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~he Journal of RECORDING · THE · ELECTRICAL· E2A \ ,vOL. XXXIV WASHINGTON, D. c .. AUGUST, 1935 NO.8 li R Policyholders' Month • • August is Policyholders' Month for Union Cooperative, and if you are one of our policyholders we would like to take care of any changes which should be made to bring your insurance up to date. August is a good month to check over your life insurance, even if it is not in Union Cooperative, and we suggest the following points for a check-up. Address. Has my address or the address of my beneficiary changed, so that I should notify the company? Beneficiary. Is the name of my beneficiary properly given, so that there can be no mistake? If the beneficiary named has died, shouldn't I change the beneficiary to some one else or to my estate? Should I name a second beneficiary now, in case anything should happen to the present one? Loans. If I have a loan on my policy, this is really borrowing from my bene ficiary. Shouldn't I begin to repay the loan, so that the policy will stand again at the full amount? ' Method of Payment to Beneficiary. Should I ask the insurance company to pay the money monthly to my beneficiary instead of in one lump sum; or should I have a small amount paid at my death and the balance in instalments? Amount I Carry. Do I have enough life insurance for real protection? If not, how much more premium money can I save, and what is the best kind for me to take out? AUGUST IS A GOOD TIME TO BRING YOUR INSURANCE UP TO DATE. Union Cooperative Insurance Association (A legal reserve life insurance company) 1200 Fifteenth Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. iiiiliiiiiiiiiiiliiiiilliliiiliflifliililliilii!i!5.i!lIiitltilllili!i!II' fIIiliilfillitilililiflitIIIIlm N~====================================================~~! ~ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE Magazine Chat Page Mae West or Joan INTERNATIONAL Crawford. Would you believe it, your official Journal, the ELECTRICAL WORKERS AND OPERATORS Electrical Workers Journal, is PUBLISHED MONTHLY getting fan mail? Because WCFL has courteously con G. M. BUGNIAZET, Editor, 1200 15th Street N. W., Washington, D. C. sidered your Journal of enough significance to make mention of its contents over the radio, This Journal will not be held responsible for views expressed by correspondents. fan mail is beginning to arrive. The first of each month is the closing date; all copy must be in our hands on or before. Charles D. Mason, contribu tor to this Journal, has won an acceptable place among radio EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Railroads __________________ C. J. MCGLOGAN announcers on the premier Bremer Arcade, St. Paul, Minn. International President, D. W. TRACY, labor microphone. Here is an 1200 15th St., N. W., Washington, excerpt from one of the letters: D. C. INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL "Will you kindly mail us a International Secretary, G. M. BUG copy of the Electrical Workers NIAZET, 1200 15th St., N. W., Wash CHAS. M. PAULSEN, Chairman ington, D. C. 4919 Cuyler Ave., Chicago, 111. Journal. We are very much First District_______ G. W. WHITFORD interested in the talk given last International Treasurer, W. A. HOGAN, night by Mr. Mason. We are 647 South Sixth Ave., Mt. Vernon, 1517 Third Ave., New York, N. Y. N. Y. Second DistricL__________ F. L. KELLEY constant listeners on WCFL 95 Beacon St., Hyde Park, Mass. and get a good deal of pleasure VICE PRESIDENTS Third District __________________ M. P. GORDAN and good out of it. Mr. Mason 607 Bigelow Blvd., Pittsburgh, Pa. First District___________________ E. INGLES has a very pleasing voice." Fourth District _____ EDWARD NOTHNAGLE R. R. 3, London, Ont., Can. 1717 G St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Second District __________ CHAS. KEAVENEY Fifth District ______________ JAMES F. CASEY In these days when the daily Box 648, Lynn, Mass. 5051 Maffitt Ave., St. Louis, Mo. press has grown more and more Third District ___________ EDW. F. KLOTER Sixth District________ G. C. GADBOIS unprofessional in its handling 1200 15th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 1532 No. Boston St., Tulsa, Okla. of the news, it seems sensible Fourth District ___ARTHUR BENNETT Seventh District _____C. F. OLIVER for labor unionists to push their Box 241, Youngstown, Ohio 1045 King St., Denver, Colo. Fifth DistricL___________ G. X. BARKER own publications. If you will Eighth District ________ J. L. McBRIDE scan the front pages of a num 1620 North 20th St., Birmingham, Ala. 165 James St., Labor Temple, Sixth DistricL______________ M. J. BOYLE Winnipeg, Can. ber of daily papers, you will 3530 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 111. discover that they are not writ Seventh DistricL__________ W. L. INGRAM TELEPHONE OPERATORS' ing news at all but propaganda. 3641 Laughton St., Fort Worth, Texas DEPARTMENT It is this or that person's opin Eighth DistricL_________ H. W. BELL President _______________ JULIA O'CONNOR ion and not what has happened. Box 471, Denver, Colo. 5 Boylston Place, Boston, Mass. Dangerous this is to the human Ninth DistricL_________ H. P. BRIGAERTS Secretary ____________..MARY BRADY Pacific Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. 5 Boylston Place, Boston, Mass. mind. We have laws forbidding adulteration of food, but the adulteration of public opinion Contents Pag_ goes unchallenged. Frontispiece • • • 318 Survival-By Whom? . • • • • • 319 For our cover this month we Demand for Constitutional Reform Grows • 320 are indebted to the PWA artist, Are Business Men Avowed Anarchists? 321 Lora F. Wilford, for a painting Tracy Asks Study of Social Control • 322 A. F. of L. Will Hear Report of I. L. C.. • 323 entitled "Pioneers." Farmers Interested in Rural Electrification 324 Will Rural Wiring Develop Yardstick • 325 How Morgan "Aided" President Cleveland 326 H. E. Owen, a member of the Garibaldi vs. Mussolini: A Contrast • 327 Fraternity of the Air, writes: Technicians Make or Break Great Stars 328 "I have noticed in the I. B. Arbitration is Tried by Toledo. • • 329 Earth's Hot Interior Can Make Electricity • 330 E. W. magazine that the Fra Engineer's Technical Notes on Coaxial Cable 331 ternity of the Air is steadily Poverty of Ill-Distributed Abundance • 332 States Rapidly Set Up Housing Agencies 333 growing. I have listened on Tabulated Vote Upon Referendum • 334 160 meters for some of the calls Public Works Wages Subject to Order 335 listed but as yet I have not Editorial • • 336 Woman's Work 338 contacted any. Correspondence • 340 "I sincerely hope this feature Fraternity of the Air 343 In Memoriam • • • • 350 will continue to be printed in Local Union Official Receipts 359 the magazine." ~~~==================================~~ ""'"" '"'"'"'11" "iiI'"""""'""®@i&iiI"'"""""III'""""'IllllIlIl= Prlnt..s by Natlonal Publ1shing Co. ,,~. 7 1222 H Bt. N. w .. Wa8hlngton. D. C. 318 The Journal of Electrical Workers and Ope1-ators August, 1935 eourt.os;y Theodoro lU1111 PHOTOGRAPHY PORTRAYS POVERTY AND DESPAIR The above vital portrayal is the work of a nonprofessional photographer in the Federal Employment Relief Administra tion. He has done more than catch the dejection of the out-or-work man; he has adroitly sketched in a background, natural and appropriate, but positively suggestive of an orderly world, mathematically shaped to more humane ends than today's present chaos. THE JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS &OPfRATORS Official Publication of the International Brotherhood of Eledrical Workers VOL. XXXIV WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST, 1935 NO. 8 Survival-By Whom? UTILITY magnate, in speaking of the Rayburn and steel prices have not fallen off at all during the depression. Wheeler bill, said : "We are fighting for self- The government has tried vainly to get a lower price for itself. A preservatlOn.. " I t has been only recently that the Public Works Administra Unfortunately, due to the kind of industrial statesmanship tion has made an effort to get foreign steel in the United offered by many: utility magnates and other business leaders States at a figure that would compete with the monopolistic the entire population is also locked in a struggle for self-pres price set by the steel corporation. ervation. Literally a struggle for life, it has come to be. Re By these policies big business has built up its empire. fusal of big business to submit to any needed social changes There has been no obedience to or respect for law and order whatsoever has arrayed this nation into two camps: on one and there has been an utter disregard for workers, consumers side about 200 billionaires who own and control the great cor and stockholders. They have attached technicians to porations, and on the other side the people, as farmers, work them by systems of bonuses for they readily see that with ers and consumers. out the technicians they would be helpless. During this The following is a telescoped, but accurate picture of what tremendous push against the community by these billionaires, constitutes the performance of these corporation leaders. it has never occurred to them that they should fit themselves for the function of real industrial statesmen. They have On initial low investments-sometimes as low as a few despised history as Henry Ford openly said. They are cul thousand dollars-they have organized holding companies. tureless. They know little economics and less engineering. Then by means of stock dividends, over-issues of common Their philosophy is summed up under the slogan "Buy low, stock, corporation write-ups, false bookkeeping entries, they sell high." They have subsidized the press which chants ~ have capitalized, on inflated values, these original low-cost high-sounding litanies to the god of private initiative and corporations. profits. By means of the press they have hopelessly muddied the They have divorced ownership from management. They waters and confused values. While millions of workers have have issued much non-voting stock.