OPERAtiNG ENGINEERS lOCAL 3
Vol. 22-No. 11 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ~~ 151 November, 1963 • At 'chicago Parley n Local 3 Man .. Talks • A.bout Tower .Cranes ' ·· I By AL CLEM Strict metallurgical standards, ···-Labor Section-,--which was pre .$cho .larship . · _ Business Manager for the steel used . in foreign :?ided over . this.· year ,by General' Climaiing a renewed series of meetings in mid-October, made. tower cranes are needed Pres. Hunter P. Wharton of .the ApplicaliC)ns_·. an agreement was · finally reached October 21; 1963 be to ..Pr .event potentia~ disastrous Operating · Engineers · Interna-. :Application forms · are . . tween the negotiating c;ommittee for Local No. 3 and the .a ccidents, Local 3 Safety Engl- tional Union. now available for the two $!500 negotiators from the General Contractors Association in the • . neer Dale ~arr toYd delegates as :M:arr's .talk called national at college scholarships . which State of Hawaii. · In addition to the wage in sembled in Chicago ·for the an tention for the first time to the will be awarded .to . sons or Although the Hawaii · negoti~- · creases, the employers · a 1 s o nual meeting of. the Natio~al apparent · discrepancy between daughh~r s Of membei·s of Op tions dragged on for what agreed to pay 10c ari ·hour into ·.· Safety Council. ' the standards for U. ·S . ~teel a~d erating Engineers Local No ~ 3.' seemed like quite a lengthy pe: the Operating Engineers Pension This _was . one of the key rec the steel used in foreign cranes. Applicants rin1st be students riod due to many external cir Trust ·to purchase pension cre:d- . ommendations ma(}e by Brother . He eitE:;d a case,in which a for in tpei'r four th· year of high cumstances that were no·t favor- . its for their employees coming Marr.in an address Monday, Oct. ~ign-ma:de tower crane collapse<:I school-public; private or· pa . able to our Union, I think that ·' 28, to the opening SeS$iOll of the · and part of it crashed .through ·rochial -'- planning to go to the .vote of the membership at ·under the jurisdiction of the Construction Section of the Na-. the roof of ail adjoining building. college ·next year· ahd must a special called ratification meet contract. •· ~ tiorial Saf.ety ,Corigr e~ s. . In. its investigation of . tl).e acc_i ·college next year al).d must ing October.23, 1963, speak.s for This is · the second labor agree He ·had b E{ e'rdrivited· to .speak ·_.dent, the Californ,ia Division of have . at least a "B" · average itself. The v-o,te was 152 for rati ment covering approxiinately 48 . to t.lie' :· mitional safety . conclave Industrial Safety ordered . tests in the~r studies. fication, 2 against ratification. employers of the General· Con ,on the topic, "Uses imd Misuses . of the steel made by a top.rated For Jnformati.on and appli-· The agreement, \vhich ·will be tractors Association. in the state ·of Hawaii. The firi;t contract was of Tower Craiies." 'It wa·s the . materials testing laboratory. cation· forms, write to: printed in booklet form and. dis for a period of' three. years, and first time a labor spok.esman had POOR STEEL W. V. Minahan, . tributed to the Brothers in Ha been invited to · address the Con- Using what is called th .e Rec.-Corr. Sec., · waii, contains 12 wage · groups it was known as the "Model struction Section. . -"Notching -Test", th.e laboratory Operiltil!g Engineers with . several classifications in ·Agreement." It was a joint agre·e WHARTON PRESIDES . found that · ·whiie . 0. s. .'steels· : Local 3, . · · each group; H is for ~ .. period of ment with the Engineers, the La- D!lions liave their· · ~wn '· panel . ntirfually ' have a .breaking-point 474 ~ Vaiencia St., ·. 'fom· years with a 'si.ihstan1tial ,in borers, the Carpenter~. the Ce . . ' . .~ . .,_ . ment Finishers an'd j.h.e Building ~a(tli.e' ' annuai 'in eet in'g- the ,_' · :-- Co~tinu. cQ.. Qn · P.agc ' ~ sail Fra.!iCisco 3: Cali( . crease 'in· wage~ - iil'iilcrem.en; ~ : · :' ~ . ·-- '. ~ ~ . . .. ~ . . . : T.raqes Council. /. ·
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Continued from Page 1 1 The dredge and barges cost $3l!z George C. Shannon; .former million. ' city manager of Anchorage, Alas- Next a basin was dug at the ka, was hired as district manager, edge of the Foster City tract and authorization was won for· capable of holding a half-million the Estei·o District to issue up to yards of sand. The •barges shut $55 million in municipal bonds. tle from Dredge No. 1 to the ba- Over $19 million of these bonds sin-making a round -trip ~very have been offered to date, and two· hours-and dump the sand. all have been sold. Financial PUT-AND-TAKE analysis . shows that even when A second dredge-Foster City • the . whole $55 million are sold, DR 2-floating in the basin, the '· Estei'o Distdct bonded debt · then sucks up the sand and will never be over $30 million, · . pumps .it through a pipeline to due ·to retirement of .earlier obli- the designated fill areas. Hy gations. draulic Dredging Co. owns the· FIND S~ND second :dredge and has an operat · Locating material and placing ing conti·act for the entire dredg th.e . fill was the first ·big prob ing project, keeping about 80 En IT GOES IN HERE: Suc.king up sand offshore from San Francisco airport is the -specially-built lem. Borings located · a -high-· gineers .steadily employed. dredge Foster City DR l, which discharges into the big bottom-dump bar.ge tied up alongside. grade source of 28 mill!on_cubic This "put-and-take'' method of Two of these barges shuttle in relays to dump the sand into a holding basin near the Foster yards of sand in the so-called handling · the sand violates the City tract that can hold half a million cubic yards of fill. San Bruno Shoal in the Bay just usual rule that double-handling east of San Francisco Interna of materials is more expensive, tional Airport. yet it will actually save a lot of This shoal was a navigational money, . the Fosters testify. But ••bar to the entrance of the Port the removal of the mU:d· and re,:: . of Redwood City, and Congress handling of sand amplify the real had authorized the Army Engi size of the dredging project, and neers to spend $150 million to re- the total of material moved may . move it. This federal tax money eventually go up near the 50 mil will be s a v e d, and in addi lion cubic yard mark. tion the .California State b·eas When Foster City is completed, ury will be enriched about $1 it will be a $500,000,000 master million in fees paid to 'the' State planned community, with · every for the 18 million cubic yards of step from ·the first spadeful of sand which wilL be taken for earth planned to be adequate for Foster City fill. the final goal of a balanced com munity of individual homes, ·gar Getting the sand out presented den and high rise apartments, a number of problems. To begin commercial and light industrial with, it was covered by about sections, C1v1c center, parks, 18 million cubic yards of muck, schools, churches, boating lagoons and using . usual methods it -the whole works. would· have to .be piped as much •. as nine miles to the fill site, en 1975 GOAL tailing heavy costs. By 1975, the planners envision, ·there will be 11,000 families num- . TWO LADDERS. · bering ·35,000 people in Foster Ingenious solutio.ns were AND IT COMES OUT HERE: Water and sand are shown spurting out of a pipe laid from -the City. Local business - and indus storage ·basin to the fill area, pumped by a second dredge, Foster City DR 2, which floats in worked out.' The Foster interests try will provide ·7,000 to 10,000 harl a special two-ladder sucti'On the basin. Parts of the Foster City tract are already being built upon. Some 18 million cubic jobs. · yards of sand will be spread on the 2,600 acre tract to raise the level an average 4Y2 feet. . , dredge-the Foster City DR 1- To date, the dredge-and-fill specially built. Where the mud operation has placed· -close to 3 . ·overburden is heavy, one lad
,____~~-· DURING THE PAST MONTH I spent approximately two weeks in Honolulu in negotiations. In addition to that, it gives us a great deal of pleasure to report to the mem bership that, through the efforts of the Regional Office of our International Union and Vice President Carman, we were able to secure a memorandum of understanding with the . Carpenters International over our jurisdiction in Cali fornia as a whole. PLENTY OF POWER: Earl Brown, subcontracting for Hess & Dubach on Highway 99 in the This is a joint agreement which was signed by Vice Fresno district, believes in getting them out of the pit. He has four pushers-one twin President Carman as well as Joe Seymour, Business Man Wagner and three Cat 660s- and six DW 21 s feeding a hopper. This picture shows .Bob .. ager of Local No. 12, and myself. We hope that as a result Smith on the DW 21, Bob Daniels on the Wagner and AI Constanz, Ray Phennegar and of the signing of this document, our jurisdictional disputes, Jim Munson on a trio of 660s. in this area at least, will be reduced to a minimum. • * * * ~ , WE HAVE RECENTLY concluded a memorandum of understanding with the Northern California Chapter of tlw res at s ns e Associat~~ G~neral Contractors of America dealing with the modificatiOn of our present contract. This will be sub :By JOE MILLER, B. F. (Tiny) 18th Ave. betwe~n Java Ave ..and compacted embankment sections. the direction ~nitted to the membership at a round of special called meet JiELLING, GLENN MULLOW State Route 10, south of Le This job is under mgs, the dates and places of which you will be notified of i NEY, and JERRY ALLGOOD . moore. The L. D. Folsom Co. -of of Jim Ricker, project manager, superintend by mail. As I think these modifications contain benefits Work in the Fresno district Coalinga have been granted a with Max Dailey as · of our ent. which would be advantageous to all the members continues to be at a peak. Our subcontract from the Nichols Union, we are looking forward to a good attendance at this out-of-work list is at its lowest Co. to furnish base rock. This McNamara & Mannix Inc. on round of meetings. point this year, and we expect project will employ 15 of the the 12 miles of relocation of Brothers, and take about four * * * this to continu.e until the rains Highway 152 at the San Luis WE FIND that we are still plagued with the usual num- come. months to complete. Dam are usil1g 12 Cat 641 scrap ber of jurisdictional disputes, so we ask each member to There was some rain recently, The State of California is call ers, a 180 Northwest shovel and J;"eport any infringement upon the jurisdiction of the Engi but it has not affected the work ing for bids to lengthen and wid a CoCal loader on a two shiit neers to the Business Representatives or to the Stewards, en 7% miles of road in Fresno basis. This -is a rough job in steep a great deal, and with soine as the ~ase may be. Only by being ever-vigilant can we hopW good luck we will do good until and Kings counties, ·between country with big cuts and fills. to retam the job opportunities that rightfully be_long, to t.lle after the first of next year. North Fork of the Kings River .M. K., Utah-Brown & Root at members of our Umon. · . and one mile north of Elkorn APPRENTICE PROGRAM San Luis Dam have moved their Avenue, ahout 20 miles south of 280-B shovel to the quarry site * * * The Apprentice program in THE WORK. seems to ?e holding up well in all areas. Fresno. There 'are also four and have their conveyor .system Fresno is progressing in good Of cours~, the dispatch register shows that some of the jobs bridges to be constructed. in operation to transport the 8" shape. We now have a full class are tapermg off, or the contractors are afraid of the weather Fredrickson-Watson, Kenneth minus rock from Bassalt Peak to at the Fresno City · College. Ap I presume. ' H. Golden, Hess & Dubach were the dam site. proximately half of these are low bidders for $4,338,000 on * * * working on jobs, and we expect The four 2100-ft. tunnels are THERE WERE 153 contracts signed during the past Highway 198. This outfit also has to place several more in the progressing slowly in very bad month- 124 short form and 29 long form. There were 2 787 a highway job going on Highway near future. Judging by reports ground. They are using a lot men dispatched during the month of October. · . ' . 99 between Selma and Kings received from Mr. Goolsby, of of steel supports, and new prob burg. * * * the school, and our instructor, lems arise each day. THE PAPERS for the Credit Union ·are now before the Brother Calvin Bartels, they are NEARLY DONE Standard Materials Inc. have Co!poration Co~nmissioner, and we are looking forward to pleased wi.th the class and re Fredrickson & Watson did the finished with the base rock on bemg able to give you more of the details of this most im port excellent attendance and roadway excavation and Kenneth the Merced freeway and are mov portant matter in the next issue of the paper. good work in the classroom. H. Golden will do the black top. ing their crushing plant to Los * * * We are getting good coopera Hess & Dubach have the import . Banos. The other plants in Mer I AM SORRY that I was unable to attend the Eureka• tion from the employers in the and have subbed the loading and ced are still very busy and will Redding and Marysville meetings due to the fact that I wa~ area. Frank Pozar of Fresno Pav hauling to Earl Brown. They be until the rains come. tied up in negotiations. ing Co., W. M. "Mac" Lyles of have about two more weeks on Lyles Co. and Jay Brown of In th~ dirt. Clyde Woods & Son dustrial Asphalt are the employ have moved a lot of rock on their er representatives on the area job at Tollhouse and · should subcommittee. They are doing complete about January 1964. A WASHINGTON-Labor Sec. W. of Labor-Management Reports in of fighting for compulsory open everything they can to make the bid opening was scheduled for Willard Wirtz has asked a federal dicated after an investigation, in shop laws. After leaving the Na program successful, and we ap October 17th on 1.7 miles on court to compel the National cluded a general attack on unions tional Right to Work Committee preciate their efforts. Tollhouse that will take off from Right to Work Committee to reg and the "power of labor bosses" in 1961, he became associated The rock plants and hot plants Beale fire road and go over Pine ister as a management consultant and was designed to influence the with an assortment o.f similar bave slowed down quite a bit this Ridge. This will also be a rock and to disclose details of services decision of employees on the groups, including the Council for pa~t month. They are between job. The first contract on Toll it has provided to employers. question of organization and col Industriai Freedom in· Indiana, jobs and should pick up again house grade was for 1.2 miles, He charged that the "work" lective bargaining. the National Labor-Managemen.. next month. and the bid was $1,200,00. committee is violating the Lan Harrison, a former accounting Foundation in Chicago and, mos,. ORGANIZING McGuire & Hester have about drum-Griffin Act by refusing to clerk with the Louisville & Nash recently, a new group called ti1e ville Railroad, who was expelled We have been conducting some two miles of concrete pipe in on file the disclosure report required Kentucky Freedom to Work organizing activities over the their job south of Mendota. This from consultants and other "mid by his union, has made a career Council. dlemen" used by employers to past couple of months and con Company has nine miles of con STATEiUENT OF OWNERSHIP, :WIANAGEllfENT AND CIRCULATION crete pipe for Westland Water influence workers in matters deal (Act of October 23, 1962; Section 4S69, Title 39, United States Code), siderable progress has been 1. Date of filing: Sept. 23, 1963. made. We expect to have a District. ing with organizing or collective 2. Title of publication: ENGINEERS NEWS. bargaining. 3. Frequency of issue : Monthly. couple of NLRB elections soon Harold James Co. also has a 4. Location of Known office of publication: 474 Valencia Street, San Fran- 3 California. - contract for 4.2 miles of open It was an employer's own list cisco 1 at various locations in the Dis 5. Location of the h eadquarters or general business offices of the pub trict. canal. Fresno Paving has the ing of the National Right to Work lishers (not printers): 474 Valencia Street, San Francisco 3, California. 6. Names and addresses of publisher, editor, and managing editor: Part of this drive is at the min subcontract on the dirt and have Committee ori a disclosure report Publisher: Operating Engineers Local 3 of the Inti. Union of Operating sur moved their DW 20s out ata this which led to the Labor Dept. in Engineers, 474, Valencia St., San Francisco 3, Calif. ing operations in the hills Editor: AI Clem, 474 Valencia St., San Francisco 3 , Calif. xounding Coalinga. Others are at time and may have to move a vestigation and court action 7. Owner (If owned b y a corporation, its name and address must be stated and also immediately thereunder the n ames and addresses of stockholders equipment dealer shops and dragline in due to the mud and against the committee. owning or holding 1 p ercent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned A l o n g by a corporation, the n ames and addresses Of the individual owners must be F resno city employees. water. The Virginia - Carolina Chemi given. If owned by a partnership or other unincorporated firm, its name and this same line, we have signed CANAL START cal Corp., in a routine report of address, as w ell as that of each individual must be g iven.) Operating Engineers Local 3 of the Inti. Union of Operating Engineen-, contracts with a number of small M. K. & Utah Construction Inc. its use of outsiders in the months 474 Valencia-St., San Francisco 3, Calif. . ' ·operatoi·s and own 8. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning o independent are getting under way on the 22- preceding a 1960 union represen holding 1 percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other er-operators recently. election at its Polk County, securities (If there are none, so state) None. mile contract on the San Luis tation This item must be completed for all publications except those which do not ROAD WORK Canal. They should have _ the Fla., plant disclosed that it had carry advertising other than the publisher's own and which are named in Sections 132.231, 132.232, and 132.233, Postal Manual (Sections 4355a, 4355b, and The H. W. Nichols Co., of 450-W Monigan swinging by mid paid the expenses of W. T. Harri 4356 of Title 39, United States Code). Average No. copies each issue· during preceding 12. months: .. Bakersfield was the successful November. It will carry a 15-yard son, then president of the Na A. Total no. copies printed (net press run): 29,663; B. Paid circulation: bidder for 4 miles of 1;oad work bucket with a 165 foot boom. tional Right to Work Committee, 27,447; C. Free distribution (including samples): 414; D. Total no. of cop1es d istributed :· 27,861. . . to be graded and surfaced with They also have six new R. G. to address a picnic and barbecue Single issue nearest to filing date: , th~ company held · ''for all. its , : ·A. Total no.· copies printed (net press run): 30,810.: B.· Paid _ circulati~n: asphalt . concrete on aggregate LeTourneau electric -powered 27,902 ; C. Free . distribution (including samples~: 717; D. Total no. . of cop1es ·-Tbis project . tan~em rubber · tired . scrapers. wh.ite _employees." . · . d istributed: 28 619. . · · .. · · .. . ' - · base· for· $213;000. I certify fhat the statements made by me above a1·e' ·correct-and· complete. is located in Kings county on that will be used ·to build the Harrison's speech, · the Bureau · AI Clem, Editor• ' .·· November~ 1963 E N G I N E E RS N E· W S Page -five Stockton odesto Job Round~p By WALTER TALBOT, AL McNAMARA and GLENN DOBYNS - . 'I he first storm of any conse . qtience has come and gone ih this • area, causing· some jobs to shut down and others ·to lose shifts. However, in ~ost cases, the jobs have resumed operations at this time at an aGce!erated pace. The demand for Engineers is stiil holding up well for this time of year, although the bulk of the work now being let in this district is of short term nature. STOCKTON JOB Some of the employers order ing men this pa1.t month through the Stockton office have been: A. Teichert & Son for their grav- . • el pit in Clements, Stockton-Lodi freeway job, glass plant in La throp, . Stockton yard and shop, -. and their paving job for the 'City I of Stockton. f Western Bridge & Associates New Sears Bldg.; Weberstown Bldg. Spike Voudouris - Bear Creek job. Claude C. Wood Co.- · Highway· 4, Camp Connell; Tur ner Rd.; New York Ranch; shop· 'in Lodi; street work in Lodi and Valley Springs. f. Green-Winston-Camanche Dam·. Raymond Concrete Pile Co. Libby· Owens - Ford glass plant. Fresno Paving, road job around Camanche reservoir. D on a l d • Drake Co ., . concrete work, Ca manche Dam. W. M. Lyles Co., trenching and ditch work, Holiday Park. Fred rickson Bros., street work, rede ·velopmen't area, Stockton. Alex Robertson, pipeline job, Manteca. Harms Bros., road jobs on High way 88, near Lake Alpine. Green, Winston; Tecon, New Hogan·Dam. Shellmaker Dredge, Stockton deep water channel. H. Earl Parker, road job near Jack son Highway . 49. Al Haworth, · street work iri Stockton, Forest Service ac-cess road: • J. D. Maxwell, Lodi freew:w job. S. M. McGaw Co ., new Stock ton Box Co. site. ·Tony Cardoza, Fresno'\. Paving job, Clements. Safety arley Talk on T er Cra Lloyd McBride - Clearing on that this problem mote control. Granite job, Highway 4. Swiner-· Continued from Page 1 steel used in their cranes must factory and test. must be dealt with in our States' All tower cranes should have ton & Walberg, constructors of of 15 to 30 foot-pounds, this par pass this notching catwalks, for safety in servicing new Libby- Owens - For.d glass foreign steel showed a "But this accident nevertheless safety codes." ticular and- repairs. plant. breaking-point of only 5 foot _raises the question: what about DIRECT CONTROL Summing up, Marr said: "We MODESTO . WORK pounds, providing extremely low the steel in the large number of· MatT cautioned that remote fore i g n-m ad e tower cranes of the Operating Engineers rec Some of the employers order resistance to the spreading of control devices a:re being mis around the country? At this time ognize the advantages of tower ing men this past month through even the most minute crack. used and urged that direct con can be a it has not been decided what cranes and feel they the Modesto office have been: "Since this preliminary inves trol be used wherever possible good, safe type of equipment and course of ·action must be taken the Vinnell Corp., Retch· Hetchy tigation was made," Marr told because in remote control very valuable to our industry ..• regarding this new question, but the pipeline. A. J. Diani Co., road the Chicago meeting, "the com load is ·often viewed from if we all employ a little plain, I think it is obvious that rigid impos job, Highway 120. Crowell & pany which manufactured this side, making it almost sen~e in their controls on the specifications for old-fashioned horse • L a r s o n, road job, High crane has advised that they will sible to judge how much drift is - will continua steel used in these cranes must care and use. They way 108. C l a n c y M. O'Dell require in the future that all needed after the power is cut how be set up and followed to insure to present safety problems, Co ., tup.nel job, Cherry Valley. off. mechanical a _sufficient margin of safety." ever-, until certain George Reed Const. Co., road and on the sanitary sewer lines, also This problem leads to many improvements are ·made and cer street work, Sonora and Modesto. in Ceres, at $229,884. LIMIT SWITCHES sudden stops that create tremen tain operating standards are well -:_Lindquist Bros., excavation, Fullerton Conslruction, of Sac Marr reported that several ac dous torque or twist of steel in established." Waterford Bridge. Robert C. ramento, was low bidder at $900,- cidents with tower cranes have the tower, he _warned, adding: Watson, Forest Sendee access 000. for the expansion of Stoclc involved tampering with load "One q u e s t i on that concerns road near Groveland. A. L. Craft, ton's south sewer job. limit switches, which are · sup many of us is: what is this con Can't Hold · Hershey Chocolate plant, Oak· Still in sewage work, the City posed to cut off automatically if stant torquing going to cause in Your TV Set dale. 0. K. Mitiry & Sons, road of Manteca will open bids on No the way of metal fatigue and too_ heavy a load is hooked on. The California State Legisla· jobs, Sonora and Yosemite Jmic- vember 6th for construction of a crystallizatio_n in these towers "This is an especially danger- ture has passed, and the Gover tion. $735,000 trunk sewer system. over a period of time?" . ous practice from the operator's nor Jtas signed, AB 1359- the law Luhr & Wendt, California Aque Other points made. by Mat;r: BLOOD BANK CLUB standpoint because there ·is no to end setnapping, the practice :>f . duct, west of Gustine. Parrish, All the tower crane accidents The Stephenson family (Broth 'feei' to the rig, as there is on ·a few TV repair firms who, with Iri::. and Industrial Electrical Co ., he knows about involved cranes er Ed Stephenson and his two a regular crane, and the operator out notice, run up repair bills ___ Hershey Chocolate pJant. M. J. that had no guy wires at all, or sons, George H. and James L.) must rely entirely on these load to four or five times the amount · ·Ruddy & Son, street work, Mo were inadequately guyed. Codes were all donors this past m(mth liinit switches," M a r r empha of estimates and who refuse to . d~sto. Matich Corp., Modesto should require guy wires at 40 to · ·the · ·Engineers Blood Bank sized. return the sets until "ransoms" & Son, as with hoist freeway. A. Teichert Club, as was Mrs. Helen Sund "In my opinion, tampering foot intervals, have be'en paid. Stanislaus . Junior College, Tur towers. borg, wife of Walter Sundborg, with load limit switches must be The new law provides that no ' lock. manager of the Sonora Marble dealt with quickly and severely POWER FAILURE lien or other right to maintain NEW JOBS LET Aggregates plant in Columbia. before we ha've a rash of very All cranes should have some possession of the 'set shall exist Jobs let since our last report We are holding mail in tile serious accidents·: Because of the means of controlling the swirig when the total charges exceed _went to. North Bay, Constr.l,l_ction Stockton office for W. A. Corne sei:iousnes.s of this problem, I in case ' of power failure. This · tlie -estimate or ·written revision 'for sewerage · treatment plant in lius, David Spurlock and Rayford feei . that these limit switches · problem is especially s e rio' u s _ of the estimate signed by the ·Ceres .for::$103,480, ._. -w, ..M. -Lyles ,Tt:iplett. . should be set anct 'sealed by the wh(m ·the cranes ·are under re- set owner . • Pa~e Six ENGINEERS NEWS November, 1963 • San Jose Expects to North Bay StUI oh1g Be Busy /or a While Strong By AL HANSEN and DAN By A. J . .HOPE, W. H. DAVID· Eureka WINTER JOBS MATTESON ; G. L. 1\'IOORE, J. N. HALL SO>N The W. J. Nicholson Co. have We of the Eureka office wish a speedy recovery to the and H. T. I•ETERSEN started the $5 million Pacific Tel The recent rains shut a few following Brothers: Clifford "Mac" McMahan, St. Josep~ Activity on the part of the jobs down, but we expect the & Tel Building on South Monroe Hospital; John Wilkinson and Jim. J?rdan, G:eneral Hospi ' contractors is still in the frantit: as the weather is St. We should have work for a work to resume, tal; Brother Russell Amy in the Tnmty Hosp1tal, Arcata. stage. The early rains, some of meantime, the work few of the Brothers all winter clear. In the * * * which were quite heavy; made picture does look very good for • on this job. Could stand to see but the th2 going a little sloppy, lots of this type of work at this the remainder of 1963. Scm Rafael as yet. .• layoff· has not been great time of the year. Guy F. Atkin· K. D. N. Corp. has moved into With so much heavy work still Our thanks to Bro. Duane Hope for taking the time to son has· started his $1% million Novato-$600,060 job-which in hopes donate blood. Deepest sympathy to the family of our late ]n the offing, we still have dollar classroom job at San Jose volves about 43 acres to develop. cf keeping the Brothers busy for Bro. Peter Verhonik, who passed away suddenly Septem State. A pre-job conference was held, a while, not only on the work should be good for ber 30th. Work in the Santa Cruz area and the job Bro. Harry Cahill, retired member of Local 3, dropped that is in the finishing stages, about a year, with about 10 oper has slowed up considerably. The He a~d but on' new construction that is ators. in to say hello and to give .us his ch.ange of address. ready to start. rainfall has been quite heavy in his wife are enjoying retirement m a brand new mo-bile tbis area. The sand plants are There is still quite a bit of ac ·The L. C. Co., Concar home. Bro. Cahill was with Brown-Ely for many years. S1~1ith still going strong, Kaiser Sand tivity in the San Marin subdivi & Gordon H. * * * Ranch Enterprises Plant Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz sion located in Novato- the old joint ven Ball Enterprises, on a Aggregates, P. C. A. and Olym Freitas "C" Ranch. Matich-Gar s~mta Rosa the ture basis, were awarded pia Sand. nier & Long have men and contract for 5.5 miles of four equipment scattered all over the Many thanks to our blood donor of the month, Ray Mc- lane freeway, with frontage roads On the other hand, the W at Clure. · son ville area is still in good area. Hillside Engineers, Inc., and interchanges, including the are doing the survey work. We are havincr a bumper baby crop. Baby gn· 1s were • shape. Jesse Harrison on the Cas constr uction of 15 bricl. ~ es from J. W. Lee, who wound up their recently presentel to the following parents: Johal!n Dunker, Bayshore to Homestead Road, troville cut-off road is working Duane Ringler, Herb Erickson and Robert Stntzel.. Baby right along. Marin Bay job and are presently paralleling Stevens Creek, m at Pinole, we understand, will be boys: Wesley Hay and Frank Robinson. Congratulations! Mountain View. This is a big one. Work coming up in this area looks very good. ·Phil Calabrese back in our area within 'the next * * * 'l'he award was for $6,077,419~ few weeks. Location-Novato. RACING THE RAIN 1 was low bidder on the Elkhorn Nevada Road job at $209,000. Bids on the Bill McLellan, fonnerly with L. C. is also doing the road Lee Mac Paving, is now known We sadly report the passing of Mrs. Rose '_furner, be work on the Mt. View Alviso WatsonviUe Cut-off will be called for on November 20. as VIm. K. McLellan Co . and has loved wife of Brother Sid Turner. She had been 111 for some Road, subgrade and underground, two engineers employed. time at Washoe M:edical Center. and they are working real hard CAMPUS ACCESS We are holding subsistence * * . * to get the work well under way Bids will be called for Octo checks for the following mem before the heavy 1;ains. ber 16, for construction of th~ bers who worked fO l' Associated Fresno Dan Caputo · took one for pav first access road on University Dredge at Black Pt.: R. Corteau, With sincere sorrow we report the passing of our friend ing on Montague Expi·essway, of California at Santa Cruz new F. Crites, L. Davies, E. Edlund, lil~e to exten.d our west of San Jose Alviso Rd., for 2,000-acre site. The road will be , H. Nygard, and Brother Dale Lyman. We would also C. Hope, R. Lechner sympathy and regrets to his family and fnends. $145,440. Bahr & Ledoyen were approximately one and one-half and C. Wells. deepest R. Palmer Brother Lyman was an employee of the L. D. Folsom Co., awarded the contract for im miles long and will lead to the We wish to remind the Broth • . provements, (surfacing, curb, site of Cowell College. ers working in construction that Coalinga, for the past five years. IS . gutter and sidewalk) of the Ore In the Monterey area, Alter effective Sept. 15, 1963, there was We are happy to report that Brother Jake Aver~ a ~enous~y gon-Page Mill Expressway be matt Construction Co. and Ful a 5 cents per hour increase. I( proud grandfather. Brother. Obie. Arnett was tween Carmel Drive & Alma St. lerton Construction are working burned when his car caught f1re while he was workmg on It. you did not receive this increase, a speedy in Palo Alto. full crews on their Fort Ord proj please notify this office or your He is in the Sierra General Hospital. We wish him L. C. Smith also came up with ect. Phil Calabrese has started Business Agent, so that we can recovery. . the award in the amount of the excavation for the Seaside tah care of this for you. Thanks to the following for blood donations: Doris $49Q,756 for A. C. surfacing, sew Junior High School, where there Those Brothers who are inter Grubbs, George Nicholson ahd Henry Church. er and waterm<;~ins for the Mid is approximately 100,000 yards of ested in Grade Checking classes * * * dlefield Road extension. Free sand to be moved. Granite have - this class along with blue print Utah man Paving have two lanes com started their repair job on the · reading has been under way since pleted on their four-lane project Brother Elver Golden is back in Veteran's Hos,pital, much Limekiln Creek bridge on the Sept. 24th- and it is not too late to our regret. We sincerely hope that this time they will-find on Lawrence Station Rd. Under San Simeon highway, south of to register. They are held ~very ground work to go yet on the the source of his trouble and that he has a speedy recovery. Carmel.. Thomas Construction are Tuesday evening, 7:00 o'cfock, at of Brother Eugene V. other two lanes. on their Our sympathies to the loved ones also getting started 22nd & Bartlett Sts., San Fran Jolley, who passed away October 20. RIVER CHANNEL bridge job south of Hot Springs. cisco: • 'Ihe Elmer G. Wendt Inc., job, This one should be good for all Frank Moberly is doing a rock * * * along the Guadalupe River, be winter. job at Mariner Highlands-Corte Oakland tween Montague Road & Alviso, Granite has a crew working on Madera, where Eaton & Smith is a two-shift operation where their bridge going across the Car was working. Brother Tom Kennedy is recuperating at home after a the Brothers are real busy, mel River. This is a portion of The two highway jobs (101), recent operation. Get well quickly, Tom. straightening and widening the the new golf course that will ne Syar & Harms.-Ball & Peter Kie channel to improve flood con under construction soon. The wit are making good headway, trol. cost of the bridge was approxi exc,ept for the temporary shut The channel bottom is being mately $100,000. down due to the recent rains. widened to 80 ft. at all points NEGOTIATIONS Healy-Tibbitts at Waldo Grade, 2long the 2% mile project. A approach to Golden Contract negotiations have been widening the million cubic yards of dirt are keep a few of our successfully completed with Pipe Gate Bridge, being excavated from the river Brothers busy. and used to build 10 ft. levees linings, Inc., covering the Mil pitas plant. Although this was A. G. Raisch still at it on their along the new bank and block Lucas Valley and Terra Linda o.ff the an interim opening on wages the old river channel on Meadows job. Linscott with a east side of Milpitas-Alviso Road. only, the negotiating committee· • good crew at Terra Linda No. 20. was able to reach an agreement They are building a temporary The next Safety Meeting will the on some language changes affect earth dam below the neck of be held on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1963 the bay tide ing vacations, holidays, and cla~ river to hold back 8 701 Mission Ave., San sification adjustments. at p.m., at water while the work is proceed Rafael. Please make an effort to ing. The job should be just about Kaiser-Permanente negotiations attend. completed when you read this. covering the plants at Moss Land serviceman calls on your job-· A lhorough Work in the· Morgan Hill, Gil ing, Natividad and Permanente, check of your machine and a copy of lhe roy & Hollister area has been were at an impasse until the early Western Demos Aslt reporl for your record$. real good, but most of it is now part of this month, when a break- . Repeal of R-to-W When you buy your equipmenl rrom in the windup stage. M:anuel through was accomplished that BACON, large or small, you gel :,... ,. ,__,__~, .:._:.'7 ;.;. · ;}1 Smith, A. J. Peters and East Val provided, in addition to wages, SALT LAKE CITY- Repeal of SERVICE! ley are finishing up their under very substantial gains to the existing "right-to-work" laws and ground work. Granite still has a Health and Welfare and Pension opposition to the adoption of " ~dfwm fair sized crew on the Bell Sta Plans as well as other modifica similar laws in Far West states ~- EnwAnu R. BAr:oN [oMPANY tion job at the foot of Pacheco tions 'to the contr:::ct language fa was called for by delegates at a CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT Pass which will also be winding vorable to the employees. conference here of Democrats up si1ortly. Walter & Jones have The two year contract propos from western states. finally completed their under als effective July 1, 1963, were The conference also voiced op ground work at Trespinas. submitted to the union for ap position to "the efforts of anti .'A. J. Raisch Co . have started propriate action during the week union groups to the use of spe their widening JOb on 101, be of October 6 to 12, and were voted cial circ.umstances to end the tween Gilroy and Morgan HilL on and accepted, by secret ballot. railroad deadlock as a wedge to This one should furnish work Our sincere thanks to the fol- promote legislation" requiring for a sizable crew until the rains lowing blood donors: JoAnn compulsory arbitration in labor 5et in. Boarts and David Bardine. disputes. • • November, ,1963 ENGINEERS NEWS Page SeveR Nevada R.eport ~An ~ a-cond,a I ' • , ~ Y·iel·ds $16,363 Back Pay By Jll\1 JENNINGS, B. J. (Bu) the gravel at Wells. Their job at BARKS; JACK SHORT and Wells will be over with the com RALPH WILSON pletion of the oiling in two weeks. • A good contract and the readi HOOPS ROLLS ness of their union to see that it Hoops still going strong on the is enforced brought a windfall of dirt with Brothers Sammy, Larry $16,363.82 to 40 members of Oper and Frank Guisasola, Russel Kite, ating Engineers Local No. 3 "em Walter Wensman on pulls, Br:oth ployed at the Weed Heights, Nev., ers Dick Bennett and Freeman plant of the Anaconda· Copper Cross on push cats, Brothers Ver Co. dean Stoddard, Jim' Wolfe, and The individual back pay checks Maurice Cole on blades. ranged from a low of $2.59 to a The crushing plant is going high of $762.15 and · averaged strong, but having trouble with just over $400_apiece. the material in this particular pit. SAFETY MEETING: This Some time ago, Anaconda Cop is a portion of the audience at one of two Local 3 a~ea safety meet Brother "Moe" Anderest is run ings held on the same day per Co. decided to expand its op recently in Los Banos. Actually, the hall was darkened when this ning crusher with Brother Ke ~ flash light picture was taken and the members were erations at Wzed Heights and watching photographs projected on a hogh oiling, and Brothers Dick screen at the front of the hall by the machine undertook some new construc which can be seen at the center-right in this Denham, Ralph Nash and Roger picture. It is an "opaque projector" which enlarges tion. The company realized that and projects photos, posters, printed mat • Hamby on dozers. ter or any other opaque visual material. the employees on its payroll were highly skilled craftsmen and as Del Webb Corp. has closed signed them to
DON'T TAKE CHANCES WBTH SMOOTH TIRES! • we use...· ~® e <<<<<<<<<<<< ~.6 fJ'mut '~··- 7 ~Jt-. AT THE FAIR: This is the Operating Engin~ers' section of a display on Apprenticeship Train . ing at the recent California State Fair in Sacramento. Staffing the booth were Bus. Rep. Clem 2344 1:. 12th Street Oakland Hoover (left), secretary of the Operating Engineers Sacramento area sub-Joint Apprenticeship KE 2-6323 Committee, and William Burk, State Division of Apprenticeship Standards consultant. • ~ovember, 1963,. ·.· Page Nine Survey Notes Sacramento Brothers Jurisdiction Agreement the . Skies Made With· Carpenters Scanning It all but By ART PENNEBAKER Davis - Bacon Act. of By E. M. NELSON, CLEM On October 24, 1963, a final pulled the teeth of coverage HOOVER, AL DALTON, meeting was . held at which an surveyors. 'l'OM ECK and DAVE REA understanding was reached with This Act guarantees prevail· ing wages to workmen and m~ up good in the · representatives of the Carpen- • Work is holding chanics on jobs where federal There has been ters Union. · Sacramento area. money is being spent. The im· year than ever This was the culmination of more work this portance of coverage is that "fly. looks good for next many meetings over the past· few before, and it by-night" $2.00 an hour survey 514 men last months to attempt to find a so ye(\r. We cleared ors cannot move in and take our 114 "A" OP" lution to jurisdictional problems mo:p.th, and we have jobs. Withou,t coverage it me-ans "A" oilers on the between the two unions. Histori erat.ors and 22 that your fair employers are ex list. cally there has been a constant out-of-work cluded from the work because it looks like the State is going battle concerning survey work on construction projects. It has they are paying the prevailing to let the_29th & 30th St. freeway rate. · the first of the year. been necessary to solve these al around The whole is s u e revolves Bloo-d Bank is very low. If tercations on a job"to-job basis. Our around whether surveyors are the Brothers can give These meetings have been held any of sub-professionals or mechanics. the bank can sure use it. on a statewide basis with rep blood, We have again asked your em· You can give at 3230 ·J St., Sac resentatives from Local 3, Local 12, our International representa ployers for help in this matter ramento. (they should be vitally. con the Univer- tives and representatives of the • Work continues at cerned in obtaining this work), , sit:t: of California campus at Davis. State Council of Carpenters. and again. they have taken the Inc., is working on the Signing for the Operating En Stolte, stand that they agree with the building and installa .gineers were Manager Al Cle."U, Nuclear principle involved of fair com· Teichert is busy on build Local 3; Manager Joe Seymour, tions. petition guarantees, but cannot preparation and grading Local 12, and Newell Carman, ing site bring themselves to say the word in the campus area. Underground :International Vice President. ·contract is moving Of main importance in this me~hanic. Construction's We submit that the word sub along smoothly. new agreement are provisions for a three-step method of solv professional is good for the ego, JOB SOLD ing disputes which arise on the but we have seen too many -signs grading and paving Teichert's job site. It is felt by your Un that i-t is not good for the wages. 99 West Highway contract on.the ion that by using these steps in This, of course, is the real.issue: completed and 'sold. Fu~ is now · a regular way, a great amount of less protection equals les,s money 'contracts will be let to in~ ture time will be saved between dis for the employees. road to a four crease the existing pute and solution. Again Local 3 and Local 12 lane highway. This will, . of course, free your have joined together to carry Watson and Lew 'Fredrickson- agents to move into other im · this fight back to Washington. completed Jones · have almost portant fields. The signing of We believe that o1,1r members work on the Yolo Causeway, re of beef is duck soup this document does no't eliminate are highly skilled workers who lieving a long-existing bottleneck. BIG PANEL: J:.. tilt-up job that-takes a lot • with 50-foot boom on the all the problems of the labor use precise tools and that they LeBouf & Dougherty are driv for this 90-ton P & H truck' crane into place movement, bu.t it is a giant. step deserve the protection of the ing' pile and pouring concrete on Unger job in Sacramento. The . panel shown going and-weighs toward orderly and ·permanent D'avis-Bacon Act: the wes( abutment ·of ' the W-X is .38 feet high, · l9% -.feet wide, 11 inches thick 45 tons. Rigging: 20 snatch blocks, 32 shackles, four 90-foot settlement of disputes which cost * * * St. Bri.dge. . . The printer has promised .that slings. Just pick, walk and set the panel. Operator is Frank you members loss of pay. Hydraulic Dredge is now on copies of the Technical Engi· Mathews, oilers Hap Edgecombe and Russel Wilson. * ·~ * one shift on river cl!annel clean On August 2, 1962 the Secre neers Master Agreement will be lJ.p. This is a repetitious type tary of Labor made a determina in the Local Union office on ·work for some of the subdivision at Sunset City. They contract, maintaining an adequate winter tion concerning the f e d e r a l Monday, Nov. 11. channel water depth. Brother Brothers. This is the first good recently were awarded three more Nick Carlson heads this project. job that has b~en let at Aerojet units which should keep them Where did the summer go? We area. _ This job will employ a Contractors -at .McClellan Field for some time. busy for some time. They still had our first snow of the season for their varied projects, The test stands at Douglas are have not started their sewage dis great number of Engineers continue October 10, 1963, at the higher the concrete work and the really beginning to take shape. posal plant at Sunset City. the next two seasons. with elevations. It amounted to about moving along steadily. Paul Hardeman Co. have most of Granite Const. Co. have com STILL GOING hangar job six and eight inches in some Sand and Gravel, batch the concrete poured and Kaiser pleted the dirt work for the new Rock, places, but didn't affect the work The Yuba-Bear River project al· hot plants are holding Engineers has the steel erected Sunset Shopping Center. This • plants and too much, as it melted real soon. so was hit· by the snow, but still is their own with construction prog on one stand and are starting on is slowly taking shape as a new It, too, is a project ress. the second one. A. M. .Van Val city. ·At the present time we have operating. Teichert's plant on Perkins kenburgh and Harms Bros. are PIPE PLANT approximately five hundred (500) strung out all over the country• road is contemplating a general completing their pipeline and The Brothers at Gladding-Mc- Brother Engineers working on ' side. Many of the Brothers have -improvement project during the grading jobs as the progress of Bean in Lincoln have been real the Middle Fork American River visions of a huge project right the project allows. this includes the Prime slow period. busy turnin'g out the clay pipe. Project; out of Grass Valley. This is not DIVERSIFIED ACTIVITY Teichert has started the exca This company is utilizing the fa- Contractor, American River Con new test stand; true. Actually only a small por· Members ·o~ Local 3 are work vating· on the cilities of trre new Port of Sac- structors, as well as all the sub of the work is close to Grass 'ing on everything from convert Wismer & Becker should start ramento by loading ships with contractors, such as the MacGreg tion of this job by the Valley, and sub-contractors are ing a d.rive-~n theatre into a mod their phase their clay pipe for shipment to or Triangle Co., who are still · constructing most of that. There ern trailer park to building a 15- time this goes to press . . foreign ports. punching out a lot of access roads ·· are approximately 300 Engineers story modern office building, and HATCHERY Paul Hardeman Co. at the Buck and bridges, Cattermole-Trethe employed on this project by tha wrecking a 50-year-old landmark Murphy-Pacific Co. are about Island Tunnel should be holed wey (Pacific) Co., who are doing prime contractor, the Paul Heir· .to make Wa{' for more redevelop 65 per cent complete on their fish through as you read this, and the clearing and grubbing on the - deman Co. and the Bedfoi·d ment in the Sacramento metro hatchery job at Nimbus. They then they will have to line it. dain and reservoir sites, the Emil - Construction co·., Ltd., and . politan district. The diversified have their concrete piling in This job should last abput two Anderson Co., Inc., Ltd.; who are all • of the smaller tun- the various sub-contractors such .construction activity in this area place ;and have begun to place more months. doing some as the Ponderosa Contractors offers continuing employment to with several large pumps Erickson Const. Co. is working nels, Ets-Hokin Corp., doing the rip-nip, and John Tirey who are ·doing members of Local 3. running around the clock to keep on their new shopping center in power houses, etc., Engineer Sur the. clearing and grubbing, .Gates We have ·had our early rains, the water out of the coffer dam. Placerville. This job should last veys ·doing the layout as well as & Fox who are doing all the di· and witl:f crossed fingers are hop & Son are doing another two months. other minor outfits doing odds A. Teichert version tunnels, · Oroville Con . ing· for an Indian summer. . on their road job Joe Vicini and Bennett Murray and ends around this fin--flung the sub-grade tractors. who are building roads, The usual fall pastime has This job also in are working full crews of Oper- project. at Sloughhouse. Hanson · Bros. also building started throughout the area. That a new bridge. ating Engineers on the smaller American River Construction, volves building roads, Cal-Mobile furnishing the is Sky Watching. As the clouds link jobs around the area. themselves, have projects opened This ' road will eventually c·oncrete and the Granite Con . get thicker .you see more of the 99 south of Sacramento Del Cable Const. Co. came up up at such places as Ox Box, Highway struction Co., doing the Scotts Brothers taking up the watch. of Folsom with another job at Cameron Ralst()n, Middle Fork, French with Highway 50 east Flat and Rollins Dams. The contr~ctors . hesitate to open and will mean quite a short-cut Park in El Dorado Hills. Harold Meadows, Long Canyon, Hell .at up to·o much ditch or start-new for people from the Stockton area Skeans is the ramrod on this job. Hole, Brushy Springs and other This project has operations subdivisions. going to the Lake Tahoe area. .Ed McManama is the Master Me- areas . . The weather, naturally, Bowman Tunnel, Jackson Mead· ows, Fauchire, ·Milton, Scotts MISSILE WORK Lentz Const. Co., Steve Bubalo, chanic. will decide how much of this The Fl\itt DETROIT - Wider use of re area regarding .organizing. I£ any , by the contraetors. If this year is o.tt. Steenburg Co. and M. & S. State of Utah; ho.wever, we need tired unionmemberstoteachnew of our other offices need a union anything like last year the work Co. are making good progress on the help of eve-ry member and tired union members to teat:h driller, contact this office. The - should hold up until the first the Lost Creek Dam but the every one engaged in this work . new skills to others, and contin company is equipped to- handle of Decembe•r. weather is going to be a factor • to bring it all undel' a fair trades ued efforts by labor to improve most phases of ladder and rotary The old problem of contrac-t this winter. contract. its service1) to retired workers drills. · letting at the end of the se;~son Fife Co. is still going strong p·rog were called for here at the AFL Precision Drilling have just inste·ad of at the first of the year with about 50 o.f the Brothers A community drive is in area for CIO's first National Conference finished drilling a well for Pa is still going on. There :have been working. Fife was also low bid: ress in the Utah county to on Senior Citizens Centers. cific Coast builders, prime con a numbe'l.· of jobs let this month de'l· on the job .from Layton to funds for a foo•tball stadium must find ways to serve tractors on the new addition to that could have been ready for Hillfield for $2,133,000. be located in Provo at Brigham "We local worker as well as .ways the Telephone Building. These award four to six months ago. Jack B. Parsons Construc-tion · Young University._ Various the retired retired worker," said people are also on agreement This creates a p-roblem, in that . Co. of Smithfield, Utah, provided cOntractors are contributing their to use the the of the AFL-CIO with the Engineers _in Santa some of the contractors have the low bid of $2,054,362 for con equipment time and fuel for Dir. Leo Perlis from other struction of Interstate 15 from excavation. Some of the Brothers Community Service Activities. Rosa . • robbed equipment Page Twelve E N G I N E E R S N E\¥ S November, .1963 · • Something's Out of Whack
Published each month by Local Union No. 3 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (Northern California, Northern Nevada, States of Utah and Hawaii.) - Subscription price $2.50 per year. Office: 474 Valencia St., San Francisco 3, Calif. AL CLEM ...... Editor and Business Manager PAUL EDGECOMBE ...... President JERRY DOWD ..... : .... ~ ...... Vice-President • W. V. MINAHAN .... Recording-Corresponding Secretary A. J . HOPE ...... Financial Secretary DON KINCHLOE ...... Treasurer
\ Training is the Key To a Secure Future 0 ooo OUR CHILDREN are the hope of tomorrow. What kind of world will they inherit? What kind of future will they have? • We may not be able to do much, individually, about the world, but we can do something about our children, and it is becoming clearer all the time that one of the most important t hings is to insure that they have the education and training which are needed to make one's way in the world today. Education and training have ·always been an advantage, but today they are becoming rock-bottom necessities. What has made this so is the relentless advance of technology and automation. There is less and less place in the working world today for the untrained and unskilled, and by the time our children grow up there may be no place at all. U. S. Sec. of Labor Willard Wirtz stated it clearly at a press conference the other day. He declared that "machines Consumer Advice are driving out the unskilled and untrained" and that auto • mation is contributing "quite significantly" to the "strong, dangerous, bitter concentration of unemployment today in the uneducated, in the unskilled, in the untrained." ve er uying Guide * * * BUT SEEING TO IT that our youngsters get tl).e neces- By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS per cent, and on exis,ting houses, 5.9, the Federal sary education and training is not so simple for families in Home Loan Thanksgiving turkeys are in abundant supply Bank Board reports. the average income brackets. But as well and reasonable again this year. But watch out for .as the mortgage ra•te, compare clos There was a study of the cost of education printed not ing charges the pre-stuffed variety. In mos·t areas, pre-stuffed and extra fees required by different long CJ.go in the New York Times. lenders. Such frozen turkeys are sold with no disclosure of the fees, often also called "origination The study pointed out that last year 100,000 of this coun- · fees," "points" actual net weight of the turkey and the separate or "discount" are a way of boosting t ry's brightest high school graduates were not able to afford weight of the stuffing. the cost of your mo1.tgage while seeming to charge college, and another 150,000 previously in college did not you a moderate interest rate. Average fees current· When you buy such pre-stuffed turkeys, you not return because while their grades were high, their funds ly charged, are about six-tenths of 1 per cent, or, were low. only may not be paying a high price for the bread on a $15,000 mortgage, about $90. But the el(tra • As an example of the wasteage in potential trained brain crumbs bwt for the water used in preparing the fees charged vary widely among different lenders. power, the newspaper cited the fact that last year just one stuffing. Stuffing may comprise 33 to 45 per cent Banks and insurance companies usually charge of our leading universities low origination fees, had to turn down requests for of the gross weight of a pre-stuffed turkey, and and s·avings and lo,an asso scholarship aid by 3,000 applicants, including 33 high school ciations and mortgage companies the most, some 54 to 60 per cent of the stuffing will be nothing valedictorians, because scholarship funds ran out. times as much as $150 on a $15,000 mortgage. more than The authors stated that a majority of American parents tap water. Similarly, the savings and loan associations also are eager to send their children to college, but only a few A 10-pound turkey with four pounds of stuffing charge the highest inteerst mtes; usually about are able to put aside the money to make it possible. (a conservative amount), will contain about two one-half of 1 per cent mo·re than banks and insur ance companies. pounds, six ounces of wa-te-r. Typical re•tail price * * * We recommend IT WAS IN RECOGNITION of the above facts that the for this item is 69 cen-ts a pound, pre-stuffed tur that you shop commercial banks, Officers recommended, and the Executive savings banks and insurance companies as well as Board approved, key. At this rate, the water in the stuffing would . t he two $500 college scholarships which Local 3 is offering your local savings and loan association, for the t his year to children of our members. These awards cannot cost you $1 .64. most-favorable mor tgage terms. solve the problems of all the families with college-bound In contrast, an unsrtuffed turkey of the same size, BATTERIES: With cold weather ahead, you children, but they will afford recognition to two of our most selling at a re•tail price of 49 cents, would cost only may want to take advantage of pre-winter sales of excellent students and will encourage others to study and $3:50. batteries. The AAA reports that for four years • ex cell scholastically. straight, the leading cause of In general your living cos•ts this November are breakdowns requiring Fortunately, the importance of helping service calls has been batt~ry or elec•trical prob- youngsters to firm, but with food prices more reasonable ward an education is being widely recognized elsewhere in now. lems. · . The 1964 autos have arrived with little the labor movement. Our International Union has inaugu ch-ange But before you buy a new battery, make su~e rated the Joseph J. Delaney Memorial Scholarship Plan; from last year's prices despit·e "selective" hikes, your old one doesn't need merely to be recharged. there are several AFL-CIO National Scholarships; there are a little art a time, the steel industry is quietly A leading manufacturer says that many batteries t he scholarships offered by the California Labor Council and achieving the increase it had to yield in a famous are replaced needlessly because car owners do not others. realize tha·t they can be recharged incident about a ye•a r and a half ago when Pres . Too many bat Worthy students should aP,ply for these teL·ies fail because of poor ground connections, in scholarships also, ident Kennedy fought down and any others for which they may be eligible, because the an across-the-board adequate cables and incon'ect voltage settings terms of Local 3's scholarships permit the winners to accept price boost. often leading to over-charging. any other grants. The generally-firm living costs this summer The great amount of electrical equipment at * * * and fall, with earnings of industrial workers reced tached to modern ears makes careful adjus•tment IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, also, that an academic ing from their recent highs, is causing a squeeze of the voltage regulator vital tD avoid either over education is not the only route to assured earning power in · on working families. Average wages dropped about charging, or undercharging, which also can wear our technical society, and there will be many who find their 2 per cen•t during the summer and were down to out a battery prematurely. inclinations and best abilities directing them toward the $98.42 a w eek in August, while living costs rose • No battery should be junked until you have a development of technical about one-half of 1 per cent in skills. that period. voltmeter test by a competent mechanic. If the test ·These youngsters and their parents may well take note Here are trends and shoppfng tips that c-an help shows that all cells are discharged, you should try of the. splendid opportunities offered by the Joint Apprentice your family keep down costs this November. having the battery recharged, and tested again to _ship Training Program in our industry. MORTGAGES: If you're buying a home or . see if it holds the charge. - Either way, we must be sure that our youngsters make , seeking to refinance your mo rtgage, you'll find Don't delay recharging a · weak battery. It will . the- most of their opportunities to . acquire education and . mortgage m01l.ey >a):>Undan( and rates relatively wear ot~t f•aster than skills. one keptfully charged. Home · · · low. Aver-age rate . f~r new. :homes currently i~ 5.8 chargers are useful to keep batteries fully charged . • Page Thirteelll • .November, 1963 E ~ N G I N E E RS N E W S Vallejo - ·Ulatis Flood Control Job Started MEETING NOTICES , By AARON SMITH - . • -.. Page Sixte_en ENGINEERS NEWS Novembet, 19. Hawaii: Tidal Waves, 'The Be·ast' I Volcanos and Work By HAROLD LEWIS, BERT Molina drives a huge diesel truck NAKANO, CLARENCE with great skill. He reports that FRIEND and WILFRED he is making all kinds of money BROWN on this project and also reports Outside of tsunami (tidal that the chow is delicious. Seems wave) threats to the Islands and like everyone who has come volcanic action on the Big Island, home have grown a beard; We the weather rn Hawaii has been hav~ seen some pretty nice ones! sunny and bright. J. M. Tanaka Contractor has Our out-of-work list is down established a real record of safe- / to about the normal level as ty performance. a result of the good weather. A divis'ion of I:Iawaii's most Our brothers are very fortunate rugged mountain range has peaks in this respect, for at the same ascending 4,000 ftt. to summit time last year, the weather in of Mt. Kaala. The pioneering ef Hawaii was very bad, with con-· forts by equipment :operators stant rainstorms. Let's hope the since April 1962 show tremen weather holds out in our favor, dous skill in preparing the way You will read elsewhere in this for the 6llz· miles-of roadway to issue a report on our negotiations the summit. with the General Contractors This project is nearing its Assn. Brothers Paul Edgecombe, completion: No loss or'man hours president; and AI Clem, business has yet occui.Ted on the danger manager, were both in Hawaii ous slopes of Mt. . Kaala. We sa to conclude this contract. lute Project Superintendent An interesting sight these Brother Bourgeous, a mem and has a belt 10 feet wide MORE AGREEMENTS Charley Wadika, equipment op days on the Strong Construc ber of Local 428, is con inside the scraper body that -- In the meantime, negotiations erators Henry Medeiros, Paul tion Co. job on 24th South nected with Project 856 De feeds onto a belt six feet with Theo. H. Davies & Co., Asato,. Butch Chinna and Bene in Salt Lake City is the ma- velopment Co. of Y u m a, wide, which in turn loads Ltd.'s Tractor and Implement dict Kila. No safety record can chine pictured above. . Ariz:. into the trucks. Dept. and also their branch on compare with the outstanding This loader, affectionately "The Beast" is pulled by "The Beast" is kept under the Island of Hawaii (two separ safety performance on this proj called "The Beast", started a D -9 Cat and pushed by a confrol by B r o t h e r Gene ate agreements), and Nanakuli ect. its life as a Wooldridge Car- · D-8 C at. It has been averag Davis on the D-9, ably as. Paving & Rock Co., Ltd. have STEWARDS ryall and hauled many yards ing 8,000 yards~ day loaded sisted by Brother John Mpr• been completed. These three Hawaiian Bitumuls & Paving of dirt in that capacity until -into the 15 be II y- dump tain on the push cat. agreements have been ratified Co ., Ltd., has shown great respect converted to its present form trucks that service it. The Wasatch mountain by the employees of the com for our receitly elected stew · by Brother Banks Bourgeous, It makes a cut 10 feet range can be seen in the panies. ards: Brother William Ko, for its designer ,and b u i Ide r. wide and 1 0 inches deep, background~ Formal negotiations between the Trucking Dept. and Mechan the Honolulu Metal Trades Coun ics Shops; Brother Kaaekuanl.vii, cil and Pearl Harbor Naval Ship for the Paving Crews and Broth History of Lobbying ., yard are now under way. The ne er Barney Wagner, for the patch .gotiations will not include em ing plant operations. We would .ployees in personnel work, super like these. Brothers to knqw that visoi·y position~ or those in. pr<,> we appreciate their services. le · islalure's 'Third· House' fessional occupations such as en We were pleased to see ·so By A. G. BOA-RDMAN gineers,.accountants and industri many of our brother members ed the State. The first great the · State of California was brok Direct~r of Education & power-in California poiitics was . al hygiene personnel. The dis present at the General Member en. With an estimated income of Research Calif. State Conf. the Southern Pacific Railroad. $200,000 cussions will not involve wages, ship meeting held in August. We per year, Artie had of Operating Engineers From 1880 to 1910, California which are regulated by law, but would like to encourage the made the Trade Association the Recent charges against lobby was bos.sed by the Southern Pa King in Sacramento. will cover such subjects as hours same participation in our forth ists, and their activities duririg cific machine. S. T. Gage of work, leave practices, train coming meetings. headed BROWN ELECTED the last session of the State Leg the Southern Pacific lobby. With the election ing, and grievance procedures. Have a wonderful and happy of Governor islature, have again focused the Governor Hiram Johnson broke Brown, the first Democrat since Our Steward at Pearl Harbor Thanksgiving Day. spotlight on the forces behind this - power that founded its Naval Shipyard is Brother Solo Culbert Olson; this power came our State government. While th_e strength on control of the Re· to an end. One of the first ace mon Maunu who l.s a very active call girl charges were aimed at publican party and its State Cen member of our organization. Phil Murray en TV of the 1959 Democratic Legisla a minority group, they managed tral Committee. Governor John ture was to abolish cross-filing. Brother Maunu also serves as a WASHINGTON- The George to smear all who work as the son, in his determination to member of the Organizing Ad Meany Foundation, in coopera The Governor gave strong pro servants of the people of Cali break this corrupt power, in ef gressive leadership in state gov visory Committee. tion with the Jewish Theological fornia. fect, destroyed the two party Seminary, will present a tele ernment. The Legislature re OVERSEAS WORK Inasmuch as lobbyists are re system. sponded, and again the people A few of our members em vised film based on the life of gard~d as a legitimate group, Legislative r e f o r m that had responsible government Philip Murray, late president ot in ployed by Western, Atlantic, and their activities are recog brought about · the cross-filing Sacramento. Standard, & Raymond to do work the former CIO. nized. as being a necessary part laws and weakened the power of A new force had been born in overseas have returned to Hono The program, entitled "A New of the legislative process, we -the State Central Committee, .in this period - the California lulu on emergency -leave and at Earth," will be presented on "The might do well to look into the turn, brought about irresponsi-· Democratic Clubs. These ciubs the same time have reported Eternal Light" series over the history of · the Legislature's bl.lity on the part of elected pub were, in many ways, responsible that problems have arisen. NBC-TV network at 4:30 p.m. "Tliird House." lic officials. No longer did the for the . election of the Demo Therefore, Brother Clarence (PST) Nov. 17. From the "T h i r d House" member of the Legislature have ci·atic office . holders. ·They,' in F riend, Business Representative, comes the . force that gives our to depend on his party for sup- turn, wheri coming to power,. de left Honolulu to police this over State the good and the bad laws port; in· fact, if he could main clar;ed their independence . • seas project way out in the mid that ·govern the people. Fair tain the impression of non-parti- · ·those_who elected them; · . . Pacific. At first, Brother USE THE Friend trade laws, for instance, that cut sanship, his chances ·for election had to delay his GOVERNMENT LOBBIES trip due to 'SWAP SHOP' off competition in the market were increased. trouble in obtaining a Navy With the 1963 Legislat\lre, the place, are a product of the Trad·e ENTER SAMISH clearance, however, everything As a service to the· mem big government agencies' lobby Associations~ lobby. The fact that This made possible the rule of turned out in his favor, enabling bers, ENGINEERS NEWS had come of age. The California the California Labor Code is a the California Trade Association. him to go. runs a free "want ad" section League of Cities and the Co.unty mishmash of well-intentioned, in Artie Samish, the creator of the Supervisors Association of C_ali One of our brothers coming in each issue (see Page 15). effectual laws can be laid at th_e . Trade Association, filled the vac• fornia, plus .· the ever-growing home on emergency leave was Here's what Brother Stan door of the Employers' Councils, uum created by the destruction Public Utilities lobby, showed Antone (Norman) Teixeira. He ley Wood, 3454 Redwood Rd., and their lobby. · of the political parties. Mr. Sam great strength in the drive for had reported that his Napa, Calif., Reg. No . 519931, hunting The State Welfare Code is shot ish represented the Motor Car more taxes and· privilege. d g that once saved his life writes: 0 through with loopholes and es riers' Association, the California Governor Brown, the actual when he was charged by a wild Engineers Swap Shop cape hatches neatly placed there State Brewers' Institute and ·the lobbyist for the people, chal boar on the Island of Molokai AI Clem, Editor: by special interest groups who Los Angeles Turf Club. Through lenged the banks anq monied in had been missing ever since he Reference to ad for 1956 fight all relief to the aged and these, and many other trade ·as terests in a no-holds-barred left to go overseas. Since the Dodge pickup. unfortunate. The same can be sociations, Artie Samish con struggle to modernize the State'i... police could not locate his dog, Thank you very much. said of the unemployment com trolled the election of legislators, tax structure. In this battle, he flew home at his own expense, The paper gets out in San a• pensation laws. It is . of utmost the committees of the Legisla of the forces at his command taking a leave from work. We Carlos first, and the Pickup importance that we, in labor, ture, and the political life of the were brought into play. The fact are glad to report that Brother was sold even before I got my know these forces - and their State of California. that the Legislature bent to Teixeira found his dog in the copy. his histories - that write the laws of His special interest groups will, makes the Governor the Kalini area; it had evidently You can't get much better the State of California. were converted into political m'l real leader of his party and the been stolen from his home. service than that! RULE BY S. P. chines controlled by Samish. It man of power in California. Thanks, BEARDS The history of the California W rlS not until he ran afoul of the The conclusion m u s t be -STAN WOOD Also home temporarily is Legislature is the record of eco Bureau of Internal Revenue that reached that the day of the big Brother Conrad Molina. Brother nomic forces that have dominat- his grip on the political life of government lobbyist is at hand. •