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$~ Tttt\\L CAL WOI//(£P$ L I -----.J ~ THE JOURNAL OF ~ 1..---- ~ tttt\\lCAL WOI//(£p ~V AND OPERATORS tiS,' OFFICIAL PUBLICATION INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS , :,,:!':= .,'".: .'J'::/ II Yo!."(;.\ II ,~/: " ~. fi""'=======;11 ~:. t II G.A!' VANJ II October, 1915 I II 1.M!Ar)Y II AFFILIATED WITH THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR IN ALL ITS DEPARTMENTS DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF ( ORGANIZED LABOR ( ) I! HAn co 1'1 I II ~I II I 1 "RED DEVil" TOOLS Help to Obtain Better Work because they are made by.skilled mechanics who know and handle tools. !!I!!!!!!I_~_.==;;;~ This "RED DEVIL" _--=::::"-",,,_ ,. drop forged steel side cutter will prove it to you. Cuts the toughest wire with least strain. racCifti~itj~faD"N o-Pinch" handles of scientific design gives user a grip liKe a vise. Tested cutting edges, polished head and gun metal finished handles. SAMPLE 7 INCH SIZE SENT FOR $1.00. BOOKLET FREE. 169 CHAMBERS ST. Smith & Hemenway Co., Inc. NEW YORK CITY Union Made Union Label If you have not used this Bit, please do so at once. Any Electrician that does not like it better than any Bit he ever had, can get his cash back. Gentlemen, is this the kind of a guarantee you like to see on Union Label Goods? Now, it's up to you. :;a~u~ac.tu~.~ W. A. Ives Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn. Fitchburlt, lIase., December 17, lila. The W. A. Ives Mfg. Co., Wallinltford, Conn. Dear Sir: I am sending you under separate cover a No. 9, ll/ 16 "MEPHISTO" Bit whieb 1 was using when I struck a nail. I forced the bit throUlth-it cut the nail off and the ...n came out \V ,:>und around the worm of the bit. I am an electrician and use a good many bits. h\it have never found any that would .tand up the way. the "MEPHISTO" Bits do. This bit I am sendinp: you is practical1y unhurt despite its experience. You mal' use this as a testimonial if you wish. Respectfully yours, FRED A. HAUNANT, FAR. CEH. Care Bruce Huestis Elec. Co., Fitchburlt, Maaa. Blake Insulaled SI,ples BLAKE 1:1 6 Signal &. Mfg, GD: 5 Sizel 251 Cauleway St. BOSTON :-: MASS. Pat. Noy 1900. Pat. July 1906 BLAKE TUBE FLUX Convenier.t to c arry and to uee. Will not collect dust and rlirt nor get on tool. in kit. You can get the soldering flux just where you war.t it and in just the desired quantlt,. When wr Iting mention The Journal of Eleotrloal Worker. and Operator.. The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and all Its Departments. OWNED AND PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS CHAS. P. FORD, International Secretary, GENERAL OFFICES: REISCH BUILDING SPRINGFIELD, ILL. Sub8cription, 25c per year, in advance. Thi. Journal will not be beld responsible for view8 expressed by correspondents. The tenth of each month is the clOlling date; al1 capy must be in our hand. on or betor". Secan" Clua privilege applied for at the Post Office at Springfteld, JJJinois, under Act of June 2Vtb, lOOn. INDEX. Classified Directory 230 Correspondence .................... ..................... 172 Editorial ................................ ............... 166 Elementary Lesson in Electricity and Magnetism .......... 199 From "Revolution" to Injunction ......................... 159 In Memoriam ............................................ 1.62 Local Union Directory ................................... 205 Notices .................................................. 165 Official Receipts ......................................... 168 Practical Hints .......................................... 160 THE JDURNAL OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS AND OPERATORS OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS Second CIa.. .,miIese applied lor at the Pool Office at Sprinafi_ld. Illinois. under Act of Jun_ 26th. 1906 Sinale Copies. 10 c.ato VOL. XV, No.3 SPRINGFiElD, ILL., OCTOBER 1915. 25< per Year. in ac:InDce From "Revolution" to Injunction In 1905 a great noise was heard in the for unskilled workers wages larger than industrial world-heralding the advent those received by unorganized skilled of a new savior of Labor. This savior workers and some members of profes yearned after big deeds and dreamed sions. great dreams and proclaimed great re When the I. W. W. found themselves forms. Everything connected with this powerless before this local difficulty in new idea was "big"-the industrial work Boston, did they take the "short cut," ers of all lands were -to be organized apply direct action and triumph glor upon a world scale. "One Big Union" iously over great difficulties? Did they was to encompass all industry-one big give reality to the inspiring ideal of uni union, mighty to do and dare. versal brotherhood? Did they center But the idea was so big and so vague their united forces upon the one objec and so intangible that harnessing it to tive, each for all, and all for each? practical uses was very much akin to try The I. W. W. sought a pettifogging ing to use a rainbow for a dyepot. The lawyer who consented to take their case spokes of the "big wheel" were tangled for a consideration, and after the man in the machinery for adjusting industrial ner of D. E. Loewe Company, Hitchman relations and became an unmanageable Coal and Coke Company of West Vir buzzsaw in the evolution of industrial ginia, the Anti-Boycott Association, insti welfare. tuted legal proceedings against Union The industrial revolutionists scorned 205 of the International Hodcarriers and simple, methodical policies and pro Common Laborers on the ground that claimed direct action as the only method. they constituted an illegal conspiracy They sang of that glorious free spirit and asked a friendly judge to please which took that of which it had need give them an injunction restraining their took regardless of let or hindrance. Di fellowworkers of the universal brother rect actionists avowed the morals and hood! the metbods of primitive, uncomplex life. These industrial workers boasted like They gloried in their power and their industrial Don Quixotes-they pro freedom from conventional regulations claimed an industrial spirit akin to that or standards. of the chivalrous ideals when knight These things they avowed. What they hood was in flower. have done is well illustrated by an inci The boasted deeds-they besought the dent that recently happened in Boston. court for an injunction-yes, a real, genu The "Industrial Workers of the World" ine, dyed in the wool injunction. sought to gather the common laborers They proclaimed themselves the sav under their wing in one big union-the iors of the workers, were like the moun "I. W. W." has always presented as the tain of old that travailed in great pain greatest justification for its existence and brought forth a mouse. The injunc effective work in organizing the un tion was applied for and later denied and skilled. the Boston Laborers' Union is now on its But the unskilled of Boston did not load for better protection and the pro heed the allurements of the one big motion of the rights and interests of union-they made evident their prefer the workers. Now, the I. W. W. will go ence for the International Hodcarriers on howling for another "One Big Union," and Common Laborers' Union of Amer then "Bust" it and later appeal to the ica, an international that had developed "capitalistic" courts for more injunctions. such skill in organization that it secured And there you are! -(Am. Fed.) 160 THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL PRACTICAL HINTS The ordinary metal molding will carry cause it requires less copper than either four number fourteen, single braid rubber the single or two phase systems. For covered wires. distribution, however, the two-phase sys The right kind of a hacksaw hlade for tem nresents certain advantages, thus, it cutting metal molding is one with fine becomes desirable at the distribution teeth. A blade with fine teeth will ride centers to change from three phase to the moulding and prevent stalling or two phase. catching. This hint will save blades and The saving in cost of transmission ob timE.' on a fair sized job. tained by using alternating instead of Many wiremen use a three-cornered file direct current is not due to any differ for cutting metal molding, using a small ence in the characteristics of the cur piece of capping as a file guide. The rents themsclves, but to the fact that in base or capping is marked with the file the case of alternating current very high deep enough to break it oft pressures may be employed, thus permit With care metal molding can be bent ting a given amount of energy to be to any radius down to four inches. transmitted with a relatively small cur The base and capping should never be rent. bent separately, always snap them to The standard voltages for alternating gether first_ current transmission range from 2,320 to Metal molding makes a neat job for 150,000 volts. extra wiring in a finished building where The highest voltage for which alterna open work is required. tives are built is 13,200 volts. Step-up For bank wiring metal molding is being transformers are then used to raise the almost exclusively used for wiring for voltage to the desired pressure. lights, fans, adding machines and electri Storage batteries are used in connec cal bank appliances. tion with isolated or central stations to The heights of center of wall outlets supply current when dynamos are run (unless otherwise specified) for electric ning, as well as at the hours of the wiring: heaviest load when perhaps the capacity Living room, 5 feet, 6 inches; Cham of the dynamos may not be fully equal bers, 6 feet; Offices, 6 feet; and corridors, to the demands made upon them.

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