UOL. #LI WESHInGTOS, D. C. FEBRUARY, 1142 I nO. 2 I D stands for Do D also stands for Defense Bonds The Quickest, Surest Way Americans are men of action. They like to get things done. YOU Can Help Win This They rust with idleness, and thrive on activity. Wau . .. IN In the present crisis, every American can "do." He can work. He can engage in home defense. lie can buy Defense Bonds. Now is the time to make an investment in the U. S. A. Defense Buy Bonds and Defense Stamps are easy doors to all-out aid to Defense BONDS-STAMPS soldiers at the front. Now! President Roosevelt says: "The lives of our soldiers and sailors-the whole future of this nation- depend upon the manner in which each and every one of us fulfills his obligation to our country." D stands for Do, and Defense Bonds Electrical Workers Journal 1200 15th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. 0ercl Otyaa 4go IUTERnD TIOnD t ELECTRICAL WORKERS and OPERATORS PUBLISHED MONTHLY Q. M. BAaniao~d4 C""ih A200o4oeeA Sr )V..,4,. 'C/,. eao&tent Page ] IOn tIsp)cem--[enl Wanlled 58 Homb) Damage Ma lie Paid for By SSB 59 National Apprentice ('nnmitftee Is Permanenet 62 CHAT Application of Standards 63 Floo our mail Ibg, with it vatid- C(anada's New Labor (Comimissioner fron I. B. E. x,. 64 asso.rtme/it of illt(,,stinig lett*s., we Watts Bar Dlam Surpassed Records 65 Ilake' this one as a IheSi',IIng WOd fIIoU Key to Life-Weapon of Death 66 across the water, industry Will Not Be Gutted of Skilled Men 68 1.B. E. W. Purchases Defense Bonds 69 Edwin Markham's Home in San Jose 70 Home Guard Is Four Million Strong 72 "In tho ye. 1 9211 I was visiting the "De Lumber-Jack Champeen" Unmasked 74 UInited States t. look itar indtzstrial Columbus Found Rubber-Famine 500 Years Later 75 relatio.s, and.. Ihile in Washinriin, Editorials .... 76 where I made contaot with Mi. xx il- Womtan's Work 78 'iani I [eeu I... I] ...t l. othe, L]ade utni t Woromen's Auxiliary _ - 79 oi eirs of high s;ttndinj, in youre otli Correspondence_ 80 Iy, I w.s dieie,-d to your huildinl. In Memoriam 94 wh,,re I met Ia uistfitniaT whose Bane Death Claims Paid 97 Cooperating Manufacturers I have lonla forlgot(r,, hut whu was 98 greatly interested in the policies and Local Union Official Receipts 108 leti vties of this compay.y, W, ex- * This Journal will not h, held resp.n.ible for views expressed by correspondents. charl..d bit f.l...hll.. t. many poinus, The first if each meenith isthe clhsing date; all copy must be in our hands on or before. hIeIitoffettred to let hie see your JI UTN AL Ilonh ly;;evol' ,ee that date EXECYLUTVI OIFFICERS your sffice has forwardedl it to me, Ir.ttirat'loal President, El..ArD.. BJ. wNo. Ir,,nttoa] S[ .e.r....try, (;i. Mr lixiAZT, "I have always read it with much 12(00 13th St., X. W., Wahingtin.[. 4,I 1200 IStl St., N. W.. Wo>h igt ... 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Igihtened hitl)r reat ions policy in Enoeanl. , -1~F roI~~n 58 IIJe Jaourll~it o[ ELrc , n lICAL WORKERS and Operators V~~~~ THE JOURnAL OF ELECTRICAL WORHERS Afl OPERATORS OI AF LF I PCU B i ~L lI I I I I, t -I I DN A BR O EI hI QO ~ CtIl I(L XIA WX SIIINGTON. I). I. FEBRIO AICY. 1912 NO. 2 (Inlluil forIII hiylbnlleit Security .. t in Watv~hiiniton il a two day sIssl[1. This BOMB DAMAGE Ma 1t iIItce ii I; COUPON-d if 50 en aId we n11,1h 1epLescntl n ,l 11all~Itqlaborg .... alild the public. The labor riprtseitatjves Uil th]s coIu..il are David 1,. ehnI'cke Ace Pa4d jatt Ais SSI3 Harvey W. Brown G. M. Hougnia,*t Eilisaelah Ctl is litil Social Security Joseph IC. Cohen MERICAN lahor is prepared to insist John Ciy.. that ar efforits will be seen in theLI benefits to be widened further. Sherman IDal .ymple AI L Le perspetive.Just jlOW, as is nat- Social Security considered George M. larrison ural, every citizen lioks upo.. thle produ- Thomas Kennedy thin of ' especially phants tanks, ant base of morale Milton M. Murray artillery, as III i- tln goaIl f all-out (f- Philip Murray forts. However ituportanit pIrodutio, is, reasedl soeial security. From thl inc.p- A guts Nestor Lion ther'l is Sllle-thimg, more hfasic and;lIvital if the socal security program ill IlE'D TO WVll I'lOiIUCTION to victory [tihall ar-nis iilaely, the irle- 1935. it has IhII p lannedto increase the of the civilianl population If Iole were to numb...er of perslns covered anI to provide This council mee-ting served aI a elear r'ade in order of irnptitanle( he elemnets proltt.ticn against hazaidis not intialy mnf holse 4o hil-s and principles of sig- in victoy they.- wouli hlok lk.- this: inriudd. ]{y (xpallid ig the Poi ztalifl no, . 11Jlie.1.C.2 to eve y lab..ran anI wolnaai we IdIvan.ee the or.gamic devehllllo.e.t i United Sitats. Civilian mo.ah . of the By reason of the olau socil sec fact that theI [ S. E.. Elquipent anti nlaeritI ity syste m arid.. tit the ployment Swvice ~;tll<, I.....i -I tl ihLIute tI ill, i i-illkl is attached to the Social Security Board Army itid Navy. I m{)iaoky p1 Off tatll. and that the E,,phl, ... ent Servie is the When the civilian Ilopulati.n is unified . "I l e.oIlfll . nthreasi in1 the coy chief instru.metaWity of supplyirn" work- deternmiteiiand cnthu siasti'. it is a'e rlage of ohl-agn- nld sur.ivors. iti...ance, els W*~;ai: ijiusiit-, and to all other in- tainty that aies will be poiluc-d andi addition if I..l...nen. t atld te.L.po.acy (lustpies tho So,6i Security Board may that the Army Ix tIrLL will hi unioled. disability playmt-ts and hospilalizatio.i he! said to be ill the first line of essential determined and imthusiastio. eptesenta- ,ayrcnlts beyon.d the present henelit pro- industries fordefense. The Social Secui lives 'of thei A ,mer 'ica L .v.-l.n..nl. w,¥ho lritlB , and liberalizatioL a l ex anilOn ity Board hasrecogn ized this fact nltd have Ione to Eingland to stuly the cours- Of mplovin.!nt... compensatILlI in a tlll- ha, appointed jhIi J. Corsoi,.IS dnreeto. of the war ITft.., have -et urn-ti to Wash filrialationa l systeLm. I suggest that co- of the United States Er'mplhyment SrI in ton with the reports tint civilian lectioni of llitj ioal coo t , ili titii ish ic, Mr. Cots.. left the Bureau fi Old 11oi-ale is, the sine q I.. aan l..-out. sttarIted as s.o.. as possible. to 6, followed Age in,nsurance the Soialt Security effort. In eftect, these repL-sntatltes say, Ioe year later by the operation of the new Bourd to tah( hh olewposition. At thI, "Guaid your Swcial S.e.i-ty lig-an; beneltfi t planfs. sai> tim.e M' . (orso.. beca.. e chtiihma, do n1otabalndo it: wide, its IuS and it, "AdditLiornal tnilployei anld employee of the Labor Sulpply barach of OP\1,.