OPERATING ENGIN·EERS LOCAL 'l STATrONARY ENGINEERS LOCAL 39 VOl. · 8-No. 1 ,SAN FRANCISCO, CAliF. sk President Truman Honors Gornpers Don't let Priva·~e Insurance Rob . F r Water projects_in California will get a $114 million chunk of the new federal budget, if Pr:esident Truman's reguests are By P. E . VANDEW~JR.JK Assistant Local Union l'l/mnage.r - approved. Covered are 10 flood control projects, three navi­ , gation, and three reclamation jobs for major attention dur­ The program sponsored by ~.h e California State Federation c::.n d ing the new fiscal year starting July 1. W ashington.-President Truman tells Gompers Memorial Dinner all of its affiliated unions to cZ.."1"' F or the Central Valley Project, ------that he recalls AFL founder as "the originator of the great move· eel out an priva te (voluntar y ) .l:n-; t he budget Galls for ·a new allot- jll If\~ ment which set labor free." He is applauded,- I.' to r., by Vice-President surance plans, is showing good and Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, AFL President William Green, AFL ment progress although it i;; felt t.!! at of $49,513,000, wilich will uu i!Jie on Job Secretary-Treasurer George Meany and Secretary of State Dean provide funds to further many Acheson. · Immediately below. Mr. Truman are seated, .1. to r., John P; our organization has not .shc;Nn; the progress it s hould on th.e p·o.-< phases of the vast water-power Frey, president of the AFL Metal Trades Depa~tment and Gompers During October biooTapher · Vice-President John Keenan and Pres!(lent Chester Sample gram. project reaching from Shasta on . A total of 66 deaths was reported of the Molders and Foundry Workers Union. Vve are therefo re adoptinr;.- a: the .north 400 m1les south to to the State Division of Labor Sta­ somewhat different poiicy- 'm Bakersfield. tistics and ResearcL1 in October 11 obtaining the signatures .of {he Requested also ·is $8,~:9,000 for more than in Oct~ber a year -~go. J E • f D ~\A 1 ~ members so that their vario us 11 the _ew Santa Barbar a Cou ~lt y 1 Thirty-three workers died in ve- anuary, ng1n eers · an g e r ou ~ ( ~ lonrn employers may be notified to cw ~ dam m Sant~ Yne; valley, gettmg · hicular accidents. Of this number , eel out any private plan insunuce­ under way 111 a J.ew weeks, _and 17 were killed in traffic acc;dents, Greetings: bo'dy chilled from exposure to cold they may now have a.nd to re'.'0Tt $4, 648,200 fo r the All-Amencan including 3 at railroad grade cross- A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ' does not move as quickiy, coordina- back to the State of Californta Un .. Canal. i.ngs. Nine employees \Ver·e kl.lled tion is not so exact and accidents · t f A · Yes, a Very Happy New Year allCll.llJ·uri·es J1'. ay· follo\v. Tl1ose first employment Disability Insur2, :!ce< B u d get estJma es or rmy engi- in plane .crashes. . - - Plan as provided for b y law. . flood contr·ol p· I' OJ·ects ar·e. bee, a use through your efforts there months are dangerous months. neer · Six workers were killed in falls. P ine Flat reservoir, $13,500,000·; may be fewer accidents, fewer in- They are treacherous m onths. They Your business representative w .i ll Los Angeles county drainage area, A . rotary helper ·employed by a junes, less physical suffering, less will' ·bear watching. call upon you, on t he job, for yqur. dnllmg contractor was tlghtenmg - . , I signature, and your .cooperat5Drr $9,500,000 ; Whittier Narrows r eser- bolts on a derrick .mast when the mental suffen!:Jg. So, keep a careful a nd a watch- and assistance l s requested.. 'I'i!li§ voir, - $7,500,000; Folsom reservoir , wrench slipped, causing him to fall. First 111 tne New Year come th~ f~l - 'l! e _- ~po n tl1em so that you, action i 1>· necessar'Y so. th.a;!;' .llliU l \' :11 - $1,634,000; Isabella reservoir, $3,- A'· utility company employee fell m? ~ 1ths. of wq;ter ;1n d those r:1onths I your · fellow, workers ?~? LU' f ~m: l y, , ion5 in · the State ~~~ ~Y be ~l!P!e. ~ ~ 500,000; Cherry Valley reser\;oir, (Continued on Page 12) bnn ~ mor e and greater danger to a nd your fe!lO\'/ workers families· I combat the yicious attaeks m $500,000 ; Sacramento r iver (old * * * engineers than do the others. There ,all may have i:iJb project), $2,805,000; Sacramento , is snow, there is sleet, there is ice A HAPPY NEW YEAR. by the private insurance :C@!IIlli!l-ankg river and tributaries, $1,000,000. and all of t hose add to the hazards Fraternally your s, upon impr ovell Iegislation ]liToposB o!'ll The budget did not itemize t he involYed in the operation of con- Wi\I. E. MALONEY, by your, organization a111-!i1 otloiler; labor uri1ons for better aillll!l1 ,m ([iH, $50 million total program proposed straction machinery. The human General President. . ~· . foi· the Central Valley Project, l:>ut liberal payJ11 . ~nts of not omtlly dl ~@ ­ a Reclamation Bureau summary ability insura.nce, but ,a,Us@ ;p-fl.;y­ said most . emphasis will. be placed ments which you are eililtiiftlled ' ·~ lli on t he Delta-Mendota canal, t he receive under the IndustrbJ!. :Oa:r:Jl.:. C.. N. R.ichards Delta · cross channel, the Tracy OffiCIAl t~OTICE TO fvlEMBE'RS pcnsation, in the event tlb!iil.t ~)o :m November 7th, 1949 pumping plant, the Tracy swito::h­ REPRINT OF U~"'I ON DIRECTORY IS ON PAGE 12. are unfortunat e enough to· rec et< ',y~ Fred Wulfert yard, and the east side 230 kilovolt For the convenience of the membership we h ~.ve reprinted and an injury on the job. November 23, 1949 transmission line, all of which are revised the DffiECTORY showing the Officers, location and phone The law also provides that sho·~1J d scheduled for initial operation by P..obert J. Richards number of each Office, in addition to .the Business Representatives an individual employee desire :t o June 30, 1951. The Friant-Kern November 24, 1949 working out of each locality and their home phone numbers. lVIC1111 - have his insurance transferred canal will either be finished or un. Dale C. Mvore bers should cut out this directory and· keep it f-or theh· own informa­ from any private plan to the stat€1 der contract for completion by this December, 1949 tion. · plan, his employer is compelled :W date also. · 0. E . Butler do so upon written n otice froi:il. December, 1949 . . * . TECHNICAL ENGINEERS, LOCAL NO. 3-E MEETING his employee, irregardless of wh_at Clark S. Dowe * * * The next meeting of the Technical Engtneers, Local. No. 3-E, will action other employees may ta 1~e . , ·December 11, Hl4;9 -..: be held in the Union, Ojfices at 1444 Webster St., Oa.kland, Calif., on In other words the law means th.at Croston K. Stead Officers Gr.eef Fri!lay;.January 27th, 1950, a.t 8 p. m. the wishes of an individual m~ ~~t December .1:1, 1949 be complied with, r ather than the Dean W. Stevens * * BLOOD DONATIONS STILL NEEDED wishes of the majority . of E::D.­ December 16, 1949 Pres. Maloney If you didn't make that New Year's resolution. to

.A New Ye.a!'s Message By John VI. R1,1ssell Rents F~ as II Report .of .last mee,ting As we enter into ;this New Year of 1950, too many of us t Ir leftI I The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. President Clancy It that unsettled c· . ~ . '. ~ . J presiding. Roll cal! showed an officers present. · Americans feel unwarranted gloom. is true I: · cqnditions prevail thr ~mghout the world. As a co_nsequence, On ro I A synopsis o{ the r egular meeting minutes of December 3 was .. 01,lr min_ds are filled \Vith·- fe·ars, worries, anxiety, failure, in-· While m~~~PEP~i~~~se ~ontinue to. . read and. by moti01i a.pproved as read. A sy_nopsis of the Executive ary 4 read and the acts . . This is ·true in spite of the fact that we d . t . 1 Board Mmutes of December 14 and of Janu fer.iority; pe_ssimtsm 1 1 1 as read, h · h · · uepcrAeans-ed tsheo w :'• renb s <~ep ' gomg j! and recommendation~ of the board ·were by motion approved ar.e en]oymg· · t e hig est standard of living in history; also m . y 1.ave een mcreasmg . . . . . many. ways we have blessings heretofore never known by each month for nearly three years. wtth the exceptiOI_I of that part regardmg· a r esolutiOn · which was re- any people on earth. We may belong to one of the very best And the outlook for the next I ferred t~ new busmess. · Labor Organizations in the land, one which has been highly year is still higher rents. 1 A letter of thanks was received from Mrs. Thelma Collett and Wh h t t d'l I from John F. Shelley. Received and filed. · . instrumental in bringing to us the comforts and joys of a for tl~e l=~t \~~:·eeg~:~r~~ ~eec~ t: s~ I The following brothers were reported ill: Ray H . Arnold, Miguel inl{, LeRoy Bryant, R . E. really worthwhile life, and yet are afflicted with this disease . real estate lobbyists have been able I Archuleta, Edward s. Bigger, Earl Brambr of gloom. Vie may conclude therefore, notwithstanding a bad to get Congress to weaken rent i Christensen, George Carter, Alfred. DePew, Jolm Da~ey, Henry Elsas- wodd situation, that it is principally a state of mind. And control legislation. Iser, \Vm. F. Folden, Johnny Green, G. o. Gullil{SOn, Ray c . .Haau nes, since it is a state of mind, we, as individuals, can take an LOBBY HAS AXE OUT z. P. Hall, Alva H. Je!>see, Silve~tro Lugri~s, Wm. McKinnon,_ E(lw~rd Th . d t 1 J_. Matheson, A. W. l\'Ia.xwell, W. G. 1\'Iartm, Paul i\'1. Melton,, Ed F. 1 Leon Reese, Wm. Ryan, account of ourselves and.do something about it. d -eJ pres3e0nt1~nl a equla e rentl- babw I Murphy, Robert J . :Murdock, Robert Pollard, 1u· t "I 'tl J St ft E . en s une . 1e rea estate o Y A t'1110 S . . D Sl s 1 c v First, let us remember that from the dawn of civilization, already is working on plans to kill gos Ciaro:u, · m.. a er, "'enn nu ' • ess · au • an • history records many political 9- nd economic upheavals which all rent controls .this year. Spe.ars, v. E. W~mmer, Jos_eph Yaeger. have thrown Nations into chaos. Bloody battles have been Meantime, Pr-esident Truman has The follo:wmg brothers were reported deceased: o. E . Butler, himself to fight for ex- I Wm. s. Collett, Clark s. Dowe, Dale c. i\i o~r e, R obert J . ~ice , Cros- 0 fought, results have been tragic and often disastrous. Despite pledg.ed . . . . tendirig controls. ton K. Snead, Dean \V. Stevens and Ted \Va.tte. these t~agedies, ?~~ PI~ed 0~ top of another, and despite Fig~res compiled by the Depart- The following resolution was read as the first reading : prophesies that CIVIlization will be destroyed, because of un- , ment of Labor show that the cam- RESOLUTION sound governments, barbarism, jet and atomiC weapons- paign against n::nt control has been WH,EREAS, t he present Labor Temple has become antiquated and despite all these things, let us be· reminded that the world 1successful. ther efore unsuited for the use of the labor movement in Sacramento, 1 1 has continued to progress all across · the dead centuries· and I . In 1946• ~~n t _vaid by ' ~ ?dera.te and . . . t . · · I h l · , l Imcome fam1hes xn large Cities was WHEREAS, La.bor has trred for ·several years without success to by the same token Will con"mue to do SO. n C ec :Ung oa: { about 8Y2 per cent above the 1935- formulate a plan to finance a new Labor Temple, an,d or­ th1~ough the ages, we fi nd that one of the strong charactens- 39 average. · 1 WHEREAS, four unions, namely, Carpenters, Engineers, Lab tics of man is an inherent determination to overcome obsta-~ By the end of 1947, the rent ers and Teamsters, propose to form an association for the purpose of des to beat defeat and overthrow all evil forces which these familes had to pay was up buildin g· a suitable Labor Temple in Sacramento, and thr~aten him so rel~ntlessly. '11 per cent over the 1935-39 .WHEREAS, a desirable locatiStreet for a gi:adnate-and the father of welfare exempt oring visiting British Trades Left to right, General San Francisco 3, California another graduate- of a school taxes on real property, the interest 1Vice-President Elmer E. Walker, ; President George Q. Subscription Price: $2.50 owned, operated and controlled by of · the claimant in the property !Lynch of the AFL Pattern Makers; Executive Secretary A. E. Lyon per year ' ' the Government to assail those must be of record on the lien date ~f .the Railway Labor Executives Association including AFL and inde· Mall all news llama In ·to editor no! who believe that same Government in the office of the recorder of the president of later than the 5th of each month. [Pendent railroad brotherhoods.t Bert M. Jewell, former measure of county in which the property is vepartment and now labor advisor to Entered as Second Class Matter Sep- should give a small the AFL Railroad Employes l aid to the thousands of located. Failure to make such re· Paul Hoffman,· European ·aid administrator, and ·Tftomas McKinney,. !ember 9, 1943, at the Postol!ice at San financia California, ~er the Act , s_tru_g!rling_ schools with their mil- ·cardin. f! constitutes waiver of ex· · executive council chairman of the British Society of Boile1·makers and Francisco,of August 24, 1912. ~ ~ 1 -s::;J• · Irons of youngsters. · emptwn, ,___Xron ___ and ·Steel_ __ .,. Shipbuilders._.,..__~ ---~ ""'·'-"'-"i!i·'·~'. .. •;; •;r.mgravel plant her~ m Reno, ' except Kelly Bros. are going· ahead with their levee job riear · on the various jobs, but most of these men have been on the Nevada. It will keep some of 'Colusa with 11 members on the cats and draglines and the contractor's payroll for .some time the Dear Brothers working weather has deterred them very little so far. and manage to keep busy all year months for Bechtel and from what most . of the Winter. The;e is Dahms Co~struction. Corrlpany · round. he says wants to go somev,ihere . . . _ have about fimshed their sew·erage - rental equipment agency in '\"i)b'a With very few exceptions the else at a later d'ate; possibly to qmte a number of the Broth- disposal plant in Colusa, California. City, off the new bridge ramp ·rmd Canada. Lyle "Curly" Atkinson has order for men from the contrac- ers working in the Reno shop. A Biasotti & Son job at Camp- will handle all kinds of com:t ruc- tors to our San Francisco office added another notcll to his belt as tonville, Calif., will get under way tion equipment. \ The Isbell stripping job is going . are just for jobs of one or tw·o far as completed contracts are 0011- in the spring as soon as the snow H. Earl. Parker Company sent a . cerned. He has recently returned along in fine shape. However, the days. However; some of these one is off. Brother AI Vercruzzen will few men down to the Los Angeles or two day jobs turn out to be the from Venezu~la after working extreme cold weather makes it be ·superintendent on this ·highway International Airport for Gbout tough on the brothers. They have best jobs that a member has ever with Raymond Concrete Pile Com­ project. four week's work. Parker still has added a couple of good brothers received. Every once in a while pany for the past 8 months. Before Steele & Easton has the excavat- a few men outi on the levee at to the crew, Bros. Matt Greve and one of our brothers comes in,.to Venezuela Curly was one year in ing on the small bridge on 99E in 'Meridian, California, and a good Liberia. Stanton H. Rikke is in Don McGowan. the Gridley area. shop c rew. the office and asks if we remember Smith Petersen is hauling gravel Rice Bros. are at a standstill Butt. e Creek Rock Compam, r at the "one-day job" that we had sent ~o:~e a;:~~ ~~n~r~~tj~~ ~o:a~e~~~ f rom the Sparks pit, with Bro. him on, eight months ago! That's Curtis Petersen on the link belt except for some commercial work Chico are overhauling their eq uip- B. P. M. Case Zwart has alsh re­ around the vicinity. ment during the"slack season with the Feason most members are will-. shovel. turned from Guam ... However, Lester L.' Rice is putting in a ·Local 3, notably the Fry Bros, and ing to take any job that comes foreign jobs are not coming into , Earl Games still is working out Jimmie Dorris. Brother Ed Borden, along regardless 'Of the fact that this office ... we do not know of at the disposal plant, Bro. Bill · it may only be for a day or w; superintendent, says they !lave a single man needed anywhere ... Games on the Northwest and Bro. pm!\\RS plenty material stock-piled for the · there's always a chance the day Les Jacobsen on the cat. Una"'n!U ow.··"·' .. only one man has report ed going Dun n time being. or so job may mean weeks or even out to any contractor and that was John B. Powers Co ~ has the shop . B & R Construction Company months. · John Meyers who has gone to work c~ew working and one_ shovel crew, cA .. on Ap:.rtmD;Jm&oe Vmce Schalk and J ames Lane. U ttl \;UU Jl have a general contract for an ad­ The M. & K. Tunnel Job at Lake on Guam f9r B. P. M. ff1 Merced is getting under way, they Bro. Jay Baker is on the cat. dition to Chico State College wi.th Morley Roberts has decided to ~slj p 1 -u ~h U Silver St ate Construction Co., . Raymond · Concrete Pile su. bbing are also finishing up their last fill try his luck in the parking lot bus­ ~ iJ ef -~·aon I . yn job. The Metropolitan, and other better known as Andy Drumm, has. ~ the piling with Brother Jack Long iness. If any of you br.others have most of its EngLneers working on 1 New York.- The AFL Amalga- on the driver. Good for about. a large housing projects, l).re slowly occasion to park in the vicinity of · coming to an end. The North .Point building dams and leveling land. mated Meat Cutters and Butcher month. Polk & Turk Sts., give Brother Bro. Clarence York i.s operating Workmen of North America an­ Sewer job is progressing as rapidly Morley a break. From what he as can be expected for this time a 76 Union Oil Station just west nounced plans for a cooperative says, it will be a few weeks before of Truckee, Calif., and he is just Around the Jobs· of the year. The Islais Creek apartment house fo1' 288 families The Ritcher Bros. of Orovi.lle, he is ready to open for business. as good a service station operator Bridge job is about through . . . with rents to start at $53 per ,keep a f~ w members busy on lc'.n cl Lots .of luck, Mickey, vve hope you as he was bl ade oper ator, while they are now putting the fill in month. leveling and are starting a job e ast make a success of it. operating for H. Earl Parker. ·on each side of the bridge. Mac­ A charter for the development of · Marysville at this writing, Brother R. W. (Wade) Carse had I am sorry to report that three Donald, Young & Nelson, contrac­ Was granted by the New York State Brother J . ·H. Sha ~er hs. .s four of the dear · brothers pas5ed away tors on the sewer disposal project a little misfortune with the crank Housing Commissioner· Herman T . rigs busy north of town with in Nevada, Bros. Ted \i\Taite, Cros­ off Evans A venue are proceeding on the starting motor of a cat. The· Stichman to the AFL union. The Brother Leon Bagley in charge. ton Stead and Edgar Parry. slowly due to wet weather, The crank kicked arid hit his right hand presentation· wa~ade to Union A. Till Company had t o shu t Fay Improvement Company are and broke it. Our sincere condol­ Vice President 'J6sep,h Belsky. their. tunnel down at Dobbins until tearihg up the street car rails and ences, Wade, hope it won't be long * * * • The project is to be known as about F ebruary 15, dtle to ltzd ;: of repaving San Bruno Avenue. This before you are back on the job! the , Harry Silver Apartments, in water. No rain as yet to fi ll Lf!ke Company has various small street HOW A B 0 U T THAT NEW Resolution. memory of a deceased un,ion mem- Francis. Till jobs at Lake Alm<•no.r· repair jobs scattered around town. YEAR'S RESOLUTION . . , Re­ ber, and will be located in the are shut down on account of snow Excavation work is about complet- member? About donating at least for All Vets Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. and winter weather. ed. on the Harney.;Atldnson job on .one pint of blood in the year 1950. "Resolved, that I will examine FIREPROOF A. Teichert & Sons Company F> till · the free~way and the piers are We certainly are off to a poor my National Service .Life Insur- Three 6-story semifireproof ele- have a small CJ'ew on theiZ' r oacl about ready for the red-iron. Eaton start ... we have had only one ance situation in the light. of my vator apartmel)t houses will be job near Tudor, California. Br other & Smith and Lowry Paving Com- response up· to ·date and have only family's circumstances and needs, constructed on a land area of 127·- Les Cowen, superintendent; Broth- pany are going along as usual, 11 pints to our credit at the· Blood 000 square feet located ·centrally and take the necessary action to in Brooklyn within one-fare zone. er Bill Clayton, hot plant for eman, keeping some of our members busy. Bank. We have_ just received word make it fit tliem." The development will contain 30 and B•rother Charles Lloyd on the Contracts for work on the South- that Brother Ceaser Rogers . has Some of tl1e lines this action cat feeding the plant. east Sewage .Treatment plant near donated a pint of his blood (which . ht 11 k d d' tl1 apartments with 5'/z rooms, 186 Jobs in the Feather R,.i,re r Islais Creek, final unit in the city's will make 12 pints on hand) ... mig we ta e, epen mg on e with 4 1/z' rooms, 72 with 3 1/z rooms, ' - individual veteran's case, are indi- with an over-all average of 4.35 Canyon are rapidly drawi11g t o a $35 million post-war sewer project, Thanks Brother Rogel's; you are cated by Granger as follo{;.•s: rooms. The project · cost is esti- close Walsh Constructi,on Com ­ have been awarded to Walsh Con- the first member to donate for the Conversion of t erm policy to a mated at $ , , , which includes pany still have a few Engin ;;, ers year 1950! How about some more 2 887 000 struction Co., Bates & Rogers, an·d permanent plan. garage stalls to be located be- busy at their tunnel, batch plant cooperation, Brothers? 136 J. H. Pomeroy & Co., Inc. Low bid Change in beneficiary or benefi- neath the apartment buildings. and power house job. was $2,132,118. Already underway ciaries. The maintenance charges will be T. E. Connolly is moving eqnip- are the $8,140,000 North PointSewc * * * \Mill'lln WiU ~.tl.au.Jy , Reinstatement of NSLI, if the $53 per month for 3,12 r ooms, $65 rnent to their Oroville yard to r e- age Treatment plant, and the $4,- Evnn~ 11n .Jh11i.H I policy has lapsed. for 4'/z rooms, $75 for 5,12 rooms, pair and stack it against the til11e 486,000 Islais Creek Sludge Treat­ fl!r ft i'R6:i~ll'il t!lrntfiW~iilJanuary 15, 1950 San Rafael- !Redding- MORE ·RA'Ifi ·AND· L_· -.\YORK Shast'a Dam _Big IN · . RT AY, ROAD J· S VE . st to Re •. g · By H. o. F-oss, Business Representative, Local 3 • Area Popula .t~o n RENNY BURROUGHS and C. R. VAN WINKLE, . With the advent of the rainy season, alL projects have "shut · By E. A. HESTER Business Representatives, Local 3 down" which makes for a steady flow of·members into the Business Representative, Local 3 . It shouldn't happen to an Engineer! But it does every win~ office ... to look over the Out-of~Work list ... and add The year 1950 finds Red­ ter here in Utah. Some of the finest operators in Lo.cal 3 their own name ... with the exception of the Tyson & ding bigger and better. Heavy have to face the toughness of winter snow and cold weather Watters Company's Mare· Island reclamation project which construction work is a bit and short work. There ·isn't any_grumbling : Every Brother is now double-shifting ... rain doesn't affect these boys. slack at. this time. However, sits tight knowing that work wm-·start after so much snow F~ederickson Brothers of Emery-~ I believe that phases of other has· fallen and the blizzards have known their worst. We· talk ville were low at approximately keep them b~s~ all winter · • ·. work is increasing. Scores of of work ahead and envy those frostbitten brothers lucky · , · . . weather perm1ttmg. · 1 b · b 'lt $240,000 on the highway Improve- Bl!other .Russell "Baked-Beans" new n~uses ~re . emg . Ul , enough to be underground on tunnel jobs or working in the ment between Foster Road and Halcro in a letter from west Scar- the busmess district contmues shops. atomic plant will start wit h a $12,- looks Union Station, Nap_a. boro, Maine, advises spring is with te- expand. Since the beginning of Right now work in Utah 000-plus 'excavation job for one Brother Thomas Dick "bustin' him · · · buds sprouting · · · guess construction on Shasta Dam the about as big for 1950 as it was in building, to be ·.done by Morrison od weather with him population of Redding has grown O\tt all over" on the recent addi- lle took the go f th 1949. Just enough better in ·fact & Knudson,. and a $2,500,000 job when he went East ... says he js rom 4500 to more · an 18 ,000 . Sh t D th d 1 t · that we feel that there will be a bid in by Bechtel. This work is tion to his family . .. says he sure .ti.I1g for- his buddy, Tom Hughes, as a am, e secon arges m Wal · th ld · 99 t 1 ln LQcal 370 but indirectly Engi· has a future cat skinner. e wor • IS per cen · comp ete. longer season for us and less lay­ the ballet dancer, to J'oin him in tt k neers in this state will feel the Brother John Q. Pearl recently R A . F ar1s· h ,b e er nown as Maine. . offs between jobs. Snow packs have effect of it. At least $6,000,000 will opened his pumice pit on the Mon- "Pete" of San Francisco, has start- not been as severe as last winter be spent on t his project this year. the finishing touches on ticello Road, in" Napa .. . says Saves 2 Ch'lldr·en ed to put and, on pressing jobs, if the winter thinks look good ·and hoping to Keswick Dam. With Brother , place some· brothers on the payi-oll Brother Jim '!Hot-Roller" Par- Lloyd Cables as general superinten- continues in its pre.sent tempo .Silica Deposits of Local 3 some work will begin in March. witl:lin a very short time. sons proved himself a hero dent directing a gang Our State road program is Atomic energy deposits near engineers as to how to do the work · Brother RobEh~ t Rolicheck, of 12 on visiting his son!s home he found planned to dOJ.lble last year and Marysvale and Castlegate are to Dam is 85 per cent com­ KnoH Road, Mill -Valley is avail- smoke pouring from all doors and Keswick should run about $20,000,000. Most be developed and large silic.a de. ncluding. the rel.ocation of able for . any spot .in the area with windows . . . he knew his two plete. I of it probably will be in the south. posits at Paragonah will be opened the railroad around Keswick Dam his Fordson Tractor-Loader-Scrap- grand-children were Jn the. house Projects planned for Sal;t Lake up for the Western Glass Corp. it is· expected that work will last er, all attachments . . . Brother and ·without thought of self, rushed County total about $35,000,000. At this writing Utah Construe­ year. "B.ob" can- be reached at Dunlap into ·the burning house . . . . both another These ar e largely building .and .in" tion .Co. nas the Garfield refinery Com- 8-4731. children were unconscious, but Trans-Ocean Engineering dustrial projects with a limited .job; the Lark Tunnel job, the Brit­ the bridge job at _Bl_Qt.b._er L. Carl Barber, master thanls:s to Jim's quick . action are pany finished bu t sizeable demand for Engineers. ish shaft .job at . Bingham, and the J anuary 5, 1950. The last meehp.njc wi_th · Sloss-J'aylor Com- now O.K. and only telling the Gerber on Work at Arco, Idaho, on tile Cedar City iron ore stripping job pa,ny on. the Redwood Highway "kids on the block" . . . with Jim's engineer to be laid off on this job going. Grafe-Callaghan has the S.outh;· Santa Rosa, keeping all burns healing.- was Brother Lee Chambers and he Duchesne tunneL job rolling. along h.ands. bl!SY with plenty prospects The Hutchinson Quarry at Green~ reports that he has been cut short in top style and Enoch Smith & .anead . for goqd bus_iness. brae, where the ever-popular Al in his pay-checks $176.00. The mat- D.enver Et~gineers · Sons. and Wheeler & Tempest have The Gudgel Construction Com- Clapp is superi:ntendent, reports a ter is being investigated. smaH about-town jobs still ·under pany just finished' ahead of the rain very .successful season and plans Wixson & Crowe of Redding have Ave~t Meat Strike · way. Chic.ago Bridge & Iron is on their Kent-Woodland job . . .. all made for the ,installation of started improvement work for. the Operating Engineers Local 1 still building tanks at Standard Oil and tryiJ;1.g to do the grading, be- re-crushing plant in the spring . . . Hat Creek Lumber Company near averted a strik~ and won a 5 to 8 and McGraw Co. and American tween rain(lrops, on the Alberts right now doing _complete overhaul Buckeye, California. I cents an hour wage increase and Bridge hang on out at Garfied Recreation Center in San Rafael on all equipment and machinery. A good many of the logging other gains last week from five Smelter. Some brothers are ·busy for the Robert McCarthy Company E. A. Forde & Son of San An- camps have closed down ~or the Denver meat packing firms. 'The at Geneva Steel Co. \ of San Fr.anc.isco. selmo very satisfied with past year ~inter. Several of. our_loggmg en- union by-passed the Employers We are proud of the fine job .et Ne-·W· Tr·u-c'KS ... "not doing a bit of gum-beat- gmeers are re_portmg ~n. Council, which had previously con- beif!g done at ·Duchesne Tunnel, a 1 ing." ~he Operatmg _ Engmee~s have ducted negotiations for the packers, project which y.'e doubted . could G 1949 Jensen & Pitts, (Mr. Five-by- Shaffer & M.adsen of Mill Valley enJOYe_d a ver~ good year m · and won the major part of its de- push through the winter. Under Five) )llust be doing alright, re- report a very successful year . . . The highway JObs th~t have been mands in individual negotiations the management of Ray Blason­ cen,tly unloaded all their old equip- due in large part to Mrs. S. keep- compl ~ted are: A. Teichert & Son, with the five firms. game, superintendent; Bro. Merle and purchased a fleet of new ing the equipm~nt ,in good condi- S-mile strip at ~ornbrook; Harm: "They offered us 4 cents. an hour Miller, master mechanic; and B1;o. - ment 6 Fred .tion, driving semi's over hill and Bros., imile str:f a~ !'ft. ts~~sta, on a take-it-or-leavecit basis and "Bugger" Barr, pusher, this job five-yard Jnternationals ... 6 and E. G. ABves, m~eBs np a 'h u.l~n then sat back and acted like czars has unfolded into a 'well-run ·tun­ must have a high-powered pencil dale, and then one day Madsen - 3 •.. has been pick. ing off some go.od bl t t K Creek; rennan rown, .-ml e the rest of the way," said H. H. nel job. Cleaning up on old tunnel & Herbolsheimer union business ones. Mrs. S. were a e o ge enny on strip at Fr~nch Gulch; Ball Son, is messy ·but our brothers on this 12 Brother Wallace McQueary with a rig. h L E Th d -mile stn~ at ~ayfork; Harm: agent. "No s~lf-respecting union job have all of them fought ha1'd 1 would have fallen for their line." Brot er . . omp-son an son, Bros., 6 )1, -mile stnp at Rave~da~e, it into good production the Guy F. At)dnson Comp,any for Brother "Bob'' Thompson report a Harms Bros. & Brown, 1;:>-mile * '*' * to bring the · company. s_everal years recently stopped in very good season and busy every strip ·at Aden, and Ball & Son's for I' 8 at the office dur,ing a visit . to rel- dp.y . 0 0 hopiJ;g to finish the exca- levee job at Vina. We have a few c . p J b Br'lt 'ls'n Shaft afives here over the holidays · · · vating in the Marysville area be- highway jobs under construction ap~ta~ $ : r1vate .. () § advises there are ma;ny No. 3 mem- fore -thi.s comes .oH the press. that are to be finished this year, O k G f Ul k At the British Shaft, another bers workii)g on the Harlan CQun- Brother M. D. M.cKay, P . 0. Box they are: R. A. Guerin has about - ~Jtran OV e if ()f ers tough weather job, 8,000 feet high, ty Dam, Nebraska : .. says if _you 343, Mill Valley, telephoife Dunlap g miles at Cedarville, Clements & Washington._ Workers · in pri- Bro. Ruel Walker, hoist man, .and don't like the cold stay away from 8-1720 has a North We.st 25, -with Company have 10 miles at Alturas, vate employment outnumber gov- George Burns, compressor over­ Nebraska . · · With McQueary go- all attachments, .available for con- and Fredrickson & Watson have erm)1ent workers in-of all places ator, vvere isolated in a blizzard ing to Pine Flat for Atkinson. tract. 6% mi.les at Anderson. The out- - Washington, D. c. that trapped the entire cr.ew on Brother Jim Rider of Mill Val- Basalt at McNear'.s Point; John- look for work is equally as good The Labor Dept.'s Bureau of the project. However, these t\vo · ley thinks the rainy season a good ny Meloni, superintendent reports for 1950 as it was in 1949. , Employment Security estimates brothers stayed .on top to run the time to p1ake a vacatio!l trip · · · good season last year with better k * * that on Sept. 1, 1949, there were equipment so that the rest of the now rolling along in Arizona. prospects for this year ... Napa M. .., 373,000 privately employed work- crew could be lowered into the Brother Jimmy Joy, in Sono)lla S?ipy~rd ende~voring to ~et the S'l!'le-SS . ~ 1ftn . ers in the District of .Columbia shaft to walk o.ut to Bingham Couf!~Y Hpspital, Sal\,ta Rosa, re- big p1pe shop mto productiOn .. ·I DM 8 " 11 U labor market area, which inclu.des Canyon through the Niagara and tunnels-a four-mile ·hike. c_ov~ring nicely after surgery . . · not advised as to how soon this IEd d s• suburban areas of Maryland and incline Brother Charley Callison returned will be : .. this is the .Kaiser tie-in. . V.lar S. _nonsor-s Virginia. A crew reached them next day and Brother L. J . Fronn of Santa Ct" "E' ht . Public employees in federal, dis- they finally got out about 4 a: clock to Basalt-McNear's Pvint after 1 automobile accident ... Brothers Rosa advising he is ta·king off on Washington, D.. - ~g k ~~- trict and local governments num- in the afternoon. ••Gee" M·~yer and Andy -Maxwell the 9th for the Oregon Technical lion Americ11ns · pres;mt ran ~ be red 250,700. Many friends in this state will ·h1 the same accident still out of Institute at Klamath Falls ... an wards and the news.' . * * * be .sorry to hear that Bro. Frank Boylan was badly lacerated abou. t · 1 t' b t · h es f o r eighteen months course ... s h ou ld Haveh . h t you hear. d that, k?greetmg · cirC \,1 awn ... our es w1s 10 15 1 sp~e.dy recovery. be a Diesel specialist upon his re- eaicf mgl~ta , · oc oc · Teip tO DnctOrC" the head .and throat in an auto not, Is en . . · · ··_ · · V . _ ·; ~ . accident in Provo, Dec. 23. 'Frank :Br.other Fred Horner of Wood- · G d L 1 L aure.1 Th d th A F f L . turn . . . oo uc <, 0 .front seat and a~:re, S?n RafaeJ 5301-M, hoping to ose wor s open e · · · · \Ve would like to give the aver- was riding in the tie up his l.oos.e ends and pla;nning TO Keep BUSY nightly news and commentary pro- age well-meaning doctor ·a little tip was . thrown through the \;Vin\'1- ( on,. mq,king general overhaul of all . gram by Frank Edwards, nation- from om· · experience. We "are ama- shield . . . Brother Willis '· J. Carey, of the ally-known liberal commentator, Bro. and Mrs. Jack Pierce of €quipment during the rams. Care. Y Br-others contractors. ' of San h' teur politicians· too. We . have Our: congratulations to Brother broadcasting from Was mgton. d b ·tt t Provo are happy parents o'f a 6 lb. Rafael reports t,h:ey have f,inished Ed d , t rna Y 0 f the learned that you ha ~ e er no . 8 . H.:J\vard ''Scarbelly" Addipgton, re- war s erse sum r flex your muscles iu front of··John oz. girl born Dec. 5, . 1949. B1~o. their Sausalito Road widening pro- major news events of the day, his Jack is not sure whether Julia cent . be?:J.ecUct ... on his ma,rriage Q. Public and Joe D. Congressman nibbling away on refreshing commentary, and his Marie shall become the wife of a_n 1 -usv Ali'ce Bo\y- ject and keep to tl e Popular al1d b J • b unless you can deliver. Remember, lan of _San _Fafael ... Skol. · jobs . . . plan on keepmg . usy exclusive reports follow the intro- Engineer or whether she shall .n hrO''.f!h the · winter . . . Brother d t' b k b e for every doctor there· are ·a thou• p t "~ uc 10n un ro en y any comm r- sand patients-VVHO VOTE. marry the resident of the United · John Lapp going right along with cial mi.nouncement. States · .· Your $10.0,000-a-year lobby team · ·New Technique them. Edwards' style' is friendly and is not only overselling your case, Our 10 months of negotiations This office· is very glad to note intei-esting and his voice pleasant. it is also bringing discredit to an for the Engineers at Kennecott In· Goose ·-Huntlng the number of the yearly -1950 The program is carried on 147 honored pr ~fession . And as sure Copper in Bingham Canyon have On a recent week-end hunting Gold Buttons-now on display in statioi1s of the Mutual ·Broadcast- been completed. A 5c per hour ii1- . €xpedition I ran into the Curtis this · area ... we can wJsh that all ing System and eight stations as .night foll.ows clay, its disreput- crease plus many good benefits . spread· on large landlevelling deal of the members could see their way owned by labor-lib!iral organiza- able tactics wiil ·ang·er the public in working conditions and fringe at the Ponstone Ranch . . . the clear to pay their dues for the tions. (It is heard nightly, Monday and Congress into caUing for .the issues made the company's final pientiful, but fast present year. through Friday, at 10:15 on KFRC, very legislation you abhor. Thin!{ offer an acceptable package. This honkers were it over.-(LLPE) ... the new method is watching The San Rafael office would like San Francisco.) is a fine body of Engineers and the · birds until they are well~ filled to say "thank you" to all the bro- * * * we are happy to see them get this with grain ... then. herding to thers on the Out-of-Work List in ing.••. .J[ regret being· unable to Hnt~L..ail'tU_'I w~,J€'_ substantial gain and to know that water . . . causing the .grain to this office who take the time to acknowledg·e to each of you per- .u ~GH"'Oll~Hil . ~t!!~ negotiations for rim-to-rim pay swell-the firds are top-heavy- write in. advising they have been sonally; however, they g·ut 'way fl(/\r;d::l w· 1\m:an ~ and future wage negotiations have unable to take off ... then along cleared by another office ... this ahead of me, and my wife-"thc v G l&ll v. VI - been guaranteed in one of the comes Brother Harold Crabtree is very much appreciated . .. If boss"- sa,ys she's got writer's Lakeland, Fla.- w i 11 i am J. best contract settlements in the the United running the birds down p a ~ t Bro- all the brothers would only stop cramp. Hutcheson, president of the Inter- non-ferrous indu'stry in ther George ·McBride, fo reman, · and think . . . this. also h elps the * * * national Brotherhood of Carpen- States. who just leans over and grabs n.ext brother on the list in his ob- Uncle Jack, the town character, ters and Joiners, was ·married to In closing we wish to say that the.n as they go by ... as I drove taining clearance. was 80 years old. Mrs. Madeline Wilson· here on the business representatives in thi& in e-n tile deai : .. it was Crebtree Your B u s in e s s Representative - "Don't you hate to grow old?" Dec. 20. state, after carefully checking the tO :McBride to Foss. would like to aclmowledge his he was asked. Mrs. Wilson has been superin- prospects for 1950, are confidently McBride ·advises they have a lot thanks to all "the members sending "Heck, no/' was the rply. "If I tendent of-the ·hdspital at the.' Car- ·able to wish you a Happy Ne\v cf work in, the area, enough to ·in Yuletide and New Year greet- wasn1t old I would be dead!" . penters·Home,for 20·years. Year. ENGINEERS' NEWS Five January 15, 1950 . . - Brother B. A. Cameron is on the Sacramento--- blade. IEureka- . Bids To Be Opened :cAPITAL 'HAS GOGD ARE ·OF A. L. Miller was awarded a con­ SNOW GO 'IN R . tract for $120,000 for the Wood­ land Sewage Treatment plant. JOBlESS, BUT . ··oD YEAR A~HEAD J . R. Re.eves was the low b idder NOv/, ·BUT B-IG SE By~ · P. PARK and· H. _S. CLARK, at $1925 for city street improve- OTTO E. ~EVER avd ~~. W. EDWARDS, ment on Bear Flag Way, off J · Busi.J!ess Representatives, Local 3 street. Business Representatives, Local 3 The State Department of Industrial Relations reports that H. Earl Parker was the su ccess- Conditions in the Redwood Empire are still dormant, '.Vith 4000 fewer construction workers were employed in the state ~ul bidder to do the clearing along one exception. We had snow and it stayed with us a few d::tys. during the month of November .than \vere working in Octo­ Willow Slough, near Davis. The Of course, we all made new year's resolutions, because there' - her. This is some 17,300 under the year's high recorded dur~ bid was $11,125. )s no fun keeping them. 1-.-· ---~-· ------ing the month of September. Bids are being called for F ebru- Regarding new work: H. J.l brothers' minds are always on 1 Bro. Ray Contrary to appeararices, all of days with Bro_ther Geor ge Abbot ary 10, 195?, for the_ fi rst portion Schmiedeskamp was the succes-;ful their wor~. Rer::entl~, of the bmldmg that will be the new bidder on the Rosewood. School job. Cooper's wlfe woke him . up about these unemployed are not in Sec­ running, and Bro. Ralph, Krpan 1 _Sacramento Bee·. This Job will be·- about $170,000. Cen-13 a.m.; saying, "Ray, sure 1 ramento.· Vve have our share· and· oiling for him. Bi:othei~ s Ford and home of_ the- r;: 1 must admit that this are a i sn't the He\Tiphill had another one .of Lord -first umt will house the press, tral State Construction Co. was heard a mouse squeak. , most likely spot to find a-job at the .& _Bis!1ops_ rigs w?~king on some foundry and mail room. · 1 lo~ bidder on the Arcata High Said· Ray, half · asleep, "What do present time but the. situation is- pi l m~ along the nver. _Looked to ·School job; which will run about you want me to do, get up and not unusual for this· time of the m e like they were trymg to put Personal Mention $339,00Q. Both contractors are .oil it?" year. the rig in the l'iver, but "nope, Brother J immie Evers is now fr om San .Francisco. Work should Bro. Tom Hull seems t o be able ge," says Forecasting about the future it's safe as a baby carria operating the . Shingle Springs· star-t il"\ 30 days. to keep his crew busy at all tirnes. , doesn't put beans on the table or' Bi·other Ford. Garage at Shingle. The State has programmed the At present he has two bridges go­ giye much comfort to . a brother The fir~ of .Lile & Bost\~ i c k are Br other H. E. Scherer h as a following. highway jobs for the ing and does a little ditching oc- ot1f streets, Sacramento. to· Wilson Creek, resurfacing about Bro. Louie Conner nas parked that $87;401,1S4 be spent ii1 the F rederickson Bros. are keeping Brother F rank Pierson is back six m iles; about $282,000. ' I his rigs till spring. . Sacramento and San, J.oaquin v~] ~ some of tJi. e .bt;others busy in their on the job" again with Lentz Con- 2. From one mile south of Orick John Burman &- Sons have had leys during the next fiscal year, shop at Midway. Brother George structi6n Co. aftEii' a back ihjury, to two ~iles sout~ of Del Nor-te' :a_ few small jobs, but at present starting July 1st. Of this amount _Murphy is the head "maniac" and. which laid him up for quite some County lme, portwns; about 5.4 keep their crew busy in the shop: $55,288,784 would go to t11e recla­ his understudies are Brothers W. time. miles resurfacing ; $245,000. John Petersen keeps Bros. .Jack mation bureau for ·work on the ·A. Miles, Ed ·Dysatt, AI Creegan, Br.other L. Neil .Marlin, received 3. A complete surfacing job at Thompson and Tom Will;mr busy Central Valley Projects -and $32,- Raymond W 9 o d y and Russell a badly burned hand when .a vap- Stone and Freshwater Lagoons, 3.8 on dragiine work · 173,000 to the ar my engineers to Woody. Brother Archie Edmonds; or izer he was fixing· blew up. His miles; $300,000. LaMone .Call's dredge, the ' Jupi­ be Spent for WOl;k On aams, ievees who is usually out in- the fi eld, as, baby was ill with pneumonia- 4: Grading and drainage job· ter, is sti!l tied up. Mr. Call t ells and tl1e Sacram ento 'Deep Water a foreman or superintendent, also hence the vaporizer. Who says, from Smith River Br idge to a me he has several months' work Channel. · found· the shop a .good place to be. everything doesn't happen at once? quarter mile north of Winton Cor- lined up for the c oming summer; Mighty cold outside. Brother .R. E. Fredericks, a city ners, with a new bridge at Rowdy of Sacramento employee, was on Creek; about -$480,000. Work 5-caree Folsom Dam the sick list for a short time. The long-expected freeway from H earings for ProLJ osals for addi­ Capitol Annex ~ Brother Don Johnson is still the Eureka t o Arcata will not start F or the present, work is scarce. tional federal funds for Folsom Out at Winters the firm of Miller congenial host of his rooming. until 1951. Although t he different sand -and Dam and the Sacramento Deep & Henkel are keeping Brother house, located at 200 Vfest El This is all the work slated for gravel. and r eady-mix concrete Water Channel will be opened by Er nie Houx and themselves busy Camino in North Sacramento . .t he present, but more may be plants are running pretty steady, the House Appropriation Commit~ knocking down the old Winter's Proof that Don and Dorothy keep added later in the spring. there is a lot of cutthroat compe- tee on Monday, January 16th. A Both Miller and Henkel are fi lV'ra.cco - 1\/I&I' m ay star·t do·ng titian. We can see a definite trend' school. their borders satis ied is the news ~ '- 1 Sacr amento delegation will be in Brother Engineers. Here's noping that they int'end to expand. some shovel work shortly in order toward tough competition w hich Washington t o t estify. The P res­ tha:t thei~ _ye nture up this way is a We finally received the address to move some overburden in a will reflect on the ability of the budget asks id~J~t's recommended succe~s. . of Brothers Scott & Sutton's new quarry site. At present t hey operator. If an operator is not · for $16,500,000 for Folsom Dam Swmerton & Walberg are under - G. aiage.. . It 1s. th·, e B en AlI,' an d IS. I have a few hands -around for odd tops in the fut ure, h e may find and $2,500,000 for the .Deep Water . . w~y on the Capitol Annex. Brother located at 1958 .Auburn Blvd. Next repair jobs. himself baek oiling. Channel. · B1ll Blecker as foreman and Bros. . I Work in the outlying di stl'icts On J anuary 24th bids are to be I:rll d G . J k t1me you need some work done, re- M . , I D I . -b . h ' d b ~ . R oy CJ.I an eorge u 11 asz ~ a e 1 member these boys. UniClpc-· OCr Is emg e1 up ecause 01 snow, opened here in' Sacramento for an up the crew to date. More wtll be · . I · l \ and it s ure looks like a heavy access road and abundant excava­ added soon as this is going to be We have qmt,e a number ?f the The Municipal Dock still "is going year for the white stuff. Some Jog- . tion at the Folsom ·Dam. We note an around the clock operation. brothers confi~ed to the_ h?spr:al at on aml should be completed by gers are trying to move out o{ the ·here that this contract will . be Brother Jack DeBenedetti was on the presen~ time. In hstmg Lhem F eb. 1. T he building committee fir country and into the redwood somewhat larger .than we predicted the 'job for a few days but due to h: r e we Wish them speedy recov- has been paying $10 a -day for the belt; however, most operators w ill in our report last month. Mon:! lack or' work hasn't been called er y and also suggest _that you who persons doing pilebuck work We just have to 'let their equip ~nent work is scheduled to be let on both back as yet have some spare trme on your feel it would have been better if set until n ature S"'YS h d · h d tl · t r d t· em - go, a. ea the Dam and the Deep . Water There is a new superintendent an~ lese wm e ays pay n . · they had kept it on a donation again. 11 Ch ~nnel .sometime in Febru1l_ry. on the Atldhsori job at Roseville in a VISit._ , The days _ .are long a d basis or else __ paid the scale. Bro. Art For d' of t he F ord Log- ely m the hospitaL Dutton I '1ri1ber Co ' d I . t'll . C . '1 . Dili·ing 1950 the Delta Cross Chan­ th e person of Bro.th er E rme... G r es- lon . , . · ~c . s oc < 1s s 1 I gmg o. 1s st1 l loolroads and leveling larid Brother and Mrs. Rober t McKer- Maurice· Bouzer and Phil Stanford. ago. Even as lo'ng ago · as 1890 it. · What equipment re­ this week. for gas wells near Isleton. lie on the · arrival of Bonnie J-ean, This will be P hil's second contribu- disturbed some of 0 u:r thbugihtful maining here will probably con­ Pacific- Pipeline Co·. is doing a November 24, 1949. tion also. p,ubHc men so much that a Federal- tinue rolling as they are in sandy job _in· the Rio Vista · area. It con- Vve ar e happy to r eport that the During the past two months ·we statute was enacted t o t~·y t o .. curb 111aterial and rainy weather will sist~ of layilig 48,000 feet' of gas young son of Brother Carl Pirtle, . have added five credits to our ac- and r egulate this' conc-entra.tion­ not effect them too much. line to the gas wells in the vicin- who is suffering frorh an· attack of count and released 12 pin ts of the Sherman. Anti-T-rust A -:!t• ••• ity. polio is now recovering at home blood to assist some member -or "The 'trusts' . . . gained . tre- Port Grain Eleval·or Ted Lindblad h as completed his and will bear no. ill eff-ects. one of his famil y whom misfortune mendous power in politics because Barrett & Hilp contiliue·with the , job of gravel t esting in the Arner- Greatly appreciated are the had overtaken. At this writing we of their economic power. They construction of the grain elevator icari river for the U.S.E.D. Bros. cards s-ent in by Brother Thomas hav~ ~mly two pints left in our ac- overawed politiciaris, big and little. at the ·P ort.- Brothers Cournoyer Frarik Hasset" and J ack LeFurgey M. Rathman and Brother J. W. count. . This is a shameful low for For a long time they were ab)e t() and Manning are on the job at-the \.vere doing •the . operating , with Fish, asking that their names be an organizatim1 of our size. Let's resist the- organiz_ation of their present time. Guess you would call Br others William Coleman and removed from the out-of-work list all get in ·and build this back up to workers into unions .... them "water trensfer al and re- Roy Yates oiling. · Brothers Ralph as they hav-e been dispatched from an amount we can be _proud of. "These great industrial c"mpires moval engineers." At any rate. Castro and Louis Shaeffer were on 1 another office. When the n ecessity for blood can stiil are the most powerful force they are , running a couple of the dozer. , mean the difference between life in our politics, despite ca-reless tallt pumps. Barrett & Hilp also pickeC. Th e Grant Miner Co. still has a [2lOOd Bani' and death, there is no substitute. about labor now being· 'big mo ~ ·: op - up a small pipeline job r unning few weeks to g o to complete their DI . ·, \ Mayb~ . the next brother to need oly.' It was they who put o> c::- t!!e into the Port. Brother Frank job of widening numerous bridges Since- our last report donations some will be you. Taft-HaTtley ,Act ... provin~; <:1c y · Jackson, Jr., was up from the bay between Dunnigan and \Voodland. to our Blood Bank have been are still stronger· in Congress ·:~1a n 'area as.superintendent and brought J. R. Reeves is doing some s treet made by John H. Wilcox, Joe Cor-. The Saera.ment9 office will con- fabor . .. , along Brother William 9 R. Taylor work in the. King Tract with Bro. l'eia and Harry Robertson. This tinu·e to remain open on Wcdnes- "The organization of labor into as one of the equipment operators. Oran Cobb doing the bossing. makes the second trip to the Blood day ·evening from 7 to 9 p .m. for big unions is a natural def"iEive Lord & Bishop had ·one of their Brothers Pete Ekberg· and Melvin Bank for Brother Correia. Appoint- the convenience of the members maneuver in this advance ol l~1o .. r igs on the elevator job for a few McGregor a1'e on the "cats" and· I ments have been made for Broth- in this area. nopoly."...:_ (LLPE). r Eight ENGINEE~S ' NEvVS January 15, 1950 l-lonoluLu..,.;.:,.,. Stockton....;. Al;.f.!i!F.illl~ J.fl\b({' o~~ne (10.oli'\ ·o IJm o'!lj'll' y-u·'IR Nf.lUT t-'lR\Q~~~~~ - u)!~ BJ~!l~ii bU .JJ tf i K ·fO · ·'R '- . ,.' t £ n Island B~sses Out \.,~ &n 'N TH-J: OCKTOt~ !~REI\ i ,f1 D!f!~~_ v a~~m~n: I I ti .ln. i ' !l lL M. G. "MICliEY" MURPHY and JOE RiLEY ~ tJ Dm \\;~m~ tha~~~~;;3 By ED DORAN and GLEN DOBYNS Business Representatives, Local 3 By J. W. WAIWAIOLE I Business Representatives, Local 3 We are in hopes this is going to be a good year for work in Bus. Rep., Hawaiian Branch A bright future is predicted for the Stockton area in 1950, this district, brothers. It will; too, if all the work planned and It is supposed that 1950 will if the politicians of our great nation don't go on an "economy promised by the· City, County, State, Federal governments, be a banner year for this area spree" and cut out most of ·the appropriations that are need­ Utility and Water Companies, GETS STARTED. As for the with reference to work. How- ed to complete the contracts that are already let for bid. We City of San J-ose, we expect improvem·ents on the airport, ever, the fact is that this prog- have two large contracts on the Delta-Mendota Canal that extensive sewage disposal (to the tune of seven or eight hun- ress must of necessity be tied are employing over 100 Engineers. dred thousand dollars)·, more housing projeCts, and more in with forward area work The United Concrete Pipe Co ------county and state roads, part i cularly~-- - · _ .- G D . k J tha:t is not generally contract- is knocking off a large portion of $1 0 Mi'III-·IOn Sc.hool b tl1e contracts that have been let · M - · d s· t C -- · Boo-ue J. Carlm ·. Hem1c B ·, · d · tl · W e h "ave een · m 10nterey an an a · ruz coun- G "' ' D H . : c 1 e m 11s area. ties. Then, too, from the latest re- Kreeln,D .l\1·~~my,N aMr ooverR,. I.-~ assured somewhat that the Holmes in the past month. Their latest is Planned construction work on th A E . - au , . ann, . arazzo, lC1 . - over 6,000,000 yards of muck . on the California Vocational Institute ~ort ,t , e rmty,c' ngineerst are ~o- O'Connell, J. Pereria, C. Smit-h, H. & Narver Engineering Company of t l1 e last sect1·o·11 of the Delta-M· en 1no- o reques ong~ess o appro L 1 · 1 1 · - (this project to cost $10,000,000) .':' ...... " . ~ Toft, P. Webb, c . B.rooks, E. Il1- OS Ange es, who IS a so consu tmg 'ctota Canal near Firebaugh. The pna;:e approximately $7,000,000 for R S , · 'd 'M'. At eno-ineers for the Atomic Energy hinges on a $2,885,000 appr-opria- f th M · t B ga11 s, . ummer an c ee. " hi£hway job between Turlock _and t' f th St t f c l'f .. constr. uet· wn o e on erey ay I . t' 'th th' . b Commission has been requested ~ wn rom e a e o a 1 orma. Breakwater . (This job has been on .n conJu~c wn WI f His JO d to do their' labor recruiting here Keyes is going along in fi ne shape This institution is located on Kas- the ·agenda for a long t imel. . ·hclemetnhts otmpa.Uyf o ll tahywar because of this area being desio-- Their job on the Hetch-Hetchy san Road, ·out of Tracy. . - t f b ' . ave e con racL or a e ap-· " river crossing at San Joaquin City The federal gove·r,nment 1·s plan- Tli, ere 1s a 1so a ·1 o o 1g n01se . t t . f h nated as an "E area" We and . . _ . · . . d' prox1ma e ; 62 000 ons o crus er · ' will wind up in about 30 days. · th · t t ' f 60 h -- · about Moffett F1eld. More wm . b' k .d bl k t At others in the Building and Con- mng e cons rue wn o . ous- ase roc an ac op. The F armington Dam will be let irfg units to take care of the fu- t 1 t 0 b b 'lt d t run, unne s are e Ul an ex en- this time Brother Cliff has a struction Trades ,Council have been for' b1'd in the near futur'e. This sive developn'lents-to the tune of ' . . , , · , · . · ture employees of the pumping . . . . . crew on the Cedar Rap1ds Crusher \ery m strumental 111 gettmg the would be a helluva good J'ob for mal'Y m1llwns-w1th the prom1se . . At · E . Gom ·s ·0 nc station at Tracy. · k M ff tt F' ld . and to date has run up a stockpile om!c neigy ' ml Sl n age Y 1catsk inners if they would use cats Geor'ge France ·s m· ovl·n£ some to ma e o e · ' 1e an a1 r re- . t d th · . 1 · •· a h b . · . , 1 ~ , · . of approximately 22,000 tons, but 0 0 en mmo e~e ecause m to haul in the dirt (20 000 feet searc_·h laborator_·y equal to Lake- only with the able assistance of their experimental hiring we were , thl's eqtiipment in on his road job at . . ll d t f .. h th round tripl . The skinners on Jamestown, but work will n·ot be hursT of New J ersey. · . , . . , . Brother "Mutt" Sears, operator on ca e upon ° urms _ e com- job could stay up all night and d ·1 h 1 At t he present time, there are th N \xr ~ Sh , . . , . petent craftsmen needed which has starte untl t e rams et up. I Th t , d , e . ·v. 2 ;:> O\ e 1, 111s 0 11 er 1s sleep all day. A d f · b · th' . D ,. 1 that Hawaii can be relied goo many o our JO s m 1s t wo large nve- n ea ers un er B th H ld L . . B tl J shown due to rain· • . t' h S tl1 ro er aro ane, ro 1er oe · \Tile havent heard much on the area are shut down ' c~n;_Lnlc wn ~re - one, on ou, Maxey on the dozer and Brothe17 upon for skilled mechanics to ?° Cherry Valley job yet, but it is F 1r ~l Street and the othe1 on Aln.a B''l F. t t . , the work. Holmes & Narver Will or freezing cold. t' . . 1! ros as o 1an OI 1er. - scheduled to be let this spring. . 1 d 1 M&K's gas line job across the and A maden an ano ner lS P a~; - Johnny Mehren, who formerly 1 open their own office in Honolulu ned f~ r Alum Rock. Avenue . .The:e was associated with the Leo Piazza i by th e middle part of January. islands is a lmost through. It wa·s 0 0 good while it lasted, and the men are already three 111 operatiOn 111 P . ~ f tl . .t. . Byrne or<>anization vvho is doing 1d ~~f.l tf\m~ B . . . .. , . J avmg <..-Ompany 0 11S Cl y, was o ' ' H· US the ~~m edla~e VJCmity of San, ose. the lucky bidder on the Carmel forward area contract work for the uVJ \1 u · ~ U~~ who were fortunate to go to work (It ~ "'~ ms tl11S ty?e of theater lS ~ Valley job. Jeeps, cats and blades Navy will begin work on the Is- s made a nice piece of change. huge success h ere-no doubt, ow h • ~d b d . t' , land of IVIa ·; uro in early Fabruary · -.@!t· S ~~e'Mlf D. 2~ftttd The landlevelers are going ina to our MILD climate.) The . ave a 1rea y een move . m on- ne · ". : ' · '\; ~, 'fliJ ri ..... \.U9 strong, but as long as the rains .-"' , _ . . • JOb and are makmg the d1rt :fly. We pendmg macerrals that should be tnea , 1_e on South First Street lS - d , t d M, l'vi I . , I , ted there t hat are to leave Honolulu \Vashiligton.-All previous hous- ·last they can't work. 1 11 1 had a sad t11 e Shamrock and the gradino·_ is UJl er s an · · . e e,l las en c • ing r ecords w·ere broken in No- Bro. L. V. Menefee i ::'of considerable equ1pment from N1ch- about January 15. They have re- ,:_ . ' incident happen while he had his b.,.J~ g done by T. l\1.. Blor:rqtlldSch d ols & Cash of Los Gatos, and that I quested for tnree mechanics to go vember, when 93,000 new non-farm . 1 • d\"elll·ng u· n1'ts \"er·e started rig on the M&K job on McDOJ1ald Re· o wood . . C1ty. J. Arch1ba f a J Brother Bob N:chols- · w1ll be h t e I t o I,..-.waJa,em . · an d ass1s· t w1'th th e ., ., · Island. He had a $350 light plant some eqmpment m .there fo~ a ew foreman ... The engineers on the repairing of equipment now there November starts brought the to" stolen off his rig. days. Brother Parolme has \ e cgn - ~ Von vaulkenburo-'s project are to be sent by barge to Majuro. The tal thus far in 1949 to 937,100, ac­ :tracr" f~r the Alma and A ma en working right a l o~1 g the beach and project contracted there fo1· the I cording to preliminar y estimates of * * * Thea 'e; · . , . t are unhappy because it:s winter first part is the building of a pier the U.S. Labor Department's Bu- BrotNer Parolme s eqllnpmen and they can't enjoy a dip in the to accommodate better shins. It I reau of Labor Statistics. This 11- s<>enoo. to opprate most of t 1e t1me · · · , · - I 93 0 ~ ··- - . S J d ocean. The sanitary p1pe lme runs 1s hoped tnat they w1ll also be for- month totfl,l surpasses the 7, 00 ose an - . . . . 't J • f 1925 tl f Who between an Guess- - rn os•ly ; . -~ , ...... f along the beach for a couple or tunate 111 obtammg further con- ltm s Jegun m a 11 o , 1e or- ~o ,llst~ r · The Size of !~~ JOb !Sk? miles or so. tracts on this particular island to mer peak year in homebuilding. Not long ago, one of America's ll tac 1e . - . . . . Th · l'ttl d bt th t th ·L 1tt1· e consequence · rle The McGture & Hester boys are bmld a hosp1tal and other bmldmgs ere 1s 1 e ou now a e largest organizations jump~d all am.:thine: as long as the price is t 1 b f · d ~ ~ anxious to complete the outfall to accommodate a sizeable staff of ota num er o new umts starte over the Anti-Trust Division of the rie:h t. Inddentally, Brother Pai·o- . ~ contract in Carmel Bay so they can navy personnel. It is the belief of th1s year will exceed a million. Department of Justice for the man­ line was recently appointed chair­ :rr:an of the newly-formed Water get back to Oakland. They say it is I this off1ce that members who are , November housing activity ner in which it has been enforc- ·c . too cold working with the tide · . .. now employed here who wish to 'I marks the fifth consecutive month ing the anti-trust laws against Distl·kt of Morgan rhll Va 11ey. , 1 The American Pipe CO!:struct;on 1 work in the forward areas could be during which previously existing m onopolies. wete shat­ Company have a good-s1zed con- accommodated. recoi'ds · for the month Was it the National Associatron lwo New Damsc tract in Carmel and will be going On the local front, much work tered. The sharp seasonal drop of Manufacturerers? No. Blds .are expected to be called another month Ol' so ... We were· is anticipated for this area in high- usually charactei'istic of this ,time The Chamber of Cominetce of shortly on the Anderson Dam given to unde1'stand by Mr.--Harry way construction and a few major of the year has failed to material­ the Ui1ited States of America? No. w h!ch will be Jocat'ed ne'ar Morgan Reinhardt of the California Water buildings to be built before the ize in 1949. The National Association ·of Real H ill sm d will increase the supply & Tel~phone Company, :vfonterey, end of the year. We find it a prob- Gains in both privately and pub­ Estate Boards? No. 1 of 'Bter to San Jose and \licinity that h1 s company has qu1te a con- lem here to get along with gen- licly financed housing have cone The Committee· for Constitution- • , . Bids should be called for the struction program-planned for the eral contractors and smaller con- tributed to the increased volume al_Go vel'nment? No. 1 1949 L os G~ tos 1'elocation jol:i and the 1 ensuing ~ ~ ear-ch ie fly another dam tractors because of a known fact of homebuilding activity in The National Tax Equality As-..: L exington 'Dam 'Je ry shortly, too I similar to the Los Padres which that they · are out to break us, compared with 1948. soci[ltion? No . • . . D le to the rec-ent, much-need- Maceo completed last year-also 1 therefore, the great majority of * * * The American Farm Bureau ed rains, work has slackened down $500,~00 for a similar: transmission the work that is contracted gener­ F ederation? Yes. Incredible? Yes. t o some extent but we are sure line from Carmel Vall:y. to , San ally goes to. them and they have ftr;~n.ft lrft\ni·w· ~r·~e- ·· r·· s­ t ~ i:' ·vv ill only be .a temporary con- Clemente Dam ... Th1s JS aoout formed tl,1e1r own labor_ pool 5}~~~\1 Un U · ~ d1t10n . .. Carnco & Gautier of all for this time~ There is a great amongst tnemselves and w1ll fill San Diego, Calif.-A t w ·o _day S an F r ancisco were awarded the deal of the work that we have not empl~ym;en~ ne~ds b' y calling _ o.~ j strike of AFL structural ir_on contract for the 120 foot Telescope mentioned in this report, but other cont1 acto1 s ,., 1 t h 1 n then workers won for them a pay raise Building. Pittsburg de Moines are thought you would rather we'd give group for the needed men, bypass- of 11 ~', cents an hour, boosting 1 . Picketing had supplying the structural steel for you an idea of what is contem- mg the unemployment office or the 1 their scale to $2.35 Producers of construction jobs, as all t h e ;iob. The job which is atop Mt. plated for this year in this district. vanous craft umons who general_l_Y shut down Asphaltic Concrete -- Ready-Mix H amDton, where Lick Observatory Nevvs of the Brolhers have members unemployed. ThiS other buildino- tradesmen walked Concrete· & Quarry Products is Joce.ted, will be a tough one to has caused the membership of the off. "' visit. In good weather it is about a Received a nice letter from Bro. unemployed in the whole Territory * * * t wo hour grind, but with snow and Ray McNutt during the holidays. to remain the same or to rise when Richmond 7 frost on the r oad the going is Brother McNutt is working in various industries close down. Western Di·ive BEacon 2-.5193 mighty rough at times. Anchopage, Alaska, and seems to The Hawaiian Dredging Com- ~ikeus' Securily are mak- like it pretty well. He says work pany, Limited, is slated for much F r-ed rickson & Watson ....;__...: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said ._1______y on the Gilroy is slack up there in winter, but work in this area this year. This ing good headwa the othe1' day: job and have brought a number of should be quite good next year. He ' branch, however, has a job on its "If all Ame~· icans want is secu- their old timers with them. We did, advises any of the brothers going I hands to get ex-members rein- rity, the~· can go to prison." however, get about six o f our l ocal up that way to have plenty of I stated as this company is ·about the I - · l which to carry them biggest· contracting firm locally an d Come now, General. Surely you J R· ~R· · ' bo y~. on the job. The genera sup- money with · must know that if that's all they ' N , · erintendent on the job is Bernard over as living is very high just about the most anti-union also. ~ - ~ ll' r. · f · . want, they could follow in your I .Jtredrickson and the oreman lS Brother S. J. Jordan received ·a * * * · footsteps and join the Army.- Br otl1 H Christman. fraCtured ankle while working for Before you question your W!fe's (LLPE) . Belew is a list of the members • the· United Concrete at Stockton judgment too critically, you should 1 laid up for a remember that she married you. employed on this project at the and will probably be * * * PhDne LAndsca-pe 5-1456 pre~ ent time-C. C. Barnett, T. L. l few months. Graham * Blair, E. ·P. Burkhart, Frank Ca- Brother J. K. "Kenny" "Miss P -B-, an attractive young bral, Geo. Chaves,. L. A. Chr istman, has ·gone into the r anching busi­ secretary, was involved in a'n acci­ L. E. Christman, Carl Crevola, J. ness. He r ecently purchased 555 It has been discover~d recently EL CERRITO dent while driving near National that sportsmen and prospectors C. Crossland, L. T. Engel, J. Ev- acres at Vvren, Oregon. Rte. 1, J-J City. The area in which she was erett, P. E. Fields, 0 . D . Hill, M. S . . Ranch, about 13 miles from Corval­ may combine their activities by 1 injured is spectacularly scenic.'' J ensen; E. L. Johnson, F. B ~ King, lis. He intends to raise cattle .. . killing two birds with a single. shot. Vl. E.' Phillips, Fred Pimentel, E. Brother Big Mike "Open Shirt" In other words, a prospector inay L. Shawen, C. D. Stanhope, C. W. Glage dropped into the _office the , shoot a

I <· January 15, 1950 ENGINEERS' NEWS ·" Nine t :ld .n_ .ffiC JBy AL CLEM, T: D. ·B'RYSON, F. _A. LAWREN~E, L. C~ . SelLARI, Business -Representatives · · . · ,.. ~-~..,.. cisc·o, whose -telep:hone number is GETTI _N-G Al(OlJND TH.EJO -BS:I · l ,~t '1i_s v~t;lly . impo:ta,rt: ~ SEabright 1-1242. . t~end6cino ;four As this is being -written, the rain Pacific Pipeline and Engineer- t': ·c~t u.l ~ those rr:ember S 1 e Bro. Silvestre Lugrias; who was 9 .is coming down steadily, bringing ing has several SI-na]] j0bS ·in prog- I Sldmg ll1 the ,_City of Oak- coi1fined to I-Iighland Hospital for . ~. ~. r: t&_ ~-· ' m·. .u. ,_.:i~~it\_ i .~. practically every job in the area ress for the Coast Counties Gas land;. g"o to the polls, on Feb. some time, now is in a rest" home n t>I!Jln~ ~d . U hUillll ·to a standstill. It seems that this and Electric Co. _in Cohtra Costa 28th; and• vote against the at 1615-· High st.; OaklaNd: At last January is no different than ot:'l.- County. . 'J'~is company . recently tecall of' Councilmen·Joseph retiort he was· considerably im- '.f.ft,f-.r~Hl~~r.U _ ·'t, e· ·.s ers, excepting; of course, the wa-r moved- a . Side-boom and . trencher Smith, Ray:Pease and-Sc6tt" preved .and could have -visitors. tf JV;U R ' \;U~ \years. At this: time of·. the· season· in orr orre -of its jobs at MartiNez, In ·February of 1947, during- t he· ._, _with •the onset of baa weather, the but reperts that most oLits oper- Weakley . .An atteni.pt'is be- We received the following Jetter sti·ike of AFL lumber workers ib .jobs- begin to fold and our out-of- ."ations in .Alameda County have ing made to recall these from Mrs. James Patton: . '· ) California's re~wood dist~·ict, a_ . w01~ k list.·starts to climb. At p.res1 been buttoned up for the winter. men·oecause they voted for: •:To Whom It' May concern: 1 true-k loaded with non-umon cut ent we have between 400 . a-nd 500 • low-cost housing! As . a .re~ "I wish to express · my .sincere• lumbet approached a picket Un:e , men . registered and eltires, batteries, .lubrication and return. to work: ' The Olympian Dredging .Co . has repair jobs at the Niobil gas sta- :lf;\B'll_' ' ~e gl~ft~ ,_j L~tu; ·s' ': Our , recent misunderstanding -all its large clam_ shells idle at the tJ"on on the . corner of Lakeshore Un ri.dhg~ · m ~n ~ with ,. the Buyrite Trucking and _present time. 'L'hey claim there is Ave. and Beacon ·st., in Oakland. Belated congratulations to "Mr. I{ there ever was an.. Y doubt i_n • Equipment Co. has been ironed considerable· work coming._ up, but An" · of .yot brothers· out driving ·and MFs. "Tex" Strickland on"" the your mind aboul Ftilton Lewis. , , J arrival of their: third daughter, out and the company is -now pay- it is almost all Army Engineers might wheel around that way and Li·nda- Elizabeth. Jr.'s, ·bias, the radio comments:.ti:ir ing the prevailing wage scale to work and they take their own time o:ive "Red" a hello. *: * * .should have dispelled them by hls Engineers employed in its yard. about· startil).g. .- "' own actions of the Jast two weeks. Vve feel this has worked out to Dutra still has .the dredges Ed- And one more: "One of our fer- In his usual irresponsible vvay, the advanfage of all concerned. wards and Mallard busy on the On Dec. 15, Bro. _0, E. Butler . mer .representatiYes is retiring Lewis tried to smear the la t e !he members of Local 3 e~1ploye _d Leslie Salt C~. job in the vicinity j passed avvay_ following a . short ill- f{.om active .duty. He is hale and _Fi:anklin D. Roosevelt and ·the lat"e m the yard speak very highly of of Redwood City. . ness ~ A native of Tennessee, he hearty at age 60 and says he ex- Harry Hopkins by circulating wild, ' the maJ~agement and the firm ap- The Associated Dredging Co. had been ·a resident of Oakland for pects to enjoy a little pea-ch and unsubstantiated -rumors. . pears- to be equally well pleased still has two clamshells \~orkiBg on over 10 years and wa~ we]] - ~mow_n quiet.'' Lewis tried to make his false with the Engineers ·in their em- small jobs and keeping a few of and like.d among Eng111eers. m t_h1s * * * stories add up· to a gift by Pvoose- · ploy. our boys· busy. . . area. He is .survive¢! ~by · his \VIfe, Milto~t 1\faxwell told us about Iva -Mae, three . sons and two . tl _ . . velt and Hopkins of fue a tomic i · .. ·· Ie .Slgn :put' .UP" ·by· one of' his bomb, to. Russia. Unfortunately, : daughters, to whom we extend btitchers; ·"OUR WURST -' IS ·THE NEWS ABOUT TH.E"; BR:OTHERS condolences. ,BEST." both· Roosevelt and .Hopkins are .dead ·and . cannot reply .. On Dec. 17, Local ·3 lost one- of in· the· heart· of the caribou coun- * ·* * · .But 6'en . .Leslie Groves, who· di - · its .most b.eloved members · with try and Jim feels the .poor trans- Eugene yvfxson, Jr. ·made hi$ ' 8.P- A 'clerk at•the:employment.'agen- .. .rected :.the ·wartime ·atomic energY ; . the passing of- Bro. W . .S. "Whitey" portation and prifuiti"v~ accommo- pearance .on Dec. 7, 194-9, and 'ac- ~y lik-ed· •to· ', have ' his '·little jol•e .'program, and others thoroughl(Y . Collett. He is .sur.vived. by .his -wife, .datioi1s we_re' more ..:.than offset by cording to good ·authority-Eugene . oeca~ionally ·at' the ,· e~p·e~tse·' of'the disproved 'Lewis' story. The de-tails .Thelma, his mother, one sister and t_he _beautiful . ~cenery and good) Sr., in ;fact-he ' is really' quite a .appl!caut• .! are· familiar to· you by· now. ·. • seven ·brothers, to ·whom we ex-. huntmg and fishmg. boy. He weighed' in -at ·-s lbs·. 12 oz.. "\Vher_e were you born?" he I All by himself, Lewis has ·ctis- · tend our heartfelt- sympathy. It · , a·nd i( we ·are ·to listen :to Papa; asked Michael. erec!ifed himself · far better than . seems almost unnecessary to ed such a loud: bang, is worth remeni"- . wittily~ consideration and. good cheer will to spend ·about •two months travel- .. v.,re are aiways runnin_g across bering in cas·e any of your f riends al-ways· ·remain·· ·a ·· bright ' spot ·in· '"ing "leiscfrely ·through the" so~th 'ern E< ·_-:: l~i :c;· \',' l~ ? . ~;:c . r. G i E~· ,_,_ nus '.Wl" . "At_·st;;,ht a. ·tim_e,d" t~ficha~ll an- might still try to cite him as ·a . . A h . 1 - 3 swer_e{'1 was ·me . u I ul WI~ 1 to fac't.ttal re,·Jorte'r.-(L.. LP. E)r .th eu' memones. - true. umam-- states· ~ visiti·ng· -friends "·and·; rela- and , interesting ~ things ~ in their be \vith me moth"er." • * *. * tiu·ian, he was always ready to tives. '. In the ·meantime, Fred Jr. ~pare - moments, but ~-ecently .Bro. * :- * *· help a fellow man in time of need, is holding down the fort at home. ·Hany Lawley all but· floored ·us and then br.ush off. any attempted Incidentally; young · Bro. Parker when·· he told ·us he was planning thanks with a wave of his hand. seems to be doing all right by a trip, not for himself,- -. but ·fm' • As a union man, he was one of· the himself on -thEi . pitcher's mound his ·. springe1 ·, spaniel· "Soarkie:'' Washingtolt.-The fil~ st U.S. p.ost­ staunchest, and never again will · and this coming season his third . . . . t" ·· h age ·stamp honoring an Americ£n his place -in our ranks be ·filled·. in baseball · he ·expects ~o be plav- · Af t ~r . alllltt1 e ·edxp·1 m 1_a .1on,_ °wt. ". 1 1 labor leader goes on sale here Jan. He was a · truly b1g. person, and ing with· the' Reno Silver Sox. " ' - ~eve r I 1t a. ·seeme tl t :H -ve-ry· . og1ca· · ·· o during his long . illness not once . - - - us .. t seems 1~ arry IS a · mem~ 7, the Post Office Dept. said. Bea i ~ .d h" · d ·t bl · ·t · ·· · · ber· and· clob·· mstructor for .tlte ing a,pi cture of Sarnuel Gompe1:s · d1 IS 111 om1 a e sp1n 1eave I · · . . . , T · · 1 whose 100th anniversary is ·being ]11m... The 1as t t·1me V\e, saw hIn1,. BFo·. ·-- Johnny.•- McCl'acken, ·· who· Northern Callforma· : Fie,d"S · ·1na · " . and he knew it was. .. goodbye he has been workmg at t he Port of Club and has · trame~ . par ne celebrated in 1950, the -stamp wj!l . - ;ing operation. The job -wasJocated _cleaners but who hate to walk a :r<:rey, 1719 .. 27th January 27, at 8 The successful bidder will set up a increases averaging 4 percent and facing, and grading and installing mill draftsman at the $401.50 per p.m. You are urged' to attend . plant either at Porterville or $4 per ton. a better drainage system. month rate. This contract is the re- . Lindsay. U. S. Steel announced the in- Estimated cost of these improve- suit of five years of collective bar- . * * * O.o. the West Side Canal the crease, claiming it is necessary to ments is $45,000. This work will gaining with a company which has Little Wiliie, once in 'ire Western · Construction Co. and the cover worker pension costs despite continue until about the end of always lived up to the letter of its Threw his sister in the fire. Adair Construction Co. are operat- the finding by President Truman's , March. agreement and to whom we wish Mother said, above the screams, ing a spread of cats west of New- steel fact-finding board that the I St f . St J b much future success. It is also a "Willie's nicer than he seems.'' man. They recently shut off the cost of the pension system could a e reet Q fine example of draftsman who are * * * second shift but when the weather be absorbed by the companies with- Despite inclement weather of faithful union members and are permits will put the boys back to out further price increases. the past week, which has frozen solid in their support of trade un- If the gals on the television you've work. "United States Steel is doing the ground and frosted streets, ion principals. screen look good to you, Morrison-Knudsen & Hasler at more harm to the American eco- work is pushing ahead on projects Always of interest to the_ Tech- had enough to drink. Los Banos plan to start right away nomic system than all the crack- that will pave the way for the nical Engineers are job openings on the setting up of the crushing pots have ever done," Senator widening of the North State Street and your business representative is and screening plant erection, which O'Mahoney said. He is chairman of "bottleneck." making every effort to compile as . they have sublet to Condick Co. the joint congressional committee State highway department sur- much job information as possible. Some of the better looking C1'vil Vve should be able to place. . some on the economic report. vey crews were out yesterday and STOlTE, h1ce men h ere b e f ore l ong. Lmmg oper- BLAl\'lE PENSIONS again today setting stakes that will Service openings are as follows: ations on this section will begin The price increase ave r a g e s mark the new width of State Street highway engineer, salary $3,727 to · some time in March. about 4 percent for most steel I when it is completed. . $5,232. Requirements: education General Contractors prod.ucts, and Benjamin Fairless, J . L. Benedict, chief surveyor, and/or experience plus professional president of the corporation, said estimated it will take . his crew · engineering experience. No writ­ Friant Phone TRinidad 2-1064 17 Miles of that it was necessitated' by the about a week to complete their ten test, or closing date. Apply U.S. Peter Kiewit Sons Company sub­ in freight rates part of the street widening job. Civil Service. mited the successful bid to the recent increase cost of the pension ·plan Afterwards the highway depart- San Mateo County is holding an Bureau of Reclamation for the next and the 8451 San .Leandro St. which the United Steelworkers of ment will advertise for bids from open competitive and promotional 17 miles of the Friant Kern Canal. Oaldand, Calif. won from construction contractors on the examination for assistant highway Incidentally this is the job that ex­ America, CIO, recently the industry. basis of facts and figures the sur- engineer with a monthly salary :.,__.______-: tends into Kern County and we and highway engineers will range $351 to $439. Residential re- some headaches on the "On the record," Senator O'Ma- veyors anticipate quirements are waived. Closing policing of the job. Kiewit at the honey said, "the steel industry is supply. present time is still working on not justified in levying an in- Dr'lve-ln Tlleaf·re date for filing is February 11, 1950. Examinations will be held Febru- CAUFORNIA TRACTOR their present contract on structures creased tax upon the whole econ- being·· cleared which ary 25 in the County Court House, and clean up work and will con­ omy of the United States. Let's not Roads are new Redwood City, Calif. tinue until May or June. deceive ourselves. It would be a will lead to and from the & EQUIPMENT CORP. which George M. The position of construction in­ Ashbach & Steenberg are still tax on our whole system. It would Drive-in-Theater spector, salary $3,100 to $3,825 a POWER EQUIPMENT busy on the final stages of their interfere with the stabilization of Mann will build this spring south year. These vaca.ncies exist in the contract near Lindsay, with Drag the economy both here and of Ukiah. Rebuilt· Ready to Work 'Bureau of Reclamation and are in Line Rental sub-contracting both National Institute of Health. Attorney Harry Falk appeared California, 0 reg on, Washington, TWinoaks 3-5824 from them and the Kiewit Com­ * * * before the board of supervisors Tuesday with the request that the Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, pany. 24th a~d Cypress The Bonner B. Terry Co. have a T0 (om~ete county take over. a road which will Kansas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Col- NAM orado, Utah, North and South Da- housing unit contract at Lindsay • 6"' be one of the exits from the thea- Oakland, Calif. All applications with the Bureau and they are mov­ fit!~ H ::!iil...tllf !illa•lt\~"' . ter. The property owners have kota and Texas. street, 210 feet in length ing in several pieces of equipment w ~ ~H l!n\!.lli.!l\¥. r u\;.;))) Id eeded the from the theater south to to take care of this job. New York.- kware of the grow- leading AUlA§~!_ ~ ~ @ ~A nD u ; Practically all mountain work, ing power of the labor press, which Washington Street. Half of the G H reaches an audience of 15 million street is within city limits and one- - M~ ~ · ~ : ~ llX ill~~~~ llllfllC .. ·with the exception of the Bechtel Col/'itraetcrs Co.-M. & K. job at Power House readers, the Natl. Assn. of Manu- i half is the county. Mr. Mam~ will General a "service· grade and surface the street. · No. f.i at Auberry, has been shut facturers has launched 344 IDGH STREET OAKLA.ND, CALIF. publications" to sup- Practically all work in general down for the winter. This com­ for employee TRinidad 2-2400 down in this area due to Office: ANdover 1-0466 --Quarry: pany has decided to continue oper­ ply company newspapers with free has slowed conditions. All of ations on a 40-hour week basis for pictures and stories selling the severe weather ve cut their the next few -months. NAM >Nay of Life. . the larger jobs ha Word from the Pine Flat Dam * * * crews down to just a skeleton force, CRANE SERVICE starting up WESTERN Project and Guy F. Atkinson Com­ with the intention of per­ FRITZ AWALT pany is that they will not turn a again as soon as the weather wheel for from 60 to 90 days, this mits. MOTOCRANI!: RENTALS The Ukiah Volunteer Fire De­ in spite of all rumors to the con­ 4 the 1230 6th St., Berkeley . LAndscape 5-4760 trary. partment gave a dance in The R. A. Heintz Company have Grange Hall on New Yea.r's Eve. hot. finally started operations on High­ They guaranteed everyone a a.m. way 180 with two cats. They will time. The dance ended at 3:30 the supplement their spread with more New Year's Day, and' at 4 a.m., PARIS BROS~ equipment as it is released from bqiJ.ding caught on fire and burned their job in ,the northern part of to the ground. which is lo­ GENERAl CONTRACTORS the state. The Engineer's office, There are quite a few small jobs cated right next door to the Grange to and Public Works scattere.d throughout t he valley building, suffered some damage Highway the building, but we luckily es­ still in progress and have kept some Box 6 of the boys busy. Another sustain­ caped any damage to the Engineers Phone 330 P.O. ing factor has been the continued property. operations of the gravel plants * P.~I().ftD-()GC>IlGD-Il~()Q:I:O-()~Il-CDtl~tl --l lc.cg.()~ ll-=-1)G:D-IlGIB-Il<=:Z:>Chicago, has been Aleinany Blvd., Whipple Av_e. and ecem er ' Bonner B. Terry, Canton, $36,168 to Kenneth Brown & F. Kaus,· P . organized, Its ~ ole purpose is to . MOUNT HAMILTON, Contract f t t ' f l ea l ? Southern Pacific right-of-way. or cons rue wn ° e even c 1 ~ - 0. Box 101, Stockton, $14,077 for pass the. hat for Taft. awarded to Carrico & Gautier, 365 bedroom and seven each \V!' den 5 reinf. cone. bridges 1 orth. · In Missouri, chain letters are be- December 9, 1949 A s H' · $6°8 · · 3-bedl· ~ oom 1 ROSS, Contract awarded to Cer- Ocean ve., an - rancrsco, . 0 ,- and additions to 'ten each :wingfoot, of Hilmar and Atwater, Merced ing circulated. They ask 'persons to 800 for oonst. 120" telescope. bldg. homes and tltilities, at Government Cot!n.ty. kick in $1 for Taft and to send vantes Brothers, 357 San F rancisco at the University of California, · · ,r Blvd., San Anselmo, $33QO to widen Camp, Lindsay, under Spec. 1.,o. SAN JOSE, contract awarded to copies of the letters to 10 fr.iends, Mount Hamilton, located in SANTA R? ~g 1 f h bl 11 bridge· across Ross Creek, Shady ,..,-I·· Edward Keeble, Rte., 4, Box 361, eac 1 o · w om presuam y V{O U c Lane MARIN COUNTY. CLARA COUNTY. CLOVERDALE, Contract award- Tully Road, San Jose, $36,418 for also contr ibute $1. SAN FRANCISCO, Contr ac t ed to c. l\II. Syar, Box 14:31, Vallejo, canst . .reinf. cone. storm drain in In California, the San Diego Em-· SAN FRANCISCO, Contract a\;v.ar·a'ed to· BI'ltwell Const. . Co., c1 . . t t I ' A . t' I . . awarded to A. M. Hardy, 736 Cle- 4745 G st s F · $20,896 for canst. a ditwns o s ·arm Haniilton Ave., betw. Meridian Rd. payers ssoc1a ·1on, nc. 1s urgmg eary - ., an ranC!sco, and sanitary sewer system a Cash and Norman Ave. and to Los Gatos businessmen there to send money mentina St., San Francisco, $48,687 $l 74 '777 f h b'l I' t d · for canst. animal breeding facils. at . , or re a I • .'-ezar . s ac- Job. Creek, a cash "iob. into Ohio to aid Taft. Naval Radiation Defense Lab., Na- mm. y c t t d , REDWOOD CITY, Contract SAN -FRANCISCO, contract was DOESN'T DISCOURAGE DRIVES BERKELE , on Tac a war ea awarded to Harvey E. Conner, P . awarded t o Robert McCarthy Co., Taft has dis?-vowed any connec- val Shipyard, S. F. (GENERAL) to Parker, Steffens 0. Box 1012 Redwood City, $;l,459 1050 Kirkham St., Sari F rancisco, tion with the chain letters. But he SAN FRANCISCO, Contract & Pearce, 135 S. Park St., San for install 2,500 1ft. 6" cast iron $27,868 for const. temporary office- has done nothing to discourage the 0 awarded to B. P. McCa. rthy, 3151 F · o $1101 500 f · const 0 t' h f d · rancisc , . ' ' or · - pipe & 8 Hre hydrants, in "Lenolt." bldg. with alts. and new installa- o er · un campmgns. Geary Blvd., San Francisco, $19,485 t · f 1 1 f J r' · ""l • t · t d' t .. s ·ory rem . cone. sc 100 o u 18 - .Decembex: 29, 1949 tions s.t Langley Porter Clinic, San .._.lese m e s a re pom e ou J;lO o for c.on,st. roof repairs at L.ae:una · d B ·1 ,. - .._ t. , · • t ~ pru ence Uic,mg. MARIPOSA, Contract awarded Francisco and erect. State owned uecause raae umorus s · oppose Honda I-.Iome. SAN FRANCISCO ' C 0 n t r a c t to Nevada Constructors, Inc., P. 0. precut bdg. on cone. piers, 20 ft. by T.a ' ft·s' ri. gn' t t o raise . campa!gn. TWO ROCK R.$-NCH, Contract d d t E · c t c "'44 · - f d h h t awar· e o mp1re ons . . o., 0 Box 8 Reno, Nevada, $89,985 for 104 ft. un s anyw ere . e can ge m oney. aw:arded to E. T. Haas Co., Box 95, · s s F · · $ g 33 Th · 1 Taft 't Harriet t., an rancisco, 42 ,- canst. · Stockton Creek earthfill January 10, 1950 ere I S no r eason w 1y. can :!?elmont, $4382 for canst. water 800 for canst. Med .. Research Build- d · and s h o u I d 11' t get m oney supply system at.Two Rock Ranch, dam, Spillway, outlet ·works an MODESTO, contract awarded to - · . - · . ing Addn. No. 2, University of Cal- anpu.rts. . througho1,1t the country. SONOMA COUNTY. ·f·or ·a. ~ JVI. A,· Little, 1 Grandview Avenue, R tl t -d · · · t sl o,.l,•]. 1 111 December 30, 1949 a. wr, ra e umoms s -1 ~ ' SACRAMENTO, Contract award- San Ftancisco, $151,400 fo r const. note these nationwi(le ·fund-raising· ·edr·J·ckso.. n ·&:_·watson Canst. December 20, 194ft SACRAMENTO, contract mvard- addn. to the exist.i·ng. courthouse. · · f · f eel to Fl ed to H. Earl· .P.arker, .12th & F .effor-ts for Ta t in the light o. ·a Co.' 873. - 81st Ave .., Oakland, $53~,- CAMP STONEMAN; Contract Janu:try 3, 1~(:>0 . sta· te1net1t hn 111a(I' Ia· st Septetnb~" 082 for 3.1 mi. grade & surf. with awarded to R. Goold & Son, P. 0 : Sts., Marysv.ille, $11,1.45 . for chan- FRIANT, contract awarded to in Cleveland.-v · e · • -. ~ plant-mix surf., on cem. treat. ba~e Box 190, Stockton, $2,256 for canst. nel clearing and low water cross- P eter Kiewit Sons' Co., Newcomb CRITICIZED "OUTSIDERS" & canst. grade separation struc., underground wrapped gas main ing along Willougl)s Slo.].lgh, near Drive, Porterville, $3,176,814 cor· He said ~ ·· outsiders" 'are taking betw. 2.6 mi. south of Gilroy and from gas m'eter' station to . Hospital Davis, under Spec. No. 1419· const. eart]].work, corlt. lining and an interest in dEdeating :him and - 0.5 mi. south of .Sargent Overhead boiler plant, under Seriai No. 3-04- SAN FRANCISCO, contmct v,;as strucs., sta. 6076/ 1'5 to. 6995/10, that trade unionists throughout SANTA CLARA COUNTY. 136-50-5. awarded to H. L. Peterson Con.st. f'riant-Kern Canal, Cent r~ J Yalley the nation are hying to "tell Ohio ALAMEDA, Cont~act .awarded EUREKA, Contract awarded to Co., 733 Treat Avenue, San Fran- Project; lopi.ted' 7 mj.' N.E. to 10 people how they mu.st vote." He to Ace Excavators, 1020- 44th Ave., ·?· J. Schmiedesldimp, 218 Serrano cisco; $49•390 for const. alts. to mi. ·s. of De.lano. · also· charged that' organized labor Oakland for grade &. fill at Krusi Drive, San Francisco, $166,568 for Lecture Hall, Library and office SAN MATE<:;>, contra,ct awarded is "raising millions" to neat him. Park s~hool site (Frank Otis canst. ROsewood School Building, addn., atM. H. DeYoung Museum. to Arthur Bros., 811 "B" St., San Senator .why is ·it ·wrong for January 4, l~.f:>l) · $8 ~ · ' · ·, · 1 · ' ' · School). . consist of seven or eight classroom Ma;: eo, 2 ,98 v for canst. type '-'.C"• . worlj:.e rs~but all right for :b.usiness- December 12, 1l)49 d' MONTEREY, Gontract award.ed armory at California National men- to · <\l ontnibute to· campai!!·n · · · ·· · d . buil mgs to Granite Canst. Co .,· .Box 900.. ~ FRESNO, Contract awar ed to HAYWARD, Contract awarded to Guard .Headquar:ters. funds? United Concrete Pipe Corp., Box Empire Construction Co., Ltd., 34~ Watsonville, -$29,25.7 tor .gr_i).cje apd SACRAMENTO, contra. ~t aw~rd- . ' 425, Baldwin Park, . $846;669 for Harriet St.; Saf 'Francisco, $870,.- pave on Lake St.,. ist ·street et al., eel J. R. Reeves, P.O .. Box 1072: Sac ~ *· * * c ·~nst. earthwork, . ·pipelines and 375 for construction of the San Lo.- under 1911 and 19l5" Act. ramento, $1,929 for grade, canst. R·~~~@~ T~ ~eW!I. ~d strucs, laterals , ;119.6 . & 122.5 & renzo High School, Lewelling"Boul-· SAN JOSE,· contract awarded to curb, gutter and_sidewalks on east ~~~~ ~a l mgy; subiaterals, Unit 1. So.-San Joaquin evard & Ashland: Charles A. Langl:;tis Co, 474 Bry-· half of Bear Flag Way, betw- "J" · · · ... , ; ' .1' ~· Mimi. UtiL Dist., Fr,iani:-Kern Ca- -niiceniber 21, 1949 ant St., San Francisco, $7;1,878 ,·1f9r st. and "J"., str eet subt ract No. 1. 'On Exe .·t J·obs . ,nq.l distrib. syste~, - Ceritral Vall~? SACRAMENTO, Coritract award- const. central dividing strip, . e ec. FRESNO, contract "awarded to · · • ~.- .:... ; J -,:... : Project. . · · · & s . I ' · 4 traf. signal sys. and central hwy. John Grey, Rt. ;l, Box 691, Fresno, Washii1gton- Adoption· of revised .. TRA.C'J., Contract awar·d~cj .to· 1\.~~' , _ed to A. TeiChe.rt . on, nc., 18 6. · l' I t ' ., · n ·' The Alan1eda · · · · 1 · '··.. · · · · · "- . 21 968 1g 1·mg . sys.J o ' $3,106 for improv. Heaton Ave., regu atwns· ·governmg ·m J ..Ji 1m u m J Rudd'y '922 "J" St. Modesto $11 - S'7th St., S,_acr~mento, $ • - . fm Stci:te H\vy. ·Rt. 2', bet~. Mon(gcim- · 1J·et v. Or·a" rize A·vn.· & s. 8th' st. .wage and overtime ·exemp'tion of · '· · · f · 'f · · ' · · h '· · 'd canst. traff1c signal system, light- . . · 1 ~ ~ . 675 or urn., process, .. au1 an . .. . . t · t' ·, . ery ·St. and Santa Clara City Lim: FRESNO, contract awarded to certain socalled "white co1lar" em- .. .1, . . ;.,, D.. lt.' .M ·... d t .. c ·an·al mg, and ,Jmprove m· ersec wn, m .. s .. t Cl c·· 1' . pace grav= e a en o a , _ . · . . . its, and from an a ara ILY -1m- P acific Pipeline and Engineers, ployes under the Fai;r .Labor near Tracy, 'under SpeG. ,' No. R2-8~ . Sacrame~to. at Stockton Boul ~ va:t;l its. to Be1lo.my st:, Santa Clara, Ltd., Box 446, Fresi10, $:1,823 for · ·Standards Act-the federal wage / MOP:¢STO; Contra·Ct award~d to a~d Frmtndge Road, located 111 under cash contract. instal weld. steel water mains in and hour law-was announced -by D . :M. Sandling, "C" '& 1\(Utd~ra Sts., SACRAMENTO COUNTY. PASO ROBLES, contract· award- three locations. Wm. R. McComb, administrator of Kerman, $42~6 for · re~6V e ·old ~A~L~ND, C~nt ~ act "'a.\v.arded t,o ed to Valley Paving and Canst. Co., IONE, contract awarded to Rice the U. S. Department of Labor 's 28 7 bl'idge over San Joaquin Riv~r, near J. H. Fitzmaunce, ::> Hannan Box 6, Pismo Beach, $16,996 for Brothers, Inc., P.O. Box 1489, Wage and Hour and Public Con· CroWs Landing, STA_NISLAUS St., Gak_Iand, $4,375 for_co _nc .. _pave grade, cu~b, gutter and walks, on Marysville, $4,000 for 30,000 cy. tracts Divisions. · . on grou_nd_s of Laurel SchOo. 1; 382. 0 ·v · st· b. etween 4th and lOth Sts Tl · d 1 t· h' h COUNTY. me ., · grade at school site. · 1e revise regu a .IOns, w lG . vALLEJO,' Contract awarded to Kansas Stre ~ t. SAN FRANCISCO, contract was: SAN FRANCISCO, c 0 n t r a c t will continue to apply to. about c. M:. · sy~r, Box'i43l, Vf!.llejo, $~323 . OAKLANp, Contract aw~rdedto awarded to Charles~· H~rney , Inc. awarded to Fay Improvement Co., 4,500;000 employes, will take effect ..,. : fo ~ grade artd surf.. po'rtions o( El Gallagher & Burk, 344. High St., 5;75 Berry St., San Francisco, $204,- Phelan Bldg., San Francisco, $13,- on January 25, 1950, effective date · Camino Real and' Valle Vista, un- Oakland, ~2, ,985 for pavmg on the 886 .for remove tracks and reconst. 640 for grade, surf., et<:~ . in Quin- of t.he , Fair Labor Standards der 1911 and 1915.Acts. grountls ofJohn Sweet School, 4575 pavement on Bryant St;' between tara st., betw. 28th ·& 29th streets. Amendme.nts of 1949, which in- EL CE~Rr;ro, . Contract awarded Steele Stree~. . 11th and Army Sts. SAN FRANCISCO, c 0 n tract crease the wage-hour law minimum to Elmer J. 'Freethy; 1432 Kearney Dec.ember 22, 1949 , a\vqrded to .Piombo Cohst . .Co., 1571 wage to 75 cents an 'hour and·make · St. El Ce.rri'to, .$472,437 . for~ canst. COLUM.BI.A, ·contract' awarded January 5• 1950 t h 1 es · th' 1 PACIFIC GROVE, contract w,as Turk St._, San Francisco, .$48,960 o er c 1a~1g 1n IS aw. addition to El Cerrito H,igh ·school. to F,!'rgus.on B.ros., 8923 San Le- awarded to Granite Canst. Co., Box for grade, drain & surf. parking The new regulations contain . O,AKLANI), Contract awarded to andro St., 0 9-kland, $:?9,673· for 900, Watsonville, $8,945 for surf. areas, c ow p a 1ace , s an F ranCJsco· . "tests" of. dut ies, · responsibilities, . ~ndenco, 65~-31st ~ Street, Oakland,. canst. . water . deve~o:p .m~nt . at Col- Eardley Ave., betw. CeJ1tral Ave. SACRAlV):,E_NTO, contract award~ salary levels, and other basic.:·: re- '· $19Q,8? ..3 ,for constructi?n of ~ new u~bia Historic State Park T.UOLc and Ocean View Blvd. and Central . ed to Frednckson Brothers, 12,59- quirements which employers must . graim;nar school in the Sc)1.ool I)is~ UMNE COUNTY. A~e., betw. Fountain .-Ave . . and 65 th st., Eme;::Yville, .. $239,505 for apply in determining which of the\r . .h ;ict, ·to l:)e lmown ,as the Joaquin SAN FRANCISCO, Contract 'Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove. 3 mi. grade & Surf. wi_th plant- employes ~ay be' exe!npt from the l\11ller Grammar· School. awarded to Haas & Rothchild, 274 SAN FRANCISCO,. sub-contract mix sur f ' on crush er run b ase, wage and hour provisions· of the. . . December 13, 1949 Brannan St.,· San Francis~o, $2;650 awarded to M.- B. ·McGowan, Inc., betw. Foster Road & Union Station, ·wage-hour law as an executive,' aq_- SACRAMENTO, Contract award- for repair N. E. corner &. apron ministrative, pi'bfessional, local · r~ - . . 625 Market St., San F.rancisco,. for' Napa County. .. taJ'ling·, or outside salesman ·type of .eel to A Teichert & So,n, Inc., 1846 ,on Pier 30. · · drl ~' in g · untreated timber piles for SACRAMENTO, contract award- . 37th street, Sacramento, $4,740 for . .. ·Decembe; 23, 1949 influent ar1d effiuent sewers, North . ed to C. B. T.uttle Co., 268 Belmont employe. T.hey'provide a: .salary and ., repair paving, parking ·are_a, curbs, RIVEitf3.$.NX, Contract ·awarded Point' Sewage Treatment' Plant. Ave., Long Beach, $6.80,741 for five tests for executive employes;" and· walks at.the Business & ·Pro- to ~ ovick Bros., Canst. Co. Inc., P. . · · canst. steel; girder bridge across a salary and four other· tests for . :fessional Building Annex in Sacra- 0. Box 1323, Fresno, $37,~29 for January .6, 195.. 0 San L-eandro Creek & t r acks of administr ative and professional em- menta. v.itr. sewer mains in R.iverbank. SAN FRANCISCO, contract was S.P.- RR. co., s . city limits of Oak- ployes. SACRAMENTO, Contract award- December 23, 1949 awarded to F ay Improvement Co., land, Alameda coi.mty . .. ed t~ C_~mpbe ll .Const. Co., 800 "R" SAN FJtAN:C;ISCO, Contract Phelan Btlilding, San Francisco, -k ·. *. * St. Sacramento, $188,474 for canst. awarded to Fred T. Fairey, 1874 '$4,637 for grade, surf.,,etc. in Bow­ scho.:Jl swim. pool building at Jun- 25th 'Av.enue, San FranCisco, $5,162 do in st.,· betweel). Woolsey and A difficult · pa.rent.a.I problem Hodge, La.- A unit of Labor's ior .Col.lege, Sacramento. for laying 6" & 8" cast- iron mairis Dwight. And a sequence unforeseen, League fa·r Pplitical Education has :. VACAVILLE, c .Contract awarded in Avalon Avenue, between Mo9cow SAN. FRANCiiiiCG>, contr.act was Is how to make the baby sleep recently been established in Hodge to C. C. Steele, 3925 Franklin Blyd. & Knox,. under .. W. D. No. 532. · awarded to Justice-~unn .- Co., 1260 . When she has reaehed eighteen; and J onesl)oro. .· Twelve ENGINEERS' NEWS _January . 1.5, .1950 ANOTHER BAD WINTER? Engineers in Northern Cal, Ne­ SECRETARY HAGGERTY 0~~ Peninsula- vada and Utah glanced uneasily at the skies and- the weather eharts tABORaS NEW YEAR PLANS By C. J. HAGGERTY MORRISON=KNUDSON.COO L.OW BID last week as a series of three or more · frisky storms rip-snorted . Secretary, State Federation of Labo1; their way through our jurisdiction, The year of 1950 will present grave and dangerous threats fearing a repetition of last year's to the American labor movement. The plotting powers of ON ~2,595,053 MRPORI PRO.J ,J ,· deep freeze when Engineers h ad to American reaction will arouse their commercial satellites as By CHET ELLIOTT, Business Representative, Local 3 dig human and animal life out of deep snows. On the coast and in never before in a frantic effort to impose the Corporation Bids were opened by the San Francisco Public Utilities the valleys the · southeast-bound State upon the people of our nation. Commission on Jan. 10 for $2,595,000 worth of construction storms left heavy rainfall, which We are determined to repel that j t_h_a_t_ w_il_l_r_e_c_o_g_n-iz-e-th_e_r_e-sp_o_n_s-ib-i-l­ work on San Francisco Airport. This work consists mostly became heavy white stuff at the attack .in the year before us. And ities as well as the rights of our of grading and paving and some pipeline installation . . Em~ timber line ·and closed all mountain 1 ployment will be furnished for about 150 meml:Jers otLocal3, · highwaysf6~ a time. -, what is more affirmative, we are traditional free economy. determined -to achieve' the essen- Spe-cifically, we shall seek first and will ruri thi:·oughout this .year. .However, · this job is not . -. * * * tials of a state devoted to the ser- to guarantee the rights of every expected tO beCOine Very actiVe Until the heavy rainS are 0\Tel\ The Union Label is the emblem vice and security of the masses of American worker, rights which On a visit to the new Drive-In of t h e greatest industrial-peace the people, a state devoted to the are under constant attack ~Y the Theatre job in Colusa, this repre­ for homes, and grading and paving movement in the world. common good of society, a state truculent leaders of the JU~gle sentative found the Wm. Vierra streets. Bros. Jones, Chapman, Bill ------'-----· -----i philosophy that would pit to1ler Co . of San Jose, with Bro. Vierra McCray and others are employed against toiler in savage competition in full charge and Bros. McCain, on the most exclusive real estate for the lowest possible wage. Orville Unruh, Eel Silva, Bro. Rush development project in this area. Operating Engineers .. Local Union Hoe 3 We are further determined to aid and Bro. Reis operating the cats. The many quarries and building the ill-housed, the ill-fed, those All were busily engaged in moving material yards in this district are impoverished by illness, and those nearly one-half million yards of doing a good business, which is a Directory of Office'rs and rendered helpless by age. Indeed, dirt in order to build the largest healthy condition for members of we are determined to aid all whose drive-in theatre in the West. When Local 3. The South City Lumber social suffering pulls at the con­ finished this t heatre will be large Co.'s concrete and gravel plant has Business Representatives science of America. enough to park 1,500 cars and is been taken over . by the Pacifier-­ In practical language, we must Coast Aggregates Co. Your repre~ OFFICERS expected to be completed about e, s p o u s e t h e following aims Local Union Manager...... Victor S. Swanson the 1st of March. sentative has been assured that President...... Pat Clancy throughout 1950: At the Guy F. Atkinson Co. yard the new firm does not plan to Vice-President...... H. 0. Foss (1) Political action at the local, and shop at South San Francisco, make any changes as far as the Recording Secretary...... C. F. Mathews state and national level. business fo r members of this union Engineers are concerned. Financial Secretary...... T. M. Eynon (2) Repeal of the Taft-Hartley is very slow. This is probably due Treasurer...... P. E . Vandewark Act. to the fact that the equipment Conductor ...... , ...... E. P. Park Pipeline Slow (3) A social security system used on the Dorena Dam and oth­ The huge pipeline job which has Guard ...... Paul Edgecomb that will offer benefits to the aged, Trustee ...... Ernest Miller er projects, finishing up, has not been ·awarded to Artukovitch and the sick and the injured. yet been shipped in to be repaired. United Concrete Pipe Co., extend­ Trustee ...... J. A. Carahoff (4) A realistic employment pro­ Trustee ...... A. E. Whitlock More than likely there \Nill be ing from Milpitas, Alameda Coun­ Auditor ...... :...... Lester M. Collett gram geared to the realities of some activity at this spot before ty, to Pulgas Terminal, San Mateo Auditor ...... H. L. Spence consumer purchasing power. long as the company is planning County, so far is very slow in get­ Auditor...... -8. A. Hester (5) Maintenance of rent controls. to start some its huge projects ting started. No definite date has (6) Adequate public housing for been set as to when this work EXECUTIVE BOARD down south in t he near future. urban and rural communities. will get under way. Victor S. Swanson Harry Metz (7) Water and power develop­ Pat Clancy M. G. Murphy Airport Stockpile Many large, construction proj­ ment for and by the American H. 0 . Foss Al Clem The Maceo Construction Co. at ects are contemplated and bids C. F. Mathews Ed Doran public. ' Brisbane is again operating its have been advertised fo r some of T. M. Eynon Chester Elliott (8) Federal aid to education. gravel plant at full capacity in them in this s.rea in the near fu· P. E. Vandewark (9) A civil rights system that will order to stockpile aggregates for ture. These include the extension assure every American of his nat­ the Airport job. This operation of J unipero Serra Blvd. through OFFiCES AND BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES ural and constitutional heritage. keeps many of our worthy broth­ San Bruno; the $10 million real DIRECTORY 'A * * ers steadily employed. Under the estate development project at Buri-Buri, plans for which call for OFFICES BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES supervision of Bros. Ray and Rob­ the moving' of one million yards of AND HOME PHONES ~~on ~U nlon .E~gineers ert Guerin, many members of Lo­ cal 3 are busy with shovels, cats earth; the Pillar Point Break­ MAIN OFF:D:CE Pat Cla1~cy-J Uniper 4-5535 and jeeps, filling industrial prop­ water, which has very good pros­ 474 Valencia Street Get Surprise Checks P . E . Vandewarl-l:-UNderhill 3-2832 Washington - A lot of puzzled erty for South San Francisco Land pects of being included in the San Francisco 3, Calif. Russell Swanson-OVerland 1-8420- Co . for the erection of factories forthcoming federal budget; a non-union engineers are receiving Phone: HEmlock 1-1568 and plants. drainage syst~m for the city of Chet Elliott-Diamond 3-3127 in their mail checks for 44 cents (San Mateo) The L. C. Smith Co. of San San Mateo, and m any others. So <-- ·- I l made out by President Stanley W. Mateo, which employs 50 to 60 be of good cheer, brothers-the ' 7;-r:.. C- t)} /<,/-, { ' '• I I - Al BoaTdman-,--Fireside 5-3971 / . . I , .. .; Oliver of the International Federa­ Engineers, is working on street future looks bright! !" !10 /t() VI . .. . (San Mateo) tion. of Technical Engineers' Archi- and pipeline jobs in South San OARLAND, California Al Clem-Pieamont 5-3273 Francisco, San Carlos, San Mateo, * * * tects' & Draftsme1~' s Unions-A... F.L. 1444 Webster Street T. D. Bry·son-ANdover 1-9891 Redwood City and other locations To explain, Oliver is enclosmg a in this area too numerous to men­ Phone: TWinoaks 3-2120 Frau!, Lawrence-TEmplebar 2-5700 66 Die on Job l letter to each of the rugged indi­ tion. This firm has enough work L. C. Solari- Piedmont 5-3313W viduals who has refused to join the ahead to last for the coming two AFL technical men's union. Since During Octo r STOCKTON, California Ed Doran-Stockton 2-7797 or three years. 1939, he points out, the farm work­ At the Port of Redwood, the (Continued from Page \'neJ 805 East Weber Avenue Glenn Dobyns {no phone) - . 0 ers and industrial worker have in­ Peter Sorenson Co. of Redwood from a powerline pole when he Phone: Stockton 9-9793 _4-;t/.:' ~- ,7!"'/.S creased their earnings markedly, City is busy on street work and loosened his safety belt to change but engineers' earnings have lagged expansion of the Portland Cement EUREiiA, California Otto Never- Eureka 4908 position. behind the cost of living index. .Co. plant. FALLING OBJECTS 115 Fifth Street wi~~E«waY.d s;;::.."ltlf€at!ti'-23-R~5- "The salary scale of the engineer The Mosely Co ., of San Carlos, Falling or rolling objects were Phone: Eureka 452 chugs along at Model-T Ford speed with Bro. Chas. Marsac in charge, responsible for the death of four in a jet propulsion world," the AFL is working on the Carolands es­ workers this month. A sawyer, who FRESNO, California H. T. Petersen-Fresno 2-5074 union head told his non-union col­ tate in Hillsborough; excavating left his controls to clear the car­ 631 Kearny Blvd. G. L. Moore-Fresno 3-7575 leagues. riage run, died as a result of inju- / Phone: Fresno 3-1368 Uunnry Mnrr~ I\:tim ries received when he was . pinned * * * ~ lhv ,J'l; ftii/Jl to the live roll at the husk frame MARYSVILLE, California Les Collett-Marysville 3-5213 When the cop asked what she n thought she was doing, the sweet ~0 by a portion of a slab .carried ba.ck 321 E Street Bill Waack- Marysville 2-1937 500 000 young thing -answered: "Parking Get s $ \J 1 1 by the log carriage on its return. Phone: Marysville 3-7321 my . car. This seems such a nice Included in President Truman's A choker setter was killed when· a place, the sign says 'Safety Zone.' " budget recommendation is the sum choker jarred loose 'and the log REDDING, California E. A. Hester-Redding 995 of $30,500,000 for Hungry Horse rolled over him. A powderman in a 1508 Tehama Street * * * dam in Montana for the fiscal year quarry was crushed by C). rock as Phone: Redding 159 starting July 1, which will carry ·he endeavored to place explosives AFL Cotnmentator this big job up to 66 per cent com- to move a large rock near it. A RENO, Nevada H. L. Spence-Reno 2-1420 pleted. Truman's request will bring miner was struck by a 300-pound Lunsford Building total appropriations for t his mul- slab of rock while engaged in tim- 129 North Center Street tiple-purpose project on the south bering. . .- Phone: Reno 2-2673 fork of the Flathead river to $72' A walnutpicker was ele~troc :ut~d mill on. Major sum for tli.e new year . wheri the 23-foof aluminum XriOc]j:- SACRAMENTO, California Ed Park- Hudson 4-3145 is $13 million for dain and power ing pole he was U,sing'h'it a power ~ plant, $4 million for . reservoir . line. Labo1: Temple, 8th & I Sts. ,H. S. Clark-Hilkr,e-st- !P3fl08~ clearing, $4 million for generators, B'QRNS KILL THREE Phone: h Gil~~..--3.4-304 ;(.4' -,;(.,.. ·~, ?/-. p_,~ ¥ t urbines, etc. First power, 71,250 Three . men died this month of SALT LAKE GITY, Utah Renny Burroughs-Salt Lake 8-9118 kilowatts, is expected· by Novem- burns received in woi·k accidents. ber, 1952, providing the first large One man was. bm'ned to .. death 1969 S. Main Street C. R. Van Winkle-Provo 3695-J block of new generating capacity, while' preparing to tnstali a blittd Piwne: Salt Lake 8-8551 '7) ' ' ~'-· .' ;. j • . " . ' ' • • ••. ( ."- , 1'. t .,r. ( ~ ~~ ... outside of Grand Coulee,- to relieve on a gasolii1e pipeline . .Pri'o1 ' to 'tJ:te SAN JOSE, California iH. G. l\Iurphy- CYpress 5-1824 the power-hungry . Northwest re- accident a shipment of g9-soline hl:ld gion. been made through _the 40 N . Morrison Street Joe Riley- CYpress 5-7200 pipe ~ lin e and enough pressure was left in t~e dO c . ./ c .... -Q__ .-· -· --. Phone: CYpres.§. S-- 0&2~ * *·* line so th_at gasoline vapors· we~;e . I( ... !'7 (}'(} SAN RAFAEL; California . H. 0 . Fo·ss- San Rafael 4368 Navy Shipyards Get released into the Sl.lrrounding area when the bolts on the pipe-lii!e _No.9 Pai~ters Bldg. Six Months of .Work ·flange 'were loosened. Street m ain: 701 Mission A venue Shown above is FraJW Edwards, Hunters Point and Mare Island tenance work was in progress · in _ Phone: £an Rafael 4616 who is now heard nightly across Navy yards have been assigned the area -and a lighted bomb-type the nation on l\'Iutual stations un­ enough work to keep them busy flare commonly used in construc­ UKIAH, California A. R.. McCaffrey- :Ukiah 1058W der AFL sponsorship with a fair for another six months; the Navy tion work was standing 15 · feet 750 South- State Street \Slant on the· news--something you announced last week. The work away. This flame ignited the gaso- Phone: Ukiah 4'i& W /-;/r:f/' don't get from 111.ost commentators. consists of reconverting a destroyer line vapors. · Local outlets are KFRC, San ~an ­ at Hunters Point and a destroyer - In another accident a farm work­ HAWAIIAN BRANCH J . K. Waiwaiole-Honolulu 8-6247 cisco, Monday through Friday at and . a killer submarine at Mare er, spraying and burning vegetation 214 McCandless Building 10:15 p.m. and KXOA, Sacramento, island. New . electronic and anti­ in ditches with gas well -drippings, Honolulu 16, T. H. Monday, Wednesday and. Fri(lay a.t submarine· gear will be installed on was burned to death. Another farm 10:15 ,p.m. Los Angeles outlets are the . destroyer. About 9000 ·are em­ Phone: Honolulu 6-5418 worker wa's fatally 'burne-d while KHJ at' 10:15 and · IilliVIV aitd ployed at Mare Island and 6000 at harvesting 'lettuce. when a can of KWIK ~ at 7 p.m. Hunters Point at present. · ·gasoline ignited.