/ ~637 Vol. 21 -. No. 10 SAN FRANCISG:O, CALIFORNIA ~ 151 October, 1962 -~ ·' Jobs Lag _. In August • Washington- The number of r. sident Di workers · on non-farm payrolls and in' manufacturing. failed to increase in ·line with seasonal ex- . pectations in ·· August a11d the WAGES UP Heart ,Wharton, Converse, work week declined two-tenths of . \ . an hour on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Dept. reported. s·· cENTS _The detailed report on em­ Fails NC?Lan Moved Up · ployment and · unemployment All members working in Cali­ fornia for member showed an increase of 225;0QO in firms of the Joseph J. De 1 an e y, General Associated General Contractors A' combined total of 119 years of membership in the ; August in non-farm employment President of the International International Union of Operating Engineers, much of it · at as · and the Engineering & Grad­ \ against an anticipated increase •Union ·of · Operating Engineers increasing levels of official responsibility, is shared by the '· of- 300,000. This resulted m a ing Contractors Assn.; or for .,employers sign a: tory to the since its reorganization in 1958, three men who were elevated to ·new positions following th~ · . "'· d~;op in the seasonally adjusted death of General President_Joseph J. Delaney. Short Form , Co~struction con­ died sud~enly of a heart attack . ' number of . non-farm woi-lcers The vacancies were filled by • from July tq Augi.tst and a simi­ tra~t are re'minded -that the at his· summer home "in Westport, wage ·rate for all classifications the General -Executive Board at lat' di·op· in production workers Conn., ·Sunday morning, Sepi. 9. on manufacturing payrolls. went up 5 cents an hour on a special meeting in Washington, President-Delaney was 66 years The work week, which was ex­ September 15·, 1962. D. C., September 13. · pected to rise slightly between / · 1\'~em.bers sho~ld be sure the old. A 42-year member of the Hunter P ., Wharton, General ,July and August dropped from extra 5 cents is on their pay Operatfng Engineers, he joined Secr'etary · T r e a s· u r e r of the 40.4 hours in July . to 40.2 hours checks from the .September 15 the organization in May 1920 and union since 1958, was elected date and notify the nearest Dis­ in August. · ~as a· fou~der of New York Lo­ General Pre~ident to serve out . In contt~ ast to the jobs repot't, trid Office . of Local 3. if there Brother Delaney's term ·of office, , any questio1,1 cal f5. · He. was named: an Inter­ Commerce Sec. Luth~r HoQ.ges 'is about it. · which runs · to 1964. national Vice President in . l940 told a news conference tha't corp- Frank P. Converse of Cleve­ -orate profits before · taxep had , $50.9 billion. The record fof· the . land, Ohio, an International Vice ' increased in the second quader· q\larter was set in 1959 at $51.5 President since 1942, was chosen. 'to ·.a seasona,lly •adju'sted rate of ... billion. to succeed Wharton as ·General ' ' Secretary-Treasurer. Ric h·a r d H. Nolan, I.U.O.E. Eastern regional . direGtor, · was LoCal 3 Profil~s elected to · ·fill the vacancy as :· Genenil Vice·· :Pi;esiderit. · •• . ·':I. · \ ""· . •. · Brother. Wharton, .62, ' a native · of ,Martiits,burg,· West Va., has held continuous membership in. _th ,e Op~rating Engineers since April' 1926. He became assistant business agent of Pittsburgh Local 66 in 1930 and served as b u s i n e s s . manager from 1936 to 1950, when he was called to Washington, . D.C., and appointed Assistant to the General . President. He be­ came a General Vice President in 1957 and .had been since . Feb. 14, 1958 as and in· 1957 was elected. General ' Secretary-Treasurer. ' . ' .· Secre'tary · Treasurer to succeed During his tenure as General · the "late . Charles B. Gramling, Secretary-Treasurer, Wharton ,_ moving up into the General Pres- . was active in building trades and . iP,ency the, :Q.ext year. union-employer affairs. He served H·e · was .reelected without .op­ on . the. National Joint Board for A. G. BOARDMAN · Settlement of Jurisdictional Dis­ -FORREST PRITCHARD position by the 1960 I.U.O.E. Currently serving as a . trustee ... ~ man ; who has operated· putes· in the Construction Indus, of Local 3, Albert G. Boardmari'' equipment literally around the Convention f,o:r. a term running try and on the Construction I~­ is one of the local urtio,n's pio- •. wbrld, in private' industry and in until 196 ~ _ \.., dustry Joint Conference. neers, even though he mig,ht not'· ' the . ar.med seryiees, is Forrest The late General' President was For many y'ears he has seem to have been a member:,· long !pritchard, who· ·was elected Ex­ ' widely known outside his own strongly identified with promo- .. ;; · enough to warrant that label. ·e~utive . Board . member from union, first ~s a v~ce president tion'\ of industrial safety. He is . ~ An explanf!tion Qf this seeming District 3 in ,December, 1~60. · · chairman of the Standing Com­ .• paradox is that Boardman ·was · Pritchara .. has been a member of- the New York Federation of -mittee on Safety of the AFL-CIO . one of the pioneers in the or.gani-· of Local No. 3·foi-'l6 years, trans'­ Labor and · later ~ on the national Building Trades Dept. and on the . zat~on of an important branch of · ferring in:.from Local 37'J, Great scene, as- a vice p~ esidert t Of the --executive committee of the Con­ ·Local 3's . jurisdiction, the Tech- Falls·, Monl. · - AFL-CIO , Buildino- T;ades and struction section of the National nical Engineers. He was presi- Re was ·born in 1912. at Inver­ . · -- · · "' -Safety Council .. Metal Trades Departments. He · · ~- , . dent of. 'the AFL ·chartered but. riess, Mont., and began ·. working was a . founder , of the Construe- , This month he begins serving unaffiliated Technical Engineers with a Fresno gang iri 1927. as chairman bf the Labor con­ Local 89, when it voted to Toe- From 1934 to 1938 ,he worked tion Industry Joint Conf~rence, ference of the N atfonal 'Safety come part of Local 3 in 1948, and at Fort . Peck Dam, leav'ing to comp'osed bf _construction unions Council. He was on the planning he became the local's first busi- take a job with Gulf Oil Co. in and employers·. group' which mapped the 1961 . ness rept esentative assigned to , Venezuela. , . Two sons who survive him are White Hou~e Conference on Oc­ · Tech Engineer problems. ' --After this stint he went to both members of the Operating cupational Health & Safety arid He was instrumental in ilego- Hawaii and was there when he . ' has lectured w~dely on safety be­ tiating the first survey indu~rtry ·was called into service with the Engineers, Joseph J. Delaney Jr., fore labor, employer and· univer­ agreements with the Associate'd . Army Engineers. His wartime assistant .International represent­ . sity audiences. General Contractors arid the Bay duhes took him to the Philip­ a the in the New York are.a, and Frank P. Converse, the new William, working member of ' Counties Civil Eng'ineeri_ng and· pines, Japan and-France. a G e ~ · e r a 1 Secretary· Treasurer, Land Surveyors ~ssn., ,. in 1950. : Later, Pritchard worked in New York tocal 15 . joined the Operating Engineers • Boardman. was born Nov. 2, Alaska- and Spain. Currently he ,Fu·neral services were con­ in 1913. He was electe,d pres: 1912, in Portland, Ore. He comes is · employed by Teichert Con- ducted in Ne\V York City, Sep­ ident of his local in 1917 and of a pioneer Oregon family that struction Co.,. Stockton. , · tember 11,. with interment in has served 'it as business man­ g ~ye its name to the ' tow~ of He lives with his wife, Viola, _. Gate of Heaven Cemetery, West­ ager since October 1, 1939. His -Continued on Page 2 in Lodi, Calif. chester _county, N. Y. -Continued on Page 7 RICHARD H. ,NOLAN Page Two E N G I N E E R.S N E WS October, 1962 I f r r e Tag Line /or ,a Trip to Washington- Unemploymeil.t among the nation's youth 04 is just ahout double what it is for the COl.llltry as a whole','' Rep. Henry Reuss (D-Wisc.) pointed out in urging congres­ or Morgue _sional approval of !he Youth Employment Opportunities bill, HoSpital The I the "must" measure's listed by Pres .. Kennedy in his one of a poor J?iactice will catch I£ he had survived, he wo':lld State of the Economy message to · . 0£ all the sad ' stories that we later ! up with us. probably have said, "I knew bet- I Congress and the nation: tion Corps of the '30's. · He as- hear; the saddest is the oft-heard, I ·' " That ~eans th~t one· out of ·- sert~d that the CCC at another "I knew better, but .. " .. For example, a short time back ter, but ..." . · I it was pointed out to one of our five young me.Q. and ~omen just time of high unemployl?-ent.gave The ,majority of the accidents Man~ similar instances could. mechanics that his pFactice Of out of high school finds' himself many young men an opportunity be enumerated, where the. man·-i to Operating Engineers that .we adjusting the power unit on rub­ be useful citizens. The new unemployed,'' Reuss said in ·an to investigate are caused by some­ ber-tired equipment 'with the 'mo­ either\ got. by on luck, or his luck I interview on Washington Reports program, he declared, also·would tor running · was d·angerous.