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OPERATING ENGINEERS. LOCAL 3 . ~637 Vol. 21 - No. 3 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFOR~IA ~ 151 MARCH, . 1962 -Safety, 'Feed' DraWs 6,31 Eureka Everit Has -Big Turnout . .._, The serious subject of saf~ty'· was blended with good fel low~hip .and exc.ellent food as a throng of 631 - Operating Engineers, their wives, contractors and others - turned out for a big event in Eureka. ·- · . I · It was the first Crab Feed_ and Safety Meeting -spon sored by the Humboldt-Del Norte Construction·safety Com mittee_for Local Unio:q. No . 3, with construction firms se_rvil1g as co-sponsors. .. There w~re talks by union ~nd management ·representa tives, plus the showing of the safety film, '~:Knowin·g . Is · Not Enough" - all in the interest of ad-vancing labor-employer efforts to cut back accidents and fatal- ities in highway construction and PROMO .f~:- SAFETY:-- He.re , are ·som·e ·of those who took part in -the big Crab Feed and Safety other p~ojects . " r:n~eting at.· Eureka. Fr.dm left: Warren LeMoine, district representative, of Operating Engineers And i 1) sur an c e- companies Locai 3;- D,ale Marr>the local 's safety representative; John·O' Bi-ien, director of safety for Bec h - their ·inlerest through 1 showed tel C.or:p:,: Dilh M_ ilthers. ,·· tin1eke¢per· aAd safety inspeCtor:. for-Bechtel Corp., Eureka; AI Clem, - · · the attendance of representatives · • .busi:ne~ . s : m~_ nagel of kscal :3 / ·an'd ~oe . ~oberts, r;epresen~ing State. Di\ds !~_....n .of l,ndustri_al Safety. _ . _ _ , .. ,... ,"-''-'""'-' ,. , .. , from . North~rnCahforma,South _ •.• .• • , _ .-.,_, 1, ·--F·, .. , .. , ~ y . "' .. -··--t~, as ~ far' ··" · ~ • ~~-~,.,_ ·:1 ~ '.<.~<f·.,_,,.~..,.... !<,;.,._._ .... ~ ~ . .. ;. _,_! -.. ~., .• t·- ~.~.::-~-:-, ·: t"~- :_'" -.-)11". ,-.;.."~"'~-"!·~~~. :~r-~.4~ ~~("'' ~.~-.:~·'1-t· v "',.-;:_.""·~ ~ ernx~ cali£6Fnla ~ ~a... ·..fr6fu - ;-- 1 L I ~J :epr~Sehf3ti!eS ·•w·y ··.=:~::A::;:. · ~· 4 The wives who worked with I • . the Operating E_ngineers in mak- NE_WELL J. CARMAN • • .t' . c· . f en' -5 . -~,On erenc;e_.. ing arrangements and preparing - '' the fo.od deserved a full measure t res.1 / ·, of credit for the success of the event, which was rounded out by Carman on Af·Cfem, -· five hours of dancing. For -e'xainple: Farm Labor More than 2,000 hours (man Dale Marr · hours and woman hours) went ·commission into· the preparation and serving .Newell J. Carman, general • 1n;,Q.pital - activity. : vi~e president and -regional di, The crowd en j o y e d 1,080 . rector of the International Some 3000 leaders. of lab-or, .Un ion of Operating Engineers, has· management, ·education and gov pounds of crab, 150 pou9-ds of ·, been-· named ·to the new Calif or·- · ernment were invited to partici' on Page 5 · ·. -Continued Iiia State Agricultural Labor pate in_ the President's Confer: . Commission. ence on Occupational .Safety mem- March 6 to 8 ,in Washington; ·h·cL ' -. ' Carman is one of four bers appointed by California's 'D_:C. :· . ·~ . -' Dea t aLms G. Brown. The . Both Dafe'·Marr, s·afety rep' _ -..: " · · Gov, Edmund would ask the -'resentatlve of Operating Engi- -· f .M "[[ Governor~ said he four .to recom,menP, a fifth mem- ··. neers Local · 3, and Business A. •_ .• Ql OUX · . · ber to him. · Manager AI Clem ·were among A. F·. (AI) Mailloux, secretary- , The commission , will study ·c;alifornians who received invi treasurer and business represen- . farm labor problems and then 'tatiohs 'from President Kennedy. tative of the San Francisco ~uild- .. submit. a report to the Governor ~-- Clem was the -nation's · capi- in ing and Construction Trades and · the State Legislature ·in · 'thrie for · the· ~igihth · • ·tal at the Council, died at .Sierra Hospital Jan~lary ,' 1963. Its creation was L·n· I in Sonora on March 8· He· wa~ authorized by the· 1961 Legisla- 'ferenceannual nationalof the AFL-CIOlegislative Build- con- ·.-'Ge·t: A_.. __ -: 'c ·_ qua· te.d··_ 60. ture. · 'ing . Trades ~ Department. He- ··Brother Mailloux was injured j_oined, Marr to give the union . · - - ' -· · OTHERS February 23 whim a horse fell·pn . Carman's. ·fellow · members in him at a ranch near Sonora .. '' who .:~:e:af:~~r~~~:::::: in part ~ of -FeG.tu.re Foi' -- M·e·rhbers, dud~ - Thomas L. 'Pitts, He was a V,ice president of the top Job of secretary President PatH Edgecombe, Re- . - , .· holds the California State Building and of the California La ·cording Secretary William. V. · -. · ' treasurer (SO the membership may know more of the background Constructi"qn -Trades Council, a ·bot~ Federation, AFL-CIO. Car ·Minahan, ~nd District Represen't, officers and the Executive Board members of the . · San-Francisco Housing Authority man is a ·vice president of the ative Warren Le Moine also at of the Engineers Local Union 3, the Engineer§ News will commissioner and a- forrrier San federation. Both he and Pitts tended the legislative conference. · Operating brief biographical sketch. We .Francisco Grand Jury member. San - Each year nearly two -miliion run a series of articles g.iving a make their headquarters in president, and Guy Slack, board A .member of the Ironworkers, American wo1:kers are disabled .. begin U?ith Paul Edgecombe, Francisco. · · he had been an officer. of the San 'for a day or 'more b'y injuries -member from District 1.) A general vice president of the . Engineers since 1957; Car · ~uffered on · t)le job. In 1960, Brother Guy Slack was born on Otir president, PaUl Edg~~ombe, Francisco Building Trades Coun- in nearly 1{000 persons were ' October 31, 1904. He started was . born in Salinas, Calif., on cil since 1947. man began his service as the t_ernational's __ . region·al director • killed. And it appears that vvor~ worki~g as a boiler maker in February ,9, ;_1915. H-e became a _ Survivors include his wife, · casualties will be as high or 1921 and from · 1924 to · 1928 mem~er of Lti2al- -3 inj~41 when Co,v.stance: and two grandchil· ·in 1951. The region now . in-~ . states: : . higher when the 1961 return,s .•served a hitch in the Navy. employed on .the consti·uctjon of dren. A son, William, an Air eludes 10 western are in. : In 1942, Brother Slack joined -F.riant Dam. He then ' moved to Force reserve officer, WqS kilhid POSITION .. ., "The rapid pace . of scientific the Operating Engineers' Local. the·.Bay· A\ea. wllere . h~ ··op~rq. ted · in a jet plane accident in· the He now· is sec.refary - tre~ su;er · -Continued on Page 7 Si~ri· a :r'oothilis - a-few- y~ars ago:· .. -· · :.._Continued on Page 3 -~ontinued on Page-2 -Continued on Page 7 _ . .-. \ . - • ' . • - I ., ':/.~ ,;·.. ~; '" , ' ENGINEERS · NEWS ' . ly t . u -alif rn-1a• . California eipployment in January was substantially higher than a year ago and unemployment was considerably lower, two State officials announced. John F, Henning, Director of Industrial Relations, stated that civilian employment totale<} 6,058,000 in January, up 143 ,000, or 21/z per cent, from a year earlier. Employment was report~d at the highest January level on record. • On a year-to-year basis, largest l~e: cal3 gairis we1;e made in manufactur ing,· up .47,000; government, up ,A·t Safet·y 40,000; services, up 32,000; and trade, up 30,000. In m'aufacturing, the· year-to Conference year gain has widened each Contimwd {rom Page l- month since employment topped and technological advance has year-earlier levels in September, minimized certain risks encoun 1961. tered by the working p~ople of AGRICULTURE the :r;J.ation ... (but) it has also Employment in. agriculture ON THE Guy F. Atkinson job in Ukiah, Operator/ Pat Furnish and Oiler Bob Schuman stand added new ·hazards to the old and. transportation-communica beside their big crane. Heavy rains have kept the projec;t bogged down in thick mud, as can ones," President Kennedy said · tion-utilities continued bel'ow a be seen by the deep tire ridges. ~ ~~ ·. · . · • .in a: letter to Secretm:y of Labor year ago .. .Nrthur J . .Goldberg last year. TOLL . - Between December and Janu Santa ·Rosa Report .. In citing the 1960 toll of ary, civilian employment dr()p nearly·14,000 killed and two mil ped by 134;000, which is less lion ' hurt at their jobs, safety .than "expected at this time of • exper.ts noted that only two, out year. Month-to-month declines included 'an 82,000 drop in trade ·roje.:l r ofr 10 accidents happened in• fac VI following curtailment of holiday I tories, whe~e the danger might peak ·activity, a 21,000 drop in By RUSS SWANSON and of the Army Engineers so that don't forge-t your time books so be·-expected to ·be the highest. LOU BARNF;S it will speed · the start of con- tha't you •Can keep accurate rec Thus the delegates to the construction, and a 20,000 con traction in manufacturing . At this writing, there ha·s be~n . struction. ., . , ords this coming season. · ..Was hington safety conference· We would like ·to remin'd the We have plenty of ·· forms in Within manu,facturin;, - sea noted only one call for 'bids in gave major attention to ways of brothers at this time not to for the office for those of you who sonal losses in canning, lumber- . the a1;ea in which we are .antici .reducing mishaps on jobs in ge_t to renew their original sign. have money coming due to over-. ing, and apparel, and slight de- . pating a good amount of, work. agriculture, construction;, trade ·up on the "out of . work" list. pa)iment of the.