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1. eason s reetings Auburn-Folsom Open "Serving tbe men wbo move :be eartbt" Shop Men Final Report Demand Security ENGINEERS**NEWS For Their Sites Completed SAN FRANCISCO - Members <c*322 PUBLISHED TO PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE of the Associated Builders SACRAMENTO-The final en- OF ALL ENGINEERS AND THEIR FAMILIES & Con- vironmental impa©tstatement on ~~»-»--=-7---3ij-~~]S t7*t*~31=Zly the Bureau of Reclamation's Au- ~am~ ~~~ tractors, are calling on law burn-Fodsom South Canal Unit ~~43 en- ~ forcement officials of the Central Valley Project, to secure ...../438./ 1.Thk:.-/* mil.Mil-.mm.-.Wie"Il.mill *41= "peace at construction job sites." California, has been filed with · Guam, Where America's Day Begins • Hawaii, The 50th State • No. California, The Golden State • No. Nevada, Silver State • Utah, Heart Of The Rockies Before adjourning their con- the Council on Envinonmenttal vention at the Quality in Washington, D. C. Fairmont Hotel here, the ABC board passed a re- The project is being Vol. 31-No. 12 @0~ SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA '4~12>40 December 1972 con- solution citing certain enforce- structed on the American River ment authorities with failing to and will affect portions of Sac- provide a sufficient protection ramento, Placer, El Dorado, and for its members. San Joaquin Counties in Cali- A Pint From 3 on the Blood Donor Tree! Earlier in the convention, Tom fornia. The statement covers Waters, an ABC attorney, had Auburn Dam, its reservoir and charged building trades unions powerplant and related facili- with engaging in a national con- ties and the Folsom South ,# 1~* 0 , spiracy in which ABC members' Canal. These features are now projects, equipment and employ- in various stages of construe- ees are being attacked. Such inci- tion. dents, he reported, have occurred Reclamation's Regional Direc- in recent weeks in eastern Penn- tor, Robert J. Pafford, Jr., said sylvania; central Michigan; Co- Auburn Dam will create a reser- Iumbus, Ohio; Baltimore; Fort voir backing up some 23 miles up Lauderdale, Fla., and elsewhere the North Fork of the American (ABC is most active in the east- and about 25 miles up the Middle ern states). Fork from its confluence with the See Open Shop Page 3 North Fork. The reservoir, part of which will be within the city Workmen's limits of the City of Auburn, will Comp. contain about 2.3 million acre- Death Benefit feet of water when full and have Boost Signed about 10,000 surface acres. State AFL-CIO-backed legis- Auburn Reservoir, in combina- lation to effect a 66 percent in- tion with existing Folsom Reser- 4 N crease in the maximum death voir, will provide supplemental benefit under the state's work- 4* . walter for municipal and indus- men's compensation program in 9.A _ *__ trial needs and irrigation on por- cases of partial dependency was tions of the 500,000 acre Fodsom signed into law by Governor South Canal service area. It will Ronald Reagan this·week. also provide flood protection to *: The measure, AB 756 intro- .I urban-suburban Sacramento, an duced by Assemblyman David C. , ' enlarged fishery in the areas in- Pierson (D-Los Angeles), boosts undated by the reservoir, and a J the maximum benefit in such See EIS Report Page 2 cases from $15,000 to $25,000. GIVE A PINT FOR XMAS themed the above sign-up rector of the Blood Bank; Al Gordon, engine/ex- The death benefit in cases of of Operating Engineers Local Union 3 blood donors change shop; Tony Faria, main shop; Len Conto, partial dependency is a surn Grayson Sees at Peterson Tractor Company in San Leandro, Cali- parts department; Bill Relerford, Local 3's Oakland "equal to four times the amount - fornia. Answering an emergency call from the District-Representative; Larry Douglas, Job Ste- annually devoted to the support Blood Bank of the Aldmeda-Contra Costa Medical ward, track shop; C, R. Hitchcock, Peterson Vice of the dependents by the em ployee," subject to 'the new $25,- Control Ending Association to meet expected blood needs over the President, standing behind Job Steward Walt Rob- 000 ceiling. holidays were (1 to r) pretty Chris Moran, per- If the head of the Price Com- bins, welding shop. Donations by Local 3 will be The Governor signed the bill mission has his way there won't sonnel secretary; Peter Rosendale, technical di- credited to the Union Blood Bank, earlier this month. be any need to pay attention to a recent statement by Pay Board Chairman George Boldt that he .3..It sees no justification for a revi- Local 3 Members To Aid ~ sion of the current 5.5% wage standard. C. Jackson Grayson told the Holiday Blood Bank Drive editors of US News and World By ERNIE LOUIS Report that he sees no reason , for continuing controls beyond Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 has joined with , their expiration date next Ap- the Alameda-Contra Costa Medical Association Blood Bank ' ril. to spearhead an emergency drive to meet anticipated blood argu- h..'r Grayson noted Public needs over the Christmas Holidays. According to Blood ment:s for large wage increases Bank spokesmen next year to be followed by price there is a very real danger of surgery pressures, but said despite the P~stponements in hospitals in Alameda and Contra Costa * potential inflationary pressures counties unless sufficient numbers of blood donors donate those arguments "are not persua- prior to the Christmas Holiday weekend. t sive enough for me to feel that A widespread reluctance to give during the holidays, controls should be continued- acci- once the President has made the combined with the usual seasonally higher automobile basic decision that stability has dent rate has resulted in shortages nearly every year at been reached," the magazine re- this time. In the past these shortages have led to surgery , ported. cancellations which have posed an unnecessary threat to t. the lives of hospital patients. Marr Vice Chairman According to Gary Summers L --2~ Director of Donor Recruitment you are healthy and between the CHICAGO - Dale Marr, Vice for the Blood Bank, a crisis can ages of 18 and 66 the chances are ~ - President of Operating Engi- be averted this year if enough you can donate! Donating a pint ~ · neers Local Union No. 3, has men and women in our communi- of blood is painless; takes about a ~ been elected vice chairman of ties, take time out of their busy half an hour (that includes the A the Labor Conference of the Na- holiday schedules to donate a pint time necessary for registration BUSINESS MANAGER Al Clem (left) welcomes J. C. "Jay" Turner, new tional Safety Council. He suc- of their life-saving blood. and rest); and your body mira- General Secretary-Treasurer of the International Union of Operating ceeds William McCullough of the "I can't think of a more mean- culously replaces the fluid loss Canadian Union of Public Em- ingful gift this holiday season within a matter of hours. In most Engineers, during his first official visit to the San Francisco Head- ployees who was elected chair- than one that can save another cases a blood donor can return to quarters of Local Union No. 3, largest local union in the Interna- man of the LCNSC. man's life," Summers said. "If See BLOOD BANK Page 13 tional. Additional photos and story are on pages 8 & 9. Page 2 ENGINEER'SNEWS December 1972 111111111111111~1!11]111~1111!111111~11111111111111~11111111Ii 111111~1111 2 "1'~1111~1111111111111.,,i Ililll1111111111111111111111 iii,1„1 ezzf,'"'1!@1111~111111111111Illmillillili~IMEIi'11 BuRec Eis b - ~ Fina| Report 1• ( Continued from Page 1 ) reservoir-oriented, water-based L,elleCLit/el~ recreation complex. Auburn *6 Powerplant will produce about F l. 600 million kilowaitt hours of - eakin smog - free electrical energy i '. .i:/1 ., czf)~ yearly, Ill Wil#t The major adverse impact of Al Clem the development would be inun- dation of about 43 miles of pre- . sently free flowing stream in the Sierra Nevada foothills. The Regional Director said a ~111Bt,)Wnlilil!~1~']~'~1"n Y ikiammt~ Nmmmlil! Lill1111~111111111111111111~~1111!111].,~,i~i# KbmEMI!111!~111~11111111111111111111111111111111111111!1111~pry list of seven water supply al- ternatives was considered, in- As the year 1972 draws to a close we would like to review cluding desalination, waste He was born in an obscure village, the child of with you some of the happenings of the past year so that water reclamation, weather a peasant woman. He grew up in another village, you may more thoroughly understand the problems facing modification, and the Sacra- where He worked in a carpenter shop until He was menlo River as a possible your Union today. We have been heavily involved in litiga- thirty. Then for three years He was an itinerant source of supply. tion with people of the government preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held over our hiring regula- Four a1ternative conveyance tions, and that issue has not been completely resolved. How- systems were considered; two al- an office. He never had a family or owned a home. ever, I think at this point it looks as though we may be ternaltive flood control systems; He didn't go to college. He never visited a big able to preserve the Hiring Hall with some modification; two alternative sources of elec- city. He never traveled two hundred miles from and you who work on jobs of short duration know that this tric energy; and various alterna- the place where He was born. He did none of the tive road relocation and recrea- is the life blood of our organization.