis  of  the  carpen- 
try trade  to  help  develop  training  ma- 
terials for  the  Performance  Evaluated 
Training  System.  He  has  been  respon- 
sible for  development  of  material  in  all 
areas  of  carpentry,  mill  cabinetry,  la- 
thing and  interior  systems.  He  has 
worked  closely  with  local  joint  appren- 
ticeship and  training  committees  pro- 
moting development  of  training  facili- 
ties in  keeping  with  the  PETS  as  offered 
by  the  General  Office. 

In  1986  he  moved  to  Washington, 
D.C.,  to  work  in  the  General  Office. 


Job  Corpsinen  ap- 
plying siding  to  the 
Equestrian  Building 
at  the  Pan-Am 
Games  site.  They 
gained  credit  for 
pre-apprenlice  ex- 
perience at  the  Job 
site. 


Labor,  Job  Corps 
Work  Pan-Am  Games 

When  the  city  of  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  put 
out  a  call  for  volunteers  to  prepare  for  the 
1987  Pan-Am  Games,  held  last  month,  the 
U.S.  Labor  Department's  Job  Corps  an- 
swered with  nearly  1 ,200  young  people  ready 
to  work. 

Job  Corps  members  from  many  of  the  104 
Job  Corps  centers  throughout  the  country 
were  brought  into  the  city  to  begin  renova- 
tion work  under  direct  supervision  of  AFL- 
CIO  journey  worker  carpenters,  painters, 
operating  engineers,  electricians,  and  others. 

A  once  use-worn  barn  was  turned  into  a 
stable  and  equestrian  course;  a  rifle  range 
suitable  for  international  competition  was 
prepared  as  well  as  a  variety  of  other  building 
restorations  and  Pan-Am  projects. 

Job  Corps  members,  whose  voluntary  en- 
rollment in  the  Job  Corps  program  already 
provides  them  housing,  meals,  health  care 
and  a  minimal  monthly  stipend,  received  a 
bonus  for  their  work  in  Indianapolis. 

According  to  Kenneth  Gibson,  Indiana 
state  director  of  the  Labor  Department's 
Bureau  of  Apprenticeship  and  Training,  the 
Corpsmen  who  received  instruction  in  the 
skilled  trades  will  be  credited  with  pre- 
apprenticeship  experience. 


OSHA  Issues  Employee 
Workplace  Rights  Booklet 

The  U.S.  Department  of  Labor's  Occu- 
pational Safety  and  Health  Administration 
has  issued  a  new  booklet,  "OSHA:  Em- 
ployee Workplace  Rights,"  available  from 
the  agency's  regional  and  area  offices. 

The  16-page  booklet  explains  in  detail  the 
rights  and  responsibilities  an  employee  has 
in  the  workplace  under  the  OSHA  of  1970. 
It  encourages  employers  and  employees  to 
work  together  to  remove  hazards. 

Employee  rights  include  safety  and  health 
information  on  an  individual's  workplace, 
information  on  OSHA  inspections,  notifi- 
cation on  variances  to  OSHA  standards  and 
exercising  rights  under  the  OSH  Act  without 
fear  of  punishment.  Employees  are  respon- 
sible for  complying  with  OSHA  standards 
and  employer  safety  rules  such  as  wearing 
protective  equipment. 

One  free  copy  of  the  new  publication 
(OSHA  3021)  is  available  from  the  nearest 
OSHA  regional  or  area  office.  OSHA  offices 
are  listed  in  the  U.S.  Government  section 
of  the  telephone  directory  under  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Labor.  Requests  also  may  be 
sent  to  the  OSHA  Publications  Office,  Room 
N-3101,  200  Constitution  Avenue,  Washing- 
ton, DC  20210.  A  self-addressed  label  should 
be  enclosed  with  each  request. 


Detroit's  41st  Graduation 

The  41st  annual  apprentice  graduation  banquet  of  the  Detroit 
Carpentry  Joint  Apprenticeship  Committee  was  recently  held  to 
honor  21  new  journeymen.  It  was  pointed  out  during  the  cere- 
mony that  for  the  first  time  each  of  the  union  representatives  on 
the  jointly  .sponsored  labor-management  J  AC  were  products  of 
the  Detroit  program. 

The  1987  class  from  the  Detroit  Carpentry  JAC  include,  front. 
Pat  Coakley.  Dale  Nadeau.  Secretary-Treasurer  Daniel  Kelley. 
Mary  Loven,  David  Gubhini  and  Business  Representative  and 
JAC  Chairman  William  Fair. 

Back,  Joseph  Ready.  Reginald  White,  Gerald  Maryolf,  Robert 
Douglas,  Tom  Harrington,  John  Luthy  and  Chris  Carrol. 


SEPTEMBER     1987 


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Labor  News 
Roundup 

Employee  suit  to 
prove  successorship 
dismissed  by  court 

The  Eighth  Circuit  Court  dismissed  a 
lawsuit  by  members  of  a  Minnesota  local 
of  the  Teamsters  stemming  from  the 
union's  failure  to  compel  a  lessee  of  a 
warehouse  to  adhere  to  the  terms  of  their 
collective  bargaining  agreement  with  their 
former  employer.  The  lessee  modified 
the  operations  of  the  workplace  substan- 
tially and  was  not  a  successor  employer, 
according  to  the  court. 

National  Super  Markets  signed  an 
agreement  subcontracting  the  warehouse 
and  distribution  work  at  its  Hopkins, 
Minn.,  facility  to  Gateway  Foods  of  Min- 
neapolis, Inc.  Gateway  agreed  to  hire 
National's  employees  but  only  at  reduced 
wages  and  at  the  bottom  of  the  seniority 
ladder.  The  Teamsters  agreed  to  the 
proposal. 

Of  the  former  National  workforce  of 
127  employees,  113  were  working  for 
Gateway  a  year  after  the  transition.  Sev- 
eral of  the  former  National  employees 
filed  a  grievance  against  Gateway,  alleg- 
ing that  as  a  successor  employer  Gateway 
must  accord  them  full  contractual  se- 
niority rights,  wages  and  benefits.  The 
Teamsters  refused  to  pursue  the  matter, 
and  the  employees  sued  both  the  union 
and  the  employer  in  federal  court. 

The  Eighth  Circuit  observed  that  the 
National  employees  were  a  minority  of 
the  Gateway  employees,  the  nature  of 
the  work  and  the  working  conditions  had 
changed,  the  supervisors  were  different 
and  the  services  offered  had  changed. 
The  lawsuit  was  dismissed. 


Flight  attendants 
win  baggage  limit 
rule  at  FAA 

The  Association  of  Flight  Attendants 
succeeded  in  a  three-year  campaign  to 
convince  the  Federal  Aviation  Admin- 
istration to  set  limits  on  the  amount  of 
hand-carried  baggage  passengers  bring 
aboard  commercial  air  carriers. 

The  union  petitioned  for  the  regula- 
tions, pointing  to  serious  safety  hazards 
involved,  and  urged  the  FAA  to  set 
uniform  hmits  that  would  apply  to  all 
airlines.  The  agency  chose  to  permit  each 
carrier  to  set  its  own  volume  ceilings, 
subject  to  FAA  approval. 

AF.'\  safety  director  Matthew  Finu- 
cane  vr.iced  concern  over  the  possibility 
of  public  i.iconvenience  if  airlines  estab- 
lish dozens  of  separate  baggage  limits. 
He  urged  the  carriers  to  "adopt  uniform 
hmits  through  (heir  trade  associations". 

The  airlines  have  six  months  to  estab- 
lish their  screening  programs. 


Bill  introduced 
to  give  musicians 
bargaining  rights 

Legislation  was  recently  introduced  in 
Congress  that  would  give  musicians  and 
other  performing  artists  the  right  to  be 
represented  in  collective  bargaining  by 
the  union  of  their  choice. 

The  bill  became  necessary  because  of 
rulings  by  the  National  Labor  Relations 
Board  which  said  musicians  and  other 
performers  were  independent  contrac- 
tors who  have  control  over  the  means 
and  production  of  their  work  and  so 
cannot  enter  into  agreements  with  em- 
ployers to  establish  wages  and  improve 
working  conditions.  Senator  Spark  Mat- 
sunaga  (D-Hawaii)  pointed  out  that  most 
performers  are  hired  at  the  whim  of  a 
conductor,  hotel  manager  or  bar  owner 
and,  thus,  have  no  control  over  their 
working  conditions. 

The  bill  would  give  musicians  and  other 
performers  rights  similar  to  those  now 
enjoyed  by  construction  and  garment 
workers. 

McCreary  Tire 

and  Rubber  Company 

on  boycott  list 

The  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council  has 
endorsed  a  request  for  a  boycott  of 
McCreary  Tire  and  Rubber  Company 
products  by  the  United  Rubber  Workers 
after  the  company  made  demands  on  the 
members  of  URW  Local  947  in  Indiana, 
Pa. 

Employees  were  locked  out  in  March 
1986  when  they  refused  to  accept  sub- 
standard wages  offered  them.  The  com- 
pany's demands  included  a  wage  freeze, 
further  cuts  in  benefits,  a  two-tier  wage 
scale  and  no  recall  for  most  laid  off 
employees. 

This  came  after  employees  accepted 
wage  and  benefit  concessions  in  order  to 
keep  the  company  more  competitive. 
After  only  one  month  of  negotiations, 
McCreary  refused  to  return  to  the  bar- 
gaining table,  saying  there  was  no  work 
unless  they  accepted  management's  of- 
fer. 

McCreary  products  include  truck,  in- 
dustrial, farm,  racing,  passenger,  small 
aircraft  and  federal  government  test  tires. 

Boycott  against 
Ace  Drill  products 
asked  by  UAW 

United  Automobile  Workers  President 
Owen  Bieber  asks  support  in  a  boycott 
against  Ace  Drill  Co.,  after  the  company 
was  sold  to  A.J.  Brown  the  same  month 
the  employee  contract  ran  out. 

The  company,  formerly  privately 
owned,  has  been  organized  for  over  20 
years  by  UAW  Local  1397,  Adrian,  Mich. 
The  new  contract  demands  by  the  com- 


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pany  include  substantial  wage  cuts,  cuts 
in  health  and  welfare  benefits,  as  well  as 
holidays,  elimination  of  cost-of-living  in- 
creases and  unrestricted  rights  to  sub- 
contract, although  the  company  has  been 
enjoying  an  overall  profit. 

The  new  owner  has  met  several  times 
in  contract  negotiations,  but  his  stand 
remains  firm,  forcing  UAW  members  to 
strike.  Non-union  workers  have  been 
hired  to  replace  strikers,  including  some 
local  prisoners,  who  have  been  removed 
through  intercession  by  the  State  of 
Michigan.  Brown,  the  new  owner,  has 
asserted  he  wants  to  break  the  union  and 
convert  the  shop  to  a  federal  minimum 
wage  establishment. 

The  union  alleges  that  the  company 
has  also  been  purchasing  inferior  foreign 
drills,  assigning  non-union  labor  to  stamp 
Ace  Drill  on  the  merchandise  and  placing 
them  in  Ace  shipping  containers  for  dis- 
tribution. 

The  AFL-CIO  executive  council  has 
endorsed  the  boycott  until  an  equitable 
contract  can  be  obtained.  Products  in- 
clude hardened  and  tempered  steel  bars, 
wire  and  jobber  drills,  reamer  blanks,  air 
craft,  letter  drills,  taper  routers  and  K.O. 
pins. 


Work  Stress  Called 
Major  Industrial 
Concern  Worldwide 

A  study  published  by  the  International 
Labor  Organization  said  that  one  out  of 
every  four  workers  in  industrialized 
countries  is  Ukely  to  suffer  from  mental 
illness  at  some  point  in  their  working  life. 
The  U.N.  agency  report  stated  that  stress 
at  work  or  elsewhere  was  one  of  the 
world's  most  serious  health  problems, 
causing  symptoms  ranging  from  mild 
anxiety  and  depression  to  chronic  mental 
illness. 


'America  Works' 
ready  for  schools 
from  LIPA 

Labor's  award-winning  public  tele- 
vision series,  "America  Works,"  is  being 
marketed  to  27,000  U.S.  school  systems 
in  six  videocassette  programs.  The  se- 
ries, hosted  by  actress  Labrina  LeBeauf 
of  "The  Cosby  Show"  and  produced  by 
the  AFL-CIO  Labor  Institute  of  Public 
Affairs,  includes  programs  on  community 
activism,  family  farm  foreclosures,  health 
care,  pay  equity,  toxic  hazards  and  plant 
closings. 

Phoenix  Films,  a  New  York-based  ed- 
ucational distributor,  is  offering  individ- 
ual programs  in  any  video  format  to 
schools  and  public  libraries  at  a  special 
price  of  $89  per  tape  or  $485  for  the 
whole  series.  Trade  union  members  can 
purchase  the  tapes  at  an  additional  50% 
discount.  For  more  information  contact 
LIPA,  815  16th  Street,  NW,  Washington, 
D.C.,  20006;  (202)  637-5334. 

CARPENTER 


uiE  concRnTuinTE 

.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


COURAGE  AWARD 

Leo  Morales,  Local  1976,  Los  Angeles, 
Calif. ,  was  recently  awarded  the  Courageous 
Citizens  Award  by  the  Office  of  the  District 
Attorney  in  conjunction  with  the  Lions  Clubs 
of  Southern  California.  The  event  promoting 
the  award  was  the  rescue  of  a  two-year-old 
child. 

Hearing  a  car  crash  while  at  a  gas  station 
in  Pico  Rivera,  Morales  looked  up  to  see  a 
car  upside  down  and  burning.  Without  regard 
for  his  own  safety,  he  ran  toward  the  vehicle 
to  pull  a  two-year-old  child  out.  He  then 
assisted  in  removing  the  driver  and  another 
child  from  the  car.  This  courageous  response 
at  the  scene  of  a  drunk-driving  accident 
saved  the  life  of  the  child. 

The  ceremony  was  held  during  the  Na- 
tional Victim's  Rights  Week.  The  deputy 
district  attorneys  nominate  citizens  for  these 
awards;  seven  citizens  were  chosen  to  be 
honored  out  of  the  group  of  nominees. 

In  the  program  Ira  Reiner,  district  attorney 
wrote,  "In  a  very  real  sense  these  'coura- 


At  a  recent  ceremony.  Leo  Morales  was 
honored  by  the  Office  of  the  Los  Angeles 
district  attorney  with  its  Courageous  Citi- 
zens Award.  Morales  is  shown  here  with 
District  Attorney  Ira  Reiner  and  Los  An- 
geles District  Council  Administrative  As- 
sistant Armando  Vergara. 

geous  citizens'  have  been  drafted  into  a  war 
against  violent  crime;  they  were  presented 
by  life  with  a  hard  decision — to  risk  their 
personal  safety  or  to  remain  passive.  Each 
of  these  people  have  chosen  the  course  of 
personal  risk  and  sacrifice." 


ILLINOIS  SCHOLAR 

Local  16,  Spring- 
field, 111.,  recently 
awarded  its  annual 
scholarship  to  Debo- 
rah Beck,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack 
Beck.  Miss  Beck  was 
in  the  June  graduating 
class  at  Springfield 
High  School  and  plans  nirr^K- 

to  attend  Knox  Col-  ^^'-'^ 

lege  in  Galesburg,  111.  where  she  will  major 
in  political  science.  The  first  alternate  was 
John  Yard,  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lee  Yard, 
and  the  second  alternate  was  Sara  Matson, 
daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richard  Matson. 

HAWAII  PROJECT 

Local  745,  Honolulu,  Hawaii,  has  recently 
become  actively  involved  in  assisting  the 
Boy  Scout  Special  Projects  Program  as  a 
result  of  discussions  between  Scouting  lead- 
ers and  the  local's  financial  secretary-busi- 
ness representative,  Walter  Kupau. 

The  Special  Projects  Program  is  comprised 
of  six  counselors  who  work  with  thousands 
of  disadvantaged  and  handicapped  children 
on  Oahu.  They  work  with  these  Scouts  to 
get  them  involved  in  a  variety  of  programs 
such  as  handicraft,  safety  at  home,  survival 
skills  and  camping. 

Local  745  became  involved  in  the  program 
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WINNERS  IN  BIKE-A-THON 


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A  team  of  labor-oriented  bike  peddlers  rolled  into  second 
place  and  a  trophy  in  the  recent  Capital  Motion  Bike-a-Thon  in 
Washington,  D.C.  Calling  themselves  the  Wobblies,  they  raced 
around  the  Tidal  Basin  area  in  the  nation's  capital  to  a  victo- 
rious finish,  raising  more  than  $800  for  the  American  Cancer 
Society  ..The  leatn  includes,  from  left,  Neil  Gladslein,  Electrical 
Workers  research  department;  Lynn  Rhineharl,  U.S.  Senate  La- 
bor Committee  staff:  Emmett  Russell,  Operating  Engineers  rep- 
resentative; Bill  Londrigan,  Heavy  and  Highway  Construction 
Committee's  research  director:  and  Steve  White,  member  of 
UBC  Local  402  and  research  analyst  for  the  Brotherhood's 
special  projects  department.  The  team  peddled  a  total  of  170 
miles,  with  White  amassing  50  miles  as  the  team  leader. 


RECALL  NOTICE: 

SKIL  MODEL  77. 

71/4  WORM-DRIVE  SAW 

If  you  own  or  use  a  SKIL  Model  77,  TA"  Worm- 
Drive  Saw  with  the  date  codes  HNY,  HNZ,  HPN,  HPP, 
HPQ,  HPR,  HPS,  or  HPT  printed  on  the  lower  right- 
hand  corner  of  the  product  label,  you  are  hereby 
advised  of  a  voluntary  recall  of  the  saw  by  SKIL 
Corporation. 

The  recall  is  to  replace  the  lower  blade  guard  of 
the  saw  which  may  be  susceptible  to  cracking  under 
unusual  conditions.  777/5  condition  is  potentially  haz- 
ardous and  can  result  in  serious  personal  injury.  There 
will  be  no  cost  to  the  consumer  for  the  replacement 
of  the  lower  blade  guard  of  these  saws;  however,  the 
replacement  must  be  made  by  an  authorized  SKIL 
Service  Center.  For  the  name  and  address  of  the 
nearest  authorized  SKIL  Service  Center,  call,  toll-free, 
1-800-237-8279 
(In  Canada,  call  collect:  314-426-6500). 

This  recall  applies  only  to  SKIL  Mode!  77,  TA" 
Worm-Drive  Saws,  sold  after  November,  1986.  No 
other  SKIL  tools  are  affected  by  this  notice. 


SJ(/l 


SEPTEMBER     1987 


25 


GOSSIP 


SEND  YOUR  FAVORITES  TO; 

PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


CONSTRUCTION  TERMS 

Hydroelectric  Constuction  -  is  just 
one  dam  thing  after  anotlner. 

Diversification  -  an  attempt  to  profit 
by  betting  on  every  fiorse  in  the 
race. 

Specialization  -  Betting  every- 
thing on  the  wrong  horse. 

Contractor  -  a  gambler  who  never 
gets  to  shuffle,  cut  or  deal. 

Bid  Opening  -  a  poker  game  in 
which  the  losing  hand  wins. 

Bid  -  a  wild  guess 'carried  out  to 
two  decimal  places. 

Low  Bidder  -  a  contractor  who  is 
wondering  what  he  left  out. 

Engineer's  Estimate  -  the  cost  of 
construction  in  heaven. 

Project  Manager  -  the  conductor 
of  an  orchestra  in  which  every  mu- 
sician is  in  a  different  union. 

Critical  Path  IVIethod  -  a  manage- 
ment technique  for  losing  your  shirt 
under  perfect  control. 

Strike  -  an  effort  to  increase  egg 
production  by  strangling  the 
chicken, 

—Carpenter's  Local  1408, 
Redwood  City,  Calif. 


JOB  CLASSIFICATION 

Little  Kathy  was  trying  to  quiet 
her  younger  brother  in  church. 
"Hush,"  she  whispered.  "You're  not 
supposed  to  talk  loud  in  God's- 
house." 

"Who's  gonna  stop  me?"  he 
asked. 

Kathy  pointed  to  the  ushers  and 
said,  "Do  you  see  those  men  back 
there?  They're  the  hushers." 

—Globe 

REGISTERED  TO  VOTE? 

THIS  MODERN  AGE 

The  marvels  of  modern  technol- 
ogy include  the  ^levelopment  of  a 
soda  can  which,  when  discarded, 
will  last  forever  and  a  $7,000  car, 
which  properly  cared  for,  will  rust 
in  two  or  three  years. 

— Journalist  Paul  Ham/itz 

LOOK  FOR  THE  UNION  LABEL 


LOVE  CONQUERS  ALL 

A  yound  lady  returned  her  en- 
gagement ring  to  her  suitor,  con- 
fessing that' she  had  fallen  in  love 
with  someone  else. 

"You  could  at  least  tell  me  who 
the  other  man  is,"  the  jilted  boy- 
friend said. 

"Why?"  asked  the  woman.  "Do 
you  want  to  challenge  him  to  a 
duel?" 

"Don't  be  silly,"  he  said.  "I  want 
to  try  to  sell  him  the  ring." 

JOIN  C.L.I.C.  TODAY 

THAT  OLD  LINE 

Adam  is  the  only  man  who  couldn't 
say,  "Haven't  we  met  before?" 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

There  was  a  composer  named 

Liszt 
Whose  music  no  one  could  resist. 

When  he  swept  the  keyboard 

Nobody  could  be  bored; 
.And  now  that  he's  gone  his  is 

miszed, 


WEATHER  COMMAND 

Mother:  Son,  are  you  going  to 
take  the  car  out  in  this  terrible 
weather? 

Son:  Sure,  Ma,  it's  a  driving  rain, 
isn't  it? 

— Boy's  Life 
SUPPORT  'TURNAROUND' 

RUNNING  FROM  PROBLEMS 

A  man  complained  to  his  doctor 
that  he  was  having  trouble  sleep- 
ing. He  was  irritable,  he  said,  and 
couldn't  get  along  with  his  brother. 

The  doctor  told  him  to  get  up 
every  morning  and  jog  10  miles. 

After  14  days,  the  man  tele- 
phoned: "Doc,  I  feel  great.  I'm 
sleeping  again,  and  I'm  not  irrita- 
ble." 

"Super,"  said  the  doctor.  "But 
how  are  you  getting  along  with  your 
brother?" 

"How  should  I  know?"  the  man 
answered.  "I'm  140  miles  from 
home." 


SHOW  YOUR  BUMPER  STICKER 


ODDS  ARE 

For  his  birthday,  a  young  man 
received  the  gift  he's  always  wanted: 
a  horse.  But  it  was  a  rather  old 
horse,  so  the  young  man  thought 
he  should  have  it  looked  over  by  a 
veterinarian. 

After  the  animal  doctor  was  fin- 
ished, the  young  man  anxiously 
asked,  "Will  I  be  able  to  race  her?" 

He  looked  at  the  young  man,  then 
at  the  horse. 

"Sure,"  the  vet  said,  "and  you'd 
probably  win." 

— Boy's  Life 
ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 

SINCE  YOU  ASKED  . . . 

Chubb:  I  went  riding  this  morn- 
ing. 

Pee  Wee:  Horseback? 

Chubb:  Yeah,  he  got  back  about 
two  hours  before  me. 

— Boy's  Life 


26 


CARPENTER 


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Introducing 
the  first  new 
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100  years. 

The  rawlings"^ 

CCHISINATI 


For  every  professional  and  do-it-yourselfer. 

So  versatile,  it  belongs  in  every  craftsman's  toolbox. 

So  rugged,  your  great-grandchild  v\rill  be  using  it. 


Replaces 
all  these  tools. 


It's  5-tools-in-1 


-Fully-calibrated  In  inch,  angle,  plumbing  and 
roof-pitch  markings  (metric  optional) 


tit's  a  2ft.  level 


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■  Availableln  2  sizes,  12"/2ft.  &  2ft./4ft. 

■  Saves  buying  and  carrying  several 
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■  Rugged  I-beam  design 

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The  new  rawlings™  COMBINATION 
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plumbers,  siding  &  roofing  workers,  alumi- 
num installers,  wrought-iron  and  ironwork- 
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Just  look  at  its  features:  a  recessed  lock- 
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frees  up  the  pivoting  arm  to  form  a  90'^ 
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and  180°.  At  the  hinge  is  a  protractor  with 
true  and  complementary  angle  indicators.  It 
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The  rawlings™  COMBINATION  LEVEL 
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Inch  markings  are  recessed  and  painted 
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SEPTEMBER     1987 


27 


The  Pitchmen  Who 
Invade  Your  Mail  Box 


'Junk  mail, '  friend  or  foe,  is  gaining  momentum  in  stuffing 
our  mailboxes,  as  the  advertising  trend  catches  on. 


W'Wimmfmi^'- 


Many  people  label  them  nuisances,  those 
"junk  mail"  advertisers  who  invade  our 
homes  through  the  mail  slot  in  search  of  a 
soft  touch  for  their  hard  sell. 

Truth  is,  direct  mail  has  proven  an  effec- 
tive way  for  companies  to  reel  in  customers, 
often  with  gimmicks  such  as  scratch  and  win 
sweepstakes  that  come  in  the  candy-striped 
envelope  and  tell  you  that  you've  won  before 
you  have  even  opened  the  envelope. 

"It's  a  big  world  out  there,  and  everything 
is  being  sold  through  the  mail,"  says  Michael 
Gretschel,  president  of  List  America  Inc.,  a 
mailing  list-brokering  company  in  George- 
town, Washington,  D.C. 

Mail  is  the  favorite  medium  for  donation 
solicitors — whether  for  charity,  religion  or 
public  television.  At  the  same  time,  for- 
profit  companies  use  the  post  office  to  help 
them  sell  books,  stereo  equipment,  clothes, 
sporting  gear,  credit  cards  and  insurance. 
Mail  advertising  brings  in  billions  of  dollars 
annually. 

And  the  post  office,  for  its  part,  embraces 
direct  mail  as  its  bread  and  butter.  Last  year, 
the  postal  system  handled  more  than  55 
billion  pieces  of  third-class  mail,  including 


magazines,  but  much  of  the  haul  was  of  the 
direct-mail  persuasion. 

One  of  the  reasons  mail  advertising  is  so 
effective  is  because  it  is  "personal,"  says 
John  Jay  Daly,  former  executive  director  of 
the  Direct  Marketing  Association  of  Amer- 
ica. 

While  print  ads  or  television  commercials 
can  be  eye-grabbing  and  provocative,  they 
are  viewed  passively  as  mass  media,  which 
people  can  switch  off  if  they  choose. 

Direct  mail  solicitation  is  more  difficult  to 
ignore.  Though  the  piece  may  be  a  computer- 
generated  form  letter,  it's  addressed  to  a 
single  person,  and  it  may  be  tailored  specif- 
ically to  that  person's  needs  as  perceived 
by  the  mailing  company. 

While  that  personal  edge  is  what  sells  mail 
advertising,  it  may  also  be  what  people  find 
most  offending.  The  first  question  that  runs 
through  most  minds  is  usually,  "How  did 
they  get  my  name?"  If  the  pitch  is  good, 
though,  it  often  overrides  that  initial  suspi- 
cion. 

Computers  and  the  information  revolution 
are  the  prime  movers  behind  the  new  success 
of  direct  mail  that  has  virtually  exploded.  A 
mailer  can  match  names  and  addresses  from 
several  different  mailing  lists  to  hone  a 
promising  list  of  potential  customers.  The 
days  of  sitting  down  with  an  open  phone 
book  and  sending  solicitations  to  all  the 
names  listed  are  gone. 

Using  information  from  census  reports  and 
mailing  lists  from  magazines  and  catalogs, 
mailers  are  able  to  find  out  all  kinds  of  things 
about  people:  average  income  (based  on 
incomes  within  ZIP  codes),  whether  or  not 
you  have  children,  your  hobbies,  interest  in 
world  affairs,  marital  status  and  approximate 
age. 

"If  I  know  the  magazines  you  subscribe 
to,  I  know  an  awful  lot  about  you,"  Daly 
says.  "It  really  is  the  key  to  how  people 
think." 

With  the  emphasis  mail  advertisers  place 
on  building  sure-sell  address  lists,  the  lists 
themselves  have  become  hot  commodities. 

"The  most  sought-after  lists  are  the  active 
files — people  who've  made  some  purchase 
through  the  mail  in  the  last  12  months," 
Gresschel  says.  His  company  matches  po- 
tential mailers  with  lists  they  likely  could 
use  to  sell  their  products. 

A  mailer  may  pay  6  to  10  cents  a  name 
for  one-time  use  of  a  good  active  list,  de- 


pending on  the  affluence  of  the  names  on  it. 

"That's  rental.  Most  mailing  lists  are  not 
for  sale.  They're  sent  out  on  mailing  labels 
when  rented,"  Gretschel  says. 

This  is  how  the  mailer  gets  inside  your 
mailbox;  getting  inside  your  head  is  another 
process.  Like  anthropologists  stalking  the 
missing  link,  direct  mailers  test  a  variety  of 
hooks  on  their  audiences,  painstakingly  tun- 
ing and  returning  the  mailing  for  the  best 
results. 

"You  have  to  find  out  what  people  want," 
Daly  says.  Not  only  in  a  product,  but  in 
what  kind  of  advertising  will  work,  he  says. 
They  begin  with  a  basic  package,  developed 
through  years  of  trial  and  error  research. 

On  the  front  of  the  envelope,  they  put  a 
"teaser,"  something  to  get  you  to  tear  open 
the  flap.  Inside,  expect  to  find  a  personalized 
letter,  typed  on  official  letterhead.  According 
to  Daly,  that's  where  the  actual  selling  oc- 
curs. 

The  sales  deal  is  laid  out  in  simple  but 
glowing  terms  and  signed  by  a  high-ranking 
executive.  Advertisers  are  always  advised 
to  find  a  way  to  incorporate  a  P.S.  since, 
according  to  studies,  that  is  the  most  read 
part  of  the  letter.  There  will  probably  be 
some  kind  of  glossy  sales  literature — com- 
plete with  color  photos  and  snappy  graphics. 
Count  on  finding  a  reply  form,  return  en- 
velope and  a  toll-free  number. 

After  that,  though,  the  sky's  the  limit,  and 
no  gimmick  is  too  low.  A  company  might 
send  out  "involvement  devices" — scratch- 
and-win  sweepstakes — or  token  gifts — pref- 
erential treatment  cards  embossed  with  the 
customer's  name. 

For  some  people,  mail  solicitations  are 
just  one  of  the  day's  joys,  a  chance  to 
discover  new  information.  Others  find  them 
an  invasion  of  privacy.  For  those  people, 
the  Direct  Mail  Association  of  America  of- 
fers the  Mail  Preference  Service,  which 
voluntarily  takes  disgruntled  persons'  names 
off  national  mailing  lists. 

But  for  folks  who  enjoy  the  colorful  world 
of  mail  advertising,  there's  one  tried-and- 
true  trick  to  get  your  name  placed  on  a 
preferred  mailing  list  somewhere:  Buy  some- 
thing! 

To  have  your  name  removed  from  national 
mailing  lists  write:  Mail  Preference  Service, 
Direct  Marketing  Association,  6  E.  43rd 
Street,  New  York,  N.Y.  10017-4610. 

CARPENTER 


g!;.J  pS^J ''•"""  i^no 


Some  typical  "took  alike"  envelopes  in  the  mail.  Many  show  eagles  and  other  official- 
looking  illustrations.  The  words  "express"  and  "gram"  are  used  frequently,  although 
most  go  out  third  class  mail.  Most  of  these  are  promoting  time-sharing  schemes. 


Beware  of  'Look  Alike' 
Direct  Mail  Envelopes 


Last  year  the  United  States  Postal  Service 
proposed  a  regulation  prohibiting  all  "look 
alike"  envelopes  used  in  what  has  turned 
into  a  big  business:  Direct  Mail.  The  trick 
is  to  get  the  recipient  to  open  his  mail  and 
to  disguise  the  fact  that  it  is  unsolicited 
advertising  (frequently  called  junk  mail). 

Envelopes  in  red,  white  and  blue;  envel- 
opes decorated  with  starving  children  or 
suffering  animals;  envelopes  displaying  Old 
Glory.  Recently  emerging  is  the  ersatz  en- 
velope (Ersatz  is  german  for  substitute). 

These  envelopes  claim  to  be  something 
they  are  not.  Carefully  selected  terms  are 
printed  in  bold  type  across  the  envelope  to 
confuse  the  recipient  and  the  post  office: 
Priority  Express,  Special  Mail,  Via  Class 
Mail.  Anything  is  used  to  obscure  the  fact 
that  the  piece  comes  by  plain,  ordinary,  bulk 


mail. 

But  recently  there  has  appeared  a  new 
twist  that  seems  to  have  confused  everyone 
including  the  post  office  and  prompted  their 
proposed  regulation. 

Some  pieces  are  #10  window  envelopes 
with  a  light  blue  or  gold  tint  mail  piece 
showing  through.  Printed  in  bold  letters  are 
the  phrases:  "Postmaster,  do  not  deliver 
before  the  1st  of  the  month"  and  "$300.00 
penalty."  Almost  exactly  like  a  Social  Se- 
curity Check  envelope. 

The  mail  order  industry  mounted  a  pow- 
erful campaign  against  the  proposed  regu- 
lation which  resulted  in  a  meaningless  reg- 
ulation. The  USPS,  charged  with  "universal 
service"  and  not  just  service  to  the  narrow 
interest  of  the  business  community,  has  at 
this  point  caved  in  to  the  business  lobby. 


Electric-Heat  Beds 
Cause  Miscarriages? 

Data  gathered  by  Denver,  Colo.,  research- 
ers shows  a  strong  correlation  between  the 
use  of  electric  blankets  or  electrically  heated 
A'aterbeds  and  an  increase  in  the  number  of 
miscarriages  among  pregnant  women.  The 
study  also  showed  that  many  of  the  preg- 
nancies that  reached  full  term  were  longer 
than  normal.  Other  research  suggests  that 
such  bed  heating  devices  may  also  contribute 
to  birth  defects. 

Among  babies  conceived  in  electrically 
heated  beds,  the  average  gestation  period 


for  a  midwinter  conception  was  about  one 
week  longer  than  the  gestation  period  for 
babies  conceived  during  July  and  August. 
This  is  apparently  due  to  the  greater  number 
of  cold  nights  during  which  electric  heat  was 
used.  No  seasonal  variation  was  seen  in  the 
gestation  times  of  babies  conceived  in  un- 
healed beds. 

As  for  miscarriages,  the  charts  look  rather 
alarming.  For  those  with  heated  beds,  there 
were  significantly  more  miscarriages,  and 
75%  of  them  occurred  during  colder  months, 
September  through  January. 

According  to  the  research  done,  it  is  not 
the  heat  itself  that  is  responsible  for  these 

Continued  on  Page  38 


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SEPTEMBER     1987 


29 


Full  Length  Roof  Framer 

The  roof  framer  companion  since 
1917.  Over  500,000  copies  sold. 

A  pocket  size  book  with  the  EN- 
TIRE length  of  Common-Hip-Valley 
and  Jack  rafters  completely  worked 
out  for  you.  The  flattest  pitch  is  % 
inch  rise  to  12  inch  run.  Pitches  in- 
crease %  inch  rise  each  time  until 
the  steep  pitch  of  24"  rise  to  12" 
run  is  reached. 

There  are  2400  widths  of  build- 
ings for  each  pitch.  The  smallest 
width  is  Vi  inch  and  they  increase 
Vi"  each  time  until  they  cover  a  50 
foot   building. 

There  are  2400  Commons  and  2400 
Hip,  Valley  &  Jack  lengths  for  each 
pitch.  230,400  rafter  lengths  for  48 
pitches. 

A  hip  roof  is  48'-914"  wide.  Pitch 
is  TVz"  rise  to  12"  run.  You  can  pick 
out  the  length  of  Commons,  Hips  and 
Jacks  and  the  Cuts  in  ONE  MINUTE. 
Let  us  prove  it,  or  return  your  money. 


In  the  U.S.A.  send  $7.50.  California  residents 
add  45«  tax. 

We  also  have  a  very  fine  Stair  book  9"  X 
12".  It  sells  for  $4.50.  California  residents  add 
27«  tax. 


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What's  Required  of  UBC  Members 
Under  the  New  U.S.  Immigration  Law 


The  new  U.S.  immigration  law  makes  it 
illegal  for  employers  to  hire  workers  who 
are  not  citizens,  legal  residents  or  foreigners 
who  are  authorized  by  the  Immigration  and 
Naturalization  Service  (INS)  to  work  in  the 
U.S.  Employers  can  face  civil  and  criminal 
penalties  for  knowingly  hiring  anyone  with- 
out legal  documents.  Employers  will  not 
face  penalties  for  continuing  to  keep  em- 
ployees on  their  payroll — legal  or  illegal — if 
the  employees  were  hired  prior  to  November 
6,  1986. 

Employers  must  fill  out  a  Form  1-9 — 
Employment  Eligibility  Verification  Form 
for  every  worker  who  is  hired.  Being  a  U.S. 
citizen  does  not  exempt  a  worker  from  these 
forms.  Employees  fill  out  the  top  section  of 
the  form,  and  must  show  proper  documen- 
tation. Under  the  law  it  is  the  responsibility 
of  the  employer  to  get  the  Form  1-9  com- 
pleted. Failure  to  do  so  can  result  in  fines 
and/or  criminal  penalties  against  the  em- 
ployer. 

Locals  and  district  councils  should  take 
the  following  actions  with  respect  to  the  new 
immigration  law: 


Advise  members  going  out  on  jobs  to  carry 
proper  identification  to  complete  the  1-9 
Form.  In  most  cases,  an  original  Social 
Security  Card  or  original  or  certified  copy 
of  a  U.S.  birth  certificate,  together  with  a 
driver's  license  or  other  state-issued  ID 
card  that  has  a  photograph  or  a  U.S. 
military  card,  will  do. 

Any  one  of  the  following  documents  will 
also  allow  you  to  work,  if  a  Social  Security 
Card  and  a  picture  driver's  license  are  not 
available:  a  U.S.  passport,  certificate  of 
U.S.  citizenship,  certificate  of  naturaliza- 
tion, current  foreign  passport  with  em- 
ployment authorization,  alien  registration 
card  with  photograph,  green  card  or  work 
permit  I-688A  with  photograph. 

Members  should  be  advised  to  carry 
work  authorization  documents  at  all  times. 
If  they  do  not  have  proper  documents, 
they  should  take  steps  immediately  to  get 
them.  It  can  take  a  number  of  weeks  to 
get  a  certified  birth  certificate  or  social 
security  card. 

Continued  on  Page  34 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Retiree's  Hobby 


95  and  Irish 


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Retired  Brother  Simon  C.  Chiasson  has 
taken  up  the  art  of  violin  making.  When 
asked  how  long  it  takes  to  make  each  vio- 
lin, his  reply  was,  "As  long  as  I  have 
patience."  Chiasson  is  a  member  of  Local 
1588,  Sydney,  N.S. 


John  Cullen,  Local  1456  member.  Broad 
Channel,  N.Y.,  celebrated  his  95th  birth- 
day August  8.  He  was  joined  in  the  cele- 
bration by  his  family,  which  included  39 
grandchildren  and  32  great-grandchildren. 

Cullen  still  lives  in  the  house  he  built  in 
1927  and  is  still  in  great  shape,  as  he  lives 
by  himself.  One  of  his  favorite  hobbies  is 
playing  the  accordion. 

Indiana  Club  Names 
New  Vice  President 

Club  27,  Hammond,  Ind.,  has  appointed 
Larry  Hess  new  vice  president.  His  wife 
Mocella  will  serve  as  trustee.  Sixty  members 
and  wives  attended  the  last  meeting  of  the 
retirees'  club.  The  club  recently  viewed  the 
United  Brotherhood's  centennial  film, 
"Knock  on  Wood." 


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31 


Second  1987  Seminar  at  Labor  Studies  Center  for 
Full-time  Officers  and  Business  Representatives 


The  second  of  three  1987  UBC  leadership  training  seminars  was 
held  the  week  of  July  20  at  the  George  Meany  Labor  Studies 
Center  in  Silver  Spring,  Md. 

Forty-seven  local  and  council  officers  attended  the  July  seminar. 
The  final  seminar  was  held  August  2-7. 

The  seminars  are  designed  to  acquaint  full-time  officers  and 
business  representatives  with  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of 
their  offices.  They  are  under  the  supervision  of  Second  General 
Vice  President  John  Pruitt,  working  with  Staff  Representatives 
Edward  J.  Hahn  and  James  Davis. 

Participants  in  the  second  1987  training  seminar  and  their  local 
or  council  affiliation  are  as  follows: 
Russell  Abate,  B.R.,  Local  118,  Detroit,  MI 
Harold  R.  Adams,  B.M.,  Local  247,  Portland,  OR 
Donald  Anderson,  B.R,  Milwaukee  &  SE  Wisconsin  D.C., 

Milwaukee,  WI 
Thomas  Bakk,  B.R.,  Local  606,  Virginia,  MN 
Perry  W.  Barbee,  B.R.,  Local  1469,  Charlotte,  NC 
Daniel  Bark,  B.R.,  Local  2158,  Moline,  IL 
William  Bamett,  B.R,,  Metropolitan  District  Council, 

Philadelphia,  PA 
Brian  Blair,  B.R.,  Local  140,  Tampa,  FL 
Larry  Burton,  B.R.,  Kansas  City  District  Council,  Kansas  City, 

MO 
Jack  Carstens,  B.R.,  Houston  District  Council,  Houston,  TX 
James  S.  Copeland,  B.R.,  Northwest  Indiana  D.C.,  Hobart,  IN 
Ken  Dilling,  B.R.,  Local  1280,  Mountain  View,  CA 
David  Lynn  Evans,  B.R.,  Local  1241,  Columbus,  OH 
John  Hadzess,  B.R.,  North  Coast  Counties  D.C.,  Santa  Rosa, 

CA 
James  J.  Hirsch,  B.R.,  Milwaukee  &  SE  Wisconsin  D.C., 

Milwaukee,  WI 
David  Hohman,  B.R.,  Western  Pennsylvania  D.C.,  Pittsburgh, 

PA 
John  Hooven,  B.R.,  Metropolitan  District  Council,  Philadelphia, 

PA 


Ronaldo  A.  Hunter,  B.R.,  Local  769,  Pasadena,  CA 
Julius  D.  Kleinstein,  B.R.,  Local  135,  New  York,  NY 
Jeffrey  D.  Kruse,  FS  and  BR,  Local  704,  Jackson,  MI 
Edwin  M.  Lashley,  B.M.,  Local  865,  Brunswick,  GA 
James  R.  Lindley,  B.R.,  Local  225,  Atlanta,  GA 
Robert  L.  Lyons,  B.R.,  Local  548,  St.  Paul,  MN 
Raymond  McMillen,  B.R.,  Local  361,  Duluth,  MN 
Mike  Magallanes,  Org.,  Local  1506,  Los  Angeles,  CA 
Andrew  Mitchell,  Jr.,  Northwest  Indiana  D.C.,  Hobart,  IN 
Kenneth  Mocarski,  FS  and  Asst.  BR,  Local  54,  Berwyn,  IL 
Steve  Muchicko,  B.R.,  Local  515,  Colorado  Springs,  CO 
Gordon  A.  Nystrom,  FS  &  Asst.  BR,  Local  58,  Chicago,  IL 
Dennis  Pelillo.  B.R.,  Local  210,  Norwalk,  CT 
Dennis  Penkalski,  B.R.,  Milwaukee  &  SE  Wisconsin  D.C., 

Milwaukee,  WI 
Donald  L.  Roberts,  B.R.,  Kentucky  State  District  Council, 

Frankfort,  KY 
Jim  Rutherford,  B.R.,  Baltimore  District  Council,  Bel  Air,  MD 
Robert  L.  Scholtens,  F.S.,  Local  434,  Oak  Lawn,  IL 
Edward  Schrody,  Organizer,  Local  1506,  Los  Angeles,  CA 
Joseph  T.  Scoppettone,  B.R.,  Local  144-L,  San  Jose,  CA 
Curt  Sherrill,  B.R.,  Santa  Clara  Valley  D.C.,  San  Jose,  CA 
Kenneth  Smith,  B.R.,  Local  281,  Johnson  City,  NY 
Stanley  A.  Starks,  B.R.,  Local  102,  Oakland,  CA 
Eugene  Swanson,  B.M.,  Local  470,  Tacoma,  WA 
James  R.  Swindell,  B.R.,  Orange  County  District  Council, 

Orange,  CA 
Gregory  D.  Taylor,  FS  &  BR,  Local  903,  Valdosta,  GA 
John  Vella,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  715,  Elizabeth,  NJ 
Dale  Williams,  B.R.,  Kentucky  State  District  Council, 

Frankfort,  KY 
Harold  E.  Wilson,  B.R.,  Kansas  City  District  Council,  Kansas 

City,  MO 
George  Wincapaw,  B.R.,  Milwaukee  &  SE  Wisconsin  D.C., 

Milwaukee,  WI 
Bill  Yandell,  B.R.,  Local  102,  Oakland,  CA 


32 


CARPENTER 


Members-  of  the  United  Shipbuilding  Crafts  puss  out  leaflets  at  a  plant  gate  of  the 
General  Dynamics  Electric  Boat  Division  plant,  Quonset  Point,  R.I.  Beside  the  fence, 
are  Steve  Calande;  Joe  Siirkont.  a  Painter;  Stephen  Perry,  UBC  representative:  and 
Bars  tow  Martin,  a  Rigger. 


John  Miles,  a  regional  administrator  of  the  Occupational  Safety  and  Health  Administra- 
tion, right  rear,  meets  with  the  USC  staff  and  members  of  the  Electric  Boat  in-plant 
organizing  committee  to  discuss  their  safety  concerns.  Clockwise  around  the  table  from 
Miles  are  Dominic  Dimeglio,  crane  operator:  Ken  Allenby,  pipe  fitter:  Bob  Silvia, 
Plumbers  representative:  Dave  Pizzorno,  numerical  control  operator:  Charlie  Fiske, 
numerical  control  operator:  Maurice  Orio,  Boiler  Makers  representative:  and  Steve 
Perry,  UBC  representative. 

Shipbuilding  Crafts  at  Quonset  Point 
Condemn  Safety  and  Health  Violations 


The  craft  unions  seeking  recognition  at 
the  big  General  Dynamics  Electric  Boat 
faciUty,  Quonset  Point,  R.I.,  have  scored  a 
victory  for  the  worlcers  there. 

After  months  of  hard  work  and  intense 
investigation,  the  United  Shipbuilding 
Crafts — a  coordinated  team  including  the 
United  Brotherhood — has  alleged  serious 
safety  and  health  deficiences  at  the  shipyard 
and  forced  action  by  the  federal  Occupa- 
tional Safety  and  Health  Administration  and 
plant  management.  Securing  copies  of  the 
company's  OSHA  200  logs  for  the  years 
1982  through  1986,  the  craft  unions  accused 
General  Dynamics  of  falsifying  OSHA  rec- 
ords and  maintaining  a  hazardous  and  un- 
sanitary workplace.  As  a  result,  the  company 
now  faces  fines  totaling  $6 1 5 ,000.  The  federal 
agency  alleges  that  the  company  failed  to 
record  many  injuries  among  the  shipyard 


workers,  as  required  by  law. 

According  to  the  United  Shipbuilding 
Crafts,  the  company  has,  as  a  result  of  the 
investigation,  '"spent  more  time  and  money 
cleaning  up  their  workplace  than  ever  before 
in  the  13-year  history  of  the  facility."  Non- 
union and  union  workers  have  benefited. 

The  UBC  and  other  shipbuilding  unions 
have  been  conducting  organizing  campaigns 
at  Quonset  Point  for  more  than  a  decade. 
Campaigns  were  conducted  and  elections 
held  in  1978,  1980,  and  1982.  With  more  than 
3,000  workers  eligible  for  union  membership. 
Electric  Boat,  which  builds  nuclear  subma- 
rines, is  considered  the  largest  non-union 
facility  in  the  industry.  The  company  is 
reported  to  use  "professional  union  busters" 
and  to  have  conducted  unfair  labor  practices 
in  its  dealings  with  employees. 


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Immigration  Law 

Continued  from  Page  30 

2.  Do  not  agree  to  be  the  employer's  agent  for  completing  the  Form 
1-9.  The  union  may  become  liable  for  illegal  actions  by  an 
employer  with  respect  to  the  new  immigration  law  if  you  accept 
responsibility  for  completing  the  1-9  form. 

Note  that  the  law  does  not  require  union  hiring  halls  to  do  their 
own  document  checks  and  1-9  Forms.  It  is  permissible  to  make  a 
voluntary  written  agreement  for  the  contractual  hiring  hall  to  do 
the  1-9  Forms,  but  this  should  be  carefully  and  fully  considered 
from  a  legal  and  practical  standpoint  before  the  union  enters  into 
any  such  arrangement.  If  you  choose  not  to  take  on  this  function, 
you  can  simply  make  efforts  to  remind  dispatched  employees  to 
bring  adequate  work  documentation  with  them. 

3.  Call  the  General  Office  Legal  Department  if  you  have  any 
questions  on  the  new  immigration  law. 

Fight  Illiteracy 

Continued  from  Page  15 

disturbed  adolescents'  reading  levels  up  by  one  to  tvi'o  years  within 
a  three  to  five-month  period.  A  Flushing,  N.Y.,  elementary  school 
principal  said  the  St.  John's  tutors  produced  "dramatic  improve- 
ment" in  reading  skills. 

The  U.S.  government  now  spends  about  $106  million  a  year  on 
literacy  programs,  which  reach  only  an  estimated  4  percent  of  those 
who  need  help.  According  to  the  National  Advisory  Council  on 
Adult  Education,  some  $5  billion  would  be  required  to  eradicate 
illiteracy  using  these  current  programs. 

For  those  who  automatically  reject  the  thought  of  a  new  govern- 
ment program  because  of  the  worries  over  the  federal  deficit,  the 
Literacy  Corps  should  make  them  happy.  Program  costs  are  esti- 
mated at  $20  million  for  two  years  to  launch  the  program  at  hundreds 
of  colleges.  After  that,  the  programs  are  expected  to  become  self- 
sufficient. 

In  addition,  the  Senate  Labor  Committee  estimates  that  the  60 
hours  of  tutoring  per  semester  provided  by  an  estimated  130,000 
undergraduates  expected  to  enroll  in  courses  at  an  estimated  800 
colleges  would  yield  nearly  eight  million  hours  of  tutoring  over  a 
two-year  period.  With  tutoring  valued  at  $20  an  hour,  that  is  $160 
million,  or  eight  times,  the  investment  returned  to  the  government. 

Used  in  conjunction  with  basic  reforms  in  the  nation's  educational 
system  and  expanded  job  training  efforts,  the  Literacy  Corps  may 
be  the  best  idea  to  fight  illiteracy  in  a  long  time. 


Workers  Win  at  Razorback 

Continued  from  page  22 

The  general  counsel  and  the  UBC  began  preparing  for  a  long 
hearing  on  the  complaint.  Twenty-five  witnesses  for  the  union 
were  ready  to  testify.  Three  weeks  before  the  hearing  the  NLRB 
attorney  in  charge  of  the  case  offered  the  company  a  chance  to 
settle.  Faced  with  the  aggressive  determination  by  UBC  organizers 
to  fight  for  the  representation  rights  Razorback  employees  needed, 
the  company  officials  offered  to  settle.  They  knew  the  UBC  was 
not  about  to  give  up. 

Razorback  agreed  in  mid- July  1987  to  recognize  and  bargain 
with  the  UBC.  The  determination  and  hard  work  of  union  sup- 
porters at  Razorback  and  UBC  organizers  paid  off.  Now  we  will 
begin  fighting  to  improve  the  working  lives  of  Razorback  employees 
by  negotiating  for  a  first  union  contract. 


You  Have  a  Right  to  Records 

You  have  a  right  to  examine  any  federal  records  that  can  be 
retrieved  by  your  name  or  some  other  identifier,  such  as  a  social 
security  number,  under  the  Federal  Freedom  of  Information  Act 
and  the  Privacy  Act  of  1974.  You  have  a  right  to  dispute  information 
in  the  file,  and,  if  a  reviewing  official  refuses  to  change  it,  you 
have  a  right  to  submit  a  statement  with  your  viewpoint.  The 
Federal  Fair  Credit  Reporting  Act  allows  you  to  check,  challenge 
and  comment  on  files  maintained  on  you  by  credit  bureaus. 


Bridgeport  Contributors 


Continued  from  Page  10 

UBC  No.  30  Retirees  Club 

Guy  D.  Adams 

Donn  Berlin 

Alice  Blinzley 

Ronald  C.  Bean 

Ralph  Caputo 

Wilma  Clark 

Ronald  A.  Croci 

Joseph  Elko 

William  Englert 

Nicholas  A.  Ercoline,  Jr. 

Marc  J.  Furman 

Otto  Gregory 

William  Hamilton 

Neil  Hapworth 

Walter  Harris 

E.  Louis  Heath 

H.  Paul  Johnson 

Howard  E.  Jones 

Tom  King 

Linda  C.  Kurtz 

Tom  Brady  Leighton 

Edward  A.  Levangie 


Vito  A.  Licata 
Frank  G.  Lindtner 
Henry  E.  Lowell 
Channiiig  K.  Marshall 
J.  Kenneth  Miller 
Paul  J.  Monroe 
Philip  M.  Murphy 
Zoltan  Papp 
John  W.  Partridge 
Henry  C.  Peery 
Eugene  Perego 
Irene  H.  Qurazzo 
Burkes  Reed 
William  Sidell 
Gene  Slater 
Robert  B.  Smith 
Ralph  Snellen 
Dean  Sooter 
William  A.  Sopko 
Andrew  M.  Stoltz 
Guy  Stringer 
Arthur  R.  Sullivan 
Jack  Zinick 


CLIC  Needs  Your  Support 

The  Carpenters  Legislative  Improvement  Comrhittee,  the 
United  Brotherhood' s  hard-working  political  action  group,  seeks 
your  support  in  the  months  ahead,  as  it  gears  up  for  the  coming 
political  year.  Every  day  that  the  U.S.  Congress  is  in  session, 
CLIC  is  presenting  your  case  regarding  labor  and  consumer  legis- 
lation. It  also  works  on  your  behalf  among  the  federal  agencies. 
CLIC  uges  your  continued  support  in  1987-88. 

These  are  among  the  recent  contributors  to  CLIC:  Joseph  May, 
Local  1590,  Vineland,  N.J.:  Charles  H.  Austin,  Yucalpa,  Calif., 
retired  millwright:  Clinton  W.  Brink,  Local  1281,  Nikiski,  Alaska; 
Giles  Frank  Ackerman,  Wanaque,  N.J.,  retired  carpenter;  John 
Skrabut,  Sewickley,  Pa.,  retired  carpenter;  G.F.  Woodsmall,  El- 
lis, Kans.,  retired  carpenter;  and  Harry  McNay,  Whittier,  Calif, 
Local  1507. 


Yes,  I  want  to  help! 

Here  is  my  contribution  to  tlie  Carpenters  Legislative 
improvement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 
counts. 

D  $10  n  $15  D  $20  n  $25  n  other 

Name _^ 

Address 

City 

Zip 


-State. 


LU.  No. 


We're  required  by  law  to  request  this  information: 

Occupation 

Employer . 

l\/lal<e  checks  payable  to: 

CLIC 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  DC  20001 

Contributions  Ut  CLIC  are  voluntary  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  reftise  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contributions  from  persons  other  than  UBC 
members  and  their  immediate  families.  Contributions  from  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


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Englewood,  Colo.— Picture  No.  1 


Englewood,  Colo.— Picture  No.  2 


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Englewood,  Colo. — Picture  No.  5 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who   recently   received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


Englewood,  Colo. — Picture  No.  6 


Englewood,  Colo. — Picture  No.  3 


ENGLEWOOD,  COLO. 

Local  1583  recently  held  a  recognition 
luncheon  at  the  Applewood  Inn  to  present 
service  pins  to  senior  members. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  25-year  pin  recipients. 
Seated  are  John  Montyk,  Robert  Henderson, 
Richard  Hartley  and  Jean  Buell. 

Back  row:  Hans  Stocker,  Donald  Ranum, 
Leiand  Scott,  Donald  King,  Morris  Greene, 
Georges  Jean,  Robert  Hackbarth  and  Paul  Fobs. 

Not  pictured  but  receiving  pins;  Albert  Filley, 
Carl  Gott,  Jess  Green,  James  Heibel,  Otto 
Priller,  Edmund  Steinagle,  Eugene  Motnyk  and 
John  Ramirez. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  in  the  front  Marcus 
Scheuer,  Waldo  Woodside,  George  Nude  and 
Gerald  Ballenski. 

In  the  back:  Christ  Schmalz,  Mathias 
Klingler,  John  Sample,  Otto  Scheid,  George 
Dietz,  Donald  Brones  and  Artie  Clufif.  Not 
present  were  Keith  Gushing,  Henry  Godina, 
Donald  Green,  Arnold  Kautz,  Nathan  Kerico, 
William  Wilson,  Herman  Lindahl,  Gerald 


Englewood,  Colo. — Picture  No.  4 


Imwalle  and  Hobert  Cobb.  These  members 
received  pins  for  30-years  of  service. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  35-year  members.  In 
the  front  are  John  Warner,  Walter  Sider, 
Francis  Greco,  Gilbert  demons  and  Man/in 
Haerr. 

Back  row  left  are  Carl  Johnson,  Clarence 
Bushwald,  Ed  Harritt,  Adolph  Boecher,  Ed 
Henley,  Joseph  Vuksinich,  Salvador  Arambula 
and  Mirum  Legg.  Not  pictured  were  Woodrow 
Eggers,  Harold  Finsrud,  Virgil  Lohoff,  George 
Mitchem,  Charles  Probst,  Walter  Rutzen  and 
Frank  Taylor. 

Picture  No.  4  are  recipients  of  40-year 
membership  pins.  In  the  front:  Walter  Wilson, 
Fred  Ruble,  Delbert  Shockey  and  Ralph 
Leensvaart. 

Pictured  from  left,  back  row:  Wolfe  Popp, 
Marvin  Nitengale,  Steward  Moore,  W.A. 
Homrighausen  and  Forrest  Huff. 

Receiving  40  year  pins  but  not  present  were 


Hubert  Bauer,  Anthony  Blanch,  Robert 
Chamberlain,  Harold  Cochran,  Robert  Crogan, 
Henry  Dierks,  Glen  Evans,  Doyle  Green,  Carl 
Ishmael  and  Perry  Sethaler. 

Picture  No.  5.  Four  members  were  present 
to  receive  their  45-year  service  pins.  They 
included  Richard  Markwood,  Earl  Celmer,  Fred 
Roesch  and  Richard  Martinez.  Those  not 
present  were  Daniel  Conner,  Robert  Lamping 
and  Cruz  Romero. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  members  who  were 
awarded  50  and  55-year  sen/ice  pins.  Seated 
are:  August  Lager  and  Francis  Becker,  50-year 
members;  and  Herman  Thedan  and  James 
Blanch,  55-year  members. 

Back  row:  Edward  A.  Rylands,  financial 
secretary  and  business  representative;  Theodore 
C.  Sanford  Jr.,  president,  Colorado  Centennial 
District  Council;  Charles  A.  Schmucker, 
president.  Not  present  were  Bryan  Thompson, 
50-year  member;  and  Andrew  Ribar,  55-year 
member. 


SEPTEMBER     1987 


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TACOMA,  WASI4. 

Lumber  and  Sawmill  Workers  Local  2633 
recently  held  a  special  pin  presentation  for  50- 
year  members.  Robert  W'estbrook  made  the 
presentations  and  Gent3rai  Executive  Board 
Member  H.  Paul  Johnson  was  on  hand  to 
explain  some  of  the  special  benefits  of  50-year 
membership  to  tiie  gold  card  holders. 

Picture  Uo.  l— 50-year  member  George  Bush, 

Picture  No.  2  shows  50-year  member 
Kenneth  Hunt, 

Psciure  No.  3  shows  50-year  member 
Cla'/ton  Kimball. 

Picture  No.  4 — 50-year  member  Fred  Larson. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  50-year  member 
Richard  Pittman. 

Picture  No.  6 — 50-year  member  John  Tallk. 

Picture  No.  7  shows  50-year  member  George 
Walesth. 

Not  pictured  were  50-year  members  Alfred 
Anderson,  Chester  Gordon  and  George  Tibbitts. 


Picture  No.  1 


Picture  No.  2 


Picture  No.  3 


Picture  No.  4 


Tacoma, 
Wash. 


Picture  No.  5 


Picture  No.  6 


Picture  No.  7 


Mountain  View,  Calif.— Picture  No.  1 


Mountain  View,  Calif.— Picture  No.  3 


Hayward,  Calif. 


Mountain  View,  Calif. — Picture  No.  2 


MOUNTAIN  VIEW,  CALIF. 

Local  1280  recently  held  a  pin  presentation 
party  honoring  their  members  with  25  to  50 
years  of  service.  Their  auxiliary  prepared  the 
luncheon  for  the  presentation. 

Picture  No.  1 ,  seated  are:  Skip  Landry, 
executive  secretary,  Santa  Clara  Valley  District 
Council;  Anthony  Ramos,  retired  executive 
secretary,  California  State  Council;  Larry  Bee, 
president;  and  Bob  t^annah,  executive 
secretary,  California  State  Council. 

Standing  from  left  are  Jerry  Hoopes,  warden; 
Elmer  Jackson,  trustee;  Kenneth  Dilling, 
trustee;  Gary  Pruitf,,  recording  secretary;  Lew 
Walker,  financial  secretary/business  agent;  Tom 


Pearl,  conductor;  Bill  Evans,  vice  president. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  those  members 
receiving  25  and  50-year  pins.  Seated  are  50- 
year  member  Richard  Dulleck,  Henry  Stender, 
Lloyd  Stenberg,  Floyd  London,  and  50-year 
member  Gustav  Anger. 

Standing  from  left:  J.D.  Brown,  Joe  Bulash, 
Don  Bacich,  Fred  Schwarz  (receiving  50-year 
pin  for  his  father),  Ralph  Hern,  William  Chaney, 
Carl  Hecker  and  Alvin  Easterbrooks. 

Picture  No.  3.  Local  1280's  Auxiliary,  seated 
are  Norma  Allen,  Dianne  Pearl,  Sandy  Hoopes 
and  Linda  Glendenning. 

Standing,  Darlene  Evans,  Helen  Suito,  Toni 
Walker,  Beverly  Dilling  and  Sherry  Pruitt. 


HAYWARD,  CALIF. 

Local  1622  recently  awarded  some  of  its 
members  with  lifetime  membership.  Pictured 
are  Chris  Rong,  IVIario  "Rocky"  Saracco  and 
IVIathew  H.  Baldwin.  Others  who  received  their 
lifetime  membership  cards  for  50  years  and 
more  of  service  to  the  Brotherhood  are  Bernard 
Eatherton,  Raymond  Mithchell,  John  L. 
Morgan,  Joe  Paulson,  Elwood  B.  Peterson  and 
Everett  Carpenter. 


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The  following  list  of  733  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,344,620.37  death  claims  paid  in  June  1987;  (s)  following 
name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members 


Local  Union.  City 

5    St.  Louis,  MO— Peter  Singer. 

7     Minneapolis,  MN — Arthur  Von  Busch,  Frank  Vliem, 

Harold  Dahlen.  Lage  P.  Hagstrom.  Vivian  Lorraine 

Stitz  (s).  Wendell  Johnson. 

11  Cleveland,  OH— William  Ocie  Price. 

12  Syracuse,  NY — Floyd  E.  Layow.  Marshall  Harris. 

13  Chicago,  IL — Ellen  Mary  Kearney  (s).  Margaret 
Rose  Whitney  (s). 

14  SanAntonio,TX— Carl  D.Hale.  Edward  Christopher 
Fell.  Elva  Lorraine  Wang  (s).  Nonato  R.  Medina. 

15  Hackensack,  NJ — Beatrice  Clark  (s).  Matthew  Talmo, 
Trygve  Beck. 

17  Bronx,  N.Y. — Arvid  Lind.  Frank  Santospirilo,  John 
S.  Jorgensen,  Julius  Kossowsky. 

18  Hamilton.  Ont.,  CAN— Charles  Alphonse  Decoste. 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Adeline  E.  White  (s),  Alan  A. 
Murdock.  Bennett  F.  Pace,  Clifford  Lindquist,  David 
Nicholas,  Eugene  Williams,  Geraldine  Lagomarsino 
(s),  Mary  C.  Barrett  (s). 

23  Williamsport,  PA— Arthur  S.  Graybill.  Clayton  B. 
Brosius. 

24  Central,  CT— Anthony  Rinaldi,  Henry  Keller,  James 
Hunter.  John  R.  Hughes.  Raoul  Ouellette. 

27  Toronto,  Ont.  CAN— MervynC.  Coert.  Oke  W.  Blom- 
quist.  Rita  Vanclieaf  (s),  Walter  Ireland. 

28  Missoula,  MT— Edward  D.  Harris. 

33  Boston,  MA — Antonio  Regazzini,  Cornelius  James 
O'Connell.  Domenic  Dortona.  George  H.  Pincince, 
Gertrude  Thomas  (s),  Harold  C.  Johnston,  John  M. 
W.  Schramm,  Joseph  V.  Casamassa.  Rene  J.  Courte- 
manche. 

34  Oakland,  CA— Samuel  N.  Piezzi. 

35  San  Rafael,  CA— Wilfred  E.  Imeson. 

36  Oakland,  CA — Howard  H.  Harris,  John  E.  Fisher. 

40  Boston,  MA — Ebonne  Hokanson  (s).  James  Curran, 
Maria  L.  Moreau  (s).  Milton  J.  Himmelman. 

41  Woburn,  MA— Ruth  E.  Poole  (s). 

42  San  Francisco,  CA — Edward  J.  Scanlon,  Eva  Pearl 
Mohr  (s),  Marion  Srdoc,  Robert  G.  Moldovan. 

43  Hartford,  CT— George  H.  Finney. 

44  Champaign  &  Urbana  IL — JoellenM.  Stanik,  Muriel 
Hill  (s). 

47  St.  Louis,  MO — Charles  Harrison  Fenton,  Leo  M. 
Horion,  Opal  M.  Hodge  (s). 

48  Fitchburg,  MA~-Kenneth  Valiton. 

49  Lowell,  MA — James  E.  Scanlon. 

50  Knoxville,  TN— Robert  B.  Dickerson. 

54  Chicago,  II^Elizabeth  Schalk  (s). 

55  Denver,  CO — Clarence  Hendershot,  Henry  Dorn, 
Hilton  P.  Grady. 

56  Boston,  MA— Maurine  C.  Crafts  (s). 

58  Chicago,  IL — Aslaug  K.  Amundsen  (s).  Axel  Gunnar 
Israelson,  Carl  H.  Wesllund,  Emil  K.  Henrikson. 
Lawrence  R.  Potts  Jr. 

60  Indianapolis,  IN— Cari  F.  Lloyd.  Denzil  B.  Smith, 
Gus  W.  Schoenewey. 

61  Kansas  City,  MO — Alois  J.  Maier,  Charles  Van 
Collins.  Faye  L.  Pointer  (s).  Homer  Glenn  Glasgow, 
Thomas  L.  Mallard. 

63  Bloomington,  IL — Clifford  E.  Peasley. 

64  Louisville,  KY— Carrol  G.  Pence. 

66  Glean,  N.Y.— Henry  Gottschalk.  Lambert  W.  Er- 
ickson 

73  St.  Louis,  MO— Otto  H.  Hoefelmann. 

74  Chattanooga,  TN— Phillip  R.  Panter. 

76  Hazelton,  PA — Emily  Murphy  (s),  John  Makarovich. 

77  Port  Chester,  NY— John  P.  Welmore.  Vincenzo 
Santoro. 

80  Chicago,  IL — Bennie  J.  Eppson,  David  D.  Wales, 
Donald  E.  Stollcr,  Ernest  T.  Lifonti,  Myron  J.  Coe. 
Oluf  Skogen,  Otto  Dahlquist. 

85  Rochester,  N.Y.— Donald  F.  Mitchell.  Lily  Giunta 
(s),  Robert  P.  Nagel,  Roy  W.  Coyer. 

87  St.  Paul,  MN— Carl  R.  Johnson,  George  Dreis. 
Leonard  Finwall,  Merle  Adair  Doe  (s),  Trygve 
Korsvold. 

90     Evansville,  IN— John  Yeida 

94  Providence,  RI — Adelard  Lupien,  Arthur  Dallaire, 
Gladys  Terranova  (s),  Joseph  Correa,  Samuel  Free- 
man Treacy. 

98  Spokane,  WA— Ben  E.  Newton,  Cecil  F.  Mc- 
Cracken. 

101  Baltimore,  MD — Edward  Novarine,  Jefferson  A. 
Klein,  John  O.  Butts,  Kenneth  W.  Snyder. 

102  Oakland,  CA— Albert  R.  Grissom,  Odie  C.  Lewal- 
len. 

105  Cleveland,  OH— Frank  W.  Desico.  Peter  F.  Buccilli. 

106  Des  Moines,  lA — Niels  Jensen. 

107  Worcester,  MA — Adam  Raymond  Darit.  Frank  P. 
Brasiskis. 

108  Springfield,  MA— Philidor  J.  Lemay. 

110  St.  Joseph,  MO— Casimir  A.  Tucker.  Cleo  R.  Wil- 
liams. Hans  N.  Yunker,  Norma  L.  Compton  (s) 

111  Lawrence,  MA — Virginia  M.  Moon  (s). 

113  Middletown,  OH— J,  M.  Parker.  L.  Brack  Amyx. 

114  East  Deteroit,  MI— Adolph  Lada,  Avery  T.  Adams, 
Edwm  Hellslrom.  Mary  Alice  Yelencich  (s),  Peter 
Monchak. 

115  Miami,  FL — Dorothy  P.  Pannier  (s),  J.  L.  Ivey. 
118     Detroit,  MI — Agnes  Dorothy  Burin  (s),  Anton  Hagel. 

Bernard  J.  Andrews.  Claud  C.  Fink,  Daniel  Kula- 
kowski.  Robert  A.  Olhsson,  Winston  A.  Stevenson. 

120  Utica,  NY— Cecil  B.  Grinnell,  William  B.  Nacewicz. 

121  Vineland,  NJ — Beatrice  L.  Johnson  (s),  Lillian  Y. 
Langley  (s). 


Local  Union,  City 

123  Broward-County,  FL — Edward  Sparks. 

124  Passaic,  NJ— Renato  Belli 

125  Miami,  Fl^^Ernest  Z.  Eubanks,  James  L.  Ferguson, 
Peter  Lucarelli. 

127  Birmingham,  AL — Gamzie  Norris,  Margie  Dell  Hig- 
gins  Blackwell  (s),  Willie  B.  Vernon. 

128  St.  Albans,  WV— Dillard  B.  Jividen. 

130  Palm  Beach,  FL — Cari  E.  Eunice,  John  C.  Munsey, 
Vincent  Reynolds. 

131  Seattle,  WA — Andrew  Bohlin,  Anton  J.  Losse.  Grace 
M.  Easton  (s).  James  O.  Bell,  John  David  Fesia  Sr., 
Leonard  B.  Tweten,  Loren  H.  Fitch,  Rocko  Bass 
Ford  ham 

132  Washington,  DC — Frances  Love  (s),  Joseph  N. 
Groomes. 

133  Terre  Haute,  IN — Dorothy  E.  Herrington  (s).  Ernest 
K.  Demougin 

135     New  York,  NY— Peter  Segatti. 
140    Tampa,  FL — John  T.  Almon.  Sr. 
142    Pittsburgh,  PA— George  F.  Smith. 
165    Pittsburg,  PA — Frank  Deluca,  Guido  F.  Clemente. 
168    Kansas  City,  KS— Charies  M.  Thorla. 
171     Youngstown,  OH — Clayton  J.  Scheetz,  Michael  Bo- 
sela. 

180  Vallejo,  CA— Ellington  Owensby. 

181  Chicago,  IL — Alex  F.  Figura,  Ove  Westerberg. 

182  Cleveland,  OH— Joseph  M.  Pavlick.  Michael  Kar- 
pinecz,  Michael  Lutz. 

183  Peoria,  IL — Aaron  F.  Rowell,  E.  John  Richardson. 

184  Salt  Lake  City.  UT— Gwen  B.  Long  (s),  Joseph  W. 
Bordeion  Sr.,  Remund  L.  Anderson. 

185  St.  Louis,  MO— Margaret  R.  Calkins  (s). 
188     Yonkers,  NY— Kuno  Hanson. 

191     York,  PA — Evelyn  Frey  (s),  Nancy  A.  Moore  (s). 

199  Chicago.  ll^John  R.  Hedlund.  Winfield  Bradley 
Dodge. 

200  Columbus,  OH— Orville  Fletcher. 

201  Wichita.  KS~Alma  Trotter  (s).  Cari  C.  Stramel, 
Chariey  A.  Morgan,  Darrell  D.  Rhoades,  John  B. 
Wilkerson,  John  Wesley  Trotter. 

210  Stamford,  CT— Harry  Masilotti. 

211  Pittsburgh,  PA~Louis  A.  Schmitz,  Valentine  J. 
Kantz,  William  A.  Rozum. 

225  Atlanta,  GA— Alberi  H.  Tailenl,  Hazel  Ida  Merritt 
(s),  Robert  Chariie  Bettis,  Winnie  Grace  Willard  (s). 

230  Pittsburgh,  PA.— Anthony  V.  Brusca,  Robert  E. 
Komula. 

232    Fort  Wayne,  IN — Lawrence  K.  Bauer. 

235     Riverside,  CA — Sterling  Fischer. 

246  New  York,  NY— Carl  Pfeiffer. 

247  Portland,  OR — Archie  Atwood,  Sylvester  Vetsch. 

248  Toledo,  OH— Leonard  K.  Ruse. 

250    Waukegan.  H^Helen  O.  Zahnle  (s). 
254    Cleveland,  OH— John  Hamilton. 

256  Savannah,  GA — Curtis  F.  Vaughn,  Eddie  G.  Morris, 
Tarver  Lee  Crapps. 

257  New  York,  NY — Amelio  Franch.  Paul  Endrizzi. 
262    San  Jose,  CA — Mathias  Boesinger. 

264    Milwaukee,  WI — Bennie  J.  Schiefert. 

269    Danville,  II^Edna  P.  Kilby  (s). 

275  Newton,  MA — Edward  G.  Vachon,  John  D. 
MacLeod,  William  Dyson  Proctor. 

283  Augusta,  GA— Carey  L.  Walker,  Clarence  W.  Ax- 
ton. 

287  Harrisburg,  PA— G.  William  Gerber,  Paul  T.  Blev- 
ins. 

295  Collinsville.  H^Hulen  Black,  Willis  L.  Jackson. 

296  Brooklyn,  NY — Anna  Slaff  (s),  Harry  Marcus,  Levin 
Hike. 

297  Kalamazzo,  MI— Duane  H.  Eckler. 

313    Pullman,  WA — Edwin  Olson,  Laverne  Hendrix. 

316  San  Jose,  CA — Lloyd  H.  Hartman,  Ralph  Steiner, 
Raymond  P.  Jones,  Rose  Marie  Hembree  (s). 

317  Aberdeen,  W A— George  R.  Smith,  Walter  J.  Borek. 
319    Roanoke,  VA— Alberi  Jefferson  Statzer,  Joseph  R. 

Anderson. 
338    Seattle,  WA— Harry  Fowler. 
340     Hagerstown,  MD — William  B.  Wolfensberger. 

342  Pawtucket,  Rl — Joseph  A.  Turenne,  Onesiphore  Pe- 
pin. 

343  Winnipeg,  Mani.  CAN — Matti  Ilmari  Tofferi,  Samuel 
Crawford  McWilliam.  William  Welsh. 

344  Waukesha,  WI — Gerald  Swan.  Harry  W.  Meiden- 
bauer,  Herbert  J.  Bergman.  Martin  Adams.  Penny 
Q.  Kissinger  (s). 

345  Memphis,  TN — Charles  C.  Cook  Jr. 

348    New  York,  NY— Mario  Maceroni,  Peter  Shaynak. 

350    New  Rochcllc,  NY— John  Gibson. 

359    Philadelphia.  PA— Charles  H.   Pryor.   Maximilian 

Braun, 
370    Albany,  NY— Beulah  Elaine  Hojohn  (s),  Paul  E. 

Harris  Sr. 
372    Lima.  OH — Chalmer  Thurman  Baker. 
374    Buffalo,  NY— Fred  Fredericksen,  Joseph  C.  Birke. 
388    Richmond.  VA— Emil  Zuskin.  Quinton  R.  Wilds. 
393    Camden,  NJ— John  L.  Reed. 
400    Omaha.  NF.— George  W.  Robinson. 
402    Northmptn-Grccnfd,  MA — Lewis  A.  Libby. 
404    Lake  Co..  OH — Joseph  J.  Hanusosky. 
410    Ft.  Madison  &  Vic,  lA— Melvin  R.  Christensen. 
415     Cincinnati.  OH— James  Scott  Cowgill. 
417    St.  Louis,  MO— Raymond  Halbach. 
429    Arlington,  TX— Austin  R.  Haren.  Clyde  J.  Hare, 

Daphne  V.   Henderson  (s),   Don  Harold   Daniel, 

Drewey  Russell,  Millie  Johnson  (s),  Roy  A.  Frank, 


Local  Union.  City 

William  J.  Burkard  Jr. 
434    Chicago,  IL — Carl  Visenti,  Sylvia  Rose  Doody  (s). 
437     Portsmouth,  OH— Bert  McCleese,  Charles  E.  Van- 

derpool,  William  Oatley. 
452     Vancouver,  BC  CAN — Laurie  Selmer,  Meame  Clare 

Milani  (s),  Wendell  Trefry, 

454  Philadelphia,  PA— Herbert  B.  Chamberlain.  Winfred 
C.  Proctor. 

455  Somerville,  NJ— Charies  Wilson  Sr. 
458    Clarksville,  IN— Foster  E.  Dewees  Sr. 

470    Tacoma,  WA — Arthur  Melvin  Syverson,  Billy  A. 

Henn,  Emma  Stojack  (s),  Floyd  B.  Wines,  George 

R.  Hopey,  Harold  Vercoe,  Severt  Gulteig. 
476    Clarksburg,  VA — Frank  S.  Lopez. 
483    San  Francisco,  CA — Everett  V.  Garrison,  Jerome  D. 

Casto. 
493    Mt.  Vernon,  NY — Anna  Delnero  (s),  Cornelius  J. 

Carmody,  Fritz  Johnson. 
502     Port  Arthur,  TX — Alvin  Herman  Gunter,  Asa  T. 

Richardson,  Lawrence  Miller. 
512     Ann  Arbor.  MI~Fred  B.  Collins. 
515    Colo.  Springs,  CO— Sherman  Paul  Waddill. 
518    SisterviUe,  WV— Lena  S.  Webb  (s). 
526    Galveston,   TX— Albert   J.    Rehm   Sr.,    Edward   J. 

Vasut,  Robbie  V.  Klaes  (s). 

531  New  York,  NY — John  Harmaza,  Oliver  Adams. 

532  Elmira,  NY— Fred  J.  McConaghie. 
541     Washington,  PA — Edward  F.  Dopier. 
546    Vincennes,  IN — Orval  E.  Allen. 

549    Owensboro,  KY — John  William  Greenlee. 

551  Houston,  TX— Alfred  Lyonell  Jacob,  Conrad  P. 
Olson,  Ernest  Ray  Rainwater,  George  H.  Brown, 
Roberi  McLeod.  T.  J.  Featherston,  Walter  K.  Dur- 
ham. 

557    Bozeman,  MT — Lavina  E.  Leer  (s). 

562  Everett,  WA— Albert  Ahlquist,  Clarence  B.  Thomp- 
son. 

563  Glendale,  CA— Anitra  V.  Fiztherbert  (s).  Cleo  O. 
Beatty. 

569  Pascagoula,  MI — James  P.  Starks  Sr. 
576  Pine  Bluff,  AR— Homer  M.  Morgan, 
586    Sacramento,  CA — Chester  A.  Stigall,  Clarence  M. 

West,  Henry  Eisner  Jr..  Randall  W.  Kelley.  William 

Mah. 
596    St.  Paul.  MN— Beulah  Josephine  Stafford  (s). 

599  Hammond,  IN— Knute  B.  Nystrome,  Mildred  N. 
Lail  (s). 

600  Lehigh  Valley,  PA— Odillen  1.  Frantz.  Thomas  D. 
Douglas. 

603  Ithaca.  NY— Burt  Hammond  Garatt,  Carl  William 
Savon. 

604  Morgantown.  WV — Dana  R.  Martin. 

608    New  York.  NY— Fay  Kopan  (s),  Patrick  J.  Duffy, 

William  Engler. 
613     Hampton  Roads,  VA — Maijorie  Virginia  Adams  Smith 

(s). 
622    Waco,  TX— Joseph  Claborn  Hurst. 
627    Jacksonville.  FI^Robert  L.  Clark. 
639    Akron,  OH— Eddie  Blackwell. 
642     Richmond,  CA — Argus  E.  Gates,  Thomas  C.  Tackett 

Sr. 
644    Pekin,  ID-Wendell  L.  Dalbey. 
665    Amarillo,  TX — Thurmond  E.  Keever. 
668    Palo  Alto.  CA— Cloyd  B.  Rimington,  Homer  L. 

Giles,  John  L.  Brandt. 
675    Toronto,  Ont.  CAN— Onorio  Dandrea. 
678    Dubuque.  lA— Arnold  H.  Helmrich. 
690    Little  Rock,  AR— James  A.  Bain,  Kern  B.  Kellow. 
693    Lodi,  WI— Albert  W.  Ripley, 
698    Covington,  KY— Robert  Shaw. 
701     Fresno,  CA— Ernest  A.  Helm. 
703    Lockland,  OH— Raymond  P.  Meyer. 
710    Long  Beach,  CA — Edward  Jay  Berg.  Robert  M. 

Tucker. 
715    Elizabeth,  NJ — Herbert  Eckert,  Hyman  Shumsky. 
721     Los  Angeles,  CA— Oriin  E.  Fuller. 
726     Davenport,  lA — Kenneth  Maynard  Jennings. 
731     Manitowac,  WI — Charles  F.  Mrotek. 
735     Mansfield,  OH— Richard  T.  Klupp 
739    Cincinnati,  OH— Frank  J.  Hartmuth  Sr. 

742  Decatur,  Il^Donald  L.  Ray. 

743  Bakersfield,  CA — Franklin  Kyle  Copeland. 

745     Honolulu,  HI — Allen  W.  Mizumoto,  Frances  Mary 

McConoughey  (s).  Kazuo  Masunaga.  Noboru  Saiki, 

Richard  K.  Irie. 
751     Santa  Rosa,  CA— Lloyd  T.  Young. 
756     Bellingham,  WA — John  Allan  Nefier. 
758     Indianapolis,  IN — Charles  V.  Moore. 
764    Shreveport,  LA — Kelly  T.  Gray,  William  Garland 

Liles. 
770     Yakima,  WA— Lester  V.  Filer. 
780     Astoria,  OR — Andrew  Semmen. 
792     Rockford.  ll^Steven  Denekas, 
824     Muskegon.  Ml — Wayne  Saxton. 
829    Santa  Cruz,  CA — Norma  Leah  Stone  (s). 
839    Des  Plains,  H^Edward  H.  Tonne.  Myrtle  Baker 

(s).  Wilfred  E.  Donlea. 
857    Tucson.  AZ— Edgar  R.  Wightman,  Sr. 
865     Brunswick,  GA — Tom  Hersey. 
871     Battle  Creek.  Ml— Lilly  E.  Weishar  (s). 
873    Cincinnati.  OH— Charles  Carringer,  Harold  R.  Scott. 
891     Hot  Springs,  AR — Andrew  J.  Sears,  Duey  E.  Breck- 

enridge.  John  Marvin  Cooper. 

902  Brooklyn  NY — Conrad  Mayer,  Oskar  Karlsen. 

903  Valdosta,  GA— Oscar  Louis  Webb. 


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Jacksonville,  IL — George  Campbell. 
Manhattan,  KS— Henry  R.  Auld. 
Salinas  CA — Dewey  Usrey. 

Los  Angeles,  CA — Alice  I'lorence  Martin  (s),  Ralph 
Renner,  Thomas  Bunce,  William  A.  Mayo. 
Jefferson  City,  MO — Edward  G.  Criger. 
Sioux  City,  lA — Arthur  J.  Schmidt. 
Lake  Charles,  LA — Delford  Preston  Deason,  Henry 
Cryer,  Shirley  Barger  (s). 
Appleton,  WI— Caroline  Slilp  Bodway  (s). 
Rockland  Co.,  NY— Anhur  H.  Babcock. 
Reno,  NV— Stanley  R.  Pukajlo. 
Wichita  Falls,  TX— Paul  C.  Kinsey,  Sr. 
SpringBeld,  MO— R.  Ernest  Melton. 
Petaluma,  CA — Roy  B.  Johnson. 
N.  Bend  Coos  Bay,  OR— Albert  W.  Prefontaine. 
Joseph  W,  ONeal. 
Knoxville,  TN — John  T.  Demarcus. 
Mcrrillvilic,  IN— Fred  D.  Allis. 
Chicago,  IL — William  Cooper. 
Muskegon,  MI — Jerry  Pulsipher. 
Eureka,  CA — George  Samuel  Heyne,  Mary  Alice 
Branham  (s).  William  Hiscox,  Sr. 
Hollywood,  CA— Ethyl  Marshall  (s),  George  Zack, 
John  A.  Wickland.  Raymond  S.  Fairbanks. 
Milwaukee,  WI — Sigurd  L.  Melander,  Uwe  P.  Chris- 
tiansen, Walter  F.  Schroeder. 
Santa  Barbara,  CA — Finer  L.  Jensen,  George  W. 
Owens. 

Fredericksburg,  VA — John  R.  Crismond,  Sr. 
Sleubenville,  OH— Martin  Emmett  Hukill.  Jr. 
Phoenix,  AZ — Ernest  K.  Walkup.  Ernest  Grunwald, 
Ernest  Lee  Gailey,  Henry  Schoof,  Opal  F.  Oldsen 
(s),  Paul  R.  Tschoepe,  William  Rosepiler. 
Glencove,  NY — Felix  Toton,  William  J.  Duncan.  Sr. 
Baton  Rouge,  LA — Beatrice  C.  Pace  (s).  Dewey 
Joseph  Breaux,  Richard  K.  Love. 
Flagstaff,  AZ— Floyd  Carrillo. 
Detroit,  MI — Delton  Davis,  J.  W.  Pound,  Marian 
Colley  (s). 

Tyler,  TX— Julian  Bryan  Haynes,  OIlie  Vay  Smith 
(si. 

Cleveland,  OH— Casper  Schmidt. 
Portland,  OR — Laveme  R.  Fagan,  Virgil  Roberts. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — John  F.  Finch. 
Annapolis,  MD — Einar  A.  Johnson. 
Kettle  Falls,  WA— Virgil  Simons. 
Toledo,  OH— Charles  E.  Evert. 
San  Pedro,  CA — Albert  P.  Freeman.  Archie  Pater- 
son,  Jeanette  Myrtle  Freeman  (s). 
Green  Bay,  WI — Cecilia  Matzke  (s). 
Pittsburgh,  PA — Raymond  Davidson. 
New  York,  NY — Joseph  Henneberger. 
Seattle,  WA — James  T.  Johnson. 
Charleston,  WV — Gentry  A.  Thompson. 
Mesa,  AZ^Sidney  Newton  Lawrence,  Theresa  M. 
Konopka  (s). 

Medford,  NY— Albert  K.  Jalonen,  Daniel  Detelj, 
James  V.  Talbot. 

Ironwood,  Ml — Emil  Solomon  Lahti. 
Modesto,  CA — George  A.  Miller. 
Dawson  Crk,  BC  CAN— Guenter  Oestreich. 
Oroville,  CA— Curtis  W.  Rathbone. 
Columbus,  OH — Jasper  T.  Provens. 
Fairbanks  AK — Dana  R.  Ford. 
Carlsbad,  NM — Jay  Whisenhunt.  Terry  Julius  Walker. 
N.  Westmnstr,  BC  CAN— Robert  Makowski. 
Sarnia,  Ont.  CAN — John  Davis. 
Mountain  View,  CA — Wanda  June  Gio  (s). 
Anchorage,  AK — Thomas  Neil  Robison. 
Albuquerque,  NM — Gilbert  P.  Sanchez. 
San  Diego,  CA — Cornelia  Hale  (s),  Jack  R.  Gilmore, 
Le  Roy  Bonham,  Marion  Peter  Ciborowski. 
Covington,  KY — Jack  B.  Howard. 
San  Diego,  CA — Eudell  Ida  Jarboe  (s). 
Fall  River,  MA— John  S.  Belliveau,  Joseph  R.  Cas- 
tonguay. 

Evanslon,  IL — August  G.  Meier. 
St.  Louis,  MO — Viola  Joseph  (s). 
Albuquerque,  NM — Ivan  Lewis  Kennedy,  Thomas 
Lucian  Templeton,  Walter  J.  Bolen. 
Edmonton,  Alta.  CAN — Julia  Helfrich  (s).  Michael 
Hricisin. 

Phoenix,  AZ — Wanda  Lorene  Thomason  (s). 
Chrltletwn,  Pel  CAN— Douglas  Blanchard. 
Irvington,  NJ — Domenick  Macri,  Eric  A.  Lindstrom, 
Max  Glass,  Salvatore  Dimartino. 
La  Jolla,  CA — Jens  Christensen. 
Oshkosh,  WI— Christal  L.  Schultz,  Conrad  A.  Dush- 
enski,  Phillip  Lautenschlager. 

Cleveland,  OH — Alberta  P.  Bricker  (s),  Andrew  J. 
Laponza. 

Flint,  Ml — Elwood  Johnson 
Rochester,  MN — Felix  A.  Trzebiatowski. 
Toledo,  OH— Alton  0.  Solomon.  Oliver  D.  Stark. 
Golden,  CO— Leslie  R.  Embry. 
North  Hempstad,  NY— Isabel  Frislid  (s). 
San  Pedro,  CA — Lillian  Bernice  Woolard  (s). 
Redwood  City,  CA — Howard  Carter,  Victor  Nac- 
kord. 

Lodi,  CA — Archer  T.  Martin. 
Johnstown,  PA — Kenneth  R.  Shimer. 
Arlington,  TX— Herbert  R.  Russell. 
Compton,  CA — James  W.  Thomasson. 
Warren,  OH — Simeon  R.  Earich. 
Lansing,  Ml — Lois  Colby  (5). 
Detroit.  MI — Anthony  J.  Kwiatkowski,  Raymond 
Vandewiele,  Vilo  Paladino. 

Huntington  Beach,  CA — Elijah  Harold  Hesterly, 
Herman  Clevenger. 

New  York,  NV — Charles  Andersen,  Edwad  Kil- 
cheski,  James  Patrick  Howlett,  Justus  Bergman, 
Martin  O.  Johnson.  Robert  Charles  Hanken,  Robert 
Young.  Thomas  Costello. 


1478  Redondo,  CA — James  H.  Huckabey,  Lorene  New- 
man (s). 

1489  Burlington,  NJ — Peter  Richard  Bonaccorsi. 

1490  San  Diego,  CA — Lawrence  J.  Bousquet. 

1497  E  Los  Angeles,  CA — Antonio  Grijalva  George  Pan- 
attoni. 

1506  Los  Angeles,  CA — Donald  L.  Tyler,  Josephine  Garcia 
(si. 

1507  El  Monte,  CA— Benjamin  E.  Young,  David  C.  Cum- 
mings.  Otto  Schreiter. 

1521    Algoma,  WI— Cyril  F.  Benes. 

1529    Kansas  City,  KS— Joseph  L.  Christian. 

1536    New  York,  NY— Joseph  Stepka. 

1539    Chicago,  II^Harry  W.  Ehmpke,  Sr. 

1545    Wilmington,  DE — Felix  J.  Gates,  Roy  J.  Musser, 

Thelma  R.  Henry  (s). 
1571    East  San  Diego,  CA— Harry  P.  Nelson. 
1585    Lawton,  OK — Edmond  Glenn  Benton. 
1590    Washington,  DC— Michael  Waselesion. 

1595  Montgomery  County,  PA — Frank  Kapezynski. 

1596  St.  Louis,  MO— Walter  Zdan. 

1612    E.  Millnockt,  ME— Franklin  Hayward  Coffin. 
1622    Hayward,  CA — Emily  E.  Graydon  (s).  Jess  Barrow, 
John  A.  Judy,  William  Otto  Weaver. 

1631  Washington,  DC — Joseph  P.  Thomas. 

1632  S.  Luis  Obispo,  CA— Florence  B.  Allen  (s). 
1635    Kansas  Cily,  MO— Mildred  L.  Roofener(s). 
1644    Minneapolis,  MN — Perry  J.  Bangsund. 
1654    Midland,  MI— George  D.  Allbee. 

1683    El  Dorado,  AR— Charley  Derrell  Brown. 

1707    Kelso  Longvew,  WA — Geraldine  E.  McArdle  (s). 

1715    Vancouver,  WA— Linda  J.  Wright  (s). 

1733    Marshfield,  WI— John  Strohman  Jr.,  Victor  L.  Vakoc. 

1739    Kirkwood,  MO— Robert  L.  Berry. 

1749  Annislon,  AI^— Elmer  C.  Smith,  Gay  Smith. 

1750  Cleveland,  OH— Arcelous  Flagg  Jr. 

1752  Pomona,  CA— Beulah  W.  Coffman  (s),  Walter  C. 
Wessell. 

1775    Columbus,  IN— Lora  M.  Treon. 

1780  Las  Vegas,  NV— Hazel  Schult  (s),  Jess  G.  Nitson, 
John  S.  Mitchell. 

1789  Byou,  CA — John  C.  Larsh,  John  Joseph  Cun- 
ningham. 

1792    Sedalia,  MO— Clifford  Eck. 

1795    Farmington,  MO— Harry  Shell. 

1797  Renton,  WA— Clarence  Carlyle  Freier,  Per  Olof 
Peterson. 

1811     Monroe,  LA — Esther  L.  Embanato  (s). 

1815  Santa  Ana,  CA — Arthur  Henry  Niehaus,  Edith  Aileen 
Netzke  (s). 

1846  New  Orleans,  LA— Arthur  O.  Coleman,  John  W. 
Fatzer,  Ruby  C.  Petitfils  (s). 

1849  Pasco,  WA — Alphonse  Alverise  Hamel,  Granville 
Weisz,  Mark  William  Hanebut,  Mattie  B.  Seybold 
(s),  Orval  L.  Flanagan,  Paul  P.  Betker. 

1856    Philadelphia,  PA— Richard  J.  Sutcliffe. 

1865    Minneapolis,  MN — Charles  J.  Cook. 

1884    Lubbock,  TX— David  C.  Cannon. 

1897  Lafayette,  LA — George  Duplechain  Jr.,  Percy  Lan- 
dry. 

1921    Hempstead,  NY— Francis  W.  Eckhardt. 

1962    Las  Cnices,  NM — Graciano  S.  Rios. 

1976    Los  Angeles,  CA— Hollis  Davis. 

2006    Los  Gates,  CA— Niilo  Kataja. 

2008    Ponco  Cily,  OK— Walter  Summers. 

2035    Kingsbeach,  CA — Dorothy  Dean  Maiden  (s). 

2046    Martinez,  CA — Margie  P.  Harmon  (s). 

2078    Vista,  CA— Harry  R.  Lynch,  Otis  Lester  Gentry. 

2101    Moorefield,  WV— Evers  Kimble. 

2130    Hillsboro,  OR— Genevieve  C.  Dolan  (s). 

2141    Scotlsbluff,  NE— Stewart  Hugh  McMillen. 

21S4    Portland,  OR— William  F.  Corrigan. 

2172    Santa  Ana,  CA— Wanda  Lucile  Nelson  (s). 

2203  Anaheim,  CA — Gordon  R.  Johnson,  Leo  J.  Callahan, 
Thomas  N.  Lovato. 

2205  Wenatchee,  WA— Harry  W.  Martin,  Quinn  Wes- 
tover,  Theodore  R.  Turner. 

2212    Newark,  NJ — Lawrence  A.  Puopolo. 

2235    Pittsburgh,  PA— Henry  Digrazia. 

2249  Adams  Co.,  CO— Robert  G.  Tate. 

2250  Red  Bank,  NJ— Eileen  C.  Straubinger  (s|,  Kenneth 
A.  Rose,  Kristian  Simonsen,  Robert  M.  Johnson. 

2287  New  York,  NY— Frank  Panariello. 

2288  Los  Angeles,  CA — Antonio  E.  Castaneda,  Arthur  R. 
Foleen,  Harold  R.  Merryman.  John  M.  Boatright, 
Oliver  J.  Shank. 

2292    Ocala,  FL.— George  Whitehurst. 

2297    Lebanon,  MO— Cleo  Singleton. 

2308    Fullcrton,  CA— Edcor  O.  Hodge. 

2337    Milwaukee,  WI — Arthur  E.  Stephenson. 

2375    Los  Angeles,  CA— Marvin  D.  Green. 

2391     Holland,  Ml— Ronald  J.  Albers. 

2396    Seattle,  WA— Edwin  A.  Brattain. 

2404    Vancouver,  Be  CAN — George  Reynolds. 

2411    Jacksonville,  FL — Fred  A.  Milam. 

2463  Ventura,  CA— Bernard  B.  Waggoner,  Rudolph  K. 
Feyma. 

2471    Pensacola,  FL— Rufus  W.  Cleary. 

2477    Santa  Maria,  CA— Selerino  Centeno. 

2522    St.  Helens,  OR— Lauretta  EInora  Kohlstrand  (s). 

2564    Grand  Fall,  Nil  CAN— Bruce  Weir. 

2608  Redding,  CA — Arthur  Edward  Welbom,  Everett  D. 
Looper. 

2633  Tacoma,  WA— Esther  Sweeney  (s),  Jacob  C.  Hil- 
denbrand,  Robert  E.  Howard,  Vernon  Verlon  Har- 
ris. 

2679    Toronto,  Ont.  CAN— Umberto  Caria. 

2714    Dallas,  OR— Robert  Toevs. 

2719    Thompson  Falls,  MT— Raymond  J.  Anderson. 

2739    Yakima,  WA— Alfred  J.  Desmond. 

2756    Goshen,  OR— Raymond  E.  Murray. 

2767  Morton,  WA— Charlie  E.  Cates,  Leslie  T.  Hender- 
son. 

2772    Flagstaff,  AZ— Ray  Moody  Jr. 


2791  Sweet  Home,  OR— Edith  Ruth  Hoy,  Wallace  B.  Port. 

2817  Quebec,  Que.  CAN — Etienne  Garceau. 

2819  New  York,  NY— Catello  Decicco. 

2834  Denver,  CO— John  O.  Vanhom. 

2949  Rosehurg,  OR— Harvey  H.  Sturdevant. 

2995  Kapuskasng,  Ont.  CAN— Gilles  Vallee. 

3068  Providence,  RI — Antonio  Henriques. 

3091  Vaughn,  OR— Glen  Rickard. 

3127  New  York,  NY— Fred  Krilow,  Jose  Alfonso  Macias, 

William  Rufo. 

3161  Maywood,  CA — Lawrence  Gordon  Lincoln. 

7000  Province  of  Quebec— Lionel  B.  Campbell. 

9005  Detroit,  MI— Clark  W.  Milgie,  Robert  James  Foulks. 

9009  Washington,  DC— Charles  E.  Shoemaker. 

9190  Minneapolis,  MN— Herbert  Walter  Smith. 

We  Congratulate 

Continued  from  Page  25 
when  Kupau  discovered  that  there  are  stu- 
dents who  want  to  participate  in  the  program 
but  don't  have  the  initiation  fee.  The  goals 
the  local  set  after  a  presentation  made  by 
Kupau  to  the  executive  committee  include 
raising  necessary  funds  to  enable  each  scout 
to  attend  the  year-end  camp — an  "Adopt  a 
Scout"  project.  Each  local  member  will  be 
asked  to  sponsor  students  who  want  to  join 
the  program  but  are  unable  to  do  so  because 
of  financial  problems. 

Joe  Charles,  BSA  program  director,  in- 
dicated that  this  is  the  first  time  an  organi- 
zation has  offered  to  put  its  name  on  the 
line  to  help  this  project. 

DAD'S  Day 

Continued  from  Page  19 

Blueprint  for  Cure  contributions  dur- 
ing the  past  month  include: 

58,  Chicago,  lU. 

80,  Chicago,  111. 

90,  Evansville,  Ind. 

125,  Miami,  Fla. 

187,  Geneva,  N.Y. 

272,  Chicago  Heights,  Ohio 

287,  Harrisburg,  Pa. 

354,  Gilroy,  Calif. 

453,  Auburn,  N.Y. 

558,  Elmhurst.  111. 

603,  Ithaca,  N.Y. 

1026,  Miami,  Fla. 

1296,  San  Diego,  Calif. 

1338,  Charlottetown,  P,E.I. 

1889,  Downers  Grove,  III. 

Finger  Lakes  District  Council 

St.  Louis  District  Council 

Kansas  City  District  Council 

Robert  P.  Argentine 

Robert  L.  Konyha 

Edmont  J.  Thimme,  Jr. 

William  A.  Yantis 

In  memory  of  Pearl  M.  Hanger  from  Jeffrey 

&  Anne  Bumgamer 

In  memory  of  Anne  Sefcik  from  Stephen 

Sefcik 

Electric-Heat  Beds 

Continued  from  Page  29 

figures.  The  flow  of  electricity  through  wires 
and  power  lines  creates  extermely  low  fre- 
quency (ELF)  magnetic  fields.  It  is  the  ELF 
fields  that  seem  to  be  the  factor  in  the  high 
miscarriage  rates. 

No  studies  have  been  done  to  find  out  if 
ELF  fields  cause  birth  defects  in  humans, 
but  the  Studies  with  pregnant  animals  show 
a  clear  correlation  between  exposure  to  ELF 
fields  and  incidence  of  birth  defects. 


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Singing  tlie  Blue 

Collar  Blues 

on  Labor  Day 


Must  once  productive 

U.S.  and  Canadian  worl(ers 

face  furttier  extinctions? 


Ever  since  Peter  McGuire  and  his  fellow 
trade  unionists  led  the  first  Labor  Day  parade 
down  the  avenues  of  Manhattan  more  than  a 
century  ago,  it  has  become  traditional  for  the 
leaders  of  organized  labor  to  issue  Labor  Day 
messages  or  make  Labor  Day  speeches  de- 
scribing to  their  fellow  workers  where  "the 
masses"  come  from  and  where  they  expect 
to  be  going. 

The  news  magazine,  U.S.  News  &  World 
Report,  five  years  ago,  described  the  exercise 
as  "singing  the  blue  collar  blues  on  Labor 
Day."  The  publication  told  its  readers  that, 
at  that  time,  "a  miUion  American  jobs  will 
never  come  back  .  .  .  mechanics,  welders,  as- 
semblers, painters — workers  in  droves  are 
singing  the  blue  collar  blues  ...  as  if  their 
lives  are  uprooted.  It's  a  symptom  of  massive 
change  under  way  across  the  economy." 

That  was  five  years  ago,  the  situation  hasn't 
changed.  It  has  gotten  worse. 

I  hate  to  sound  dismal.  Some  of  us  are 
living  well  in  spite  of  the  uncertanties  of  the 
world  economy,  but  as  we  march  down  the 
streets  of  North  America's  cities  and  hold  our 
hohday  picnics  September  7,  we  must  go  back 
to  our  original  plans  and  specifications.  I  must 
tell  you  that  I  am  concerned  this  Labor  Day 
about  many  problems  facing  blue  collar  and 
white  collar  workers  alike. 

The  Commission  on  the  Bicentennial  of  the 
United  States  Constitution  is  asking  all  U.S. 
citizens  to  take  a  half  hour  off  on  September 
16  to  renew  their  pledge  to  the  Constitution 
and  the  nation  for  which  it  stands.  American 
members  of  the  UBC,  their  spouses  and  their 
families  vv'il!  be  proud  to  share  the  moment  in 


history,  but  they  should  also  pledge  on  that 
occasion  to  return  to  the  roots  of  American 
democracy,  which  made  us  great,  and  find 
answers  to  the  problems  before  us. 

I  believe  that  in  many  ways  we  have  become 
soft,  too  soft  for  our  own  good. 

Do  we  really  need  all  those  imported  elec- 
tronic gadgets  from  the  Far  East  which  fill  the 
opening  pages  of  all  the  discount  catalogs  we 
get  in  the  mail? 

Do  we  really  need  a  wallet  full,  or  a  pock- 
etbook  full,  of  credit  cards  telling  us  to  forget 
the  cash  and  take  the  credit  instead?  Yes,  I 
know;  the  Brotherhood  has  recommended  to 
its  U.S.  members  a  UBC-sponsored  VISA 
card  which  has  a  low  interest  rate  and  helps 
the  cause  of  the  Blueprint  for  Cure  .  .  .  but 
do  you  need  so  many  others? 

Time  and  again,  I'm  told  in  the  public  press 
that  Japan  and  Germany  are  now  building 
better  automobiles  .  .  .  and  many  mechanics 
and  consumers  seem  to  agree  .  .  .  but  must 
we  give  up  on  the  men  and  women  in  this 
country  who  once  produced  a  line  of  fine 
automobiles  for  the  world,  just  a  few  years 
ago? 

Do  we  really  concern  ourselves  about  to- 
taliterianism  in  the  world?  Nuclear  war?  Are 
we  prepared  to  let  religious  fanatics  cause 
stalemates  in  the  world's  commerce  as  we  are 
doing  in  the  Middle  East?  Or  do  we  support 
the  admonition  of  Teddy  Roosevelt  on  Labor 
Day,  86  years  ago,  to  "speak  softly  and  carry 
a  big  stick?"  Labor  has  always  supported  a 
strong  national  defense  program,  but  it  has 
never  supported  national  defense  waste  and 
mismanagement,  nor  bucket  brigades  of  cov- 
ert armies  all  over  the  world  which  seem  to 
accomplish  nothing  and  cause  nations  to  lose 
respect  for  our  image  as  "the  arsenal  of 
democracy." 

Do  we  have  men  and  women  in  the  U.S. 
and  Canadian  labor  movement  willing  to  at- 
tend union  meetings,  walk  picketlines  and 
petition  legislators  on  behalf  of  labor's  causes? 
Does  every  North  American  trade  unionist 
buy  American  and  Canadian  and  buy  union, 
when  he  or  she  has  a  choice  to  do  so  in  the 
marketplace? 

A  Harvard  University  economist  told  a 
group  of  AFL-CIO  leaders  in  1984  that  "the 
public  image  of  unions  is  at  an  historic  low," 
because  today's  unions  are  more  concerned 


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with  what  he  called  "the  monopoly  face  of 
unionism  that  with  its  voice  face"  as  the 
advocate  of  the  individual  worker.  I  assume 
that  what  he  was  trying  to  say  was  that  unions 
in  the  past  half  century  have  tended  to  organ- 
ize the  big,  mass  industries  and  neglected 
small  groups  of  oppressed  workers  because 
the  big  plants  and  the  big  construction  sites 
are  easier  to  organize.  There  may  be  a  kernel 
of  truth  in  that.  We  have  lost  some  of  our 
evangelical  zeal  of  enhsting  workers  "one  on 
one,"  as  in  the  old  days. 

When  the  Wagner  Act  was  passed  by  Con- 
gress and  signed  by  the  president  during  the 
1930s,  it  was  like  letting  union  organizers  out 
of  the  starting  gate,  freeing  them  for  the  first 
time  by  government  action  to  organize  entire 
industries.  That  was  a  time  when  our  own 
General  President  Bill  Hutcheson  came  to 
blows  with  Mine  Workers  President  John  L. 
Lewis  over  the  question  of  "horizontal"  (craft) 
organizing  or  "vertical"  (industrial)  organiz- 
ing. The  Brotherhood  was  fighting  to  protect 
its  own. 

It  was  not  long  after  the  Wagner  Act  was 
passed  that  we  became  embroiled  in  World 
War  II,  whether  we  liked  it  or  not,  and  things 
had  to  be  accomplished  on  a  big,  industrial 
scale  and  not  on  a  craft  scale. 

The  crafts  we  represent  in  the  UBC  have 
never  been  exactly  the  same.  Carpenters  in 
residential  construction  drifted  into  higher- 
paying  commercial  construction,  and  they 
have  never  returned  in  the  strength  necessary 
to  build  superior  housing  in  North  America. 
Davis-Bacon  and  Walsh-Healey  Laws  freed 
local  business  agents  from  some  of  their  con- 
frontations with  construction  contractors  on 
federal  jobs  .  .  .  and  it  is  right  that  they  should 
do  this  .  .  .  but  they  have  caused  some  Build- 
ing Trades  leaders  to  take  the  easy  way  out 
and  seek  Davis-Bacon  jobs,  leaving  non-union 
jobs  around  them  almost  untouched.  How 
many  times  have  you  heard  some  union  con- 
tractor say,  "Why  don't  you  go  down  the 
road  and  organize  So-and  So?  He's  been 
underbidding  me  and  getting  away  with  it  for 
years?" 

Let's  not  underestimate  where  unions  and 
union  employers  stand  today.  The  big  money, 
non-union  interests  have  the  upper  hand  in 
too  many  areas  of  the  U.S.  and  Canadian 
economies  today.  As  Building  Trades  Presi- 


dent Bob  Georgine  stated  in  his  recent  Labor 
Day  message,  the  tactics  and  trademarks  of 
business  are  all  around  us:  insider  stock  trad- 
ing, phony  bankruptcies,  incredibly  high  ex- 
ecutive bonuses  while  employees  accept  wage 
reductions,  ruthless  discharges  of  experi- 
enced, veteran  workers,  plant  closings  and 
transfers,  leveraged  buyouts  with  their  at- 
tendant golden  parachutes,  multi-million  dol- 
lar retirement  bonuses  and  options  as  settle- 
ments for  chief  executive  officers  judged  by 
their  corporations  no  longer  to  be  up  to  the 
task,  and,  with  it  all,  movement  of  more  and 
more  industrial  jobs  overseas. 

It  may  look  like  good  times  for  workers  and 
their  famihes  in  TV's  situation  comedies  and 
at  the  White  House  in  Washington,  but  under 
all  the  imagery  there  are  unresolved  problems. 
We  must  get  back  to  the  basics  of  why  we 
are  trade  unionists.  We're  carrying  the  world 
on  our  shoulders,  and  it's  time  we  shifted  the 
load  a  bit. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

Address  Correction  Requested 


Non-Profit  Org. 

U.S.  POSTAGE 

PAID 

Depew,  N.Y. 
Permit  No.  28 


^J    musts  for  you  during  September 


in  the  movies 


IVIATEWAN 


There's  been  nothing  like  it  since  "Norma 
Rae."  The  new  John  Sayles  film,  "Mate- 
wan,"  is  the  compelling  story  of  coal  miners 
organizing  against  oppressive  mine  owners 
in  1920s  West  Virginia.  Filmed  in  the  valleys 
of  Appalachia,  this  movie  will  make  you 
proud  to  call  yourself  a  union  member.  It's 
based  on  a  true  incident  in  American  history 
and  tells  of  a  strike  involving  hardpressed 
miners,  company  goons,  imported  scab  la- 
bor— blacks  from  the  South  and  imported 
Italian  immigrants  fresh  off  the  boat. 

"Matewan"  opened  in  New  York  City  on 
August  28.  It  then  opens  in  mid-September 
in  five  cities— Boston,  Chicago,  Los  An- 
geles, San  Francisco  and  Washington,  D.C. 
Check  your  local  listings.  Don't  miss  itU 


Chris  Cooper  as 

Joe  Kenehan, 

union  organizer, 

watches  miners 

drive  imported 

scabs  back  into 

boxcars  as  he 

arrives  in 

Matewan . 


James  Earl  Jones, 

nicknamed  "Few 

Clothes,"  is  the 

last  to  make  it 

aboard  as  the  train 

moves  off  toward 

the  strife-torn 

mining  town. 


on  public  television 


A  GOOD  JOB 


More  than  120  public  television  stations 
will  air  this  special  on  Labor  Day.  "A  Good 
Job"  is  an  America  Works  special  produced 
by  the  Labor  Institute  of  Public  Affairs  in 
cooperation  with  the  Smithsonian  Institu- 
tion's National  Museum  of  American  His- 
tory. 

What's  a  good  job?  That's  the  question 
Daniel  Zwerdling  of  National  Public  Radio 
asks  a  cross-section  of  Americans  in  this 
video  production.  Accompanied  by  the  soft 
jazz  sound  of  the  Keter  Betts  Trio,  Zwer- 
dling wanders  through  the  museum  talking 
to  union  members  demonstrating  their  job 
skills.  Call  your  local  public  television  sta- 
tion for  broadcast  time  and  date  in  your 
community. 


A  union  glass 
worker  for  Lenox 
Crystal  gives  excel- 
lence high  priority, 
dispelling  the  no- 
tion that  union 
members  don't  care 
about  quality. 


A  Communications 
Worker  focuses  on 
customer  service  as 
he  explains  how  his 
fellow  union  mem- 
bers adapt  to  the 
new  technology. 


GENERAL  OFFICERS  OF 

THE  UNITED  BROTHERHCX>D  of  CARPENTERS  &  JOINERS  of  AMERICA 


GENERAL  OFFICE: 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 


GENERAL  PRESIDENT 

Patrick  J.  Campbell 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

SECOND  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

John  Pruitt 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

John  S.  Rogers 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  TREASURER 

Wayne  Pierce 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 


DISTRICT  BOARD  MEMBERS 


First  District,  Joseph  F.  Lia 
120  North  Main  Street 
New  City,  New  York  10956 

Second  District,  George  M.  Walish 

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VOLUME  107  No.  10  OCTOBER  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

George  Meany  Archives  Dedicated 2 

Ten-Year  Coors  Beer  Boycott  Ends  in  Victory 4 

Income  Inequality:  Are  there  Danger  Signals? PAI  6 

This  Month's  Question  for  Candidates:  The  Political  Process 7 

Labor  Presidential  Endorsement  Delayed 11 

The  Raynor  Story 12 

Working  in  Confined  Spaces Phillip  L.  Polakoff,  MD  14 

Final  Business  Agents'  Seminar 28 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 5 

We  Congratulate 15 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Care  of  Sick  Kids 16 

Ottawa  Report 18 

Local  Union  News 19 

Labor  News  Roundup 22 

Apprenticeship  and  Training 23 

Plane  Gossip 26 

Retirees  Notebook 29 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 31 

In  Memoriam 37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


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THE 
COVER 


The  brilliant  autumn  leaves  of  North 
America  are  unmatched  anywhere  else 
in  the  world,  we  are  told  by  the  National 
Geographic  Society.  The  fall  equinox 
brings  a  riot  of  color  to  the  Eastern 
Seaboard  and  the  mountains  of  the  West — 
brilliant  yellows  and  golds  to  the  aspens 
of  the  Rockies  and  bright  reds  to  maples, 
hawthorns,  dogwoods  and  black  gums  of 
the  Appalachians  and  the  AUeghenys. 

The  leaves  are  just  beginning  to  turn 
in  the  picture  on  our  October  cover.  They 
add  nature's  autumn  frame  to  an  old  grist 
mill  in  McConnells  Mill  State  Park  near 
Butler,  Pa.  As  water  spills  from  the  mill 
race,  park  visitors  enjoy  the  lazy  days  of 
Indian  summer. 

The  restored  grist  mill  doesn't  grind 
grain  as  it  did  a  century  ago,  but  the  big 
belts  there  could  turn  the  shafts  and 
stones  and  turn  out  the  meal  and  flour, 
just  as  they  did  when  early  millwrights 
carved  out  the  wooden  cogs  which  made 
it  all  go. 

Many  states  and  local  communities 
have  preserved  old  mills  as  mementos  of 
the  early  days  in  America,  when  farmers 
often  had  to  travel  long  distances  to  have 
their  grain  ground  into  flour  or  meal  and 
millers  had  thriving  enterprises  beside 
rushing  streams  in  the  wilderness. 

Many  early  North  American  mill- 
wrights became  millers  themselves,  dam- 
ming a  stream,  building  the  mill  with  the 
help  of  neighbors  and  installing  the  ma- 
chinery, carving  the  big  and  heavy  mill- 
stones from  local  granite,  quartzite  or 
sandstone,  becoming  some  of  America's 
rst  industriaUsts. 

Fall  weather  in  the  eastern  forests, 
with  its  clear,  bright  days  and  cool,  crisp 
nights,  draws  many  North  Americans  to 
the  outdoors  for  visits  to  such  old  mill's 
as  this. — Photograph  by  James  Blank. 


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George  Meany 
Archives  Dedicated 


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Al  the  lop,  the  three-story  George 
Meany  Memoriut  Archives,  with  its 
modern  architectural  lines.  At  left 
above,  Mac  Mathias,  retired  U.S. 
senator  from  Maryland  and  a  long- 
time labor  friend,  addresses  the 
group  at  the  dedication.  Right, 
above,  AFL-CIO  President  Lane 
Kirkland  and  the  sculptor,  Robert 
Berks,  unveil  a  statue  to  Meany. 
Below,  a  large  reproduction  of  a  fa- 
mous picture  of  the  AFL  and  CIO 
merger  in  1956.  photographed  by 
Frank  Alexander,  standing  at  right 
in  the  exhibition  area  of  the  new 
building. 


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Research  facility  at  Labor  Studies  Center 
to  preserve  story  of  Nortti  American  labor 


The  George  Meany  Memorial  Ar- 
chives in  Silver  Spring,  Md.,  just  out- 
side Washington,  D.C.,  was  officially 
opened  in  August  in  dedication  cere- 
monies attended  by  labor  and  civic 
leaders  and  by  co-workers,  friends  and 
family  of  the  AFL-CIO's  first  president, 
for  whom  the  facility  is  named. 

The  new  and  permanent  home  for  the 
records  of  North  American  labor  is  a 
three-story,  33,000-square  foot  building 
on  the  campus  of  the  George  Meany 
Center  for  Labor  Studies,  which  was 
dedicated  13  years  ago  and  is  also 
named  after  the  Federation's  first  pres- 
ident. The  new  archives  building  in- 
cludes a  public  exhibition  area  graced 
with  a  sculpture  of  the  building's  name- 
sake. It  has  temperature-controlled 
storage  areas  for  historical  documents 
and  tens  of  thousands  of  film  negatives 
and  tapes.  It  also  contains  study  areas 
for  serious  research  and  classrooms  for 
seminars. 

Meany,  who  left  school  in  his  teens 
to  learn  the  plumber's  trade,  had  a 
lifelong  commitment  to  education,  AFL- 
CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland  stressed 
in  his  dedication  address. 

"It  was  his  belief  that  all  our  citizens 
should  have  access  to  all  the  learning 
they  can  possibly  absorb,  at  every  stage 
of  their  lives,  from  childhood  to  old 
age,"  Kirkland  said.  "That  is  a  belief 


we  share  and  have  done  our  best  to 
realize." 

Citing  the  struggles  and  victories  since 
the  federation's  beginning  in  1881, 
Kirkland  said,  "Scholars  can  learn  here 
that,  despite  anti-union  employers,  de- 
spite technological  change  and  despite 
economic  upheaval,  all  of  which  have 
at  times  contributed  to  the  ebb  and  flow 
of  union  membership,  that  we  will  stand 
together  as  long  as  the  blood  is  in  us." 

Regina  Meany  Mayer,  Meany's 
daughter,  said  the  archives  is  a  "living 
memorial  that  will  continue  to  grow 
year  after  year."  She  praised  the  time, 
energy  and  love  put  into  the  memorial 
for  the  man  "who  worked  all  his  life 
for  the  labor  movement." 

With  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council 
members  looking  on,  Kirkland  unveiled 
the  bronze  statue  of  Meany  located  in 
the  archives'  lobby.  The  seven-foot 
high  sculpture  captures  the  essence  of 
Meany  with  a  portrait  of  his  face  and 
hands,  one  hand  gesturing  and  the  other 
holding  the  famous  cigar. 

The  Meany  sculpture  was  commis- 
sioned in  1985  from  Robert  Berks,  who 
is  best  kown  for  his  bust  of  President 
John  F.  Kennedy  in  the  Kennedy  Cen- 
ter for  the  Performing  Arts  and  his  22- 
foot  monument  of  Albert  Einstein  over- 
looking Constitution  Avenue  at  the  Na- 


CARPENTER 


tional  Academy  of  Science's  headquar- 
ters in  Washington. 

The  exhibit  dedicated  to  Meany's  life 
and  work  traces  his  labor  career  from 
member  and  business  agent  of  Plumbers 
Local  463  in  the  Bronx,  president  of 
the  New  York  State  Federation  of  La- 
bor from  1934  to  1939,  his  forging  of 
the  merged  federation  with  CIO  leader 
Walter  Reuther  and  his  AFL-CIO  lead- 
ership from  the  merger  convention  in 
1955  to  his  retirement  in  1979. 

Mixed  in  with  AFL  Reporter  and 
AFL-CIO  News  front  pages  document- 
ing the  issues  of  the  times  and  photos 
of  Meany  with  presidents — from  Dwight 
Eisenhower  through  Jimmy  Carter — 
are  intimate  glimpses  of  Meany  with 
his  family.  Videotaped  interviews  offer 


a  personal  visit  with  the  labor  leader. 

Also  on  display  are  Meany's  plumb- 
er's template,  drafting  tools  and  work 
boots,  which  had  been  stored  away  by 
his  wife,  Eugenia,  for  "good  luck." 
Fourgenerations  of  the  Meany  family — 
sisters,  daughters,  grandchildren  and 
great-grandchildren — attended  the  ded- 
ication ceremony  held  the  day  after 
what  would  have  been  Meany's  93rd 
birthday. 

Besides  the  Meany  collection,  which 
was  organized  by  a  staff  headed  by 
Chief  Archivist  Katharine  Vogel,  core 
collections  processed  under  a  grant  from 
the  National  Endowment  for  the  Hu- 
manities include  records  for  AFL  Pres- 
ident William  Green  (1924-1952);  Sec- 
retary-Treasurers Frank  Morrison  (1911- 


1924)  and  William  F.  Schnitzler  (1952- 
1969);  and  the  Department  of  Legisla- 
tion. 

The  23,000  cubic  feet  of  storage 
space — designed  to  protect  materials 
with  double-thick  and  specially  insu- 
lated masonry  walls  and  equipment  to 
control  temperature  and  humidity — also 
houses  a  collection  of  more  than  50,000 
photographs,  including  a  collection  of 
negatives  by  Frank  Alexander  covering 
labor  activities  from  the  late  1940s 
through  the  1970s.  Also  stored  are  more 
than  4,000  audiotapes,  the  bulk  of  which 
is  the  AFL-CIO  Labor  Movement  Oral 
History  Project. 

Other  collections  include  the  Samuel 
Gompers  Papers,  edited  by  the  ar- 
chives' new  director,  Stuart  B.  Kauf- 

Continued  on  Page  38 


The  George  Meany  Memorial  Archives  was  completely  union  hiiilt  by  members  of  the  United 
Brotherhood's  District  of  Cohimbia  Council  and  otiier  Building  Tradesmen.  Kirby  Construction 
was  general  contractor.  Local  U45's  shop  steward  Donald  Pcrham  is  at  left  center  below. 


OCTOBER     1987 


All  New  Coors  Construction  To  Be  By 

Union  Contractors  or  Union  Project  Agreements 

10- Year  Coors  Beer  Boycott 
Ends  in  Victory  for  Labor 


Labor's  10-year-old  consumer  boy- 
cott of  Coors  beer  has  reached  a  suc- 
cessful conclusion  in  a  landmark  agree- 
ment providing  for  an  expedited  union 
representation  election  and  union  con- 
struction of  a  second  Coors  brewery. 

AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland 
announced  the  agreement  between  the 
federation  and  the  Adolph  Coors  Co. 
at  a  news  conference  at  AFL-CIO  head- 
quarters August  19.  Kirkland  said  the 
agreement  had  been  ratified  unani- 
mously by  the  AFL-CIO  Executive 
Council  at  its  recent  meeting. 

Kirkland  said  the  agreement  was  the 
product  of  the  "resounding  success" 
of  the  boycott  against  the  nation's  fifth 
largest  brewer,  which  had  long  been 
known  for  its  tough  anti-union  stance. 
He  said  negotiations  to  end  the  dispute 
began  in  1985  between  AFL-CIO  and 
Coors  officials. 

"The  effective  efforts  of  thousands 
of  boycott  volunteers,  the  passage  of 
events  and  the  more  positive  approach 
taken  by  the  current  Coors  management 
have  combined  to  make  this  settlement 
possible,"  Kirkland  told  reporters. 

Kirkland  said  union  representatives 
will  soon  begin  organizing  efforts  at 
Coors'  brewery  in  Golden,  Colo.  He 
pledged  that  labor  will  bring  "the  same 
steadfast  determination"  to  the  orga- 
nizing activities  as  it  did  to  the  boycott. 

Three  AFL-CIO  affiliates  have  indi- 
cated an  interest  in  representing  the 
plants's  1,500  workers.  Kirkland  said 
the  federation  will  use  existing  machin- 
ery to  help  the  unions  agree  on  which 
one  should  be  given  "a  clear  shot"  at 
the  organizing  effort. 

The  company  agreed  to  an  expedited 
procedure  under  which  a  representation 
election  will  be  triggered  by  an  impartial 
observer's  card  check  certification  that 
30%  of  the  employees  want  a  union. 

The  procedure,  said  Kirkland,  "goes 
well  beyond  the  bare,  and  often  inef- 
fective, requirements  of  the  National 
Labor  Relations  Act,"  and  is  even  "su- 
perior to  what  we  sought  in  labor  law 
reform"  in  the  late  1970s,  when  a  labor 
law  reform  bill  was  narrowly  defeated 
in  Congress. 

"We  are  confident  that  Coors'  em- 


ployees, given  a  free,  fair,  unfettered 
opportunity  to  choose  a  collective  bar- 
gaining representative,  wiU  exercise  their 
good  judgment  and  elect  to  be  repre- 
sented by  an  AFL-CIO  union,"  Kirk- 
land said. 

The  agreement  also  provides  that  any 
new  Coors'  brewery  construction  will 
be  undertaken  either  by  union  contrac- 


Music  and  arts 
exchanges  for  labor 
in  the  offing 


Five  songfests,  sing-ins  and/or  arts 
exchanges  are  scheduled  for  the 
months  ahead,  according  to  Laurel 
Blaydes,  executive  director  of  the 
Labor  Heritage  Foundation. 

These  are  get-togethers  of  labor 
song  writers  and  musicians,  primar- 
ily, but  they  also  cover  a  wide  range 
of  theater  arts.  The  public,  particu- 
larly union  members,  are  invited.  The 
coming  events  are  as  follows: 

•  The  Second  Great  Midwest  La- 
bor Song  Exchange,  October  23-25, 
Detroit,  Mich.;  cosponsored  by  the 
Labor  Heritage  Foundation  and  var- 
ious Midwest  labor  organizations. 

•  The  Southeastern  Conference  on 
Southern  Labor  Culture  will  be  held 
in  early  November  in  Nashville,  Tenn.; 
sponsored  by  Tennessee  State  Uni- 
versity's Center  for  Labor  Manage- 
ment Relations  and  the  Southern  Folk 
Cultural  Revival  Project. 

•  Western  Workers  Heritage  Fes- 
tival, January  15-17,  1988,  Cupertino, 
Calif.,  near  San  Jose. 

•  Northwest  Labor  Music  and  Arts 
Exchange,  April  29-May  1,  1988, 
Goldbar,  Wash.;  sponsored  by  the 
Pacific  Northwest  Labor  History  As- 
sociation. 

•  The  Great  Midwest  Labor  Jam, 
Spring,  1988,  Fort  Madison,  Iowa. 

For  more  information  write:  Labor 
Heritage  Foundation,  815  16th  Street, 
N.W.,  Room  301,  Washington,  D.C. 
20006. 


tors  or  by  a  negotiated  project  labor 
agreement  with  the  building  trades.  The 
agreement  will  have  an  immediate  im- 
pact on  a  Coors'  brewery  now  under- 
way in  Elkton,  Va.  When  that  brewery 
becomes  operational,  Kirkland  said, 
Coors  has  pledged  that  it  will  not  in- 
terfere in  organizing  activities. 

The  dispute  goes  back  to  April  5, 
1977,  when  some  1,500  members  of 
Directly  Affiliated  Local  Union  366  at 
the  Golden  brewery  walked  off  the  job 
after  Coors  refused  to  negotiate  a  new 
contract  and  unilaterally  implemented 
contract  terms  that  the  workers  had 
overwhelmingly  rejected.  Part  of  the 
dispute  involved  the  company's  desire 
to  subject  its  employees  to  polygraph 
tests. 

A  week  later,  the  AFL-CIO  council 
approved  a  nationwide  boycott  of  Coors 
beer.  In  December  1978,  strikebreakers 
voted  2-1  to  decertify  Local  366  in  an 
election  in  which  the  NLRB  banned 
strikers  from  participating. 

As  a  result  of  the  boycott,  Coors  lost 
its  number  one  status  in  its  estabUshed 
markets.  In  Colorado,  where  Coors 
enjoyed  47%  of  the  beer  market  in  1977, 
its  share  dropped  to  less  than  22%  by 
1984,  the  AFL-CIO  reported.  In  Cali- 
fornia, where  Coors  had  44%  of  the 
market  in  1977,  its  share  fell  to  14%  by 
1984. 

The  company  had  experienced  diffi- 
culty in  its  recent  efforts  to  expand  its 
sales  in  the  East  and  Midwest.  It  re- 
cently began  marketing  its  beer  nation- 
wide. 

Early  this  year,  representatives  from 
30  colleges  and  universities  mapped  out 
a  massive  effort  to  further  implement 
the  boycott.  The  campaign  was  asserted 
by  Frontlash,  the  AFL-CIO  youth  or- 
ganization. 

Peter  Coors,  company  president,  said 
in  a  statement  that  with  the  dispute 
resolved,  "we  can  focus  out  attention 
toward  competing,  based  on  the  high 
quality  of  our  products."  He  said  the 
agreement  "reaffirms  our  commitment 
to  employee  freedom  of  choice."  Peter 
Coors  assumed  the  day-to-day  brewery 
operations  from  his  father,  Joseph  Coors, 
in  1985. 


CARPENTER 


Washington 
Report 


NURSING  HOME  BILLS 

It  looked  for  a  moment  as  if  U.S.  News  &  World 
Report  was  performing  a  public  service  by  running 
a  special  report  on  Nursing  Homes  in  its  July  20 
edition. 

It  was  all  interesting  and  informative  until  it  got  to 
the  part  about  paying  the  bills.  The  article  asked, 
"How  expensive  are  nursing  homes?"  Answer: 
"The  average  cost  of  a  year  in  a  nursing  home  is 
$22,000."  Then  the  article  beat  around  the  bush, 
referring  to  home  equity  loans,  long-term  insurance 
and  even  the  dubious  idea  of  transferring  assets  to 
a  spouse  or  children  since  no  one  knows  who  is 
going  to  be  hit  by  a  catastrophe. 

"There's  only  one  sure  way:  Earn  and  save  lots 
of  money  before  you  retire,"  advises  the  article, 
incredibly. 

There's  a  better,  more  efficient,  more  sensible 
way.  The  U.S.  remains  the  only  advanced  industrial 
nation  without  a  national  health  insurance  system. 
But  the  chaotic,  costly,  wasteful  U.S.  approach 
seems  to  be  collapsing.  Congress  is  already  mov- 
ing towards  universal,  rational  solutions  in  expand- 
ing Medicare.  Rep.  Claude  Pepper  (D-Fla.),  for  one, 
believes  the  American  people  are  ready  now  for  his 
"Long-Term  Home  Care"  bill  so  they  can  get  assist- 
ance in  dignity  at  home.  That's  a  surer  way,  U.S. 
News,  because  it  would  keep  people  out  of  nursing 
homes. 


TO  CAP  MEDICARE  COSTS 

Rejecting  threats  by  the  Reagan  Administration  of 
a  presidential  veto,  the  House  of  Representatives, 
by  a  vote  of  302  to  1 27,  on  July  22  approved  a  bill 
to  protect  older  and  disabled  persons  from  "cata- 
strophic" health  care  bills. 

The  bill  marks  the  first  time  since  Medicare  was 
enacted  that  the  government  has  set  ceilings  on 
out-of-pocket  costs  that  beneficiaries  will  have  to 
spend  for  Medicare-covered  services. 

It  also  marks  the  first  time  that  a  major  new 
benefit— prescription  drugs — has  been  added  to  the 
program.  The  National  Council  of  Senior  Citizens 
led  the  fight  for  the  provision  on  drugs  and  made 


inclusion  of  such  a  provision  a  key  element  in  sup- 
port of  the  legislation. 

Sponsored  by  Rep.  Fortney  H.  (Pete)  Stark  (D- 
Cal.)  and  Willis  D.  Gradison  (R-Ohio),  the  bill  fo- 
cuses mainly  on  hospital  and  doctor  bills.  Health 
costs  not  now  covered  by  Medicare — including 
long-term  care  services — are  not  included  in  the  bill. 

Hospital  patients  receive  the  broadest  protection 
under  the  new  measure:  after  a  patient  pays  the 
initial  deductible  ($544  in  1988),  Medicare  pays  all 
remaining  hospital  costs  for  any  given  year,  with  no 
additional  deductibles,  as  at  present. 

In  addition,  out-of-pocket  costs  for  medical  serv- 
ices covered  by  Medicare  (Part  B)  are  capped  at 
$1 ,043  per  year.  Any  bills  for  such  services  over 
that  amount  will  be  paid  by  the  program. 


PLANT  CLOSING  STUDY 

Senators  are  now  considering  a  bill  that  would 
force  employers  to  give  workers  advance  notice  of 
a  plant  shut  down  or  layoffs.  A  new  study  by  the 
prestigious  National  Academy  of  Sciences  should 
make  their  decision  even  easier. 

According  to  the  study,  employees  given  ade- 
quate advance  notice  of  pending  layoffs  or  closings 
are  out  of  work  for  25  percent  less  time  than  those 
who  are  not.  This  in  turn  reduces  the  public  tax 
dollars  needed  to  support  workers  while  they  seek 
employment. 

The  20-member  panel  producing  the  study  also 
said  that  labor  saving  devices  such  as  robots  and 
computers  result  in  higher  wages  and  less  unem- 
ployment provided  they  are  phased  in  gradually. 

Now  is  the  time  for  the  U.S.  Senate  to  put  itself 
on  record  in  favor  of  advance  notice  of  plant  clos- 
ings and  layoffs  for  employees. 


LARGEST  TRENCHING  FINE 

The  U.S.  Department  of  Labor  has  cited  ABC 
Utilities  Services,  Inc.,  of  Fort  Worth,  Tex.,  for  al- 
leged trenching  violations  and  proposed  penalties 
totalling  $231 ,400 — ^the  largest  amount  ever  pro- 
posed against  a  construction  firm. 

The  Occupational  Safety  and  Health  Administra- 
tion began  its  inspection  of  the  company  following 
the  March  23,  1987  death  of  an  ABC  worker  when 
an  unshored  trench  collapsed  at  a  construction  site 
in  Azie,  Texas. 

OSHA  cited  ABC  Utilities  for  23  alleged  instances 
of  willful  violations  at  the  maximum  penalty  of 
$10,000  each,  three  alleged  serious  violations  for  a 
total  of  $1 ,400,  and  one  alleged  other  than  serious 
violation  with  no  dollar  penalty. 


MANY  DARK  HORSES 

The  temptation  to  run  for  president  is  running  at  a 
fever  pitch.  The  Federal  Election  Commission  re- 
ports around  130  persons  have  filed  to  run  for  pres- 
ident in  1988.  One  candidate,  Punch  Burger  of 
Chapel  Hill,  N.C.,  calls  his  campaign  committee 
"Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty  to  Voters." 


OCTOBER     1987 


INCOME  INEQUALITY 


Seaman,  AFL-CIO  News 


Are 
There 
Storm 
Signals 
for 

Americans 
Economy? 


It  seemed  like  good  news  for  a  change. 
The  New  York  Times  headhne  summed 
it  up:  "Poverty  Rate  Dips  as  the  Median 
Family  Income  Rises."  The  White  House 
saw  a  good  thing  and  issued  a  statement 
in  the  President's  name,  bragging  that 
"sustained,  noninflationary  growth  is 
the  government's  single  best  tool  for 
fighting  poverty.  ..." 

But  was  that  the  real  story? 

The  Census  Bureau  did  report  a  slight 
decline  in  the  rate  of  poverty,  to  13.6% 
in  1986  from  14.0%  in  1985.  The  number 
of  people  below  the  poverty  line  totaled 
32.4  million  in  1986  compared  with  33. 1 
million  in  1985. 

It  was  the  third  straight  decline  and 
President  Reagan  took  credit  for  it, 
though  he  failed  to  mention  that  the 
deep  recession  of  1982  drove  the  pov- 
erty rate  up  to  a  peak  of  15.2%  and 
35.3  million  poor  in  1983.  One  Demo- 
cratic critic  pointed  out  that  the  poverty 
rates  were  lower  during  the  1970s. 

While  even  small  gains  are  welcome, 
the  latest  poverty  report  contains  om- 
inous warnings  about  growing  income 
inequality,  along  with  its  economic  and 
political  implications. 

The  non-profit  Center  on  Budget  and 
Policy  Priorities  saw  more  to  worry 
than  cheer  about  in  the  poverty  report. 

"Poverty  rates  drop  during  economic 
recoveries  and  rise  during  recessions," 
observed  Center  Director  Robert 
Greenstein.  "What  is  disturbing  here  is 
that  poverty  has  remained  so  high  four 
years  into  an  economic  recovery.  When 
the  next  recession  comes,  we  are  likely 
to  enter  it  with  a  poverty  rate  that  is 


already  high  and  will  climb  much 
higher." 

What's  more,  the  Center  said,  the 
latest  data  show  that  the  gap  between 
the  rich  and  poor — and  also  between 
the  rich  and  the  middle  class — reached 
its  widest  point  than  at  any  time  since 
the  Census  Bureau  began  collecting 
such  data  in  1947. 

The  Census  data  show  that  in  1986, 
the  wealthiest  20%  of  American  families 
received  43.7%  of  the  national  family 
income,  the  highest  percentage  ever 
recorded.  At  the  same  time,  the  Center 
said,  the  poorest  40%  of  families  earned 
15.4%  of  national  family  income,  the 
lowest  level  ever. 

The  20%  of  American  families  right 
in  the  middle  received  16.8%,  their 
lowest  share  since  1947. 

The  Center  pointed  out  that  the  fam- 
ilies who  were  poor  fell  deeper  into 
poverty.  It  said  the  new  data  show  that 
poor  families  had  income  which  fell  an 
average  of  $4,394  below  the  poverty 
line  in  1986.  Poor  families  are  now 
further  below  the  poverty  line  than  at 
any  other  time  since  1963,  with  the 
exception  of  the  deep  recession  years 
of  1982-83.  The  official  poverty  line  for 
a  family  of  four  was  $11,203  in  1986. 

The  Center  said  another  trend  high- 
lighted by  the  new  data  is  the  increase 
in  the  proportion  of  poor  who  work.  It 
said  some  41 .5%  of  all  poor  people  aged 
15  and  over  worked  last  year,  equal  to 
the  highest  percentage  since  1968. 
Overall,  8.9  million  people  worked  but 
fell  into  poverty,  compared  to  6.6  mil- 
lion ten  years  earlier.  Some  two  million 


worked  full-time  year-round,  but  re- 
mained poor,  an  increase  of  about  50% 
from  the  1.35  million  level  a  decade 
ago. 

The  large  increases  in  the  working 
poor  stem  from  such  factors  as  the 
general  wage  stagnation  in  the  economy 
and  budget  cuts  which  fell  dispropor- 
tionately on  low-income  working  fam- 
ilies, the  Center  said.  It  noted  that 
median  weekly  wages  for  full-time 
workers  were  lower  in  1986  than  in  any 
year  in  the  1970s.  In  addition,  a  three- 
person  family  with  a  full-time  minimum 
wage  worker  fell  $1 ,769  below  the  pov- 
erty line.  In  contrast,  full-time  minimum 
wage  earnings  were  sufficient  during 
most  of  the  1960s  and  1970s  to  lift  a 
family  of  three  to  the  poverty  line. 

The  Census  Bureau  official  who  re- 
leased the  latest  report  confirmed  to 
reporters  that  "there  has  been  an  in- 
crease in  income  inequality  in  the  United 
States  during  the  last  decade  and  a 
half."  He  cited  an  increase  in  female- 
headed  households,  where  there  tend 
to  be  lower  incomes,  and  a  rise  in  two- 
income  couples  with  higher  incomes, 
among  other  things. 

The  problems  of  poverty  and  growing 
income  inequality  should  challenge  the 
nation's  leaders  and  would-be  leaders. 
Modest  steps  are  at  hand.  A  decent 
minimum  wage  would  help  the  working 
poor.  Full  health  care  coverage  would 
aid  many  more.  Family-strengthening 
proposals  are  winning  support.  And 
unions  are  gaining  among  low-wage 
workers.  No  one  should  doubt  this  is  a 
struggle  for  the  long  haul. 


CARPENTER 


THIS  MONTH'S 


QUESTION  FOR 
THE  CANDIDATES 


The  AFL-CIO  invited  13  declared  and  potential  can- 
didates for  the  Democratic  and  Republican  Party  nomi- 
nations for  president  in  the  1988  election  to  provide 
written  answers  to  four  critical  questions.  Their  re- 
sponses to  one  of  the  questions  appears  below  and  on 
the  following  pages.  Answers  to  other  questions  ap- 
peared in  past  issues  of  Carpenter.  This  is  the  final 
question. 


The  United  Brotherhood  and  other  trade 
unions  are  currently  urging  their  members 
to  register  to  vote  in  1988. 


THE 

POLITICAL 

PROCESS 


Unions,  like  many  other  membership  organizations,  have 
historically  played  an  active  role  in  the  pohtical  process  by 
assisting  their  members  in  registering,  by  communicating  with  their 
members  on  the  issues  and  by  endorsing  candidates  whose  positions 
further  the  best  interests  of  their  membership.  What  are  your  views 
of  organized  labor's  proper  role  in  the  political  process? 


4lks 

^^Answers  from 
REPUBLICANS 


George 
Bush 

Vice  President 
of  the  United 
States,  1981—: 
U.S. 

Representative. 
1967-71: 
Ambassador  to 
China.  1974-75: 
Director  of 
Central 
Intelligence, 
1975-77. 


A  democracy  can  only  be  as  strong 
as  its  people.  If  Americans  fail  to  ex- 
ercise one  of  our  most  precious  rights — 
the  right  to  vote — the  United  States 
would  be  a  democracy  in  name  only. 

Over  the  last  two  centuries,  we've 
had  to  struggle,  and  sometimes  even 


'fight,  to  extend  the  right  to  vote  to  all 
Americans,  regardless  of  race,  color 
creed  or  sex.  Now  that  we  have  uni- 
versal suffrage,  we  must  always  protect 
this  most  treasured  of  rights. 

Communist  societies  allow  their  sub- 
jects the  "right"  to  vote  in  theory. 
Dictators  of  the  left — and  the  right — 
ignore  what  we  must  never  forget:  the 
vital  importance  of  free  people  voting 
freely  according  to  the  dictates  of  their 
conscience. 

Like  other  organized  groups,  labor 
unions  can  play  an  important  role  in 
furthering  and  strengthening  our  de- 
mocracy. By  encouraging  members  and 
their  families  to  register  and  vote,  and 
by  helping  to  inform  them  about  the 
issues  and  candidates,  unions  can  play 
a  valuable  role  in  strengthening  free- 
dom. 


Copyright  ©  1987  by  the  AFL-CIO  and  Labor 
Institute  of  Public  Affairs.  This  material  constitutes 
an  internal  communication  by  the  AFL-CIO  to 
AFL-CIO  union  members  and  their  families;  re- 
production of  this  material  in  whole  or  in  substan- 
tial part  would  therefore  be  inconsistent  with  the 
federal  election  law.  No  such  reproduction  should 
be  made;  brief  excerpts  from  this  material  for  news 
coverage  purposes  may,  however,  be  quoted. 


\ 


Pete 
du  Pont 

Governor  of 
Delaware.  1977- 
1985:  U.S. 
Representative, 
1971-1977:  State 
Legislator. 
1969-1971. 


I  would  hke  to  thank  Lane  Kirkland 
for  the  opportunity  to  share  my  thoughts 
with  you.  The  space  here  is  short,  and 
I  hope  that  as  I  travel  around  this  great 
nation  of  ours,  I  will  have  the  chance 
to  meet  and  speak  with  you. 

Our  Constitution  is  now  200  years 
old.  It  is  the  bedrock  of  our  liberties, 
and  it  gives  us  all  the  opportunity  to 
take  part  in  our  democracy.  Labor  unions 
and  other  associations  have  an  impor- 
tant role  to  play  in  our  elections,  our 
economy  and  the  quality  of  our  life. 


OCTOBER     1987 


THE  POLITICAL  PROCESS /l/l//?ere  the  Candidates  Stand 


I  do  get  concerned  sometimes  when 
I  see  how  labor  union  political  action 
committees  tend  to  throw  their  support 
behind  so  many  hberal  politicians.  Many 
hberal  politicians  who  receive  tens  of 
thousands  of  dollars  from  labor  unions — 
money  paid  by  you — vote  for  a  weak 
America.  They  criticized  America  when 
we  liberated  the  brave  people  of  Gren- 
ada. Those  liberal  politicians  who  vote 
against  every  defense  bill  are  no  friends 
of  patriotic,  hard-working  Americans. 
I  urge  you  as  members  of  a  labor  union 
to  take  an  active  role  as  an  individual 
in  choosing  just  what  kind  of  politicians 
get  our  dollars. 


Jack  Kemp 

U.S. 

Representative 

(New  York) 

1971—;  Pro 

Football 

Quarterback, 

American  & 

National 

Football 

Leagues, 

1957-1970. 


The  proper  role  of  organized  labor  in 
the  political  process  is  the  same  as  that 
of  all  organizations — to  work  to  pro- 
mote the  best  interests  of  its  individual 
members,  of  free  enterprise,  and  of  our 
nation.  As  co-founder  and  president  of 
the  American  Football  League's  Play- 
ers Association,  I  helped  negotiate  the 
first  league-wide  pension  contract  in 
history.  I  believe  in  the  sanctity  of  the 
contract  and  the  right  to  bargain — and 
I  also  respect  and  uphold  individual 
rights  to  choose,  free  of  coercion.  I 
have  been  fortunate  enough  to  receive 
the  endorsement  of  many  labor  unions 
during  my  campaigns  for  Congress,  and 
I  have  learned  first-hand  that  union 
members  vote  the  candidate,  not  the 
political  party.  The  political  diversity 
among  American  working  men  and 
women  and  their  active  involvement  in 
the  political  process  has  been  good  for 
labor  and  good  for  our  democracy.  I 
welcome  the  active  involvement  of  la- 
bor in  the  political  process  on  a  bipar- 
tisan basis. 


Pat 
Robertson 

Founder/ 

Chairman , 

Christian 

Broadcasting 

Network,  1959~; 

founder. 

Operation 

Blessing,  1978—; 

Broadcast 

News  Analyst, 

1975—; 

Chancellor, 

CBN  University, 

1978—. 


Organized  labor  has  at  its  disposal 
vast  sums  of  money  held  in  trust  under 
a  tax  free  status.  This  money  comes 
from  the  dues  of  hard-working  Ameri- 
cans. 

These  dues  are  not  Democratic  money 
or  Republican  money,  but  workers' 
money. 

I  feel  that  unions  should  have  the 
same  rights  and  privileges  in  the  polit- 
ical process  as  any  other  non-profit 
membership  organization.  However, 
never  should  the  leaders  of  unions  use 
their  power  or  the  union  dues  for  any 
candidate  in  a  primary  or  general  elec- 
tion. Political  participation  is  a  precious 
right  that  should  never  be  abridged  to 
any  American. 


Bob  Dole 

Senate 
Republican 
Leader,  1987—; 
Senate  Majority 
Leader, 
1985-86;  U.S. 
Senator 
(Kansas), 
1969—; 

decorated  World 
War  II 
combat 


As  the  representatives  of  nearly  20 
million  workers,  it  is  entirely  appropri- 
ate and  desirable  for  labor  unions  to 
play  an  active  role  in  the  political  proc- 
ess by  registering  voters  and  commu- 
nicating with  union  members  on  issues 
critical  to  their  interests. 

I  think,  however,  the  AFL-CIO's 
decision  to  attempt  to  become  a  force 
only  with  the  Democratic  Party  in  pres- 
idential elections  is  a  grave  error  that 
has  worked  to  the  detriment  of  its 
members.  Union  members  are  a  poht- 
ically  diverse  group,  many  of  whom  are 


proud  to  be  members  of  the  Republican 
Party.  In  the  last  election,  47%  of  union 
households  supported  the  Republican 
presidential  candidate.  Therefore,  it  is 
time  the  AFL-CIO  leadership  aban- 
doned its  partisan  Democratic  role  and 
adopted  a  more  bipartisan  approach 
that  better  reflects  the  views  of  its 
members.  I  would  like  to  see  the  AFL- 
CIO  work  within  the  framewoi-k  of  both 
national  political  parties  to  advance  the 
agenda  that  is  critical  to  its  membership. 


Alexander 
M. 
Haig  Jr. 

Secretary  of 
State.  1981- 
1982;  Supreme 
Allied 

Commander  of 
NATO,  1974- 
1979;  Chief  of 
Staff  to 
President 
Nixon,  1973- 
1974;  founder! 
President, 
Worldwide 
Associates, 
1982—. 


As  Supreme  Commander  of  NATO, 
I  became  aware  of  organized  labor's 
essential  international  role.  In  a  world 
often  hostile  to  democracy,  American 
labor  leaders  have  always  stood  cou- 
rageously for  the  principles  of  human 
dignity,  individual  rights  and  freedom. 
Through  its  international  efforts,  the 
AFL-CIO  has  written  a  unique  chapter 
in  the  history  of  human  rights,  while 
making  an  essential  contribution  to  the 
security  of  the  free  world. 

It  is  not  a  question  therefore  of  labor's 
proper  role  in  the  political  process. 
There  can  be  no  democratic  political 
process  without  a  strong  labor  role. 
Every  democratic  community  has  a 
strong  organized  labor  movement.  In 
countries  not  yet  free,  such  as  Poland, 
labor  unions  are  the  leading  advocates 
of  a  democratic  system. 

Americans  believe  that  a  free  people, 
to  be  truly  free,  must  also  be  educated 
in  their  political  choices.  Democracy  is 
not  a  spectator  sport.  Every  participant 
is  a  winner.  Only  those  who  fail  to 
participate  are  the  losers.  Unions,  by 
assisting  their  members  to  understand 
the  issues  and  the  candidates,  help  this 
process. 


CARPENTER 


THE  POLITICAL  PROCESS /  l/l//7ere  the  Candidates  Stand 


A 


Answers  from 
DEMOCRATS 


Albert 
Gore  Jr. 

U.S.  Senator 

(Tennessee), 

1985;  U.S. 

Representative, 

1977-1985: 

Reporter, 

Nashville 

Tennessean, 

1970-1976. 


In  my  experience,  unions  have  al- 
ways played  an  important  role  in  shap- 
ing national  poUcy.  When  important 
legislation  is  on  the  line,  organized  labor 
always  comes  through  with  tremendous 
grassroots  support.  Time  after  time, 
that  political  involvement  saves  jobs 
and  makes  the  system  work. 

Organized  labor  has  helped  me  on 
every  one  of  my  campaigns  with  advice, 
support  and  volunteers.  I  would  not  be 
in  the  Senate  were  it  not  for  the  hard 
work  of  working  men  and  women  in 
Tennessee. 

I  have  long  been  a  strong  supporter 
of  union  participation  in  the  democratic 
process.  Unions  help  democracy  work 
the  Way  it  was  meant  to — by  harvesting 
ideas  at  the  grass-roots  level.  Democ- 
racy is  just  as  important  in  the  work- 
place. Economic  growth  wiU  come  when 
working  Americans  have  more  pay  and 
say. 


Richard 
Gephardt 

Chairman, 

House 

Democratic 

Caucus,  1985 — ; 

U.S. 

Representative 

(Missouri), 

1977—;  Board  of 

Aldermen, 

1971-76. 


Democratic  victories  are  won  with 
the  help  of  labor,  it's  as  simple  as  that, 
and  we  can't  do  without  you.  I  make 
no  bones  about  the  fact  that  I  would 


welcome  the  endorsement  of  the  Amer- 
ican labor  movement.  I  plan  on  working 
with  the  labor  movement  to  put  their 
membership  on  delegate  slates  across 
the  country.  I  look  toward  the  labor 
movement  to  take  an  active  role  in 
organizing  our  campaign,  in  recruiting 
volunteers  and  providing  financial  con- 
tributions. 

I  share  the  concerns  of  the  working 
people  of  this  country — always  have, 
always  will.  Often  as  people  reach  for 
the  stars  they  forget  their  beginnings, 
but  not  Dick  Gephardt.  I'm  never  going 
to  forget  the  hard  work  my  parents  had 
to  put  in  to  provide  me  with  the  op- 
portunities I've  had  in  life.  I  want  that 
same  kind  of  country  for  my  children 
and  yours,  a  nation  that  is  proud  of  its 
workers,  and  where  hard  work  yields 
fair  rewards  and  opportunity.  We're 
setting  out  to  make  America  first  again 
by  sticking  to  our  strongest  values: 
honesty,  trust  in  people,  regard  for  hard 
work  and  caring  about  our  neighbors. 
That's  what  my  campaign  is  all  about. 


Paul 
Simon 

U.S.  Senator 

(Illinois)  1985—: 

U.S. 

Representative, 

1975-1985; 

Lieutenant 

Governor, 

1968-1972; 

Newspaper 

Publisher, 

1948-1966. 


Americati  working  people  and  the 
American  labor  movement  have  been 
the  driving  force  behind  every  major 
piece  of  progressive  legislation  in  the 
United  States  in  this  century. 

That  includes  minimum  wage,  social 
security.  Medicare,  basic  health  and 
safety  legislation,  civil  rights  and  on 
and  on. 

And,  any  Democratic  candidate  for 
president  who  doesn't  recognize  this 
progressive  and  central  role  of  the 
American  labor  movement  does  not,  in 
my  opinion,  understand  our  history 
either  as  a  party,  or  as  a  nation. 

In  1984,  for  example,  the  members 
of  the  AFL-CIO  provided  the  Demo- 
cratic presidential  candidate  with  a  dra- 
matic 61-39%  margin. 

The  simple  fact  is  that  the  American 
labor  movement  is  often  way  ahead  of 
the  Democratic  Party  in  recognizing 


the  issues  which  concern  and  move 
ordinary  American  working  people  and 
voters.  The  election  of  1984  is  a  dra- 
matic demonstration  of  that. 

I  see  my  role  in  this  campaign  as  the 
spokesperson  of  the  Roosevelt,  Truman 
and  Kennedy  Democratic  tradition  of 
fighting  for  American  working  men  and 
women. 

I  would  be  proud  to  carry  the  banner 
of  the  American  labor  movement  and 
the  Democratic  tradition  into  the  next 
election. 

And,  as  Harry  Truman  showed,  when 
we  do  that.  Democrats  win! 


IVIichaei  S. 
Dukakis 

Governor  of 
Massachusetts, 
1974-1978  and 
1982—. 


I  believe  that  organized  labor  can  and 
must  play  a  key  role  in  the  American 
political  process. 

The  leaders  and  members  of  orga- 
nized labor  in  Massachusetts  have  been 
an  important  part  of  the  extraordinary 
economic  success  that  we  enjoy.  With 
the  full  participation  of  organized  labor, 
we  have  reduced  unemployment  to  less 
than  4%  in  Massachusetts. 

Labor  leaders  have  been  essential 
partners  in  a  coalition  that  has  won 
passage  of  strong  plant-closing  legisla- 
tion, a  comprehensive  right-to-know 
bill  and  sweeping  reform  of  our  work- 
ers' compensation  system. 

Without  national  leadership  from  or- 
ganized labor,  we  would  never  have 
achieved  the  kind  of  social  and  eco- 
nomic progress  that  is  reflected  in  fed- 
eral laws  governing  the  minimum  wage, 
the  eight-hour  day,  civil  rights,  Medi- 
care and  Head  Start. 

I  have  sought  support  from  organized 
labor  throughout  my  political  career, 
and  I  do  so  now  as  a  candidate  for  the 
presidency. 

We  need  your  involvement;  we  need 
your  leadership;  we  need  the  active 
participation  of  working  men  and  women 
and  their  families  in  the  1988  campaign. 

And  I  will  need  your  active  partici- 
pation and  involvement  as  president  of 
the  United  States. 


OCTOBER    1987 


THE  POLITICAL  PROCESS/ l/l^/iere  the  Candidates  Stand 


Bruce 
Babbitt 

Governor  of 
Arizona,  1978- 
1987:  Attorney 
General,  1975- 
1978:  Attorney, 
Brown,  Vlassis 
&  Bain,  1967- 
1975:  Attorney, 
Office  of 
Economic 
Opportunity, 

1965-1967. 


The  American  labor  movement  has 
always  stood  for  the  protection  of  those 
who  could  not  protect  themselves.  You 
have  led  the  way  to  many  of  this  cen- 
tury's most  important  social  welfare 
advances.  As  a  Democrat,  I  welcome 
the  vital  contribution  that  the  labor 
movement  has  made  to  building  my 
party.  There  is  nothing  narrow  or  selfish 
in  representing  the  interests  of  working 
men  and  women  and  their  families,  and 
I  will  be  proud  to  stand  with  the  Amer- 
ican labor  movement  in  this  presidential 
campaign.  There  will  inevitably  be  is- 
sues on  which  we  disagree,  but  I  wel- 
come your  participation  and  I  intend  to 
work  hard  for  your  support. 


Jesse 
Jackson 

President, 

National 

Rainbow 

Coalition,  1984—: 

President. 

Operation 

PUSH,  1971- 

1983:  Executive 

Director, 

Operation 

Breadbasket, 

1966-1971. 


I  support  the  right  and  ability  of  all 
citizens  and  labor  to  participate  fully  in 
the  American  political  process.  I  have 
spent  all  of  my  adult  life  fighting  and 
risking  my  life  for  that  right.  No  one 
has  risked  more,  registered  more,  po- 
litically educated  or  involved  more 
American  citizens  in  the  political  proc- 
ess. 

Organized  labor  is  a  legitimate  inter- 
est whose  concerns  must  be  taken  into 
account  by  any  serious  presidential  can- 
didate. 

The  role  of  presidential  leadership  is 
to  put  forth  a  vision  of  where   the 


country  needs  to  go,  how  he/she  pro- 
poses to  get  there,  allow  people  and 
groups  to  see  their  role  in  the  plan  and 
inspire  all  citizens  and  groups  to  get 
involved. 

I  have  fought  alongside  organized 
labor  all  of  my  life  in  our  shared  com- 
mitment to  full  employment,  livable 
wages,  worker  safety,  collective  bar- 
gaining, health  care,  housing,  equal  op- 
portunity, voting  rights  and  other  pro- 
grams of  humane  priorities  at  home  and 
human  rights  abroad. 

I  support  organized  labor's  right  to 
speak  and  act  on  international  labor  and 
human  rights  issues,  and  I  look  forward 
to  continuing  our  efforts  in  these  im- 
portant fields. 


Joseph  R. 
Biden  Jr. 

U.S.  Senator 

(Delaware) 

1973—: 

Chairman, 

Judiciary 

Committee: 

ranking 

Democrat, 

Foreign 

Relations 

Committee 

Organized  labor  has  always  been  the 
bedrock  of  progressivity  in  this  nation. 
But  I  believe  that  1988  will  be  a  wa- 


tershed election  for  labor.  At  the  mo- 
ment when  the  standard  of  living  for 
our  workers  is  no  longer  rising,  we  need 
strong  leadership  from  labor. 

We  are  seeing  many  transitions  in  the 
economy  which  will  affect  workers.  We 
need  more  labor  protection  now,  not 
less,  so  that  the  rights  of  American 
workers  are  not  sacrificed  in  this  tran- 
sition. For  example,  many  manufactur- 
ing jobs  are  being  lost  and  are  being 
replaced  by  service  sector  jobs  which 
are  not  organized.  I  believe  labor  must 
organize  in  those  new  industries  in 
order  to  protect  worker  rights. 

Over  the  past  six  years,  business 
groups  have  been  waging  a  war  on 
organized  labor — trying  to  roll  back 
most  of  the  gains  of  the  past  four 
decades.  The  Reagan  administration  has 
tried  to  undo  the  entire  structure  of 
labor-management  relations  in  this 
country.  The  chairman  of  the  NLRB 
has  gone  so  far  as  to  attack  the  very 
idea  of  collective  bargaining,  the  most 
fundamental  right  of  all. 

It  is  time  for  unions  and  their  mem- 
bers to  fight  back.  You  have  a  right  and 
duty  to  play  an  active  role  in  politics. 
You  should  demand  that  basic  fairness 
be  done  for  working  people,  and  that 
we  get  the  nation  moving  again. 

I  hope  that  every  working  man  and 
woman  will  get  involved  in  the  political 
process  in  1988.  America's  unions  should 
do  everything  they  can  to  make  sure 
that  this  happens. 


Take  a  Hand  in 

America's 
Future. 


fe% 


Local  UBC  political  action 
committees  of  CLIC  are  work- 
ing on  registering  unregistered 
members.  New  voters  will  get 
"I'm  union  and  I  vote"  bumper 
stickers  and  a  personal  letter 
from  the  Carpenters'  Legisla- 
tive Improvement  Committee. 

When  your  local  or  district 
council  reaches  75%  regis- 
tered members,  you  can  join 
the  Registered  for  Action  Club. 

Every  day  the  news  carries 
more  stories  on  the  coming 
presidential  and  congressional 
elections.  Let's  be  ready  to 
turn  out  more  UBC  votes  than 
ever  before. 


To  vote  intelligently  in  next  year's  elections,  you  must  be  informed.  Study  the 
records  of  the  candidates  and  their  positions  regarding  public  issues.  Discuss  your 
reasoning  with  others.  Then  vote  in  the  best  interest  of  you,  your  family  and  your 
future. 


10 


CARPENTER 


Labor  Presidential  Endorsement 
Delayed  for  Lack  of  Consensus 


Early  labor  endorsement  of  a  presi- 
dential candidate  in  the  November  1988 
elections  has  been  all  but  ruled  out  by 
the  AFL-CIO  because  no  censensus 
has  yet  developed  among  union  mem- 
bers and  officials. 

AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland 
said  he  did  not  expect  the  AFL-CIO 
convention  would  issue  an  endorsement 
when  it  meets  in  October.  "Our  rules 
say  that  we  have  to  have  a  two-thirds 
majority  to  endorse.  We  don't  have  it. 
The  field  is  wide  open,  and  support  is 
scattered  among  the  various  candi- 
dates." 

"Our  unions,  armed  with  extensive 
polling  data  and  widespread  samplings 
of  membership  opinion,  have  reported 
that  the  only  clear  majority  that  exists 
is  a  majority  for  union  solidarity,"  Kirk- 
land said  at  a  press  conference  during 
the  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council  meet- 
ing here. 

"The  only  clear  and  compelling  man- 
date from  our  members  is  to  continue 
the  process,  to  try  a  little  harder,  to 
poll  some  more  and  to  listen  some 
more,"  Kirkland  said.  He  added  that  if 
a  consensus  seems  to  be  forming,  he 
could  convene  the  federation's  General 
Board  on  relatively  short  notice  and 
take  a  vote. 

Meanwhile,  Kirkland  said  the  feder- 
ation's Democracy  at  Work  processof 
sounding  out  and  informing  union  mem- 
bers on  the  candidates  and  the  issues 
will  continue.  In  that  process,  he  said, 
"thousands  of  videotapes  of  the  can- 
didates have  been  sent  to  and  seen  by 
our  members.  Millions  of  the  candi- 
dates' written  positions  have  been 
printed  and  read  by  our  members." 

Further,  Kirkland  announced  that  the 
executive  council  unanimously  adopted 
a  series  of  "voluntary  guidelines"  for 
the  pplitica!  process  to  take  account  of 
the  stretched-out  timetable  for  a  labor 
endorsement. 

Under  these  guidelines,  union  offi- 
cers, members  and  their  families,  in- 
cluding officers  of  state  and  central 
bodies,  are  encouraged  to  seek  election 


as  delegates  to  party  conventions,  act- 
ing as  individuals.  Unions  would  not 
be  limited  in  supporting  members  and 
their  families  seeking  such  delegate 
spots. 

However,  affiliated  unions  would 
continue  to  refrain  from  making  public 
endorsements  of  any  presidential  can- 
didates in  advance  of  a  decision  by  the 
federation  itself.  And  union  officers  and 
staff  would  not  take  part  in  the  cam- 
paigns or  fundraising  activities  of  any 
candidates. 

Asked  if  an  endorsement  might  be 
delayed  until  after  the  party  conven- 
tions, Kirkland  said,  "I  don't  want  to 
speculate.  I  think  it's  very  much  an 
evolving  situation,  one  that  may  change 
day  by  day.  I'm  not  certain  that  all  of 
the  likely  candidates  are  in  the  race." 
But  he  said  no  endorsement  is  likely 
before  the  first  contests  next  February 
in  Iowa  and  New  Hampshire. 

Whatever  the  timing  of  an  endorse- 
ment, Kirkland  said,  "Our  three  goals 
continue  to  be  maintaining  unity,  send- 
ing the  maximum  number  of  labor  del- 
egates to  the  party  conventions  and 
providing  a  coordinating  role  for  the 
federation." 

Other  council  actions  included  a  strong 
and  detailed  statement  of  opposition  to 
President  Reagan's  nomination  of  ap- 
peals court  judge  Robert  Bork  to  the 
Supreme  Court,  and  approval  of  an 
agreement  ending  the  1 0-year-old  Coors 
beer  boycott.  The  council  accepted, 
"with  regret  and  with  gratitude,"  the 
resignation  of  Murray  Finley  and  elected 
to  the  vacancy  Jack  Sheinkman,  Fin- 
ley's  successor  as  president  of  the 
Clothing  &  Textile  Workers. 

Although  most  states  had  job  gains 
in  trade,  services,  transportation  and 
public  utilities,  and  finance,  insurance 
the  real  estate,  21  states  reported  man- 
ufacturing job  losses.  The  largest  de- 
clines occurred  in  Massachusetts, 
Michigan,  New  York,  Ohio  and  Penn- 
sylvania. Mining  job  losses  occurred  in 
25  states,  with  declines  concentrated  in 
Colorado,  Pennsylvania,  Texas  and  West 
Virginia. 


Diabetes  Facility 
To  Be  Foremost 
Research  Center 


The  Blueprint  for  Cure  Campaign,  spon- 
sored by  the  United  Brotherhood  and  other 
affiliates  of  the  Building  and  Construction 
Trades,  has  one  goal  in  mind:  raising  funds 
to  promote  research  for  a  cure  for  diabetes. 
Plans  are  to  build  a  multimillion  dollar  re- 
search center  in  Florida. 

With  its  70  researchers  and  technicians, 
the  University  of  Miami's  Diabetes  Research 
Institute  has  been  cited  frequently  by  sci- 
entists around  the  world  as  America's  fore- 
most diabetes  research  organization.  The 
state-of-the-art  facility  to  be  built  at  the 
University  of  Miami  will  cost  $10  million, 
and  it  will  be  a  symbol  of  hope  for  those 
with  the  disease. 

The  new  facility  will  include: 

•  A  clinic  and  an  operating  suite  for  dia- 
betics, 

•  A  conference  center  where  doctors  and 
researchers  can  share  their  ideas  and  re- 
search, 

•  A  center  to  treat  the  many  animals  used 
by  doctors  in  diabetes  research, 

•  A  variety  of  laboratories  for  research. 
With  a  cure  for  the  disease  as  the  ultimate 
goal,  the  Blueprint  for  Cure  Campaign  con- 
tinues with  your  support. 

Blueprint  for  Cure  contributions  were  re- 
ceived from  the  following  business  repre- 
sentatives attending  the  August  2-7,  1987 
Training  Seminar  at  the  George  Meany  Cen- 
ter for  Labor  Studies: 

Jerrold  Alander,  Joseph  M.  Ardoin,  Jr., 
Curtis  Baker,  Clifford  F.  Bembenek,  Thomas 
R.  Bryan,  John  Bullock,  Edward  W.  Butt, 
James  S.  Campbell,  Richard  D.  Ciesielski, 
Robert  B.  Cutler,  Martin  Dahlquist,  Larry 
Dunn,  James  Harold  Dye,  Paul  Froehlich, 
Thomas  M.  Gilbert,  James  Gleason,  Charles 
L.  Haggerty,  Dean  E.  Hardman,  James  Her- 
rera,  Al  Honchell,  Robert  Jonoski,  James 
L.  Kerley,  Leon  Kinchloe,  Edward  R.  Krup- 
ski,  Dana  C.  Martin,  John  Martin,  Michael 
J.  Murphy,  Gerry  Nannenga,  Dennis  O'Hara, 
Philip  Edward  Parratt,  Gaetano  Pigliacelli, 
Garry  Playford,  Frank  Reynolds,  Stanley 
Soboleski,  James  L.  Stinson,  Edward  Szyr- 
wiel,  David  C.  Talkington,  John  Tokarek, 
Robert  L.  Williamson,  Bruce  A.  Wingert 
and  Michael  Ziegler. 

Other  recent  contributors  are  Local  458, 
Clarksville,  IN;  624,  Brockton,  MA;  839, 
Des  Plaines,  IL;  1607,  Los  Angeles,  CA; 
2018,  Ocean  County,  NJ  and  2214,  Festus, 
MO. 

Local  4L  Woburn,  MA;  48,  Fitchburg, 
MA;  49,  Lowell,  MA;  218,  Medford,  MA; 
595,  Lynn,  MA;  777,  Harrisonville,  MO; 
815,  Beverly,  MA;  918,  Manhattan,  KS; 
1026,  Miami,  FL;  1338,  Charlottetown,  P.E.I. ; 
1889,  Downers  Grove,  IL;  Indiana  State 
Council  and  the  Missouri  State  Council. 

In  memory  of  Florence  E.  Kirkland,  a 
contribution  was  received  from  Local  44, 
Champaign,  IL. 

Other  contributions  came  from  Patrick  J. 
Campbell,  James  Irvine  and  Jean  M.  Whyers. 


OCTOBER     1987 


11 


An  aerial  view  of  Raynor' s  four  current  plants  in  Dixon.  III. 


The  Rajmor  Story 


From  a  rather  inauspicious  beginning 
in  1945,  Dixon,  Illinois-based  Raynor 
Manufacturing  Company  is  now  rec- 
ognized as  an  industry  leader  in  the 
production  of  commercial,  industrial 
and  residential  sectional  overhead  ga- 
rage doors,  rolling  steel  doors  and  elec- 
tric garage  door  openers. 

The  company's  founder,  a  lifetime 
UBC  member,  Ray  H.  Neisewander 
Sr.,  began  his  successful  and  varied 
career  by  ansvi/ering  a  Springfield,  III., 
newspaper  advertisement  for  a  wood 
molder,  a  skill  at  which  he  excelled 
while  working  in  St.  Louis. 

After  several  years  of  employment  at 
the  Springfield  mill,  Neisewander  started 
his  own  business  in  the  basement  of  his 
home ,  manufacturing  wood ' '  socko-ball' ' 
paddles,  a  game  popular  among  teen- 
agers in  the  1930's. 

Neisewander  soon  thereafter  raised 
his  business  sights  and  formed  Capitol 
Wood  Works,  a  Springfield  company 
which  made  kitchen  cabinets,  bar  fix- 
tures and  windows. 

With  the  beginning  of  World  War  II, 
Capitol  converted  from  manufacturing 
consumer  goods  to  making  wood  am- 
munition boxes  and  invasion  bridge 
trusses  for  the  military.  At  the  end  of 
the  war  in  1945,  Capitol  returned  to 
consumer  products  manufacturing  and, 
at  the  same  time,  added  a  new  product: 
wood  sectional  overhead  garage  doors. 


Later  that  same  year,  in  partnership 
with  an  executive  from  an  Illinois  ga- 
rage door  manufacturer,  Neisewander 
formed  Raynor  Manufacturing  Co.  in 
Quincy,  III.,  with  the  name  'Raynor' 
created  from  a  combination  of  the  two 
partners'  names. 

To  better  serve  the  needs  of  the 
Chicago  metropolitan  market,  Raynor 
was  moved  northeast  to  Dixon,  III.,  in 
1946.  In  1948,  Neisewander  purchased 
complete  control  of  the  company  and, 
as  one  of  his  first  official  acts  as  its 
president,  oversaw  the  organization  of 
the  approximately  60  production  em- 
ployees with  the  UBC  Local  790. 

Over  the  next  several  years,  Raynor 
experienced  persistent  and  rapid  growth 
through  innovative  product  develop- 
ment. This  growth  expanded  job  op- 
portunities for  the  Local  790  members 
and  office  employees  alike  and  set  the 
course  for  Raynor's  industry-leading 
recognition. 

In  1968,  under  the  direction  of  Ray 
Neisewander  Jr.,  son  of  the  company 
founder,  Raynor  initiated  its  own  truck 
delivery  fleet. 

This  breakaway  from  using  common- 
carrier  delivery  methods  not  only  of- 
fered Raynor  distributors  more  timely 
and  damage-free  product  shipments, 
but  this  bold  move  also  proved  cost- 
effective  and  further  entrenched  Ray- 
nor's commitment  to  quality  control. 


A  carpenter's  dream, 
four  decades  ago,  just 
keeps  on  growing  into  a 
larger  union  shop 


John  Knowle.s  of  Local  790  at  the  controls 
of  un  automatic  welder. 


Dora  Diminig  attaches  a  mutt  to  an  alumi- 
num door  .section. 


Francis  Beragon  operates  a  roll  former  in 
Plant  No.  3. 


12 


CARPENTER 


Today,  the  Ray  nor  delivery  system 
has  a  fleet  of  41  tractors,  77  trailers  and 
35  drivers,  also  Local  790  members. 
Last  year,  the  system  completed  nearly 
2.5  million  accident-free  miles  while 
delivering  Raynor  products  to  over  400 
distributors. 

With  the  death  of  Ray  Neisewander 
Sr.,  in  1979,  his  son,  Ray  Jr.,  stepped- 
up  from  his  position  as  the  company's 
executive  vice  president  to  assume  the 
duties  his  father  had  so  successfully 
held  for  over  31  years. 

In  1980  the  company  introduced  the 
first  steel  residential  garage  doors  war- 
ranted for  10  years  against  rusting, 
splitting  and  cracking.  Aptly  named  the 
'Decade'  series  of  garage  doors,  the 
new  product  line  was  a  hit  with  home- 
owners. 

From  1980-1986,  sales  of  Raynor 
products  increased  to  all-time  highs, 
prompting  the  hiring  of  approximately 
100  new  employees.  Then,  last  Decem- 
ber, the  company  announced  building 
expansion  plans — a  $4.5  million  pro- 
gram (now  ongoing  and  slated  for  com- 
pletion by  year's  end)  which  could  ul- 
timately lead  to  the  creation  of  more 
than  100  additional  jobs  in  Plant  No.  5. 

Further,  the  company  president  an- 
nounced Raynor' s  entry  into  Indy  Car 
racing  as  a  promotional  effort  to  in- 
crease the  publics'  awareness  of  the 
Raynor  name  and  its  products. 

The  'Raynor  Motorsports'  Indy  car 
racing  team  is  based  in  Dixon  and 
features  veteran  Indy  car  driver  Derek 


Tony  Quadraro, 
left,  and  Jim  Cook 
weigh  bundled 
wood  garage  door 
sections  prior  to 
their  shipment. 


Raynor's  Indy  rac- 
ing car.  The  racing 
team  which  mans  it 
is  based  in  Dixon. 


Daly  and  a  professional  crew  of  seven 
mechanics  and  support  staff. 

"It  is  our  desire  to  become  compet- 
itive within  the  Indy  car  circuit,  thereby 
increasing  our  'brand  name  recognition' 
and  Raynor  garage  door  sales,"  says 
the  program's  co-director,  Ray  Neise- 


wander III,  who  serves  as  the  compa- 
ny's manager  of  warehouse  operations. 
The  success  Raynor  has  achieved 
over  the  past  four  decades  is,  to  a  great 
extent,  attributable  to  the  work  of  its 
390  production  employees  and  35  truck 
drivers  who  are  members  of  Local  790. 


More  than  300  Non-Union  Carpenters  Walk 
Off  the  Job  in  Alberta,  Sign  with  UBC 


19  construction  sites  idled  by  low-wages  protest 


A  walkout  August  21  at  two  construc- 
tion sites  in  Calgary,  Alta.,  by  more 
than  200  non-union  workers  has  mush- 
roomed into  a  province-wide  effort  to 
improve  wages  and  working  conditions 
throughout  the  province. 

A  week  and  a  half  after  the  initial 
walkout  19  construction  jobs  were  down 
in  Calgary.  In  Red  Deer,  100  miles  north 
of  Calgary,  10  men  walked  away  from 
a  non-union  contractor,  and  Carpenters 
Local  2410  began  picketing  there  and 
at  the  Joffre  Gas  Plant,  a  nearby  site. 
In  Edmonton,  the  provincial  capital. 
Local  1325  geared  up  for  similar  walk- 
outs. In  Lethbridge,  not  far  north  of 
the  Montana  border,  Local  846  had  two 
projects  down,  but  its  members  went 
back  to  work  after  employers  agreed  to 
a  750  to  $1.50  per  hour  raise. 

All  UBC  local  unions  affiliated  with 
the  Alberta  Provincial  Council  are  lend- 


ing support  to  the  workers — union  and 
non-union — signing  all  non-union  work- 
ers as  soon  as  possible  to  present  a 
united  front  to  contractors  and  owners, 
some  of  whom  have  supported  the  non- 
union, "merit  shop"  movement. 

Tenth  District  Board  Member  Ron 
Dancer  expressed  optimism  that  the 
strikers  may  win  their  goals.  He  re- 
cently reported  to  the  general  president 
that  many  contractors  are  getting  des- 
perate because  there  is  already  a  real 
shortage  of  good  tradesmen  available." 

Until  construction  work  began  sev- 
eral months  ago  for  the  1988  Winter 
Olympics,  which  will  be  staged  at  var- 
ious sports  arenas  in  the  city,  Calgary 
was  suffering  a  12%  unemployment  rate. 
Some  of  that  construction  has  been 
union  and  some  non-union. 

The  Alberta  Provincial  Council  is 
receiving  strong  support  from  UBC  lo- 


cals in  the  U.S.  and  Canada,  according 
to  W.  McGillivray,  first  vice  president 
of  the  council.  Other  Building  Trades- 
men have  joined  the  picket  lines. 

A  rally  was  held  September  3  at  the 
James  Fowler  School  in  Calgary,  with 
many  labor  leaders  from  across  Canada 
participating.  Building  Trades  mem- 
bers. Postal  Workers,  Letter  Carriers 
and  representatives  of  other  unions 
joined  UBC  leaders  from  British  Co- 
lumbia and  Ontario  in  denouncing  the 
poor  wages  and  working  conditions  in 
Alberta.  Among  the  speakers  was  Guy 
Demoulin,  deputy  director  of  the  Ca- 
nadian Federation  and  a  UBC  member. 

John  Patterson,  president  and  busi- 
ness manager  of  the  Calgary  District 
Council,  warned  local  builders  and  con- 
tractors that  "there  are  no  carpenters 
around  who  would  be  willing  to  work 
for  non-union  wages  of  $9  an  hour." 


OCTOBER     1987 


13 


Working  in  CONFINED  SPACES 


BY  PHILLIP  L.  POLAKOFF,  M.D. 

Director,  Western  Institute  for 
Occupational/Environmental  Sciences 


Working  in  a  confined  space — a  place 
you  have  to  bend,  twist  and  squeeze  to 
get  into  to  get  at  the  job — is  uncom- 
fortable at  best.  At  worst,  such  a  situ- 
ation has  special  hazards  capable  of 
causing  bodily  injury,  illness  and  death 
to  the  worker. 

Confined  spaces,  by  design,  have 
limited  openings  for  entry  and  exit. 
They  are  not  intended  for  continuous 
worker  occupancy.  Generally,  by  lo- 
cation and  design,  they  have  unfavor- 
able natural  ventilation  which  could 
contain  or  produce  dangerous  air  con- 
taminants. 

In  one  of  its  series  of  fact  sheets  on 
occupational  safety  and  health,  the 
Communications  Workers  of  America 
'  estimated  that  approximately  42,000  ca- 
ble splicers  and  outside  plant  techni- 
cians work  in  confined  spaces.  For 
CWA  members,  confined  space  work 
is  done  primarily  in  manholes,  but  may 
also  include  crawl  spaces,  cable  vaults 
and  areas  on  customer  premises  which 
fit  the  description  of  a  confined  space. 

Ccirpenters,  electricians,  plumbers  and 
other  skilled  workers  of  course,  also 
have  to  deal  with  similar  tight-squeeze 
work  situations. 

The  hazards  can  range  from  an  oxy- 
gen deficient  atmosphere  or  exposure 
to  toxic  agents  (plugging  compounds, 
solvents,  etc.)  to  the  possibility  of  an 
explosion  or  structural  and/or  environ- 
mental hazards. 

The  first  symptoms  of  an  oxygen 
deficient  environment  are  increased 
breathing  volume  and  accelerated 
heartbeat.  As  the  percentage  of  oxygen 
in  the  air  decreases,  other  symptoms 
appear  such  as  rapid  fatigue,  nausea 
and  unconsciousness. 

According  to  the  National  Institute 
for  Occupational  Safety  and  Health, 
when  the  oxygen  level  drops  to  less 


than  6%,  death  will  occur  in  minutes. 
Oxygen  content  is  in  a  safe  range  when 
it  is  between  19  and  21%. 

Another  element  of  great  danger  in 
confined  spaces  is  carbon  monoxide. 
This  is  a  colorless,  odorless,  tasteless 
gas  produced  by  the  incomplete  burning 
of  coal,  wood,  oil  and  propane,  or 
anything  else  that  contains  carbon.  Be- 
cause you  cannot  see,  smell  or  taste 
carbon  monoxide,  you  can  inhale  it 
without  being  aware  of  it. 

Symptoms  include  headaches,  diz- 
ziness, drowsiness  and  nausea.  Pro- 
longed exposure  to  carbon  monoxide 
fumes  may  result  in  convulsions  and 
ultimately  death. 

Some  physical  hazards  cannot  be 
eliminated  because  of  the  nature  of  the 
confined  space  or  the  work  that  has  to 
be  done.  These  hazards  include  elec- 
trical utilities,  scaffolding,  surface  res- 
idues and  structural  hazards.  While 
electrocution,  or  electrical  shock,  is  not 
the  major  cause  of  fatalities  in  confined 
spaces,  a  NIOSH  study  indicates  it  has 
been  a  factor  in  many  injuries  and 
deaths  in  confined  spaces. 

The  use  of  scaffolding  in  confined 
spaces  may  contribute  to  accidents 
caused  by  workers  or  materials  falling. 
Surface  residue  in  confined  spaces  can 
increase  the  already  hazardous  condi- 
tion of  electrical  shock  and  bodily  injury 
due  to  slips  and  falls. 

Noise  may  also  create  problems  be- 
cause the  interior  of  the  confined  space 
tends  to  cause  sound  to  reverberate. 
This  intensified  noise  increases  the  risk 
of  hearing  damage  and  may  cause  the 
worker  inside  to  be  unable  to  hear 
instructions  or  danger  signals. 

For  safety's  sake,  there  should  be 
two  workers  to  a  confined  space:  one 
to  perform  the  job;  the  other  to  remain 
at  the  entrance  to  provide  assistance  if 


an  emergency  arises.  The  second  per- 
son should  be  familiar  with  basic  first 
aid  procedures  and  cardio-pulmonary 
resuscitation. 

If  you  have  any  questions,  or  suggestions 
for  future-articles,  write  me  at  WIOES,  5655 
College  Avenue,  No.  307,  Oakland,  CA 
94618. 

(Copyright  1987  by  Dr.  Phillip  L.  PolakolT/PAI) 


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AID  FOR  COMMUNITY  CENTER 


Members  of  Local  248,  Toledo,  Ohio,  helped  to  build  a  new  room  for  the  Huntington 
Farms  Community  Center  in  Sylvania,  Ohio.  A  new  ceiling  for  the  community  center's 
thrift  shop  and  a  darkroom  for  photography  classes  were  built  by  members  who  volun- 
teered their  weekends.  Joe  Cast,  Robin  Harshman  and  Don  Westfall  of  Local  248  finish 
off  the  storage  room. ^Photograph  from  the  Blade,  Toledo,  Ohio. 


ILLINOIS  SCHOLAR 

The  scholarship  com- 
mittee of  Local  412, 
South  Bend,  Ind., 
awarded  Scott  Alen 
Foster  the  local's  schol- 
arship for  1987.  Foster 
is  the  son  of  member 
David  and  Karen  Fos- 
ter. Foster  is  a  graduate 
of  Penn  High  School  and 
will  be  attending  Indi- 
ana State  University  in  Terre  Haute,  Ind., 
this  fall  to  begin  his  studies  in  construction 
technology. 


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The  Killer  Bees  are  a  tag  team  wrestling 
pair  from  Tampa,  Flu.  "Bee"  Brian  Blair, 
left,  is  the  son  of  Brian  E.  Blair,  business 
representative  for  Local  140,  Tampa,  Fla. 
On  the  right  is  Blair's  partner.  Jumping 
Jimmy  Briinzell.  Blair  has  been  wrestling 
professionally  for  10  years. 


Apprentices  of  Local  24,  Cheshire,  Conn., 
recently  completed  a  ramp  for  Anthony 
Perry,  also  of  Local  24.  Perry  is  a  40-year 
member  of  the  Brotherhood  and,  due  to 
diabetes,  is  confined  to  a  wheelchair. 
Those  who  helped  to  build  the  ratnp  are, 
standing,  apprentices  Jay  Souza,  Joseph 
Tomasino  and  Nicholas  Tommaselti,  and 
instructor  Louis  Colavilo.  Sealed  are  Ber- 
nard Bohaczeski,  trustee,  and  Anthony 
Perry. 

LOCAL  BOWLS  FIRST 

The  23rd  annual  Florida  statewide  union 
bowling  tournament  was  recently  held.  First 
place  went  to  Carpenters  Local  1765,  Or- 
lando, Fla.  The  team  was  made  up  of  45- 
year  member  E.  P.  Boss,  40-year  member 
Karl  Wegner,  25-year  member  Gerald  DeLany 
and  15-year  member  Frank  Farrugia.  The 
total  score,  2571. 


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OCTOBER     1987 


15 


A  New  Twist  to  the 
Care  of  Sick  Kids 


By  PHILLIP  L.  POLAKOFF,  MD 


With  both  parents  working,  there  is  a  new 
need  in  child  care.  The  need,  in  this  case, 
is  a  way  to  care  for  a  sicic  child  so  the 
worliing  mother  or  father  doesn't  have  to 
stay  home  and  lose  time  off  the  job. 

The  solution  is  in  special  centers,  some- 
times in-home  care,  for  the  child  who  is 
mildly  under  the  weather — a  cough  or  cold — 
but  who  is  barred  from  day  care.  Such 
centers  and  company-sponsored  programs 
are  springing  up  in  major  cities  across  Amer- 
ica. 

At  the  brightly  decorated  Wheezles  and 
Sneezles  in  Albany,  Calif.,  across  the  bay 
from  San  Francisco,  kids'  minor  ills  are 
treated  under  a  nurse's  supervision  with  lots 
of  activities  and  big  doses  of  love .  The  center 
is  funded  by  the  state  and  the  city  of  Berke- 
ley. 

In  Minneapolis,  parents  who  work  for  3M 
Corp.  can  leave  a  mildly  ailing  child  at  home 
and  go  off  to  the  job  with  more  peace  of 
mind  because  the  company  provides  home 
health-care  aides.  3M  pays  78%  of  the  cost. 

In  Miami,  AMI  Corp.  Southeastern  Med- 
ical Center's  Sniffles  'N  Sneezes  program 
for  young  patients  includes  snacks  and  hot 
lunches,  their  own  beds  and  a  remote-control 
television.  The  cost  is  $20  a  day.  For  an 
extra  $10,  parents  can  authorize  a  check-up 
on  their  child  by  hospital  pediatricians. 

In  another  variation  of  this  idea,  several 
businesses  participate  in  the  Tucson  Asso- 
ciation for  Child  Care,  Inc.  a  nonprofit  or- 
ganization that  has  helped  more  than  1,500 
families  since  it  was  started  last  year.  The 
firms  pick  up  the  $8-an-hour  tab  for  in-home 
care. 

Typically,  care  is  provided  for  children 
who  don't  have  highly  contagious  illnesses 
or  who  are  not  running  a  temperature  above 
102  degrees.  Child  care  staffers  are  often 
trained  in  childhood  illness  and  keep  logs  of 
the  kids'  naps,  diet  and  bathroom  activities. 

Parents  leave  detailed  instructions  on  care 
and  are  contacted  if  there  is  any  change  in 
the  child's  condition.  No  medication,  not 
even  aspirin,  is  given  without  parental  con- 
sent. 

These  are  some  of  the  general  outlines  of 
this  new  and  growing  area  of  health  care. 
But  as  the  few  examples  show,  the  services 
may  vary  widely  as  to  sponsorship  and  cost 
to  parents. 

One  of  the  best  things  going  for  this  idea — 
aside  from  its  warm  human  side — is  that  it 
makes  good  economic  sense,  especially  for 
employers.  In  an  article  about  the  various 


services  in  its  business  section,  the  San 
Francisco  Examiner  quoted  Roger  Cormier, 
a  Bay  Area  family-support  programs  devel- 
oper who  has  spent  two  years  researching 
absenteeism  among  Bay  Area  working  par- 
ents. 

He  estimates  that  "the  average  parent 
spends  five  days  out  sick  every  year  per 
child,"  due  to  his  or  her  children's  illnesses. 


"That's  conservative,"  Cormier  adds.  "It's 
probably  closer  to  eight  to  10  days." 

In  general,  "for  every  1,000  employees 
on  the  payroll,  employers  are  losing  1 ,000 
days  of  productivity  a  year."  In  dollars,  he 
says  Bay  Area  employers  "can  expect  to 
spend  $100,000  annually  for  every  1,000 
employees  on  the  payroll"  because  of  ab- 
senteeism related  to  sick  children. 

The  financial  and  physical  strain  on  the 
parents  is  also  considerable.  According  to  a 
survey  by  Portland  State  University,  an 
estimated  20%  of  working  mothers  use  up 
their  sick  and  vacation  time  and  must  take 
leave  without  pay  to  care  for  their  children. 

Children's  illnesses  are  the  leading  cause 
of  working  mothers '  stress-related  problems , 
such  as  headaches,  backaches  and  insomnia, 
according  to  recent  research. 


Keeping  A  Lid 
on  Excess  Sugar 

By  GOODY  L.  SOLOMON 

The  Sugar  Association  has  a  $4  million 
advertising  blitz  in  progress  that  aims  to 
"debunk  the  myths  about  sugar."  The  ads 
tout  sugar  as  "safe,  natural,  and  surprisingly 
low  in  calories — only  16  per  teaspoon." 


Serious  sales  challenges  have  come  from 
such  competitors  as  high  fructose  corn  sugar 
and  artificial  sweeteners. 

In  addition,  the  increasing  interest  in  health 
and  fitness  has  decreased  the  sales  of  highly- 
sweetened  cold  cereals  and  boosted  the 
popularity  of  less  sweet  fiber  and  bran  cer- 
eals, according  to  a  poll  of  supermarket 
operators  reported  by  Supermarket  News, 
a  trade  paper. 

Small  wonder  producers  have  taken  sweet 
solace  in  a  new  government  report  that 
judges  sugar  to  be  safe  as  a  food  additive. 
The  report,  by  the  Sugars  Task  Force  of  the 
Food  and  Drug  Administration,  said  cavities 
are  the  only  potential  hazard  of  heavy  sugar 
use. 

The  Sugar  Association,  to  no  surprise,  is 
citing  the  report  in  its  ads. 

Beware  of  all  the  sweet  talk  from  the 
industry,  caution  many  health  practitioners. 
They  stress  that  sugar  may  not  cause  dis- 
eases such  as  diabetes  or  high  blood  pres- 
sure, but  it  poses  a  risk  for  sensitive  indi- 
viduals. 

More  importantly,  these  experts  empha- 
size, sugar  provides  calories  but  no  vitamins 
or  minerals.  "Therefore  it  seems  likely  that 
the  chances  of  being  poorly  nourished  in- 
crease with  increasing  consumption  of  sugar," 
said  Joan  Gussow,  professor  of  nutrition 
education  at  Columbia  Teacher's  College. 

"Sugar  also  promotes  the  consumption  of 
foods  high  in  fat,"  she  cautioned. 

For  persons  who  want  to  lose  weight,  said 
Joanna  Dwyer,  director  of  the  Frances  Stem 
Nutrition  Center  in  Boston,"  "the  highest 
priority  would  be  cutting  down  on  foods 
both  high  in  sugar  and  fat  and  low  in  vitamins 
and  minerals." 

"Life  can  be  sweeter  without  too  much 
sugar.  You  can  avoid  tooth  decay,  cut  down 
on  calories  and  leave  plenty  of  room  for 
more  nutritious  foods  in  your  diet,"  stated 
educational  materials  distributed  by  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Agriculture. 

At  all  times,  USDA  offers  these  sugges- 
tions: 

•  At  the  supermarket:  Read  ingredient 
labels  and  select  items  lower  in  total  sugar 
when  possible.  Buy  fresh  fruits  or  fruits 
packed  in  water,  juice  or  light  syrup.  Buy 
fewer  sugary  foods  such  as  baked  goods, 
candies,  sweet  deserts,  soft  drinks  and  fruit- 
flavored  punches. 

•  In  the  kitchen:  Try  new  recipes  or  adjust 

Continued  on  Page  38 


16 


CARPENTER 


OCTOBER     1987 


17 


Ottavra 
Report 


CANADIAN  HEALTH 

The  publication  Elder  Statesman  reports  tiie  re- 
sults of  a  recent  survey  made  by  Health  and  Wel- 
fare Minister  Jake  Epp,  which  was  released  as 
"The  Active  Health  Report." 

The  Epp  survey  was  carried  out  by  Statistics 
Canada  and  involved  telephone  interviews  with 
more  than  1 1 ,000  Canadians  over  the  age  of  14. 

Canadians  generally  feel  that  they  are  quite 
healthy,  the  report  indicates— 61  %  rate  their  health 
as  very  good  or  better,  and  they  are  actively  striving 
to  improve  their  health.  Two  out  of  three  Canadians 
say  there  is  room  for  improvement  in  the  general 
health,  however. 

The  survey  estimates  that  7  million  Canadians 
still  smoke  cigarettes,  2  million  drink  heavily,  3  mil- 
lion drink  and  drive,  1  million  smoke  marijuana,  4 
million  never  exercise,  7  million  over  the  age  of  20 
are  ovenweight  or  obese,  and  two  million  are  under- 
weight, while  1 .7  million  consider  their  lives  to  be 
"very  stressful." 

ALBERTA  BARGAINING  ACT 

Alberta  Labor  Minister  Dr.  Ian  Reid  introduced 
into  the  Alberta  provincial  parliament  early  this  year. 
Bill  53,  which  was  labeled  the  Construction  Industry 
Collective  Bargaining  Act.  The  bill  was  subse- 
quently approved  and  adopted. 

The  act  puts  in  place  a  bargaining  structure  that 
represents  the  government's  response  to  Recom- 
mendation 42  of  the  Final  Report  of  the  Labor  Leg- 
islation Review  Committee. 

The  legislation  requires  that  a  federation  of  con- 
struction trade  unions  and  a  federation  of  construc- 
tion contractors  be  established  and  that  they  be 
given  the  responsibility  of  negotiating  collective 
agreements  for  the  construction  industry. 

The  bill  is  the  result  of  extensive  discussions  with 
all  three  components  of  the  industry;  the  owners  of 
construction,  trade  unions  and  the  contractors.  Dur- 
ing those  discussions  it  was  determined  that  one 
master  agreement  should  be  negotiated,  and  that 
this  master  agreement  be  divided  into  a  general 
part  and  three  subsidiary  parts. 

The  general  part  sets  out  common  language  for 
the  whole  industry  and  contain  terms  and  conditions 
applicable  to  all  trades.  Three  subsidiary  agree- 
ments are  being  negotiated  separately,  and  they 
will  set  out  the  terms  and  conditions  respecting 
wages  and  benefits. 


The  subsidiary  agreements  are  negotiated  by 
separate  groups  of  each  federation,  representing 
the  metal  trades  group  and  two  civil  trades  groups. 

Bill  53  provides  that  the  general  part  of  the  mas- 
ter agreement  would  be  in  place  for  at  least  five 
years,  while  the  subsidiary  agreements  will  have  a 
term  of  two  years. 

The  Construction  Industry  Collective  Bargaining 
Act  required  that  the  parties  negotiate  all  four  parts 
of  the  Master  Agreement  by  September  15,  1987, 
but,  as  we  go  to  press,  this  deadline  will  not  be  met. 

Restrictions  on  the  ability  of  the  contractors  to 
lockout  or  the  unions  to  strike  are  clearly  set  out  in 
the  act.  Before  a  legal  lockout  or  strike  would  take 
place,  votes  by  either  party  to  the  dispute  had  to  be 
supported  by  at  least  60%  of  those  at  the  table,  and 
supported  by  60%  of  those  eligible  employees  or 
employers. 

HAZARDOUS  MATERIALS 

On  June  22  Consumer  and  Corporate  Affairs 
Minister  Harvie  Andre  and  Labor  Minister  Pierre  H. 
Cadieux  jointly  announced  the  tabling  in  the  House 
of  Commons  of  legislation  to  establish  the  Work- 
place Hazardous  Materials  Information  System.  (For 
the  information  of  our  U.S.  members,  a  bill  which  is 
tabled  in  the  Parliament  then  goes  through  three 
readings  before  it  is  voted  upon.) 

The  legislation  would  establish  a  nationwide  infor- 
mation standard  to  better  protect  the  three  million 
Canadian  workers  regularly  exposed  to  hazardous 
materials  on  the  job. 

Among  other  things,  WHMIS  will  require  suppliers 
of  hazardous  products  to  disclose  full  information 
on  all  such  products  used  in  workplaces  across 
Canada.  In  addition,  the  10  provinces  and  two  terri- 
tories have  agreed  to  develop  complementary  legis- 
lation so  that  WHMIS  can  be  implemented  on  a 
uniform  basis  in  all  jurisdictions. 

Both  Ministers  praised  the  co-operative  spirit  which 
governments,  labour  and  industry  collectively  demon- 
strated in  co-developing  this  complex  initiative. 

Mr.  Cadieux  noted  that  one  Canadian  worker  in 
four  comes  into  contact  with  hazardous  products  in 
the  workplace,  and  that  more  time  is  lost  to  the 
Canadian  economy  annually  through  occupational 
accidents  and  illness  than  through  all  labor  disputes 
combined. 

NEW  'LOONY'  DOLLAR 

Last  July,  the  Canadian  government  issued  the 
first  100  million  of  the  nation's  sparkling  new  one- 
dollar  coins.  Bearing  the  simple  but  beautiful  design 
of  a  loon  on  one  side  and  a  portrait  of  Queen 
Elizabeth  on  the  other,  the  coin  quickly  acquired  a 
nickname,  the  Loony  Dollar. 

Like  the  U.S.  experience  with  the  Eisenhower 
dollar,  the  new  coin  has  become  a  collectors  item 
for  many,  but  it  has  drawn  mixed  reactions  from  the 
general  public. 

For  transit  companies  the  coin  is  said  to  be  a 
boon.  Local  bus,  streetcar  and  subway  systems 
spent  a  total  of  $1.8  million  in  1985  processing 
paper  money  which  got  clogged  in  fare  boxes.  The 
Canadian  Urban  Transit  Assn.  forecast  savings  of 
$4  million  per  year  with  the  introduction  of  the  new 
coin.  The  association  asserts  that  it  will  pass  on 
these  savings  to  passengers  in  the  form  of  better 
and  faster  service. 


18 


CARPENTER 


Locni  union  neuis 


Scranton  Local 
Has  Good  Year 

Local  261  of  Scranton.  Pa.,  has  had  a 
busy  home  building  year  in  the  Poconos 
area,  thanks  to  its  coordinated  efforts  with 
local  union  contractors. 

The  local  union  has  gained  work  on  several 
projects — two  hospitals  with  $12  million  ren- 
ovations, a  new  prison,  area  schools,  a 
shopping  center,  and  many  renovations  to- 
taling $6  million  at  the  Connaught  Labora- 
tories, a  government  facility. 

Business  Representative  Fred  Schimel- 
fenig  reports  that,  on  the  housing  scene,  the 
local  union  has  begun  to  work  with  four  new 
housing  contractors.  In  the  past,  the  local 
experienced  payroll  difficulties  when  con- 
tractors went  out  of  business  overnight,  but 
current  work  has  not  had  such  misfortunes. 


BR  Schimelfenig  with  Dave  Brown,  con- 
tractor, and  one  of  the  crews  at  the  Haw- 
lev  work  site. 


Looking  over  the  work  site  from  a  balcony  are  Fred  Schimelfenig  Jr.,  business  represent- 
ative. Local  261:  Dave  Brown,  contractor:  and  Davis  Stears  and  John  McCarthy, 
developers  of  the  project. 

Local  2002  Stewards  Train 


Local  2002,  Palatka,  Fla.,  recently  presented  certificates  to 
those  who  finished  the  stewards  training.  Local  2002  is  a  public 
employee  local  union  representing  the  Putnam  County  Road 
Department  Employees.  The  local  is  part  of  the  Florida  Council 
of  Public  and  Industrial  Employees.  Representative  Willard 
Masters  was  the  trainer  for  the  course. 

Those  completing  the  course  included,  Willard  Masters, 
trainer,  Allan  Alexander,  Charles  E.  Jones,  Jim  E.  Turheville. 
Glen  Slaughter,  Joseph  L.  Smith,  Edward  L.  Chandler,  Donald 
Robinson  and  Terry  Mathews. 


Toronto  Millwrights 
Praised  by  NACAN 

Members  of  Millwrights  &  Machine  Erec- 
tors Local  2309,  Toronto,  Ont.,  were  spot- 
lighted in  a  recent  issue  of  the  News  and 
Views,  an  employee  publication  of  Nacan 
Products  Ltd.  Featured  in  the  article  were 
Orin  Ryerse,  Bob  Chambers,  Nick  Borst, 
Dave  Buck,  Howard  Brandon,  Terry  Lake, 
Darrell  Andrews  and  Willard  Fisher.  They 
are  employed  by  Adshade  Mechanical  and 
contracted  by  Nacan. 

The  plant  is  located  on  Georgian  Bay  "in 
the  heart  of  cottage  country  where  fish  and 
game  abound." 

After  28  Years, 
Father,  Son  Meet 

Harold  Austgen,  Local  1780,  Las  Vegas, 
Nev.,  was  recently  reunited  with  his  father, 
Basil  Price,  member  and  business  agent  for 
Ironworkers  Local  433.  The  two  had  been 
separated  for  28  years.  Harold  has  been 
living  in  Las  Vegas  for  10  years  and  his 
father  for  a  year  and  a  half.  Neither  knew 
the  other  was  there. 

They  were  reunited  at  a  backyard  bar- 
beque  after  a  friend  had  made  some  inquiries 
into  Basil.  Harold  and  his  wife  spent  the 
entire  weekend  talking  with  his  father  and 
catching  up.  They  plan  to  attend  a  Price 
family  reunion  in  Indiana. 

Kentucky  Charter 


Local  549,  Owensboro,  Ky.,  was  re- 
cently granted  its  new  charter.  It  is  made 
up  of  Local  2310,  Madisonville ,  Ky.;  Local 
601 ,  Henderson,  Ky.;  and  Local  1341,  Ow- 
ensboro, Ky.  The  charier  was  presented  by 
Representative  Donald  Gorman  to  John 
Troutman,  president 

Also  in  attendance  at  the  presentation 
were  International  Organizer  Dean  Beck 
and  Steve  Barger,  secretary-treasurerl busi- 
ness manager  of  the  Kentucky  State  Dis- 
trict Council. 


OCTOBER     1987 


19 


Safety  Notice: 

Sears  Craftsman 

Model  135.276101 

Industrial  7  W  Saw 

The  manufacturer  is  voluntarily  recalling 
Craftsman  Model  135.276101  Industrial  7^4"  Saws 
sold  between  November,  1986,  and  June,  1987. 
Specific  saws  can  be  identified  by  the  following 
date  codes:  H6307  through  H6363  or  H7005 
through  H7145.  The  date  code  can  be  found  on 
the  top  right-hand  corner  of  the  product  label. 

Saws  with  date  codes  matching  any  of  those 
above  should  be  returned  immediately  to  a  Sears 
Service  Center  for  replacement  of  the  lower  blade 
guard,  which  may  be  susceptible  to  cracking  under 
unusual  conditions.  This  condition  is  potentially 
hazardous  and  could  result  in  serious  personal 
injury  Replacement  of  the  lower  blade  guard  will 
be  made  at  no  cost  to  the  consumer. 


DOUBLE-BREASTING 

AND  THE  US.  SENATE 
...They  Don't  Yet  Know 

American  construction  workers  understand  the  facts  about  double- 
breasting.  We  understand  that  the  practice  amounts  to  the  greatest  threat 
facing  American  construction  workers  in  the  decade  of  the  1980s. 

Double-breasting  affects  our  jobs  almost  daily. 

But  many  of  our  senators  do  not  yet  know.  It's  j/our  job  to  tell  them. 

Find  out  the  names  of  your  senators.  Write  each  a  letter  Give  them  a  call  on 
the  phone.  Tell  your  senators  to  support  S.492-the 
anti-double  breasting  bill. 

Double-breasting  is 
a  double-cross,  it's  a 
double-deal  and  it^ 
a  doMftte-standard. 

Tell  your 
senators  that  U 
must  bestop])ed. 
A  Message  From 
the  Building  and 
Construction 
IVades  Depart- 
ment, 

AFLrCIO. 


100th  Anniversary,  East  St.  Louis 

Local  169,  East  St.  Louis,  111.,  recently  celebrated  its  100th 
anniversary.  Over  800  people  were  in  attendance  for  the  celebra- 
tion, as  the  centennial  committee  barbecued  300  sides  of  ribs,  400 
pork  steaks  and  100  pounds  of  bratwurst  for  the  event.  The  day 
was  full  of  fishing  derbys  for  the  kids,  a  pin  and  plaque  presentation, 
skydivers,  fireworks  and  a  dance. 


The  celebration 
was  capped  off 
with  a  fireworks 
display,  as  the  lo- 
cal enjoyed  its 
100th  anniversary. 


The  centennial  committee  for  the  anniversaiy  included,  front, 

Frank  Norkus,  Walter  Madura,  Bill  Stewart  and  Don  Pratt. 

Second  row:  Pete  Herrington,  Ed  Miller,  Charles  Howell  and 

Pete  Bruno. 

Third  row:  Jim  Kennedy,  Rich  Kelley,  Bob  Ragsdale,  Doyle 

Kuhn,  Fred  Hayter  and  Harold  Kuhn. 

Back  roH':  Francis  Williams,  Bill  Ware,  Frank  Rekosh,  Bob 

Johnson,  Al  Segar,  Joe  Lernansky,  Rick  Sullivan  and  Mike 

Ogden. 

New  Charter  in  Anchorage 


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A  new  charter  was  installed  for  the  Central  and  Southeastern 
Alaska  District  Council  by  H.  Paul  Johnson,  7th  District  Gen- 
eral Executive  Board  Member  in  Anchorage,  Alaska.  It  com- 
prises Local  466,  Sitka:  Local  1281 ,  Anchorage:  Local  1501, 
Ketchikan:  Local  2162,  Kodiak:  and  Local  2247,  Juneau.  Shown 
receiving  the  charter  are  Kermit  Whittemore,  Local  466,  Sitka: 
Roy  Peck,  Local  2247.  Juneau:  Doug  McElroy.  Local  1501 , 
Ketchikan:  H.  Paid  Johnson,  7th  District  General  Executive 
Board  Member:  William  Matthews,  Local  1281,  Anchorage:  and 
W.  Bruce  Finke,  Local  2162,  Kodiak. 


20 


CARPENTER 


Local  1386  on  New  Brunswick  Project 


Members  of  Local  1386,  New  Brunswick,  Canada,  are  completing  work  on  a  $28 
million  office  complex  known  as  the  Broncor  Building.  The  project  is  a  joint  venture 
between  the  New  Brunswick  Telephone  Co.  and  Blue  Cross.  It  will  house  a  new  public 
library  and  complete  computer  data  centers  for  the  two  owners.  The  general  contractor 
is  McAlpine  Atlantic  Ltd. 

At  right,  Local  1386  Business  Representative  Dennis  Muller,  right,  with  project  man- 
ager T.O.  Davies. 


Al  Spring  Feted 


Al  Spring,  third  from  left,  who  retired  re- 
cently as  director  of  the  Brotherhood' s 
Southwest  Regional  Office,  and  Mrs. 
Spring  were  recently  entertained  at  a  spe- 
cial dinner  in  Dallas.  Texas,  by  fellow 
UBC  members  and  friends. 

Industrial  Shop  Stewards,  Local  964 


Toughest  Overalls? 
What's  Your  Opinion? 

"I  have  really  had  a  problem  trying 
to  find  good  carpenters'  overalls," 
says  Jeff  Albritton  of  Athens,  Tenn. 
"Everyone  of  the  good  companies 
has  stopped  making  them,  from  what 
I  understand.  I  have  tried  Sears,  Pen- 
neys  and  a  couple  of  off  brands,  and 
they  only  last  days  before  an  overhaul 
has  to  be  done  on  them." 

Can  you  put  Brother  Albritton  in 
touch  with  a  company  or  a  department 
store  that  sells  good  carpenters'  over- 
alls? Write:  Editor,  Carpenter,  101 
Constitution  Ave.,  N.W.,  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  20001. 


Above  are  the  shop  stewards  who  service  the  industrial  shops  for  New  City.  N.Y., 
Local  964  with  the  local  leaders.  They  include,  front,  Nicholas  Ercoline,  shop  business 
agent;  William  V.  Hamilton,  president  of  the  local  and  business  agent;  William  A. 
Sopko.  general  agent/financial  secretary;  Robert  Silagi,  attorney;  Howard  Jones,  shop 
business  agent;  and  Kevin  Thompson,  general  representative  for  UBC. 

Second  row;  Dennis  Crookston,  Art  DeGraff,  Dick  Bullerfield,  Jim  Bradt,  Nancy 
Marich  and  Joe  Asaro. 

Third  row;  Ron  Weathers,  Fred  Lynch,  Andy  Keane,  Roger  Nickerson,  Malcolm 
Whitney,  Paid  Morrison,  Art  Houghtaling,  Harold  Sturrock  and  John  Kraham. 


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OCTOBER     1987 


21 


Labor  News 


Union  contractors 
prove  to  be 
more  productive 

Union  contractors  install  51%  more 
square  footage  per  hour  than  non-union 
contractors  do,  according  to  a  recent 
study  by  the  National  Bureau  of  Eco- 
nomic Research.  This  greater  productiv- 
ity among  union  workers  offsets  their 
higher  wages .  NBER  Research  Associate 
Steven  G.  Allen  also  finds  no  difference 
in  profit  rates,  prices,  or  mean  cost  per 
square  foot  between  union  and  non-union 
contractors. 

Allen's  findings  are  reported  in  NBER 
Working  Paper  No.  2254,  "Unions  and 
Efficiency  in  Private  Sector  Construc- 
tion: Further  Evidence."  They  are  based 
on  a  sample  of  retail  stores  and  shopping 
centers  built  in  the  1970s. 


Labor  Department 
employees  to  review 
immigration  forms 

Some  300  Labor  Department  employ- 
ees from  across  the  country  recently 
convened  in  Chicago  for  special  training 
in  preparation  for  assuming  new  duties 
under  the  Immigration  Reform  and  Con- 
trol Act. 

In  remarks  delivered  at  the  opening  of 
the  training  program,  Fred  Alvarez,  as- 
sistant secretary  for  labor  standards,  said, 
"Our  inspection  of  employee  verification 
recordkeeping  is  a  critical  function  under 
the  Immigration  Reform  and  Control  Act." 

The  Labor  Department  compliance  staff 
will  review  1-9  forms  during  the  course 
of  their  regular  contacts  with  employers. 
The  1-9  is  the  Immigration  and  Natural- 
ization Service  document  that  must  be 
completed  by  employers  for  all  employ- 
ees hired  after  Nov.  6,  1986.  The  form 
is  used  to  verify  the  identity  and  em- 
ployment eligibility  of  each  new  hire, 
including  citizens.  Employers  are  re- 
quired to  keep  I-9s  on  file  for  at  least 
three  years  and  for  one  year  after  ter- 
mination of  an  employee. 


IVIinimum  wage 
study  shows 
poverty  lines 


Of  the  5.2  million  American  workers 
who  were  paid  at  or  below  the  federal 
minimum  wage  in  1985  about  1  million 
were  in  families  that  would  have  been 
classified  as  poor  in  1984,  according  to 
an  analysis  published  in  the  Bureau  of 


Labor  Statistics'  Monthly  Labor  Review. 
Authors  Ralph  E.  Smith  and  Bruce  Va- 
vrichek,  both  economists  with  the 
Congressional  Budget  Office,  say  their 
examination  of  empirical  evidence  re- 
garding minimum  wage  workers  living  in 
poverty  "suggests  several  reasons  why 
being  a  minimum  wage  worker  and  being 
poor  are  not  synonymous." 

About  70%,  or  3.6  million  workers, 
earning  the  minimum  wage  of  $3.35  an 
hour  in  1985,  they  find,  were  in  families 
in  which  at  least  one  other  household 
member  held  a  job.  Minimum  wage  work- 
ers who  were  the  only  jobholders  in  their 
families  had  a  .poverty  rate  of  44.5%, 
compared  with  7.9%  for  those  with  other 
employed  family  members — a  statistic  of 
special  significance  to  those  families  of 
four  or  more,  the  report  said. 


Building  Trades 
victory  at 
USS-POSCO 

Building  trades  unions  won  a  major 
victory  with  a  unanimous  ruling  by  a  28- 
member  arbitration  panel  that  a  construc- 
tion firm  renovating  the  USS-POSCO 
steel  plant  in  Pittsburg,  Calif.,  illegally 
evaded  union  contracts. 

The  panel  said  that  Eichleay  Corp.,  a 
Pennsylvania-based  construction  firm  that 
has  contracts  with  national  unions,  must 
pay  about  $60  million  in  back  wages  to 
non-union  workers  on  the  steel  plant 
renovation  project  and  union  workers 
who  would  have  worked  on  the  project 
had  union  contracts  been  honored.  USS- 
POSCO  is  a  joint  operation  by  USX  and 
the  South  Korean  Pohang  Steel  Corp.  to 
manufacture  specialty  steel  items  out  of 
sheet  produced  in  South  Korea. 


Doctor  unions: 
replacing  house  calls 
with  union  halls? 

As  more  doctors  forego  traditional  pri- 
vate practice  to  accept  salaried  positions 
with  health  care  organizations  or  hospi- 
tals, some  half  dozen  physician  unions 
say  they  are  poised  to  organize  the  MDs. 
Some  25%  of  all  physicians  were  em- 
ployed or  salaried  in  1985,  up  from  23% 
in  1983,  according  to  the  AM  A,  and  47% 
of  doctors  under  the  age  of  36  were 
employed,  compared  to  19%  of  those 
over  55.  Experts  in  the  field  are  predicting 
that  the  incidence  of  doctors  in  salaried 
positions  will  increase  dramatically  over 
the  next  decade,  providing  unions  with 
organizing  opportunities.  Current  esti- 
mates are  that  fewer  than  50,000  of  the 
nation's  more  than  650,000  physicians 
and  dentists  belong  to  labor  unions. 

Two  types  of  labor  organizations  have 
emerged  for  doctors .  The  traditional  union , 
which  bargains  with  an  employer  over 
wages,  benefits  and  working  conditions, 


includes  such  organizations  as  the  Doc- 
tors Council.  United  Salaried  Physicians 
and  Dentists,  and  some  units  of  the 
National  Union  for  Hospital  and  Health 
Care  Employees.  A  second  type  of  or- 
ganization— the  Union  of  American  Phy- 
sicians and  Dentists — represents  private 
practitioners  in  negotiations  with  third 
parties,  not  on  wages  and  working  con- 
ditions, but  on  issues  such  as  insurance, 
legislation  or  licensing.  But  some  critics 
argue  that  such  organizations  cannot  le- 
gally bargain  for  private  practitioners 
over  wages  and  working  conditions,  and 
say  medical  societies  are  better  able  to 
represent  physicians  on  other  issues. 

Besides  wages — a  recent  AMA  survey 
found  that  employed  doctors  earned  an 
average  $38,000  less  than  their  non-sa- 
laried counterparts — union  advocates  ar- 
gue that  physicians  will  organize  for  other 
reasons.  Corporate  domination  of  health 
care  is  viewed  by  some  as  eroding  phy- 
sicians" ability  to  make  patient  care  de- 
cisions, as' is  health  care  cost  control 
legislation.  Some  critics  of  unionization 
question  the  ethics  of  physicians  unions, 
while  others  say  that  unions  can  assist 
doctors  in  solving  grievances  before  they 
reach  the  crisis  level. 


Catalog  lists 
films  and  tapes 
for  labor 


The  AFL-CIO  recently  published  a 
free  catalog  which  will  be  of  interest  to 
local  union  officers  who  want  to  add 
some  pizazz  to  their  regular  local  meet- 
ings, audio-visual  items  which  will  be  of 
value  to  apprentices  and  joumeypersons 
alike.  It's  entitled  "Films  and  Videotapes 
for  Labor, ' '  and  its  a  64-page  list  of  audio- 
visual programs  on  such  subjects  as  labor 
history,  women  and  unions,  negotiations, 
grievances  and  arbitration,  and  much 
more.  Most  of  the  material  is  on  16  mm 
film.  A  few  films  are  also  available  on 
videotape.  A  single  copy  is  free  by  writing 
for  Publication  No.  22,  AFL-CIO  Pam- 
phlet Division,  Room  208,  815-16th  Street, 
N.W.,  Washington,  D.C.  20006. 

Meany  Award  to 
South  Korean 
opposition  leader 

South  Korean  opposition  leader  Kim 
Dae  Jung  is  the  1987  George  Meany 
International  Human  Rights  Award  re- 
cipient. He  was  named  by  the  AFL-CIO 
Executive  Council  for  his  courageous 
leadership  in  pressing  human  rights  is- 
sues and  in  seeking  democratic  reforms 
in  his  homeland.  Kim  discussed  such 
concerns  with  Federation  President  Lane 
Kirkland  during  his  final  days  in  exile  in 
the  United  States  in  1985.  Since  returning 
home,  he  has  been  placed  under  house 
arrest  54  times.  The  award  will  be  pre- 
sented during  the  AFL-CIO  convention 
in  October. 


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F/Vi/  General  Vice  President  Lucassen  discusses  UBC  training  activities. 


On  50th  Anniversary  of  Fitzgerald  Act 

UBC  Educators  Emphasize  Practical  Training 


On  August  17-23  the  Eastern  Seaboard 
Apprenticeship  Conference  held  special  ses- 
sions in  Washington,  D.C.  to  commemorate 
the  50th  anniversary  of  the  Fitzgerald  Act, 
which  established  federal  standards  for  ap- 
prenticeship training  in  the  United  States. 

More  than  160  UBC  training  leaders  from 
East  Coast  apprenticeship  schools  joined  the 
conference,  and  for  one  day  they  assembled 
at  the  UBC  General  Offices  to  discuss  their 
current  activities  and  future  plans. 

First  General  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lu- 
cassen welcomed  them,  praising  the  work 
of  Brotherhood  training  leaders  and  the  con- 


tinued support  of  many  employers  and  em- 
ployer associations.  He  called  for  continued 
emphasis  on  highly-skilled  journeymen. 

Dennis  Scott  the  UBC's  new  technical 
director,  in  his  first  address  to  such  a  gath- 
ering since  his  appointment,  warned  that 
joint  apprenticeship  and  training  committees 
must  maintain  their  practical,  hands-on 
training  methods.  He  noted  that  many  vo- 
cational educators  have  drifted  away  from 
the  basic  concepts  of  occupational  training 
and  have  become  "academic  degree  con- 
science." 

"Manipulative,  hand-skill  processes  once 


gave  way  to  academic  processes  or  word 
game  presentations  with  an  emphasis  on  the 
trainees  achieving  white  collar  status,"  Scott 
noted.  "Academic  professionalism  became 
the  name  of  the  game  ...  All  apprenticeship 
training  suffered." 

He  stressed  that  JATCs  must  be  careful 
not  to  weed  out  "performance  people" — 
"functional,  manipulative  applicants  who 
can  learn  well  in  a  practical  sense,"  but  may 
not  be  able  to  perform  well  in  entry  tests. 
He  noted  that  the  Brotherhood  has  a  century- 
old  record  of  accomplishment  in  apprentice- 
ship training,  and  this  approach  to  craft 
education  has  worked  well. 

Scott  reviewed  some  of  the  history  of  the 
Brotherhood's  training  experience  since  en- 
actment of  the  Fitzgerald  Act.  He  pointed 
out  that,  at  times,  the  amount  of  money 
available  for  instructors  from  vocational  ed- 
ucation funding  has  limited  the  size  of  ap- 
prenticeship classes. 

'  'There  simply  was  no  allowance  for  boom 
in  the  industry,"  he  said.  "Slots  for  appren- 
tices did  not  increase  reflective  of  industry 
needs." 

He  pointed  out  that  in  the  1960s  local 
union  affiliates  began  negotiating  funds  to 
give  greater  financial  support  to  training 
programs.  In  1974  the  Brotherhood  revised 
its  constitution  to  remove  the  maximum  age 
limit.  This  was  helpful,  but  restrictive  intake 
processes  and  the  continued  emphasis  on 
academic  ability  still  hampered  UBC  pro- 
grams. Since  that  time,  the  UBC's  appren- 
ticeship and  training  department  has  worked 
diligently  to  simplify  the  overall  training 
procedures  and  this  effort  continues. 


Rhode  Island  Joint  Apprenticeship  Committee  Graduates  24 


The  Rhode  Island  Carpenters  Joint  Apprenticeship  Committee 
recenth  graduated  17  carpenter  apprentices  and  seven  cabinet 
maker  apprentices.  Graduating  carpenters  included,  front.  Ger- 
ald Jean.  Richard  Mowry.  Richard  Paul,  Gery  Fernandes,  Sam 
Booth. 

Back  row:  JATC  chairman  Robert  E.  Hayes,  business  man- 
ager Herbert  F.  Holmes.  William  Dohoney,  David  Salinas,  Paul 
Lander.  Richard  Sampson,  Albert  Goyette,  Michael  Forlin, 
Business  Representatives,  Fred  Pare  and  William  Forward. 


Graduating  cabinet  makers,  front,  included  Jerry  Florio,  Eric 
Ouellette  and  James  Terry. 

Back  row:  JATC  chairman  Robert  Hayes,  business  manager 
Herbert  F.  Holmes,  Kent  De  Graide,  Claude  Goulet,  Business 
Representatives  William  Forward  and  Fred  Pare,  and  David 
Casey,  class  instructor.  Richard  Paul,  carpentry,  and  David 
Palazini,  cabinet  making,  were  named  winners  in  the  state  con- 
test for  outstanding  apprentices. 


OCTOBER     1987 


23 


Ontario  Provincial 
Contest  Held 


The  Ontario  Provincial  Council  held  its 
annual  carpentry  apprenticeship  contest  at 
the  Woodbine  Centre  in  Toronto,  May  14 
and  15.  Awards  were  presented  at  a  dinner 
at  the  conclusion  of  the  contest.  Awards  and 
trophies  were  presented,  including  $1000  to 
the  first  prize  winner,  $500  to  the  second 
placer  and  $250  to  the  third  prize  winner. 
Certificates  were  also  presented  to  members 
of  Local  27  who  had  recently  graduated. 


Roy  DeHann.  Local  27,  1st  Place,  left, 
and  Sam  Pollari,  Local  1669,  2nd  Place, 
right. 


Chris   Vandervies,   Local  1256,  3rd  Place 
winner,  receives  his  awards. 


THINK  METRICS! 

I  live ,  kilometers  from  work. 

I  weigh kilograms. 

My  height  is decimeters. 

I  wish  to  own  a hectare  farm. 

My  living  room  is .  square  meters. 

The  size  of  my  car  engine  is  . 
cubic  centimeters. 

Here's  a  quick  lest  for  Millwrights  and  for 
Canadian  apprentices,  who  must  measure 
metrics. 


Safety  hats  and  glasses  were  presented  to  contestants  by  George  Nyhuis  from  Constriction 
Safety  Association  of  Ontario.  Receiving  hats  and  glasses  were  J.  McColl,  Local  1450, 
Peterborough:  Paul  Harding.  Local  27,  Toronto;  Sam  Pollari.  Local  1669.  Thunder  Bay; 
Roy  DeHann,  Local  27,  Toronto;  Shawn  MacKay,  Local  27,  Toronto;  Dennis  Van  Alabeek, 
Local  397,  Whitby;  Chris  Vandervies.  Local  1256,  Sarnia;  and  Scott  McDuillan,  Local  27, 
Toronto. 


Journeyman  certificates  were  presented  to  members  of  Local  27  at  the  awards  dinner. 
Front  row.  financial  secretary.  Ermens  Masaro.  Fred  Peilsch,  Arthur  McConville,  Doug 
Blizzard,  Neil  Barrett  and  Domenic  Garisto. 

Center  row,  Robert  Forbes,  Government  of  Ontario  Ministry  of  Skills  and  Development; 
Ken  Walkins,  Avenue  Structures;  Frank  Rimes,  business  manager.  Local  27;  Scott 
McDuillan,  Cameron  Jeffrey:  Doug  Flowers;  Mike  York;  Dave  Strickland:  and  Jack 
Apperley,  Apperley  &  Young  Construction. 

Back  row.  President  Jim  Smith,  John  Moran,  Ron  Kii.x,  Michael  Doge,  Sam  McCalden, 
William  Armstrong,  Business  Representative,  Ted  Burrows,  Toronto  Construction  Associ- 
ation. 

Not  pictured  are  Jerry  Ash,  Gary  Bubeloff,  Greg  Cummins,  Gordon  Gills,  Laiy  Insley, 
Lloyd  Gaudry,  Wayne  Jenner,  Dean  Maclnnis,  James  Madden,  John  Moran,  Carlos 
Pimentel,  Frank  Pucaand  and  Brian  Wingfield. 


24 


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19th  Massachusetts 
Apprentice  Contest 

The  19th  annual  Massachusetts  State  Ap- 
prentice Contest  was  held  in  Pittsfield,  Mass., 
May  8  and  9.  Pictured  with  the  contestants 
is  Board  Member  Joseph  Lia  of  the  first 
district  and  trustees  of  the  Massachusetts 
Carpenters  Training  Program. 

Those  participating  in  the  contest  were, 
from  carpenters  locals.  Marc  Attarian,  Local 
41,  Woburn;  Douglas  Aucoin,  Local  275, 
Newton;  Thomas  Bergeron,  Local  33,  Bos- 
ton; Anthony  Conceicao,  Local  49,  Lowell; 
Jeffrey  Costa,  Local  535,  Norwood;  David 


DeWitt,  Local  218,  Boston;  Gary  A.  Gard- 
ner, Local  424,  Hingham;  Christopher  Her- 
ons, Local  1305,  Fall  River;  Richard  La- 
Pierre,  Local  111,  Lawrence;  William  E. 
Laverty,  Local  260,  Berkshire  County;  David 
J.  Lomasney,  Local  595,  Lynn;  Ronald  S. 
Martin,  Local  107,  Worcester;  Michael  Roy, 
Local  624,  Brockton;  and  Kenneth  Trainque, 
Local  48,  Fitchburg. 

Those  from  the  mill-cabinet  locals  were 
Joseph  Aragona,  Local  218,  Boston;  Daniel 
Carman,  Local  33,  Boston;  Mark  McKenna, 
Local  67,  Boston. 

The  two  contestants  from  the  millwrights 
locals  were  Michael  P.  Camuso  and  Robert 
F.  Carley  both  of  Local  1121,  Boston. 


Minnesota  State 
Declares  Winners 


Massachusetts  contestants  with  Board  Member  Lia  and  training  program  trustees. 


The  first  place  winner,  Wayne  Young,  Lo- 
cal 87.  of  the  Minnesota  State  Contest,  is 
shown  above  with  his  father,  Mike  Young, 
also  of  Local  87.  The  award  was  presented 
at  1987  graduation  ceremonies. 

The  Minnesota  State  Carpentry  Appren- 
tice Contest  was  held  this  past  spring  in  St. 
Paul,  Minn.  The  contestants  participating  in 
the  contest  competed  during  an  eight-hour 
manipulative  session  based  on  the  PETS 
concept  of  multiple  skill  areas.  They  were 
narrowed  to  a  field  of  nine  by  use  of  a  written 
test.  First  place  went  to  Wayne  Young, 
Local  87,  St.  Paul,  Minn.;  second  place, 
Charles  Rohr,  Local  1644,  Minneapolis, 
Minn.;  and  third  place  to  Douglas  Brandt, 
Local  1382,  Rochester,  Minn.  Each  was 
presented  with  a  plaque  and  cash  prizes. 
The  awards  were  presented  at  the  1987 
graduation  ceremonies. 


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FACELESS  TEETH 

Grandpa  and  Grandma  were  still 
asleep  w^hen  they  were  awakened 
by  their  3-year-old  granddaughter 
who  had  stayed  the  night. 

"Grandma!  Grandma!"  she  whis- 
pered as  she  tugged  on  her  grand- 
ma's arm. 

"What's  wrong  honey?" 

Still  whispering  she  said,  "There's 
teeth  in  the  bathroom  without  a 
face." 

— Dino  M.  Colias 
Local  1,  Chicago,  III. 


BUY  UNION  *  SAVE  JOBS 

CHANGE  OF  PACE 

Heard  about  the  salesman  who 
became  a  policeman?  He  wanted 
to  get  into  a  business  where  the 
customer  is  always  wrong. 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


DAY'S  SCHEDULE 

Little  Virginia  came  home  from 
school  and  said  to  her  mother,  "I 
wish  you  would  let  me  take  my  bath 
in  the  morning  before  I  go  to  school  ■ 
instead  of  at  night  before  I  go  to 
bed." 

"What  difference  does  it  make?" 
her  mother  asked. 

"Every  day  at  school,"  the  little 
girl  said,  "Miss  Taylor  tells  every- 
body to  stand  up  who  had  a  bath 
today.  And  I  haven't  been  able  to 
stand  up  one  time  since  school 
started  three  months  ago." 

DON'T  BUY  LP 

SODA  JERKS 

Question:  What  do  you  get  when 
you  cross  root  beer  with  a  milk- 
shake? 
Answer:  Shakesbeer. 

— Chris  Rittgers 
Son  of  Troy  Ritters, 
Local  751,  Santa  Rosa,  Calif. 


ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 


WALK  THE  WILD  SIDE 

A  little  old  lady  crossed  the  street 
against  the  light  and  was  promptly 
stopped  by  a  policeman. 

"Didn't  you  see  that  sign  up 
there?"  he  asked,  pointing  to  a 
"Don't  walk"  sign. 

"Oh,  THAT  sign,"  she  said.  "I 
thought  the  bus  company  had  put 
those  up." 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

A  mouse  in  her  room  woke  Miss 

Dowd; 
She  was  frigtened,  it  must  be 

allowed. 

Then  a  happy  thought  hit  her: 

To  scare  off  the  critter 
She  climbed  down  from  her  bed 

and  meowed. 


TOO  TRUE 


Apprentice:  This  restaurant's  got 
great  grub!  I  ordered  a  fresh  egg, 
and  got  the  freshest  egg  in  the 
world.  I  ordered  a  cup  of  hot  choc- 
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Carpenter:  Yes,  I  know.  I  ordered 
a  small  steak. 

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LIGHT  DISCIPLINE 

Bill:  Why  does  lightning  strike 
people? 

Will:  Why? 

Bill:  Because  it  doesn't  know  how 
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— Soy's  Life 
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IRS  agent  to  businessman:  "It's 
not  sufficient,  sir,  simply  to  list  ex- 
penses as  'astronomical'  and  your 
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Whoever  said,  "Nothing  is  im- 
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USE  UNION  SERVICES 

BIBLE  BELT 

The  two  women  had  spent  a  good 
deal  of  the  afternoon  trying  to  im- 
press each  other  with  how  religious 
they  were.  Finally  one  woman  left, 
and  my  Aunt  Marie  smugly  turned 
to  Uncle  Will,  who  had  been  quietly 
smoking  his  pipe,  and  remarked, 
"You  know,  Mrs.  Sills  is  a  good 
Christian,  but  I  just  believe  I  live 
closer  to  the  Lord." 

Uncle  Will  thought  a  moment,  and 
then  replied,  "Ain't  either  of  you 
crowding  Him  any." 

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27 


Final  1987  Seminar  at  Labor  Studies  Center 

for  Full-time  Officers  and  Business  Representatives 


The  last  of  three  leadership  training  seminars  was  held  the  week 
of  August  2  at  the  George  Meany  Labor  Studies  Center  in  Silver 
Spring,  Md. 

Forty-three  local  and  council  officers  attended  the  August 
seminar. 

The  seminars  are  designed  to  acquaint  full-time  officers  and 
business  representatives  with  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of 
their  offices.  They  are  under  the  supervision  of  Second  General 
Vice  President  John  Pruitt,  working  with  Staff  Representatives 
Edward  J.  Hahn,  James  Davis,  and  Ted  Kramer. 

Participants  in  the  August  training  seminar  and  their  local  or 
council  affiliation  are: 

Jerrold  Alander,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  361,  Duluth,  Minn. 
Joseph  M.  Ardoin  Jr.,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  1098,  Baton,  Rouge, 

La. 
Curtis  Baker,  B.R.,  Central  Indiana  District  Council, 

Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Clifford  F.  Bembenek,  B.R.,  Wisconsin  River  Valley  District 

Council,  Wausau,  Wis. 
Thomas  R.  Bryan.  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  829.  Santa  Cruz,  Calif. 
John  Bullock,  B.R.,  Local  2114,  Napa,  Calif. 
Edward  W.  Butt,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  627,  Jacksonville,  Fla. 
James  S.  Campbell,  B.R.,  Kentucky  State  District  Council, 

Frankfort,  Ky. 
Richard  D.  Ciesielski,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  1632,  San  Luis  Obispo, 

Calif. 
Robert  B.  Cutler,  B.R.,  Central  Indiana  District  Council. 

Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Martin  Dahlquist,  Organizer,  Local  1506,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 
Larry  Dunn,  B.R.,  Metropolitan  District  Council,  Philadelphia, 

Pa. 
James  Harold  Dye,  B.R.,  Local  283,  Augusta,  Ga. 
Paul  Froehlich,  Sp.  Rep.,  Local  563,  Glendale,  Calif. 
Thomas  M.  Gilbert,  Organizer,  Detroit  District  Council, 

Ferndale,  Mich. 
James  Gleason,  B.R.,  Local  210,  Norwalk,  Conn. 
Charles  L.  Haggerty,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  1079,  Steubenville, 

Ohio 
Dean  E.  Hardman.  B.R.,  Washington,  D.  C.  District  Council, 


Forestville,  Md. 
James  Herrera,  F.S.  and  B.R.,  Local  1497,  Los  Angeles,  Calif. 
Al  Honchell,  B.R.,  Local  1205,  Indio,  Calif. 
Robert  Jonoski,  B.R.,  Local  930,  St.  Cloud,  Minn. 
James  L.  Kerley,  B.R.,  Local  345,  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Leon  Kinchloe,  B.R.,  Local  118,  Detroit,  Mich. 
Garry  L.  Kinnaman,  Rep.,  Southern  Indiana  District  Council, 

Evansville,  Ind. 
Edward  R.  Krupski,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  1185,  Westchester,  III. 
Dana  C.  Martin,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  906,  Glendale,  Ariz. 
John  Martin,  B.R.,  Metropolitan  District  Council,  Philadelphia, 

Pa. 
Michael  J.  Murphy,  Organizer,  Detroit  District  Council, 

Ferndale,  Mich. 
Gerry  Mannenga,  B.R.,  Northwest  Indiana  District  Council, 

Demotte,  Ind. 
Dennis  O'Hara,  B.R.,  Metropolitan  District  Council, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Philip  Edward  Parratt,  B.R.,  Local  2250,  Red  Bank,  N.J. 
Gaetano  Pigliacelli,  B.R.,  Metropolitan  District  Council, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Garry  Playford,  B.R.,  Local  149,  Tarrytown,  N.Y. 
Frank  Reynolds,  B.R.,  Local  69,  Canton,  Ohio 
Stanley  Soboleski,  B.R.,  Keystone  District  Council,  Harrisburg, 

Pa. 
James  L.  Stinson,  B.R.,  Kentucky  State  District  Council, 

Frankfort,  Ky. 
Edward  Szyrwiel,  B.R.,  Local  65,  Perth  Amboy,  N.J. 
David  C.  Talkington,  B.R.,  Central  Indiana  District  Council, 

Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Michael  H.  Tindal,  Bus.  Mgr.,  Local  2734,  Mobile  Ala. 
John  Tokarek,  B.R.,  Santa  Clara  Valley  District  Council,  San 

Jose,  Calif. 
Robert  L.  Williamson,  B.R.,  Central  Indiana  District  Council, 

Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Bruce  A.  Wingert,  B.R.,  Central  Indiana  District  Council, 

Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Michael  Ziegler,  B.R.,  Metropolitan  District  Council, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 


28 


CARPENTER 


Retirees 
Notebook 

A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Number  9  Hammer 


Retired  member,  Johnnie  Ogee.  Local 
2205,  Wenatchee.  Wash.,  decided  he 
couldn't  lay  down  his  hammer  upon  his 
retirement.  In  order  to  take  it  with  him 
during  his  leisure  lime.  Ogee  attached  it  to 
his  favorite  nine  iron. 

He  cut  off  the  shaft  and  attached  a  new 
thumb  rest  grip.  The  result:  the  hammer  is 
always  with  him.  He  now  "drives"  those 
putts  home,  and  "nails  down"  a  match 
with  ease. 


Retired  Presidents 


Local-1590,  Washington.  D.C.,  recently 
honored  two  of  its  retired  presidents  with 
plaques  bearing  symbolic  gavels.  Making 
the  presentations  was  Francis  Cray,  cur- 
rent president  and  nephew  of  one  of  the 
recipients.  Above,  Cray  presents  a  plaque 
to  Arthur  J.  Cray.  At  left  is  Jack  Murphy, 
who  retired  last  year  because  of  illness. 


Liberty  Ship 
Brings  IVIemories 

Last  April,  Carpenter  published  a  picture 
of  a  third  U.S.  Liberty  ship  named  after  a 
former  leader  of  the  United  Brotherhood — 
the  Santiago  Iglesias.  named  for  a  pioneer 
UBC  and  AFL  organizer  in  Puerto  Rico. 

The  picture  brought  memories  to  Daniel 
J.  Blascovish,  a  retired  member  of  Local 
287,  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  who  worked  in  the 
Fairfield,  Md.,  shipyard  where  the  Santiago 
Iglesias  was  built  during  World  War  H. 

"My  prime  job  was  making  those  ships 
water  tight,"  says  Blascovich.  "We  had  a 
crew  of  eight  men  which  made  a  final  in- 
spection for  leaks  as  soon  as  a  ship  was 
launched.  Prior  to  a  launching  and  while  a 
ship  was  still  on  the  ways,  we  tested  the 
hull  and  all  the  tanks  for  leaks." 

The  Santiago  Iglesias  was  one  of  almost 
50  that  Blascovich  "rode  overboard"  down 
the  ways.  It  was  launched  six  months  before 
the  UBC  member  was  drafted  into  the  U.S. 
army.  Today,  Blascovich  is  a  construction 
specialist  in  the  office  of  the  Mayor  of 
Harrisburg. 


Detroit  Fisii  Fry 


Fresh  caught  walleye  provided  a  fish  fry  at 
the  monthly  meeting  of  the  Millwrights 
1 102  Retirees  Club,  held  at  the  local  union 
hall  in  Warren,  Mich.  Shown  here  are  Joe 
Varney,  retirees  George  Goga,  Jake  Mar- 
tin and  Joe  Crawford,  and  Mark  Stransky. 
Varney  and  Stransky,  both  active  members 
of  Local  1102,  volunteered  to  cook  the  fish 
which  were  donated  by  retirees  Matt  Mol- 
ski,  and  Earl  VanHoy. — Photo  by  Ron  Un- 
ternahrer  for  the  Detroit,  Mich.,  Building 
Tradesmen. 


You  Don't  have  to  Spend  $1 0 
to  'Preserve'  Your  Social  Security 


When  President  Franklin  D.  Roosevelt 
signed  the  historic  Social  Security  Act  into 
law  in  1935,  he  said  it  was  the  cornerstone 
in  a  structure  being  built,  but  which  was  by 
no  means  complete.  Today,  with  Medicare 
and  other  benefits.  Social  Security  repre- 
sents a  family  protection  plan  which  assures 
dignity  and  security  for  the  elderly  as  well 
as  lifting  the  burden  of  expense  and  worry 
from  their  children. 

Or  at  least  that's  what  everyone  believed 
until  a  dozen  or  so  direct  mail  operators 
discovered  how  to  make  miUions  of  dollars 
by  stirring  unfounded  fear  among  the  elderly. 

Tragically,  according  to  congressional 
hearings,  the  largest  and  most  notorious  of 
the  groups  preying  on  the  elderly  is  headed 
by  FDR's  son,  James  Roosevelt.  Critics 
believe  that  the  National  Committee  to  Pre- 
serve Social  Security  and  Medicare  is  mis- 
named since  its  activities  may  be  doing  more 
to  undermine  and  destroy  the  program  than 
to  preserve  it. 

James  Roosevelt,  79,  is  a  former  member 
of  Congress.  He  may  be  a  $60,000-a-year 
figurehead  chairman  of  the  National  Com- 
mittee judging  by  the  vagueness  of  his  replies 
under  intense  questioning  by  the  House 
Ways  and  Means  Subcommittee  on  Social 
Security. 

Published  reports  say  the  National  Com- 
mittee was  created  in  1982  and  was  run  by 
BFC  Direct  Marketing,  formerly  Butcher- 
Forde  Consulting.  Butcher-Forde  initially 
prospered  as  a  consultant  to  political  con- 
servatives and  was  criticized  for  savage 
attacks  on  the  opposition.  It  also  was  con- 
sultant for  Howard  Jarvis's  anti-tax  groups 
in  California's  fight  over  Proposition  13. 

But  it  was  the  magic  of  the  Roosevelt 


name  that  pulled  in  tens  of  millions  of  dollars, 
and  James  Roosevelt  was  attacked  by  angry 
members  of  Congress  who  have  been  inun- 
dated with  mail  from  frightened  elderly.  The 
subcommittee  said  the  BFC-Roosevelt  op- 
eration raised  more  than  $30  million  in  1985 
by  spending  more  than  80%  of  its  funds  on 
direct  mail  to  raise  more  funds. 

The  Roosevelt  group's  exploitation  of  the 
so-called  "notch  problem"  is  by  far  the  most 
serious  issue. 

Robert  M.  Ball,  Social  Security  Commis- 
sioner under  Presidents  Kennedy,  Johnson 
and  Nixon,  said  the  big  threat  to  Social 
Security  this  year  comes  from  a  push  by 
"notch  babies"  to  win  higher  benefits.  He 
said  they  were  urged  on  by  a  "Dear  Abby" 
column  and  then  by  Roosevelt,  flooding 
Congress  with  mail. 

Ball  said  that,  in  retrospect,  it  is  clear  a 
mistake  was  made  in  the  1977  amendments 
to  Social  Security  in  not  preventing  over- 
generous  payments  to  some  of  those  who 
became  62  just  before  1977  and  who  worked 
after  62.  Many  bom  a  little  later  who  worked 
after  62  get  lower  benefits.  To  raise  benefits 
for  those  born  later  and  give  them  the  same 
accidental  hikes  would  cost  $300  billion  over 
the  next  15  years  and  $80  billion  in  the  next 
five  years  alone,  he  said. 

The  dilemma  is  a  real  one.  Ball  said.  He 
said  the  best  answer  seems  to  be  to  put  a 
higher  value  on  the  financial  stability  of 
Social  Security  rather  than  higher  benefits 
for  "notch  babies."  The  traditional  main- 
stream senior  citizen  groups  favor  stability, 
he  said,  while  the  Roosevelt  group  is  using 
the  "notch"  issue  as  a  key  part  of  money- 
raising  drives.  And  that's  not  the  only  issue 
Continued  on  Page  38 


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The  Carpenters 
Legislative  Im- 
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receiving  much 
needed  financial 
support  this  year 
from  individual 
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members  who  send 
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recent  contributors 
are  the  following: 
Franklyn  Wurnhoff 
Local  1539  retiree. 
North  Port,  Fla.: 
Herb  Ray  Jr. ,  Lo- 
cal 1607  retiree, 
Bellflower,  Calif: 
Albert  J.  Lowery, 
Local  429  retiree, 
Lometa,  Texas: 
Sigurd  Andersen 
Lipzio,  Local  1456 


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retiree.  New  York, 
N.Y.:John  Cappel- 
letti.  Local  1906  re- 
tiree. Upper  Darby, 
Pa.:  Dan  Donahue, 
Local  1073,  Phila- 
delphia ,  Pa.:  Paul         •-  —  —  —.  —  —.  —  -. 
Schwenke,  Local 

1772  retiree,  Boynton  Beach,  Fla.:  Ezra 
Osterhout,  Local  1185  retiree,  Bangor, 
Wis.:  R.H.  Crawford,  Local  36  retiree. 
Pollock  Pines,  Calif.:  L.C.  Hammond,  Lo- 
cal 1471  retiree,  Jackson,  Miss.:  William 
McKernan,  Local  769,  Sierra  Madre, 
Calif.:  Peter  R.  Moos,  Local  584  retiree, 
Sacramento,  Calif.;  John  H.  Donaldson, 
Local  902  retiree,  Bayside,  New  York  City: 
Roy  Johnson,  Local  958  retiree.  Phoenix, 
Ariz.:  Ernest  A.  Prince,  Local  15  retiree, 
Hackensack,  N.J.:  George  Athamasopou- 
lof.  Local  246,  Long  Island  City,  N.Y.: 


Contributions  to  CLIC  are  voluntary  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  refuse  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contributions  from  persons  other  than  UBC 
meml>ers  and  their  immediate  families.  Contributions  from  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


Frank  Molzer,  Local  1365  retiree,  Boca 
Raton,  Fla.:  Delbert  B.  Hamilton,  Local 
1871  retiree.  North  Olmsted,  Ohio:  Sture 
Peterson,  Local  1397,  South  Daytona, 
Fla.:  Richard  E.  Higuera,  Local  22  retiree, 
San  Francisco,  Calif:  M.J.  Bayreuther, 
Local  316  retiree,  San  Jose,  Calif:  Rich- 
ard Coyro,  Local  114,  Harper  Was,  Mich.: 
Ray  Pirlot,  Local  250  retiree,  Waukegan, 
III.:  Michael  Corbo,  Local  1093  retiree, 
Naples,  Fla.:  and  Elmar  R.  Clark,  Local 
871  retiree,  Sebring,  Fla. 


Help  the  Kids  Play  It  Safe  on  Halloween 


30 


McGruff  the  Crime  Dog,  symbol  of  the 
National  Crime  Prevention  Council,  ex- 
pects to  "take  a  bite  out  of  crime"  this 
month  by  warning  children  and  their 
parents  to  be  careful  of  the  bad  and  the 
ugly  on  Halloween. 

He  urges  kids  to  play  it  safe  with  the 
following  tips: 

•  Have  your  parents  or  older  brother 
or  sister  go  with  you. 

•  Trick-or-treat  only  in  your  own 
neighborhood  on  well-lighted  streets. 

•  Throw  away  any  candy  or  food  that 
is  not  wrapped  by  the  candy  company. 

•  If  there  are  any  suspicious  treats, 
notify  the  police. 

The  National  Crime  Prevention  Coun- 
cil, a  non-profit  organization,  is  offering 
bright  yellow  and  plastic  trick-or-treat 
bags  through  many  organizations,  this 
year,  which  contain  the  warnings  above. 

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A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who   recently   received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


TOLEDO,  OHIO 

Members  of  Local  248  received  service  pins 
at  their  December  meeting  for  long-standing 
sen/ice.  Seated  are  Henry  Topel,  35-year 
member;  Robert  Bellner,  40-year  member;  Ed 
Knyminski,  35-year  member;  Al  Voss,  40-year 
member;  Bernard  Walker,  40-year  member. 

Standing  from  left:  Mike  Null,  business 
agent;  Jim  Gedert,  30-year  member;  Art 
Yohnki,  40-year  member;  Leo  Mapes,  40-year 
member;  Adolf  Rueike,  30-year  member;  Bill 
Dressel,  40-year  member;  and  President  Jack 
Kenney. 


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Bremerton,  Wash. 


Bremerton,  Wash.— Picture  No.  1 


Picture  No.  4  Picture  No.  5 

OCTOBER     1987 


Bremerton,  Wash. — Picture  No.  6 


Huntington  Park,  Calif.  Picture  No.  2 

HUNTINGTON  PARK,  CALIF. 

Local  3161  recently  awarded  pins  to  its  25 
and  35-year  members  at  a  steward  dinner  and 
membership  pin  award  dinner  held  at  the 
Stevens  Steak  House. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  recipients  of  the  25- 
year  pin.  Back  row  from  left:  Robert  Caro, 
warden  and  business  representative;  Gonzalo 
Barba,  business  representative  and  financial 
secretary;  Arthur  Sals,  president;  and  Fred 
Knopp,  recording  secretary  and  business 
representative.  Front  row:  James  C.  Jones, 
Melaquide  Morales,  Edmundo  Macias  and 
Roberto  Valverde. 

Picture  No.  2  pictures  25-year  members. 
From  left:  Fred  Knopp,  recording  secretary;  and 
Arthur  Said,  president.  Front  row:  Robert  Caro, 
warden  and  tiusiness  representative;  Gonzalo 
Barba,  business  representative  and  financial 
secretary;  Eulalia  Rodriguez  and  Vida  Iverson. 


NAPOLEON,  OHIO 

Local  1581,  Napoleon,  Oh.,  recently 
honored  Brother  Wayne  Gunsenhouser 
with  a  50-year  pin  and  lifetime 
membership  card.  Pictured  above  is 
President  Gary  Frederick  and 
Gunsenhouser  with  Gunsenhouser's 
wife,  Freida  looking  on. 


BREMERTON,  WASH. 

Local  1597  recently  presented  its  members 
with  sen/ice  pins. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  George  LaForce,  40- 
year  member;  Michael  Doucette,  president;  and 
Philip  Lyman,  40-year  member. 

Picture  No.  2,  Lester  Wear,  25-year 
member. 

Picture  No.  3  shows  Jolley  Perdue,  30-year 
member. 

Picture  No.  4,  Marvin  Petite,  35-year 
member. 

Picture  No.  5  is  55-year  member  Sam 
Linden. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  20-year  members 
Rodney  Miholka  and  Carl  Seidel  with  President 
Michael  Doucett. 


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COLUMBUS,  OHIO 

Local  200  recently  honored  its  members  with 
service  pins  for  the  years  they  have  been 
affiliated  with  the  Brotherhood. 
Picture  No.  1  shows  Larry  Sowers,  president, 
with  55-year  member  Karl  Schneider,  right.  Not 
pictured  is  William  Weller. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  50  year  members  from 
left:  Herbert  Thomas,  Ed  Underwood  Sr., 
Joseph  Pasini,  Torr.  .Autry  and  Anthony 
Horvate.  Not  present  were  Henry  Boyer,  A.  R. 
Peacock,  Arthur  Ruhl,  Frank  S.  Wright,  Ray 
Dill,  Lee  Eickemeyer,  Orville  Fletcher,  Clarence 
Smith.  E.  B.  Steiner  and  Russell  Wolford. 


Columbus,  Ofiio — Picture  No.  1 


Columbus,  Ohio— Picture  No.  3 


Columbus,  Ohio — Picture  No.  2 


Columbus,  Ofiio — Picture  No.  6 


Columbus,  Ohio — Picture  No.  4 


Picture  No.  3,  from  left:  James  W.  Landis, 
Homer  Stewart  Jr.,  Robert  Patten,  Robert 
McCreary,  Frank  V.  Pinto  and  Marcus  Long 
received  45-year  pins  for  their  service. 

Those  receiving  45-year  pins  but  not  pictured 
were  Benny  Friedman,  John  H.  Landis,  Robert 
Luellen,  R.V.  Miller,  Jarold  Spellman,  Monroe 
White,  Oliver  Dew,  Thomas  Moore,  Monford 
Scheiderer,  Norman  Altman,  Pearl  Azbell, 
Stanley  Bier,  Lowell  Booth,  Zigmond  Fuleki, 
Ross  Fulks,  Parker  Goldrick,  Eugene  R.  Hall, 
Lawrence  Hell,  W.E.  Kennan,  William 
McFadden,  Richard  Pabst,  George  T.  Ross  Sr. 
and  Henry  0.  Tubbs. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  those  who  received  40- 
year  pins.  From  left,  first  row.  President  Larry 
Sowers,  Jack,  Brandel,  Bechard  Carroll, 
Richard  Haas,  Thomas  Uhl,  Matthew  Reeves, 
Paul  Wohrle,  and  Ralph  Ames. 

Second  row:  Maurice  Verhaeghe,  Sam 
Chadwell,  Hoyt  Garrison,  Walter  Miller,  Ralph 
Heil,  Lane  Land  and  David  Turner. 

Third  row:  Ovid  R.  Fee,  Belford  Winigman, 
Chester  Allen,  Walter  Felterman,  John  Motil, 
Robert  Luft  and  Ralph  Windle. 

Fourth  row:  Millard  Wolfe,  Glen  Tipton, 
Warren  McClain  and  Business  Agent  Ed  Layton. 

40-y8ar  members  not  pictured  are  Robert 
Smith  Sr.,  Ezra  Flora,  Harold  McCreary,  George 
McNamer,  Earl  Weaston,  Dewey  Boggs,  Arthur 


Cheesbrew,  Thomas  Davis,  Herbert  Dusz,  Don 
Fleck,  Dwight  Gill,  Carson  Harrington,  Heber 
McClaskey,  Ransom  Meade,  Walter  Rodenfeis, 
Howard  Westkamp,  Walter  Wyckoff,  Eugene 
Butler,  Robert  McConnell,  Martin  McDonald, 
Clifford  Molt,  Dakota  Adams,  Roy  Bullock, 
Francis  Claypool,  William  Doss,  Francis  Faivre, 
Ralph  Fleck,  Daniel  Grubb,  Richard  Helsel, 
Kenneth  McDaniel,  John  Pickens,  Kenneth 
Safer,  William  J.  Williams,  James  Dillon, 
Gerald  McCormick,  Thomas  McGuIre,  V.E. 
Puckett,  Kermit  Barrett,  Willie  Cash,  Charles 
Crawford,  Parker  Dunigan,  Harold  Ferko, 
Stanley  Folk,  Eugene  Hall,  George  Kautz,  Leslie 
Malone,  Amos  Radu,  George  Swisher  and 
Lawrence  Wolford. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  35-years  members 
honored.  First  row:  President  Larry  Sowers, 
Financial  Secretary  Delbert  Baker  Sr.,  O.C. 
Coward,  Archie  Endicott,  William  Baxter,  James 
T.  Guinsler,  Ralph  Wyckoff,  Kimball  Clayton 
and  Business  Agent  Glenn  Smith. 

Second  row:  Louis  Jones,  Elijah  Rowe,  Eldon 
Lecrone,  Daniel  Zimmerman,  Richard  Kline, 
Paul  Gibson,  Leiand  Wilklns,  Richard  McCarty, 
John  Hill  and  Delbert  Clark. 

Third  row:  John  Chenko,  Jerry  Eckels,  Dale 
Schwartz  Jr.  Alan  Wilson  Jr.  Cecil  Moore,  John 
Taras,  Melvin  Burchett,  Dragon  Vukovich  and 
J.E.  Collier. 


Those  receiving  pins  but  not  photographed: 
Joe  S.  Carpenter,  Raymond  Frutchey,  Walter  E. 
Smith,  Virgil  Ballard,  Leroy  Kettler,  Milton 
Mattic,  Willard  Thacker,  E.  L.  Williams,  Elmer 
Baugess,  William  Boswell,  Max  Craiglow, 
Francis  E.  Haas,  Robert  Jarvis,  Wayne 
McKlbben,  Lawrence  Mouser,  James  B. 
Rogers,  Owen  Shaw,  Harry  Sigler,  Arnold 
Taylor,  Edwin  B.  Davis,  Max  Gibboney,  Wilbur 
Valantine,  Harold  Dunn,  James  Kirk,  Vincent 
Melaragno,  Ovid  Timmons,  William  Adams, 
Janice  Bernans,  Robert  Broyles,  Willis  Flowers, 
Robert  Heasley,  Raymond  Knoch,  Leslie 
Meenach,  Milo  Newton,  Lloyd  Ross,  William  D. 
Sheets,  Chartes  C.  Smith,  Louis  Viol,  Hobart  H. 
Edwards,  Earl  Roach,  Richard  Waller,  William 
R.  Kellett,  Virgil  Lloyd,  Thomas  Stone, 
Raymond  Westkamp,  Thornton  Arthur,  Pari 
Berry  Jr.  Price  Bush,  Raymond  Fritchlee, 
Walter  Hettinger,  George  McCreary  Sr.,  Leo 
Merz  Jr.,  Richard  Plummer,  James 
Schirtzlnger,  Robert  Shultz,  William  Spangler 
and  Alvin  Whitt. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  from  front  row  left 
those  receiving  30-year  pins.  President  Larry 
Sowers,  Robert  Burns,  Alfred  Granson,  Robert 
Mayes,  Gene  McDonald  and  Business  Agent 
Glenn  Smith. 

Second  row:  Leroy  Richardson,  Don 


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Columbus,  Ohio— Picture  No.  5 


McAllister,  Charles  McFann,  William  D.  North 
and  Jack  Nash. 

Third  row:  Bob  Helms,  Phillip  Skaggs,  Glen 
Young,  Paul  Webb  and  John  Parker. 

Fourth  row:  Jack  Papenbrock,  William  Dukes, 
Eugene  Maciejewski,  Bill  Clemmons,  John 
Edington  and  Business  Agent  Ed  Layton. 

Not  pictured  are  30-year  members:  William 
BIddle,  Floyd  Farley,  Adolph  Jackson,  Darl 
McAffee,  Don  Osborn,  Campbell  Stanley,  James 
Blake,  George  Hall,  Pat  Lively,  Orville  Mouser, 
J.R.  VanDyke,  Jonn  Ball,  Charles  Dudas, 
Charles  Hensel,  Elton  Renner,  Robert 
Smallwood,  Bennie  Woodie,  Archie  Black,  Paul 
Gillespie,  John  William  Johnson,  Albert  Mays, 
Charles  Reed,  Lindsey  Swain,  Louis  Dandrea, 
Robert  Hamilton,  Phillip  McNamara,  Joseph 
Schirtzinger,  Richard  Volt,  William  H.  Clark  Jr., 
Bernard  Francis,  James  Howell,  Lloyd  Roach, 
Clifton  Wallace,  Stanley  Downs,  Jesse 
Grandstaff,  Thomas  Lindsey,  Lias  Mullins, 
Wayne  Rucker,  William  T.  Berry,  Lawrence 
Grinstead,  Coy  Hardwick,  Paul  E.  Miller, 
Charles  Thompson,  Calvin  Again,  Fred  Culwell, 
Donald  Frazier,  Allen  Petzinger,  John  Shaffer 
and  John  Weaver. 

Picture  No  7  shows  25-year  members.  First 
row:  President  Larry  Sowers,  Antonia  Fantozzi, 
James  W.  Clark,  Rush  Holmes,  Anthony  Kisor, 
William  D.  Wllkins  and  Business  Agent  Glenn 
Smith. 

Second  row:  Daniel  Landls,  Gene  Beyer, 
Neysen  Mann,  John  Cross,  Robert  Dressing 
and  John  Adams. 

Not  pictured  are  25-year  members:  Darrell 
Brokaw,  Fredrick  Rodgers,  Forrest  Dukes, 
William  Humphrey,  Donald  T.  McMillen,  Dock 
Ronk,  Denny  Stitt,  Lowell  Bell,  Thomas  Evans, 
Ronald  Kleinline,  Prentis  Burroughs,  Sam 
Skinner,  Patrick  Franese,  Roger  Kannaird, 
Everett  Maynard,  Franklin  Ronk,  Fritz  Tschirner, 
John  Burchett,  William  Grubb,  Richard  Walker, 


Columbus,  Ohio — Picture  No.  7 


Raymond  Detty,  Curtis  Berry,, Claude  Holzapfel, 
Granville  McCarty,  George  Parkinson,  William 
E.  Sheets,  Mearl  Azbell,  Roy  Collins,  Roger 
Johnson  and  Kenneth  Watson  Jr. 

Picture  No  8  shows  20-year  recipients  of 
pins.  Front  row:  President  Larry  Sowers,  Arnold 
Williams  Jr.,  Howard  Bethel,  John  Mansbridge, 
Rusty  Gibson,  Harold  Shahan,  John  Leffingwell 
and  Henry  Row. 

Second  row:  Diego  Moreno,  William  Thacker, 
John  Gieger,  Jerry  Graves,  William  Freeman, 
Dale  Olive,  Lawrence  Wheeler  and  Mark 
LaValley. 

Third  row:  Robert  C.  Stitt  Sr.,  Fred  Stires, 
Foster  Raypole,  Stephen  Boggs,  Robert  Winter 
Jr. ,  Carson  Kelly,  James  Graham  and  Frank 
Casto. 

Fourth  row:  Clifford  Young,  Kenneth  Netting, 
Daniel  Boyle,  William  Freshkorn,  Kent  Turner, 
James  W.  Lovett,  William  Ricker  and  Raymond 
Colvin. 

Members  receiving  20-year  pins  but  not 
shown  here  include:  Wally  Bethel,  Curtis 
Formyduval,  Billy  Havens,  John  D.  Jackson, 
James  Lillie,  Robert  Nickl,  George  Scurlock, 
Danny  Sparks,  Lawrence  VanBibber,  Edgar 
Bloomfield,  Ova  Brown,  James  E.  Cooper, 
Donald  Harper,  Lawrence  McKlnney,  Scott 
Richardson,  Wesley  Thomas,  Fred  Baird,  Mario 
Benacquista,  Charles  Boyle,  Willard  Clemmons, 


John  Foster,  Gene  Glenn,  William  Hawk,  Cleatis 
Howard,  Charles  Kibler,  Harold  Lehman, 
Kenneth  McCreary^  Albert  Martin,  Roy  Palmer 
Jr. ,  Dwight  Pence,  Walter  Rogers,  Clarence 
Shaw,  Lucian  Trebacz,  Jack  White,  Charles 
Wilson,  Joe  Birnbrich,  Billy  Frazier,  Elsworth 
Hayes,  Robert  Johns,  Walter  Middleton,  Francis 
Partlow,  Harold  Sorrell,  Clifford  Taylor,  William 
Adkins,  Donald  Brokaw,  Floyd  Casto,  Joe 
Eiginger  Jr.,  Bradley  Hunley,  Stephen  Ollam, 
Lawrence  Stover,  William  Thompson,  Bernard 
Baker  Sr.,  Neal  Bethel,  Lester  Brown,  Billie 
Dupler,  Aaron  Fout,  Harry  Gorman,  Robert 
Hoffman,  Edgar  Johnson,  Ralph  Lambert,  Larry 
Cartney,  Donald  McDonnell,  John  May,  Kenneth 
Parrish,  Marcel  Pierrell,  James  Ropp,  Vernon 
Smith,  Donald  Weaver,  Kenneth  White,  William 
D.WIre,  Billie  DeWees,  Richard  Grubb,  William 
Howard,  George  Lieb,  Paul  R.  Miller,  James  E. 
Paugh,  Richard  A.  South,  Edward  Upperman, 
Clifford  Bloomfield,  Carlos  Brooker,  Albert 
Chappelear,  Stanley  Goings,  Lawrence 
Kolesser,  Norman  Poling,  William  Taylor,  Ralph 
Weiss,  Carl  Balalovski,  Michael  Bishop,  Donald 
Carder,  Anthony  Figliola,  Walter  Gerano, 
Charles  Griffey,  Donald  Householder,  John  W. 
Johnson,  Michael  Lawwell,  Robert  McCorkle, 
Clyde  Manning,  Ronald  Mullins,  David  Pense, 
Paul  Redman,  Walton  Roush,  George  Snyder, 
Russell  Weaver  and  Ronnie  Willis. 


Columbus,  Ohio— Picture  No.  8 
OCTOBER     1987 


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CHARLESTON,  W.V. 

Local  1 207  recently  awarded  its  members  of 
25  years  or  more  of  service  with  pins  at  a  pin 
award  dinner  held  in  the  union  hall.  Members 
receiving  pins  include,  front,  Lester  Durham, 
25  years;  Paul  Lawrence,  40  years;  David 
Armstead,  president;  Corbet  Samples,  45  years; 
and  Charles  Nelson,  35  years. 


Second  row:  John  L.  Jarrett,  district  council 
secretary;  Oelmer  Pegram,  40  years;  E.T. 
Monroe  Jr.,  50  years;  and  Robert  Sutphin, 
business  representative. 

Third  row:  Jennings  Martin,  50  years;  Jimmy 
Higginbotham,  25  years;  David  Monroe,  40 
years;  Ernest  Toth,  30  years;  and  Everett 
Sullivan,  general  representative. 


The  "Service  To  The 
Brotherhood"  section  gives 
recognition  to  United 
Brotherhood  members  with 
20  or  more  years  of  service. 
Please  identify  members 
carefully,  from  left  to  right, 
printing  or  typing  the  names 
to  ensure  readability.  Prints 
can  be  black  and  white  or 
color  as  long  as  they  are 
sharp  and  in  focus.  Send 
material  to  CARPENTER 
magazine,  101  Constitution 
Ave.,  N.W.,  Washington, 
D.C.  20001 


Windsor,  Ont. — Picture  No.  6 

WINDSOR,  ONT. 

A  banquet  was  recently  held  by  Local  494  to 
honor  its  members  with  longstanding  service  to 
the  Brotherhood.  The  awards  were  presented  by 
Bill  Stefanovitch,  retired  9th  district  board 
member,  to  brothers  with  membership  ranging 
from  25  to  50  years  of  service. 

Picture  No.  1  shows  from  left  Ian  Logan, 
past  business  representative;  Earl  McLaughlin, 
50-year  member;  Bill  Stefanovitch  and  Jim 
Caron,  business  representative.  In  addition  to 
his  membership  pin,  McLaughlin  was  presented 
with  a  commemorative  plaque. 

Picture  No.  2  shows  Joe  Biringer,  45-year 
member. 


Picture  No.  2 

Picture  No.  3  shows  40-year  members  Fred 
Legebow,  Joe  Noyosad,  Tony  Shery,  Retired 
Business  Representative  Ian  Logan,  Harold 
Harris  and  James  Filipov. 

Picture  No.  4  shows  35-year  members. 
Seated  are  Luigi  Delorenzo,  Les  Wiley  and  John 
Wynarchuk.  Standing  are  Guido  Gobbo,  Ed 
Fenton,  George  Budrewicz,  Mathias  Lafleur, 
Oscar  Mineau  and  Lloyd  Montforton. 

Picture  No.  5  shows  Ray  Jaarsma,  Vince 
Diduca  and  Leo  Kouyzer,  who  were  awarded 
30-year  pins. 

Picture  No.  6  shows  recipients  of  25-year 
membership  pins.  Left  are  Alois  Steinwender, 
Frank  Chartrand,  Emmett  Kameka,  Adam  Knebl, 
Antonio  Maceroni  and  Sam  McDermid. 


Windsor,  Ont. — Picture  No.  5 


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PALM  SPRINGS,  CALIF. 

Local  1046  honored  some  of  its  members 
with  service  pins  recently  for  their  years  with 
the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1,  Oscar  Berg,  60-year  member 
at  the  entrance- to  the  local  hall. 

Pictures  No.  2  and  3,  Charles  Ourkee  and 
Roy  Duncan,  45-year  members. 

Picture  No.  4,  Meyer  Katz  was  honored  as 
the  oldest  member,  with  73  years  of  service. 

Picture  No.  5,  shows  40^ear  members  John 
Magera,  Norman  Mikkelson,  James  Zaioudek, 
Robert  L.  Smith,  Milbert  Cameron,  Joe  Prieto, 
Mike  Maloff  and  Robert  Blalock. 


MANHATTAN,  KAN 

At  a  regular  meeting  Local  918  honored  its 
members  with  longstanding  service  to  the 
Brotherhood.  Standing  in  front  are  45-year 
member  Wayne  Schurle,  25-year  member  Floyd 
Albrecht,  30-year  member  Leonard  Bremer. 
Back  row,  15-year  member  Larry  Shubert,  25- 
year  member  Gary  Hudson  and  35-year 
member  Everette  Volpert. 

Honored  but  not  pictured  were  45-year 
members  Walter  Brannan,  Chris  Schmidt  and 
Herbert  Spittles;  40-year  members  Blaine 
Erickson  and  Emmett  Hubbard;  35-year 
members  Glenn  Allen,  Warren  Cameron,  James 
Laughlin,  Clarence  Ott  and  Adam  Shoendaller; 
30-year  members  Clarence  DeWitt  and  Austin 
Olson;  25-year  members  Harold  Lantz  and 
Elmer  Lesline.  20-year  members  Dale  Cox,  Milo 
Marston  and  Ennis  Niswanger. 


Manhattan,  Kan. 


Local  1743  recently  celebrated  its  82nd 
anniversary  with  a  banquet  and  pin 
presentation.  Those  receiving  year  pins  from 
Treasurer  Ed  Land,  left,  were  James  Brawnan 
Jr.  and  James  Nash. 


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Morton,  Wash. 
Picture  No.  3 


Morton,  Wash. — Picture  No.  1 


Morton,  Wash.— Picture  No.  2 


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POUGHKEEPSIE,  N.Y. 

Local  203  recently  honored  two  of  its  50-year 
members  with  plaques.  Andrew  Fedorchal<  (left) 
joined  the  Local  117  in  January  1937.  He 
transferred  his  membership  to  Local  203  in 
1952.  William  Korber,  right,  joined  Local  203  in 
February  1937  and  served  as  financial  secretary 
for  18  years. 


Morton,  Wash.— Picture  No.  4 
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Morton,  Wash. — Picture  No.  5 


MORTON,  WASH. 

The  lumber  and  sawmill  workers  union  local 
2767  recently  honored  some  of  its  members  in 
a  pin  presentation.  Pins  were  presented  to  the 
members  by  Western  Council  staff 
representative  Charles  Peterson. 

Picture  No.  1:  Front,  25-year  members  Box 
Mulr,  Willie  Guffey,  Hellen  Glldewell,  Jim 
Pierson,  Charles  St.  Clair,  Robert  Redfield,  Bill 
Stevens  and  Jesse  Bridges.  Back  row,  Jim 
Cline,  Joe  Lindberg,  Bryon  Compton,  Elmer 
Wingerter,  Roy  Rakes  and  William  Jacobson. 

Picture  No.  2:  Members  receiving  35-year 
pins  include,  front,  Harry  Belcher,  Ralph 
Sawyer,  Hubert  DeRossett,  Luen  Nanney, 
Howard  Hillstrom,  Ed  Robbins  and  Delmar 
Smith.  Back  row,  Ray  Rankin,  H.C.  Temple, 
H.C.  Smith,  Frank  Sanders,  Delbert  Self,  Jodie 
Bridges  and  Lawrence  Randall. 

Picture  No.  3:  Members  receiving  40-year 
membership  pins  were  Cecil  Rhoades,  Frank 
Klassy,  Wade  Mills,  Cliff  Clark,  Ted  Smith, 
Leonard  Clevenger,  John  Larter  and  Ivan  Stout. 

Picture  No.  4:  Albert  Suter,  45-year  member; 
Ray  Reed,  40-year  member;  Paul  Reed,  40-year 
member;  W.L.  Carbaugh,  45-year  member;  and 
Jim  Daly,  45-year  member. 

Picture  No.  5:  Eugene  Smith,  James  Sill, 
Orville  Lllloren,  Lawrence  Smith  and  Charles 
Metcalf  received  50-year  pins. 

CARPENTER 


The  following  list  of  641  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,104,102.73  death  claims  paid  in  July  1987;  (s)  following 
name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  members 


Local  Union,  City 

1  Chicago.  IL — Arthur  F.  Sron.  Florence  Tracy  (s), 
Lorraine  Ingalls  (s).  Michael  S.  Gasperi.  William  R. 
Caspars. 

2  Cincinnati.  OH — Edward  Eston  Britain. 

3  Wheeling,  WV— Albert  F.  Baker. 

4  Davenport,  lA — August  F.  Voss.  Eldridge  Nelson. 
Peteris  Mezinskis.  William  Weinman. 

5  St.  Louis,  MO — Francis  J.  Klaverkamp. 

6  Hudson  County,  NJ — Arthur  B.  Rubenslein.  Daniel 
J.  Vesper,  Peter  Altamirano. 

7  Minneapolis,  MN — Oscar  E.  Bergstrom. 

8  Philadelphia,  PA— Herbert  K.  Dyer,  Jack  Nurmi, 
Martin  M.  Hancharick. 

9  Buffalo,  NY— John  C.  Loomis. 

10  Chicago,  II^Robert  J.  Bokodi,  William  F.  Kent. 

11  Cleveland.  OH — Edward  Kantor,  Eva  Ross  (s).  Mary 
C.  Zedaker  (s).  Roscoe  Johnson. 

12  Syracuse,  NY — Henry  C.  Kiefer. 

14  San  Antonio,  TX — Leslie  L.  Teague. 

15  Hackensack,  NJ — LeslerG.  Schmucker.  PelerGoed- 
hart. 

16  Springfield,  IL— Ford  T.  Spann.  William  Whitlock 
Sr. 

17  Bronx,  NY— Alberto  Conle.  Catherine  Bica  (s),  Gus- 
tav  Akeson,  James  Alfonso. 

18  Hamilton,  Ont,  CAN— Joseph  Kanjo. 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Albert  Frederick  Cochelle.  Cloys 
R.  Epps.  Henry  Zabriskie,  Maurice  Reid,  Ransom 
Fred  Duncan. 

24     Central  CT — Jeanne  Roy  (s).  Louis  Murray. 

27  Toronto,  Ont,  CAN— Andrew  K.  Tang,  James 
McLaren.  Joseph  Gerald  Magill,  Vittorio  Vietri. 

31  Trenton,  NJ — Anthony  A.  Garefino,  Robert  L.  Schu- 
mann. 

33  Boston,  MA — Daniel  E.  Lyons,  Eleanor  M.  Small 
{s).  Harold  B.  Brooks.  Harry  B.  Long,  Ralph  O. 
Specht. 

34  Oakland,  CA— Richard  D.  Wells. 

35  San  Rafael,  CA— Leo  Clifton  Beers. 

36  Oakland,  CA— Robert  R.  Griebel,  Victor  Young, 
William  G.  Dahlgren. 

40  Boston,  MA — Bernard  O.  Hosang.  Daniel  F.  Cam- 
eron. 

42  San  Francisco,  CA — Ivar  Aarstad. 

43  Hartford,  CT— Richard  S.  McGill.  William  Sharkey. 

44  Champaign  &  Urbana,  IL — Betty  Maxwell  (s).  Earl 
Leiand  Johnson. 

47  St.  Louis,  MO— Charles  D.  Kelpe.  Frances  R.  Mel- 
ton (s),  John  Fontana.  Virginia  F.  Gassel  (s). 

49  Lowell,  MA — Lillian  M.  Drew  (s),  Marie  Anne  Saw- 
yer (s). 

50  Knoxville,  TN— Dewey  M.  Nelson.  Samuel  C.  Mat- 
thews. 

51  Boston,  MA — Frank  Pizzano. 

55  Denver,  CO — Charles  Butterfield.  Nancy  Gay  Har- 
rison (s),  Virgil  V.  Pyle. 

56  Boston,  MA — John  A.  Dearin. 

58    Chicago,  IL — Addison  Gibbs,  August  Anderson  Sr.. 

Conrad  T.  Kuitunen. 
61    Kansas  City,   MO— Charles  Van  Collins,   Ina  F. 

Hieronymus  (s),  Rolland  R.  Cooper. 

64  Louisville,  KY— Grant  Metcalf. 

65  Perth  Amboy,  NJ— William  Mausson. 

66  Olean,  NY — Jesse  L.  Cummings. 

74    Chattanooga,  TN — Frances  Christine  Sullivan  (s). 

James  Marvin  Smith. 
76    Hazelton,  PA — George  J.  Dusheck. 
80    Chicago,  IL — Joseph  A.  Juhasz.  Marie  Halbrendt 

(s). 
83    Halifax,  N.S.,  CAN— Beatrice  May  Hemeon  (s), 

Henry  Halt. 
88    Anaconda,  MT — Joyce  Ann  Mason  (s). 
94    Providence,    RI — Anne    Shallcross    (s).    Lemuel 

MacDonald,  Louis  P.  Dumas,  Russell  Pratt. 
101    Baltimore,  MD— Harley  W.  Fellom. 

104  Dayton,  OH— Eston  Miller. 

105  Cleveland,  OH — Frank  Diaz  Deleon.  Lilliam  Joan 
Tretzger  (s),  Michelangelo  Caticchio.  William  J. 
Toth. 

106  Des  Moines,  lA— Wilbert  P.  Babcock  Sr. 

108  Springfield,  MA— Rudolph  S.  Desjarlais. 

109  Sheffield,  Al^Fred  Brown  Isom.  Grace  P.  Rhodes 
(s).  Rufus  E.  Herring. 

110  St.  Joseph,  MO— Gordon  L.  Gill.  Richard  M.  Kretzer. 
112    Butte,  MT— Mitchell  V.  Rosa. 

114  East  Detroit,  MI — Andrew  Macek,  Eddie  Byrd. 

115  Miami,  FL — James  A.  White. 

118  Detroit,  MI— David  W.  Anderson.  Donald  M.  Ben- 
inger,  Frank  Drain.  Hugh  Ward.  Louis  G.  Bernier. 
Marlin  C.  Green,  Ray  C.  Sweitzer.  Robert  T.  Fair- 
grieve,  William  R.  Robinson. 

12J  Broward  County,  Fl^Ann  Marie  Gulp  (s).  Carl  J. 
Durso,  Sophia  B.  Laroche  (s),  Willard  Wilhowsky. 

124  Passaic,  NJ — Catherine  Boscarino  (s),  Sam  Caste- 
line. 

125  Miami,  FL — John  E.  Nugent,  Parthenia  C.  Vance 
(s),  Stanley  P.  Mowat. 

131  Seattle,  WA— Christian  O.  Olson.  Donald  M.  Leik- 
ness,  Mary  Lou  Fordham  (s),  Merlin  Radke,  Merritt 
Spugnaugle. 

132  Washington,  DC— Alvin  L.  Sherbert.  Bernard  E. 
Parllow  Jr. 

135  New  York,  NY — Jerry  Krajewski,  Jose  Mario  Ra- 
mos. 

140  Tampa,  FL— Carolyn  B.  Smith  (s).  Leonard  E.  Wilt 
Sr. 

142    Pittsburgh,  PA — Albert  Lander.  Bernadine  A.  Zipay 


Loial  Union.  City 

(s).  Clarence  Kromer,  Marion  Black  (s).  Walter  J. 

Banaszewski. 
144    Macon,  GA — Joe  Almond  McGowan.  Norman  G. 

Wolfkill. 
153    Helena,  MT— Robert  Dawson  Abel.  Robert  F.  Moe. 
155     Plainfield,   NJ— Frances   M.    Huff  (s).   Nicola   Di- 

Marcello. 
162    San  Mateo,  CA— Clarion  O.  Paulson.  Fred  C.  Hagen. 
166    Rock  Island,  IL — James  E.  McGuire,  Lillie  C.  Lud- 

wig  (s).  Mildred  P.  Flowers  (s).  William  H.  Munson. 
171    Youngstown,  OH — Richard  L.  Beagle. 

182  Cleveland,  OH— Elizabeth  Sepper  (s),  Floyd  D. 
Miller,  Herbert  W.  Young,  John  Spevak. 

183  Peoria,  IL— Charles  L.  Wagner.  Jesse  R.  King. 
189    Quincy,  IL — Raymond  Bnnkman. 

199  Chicago,  IL — Delos  Miller.  John  Bergstrom.  John 
M.  Pytlik.  William  F.  Braltstrom. 

200  Columbus,  OH— Eugene  R.  Hall.  William  Ernest 
Kennan. 

201  Wichita,  KS— Dona  Fay  Fredrick  (s),  Karen  Joy 
Dick(s). 

210  Stamford,  CT— Alex  Nakoneczny,  Clara  Massaro 
(s).  Frank  J.  Sproch.  Joao  Frazao,  Joseph  R.  Me- 
negus.  Vincent  Perillo. 

211  Pittsburgh,  PA — James  Stamos.  Robert  N.  Young. 
223    Nashville,  TN— Erney  C.  Finch.  Hubert  B.  Prince, 

James  Alexander  Brooks  Sr..  Mildred  Gibbs  (s). 
225     Atlanta,  GA— John  H.  Thompson. 
230    Pittsburgh,  PA— Jacob  Soeder,  Nick  Kovach. 
232    Fort  Wayne,  IN — Rex  Wayne  Merriman. 
235    Riverside,  CA — Alfred  Amos  Hemry.  Jose  Delaluz 

Arzate  Sr. 
244    Grand  Jet,  CO— Donald   A.   Hall,   Russell  James 

Holder.  Willy  Ohm. 

246  New  York,  NY— Andreas  Heller.  Sverre  Ofte. 

247  Portland,  OR— Glen  L.  Getchell.  Henry  F.  Pontious. 
Joe  R.  Dehart,  Rudolph  Earlson. 

248  Toledo,  OH— Albert  Otto  Lietzke.  Chester  Jadwis- 
iak. 

254     Cleveland,  OH— Myrtle  M.  McCormick. 

257    New  York,  NY— John  Krulish. 

261    Scranton,  PA — Dominic  Capelloni.  Leon  Toms. 

264    Milwaukee,  W! — Frank  C.  Janik,  Gordon  W.  Wolf. 

Mervin  Sharpe. 
267    Dresden,  OH— Otto  L.  Parrish. 
269    Danville,  IL — Virgil  L.  Ferrante. 
272    Chicago  Hgt,  ILr-Arnold  Gustavson,  Richard  A. 

Kowallick. 
275    Newton,  MA — James  A.  Mackay  Sr. 
278    Watertown,  NY— Lewis  Clark. 
280    Niagara-Gen&Vic,  NY— Floyd  M.  Eddy. 
287    Harrisburg,  PA— Carl  C.  McGee.  Charies  B.  Baker. 

Franklin  A.  Shireman,  Julia  M.  Berry  (s).  Mae  B. 

Peifer  (s). 
296    Brooklyn,  NY — Andrew  Nilsen.  Leroy  Moultrie. 
304    Denison,  TX— Myrtle  Lee  Taylor  (s). 
311    Joplin,  MO— Charles  Clair  Owens,  Robert  N.  Ludy. 
314    Madison,  WI — Donald  McCance.  Selma  Oliverson 

(s). 
316    San  Jose.  CA— Harry  S.  Araki,  Mark  W.  Hinz. 

Raymond  Mason. 
319    Roanoke,  VA— Walter  B.  Chandler. 
329    Oklahoma  City,  OK— Elmer  Ray  Burgess. 

334  .  Saginaw,  MI — Frank  A.  Mueller.  James  F.  Miller. 

335  Grand  Rapids,  MI— Venard  Clifford  Duvall. 

344  Waukesha,  WI — Adolf  Buss.  Henry  Gritzmacher. 
Roy  J.  Bomier. 

345  Memphis,  TN— Cleveland  Esta  Barbee. 

348    New  York,  NY — Angelo  Cirilli.  John  Provisiero,  Roy 

Serikstad.  William  P.  Donohue. 
354    Gilroy,  CA— Raymond  E.  Shields  Sr. 

356  Marietta,  OH— Raymond  C.  Teaford. 

357  Draffenville,  KY— James  E.  Hurt,  James  Robert 
Turner,  James  U.  Jones.  Olus  B.  Waldrop. 

359    Philadelphia,  PA — John  J.  Foley,  Samuel  B.  Jones. 

369  N  Tonawanda,  NY— James  A.  Cullen  Sr.,  John  J. 
McDonald,  Juzef  Szychowski,  Sidney  E.  Lovell. 

370  Albany,  NY — Alice  Fowler  (s),  Stephen  Boniewski. 
374    Buffalo,  NY— Melvin  E.  Felger. 

377     Alton,  Il^Winston  A.  Hoy. 

379    Texarkana,  TX— Cora  Copeland  (s). 

393     Camden,  NJ — Edward  F.  Hengy. 

400    Omaha,  NE — John  S.  Szczepanowski,  Leonard  G. 

Labs.  Thomas  E.  Heavican. 
403    Alexandria,  LA — Elza  Hebert. 
422    New  Brighton,  PA— Peter  Keser.  Steve  Galco. 
429    Arlington,  TX — Essie  Lorena  Rich  (s).  Leonard  P. 

Tharp. 

433  Belleville,  IL— Doc  R.  Todd.  Harvey  F.  Kreutzer. 

434  Chicago,  IL — Ambrose  Gall. 

453  Auburn,  NY— Michael  Bolak. 

454  Philadelphia,  PA— Willie  H.  Cooke. 
458  Clarksville,  IN— Ruby  E.  Allen  (s). 
462  Greensburg,  PA— Robert  J.  Stouffer. 

470  Tacoma,  WA — Eari  R.  Aune,  Elmer  Jackson  Endi- 
cott,  Harry  Crask,  Howard  Quinn,  Lauren  L.  Shafer. 

472    Ashland,  KY — Ermon  H.  Bradley,  Joshua  Erwin. 

475  Ashland,  MA — Joseph  R.  Grimard.  Russell  Keisling, 
Thomas  J.  Morrissey. 

494    Windsor,  Ont,  CAN— Oscar  Charron. 

496    Kankakee,  IL— Eugene  S.  Rettke. 

502  Port  Arthur,  TX— Lenwood  Austin  Sr..  Upton  R. 
C.  Trapp. 

503  Lancaster,  NY — Andrew  Lee  Barnes. 
512    Ann  Arbor,  MI — August  0.  Feldhauser. 

514  Wilkes  Barre,  PA— Daniel  Miller.  Frank  Sha- 
trowsky,  Ivan  H.  Covert,  John  J.  Endrusick.  Leon 


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Chmura,  Paul  Markiewicz. 
515    Colo  SpringSv  CO— David  Ross  Starritt  Sr.,  Julia  E. 
Rickner  (s),  Lloyd  Francis  George,  Opha  Marie 
Replogle  {$). 

527  Nanaimo,  BC,  CAN— Merlin  A.  Brewer. 

528  Washington,  DC— Fred  B.  McAleer. 
541     Washington,  PA— Ruth  Watls  (s). 

543    Mamaroneck,  NY — Mabel  Piacente  (s),  Mary  Olsson 

(s). 
548    Minneapolis,  MN — John  E.  Lemmon. 
551    Houston,  TX— Fred  Thomas  Bautsch,  Oliver  Paul 

Jeter,  Peter  Milton  Kring  Jr.,  William  L.  Johnson, 

William  Oscar  Treadwell. 

562  Everett,  WA— Clarence  B.  Thompson,  Emmett  B. 
Larson. 

563  Glendale,  CA— Bernard  D.  Camp,  Irvin  W.  Daffern. 
569    Pascagoula,  MS — Ottis  Fadjo  Bass. 

576    Pine  Bluff,  AR— Bonnieta  L.  Towles  (s). 

579    St  John,  NF,  CAN— Eldon  Gray. 

586  Sacramento,  CA — Andrew  Anderson,  Dorothy  E. 
Yocum  (s).  Gloria  Massi  (s),  John  Mueller,  Richard 
Blackburn.  Virgil  D.  Rogers.  Wilma  F.  Wilhelm  (s). 

599  Hammond,  IN— Rose  B.  Graham  (s), 

600  Lehigh  Valley,  PA— Edward  W.  Hunsicker.  Vincent 
C.  Daniels. 

602    St.  Louis,  MO — Henry  Garavaglia. 

606  VA  Eveleth,  MN — Lawrence  Arthur  McCleerey, 
Sulho  Eric  Norri. 

607  Hannibal,  MO— Fred  Willard. 

613  Hampton  Roads,  VA— Clyde  Ferebee. 
620  Madison,  NJ — Thomas  Joseph  Krebs. 
622    Waco,  TX— Otto  Jason  Sullenberger. 

626  Wilmington,  DE — Arthur  Troiani.  Harry  F.  Fry.  W. 
Calvin  Clay. 

627  Jacksonville,  FL — Dorthula  P.  Taylor  (s),  Emmet  E. 
Ward,  Fred  Joseph  Nadeau. 

636    Mt.  Vernon,  IL — Elmer  E.  Lowry,  Eunice  Clara 

Jones  (s),  Evan  Hampton. 
639    Akron,  OH— Konrad  Wascher. 
644    Pekin,  IL — Desiree  Veriy.  Herman  C.  Green. 
654    Chattanooga,  TN— Catherine  M.  Hixson  (s),  Eva 

Viola  Woodfin  (s). 
660    Springfield,  OH— Ruth  M.  Runyan  (s). 
665    Amarillo,  TX— Alfred  Hickmott,  Elvin  E.  Sample. 
668    Palo  Alto,  CA— Elmer  D.  Noll,  Henry  A.  Harrison. 
678    Dubuque,  lA — Jean  Denlinger  (s). 
698    Covington,  KY— William  Johnson. 
701    Fresno,  CA — Oscar  L.  Fearing. 
703    Lockland,  OH — Jeanne  Young  (s). 
710    Long  Beach,  CA— Arthur  L.  Emfield,  Claude  G. 

Harding,  Frank  Smith.  Lawrence  Evans. 
714    Olathe,  KS— James  W.  Hicks.  Robert  E.  Bibb. 
721    Los  Angeles,  CA— John  Solimann,  Orvilie  W.  Ellis, 

Roberto  Carrillo,  Rubin  Zaiman  Schindler.  Virginia 

Ruth  Camu  (s). 

739  Cincinnati,  OH — Jerome  McCarthy. 

740  New  York,  NY— Stanley  Olson. 

742  Decatur,  IL — Lila  Elizabeth  Hamilton  (s). 

743  Bakersfield,  CA— George  U.  Aho,  Walter  Bronson. 
745    Honolulu,  HI — Benny  Savedra,  Leonard  William 

Carison,  Yutaka  Daimon. 

747    Oswego,  NY — James  F.  Bateman,  Phillip  Giambo. 

751    Santa  Rosa,  CA— Henry  Salisbury. 

756  Bellingham,  WA— Albert  G.  Bachman.  Howard  El- 
wood  Haggen. 

764    Shreveport,  LA — Eunice  Mai  Haigler  (s). 

769  Pasadena,  CA — John  Osmonson,  Lawrence  E.  Ost- 
berg.  Sylvester  B.  Johnson. 

780  Astoria,  OR— Margaret  C.  Curnow  (s).  William  M. 
Trinklein. 

792    Rockford,  IL — Henry  Norquist,  Steven  Denekas. 

815    Beverly,  MA — Marjorie  Cronin  (s). 

824    Muskegon,  Mi — Carl  D.  Nicholes. 

829    Santa  Cruz,  CA— Earl  H.  Bromert. 

839  Des  Plaines,  II^Neil  Kelso,  Paul  Lomax. 

840  St  John,  NB,  CAN— David  Bennett. 

844  Canoga  Park,  CA— Charlie  Wright,  William  Tadlock. 

845  Clifton  Heights,  PA— Hugo  Link. 

857    Tucson,  AZ^ — Frank  Sandoval  Linarez  Sr.,  Russell 

Hamilton. 
865    Brunswick,  GA — Larry  D.  Johnson. 
889    Hopkins,  MN— Paul  M.  Anderson. 
902    Brooklyn,  NV— Ingolf  Olai  Stocklund,  Oscar  Henry 

Nelson,  Stephano  Larussa. 
904    Jacksonville,  IL — Delphino  Roman. 
930    St  Cloud,  MN— Elmer  V.  Youngberg. 
933     Hermiston,  OR — Alvin  E.  Poulson. 

943  Tulsa,  OK— Andrew  Cleburne  Hopkins,  Ray  M. 
Johnson.  Willie  Dee  Lawson. 

944  San  Bernardno,  CA — John  Milton  Johnsen. 

953    Lake  Charles,  LA — Julius  Stewart.  Larry  D.  Fred- 
erick, Widness  Heberl,  Wilfred  R.  Painter. 
955    Appleton,  WI — John  M.  Deeg,  Louis  Clarke,  Maur- 
ice J.  Carey,  Roger  Hammen. 
964    Rockland  CO,  NY— Michael  J.  Bogusz. 
971     Reno,  NV— Loyla  Ohm  Harbach  (s), 
973    Texas  City,  TX— George  W.  Hilton.  Sanford  James. 
981     Petaluma,  CA— Attilio  Aichino. 
998     Royal  Oak,  MI— Russell  R.  Korff. 
1003    Indianapolis,  IN — Joseph  H.  Stewart. 
1009    St.  Johns,  NFLD,  CAN— George  S.  Stuckless,  Onie 

Stuckless  (s). 
I0I6     Muncie,  IN— William  H.  Marcum. 
1022     Parsons,  KS— Louis  Rush. 
1027    Chicago,  Il^-Gunhild  H.  Nelson  (s).  Harold  Myk- 

lebost.  James  R.  Olliges  Jr. 
1040    Eureka,  CA— Hero  Nicholas  Stone. 


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Plaltsburgh,  NY — Flonda  M.  Husereau  (s). 
Hollywood,  CA — A.  Robert  Erickson,  Fred  Hans 
Chrislensen,  Leroy  Reynerlson,  William  M.  Lett. 
Milwaukee,  WI — Gottfried  Wiederhold, 
Santa  Barbara,  CA — Edward  J.    Barbere,  Gujiio 
Simonelti,  Jon  A.  Bjornen. 
Salem,  OR — Charles  Fennimore. 
Port  Huron,  MI — Gordon  L.  Johnson. 
Fredericksburg,  VA — Harry  H,  Bradshaw, 
Boonville,  IN— Robert  F.  Baker. 
Baton  Rouge,  LA — Berl  L.  Lentz.  G.  L.  Grimes. 
Flagstaff,  AZ — Samuel  Hoyt  Anderson. 
Tyler,  TX— Sam  Wesley  Davis. 
Cleveland,  OH — Leroy  Amey,  Perce  Melhuish. 
Visalia,  CA— Abe  Peter  Pankratz. 
San  Bernardino,  CA — Fred  F.  Jenkins,  Ruby  Taylor 
Hill. 

Toledo,  OH — Joseph  Zugay.  Robert  Riley  Secrest. 
San  Pedro,  CA — Doroiha  Juanita  Bolin  (s). 
Roseville,  CA — Floy  Elizabeth  Love  (s).  Jack  H. 
Lindsay.  Onia  Mae  French  (s). 
Thunder  Bav,  Ont.  CAN — Louis  Joseph  Beaupre. 
Yuma,  AZ^Charles  M.  Noland. 
New  York,  NY— Karl  Gliebe. 
Chicago,  IL — Johanna  C.  Hugo  (s). 
Birmingham,  AL — Ella  Mae  Simpson  (s). 
Indio,  CA — Gerhard  W.  Gentsch. 
Mesa,  AZ — Theresa  M.  Konopka  (s). 
Ironwood,  MI — Paul  R.  Joki. 
Modesto,  CA — Roy  M.  Spurlock. 
Carlsbad,  NM — Francisco  G.  Rocha. 
Sarnia,  Ont.,  CAN — Aristide  Devin. 
Austin,  TX — Bobby  Joe  Barton. 
Mountain  View,  CA — Gerald  Ormond. 
Anchorage,  AK — Benjamin  P.  Lindgren. 
San  Diego,  CA — James  C.  Owings. 
San  Diego,  CA— William  Lee  Holberl. 
Fall  River,  MA — Normand  Archambeault. 
Evanston,  IL — Harold  B.  Anderson. 
Edmonton,  Alta,  CAN — Ernest  Raiche.  Simone  V. 
M.  Peredery  (si. 

Irvington,  NJ — Carl  Wallman,  Edwin  W.  Gehr, 
Joseph  Ohallorgn,  Vincent  Stagliano,  William  H. 
Ahrens. 

Cleveland,  OH— Paul  A.  Buckwald. 
Rochester,  MI — Harold  Clifford  Falmoe. 
Oregon  City,  OR — Florence  May  Swyter  (s),  Robert 
D.  New. 

Toledo,  OH— Lyle  Kregel. 

North  Hempstad,  NY— Frank  F.  Kost.  Martin  A. 
M.  Omalley. 

San  Pedro,  CA — Frank  M.  Fuller,  Mary  Louise 
Finger  (si. 

Salem,  OR — Joseph  S.  Flowers. 
Lodi,  CA — Arthur  Monroe  Weathers,  James  Alex- 
ander Autrey,  Milo  Brown.  Nettie  M.  Germann  (si, 
Stephen  K.  Lednik. 
Lansing,  MI — Elmer  Wilson  Conard. 
Detroit,  MI — Mineerva  Brown  (s). 
Cincinnati,  OH— Charles  H.  Meadors.  Walter  R. 
Probst. 

Traverse  City,  MI — James  R.  Linderman. 
Jackson,  MS— William  Edward  Thomas. 
Auburn,    CA— Robert    E.    Westberg.    William    B. 
Chastain. 

Burlington,  VT — Helen  Davis  Murray. 
San  Diego,  CA — Ralph  D.  Singleterry,  Robert  Lewis 
Taylor. 

Chico,  CA— Carl  Taylor  Purcell,  Otlo  William  Koch. 
E  Los  Angeles,  CA — Albert  Garcia. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Karen  Gail  Robinson  (s). 
El  Monte,  CA— William  W.  Wayne. 
Kansas  City,  KS — Adam  Edward  Rider.  Johnnie  C. 
Bowman. 

Anacortes,  WA — Niels  J.  Selmann. 
Highland,  Il^Virgie  Ruth  Scherff  (si. 
Chicago,    IL — Frances    Kaplan    (si.    William    C. 
Osborn. 

Miami,  FL — Juan  E.  iglesias. 
Casper,  WY — Doris  Jean  Remsburg  (s). 
East  San  Diego,  CA — William  L.  Bartholomew. 
Washington,  DC — Arthur  E.  Anderson. 
Bremmerlon,  WA — Clarence  E.  Dewitt. 
Victoria  EC,  CAN— Annie  Elizabeth  Moltishaw  (si. 
Redding,  CA — Henry  Klinkhammer. 
Hayward,  CA — Aage  Kristiansen.  llene  Morgan  (si. 
Leroy  F.  Donell. 

S  Luis  Obispo,  CA — Jimmie  Cassera,  Wesley  F. 
Wilson. 

Kansas  City,  MO — Sarah  F.  Beilharz  (si. 
Minneapolis,  Ml — Ralph  A.  Jacob. 
Lexington,  KY— Robert  B.  Cunliffe. 
Alexandria,  VA — Louis  E.  Hendrick  Jr. 
Melbourne-Daytona  Beach,  FL — Charles  Williamson 
Grant,  John  Jack  Richards. 

Chicago,  IL — Harlon  M.  Taylor,  Thomas  N.  Debose. 
PR  Rupert,  EC  CAN— Kenneth  Eraser  Kerr. 
Cleveland,  OH — John  F.  Havran.  Matty  F.  Gordon 
(si. 

Pomona,  CA — Santi  L.  Sarra. 
Columbia,    SC — Perry    Wright,    Winnifred    Elsa 
Gregory  (s|. 

Las  Vegas,  NV — Rita  Mary  Carline  (si. 
Bijou,  CA— John  C.  Larsh. 

Santa  Ana,  CA — Edna  M.  Rosenbaum  (si.  Robert 
L.  Reed  Jr. 

Washington,  MO — Bessie  Louise  Davis  (si. 
New  Orleans,  LA — Claude  Barlow,  Edward  M.  Ri- 
ley, Elden  L.  Nunez. 

Pasco,  WA — Arthur  Woffinden.  Howard  W.  Day. 
Philadelphia,  PA — William  Snow. 
Downers  Grove,  IL — William  P.  Howell. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Dorothy  Landis  (s). 
Van   Nuys,   CA — James    L.    Roberts.   James    W. 
Hudson. 


Local  Union,  City 

1921  Hempstead,  NY— Antoinette  Grace  Sibrel  (si,  Henry 

Moje. 

1931  New  Orleans,  LA — ^Joseph  A.  Saltalamacchia. 

1976  Los  Angeles,  CA — Bennie  Andry  Jr. 

1987  St.  Charles,  MO— Fred  E.  Cooley. 

2006  Los  Galos,  CA— Everett  Burtcher. 

2018  Ocean  County,  NJ— Walter  F.  Defrehn  Jr. 

2020  San  Diego,  CA— Jack  B.  Chappell. 

2046  Martinez,  CA— Clara  O.  Cooper  (s),  Esther  Thut 

(s),  George  E.  Matthews,  Gilbert  C.  Lujan. 

2068  Powell  Riv,  BC,  CAN— Ernest  W.  Micks. 

2077  Columbus,  OH— George  S.  Shifflet. 

2078  Vista,  CA— Terry  C.  Oilman. 
2172  Santa  Ana,  CA— Dolores  V.  Ortiz. 
2203  Anaheim,  CA— Joseph  S.  Hagye. 

2222     Goderich,  Ont.  CAN— George  A.  Nicol. 

2232    Houston,  TX— Acie  Alexander  Walding,  Clarence 

A.  Wilhelm. 
2248    Piqua,  OH— Paul  D.  Felver. 
2250    Red  Bank,  NJ— Alpha  Durant  (si.  Irene  Wilson  Goff 

(s). 
2262    St.  John  NE  CAN— John  W.  Phillips. 
2265    Detroit,  MI — Joseph  Raulinavich  Jr. 
2274    Pittsburgh,  PA — Russell  Kammerdiener. 

2287  New  York,  NV— Nicholas  Martin. 

2288  Los  Angeles,  CA— Daisy  L.  Bennie  (s),  Martha  E. 
Burciaga  (s). 

2323  Nonon,  IN— Karen  Hirt. 

2337  Milwaukee,  WI— Elmer  E.  Schultz. 

2344  Merrill,  WI— Wilbur  Paul  Howard. 

2361  Orange,  CA — Jerry  Lou  Lang  (s|. 

2398  El  Cajon,  CA— Gerald  D.  Perkins.  Will  Rogers  Yost. 

2404  Vancouver,  BC,  CAN— Arne  C.  Anderson. 

2416  Portland,  OR— Jerome  L.  Hiersche. 

2431  Long  Beach,  CA — Stephen  Riley  Cunningham. 

2435  Inglewood,  CA — Kathryn  Grace  Rainey  (s|. 

2436  New  Orleans,  LA — James  B.  Williams. 
2477  Santa  Maria,  CA— Dean  J.  Chrest. 

2486    Sudbury,  Ont.,  CAN— Walter  Grabowski. 

2534    Texarkana,  TX— Stewart  Harold  Gaines. 

2«08    Redding,  CA— Federico  Dalcanlon. 

2633    Tacoma,  WA — Edward  Morrison. 

2667     Bellingham,  WA — Hela  Case,  James  Harris. 

2693    Pt.  Arthur,  Out.,  CAN— Lawrence  Carr. 

2739    Yakima,  WA— Norman  R.  Prine. 

2761  McCleary,  WA— Louie  Terrell.  Verlinda  Wheeler 
(s). 

2767     Morton,  WA — Martin  M.  Ragan. 

2947    New  York,  NY — Aloysious  Ulanoski,  Richard  Isaacs. 

2949  Roseburg,  OR— Emerald  Charles  Brunette  (si,  Os- 
wald A.  Kuester. 

2961     St.  Helen,  OR— Colonel  E.  Schock. 

3054    London,  Ont.  CAN— Leonard  N.  McLeod. 

3074    Chester,  CA— Alonzo  Seals  Jr.. 

7000  Province  of  Quebec  LCL  134-2— Arthur  Messier, 
Claire  Perrault  Dusseault  (s),  Olavi  Tissari. 


Meany  Archives 

Continued  from  Page  3 

man.  Kaufman,  a  longtime  member  of 
the  Teachers,-  was  an  associate  profes- 
sor at  the  University  of  Maryland. 

Msgr.  George  G.  Higgins,  a  longtime 
friend  of  Meany  who  delivered  the  in- 
vocation at  the  ceremony,  donated  some 
1,000  volumes  from  his  personal  col- 
lection of  labor  and  social  books  and 
documents.  The  archives  building  also 
provides  space  for  classrooms  and  mul- 
tipurpose/media rooms. 

Cited  for  their  contributions  to  the 
archives  project  by  master  of  ceremo- 
nies AFL-CIO  Secretary-Treasurer 
Thomas  R.  Donahue  were  architect 
Thomas  A.  Kamastra,  who  also  de- 
signed other  studies  center  buildings; 
builder  Roy  E.  Kirby;  and  shop  stew- 
ards and  business  agents  of  the  12 
construction  trades  locals  whose  mem- 
bers built  the  archives. 

Also  recognized  were  Thomas  R. 
Gleason,  the  retiring  president  of  the 
Longshoremen,  who  headed  the  ar- 
chives committee;  former  studies  cen- 
ter Director  Fred  K.  Hoehler,  Jr.;  cur- 
rent Director  Robert  J.  Pleasure;  and 
AFL-CIO  Education  Director  Dorothy 
Shields. 


Excess  Sugar 

Continued  from  Page  16 

your  own  to  reduce  the  sugar  in  foods  you 
prepare.  Make  the  reduction  gradually  until 
you've  decreased  sugars  by  one-third  or 
more.  Experiment  with  spices  such  as  cin- 
namon, cardamon,  coriander,  nutmeg,  gin- 
ger and  mace  to  enhance  the  flavor  of  foods. 
Use  home-prepared  items  containing  less 
sugar  than  commercially  prepared  ones. 

•  At  the  table:  Use  less  of  all  sugars, 
including  white  and  brown  sugar,  honey, 
molasses  and  syrup.  Choose  fewer  high- 
sugar  foods  such  as  baked  goods,  candies 
and  sweet  desserts.  Reach  for  fresh  fruit 
instead  of  a  sweet  for  dessert  or  when  you 
want  a  snack.  In  coffee,  tea,  cereal  or  fruit, 
first  use  half  as  much  sugar  and  then  see  if 
you  can  cut  back  more. 


Social  Security 

Continued  from  Page  29 

which  angers  members  of  Congress. 

"Unscrupulous  lobbyists  like  James 
Roosevelt  are  preying  on  senior  citizens 
across  the  country,"  declared  Senator  Al- 
bert Gore  Jr.  (D-Tenn),  He  called  the  Na- 
tional Committee  "a  menace  and  a  sham." 
•  Last  year.  Gore  said,  "Roosevelt  used 
phony  congressional  stationery  to  send  let- 
ters to  millions  of  elderly  Americans,  claim- 
ing that  Social  Security  and  Medicare  pro- 
grams were  in  jeopardy.  After  reading  his 
letter,  one  woman  called  my  office  and  asked 
if  'everyone  who  was  on  Social  Security  had 
to  send  in  $  1 0. '  "  Gore  charged  that  "Roose- 
velt chiseled  $10  million  out  of  frightened 
senior  citizens  in  1984  alone." 

Gore  said  James  Roosevelt  has  launched 
a  new  mail  campaign  "that  stoops  lower 
than  ever."  Gore  said  Roosevelt  claims  in 
the  letter  that  he  enclosed  a  one-dollar  bill 
that  he  would  like  the  recipient  to  return 
along  with  an  extra  contribution. 

"But,  of  course,  my  constitutents  tell  me, 
there  is  no  dollar  enclosed.  Roosevelt  ap- 
pears to  have  left  it  out  on  purpose,  so  that 
recipients  will  think  they  lost  the  dollar 
"themselves  and  send  back  one  of  their  own." 

The  response  of  Roosevelt  and  his  Na- 
tional Committee  has  been  to  deny  the  al- 
legations, and  to  issue  thinly-veiled  threats 
of  legal  action  against  critics  and  against 
CBS  News  if  it  dared  to  air  a  program  on 
the  group,  which  CBS  did.  Hopefully,  re- 
medial legislation  will  tame  the  worst  tactics 
of  all  the  direct  mail  groups  and  end  the 
disgraceful  exploitation  of  the  elderly 


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CARPENTER 


REWIND  CHALKLINE 


'TURTLE  EYE'  SHIELD 


There's  a  new  safety  product  on  the  mar- 
ket called  the  Turtle  Eye  Shield.  It's  said  to 
be  the  only  eye  protection  system  which  fits 
into  a  hard  hat  and  retracts  when  it's  not 
needed.  It  doesn't  provide  unlimited  protec- 
tion, of  course,  but  it  is  OS  HA  approved. 
The  Turtle  Eye  fits  between  the  shell  and 
the  suspension  rim  of  the  hard  hat,  and  it 
can  be  easily  pulled  down  over  your  eyes 
or  pushed  back  into  your  hard  hat. 

Manufactured  of  shatter-resistant  poly- 
carbonate, it  can  be  cleaned  with  mild  soap 
or  detergent  and  lukewarm  water,  using  a 
clean  sponge  or  soft  cloth. 

The  shield  comes  in  clear  ($4.50  each)  or 
green,  amber  or  gray  ($5.50  each).  It  is 
available  for  most  major  brands  of  hard 
hats — MSA,  Bullard,  Schuberth,  Apex, 
Norton,  Eastern,  Pulmosan,  Fibre-Metal, 
Willson,  ERB  and  American  Optical. 

For  more  information  or  to  order  contact: 
Safety  Standards  Inc.,  905 1-N  Red  Branch 
Road,  Columbia,  Md.  21045.  Telephone:  In. 
Maryland,  (301)  964-9550;  outside  Maryland 
(800)  225-9178.  A  demonstration  can  be  ar- 
ranged. 


INDEX  OF  ADVERTISERS 

Benda 30 

Calculated  Industries 27 

Clifton  Enterprises 21 

CHne-Sigmon 30 

Estwing  Mfg.  Co 15 

Full  Length  Roof  Framers 39 

Foley-Belsaw 21 

Nailers 25 

Nail  King 39 

RawHngs 17 

Sears  Craftsman 20 

Texas  Tool  Mfg.  Co 14 

Vaughn  &  Bushnell  Mfg 25 


A  journeyman  carpenter  in  Illinois  got 
tired  of  winding  chalk  and  dry  lines  and  tired 
of  backlashing  and  overwinding,  so  he  in- 
vented and  patented  the  Automatically  Re- 
tractable Chalk  and  Dry  Line.  It's  made  of 
non-corrosive  and  durable  materials,  offers 
high  speed  winding  at  the  touch  of  a  button 
and  it  has  a  capability  of  adjusting  the  tension 
for  a  desired  retracting  speed.  There's  a 
safety  feature  to  prevent  backlashing  or 
overwinding,  and  it  can  wind  up  to  100  feet 
of  line.  There's  instantaneous  braking  when 
the  button  is  released.  The  tool  has  a  large 
chalk  reservoir. 

The  Automatically  Retractable  Chalk  and 
Dry  Line  is  available  by  sending  a  check  or 
money  order  for  $19.95  plus  $3.00  handling 
and  shipping  (Illinois  residents  7%  sales  tax) 
to:  Kimline  Irtdustries  Inc.,  Dept.  101,  P.O. 
Box  8,  Lyons,  IL  60534.  There  is  a  money 
back  guarantee.  For  more  information  call: 
(312)447-0719. 


POWER  SAW  SAVER 


If  you've  ever  been  bothered  about  where 
to  put  your  portable  electric  saw  when  you're 
out  on  a  construction  job,  and  there's  mud 
and  debris  all  around,  the  Saw  Saver  may 
be  an  answer.  Saw  Saver  is  an  attachment 
to  your  power  saw  which  allows  you  to  hang 
the  saw  on  a  stud  or  a  rafter  or  most 
anywhere.  It  has  a  spring  action  which  allows 
it  to  hold  a  saw  either  vertically  or  horizon- 
tally. 

The  Saw  Saver  is  manufactured  by  Garry 
and  Patricia  Khcker  of  Sacramento,  Calif., 
and  it  sells  for  $13.00  postage  paid.  The 
Klickers  tell  us  that  they  have  checked  the 
Saw  Saver  with  members  of  our  North  Coast 
Counties  District  Council  and  with  appren- 
ticeship and  training  leaders  in  the  Bay 
Counties  area,  and  carpenters  liked  the  prod- 
uct. 

For  more  information  or  to  order:  Garry 
and  Patricia  Klicker,  682 1  Cunningham  Way, 
Sacramento,  Calif.  95828.  Telephone:  (916) 
383-3008. 


Full  Length  Roof  Framer 

The  roof  fravier  companion  since 
1917.  Over  500,000  copies  sold. 

A  pocket  size  book  with  the  EN- 
TIRE length  of  Common-Hip-Valley 
and  Jack  rafters  completely  worked 
out  for  you.  The  flattest  pitch  is  Vz 
inch  rise  to  12  inch  run.  Pitches  in- 
crease %  inch  rise  each  time  until 
the  steep  pitch  of  24"  rise  to  12" 
run  is  reached. 

There  are  2400  widths  of  build- 
ings for  each  pitch.  The  smallest 
width  is  Vi  inch  and  they  increase 
Vi"  each  time  until  they  cover  a  60 
foot   building. 

There  are  2400  Commons  and  2400 
Hip,  Valley  &  Jack  lengths  for  each 
pitch.  230,400  rafter  lengths  for  48 
pitches. 

A  hip  roof  is  48'-9%"  wide.  Pitch 
is  7%"  rise  to  12"  run.  You  can  pick 
out  the  length  of  Commons,  Hips  and 
Jacks  and  the  Cuts  in  ONE  MINUTE. 
Let  us  prove  it,  or  return  your  money. 


In  the  U.S.A.  send  $7.50.  California  residents 
add  45<  tax. 

We  also  have  a  very  fine  Stair  book  9"  X 
12".  It  sells  for  $4.50.  California  residents  add 
27f:  tax. 


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Exp.  Date  - 


OCTOBER     1987 


39 


We  Have  the  Tools; 

We  Have  Know-How, 

Let's  Do  the  Job! 


Our  fall  seminars  set 

the  stage  for  a  year 

of  increased  activity. 

As  this  issue  of  Carpenter  reaches  you, 
United  Brotherhood  leaders  are  in  the  midst 
of  a  series  of  regional  seminars  which  are 
bringing  together  fulltime  officers  and  business 
representatives  from  all  over  the  United  States 
and  Canada. 

The  first  gathering  was  in  Toronto,  last 
month,  when  UBC  leaders  from  Districts  9 
and  10,  our  Canadian  districts,  assembled  to 
outline  plans  for  work  in  the  provinces.  This 
was  followed  by  a  gathering  of  officers  and 
BAs  from  Districts  1  and  2  in  Teaneck,  N.J. 

This  month,  we  have  two  seminars  in  French 
Lick,  Ind.  One  brings  together  our  people  in 
District  3,  the  upper  Midwest,  and  the  other 
our  people  in  Districts  4,  5  and  6,  the  South 
and  Southwest. 

Finally,  next  month,  we  assemble  in  Seattle 
for  our  West  Coast,  Hawaii  and  Alaska  leaders 
who  are  from  Districts  7  and  8. 

We  have  held  such  seminars  off  and  on  for 
many  years,  and  they  have  proved  to  be  the 
best  opportunities  your  general  officers  have 
between  conventions  to  confer  face  to  face 
with  the  men  and  women  who  form  the  lead- 
ership network  of  our  organization.  They  have 
become  so  vital  a  part  of  our  activities  that 
our  35th  General  Convention  in  Toronto,  last 
October,  voted  to  establish  them  on  a  per- 
manent basis. 

The  delegates  mandated  that  the  regional 
seminars  be  held  on  an  annual  basis,  with  the 
leaders  of  construction  locals  meeting  one 
year  and  leaders  of  industrial  locals  meeting 
the  following  year.  The  seminars  being  held 
at  the  present  time  are  for  construction  locals. 

This  year,  more  than  1,200  of  our  local, 
district,  state  and  provincial  leaders  will  par- 
ticipate. These  are  people  you  and  your  fellow 
members  elected  to  office,  and  they  are  com- 
ing together  to  carry  out  their  duties  and 


responsibilities  as  they  are  outlined  in  your 
bylaws  and  the  international  constitution.  Since 
I  became  your  general  president,  I  have  made 
attendance  at  these  briefing  sessions  manda- 
tory. There  has  to  be  a  good  and  sufficient 
excuse  for  not  attending  the  seminar  in  your 
local  officers'  home  district. 

The  importance  of  these  assemblies  lies  in 
the  fact  that  they  cover  practically  every  area 
of  our  concern — administrative  problems, 
training  programs,  organizing,  bargaining,  le- 
gal problems  .  .  .  you  name  it.  And  along  with 
all  this,  there  are  the  "bull  sessions,"  or 
whatever  you  might  call  them,  after  hours, 
when  the  delegates  get  together  and  compare 
notes.  You've  been  in  these  informal  gather- 
ings and  so  have  I,  and  I'm  sure  you'll  agree 
that  you  can  pick  up  some  useful  information 
along  the  way. 

We  have  a  lot  of  new  business  representa- 
tives in  the  Brotherhood,  this  year.  Many  of 
them  were  elected  just  a  few  months  ago,  and 
many  attended  the  special  training  sessions 
for  new  fulltime  officers,  which  we  held  at 
George  Meany  Labor  Studies  Center,  outside 
Washington,  earlier  this  year.  These  are  the 
new  leaders  who  will  be  shouldering  much  of 
the  burden  of  keeping  ourmembers  employed 
and  our  local  unions  strong.  They  don't  op- 
erate in  a  vacuum.  They  need  your  support. 

So  we  are  coming  together  to  take  stock 
...  to  tally  up  our  gains  and  our  losses  and 
to  set  our  course  for  1988  and  beyond. 

We  have  the  tools  to  get  the  jobs  done.  We 
have  the  know-how  to  accomplish  what  we've 
set  out  to  do  in  1988.  First  of  all,  let  me  say 
that  we  aren't  dreaming  up  any  new  campaigns 
with  catch  phrases.  We  already  have  the 
organizing  and  bargaining  tools  we  need,  and 
if  we'll  apply  them  to  the  letter,  we'll  show 
real  gains  in  membership  and  in  contract 
achievements. 

Operation  Turnaround,  for  example,  has 
proven  its  worth.  We  are  meeting  more  fre- 
quently with  many  union  contractors  and 
mapping  ways  and  means  of  gaining  more 
union-shop  work.  We  are  revising  work  rules 
where  necessary  to  combat  the  "merit  shop," 
and  we're  making  union  membership  more 
attractive  to  that  growing  horde  of  scab  work- 
ers. (/  urge  you  to  read  the  report  on  Page 
13  of  the  more  than  300  non-union  workers 
who  walked  off  the  job  in  Alberta.) 

VOC — our  Volunteer  Organizing  Commit- 
tees— is  not  dead.  The  concept  of  rank-and- 
file  members  getting  out  and  organizing  more 


members  is  basic  to  trade  unionism.  That's 
how  our  union  got  started  over  a  century  ago, 
and  that's  how  we'll  build  our  ranks,  partic- 
ularly our  industrial  ranks,  in  the  future. 

The  concept  of  CHOP — Coordinated  Hous- 
ing Organizing  Program — was  launched  in  1975. 
Its  basic  approach  to  residential  organizing 
still  has  merit.  We  just  haven't  thrown  our  all 
into  it. 

So,  what  I  am  saying  is  that  we  don't  have 
new  names  for  old  concepts  this  time  around. 
We  are  saying  to  your  local  and  council 
leaders:  "You  have  the  tools.  You  have  the 
know-how.  Let's  put  them  to  use  and  rebuild 
this  union  to  the  peaks  of  membership  and 
job  security  it  enjoyed  20  and  30  years  ago." 

Labor  is  not  standing  still  in  North  America, 
and  it's  not  sliding  into  oblivion,  as  some 
conservative  commentators  would  have  you 
believe.  I  am  firmly  convinced  that  middle 
and  lower-class  Americans  are  finally  begin- 
ning to  realize  that  political  campaign  prom- 
ises won't  create  new  jobs  for  them  and  that 
they  can't  achieve  job  protection  or  improved 
wages  and  working  conditions  without  a  union 
to  back  them  up.  The  Reagan  Administration 
may  talk  proudly  about  how  good  things  are 
today,  but  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  citi- 
zens working  parttime,  because  they  can't 
find  fuUtime  work  and  the  young  people  and 
the  senior  citizens  who  can't  find  adequate 
housing  because  they're  priced  out  of  the 
market  are  beginning  to  smirk  a  bit  about  the 
President's  "Economic  Bill  of  Rights." 

Labor  can  take  heart  from  two  recent  suc- 
cesses which  came  only  after  a  struggle  of 
many,  many  years.  Coors  Beer,  which  has 
fought  unions  for  decades,  finally  came  to 
realize  that  labor's  boycott  of  its  products  was 
hurting  its  sales  and  its  image.  It  took  10  years 
for  Coors  to  throw  in  the  towel,  but  labor  didn't 
give  up,  and  labor  won.  With  the  new  Coors 
agreement  comes  a  stipulation  that  all  Coors 
construction  will  be  open  to  union  bids. 

The  second  success  concerns  Kingsport 
Press  in  Kingsport,  Tenn.  There's  a  boycott 
which  goes  back  25  years.  Almost  1 ,000  union 
members  lost  their  jobs  at  the  big  publishing 
firm  in  a  bitter  dispute  in  the  1960s.  Finally, 
this  year,  a  new  generation  of  workers  at 
Kingsport  decided  that  what  they  need  is  a 
union,  and  they  voted  that  way. 

And  look  what's  happened  among  the  air 
traffic  controllers.  Those  hard-working  gov- 
ernment employees  defied  Reagan  Adminis- 
tration propaganda  and  voted  to  create  an- 


other union  to  represent  them.  That  took  six 
years  to  accomplish,  while  the  airline  industry 
was  deregulated  and  air  travel  became  slow, 
uncertain,  and  sometimes  hazardous. 

I  have  no  doubt  that  the  day  will  come 
when  Louisiana-Pacific  again  becomes  union 
in  its  forest  products  plants.  Our  boycott  will 
continue,  even  if  L-P  undergoes  acquisitions, 
corporate  change  or  what-have-you.  Justice 
must  be  served. 

So  what  I  am  saying,  in  summary,  is  that 
the  United  Brotherhood  will  boycott  when  it 
has  to  boycott.  It  will  picket  when  it  has  to 
picket.  But  we  will  first  try  to  reason  with 
employers,  contractors,  construction  buyers. 
We  have  the  tools  to  rebuild  our  union,  and 
we  will  do  so  .  .  .  through  careful  study  of 
corporate  actions  and  employer  tactics,  through 
legislative  lobbying,  through  one-on-one  or- 
ganizing .  .  . 

Our  regional  seminars  wUl  cover  every  phase 
of  our  activity,  and,  when  your  fulltime  offi- 
cers return  home,  I  hope  that  you  will  become 
involved  in  the  work  of  the  UBC  at  the  next 
monthly  meeting. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

Address  Correction  Requested 


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VOLUME  107  No.  11  NOVEMBER  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

Trade  Union  Viewpoint:  Borl<,  Double  Breasting 2 

Regional  Seminars 6 

Hutcheson  Forest  Continues  to  Receive  Tributes 8 

Boston  Banl<  Created  by  Pension  Funds 9 

USX  Scab  Construction  Protest 11 

Nord  Door  Victory 13 

Blueprint  for  Cure 15 


DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 10 

Ottawa  Report 12 

Members  in  the  News 14 

Labor  News  Roundup 16 

Local  Union  News 18 

We  Congratulate 21 

Consumer  Clipboard:  Airbags,  Automatic  Seatbelts  Coming 22 

Apprenticeship  &  Training 24 

Retirees  Notebook 27 

Plane  Gossip 28 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 29 

In  Memoriam 36 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 


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THE 
COVER 


Freedom  from  want  was  one  of  the 
Four  Freedoms  set  down  by  President 
Franklin  D.  Roosevelt.  Norman  Rock- 
well chose  to  interpret  it  as  a  Thanksgiv- 
ing celebration  with  a  turkey  dinner  and 
family  as  shown  on  our  cover. 

Thanksgiving  was  a  celebration  started 
in  1621  by  the  Pilgrims  and  their  guests, 
the  Indians.  This  celebration  set  the  style 
for  future  Thanksgivings.  They  fed  enor- 
mously on  wild  turkeys,  geese,  ducks, 
wood  pigeons,  partridge,  beech- 
nut stuffing,  home-brewed  beer,  wine 
from  wild  grapes,  lobster,  oysters,  cod- 
fish, eels,  venison,  pumpkins,  corn  bread 
and  succotash. 

Thanksgiving  became  an  informal  au- 
tumn custom  of  the  New  England  colo- 
nists. As  president,  George  Washington 
proclaimed  November  26  as  a  day  of 
thanksgiving.  His  successors  sometimes 
chose  dates  in  the  spring  or  chose  to 
ignore  it  altogether. 

But  not  Mrs.  Hale,  a  widowed  writer 
and  author  of  "Mary  Had  a  Little  Lamb." 
She  chose  to  make  it  her  personal  cause. 
During  the  Civil  War  she  wrote  President 
Lincoln,  urging  him  to  set  aside  a  day  of 
thanksgiving  when  "enmity  and  strife 
can  be  laid  aside,  and  the  nation  unite  in 
a  common  cause." 

In  1863,  he  proclaimed  the  fourth 
Thursday  in  November  as  the  nation's 
annual  day  of  thanks.  Canada  first  adopted 
Thanksgiving  as  a  national  holiday  in 
November  1879,  and  it  is  now  celebrated 
annually  on  the  second  Monday  in  Oc- 
tober in  the  provinces. 

The  celebration  began  in  1621  as  a  time 
to  thank  God  for  the  harvest  and  for 
those  who  were  able  to  survive  the  first 
winter  in  the  New  World.  Today,  families 
still  gather  around  the  table  to  give  thanks 
as  Mrs.  Hale  intended. — Painting  by 
Norman  Rockwell,  courtesy  of  the  Sat- 
urday Evening  Post  Society. 

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THE 

TRADE 

UNION 

VIEWPOINT 


Why  Labor  Opposed  Judge  Bork 


Nothing  has  stirred  the  pubHc  Amer- 
ican mind  so  much  in  recent  weeks  as 
President  Reagan's  nomination  of  Judge 
Robert  H.  Bork  to  fill  a  vacancy  on  the 
U.S.  Supreme  Court.  The  Iran-Contra 
hearings  faded  quickly  from  the  front 
pages  of  America's  newspapers  as  a 
Senate  committee  took  up  the  question 
of  Judge  Bork's  fitness  to  serve  on  the 
nation's  highest  tribunal. 

The  AFL-CIO  and  its  affiliated  unions 
were  among  the  first  to  protest  the 
nomination  of  Bork  as  "idealogical  court 
packing." 

Here's  why: 

Labor  accused  President  Reagan  of 
trying  to  fill  the  federal  courts  with 
ideological  clones  to  perpetuate  the 
agenda  of  the  so-called  "Reagan  revo- 
lution" beyond  his  term  of  office.  If 
confirmed,  Bork  would  fill  the  seat 
opened  by  the  retirement  of  Justice 
Lewis  F.  Powell  Jr.,  who  frequently 
cast  the  swing  vote  on  the  closely- 
divided  court. 

Over  the  years,  American  workers 
have  achieved  the  highest  standard  of 
living  in  the  history  of  the  world  by 
working  within  a  system  which  has 
assured  them,  among  other  rights  held 
by  all  Americans,  the  right  to  band 
together  to  advance  their  own  cause. 

Working  people  have  reason  to  fear 
that  those  rights  will  be  limited  if  Judge 
Robert  Bork  wins  confirmation  to  the 
Supreme  Court.  They  fear  he  will  be  a 
throw  back  to  the  earlier  American  days 
when  workers'  rights  were  compro- 
mised in  the  interest  of  supposed  ov- 
erriding property  rights,  contract  rights 
or  the  simple  desire  for  cheap  and 
tranquil  labor. That  feat  begins  from  but 
does  not  end  with,  Bork's  condemna- 
tion of  the  basic  guarantee  of  human 
dignity  centered  in  the  minimum  wage 
laws. 


Bork's  record  on  economic  issues,  in 
both  his  writing  and  his  actions  as  a 
judge,  reveals  a  consistent  and  overrid- 
ing commitment  to  the  interests  of  the 
wealthy  and  powerful  in  our  society. 

In  one  case,  Bork  agreed  that  a  truck- 
ing company  could  fire  a  trucker  who 
had  refused  to  drive  an  unsafe  rig  and 
who  had  instead  asked  the  state  police 
to  perform  a  safety  inspection. 

In  a  case  involving  rate  regulations, 
Bork  ordered  the  Federal  Energy  Reg- 
ulatory Commission  to  allow  a  utility 
to  charge  its  consumers  enough  to  cover 
not  only  the  costs  of  building  a  nuclear 
power  plant  it  had  abandoned,  but  also 
to  cover  a  profit  for  its  investors  as 
well. 

These  decisions,  along  with  Bork's 
academic  writing,  show  his  hostility  to 
the  basic  regulatory  functions  of  gov- 
ernment— functions  that  assure  that  our 
food  is  safe  and  free  from  disease,  that 
the  workplace  is  not  hazardous  to  work- 
ers, that  consumers  are  not  unfairly 
gouged  or  not  victimized  by  false  ad- 
vertising, and  other  regulations  de- 
signed to  protect  the  public  interest. 

According  to  one  analysis,  in  cases 
where  the  decision  was  not  unanimous, 
"Judge  Bork  voted  against  consumers, 
environmental  groups  and  workers  al- 
most 100%  of  the  time,  and  for  business 
in  every  such  case." 

It  is  also  clear  that  Bork  would  do 
little  on  the  Supreme  Court  to  stop  the 
wave  of  corporate  mergers  that  have 
wreaked  havoc  on  airline  travel  and 
devastated  scores  of  communities 
through  plant  closings. 

As  a  law  school  professor,  Bork  spe- 
cialized in  antitrust  law  and  wrote  sev- 
eral books  on  the  subject.  In  one  of 
them,  he  wrote  that  "Antitrust  should 
never  interfere  with  any  conglomerate 
merger."  Robert  Pitosky  dean  of  the 


Georgetown  Law  School,  warned  that 
if  Bork's  writings  "are  a  fair  guide," 
he  would  vote  to  overrule  "about  90%" 
of  the  Supreme  Court's  antitrust  deci- 
sions. 

Anyone  concerned  about  concen- 
trating economic  power  in  the  hands  of 
the  few,  or  about  the  role  of  the  courts 
in  guaranteeing  that  economic  rights 
are  respected,  should  be  doubly  con- 
cerned about  what  Bork  might  do  on 
the  Superme  Court. 

It's  true  that  the  Constitution  con- 
tains no  mention  of  environmental  pro- 
tection, consumer  protection,  occupa- 
tional safety  or  the  right  to  form  unions. 
But  the  Constitution  provides  working 
people  with  freedom  of  association — a 
framework  and  a  vehicle  to  accomplish 
those  goals,  and  that  is  the  genius  of 
the  document. 

Robert  Bork  has  made  it  clear  that 
he  thinks  those  basic  protections  should 
take  a  back  seat  to  the  interests  of 
private  business.  That  alone  is  reason 
enough  for  the  Senate  to  reject  his 
nomination. 

For  years,  radical  right-wingers  who 
used  to  chant  "Impeach  Earl  Warren" 
loudly  urged  Robert  Bork's  nomination 
to  the  Supreme  Court  as  the  last,  best 
hope  of  reversing  decades  of  progress 
toward  equal  rights,  equal  justice  and 
equal  opportunity. 

When  President  Reagan  announced 
the  nomination  ("Conservatives  have 
waited  more  than  30  years  for  this  day , " 
said  Richard  Viguerie),  Bork's  cheer- 
leaders abruptly  stopped  praising  him 
as  one  of  their  own  and  tried  instead  to 
repackage  him  for  public  consumption 
as  a  "centrist,"  "moderate,"  "main- 
stream," "open-minded"  jurist,  a 
scholar  faithful  to  the  "original  intent" 
of  the  framers  of  the  Constitution,  an 


CARPENTER 


opponent  of  "judicial  advocacy"  and  a 
practitioner  of  "judicial  restaint." 

But  Bork  is  none  of  these  things;  the 
record  is  too  massive  for  shredding, 
and  it  shows,  as  the  AFL-CIO  said, 
that  "his  agenda  is  the  agenda  of  the 
right  wing,  and  he  has  given  a  lifetime 
of  zeal  to  publicizing  that  agenda;  that 
is  the  stuff  from  which  his  nomination 
was  made,  and  that  is  what  requires  the 
Senate  to  refuse  its  consent." 

From  the  day  he  stepped  forward  to 
carry  out  President  Nixon's  command 
to  fire  Special  Prosecutor  Archibald 
Cox  in  a  last-ditch  effort  to  derail  the 
investigation  of  the  Watergate  scandal, 
Bork  was  perceived  on  all  sides  as  a 
supporter  of  an  "imperial  presidency." 
Over  the  next  two  decades,  as  a  pro- 
fessor, judge,  writer  and  speechmaker, 
he  revealed  himself  as  "a  man  moved 
not  by  deference  to  the  democratic 
process,  nor  by  an  allegiance  to  any 
recognized  theory  of  jurisprudence,  but 
by  an  overriding  commitment  to  the 
interests  of  the  wealthy  and  powerful 
in  our  society." 

Bork's  attacks  on  a  long  list  of  Su- 
preme Court  decisions  and  established 
constitutional  principles  make  it  clear 
that  if  he  has  his  way,  constitutional 
limits  on  executive  power  will  be  loos- 
ened and  the  rights  and  protections  of 
individuals  will  be  narrowed. 

Bork  has  repeatedly  argued  that  land- 
mark civil  rights  decisions  protecting 


minorities  "undemocratically"  restrict 
the  power  of  majorities. 

He  insists  that  the  right  of  free  speech 
applies  only  to  the  realm  of  politics, 
not  to  art,  literature  or  other  areas  of 
discourse,  all  of  which  are  subject  to 
government  regulation.  Even  in  politics 
he  rejects  as  "unprincipled"  the  doc- 
trine that  it  takes  a  "clear  and  present 
danger"  to  justify  silencing  free  speech: 
a  doctrine  on  which  the  Supreme  Court 
has  relied  since  1925.  Under  the  Bork 
doctrine,  anything  that  could  be  con- 
strued as  "advocating  violation  of  the 
law,"  such  as  the  protest  marches  of 
the  1960s  against  Jim  Crow  laws,  would 
invite  criminal  prosecution. 

Bork  has  charged  that  any  assump- 
tion that  individuals  have  such  a  thing 
as  a  right  to  privacy  is  "unconstitu- 
tional." 

In  his  five  years  on  the  U.S.  Court 
of  Appeals  for  the  District  of  Columbia 
Circuit,  in  cases  in  which  the  decision 
was  not  unanimous,  Bork  voted: 

•  Against  civil  rights  claimants  in  18 
out  of  a  total  of  20  cases. 

•  To  deny  or  limit  access  to  the 
federal  courts  in  all  17  cases. 

•  To  uphold  government  actions  in 
all  nine  cases  involving  the  Freedom  of 
Information  Act,  the  Sunshine  Act  or 
the  Privacy  Act, 

•  Against  defendants  in  all  three 
criminal  procedure  cases. 


•  In  favor  of  the  employer  in  five  of 
seven  labor  cases,  including  all  cases 
involving  business  interests. 

•  In  favor  of  business  in  all  10  con- 
sumer or  rate-regulation  cases  and  in 
both  cases  involving  environmental  is- 
sues. 

There  is  nothing  new  in  American 
history  about  judicial  bias  in  favor  of 
big  business,  property  owners  and  ex- 
ecutive power  against  working  people, 
minorities  and  individuals  seeking  the 
protection  of  the  law  against  entrenched 
economic  and  political  power. 

What  is  different  about  Judge  Bork 
is  the  degree  of  his  dissent  from  the 
historic  view  that  the  Constitution  was 
designed  to  limit  the  power  of  govern- 
ment and  to  protect  the  rights  of  those 
governed. 

What  is  most  radical,  and  most  om- 
inous for  the  future  of  American  de- 
mocracy, is  Bork's  insistence  on  so 
extreme  a  separation  of  powers  among 
the  three  branches  of  government.  He 
holds  the  Executive  wields  nearly  ab- 
solute power,  and  he  is  endlessly  in- 
ventive of  ways  to  prevent  the  Legis- 
lative from  asserting  its  will  and  to  limit 
the  Judiciary's  ability  to  hear  cases 
challenging  executive  action. 

Senators  who  want  to  see  the  Con- 
stitution interpreted  right  side  up  should 
not  give  their  consent  to  the  appoint- 
ment of  an  associate  justice  so  ready 
to  turn  it  upside  down. 


Why  Labor  Fights  Double  Breasting 


In  a  tremendous  outpouring  of  grass 
roots  support,  thousands  of  building 
trades  members  took  the  time  to  write 
letters  and  telephone  their  senators  last 
month  in  support  of  S.492 — the  anti- 
double-breasting  bill.  Several  thousand 
letters  have  already  poured  into  the 
offices  of  key  undecided  senators,  and 
many  more  are  expected  as  labor's 
S.492  grass  roots  effort  continues. 

Building  trades  leaders  are  pleased 
with  the  strong  efforts  of  members  thus 
far.  In  fact,  the  battle  to  pass  S.492  is 
shaping  up  to  be  the  most  critical  of  the 
100th  Congress  for  the  Building  and 
Construction  Trades  and  perhaps  the 
most  critical  in  many  years. 

Members  of  the  BCTD's  Legislative 
Task  Force  request  that  members  con- 
tinue to-  write  or  call  their  senators — 
lest  the  bill  go  down  to  defeat.  Without 
the  input  of  all  building  trades  councils 
and  affiliated  unions,  senators  will  only 
hear  one  side  of  the  double-breasting 
story. 

Opponents  of  the  bill  are  continuing 


to  inundate  senators  with  misinforma- 
tion concerning  the  bill  and  double- 
breasting.  Because  of  their  rhetoric,  for 
example,  many  senators  believe  that 
S.492's  scope  is  virtually  unlimited. 
Opponents  have  claimed  that  S.492 
would  apply  the  terms  of  a  contract 
signed  locally  in  one  geographic  area 
to  that  of  another. 

But  these  claims  are  untrue.  As  stated 
in  the  bill,  the  terms  of  a  collective 
bargaining  agreement  would  be  applied 
to  all  employees  performing  the  work 
described  in  the  contract  within  the 
geographic  area  described  in  the  con- 
tract. The  contract  is  the  key.  If  an 
employer  is  a  local  employer  having 
only  an  agreement  covering  the  Wash- 
ington metropolitan  area,  the  bill  will 
not  reach  beyond  that  area.  If  the  em- 
ployer is  a  large  national  employer, 
performing  work  in  various  parts  of  the 
United  States  under  a  national  agree- 
ment, only  then  would  his  single-em- 
ployer status  also  be  national  in  scope. 
It's  important  to  note  that  fewer  than 


2%  of  all  agreements  are  national  in 
scope. 

The  bill  outlawing  double-breasting 
has  already  passed  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives. Members  of  the  United 
Brotherhood  testified  before  a  Congres- 
sional committee  on  the  need  for  this 
legislation. 

Two  UBC  local  and  district  repre- 
sentatives from  Washington,  D.C.,  Terry 
Milstead  and  Joseph  Stanalonis,  testi- 
fied to  a  pattern  of  gradual  and  then 
accelerating  shifting  of  work  from  the 
union  operation  to  a  newly-formed  non- 
union subsidiary. 

Milstead  spoke  of  the  detective  work 
he  had  to  do  to  trace  common  owner- 
ship of  union  and  nonunion  companies, 
including  followiiig  trucks  to  determine 
interchange  of  equipment  and  spending 
hours  poring  through  courthouse  rec- 
ords and  documents.  But  despite  mas- 
sive evidence,  he  said,  the  NLRB  backed 
off  from  issuing  an  unfair  practices 
complaint  against  the  company. 

Continued  on  Page  17 


NOVEMBER     1987 


Voters  Want  Solution  to  Long-Term  Care 

NATIONAL  POLL  SHOWS  WIDESPREAD  CONCERN 


What  do  these  people  have  in 
common? 

•  A  family  going  deeply  into  debt 
to  pay  for  the  long-term  home  care 
of  a  grandparent  afflicted  with  Alz- 
heimer's disease,  and  not  knowing 
what  they'll  do  about  the  next  grand- 
parent who  needs  help. 

•  A  middle-aged  woman  forced 
to  leave  her  job  to  care  for  her 
mother  crippled  by  arthritis. 

•  Parents  choosing  between  the 
long-term  care  needed  by  a  child 
with  cerebral  palsy  and  the  educa- 
tion another  child  needs. 

•  An  elderly  widow  being  forced 
into  a  nursing  home,  on  welfare, 
because  she  can't  afford  the  help 
she  would  need  to  remain  in  her 
own  home. 

•  A  worker  in  the  prime  of  life 
who  has  been  permanently  disabled 
by  an  accident. 


•  A  woman  in  her  60's  who  uses 
up  her  life  savings  and  then  sells 
her  home  in  order  to  maintain  her 
father  in  a  nursing  home. 

•  A  coupled  married  for  30  years, 
forced  to  get  a  divorce  to  protect  the 
wife's  income  and  assets,  while  the 
husband  impoverishes  himself  to 
qualify  for  Medicaid  coverage  of  his 
long-term  care. 

All  of  these  Americans  are  vic- 
tims of  the  nation's  lack  of  afford- 
able long-term  care  for  the  millions 
who  suffer  from  chronic  conditions 
that  limit  their  ability  to  function 
on  their  own. 

Neither  public  nor  privaU  insur- 
ance adequately  covers  the  services 
needed  for  a  family  member  during 
a  prolonged  period  of  illness  or 
disability.  For  all  but  the  very  rich, 
this  means  a  severe  financial  and 
emotional  drain. 


With  a  population  that  is  rapidly 
aging,  the  problem  is  growing  worse. 
One  of  two  Americans  will  spend 
some  time  in  a  nursing  home  during 
their  lives,  and  one  in  four  will 
spend  a  year  or  more.  The  average 
cost  of  a  year  in  a  nursing  home  is 
now  nearly  $25,000,  and  rising  fast. 
The  cost  of  long-term  care  at  home 
is  similarly  costly. 

Private  insurance  plans  are  ex- 
pensive, and  none  provides  full  cov- 
erage. Less  than  400,000  Americans 
have  bought  these  policies. 

Contrary  to  what  many  believe, 
long-term  care  is  not  covered  by 
the  Medicare  program,  nor  would 
it  be  covered  under  pending  legis- 
lation to  add  catastrophic  care  to 
Medicare.  Medicare  covered  only 
2%  of  the  $35  billion  spent  in  1985 
on  nursing  home  care,  and  private 
heahh  insurance  paid  for  only  1% 


CARPENTER 


The  Medicaid  program  helps  pro- 
vide such  care  only  for  those  with 
low  incomes  or  those  who  have 
depleted  their  resources. 

Can  the  mounting  need  for  a  na- 
tional pohcy  on  long-term  care  be 
translated  into  political  action  and 
legislation?  "Long  Term  Care  '88," 
a  broad  new  coalition  of  more  than 
80  senior,  public  health,  consumer, 
civil  rights,  religious,  women's  and 
labor  organizations,  is  moving  to 
bring  the  issue  to  the  forefront  of 
the  1988  presidential  campaign  de- 
bate. 

Coalition  leaders  released  the  re- 
sults of  a  national  poll  which  showed 
widespread  concern  about  the 
crushing  financial  burdens  of  a  long- 
term  care;  overwhelming  support 
for  government  action  to  protect 
famihes  from  these  costs;  a  willing- 
ness to  pay  increased  taxes  to  sup- 
port such  a  program,  and  a  strong 
preference  for  presidential  candi- 
dates who  favor  government  action. 

The  poll  was  based  on  telephone 
interviews  with  a  random  sample 
of  1,000  registered  voters  during 
the  first  half  of  July.  Long-term  care 
was  defined  as  a  wide-range  of  at- 
home,  community-based  and  insti- 
tutional services  provided  over  a 
sustained  period  to  persons  of  all 
ages  who  need  assistance  with  daily 
living  activities  such  as  eating,  bath- 
ing and  dressing. 

More  than  60%  of  the  survey's 


respondents  had  some  experience, 
in  their  families  or  through  close 
friends,  with  the  need  for  long-term 
care.  More  than  half  without  ex- 
perience anticipated  a  problem  in 
their  family  in  the  next  five  years. 

Ninety  percent  said  that  having 
a  family  member  who  needs  long- 
term  care  could  be  financially  dev- 
astating for  most  working  and  mid- 
dle-income families. 

More  than  six  of  seven  respond- 
ents said  it's  time  to  consider  some 


One  of  two  Americans  will 
spend  some  time  in  a  nurs- 
ing home  during  their  lives, 
and  one  in  four  will  spend  a 
year  or  more,  according  to 
recent  predictions. 


government  program  for  long-term 
care.  And  by  a  5-to-2  margin,  they 
said  they  would  be  willing  to  pay 
$10  to  $60  more  per  month  in  taxes, 
depending  on  their  income,  to  pay 
for  a  universal  long-term  Care  pro- 
gram. 

A  majority  in  the  survey  said  they 
would  be  more  likely  to  vote  for  a 
presidential  candidate  who  sup- 
ports long-term  care.  Respondents 
rejected  by  3-1  the  idea  that  favor- 


ing such  a  program  brands  a  poli- 
tician as  a  "big  spender." 

Those  who  would  be  President 
owe  voters  an  answer  to  how  they 
would  deal  with  the  family  crisis  of 
long-term  care. 

For  fifty  years,  organized  doctors 
have  defeated  every  effort  to  enact 
universal,  quality  health  insurance 
for  all  Americans.  With  waste  and 
chaos  now  more  obvious,  there  are 
signs  the  doctors  may  join  in  a 
solution. 

Former  Social  Security  Commis- 
sioner Robert  M.  Ball  recently  told 
Congress  of  public  discontent.  Ball 
quoted  from  a  "remarkable  edito- 
rial" by  Dr.  Arnold  Relman,  editor 
of  the  prestigious  New  England 
Journal  of  Medicine: 

"Polls  have  always  shown  a  strong 
public  preference  for  a  universal 
health  insurance  system  over  the 
malfunctioning  patchwork  arrange- 
ment we  have  lived  with  since  the 
mid-1960s.  A  recent  referendum 
question  on  the  Massachusetts  state 
ballot  asked  whether  the  state  gov- 
ernment should  urge  the  U.S.  Con- 
gress to  enact  a  national  health 
program  that  would  be  'universal 
in  coverage,  community  controlled, 
rationally  organized,  equitably  fi- 
nanced, with  no  out-of-pocket 
charges  .  .  .  and  efficient  in  con- 
taining its  cost.  .  .  ."  Two-thirds  of 
the  voters  responded  in  the  affirm- 
ative. 


Canadian  Voters  Have  Concerns,  Too 


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YoU  OUTLAW  SllMGSHcfIB* 


Canadian  cartoonist  George  Shane  indicates  some  of  the  problems  still  facing  health  care  programs  in  the  provinces — extra 
billing  under  Medicare,  hospital  user  fees  and  the  deceptions  of  multinational  drug  companies,  trying  to  get  doctors  to  prescribe 
high-priced  drugs  when  lower-priced  generic  drugs  will  suffice. 


NOVEMBER     1987 


Regional  Seminars 

cover  broad 

agenda  of  work 

for  comiiio  months 


"■m&ma 


See  that  the  project  is  built  union! 
See  that  UBC  construction  members 
get  the  jobs! 

That's  the  bottom  line  in  a  series  of 
regional  seminars  now  being  conducted 
around  the  United  States  and  Canada 
in  recent  weeks.  One  seminar  was  held 
in  Toronto,  Ont.;  another  in  Teaneck, 
N.J.,  and  two  in  French  Lick,  Ind.  A 
fifth  and  final  seminar  is  scheduled  for 
this  month  in  Seattle,  Wash. 

The  seminars  bring  together  every 


fuUtime  local  union  and  council  officer 
in  the  United  Brotherhood,  supplying 
them  with  the  latest  information  and 
describing  the  latest,  proven  techniques 
of  organizing,  bargaining  and  success- 
fully bidding  for  union  work. 

Each  seminar  runs  for  a  full  five-day 
week,  starting  at  8:30  each  morning  and 
running  into  the  late  afternoon.  Partic- 
ipants rotate  around  a  series  of  six 
workshops,  with  a  half  day  devoted  to 
each  workshop  session.  Opening  and 


closing  general  sessions  complete  the 
week  of  intensive  study.  More  than 
1,200  UBC  leaders  are  participating. 
Similar  seminars  for  leaders  of  indus- 
trial locals  will  be  held  in  1988. 

At  each  seminar  General  President 
Pat  Campbell  called  for  greater  empha- 
sis on  the  spirit  of  brotherhood  in  all  of 
the  union's  activities — local  leaders  in 
one  part  of  the  country  helping  leaders 
in  other  parts  of  the  country  in  their 
Continued  on  Page  17 


East  Cocist  leaders  meet  at  Teaneck,  N.J. 


'^rom  the  lop:  President  Campbell 
ypening  the  sessions  and,  at  right,  a 
delegate  studies  a  data  sheet  in  the 
ipecial  programs  workshop.  At  middle 
eft.  General  Treasurer  Pierce  urges  in- 
ensive  legislative  and  political  action: 
Assistant  to  the  General  President  Jim 
Oavis:  Kathy  Krieger  and  Ed  Gorman 
if  the  UBC  legal  staff.  At  bottom  left, 
jeneral  Secretary  Rogers  describes 
nembership  changes  and,  at  lower 
■ight,  Research  Director  Lew  Pugh. 


wr\ 


Top  row  from  left: 
At  the  registration 
desk,  Alan  Rogers, 
Claude  La- 
Fontaine,  Leo  Fritz 
and  John  Kouba. 
At  the  mikes,  top: 
Phil  Hambrook  of 
Calgary  at  the  ros- 
trum and  another 
delegate  at  a  floor 
microphone. 


Guest  speakers  included  from  left:  Bart  Edwards  of  Labour  Canada;  G.  LaLumierre  of  the  Construction  Commission  of  Quebec; 
Donald  Carter,  director  of  the  Industrial  Relations  Center  of  Queens  University;  and  Gary  McKnight,  director  of  the  Capital  Region, 
Labour  Canada. 


Canadian  leaders  gather  in  Toronto,  Ont. 


At  right.  First  General  Vice  President  Sig- 
urd Lucassen  awaits  the  delegates  as  they 
assemble  for  the  opening  session.  Below 
left.  General  Secretary  John  Rogers  dis- 
cusses problems  involving  the  member- 
ship— new  members,  retirements,  suspen- 
sions. At  lower  left,  Director  of 
Organization  Mike  Fishman  ponders  a 
question  from  a  delegate.  At  the  bottom, 
two  views  of  seminars  in  session. 


A  tour  guide  describes  the  changing  season  and  its  effect  on  the  flora  and  fauna  of  the 
New  Jersey  virgin  forest.  The  property  on  which  Hiitcheson  Memorial  Forest  stands  was 
settled  in  1701  and  remained  in  one  family  for  254  years.  Though  the  family  cleared  and 
farmed  most  of  the  surrounding  land,  these  woods  were  consciously  left  untouched  for 
future  generations. 


Hutcheson  Memorial  Forest 
Continues  to  Receive  Tributes 


Thirty-two  years  ago,  in  a  brief  out- 
door ceremony,  Maurice  Hutcheson, 
one-time  general  president  of  the  United 
Brotherhood,  handed  over  a  deed  to  65 
acres  of  primeval  New  Jersey  wood- 
lands to  an  official  of  Rutgers  Univer- 
sity. 

"What  happens  in  the  woodlands  is 
close  to  the  carpenter's  heart,"  he  told 
the  assembled  group  of  university  of- 
ficials and  labor  leaders. 

From  that  day  forward,  one  of  the 
rare  virgin  forests  of  the  United  States 
has  been  "saved  by,  of  all  people,  the 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  America."  (That  was  the 
startled  comment  of  a  writer  for  New 
Yorker  magazine  in  an  article  for  "Talk 
of  the  Town,"  last  July.) 

New  Yorker  is  the  most  recent  of 
many  publications  over  the  years  which 
have  paid  tribute  to  the  foresight  of  the 
UBC  in  donating  this  outdoor  environ- 
mental and  ecological  laboratory  known 
as  Mettler's  Woods,  to  future  preser- 
vation and  ecological  research. 

A  New  York  Times  writer  who  toured 


the  forest  called  it  "a  secluded  canopy 
of  oak,  maple,  hickory  and  beech 
trees  .  .  .  the  only  remaining  virgin 
hardwood  forest  in  the  state." 

An  oil  company,  in  its  national  ad- 
vertising, called  the  forest  a  "stabilized 
society  of  nature:"  "Nature  has  been 
working  for  thousands  of  years  to  per- 
fect this  'climax'  community  in  which 
trees,  plants,  animals  and  all  the  crea- 
tures of  the  forest  have  reached  a  state 
of  harmonious  balance  with  their  en- 
vironment." the  oil  company  stated. 

Mettler's  Woods  became  the  William 
L.  Hutcheson  Memorial  Forest  in  1955 
when  M.A.  Hutcheson  turned  over  the 
deed  to  Rutgers,  naming  it  after  his 
father,  one  of  the  outstanding  leaders 
of  the  UBC  and  the  American  labor 
movement. 

Hutcheson  Memorial  Forest  is  truly 
a  virgin  forest,  which  means  that  it  has 
never  been  plowed,  cut  over  or  logged 
by  man.  Hurricane  force  winds  have 
blown  through  it  and  toppled  big  trees, 
and  droughts  have  caused  undergrowth 
to  wither  and  die,  but  the  forest  remains 


untouched — a  living  laboratory  for 
ecologists,  botanists,  zoologists  and 
other  natural  scientists  to  study. 

One  scientist  calls  the  forest  "prob- 
ably the  single  most  studied  primeval 
woods  on  the  continent." 

As  the  New  Yorker  writer  states, 
"People  have  gone  in  there  and  emerged 
with  more  than  a  hundred  advanced 
degrees,  including  36  PhDs.  So  many 
articles,  papers,  theses  and  other  re- 
search publications  have  come  out  of 
Hutcheson  Forest  that  countless  trees 
have  been  clearcut  elsewhere  just  in 
order  to  print  them." 

The  woods  are  closed  to  visitors 
except  for  scheduled  Sunday  tours.  (If 
you'd  like  to  visit  it,  you'll  find  a  sched- 
ule of  upcoming  tours  elsewhere  on  this 
page.)  Rutgers  already  owns  some  150 
acres  contiguous  to  the  forest  and  hopes, 
with  the  help  of  the  Nature  Conser- 
vancy, to  get  200  acres  more.  This 
acreage  will  serve  to  protect  the  pri- 
meval and  "stabilized  society"  even 
more  from  encroaching  elements  of  20th 
century  mankind  and  help  to  perpetuate 
nature's  awe-inspiring  woodland  gifts 
for  generations  to  come. 


Forest  Tours 

There  are  seven  conducted  tours 
of  Hutcheson  Memorial  Forest  sched- 
uled for  the  months  ahead.  All  tours 
are  on  Sundays  at  2:30  p.m.,  except 
for  the  two  in  April,  which  begin  at 
8:30  a.m. 

Trips  leave  from  the  entrance  of 
the  wood,  which  is  on  Am  well  Road 
(Route  514)  about  -54  mile  east  of  East 
Millstone,  N.J.  The  trail  through  the 
woods  may  be  muddy  in  places  except 
in  dry  weather,  so  persons  should 
come  prepared.  It  takes  somewhat 
more  than  an  hour.  There  is  no  charge, 
and  reservations  are  not  required. 

Groups  of  more  than  10  persons 
may  not  attend  the  guided  tours.  Such 
groups  are  invited  to  write  to  the 
Director,  Hutcheson  Memorial  For- 
est, Department  of  Biological  Sci- 
ences, Rutgers  University,  P.O.  Box 
1059,  Piscataway,  N.J.  08855,  for  spe- 
cial guided  tours  to  be  arranged  at 
other  times. 

The  upcoming  tour  dates  and  the 
scientists  conducting  them  are  as  fol- 
lows: 

November  8,  Edmund  Stiles,  ecolo- 
gist,  December  13,  John  Kuser,  for- 
ester, January  10,  William  Boarman, 
zoologist,  February  7,  James  Quinn, 
botanist,  March  20,  James  French, 
botanist,  **April  10,  Bertram  Murray 
Jr.,  ornithologist,  **April,  24,  Charles 
Leek,  ornithologist. 


8 


CARPENTER 


UBC  Pension  Funds  Create  New  Boston  Bank 


Bank  built  by  15,000 
Carpenters,  Bank 
Chairman  Marshall 
notes  at  dedication 

The  First  Trade  Union  Savings  Bank 
was  dedicated  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Sep- 
tember 10,  with  Massachusetts  Gov. 
Michael  Dukakis  cutting  the  ribbon. 

It  was  a  milestone  occasion  for  1 5 ,000 
UBC  members  in  the  Boston  area  and 
for  400,000  union  members  of  all  trades 
in  the  Commonwealth.  It  is  also  unique 
in  the  financial  world,  for  it  is  the  only 
federally-chartered  savings  bank  in  the 
nation  owned  by  union  pension  and 
annuity  funds,  specifically  the  Massa- 
chusetts State  Carpenters  Pension  Fund 
and  the  Massachusetts  State  Carpenters 
Annuity  Fund.  (Editor's  note:  Banks 
have  been  founded  in  New  York,  Chi- 
cago, Washington  and  other  cities  by 
unions  which  have  pooled  their  assets, 
but  this  is  the  first  time  union  pension 
and  annuity  funds  have  directly  created 
a  banking  institution.) 

"This  new  bank  is  an  example  of  the 
extraordinary  partnership  among  gov- 
ernment, business  and  organized  labor 
in  Massachusetts,"  Governor  Dukakis 
noted. 

First  Trade  Union  Savings  Bank  is  a 
full  service  bank  that  is  a  member  of 
FSLIC  and  the  Federal  Home  Loan 
Bank  of  Boston.  It  is  the  first  and  only 
bank  located  in  EDIC's  Marine  Indus- 
trial Park,  Boston,  which  currently  has 
3,500  employees  and  is  expected  to 
soon  increase  to  5,000.  It's  address  is 
10  Drydock  Ave.  in  the  Marine  Indus- 
trial Park. 

Chairman  of  the  new  bank  is  Robert 
D.  Marshall,  who  is  also  chairman  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Massachu- 
setts State  Carpenters  Pension  Fund, 
the  majority  stockholder  in  the  bank. 

Marshall  has  been  an  active  member 
of  the  Brotherhood  for  25  years.  He 
joined  Carpenters  Local  33  in  1962  and 
has  been  its  business  representative 
since  1973.  A  trustee  of  the  UBC's  state 
training  program,  Marshall  has  also 
served  as  chairman  of  the  negotiations 
committee  for  the  Boston  District 
Council  since  1981. 

President  and  chief  executive  officer 
of  the  bank  is  C.  Edward  Lockwood 
Jr.,  who  previously  served  as  senior 
lending  officer  at  Cambridgeport  Sav- 
ings Bank,  Cambridge,  Mass.  and  as  a 
commercial  lender  with  the  Bank  of 
New  England.  Working  with  Lockwood 
is  a  full  slate  of  experienced  banking 
officials  from  the  New  England  area. 


Boston's  newest  bank,  First  Trade  Union  Savings  Bank,  was  "built"  by  15.000  union 
carpenters.  At  the  official  .opening  September  10,  1987  were,  left  to  right.  Thomas 
Barrone.  Carpenter's  Local  67:  Arthur  R.  Osborne,  president  of  the  Massachusetts  AFL- 
ClO;  Raymond  L.  Flynn.  mayor  of  Boston;  Michael  S.  Dukakis,  governor  of  the  Com- 
monwealth of  Massachusetts:  Robert  D.  Marshall,  chairman  of  the  bank:  Marilyn  Swartz 
Lloyd,  director.  Economic  Development  and  Industrial  Corporation  (EDIC)  of  Boston: 
Paul  Eustace,  secretary  of  labor  for  the  Commonwealth  of  Massachusetts:  and  Dermot 
J.  Maher,  Carpenter's  Local  33. 


Make 
Safety  a 
Habit! 

These  common  abuses  of  striking 
tools  are  all  dangerous.  Each  carries 
the  potential  for  serious  personal 
injury.  The  hardened  striking  face  of 
a  carpenter's  hammer  is  designed  to 
be  struck  against  common,  unhard- 
ened  nails.  Misusing  the  tool  by 
striking  it  against  another  hardened 
steel  tool  may  result  in  chipping  and 
consequent  serious  injury  from  flying 
particles.  Removal  of  embedded 
nails,  for  example,  should  be  done 
with  a  nail  puller  and  a  hand  drilling 
or  light  sledge  hammer. 

To  protect  your  eyes  from 
dust  and  flying  particles, 
always  wear  safety  goggles 
when  using  striking  tools. 

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DON'T  strike  one  hammer 
with  another! 


DON'T  strike  a  hatchet 
with  a  hammer! 


DON'T  strike  a  nail  puller 
with  a  carpenter's 


We're  concerned  about  your  safety. 


hammer! 


NOVEMBER     1987 


Washington 
Report 


MODEL  TESTING  LAW 

The  AFL-CIO  Department  of  Organization  and 
Field  Services  in  Washington  reported  that  the  new 
drug  testing  law  passed  by  the  Maine  legislature  is 
a  model  statute  for  protecting  the  rights  of  workers. 
The  law  states: 

•  Employers  must  have  probable  cause  for  test- 
ing an  employee. 

•  They  must  have  a  functioning  employee  assist- 
ance program  before  establishing  a  substance 
abuse  testing  program. 

•  Employees  who  test  positive  must  be  allowed 
to  participate  in  a  rehabilitation  program. 

•  It  forbids  employers  from  requiring  workers  to 
sign  voluntary  consent  forms  waiving  their  rights. 

•  Employers  are  required  to  develop  a  written 
policy  that  includes  all  details  of  their  testing  pro- 
grams to  be  provided  at  least  60  days  before  test- 
ing. 


RUNAWAY  SHIP  REPAIRS 

Each  year  millions  of  dollars  and  thousands  of 
American  jobs  are  being  lost  to  foreign  shipyards 
which  are  reconstructing  U.S.-flag  vessels  for  the 
commercial  fishing  industry.  Wayne  Pierce,  general 
treasurer  and  director  of  legislation  for  UBC,  re- 
cently complained  of  this  "runaway"  practice  in  a 
letter  to  members  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 

Under  the  Jones  Act  these  ships  should  not  be 
allowed  to  fish  U.S.  waters,  or  all  foreign  repairs 
and  equipment  installed  should  be  assessed  a  50% 
duty,  the  UBC  contends.  At  the  present  time  neither 
is  the  case  due  to  questionable  interpretation  of  the 
law  by  the  U.S.  Coast  Guard  and  U.S.  Customs. 

There  is  a  bill  before  the  House  (H.R.  2598)  that 
would  ban  the  reflagging  of  the  foreign  fishing  fleet 
and  ban  reconstruction  of  our  fleet  abroad. 


DEPARTMENTAL  CHANGE 

John  R.  Stepp  has  been  named  acting  deputy 
under  secretary  of  labor  for  labor-management  rela- 
tions and  cooperative  programs  to  succeed  Ste- 
phen I.  Schlossberg,  who  left  to  direct  the  Washing- 
ton office  of  the  International  Labor  Organization. 


ANOTHER  FOREIGN  ASSIST 

The  U.S.  Department  of  Defense  actively  partici- 
pated in  a  seminar  designed  to  teach  military/de- 
fense manufacturers  of  other  countries  how  to  su- 
cessfuliy  apply  and  bid  for  contracts  with  the  United 
States.  U.S.  companies  were  barred  from  participa- 
tion. 

The  conference,  which  was  held  last  month  in 
Washington,  allowed  companies  from  17  allied 
countries  to  display  their  capabilities  and  technolo- 
gies to  Pentagon  officials  of  the  highest  rank.  Rep- 
resentatives of  foreign  companies  were  able  to 
meet  and  become  acquainted  with  U.S.  defense 
officials,  as  well  as  learn  the  ins  and  outs  of  U.S. 
defense  procurement  procedures. 

Labor  unions  worked  with  members  of  Congress 
and  interested  parties  to  protest  the  conference. 
This  is  another  case  in  which  a  federal  agency 
seems  determined  to  export  U.S.  jobs.  Last  year, 
labor  successfully  opposed  an  attempt  by  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Commerce  to  sponsor  a  conference 
in  Acapuico,  Mexico,  to  lure  American  manufactur- 
ers south  of  the  border. 


OFFICIALS  SWITCH  SIDES 

Former  high-level  U.S.  officials  should  be  barred 
from  switching  sides  and  representing  foreign  gov- 
ernments in  Washington,  Industrial  Union  Depart- 
ment President  Howard  D.  Samuel  said  at  recent 
House  hearings. 

He  expressed  labor's  concern  at  the  large  num- 
ber of  officials  who  supposedly  represent  U.S.  inter- 
ests in  trade  dealings  with  other  countries  and  then 
turn  up  after  leaving  government  service  as  lobby- 
ists or  agents  for  the  same  or  other  foreign  inter- 
ests. 

Even  the  time  span  is  "far  too  modest,"  Samuel 
said.  Only  in  the  United  States,  he  noted,  is  it  likely 
that  senior  government  officials  dealing  with  trade 
will  end  up  working  for  foreign  countries.  He  asked 
whether  government  officials  would  be  influenced 
by  "the  expectation  of  working  for  foreign  interests 
at  the  end  of  government  service  before  govern- 
ment service  is  completed." 

In  countries  such  as  Japan,  Germany,  South  Ko- 
rea or  Brazil,  Samuel  said,  "there  would  be  an 
enormous  scandal"  if  top  government  officials  went 
to  work  promoting  the  trade  interests  of  the  United 
States  or  American  companies  in  dealings  with  their 
own  nation. 

"It  is  a  matter  of  record  that  our  major  interna- 
tional competitors,  led  by  the  Japanese,  are  spend- 
ing millions  of  dollars  annually  for  lobbyists  and 
influential  personages  in  Washington,"  Samuel  tes- 
tified. 


40-HOUR  STATE  WORKWEEK 

The  40-hour  week  is  still  the  standard  for  most 
state  government  employees,  although  15  states 
have  a  shorter  workweek,  the  new  1987  State  Em- 
ployee Benefits  Survey  shows. 

The  workweek  is  one  of  numerous  comparisons 
included  in  the  64-page  survey  of  1987  employee 
benefits  in  state  governments  published  by  Work- 
place Economics  Inc.,  a  Washington-based  labor 
economics  analysis  firm. , 


10 


CARPENTER 


Carpenter  Donna  Levitt  ad- 
dresses a  rally  in  San  Fran- 
cisco to  protest  USX  use  of 
scabs  to  rebuild  a  California 
steel  mill. 


The  younger  generation  got 
into  the  act  as  Jessi  Koritz 
joined  building  trades  crafts- 
man picketing  USX  Corp  of- 
fices for  bringing  in  non- 
union workers  to  rebuild  a 
Contra  Costa  County  steel 
plant. 

— Photographs  from 
AFL-CIO  News 


Building  trades  protest  USX  scab  construction  job 


Hundreds  of  building  trades  crafts- 
men picketed  the  main  offices  of  USX 
Corp.  in  San  Francisco  recently,  pro- 
testing the  steel  giant's  decision  to  re- 
cruit non-union  labor  for  a  $350-million 
overhaul  of  an  aging  steel  mill  in  Contra 
Costa  County,  Calif. 

When  it's  completed,  the  plant  will 
be  used  for  a  joint  business  venture 
involving  Pohang  Steel  Corp.,  one  of 
the  burgeoning  industries  controlled  by 
the  South  Korean  government. 

Also  joining  in  the  combine  is  ECI, 
a  subsidiary  of  a  Pennsylvania  con- 
struction firm,  Eichleay  Inc.,  that  has 
national  contracts  with  the  building 
trades.  An  arbitration  board  recently 
ruled  that  Eichleay  couldn't  use  the 


subsidiary  to  evade  union  contracts. 

The  mill  will  serve  as  a  finishing  plant 
where  steel  produced  by  low-wage 
workers  in  Pohang's  ultra-modern  Ko- 
rean facilities  will  be  prepared  for  sale 
in  the  American  market. 

The  San  Francisco  Building  &  Con- 
struction Trades  Council  branded  the 
project  the  biggest  scab  job  ever  at- 
tempted in  California. 

The  council  charged  that  the  non- 
union workers  were  being  recruited  in 
hard-pressed  areas  of  the  South.  They'll 
be  paid  wages  as  low  as  $5  an  hour — 
far  below  prevailing  union  wages  in  the 
Contra  Costa  area. 

Charles  D.  Gray,  executive  director 
of  the  AFL-CIO 's  Asian- American  Free 


Labor  Institute,  brought  the  issue  of 
Pohang's  involvement  in  the  anti-union 
construction  project  to  the  attention  of 
President  Kim  Dong-in  of  the  Federa- 
tion of  Korean  Trade  Unions. 

The  South  Korean  union  leader  re- 
ceived assurances  from  the  head  of  his 
country's  economic  planning  ministry 
that  it  expects  its  firms  to  respect  the 
practices  of  any  nation  in  which  they 
operate. 

The  California  AFL-CIO  and  scores 
of  unions  in  the  state  immediately  del- 
uged the  South  Korean  embassy  in 
Washington  with  letters,  urging  that 
Ambassador  Jyung  Won  Kim  press  Po- 
hang take  the  lead  in  assuring  that  the 
project  goes  ahead  with  union  labor. 


Union  foremen  make  difference  in  construction,  says  consultant 


A  construction  industry  consultant,  Paul 
Ridilla,  recently  described  what  he  considers 
to  be  the  basic  difference  between  union  and 
open  shop  contractors.  He  made  his  remarks 
during  a  recent  plumbing,  heating  and  cool- 
ing contractors'  convention. 

Ridilla  says  foremen  are  the  key  to  union 
contractors  taking  over  a  large  percentage 
of  the  construction  industry. 

"The  big  blessing  of  the  construction  unions 
is  that  they're  forced  to  use  foremen," 
Ridilla  comments.  "The  major  weakness  of 
open  shops  is  that  they  don't  use  them.  They 
haven't  got  a  chance  without  capable  job 
site  foremen. 

Union  foremen  are  generally  special  in- 
dividuals who  have  risen  in  the  ranks  not 
only  because  of  their  craftsmanship,  but 
because  of  their  "people  skills"  as  well. 
And  those  skills  are  especially  important 
because  of  the  unique  challenges  a  union 
foreman  faces,  according  to  Ridilla. 

Union  foremen  must  deal  every  day  with 
feelings  of  divided  loyalty.  Though  they  are 
considered  to  be  part  of  management,  they 
aren't  really  since  they  seldom  have  the 
authority  or  support  they  need. 

A  good  foreman  can  make  a  contractor 
more  profitable,  said  Ridilla,  if  he  has  the 


right  tools  to  work  with — and  these  are  not 
the  ones  he  carries  in  a  tool  box. 

Ridilla  says  effective  foremen  must  have 
suitable  authority  to  hire,  fire,  discipline, 
train  and  supervise  their  crews.  In  addition, 
a  foreman  must  have  a  single  individual  he 
or  she  reports  to  who  is  responsible  for  the 
foreman's  performance. 

"Most  contractors  don't  even  know  the 
foreman's  first  name,"  said  Ridilla.  So,  lack- 
ing support  from  above,  foremen  sometimes 
give  in  to  peer  pressure  from  their  union 
brothers,  and  aren't  as  tough  on  some  as 
they  should  be.  What  foremen  have  to  re- 
member, says  Ridilla,  is  that  a  union  member 
who  doesn't  work  hard  for  the  contractor  is 
no  friend  of  anyone's,  foreman  or  fellow 
worker  on  the  line.  And  he's  not  a  good 
union  member  either. 

"This  is  what  killed  union  construction," 
says  Ridilla. 

But,  he  also  says,  most  "card-carrying 
craftsmen  are  fantastic  people,"  and  it's 
only  a  tiny  minority  who  haven't  given  a  full 
day's  work  for  a  full  day's  pay. 

Moreover,  times  are  changing,  says  Ri- 
dilla, as  smart  contractors  and  business  man- 
agers make  a  special  effort  to  get  their  best 
workers  involved  in  union  politics. 


"We  encourage  the  good  guys  to  get  down 
to  the  union  hall,  to  speak  up  at  the  meetings 
and  to  vote,"  he  said.  That  way,  the  majority 
who  are  outstanding  don't  leave  decision 
making  up  to  the  small  minority  who  may 
talk  the  loudest  but  have  the  least  worthwhile 
things  to  say. 

Ultimately,  he  says,  union  contractors 
themselves  will  have  to  exercise  the  lead- 
ership and  management  ability  needed  to 
regain  their  share  of  the  construction  market 
that  has  been  lost  to  the  open  shop  over  the 
last  several  years. 

"The  deck  is  stacked  in  your  favor,"  he 
told  the  gathering.  "Contractors  have  all  the 
laws  on  their  side  and  customers  prefer  to 
have  their  job  built  union.  It's  up  to  you  to 
take  advantage." 

"To  most  contractors,  market  recovery 
simply  means,  'Let's  cut  back  the  pay  rate.' 
But  you  ain't  competing  against  wages!  You 
should  cut  back  on  wasted  hours!" 

"Unions  are  going  to  get  their  share  of 
the  market,"  he  added.  "It's  a  new  world 
out  there.  Unions  and  union  contractors  are 
working  together  like  never  before." 

"The  bad  guys  are  trying  to  stop  it,  so 
it's  up  to  you  to  get  your  good  guys  involved. 
Make  it  happen!" 


NOVEMBER     1987 


11 


Report 


PENSION  PORTABILITY 

Improvements  in  private  pension  plans  for  1 .8 
million  Ontarians  were  approved  by  the  provincial 
legislature  recently.  A  new  Pension  Benefits  Act,  to 
go  into  effect  January  1,  1988,  will  mean  that  work- 
ers for  the  first  time  will  be  able  to  take  their  pen- 
sion benefits  with  them  when  they  move  to  a  new 
employer. 

In  addition  to  the  new  "portability"  feature,  the 
new  rules  covering  10,500  private  and  public  sector 
pension  plans  include  immediate  payments  of  bene- 
fits to  employees  who  take  early  retirement  within 
1 0  years  of  a  plan's  normal  retirement  date,  but  not 
necessarily  full  benefits. 

There  are  also  provisions  to  benefit  younger 
workers  when  plants  close.  Individuals  whose  age 
and  service  add  up  to  55  can  receive  benefits 
ather  than  the  current  provision  that  provides  bene- 
fits only  to  those  who  are  45  and  have  1 0  years 
experience.  This  change  will  be  made  retroactive  to 
April  1  of  this  year  to  help  employees  laid  off  by  the 
Goodyear  Tire  Co.  in  Metro. 

Vesting  or  locking  in  of  benefits  after  two  years, 
regardless  of  the  employee's  age,  was  also  added. 
This  replaces  a  regulation  that  allowed  an  em- 
ployee to  collect  his  pension  contributions  when  he 
left  a  company  but  not  his  employer's  contributions 
unless  he  was  45  and  had  worked  for  a  company 
for  1 0  years. 

MULRONEY'S  'SUCCESSES' 

The  Mulroney  government  recently  reported  two 
"historic  breakthroughs" — a  preliminary  free  trade 
agreement  with  the  United  States  and  an  accord  at 
Meech  Lake,  Quebec,  whereby  the  province  of 
Quebec  is  brought  under  the  Canadian  Constitution. 

Actually,  both  "breakthroughs"  may  not  become 
breakthroughs  after  all,  according  to  many  Cana- 
dian journalists.  The  process  of  ratifying  the  trade 
agreement  could  drag  on  through  the  U.S.  Con- 
gress for  a  year  or  more.  Meanwhile,  various  oppo- 
sition party  leaders  in  Canada  are  holding  hearings 
and  voicing  opposition  to  some  elements  of  the 
proposed  North  American  free  trade  zone. 

Meanwhile,  opposition  to  the  Meech  Lake  accord 
grows  as  well.  Most  recently,  the  premier  of  New 
Brunswick  says  no  to  the  whole  proposition.  He  is 
backed  by  58  new  Liberal  seats  in  the  provincial 
parliament,  with  no  Conservative  opposition. 


CANADIAN  UNION  GROWTH 

Trade  unionism  has  prospered  in  Canada  at  a 
higher  rate  than  it  has  in  the  United  States,  accord- 
ing to  a  recent  Hoover  Institution  study. 

Ten  years  ago,  the  percentage  of  the  work  force 
that  was  unionized  was  about  the  same  in  Canada 
as  it  was  in  the  United  States,  running  at  26  to 
27%.  In  the  intervening  years,  the  percentage  of 
unionized  workers  in  the  U.S.  has  fallen  to  about 
18%  (down  from  45%  in  1945),  while  in  Canada  it 
has  gone  up  to  almost  40%. 

Canada's  legal  environment  is  more  friendly  to 
unions  at  present  according  to  the  study.  In  both 
the  United  States  and  Canada,  the  government  of- 
fers official  sanction  for  unions.  But  in  the  U.S., 
representation  elections  are  called  after  30%  or 
more  of  the  workers  sign  a  petition;  recently,  unions 
have  been  losing  55%  of  the  elections.  In  Canada, 
however,  unions  are  certified  upon  proving  they 
have  enrolled  50  to  60%  of  the  employees  as  dues- 
paying  members,  which  makes  a  difference. 

Another  reason  given  for  the  differences  in  the 
two  countries  is  the  labor  legislation.  The  U.S.  lags 
behind  most  democratic  countries  in  passing  favor- 
able labor  legislation.  Canada  reflects  the  culture 
and  industrial  ethics  of  the  British  tradition. 

One  reason  frequently  given  is  the  increase  in 
white-collar  and  service  jobs  in  the  United  States 
coupled  with  the  decrease  in  jobs  in  industry.  How- 
ever, if  changes  in  the  ratio  of  services  to  industry 
were  a  major  cause,  union  membership  in  Canada 
would  be  declining  even  faster  than  in  the  U.S., 
since  Canada's  service  sector  is  proportionately 
larger  than  that  of  the  U.S.,  and  the  gap  has  wid- 
ened since  1 963. 

APPRENTICESHIP  COSTS 

Apprentices  and  employers  bear  about  90%  of 
the  costs  of  apprenticeship,  according  to  a  study 
released  recently  by  the  Ontario  Ministry  of  Skills 
Development.  Governments  provide  only  about 
10%  of  the  costs,  the  study  contends. 

The  study  also  found  that  the  amount  of  appren- 
ticeship training  undertaken  in  Ontario  will  decrease 
if  the  federal  government  transfers  more  costs  onto 
either  employers  or  individual  apprentices. 

The  Ontario  study  showed  the  average  employer 
spends  $59,995  over  a  four-year  period  to  train  a 
carpenter  apprentice — money  which  he  expends  as 
wages  for  the  apprentice's  work.  (Editor's  Note:  The 
employer  who  balances  the  proper  number  of  jour- 
neymen and  apprentices  saves  in  the  long  run.) 

WOMEN  IN  WORKFORCE 

Women  continue  to  account  for  an  increasing 
proportion  of  union  membership  in  Canada,  accord- 
ing to  a  recent  report  by  the  government  under  the 
Corporation  and  Labour  Unions  Returns  Act. 

The  CALURA  Report  shows  that  women  union 
members  accounted  for  35.5%  of  total  union  mem- 
bership in  1984,  the  most  recent  year  studied,  com- 
pared to  34.8%  the  year  before.  This  compares  with 
a  total  in  1 962,  the  first  year  data  was  reported, 
when  women  made  up  just  16.4%  of  the  total  union 
membership  in  Canada.  In  other  words,  women  ac- 
counted for  54%  of  the  increase  in  total  union  mem- 
bership in  Canada  between  1962  and  1984. 


12 


CARPENTER 


msM 


Local  1054  wins  election  as 
NLRB  reverses  representation 
decision  in  Nord  Door  strike 


After  more  than  two  years  of  walking 
picket  lines  and  struggling  through  all 
kinds  of  weather  and  many  legal  road- 
blocks, members  of  Local  1054,  Ever- 
ett, Wash.,  have  won  a  major  victory. 

An  order  received  August  5th  by  the 
National  Labor  Relations  Board's  re- 
gional office  in  Seattle  affirmed  that 
striking  members  of  Local  1054  were 
legally  entitled  to  vote  in  a  December 
1985  election  to  decide  union  represen- 
tation at  the  Nord  Door  Co. 

The  tabulation  of  those  votes  resulted 
in,  the  union  winning  the  election. 

The  NLRB's  recent  decision  reverses 
a  January  1986  ruling  by  its  Seattle 
regional  office  that  striking  members  of 
the  union  were  not  eligible  to  vote  in 
the  election. 

"It's  a  very  significant  decision," 
said  Larry  McCargar,  NLRB  assistant 
regional  director. 

NLRB  regulations  specify  that  strik- 
ing union  members  become  ineligible 
to  vote  if  an  election  occurs  more  than 
12  months  after  a  strike  begins.  A  first 
election — held  in  July  1984,  within  the 
12-month  time  span — had  been  set  aside 
afer  the  NLRB  ruled  that  the  Nord  Co. 
had  engaged  in  unfair  and  objectionable 
conduct  which  influenced  the  outcome 
of  the  election. 

The  December  1985  representation 


election  was  considered  a  rerun  of  the 
1984  election,  and  although  the  NLRB's 
Seattle  regional  office  allowed  the  Local 
1054  strikers  to  participate  in  the  second 
election,  it  subsequently  ruled  against 
including  their  votes  in  the  final  tally, 
there  were  20  unchallenged  votes  in 
favor  of  union  representation;  287  votes 
against  it,  and  509  challenged  votes — 
464  of  which  were  anticipated  to  be  in 
favor  of  continued  union  representa- 
tion. 

The  regional  NLRB's  rejection  of  the 
challenged  votes  was  based  on  a  deci- 
sion that  the  12-month  eligibility  rule 
prevailed. 

Without  the  strikers'  votes,  the  union 
lost  the  election  and  its  claim  to  remain 
as  bargaining  agent  for  Nord  Co.  work- 
ers. 

Local  1054  appealed  the  regional  of- 
fice's decision,  directly  to  the  national 
office  of  the  NLRB  in  Washington,  D.C. 
And  while  Nord  management  officials 
referred  to  the  appeal  as  "beating  a 
dead  horse,"  the  union  members  and 
their  attorneys  remained  optimistic  that 
right  and  reason  would  ultimately  pre- 
vail. 

It  was  determined  that  a  retabulation 
of  the  December  1985  vote  count  would 
easily  re-establish  the  union's  bargain- 
ing authority.  A  simple  majority  in  the 
election  would  be  only  366  votes.  Frank 


Alberta  Construction  Workers 
Push  Certification  Efforts 


After  a  two-month  walkout,  picketing  at 
job  sites  and  demonstrations  at  many  rallies, 
construction  wbrkers — union  and  non  union — 
are  going  back  to  work  in  southern  Alberta, 
seeking  union  certification  and  better  wages 
and  working  conditions. 

It  all  started  August  21  when  more  than 
200  non-union  workers  at  two  construction 
sites  in  Calgary  walked  off  the  job  in  protest 
against  existing  conditions.  A  week  and  a 
half  after  the  initial  walkout,  19  construction 
jobs  were  down  in  the  Calgary  area. 

Though  contractors  threatened  legal  ac- 
tion, many  strikers,  suffering  under  "merit 
shop"  conditions,  went  to  the  United  Broth- 
erhood and  other  Building  Trades  units  seek- 
ing support. 

Union  workers  began  distributing  hand- 
bills which  stated:  "Skilled  tradesmen  have 
been  taking  a  beating  from  the  big  contrac- 
tors for  the  past  four  years.  The  use  of  spin- 
off companies,  24-hour  lockouts  and  labor 
contractors  have  undercut  wages,  benefits 


and  working  conditions  .  .  . 

"Worse  than  that,  the  contractors  now 
want  cross  crafting.  They  plan  to  have  one 
man  working  as  a  carpenter,  electrician, 
plumber  and  painter  .  .  .  whoever  works  for 
the  least  will  get  the  job!" 

Alberta  contractors  began  promising  the 
workers  $2  an  hour  raises,  if  they'd  come 
back  to  work  .  .  .  the  same  money  they 
refused  to  give  before  the  walkout. 

Work  stopped  for  a  time  at  Olympic  Park, 
where  preparations  are  underway  for  the 
1988  Winter  Olympics. 

Alberta  has  some  of  the  most  labor  re- 
strictive laws  in  the  provinces  with  measures 
forcing  collective  bargaining  and  a  binding 
arbitration. 

To  deal  with  these  restrictions,  unions  are 
urging  members  to  go  back  on  the  jobs  while 
they  sign  up  more  and  more  non-union 
workers,  eventually  gaining  the  majority 
needed  to  bargain  effectively  with  the  con- 
tractors. 


Dennee,  business  representative  of  Lo- 
cal 1054,  confirmed  that  the  final  vote 
numbered  461  votes  for  union  repre- 
sentation and  290  opposed. 

Dennee  hailed  the  new  ruling  which 
clarifies  NLRB  regulations  involving 
eligibility — and  which  of  course  re-es- 
tablishes Local  1054's  right  to  represent 
Nord  workers.  He  noted  that  the 
NLRB's  decision  is  important  to  labor 
unions  in  general,  making  it  clear  that 
union  workers  engaged  in  an  economic 
strike  no  longer  automatically  lose  their 
eligibility  to  vote  in  a  certification  elec- 
tion if  it  takes  place  more  than  12 
months  after  a  strike  begins. 

Others  cited  it  as  a  great  victory  for 
labor  because  it  demonstrated  that  where 
an  employer  commits  acts  of  miscon- 
duct, it  cannot  benefit  from  its  own 
wrongdoing. 


Alabama  Latest 
To  Publish  History 

The  UBC  centennial  celebration  in 
1981  brought  forth  a  wealth  of  history 
projects — written  and  oral  histories, 
photo  exhibits,  craft  and  tool  displays. 
Since  then  many  state  councils  and  local 
unions  have  worked  to  pull  information 
together  in  order  to  print  their  own 
histories. 

The  latest  history  was  received  at  the 
General  Offices  is  written  by  Edwin  L. 
Brown  and  entitled  The  Brotherhood  of 
Carpenters  in  Alabama.  Brown  charts 
the  progress  of  Alabama  carpenters 
from  their  first  charters  to  the  present, 
through  the  Great  Depression  to  the 
New  Frontier  and  survival. 

In  the  introduction  Dr.  Higdon  C. 
Roberts  Jr.,  points  out  that  the  book 
was  written  for  a  selective  audience. 
"The  journeymen  and  apprentices  who 
are,  have  been  or  will  be  a  part  of  the 
story  it  tells.  It  is  meant  to  be  read  by 
the  participants  in  the  continuing  his- 
tory of  the  world  of  work  of  the  union 
carpenter." 

Specifically,  it  is  an  important  con- 
tribution to  the  ongoing  work  of  the 
Center  for  Labor  Education  and  Re- 
search of  the  University  of  Alabama  at 
Birmingham. 

The  Alabama  history  is  added  to  the 
fist  of  histories  already  written  by  Cal- 
ifornia, Connecticut,  Missouri,  Ne- 
braska, New  Jersey,  New  York,  Ohio, 
New  Mexico,  Oregon,  Vermont,  Col- 
orado, Illinois  and  Kansas.  Locals  pro- 
ducing histories  include  Local  83,  Hal- 
ifax, N.S.;  Local  1325,  Edmonton, 
Alberta;  Local  1598,  Victoria,  B.C.; 
Local  94,  Providence,  R.I.;  Local  18, 
Hamilton,  Ont.  and  Local  978,  Spring- 
field, Mo. 


NOVEMBER     1987 


13 


Members 
In  The  Mews 


Working  from  Scratch 


Skip  Watkins,  wildlife  manager,  examines  a  14-inch 
tree  felled  by  beavers.  Part  of  Watkins  job  is  to 
investigate  complaints  concerning  predatory  animals 
and  land  destruction. 


Wildlife  Manager 


Skip  Watkins  rises  before  dawn  to  begin  investigating  complaints 
he  has  received  from  citizens  in  Madison  County,  Ind.  Although 
Watkins  is  a  recently-graduated  journeyman  carpenter  by  trade, 
part  of  his  life  revolves  around  wildlife  management. 

Watkins  a  Local  1016,  Muncie,  Ind.,  member,  was  featured 
recently  in  the  Anderson  Sunday  Herald  for  the  work  he  has  done 
since  obtaining  his  degree  in  wildlife  management  and  wildlife 
biology  from  a  New  York  college  sponsored  by  the  Fur  Takers  of 
America. 

He  begins  his  morning  by  investigating  public  complaints  relating 
to  predatory  animals.  Most  of  the  complaints  Watkins  receives 
come  from  farmers  who  have  experienced  land  damage.  Many 
times  the  damage  is  caused  by  beaver  plowing;  in  other  cases, 
canine  animals  such  as  coyotes  have  invaded  the  farmer's  live- 
stock. It  is  Watkins'  primary  purpose  to  move  the  predators  from 
the  area.  In  addition  to  eliminating  part  of  any  given  population, 
wildlife  management  involves  establishing  a  proper  environment 
in  which  the  animals  can  thrive. 

His  actions  are  guided  by  the  state  laws.  He  removes  animals 
from  congested  areas  of  the  county  and  places  them  in  better 
ecological  situations.  The  animals  are  removed  by  trapping  or 
moving  them  to  different  areas.  Last  year,  red  and  grey  foxes 
trapped  by  Watkins  were  placed  in  zoos  or  on  private  farms, 
whose  owners  agreed  to  their  release  there.  Watkins  removed 
several  from  Madison  County  after  first  treatmg  them  with  peni- 
cillin to  ward  off  disease. 

Watkins  also  teaches  proper  trapping  techniques,  serves  as 
chairman  of  the  state  legislative  team  on  wildlife  trapping  and  is 
lobbying  in  the  state  house  for  the  acceptance  of  a  trapper  education 
bill. 


Hume  in  his  home  workshop. 

WALT  HUME  of  Local  1715,  Vancouver,  Wash.,  can  "create 
just  about  anything  from  scratch  and  without  blueprints,  according 
to  The  Columbian,  the  Clark  County  newspaper. 

He  was  a  star  of  the  recent  East  County  Hobby  Festival  1987 
at  the  Camus,  Wash.,  Community  Center,  where  local  hobbyists 
showed  off  their  specialties  and  met  the  public. 

Hume  started  making  model  airplanes  when  he  was  a  kid,  and 
now  he's  crafting  violins.  In  between,  it  has  been  guns,  wooden 
birds,  model  steam  engines  and  steamships.  He  created  a  model 
freight  train  that  circles  his  back  yard  on  a  7'/2-inch-wide  track. 

When  he  starts  a  project,  he  scribbles  its  outlines  on  a  chalkboard 
he  calls  his  Einstein  Board,  then  goes  to  work.  He  crafts  his  own 
iron,  steel  and  brass  components  in  his  personal  foundry. 

"I  frown  on  anything  that  is  plastic  or  anything  I  can  buy," 
says  Hume.  "To  me  that  stuff  is  absolutely  worthless." 

ALFRED  COE  of  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  a  member  of  Local  61 
since  1931  is  another  member  who  can  create  something  unique 
from  scratch.  His  specialty  is  wood  carving,  and  he's  produced 
more  than  1700  carvings  over  the  past  39  years.  He  retired  his 
carpentry  tools  in  1972  and  went  full  time  into  his  lifelong  hobby. 

His  wood  sculpture  has  won  more  than  75  awards,  including 
three  best-of-show  awards.  When  the  AFL-CIO  Union  Industries 
Show  was  to  Kansas  City  a  few  years  ago,  Coe  was  invited  to 
demonstrate  his  skills  in  the  Brotherhood's  exhibit  booth,  and  he 
attracted  crowds  of  show  visitors.  Twenty-eight  years  ago  he 
carved  a  statue  of  a  carpenter  which  stands  on  a  pedestal  in  the 
offices  of  Local  61.  The  local  union  bought  the  statue  from  Coe 
when  the  work  was  completed. 

He  also  created  a  bas-relief  plaque  of  Peter  J.  McGuire,  founder 
of  the  UBC  and  Father  of  Labor  Day,  shown  with  Coe  in  the 
picture  below. 

The  carving  of  a  brown  pelican,  also  below,  is  made  from  wild 
cherry  and  stands  three  feet  tall  on  a  pedestal.  It  took  200  hours 
of  patient  work  to  complete. 


1**^ , 


Alfred  Coe.  his  bus  relief  of  Peter  McGuire  and  his  brown 
pelican. 


14 


CARPENTER 


Symbol  of  the  DAD's  Day  solicitation  for 
Blueprint  for  Cure,  this  year,  was  this 
Building  Tradesman  on  his  way  to  work. 

Blueprint  for  Cure 
Begins  its  Third  Year 

Two  years  ago,  Carpenter,  in  its  Novem- 
ber, 1985,  issue,  reported  the  first  UBC 
contributors  to  the  Blueprint  for  Cure  cam- 
paign. It  had  been  announced  at  the  four 
UBC  Leadership  Seminars  in  October,  1985. 
A  hat  was  passed  and  seminar  participants 
gave  until  several  thousand  dollars  had  been 
tallied  up  for  the  cause. 

That  year  the  theme  for  the  meetings  was 
"Yes,  you  are  your  brother's  keeper."  Pres- 
ident Campbell  admonished  members  to  sup- 
port the  campaign  in  order  to  help  those  in 
need.  "I  am  appeaUng  to  you,  as  well  as  to 
all  labor  people  throughout  the  country,  to 
take  an  active  part  in  this  drive  to  raise 
funds." 

Videotapes  and  films  describing  the  vital 
work  of  the  Diabetes  Research  Institute  were 
shown  at  each  of  the  seminars  as  well  as  to 
the  UBC  employees  at  the  General  Office 
in  Washington.  A  complete  library  of  audio, 
video  and  printed  material  about  the  cam- 
paign was  made  available  to  each  board 
member  to  distribute  to  their  local  unions. 

Two  years  later,  contributions  are  still 
coming  in  to  meet  the  need  of  the  facility  in 
Florida.  Progress  has  been  made  but  the 
goal  has  not  been  met.  Again  we  are  re- 
minded, yes.  we  are  our  brother's  keeper. 

Among  the  recent  contributors  to  Blue- 
print for  Cure  were  the  following:  Locals 
33,  Boston  Mass.;  107,  Worcester,  Mass.; 
248,  Toledo,  Ohio;  275,  Newton,  Mass.,  and 
1693,  Chicago,  III. 

Contributions  also  came  from  the  New 
York  State  Council  Convention  and  Sheret 
Post  Inc. 

There  were  contributions  in  memory  of 
Kevin  James  Folan  from  Bill  and  Terry 
Murphy  and  in  memory  of  Paul  Stewart  from 
Local  44,  Champaign,  111. 


Wives  of  delegates  to  Illinois  State  Con- 
vention contributed,  as  did  the  New  Jersey 
State  Council,  and  the  following  locals:  40, 
Boston,  MA;  44,  Champaign,  IL;  162,  San 
Mateo,  CA;  402,  Northampton,  MA;  1026, 
Miami,  PL  and  1338,  Charlottetown,  P.E.I. 

A  contribution  was  received  in  memory 
of  Harold  R.  McDonald  from  1597,  Bremer- 
ton, WA. 

Other  contributors  included  I.  J.  Dick, 
German  Insurance  Agency,  Goldberg,  Fohr- 
man  &  Weisman  Ltd.,  Pontoon  Plaza  De- 
velopment Co.  and  Virginia  Wagner. 


Blueprint  Added 
To  Federal  Campaign 

Unionized  federal  employees  for  the  first 
time  will  have  the  opportunity  to  contribute 
to  the  Diabetes  Research  Institute  through 
the  annual  Combined  Federal  Campaign. 
DRI  has  been  the  beneficiary  of  the  fund- 
raising  efforts  of  the  AFL-CIO  endorsed 
Blueprint  for  Cure  campaign  in  which  union 
members  have  raised  over  $2  million  dollars. 
DRI  is  the  only  diabetes-related  charity  on 
the  Combined  Federal  Campaign  list. 

The  Combined  Federal  Campaign  enables 
federal  employees  to  pledge  a  certain  amount 
of  money  per  pay  check  to  a  charity.  Last 
year  the  campaign  raised  over  $137  million 
nationwide.  Campaigning  and  voting  occur 
from  September  through  November.  While 
the  Diabetes  Research  Institute  will  be  listed 
on  the  pledge  forms  in  the  Washington,  D.C. 
area,  people  living  in  other  areas  of  the 
country  are  encouraged  to  write-in  DRI. 

Blueprint  for  Cure  Co-chairmen  are  Rob- 
ert A.  Georgine,  president  of  the  AFL-CIO 
Building  and  Construction  Trades  Depart- 
ment; Patrick  J.  Campbell,  General  Presi- 
dent of  the  United  Brotherhood;  and  Edward 
J.  Carlough,  general  president  of  the  Sheet 
Metal  Workers'  International  Association. 

The  Diabetes  Research  Institute,  located 
at  the  University  of  Miami  in  Florida,  is 
considered  America's  foremost  diabetes  re- 
search organization.  The  Blueprint  for  Cure 
campaign  has  committed  its  support  to  build- 
ing a  new  institute  which  will  become  a 
symbol  of  hope  for  the  nation's  12  million 
diabetics. 

Most  recently,  the  institute  has  spawned 
a  breakthrough  in  diabetes  research — the 
discovery  of  a  curative  treatment  in  dogs. 
Although  this  "cure"  has  been  applied  to 
two  human  patients,  the  results  of  the  treat- 
ment are  unclear  but  positive. 

Diabetes  is  a  serious  chronic  disease  af- 
fecting 12  million  Americans,  and  the  num- 
ber is  expected  to  increase  dramatically 
among  people  age  45  to  64.  Diabetes  is  the 
leading  cause  of  blindness  in  the  U.S.  and 
is  the  third  leading  cause  of  death  from 
disease.  The  disease  affects  virtually  every 
organ  in  the  body,  producing  kidney  disease, 
bladder  dysfunction,  stroke,  impotence  and 
gangrene. 

Dr.  Daniel  H.  Mintz,  Scientific  Director 
of  DRI,  has  said,  "I  believe  there  will  come 
a  day  in  the  near  future  when  patients  will 
not  require  insulin  injections  and  will  be  free 
of  the  disease  as  we  know  it.  "For  the 
patient,  that  will  be  a  cure,"  he  added. 


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To  Save  Back  Issues 
of  Carpenter 
At  Home  or  Office 

It  will  soon  be  1988  and  time  to 
begin  saving  the  record  of  the  new 
year.  This  can  be  done  efficiently  with 
Carpenter  binders.  Each  binder  is 
made  of  sturdy  black,  simulated- 
leather,  with  the  Carpenter  logo  in 
white  on  the  spine  and  front  cover. 
Simply  insert  each  month's  issue  by 
slipping  removable  steel  rods  into  the 
centerfold  of  the  Carpenter  maga- 
zine. No  hole-punching  necessary! 
These  binders  make  it  easy  to  reserve 
the  magazine  at  home  or  at  the  local 
union  for  future  reference. 

To  order,  send  $5  to:  General  Sec- 
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America,  101  Constitution  Ave.,  NW, 
Washington,  DC  20001. 


NOVEMBER     1987 


IS 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Hazardous  waste 
ruling  studied 
by  OSHA,  EPA 

The  U.S.  Department  of  Labor  has 
proposed  and  called  for  comment  on 
safety  and  health  regulations  covering  an 
estimated  1.19  million  workers  who  may 
be  potentially  exposed  during  hazardous 
waste  operations  and  emergency  spills. 

The  proposal,  issued  by  OSHA,  when 
finalized,  would  replace  an  interim  final 
rule  to  provide  such  protection  which 
was  put  into  effect  last  December.  The 
interim  rule  remains  in  effect  until  the 
effective  date  of  the  new  standard. 

The  comprehensive  proposal  would 
require,  among  other  things,  site  analy- 
sis, training,  medical  surveillance,  pro- 
tective equipment,  informational  pro- 
grams, waste  handling,  decontamination 
procedures  and  emergency  response. 

Hearings  on  the  proposal  were  held 
last  month.  The  Labor  Department  is 
working  closely  with  the  Environmental 
Protection  Agency  on  this  matter.  The 
final  ruling  by  OSHA  is  expected  to  be 
adopted  by  EPA. 


Over  half  of  mothers 
with  one  year  olds 
back  in  labor  force 

Mothers  are  returning  to  work  sooner 
after  giving  birth  than  ever  before,  ac- 
cording to  the  Department  of  Labor's 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  report.  Fifty- 
two  percent  of  the  mothers  with  children 
one  year  old  or  younger  were  in  the  labor 
force  in  1987.  Five  years  earlier,  the 
proportion  was  43%  and  10  years  before 
it  was  only  32%. 

Indiana  project 
to  be  built  and 
financed  union 

A  union-owned  insurance  company 
based  in  Washington,  D.C.,  has  issued  a 
$1.5  million  first  mortgage  on  a  new  office 
building  in  Crown  Point,  Ind.  The  Union 
Labor  Life  Insurance  Company,  a  $1.6 
billion  insurance  and  investment  services 
company  owned  by  local  and  national 
labor  organizations,  has  issued  a  mort- 
gage loan  to  the  American  Thought  Group 
Corporation  (A.T.G.),  the  Indiana  Cor- 
poration that  built  One  Professional  Cen- 
ter, also  in  Indiana. 

The  mortgage,  which  was  funded 
through  ULLICO's  union-oriented  "J  for 


Jobs"  Mortgage  Investment  Account, 
was  contingent  upon  the  project  being 
constructed  by  unionized  contractors. 


Ban  on  construction 
possible  unless  Clean  Air 
Act  is  amended 

Several  major  urban  areas  in  the  United 
States  may  face  a  ban  on  constructing 
potential  pollution  emitting  facilities  be- 
cause they  have  failed  to  meet  Federal 
EPA  ozone  standards.  Congress  would 
have  to  amend  the  Clean  Air  Act  before 
December  31  to  prevent  the  ban. 

Among  those  cities  failing  to  comply 
with  EPA  standards  are  Chicago,  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,-San  Francisco,  Baltimore, 
Atlantic  City,  Birmingham,  Cleveland, 
Boston,  Dallas,  Houston,  Los  Angeles, 
Milwaukee,  Nashville,  Philadelphia, 
Portland,  Ore.,  Portland,  Maine,  St.  Louis, 
Salt  Lake  City  and  San  Diego. 

While  some  of  these  cities  may  im- 
prove their  pollution  standing  before  the 
December  31  deadline,  other  areas  are 
hopeless.  According  to  one  EPA  spokes- 
person, "If  you  took  every  car  off  the 
streets  of  Los  Angeles,  they  still  couldn't 
meet  it." 

Study  shows  unions 
reduce  inequality 
in  wages  and  benefits 

Union  efforts  to  obtain  higher  wages 
and  benefits  for  their  members  have  the 
overall  impact  of  reducing  inequality 
within  the  economy,  concludes  Confer- 
ence Board  economist  Richard  Belous. 
Using  several  data  sources,  he  finds  proof 
that  "the  recent  growth  in  income  ine- 
quahty  has  been  real,  and  it  is  not  some 
statistical  fluke." 

A  number  of  economists  in  the  past 
have  expressed  the  view  that  unions 
create  more  inequality.  According  to  the 
findings  of  Belous,  "unions  tend  to  re- 
duce inequality  within  the  system." 

As  compensation  levels  increase  in  the 
unionized  workforce,  non-union  workers 
also  may  see  their  wage  levels  raised. 
Belous  points  out  that  non-union  em- 
ployers may  increase  wages  out  of  con- 
cern that  unions  may  try  to  organize  their 
workers. 

OSHA  denies  bid 
to  limit  smoking 
in  the  workplace 

OSHA  will  not  develop  a  standard  to 
limit  smoking  in  the  work  place,  as  re- 
quested by  the  American  Public  Health 
Association  and  the  Public  Citizen  Health 
Research  Group.  OSHA  acknowledged 
that  exposure  to  tobacco  smoke  is  an 
important  health  issue,  however,  since  it 
is  not  generated  by  an  industrial  process, 
OSHA  does  not  consider  it  a  priority. 


Nearly  half  of 
college  freshmen 
hold  down  jobs 

A  record  48%  of  the  youths  who  en- 
tered college  after  graduation  from  high 
school  in  June  1986  were  also  in  the  labor 
force  in  October,  according  to  data  re- 
leased by  the  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics 
of  the  U.S.  Department  of  Labor.  More 
than  85%  of  those  in  the  labor  force  were 
employed. 

On  the  other  side  of  the  coin,  about 
560,000  young  people  had  dropped  out 
of  high  school  between  October  1985  and 
October  1986.  Only  64%  of  the  dropouts 
were  in  the  labor  force,  and  their  un- 
employment rate  was  a  high  27.9%. 

Services  industries 
polarize  growth 
in  major  cities 

The  increasingly  dominant  role  of  the 
services  industries  and  their  strong  job 
growth  over  the  last  several  years  has 
transformed  several  major  cities  into  new 
centers  of  growth  for  those  regions,  a 
Conference  Board  study  finds. 

"Service  sector  growth  has  become 
the  new  economic  dynamic,  transforming 
Boston,  New  York,  Atlanta,  Chicago  and 
Los  Angeles  into  this  country's  unofficial 
regional  capitals,"  says  Steven  Malin, 
the  Conference  Board's  specialist  in  re- 
gional economics.  A  resurgence  of  man- 
ufacturing is  critical  to  the  continued 
expansion  of  services  industries. 

"The  industrial  Midwest  may  well  be 
the  next  part  of  the  country  to  experience 
a  service-induced  economic  revival. 
Readily  available  labor,  wage  modera- 
tion, unoccupied  space  in  land  and  build- 
ings, outstanding  universities  to  train 
workers,  a  strong  entrepreneurial  tradi- 
tion and  a  pool  of  skilled  managers  should 
all  help." 

Union  volunteers 
fill  Red  Cross 
blood  banks 

Nearly  59,000  pints  of  blood  were  col- 
lected in  August  during  the  AFL-CIO's 
emergency  donor  drive,  the  federation 
reported  at  a  meeting  of  labor  and  Amer- 
ican Red  Cross  officials. 

The  joint  initiative  was  launched  last 
December  by  the  federation's  Depart- 
ment of  Community  Services  to  increase 
blood  donations  by  union  members  dur- 
ing January  and  August  when  blood  sup- 
plies are  at  a  critical  low  point.  The 
nationwide  donor  campaign  targeted  44 
communities  for  special  blood  drives. 

Coordinators  appointed  by  state  and 
local  AFL-CIO  central  bodies  worked 
with  labor's  community  service  repre- 
sentatives, affiliated  unions  and  Red  Cross 
regional  blood  center  staffs  to  increase 
donations.  Three  additional  cities  partic- 
ipated in  the  August  campaign. 


16 


CARPENTER 


cue  Contributions  Needed  for  '88  Program 


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The  Carpenters 
Legislative  Im- 
provement Commit- 
tee, CLIC,  needs 
your  continued  sup- 
port as  it  ends  1987 
and  begins  its  work 
on  the  campaign 
year.  There  will  be 
many  challenges 
ahead  in  the  new 
year  as  CLIC 
works  on  issues  im- 
portant to  labor.  To 
help  in  this  work  fill 
in  the  coupon  at 
right  and  return  it 
with  your  check. 
Recent  contributors 
include:  John  M. 
Price,  Local  123  re- 
tiree, Boca  Raton, 
Fla.;  George  W. 
Picton,  Jr.,  Local 
1456,  Brick.  N.J.; 
Monte  L.  Bordner, 
Local  287,  East 
Berlin,  Pa.;  How- 
ard M.  Johnson, 
Local  839  retiree. 
Lake  in  the  Hill, 
III.;  Charles  E.  Ni- 
chols, general 

treasurer  emeritus        t  —  —  —.  —  —  —  —  . 
and  Local  1109  re- 
tiree, Stockton,  Calif.;  Ladies  Auxiliary  3, 
Local  429,  Irving,  Texas;  Julio  Mobiles, 
Local  6000  retiree,  Newark,  N.J.;  Eugene 


Yes,  I  want  to  help! 

Here  is  my  contribution  to  the  Carpenters  Legislative 
Improvement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 
counts. 

n  $10  n  $15  n  $20  n  $25  n  other 

Name 

Address 

City 

Zip 


State . 


LU.  No. 


We're  required  by  law  to  request  this  information: 

Occupation 

Employer 

Make  checks  payable  to: 

CLIC 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  DC  20001 

Contributions  to  CLIC  are  voluntary  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  in  the  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  refuse  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contributions  from  persons  other  than  UBC 
members  and  their  immediate  families.  Contributions  from  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


J.  Perego,  member  on  disability  person, 
Pittsfield,  Mass.;  and  Clark  R.  Anson,  Lo- 
cal 297  retiree,  Plainwell,  Mich. 


Double  Breasting 

Continued  from  Page  3 

Stanalonis  said  contractors  that  have 
gone  double-breasted  suddenly  become 
"too  busy"  to  take  on  jobs  through 
their  mainstream  union  operation  but 
steer  potential  customers  to  their  non- 
union entities. 

Charles  E.  Key,  business  manager  of 
the  North  Georgia  Building  Trades 
Council,  testified  that  subcontractors 
have  been  told  by  double-breasted  gen- 
eral contractors  that  "if  you  want  to 
work  for  us,  you'll  need  to  set  up  a 
nonunion  shop." 

One  result,  Key  said,  is  that  the 
number  of  union  contractors  employed 
in  his  council's  jurisdiction  shrunk  from 
more  than  5,000  in  1982  to  about  1,400 
now. 

And  when  the  unions  agree  to  roll 
back  wages  so  that  their  employers  can 
compete  with  nonunion  operations,  "the 
contractors  just  turn  around  and  cut 
their  nonunion  wages  by  the  same 
amount." 

That's  not  bargaining,  Key  said.  It's 
"a  conspiracy  to  fix  prices  by  control- 


ling both  sides  working  in  the  same 
market." 

Senators  need  to  hear  the  truth — not 
the  falsehoods  that  are  being  spread  by 
the  ABC,  AGC  and  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  Write  your  senators.  Visit 
their  offices.  Ask  your  senators  to  co- 
sponsor  and  support  S.492. 

At  stake  is  the  future  of  your  collec- 
tive bargaining  rights — your  job,  your 
livelihood  and  the  well  being  of  your 
family.  Contact  your  senators  today. 

Regional  Seminars 

Continued  from  Page  6 

dealings  with  owners  and  contractors. 
He  urged  unions  to  welcome  all  quali- 
fied craft  workers  into  their  ranks  in 
order  to  combat  the  inroads  of  non- 
union work  crews. 

First  General  Vice  President  Sigurd 
Lucassen  warned  the  delegates  that  the 
UBC  will  and  must  change,  when  nec- 
essary, its  "ways  of  doing  business"  if 
it  is  to  accomplish  its  goals.  The  work- 
shops provided  local  and  council  lead- 
ers with  many  tools  to  reach  their  ob- 
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NOVEMBER     1987 


17 


locm  union  nEuis 


Tampa  Lets  The  People  Know 


Members  of  Local  140,  Tampa.  Fla.,  are  currently  working  on  construction  of  Wags 
Restaurant  in  Bradenton,  Fla.  Wags  is  a  division  of  Walgreens  and  uses  union  carpen- 
ters to  build  their  restaurants  throughout  the  country^ 

Pictured  here  are  Business  Representative  Brian  E.  Blair,  Terry  Johnston.  Mathew 
Gulch.  Kevin  Loomis.  Doug  Dameron,  Tony  McDowell  and  Foreman  Robert  Loomis. 

Florida  Members  at  'Jobs  For  Justice'  Rally 


Over  500  UBC  members  and  their  families  participated  in  the  "Jobs  with  Justice"  rally 
held  in  Miami  Beach,  Fla.,  this  past  July.  These  members  played  a  significant  role 
through  financial  support  as  well  as  active  participation  in  the  rally.  Part  of  the  partici- 
pating UBC  members  are  shown  above. 


Unions  affiliated  with  the  AFL-CIO  In- 
dustrial Union  Department,  including  the 
United  Brotherhood,  recently  kicked  off  a 
campaign  called  "Jobs  with  Justice."  UBC 
locals  in  Florida  participated. 

The  campaign  started  in  Florida  last  July 
with  a  rally  in  the  City  of  Miami  Beach. 
More  than  11,000  attended  the  rally.  It  at- 
tracted national  attention  toward  recognizing 
the  abuses  which  take  place  daily  in  the 
work  place. 

A  follow-up  rally  was  held  a  month  later 
in  Sioux  Falls,  S.D.,  as  15,000  working  men 
and  women  signed  the  "Jobs  with  Justice" 
pledge.  The  pledge  of  support  is  the  corner- 
stone of  the  campaign.  Men  and  women  all 
across  America  are  being  asked  by  their  co- 
workers to  sign  the  pledge  and  join  in  this 
fight  for  workers'  rights. 


Union  Carpentry 
Pushed  in  Detroit 


A  group  known  as  the  Labor/Management 
Productivity  and  Training  Committee  (LMPT) 
has  been  formed  in  Detroit,  Mich. 

Carpenter  labor  is  represented  in  the  group 
by  the  Detroit  Carpenters  District  Council. 

Management  is  represented  by  delegates 
from  the  Associated  General  Contractors, 
Detroit  Chapter,  the  Detroit  Carpenter  Con- 
tractors Association  and  the  Association  of 
Construction  Employers. 

"The  purpose  of  our  group,"  explained 
LMPT  Director  John  DeMattia,  "is  simply 
to  promote  the  use  of  union  carpenter  labor 
in  the  Detroit  area.  The  best  selling  point  is 
a  workforce  that's  as  well  trained  and  pro- 
ductive as  humanly  possible." 

DeMattia  is  president  of  CCA  and  also  of 
Novi  general  contractor  Lerner-Linden. 

LMPT's  first  project  is  a  survey  of  the 
status  of  union  versus  non-union  construc- 
tion in  the  Detroit  metropolitan  area,  results 
of  which  will  be  publicized. 

"The  survey  will  not  only  show  the  market 
share  of  union  and  non-union  contractors 
but  will  indicate  attitudes  toward  both," 
stated  Forrest  Henry,  AGC  director  of  Labor 
Relations  and  LMPT  management  alternate 
delegate.  "If  we  find  problems,  we  can 
remedy  them;  where  we  find  benefits,  we 
can  build  upon  them,"  Henry  added. 

LMPT  has  developed  a  course  to  train 
carpenters  to  be  more  effective  foremen. 
After  a  pilot  program  which  began  in  Feb- 
ruary, LMPT  is  kicking  off  the  second  ses- 
sion of  the  course. 

"Not  only  is  the  union  behind  this  effort," 
said  CDC  Secretary-Treasurer  Dan  Kelley, 
"we  are  attempting  to  initiate  similar  pro- 
grams across  the  country.  The  threat  of  non- 
union labor  is  very  real,  but  we  feel  that  our 
people  are  better  trained,  better  equipped 
and  generally  more  productive.  We  want  to 
get  that  word  out."  Kelley  is  LMIT's  labor 
co-chairman. 

LMPT's  activities  are  supported  by  con- 
tributions from  construction  firms  that  are 
signatories  to  union  carpenter  agreements. 


Secretary  Honored 


Local  1098,  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  honored 
Yvonne  Bodi,  office  secretary,  with  a  re- 
tirement party  for  her  33  years  of  service 
to  the  local.  It  was  held  at  the  local  union 
with  many  of  the  past  business  agents, 
assistants,  financial  secretaries  and  offi- 
cers in  attendance.  She  was  presented 
with  a  retirement  plaque  and  gift  certifi- 
cate by  E.J.  Ardoin,  financial  secretary. 


18 


CARPENTER 


Ontario  Holds 
66th  Convention 

The  Ontario  Provincial  Council  recently 
held  its  66th  Convention  in  Toronto  at  the 
Loews  Westbury  Hotel.  In  attendance  were 
80  registered  delegates  representing  32  local 
unions  and  six  district  councils.  Also  in 
attendance  were  representatives  from  New 
York  State  Council,  British  Columbia  Pro- 
vincial Council,  General  Secretary  John  S. 
Rogers,  retired  9th  District  Board  Member 
William  Stefanovitch  and  retired  Secretary 
Treasurer  of  the  Ontario  Provincial  Council 
Edmund  Boyer. 

Nels  Hilborn,  retired  industrial  vice  pres- 
ident of  the  Ontario  Provincial  Council,  and 
Thomas  G.  Harkness,  retired  Canadian  di- 
rector of  organizing,  were  honored  at  the 
banquet  held  the  second  day  of  the  conven- 
tion, for  their  many  years  of  service  and 
dedication  to  the  Brotherhood. 

The  Ontario  Convention  heard  a  summary 
report  from  General  Secretary  Rogers  on 


Nels  Hilborn,  retired  industrial  vice  presi- 
dent of  the  Ontario  Provincial  Council, 
was  presented  with  a  clock  for  his  28  years 
of  service  to  the  Council.  Shown,  from 
left,  are  Quintin  Begg,  president;  Mrs.  Hil- 
born; Hilborn  and  Bryon  Black,  secretary- 
treasurer. 


$50,000  Agreement 
In  Nova  Scotia 


In  February  1985,  Local  1588,  Cape  Bre- 
ton Island,  Sydney,  Nova  Scotia,  tried  to 
organize  one  of  the  biggest  non-union  em- 
ployers in  the  province.  The  first  attempt 
failed;  but  after  the  third  attempt,  with  the 
help  of  the  General  Office  organizing  staff 
and  Jim  Tobin,  an  organizing  drive  was  put 
together  that  spelled  success. 

In  early  1987,  Nova  Construction  started 
a  project  in  a  mine  wash  plant  at  Reserve 
Mines  in  Cape  Breton.  Local  1588  filed  a 
grievance  because  the  employer  refused  to 
recognize  the  collective  agreement.  The  lo- 
cal was  successful  in  reaching  a  $50,000 
agreement  with  the  company,  which  repre- 
sents the  largest  arbitration  settlement  in  the 
history  of  the  province  of  Nova  Scotia  in 
construction. 

Along  with  the  settlement,  the  local  has  a 
document  assuring  them  of  union  labor 
whenever  Nova  Construction  or  any  of  its 
related  companies  are  working  in  Cape  Bre- 
ton and  will  follow  the  collective  agreement. 


the  Brotherhood's  progress  in  Canada  since 
the  general  convention,  one  year  ago.  Ninth 
District  Board  Member  John  Carruthers  was 
also  a  speaker.  The  council's  top  officers. 
President  Quintin  Begg  and  Secretary-Treas- 
urer Bryon  Black,  were  re-elected  to  their 
posts. 


Johnsey  Honored 


Thomas  Harkness  was  presented  with  gifts 
for  his  many  years  of  dedication  to  the 
Ontario  Provincial  Council  and  the  On- 
tario Industrial  Council.  Shown  here  are 
John  Carruthers,  9th  District  Board  Mem- 
ber; Mrs.  Harkness;  Harkness  and  John  S. 
Rogers,  General  Secretary. 


Eversmann  Roasted 


Henry  Eversmann  was  recently  honored 
by  the  Illinois  State  Council  with  a  retire- 
ment dinner  and  testimonial  roast  attended 
by  300  friends  and  fellow  union  members. 

Eversmann  retired  after  16  years  as  an 
organizer  for  the  state  council.  He  previ- 
ously served  as  business  agent  for  Local 
295  for  eight  years  and  was  past  president 
of  the  Madison  County  District  Council. 
He  is  a  41 -year  member  of  the  Brother- 
hood. 

He  was  "roasted"  by  numerous  union 
officers  and  representatives  and  was  pre- 
sented with  a  variety  of  gifts.  He  is  shown 
above  being  presented  with  a  St.  Heniy 
medal  by  Dick  Ladzinski,  secretaiy-lreas- 
urer  of  the  Illinois  Slate  Council.  He  was 
earlier  presented  with  the  skunk  cap  he  is 
wearing  by  the  State  Council  Executive 
Board  as  a  sign  of  their  affection. 


A  dinner-dance  was  held  by  Local  725, 
Decatur,  III.,  to  honor  George  Johnsey, 
54-year  member.  He  joined  the  Brother- 
hood in  1933  and  was  initiated  into  Local 
1290.  Hillsboro,  III.,  where  his  father  was 
a  charter  member. 

Johnsey  was  presented  with  a  50-year 
gold  certificate  by  Gene  West,  president, 
right,  and  honored  with  a  lifetime  mem- 
bership. Seated  to  his  right  is  son,  Mark 
Johnsey. 


Cuomo,  Labor  Day 


New  York  Governor  Mario  Cuomo 
joined  labor  officials  assembled  for  the 
march  up  Fifth  Avenue  at  the  1987  Labor 
Day  Parade  in  Manhattan. 

In  his  address  at  the  69th  Street  review- 
ing stand,  the  Governor  thanked  organized 
labor  for  its  support  over  the  past  five 
years.  He  said  the  fact  that  union  mem- 
bership in  New  York  has  increased  by 
more  than  5%  between  1984  and  1986  and 
that  the  number  of  new  business  starts  in 
the  state  is  among  the  highest  in  the  na- 
tion is  no  coincidence. 

Pictured  with  Governor  Cuomo  from  left 
are:  Pascal  McGuinness,  president  of  the 
New  York  City  District  Council  of  Carpen- 
ters; Sandra  Feldman,  president  of  the 
United  Federation  of  Teachers;  and 
Thomas  F.  Hartnetl,  New  York  State  com- 
missioner of  labor. 


Local  455  Veteran 
Seeks  WW  II  Buddies 

Norman  Laustsen,  a  50-year  member  of 
Local  455,  Somerville,  N.J.,  is  trying  to 
locate  fellow  World  War  II  veterans  of 
Company  C,  31 19th  Signal  Service  Battalion, 
who  served  from  1942  to  1945  in  the  South 
Pacific,  so  they  can  join  a  reunion.  Any  UBC 
members  who  served  with  Company  C  can 
write  Norman  Laustsen,  3  Rockage  Road, 
Warren,  N.J.  07060. 


NOVEMBER     1987 


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Paul  Miller  Feted 
At  Testimonial 

More  than  1200  people  gathered  at  the 
Registry  Hotel  in  Los  Angeles  recently  for 
a  testimonial  dinner  honoring  Paul  Miller  for 
his  long  service  to  the  Brotherhood  and  his 
work  as  secretary/treasurer  of  the  Los  An- 
geles District  Council. 

Miller  was  toasted  by  a  wide  range  of 
leaders  from  the  labor  movement  and  the 
political  community.  Leo  McCarthy,  lieu- 
tenant governor,  served  as  master  of  cere- 
monies. 

Remarks  were  made  by  Patrick  Campbell, 
general  president;  Jack  Henning,  state  labor 
federation  chief;  Tom  Bradley,  Los  Angeles 
mayor;  Jerry  Cremins,  head  of  the  state 
building  trades  council;  and  Ron  Tutor,  head 
of  the  United  General  Contractors.  The  final 
speaker  was  Doug  McCarron,  new  district 
council  executive  secretary. 

Among  those  who  attended  were  Vice 
President  Sigurd  Lucassen  and  General 
Treasurer  Wayne  Pierce. 

Mayor  Bradley  characterized  the  honoree 
as  "all  that  is  best  about  the  labor  move- 
ment." 

Miller  told  the  well-wishers,  "When  I  took 
out  my  first  work  permit  in  Local  269  in 
Danville,  111.,  over  40  years  ago,  and  started 
working  as  a  carpenter,  I  had  no  idea  where 
that  decision  would  lead  me.  Certainly,  I 
never  thought  that  I  would  find  myself  in 
such  a  beautiful  hotel  on  a  night  like  this, 
with  my  wife  Virginia  at  my  side,  breaking 
bread  with  so  many  fine  people  and  sur- 
rounded by  friends  from  all  walks  of  life. 
And  all  thanks  to  a  job  I  enjoyed  more  than 
anything  else." 

Tarrytown  Honors 
Past  Presidents 

Local  149,  Tarrytown,  N.Y.,  recently 
honored  its  past  presidents  at  a  gala  recep- 
tion and  dinner-dance.  Joining  more  than 
400  guests  were  General  President  Patrick 
J.  Campbell,  1st  District  Board  Member  Joe 
Lia  and  New  York  Council  President  Paschal 
McGuiness.  The  honorees  were  presented 
with  framed  invitation  plaques  and  custom 
designed  rings  to  commemorate  the  occa- 
sion. 


Doug  McCarron,  left,  new  executive  secre- 
tary of  the  Los  Angeles  District  Council, 
thanked  his  predecessor,  Paul  Miller,  for 
the  leadership  and  devoted  service  he  has 
given  to  the  council  and  to  UBC  members 
of  Southern  California. 

Family  Support 


Domingo  Roman,  an  employee  of  Lee 
Bolin  and  Associates  ofCalabasas,  Calif., 
and  a  UBC  member,  was  killed  in  an  auto- 
mobile accident  by  a  wrong-way  driver  on 
the  Simi  Valley  Freeway,  last  December. 
Lee  Bolin  &  Associates  and  the  Los  Ange- 
les District  Council  of  Carpenters  jointly 
raised  and  gave  the  Roman  family  a  check 
for  $11 ,833.80  to  help  family  members 
through  this  unfortunate  experience. 
Funds  were  raised  by  Lee  Bolin  employees 
at  a  picnic  and  matched  by  the  district 
council. 

Lee  Bolin,  left,  with  Mrs.  Domingo  Ro- 
man, Doug  McCarron.  secretary  of  the 
district  council,  and  Armando  Virgara, 
also  of  the  district  council. 


Past  presidents  are  shown  here  receiving  the  commemorative  rings.  From  left,  Gary 
Omboni.  president:  Garry  Rayford,  Frank  Ferraro  and  Gabe  Galletto,  past  presidents: 
and  Jack  Centofanti,  master  of  ceremonies. 


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.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


MOVING  PROJECT 

Local  75 1 ,  Santa  Rosa,  Calif. ,  participated 
in  the  38th  Annual  Luther  Burbank  Rose 
Parade  in  Santa  Rosa  this  year.  The  float 
itself  was  constructed  at  the  local  union  hall 
while  the  play  house,  on  top  of  the  float, 
was  constructed  while  moving  down  the 
parade  route.  Twenty  carpenters  and  their 
families  worked  on  the  float.  The  float  was 
the  only  entry  by  organized  labor. 

The  play  house  was  made  in  pre-formed 
wall  and  roof  sections,  and  the  rafters  and 
ridge  beams  were  routed  and  sanded.  The 
facia  boards  were  scalloped  and  routed.  The 
rest  of  the  trim  work  was  routed  with  a 
roman  ogee.  The  play  house  was  donated  to 
the  P.E.P.  Child  Care  Center  at  the  County 
Administration  Center  on  the  completion  of 
the  parade.  The  tow  truck  pulling  the  float 
was  provided  by  Ala-Con  Construction  Co. 

LABOR  STUDIES 


Edward  Baker,  business  representative  of 
Local  532,  Elmira,  N.Y.,  recently  was  pre- 
sented with  a  certificate  for  the  completion 
of  labor  studies  at  Cornell  University.  The 
presentation  was  made  by  Mary  Lehman, 
coordinator  for  the  Central  District  Labor 
Relations  Program.  This  was  the  fifth 
graduation  class  of  the  New  York  State 
School  of  Industrial  Labor  Relations. 

MEDAL  RECIPIENT 

Charles  E.  Nichols,  General  Treasurer 
Emeritus  of  the  UBC,  was  recently  and 
belatedly  awarded  the  Bronze  Star  Medal 
for  meritorious  achievement  in  ground  com- 
bat against  the  armed  enemy  during  World 
War  II  in  the  European  African  Middle 
Eastern  Theater  of  Operations. 

"It  has  been  43  years  since  1  walked 
through  mine  fields,  scrambled  through  barbed 
wire  and  ran  under  artillery  fire  to  retrieve 
the  fallen  as  the  Battle  of  St  Lo  in  France," 
he  wrote  in  a  recent  letter. 

Nichols  had  previously  received  the  Sol- 
diers Medal  and  five  battle  stars  on  being 
discharged  from  the  Army  in  the  1940s. 


A  play  house  was  constructed  on  a  float 
during  the  38th  Annual  Luther  Burbank 
Rose  Parade  by  members  of  Local  75  L 
Working  on  the  float  are  John  Fries  and 
Tom  Post.  John  Walsh  is. in  the  back- 
ground cariying  the  banner  for  the  local 
union.  Not  seen  in  the  picture  are  Charles 
Flanders  and  Mark  Cleavland,  who  were 
working  on  the  inside  of  the  play  house. 

INDIAN  ARTIFACTS 

The  Upper  White  River  Archaeological 
•Society,  held  an  Indian  Artifact  Show  re- 
cently in  Anderson,  Ind.  Fred  McGuire,  a 
third-year  carpenter  apprentice  and  member 
of  Local  1016,  Muncie,  Ind.,  was  one  of  the 
exhibitors. 

McGuire  is  one  of  the 
original  12  members  of 
the  local  society,  which, 
less  than  a  year  after  it 
founding,  boasts  more 
than  100  members.  He 
has  been  actively 
searching  Madison  and 
Delaware  countries  for 
six  years  and  estimates 
that  he  has  walked  over 
10,000  miles  in  his  search 
for  artifacts.  His  most  prized  find  is  a  10,000 
year  old  "Paleo"  point  in  perfect  condition 
that  he  found  near  Alexandria,  Ind.  Alto- 
gether, he  has  personally  found  over  3,000 
pieces. 


McGUIRE 


McGuire' s  prized  find,  framed  at  center,  is 
from  the  Paleo  Indian  period.  It  was  found 
near  Alexandria,  Ind. 


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Airbags  and  Automatic 
Seat  Belts  Coming 

Installations  to  be  phased  into  all 

new  U.S.  automobiles  over  next  two  years 


In  1986  the  Department  of  Transportation 
announced  that  46,000  people  died  during 
the  previous  year  due  to  motor  vehicle 
crashes.  Thirteen  thousand  people  were  in- 
jured each  day,  which  is  more  than  4.5 
million  injured  during  the  year.  Of  these 
injuries,  2  million  were  disabling  injuries. 
Roughly  45  million  people  will  be  injured  in 
motor  vehicle  crashes  in  the  next  decade, 
according  to  these  statistics.  That's  about 
one-fifth  of  the  population  of  the  entire 
United  States. 

Motor  vehicle  crashes  are  the  number  one 
cause  of  paraplegia,  quadriplegia  and  epi- 
lepsy. On  the  average,  each  of  us  can  expect 
to  be  in  a  crash  once  every  10  years.  For 
one  out  of  every  20  persons,  it  will  be  a 
serious  crash. 

In  1979  the  United  Auto  Workers  came 
out  in  favor  of  automatic  seat  belts  and  air 
bags  and  worked  as  part  of  a  coalition  effort 
for  effective  passive  restraint  regulation.  A 
major  law  suit  in  the  early  1980s  contributed 
to  the  Department  of  Transportation,  Na- 
tional Highway  Traffic  Safety  Administra- 
tion issuing  a  federal  motor  vehicle  safety 
standard  requiring  their  installation  starting 
with  the  1987  model  year. 


Insurance  Benefit 

According  to  the  Workers'  Institute 
for  Safety  and  Health,  these  firms 
offer  an  additional  $10,000  accidental 
death  benefit  for  an  insured  person 
who  dies  of  motor  vehicle  accident 
injuries  sustained  while  wearing  a 
safety  belt: 

MONY  Financial  Services 

Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company  of 
New  York 

MONY  Life  Insurance  Company 
of  America 

MONY  Legacy  Life  Insurance 
Company 

General  Motors 

Burroughs  Corp. 

Rockwell  International 

United  Stated  Postal  Service 

PPG  Industries 

Government  Employees  Insurance 
Company 


This  regulation,  FMVSS  208,  Occupant 
Crash  Protection,  requires  automatic  occu- 


pant protection  in  all  passenger  automobiles 
manufactured  for  sale  in  the  United  States 
after  September  1,  1989.  Manufacturers  be- 
gan meeting  a  phased-in  schedule,  starting 
with  the  1987  models.  As  of  September  1, 
1986,  10%  of  all  cars  produced  for  sale  in 
this  country  were  required  to  have  automatic 
crash  protection  systems:  automatic  belts, 
air  bags  or  any  new  technology  such  as 
energy-absorbing  interiors,  that  provide  oc- 
cupant protection  in  a  30-mile-per-hour  bar- 
rier crash  test.  Twenty-five  percent  of  all 
cars  built  after  September  1,  1987,  40%  of 
all  cars  built  after  September  1,  1988  and 
100%  of  all  cars  built  after  September  I, 
1989  must  be  equipped  with  automatic  pro- 
tection. 

There  are  two  kinds  of  automatic  belts 
being  used.  One  is  attached  to  a  track  over 
the  door  and  is  operated  by  a  small  electric 
motor.  The  other  is  attached  to  the  door  and 
moves  into  place  when  the  door  is  closed. 
(See  Illustration  A  below.) 

Three-point  safety  belts  (lap  plus  shoulder) 
when  worn  and  tightened  can  protect  a 
person  well  in  a  crash  at  30  mph  and  under. 
Research  has  shown  that  safety  belts  de- 
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ILLUSTRATION  A.  This  is  a  diagram  of  one  type  of  auto- 
matic seat  belt  installed  in  some  of  the  new  model  cars. 
This  particular  type  is  attached  to  the  door  post  and  auto- 
matically locks  when  the  door  closes. 


Driver 

Cushion 

and 

Inflator 

Assembly 


Diagnostic 


Passenger  Inflator 
Assembly 


Indicator 
Warning 
Light 


Driver  Knee 
Restraint 

Torso  and  Knee 

Cushions  for  Passengers 


ILLUSTRATION  C.  New  model  cars  will  be  equipped  with 
air  bags  to  protect  front  seat  drivers.  The  above  illustration 
shows  the  new  dashboard  designed  to  contain  the  equip- 
ment needed  for  the  air  bag  device.  Air  bags  are  in  the 
steering  column  and  below  the  glove  compartment.  Four 
sophisticated  sensors  located  on  the  front  structure  of  the 
car  signal  the  air  bags  to  deploy  in  a  serious  frontal  acci- 
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New  Journeymen  in  Omaha 


Pasco  Holds  Rigging  Class 


Shown  above  are  new  journeymen  of  Carpenters  Local  400  and 
Millwrights  Local  1463,  Omaha,  Neb.  They  are,  front.  Instructors 
Dave  Wilson,  Richard  Petersen,  Tom  Schulz  and  Jim  Rethmeier 
and  Daniel  Gazinski,  coordinator. 

Back  row.  Carpenter  journeymen  Tom  Lee,  Gil  Straley,  John 
Podrazo,  Bill  Shoehigh  and  Mike  Latoza,  and  new  millwright 
journeymen  Bob  Neitzke  and  Kevin  Swanson. 


Millwright  Local  1699  Joint  Apprenticeship  Training  Council, 
Pasco,  Wash.,  recently  held  a  rigging  class  for  its  apprentices. 
Standing  on  the  rig  are  Henry  Torres,  Local  2403,  Richland; 
Tim  Patton,  Local  1699,  Pasco:  Bob  Jewell,  Local  98,  Spokane: 
JeffByniim,  Local  98,  Spokane;  Ray  Harler,  Local  1699,  Pasco; 
Dawes  Marlalt,  Local  98,  Spokane:  and  Dale  Shoemaker,  Local 
1699,  instructor. 


Local  964,  New  City,  N.Y.,  Holds  1987  Graduation 


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The  apprentices  of  Local  964,  New  City, 
N.  Y. ,  were  recently  honored  at  their  grad- 
uation. 1987  graduates  include,  front, 
Cristobal  LeBron,  David  Watson.  Andrew 
Gelhaus,  John  Boyle,  Glenn  Rannestad 
and  John  Lovell. 

Back,  Joseph  Messina,  Edgar  Judge, 
Daniel  DeCarlo,  Steven  Dukes.  Ronald 
Hill,  Derek  Totleson,  Scott  Bielski,  Mark 
Balach,  Peter  Johnson  and  Brad  Tomp- 
kins. 

Not  available  for  the  photograph  were 
Mark  Kasper,  Bradley  Swingle  and  David 
Vasser. 


26  Compete  in  New  Jersey  Apprenticeship  Contest 


Twenty-six  fourth-year  apprentices  competed  at  the  Burlingloii  County  Vocational  Technical  High  School  in  the  I9lh  Annual  New 
Jersey  State  Apprentice  Contest.  Winners  included:  Carpenters — Waller  Kienzle,  Paul  Gutleber,  Stan  Boiysewicz  and  Gregoiy  Mazza 
Jr.  Mill-Cabinet — Waller  Doernbach  Jr..  Richard  Lurz  and  Carl  Siegfried.  Millwrights — Thomas  McNally  and  Thomas  Moran.  Above 
are  the  contestants  with  their  plaques  certifying  participation.  At  left,  Joseph  J.  D' Aries,  administrative  manager.  New  Jersey 
Carpenters  Apprenticeship  Training  and  Education  Fund.  At  right,  George  H.  Laufenberg,  state  council  president.  Back  row,  left,  is 
First  General  Vice  President  Siqurd  Lucassen. 


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Harrisburg  Grads 


The  Carpenters  Joint  Apprenticeship  Com- 
mittee, Area  4  of  the  Keystone  District 
Council,  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  held  its  annual 
apprentice  completion  dinner  at  the  Hotel 
Hershey.  Four  apprentices  completed  their 
training  and  received  their  journeyman 
certificates.  They  were,  front,  Donald 
Cope,  Qui  Truong,  Johnny  Moore  and 
Timothy  Kutz.  Back  row,  Richard  W. 
Martz,  who  presented  the  certificates,  Sec- 
retary-Treasurer of  Keystone  District 
Council:  James  Reed,  H.B.  Alexander, 
and  Son,  Inc.,  and  Frank  Mulligan,  field 
representative,  U.S.  Department  of  Labor. 


Northern  Arizona 
Apprentices  Remodel 
YIVICA  Sky-Y  Camp 

With  the  combined  efforts  of  the  Central 
Arizona  Carpenters  JATC,  Northern  Ari- 
zona Carpenters  JATC  and  Mardian  Con- 
struction Company,  20  Central  Arizona  ap- 
pretices  helped  to  remodel  four  cabins  at  a 
YMCA  camp  in  the  Heart  of  the  Pines  near 
Prescott,  Ariz.  The  apprentices  were  under 
the  supervision  of  Mel  Purchase,  Central 
Arizona  Carpenters  instructor,  and  David 
Grider,  Northern  Arizona  Carpenters  coor- 
dinator. 

It  was  a  joint  effort,  which  put  the  Broth- 
erhood's Performance  Evaluation  Training 
System  into  action.  Mardian  Construction 
Company  provided  the  materials  and  super- 
vision, the  YMCA  camp  provided  the  proj- 
ect, and  the  Arizona  Carpenters  Appren- 
ticeship and  Training  Committee  provided 
the  labor,  while  the  apprentices  got  the  task 
credits.  Credits  received  included  insulation, 
outside  trim,  inside  trim,  paneling,  window 
installation  and  door  installation. 


Del  Quist  and  Carl  Byers,  members  of  Lo- 
cal 906.  Glendale.  Ariz. 


John  Hocking,  Local  1216.  Mesa,  Az.,  and 
Brian  Carnes,  Local  1089,  Phoenix,  Ariz. 


Washington,  D.C.,  Graduates  55 


The  Joint  Carpentry  Apprenticeship  Com- 
mittee of  Washington,  D.C.,  and  Vicinity 
held  its  37th  annual  graduation  ceremony  at 
Martin's  Crosswinds  in  Greenbelt,  Md.,  for 
55  graduating  apprentices.  The  group  was 
composed  of  38  carpenters,  eight  mill  cabi- 
nets, four  millwrights,  one  piledriver  and 
four  carpet  layers. 

The  graduating  class  included  55  gradu- 
ates. The  38  carpenters  were  Darrick  Ad- 
kins,  Alfred  H.  Beale,  David  F.  Bowen, 
Mark  Cole,  James  C.  Fenwick,  Christo- 
pher R.  Grounds,  Michael  A.  Jewell,  Alan 
L.  Knowlton,  Gary  Kuchera.  Althea  E. 
Spriggs-Kyler,  Mario  Maldonado  HI,  Ed- 
ward G.  Miller.  John  T.  Miller.  Cynthia  D. 
Mills,  David  W.  Mills,  Michael  E.  O'Barr. 
Joseph  T.  Pometto  Sr.,  Jesse  E.  Ragan 
Jr.,  Ronald  W.  Rambo,  Joseph  J.  Rauseo, 
Keith  R.  Ricker,  Mark  P.  Sauerwald,  Liid-' 


vik  P.  Sefcik.  Michael  S.  Smiroldo, 
Charles  A.  Smith.  Daniel  D.  Snyder.  Ken- 
neth P.  Spears.  Gerald  J.  Thomas,  Carl 
Thorpe,  Joseph  E.  Tuono,  Daniel  B.  Tur- 
ley,  Charles  H.  Turner  Jr.,  Maria  T.  Urru- 
tia.  John  D.  Walker.  Stepen  M.  Walker. 
David  Whitfield.  Thomas  E.  Whitlock  and 
James  J.  Wyne. 

Lawrence  D.  Burns,  William  A.  Fridley, 
Donald  N.  Kahn,  Stephen  M.  Moreland, 
Robert  B.  Noel,  Michael  J.  Reid,  Ray- 
mond L.  Robinson  and  Robert  C.  Trostle 
graduated  as  mill  cabinets. 

Millwrights  included  Samuel  A.  Hill  Jr., 
James  L.  Kesecker,  Stephen  A.  Marshall 
and  Michael  S.  Shortt. 

Howard  R.  Duncan,  piledriver. 

Carpet  layers  were  John  T.  Becker,  Ver- 
non F.  Kent,  Joseph  F.  Partonen  and  Rex 
"  A .  Persinger. 


The  Joint  Carpentry  Apprenticeship  Com- 
mittee of  Washington.  D.C.  and  vicinity 
presented  Gary  W.  Kuchera,  carpenter, 
the  highest  scholastic  award  at  the  gradu- 
ation ceremony  for  maintaining  the  highest 
grade  average  through  his  four-year  train- 
ing. Shown  with  him  are  Anthony  J.  Gia- 
quinta,  director,  and  William  S.  Prilchett, 
"  chairman. 


Des  Moines  Project 
Earns  Skill  Blocks 


Local  106  JATC,  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  re- 
cently completed  a  handicapped  workers' 
craft  sales  building  for  the  Easter  Seal  So- 
ciety of  Iowa.  The  project  took  17  months 
to  complete  with  68  apprentices  working  on 
the  building  a  total  of  4,501  man-hours. 

During  the  project  the  concrete,  framing. 


exterior  finish,  interior  systems  and  interior 
finish  classes  were  scheduled  so  that  the 
apprentices  performed  various  PETS  tasks, 
completing  skill  blocks.  The  apprentices 
worked  on  the  project  under  the  supervision 
of  instructor  Ray  Murray  Jr. 

The  building  itself  is  a  6,000  square  foot 
wood  frame  structure  with  brick  veneer.  The 
materials  for  the  building  (at  a  cost  of  $  1 93 ,000) 
were  donated  by  the  Iowa  Elks  Association, 
and  the  land  was  donated  by  an  anonymous 
Easter  Seal  volunteer. 


The  craft  sales  building  in  Des  Moines  from  construction  to  completion — built  by  Local  106  apprentices. 


Apprentice  Service 
Praised  in  Phoenix 


Fred  Work  and  the  carpentry  apprentices 
in  the  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  area  were  recently 
recognized  for  their  community  service  in 
an  annual  report  by  Joe  Costa,  director-of 
the  Phoenix  Labor's  Community  Service 
Agency. 

Costa  recognized  the  work  the  group  has 
done  over  the  past  year  as  they  built  a 
workship,  complete  with  donated  tables, 
tools  and  benches  for  the  Jane  Wayland 

Employer  Greed 
Threatens  Skills 

Employers  who  look  to  technology  only 
to  fatten  profits  are  menacing  the  future  of 
the  American  workplace  and  threatening  the 
concept  of  apprenticeship,  Paul  Burnsky, 
president  of  the  AFL-CIO  Metal  Trades 
Department,  said  in  an  address  to  the  recent 
conference  celebrating  the  50th  anniversary 
of  federal  apprenticeship  legislation. 

He  blamed  the  "captains"  of  American 
industry  who  have  gone  "offshore,  hired 
campesinos  in  South  America  and  peasants 
in  the  Far  East  to  produce  look-alike  prod- 
ucts for  our  disposable  society." 

Technology  has  been  used  to  de-skill 
workers  and  reduce  expectations  of  con- 
sumers regarding  quality,  Burnsky  said.  He 
reminded  the  conference  that  a  major  factor 
in  the  competitive  problem  facing  the  U.S. 
is  the  "chasm"  that  separates  incomes  of 
U.S.  top  executives  and  their  foreign  coun- 
terparts. 

Restoring  the  balance,  Burnsky  said,  can 
happen  "if  we  can  harness  the  energy  of  the 
labor  movement  .  .  .  our  leaders  and  mem- 
bers ...  to  restore  the  traditions,  and  stand- 
ards and  .  .  .  most  importantly  ...  the  stat- 
ure of  craftsmanship  in  American  society." 


Center  for  Emotionally  Handicapped  Chil- 
dren; constructed  a  building  for  the  Ameri- 
can Cancer  Society;  built  the  Casa  Blanca 
House;  renovated  a  house  for  the  Adopt-A- 
Family  Association;  and  remodeled  Sky-Y 
Camp  in  Prescott.  In  collaboration  with  the 
Teamsters,  Plumbers  and  Pipefitters,  Brick- 
layers and  IBEW,  a  house  was  constructed 


on  the  Sacaton  Indian  Reservation  for  a 
needy  family.  They  built  an  800-foot  fence 
for  "Hands  Across  America,"  and  the  pal- 
lets and  boxes  to  carry  3,500  pair  of  boots 
to  the  freedom  fighters  in  Afghanistan.  They 
concluded  their  year  with  a  massive  Christ- 
mas tree  in  downtown  Phoenix,  which  they 
build  every  year. 


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26 


CARPENTER 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Many  Retirees  Join 
Pittsburgh  Club 

Retirees  Club  63,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  held  its 
initial  meeting  in  December  1986,  with  ap- 
proximately 125  in  attendance.  It  was  a  time 
of  fellowship  and  enjoyment  for  the  retired 
members.  Officers  pro  tern  were  on  hand  to 
receive  the  charter  for  Club  63,  presented 
to  them  by  Robert  Argentine,  executive 
business  manager  of  the  District  Council  of 
Western  Pennsylvania.  An  election  of  offi- 
cers was  held  in  the  spring. 


Retired  members  enjoyed  a  time  of  fellow- 
ship at  their  first  meeting. 

A  charter  was  pre- 
sented to  the  offi- 
cers of  Club  63  by 
Robert  Argentine, 
executive  business 
manager  of  the 
District  Council  of 
Western  Pennsylva- 
nia, fifth  from  left. 
The  officers,  from 
left,  include  Phil 
Sweeney,  president; 
Dick  Keenan,  sec- 
retary; Charles 
Stahl,  treasurer; 
George  Mann, 
Otello  Ricci  and 
Everett  Brewer, 
trustees;  and  Harry 
Ackerman,  vice 
president. 


Ft.  Lauderdale  Installation 


Club  10,  Ft.  Lauderdale,  Fla.,  recently  held  its  annual  instal- 
lation luncheon  at  the  Brown  Derby  in  Oakland  Park,  Fla. 
Those  attending  included  Jeanne  and  Vincent  Biyan.  Mary  and 
Oliver  Cochran,  Edward  Doerr,  Ora  Lee,  George  Howes,  Roy 
Helton,  Blanche  and  Leo  LaLonde,  Janice  and  Omar  Lowery. 
Edna  and  Evert  Miller,  Margaret  and  Eugene  Radcliff.  Ben 
Russell,  Mildred  and  Ray  Stokes  and  Roger  Stout. 

Pictured  above  are  the  newly  elected  officers.  Eugene  Rad- 
cliff, trustee:  Leo  LaLonde,  trustee;  Roy  Helton,  treasurer; 
Oliver  Cochran,  trustee:  Vincent  Bryan,  president:  Roger  Stout, 
vice  president,  and  Jean  Bryan,  recording  secretary. 


Does  your  local 
union  or  council 
have  a  retirees 
club?  The  office  of 
the  General  Secre- 
tary has  a  packet  of 
information  avail- 
able to  your  local 
officers  which  ex- 
plains how  to  set 
up  a  retirees  club  in 
your  area.  Ask 
them  to  request  a 
retirees'  club  infor- 
mation packet 
from:  General  Sec- 
retary John  S.  Rog- 
ers, United  Broth- 
erhood of 
Carpenters  and 
Joiners  of  America, 
101  Constitution 
Ave.,  N.W.,  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  20001 


Carpenters 
Hang  It  Up 

Clamp  these  heavy  duty, 
non-stretch  suspenders 
to  your  tool  belt  and 
you'll  feel  like  you're 
floating  on  air.  Take  the 
weight  off  your  hips  and 
put  it  on  your  shoulders. 
Made  of  soft,  comfortable 
2"  wide  nylon.  Adjust  to 
fit  ail  sizes. 

PATENTED  SUPER 
STRONG  CLAMPS 

Try  them  for  15  days,  if  not  completely 
satisfied  return  for  full  refund. 

Order  Now  Toll  Free— 1-800-237-1666. 

""        NOW  ONLY  $1 6.95  EAcfT         ' 

Red  D   Blue  n   Green  Q   Brown  n 
Red,  White  &  Blue  D 

Please  rush  "HANG  IT  UP"  suspenders  at 
$16.95  each  includes  postage  &  handling. 

Utah  residents  add  5Vi%  sales  lax  (.776).  Canada  residenis 
send  U.S.  equivalent,  Koney  Orders  Only. 

Name 

Address 

City_ 


-State- 


Visa  n 

Card  # 

Exp.  Date_ 


^ip. 


Master  Charge  n 


-Phone  #_ 


CLIFON  ENTERPRISES  (801-785-1040) 
P.O.  Box979,  1155N530W 
Pleasant  Grove,  UT  84062 


Full  Length  Roof  Framer 

The  roof  framer  companion  since 
1917.  Over  500,000  copies  sold. 

A  pocket  size  book  with  the  EN- 
TIRE length  of  Common-Hip-Valley 
and  Jack  rafters  completely  worked 
out  for  you.  The  flattest  pitch  is  Vi 
inch  rise  to  12  inch  run.  Pitches  in- 
crease %  inch  rise  each  time  until 
the  steep  pitch  of  24"  rise  to  12" 
run  is  reached. 

There  are  2400  widths  of  build- 
ings for  each  pitch.  The  smallest 
width  is  Vi  inch  and  they  increase 
Vi"  each  time  until  they  cover  a  50 
foot   building. 

There  are  2400  Commons  and  2400 
Hip,  Valley  &  Jack  lengths  for  each 
pitch.  230,400  rafter  lengths  for  48 
pitches. 

A  hip  roof  is  48'-9*^"  wide.  Pitch 
is  IVz"  rise  to  12"  run.  You  can  pick 
out  the  length  of  Commons,  Hips  and 
Jacks  and  the  Cuts  in  ONE  MINUTE. 
Let  us  prove  it,  or  return  your  money. 


In  the  U.S.A.  send  $7.50.  California  residents 
add  45<  lax. 

We  also  have  a  very  fine  Stair  book  9"  X 
12".  It  sells  for  $4.50.  California  residenis  add 
27«  lax. 


A.  RIECHERS 

P.  0.  Box  405,  Palo  Alto,  Calif.  94302 


NOVEMBER     1987 


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60SSIP 


SEND  YOUR  FAVORITES  TO; 

PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


SEASONAL  TEMPER 

A  group  of  chess  players  gath- 
ered in  the  lobby  of  a  big  New  York 
hotel.  Each  player  tried  to  better 
the  other  with  tales  of  great  moves 
and  great  games. 

After  a  while,  the  hotel  manager 
became  angry,  and  shouted:  "All 
right,  everybody  out!" 

At  the  door,  a  player  asked  the 
manager  why  he  was  so  mad. 

"Because,"  the  manager  ex- 
plained, "I  can't  stand  chess  nuts 
boasting  in  an  open  foyer!" 


USE  UNION  SERVICES 


FAST  THINKING 

For  several  weeks  my  fourth- 
graders  had  been  studying  the  his- 
tory of  man  through  the  ages,  and 
I  gave  them  a  quiz.  In  answer  to 
the  question,  "What  are  the  three 
major  races  of  the  world?"  one  boy 
wrote:  1 .  Bossten  Mayerathon.  2. 
Kintucki  Durby.  3.  The  Indian  ap- 
ples 500. 

— Reader's  Digest 


OPINIONATED  PATIENT 

'  A  medical  student  spent  his  sum- 
mer vacation  working  as  a  butcher 
in  the  daytime  and  a  hospital  or- 
derly evenings.  Both  jobs  involved 
wearing  a  white  smock.  One  eve- 
ning he  was  instructed  to  wheel  a 
patient  into  surgery.  The  patient,  a 
woman,  looked  up  and  let  out  an 
unearthly  scream.  "Good  heav- 
ens!" she  wailed,  "It's  my  butcher!" 

— Mauriae  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


DON'T  BUY  L-P 


LOST  IN  TRANSLATION 

Two  hunters  became  lost  in  the 
woods. 

"I  know  how  to  handle  this,"  said 
the  first  hunter.  "We're  to  fire  three 
shots  into  the  air  for  the  rescue 
party." 

And  he  did. 

Hours  later,  the  hunters  were  still 
lost.  So  the  first  hunter  made  three 
more  shots. 

Again,  hours  later  there  was  no 
sign  of  a  rescue  party. 

As  the  first  hunter  started  to  make 
three  more  shots, the  second  hunter 
stopped  him. 

"You'd  better  shoot  just  two  this 
time,"  the  second  said.  "We're  about 
out  of  arrows." 

— Soy's  Life 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

A  man  and  his  money  soon  part 

Whenever  he  isn't  too  smart. 

When  he  never  says  no 

To  a  sad  tale  of  woe 

His  head  is  as  soft  as  his  heart. 

— Alice  E.  Rockwell 
Provo,  Utah 


DOCTOR  CONCURS 

The  overworked  doctor  had  lis- 
tened long  and  often  to  the  ailments 
of  a  hypochondriac. 

"Have  you  any  aches  or  pains 
this  morning?"  he  asked  her. 

"Yes,  Doctor.  It  hurts  to  breathe. 
In  fact,  the  only  trouble  now  seems 
to  be  with  my  breathing,"  she  ad- 
mitted reluctantly. 

"All  right.  I'll  give  you  something 
that  will  stop  that,"  he  answered. 

— Catering  Industry  Employee 


BUY  UNION  *  SAVE  JOBS 


CAT  TALES 

A  woman  passed  a  crowd  of 
children  standing  in  a  circle  around 
a  cat. 

"What  are  you  doing?"  she  asked. 

One  girl  said,  "We're  having  a 
contest.  Whoever  tells  the  tallest 
story  wins  the  cat." 

The  woman  exclaimed:  "Shame 
on  you.  When  I  was  little  I  never 
told  an  untrue  story." 

Hearing  this,  a  boy  in  the  circle 
shouted:  "Give  her  the  cat." 


BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 


GET  THAT  DOWN 

A  worker  was  called  on  the  carpet 
by  his  supervisor  for  talking  back 
to  his  foreman.  "Is  it  true  you  called 
him  a  liar?" 

"Yes,  I  did." 

"Did  you  call  him  stupid  and  a 
slave  driver?" 

"Yes." 

"And  did  you  call  him  an  opi- 
nionated, bull-headed  egoman- 
iac?" 

"No,  but  would  you  write  that 
down  for  me  so  I  can  remember 
it?" 

— Maurice  Howes 
Local  260 
Berkshire  Co.,  Mass. 


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CARPENTER 


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Battle  Creek,  Mich.— Picture  No.  1 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who   recently  received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


BATTLE  CREEK,  MICH. 

■  Members  of  Local  871  called  a  special 
meeting  to  honor  its  members  who  had  served 
25  years  or  more.  A  light  buffet  was  served  and 
members  were  presented  pins  by  Southwestern 
Michigan  District  Council  Secretary  Donald 
Bammann  and  Business  Representative  Richard 
Fleming. 

Picture  No.  1:  Charles  H.  Aurand  was  given 
a  standing  ovation  as  he  was  presented  with  his 
70-year  membership  pin.  Pictured  here  are 
Charles  Aurand  Jr.,  Aurand,  his  daughter 
Marguerite,  grandson  Dan,  and  son-in-law 
Harlan  Tiefenthal. 

Picture  No.  2:  40-year  members  Elwood 
VanAntwerp,  Lewis  Scarbrough,  Perry  Gray, 
Kenneth  Wilson,  Charles  Buckholz,  Robert 


Williaume,  William^sterman  and  James  Engle 
(seated). 

Picture  No.  3:  Ezel  Johnson  and  Harry  Leins 
were  presented  with  45-year  pins. 

Picture  No.  4:  Members  presented  with  35- 
year  pins  were  Harty  Bechtol,  Wayne 
Blanchard,  Marion  Huber,  Leon  Rich  and  Paul 
Weishar. 

Picture  No.  5:  30-year  members,  front, 
Milan  Sutfin,  Donald  Schoonard,  Clair  Browand 
and  Dwain  Voho.  Back,  Kenneth  Cole,  David 
Ganka,  Robert  Outman,  George  Wayward,  Cecil 
Hollabaugh,  Bernard  Marshall  and  Morgan 
Snodgrass. 

Picture  No.  6:  25-year  members  Wesley 
Sonicksen,  Elmer  Moffett,  Gary  Fuller  and  Billy 
Creech.  Not  pictured  was  Russell  Burt. 


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Battle  Creek,  Mich.— Picture  No.  5 


TULSA,  OKLA. 

Local  943  recently  held  a  special  meeting  to 
honor  its  lifetime  members.  Guest  speaker  for 
the  occasion  was  District  6  Representative  Fred 
Purifoy.  Pictured  here  front,  are  John 
Shoefstall,  69-year  member;  Clarence  Hunt,  50- 
year  member;  L.A.  Schneider,  53-year  member; 
and  Vernon  C.  Johnson,  57-year  member. 

Standing,  from  left,  was  Representative  Fred 
Purifoy,  50-year  member  Jimmy  Mclntire,  51- 
year  Member  Charles  Lander,  51 -year  member 
W.W.  Camp,  and  Business  Representative 
Gerald  E.  Beam. 

Those  unable  to  attend  were  Nels  Berggren, 
R.M.  Johnson,  Oscar  M.  Loflin,  George  W. 
Patterson,  E.J.  Preston,  C.G.  Robinson, 
Charles  Schmoll,  H.F.  Smith,  and  John 
Terrapin. 


Tulsa,  Okia. 


Battle  Creek,  Mich.— Picture  No.  6 


NOVEMBER     1987 


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Napa,  Calif —Picture  No.  2 


Napa,  Calif.— Picture  No.  3 


Napa,  Calif. — Picture  No.  5 


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NAPA,  CALIF. 

Local  2114  held  a  holiday  celebration  and  pin 
ceremony  to  honor  its  longstanding  members 
of  the  charter.  The  honorees  and  guests  were 
treated  to  a  buffet  dinner  followed  by  pin 
presentations.  At  the  conclusion  of  the 
ceremonies  a  live  band  provided  music  for  a 
dance. 

Picture  No.  1:  50-year 
member  Nello  Poll  was 
presented  with  his  lifetime 
membership  status. 

Picture  No.  2:  45-year 
members  included  Herbert 
Phelps,  Albert  Kristensen, 
Ted  Jalo,  Lewis  Limpic  and 
■  '  William  Jessiman. 

;    \  ,       Picture  No.  3:  Receiving 

^    40-year  pins  were,  seated, 
Sherman  Perry,  Dan  Campbell  and  Thomas 
Teaford. 

Standing,  Sterling  Slack,  Robert  Gaut, 
Harvey  Rose  and  Bud  Julian. 

Picture  No.  4:  30-year  pins  were  awarded  to, 
seated,  Russell  Ford,  Theodore  Mock,  Charles 


ri. 


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Portsmouth,  N.H. — Picture  No.  1 


Portsmouth,  N.H.— Picture  No.  2 
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Harrison,  Loren  Stratton  and  Theodore  Walters. 

Standing  are,  Gilbert  Pighini,  Robert  Mueller, 
Robert  Anderson,  Harry  Gardner,  Edward 
Hartley,  Shirley  Wattenburger,  International 
Representative  Babe  Garcia  and  Business 
Representative  John  Bullock. 

Picture  No.  5:  30-year  pins  were  received 
by,  front,  Harlan  Hopp,  International 
Representative  Babe  Garcia  and  Edward  Kuhn. 

Standing,  George  Grimm,  Guy  Alexander, 
Enn  Soomet,  Russell  Lowther  and  Wayne 
Armstrong. 

Picture  No.  6:  Willard  DeArmond,  Charles 
White,  Albert  Retzlaff  and  Robert  Weeks 
received  20-year  pins. 

Picture  No.  7:  The  Ladies  Auxiliary  of  Local 
2114  was  chartered  May  9, 1949.  Shown  here 
are,  seated,  Elsie  Wattenberger,  Ella  Poll,  Mary 
Teaford  and  Mildred  Schnackenberg. 

Standing  are.  International  Representative, 
Babe  Garcia,  Clara  Kuhn,  Marge  Anderson, 
Business  Representative  John  Bullock,  Lillian 
Whitfield,  Eleanore  Phelps,  Meta  Stratton  and 
Executive  Secretary  John  Casey. 


PORTSMOUTH,  N.H. 

Members  of  Local  921  recently  gathered  at 
the  Yokens  Restuarant  for  their  awards 
banquet.  Members  of  longstanding  service  to 
the  Brotherhood  were  presented  with  pins. 

Picture  No.  1:  Charles  Oulton,  50-year 
member  was  presented  with  a  Brotherhood 
watch  for  his  service.  Shown  with  him  are  Vice 
President  Mike  Brown,  Mrs.  Oulton,  Trustee 
George  Cochrane,  Oulton,  Financial  Secretary 
Ray  Trueman,  Business  Representative  Dave 
Copp  and  President  Don  Richer. 

Picture  No.  2:  Everett  Street  and  Harry 
Hartford  were  presented  with  45-year  pins. 

Picture  No.  3:  40-year  pins  were  presented 
to  Norman  Towie,  Charles  Remick,  Joe 
Boucher,  Bill  Bennett,  Norman  Hartford, 
Roswell  Gaunya,  Jim  Giambalvo,  George 
DuRepo  and  John  Schoch  Sr. 

CARPENTER 


Escanaba,  Mich. — Picture  No.  1 


ESCANABA,  MICH. 

Local  1832  recently  held  a  special  pin  party 
to  honor  its  members  with  25  years  or  more  of 
service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1:  Arthur  Olsen,  Steve  Rodman 
and  Ernest  LaCrosse  were  honored  for  their  45 
years  of  service. 

Picture  No.  2:  40-year  members  Included 
Jacob  Landls,  IVIarlin  KIdd,  Carlton  Olson,  C. 
Melvin  Carlson  and  IVIike  Russell. 

Picture  No.  3:  Shown  here  are  35-year 
members,  front,  Pete  Nelli,  Wilbur  Slye,  Leo 
Moreau,  Art  Weberg  and  Elmer  Brazeau.  Back 
row,  Oscar  Larson,  Walter  Deno,  James 
Davidson  and  Emil  Erickson. 


Escanaba,  IVIich. — Picture  No.  2 


Escanaba,  IVIicfi. — Picture  No.  3 


NEW  YORK,  N.Y. 

iVIembers  of  the  52  Club,  the  retirees  club  of  Dockbullders  Local  Union  1456,  New  York  City  District  Council,  who  were  recently  awarded  their  50-year, 
45-year  and  30-year  membership  pins. 


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Back  row  are  Dave  Phillips,  Frank  Allen, 
IVIoulton  Jones,  Ed  Welch,  Steve  Lambathas 
and  Red  Hodge. 

Picture  No.  4:  35-year  members  receiving 
pins  include  True  Glidden,  Custer  Chase, 
George  Pond,  Roland  Dumont,  Maynard 
Corson,  Ernest  Boulanger,  Arthur  Audet,  Rene 
LeBlanc  and  Jim  Hurley. 

Picture  No.  5:  Members  receiving  3G-year 
pins  are  Bill  Ruger,  Joe  Sabol,  Leo  Robitalllc, 
John  Doggett,  Raoul  Dubois,  George  Tskarris, 
John  IVIurray,  George  Rouillard,  Ed  Bourque, 
Leo  Bernier,  Ernest  Stevens  and  LeRoy  LIbby. 

Picture  No.  6:  Dick  Boulanger  was  presented 
with  his  25-year  pin. 

Picture  No.  7:  George  Cochrane,  Ray 
Grondin,  Bob  Blake,  Wayne  Harris,  Joe  IVIoffett 
and  Bob  Trembley  were  all  presented  with  20- 
year  pins. 


Portsmouth,  N.H.— Picture  No.  4 


Portsmouth,  N.H.— Picture  No.  5 


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31 


Elmhurst,  III— Picture  No.  2 


Elmhurst,  III.— Picture  No.  3 


Elmhurst 


-Picture  No  4 


Elmhurst, 


-Picture  No 


ELMHURST,  ILL. 

Local  558  recently 
presented  pins  to  members 
of  longstanding  service  to  the 
Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1:  Elmer 
■  Benhart,  55-year-member. 
Picture  No.  2:  50-year 
members  Stanley  E.  Holmes 
and  Edward  C.  Plagge. 
Picture  No.  3:  45-year  members  Herman 
Wieg,  Arnold  0.  Guse  and  Calvin  Conningham. 
Back  row,  Wilber  DeJong  and  John  N.  Wilson. 


Benhart 


Picture  No.  4:  Seated  are  40-year  members 
EIRoy  E.  Swenson,  James  W.  Clegg,  John  F. 
Denk  and  Sture  Johnson. 

Standing,  Vernon  A.  Flichler,  Raymond  L. 
Myers,  Jack  I.  Espeland,  Walter  C.  Gray  and 
Clifford  G.  Benhart. 

Picture  No.  5:  35-year  members  included 
(seated)  Arthur  R.  Anderson,  Edward  R. 
Cixzczon,  Howard  C.  Smith  and  George 
Kaseeske  Jr. 

Standing,  William  H.  Heyden,  Chartes 
Scharnwaber,  LeRoy  A.  Levan  and  Elmer  F. 
Hahne. 

Picture  No.  6:  Seated,  Martin  J.  Bougut, 


Picture  No.  7 


William  Overstreet,  L.A.  Overstreet  and  EIRoy 
A.  Steben. 

Standing,  Walter  Overstreet,  Dwayne  K. 
Zarbark,  William  Wellhausen  and  Richard 
Markward.  These  members  are  also  presented 
with  35-year  pins. 

Picture  No.  7:  Sitting  are  35-year  members 
Richard  P.  Baumbach,  Anthony  Mankunas, 
Cecil  E.  Wooley  Jr.  and  George  Kaczmarek. 

Back  row,  Jurgen  N.  Voss,  Harold  W. 
Thorsell,  Thomas  J.  Stoesser  and  Charles  A. 
McGowan. 

Picture  No.  8:  30-year  members  sitting,  Ray 
Larson,  Eugene  Peeson,  Henry  J.  Both,  Jack 

Continued  on  Opposite  Page 


Trenton,  N.J.— Picture  No.  1 


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Trenton,  N.J.— -Picture  No.  4 


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TRENTON,  N.J. 

Local  31  recently  celebrated  its  105th 
anniversary  of  charter.  The  event  also  served  as 
an  awards  ceremony  for  presentations  for 
longstanding  service  in  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1:  New  Jersey  State  Carpenters 
Secretary  William  Devins,  2nd  District  General 
Executive  Board  Member  George  Walish, 
Business  Representative  Thomas  Canto,  70-year 
member  Arthur  W.  Hamer,  1st  General  Vice 
President  Sigurd  Lucassen  and  President  James 
Capizzi. 

Picture  No.  2:  John  S.  Hodson  was 
presented  with  his  60-year  membership  pin. 

Picture  No.  3:  Pictured  here  are  members 
receiving  40-year  pins.  They  include  (seated) 
King  David  Brown,  Andrew  Keish,  New  Jersey 
State  Carpenters  Secretary  William  Devins, 
James  Lokofsky,  Business  Representative 
Thomas  Canto,  2nd  District  General  Executive 
Board  Member  George  Walish,  John  Gorski, 
James  Savadge,  Spartaco  Lucidi,  Anthony 
Fantauzzo,  James  E.  Olsen,  Henry  Guarnieri, 
1st  General  Vice  President  Sigurd  Lucassen  and 
Herbert  L.  Tettemer. 

Picture  No.  4:  25-year  members  receiving 
pins  were  Gerado  Altieri,  Thomas  Gray, 
Leonard  G.  Risasoli,  Clement  A.  Toporek, 
Carmen  DiBartolo,  Saul  Rod,  David  H.  Widman, 
William  J.  Spedding,  1st  General  Vice  President 
Sigurd  Lucassen  and  Joseph  T.  Labiak. 

CARPENTER 


Elmhursf,  III.— Picture  No.  8 


Elmhurst, 


-Picture  No.  9 


Jobin,  Business  Manager  Stan  Macenas  and 
John  J.  Mikottis. 

Standing,  William  F.  Miller,  Thomas  M. 
Geary,  Ernest  A.  Petersen,  Paul  Price,  Dicl<  R. 
Kuehl,  Walter  S.  Kozak,  Gustav  Dressier  and 
Arnold  W.  Steben. 

Picture  No.  9:  Members  presented  with  25- 
year  pins  are  front,  Robert  Kosatka,  Rober  D. 
Bernardin,  Shelby  L.  Key,  Hubert  Knops,  David 
R.  Gauger,  John  Heffernan,  Lee  Cowan  and 
Irvin  C.  Gackowski. 

Middle  row.  Earl  J.  Zahmer,  Glen  Ringersen, 
Charles  M.  Steiger,  Leon  J.  McClelland,  Leslie 
H.  Hovde,  Paul  E.  Willuhn,  John  R.  Overstreet 
and  Daniel  E.  Ruschke. 

Back  row,  John  M.  Tenerelll  and  Business 
■  Manager  Stanley  Macenas. 

Picture  No.  10:  Sitting,  Midvra  Chester, 
Edward  P.  Tegtmeier,  Otis  W.  Kaiser,  Walter  J. 
Krenzel,  Frank  Kovak,  James  R.  Reese  and  Fred 
M.  Rogers  Jr. 

Standing,  Herman  Stoeckicht,  Edward  J. 
Maggio,  Eugene  Wiesneth,  Louis  L.  Wojnowiak, 
Rudolph  A.  Schmidt,  John  A.  Reardon,  James 
S.  Rylands  and  Edwin  P.  Paster,  all  30-year 
members. 


MILWAUKEE,  WIS. 

Local  1741  held  a  dance  in  honor  of  its 
members  with  longstanding  service  to  the 
Brotherhood.  This  was  the  last  dance  to  be  held 
by  the  original  Local  1741,  as  it  has  recently 
been  consolidated  with  Local  264,  also  of 
Milwaukee. 

Picture  No.  1:  50-year  members  to  receive 
pins  were,  front,  Arthur  Struck,  Michael  Rauen, 
Carl  Zahn,  Louis  Koss,  Dewey  Nicklas  and 
Edward  Wild. 

Back  row:  Arthur  Bilder,  Ray  Schemenauer, 
Herbert  Caspary,  Edward  Wiener,  Anthony 
Berget,  Ralph  Bowes,  Edward  Smaglick  and 
Mansworth  Smaglick. 

50-year  members  not  present  but  receiving 
pins  were  Eric  Schneider,  Alfred  Eichstaedt, 
Robert  Krueger,  Carl  Blend,  Herman  Glienke, 
Raymond  Feld,  George  Dornbach,  Paul  Klatt, 
Ray  Wolter,  Paul  Kinzel,  George  Blank,  Carl 
Weissberg,  Gerhard  Klug,  Carl  Decker,  John 
Wagner,  Harry  Klug,  Walter  Eckl,  Edward 
Machacek  and  Everett  Anschutz. 

Picture  No.  2:  Members  receiving  their  35- 
year  pin  were,  front,  Ignes  Chady,  Russell 
Streng,  John  Grassinger,  Jerome  Litzau  and 
James  Campbell. 

Back  row,  Raymond  Buchhoiz,  Alvin 
Mutchelknaus,  Harvey  Ruprecht,  Alvin  Callies 
and  Guido  D'Alessio. 

Picture  No.  3:  25-year  members  included 
Alvin  St.  Onge,  Roger  Emery,  Alois  Krenn, 
Donald  Oehldrich  and  Harold  Schmid. 


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Milw^aukee,  Wis. — Picture  No.  1 


Milwaukee,  Wis. — Picture  No.  2 


Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Picture  No.  3 


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Tacoma,  Wash. — Picture  No.  8 

TACOMA,  WASH. 

Local  470  held  a  special  pin  presentation 
party  to  iionor  its  members  with  25  to  50  years 
ot  service  to  the  Brotherhood.  They  were 
honored  with  a  social  hour,  pin  presentation, 
honor  awards,  dinner  and  dance.  They  honored 
125  members;  about  220  people  were  in 
attendance  at  the  party. 

Picture  No.  1:  50-year  members  honored 
were,  seated,  Albert  L.  Anderson,  Austin 
iVIeade,  Galen  F.  Neher  and  George  C.  Panther. 

Standing:  Lester  Smith,  LeRoy  J.  Fithen, 
Eugene  Peterson  and  Warner  Richards. 

Those  not  present  include  Olaf  Brukett, 
Harold  Sand,  Peter  Velsvic  and  LeRoy  Wright. 

Picture  No.  2:  Members  honored  for  45- 
years  of  service  included,  seated,  Paul  E. 
Holloway,  D.  C.  Clements,  William  Bayer  and  I. 
A.  Hultberg. 

Standing  are  Edward  Howard,  Donald  J. 
Clark,  A.  0.  Benoit  and  Clarence  Calkings. 

Picture  No.  3:  Other  45-year  members 
included,  seated,  George  Rolstad,  Oscar  W. 
Ottoson,  Archie  LaForge  and  Edwin  Woods. 

Standing  are  Arlie  Stebbins,  Alvin  Winters, 
Gerald  Van  Beek,  Wilford  J.  Moran  and  Henry 
J.  Pannek. 

45-year  members  honored  but  not  present 
were  Richard  C.  Anderson,  Arlo  Buchanan, 
Kenneth  Forbush,  Oliver  Games,  Garfield 
Geringer,  Iver  Haugen,  Alvin  J.  Hawn,  Billy 
Henn,  Everrett  Hill,  James  L.  Hoag,  Carl 
Hostetter,  Valerian  Hughes,  Anthony  Hulscher, 
Marvin  Kenney  (deceased),  Oscar  Kulseth, 
Robert  B.  Martin,  Fred  A.  May,  James  Morris, 
Elmer  Morud,  Arnold  J.  Nelson,  Ray  Nestegard, 
Ronald  K.  Predmore,  Dave  S.  Smith,  John 
Strauman,  S.S.  Svendsen,  Robert  Tjorstad  and 
L.J,  Wilson. 

Picture  No.  4:  Seated  are  40-year  members 
who  were  honored:  Robert  S.  Brewer,  Authur 
E.  Erickson,  Joseph  W.  Anderson  and  Andrew 
Balstad. 

Standing,  Sam  Lerew,  Melvin  Ereth  and 
William  G.  Hogman. 

Picture  No.  5:  Other  members  receiving  40- 
year  pins  were,  seated,  Harry  A.  Lindbo, 
Rudolph  M.  Ruston,  Donald  J.  Rayley  and 
Harold  Krause. 

Standing,  Walter  A.  Yuckerl  and  Milton  H. 
Patterson. 

Honored  with  40-year  pins  but  not  present 
were  Arnold  L.  Anderson,  Roy  M.  Anderson, 
Carl  L.  Berg,  Ward  L.  Chapman,  Carl  Ellerton, 
Verne  W.  Fogle,  Trovald  Handland,  William 
Hulscher,  Raymond  M.  Johnson,  Clyde  A. 
King,  W.A.  Kinkella,  Theodore  Kollar,  Philip  A. 

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Martin,  Ira  B.  McCarthy,  Charles  E.  Morgan, 
Werner  J.  Oquist,  M.C.  Rowe,  Stanley  J. 
Rowe,  George  Sandback,  Donald  Slonaker, 
Oscar  M.  Stokke,. James  D.  Towne,  Floyd  B. 
Wines  and  Botho  Wolfe. 

Picture  No.  6:  Arvid  K.  Berg,  Marcus  L. 
Pyatt  and  Alexander  Mitchell  were  presented 
with  35-year  pins.  Those  honored  but  not 
present  were  Robert  L.  Almont,  Vincent  P. 
Borcich,  Homer  L.  Capps,  Lyie  E.  Coker, 
Robert  L.  Dugwyler,  Emmett  E.  Gallagher, 
Raymond  L.  Hanson,  TonyT.  Lovrovich,  Frank 
E.  Nevala,  Francis  Pemberton,  Darroll  0. 
Thomas,  Edward  Vandenheuvel,  Harlan  E. 
Welch  and  Clarence  T.  White. 

Picture  No.  7:  30-year  pins  were  awarded  to 
August  J.  Smith,  Dean  Estep  and  James  B. 
Gimse.  Honored  but  not  present  to  receive  30- 
year  pins  were  J.  William  Baumgartner,  W.C. 
Burrington,  Robert  C.  Campbell,  George  M. 
Dobb,  Roy  R.  Egan,  E.  H.  Funkhouser,  James 
M.  Itami,  Howard  M.  Mansfield,  Clarence  M. 
Roberts  and  Ed  Watterson. 

Picture  No.  8:  Those  honored  with  25-year 
pins  were,  seated,  Eugene  V.  Smith,  William  H. 
Shreve,  Marlon  R.  Rawlins,  Thomas  E.  Arfman 
and  Eugene  D.  Swanson. 

Standing  are  Roscoe  H.  Gilliland,  Raymond 
P.  Ellingsen,  Stan  D.  Birkedahl,  Richard  T. 
Barwell,  Marn  Holden,  Michael  R.  Shirk  and 
Kermit  L.  Olson. 

Those  honored  with  25-year  pins  but  not 
present  were,  Knute  E.  Aune,  D.J.  Connelly  II, 
H.T.  Courson,  Robert  G.  Griffin,  Ronald  W. 
Hagen,  Leo  L.  Heger,  Arnold  D.  Honek,  George 
Kerilla,  John  E.  Levang,  Pete  V.  Lovrovich, 
Leonard  W.  Meeks,  Robert  Reed  and  Robert  K. 
Webster. 

Picture  No.  9:  Vernon  P.  Nilsen,  a  37-year- 
member  received  a  special  award  for  his  service 
as  financial  secretary,  1955-1959, 
representation  of  the  Federal  Bureau  of 
Apprenticeship  Training,  1959-1981,  and 
regional  administrator  of  Employment 
Standards,  1971-1976. 


Tacoma,  Wash.— Picture  No.  2 


Tacoma,  Wash. — Picture  No.  3 


Tacoma,  Wash.— Picture  No.  4 


Tacoma,  Wash.— Picture  No.  5 


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CARPENTER 


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SPRINGFIELD,  MASS. 

Local  108  recently  celebrated  its  100th 
anniversary  with  a  pin  presentation. 

Picture  No.  1:  Receiving  45-year  pins  w/ere, 
Front  row/Ralph  Maurice,  Financial  Secretary 
Carl  L.  Bathelt,  Joseph  J.  CapronI,  Lawrence 
Stebbins,  Felix  Daignault,  Business  Agent 
Donald  C.  Shea  and  Michael  Creanza. 

Back  row,  Charles  A.  Reed,  Nello  Spadoni, 
Lester  Wilk  and  William  Hervieux. 

Picture  No.  2:  40-year  pins  were  awarded  to, 
front,  Henry  Coache,  Archille  Provencal,  Edgar 
L.  Provencal,  Joseph  E.  Metras  and  Philip 
Ouellette. 

Second  row,  Roy  Johnson,  Robert  Collins, 
Ernest  L.  Demers,  Fred  E.  GIguere,  Gordon 
Eklund,-  Joseph  Mougin  and  Raymond  Lewis. 

Back  row,  Leroy  Miller,  Assistant  Business 
Agent  and  Financial  Secretary  Carl  L.  Bathelt, 
Business  Agent  Donald  C.  Shea,  Mario  Nubile, 
Richard  P.  Patridge  and  Kenneth  Goulding. 

Picture  No.  3:  35-year  members  include, 
front,  Eugene  D.  Roux,  Paul  E.  Pellerin,  Gaston 
A.  Gigard  and  Claude  Ouellette. 

Second  row:  Carl  L.  Bethelt,  Financial 
Secretary,  Marcel  Bolduc,  Xavier  L.  LaPolice, 
Charles  Goncalves,  Harry  Bishop  and  Andrew  J. 
Lach. 

Back  row:  Ernest  0.  Giguere,  Paul  Home  and 
Donald  C.  Shea,  business  agent. 

Picture  No.  4:  members  receiving  30-year 
pins  were,  front,  Eugene  H.  Vadnais,  Roger  E. 
Giguere,  Joseph  R.  Reauvais,  Edward  S. 
Cieslak,  John  Vadnais,  Kenneth  Marotte  and 
Michael  Murphy. 

Second  row:  Roger  Labonte,  Alfred  Grondin, 
Richard  C.  Nelson,  Richard  Roberts,  Wilfred 
Goneau,  Harry  E.  Pray,  Wesley  Briand,  Maurice 
Bellemare,  Francis  Riddel  and  Robert  E. 
Lesiege. 

Back  row:  Richard  Corriveau,  Mitchell  Kuc, 
Edward  L.  Bruso,  Pasquale  F.  Pio,  George 
Plouffe,  Donald  A.  Gagne,  Robert  E.  Payuer, 
Francis  W.  Payuer,  Robert  Pasquale,  David  L. 
Gour  and  David  Miller. 

Picture  No.  5:  25-year  pins  were  awarded  to, 
front,  Robert  F.  Chagnon,  Norman  Dube, 
Lucien  Champane  and  Wilfred  J.  Brunelle. 

Second  row;  Donald  C.  Shea,  business 
agent,  Norman  J.  Deshaies,  Ernest  A.  Reznik, 
Leo  Poulin,  Leo  Samson,  Bernard  Mizula  and 
Maureice  Bellemare. 

Back  row:  Joseph  N.  Lecours,  Robert  D. 
Willcutt,  George  Pusciano,  Joseph  F.  Frisino, 
Joseph  Jablownski,  Noiel  R.  Brill,  Andrew  M. 
Flanagan,  James  A.  Wood. 


HOUSTON, TEXAS 

Local  551  recently  honored  Roy  Warman  as 
a  lifetime  member.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Brotherhood  for  77  years  before  his  death  this 
past  June.  Originally 
he  was  a  member  of 
Local  213,  joining 
that  organization  in 
March  1937.  We  join 
with  the  brothers  of 
Local  551  and  his 
family  in  honoring 
Brother  Warman. 


Springfield,  Mass. — Picture  No.  1 


Springfield,  Mass. — Picture  No.  2 


Springfield,  Mass. — Picture  No.  4 


WARMAN 


Springfield,  Mass.— Picture  No.  5 


NOVEMBER     1987 


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The  following  list  of  1 ,058  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1 ,935,240.1 1  death  claims  paid  in  August  1987;  (s)  following 
name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  member. 


Local  Union,  City 

2  Cincinnati,  OH— Ted  V.  Henson. 

3  Wheeling,  WV— Charles  Robert  Och,  Robert  N. 
McCammon. 

5    St.  Louis,  MO— Olto  F.  Dailman. 

7  Minneapolis,  MN — Glen  M.  Hardacker,  Gregory 
Hodapp.  Herbert  G.  Rundgren.  William  Hareid. 

8  Philadelphia,  PA— Gerald  F.  Carr  St..  Hugh  H. 
Gibson,  Jr.,  Lucy  Delgrippo  (s).  Patrick  M.  Vicars, 
Russell  E.  Gring. 

9  Buffalo,  NY~Frank  L.  Hubert,  John  Freda. 

10    Chicago,  IL — Christopher  J.  Caldarulo.  Edward  D. 

O'Conor. 
U     Cleveland,  OH — Anthony  Soukup. 

12  Syracuse,  NY — John  Cosens,  Matthew  Milazzo, 
Stanley  Gapski. 

13  Chicago,  IL — John  J.  McTernan,  John  R.  Fitzmaur- 
ice,  Patrick  Concannon. 

14  San  Antonio,  TX— John  B.  Perkins,  Viola  Cokcr  (s). 

16  Springfield,  IL — James  Rex  Cole. 

17  Bronx,  NY — Alex  Daversa,  Louis  Dangelo,  Peter 
Petersen. 

18  Hamilton,  Ont.,  CAN— Alojzija  Vucina  (s).  David 
Hussey,  Zeno  Laurenti. 

20  New  York,  NY— Alfred  Olsen,  Alice  Jensen  (s), 
Harold  Morris. 

22  San  Francisco,  CA — Alexander  Richard  Martin,  Ar- 
thur George  Heglin,  Mary  Randolph  Kegg  (s),  Piero 
Boscacci,  William  E.  Peterson. 

23  Williamsport,  PA — James  R.  Moore,  Valaria  P. 
Checchi  (s),  Victor  M.  Eberly. 

24  Central,  CT— James  R.  Wark  Sr.,  Margaret  Stauffer 
(s). 

25  Los  Angeles,  CA — John  Kabat,  Per  G.  Bergman. 
Raymond  Perez  Gonzales. 

27  Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN— Eric  Filppula,  Walter  Turn- 
bull. 

33  Boston,  MA— Dollard  A.  Raymond,  Mario  G.  Pi- 
cardo,  Robert  C.  Lagarde. 

34  Oakland,  CA— Lonzo  R.  Ritchie 

35  San  Rafael,  CA— Mary  W.  Tatum  (s),  Reuben  Wm. 
Kaehler. 

36  Oakland,  CA — Henry  Barr,  Herman  W.  Schwarz, 
John  Bliss  Ridout,  Louise  Buyard  (s),  Thomas  J. 
Richards,  Jr. 

40    Boston,  MA— Sarah  Sadie  Elizabeth  Day  (s). 

42  San  Francisco,  CA — Henry  J.  Mello,  Jesse  W.  Fox, 
Willis  Blumberg. 

43  Hartford,  CT— George  H.  Finney,  James  R.  Whip- 
ple, Jr.,  John  A.  Taylor,  Jr. 

44  Champaign  &  Urbana,  iL— Marion  L.  Flora,  Robert 
L.  Jenkins. 

47  St.  Louis,  MO — Anthony  Bommarito,  F.  Robert 
Wolz.  Floyd  N.  Worley,  George  Edward  Redmond, 
Herman  S.  Suchland,  Melvin  Beger,  Thomas  Henry 
Begley. 

49  Lowell,  MA — Rita  Manchenton  (s). 

50  Knoxville,  TN— Lee  Roy  Baker. 

51  Boston,  MA — Cornelius  O'Callaghan,  Hans  Johann 
Schuth. 

53  White  Plains,  NY— Jean  Prisciantelli  (s). 

54  Chicago,  IL-— Anthony  W.  Arnold,  Arthur  Jude, 
Fred  B.  Wulff,  John  M.  Pfalzer,  Margit  Oliva  Heni 
(s),  Stefan  Gerbatsch. 

55  Denver,  CO— Alva  Adams  Dow,  Daniel  Metzger, 
Edwin  L.  Coulter,  George  Wagner. 

58  Chicago,  IL — Elmer  G.  Larson,  Fred  Stone,  Gordon 
E.  Lakso,  Helen  Adolphson  (s),  James  K.  Maeda, 
Johan  Algol  Johnson,  John  Anderson. 

60  Indianapolis,  IN — Frank  A.  Bauman. 

61  Kansas  City,  MO— Albert  C.  Flowers,  Clayton  S. 
Elliott,  Donald  K.  Bachelor,  Everett  L.  Parker, 
Flavel  M.  Guier,  Herman  A.  Blunk,  John  C.  Hoy, 
John  Gene  Mantello,  Leo  H.  Bridges,  Leora  Fern 
Wyer  (s),  Roy  P.  Edmonds. 

62  Chicago,  Il^-Clyde  Atkins. 

64  Louisville,  KY— James  R.  Keltner,  William  Wood- 
row  Loy. 

65  Perth  Amboy,  NJ — David  Kertes. 

66  Olean,  NY— Robert  L.  Shelley. 

67  Boston,  MA — Eliss  C.  Johnson,  Francis  A.  Donnel- 
lan,  Jr.,  Thomas  V.  Burke. 

69    Canton,  OH — Raymond  Limbacher. 
71    Fort  Smith,  AR— Charles  F.  Hambrick. 

73  St.  Louis,  MO — Audrey  Mooney  {s),  Marvin  T. 
Mooney. 

74  Chattanooga,  TN— Robert  M.  McBryar.  Ruby  Be- 
atrice Helton  (s),  William  R.  Thompson,  Sr. 

76  Hazelton,  PA — Annie  Peiffer  (s),  Timothy  Stanca- 
vage. 

80  Chicago,  II^AIberl  W.  May.  Arthur  F.  Lord.  Doug- 
las Frazer,  George  H.  Adderson,  Ludwig  Hartl. 

83  Halifax,  NS,  CAN— Charles  Nicholson,  Lillian  May 
Rafuse  (s). 

85  Rochester,  NY — Douglas  F.  Shipman,  Edward  J. 
Stira,  Melvin  H.  Wood,  William  J.  Murray. 

87  St,  Paul,  MN — Bernard  Fleischhacker,  Edward  Col- 
burn,  Harriet  E.  Kressin  (s),  Joseph  O'Connell,  Levi 
Enos,  Lois  J.  Bond  (s).  Martin  L.  Peterson,  Robert 
1.  Ryti.  Shirley  Swanner  (s). 

89  Mobile,  AL — Lee  R.  Countryman. 

90  EvansYille,  IN— Alta  V.  Stunkel. 

93  Ottawa,  ONT,  CAN— Evelyn  Annie  Petrukowich 
(s),  Henr>'  Charlebois,  Humberto  Morgado,  Roland 
Picard. 

94  Providence,  RI — Arthur  Berube,  Charles  Stedman, 


Local  Union,  City 

Emma  Fandetti  (s).  Ernest  Hopkins,  Esteile  Hope 
Kindberg  (s),  John  Leo  Haniey.  Joseph  Bilodeau. 
98    Spokane,  WA— Pauline  E.  Baker  (s). 

101  Baltimore,  MD— Clarence  W.  Johnson,  Henry  J. 
Kaufman,  Jr.,  John  Wysocki,  William  L.  Miller, 
Winston  Phelps. 

102  Oakland,  CA — Louin  Kenneth  Chapman. 

104  Dayton,  OH— Herman  P.  Spratt.  Verena  A.  McGriff 
(s). 

105  Cleveland,  OH— Joseph  Hoegler. 

106  Des  Moines,  lA — Arnold  J.  Erickson. 

108  Springfield,  MA — Neno  A.  Mazzoni,  William  V. 
Rumplik. 

109  Sheffield,  AL— Samuel  S.  Medley. 

112  Butte,  MT— Arthur  L.  Atcheson,  Harry  R.  Evans, 
John  A.  Perusich,  Mitchell  V.  Rosa. 

114  East  Detroit,  MI — Constantino  Dalessandro.  Pauline 
J.  Pogasic  (s),  William  S.  Groombridge. 

115  Miami,  Fl^— Grady  Rhea  Fletcher. 

118    Detroit,  MI— Edna  Mae  Ponsock  (s),  Elba  Hicks. 

Llewellyn   Russell.   Virgil   Shoults,   William   Dean 

Powell.  William  R.  Splan. 
120    Utica,  NY— Antoinette  Busch  (s),  Dominic  C.  Vi- 

anese. 

122  Philadelphia,  PA— Joseph  Nowicki,  William  C.  Lu- 
ther. 

123  Broward-County,  FL — James  Paul  Bales.  Johanna 
D.  Maloney  (s). 

124  Passaic,  NJ — James  Avolio. 

125  Miami,  FL — Anthony  Lee  Kwak.  Earl  M.  Hartson, 
George  Matus,  Isidore  Weizenthal.  John  O.  Walters, 
Ray  N.  Hicks,  Roy  O.  Tucker,  Walter  S.  Banasiak, 
Walter  W.  Wall,  Warren  A.  Fardig. 

127  Birmingham,  Al^Charles  C.  Beck.  Ella  Derotha 
Pate  (s),  Emery  H.  Wiggins.  James  T.  Reed,  Jr.. 
Joseph  C.  Fulgham,  Theodore  McKinley  Campbell. 
William  J.  Robinson,  Jr. 

128  St.  Albans,  WV— Charles  Kenneth  Goddard. 

130  Palm  Beach,  FL— Harry  J.  Mitchell.  Leonard  La- 
londe,  Timothy  Arthur  Treptow. 

131  Seattle,  WA— Daniel  J.  Edwards,  Dudley  A.  Paylor, 
Evelyn  Markus  Rostad  (s),  Florence  D.  Plueard  (s), 
Helen  Woolley  (s). 

132  Washington,  DC — Arthur  Baust,  Norman  Russell 
Newby,  Willie  Marie  Stanley  (s). 

135     New  York,  NY— Mary  Muslin  (s). 

140  Tampa,  FL — George  H.  Boucher,  Jr.,  Raymond 
Chesley  Brooks. 

141  Chicago,  IL^Earl  Darre,  Nils  A.  Larson,  Oliver  B. 
Penn. 

142  Pittsburgh,  PA — Clarence  L.  Emeigh.  Edward  J. 
Ladesic,  Richard  A.  Graziani. 

144  Macon,  GA — Benjamin  R.  Jarrell,  Jr. 

149  Tarrytown,  NY— Karl  Smailey. 

155  Planfield,  NJ — Anna  Eggen  (s). 

161  Kenosha,  WI— Carl  N.  Frost,  Emil  Hansen. 

162  San  Mateo,  CA — Henry  J.  Bienert. 

163  Peekskill,  NY— Lars  T.  V.  Granfors. 
166  Rock  Island,  IL^Thomas  Bratton. 

168     Kansas  Cityj  KS — Sidney  T.  Breshears. 

174    Joliet,  IL — Jesse  J.  Shepherd,  Orville  F.  Jordan. 

180  Valle  Jo,  CA— Delora  E.  Crews  (s). 

181  Chicago,  IL — Edward  F.  Kaczynski,  Fredrik  W. 
Wicklund.  Nels  Emil  Nelson. 

182  Cleveland,  OH— Bror  Swan,  Botfrid  Swanson. 

183  Peoria,  IL — Howard  G.  Rodgers,  Jose  Nunez,  Wal- 
ter E.  Bledsoe. 

184  Salt  Lake  City,  IJT— Dalton  N.  Woods,  Ezra  W. 
Hayes,  Oilman  Fikstad. 

190    Klamath  Falls,  OR— Warren  Morehead,  Sr. 

195    Peru,  IL^Francis  C.  Heath. 

200    Columbus,  OH— Donald  W.  Carder,  Forrest  J.  Cox, 

Harry  A.  Lovett,  Kenneth  E.  Moss,  Jr.,  Mack  M. 

Mason,  William  Porter  Smith. 
203    Poughkeepsie,  NY— Charles  H.  Vail. 

210  Stamford,  CN— John  J.  Fade,  Jr. 

211  Pittsburgh,  PA— Martin  D.  Mullen. 

215    Lafayette,  IN— Elmer  C.  Benner,  Walter  E.  Britton. 

218     Boston,  MA— Hugh  R.  Snow. 

220    Wallace,  ID— James  Frank  Day. 

223    Nashville,  TN — ^Jack  Givens,  Roy  Leman  Umfress. 

225     Atlanta,  GA— George  M.  McDaniel,  Michael  Duane 

Shook,  Sylvester  Johnson. 
230    Pittsburgh,  PA— Clara  P.  Westland  (s). 
232    Fort  Wayne,  IN— David  T.    Harris,   Lester  Pool, 

Oscar  Meyers. 
235     Riverside,  CA— Golda  Aline  Pitcher  (s). 

246  New  York,  NY— Herbert  Nesbit,  Jacob  Weintraub, 
Morris  Schoenbrum,  Robert  JafTe. 

247  Portland,  OR— Gunieif,  Wold.  Howard  Ratliff.  Ozro, 
G.  Crockett. 

250  Waukegan,  II^AIberl  John  Kalk,  Cleda  Mae  Till- 
man (s),  MaxineL.  Branding (s),  William  R.  Ramsey. 

254  Cleveland,  OH— Kenneth  R.  Stark. 

255  Bloomingburg,  NY — Joseph  Charabasz. 

256  Savannah,  GA— Lacy  M.  Williams,  Robert  H*, 
Strickland. 

257  New  York,  NY — Constatantin  Biber,  Frank  Fore- 
man, Fred  Drolet.  Tengel  Torgeson. 

261  Scranton,  PA — Edward  T.  Warenzak,  John  Harring- 
ton, Mary  Rossi  (s),  Miriam  R.  Behike  (s),  Paul  C. 
Rossi  Sr.,  Ralph  Lancia,  Wesley  B.  Hague. 

264  Milwaukee,  WI — Arthur  Pendleton,  Herman  Hohn- 
dorf,  Walter  Eckl. 

265  Saugerties,  NY — Julius  Lamanec. 


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267    Dresden,  OH — Mary  Jo  Heddleson  (s). 

269     Danville,  IL— Clarence  Kilby.  Fay  L.  Bales. 

281  Binghamton,  NY— Charles  F.  Hoffman,  Earnest  E. 
Slater.  Gerald  J.  Quinn,  Julius  J.  Amadio. 

283    Augusta,  GA — Gerald  R.  Thomas  Sr. 

287  Harrisburg,  PA — Adrian  Versprille,  Arthur  R.  Poor- 
man,  Calvin  R.  Shiffler. 

296  Brooklyn,  NY— Bernardo  Miller.  Max  Cohen,  Milton 
Welch. 

297  Kalamazoo,  MI — Norman  C.  Meisterheim. 

302     Huntington,  WV — Ethel  Louise  Camp  (s),  Travis 

Lee  Little  (s). 
308    Cedar  Rapids,  lA — Leroy  William  Bierman. 
311    Joplin,  MO— David  L.  Smith. 

316  San  Jose,  C  A — Allen  C.  McCoy,  August  A.  Brensike. 
Louis  Zizzo.  Pacomio  Aparicio  Quezada.  Roy  H. 
Hosley.  William  Holayter. 

317  Aberdeen,  WA— Forrest  N.  Potts. 

334  Saginaw,  MI— Albert  B.  Felting. 

335  Grand  Rapids,  MI — Gerald  Arthur  Shull.  Mary  L. 
Grantz  (s). 

338    Seattle,  WA— Elizabeth  Gilbert  (s).  Stan  F.  Struzik. 

342  Pawtucket,  RI — Joffre  Lamarre. 

343  Winnipeg,  MB,  CAN— Alberi  Raymack,  Martin  Ze- 
pik. 

344  Waukesha,  WI — Aloysius  Bratkowski,  John  A. 
Steinhoff,  Marvin  G.  Mankowsky,  Matthew  A.  Zig- 
lin. 

345  Memphis,  TN — Frances  Katherine  David  (s),  Henry 
A.  Kellum.  Ruth  K.  Smith  (s),  Thelma  L.  Bounds 
(s). 

348  New  York,  NY — Andrew  Soderstrom,  Charles  A. 
Farrenkopf.  Henry  Holmberg.  Peter  Mesi.  Rasmus 
Anderson,  Susan  Keough  (s). 

350    New  Rochelle,  NY— Anthony  A.  Spinelli. 

357  Draffenville,  KY— Ernest  W.  McAdoo,  James  A. 
Melton,  James  Fay  Melton. 

359    Philadelphia,  PA— Gerhard  R.  Wuensche. 

370     Albany,  NY— F.  William  Ernst. 

374     Buffalo,  NY—Harold  Matter.  Nicholis  H.  Laguardia. 

377     Alton,  Il^Peter  Kladar. 

393  Camden,  NJ— Charles  J.  Wilhelm,  Ethel  M.  Schramm 
(s),  Joseph  Scully. 

400  Omaha,  NE — Margaret  Helen  Hemmingsen  (s),  Ray- 
mond L.  Loveall. 

402    Northmptn-Greenfd,  MA— William  N.  Sautter. 
.  410    Ft.  Madison  &  Vic,  lA— Bernard  F.  Hetlige,  Bill 
Williams,  Ivan  M.  Dorsey 

413  South  Bend,  IN— Richard  E.  Luer,  Valma  L.  Butt 
(s). 

417    St.  Louis,  MO— Robert  N.  Kilgore. 

424  Hingham,  MA— Enok  Olofson,  Gerald  P.  Welch, 
John  D.  Bonomi. 

429  Arlington,  TX— Beriin  R.  Bergeron,  Floyd  Stanford 
Johnson,  Harold  WInfred  Shipman,  Mildred  Cath- 
erine Parker  (s).  Morris  Elmo  Bardwell,  Thelma 
Coldiron  (s).  Willie  D.  Collard,  Willie  Mac  Turner. 

433    Belleville,H^Mildred  Lindhorst  (s). 

437     Portsmouth,  OH— Rayford  E.  Irwin. 

452  Vancouver,  BC,  CAN— John  Wright,  Robert  Ronald 
Nielsen. 

454     Philadelphia,  PA— John  W.  Landgraf. 

469  Cheyenne,  WY— Nathan  E.  Locke. 

470  Tacoma  WA— Charles  Ledbetter.  Robert  T.  Jorstad . 
Royce  Hoyt. 

472  Ashland,  KY— Clifford  B.  Lauhon. 

480  Freeburg,  IL— Daniel  Pruett. 

483  San  Francisco,  CA — Cecil  J.  Damon. 

493  Mt.  Vernon,  NY— Lillian  H.  Hopper  (s). 

496  Kankakee,  II^AIberl  Hyrup. 

500  Butler,  PA— Charles  R.  Walle. 

502  Port  Arthur,  TX— Elliot  P.  Quick,  Johnny  W.  Gil- 
bert, Leon  E.  Brown.  Wade  Guidry. 

512  Ann  Arbor,  MI — Roy  Thomas  Miller. 

514  Wilkes  Barre,  PA— Joseph  J.  Heck  Sr.,  Raymond 
Burkhardt. 

526  Galveston,  TC — Raymond  Joseph  Bahr. 

527  Nanaimo,  BC,  CAN— Carl  Beaulieu. 

528  Washington,  DC— Clifford  Norris. 

531  New  York,  NY— Milton  E.  McCarthy,  Rocco  Riani. 

532  Elmira  ,  NY— Francis  Rohde. 

535    Norwood,  MA — Lillian  Johnson  (s). 

537  Aiken,  SC— Jerry  L.  Winborne. 

538  Concord,  NH — Edward  Gingras. 

546    Vincennes,  IN — Esteile  I.  Lawson  (s). 

548  Minneapolis,  MN — Stuart  E.  Jennings. 

549  Owensboro,  KY— Glendell  H.  Floyd.  John  L.  Priest, 
Lee  Vera  Denton  (s). 

551     Houston,  TX— Chester  C.  Brown,  Gladys  Bates  (s). 

James  D.  Evans,  John  Quincy  Thompson.  Leslie  E. 

Wynne.  Lucille  W.  Hembree  (s),  Roy  L.  Warman, 

Selma  G.  Watson  (s),  Thomas  Earl  Crews.  Truman 

O.  Porter. 
558    Elmhurst,  IL — Frank  J.  Ganser,  Madrid  Enders  (s), 

Roland  Hartman. 
563    Glendale,  CA— Peter  A.  Segcrbeck. 
579    St.  John,  NF,  CAN— Herbert  Mulley 
586    Sacramento,  CA— Arvel  M.  Thweatt,  Cyril  N.  Lotto. 

Floyd  H.  Frost,  Henry  S.  Ronnfeldt.  Jack  McCord. 

Jess  W.  Grantham,  Jim  S.  Nakagawa,  Leonard  R. 

Larson.  Mabel  E.  Miller  (s),  Richard  L.  Allen. 

599  Hammond,  IN— Homer  Mudd. 

600  Lehigh  Valley,  PA— Clarence  W.  Stibilz.  Donald 
Miller,  Elizabeth  Rockovits  (s),  Verna  1.  Bachman 
(s). 


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Local  Union,  City 


602  St.  Louis,  MO— Georgette  M.  Newberry  (s),  Mark  1027 
S.  McCarthy. 

603  Ithaca,  NY— Elizabeth  Jane  Tamminen  (s).  1031 
608    New  York,  NY— Carlton  Dalgaard,  Louis  Klein,  1033 

Michael  Casey.  1039 

613    Hampton  Roads,  VA— Charlie  H.  Bridges.  Walter  1040 

E.  Miles.  1046 

620    Madison,  NJ — Kurt  Laskowski,  Maurice  Giroud.  1052 
622    Waco,  TX— James  E.  Johnson. 

626    Wilmington,  DE— Ann  R.  Haas  (s).  Henry  A.  Dvo-  1055 

rak,  Joseph  V.  Brunozzi,  Thomas  A.  Muzzieman.  1062 
638    Marion,  IL — Edward  Louis  Fricke. 

642    Richmond,  CA— Jessie  Ebert  Emert.  Walter  Ralph  1065 

Perkins. 

644    Pekin,  Il^Ora  Cody  Hodgson.  1089 

654    Chattanooga,  TN— Oveline  Pratt  (s).  1097 

665    Amarillo,  TX— Delmar  D.  Orr,  Evelyn  Mae  Williams  1098 

(s),  Mason  K.  McCaslin. 
668    Palo  Alto,  CA — David  M.  Napier,  Dien  Lissenberg 

(s),  Gwendolyn  Swift  Bezner  (s),  James  E.  Powers,  1100 

Susan  Jo  Guarino  (s),  Uno  Olavi  Pihiaja.  1102 

675    Toronto,  Ont.,  CAN— Anne  Jacinita  Miles  (s).  1108 

678    Dubuque,  lA— Hans  Gutoehrlein.  1109 

690    Little  Rock,  AR— Albert  M.  Johnson,  Alice  M.  1110 

Imboden  (s),  Cellion  A.  Fox,  Louis  W.J.  Berger.  1120 

693    Lodi,  WI— Ervin  Heitman.  1125 
698    Covington,  KY— Paul  Kidd. 

701    Fresno, C A— Dorothy  L.  Woodward  (s).  1132 

705    Lorain,  OH— Loren  C.  Haskins.  1138 

710    Long  Beach,  CA— Albert  L.  Vangrootheest,  Beryl  1140 

L.  Whitford  (s),  lona  Thurston  Levie  (s),  Joseph  1146 

Lester  Levie,  Joseph  Shay,  Lawrence  Evans,  Mason      ,  1147 

D.  Padelford,  Virginia  Ann  Seymour  (s).  1148 
715    Elizabeth,  NJ— Irene  Vamos  (s).  Stanley  Peal,  Val-  1149 

entine  W.  Bernhardt. 

720  Baton  Rouge,  LA— Donis  Ward  Byrd,  Louis  W.  1164 
Duffy. 

721  Los  Angeles,  CA — Bella  Bomstein(s),  Ernest  Jordan,  1172 
Gladys  Mendivel  (s),  John  B.  Meese,  Sima  Men-  1187 
delsohn  (s).  1192 

731    Manitowac,  WI— Fredrick  Schnorr.  1194 

739    Cincinnati,  OH— Stanley  R.  Wilhelm.  1207 

742  Decatur,  IL — Lois  M.  Berg  (s),  Morgan  Mayall.  1216 

743  Bakersfield,  CA— Earl  Gaines  Hayes.  Emery  Ma-  1222 
homey,  George  U.  Aho,  Luther  E.  Thompson,  1235 
Samuel  Koop. 

745    Honolulu,  HI — Peter  H.  Asari.  Seiki  Arakaki,  Tadao 

Yamauchi,  Tamio  Shiotsugu,  Thomas  Miura,  Yukiye  1240 

Watanabe  (s). 

747    Oswego,  NY— Jane  E.  Conaway  (s),  Robert  T.  King  1243 

Jr.,  Seth  S.  Eason.  1258 

751    Santa  Rosa,  CA— Albert  Hughes,  Aron  Lain.  Leo  1260 

McCormack.  1273 

756    Bellingham,  WA— Irvin  J.  McKinnon.  1280 

764    Shreveport,  LA — Connie  B.  McEachern.  1281 

770  Yakima,  WA— Alfred  Jude,  Georgia  V.  Kastning 

(s),  Leonard  T,  Baublitz,  Walter  W.  Warner.  1292 

771  Watsonville,  CA— Alfred  E.  Beck,  Job  Dykgraaf,  1296 
William  Niemela. 

780     Astoria,  OR— Everett  C.  Groat.  1300 

785     Cambridge,  Ont,  CAN— Murray  Hoelscher.  1302 

790    Dixon,  II^Earl  B.  Johnson,  Florian  E.  Hoesherl,  1303 

Forrest  Flack,  Joseph  W.  Shearer. 

792    Rockford,  Il^-Clarence  Bergvall,  Emergy  John  Roe,  1305 

John  Kuczynski,  Robert  Friske,  W.  Hoyt  Brown.  1307 

801    Woonsocket,  RI- Rene  Telesphore  Plante.  1310 

815    Beverly,  MA— Ruth  Flora  Magee  (s).  1319 
829    Santa  Cruz,  CA— Arthur  H.  Bishop. 

839    Des  Plains,  IL — George  Schweigert,  Kenneth  John  1323 

Smith.  1325 

844    Canoga  Prk,,  CA— Celeste  Miller  (s).  1342 
848    San  Bruno,  CA— Milton  L.  Peterson. 

851    Anoka,  MN— Ernest  M.  Barthel,  Harry  H.  Erickson.  1347 

857    Tucson,  AZ— Camilla  Rigan  <s).  Frank  J.  Stein,  Ivey  1353 

L.  Furlow,  John  L.  Carter,  Roy  A.  Gilbert  Sr.  1359 

859    Greencastle,  IN— Daniel  B.  Clouser.  1361 

873    Cincinnati,  OH— Robert  G.  Flaig.  1362 

902    Brooklyn,  NY— Albert  F.  Unkenhoiz,  Cono  Demar-  1365 

ino,  Dominic  Gurrera,  George  O.  Tonnessen.  Henry  1373 

Goldberg,  Vincent  Delia  Speranza. 

904    JacksonviUe,  U^— Jack  Elmer  Reller.  1397 

912    Richmond,  IN— Paul  F.  Juerling.  1400 

921    Portsmouth,  NH— Donat  D.  Richer  Jr.  1407 

933    Hermiston,  OR— Oran  E.  Stoughton.  1419 
940    Sandusky,  OH— James  E.  Quilter. 

943  Tulsa,  OK— Jesse  Lee  Tibbs.  1428 

944  San  Bernadeno,  CA — Benjamin  Lee  Walston.  James  1437 

E.  Sossman,  Leslie  E.  Randolph  Sr.,  Nathan  Dea-  1438 
ton.  Sherman  Taylor. 

945  Jefferson  City,  MO— Clarence  Schepers.  Herbert  C.  1452 
Coil.  1453 

948    Sioux  City,  lA— O.  Lucille  Morehead  (s). 

953    Lake  Charles,  LA— Homer  Lee  Pickles  Sr.  1454 

955     Appleton,  WI— John  P.  Hoffman.  1456 

958    IVbrquette,  MI — Adolph  Feira,  Walter  Herman  Deile. 

971     Reno,  NV — Bart  J.  Jurick,  Joe  Braunschweig. 

973  Texas  City,  TX— Charlie  E.  Hughes.  Gracie  Hicks  1461 
(s).  1462 

974  Baltimore,  MD— Harry  Wianke  Sr.  1485 

977  Wichita  Falls,  TX— Carl  Schreiber,  Claude  P.  Dod- 

son.  Howard  Haberman.  1468 

978  Springfield,  MO — Lorene  A.  Dodson  (s).  Marilyn  J. 

Pauly  (s),  Monroe  Harvey  Garner.  1487 

998     Royal  Oak.  MI— Albert  W.  Colbeth.  1489 

1005  Merrillville,  IN— David  B.  Yates.  Joe  Hansen.  Paul 

B.  Carpenter.  1495 

1006  New  Brunswich,  NJ— Andrew  Stafford,  Joseph  L.  1506 
Obrien. 

1010    Uniontown,  PA— Lester  Harbaugh.  *521 

1014     Warren,  PA— Ralph  Ross  »S22 

1022    Parsons.    KS— Edward    H.    Seaman,    George    A.  1529 

Schneickert.  1532 

1025    Medford.  WI— Scott  R.  Erickson.  1533 


Chicago,  IL — Raymond  Ostrowsky,  Stanley  Kolu- 
vek. 

Louisville,  KY — Edward  A.  Jones,  Emmett  Hart. 
Muskegon,  MI — Donald  D.  Devowe. 
Cedar  Rapids,  lA — Leo  G.  Jacobson. 
Eureka,  CA — Herman  Schwede. 
Palm  Springs,  CA — Roland  Szuklitsch. 
Hollywood,  CA — Alphonse  Stermer,  James  H.  Branch, 
John  Craven  Windsor. 
Lincoln,  NB— Thomas  Crabtree. 
Santa  Barbara,  CA — Fred  Larson,  Lois  E.  Shipley 
(s),  Louis  Andrew  Wazny  Sr.,  Richard  Ouimette. 
Salem,  OR — ErickS.  Faaborg,  LoyceN.  Waterbury. 
Ralph  William  King. 
Phoenix,  AZ— Glenn  R.  Efort. 
Longview,  TX — William  Albert  Austell. 
Baton  Rouge,  LA — Antoine  Barras,  Harrison  Stew- 
art, Herbert  N.  Pace,  Ray  G.  Babin,  William  Glen 
Hart  Jr. 

Flagstaff,  AZ — Theodore  Spaulding. 
Detroit,  MI — John  Cummins,  Louis  A.  Leger. 
Cleveland,  OH— Harry  P.  Richter,  John  W.  Gross. 
Visalia,  CA — John  F.  Pearson,  Troy  Dewayne  Choate. 
Washington,  DC— Dennis  R.  Spears  Sr. 
Portland,  OR — Albert  E.  Curnow,  Donald  Perisich. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Charles  H.  Waas  Jr.,  Minnie  E. 
Copeland  (s),  Sara  Ruth  Barnard  (s). 
Alpena,  MI — James  Burroughs. 
Toledo,  OH — Earl  C,  Linden  Sr.,  Earl  D.  Jansen. 
San  Pedro,  CA — Clarence  Gravett. 
Green  Bay,  WI — Gustave  Adolph  Anderson. 
Roseville,  CA — Ivy  Levina  Richardson  (s). 
Olympia,  WA — Frances  A.  Southmayd  (s). 
San  Francisco,  CA — Albert  B.  Rivera,  Joseph  Brod- 
erick. 

New  York,  NY — Constantino  Casucci,  Francesco 
Conte,  Leo  Scheige. 

Billings,  MT — Leroy  Jesse  Kikkert,  Louis  H.  Kyriss. 
Grand  Island,  NB — Rueben  Eugene  Ott. 
Birmingham,  AL — Callen  H.  Nation 
Pensacola,  FL — Frank  Arrowood. 
Charleston,  WV — Robert  George  Vogel. 
Mesa,  AZ--Richard  W.  Bleakney. 
Medford,  NY — Edward  J.  Murphy- 
Modesto,  CA — Albert  F.  Boirelli,  Algolt  Johnson, 
E.  J.  Gilman,  Lonnie  J.  Parker,  Maedean  Claudia 
Davis  (s),  Ola  Mae  Jackson  (s). 
Oroville,  CA — Bertha  V.  Watson  (s),  Maijorie  E. 
Tucker  (s). 

Fairbanks.  AK — Albert  J.  Ramel,  Beverly  Martin{s). 
Pocatello,  ID — George  A.  Misner. 
Iowa  City,  lA — Theodore  C.  Kiesey. 
Eugene,  OR — George  Holeman.  Howard  Dean. 
Mountain  View,  CA — Willie  R.  Brooks. 
Anchorage,  AK' — Dewey  D.  Smith,  Michael  Sivers, 
Perry  H.  Jones,  Raymond  Girves. 
Huntington,  NY — Kurt  W.  KuhnSr.,  Louis  Griesser. 
San  Diego,  CA— Evelyn  W.  Bradley  (s),  Harold  I. 
Sharp,  Paul  J.  Butz. 
San  Diego,  CA — Roberto  Estrella. 
New  London,  CT — Anderson  Merwin. 
Port  Angeles,  WA — Eldred  L.   Eaton,  Leona  A. 
Ridgway  (s). 

Fall  River,  MA — Edward  Briere. 
Evanston,  IL — Axel  L.  Olson. 
St.  Louis,  MO — Paul  Darrell  Christopher. 
Albuquerque,  NM — Ernest  W.  Abeyta,  Gilbert  N. 
Riffle. 

Monterey,  CA — Joe  Neri. 
Edmonton,  Alta,  CAN — Jadwiga  Suszko  (s). 
Irvington,  NJ — Herman  G.  Talke,  March  Singleton, 
Tony  A.  Williams. 

Port  Arthur,  TX— Mary  Elizabeth  Belile  {s). 
Sante  Fe,  NM — Juanita  Armijo  Rodriguez  (s). 
Toledo.  OH— John  C.  Romak. 
Chester,  IL — James  D.  Gillison. 
Ada  Ardmore,  OK — Haskell  Conner  Manners. 
Cleveland.  OH — Antonino  Rito. 
Flint,  MI — Clyde  Secoy,  Hubert  Leix,  Lloyd  Long, 
Max  Albert  Bishop. 

North  Hempstad,  NY — Frank  Gronroos. 
Santa  Monica,  CA — Alfonsas  Budriunas. 
San  Pedro,  CA — Cruz  Arce. 
Johnstown,  PA — Harry  F.  Keiper,  Joseph  Topper, 
Raymond  M.  Ankeny. 
Midland,  TX — Juan  G.  Santiago. 
Compton,  CA — John  B.  Dashiell. 
Warren.  OH — Robert  P.  Mackey  Sr.,  Rose  Barnhart 
(s). 

Detroit,  MI — Clyde  Terry. 

Huntington  Bch,  CA — Arthur  Tesdall.   Luther  J. 
Baker  Sr.,  Viola  M.  Blowers  (s). 
Cincinnati,  OH — Richard  C,  Milligan. 
New  York,  NY — Arthur  Jensen,   Felice  Cicchino, 
Harry  Carlsen,  Irma  M.  Axelson  (s),  Louis  J.  Milza, 
Walter  Sandvik. 

Traverse  City,  Ml — James  E.  Finlay  Sr. 
Bucks  County,  PA— William  P.  Loftus. 
La  Porte,  IN — Archie  P.  Hastings,  Donna  M.  Spivey 
(s),  Virgil  Spaulding. 

Auburn,  CA — Maureen  Marie  Zablotny  (s),  Vernon 
H.  Brackctt. 

Burlington,  VT — Jane  M.  Lizewski  (s),  Vito  Franco. 
Burlington,  NJ — Franklin  Rode,  George  E.  Idell  Sr., 
George  Johnston,  Lyman  R.  Bozarth  Sr. 
Chico,  CA— George  N.  Hinz. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Dorothy  M.  Lemonds  (s),  Juan 
Calvin  St.  Amant.  Robert  T.  Garcia. 
Algoma,  WI — George  Shillin. 
Martel,  CA — Jack  Dillashaw,  Reuben  Mustion. 
Kansas  City,  KS— Wallace  E.  Williams. 
Anacortes,  WA — Juanita  E.  Brooker  (s), 
Two  Rivers,  WI — Alvin  J.  Sonntag. 


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New  York,  NY — Joseph  Casserly,  Josephine  Lepore 
(s),  Olivo  Magagna. 
Chicago,  IL— Jack  H.  West. 
Wilmington,  DE— Katherine  D,  Wilson  (s). 
Baltimore,  MD — Hollis  William  Long,  Norman  L. 
Jensen. 

Culver  City,  CA— Edith  R.  Younk,  Roger  Hudd. 
Abilene,  TX — Lawrence  E.  Churchill. 
East  San  Diego,  CA — Jesse  Slagill  Jr. 
Napoleon,  OH — Anna  Madalene  Frederick  (s).  Virgil 
C.  Barth. 

Englewood,  CO — Arthur  R.  Venard,  Markus  Scheuer. 
Washington,  DC— Catherine  Boyle  (s).  Wilfred  E. 
Wiland,  William  C.  Hale. 

St.  Louis,  MO— Irma  D.  Bruner  (s),  Peter  Bells. 
Roy  O,  Wirth. 

Bremerton,  WA— Carl  A.  Bock,  Lewis  C.  Wilcox, 
William  E.  Palmer. 
Victoria,  BC,  Can. — George  Lovgren 
Redding,  CA — Allen  Blevins,  Daniel  Vernon.  Helen 
Louise  Hye.  Walter  V.  Schmidt 
Los  Angeles,  CA— Cari  J.  Kelly,  William  S.  Behney 
E.  Millnockt,  ME— Wendell  A.  Fernald 
Sacramento,  CA — Patrica  Ann  Solis 
Hayward,  CA — Harry  H.  Hawkins,  Peter  P.  Nunes, 
Ruth  Frances  Dyer 

S  Luis  Obispo,  CA — Anna  M.  Javine,  Richard  F. 
Hogan  Sr. 

Kansas  City,  MO — Morris  E.  Worden 
Lexington,  KY — Rodney  C.  CrSbtree,  William  Maur- 
ice Egbert 

Ft.  William,  Ont,  CAN— John  Harold  Ewald 
El  Dorado,  AR— Coy  Alvin  Ellis 
Melbourne-Daytona  Beach,  FL — Gilbert  Burcham 
Tacoma,  WA — Quinton  P.  Allen,  Robert  Roswell, 
William  H.  Hedberg 

Chicago,  IL — John  Harold  Johnson,  Joseph  T.  La- 
mos,  Louis  A.  Wenzl 
Pasco,  WA — Russell  Shrauger 
Vancouver,  WA — Wallace  L.  Caughey 
Columbus,  GA — Julius  Vernon  Horton 
Columbus,  GA — Julius  Vernon  Horton 
Pr  Rupert,  BC,  CAN— Kari  Erwin  Lichtenfeld 
Kirkwood,  MO — Dorothy  M.  Fredericks  Louis  F. 
Kimker,  Raymond  J.  Buettmann,  William  E.  Palmer, 
William  I.  Holmes 

Portland,  OR — Clarence  O.  Bellargeon,  Jacob  J. 
Sweet. 

Anniston,  AL — Era  Lucile  Denham  (s),  Grady  M. 
Heaton. 

Pomona,  CA — Proctor  1.  Bierman,  Raymond  Ald- 
erson,  Ruth  Mary  Turner  (s). 
Parkersburg,  WV — Robert  L.  Bailey. 
Marion,  VA — George  G.  Sutter,  Joe  H.  Smith. 
Orlando,  FI^^Edward  DeLafchell,  Hilda  A.  Hosea 
(s).  Lanford  M.  Connell. 

Cape  Girardeau,  MO — Howard  Orlin  Edwards. 
Hicksvilte.  NY — John  Overgaard. 
Las  Vegas,  NV — Allan  Shepherd,  Burt  Parenteau. 
Bijou,  CA — Howard  J.  Thompson. 
Renton,  WA — Charles  E.  Brown,  Philip  E.  Bingham, 
Siebelt  J.  Kruse. 

Monroe,  LA — Clinton  U .  Garrison,  Sam  Alex  Nolan, 
William  E.  Nyegaard,  Zelma  Lee  Sharbono  (s). 
Santa  Ana,  CA — Armas  R.  Teter,  August  W.  Miller, 
David  A.  Likins,  Fred  P.  Leonard,  Katherine  D. 
Ferrero  (s),  Robert  L.  Reed,  Jr. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Barbara  G.  Mansolino  (s),  Charles 
A.  Seeley. 

Escanaba,  MI — Arvid  W.  Carlson. 
Waterloo,  lA— Dello  E.  Ziebell  (s). 
Babylon,  NY — Daniel  Eginton.  William  Greve. 
Washington,  MO— Alfred  W.  Ficke. 
Snoqualmie,  WA — Albin  Engstrom,  Oscar  P.  Kir- 
schenmann. 

New  Orleans,  LA — Henry  Favre,  Jaqueline  O.  Tan- 
ner (s),  Leon  Frierson,  Jr.,  Theodore  Chauvin, 
Theophile  A.  Duroncelet,  William  C.  Trascher,  Win- 
nie Dupuy. 

Pasco,  WA — Austin  J.  Duke.  Bernard  P.  Heum- 
phreus,  Harold  E.  Frede,  Raymond  Snyder. 
Bryan,  TX— Joseph  Stuart  Wright. 
Milpitas,  CA — Ada  G.  Coss  (s),  Aveld  R.  Carlstrom, 
George  P.  Silva,  Herbert  Anderson. 
Minneapolis,  MN — Hans  P.  Lervik. 
Cleveland,  OH — Armand  V.  Rossi,  Benhart  Hyvar- 
inen.  Wayne  Cole  Vogan. 
Lubbock,  TX — Jimmie  Ray  Kemp. 
The  Dalles,  OR— Arthur  W.   Walseth,  Henry  G. 
Crane. 

Lafayette,  LA — Lillian  P.  Melancon  (s),  Sidney  Wat- 
kins. 

Beckley,  WV — Gratton  D.  Underwood. 
Van  Nuys,  CA — Phillip  J.  Larson,  William  Nilsson. 
Phoenix,  AR — Harry  Keating,  Lockey  W.  Millsap. 
Hamilton,  Ont.,  CAN— Charles  Taylor. 
Hempstead.  NY — Bernard  F.  Elflein. 
Columbia,  MO — Raymond  G.  McKinzie. 
Cleveland.  OH— John  S.  Kosiorek. 
New  Orleans.  LA— Paul  B.  Petit. 
London,  Ont.,  CAN — Nick  Socholotiuk. 
Riverside,  CA — Merle  R.  Fennels. 
Roseburg.  OR— Almeda  A.  Follett  (s). 
Temple,  TX — Ollie  Bynum.  Raymond  Fritz. 
Los  Angeles,  CA— Mack  Wright,  Sr..  William  B. 
Hudson. 

Buffalo.  NY— Robert  J.  Felschow.  Sr. 
St.  Charles,  MO— Edward  A.  Cochrum,  Harold  A. 
Dudley,  Kathryn  B.  McMenamy  (s). 
Columbia.  IL — John  S.  Miller. 
Seaford.  DE— Pete  O.  Elzey. 

Santa  Paula,  CA — Elsie  May  Stone  (s),  Lawrence 
Rodriguez. 
Ocean  County,  NJ — Joseph  R.  Takacs. 


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2035    Kingsbeach,  CA— Ray  A.  Grahn. 

2042    Oxnard,  CA — Bill  Earl  Spencer,  Laura  Neutnan  (s). 

2046    Martinez,    CA — Dorothy    Ksenzulak    (s),    Henry 

Kloeffel,  John  T.  Knighl,  Ramon  F.  Sanchez. 
■2054    Tacoma,  WA — Robert  James  Hartson. 
2067     Medford,  OR— Arthur  G.  Hanson. 

2077  Columbus,  OH— Edgar  D,  James. 

2078  Vista,  CA — Georg  Larsen,  Willie  Edward  Daven- 
port. 

2087    Crystal  Lake,  II^Ben  T.  Larson. 

2103    Calgary,  Alia.,  CAN— Edward  A.  Kelly. 

2114    Napa,  CA— Edwin  R.  Erickson. 

2119    St.  Louis,  MO— Erwin  A.  Steinkuehler. 

213«    Hillsboro,  OR— Harold  Duncan. 

2155     New  Vork,  NY— Joseph  Turk. 

2172    Santa  Ana,  CA— Newell  Bill  Cody. 

2177     Martinsville,  IN — Joyce  Kidwell. 

2203     Anaheim,  CA— Loy  L.  Hadley ,  Reta  Elizabeth  Shaw 

(s).  Ward  P.  Simpkins. 
2205    Wenatchee,  WA— Carl  C.  Beaty,  Elmer  E.  Bull. 

Martha  M.  Beaty  (s). 
2212    Newark,  NJ — Gustave  Hicks,  Sigurd  Simonsen. 
2214    Festus,  MO — August  P.  Bins.  Jonathan  C.  Hileman. 

2231  Los  Angeles,  CA— Frank  W.  Hildebrand. 

2232  Houston,  TX— Albert  Joe  Lindley,  Claude  W.  Eades. 
2239    Fremont,  OH— Clyde  William  Rozelle. 

2250    Red  Bank,  NJ— Edgar  Welch. 
2265     Detroit,  Ml— Harold  Butts. 
2268    Monticello,  GA— Willie  Hilliman. 
2274    Pittsburgh,  PA— Doris  E.  Shreckengost  (s),  Frank 
W.  Miller.  June  L.  Cobbs  (si,  Vernon  L.  Miller. 

2287  New  York,  NY— Howard  Rosenberg. 

2288  Los  Angeles,  CA— Bertha  Jasper  (s).  Dale  R.  Fowler. 
Joseph  D.  Crenshaw,  Paul  Tolmachoff,  Phillip  J. 
Greening,  Robert  C.  Wilson,  Robert  W.  Davis. 

2292    Ocala,  FI^Lindia  Black  (s). 

2350    Scranton,  PA— William  R.  Ross. 

2352    Corinth,  MS— Robert  R.  Covington.  Sr. 

2361    Orange,  CA—DonalJ  Lee  Cody. 

2371     Cambridge  City,  IN— Gary  T.  Cross. 

2375     Los  Angeles,  CA— Eddie  Risner. 

2410     Red  Deer,  Alia.,  CAN— Robert  J.  Thorndale. 

2416  Portland,  OR— Harley  D.  Stanton,  Leonard  L.  Mar- 
tin. 

2420    Newark,  OH— Herbert  L.  Ritchey. 

2429    Fort  Payne,  AL — Jessie  B.  Long,  Tommy  R.  Dupree. 

2463    Ventura,  CA— Rexford  W.  Nelson. 

2477    Santa  Maria,  CA — Louis  Nathon  Swint. 

2581     Libby,  MT — Duane  L.  Anderson,  Kenneth  D.  Jaynes. 

2588    John  Day,  OR— Roy  Paul  M.  Davis. 

2601  Lafayette,  IN — Dorothy  Grist,  Geneva  Deckard,  James 
L.  Robertson. 

2608    Redding,  CA— Clyde  Gilbert  Evans. 

2633  Tacoma,  WA — Louis  A.  Stangle,  Oscar  V.  Booher, 
Sarah  1.  Wheeler  (s). 

2637  Sedro  WooUey,  WA — Darrhe  Arthur  Lundgaard, 
Walter  Emil  Kelbach. 

2652  Standard,  CA— Angelo  Botti,  Howard  Keefe,  Jose 
Goicoechea. 

2682    New  York,  NY— Natale  M.  Deiulio. 

2693    Ft.  Arthur,  Ont.,  CAN— Taisto  T.  Miettinen,  Troy 

Sauriol. 
2701    Lakeview,  OR— Harvey  Hale. 

2714  Dallas,  OR— Earl  C.  Riha,  Phyllis  Lorraine  Evans 
(si. 

2715  Medford,  OR— Billy  Wade  Farber,  Paul  H.  Mitchell. 
2743    Woodville,  TX— Wiliam  G.  Higginbotham. 

2767    Morton,  WA— Charles  Redfield,  Leonard  Lindberg. 

Leslie  Johnson. 
2785    The  Dalles,  OR— Leroy  Frank  Lucas. 
2812    Missoula,  MT— Ottelia  Gould  (s). 

2816  Eramett,  ID— Deana  Rae  Mathews  (si.  William  P. 
Wingerd. 

2817  Quebec,  Que.,  CAN — Gerard  Senechal,  Leonard 
Nadeau. 

2819    New  York,  NY— Herman  Korman. 

2834  Denver,  CO— Charles  C.  Breuch,  Emily  B.  Moon 
(s). 

2881     Portland,  OR— George  H.  Newton.  Joseph  A.  Dow. 

2927     Martell,  CA— James  T.  Vogel. 

2942    Albany,  OR— Anna  Mae  Delores  Braith  (si. 

2949  Roseburg,  OR— Bill  Quimby,  Chariene  Marshall  (s), 
Doris  Elaine  Cotnam  (s),  Edward  Allen  McDermott, 
Eva  Elizabeth  Townsend  (s),  Frederick  Rossiter 
Coffie,  Linda  L.  Gaylor,  Willie  W.  Fish. 

2961  St.  Helen,  OR— Alden  C.  Warren,  William  D.  Fren- 
ter. 

2979     Merrill,  WI— Arvin  O.  Dengel. 

2987    South  Norfolk,  VA— Thomas  Lloyd  Hawbaker. 

2993  Franklin,  IN— Clyde  Dale  McDaniel,  James  B.  Ra- 
ney,  Robert  M.  Woodrum. 

3009    Grants  Pass,  OR— Don  C.  Rodgers. 

3023    Omak,  WA — George  Ferdiand  Haase. 

3054    London,  Ont.,  CAN— Percy  W   Price. 

3074  Chester,  CA— Sidney  Harold  Massey.  Waymon  Taft 
Sales. 

3088  Stockton,  CA— Basil  Stewart,  Charles  Messing,  Pe- 
ter Cecaci,  Ross  Frank,  Rudolph  Ordonez. 

3091  Vaughn,  OR— John  McClatchey,  Miguel  Molinar 
Garcia,  Raymond  A.  Mosegard. 

3161  Maywood,  CA — Joseph  Lasko,  Joseph  M.  Verdugo, 
Lawrence  Struikman. 

3202  Warrenton,  MO— Jessie  L.  Masterson,  Noah  C. 
Hase. 

3210    Madison,  IN— William  E.  Detmer. 

9065    San  Francisco,  CA — Donald  James  Grass. 


The  Convincer  has  been  touring  the  coun- 
try, emphasizing  safety  belt  importance. 
With  "him"  are  Genie  Holmes,  project 
manager  for  Labor  Promotion  of  Occu- 
pant Restraints,  and  Matthew  Gillen,  ex- 
ecutive director  of  the  Workers  Institute 
for  Safety  and  Health . 


ILLUSTRATION  B 

Auto  Safety  Belt:  How  It  Works 

Normal  Conditions 


Seat 

Belt 


Ratchet  Mectianrsm 

Under  normal  conditions,  the 
pendulum  and  bar  are  in  their  rest 
positions.  The  reel,  which  holds  the 
belt,  is  free  to  rotate.  As  the 
occupant  moves  forward  the  belt 
moves  unrestrained  with  the 
occupant. 

Emergency  Conditions 


-^ 


Ratchet  Mechanism 


Under  emergency  conditions,  such 
as  in  a  collision,  the  pendulum 
moves  forward  under  the  force  of 
the  impact  causing  the  bar  to 
engage  the  ratchet.  The  reel  and 
seat  belt  now  lock  in  place  and  the 
occupant  is  held  firmly  in  place. 


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crease  the  number  of  fatalities  by  50%  and 
the  number  of  serious  injuries  received  by 
60-70%.  They  are  particularly  important  in 
holding  the  driver  and  passenger  in  place  in 
a  side  impact  and  roll-over  crash.  With  a 
safety  belt  fastened,  the  driver  becomes  a 
pilot  of  the  vehicle  rather  than  a  flying  object. 

To  get  maximum  protection  out  of  your 
seat  belt,  it  is  important  to  always  tighten 
up  all  of  the  slack  in  a  safety  belt.  When  the 
car  decelerates  rapidly  in  a  collision  or 
sudden  stop,  a  pendulum  is  forced  forward, 
causing  a  bar  to  engage  the  ratchet.  This 
action  locks  the  reel  and  safety  belt — and 
you — in  place.  (See  illustration  B)  Under 
normal  conditions  the  pendulum  and  bar  are 
disengaged.  The  reel,  which  holds  the  belt, 
is  free  to  rotate  and  allows  you  to  move 
forward.  Freedom  of  movement  has  been 
designed  into  the  safety  belt  mechanism  to 
allow  you  to  move  unrestrained  until  the 
moment  the  belt  is  needed. 

However,  going  over  30  mph  even  with  a 
safety  belt  on,  a  head  can  hit  the  steering 
wheel,  dashboard  or  glass  of  the  windshield. 
This  does  not  mean  that  belts  are  not  effec- 
tive— but  in  high  speed  crashes,  people 
wearing  safety  belts  can  be  injured  seriously, 
sometimes  even  fatally. 

This  is  where  the  air  bag,  now  going  into 
new  cars,  is  extremely  helpful  and  will  save 
many  more  lives  and  prevent  serious  inju- 
ries. Until  recently  the  air  bag  was  available 
in  very  few  cars  and  expensive  ones  at  that. 

The  air  bag  is  packaged  in  the  center  of 
the  steering  wheel.  Four  sophisticated  sen- 
sors located  on  the  front  structure  of  the  car 
signal  the  air  bag  to  deploy  in  a  serious 
frontal  accident  equivalent  to  a  25  mph  crash 
into  a  parked  car.  The  air  bag  is  fully  inflated 
with  harmless  nitrogen  gas  in  only  40  milli- 
seconds (1/25  of  a  second)  and  helps  absorb 
much  of  the  force  of  the  crash  and  protects 
the  face,  head  and  chest  from  injury.  (See 
Illustration  C) 

In  a  frontal  crash,  the  vehicle  is  stopped 
by  another  vehicle  or  a  fixed  object.  But  the 
unrestrained  occupant  continues  moving  for- 
ward at  the  same  speed  that  the  vehicle  was 
traveling  just  before  the  crash  began.  The 
second,  or  "human,"  coUision  occurs  when 
the  moving  occupant  slams  into  the  vehicle's 
hard  interior  surface  or  into  another  passen- 
ger, crashes  through  broken  glass  or  is  ejected 
and  hits  equally  unforgiving  outside  sur- 
faces. 

This  new  regulation  is  to  make  traveling 
by  car  more  safe.  But  even  the  insurance 
companies  have  gotten  into  the  act.  Many 
companies  offer  an  additional  $10,000  acci- 
dental death  benefit  for  an  insured  person 
who  dies  of  motor  vehicle  accident  injuries 
sustained  while  wearing  a  safety  belt. 

Insurance  officials  have  stated,  "We  want 
people  to  buckle  up  because  it  will  cut  by 
one-half  the  chance  that  they  will  die  if  they 
are  in  an  automobile  crash." 

Insurance  companies  are  also  offering  dis- 
counts of  20-40%  on  personal  medical  cov- 
erage for  the  occupant  of  insured  automo- 
biles equipped  with  airbags  and/or  automatic 
safety  belts.  Check  with  your  insurance 
company  to  see  if  they  offer  these  safety 
discounts. 


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CARPENTER 


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Don  Kukta,  a  carpenter  of  Local  48, 
Fitchburg,  Mass.,  has  invented  a  durable, 
all-steel  tool  which  he  calls  the  "Caveman 
Rotary  Pry-Bar"  and  has  found  it  to  be  a 
very  versatile  tool  in  his  trade. 

The  Rotary  Pry-Bar  operates  with  a  cam- 
type  action,  using  a  removable  fulcrum  pin. 
The  fulcrum  pin,  which  can  be  a  large  nail, 
is  placed  in  the  fulcrum  port,  which  runs 
completely  through  the  cyhnder  head.  It  is 
then  driven  into  the  sheathing,  sub-flooring, 
joist,  etc.,  next  to  the  board  that  has  to  be 
tightened  or  straightened.  The  purpose  of 
this  is  to  hold  it  snug  to  the  existing  surface 
while  easily  nailing  it  without  any  small  gaps 
or  keeping  any  wanted  spaces  even. 

Applying  pressure  to  the  handle  causes 
the  cylinder  to  turn  on  the  off-center  fulcrum 
pin.  As  the  bar  is  turned  on  the  pin,  the 
cyhnder  forces  the  board,  plywood  or  what- 


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Clifton  Enterprises 27 

Digitool  Corp 39 

Estwing  Mfg.  Co 20 

Foley-Belsaw 21 

Full  .Length  Roof  Framers 27 

Hydrolevel 39 

Irwin 26 

Kimline  Industries 17 

Nailers 15 

Nail  King 21 

Vaughan  &  Bushnell 9 


ever  material  you  are  using,  to  tighten  firmly 
against  the  existing  surface! 

The  advantage  of  two  fulcrum  ports  is  to 
give  you  a  choice  of  prying  directions  if 
working  in  close  quarters. 

It  is  designed  to  give  pry-bar  action  where 
conventional  pry-bars  are  ineffective  on  wood 
siding,  flooring,  or  decking. 

The  "Caveman  Rotary  Pry-Bar"  weighs 
a  hefty  48  ounces,  and  is  18  inches  long. 

To  order,  send  check  or  money  order  for 
$25.00  to:  Caveman  Rotary  Pry-Bar,  P.O. 
Box  7278,  Fitchburg,  Mass.  01420.  (U.S. 
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The  1987  edition  of  the  Directory  of  State 
Building  Codes  and  Regulations  was  re- 
cently published,  and  its  new  format  offers 
building  tradesmen  and  contractors  easy 
access  to  code  information  through  what 
heretofore  was  a  maze  of  codes  and  regu- 
lations. 

The  directory  covers  50  states  and  two 
territories  and  offers  complete  data  on  res- 
idential and  commercial  codes.  It  contains 
a  history  of  building  codes,  a  description  of 
the  code  change  cycle  and  contact  infor- 
mation for  key  building  and  fire  officials.  It 
details  such  code  information  as  the  name 
and  year  of  the  current  code,  year  of  original 
adoption,  whether  its  based  on  a  model  code 
with  or  without  amendments,  preemptive 
application,  occupancy  classifications  and 
complete  contact  information  for  the  persons 
administering  and  enforcing  the  codes. 

The  price  is  $100.00.  To  order,  send  pay- 
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studded  walls  when  they're  being  moved 
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left.  It  also  acts  as  a  portable  support  step, 
as  in  the  picture  at  upper  right. 

The  Pro-Grip  is  manufactured  of  strong, 
sand-cast  construction,  comes  in  "safety 
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39 


We  Need  Heavy 

Hitters  in  tlie 

UBC  Ball  Club 

Non-union,  doublebreasted 
competition  can't 
be  iaughed  away. 


When  I  get  up  to  talk  to  your  fulltime  officers 
and  business  agents  at  the  regional  seminars 
we're  currently  conducting  around  the  coun- 
try, I  sound  like  a  football  coach  in  the  locker 
room  at  halftime  or  maybe  a  baseball  manager 
in  the  dugout  during  the  World  Series. 

But  I  don't  know  how  else  to  say  what  I 
have  to  say. 

I  tell  them,  in  effect,  that  if  we  continue  to 
go  down  the  road  we're  traveling — and  when 
I  say  "we"  I'm  not  just  talking  about  the 
United  Brotherhood  but  all  of  the  North  Amer- 
ican labor  movement — then  we  can  say  good- 
bye to  free  and  effective  trade  unions  and  true 
collective  bargaining.  It  may  take  20  years, 
but,  then  again,  it  may  take  less. 

There  are  certain  attitudes  and  certain  prac- 
tices in  the  U.S.  and  Canadian  labor  move- 
ment which  could  bring  this  about,  unless  we 
correct  our  course  and  start  steering  toward 
our  main  objectives — more  members,  more 
jobs,  more  effective  union  representation. 

The  status  quo  is  not  enough.  Sometimes 
when  I  go  into  an  area  and  talk  with  a  business 
agent  or  manager,  I  ask,  "How  many  members 
do  you  have?" 

He  might  say  to  me,  "Well,  we  used  to 
have  1,400.  Right  now,  we're  down  to  600. 
But  nearly  everybody's  working,  and  we've 
got  no  time  to  organize  workers  in  the  area." 

That's  when  I  ask  him,  "What  happened 
to  the  800  members  who  disappeared?" 

When  he  tells  me  that  everybody's  working, 
it  may  mean  that  a  lot  of  them  are  working 
non-union  and  haven't  been  calling  the  union 
hall.  Some  local  building  tradesmen  become 
as  double  breasted  as  the  contractors  in  their 
area,  I'm  sorry  to  say,  showing  the  union  card 
only  when  it's  necessary — not  proudly  like  a 
dedicated  union  member  should,  but  furtively. 


like  a  guy  whose  credit  card  may  have  run 
out. 

We're  not  operating  a  country  club  in  the 
UBC.  Our  platform,  adopted  at  our  first  con- 
vention in  1881  told  carpenters  and  joiners 
across  North  America:  "We  must  form  a 
union  broad  enough  to  embrace  every  car- 
penter and  joiner  in  the  land — one  that  will 
protect  every  man  in  his  labor  and  in  his 
wages  .  .  .  The  object  of  the  organization  is 
to  rescue  our  trade  from  its  low  estate  and 
raise  ourselves  to  that  position  in  society 
which  we  as  mechanics  are  justly  entitled 

That  objective  hasn't  changed  in  the  past 
106  years. 

This  means  that  we  must  continue  to  supply 
the  best  trained  journeymen  available  to  the 
industry.  Our  apprenticeship  and  training  pro- 
gram must  be  of  such  a  nature  that  a  construc- 
tion buyer  knows  that  he  or  she  can  come  to 
the  union  and  get  time-saving,  cost-saving  and 
quality  workmanship,  not  short-cut,  merit  shop 
workers. 

You  should  know  by  now  that  the  "right 
to  work,"  merit-shop,  non-union  contracting 
organizations  are  trying  desperately  to  achieve 
the  same  status  and  recognition  for  their  so- 
called  apprenticeship  programs  as  Building 
Trades  unions  now  receive.  You  may  not  see 
evidence  of  this  activity,  but  its  there,  and  it 
can  take  away  jobs,  if  we  don't  maintain  our 
standards  and  our  determination  to  train  more 
apprentices. 

We  must  support  each  other.  We've  said  it 
many  times.  We  are  our  brother's  keeper. 
When  a  local  union  agent  down  south  or  out 
west,  in  Canada,  wherever,  calls  your  local 
and  says,  "I  have  a  contractor  of  yours 
working  in  my  backyard.  Can  you  give  me 
some  information  about  him?"  Don't  make 
an  issue  of  something  like  this.  Your  local 
shouldn't  turn  this  brother  away.  Do  what 
you  can  to  help  members  in  other  parts  of  the 
country.  The  Golden  Rule  applies  here.  The 
day  may  come  when  your  local  will  need 
assistance,  too. 

Let's  use  the  new  tools  of  the  union  trade.  If 

we're  ever  going  to  accomplish  our  mission 
and  improve  and  maintain  our  wages,  benefits 
and  working  conditions,  we're  going  to  have 
to  use  the  tactics  and  the  strategies  of  the 
modern  day. 


Information  is  a  key  weapon  in  our  dealings 
with  employers  and  with  public  agencies.  It 
is  important  that  we  develop  the  skills  nec- 
essary to  gather  and  use  a  full  range  of 
information  on  contractors,  construction  users, 
banks,  individuals  and  companies  involved  in 
any  particular  construction  project  or  any 
industrial  expansion  or  relocation. 

One  of  the  reasons  we  set  up  the  special 
programs  department  at  the  General  Offices 
was  to  keep  your  local  union  and  the  General 
Office  posted  on  what  management  is  up  to. 
We  already  have  an  active  research  depart- 
ment supplying  your  officers  with  information 
on  Davis-Bacon  wage  scales  and  other  data, 
but  we  recognized  a  need  for  additional  data 
on  a  company's  holdings,  its  financial  status, 
its  acquisitions — anything  and  everything  which 
bears  on  the  future  of  our  members  employed 
by  that  company.  The  days  of  yesteryear  when 
union  negotiators  had  to  accept  at  face  value 
what  company  negotiators  told  them  is  long 
past.  There  is  a  wealth  of  invaluable  data 
available  to  your  local  and  council  officers,  if 
you  know  just  where  to  go  to  get  it. 

I  am  happy  to  report  that  our  special  pro- 
grams staff  people  are  supplying  the  know- 
how  for  this  research  to  every  fuUtime  UBC 
officer  attending  the  regional  seminars.  It's 
called  "The  Trades  Approach — T  for  target, 
R  for  research,  A  for  analyze,  DES  for  develop 
and  execute  a  strategy."  Each  seminar  par- 
ticipant receives  a  TRADES  handbook.  It's 
the  kind  of  handbook  which  will  give  the  UBC 
the  heavy  hitters  it  needs,  if  your  officers  will 
sit  down  and  absorb  them. 

North  American  labor  must  stand  its  ground 
in  the  face  of  foreign  competition.  The  job  of 

organizing  and  bargaining  is  more  difficult 
today  because  of  cheap,  imported  goods  flood- 
ing U.S.  and  Canadian  markets.  It  becomes 
even  more  complicated  when  foreign  workers 
enter  North  America  as  worker  representa- 
tives of  multinational  corporations  and  con- 
struction firms. 

Major  investment  firms  and  many  state  and 
local  governments  invite  Japanese,  German, 
Dutch  and  other  manufacturers  and  construc- 
tion contractors  to  North  America,  and  they 
make  a  deal  with  them  that  they  will  teach 
their  workers  English,  give  them  property  to 
build  on,  construct  roadways,  lower  taxes, 
and  they  may  even  help  to  keep  them  non- 
union. 


There's  a  multimillion  dollar  international 
airport  being  built  in  Tokyo,  Japan.  You  can't 
go  there  and  work  on  it.  Your  contractors 
can't  bid  on  it,  and  yet  we  invite  their  com- 
panies and  their  contractors  over  here  to 
underbid  our  domestic  companies  and  con- 
tractors. 

To  date,  U.S.  contractors  have  not  been 
able  to  win  a  single  construction  contract  in 
Japan,  and  yet  the  Japan  Civil  Engineering 
Contractors  Association  represents  firms  which 
have  taken  full  advantage  of  opportunities  to 
bid  on  private  and  government  projects  in  the 
U.S.  and  other  countries. 

So,  as  I  stated  earlier.  North  American 
labor  must  stand  its  ground,  internationally 
as  well  as  domestically.  We  do  not  intend  to 
emulate  the  Japanese  in  low  wages  and  work- 
ing conditions  or  some  of  their  workaholic 
practices,  but  we  do  expect  to  keep  U.S.  and 
Canadian  workers  in  the  international  ball 
game,  without  losses  at  the  bargaining  table. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

Address  Correction  Requested 


Non-Profit  Org. 

U.S.  POSTAGE 

PAID 

Depew,  N.Y. 
Permit  No.  28 


Make  it  a 

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with  a  UBC  wristwatcli 


Men  and  women  wristwatches 
with  the  official  UBC  emblem 
on  the  face  are  available.  Both 
are  battery  powered  with  quartz 
movements  and  made  by  Ham- 
ilton. The  men's  watch  shows 
the  date  and  both  have  an  ex- 
pandable band.  They  have  a 
gold-tone  finish  with  a  two-year 
guarantee  on  the  movement. 
Each  comes  in  a  handsome  dis- 
play case  suitable  for  gift  giv- 
ing. 


Wristwatch 


$58.00 


or  a  UBC  gqcketwatcli 


A  full  pocketwatch  set  is  now  available 
to  our  members.  It  includes  a  battery- 
powered  Hamilton  pocketwatch.  The 
watch  has  a  gold-tone  finish  with  the 
official  UBC  emblem  on  the  face. 
Attach  an  attractive  12-inch  gold-filled 
chain  (shown  at  right)  to  the  watch 
and  accessories  such  as  a  gold  watch 
fob  or  one  of  the  two  pocketknives 
shown  at  left.  Each  item  can  take  brief 
engravings  free  of  charge. 


Pocketwatch 

$58.00 

Chain 

$25.00 

Large  knife  [2=/*] 

$25.00 

Small  knife  (IV2") 

$17.00 

Watch  fob 

$  9.00 

TO  ORDER:  Send  order  and  re- 
mittance— cash,  check,  or  money 
order — to:  General  Secretary, 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpen- 
ters and  Joiners  of  America,  101 
Constitution  Ave.,  N.W.,  Wash- 
ington, D.C.  20001.  All  prices 
include  the  cost  of  handling  and 
mailing. 


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GENERAL  OFFICERS  OF 

THE  UNITED  BROTHERHCX)D  of  CARPENTERS  &  JOINERS  of  AMERICA 


GENERAL  OFFICE: 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W., 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 


GENERAL  PRESIDENT 

Patrick  J.  Campbell 
101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

FIRST  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

Sigurd  Lucassen 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

SECOND  GENERAL  VICE  PRESIDENT 

John  Pruitt 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  SECRETARY 

John  S.  Rogers 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  D.C.  20001 

GENERAL  TREASURER 

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Rolla,  Missouri  65401 

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Milwaukie,  Oregon  97222 

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Sacramento,  California  95820 

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5799  Yonge  Street  #807 
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VOLUME   107  No.  12  DECEMBER  1987 

UNITED  BROTHERHOOD  OF  CARPENTERS  AND  JOINERS  OF  AMERICA 

John  S.  Rogers,  Editor 


IN  THIS  ISSUE 


NEWS  AND  FEATURES 

AFL-CIO  Convention 2 

Bridgeport  Building  Collapse  Spurs  Record  Penalties 5 

BE  &  K  Inc.,  Heads  1987  Dishonor  Roll 8 

BE  &  K  Profile 8 

The  Carpenters'  Union  'Smelled  a  Rat' 9 

Regional  Seminars  in  French  Lick 10 

UBC  Members  Get  More  Say  through  Local  Surveys ! . .  13 

Major  Plans  for  Blueprint  for  Cure 14 

Our  Lady  of  the  Rockies 16 

ILCA  Awards 17 

Industrial  Seminar 26 

DEPARTMENTS 

Washington  Report 7 

Ottawa  Report 12 

Members  in  the  News 15 

Local  Union  News 18 

Apprenticeship  &  Training 21 

We  Congratulate 23 

Labor  News  Roundup 24 

Retirees  Notebook 25 

Consumer  Clipboard 27 

Plane  Gossip .  28 

Service  to  the  Brotherhood 30 

In  Memoriam  37 

What's  New? 39 

President's  Message Patrick  J.  Campbell  40 

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THE 
COVER 


Memories  of  Christmases  past  are  re- 
called by  our  December  cover.  A  tree 
laced  with  strings  of  popcorn  ...  a  com- 
fortable chair  and  a  lamp  beside  the 
fireplace  .  .  .  stockings  along  the  mantle 
.  .  .  decorations  reaching  toward  the  high 
ceiling  of  the  living  room  .  .  .  and  toys 
spread  on  the  rug  and  surrounding  the 
base  of  the  tree  ...  all  a  joyful  prelude 
to  the  most  sacred  day  of  the  year  for 
Christians. 

There  are  many  ways  in  which  North 
Americans  mark  the  25th  of  December. 
In  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  the  descendants  of 
Moravian  settlers  follow  an  old  custom 
each  Christmas.  They  build  elaborate 
scenes,  as  large  as  a  room,  filled  with 
recreations  of  small  towns,  bucolic  rural 
vistas,  figures  from  everyday  life.  Then 
they  go  from  house  to  house  to  see  each 
family's  creation,  known  as  a  "putz." 

In  the  nation's  Hispanic  communities, 
families  celebrate  Christmas  by  staging 
"las  posadas,"  processionals  in  which 
residents  act  out  the  search  for  room  at 
the  inn  by  visiting  neighbors  and  meeting 
symbolic  and  preplanned  rejection  before 
finding  prearranged  success. 

In  Greek  Orthodox  homes  in  Astoria, 
N.Y.,  women  bake  a  traditional  Christ- 
mas pita  cake  with  a  charm  inside.  The 
child  who  gets  the  piece  with  the  charm 
is  considered  a  lucky  winner. 

In  rural  Alabama  evefi  county  sheriffs 
break  the  law  on  Christmas  eve.  Forbid- 
den firecracker  blasts  rock  the  night.  The 
earsplitting  custom  recalls  noisy  Spanish 
and  French  celebrations  during  the  rowdy 
early  days  of  Dixie. 

Whatever  form  the  celebration  takes, 
it  signifies  the  rebirth  of  hope  for  peace 
on  earth  and  goodwill  to  men. — Photo- 
graph from  H.  Armstrong  Roberts. 


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Labor  federation  faces 
up  to  challenges  9  adds 
1 .6  million  unionists 

1^   Teamsters  reaffiliate  after  30-year  absence 
l^   $13  million  to  be  spent  to  increase  public 

awareness  of  labor's  goals  and  achievements 
l^    Political  action  in  1988  campaigns  planned 
1^   AFL-CIO  membership  at  record  high 


The  biennial  convention  of  the  AFL- 
CIO,  held  in  Miami  Beach  during  the 
last  week  of  October,  closed  the  ranks 
of  its  90  affiliates  to  do  battle  with  the 
open  shop,  and  it  added  1.6  million 
trade-union  reinforcements  to  give  it 
more  clout. 

The  federation  welcomed  back  to  its 
ranks,  after  a  30-year  absence,  the  1.6 
million  members  of  the  International 
Brotherhood  of  Teamsters. 

Our  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpen- 
ters and  Joiners  of  America  was  fully 
represented  at  all  departmental  conven- 
tions and  in  the  general  convention. 
UBC  delegates  to  the  general  conven- 
tion included  all  of  the  Brotherhood 
general  officers  plus  district  board 
members  Joseph  Lia,  George  Walish, 
Tom  Hanahan,  Jimmy  Jones,  Eugene 
Shoehigh,  Dean  Sooter,  Paul  Johnson 
and  M.B.  Bryant,  and  Chicago  and 
Northeast  District  Council  President 
George  Vest  Jr. 

There  were  more  than  700  delegates 
attending  the  House  of  Labor's  top- 
level  gathering.  They  applauded  the 
return  of  the  Teamsters  to  the  organi- 
zation. 


Teamsters  President  Jackie  Presser 
addressed  -the  convention,  telling  the 
delegates  that  "America  is  in  trouble" 
with  its  industries  devastated  and  or- 
ganized labor  under  assault.  Presser 
said  the  Teamsters,  joining  forces  with 
the  federation,  can  create  a  "political 
giant"  to  help  reverse  current  trends 
and  preserve  worker  living  standards. 

AFL-CIO  President  Lane  Kirkland, 
in  introducing  Presser,  said  the  feder- 
ation "welcomes  the  renewal  of  our 
historic  solidarity  with  the  members  of 
the  Teamsters  and  the  certain  belief 
that  our  unity  strengthens  the  voice  of 
all  American  labor.  Certainly  over  the 
past  30  years  our  mutual  adversaries 
have  continued  to  attack  us  with  equal 
fervor  and  fine  impartiality." 

The  Teamsters'  reaffiliation  boosted 
AFL-CIO  membership  to  a  record  high 
of  14.3  million  in  90  unions.  The  offi- 
cers' report  to  the  convention,  before 
the  1.6  million-member  Teamsters  ap- 
plied, had  reported  a  decline  of  407,000 
since  the  1985  convention  to  a  24-year 
low  of  12.7  million. 

The  Teamster's  return  also  will  bol- 
ster the  AFL-CIO's  financial  strength. 


The  AFL-CIO  in  session  at  the 
Fontainebleau  Hotel,  Miami 
Beach.  Members  of  the  federa- 
tion's executive  council  are 
seated  along  the  daises  at  left 
rear. 

Below,  Teamsters'  President 
Jackie  Presser  flashes  a  thumbs 
up  sign  to  delegates. 

In  the  second  picture  below, 
Kirkland  presents  the  1987 
Meany  Human  Rights  Award  to 
Kim  Hong-up,  who  accepted  for 
his  father.  South  Korean  demo- 
cratic leader  Kim  Dae  Jung. 
Kim  was  honored  for  his  lifelong 
struggle  on  behalf  of  Korean 
workers. 

At  bottom,  President  Campbell, 
right,  in  a  committee  session. 


CARPENTER 


With  a  per  capita  increase  of  two  cents 
to  33  cents  per  member  kicking  in 
January  1  to  finance  new  programs,  the 
Teamsters  1.6  million  members  will 
mean  an  additional  $6.3  million  per  year 
for  the  AFL-CIO. 

Presser  told  the  convention  that,  ear- 
lier this  year,  he  sent  a  message  to 
Kirkland,  asking  for  the  chance  to  speak 
with  him.  When  Kirkland  phoned, 
Presser  said  he  told  him,  "Lane,  we 
want  to  come  home."  He  said  Kirkland 
replied,  "Welcome  home,  I'm  sure  you 
are  going  to  be  well  received." 

On  October  22,  Kirkland  received  a 
letter  from  Presser.  It  informed  him 
that  the  Teamsters'  Executive  Board 
on  October  19  voted  unanimously  to 
reaffiliate.  It  also  said  the  Teamsters 
"agree  to  abide  by  the  terms  and  con- 
ditions of  the  AFL-CIO  Constitution." 

After  the  AFL-CIO  Executive  Coun- 
cil debated  and  approved  the  Teamster 
application,  Kirkland  told  reporters  he 
would  welcome  the  affiliation  of  other 
unions  still  outside  the  AFL-CIO.  The 
United  Mine  Workers  already  have  close 
ties  with  the  federation,  and  Kirkland 
said  he  would  welcome  the  UM W '  'with 
great  enthusiasm." 

The  Teamsters  were  expelled  in  1957 
after  their  leaders  at  the  time  refused 
to  appear  before  a  federation  ethics 
panel;  the  Mine  Workers  left  the  former 
AFL  years  earlier  when  John  L.  Lewis 
disaffiliated  the  UMW. 

In  his  keynote  address,  Kirkland  noted 
the  Reagan  era  is  in  its  "dwindling 
twilight  months."  It  is  time  for  working 
people  to  rally  at  the  polls  and  show 
whether  they  have  lost  their  clout  as 
critics  claim. 

To  those  who  write  off  labor,  Kirk- 
land said,  organized  labor  can  show 
"we  are  today  on  the  road  again — to  a 
resurgent  labor  movement,  with  grow- 
ing numbers,  stronger  organizations, 
deeper  solidarity,  and  a  voice  that  will 
be  heard." 

Kirkland  sharply  criticized  "the  or- 
chestrated leaks  and  planted  press  sto- 
ries" about  Justice  Department  plans 
to  impose  ajudge-appointed  trusteeship 
over  unions  under  a  "a  contrived  theory 
of  collective  guilt." 

He  said  the  AFL-CIO  would  take 
whatever  action  is  necessary  to  block 
such  trusteeships,  including  denuncia- 
tion of  the  administration  of  the  Inter- 
national Labor  Organization  on  grounds 
it  is  violating  ILO  Convention  87  on 
Freedom  of  Association. 

In  the  biennial  election  of  officers, 
Kirkland,  65,  and  Secretary-Treasurer 
Thomas  R.  Donahue,  59,  were  re- 
elected. Thirty-one  council  vice-presi- 
dents also  were  reelected. 

Two  new  vice  presidents  elected  were 
Electrical  Workers  President  John  J. 
Barry  and  Fire  Fighters  President  John 


DECEMBER     1987 


A.  Gannon.  They  took  seats  vacated 
by  two  retired  union  presidents,  Thomas 
Gleason  of  the  Longshoremen  and 
Charles  Pillard  of  the  IBEW. 

The  delegates  also  adopted  a  series 
of  constitutional  amendments  aimed  at 
furthering  the  goals  and  strengthening 
the  structure  of  the  federation: 

•  The  council  was  empowered  to 
create  additional  vice  presidencies  be- 
tween conventions  to  recognize  newly 
affiliated  unions.  The  Teamsters' 
Presser,  61,  is  expected  to  be  elected 
to  the  council  under  this  provision. 

•  A  two-year,  $13  million  "Union, 
Yes"  radio  and  TV  union  awareness 
advertising  campaign  was  funded  with 
a  two-cent  hike  in  per  capita  effective 
January  1988  and  another  two-cent  in- 
crease in  January  1989.  The  current  per 
capita  is  3 1  cents  per  member  per  month. 

•  The  per  capita  payment  for  "as- 
sociate members"  of  affiliated  unions 
was  set  at  two-thirds  of  regular  AFL- 
CIO  per  capita  to  enable  them  to  attract 
more  members. 

•  New  procedures  were  approved 
for  defining  organizing  responsibilities 
in  all  areas  except  the  building  trades 
to  minimize  wasteful  competition. 

•  A  formula  was  approved  to  facili- 
tate the  affiliation  of  local  unions  with 
state  central  bodies.  The  financial  in- 
centive is  a  reduced  75%  per  capita  tax 
paid  by  the  parent  union  directly  to  the 
AFL-CIO,  with  a  rebate  going  back  to 
the  state  bodies.  This  has  been  a  weak 
link  in  the  federation's  structure,  with 
only  about  50%  of  local  unions  actually 
affiliated  with  state  and  local  central 
bodies. 

The  labor  federation  and  its  working 
committees  took  firm  stands  on  many 
issues  facing  workers  and  consumers. 
These  were  some  of  the  positions  taken: 

Good,  affordable  health  care  was  reaf- 
firmed as  a  goal  of  labor.  The  AFL-CIO 
vowed  to  continue  to  work  with  its  allies  in 
legislative,  bargaining  and  grassroots  arenas 
to  bring  affordable,  quality  health  care  to  all 
Americans. 

The  federation  said  that  the  problems  of 
health  care  inflation,  inadequate  access  to 
services  and  uneven  quality  of  care  "show 
no  signs  of  abating." 

Its  ultimate  goal  remains  a  national  health 
care  program — "the  only  way  to  assure  that 
all  Americans  have  access  to  quality  care 
they  can  afford."  But  until  that  time,  the 
AFL-CIO  pledged  to  fight  cutbacks,  control 
costs  and  improve  health  care  services. 

Labor  continues  to  give  a  high  priority  to 
overhauling  anti- worker  laws.  One  of  labor's 
highest  priorities  in  which  the  1988  elections 
will  play  a  "critical"  role  is  the  overhaul  of 
"harsh,  anti-worker  labor  laws,"  the  AFL- 
CIO  said. 

A  resolution  stated  that  the  remedies  af- 
forded by  the  nation's  labor  laws  are  "so 
weak,  and  so  slow  in  coming,  that  employers 
can  overtly  flout  the  law,   secure  in  the 


knowledge  that  under  these  statutes  wrong- 
doing does  pay." 

Labor  laws  have  ceased  to  provide  work- 
ers with  the  opportunity  to  "deal  with  em- 
ployers as  equals  through  the  give-and-take 
of  collective  bargaining,"  the  federation 
added. 

AFL-CIO  delegates  called  upon  the  federal 
government  to  take  quick  action  to  ease  the 
stocks  and  dollar  crisis. 

An  AFL-CIO  convention  resolution  said 
that  U.S.  workers  are  threatened  by  major 
economic  problems,  including  high  trade  and 
federal  budget  deficits,  growing  foreign  debt, 
high  real  interest  rates,  unemployment,  fall- 
ing real  earnings,  maldistribution  of  income, 
plant  closings,  corporate  mergers  and  take- 
overs and  inadequate  protection  against  lay- 
offs, illness  and  old  age. 

The  Reagan  adminstration's  "tax  give- 
aways" and  large  defense  build-up  have 
caused  the  federal  government's  debt  to 
mushroom  to  $2.4  trillion — almost  triple  the 
nation's  debt  in  1980,  the  resolution  said. 

"These  deficits  have  distorted  the  econ- 
omy, have  been  the  excuse  for  shortchanging 
vital  programs,  are  saddling  future  genera- 
tions and  are  stopping  the  federal  govern- 
ment from  using  its  taxing  and  spending 
authority  to  spur  growth  and  fight  the  drift 
toward  recession,"  the  convention  said. 

The  convention  called  upon  the  nation's 
leaders  to  "recognize  today's  trade  realities." 

The  AFL-CIO  convention  resolution  on 
international  trade  and  investment  said  that 
trade  legislation  must  require  the  reduction 
of  excessive  export  surpluses  by  major  U.S. 
trading  partners,  curb  trade  with  countries 
which  deny  worker  rights,  provide  relief 
from  injury  due  to  unfair  trade  practices, 
and  broaden  the  injury  standard  for,  import 
relief. 

The  federation  demanded  relief  for  Amer- 
ica's homeless. 

High  interest  rates,  declining  real  incomes 
and  tight  federal  budgets  "are  causing  sig- 
nificant declines  in  housing  construction," 
a  federation  convention  resolution  said. 
"Unemployment  in  the  construction  indus- 
try is  likely  to  increase,  and  affordable  homes 
will  continue  to  be  beyond  the  reach  of  a 
substantial  majority  of  Americans,"  it  said. 

The  number  of  homeless  is  growing  by  as 
much  as  25%  a  year  and  now  totals  well 
over  a  half  million  persons,  the  resolution 
noted.  "Many  of  the  homeless  are  children 
whose  parents  have  no  work.  The  causes  of 
homelessness,"  it  said,  "are  rooted  in  the 
low  minimum  wage,  the  thrusting  of  the 
mentally  sick  from  institutions  to  the  side- 
walks of  our  cities,  the  ongoing  epidemic  of 
plant  closings,  and  above  all  else — the  sharp, 
devastating  reduction  of  low-income  hous- 
ing." 

Labor  called  for  a  reversal  of  the  Reagan 
effort  to  deregulate  everything,  particularly 
transportation. 

The  AFL-CIO  called  for  reversing  the 
course  of  deregulating  and  privatizing  the 
nation's  rail,  air,  bus,  urban  transit  and 
maritime  transportation  system. 

"Leaving  transportation  to  private  enter- 
prise and  market  forces  will  reduce  safety, 
diminish  national  security,  undermine  wages 
and  living  standards  and  deny  many  people 
access  to  transportation,"  a  convention  res- 


olution stated. 

Regarding  the  nation's  railroads,  the  fed- 
eration called  for  legislation  to  control  and 
Umit  the  spinoff  of  short  lines,  a  trend  which 
dismantles  rail  networks,  renders  service 
less  reliable,  pushes  down  wages  and  un- 
dermines key  regulations. 

Labor  reaffirmed  its  support  of  democratic 
trade  unions  worldwide  and  a  strong  national 
defense  at  home. 

In  a  broad  resolution  on  international 
affairs,  the  AFL-CIO  convention  reaffirmed 
its  support  for  democratic  trade  unions 
worldwide  and  a  strong  national  defense. 

The  convention  called  for  the  withdrawal 
of  U.S.  military  assistance  to  the  contras  as 
well  as  the  withdrawal  of  Soviet/Cuban  mil- 
itary assistance  to  the  Sandinistas  in  Nicar- 
agua. 

The  federation  urged  the  Reagan  admin- 
istration to  pursue  in  "good  faith"  a  diplo- 
matic solution  to  the  Sandinista-contra  con- 
flict within  the  framework  of  the  Central 
American  peace  plan  developed  by  Costa 
Rican  President  Oscar  Arias  Sanchez. 

The  AFL-CIO  also  condemned  Reagan 
administration  actions  "to  circumvent  the 
law  and  lie  to  Congress  while  attempting  to 
fund  the  Nicaraguan  contras . ' '  "The  struggle 
for  democracy  abroad  is  not  served  by  un- 
dermining democracy  at  home,"  the  AFL- 
CIO  said. 

The  federation  said  it  will  continue  to 
pursue  as  a  major  objective  the  linking  of 
worker  rights  to  trade.  The  resolution  called 
for  labor  rights  contained  in  existing  trade 
laws  to  be  extended  to  U.S.  trade  remedies, 
with  the  denial  of  fundamental  worker  rights 
included  as  an  unfair  trade  practice. 

In  addition,  the  convention  called  for  the 
vigorous  enforcement  of  existing  law  to 
encourage  the  rights  of  freedom  of  associa- 
tion, organization,  collective  bargaining,  de- 
cent wages,  and  working  conditions  and 
freedom  from  exploitation,  including  restric- 
tions on  child  labor. 

On  national  defense,  the  AFL-CIO  called 
for  a  balance  in  conventional  forces  in  Eu- 
rope between  NATO  and  the  Warsaw  Pact 
"where  the  Soviet  bloc  now  enjoys  a  clear 
advantage." 


UBC  was  ably  represented  at  the 
various  departmental  conventions  at 
Miami  Beach  in  October.  At  the  gath- 
ering of  the  Metal  Trades,  Second  Gen- 
eral Vice  President  John  Pruitt  and 
Kenneth  McCormick  were  official  del- 
egates. Five  UBC  delegates  attended 
the  gathering  of  the  AFL-CIO  Union 
Label  and  Service  Trades  Depart- 
ment— First  General  Vice  President 
Sigurd  Lucassen  and  delegates  Andris 
Silins,  William  Devins,  Merle  Scriver 
and  Leonard  Brandt.  General  President 
Campbell  headed  the  delegation  to  the 
Maritime  Trades,  accompanied  by  T.L. 
Bodewes,  Paschal  McGuinness,  Robert 
Argentine,  Leonard  Terbrock,  James 
Kerlee  and  Douglas  J.  McCarron. 


CARPENTER 


After  28  workers  killed: 


Bridgeport  building  collapse 
spurs  record  OSHA  penalties 


The  U.S.  Labor  Department  has  pro- 
posed a  record  $5.11  million  in  penalties 
against  five  companies  for  alleged  safety 
violations  contributing  to  the  collapse 
last  April  of  an  apartment  building  un- 
der construction  in  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

The  collapse  of  the  13-story,  two- 
tower  L'Ambiance  Plaza  project  killed 
28  building  trades  workers,  including 
seven  UBC  members,  and  injured  10 
others.  It  was  the  worst  workplace 
accident  since  52  workers,  including  17 
UBC  members,  were  killed  during  the 
construction  of  a  cooling  tower  at  Wil- 
low Island,  W.Va.,  in  1978. 

The  Labor  Department's  Occupa- 
tional Safety  and  Health  Administration 
charged  five  companies  involved  in  the 
project  with  willful  violations  of  stand- 
ards which  regulate  the  design,  con- 
struction and  operations  of  equipment 
used  in  concrete  construction.  OSHA 
regulations  require  external  lateral 
bracing  and  shear  walls  to  be  installed 
before  concrete  floor  slabs  are  lifted 
into  place  and  also  require  lifting  jacks 
to  be  secured  to  the  tops  of  support 
columns. 

OSHA  chief  John  A.  Pendergrass 
said  a  six-month  investigation  by  OSHA 
and  the  Commerce  Department's  Na- 
tional Bureau  of  Standards  revealed  "a 
serious  disregard  for  basic,  fundamental 
engineering  practices,  a  factor  directly 
related  to  the  cause  of  the  collapse." 

Pendergrass  said  the  investigation 
showed  "obvious  design  deficiencies  in 
a  lifting  system  that  could  have  been 
easily  detected  with  an  engineering 
analysis."  The  building  was  being  con- 
structed using  the  lift-slab  method,  where 
concrete  floors  are  poured  at  ground 
level,  then  lifted  by  hydraulic  jacks  into 
final  positions  on  steel  support  columns. 

However,  the  analysis  was  evidently 
not  performed  even  after  the  lifting 
system  failed  at  a  site  in  Stamford, 
Conn.,  on  March  6,  1986,  and  at  the 
L'Ambiance  Plaza  project  on  Feb.  19, 
1987,  Pendergrass  said. 

Pendergrass  said  the  agency  "found  a 
pattern  of  sloppy  construction  practices 
throughout  the  project  and  an  overall 
sense  of  employer  complacency  for  es- 
sential workplace  safety  considerations. ' ' 

Jim  Lapping,  safety  expert  for  the 
AFL-CIO  Building  and  Construction 
Trades  Department,  said  that  the  de- 
partment was   "very  pleased  by  the 


Working  through. the  night,  union  volun- 
teers removed  28  victims  from  the  col- 
lapsed apartment  building  under  construc- 
tion in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  This  body  was 
extracted  from  the  rubble  after  eight  days 
of  around-the-clock  rescue  work  by 
hundreds  of  union  building  tradesmen.  The 
AFL-CIO  Executive  Council  called  for  re- 
vised federal  construction  safety  regula- 
tions and  passage  of  labor-backed  legisla- 
tion that  would  address  the  shortcomings 
of  the  Occupational  Safety  &  Health 
Administration. 


competent  job  done  by  the  NBS"  in 
investigating  the  accident. 

However,  Lapping  said,  OSHA  did 
not  respond  "satisfactorily"  to  the 
BCTD's  questions  about  investigation 
of  the  decision-making  process  on  the 
building,  who  was  in  charge  of  the  lifting 
operation  and  what  training  and  edu- 
cation was  provided  to  workers  and 
supervisors  on  the  project. 

Keith  Stover,  assistant  to  the  presi- 
dent of  the  Connecticut  State  AFL- 
CIO,  said  the  report  on  the  accident 
provoked  a  "mixture  of  sadness  and 
anger"  from  union  members  of  the 
state.  "We  are  sad  for  our  brothers 
who  were  killed  and  angry  that  the 
tragedy  might  well  have  been  avoided," 
he  said. 

"It  is  our  opinion  that,  if  there  had 
been  a  more  effective  field  operation  in 
place  by  OSHA,  this  tragedy  could  have 


been  avoided,"  Stover  said. 

Connecticut  unions  had  complained 
before  and  after  the  Bridgeport  accident 
that  OSHA  is  so  understaffed  that  the 
agency  responds  only  to  worker  com- 
plaints, and  even  then  there  is  a  backlog 
that  can  result  in  long  waits. 

OSHA  had  inspected  the  site  in  Oc- 
tober 1986  in  response  to  a  worker 
complaint  and  issued  citations  for 
trenching  standard  violations. 

Pendergrass  said  the  agency  did  not 
inspect  after  the  lifting  system  failure 
in  February  because  no  complaint  was 
filed,  and  there  is  no  regulation  requir- 
ing the  reporting  of  such  an  incident. 

OSHA  proposed  nearly  $2.5  million 
in  penalties  for  alleged  willful  and  se- 
rious violations  against  the  primary 
contractor  and  project  manager,  TPMI/ 
Macomber,  a  joint  venture  between 
TPM  International  of  Darien,  Conn., 
and  B.H.  Macomber  of  Boston. 

The  agency  proposed  more  than  $2.5 
million  in  penalties  against  Texstar 
Construction  Corp.  of  San  Antonio, 
Tex.  That  company  was  responsible  for 
the  design,  fabrication,  installation  and 
operation  of  the  lifting  system  and 
placement  of  the  floor  and  roof  slabs. 

The  remaining  penalties  were  charged 
against  general  contractor  Lift  Frame 
Builders  of  Elmsford,  N.Y.,  and  two 
subcontractors,  Fairfield  Testing  Labs 
of  Stamford,  Conn.,  and  Preforce  Corp. 
of  New  York  City. 

Pendergrass  said  the  agency  advised 
Texstar  and  another  lift-slab  operator 
to  cease  lifting  operations  until  their  lift 
systems  have  been  tested  for  conform- 
ance with  a  safety  standard  requiring 
that  equipment  used  in  concrete  con- 
struction must  be  strong  enough  to 
carry  2.5  times  the  anticipated  load. 

OSHA  cited  TPMI/Macomber  and 
Texstar  for  238  alleged  willful  violations 
of  that  standard,  which  made  up  the 
majority  of  the  proposed  penalties  against 
those  companies. 

Pendergrass  said  the  agency  is  "still 
evaluating"  a  petition  for  an  emergency 
temporary  standard  filed  four  months 
ago  by  the  AFL-CIO  Building  and  Con- 
struction Trades  Department.  He  said 
the  agency  will  call  for  public  comment 
on  the  issues  involved  in  the  Bridgeport 
accident. 

The  union  petition  asked  OSHA  to 
require  a  construction  process  plan  and 


DECEMBER     1987 


hazard  analysis  on  potential  collapse 
conditions.  The  BCTD  also  asked  OSHA 
to  establish  a  reporting  system  that 
would  require  contractors  to  notify  the 
agency  about  incidents  such  as  the 
previous  failure  of  the  lift  system  at  the 
L'Ambiance  Plaza  project. 

Charles  G.  Culver,  one  of  the  authors 
of  the  NBS  report,  said  the  most  prob- 
able cause  of  the  L'Ambiance  Plaza 
collapse  was  failure  of  a  shearhead,  a 
key  component  of  the  lift  system. 

Shearheads  are  placed  in  the  concrete 
as  it  is  poured  and  are  fitted  around  the 
steel  columns  like  a  collar.  Jacking  rods 
are  attached  to  shearheads  at  each  sup- 
port column  when  the  slab  is  ready  for 
lifting. 

Culver  said  that  apparently  the  weight 
placed  on  a  jack  in  the  West  Tower 
exceeded  the  capacity  of  a  lifting  angle 
inside  the  shearhead.  The  jack  rod  and 
lifting  angle  deformed,  the  jack  nut 
slipped,  the  rod  then  slipped  out  at  the 
shearhead  and  the  slab  fell. 

The  falling  of  the  slab,  which  was 
one  of  the  top  stories  of  the  building, 
set  off  a  chain  reaction  of  support  col- 
umn failures  and  sent  three  million 
pounds  of  concrete  raining  down  on  the 
structure.  As  the  West  Tower  col- 
lapsed, it  transferred  forces  to  the  East 
Tower,  causing  its  collapse,  which  may 
have  been  aided  by  falling  debris  from 
the  West  Tower. 

Culver  said  that,  according  to  eye- 
witnesses, the  entire  process  from  the 
first  loud  crack  of  the  failed  jack  rod  to 
the  entire  collapse  took  only  two  to  10 
seconds. 

Continued  on  Page  38 


L-P  cited  for  safety  violations 
in  aftermath  of  fatal  explosion 


The  U.S.  Occupational  Safety  and 
Health  Administration  recently  an- 
nounced that  it  has  cited  the  Louisiana- 
Pacific  Fibreboard  Corp.  plant  in  An- 
tioch,  Calif.,  for  28  instances  of  alleged 
safety  and  health  violations. 

The  citations  resulted  from  OSHA's 
investigation  of  an  explosion  at  the  plant 
on  July  5.  Three  employees  died  from 
the  explosion  of  a  recovery  boiler  in 
the  pulp  mill. 

OSHA  cited  the  company  for  nine 
instances  of  serious  violations  and  19 
other-than-serious  violations.  It  pro- 
posed penalties  totaling  $5,580  for  the 
serious  violations. 

Four  of  the  proposed  violations  re- 
lated to  the  explosion  of  the  recovery 
boiler.  OSHA  alleged  the  employer: 

•  failed  to  establish  a  safe  time  to 
re-enter  the  recovery  boiler  area  after 
the  rapid-drain  system  was  initiated; 

•  failed  to  establish  a  biennual  in- 
spection of  the  recovery  boiler  rapid- 
drain  system,  including  a  weekly  in- 
spection of  the  system  components; 

•  failed  to  adequately  train  operators 
and  employees  in  the  recovery  boiler 
area; 

•  failed  to  require  employees  to  wear 
personal  protective  clothing  including 
face  shields  and  fire-resistant  clothing. 

OSHA  proposed  a  $900  penalty  for 
each  of  these  violations. 
The  other  five  serious  violations  re- 


late to  OSHA's  wall-to-wall  inspection 
of  the  plant.  They  include: 

•  lack  of  standard  railings  on  ele- 
vated platforms  and  walkways; 

•  failure  to  provide  respirators  for 
employees  in  the  process  lab  exposed 
to  hydrochloric  and  sulfuric  acids; 

•  lack  of  a  guard  on  a  radial-arm 
saw; 

•  failure  to  label  pipelines  earring 
chlorine; 

•  electrical  cables  in  the  waste  fuel 
boiler  area  were  not  protected  by  con- 
duit. 

OSHA  proposed  penalties  totaling 
$2,250  for  these  violations. 

No  penalties  were  proposed  for  the 
less-than-serious  violations. 

A  serious  violation  is  one  in  which 
there  is  substantial  probability  that  death 
or  serious  physical  harm  could  result 
and  that  the  employer  knew,  or  should 
have  known,  of  the  hazard. 

Fibreboard  Corp.  was  allowed  15 
working  days  to  notify  OSHA  if  it 
intended  to  contest  the  citations  before 
the  Occupational  Safety  and  Health 
Review  Commission. 

The  Fibreboard  Corp.  investigation 
was  initiated  July  6  and  was  expanded 
to  include  the  entire  plant  on  August 
10  by  the  federal  OSHA  area  office  in 
Walnut  Creek  under  the  supervision  of 
Don  AUendorf,  area  office  director. 


FOREST  PRODUCTS  ORGANIZING  PICKS  UP  STEAM 


Georgia-Pacific  workers  at  Walterboro,  S.C.  vote  yes  for  UBC 


In  the  second  straight  victory  at  a  Georgia- 
Pacific  plant,  in  Walterboro,  S.C,  the  work- 
ers voted  43-11  to  be  represented  by  the 
United  Brotherhood.  This  campaign  follows 
quickly  upon  the  victory  at  Holly  Hill,  S.C, 
40  miles  away,  just  one  month  before. 

The  company  waged  a  campaign  against 


the  employees  unionizing  attempt,  but  their 
efforts  were  to  no  avail.  The  workers  at 
Walterboro  understood  that  they  could  bet- 
ter themselves  by  joining  with  other  forest 
products  workers  in  the  wood  products  in- 
dustry at  the  negotiating  table. 
As  soon  as  the  employees  at  Walterboro 


select  a  negotiating  committee  and  develop 
a  contract  proposal,  they  will  enter  negoti- 
ations on  a  joint  bargaining  committee  with 
the  two  other  Georgia  Pacific  mills  in  Holly 
Hill,  S.C.  now  in  the  process  of  negotiating 
new  agreements. 


CARPENTER 


Washington 
Report 


SENATE  SUPPORTS  DAVIS-BACON 

The  Senate  has  rejected  on  a  56-41  vote  a  move 
to  undermine  Davis-Bacon  prevailing  wage  protec- 
tions by  exempting  Defense  Department  construc- 
tion contracts  under  $250,000. 

The  vote  came  on  a  Reagan  administration-sup- 
ported amendment  to  a  defense  appropriations  bill 
proposed  by  Senator  Phil  Gramm  (R-Texas).  Last 
year,  when  a  Republican  majority  controlled  the 
Senate,  an  identical  amendment  passed  by  a  51- 
44  margin.  A  House-Senate  conference  later 
agreed  to  drop  the  amendment. 

Senator  Edward  M.  Kennedy  (D-Mass.),  chairman 
of  the  Labor  &  Human  Resources  Committee,  noted 
during  the  floor  debate  that  the  parallel  House  com- 
mittee has  approved  a  compromise  bill  acceptable 
to  labor  that  would  raise  the  threshold  for  Davis- 
Bacon  coverage  from  its  present  $2,000  floor.  The 
proposed  new  floor  is  $50,000  for  new  construction 
contracts  and  $15,000  for  repairs  or  renovation. 
Kennedy  said  his  committee  will  give  the  bill  prompt 
consideration. 

The  Senate  also  defeated,  67-30,  a  proposal  by 
Gramm  to  gut  the  Service  Contracts  Act,  which 
protects  some  of  the  lowest  paid  groups  of  workers 
from  wage  cuts  when  a  new  defense  contractor 
takes  over.  Gramm's  amendment  sought  to  exclude 
service  contracts  of  less  than  $2  million,  which 
would  have  eliminated  about  90%  of  covered  con- 
tracts. 

Senator  Howard  M.  Metzenbaum  (D-Ohio)  noted 
that  Congress  in  1965  passed  the  Service  Con- 
tracts Act  to  protect  "the  poorest  and  most  vulnera- 
ble" groups  in  the  labor  force,  including  janitors  and 
housekeepers  at  military  bases  and  hospitals. 


PENSION  FUNDS  SPREAD 

Union  pension  fund  investments  in  real  estate 
mortgages  have  a  strong  ripple  effect  on  the  local 
communities  where  those  investments  are  made,  a 
new  study  shows.  In  one  example  cited  in  the 
study,  a  $1 .4  million  mortgage  commitment  made 
by  the  Union  Labor  Life  insurance  Company's  "J 
For  Jobs"  account  for  a  three-story  office  building  in 
Crown  Point,  Ind.,  generated  $3.4  million  in  eco- 


nomic activity  in  the  surrounding  community,  almost 
2.5  times  greater  than  the  original  mortgage  com- 
mitment. The  commitment  stimulated  $1.1  million  in 
local  wage  earnings,  increased  revenue  for  local 
governments,  new  business  for  local  stores,  and 
increased  contributions  to  local  pension  plans. 

HUD  WANTS  OUT  OF  THIS 

James  Nistler,  deputy  assistant  secretary  for  sin- 
gle family  housing  for  the  Department  of  Housing 
and  Urban  Development,  announced  recently 
HUD'S  intentions  to  propose  legislation  or  regulatory 
measures  to  remove  itself  from  its  responsibilities 
under  the  Federal  Manufactured  Housing  and  Con- 
struction and  Safety  Standards  Act. 

Nistler  surprised  the  audience  of  state  building 
officials  who  have  authority  over  site-built,  modular, 
and  manufactured  housing  and  who  had  gathered 
in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  to  discuss  such  programs  as  the 
federal  manufactured  housing  program. 

EPA  ASBESTOS  RULES 

The  Environmental  Protection  Agency  has  issued 
final  rules  under  the  Asiestos  Hazard  Emergency 
Response  Act  of  1 986  i  agarding  treatment  of  as- 
bestos in  elementary  and  secondary  schools. 

Schools  are  required  to  submit  management 
plans  to  the  governors  of  their  states  by  October 
12,  1988.  States  have  90  days  to  approve  or  disap- 
prove these  plans. 

Implementation  of  the  plans  must  begin  by  July  9, 
1989,  and  be  done  by  accredited  workers. 

The  rules  require  periodic  surveillance  and  rein- 
spection  to  monitor  asbestos-containing  material  left 
in  place  in  schools. 

CATASTROPHIC  BILL  MOVES 

A  catastrophic  health  care  bill  that  includes  a 
prescription  benefit  in  exchange  for  a  $1 50  raise  in 
the  deductible  Medicare  patients  would  have  to  pay 
has  passed  the  Senate  86-1 1 . 

Senator  Lloyd  Bentsen  (D-Texas),  the  Senate  Fi- 
nance Committee  chairman,  worked  out  an  agree- 
ment with  the  White  House,  ending  a  long-standing 
presidential  veto  threat  because  the  prescription 
benefit  was  considered  too  costly  for  the  govern- 
ment. 

The  catastrophic  care  legislation  affects  31  million 
elderly  and  disabled  Americans.  The  House  passed 
its  version  of  the  bill  302-127  last  July.  With  the 
Senate  passage,  the  measure  is  almost  certain  to 
be  signed  into  law. 

The  Senate  version  phases  in  the  drug  benefit 
over  three  years,  from  1990  to  1993.  The  deducti- 
ble would  be  $600  the  first  year,  and  anticipated 
rises  to  $640  in  1991  and  $690  in  1992.  By  1993, 
100%  of  prescription  drug  expenses  would  be  cov- 
ered after  a  deductible  is  paid. 

The  cost  of  the  drug  program  would  come  by  a 
monthly  premium  increase,  amounting  to  $2.70  by 
1993,  said  a  Senate  spokesman. 

Medicare  recipients,  under  the  Senate  Bill,  will 
have  to  pay  a  $1,850  deductible,  up  $150  from  the 
$1,700  annual  deductible  approved  by  the  Senate 
Finance  Committee  last  May.  Medicare  would  pay 
for  all  bills  beyond  that  threshold. 


DECEMBER     1987 


Presidenl  Campbell  speaking  at  the  Dishonor  Roll  press  conference. 

BE  &  K  Inc.  heads 
1987  Dishonor  Roll 
of  Labor  Law  Violators 


Five  major  U.S.  companies  have  been 
added  to  the  Dishonor  Roll  of  Labor 
Law  Violators  drawn  up  by  the  Indus- 
trial Union  Department  of  the  AFL- 
CIO. 

The  1987  nominees  include:  BE  &  K 
Inc.,  Colt  Firearms,  International  Paper 
Company,  MCI  Corporation  and  U.S. 
Playing  Card  Company.  The  list  was 
announced  in  October  at  a  press  con- 
ference preceding  the  AFL-CIO  bien- 
nial convention. 

"The  size  of  this  year's  nominees, 
each  a  giant  in  its  field,  shows  that  the 
attitude  of  American  industry  toward 
its  workers  is  no  better  today  than  it 
was  in  1983,  when  we  began  this  list," 
lUD  President  Howard  Samuel  said  as 
he  announced  this  year's  dishonor  roll. 

Each  of  the  companies  has  been  nom- 
inated by  the  affected  unions  because 
of  especially  callous  violations  of  its 
workers'  rights. 

BE  &  K  Inc.,  a  non-union  construc- 
tion contractor  specializing  in  the  pulp 
and  paper  industry,  established  itself  as 
a  provider  of  strikebreaking  workers 
and  other  services  to  mills  seeking  to 
destroy  their  unions.  It  moves  non- 
union workers  from  place  to  place, 
providing  a  force  which  crosses  picket 
lines  to  keep  struck  plants  operating. 
BE  &  K  also  provides  strikebreaking 
advice  to  clients. 

Presidents  Patrick  J.  Campbell  of  the 
United  Brotherhood  of  Carpenters  and 
Wayne  E.  Glenn  of  the  United  Paper- 
workers  International  Union  both  nom- 
inated BE  &  K  on  the  grounds  that. 


"This  company  takes  jobs  from  our 
members  and  gives  them  to  a  roving 
force  of  scabs,  today's  mercenaries." 

The  United  Auto  Workers,  which 
represents  1000  strikers  at  the  Colt 
Firearms  Division  of  Colt  Industries  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  nominated  Colt  Fire- 
arms. After  working  for  more  than  10 
months  after  their  contract  expired,  in 
an  effort  to  reach  agreement  with  Colt, 
the  workers  were  forced  onto  the  picket 
line  when  the  company  fired  and  sus- 
pended more  than  400  of  them. 

"Colt  has  betrayed  the  State  of  Con- 
necticut, which  was  subsidizing  plant 
renovations  in  exchange  for  company 
assurances  the  facility  would  remain 
open.  It  has  betrayed  the  American 
government,  which  relied  on  it  to  pro- 
duce high-quality  weapons  with  trained 
workers.  Most  of  all,  it  has  betrayed 
its  workers,  who  have  sought  to  keep 
their  jobs,"  said  UAW  president  Owen 
Bieber. 

The  United  Paperworkers  have  added 
the  International  Paper  Company,  the 
enormously  profitable  manufacturer 
which  has  more  than  3000  workers 
locked  out  or  on  strike  in  Maine,  Ala- 
bama, Wisconsin  and  Pennsylvania. 
According  to  Paperworkers  President 
Glenn,  "IP  is  demanding  concessions 
it  doesn't  need,  doesn't  deserve  and 
will  not  get  from  our  members.  They 
are  among  the  most  productive  workers 
in  this  nation.  If  IP  has  problems,  they 
are  at  the  management  level,  not  on  the 
shop  floor." 

Continued  on  Page  38 


Profile  of 
BE&  K  Inc. 


BE  &  K  Inc.,  a  non-union  construc- 
tion contractor  specializing  in  the  pulp 
and  paper  industry,  has  established  a 
name  for  itself  as  a  full-service  strike- 
breaker and  subverter  of  the  collective 
bargaining  process.  Active  since  1986 
in  the  business  of  providing  strike- 
breakers and  strikebreaking  consulta- 
tion to  construction  companies  in- 
volved in  labor  disputes,  BE  &  K  is 
most  notorious  for  breaking  six  strikes 
at  International  Paper  mills  across  the 
country. 

Headquartered  in  Birmingham,  Ala., 
BE  &  K  has  grown  since  its  founding 
in  1972  into  one  of  the  largest  privately- 
owned  construction  firms  in  the  coun- 
try, with  more  than  $637  million  in  do- 
mestic contracts.  It  recently  expanded 
its  operations  beyond  construction  and 
contract  maintenance  of  pulp  and  paper 
mills  to  include  providing  struck  com- 
panies with  workers  trained  to  operate 
those  mills  while  unionized  workers 
picket  at  the  gate. 

In  addition,  BE  &  K  has  broadened 
its  construction  portfolio  to  include 
steel  mill  construction,  forming  a  joint 
venture  with  Pittsburgh,  Pa. -based 
Eichley  Corp.  Together,  they  are  build- 
ing a  major  new  USX  facility  in  Contra 
Costa  County,  Calif.,  with  non-union 
workers,  despite  the  area's  traditionally 
strong  commitment  to  union  construc- 
tion. 

A  rabidly  anti-union  operation,  BE  & 
K  has  profited  tremendously  from  its 
service  to  the  multi-billion-dollar  forest 
products  industry  as  a  hired  strike- 
breaker. 

It  provides  construction  services  at 
substandard  rates  and  maintains  a  com- 
puterized database  of  5,000  workers  ex- 
perienced in  crossing  picket  lines  and 
manning  posts  of  employees  on  strike. 

BE  &  K's  growth  can  be  traced  di- 
rectly to  this  strikebreaking  service,  at- 
tractive to  companies  unwilling  to  en- 
gage in  fair  labor  practices.  It  has 
provided  a  great  deal  of  this  service  to 
International  Paper,  making  an  anti- 
worker  reputation  for  itself  during  diffi- 
cult strikes  and  lockouts  at  six  IP  fac- 
tories across  the  country. 

In  each  instance,  BE  &  K  entered 
the  mills  just  prior  to  upcoming  con- 
tract negotiations  with  the  United  Pap- 
erworkers International  Union  in  order 
to  facilitate  the  permanent  replacement 
of  union  members  on  strike. 

The  United  Brotherhood  of  Carpen- 
ters also  has  closely  monitored  BE  & 
K's  activities  within  the  paper  industry 
over  the  past  several  years,  as  the 
company  has  prospered  in  its  services 
to  a  healthy  and  growing  American  in- 
dustry. This  expansion  has  given  rise  to 
job  opportunities  of  every  kind  in  the 


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CARPENTER 


construction  field — all  for  non-union 
workers. 

BE  &  K  has  devoted  most  of  its  strike- 
breaking, union-busting  efforts  to  the 
very  lucrative  paper  industry,  but  it  has 
not  limited  its  activities  to  International 
Paper. 

In  1986,  its  now  familiar  interference 
in  the  collective  bargaining  process  was 
highlighted  during  UPIU's  strike 
against  the  Boise  Cascade  mill  in  Rum- 
ford,  Maine.  BE  &  K  supplied  200 
workers  and  extensive  strikebreaking 
consultation  to  the  mill  shortly  before 
the  union  contract  expired.  When  a 
strike  ensued,  340  unionized  employees 
were  permanently  displaced. 

Later,  BE  &  K  helped  Louisiana- 
Pacific  break  a  strike  by  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Western  Pulp  and  Paper 
Workers  in  Antioch,  Calif.,  and  pro- 


posed to  offer  the  same  service  to  Ow- 
ens-Illinois and  Weyerhaeuser  Com- 
pany. Interestingly,  BE  &  K's  discus- 
sions with  Weyerhaeuser  coincided 
with  the  company's  awarding  it  a  paper 
mill  contract  in  Canada,  despite  the 
fact  that  BE  &  K  was  $2.8  million 
higher  on  its  bid  than  a  union  con- 
tractor. 

In  marketing  its  contract  mainte- 
nance services,  BE  &  K  promotes  itself 
as  a  company  that  can  bring  new  en- 
ergy to  a  site  in  the  form  of  new  em- 
ployees who  are  "not  prejudiced  by 
many  years  of  prior  practices."  These 
employees,  of  course,  are  non-union. 

Further,  BE  &  K  President  Ted  C. 
Kennedy  is  the  past  president  of  the 
Associated  Builders  and  Contractors 
and  maintains  an  active  leadership  role 
in  the  ABC's  anti-union  activities.  BE 


&  K  contributes  both  money  and  staff 
to  ABC.  Recently,  it  pledged  $25,000  to 
ABC's  newly  created  war  chest  to  fight 
trade  unionism  in  the  construction  in- 
dustry. 

Aggressively  marketing  its  experi- 
ence in,  and  enthusiasm  for,  undermin- 
ing fair  wage  and  benefit  standards  for 
workers,  BE  &  K  most  recently  ap- 
proached management  at  an  IP  mill  in 
Jay,  Maine  with  a  proposal  anticipating 
a  labor  dispute  there.  In  June  1987, 
seven  days  before  UPIU  struck  the 
mill,  BE  &  K  submitted  a  proposal  that 
called  for  BE  &  K  personnel  to  move 
onto  the  site  and  integrate  with  the 
workforce. 

It  proposed  paying  living  expenses  to 
the  out-of-state  workers  while  building 
a  local  labor  force,  targeting  "non-pulp 
Continued  on  Page  38 


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plained to  its  readers 
that  a  new  state  law 
required  commercial 
contractors  to  be  li- 
censed and  bonded. 


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As  the  paper  said, 
the  carpenters'  union 
'smelted  a  rat' 


Members  of  Local  1216,  Mesa,  Ariz., 
have  picketed  several  M.M.  Sundt/DBA 
Sundt  Corp.  job  sites  in  the  Valley  of 
the  Sun  for  double  breasting  violations. 
They  recently  picketed  the  new  United 
Bank  building  construction  site  when 
they  learned  the  subcontractor  was  op- 
erating without  a  commercial  license, 
which  is  illegal  in  Arizona. 

The- "rat"  has  been  used  on  these 
picket  lines  and  in  handbilling  of  non- 
union general  contractors.  It  has  gen- 
erated the  attention  of  the  general  public 
and  news  coverage  has  been  excellent 
and  positive,  according  to  William  R. 
Martin,  business  representative. 


Rat  costumes  for  UBC 
pickets,  which  first  ap- 
peared in  the  Midwest 
and  South,  are  now  in 
the  Southwest. 


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Union  smells  a  rat 

Dave  Marley  dresses  In  a  rat  costume  to  picket 
the  sHe  of  a  United  Bank  building  under 
construction  at  Morris  Street  and  First  Avenue 
in  Mesa  on  Thursday  morning.  Marley  and 


■F  TOPPIMQ/TrlOuna 


members  of  Carpenters  Union  Local  1216 
objected  to  the  presence  of  Adklna  Building 
Corp.,  a  subcontractor  operating  without  a 
commercial  license  or  bonding. 


Local  1216  member  Don  Smith  braved  Southwest  temperatures  by  wearing  the  rat  suit 
on  this  occasion.  With  him  were  Jim  Nolan,  Toby  Sanders  and  Joe  Denson  Sr.  The 
active  rodent  and  its  fellow  members  handbilled  non-union  contractors  as  well. 


DECEMBER     1987 


II  Bi^ 


Regional  seminars 

at  Frencli  Lick, 

Indiana, 

prepare  Midwest 

and  Southern 

leaders  for  1988 


On  two  successive  weeks  in  October, 
the  fuUtime  officers  and  business  agents 
of  UBC  construction  locals  and  coun- 
cils throughout  the  Midwest,  South  and 
Southwest  assembled  at  French  Lick, 
Ind.,  for  intensive  study  of  UBC  prob- 
lems and  plans  for  1988. 

General  officers,  district  board  mem- 
bers, and  General  Office  staff  personnel 
continued  the  series  of  workshops  be- 
gun in  Toronto,  Ont.,  and  Teaneck, 
N.J.,  in  September,  covering  a  broad 
range  of  topics — membership  gains  and 
losses,  organizing  procedures  and  prob- 


lems, special  programs,  legal  issues 
facing  labor,  legislative  matters  and 
political  action.  Each  seminar  ran  for  a 
full  five-day  week,  starting  at  8:30  each 
weekday  morning  and  running  into  the 
late  afternoon.  Attendance  at  the  ses- 
sions was  required  for  all  fulltime  offi- 
cers and  business  representatives. 

Participants  rotated  around  a  series 
of  six  workshops,  with  a  half  day  de- 
voted to  each  workshop  session.  Open- 
ing and  closing  sessions,  when  the  gen- 
eral officers  spoke,  completed  each  busy 
week. 


CARPENTER 


The  first  of  the  two  weeks  in  French 
Lick  was  for  representatives  of  local 
unions  and  councils  in  UBC  District  3, 
which  comprises  Indiana,  Ohio,  Mich- 
igan, lUinois,  Kentucky  and  Wisconsin. 
The  second  week  brought  together  rep- 
resentatives of  three  additional  dis- 
tricts— District  4,  the  Southeastern 
states;  District  5,  the  upper  Midwest 
and  states  as  far  west  as  Colorado;  and 
District  6,  the  Southwestern  states.  Each 
of  the  two  seminars  had  approximately 
300  in  attendance. 

French  Lick  has  been  an  assembly 


point  for  United  Brotherhood  gather- 
ings for  many  years.  It  was  convenient 
to  the  General  Offices  when  they  were 
located  in  Indianapolis,  Ind.,  prior  to 
their  move  to  Washington,  D.C.,  in 
1961.  The  town  has  been  a  convention 
center  in  southern  Indiana  for  almost  a 
century.  Centrally  located,  approxi- 
mately 50  miles  northwest  of  Louisville, 
Ky.,  it  was  an  ideal  location  for  these 
two  1987  seminars. 

General  President  Patrick  J.  Camp- 
bell set  the  tone  for  the  gatherings  at 
French    Lick,    warning    Brotherhood 


leaders  that  economic  changes  in  the 
United  States  were  bringing  hard  times 
to  many  areas  of  District  3  and  its  so- 
called  "rust  belt,"  and  increasing  the 
number  of  unfair  labor  practices  among 
contractors  in  the  "right-to-work"  South 
and  Southwest.  He  told  the  delegates 
that  the  future  of  the  Brotherhood  and 
organized  labor  is  dependent  upon  a 
strong  commitment  to  organizing.  The 
seminars  provided  many  tools  for  or- 
ganizing new  members  and  obtaining 
more  work  for  the  membership.      UiJS 


DECEMBER     1987 


11 


ttawa 
Report 


HOMEBUILDING  PEAKS 

The  homebuilding  boom  in  Canada  has  peaked, 
according  to  some  analysts.  Rising  interest  rates 
and  an  easing  of  pent-up  demand  are  being 
blamed. 

George  Saba,  economist  with  l\/lontreal  Trust  Co., 
says  that  the  recent  increases  in  mortgage  rates 
are  bound  to  reduce  the  affordability  of  housing  for 
some  Canadians  and  will  begin  to  reduce  building 
activity,  just  as  the  drop  in  mortgage  rates  from 
1985  to  the  spring  of  this  year  helped  to  boost 
housing  activity. 

Adjusted  for  seasonal  variations,  building  starts 
on  new  homes  and  apartments  were  running  at  an 
annual  rate  of  225,000  in  September,  a  20%  de- 
cline from  the  10-year  high  of  282,000  in  August, 
figures  released  by  Canada  l\/lortgage  and  Housing 
Corp.  show. 

That's  the  first  significant  month-to-month  decline 
in  housing  starts  this  year,  said  CMHC  analyst  l\/lark 
Burchinshaw. 

The  agency  predicted  that  even  with  the  slow- 
down, starts  this  year  will  be  226,800 — but  Burchin- 
shaw added  next  year  starts  are  expected  to  fall  to 
174,000. 

Much  of  the  demand  for  new  housing,  which  be- 
gan to  build  in  the  early  1980s  when  interest  rates 
were  high  and  the  economy  weak,  has  been  satis- 
fied, Burchinshaw  said. 

Mortgage  rates  declined  from  about  1 5%  for  a 
five-year  term  in  mid-1974  to  a  low  of  10.5%  earlier 
this  year,  Saba  said.  Since  the  spring,  however,  the 
five-year  rate  has  risen  from  12.25  to  12.5%. 


HYUNDAI  REMINDED 

Canadians  were  told  a  few  weeks  ago  that  if  they 
walked  by  selected  Hyundai  dealerships  in  10  major 
Canadian  cities  on  November  12,  a  building  trades 
unionist  would  likely  hand  them  a  leaflet. 

But  he  wouldn't  be  moonlighting  as  a  car  sales- 
man. 

The  pamphlet  would  be  part  of  a  one-day  cam- 
paign designed  to  let  the  public  know  Hyundai  does 
more  than  make  cars. 

Hyundai's  giant  engineering  and  construction  affil- 
iate has  arrived  in  British  Columbia  and  begun  work 
on  two  joint-venture  projects  with  Kerkhoff  Con- 
struction— both  non-union. 


UNIONS'  FALSE  IMAGE 

Much  of  the  general  public  has  the  falsely-held 
notion  that  unions  are  greedy,  self-centered  and 
militant,  Guy  Dumoulin,  secretary-treasurer  of  the 
Canadian  Building  Trades  Department,  told  partici- 
pants in  a  recent  seminar  sponsored  by  the  To- 
ronto-Central Ontario  Building  and  Construction 
Trades  Council. 

Dumoulin,  a  former  representative  of  the  UBC, 
told  the  group,  "We  must  make  a  concerted  effort 
to  have  the  good  news  heard  more  than  the  bad." 

Despite  their  seemingly  friendly  gestures,  many 
government  and  business  leaders  have  not  em- 
braced labor  as  the  "partner"  to  which  they  often 
refer,  he  said,  adding  labor  has  become  a  dirty 
word  in  some  circles. 

Unionists  must  speak  out  when  they  see  wrongs 
being  committed,  but  it  must  be  clear  they  are  not 
speaking  out  of  self-interest  or  greed,  but  out  of  real 
concern  for  what  anti-union  activities  do  to  weaken 
the  fabric  of  Canadian  society. 

In  construction,  some  owner-clients  understand 
the  contribution  labor  makes  to  the  industry,  but 
others  "have  openly  launched  a  campaign  to  rid  our 
industry  of  unions  and  unionized  contractors. 

"This  segment  is  using  the  merit  shop,  double- 
breasting  and  other  such  activities  to  fight  us." 

The  building  trades  in  Toronto  and  some  other 
Canadian  communities  have  found  plenty  of  work 
and  have  strong  union  representation,  he  said,  but 
in  many  other  places,  construction  workers  face 
high  unemployment  and  unions  are  under  attack. 


POST-RECESSION  DATA 

The  recession  which  extended  across  Canada  in 
1981  and  1982  was  the  worst  in  recent  history, 
according  to  statisticians,  and  it  left  its  mark  on  the 
labor  market.  Data  recently  compiled  by  the  federal 
Survey  of  Employment,  Payrolls  and  Hours  shows 
that  it  took  three  or  four  years  to  attain  reasonable 
levels  of  recovery. 

In  1983,  the  first  full  year  of  recovery,  average 
payroll  employment  in  Canada  still  showed  a  de- 
cline of  .9%  or  77,600  jobs.  The  1983  level  of 
employment  (8,519,600)  was  the  lowest  since  1979 
(8,415,500). 

As  the  economic  recovery  gathered  momentum  in 
1984,  employment  grew  by  1.6%  or  132,500  jobs. 
By  1985  the  growth  rate  had  accelerated  to  3.9%, 
341,600  jobs.  However,  last  year,  the  rate  slowed 
to  a  moderate  2%  or  182,600. 

According  to  the  study,  most  employment  growth 
was  concentrated  in  the  service  sector.  In  contrast, 
employment  growth  in  the  goods-producing  sector 
has  been  weak  since  the  recession. 


JOB  GROWTH  BY  AREAS 

Most  of  the  employment  growth  in  Canada  during 
the  1980s  has  occurred  in  Quebec  and  Ontario, 
according  to  the  federal  employment  survey.  These 
two  provinces  accounted  for  76.7%  of  the  total  job 
growth  in  the  post-recession  period.  Yukon,  how- 
ever, had  the  highest  growth  rate  in  1984  (5.3%), 
followed  by  Alberta  the  highest  in  1985  (7.7%),  and 
Yukon  again  the  highest  in  1986  (9.6%). 


12 


CARPENTER 


Brad  Wilt,  reseiinher for  the 
Western  Council  of  Indiistriut 
Workers,  is  sliown  at  lite 
bUicklward  revie\\in.ii  proce- 
dures for  tabidutina  over 
9.000  membership  survey 
forms.  Local  union  represen- 
tatives spent  four  long  and 
tedious  days  compiling  the 
results. 


UBC  members  get  more  say 
through  local  surveys 


What  do  members  of  the  union  think 
about  important  issues  concerning 
themselves,  their  families  and  their 
union?  A  local  union  hears  from  only 
a  few  of  its  members  at  the  monthly 
meeting  and  it  listens  to  other  members 
who  may  call  or  visit  the  union  hall, 
but  this  sampling  of  membership  opin- 
ion may  be  too  small  to  get  a  true 
picture  of  what  the  entire  membership 
is  thinking. 


1^   SURVEYING  INDUSTRIAL  MEMBERS 


I 


To  bridge  this  communication  gap 
and  to  get  better  answers  regarding 
what  members  think  about  new  ap- 
proaches to  their  jobs,  many  UBC  lo- 
cals and  councils  are  turning  to  written 
questionnaires.  The  Western  Council 
of  Industrial  Workers  conducted  just 
such  a  survey  during  February  and 
March,  1987.  The  21-question  form  was 
handed  out  to  18,000  members  in  five 
Western  States.  The  Western  Council 
was  interested  in  the  membership's 
opinion  about  their  employers,  how 
members  participate  in  their  union  and 
how  members  get  information  about  the 
union  and  about  contract  negotiations. 
The  council  also  wanted  opinions  about 
new  directions  being  considered  for  the 
bargaining  format  in  the  forest  industry. 

The  response  was  very  high,  with 
52%  of  the  membership  turning  in  com- 
pleted forms. 

"This  large  turnout  demonstrated  to 
us  that  our  membership  really  wants  to 
be  heard,"  commented  James  Bledsoe, 
executive  secretary  of  the  Western 
Council.  "But  another  reason  we  got  a 
good  response  was  because  we  used 

DECEMBER     1987 


the  steward  system  to  distribute  ques- 
tionnaires to  every  member.  We  wanted 
to  strengthen  our  steward  system.  If 
we  would  have  mailed  surveys,  the 
return  would  have  been  much  lower." 
Some  of  the  more  important  findings 
are  listed  below: 

•  The  primary  source  of  information 
about  the  union  and  about  contract  ne- 
gotiations was  "talking  to  other  mem- 
bers." "Talking  to  the  steward"  and 
"union  meetings"  placed  a  distant  sec- 
ond and  third. 

This  finding  verified  a  concern  of  the 
council  leaders;  that  is,  members  were 
relying  on  other  members  for  informa- 
tion and  a  problem  arises  when  those 
members  don't  have  full  facts  in  the 
first  place.  The  Western  Council  has 
set  out  to  correct  this  problem  through 
a  device  called  one-on-one  job  can- 
vassing. This  is  a  face-to-face  commu- 
nication network  conducted  by  stew- 
ards at  the  workplace  and  will  be  in  full 
operation  when  negotiations  commence 
in  1988. 


•  When  asked  to  rate  the  company's 
concern  for  their  workers,  over  75% 
gave  their  employer's  a  low  ranking  of 
either  "poor"  or  "fair." 

Of  great  interest,  however,  is  the  fact 
that  this  opinion  of  corporate  managers 
did  not  necessarily  carry  over  in  the 
way  first  line  supervisors  were  viewed. 
One-fourth  said  their  foreman  was  "very 
helpful,"  while  about  30%  character- 
ized their  supervisor  as  "not  helpful" 
or  "nearly  impossible  to  work  with." 

This  certainly  confirms  that  there  is 
a  wide  variation  in  the  quality  of  first- 
line  supervision. 

•  When  members  were  asked  to  rank 
the  factors  they  felt  would  be  most  im- 
portant to  achieving  a  fair  contract  set- 
tlement in  1988,  the  item  getting  most 
votes  was  "solidarity  among  all  unions 
in  the  forest  products  industry." 

•  Nearly  60%  also  checked  off  "very 
important"  when  asked  how  urgent  it 
was   to   bargain   for   uniform   national 


13 


company-wide  contracts  in  the  forest 
products  industry.  At  the  present  time 
agreements  in  the  northwest  wood  prod- 
ucts industry  are  negotiated  on  a  regional 
basis. 

This  answer,  considered  with  the  high 
ranking  given  "soHdarity  among  forest 
industry  unions"  indicates  strong  mem- 


bership support  for  new  directions  in 
contract  bargaining.  Members  are  clearly 
saying  it's  time  to  move  towards  na- 
tional strategies,  in  close  alliance  with 
other  unions  on  the  forest  industry. 

On  the  value  of  the  survey  Bledsoe 
commented,  "It  helped  us  construct  a 
solid  program  to  prepare  for  1988  con- 
tract bargaining.  For  example,  it  un- 


derscored the  need  to  improve  the  link 
between  negotiators  and  the  members. 
We're  doing  that  with  the  one-on-one 
canvass.  A  two-union  national  bargain- 
ing board  has  also  been  formed  to 
develop  coordinated  tactics  with  the 
south  and  we've  set  in  motion  joint 
actions  with  the  paperworkers  unions." 


)/*  SURVEYING  CONSTRUCTION  MEMBERS 


A  small  Carpenters  local  in  Eugene, 
Ore. ,  has  also  used  a  membership  ques- 
tionnaire. Emsley  Curtis,  Local  1273 
financial  secretary,  said,  "The  local 
wanted  to  get  a  feeling  from  the  mem- 
bers about  new  directions  the  union 
should  be  going,  especially  in  organiz- 
ing." 

Nearly  one-third  of  the  working 
members  of  this  local  completed  ques- 
tionnaires and  returned  them.  This  is  a 
very  positive  response,  considering  the 
wide  geographc  spread  of  the  members, 
which  necessitated  a  mail-in  survey. 

The  questionnaire  asked  several 
questions  about  union  meetings.  Eighty- 
one  percent  wanted  the  local  to  sponsor 
more  educational  training  classes,  and 
75%  would  like  to  have  speakers  or 


films  presented  at  local  meetings.  Top- 
ics getting  the  most  votes  were  "health 
care  and  pension  plans"  and  "organiz- 
ing new  members." 

The  Local  1273  survey  turned  up 
valuable  insights  into  the  members'  view 
of  organizing.  For  example,  80%  said 
the  union  had  a  below-par  response  to 
the  loss  of  work  and  loss  of  members. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  membership 
recognized  that  they  themselves  some- 
times aggravate  the  problem.  Eighty 
percent  admitted  that  contractors  would 
not  continue  to  pay  union  scale,  plus 
fringes,  if  qualified  journeymen  were 
willing  to  work  for  less  in  a  non-union 
situation. 

The  survey  produced  a  pleasant  sur- 
prise when  44%  indicated  a  willingness 


to  work  with  a  local  union  organizing 
committee  to  bring  all  area  carpenters 
into  the  union.  In  addition,  26%  indi- 
cated a  willingness  to  work  on  a  non- 
union job  if  it  were  on  the  basis  of 
acting  as  an  inside  organizer  for  the 
local. 

"We  learned  things  from  the  survey 
we  couldn't  have  learned  any  other 
way,"  says  Curtis.  "We  had  to  face 
the  fact  we  weren't  doing  everything 
possible  to  organize  the  non-union  con- 
tractors, but  the  positive  result  is  that 
we  found  a  solid  core  of  members 
willing  to  help  do  the  job.  That  is  very 
gratifying.  Now,  the  local  is  putting 
together  an  organizing  program  with 
more  support  than  ever  from  the  mem- 
bers." 


Major  plans  for 
Blueprint  for  Cure 

Today,  the  Diabetes  Research  Institute 
exists  in  scattered  facilities  across  the 
campus  of  the  University  of  Miami  in 
Florida.  Tomorrow  the  Diabetes  Research 
Institute  will  be  housed  in  a  modern,  state- 
of-the-art  facility.  The  proposed  center  will 
be  a  modern  ten-story  building  featuring 
the  latest  equipment  and  facilities  includ- 
ing: 

•  A  clinic  where  the  Institute  can 
broaden  and  expand  its  treatment  of  dia- 
betic patients; 

•  A  conference  center  where  doctors 
and  researchers  from  throughout  the  world 
may  gather  to  share  their  findings  with 
other  professionals; 

•  A  vivarium  to  house  and  treat  the 
many  animals  used  in  the  research 
process; 

•  A  variety  of  laboratories  where  the 
bulk  of  the  research  can  be  conducted; 
and 

•  An  operating  suite  which  will  house 
the  latest  in  transplant  and  other  facilities 
where  the  research  findings  will  be  directly 
applied  to  human  and  animal  patients. 

The  estimated  cost  of  t+ie  structure  is 
$10  million — a  huge  amount  when  applied 
against  the  already  staggering  sums  neces- 
sary to  fund  existing  research  programs. 
For  this  reason,  money  raised  by  the  Insti- 
tute must  be  applied  to  research. 

Labor  has  organized  the  Blueprint  for 
Cure  Campaign  to  fill  the  financial  gap 
needed  to  build  the  proposed  center.  The 
support  over  the  past  two  years  has  been 


tremendous,  but  more  is  still  needed  in 
order  to  meet  the  goal  of  $10  million  for 
the  new  facility.  The  following  are  the 
contributions  made  during  the  month  of 
October: 

Blueprint  for  Cure  contributions  were  pre- 
sented to  General  President  Pat  Campbell 

when   he   attended   the    100th   anniversary 

celebration  of  Local  334,  Saginaw.  Mich. 

Many  contributions  were  from  union  con- 
tractors in  the  area. 

Gerald  G.  Bergman,  General  Contractor 

Behling  Acoustical  Company 

Buck  Jean  Plastering  Co. 

Dobson  Heavy  Hall.  Inc. 

Charles  C.  Englehardt  Const.  Co.  Inc. 

Erb  Lumber 

Gerace  Construction  Company.  Inc. 

Gregory  Construction  Co. 

Heineman,  Inc. 

R.  C.  Hendrick  &  Son,  Inc. 

Pumford  Construction  Inc. 

Ramar  Construction 

Thomas  Reynolds,  Tolly  International 

Roy-Don.  Inc. 

Serenas  Johnson  &  Son  Construction  Co. 

Spence  Brothers 

K.  G.  Strieker.  W.F.C. 

Wobig  Construction  Co. 

Local  334,  Saginaw,  Michigan 

Local  1028-L,  Bay  City.  Michigan 

Local  1373,  Flint,  Michigan 

Local  1889,  Downer's  Grove,  Illinois 

Local  16,  Springfield,  Illinois 

Local  118,  Detroit,  Michigan 

Lcoal  248,  Toledo,  Ohio 

Local  742,  Decatur,  Illinois 

Local  1026,  Miami,  Florida 

Local  1338,  Charlottetown.  P.E.I. 

Local  1752,  Pomona.  California 


Local  1889,  Downer's  Grove,  Illinois 
South  Florida  District  Council 
Local  149,  Tarrytown,  NY  members  work- 
ing on  Town  Center  of  Hawthorne  Shopping 
Center 
Franco  Elio 
John  Parise 
Ronald  J.  Dancer 
Donald  E.  Johnson 
In  memory  of  Larry  Aument  from  H.  Allan 

&  Betty  Y.  Tucker 
In  memory  of  Colbert  H.  Petersen  from 

1597.  Bremerton,  Washington 

Golfer  Support 


The  foiirlh  annual  Juvenile  Diabetes  Golf 
Tournament  was  held  at  Pleasant  Valley 
Country  Club  in  Sutton,  Mass.  Participat- 
ing in  this  event  were  Sal  Betsito,  tourna- 
ment co-ordinator:  John  Lynch,  business 
representative.  Local  107,  Worcester, 
Mass.:  Norman  Yokes,  business  manager. 
Local  107:  and  The  Honorable  Timothy 
Cooney,  mayor  of  the  City  of  Worcester. 


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CARPENTER 


Members 
In  The  News 


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Award  for  '20  Good  Men' 


Alphonso  Douglass  wanted 
to  be  a  doctor  but  couldn't 
stand  the  sight  of  blood.  He 
got  release  time  from  Sumner 
High  School,  because  he  was 
making  A's  and  B's,  to  become 
a  carpenter  apprentice.  "I 
joined  the  union  and  fell  in  love 
with  hammering  and  sawing." 

Had  he  become  a  doctor  in- 
stead of  an  apprentice,  this 
semi-retired  carpenter  from 
Local  797,  Kansas  City,  Kan., 
might  have  missed  traveling  to 
Washington,  D.C.,  to  recieve 
a  presidential  award  for  his 
volunteer  work. 

Two  summers  ago  Douglass 
became  coordinator  for  a  vol- 
unteer housing  rehabilitation 
project  in  northeast  Kansas 
City,  Kan.  He  gained  his  ex- 
perience for  this  project  when 
the  Kansas  City  area  was  mas- 
sively flooded  in  1951.  "I  got 
very  good  experience  at  re- 
pairing and  renovating  houses." 

His  group  asked  for  20  good 
volunteers  and,  although  they  often  had  more  than  that  working, 
they  became  known  as  the  20  Good  Men.  Houses  rehabilitated 
by  the  men  had  to  be  at  least  70  years  old  and  inhabited  by  persons 
not  able  to  pay  for  needed  repairs.  Materials  were  donated  by 
business  firms. 

The  United  Way  of  Wyandotte  County  was  impressed  with  the 
project  and  nominated  20  Good  Men  for  a  President's  Volunteer 
Action  Award.  Out  of  2,000  nominees  20  Good  Men  was  among 
the  112  groups  awarded. 


Project  COPE  Leader 

Richmond,  Ind.,  was  recognized  this  past  summer  by  President 
Reagan  as  an  All-America  City.  Three  projects  were  presented  to 
the  committee  at  the  National  League  of  Cities  Conference  and 
were  chosen  by  those  judges  to  merit  the  All-America  Award. 

Edward  L.  Brumbaugh,  business  representative  for  the  Central 
Indiana  District  and  member  of  Local  912,  helped  organize  one 
of  the  projects  selected.  Project  COPE:  Commanding  Opportuni- 
ties for  Permanent  Employment,  was  a  response  to  sudden  loss 
of  jobs  for  90  United  Auto  Workers  members  when  a  local  factory 
closed  in  late  1984.  Brumbaugh  worked  with  Nancy  McCormick, 
labor  liaison  for  the  United  Way  of  Whitewater  Valley,  on  the 
project. 

The  project  was  aimed  at  not  duplicating  services  currently 
existing,  but  at  informing  unemployed  workers  about  resources 
available  to  them.  Project  COPE  helped  coordinate  workers'  access 
to  education  and  occupation  services  from  available  agencies.  It 
was  funded  by  a  $25,000  experimental  grant  from  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Labor. 

Project  workers  conducted  weekly  interviewing  and  resume 
writing  workshops  for  about  one-third  of  the  laid  off  workers. 
Included  in  the  effort  was  a  marketing  campaign  of  radio  spots 
and  newspaper  advertisements  allowing  individual  job  seekers 


from  the  group  to  explain  their  qualifications  and  appeal  for  a 
chance  at  employment. 

Project  COPE  has  since  expanded  into  a  full-time,  permanent 
worker  assistance  program. 

Brumbaugh  has  also  become  involved  in  Richmond's  Sister  City 
Relationship  with  the  Soviet  city  of  Serpukhov.  Five  delegates 
from  Richmond  traveled  to  the  Soviet  Union  in  August  to  inau- 
gurate the  relationship  with  city  officials  of  Serpukhov.  Brumbaugh 
was  selected  as  a  delegate  to  represent  organized  labor.  The 
delegate  members  participating  represented  government,  labor, 
business,  education,  the  arts  and  medicine.  While  in  Serpukhov, 
each  delegate  spent  time  with  people  in  their  respective  areas. 

The  Soviet  city  plans  to  send  five  delegates  to  Richmond  to 
roundup  the  formal  exchange.  This  will  begin  a  genuine  two-way 
exchange  between  the  two  cities. 


Edward  L.  Brum- 
baugh, business 
representative  for 
the  Central  Indiana 
District  and  mem- 
ber of  Local  912, 
and  Nancy  Mc- 
Cormick, tabor  liai- 
son for  the  United 
Way  of  Whitewater 
Valley,  with  the 
Ail-American  City 
Award. 


Second  Wind  for  Snook 


In  1975  Wayne  Snook,  member  of  Millwright  Local  2824  and 
Retirees  Club  62,  Denver,  Colo.,  was  65  years  old  and  realized 
he  had  some  serious  health  problems.  He  became  involved  in  a 
health  program  that  turned  his  life  around.  He  continued  to  work 
to  age  70,  when  he  retired  from  Continental  Bakery. 

But  he  still  had  more  to  prove  to  himself.  Working  out  four  to 
five  times  a  week  at  a  health  club  led  him  to  compete  in  a  Regional 
Senior  Olympics  in  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  this  past  spring.  He  earned  a 
gold  medal  in  the  long  jump,  a  silver  medal  in  the  free-style  100 
meter  swim,  third  place  in  the  100  meter  dash  and  fourth  in  the 
javelin.  He  placed  in  the  shot  put,  50  meter  free  style  swim  and 
50  meter  back  stroke  swim. 

He  continued  to  compete  in  Senior  Olympics  through  the  month 
of  May.  In  a  meet  in  Dwardville,  111.,  he  earned  a  silver  medal  in 
the  50  and  100  meter  free  style  swim  and  a  bronze  medal  in  the 
running  long  jump.  At  the  Jewish  Community  Center  Regional 
Senior  Olympics,  Snook  placed  fifth  in  the  running  broad  jump 
and  in  the  javelin. 

Snook  continues  to  enjoy  an  active  and  full  life  and  we  wish 
him  many  more  years  of  success. 


Senior  Olympiad  Wayne  Snook,  age  72  and  a  member  of  Mill- 
wrights Local  2824,  is  airborne  as  he  competes  in  the  broad 
jump  event. 


DECEMBER     1987 


15 


Our  Lady 
of  the 
Rockies 

Huge  statue  overlooking  Butte, 
Montana,  is  testimony  to  union 
spirit,  tliis  tioliday  season 


Two  years  ago,  a  statue  was  added  to  Saddle  Rock  on  the  Continental 
Divide,  overlooking  Butte,  Mont.  It  is  a  90-foot  statue  of  the  Madonna 
dedicated  to  women,  especially  mothers. 

The  idea  of  erecting  the  huge  statue  grew  out  of  Bob  O'Bill's  wife 
seemingly  miraculous  recovery  from  a  serious  illness.  O'Bill  vowed  to 
build  and  place  a  small  Madonna  in  the  hills  east  of  Butte  as  a  tribute. 
After  sharing  his  6-foot  dream  with  two  friends,  it  grew  to  be  60-feet, 
then  90-feet,  then  a  suggested  120-feet  tall. 

Our  Lady  of  the  Rockies,  as  she  is  affectionately  referred  to,  is  90- 
feet  high  and  weighs  51  tons.  She  is  supported  by  a  32  x  34  foot  base 
that  weighs  425  tons.  It  was  built  in  six  sections  from  a  rough  sketch, 
with  a  framework  of  12-inch  and  6-inch  steel  well  casing  and  a  skin  of 
y32-inch  thick  sheet  steel.  The  building  process  included  a  complete 
sandblasting,  priming  and  several  finish  coats  of  high-gloss  white  paint. 

Many  workers  volunteered  their  time  and  resources  to  this  labor  of 
reverent  tribute.  Joe  Roberts,  Joe  Roberts'  Rocky  Mountain  Equipment 
Co.,  became  a  driving  force  during  the  project,  as  he  gave  his  time, 
resources  and  business  to  support  the  project.  He  virtually  gave  the 
keys  to  his  business  to  the  crews  working  on  the  stuatue. 

Midway  through  the  project  Roberts  was  devoting  more  time  to  the 
statue  project  than  he  was  to  his  business.  "You  have  to  be  a  dreamer. 
I  really  think  that  if  we  had  known  what  we  were  getting  into,  we 
wouldn't  have  done  it." 

The  initial  work  on  the  project  began  in  1979.  After  the  land  was 
secured  on  the  Continental  Divide,  a  road  was  mapped  out  that  wouldn't 
cross  public  land  and  so  avoid  land-use  review  processes  and  the 
subsequent  publicity.  When  the  road  was  completed  in  1981,  it  sparked 
a  wave  of  controversy  in  the  form  of  letters  to  The  Montana  Standard. 
One  resident  wrote:  "If  ambition  and  manpower  are  all  that  is  needed, 
can  just  anybody  build  a  90-foot  anything  up  there?" 

Another  wrote:  "Some  people  envision  a  statue  on  the  East  Ridge 
as  a  shrine  to  religion.  When  I  picture  this  statue,  I  see  a  tourist  trap 
with  slang  words  written  on  the  statue's  face  and  litter  thrown  every- 
where." 

Other  people,  after  reading  newspaper  accounts,  assumed  the  lump 
sum  of  $2-3  million  estimated  cost,  was  already  in  hand.  They  felt  the 
money  could  be  better  spent  to  help  poor  people.  No  organized 
opposition  ever  formed,  however,  and  the  stream  of  letters  dropped 
off  to  an  intermittent  trickle  that  continued  until  the  completion  of  the 
statue. 

The  statue  was  built  by  Iron  Workers  and  Carpenters  with  every 
member  of  Local  112  volunteering  time  to  the  project.  Among  them 
were  Tony  Baumgartner,  Bob  Helstrom,  Bill  Perusich,  Al  Vervas,  Earl 
Casagranda,  Bob  Jelich,  Bill  Barth,  Dennis  Perusich,  Dan  Regan  and 
Rudy  Boksich.  It  was  built  mainly  in  the  Roberts  Rocky  Mountain 
Equipment  yard,  dismantled  and  flown  in  by  a  giant  military  helicopter 
called  a  Sikorsky  Skycrane,  CH-54A. 

The  day  the  final  piece  was  set  in  place,  December  20,  1985,  was  a 
day  of  celebration  for  all  those  who  contributed  their  time  and  those 
who  contributed  their  support.  The  head  and  shoulders  of  the  Madonna, 
which  had  come  to  rest  in  Roberts  equipment  yard,  was  decorated  with 
a  U.S.  flag,  Montana  state  flag  and  a  Christmas  tree.  There  were  tears 
and  hugs,  handshakes  and  champagne  toasts  and  "Congratulations" 
all  around  the  mountain  top. 

In  town,  parts  of  the  city  rang  with  the  sounds  of  horns  honking  on 
hundreds  of  cars  as  the  last  piece  was  laid  in  place.  Helicopter  and 
ground  crews  and  others  associated  with  the  project  got  a  fire  truck 

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The  head  and  shoulders  of  the  90-foot  statue  are 
lowered  into  place  by  the  crew  of  a  Sikorsky  Skycrane, 
as  Montana  building  tradesmen  tug  at  lines  to  swing 
the  big  assemblage  into  place.  A  Christinas  tree  and 
flag  atop  the  final  section  proclaim  the  completion  of 
the  work  atop  Saddle  Rock. 


16 


CARPENTER 


DON'T  BUY 


Christian  Brothers 
Wines  Boycotted 


Christian  Brothers  wines  are  now  on  the 
United  Brotherhood's  boycott  Hst,  and  labor 
friends  and  neighbors  of  UBC  members 
throughout  North  America  are  being  asked 
not  to  buy  Christian  Brothers  products. 

The  action  results  from  almost  a  year  of 
unsuccessful  negotiations  with  Christian 
Brothers,  a  religious  order  of  the  Catholic 
Church,  in  which  members  of  the  North 
Coast  Counties  of  California  District  Council 
have  been  unable  to  obtain  construction 
work  from  the  company. 

Until  1986,  the  North  Coast  Counties  of 
California  District  Council  had  maintained  a 
long-standing  and  mutually  beneficial  rela- 
tionship with  the  West  Coast  wine  producer. 
All  work  on  their  winery  projects  had  been 
done  with  signatory  contractors  and  union 
labor,  according  to  district  council  officers. 
This  year,  the  company  built  a  new  office 
complex  non-union  and  had  several  remod- 
eling jobs  done  non-union  as  well.  The  most 
recent  UBC  complaint  concerns  the  com- 
plete non-union  seismic  and  structural  over- 
haul of  the  company's  Graystone  Cellars 
Building  in  St.  Helena,  Calif.,  located  in  the 
heart  of  the  Napa  Valley  wine  region. 

Last  summer,  plant  workers  at  the  Chris- 
tian Brothers'  Mont  LaSalle  Vineyards,  all 
members  of  the  Distillery,  Wine  and  Allied 
Workers  Union,  suffered  a  major  setback  in 
their  wages  and  working  conditions  after  a 
long  and  bitter  strike. 

Brotherhood  locals  have  asked  for  a  mem- 
orandum of  understanding,  assuring  that 
future  construction  by  Christian  Brothers 
will  be  union,  but  management  will  only 
indicate  that  it  will  accept  bids  from  union 
and  non-union  contractors,  contending  that 
its  position  is  in  line  with  encyclicals  of  the 
Catholic  Church,  documents  of  the  Second 
Vatican  Council  and  a  recent  pastoral  letter 
of  U.S.  Catholic  Bishops. 

In  a  letter  of  response  to  Brother  David 
Brennan,  F.S.C.,  president  of  Christian 
Brothers,  the  North  Coast  Counties  District 
Council  also  quoted  from  the  recent  pastoral 
letter  of  U.S.  Bishops  in  which  the  bishops 
stated,  "The  Church  fully  supports  the  rights 
of  workers  to  form  unions  or  other  associ- 
ations to  secure  their  rights  to  fair  wages 
and  working  conditions." 

The  district  council  pointed  out  to  Brother 
Brennan  that  "by  allowing  non-union  con- 
tractors to  do  the  work  for  the  Christian 
Brothers,  you  are  undermining  the  wages 
and  working  conditions  that  have  taken  years 
to  secure  in  the  Napa  Valley." 

The  UBC  boycott  begins  this  holiday  sea- 
son, according  to  UBC  General  President 
Patrick  J.  Campbell.  Meanwhile,  a  request 
for  a  full  boycott  by  all  AFL-CIO  affiliates 
is  under  consideration. 


Carpenter  and  BC's  On  the  Level 
take  awards  in  '86  ILCA  judging 


Your  UBC  monthly  magazine.  Car- 
penter, and  the  British  Columbia  Provin- 
cial Council's  newspaper.  On  the  Level, 
were  winners  in  the  1986  Journalistic 
Awards  Contest  sponsored  by  the  Inter- 
national Labor  Communications  Asso- 
ciation. 

Carpenter's  July  1986  front  cover  took 
a  third  award  for  "best  cover,  magazine 
format."  The  judges  stated:  "The  treat- 
ment of  the  celebration  of  liberty,  mark- 
ing the  Statue  of  Liberty's  centennial, 
was  a  popular  theme  in  1986 — none  more 
appropriate,  satisfying  and  thoughtful  than 
the  July  cover  of  the  Carpenter." 

Carpenter  also  took  an  award  in  the 
category  "best  series"  for  its  six-part 
series  "Taking  the  Initiative."  The  judges 
said:  "This  series  tells  in  sharp  detail 
how  one  of  the  major  unions  in  today's 
labor  movement  is  fighting  back  to  re- 
move the  obstacles  to  further  organizing 
and  bargaining  gains.  Laid  out  here  is  a 
whole  array  of  new  programs,  new  re- 
sponses and  new  strategies  now  in  place 
to  overcome  problems  that  the  UBC  and 
its  members  face.  There  is  something 
here  for  every  active  member  to  think 
about." 

On  the  Level,  a  tabloid-size  newspaper 
which  serves  as  the  official  periodical  of 
the  British  Columbia  Provincial  Council 
of  Carpenters,  and  is  published  from 
offices  in  Vancouver,  won  a  first  award 
for  general  excellence  among  regional 
publications.  In  Subclass  B  for  periodi- 
cals of  20,000  or  less  circulation.  On  the 
Level  was  described  by  judges  as  "a  fine 
example  of  the  labor  press  at  work." 

On  the  Level,  editor  Ron  Johnson  re- 
ports that  the  BC  Council's  Newspaper 
was  also  a  recent  winner  in  a  competition 
held  by  the  Canadian  Assn.  of  Labour 
Media  (CALM),  judged  "best  for  overall 
news  coverage." 


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Curpcnicr,  July  1986  cover 


The  six-part  1986  series, 
"Taking  the  Initiative" 


Rankin,  COPE-Unity 

victory  is  vital 

in  Vancouver,  November  IS 


Unions  plan  housing 
at  Expo  site 


BC  apprentice  wins  ^ 

national  carpentry  contest       ^:*~=rl~ 


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On  the  Level,  a  1986  edition. 


DECEMBER     1987 


17 


LOMi  union  nEuis 


Harold  Shaw  honored 
in  Saskatchewan 

Members  of  Local  1804  (now  merged  with 
Local  1985),  Saskatchewan,  gathered  at  the 
Heritage  Inn  in  Moose  Jaw  for  a  dinner  in 
honor  of  Harold  J.  Shaw.  He  retired  after 
37  consecutive  years  as  recording  secretary 
of  Local  1804. 

Shaw  was  a  carpenter  by  trade  and  a 
school  teacher  by  profession.  Through  his 
years  of  teaching,  he  encouraged  and  helped 
many  young  people  to  make  carpentry  their 
career  by  directing  them  into  the  appren- 
ticeship training  program. 

During  the  evening  of  celebration,  Shaw 
was  presented  with  an  engraved  Brother- 
hood watch  by  General  Executive  Board 
Member  Ronald  J.  Dancer  for  his  long  years 
of  faithful  dedication  to  the  Brotherhood  and 
his  local. 


Chicago  honors  Mine 


Former  officers  of  Local  1804  as  well  as 
new  officers  of  Local  1985  helped  to  cele- 
brate the  retirement  of  Harold  J.  Shaw, 
recording  secretary  for  Local  1804.  Those 
in  attendance  included,  right,  Garry  Sea- 
borg,  former  president  Local  1804;  Mervin 
Erickson,  former  financial  secretary,  Local 
1804;  Leo  Fritz,  general  representative; 
Robert  Todd,  business  manager.  Local 
1985;  Ronald  J.  Dancer  (front),  10th  Gen- 
eral Executive  Board  Member;  and  Harold 
J.  Shaw. 


IVIid-Central  Illinois  training  seminar 


The  Mid-Central  Illinois  District  Council  held  a  steward  mid  jurisdictional  training 
seminar  at  Local  904,  Jacksonville,  III.,  recently.  The  participants  represented  the  largest 
group  to  attend  a  training  session  of  the  Council  to  date  and  ranged  from  apprentices  to 
superintendents. 

Those  attending  the  seminar  included  Jim  Coats,  Dwight  Thompson,  George  Lucas, 
Mike  Bennett,  Don  Ellis,  Gale  Vaughn,  Franz  Grimmer.  Terry  Spencer,  Brian  Farrell, 
Mike  Potts,  Bob  Drinkwater,  Ken  Alcorn,  Roy  Pale,  Russ  Preston,  Claude  Christison, 
Marlin  Spencer,  Barb  Crabtree,  Todd  Hubbert,  Ron  Megginson,  William  Acree,  Ken 
Acree.  Carl  Seymour,  Terry  Alloway,  Frank  Quattrochi,  George  Helwig,  Ernie  Klopfer, 
Charles  Decker,  Herb  Coats.  Rodney  Reid.  Ray  Hunter,  Tom  Courier,  Brian  Todd,  Dave 
Andrews,  Bob  Spears,  Todd  Griffin,  Larry  Ingram,  Oplene  Slambaugh,  Terry  Day,  Pat 
Herzog,  Ron  Tribble,  Larry  Carson,  Darin  Spears  and  Mike  Beard. 


Ardoin  honored 


Local  1098.  Baton  Rouge,  La.,  honored 
E.J.  Ardoin  at  a  regular  union  meeting 
with  a  service  plaque  and  gift  certificate 
after  he  retired  from  his  position  as  finan- 
cial secretary.  He  served  the  local  for  24 
years  in  this  position.  The  award  was 
made  by  Johnny  Hodges,  assistant  secre- 
tary of  labor  and  ex-business  representa- 
tive of  Local  1098.  Shown  here  are,  from 
left.  Sidney  Kinchen,  president;  John 
George,  business  representative;  E.J.  Ar- 
doin, financial  secretary;  and  Hodges. 


A  party  was  given  by  Local  1693,  Chi- 
cago, III.,  to  honor  W.  Bud  Hine,  retiring 
business  manager  of  the  millwright  local. 
He  was  initiated  into  the  Brotherhood  in 
1946  and  was  elected  business  manager  in 
1975. 

Leaders  from  the  building  trades  unions 
in  Chicago  attended  the  celebration,  where 
he  was  presented  a  framed  letter  of  appre- 
ciation from  General  President  Patrick 
Campbell  and  a  plaque  from  Third  District 
General  Executive  Board  Member  Thomas 
Hanahan. 

Shown  here  with  Hine,  left,  are  George 
Vest  Jr.,  president,  Chicago  &  Northeast 
Illinois  District  Council  of  Carpenters,  and 
Earl  Oliver,  president  and  business  man- 
ager. Millwright  Local  1693. 

Washington  State 
Auxiliaries  meet 

The  Washington  State  Council  of  Ladies 
Auxiliaries  held  its  statewide  convention, 
earlier  this  year,  in  conjunction  with  the 
state  UBC  convention  held  in  Seattle,  Wash., 
Jo  AUstrom's  death  was  recognized  during 
the  convention  with  the  draping  of  the  flag. 
She  had  been  honored  for  her  more  than  40 
years  of  service  the  previous  year.  The  three- 
day  convention  ended  with  a  banquet  and 
dance. 


The  1987-88  officers  were  elected  at  the 
convention  held  at  the  Seattle  Hilton.  They 
include,  left,  Mary  Larson,  secretary; 
Marjie  Stebbins,  vice  president:  Sharon 
Rheaume,  former  president:  Beth  Dale, 
president;  Susan  McEnaney.  treasurer. 


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CARPENTER 


Supervisors  back 
Local  2987  walkout 


Members  of  Local  2987,  Norfolk,  Va., 
employed  by  J.G.  Wilson  Corp.,  walked  off 
the  job  last  summer  after  contract  negotia- 
tions broke  down.  Forty  employees,  includ- 
ing 12  non-union  supervisors,  walked  out 
until  an  agreement  was  reached. 

The  company  and  union  were  bargaining 
for  the  first  time  in  three  years.  The  em- 
ployees contract  expired  in  June  1985,  and 
wages  and  benefits  had  remained  static.  The 
union  was  seeking  an  8.75%  cost-of-living 
pay  increase  and  sought  to  keep  existing 
benefits,  while  the  company  wanted  to  keep 


pay  at  its  existing  rate  and  reduce  benefits. 
The  company  also  wanted  to  eliminate  two 
paid  holidays,  replace  the  employee  pension 
plan  with  a  profit-sharing  plan,  increase  the 
employee  contributions  to  its  health  insur- 
ance plan,  and  reduce  sick  leave  and  funeral 
leave.  A  spokesman  for  J.G.  Wilson  said 
some  of  the  givebacks  the  company  was 
asking  for  would  be  restored  "if  appropri- 
ate" at  the  end  of  a  one-year  contract. 

The  weeklong  walkout  ended  when  the 
union  and  company  agreed  on  a  rollover  of 
the  existing  contract,  offering  no  pay  in- 
crease and  no  reduction  in  benefits. 

The  12  supervisors  were  accepted  back  to 
work  after  the  walkout  even  though  the 
company  threatened  their  jobs.  Allowing  the 
supervisors  to  resume  their  jobs  was  part  of 
the  compromise  between  the  two  groups. 


Non-union  supervisors  joined  union  employees  of  J.G.  Wilson  Corp.  after  they  walked 
out  due  to  negotiation  breakdowns  over  a  new  contract.  The  old  contract  expired  in  1985 
causing  employees  to  go  without  a  pay  increase  for  three  years.  Employees  and  supervi- 
sors went  back  to  work  after  a  rollover  of  the  existing  contract' was  agreed  upon. 


Davy  Laborde  Sr. 
honored  at  dinner 

Davy  P.  Laborde  Sr.,  was  recently  hon- 
ored with  a  testimonial  dinner  by  Local  1846, 
New  Orleans.  The  dinner  was  held  at  the 
Fairmont  Hotel  in  New  Orleans,  La.  La- 
borde recently  retired  as  business  agent  of 
Local  1846  and  executive  secretary  of  Car- 
penter District  Council  of  New  Orleans  and 
the  vicinity. 

In  attendance  were  Justice  Pascal  Calo- 
gero.  Chief  Justice  Louisiana  State  Supreme 
Court,  Congresswoman  Lindy  Boggs,  and 
Sidney  Barthelemy,  mayor  of  New  Orleans. 


Auxiliary  installs 


Ladies  Auxiliary  3,  Arlington,  Texas  held 
its  ceremony  for  the  installation  of  officers 
recently.  They  include,  Eulalah  Hosey, 
president;  Dorothy  Roe,  vice  president; 
Eleanor  Ford,  recording  secretary;  John- 
nie Watts,  financial  secretary;  Rita  An- 
spaugh,  Polly  Dodson  (not  pictured)  and 
Betsy  Millican,  trustees;  Rita  Anspaugh, 
warden;  Roxie  Garland,  conductress;  and 
Clara  Simon,  reporter. 


Family,  friends  and  guests  gathered  in 
New  Orleans  to  honor  Davy  P.  Laborde 
Sr.,  for  his  service  to  the  Brotherhood  as 
he  retired  from  his  position  as  business 
agent  of  Local  1846  and  executive 
secretary  of  the  district  council.  Shown 
with  him  are  Congresswoman  Lindy 
Boggs,  Victor  Bussie,  president,  Louisiana 
AFL-CIO,  Laborde,  and  his  wife  Rita. 


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Don't  Buy  Louisiana-Pacific  Corp. 
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The  Toughest 
Tool  Belt  Ever  Built. 


Tired  of  patching  and  restitching  his 
leather  tool  belts,  carpenter  Gil  Stone 
was  determined  to  create  an  alternative. 

The  result — the  Nailers®  Tool  Belt, 
made  of  Dupont  Cordura®.  This  dura- 
ble, tear-resistant  fabric  is  tougher 
than  leather,  yet  lightweight  and 
comfortable. 

The  thickly  padded  belt  provides 
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right  where  you  need  them.  Your  satis- 
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Burgundy,  Green,  Orange,  and  Camouflage. 

Visa/MasterCard  accepted.  Indicate  waist 
size,  color,  and  right  or  left  handed  model. 

To  order,  send  check  or  money  order  for 

S124.95  (in  CA,  add  6%  )  plus  S4.00 

shipping  and  handling  to: 

Nailers*,  Inc., 

10845-C  Wheatlands  Ave.,  Santee,  CA 
92071-2856;  or  call  (619)  562-2215 


Carpenters 
Hang  It  Up 

Clamp  these  heavy  duty, 
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to  your  tool  belt  and 
you'll  feel  like  you're 
floating  on  air.  Tal<e  the 
weight  off  your  hips  and 
put  it  on  your  shoulders. 
Made  of  soft,  comfortable 
2"  wide  nylon.  Adjust  to 
fit  all  sizes. 

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Please  rush  "HANG  IT  UP"  suspenders  at 
$16.95  each  includes  postage  &  handling. 

Utah  residents  add  5V!>%  saleslax  (.77C).  Canada  residents 
send  U.S.  equivalent,  Money  Orders  only. 

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DECEMBER     1987 


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Make 
Safety  a 
Habit! 

These  common  abuses  of  striking 
tools  are  all  dangerous.  Each  carries 
the  potential  for  serious  personal 
injury.  The  hardened  striking  face  of 
a  carpenter's  hammer  is  designed  to 
be  struck  against  common,  unhard- 
ened  nails.  Misusing  the  tool  by 
striking  it  against  another  hardened 
steel  tool  may  result  in  chipping  and 
consequent  serious  injury  from  flying 
particles.  Removal  of  embedded 
nails,  for  example,  should  be  done 
with  a  nail  puller  and  a  hand  drilling 
or  light  sledge  hammer. 

To  protect  your  eyes  from 
dust  and  flying  particles, 
always  wear  safety  goggles 
when  using  striking  tools. 

KfJKVEHJWm 

VAUGHAN  &  BUSHNELL  MFG.  CO. 
11414  Maple  Avenue,  Hebron,  Illinois  60034 
1815  648-2446 


DON'T  strike  one  hammer 
with  another! 


DON'T  strike  a  hatchet 
with  a  hammer! 


DON'T  strike  a  nail  puller 
with  a  carpenter's 


We're  concerned  about  your  safety. 


hammer! 


cue  Needs  Your  Continued  Support  in  1988 

The  Carpenters  Legislative  Information  Committee  will  have  a  big  job  of  informing 
members  on  poUtical  issues  in  1988.  Support  CLIC  in  its  year-around  program. 


Recent  contributors 
to  CLIC  include: 
Michael  Miron,  Lo- 
cal 257  retiree.  For- 
est Hills,  N.Y.; 
Angelo  M.  San- 
toUa,  Local  1402 
retiree,  Richmond, 
Va.;  Anthony  A. 
ZoUo,  Local  218, 
Medford,  Mass.; 
Anthony  J.  Pisei- 
telli.  Local  188  reti- 
ree, Bronx,  N.Y.; 
Leonard  S.  Beville, 
Local  101  retiree, 
Baltimore,  Md.;  Ju- 
lius Kopff,  Local 
531,  College  Point, 
N.Y.;  JohnP.  Ken- 
nedy, Local  505, 
San  Diego,  Calif.; 
Steve  Naglich,  Lo- 
cal 2055  retiree, 
Red  Lodge,  Mont.; 
Norman  T.  Spauld- 
ing.  Local  586  reti- 
ree, Sacramento, 
Calif. 


Yes,  I  want  to  help! 

Here  is  my  contribution  to  the  Carpenters  Legislative 

Improvement  Committee.  I  know  my  participation 

counts. 

D  $10  D  $15  D  $20  n  $25  D  other 

Name 


Address . 

City 

Zip 


State. 


LU.  No.. 


We're  required  by  law  to  request  this  information: 

Occupation 

Employer 

Make  checks  payable  to: 

CLIC 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 

Washington,  DC  20001 

Contributions  to  CLIC  are  voluntAiy  and  are  not  a  condition  of 
membership  tn  the  UBC  or  of  employment  with  any  employer.  Members 
may  refuse  to  contribute  without  any  reprisal.  Contributions  will  be  used 
for  political  purposes  including  the  support:  of  candidates  for  federal 
office.  CLIC  does  not  solicit  contributions  from  persons  other  than  UBC 
members  and  their  immefliate  families.  Contributions  Arom  other  persons 
will  be  returned. 


To  help  children 
understand  unions 


V/hat  is  a  Union?  is  a  24-page  primer 
designed  to  help  grade  school  children  un- 
derstand what  unions  are  all  about.  It  is  one 
of  the  few  pieces  of  elementary-level  reading 
material  on  unions  which  the  AFL-CIO  De- 
partment of  Education  recommends  for  use 
in  the  classroom. 

It  is  available  for  $1.05  per  copy  and  can 
be  ordered  directly  from  the  printing  com- 
pany: Cornelius  Printing  Company,  2456 
East  Washington  Street,  P.O.  Box  7,  Indi- 
anapolis, IN  46206. 

The  AFL-CIO  has  also  put  together  a 
handbook,  Labor  in  the  Schools,  How  to 
Do  It!  It  is  designed  to  assist  union  members 
in  developing  a  labor-in-the-schools  pro- 
gram. It  contains  sample  publications  and 
materials,  examples  of  labor-in-the-schools 
projects  and  other  resources. 

It  can  be  ordered  from  the  AFL-CIO, 
Pamphlet  Division,  815  16th  Street  NW, 
Washington,  DC  20006  for  $5  (orders  of  10 
or  more  receive  a  20%  discount). 

If  we  want  our  children  and  successive 
generations  to  understand  the  vital  role  of 
organized  labor  in  the  development  of  this 
country,  we  must  all  take  whatever  steps 
we  can  to  get  labor  in  the  textbooks,  in  the 
classrooms  and  in  the  schools. 


What  is  a  Union? 

by  Althea 


The  cover  of  the  Labor  Primer 


Santa  Clara  center 


The  new  carpentry  apprentice  training 
center  for  the  Santa  Clara  Valley  appren- 
tices was  dedicated  recently.  Located  in 
Morgan  Hill,  Calif. ,  the  facility  is  the  lat- 
est to  be  built  by  the  46  Northern  Califor- 
nia Counties  JATC.  It  represents  the  cul- 
mination of  many  years  of  effort  to  find  a 
permanent  school  site  for  over  1100  ap- 
prentices. A  dedication  ceremony  was  held 
and  attended  by  local  contractors,  building 
officials,  politicians  and  educators,  while 
apprentices  in  the  program  gave  demon- 
strations of  their  skills. 


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CARPENTER 


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UBC  Job  Corps 
totals  show  gains 

The  United  Brotherhood  is  now  offering 
pre-apprenticeship  training  to  2,100  young 
men  and  women  between  the  ages  of  16  and 
21  at  48  Job  Corps  Centers.  That's  the 
highest  level  of  participation  in  Job  Corps 
activity  by  the  UBC  since  the  union  first 
signed  a  federal  contract  to  train  young 
people  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago, 
according  to  the  UBC  apprenticeship  and 
training  department. 

These  gains  were  reported  to  participants 
in  the  1987  Job  Corps  Training  Conference 
at  Niagara  Falls,  N.Y.,  last  September.  A 
total  of  120  Brotherhood  members  are  now 
employed  as  instructors  and  coordinators  in 
the  program,  including  two  recently  ap- 
pointed women  instructors  in  carpentry — 
one  at  Inland  Empire  Center  in  California 
and  the  other  at  the  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Job 
Corps  Center. 


Two  community  projects  in  Omaha 


The  joint  apprenliceship  commitlees  of  Carpenters  Local  400  and  Millwrights  Local 
1463.  Omaha,  Neb.,  have  been  active  on  several  projects.  Shown  here  is  work  being 
done  on  two  projects,  the  Omaha  Boys  Club  and  Micah  House,  a  home  for  indigent 
people.  At  upper  left,  apprentices  Paul  Carnazzo.  Todd  Workman  and  Mike  Prussia 
remodel  a  building  for  the  local  Boys  Club. 

At  upper  right  are  Gary  Christopher,  apprentice,  and  Tom  Schuiz,  instructor,  working 
on  doors  at  the  Micah  House. 

Below  left  are  other  apprentices  who  hung  doors — Monte  Williams,  Andy  Olson.  Eric 
Olson  and  Terry  Elder. 

Below  right  are  apprentices  Kelly  Kirk  and  Lavell  Williams  setting  a  lock  in  a  door  at 
Micah  House. 


Spurgeon  Styles,  UBC  Job  Corps  project 
coordinator,  left,  and  First  District  Board 
Member  Joseph  Lia,  right,  were  speakers 
at  the  Conference  in  Niagara  Falls. 


Recent  graduates  in  Cumberland        Manitoba  holds  annual  contest 


Seven  members  of  Local  1024.  Cumberland.  Md..  recently  com- 
pleted the  apprenliceship  training  program.  They  included 
Thomas  Metz.  David  Miller.  Michael  Andres.  Michael  Linde- 
man.  Robert  Halle.  Robert  Taylor  and  Paul  Twigg. 


Judges  and  winners  in  the  Manitoba  Provincial  Apprenticeship 
Contest  are  shown  here.  They  include,  Frank  Pauls,  architec- 
tural faculty.  University  of  Manitoba,  judge;  Sam  Savoie,  com- 
mittee member,  Manitoba  Labour  Department;  Glenn  Baldwin, 
committee  member,  department  head.  Red  River  Community 
College;  John  Stark,  chief  judge,  carpentry  instructor.  Red 
River  Community  College;  J.B.  Dinner,  third  place  winner;  Har- 
old W.  Bedford,  committee  chairman;  Henry  Gouseau,  first 
place  winner;  Ron  Wicklund,  second  place  winner;  Peter 
Scholte,  judge.  Local  343.  Wayne  Melnyck,  judge,  representing 
the  contractors,  was  not  available  for  the  photograph. 


DECEMBER     1987 


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First  California 
1-105  graduates 

Mavis  McAllister.  Local  1976.  Los  An- 
geles, Calif.,  and  Mary  Whitmore,  Local 
1 140.  Harbor  City.  Calif.,  are  the  first  UBC 
members  to  achieve  journeyperson  status 
through  the  California  Department  of  Trans- 
portation's pre-apprenticeship  program,  op- 
erated in  conjunction  with  the  Los  Angeles 
County  Carpenters  Joint  Apprenticeship  and 
Training  Committee.  It  is  operated  with 
federal  funds  supplied  under  the  Job  Part- 
nership Training  Act. 

Pre-apprentices  referred  to  the  program 
are  learning  their  trade  by  rehabilitating 
houses  along  the  1-105  Century  Freeway. 
They  complete  their  craft  training  under  the 
Los  Angeles  PETS  Program. 


Santa  Clara  honors 
104  new  journeymen 


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Mavis  McAllister,  second  from  left,  and 
Mary  Whitmore,  second  from  right,  are 
the  first  women  to  achieve  journeyperson 
status  through  California's  1-105  Pre-Ap- 
prenticeship  Training  Program.  Accompa- 
nying the  two  women  are,  Al  Hernandez, 
Los  Angeles  County  Federation  of  Labor: 
Jesse  Martinez,  financial  secretary.  Local 
1976;  and  Judge  Harry  Pregerson,  United 
Stales  Circuit  Judge. 


Two  apprentices  were  chosen  to  receive 
the  Apprentice  of  the  Year  award.  David 
Jeppson,  far  right,  was  the  carpenter  re- 
cipient, and  Kevin  Weinberg,  not  pictured, 
was  the  top  diywall-lather  apprentice. 
Jeppson  is  shown  with,  left,  Robert  Rath, 
director,  Carpenters  Training  Center,  Mor- 
gan Hill,  Calif;  Dennis  McConnell.  Ap- 
prenticeship Trust  Board  Member  and 
General  President  Patrick  Campbell. 

The  apprentice  completion  ceremonies  for 
the  Santa  Clara  Valley,  Calif.,  District  was 
held  last  summer  to  honor  104  graduating 
apprentices.  General  President  Patrick 
Campbell  was  the  keynote  speaker  at  the 
ceremony  and  encouraged  each  new  jour- 
neyman to  assure  the  future  of  labor  by 
contributing  to  the  unionized  construction 
industry. 

Two  apprentices  were  selected  by  the 
JATC  to  receive  the  Apprentice  of  the  Year 
award.  David  Jeppson,  Local  1280,  Moun- 
tain View,  Calif.,  was  chosen  as  carpenter 
recipient,  and  Kevin  Weinberg,  Local  144- 
L,  San  Jose,  Calif.,  was  named  top  drywall- 
lather  apprentice.  The  Apprenticeship  Fed- 
eration honored  Phil  Mirenda  with  the  annual 
"Mr.  Apprenticeship"  award  for  superior 
contribution  to  apprenticeship.  Mirenda,  who 
recently  retired  as  executive  vice  president 
of  Carl  N.  Swenson  Construction,  served 
on  the  JATC  for  many  years  and  oversaw 
the  training  of  many  young  people. 


Missouri  state 
contest  winners 


The  Missouri  State  Apprenticeship  con- 
test was  held  recently  in  Jefferson  City  with 
six  contestants  competing.  Judges  for  the 
contest  were  Len  Toenjes,  St.  Louis  Con- 
struction Training  School:  Charles  Cates, 
Kansas  City  District  Council;  and  Ray  Gil- 
liam, contractor. 

Carpentry  awards  went  to  Richard  Alt, 


first  place.  Local  417,  St.  Louis;  Brian  Car- 
ron,  second  place.  Local  2030,  Sainte  Ge- 
nevieve; and  Tom  Barklage,  Local  945,  Jef- 
ferson City. 

Ed  Krause,  Local  1596,  St.  Louis  was 
awarded  first  place  in  the  mill-cabinet  divi- 
sion, with  second  place  going  to  Craig  Scott, 
Local  1635.  Kansas  City. 

First  place  millwright  was  Ed  Roesler, 
Local  47,  St.  Louis. 

The  contestants  underwent  a  four-hour 
written  test  and  a  manipulative  project  in 
the  annual  competition. 


Participants  in  the 
Missouri  Contest 
were,  front,  Ed 
Krause,  Brian  Car- 
ron  and  Tom  Bark- 
lage. Back,  Richard 
Alt,  Ed  Roesler  and 
Craig  Scott. 


Illinois  Council 
sponsors  contest 

The  Illinois  State  Council  recently  held 
its  20th  Annual  Apprentice  Contest  in  the 
Rockford  area.  Winners  were  determined 
from  the  results  of  a  four-hour  written  test 
and  the  quality  and  exactness  of  an  eight- 
hour  building  project.  The  building  projects 
were  constructed  in  the  Rockford  Metro 
Centre. 

A  banquet  was  held  in  the  Metro  Centre 
to  honor  all  the  contestants  and  award  the 
winners.  Special  recognition  was  given  to 
the  Bureau  of  Apprenticeship  Training  on 
its  50th  anniversary. 

The  winners  of  the  contest  included,  for 
the  carpentry  division,  Roger  V.  Langrehr, 
Local  1361,  Chester,  111.,  first  place;  Terry 
Klingelhoefer,  Local  433,  Belleville,  111., 
second  place;  Edward  P.  Peddle,  Local  250, 
Waukegan,  111.,  third  place. 

The  winners  in  the  mill-cabinet  division 
included;  Michael  J.  Bizjack,  Local  1207, 
Chicago,  111.,  first  place;  Jeffrey  Blanck, 
Local  792,  Rockford,  III.,  second  place;  Jon 
Jay  Dillard,  Local  633,  Granite  City,  III., 
third  place. 

In  the  millwright  division,  awards  went  to 
Keith  Brauer,  Local  169,  St.  Louis,  III.,  first 
place;  William  D.  CoUings,  Local  1693,  Chi- 
cago, III.,  second  place;  David  J.  Shaffer, 
Local  1693,  Chicago,  111.,  third  place. 


The  first-place  awards  went  to  Keith 
Brauer  of  Local  169  millwrighl,  second 
from  left;  Michael  Bizjack,  Local  1027, 
mill  cabinet,  center;  and  Roger  V.  Lan- 
grehr, Local  1361,  carpentiy.  They  are 
shown  with  Dick  Ladzinski.  secretary- 
treasurer,  Illinois  State  Council,  left,  and 
Don  Gorman,  president,  Illinois  State 
Council,  right. 


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A  special  feature  at  this  year's  contest  was 
a  floor  and  wall  covering  demonstration  by 
apprentices  from  the  Chicago  and  N.E. 
Illinois  District  Council.  Shown  with  the 
exhibit  are  Tonv  Pongetti.  instructor;  John 
Miller  and  Chuck  Vallee,  Local  1185,  Chi- 
cago, III.;  and  Warren  Lung,  Local  1 185 
business  representative. 


11 


CARPENTER 


UIE  conGRnTumTE 


.  .  .  those  members  of  our  Brotherhood  who,  in  recent  weeks,  have  been  named 
or  elected  to  public  offices,  have  won  awards,  or  who  have,  in  other  ways  "stood 
out  from  the  crowd."  This  month,  our  editorial  hat  is  off  to  the  following: 


BIKE  RIDER  IN  'RACE  ACROSS  AMERICA' 


Cheryl  Marek  member  of  Local  131,  Se- 
attle, Wash.,  completed  the  Race  Across 
America,  last  summer — a  3,1 17  mile  bicycle 
race  from  San  Francisco  to  Washington, 
D.C.  Seven  women  and  26  men  competed 
in  the  race.  Marek  completed  the  race  in  12 
days,  five  hours  and  41  minutes  to  capture 
second  place  in  the  women's  division  and 
the  Rookie  of  the  Year  Award. 

Marek  is  also  the  holder  of  the  women's 
tandem  transcontinental  record  with  a  time 
of  10  days,  22  hours  and  48  minutes. 

Local  131  made  a  donation  to  Marek  to 
offset  her  expenses  in  the  grueling  bike  ride. 


UNION  COUNSELORS         PLAYGROUND  JOB 


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Members  of  Lociil  1438,  Warren.  Ohiii. 
recently  completed  the  union  counselor 
program  sponsored  by  the  Triimbell 
County  AFL-CIO.  It  was  a  nine-week 
workshop  coverinf;  many  phases  of  cotn- 
miinily  service.  Among  the  topics  dis- 
cussed were  child  abase,  drug  and  alcohol 
problems,  workers  compensation  and  re- 
habilitation programs. 

Shown  above  are  James  W.  Sliffler:  Ed- 
ward J.  Tock.  business  representative; 
Juanita  McCarty.  president  of  the  commu- 
nity union  counselors:  and  Thomas  Par- 
due.  Ronald  A.  Davis  also  graduated  from 
the  class  but  was  not  pictured. 


Members  of  Local  278,  Watertown,  N.Y., 
volunteered  their  craft  skills  and  one  week 
out  of  their  summer  to  build  a  playground 
for  the  children  of  their  town.  They  worked 
under  the  direction  of  Al  Wright,  retired 
treasurer,  shown  above  beside  his  pickup 
truck.  Those  participating  were  Bruce 
Smith,  Bob  Tlwmas,  Dave  Black,  Gunnar 
Larsen  and  Dick  McCabe.  The  project  was 
completed  on  time  and  at  no  cost  to  the 
city.  : 


MEANY  AWARD  TO  CALIFORNIA  MEMBER 


A  member  of  Local  2435,  Inglewood, 
Calif.,  Niels  C.  Nelson,  center,  was  the 
recipient  of  the  George  Meany  Award 
from  the  Boy  Scouts  of  America  at  a  pin 
ceremony  held  by  the  local.  Nelson  was 
given  the  medallion  in  recognition  of  years 
of  service  with  the  organization. 

The  Meany  Award  is  named  for  the  late 
president  of  the  AFL-CIO,  who  gave  sup- 
port to  many  community  service  organiza- 
tions during  more  than  three  decades  of 
labor  leadership. 


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23 


Labor  News 
Roundup 


Credit-rating  data 
blaclced  out 
for  labor  unions 

Dun  &  Bradstreet,  a  major  credit- 
rating  firm,  has  imposed  the  computer- 
age  equivalent  of  a  yellow-dog  contract 
on  a  middleman  company  that  sells  ac- 
cess to  various  financial  data  services. 

The  AFL-CIO  and  several  affiliates 
had  been  obtaining  data  on  corporations 
that  are  not  publicly  owned  by  accessing 
Dun  &  Bradstreet's  financial  records  file 
through  Dialogue  Information  Services, 
a  data  base  supplier. 

Unions  paid  for  access  to  the  reports, 
which  often  are  useful  in  preparing  for 
collective  bargaining.  But  Dun  &  Brad- 
street  takes  the  position  that  employers 
who  provide  the  information  don't  want 
it  going  to  unions.  So  it  asserts  a  right  to 
be  "selective"  in  choosing  its  customers. 

A  yellow-dog  contract,  illegal  since 
1932,  requires  employees  to  promise  that 
they  won't  join  a  union. 

When  Dun  &  Bradstreet  found  out  that 
unions  were  buying  its  financial  infor- 
mation, it  insisted  that  Dialogue  Infor- 
mation Services  blacklist  the  unions. 

Union  librarians  discovered  this  when 
the  words  "unauthorized  file"  flashed  on 
their  computers  when  they  tried  to  access 
the  code  for  the  financial  records  file. 


Farmers  quit 
agriculture 
at  higher  rates 


The  National  Farmers  Union  reports 
that  the  rate  of  farmers  leaving  agricul- 
ture is  the  highest  in  almost  two  decades. 

NFU  said  that  the  exit  rate  from  farm- 
ing was  1.7%  in  1970  and  dropped  to 
1 .0%  in  1975.  However,  in  1983  and  1984, 
the  exit  rate  rose  to  1 .3%,  and  in  1985  it 
rose  to  nearly  2.3%,  the  highest  since 
1969. 

One  of  the  most  alarming  factors  about 
the  trend,  said  the  NFU,  is  that  farmers 
who  are  quitting  for  financial  reasons 
tend  to  come  from  the  middle  and  upper 
segments  of  commerical  agriculture — 
younger,  progressive  persons  with  pro- 
duction-efficient units. 

In  contrast,  during  the  last  period  of 
high  exit  rates  in  the  1950s,  NFU  said, 
most  departures  were  among  residential 
and  part-time  farmers  who  primarily  left 
by  choice  for  better  opportunities  else- 
where. 

"To  have  financial  stress  hit  the  mid- 
scale  group  of  farmers  the  hardest  is 
unique  and  ought  to  alarm  U.S.  con- 
sumers about  the  predictability  of  food 
supplies,"  NFU  said. 


Juvenile  shoe 
added  to 
don't  buy  list 

Intolerable  concession  demands  by  Ju- 
venile Shoe  Company  in  Aurora,  Mo., 
forced  over  450  workers  out  on  strike  in 
April  of  this  year.  Scabs  were  hired  at  a 
rate  of  pay  that  exceeded  that  of  the 
expired  agreement  and  the  last  negotiated 
wage  offer. 

Concessions  demanded  by  the  com- 
pany include  slashed  wages  and  benefits, 
reduction  in  holidays  and  weekend  work 
with  no  overtime  pay.  The  majority  of 
the  workers  are  women  and  are  among 
the  lowest  paid  industrial  workers  in 
Missouri.  The  company  also  employs 
sweatshop  tactics  giving  people  minimum 
wage  for  homework. 

The  company,  owners  of  two  retail 
shoe  stores  in  Missouri — Robin's  Shoes 
in  St.  Louis  and  Robinson's  in  Kansas 
City — also  sells  to  shoe  retailers  nation- 
wide. 

The  AFL-CIO  Executive  Council  has 
endorsed  the  request  of  the  Amalgamated 
Clothing  and  Textile  Workers  Union  to 
boycott  Juvenile  Shoes  in  an  effort  to 
put  pressure  on  the  company  to  bargain 
in  good  faith  for  a  fair  and  equitable 
contract.  Brand  names  to  avoid  are  Lazy 
Bones,  Clinic,  Sandpipers,  Foot  Thrills, 
Hitch  Hikers,  Happy  Steppers,  G.P.O., 
Dude  Ranch  Camp  Hoes,  Cradle  Step- 
pers, and  Gloveal. 

Two  meatpacking 
companies  added 
to  "don't  buy"  list 

Producers  of  processed  meat  products 
and  canned  hams  cut  employees  wages 
by  almost  50%,  forcing  800  United  Food 
and  Commercial  Workers  to  strike  in 
January  1987. 

By  use  of  plant  closing  threats  and 
layoffs,  Cudahy  reduced  workers'  wages 
from  $10.69  an  hour  to  $6  an  hour, 
systematically  destroying  their  standard 
of  living.  Although  the  National  Labor 
Relations  Board  ruled  that  Patrick  Cu- 
dahy did  not  bargain  in  good  faith  with 
UFCW  Local  P-40,  the  company  re- 
placed strikers  with  scabs  and  is  appeal- 
ing the  NLRB  ruling. 

At  the  request  of  the  UFCW,  the  AFL- 
CIO  has  placed  Patrick  Cudahy  on  the 
Don't  Buy  list  and  requests  cooperation 
in  the  boycott  of  Cudahy  processed  meat 
products  labeled:  DAK,  Patrick  Cudahy, 
Gwaltney,  Milano's,  Smithfield,  Taneda, 
Deli-Fresh,  and  canned  hams  brand 
named:  Agar,  A&P,  DAK,  Jewel,  Lan- 
caster, Plymouth  Rock,  Shur-Fine, 
Smoke-A-Roama,  Windmill,  Emge, 
Pathmark,  Safeway,  IGA,  Apple  Blos- 
som, Circle  A  and  Country  Club. 


In  1983,  another  company,  John  Mor- 
rell  of  Sioux  City,  Iowa,  cut  workers' 
wages  by  more  than  $3  an  hour.  Four 
years  later,  in  spite  of  soaring  profits, 
Morrell  is  demanding  additional  wage 
cuts.   Morrell's  corporate  management 


has  replaced  "a  fair  days  work  for  a  fair 
day's  wage"  with  "work  harder  for  less," 
with  breakneck  production  speeds. 
Slaughtering  has  increased  by  84%  from 
the  mid- 1 970' s,  creating  staggering  on- 
the-job  injuries. 

The  AFL-CIO  endorses  the  request  of 
the  UFCW  and  John  Morrell  workers  to 
boycott  Morrell  meat  products  sold  under 
these  labels:  John  Morrell,  Nathan's  Fa- 
mous, Tobins  First  Prize,  Rath  Black- 
hawk,  Hunter,  Krey,  Peyton,  Partridge 
and  Rodeo,  until  workers  can  achieve  a 
fair  contract. 

Union  buster 
changes  mind 
about  labor 

Martin  Levitt,  anti-labor  consultant  for 
20  years,  said  he  is  leaving  the  "dirty 
business." 

Levitt  told  the  AFL-CIO  National  Or- 
ganizing Coordinating  Committee's  "RUB 
Sheet"  that  "management  consulting  is 
a  disgusting  field — although  I  helped  to 
pioneer  it." 

"It  is  a  dirty  business,  that  enables  a 
person  to  come  into  a  company  which  is 
facing  a  union  threat  and  prey  on  man- 
agement's feeling  of  crisis,"  Levitt  said. 
"The  consultant  manipulates  people  to 
believe  that  they  don't  need  what  in  fact 
they  do  need." 

Levitt  said  the  business  hurts  not  only 
union  members,  but  also  supervisors  and 
the  companies  which  pay  some  $1,000  a 
day  for  the  services.  "When  I  started  to 
discover  the  fatalities  that  occurred,  I 
got  disgusted.  No  dollar  amount  was 
worth  the  hurt  being  done,"  he  said. 

Levitt,  who  began  as  a  consultant  with 
John  Sheridan  Associates  and  later  worked 
for  Modern  Management  Methods  before 
he  began  his  own  business,  told  RUB  he 
will  tell  his  story  in  a  book  to  be  published 
next  year. 

Three  honored 
by  Work  in  America 
Institute 

AFL-CIO  Secretary  Thomas  R.  Don- 
ahue, former  U.S.  Labor  Secretary 
William  E.  Brock  and  Hamish  Maxwell, 
chairman  of  the  board  and  chief  executive 
officer  of  Philip  Morris  Companies,  were 
recipients  of  the  Work  in  America  Insti- 
tute's 4th  annual  Labor-Management 
Award.  Bakery,  Confectionery  and  To- 
bacco Workers'  Union  President  John 
DeConcini  presented  the  award  to  Don- 
ahue, a  founding  director  of  the  12-year- 
old  Institute. 

"For  twelve  years  now,  this  Institute 
has  preached  the  gospel  that  cooperation 
between  management  and  labor  is  a  two- 
way  street  and  that  if  we  want  to  make 
our  country  and  its  workers  more  pro- 
ductive and  competitive,  we  cannot  do 
it  simply  by  reducing  our  standard  of 
living  to  the  lowest  common  denomina- 
tor," Donahue  told  the  450  guests 
at  New  York  City's  Hilton  Hotel  on 
October  20. 


24 


CARPENTER 


Retirees 
Notebook 


A  periodic  report  on  the  activities 
of  UBC  Retiree  Clubs  and  the  com- 
ings and  goings  of  individual  retirees. 


Rooftop  crusader 


Anti-smoking  crusader  Norman  Wriggles- 
worth's  latest  no-smoking  sign  is  mounted 
17  feet  above  the  ground  .  .  .  on  his  ga- 
rage roof.  Propelled  by  the  wind,  this  lat- 
est addition  complements  another  such 
sign  which  he  says  is  the  world's  largest 
roof-mounted  no-smoking  sign  and  which 
is  mounted  on  the  roof  of  his  house,  visi- 
ble to  aircraft  flying  by. 

Wrigglesworth  is  a  member  of  Local 
452,  Vancouver  B.C. 

Santa  Ana  retiree 
helps  preschoolers 

Floyd  Madland,  retired  member  of  Local 
1815,  Santa  Ana,  Calif.,  has  spent  the  last 
12  years  working  with  the  preschool  children 
in  his  church. 

He  works  with  them  in  building  items  out 
of  wood  which  he  picks  up  from  cabinet 
shops.  The  children,  aged  3-5,  have  built 
airplanes,  bird  houses,  tool  boxes,  jewelery 
boxes,  toy  beds,  cars  and  houses  by  glueing 
and  nailing  the  pieces  together. 


North  California 
Club  16  years  old 

The  history  of  the  Retired  Carpenters  Club 
of  Northern  California  goes  back  to  January 
1971,  long  before  UBC  retiree  clubs  were 
internationally  chartered.  A  history  of  the 
club  was  recently  written  by  Genevieve 
Schidger  Saracco,  who  attended  the  orga- 
nizational meeting  in  1971  along  with  21 
others. 

The  club  began  as  a.  small  group  of  retired 
carpenters  from  Local  1622,  Hayward,  Calif. 
They  met  September  1970  and  decided  to 
form  a  retirement  club  to  support  one  an- 
other. At  the  organizational  meeting,  Janu- 
ary 1971,  22  retired  carpenters  from  various 
locals  met  at  Local  36,  Oakland,  Calif.,  to 
hold  their  first  election.  The  first  officers 
were  Gus  Toensing,  president;  Ernie  Crow, 
vice  president;  Larry  Twist,  recording  sec- 
retary; and  Leo  Schiager,  financial  secre- 
tary. Trustees  and  area  representatives  were 
elected  the  following  month. 

By-laws  were  set  forth  and  a  motto  and 
purpose  defined:  To  aid  the  retired  carpenter 
in  assuming  his  well-earned  position  of  honor 
and  importance  in  our  society.  Dues  were 
set  at  50(2  a  month  with  a  $2  initial  fee. 
Meetings  were  held  at  the  -different  locals, 
a  monthly  newsletter  was  published,  and  a 
membership  drive  was  begun. 

The  first  Christmas  party  was  held  at  Local 
1622  with  150  members  and  guests  in  at- 
tendance. 

In  1972  a  legal  fund  was  established  with 
able  members  donating  $20.  A  lawyer  was 
hired  in  August  and  a  suit  was  brought 
against  the  pension  board  asking  for  equal 
pensions.  Eight  of  the  charter  members  were 
plaintiffs  in  the  case.  The  club  went  to  court 
three  times  over  the. next  three  years  until 
the  case  was  lost  in  December,  1975,  after 
it  went  before  the  U.S.  Court  of  Appeals. 

Membership  grew  as  a  result  of  member- 
ship drives.  A  total  of  247  members  attended 
the  Christmas  luncheon  in  1972,  and  in  1973 
dues  were  raised  to  $1.  An  extensive  mem- 
bership drive  was  started  in  May,  1974,  after 
they  were  granted  by  the  courts  the  use  of 
the  mailing  addresses  of  all  retired  carpen- 
ters— 8,000  at  the  time.  By  December  mem- 
bership had  increased  to  900,  not  including 
wives. 

The  members  became  involved  in  a  com- 
munity effort  to  donate  eyeglasses  to  the 
needy.  They  also  became  involved  in  the 
lives  of  the  other  members  as  area  repre- 
sentatives shared  news  of  illnesses  and  deaths 
of  members.  Continued  on  Page  38 


<'■■>  >.r-- 


Madland  is  shown  with  two  of  the  pre- 
schoolers as  they  work  on  iheir  projects. 


These  are  projects  completed  by  the  stu- 
dents in  the  Sania  Ana  preschool. 


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and  Jack  rafters  completely  worked 
out  for  you.  The  ttattest  pitch  is  Vi 
inch  rise  to  12  inch  run..  Pitches  in- 
crease %  inch  rise  each  time  until 
the  steep  pitch  of  24"  rise  to  12" 
run  is  reached. 

There  are  2400  widths  of  build- 
ings for  each  pitch.  The  smallest 
width  is  Vi  inch  and  they  increase 
Vi"  each  time  until  they  cover  a  50 
foot   building. 

There  are  2400  Commons  and  2400 
Hip,  Valley  &  Jack  lengths  for  each 
pitch.  230,400  rafter  lengths  for  48 
pitches. 

A  hip  roof  is  48'-9%"  wide.  Pitch 
is  IVz"  rise  to  12"  run.  You  can  pick 
out  the  length  of  Commons,  Hips  and 
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DECEMBER     1987 


25 


Seminar  at  Labor  Studies  Center  for  fuli-time  officers 
and  business  representatives,  industrial  local  unions 


The  fourth  and  final  UBC  training  seminar  of  1987 — this  one  for 
industrial  business  representatives  and  fulltime  officers  was  held 
October  18-23  at  the  George  Meany  Labor  Studies  Center  in  Silver 
Spring,  Md. 

Thirty-five  local  and  council  officers  attended  the  October 
seminar. 

The  seminars  are  designed  to  acquaint  full-time  officers  and 
business  representatives  with  the  duties  and  responsibilities  of 
their  offices.  They  are  under  the  supervision  of  the  Industrial 
Department  representatives  Mike  Fishman,  Dennis  Scott,  Walter 
Malakoff  and  Richard  Dwyer,  deputy  director  of  the  George 
Meany  Center. 

Participants  in  the  fourth  1987  training  seminar  and  their  local 
or  council  affiliation  are  as  follows: 

David  Langston,  B.R.,  Kansas  City  D.C.,  Kansas  City,  MO 
Gregory  Nickloy,  B.R.,  Local  1359,  Toledo,  OH 
Jerry  Nordin,  B.  R.,  Los  Angeles  County  D.C.,  Los  Angeles,  CA 
Carlos  Perez,  Sec'y. -Treasurer,  Local  3074,  Chester,  CA 
Ramon  Richardo,  B.  R.,  Los  Angeles  County  D.C.,  Los  Angeles, 

CA 
Joe  Potter,  Asst.,  B.R.,  Local  2949,  Roseburg,  OR 
Ted  Rabern,  F.S.,  B.R.,  Local  2949,  Roseburg,  OR 
E.J.  Reith,  B.R.,  Western  Pennsylvania  D.C.,  Pittsburgh,  PA 
Jack  Roese,  B.R.,  Local  2077,  Columbus,  OH 
Jim  Ruggles,  B.R.,  Local  1553,  Hawthorne,  CA 
Adam  Salvona,  B.R.,  Local  3054,  Exeter,  Ontario 
Lowell  Schultz,  Asst.  B.R.,  Midwestern  Industrial  Council,  Wau- 

sau,  WI 
Matthew  Shackel,  F.S.,  B.R.,  Local  2155,  Brooklyn,  NY 


Alvin  Smith,  B.R.,  Southern  Cncl.  of  Industrial  Wkrs.,  Jackson, 

MS 
Rex  Stuart,  B.R.,  Local  2403,  Richland,  WA 
Al  Tag,  B.R.,  Local  1553,  Hawthorne,  CA 
Tim  Thomas,  B.R.,  Local  1553,  Hawthorne,  CA 
Lawrence  Warren,  F.S.,  B.R.,  Local  2715,  Medford,  OR 
Vince  Albrecht,  F.S.,  B.R.,  Local  821,  Union,  NJ 
Robert  Alexander,  President,  Florida  Council  of  Industrial  and 

Public  Employees,  Clearwater,  FL 
Bruce  Baier,  Sec'y. -Treasurer,  Midwestern  Industrial  Council, 

Wausau,  WI 
Willie  O.  Boone,  B.R.,  Local  3090,  Murfreesboro,  NC 
Lou  Bradley,  B.R.,  Local  1338,  Charlottetown,  PEI 
Tim  Brewer,  B.R.,  Southern  Cncl.  of  Industrial  Wkrs.,  Jackson, 

MS 
James  Carr,  F.S.,  B.R.,  Local  338,  Seattle,WA 
Daniel  Chapman,  Jr.,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  2288,  Whittier,  CA 
Michael  DiLucia,  B.R.,  Local  1160,  Pittsburgh,  PA 
Nicholas  Ercoline,  Shop  Agent,  Local  964,  New  City,  NY 
Kenneth  Fenwick,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  3054,  Exeter,  Ontario 
Jones  Fitzhugh,  B.R.,  Southern  Cncl.  of  Industrial  Wkrs.,  Jackson, 

MS 
Richard  Garretson,  Jr.,  Asst.  B.R.,  Local  2403,  Richland,  WA 
Llyod  Groomes,  B.R.,  Local  3023,  Omak,  WA 
Charles   Hamilton,   B.R.,  Southern  Cncl.  of  Industrial  Wkrs., 

Jackson,  MS 
Howard  Jones,  Shop  Agent,  Local  964,  New  City,  NY 
Jerry  Kirchgatter,  F.S.,  B.R.,  Local  2927,  Sutter  Creek,  CA 


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26 


CARPENTER 


Consumer  complaints 
hit  record  high 


Mail  promotions  and  plione-order  sales 
generate  the  most  day-to-day  problems 


Consumers  turned  to  the  nation's  Better 
Business  Bureaus  a  record  9.6  million  times 
last  year,  with  mail  and  phone-order  sales 
generating  the  most  complaints,  the  bureaus 
reported  recently. 

Overall,  the  business-sponsored  agencies 
which  handle  consumer  problems  reported 
receiving  7.5  million  requests  for  information 
on  businesses  and  2.1  million  complaints 
about  goods  or  services .  About  three-fourths 
of  the  complaints  were  eventually  settled. 

Home  improvement  and  remodeling  firms 
were  the  focus  of  the  largest  number  of  pre- 
purchase  inquiries  from  consumers,  the  bur- 
eaus reported. 

The  national  Council  of  Better  Business 
Bureaus,  based  in  Arlington,  Va.,  serves  as 
coordinator  for  the  178  local  Better  Business 
Bureaus  across  the  nation.  These  bureaus 
keep  files  on  local  business  firms,  can  advise 
consumers  about  complaints  or  patterns  of 
problems  with  individual  companies  and  often 


Damaged  goods  and  delays  in  delivery 
are  reasons  given  by  many  consumers  for 
going  to  the  Better  Business  Bureau  and 
other  agencies. 


seek  to  help  solve  disputes  between  busi- 
nesses and  consumers. 

The  5%  increase  in  consumer  contacts 
with  the  bureaus  was  primarily  due  to  the 
growth  in  the  number  of  pre-purchase  in- 
quiries about  companies. 

Among  the  complaints  received  across  the 
country,  the  largest  single  category  was  for 
ordered  products,  a  rapidly  growing  segment 
of  business  in  recent  years. 

Some  15%  of  all  complaints  were  in  this 
category,  with  the  most  common  areas  being 
products  ordered  from  catalogs  or  out  of 
newspaper  and  magazine  advertising. 

Previous  analyses  of  these  complaints  have 
shown  delays  in  delivery  or  damaged  prod- 
ucts to  be  the  most  common  problems, 
followed  by  billing  disputes. 

Overall,  ordered  products  generated  70,581 
complaints,  well  ahead  of  the  47,215  com- 
plaints focusing  on  home  remodeling  and 
improvement  firms. 


How  to  get  a  Social  Security  number  for  your  child 


Q.  I  understand  that  most  children  soon 
will  need  a  Social  Security  number.  Is  this 
true? 

A.  The  Tax  Reform  Act  of  1986  (section 
1524)  requires  taxpayers  to  have  a  Social 
Security  number  for  each  dependent  age  5 
and  over  that  they  claim  for  tax  purposes. 
That  number  must  be  shown  on  all  Federal 
tax  returns  due  after  December  31,  1987. 

Q.  I  have  a  31-year-old  mentally  retarded 
daughter  who  will  never  work.  Must  I  get  a 
number  for  her? 

A.  Yes.  Although  most  dependents  are 
under  18,  some  are  adults  who  also  need  a 
number  under  the  new  law. 

Q.  My  two  children  are  ages  2  and  6.  Do 
they  each  need  a  number? 

A.  Only  the  older  child  must  have  a  num- 
ber by  the  time  you  file  your  1987  tax  return. 
Because  the  younger  one  will  also  need  a 
number.before  long,  however,  you  may  want 
to  apply  for  both  of  them  at  the  same  time. 
It's  up  to  you. 

Q.  Do  most  dependents  need  to  get  a  num- 
ber? 

A.  No.  About  two-thirds  of  all  young 
people,  particularly  teenagers,  already  have 


a  Social  Security  card  with  a  lifetime  number 
on  it.  They  may  have  gotten  it  for  a  bank 
account  or  savings  bond,  a  part-time  job,  a 
driver's  license,  a  college  entrance  exami- 
nation, an  application  for  government  ben- 
efits or  other  purpose.  Those  who  now  have 
a  number  will  NOT  have  to  get  another  one. 

Q.  How  soon  must  I  get  a  Social  Security 
number  for  my  dependent? 

A.  As  soon  as  possible.  You  will  need  to 
show  the  number  on  your  1987  Federal  Tax 
return  which  is  due  by  April  15,  1988.  Since 
it  will  take  some  time  to  get  the  number 
after  you  apply,  don't  wait  until  the  last 
minute. 

Q.  How  do  I  go  about  getting  the  number? 

A.  You  must  complete  an  "application 
for  a  Social  Security  Number  Card"  (Form 
SS-5),  available  by  mail  or  in  person  at  any 
Social  Security  office.  Also,  an  appointment 
to  apply  can  be  made  by  phone.  If  a  de- 
pendent is  18  or  over  or  was  born  outside 
the  United  States,  the  application  must  al- 
ways be  made  in  person. 

Q.  When  is  the  Social  Security  number 
required  by  government  agencies  other  than 

SSA? 


A.  The  Tax  Reform  Act  of  1986  permits 
state  and  local  governments  to  use  the  Social 
Security  number  in  administering  their  tax, 
general  public  assistance,  driver's  license 
and  motor  vehicle  registration  programs. 
The  state  or  local  government  may  require 
a  person  to  provide  a  number  for  these 
purposes.  In  the  case  of  Aid  to  Families  with 
Dependent  Children  (AFDC),  benefits  can- 
not be  paid  without  the  Social  Security 
number. 

The  number  is  also  required  for  Internal 
Revenue  Service  (IRS)  purposes.  It  must  be 
shown  on  Federal  Tax  returns  and  be  given 
to  banks  and  others  who  are  required  to 
report  interest,  dividends  or  other  payments 
to  IRS. 

Other  government  agencies  may  require  a 
person's  Social  Security  number  only  if  a 
law  or  regulation  either  orders  or  authorizes 
them  to  do  so.  Agencies  must  explain  the 
legal  basis  for  the  request.  If  there  is  no 
legal  basis,  the  person  can  refuse  to  give  the 
number  and  still  receive  the  agency's  serv- 
ices. 

If  you  have  questions,  call  toll-free  1-800- 
533-0105. 


DECEMBER     1987 


27 


GOSSIP 


SEND  YOUR  FAVORITES  TO. 

PLANE  GOSSIP,  101  CONSTITUTION 

AVE.  NW,  WASH.,  D.C.  20001. 

SORRY,  BUT  NO  PAYMENT  MADE 

AND  POETRY  NOT  ACCEPTED. 


LEGAL  OUCH! 

A  personal  injury  attorney  told  a 
prospective  client,  "I'll  take  your 
case  on  a  contingency  basis." 

The  client  didn't  understand  what 
"contingency"  meant. 

"It  means,"  the  lawyer  explained, 
"that  if  I  lose  your  case,  I  get  noth- 
ing. If  I  win  your  case,  you  get 
nothing." 

— Comedy  World 


LOOK  FOR  THE  UNION  LABEL 


TRAGEDIES 

It's  strange  how  an  earthquake 
four  thousand  miles  away  seems 
less  of  a  catastrophe  than  the  first 
scratch  on  your  new  car. 


SHOW  YOUR  BUMPER  STICKER 


SHEER  RELAXATION 

Last  year  we  discovered  a  va- 
cation spot  that's  convenient  to  get 
to,  comfortable,  relaxing,  where  we 
don't  have  to  get  dressed  up  and 
that's  priced  within  our  budget.  It's 
called  the  living  room. 


PRESIDENTIAL  MOUTHPIECE 

A  tired  traveler  stepped  up  to  the 
front  desk  of  a  fancy  hotel. 

"A  room,  please,"  he  said. 

"I'm  terribly  sorry,"  replied  the 
snooty  deskman,  "but  we  are  quite 
full." 

The  traveler  took  a  deep  breath, 
and  then  said,  "Listen,  if  the  Pres- 
ident of  the  United  States  were  to 
walk  in  right  now,  you'd  give  him  a 
room,  right?" 

"Yes,  that  is  correct." 

"Well,"  said  the  traveler,  "give 
me  his.  He's  not  coming." 

— Boy's  Life 


DON'T  BUY  L-P 

SIGN  OF  THE  TIMES 

An  advertisement  on  the  front 
window  of  a  big  furniture  store:  For 
Sale — Dining  Room  Set  for  Short 
Family  With  Crooked  Legs. 

— Hircio  R.  Sales 
Local  1050  PhlladelphI,  PA 

ATTEND  LOCAL  MEETINGS 


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TU-BAD 

"The  people  upstairs  are  very 
annoying,"  complained  the  tenant. 
"Last  night,  they  stomped  and 
banged  on  the  floor  until  midnight." 

"Did  they  wake  you?"  asked  the 
landlady. 

"No,"  replied'the  tenant.  "Luckily, 
I  was  playing  my  tuba!" 


THIS  MONTH'S  LIMERICK 

There  was  a  young  person  called 

Smarty, 
Who  sent  out  his  cards  for  a 

party; 

So  exclusive  and  few 

Were  the  friends  that  he  knew 
That  no  one  was  present  but 

Smarty. 


THAT  SMARTS 

The  beaming  graduate  accepted 
his  law  degree  and  stepped  down 
to  receive  his  parents'  congratula- 
tions. Placing  his  hand  on  his  fath- 
er's shoulder,  he  said,  "Dad,  it's 
time  for  a  change.  All  your  life  you 
worked  hard  for  me.  Now  it's  time 
for  you  to  go  out  and  work  hard  for 
yourself." 

— The  Lion 
BE  AN  ACTIVE  MEMBER 


BIG  DEAL! 

Then  there  was  the  woman  driver 
who  went  through  a  red  light.  Her 
husband  sitting  next  to  her  yelled, 
"Why  didn't  you  stop?  Didn't  you 
see  the  red  light?" 

She  smiled  and  replied,  "Big  deal! 
If  you've  seen  one  red  light  you've 
seen  them  all." 


ADOPT  A  LUMBER  COMPANY 

THAT  STINKING  FEELING 

Skid  Rower:  "I  went  to  church  last 
Sunday." 

Friend:  "Well,  that's  different. 
What  did  you  do?" 

Skid  Rower:  "First  of  all,  a  boun- 
cer met  me  at  the  door." 

Friend:  "No,  no,  you  don't  mean  a 
bouncer,  you  mean  an  usher." 

Skid  Rower:  "Well  .  .  .  then  he  led 
me  down  this  alley." 

Friend:  "No,  not  an  alley — you 
mean  an  aisle." 

Skid  Rower:  "O.K.  Then  he 
showed  me  a  place  to  sit  on  a 
bench." 

Friend:  "No,  no,  you  don't  mean  a 
bench — you  mean  a  pew.  You 
know,  a  pew,  a  pew!" 

Skid  Rower:  "Ah  yes,  now  I  re- 
member. That's  what  that  lady 
said  when  I  sat  down  beside 
her." 

— Des  Acheson 
Local  452 
Vancouver,  B.C. 


28 


CARPENTER 


New  Feet-Inch  Calculator  Solves 
Carpentry  Problems  In  Seconds! 

Price  Just  Reduced  For  A  Limited  Time  —  Now  Only  $79.95! 


Now  you  can  solve  all  your 
building  problems  right  in  feet,  inches 
and  fractions — with  the  all  new  Con- 
struction Master'™ feet-inch  calculator. 

This  handheld  calculator  will  save 
you  hours  upon  hours  of  time  on  any 
project  dealing  with  dimensions.  And 
best  of  all,  it  eliminates  costly  errors 
caused  by  inaccurate  conversions  using 
charts,  tables,  mechanical  adders  or 
regular  calculators. 

Adds,  Subtracts, 

Multiplies  and  Divides 

in  Feet,  Inches  and 

ANY  or  No  Fraction 

You  never  need  to  convert  to 
tenths  or  hundredths  because  the  Con- 
struction Master™  works  with  feet- 
inch  dimensions  just  like  you  do. 

Plus,  it  lets  you  work  with  any 
fraction— i/2'i,  ll4's,  liS's.  1/16's, 
ll32's,  down  to  I/64's — or  no  frac- 
tion at  all. 

You  enter  a  feet-inch-fraction  num- 
ber just  as  you'd  call  it  out — 1  [Feet], 
6  [Inches],  and  1  [/]  2.  What's  more, 
you  can  mix  all  fractions  (3/8  +  11/32 
=  23/32)  and  all  formats  (Feet  -I-  Inches 
-I-  Yards  +  Ft-Inches)  in  your  problems. 

In  addition,  you  can  easily  compute 
square  and  cubic  measurements 
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mensions together  and  the  Construc- 
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Converts  Between  All 
Dimension  Formats 

You  can  also  convert  any  displayed 
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the  followmg  formats:  Feet-Inch 
Fraction,  Decimal  Feet  (lOths, 
lOOths),  Inches,  Yards,  and  Me- 
ters. 

It  also  converts  square  and  cubic. 

Plus  the  Construction  Master™ 
actually  displays  the  format  of  your 
answer  right  on  the  large  LCD  read- 
out— square  feet,  cubic  yards,  etc. 

Solves  Diagonals, 
Rafters  Instantly 

You  no  longer  need  to  tangle  with 
A-Squared/B-Squared  because  the  Con- 
struction Master'™  solves  right  angle 
problems-  in  seconds — and  directly  in 
feet  and  inches. 

You  simply  enter  the  two  known 
sides,  and  press  one  button  to  solve 
for  the  third.  Ideal  for  stair  stringers, 
trusses,  and  squaring-up  rooms. 

The    built-in    angle    program    also 


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And  the  Construction  Master'™ 
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includes  roof  pitch.  So  you  can  solve 
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just  one  side  plus  the  pitch.  Finding 
hips,  valleys  and  jack  rafters  requires 
just  a  couple  more  simple  keystrokes. 

Finds  Your  Lumber 
Costs  In  Seconds 

Lumber  calculations  are  cut  from 
hours  to  minutes  with  the  custom 
Board  Feet  Mode.  The  Construction 
Master'™  quickly  calculates  board  feet 
and  total  dollar  costs  for  individual 
boards,  multiple  pieces  or  an  entire 
lumber  sheet  with  an  automatic  mem- 
ory program. 


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Construction  Master'™  everyday. 

"It's  Great!  Firudly  we  can  get  the 
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Vineland,  N.J.— Picture  No.  1 


A  gallery  of  pictures  showing  some  of  the  senior  members  of  the  Broth- 
erhood who  recently  received  pins  for  years  of  service  in  the  union. 


VINELAND,  N.J. 

Local  121  held  its  19th  annual  service  pin 
banquet  at  the  Centerton  County  Club. 

Picture  No.  1:  Members  receiving  their  50- 
year  service  pin  included  Eric  Nordberg  and 
Terrance  Pierce. 

Picture  No.  2:  Joe  Jupin,  45-year  member. 

Picture  No.  3:  40-year  pins  were  awarded  to 
Clyde  Moyer,  Salvatore  Spatafore,  Hershai 
Garrison  Sr.  and  Walter  Goff. 

Picture  No.  4:  Receiving  35-year  pins  were 
Karl  Malone,  Ray  Hermanson,  Carl  Olsen  and 
Donald  Lancheu. 

Picture  No.  5:  Ronald  Prestis,  Reino 
Lappinen,  Hershai  Garrison  Jr.  and  Alfred 
Gunno  received  30-year  pins. 

Picture  No.  6:  IVIembers  receiving  25-year 
pins  included,  front,  Ralph  Settle,  Shirly 
Schoch,  Senge  Kosachuk,  Al  Lacivita  and 
William  Schmickel. 

Bacl<  row,  Ed  Atkinson,  Craig  Nordberg, 
Erwin  Scwartz,  Harold  Hickman,  Richard  Love 
and  Deno  Ventini,  business  representative. 

Picture  No.  7:  20-year  pins  were  awarded  to, 
front,  Angelo  Manero,  Mario  Visintin  and 
Gunnar  Nondberg. 

Back  row,  Ken  Stiles,  Joe  Langley,  Fletcher 
Simpson  and  Deno  Ventini,  business 
representative. 


MONTREAL,  QUEBEC 

Picture  No.  1:  Members  of  Local  134-2  were 
honored  tor  their  service  to  the  Brotherhood. 
They  included,  Salvatore  Scotto,  25  years;  Paul 
Emile  Fortin,  30 
years;  Rene 
Dusseault,  30  years; 
Rolland  Boyer,  45 
years;  Anthony 
Wavroch,  40  year; 
Donat  Brouillard,  40 
years;  and  Oscar 
Bourgon,  35  years. 

Picture  No.  2: 
Edouard  Larose  was 
awarded  a  lifetime 
membership  for  his 
50  years  of  service. 


Larose 


Montreal,  Quebec — Picture  No 


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state  College,  Pa.— Picture  No.  2 


STATE  COLLEGE,  PA. 

Local  1333  held  a  banquet  to  award  service 
pins  to  members  with  longstanding  service  to 
the  Brotherhood.  Presentations  were  made  by 
Business  Representative  Don  Gussler  and 
President  John  Irvin. 

Picture  No.  1:  Ralph  Kolb,  50-year  member, 
was  presented  with  a  gold  card. 

Picture  No.  2:  Ardell  Miller  and  Joseph  Kozar 
were  honored  for  their  45  years  with  the 
Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  3:  40-year  members  honored 
were  Kermit  Miller,  Ted  Perry  and  Henry 
Schnarrs. 

Picture  No.  4:  30-year  members  to  receive 
pins  were  Ronald  Decker  and  Jerry  Kling. 

Picture  No.  5:  A  special  plaque  presentation 
was  made  by  Don  Gussler,  business 
representative,  to  Harry  Schilling  who  served 
Local  1333  for  33  years  as  its  business 
representative. 


State  College,  Pa.— Picture  No.  3 


State  College,  Pa.— Picture  No.  4 


COLUMBIA,  MO. 

Local  1925  honored  its  members  of 
longstanding  service  to  the  Brotherhood  with 
service  pins. 

Picture  No.  1:  45-year  members  awarded 
with  pins  were  Eugene  Miller,  Elmer  Calhoun 
and  E.H.  Gruender. 

Not  shown  are  Harold  Johnson,  Robert 
Jones,  Curtis  Nienaber  and  James  Sublett. 

Picture  No.  2:  Members  receiving  40-year 
pins  included  Ted  Eaton,  W.  Gene  Armstrong, 
Sherman  Tennyson  Jr.,  Anderson  J.  Wood, 
Robert  Level  and  B.J.  Nichols. 

Those  not  pictured  are  C.C.  Bugg,  Harold 
Harmon,  W.P.  Morton,  L.W.  Murray  and 
Russell  O'Neal. 

Picture  No.  3:  Pins  were  awarded  to  Joe 
Bell,  Otto  Frevert  Jr.,  and  Clarence  Wilkerson 
for  35-years  of  service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

James  Blakemore,  Fred  Coats,  Robert  Waters 
and  Fred  Tindell  were  awarded  35-year  pins  but 
were  not  present  for  photographs. 

Picture  No.  4:  Derby  Harmon  was  presented 
with  a  30-year  pin. 

Those  awarded  but 
not  pictured  are  R.D. 
Ballew,  B.J.  Caldwell, 
Albert  Coats,  Carl 
Cook,  Mike  Malone, 
L.N.  Oldham,  Carroll 
Smith,  David  E. 
Steelman,  Virgil  West 
and  Norbert 
Wieschhaus. 
25-years  pins  were 
awarded  to  Kenneth  Coleman,  Harold  Klinetobe, 
Raymond  McKinzie  and  Bill  Sturgeon,  but  no 
picture  was  available.  Members  presented  with 
50-year  pins,  but  not  shown,  were  David  Hays, 
W.N.  Snellings  and  Josepy  Wray. 


Picture  No.  4 


FARIBAULT,  MINN. 

Local  1840  celebrated  its  50th  anniversary 
with  a  banquet  and  pin  presentation. 

Picture  No.  1:  45-year  members  honored 
were  Hiram  Kyllo,  Art  Teske  and  Nick  Tonien. 

Picture  No.  2:  Leo  Ourand,  Jacob  Dettling 
and  Joe  Rossez  were  honored  for  their  40  years 
of  service. 

Picture  No.  3:  Pins  were  presented  to  35- 
year  members  William  Mertino,  Leon 
Warnemunde,  Arnold  Mertins,  Harold  Bisping 
and  Avison  Ring. 

Picture  No.  4:  Maurice  Satkum  and  John 
Anomby  (not  pictured)  were  presented  with  30- 
year  pins. 

Picture  No.  5:  Henry  Bisek  was  presented 
with  his  25-year  pin.  Paul  Stender  and  Marvin 
Willard  received  pins  but  were  not  present. 

Picture  No.  6:  Receiving  20-year  pins  were 
Orland  Anderka,  Gerald  Hildebrandt,  Michael 
Perron  and  Alfred  Weiland. 

Not  pictured  were  Alvin  Goedtel,  Lyie 
Koester,  James  Ponto  and  Darrel  Staltz. 


Columbia,  Mo. 
Picture  No.  3 


Columbia,  Mo. 
Picture  No.  2 


Columbia,  Mo. — Picture  No.  1 
DECEMBER     1987 


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WilTE^LOO,  IOWA 

Local  1835  recently  celebrated  its  80th 
anniversary  and  held  an  awards  night. 

Picture  No.  1:  60-year  member  William 
Zlebell. 

Picture  No.  2:  50- 
year  pins  were 
awarded  to  Mike 
Blitsch,  Raymond 
Burk,  George 
Johnson,  Lester 
Larson  and  Fred 
Pedersen.  Not 
pictured  was  Chet 
Schuler. 

Picture  No.  3:  W. 
Edward  Dyer  and 


Picture  No.  1 


Harold  Lehman  were  presented  with  45-year 
pins.  Receiving  pins  but  not  pictured  were 
James  Brown,  Chris  Christensen,  Lyie 
Christensen  and  Marshall  Croiser. 

Picture  No.  4:  40-year  members  to  receive 
service  pins  were  William  Ibach,  Herbert 
Lehman,  Verne  Lowe,  Robert  Phelps,  Wayne 
Slater  and  Ledwig  Stejskal.  Receiving  pins  but 
not  pictured  were  Jesse  Emery,  Theodore 
Johnson,  Luverne  Sass  and  Otto  Schmadeke. 

Picture  No.  5:  Pins  were  presented  to  35- 
year  members  Gerald  Connor,  Carl  Jorgensen 
and  Theodore  Schuler.  Not  pictured  were 
Kenneth  Ericson,  Donald  Fortsch,  Glen 
Garetson,  Kenneth  Hoppe  and  Bill  McGrew. 

Picture  No.  6:  Kenneth  Garetson,  Oliver 
Heins,  Joseph  Leach  and  Norbert  Meyer  were 
presented  with  30-year  pins.  Not  shown  was 
Donald  Cook  and  W.  Dale  Smith. 

Picture  No.  7:  Raynor  Schlimmer  received  a 
25-year  service  pin.  Not  pictured  were  Ronald 
Bowers,  Robert  Childress,  Richard  Flowers  and 
Robert  Sorenson. 

Picture  No.  8:  Those  receiving  20-year  pins 
from  Int'l.  Rep.  Gene  Judge  were  Larry  Barnes, 
Larry  Courtney,  William  Downing,  John  Keith, 
Mike  Klein,  Marvin  Leverington,  Ed  Seufterlein, 
Gary  Sill,  Judge  and  Merle  Wilson.  Those  not 
pictured  were  William  Bohr,  Warren  Doss,  Cecil 
Holmes,  Richard  Meyer,  Norman  Pedersen  and 
Danny  Wolfgram. 


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OAKLAND,  CALIF. 

Pile  Drivers  Local  34  recently  held  its  annual 
Pile  Drivers  Old  Timers  luncheon  at  Gallagher's 
Restaurant  in  Oakland.  It  is  one  of  the  local's 
most  popular  events  and  was  attended  by  more 
than  250  retirees  this  year. 

Picture  No.  1:  50-year  members  honored 
were  Louis  Kiesling,  Rex  Jones,  Tommy  Lund 
and  Roy  Brownell. 

Picture  No.  2:  Pins  were  presented  to  45- 
year  members  Winston  Lloyd,  Merrill  Hinman, 
Orville  Lindell,  Paul  Lewis,  Thor  Robertson, 
Grover  Kohler  and  Dick  Shaw. 


Picture  No.  3:  40-year  members  receiving 
pins  Included  Glenn  Hodgson,  Jack  Harris, 
Herman  Wilkes,  Jim  Burnett,  Bill  Murphy, 
Wayne  Underwood,  John  Halvorsen  and  Norm 
Bass. 

Picture  No.  4:  Charlie  Cannon,  George  Joslin 
and  Joe  Silva  were  presented  with  their  35-year 
pin. 

Picture  No.  5:  30-year  members  awarded 
with  service  pins  were,  front,  Al  Largardo, 
Harry  Diaz  and  Waiter  Larson. 

Back,  Bud  Gantt,  Oly  Winfrey,  Lee  Patterson, 
Willis  Vanover  and  Cliff  Paden. 


Oakland,  Calif.— Picture  No.  1 


Oakland,  Calif.— Picture  No.  2 
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Oakland,  Calif.- Picture  No.  3 


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San  Diego,  Calif.— Picture  No.  6 

SAN  DIEGO,  CALIF. 

Local  2020  recently  held  a  gala  celebration  to 
honor  its  50th  anniversary.  As  part  of  the 
event,  pins  were  aw/arded  to  members  with  20 
years  or  more  of  service.  They  were  presented 
by  Nicholas  Hernandez,  financial  secretary,  and 
B.R.  Williams,  secretary-treasurer  of  San  Diego 
District  Council. 

Picture  No.  1:  50-year  members  presented 
with  pins  were  Floyd  Cook  (far  left)  and  Clifford 
Crandall  (far  right).  They  are  shown  with 
Hernandez  and  Williams. 

Members  not  pictured  but  receiving  50-year 
pins  were  Tom  Anderson,  Charles  Fisher, 
Charles  Hahling,  Seaton  Lawson,  Jess 
Patterson,  J.W.  Ralph,  William  J.  Riggins,  J.A. 
Salazar  and  James  H.  Young. 

Picture  No.  2:  Members  with  more  than  45 
years  of  service  were  John  Me.tz,  47  years; 
Hernandez,  Guy  Thrap,  46  years;  Williams,  and 
Harold  Hokkan,  46  years. 

Those  not  pictured  but  receiving  45-year  pins 
include  Orra  E.  Bear,  Fred  L.  Guay,  Walter 
Middendorf,  Harry  Morey,  James  Richards, 
Bennie  Scott,  Don  Sherman,  Ralph  C.  Taylor 
and  Holland  Whinery. 

Picture  No.  3:  Those  receiving  40-year  pins 
included,. front,  Clifford  Cullison,  41  years; 
Arvid  Carlson,  42  years;  Walter  Burrows,  41 
years;  and  Perry  Cantrell,  41  years. 

Back  row,  Harry  Rohrbach  and  Bernard 
Szydeiko,  40  years;  Hernandez,  Williams  and 
Joseph  Melanson,  42  years. 

Those  not  pictured  are  Ralph  Bernard, 
Eugene  Brooks,  F.K.  Clagett,  Alfred  Cole,  Willy 


San  Diego,  Calif. — Picture  No.  7 


Egger,  William  Enid,  J.C.  Fielder,  William  H. 
Gard,  John  Gwazdacz,  Francis  Hollenbach, 
Philip  Jones,  Kenneth  Kretschmar,  Carl  J.  Lee, 
Roger  Legrand,  Carl  McCollum,  Lyie  Minard, 
William  T.  Moore,  Henry  L.  Pope,  William  P. 
Reeves,  John  R.  Sage,  Marion  P.  Smith,  Frank 
Snapp,  Owen  Tarrant,  Clyde  Van  Winkle  and 
Cecil  Worley. 

Picture  No.  4:  Members  recognized  for  35 
years  of  service  were  Andrew  Esparza,  37 
years;  Wallace  Smith,  35  years;  Jose  Sosa,  35 
years;  Dortha  Sanchez,  office  manager,  36 
years;  Hernandez,  Eugene  Kwast,  35  years;  and 
Ralph  Nazario,  35  years. 

Those  receiving  pins  but  not  pictured  were 
Philip  Aleto,  Frank  Blazier,  Jack  Chappell, 
Harold  Chauncey,  Elvin  Green,  Lawrence  Hicks, 
Wallace  Humphrey,  Stefan  Kochishan,  Gunther 
Malecek,  Raymond  Mayfield,  Jack  G.  Moore, 
Patrick  Murphy,  Elmer  Parkey,  Stanley 
Purczynski,  Robert  Ranson,  Leo  J.  Schmitt, 
Rafael  Vasquez,  Ora  White,  Elwood  Worster, 
Weldon  Wilson  and  Faustino  Zapata. 

Picture  No.  5:  30-years  pins  were  given  to 
Ruben  Sotelo,  32  years;  Arturo  Valdovino,  30 
years;  Oscar  Acosta,  30  years;  Fernando 
Gutierrez,  32  years;  Hernandez,  Williams,  Hugh 
Bolton,  31  years;  and  Pete  Mariash,  31  years. 

Those  not  pictured  were  Ambrose 
Bommarito,  Neno  Cellini,  Robert  D.  Curot, 
Alfred  B.  Davis,  Willard  Evans,  Oskar  Fiedler, 
John  H.  French,  James  O.K.  Gartner,  Leslie 
Isaacs,  Carl  Kroetz,  Earl  Love,  Walter  McDill, 
Claude  Massengill,  Dominic  J.  Mauro,  William 
Moyer,  Francis  Mueller,  Charles  Novell,  Mack 
Plunkett,  Ramiro  Quintania  and  Daniel  Warczak. 


Picture  No.  6:  25-year  members  receiving 
service  pins  were,  Ralph  Morin,  27  years; 
Charles  Golden,  25  years;  Albert  Wood,  28 
years;  Glen  Kitchell,  26  years;  Hernandez, 
Vincent  Cisneroz,  29  years;  Williams,  Clyde 
Payne,  26  years;  and  Edward  Nonzetta,  27 
years. 

Those  receiving  25-year  pins  but  not  pictured 
are  Stanley  Anthony,  Zoltan  Buchinger,  Barton 
Butts,  Nelson  Cooper,  James  C.  Foulk,  Frank 
A.  Gonzales,  R.V.  Hardin,  Robert  L.  Hawkins, 
Justin  Hayes,  Robert  Howie,  Hans  Knelle, 
Malcolm  McKenzie,  Jose  Melendez,  Harold 
Nichols,  Rosalio  Salcedo,  Roger  Shadinger, 
Guy  Wampler,  George  Weigele  and  Kenneth 
Welch. 

Picture  No.  7:  Members  receiving  20-year 
pins  were  Nicholas  Hernandez,  24  years; 
Jurgen  Cordis,  24  years;  Richard  Middlested, 
23  years;  David  Fuentes,  21  years;  Williams, 
and  Robert  Evans,  20  years. 

20-year  members  not  pictured  but  receiving 
pins  were  Pablo  Acosta,  John  B.  Adams, 
Sergio  Aguilar,  Luis  Araujo,  Richard  Beckett, 
Ralph  Boyte,  Robert  Bridgeford,  Jose  S. 
Castro,  Gilbert  Coogle,  Robert  Grain,  Darrell 
Crawford,  Ronald  Eaton,  Conrad  Estrada, 
James  Fair,  Leonard  Farris,  Francis  Formanek, 
Emilio  Gomez,  Edgar  Gunnlaugsson,  Refugio 
Hermosillo,  Leonard  Ingrade,  Donald  Landstedt, 
Verne  Leary,  Rudolph  Lieras,  Clarence  Malz, 
William  Messer,  Ralph  J.  Ocheske,  Dwight 
Painter,  Arthur  Reynolds,  Clifford  Swier,  Jerry 
Swiger,  Winifred  Toby,  Stephen  Torres,  Jack 
Wheeler,  Lester  Wiechman,  Willard  Williams 
and  Norman  M.  Wynn. 


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Toronto,  Ont. — Picture  No.  1 

Local  27  recently  held  its  pin  presentation 
dinner/dance  to  honor  its  members  of 
longstanding  service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1:  Those  receiving  40-year  pins 
include  Fred  Bickers,  Lucien  Boulet,  Patrick 
Cavender,  William  Davis,  Herbert  Girard, 
George  Gostick,  Gilbert  Harrietha,  Herbert 
Homer,  Harold  Ingham,  IVlalcolm  Kennedy, 


George  King,  Frank  Kingsley,  Leonel  Landry, 
Ellis  Letho,  Donald  MacLellan,  IVlaurice 
IVIclntyre,  Elijah  IVIenchenton,  Cyril  Miles,  John 
IVloran,  S.E.  Powell,  John  Randell,  James 
Rimmer,  Tom  Ritchie,  Philip  Robichaud,  Albert 
Russell,  Naotoshi  Saito,  looses  Smith,  Stanley 
Smith,  Wrexford  Stephen,  Viljo  Suomi,  Fred 
Swenson  and  Stewart  Warren. 


Those  not  present  for  the  presentation  were 
WIelvin  Babcock,  Nicholas  Boyko,  Murdock 
Campbell,  Anthony  Coyle,  Harry  Donson, 
Michael  Durec,  William  Frenette,  Frank  Kukay, 
Ivan  Lindsay,  Dulo  Pahikainen,  Jack  Parsons, 
Peter  Rostkowski  and  Alexander  Stewart. 

Picture  No.  2:  35-year  pins  were  presented 
to  Thomas  Ambrose,  Frank  Celenza,  Thomas 
Chalmers,  Takeo  Hirasawa,  Nikitas  Mavroidis, 
Giuseppe  Mazziol,  William  Morris,  Robert  Reid, 
John  Ritchie,  J.  Elwood  Sproule  and  John 
Vermaskari. 

Those  not  present  were  Arnolds  Anions, 
William  Beiko,  Raymond  Blaney,  Wilfrid  Blaney, 
Douglas  Cardoza,  Roger  Deroo,  Michael 
Gushue,  Orval  Hammond,  Kenneth  Hirlehey, 
Alex  Kiss,  Frank  Kuzela,  Cyril  Lavrih,  Akira 
Shishido,  Ray  Shortt,  Edward  Thomas. 


Toronto,  Ont, 


-Picture  No.  2 


Toronto,  Ont. — Picture  No.  3 


Piclures  No.  3  and  4:  Members  presented 
30-year  pins  included  Holger  Allerellie,  Albert 
Arsenault,  John  Begg,  Vic  Belluz,  Andrew 
Binnie,  Peter  Blonda,  Luigi  Bottecchia,  Ambrose 
Bragg,  Bruno  Cristan,  Eugene  Czerwinski,  Luigi 
Doddona,  Lionel  Dawson,  Giovanni  Dipietro, 
Ronald  Dodd,  Domenico  Donato,  Michel 
Doroszenko,  Primo  Francescut,  John  Haugh, 
John  Hofbauer,  Kalevi  Hopia,  Danilo  Innocente, 
Niels  Jensen,  Jack  Jokela,  Jack  Jones,  Carl 
Kachkowski,  John  Kita,  George  Klobucar,  R.P. 


Koscielyny,  Marco  LeDonne,  S.  Manganaro, 
David  McDougall,  William  McDowell,  Hubert 
Meeussen,  William  More,  Kart  Nestler,  Guerino 
Ortis,  John  Palo,  William  Parks,  Giacomo 
Passera,  Eino  Patjas,  Walter  Pope,  Jack  Puffet, 
Henry  Raddatz,  Julius  Raddatz,  Manfred  Reitt, 
Sergius,  Veikko  Saarela,  Werner  Sanders, 
Donald  Saraka,  Anions  Silgals,  Willi  Slockert, 
Matthew  Whelan,  Giovanni  Ziorti  and  Frank 
Rimes. 
Those  not  in  attendance  were  Julius  Baldasti, 


Gordon  Burton,  Willie  Ender,  John  Geraghty, 
Tuomo  Honkaranla,  Nicos  loakim,  Yrjo 
Kaartinen,  Albert  Krupczyk,  Stanley  Lisowski, 
Luigi  Lombardi,  Jesper  Lund,  Andreas  Moller, 
August  Oad,  Michael  Otto,  Frank  Patafio,  Philip 
Paul,  Spiros  Pegios,  James  Philcox,  Raffaele 
Portido,  Erkki  Rahtalahti,  Saverio  Ricci,  David 
Sayer,  George  Smith,  Nick  Tersignl,  Anton 
Tkatsch,  Raimo  Vaisanen,  Reino  Vakkuri,  Penlli 
Varvas,  Raymond  Vokey,  Shoichi  Wakabayashi, 
Walter  Wight  and  William  Wolynec. 


Toronto,  Ont. — Picture  No.  4 
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Picture  No.  5:  Pins  were  presented  to  the 
following  members  for  25-years  of  service: 
James  Ackerman,  Rheal  Arsenault,  Secondo 
Borsoi,  William  Bunl<er,  Sante  Canal,  Bernard 
Conway,  Gino  Deizotto,  Bruno  Dolinsek,  Renato 
Ermacora,  Pekka  Eronen,  Bruno  Fanti,  Anfiibale 
Favot,  Joe  Fiorentino,  Giuseppe  Galessiere, 
Anthony  Gorda,  Voldemars  Jankovski,  Emil 
Kanitsch,  Dietmar  Kaske,  Paul  Knopfel,  Jaakko 
Laine,  Alessandro  Marcon,  John  McAulay, 
Edward  McGonigall,  Peter  McTaggart,  Victor 


Meade,  Mario  Mirabelli,  Giuliano  Morassutti, 
Carmine  Palumbo,  Ronald  Philp,  Peter  Piccinin, 
Romeo  Poirier,  Aldo  Razzolini,  Duncan 
Sangster,  Michele  Sartor,  Domenico  Simeoni, 
Angelo  Sonego,  Angelo  Tanel,  Arthur 
Trautmann,  C.A.  Vansuylekom,  Aime 
Wichelhaus,  Franz  Wiese  and  Carlo  Zannuti. 
Those  not  in  attendance  but  receiving  25- 
year  pins  were  Gualtiero  Antonel,  Allan 
Babcock,  Reuben  Ball,  Girado  Bearzot,  Bruno 
Bellisslmo,  James  Bruce,  Domenico  Bucci,  Fred 


Chalmers,  Raymond  Collins,  William  Corley, 
Michael  Gegar,  Yoshio  Kawano,  Francesco 
Lucchitti,  Veikko  Makinen,  Umberto  Mancini, 
Gary  Martin,  Jack  Mills,  George  Morishita,  Ossi 
Nieminen,  Vittorino  Paccagnella,  Robert  Ross, 
Gerhard  Schroeter,  Camillo  Sciulli,  Kas 
Uyesugi,  Ted  Warren,  E.F.  Zebrauskas  and 
Werner  Zeldler. 

45-year  pins  were  presented  to  George 
Bagosy,  Alfred  Blaney  and  M.  Dmytruk  who 
were  not  present. 


Anaheim,  Calif. — Picture  No.  2 


Analieim,  Calif. — Picture  No.  1 

ANAHEIM,  CALIF. 

Local  2203  recently  held  its  annual  awards 
meeting.  A  buffet  was  served  to  180  guests, 
pin  recipients  and  family  members  attending  the 
ceremony.  The  local  had  128  members  qualify 
for  the  special  award,  with  45  members 
attending  to  receive  the  pins.  They  were 
awarded  by  Bob  Hanna,  executive  secretary  of 
the  California  State  Council,  and  Bill  Perry, 
executive  secretary  of  Orange  County  District 
Council. 

Picture  No.  1:  Hervey  Pember  (left)  and 
Dewey  Smith  (far  right)  were  presented  with 
50-year  pins.  They  are  shown  with  Hanna. 

Picture  No.  2:  Members  receiving  their  40- 
and  45-year  pins  were,  front,  Robert  B.  Jones, 
Dominick  Gill,  Gerald  Powles,  Louis  Gollengar, 
John  Leberfinger,  Nick  Alvarez,  Hervey  Pember 
and  George  Baranek. 

Second  row:  George  Allison^  Richard 
Branson,  Edgar  Kirkbridge,  Charles  Flock, 
President  Bob  Napoles  and  Ira  Smith. 

Back  row:  James  Burroughs,  Perry  and 
Hanna. 

Picture  No.  3:  30-  and  35-year  pins  were 
awarded  to,  front,  Roney  Patterson,  Frank 
Glenn,  William  l\lida,  Keith  Shigley,  Art  Turner, 
Edward  Santry  and  John  Valentino. 

Back,  Charles  Orndorff,  Perry,  Hanna,  Alfred 
Read  and  President  Bob  Napoles. 

Picture  No.  4:  25-year  pins  we  presented  to, 
front,  John  Peterman,  Orville  L.  Harms,  Lionel 
Perreira  and  President  Bob  Napoles. 

Back,  Johnny  Montano,  Hanna,  Leroy  Brink 
and  Perry. 


Anaheim,  Calif. — Picture  No.  3 


Anaheim,  Calif.— Picture  No.  4 


DECEMBER     1987 


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HAiyiMOND,  IND. 

Local  599  recently  held  a  special  award  night 
program  to  honor  its  members  of  longstanding 
service  to  the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  1:  Axel 
Olson  was  honored 
for  his  75  years  with 
the  Brotherhood. 

Picture  No.  2: 
Clarence  Mosier  and 
Sylvester  Heinz  were 
honored  for  their  50 
years  of  service.  Not 
pictured  was  John 
Stolarz. 

Picture  No.  3: 


Picture  No.  1 


Those  presented  with  45-year  pins  were  Henry 
Callantine,  Oscar  Wahlstrom,  Russell  Kelly,  Leo 
V.  Carrico,  James  Eminhizer,  Stanley  Gaida  and 
Ray  Logocki.  Special  recognition  was  given  to 
Homer  Mudd  (insert)  for  his  service.  Those  not 
pictured  were  Mathias  Arens,  Michael  Ligocki 
and  Cecil  Webb. 

Picture  No.  4:  Those  awarded  40-year  pins 
were  Carl  W.  Bowden,  Robert  Novak,  service 
representative,  Lawrence  Hess,  Wayman  Porter, 
Carl  D.  Frisk,  Robert  Kendall,  George 
Wartsbaugh,  Hesby  Nash,  Ralph  Fleener, 


Joseph  Hoadley,  Beryl  Morris,  Joe  Patchman, 
Willis  Postma  and  John  Sawinski. 

Those  not  pictured  but  receiving  40-year  pins 
were  Elinar  Anderson,  John  Bradley,  Fred  P. 
Doppler,  Michael  A.  Grimmer,  Andrew  J.  Keith, 
Joseph  P.  Lowry,  Howard  Pearl,  Marvin  H. 
Ray,  Walter  Spencer  and  Henry  Zat. 

Picture  No.  5:  35-year  pins  were  presented 
to  Roger  L.  Benson,  William  Luckiewicz,  Daniel 
DeFlorio,  Foster  Myers,  Benjamin  Poleski,  Joe 
Seneff  and  Paul  P.  Stupeck.  Not  pictured  were 
Cletus  N.  Bach,  Jerry  S.  Crary,  Jack  W. 
Depew,  John  Frank  Grzych,  Durwood  Humble, 
William  I.  Lacket  Jr.,  Emerson  McCready, 
Herman  K.  Nashkoff  and  Robert  D.  Roberts. 

Picture  No.  6:  Merlin  V.  Zahner,  Edward  A. 
Bullock,  Darrell  R.  Basham  and  George  A. 
Pooler  received  30-year  pins.  Not  pictured  but 
receiving  this  pin  were  William  S.  Dunham, 
Eugene  J.  Langel  and  Samuel  C.  Whobrey. 

Picture  No.  7:  Special  recognition  during  the 
evening  went  to  members  Richard  C.  Simpson, 
Stanley  Towers,  Lawrence  A.  Strode,  Melvin 
Brown,  Axel  F.  Olson,  Karl  Peterson  and  John 
A.  Horvath  for  their  dedication.  Pictured  here 
are  Peterson  and  Strode. 

Members  honored  with  25  years  of  service 
were  Melvin  Blair,  Richard  L.  Carnett,  Charles 
E.  Davis,  Donald  John  Kramer  and  Aloysius  R. 
Sajdyh. 


Hammond,  Ind. — Picture  No.  7 


Hammond,  Ind. — Picture  No.  4 


TACOMA,  WASH. 

Retired  members  of  Local  1689  were 
presented  50-year  lifetime  membership  cards  at 
a  special  spring  meeting.  They  Included,  front, 
Bernie  Myhre,  Russell  Mason,  William  Hedberg, 
Otto  Bergmann,  W.J.  Miller  and  Lawrence 
Evans. 

Back,  William  Evans,  Louis  Burkett,  Art 
Wells,  Joe  Caruso,  Tony  Kalapus,  William  Paul 
and  Lorentz  Halverson. 

Brother  Hedberg,  55-year  member  and 
former  business  representative  for  the  Local, 
passed  away  last  summer. 


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The  following  list  of  544  deceased  members  and  spouses  represents 
a  total  of  $1,016,773.82  deatfi  claims  paid  in  September  1987;  (s) 
following  name  in  listing  indicates  spouse  of  member. 


Lotcil  Union,  Cir\' 


Local  Union,  Cirv 


89 
94 
98 
101 
IDS 
114 


115 
118 
120 
122 


128 
130 


133 
135 
140 
142 
149 
161 
166 

168 
171 
182 
183 

184 
186 
189 
199 


Chicago,  IL — Frank  J.  Rozich  Jr. 
Cincinnati,  OH — Olen  N.  Jamison. 
St.  Louis,  MO — John  Janisch.  Laverne  B.  Gogue 
(s). 

Hudson  County,  NJ — Charles  W.  Lindberg.  Thomas 
Peltit,  Walter  C.  Linl<letler. 

Minneapolis,  MN — Arthur  A.  Meyers,  Arthur  G. 
Sklenar,  Einar  C.  Habberstad.  William  S.  Staye. 
Buftalo,  NY— Stanley  Ludwig. 
Chicago,  IL — Kenneth  Milton  Blose.  Mark  Lee  Til- 
ton,  William  Louis  White. 

Cleveland,  OH — Anthony  Mayernik,  Eustace  T. 
Henderson,  Pat  Gliozzo.  Reubin  D.  Hubbard,  Willis 
Thomas  James. 

Syracuse,  NY — Floyd  Doctor.  John  Sztechmiler. 
San  Antonio,  TX — Jerry  H.  Jones,  Walter  C.  House. 
Hackensack,  NJ — Anton  Malvik,  Calipso  M.  Blot, 
John  F.  Burke. 

Bronx,  NY — Daniel  Larusso.  Hamilton  Parris,  Louis 
Blumenthal. 

Hamilton,  Onl,  CAN— Jack  Brockhill.  Sybil  Springer 
(s). 

New  York,  NY— Frank  Blois. 
San  Francisco,  CA — Christian  Sollid,  Coleman  R. 
Hendon.  Renaldo  Montegari.  William  A.  Hyers. 
Central  Connecticut — Lewis  Piccoli. 
Los  Angeles,  CA — Charles  Hill,  Cola  Thomas,  Isaac 
H.  Apodaca. 

Trenton,  NJ — King  David  Brown.  Pear!  R.  Hodson 
Is). 

Boston,  MA — Anne  Silverman  (s).  Joseph  J.  Audi- 
tore,  Lincoln  F.  Davis  111. 

Oakland,  CA— Alfred  G.  March.  Hendrik  Wolber- 
sen.  King  McCullough  Sr..  Lawrence  M.  Lee  Ar- 
thur, Raymond  A.  Goddard. 
Boston,  MA — John  Dangelo. 
San  Francisco,  CA — Earl  H.  Perry. 
St.  Louis,  MO — Irene  M.  Kulp  (s),  Pleasant  George 
Jenkins. 

Fitchburg,  MA — William  Stewart. 
Lowell,  MA — Gottfried  Herkomer. 
Knoxville,  TN — Joe  Lee  Ownby. 
White  Plains,  NY— Rose  Mercadant  Isl. 
Chicago,  IL— Carl   A.   Mertins.  Joseph  Schaden. 
Michael  Klimenko. 

Denver,  CO— Casey  Mitchell,  Charles  F.  Elder, 
Lucy  Ellsworth  (s).  Marshall  F.  Brown.  Ray  E, 
Ruske. 

Indianapolis,  IN — Charles  E.  Burns.  Gerald  H.  Vin- 
cent. 

Kansas  City,  MO — Charles  E.  Wakeman. 
Chicago,  IL^Martin  Norling. 
Louisville,  KY — Galen  Ballard  Foley,  Grover  Roscoe 
Ash. 

Olean,  NY— Elof  Lundgren,  Hugh  L.  Milks. 
Boston,  MA — Charles  A.  Brauneis. 
Canton,  OH — Ernest  Danhauer.  Karl  F.  Steinbach. 
St.  Louis,  MO — Audrey  Mooney  (s). 
Hazelton,  PA— Elizabeth  Kreckie  (s). 
Chicago,  IL — Joseph  A.  Juhasz. 
St.  Paul,  MN— Carl  Rime.  Dean  L.  Danielson.  Tim- 
othy Hayes. 

Mobile,  Al^William  Shelby  Strickland. 
Providence,  Rl — Myron  Ducfrene. 
Spokane,  \VA — Joseph  Pielli. 
Baltimore,  MD — William  E.  Royer. 
Cleveland,  OH— Matt  Matetic. 
East  Detroit,  MI — Albert  Nicol.  Alois  Vantongerloo, 
Charles  Redlawsk.  Gilbert  J.  Curtis.  John  A.  Rich- 
ards. John  J.  Paquette,  Marcel  A.  Kubisz. 
Miami,  FL — John  R.  Woodhouse. 
Detroit,  MI— Robert  Hale.  Shelby  R.  Frederick. 
Utica,  NY— Bernard  E.  Ryan. 
Philadelphia,  PA — Leon  Novicke,   Petro  Mylora- 
dowycz.  Roland  Ward. 

Broward-County,  FL — James  Arthur  Bloy.  Mary  C. 
Nuss(s). 

Miami,  FL — Edward  Kolakowski.  Eloise  Wade  (s), 
Jerymiah  Washington.  John  Haggquist. 
St.  Albans,  WV— Walton  T.  Terry 
Palm  Beach,  Fl^-John  Sudri,  John  W.  Carlson, 
Scipio  A.  Butler 

Seattle,  WA— Robert  G.  Baker,  Walter  Durst,  War- 
ren C.  Summers. 

Washington,  DC— Adelberl  R.  Thomas.  Charles  H. 
Williams.  Howard  Lester.  Maryann  Hardesty  (s). 
Myrtle  Brockett  (s). 
Terre  Haute,  IN— Paul  A.  Ellis 
New  York,  NY — Lucien  L.  Taylor. 
Tampa,  FL — Manuel  P.  Fernandez, 
Pittsburgh,  PA — Thomas  Robert  Henry  Johnston. 
Tarrytown,  NY — Karl  Smalley,  Louis  Gualticre. 
Kenosha,  Wl — Bruce  G.  Ehiers. 
Rock  Island,  IL — Anna  L.  Lee  (s).  Vena  Alta  Helen 
Beresford  (s),  William  H.  Munson. 
Kansas  City,  KS — Aloysius  C.  Kaiser. 
Youngstown,  OH — Harold  F.  Wehr.  Joseph  A.  Kcrul. 
Cleveland,  OH — Andrew  Scene.  I^eter  Sikora. 
Peoria,  H^Hazel  D.  Collier  (s).  Riley  E,  Barnelt, 
Virgie  Vera  Wieda  (s). 
Sail  Lake  City,  UT— Iven  Gran  Lee. 
Sleubenville,  OH— Frank  P.  Cox. 
Quincy,  lI^AIberl  F.  Dicker.  Wilberl  H.  Clinging. 
Chicago,  IL — Alexander  J.   Kauny.  Frederick  A. 
Coutcher. 
Columbus,   OH— Allen    A.    Pctzmger.   Charles   L. 


Burke,  Donald  E.  Snyder,  Joan  M.  McAlister  (s), 
Louis  H.  Gebhart. 
Stamford,  GT — John  C.  Castronovo. 
Pittsburgh,  PA— Frank  R.  Cashdollar,  John  Bazy. 
Atlanta,  GA— Dewey  G.  Collett,  Hoyt  D,  Cohran 
Sr..  Martin  L.  Abernathy. 
Fort  Wayne,  IN— Clifford  J.  Hess. 
Riverside,  CA — Robert  N.  Wolcolt. 
New  York,  NY — Dominick  DePalma.  Herbert  Nes- 
bit.  Jacob  Weintraub,  Morris  Schoenbrum.  Nicolae 
Zauner  Sr. 

Portland.  OR— Edith  Dery  (si.  Melvin  P.  Logan. 
Waukegan,  IL — Paul  H.  Nelson. 
Cleveland,  OH — Mary  Joan  Sarris  (s). 
New  York,  NY— Arvid  Kaaltari. 
Berkshire  Cnty,  MA — James  J.  Farrel. 
San  Jose,  CA — Albert  Camicia.  Richard  Joseph  Neu- 
mann. Tony  Fotopoulos. 

Milwaukee,  WI — Anna  D.  Reid  (s).  Arthur  L.  Or- 
monsen.   Edward  J.   Hermann,   Robert  A.   Noet, 
Waller  H.  Doperalski. 
Saugerties,  NY — John  Lacey. 
Dresden,  OH — John  H.  Mahon. 
Danville,  IL — Leo  Ray  Songer, 
Newton,   MA — George  W.    Haines.   Harry  James 
Oldford  Sr. 

Niagara-Gen  &  Vic,  NY— Marion  V.  Olio  (s). 
Augusta,  GA — William  Leonard  Templeton. 
Brooklyn,   NY — Gustaf  Wallin.   James   A.   Nilsen. 
Max  Wornow,  Philip  Oslrin. 
Kalamazoo,  MI — George  Machin. 
Huntington,  WV — George  H.  Sellards. 
Madison,  WI — Clairmont  M.  Swenson,  Preston  J. 
Erdahl. 

San  Jose,  CA— Delberl  M.  Wells,  John  H.  Perry. 
Roanoke,  VA — Ralph  Santolla,  Thomas  R.  Good- 
man. 

Oklahoma  City,  OK— Charles  L'.  Swimiey.  Charlie 
W.  Wright.  Raymond  Ruben  Baker. 
Grand  Rapids,  MI — George  Palmer  Wood. 
Seattle,  WA— Alfred  Joseph  Martel. 
Winnipeg,  Mani,  CAN — Dave  Pearson. 
Waukesha,  WI — Lawrence  A.  Persch.  Ludwig  C. 
Schroeder.  Wilhelm  Fleischmann  Sr. 
Memphis,  TN— Richard  D.  Mills.  William  M.  Delk. 
New  York,  NY — Elsie  Rammer  Is).  Rasmus  Ander- 
son. 

Draffenville,  KY — ^Imogene  Maggie  Neale  Is). 
Philadelphia,  PA — Elaine  Lande  Is),  Frank  A.  Por- 
lone.  Michael  Wolferl. 
Duluth,  MN — Adam  Cich,  Frank  E.  Lewis. 
N.  Tonawanda,  NY— Elwin  P.  Wixson,  Robert  E. 
Hyorlh. 

Albany,  NY — Raymond  S.  Jones,  Robert  Garcia. 
Lima,  OH— Clyde  L.  Bryan. 
Texarkana,  TX— MiltonJ.  Clements. 
Lewiston,  ID — Orril  I.  Savage  (s). 
Northmpln-Greenfd,  MA — Irving  G.  Witt. 
St.  Louis,  MO — Harry  A.  Tiesmeyer.  Robert  T. 
Fitzgerald. 

Arlington,  TX— Cloyd  D.  Cooper.  Hugh  D.  Cox. 
Belleville,  IL — Leroy  Kassebaum. 
Chicago,  IL — Eugene  Bouma.  James  L.  Agee. 
Portsmouth,  OH — George  R,  Price. 
454   'Philadelphia,    PA — Fremont    Hugh    Dunn.    Henry 
McPherson. 

Chester  County,  PA — Thomas  Phiel. 
Tacoma,  WA — Berthena  Ansberry  (s).  Edward  J. 
Urbanec.  Ruby  V.  Rustom  Is). 
San  Francisco,  CA — Jerome  D.  Casto. 
Reading,  PA — Franklin  L.  Krick  Jr. 
Port  Arthur,  TX — Berchman  Savoy.  Kathryn  E. 
Litchfield  Is).  William  Alfred  Smith. 
Berlhoud,  CO— Carl  W.  Anderson. 
Wilkes  Barre,  PA— John  Skarbowski.  Willard  S. 
Puterbaugh. 

Colo  Springs,  CO — Clarence  Holcombc.  Virginia 
Lee  May  Is). 

Sislerville,  WV— Harry  W.  Smittle. 
New  York,  NY — Joseph  Naso.  Sebastiano  Colan- 
inno. 

Elmira,   NY— Gerald   E.    Holden   Sr.,   Walter   D. 
Spearen. 

Concord,  NH — Theodore  Piwowarczyk. 
Mamaroneck,  NY — Mary  Luhrs  (s). 
Vincennes,  IN — Charles  V.  Billingsley.  Lois  L.  Dil- 
lon Is). 

Houston,  TX— Bessie  I.  Henry  Is).  John  J.  Pizzutli 
Jr. 

Meadville,  PA — Ellsworth  W.  Bernarding. 
Elmhurst,  II^-Billy  Mac  Krieg.  Elizabeth  B.  Schmilt 
Is). 

Glendale,  CA— Edward  Raul  Wales.  Kenneth  Shoe- 
botham. 

Pascagoula,   MS — Elizabeth  Simmons  Is).   Oliver 
Horace  Shepherd. 
Sacramento,  CA — Clarence  Heckle. 
Lehigh  Valley,  PA— Jay  Miller. 
Ithaca.  NY— Edward  R.  Pelto.  Waino  Pyhlila. 
New  York,  NY— James  P.  McClenaghan. 
Madison,  NJ — Betty   Kovach  Is),   Harry  Howard 
Hanim.  Henry  H.  Cook.  William  Teets, 
Bangor,  MA — Walter  M.  Howard. 
Waco,  TX — Clarence  Barnes.  Lemuel  O.  Matthews. 
Manchester,  NH — Allie  L.  Hall,  Joseph  A.  Deraps. 
Roger  J.  E.  Bosse. 
Wilmington,  DE — Irvin  N.  Pinder.  Vitus  Broomall. 


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Local  Union,  Cin- 

642     Richmond,  CA — Iva  Maude  Overland  Is). 

654    Chattanooga,  TN— Hassell  Bill  Lynn. 

665     Amarillo,  TX — Grady  Olen  Darnell.  James  Henry 

King.  Joe  J.  Miller. 
690     Little  Rock,  AR— Laura  Evelyn  Wilson  (s). 
701     Fresno,  CA — Guy  M.  Holmes.  Marvin  J.  Hance. 
720    Baton  Rouge,  LA — James  L.  Font. 
739    Cincinnati,  OH — Paul  N.  Fountain. 
743     Bakersfield,  CA — Coy  Edwin  Murphey.  Jack  Arnold 

Williams.  Lois  Marguerite  Rinard  Is). 
751     Santa  Rosa,  CA— Otto  Gust  Radons. 
804     Wisconsin  Rapids,  WI — George  J.  Weisler. 
815     Beverly,  MA — Edwin  J.  Humlin. 
839    Des  Plaines,  IL — George  Schrambeck.  Harold  E. 

Martens. 
844    Canoga  Park,  CA — Chelsie  E.  Dameron.  John  Cha- 

ban. 
846    Lethbdge,  Alia,  CAN— Helen  Dieser  Is). 
865     Brunswick,  GA— Ethel  C.  Mumford  Is). 
871     Battle  Creek,  MI— Charles  H.  Aurand,  Donald  L. 

Schoonard,  Ralph  Wesley  Haines. 
898    SI.    Joseph    and    Benton    Harbor,    MI— Cecile    K. 

McCombs  Is). 
902     Brooklyn,  NY— Bernhard  H.  Soro,  Fritz  Kamp,  John 

Andersen.  Thomas  Pierno. 
906    Glendale,  AZ— Bernard  F.  Walsh,  Marie  C.  Smith 

Is). 

929  Los  Angeles.  CA— Steve  Sass.  Sylvan  Percy  Halfhill. 

930  SI.  Cloud,  MI— Walter  Grenier. 
933     Hermislon,  OR — Alvin  E.  Poulson. 
938     Richmond,  MO— David  F.  Sims 

943  Tulsa,  OK— Arley  Lafayette  Burns. 

944  San  Brnardno,  CA— Donald  W.  McEuen,  Lloyd  C. 
Harter. 

953  Lake  Charles,  LA — Victor  Frederick. 

974  Baltimore,  MD — Stanislaw  Daszkiewicz. 

978  Springfield,  MO— Robert  W.  Mason. 

998  Roval  Oak,  MI— Ann  Miskovich  Is). 

1000  Tampa,  FI,— William  P   Harlow. 

1030  Province  of  Ontario — Emilien  Delarosbil. 

1031  Louisville,  KY— Charles  B.  Rice,  Henry  Calvin  Hed- 
den. 

1040     Eureka,  CA— Helen  Pearl  Quillen  (s). 

1042     Plattsburgh,  NY— John  W.  Hewitt. 

1050     Philadelphia,  PA— Peter  Dellorefice. 

1053     Milwaukee,  WI — Edmund  A.  Murawski. 

1055     Lincoln,  NB— Frank  W.  Wollenberg. 

1062     Santa  Barbara,  CA— Frank  C.  Minten. 

1074    Eau  Claire,  WI — Melvin  Anderson. 

1081     Kilimat,  BC,  CAN— Odd  B.  Olsen. 

1089    Phoenix.  AZ— Robert  Eager,  William  C.  Christian. 

1098  Baton  Rouge,  LA— Curtis  C.  Lutrell,  Peter  A.  All 
Sr. 

1108    Cleveland,  OH— Helen  Rebrovich  (s) 

1125    Los  Angeles,  CA — Louis  Robert  Moreno. 

1132    Alpena.  MI — Lester  Menier. 

1138    Toledo,  OH— James  S.  Crandall.  Phyllis  Oliver  (s). 

1140  San  Pedro,  CA — George  H.  Wilmes,  Mercedes  Rod- 
riguez Carmona  Is).  Ralph  M.  Gepharl. 

1143    Lacrosse,  WI — Peter  A.  Johns. 

1149    San  Francisco,  CA — Grant  McKenzie. 

1172    Billings,  MT — Leroy  Jesse  Kikkert. 

1185     Chicago,  IL—Ardell  B.  Sutton. 

1194  Pensacola,  Fl— Bartletl  1.  Rowell.  William  Lee  Rai- 
ner. 

1205    Indio,  CA — Olon  Clarence  Tapley .  Orlay  Armstrong. 

1207     Charleston,  WV— Dallis  O.  Estep.  Hoyle  O.  Neal. 

1216  Mesa,  AZ— Richard  W.  Bleakney.  William  T.  Stan- 
sell. 

1222  Medford,  NY — Arne  M.  Thompsen.  Eugene 
MacArthur. 

1263    Atlanta.  GA— Viva  Mae  Lamb  Is). 

1266     Austin.  TX— William  Fritz  Thiem. 

1273     Eugene.  OR — Nels  B.  Forsman. 

1280    Mountain  View,  CA— Charles  E.  Daily. 

1292  Huntington,  NY — Dennis  Leblanc.  John  August 
Matson.  John  G.  Morris. 

1296    San  Diego,  CA — Durward  F.  Reeder. 

1300  Dan  Diego,  CA— August  L.  Unser.  J.  C.  Cody, 
Rafael  B.  Magana. 

1301  Monroe,  MI — Charles  Vern  Wagoner. 
1305    Fall  River,  MA — Francis  J.  Parker. 

1307  Evanslon,  IL — Alfred  Line,  Charles  Ray  Johnson, 

Ralph  Knight. 

1310  St.  Louis,  MO— Annie  Mae  Smith  Is). 

1342  Irvinglon,  NJ — Muriel  Abromowilz  Is). 

1.347  Port  Arthur,  TX— William  Arless  Steele. 

1365  Cleveland,  OH— Andrew  J.  Komara. 

1373  Flint,  MI— Earl  Dunbar  Meyer. 

1382  Rochester,  MN— Clarence  F.  Peters. 

1393  Toledo,  OH— Wilson  P.  Minier. 

1396  Golden,  CO— Kenneth  H.  Ward. 

1400  Santa  Monica,  CA— H.  Alex  Hakanson.  William  H. 

Shelby. 

1402  Richmond.  VA— Dolman  Willie  Presnell  Sr. 

1407  San  Pedro.  CA— George  Nichols,  Manuel  M.  Diaz. 

1408  Redwood  City.  CA— Cecil  Charles  Pierce. 
1419  Johnstown,  PA — Jeannete  M.  Weaver  Is). 
1426  Elyria,  OH— George  J.  Krozier. 

1434     Mobcrly,  MO — Vernon  E.  Hagar. 
1437    Compton,  CA — Erick  A.  Carlson. 

1453  Huntington  Bch,  CA— David  A.  Smith. 

1454  Cincinnati,  OH — Bessie  M.  Kuhnhenn  Is),  Edward 
A.  Johns. 

1456    New  York.  NY— Emil  W.  Storkull,  Margaret  Johnsen- 

(s),  Svcrre  Johnsen. 
1471     Jackson,  MS— William  J.  Smith. 


DECEMBER     1987 


37 


IN  MEMORIAM 


1476    Lake  Charles,  LA— George  L.  Davis. 

1478    Redondo.  CA— Stella  Smith  (s),  Walter  A.  Woodruff. 

1489     Burlington,  NJ — Franklin  Rode. 

1496     Fresno,  CA— Alex  Horn. 

1507  El  Monle,  CA— Cibbie  Beatrice  Anderson  (s).  Hallie 
V.  Robey  (s),  James  B.  McClain,  Lehman  F.  Baker. 

1539    Chicago,  IL— Henry  P.  Rush  Jr. 

1553    Culver  City,  CA— Jesus  Alvarado  Herrera. 

1571  East  San  Diego,  CA— Calvern  Douglas  Dates.  Frank 
E.  Sherman,  Harry  S.  Keenam  Jr.,  John  M.  Killam, 
Martha  Irene  Maki  (s).  William  Schroeder. 

1590    Washington,  DC— Francis  W.  Cappella. 

1599    Redding,  CA— Hazel  S.  Davis  (s). 

1607  Los  Angeles,  CA — Charles  E.  Meadors,  Nola  Coley 
(s). 

1608  S.  Pittsburg,  TN— Blanche  J.  Capps  (si. 

1622    Hayward,  CA— Clyde  A.  Butterfield,  Glenn  For- 

wood  Jr..  John  Leo  Rei. 
1632    S.  Luis  Obispo,  CA— Eulah  Faye  Mattson  (s),  Lucille 

A.  Walker  (s). 
1641     Naples,  FL — Albert  Johnson.  Omar  Huskey. 
1644     Minneapolis,  MN— Arvo  R.  Maki.  Edward  A.  Hock- 
stein.  Kenneth  G.  Erickson. 
1683    El  Dorado,  AR— Walter  N.  Mitcham 
1715    Vancouver,  WA— Magdalene  Elizabeth  Salvey  (si. 

Wesley  E.  Groat. 
1733    Marshlield,  WI— Arno  W.  Guk.  Herman  H.  Griep. 

Karl  W.  Franz.  Richard  F.  Pacourek. 
1749     Anniston,  AL— Marshall  M.  Wakefield. 
1752    Pomona,  CA— Anthony  Gus  Mussachia. 
1764    Marion,  VA — Gray  Edmiston. 
1772    Hicksville,  NY— Boleslavs  Gribulis,  Jonas  Hopp. 

Joseph  Batewell.  Stanley  Buchinski. 
1775    Columbus,  IN— Jack  H.  Callahan. 
1797    Renton,   WA— Benjamin  Oliver  Bealmer,  George 

Francis  Robertine.  John  Leo  Curran. 
1801  Hawkins,  WI— Theodore  M.  Strand. 
1815    Santa  Ana,  CA— Charles  T.  Coghill  Sr.,  John  David 

Stewart,  Walter  F.  Werner,  William  C.  Yarbrough. 
1832    Escanaba,  MI— Harold  A.  Gagnon  Jr. 
1837    Babylon,  NY— Frank  S.  Honick,  Mary  Galletta  (si. 
1839    Washington,  MO— William  B.  Buscher. 

1845  Snoqualmie,  WA— Fred  R.  Fredrickson. 

1846  New  Orleans,  LA— Charles  M.  Beck,  Frank  J.  Busby, 
William  D.  Norris. 

1849     Pasco,  WA— Marie  Gates  (s). 
1856    Philadelphia,  Pa— David  Stroman. 
1871     Cleveland,  OH— Patrick  O'Connor. 
1889    Downers  Grove,  II^Elmer  A.  Frederick. 
1911     Beckley,  WV— Francis  E.  Hinkle. 

1913  Van  Nuys,  CA— Harold  H.  Jensen,  William  C.  Mont- 
gomery. 

1914  Phoenix,  AZ— Neville  F.  Ahrens. 
1929    Cleveland,  OH— James  T.  McCrae. 

1987    St.  Charles,  MO— Charles  L.  Crane,  Hubert  Lee 

Boyer.  William  J.  Voges. 
2003    Morrisville,  NC— Edgar  J.  Lyons. 
2006    Los  Gatos,   Ca — Benjamin  A.   Aguilar,  John  W. 

Callaway. 
2012    Scaford,  DE— William  Hastings. 
2015    Santa  Paula,  CA— Carl  D.  Alt. 
2018    Ocean  County,  NJ— Rosemary  Hermann  (si. 
2033    Front  Royal,  VA — Jesse  Franklin  Jenkins.  Robert  S. 

Zerby. 

2046  Martinez,  CA— Eual  H.  Griffin,  Eva  M.  Haka  (s). 
Laura  Susan  Sunnarborg  (s). 

2047  Hartford  City,  IN— Shelia  Lambert. 
2076     Kelowna,  BC,  CAN— Donald  A.  Warren. 
2078    Vista,  CA— Mary  C.  Brewer  (s). 

2172    Santa  Ana,  CA— William  H.  Bass. 
2203    Anaheim,  CA — Gwynne  D.  Cos  (s). 
2239     Fremont,  OH— Cliffijrd  E.  Jay. 
2265    Detroit,  MI— Paul  F.  Markovich. 

2287  New  York,  NY— Frank  Free. 

2288  Los  Angeles,  CA— Jose  A.  Lujan,  Ralph  E.  Myers, 
Stanley  J.  Senessen. 

2292    Ocala,  FL— Ramona  Judge  (s). 

2361     Orange,  CA— Lois  A.  Cody  (s). 

2375    Los  Angeles,  CA — Ernest  G.  Vasquez,  Lillian  V. 

Antilla  (s). 
2391     Holland,  MI— Clifford  J.  Vanderkolk. 
2396    Seattle,  WA— Oren  R.  Chaffee. 
2403    Richland,  WA— Helen  L.  Seyler  (si. 
2431     Long  Beach,  CA— James  Aaron  Milford,  Thelma 

Kelson  (si. 
2463    Ventura,  CA— Carl  J.  Voris.  Emma  Koval  (si.  Ruby 

J.  Page  (s). 
2520    Anchorage,  AK — Frederick  Joseph  Donnelly. 
2627     Cottage  Grove,  OR— Virgil  E.  Kenyon. 
2633    Tacoma,  WA — Oscar  T.  Gerow. 
2682    New  York,  NY— Gwendolyn  Smith  Miller. 
2693     Pt  Arthur,  Ont,  CAN— Lawrence  N.  Quesnel. 
2739    Yakima,  WA— George  Willard  Castor.  Lawrence  H. 

Blanchard. 
2767     Morton,  WA — David  E.  Armstrong. 
2834     Denver,  CO— Hazel  M.  Fulton  (s). 
2881     Portland,  OR— Albert  W,  Delborg.  Joseph  A.  Dow, 

Rudolph  A.  Malensek. 
2927    Martell,  CA— David  L.  Sherman. 
2947    New  York,  NY— Alejandro  Sanchez. 
2965     Toronto,  Ont,  CAN— Antonio  Manzo. 
3038     Bonner,  MT— William  Cadieux. 

3073  Portsmouth,  NH— Stephen  S.  Fritz. 

3074  Chester,  CA— Hans  B.  Griebau. 
3088    Stockton,  CA— Abilio  L.  Mello  (si. 
3127     New  York,  NY— Oreste  J.  Libutti. 
3141     San  Francisco,  CA — Fred  G.  Naugayan. 

3161  Maywood,  CA — George  W.  Cannine,  Raul  A.  Mu- 
noz,  Rigoberto  G.  Ulloa.  William  Hauck. 

7000  Province  of  Quebec  LCI  134-2— Edouard  Larose, 
Felicien  Gardner,  Mcdard  Lecuyer. 

9042    Los  Angeles,  CA— Donald  E.  Baker. 


Dishonor  Roll 

Continued  from  Page  8 

Hundreds  of  laid  off  MCI  Corpora- 
tion workers  across  the  country  have 
been  assisted  in  their  struggle  against 
the  giant  communications  company  by 
the  Communications  Workers  of  Amer- 
ica. "These  men  and  women  are  not 
represented  by  any  union.  Accordingly, 
MCI  felt  free  to  fire  them,  with  no 
notice  and  no  consideration  of  their 
personal  situations,"  CWA  president 
Morton  Bahr  said. 

The  focus  of  the  CWA  effort  is  South- 
field,  Mich.,  where  450  employees  were 
terminated  shortly  after  they  filed  a 
union  representation  petition  with  the 
NLRB,  asking  that  CWA  become  their 
bargaining  agent. 

In  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  the  U.S.  Playing 
Card  Company  unilaterally  imposed 
drastic  wage  and  benefit  cuts  on  its 
employees  after  their  contract  expired. 
When  the  workers,  members  of  the 
Retail,  Wholesale  and  Department  Store 
Union  protested,  they  were  locked  out. 

"We  want  to  resolve  our  differences 
through  negotiation,"  RWDSU  Presi- 
dent Lenore  Miller  said,  "but  until  the 
company  bargains  fairly,  we  will  pursue 
the  AFL-CIO  authorized  boycott  against 
its  products  and  enhst  other  expressions 
of  support  from  the  rest  of  the  labor 
movement." 

"American  corporations  will  not  be 
able  to  compete  in  national  and  world 
markets  by  undercutting  the  rights  of 
the  workers  who  are  the  backbones  of 
their  industries,"  Samuel  concluded. 
"  'Competitiveness"  is  a  legitimate  goal, 
but  these  companies  are  using  it  as  an 
excuse  to.  destroy  our  tradition  of  co- 
ordinated action  through  labor  unions. 
We  will  continue  to  fight  that  attitude 
so  long  as  it  persists." 

Another  employer  in  an  industry 
served  by  members  of  the  UBC  was  on 
a  previous  lUD  Dishonor  Roll.  In  1984 
the  Brotherhood  nominated  Louisiana- 
Pacific  Corporation  which  was  already 
being  boycotted  by  UBC  members  for 
its  unfair  labor  practices  in  the  Pacific 
Northwest. 

Profile,  BE  &  K 

Continued  from  Page  9 

and  paper  employees"  in  order  "to 
clear  ourselves  of  a  previously  estab- 
lished work  ethic." 

BE  &  K's  prominence  in  the  highly 
profitable  paper  industry,  the  growing 
number  of  union  disputes  with  the 
company,  its  emerging  role  as  a  hired 
strikebreaker  in  the  paper  industry, 
and  its  highly  visible  role  with  ABC  are 
key  factors  that  have  led  the  Carpen- 
ters and  Paperworkers  unions  to  imple- 
ment a  national  campaign  against 
BE&  K. 


Lady  of  The  Rockies 

Continued  from  Page  16 

ride  through  the  streets  of  Butte  that  night, 
and  the  sirens  summoned  well-wishers  out- 
doors for  loud  cheering  and  thumbs  up  signs. 

Many  were  stirred  and  will  continue  to  be 
touched  at  the  sight  of  the  Lady  of  the 
Rockies.  While  she  was  still  in  Roberts 
equipment  yard.  Donna  Larson  visited  the 
statue  and  wrote  the  following: 

"I  paid  a  visit  to  'Our  Lady  of  the  Rockies' 
this  Wednesday  afternoon,  although  it  felt 
more  like  a  pilgrimage.  As  I  stood  looking 
up  at  her  wonderful  face — so  beautifully 
formed — a  feeling  of  humility,  awe  and  won- 
der came  over  me. 

"To  think  that  human  hands  could  fashion 
such  delicate  large  work  in  steel.  Standing 
at  the  base  of  her  bust,  1  felt  as  tiny  as  a 
mustard  seed  and  so  very  insignificant. 

"I  touched  the  folds  of  her  garment  flowing 
down  her  stately  shoulders — the  sun  had 
warmed  the  pure  white  steel  and  had  given 
the  steel  the  feeling  of  a  fine  white  satin 
garment — you  could  fee!  a  holy  presence 
there — and  I  took  a  moment  to  pray. 

"It  was  then  I  knew  that  'Our  Lady  of 
the  Rockies'  will  not  be  just  and  ordinary 
statue  of  steel — but  it  is  the  form  of  the 
blessed  mother  of  God  made  possible  by  the 
thankfulness,  prayers  and  dreams  of  many 
human  beings — designed  and  fashioned  by 
people  of  great  faith,  vision,  artistry,  hope 
and  dreams  ..." 

After  the  Lady  was  in  place,  Roberts 
commented,  "Those  of  us  who  have  con- 
tributed to  Our  Lady  of  the  Rockies  have 
no  illusions  about  the  statue.  It  is  only  pieces 
of  sheet  steel  welded  together  to  symbolize 
love  and  motherhood.  It  is  not  something  to 
worship.  But  we  hope  it  becomes  an  object 
of  respect." 

The  town  is  getting  ready  to  celebrate  its 
third  Christmas  with  the  Lady  of  the  Rockies 
overlooking  them.  And  like  the  first  Christ- 
mas in  Bethlehem,  what  a  blessed  event  it 
will  be. 


Bridgeport  Collapse 

Continued  from  Page  6 

Culver  said  that  the  NBS  report  dem- 
onstrates the  need  for  independent 
professionals  to  review  lifting  proce- 
dures and  the  need  to  improve  the 
integrity  of  buildings  so  that,  if  one  part 
fails,  the  entire  structure  will  not  col- 
lapse. 


California  Retirees 

Continued  from  Page  25 

In  the  beginning,  meetings  were  held  at 
various  local  halls.  In  1974  the  club  moved 
to  a  church  in  Berkeley.  In  1979  they  moved 
to  Local  36.  At  present  they  are  meeting  in 
a  new  building,  their  own. 

They  still  collect  eyeglasses  for  the  needy, 
have  a  yearly  craft  and  hobby  show  and 
have  an  installation  and  Christmas  dinner  at 
area  restaurants. 


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CARPENTER 


CHANGEABLE  CHUCK 


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The  Weatherguard®  is  designed  to  protect 
workers  eyes,  face  and  neck  from  the  wind 
and  cold.  It  features  a  respirator  which 
^  warms     the     air     for 

breathing  and  functions 
for  extended  periods 
without  restricting 

breathing.  The  lens  is 
ventilated  and  sepa- 
rated from  the  respira- 
tor for  excellent  fog-free 
visibility  and  meets  Ansi 
Z87.1  for  face  shields. 
The  Weatherguard®  can 
be  worn  with  glasses  and 
fits  comfortably  under  hats,  hoods,  hard  hats 
and  other  headgear.  Other  features  include 
a  lightweight  high  impact  plastic  body,  a 
super  soft  foam  lining  and  a  wide  adjustable 
headstrap.  The  Weatherguard®  is  available 
in  black  or  clear  and  comes  in  a  small  size. 
The  lens  is  replacable  and  comes  in  clear, 
smoked  or  amber.  Retail  is  $19.95  each. 
Patents  pending.  Further  information  con- 
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Paul,  MN  55117.  Telephones:  (612)  224-5322 
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CARPENTER  PENCILS 

The  Irwin  Company  has  added  carpenter 
pencils  to  its  line  of  hand  and  marking  tools. 
The  medium  lead,  7-inch  flatwood  pencils 
can  be  sharpened  and  are  Made  in  U.S.A. 
They  are  packaged  12  to  a  carton. 

For  more  information  about  Irwin  carpen- 
ter pencils,  contact  Diane  Schikowitz,  Prod- 
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INDEX  OF  ADVERTISERS 

Calculated  Industries 29 

Clifton  Enterprises 19 

Foley-Belsaw 23 

Full  Length  Roof  Framers 25 

Kimline  Industries 39 

Most  Products 25 

Nailers 19 

Nail  King 39 

Vaughan  &  Bushnell  Mfg 20 


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key  chuck  on  an  electric  or  compressed  air 
drill.  Bits  are  held  by  collets  that  snap  into 
the  "Quick-Chuck"  and  are  instantly  ready 
for  use.  This  eliminates  the  practice  of  trying 
to  save  time  by  keeping  commonly  used  bits 
installed  in  separate  drills.  When  a  rarely 
used  bit  is  needed,  a  special  adapter  allows 
the  key  chuck  to  be  replaced  and  the  bit  is 
secured  in  the  usual  manner. 

Quick-Chuck  versions  are  available  for 
either  standard  Vs-inch  drills  or  standard  Vi- 
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presses.  A  basic  starter  set  includes  the 
Quick-Change  chuck,  adapter,  and  four  col- 
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separately.  Also  available  is  a  magnetized 
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hazards.  Unlike  methods  which  seal  toxic 
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around  1400°C.  The  asbestos  is  absorbed 
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material,  according  to  British  Information 
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Recent  trials  at  a  power-station  demolition 
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units  for  on  site  use  and  permanent  units  to 
process  all  types  of  asbestos  from  a  variety 
of  sources  will  be  available. 

The  cost  of  disposing  of  asbestos  safely 
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if  not  less,  than  bagging  and  dumping  sys- 
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The  world's  first  Vitrifix  furnace  was  used 
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day  are  possible. 

Inquiries  from  prospective  US  agents  are 
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DECEMBER     1987 


Who  pays  the  piper 
for  Black  Monday's 
stock  market  blues? 


The  White  House  Teflon  is 

wearing  thin,  as  Congress  worl(s 

to  trim  the  deficit. 


For  once,  a  national  economic  problem  has 
not  been  blamed  on  labor  unions,  their  mem- 
bers and  their  policies. 

In  fact,  I  suspect  that,  if  it  hadn't  been  for 
labor  unions  and  their  fight  over  the  past  two 
decades  for  federally-protected  pension  funds 
and  their  stock  portfolios,  the  problem  might 
have  been  worse  than  it  was. 

I'm  referring,  of  course,  to  the  stock  market 
crash  of  October  19,  Black  Monday,  as  it  has 
been  called,  the  drop  of  American  dollars  on 
Wall  Street  heard  round  the  world  and  their 
resulting  afterquakes  in  London,  Tokyo,  Hong 
Kong  and  every  other  financial  center  on  the 
globe. 

After  two  generations  of  assurances  that  it 
couldn't  happen,  the  dangers  created  by  un- 
restricted money  mergers  and  unbalanced  trade 
have  finally  been  revealed. 

Texas  billionaire  H.  Ross  Perot  said  after- 
wards it  was  "God  tapping  us  on  the  shoulder' ' 
and  "warning  us  to  get  our  act  together." 

Only  a  few  months  before  the  recent  finan- 
cial meltdown  on  Wall  Street,  President  Ron- 
ald Reagan  stood  on  the  steps  of  the  Jefferson 
Memorial  in  Washington,  D.C.,  in  a  rally 
organized  by  the  U.S.  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
and  he  told  the  American  people  that  he  was 
pushing  for  "four  essential  economic  free- 
doms." He  listed  them  as  "the  freedom  to 
work,  the  freedom  to  make  a  profit,  the 
freedom  to  own  property  and  the  freedom  to 
participate  in  a  free  market."  Judging  by  the 
president's  constant  attempts  to  eliminate 
government  regulations,  he  might  have  added 
"the  freedom  to  wheel  and  deal." 

Let's  look  at  these  "four  economic  free- 
doms" and  how  they  apply  to  Black  Monday: 

The  freedom  to  work,  under  seven  years  of 
conservative  White  House  interpretation  means 


the  "right  to  work."  President  Reagan  has 
stated,  as  far  back  as  his  first  campaign  for 
the  presidency,  that  he  would  do  nothing  to 
cause  the  repeal  of  state  "right  to  work," 
union  busting  laws. 

As  to  the  freedom  to  make  a  profit,  well, 
we  know  who's  been  able  to  make  all  those 
tax-free  profits.  It  hasn't  been  the  average 
wage  earner. 

The  freedom  to  own  property.  That's  noth- 
ing new.  That  freedom  was  guaranteed  by  the 
U.S.  Constitution,  two  centuries  ago.  Unfor- 
tunately, fewer  and  feiyer  Americans  are  able 
to  own  property,  whether  they're  free  to  do 
so  or  not.  They're  lucky,  if  they  can  pay  the 
rent. 

As  to  the  last  one,  the  freedom  to  participate 
in  a  free  market,  that  "freedom"  has  helped 
to  get  us  into  the  financial  mess  we're  in 
today. 

For  several  years  the  free-trade  lobby  has 
been  painting  terrifying  pictures,  describing 
how  a  strong  trade  bill  would  cause  a  loss  of 
jobs  and  rising  consumer  prices.  Year  after 
year,  the  free  traders  have  thrown  up  road- 
blocks to  honest  trade  reform  legislation,  al- 
lowing the  big  import  firms  and  multinational 
corporations  more  and  more  time  to  reap  their 
ill-gotten  profits  and  causing  the  U.S.  dollar 
to  be  devalued  more  and  more  on  world 
currency  markets. 

After  President  Reagan  listed  his  four  "es- 
sential economic  freedoms"  in  that  speech  in 
Washington,  he  rolled  out  his  catch-all  solu- 
tion to  every  economic  problem  facing  the 
nation — a  balanced  federal  budget. 

He  told  his  audience  at  the  Jefferson  Me- 
morial, "The  centerpiece  of  my  economic  bill 
of  rights  ...  is  a  long-overdue  constitutional 
amendment  to  require  the  federal  government 
to  do  what  every  family  in  America  must  do, 
and  that  is  live  within  its  means  and  balance 
its  budget. 

"I  will  again  ask  Congress  to  submit  a 
balanced  budget  amendment  to  the  states. 
And  if  the  Congress  will  not  act,  I'll  have  no 
choice  but  to  take  my  case  directly  to  the 
states." 

It's  hard  to  disagree  with  a  balanced  budget 
in  principal,  but  in  this  era  of  international 
financial  intrigue,  its  an  unrealistic  priority, 
especially  for  the  Reagan  administration.  The 
Carter  administration  was  running  a  federal 
deficit  of  $60  billion  when  it  left  office.  In 
seven  years,  the  Reagan  administration  has 
run  up  a  deficit  of  some  $172  billion!  President 
Reagan  has  sent  seven  budgets  to  Capitol  Hill 
in  his  seven  years  in  office,  and  his  Office  of 


Management  and  Budget  has  never,  during 
that  time,  set  a  course  toward  a  balanced 
budget. 

Why  now? 

Apparently  because  the  White  House  does 
not  have  practical  solutions  to  either  the 
budget  dilemna  or  the  deficit  dilemna.  Meeting 
in  conference  with  congressional  leaders,  last 
month,  the  president's  aides  have  only  been 
able  to  whittle  approximately  $23  billion  from 
the  mounting  multibillion  dollar  budget. 

Meanwhile,  the  world  stands  by  anxiously 
to  see  what  solutions  are  offered.  The  presi- 
dent's teflon  is  wearing  thin. 

I  have  one  suggestion:  I  read  an  Associated 
Press  report  the  other  day  which  says  the 
president  and  two  federal  agencies  want  to 
build  a  $3.3  billion  airplane,  which  the  presi- 
dent has  dubbed  "The  Orient  Express."  Ac- 
cording to  the  AP  story,  the  plane  would  be 
the  largest  research  aircraft  project  ever  un- 
dertaken in  the  United  States,  developing  a 
17,000  mph  plane  capable  of  flying  from  New 
York  to  Tokyo  in  two  hours.  This  would  be 
a  joint  program  of  the  National  Aeronautics 
and  Space  Administration  and  the  Defense 
Department,  and  the  research  would  be  car- 
ried out  by  three  of  the  nation's  aircraft 
builders.  The  plan  is  to  have  two  of  these 
aircraft  ready  for  1993. 

Now,  I'm  in  favor  of  workers  in  the  nation's 
aircraft  industry  being  employed,  but  I'd  cer- 
tainly prefer  to  see  that  money  assigned  to 
the  task  of  providing  the  essential  needs  of 
the  population  for  food,  shelter,  health  care 
and  the  basics  of  survival  in  this  uncertain 
world.  I,  for  one,  never  expect  to  have  to  get 
to  Tokyo  in  two  hours  .  .  .  not  in  my  lifetime. 

Which  brings  me  to  another  Reagan  budget- 
busting  expenditure.  I  saw  the  other  day  that 
the  "Star  Wars"  program — which  is  steeped 
in  controversy  among  scientists  and  other 
people  who  should  know — that  Star  Wars  will 
eventually  cost  the  people  of  the  United  States 
as  much  as  the  entire  federal  expenditure  for 
maintaining  our  standing  army,  navy,  air  force 
and  marines. 

The  president  should  turn  his  attention  to 
the  factors  in  the  stock  market  which  caused 
the  crash  of  October  19 — the  takeovers  of 
companies  and  the  closing  of  domestic  man- 
ufacturing plants  by  greedy  Wall  Street  raid- 
ers, inflating  stocks  right  and  left;  the  show- 
ering of  unneeded  funds  on  the  defense 
establishment,  inflating  the  value  of  our  de- 
fense industries.  At  the  same  time  the  admin- 
istration has  cut  back  on  funds  needed  to 
combat  the  multibillion  dollar  traffic  in  the 


illicit  drug  industry,  which  inflates  money  and 
produces  no  goods  and  services. 

Some  bullets  are  going  to  have  to  be  bitten 
before  the  world  economy  is  stabilized.  Some 
political  patronage  is  going  to  have  to  go  by 
the  board.  Some  sacred  cows  in  legislator's 
home  districts — which  are  being  maintained 
at  great  expense  to  taxpayers  and  which  serve 
no  useful  purpose — are  going  to  have  to  be 
closed  out. 

Banks  are  going  to  have  to  cut  back  on 
unsecured  loans  to  Third  World  countries 
which  offer  no  possibility  of  repayment. 

The  funds  saved  by  such  austerity  moves 
should  be  put  into  job  creation  and  funneled 
into  low-interest  home  mortgages,  better 
transportation  facilities  and  environment  pro- 
tection. 

Debts  have  to  be  paid.  Fiscal  responsibility 
must  again  be  the  rule.  Union  members,  wage 
earners,  farmers,  home  owners  and  homeless 
street  people  should  not  have  to  pay  the  piper 
for  the  financial  world's  mistakes.  More  reg- 
ulations may  be  needed,  not  less. 


PATRICK  J.  CAMPBELL 
General  President 


THE  CARPENTER 

101  Constitution  Ave.,  N.W. 
Washington,  D.C.  20001 

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