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N IVESY J 0THERE'S A LAUGH OR TWO

Brother Seelieke comes through agai,. B.worote as s ,ce letter and eset tta the followingcontribution, His letter mae from a field ho.-pital in Italy, but Brother Seelirke assures itsthat there is nothing seriousl y wro,'4 with him,and A. hopes to rejoin his outfit very sooa now.

THOUGHTS IN A CHOW LINEDon't siake any pla s for a permanent peace.

'Cause we've anlother job to be done;It will only begin when hostilities cease

And we've fnished the Jap and the Hun.

There are three more fiends were out to get.We won't rest until they're caught.

Once in our clutches, we'll make 'es sweatFor all tho misery that they've wrought.

First on our list, with weak, twisted 'ind--We're really after his blood;

That haIf-witted guy whose fate was signedBy introducing the dehydrated spud.

Next is that demon were hated for years.ue'll he tortured 'tll for mery h, hegs;

He'll nderstalnd why, when frmas G.s he hearsThey've been eating his powdered eggs,

The worst one of all gets all our fercity,If he's wise he'll take it on the ba.;

Ile's in for the world's greatest atrocityFor his Triamlehe invention of Spaml

PFM. WILLIAM S1EICKE, Ja.L. U. No. 3&

SPRINGTIMEThere's something strange about tho splingThat lifts our hearts and makes bs sing,That turns our thoughts to foreign lands.To deep blue seas and shining sands.

We'd like to climb some rocky trailFar froml the sound of road or rail,To rest awhile and simply dream,Beside some distant ... ntalin stream.

Where rushing waters splash and glisten,Bidding us to pause and listen,To hear soft, tinkling music gay,The spirit of a springtime day.

Or would we walk a country laneAt sunset home, through fieds of grain,With smell of earth. so clean and sweet,So different from a city street.

Or through some southern moonlit night,O'er distant sands where stars are bright;To breathe the sweetly scented airOf msquite, juniper, growing there.

I dream and tint with rosy hueThe things that I some spring will do,When I have time, when I can golo Maine, Montana, Mexico.

As I pen this perchance I smile,This spring I know I'll wait a whiletI'll paint the house, the screens UI'D st,And hope my springtime may COme yet.

GCtoa G. PEDTE¥,L. U. Nn. 134

THE LITTLE THINGSIt's little things that eount the most,

(So writes my boy in France)A hamburger, a chcese-on-toast,

A neon 'Dine and Dance."

A slab of mother's apple pie,A chocolate malted, cake,

A bed that's clean and warm and dry,A bath, a juicy steak.

A quiet hour on the lawn--Oh boy, that shell was near!

A spitting plina swoops dwnl and on;A foxhole dive high gear,

What was it I was going to say?Oh yes: the commonplae,

The little things American way,Now take ln supreme grace!

M~IARHAlAd LAvl?%,L. U. No. 124.

Aw e'mon and try Philhert. That's as muchlike pulling fodder as I can make it.

H. li. MosL£¥,L. U. No. 1322.

THE OFFICE GALS OF '48I was in 4's office the ther day,Just to pass the time away,I sat in Joe's office for awhileAnd watched the gala work and smile.Phones were ringing long and loud,In the halls ontside there was a crowd,From each window there was a linePaying monthly dues, also fines;Some with red cards they hallered about,It was quite a show as I looked out;Some had special parties they wanted to see,"Sorry, he's out, but will be bock at thre- -Was there a message. or must him you see,If it's a message, just give it to me."

A guy took her time for 10 mlu{tes or so.Then turned away Iod said 'let it go."Some or them hollered long and loudWhile the gang outside began to crowdA stack of checks by an adding machine close

by,A gal running the machine with an eagle eye.Another gal going over some files,As I locked at a blonde she gave lne a smile.It', quite a sight or a "ly somec day,If you can get inside and stay out of tho way;Those gals are busy, and "gee how they work,"They keep everything going and They never

shirk.With 16,000 nembers' records, to keep all

st.aight,I think they do well to have so few mistakes.They have to listen all day to same Brother cry,And judge for themselves if he's telling a lie.So, to all of you members that think you're

abused,You're darn lucky, I'd say, yo, ain't In their

shoes.They're doing their part, the same as you are.Besides they ride busses and loaded street cars;They pay high rents, the same as you do,They're stung with high prices the same as you.They have husbands and sweethearts on foreign

shores.,Their chance of seeing their loved ones is no

more than yours.For, if tine would permit thern to toll you their

woes'I am sure you'd be ashamed you trod on their

toes.So, to those gals in the office of Local 48,They're dting a good job, so "give 'cro a break!'S. I put orn my hat and slipped out the door,And down in the elevator away from that roar,To my eart I got in and home in a jiffy,And thought how lucky I was to be Yours truly,

Smithy."C.F. SMITh,

L. U. No. 48.

RHYMING NEWS COMMENTATORStockholm, Feb. 2.-The Nazi government s

confiscating all coffins.-(News Item.)

It's a token of Ill omen for thoseWho, In premature graves, buried scores;

It's a sign their doom is drawing close,They are learlng the end of their heartless

chores.

The brutal murderers shall at lastBegin to reap the evil seeds they've sown;

The tortures they've planned in their vile past,Shall return a thousandfold upon their ownl

They'll have no need,'Tis certain, indeed,

For bers on their downhill road ahead-A blood-soakvd oailIn horror will reoil

And refuse to bury them with the martyreddead;

And roaring tongues of flame on hell's floor,Shall devour all evil to its core!

A Bit o' luck,

L. U. No. 3.

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A mother writcs, 'Tcl*osed is I picture

and news iten. conmcrning ly on, Rohcl',

His JOURiNALS AlwayS ceo her, and I read

them irom cover to Cover before sendingthemn on to Robert. The men in his cew(njoy them also a hd y wok on the prob.

leIns that apitn, in the magazine."

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visom. trad, and industrial education,

Springfila. Illinois, coitributes an articl

Io the Ed,,,,oi ..t. Pre... R00ll in which

Te gives praise to th. II V . W. Electronics

School at M.arquclIt i ...er.ity.

Local Tni.n 1212, New York City, has

its own new bulletin. This is a publica-

tion with ligh editorial standards and will

do much t, incre.a. the morale of all

L D. E. W. membms.

Our frontispieee this month iE a United

States Army Signal (orps photograph.

CHAT

WAR CASUALTY

This number Is dated Volume44, No. 5, May-June, 1945. The

next number which you will re-

ceive will be dated Volume 44,

No. 6, July, 1945. This means

that one whole number will bemissing in 1945 to save 85,000

pounds of much needed paper.

Sorry.

SearchlightThe sound of planes. We hold our breathUntil the leaping hunger, pale and white,Of searchlights fears the sky and baresThe anonymity of night,

Were it not meat and drink to us,The dark virginity of nightWould ever be inviolateFrom the phallic finger of this light.

But it is ours, to whom the darkIs life, to tear it with our hand,And blast the shaking sky with lightUntil it falls to where we stand.

Cpl. Lester Ewing.

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VOL. XLIV WASIlNGTON, D. C., MAY-JUNE, 1945 NO. 5

USA MajB Aa9A h

q1Y4 MraAHE United States wa.. once the leadingTmaritime nation of the world. Shortlyafter the Revohlti oa.y War its clipper

ships went to every country in the world.How we lost this preeminent posItion doesnot need to he noted here. With our inten-sive industrial development following theCivil War, from 1870 to the present day, theUnited States has been more interested infabrication than in commerce. Whether wecan win back in the coming postwar perioda good deal of this maritime prestige re-mains to be seen. But tile development offoreign trade on a large scale bears directlyupon the problem of full employment in theUnited States. The United States is virtuallythe only unimpaired nation in the world atthis hour. We have demonstrated our .r -mbndous capacity for production and thewaiting mnarkets are stupendous.

Labor's StakeThe coming international conference at

San Francisco brings notables from all overthe world and is destined to stimulate theinterest of America in international affairsand in foreign trade.

Labor has a stake in foreign trade inas-much as foreign trade is wrapped up in theproblem of full employment. If our foreigntrade is low, there is a lessening of foreignmarkets and shrinking of outlets for Amer-ican goods. That the United States is nntwithout deep interest in foreign trade isillustrated by the fact that there are now700 foreign trade associations in 140 citiesthroughout the United States. This is thelatest figur e provided by the Bureau ofForeign and Domestic Commerce of tile U. S.Department of Commerce. Of these 700 units100 are associations of exporters and im-porters, 400 are trade associations or cham-bers of commerce having committees on for-eign trade problems. in port cities these for-eign trade committees are very active. InaddSitio there are 200 world peace ani other

organizations of citizens identified with in-ternationalisr.

The Goal

To produce 55 to 60 million jols our for-egi trake should reach $7 billion in exportsin 1948, In 1929, the United States badslightly over $5 billion in exorts. Aecord-ing to the Department of Commerce, youget a comparison of exports frr 1929 and1948 as follows;

Onetime maritime nation mayrecover prestige in foreign trade

to aid full employment

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Automobiles . . ...........-- 591Petroleum and oil -_ 561Industrial machinery -------- .265Electrical machinery . ...128Agricultural maehinery - 141Iron and steel --------------- 90Chemicals . .....-- . .....27Ores and metals …...........-1

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Discussing the important question of $7billion in export trade as related to fill em-ployment, the Burean of Foreign and to-mlestie Coamncec. .ayY

"In no setoro of the economy is the post-war outlook .If e Iuzzling than in foreigntrade. At the .nioer. t, shipments to foreigncountries ale enormous. But what of thefuture? What will foreign countries want tobuy from the United States after the war?flow much will we inport Irm other cona-tries? Under what conditions will trade beconducted?

"The United States Governmnt. in co-operation with the other United Nations,is striving to relOVe some of these uncer-tainties and to aid in reconstructing thebroad framework of international trade. Theultimate success of these efforts, however,will depend chiefly on the actions of theindividual business .nan in this country andiin other countries.

American Business Aims"The aims of American business in the

feld of foreign trade requi-e little elabora-tion. Simply expressed, they are:

"1. The maintenance of a vigoroue, exporttrade to effectively utilize the country's pro-ductive capacity and, as a means to thisend, the maintenance of a vigorous importtrade.

'2. Less interference and dillurbanmethrough arbitrary trade restrictins andcurrency Yluctuations.

"Late iifiUrniti .... on the above problemsis detaid]i in the Depotment of Comme.rcbooklet, Foreign Trade After the War,' byAugust Madfry and H. B. Lary (October.194:; free copies still available). Thousandsof copies have been requested by trade as

ociations aind hAmrbe]rs Of commerce, asweII as by business firms.

"This is a om9panio to the domesticstudy, 'Markets Aftr the War', by S. M.Livingston (April, 1943, U. E. Senate Docu-ment; available from the Government Print-ing Office, 10 cents). Both ,aesent a chal-lenge to the vision and energy of nislnessand government in the United States. To-gether, they point out that to escape theburdens of potentially large uneml,]oymentin postwar yearn, the nation must aehieverecord peacetime levels of both domesticand foreign trade.

"'Foreign Trade After the War' sets a1948 hypothetical g.ol of $7 billion of ex-ports and over St/ hillion of imports, at 1942levels-provided the 1946 national incomeis at least $184 billion and the gross 3m-tional output of goods and srices reachesalproxi.mately $165 billion in 1946 and $175billion in 1948. Present estimates for 1944,which may 1, the war-peak year, are:

"Exports of $14 billion."Imports of $4 billion."Gross national product of almost $200

billion (nearly half o which will be forwar needs).-

"National income of $160 billion, as com-pared with prewar totals of $84 billion in1929, and $71 billiNe in 1939.**

"Contrary to a too-frequent belief, mostof the money .pent on imports and for otherpayments to foreigners does not 'leave thecountry,' as is explained in the above book-let, as well as in the compr,,ehsive 'TheUnited States in the World Eono.my' (U. S.Department of Commerce, 1942; 220 pp.35cL Dollar funds so paid out, at least tem-porarily, pass into foreign-owned accounts,but these acco.rats are continually drawnupon by forcigneis for buying Americangoods and for making other payments to theUnited States.

Our Dollars Create Markets"It is only as dollars are supplied, in some

way or another, to the rest of the world thatAmerican goods can find markets abroad.The need for intelligent, active trade promo-tion efforts by individual exporters will re-main. The United States Govrnmient mustalso continue its endeavors,. by means oftrade agreements and otherwise, to free the

*"National product"--In 11a2, the frst fril yearof the ... , ,,Illornad p.ndutt Ith total valiue It,ci rett, produced gooldsn sibsvj.ce, totlald

$152 billion. Governmental expenditures were $M3biliton ifhe were only $10 billion in 1g39): col>Somers' gobsiSoil vie xedtrswere ubillion, and 5$ billl ¢ii wags expended fhr privateconstruction and p]iidreers' durable equtlment.

National pII .et was $<40 billion greater thannatilnal incoer. Of this anouint, buslness taxes.etc...accounted fI, nearly $24 bill/on, ax1d depre-elation., te, f, $7 billion-

-'-Na ti ... IIIobc, -tUotilled $122 billid,4J94.This amount was divided as follows: 6men bea&tfor wages antd salaries: 17 per cent, proprietors'net incm; 7 pet ent. interest and net rezts; 7pee cent net corporate prst.

The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators

EXPORT TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES BY CONTINENTSThe map shows graphically the importance of leading nations in United States pre-war export trade

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channels of trade from the tariff and admin-istrative impediments of the past.

l)uring the decade following the firstWorld War. the United States occupied aunique position in the world economy. Itrepresented by fat the greatest single con-centration of industrial capacity and pur-chasing power. Measured ] in dollar values,it accounted for alnost half of the wxorld'industrlia output. It was the world's largesteXpel ter and second largest importer.

" rwing this period the United States wasalso the most importaut source of interna-tioial investent funds, supplying . .. recapital than the United Kingdom, theNetherlands, France, and all other creditorcountries as a group.

"By the late twenties The volume of dol-lars paid out by the United States was ap-proximately $4 billion for imparted products,and more than $1 ;½ billion each for 'services'and for long-term investments in othercountrie8. Services included expenditures forshipping, travel, insurane, interest and dlvi-de.ds, personal remittancers. and other items.This total supply of $7 billion annually toforeign lands enabled them to purchase $5billion of our exports each year, as well asto expend furt}ur sums in the United Stateson services aid long-term investments

Vast Changes Wrought"The ,ar has brought vast changes, such

as the international advancement of SovietRussia and China, which will have profoundand varying effects on future foreign trade.Along the changes referred to in the abovetwo Department of Com.erce reports are:

"1. Enormous physical destruction of pro-ductire equipment in Europe and Asia whichmust be replaced or repaired.

"2. Accumulation of relief needs amongthe populations of nations devastated by

Germany and Japan, and of long-deferrednlormlal demands elsewhere.

"3. Development of new capacities inmany foreign nations and in this countryfor the domestic production of goods pre-viously acquired through internationaltrade.

'4. Acquaintance with new products,stimulating demands for goods previouslyunknown; examples include the effect offoreign acquaintanceship with Lend-Leaseproducts of American manufacture and withp roducts sold to overseas armeed forcesthrough Post Exchanges.

"5. Sweeping changes in internationalcreditor-debtor relationships, including ex-tensive liquidation of British overseas in-vestments and the building up of large dollarand sterling balances by countries supplyingthe tremendous war years' import require-ments of the United States and the UnitedKingdom.

Competition

"It is pointed out in 'Foreign Trade AfterAfter the War' that 'Some of the projectedexport totals may not be realized becauseof increased competition from other foreignsuppliers and expanded local production ....Several producing countries will vie forraw cotton customers, . . In a number ofcountries war shortages have stimulatedthe development of production facilities forcommodities formerly imported, such as rub-ber and steel manufactures, textiles, and cer-tain chemical items.

"'The most critical po0nt of all is thefunctioning of the domestic economy. A po-tential capacity output of all goods andservices amounting to 175 billion dollars in1948, computed in 1942 prices, as indicatedin 'Markets After the War,' has been taken

as the point of departure. Mlow much shouldthis figure he discounted ?

'Remember that a reduction by ID percent, or 17.5 billion dollars, would imply ,n-employment of some 7 million persons. Areduction by 20 per cent, or 35 billion do!-lars, would imply unemployment of around13 million.

"'Businessmen will want to think in con-crete quantitative terms. The intention hereis to provide a preliminary framework andmethod for gauging export and import po-tentialities ... By far the greater part orthis planning will have to be done by busi-ness itself, but the Department of Commercestands ready to aid through supplying factsand analyses.'

Again stressing labor's interest in foreigntrade, the Department of Commerce esti-mates that the equivalent of more than3,000,000 persons wvere engaged in the pro-duction and servicing of goods for export in1929. This will be greatly increased if for-eign trade is doubled. With $7 billion inexports the Department of Commerce esti-mates that there would be in turn about $6billion in import trade.

Recipe for Lasting PeaceA Department of Commerce bulletin

strikes the keynote for peace: "Lastingpeace can be achieved only through inter-national understanding and goodwill. It isnatural, therefore, that ever-increasing in-terest is being displayed in the economic,social, cultural, and political aspects of in-terational affairs. Business, educationaland world peace associations have much incommon. With our twentieth century techni-cal advancements in airplanes, robot bombs,explosives, and other munitions threateningthe annihilation of civilization itself, the

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Book Review: BrazWi an the March, byMorris Lleweilyn Cooke.

HEhydroelctric pnowe indutry in Bra-Tit face opportuntes for~ great espm'ansolafter the war, as part of a progranm of in-dustrialization uIpo which our South Armer-ican neJghbor already has embarked.

Since Brazil has been primarily an agricultural nation, before the war she reliedheavily upon imports for . mnufacture.goods and for coal, oil, and machinery torun her transportation systei, jllblic uWili-ties, and the few lac ories that had bee,,built. By 1942, when the ,n ...narieo attacksin the Atlantic increased to the dangcr pointand shipping was cut to the mininmu , Brazilsufiered serious shortages from curtijrIe..tof these imports so itceossary to her eC;,-olfy.

Our governm ent organized the A...ie. ,ltechnical missior to Brazil to help our SouthAmerican ally ease thi wartin strain, onher ecooamy and pIan for a better bahuneId,more indusltriaizId econamy in the yeau.. tocome. The objectives of thle nfltjicri uowedirectly c onnected with tihe war wre t, or -l

sowe s.hipping space arid to keep Brazilproducing Solle i..portant product, likemanganese, ess en.tial to the war productionof the United Nai ....

The mission was headed by Morris L.Cooke, conslt.itg inanagene..t eltgtie('rrwho long has been a trkuhh-sh.ooter f'or thePresident, as well as a friend of labor. Inan inte.esting n .v bocK, Brszil/ ttheMNaeh, Mr. Cooke bas writ tel the resultsof this suvey of Brazil's eco.o..ly and thepossibilities for her futu re de.velopmn t.

Land of Rich ResourcesWith an area lreger than the e ontinntial

United States, B,;zil p ohssess rich avaried ..n.a.r resources .hich, except ,r afew products like rubber, sugar Cane, ntLs.coffee, and cotton, have scarcely been dvew-oped. Because il the past Trazil depvndldfor her income uIpo "I exporting thiese arri-cultural products, together with gld {{nddiamonds, Mr. Cooke found thiat her eco. -only has been one-sid.,d. As a result, Bprzilhas experienced a series of booms an, d de-pressions, and most of the Brazilian peoplehave suffered fron very low ivares, hlmde-quate food. disease, insun.itry livg condi-tions, and lack of educatiun.

Brazi. has natural resoIle.e. s for an hidus-trializod ecreroiny based on steel ier ironore reserves are esti.ated at ov.e..r a billltons, and she has sizable depos its of othlrmetals and minerals needed by the steel,electrical radio, land electronic . tl u.tries.Brazil laks copper and high-grald ('/lI andpetroleum, which she probably musL conlieto import.

Lack of adequN ae to.anspot ation to go II h,ores fiont the mines to the fOUndri!s mdlack of fuel for smelting ].ave hindered Bir-zips efforts to utLiliz her great miu .. l .t,-

.onrees., Since river traffic is slow and r apidsand falls nake many of Brazi]'s extensive

rivers impassable. the main poslibilities forbetter th-nsportation lie in improvflg hiprailroads and in develop.ig airplateo ardglider freight service in the future.

Brazilian rmaliads consist mainly ofshort fineunmll, ng sonic distance inllaliifroln the eastern coast. with most of thutrackage concentrated in the southe.astenarea- Brazil hasn't enough railroads, and theexisting ones are not adequately connectedwith each other or with the navigable rivers.

BRAZIL, .l?% Sid,

0 44&syndta&4l qa4/wWith electrical power, repub-lic to south can overcome natural

disadvantages

Consequently, most tiraf'ic .oves from theinlanld lit.as to ihe hta/,amast aid, fromthere, goods have to be shipped along thecoast to other Brazilia n cities. Some of theexisting railroads ae of I..rrow gang, andothers wide, with th. r-s- It that lonomo tivesand cars dreigned far onetylpe of road can'tbe u,,d on the other.

Fuel Is ScarceFuel for loeiinmotilv k vlry scarce,. What

little coal Brazi has is low Inude, an d woodor charcoal caltt ,e rlied upon to drivefreight trirq up IiilOirtatl gr1adhS. UlntilBrazil c'an tinol stiltaidec petroleumi amongber possiblly exten bive but little exploredoil deposits, Diesel eng .e. wo.n't do thetrick.

However, a few Brsi i -il h onds havebeen electrified, amd i i.. e can hI. IhI veryterrain which binpmhm t iht! .o.s..rtlon ofroads sld railrodas sld which ilalis ilanhy

f Brazi's riv . s ilhl.lusshlble g ives our IuAmerican [neighbor unulnll/,ll opportunities to~

develop an extensive eetric power indus-try. Nearly every one of her numberlessrivers drops away sharply from its sourcein the highlands to its mouth in the AtlantieOcean. If the potential hydroelectrio powerof these nany rivers, with their falls ardrapids, ean be utilized, Brazil can rum herrailreads, smelt her metals, and build andoper ae machinery and factories.

But many problemp must be solved be-fore Beazil can make $rper use of her hy-droelectric power. Biver surveys, sometimescostly, will have to be made to find outwhere to build arms. Water for the dryseason from 'lay to November w~ Mveto be stored in darns and reservoirs to reeppower plants running all year roud.. Be-tween Sae Paulo, Brazil's most importantindust rh city, and its port, Santos, an ex-tensive so, les of dams and storage lakes al-.eady has l. en built, which supplies enoughwvater vughnout the year for the hydro-electrit poWr llants in the vicint. Thissysiemli can be used " a model for futured eveloprments.

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The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators

A'ew L(dFaEN qTADEFOREIGN TRADE ga

Scene in New Orleans

EW ORLEANS, long a cosmopolitan cityand a giat port, is the first city to adapt

Nitself to the new foreign trade era.Establishing a board of directors of 100

members, ad t;ith a united community be-hind it, the City of New Orleans has estab-lished International HIous. InternationalHouse---is as the brochu!e read. both anidea and a building. It is designed to createbetter postwar understanding between thiscountry and all countries. New Orleans isexpected to be the maritime capital of theMississippi Valley and the countries ofSouth America. The brochure goes on tosay: "The governments of nations can estab-lish policies If friendship, but those policiesmust be worked ''ut by the individual cti-zens themselves. The most effective ambas-sadors of good will ae the business men,educators. professional men and scientistsin everyday contacts."

International House will be a combina-tion club for the veilconiig of foreign vis-itors, mbassadors, COe lsi, and a bourse.a business centre, for carrying on interna-tional trade and relationships. InternationalHouse was presented to the world over aCBS nation-wide hookup in January, 1944.It is an outstanding example of the spiritof cooperation in every element of the com-munity for the larger purpose of meetingmodern problems. Some of the functionsof International House are to cooperatewith govern.ment and official representativesof foreign governments, to open new ave-nues of trade; to iron out differences be-tween nations, the reception of business menand distinguished visitors from abroad; pro-vide for a series of student exchanges be-tween colleges and universities of the Mis-sissippi Valley and foreign nations, to co-operate in international exports and othercultural projects, set up a film library to bekept current; to interpret American cultureto foreign nations and foreign cultare toAmericans.

The Set-upThe president of International House is

William G. Zetmann, president of the Pan

An American city, long maritimeleader, establishes International

House, unique institution

American Fiesta. Other members are RudolfS. Heeht of the Hibernia National Bank,and A. B. Paterson, president of New Or-leans Public Service, Inc. The backers of thispublic spirited enterprise expected to raise$250,000 with no difficulty and exceeded thesun, by $100,000. There is expected to be noworry about funds. It is expected that thismovement for international houses will ex-tend to other port cities.

International House has purchased a nine-story building in the heart of the NewOrleans business district and has remodeledit for permanent headquarters. The direc-tor of International House is J. StantnRobbins, a person long interested in inter-national trade. Mr. Robbtis has to his creditthe development of the "tourist class" typeof steamer. lie also instituted, for GraceLine, Inc., the first summer schools in SouthAmerica for U. S. students and teachers.He planned and arranged for the survey ofthe Orinoco and Rio Negro Rivers in SouthAmerica. He has been on the staff of NelsonRockefeller of the Inter-American AffairsCommittee, now of the State Department.

lnternationally-Minded PeopleR. S. Hecht of the Hibernia National

Bank, New Orleans, who has been on activefigure in the establishment of InternationalHouse, recently said this about th, relation-ship of the Mississippi Valley to foreigntrade:

"I think we have not in the past partici-pated in this trade to the extent we should,but I am greatly encouraged by the clearindications that our people up and downthe valley have become much more inter-nationally minded than in the past, andconsequently are taking a far deeper interestin our foreign trade, our merchant marine,and our international air service, than everbefore. Here at Chicago and within a radiusof 300 to 400 miles of this grist mid-west

market you are ow ra o mere than 12 hoursfromn Guatemala City, 20 hours from Pan-ama, 32 hours from Lima. Pent, 20 hoursfrom Venezuela and Colombia, actual flyingtime, through our new international air gate-way at New Orleans. The southern half ofthe hemisphere literally is at our doorstep. Iam convinced that our leaders have made up

their minds to see to it that we shall assertour place and obtain our rightful share ofthis trade on every continent as soon asworld conditions permit the resumption ofprivate trading between all commercial na-lions. But while we propose to participatein all the foreign trade that can be rebuiltafter the war we may as well be realisticand admit that it is next to impossible tomake plans now for trading with thosecountries whose wealth and economic life

iave been destroyed-to such an extenlthat we have no present means of estimating their purchasing power or finding s

suitable basis for putting a vaIue on theircurrencies. It is but naturah. therefore, thatwe should. for the present at least, focusour primary attention on the trade withthe Western Hemisphere and the continentof AMrica. Just as the Pacific states natural-Ty will look for their greatest developmentfrom the territory adjacent to the Pacific,so does our most attractive field lie to thesouth of us. We are nearer to them geo-graphically and we understand them betterbecause of the closer relations we have hadwith them. Besides, our economies supple-ment each other advantageously since weneed many of the raw materials and foodstuffs which they export, and we can and domanufacture many of the articles whichthey are ver. anxious to import.

Commodities of the Valley"When it comes to a discussion of the

commodities which the Mississippi Valleycan export there is almost no limit, andit would be 'carrying coals to Newcastle'to enumerate them to this audience. Someof your agricultural products, nearly all thedurable goods that come from your steelmills and heavy industries, and itnnmerableitems of consumer goods manufacturedthroughout this section, can find a ready

Architect's drawing of InternationalHouse, New Orleans

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market in foreign countries if the righteffort is made, lIn fact this section can pro-duce almost everything the world needs.

"There are many mnanufacturers through-out the Mississippi Valley section who innormal times exported a part of their prod-uct, and who are thoroughly familiar withevery phase of the export and import trade.There are many others who also have prod-uets suitable for export who have not inthe past taken the trouble of learning theintricate details connected with direct salesabroad. But because of the enormous in-crease in our capacity to produce we mustencourage all such manufacturers to takean active interest in the cultivation of th,foreign markets as an outlet for their sur-plus outputs. Even the experienced exporterwill find that his knowledge of pcewarconditions is no longer sufficient, and thatin order to re-engage in private exporttrade he must reorganize his staff, rede-velop his markets, and study anew theup-to-he-minute information whlch affectshis particular product. The manufacturerwho has not up to now attended to the mul-titudinous details connected with exportshipments must either look around for Ix-perienced personnel to attend to all suchmatters direct or, if his volume of exportbusiness is not sufficient to justify a fullyorganized export departnent, he earl takehis problem to one of the export and in-port houses which are specialists in thatfle and are able to analyze for the manu-

facturer his possible narkets, his compe-tition, the style and packing required tomake his product acceptable to foreignbuyers, and even to check his credits andto banance the transaction. I lontion thesedetails only because all too often in thepast the manrufacturer who might havesold some of his produhctS abroad decidedagainst the idea ierely because he knewnothing of the details of foreign transac-thans or credits and did not want to bebothered with them."

Six PrinciplesThe directors of International House have

set down six principals hi vored in its estab-lishment:

"I. Tiere is a need for a strong organiza-tion to pimed' and cultivate trade andcematerce between the valley section andthe other nations, paIltiualloy the republicsof Central andl South America, and to serveas the coordinating body for the many agen-Idea of commerce, transportatlO andI travelfunctioning throughout that area.

"II. There is a need for the establishmentof a well-planed cultural program whichmust include study of the language. us-toms, traditions, and history of other na-tins, and wh m ust work in conjunctionwith the State DIepartment, the Pan Ameri-can UMion, the Coordibiator of Inter-Ameri-can Affairs, the schools and universities ofthe Valley seeotin and all related culturalolganizations

"ITT. There is a need for the establish-ment of an organization which will workwith the consulates adl official represent-atives of all nations with a view to ob-taining their cooperation and sympatheticinterest at all times in projects of mutualinterest and benefit, and which will providethe facilities for officially receiving and en-tertaining ambassadors, prominent businessmen and distinguished visitors from friend-ly nations.

"IV. There is for an organizationwhich ';d assist in estaltlihinlg in NewOrleans Initerlotifeall leT~'handise Mart(which is part of the ..o.-ram of the Pan-American Fiesta lICxposith±tn that will beheld at a later date); to establish inter-national hro.dea.sys an.. spurting events;an interesting sn.i ilfo.t nattiv, internationalpublication; ai, pic tire lihraries andall types of nil ulod, scientific, tirade andcommercial funcltions.

"V. There is a neled for the establishmentof an organizatih :it tie st'ategic entranceto the great vally .v •eti on, tile Port of NewOrleans, which will work in close harm.onywith the stabIlished positwar fo'eign policythereby creating new trade an d new nar-kets and prtoi.i..tinig inlt.rnatirrl friendshipessential to a progranm of lasting peace.

"VI. There is a need for the acquisitionof a suitable anriodng which will house theInlternatiali House anid will provide anattractive place to bring visitors as wellas the needed wor'khig space and facilitiesfor the organization. To providE continuityand conti nlnous activity a club should beestablished in conjuintion with the otherfunctions of the lnternational l.ouse. Theclub will Ie made Up of executives of N¢WOrleans and the valley and represenLativesof steamshi, barge, air, Ioor arid railtranspoltation, as well as all others interested in the )road program of interna-tanal trade. vulIur1l and seientific advane.-meat. In this club the business men of thevalley section atd the business inel andrepresentatives frem the ither nations ofthe world, particularly the American re-public,, ma'y lac e(n fee] at home anidIdeasant and ,ithbb, ~urroundirgs.",

Significance of International Houseby Nelson A. Rockefeller

Assiatent Secrctary of State

It is a great privilege to greet that oiginmlhandful of men who tIneieived thrllationalHouse, the leaders of the Misissippi Valleywho translated thairt idea into reality, andall the citizens of New Orleans who will makeit live.

It is sigmificant that this symbol of inter-national understanding and cooperation isbeing constructed in New Orleans. The his-tric baekgrounii of the city, its long tradeassociations with the ither nations of theworld, its recent industrial growth, and par-ticularly its true community of interest withthe other American republics make it alogical center of inter-American activity.

In InternationMl House we see the GoodNeighbor Policy in action. Words alone can-not make real the Good Neighbor Policy.Governtments alone cannot do it. But, gov-ernments can cleate the framework, the ma-chinery within which individual men andwomen can work and strive for ever betterunderstanding arId ntre effective integrationof the economic lives of our respective court-tries.

A prorram of international cooperationis only as strong as the people wht, will itand who carry it out That means knowledge,tolerance and understanding. It means rec-ognizing the neighbor's prboblems, it meansdefining our common goals ind aspirations,and it mentas much hard, individual work sideby side.

As a port of entry, New Orleans enjoysunique advantages. There you may meet ourneighbors, you mnay help them, you nmy behelped by them and together you will be aninspiration to similar centers all over theCountry.

These inter-American centers, of whichthere are now se!vent.en.. will look to NewOrleans as a strategically located clearinghouse of educational, economic and soial ac-tivities to work hand in hand with the, inserving the inter-Ameriean interests of theircommunities and of the nation as a whole,

lnter-American cooperation has beentested in war.

Through it a stroni: bulwark of offenseagainst agglession has beena buit-a bul-wark against the threat to the beliefs andthe ways of freedo.hn that we of the Americashold in common. In the days If victo.ry, and,more ilmportant, in the (lays of peace tocome, this program will be faced with aneven greater test.

As a nation we in the United States have agrave respon.ibility ahead,. We ,ust be pre-pared to think and live internationally, Sol-once has brought us too close to one, anotherto permit us to retreat again into blind snug-roes. Through the miracles of mdern coat-munictsions, knowledge and uderstandingof world affairs will become conlnonplae,and consequently, national decisions willmole truly relect popular will.

Thus in the world ahead of us, mutualUnderstanding amng the peoples of theworld, will be of paraimount imp.rtance.

Tried and tested proven din-able in wag-the inter-American system is all approachto international living that blends practical-ity with realism.

We of the Americas have evolved a strue-tur, based on the unlorstanding and sup-port of the people, which has proved flexibleand effective in time uf grave crisis.

The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators

BRETTON WOODS

& SAN FRANCISCOEHIND the detailed weoding of the Bret-

ton Woods agreements, approved teona-tively by 44 nations last July, lies the

ultimate objective of achieving and main-taining a high level of trade, production,and employment throughout the world

One agreement calls for an InternationalMonetary Fund, with a capital of $8,800,000,-000 to stabiize postwar currencies. The sec-ond agreement provides for an InternationalBank for R econ.strta. in and Development,with a capital of $10h000,000,000, which canlend money directly to nations and guaran-tee loans made through tih usual invest-ment channels.

These agreements aim to stimulate tradeand credit extension between countries. Ifinternational trade and investment are in-creased and held at a high level, efforts ofindividual .aties--including the UliLeIStates-to mnaintain full postwar produc-tion and employment are more likely to besuccessful.

After World War I

In the years between 1918 and the SecondWorld War, International trade often wasdisrupted and diminished in vlme becauseof difficulties in paying for goods boughtand sold. In the United States, the dollar isstandard currency, in Great Britain thepound, and in France the franc. But thereis no single, standard currency accepted bythe various nations throughout the world.Before payments between nations can bemade, some relationship, called a rate of

Inernational Money and CreditCan Aid Full Employment

exchange, must be established between thenational currencies of the buyer and theseller.

Rates of exchange vary from time totime, just as tlie vihs of national culrer-eies vary. If rates of exchange fluctuate tonmuch or too sharply, world tlade is dis-rupted. The main purpose of the Inaterna-tiohal Mi, Leir Fund is to stabilire therates of exchange at which the currency ofcne nation is converted into that of anotherto pay for goods. Maladjushuents would beconccted "without resorting to eastiresdestructive of national or international pros-perity." Scarcity of currencies, diseribmina-tory practices, f roeign exhane restrictionsthat impede the growth of world trade, com-petitive depreciation of national currencies,which upset exchange rates--all these wouldbe avoided.

Hand-in-Hand OperationsThe operations of the International Bank

would go hand in hand with the activitiesof the ItepralteaM Monetary Fund in pro-naoting economic activity throughout theworld. After the war many nations will needto borrow money from abroad. Coun.trieswith economies that are under-developed,characteristically lack capital needed to ex-ploit mines and to build railroads and . ac-tories. The war effort in the Pacific has beenslowed down because China, an agricultural

country, has lacked the capital needed tobuild factories to produce tanks, planes, andguns. With the close of the Pacific war,Chin. will need large amounts of foreignfunds to build factories and ships needed toestablish an industrialized economy, as wellas to repair war damage. .Brazil and othercountries not ravaged by war will need for-eign capital to help them industrialivs theire onorl.miC

The war-torn countries of Europe will bein the same boat, and unless the moneyneeded is loaned by other nations, includingour own, or by means of the proposed In-ternational bank, the world will not enjoyas much intermtionl trade as it might. If]Bussia, for insance, e a . 't obtaln the moneyshe needs to help rebuild her country, the]ussian lmarket for American exports ofsteel rails, autouhilh .. , tractors, locomo-tives, etc., will he restricted. Our productionof items such as these will have to be lessthan it might be, and chances for jobs forAmerican workers will be diminished ac-cordingly.

If ratified by the legislatures of the 44nations, the Brptten Woods agreements canonly deal with the international aspects ofour postwar economies. If the world is toenjoy full production and full employment,each Latin . u.tll, decide upon and carryout measures to promote these objectiveswithin its own borders. International agree-ments can't do the job alone. To the extentthat the depression beginning in 1929 wascaused by the failure of iprchasing power-that is, failure to employ enough peopleat high enough wsges so that they couldbuy the goods our factories and farms pro-duced - international agreements alonecould not have avoided economic collapseand the unemployment that it brought.

Will Help EmploymentBut in very substantial ways the Bretton

Woods agreements can help to provide jobsand to encourage the best use of a worker's

skill on the job, both in the United Statesand other countries, For example, since theUnited States has to rely upon imports oftungsten, our production of electric lightbulbs depends to a large extent upon ourbeing able to buy tungsten from abroad. If,because of exchange difficulties, we hadtrouble paying for the tungsten we need,our imports might be curtailed, and ourproduction of electric light bulbs diminished.Unless we could substitute the manufactureof fluorescent lights, some Electrical Work-ers would be thrown out of jobs or wouldhave to learn new skills in order to takeother jobs. Such a situation the Interna-tional Monetary Fund could help to avoid.

Sometimes a nation which experiences dif-fics]itis in making payments to other coun-tries for imported goods tries to improveits position by deflating its prices and forc-ing down wages in its own country. Al-though this method may work, it createslow wages and unemployment within thecountry ad eventually puts a damper on in-ternational trade by curtailing the amountof goods other nations can sell to that coun-try. Workers who are unemployed or arepaid wage% that are too low can't affordto buy the goods produced by other nations.

Another method that a nation can use,if it has difficulty paying for imported goods,is to restrict imports by trade barriers andhigh tariffs and to promote exports by

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California Street hill, San Francisco

tew DAY 4YndsaiRdal.a DAWNS in U.S.A.

ANEW code of relationships betweettnora-agement and labor has been drafted andpublished by the U. S. Chamber of Com-

mierce, the American Federation of Laborand the Congress of indust, al Organiza-tiens. This rode is in the bet tadliton ofAmerican democracy and pushes forwardfrom similar attempts in the past to putrelationships between employers and work-mre on a more rational basis.

On March 28, 1945, more than 100 news-papermen, with moving piuc..re ca.nejs andstill .am.eras, walked across LafayetteSquare in Washirgton, D. C., to the Cham -ber of Commerce building. Thiis n.n.u mentalstructure faces the White }l ouse acrossLafayette Square. In one of tlhe large as-sembly rooms if the chamber there weregathered Mr. Erie Johnson. pros..leat of theU. S Chamber of CoaTrIeUI, PresidentGreen of the A. F. of L. and President

Labor and management issue codethat looks away from damning past

of fascist ideology

Murray of the CTO. The newspapermen wereaware that an imlp.ortant announcement wasto be made. Mr. Johnrsor who is titular headof the chamber told th. ne;,,.rpernien thattogether he and fi, (been and Mr. Murraybad outlined a sevea imint program de-signed to bring the war to a successful end-ing and to achieve a 'prsperous and aus-tained peace."

Program of AdyancementThe seven-point program seek to advance

productive eficiency, t. sinulate technology in order to constanly improve theAmerican standard of living. The aeven-point program seeks to lprotect the rights

of private property and free chice of ac-tioa, recognize the sphere of government in-fluence. but resists government interference;univrsally recognizes the right of workersto collective bargaining; opposes invoiun-rary u.n. mloynent and seeks to provideagainst the hazalds of old age and physicalimpairment. It seeks to stimolate foreigntrade and supports a national system of se-curity, A nalionnl-usinesslahor committeehas been appointed to forward the aims ofthis code aid to work out better relationsbetween management and labor.

In December, 1930, the Taylor Society(which is now the Society for the Advance-ment of Management) considered an indus-trial emIploynent code. The Taylor Societyat that time d/ominated the engineering fieldin the sphere of ideas and took leadershipthroughout the United States. in the indus-trial employment code there was a sectionthat dealt frankly with the right of labor toorganize., as follows:

Right of Labor

"Theoretically it seems logical that anyemployer should have the right to negotiateand deal with any employee individually. Butwhen it is consihred how disproportionateis the power of a modern large-scale em-player to the power of any individual work-er, it becomes apparent that labor is no morethan reasonable when it insists that all theworkers in a particular plnmt or project, orall the workers in a ipatieular trade or craft,shall be considered as a unit for purposesof negotiating and bargaining with employ-em. Labor's right of collective bargainingis now, in this country, so widely recognizedas to be generally beyond debate in theoryand beyond contest in practice. That rightmay be exercised through various forms oforganization. 'Comaany unions,' however,can perform the function of collectively rep.resenting the employees only if control restsfully and 'really with the workers. Withwhatever form of workers' organization anemployer must deal, fairness, good faithand complete frankness about all governingfacts are the surest means to understandingand agreement.

"Any condition of the work contract bind-ing the workman not to join an independent

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CODEWe in management and labor firmly believe that the end of this var will bring

the nnfolding of a new era based ul]on a vastly expanding economy ani unlimitedopportmunties for every American.

This peacetime gas can only .. a ttined ti.ro.lgh the united effort of all o.rpeople. Today we are united in national defense. Tomorrow we must be uitedequally in the national interest.

l~l~anagement-labor unity, so effective in lifting var production to unpree-dented heights, must be ro.t i ned in the postwar period. To this end, we dedicateour joint efforts for a practical partnership within the framework of this code ofprinciples:

1. Increased prospetity for all involves the highest dlegre of productionanti employment at wages assurrig a steadily advan . ig standard of living. I,-proved productive efficiency and teei uological ad;'....cen...t ust, therefore beconstantly encoura.fed.

2. The rights of private property and free choice of aetren. under a systemof private competitive captalam, must continue to be the foundatioli of ournation's peaceful and prosperous expanding economy. F ree coaq etitit.r, an.d freemen are the strength of our free sre ,,V.

3. The inherent right ad rCsponsibility of management to dieret Ihe opera-tions of al enterprise shall be recognized and pi.. serv'.. So illtt erier is'e maydevelop anid xpamud and tarn a rems.oable profit iuanag.lnci..t 1nost ftree as wellfronm un.necessar.y gove.nm.cn.al interference or burdensome resrictiuns.

4. The fundamental rights of labor to organize and to ,ngage i collectivebargaining with managem ent shall he recognized and ].reserved, ree frol' egisla-tive enactments which would interfere ith or discourage these objectives.Through the acceptance of collctive bargaining agreements, differences betweenmanagement and labor canU be d(isposed of between the pultietl th,,gh peacefutmeans, thereby discouraging avwdable strife through strikes and lockouts.

5. The independependnce an dignity of the individual and the enjoyment of hisdemocratic rights are inherent in Our free Amer'ica. society. Our purpose is tocooperate in building an coonurnie system for the nation which will protect the in-dividual against the hazards of unemployment, old age and physical in.pairmentsbeyond his control.

6. An expanding economy at home will be stimulated by a vastly increasedforeign trade. Arrangements must therefore be perfected to afford the devastatedor undeveloped nations reas(,nble assistan.ce to encourage the rebuilding and de-velopment of sound economic systems. International trade cannot expand throughsubsidized competition among the nations for diminishing markets, but can beachieved only through expanding world markets and the elimination of airy arbi-trary and unreasonable practices.

7. An enduring peace . ust be secured. This calls for the establishment of aninternational security organization, with full participation by all the United Na-tions, capable of preventing ag.gression and assuring lasting peace.

We in management and labor agree that our primary duty is to win completevictory over nazism and Japanese . ilitariss . We also agree that we have a com-mon joint duty, in cooperation with other elements of our national life and vithGovernment. to prepare and work for a prosperous and sustained peace.

In this spirit we agree to crnate a national c.smittee, composed of repre-sentatives of business and labor organizations. This committee will s!ek to promotean understanding and sympathetic ae"ptance of this code of principles and willpropose such national policies as will advance the best interests of our nation.

The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators

HE show must go on." This is a guid-ing shibboleth of the theater.I "Power must not be interrupted."

This is the ruling principle for electric utili-ties.

In order to mamhtah, an uninterruptedflow of power, private utilities must havefine workmanship. They insist upon thehighest standards of acco.p.i hment. It isa matte, of pride for the 1. 1. E. W. thatnearly all private tv Wtlitijties have col-lective hargain rg agre. nemnIts with theI. B. E. W.

liere is only a partial list hut it is in-posing. The numbers in parentheses indicatethe number of locals having agreementswith the company.

Associated Gas and Electric SystemBradford 1ler tli, Co .pany

*Eastern Shoun Public Servie Company(Maryland)

'Easter,, Shore Public Service Company(Virgimi)

Edison Light and Power CompanyErie Lighting CompanyFIorlda Power CorporationGeorgia Power and Light CompanyGlen Rock Electric Light and Power

CompanyJersey Central Power and Light Coso

pany (6)Kentucky-Tennessee Light and Power

CompanyKeystone Public Sirvi, CompanyMetropolitan Edison (!ranp'ary (3)New Jersey Power and Light Com-

pany (2)New York Stare Electric and Gms Cor-

poration M9)Northern Ponsylvaui a Power Com-

pany (3)Patchege El'e tic Light CompanyPennsylvanima Edirou8 CompanyPennsylvania Eleclri, Company (3)Tide Water Power CompanyVirginia Public Service Company (6)

*The Eastern Shore Public Service Com-pany (Maryland) and the Eastern ShorPublic Service ,timany (Virginia) are tobe transferrIed to the United Gas Improve-meat ColilRny uility system . Under a planapproved by the Securities and ExchangeCommission. on .C.tlher 13, 1943, a senisof transactions will be iade whereby thesetwo companies will become subsidiaries ofthe Delaware Power and Light Companyof the U. G. 1. network.

Electric Bond and Share System(a) Through American Power and Light

CompanyFlorida Power and Light Company (9)Kansas Gas and Electric Company (2)Minnesota Power and Light Company

~eal WithIs B E. W.Those dealing with "independents"or CIO are compara6 vely few.Utilities have higher standard of

wofkmanship. Ust growsMontana Power Company (11)Northwestern Electric CompanyPacific Power and Light CompanySuperior Water, Light and Power (Com-

panyTexas Power and Light Company (2)Washington Water Power Coemny

(b) Through Electric Power and LightC orpetr Lion

Arkansas Power and Light Company (4)Wlississippi Power and Light Com.-

pany (2)Utah Power and Light CompanyWestern Colorado Power Company

(c) Through National Power and LightCompany

Birmingham Electric Companyf.ouston Lighting and Power CompanyMemphis Generating Company

(d) Through American Gas and ElectricCompany

Atlantic City Electric CompanyOhio Power Company

Middle West Corporation System(Formerly controlled by Insult interests.)

Central Illinois Public Service CompanyDakota Public Service CompanyEast Missouri Power Company

*Kansas Electric Power CompanyKansas Power CompanyMissouri Gas and Electric Services Com-

panyNorthwest Public Service Company (S)Public Service Company of Oklahoma (3)Southwestern Gas and Electric Co,-

Pany (3)Wisconsin Power and Light Company

'To be sold to the Kansa. Power andLight Company of the North AmericanSystem.

North American SystemDes Moines Electric Light CompanyIllinois Power Company (3)

(Formerly Illinois-Iowa Power Com-pany)

Iowa Power and Light CompanyKewanee Public Service Company (2)Missouri Power and Light CompanyPacific Gas and Electric CompanyUnion Electric Company of Illinois (2)Wisconsin Gas and Electric Company

Commonwealth and Southern System{Comnnonwealth and Southern Corpora-

tion formerly was controlled by AmericanSuperpower Corporation.)

Alabama Power Cuampuay (7)Central Illinois Light CompanyConsumers Power CompanyGeorgia Power Company (f6)Gulf Power Company (2)Mississippi Power Company (4)

South Carolina Power CompanySouthern ILdiana Gas and Electric Com-

pany

Standard Power and Light System(Formerly eontrolled by the R. M. Byllesby

intmrests.)California-Oregon Power CompanyEau Claire Dells Improvement Com-

pany (3)Interstate Light and Power CompanyMadison (Indiana) Light and Power

Company!Midland Public Service Company (3)Minneapolis General Electric CompanyMountain States Power CompanyNorthern States Power Company of Min-

neacta (3)Nor.ther States Power Company of Wis-

consin (3)Oklahoma Gas and Eloecr'i CompanySt. Anthony Falls Water Power Com-

panySan Diego Gas and Electric CompanySouthern Colorado Power Company

United Corporation System(J. P. Morgan utility interests.)

(a) Through United Gas ImprovementCorpsatrion

ArHiona Power Corporation*Colorado Utilities Corporation

Connecticut Light and Power CompantyPhilhdelphia Electric Company

(b) Through Niagara Hudson Power Cor-poration

Buffalo Niagara Electric CorporationCentral New York Power C orporation (2)Lockport and Newfane Power and Water

Supply CompanyNew York Power and Light CorporationNiagara. Lockport and Ontario Power

Company(c) Through Public Service Corporation of

New JerseyP.blic S ervice Elctric and Gas Com-

pany (10)*Associated with U. G, 1. through inter-

looking directors with the CommonwealthUtilities Corporation. a subsidiary of U. G, 1.

'4 '-can.

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Cites Service System

Albuquerque Gas and Electric Companypemding, New Mexico, Iee and Electric

Company*Durham Public Service Company

New Mexico Power Company*Public Service Company of ColoradoPueblo Gas and Fuel Company (gas)St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat and

Power CompanySheridan County Electric CompanySpringfield (Missouri) Gas and Electric

Comnp anyToledo Edison CompanyTrinidad Electric Transmission, Railway

and Gas CompanyTucson Gas, Electric Light and Power

Company*Proceedings are now pending before the

Securities and Exchange Comnnissio for ap-proval of plans for the disposal of the Dur-ham Public Service Conpany axed the PublicService Company of Colorado by their pa-rent holding company, the Ciiles ServicePower and Light Company ,a subeidia, ofthe Cities Service Company.

United Light and Power System

*Detroit Edison CompanyEastern Kansas Utilities,. IncorporatedInterstate Power Company (Dubuque)Iowa-Ilalois Gas and Electric (ompanyKansas City (Missouri) Power and Light

CompanyMaryville Electric Light and Power Corn,

pany (2)Panhandle Power and Light Company

*The Detroit Edison Company was far-merly contrlled by the North AniricaaCompany; it is now controlled by TheUnited Light and Pow.er Company throughthe American Light and Traction Company.

International Hydro-Electric System

(Formerly contrlled by International Paperand Power Conmpany.)

(a) Through New England Power Associa-tion

Amesbury Electric Light Company (2)Athol Gas and Electric CompanyBellows Falls Ilydro-Electric Corpers-

tiaaConnectictt ]rive Tower Company

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Gardner Electric Light ConmpanyGreen Moiunlain Power (>rporattio:Haverhill Electric Coinmpany I)Lawrence Gas and Electric (.mpany PC)Lowell Electric Light Colporalion (2}Malden and Meibose Gas and Light (orm-

pany (gas)MalIden Electric Company (f)Middlesex Cointy Electric CompanyNew England Po.ecr (!n/paryNew England Power Service Company

(3)Northampton Electric Lighting' Com-

panyNorthampton Gas Light Company (gas)North.ern. 1rkshiie gas Company (gas

and electrie)Southern Berkshire Pow('r and Electico

CompanyW\achnsett Electric ComnpanyWorcester Suburban Electric (oupany

(b) Otherwise ControlledGatilaau Power CompanyGatineau Electric Light C(..pnvy, Liran-

tedGatiaui Transmission ConpanyOlcuti Falls Company

Recorded above is a partial list of theutility companies with which the Interna-tional Brotherhood of Electrical Workershas agreenents. One of the greatest tri-,nphs of I. B. E. W. in the utility field camelast November when the CcnuunonwealthEdison Company signed an agreement withour unaio, covering all production and alil-t.en.ance w oters.

Commonwealth Edison Company is wellknown to readers o£ the JOUtNAL. It is one ofthe largest electric light and power cormpanics in the world, serving over §50,000customers in Chiuam and having a ratedcapaity for distribution of approxliatelyI ,270.000 kilowatts.

The I. B. F. IV. campaign of organizationat (,o..n...wea]th Edison began in the mid-die of 1943. At that time one daepartm.ent ofthe conIpany wa. cove.red by aPO agreenentvitth an .l..Meeedctt union sad there weretwo pit itlon before the National Labor Re-lathis Board, filed by two different inde-pendent kinions, one claiming to representthe employees of one department, and the

other claiming to represent all of the em-ployees of the company- From the time theInternational Brotherhoed of ElectricalWorkers got on the job until the agreementwas signed in Novmaber, 1944, the followingthings happened: an employees' representa-tion plan that had been operating continu-ously for more than 22 ', irs was disestab-lished; an independent Uaiol operating con-tinuously in one departmncnt (in the Pekin,Illinois, area) for more than II,, years wasdefeated by the I. B. E. W, in an N. L. R. B.election the setond independent union foldedup; and the fourth independent, claiming torepresent all 0f the employees, had its pe-tition dismissed and the board ordered elec-tions in Chicago irk accordance with theI. B. E. W. petition that was filed only threemonths after the 1. B. E. W. hefgan its

campaign.in the Chicago area the N. L. R. B. found,

in accordance with the petitien Of the

I. B. E. W., two bargaining units, one toconsist of inside plant" employees of thegenerating stafions and substations, and theother to be the "ootside plant" employees of14 different dep artments.

Separate elections were held by theN. L. R. B. for the "inside" and the "outside"units and the Intermntional Brotherhood ofElectrical Workers on both of these in aclean ,weep.

0, A ugust 15, the International Brother-hood of Electrical Workers brought the ne-getatietig committees of our four utility localunions, B-1l59, B-1366, B-167 and B-1399,together to ,eet with representatives of thecompany. Agreement was reached on No-vemnber 28 as a result of the joint negoti-

ations.A wide variety of factors affecting ma-

ployees in their relationship with the com-party are inlauded in the agreement- Theseinciude provisions regarding ability andseniority, hours, overtine rates and regula-tions, vacationls and schedule mllinimUm ofjob classifications.

November 28, 1944, was indeed a sinifi-cant date to the citizens of Chicago, to theCommnonwealth Edison Company and its em-ployees, for the day of the signing of theagreement marked a new era of industrial

relations in the utility industry.

The Jornal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators

Afaheet Set-up,~

The employees of the Holmes ElectricProtective Company held a run-off electionbetweeni the International IBrotherhood ofElectrical Workers' Local Union No. 3,A. F. of L., and the Arm[riatn Commumica-tions Association, C. I. 0., March 22, 1945,at the Imperial Hoete, 32nd Street andBroad'l,-, New York City. The L B. E. W.Local No. 3 ws the choice of the employeesover the Ame, ian Communications Associ-ation, C. 1. 0., by a vote of approxm nately3 to 2.

The first election was held January 10,1945, under the auspices of the State Medi-atilln Board. In this election, the ElectricAlam Workers' Union (rdependent) andthe United Telephone Organization alsoparticipated.

600 EmployedThe Holmes Electric Protective Companv

employs over 600 men and women. Theunionization of these workers under thebanner of the International Brotherhood ofElectrical Worker. establishes 100 per centorganization of all the companies engagedin the Electric Protcetion Industry in theCity of New York, il;fiding fire alarmand burglar ajar-l, both local and centraloffice systems. This siiuati~u proves thatin the organization of ,orkers persistencyis a very important factor,. and refusal tobecome discouraged is eventually rewarded.In 1938, Local 3 attempted unionization ofthese workers; again in 1040 an organizingdrive was conducted, and, while wec receiveda considera.le responlse from the workers,we did not secure the necessary support ofthe majority of the men and women emn-ployed.

This clear-cut victor was accomplishedunder the direction of Assistant BusinessManagers Naftel Bedsole and Edward P.MeGonfigl. the untiring efforts of volunteerorganizers, the full support and cooperationof the officers and members of the Class"H" Division (Electric Protection Indus-try) and the active participation and assist-ance of International Vice President Wil-liam D. Walker and the International Office.

At union headquarters, April 3, 1945, acommittee of Local Union No. 3 and a com-mittee of the Holmes Electric ProtectiveCompany · ninleyees (not designated) metto work out the details of their membershipin Local No. 3 and the procedure to be fol-lowed in negotiations with the company.The members appearing in the picture are:

(Standing, left to right)--Jeremiah P.Sullivan, presindent, L. U. 3, John J. Kapp,recording secretary, L. U, 3, Frank B. Mac-Neil, John F. O'Donnell, attorney, HenryF. Sheirlda, A. Hosning. Glynn Murphy,L. U. 3, Edward P. McGonigle, L. U. 3.

(Seated, left to right)-Hany Van Ars-dale, Jr., Business Manager, L. U. 3, Rich-

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Ha7y Van Arsdale, Jr. (second from left,. leads a meeting of Holmes Elech'icCompany employees and Local Unkon No. 3.

Yat 4 C4 is VtichitWichita, Kansas, according to the lVichito

Eagle, has enterprising contractor and Elec-tricel Worker groups who are putting intopractice the general principles of planningas advocated by the labor-managementplanning committee of the two organizations. The statement issued follows:

The eectrical industry, for the past fewyears, has been--nd in fact, still is-busilyengaged in work which will hasten the dayof victory. During this period, little or notime has been given to thought of our great-ly expanding field, with the result that wefind ourselves in a position which calls forthe utmost cooperation of all those engagedin the electrical industry if we are to keepapace with the many new inventions whichscience and research have given us.

New AgreementAs a step toward building that coopera-

tion, the Wichita section. Kansas Chapter,N. E. C. A. and Local Union 271,1. B. E. W.,have recently entered into a collective lar-gaining agreement, signed jointly by of-ficials of the two organizations. We feelthis represents distinct progress in labor-management relations in the electrical in-dustry in Wichita.

Heretofore agreements were negotiatedbetween individual employers and the union,.which, in many instances, resulted in mis-understandings in the industry. Both thecontractor's association and the union havecome to the realization that harmoniousrelations are now, more than ever before,necessary to improve the relationship be-tween the employer, the worker and thepublic, and that concidence in each othercan better be furthered through the methodwe have adopted.

Progressive MoveWe believe this progressive move will

go a long way toward breaking down the

barriers which have been raised in the pastthrough prejudice and habit, and that itis the first step in establishing the prin-ciple of the interdependence of both groups,through joint action on problems arisingin the industry.

An example of joint acceptance of ajoint responsibility is seen in the field oftraining future journeymen for the elec-trite construction trade in Wichita. TheN. E. C. A. and the I. B. E. W. have formeda joint apprenticeship committee, composedof members of the union and the contract-ors' asscmiation. This committee ha, de-veloped written standards of apprenticeship,which set out the manner in which appren-tices entering the trade are to be trained.Among other things, the standards set forththe schedule of work processes, provide fora minimum number of hours of supplement-ary instruction, set forth the term of ap-prenticeship, hours of work, progressivelyincreasing schedule of wages, indenture ofapprentices, record of apprentices' progressand qualifications for apprenticeship. Thisprogram is administered solely by the com-mittee, and was developed under policiesrecommended by the national joint appren-ticeship committee for the electrical indus-try and the Federal Committee On Appren-ticeship. Members of the joint apprentice-ship committee are: Al Butters. ButtersElectric Company, chairnmn; R. M_ Sutton,Southwestern Electric Company, and W. A.Shrum, Shrum Electric Company, for theemployers; Rolla Hall, 11. E. Wentworthand Ray Mitchell, for the employees.

As a further evidence of the interestof Electrical Workers in matters affectingthe future of the industry, we can pointto the increased activity in electronics. TheI. B. E. W. has established an electronics'school at Marquette University in Milwau-kee. Eighty members from 80 local leionsembarked on this course in industrial appli-cation of electronics in December, and they

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£til Vuad ELECTRONICS2nstAme4d 7AaeAI~d

By F. D. SCHUNCK, L. U. 528

OT long after tbe start of th, secondN clas in the 1. B. E. WV. elc .u .......sNat Mamruett Univerity, I begait toreally appreciate the itm .ortanc of the os-cillograph in the sericing of industrial *lee-tronic equipment. For example, in the serv.icing of elect u ,ie control in resistaicewelding, the use of the cathode-ray estile-graph is absonItIy essential.

Along with the .xpcriments itn Ohe Mar-quette University electronics laborsatry onthe cathodesray tube, I decided] Io bui hi onefor my own use in omdir to becomie I hnoughly familiar with this versatile Ihlt'uiuent.This oscillograph was built around tbe 906cathodle-ray tube, which is the high vacuui..type, with fnur electrostalic fict6'&nplates mounted in a glass envelope haviga full three-inch screen.

The CircuitThe amplified sweep circuit eoni ned in

the unit consists of an 884 gaseous dis-charge tube used as a sawtooth wave gen-erator so biased that it uses only the lineariorlton of the condenser char.ing curve.The small signal thus obtained is aiplifiedtoa usable amplitud e by means of the 3;Chorizontal amplifier. The frtqlteey r;4ugeof the sweep circuit is from 15 to 30,000cycles. Both fine and coarse control ofthe sweep frequency is provided.

The instrument contains separately con-troiled horizontal and vertical amplifiers.These a mplif'rs have aI linear range be-tween 30 and 3)0/00 cycles. The lhoir.ntalamplifier has a Rai, of 40 and al input i,-sistance of 80,000 o hms. The verl icl aml I-fier has a gain of 70 and an input resistance

906 Cathode ray oscillographexplained by journeyman who

built model

of I megohes. The taxinint allowable...... a. c. input to either i .... lffir is 300

volt.In order to prevent ntermction of the con-

trols and to produce a brilliant tbate, twopower supply chiliti are usee. The unit iscompletely a. c., iiie ltled fronm the 60-,yele,110-120 volt liras. lIe total power en-sumptiori is 50 warts.

The vertical i.put Is to the binding pnslson the left side of I II, the .low .. postof the pair beirg t ... n.. . 'I he horizontalinput is on Ihe ritht side. ... ti las ill theprevious pair, the bottom post is theground.

On the back of the nqehne is a platewith five screw-type binditng posts. Thesepermit the disconmecting of either or bothcircuits, allowing direct e.nne.tio,, to thedeflection plates. This f1lrtire will be fouda .o.lV..tqi to a btlaieti s r etleIs work-ing with d. . or high hieqiucfl.y applica-tions.

The ControlsAll controls of the type 906 oscillogeaph

are on the front hanO[ and are plaimlymarked, Because all the otraolts are Il1the front panel, it was deemed advisable tod istinguish, in sonicmenlnr, the controlsfrequently adjusted front those more per-manently set. Hence the 4ynchronizing,rough and fine frequen..ly and the horizontaland Vertical amplifier cint'ls have red barlnobs. In the upper ..... .l..e is the inten-

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THE see (>AVr'O rAy OsCII£OrfAPoi

sity cont.ro; it contrds tile intensity of thetrace aid also t arries with it the off andon poier switch. At the upper right is thefocus control Just below the intensity con-trol is the vertical positioning knob whichcontrols the tp and down movement of theslot of trace, while directly below the focuscontrol is th, horizontal positioning whichcontrols the left to rilfht movement of thepattern. The synlch!,i, zng control is in thecenter of the panel, 31 t below the cathode-ray tube. Directly belo, the position con-trols are the amplifier gain controls; thevertical or the left, and the horomntal onthe right. In the center of the panehl undersynchroizig, i, the ¥erider, or fine fre-queney control of the linear sweep, whiledirectly below it is the rotary switch whicheontol]s the fi ... ieley in rou.gh steps,. Theapproximat, lange of lhuse steps are asfollows: (1) off; (2) 15 lo 60 cycles; (3) 60to 220 cycles; (4) 220 ti 900; (5) 900 to3,000; (6 3000 to 10,000, and (7) 10,000to 30,000 cycles.

At the bottom of the panel, on the leftside, is th switch whieh permtits either in-

.erna. or e'ornlal sychroniiizati~ou. v tl e onthe right a switch places the io-izontalamplifier in operation with the sweep, orconnects it to t post for external use.

The controls a rrand so that thenliTUmum selting is .h aired when the knobs

arc turned roui~l'r-rlotk kwise, and maximumwhen turned clockwise.

A removable calibrald .eal. was madeof celluloid, irhle ad filled with Indiaink, so that quanitativ me..asints canbe made.

Constructional DetailsPhysical Specifications

Height 13 inches, with 9 iwmho. dfls15 inches.

Sub panel beight, 4 inches.Metal box to be constructed of No. 18 soft

irn; holes drilled and then crackle fnished.This same container can be used with

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166 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators

qa ~ ill i&9h1 /40cea"8S 1p"d WLB CASES

By ARCHIE W. ROBINSON, Director of Public Information, WLB

GEORGE MEANY

F YOUR union has a d lpale before theWar Labor Board. you ar, ni.st interestedin getting the eas settled as quickly as

possible. Delays not only are undesirable butale exasperating. Delays can cost youione/n. They can upset labor relatio... Wll,youlr eployer, They can cause yel to losei/rrucut ieI time. And mnst important. theyCal throw a, contrcts behild schedule.

From the VVar Labor s onrr's point ofoiew, delays can fe. n., r friction be-

tween labor and [meJ'W.. 1a. glittermming tipthe board's effiot to -1ffmt a speedy settle-ment and keep ihe nation's industrial ma-

chinery turning without ](oss of war produc-

'lcre are several ways in which a union'scooela iorn with WLB can speed up dispo-sition of its case:

1. Exhaust the possibilities of collectivebargaining before turntur 1o WLB. All x-isting contract p rocedures for settlinggrievances should be utilized.

2. Obtain full information on the na-tional wage policy while negotiating or be-fore presenting evidence in a case to WLB.

3. Once the ease goes to WLB, maintainthe status quo with the company pending a

4. Neither union nor employer should re-quest. delays or postponements

5. Cases should be submitted in writtenform when possible to obviate oral hearings.

6. If an oral boinr is considered neces-sary, the parties should age, to a single

hearing-officer healing the case, since thisprocedure is faster than a three-memberpanele.

1. The use of eollecatie bargablb/q s....l.de fu/Mi exhausted before rwoting to IILB.

Teo, ftn the War Labor Board has founda tendency among both mnions and emldoy-era to ilop every small difference into itslap for settlement, rather than to seekagreement through naegotiation. Such in-hibited collective bargaining may be a causeof delay since the board of necessity, refersback to the parties. issues which it feelshave not been adequately negotiated.

A tilson to encumbering needlessly thewartime machinery for settling labor dis-

Machinery can be oiled by frank-ness, teamplay and understanding

of procedurespules, Fadlure to negolate may be danger-ons to the pattties' freedom of action in theirpostvar collective bargaining, "Labor andlmanagenlent soay find they hav e surrenderedtheir sovereignty by asking the Governmentto settle every issue betwleen them," Chair-man Davis has declared in urging adequateprocedure.

If agreement cannot be reached throughcollectivp barjaimieg upOn the major issj. esthe WLiI is available to order the terms ofa settlement.

2. Obtai, Dtll ;lfotmmtlon op the ?rtflotwage jpoluy t r hiceoitjinsg or befoee pre-sentifg viedeec int a case to WLJ.

Examination of WLB policies under thenational wage stabilization program mayreveal that the case need not come beforeWILB at all. If the unio officials take ad-vantage of the va.ious board facilities forinformation and they are always availablto then, they may find out what the board'spolicy is toward the issues in the case, andwhat its decision is likely to be. In the lightof this knowledge, the uiTon and the ema-

ROBERT 3. WATT

pliyer may be able to !et together on anagreement, since both idis would know thehoard's established policy on the questionat issue. There might be no point in carry-ing a dispute to the board and waiting for

the board to process and rule upon it.The union may avoid or expedite a dispute

before WLB, therefore, by obtaining the"sound and tested" wage iate brackets forindustry and area where it has contracts;by learning board policy on "fringe" issues,such as vacations, differentials, Paid holi-(lays, "lean-up" time, and the like; and byconsulting officials of the Wage and H.ourDivision, the labor m embers of the nationalor regional boards, or by writing fl thePublic Information Division of the nationalor regional boards.

3. Onre a ease has .oie to the board, theieo sb olt.d maintain the statns q.o with the

When a case has been referred to theWLB, the terms and conditions of employ-ment which prevsiled under the previouscontract, or before the dispute began, shouldbe continued in the plant. It is customaryfor the hoard to order that the conditionsof employment be maintained, and, whereit is of importance,. to extend the old ce.leetive bargaining agreement until a dcci-sion is reached. Any further controversy be-tween the parties, or any action either sidemight take to upset the status quo. may ag-gravate the situation and delay a decisionby the board. The employees' rights to anywage inreases which might be granted areprotected through the board's policy on ret-roaictive payments. Neither the employernor the union is bound to a new contractmerely by extending the terms of the oldcontract, pending a WLB ruling.

4. Neither the union noro the employershould request dMass once a case has goneto the board.

WLl wants to process cases as rapidly aspossible, consistent with adequate protec-tion of the rights of both the employees andthe employer. In the past, the board hasfound, when it has been criticized for delayin deciding cases, that a large part of thetime has been consumed by delays or post-ponements requested by one or both of theparties. If there is an exceptional reasonfor wanting a delay, a written request giv-ing the reason should he presented to theboard. Otherwise, the board will permit nodelays nor postponements to either man-agnment or labor.

5. tI'he, possible, eases should be sub.Miited in writte,, briefs without insistence

opt an oral heafmla.A case often arises which can ho handled

mor expeditiously and effectively throughwritten statements, without the necessityof a formal oral hearing. If a union feelsthat its ease can be submitted on briefsalone, the union officials should make everyeffort to use this method, since it will speedand simplify matters for them as well as forthe employer and WLB. Unions are urged,

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Ocici1 AaaneuTo the Members of Local Union B-11,Los Angeles, California.

In December of 1941, the International Office wasrequested to amalgamate Locals 83, 418, 608, 691, 711and 1154, all chartered as inside and mixed local unions.The purpose of this amalgamation was to iron outjurisdictional boundary lines between the aforesaid lI-cal unions and to remain under International supervi-sion until such a time as they could work in harmony.

The International Office consented to this becauseof the facts presented at that time, and we were highlyin accord with the procedure. Over three years havenow passed since the amalgamation and the local unionis still under the supervision of the International Office.

In looking through our Constitution, among otherthings, it states: "Objects for which the I P. E. W.was founded," and I quote:

"To assist each other in sickness and distress,to secure employment, to reduce the hours of dailylabor, to secure adequate pay for our work. and,by legal and proper means, to elevate the moral,intellectual and social conditions of our members,their families and dependents, in the interest ofa higher standard of citizenship."

It is the desire of the International Office to advancethese various principles, and we shall do our utmostto see that they are put into practice. However, theseprinciples, and the purpose for which we amalgamatedthe local unions, cannot prevail if conditions are allowedto exist as I personally have seen in Local Union B-1Iof Los Angeles.

Information was presented to me by members andby my personal visit to the City of Los Angeles, whichis pertinent to the well-being of our Brotherhood. Oninvestigation, I have found that Local Union B-11 doesnot hold regular meetings for the general membership,as provided for in our Constitution under Article XVII,Section 4. Meetings of the Electrical Workers' BenefitAssociation, as per the same article of our Constitution,have also been neglected.

In reading the minutes of the county council meet-ing of Local Union B-11, dated December 1, 1944, wenote the following:

"At this time, Financial Secretary Frey reportedthat constitutional officers had checked expendi-tures from special fund approved by county coun-cil for one year. This fund is in the hands ofBrother Gaillac. Officers were satisfied that funds

were spent for benefit of local union. Frey thenmoved that special fund for Gaillac, $200.00 permonth, be approved for another year, at whichtime constitutional officers will again report. Mo-tion was seconded and carried."

Reading another paragraph on page 2 of the sameminutes, and I quote:

"Working Rules and Agreement-Gaillac re-porting: After agreement had been worked outwith contractors, it was sent to I, 0. for approval,and several sections vital to West Coast taken out.Matter has been taken up with ninth district office.Pattern agreement is to be used. Sections elimi-nated by I. 0. replaced. Our agreement is to be usedas pattern for all ninth district agreements. Readyfor final meeting with contractors in about threeweeks."

This sort of action is certainly contrary to the Con-stitution of the I. B. E. IV., as per Article XVII, Sec-tion 7, of the Constitution. All local unions have theright to make their own working rules and agreementsas per Article XVII, Section 7. It never has been thepolicy of the I. 0. to destroy or remove any part of anagreement which is not in conflict with our Constitu-tion and the laws and conditions imposed on us by thevarious agencies of Government. Some paragraphshave been deleted from contracts sent to this office forapproval for the very reason that they were contraryto existing conditions.

It is not, and shall not be, the policy of the I. 0. to doanything that will destroy or retard the progress ofour membership. If we did, we would be destroying thepurpose for which the I. B. E. W. is constituted.

For the reasons stated above, and many more whichI shall not go into at this time, I am directing that In-ternational supervision over Local Union B-11 termi-nate on Tuesday, the first day of May, 1945. Further,that a notice to this effect be placed in a conspicuousplace in all offices servicing members of Local B-11,and, further, that nomination and election of officersbe held as per the International Constitution and by-laws of the local union-nominations in May and elec-tion in June.

We could go further into detail. However, furtherinvestigations are being made, after which we shallwrite directions to those affected thereby. This infor-mation is being published in the official JOURNAL Soas to reach the membership involved.

International President.LI

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D TE to thc Rbsence of Chairman Penisesnwho, because of iolless, was unable toattend the mee;:g was called t order

by Secretary Man.ing who, having aser-tathed that a qww'um was present, re-quested that a chairman pro tempres heelected to conduct the meeting. IntelnationalExecutive Comrmitter Member J. L. McBride,of the Eighth District, was the unanimouschoice of council members to serve as chai-man. The meeting was turned over to thair-man McBride at 10:15 A. M. The roll callwas as follows:

Present: C. F. Prefier, Charles Porhe, D.W. Tracy, F. L. Kelh y, William G. Shord,B. A. Manning, J. L. McBride, and MarryVan Arndale, Jr.

Absent: C. M. Paulsen.The council members sent a message of

cheer, an d wish for a speedy recovery, toBrother 'aulsen

The minutes of the International E..eeutive Council ineAing of December 1944 wereread, and on motion duly nmde and passedthey were accepted a eorrect.

International Seelefay Bugniazet re-ported to the lntomrtisnal Executive Coun-cit the result of the referendum vote east bythe membershill on the proposition ofwhether the regular lnternational Conven-tion of 1945 be held or postponed.

The result, published in the April 1945issue of tie official JOURNAL, showed theresolution to o~tlone the convention, lost.By this vote your officers were required,under the 1. [3. E. W. Constitution, to holda nvention of the Brotherhood this year.

Remembering that the Federal Govern-ment, through its Office of Defense Trans-pertation, had forbidden the holding of anygatherings, conventions, etc., where 50 ormore persons wouhd have to travel from dis-tances t the celiveaign cities your councildeemed it advisable, before starting plansfor a convention, to find out first whetherthe I. B. E. W. would be permitted to holda convention as prescribed by its laws, andif so, in what cities this convention could beheld. With this Lhought ii njitad your councilordered that a committee of its members,three in number, be appointed to makeproper application for the holding of a con-vention of the 1. B. E. W. in the City of SanFrancisco (as decided by the referenIuu,vote of 1913), or any other city in theUnited States or Canada. This committee,in case the 0. D. T. refused to grant peifndls-sion for the holding of the convention afore-described, was to ascertain, if possible, Whythey could not grant it, and whether or notany oranzation, labor or non-labor, f'a-ternal, religious or non-religious, or anyother organization was granted permissionto hold a convention during this year, or ifthe granting of permission to hold conven-tions in 1945 was contemplated for anyorganization.

This committee, composed of MembersPrelier, Foehn and Van Arsdale, preparedthe necessary form and letter, and afterhaving it signed by the International Secre-tary and the seal of the 1. 2. E W. affixed,presented it in person to Mr. Frank Perrif,secretary of the war committem on conven-tions, Office of Defense Transportation,Washington, D. C. After giving considera-tion to our application and letter Mr. Perrininformed the committee that their applica-tion for the holding of an I. B. E, W. con-vention in 1945 was denied. Your committeeasked Mr. Perrin to give us his decision o,

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our application, in writing, and to incerpo-rate in this letter as much inforaiation as bedesired to give as to why the request wasdenied, and when we could hope to have aconvention and in what part of the UnitedStates or Canada. Letters to the 0. D. T.,as well as the answer of the 0. D. T. to same,are heroin reproduced, to wit:

March 27, 1945Mr. Frank Perrin, Secretary,War Committee on Conventions,Room 2402, New Post Office Building,Washington 25, D. C.Dear Mr. Perri:

Enclosed please find the application of theInternationul Brotherhood of ElectricalWorkers for permission to hold their regularbiennial convention in September 1945.

We would request that in ti.e event yourCommittee denies us the privilege of carry-ing out our regular convention, you specifythe reasons for such action.

In making that request I desire to explainthat we have just completed a referendumvote, as provided by the laws of our organi-zation, ald the question was, to postponethis convention for a two-year period, butthe membership turned down the propositionand voted to hold a convention this year asprovided under our laws.

Thanking you for all courtesies edxtended,I am

EnR.

Very truly yours,(Signed) G. M. Bvt;NIAZr,

International Sc!retary.

March 28, 1945International Brotherhood of

Electrical WorkersEd J. Brown, International Prsident1200 Fifteenth Street, N. W.,Washington, D. C.Dear Mr. Brown:

Your application dated March 27, 1945,for permission to hold your regular conven-tion on the third Monday in September inSan Francisco, California, was submitted tothe committee for consideration and wasdenied. The committee, in reaching this con-elusion, did so after careful consideration ofthe contents of your application and inline with Justice Byrnes' appeal for a cessa-tion of group meetings to relieve the ex-tremely acute transportation and manpowersituation.

Transportation of all types-rail, motor,water and airmore especially rail andmotor, are daily showing the strain of con-tinned peak loadinig necessitated by our two-front war. Since 1939 the transportationlead, both passenger and freight, has con-tinned to increase, yet the carriers andespecially the railroads have been transport-ing this staggering load with less equipmentthan they had in World War 1. The motor

carriert, both public and private, have beenplagued with Lim bhurtage,. Fuel, especiallycoal, is in short supply. All forms of trans-portation have felt the manpower pinch.Moreover, the extremely bad weather in theEast this past winter has aggravated theseriousness of the situation. The continuedflow of badly needed war and essentiallyneeded civilian transportation demanded ex-treme measures. Consequently, on January 5,1945, Justice Byrnes appealed for a curtail-ment of non-essential travel and particularlyfor the cessation of group meetings such anconventions and trade shows not necessaryto the war effort,

The committee has appoved applicationsfor labor groups where they involved collec-tive bargaining exclusively. A strictly localmeeting is exempt from the provisions of theByrnes' appeal for a cessation of groupmeetings. A local meeting, as defined by thecommittee, is one of a purely local naturein which attendance may be drawn from thecity and the suburbs of the city where theevent is held without numaeal limitation,plus an additional 50 persons from outsidesuch area. Other than this, the committeehas not permitted meetings of labor groups.

It is well to call your attention to the factthat the committee has no established appealprocedure.

Justice Byrnes' appeal for a cessation ofgroup meetings is not based upon a longrange program and naturally it will be re-laxed as soon as conditions on the lightingfronts warrant. It should be added, however,that there will be little, if any, relaxationin the appeal for from 60 to 90 days afterthe capitulation of Germany because of theanticipated demands upon the transporta-tion plant.

Very truly yours,(Signed) FRANK PERRIN,

Secretary.CC: Mr. G. M. Bugnisert,

International Secretary.International Brotherhood

of Electrical Workers,1200 Fifteenth St., N. W.,Washington, D. C.

March 29, 194fMr. Frank Perrin, Secretary,War Committee. on Conventions,Thwu, 2402, New Post Office Building,Washington 25, D. C.Dear Mr. Perrin:

We have your favor of March 28, IBanswer to ours of the 27th requesting permission for the holding of our 1945 convention, which was slated for the thirdMonday in September, in San FranciscoCalifornia.

We stated in our request "San Francisco, city designated, but can be transferredto some other city." Therefore we are com-municating with you again on the matter,for the reason that in your committee'sdenial you stated specifically San Francisco,California, and we would like to know if it

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would be possible for us Io hold our conven-thin if we selected any other city in theUnited States, or even in the Dominion ofCanada,

Thanking you for your kind consderation,I am

Very truly yours,(Signed) G. Mi. BUONIAZET,

International Secretary.

March 29, 1945International Brotherhood of

ElecLrical Workers,G. M. Bugni a..t, l nternath lal Secretary,1200 Fifteenth Street, N. W.,Washington 5, I). C.Dear Mr. Bugniazut:

This will acknowledge receipt of yourletter of March 29, 1945, pointing out thatin your applicatiho Sai Francisco was thecity designated for the nicetuig, but that itcould be tratisf'ced to iinl other .. i dy andinquiring whether if the transfer to an-other city in the lnited States or (anadawould make it posedd. to hodi your conven -tion at the timtue designated in your app/li

For the present, at last, ,d possilyfroin 60 to 90 days fer' the paitthiat ion .IGermany, a change of eonvtin ion 4 [UPs wond,not affect the comnfittees action on yourapplication one iota.

Every large transportalion ,en er in deUnited States is rungusted today with wartraffic and it i imperative tfhat we keepthese terminals as liquid as possihle duringthis critical tranispotati o Luntd manpowersituation.

Very truly yours,(Sigled) FRANK Pe1RIN,

Secretary.CC: Mr. Ed J. Bmown,

International President,lInternational Bi'utheriho...d

of Electrical Workers,1200 Fifteenth Street, N. W.,Washington 5, D. C,

Because of this gover..nental ban oo n con-ventions, your council ,ishes the membershipto know that as soon as it is permissible forus to do so we will again request p.rn.issioto hold our linternitioal convention, and ifgranted this convention will be slated for atime which will give your Internationalofficers ample tune to secure opelier hotel ac-conuuodlations and a mectine place for dele-gates, as well as to prepare records andreports necessary for the conducting of ourconvention.

The chairman appointed D, W. Tracy andWilliam G. Shoed as a committee to examinethe I. B. E. W. audit for the last quarter of1944, and the E. NV. B. A. audit for the lasthalf of 1944, and to miake their report beforeadjournment.

The chairman appointed 1). W. Tracy,William G. Shoid arid Frank L. Kelley as acommittee to employ at. actuary, who willmake a survey of our hlnrnational old agopension payment fund, for the purpose ofadvising us as nearly as possible what itwould cost per month per mnmber to putthis plan oi1 a actafrtally sou..d laisl.

Applications for pension benefits fur thefollowing named inetnberls wie exaiiiiitd:

Of U. 'Nr.1. 0. Aeroling, Fred W. 3091. 0. Jfiork, Tu,, 6231.0. Olouse, Rl. It. 14

tO. Con.olly, Felix - __ ---1. 0. CrisLea, Nick

0. lauehin pis, F rank F.1.0. Erlstron,, prnest E,1,O, Egleston, John1.0. O.ioulhan, John1.0. Jackson., ulitt M.1.0, Johnson, Charles G.

(). Kettelhakd Joseph H.1.0. Langar, aones G.1.0. Malech, Oscar E.I. 0, Miller, Al, hibald It.

1. 0. MLI]ller, James T.1. 0. Peters, Alfred C,1.0. Reynolds, Walter F.1.0. Rodgers, John F,

I.O. S.han2, William1.0. Sehmitt, Frank B.1 0. T'ollr. Samuel T.1.0. Waughar, Jries IN,

0. Weak. Harry B.1,0. Wilcox, Edgar F,1.0. Wihmuh, Frank Mon roe1.0. Wilson, William Danil

L.U lNe.Albers, EmillAnderson, Calr F.HBril, Wifllan \,.(lifWord, Willin C.

3Duffy, Prank J,ODurkin, Jer,,

SFitzpatrick, Bernardr3Geisler, Maximillian2Giles, Edward M.

Hayes, ,Jarrs P.3 lislop. James

SK.u, , I ;rk Max3Lawlor, John

Lawlor, Charles F.ULombard, FrankSMeCarlhy, John Josep3Miller, Henry M.

Mr.slander, Edward A.'( onnoell, liavid

Poole, CharlesReichardt, James 0.Ii>stack, Frank J.

3 Rossman, Christian IScheurman. Frank J.

3Solomon, Jacob S.SStirrett Harry E.

Whittaker, Everett 113Wieben, Hierman C.S Youngblood. John 1.6Burke, Michael J.5Dykeman, George V.5iJames, Paul B.

Wolfinrer, MichaelCKehaly, Neil7 ..avaaough, William7Wison., William R.

IPeary, Robert L.9 O'Brien, Pierce90dMar., James J.

26 Ellerhrook, George26 Trimmer, Theodore L,28 Everett, James A.28 looney, Charles E.

Broning, David 11.38 Partlaw, George S.48 Miller, 0. A.48 Morland, Sr., Fenwi3 Lewis, John M.

53 Odall, William E.58 Tinnette, John RI.'72 Schwsa,, Julius C.88 Beorddy, Lee (.88 Ross, Arthur

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IKilpntrlik. E1ar RhyMrCI'llsh r. Leon JamesMcCarthy, 1ler3 rIlSadvfill, Williamr Lt.Smit h, Wil iam I.Spooner, WilliemVan Vakenburgh, A. R.Wishart, Harry M.Grover, Charles A.Nagel, FreeMartin, ]Rdward A.Phillip, Adam F.Kuhulhrg, Carl A.Hood, Joel FrndO'L.ory, lnmirl DlennisMay II, Wiliame F.

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DdI' rankPi 4ze nTniat, r. Michael(;tadboi. G. C,Gentry, R. A.]1obn, Frank 0.Lovejoy. R obinrt E,..ettStewart, J. I.Mecormick, William J.Keeney, Robert P.

The aforementioned applications weremade in accordance with the provisions ofthe Internatioual Constitution, and therecords of the Intenational Office show thateach applicant is of pension age and has thenecessary copinnuus good standing in theBrotherhood to justify the payment of oldage benefits to him; therefore your councilinstructs the International Soeretary toplace their names on the retirement roll forpe..shi) payments.

The application for pension of Roy Daven-port, I. O., Card No. 390044. is denied be-caue of a break itn membership standing.

The applications for pension of WilliamAsher, L. U. 9, (aid No. 141696; WilliamMcKiernan, L. th 3, Card No. A-584238;G. G. Vebois,. I. U. 66, Card No. 29118-;and G. C. IMarsIall, 1. 0., Card No. 100153;are denied, btcause, according to L 0.records, they have not attained pension age,and the evidence which they presented tosubstantiate their contention that they areof pension age is not sufficient to justify anychange in their age records.

Michael Doyle, L. U. 184, Card No. 101477;G. W. Jennings, I,. U. 134, Card No. 445045;and Samuel Kingston, L. U. 134, Card No.70402; having eupplied the necessary papersto prove that they were of pension age, areordered placed upon the Inteniation.l pen-sion roll. Tei I. 0. records show that theyhave complied with all pension law reqiur,mentus.

Benjamin J. Allen, 1. 0., Card No. 270706,not having atlained pension age, his appli-cation for pension is denied.

The application for pension of Joseph E.Gillette, L. U. 595, Card No. 103203, isdenied bea.use of lack of sufficient mem-.bership standing.

The application for pension of N. S.Hansen, L. U. 46, Card No. 34202, is deniedbecaune he had not attained pension age

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NOTEIt has been announced that the 1945

meeting of the Electrical Committeescheduled for Chicago, May 13, h.sbeen postponed by order of the Officeof War Mobilization.

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position. It would obviate many possible difficulties andput t he whole process of returning veterans to peacetimejobs on a sensible basis.

Unions and employers should now get ready for thisdesignation by immediately setting up throughout thecountry local joint apprenticeship committees, moving inthe framework of apprenticeship standards to do a bang-up job looking toward peacetime adjustments and full-time pr.duction.

Volume ~AV Wabin~g~1 D. C., M.ayJune, 1945

GI's Into One of the important problems the UnitedCivilians States faces, and will continue to face for

several years, is the orderly return of serv-icemen to civilian life. This vitally affects labor, inasmuchas labor is going to be an important door of inductionback to peace. Smooth functioning of proposed machin-ery in this direction will also depend upon the good sense,tolerance, and intelligence of the soldiers themselves. Thenumber of men who will be released after the defeat ofGermany will depend on many conditions. It may reachonly a total of 3,000,000. At the end of the war againstJapan, six or seven million more men may be released.Good paying jobs must be found for these people. Onlya small proportion will probably return to the jobs theyleft to go into the armed forces. Many will want to dodifferent things. Literally millions will have acquired newskills as a result of their army experience, and will wanthigher graded jobs.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workershas over 30,000 members in the armed services. Therewill be no interruption to their union membership dueto arrangements made by the union itself. These menwill pass back in an orderly and constructive fashion totheir union and to their old jobs. The problem really liesin what should be done, and must be done, for those whowant to go into the skilled trades on a new basis. Thesemen will be provided with funds by the Governmentthrough the Veterans' Administration. At no time willthey receive more than the total journeyman's wage forthat trade which they wish to enter. Returned soldierswho wish to enter the trade should have a sympatheticreception from the unions, and should be aided in makingthe adjustment. Already there is a disposition in somedirections to give a blanket credit of one year's work toall servicemen doing related work in the armed services.Thus, If a man left his job as a first year apprentice, hecould immediately return as a third year apprentice,receiving the second year credit for his work in the Army.In addition, there should be flexible arrangements madeso that a man, if he chose, could receive a special exani-nation to prove his ability and even pass beyond thisblanket arrangement if he were worthy.

There is a disposition on the part of the Veterans' Ad-ministration to designate local joint apprenticeship com-mittees in the apprentice field as the official trainingagencies for skilled workers. The Veterans' Administra-tion should be commended for this stand, and should begiven every encouragement from the unions to take this

Soon We Soon we will know how much collectiveWill Know wisdom and collective sense the industrial-

ists and workers of the United States have.Soon we will know how much real thinking has been doneat the grass roots in the direction of building the kindof economy in which we can all live and have good in-comes. It must be stated that the United States is in amuch better position to pass from the wartime to peace-time economy on a sound basis than it was after the FirstWorld War. In the First World War nothing was donein advance, and nothing was done when the Armisticewas signed. The United States went on a joyride of indi-vidualism and did things that surely led in the end to thegreat economic depression of 1929. Certain principlesshould guide our thinking:

1. We should think in terms of full-time productionand full-time employment.

2. We should oppose every kind of open shop andanti-union drive as it appears.

3. Resistance should be made to cutting wages wher-ever there is a disposition to do so, because uponhigh purchasing power must depend the successof a dynamic economy.

Annual Appointment by the President of the UnitedWage States of a committee adequately financed to

study the annual wage will produce nationwidediscussion of this proposal during the coming half-year.An advisory committee from labor and management isalready at work suggesting names of economists fromwhich group a director for the study will be chosen.

The annual wage is no longer an academic question.It is a practical proposal that must be solved not byoratory and political methods, but by engineering tech-niques.

The electrical construction industry, through its Labor-Management Planning Committee, has been far in ad-vance of public opinion on this important question. InJanuary, 1944, the Labor-Management Planning Com-mittee had this to say on the annual wage:

"The Labor-Management Planning Committee urgescontractors and local unions to begin at once discussionsthat will involve the question of annual wages. The Plan-ning Committee believes that the industry is on safegrounds in proceeding from the bottom to the top. Con-ditions are so varied, the continent is so wide, that try-outs must be made on a local basis rather than on a totalnational set-up. Adjustment of the annual wage in theelectrical construction industry has already been pre-pared for by common practice. For years the union andthe contractor had worked out procedures whereby main-

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tensnee men are paid on an annual income basis by anhourly schedule considerably lower than the regular hour-ly schedule for building craftsmen. The rates of pay forthese maintenance men have generally been lower thanthe hourly schedules of journeymen who are employedonly part-time. It is understood that negotiations for theannual wage would be adjusted on this hourly mainte-nance principle.

"One question that will remain unresolved, and Iheplanning committee predicts will arise again and again,will be whether mere full-time employment on an annualwage basis figures on the maintenance hourly scale willgive adequate return to skilled craftsmen. The planniritcommittee does not expect to solve this problem now, butit raises the question."

The Worker's In January, 1945, the value of the dollarDollar of the American worker was 78.7 cents.

This sharp decline fron, the face value

of the dollar came in the months between January, 1941,and January, 1945. The decline was 22 per cent, whereasthe famed little Steel formula permitted a rise of 15 pcIrcent. That indicates how far out of the way the LittleSteel formula is in meeting labor's problem of havingenough in the pay envelope to buy needed food, clothingand sheller.

It is no use to pretend that other sections of the poptu-lation have made the same sacrifice. Despite every at-tempt of control agencies, the price of commodities hasnot been controlled adequately so that it may be sup-posed, and figures support this supposition, that profitshave been high, wiide and handsome. Even before thiswriting is in print and being read by scores of thousandsof Electrical Workers, the war in Germany may be ended.If the National War Labor Board wishes, therefore, to setitself straight with the underlying population atnl en-hance its prestige in the United States, it should meet atonce and vote at least an eight per cent increase in wagesfor the American worker.

Trains of Every day steaming from the Atlantic Sea-Mercy board to the interior are Red Cross Irains

bearing wounded soldiers from Germany.Excellent facilities wait these wounded men in great hos-pitals conveniently placed in the interior. No one can seethese trains move westward without a pang of regret forthe misfortune that has come to able young men, norwithout an urge of real gratitude for these heroes whohave made the sacrifice for freedom and for their country.Our Army has done well by our returning wounded.

On the other hand, it is a well-known fact that republicsand democracies are ungrateful. No one seems chargedwith the responsibility of remembering. As the years passand as problems beat in upon the people, they are in-elined to forget the sacrifices made by young men for thenation.

We hope this will not be the case after this global waris over. We hope that these men will be seen for what theyare and remembered for what they did and not be for-

gotten. Most of all, we hope an economy will be builtthat will provide good jobs for every one of them in thekind of work they can do and in the kind of work theywant to do.

Activity In The publication of the A. F. of L. hous-Housing Field ing program seems to have caused wide-

spread interest all over the country inthis major activity. The Labor-Management PlanningCommittee of the electrical construction industry re-, LwQd the housing situation as early as last fall in one ofits reports. The trend seems to be away from the piece-meal attack of the housing problem and toward a con-certed, intelligent, national effort employing both publicand private agencies in supplying enough good houses forthe nation.

Senator Robert F. Wagner recently spoke over theradio on an A. F. of L. program. Senator Wagner said thenation has fought a bigger war than ever before. "Wehave accomplished marvels of production. We have thehighest national income on record. . . . We must thinkbold thoughts. We must make broad plans. We must dobig things. What does this mean to housing?"

le answered the question by recalling that beforethe war the United States built less than 275,000 non-farm houses a year and "in the first 10 years after thewar we must raise this figure to almost one and one-halfmillion houses a year. Instead of investing only about $1billion a \ear in building of housing, we must invest $7 or$8 billion a year.

"Every little mind that says: 'This cannot be done'is an obstacle to our economic progress. Every selfishinterest that says: 'We will not allow this to be done' isan enemy to our economic security-an enemy to thefighting men who want jobs after the war-an enemyto the families of these men who want decent homesafter the war."

In order to implement the program Wagner called for"public funds to expand the slum clearance and low-renthousing program. We also need public funds to raise hous-ing standards on the farm.

"We need long-term loans at very low interest rates tostimulate housing for middle-inconme groups who do notneed subsidy, but who cannot afford to borrow fromprivate lenders.

"We need, through better methods, to improve the pro-duction of housing for those whom private enterprise andprivate lenders can effectively serve. In short, we need awell-rounded housing program, serving every need andserving every need in full.

"A forward-looking Congress must take the leadershiptoward enacting such a program. I expect to introducelegislation toward that end. But Congress represents thewhole people. It depends upon the organized efforts ofindustry, agriculture and labor-upon their ability towork together and to help develop a united economicprogram."

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HOME IS WHAT YOU MAKE ITBY A WORKER'S WIFE

AST month we did a little dre..inig onthat postwar home we want. This monthLI thom'ht wed diseus, du.erating plans

the do ddon ' uts of home decorationthat make you home a "thing of beautyand a joy forever" or-something else. It'sthe time of year to do things to your housewhether it's a shiring new little home orapartment or whether it's just your house-old as the hills.

As ,e'v, said in other articles on thispage, now is n.1 the time for spending a lotof money for eateniloe ' modeling or any-thing of that natuP, fI it is our patrioticduty to be COnscrroLtiv in ou- spending andbuy all the War Bo.nds we possibly can.However, we ,a u, a ithi Paint, materialand above all. ingt'nitlv, to good advantageto make our house a bright, cheerful, happyhome that it is a pleasure for our war-wearyfamily to come back to.

First off, letis tle an old seore-youdon't have t. hIe an interior decorator with alist of courses be'irfd yeo to have a beauti-

tain things together and readily available.Each time you see a clever plan, a beau-tiful color scheme, a novel idea thatyou would just love to have in a home ofYour own--clip it or make notes on it. Savescraps of material and wallpaper that youlike-then when the time omes, yon'll beall ready with your plans. You will knowthat you want this and this and this andthere will be no wondering wihere you sowthat cute bedroom closet picture or trying toremember just whore that bookcase went in

sueh and such a model house.But nowt, what can you do now to brighten

up your home and makle it the cheerfulspot in a world at war that we spoke of inour opening paragraphs?

Well, first of all-don't be afraid to dothings to your rooms. Paint and materialand a little ingemuity sprinkled with a siz-able bit of courage can make your roomsthe envy of your neighbor's heart.

How Do You Start?-li.,. 1- I'ti m , ...eresr ann taoe ue Start with one room at a time. Go outsideto make your hoe Attractive and the tu- and come in and look at ysour- od famili

avre ro no ahead and try ruw ideas, you room as if Yon aIV a stranger seeing it forcan succeed, the first time, Wheo you look at it, is thereanything a bout it that you just hate? Ifthere is, and it's a piece of fur-mnitureget

Here are a few hints I would give you rid of it. (I don't care if it was a weddingon home dcc,:ation: (I t Study interior deco- present from Couslin Sophie it's your roomrating yournelf in the numerous good home- to live in, and you ought to like everythingmaking magaznes on the newsstands today. about it.) If it's tihe wall paper, ri-paper(2) Keep a seaiphol.k or an envelope full or paint it. If it's the windows, get newof clippings and pictures of ideas and rooms drapes. If the room lacks color. get busythat appeal to you--particularly those that putting color into it. Next, is there any-you feel are adaptable to yo.r home. thing about the room that you just love?(3il Whenever you get ready to do a little A favorite table, or slip cover, or prettyredecorating-plan to get new curtains or screen? You could make this the highlightdrapes or whatnot, consult the personnel of of your room and build around it. If youthe store whese you are purchasing your haven'ta single thing in your room that youmaterial or y' r.. read{y-made drapes or slip just love, then start right now and try tocovers. Almos every large de-partment store has a trainedinterior decorator in its em-ploy who will be happy tomake suggestions, offer colorormbinations, etc. This polfs.

sional advice is available freeof charge to customers of thestore. Those at- three sugesea Ations I make for long-timeplanning. The scrapbook ofideas I particularly reoim-mend, looking toward H-day(Itomt-day--that day whenthe war is v,,r on which youbegin to build your pstwarhome or reuodel your houseto the dream house you plan.)Have your scrap book i ee-tions labeled, "living room,'"dining roli," "hans,' "stot -age clowets," etc., in order to Planning in balance and color. and good lighting, mehave all your ideas on cer- a vA~umla*= 4 .--

get something, even if it's just a little pie-tare or a flower howl-put something simplybeautiful into your room. If you have somefew treasured thingsl don't hide themaway bring them out where ,vryone canadmire and enjoy then, l[dden away, 1heybring pleasure ....u If they get brokenor soiled, at Ieast you will have enjoyedthem-they will not have been locked awayin a chest or cupboard until forgotten oruntil they've outlived their beauty and use-fulness.

Miracle of Point and PaperNow then-tfor your paint o aill paper--

what you select for your walls and ceilingcan make or break your room. Is the roomvery small? Then you'll want plain paperor paint to give it a more spacious look.Is it big and barren? Then perhaps a flow-ered paper or panels of paper can be usedto take away the bare look and make the

room more cozy. If yonr ceilings seem toohigh, have thenm painted a different colorfrom the walls--if too low, paint them theame color. What color will you choose?

Well, if your room is a not particularlybright, warm room. then you'll want awarm color-the yellows, reds, rust, peachand their derivatives will convert a coldroom into a glowing onme-hut they are in-lined to make a room look smaller. Bo, ifyour problem is to make your room looklarger, and it is a room that gets goadlight-then go in for the cool shades ofblue, eroee, blue-green, blue.violet, etc., thecolors that push walls back to an appreci-able degree.The Magic of Color

Now that we've reached the subject ofcolor, let's dwell on it a little while-for itis color the magic rainbow wand, that cando the very most to bring beauty to your

home. Don't be afraid of color-the drab, timid period ofcolors is past. Just pick colorsthat harmnoize or complementeach other and then go, aheadas flamboyantly as you please.Decorat, with the colors youlike, because you have tolive with them. In the para-graph above, we pointed outwhich colors are warm andwhich are cool, Rememberthat warl co]ors are stimui-lating, active, cheerful, whilecool colors are restful, quiet,soothing. Don't forget thatif you have carried out a colorscheme in a room in harmonuiz.ing shades, that a brilliantsplash of contrasting color

this ,eacented several tilms in your

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L. U. NO. 1, Editor: Howdy,ST. LOUIS, MO. Br1thersl We here

in St. Louis are eEI-joylhg the grandest wenther, pisihl sunshinevery day except Sunday, which is the only daymodst of us are off from wark.

Have you written your favorite seavice ,ana letter lately? If not, why nutl? le is li]htilnand dying for us. so pllenu lon't ever forgethim. We were made hlappy hist sleetilg night bythe [reseais of P.rother al, , l Notre. a iphterpilot and a grandl young ..... who, like the I..odunIon ranI he is pennl ILLe night nf hIs few, athome attending the meetirg. lIe il.... Lu Td O filin his neat nniferlm. which h, sanrly fille, outWell. If any of you good ... I {rthrs want some ad-dresses if nlr fightlag C trice men. please torn.tact Brother Walter Tarhib O'Shea, the chair-

fauti of Ihe ser n'a ~en cornittee; he haall the names and lddles es.

When this wa, writte"m, all lemluler; of LocalNo. I were worki, g, bu work i, L Laperl rig off.

You do ait have to r,.ok at the calendar tLknow the date, as all thin buIlera around hereare talking about jobs in Miehigan and I,'il-COnsil, or some place ll,,.

Lioel No. I has or, itsnl proudl with itsElc~ctrouiic class. It is wirLrfi] tn sIT will.men of ages rairLgin f r... 4t to 50 .ears allInteresteI ill eduration. wvhilh tanst of us SOsadly need.

Things are pretty gofd ar.I Ird hero, andeveryone see..s to be workmin, rr the interestsof Local No. 1, It is a pleasure to go to thenertings.

Yours for vacations with ]l"y for the ('lass "A"

LE, K.IL.AN, P. S.

L. IT. NO. 26. Ed,,n : LastWASHINGTON, I.-. n'ionith'Loal rnior

No., 20's new schoolof Electronics was off to a veIy go.d start withan earollnent of 55 Iml emrs Iue to the unex-pectedly large attendance, it Wa agreed uponto have two elsuses bi electraons in order tostep up the work and gJie Ino.' t.ime to L las-room discussinins. 1iah groutp is ow aittendingclass six nights a on)th.

The letu r es and moving pctures on lhe theoryof electronics have been niost interesting andunderstandble.

On hand to assist PrIofessni Fietaminlg wereClena Pr01ler, bu.siness ia llagr: L. C. Palmer,president; C. Lowery. tinaiad secretary;Brother E. Porter and Ilrnther J. Bowen of theexecutive hoard. One thingi nntheahlp was thonumber oO men who are foremin in the variousshops who are atte rdig this shool Maybe itis bec.ause they are gettin1 tired of the me.ebonies giving out with the proper informa-tion.

The hnen have furnished thlei hwn books, andLocal Uenik No. 26 is ftrn.ahing a movingpicture machine with sound effects.

It was a pleasure tn have a. a visitor at theschool hist week {Im]oin' E, L SiiPcr's boy. whowas home on, leve from the Navy. Also at thelast Umunol netting was Brother J. Crowley'aboy and Ed MeD.onough. who were wearingsecond cla's ratin gs, which ce rtainly is a cPeditto Loom 26's apprenbtie rlhOi.

Our appen.tice schuel and liilg s'hool arestill hldlng {iheir own.

The h.ys who have bher, abr.sent fronm reetinislately have bee,' losing out in goneral, as wellas mLissing some very interesting moving pie-

t r S. S , why d on't SnL OP p .. di s.. usi i i tiler ?To the boys atttnihinir school who have kept

hack colliea p ii the WKniS , drfer to last OCto~her's issu. Co. aI arti ie hy I . 5. Sul n Stanton,of leal No. 70. lie gives I very good suimlryonm elect ronics.

In closing, good hick to the oy o the bowl-iUg team N.. 1 for reaching third pLace in theleague.

T. IlAoRvEr IAtStP. P. S.

L. U. NO. 50. Editho: This ar.OAKLAND, CALIE. tidle is intended

for membbershipconsmtoplio, inviting criticism and comments,and it will, no doubt, gererate pros and cons ofmuch meat.

I have giens muPch stidy to our insurance andIenilon plais of late, and have arrived at whatI think a logical cInclusiun, and, if put intooperation. will solve our difficuties for manyyears, possiby all tire lo nine. Every personfaminliar with the peinsion plan freely admitsthat it is unsound and reailly ii a state of bank-ruptey, and, were it not for gratuitous giftsfrom time to time of a suspended conventionfund and the assessment under which we arenow wairking, it wnIld have cease([ operationbefore this. O ur insura.n.e department is ingoId shape, but of what LSe is the $40,000,000we have in the treasury except as a reservI;W'e can't spend it, and it is only created andhi'eld 1 law to met odaims upnLl our E. W'. B, A.in case the monthly dews are ever insufficientton imeet the 'laims mad'e uipn.. it.

Insurance departments in several states havede ihard uur . . W. B. A. to ie insolvent. Withthe, I do not agree. hut who am 1. or you, todisagree with them; we are but individuls:th ey ar I h la , at e, st th e y rep rese nt th elaw. Just how soon other states will follow suit

ndl tay likewise I have no way of telling, butit Iny o pinion that it will not he long. The

qePgItio then, arises i] .. y Y imid: are we wiseto await the possdille dvetfu] ay when it maynot be possible for us tL operate in any stateas we are now doing, or woulId we not shwmire wisdom by doing something now which

will make permanent forever anld pui both ourpension and insurnrce planot on a firm, solid,financially son. il basis? low can that be done?

Well, we will con tract with some old-line lifein urance comalny whose assets or legal ro-aeryes cannot be questioied to write a grouppolicy on our entire menmer hip and issue an in-ilvidual ertifirate to each individual member

suIh as they now hold in the E. W. B. A. Wewill take those prtions of the E. W. B. A. con-Mtitutinn and by-laws, ,uk as the $2.00 adn1.l.sion fee, $10.00 reinstatement fee arid all otherLinancial accruals, outside the 90 cents permonth pre,,Ijin, whilh, of course, will have toSo to the insurance company who writes thepoley, and channel them into the pension fundlb]rou. the h. B. E. W, eonstituti. or keep theE. W. B. A ust as n opt. raJt ie ±,stlIution .aP dehange pl laws to fit the

Every rsponsible life insuranlce company inthe U. S. A. and C.nada would be after thisbusiess tomorow ,,ornag. aInd, what is more,they weuid guarantee us at least a 10 pet cent

dividend per nnnu, (oir mortality experiencevolfI c'lroman d a goed ii vilend, and, from oursafety work, the nirtility expeorienee wouldgrow hletter and coini d a greater Idividund.Thhat dividend wouid go islo the penslon fund,ani t hen we could take the $10,000,000 whichis how ill t ie reserve fund of the E. W. B. A.,endow the pienson fund with It, and put it outat per cI ent interest, which would iri rig agrosreturn to the pensote funl of $500,000 per

nnuIm.Now. i'ts gee; where we re,. Every Claus "A"

member of the I. B, E. W. has a sonlad insurancepolicy guatratechij to pay to his beneficiaries$1,000 upon his death should his death occursfter one year following the date of his adroissins into the BIrotherhood. If prior to one yearfollowint his ainMisi.P bele the Brotherhood,his proe n..rn.s will he retu, rned to his beneficiary;that is just as is now provided in tlIe E, W. B. A.except that in the E. W 4i. A. his henefeiariesare not entitled to a Pol f $l,000 until after h,has been in the Brotherhood five full years ing.od standing.

Now. let's see 'shore our pension fund stands:Per Year

$10,000,000 at 5 per cent $ 500.00010 per cent dv idemd paid by inaur-

anco companies to the 1. I. E. W. 200,00037 cents per mouth on 200,000 Class

"A' memhers 988,0005L000 new members per year at $2.00 10,0002,500 reinstatemenirs per year at

$10.00 - 25,0005,000 n.w members at $10,80 per year 54,000

$1,777,0 01Thus we have a furd createi by annual in*

come capable of supparting more than 3,500iomouhe, at the rate of $42.00 per month per

member. which is our presen t rate of withdrawalfrom the pension fund.

The above figures are lexill"ove themforward or backward and the same proportion-ate result is obtained. Doule the amount andwe can take care of more than 7,000 membersper month lut therl inl half and we can tae.care of moen, than 1,750.

Look at this purely from a business polnt ofview; do not let your prejudice or hatred forlSre, financially sound insurance companiescolor your deduieons in studying this. Do notlet the cry of big business s.aking money offus, why ohouldn't we make that money, detractfrom the real issue, for, ray Brothers, we hre

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I. U. No. 50 discusses the PensionIlund

L. U. No. 66 likes ierty A. Wallaceand dislikes the Illristiam AmericanAssociation

Grasp opportuuiiies is the advice ofI, I'. No. 68

bcome affiliated, boys, says L. T.No. 70

L. U. No. 309 oermmens on theI. B. E. W. educational program

L. h. No. 611 urges members to fightanti-union legiPIalion

L. U* No. 672 gills a good examplein appreiation and cooperation

The local union shortstop by L. U..N. 697

Spring brings a fine cropof epistles.

The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operators

not making any money on the deal, neither willwe ever enakn any, for, at best, all that wehave is a -eserve created to fry claims in casathe monthly premium proves insufieleat, andevery relar which accrues to the E, W. B. A.must, by law, go into the reserve fund, and allthat your beneficiaries ran ever hopt for Is theamonnt your policy ails for in case of death,never to eseeed $1.000. The only way ill whirhy ou can ever profit personally by this f.r.. Iby the plan I hrerow fthnblt.

I invite your close scrutiny and silly of thi,and then send in yur qustions. I think I cartanswer any Il then, to ynur satisfaction.

E. S. Hirairy, B. M.

I. U[. NO. 58, ; dilor: It's been aDETROIT, MICI. long. long time sines

I,cal .-... has beenreprsecete'd in thb0 linao*, and fur pjresidentias askedl e i. [ i[ Inh d sornethihrg about it.

V'nt nrt exarily 1xeilst about the job, as it isjust oie more lhill Io, ,orry about each nlloath;aed leadlag 'itll you± I'Ma ii Cold print is notthe easiea wly to make frienlds anll influencepeople. However, I've agreed to do the hbet Ican with a duty which certa/aly shio.uld abrebeen dore these many yearn and if I on't ringthe bell with a "rmasterpiec," eve ry .on.th,please be , r miend that anyone : eligill tatake tihe su[, %t any tine and ;uake somethingif it.

The rlst thoug ht I had in mind regarding theiiportance of our <, rettlrt with the EIrTIIICAIWonKicra ' JOI[RNAL Wlit he way we have let downthe boys in the se-rvie. who ha.e been hunger-inre for a little news of 55¢. It ia true that our

hlal has a mos. eravioiabli rse rI in the way thatthe niteaber have coll iraeltld through assess-eacts and enter al, t..ill tu very' one of our,okdea rs and sa i rI each nioth*It: bh.t there isnothing to a m.n aay froio hoeisi like a letter;

n if *e only su..ceed ill giving hil a glimpseof 55 Adelaide Street each month ill the form,f a few n para-raphs, it will tost crc-tainly be t.Ith the effort.

To that red, I would like to appeal to every-body here ait inn,. t join ran In thins enterpriseand make it n family affair. There will be hap-penings ol jobs aId il your private livoe thatwill ni.ke good reading to a lonesome iey who ix

living and praying for the day he will rejoinyour toenradeshi. Olde1isi.y, witholt yolr to-eperatin., it will be hard for me to make it in-tereestig Jot down the things on paper thatyou think ought te I", H~ii or related. Mail then.to Ie though tei Exel'ltivn' Board, and unlessotherwise directed. evirythi;g will be receivedin the strictest otfihinen.

One ether thing niust be ijentloned. OurSOtR'aArL has rat on petin like eve ryone else.'hese letters Will be limited in length until thesituatea [s relieved; sad until] the bowling andhouse cleoniag season Is over. There are lotr of

shig,, ill dialss at length like our school andlecttuien eou >e,; the sucial and war actvi tiea

of noir enIn.it e.. s and ineroaers; the snowballinsureice promium; inodation and 'Little Steel";cnvenrtionts and what they are fo; our mutualfriend, the eontractor; attendance and interestiU mrecli ]gs: lur responsibility to disehargod re-turininJ niemboerg; our loalds line~rtwr piirgruland polisyt and, oh yes, I nearly forgot: theflew Mawit Cartet flia unced by Me.sielurs(ireen. Jehnten, and Murray.

So. you see, this hling could be very exhilarat-ing if everybody kickls in. Make mrlt y.r presscorrespondent. Let's have at representative opin-ion expressed in these pages by one of the nia-tion's best labor unions of which you and I aremeat proud to he a part. Llt's .11 approach thisgreat new peace era with a determination to biein there pitching, both locally and nationally,and put our light on top of the bushel. I'll will-ing, if you are. HOW about it?

LnN SarreMIT, P. -.

L. U. NO. 66. Editor,: Even ifHOUSTON, TEXAS Henry A. Wallace

had not been ron-drined for Secretary of Commerce, he should beproud of the enemies he has made in Congress.

The roll ll l nf Senators nitl Congressmen oippo-ing him reads like the Who's Who of Reaction-Just why are our Tory represeit/utives 50 bit-terly opposed to him ? First, Wallace is a liberalwho believes that human rights come beforeproperty rights, that the working mar shouldbe guaranted a job paying a living standard ofwages. He beleves in an expaaded social seaur-try to are for wo'ers in their old age, andto include in saoial security a provision to prn-vide mnedial care for the milions of Alee, kian*who need it moat. The fact that here in Anieria,the richest country in the worhd, ieitlions ofinto have befen rejected for nmuiLary service ho-unaust of Tack of medical care and mahlutrition

shows that our present system of rugged in-thyvidualisns has been a failure, and that onrGovernment must provide some form of nationalhealth to keep us from being a nation of 4-Fs.

Secondly, they are so bitterly opposed Wo hitdirecting the huge saous to be spent hy theRI.C, Why? The RY.C. has been the bankerof big business, lending to thenlh, l e slas ofCovernment money, so they couhl execute Gao-einernet contraeta This way they have nladnhuge proiet, without the expenditure of a redcent of their own money, the old story of"Heads I win, tails you lser."

But the big fly in the ointment is that theRFC. has control of the sale of surplus wargoods and the huge Gnvernn.ent-ovned plants.They are afraid that Mr. Wallace will not con-tinue the .FC. policy of selling Ihee platetto big business at the price of about twn centson the dollar. For his liberal views, .ni hi. plansto create jobs for every worker after the war,.Walhlae is smeared by the tories as a Red: yearsago such liberals were isolated by being calledsocialists,. Wht this country needs mu more"'Rds" like Wallace,

At our first meeting in February we had willus the following out-of-town Local (Clairaen forthe railroads: J. C. Barnes, IGN, San Anrolen:(;. W. Boynton, GCL, Kingsville; C, W. ('raie. Tand NO, Algiers; Ralph BH Holaenann,. I(N, SanAntonio; W. J. Kegler, T and NO, Dallas; C. E.Linn. IGN, Palestine; and C. D. Reaves , T and NOlinemen. The inembership of Local 11-46 nnjoyed[their making the meeting and having an oppor-tunity to congratulate then. ao the fine job theyare doing. Our railroad local is opelosed of elee-tricians, linemen, crane operators end helkerson the T and NO and Missouri Par/fie lne. inTexas and Louisiana. To give soic idea ofthe territory we over. we have imembers inNew Orleans and members in El Paso. a dis-tance of over 1200 nilles. The Iiaeoen. onn the

Brother Gerald White of L U.No. 908, now servng in the ArmyAir Forces as a telephone and

telegraph lineman,

Southern Pacific were granted a 4-cent hour-ly raise, ats result of negotiations betweenthe management and A. J. Bannon, our Bas-nMs ..anager-General Chairman, and H. M.Olive, Assistant General Chairman. The fineprogress we ill'e innlde in our railroad localis due to the harl work of General ChairmanIf...l...U l( Asistant eneraiel Chairman Oliveirnel their local hlairanin.

Although oStliruct, on work is very slow innla j.,rijt ieee, al our eincetrsa are working.Quite a few have taken loeal onainternatieinks, rnd snre are working on oft-of-town jobs.Tw, of oiu r men,boie M. M. (Big Marc McCcl-lin id ]E. K. I(hboo (hoe) Coletrune h ave real-ierol I e It ln,: ll'S dream and are now fishibgfar 1 vLag,. Biewryer, Big Mae and Chop Chopart tLkhltni diflttere lly than .mo.st linemen I

know. They ale taking hait with them and

Tie aoli-labor element in Texas is about toget in amother low blow on labor ,ith theirso-callett "right-to wo -it bill. This bill, with itsban on the eh,;edl s,,p iwtd other restrictionis i'leant tu de;.!oy he hbnr tiara.. It, spon.sol. ktew it is teonstitutional, bht believethey cal } 1i .h the alions before th e SupremeCotalt rendrr it, detimion,

Its eief sponsor it the Christian AmericanA~seiation. headed by Vance Muse, a lobbyistfor bg bus iness. hlis organ ierutn, with its finename, m, in reality, a fascist organiation pat-terned after the Nazbi. Its purpose is to stirup crias bhated and destroy th, labor ri .o.as.Thbis organiation has epenL thousanls of dolltrsholbhying for this bill in the legislatures ofseveral southern states. The money far this ern-ptiibn has been freely donated oat of excessproi.ls by some of oar big businessine whoart willing to dIu things the Nazi why in orderto .nnah the labor uniona. Such attempts tosomash hlhe.r by legislation jund litigatiln is notconfined to Texas and the southern states alone,but is, na tnnld in its scope. They are nerelyusinig Texns. Florida and Arkansas as a testingground, ant, it successful, they will quickly dothe same in the rest of the country.

Our L. It. E. W. organiation ill this state.tile Texas Slate Aselsoction of Electrical Work-ers, eas instrumenta l in waking Texas laborup to the fart that we are going to have tofight, and tight hard. if we arc to survive. Therank and fil. if Texas, Florida and Arkansaslabor should make a l of the legslIatolr whovote for these h ills. so we can retire them toprivate life at the next election.

Our Educational Committee hals really e.-bharked In a fille edautilvunl ji uoEZi. A cbnraf or linemen has ba-tn strted at the Universityif tieuaten. This clasa will deal with all phases

of line work roi, how to splice rope to tablicrll t l ons. The classe d wi I be taught by diff rentflieltilers nf B- 1( who are well suited to toalh

ou .ou.eger Tle,,, rs and give them the benefitof their telerienee. Ou. classes In hasic ere-trinty timd elrrtranns are both gel].1g strong.We owe,. a te of thanks to our Edueatlonal(onsaittlee for their fine fefforts in giving us areal educational program.

B-a4l lost two of its members by death inMarch. Brother 3. D, DeMon.., Eletrician'sfate, 1 c, of the qealbees, wea killed in actionst Iwo Jina. Brother DeMoney was a cablesplrer inll formerly worked for the HoustonLighting and Power Company. Brother John J.faekey was electrocuted while working on a

12,000-voit line. Brother Mackey was a linecuaumfor the loeustoa LiMhting and Power Company.The nembers of B-6( will tiss, J. D, and Johnny,as they were swell fellows and real union lle...To their families we extend our sympathy intheir Borrow.

Digsit G.LLOWAy, 1'- S8

L. U* NO. 68 Editor: 0 p p or-DENVER, COLO. tunity could bs Ie-

fined as taking ad-vantage of circumstances or conditions. To thosewho are alert, opportunity ay come only once,bat Is moert apt to cnec, again and again. Toooften, all of n have he.aine raconeiau of oppoetunites after the time to take advantage of

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the, has passed. We may have been lulled tosleep in the recent past by the circumstaneof war. That there hove been plenty of lobs.plenty of regular and overtime, among otherthings, apparently has made s careless anodindolent. To be ahle to recognise and make themoat of opporp.ntu nith,, one mst be p repared.

It is said that ignorance of the law is not con-sidered an excuse., It follows, then, that ignor-ance is not a part of alertness or preparednessI would like to illustrate this by two eventswithin the past few years, arid tie inf ath*o comes only iron the press. IitIer failedto take Englard apparently because of atnor-onee. It seems he iay have been ignorant ott

the weakness of England's defense, or, grantingthat he knew, he wts appar,,etly makirg abid for lngland's favor but was ignorant ofthe psyehologieail loke-,inp of the English peopleIn regard to their opposition to oppressionarid inijustice.

On the other hand, General .MacAr tiurs Inrid-ing oi Leyte. which, in a sense, may }lae beena gamble, provedl that he was preprred. lie wasprep.red by a koiwl, ge of the eon try, yaknowledge of his eenly, by a Inow [edge of hisown ability, its ,l as a kn.owledlge of thecapabilities of his commCand and his ol leagi.

As members (If n llgnized labor, we Should beseriously thinking i ..o.t the anoy coplieproblems that ill ir /eiabmiy follow the war.Where is organied labor on the rt.a dhat lea],to world peace, to natkir lal secnity, and to ihdi-vidual happiness ndl well being? What plansare being made, thi.. individually an.d as a

local union, to p'epare us to tirvel this road?Since it is a s elf-elidInt truth lhat llriOr1 nlem-bets ionefit theelsdves only according to thest r,-ngth and virility of their own lcah I willdiscuss only that i C of our o lrganiatin,.how nilny of us klow the history of organied

labor; the asplrteion, and ideology of the I. B.E. W.; the funtions, the duty. the power, theresponsibilities of the offters of our own local,as .el as ,he -ank anI file? As BlenjamiinFranklin has said: ",so convenient a thing it iCto he a resonia h ie t-reature, since it enablesone to Lnd out or raaie a rea.oeli for everything

one has a mind to do'," Can the skilled trades-aian find hr nnlk. a reason for not keepingup with the advoiies nnd intpiOveinet thaihave been aalre il his particular tradl? Can hefind or make Itreason for iot prepIiring him-self and his h'tal to assume the responsihilitiesof goo.d citizen-hip? Is it not re.ason.hle to beginto plan for the pehi d after the ware, hen.many of .or on w ince[lle rs will return, andmany others, by their experiencos in the service,will seek to joi. our organiatlion ? Alwaysorganized labor hna fought for free publicschnols, the puipoee of hkeh is to teach peopleto think. There is no real reason why, havinbbeeinue i jon riyman, we should cease to studynitd read aonl thihk. Oil the contraiy. thereis every eidence that we should do so, and the

nonner the better.We place our f+attlre inE the banuds of certain

,nii in national, state and local affairs These,en should be conidered as worl...en workirg

at the trade of reproentin the manjori ty of us.,and they know how they ore leing paid, inwages or salary or in h.nor and name. Regard-less of the method of paymenit, the interestedrepresentative will][i ; dete his energies to increase his knowecdge of his trade, and thusbecome more fitted for his coltinattion in officeor forl advancement. fl we not realize the Ce-treme necessity of informed thinking ioae be-Dig our representHl.i.e. ?

We are soon to hive elections of our own, inwhich we will elhet luon to certain powerfulOfilces within our own locals. To these n/on weentrust our standlig in the conmnuniiy, to thenegntiation of oar working agreement, to thebuilding up of our or ganization. More than werealloe, we entrust to these me the dollarsand cents that miay cone into or go out of ourpockets, which is of prime importatrien to US all.More than we know, these men are responsiblefor our econolfle and social future., lave theyconducted themselves in public and private sothey can face their fellow members with adear conscience? Ills the person or persons seek

Salute To A Good Humorist

Have you been realding the joke page inthe past few T no,, ths ? If you have then y.nCoust have sen the name of PfI. WilliamScelicke, Jr., of L. U. Ne 3, app ear manytimes. We are proud to publish tfi, piteureof Brother Sectioke, anid pay a flltie tributeto the courage and good spirit and fine senseof humor that kept Brother Seelicke send-ing in his clevel', hum..orous little poemsmonth after moth from the battlfields ofItaly and fromt the rest camp to which hewas sent later to rest and rIctptrate. Itnakes us feel very proud and happly that,in spite of all the stress of lighting and

the weariness and discou age. niht thatmust so often accom pany it, our boys .. Y"orthbe " ta ke time out to think if theirBrothers at ho.... .nd their JOURNAL., andtnId contributilons ill to "keep uI laughihig.''

ins any office made an attempt to prepare fortile fa tule? To Ithey have any plans for develop-tig ill training prgl ru.ns; educational programshealth programs or any programs it all for thebietteriment of ilie ,rganization

Julius lloekran, vie ireslident of (ho Tntel.-national Ladies' Garenlet Workers' UlI ion, said'eCently, in olpenine

~a in-sedviee tliltg pro-

graillt for uni,,n . .fifers: "In recat years, andespeciallIy in the past decade un odr lte NewDeal, the abTor leder's job ha. broadened andbecome more onricoliated. It is ri lone, enoneghfr lipi, to be LI effective organizer speaLkerand pamphleteer. Today he ansi know hisway about it ma ny liehis far rem.oved, ilercd.from labor's orbinial path in earlier an d shim.ler

days. lie must know his way about illsoclOgy.in con..omies, in nlarage nent. in law, and illpublic affairs, le must know how to deal with

ove rnmental agencies, how to work in hiseom .. unity, how to cultivate pahlic opinion. The

labor leader if toliay finds hiliisef deeply im-o"a.rd in all aspets of our eroron .. ic. socialnnid political Hie"

As ne.bers f theI, fL B. E. W, we night cam-

pare with stokholders in a corporation. We ownstock tinsurance), we have the power andprivilege cf the vole on variouis nataer5, wehave .ur divider.d. p1, tble to as ill the formolf a pension. and a the end of Iife's road, asm nufficient to. give us decent bit rid. is thisall that iC. rnean, to us? Th sonoe individuals.it lerely means a job, a meal, a drink, a fewdollars in old age, al, ofinally, death. To the

Brotherhood life is more than that, IL is worth-wlile living, it is latter conditions, it is setlr-ity in old ago, anti, at the last, sorrow bo, thepassing of one who had lone his best, one whohad believed in sad practiced the golden rule.

We have a groat number of opportunitieswithin our grasp to become the important factorli our economy that we should. It Ceems, then,that we should take adlvantage of: I The train-ing offered by the various governmellt agenciesIhat will help us naet these proIbtlemn 2 the

Iv teed and technical training offered by theet hools, both aoadaintir and 'ocatiorna; 3--byaitteinrig the differenit forus, semnllna and

loeCre, sponsored by different troups to getthe view point of well informed people andperhaps teach us to take a broa-hder and olloeu.nselfsh attitude toward our eoi niaon problems.

We hove often 'ben told that labor is COmingof age. anr we n;'(e with aIu[ in his letterto the Corinthians" "When I was a ehihl I spalkeas a child, [ liumltrsto...d as a child, I thought as

child: Lut when I became a man I put awaychildish things''"

L. U. NO. 70. Edditoe The ap-WASHLINGTON, ). C. Pellite ruling re-

versed and re-manded to District Court suit or their feesby two local attorneys against the ElectricUtitiesloa Emp loye es'oan (a c ompany union),coraposed of nonl ipervisory enployees of thePotomac Electric p ,wer Company. The lawyersclaimed the l'rpct's El.E.U. employed themto perfect its organiHation, and c n obtainingits recognition by the power ompaulY as a laborunion and bargaining agency. The two attorneysasked for $13,900 with interest front June 1,1938, or alternately $30,000.

District Court had granted a motion of Popeo'sEPU.E.U, to quash services in connection withthe suit, and to disaleis the complaint. claim-ing that Pepwes EY.E.U. was an unincor-porated, unaffiliated labor union, and so couldlnt be sled.

The Court of Aip.,ais, in reversing and re-mantling the case to I he lower court, said theunion has the Salvf powers and rights as theAFl, (IO, or the United Mine Workers, adding:"It is diffferenil 'tjd i#n that it has noae

It is just this slight differenos that will for-ever keep PVieilo E.U.E./L from being any-

thing but a company ,nouthpieceit hs no af-filiates! it is interesting to note that the I. BE. W., as a labor .nion. has more than , 350,000Tesnbors ill nearly 1,500 Eational and interna-

t iona l locals, liind these locals, turn, alejoined aid affiliated with building trades andlabor councils it t-her respective towns, cor-munities and state while nationally and inter-nationally represented by purposeful leadersat all piogressive labor Conventions.

It is hoped that these few statiltics willeLipli SuOlie of he uillinformed lads in Pepcot.. .. dk the right swing into the rankcs oforganized labi, slid that swinlr is throughlocal 70, where mM.I of their working partners

are joined in a ,ol .. nr. pledge of brotherhoodamid progress. Our II/llsiness Manager, Williamtoeliter, is alnays Fp.]ha to answrr any in-quiry coneeranig Emiliership and its benefits.

iull Bill, WArfieMl 1164, any of you Pepcofellas that aren't with us, for we do wanty-ou with us[

Kerm.it L. Ehdy, RS.. is in riceipt of a newexisting work agreenit between local 70 andAsplundh Tree Expert o. for all work per-formed by the erm phloyer for the Potomac Eleh.tric Power Co,, Wishingtn, D. C,, aml vicinity.The contract coanlns a general ilnreuse forall employees, ani. i neldes paid vacations, in-uraane, sCeorily rights and other benefits.

Tree trimming in i, various branches (pardonthe pun. I just couhln't help it), is a new andlarge field for the L, B. E. W.

Alfred J. Jarbe% hospitalized. encased, andconvalescent since May 30, 1944, will be back on

the job before this is out in print. Al fell 56feet while trimming trees and was quite bangedup, hut you can't keep a good tree-trimmerdown. you know!

Bill Segar shows up at the meetings pla-

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t76 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operatorsperous an all gset-out. Btll has a nice Insidelob now maintaining service and equipmaltfor one of the world's largesn t p entaomrnmunieies-Pairlington, Virginia. "Pop" Reynoldsis there with hinm.

"Midnight" Clark dropped into the hall Birsttime in a long while. Nice to see you again."Midiight't conm in oftruer.

G;rek Bnone was lest seen on the honks onth ereule s Pewder job at Rladford, Virginia.

Bill Ruppard, oil tI saIme jo with Greek,nearly got his right hand cut off, His glovedhabid was pulled through the pulley wheel ofthe ine t ru.i bi, I frayed winch line -two 4,-fn~t . i.. ck I r'eA ,rn l] ,L, e n tha end of theline.

"Shorty" Priee j looking young and healthyas ever. Shorty's eI the job at In dian, Head,M*arFyl d.

Moody Saunders. our ever pleosant vice presi-dent. is deep ia the eonret of tie latest B'llBRsy Be. agree with him it i. a nicely put uplocal journal.

I wish here to express my thanks to Ineal637, of ItoRnoke, Virginia. and my many fJriend,there for the hospitality extended me in theirjurisdicti ia. oI h.'. the day will soon come whenI ca., ptit ,~i, i sway a vacation in thattruly aitit I nal,y1 rI.

I hear a lot of tilk aholt electronics but Idon't see nobody doin' n *othin' ah.ol,4 it. All ele,tronic tubes are las cal Fy the tIm. and thefunction of an eletronic tube is that of aswitch operating at the speed of light. The juicegoes in there and comes out here.

STAN STANTON, P. S.

I. I'. NO. 79, dtdiolr lpin OUrSYRA( I SE, N. Y. end of the country

we have at las.shoveled ourse ve isnut of the moun[tains of snowengulting us lac TDeertuer.

Seed cataloga e are aP*earing in the mail,and soon ie uill placidly linccunb to spring

fever.Tt oill net ie nuine nionth hefore a new

contract wifl lIe notre [,,L. A mastere commit-tee has been appointomi r,, celleet sad compileany sUrgestlins thai the lIugtuers may sub/at.concerning changes they wishL tI nalke in thepreent contract or added suggestilens for thefutuare contract.

If yon have any s t erest write them outand hand them to the rommitteeman from yourdepartment, so that they ill have your wishesto work on in lTrafiftg the Law contract.

It ws with inter<st that we learned from thedaily pres that the t.N.Y P. Corporation's netincome was enough Pn enaIle then to pay 33cents on each share of conlmn. n stek.

I understand that the Nin...ra-ludson C or-pota.ion bo.. ld all of the outstundlng shares ofcommon M.ock. I was tauight when young to b,very indIisriou's It I wished to he wealthy. -.

I slipped ,p 'somewhere, or )aybe I used thewr'ong ilte rprl tatinn.

The War Chest drive was very successfullyhandled by our local eninttemraen. The sasecommittee is now working on the Red Crossdrive. Wnn't yrou help this driv e to be a successand reap the everlasting thanks of your B rothersin the service?

I was going to preach a srmon on attendi~ngunion meetings, but space Ia 8hort, to just agentle renindot they are held on the firtand third Fricays nf each month. They are your

meetings, anI are for the common good of allmeabers, so stay out of your rocking chair onthose nights and coie.

Fae Ki,, P. S.

L. U. NO. 80, Editor: Many ofNORFOLK, VA. our nienlhers are

apparently gladthat snue form or sick and accident insuranceis now awt'Li]:lehl to the lpass-the.-ht-fir-me''boys. lgruhter Tareell gaya, 'Don't say youknew rething abolut this Insur.anee'' Much ef-fort was madte it, present thts insurance tothe members and now it I, e"tirely up to theindividual. Don't be one to need it and nothbave it. The opportunity has been presented.

fts too bad you fellows can't see your

photo in the SOtIINAL-nayle we e;n have bet-ter hick n ext time.

lieoe's Iue who likes fun too but let's allgive Brother "Noble Dome" Mifrtin a haind inhis offsrig toward establishing referencelibrary in the loca]'s office.

Glad to hear that Brother George (Don'tBring 'Em Back Alive) Buok, who is somewherein Europe is getting along 0. K. and is hold-ing his wn. Wouild like to hear about moreof our members in service. Drop me a line at1061 W. Ifth Street, Norfolk 8, Virginia.

Let's all wish Brother George Ne('une ILotof luek in the coming event-Let's hope It Isg~,isor .,ore-eh George!

A message from the business manger-'Sthkto your job, because that's where you're needed~ost','

That's enough fron the "Lap,-over." (WfhereVirginia laps over into Carol.ina.)

E. A. (MACt) MerC, Lo1'n, Pp. S.

L. U. NO. 103. Editor: With Me-BOSTON, MASS. moral fly near

at hand. this letteris wijiten for Ihe purlmOe of aliig F, .nlnd

nibny of cur Brothers, workers on the hor.efrunt, who Ihve gone home to their eternal re-ward.

While Memorial Day wna first set aide as aday of thoughtful remembranee-a day of -eol-lectlos and a day for prayer for our honoredsoldier and sailor dead- ,e too, through theyears have On each Meninrial Day, tholght Ifour deceased Brothers of this great lical union-

Since January t. 1944, Local No. 103 of Soa*too, has had steriken from its rolls by deathmany of its members. These men will never beknown as war heroes* but in reality many ofthese men went down fighting on the home front.The long hours each day, seven days a weekduring the last few years, and, in addition, thefast pace we are forced to live because of war,

ultimately take their toll.Commencing Januar.y 1. 1945, to the time of

this writing Local No. 103 has lost eight af ItsItrenbera. Listed below are the names of thosewho pased on in the last year:

"They are not dead. they are just away".foaniel J. Canty Frank FellsJohn L. Baker Ray LeamanJohn H. MeHugh Ray WilllmottWilliam H', Smith Ira SmithRobert Robertson Frank CarneyFrank U. Smdth Le, FayWilliam A. Malloy Pierce McCarthyPrank H1. Starr George E. CushmanArthur DI Hawks Ja.ees DonovanThe oaicers and members of Local No, 103 ex-

tend to the familiea of our lost Brothers oursincere sympathy. and hoet that this "bloodywar" and iLs accompanying havoc will fade awayto the end-that we may soon look upon a worldof peace and prosperity.

HENxy J. HuRomt P. S.

1U~ Ur- NO. IOR. Ed;t.o: We haveTAM'A, FLA. not mat ate mU L h

progress yet in re-bmodeling the building we recently purchasen..

hut we hope at my next writing we can reportthat the 'emodeling has been completed. Our ,a-riius groups are already meeting there, hut ouroffices have remained at our old location at 202Tampa Street. The building committee, undersupervision of Chairman C. O. Barnes. has beenmeeting frequently, discussing the many per-plexities of plans, construction, and bids. Con.

siderable progress his h",n made, however, andsaon we will have the alterthions we need.

The writer had the pleasure of attending areeting of the Florida State ELectrical Work-

er t ' Association in Jacksouville this month.Postwar possibilities s eem very promising to all.although, at this report, regular constructionwork Is at its ebb.

Among the delegates attending the above-men-tioned meeting were genial Association Pres[-dent R. 1). Sominerkamp of St. Petersburg, whowas re-elected to that office,; Bother liarper,secretary of West Pain Beaeh; Brother C. G.('Two Shoe" Smil, of Jacksonville,. who said hewould ease .. y jprtohed throavt ith a bottle ofheer, but didn't produce, and none other thanmy rival columnist. Brother J. I. Gilbert ofFort Liauderdate, who is considered the leadingauthority in the Southea.t on the raising andtraining of parrots.

Our husines manager, Blrother Al Lipford,was considered present at the Florida State Elec-trical Workers ,,eitig. but :pent an activetime with the State Feilrai:,n of Labor Legis-lotioe Canerenc ' whici Iaw rnvng on at thesame tlne. We expeet some interesting eventswhen the legislature mleets next month.

Our woman's auxiliary will elect an entire newset of officers at their next meeting, April 5.The president, Mfrs. Harry Kilher, has servedfor the last three years. and has asked that shebe allowed to retire adlt some lse else inher place. She has served faithfully ard expertlyand the members have expressed their regretthat she will not jimitrate President Rooseveltand accept a fourth t. C..

We have at pre cut 55 of our members work-iug at Clintnn, Tennessee, and as the weatherheoemes warmer io doubt many more of ourBrothe-s will go there if still ieeded.

Our maine work is about at its peak justnow anid we expect a decline in such employmentto start on., Building construction work isstill more or ess dormant and we are wistfullyawaiting the war's termination and the start ofpostwar construction.

CHARLes A. Scait, P. S.

L. U. NO. 24. Edit.or: Of all theTOLEDO, OHIO phrases we hold

dear,. the one weare fondebt of is "spring is here" Spring ap-parently has heard that song TIs You Is Or IsYou Ain't," for *he cant seem to make hermind up for a while.

The past winter has taken a heavy toll fromthe Edison boys, both old and young. Manyfrom all departments have been on the sicklist, and sone of themn for several noneth,.

That tall and handsome soldier that GeorrgReins was showing around Arnie some tireago was G(eorae sin-in-law. R. R is proud ofthe lad, and justly so. Harry Miller, formerlyof operation arid now of the Navy, was in Miamia while back and had only time to call homebefore going to sea again. Harry should havesome good stories to tell soon we hope, Leonara(Shorty) Howell's son, now hospitalized for thethird time and Iv. England, may be home irMay, Lt. Howell was injured while his groupwas helping reduct the German bulge in Bel-alum,

SeFveral Edison famiilies have received th,much dreaded telegrems stating that a lovedrine was "missing in artioe." The uncertain

feeling, coupled with our known impotence onde,such 6irfcuntanres, iS heartbreaking. Our symn-pathy to these unfortunate families, and a sin.eere wIh that your service man be returnedto you safe and sound.

The presentation of a service button toBlrother Jay Swank. of the transformerc depart-

ont, for 50 years of service, which was madesomeS tine ago. was missed by your scribe,Brother Dukeshire has been In my hair forflais,,ig a scoop about one of our oldest netu-bers. Brother Dukeshire writes his news andcomments out for me, and som etimes usesasbestos paper. Thanks, Duke, anyhow, andkeep then' coming. I also wish more of theBrothers would do likewise. Local meetingshave been picking up a bit in size and feeling

WAR CASUALTYThis number is dated Volume 44,

No. 5, May-Jue., 1945. The next unm-ber which you will receive will bedated Volume 44, No. 6, July, 1945.This means that one whole numberwill be misstig in 1945 to save 85.000pounds of much needed paper. Sorry.

MAY-JUNE, 1945

also. A nine new War Bond to Some one in attend-ance each meeting. Ask Bill Witt what littlething enabled him to win a bondl It's a goodstory, too.

Mike Al.re, of Acme, has a sweetheart of askeeter, and his only prayer now is "sunshinein large quantities." Don Meyers also has theDoodle Bug fever. If the high pressure boiler"punch boards" were only built in circular torm,Don and his skooter could handle all three.

Hitler failed in his try for world power, andhis idea of training children for the state only.we thought was dead. The same i]ea is nowbeing revamped to met an American <tnation.A rival of the American Federation of Labor,having failed to convert the adults to theirphilosophy, will soon bring the gospel of 'Powerand How to Get It" to the American youth.

Shortage of tires, not enough red points forneat, shortage of gas and can't go fishing, needwore coal and I just keep wishin' this * war

would end.No, I ain't kiekin', but, honest, ain't it a

anell of a hess?D. D. DPT,,ow, P. S.

L. U. NO. 271. Editor: A awWICHITA, KANS. high in labor-mar'-

acerpent relationswas reached here recently when Local 271 andthe Wichita secfon of the Kansas State Chapter,National Electrical Contractors' Asloclatlon.jointly negotiated and signed a collective bar-gaining agreement While this is not the firstagreement to be reached between the emlployers'assoeiation and the union in the electrical in-dustry. it is the first sach labor agreement com-pleted in Wichita.

Heretofore. agreements were negotiated be-tween the individual employers and the union,which, in many instances, resulted in nisunder-standings in the industry.

Both the contractor and union have cometo the realization that harmonious relations aremore necessary than ever before to improvethe relationship between the employer, the work-er and the public, and that confidence in eachother can better be furthered I through themethods they have adopted.

It is felt that this progressive move will Koa long way toward breaking down barriers thathave been raised in the past through prejudiceand habit, and that it is the first step in estab-ishing the principle of the interdependence ofboth groups.

That interdependenc is shown in the fieldof training future journeymen for the eleetricaltrade. A joint apprenticeship committee hasbee, established, composed of members of heunion and the contractors' association. Thiscommittee has dloped writtaen standards ofapprenticeship as a guide to assure the propertraining of apprentices, thereby providing a

proper flow of skilled tradesmen into industry.The apprenticeship program is administered sole-ly by the committee, and was developed underpoilcies reTcommended by the Federal Committeeon Apprenticeship arid the National Joint Ap-prenticesbip Committee for the electrical indis-try. This is another forward step in bring-ing about true labor-management cooperationthrough joint acceptance of joint responsibility.

The agreement was signed for the local byR. E. Mitchell, president; L C. Mitchell, chair-man of the electrical board, arid C' F. Gustafson,business manager for the contractors' associa-tion, and B. J. Hill, president, and Charles W.Paige, secretary.

Everything is going along O.E. .on the Wichitafront; everyone's working and happy. TheBrothers who are out-of-town will be happy tolearn that flap Tteod, the local's oldest cardmember, is receiving the pension provided bythe I. B. E. W. Good luck, HaDp Brother RayMitchell has been confined in Wesley Hlospitalfor some time, but is up and around again.Brother Denny has also been confined in thegame hospital, and from reports he will soon bereleased. We have severa l new members in 271in the last few weeks, Brother Gustafson signedanother contractor at Wellington. This makes

WINS MEDAL FOR HEROISM

Sergeant Salador L. Mazzara. formerPort Arthur, Texas electrician and mnemn-her of L. U. N,. 390, has been awardied theSoldier's Medal, for heroism on Augsmt 15,1944, during the invasion bf southernF[rance.

Sergeant Mazzara has ken overseas twoyears. He left Port Arthur with the 111thEngineers in November, 1940.

The citation accompanying the medaltells of Sergeant Mazaras heroism dis-played during the invasion, when a largelanding craft appr-oa.hing the coast -wasstruck squarely by an enemy glider bonmb.The seriously damaged vessel, loaded withheavy artillery. ammunition ald personnel.,drifted ashore in flames while the amnmni-tion started exploding.

The citation continues:"Although the personnel of the headquar-

ter and service company to bhiel SergeantMazzara was attached had been moved in-land from the beach to escape the hurtlingshell fragments, Se-geant Mazzara andsome conurades r'etunried to the shore nearthe burning ship and began rescue work.

'Aware of the ,hap.ratc plight of themen who had been forced to abandon thecraft by leaping overboard into the water,

the rescue party worked indefatigably untilmidnight, swimming alongside the ship anddragging the men ashore. The injured menwere brought to the beach, carried to aplace of safety and given first aid treat-inet.

"Sergeant Mazzara and his comrades didnot cease their unselfish and hazardouswork until they had saved 75 men fromdrowning and had treated another 15 forburns, wounds and shock."

The International Brotherhood of Elec-trical Workers is proud of Brother Maz-sara and Brothers like him in battle areasall over the world, displaying comrage andheroism to a remarkable degree.

thee ecodt finn from outside of Wichita to besigned up, the other being at Newton. Goodwork, Brother Carl-

Jmot OS"it, P, S.

L. U. NO. 309, Editor. In theEAST ST. LOUIS. ILL. beginning of time

the people of theworld found the earth a total, dark mystery,but we today, in the twentieth century, havehad a chance to look upon a few of thee mnys-teries unfolded before us. The r,,,, ~ Isiample,for mnny years ago people started tHe lightof knowledge by remembering to w*t, downinto book form, the things they were so aptto forget and ideas on discovery they them-selves could take to eternity. They w-rote manybooks so that you and I may read what theythought would help us most. These people werenot selfish. but poor and humble and oftenrobbed of honor rightfully theirs- These menare the unsung hero of the electrical world.

Probably most of the members of the I. B.E. W. will admit that the most outstandingevent in the past en's was the developmentand beginning of the I. B. E. W. education.Iprogram. This educational program i of greatimportance, not onny in electronics but in mak-ing leaders of men to guide and preserve therights and dignity of the members of the I. B.E. W. Much praise is due President F. J. Brownand Brother {. M. Bugnis.e.t f:or their outstand-ing leadership in bringing knowledge to theElectrical Workers of the new world.

0n the evening of March 23, bel cable splic-ing classes met in the local union hall. Theclass was called to order by Brother WilliamClark. the insru to, w ho itf rn,,d us that onthat evening we were to hear several lecturerson cable splicing and maintenance of underground cables. The speakers were several out-standing executives of the Union Electric Com-panm, who were instrumental in helping to es-tablish a cable-spiking school. At first, whenthe cable-splicing school started. we found our-selves lacking in materials and equipment. TheUnion Electric Company was informed of ourplight and imnedialely came to our aid andfurnished us with material and equipment.

We of the cable-splicing school are indeedgrateful for the splendid cooperation and per-sonal interest shown by the following execu-tives of the Union Electric Company: Mr.George P May. system superintendent distribu-tion construction: Mr. Andrew Bodicky, under-ground engineer; Mr. William H. Burggraf,cable superintendent, and Mr. Ceorge E. Syke.sub-station divlio.n.

The Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur-ing Company have alexeloped a new course onresistance welding. This course follows the ac-cepted course in industrial electronics whichWe aOg now completing aflter a , 1weeks' run,Inasmuch as the .ourse in resistance weldingis really an extension fhe principles we havelearned in industrial electronic, we believethat thi course ,ill prove popular to thosewho have token the first work in electronics,Practically the entire class has signified its in-tenton of etering the new classes now form-ing In resistse welding.

It would appear that this new course is onlyone of .any that could he offeled as an exten-thon of the basic work taken. Many of themembers of the classes would like to see furtherextensions of the use of electronics in the fieldsof relaying, mototrol, com unination, tadio andtelevision.

The instructor of these various courses is aman who is onutstandinig in the field of radioengineeflig and electronics , Mr. John Sampson.Myr, Sampson is al, excellent instructor. lie hastaught us electronics in shop form so that allthe members could u nderstand it. is personalinterest in teaching us electronics has madehim many new friends amntug the members ofour union,

We wish to thank Mr. W. Muorria Jones, whois the supervisor of war production trainingia this area, for his interest and personalservice in developing our electrical school. Wewish also to thank Mr. James Senes, assliantstate supervisor of trades industrial education.Mr. Seies has given us splendid service and co.operation. We appreciate his service.

The State of Illinois Board of Vocational

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178 The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORMERS and OperatorsEducation pays the cost of films, records, pro-jectors and instructors' salaries.

On the evening of March 31, the Westing-house Electronics course will be completed. Cer-tificates will be issued to those completing thiscourse, Afterwards several technical films willbe shown and refreshments served as plannedaid ..rm... 'd by cur president, Ceorge Viner.

Brother , Alti is now recuperating froman operation. We hope to see him in the best ofhealth soon adi back on the job.

Brother Gus Stobhr will be back on the jobsoon. He is well o n the road to recovery.

Blrother Joe Weir is now in the radio divisionof the United States Navy. His address is J, D.Weir, S., 1/c, Co. 408, U. S. T. C., Great Lakes,Illinois.

Brother William Schmidt is due back hi townany day now. Brother Schmidt is now a atitlieutenant and a fighter Inot of the UnitedStates Army and has beer hi Ind..ia.

{IiI Fm BowNx P. S.

L IT. NO. 319, Edllor, No doubtMIAMI., FLA. aur members work-

ugs away from Mi-anmi and our members in searice will be in-terested to know who the new officers electedMarch 16 were:

PresidetI. FreI Henning; vice president, JohnMcRae; recording secretary. einteiman; finan-cial secretary, (;crise D. Bowes; treasurer,Gettis Riles; busines manager, William C.Johnson; executive board, Marcus Bo.e, J. A.Click, Paul Foster; examining board, B. C*Brcig, J. A. Click, A. B. Dixon.

I feel errtain that our new officers will re-ceive full cooperation from each and everymember in their efforts to strengtben our lova[It is also wished by the teriIbe that our attend-ance in the future wil how our new officersthat we like to get together on the first andthird Friday night of each month, thus keepI.inin touch with current problems of our local.

Will give you otIe to blrush up your geographyoa: Do yon know Ihere Pat Cay is located?I understand that Charlie Powling is workingthere.

Would like to ask a certain Miami wiregrafter now working in St. Louis if he n-members the story of the big dope, little dope,and the teeny. weenit dope?

It will surely be a -mst intersting sight towatch Mr. Byrnes try to freeze wiremen. "OldGrandad" just won't freeze.

SPring is here in full swing now, for severalof the fellows are anxious to organiee a fishingcamnp down in the Keys; sure is a swell idea.

No doubt that will be one postwar plan withplenty of supporters, but. in the meantime, wewill continue our search for a formula whichwill cause flshernmen to tell the truth, thenwe will know where all thoee big ones go thatgt away.

Brother A- B. Dixon has been on the sick listbut is now on the improve.

R. C. TINELL, P. S.

L. U. NO. 3S3, Editor: Very fewTORONTO, ONT. people in the ranks

of the general pub-Iis disagree with the idea of public ownershipof public utilities, but a great many are comingto the conclusion that those commissions anddirectorates put in charge of controlling suchpublic-owned utilities might be working fromthe inside to put said utilities in disfavor withthe general public, and thus discourage anyfurther attempts to enIlarge the holdings of thegeneral taxpayer.

There are numerous industries and under-takings that should come under the direct con-trol of our pemple, such as oil wells, cona andgold mines and metals of all kinds that are dugfrom the soil of "this fair land of ours", to saynothing of the number of lives saved and youngbodies kept whole and healthy by strict stateownership of chemical and powder facmories and

armament works.Yes, this is a dream, and the marfacturers

have no objections to us having dreams as longas we don't wake up.

Reading left to rght: Charles Cite, financial secretary and treasurer; Bob Adams,Larry Moore, Donald J. Gill, executive boad; Paul A. Belff, president; Homer A.Brown, vice president; James Reilly, Internaflonal Representative; Paul Price, recordinq

secretary; George Nichols.L U. No. 1-1127, Richmond. Indiana, is very proud to have started the new year withnew offices, located in the Morton Center BuIlding. The board is shown in their newconference room. where they were honored with a vist from Mr. James Reilly, of theInternational Office. Hals off to Jim Reilly, whose tireless efforts and s.ncerily have

helped Richmond to achieve one of the best Locals in the area.

In the meantime. any authority that we in-vest in our elected representatives to selectmen to act on the various com.lmissions thatcontrol public owned ventures is ,eyr often mis-placed Dflue either to deliberate misrmanage-uent or downright ignorance, too many of our

utilities are made to appear in a very bad lightas to expense involved and results obtained.No doubt if thesee sameorganizations were pri-vately owned and profits unrestricted it wouldbe a different story. Are we to take from thisthat we have ward heelers instead of busineasmen running our property? Or, are -we goingto come to the conclusion that the public mustbe soured on any further expansion along theselines?

I have in mind the C.N.R. in Canada beforethe war, when the competition was keen, losingmoney by the millions while its only large comn-petitor paid equal wages and operated almostparallel lines and gave a cheerful and helpfultravel service. From personal observation, Iknow that it was a great deal more pleasantand quicker to contat the C.P.R. travel man

than the nunerous gentlemen employed by thenation's own railroad.

In Ontario., we have the Ontario Hydro-glec-trio Power Commission, a commission appointedby the Governmeat to administer to light andpower needs of the province at cost prices.Now we find included in these costs the price ofat least starting a company union, if not actuallymaintaining it at the present time, a companyunion that opposes the right of the I. B. E. W.to get the certification necessary to representthe low-paid workers of the Ontario Hydro at ahearing so that these workers might bringtheir conditions and living standards up to thelevel paid in other fields.

International Vice President E. Tngles andRepresentative Borden (ochrane are havingtheir hands full battling this public body, whichis paid by the public, operated for the public,but, in my opinion. governed by anything butpublic men.

I could go on citing cases on parallel lines.and so eould many of the readers of this JOURNAL,but I think all should agree that, before anyutility or industry can be successfully operatedfor the public with public funds, we shouldhave public-spirited men in charge of its af-fairs, and not some politically-sponsored gen-tlemen who have failed in their own ventureaor who are still working Iur private enterpriseand on the public's payroll,

JAcK NUrLAN., P. S.

L. U. NO. 377. Edi, or: ReportingLYNN, MASS. for the biggest little

local in the good oldU. S. A. I am glad to mention that we harefinished one semester in our electronics schooland am proud to state that we all received ourlittie "sheep skin," so as they say, bring on yourprogress.

Business is going along on the same trend.penty of small constrcetion and change over.Big work sloving down all around the area, sowe all are marking time to the same tune, justawaiting the right tempo to take in the rightdirection, we hope.

As it happens to us all at some time it fallson me to report that one of our old tinme mm-bers has passed on suddenly of pneumonia, "Kid"Bfal. We who knew hi., always called him "Kid'because even at 56 years he was still the kid.Always at the meetings, always ready to do hisbit for the organization whenever asked. Hewas always in good humor without a gripe.Yes, we will miss the 'Kid," but as he wouldhave it we will carry on to our best ability andpray for his peacfuIl journey.

We are starting another advanced course onelectronics to finish In June. With a lot of theB rothers drifting back to their hoime roost fromoutside jobs, I hope to have more news for ournext report.

DONm Pr,,n,,mn, P. S.

L. U. NO. 595, Editor: F aceOAKLAND, CALIF. with the problem

of keeping its mem-hert abreas of developments in the electronicand electrical fields, in April, 1944, Local UnionB-595 contacted the University of CaliforniaEngineering Science Management War Train-ing to ascertain if a program could be developed.The initial result was a class of 128 studentsmeeting on April 20, 1944. The course title was'Industrial Electronics I". With so large a re-sponse, the group was divided into two sections,one taught by Mr. F. E. Strauss, engineer withthe General Electric Company, the other byMr. L. Rayner Labadie, owner and engineer ofthe Precision Laboratory.

The second group of classes began in Septem-ber, with 177 students in five beginning elee-tronics elasses, all taught by Mr. Lahadie, and35 in an advanced course under Mr. Wiens, ofthe University of California. In addition, aclass was organized for power men, entitled"Maintenance and Trouble Correction of Elec-trical Machinery'. Initial enrollment was 66,and the ledures were by the following group

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of practiclng engineers: John Petersen, PacificElectric Motor Company; Normaln Albert. Pa-rific Gas and Electric Company; C. R. Benson,General Electric Company, and J. V. Kresser,Wostiughottee E]lectric and Mianufacturing Crno-pany.

The current program began the week of Feh-ruary 26, and consists of four secti.on of Ele-tronics I and ithree sections of Electronics II.Five are evening classes, but one section of bothI and TI meets at noon for workers on the swingshift. Another class will soon hle started for thepower men.

All classes to date have bad a remarkablyhigh percentage f comnletions. This is duebath to the natural eagerutiss of the melt fortehnical inforrmation and to the high ¢lualityof instruction Braagh to us thirmugh the E. S.M. W. T. The instructors, all college trainedinie with y>ears of prafileaI ex peritne, havebeen outstanding througnhot.

I feel that the results have i'et ,ell we wrth-while, an(i Local nmioo BI 5 ow in> I Talli

Its own labor-atoy to ps1updlemuiot the lectdrework. This trainitg has con t rliuted to lhe wareffort through increasing t he elillhency of themarnen and mnaintenance electricians.

Local Union B 5!15, with its educational corn,eittee headed by Bn in!as M rttgeir S. E. ]lack-well, takes great pride in havins pioneered thiscooperative training. It is a p ease ,i seeit .pread through the ither affiliateid locals inCall'o'nia, knowing that local 11-5915 Ile tleway.

S. E. R.OCKX...L, F. S.

L. U. N O. 611.ilh,,o abThALBU QUE BQUE, u nlos of Neow Me'

N. M . w ~ire are aigalin ,fronted with a

nurrihrer of anti-labor bills beinf pre'e tedl to thistate legislature, A very abbrev;ted sumllaryof the bills frlhl'ws

A bill to enact a law rquirlii laboe uni[onsto publish in the enewspa pers their consituitionand by laws each year,

An act to -epeal certains ectians of the StateEIectrical (ode.

An act reqi cin labor unmilons to lie registered,prescribing the qualifications if aficers. di'('o-tors a[Ld employees of tholr org a nizations, fix-Pig clus, fees a',I assess aerts. h ey i 12'rossrecelpts taxes on labor unions and forbiddingpolitical clltrilutwhis.

A resolution proposing a con sdittiuional nend-nee t which, iat part, would m1ke it unlawful

to "compel any pero.. ageileat his will to paydues to any labor i rganiznlion as a eondtionof employnient and providing that thae pro-posed constitu tlina atnendnlent be suhaifttedto the people at the next gtn'ra electiion

All usnon nen have been asked by the StatsFedleratJin of Labor to write their senatorsand representatives urging then, to wvork againstthese anti-labor hills. A copy of one such letterfollows:

Albuquerque, New lexico,March 8, 1945.

Dear Sir:This letter concerns the following anti-labor

bills that are before the Senall an] House fornitsideration during the present termn.

Ilouse Bills, nilmbers ., 64;, PR, 116, 176 aidSenate Joint Resolution ,u hlr 22.

Any of theme bills, if passed, would seriouslydamage the lhbor movement icr New Mexico andplace on thei an undue expense.

We believe thtpe bills are sponsored by IheChristian Ame rcan movement, whose memb ersseem to be iitent on retaidfig organized Inlaain every way they can, an(d who, in turn. airefinanced by erta in wealthy reactionary interestY.

Iiahor is p t to a disadvantage in defenditgits side, beia use it does not have the time o rinolley to injc t the i thotroug. h c.~ta'tor literature that is injected iito the con troversy by its enmis.

It is conceded 'noe and note by statesmenand eononmists that. as eonlditions change inour country and every line of activity becolnesmore thoroughly organized, it is absolutely

AN I. B. E. W. HER0

One of B rot....'s, First SergeantThaddeus Mslliowsl, i .e...er of anArmreed Mold Artilley Blttttalili, Head-quarters Batt,' ' 4t h A r Ired Division,has recentll returned to Ihe J aited Statesfor a tour oF ef oical war plants.

Sergeant allski who ha, been in ac-tion in N.r.nal.dy, Bcti ...ny, Luxembourg,Alsace and B elgium, is the holder of theBronze Star and the Purple Hleart. Hisbattalion pritie' pated in General Patron'srapid hrea.hthrough lin, Brittany luringthe earlier stagcs if the French campaign.Later his outfit went to the rescue of the101st Airlq,,eie Division at Bastogne. Oneof the most inspihing storims of courage andberoism to come froil Europe. so far in thisvar is the story of Bastciane. That is thelittle 1bM ian town whore General MeAuliffeanswered German surrender demands withhis famous one-word reply: "Nuts."

Sergeant. Iaslowski ,as one of the menchosen to tll the heroic story of Bastogneto men and women in our war plants. Heis recounting the tale of men out-nlumbered,over-run, cut'off, pound.ed by artillery,ground down by tanks, mauled, mortallyweary, holding their little piece of groundagainst all odds and refusing to surrenderbecause they had a job to do ad they in-tended to do it.

Prior t. cntrring the Army in May, 1941,Sergeant Maslowski was a linema withthe Now York State Gas and Electric Com-pany. He is a member of L. U- No. 900, Lan-caster, New York.

ecessary tor labor to r'. nlise, not only forits proteotion bit in order to tit int.o the morecomiciabted system of soiety. The one who usedto he thie 'rwiyd idividual it is now the raggedin lvi'hlualist.

Organized labor is very happy in the knowl-edge that a ,reat many of the m os t successfulemployer:. i the counl ry have na compiain t to

lmike, n no trouble with their unionoem p1 uyee s,

We earnestly rge you to ise your influpencengainst the passage of the above-mcntionetbills,

J.AMtS MRIiIFIgeloi,, P. S.

L. U. NO. 72, Edtoe We o fFRONT ROYAL, VA. Local 972 w ish to

take this opjportun-ity to express our appreciation to ihe aniaylocals which have supplied us with e'onpetentand capable wiremen for the past year or so.The splendid cooperation and good fellowshipof these visiting Brothers, reeve,1n etLslices ofapproximately 60 locals. make as proud to bemerebern of the Brotherhood.

We uld like to thank Brother Sanm Terryfor his advice and guilding hand for I he pastfew years. We wish him all the luck possiblein hi, new job irn the offie. We will aliss hisassisance, but are looking for'ard to thefullest conperation with Brother Adair, who isreplacing hint.

We would also lite for ¢qem Prelor and C.lLowry and all the mentiers of local 26 toknow that we apprecit& the good treatmentand long stay with them. tI, I .'..e . yI ef treatedso well in fact that so.e of them refused toleave and .re still thre.

Our recording seSeeary, Brother GeorgeS louthern, has left us for the armed services.We wpilo this Brother Go..d-speed and a safe re-turn to our midst. Brother Archie Eldridge "asappointed to fill out the unexpired term ofoffice.

Brother Pafrict, of L (oeal Ot1, deserves a slapon the 1iiak for the good work he has lbeenidoing. Moler povcer to you, Brother Patriot, for

we of 672 think von have ldone a good job,not only ill furtheruig the interest of the I. B.E. W., hut for olganieId lbbor Ii' genetra.

We unlerstard that ,ther Mitchel, of Local637, is doing good lown Ron,,oke way. Luck tothis lirother, for he has a big job on his bandis.

,re don't hear much from Brother Shanner.but do hear of Big Steve Florey of 1340 occa-sionally. I .dersta d that Brother Florey is be-ing taught by one of the contractors to uls ahickey in making a short ninety.

The work in this area is not what it hasbeen, tit there are prospects of nmore in thenear future. Everyone is working at t I is time,and there are still quite a low out-of-townmembers here,

The F. I. McGraw and Company, of IHart-ford, Connecticut, is just finishing a job here forthe General Chemi cal Co . [pany There were nowork stoppages on this job for aly reason.I am enclosing a picture of the electrical crew,if there is s'... to print it. All hen ill thed epartment were furnishei by Local 672.

A thought has occurred to us. what with allthe good work that is bling done by the bust-nose managers of Locals O6P, 637. 467 and 1340,and our own Brother lIBaeock. that our interect,could be furthered by a cooperative e ffort ofall. The business msigesors and a couple ofthe executive board memblers of each l ocal couldget together every two or three months andhove organization, education and ways andmoans of keeping the Brothers at work as thegeneral discussion.

If any of the above mentioned locale are in-teresteh let's meet down in Brother Patriot,town first anTd see if we could do some good.Another good spot during the sumrerf wouldbe Steve Florey's, down on the bay.

Several other crafts antd organizations dothis, anI I think we could benefit greatly byexchanglng views aid helping one another. So.,let's hear from Locals As6, 67, 467 and 1340.Write R. E. Hancock, 403 Main Street. Frontloys, Virginia.

Jack GCIluiet:l, P. S.

L. IT. NO. 686. Editor: PublicityH AZLETON, PA. Director }[enry G.

Stelibing, of Local686, Haaleton, Pennsylvnnia, has finished a suc-cessfuzl campaign ia the oreanization of Tung-Sol Lanlp Works, In., In their new Weahrotlyplant, which i5 busy nannuf . actuririog tuN forthe U. S. Army and Navy. The campaign car-ried four places on the ballot of am elecionheld by tihe National Labor Relations Board onMarch 2. The results of the employees' votinggavel 1. B. E. W., of A. F. of L., 118; United Con-struction Workers of U. M. W. of America, 4;

The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and OperatorsUnited ElnetrIcal, Radio and Machine Workers,C. O., 66, and no unionn. .

Geoirs B. AMker and Lloyd Ritter, fromBill Walker's office, handled the 1, O/s support.

Local 68t; mncrlfIS were entertained by proudmember Joe wjatlnlli, who displayed a Naziflag at the last mloting. It was not just anorhdeary aog, but m.ul..red 6 X 8 and was freeof any dirt or tears. It was sent by his son,Louis Swanson, who is serving with thie U. S.Army in Gemany. Louis wrote little about howhe captured it, but promised the details later.Louis holds I card In Local 686 out of 1l1aletnn,Pennsylvania, and Is very happy at all timesto hear organization news,

lIEN.. A- S.E.IIN.. P. S.

L. U. NO. 697, E¢dir: Our eIe-GARY-HAMMOND, troeice class got under

IND, way March 21 with alrge en rollnent.

Brother Gail Fauver will give us the bene-fit of h is elctronic traininLg at .arq-ette Ii .'He is a good teacher and will daulbtes, havethe title of "prof" tacked onto him soon. iOrb oys are showing great interest in the course.

If you know baseball then you lc... wIlat ashrttop is. Generally he bi a pretty colorfulmoleer of the team, quick. I rainy and alwayson his toes, His Job is to sag all of the hotgrounders that bullet d],wn his way or bringdown those screaming line drives that becomeTetan leaguers once they cet iway. lie has toknow what to do with the ball when hIe has it.Where's the throw? First? ISfond? .ormeThe answer must be fast. Mlany a game is savedfrom beefming a marathon by the shortstop.

There is a shortstop y onr shop or on yourbig Job. Be is Y}our sho1p stewrIad he has ajob to do. uIe is the guy who snags the hot ones.the many little incidents that crop tp when theprogram is as forced as your work is today andhandles themr skillfulIly before they grow outof reason.

Ihis calls for a level bead, toet, keenness anda thorough acquaintance with details of the jobthat he is on.

At the same time he must have backbone, hemust as readily say "No," to his union Bronthersas to the company, when he knows that he isright.

All in all., shortstop is not an easy position toplay. A good one should have your laeking; hecant do the job without that supprt.

Your steward is responsible to Ihe businessrepresentntlee agsigned Io your job and to theexecutive hoard of your local. lie is retricled inthe extent to which he can act. And he generally

deals with a represe..tative of your employerwho is also similarly restricted. They can domuch good for labor relations, bht they cannotdo it all. Essentially, however.I ,'y both seekthe same thing.

What do they seek? Well, a slnolth-runnintrJob is one thing, low labor turnovecr another.And, of course, high production- on achedule.

Disputes candidly talked out and promptlysettled; gripes redIaee to a minimum and thenOnly legitimate oines, ani when you scan thisHlit, the itens on it are exactly what you seek,anid so does everyone.

Well, if this shortatop Is trippd up or double-erossell, rot iiIch baseball is played. The restof the team may frantically try tI recover theball, and make the play. But you wouldn't watchthat ki.4 of a game for long.

So ohle- n you have something for your stewardto hanidle, a hot one right off the bat, think ofthat piaure. Thon run over the following listin your mind:

Thi, arI not ruoe. in the usual sense, they arejust horse sense.

Give him all the facts. It is a doul..-.ross tasend him into the set tea eri of a grievI ncenio matter how just it i, without aso giving hinI clear, complete iu,1 concise aI .i . tt of thrfacts that mnake up your case.

If he disagrees, do not get sore. A man mayonly exercise responsibility on the facts as hesets them. Another basis for deisioln J. inpos-sibte. If you are still dissatisfied you can goon up the line to the business manager or theexecuti.e board.

Ie sure to knew the rules before yellinghonehead play," There are grievance proce-deires, contracts, constitution aud by-laws under

which your lolal functions. It is bound by thme.Know how each applies to your ease befolr la-menting too loudly.

I believe that this subject will interest allI.B.E.W. men. I cooperated with one of our mostactive nembers in sending this "essay' to younbut he is too modest to let me mentioll his name,so I do not want too nuch eredit for nlyTelf,

It. B. ELTWELL, p. S.

L. U. NO. 948, 'ditor: L o . aIFLINT, MICH. Union No. 049 is

doing business atthe same old stand, and we are glad to statethat all of our bcys are working at the presenttime, and we hale had a few fronm Saginaw andBay City with us. We have several small fal-tory Jobs going that would call for 50 or 75permit men if the ('0 were not getting mostof the ]est work. The 1leMire Electric Company

had a new factory buildng for the Buick MotorCompany, We were on this Job for four menthe .We installed the power feeders, lighting andthe air conditioning and ventilating systems,The Buick CO electricians have been on thisname job about three months and will he therethree or four months more. They are doing allof the nice work. They are installing all of themachines and electronic-eontrolled heat treatfurnaces. A few years ago, when we had a con-tract for a rew building, oe stayed on the jobuntil the plant was in operation .Not so now,and the direct cause of the exIsting state of af-fair, is the continual bickering between theA. F. of L. and the C. L. O. It'. getting us noplace fast; it is doing untold harm to the mem-,ers of the L. B. E. W. in the industrial dis-

tricts. I think it is up to III nn, lnteaatiutial Offieto do something about it. Why should the rankand file meaihers be made to suffer because abunch of "blockheads with chips on their sIoul-ders" fight among themselves?

We have an Ekletronie ehtsa going full blast,vtitbl abont 25 ner.bers in attendance. We have

very .abe instructor in the person of BlrtherWValace Collins.

Brother Gerald LeMire. technician, fourthglass, earned e commendst io. ftr the p.rt heplay*ed in installing an iliate and complexcommunications network dIring landings on ansland of the Southpsest I eifir. The citation,signed by lt I.t. Allan C. McGill, commonica-tilnl officer, said; "Your knowledge, iniiyand manner of performance wer e of invaluableaid to Lbh communications platoon in the Is-pelitious completion of this vitl phase of theopinration. The lath Infantry Regiment wasextremely fortunate to have you temporarilyassigned to the commnunications platoon.' (erryis the son of Charles A. LeMire. of the LeMireEllctric Con.pasny, one of our local union eon.tractors.

It is seemingly inpossible to have things runsmoothly. There is always a fly in the oint-ment, The ointment in this case is our agreeAent with our contraetors which says, in part.that men must be laid off the job in the sameorder they are placed on the job. This wasplaced in the agreement for the specific purposeof keeping a favored few frot alwa ys stayingon a job. All of our contractors signed theagreemenit and arc religiously living up to theirend of the barganl. Now, the fly in the cint-'nent is one of our local memrbers who has runseveral jobs here for out-of-t~own contractorsBrothters, you know there are a few suppoisedlyuninn men who can shed their thin veneer ofunionism like a s nake sheds his skin when they

ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT, F. H. McGRAW CO.-ON P. C. FRONT ROYAL JOBJob manned by Local 672, Front Royal Virginia. (Back row, left fo right) Paul Stevens, 508: Bob Houseman, 1758 George Gilman,872; Bill Burke, 672; Joe Noland, 98; Charley Molter, 5; PappyClear, 637; Larry Kellogg, 76; Buck Burnetl 637: Don Gilman, 181:Slew Carter, 1094; Jim McGraw, 466; Herman Thomas, 451; Herberr Booth, 1094; R. Bledsoe, 467; Ray Janowskl foreman, 672;J. F. Morgan, foreman, 672; Jack Guilford general foreman, 672. Front row: Charley Forbes, 1249; Stan Bryan, 923; Pappy Drum.mond, 637; Johnnie Greco, 755; Dick Gref, 683; Pop Guilford, 515; Mickey Flynn, 1249; Tommie Wirner, 467; Jack Davidson, 501.

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step Into a job with a littleforget about their duty to IAll they think of is making aselves with the contractor. ^reports of our business agent,tried every imaginalfie schemeour agreement by trying totrary to the agcreemaent. IIre, and lay them off, aincall again. thereby trying to m.list around so as to get his Iajob or get the job in a pTforeman will have to work wiman is completely devoid of atand fair play. The businessentire menbership know all oh,tactics. Now, when a member ouses cheap and underhandedperiod of years in, ueh A ;vwconfidence, friendship plnd ,,smen, it is time for tih Ihasie,.utive board to csip this IC'

hibiting hin fromI ever raonira job in our jurisdiction

Now for a little chat aboutin the postwar world Aeriathe porntals of a D w era, anIdfully the part it inltends to plpostwar world. Piollo.i.rin WlUnited States failed to lookdays that were to follow thesaits were disorder, diliord allvriloy merit was widespleadsttainLt throughout the con .tt:duction of consunic ooe r hnor wa the regiihattorl of outo the change over from pPacone who went through hlIos tbreaking years of huger, yeofreinoembrs the , u/ira b hipthe lack of planninig Now weOpot as befre. It is oTf vital Ithe war, but we must begn Idabsorb the shock when we stopIt is ocu responisibilty I. seour arned forces have jobs wand our war workeri are Irlltime jobs. The world has its eythe Talited States and ill peaplWe rvust not let them drowsulhstiitijl and w ell-plan nedciai system that will .. e.telife than has .. er hlp kn,,of the world. This respoasll'liupon the shoulders of ourdies it rest upon the shoulderlabor. The saintion of this peluied reslsonsibilit; of outc hurhbes, our schools an ... e'ol olabor and [ndustry. Irgtttjaegla big part hi this postwalrcombined strength aid ruserand material, in order to brbto evet a wworlker adi reIt will take the comb CTed eft0A. F. If L. and the C I. 0.The combned efforts of tie A.C. I, L0 working ill unisonthat would be absolutely nll

Quit playing pito the ha nd,

ih

authority. Theythe org a it'l In.

nlume for IheaiAccording ht thnthis Broitle ras

s to break down,lay off mein c...-

win call forIn a few dlays

anRover the workted few on the

fighting between ourselves and retarding labor'spregress.

{ere is a Dlittle axiom that the Ieader of boththe A. F. of L. and the C. 1. 0. shouhl let soak

into that block that's between their sleuhlerswith the chips or themi "If we don't hanig to-gether they (big b/l ti'ls will hang us sepa-rately."

J J. DUNCAN, P. S.

sition where the L. LT. NO. 121(, Editor. SeemAith he tools, The MINNEAPOLIS-ST. thi lt o thetlsense of justice PAUL, MiANN. rther front this

m.anager and the '[win it Lollut this Brothersl who are serving in the armed forces do manage

'f oaie alRbI, to drop a llne oecasionally to (heir Brotherspethods over i Ion the home front. A few of the ,leanings I

*y as to lIoe the have dug up fron the hleyv at liei go sonie-,ect of his fellow thing like thism Brother int IKelly, formerly of

manager .. n.dI WTCN. writes that he hsl eli lobed th t hi lingsFwings by pro- tower of pis., so ,idenly is hard It work

nor su ervisig somewhere a Ita ly. Speaking of climbnl, IIow-ers, Jacobsel, of WDG\, antd Kelly Theuhl gettogether smetrlai after he war and compare

t American labor notes on towe r clitbins. Bert Coil,. formerly ofn labor stands at WTCN and now ervinrig as Isi lieutenainrt in themust plan care Navy, is reported to be busy on shilkedown

ay in the conlig cruises for thes Navy. W*e hear that Brothernrld 'War [, the Clyde Treell, frme, r mlitter man at W'CN,

for dt th is now serving as captain in the Army Airwar, anI (he re- (orps. Brother Ellison is now E'nsign Ellison,Aon.lusion. t'- serving in tll' Pacific theater of war. WLOLand beyond re' reports that Capt. Merle Bjork. of the Armiyy. Adequate pro- Air Force, was hole ont ratatoinn furlough after* bi llot plannmed. erving 8) nbsi ions in a Thunderholt over thejr aftsrai gear.t luroEplait ('..ntinInl. Brother 11. I). Kihebrly,

to war. Ivery- former WLOl, technician. is reporteid serolg 5arying Snid hear.' lieutenant in, the Naivy ad in 'Iehrge of radars and starvation, e quipment at sone Navy base From KISTP, we,h resulted front learn that Brothr Al ADA is slItbrld iD Neware i, the saew Cuinea aRid loul.iig for'yard to isiting AUS-alortanee to In tralia.arming things to Art Jensen, conItrl operaor oIt 9SiT, has

I war prodtction. on induiligin notce, elfee ive April 3. Jerrythat the nein il Stewart, ,nlitter anln i;t K4 rTP, i k1eipi ng his'hen they retrt fingers oseri on the sabne business. The bhovefeered. to peael- holds true for yours trly Loe.al 121's record.

u owno jig secretary. Birther Niil Mecin is' becamele for leadershp, the proud father of a taby ginl recently . .. tooWe nmst bulhd A bhd WCCO diseontinitnd employment of fem.leecon om it' and s control e ratrI's. Ih Neil]? Broalher Warren

better way of Fritzie, at radio slit iti WIMIN reports his mDlnnin the ,istory are werking 90 ht s a wleek,. and he c.uld u.st'y es not r.s. two Ten to replce him eir in ordeicr to catch

gvvrnnmen~ . nor up on solic much needed rest. Pr F tp you mayo f business or work another Molf tournament. Fritzii, then

em, is ithe . ..... you can T heckle" the WDGY engineCrng staff.goverilentt. .a. That shonhd give you somec deIree of solitude.eges, agriculturt, Now we leave U .in neapois and St. Pool. antililtsbjor st play journy toward Anplka, aid find the 'nlitterIn.. ni. with it, mIn at W(('O pon3dering over on a..o. imenters, bol h nt-td of brigtly-colorerl seed catalogues. Brother

ng social jstie Pearson was he.,r, muttering solnet hJi, liketori, rg "g ran. " hats no go*,od, I triet lb.he last year .*' Matlrts of both the l at: appeas C, to le reilly (]hyelig with eager-tPo put this ov- nIeSS to deserbe bow he speared a (36-lb.?)F. of L, a nill Northern Pike in the RuBoll River.I a combinaltion I.'ro.. this. IVreihr Walz went bit, a salespsihlije to ]*eat, talk rega]ding his fancy dog-bIreeding business,

big businges ub a new venture for Mqat. All the hoys at a heW((0 xiCn ter Plant expresseid theiir othpiasonsbout 1heir new fltorescent lighting, aI assetflr the dnimming eyes of the aged e'hn..R.i.,.so they saMd.Members'

Thick to tile W'CO studios inl M inneapolis, wele(a tlther Wafl ..ind B o.A- I shap o Iand Ica.sf-leather lied I A by SellctloSrie . TOy vic paiesiea,

t0lay Fisk. was busy tinkering with a telgraphcekot Bolder bZr to be used as sanrid effect ol a futurea ~~program.a The L. U. 1216 exeeutive board get last

durable, lonth to drtele in a disturbing problem thathandsome was bound to require decisive aclion by thA

folder local. Outcome of their decision was the begin-.Id i g of a control operator set-Ip for thestudios at statlin WI)GY. This, incidentally, was

Official the only cornrin rir'l Twin City r...lg, dio tionReceipts operating IDer II cobination annou.ner-oper-

rowx or black Io ...r arrange,,eit. Tile many obstacles, srolh asmiaDpower and training proper operating tech-

35 tnml~ts r irue, ar. still left to be overcome, but wilt intime be eitinRatedI. Special mention Ahould b

given to Brother Ed Wedekind. who Is doing aswell otih ini the new type of work ho has mas-tyerd at the WDGY control board. Of no snmllimportance was the decision of the local execu-tive board to meet at regular monthly intervalsfor the purpose of d iscussin g and bringing forthreeonmendlations to the general ,embership. Ifworking hours of the executive board membersare such as to provide 100 per cent attendanceat thest proposed meetings, then certainly wehave nade another progressive step.

BaENARD J. ItBEE, P. S.

L. IT. NO. 1217, Ed r One ofST. LOUIS, MO. ..n boys, a former

i'tt re'd ii secretaryof L. U. No. 1217, has returned from the wars.He is Captain. A. Willis (Brother Arbie Willisto us), Itr~ther Willis entored the Armty shortlyafter Peri Iillrbor as a lieutenont, was sentoverseas and was a member of the EighthBomber Cormarir . inee its inception in Engaland, Ied was adeardee to a captaincy and laterwas made a wig co.n.l. 1tr of that group.Brother Willis , mu ostreld out of th servieeat Jefferson Blarracks, 51 iaourl and has re-turned to work at KMOX us P studi engineer.L. U. 1217 wveltomes Brother WillI4 hame againand is prid of his contribution to the wareffort.

Brother 11,i1 Sleet, a KMOX trarslitter engi-neer. has heo iiransferredq[ the ( IRS TelevisionLaboratory in New York. L. U 1217 wishesBrloths Nlo..t continued success in his new as-sirfbpiet.

Rlepcred ,ick at our last meeting wereBrother (hal Stoup, of WIT, and Brother Ester-brook. of KSD. Our he, wishes lor a spwelyrcovery Do to hoth of thee worthy members.

Our contract with KFRU. Columbia, Missouri,has been opialed for a De isini of wam scalesfor ity to chuiein,. It ha, beIn loI, time slncethese mIn have see, a wage in¢yc w, bnd I amsure that iamb action will be a weicooe relief tothem.

The reports by the scribes of I_. U. No. 715

You wall the JOlnRAL! We want you thave the JOIAL^A!

When you move notify us of the change ofres id enc aL once.

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f7VlIKfLIATION~t DROTBERHfOOD OFRLECTRICAt WOeRK F

2Oo lolt St., N. W., Washingtoln 5, D. C.

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The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operantor

and ,. U, No, 1220 appearing II th, March issueof the JoURNaL -ere oI f very interesting natureand were appreciated very much by this corre-spondent. Here in St. Louis we have always hada master agreement, only we term it a blanketagreement, the terns of which apply equally toall stations- L. U. No. 1217 also keeps an eagleeye out for non-I. B. F. W. pickups in our ter-ritory. All the networks know by this time thatthey can't get away with anything of that na-tLeo, hoesusa, if they do, the next time it coststhorn double or treble.

The local comn'ittee on working rules has pre-sented a Inew et a rules for adopto.ea

W. F. LrlCTE, P. S.

FIRST QUARTER MEETINGtContwoud from page 101

at the Li.. of appicadtion.The request of 4. F. Ryan, L. U. 214.

Card No. 319624, for a change in his birthrccorad is delied because the evidence sub-nitted is not sufficient to prove hik con-tention that his record should be changed.

The a.t ..n taken in December 1944,wherein poa lol was granted to Joseph B.Thomas, ard No. 439612, is hereby re-sci..de, ln.an.m..h as no pension paymentswere Ioolv to this member, and as he hascomplied with the law of L. U. 211, thecouncil took no further action.

The actions of the eounoil, whereby JamesF. McCaughey, Card No. 1631, and CharlesL. Schappert, Card No. A -] 104, were granted1. B. E W. Wpensions are hereby rescinded,and the action of Intermntional SecretaryBuginuoet in stopping pension payments to

hoth these mem.bers, plening action of theInternational Executive Council on theircases, is sustained. The evidence presented,andi not rh?, id by either Brother is that theyare now em1 iioYed as electrical inspectors,which is a bramh of the electrical trade, andthat while they are so employed they areneither entitled to 1. 13. E. W. pensions norwithdrawal card menmbership, and your coun-cil further orders Brothers MeCaughey andSehappert to withdraw their membershipcards from the I. 0. and redeposit them inL. U. No. 3.

The financial secretary of L. U. 48 is re-quested to furnish evil-nee that] Frank W.Prohaska, Card No. 867999, was alive o,March 27, 1945. It is also requested thatevidence be presented to show that BrotherProhaska was inducted into military serviceon December 16, 1942, and that he is still inmilitary service. If he has been dischargedfrom the service, evidence showing the dateof his discharge should be furnished.

The action of International SecretaryBugaiazet in refusing to grant a militaryservice card to Brother John Cummings,Card No. 762612, is sustained. InternationalSecretary Bugniaset acted in conformitywith the laws of the Brotherhood governingnem.bership In the I. B. E. W. for servicemen. These laws (Aticle XIV, Section 8,1. C.) were made and amended by a referen-dum vote of the Brotherhood maebership;therefore, action take,, was not based on apolicy of the 1. 0., but upon the laws ofthe L. B. E. W.

The action of International SecretaryBugnisset in correcting the membershipstanding of Jeremiah J. Crowley, Card No.769654, up to and including December 1944,is sustained.

The request of James Ashley, Card No.8081, for a correction in his membershipstanding, is granted. The evidence submitted,which is supported by 1. 0. records, showsthat there should be no break in membership

standing for this Brother in the year 1928.LeRoy Rodeberg, Card No, 701916, is re-

quested to furnish the council with a photo-static copy of his Army papers. When thisrequest is complied with his cas, will againbe considered.

Communications and resolutions submittedby L. U: 17 and .. -U. 58 were considered,and the subject matter will be given due con-sideration at the proper time.

L. U. No. 84 requested that a number oftheir members (list of names supplied) whohad membership in L. U, 84 up t, 1911, andwho lost their membership in the I. B. E. W.sonm time between 1931 abd 1936 on accountof adverse eyonomie conditions in the juris-dileiod of L. U. 84, and wio, between theyears 1931 and 1936 rejoined L. U. 84 andhave contiued their membership in L. U. 84up to the present time, be granted continuousmembership in the 1. B. E. W. through theyears 1931 to 196. The council gave seriousconsideration to this request, and upon in-vestigatio, they fT..d that in many partsof the country we hbve had conditions suchas confronted the membership of L. U. 84.As the laws of the Brotherhood do not grantthe power to anyone to make such an adjust-ment, the request is not onan,-red in.

Business Managoe Charles C. Smith, L. U.177, informed the council secretary, throughlong distance telephone conversation, that onMarch 28 or 29 he complied with the rquestof International President Brown that atransfer of money be made to the treasuryof L. U. 177 as outlined in InternationalPresident Brown's letter to Smith datedMarch 17, 1945, Business Manager Smithwas Instructed by the council to furnishproof to lnternational President Brown thatthe transaction had been made. The council'saction was that the matter be referred backto International President Brown for furtheraction.

Appeal of John F. Newell, L. U. 313,from Internatonal President Brown's de-cision as rendered on November 4. 1944, inthe case of Newell versus Business ManagerDoran and members of the Executive Boardof L. U. 439, is denied and InternationalPresident Brown is sustained in his decision.

Appeal of H. C. Fisher, Card No. 286916,from International President Brown's de-cision aS rendered in sustaining Interna-tional Vice President Ba ker's decision inthe case of Fisher versur C. L. Thurber,Internationaj Representative, is denied In-ternational President Brown's decision, asrendered in December 1944 is sustained.

Business Manager William C. Johnson,L. U. No. 98, submitotd a leter , lu lter .a-tipeal President Brown relative to the se-curing of paid vacations for L. B. E. W.members who are employed in the buildingindustry. President Brown passed the aon-mndication on to the council for their infor-mation and recommendations on the mbatte.The sdcrol gave considerable time to thediscussion of this mntter, with the resultthat it is reommended that the I. B. E. W.go on record as being in favor of paid qa-

rationc for all members of the 1. B. E. W.,whether working in the building constructionindustry or in any other mranch of our in-dustry. We recommend that the oiffcers oflocal unions, when negotiating agreements,strive to secure paid vacation clauses intheir agreements. Requests should be nadeat once by local union officers of their localcontractors to grant paid vacations. This is

a fertile field, as 1o vacations are granted

here. We further recommend that the 1. 0.secure up-to-date vacation data, such as wasprinted in the official JOURNAL, udIr dateef September 1940 to support the contentionfor paid vacations, and this data should beplaced in proper form so that it can be pre-sented to local building trades councils, aswell as to the convention of the Building andConstructin, Trhdes Department of the A.F. of L., to the end that the support of thesebodies he had to institute a universal paidvaeati.. for all of the labor movement.

A copy of a proposed C. I. 0. plan for theorganizing of building trade unions was pre-sented to the council. Your council thinksthat wide publicity sM.t.l.l he give" to thi,plan, and oar membriship Lhould be advisedto be on their guard against any encroach-rent into oia ..-k jurisdiction and member-ship ranks by these raiders. We advise ourInternational officers to present this matterto the Building and Construction Trade, De-partment of the A. F. of L. so that waysand means may be devised to thwart theseefforts.

An article written by McCuire in N. E. C. A,magazine, issue of JauaIIry E45, pago I7, wasroad and the co, eil vdntl 'n have a loiter sentto the, National Electrical Contractors Associa-tion, protesting the article as being prejudicialto the friendly spr1i t which should exist betweenthe L. B. E. W. and the N. E. C. A. Its pruojudg-

Hig tone is very unfair, because the case is stillbefore the U. S. Supreme Court for decision;therefore we request that equal 8pace te giventhe I. B. E. W. in the N. E. C. A. magazineto present our sid, of the case.

A committee composed of Messrs. Geary, Carl-son, Mechesney, Bush, and Pierce, from theNational Flectricl fContractors Association ietwith your council nrd International Seert.sfryBognisset for the purpose of devising ways andmeans whereby the contractors who employ I. B,E. W. members would set up a fund which wouldbe used to financially strengthen our presentI. B. E. W. old age pension system.

It was decided that a committee of three mem-bers from each side should meet to devise waysand means to carry out our plans. Council Men,-hors Van Arcdale, Jr., Proller and Shord. with1nternatiuala Secretary Bugniazet acting Is ad-visor to the 1. B. E. W. committee, were ap-pointed. The contractors pointed Messrs. Carl-tot, Fraser and (layton, with Mr. ecbhesitlyand Mr. Bush as advisors. It was agreed that the

manatittlee woold oeet within 20 days.It is recommended that I. B, E. W. Co-Chair

man Hedges and N. E. C. A. Co-Chairman Geary,of the Lahor-Management Planning CommitteeOn Post War Problems of the N. E. C. A. and theI. B E. W., he requested to call an early meetingof their cur,, itte% so that rnj'rsetetativvs of LieI, B. E. W. can appear before tho, and acquaintthe committee with eonditions which exist indifferent loajities wherein the contractors aidmembers of the 1. B. E. W. are not gstting thgelectrical r,,struction work in plants, which isrightfully theirs hut which is being done bymaintenance employees, members of dual organi-

'tiona,. It is thought that through mutual co-operation both the Union Electrical Contractorsand the 1. B. E. W. m'em.bership could regain andcontrol this work.

The conmittee on the employing of an actuaryreported that the nlomoLts hd met arid in-strutedl the chairmau of the committee to col-lahorate with International Secretary liugn/azeton the matter, and that the .. eo,,n[ te iemhberswould be informed by him thro gh InternationalSecretary Blugniaet of the crggress of the find-ias, untI the fnill report was mae.

It was regularly noved and seconded, that lhematter of re-districting tie present I. V. I. dis-tricts be laid over. Motion earr ied.

International Secretary Bugniaset presented tothe c ouncil a considerable nUmber of proposedamendments to the International Constitution,submitted by International Vice President Boyle,

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MAY-JUNE, 1945

mmum0 - - 1 77mmmalKK IN MEMORIAM 0I K I MWillard Matthews, 1. 0.

Initiated Febr... U, 2 9 P05, in L. U. No. 28It is with det sorrow and regret that we, t'he

members of L. IU No, f-2214. ecotd tile passinlgof our former Brother, Wilism Matthews; there-fore it it

ReSolved, That We pay tribute to his family byex ossIgf sineere sylmpathy; sii be it furthr

rsoived, That we drape our charier tor aegrld of 30 days; that a copy of the.se resolions,II seil lto his family. a copy be sent to the Jour-

nal for publication and a copy be spread upon ourminutes.

NOIRMAND SEQUIN.Washington, D. C, Rec Lording Secretary

Lloyd V. Kelly. l. U. No. 2Inil.tited J"no 7, 1924

In sorrow the mnc'lebcrahip of Local U.nion o. 2recrds tIle passing o BIrother Lloyd V. KIlly.To his loved ones we express o, syntiy atby intheir loss,

Brother Kelly was a true and loyal member ofthis organizatioI for the pa.t I5 year duvotinghaimselfat all times, t its purpose.

Brother Kelly joined the srvice of RI11 counIryon August 23. I4. and at iIe Iiun of ni, deathwas eletrician's iate. seconId c-sa. U. S. Navy.

Brother Kelly will long be re¥m.e.hbe..rd for hJiS hiit of good fellowship. his Wilning snide, andi Ihas been id that his heat Was as big as h.ssnile.

HENRY C. KUEHNER.GEORGE DfAEGELE,DAVID LUND,

St Louis, Mo Com.lirattee

Frank J. Casey. L L. No. 6Initiated October 30, 1943

Charles Saile, L. I. N. 6Ilfliated Noveaber 2*, 1436

hereas Almignty Grid, ir His wiasd om. has seenfit to call florn our midst our e ..tee md and worthyBrothers. Frank J. Casey and Charles Sauve,. Whohave ltln true arid IIloa BiothIers of Local UIn LiNo. 6; therefore be it

Resolved, That we pay tribue to their memoryby expressig to tr fa .ly and .iends oursincere sympathy: and be it further

Resolved, Thai a copy of these resolutions Iesent to the fam.ilies of oIr late ]. epatedBrothers a copy be spread in fuIll upon the min-utes of Local Vi Iion N , 6 arid al copy b. s nIt tothe Electrical Yorkers, Jornal DoU publicationland be it further

Resolved. That the members stand in Iiencefor a lpriod of one minulte ad that our charterbe draped for 30 days as a tr-ihuic io their ,o ,lory.

J, W. WADDELL.C, CARMEN.E. MENESIMI,

Sa Flancisco., Calif. Comnittee

lihael J. O'Connell, IT. No, 9Initiated JUIl 27, 2920

Willia, J. Ready, L. U. No. 9fleirniatcd September 8, 1915

Whereas God, Jn His infinile wisdon, has Calledfromi their ealthly labora the abIove liaRd r.it ..-hers anid esteemd co-orke in our Local Union

No. B-9; andWhereas we dee.l, it fittiig and proer that tile

members of Local Union No. 1.9 f the Interlla-tional Brotherhood of Electrlcal Workers offer atribute to the memory of our late Brothers, whohave been such loyal ileitbt s of ouI Biolherhloodand country and who Iave always blee ourfaithful friends; therefore b, it

Resolved. That the sincere sympathy of themembership of this Local Un/ior No 11-9 and themembership of the Interntional ]Brotherhood ofElectrical Wokers is, hereby extenided to therbereaved families.

RAY POOlEY,E.MMETT GREEN.IiARRIY LATER,

Chtcago, Ill. Comm Iti ee

June Benjamin Squibb. L. U. No. 11Initiated J..e 3, 1940, ill L. U. No. 691

It is with deep sorrow and i Igicf that wr! rerordthe death of or Brother. J, B Squibb, who waskilled in aIlion at lwo 3 ina, December 27, 1944;therefore be it

Resolved. That we pay tribut* do his menoryby expressing our sincere synipathy to its wifeand family; an, be it I IIher

]Resolved, That we ,,ra op AiIr charter for 30days. and that a copy of lhioI icsoltlaois bespread on tie .in.tes of out vettng, a copy smutto his ,ife, and a copy sent to ouI ofliLil ilfor publicatio.

. E BOITRNIQUE.R. J. SCRWRIKETI ,L,. ], IO Mi A IW AER.

Blurbank, Calif. Coallllnittfe

Joseph iRerman flacrije[. I,. 1. No. 16lainitiaed Setermbcr 2, 1,42

William i. Dearing, -. I. No, 16Ilii,.Ici Ap il 14, 1943

Wherea, it is will, a acre. fielin of sorrowanie rerGIt tha we. te I... I0ti.. of L. . No. B3,1. B, C W, . rer ida tli . i..... i. of jrototers W I]-bian l .H Pearing itld Jaw~iihi it, taa itelt :o thleit*fole hie it

RW Soil u(l That W'E 1a5 tribute to their memnoryby cx prsoig our deep s p ai. ty to theIir fitlm-iliesz and 11(~ i~[tlie

Resolved, Thiat air charter tie draped for aThilhod o] J[i days, a .oV, n4 the re-olutions biesent tn theu- milie, :.lwl I a rip h spread on ournintit- s, Ind a cop, he, etIt to iii EZ 'itt icaWolkers'l J mrIral . oI nbti ofln,

DIPOI{GE J, MORROIW.GUY VAUGHN.

Evansville, Ind. CIairmatee

Andrew Flaherty, L. U. No. 23nicitedi Alpust 5, 1942

Whereas Almighty God. in His infinite Wisdom.on March Ii, 19145. Called It eternll rest ourworthy Brother, Andrew Fiaelay; therefore h, it

Resolved. That we pay tribute to his memoryby expressing to il relatives ow, heartfeltsyripaltiy in the hoSf their loved onie; artd beit further

Ieoloved. Tha a copy of these r.solutions b,spread ulpon the minune 0 ou Ir meeting. a copybe sent Wo Ills bereaved faimlily, a eoPy Ie sent tour ollicial 31 oIrrial for pubtu [ation, lnd ourcharter hr dlaped for a peliod of 30 days; dodbe it further

Resolved. That lie nirtnbers sunnd in 'ekneefor a period of one intilute as a ...... Ia hi.Itemnory.

WILLIAM FEEIIAN,St. Paul. Minn, Wellare Chairman

John MCDonald, L. U. No. 52Iittiated May 12, 1913

James Hull, L. I-T No. 52initilted May 6, 1924

It is with deepst sorrow and regret that we,the I..elnbers ofi Ix eal lniiri No. 52, I, B. It W,.record the Ia"sIng f our £rother, Jarnis Ntulland John MeD/irurld; lie refore be it

Resolvel. Thie i teide i our sI..e..re , ayni p.. .iyto the famlilies of ouIr Br.others, in this tIlne of

their great sorlow: and be it furtiheResolved. That a copy of thiist+ res]ltu ionns be

,lread Ifanln the minulea of .. I e .. r inid aIDy sen{t t theR olhinl Jotilrnl foi publicationand a copy ent to their 1li caved ... Lie,¢

LOUIS VEHLING.Newark, N. J, Reording Stere.ary

D. Foley. I,1U. No. 51Ilitiated September 2, 1941

Harold Chrisman. I.. V. No. 53Initiated Jtjly 22, 1941

Whereas il has pleaSed Almighty GodC , n Hisinfinile wihsdom and mercy. to renove fhor ouritlidst out esteemed and w.itliy lI otheta, D, Foleyanid Hold Chrismna..; and

WhUas In the pas... ot these D1roi~lir. LocalLnion No. B-$3 has los ttrue and loyal [nwrbherswho*.e kind deeds and noble .haratlers will bereiembered nrnst by those who knew tRem best;so be It

ReSolved, That we p,': triute Rt thir mieoryby expretsig ouir heartfelt ,ympathy and sotlowto the ir beeaved anlies arid relatfivesb in theirdark hour of so.row; and be it fRtIhler

Res8olyed. lIIt a op y of these roseitiRons besent to the families of ou de patted RoloIhers, acopy be sPread on lhe nuintite, of Local UnIo,No. E-5.3 and Ii Coy sent to the oficial Journalfor publication: and be it further

esoltved, That aer c]arttr be draped for aperiod of 30 dcay,. and that we sta¥d in sIilntmeditation for one minute as a trihld In Iheuneinory of olr late D othest. fDavid FVley aridItaroltl C hn siian.

GEORGE G]ITLIAM,J1. IL ST/EliftDU. A. CATHCART,

Kansas City, M., C.l ..ln.ittee

Joseph * Paltm, L. UI. No. 59lnitttfel April 25, 1921

WIereas with deepes t regre we , Ihe membersof L. II No. il, Ii..e.r. tI i lskir .o .on ii w orthyBrothL i . Tse ph E Petin; tu ei oe It

Fiet oled. Iat 'V e CLirid our sit, t rl. . sympa thyto his ,iefeed faintly: and be hi fAtwfur

Resolved. That as . tik ,i f oisy (nir OL Uteharterhe draped fol a period of 30 avi,: antd be itfurt{her

Reslved, l'Tht these rcsOlutiooii U, made a

art of the minutes of oulr ;eetirgi. and copiesResent to the faqlily anid to tiae official Journal.a

R. W. GOSSETT.T. M. KERSEY.C A. BENEDICT.CLYDE LOSR.W. B. MIZELL,

Dallas, Texas. C omittee

Robert Knauf, L. I. No. 107I/itiated Jhll, 6 1939

It is with dee sorrow and r.gret that we, thetncmber's and oAicers of Local N. B-107. IournIRA death of Broiher Robert K].naf.

To hi, manT friends, his loyalty, friendlinessand cheerflt[ dIsposltion will always be an inspi-a-tion. and we wish to express the grnacfel feelt igs

nf honor and atisfaction we have shlared i hisconlpanionshi therefore he t

RIeolved, That t Iay tribute to his memory byitapr~$aD to his rInI. y nor sincere sympathy;and ba it urthtr

Resolved, That a copy IF these resolutions besent to his family, ii ,[y he si. lt to the Jourlalfor pubbeatlon, anid a copy spread upon our fnun-utosi and be it furlter

Resolved, That .e drape our chat RIr 31days in his PeIoII'il EDWARD yA.LRW

CHARLES COSACK SCHNR ER.

Grand Rapids, Mich. C,mIniitee

Clarence F. Bader, L. U. No. 113Iniiated Spitentbcr 7, 193$

It iS wit p w anh d y regrt tim Ie. the meII -hers of LoIl Unton No. 113, Ireoid oIIr firstcasualty if WallId W r' i n thie death of BrotherClrenct F. flader, who was Rifled in Go all.October gaI. OR,

We ,±sh to xtend t his family and friends.ow heartfelt -ytnipathyt therefore be it

Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions besent to hs wife, a copy be sent to OUr oflrciaJournal dir DpltbIcationU and a copy be spread uponou. mnuIte; sad be ]lu the

Resolved. That w*, {'r oir chbarr for aperiod of Id days in I i% I'nOr ..

3tHiNO FOWLU(lIARLES W. & NNR.TOM MACKEY,

Colorado Springs. Comnaittee

Jesse M. McGlaughn, L. U. No. 136lIftMaLed May 21, P4la

Max H. Greghrn, L U. No. 136falifined October 1, 1044

With a 'lceete feli of aorrow and recret we.the meii... cr It I[ eai U or, No, B-126, IT E . W ,record la, Intimnely [1ning of our fmRends andBrothers. vax Careho and Jesse M. Me,Claughtl; Ihlrefore he it

ReSolved,. l'bat we h ay tribute to Pheir memoryby expressibl, to their faiilies aId frends oursinlcere sympathy; and be it iurlher

Reslved. That a copy of these resolulonst besent to their £amilies, a copy bt spread on ourminutes. and a eopy be s11n1 to the Soilrall of

Electrical Wolkers for publication; and be itfIrther

Resolved, That we stand in Silene for onamlinute as a trib1te to their rmory arid that OUr

charter be diaped for a= inof I0 days.CHARLES HARVES.

Birnlngham, Al.. Recording Seceitary

Arnold J. Hauper, L, IT. No. 263lIitiat. d Febrary 23, 1937

William Cannon, L. U. No. 263ltd tited M"y 25, 1943

It is with sincere foolinIts of sorrow and regretthat we. Ihe Imembler s of Electrilal Workers' LocalUnion No. 1B463. recrd le passing of our worthyBotherS. William Cannonl and Arnold J. Hautprt;arid

Whereas in th aig o these Brother. LocalDtnlon NO. B.263 has lost true and loyal memnberswhose kindness will be remeibered most bythboae who kInw then, best: slo b it

Resolved, That we pay tribute to their memoryby expressing oPr hIail felt sym aThy and sorrowto their bereaved eamilies; and be it further

Reso.ved. That we. in our meeting nssembled,gland in s ilence for one minute as tribute to

thefi menory: and be It furtherReolvred, That a copy of these resolutions be

senlt to their families, a COpy be sent to ouroffeial pudlic.tioi and a Copy be written ill ourminutes. and that our charter be draped for a

period of 30 days,WALTER 1T. HENKE!S.f,] 0 3 .I iH:]rI.

LEO IT {;ItiGORY.Dubuque, Iowa. Commfittee

W. R. ForLyth. t. IT. No. 278b~lizited Febbruar, 1I, 1942

It is With the dlee I.s. . orIIow and regrt that werecord the paaslng of Brother WV R. Shorty)Forsytih

BIrother Forayl0 was known and loved by hismany friends and Brothers, bath oi, the job and

socially.Bliother rorsyth made a very ditinguished

reeord forh hi hile serving ii til CanadianArmy during World War !: therefore he it

Resolved. rht We tWend our sicere sympathy

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The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operatorsto those near and dear to our Brother; ant be Itfurther

Resooved, That a opy of these reso]utin., bespread on our minutes, a copy sent to the Eiectri-cal Workers Joitnal, nIe to the bereaved faon-dfy ard our charter be, dmiraped for a period of 30

ElGE-NA' ZJANDRICKS,),,iJ AMOS,J I. MALIIIEU,

Corpus Chrislti, rxas. Critii. Ifte

Richard O, Dusk, L. U. No. 292Initiaedl JOaL r, EL. 191S

With deep sorrow and regret we. the membersof Local UNion No. B-292, record the pa.Sidn of

an oId friend, Brother Richard 0 DlIukWhereas Local Union No. B.292 has lnst in lhh!

death of Brother Dusk a trll friend aii) I.nyimember: therefore be it

ARlesacd. That we pay trihtlle to his memoryby expressing our syupathy to hlJ Ianlly .i. theirbereavenient: and be it [Injhi l

Resolved, That a en~py 0lI tllcse resolutions bespread on the minut( II Hie, ,loa] msin, a CeCysent to the Electrica] Woikeirs Jeulnal Lor pubcation, andt a Copy ill ent to the fatily of ourlate Brother.

EDWARD J, CONWAY.minneapclis. Minir, Press Secretary

lJll.ard D. Forsyth. L. U. No. 302lnthnted March 9, 194a

teorie lMann, L. U. No. 3021~ iallnated Jtne 2i, Re2l

Whereas it it ithI deepest srrow that we. themembers of Loc:l Untoil No. B-302+ L I) 1%: W_pay cur last tl ne or respect to liiA niennIry etour late Broialie Ge.e. M.nn andir WiillrdForyth, whoml Gid, a Is illnftne wisdom, s. wfit to remove from our midst; and

Wiheres we wish to ericnd to their fatilies andrelatives our deep and heartelit syinpaPhy; thee-tore be it

Resolved, That we. in meeting assembled. stan.I1i ;ln2e for one a1ntfl, :S a tribute to theirmeriLn]'ly and be it fli ]i,

Resolved, That a cop, if these resolutlons besent Io bereaved faillIic/ I enpy spread upon

the nunties of hii mIN l in, a copy be sent toour official J.ourna I p uld itlon,* and that ourcharter be draped tor arerlodcIf 30 days.

.A LAWREN CE,Richmond. Calif. Secretary

John James Jackson, L. U. No. 304Il tia foId June 23 I'll

In tlhe hinn of sadness whica accolupanies theFIJIAN'shi (`it t ,I em this earth, ]i l it rs of -neal

rnlon Nol. 1>-304 record the passin[g oi BrotherJ.1hn ines J;ieksiin with respect and a deepfeeling of symIpathy for his bereaved family andfrixends.

We therefore, in ineriIng nsseiniieri standminute in silent re± i*. and shall drape ourcharter tof 30 das it I .e ..ee to Is m)emory.

This shall be record.Id rid copli sent to hifamily and the Joiuil.i O[ itstriCal Workers andtOperators.

CECIL PI MORGAN,Topeka, ans., R S,,rdin Secretary

Thomas P. llnsIey, L. U. No. 323Inrittred J,,,nwrp 5, 192$

Whereas Almighty God,i Ill, infinite wisdom.has seen 4i to take fro]n, nor midst oar friendand Hill, r Thllaas P. H~ssey and

Wh reites I , posing o th0 s Brh lboer in bleternal ie; ,id tills deprived Local Union No S23of a Iol and is LpecItd member; now theleorebe it

Resolved. That tli I fleeting snd for onemtinuten silent tribute to his lieinaly; and be it/llrther

Resolved, That our charter he draped for aperiod of so days; and be it further

Resolved, That we at this time epress o,,rc ondolence to the famiy Of our dieprirtedBrothel;antd be it firtlher

Resolved ITho a copy of thes rvsnhlioniehInorpor,'led in the minutaes oC this local ui ien.a ,opy he I i ed It the miniiLy antd a cnpy sli tothe Inoernid io~nal Obflfe for publication in theElectrical WoikerP Joul.T~a

R. L. HARPSTER.A. C. GROH,

West oalm D.eac. Fla. CommIttee

Thomas J, Hanly, L. U, No. 328Rcrnrlilltd September 4, flfi

With a sinere fe, nH of sorrow and regret we.the members of LocAI Uniln NHo. B-3S, reeord thedeath of our departed ifilied and Brother, ThomaJ. HaDley; therefore he it

ReSolved. That we pay tribute to his memoryby expressing to his family and friends ourmijctie syTrpathy; ard be ,t furtherResolied. That we ape on r charter for agrir of 20 da s and a conP of these resolutions

r p'dr lod O mb t iute uf ,u. ,ietLiix .. iad acopY ho sent to the official Journal of the Hrother-hood for publ~catien and a copy to his imnmie.diatefarfily and that the members stand for one

ilnute in silent tribute to his memore,HAROLD J. MORAN.CHARLES MeMANUS.MARTIN J. JOYCE,

Oswego,. N. y, Committee

Labhoma I.r.well, L. it No. 332Initiated December 10. JM4

Blaine V. Smith. L. U. No. 332Initiated J.gy S. 1926, in L. U, flo. 134

It is with deepest ,.rrow and regret that we, theumlbt w ,, of Loc. l tnKio l.. .S l-:gi±, record the

assing of 'islt, La{ona larnweIll and Brotherninre V Smith.

Whereas we wish t, express to their faniliesarid relative. our deepest seymPathli: lhe.eior..be it

Reslv*/ed. That a copy of thyei 4 ,n]utions beent t L t heir fam ilies and S 1kVo 1i' sueiL to tIhe

Electrical Workers' Jouirnlal III publicalolen andtIat a copy be spread ii tILe Ii ifill it's: and be itfurther

Restilved, That our charotr be draped for apIeriodI of al0 days in trllhute ti Bu, t mei ory.

C, C. CARROLL,P. 11. SNEIAKER,IL K. FIELD,

San Jfse. Cali. Committee

Richard T. Kirknmau, L. IT. No. 342IU/atietd Junea ±s, 1943

It i, with deep sorrow aRd regret that we, thenherri of LocAl Union NO Sol~ record the

passig of Brother Richard T, Kritnile, in lineat duy fr his country.

Resoved. Thait a copy of these resolutions iesent to his wife, one sent to the offilial Journalof the Brotherhood for puInllation, and tHat thesame be spread on our minutes, and that the,mleribe]iu of local Union No. $~ stand~ silepity f[orone itintitte o~ the~ next m¥eetlln n illf

it W. SI! FNCI

JOHN B. MCCAULEY.Greensboro, N. C. FInnncial Secretary

Verne A. Hall. L. U. No. 377RcnitRnted March 12, 2918

Whereas it has pleased Almighty God. In Hisniiinlte wisdom amlad me.cy, to i"eIioVv fro m our

nuidti out worthy Brother, Verne A. Hall; there-fore be it

Resolved, That we ay tribute t his memory byexpre/sing our heart..lt s ym pathy and sorrow tohis bereAved family and relatives in their darkhloul f soll o; mid be it tu, e

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions beSent to the ftanily, f tor departed Biother, a Copyto he written in the malnintes of onI local, andcopy sent to the Intenatlonal Offlce fur jublica-tinn in the Jounmal: and bE it fil thir

Resoflved, That our chariel he drsped for Spoliod of 30 days, and that we stand in silentmetrditalio.. for one minute as a tJilbte to thelietnory of our late Blrother. Vernle A. Nail.

ARCHIE C. CORNISHt.HOLMAN C. STANCHITELD.WALTER A. COLLINS,

Lynn, Maid . Comtmittee

Randolph H. eg, L. It. No. 4081,ittIotd Ocob", 13, 1IW%

It is with deepest sorrow and regret that we.Hle members of Local Union No 408, MIsseila,

Morntalna, mnourn the pasilg If .lieut RanuoIfH. Ogg, whot dted while one dny February 4. 194Itheicfoir h1 it

ReSolved, That we pa tribute to liii memonrby expreslng it h1s fall] our sineit1 regret aridMyrpathy; and be it further

Resolved. Thil a Copy of these esolutions hesent to his family, a Copy spreod pxn olr

'i utes, aend a copy sent 10 nur ortanizatioosJournal for publicaton; and be It jutthem

ResolveJd. That we drape olr charter for aperiod of 30 days.

0. W. SCOTT.Missuulu, M nit. Ri-co.did/ig Secrutaty

H.enry C. Aver , L. U. No. 409Initioted n, 6, 1929

Whereas it Is with a sicere and profound feel-rig of regret i,,ld s.n.ow thUn Lot]nI Ulion No.II-409 records the p assing of Br0ther HEnry C.Avery; therefoer he it

Resolved, That we pay tribute to his memoryby expressing onr deep sympathy to his wifea.d faIIly, a.id hib it fiuitlhe

Resolved, That we stand in silece for periodof one minute as tilbute to his nItlenry; anidWe it further

Resolved. That a copy of these resolutions be,prcad up oR the minutes of the meeting. andcopy be forwarded ftr publilcaion in our official

0. P. PATTERSON.Winnipeg. maii HRcording Secretary

Walter F. Lowe]l, L. I N,. 420Initefted March 21, 1941

Erie B. Nelson, L. U. No. 420p[ooled October I. 1943

lt IW with deep sorrow and regret that we, theanernbers of Local Union No, B-4, employees ofthe Connecticut Light and Power Comnany.

record the passing of Brother, Walter Lowell ofthe New Britain district and Erie NelSOn of theMeriden district; and

Where.as in the pasi{ng of Brothers LOwell andNelson+ L. U. No. 8-420 has lost true and loyalinemnbeIs wilee kind deeds and noble characters

will b e remembered most by those who knewthem best: so be it

Recoied, T]'hat we pay tribute to their memrorby expressng our heartfelt sympathy and sorrowto their bereaved families and relatives in theirdark hour of .orrow: and be it lurther

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions besInt to the families o our deparled Brothers, acopy be spread oil the minutes of Lonal UnonlNo. B-420 and a copy be sent to the official Journalot pblication anld be it fuirther

lResolved. T{hat our charter be draed for apeliod of 30 days, and that we standein silentledItation for one minute as a tribute to the

tieitnory of our late Brothers. Walter F. Lowelland Erie B. Nelson.

EVEIRITT TEMPLE.SAMUEL FOSS.FRED PAULOZ,

New Brtain Distrct CommitteeCHARLES HENNY,EDWIN PULLWITZ.CLARENCE RADEN,A-eriden District C.onnittee

Waterbury, Con;,

Harold H. S ears, L. U. No. 42914i,1oTe~Auptsst 16, I*.2

Leonard J. Davis. I.. IT. No. 429initiated November 6, 1940

It is with deep sorrow and regret that We. thenelnibers of Lcal Unhion No. J-42, record the

assir tf oudr Brothers Leonard J. Davis andBrl H, Sears: Ihee..ore be it

Resolved, hat we pay tribuen to their memoryby expressing to Their families our sincere sympa-thy; and be it furthor

Resolved. That we drape our charter for arirnd ot 30 days. and that a copy of these reso-

Ui III be spread cn the minutes of our meet/ng,that a copy be sent to elei bereaved famailies,and that a copy be sent to the Ofcial Journal ofthe Brotherhood for pubhleation.

BUFORD F. PUTMAN,E. E. LLEWELLYN.RUSSELL A. STANSELL.

Nashville, Tenm, Commlittee

Joe S. Ntiun, L. U. No. 434Initiated November 1d. PR

It is with a sincere feeling of deep sorrow andregret Ht we the members of Local Union No.B-434, International Brotherhood of ElectricalWorkers, record the death of our esteemed friendand Bother. Joe S. Nunez, on iardch 3. 1945; and

Whereas those of us who knew him best, knewhim to be a loyal member of this organization,In fraternily we extend to his loved ones odrheartfelt sympathy and assure theim that so faras we may. we share their grief, for he was ourIBrthewl theitfuo.e be it

Resolved, That we. as a body in meeting as-seibled. sand in sflenee for one minute as atilbulte to his nleory; and be it further

Resolved. That we pay tribute to his family.txprcswdng ihi thle, ourt ,ytnhy in this hor ifsorrow; and be it farther

Resolved. Thai a co y of these resolutions besent to his fatily and te entered into the minutesof this ilcal union: and a copy sent to the Elec-trical Workers' Jornal.

RAY F. RATTIERREE.LOtUS D, WILSON,J. T' WEIR.

Douglas. Ariz. Committee

Gordon R. Mangels, L. U. No. 465Initiated April 19, 1937

It in with dee sorrow and regret that we, therlenbels of L,.. No. B-465, record the passing ofour Brother, Gordon R. Mongols: therefore be It

Resolved, TIt we pa lilHIute tu ]. i iine ryoby expressin/ to his family our sinoere sympathy;and he it further

Resolved, That we drape our charter for a<,lrid of 30 days, and that a copy of these reso.t ions he spread on the rainutes of nur reputing:

that a copy be sent to the official Journal of theBrotherhood for publication and that a copy besent to his bereaved famly.

JOHN RITCHIE,W. H. RODGERS.J. IEMERRILL,

San Diego, Calif. Committee

R. W. Allan, L. U. No. 466Initiated October 2, 190

Joseph A. Meeker, L. U. No. 466Initiated J.ne 10. 1937

Whereas Alii hty God. In His bifltie wisdom,has seen fit to take from our midst Brothers J. A.Mpkr and R, W, Allan: and

Whereas the pasintg of theoe Brothers to theireternal reward has deprived LoCal Union No. 4"0of two loyal and respected nmenbers: now there-fore be it

Resolved, That the charter be draped for afloiod of M0 days: and be it fRther

]Resoled. That we at this time expres. our Con-dolences to the families of Brother Meeker andBrother Allan in their bereavement; and be itfurther

Resnlved, That a copy of these resolution. he in.corporated In the minutes of this local uanon, acopy be .. It t the fanily of the tote BrothersMeeker and Alla. and a copy to the Internationai

iS.

MAY-JUNE, 1945OffiRce for publication in the Ercetriea Workers'Journal.

J. W. "ooI'l" SR',M. P, GENF_,J. R. N1tLIElt.

Charlestol, W. Va. fltnlhl

Roy A. Smith, L. Ii. No. 177IniTiated October 15, 1040, ill L, U. No. 1175

Whereas it has pleased our ITeavely alubrto stnn'non to the groat Ib'ea id ouir rifLt d aridBrother, Roy A. tIa&tpf SITdil; aid

Whereas ,e mourn.t.he fl ss of one who alwaysmIet you with a smille and a kindly word, always

did his best and WaS alwa/ys on the i llar&': itResolved, That Local Union No. 11-477. 1.I[L

E. W., extend its heartfelt sympathy to the b,reaved failly ; ond be it aplo

Resolved That a copy of h ese re, o ltions be,ent to his amildy, a copy pltibshird in thie· lFil-trical Workers Journl,i ada copy irr'l;d upo,our mibulti. and that orli charter h! drapepd inmourning for a period of 30 doys,

JAMES P. HALLSan Berlardino Calif. Rcord ,,in Secretary

John C(nile, L. U. No. 491lnitiated Aupilst Id, 1934

William Lesli, I. U. NX. 194ISdtialted Ocober 22, 1936

Whereas Aimighly God, in His wisdom., haslaken frai o ur n1d ait II s teeILI ed 1ird weot iv

Brothers, Wiltiar Lesi, and John Cov1i1e; hrie'-fore be it

Resolved, That we pay tnibi.e to hL'lrl FLnI.....by expressing to theh r raminlies or si ,cpetsyntpathy: and he it furle1[4

Resolved, That a copy of these reroltilton hesent to their fam ilies, ri lilo ) sjriadi uiioni oarin utes and a copy be .ent to our 'elal Jouirltal

for publication.ARlTIIIJR C' SCHlIIROEDER,EMIL nBOETLEL!.ARDEN TEZNSFL,GEORGE SPATH,JOHN n ERST,GEORGE K<AISEI1,

Mlilwaukee, Wis CoWRntiLote.

Robert Shaw, L. (T. No. 501in, inted S!ptember 20, 1035

It Is with deep sorw and sadness in our hear~tthat we, the membel, If Local Fitbl NO 501.record the passI ng ilf o ,1 [li lher. hklblert S1ah

Brother Sha, made the s,,ieiq s. acrific. forhsL country at Leyte onl Janary 15. 1945i B.e Ittherefore

Resolved, That the itimbeo sof Olin local Siarindin siknene for onr I nII u tohi i Ihuh Io ,I i nemil-or: and be it further

lReslllved, Thatl a rumpv of 1hese resohitens besellt to the offlicol Joursal for pi/lhliWtonr andI,also, that our IhaIrr be dtraped for a, II pld of30 days.

JOHN W. RA eLI It'l.Yonkers, N. Y. press Sectoutary

Sanders A. Corner, L. I. No., 558Initiated April 16, 1943

It Is With deep sorlnw anti -oertl thei we. themembers of Lornal tnh( Ni, GS. reeci'I the past-Irg of our Bioiher Sainde, A. C.r trier; tiler eorbe it

ResBired, 'Thbat we Dpv tribute to hiIenoryby expresing to bib family o .r sinrere ..symn. tty:end be It iurther

Resolved, That %e Idrape oar ehlm( r for aperiod of ,0 dLays a rp$,y (f these ..r.. i oif , bered lipoi our ...Itit. s ri nd cop, be sent to

~] J B. E, W*~. Jo ulrinl for ptillkair otm rGEORGE EJACt( OV~,

She ffield. Ala. C hanirmian of COnirt nit Iee

Mallie .L thiyd. L. IU No. 602ReOitfttcd January aS, 1944

Whereas Almighty God. in IlLS infinite wkdoiI.,oni Jauary 29, 94I5, alleI tli etrnll rest ourworthy Brother. Mallie I. lloyd: tlerefare he it

Rgesolved, That w pay tribute to ,, meior yby expressing to his relattlves our h(art felt syin-pathy in ithe IoSs of leid rlved one; ard he iturtherResolved, That a cipy of these r,,olul Ions hI

pread tupon the nitn..tes if .li. m... t I .c .pybe sent to his berra ved fan IIl a copy s:O{l to ourofficia Jour.al bitfor publI]tue, and Till ihsiirdraped for a eriod of 10 Ilays aid be it finl her

Resolved, That lie nIeh, ls stand in I...ni. fora period of one minute a a tri hate to II is .. ,.m.r.,ry.

FRED . (AMTAsnarillo. Texas. ]usinea Manalger

Lt. DwightJ. lHmming, L. U. No. 631lmiilted jeit 2±, 1942

ln sorrow, th, membersthip of Local Uniron N,.E31 records ilb pasli: onward o f Brthern Dwight

X. Fiemining. To his loved ones we Il.rLs ourfraternai 5yRpa In i, their' lo s, Ihieh <I . rewith them

Brother Flemrin lg was a m hmber of Ut. a r.tedfores of thie United Statbs and 'Was seltlusP,Wounded while servin.g in St. La, France

Greater love bath no man than lie who laysdown his life for its country.

ReSolved. That we drape our charter for ariod of 30 day., t1it a copy of thitne 'isoltton

be spread on the minutes of art meeting, a copy

be sen{ to his bereave family, nd a Ctny be sentto the offiial Joulnai for publicatt.in

TILDE OFFICfLS A11 MEMBERSOr iWacAL UNION NO 631.

NLewbUgh, N. Y.

Wilfred Lee Hodge, L. U. No. 610nItiatetd Apt! 1, 194$

I is with deco sorrow and regret that mTembers, IJ No, 840 record the death o£f Po. Wilfred

Lie {lodge.Bitlil r liode wal the first menlier of L, U,

N". 154 to giv hi. Ilife fighting in lhe armnedlservti'eS of hils eciintry.

[iroth' [.lodge lw si. initiated into L. U. No. 640ott April 19, 1943 anId entered Tthe aramy. June 17.IL[43

Rleso[¥tld, Titt the ,ntlbos a L. U. NoE 640siri i siloeoc for a pIT ieid Ifi one minute as atLitu{[tt Io th inenloI' I If ouir la te departedIirotherm lint tint the cbilltlll If I,. U. No. 640 bedirlled for a period of 30 day: ;tad be it further

ResordS Thsl a copy of Itlie, rsGinUtions beslit t(, Brother Hodl's famoily; lIt a copy he

spread onl Ihw ' I tirultes of this mneelmlig and that acol)} hie sen~t to the Jornalla o• Ele!ctrieal WorkersoL.1 Il]l ca'llo .1,J1111, lf1il.1WRO

R U, H1OLMtC.3J 0 1EWTON,

J. 1. SIMMONS,rhot'm A .Xdriz. C.i ..... itte

Joe I, Sandoval, L. ['. No. 667Iaitiated September 13, 1944

Lester A. Gilbert. L. I. No. 667/IitIotcd MaII 29, 137

It is willi sincere sorrow that We I he membersof Local UnJionl No B-1167, ileold time Imssing ofour estIeenid Brotiul, Joe , D. Sandoval and

Lester A. Ciibbeetl tlhIr'fore be ItResolved That a c,11y of thes. resolutionts be

sIntto their families as a tribut;e to tllheir tioniiiryand be it furlhe1

Resolved. Thai a copy be sent Lo the ElectricalWorkel' JoTrllal for pitoicationl and iceorde.d inthe Imnutts of our neetmn~ and also thtat wedrape our charter for a period of 30 diy,.

E, A. cWGILL,H, T, ELLIOTT.CARL SHOpE.

PuebIo. Col.. Re~olutrox Conmittee

JMIhTs Kaczmar, L U. No. 713In tiited October 12, 1044

It Il with deepest sorrow and regret that weilie irilebrs of Local Union No B<713. record

the death of oufr T stlemedl and WoILhy Brother.Julius KaeRnar: lherefore be it

TReolved, That we pay tribute to his mem.oryby expressng to his L at ell s ozr', tartfpI] .vn.mathy in this houti of sorrow: and be it fulrther

Rsolved, That a c.... of .. Tese resIItIioiis iesent to its falLdy anl a Copy be I ent to the II li-c*tIi Journal for publieation

I[ARRY ALDRIDGE.CHARITES MUELLER,t EN]Ry WICK,

Chicago, I, Cormmittee

Alfred BFoisvert, L. IT, No. 719Initiated DcmLiber 10, 1040

It L, with dTIp Loriow and regret thait we hemermbers of Local NoS 719. L B, E W. mo.rn thepalsI. of Brother Aflled Boistert: ther-efore be it

Resolved. Tihat we pa, t tJmbute to his InerInorby expressing a his family our sincere regret and5,,3pat I ; anu bIe it fLIrlhcr

RLesoled That a copy of these reohlttIon. besent to his family, a coiy spread tIpon our InIItuies an.I L .opy be senk to our Jourial for pribli-cation: and be it further

Jlesolvrd That ,t' diape our charter for aperiod of 30 days,.

E. V. FITZPATRICKIManlc $ter, I. }It Seclltary

Theodore C. N ne aker. L. IT. NNo. 71$lieiliated Ju4[U 23, 1937

Edward Clayo Pole. L. U. No. 744Ibitiated April 30, 1937

(harles llenjamin Nagle, L. '. No. 744niLiated Noneiber 12, 1937

WheLreuIs God. the Father Almighty, who OrdersTai liI.....II.g. aITd our Lndins. ha., o.d.ILixd 1he

dn oie earthly life of .in leranl belovedIBI..thITsT Theodare C. Nonemaker. Ed.ardi CPole m.di (1heres B, Nigle. and the begitning of

fur silriw With tlheh beloved o es, river theIf s of their chle rfutn, s alid cor ,pal o, hi p atidtheir fiellrmwythi, in air Brothel hood; thereforebe it

Resolved, *Tha i the charter of this nLcal unhio,, bedraped for a period of 30 da's, and the melnmersstand in Ht,irrce (or ore mi~nute in tribute to theirmIeno,, and be it further

Re*solvd That 'he original of these rebolutionlsIe eiat t¢. 'he.i loved otes, a copy sent to thel]l etricHl ~'W. hct Jon, It .om pT ubli ion., anda cop' slread upon tits uTti Les, of Ior meeting.

JOtIN J CLARK,ALBERT S. DAWSON.'ARI, T, PORR.OEORGE R SAY,

GEORGE E,. RI]ICER,Phiiladelphia, Pa Executive Board

James G. Nolan, L. U. No. 747tmtlated June 13. J$99

Wherea. Almighty old. In His inltite wildom.on February 14, 145. called to eternal rest outworthy Brother, JSatLe G. Nolan; therefore be It

R.:olved, That we pay tibut to hi snemioryC, byexpresse.s to his relati,,, our heartfelt syCthyin the lob s of their lovd ,s' and be it Lurr

R olved, That a coy ot tes reso1utionLs hespread upon the minutel M O"I meeting, a copybe set to his bereaved ,amily, a copy to ouromflelai Journal afr publication, and our charterdraped for a cpried of 30 dayl: and he it further

Reolved., hat the memtibers stand in silencefor I period of on, Rnute in tribute to hismemory.J S. PORTER.

New Haven, Cora. Rcording Secretary

Arthur G. MoLar , Sr., L. U. No. 767nitiated iiuoit S. $237

We, the me.bers oif Iocal tinion No 767, sin-ceelly regret the sudden death oni Feb'lary 10,1945, of oar beloved rothr. A.IU tur ,G. MrLavy,Sr.

Brolher MeLar' was a triLe BroLher and a loyalroemuber; ther0efore 1w it

Resolvedl, That w~e staiand (or one minitute insilence iu tribute Io, his menit 'r); and be it further

R{e olOved, That our rr eI .l lhi- diap(!d for aper ,o K0rd day in -I/ h i lmo tr a il d that a Copyof these r*.soT i le sent to I, bet ea'td fan-fly, one copt to lihe Elect, cic 1orkers Journalfor puibiscat ion and~ o11h cpy be Spread UpZon theiilinutlh; of OUt ncxi 11 ii&iiiii

t. S. BAUDIERbV[l FI, ED COOPEXi,C. R. HIEMPIIILL,

Baton Rrjuge, La Committee

Philamon Joseph Tussaait, L. U. No. 797Initiated Jauory 6 J944

It is with dt, sorow aid regret that We, themdle bers of I. No. 13-F71. l, cold Ihllhe ... jis of

our .roil II Pilanionl .osipih Tousain , on Feb-rusay %, 194o. therefore be it

Resolvd, lTiat we poy tribute to hL memoryby exL ... Ig to his relatives our heartfelt sym-

athy [II te Io of their loved ole, and be it:rtherResolved, That a cop of theSe resolutioln be

spread on the itiiitli T s o ur .... feeting. that a copyhe sent In his ai~nlt~, a opy to the Journial andoiur clartelbe Idraplfd Io a period of W0 days; andbe it further

R~,x~lvrd. That wre in OUr mneeting acssembledstand silent for ,ite I i ut e d$ tribute to his

IM'BING: S, SMITH,IIOWARD S. SOMITOWER,

IsriCt, Vt Co mnittee

Paul Fischer, L. U. N.. 817Miarc, d2S. I942

The followuig ir.soli iols were unanmRouslyadopted in na' inor v 0f out late Oirtltor, PaulFiscehr, at 1heIt it regulasr meeting of LocalUnion No. 817.

Whiereos Almigllty God, in His uInifte wis don, d]as £seen fit to rL lIt e rI. I thur I'alii ischer of theburdells of his, world: mi'd

WSereas IT 'tore' Iothr Fischer passear on tohis tierial telyead, he was a worthy and loyalmlember,+ respecteid hy all lirre fore be it

Re.solvedrI Thai we extend our condohlence to hiSbereaved ILEni ly at this time: and he it further

RiSoit Il 1'sta the icetimig siaid in one minutesilent LrihuIe II1 Ius TIternirvY: anI i b1e it fu rther

Resolved, Thit it[ e'r l lllren f t if local unionlie draped for a period of 30 days; and be itfurther

,Resolvrdi. That a ,y of these resolutions beI ,corpOr tid ii IheI tL.ttltc of0 Ib s local un ion.,I co{3y hb sent to I he falhv oIf the late BrotherFiebe il, trii to the I I nternlatio]nal O mf et for pub-lie ition in tlhe I lh nrilal W''orkers' Journal.

J, CONROY.1' ,IONANAN,L, FISCHER,

New York, N, Y. hRi1oititon Committee

P. It. IIluddlesinm, L. U. No. 846muimi ted F birul jrll 26, 1942, inl L. V. No, ?70

It i W With siteh'er leiliegi If sotrow aid regretthat we., Ilt ,lmbcrs of Local nion No. 846,I. B. E. W., rTc..Il th t, nideR passing of ourBrother, I, d It. iinillstoii llIefore, he it

ItRolv d, That we r, pL ,ss to his family the deepIymlpathy we feil slid !iye tbem the assuranceilhat we aia thi, giM which they feel; and be itfur ther

Rel[ved, Th1t we drape our charter for W0days, and a coILy ol these rsolurtions be enlt tohis far, ily . copy bl Speed onl or minute., anda copy ent to the Electrical Workers' Jornalfor pititbiitili lso h.la We stantd il silence forone niinbtt in ieLjwct to his mirelmry.

HI N, BELL,Chatianltoa, Tera. Busillet MLanager

John Noah Reese. L. U. No. 1002uttllted September 18, 1942

With deep sorrow and regret, over a great los,to ourselves, and dee sympathy to his faMldy andmany fieknds, L. U. No. 1002 records the pa..ingOf brother John Noah Reese, who gave hi Is liewhile serving his country in Manila, PhilippineIlands, FebLUaL g. 1945.

Those of us who knew Brother Reese and had

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The Journal of ELECTRICAL WORKERS and Operatorsthe privilege of associating with him, feel hie losskeenly: therefore be it

Of$so ii,. Thai we pay tribute to the memoryofBrothr Ree by expressing to those Who

ourn hi passing Ic] heartfl t sympathy in theirhour of sorrow; and be it further

ReSolved. That we drape our charter for aerIod of 30 days and a copy of these r ~obluoneIsent to the official JoUrnal for publicatlon.

W. C, Ri NyTrain. Okl.,W. H. RILEY,

rulsa, Okla, Committee

0. S. Fullerton, L. U. NO. 1016nitiated May 26, 1933, in L, U. No. S

It is with the deepest sorrow and regret hlatwe, the member-s of Local Unto, No. f-i101.record the death of our Brother, Oscar S. Ful1er-or:; and tlerelore be it

ReSolved, That we tendere or sincoresympathto the fabuly af our departed Bther i, ThDOtime of their great sorrow; and be it further

Resolved. That a copy of bhew, re.oltions bespread up. ,f the minuts of our meeting and acopy be ser_ ! h"I faII ily and also copy to theofficial JounO fo puhheation,

HIARRY 0. HULL.Seadalia, Io. Busirn Manager

M. H. Stone, L. I. No. 1061Initied Jure 21, 1937

it is wits, depest Aorrow, and ]grte0 Itit *,Cthe members of LoCOA trbion No f1-l4. tIIof thelInternational BrOtherhood of Eleetrieii WorkeJsrecord the death of our esteemed amd worthyBrother. M. R. Stone; therefore he it

Riesolved, That we, the memhers of Local Lr,,oNo. B-1061. pay tribute to his metmory by express.zig to his relatives our heartfelt sympailhy in ishour of sorrow; ind be II further

ReSOlved, That the members stand in silencefor a period of one minute A a mark of uespoctto him: and be it further

Resolved, That a copy oa thise resrtit,,r besent to his aily and A COpy be sent to tUe ILeC-trical Workers* Journal for IIlibcaijnn

Cincnnat . Ohio. Chabiman of thle Committee

J. H. Brash L. U. No. 1095Reinltiate April 13, 1937

We record the death of this, our Brother, insorrow and regret: thieCfoe be it

ReSOlved. That we teutler our sincere sympathyto the family of ouI Blrother; and be it further

Riesolved, That I py of these resolutions bespread on our monutm . a copy sent to ot, ollicJUJournal and that our Charter be draped for30 days.

DENNIS NEVILLE,Toronto, Ontario. Recording Secretary

Richmond Decry. L, U. No. 1098Initiated May 3, 1943

Rubert Finan,. L. U. No. 1098Initiated August 30, 1937

Charles Skwlr2, L TE. No. 1098Initiated Nopember 4, 1939

Hassan Shukri . U. No. 1098Jtnfitlad Sult, S. I94

Henry Grabowski, II. IT. No. 1098Znitiated Febrtu, 1, 19d

It Is with deepest sorrow and regret that we,the mnmbers of LOCal Union No, B-Ud0, recordthe passin of our Brothers. Brothers DeerCy,Flnan and Skwirz were all killed in action over-

eas while serving their cuntry. All were loyaiunikon members: therefore be it

Resolved, That in tribute at their memory we,as a body in meetingr assembled, stand in silencefor a period of 60 seconds; and be it further

Rsolved, That a copy of these, rs, outions bespread on the minutes of our LOCal Uniton NO.3-1098 and a Coy be sent to our Journal forpublication; and be it further

ReIoved That a copy of these resolutions bsent to their families; and be it furtherRe.o.ed. That the charier of Local No. UI-logbe draped tn mourning for a periodo oT o daysas a sign of respect to our de ited Brothero.

CHARLES MCOGEE,Pawtucket. R. I. Recording Secretary

Charles Mulligan, I_ U. No. 1134IMitated March 25, 1943

Alonto T, Hillycr, L. U. No. 1134Initiated fiarcl 1$, 1943

We. the menibers of L.,al Union No. B.1134.with sincere fel]ings of rowi and res rt, recordthe passing of Brothers Alonzo T. fillyor andCharles Mulltgan,

Renalved. That in trIbute to their memory we,as a body in IeltilS assienlled, stond in sincefor a perrod of one minute: and be it urer

Peslved. That we extend our deepest sympathyto the fanilly and relatives of our Iate departedBrothers; and be it furthler

ReSolved. That a copy of these reasolutonS besent to the familtes oI the labe inothIers, that acopy he spread uon the minutes of Loca] Unio.No. B-1134 and a COPY be sent to the officialJournal for ublication; and be it further

Resroled. t the charter of LOcal Union No.d-1134 be draped in mournlng for a period of 30days In their memory.

THOMAS SMITH.Ehizabeth, N, J, Chairmal

Fred Wilson, L. U. No, 1160fu Iititri Mareon 12, I~41

Charles Barid Mellendori. L. U. No. 1160Inittutel Steanhe r 29, 1942

With a glIeeri fleling of sorrow we, the mers-bers of L, U. B-ilIIj record the death o- Brothers]Pird Wilson aid Charles flavid Metleyldr,Brother Menlendorl died in the service of Iii,country while wilving .n ELIropta therefrI tl i.

Resoled, That we pay tribute to their meCTl-arIe b sexpress.ing to si"r ..nr..]. ou .inc.resyInldy: sird he it fiirl[ter

reSolved. our lit, OhnhI b, Idraped for aperiod of 30 dats; and be it i t*II.

Resolved Thai a cnop Oiloa rsohius beplaced In the miute, oI nor n Ioting, a coy spotto the fPmile. at our dntId Blrot hers, and aCOpy f+ll to ou1r o dlc Ii ,....is tol OUblicatIln.

JOSEpl A, 'COTT.Marion., Ind. Hc/ording Shcietary

Henry C. Tilts,. L. 1!. No. 1309IitatCd J.....y 11, 1904

Whereas we record with sorrow and regret thelotUgn n March 2, 14, of trothir tienry C.

.n, JradWhereas we wish to expreDs o s fao ly ad

relatives our rlderpe Iympathy be ItResolved, That at our next meting We sitondIn silence for one minute DO tribute to his me.-

cry: and be it furtherResolved. That a copy of theie resolutions bes.nI to his family, copy be spread on the

mifnutes -f tir Ioca]. ahid a copy b, sent 10 ourElectrical Workers' Journal for publication: andbe It further

TIesolved. That our charter he draped for aperiod of 30 days In his rrIe.n..v.

M R, FltIMASNEAsbury Park, N. 3, Press Secretary

Harry Thomas Grimes. L. U. No. 1310I$itiated April 10, bll, lin L, U. to. 121

It l. with the deepest sorrow nd rrrret that wethe m erabetr of LOcal Union Nio 131 , record thedeatho our friend and BlOther. Harry ThomasGrineIs; therefore be It

Resolved That copy of these resouhios besent to his fatil] . CoPY recorded in thie milutesof the local and a Pop y .et to the ElectriealWorkers Journal for publication: and be itfurther

Tewolved, That In him niemory our charter bedraped for a period of 30 days.

El. P YOfliWashingtol, .D. C. F or the Cormmitteo

John A. Garrity, L. U. No. 1317Reltioerd .nnuoryi 22, 104S

It is with deepest .orrow and regrOt that we.the members of .oeal Union No. 1311 1, E, W..record he death f one of our most belovedBrOthers. John A, Garrity, on .ebIuary 24. less;therefore he it

ResolVed. That we pay tribute to is mornr bystanding in , e l ,n erin iut, Iat a nice Ctg o thelocal: and be it further

lieaopad, That a coy of thee res.pltions besent to his faelly ania coI y be sent io theJournal for pubication and also be recO.ided inthe minutes of the ],ola

CLYDE M, TARR.MALCOLM R, HORTON,A. A. DODGE*

Portland, Maine, Committee

Rudolph B. York. L U. No. 1326Initiaerd September 25M, 142

Eugene Moore. L. U. No, 1326litIated October 9, 194±

With a sincere feeling of sorrov and regret we.the membership of I , U, No. i3.6, record thedeath of our departed friend. and Brothers, Ru-dnlph B. York and Eugene Moore: theefore be it

Resolved. That we pay tribute to thilr maemoryby expressing It. their families and friends oursincere sympathy; and bn It furlher

Resolved. That a Copy of these resolutions besent to their farille, a Copy be S read on ourionutes. and a copy be sent to the Joral of the

Electrieal Workers' for publication; ad be Itfurther

Rietolved, Tthat ou charter be draped for aperiod of 30 day.

LEO 0. PORTER.Bangor, Maine. Recording Secretary

J. George Wick. L. U. No. 1338Initiated JgntsIy 22, 1943

With sincere feeling of sorrow and egret Wethe membership of Local Ulion tO. 13$S, record

the death of our departed friend and Brother,.George Wick: therefore be it

ReSOlVed, That we pa tribute to his memoryby expreesing to his family and friends oursincere syn athy: and be it further

Reslved, That a copy of thes resolutios beSent to hi family, a copy be s read on ourminutes. aid A coxy be sent to te Joral ofthe Electrical Wor.ers for Publication; and beit further

ResolVed. That the members stand In silencefor a period of one ninrte as I tribute to hismemory and that our charter be draped for Pperiod of 00 days,

M. HOOGERHYDfl.Paterson, N. J. ltCoIdmg Seceary

Aloysius F. McKenzie. L. U. Ne. 1392,ri,utten JULYi 10, 1934Whereas Almighty God, in His Infinite wiSdom,

has emoved from our mdst our esteemed andworthy Brother. Aloysius F. MeXenzie; and

Whereas In the death of Brother McKenzie,[lcai Union Eo. .1;i92. of the InternationalBrotherhood of Electrical Worker. has lost oneof is true and devoted memrbei: therefore be it

Resolvd, That Loal Union No. B-1392 renog-nizes its great loss in the death of Brother Mc-Kenzie and hereby exprs its appreciation ofhis services to the cause o! our Brotherhood; andbe It further

Reolved, That LoCal Union Lr, 13-]2 tendersIts sincere s pathy to Utl fn Mily of our good

Brother in Chr time of gr9it thereavemrnt andbe it further

]Resoved, That a copy ItIese resolutions hesent to the hamily Of our late lIrother. a Iop . be

re ad on the ninmle' nl our Loc.al Union NO.3-1302 and a coPy b~e s.n. Ill the olicri Jounrl-alof our Brotherhood fri Uih~Ication

IlATRY AMSTTIN.RAY JSACOTdW F BODEKER.G~ar y, mnd Comnmittee

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BRAZIL., LOYAL STATE(Continued from page I57)

to be standardized. At present Brazil hasboth direct and alternating current, and

some electric systems operate on frequenciesof 50 cycles, while others run on 60-cyclefrequnci, es. Because the power is not stand-ardized, the systeis can't supplement each otherto keel, the flow of power even. Nor can trans-mission tie-iris be used if it lille is put out ofcoinmission, onless a connecting line is availableoperating o, the sanme fi'eqluecy,

Brazfil wil have to manufacture 0Ilre electricequipment. She has about . 5 I Itanul faet.u.rers (Ifsillall electrical equipmlent, such as small nliti ].,wire arid cables, trarisforners, insulators. smallswitches, neonndescent lantp5, aid radio equip-inet. But these Ianufacturers have to importcopper, zinc, silic o-steel sheets. ball ibarings,tool steel, c.,nmpsounsll for making plastic iisula-tors and molded gods,. radii, tiths, consumermeters, anId hintruments for switch panels ardstandards.

Until Brazil canl manufactur, .oe of her ,wlSheavy electrical equipment, her gi adually growing

industries will be held back in their nilizatitnof electric ionc F,.or example, the electric fur-naces used Ins her alontinu.. and aloy steel planrshave had to Ie ihmplorteld. someu rom the Ii itedStates. Electrodes, to, hare been imported, foralthough Brazil has plenty of graphite and natha nshe l acks some materils awid the necessary skills

to make electrodes fir electric furnaces,Once Brazil has overa lc these obsat leI a.n.

built up her hydroelectric power system. h,will experience three ]ain econhilt ad. untnges:

1. The dams aid r oetrairs neieued fnr hydro-power ran also le usei tU make navlgablt luaiyfixers which now are not navigahle, and freight-

er5 can travel on thlo. A large river dereI p..e.I t,sin.ilar to our own TVA in scope, ha. al]reIybeer planned by it, government of Brazil forher big San Francisco River valley.

2. If Brazil fully utilizes her electric power,she can partially solve one probten. retardin gthe develop ment of her transportation systemlack of good coal to runi her i.onlnotiv. s. As Mr.Cooke remarks, the Brazilians oay eveln maketheir own electriie loomotives which are efficientin hauling freight up steep grades.

3. Ample electric power can help Brazil be-conie an industrial nation. To a large extent shecan run her factories by electricity rather thanby imported coal and petroleun, and she cal

improve and modernize not only her mannfaciturns of iron and steel products hut also hertextile, chemical paper, and lubber industries.

To build a balnceed economy through indus-trialization based on steel and hydroeletricpower, Brazil needs skilled workers antI tch-

nically tralned experts and engineers, Accord-Ig to CMr. Cooke, Brazil's manpower, includingeven the poor farm workers and migrants livingin the [ack hountlry, possess the energy and theability to lear-n how to huild and run om prieated machines., but for so long Brazil has beendenied access to the technical "know-bow" evenlped by other industral] nations liat shelacks the trained workers, managers, and exports n,,d ed to build and operate pwer plants,foyundries, ii tactories,

Solving Chis il require a remodellingandl e pa 'he chool system, frIIm theprimary schoo .. p t. upeeial trae schools.S..on.I yenis agn, /razll established a magnificent-1. housed, adequately equippetd National Techni-cal School in fRi,~ d JIteiro, but in 1943 Mr.Cooke found it less than half occupied by stu-dents and it machine rustiag fron, disuse.Brazil needs thousands of schoos., especiallyrural ones. on slipply te piriinary educationneeded as a f.inrldatiLn for higher education andfir further technical training.

Arnother hiindaee t industriaization in Bra-zil is the lack of independent, skilled tradeunions. To the extent that Brazilian workersai- nranned at all, they have been included,

hIng with employers. in quasi public trade .a-soeiations called "syndi cates" which are ro,-Iated closely by the Government as t o electionof offiers, organization and salaries of the syndi-cate directors, handling of syndicate funds, andsettlement of industrial disputes and complaintsof members against their offi.ers. Governmentdelegat es are present at mretings of the mem-bers, and the syndical labor agreements must beapproved by the Federal Government before theyare effective, According to Brazil's Constitution,

rorkers are "free" to form professional or tradeassociations; but the C overnInent recognizes onlyone syndicate in an occupation in a sngle Io-cility, and only this officially recoiized syndi-cate, including ,niployer, and employees, canrepresenl the trade in its dealings with theGovernment.

As Mr. Cooke points out. building up a spiritof initiative and rcspontihility is important tothe modern industril worker, and the type ofGovernmentally controlled organization whichhas developed does iot seei well adapted tostimulating the interest of wcorkers in jiprovintiher skills, taking pride in the quality of workdone, and increasing productivity.

FIRST QUARTER MEETING

(Continued IroIn plge ittS

After considering the proposal submitted byInternational Vice Presideit Boyle it as de-cided that it was not necessary to amend thelaw as proposed, a5 the lhatter is adequatelycovered by the Cnns..tiutio,

The matter of the Western Union TelegraphCampsay's bargaining unit was before the co.n-cil. Files were prodtucld to sho-w that the ju risdie-tiao of the I. B. E. W. has been fully protected.

The Comrnitttre on Audit, D). W. Tracy and William G. Shard. reported that they had examinedthe I. B. E. IV. audit report for the fourth (uar-ter of 1941,. :,id the E. W. Bl A. audit report forthe last half df 1444, s meade by the firm ofWayne Kendroik Cnd Comprny. certified publicaccountants who are employed by the council,and tha they frund that all accounts checkedand that the roeords were iI order. On montinicarried, thie report ,r the committee was approved, the audit for the I, ],L B W. was orderedftled ani the chairmani ad .e. retary of the coun-cil were directed to present the F. W. B. A. auditcomminte repor t tn the trustees of that organiza-tion when they convened for their regular meet-ing.

International President Brown reported on histrip to the Pacific Coast. and in his other activi-ties since our last council meeting.

International Secretary BIugniazet and thecouncil reported on their aCtivities in their re-spective districts since the last council meeting.

It was regularly 11oved and seconded, that In-

ternaIione l SeCtetary Bngniazet communicatewith atll parties having matertie before the Execu-tive Council, and advise them of our action onsame. niotion carried.

All of the business presented to the councilhaving been disposd of, the meeting adiournedsine die.

D. A. MANNING.Secretary.

J. L. McBRIDE.Chairman Pro Tern.

TOP POLICY(Continued from page II4)

were follwed by a like number of IL B. E. W.members six weeks later. Upon completionof the course, the members return to theirlocal unions and coniduct training sessionsfor the other members of the local. In addi-tion to this course in electronics, over 100other groups, composed of employers andemployees, arI conltcting classes in elee~tronics, with the assistance of vocationalauthorities, electrical engineers and localjoint apprenticeship committees.

We sincerely believe that the progressivesteps taken by these two organizations inthe electrical industry mark a new era inlabor-management relations which willprove of benefit not only to those directlyconcerned but to the consumer as well.

HJOLMIES WIN(Contianed Pon page 164)

ard Oltara, L. U. 3, William Ross, JohnMulligan, Albert Myers, Arthur Hargrave,William Downey, Robert E. McNulty, Kath-ryn M. Doyle, Marie MAvinnia, Fred Thai,Dalice T. Robb is, John Ilarty, Peter Bren-nan, L. U. 3, Naftel Budsrle, L. U- 3.

Tremendous strides have been made inthe past few years by the employees of thefirms who have colentive bargaining agree-ments with Local Union No. 3. These in-clude the Amrican r)istrict Telegraph, Au-tobatie Fire Alarm. Consolidated FireAlarm and Central Signal Stations.

Now that complete organization in thisindustry has been accomplished, the work-ers can look forward to the necessary re-forms and improvements that will makeit possible to establish in this branch ofthe industry the highest possible wages,the best possible conditions and the neces-sary united action for future protection.They also look forward, and will be glad toassist, in the organization under the L. B.E. W. banner of all workers engaged inthe Electric Protection Industry in all citiesthroughout the United States and Canada.

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WOMAN'S WORK(Continued fot. page 172)

room will dramatize it and make it comealive. A friend of mine has a lovely room withpale green wails and green carpets, and hasused shades of rust and peach in her slipcovers and drapes. But here and therethroughout the room is a bright splash ofyellow-in a flower print picture on thewall, in the cigarette box on the coffeetable, yellow flowers in a clear glass vase-yellow books on her table. Another friendhas done the same thing with cherry redin her predominantly blue room-red coatson the men in a bunting scene picture,cherry red needlepoint on her footstool, redbowl filled with white flowers on her mantel.Those rooms are warm and aliv and bright.

Next, I can't begin to tell you what cur-tains and drapes and slip covers can do fora room. It doesn't matter what you makethem of-it's the colors that count-all ofwhich proves that you don't have to havemoney to create beauty. With a few gallonsof paint (keep in mind the cold and warmwater paints so easily applied) and somecheap, bright material, you can workwonders.

A poor relations friend of mine came tolive with her richer relatives. Her roomwas a nice size and it had a rather nice bluecarpet on the floor, and the furniture wasdark and well-made, but it looked horrible-straight, stringy curtains in a dark ecru-walls papered in a huge, ugly design,skimpy pink bedspread with bureau scarves

to match. She asked if she could do it over,and her relatives said "sure, it was hers todo with as she liked." She saved up $20and then she "went to town." She paintedthe room in a soft shade of blue. Shebought quantities of cheap white mate-ral and made billlowy tie back curtains.From the same material she made bureauscarves with a wide, full ruffle around theedge, and these she starched till thly werestiff and crisp. She bought (heap material-white background with little pink flow.ersand green leavesI-that looked like chintzbut ,sn't, and made drapes and a bed-spread with a full-ruffled skirt. With someplain material in a lovely rose shade, shemade a cover for the old quilt that layacross the foot of her bed- She emphasizedthis rose color i, some little rose flowervases and a pin tray from the ten-cent storeand she and all the relatives were en-chanted with the transformed room. Nowshe's helping them do over their wholehouse, and she's fast becoming everybody'sfavorite person.

I'd like to go on and on and talk aboutmore color schemes and lighting, balance,glamorous accessories, interesting touchesfor bathrooms and bedrooms, but, as a1-ways, our space is limited and IIl have tostop. Perhaps we can take some detais ondecorating from time to time in futureissues and elaborate on them,. Until then,"Happy planning!"

CLIPPER DAYS(ContinUed from page 15)

need for effective cooperation between allorganized groups is clearly apparent."

The United States Chamber of Commercelists the American Federation of Labor asan organization interested in foreign trade.Other prominent organizations interested inforeign trade as listed by the Departmentof Comnerce are National Foreign TradeCouncil, National Council of American ID-porters, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Na.-tional Association of Manufacturers, Councilon Foreign Relations, Foreign Policy Associ-ation, American Bankers Association andAmerican Farm Bureau Federation.

The last years of reasonably normal pre-war foreign trade of all nations were 1937-193S. In 1937, as customarily, the UnitedStates was the nation's largest exporter andranked second in the world's import trade,with well over 1J eer cent in each case.

In total foreign trade, first place vent,as usual, to the United Kingdom. If the tradeof all nations within the British Empirewere added together, their total for 1937would be approximately 25 per cent of theworld's exports of $13 billion, and 30 percent of total imports of $14 billiona

The annual average of world foreigntrade for the peak period of 1926-1930 was$31 billion of exports and $33 billion of im-ports. In the low year of 1934, totals were$11 billion of exports and $12 billion ofimports.

Pre-war world trade statistics on morethan 100 countries are presented in Depart-ment of Commerce statistical reports on fo-eign trade. In 1937, the leading 10 exporternations had approximately 60 per cent ofthe world's total; the first 10 importingcountries had 63 per cent. The 31 countrieslisted had, roughly, 85 per cent of the world'stotal foreign trade.

BRETTON WOODS(Continued from page 10f)

means of subsidies. But if this means re-ducing imports that are essential to theeconomic activity of the country, the resultprobably will be a reduction in its standardof living and the payment of lower wages.Such practices also tend to disrupt inter-rational trade. Prior to this war, Germanyrestricted imports and boosted exports byartificial means; this practice was followedby other countries, with the result that in-ternateioal trade became clogged.

The International Fund and the Intemna-tional Bank would help countries which ex-perience difficulty in making their interna-tionai payments. It would give them abreathing spell in which they could try toimprove the technical efficiency of theirindustries or find new industries to develop.Such a gradual improvement in their econ-omies would mean less transitional unem-ployment for their workers and the avoid-ance of low wages resulting from poorlybalanced economic conditions.

Only by avoiding unemployment and lowwages can international trade be maintainedat a high level. Otherwise the people of acountry won't have the income needed to buyenough goods produced within its own bor-ders or enough imports from other countriesto keep world economic conditions pros-perous.

The fund and the bank can be of servicebeyond the reconstruction period. After thefirst spurt of economic activity followingthe war, the problem will be to sustain fulleconomic activity throughout the world. If.in any part of the world, maladjustmentsoccur and a depression gets a start, the of-fects will he felt ultimately by every nation.If such an economic decline were to beginin one or two countries, the fund and thebank, by liberal policies of handling foreignexchange and of making loans, could easethe situation and help to stop the depression,

The Bretton Woods agreements, whichmust be ratified by our Congress beforethe United States is committed to them,by stimulating full, productive activitythroughout the world, have an importantbearing upon two problems of great interestto labor: (1) the achieving and sustainingof full employment and (2) the maintenanceof peace once it is reestablished. In the lat-ter sense, then, what Congress decides to doabout the Bretton Woods agreements is re.latod directly to whatever agreements

emerge from the San Francisco Conferenceof the United Nations on world security. Un-less prosperous economic conditions and rea-sonably full employment can be achieved andsustained throughout the world, peace willbe precarious, even though the United Na-tions succeed in establishing some form ofworld organization aimed to keep that peaceby international action.

NEW DAY(Continued from page IS!)

labor union is inadvisable. Such a promiseis necessarily coerced and its exaction is bernof lack of confidence. It therefore dhestroysat the outset the willingness and loyaltycut of which the cooperative spirit mustgrow and engenders instead either apathyand sernility or a covert hostility. It pro-motes secret association apt to flame intoviolence. Furthermore, the trend of thecourts is to the opinion that such a promiseis against public policy and hence onen-forcible,"

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ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT(Continued bomn page 16)

902 2-inch tube, using constants and wiringdJnlgrlint cvoataned in tube araton.

1;7 can be substituted for NCd where ob-tainable, although GCBi operation is morestable; 57 tube C:Ll he substituted for 6C6with filament vol h ge c ange,.

885 can be siilstitutd for 884, and 2.5volt filament volta1re ued instead 6.3 volt.

R1 and R2 irtentity andi fora controlpotentiometers should be insulated frompanel with ,ashers.

Power transformer should be universaltype, with 2.5 volt, 00; filament and pi-mary winding shielded magnetieally.

Addtionml reference: Rudio News, Do-cember, 1q44 "Remodeling of NationalUnion Osillosope."

ComponentCI-.5 mf 1,500 VC2-.5 mf 600 V(3- 8 nf 150 VC4- 4 .. l 475 VC5- 4 mf 475 VCl-.05 nif 400 VC7-.05 cr 400 VCN-.25 ma 400 V(C9-25 pif 400 V(C10-25 mf 400 VCI I-25 ntf 400 VC12-t05 Mf 400 VC'l-2 so 400 V( I-1-.0- nlf t101 VC-15-.01 of -01t VCIG-.0025 nf 504) VC17-600 miif 5100 VC18-125 .n.f 5010 VC19- 50 .m.f 1,200 VC20- 25 mf 50 VCZ1-.00w; mf 500 VC22-004 mf 5011 VC23-.1 nif 1,000 VC24-.t mf 1,600 VFI-I amnpere fuseLi-10.5 henries chokeL2 and 3260 mh Rf

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RO-4 meg. pot.

Parts List{IL gain)

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TI-Iowver trans.former

Cathode-Ray OwcillographOperating InstructionsGeneral Specifications

Pieoer Supply RatieasVoltage .............. 115 a.c.Frequency . ..........40-60 cyclesPower Consu --ptin-.. . .50 wattsFuse Protection . ... i ampere

Operoting LinitsDeflection sensitivity (,xith max. ampi.)

Vertical … --- - vm-s. volts/inch

Horizontal --- 65 rm. volts/inchDeflection sensitivity direct connectin

to 906 tube plates_,30 rams. vols/inchInput Characteristics

VerilCL amplifier - . ......I megohmlorizonita[l amplifier . ...0,8 nmegohm

Volt. gain, vertical ampl ..-. ....43 timesVolt. gain, her. amp …i _ --------.55 timesFreq. range of amplifiers-5 to 1t0,000

"sinusoidal" ep.s.Frutq. range of timing axis-I1 to 30,000

'sawtooth" e.p.s.Max. allowable sc. voltage input to am-

pliners -.................. 250 voltsMax. allowable d.c. voltage input to am-

plifiers .-. ............. 400 voltsD.c. voltage delivered by high volt. see-

don of power supply ------- 1,100 voltsD.C. voltage delivered by low volt. sec-

tion of power supply -------- 415 voltsTn bcs and Fn ,ctions,

1-type $0 Ralf-wave RectifierI type 80 Full-wave Rectifier1-type 6C6 Vertical Amplifier1-tYPO 6Cfl Horizontal AmplifierI DuMont type 884 Saw-tooth OwillatorI-type 906 Cathode-ray tubeI ,ill be glad to furnish any additional

info'mation to the members of the L. B.E. W, on the construction of thii scope, Ad-ditess inquiries to

F. D. SClniNc,I. B. E. W. Industrial Eleetronic Division,

1515 West Wisconsi n Avenue,Milwaukee 3, Wiseo.sin

FOLLOWING PROCEDURES(Continued Jrem page IVA)

therefore, to consider this pOSSibilty favor-ably and carefully, and to notify the boardpromptly if they are willing to proceed inthis manner. It eliminates the necessity ofarranging for a hearing officer or panel--which arc not adways immediately avail-able - and enables the board to movepromptly into consideration of the case.

6. If oral hearing is believed essential toits .ase, the union is urged to hwzve its eateheard by a single hearing oy r rather thanby a panel.

In some instances, of course, it is neces-sary for a ease to be heard orally andformally in addition to the submission ofwritten briefs. Where hearings are neces-sary to carry out the sound provisions ofthe War Labor Disputes Act, the board pro-vides the parties with adequate opportunityto present all their facts and argumentsin order that it may reach a fair and equi-table decision.

If unica officials believe oral hearing isvital to the case of the employees they rep-resent, it will be in the interest of speed andeconomy if they will consent to having itheard by a single hearing officer. The boardhas found that, on the average, hearing-offi-cur cases are decided in far less time thanpanlel cases.

A panel consists of three persons, one rep-resenting the public; one from lab.r; andone from industry, designated to bear thecase and arrive at a joint recommndation.

It is sometimes difficult to find three suchproperly quali led people available on the

same date, and there may he delays in ob-taning their semices. When they finally arebrought together and h held a case, thechairman, who is the public member, pre-pares a repor t and r.onm.e.dation andsubmits them, to the labor and industrymembers. If they agree, or even if only oneof them agrees, a majority opinion is ob-tamied and the report is submitted to theboard. If both disagree, then the dissentingmembers must make other reports and sub-mit the, to the board. Sometimes it is£Iecessamy for ,any of these procedures tobe handled by mail, although the boardstrongly discourages this in the interests ofspeed. Never the panel obviouslytakes more time than that required by asingle h earing officer in hearing a case andmaking reconimendations.

In hearing-officer cases, one man is desig-nated from the public to hear the case.Whenever possible, hearing officers are .se-lected from fields which hare given themqualifications especially suited to settlingdisputes. They may be, for example, law-yers experienced in board policies and pro-cedures, members of the Ame rican Arbitra-tion Association, or some mediaorey group.Public members and staff specialists of theboard "lay also serve as hearing officers,and are more readily available that, panel

eminbuhers.Since a hearing officer represents the in-

terests of neither labor nor industry, hisreommendatiun is unbiased and impartial.But bear in mind: the actual decision in ahearing-officer case, as in a panel case, ismade by the board members themselves-labor, industry, and public-so that tripar-tite consideration of all eases is automat-ically guaranteed. The hearing officer listensto the ease., assembles the evidence. weed,out aspects not pertinent to the c ase, andthen presents his report to the board, whichmay accept, modify or even reject his reco.n-

aendslation.The earsd itself is doing everything it can to

speed settlemeant of disputes cases, and to co-operate with unions and employers. It is carint-

ly in the midst of a drive to clean up the hach-logof these easo s and is doing So in s everal ways.

In some instances, where one of the members ofa panel is unable to complete his consideration ofthe report within five days after its submission tohi., action by a majority of the panel may beadeqjnate for sending the report on to the parti*s.Since shortage of panrel chairmen is a bottleneckto speedy disposition of eases, the board isputting on a campaign to obtain additional publicmenhbers. In some instances, it may he feasibleto use hearing officers as panel chairmen.

in cases in which wages are an important issue,Wage rtabilization staff members are being usedas panel assistants. All regional board facilitiesare made av'ailcble to panel chairmen, includingthose of the Legal Division, Wage StabillzationDivision. Administrative Services and Informa-tion, as well as the Disputes Division.

AS a further sOe in its current drive to reducethe backlog of dispute cases, the board is havinga series of onferrences with pantel chairml toemphasize spprd, application of uniform pro-eedures, and t, oxehol nge ideas and experleoii t.

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Ledger sheets for above, per '00....Pa~per, Official Letter, per 100 -....Rituals, extra, each ........Receipt B5ook, Applicansts (3ft0 re-

ceipts) .............Receipt Book, Applicants (730 we-

eeipts) ............Receipt Book, Members <30 receipts)Receipt Book, Members ('3* receipts)Receipt Book, Miscellaneous (300 re-

ceipts) ............Receipt Book, 3llsrelianeous (750 re-

ceipts) .............Receipt Book. Overtie asessment

(300 receipts)..........Receipt Book, Overtime &$sessment

(150 receipts) …........Rleceipt nook, Temporary (730 re-

ceipts) ...........Receipt Book, Temporary (300 re-

ceipts) ............Receipt Book, Temporary (90 re-eeipts).............

Receipt Book, Fimianolal Secretary's$__Receipt ]Book, Treastorer's.......Receipt Holders. Members' Leather

Pocket. Folding, each .......,Receipt Hlpdersa Memfbers' Poeket.

Celluloid, sold only' in balk, Small-est lot, 50 .............per 1O00.........

Rtesearch weekly report cards, per lOSSeal, cut of. ............Seal.............Seal (pocket) ...........Traveling cards ...........

2.2.50,25

1.75

3.50

1.;5

3.30

:t.50

1.25

.75

.55

1.50

.40

5.00

free

Withdrawal Cards, with Trans. COS.,per dozen........

Warrzakt Book, for U. S ........

FOE E. WV. B. A.

B~ook, Minute -...........Char ter£ Duplicates ......Relnsiatemenlt blanks, per 100 ...Cons~tntuton an~d ky-Laws, per 1009 -_

Single Copies ...........]Ri~ttalt, each-..........

,40.30

1.50.50'75

7.50.10

JEWELRY

No. 1--Gold Filled Button Gilt TieClasp … - ...........1

No, 2--10 ktt* Geld Lapel ]B~IttOn..... 1.10No. 3-Rolled Gold Pim. (10r ladsesy)-- .75No. 4--Roiled Gold Lapel Suttot~_ .15No. if-.-1 ki. (old b~uttona Rolled

Gold Tie Clasp - ....... 1.75No. 6.-O kt. Oold Lapel Button____. 1.25No. 7--10 kt. Gold Lapel Button … 1.... .No. lO-10-t k. Geld Ring - ........10,50No. It--10 kt. Gold Badge of hlenor_ 2.25No. 21~0 Itt. (Cold Elmblernn Rolled

Cold Chain Ti*e Clasp .... 4,0{0No. l3--Woinrtvs Autxiliry flul~ton._. soNo. 14-Gold Filled Service Button..__ 1.7

Jewelry not sent C. 0. 0.NOrTCE: Whent present suplites of e*m-

biemnatic jc'lnteIr] le es'hau/stedl, there will[be no }nore tnf/td the goverinment releasesnece~ssary ,re4tals,

The abore articese will be supplied when the reqjuisite amnount of cash nocompapiel theorderr, Otherwijse the order wilI nzot be rccoanfzed& All Stipplies Sent by us have postrioe or et-press cherfies rrepald.

METAL -4 LABEL

ADDRESS, 0. M. BUGNIAZET, I. S.1200 Fifteenth St. N. W. Washington 5. D, C.

Democracy is bound to no single economic structure

and views all economic machineries as but instruments;

liberalism has become little more than the ethos and

rationale of capitalism, and the perpetuation of that eco-

nomic system it has conceived as an end in itself.

EMMET JOHN HUGHES

in "The Church and the Liberal Society"