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VOl. If r T, I s fits·· t • ·I ril _Discuss1ons . vvith the/ Associated General Contractors :re.· .ga'rding .. : ti~e - Health ancLW elfani plan fqr. -'Dpe~·ating Engineers · ~oca l 3'. members 'hi the construction industry ii1 California ·wei·e still' i:n progress. as this issue of Engineers News went to press. , , Full agreement had not been reached on details of the trust agreement, which · must be _comp!eted before .the benefit amounts and other details of the welfare coverag-e can be·· estab· lished. For the information of the mem· bership, this is the picture as it YOUR BLOOD '. now stands: VETERAN ' OPE TOR KlttED AS .CRANE TOPPLES The welfare payments · by the BANK I NEE,DS . 1 employers, in the amount of 7 t2C : The .-picture above. shovis ·the a rigger.· In 1926 he -. began oper· . it to. the side and had begun to for every worki-ng hour, becan1e wreckage pf q, . 3!'!-ton Whirley ating eq~ipment. During World .- lower · the load into a stor(lge due as of Feb. 1. YOUR BLOOD 'cnine ;1 \\~ l 11c h.. o.ve.rturned ·.-a.nd. War II he worked as . Cran~ zone·.. when the crane started to · Actulil. payments .into the fund You can't ' g.et blood otit . of a cr~sh€d _· oi1 JanuarY- ·- 29 at. the ·· Dispat:' '\:Vhirle:£s'7· ganfr): s·-~ a31'd .._ __ ad!igh'l?nJ Ho~pltfi!l.' . _-- · . rt . elig'ibility unde1: the · health and serves h:i;~e ~ b~en ; ~nth~ eiy used up. · gineer's work;.·a subject '9n wl),ich . !ocoril,o t~~e .._ cran~s; .. You-:·; cap"_ ·. So; - ll~pthers, _ you.' i:an • see by welfai·e plan. Your· im.i'ori is , ~.pp,eaiing to -iou,: we would :like to. say a feW words ~ readily .see that with this bac_j{- tb.is.t,hat reg:ar<}less .~f how muc~ · After that .date, al)y_ memt!er of theref~re, . to give. a little thought at this· ti:ril.e. ' . > . , · ·:: ·. . · ·ground 'Brother Paret was no experience . you may have it is Local ··3 covered by the plan who to the . importance · of our Blood We have 'here.. the case .of a · - green pea as an-operator. . possible at a.nr time for a mis· has worked 100 hours or more Bank, to think what it may me.an 1 _ .:ilrotl1e , who had· been .working The 35-ton Whirley involved in hap tO occur which may cause · during the preceding month wip .to you, · perhaps, in a moment ·'of . -aroul)d equipment .for"the past . : this accident was a rig known to serious injury or dpath. be eligible to receive the agreed~ great need ... and then to make · · 40 years. , · many of the ·brothers as it was , Therefore :we would like to_ upon benefits for himself and his an appointment· as soon as you Brother· Par,et; . who lived at formerly in opera.tion . on the pass this word of warning:_be on dependents. · can to donate a life-giving pint of 1628-51st- Av'e., Oakland;-was 63 ·- Embarcadero in San Francisco. your guard at all times. . . This indicates that members of blood to ou'r .blood reserve. year old. He was initiated into At the time of ' the mishap, We would like to extend the Locai 3 actually will begin :rec,eiv- . . . th . · d the Operating · Engineers jri April· · Brother · Paret .had picked up a sympathy of' the officials and ing benefits from the . health- and. It IS o~e . of 8 mi~·acles of mo - 1936. reel of wire weighing an esti· members of Operating Engineers welfare plan sometime in April. ern medwme t 1Ia! l:v~~ c~n no~ Brother Par€t went to work : mated 15 · tons, traveled a con· LOcal 3 to the family of Brother There has been some confusion be saved bY.. a mlms ~~~ c for Moore r: Dry .Dock in t1913 as sid~rable distance with it, swung Paret. · · on the part of tj1e membehhip, as , whole. blood~ ~ c~s~~ to 1 ~1ry; , . shown by phone calls to the Local' surge_Iy or SIC nes!\ ,a not o~g A 3 offices and IC~II\ . . . ·, E c 'N questions directed. to ago · would ha.ve meant certam co~·TD ~ s' ' 1.,\\ ' . tl~ e business representatives. Many death. ' (J· • .. [~ rf1ml ~ ' L~ l&li

Taft's ·Ch«ulges­ Millionaires' Ame~dmenf ·few O~a1, Rest \Vouid~~ Be Bad Makes Bid in California Special problems of the construc-j If you're not a millioria:ire .you won't like fh_is . . . but By VICTOR S. SWANSON tion trades are recognized in two whether it's pleasant or not, the time has come tb spread the Loca.l Union Manager ; of the 15 amendments to the Taf-t- wa.rriing· that a powerfui; relatively quiet state-by-state cam­ How much "security" can a workingman and his family Hartley Law proposed by Sen. paign is within. indies of putting over the so-called "Mil-

get out of knowing that if work slackens off or stops they will Robert Taft. lionaires' Amendment." 1 ooo in taxes, would pay only $125,- "fi f r:: have to try to live on the magn1 cent sum o $2;:> a wee k?. The two changes are designed to California · members of Local 31 000, .a ~1. 0 percent reduction. eliminate provisions· that are now should be alerted particularly to All corporations earning $300,.9_Gf! Anybody knows the answer. At today's prices $25 or i:my on the books, but so widely recog" the fact that one of the last needed a year or over would get a tax amount clOS~ tO it Will barely feed a large family, let al0ne nize'd <\S unworkable in the build- cut. of ·at ]east 50 percent·,· and pos- . d t th t th 1 n't "in'ches'' is CaJifcnt!i'a appi·oval, meet the cost of shelter, clothes, medical care and the rest. ing ' in us ry. ' a ' ey uwe sibly as hlgh as 64 percent. . been enforced. and ' that a mea'sure . seeking thls 'The.' magazine predicts. that if Yet today our unemployment insurance setup, probably Onec' chati.ge would exempt the appro\ral has been placed befo:re successful. this "means a national the most important part of our social security systeh1, is building trades from the· require~ the current session of the state 1sales ta..x ~f a~ leas.~ 10- per cent keyed to these starvation leveis. ment that a: membership vote must legisla:ture·. . · on ever.ytlnng, ·1neludmg- food. · · 1 t · be taken before certification of ·a ,.. . , . . In California, the maximum unerilp oymen msurance union. Ai10ther would reduce from The "Millionaires' Amendment" ' * *· *,. . . benefit is $25 for 26 weeks. In Utah the top am:ountis $27.50 30 days: to 7 days the period in is a seemingly-innocent proposal M . Q . Dg t ,:- a week. Nevada is somewhat better-workers with families which workers are required to join for amendment of the U.S: Con ~ . nulng '; ar ' ·.. !can get, in addition to the maximum $25 basic. payment, de- the union under a· union shop con- stitution·to prevent taxing the hi- '.\ '; \tv/ n.~- ' ·. 'l ' . !.•. pendency a-llowanceS, o{$3 for each.... ,.dep_ehden.. t, Up. tQ,~ ct top ,Of tract. COme of any pei'SOn ,- the prC>fit of. ';, ·• '·. ,_. '' . . .' ' . 1 . . any \_Ol·poration, or any estate or A' . . --. · .o . · · · $12. That's' a'· possible $37 weekly maxiltmm for. larger These 'changes are in line \Vith gift more than 25 ·percent. . '. . I '· I :· A·', ..-: " .. .-.., .. ' .. families; .· ,·: . . .recommendation -g ·_..·. of the Senate I ~ , . labor committee last year which · -: Adbption of this ' amendment ' . ~ . Nevada 'is also ahead of the other.two states in that thei.'e took note of "the short-term n.ature would :effect tremendous reduc- . < , . is no w~iting period-a worker collects for his first full week o(building projects, in which rnany tions in taxes for wealthy individ- s·· f . ' , of unemployrhent. In ·California and Utah there is· a 7 day 'jobs would · be- over before the uals and big-corporations. It w:ould . : ... r. ~..' ·. · ..., _. ~ - ~. s.:. -~().- _ usual Taft-Hartley routines could leave the income taxes of the wage . ~rS\:~ _~~ j . waiting period which means ·a· worker has .to be unelilployed be completed. ·earners 'and· sma.ll . business . un- ·":· ,; 1 •' : .. ' ·.... • '. "--:. '' . 1 ~- t\vo. full vjeeks pefore he begins to get any benefits. · . h d . ''By PAT 'CLANCY and· PAUL Constnrction unions will approve J c ange · EDGECOl\lB:. _ __.r ' ·. . But in none of our areas· does the unemployment insurance these changes, which actuall" only Ahd it woulo practically insure t• J ld Busiue. ss-Representa wes . ·:·..: sy·s· tern even begin to do today the J·ob it' was created for in bring the letter of the law . into that the lost tax:; revenu~ wou t The " re~en"t spell ot unusual sun- the '30's-to give workers and their families temporary pro- line with the rules of common have to be made up by he wage shine in the San Francisco area has sense which have taken precedence· earners in the form of a national tection against-unemployment by providing a substantial part over it. . sales tax. been a \velcome sight. It .has ! of the wages they have 'lost bi·ought out several of the dirt ·• . ' · But along with the rest of the Twenty-eight state legislatures · · · · · · • moving contractors on jobs ·. th at All of us understand what has happened~ Durine: the last labo1• moven1e11t ·they· will .oppose have voted for the amendment; . b h t d ~ 11 ad pre\twus1 y een s u ... own on war and since then the cost of living has gone up steadily, much of the rest of Taft's package only 32 states are needed to start account of bact weather. ·•· · but there has not been a proportionate increase in unemploy- deal, which includes some rea.J 1t on · its way to ratification. Some . ~ "stinkeroos". of the state actions have been -chal- In the . construction of Jr. uildings rnerit insurance benefit levels. . . . . lenged in the courts, but ' it has there are many, among which are Labor's original position was that u s H ·t 1 b · Cl.'nt n Con .The: u. ·S. Burea· u of ·I .abor. Stati"stl•'c· s' has prepared some been- introduced in ·enoue:h other . . osp! a' y I ·.o I - - no amount of tinkering ·could ~· · t' c 'f.h' ·· 1 · · 1 states tl)is year to make its 'cer- struc IS . figlires which tell the story. In California, for-examp e, un- sweeten up a law whose. basic pur" wn o. JOJ IS progress- ing 011 schedule ~ it h ' severar' · of our ! ·. en·1ploy· ment 1"nsur·ance maxl·mum benefit" 1'n· 1939 were·· $18 a pose is to weaken unions and ham~ tification possible. · ·· · · · ""' ' Utah is one of the states whose mem_bers· ·employed . . we,e.k. ' At that time the average wage was $30.40 a-week. per their' activities. legislatures passed a resolution ask- Dinwiddie Co., at the Children's .. Since 'then the benefit ·amount has gone up to $25 ' a week ThEi' Taft amendments, while in- ing Congress to call a Constitution- ' Hospital, is nearing completion of · eluding · .the changes r egarding al · . ~that's about a 49·per cent increase in benefits. B. ut in that ' · · convent·.ion to .repeal the IJre. sent their concrete pour_·in<>O'· Barrett & building trades work, 1Jbera1 Izing income i:ax .and impose the 25 per Hilp have completed all large •pogi:O:_ ;; time the ·cost of living has more than doubled. In 1951, when the section that bars strikers from cent limit. However, there's a move ing of concrete on the Department ' BLS made its study, average~' California · wages wei.'e $70.87, voting in 1abort~oard elections, etc., at this session to r.esclnd this action. of Employment building. !: mm~e than twice 1939. Clearly toda'y's $25 :is a much smaller are intended as just enough of a State Senators Watson, Tippets On th·e Metropolitan Life Insur­ !, amount in relation to today's liv~ng costs and wage.s than the gesture toward · meeting criticisms and Selvin have introduced Senate ance building, Cahill . Construction . 11 $18 was.m. relation to costs and· wages m. 1'939 . against the law to keep it on the Joint Resoluti.on No. 1, which seeks has emPloYe .d ou· ·r· engi·neer·s . . ~ ·books._ ... · em to rescind the earlier action in-Ja- throughout the winter. M'cCarrimon 1'. . BLS has calculated what would be needed at the end of At the same hme Taft su,bests vor of the "Millionaires' Amend- & Wunderlich have kept a few : 1952 ~0 restore that relationship. In Califqrnia the benefits some cha~ges that '::ould m~ . "customer" ·. something for his . K · ·· , . · . ·ee 1ng Johnson on the piimary crusher. very.often! . · money. What tl'Ie union provides Bros. l. J. ' 'Tobe" Tobler and D. Silver State Construction Co., is prot~ ction and service. The meeting was called to order at 8:15 p.m., 'President Cl~ncy E. "Red" Collins are on the pit better known as Andy Drumm, has Operating Engineers Local Union presiding. Roll call showed Vice-President Foss absent. .It was shoveL They make a fine shovel most o{ the crew levelling land. 3 has an outstanding recordcamong .regularly !J!Oved and seconded that Brother Foss be excused: President crew. Drumm manages to keep his cre·w construction industry unions in this Clancy appointed Brother Petersen to act as Vice-President. Now, the P.M. shift on the busy through the winter months, m atter of providing service to the A synopsis of the Regular Meeting Minutes of January 3 read crusher consists o{ a f aster crew. one V@Y 01:· another. That may be membership·. · and approved. · Bro. "'F rank Shay op erat~s · ·the the reason he h as. such a good Local 3's record in tlte paSt. 13 A synopsis of the Executive Board Minutes. of January 14 and of crusher, Bro. W. R "Skinnei: Bill" crew. the year 'round. years is one of steady. growth and February 4. read and the acts and recommendations of the Board were Sherwin ru~ the dozer, and A. P. Rumo ~s still c~ntinue to fly i:O. .of constant ·effort to give the mem- by motion. approved as read. Snook is on the primary crusher, the Ely area that Foley Bros. are bership the finest service consistent A letter was received from General President Maloney approving with Bros. Jim Obester and Ray ready to fold up at "beep Ruth" with sound financial operation. our request that the initiation fee of Local -No. 3-E be -raised to Barber on the pit. shover Some- and the Kellinske. On our last Some of our . newer members $50.00. Received and filed. . times I wonder who is the regular trip to that area, we found the . may not know that·· Local 3 is a Cards of thanks were received froin the family of Harold Parish; shovel runner, for Jim ·has Ray re- work progressing better than ever --'-- _.'.'union of unions". the Stender family; Ruth Roberts and Jimmy. All were· received and lieving him for a few loads• quite and everybody happy, and that ~ Up until' March 1939 . the Inter- filed. · oftel).. makes us happy. The brothers at national · Union , of . Operating En- The · Executive Officers met on January 10 and appointed Brother Bros. Carl Hector and Herman .Foleys' have put up a tough fighJ gineers was represented .in North-. Les Collett to fill the unexpired term of. Brother .Wm. C. Waack, · Petersen have bee11 doing a lot of against the water in both shafts, ern California, Northern Nevada deceased, as . Conductor, and appointed . .Brother Lynn Moore to fill repair work on the hot plant. They and now they . have it licked a nd and Utah by a scattering of sm·all, the unexpired t~rm of Brother Les Collett as f.uditor. These appoint· must expect a large run this year. .again are m<;king progress. separate Hoisting and Portable En- ments met with the approval of the membership. · There is anoth ~r brother by the Isbell Coi-1struction Co. has beerJ. gineers locals. A Resolution· was read regarding increasing the initiation fees of ,name of Floyd Lambert who hangs working skeleton crews in both At that time it was, decided to Local . Union Nos. 3, 3-A, 3-B and 3-C as the first reading. around the East 2nd St. plant. the J{imberly and Lane City pits. merge these locals into . one big Declarations of Candidacy were read. There was considerable You'll find him on the / blade or They are marking time while wait­ local union which· would be able .discussion regarding the Anti-Communist affidavits. It was r egularly the Skippy. You know, just a ing for the results of test holes to. do an effective job'in' that largE( moved and seconded that those who had not signed an affidavit be "handy man" to have around. And put down by Kennecott Copper <;o. territory; and LqCal 3: came into ,given one week. in which to qo so. · Carried. . . of course Bro. Bill ~oegle's leg Gibbons & Reed will be moving . being as a result of th,is merger. President'Cla~cy instructed the FinanCial Secretary to check up on man, Bro. A. ''Buck" Pii·etto. Boe.:- 'their equipment ,in on the Conner s . . The.· locals that< came . togaher the dates the· d1Jes had been paid since. last June foi.- all candidates; gle r~ally keeps him on th~ rup Pass job sometime .this mo~ti_l. We in the merger w.er& · s~h Francis- and 'to report back at the n~xt meeting. · . most of the time. · hope to have a large crew of t be co, Oakland, San Jose;' sacramento; It was brough_t to the att€ntion of the candidates that the General Out at the DeLagrange con· good brothers on the job. Stockton, Redding; arid. Fresno, President had ruled that dues must be paid on the first · day of the struction Co. shop, there. is quite Basic Refractories at Gabbs nas Calif;, Salt Lake . City, Utah, and _dues ~aying · ~eriod, from June to June; ip order to be qualified for a lot of repair work going on. a remodeling and expansion ·pi·o-· --~__Il.erio , Nev. ·Between them · they -election - ~o offic ~ _ . . ... ·. . Bros. zane Hunt. and J. W. Har· gram going and are makin,g use • had 1,890 members. REPORT OF THE-SICK COl\'IMITTEE- cou'rt have the Link Belt' shovel of the skill and "kno\v-how" of a ·The . for mer·· offiC€s . of the sep~ The following Brotbers· w·ere r eported ·ill: Alfl'ed Azevedo, Harman stripped down to the track, .ready good many of the brothers, under erate l~cal ·unions be.came -area 'of~ Beitz, Wm. Bar$tow, Melvin Behn'ey, James · Cupples James C. Chris- to give it a complete overhaul able leadership of R

Business · Representatives ·- stationed Leick, Benjamin McNeil, W; A. McCammon, G, D. McDonald; Ralph 1 west of Verdi, Nev. That means we find Bros. Jimmie Simpson and in these areas. · . ·. -· · , M€thvin, James A. Morison, V. V . .Miley , John Martinez, Robert·Mulloy, j Bros~ Ernest Gentry, John Lfvin~- Don Coleman on t he 54-B, with. ·- It was at . that· time;· in June Rudolph Maynard, Henry Murphy, Elmer J. Ojeda, ' John Ochinero, ston and Herschel Walker will Bros. Joe Anesi and Joe Richard- 1941, that Local 3 .held -· its first Lowell Oldaker, Mitchell Pereira, Richarq_ Rice, Walter H. Proctor, have some more repairing to do son on the dozers. election ·of officers·. as :· an : auto no- .Robert E . . Quandt, J ohrr E. Rogers, R. E. Romelbacher; .James N. before the next· job starts. Be Bro. Bruce · Gould has· undergone mous union.- With' the · exception. Roberts, A. W. Riley, Mai·tin R; Radk.e, Thomas E, Rabb, A. J. Roy, Leo careful around that shop, Bro. a serious operation at ·Lone Pine of Tom Bynon/ :finanCial secretary;: L: Self, 'Roy W. See, Elmer Sudmeier, Anset ·servia, Geb. W. Stevens, Walker! I'll bet George Miller Hospita,I. We hope that Bruce \\>ill who paS:Sed away oiri O_ctober 1950, Archie B. Suer, 'Phomas. R Smith, Henry Thompson, Leon _Taddie, Itook out some more fire insurance: ' be back on ·the job ·soon ' in t op · -the officers chosen hy·the m'emb~erc · · Orland Thorn, W~ · Johri -Tayl01\ John W. Tittle; John E. Vezzoso, Earl Clarence Dietelich Co. _ has a condition. The ·brothers at Stand- --rJ ship then '·hiwe _beeri > successively M. Wortman, Thomas E. Wilour, William P. Walsh, Neal B. Willing- backhoe working down at-Yering- ard Slag Iron :Mii-Je have all missed te~elected and · are stiil serving ham, Charles S. Webb, C. ·M . . Wichman, F. J. ,Wyman, Roger . P. ton, Nev. on the Anaconda Copper Bruce on the shovel and wish hiEl Local 3. . · ' Williams. · - Mining Co. project. Bro. Al Par·, ·a speedy recovery. . t, Under tlieir guicJa,D,ce the' organ- The follovi i_ng Brothers were' reported ·deceased: - H. A. Brown, lahti" is operati~g a n~f B_r o. Richm·,d Bros. Jack Kellogg and Lou ization· has grown -· reimtrkab(y. Wm. Thomas, Claude Watson, Kenneth V. Krambule, Clyde Vf. Smith, c. Wolgamott 1s the . o1ler. That s Gates are ·btJSY stripping at Stand- . Within 10 ye~r~, from ~Marcl~ 11)39 ~arvey Stender, James N. Roberts, Buford Radoris, Tom R. J.acobs, a fine crew. Al takes a day off ard Slag Iron Mine with Frazzin i' ~ to MiuQh 1949; ·.Loc?l .3 - ha{fmu:Sh~ .E. H. stoner, _ Corn~lius Paret. quite often, then Bro, Ivan Wood- and Eckely's "Cats." · - roo1ned: from · the ~ origin:il :1,890 · The membership stood· one minute il1 silell.ce in respect to , our ford has to- go do_wn an~ fill in Bro .. George Eckman is dow t b_e. members to i2,291 meriJbers~ To'd~y peceased Brothers. for Al and get the JOb straightened bossman •at Dodge's Iron Mine at the .me1nbel'Ship' of Local 3 is ov~Jr NEW BUSINESS . out, _ i~ you know what . I me~n. Lovelock. He has moved in fo i1 r 16,ooo: . · ·. .· .. .. Th . B .. . ·. . . ·. ... h. .· ·. _ . d Bro. Harold Reynolds 1s domcr "Cats" for stripping; The Cat jock- .A 'nd a'· s th.. e _.mem·· ·b. er· s. hi'p. ·of Loc'al e· usmess Agents gave t e1r usual reports wh1ch were accepte . . . . . - . • . D' t . h'"" eys ar·e Bros. ·Bud Jacobsen, Bob ... B·'' th v· t · s · · ·· · d . .- .. d . . t . . some repau war~1 m 1e enc s . ·nc· rea.sed there ·h·a· ·s. _b·e··en' . a COil-· as glven. 3 l 1 tt · roth ert · h Ic or wanson· · · ·rna · ·e ·a .report. · regar .mg he. scurn- s hop.. G e ttmg' everytl. ung m. goo, . d Vicks, Joe Benbow, and L. T. . 'e ffor·t to· o-iv'_ e· -m· pr·, '-_ved. , ser-.. ous 1.e , ers ·a ad been c1rcu 1a ted · durmg· th'e prevwus s1x years, ha· . f . d s . BI~own. Stant o• 1 0 - · tl' · ... f · t .. · - f ·th . . .. · . . 'd s pe or a goo ummer. . ou .mmg means o preven mg· ·ur er c1rcu 1atwn of sa1 1e tters. · B Alf d L M b .· . · d L Peter Kiewit & Sons· have only v1ce...... _ . R t f th G . S . . t . T . ros. re . a ner an . . Now, in addition to .the' original • epor o e eneral ecre ary- reasurer was read by President M. Mauer, the truck crane crew a small crew working now at- F al- office locations, Local 3 has spread Clancy. . for Martin Iron Works, have quite Ion: Bro. J. D. -Brown is the ·shop . out to g ive service to' the niembers . T~ere bemg no further business to come before the meeting, it a project cle·aning up around the I fore~ a n. ~ros. "Vera Hunsaker - --;-"With offices_ in lY.(odesio, EuN:ika; adJO\,nned. · · 1 GTanada Theater that burned down land C. M. Tob ~ Connors :'re on · Marysville, Sari·Riifa:ei, Santa R bsa Resj:Jectf\llly. submitted, in Reno in January. It's qnite, a -th_e cranes, loadmg out .eqmpment and Ukia·h, California; aiid· B:ono- ' c. F. MATHEWS;· job, getting all the burned seats j,a nd .being. just general "roust- lulu, Territory of- rt'awan. Recordiirg· Seci·etary .and the balcony out; then they Iabout" engmeers. · ~ - ·. Especially' · in California this' . are going to knock the back wall We are holding mail in .this oj'- large network . of area offices has· signed to Utah and two in North- of Lo.cal 3's exfstence. . · fice for Bros. "Doc" ··Selvidge, brought the uriion: .:rea'sonabiy close' ern Nev_ada._.. By dint of their ef- l And · · no~v the union is preparing headquarters ·with three" o~her con- · "H\liTicane Bill" . Gregory,- and to .the member, wherever he- may forts the·. job gets done. . to . take ne\v steps· to iii crease the struction unions. . Jack Dickerso n. Would sure ap­ b.e living and'.working. Not only here but in the · other· service to the members- a building Last month the mem.bershio preciate hearing from you ;fellows In Utah and . Nor thern Nevada· .areas. as . well, as the membership program whose .goal is an ade- passed ,a· resolution atithorizi~g th~ so we can forward your mail. Lo c~l 3· is up agaihst a : special grew .and the volume·of ,jobs and quate; miion-o.Wned headquarters officers to acquire building sites problem of ·distances.· It is" some'-' ·plants increased, Local 3· has added in. · eacli · of the areas in which and build or buy headquarters. in made shortly, probably at Marys- , times a·s much' as 300' miles· be- to its staff so that the service to Local 3 maintains a field office. other areas where they are needed. ville. tween jobs, . and. it is _difficult ' as· the. membership might be main- . }...t present Local 3 owns its own In the officers' opinion, places It will take some time to com­ well as costly_to give the >members tained. headquarters in four places and where our office facilities are plete this program, but when i.t :1s service and police the ·jobs.- .. , , The index of ·that growth can be , shares ownership wi.th a group of most inadequat€ are Marysville, done Local 3 will have taken an­ In order to m·eet' this' need,.. Local' 'seen· in the . fact that o'ur union .unions in another. The union built Redding and Eureka. A search has other positive step in its constant 3 foun·d it necessar,Y.··· to ·provide''a now . has• a total· of 37 Business its own buildin·gs iri San Francisco been started for suitable buiiding effort to provide more and better ' relatively' large· fo.rc~ - Of'Bilsine~s . Represeni::itiv'es . :working. irt its, and Oakland; bought buildings in sites -and announcement of selec­ service to . the memb,ers, who are Representatives for .: tliese '.areas.> .various areas, as aga inst.. the ~igl1t Sto'ckton· and Sait Lake City arid tion .of a ·site and call fo r -'bids- ori its "cu s tomers ~' and· its "boss.es" ·as :_,.c;_'_ _...-TheFe... :ru;e · 'riow · 'tfve ' B/ '·R,'s '/as-' ori the staff· in' :the· first year or so shai:es· o\-vriershi'p of its Sacramento fh'e first 'of these buildii1gs.';" ill :~ e weii~ . . .

. ',. -·-Fbur .EN GIN.EERS.'. NEvVS F~bt=~aFy 15,. 1953 . •• • 'f H II En ;1n· ers I LAND lEVELti:N·G.·AC ·t[VIl¥::. e r1n :s G· 'ttl m ~. ·n·t PICKS UP IN STOCKTON AREA; By J. K. \V AnVAIOLE, BusinesSJ Representative By ED DORAN, 'VAL'fE.R IVI:TALBOT·amll\'1. W. GRIFFING, . After three months of negotiations and. tepea~ed "No" answers by Contractor's Mid-Pac Business Representatives who are-constructing a $20,000,000 project a·t the Kaneche Marine Corps Air Station, the The land levelling picture has br_ightened up a lot since th~ Hawaiian branch and members involved on this project voted to strike the · company on last report. Several of the boys have returned to work for January 21, 1953. the contractors they were with before it rained. Also several ·• The strike lasted only four days A memo of und-erstanding be­ brothers have baen cleared: on-the different jobs. · for the engineers. However, mem­ t ween Contractor's Mi.d-Pac union haltwith the 48 hour proviso. and Considering the time of the year, ------the Engineers Wage rates were increa.sed by 5 bers at this project were out from Local 3 was reached the land ievelling is moving~ alol).g rig working near Terminoils, · five H1e 15th of January in respect to a at 6 p.m., Saturday, January 24, per cent with the· highest classifi­ cation not to exceed $2.25 per hour. nicely. The only improvement we rigs on Staten Island, two on the . }Jicket line established by the Ca~·­ 1953. could have would be for the con- Brae]( Trflct and two neCJ,r Galt. penter!;: Hiri1'g now is done through the This contract to run for a period tractors from this area that are · John Renner has Brothers ------~------of one year from January 24, 1953. Bill - still working. down All picket lines removed and work in Shafter area Chase and Jack Beckwith working to start moving back. on Union island which is also peat resumed on January 26, 1953, at . . d' ·t 11 the regular starting time. Both Work has p1ck~d up 1n the peat · parties promptly prepared a joint land with Joe Richards at Term1 - ~ Brothers Fred Compiano · and" . petition to be submitted to the nous J.::eep1ng. Brothers Russell Les ~lowers are working as me- CISC as outlined above requesting I Tucker and M. D. Jeffnes pusy. chamcs for Fred Piacentine. ui'itil the etzective date of January 26, E. H. Rider & Son al so have a I the ground dries a littl e mo re in· 1 By FRANI{ LAWRENC~ and H. 0. FOSS, Business Repres_entativeSI 1953, it being agreed that tllis ef------the Linden area. As,this .edition goes to press we have enjoyed two \Veeks of fective date be subject . to the ap- w· k On the Fabian Tract, Geo. Lqke proval of the CISC and the bureau s o·m ·e .:0 . r . is levelling with Brothers Pete sunshine in this area. However, we are not so optimistic as of Yards , and Docks, U.S. Navy. ·· · · ·_ ,: . · - Ozella, Tony Barboza, Ollie Farmer to believe this condition will exist too much longer. Some of The unions agree to withdraw all 1 and Herb Bledsoe at the, controls. t he smaller jobs have been started, though. unfair labor practice. charges pend- N p · A. L. Craft at Oakdale keeps Johnson & Nelson are doing some ing before the NLRB. This memo ' :_e · ·w ro·s:p.. ··e: · cts. Iseveral of the boys busy year round. ·excavating for t he-B & R Co. at in the mud trying to keep their ·was also a guide to the prepara- · Bro. Warren McCann is foreman Hamilton Field; Brother · Vern rigs moving. ·This. company also tion of other ·clauses negotiated witl1 Brothers Slim Gallo.waJ<', Ran- Thomas on ': shovel, Brother Lee putting finishing. tOJlChes on the earlier in session. A M d dle Jones, Harold Floyd, ·Geo: Lowe, . Cox . foreman ori spread. ~!~~ci:.qx~~:~~~ ~:!d~f t~:e~~~~ w~~o~:~1~c:~~w~;~ ~o~~:~i~~~ ~~~V~I~t~~~perd and/Earl Talbei·t on · Norcal is und~r way on the Santa 0 _.t _.0 _:eslo Venitia project. Have most of their is in. and they expect to wind up Dredging Company, Ltd.., and Mr. The bulk of the land levelling, old crew back with the addition of in about a week. J'ohn· O'Connell of Bechtel Corp:, By ('), L. CASEBOLT, however, is still in the -sandy soil a few . -. new faces . . . such as: I-IarolA Beasley Plumbing.& Heat- San Francisco. Abe Muir, Carpen- Business Representative that starts· at French Camp ori ·- tl1e Brothers "Duke" Winsor, . Ted ing picked off a fair sized job at ter executive board meinber for M:. J. Ruddy working most of his north and extends south beyond ·HiCks an.d R. J. Bauei:. We under- T.A.B. Relocating. a .gas line to the InternaHonal, sat in for the steady crews. Some small jobs and T1,1rlock and the Merced· River. In stand this company has enough make room for a· new building Carpenters Local 745, and J. K. the shop. this soil are several of the· la1!_d:.r- north of the Administration Bldg. Waiwaiole for the Engineers. levelling work to do this year on said ·project ·All of t)1e Rock, Sand and Gravel . contractors including Joe Shields Plumbing of San Rafael Mr. Hillenbrand, representative to keep busy without any o_utside 1 Meyers and ·Vincent Cowell in· the contracts. have been working most of the of the u. s. Conciliation Service, plants are working steady; a so the Manteca and Livingston areas. · winter installing utilities for the sat in as conciliator. Before com- transit-mix plants are going strong. Ghilotti Bros. have all their crew I-I. Jenecke with one cat at Hal­ new shop on Dell- Webb's job. They ing to· Hawaii back with the addition of Broth.er fro_m San Francisco, Three school jobs· are just start-· lico, Roy Reeves near Escalon, were fortunate to· have compacted he had some sessio. ns with repre, ing, but the jobs are single story Horace Spencer has five D-8's "Toby" Johnson ...· all seem to rock base to work on so the r·.ai·n and do not create much work for k' G I T • b Gl d t 0 B th "B b " sentatives of Pomeroy and Bechtel. wor mg near rayson· on t 1e -go- oe usy. a see ro er a e didn't affect their jo.b too much~ ' • the engineers. . lumne river. This sanely soil is the Ghilotti ba. ck o.n th'e job after his Stolte J'ob, on base, wi'tll -Ealoff The members of t·he Hawaiian· d ar d M t a ena- 1 s are b m'ld' mg · sa1 vat10n . f or t h e mem b ers h w o 1·ecent serwus Illness_. SurJt-. r·unni,Ilg ar·o· UIId !I'I' nis h'alf~acre ·at some of· these ·mei1 haVe . jobs to return to -.arid we heRe . it" trois, ::genera.ting•·planfs,- e))c': ·· : Centervllle. Bro. Dietz tells us that he got 21 gall~ns of berne's -fr.om ; ·. ~· · ·. . · · · .. " ·' · .. ' · · · · . . . . . · , .· these plants lailt . season. .He salted tbem .away m Ius. deep . freeze Wlll be sopp,, , ... · ?.t" ·:Br.os. W, G. ·Martm-:·GharleS Jor ~ : .and, is JlOW .enjoying .. the fruits of. his labor. · . ·; '"•· < ,dan, Carl Loyals, J. -c, Woody, , .- .·c: .~ GBJliNG ·~4: RQIH . D IHE·' JOBS . 1 ~!o~:.!~dR~~~~so~ie:~:::Y a~et~~~ A recent visitor to the :~c~~ wh: was glad to catc~ · h]s 'first ' ' • .· '' . ·"f'··.,.• .,, "· ">' ., ' ; ' ·. ' . ·. ". ' ! ' ·. . ' • . members makin . the :'tri . "Bro: ,glimpse of the. sun since October·,' w·as Bra: . Chest.ir' Abel, who•retur.ned .James <;adenas~o r :wbos.~ ;.ya:J:d ~IS:;loca ted '· ~n - t~e .Industrlal-1FJ'eming . \;ill"'. begmaster . !echanic :wis .month ·f):"qh1 T-hule, . Greeril'ahci; W h ~r~ 'he had. beeh wo~ki~g thel . Highway m Martrnez,. clanns he 'has . a . c~nsiderable amo~nt' and Benny ~Ketchum- ·Wi.U -: be weld~ . past six :rrionths . for North Atlantic ·construCtors on the air-base under< of.work. ·lin~d up -~or the future .. . Bro.: G:ol'clori ~ Wickand.er:'_and ,ing··,foreman; while the :mechanical · consti,uction ~at Tl:)u1e, for· the U .- 'S. Governri1ent. · · · ... ··· his.son, :WallyLare_Qperp.fin.g 'foi ,no t~ ~hat _ a!l. supp.l!~s for tpe ·_ s~ver:al thqtj~and \ Sow~ r6.f \·the JoJ;>s wiiL'Qe,:-e;Xca;vatipg ~Bd - 'Iandscapip.g . op .., th~ tin and ,Jordan. Bros: _Loyals, Rob- const~·udipn men an~ mil,itary perso~n~l m,u~~ be flown in, ~xce 1)tJ ·· . · S b. . . . ·, . ·. . . . · ertson a.nd : Woody Will -take · care·. for a penod Oi two months. dunng the summer when the bay is-open., ' A~}'lampr.a Oaks< u ?JVl&~on ' IU Martmez, . aN~ : als0 at · . T~rTa I of ,·opel'ating the .,equipment;: I Durin.g 't!iis summer perio(i,' o'rie conv:oy o£ supply ships comes in withi ' Hills. _ The . constr~ctwn -: o~ tw,o small ·dams m the Martmez · A numq_ei:·· of Lo.cal 3 ·boys were ';rnost 'of the heayy ~q.uipmei1t. · . area are also on his·work list. !.Lake .. Chabot . apd . Seven .HiHs employed in' 'the .R~~hrn:o.r!d_ · yai·~s Whj!e . Gree-nl~nd ls CQmpo~ed ..of s~l!? ice, an? has n~ ve,g~trtion.r : · Roads . . This ~ r'i>ject has .ke t .BTos. ,o~ ytah ConstructiOn,_'!nder sup~r- ·Bro . .Abel tel!s · u~ th~t he _.,Io m:d the }-Veqther . q U).te comfortable._ He , c. s. Gonzales & Co. of Co.ncord · ·. .P / P · :VISIQ,n of D .. F. Emery, Joe Parkm- ·fc-un~ T J.mle, ~h1c;h IS . ppmar}ly a qmstn'tc,t1qp ,<;~rpp a,n,d ~1ih. ta. ry have b~en workin'g ,on th\')ir· stqrm Eugene .Foster and Ray Edwards ,son a:rid l.ew Cook;)irepai-i~g ·· thi~ . ba~€ ..a , goo? p)ac ,e . ~o ?ave : m()n\')y, . a,s _ ther~ 5 · j s ; :i·~ally no place to spend ' ·. {!raip.age pr p.j e,c.t , . ~t. Ho_lbroo.k busy since the. middle of January . .equipment to do this job overs~s . .,any . of the "green st~Jft" Most .of the . c;onstr.. uctio .n workers .were · Heights; Concord. Bros. Joe Wat· The' last ship· to·leave··the Oakland ·from Local .4~, out .9f .Mini1esota, although 'tri.ere were three or four: ' ters and . H. B . Gonza,les are in- Accordi)lg to ·Bro. Mike Sapo- ,port carried the bulk of the equip- other .Local 3 men on the job. · · I stalling pipe wejgJ:ling ll'h tons ment. The ship is the "Ver~har- · ,, * * ' ·per .section, u.nder the Sacramento retti, superintendent for P.arrish main," built in Ene:land, · -and is ' . . ~ Bro . . Herb -Gladr.ow stopped by. with .a few words to say about l Railroad in Hqlbrook Heights. Bros., their ;job at · Port Chicago one ··of ·the few ships . capable of ,his -forthcoming trip to Phil~ppi, West Virginia, where he and Mrs_: will get undei· way within the next hahdling· equipment· of· ·this ·size. Gladl'Ow wiJJ_ visWwith their lov.ely· lS .ye9-r old daughter, Pat, who is --.... :-~ One of t.he . larger sewer jobs in 10_. or 12 days, with about 10 of The ship's gear will handle 130 attendi,ng · coll~ge . -there. The Gladr9ws, who are te.king their house· , · · · b · h dl d b tl . tons and it will have· to' dischai·ge t ·1 th ·· k d b th1s area 1s eil')g an e Y 1e then' regular operators on the-pay- ·t • . h d t f · ra1 er, . ·eir para eet a11; t "~1r· do· _g w1th· tnem· , p.tan' t· o make qu:te< ! P&E Construction· Co. of San Jose, 1 s cargo w 11 11 e anc ore ou rom a -tnip of .. it, with stops at Cleveland, Chicago, and the Mt. Rl.tsllmore ' who hav~ a subcontract' fr.om San .rolL shore and move the equipment to Memorial in South Dakota. , J Leandro Construction Co. to lay --- . . 1shore on barges. The consolidating ,., ,, ,, 50,000 feet of six-inch sewer pir)e Frank Beach and .A: ,Urnc~lqm and moving of ·this equipment to ) wer<> · low bidders on the construe · After 19 months of service with the U . S. Army, 14 m9nths of ()Il East -Avenue and E- Street, . in ·.· - ·, - the seaport was under supervision , · . t'1011 k f c d Ass ss nt which were spent on front line duty with the inf2ntry in Korea, Bro .. 1 Hayward. This r)roJ·ect will r)rO- wor or oncor e me Of · D. F. "Andy" Anderson. We 1 District N·o 5 which will include Frank Lampson, whose last employer in the Bay area was the SaTh ' Vl. de · work,· for a numbe. r of the · • / can expect to have all our boys · · · f th t · l b d tt 0 k 1 · Francisco Bride:e .Co., has now returned with plans of resu:.1ing his memb ers or · e nex s1x montl 1s, sewer. wor <, cur an gu ·er w r -~ back in the States in about six ~ ~ 'th t . . I and 1mprovements to streets and mont hs er.gmeerm· · g ·c ·areer. B ro: L ampson, 1 d d 1 ., d t ' 1 1 w 10 was woun e w u :e oa .u Y• . w1,· B 1e menE . worp tnng .· ram or . · . · d ' 1 h t b t 1 · · · I' b- t ' 'l"' Sidewalks. Frank Beach w1ll do Utah's construction J·ob at Selby oesn t 1ave muc o say a ou us expenences m "-orea, · u -~ \~h~~- & Wunderlich's sewer job along nino· loaders · and 'dozers th S · · . . Y he was cleared to M. G. M. Construction Co. three and one-hah yea1s ______· "' · ~n . e tolte_. Inc. sto~·.m dra;nage· ago. Bro .. Foulger has been enjoying ii. m onth's vacation, some .of which.

•0 e 0 concrete _pipe alo11g · home in Martinez where he has horses, ducks, chickens and a n eW' l));j' jj'j)·;~l~~~~~~(\liiiiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiilj. E.~~b 18th6grf;h~ Street CfJ.ty to of P GakJa~ddayingark Blvd The · v(as· · spent i.n the Quincy and Sacramento area, and t)1e rest' at his . .. · · · D a 1ma t·wn d og · ' · · ' . i diameter of the pipe js . 66 inches, · · ,, * * each section beJJ'!g e_ight feet long · --' al]d weighing five and a half. tons. While working as an oiler on the A. J. McCosl~er se\Yer jqb, Bro. Bill Cole is superinte;ldent of Bro. Raymond Agnew was severely burned when the b9om of the this · job, with E Pni~ Miller · oper-. crane came in contact with High Voltage Wire. We would •' Iike to· ating a- ~ backhoe, Paul Craig. on a remind 'all of you that when you are workil}g arot.fnd high v_oltage L'ma crane, Johnnie Costa on a wires. it. is very necessary · to.. exercise extreme caution at all times. · ~ loader, and courtney Dwight and Bro . .Agnew , who is confined to 1-:IerricJ< General Hospital, is still ill Jitii········;.·············:·. "Sandy" Sanders oiling. a critical condition. We certainly all hope he w,ill be on the road to. recoyery in the very near fu~ure. * * DREDGE Another member who is suffering from !;>urns is Bro. H. K Beaman, NEWS burned Dredging activity is essentially by a •gas explosion in his garag~. who is confined t o the Veterans' Hospital the same as it was when we re­ in Oakland. He asked that we thank his coworkers at B·uran ported to you last month. Pros­ .. Equipment Co. for the attention and interest they have· ·pects for some new jobs opening extended-- him. up in the near future are good. ·We would like to take this opportunity to thank the Local 3 m en ·Twenty-one members are on the who donated blood during the past month, Seve1·al of our -m 0mberS:. payroll of San . Francisco Bridge have been · ill · ~ nd hospitalized, and it is of real service to them we Co. at their Bel-aire yard. This can furnish them -_'vith blood. Bro. Cal Relyea, who was the recipient ~ - company . is expecting to start on of bl~bd donated by our members,· is-still confined to the Saint E'rancis two jobs in about 30 or 40 days. Hospital in San Francisco ·and is making very satisfactory progress. 8 B • At present they are doing quite ' es a I g . .I te·. a large· cblny'ersion job on The California tied up for the first Leslie Salt Co. has its dredge Ta. k~ · · B , ·. 1Wilatka, and it looks as though time since they started operating Mallard ·working on their Napa '.it will be some time before they six or seven years ago. However, River development project, · Their have it in s-11ape The picture to rl\n. The dredge they are keeping a few men busy Io_ther clamsh~ll, The E~wards, is above shows the largest Cat~ldader ever used Hinds will prpbably be the first of doing repair work. .. tled up ·at Hunters Pomt w,here in !he Oakland area-the new HD-20 Tractoshovel, delivered their dredges to go .aLit, either to Associated Dredging Co. has fin- they are doing a considerable recently by Buran Equipment Co. to the McCammon & Wun- Alan1eda Naval Air Station or to ish,ed their Noyo Jiiver job at Fort ;·amount ·or repair work. This firm derlich Mountain: House Road job. . the ~are Island job. , Bra·gg, but have iwt brqught the ! also ha·s: the Standard's clamshell The operator in the picture is Brother Louie Newell. This j . Work. was started on the Olym;. dredge Sucker· back to the Bay I working one, shift, ·building. levees. , , . . · _plan Dredgmg Co. JOb at Port of Area yet. They· have their shell_ on· the lower end of the Bay .near· new Tractoshovel, which was manufactured by the Tracto- StocKton on F eb. 3 with 15 addi- Liberty"' No. 3 working at Moffett Moffett Air Force Base; motive Corp,, is outstanding because of three new features. tiona! mer\ · going -t~ work for this Air Force Base, and the No .. 1 at The Portland Cement Co, has Th ~ capacity of the . ~hovel is rated at four yards. However, company, thus completing a crevv Belmont. The Curlew is now in been taken over by the Ideal Ce­ McCammon & Wunderlich have increased the capacity of the of 20. Then· clamshell dredges are drydock at· their Pittsburg yard. ment Co. : who are continuing t()_ · bucket one yard by adding 10-inch plates to the sides. , all tied up at ?resent, as it seems Ed Lippstreu has both his clam- operate their dredges with_out any ...... the Army Engmeers have· run out shell dredges working. ·'rhe Solano change in policy: This compJ ny These ngs feature a U-type dozer and are eqmpped With a 'I of money ·for· maintenance work is on a Leslie Salt Co: job off has its "Clamshell loading on a _ new tyJ?e of hydraulic ripper manufactured by the Shaw Sale? on ~he . rivers and the delta: -is!an,ds. Warm Sp1'ings, and Ti1e Pacific is p~oject near the San lv:L.tteridge huge park area. had 46 parks comprising 5,070 acres. When· he r-etired the system score of .10 Oakland deaths since piles of debris had lodged against · had' grown to 181 ..,...... January 1, 1953-seven in cross­ parks with66;000 acres. Much of the growth was the'-pilings and: were 'cleared with Middletown took all h011'ors as due to his ability - • ""'\valks. to "wangle" purchase funds from reluctant a bulldozer. the ~wettest spot in the· :Re·d~voo d budgets and· to persuade private citizens to make gifts of land and There were sever a 1 slipouts Empire: The rain "fiodde.d- every- He explained, . when administer- · f bl · 1 d along Highway ~ between the , . . t .. d' ,. money ·or pu ic P aygroun s. thing" but no roads Were ;closed • .•ng Jail erms, car 1mpoun mg, "1- bridge and Westport. There was Putah . Creek was over.·· Highway· cerise revolking and fines, that traf- also a · 0 f 11 I'd senes sma s 1 es; some 53 between Middeltown··· and. LO\"er· nee vioiators are not criminals,· but · ···- f ·t·. h d b l d b t 1 ft ., t a een . c eare away . u e just average ·citizens' who are not ew ·ppor · un· ·I leS or . slippery mud on the highway, ere- Lake, to. a' depth of one·'foot .in being punished but are beirig given F. . 0· . . · · . • . . . · . ating. ·a driving hazard. m~n:e s~~tss~ian .. River was. over the ai1 u11fo'rgettable· lesson. The mag- Some of the· slipouts took more . . .. i s tr~te ; threa1eris jail terms for ov·er ·sea ·. s· E. m··p:· ., .·y·m · e· nt than· half of the oiled surface of ~~~r~~~n~~~~k~nak~~~!;v~~e h~~~ violators of crosswalks because of. · · · · · the roadway and dropped down to 'cap deep in many spots. Trucks the · ~e~en :fatalities during the. · . · . · ... 1, 0 .. . :. thTehbeafich,tov:r lOtO .. feet belowd. w_ere the only vehicles going ·moiith .of·Jailuary. , , · By ItuSSELL SWANSON e rs s 11pou was cause by throu h. - .· C. ~rn~iius ' ·ion. st,·· l;Jriiverslt.Y ...Qf .. / · a brok.e,n wooden culv;ert· that had 1 .g ... . Busines,s Representative .. · b · · · · · · · · · ' ·· ' ·· · ' · --· - C alifornia Engineer, fs . exp~cted ; to ...... • . . . . ·'. n:: ·.. ' ; .. e~ n ,: ,place~. :theJ;g +5. years t ~go ~':· ' 'Fh€FElectr.o -L~·vet Cor . ·· located· · t~ke 'flp J he rbi·~ ·' Ci :fprciflii'sor e~i t~here ha~eheenart1cles · m vanous n~wspa'pers grvmg . f\' ,~?t . rr.e · next ,)_)lg ._ o~e h~cl ~ : :f!),etateu;J.c-, :riiiaif l 'Seb astopol ,',: recentl,;,: ~omplet- · · _:i'b'il i:fik''·iff~ "'a f.f' ·~of ' wilrkith~' \ia f ~tv. of mformatlon·. on overseas employment. . ·We have chec,:.l):E?d . vert that had been unati~e to ca!'rY·> ed' n:e·gotiations' .'for.· man"ufacturing Kinst had a . mishap at his : horne \Yith the .. contractors themselves, and' so fla_n .. ~~en TJ,iere ~s !1-J?cal m . ~~~at_tl~! ~a:n • , ·- th.u,rg : fine r:- Gumn, . an~ . at m:-es ,pumped in la't'er. ' · · · · , .. g1:ade setting ·on the)evet .This in­ a doptgd; · ~Y,.t?:_ ~nJ on .. ·rt 1s 1r2~e d _L. ?,c~l :_,302, : Y~h?_.. nave , J.Unsd1ctron ent he: IS runnmg .a- N .W. 80 ·:hovel. Trucks stood by with loads of dicati6n is .obtained by·.watching a that J~e r~lpl~~ts wllllay :Off of o.yer. th$ wor~~ l!l, __ Naska. .. . He s~ates}h~t)he , ~e ather IS ,COOl dirt and. benea:th the br!d e was .light panel_ which i:egistei·s_ '1-vi,th .•t he p~n:te~ . r~rnarl{S-~over!1;n~nt I . h ~v~ . cq.:nmuruc~teq '.\Vlth . ,t.?~t . and-Cllso he IS W?r~mg E:very day anot]:!er "Cat'.' which was'gchu,rn- li~ht .Jm: . ~ . h_jgh . or low ·position. a nd e1vil serv1ce ,agencies .ar: ~ot l?ca1 J or Jnfor:mahon ;..egarpmg buL Mop_day...... ing back · and forth, Clea~·ing out W1th th1s m~}lca!wn ,. the. . .operator c;ompell~d . ?~ ·liJ.W· '.to pegotlate~. work. .. Jhe reply l rec.e1yed was Jnn 1fead,_ ~a1d . that h1s stay for logs and: other debris that Jniglit can .make . necessary ad.~ust:ne~ts t~~ ~p~llcatwn o t::::t te <;}r~ !1t }~ c- , ~ot.. too,.• ~~v?rable: b_ut M\!.aL)O~ .o_ne ~o~ t~ . m ?u~m was 30 days jam up the channel .tiimeath ., the o~ .h1s eg;.upment to ,mamtam the tws ISoi.n<:leed a;Joutish ;;rela~wnshtp . .. · JS .~ ve:tY.- . frJendly- Wlth our }g,c~l!l.n_d . ·too ) ong. H e 1s ve_ry glad to be bridge: · · d eS lre_~ . g~a'l:l.e . , Kaiser Hospital Foundation of h~ve a~ured us~ that ~hen ~nd .~.J' . blJ:ck. He _was_workmg for B.P:M . Just this side of Westport . ~as Th e : ?tewa ~ t electric level can .. be . Oakland, Richmond. and Vallejo is cany oper_ators__ :;tre. needed, •,we· w1ll,; He talked. to a: . ~ew ,L_?cal 3 boys a big ·slipout and a .tremendo'us used .wr t~motor grader _s? ~ land lev- . being negotiated and wil~ be retl';)- ?e'the firs~ to know. I t'. see~s th~re . there, George Crews, E. Mc~oriald , slide near Union Landing, ' ab~llt a ellers, and . otlier ~q uipmerit too I ··active---:also ·Brothers Herzog a nd 1s 'a- scarc1ty of contract- b1ds and · John Meyers; J'oe F'fanklm and mile up the highway from De- numerous to mentiOn.. Mr. Sam Wuth can expect their back pay also a lack of contract awards this also· some he only knew by their Haven Creek. It looked. 'like the Ste~art, inventor of ' this . electric from last year. II year. But as the season doesn~t first riames. whole ,side of: :: !l 'mountain· had leve~, is a member of . Operating This contract ;is being delayed :t~rt b: fore April or May,. ma~be Bob. Knapp, another brother who caved in. And: _somewhere in the Engm:er~ Local 3 . .Ad~ress. of the because of the request to create a . 1t 1s a llttle early· to determme JUSt keeps iri good standing even· red ooze, mud·.. and rock .was the plant 1s ..,075 Grave n, ste l~ .\!Jghw:ay master contract to cover all Kaiser how. much work there will·be; though he ha s spent' more. time Westport-to-Leggett Valley.road! South, ?ebastopol, C ~ llf . · Pho.ne Hospitals-three new hospitals are We have .contacted M & K .and out of · the country than he has in Out of Boonville the. schools in number IS 2132 . . being constructed in Walnut Creek,. find that everything is very quiet . the states. · He is now going out the Anderson Valley district . have * * * - J San Francisco and down the Penin- and ·at present there are no oper- for Utah. · Con!)truction to South had to close due to the closing of ·J .b P" k. · sula. The . second request, which ators Of"· mechanics needed either America:. He has worked fo r Vinell, Highway 28' at the Indian Creek 0 IC up is important, a · separate hourly for French Morocco or Venezuela. in Okinawa; Bechtel, in Arabia; bridge. Four pilings on one side rate for all new construction, such Brown- Pacific- Maxon are in Haddock Eng . . in Alaska; Atkin- . of the temporary bridge were as plumbing, electrical and new the same position as M & K At one son & Jones. in Okinawa-well, we broken off by the impact of logs D .. a R" equipment installations. This last time they . were in need of both could go on like that fo r some swept down during the heavy rain- espne .:!H n·S· demand is worth scrapping for. mechanics and operatOJ;s, but now time., . storms. Closing of the bridge has - I~ u~ I am inclined to ring up a slow they are filled up. · R. 'H. McDaniels is going to Peru s?mewhat disrupted local activi-' bell ah-ead on contracts that are Guy T. Atkinson has already re- to work for Utah Construction. He t1es; ma1l has bee ~1 taken across ~ f presently pend.i~g-:-t he lifting of ceived a job in the Philippines: But will be there for approximately o.n foot: whi}e milk and bread_ de- , n resn.o the Wage StabJlizatwn Board reg- from all outward appearances, only four months and that should finish livery trucks have been re-roLlted ~ . 1.1lations will definitely establish a those key men who have been on the job. to deliver . supplies to Philo. ' \ p ew policy and pattern, as far as Atkinson's payroll have any chance P . R. Hoobler went to Bahrain . By H. T. PETERSEN and _, · 11egotiatjons are concerned. of going on this job. Island for Bechtel to work as a Ukiah's $400,000 Northside· Ele- ·. G. LYNN MOORE, OPERATION CRUTCHES boiler shop superintendent. These mentary School is now completed. BusiD.ess Representatives I have an. inventory of one NEWS ABOUT TH!E islands are in the Persian Gulf. Construction has been done· by M. The employment situatio.n has t housand aches and pains-some of BROTHERS Brother C. C. Mul lowney is R. Crane ' of San Francisco, with picked up somewhat 'tlurh1g . the last them can ·be charged up to age. There has been a little more.ac- working in Australia but we are his son, Frank Crane of Ukiah, - month in spite of adverse It is advised that I do not ra.ce 'tivity regarding letters co~ing not sure for whom. as associate construction contrac- weather conditio.ns. There still is my motor-prescriptions for this: b · , Ralph Acton is home after tor, The spacious kindergarten ·quite a bit of subdivision work in from the rothers_... on .the "out-of- 18 t · ' f p. rogr·ess thr·ougho. ut th. e- area, on . 'The brot)1ers. must r efrain from state" jobs. months in French Mo'rocco. He room, a separa e umt to ltsel ' was picking ori me and the Employer L d was in cllarge of hot plants. He built to size for the five-year-olds. which the majority construction is Brother .Carl As.hm. an·. contac. Le ,., · d d K . · · · should definitely not say "NO" to expects to go ·ver·fo· r s· teers Grove "hat a long way we have come. un ergroun work; . ovJC k Bros., us by letter and he seems to be 0 · M L 1 1 T c my requel;;ts, as airnort su· pe· ·r .. He got thJ's J'Ob The City of Santa Rosa, is going w . . yes, v al ey renching o. very happy. He explained· that he " h · · d E T.. H ·d· 'd' · h'. · ' . * * * through some contracts in N.ew ·a ead with plans to drill a .new an . . aas IV! mg t 1s wor,;;:. is working : in Okinawa and. also · 1·1 · tl P t · · · "Woody" Kn1'g·ht has re'cently re- we · m 1e e ers s prmgs· area The. Al.ex Robertson co· .· · !'ave that recently he has been on vaca- 16 · . · · t·ur·ned . fr·om 'Q,ren.ch Mor·oc· co. He and probably w ill call for ·bids on moved in on t heir miles •of gas tion in Bon. g . Konir and Siam, so .r· REPORT FROM .. ~ has talked to a number of Local it s?metime this .month. line for ·the PG&E and are em- he certainly -is getting around. · B 1d h b 11 d to con ploying quite a ..Jew of the brothers. I Clint .- Forma1i. is back from 3 members. He says that Bruce · s ave. een ca e - struct a bndge and approaches Be ch t ~ l Corp. is making·· .. good Sacramento French Morocco after 17 months Cromwell, who has been there for . · , t · · . fi d h across the North Fork of Navarro progress -on the enlarging Of · the By A. R. OUGHTON and is very happy to be home. He " 0 me 1me, IS gomg ne an as . . · · learned to operate man_ different RIVer 17- m1!es northwest of Boon- PG&E gas compressor plant, ·with Business Representative is now looking for work in South . -· Y ville, on Route types of eqmpment. 28. Bigge Co. moving and placing the Contracts opened : "Fluid America. machinery, Milk, · Phil Shea wrote to say he is and other . e.quipment Mik Manufacturing plants; Sena­ H~rb Nefstead is ·a ·hard fellow River bottom stabilization to being used on doing fine and even though he has · the job uti.IizE(d by t or Hotel, Sacramento ·wholesale \ already been there for 18 months safegutard tdhe · n:wt ·hRusH·sia~ dRbiver the Bechtel Corp. . .. , , ,. Packers, and Ice and Cold Storage and William Lucke are still on the . recrea 1o n am . m e .ea1 s urg There has been a slack u#iod in Industry, · sick list. he ~xpec t s to stay a wh;le lo~ ger . Veterans' War Memorial Aauatic the oilfield area, c'oa li~ ga " and He mforms us tha-t the Amencans ' P . · - f Contracts c:osed: Weinstock­ Business: Made three . out of · . arc1 w1 11 . r un .over a peno d o Avenal. However it is antieipated Lubin and Hale's Department town trips, 23 local plant calls, 14' ·are leavmg very fast. The French ~ -- · · Tl ·oJI::msible dam w~s that this work will pick up 'in the are taking thelr . places. Also that y ar.,. · 1€ c <-. • • '" .. Store; 7% cents per hour and 6 meetings on negotiations and .three . completed last fall. ErosiOn 1mme- n ear future. . th e F rene h an d th e A r ba s h ave a ,. · cents Welfare Plan. Chism Ice meetings with engineers involved. riot about once a week. cuately downstream from ~.1e1 dam, On the Pine Flat Dam .. project, Crea NOTICE.: All engineers are in­ · y . ' b th "th m .. C:b., Reno; . 20 cents per 1 caused by· the waters flowmg over dismantling operations have begun J1our increase. Sg.cramento Vapey vited to visit the· Stationary En­ ou ~'low, L ro ~r·~· · e su ~ it, will require rock work each on the grav-el and .segregation 1 Meat Dealers Assn.; / $15.00 per gineers Class at the Sacramento IJ.ever. se s on oca · A prover spring for several ·years before plants, and the company, .h.<:t.Y,e al- · month increase, plus 6 cents Wel­ Junior College Saturday, February that lS very true f~ r w~ have our "equilibrium" cai1 be established. ready ste.~· ted to remove the ;!"ail- good fare Plan. Sutter and Mercy Hos­ 28, 1953, at 1 P.M. ldbroth ers work' mg a"l over the An d t ne' · pro bl em 1. s comp1.1. ca t e d y b roads. pitals; $20.00 per month increase. A Reminder: Our next regular wor · gravel dredging operations still We have r eceived word -from the ·· I want to apologize to the en­ meeting iu Sacramento will be * * *.. · i'att.her downstream. , State Highway departm~.!lt · that gineers at the · Medical-Dental Thursday, March 5, 1953, at 8 P.M. ' Your obligation to 'your union ·Repairs are now going . on to. 'bids will be called so01i. . on 7.9 · B\lilding for not naming their plant Please make: an - ~ffort' to attend, as doesn't end' w.ith. the p'ayment of the eastern abutment. of the dam, miles of grading and ; co~ ,crete .pav.- . __._:... in . last_m onth's report. ·· it will be a ver·y important meet­ dues.' Attend meetings and· tal~~ :where high yvaters . of . the ·river .ing on the Tulare, -Freeway. job. Sick)ist: Brothe~ Joh!1 Dewhurst i~g. Will· sc~ you then. · '". par t ·in unf_o_n..-: affairs. . capsed.. erosion. ~ damage during·. the tSs n,tinued on Page. 12) . . ~ . ·.}:;;g. ENGINEERS' NEWS Pebrua·ry 1-5, ] 953 -e .s undup From Utah - By MERLIN BOWJYJAN, .DON ELLIOTT, CHARLEY COCKAYNE .., ' . . . and GEORGE •FARRELL,. .Business -Representatives NORTHERN -UTAH - ;.contra·ctors Toe the Mark .Schedule ~f 1 This .time ·of tl-ie year, everyone ·Meetings -for Construction, 1ang Co., gets anxiOJ.!S to JSO to w0rk. E~pe -. dally when our· winter h(l~ been Sand and :Gravel, Iron-·Ore , . Mines~ Vitro ,(hem· _ •for so· rnild. Conside[l;lbie work is ical Co., and Kennecott 'Copp·er ·co·rp. farly schE\du}.ed Spring to·. go Start as soon as the · - weathef _permits. . We should con- Kenne<;ott Copper Corp. Members: All called meetings i.r). Marcl,l. Contractors are starting to move considerable amount of sider _that ·since this is only Feb- . . . Vitro. Chemicar Co.: _All · their equipment out on jobs and are figuring on getting an i·uary and there· is still some time ca).led me~~ing;;,i r . ¥ars:.l:t,: . ·early spring start, with Olof Nelson Co. ;:tlready starting on for bad ~ \veather,'" all we can do is Monday, March 9, 5r30 p.m.: Lang Co. memb-ers, Operating En· . their Redwood Roatl job. Th~y have called for a few men, hope fo:r cqritinued good weather )gineers' Hall, 1969 So. Maip St., Salt. L~j.~e City_ but it will be a few weeks before they get into real dirt moving. :no~:.n ear)y start ·on the proposed 1· . ~(jay,. ~arcl).l2, ,8 :OO :p.m._: Sand, Gravel & ~nstrucHon -mem· Gibbo.ps & Reed have also called bers, 1 -Engrneers Hall, 1969 .- So. Ma!n St., Salt Lake· Crty. . · .. f e eial onerators and are fig I Chicago Bl:.iclge_ & Iron Co. has F 'd . M : h 13 8 00. - · · ·1 ·or s v . · "' · ·· · ~ VAN WINKleL SAYS ab.out. tv,.:o _mqnths' more . work on n ay, r arc · ' : ·p.m.: ·S an d ' G rave &' Con·s··tr uct1'on mem.. ~• · uring .on "getting- started on their' · ., their taJik job at tli.e Sinclailr Re- bers, Labor Temple, 161 West 1st I'i9rtJ;l, J:>~?yo, · n ew . ro.,_ad· job .. t_his _c _oming w_ ~ek._ _ _CADt: - -HURRiED I· IIlLi.· WE.· L·L· finery ter.:minal. in Woods Cross. Fr~ida_y, .. Ma~ch 20, _.8:00 · p·. m.: .san<;1,. · Gl'avel ·.-& Co;nstruction mern· Utah ~onstructwn · Co. lS, stlll · · · . · The Fluoi· Co. still. has a fe\v bers, Labor Temple, Ogden. hauling cindE\rS fer _l:)ackfill at. Gar- Time, they say, waits for no . fh:>ld, on their Stauffer fill job, but . m~n, and neither does the spec~ me~ · tbusy _ on . ctolnstrp·uhc_tlil~n aRnd Friday, March 27, 8:00p.m.: Iron Ore Mine memb-ers, El Escalante ' ·' they are getting near th.e end. on tre of death, and the sudden ;am enance at le I rps e-~ Hotel, Cedar City. 1 ·, their tailings job !l-t Lark. This untimely passing of Brother nery. : - ·. - - - 1 • ~~~ ~~~d be completed within 30 . ~~~~~ni~1a:e q:;k ~;~~~sf=~dt~ ?o~J~r~;a~ec~~:~dw":r:kv.;~ ~ 6~~1~~~ I . Sched~l~ of Sta~e ~ Road ·M_eetntos· At this writing, our work .at wasn't able to say goodl:)ye to m the Layton area as soon as the Wednesday, February 25, 7:30 p.m.: Labor Temple, 161 vV. 1st . · · d I 1 · weather D · ~lgway ha,;;; _ been very slow, but many o ft l1e fnen s mace m .p· erm_its.. The balance of North, Pro\•o, Utah. · · la::.er on · the Strong Co .. job is finish work in the spring we figure Utah. · · · · . ·· ·. Tuesday, March 3, 7:30p.m: : Price qty :f::Iall, ~:iqe, U.ta)1. we will get several men ·on this So I want to take this means I ~nd the_ contr:act for the blacktop . IS t<;> be let this year. W : W. Clyde Wednesday · jo':J for W. W. Clyde Construction of savii1£ "So long," .it y.ras ..nice , March 25, 7:30 p:m.: -Engineers' Hall, 1969 So. Mai;;n • - ' · · J • - Co. was C\b-le to get most of the Street,. S(.l!t. __Lake · .. Q~. They are also :going to try to krio ~v · and may we ineet City, Utah. to ou. p.ipe in on their jpb and have a . lot get . their jqb going on the igloos again. soon, and also if you are. of select borrow to haul inand Thursday, . M_gr_c)l "_26. :.1:30 p ..:rn.: El Escrte "lvere told· he "sold it for $50. bers on each one Will mean a lot a number of sewer and water lmes IisSUPS and the entire agreement · · · · f . . \ • -.1 h . · . .. · tl ·th . , , - ' · 1 emergen~y ar.eas rom 0.. r.:rc 1( to. , , , cowaiC s OI tenmg the out-of-wo1 k m r:e no1 . e1 n a1ea. _ . ''h e agreed to have a brief copy of 1· Klamath ·and· up to Klamath ·Glen_ , , .. l l!st. Vi Ith the number of JOb s to be the agreement drawn up , - . -,-··H-· E·R·· .H ··---o-. u·- : J·AH' completed and in order th l . . h d l 10 1 ld tl1·e amo'Llnt of J1e' v • 1 ~- . . · . . e--_os_s m -. omes an. _· use 10 Sou• _ · . _; · ·. • ., . • · v to cal. I will no doubt h1;1ve their project doesn't end with , the payme.nt of · now but WE\ ar:e lookiJ}g. forward ·r:·,ere is plenty of work coming needing the support of the others. [u·om Htghway 40 to Bonanza well clues. Attend meetings and take I to one ~I the _busiest years we have_ ...... _ · uri i.h is year. It's just ;;;_1 IhaJter of Be a strong, clependable _"link." under way. part in unjon affairs. had m chls srea. .Nine ·~ - ClEARI:NJG:.: W,EAJHER·-lt·.U.G:~ , RS . . .· ...... ·-· . . 'HistOrytwe: Aff ;~ ~~ ~.~Nd ,' F: $50: .· · F@u-.> &~r Jew. . f{;li) A ... \IVEtt ·FO '~R~ . ~A~AAYSV= ItlE · k t\e Ey- lVL G. ("l\'Iickey") MTIRPHY and A. J. (1'Bucl>") HOPE, By LES,, COJ1LETT and·C. R; VAN- WINKLE, . : itled~' ~y;.: ~ ~~): · Business.Repl·esenta.tives . Business Represe1ita~tives . The occasion of · ~rotifei·hood · Well, Brothers, it is time for that little news article· again, Wonder of wonders, we had about 15 Q.ays of- sunshine Week, observed this year between if We may take the liberty to define' 'it as such. To. start \Vith, around this ar~a and some of our meihbel.·s · wel~ e · called · back February 15 · and 22• was tised by. we •are delighted· to say that suushine·has been·with i.IsAor a " TOrk. We hopP.. t~his- is ..a eri.terion of things to come. ·. President George .1\ieany · of. the few days and some of our· projects are be.ginning to siim\z' a to n - - AFL to recall a swmficant btt of . . . - · . H. Earl Parker reports his company ha$ · only a· few land- l&bor history. o ,little activity. Some of the 'brothers have returned to _ th~ n:· levelling rigs around the. district and' quite a shop c;rew, but Brotherhood Week is spons'ot·ed .fo.rmer jobs, on streets, subdivisions; the two freeways, urid.:;r- tha,t ,the ground was still, too wet to ·proceed with any great annually by the Natioi1al Con- ground work and shops. . . · . ferimce of Chr istians and Jews to We· are in hop· es· that by the time let by the City of Santa Cru~ lbn...;;n.JJ~"l!Jio\!1.. l'

Daily report of awardsJor con-stJuct·ion .. (Compiled by · P. E. V:mdew;trk) Paris, To: Thron Const. Co., asphalt pavement at ..7 schools and mains & welded steel water mains PITTSBURG, Contract awarded• JANUARY ,_ 1 Spring':ill€, 7 953 I Utah, $21,00~. a \varehouse within the San Loren- & appurtenances in El Cerrito, to · Kevry Const. . Co., Inc;, · 655 CARSON CITY,' NEVADA, Con- (3) '' PIUTE ' CO. CSP' 1432)-22,- zo 'Sch'ocH:'Dist. Kensin'gton District & irtr · B~rkeley. Peralta Ave., San ·Leandro, $8,350 -tract awarded to Isbell Const. Co., 000 T. : grav,· !;urf. & 4;00(( T. cover ':.SAN LOF}ENZ<:J~ Co.ntract DEC0TO, Contract i:n~; arded :i:o for const. storm drainage, cone. P . 0. Box 2351; Reno, Nevada, matl, in· 7 stockpile; 6 ~ 5 ·mt' s:- oC a«:-arcted -to -J . fl i ~Itmaunce, ~?? Gllv~r 'be Silva, 2330 crement ·st., walks & asph. pave. for Pittsburg· $771,197 for 2.459 mi. grade, drrun, Marysvii:le ; ·· To; -Mation' J. Hess, Harinah St., O&,J, a · ~ I for const. of · app'rox. .2 h JAJ'.I"UARY-u, 1._,<>3 .ta· l ·. , , "... ow . - . SOUTH SA N · F RAN CISCO, Con- l ' d a I p 1 . eene ~ . m1 es o f pave roa, s. . . tratt a'warded to LO\.Vrie•· Paving- . II ll! ' ' ' ,. _- i FO~So~ ; Con~ract "?warded to . · SAN MATEO, Contract a~arded · ~ . JANUARY 8; 1953 · Geo: R. Patterso'n', o . I3ox 200,4,_1 to ·' ~- L. :c y· Sm·ith, . 225 ~ 19 th AvenUe; Co., 17555 "Evans A'vemi e, E;'; F., Wire • Rope cENT E· R V-I L ·L E, .. Contract Stockton, $70_,001 f__. o_r . 1 con_S.~' s. out~- San Mateo·,:: $67,67_4"for ··gr_'_ade,'' drain ~6 ; 110 . for :yard ',fill & sm'f~ at' Fed- Splicing and Sock~ting . R t c k s ·efal Wai·ehollse on Butler awarded to Oakland Sewer Con st. 1 Fork .. d., s':'::.wate~ ~ , .::e · _ ec. 'and sm·faci1rg •i\1 "Yern:oif · Teri;ace .. , :. :1 •. , Road: I Co., 9915 Walnut St., Oakland, . .. ,. : . , , ,_ .- . . Agents for on • Extenswn, Folsom ·R:eserv01r, Spec. . et 'al - . , '· _, · · · l. • _ 'r S~N ~Il~~CISC0, Con t l act -:-- --a.ltel·nate. "A" $34189 fo· r con··t 1723' . .. . ,.. . '·. R.oeblings Blue Center I ' ' ". . . . awarded to Arras· J3.ros. , 40~ Holly ! I sanitary· sewer JANUARY ?l 19-3 I ,.. -. . ' . ' -~- . ·,, . I· · in Baine Ave. 'Cen- SAN ~RANCISCO C t . t . ~ . . .. . H, ' . __o . . Park (!Ircle,' S. F., $2,~59 · f?r BU't- All Work Made to Order L . . ' . .!<_ .. • , ' . on. r ac 'SAN ·FRANB. W. Markham, Ft. Bragg, $8,51Ss on· Fallo(l •S '\;; betw. 7th & 8th ·sts., SAN FRANCISCO, Co .n: t l' act ., . ! for const. paved :recteatiCm area' at ALAJVIEI5A COUNTY. · awarded to Fred . T. :Fa:irey, :1814 : 777th AC & W site;· Klamath. . SAN FRANCISCO, ·con tract 25th · Ave., S: F. $3,656 for laying 'JANUARY 13, 1$53 a~arded to Chas. I.J. Harney, Inc., '6 'iii'. transite mai.n in Mangels Ave. ... OAKLAND; Coritr:acf awarded to 575 Berry St., S. F., $29,573 fQ~ betw. Congo & IJetroit Sts. G·allagl1er & Biirk, Inc., 341 High im'provernent ·of, 37th Ave. betw. JANUARY 28, 1953 . St. Oakla1i'd, ·. $20,26'3· -for const: Ortega--& Quintara·Sts. FRESNp, Contract a\val'ded , to : pa~·king . lot; ' a•. 5th & Broadway, ·PET-ALUMA:; ' Contract . ·awarded w ;' :M. Lyles ce., Rt. 2, Box ~8. 1 o ·akland. · · to' Marl{ T. ·Ammons, P. 0 . Bo* '904, Fresn'o, $7,994 for coilst. water line ' VISALIA, Contract a'warded to Petaluma, ${963' for reconst.' 75 ''ft. ·for.' water Works District No. H; • ~homis . Const. Co., 4929 ' Hedges Of retain'ing\'l'all 'or: bulkhead al0rig ·FRESNO COUNTY. Ave·., FreSllo, $15,866 for· 0:35 Iili. . so. side of . Petaluma Creek west- -'" J:AJ'\'UARY 29, 1953 , . gi'ade & ·surf. Tula1"e Co1.inty Road erly of Wasl:iingtoii:St. Bi-idge. SAN BRUNO, Contrlict awaraed · 1'-{o. 32N, at south edge qf City of · JANUARY 2o-; 1953 · · , to B · & · D ,. Constructron Co., · 925 ; Porterville. ' · ·sACRAMENTO,' · C ·on:' tracts 7th ' Ave., ·· San Bruno, $6'60.00 for· SALT LAKE' CITY, UTAH, Con- awarded as follows: removal of rour catchbasins o·n . tract awarded to W. W. Clyde -& (1)' NAPA CO. ick Bros., P. 0. Box 1323, ,A OU can rely· on Erbco Equipme~t to give your Creek Diversion D.,afn &· acMsS' nian Peterson, 2832-9 lY St., Ber- Fresno , $26,876 for const. sewers in job maxirllVm, continuous pe;formance. Your Erbco machines . road, Sly Park Unit, A:Iile1"ican keley, $27,4'39 fell' fum:· & erect 3· Boust Tract & in Lots 9 to .19 River Division, Central Viiltey ·prefab. metal bldgs., gas & diesel incl. of Oak Park Acres Ti·act are backed--by a ~Omprehensive ports st()ck, th'e services of Project, Calif, 15 mi. -E. of Plac·er- storage tanks . & appi.irts., wash- No. 313-D. · · trained ftefd service men and an eff!.cient organization. For vflle, EL DORADQ COUNTY: rack, etc., on Freitas Lane, 600 ft. · -~ 'FRESNO, Contract awarded tci the-best in equipment and sE-rvice ... SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, Con- S of Tregallas Rd., nr. City' of Engineers Limited 'I~ipe Line s:;o., - tracts awarded as follows: · Antioch: · 5609 S. Union Ave., Bakerrsfielu; ·, (1) SA]'>I'PETE CO. (SP 1431)- HAMILTON AFB, Contract "$8,013 for la Ying~,710l. : ft. of6 ill. Gin' IT § 'ROiM 20;000 T. ·· gravel surf. & 3,000 T. awarded to Brown-Ely Co. 1 ~ :t>. 0. cas't iron water mains 'in . Mari­ . cover· rriatl. in stockpile, 4.2 rriL N. Box 4'74, Cot'te 1\i:Ia.dera, $'6:7,11!'Uot, :chester Subdivision;· Fresno; Wafer . EDW../\RDI{.BACON COMPANY ._,. __,_ . of F:ayette, . • Utah, To Reyn'olds repair & · resurf. bitum: streets 01t .Division Jol:r No. 1172-B:; · · ·:\'. . · CONSTft;-.OCHON· EQUIPMENT . Const. C~., Spdngville, $15,700. . Zones 7 thru 9, at tlie Base. ··' ' ·· ··: FEBRUA:RY. 3 ~ ' f9, 5$ · .. fOlSOM -STREET .AT 17.th :.•· SAN. FRANCISC. 0, ; : (2) K'A:.NE 00. (SP ' '143~25·; ooo SAN . LORENZO, Con t:r.p..c t · .· OAKLAND, corttract' ilVIFarded to · ., ...... ,, _,...... 0'-' 1 CALIFOR·N·IA HEmloehouse at the United Air Lines maintenance base at San. within the next three' ~onths, ac­ . cause· it may give members of our Francisco airport. Th e wall section is 28 feet .high, w eighs 19 tons. Doing the hoisting, of course, was . a COl"ding to information in this office- craft a somewhat larger share of Locai 3 engineer. at the present time. · the work in building construction tilt-up jobs. But he did point out Funds are now available for the than they hitherto have had. tilt-up were partially cancelled out the saving in time. He said the that in ordinary concrete building $4,200,000 project which will pro­ The essence of the method is by breakage of the pre-cast panels Seattle warehouse, a 600,000 sq. ft. there is just a few days' work for vide for six 12-foot traffic lanes to simple-instead of building wooden in handling. He cited one big job str-ucture, was finished in four and an engineer pouring the concrete, replace the present four 10-foot forms -for the walls and pouring ·not long ago in which 10 per cent one-half months. Built of formed, whereas in til t-up work a rig is lanes. This project, along with the concrete into thRm, the tilt-up of the panels broke i_n handling. poured concrete, it might have kept on th'e job more or. less stead- $1 million already allocated by the builders just pour the wall sections For contrast, he cited a huge ·taken twice as long, he said. ily. State Highway Dept. for the fill -flat on the base slab and tilt them warehouse recently built for the Faster construction time has Until now, this site pre-cast con- from South Sa11 Francisco across upright afterwards. GSA in Seattle. Here only one also been announced as one of the struetion method has been used n part of · San Francisco Bay to In conventional concrete con- panel was cracked in hoisting, and reasons why a new school in San only on one-story structures in Candlestick Point and plans to be struction much labor, time and that was capable of repair. Bruno the Parkside School will Local 3's area, but in other areas, carried out in -the near future for materials go into building and Mr. Ward listed. the advantages I be bdilt by the tilt-up m~thod . notably in Texas, multi-storied the extension of Bayshore Freeway bracing the forms, setting the re- of tilt-up constructwn: Architect Leslie C. Irwin said the buildings. are being erected in this from San Carlos to the Santa _ inforcing steel and later stripping 1. ECONOMY. A saving of from school will be finished in time for way, not only t he walls but also Clara county line, calls for several and cleaning the form lumber. 2'12% to 5%- on construction costs. us_¢ next fall, largely ·because of the floor slabs for the successive additional million dollar construe­ In tilt~up much of this is elimi- On a big building that's a lot of the time saved due to the pre-cast stories. The entire floor slab is . tion projects. nated. The "form" is a simple money. · concrete constr"uction. cast on the ground as one piece, . According to the forecast made rectangle of 2x6 .boards or a· 2. STRENGTH. 'The fiat- cast Because tilt-up is just coming then lifted· up to the desired height by Harry E. Smith, vice president rectangular steel form that is used slab gives a denser, stronger con- into wide.spread use, it is hard to and positioned by huge jacks and of the ·Peninsula Geri€ral Con- · over and over. crete. On the Seattle job, samples say exactly how much more work various special equipment. · tractors, subdivision and real estate· The ;tioor· siab is given a coating averaged a 4,000 pound test after it might make in building for Op­ Tilt-up and "lift-up" are here to development work will hit an all­ of emulsion which keeps the wall 28 days of curing. This compares erating Engineers. stay and seem destined for ever- time high in S~n Mateo county this ­ slab from' sticking after it is with average strength of 2,800 One indication comes from a re­ widening lise. Our engineers ·wm year. It is estimated that · nine poured. The simple rectangular pounds for poured ·concrete, The port in the latest edition of Engi­ see much more of this kind of thousand ·new homes will be built form ·is laid down, reinforcing difference is that concrete poure'd neers' News-Record, · official news­ construction in the next few years. during 1953. steel and window and door frames in deep, vertical forms develops paper of Operating Engineers Lo- 1 These projects mentioned in this are laid .in place, and t-he concretE! rock pockets, lacks uniform struc- cal 12, Los Angeles. . ~ * * report will provide employme1it foi· is poured . into the fo1:m and ture. The newspaper of our sipter lo'cal many operating engineers. L screeded level. 3. WATER-RESISTANCE. The tells about a $1'!.J.-million concrete denser concrete is almost impene- warehouse being built at Long The Henry Doelger Co., at West~ - · Fastenmg bolts have previously TUNNEL CRE lake, has -resumed operations after been set in place, and when the trable by water; a stiff, wind- Beach, Calif. harbor by the tilt-up driven rain will seep through ordi- method, with cement roof girders a temporary lay-off and has called slab has cured enough for h~n­ their old men back to work. "This dling, steel strongbacks are tem­ nary. poured concrete walls. also being poure.d on grade and SETS RE.CORD firm .plans on moving over a mii­ ponfrily attached and the slab is 4. SPEED. Given good weather, hoisted into place. Hon yards of earth this season and lifted upright by a crane and set a tilt-up building can be finished There has been one truck crane, will add several engineers to its in place in a bed o.f mortar. much faster than one of the same one dozer, and an air compressor size using conventional concrete on the job at all times, and three AT RE-DDING · already ]arge group of cat oper- Temporary props hold the slabs u pright · until forms are placed techniques. _ cranes much of the time. The re- By E. A. HESTER ators- H. D. mechanics, LaPlant around the narrow spaces left Mr. Ward ·estimated the San port notes that this has made jobs Business Representative Choate and Woolridge operator's. between the slabs, and concrete Bruno GSA warehouse was fin- for eight engineers and comments, I am looking for{,ard to the Bros. Jim Swack and Ott Mo!i- pilasters are poured to make a ished at least 30 days earlier the' "This is not bad for a concrete coming year with enthusiasm. The nairi are opening up a heavy duty continuous -wall. - tilt-up way than it would have building job, where usually a first big job will come up for open- repair shop at 601 South El When the ,roof tr usses are set been otherwise. crane is called spasmodically just ing of bids on February 24. It is Camino Real, in San Bruno. Tris _atop the walls and bolted in place, Mr. Theodore Rhoades, a super- for pouring concrete." the beginning of that 190 miles of shop is to be fully equipped to the outside concrete shell is com­ v1smg engineer for Barrett & Mr. Rhoades of the Barrett & highway around Shasta Lake, and handle all types of heavy duty re­ plete and the structure is rigid. Hilp who has supervised several Hilp organization would make no this particular job will be about pair work in addition to the shop. Size of the slabs varies with of that outfit's tilt-up structures, estimate of how much extra work 11 miles in length. These brothers plan on operating · specifications for the pa1;ticular was even more emphatic about there should be for engineers on There ·will be ·approximately a service truck to handle all field building; 20x20 feet is a relatively 700,000 yards of roa-dway excavat- repair work. Good luck to you in small size. Slab sections for the ing and also a lot of channel exca- this venture. new maintenance base built by \rating. It looks as though the con- The Stone s o n Co., Standard Barrett & Hilp for United Air Jo ickup in Fresn tractor will have to set his figure Builders, Sterling Builders and around $1,000,000. several others are engaged in· sub- Lines at South San Francisco were (Continued from Page 7) - In this so.me area McGouran 28 feet high by 20 feet wide and In March we will have in this division work throughout this area, and on' approximately 4% 'miles of Construction working with Maca! . t th t h b d weighed 19 tons each. district about three more highway and proJeC s a ave een or- What -- may be a high for such Highway 99-four-lane road from Improvement Co. have a 400,000 jobs coming up si~ilar to the one mant for several weeks are again panels until now is a building Livingston north. yard land leveli?g job in progress. mentioned above. From the infor- ! active. . erected . for Moore Industrial Co. Gordon Ball on their Pixley job Generally speaking, land level- mation I can gather bids on -the I The local contractors m the area in San Jose by Panelcrete of Cali­ are more or less standing "by for ing this wint-er has been slow in power house at Big 'Bend will be including Peter Sorensen, L. rC. fornia early last year. Here the a break in the weather before con­ this district, but there are signs of opened in February or early in Sm~th, Bragato Paving Co., Frank , wall sections were 36 feet high. tinuing operations. a spurt between now and the first March. This is going to be quite :Smith and several others are_ try Tilt-up is not really a new idea. Eaton & Smith Co. on Highway 0 f M . a good sized power house about mg to complete some proJects It has been used occasionally for 180 have· been delayed considerably Th:YBureau of Reclamation is 150,000 yards of excavating: and it which have been idle due to the some time, but it was only recent­ because of weather. However they also advertising for bids in March is expected to take about two weather, but no new work to speak ly that the "bugs'' were wprked will enlarge operations within the for 64 miles of pipeline in the years to complete the job. of has been started as yet.· out. Now several construction out­ next two weeks. Delano-Earlimart Irrigation Dis- The tunnel at Pit No. 4 is well fits- some specializing in this work Sharp & Fellows Co. have started tricts.- - So far as we know this underway with one heading. They V. Gill, Luther Slater, A. J. Mc­ -have·:. refined the methods and their quarry operations at Pi-edra, job is entirely within the Jurisdic- are now making preparations to Cra-e-these men have plenty of.. . -.­ de.,ieloJe:d "experienced crews, a rt'd .still working on their bridge con­ tion of Local 3, i.e.:' north of the open 'up the second heading which what it-,takes. In addition the job what seems like a rash of such tract at the same location, and as Kern county line. I think will be in a month or six calls for motorman and brakemen, building is breaking out. weather permits operating full We have not as yet received of- weeks. "H?-ywire Les" Huntington, and there we have Brothers Walter ENG-~Tq>EERS NEWS, searching scale· on the upper Kings River ficial word that the San · Joaquin that famous tunnel driver, is really Mortensen, Frank Landers, Ralph for ·,, mote'-- information about tilt­ Road. River development at Vermillion off in a big way. They have al­ Tufts, - F rancis Hempe, Ernest up, 'contacted Mr. J. Francis Ward We can anticipate a 4 1h million Valley and lV(ammouth Pool will ready broken a world's record of Johnson, John Korander, James C. _ of the San Francisco. architectural dollar extension program to Castle proceed this Spring. RUMORS 52 feet in 24 hours-the tunnel is Mathis, George Cheatum, and Cur- and engineering firm, Ward & Air Force Base early this spring. SAY YES. 22 fe et overall in diameter. · ly Cummings. • Bolles.' This firm has designed sev­ In M3.dera county, the H. Earl There has been more drain on Of course, he has a lot of good Brothers Ralph Henley, William eral big.. til~up · concrete structures Parker Co. are still working on our blood bank, the donations fall- help out there. The boys that are T. Williams, and A. G. WilmoUJ built by Barrett & Hilp and other· their Bureau of Reclamation con­ irig behind the withdrawals. Why really making the world's record, recently took on job3 as bral<:emen. outfits, including the United Air tract! with Kovick Bros. as·. sub not donate a pint of yours nexe in tunnel boring are Brother Robt. The old-timer, Pete Whitehurst, Lines· building, a big warehouse contractor on structures. day off ? McAvoy, master mechanic, and his operates the big 24 cat. H. H .. bui~Qn San Bruno for the govern­ Stolte Co. recently submitted low The next regular meeting will be gang, which consists of Brothers Pemelton and Otis V. Gardner aTe ment's. General Services Adminis­ bid for the second phase of this held Febl'uary 26, 1953, 8 p.m. a.t Paul G. Edwards, A. · J. Bird, Ivar very important·, you would think tration, a just-completed ware­ project and expect to start as soon 631 Kearney, Fresno, California. Broman, Walter Schultz, Tom from their actions, o.nd true they house in San Francisco's Apparel as the contract is awarded. Holding mail for the following: Evans, Vernon Dixon, 0. S. Hicks, ate-they operate the truck crane. City, and others. The third section, compnsmg F. A. Acrey; Luther Myers; Ver- arid R. H. Trippetts. The rear· prqducers on this proj-. Until some of the kinks were some 32 miles of canals involving non 0. Kelly; Pershing Bell; Bert Then you know they have a lot ect are the mucking machine oper~ ~orked out recently, Mr .:ward ex­ 750,000 yards of ,dirt, has a bid­ Lynch; Edwin H. Matlock; Wm. k. of hot air in the tunnel, and on ators, who ·are-Brothers W. F . Hall,_ p lained, the nat1,1ral advantages of opening date early in March. WeiSner. the compressors are Brothers Gray James H. Smith and Lester. Harles.- - -... ..