*;.*•% a,*> '^^ •tc %4 •^ B- - -«) >> ^>*- 1 DREDGIN LARRY DUGAN, JR. Notes General President and Observations

'Getting away with murder'

James Bond, the fictional super secret agent created by ever spent a day in jail for violation of the OSH Act, the the late Ian Fleming, could kill and get away with it He report said was, in the words ot Fleming, licensed to kill It also recommended that what it called "slap on the In real life, things work differently Or do they' According wrist" criminal penalties under the law be stiffened It noted to a report released by the House Government Operations that even when, safety violations result in a fatality, the Committee in mid-October, life may imitate fiction a lot maximum penalty is only a $10,000 fine and six months more than we ever bargained for At least when it comes to imprisonment the health and safety of workers The lUOE couldn't agree more As I wrote in last month's According to the report, employers are literally "getting column in support of legislation that would raise the maxi­ away with murder" and will continue to unless the federal mum fine from $10,000 to $'500,000, "that in itself is a government gets tough on workplace safety $490,000 boost in bite (for the law), which should raise the The strongly worded report, entitled "Getting Away With level of safety consciousness of any employer " Murder In the Workplace OSHA's Nonuse of Criminal The committee report noted that in the 18 years since Penalties for Safety Violations," chastised the Occupational Congress created OSHA, "more than 100 000 workers have Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for its failure to lost their lives because of unsafe working conditions It is prosecute cases, especially those resulting in fatalities estimated that 7,000 to 11,000 workers annually are killed OSHA's record "in referring cases for criminal prosecution on the job and thousands more die from the long-term effects IS dismal," the report said of occupational illnesses It also faulted the Justice Department and federal prose­ In recent years, state and local law enforcement officials cutors around the country for what it called "an institutional have initiated prosecution of employers responsible for reluctance to pursue criminal prosecution in workplace safety worker deaths and serious injuries But in some cases. cases." convictions have been overturned on the ground that the federal safety act preempts state laws that were violated In Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif), chairman of the subcommittee other cases, local prosecutors have been discouraged from which prepared the report, said that company officials who taking cases to court because of the legal confusion, ac­ willfully and recklessly violate federal OSHA laws 'stand a cording to the report greater chance of winning a state lottery than being criminally OSHA has added to the confusion "by its inaction and charged by the federal government for workplace safety silence in some cases, and mixed signals in others." the violations report stated Part of the problem 'is that OSHA cannot—and part is it It said that OSHA should take the position that states will not—pursue criminal action in workplace safety cases," have clear authority to prosecute employers for acts against Lantos explained "The federal statue precludes OSHA from employees that constitute crimes under state law seeking criminal sanctions for willful safety violations unless The committee urged that OSHA pursue a "real partner­ there is a resulting fatality However, in cases where there ship" with the states regarding criminal action in workplace has been a fatality, OSHA has regularly and consistently safety cases, similar to the partnership that exists in prose­ chosen not to seek criminal penalties " cuting drug dealers It also proposed that OSHA set up a The situation is so bad that "permanent brain damage is special criminal investigation unit in its regional offices not enough to trigger criminal penalties," the report stated "States should be commended and encouraged to continue As one remedy, the report proposed that the safety and their efforts to protect people in their workplaces by utilizing health act be strengthened by permitting OSHA to seek the historic police power of the state to prosecute workplace criminal sanctions in cases of serious injury injuries and fatalities as criminal acts," the report said Since OSHA was established in 1970, it has referred only Again, we couldn't agree more Hopefully, this report will 42 cases for criminal prosecution Of these, the Justice raise the awareness level of the scope of this national tragedy Department prosecuted only 14 cases, resulting in 10 con­ and compel those empowered to do so to mandate corrective victions, with fines or suspended sentences "No one has actions r November 1988 THE INTERNATIONAL OPERATING Volume 131 Number 11

FRANK HANLEY, Editor ISSN 0020 8159

A MAGAZINE OF TECHNICAL PROGRESS

General Officers Contents $110 Million in Projects LARRY DUGAN JR General President Local Union 428 Phoenix Ariz 1125 17th SI NW Washington DC 20036 Proposals on Lift-Slab Construction

FRANK HANLEY General Sec -Treas Local Union 15 New York N Y lUOE Canadian Conference Held 1125 171h St N W Washington D C 20036 J C TURNER General Pres Emeritus NJATC Holds 25th 8 Local Union 77 Washington D C 1125 17th SI NW Washington DC 20036 Kicking Up Sand 11 ROBERTH FOX First Vice President Local Union 501 2405 West 3rd 31 Los Angeles Calil 90057

N BUDD COUTTS Second Vice President Departments Local Union 955 17704 103rd Ave Ste 105 Edmonton Alb T5S1J9 Politics, Legislation and You 6

WILLIAM C WAGGONER Third Vice President Around the Locals 14 Local Union 12 3055 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles Calif 90010 Solidarity 19 ELWOOD METZ JR Fourth Vice President Local Union 478 1965 Dixwell Ave Hamden Conn 06514 Social Secunty 20 Death Benefits LIONEL J GINDORF Fifth Vice President 22 Local Union 399 763 W Jackson Blvd Chicago III 60606 On the Cover FRANK T POLSAK Sixth Vice President Local Union 302 Western Ave and Clay St Seattle Wash 98121 lUOE members are busy restoring nation's beaches, here at Ocean City, Md for Great Lakes Dredge and JOSEPH L HANDLEY Seventh Vice President Dock Co Local Union 132 606 Tennessee Avenue Charleston W Va 25302 NOTE Readers who would like a copy of our cover may obtain one by FRANK J MILLER Eighth Vice President sending 50c in com to cover mailing costs to The International Operating Local Union 18 3515 Prospect Avenue Cleveland Ohio 44115 Engineer 1125 17th St N W Washington DC 20036

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PETER BABIN, III Trustee Local Union 406 7370 Chef Menteur Hghy Nev» Orleans La 70126 Heavy & Highway Report Projects totalling $110 million to be built union

Four new projects, totalling lective bargaining rates David A Mowat Co. over $110 million, will be done • The 1-664 Ventilation Build­ • The Syar Tunnel Project in by union craftsmen, according to ings across Hampton Roads, Va Wasatch and Utah Counties, reports from the National Joint project, valued at $55 5 million Utah, valued at $43 7 million, Heavy and Highway Construc­ was won by a joint venture of was successfully bid by Morris- tion Committee (NJHHCC). Newberg/Hardaway. All six bid­ Knudsen under a union agree­ • A new light rail transit sys­ ders on this project bid under the ment tem in Las Vegas, Nev , valued Heavy and Highway Construc­ The project was bid in the early at $7 million, will be built with tion Pioject Agreement summer, then negotiated with the union ciaftsmen by Fru-Con The NJHHCC was instrumen­ Bureau of Reclamation. Construction Corp. tal in getting the heavy Davis- The NJHHCC negotiated all This will be Phase One of the Bacon rates updated to the cur­ summer with the Department of Las Vegas system The owner rent union rates for every craft Labor over the results of its Utah of the system reportedly is look­ Additionally, it was successful in Wage Survey Subsequently, the ing at other majoi metropolitan getting very low highway rates Bureau of Reclamation incorpo­ areas to build monorail systems removed from the specs rated the union rates into the job The NJHHCC assisted the lo­ • The Columbia River Bridge specs, contrary to the challenged cal crafts in negotiating a letter project at Umatilla, Ore , valued rates resulting from the Utah sur­ of understanding to the local col- at $5 27 million, was won by vey Talk about your union productivity and quality

Completed a year early and inspected by the Corps of Engi­ Its planning process to meet the $58,000 under budget' neers for possible unsafe con­ newly set standards regarding That was the bottom line on struction and/or conditions was dams in the nation the $15 million Cedar Falls Dam the Cedar Falls Dam A masonry As developed, the project in­ project near Seattle, Wash , a dam erected in 1914, it is located cluded partially resurfacing the project done by a union contrac- at the foot of a lake which serves original dam, constructing a new toi with union workers as one of Seattle's major water spillway and totally replacing a The project was an outgrowth suppliers This watershed area is smaller timber dam of legislation the Army Corps of off hmits to general traffic. Its Kiewit Pacific, a union con­ Engineers pushed through Con­ stored water is used both to gen­ tractor, was awarded the job in gress in the mid-1970s called the erate electricity and for domestic early 1986 and work began in Dam Safety Act. The law, and industrial consumption July of that year piompted by a failure years ear­ In 1978, the Corps of Engi­ The rest is history finished a lier of the Teton Dam in Idaho, neers' investigation found the dam year early and under budget All called for a systematic study of to be senously undersized to meet in all, another union project to the safety of dams nationwide a "probable maximum flood be proud of. One of the first dams to be So the city immediately began ABC launches another anti-union campaign

In lesponse to union organiz­ Following aie some of the ele­ directors and the public ing successes and corporate cam­ ments of this campaign plan, as (2) Studies—Conduct studies paign tactics, the Associated described in a memorandum to of industries such as health care, Building Contractors (ABC) has ABC members. shopping centers and utilities to implemented a "National Cam­ identify groups that need lower paign Plan to Counter Union (1) Communications—A con­ construction costs Corporate Strategy and Intimi­ centrated communication pro­ (3) Highly visible projects— dation Tactics." Its goal: To in­ gram directed at corporate ex­ Select a highly visible project to crease the nonunion share of the ecutives, the press, shareholders, display nonunion woik construction market government officials, boards of (Continued on Page 3)

2 OPERATING ENGINEER NOVEMBER 1988 In wake of Bridgeport disaster OSHA mulling lift-slab construction rules Investigation into the April 1987 collapse of L'Ambiance Plaza in Bridgeport, Conn., a disaster that claimed 28 lives, has prompted the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to propose safety requirements specifically covering lift-slab construction, the Labor Dept. announced. OSHA published a revised stand­ ard for all other aspects of concrete construction in June 1988, but is now tackling lift-slab construction based on information culled from its review of the L'Ambiance Plaza tragedy. "Had the contractors prohibited their nonessential workers from being under slabs during the jacking operations, many lives could have been spared in the L'Ambiance col­ lapse," Assistant Secretary of La­ bor and OSHA Director John A. Pendergrass said. Proposals for new rules on lift-slab construction were prompted by building collapses such as shown above which often claim workers' lives. New rules A major provision of the proposal hopefully would lessen the danger to workers once implemented and is a requirement prohibiting anyone enforced. not directly involved in Jacking op­ erations from working in the struc­ New provisions of the proposal OSHA has requested comments ture while concrete slabs are lifted, include requiring a "qualified de­ specifically on the need for: a qual­ positioned and welded into place. signer" to design lift-slab projects ified designer versus an engineer/ According to the Labor Dept., and imposing a 2.5 safety factor for architect; a safety factor of 2.5 for "Some have incorrectly interpreted all jacking components. Other pro­ all jack components; certification of the act's requirements as permitting visions, some of which are cur­ the 2.5 safety factor; identification other craftsmen to work on lower rently in place under the OSH act, by name of the jack components floors whiiejacking operations pro­ include requiring safety measures subject to the 2.5 safety factor; ceed on upper floors." Pendergrass to maintain slabs in a level position, requiring lateral stability; maintain­ stated that "Our new regulations limiting the number of jacks oper­ ing the building plumb during jack­ would leave no possible question ated by one person and establishing ing; and access and egress require­ about the need to exclude most welding requirements to prevent ments. workers from the building." collapse. Heavy & Highway Report (Continued from Page 2) (5) Target cities—Identify negative aspects of the union's (4) Government work—Select "union towns" where "budgets record." a work area such as post office are strained and officials are un­ (8) Monitor legislators—To construction and organize a co­ der pressure to build new facili­ keep an eye on pro-union legis­ alition of local leaders to push ties." lators. for a new facility. Enlist public (6) Corporate education—Show (9) Legal strategies—File sec­ relations experts to present owners "the threats they face ondary boycott charges, chal­ "positive messages of stretching from union corporate cam­ lenge pension fund investments, tax dollars," and tell postal em­ paigns." pursue anti-trust litigation, chal­ ployees that nonunion construc­ (7) Conduct a "union truth lenge unionized owners' compli­ tion would lead to higher salaries campaign"—To educate tar­ ance with environmental and for them. geted audiences about the "manv safetv laws.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 3 Jim McCambly, president of the Ca­ lUOE General President Larry Du- lUOE Vice President and Canadian nadian Federation of Labour, ad­ gan, Jr. listens to the conference Director N. Budd Coutts delivers dresses the lUOE Canadian Confer­ proceedings. remarks to the conference delegates. ence. Federal elections a prime concern Annual lUOE Canadian Conference held Delegates from local unions in Canada," Dugan urged the del­ to pursue . . . and pursue most throughout Canada gathered in Na- egates to expend all efforts "to diligently," he said. naimo, B.C. in late September for bring about needed changes in pol­ Attributing a recently rekindled the annual lUOE Canadian Confer­ icy and attitude on the part of gov­ interest in various construction ence. ernment toward the trade union projects across Canada to either the The conference dealt with a range movement." lUOE message finally being heard of issues important to the Operating "Fairness—that is what we are or merely pre-election, vote-buying Engineers in Canada, including the asking for," he declared. "Fairness ploys, Dugan said these projects upcoming federal elections, which in attitude and treatment. We need "could give the lagging Canadian were emphasized by General Pres­ a government that will give oper­ economy a tremendous boost, as ident Larry Dugan, Jr. in his key­ ating engineers a fair hearing, a fair well as provide thousands upon note address to the conference. evaluation and a fair deal." thousands of jobs for many years Dugan told the delegates that he But he cautioned that bringing for our members." saw opportunity in the elections to about change would require hard He listed just a few of the proj­ effect changes "which will have a work. "We've got to perform the ects: positive impact on all of us as every­ grunt work; the get-out-the-vote • Development of the Hibernia day citizens, as workers in the con­ campaigns, the phone banks, the off-shore oil fields off the coast of struction and stationary industries, distribution of literature, door-to- Newfoundland, a project well into and as union members." door canvassing, walking the shop the billion^ of dollars. Citing the past few years as "'no­ floor, working the job site—those tably negative for organized labour are the kinds of activities we have (Continued on page 5)

lUOE Vice President Frank Polsak Art Viat, business manager of Local Bill Kadey, business manager of Lo­ from Seattle, Wash, addresses the 39, San Francisco, and an lUOE cal 882, welcomes the delegates to delegates. trustee, speaks at the conference. Nanaimo on behalf of the host locals.

4 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 Applying for the Delaney Scholarship Each year one Joseph J. Delaney Memorial Scholar­ ship in the amount of $2,000 a year for four years is awarded to a son or daughter of a mem­ ber in good standing of a Ca­ nadian local union of the lUOE. The winner can apply the scholarship to any accred­ ited college or university he or she chooses. Application forms for the Michelle Ann Troberg, daughter of Local 858's Judith Troberg and winner scholarship are available at of the lUOE Joseph J, Delaney Memorial Scholarship, is all smiles as she each lUOE Canadian local accepts her award. From the left are Claudette Wickum, financial secretary, union office. Once these forms 858; Marilyn Hannah, vice president; Shirley Gervais, president; Miss are filled out, they must be Troberg; Judith Troberg; Peggy Smalley, business manager; Dianne Barlett, mailed with the required sup­ treasurer, and Budd Coutts, lUOE vice president and Canadian director, plementary materials (ex­ who made the presentation. plained in the applications) be­ fore the stated deadline to: The Pearl-Silverman Agency, Daughter of Local 858's Troberg Suite 417, 1125-I7thSt.,N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. wins '88 lUOE Delaney Scholarship Remember the competition is open only to sons and Michelle Ann Troberg, the 1988 Eraser Lake, B.C. daughters of members of lUOE Canadian winner of the lUOE Jo­ General Vice President and Ca­ Canadian local unions who are seph J. Delaney Memorial Schol­ nadian Director Budd Coutts made in good standing. Applicants arship, was honored and presented the presentation of the prestigious also must be seniors in high the scholarship award at a reception award to a very happy and proud school. and dinner held in Prince George, young lady, and wished her many Once all applications are British Columbia. years of happiness in her chosen processed, the winner will be Miss Troberg was accompanied profession. selected by an impartial panel. by her mother, Judith Troberg, a Local 858 Business Manager Other than notifying the win­ Special Education Aide and mem­ Peggy Smalley expressed her best ner, the lUOE has no involve­ ber of Local 858, Prince George. wishes and thanked the Interna­ ment in the selection process. Sister Troberg is employed by Ne- tional Union for making the schol­ chako School District No. 56 in arship available. Canadian Conference focuses on upcoming elections (Continued from page 4) pated will cost more than $4 billion. rhetoric or voluminous discussion • The fixed link, either bridge or In order to bring about the needed can possibly diminish the over­ tunnel, between Prince Edward Is­ changes in government, Dugan said whelming importance of this land and New Brunswick across all lUOE members and their fami­ point,' •' Dugan said. the Northumberland Strait. The link lies must vote in the elections—and Other speakers addressing the will run about 14 kilometers and vote wisely, because the power of conference included Budd Coutts, cost in excess of $1 billion. the ballot cannot be underesti­ lUOE vice president and Canadian • Further expansion of the James mated. director; Jim McCambly, president Bay hydroelectric facilities in Que­ "To quote Winston Churchill: 'At of the Canadian Federation of La­ bec. the bottom of all the tributes paid bour; Frank Polsak, lUOE vice • A $1 billion-plus heavy oil op­ to democracy, is the little man, president; Art Viat, business man­ erating plant for Saskatchewan. walking into the little booth, with a ager. Local 39, San Francisco, and • The Oslo oil fields project in little pencil, making a little cross on William Kadey, business manager Alberta, which it has been antici­ a little bit of paper—no amount of of Local 882, Burnaby, B.C.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 5 Politics, Legislation and You

100th Congress: Much done, much left for 101st

The 100th Congress ended its nca. These labor pnonties are likely tration's so-called "free trade" pol­ two-year term with the best record to be revived in the 101st Congress. icy even though it lacks the tough of legislative accomplishments dur­ In other cases, the conservatives language of the labor-backed Gep­ ing the Reagan era, but with much were able to use the veto threat to hardt amendment. The law allows work left to be done by the new bend good legislation rather far to wide presidential discretion as to Congress. their liking, as with welfare reform, how It IS enforced and its effective­ These achievements, which in­ trade reform, and catastrophic health ness will much depend on the Pres­ cluded plant closing notification, care ident trade reform, polygraph curbs, civil Other pressing issues for the new The law increases presidential rights restoration and other orga­ Congress include health insurance authority to retaliate against unfair nized labor priorities, were made for the 37 million Americans who trade practices; conditions U.S. possible by the election two years have none, long-term home health trade preferences on observance of ago of a Democratic majority in the care, the crisis of bankrupt savings internationally-accepted worker Senate for the first time since Rea­ and loan institutions, control ot air protections, provides relief for in­ gan's landslide election in 1980 pollution and acid rain, and the dustries hurt by imports if they With both houses under Demo­ budget deficit improve competitiveness, and au­ cratic leadership. House and Senate Achievements of the lOOth Con­ thorizes nearly $1 billion for dis­ Democrats "were determined to es­ gress include placed worker retraining tablish a record on which their Pres­ • The highway and mass transit • Polygraph testing of employ­ idential candidate could run in 1988, act, passed in 1987 over Reagan's ees and job seekers by most private or as Rep. Tony Coelho of Califor­ veto, provides $70 3 billion over employers is banned under the new nia, the House Democratic whip five years for highway construction law put It, 'to show that we can gov­ and $ 17 6 billion over four years for • Amendments to the 1968 Fair ern,' " reported The New York mass transit. Housing law strengthens the ban Times. • The Clean Water Act, enacted on discrimination in the sale or President Reagan and a conserva­ last year over Reagan's veto, au­ rental of housing and extends pro­ tive coalition of Republicans and thorizes nearly $18 billion for loans tection to the handicapped and fam­ mostly Southern Democrats were and grants to construct sewage ilies with children able in the early 1980s to force treatment plants It provides greater • The Civil Rights Restoration through Congress an agenda of tax controls on toxic pollutants and Act overturns a 1984 Supreme Court cuts favoring the rich, drastic social establishes programs to monitor and decision that restricted application program cutbacks and lavish mili­ control pollution in the Great Lakes of anti-discrimination laws to indi­ tary spending and other bodies of water vidual college programs receiving But in the lOOth Congress, Senate • Plant closing and mass layoff federal aid Enacted over Reagan's Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D- notification This measure, watered veto, It bars discnmination in an W Va ) and House Speaker Jim down from previous proposals to entire institution receiving federal aid. Wright (D-Texas) forged an effec­ win wider acceptance, nevertheless • Catastrophic health insurance tive majority of pro-labor Demo­ was vetoed by Reagan when it was expands Medicare coverage to pro­ crats and moderate Republicans on attached to the omnibus trade bill. vide unlimited hospital and physi­ many issues. In some cases, in­ Congress later passed the notifica­ cian care, as well as eventual cov­ cluding highway construction and tion and trade measures as separate erage of up to 80 percent of costs clean water projects, two-thirds legislation. Reagan, bowing to elec­ for prescription drugs, after certain majorities were mustered to over­ tion-year pressures, let the popular deductibles are reached. It is fi­ turn Reagan vetoes notification bill become law without nanced by higher premiums for ben­ However, the White House and his signature eficiaries and an income tax sur­ its allies in Congress were able to The law requires employers of charge. stymie such much-needed legisla­ 100 or more workers to give 60 • The welfare reform law re­ tion as minimum wage, parental days' notice, in most cases, of a quires states to set up education, leave, child care, textile trade, high- plant closing or mass layoff lasting training and work programs to help risk notification, double-breasting, more than six months move welfare recipients into private campaign finance reform, and • The omnibus trade reform law jobs. A "workfare" provision is tougher sanctions against South Af- represents a break from the Adinis- opposed by labor

6 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 OSHA revises Developments worth noting .. rule on records Workers' Good Fortune

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the "fine tuning" of its 1980 rule on the release of job hazard and medical data, but an AFL-CIO job safety expert called it "a waste of time and energy." Margaret Seminario, AFL-CIO Associate Director for Occupa­ tional Safety, Health and Social Security, said the changes in the revised rule are "unnecessary" be­ cause "the original rule was work­ ing just fine." She noted that the Reagan Administration proposed drastic changes for weakening the rule in 1982, but the recommenda­ tions were not supported. "We're doing some fine tuning to clarify the agency's original in­ tent and to provide some additional Fortune cookies bearing the message "Vote Union Yes" were distributed flexibility to employers in respond­ to some 1,300 employees of Walt Disney World's Village Marketplace prior ing to employee requests for data," to a representation election. By a 6-1 margin, the workers voted to be OSHA Director John A. Pender- represented by the Service Trades Council, consisting of six unions. The grass commented. council already represents 9,000 other Disney workers in Orlando, Fla. Pendergrass said that the revised rule complements OSHA's hazard Organizer's "free speech" rights upheld by court communication standard, which A federal appelate court slapped down an Occupational Safety & Health provides workers with information Review Commission administrative law judge for attempting to control a on any hazardous substances they union organizing campaign by barring an organizer from a safety hearing are working with and training so involving General Dynamics Corp., a major defense contrator. that workers properly handle such The 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that ALJ David Knight's substances. ejection of Carpenters' organizer Stephen C. Perry from the proceedings "Together, these rules form a was a "naked attempt to control the course of the union's campaign" regulatory structure which meets and "so far exceeds the proper scope of the Commission's authority as workers' need for information about to constitute a usurpation of power." workplace hazards and the health Carpenters President Sigurd Lucassen welcomed the ruling, noting that consequences resulting from ex­ the court "has recognized that the First Amendment protects organizers' posure to those hazards," Pender­ speech in the context of an organizing campaign." grass said. The appellate panel said Knight was "trying to regulate the contents" Changes from the 1980 rule in­ of literature that Perry had distributed in a campaign to organize 5,500 clude: providing additional protec­ workers at General Dynamics' Quonset Point, R.I., shipyard. tion for trade secrets; requiring union Perry, as part of the organizing drive campaign by the United Ship­ representatives to show an occu­ building Crafts, a three-union coalition of the Carpenters, Boilermakers pational health need for records to and Plumbers & Pipefitters, helped get the Occupational Safety & Health which employees have not specifi­ Administration to inspect the facility. OSHA found numerous record­ cally consented; excluding first aid keeping and safety violations, fining the firm $615,000 in 1987. records and medical records of short- General Dynamics and the workers both challenged OSHA's action— term (less than one year) employees the company wished to quash the citations, while the employees wanted from 30-year retention require­ to speed abatement of the hazards. The workers chose Perry to represent ments; and permitting microfilm them at the hearing. storage of all employee x-rays ex­ At the hearing's outset. Knight warned the employees not to "use this cept chest x-rays. proceeding for other exploitive purposes . . ." When Perry distributed The rule does not require creation campaign literature referring to the USC efforts to aid the workers at the of any records, only preservation. hearing, the company asked that Perry be excluded from the hearing and The revised rule becomes effective Knight agreed. The ALJ told the employes to select another representative Nov. 28. who was not a USC member.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 7 Participants review materials developed by the lUOE in the areas of selection, testing, equal employment and curriculum development. 25th Annual Conference Apprenticeship training is reviewed, previewed More than 250 training trustees, coordinators and instructors from the United States and Canada met in Palm Springs, Calif, in early October to review the lUOE training programs and to preview new programs at the 25th Annual National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee (NJATC) Conference. The four-day conference featured workshops, gen­ eral sessions and demonstrations of apprenticeship orientation, waste/energy co-generation and equal em­ ployment opportunity. A special presentation featured the new electronic data base of training materials established at the International headquarters. lUOE Vice Presidents Bill Waggoner and Bob Fox, business managers of host Locals 12 and 501, respec­ tively, opened the conference with welcoming ad­ dresses. Other speakers included Ed Hulihee, AGC representative and chairman of the NJATC, and Ken Paradis, vice president of the National Constructors Association and vice chairman-elect of the national committee.

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¥ Steve Wright, surveyor representative of Local 545, Local 4's Tom Gleason (at mike) and Dick Zorabedian demonstrates some of the latest advances in surveying of Local 57 lead a session on performance based testing. equipment.

8 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 Association and vice chairman-elect of the national committee. Other subjects covered by the conferees included hazardous waste training, instructor training, a cost benefit study of apprenticeship, the legal environment of engineer training, the Training Standards Project (TSP), the Pre-employment Experience Questionaire (PEQ), the Excess Property Program, the lUOE special Outreach Program, Job Corps activities and energy Linda Corso, IUOE Depart­ management. ment of Education and At the conference banquet during the week. Hank lUOE Vice President Bill Training, explains the Butryn of Local 302 was presented with the "Steel, Waggoner welcomes the lUOE's electronic data base Dirt and Rock Award" in recognition of his service to participants to the NJATC of training materials. the national training system. conference.

Stationary engineers take part in a workshop dealing base, waste/energy co-generation and energy conser- with topics such as the new trainmg materials data vation. Court upholds backpay for fired workers A federal appellate court affirmed The dismissals also violated the arbitrator concluded that he, rather an arbitrator's award of backpay to project agreement between the than the NRC, should decide 140 union construction workers— unions and the general contractor. whether the plan was consistent including members of the Operating A federal district court upheld the with NRC standards." In rejecting Engineers—who were fired from a arbitrator's decision and award. this argument, the court said the nuclear power plant project in Cal­ In a split decision, the appellate company assumed the NRC had laway County, Mo., after they court majority noted that a recent evaluated and approved the test, "failed" a psychological screening Supreme Court ruling, Paperwork- when the agency had not. test required by Union Electric Co. ers v. Misco Inc., "re-emphasized The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of the limited role" given to federal Appeals upheld a lower court ruling courts in reviewing an arbitrator's 12-hour work day? that an arbitrator correctly deter­ award. The court stressed that it mined that Daniel Construction Co., may not overrule an arbitrator's A California state agency that is the project's general contractor, had decision "simply because it be­ supposed to protect lower-paid dismissed the workers without good lieves its interpretation of the par­ workers from exploitation has reason because the psychological ties' collective bargaining agree­ cleared the way for the 12-hour day testing was invahd. ment is the better one." at straight-time wages for most When nuclear fuel was brought The court held that the arbitra­ workers not covered by union con­ on site at the Callaway plant. Union tor's award was based on provi­ tracts. Electric Co. imposed a security pro­ sions in the bargaining agreement The state's unions see it as an­ gram resulting in the firing of 157 and in "no way contravenes public other sign of the anti-worker tilt of workers—members of the Electri­ policy of nuclear plant safety." The the administration of Republican cal Workers, Sheet Metal Workers, project agreement contained a broad Gov. George Deukmejian. It came Laborers, Operating Engineers and arbitration clause that permitted an within days of the governor's veto Painters—by Daniel Construction arbitrator to determine whether em­ of a bill to raise the maximum un­ and its subcontractors. ployees were discharged for cause employment insurance benefit by The arbitrator held that the psy­ and to set an appropriate remedy. $20 a week, the first increase in five chological testing was invalid, not­ The company had argued that the years. It's the fourth straight year ing it had not been approved by the "mistake that makes this award that Deukmejian has vetoed an im­ Nuclear Regulatory Commission. unenforceable occurred when the provement in jobless benefits.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 9 Putting pension power to work for you "For too long, the great potential impact of pen­ account, a separate mortgage investment account sion funds has been ignored by trustees and man­ sponsored by The Union Labor Life Insurance Com­ agers who have channeled those funds heedlessly to pany, a union-owned insurance and investment serv­ non-union and anti-union borrowers, using the de­ ices company. ferred wages of workers to undermine their jobs. In With assets of $413 million, J FOR JOBS channels pioneering opportunities for the safe and productive pension assets into mortgages on projects built with investment of union pension funds in ways that also union labor. It has posted impressive gams since its create union jobs, ULLJCO has been faithful to the founding in 1976. For instance: principles of its founders. In the process, it has • A share in the account purchased for $1,000 in demonstrated the simple fact that dedication to the 1977 is today valued at more than $2,588. interests of workers is no handicap to success, that • The average net annual return over the five years good morals are compatible with good business." ending June 30, 1988 was 10.57%. —Lane Kirkland • A recent survey of returns on investments by President, AFL-CIO open-ended real estate funds over the past five years ranked J FOR JOBS in the top three. President Kirkland was right on the money. Dedi­ cation to the interests of workers is no handicap to For more information on J FOR JOBS, contact John financial success for America's union pension plans. Stephan, Pension Director, Union Labor Life, 111 In fact, it is paying off handsomely. Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001— There's no better example than the J FOR JOBS 202/682-6927.

Union pension plans produce union jobs

Union pension plans have become one of the • 44,753 man-hours of employment and $557,296 largest sources of financial capital in the nation. in wages for union construction workers; and But too often this money isn't used in ways that • Increased tax revenues and expansion of the benefit the workers to whom it belongs. A new local credit base of the community. study commissioned by The Union Labor Life Insurance Company, a union-owned and directed Similar impacts were found for projects in insurance and investment services company, shows other areas. just what these dollars can do when they are "This study clearly demonstrates that putting used as they should be. union pension funds into solid, long-term mort­ The study, conducted by Workplace Econom­ gages pays off for everyone involved. Pension ics, a Washington, DC, research organization, plans get a competitive return, union workers get examined several projects whose mortgages were jobs, unionized contractors get business, the local underwritten by Union Labor Life's union-ori­ economy is stimulated and government revenues ented "J FOR JOBS" Mortgage Separate Ac­ go up," says Daniel E. O'Sullivan, President and count. This account channels pension funds into CEO of Union Labor Life. mortgages on to-be-built projects where the de­ Created in 1977, the J FOR JOBS account veloper agrees to only employ union workers. blazed the trail in the movement to put pension The study found that $1 million dollars com­ funds into union-built properties. With more than mitted through J FOR JOBS generated from $2 200 participating plans and $413 million in re­ to $2.5 million in economic activity in the local serves, it remains one of the largest such union- community. oriented funds in the nation. Applying a Department of Commerce model "There's still a long way to go," O'Sullivan to a typical project in Indiana, the study found notes. "Compared to the total amount of pension that a $1.4 million mortgage commitment under­ money being invested these days, accounts like wrote: J FOR JOBS represent just a drop in the bucket." • $3.4 million in total economic activity in the For more information about the Union Labor surrounding community; Life study or J FOR JOBS, contact John Stephan, • 116,240 man-hours of employment and $1.1 Union Labor Life Insurance, 111 Massachusetts million in earnings in the community; Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001, 202/682-6927.

10 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 Dredging: lUOE V^ („f— Members at Work

K&. Eight miles of beach and 2.4 mil­ past summer in Ocean City, Md. worth of property prompted the lion cubic yards of sand. Those were The erosion of the ocean shore­ State of Maryland and local gov­ the two important dimensions in a line and the imminent danger of ernments to fund a $12 million-plus very complex project carried out this storm damage to billions of dollars contract to move 2.4 million cubic yards of sand from two separate borrow areas two to three miles off shore to the eight-mile stretch of beach in question. The complexity of the operation prompted two separate companies. Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company and American Dredging Company to form a joint venture to bid the contract. The contract was awarded in March and the compa­ nies proceeded immediately to plan and carry out the work. The project was broken into two separate halves, the northern four The dredge Atlantic American, the only industry-owned split hull trailing miles of beach to be performed by hopper dredge outfitted with 1,000 horsepower underwater dredging pumps American with their new hopper on each of the two dragarms, is shown in the photo at the top of the page dredge, the Atlantic American, and operatmg offshore at Ocean City, Md. loading sand. In the photo directly the southern four miles by Great above, the Atlantic American, attached to a sea buoy, discharges its load Lakes Dredge and Dock using the of sand onto the beach through a 5,000-foot submerged pipeline. cutter suction dredge Carolina.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 11 lUOE Local 25, Brooklyn, ear­ lier had been successful in organiz­ ing the hopper dredge Atlantic American. This dredge is the first of its type to be completely manned r by the Operating Engineers. (Local 25's successful organizing campaign, which took eight months, "could not have been accomplished without the wholehearted support of General President Larry Dugan and General Secretary-Treasurer Frank Hanley," according to Wil­ liam Zenga, Local 25 business man­ ager. He also credited the assist­ ance of Jack Weberski, assistant to ^B Dugan; Jim Van Dyke, lUOE di­ rector of organizing; Region I Di­ The tug Evergreen State, one of the several tending tugs with the dredge rector Ted Kulesza and Interna­ Carolina, plies the waters off Ocean City. tional Representative Len Hughes for the success of the campaign.) With the exception of some shoreside equipment, which was manned by lUOE Local 37, Balti­ more, the dredges Atlantic Ameri­ can, Carolina and all floating and shoreside operations were manned by Local 25. The hopper dredge performs its mission by loading its sand cargo into a hopper inside the hull of the dredge and then sailing about 3 miles to a discharge point about half a mile off shore where the sand is transferred ashore by pipeline as it is pumped from the dredge by a centrifugal dredge pump. The cutter suction dredge Caro­ lina moves sand directly from the I (JOE Secretary-Treasurer Frank Hanley, left, and Great Lakes Executive borrow area by agitating the sand Vice President Brian Lmdhold explain the beach replenishment project to into a slurry mixture where it is affected property owners. scoured from the bottom by pow­ erful suction created by three pumps in series. The first pump is underwater near the level of the material for effi­ ciency reasons. The second and \ f . m O third are inboard the dredge and are coupled to huge diesel engines which provide the primary pumping power to propel the sand and water mixture to shore through up to 20 thousand feet of 30" dredge pipe. This process continues on a 24- hour-a-day basis until natural or mechanical reasons shut the oper­ ation down. The Carolina is one of only a few such dredges in existence, certified to work in the ocean environment. The job completed at Ocean City, the shore crew, consisting of members The dredge is outfitted to "dig on of lUOE Local 37, Baltimore, begin breaking down the pipeline. wires" which is dredging terminol-

12 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 ogy for the use of three large di­ ameter wire ropes which attach to anchors allowing the stern to be held in place in heavy sea condi­ tions. The operation of the Carolina m Ocean City this past summer served to educate and amaze many vaca­ tioners who normally would never see a dredge with such power and pumping capacity operate. The beach was replenished during some With the pipeline broken down, Local 37 members begin grading the beach segments at the astounding rate of at Ocean City. More than 2.4 million cubic yards of sand were added to as much as three blocks per day. the beach in the project. Public access to the project for sightseeing purposes was encour­ aged and negative comments from beachgoers was minimal. A future project is planned for Ocean City, probably to be per­ formed next summer, which will add a dune and much wider berm for hurricane protection. Local city officials, citizens and vacationers have notified the contractors that they will welcome future replenish­ ment work. They know that with more of the same. Ocean City will The tug Gary M. and Derrick 65 were integral parts of the Carolina's have the widest and best cared for operations at Rockaway Beach, N.Y. beach north of Miami, which will provide property owners storm pro­ f~- tection unequaled on the Atlantic rrfd^i Coast. M'^rP Upon completion of the Ocean City project, the dredge Carolina and attending plant was towed to Rockaway Beach, N.Y. to under­ fl J ' ii i A ^H take a similar project. Incredibly, the dredge placed 1.3 million cubic yards of sand on Rockaway Beach in approximately three-and-one-half Helpinig to make the project run smoothly at Rockaway Beach were, from weeks. the left, Mark Hale, derrick operator; Charles Spears, deckhand; Ed Harrington, president, lUOE Local 25, Brooklyn; Ted Kulesza, director, Most importantly, again the lUOE Region 1; MarkOldham, deckhand; WilliamZenga, business manager. workforce was all lUOE. Local 25; Lyie Coggins, tug master, and Pedro Borges, deckhand.

Some of the Local 25 members comprising the shore crew at Rockaway Beach included, from the left, Liss Looking over some of the job specs at Rockaway Beach Harper, dumpforeman; George Wellsted, dozer operator; are, from the left, Ted Kulesza, Region 1 director; Steve Todd Young, shoreman; Roy Parker, shoreman; Roy O'Hara, division manager. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Crosset, shop steward; Ed Harrington, pesident; William Co.; William Zenga, Local 25 business manager, and Zenga, business manager, and Ted Kulesza, lUOE Ed Harrington, Local 25 president. Region 1 director.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 13 Around the Locals Tallest floating fountain installed by lUOE Locals

The world's tallest floating fountain was installed by lUOE Locals 181. Henderson, Ky. and 917, Chat­ tanooga, Tenn. at its final mooring location in the Ohio River adjacent to downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The fountain began operation for the public August 19, 1988 and will run this year until November. During the winter months the fountain will be moored in a safe harbor protected from ice and floods. It will resume operation in May, 1989. When all of the pumps are in operation the fountain will spray water in the shape of a Fleur-de-lis flower, which is the city's official symbol. At other times the computer program controlling the fountain will change the spray and lighting patterns in a never-ending Their completed project in the background, union and display. company workers take a break after a job well done. The three different pump systems that make up the From the left are Peter Serodino, vice president, South­ ern Marine Construction Co.; Don Wooten, lUOE Local fountain can be operated together or independently 181; Harry DeBoard, Local 917, and Jesse Ayres, Local depending on the time of day and weather conditions. 181. The smallest pump system is driven by a 125 h.p. electric motor and controls 24 small nozzles, the middle Installation of the 40 foot octagonal barge that houses pump is 200 h.p. and controls four larger nozzles that the fountain took nine days and the assistance of a will spray water 100 feet into the air. The largest pump 100-ton, barge-mounted American crane. Cables of 1 'A is 900 h.p. and controls only one mozzle that will spray inches anchor the fountain to four 28-inch diameter water over 375 feet above the Ohio River. concrete caissons drilled six feet into the solid rock The total pumping capacity is over 15,800 gallons river bottom. There are four additional seven-ton, per minute, or enough to fill an average swimming precast concrete anchors connected to the 1 '/4-inch pool in under four minutes. The fountain's power cables near the fountain that will keep the fountain in comes from an electric cable laid underneath the river, place during normal river fluctuations and minor floods, capable of carrying over 17,000 volts of electricity. and add stability during operation of all three pumps.

Eight Operating Engineer apprentices graduate

Eight local Operating Engineer were honored in a ceremony at the liam Fink, Sandra Frederick, Charles apprentices graduated from the Ma­ Operating Engineers Local 66 Union Locke, Shirley Pearce, Kelly Reid, honing Valley Operating Engineers Hall. Albert Santiago, Thomas Whipple Joint Apprenticeshipprogram. They Receiving certificates were Wil- and Howard Young. All eight have successfully completed four years of classroom, shop, field and on- the job training. Receiving special awards for their achievements were Howard Young and William Fink. Congressman James A. Trafi- cant, Jr. was the principal speaker. Graduates and officials of the Joint Apprenticeship Training program are, first row, from the left, committee members Louis Wolf, Ted Soroka and Others who addressed the 115 guests Ed Ronyak; graduates Howard Young, Albert Santiago, Kelly Reid, Sandra and graduates were Joseph Beas- Frederick, Shirley Pearce and Thomas Whipple. Second row, same order, ley, business manager. Local 66; are retired committee member Samuel Myers; committee members Donald Jack Anderson, president. Local Rupp, Raymond Taylor; instructor James Russell; committee member John 66; and Ted Soroka, chairman, Ma­ Logue; graduate William Fink; instructor Charles Cook and graduate Charles honing Valley Operating Engineers Locke. J AC.

14 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 Local 148 cares In a humanitarian gesture designed to help others less fortunate, lUOE Local 148, Collinsville, III., staged a fund-raiser to benefit children suffering from cystic fibrosis. The local came up with the idea of a Bass Tournament—and what a whopper it produced. At day's end, the local was able to present to the representatives of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation a check for $7,000. "The efforts of the officers and members of Local 148 and other local unions, numerous corporations and individuals made this event a memorable one," said Steve Blake, co-chairman of the fundraiser. The local extended its sincere appreciation to all • A check for $7,000 is presented by Local 148 those who helped make the day a success. Business Representative Keith Linderer, left, and "We had a great time in helping a great cause," Business Manager Don Giljum, right, to Cystic Fibro­ added Local 148 Business Representative Keith sis representatives Cheryl Edelen, second from left, Linderer. and Pam Brugger.

Signaling a very successful effort for a very worthy cause.

Local 66 parades skills, equipment

Local 66, Monroeville, Pa., took an active part in that city's Labor Day parade, demonstrating some of the equipment operating engineers work with and advertising some of the projects they get involved in, such as hazardous materials cleanup.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 15 New York City Locals honor members for service Local 15. 15A, I5B, 15C and 15D in New York City grandson, James, are members of Local 15; and Local honored seventeen 50-year members of Local 15 and 15D (Surveyor Branch), 25-year Diamond Pin Recip­ 15C; sixty-nine 25-year members of Local 15, fourteen ient Matthew Reilly, whose son, Michael, is a member 25-year members of Local 15C and sixty-six 25-year of Local 15D and whose brothers, William, John, Dan members of Local 15D at ceremonies conducted in and Tommy, members of Local 15 and Local 15D, conjunction with Regular Quarterly Meetings. were there to participate in the ceremonies. Presentation of the 50-year Gold Life Cards and the General Secretary-Treasurer Hanley and President/ 25-year Diamond Pins at the Local 15-15A Meeting Business Manager Maguire congratulated the honorees was made by President/Business Manager Thomas P. for their many years of loyal and faithful service to Maguire and lUOE General Secretary-Treasurer Frank their local union, and wished them good health. Hanley, who also addressed the members. In addition, Secretary-Treasurer Hanley emphasized The Award Ceremonies were particularly meaningful to the members present the importance of continuing for two recipients; Local 15, 50-year Gold Card recip­ to protect their jurisdiction and commended them for ient George Knauer. whose son, George, Jr. and maintaining their high level of wages and fringes.

50-YEAR GOLD CARD MEMBERS OF LOCAL 15-15A included H Engalhard, Louis A. Fattarelli, Michael Gini, Jr. Anthony Lawrence Belosa, Henry Byrne, Burton Cann, William Cassidy, Grasso, Mark J Growney, Anthony C. Guilianti, Edward Hogan, Theodore Charvat, George Knauer, Charles Kneff, Henry Koch, John Huntemann, Carl Inglese, Oriente lodice, Stanley Kazar, Anthony Lasiewski, James Principe, Harold Rohan, Victor Thomas E Killea, Robert Lancer, Allan R. Lawyer, Donald J. Simone and James Snyder. Leitgeb, Ronald Lickman. Also, William M. Lutter, Fred Manna, Jr., Herndon E Martin, Charles Martucci, Michael 25-YEAR DIAMOND PIN MEMBERS OF LOCAL 15-15A in­ Materasso, Frank R. Mauro, Stanley F. Mazur, Owen McPike, cluded Anthony Annarella, Carl D. Barker, John Barnett, Theodore McTague, Arthur R Minton, Jr., William Moran, Andrew V. Benfante, Christopher Berbrick, George Birdsall, Rogers Morsley, Charles Panarella, Alfred V. Picone, Joseph Jr., Robert R Bittle, Ralph Bizzarri, Archie J. Blandford, L. Prince, Vincent J. Puzzo, William E Quick, Robert Quinn, William E. Browning, Joseph Caccamo, Mario Cappello, Eman­ George Raymond, Sheldon Richman, John P. Romeo, Salvatore uel Cimmello, Michael Goto, Richard Creedon. Also, Edward Russo, Richard Scileppi, Salvatore Sedotto, NicholasTedesco, G. Crumbliss, Richard E. Dame, Joseph Danna, Joseph F. Maurice Thomas, Willard True, Paul Tully, George Vanpelt, Dedona, Frank Deriso, Julian Didonato, Edward Dolan, Robert James E Walton, and James Wolfe.

50-YEAR GOLD CARD MEMBERS OF LOCAL 150 included Rino Bianchi, Rudolph E Biele, Michael Cox, Vincent J. Hans Haavik, Rufolf Kikel, Joseph Remhart and Russell Coyne, Fred H. Kerbacher, George Lienhard, Jr., Robert J. Vaughn. Lorenzo, John L. Lutz, Jr., Eugene Marchese, George Schramm, Jack D. Scott, Sylvester Seal, Dominick Tessinari and Walter 25-YEAR DIAMOND PIN MEMBERS OF LOCAL 150 included J. Valentine.

16 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 LOCAL 15D DIAMOND PIN RLLIPILNIS iiicludLd Rudolph Lugene Marinacci, Michael Marro, Sam Massey, Thomas Barba, Arthur Birke, Robert Birke, James Blewett, Frederick McKenna, Myron Miller, George Morris, Andrej Muccillo, Bonda, James Brennan, Gerard Carbone, Nicholas Carozza, Daniel Murphy, Kenneth Njerve, John Peterson, Vincent Pis- Rueben Carty, John Cherewattie, John Clukies (deceased), citelli, Richard Pitz, Charles Redman, Matthew Reilly, William John Danubio, Robert Fee, Mario Ficarella, Joseph Fiorello, Roe, George Rosato, Leveo Scalard and Herbert Schulte Also, Frank Gadaleta, James Ganley, Arthur Gillespie, Lawrence Ted Frank Schulte, Sebastian Setteducate, Paul Simari, Grogan, Bernhard Henn, Frank Hill, Philip Hoelle, Gary Donald Smith, Vincent Sorena, Warren Stickelman, Charles Johnson, Joseph Kreppem, Anthony Labate Also, Alfred Taufman, Charles Thurber, John Valentine, Allen Ward, Russell LaChance, Philip Lapertosa, Harry Larsen, Donald Lasalle, Wellmger, Roger White, Charles Williams, Ferdinand Wohlen- William Latimer, George Lehl, Vincent Lombardo, John Lorch, berg and James Wright Local 150, Chicago sign apprenticeship accord lUOE Local 150, Countryside, III., registered from the eligibility list submitted by the Local "a first" with the city of Chicago when the parties 150 apprentice coordinator. signed an apprenticeship agreement, the first time As an interesting sidelight to the formal signing that the city has signed an apprenticeship agree­ of the agreement, Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer ment with any craft. produced a Local 150 membership card. The The city will now pay into the Local 150 mayor served as an operating engineer in his early Apprenticeship Fund on a per hour basis for all days in the Windy City and proudly says he is a hours worked by apprentices. member of Local 150 and that he never leaves All apprentices to be hired will be selected home without it.

Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer proudly displays his lUOE of personnel; Commissioner Sagan of the city's Sewers Local 150 membership card during signing ceremonies Dept.; Mayor Sawyer, William Dugan, president/busi­ for the new apprenticeship agreement between the city ness manager. Local 150, Jesse Hoskins, commissioner and the local. Others participating in the signing in­ of personnel, and Michael Breslan, business represen­ cluded, from the left, Jim Ohern, deputy commissioner tative, Local 150.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 17 Local 520 honors members for years of service

Fifty-year members honored at a ceremony by Local 520, Granite City, III., included, from the left, William Dale, Oscar Ambry, Leo Grogan and Glen Dale Those Some of the 25-year members honored by Local 520 50-year members unable to attend included Frank Cram, are shown in the photo above. Other members with 25 Charles Lacy, Oscar Shute, Earl Wade and Clifford or more years of service with the local also were honored Lepere. and are shown in the two photos below.

More 25-year members honored by Local 520. Local 675 swears in elected officials Local 675, Pompano Beach, Fla., has installed its officers for the com­ ing term. Performing the swearmg- m duties in the photo at the right is Thomas Hoot, past recording sec retary of the local. Brother Hoot has the honor of having served on the local's Executive Board longer—over 25 years—than any other official. Taking the oath of office are, front row, from the left, Dennis Walton, business manager; Bill Coats, trustee; Bob Goelz, trustee, and Bob Camp­ bell, conductor. Second row, same order, are James Amendola, trustee; Frank Loschiavo, guard; Joseph Gagne, president/recording secre­ tary; Bob McMenemy, vice presi­ dent; Ray Savigliamo, treasurer, and Mike Pern, financial secretary.

18 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 'Right-wing extremists in Nortti America are at­ tempting to mal(e strong unions weal(, and to de­ stroy weal( unions. We have no intention of let­ ting them do either'— SauoS^rfV iUOE GP Dugan

In Bridgeport, Conn...... Operating Engineers demon­ strated their support for striking members of Local 371 of the United Food and Commercial Workers. The workers are fighting the Pathmark supermarket chain for increased wages and maintenance of their ben­ efits package. The company wants OPERITINS to give the workers a bonus instead of a wage increase and also wants to cut back on overtime and holiday WIBC57J pay. On the picket line in the photo vrcw .OCAl 371 UFCW at the right are, from the left, Mike nUELGA Fischer, IUOE representative; Evie PATHMARK Porceillo, UFCW; Malcome Haight, UFCW shop steward; Diane Miller, UFCW; Ron Petronella, business rep, UFCW, and Sue Nenzer, UFCW.

In Libby, Mont...... IUOE Local 361 officers and members gave their financial and moral support to members of LPIW Local 2581 on strike against Champion—a strike which is being waged throughout the Northwest. In the photo at the right, IUOE Local 361 President John Starke (third from left) presents a check for $500 to Local 2581 Business Agent Don Wilkins to help the cause "of our friends, neighbors and brothers in organized labor." Local 361 Recording Secretary LeRoy Thom is at the left.

Helping the striking LIPW workers man the picket line are IUOE Local 361 President John Starke (second from left) and Recording Secretary LeRoy Thom (holding the local's sign). SUPPORTS wmK^'* Thom IS discussing the strike with - ^^ LDCqLaSBl |E the LIPW's Don Wilkins.

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 19 Medicare Is Also Available To People With Kidney Failure Medicare health insurance, including • Is the husband, wife, or dependent Coverage can also begin the month both hospital and medical insurance, is child ot someone insured or getting the person is admitted to an approved available to people in the local area who benehts hospital for a kidney transplant or have permanent kidney failure and who Medicare coverage for an eligible per­ preliminary procedures for a transplant need kidney dialysis treatment or a kid- son generally begins on the first day of if the transplant takes place that month nev transplant, a Social Security the third month after the month the per­ or within 2 months thereafter manager said recently son starts receiving maintenance dialy­ Medicare coverage generally ends 12 A person, regardless of his or her age, sis treatment months after the month a person no who needs dialysis or a transplant be­ Medicare coverage can begin the first longer needs maintenance dialysis, or 36 cause of permanent kidney failure is month of a course of dialysis treat months following a kidney transplant eligible for Medicare if he or she ments, if the person takes part in a self- For more information about Medi­ • Worked long enough to be insured dialysis training program in an ap­ care coverage because of permanent kid­ under Social Security, or proved facility during the 3-month ney failure, call any Social Security • Already gets Social Security benefits, Medicare waiting period and the person office The telephone number can be or expects to complete training and self- found in the telephone directory dialyze afterwards Survivors Should Apply As Soon As Possible Surviving dependents of a deceased der 19 if a full-time high school student a grandparent's or great-grandparent's worker should apply for Social Securi­ • Unmarried children over 18 who were record under certain circumstances ty benefits as soon as possible follow­ disabled before 22 and remain disabled Before any benefits can be paid, the ing the worker's death, a Social Security • A surviving widow or widower of any worker must have had credit for a cer­ manager said recently age caring for a child under 16 or disa­ tain amount of work covered by Social Applying promptly will allow benefits bled who gets benefits Security In 1988, the amount ranges to start in the shortest possible time In • Widow or widower 60 or older from 1 'A to 9'A years depending on the addition, some benefits cannot be paid • Disabled widow or widower 50-60 worker's age at death more than a month before the applica­ • Dependent parent 62 or older More information about survivor's tion IS filed Benefits can also be paid to a surviv­ benefits can be obtained at any Social Social Security benefits can be paid ing divorced spouse if the marriage to Security office The telephone number to these survivors the deceased worker lasted 10 years or can be found in the telephone direc­ • Unmarried children under 18, or un­ more Grandchildren can get benefits on tory

QUESnONS8ANSWERS

Q. They have just told me that I will ble for Medicaid The local medical as­ Won't these two items rule out my eligi­ be able to get SSI checks. What other sistance office can tell you about bility? assistance can I get to help me with m\ eligibility for that program You may A No, possession of a house you live living expenses? also be eligible to receive social services in and a car will not necessarily rule out A To help you with your living ex­ from your State or county Contact eligibility for SSI Under the SSI pro­ penses, you may want to apply for food your local social services department or gram, your house and the land it is on stamps if you have not already done so public welfare office for details about are not considered when assessing your In addition, if you are not eligible for that resources Your car is not counted either participation in the Medicare health in­ Q. My neighbor told me that my in­ if you use it for essential transportation surance program, you may want to con­ come IS probably low enough for me to or if It is worth $4,500 or less For more sider Medicaid In many States, if you be eligible for SSI payments. But what information, contact your local Social are eligible for SSI, you are also eligi­ about the value of my house and car? Security office

20 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 lUOE Tampa retirees active

lUOE Retiree Clubs are gaining in popularity and one of the more active clubs in existence is in the Tampa area in Florida. The club boasts a growing membership and is active in social and community events. It usually meets once a month. "We are self-sustaining and having a great time." said Harriette Dowling, secretary of the club. She added that any lUOE retirees and Taking time our from a meeting of the iUOE Tampa spouses in that area are welcome to join. Area Retirees' Club are, from the left, Nino Morello, treasurer: Charles Hanna, vice president; Al Voipe; Mary Voipe and Nick DeVera, president.

Some of the members at the IUOE Tampa Area Retirees' Club meeting are shown in the photos above. Labor adamantly opposes Social Security cuts "Reports that the National Eco­ they have been attributed, and he a cause of the deficit problem. It is nomic Commission may recom­ has assured me that he is not pre­ one of the very few federal pro­ mend cuts in Social Security ben­ pared to make or support such a grams that is not only fully self- efits as a method of reducing the proposal," he added. financed, but accumulates a surplus gigantic federal operating deficit have Kirkland emphasized that he knew to meet future obligations. In fact, no basis in fact, at least as far as of no proposal along those lines and if Social Security were removed this member of the Commission is that he would strenuously oppose from the unified budget or even concerned." said AFL-CIO Presi­ any such misguided and self-de­ totally abolished, the real federal dent Lane Kirkland. feating approach to the problem. operating deficit would dramati­ "I have discussed these reports "In the first place. Social Secu­ cally increase," he said. with co-chairman Strauss, to whom rity is not, in any way, a source or "Secondly, this is and should be a self-contained system. Any cuts Benefits to increase in January in benefits, whether through direct reductions or further taxation of Social Security recipients will get Annual wages above $48,000 in benefits, would therefore have to a 4 percent cost-of-living increase 1989 will be exempt from Social be accompanied by an equivalent in their checks beginning in Janu­ Security payroll taxes. Currently reduction in the Social Security ary, the Social Security Adminis­ the ceiling is $45,000. payroll tax, leaving the net effect tration announced. Both employers and employees on deficit reduction in the consoli­ The higher benefits were deter­ pay a wage tax of 7.51 percent to dated budget as zero. Otherwise, mined by a 4.2 percent rise in the finance the Social Security and the true effect of a benefit reduction consumer price index reported by Medicare programs. The tax will, would be the transfer of the general the Labor Dept. rise in 1990 to 7.62 percent. operating costs of the government, The boost in benefits will give Social Security benefits have been including Defense Department ex­ the typical retired worker a $21 automatically adjusted for inflation travagance, to the payroll tax de­ raise to $537 a month. The typical since 1975, except during a six- signed exclusively to finance long- retired couple will receive a $38 month freeze imposed by Congress term costs of our social insurance increase to $921 a month. in 1983. system."

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 21 Death Benefits

LOCAL 1—DENVER, CO LOCAL 15—NEW YORK, NY LOCAL 37—BALTIMORE, MO William C. Bacon. 77. $750. Mane E Bacon (widow). Michael F. Breen, 58. $750. Dolores Breen (widow). Natural August Heinbuch, 83 $750 Helen E Heinbuch (widow), cardiac arrest Causes CVA Joseph Capossela, 74, $750, (niece). Natural Causes Frederick E, Osleticamp, 84, $750 Sarah Osterkamp (widow), LOCAL 2—ST. LOUIS, MO James 0. Saunders, 76. $750. Martha Saunders (widow). cancer Earnie Millsap, 74. $200, Dorothy Millsap (widow). Lym­ Natural Causes phoma LOCAL 39—SAN FRANCISCO, CA LOCAL 16—SPRINGFIELD, MO Henry Enns, 76, $750. Nancy E Mahoney. Mar|ory E LOCAL 3—SAN FRANCISCO, CA Troy E. Bryant, 76 $750, L Bryan, Patty Van Winkle. Johnson (daughters), pneumonia Jack L. Barnard, 69, $500, Cynthia Barnard (widow). Colleen Pankratz (children), carcinoma Jack J. Piccolo, 63, $400. Nina Y Piccolo, Richard John Respiratory Arrest Paul S. Kelly, 75. $750. Margaret Frances Kelly (widow). Piccolo (widow And son), cancer Reece E. Evans, 79, $500, D E Evans, J D Evans, R cancer R Evans, (children), cardiac arrest LOCAL 49—TWIN CITIES, MN Charles A. Beto. 81. $500 Eva Beto (widow). Cardiac Arrest James Ireland, 66. $400 Janet Ireland (widow), cancer LOCAL 17—BUFFALO. NY Lawrence Larsen, 66 $750 BeverleeLarsen(wid(}W). cardio Joseph W Elschens, 71 $200. Daniel J Eischens (son), John J. Roblee, 70, $750, Charlotte Roblee (widow), liver failure pulm arrest myocardial infarction Robert K. Madsen, 68. $200. Vera Madsen (widow), cardiac Harold L. Engberg. 6f $400. Betty I Engberg (widow), arrest carcinoma LOCAL 18—CLEVELAND, OH Samuel K Nakoa, 57, $400, Wanda Nakoa (widow), OVA Arnold 0. Espellen, 72, $400. Joyce Espelien (widow), James L, Austin, 56, $200, S D Austin, R L Aushn G Clarence Peters, 78, $200. Mary Peters (widow), carcinoma cardio pulm arrest D Austin (sons), accident Clyde W. Scholieid, 72, $750, Emelia Scholield (sister-!n- EIroyR Goody Sr, 83. $750. J F Goody V Goody Barclay. Waller Binkley, 63, $500, Eileen Binkley (widow) Respi­ Law) ASHD T C Goody (children), myocardial inlarction ratory Arrest Richard Vanpatten, 76, $750, Mabel Vanpatten (widow). WllmerW. Kopischke, 71, $750, Ruth E Kopischke (widow). Lloyd R. Cllngman, 77. $750, Gail R Hicks (daughter), Septicemia Tumor carcinoma Earl H. Wosnum, 66. $500 Stella Wosnum (widow). Cardio Louis E. MItscbe, 43 $200, Elaine R Mitsche (widow), Vergil Daugherly, 67, $500, Alleda G. Daugherty (widow), accident Pulm Arrest cardiac arrest George Obrlen, 85 $750. Inez Obnen (widow), cardiores­ Ronald F. Harper, 60 $200, Mary Harper (widow), myo­ piratory failure LOCAL 4—BOSTON. MA cardial infarction Haakon Rostad. 77. $750. David Gjerset (nephew). CVA William E. Cummlngs Jr., 63, $500, Thelma A Cummings David W, Hundley, 42 $100, Kenneth Hundley, Lisa Hun­ Walter Rydberg, 84. $750. (estate). Pulmonary Embolis (widow) cancer dley Jason Hundley (children), myocardial infarchon Forrest Wooldridge, 60 $500. Janet Wooldridge. Patti Nicholas Mania, 71, $750, Helen N Bramante (daughter) Frank R. Kish, 75, $750, Eleanor Prosenko (daughter), Wooldndge (children) cardiac arrest ASHD ASHD John A. Kobella, 73. $500. Margaret Kobella (widow). LOCAL 50—INTL. FALLS, MN LOCAL e—KANSAS CITY, MO myocardial infarction Melvin Plummer, 48 $200, Sandra K Plummer (widow), W. E. Dresselhaus, 76, $750 W E Dresselhaus Jr (son), Henry Larison, 76, $750 Delsie Mae Lanson (widow). accident unknown Pulmonary Embolus Clarence W. Magaw, 81, $750, Edith Uagaw (widow). LOCAL 57—PROVIDENCE, Rl LOCAL 7—SPRINGFIELD, IL Thrombosis Ambrose Ramos, 76 $750, Mary Ramos (widow). Cardio E. R. Buerkett, 62, $100, Dorothy J Buerkett (widow) Frank Mccormick, 83, $750, Rolland M Mccormick (son), Pulm Arrest cancer myocardial infarction Thurston Millard, 78 $750, Mary Virginia Millard (widow), LOCAL 66—MONROEVILLE, PA carcinoma Richard G Allen, 62. $750. Larue M Allen (widow) Cardiac LOCAL 9—DENVER, CO Charles E. Robinson. 58. $400, Geraldine Robinson (widow). Arrhythmia Elmer L Anderson, 86, $750, Dolores L Woodhead, Elta Diabetes Mellitus Marion B, Bowser, 64, $750 Violet L Bowser (widow), Heerlein (daughters). Leukemia Norman H. Schaller, 73, $750, Pauline Schaller (widow), respiratory failure Gerald B. Hunt, 72. $100. Lois Hunt (widow) Sepsis cancer Ralph L. Cox, 67, $400. Florence Cox (widow). Cardio Pulm Ted R Mcquiston, 77. $200 Nita C Mcquiston (widow). Roy Seldel, 85, $750. Rosemary Ruth Rice (daughter), Arrest cardio pulm arrest heart failure Frank J. Egan, 84, $750, Joseph W Egan (nephew), shock Donald StangI, 64 $100, David StangI (son), cancer Russell W. Smoot, 44. $200. Sharon M Smoot (widow), John E. Faller. 72 $500. Margaret E Faller (widow). Warren R. Straube, 67. $200. Chrystal G Straube (widow). accident carcinoma cancer Wesley Wells, 73 $200 Mary Wells (widow), renal lailure James 0. Nines, 57. $200. D L Hines. L Lamburn.G Edward A. Williams, 84 $500. Robert L Wilson Jr (Grand­ Hines J HinesJr (children). ASHD LOCAL 12—LOS ANGELES. CA son) Sepsis Wayne P. Hollenshead, 67. $400. Izora L Hollenshead B. R. Briscoe. 73 $750 Bernardine Bnscoe (widow). Earl Wills, 90 $750, Charles Leonard Wills (son), cardio (widow). Cardiac Pulm Arrest pneumonia resp arrest John Krenilsky, 51. $200. Nancy C Krenitsky (widow). Robert B. Campbell, 65. $750. Evelyn M Campbell (widow). Frank P, Wilis. 81, $200, Thelma Mason. Frank J Wills Jr carcinoma cancer (children), pneumonia Clyde Clemmer, 69. $200. Cathenne Clemmer (widow). LOCAL 68—NEWARK, NJ ASHD LOCAL 20—CINCINNATI, OH Franklin E. Perkins, 72. $500. Thomas F Perkins. Edward Sherman Fortune, 72, $750, Richard Chnstopher Fortune Perkins (sons) cardiac arrest (son), cardiac arrest Raymond W Brown, 73, $750, Julia B Brown (widow). Sepsis Wiiiiam Fuiito, 71. $750 Merle E Fu|ito (widow), cardio LOCAL 77—WASHINGTON, DC pulm arrest Harry G. Lanier, 75, $400, Lenore B Lanier (widow), myocardial inlarction Joseph H. Proftitt, 80 $500 Betty M Ledbetter (daughter), George M. Gallher. 38. $400. Sallie C Galiher (widow) Cardio Pulm Failure pneumonia Elmo V. Lamarr, 76, $750, Cora E Lamarr (widow), LOCAL 25—BROOKLYN, NY LOCAL 87—PORTUND, OR accident Stephen Daniluk, 69. $500. Ignatz Stephen Daniluk (son). L. H. Faulkenbury. 67 $400. Len Faulkenbury (son). Richard F. Miller. 71. $200. Verna M Miller (widow). unknown unknown ASHD SIgmund Dowidowicz, 71. $400. Marcella Dowidowicz Gardner W. Jeltery, 72. $750. Wilma J Jetfery (widow). Rulus M. Mullins, 74, $750 Byron K Mullins Robert M (widow), liver failure cancer Mullins (sons) unknown TivioPapl,78 $750 Alba Papi (widow) Cardio Pulm Arrest Ernest Tompkins, 85, $500, Jean D Tompkins (widow). Vernon C Seefeldl, 72 $500, Elsie L Seefeldt (widow), LOCAL 98—SPRINGFIELD, MA CVA Parkinson Disease Dearborn W. Bailey, 59 $100. Dolores M Bailey (widow). Paul W. Troulman, 68, $100, Vera Troutman (widow). John P. Welsh Jr., 63, $500, Anna Welsh (widow), respi­ Tumor cancer ratory failure Harold P. Gadaree. 70 $400. Cecelia Gadaree (widow). Gabriel J. Victor, 76, $750, Joseph Victor (son), heart Joseph J. Wilmore. 77. $400. Alice Wood (niece), cardio respiratory failure failure resp arrest Antone J. Gurall,70 $750 Blanche Gurall (widow), cancer Earle L. Wilson, 69. $750 Barbara A Wilson (widow). Carlton B Wills, 77 $750, Arlene Ruth Wills (widow). carcinoma LOCAL 30—NEW YORK, NY Sepsis Roy M. Worrel, 73. $500. Lawana L Worrel (widow). Cornelius Flynn, 90. $750. Winifred Mcmahon (niece) Respiratory Arrest Natural Causes LOCAL 99—WASHINGTON, DC Harvey Frumer, 60, $200. Elaine Frumer (widow). Natural Joseph Redzensky Sr, 72, $750, Dorothy M Redzensky LOCAL 14—NEW YORK, NY Causes (widow). Myocardial Infarction Michael G. Scarpelll, 98 $750 Teresa Scarpelli (widow). Peter Mcbride, 78. $500. Catherine Mcbnde (widow), res­ respiratory failure piratory failure LOCAL 101—KANSAS CITY, MO Rocco Tangredi, 81. $750. Susan Venatre (daughter). Albert Pfaender, 81, $750, Mane Pfaender (widow), cardio Ferdinand Begemann, 88 $750 OlgaL Begemann (widow), carcinoma pulm arrest ASHD

22 OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEMBER 1988 Earnest Splllman. 66. $750. Bernita P Spillman (widow), Charies F. Connelly, 78 $750. Betty Connelly (widow). Roger H. Steffens, 67, $750, Maude C. Steftens (widow), myocardial infarction cancer cardio pulm arrest Daniel G. Couch, 71. $500, Daniel Carney (friend), unknown LOCAL 132—CHARLESTON, WV Larry Deblasio, 72, $100. Erma Deblasio (widow), heart LOCAL 428—PHOENIX. AZ Robert Pugh. 74 $400 Ruth V Pugh (widow), cardiac failure Ernest M. Wilson. 82 $750, M Opal Wilson (widow). arrest Lester Floyd, 75, $500, Mane Floyd (widow), respiratory ASHD failure LOCAL 136—PORT WASHINGTON. NY Wiiiard J. Harris, 72. $500 Sallie Harris (widow), cardiac LOCAL 450—HOUSTON, TX Albert Salerno, 68, $500 Catherine V Salerno (widow). arrest Lawrence J. Herrin. 67. $200. Lois Hernn (widow). Natural Respiratory Arrest Wail H. Lalond, 84. $750, Ruth Lafond (widow), cancer Causes Cleo Morris. 69. $500. Cleta Morris (widow), unknown William L. Lann, 54. $200. Cecelia Lann (widow). Hemor­ LOCAL 137—BRIARCLIFF MANOR. NY Royle L. Parker Jr., 39, $100. Mickey Franklin (sister), rhage Jesse Stackhouse. 84 $400 Fannie Stackhouse (widow), ASHD Adolph D. Peschka. 76. $750. Joyce M Peschka (widow). stroke Respiratory Arrest LOCAL 318—HARRISBURG, IL LOCAL 138—HEMPSTEAD, NY W, W.Adams. 74 $400 Jeff Adams. Amber Dunn (children), LOCAL 478—HAMDEN, CT William J. Auserehl. 74 $750 Dorothy J Auserehl (widow), myocardial infarction Charies P. Martin, 63, $200. Loretta C Martin (widow), cardio pulm arrest cardiac arrest Willie G. Miller. 55 $200, Valerie Miller (widow), myocardial LOCAL 321—BIRMINGHAM, AL Richard M. Ross, 57. $400 Sally Ann Ross (widow), cancer infarction James L. Brasher. 85, $750. Ola Wright Brasher (widow), John Russo Jr., 60 $750 Anna Russo (widow), cardiac renal failure LOCAL 501—LOS ANGELES. CA arrest Rudolph Chambre, 83 $750. Elsie Chambre (widow), pneu­ Michael Tabinslcy. 61 $500 Barbara Tabmsky (widow). LOCAL 323—SMACKOVER, AR monia Natural Causes Jewel C. Flenniken. 70 $750. Lorene Flenniken (widow) Nikoly Demiashkin, 74. $200. Victor Dee Mash (son), carcinoma pneumonia LOCAL 139—MILWAUKEE, Wl William A. Fain, 89. $400, Fred Forgay (brother-ln-Law), Bryon M. Bradley. 84 $400 Clara Bradley (widow), cardiac LOCAL 324—DETROIT, Ml pneumonia failure Lloyd G. Back. 51. $100. Bonnie Back (widow), myocardial Julius B. Petersen, 87, $750, Conrad Petersen, Martha Phillip Dziubek. 89. $750. Frances Dziubek (widow), cardiac infarction Barker (brother'sister And niece). Respiratory Arrest arrest Herbert E. Bradley. 56. $500, Carol Bradley (widow) cardiac Fred Grossman, 85. $100. Velma Grossman (widow), cardiac arrest LOCAL 513—ST LOUIS, MO arrest Harry W. Councell, 74 $750. Harry W Councell Jr (son) Robert C. Wakefield, 83, $750. Carolyn Wakefield (widow). Virgil Kelelboeler. 66, $100. Mildred Ketelboeter (widow). cardio resp arrest cardiac arrest myocardial infarction Elmo P Demars, 72, $200, Clifford Demars (son), heart Lawrence J. Wecker, 75, $500, Ardeli B. Wecker (widow), Elmer H. Pilger, 82 $500, Bernice E Pilger (widow), failure respiratory failure cancer Gary Oopp, 47. $200, Shirley Dopp (widow). Ventricular Fred Schmaclde, 67, $200, Pauline Schmaclde (widow), FibnII LOCAL 537—ROCK ISLAND, IL carcinoma Dennis R Gladstone, 53, $100, Gloria J Gladstone (widow), James A. Durbin Jr., 59. $100. Roseley E Durbin (widow). carcinoma heart failure LOCAL 148—E. ST. LOUIS. IL Albert W. Gordon, 79. $750. Dorothy E Gordon (widow) Larry R. Mundy. 51. $200 Carolyn S Mundy (widow) ASHD '' LOCAL 542-PHIUDELPHIA. PA pneumonia Donald C. Legner, 53 $100 Charlotte M Legner (widow). Joseph Fritsch, 45 $200. Harry Fntsch (brother), myocardial Respiratory Arrest infarction LOCAL 150—CHICAGO, IL Charies Maddix, 71. $750. Geraldme Maddix (widow) Ralph Raring, 83. $750, Robert R. Hanng (son), cardiac James W. Curran. 64 $500 Therese D Curran (widow). Sepsis arrest Respiratory Arrest Leslie D. Marz. 88. $750. Elizabeth Marz (widow). ASHD James J. Muilin. 89 $750. John J Mullin (son), cancer Roy A. Dean, 69. $750. Mary T Dean (widow). Cardio Pulm Hugh McQueen, 68. $400. Norma McQueen (widow) Un­ Ralph Ritter. 76 $750 Leota Ritter (widow), cardiac arrest Arrest known Anthony Scandura, 81, $750, Millie Scandura (widow), heart Robert Gorman, 63 $500. Beverly Gorman (widow), cancer Eddie Mercer, 78 $750. Fem Mercer (widow) CVA failure Richard L Strickland. 53 $500. Tracy L Strickland (daugh­ Jesse J. Scarbrough, 77. $200, Franklin Scarbrough, Ronnie James E. Vohrer, 62 $500. Rachel Douglas (daughter) ter) heart attack Scarbrough (sons), respiratoryfailure ASHD John J. Wilmol, 82. $750. Mary Mattson (daughter), heart Calvin Simpson, 64. $200, Dons Simpson (widow) Res­ attack piratory Arrest LOCAL 545—SYRACUSE, NY Stephen Syracuse, 72, $750, Bertha Syracuse (widow) Eart Montana, 79. $750. Helen A Montana (widow). ASHD LOCAL 181—HENDERSON, KY renal failure John E. Sullivan, 71 $500. Mariorie M Sullivan (widow). Reedie H. Goodman. 55. $200. Lois Goodman (widow). cancer accident LOCAL 347—TEXAS CITY, TX Norman B. Hamby. 75. $750 Vemell Hamby (widow) Herbert H. Prove, 79 $750. Mattie Prove (widow), accident LOCAL 547—DETROIT, Ml Cardio Pulm Arrest Emmett B. Altenhein, 74. $750. Wilmuth Altenhein (widow). Oren J. Mccullough. 80. $500. Violet M Mccullough LOCAL 369—MEMPHIS. TN cardio resp arrest (widow) ASHD DouglasSligier, 78 $400 HettieJillStiglerGertz(daughter). Fenton Thompson, 76, $400, Agnes Thompson (widow), Clyde S Schwab, 75. $500. Regina L Schwab (widow) ASHD carcinoma myocardial infarction Luther Williams, 75 $200. Mildred Williams (widow). LOCAL 370—SPOKANE, WA LOCAL 564—FREEPORT, TX cancer James M. Browne, 81. $400. Beverly Hughes (daughter). Calvin L. Jones, 80. $500 Tommy Hobson. Bonnie Jones Natural Causes (children). Natural Causes LOCAL 211—NEW YORK, NY Troy Watts, 83. $750. Wilma Pearl Watts (widow). Natural Raymond E. Sweat, 63 $400. Mary Ann Sweat (widow). Murray Guskind, 63. $100. Florence Guskind (widow). Causes heart attack Natural Causes LOCAL 399—CHICAGO, IL LOCAL 567T-ZANESVILLE, OH LOCAL 22&—TROY. NY Leon E. Cwik, 75. $400. Patncia E Cwik (widow), heart Samuel H Nolan, 90 $750 Eileen Bagent. Leona Bichard. Lawrence R. Fitzgerald, 72. $750, Mariory M Leonard, failure Loren A Nolan (children) cardiac arrest Ann Bnere (sister) respiratory failure Emmett F. Hartgenbush, 79. $750 Agnes Hartgenbush (widow), cardiorespiratory failure LOCAL 587-CHICAGO. IL LOCAL 280—RICHUND, WA Richard De Witt. 77. $400. Georgia De Witt (widow), cardio Roscoe F. Davis, 67. $750. Dons H Davis (widow). Cardio LOCAL 400—HELENA. MT resp arrest Pulm Arrest Ciarir Barksdale. 77 $200 James Bunnell Hewson (Step­ Jefferson J Lapray. 79. $400. Marguerite I Lapray (widow) son) renal failure LOCAL 589—CLEVEUND, OH ciraiac arrest Raymond J. Peters, 69. $100, Barbara I Peters (widow) Herbert H. Gledhili. 82. $500. Lily Gledhill (widow), cardio Charles B. Nelson Jr.. 69. $500. Lydia M Nelson (widow). heart failure pulm arrest carcinoma Joseph J. Puskas, 70. $750. Charlotte S Puskas (widow), LOCAL 406—NEW ORLEANS, LA cardiac arrest LOCAL 283—SPOKANE, WA MackO Alexander, 66, $500, Leona D Alexander (widow), Herman H. Roberg, 87. $750. Irma L Lynch (daughter) heart failure LOCAL 609—SEAnLE, WA cardio pulm arrest Eddie Courville, 71, $750, Agnes S Courville (widow) Robert W. Oliver, 69. $200. Catherine L Oliver (widow). ASHD Tumor / LOCAL 286—RENTON, WA Alfred Roche, 70. $100. Velma S Roche (widow), cancer Harold T. Spence. 92 $750 Mildred E Ball (daughter). LOCAL 612—TACOMA, WA cancer LOCAL 407-UKE CHARLES, LA Kenneth Short, 64. $750. Shirley M. Short (widow), cancer Wintred C. Morgan. 77 $500. Tillie Hayes Morgan (widow), LOCAL 302—SEATTLE, WA Septicemia LOCAL 624—JACKSON. MS Edward Carbon, 65. $750. Allene Lizotte. Aaron Carbon. H. W. Nelson, 72. $750. Clyde H Nelson. Henry J Nelson Able C Capie, 66, $200, Catherine Caple (widow), myo­ Jay Carbon, (children), myocardial infarction (sons), cardiac arrest. cardial infarction

OPERATING ENGINEER/NOVEIVIBER 1988 23 Billy H. Hathorn, 53, $400, Charolett Hathorn (widow) Andrew P. Ferguson, 83 $750. Sheila M Schaefer (daugh­ Carl Flug, 63 $500. Dorothy Flug (widow), cancer cancer ter) Cardio Pulm Failure Albert Krulish, 80 $500 Louise Krulish (widow), respiratory Kelcey Thomas, 57, $200. Tom Thomas (widow) cardio James Geneslnl, 82. $750, (estate) Cardio Pulm Arrest failure resp arrest Robert W Hintz, 65. $400 Dons A Hmtz (widow) cancer Wilton Sheley, 76 $750 Helen Sheley (widow). Natural LOCAL 900—OAK RIOGE, TN LOCAL 627—TULSA, OK Causes Kenneth H. Wright. 72. $750, Louise Giles Wright (widow). R. W. Baker, 81. $750 Viola C Hulgan. Billie Jo Dunphy Ralph R. Tobias, 72 $750 Margaret Tobias (widow), cardio cancer (sister And niece), cancer pulm arrest Claude L. Boggs, 76, $400. MargaretEarlineBoggs (widow), cardiac arrest LOCAL 826—BIG SPRING, TX LOCAL 912—COLUMBIA, TN Roy C. Bennett, 76 $750. Jolene Bennett (widow), myo­ John R. Brown, 78 $200, Dorothy Ann Brown. Wilburn A LOCAL 646—scon CITY, KS cardial infarction Brown C E Brown (children), carcinoma Harold L. Adams, 74 $500, Bonnie Ogornian. Shirley M Vandoyle Murphree, 62 $750. Edith P Murphree (widow), Jesse H. Ring, 77. $200 Margaret B Ring (widow), renal Day (daughters) cancer carcinoma failure

LOCAL 832—ROCHESTER, NY LOCAL 649—PEORIA, IL LOCAL 917—CHATTANOOGA, TN LeoH. Voss, 66 $500 Pearl B Voss (widow), heart failure Max E. Rais, 76 $500. Carl F Rais (brother), respiratory James C. Ashe, 53 $100 Olive W Ashe (Mother) ASHD failure LOCAL 841—TERRE HAUTE. IN Herschel Felts, 85. $750, Elwanda Reagan (niece), cardiac Paul G. Winslead, 61 $500. Edith E Winstead (widow) arrest cancer Cletus S Nikirk, 85. $750. Alta Nikirk (widow), renal failure Elmer Rolhrock, 88, $750. Naomi Ruth Rothrock (widow). LOCAL 653—MOBILE, AL Myocardial Infarct LOCAL 926—ATLANTA, GA E. L. Johnson, 68 $750, Gertrude L Johnson (widow). James F. Pair, 75 $750 Martha Pair (widow), cancer myocardial infarction LOCAL 843—SEATTLE, WA Forrest E. Reynolds, 85. $750 (estate). ASHD LOCAL 701—PORTUND. OR LOCAL 927—ANACONDA, MT JoeM. Boyko, 78 $200. LeathaBoyko (widow), pneumonia LOCAL 865—PORT ARTHUR, ONT James F. Donovan, 85. $750, Joan P Donovan. James F Allen Early, 75. $500 Grace E Early (widow), OVA Gordon Graham, 77. $750. Dorothy Graham (widow). Un­ Donovan Jr (children), myocardial infarction RayM.KIdd, 77 $750, Irene A Kidd (widow) Emphysema known Robert P. Rose, 82. $750. Geraldine Spurgeon (sister). LOCAL 953—ALBUQUERQUE, NM pneumonia LOCAL 875—OHAWA, IL William A. Christy, 73 $200. Mae 8 Christy (widow). Albert Griltilh, 86, $750. Dorothy A Griffith (widow), cardiac cardiac arrest LOCAL 772-HAMILTON, ONT arrest Amabellz Lopez, 70. $200 Margaret S Lopez (widow). Waller H. Puttenham, 88 $400. John H Puttenham (son). Uremia Unknown LOCAL 882—VANCOUVER. BC Gordon P Dafoe. 94 $750. Agnes Eileen Dafoe (widow). LOCAL 819—FORT WORTH, TX Unknown LOCAL 965—SPRINGFIELD, IL L. D. Devon. 59, $200. Laverne Devoll (widow). Cardiac Donald Canada, 69. $500, Estella Maxine Canada (widow), Arrest LOCAL 891_NEW YORK. NY myocardial infarction Anthony A. Amallitano, 44 $100, Adeline Amalfitano (Mother), Gus Damon, 79, $200, Edna A Damon (widow), cardio LOCAL 825—LIHLE FALL, NJ Natural Causes pulm arrest Eugene Arbour, 75, $750, Dorothea Arbour (widow), cardiac OelmarW. Fitzgerald. 75, $500, Ann Lynch (sister). Natural Walter Riney, 71, $750, Florine Gertrude Riney (widow), arrest. Causes cardiac arrest

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