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age Scales Elf cti e s f y 1 loCal 3 Boys in . Dear Sirs and Brothers: May

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1. ~ ~,~,~ .. ~~o~n,~~! .~: :E ... ~:~~~~"" ··M0•·t. · · · ·s·· · > • · . .. - · After a long and bitter struggle between 1he negotiating tei;n!_ of .this agreei'nent (regardless of when saicl work was bid or let.)

'. . lal ii:fY " . 1erv.1ce . . .·.1 committees of the Associated General Contractors and tl1e the wage,sca!es and classifica.tions shall be as follows:

''..T-~rt:~e ·2•v.;Mark :., ·;. 1 Local Union'. the new classifications and~\~ge s~ales ()f the CLASSIFICATIONS Per Hom'.'

. V.l' I ,ii ... QJ_Y . . .. - . \ l\f[aster Agreement were. finally agreed to. . · ApPl·entices . (oilers, firemen, ,:vatchmen) (7 Bay Counties - San . Members of , Local · · 3 •. m : the 1 '· , • Francisco, .c~mtrn Costa, San Mate·o, Santa Clara, Mar:in, .·Ai:rned Forces: nov( ·tofais· ·2q\ ~ I · The new wage scales represent ari increase of-10 per cent _ Solano) ......................... '..: ... : .. ................................................................ :. --$2 .13

~l~:f~::o!~:~o~:i~fd!, \~i~?ifl {~i: on all :existing classifications which ~ the ~axihium amount' Apprentices (oilers,. fire~en, watc~m~m} (All other c~un~iesl........ 2.02 . . - , .. . . . . . Asphalt Plant Engmee1 .............. .............................................................. 2.52

had· beenTepcfrted, 22 na111es ·.·being allowed under the .Wage,Stabilization regulations. Box men or mixer box operatqr (concr~te or asphalt plant).... .... ·2.19 acided dufirtg M~rch > These-m·em- ! . . .. . . , . • . · . . • . . _ . . . · ·b · J J" ·. t . k · .. . ·: · .. :th" , .. · These scales are effective on ~11 w.o'rk as of Mav 1st, 1.951 Br-akeman, Switchman and Deckhand ................... , .............. .. .. .. :......... 2·13 o~rs iave · .. a en our service w1 · "" - . . ,. . . · ·. .µ· , _ · · 'J · ·, · -. , . .

~w~:~~:~! !~fi ~~ ':::~~il~~:;t/::.~ "f 6.1; . all members:: employed by c.ontractors who are_ merlioers '1 ~~~::~~:~:~

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. , · .., ,. · :. · · .· ·. .. ·· ·, · f ·th ·N tl · ·a 1d Ce11'4-"al Chapter" of tl1 e ·Associated·Gen- c · · · · ' · ? .,,. Here· are· tne ·latest n,ames .. to 9 . e . or 1e~n I · u _ ·"' ,. ompressors, 1:101e than one ........ _. .............................. ; .............. ,.. ........... ~-= · go on LocaF 3's h~nor r~ll : · ·. ,,, :,•. ~rat Contractors of America, Inc. Concrete Batch Plant Operator ....... :·----·-·": ............... :: ...... ......... _. ........ ,. 2.52

· TOMMY, A.DDQR .. · · . . . . · · . Concrete Batch Plant Operator (Multiple Unit, ·Jour :oc more )...... 2.68 ..----

. [~MrJX:~~i~~~i&x,, . >: ::. trinted cop.ies of ~he new agreemen~ will be_ made aya11-1 Concrete Mi_xers (up io one yard) ..... , ............ ....... ...... ,., ................. _ ..... :.

-JAMES 0 . . GREEN- . . ·, ' :a)Jle to the m_embersh1p as soon as they can be printed, so that . Concrete, l\11xers (over one y~rd) ........... -:, ............. : .. .......... :, .. ............. . ·ARTHu··R ·.,.H'". ·HfN· D.··s ·· J· R •- th. · b · · ·te f. IT11·11· · ·· w1'tl a·ll of· tl1e cond1"ti'ons Concrete· Pump or Pump Crete Guns ................. .' ............. :: ........ , .... :: .. .. ··· . • · · .. · . .. ·: ,._ ... , .. '· • . · emem ersn1ay come· a . ar . ·1 · · . . . " . - · -FLOYD .. McLEMORE <JR:.,. · · ·. Derricks (mcludmg Clucago Booms) ...................... ... .................. ..

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. · ;v(rM: L :'. McREYNOLDS : ?f the contract.. Drilling Machinery E ngineei-s (not to apply to · ,,vater· liner's, JAM.ES: H: RAY ·.· · j , ,,,-ag011 dr ills 01· jackhammers) .. ............................ 0 ..... ....... ...... .... ... • 2.52 RICHARD. L;:' sTOUT ·, .~. Respectfuly submi:tt~d·, Dual Di·um Mixer ................. .. ............... -...... , ......... .. ~: ... .... : ..... '.: ....... :........ 2.57

· · .·: ' * , *: *. · , , VICTORS.' SWANSON, Euclid ·Loaders and / or similar type of equipment ... .-,/: ............... 0 . .. _~ 2°.8'5 ,e fi~,.i'tar .. · ~ . ·, ,ia I ' '·<.i'.:~.\-+-•c.. ·:·- -.:.;...~. t0cal''Uri10rP JVfana-:-ger. :..-, .,;. ,, ' . fj~~-mai}._ in Hot· Pla·nL .. : ............ :.: ...... _ ... - ... : .... : ...... , .. :C. .. ,'..:::'.~,:,/: .... :::,:.:..'::/c~ j_lJ ·:1111.guj\~~.,·. ti· ·V·\;'.--~ . Fork ; lift or lu111ber _stacker (on ·constru,ctioh job site) .................... 2.41

:on, e· :J_ e.·. 1. nt ... ·.Dut;:.· .'. YOUR NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE :::i::c~~~; ~~~a~~1:11~1~-e~.~i1~~~) .. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::'.::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ~ ~:~;

- · · ; · · CHET E LLIOTT, Heavy Duty Repainirnn, Helpe1, ( 7 Bay Counties - San Franpisco, , \ Promote S~f e'.t M (- ' ;:~r~~~i;ANSON ~ E~Z!~D~W ARI{ M. G. MURPHY t:~~e:i:, .~.~11t.1~~ : ~~s·t·~: .... ~~~- :.~~t·e-~'. .. ~.~'.1t.~ ... :.:~.r.\ .. ~~.~\~~:~ •' ·2·,1,3: t

. Gi-eetings: H. O; FOSS HARRY METZ C. L. CASEBOLT Hevy Duty Repairman, Helper .(All other counties>.. ...... .'.:~: ........... h 2.02

pt!~;~entf :i~Pi~n;t~~;~~n:0;n~a~;/:t;~~ ~~:~::t::!soN : ~~:N ~;: i::N [ ::·!~~::~: 6:~~·::::~ Si~;~;i'··~i·;~::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::'.~:::::::::::::'.:::~·: ~:!~--.

Jy that of the employer: · No', ein- A. J. HOPE Locon~ives0

....... .. ................................ :::. ...... ............ .. ... .... ......... 2.24 ,p]oyer . will dispute··. such . a state- ________ '- ---~~-- --~ - - --- Locomotives (steam Oi' o,·e.r 30 tonsl.. ...................... : ..................... _ .... _ \ 2 .·52 ment. The employer's acceptance Material Hoist .................................... ...................................... _ ............... .. - 2.41 of this re-spon·sibility cannot · do the whole job of accident preventfon; ,. he can insist t hat his supervision process the 'construction under the rnosl rigid, rules of · safety. · The· worker's -acceptance of .his responsibility is as impor.tant as t hat of the employer. H e must do his work'· a·na ~onc1uct his activiti'es

' in accordance with the a'ccepted ; safe-practice standards.

Working together as a team,

Med1anical Finishers (concrete or asphalt)' (airports, highway, street work;.) ... · .. ...... .-.... _. ...... :.: ......... _ ........... :.: ...................... ................. ..

Mixermobile ........... . ' .

Motorman .............. : .......... .. : ... ,.: .................... -............... ..... ' .. , ................ ..... .. Mucking Machine ... ......................... , ..................................................... :. .. .. Paveme11t breakers, Emsco type and sim\lar.·iypes of equipment Portable crushers ... : .......... : ......... ......... : .... : ........ .. .... .: ....... -.... :-. .................. .. Power blade loader .... ........ .. ........ .. . · ............... , ....................................... .. Power grade'r, power planer, motor patrol or any type power

blade .· .............. ...... _. .: ........ .. .. ................. --............................................. _. ._. Power shovels and/ or other excavating- equipment with shovel-

{'ach accepting his responsibilities type , controls · (7 Bay Counties - San Francisco, Alameda· a'?i1d exercising them cooperatively, Contra ,Costa, San Mateo, Santa .Clara, Murin, Solano) '(up will be an importanf' s_tep in re- .to and including one 'yard) .... .. ......................... _: ... : ....................... .. ducing the number of injuries .rmd i Power ··shovels and/ or other exc_avating equipment with shovel- .

., deaths · fr9m · indi:1sti·ia l :"accidents: [ type controls <7 . Bay Counties - San Francisco, Alameda, With kincl,est regards·, I ~ain ·. Contra Costa, San Mateo, anta Clara, Marin, Solano) (over

FrPt;all ~l~i)NEY, '! Po,~:;esl~:~::s -~;;·d·; ;;··;~~~~:···~;~~;;t·i~~··~·~~;;;·~~~;;·~··~;~·~;~···;·l~;:,;~;-~ General President: · · typ.e · controls (All othe1: Counties) (Up to and·t ncluding one

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· TEG:H · ENGINEERS · NOT. f · · · · · · · - · · · · · -·" · · ·, I P ow!;T:i~o~~;~--~~·ct:~;;; ·;~~~~:·:~~~i·;;~:i;~~ .. :~~·~;;;·1i~~;~,t .~:,:·i~;~ :~;~·;~~;·~ t, ,- A 1:iv,er goes_-.1mtl'e~· a ri.ver at ~his point' ~n the 117~n~ile D elta. J\[en- 1 . ty.pe co1;trols (All othe1: :ounties) ·co·ver one yard), ................ · ... · ·. 2.85 ,...

TECIR,;"ICAL' -ENGINEER~;-Lo- · dota ca!}al. TJus .. huge concrete· siphon . carries h yo million gallo~1s J?~r .Pugmi'Jls (all) w oodmixei· type ...................... -.................. _..................... 2.57 -C1·na;1th.NeTo.U3n-1:Eo_nn01effietciensg-a·.wit:·!~.~!e~~~~.·. ·111.inute underneath .. a -stream ' along the rotite· of the ·carial, which·' bririgs. Pu~ps ............. .. : ............... :: .. :: ........... ................... ... , ............. -........................ 2.13

Sacramento river water ·200·miles southward into the··San Joaquin river, L .T _ . ., il \ J · ' s T . Cobi·as LaPhw t ,....li'oate and ' -· ster :st., . . Oaklincl, -C~Uf.;· at,·: 8 p:in'.·. h' h · bl k d t b F iat I • t provid ·:w ater' for the dry e ourn.eau . pu s- eep ' er;a · · ' c < . · I.., c ' · :Friday, May_25; 19~i. ··· . .·WIC IS · OC e _, a <SOUI'C~".Y " r .n can~ : o '. .e· ' . • similartypes· of.equipment) .......... :.: ................. .. .......... .. .... : ...... ....... . 2.68 .

_ . . -'l~\\'er-. ~astsi,d·e. v_ia: ,.Friant-~ ern carial. Ce1itraJ-.:Valley .pro'jec.t ·complc- Refri·g·.2ration ; Plant ' op~rator ~ ............................. · .............. : ... : .. ~.O"":, .. ,. ... 2.57 · * 'ir ·· · * · · · · · · . twn. rites. a.re .bemg, held t lus~summer. · . . · · , Hou~e . Appr.opriati()ns , ,Commits Rollers ................ ................. .................... ........................................................ 2.52 ~ .. 1}&$: reeqm1;11e.nded : a J i33,870,Q.OO , R6s::; ·c-an:iers· ( 01r- construction job site ) ...... : ........ : .. .' ............... .. . _. ...... _ .. _ 2. 24 . allowance ,:for. c9.nstrucf,ion: qn .,th!=! o'ff~~.· .. . I- N. '.a.• . t ' M ' ;!l,;i.- • . SC()() mob;l (,~,i1en · u~ed as a hoist)· . ' . . ' ' 2.41.. Central .Valley .Project .du1:ing '_the .. :: ·ICIGm · .' OTICe' . Q . . e:&tbiers J S~oo~mob;l: · (,~;J-ien u;ed 'as a Joade'r·t:·:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::.:::::: 2.57

;i.2 months startiq-g: .i:uiy ' l. . DON'T FORGET T'o CAST ·vOUR BALLOT! ,It i\? your' inherent Screed Man ............................................ '.'. .:-.......................... , ... : .................. .'. ' 2 . .13· * · * . -*· · · / right to select candida.tes :·of your choice by voting ,each: election. The · Self~prop~lled elevat ing' ·grad~ plane .... ,., ....... .. _. !.. .. : .. ,......................... 2.57

baJlots will-·be .mailed out' within one week.. If s ou do not receive a ' d ,.baliot the San F 1'ancisco ,office should be not ified, as. th}s is an indica. ~Spreader. Machines (Barber. Green, .Jeager, etc.) .Engi neer an

0Ih·'er'A; Crossman · '. . ·· • .c Aptil 23'. issi ·· .·

J. C. Li:nk .. · . . . . . '' ·-· .·r •• Ap~ii .27, 1~t

A. E. Whitlo'ck · ---- -- -·-· -- 11:a:v. 2, ·19s:c· . · Ed' F: ·l\Iurp!1y "

.· ' Mlty 6 '1951 • . . ~ . . :"'" .-· -,

..:: John '1\Ic;Go\\Tn1a11 ·. May, f951 ·

: tion that we ilo ,ri·o..t have your correct a ctct ress on file. , -'. · . screed man used in ,operauon) ----· ~~:----:-........... :: .... , ..... : ................... : ·· Change of addre.ss can l;)e -mqde on ·the follo,0ng fornrand ·Sent Soil Stabilizer Operator (P: & fl, or equal) ......... ... : ............ : ....... ......... ..

int9 the m~ n office, 474 Valencia StrP.~t: Sa,n .Franci,sco 3; California, Surf_ace, heaters ...... ..... , ..... ::-....... : ............................... _ .... ............ .............. ..

· CHANGE Of ADDRESS ! ., Towermobtle ................. :.' ....... .. . ,............ ....... ........... .... .. · · · · ....... .. Tractors ....... · .. .' ............................ : ............................ ......... : ......... .............. .... ,.

· Date: .. ...... ,. ....... '. ........ : ... ~ ... ... :.:::: ..... ..... ,. . Tractor (boom)' ............ .. .. · ...... · ........... _ ............................ ......................... .

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Nam·e .. ; .... .... ......... : .. , .. .. ........ .' .. ............... '. .... .. ~ ..... Regi,ster No .. ..... .' ...... : ...... _. ... ... . Tractor · ( tai1dem) ............. : ............... ........... _ .................. ............................ · - 2.85 T!:actol':type' shovel loader · (scale no t to apply when us.ed as blade

.. New Address: ...... ,.: .... ........ ..... : .......... .......... .. ....... : .... ............. ............... : ..... : ....... . I '

To,,•n State

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·or bulldozer) .: ...................................... ,._. ......... _. ...... : .. -........................... ... 2 .68 2.57. Trer1chihg Machine ................... _. ............. .... : .. : ... , .. : .. ...... : ... , .... : ................... .

Truck type loader ··: .............. :c .... .. .. .. .. . .. ......... .... .. . .................. . .............. ..... .

Truck Crane ........... : ......... : ...................... ,._ .......................................... ....... .. Ci·ews working in tupnels· shall receive $0.125 per hour over and

above th:e r egulai· · rate. . '· . ·

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Use 7402T on lioe, On .Hetchy Joh

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Up in the foothills of the Sierras

near Knights. Ferry, the Engineers

are at their usual work of doing

the. unusual, according to an _inter­

esting account · of the duplicate ·e·s Hetch-Hetchy pipeline for San - cFrancisco water supply. In use is

(This is the third- in a series of articles entitled "Your Economics 1201 Lima Hoe, weighing in at 74

and Mine," dealing with vital econon;ic discussions of the day. The series tons, is prepared and distributl;ld by the California State Federation of Labor.) Climax of the job came on a

With inflation a living, desperate problem for millions of" 35-degree sl?pe. It took 50 to1:s Amedcan wao-e earners the statisticians of Big Business con- of ot_her eqmpment ~0 hold the _big

, b .. ' · . hoe m place on a hill three miles trnue to sell their worn and shabby charge that the workmg south of Knights Ferry-two D-8 people are advancing financially at the expense of commerce cats and an HD-19. and the national well. being. -------------- Bro. Al Smith is equipment su-

Whi!e defending the excess profits sets). During the same period the perintendent and was r esponsible of indust_ry with uncommon zeal, 40 per cent with the lowest incomes for rigging and building the equip­the business propagandists tell and . bought only 18 per cent of all ment for this job. · The hoe and retell the fable of excessive earn- durable _consum,er goods a11d 20 per boom, weighing 19· tons, viere ing powers for the edification of a cent of an other types of consumer made especially for work of this PV~nt press and a confused public. goods. These figures suggest that a · kind for United Concrete Pipe. . The · Big Business fallicies ' will great deal of chopping can be done Work on the nine and one-half

not starid inspection. A roll call of at the upper levels before the in- foot trench has . been under way major wage arguments follows:

1 flationary danger · of . the expendi- three months.

' Fallacy ~Np._, 1 .- "The American ture. of the wage earner need be Operator of the Lima, Cleve M. wage ·ea,rnei· takes· aii ·ever~increas- considered. ,Wichman of Stockton, was unable ing share of the national income." Fallacy No. 5-"Wages of tJie ag- to sit in his seat during the final 'ANSWER:- Actual statistics show ricultural workers.are sufficiei1t for steep hai'tl. On most stretches ap-

thcl,t h istorically the percentage of a dec~nt liviµg/' proximately 150 feet a day was · · · the rate of progress. The bucket

the· na_tional incorrie._· go'ing to com- '1 AN_ SW_ ER: The United States holds from four to five cubic yards

pensat10n of employees has re-1 Department of Agriculture tells a of eartli. -

·. ::~ne:110il~ s;:?1:1:·~;::ss ~t!~t i~~~r~-~; !;~r:h ;~~ ~~~:r~~:e ;:~~ United has tne 7½ -mile eastern t · ·t d d · I · section of the job and the westem :reme prospen y . an epress10n. ern1;1ental figures exist) the aver-Just before the crash of 1929, the age m onthly wage of ,the employed 7½ is under P. and J. Artukovich. p_ercent_age· of the_ to_ta1 private na- 11 agrict_1ltura_i worker was $103. Even Cost is about $213,QOO a mile, or t 1 l $3,200,000 for this 15-mile stretch. wn~ mco~e go1J1g to e!Y.lp oyees l_if this employee _ had . worked 12 was 56%; 111 1940, 60 % ; 111 1944, 1 months out ·of the year, his wages The working area ends at Knights 51% ; ·_ i11 .1947, . 60%; and in~ 1Q4_9 f would have ,amounted to about Ferry Portal, about four miles again 60%·. !$123_ 6, obvi'ously an insufficient .re- east of Knights F erry . . Here the

!foe ran into · surface rock which Fallacy No. 2- "War•s· have un- , turn. Moreover, the same study had to be blasted for four miles.

duly increased labor's earnings:" sho:''S that only 20 per cent of t~e In the trench will , go _6l-inch con-ANSWER: This argument, which, agncultural workers could obtam crete pipe.

is 0°ften citeci as a major cause of work for 250 days or m.9re and the , :inflation: during war i:ime, is -not ' rest worked considerably fewer . . supported by fac t A~ r.r;onsequence days cin fii.e: avelage:s ·,,Thus, the

of World ·W ar I (1914-1920), · the sorry position . of t he ' i/gricultural .mcreaJe iii 1;~a:l wages was m<irely W~rker in th~. United: States re­on 12 ~tenth of the increase ·in money qmre_s recogmt10n and reform­w~ges and, . in ,truth, only followed

I despite Big Busirie~s fables.

* * * O'ne Mere Car

of ·'Muck The shift had just started,

-the normal· slow-gaited. wage trend * * * of a peaceful economy. Anti,rUnion Texas­

la·wmakers Want:

· To the heading we go.

• As a c0·11sequence of Wor-ld War · II -<1939-1948) ,-inflatfori. lowered the wage' earner's . riial - gain to one­eighth ' of his monetary boost.How-

. ever, from 193,9 to 1948, corporate l L. U d ff d

F rom the . portal we parted, And we didn't ride slow.

There was muck in the, heading, A SCREAM comes from CHUCK. "Plug in th-e mucker, And fet's start to muck." profits .bef~re taxes ~ose by 530 per 1-auor s1an . cu e

cent and corporate profits after _ . taxes climbed by 418 per cent. - Tex~s lawmakers want t o go In about half an hour,

While the effects ~f the ·Korean· back to· t_he "good old days" before I had· i t mucked o·ut:

th U S · t trade umons were able to protect war on · e . . . economy canno

no~v be fu lly appraised, the same workers. - A bill before the Texas legisla disparitJ is appearing. Profits . from -ture would make unions liable to

manufacturing corporations frorn the. first to the third quarter of criminal prosecution \illder state

antitrust laws. They now are sub­. 1950 rose by 69 per cent and after ject only to civil penalties.

taxes by 54 per cerit! \Vorkers have The bill would make it a "con-not enjoyed increases.even remote- spiracy in restraiu:t of trade'' for ly. approaching that rise. an employer and union to make

Falla.Cy No. 3-:-"Skilled workers an. agreement whereby only union have pros·pered at the expense. 'Of · workers would: be hired. One · 1arge unskilled la-!;'or." alun1inum company would be af-

ANSWER : This claim is often fected inunediately. It has an used as a defense against skilled agreement t_o hire only union peo.: labor wage increase,s. While there ple. is naturally a substantial differen- Only one witness before the t ial in the .. _earnings of t hese _ t wo Senate committee favored the bill. types of lal:Jor, . the . differentil:!-1 has Every ·labor group and a number consistently declined. For instance, of contractors employing unio11 In 1907 in the U_pited $,tates a members oppose it. . . slfilled worker had average earn- The Texas legishJ,ture has . been H1gs more than twice 'as high as the anti-union consistentiy. ·In 1947 it unskil~ed 'forker, while by 1947 the adopted a . "littl~ Taft-Hartley Act" difference had shrunk to merely which went further eve~l than the orie-half. In the Far West, the pie- T-H Act itself. ture .is · a similar one: in 1907 the , * * . *

Sweat pouring off me, • When again CHUCK did SHOUT.

"Down · with the section, Then up with the set, -I'm going to make That fo urth. round yet."

Drilling, blasting, mucking, timber,

The men had al] wo1;ked Until they were . F ast going limber~

I ;n tell you these fellows Are taking a beati11' And the_man· with the whi'p Is Mr. Chuck Eaton.

Npw back to. the- h eading In one final burst, Smoke . like a curtain, But the gas . was the worst.

then

COMMENT

Rep_o_rt of Last The meeting was called to order at 8 :3-0 p.m,, . Vioe-Presiqe1\t Foss

presiding·. Brother Petersen was appointed by Br,other· Fos~ to act as· Vi<;e-Pr.esident. Roll call sh~wed aU office1:,s . prese}J.t, with exception of Presidei1t Clancy, who al'l'ived later. ·

A synopsfs Qf the Regular Meeting Minutes of April 7 was read ai1d by motio11 approved as 1•ead, .

A'synopsis of the Executive Boa.rd i.\Iinu:tes of April 18 ancl of May 1 read, and-t.he acts and recon1mendation.s of , the Boa.rel were . by motion approve(:} as read.

Cards of thanks were received from tiie Oakland Boys C1ub, Thelma Joy, P3:t Clancy and i.\'Irs. Ag11:es Steffy and family. All were received and filed. .e~

. The following Brothers were reported ill: Robert L. Burns, H. C. Bowles, Jo§eph Bertini', Paul Bringhurst, Jack

0Crmnley, David Camp,

John E. Cooley, Ruel Cr9cke:r, Jesse· Culp, John Clark, Lfl_O E. D91·y, Verne Dicil:inson, Leo J, DoJ'teney, E. s: Dolan., Antonio Evola, Louis Elvick, Harold A. Fosso, Henry C. Fenchel, 0. B. Freeman, Earl J. Gish, Floyd Grimes, Harry A. Gaines, David Germain, Daley .F. Hunt, Carl R. Houk, Robert L. Hartline, Lelan Seth Hasha; Ray,mond Hicks, Jas. Inman, C. C. Jorgensen, C. L. Jeffries, Collier O. Jones, iVHlo-- C. Kidder, John L. I{ug;ler; Guy Rohn, Charles Kitzmiller, J. E. Lloyd, R. A. Lintcheourn, Stephen Leonesio, Jo,hn O. McKinnon, Irving l\:Iulford, Benny Lee i.\Ian­ning·, C. · iVIavy, James Mize, Howard l\'I, .i.\'.Ioore, M. i\'Iurdock, Rafael Monty, Joe i.\'.Iira1ida, Tom Medow, Victor Nelson, C. J. Naismith, Peter H . .O'Neil, R-. T. Poole, N~il J, Petersen, Sam Passmore;· Don W. Pog·ue, ~asil L. Payne, i.\Iike Poleag,e, D. C, Reynolds, W. P. Smith, John E . Shull, Jr., Ray Smith, J. A. Seaborn, Earf Todd, John W. Tittle, .Edgar \Vhittemore, Arthur w ·anac'e, Victor i.\'I. Woodarcl, Oscar J,. Winkler, \Vm. P . Walsh, A. E. Whitlock a11,d Ben Yount.

The following Brothers were reported deceased: Roland K. Kapule, Chas. J.>. ,Joy, Arthur Holton, Floyd Steffy, Rudolph Shuhart, J. C. Link and Arthur Whitlock.

I( wa,s moved, seconded, carried that we dispense· with regular orqer of business for selection of the JDlection Committee to conduct t~e ~ -ing election. .

P resident Clancy ··was welcomed by memI?ers present. -President Foss declared nomina.tions open for members of the elec­

tion committee. After 11-0'minations were made and closed, ;!?resident Foss appoi_nted. two telle~s, Vice-President Petersen appointing one teller. Ballots were passed out, and members voted.

Report of the General Secr.eta1·y-Treasurer was .read by Pres. Foss. Brother Swa.nson gave a report on nego·tiations .with the A.Gr§):,

advisin,g all members to return to work on Monday, l\Ia.y 7, · President Foss introduced Commissione1; Viat of _the U. S. Eloncilia•

tion Service, who acted as conciliator in our negotiations .with ·the A.G.C. Brother Frank Lawrence, Industrial Accid·ent Commissione1:, -and

Brother B. Miller, Vice-President of the _Painters Internatin,a.I, urere next introduced. . .

President ·Foss declared nominations ,op.en for _c:J,ndid!l,tes ·for.,officer!Ji. of the coming year. ··Nomin~tions were made .and closed. . .

Brother Clem:·' reported on the election to ·be held. :[\•lay 15, ca:lling· atten,tion to m embers- living on the East Sicfo of . t.he Bay: the dan~el'. of de-control of rent, __ request\ng they do what they can toward e~ct~ Labor's friends,

Brother Swanson reportecl ballots for election would be countecl be­tween 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., that there wouid be no night .. session. He reminded candidates that letters to be. enclosed wit\1 ballots ,must be iu within the five clays allowed by the By-Laws. He further sta.tecl that the Committee would pick· up ballots at the, Post Office on June 2, and that they would be ppene(I, _and cotl_nting· started. on June 3, .1951.

President Foss declared a recess. The meeting reconve.ned when ,the tellers were re.a,dy to. re.p,q1·t. _the resuits ·in connection .with .election. of the Election Comniittee. · -· ~

There. being n~ . r{u'.t1te1, .bitsiness to .. c.ome before the ,meeting, .· it adjc;rqrµe~i. · .. , · · ResP,ectfully submitted,

C. F . MATHEWS, Recording Se·cretary.

W~sh:iyg!oll,, (L:p A) .~Of the 1517 union shop elections conduetecfin the.iirst three months. of 1951, the unions won , 1474, 01~ _97.2 per:;een°i, , the National Labor Relations Board repo1~ted. Of .t}?e . 46':t,337 eligible voters, 348,821 'or 75·.6 per cent voted. for:-the ;1fui0n shop. 1

At th.e end of the _Huarter, 6,847 cases were pending, _including 3,001 charging unfair .lapor practices; 1,050 petitions seeking union shop polls ; 3,254 asking coliective bar­gaining elections; 82 asking decer-

In · Chicago, Dudley Le Blanc,

president o( the '. company ·which hu~kes Hadacol, ,:a patent medicine, . offered _General D0uglas MacArthur .

tification. $150,000 a year to join the c.o,m·

During_ the quarter 1,446 col- pany. Union leaders who have tried lective bargaining . ,elections -·were to or1;;anize . the . Hada col Co: , de­conducted, with 136',262 .eligible to d ared that if the offer were-a-: vote, and 70.1 per , cent voting for

skilled woi;ker . averaged 85% more; Our burd.ens would be lessened, , in '1947 /only 45 % µiore than .the If mafriage,we;d forbid,

The fan is a popping ill You can't hear a man, Then CHUCK SINGS OUT "Sparkie go turn off the fan."

unskilled wqrker. The trend is co.n7 -For in -lau,~· cause more. trouble tinu.ing. _Than. ~utiaws ever did. · · '

1 We could hear the old mucker

Fallacy.No. 4--,-"During inflatj~n- .---------~--------, As it rolled down the track.

·' a . union: AFL · a:t.ijfia:t es .took part ii1 964 elections, ,~on, 651. CIO af­filiates 'took part in , 486; wori 300, Unaffiliated u11ions worr 95, lost 63,

. In 21 dece_rtifica:tiori e1ections, .14 1·esulted in decertification. AFL af­filiates won n~e, CIO affiliates won one, "an.d .unaffiliated .unions one.

c:ept ed it would mean t he "merger of a phony ~ui·e-all, a ,phony labor relationss plan and 'a phony inter• national relations policy.' \ .-

· ary periods the mass purchasing· ENGINEERS' NEWS Put in one 'l'l1.ore crow-bar, Pow. er of the low il.icon. ·1e gr·oup" is.' . . · Then °pac. k the stuff back. Managing Editor, V, S. SWANSON responsible for rising Pl'ices."· · , Published Each Month by Local Unio,

ANSWER: This is the standard No. 3 of tlie International Union ol chant of. those. who would reduce · Operating Engin_eers

Northern California, Northern Nevada, wages' and:· ini::rease· the already · State··of U:tali. staggering inequality of incomes in Office 47.4-Valencia Street the Amei;ican economy. A study of ·san Francisco. 3, California the F ede'ral Res,erve Board in 1949 • Subscription Price: $'2.50 shbw_ed .that. the 20 per cent of all American families -.with the highest· inc0mes ·were responsible for 41 per C<!nt of a ll expenditures on durable consumer goods (for instance, i:'e.­frigerator.s, automobiles, television

per year Mail-0·all news items in to editor nol

later than the 5th of each· monih Entered a s Second Class Matter Sep­lemlier 9, 1943, at .the Postollice at San

. Francisco, California., ·under the Act . • of August 24; .1912.

' Off the muck pile The miners did totter, CHUCK. YEI;LS, " muck it To HELL with. the water."

dry,

·"Plug iri that mucker," A gain BELLERS CHUCK, . "And I'll wind up this shift With one mo1'e ca'.r of niuck''

By a· .. Broth€?r E"ngineer~ WALT MORT-EN£EN;

Riverton, Utah.

Petitions filed numbered 4,193. Of 2,412 petitions for Collective bargaining elections, the ' employ­ers filed 106; AFL union 1,412; CIO unions 679; unaffiliated unions 185; and an individual filed or{e.

fire~e,&1 Get Tags In Union, N.J., · union mernbers

expr essed themselves lll' no 'unce1;­tain ' t errns over what' the poliee,.did to seven volunteer firemen. The cops tagged the volunteers with $1 fines , e·acr for parking illegally at the scent of a fire - to · which they

Of the 1,679 petitions for union had been summoned. shop elections, 987 were filed by AFL, _547 by CIO, 144 by unaffili- 1,108 . abirist :" e·irt~loye~s.;' In.divld­ated unions. uals .filed 257, -·AFL · urtiont' 388,

During the quartet.,1,385· c-harges CIO unions 259, unaffiliatea ' u nions of unfair labor practice were file~, 94. , .• · ~.:;;:;- -

MAY 15, 1951 -- ENGINEERS' NEWS Tqree

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ts Doing in -the O kland _ffice .By AL CLEM, T;-D. BRYSON, F. A. LA WREN CE, LOU:IS SOLARI, Business Representatives ,. . ,. ' ~ ... ' . . .

During the _ past month, 627 Engineers were cleared new construction in the Standard I jority of these last month, and as through the Oakland office, and, at one time during this pe- Plant and ·southwest Welding has nothing new has been added, owill

- one crane working on this job. not discuss the separate jobs at riod;- our ont-of~work list was practically nil-with just five __ this time. The only new job of any meri registered. This is a fondition we haven't seen in these- The following bro,thers: w-!n. significance in prospect is the ex­parts for the past fiy.e years, and it would seem to indicate r"Hynes, Sam Cohagan, _c~as. 1 tension _of th_e ~unways at t~e a good season ,in the offing: Due to the difficulties ·the various , Schmeckenbecker, Neil Willmg- Naval Air Stat10n 111 Alameda. T!11S crafts, including our own, have been experienci_ng during the ham, - Jess Willingham, 'A. Smith will probably not be let _till after

Congratulations to Brothet Joe Crossland )VhO was marrie'?J in Reno on April 23r,d. And while, we're talking about Crosslands- ­Brother Oscar is a busy man these days- running shovel and opera.t­ing the Midway Liquor Store at 14275 E. 14th St., in San Leandr9,

. and Merle Downing are employed the beginning of the fiscal year, in early' part of May, · the· picture has changed considerably. by E. E. Lowell on the job at Shei'- July. I Brother Guy Jones just finished This is a temporary thing, how- ·- - ------------- !man Acres near Concord. This com- We are sorry to report that one a two-year job in time to do so.me evei·, and t_he indic~tio11s are. t:h'.3-t' Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets / pany has the contract for the street of our old timers, Lewis "Bab_e' '. baby tending while Mrs. Jones got we are gomg to have a _ critical with outlet' connections to East I work in the housing development Simpson, was seriously injured over the, flu. He says that one little shortage of h_elp befo~e the su~- Twelfth, East Fourteenth and First I and at present tney are getting while wor~ing on his dredge, the baby really -had him going _ and he mer is over, especially since man\ av~nu~. S~ructures for gi;ade sepa- ready to start paving on roads, Califo~-nia; which is owned ~Y him :,vonders how \he iadies ev~r did it of th~ f~llows have gone to othe~ ,rat10ns will be constructed-·-at the I curbs and gutters. They have a and his brother, Pat. Babe is now 111 the days before automatic wash-

__ ) .,JU'e1'.ls to work. _ _ _ end of the dam on pile foundations. tamper and a dozer rented out to in St. Josepl)-'s Hospital in Stock- ers, elecfric irons and running .-· - There will be three pedestrian sub- the Cameo Acres job. Brother Bill ton, and from what we cai1 find out wa :er. _ On sec0nd !thought, he says

Fredricks.on and V\Tatson con- ways on the project. One will lead Poiser is superintendent with is doing as well as can be expected. he wonders how in the world t l,ey tinue to have one of the largest from . the sidewalk on the north Brother Joe Mcclary doing the We all join in wishing him a speedy do it now! groups of Engineers erripioyeci ' on: : side of the Frickstad Viaduct to foreman's work cin the spread. recovery. this side of the bay. They areptes-. the center of the Municipal Audi to- Brother Everett Huff is get ting ently putting the finishing -touches rium grounds. There will be a sepa- Sa,muel Hubbard Compahy has a jump on the vacation seas-DJL to tMir highway job at Santa.Rita, rate roadway and discharging plat- sev,eral jobs in operation at th:e News Ab'out Started out last \Veek to drive to and ·-the grading \1/ork on the Sa·n form for buses connecting with this present time. His company has the Kansas City. Expects to be gone Leandro Freeway is · nearly · co·m- unde1~pass. The second. tunnel ' will contract for paving of the play- h about a month with the return t dp palbeltee._eTqUhl_epym_ earll'te · tmoo-vt-ih'ne~ M_coo·nusnidt_aelrl.-1. ) ~ad from the 'west end of the via- vg~·otundEsl and tw~ss at the Diablo .T e Brothers Ato. have wstloptovers in Texas and

. duct to Fallon street opposite the 1s a emen ary chool on Boyd nzona. 1a samatter with Hoity--Boulevard Freeway . job, which' is Couhty Courthouse, and the third -Road in Concord, and he is just Brother Clarence Byers ·left on wood, Everett? , once 'again getting urider wai: fol~ will-extend from Lakeshore avenue getting started on this on·e. He also May 2nd for Kuwait 011 the Per- * * * lowing the winter· shut down·. This, to 'the north side of East Twelfth has the contract for paving of all sian Gulf, whe,re· he will operate road, to ruri from Broadw"ay . Ter- . "street. the streets, walks and th_e parking crane for the American Independ- $10 ·1n Grocer·1es race to Mor'aga"Avemie, a "disUtrice area of the I new Walnut Creek ent Oil Company. Brother Carl . , I , .

of approximately i% rn11Js; ,vill '. be ·:-·work in the shipyards picked up .Shopping Center, the first unit of Barber left on May 13th for a one- N C $241 a fqi.ir-lane" :ctivide'.d ' highway .with ~ b(t .during the past month with which amounts to approximately year contract in French Morocco. ow osts _,/ _o 011e overpass at- Broadway Terracf Todd's hiring several Whirley operc $70,000. At the Livermore Gram- He wi11 be operating blade for At- I, • . .

A 430-foot. tunnel; 6 feef in dfa'rrr~ ators and Moore Dry Dock adding mar School, he is nearly through las Construction, a New York firm. , \\_a~Iungton (LPA)-Family rns-: eter will handle -the . utility '. 'ii_nel 'a few to their payroll. Mai'tiri.olich with a job which consisted of plac- And on the other side of the pie- ~essities that coSt $100 a mOJitti,

---:~ 'll'here - is ·_appi·oximately !200,000 S,_hip Repair, now located on the ing of 64,000 square feet of armor ture Brother Aubrey Singlet01i. 111 1939 coSt $l85 a month now, - --d ·· f d' t · 1 ·b . .-- ·· ' d, · d. ·-. t -· . t' _ t d f _ - t . Mrs. Arvness Joy Wickens told t:~e yar s o Jr · , :o e move an a · Oakland · d · f ti E t t th coat and. sand se·a1. Brothers B_ob JUS i-e urne r-om a wo-yeai W ,, D t· Cl b h "t 12 -E · · · · · - - '· k" --- -- . · - si e O le s uary a. e - A b' . omens emo.cra ic u e ,~-e p~ese:µ __ . _- . _ ngmeei~s a~-e " '.?1: ,.;:11.g. __ foot of Fifth avenue is employing Pollard and Swen Danielson have ,, hitch with ARAMCO in ra ta. April 19_ Mrs. Wickens is Depi;ty o_n_ the prpJec:t_ under th_e _s_upe.rvi-__ ,two Engineers at the present time, been working on this. --- Commissioner of the Labor De -s1oi:i of Arc~ ,Harsh. Br?tl1e~· _-Les and seem to have a considerable · I Brother Bill_ Gaunt, wl~o oper- partment's Bureau of Labor S{a . Chri~tn~an ~s foreman o_n , tl1e :j~b- a_m:ount of work ,lined up for the Orinda Paving and Excavating, ~tes the Supei:10r Blacksm1th_Shop ti.sties. and it is expected . that: work w1_n riear future. . one of the up and coming concerns 111 Concord, wishes to take this op- "It takes --$23_75 to ·buy tta

~~~ontinue well into the fall . . · ,: --- in Conti-a Costa .County, is run by portunity t'o thank all_ the 1:11embers groceries that a $10 bill used to ·· · ... Three · shifts are operatihg at the two br6ther Engineers, I-Ienry who sen_t floral ?fferings 111 mem- buy before World \Var II, 11• she i

-Work_ 'on the ;ai\o-us sections of I11land ·Aggregates in Niles, with 21 Soehner and· Robert Cambra. These ory of his son, Bill Jr. The lad was said. She added that it now takes the East Bay· sewage disposal· sys':. ·.members in the crew. wo'i-k seems boys were recently awai'ded the one of the four youpg people killed $100.50 to buy the clothing S50 teni is going foto the final stages: · ,to be booming out that way, with contract for all the excavating ~ecently when their car crashed used to buy; $103:50 to buy u~.e Stolte, Early . arid ·: Hc):rrelscih al'e: :an the ,plants in the Livermore work 011 the new Martinez Juniol' mto a tree near Concord. housefurnishings $50 used to cuv-· finishing up tfaiir large co·nti.'.act on' 'Valley running· full blast. Gilder- College, and expect to start 011 the er; rents have gone; up 28 per ·cent the Soutli Interceptor. _This portion sl_eeve's n-ew Centerville plant {s 30,000 yard project within . the next It doesn't happen often, but one and would have gone higher with-· "of 'the job has provided· a -ccirisia: beginning to shape up and will be few days. This, coupled ' with' sev- day not long ago, Brother . Carl out controls; other goods and sez·v­erable amounf of eniploy'me:nt 'to ready to operate in approximately eral other jobs in the county, will Booth was. abie to · park his 'trench- ices are up. Engineers, but we . are glad it is three months, and at +i;vington, · furnish employment to -, i bout a s r in front of the door and come Mrs-1 Wickens said that '$30 of

, wi~\oing \1p in time to release-:sonie Bell's Gravel Plant is in full opera- dozen of the members for some up to pay his dues. Carl is working the $85 increase in the monthly - -+.:fuf-~"the brothers to wol'lr o'n othe·r' . tion. This company was nearly time. on the McGuire and Hester job on bill came during the war . • The

projects_ during· the summer. flooded out during the winter; but Webster _street and said when he remaining $50 has come since the fortunately, little damage was done "c. L. Cypher, a North Bay Con- got right in front of the hall the war's end. "World War II and its

Stolte . Inc., and Duncan~on and a11d they are now making up for I tractor, has the contract for exca- . opportunity was too good to waste! aftermath is the ~ al reason fo r H l · - the rise in the cost of Jiving·,'' she . arre son, with a figure of $1,631,- lost time. vating and street ·work as well as 057, were low bfdders for construe- - .-- the parking area for the new Safe- Several of the brothers have explained, pointing out that every 't · -- · I bee se1 ·ou 1 ·11 d · tl t war in our history .has given r is-2 1011 of the l)ew bridge COl"\necting There is considerable activity out way Store to be located between 11 '1 s Y i unng 1e pas·

· ti d- · h t tl 1 h to inflationary price movements Alameda and· .Bay Farm Island. At at Tareyton Village-the new home Concord and the Monument. Broth- mon 1 an we wis o 1an < t e . h following brothers- wlio ma~de COil- sparked by deficit financing. t is·_ writing the contract . had ncit development in Decoto. · Brother er Kenneth Griffiths is Tunning

been awarded but a spokesman for Cecil Moore·, who had 11 Engineers loader and Maynard Bailard Jr. is tributions to the blood bank to help ·:: * * th fi 'd tl t 'f th · - h d their fellow membei:s: Harvey Ku- · t'.\uee•~ C,..,.,;., u.,.:0"" e rm sai . 1a· i ey received working _J:n this job, is through on t e ozer. 'I"'.. "r """""'' ll,jl.,. •• t he contract work wouid start- in with his portion of the contract· nert, Garland McAtee, Gail Bishop, , In Paris, France, unions whi::h about 30 days. Appro_ximately 20 -- but Lane Construction Company i~ Joe Call, Ray Thompson, Joe Cross- already have more ex•royalty tha~-::

The P .C.A. Plant at Concord has 1 d d w·11· l\i[ I f' months will be needed to complete -still enga_ged in digging foundations · an , an i iam c ntur t . any other labor group in the wor"ld been kept busy lately turning out the_ structure, w_ hich will parallel I 1f_o_r the ho_ uses._ This ou,ffit has de- studied the case of Dayan Djav,. material for various local J'obs. Br th J' J h J b t he present bndge at about 200 _ vised an -mgemous attachment for O er immy o ns r, un- dan, 74-year-old former queen of f - , They have furnished all the ma- dled the whole family up and went E eet to the east. · ·_, · the trencher which eliminates a terial for Almstrong's job at the gypt, who has advertised widely

considerable amount of hand work fishin' on opening day. Says every- for a job as cook. For 69 years a. Monument, will furnish 900. tons orie had a wonderful time-the b f At Pacific States Steel, work is and speeds up the operation in gen- mem er o · the upper crust of in.-for the Naval Magazine at Port h ·1 d · t· 1· t· moving_ along at a ·fast p·ace ·- with · er.al. John Pestano has seven mem- ai an ram was very s ·imu a mg ternational society and for 17 yeats Chicago and a job at Camp Stone- d th t · J I ~-~ 64 ___ Engineers · on the payr·oll ' at · _b'ers ·working on this same tr·act. - -an e rlQ as a w 10 e was Queen of Egypt, Madam Djavid,Ec _ _ man wil1 use 1500 tons more. · ht 1 t A resent. Plans to shut down the -He has the contract for -ccnstruc- mig Y P easan - nd don't think has had one proposal to go to Lo,1.-

Brother R. V':'( Petrie is plant fore- Jimmy cam ho t h d d d electric furnaces at the · completion ·ti9n of all storm and · utility sew- e me emp Y an e on to appear in a movie called man, Charles Erickson is fireman, either. No sir-ee, he d1'dn't. r·Te "Q f · D " d d ··t h of. the new open hearths were can- ers for the Village and is averag- ::i ueen - or a ay an espi ·e e_;•

_ L. P. Cleveland, boxman, G. R. caught sometl11·ng all ri'ght a n1·ce O 1 b 1 d t · celled . due , to t_he severe shortage -ing 1200 feet of . line a day. - , r ya ar; <groun may encoun er Smith is running the cat and Leon_- big J'uicy cold · th J d, · · t b' · E 1 of .steel, and all facilities are now

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. _ - -- ' m e 1ea · umon rou 1e m ng and. ard Woodside is the Batch Plant in ·use. · Paris Brothers have completed operator.

--- - ,- the excavation for foundations at "UNION M.AiD" . Charles Harney has· -· resumed the Dodge Plant in San Leandro.

work at the Oakland Airport after I Ea.st Bay Excavators_ furnished the Dredger' ·News several months shut down ·due - to fill for this job, and Underground the rains, and at present he · has 10 Construction, who handled the .

1 of the _brothers emplpoyed · on this . drainage work, is also winding up The time has come for wage ne-job. -They are pouring about : 500' .their portion of the contract. gotiations with the Dredge Own-yards of concrete per day, and ex- _·· · · ers. We held a meeting in the Oak-pect to be through with .work"'9n · ·Brother ·Bob Malloy, one of our land office with the members on t he runways in about -one· month.' local · member-c on tr act o rs, is Monday night, April 23rd, which

branchi_ng out these days. He is was faily well attended-about 45 Elimination of the traffic ·bottle- erecting- a ·rock plarit in the Pi-ed- dredgermen p1'esent. There were

'--n-eci{ at Twelfth street wcas bro·ught :m"bt1t co·rporation Yard, which he numerous complaints and sugges­nearer recently with the awarding. expects to have in operation by tions by the members, which were of an additional · contract for con- June 1st. Bob, who .has been a dirt relayed to the owners at ·our first struction on the Twelfth Street c6ntractor around the Ba:y Area meetirig on April 24th. The discus­Dam Project:. Dan Caputo' and, Ed-· for several years, is well kB.own by sions were caiTied on in good spirit ward Keeble got the job with .a bid-' many of the lci"i::al Engineei' s, who, by both sides, and, while nothing of $1,0.,',Q,129,50 . . The total cost .of. we are sure, join us in Wishing him was definitely settled, an·other t~e proi,~ct will be over $3,000,000. , the best of luck in his new enter- meeting was scheduled for May Fmal plans were held up pending prise. · 10th. I will be able to give you the approval of the Key System's re- - · outcome of -that meeting in our quest to terminate the "A" ·train A shortage of materials seems to next issue. line at 12th and Oak ' streets. '.This be · holding up work _ on Bechtel's I There have been a few suction permission was granted ·last Juhe .. -~ig~ Octane job for S~and~rd Oil dred~es finishing up work, ,but The west boun<l road will· have m· Richmond, but there i_s still a lot practically all the men have found i"' branches - entering from East of work remaining which will be jobs elsewhere; so we don't have Twelfth, , East Fourteenth and · completed as soon as possible. In many dredgermen on the out-ol:­Lakeshore avenue, -- with connec- the · meantime most of _the Engi- work list at 'the present time. tions at the . western ·terminus at neers woi·king on the job l~ave been The~'.e'are several small dr

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edges TwE:\I'th, Four tee Il't h a:nd "Oak transferred to the -P . G. & E:. Steam working in the bay anci'river area, streets. Eastbouirrd, the: ~;oad will Plant job at Antioci1. M: W. Kel- which has takien ·up all the slack iri have coimections from ·- E1eventh, ' logg is engaged in steel ~rection oh · employment. I reported :oh the ma-

Stan -_ienn~ngs 1

\ _ -·· __ "Pardon me::.w, ti~e for ,frank -Edwards ancCthe··news!".

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e, PROJ~CTS: SET Roys Haye t-V u~ Jhere . ' HA ,J\:! I By ED"DORAN -ancl C. L. CASEBOLT, ,Business Representatives, Local 3 -By 1\1, G. "MICKEY" MURPHY and A. J, '!BUOi{" HOPE

Business -Representatives, Local 3 - · ~ Utah Construation Company is working two shi~ts-on. the By J. K. WAIWAIOL.E Bear River Dam project. ThiS ·J·ob is Q:Oing six days per week:

Well brothers, things in and around this district are pretty good. We have very little idleness, which means a small out-of-work list and, which in turn is very gratifying to your representatives, with hopes of continuing.

Business·Representativ.e,•Local 3 ~

The navy has put out for bids in and will take two years to complete. Clayton Hooµ (formerly, the past month two housing proj - of Denver) -is the superintendent; Bro. Moorehead is master' ects consisting of approxamately mechanic; Hugo Russell, R. W. 1500 units. The first to be started Johnson, Vern Storey and J. D. several jobs in and around the the latter part of this month out- Parsons are shifting; A. S. Fraz- ·Modesto-Turlock area. This com­side of Barbers Point Nam! Air zell is head grease monkey; and pany has just started a road joh Station. The second project is John Hnney and "Ral!:)h Holcomb at Delhi, with -Bro. Pat Patterson slated to start sometime in July of are shop foremen. This job, from as superintendent. Bro. Swede _Ii'\g~ this year. the union standpoint, · is -a good ·wersen is superintendent , aver the

We have several good sized jobs going at full speed .and we expect a couple more to get under head­way befor'e too long, namely Fred­rickson & Watson on Highway 101 which went .for around $500,000 at Chualar, south of Salinas, and Stolte'.s disposal plant at M.0nterey, t he ·Manuel Smith underground job in the same locality, and Nor ­mac Construction Company at Fort 01'd, not to mention all the little stuff .(under $150,000). We are also expecting more good news from Moffett, however there has bee11 a .couple of minor jobs in there on parking areas but are now com­plete. We just received a notice that the San Francisco firm Chi­cago Bridge & Foundry Company was low bidder on the Ames Aero­nautical Laboratory at Moffett Field in the amount of $240,404.

LOS GATOS JOB Our major· project in this lo­

cality is the Guy F. Atkinson job at Los Gatos which just went on a double shift and we now have many engineers on this job. We have received · a nice letter from E1'.nie Gressott about this _. job, .such

, as that .Bro. Joe Burnside is doing a wonderful job as "Master Nut

.Buster." They . have completed } he big 120-inch concrete tube. I t is over 800 feet long, .and goes through the big fill. This fill is sup­posed · to be the largest highway fill in California, 1,500,000 cubic yards. There are 1,750,000 cubic yards all together on ·the whole job. The letter also expressed thanks · to the B. A.'s of San Jose for · the way they have handled their work. Recognition at last.

· The following are Local No. 3 members working on this project: R. D. "Dick" Alexander, 1:iroject superintendent; Ernest G. Gressott, excavation superintendent; fore­_men are: Chas. LaHa, Wayne Alex­ander, Bill Mosley, Larry Hagle; catskinners are: Dick Denson, Bill Shook, Alvin J epson, Ed Peters, Wallace Hitchcock, Roscoe Pounds, Will Fuhs, Roy Freitas, Joe An­drade, Tom Steele, W. R. Dauben­berger, Don Autrey, Cenas White, Obie Hall, Fred Pimentel, Harold Dellfous, John Sharp, Carl Hoover, Clem Hoovei-, Jack Mayabb, Jack Park, Bob Lehman, R. P. Mathis, Nick Marazzo, Bob Shannon, Rus-· sell Bates, Harry Bagley, James "I. Vv." Harper, Leroy Gorton, Maurice Marchal, William Dowd, "Ken" Hannum, ·Berl. W. Johnson, Martin Chea, Thetois Leakey, L. D. Haaington, William Bradley, Earl Hagle, Troy Harwell, Eugene Duncan, ·Louis Nisich, Hollis Lar­son, K . A. J eanotte, Wallace Cra­n ier, Leonard Bryant, G. J. Smith, Jessie Dryer, Mark Paddock, Per­shing Bell, Clarence Spires, E . E. Yancey. Technical Engineers are: P hillip Barrett, Ralph Wright, R. B. Batesman. Oilers: Ralph Jan­sen, Mel ·Slay, Harold Bounds, Ray Strickland, Harold Stegall. -Me­chanics : Joe Burnside, .Ken Hanum, Chas: ,Thome, Jerry Aldridge, Chris Holst, Larry E wing, ,Ken McGaha, \i'/ade Henderson, Gr.ant Pitzer. Compressor Operator is Loren 1..e­land.

FOOD MA.GHINERY JOB Another ' job to mention is the

Bechtel job on the Food Machinery plant . This is the new $42'.ooo;ooo plant which . when completed will manufacture ·tanks and equipment for the Army. At present we ·have three cranes handling the 12- and 15-ton pre-cast concrete slabs which go into these several build­ings. Brothe1:s on the orane han­dling the heavy pi~ces are G. Hil­strom and ' R. Gish, ·with Bros. Men­d()ZcJ. and Culp as oilers, .with Bro. Park looking after the compressors' and weld.ers. As for ,the excavating we i have Bro. Bill Lema as p1:1sher _for Bro. Ed Keeble who has a

sp1:ead of six cats and puils on the project at this writing. Independ­ent Iron has the steel which con­sists of approximately 7500 tons, and Bros. Nick and John Spikula are at the controls of the one P&H truck crane.

A. J . Peters are do!ng most of the underground work, and some­times you see a couple of ditchers and cats in operation in and around the job site and maybe a crane or boom cat or blade. How­ever, there's pl_enty of activity, and especially when Bro. Fred Jacques is on the job.

Carl Swenson, wen Jrnown con­tractor in this locality, has .a ' back­Iog . of ,$10 millioi1 worth of'.work, mainly sewers.

Contractor Frank B. ·Ma1,ks Jr. have about five weeks left to -com­plete their job and on their . pay­roll is Cy Ribisi as superintendent, Tom Plummer, J 0!111-· Regallo, C. E. Redal, Alex Bone, C. I-I. Craft, C. J. Crevola, Larry Croxen, Vince Di Salvo, Fred Ginesi, R. Jackman, . L. P. Marlow, Joe Ottolini, J . D. Panos, J, A. Pettit, H. P . Roberts, J . R. Logsdon, ·W. D. Broce, C. M. Morin.

Ed Keeble is starting a ·short job in Watsonville within ·a week;>

Granite Construction job at Fort Ord has abo-qt 18 engineers w.ork­ing, They .also have about eight operators on the rifle range build­ing and paving. roads. As soon as it dries up in Holliste~ they are go­ing to start laying blacktop. Their job at Chualar is going · to start in about 10 days and we understand Pete Pace is going to run this job.

The pipeline job at San Arda ·has about 16 miles left on the right of way and-everybody is now ·in Local 12 territory. There is quite a little work in the oil fields in San Arda and there are .about 20 engineers working there. .A pipeline job is coming up be­

tween King , City and -Salinas, and the contract will be let about the 15th of June.

The M.G.M. Construction Co. of Concord have a job down in Chua­lar with C. V. Miller as rnperin­tendent. This job is about two months duration.

PERSONALS

Due to the nee.cl of rirnch skilled one. \Ve -have full coopei:ation of d · · b d hot plant an pavmg JO s a!:~

mechanics for the Pearl Harbor the whole Utah oJiice · force -on the Modesto and Turlock. This ope'.!.·~ Navy Yard and, likewise, for other j0b. There are 75-members of Lo- -ation . is running along very_ defense projects, the above seems ·cal 3 on this project ' ,at · present. -smoothly, giving employment to to be of a very high priority for The only thing to be considered 20 of . our members. The boys are needed . materials to complete them now is how we -are .going to get all happy and looking forward to to enable the transfer or hire of the company to reduce the board .a .full summer's work. Over 011 such needed skilled mechanics from bill when it is claimed they are the_ pipeline -job for the City of other areas, especially the main- losing · money on every · meal they San Francisco, progress . has . been land U. S. A. serve. slow as there are only eight of

It seems that the much contra- The ,\i'iT..alsh Constructioi1 Co. is our boys employed at present, versial tunnel project will be able also going along at full speed and .There will be more men on this to start in the immediate future as ~xpects to get gQing_ on their da":1 project later .and the company -will soo n as top men in our · territorial ~ob by t~e e~ld of · this · ~wnth. T~is be fortunate to finish by Christ~

is .a qmet Job-very ,little -static. government , make up their , minds . 1 1

b mas. where it will go thrnugh the Koo- The company has furms 1ed ,a c u - IS. F. · AQUEDUCT au Mountains. -B0nding issue to the , , 1 room for _the employees . and thh_ey At Oal,cta· le, -.P. & J. Ar'tul'o,,i·ch

amount .of $6,000,000 has been ap- can ~et a bottle . 0.f beer _w i!e are progressing . rapidly vvith their, proved by our present legislature watchmg the te~evis'.on: Incident- City of San Francisco aqueduct 'for thisjob. ally, the recept1011 is good, con- job The ditch is all dug and 'one

Kaneohe Naval Air Station is sidering theY ar.e 200 mHes ,from of · the c1;ews laid off. .This job now working ,six days to try ·and the Bay , Area. . .~ should be completed by June 15, catch ·Ul) witl1 ,necessar·y coi1st·r'uc- st0ckton CQnSt ructi~n ·'-0

· was I Up at Keystone Beerman ,, & low bidder on the Pacific Gardens J . ' ·

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tion and rehabilitation work before . . . ones are movmg ng1 -- a-:<Jng, street_ work with a b:d of $214,000. They have established a shop a1l

turning the base over to the -Ma- This 1s the larg~st si~gle contract Jamestown also are - erecting <l rines in ,July, althought construe- let for street work 111 Stockton:s ·concrete b'atch _plant at Sonora, tion will -still continue. The Ha- history, waiian Dredge Co., Ltd., dredge Morrison & Knudsen are back They have several jobs · to com* "Dillingham" is now p.umping live F . t D t t th plete,- among· them the Jamestown

at armmg on am O pu on e_ sewer lines and the Columbia Air~ coral for stoc;kpiling for · use on finishing touches. About 30 days

I port. ·They ' have ·managed · to keep

th~ plan_e mats. Although this aper- of work will complete the con- 12 of our members happy through at10n did not clear through the tract. ·

the winter and will put on some proper channels for hiring, this, of-· A Teichert & Son·s have the more , in : the near future. flee has been able to furnish the contract to divert Duck Creek The Maxwell -Lime ·P it at Col* greater majority of dredgemen I for ·around -Farmington Dam and will umbia , keeps three of our , brothers its-three shifts. The estimated, work get started as soon as r ight of way steadily employed, with two 011 for dredging to date is ·to have the problems are · settled. three more .,working on construe,, dredge , pump in about 150,000 Down at Los: Banos on . the canal t.ion. ctibic yards. It ·is in the plans, how- job, Western Contractors are t:,y- The joint venture crushing ·job ever, '" that there is to ·be much ing hard to finish their main proj- for U. S. ,Lime is tied up at.pres.ent dredging work to cm:1e ~P in the ect within the next 10 days. The owing to . difficulti es in cleaning future on most outlymg islands. drainage canal will last until some- the material. - -~-

Bro. Joseph Cathcart accom- \ ime in September. At present we Kleinsmid & Goodrick are finish-, panied Capt. Duke Duvespank have 37 brothers employed and all ing · up their Cherry Valley road from New Orleans to Guam to pre- drawing the new wage scale. job and hope to be low bidder on pare the dredge New Jersey for United-Vinnell Joint Ventures, the next portion of the road. The its return to · New Orleans -where with a contract to dig a drainage bids for this were due to be opened· necessary repairs will be made to canal for the · Reclamation Bureau, ·May 9. this dredge. are tied up by the Pile Drivers' On the City oL San .FfanciscQ

Bro. Dave Eckman, a leverman strike, throwing 38 members of aqueduct and Cherry Valley proj­on the dredge Norfolk, is also on a the Engineers out of work. ects, we have at least 20 Technical like mission in returning dredge lVI. J . Ruddy has ordered out Engineers employed. These broth~ Norfolk to Pearl Harbor Navy crews for · the crusher and hot ers · all belong to the local and we Yard for necessary repairs before plants, also a small job at 'Tur- hope to secure som~ better work­being sent out again. lock. Bro. George Murphy .is mas-. ing conditions for them in the verY.

The Hickam Air Base ·extension ter mechanic at the ·Modesto shop. near future. unit No. 1 is now comvleted and Three of our brothers are work- (,'HERRY VALLEY DAM the second unit will start -any time ing steadily under his .direction. Diamond Drillers, Inc., of Sarr now. However, the contractors for They are crushing at LeGrange Francisco, ,,vere low bidders -for

We hear that Earl W. Heple · Co. the second unit have not been de". and Douglas Flat and e~pect to diamond ·drilling the foundation of is selling all of their cranes, cats, cided upon. have a full summer:s · run for the Cherry Valley Dam. The cost of and heavy equipment. Anyone de- ·· * ·* ·* hot plant now located at Douglas this work will be $30,500. The siring to buy this equipment should Flat. The hot plant will be moved writer is in d5Jubt as to · whe.t~ contact that firm. ft f T e i .JI from job · to job during the sum- this company works un ion 01< 11ot

Brothers "PLEASE" pick up ·11e ·ens-e f~n;.s·m :an~@ mer. ·Bro. Joe Marshall is foreman and they can expect a visit from your check when leaving a job. It J-W · at Douglas ,Flat and Bro. Clarence him. in the very near future. ,

if·s m,uocuhtoe,apsi,-icekr,upanydoualscoheqctk1icker ~ -i~_li1ft ~m_ftl'l'.fl _, ~n GCottease is int· ·charge of , the Le- Had a bgood meeti1l1g Adpb.l'il t.h25 or :i · . r . r;J i ~u ~u JvRl.;i ~ I range opera 1011. with the rothers emp oye y . e

Here are some of the . brothers ,The Standard Mater-ial · Co. has Sonora Marble Aggregates Co,. th t h t C bl d Typists and stenographers are

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a ave gone ·o asa anca an almost as important to the de a 1 its equipment war mg, 0111g This agreement 1s open or wage there may be more that haven't - mostly small j0bs in and around increases and negotiations will be fense effort as soldiers these days, notified us. J . A. Price, and D. J. ct· H K . Modesto. In addition, there .-are under way on it within the next accor mg to arry T. ranz, direc-Bro_nzich left on the 29th of April. tor of the tr. S. Civil Service Com- seven brothers· working in the Mo- few days. Also Alvin Huff went-to Casablanca mission in this area. "Equipment desto .Sh(?p, Mrs.~ Clarence Cottease :and . Mrs, as a compressor operator. Harold Leamaster are openi.ng up

We are holding a check here in gets built taster, supplies get ,PACHEGO -PASS -a new cafe .at the ''Y'' of Highyvays sh.ipped sooner, the whole . mobiliz- Munn & ,Perkins have fini5hed

the office for C. 1McDa-niel from 50 and 33 The boys all know Frank B. Marks Jr. Please come in and pick it up as soon as pos­sible.

Ancho~ag.e CLU .Airs ·Edw,ards

-Anchorage, Alaska.-The An­chorage; Central Labor Union is ~ponsoring -0ne .. broliidcast per week of Frank Edwardi,, AFL

. news co1mnentator, over ,station KENI, 1Anchorage,

.The Anchora,ge ,.CIIU has Mr. Edwar,ls' broad,cast of the pre­c~diug Fl'iday 1i.ight 'transcribed

· in .Seattl?, Wi.ash., and flown to Anchorage -for rebroadcast Sun­day at noon in the northernmost dty to carry the P...FL commen­tator.

-ation prog1~am speeds ahead, . only grading on the Pacheco Pass road · . · . : and are . now · laying hot stuff.- their h_ usb.ands-drop 111 . and , m i=et ,_./ when · we have competent typists d 1 ttl d

and stenogr_aphers getting out the From there they will --go on to a :the wives an ge~ a 1 · e ·goo · paper work," said Mr. Kranz. small job they · have at" Newman. food at the same time. . _ "Without them, ·bottlenecks de- United Concrete Pi:pe · Co. has Bro. Jim Ga1,1lt. had a ,sen01JS'

· traffic accident April 13 en-rd -, ,. vel9p which jeopardize the entire now recovering in the Newman defense effort:" has passed the · performance test Hospital. Th!2Y report he is get•

Mi·.· ·Kr:anz made these state- she is ·referred to ii. job almost im- ting along fine and should be out ments in c;onnection with an <1ppeal mediately. Posit,i:ons to be . fill12d in another month or six weeks. It to ,the wive~, daughters, sisters and have,,a salary n:u:i.,ge · from $2200 to might be a good idea if .some . of friends -of ·,union members to apply $2875 a yeai', ,{vith most , vacanc-ies the brothers down, in this vicir\ity for government ·employment. He at the .$2450 ' level for typists and pay Bro. Jim a visit, as hospital pointed ·out · that it is not neces- the $2650 1evel for stenographers. life can be very tiresome. sar:y -eitb:er · to ,have experience or Tliere is nb maximum age .limit. Bro. Vernon C. Mourer ·seriously• to take .a general knowledge test The mininium age limit is 18, ex- injured his back April 30 while in order to qualify fo1"· vital typing cept tha t 17-yearc.old applicants are working on the United-Vinnell Joh and sten0g1,aphic jobs now open in ·acceptable if they have been grad- at Newmin. He is now up and federal -agencies ·in Californic), Ari- uated .from high school .. or are . in arouncl and should be back · at: zo_na, -and NeV:ada. The applicant . possessi0n. of a work .,permit. w0rk soon. . simply takes ~ performance test Applications for jobs as stenog- J Bro. Arthur Sargenti, who iS to demonstrate her abil ity ·to type raphe.i,: . or -typist may be . obtained 1-employed at Putnam Gravel ~it,. 40 words a minute, and if she is from any first or second-class._.post . was down with an appendectomy,; a ste~9grapher, to .tal,e dictation office or by writin,g to the . Ci•;il Art'.s .a pretty tough boy.._.twQ at 80 worcls a .minute,.. Service Commission,.-room ·1'28;,630· weeks -ai,d ' he was·back on the jobg

Ii~ some arE;as whe11 an applic;rnt ;$an.some street, ; San ,-FranciscC',. souml ,as ever,

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By RENNY BURROUGHS, C. R. :VAN WINKLE and Iv!ERL~ JBOW,.MAN, Busines R_epresentativ.es, L.ocal 3

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Eight ENGINEEa:S' NEWS MAY 15, _1951

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All Are orkingUp the Va'l' y; Last River . Job .

C.a•l~,~~r,::.l~ · N-.:· ~~~0. . ~s ·P?·y· r~lh In Mcdoc;_ ··;Push

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' uv~y~'~'c. ,.;~~c~ •nd LE~ COLL!!T, • thr\.,p. asta H.i~hv;ays Business Representatives, -Local 3 ~

Up in the Redwood-E pire By A. R . McCAFFR.EY, Business ReprJsentative

Outside of some de1ay due t ci the rains this last week, work continues to progress in the Redwood area. The demand for operators has slowed .6lowi1 some' due' to tpe fact that we . have most of the jobs pretty well covered at the present.

The big news at ·this writing is the fact that everyone in the Marysyille district is working. There are several large jobs going and several more contemplated. . The Foster & .McHarg Co. of Rive1'side; Calif., is getting

under way on the Feather River-Honcut Creek levee. They have four "cats," one equipment oiler, a pumpman, .an H.D.M. and ·Chas. W. Lloyd is shifting. ·

By E . A. HESTER Business Representative, Local 3

George R. Stacey of Tule­lake was Hie successful bidder There are several new contracts on the Los·t River' Pr'OJ·ect. · · 30 ct h. 1 to be let 111 th·e next ays w rc 1. is busy getting out material for This is a Bureau of Reclama- means we will be looking for oper- all .purposes. Brother· Kel'ly & ' Mc­tion job known .as the LGst ators again in the future. We !~ave Worter at Fortuna are going right River Channel. It lies within six brothers on the out-of-work . albna on -their ·rock and ceme.~;Tt a radius 'of about five miles list at the present time. . . jobs.b !I'bey are . furnishing tl"~.e

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The John Mehren Co. has the other end of the same levee, with five pulls, t wo jeeps and three doz­er.s> a mechanic. and an oiler, and B rother Ozzy .Osborn shifting.

union packs the beef on the- fact Mercer F1~aser Co. rs gomg cemen't for the ne.w -sc)loo1 at Rio , that when our members do it they and is situated within three strong on several jobs all over the Dell. · ~---t oo are entitled to the scale. We miles of Tulelake. George said that area, calling for more ·engineers · The bids o'n two large jobs we•Pe

-.These .two jobs will hav.e miss.ed a few days due to th~ late rains, but not for long,

will settle this by the t i!'ne you get ·he "wouid have three Bucyrus as the weather improves. They rejected this vveek. One was .a the paper. .draglines, and about three . carry- just completed overhauli_ng the.ir bridge job above Blue Lake across ,

Bro. Les Ramacher is going to ails, and a dozer. Will probably run hot plant at Essex and it IS now r;n . ,the Mad river, and the other was , . · take a flyer in a ~new farm im:Ple- three shifts." The job is scheduled operation. Brother Clyde Phillip- . a lar ge job 011 Dead Lake at Cres-

-E Earl Parker Co. has two · ment that he has developed-a to be completed in 530 days. sen says he d~esn' t think ' he ever . cent City. · shifts on 11 sites below Grimes. walnut picker. The harvesting sea- Bids on the 12 112 miles of high- will catch up with all of the back ·Bids will be opened -May 9th 011 P erry ·Parker. is ·superintending son for walnuts is still a long way way near Fort Bidwell, in Modoc orders. Brother Gene Brown has 2_8 miles of realignment and s.ur­and Bros. Floyd Parker and Clyde off, but preparation and perfection County, have been postponed until a spread vvorking ·on the Rohner- facing .on Highway 101 · above Deen are shifting. Don't know are important factors in the new May 9th. Another new highway job ville Highway job, grading and sur- Trinidad. just when the Parker Co. will gadget. Good luck, Les. in Modoc County, near Ravendale, facing-'-really going to town. In start the levee job at Knights Walter Saracco sent a special is scheduled to get under way very a hurry to finish this one so he * ·* * L anding, 'but no doubt ' it will be truck-load to the crusher. Along soon. Vve understand that Ball & can start the next one; of which Peninsula-soon . with the -rock was a busted. shaft Son will do this job. they have se.veral.

Rice Bros. of Marysville are in- -a·nd t hen came a busted crusher. Harms Brothers got another Blakeslee-Spiering Co. at Arcata,'. p L L R j Etall ing a permanent crusher plant Bro. Lillie and his crew, of course, small bridge job in Lassen County. is coming right along on their .: .t .. : .n_; uo.s :, :0. au out in t he cobble stones ·near Hall- turned to on the crusher and it Their bid was about $75,000. They housing job. There a re five broth- w U w ood and they also have a new once more squeezes like new. also have a good sized highway ers working on this job, grading L ·p o I job to start on Hig.hwa:y 24 toward Good to see Bros. Roper and project in Lassen P.ark, which is and working on the streets. Pea- : -e··t.: . ·e;l!iffl !n~lll,l! a Oroville for $224,000, a job 9n Henke back on the job. The sick scheduled to get under way soon as ple are moving in these houses be- , fHUl. ~IW, Yuba City Meridian Hi ghway 20 list is no good "for guys that like a little more snow m elts away. fore t hey are comple ted. Just an fo r $79,000, and also one on Shasta to get on the balL O'Hair Brothers made an at- example of the housing situation (i•ie~ ;n 'Dm'tj~y St. in Yuba City for $76•000· This At Angels Camp on May 18, 19 tempt t o start their fifteen miles of here.

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caxnnany a lso is building a new t d 1 · h · L ' c t L" and 20, an event that has attrac e 11g way· m assen oun ·y, near CAR-LOTTA JOB

office at the 8th and Yuba plant l THE "" · b t tl ld I By CHET· ELLIOTT national attention and is sti l · r>.um, u · · 1e o weat 1erman sa id John Burman & ·Sons and L. l'l~nd will havP a nice setup. unique sporting event of the West "No!" However, they are going tb Conner are just winding up on a Business ~epresentative. Local 3

CAMPTOJ'Ii"VILLE will take place. Mark . Twain has t ry again May 15th. A lot of nice job at Carlotta, consisting of The S. A. E. Constrhlction '. ,·. 'I'he Biaso t ti Co. has a shovel made immortal "The Jump in g equipment is on the job. mill pond and roads. Rain doesn 't Company of Redwood City

crew and one cat on their Camp- Frog of Calaveras," . ·and to date, Rand Construction Company at stop these boys. Brother Louie were the SUCCessfu'l .bidders on tonville job, with Bro. ·walt Boat- annually, with bigger and better ·Mom-it Shasta is also getting line.d Conner's job 011 the Dolly Varden wl"ight in charge. A new contract frogs, they again jump. Where up fora "flying" start soon as the Road at Redwood Summit is pro- · a half ·million dollar state w ·as scheduled to be let on that these mammoth frogs come from weather permits. This job has al- gressing r ight along. This is r eally highway project at P.oint L0-Campton v.ille roaci May 9. I do11't Jcnol", btlt 1'f you've never ready been uncler' way fo ti"O b H' h · N 1 Th' ' ., r ., a :first-class logging road ~ Louie's OS on 1g ·way 0. . IS

Butte Creek is pretty well lined see11 tl1ein J.Llmp, come on UIJ to years a11d r't looks l1'l<e r't wr'll last · · ' string o£ cats goes out ahead and work consists ' of grading and

vvith equipment. Piombo Construe- Angels Camp. It's one of the many for six months longer. builds the road and then Cummings tion Co. has a bunch of cats, draba- , fine historical communities of the Fredrickson & Watso11 1·3 0 · ·pavin!:: three and one-half g mg & Bosch comes along and rocks ~ linss and jeeps;' with 39 members Mother Lode; where a majority of strong on their free\vay between the base . This is quite a large miles of road· and will em,ploy of :Local 3 on the paurolL Bro. Phil the workers are members of En- Reddina a11d Andei'SOil TJ I b. · f L 1 N

J b • le way operation, keeping approximate1y many mem ers .o · oca · o. D•_;nn is superintendent, with Bi'o, gineers Local -'3. see it everytl11·ng 1· n tl u 1 ' s 0 · l e p -ane - 15 en gineers employed . 3 for the rest of the year. F lJyd_ Butler as shifter. up · here

::-:.-, Earl Parker Co. also has a NATOJ.\•lfAS -NEWS Ell' · The Frederickson Bros: job at !he L. C . . Smith Company · ~~-~-r----Natomas' has granted •the allow- JOt and Gist is still "plugging" Alton is really bo-oing to town, San Mateo, w1th a crew of (5 enb0 'l-

dr"l gline crew and a couple of cats ~way- on th br d tl s able increase of t he Wage _Stabi- a . e 1 ge across · le ac- aet t ina out more tonnag·e of gravel neers, are industriously emrJ!oyed

on t he lower end of the Butte job. ramento River at 'Shasta D b b -,. __ ._; 1·cke" O'Callal1a11 !las two ca.tc lization Board, 10 .per cent since . ~ ' am- 1 than the contractor expected . That at many points in this district, in-- J v · looks l1ke another ye·u·'s work · · ·

011 upper Butte Creek clearing for J anuary 1950. 1 · • • ' IS really somethmg this day- and · eluding subdivision vvork for Wil-P k'mbo Construction . Welfare plans covering hospital- 1t lere ror the boys. age. They h ave started to haul ;in liams & 'Burrows at Lomita ·Park,

· B' . .itte Creek Rock Co. has a cou- ization, sickness, and death-on or .Jenkms & He,r t_el la~k a .few days their hot plant and expect to ge.t shopping district for Mills Con-pl~ of crews around on blades and off the job- have been submitted ~~e hs~~~~go:ht~ p~rs , Ill shtp~. ~01: their Mississippi buggies rolling in struction Company at Redwood rollers doing gr ading around the by the umon to the company and . . . · . l e act amen ° dl ei about three weeks. Snapper B.rother ' City, street paving for Brentwood city of Chico, and 11 men at the from .a series of plans will come ?ndge :.ob at Anderson. The ~mer- Archie E dmonds told the brothers Company at Palo Alto Gardens, sh·Jp and gravel plant. a substit ute for the present pro- rcan Budge Company IS movm g Ill a while back -that if they macle - a '- Glendale Village for Hansen 'Build-

- :r-Iarms ·Bros. · of Sacramento has tection of dredge workers. Insur- to set the st'P,eL . certa in t onnage he would buy the ers at San Mateo, J.unipero Serr:a a roa d job near _Colus-a with sev- ance company executives special- . W. B. JaiLS of Palo Ce.clro con- drinks. Of course, they made the E xtension at San Bruno for Dis­er'll blades and rollers anct· mi"ers, izing in industrial coverage of this t mues, to move ~long · wlth a bunch tonnage and Archie brought out tric.t No. 10, the ,fill job fot; Convwy .' etc., with Bro. Clay Sidener super- nat ure _are n~w mulling over pages ~f 0~1 Engmeers. He _was _recently two fifths. Two fifths for 15 engi- & Culligan at Bay 'Mead~ws Air­intsnding . on· the road and Frank of. statistiCs to. determme a .plan "':"ar de~ a_ sn:a.ll cleaung JOb near neers, and Archie an old-timer, port, Parkway Terrace for South : D2,-iidson · shifting. At · the hot smta~le for- mdustnes .of the Vwla, Califor ma. . . too? A fi ne state of affairs ~ San Francisco Land Company ·at · plan t J3ro. Clyde Burchfield is dredgmg nature. More about thrs . Roy Eastwo~d, and 25 North- The Macco-M & K Co. job . a:t South Citv and street work for foreman. later. w est, a CE!terp~llar; and a blade Crescent .City is mov~ng -along South. Sari" F rancisco. 'The Atlas -Pipe Line ·Co. is abbut The Yuba boat at callahan has Signed a Bmldmg Tr ades Agree~ smoothly. We finall y· boot a -full At Red ooct 'c·t p t s ment w 1 y e er orensqn

finished with its job in Oroville. shut down. NegotiatioJ~s on both · cre1v for this job and everybody is .keeping 111any engineers em- , <. :rv_r,·c·. M. has a fou·r -man crew CarJital and Yuba . will be in pr:ocess Seems ·that Riley Btothers is just · 1 1'h k' 1 · d b .. 'ld' · · · IS 1appy now. · ey are wor ' lllg p oye_ .on m . !'llg ·' construGtJOn,_,___ ~ 1 __

' t 01 ' h t · 1· · b at t"1·s .t1·n1e. .. · as "hay'wire" as ever, and Morgan --.. on 1 ·s 1ve urs · ·PIPe· me JO . n six, eight-·hout· sh ifts per ·week. · stl'eet \vork, sewage disp_osal and : -- d k · tl · · Br'O. Jack Jory, one of the i·eal · Construction Company is a .close T · ~ropgse · new wor m · 11s area .. hey -haul :r.ock for a few ·days and concentrating plants along w.ith

i.nd udes a · bond Issue for Yuba old timer s ·of the dredging indu~try, "trailer-up, along· t his line." . -O'Connor Brothers,' of·· Red · BILlff then they change . over and pour · large Navy contracts in other dis-

City for $360;000 worth of work has quit the game. Someone. t~lls cement for a day or so.' It · is wol'lcc tricts. a" Vuba Cr'ty H1'g·h ·School us .il1at Br·o. Jack '''1.11. be dredbo·e- h<ts beg_un' to n~ove along i11, t l1e · ·

c ·- · · · ., . . . · · · .. ing -out all r.ight. There are a;pprox-~ The Frank :Smith Company ·Of . . C:onstl'llction .of 8:3 .miles -of high- master of some orchard properties same old rut; .• no ' ollers on t he job ~ · .

way on Road 761 -in Colusa County at Auburn.. Jack ' ieft. a lot · o'f Oaks Sand, Gravel, and Cem ent imate.ly 12 engineers on <thi~ job. · . San · M~teo has several 1:arge _jobsli_n ;

frl.el1ds at Hammonton as well . as Prodt_lcer of R. e.ddillg I'eC.elltly Brother . D ean Langford IS .,keep- ., operatwn at many ~pomts ) n .this ' fo:- $156,170, engineer's estimate. . ing his spread busy. •He is putting I area including -widening and ,l~e -

:-Resurfacing of 5:4 miles on High- Marysville and we all wis j1 him signed a joint contract with t he Op r ·r . 'E . T in a fi ll at Klamath for · a new mill surfacing of 4th and B streets, ·in

way 99E in Butte County from the best of lucl<. . ·Labeoaremga .dnMgmehe_rs: t . eWaml _sters, ' and also putting - in a large log San Mateo, real estate development ' Biggs ·.Road to the Oroville "Y" is The turnover of nien· at ·both rs n ac 1111s s. 11ch 1s . . . estimated at $164,000. Also a con- Yuba and Natomas has ·been _quite about . up to standard:· And every- ~ond at Cres~ent City . . Pelican f~r Morre & Tehaney at Re_dwo~d . tr2<::t to be let on Road 759 in heavy during the past month, and .one ai-o.unci this place seems 'to be · ay ConstructiOn 1Co. seems . to City, stl,eet work at- ·Shorev1e':' m , Oroville will have two underpasses is o£ concern to the executives· of happy, now! . ke_ep b'llSY. aroun~ Crescent City, San Mat_eo _and concrete bmdge . under the S. P. and W . P. railroad these industries. Cost of living in- We have' a few good men left on' dnvmg p!lmg, bmldmg roads and constructiOn m San Mateo.

creases have forced the linkin a of tl1e OLlt-of- , ,1_ 1. t tl workmg on log ponds. -Healy-T1b- At Colma, Floyd Watson, R. A. , tracks. 'I he biggest item in' proposed

ri-2w wor k is at Camp Beale in Yliba ·Cou.rrty. Air Force officials estimate this work to be about $30 m.ilHon ·(that's right, million). Of trio;-, $20 million is fo r !5arracks and $10 million for repair and mr:d.ntenance of ·present installa­tiO:Js. This will mean more work for other crafts than our own but aJ::.o will mean some work for our people. ' : T he ·E. T . Haas Co. will be on the job for .the city of Live Oak wBter system when this gets into print. CALAVERAS NEW~

b , 'A or " 1s wt .~we b' C , · 1 ' · F · H waae scales in general· therefore haven't b e bl t · 1 . 1tts o. s JObs are a I shut down I ansh, enry Doelger Compa·nY:

o ' e n -a e o pace on a JOb . d , ~ . · the incentive of outside scales bids· They are . h d t . , , ue to the sho1 tage or p1le bu tts. and several other heavy constr:uc-

. · eavy u Y re1)anman, EURRrr{A -VA""~R 'PLANT ' t t l I for the labor of these firms, a con- Eri1est "Spike" Cagle. Bill Fritch- ""'"" \· .J..l'; - 1 . twn con rae ors 1ave a arge group : -~ clition that can't be remedied vVe - ard is look· f . b . Baldwm & Straub are trymg to

1 of Local No. 3 cat operators, pn!L · m g or a JO r unnmg a . . .

don't like to see the aana break sho,·e] 0 d 1. 1 D wmd up therr JOb on the new 1 operators, blademen and rollermen · b b · r a rag me, anc onald I , . . . u p but und<>r the circumstances MnDo ld . f -

1 water pun11CatJOn plant 111 Eureka. along w1th several shovel operator>s , ~ "' na 1s out o 1Vor < too . . .

there isn't much else to do. . * * * ' · Hoagland-Fmdlay Engmeermg ·Co. employed. Capital and Yuba meetings w1ll • -

1 ar·e progressm g n ght along on The Chas. Harney Company of

be called immediately upon open- ·PAonfg!l3oryery Ward their sewer disposal plant job ·in San F-rancisco have .finalJ.y star.ted · ing of negotiations with the reg" Never belure in its 79 _year his- Eureka. Brother Tom Hul! seems ; on their state highway project .a t ular firm . to keep hi s crev; busy doing odd I South San Francisco. ·While visit-t0ry has Montgomery Ward & Co.

* * * ~i@·~er Bo~-nbs·

In 'Wichita, Kan., workers in· a plant manufacturing '•baby dfapers finally · found . their desire to . -get

made as much money as in 1950_ jobs around the country. Just ing the job your r epresentative

Th finished up at Lane 's Flat. Tom contacted Brot hers Freylock, ;vi-e company's pr~oflts, after taxes, totaled more than $74 million- 55 says he do.es th e jobs none of t he er ra, Stanfield and several others.-per cent over its 1949 figures of Pest of t he contractors w ill do. Due to the nature of this wor_k and . less than $48 million. Freel J . IVIauter & Son keep ap- the traffic conditions, many wort11y•

··k * * prox imately six brothers busy do- brothers will be employed· here for Calaveras Cement is rot and into -defense work :realize .. '!. · Ray

colg. Relationship with the com- Mitchell, ·sutjerintendent . of · tlH pa:1y has beei1 friendly until the Boeirig Airplane plant, disclosec recent "new work" flareup :·. One · th<iti: from now 'b·n · diapers would be policy is · the company contracting . indispensable for the 'clea:Yling·- of new job installations at the ·pre- bomb sight lens ·on thEr Air ·Fol'ce's vc:: iing building trades scales. The B-47 stratojets.

· Rep.~Ni?-Hic "thtiGti(t)n 'Last year t he Republic Aviation

Corp. made ·two and a half t imes more t han in 1949. Profits in 1950, after · taxes, totaled · $2.4 ·million. Ln 1949 they were only $877,000.

I ing small jobs, mostly around Eu- a 'long period of time. reka . J ust abo ut time for them · Sperry & Mc·cue •of Millbrae, to ·knock off 11 fair sized job. John Douglas & 'Woodhouse of 'Th)dwood Burman & S.ons are getting r eady City, · Mm~·phy Co·nstruction Com­to go back on · their · 'highway · job pany of ·. Menlo . 'Park, Conway ~&

on the Willits-Fort Bragg Road. Culligan of San Mateo, David 'Bo-. ,____._ 'Mad ·Rivel' Gravel Co. at Arcata I · (Go'ntinued on page 9)

_ l\_11\ Y 15,. 1951, ENGINEERS' , .NEWS _

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BY · AL ; BOARD1\'IAN, Business Itepresentative -, .f,orthi: ,(Ji Gdl ! ]UQUSl~y .. ~n By H. 0. FOSS, ,Business Representative::~oc,al:3 -iti,41\Vil,l7 Jobs Events move with high sp_eed these spring days in L e

Parish Brothers in addition:to·finishing up at Alpine .Dam ~ J Technical Engineers .fieltl. Ground -work laid months ago de-have a lot of dirt ,to move on the Tennessee Valley job. -Bro. By H.~L. '.'CURLY" SPENCE I velops into concrete results overnight. Prime example is the Bill Madsen.is the foreman on that spread. They are 'getting !Business -Representative \106 per cent union sur:vey parties now wovking for the en-started at-Igna<Zio, .fdr the A. G. Raisch,Co.; Bro. Bill -Russell The littl!' town of Gabbs, \ gineer-ing ·firm. of Neil & ·Bestoi~ of Ca~mel, ~alifornia. Six ·being the Sl.J.pertntendent. Several jeeps are:in operation there. Nevada, out in Gabbs Valley, 1~ 0!1ths c:lgo th1s fi~·m refused to do busmess m any manner Al . .c,_ • h' . ·th h' h . b t th· C ;i 1· p t is boon. ri.ing abo-ain with about -with your representative. No other

so 1m1s mg up - e -1g way ·JO a e . orue 1a ass, eas 67 , r,:' . ~ ·k· ·f th . course was left but to request union crews and are paying foe of ,Fair.field, that being some of . the :backlog:from '50. . "':"ngmeer:s wo:r mg or e strike sanction from .the Buil9ing_- ,union .scale. However we finti. it

Bro. , "Maggi" Magistretti with I · · Basic :Refractories, .Inc. The Trades Cquncil which was granted, difficult to understan'd the arlti- . . a cr~w, doing tl'.e . shooting for this comes off the press. He was following brothers are on a1:d with the ,-start of. work at Ord .union. attitude of some of the m l~,or

. G~amte ~onstruct10n on the 101 woddng for California Steel P.rod- ;shovels : . Carl .Dinius, Albert ".)llage Ho~1smg -ProJect the sane- bosses. . _ Highway Job, north ,. of San Rafael. II ucts -in Mill .Valley ,when he yield- ,E p d d R b t H t10n was mvoked. After several I . . . . . __

_ -'t--- Bro. Ross ··Maynard, superinte:-d- ed _ to the call of the Alaskan terri- _ ;. oun er,. a.n O er _ · meetings the firm of Neil & Bestor _ Ha:1'.ilton _ Field ho_usm~ 1s ~:so ent ·fer Patterson, a~ter .completmg I tory. - _s-~~1ons._ 7h1s f:llow,_ Poun~er, became a union firm. This was -ac- und~r full st.earn w~th, cwo <~11

-a stretch of 101 H1ghw.ay out of We were sorry to hear of the qmt the dnt 1:1ovmg game_ ~or ~. complished through the-strong sup· 1-p~rties. _har~ at work m~der :.,ne . -Santa Barbara,_ ·has move·d up a , sudden death of Bro. --Ed -M~irphy while, but _he 1s ba_ck and ?1gger por_ t of the Monterey B_ uild.ing and !~le duec:1on _of, ;al, ~111. _,._he_ ,few hundred ,m1les :to .work 011 1011-of .Sebastopol. _ a~d better than :ver. _ Brot~~r .Construction Trades Council. - bround wo~k for tn,s u11011 set~cip ·: here north of San Rafael, on ~the Bro. Fred Jensen of Jensen ,& ·Simmons has gone mto the · bus1- . . _ , was also laid many months ago &.nd , GFafiite ,job. He ,reports that two .Pitts~ Co., reports no~ that. tJ:ie-sun ness· in. a · big,w~y. ·He h~s a bFand At the -:'ravis Air Base_- near ~

1air- with -~he full support o.f the ·Me . .rin

8s one 12-rvr P and three DW· . . . -new ,pickup -and a trailer house field there has been treme.n~ous Buildmg Trades Cou·1c1l · m's were m,ov--e:d ·u, p fr0m the soi.1th·, · is shmmg · agarn . e~erybody there · that has -everything but , a . base- ac'tivity both ' in. ho1:J.sing and apron '· ·

' - . · · · · is happy and -. wo1,kmg. t . . t 1VI _ D ld One of the largest survey c'.:ln-Checking.: in on May . 5 "Wi_th Bro. · · * * * m_ent. Boy! ·He has gone ''Gypsy" cons ructwn, WI .h ac on~ ' tracts being let out to bids by the · Maynard were Bros. Robert Pugh, . - . ·for ; sure, -and he -likes it ·foo. Bro. Young_· &_ ~elso_;1 domg the housmg U. s. Army Engineers has been Emil Munson and Lester -Sch.u- (' ' ·C • · John W. -sodergreen ·is the shop ,and .Mouison-Knudsen the apron awarded to the firms of Taffo-cd,. maeher. _;;,:an --~,.[fi:H101Sete- foreman, :and a ,good ·one. The ·fol- work. -Both of these firms ·have . Jone·s ,& White and to an unkn-ovm :

Bro. ·Rocco P0ncetta .has ·moved 'L·o'·t-·a'·l ·-,·39,_ -···R·· ·.:f ' lowing ·br0thers, are in the -shop: firm by the name of Wolfe whose · -up to the ,geyser -court try to •work. , . - _ Hyle 'Btumett, Neal M. Copen- supervisor, because he just · stands home address turns out to be 2215 _ His only complaint · is-::paint's too J •• · ';_ ' · .r d _ i i ·~-aver, Rex Rawlings, Char.Jes E. :ar0u:nd _ and watches the other Tallac, Sacramento, .California, but bright on the new .rig! (Contimted ·· from Page · Six) Sexton, Charles Milan, and ·R. J. brothers do , the work. Mr. Earl who claims to hail fi:om Antioch. · DAMS, .LANDLEVELING Independent Lau1rdry-at ·18th and . '"Brock" T'aras. Now· the shop-crew Games,_ the owner, keeps up the .This firm is non-union. The cpn-

Paul Straub , is off to , a g-::>od Florida Streets. ·-repairs ·eve1,ything, no except-ions·. · truck -mad out ' of the gravel pit.· tr-act award was for -a top9_grap.hi-.start this year -with_ his ;dams and ·visited the -Ping Ylien · low-cost ·of •course;; charles 'Milan -is .. a '·bu~y He has a toug-h ·job. · · cal survey of the -Kings River vra'-landleveling w,onk." . Br-0.

0BiJl ,,Jen- housh:ig project in Chinatown. · man. He is --Mayor, Chief of ' Police,- Brother Frank Carter was in ter shed and . covers four hund1te di

nings ,is his_,m_aj.or ,d@mo .overr the These buildi·ngs are a credit· to ·our 'Judge, artd Tax -Collector .. of-"Raw- the ·Reno, Nevada, office. ·He just square acres . .--+_ nuts .and bo.lts, while .0 Bro. M. A: city and wilf ea;;e the ·housing sit- hide, Nevada. ·He ·is an outstan.d- r.eturned_ from Cuba. ·He and ·the1 A .word -should -be said ·hen,· in

· Lindley · is .assmn-ing the · r.ole. of uation · in that section of the ·city. J ing · citizen · and "Engimier. If- you Unit-e.d States Nayy .have dissolved praise of our sister Local 12-D in "super" this year.· We have it Waae and Price Control is ·still don't believe ··me, go out to Raw- partnership. He is in the· market : Los Angeles . for the fine spirit _ of . from ,reliable sources .that .all past mu.ddlil'.lg along,-The ·late·st- gem of hide and ·ask Charles, ·and he will for a job. in the Engineer's field. cooperation aRd .endeavor in .the nicknames -such .-as ·"Slush .Bucket"~ wisdom to come out of '·Mr. ' Di- explain ·everything ·to you. ·Broth~r _ Brother ·Richard J. "Winne~ field of technical engineering. T:C,ey­and "Casanova" ,-are ,now to'.be 1for-1 Salle's office is· that on ··May 16th H. W. Cartwright is a ·mill · fore- mucca" ·Bell is back in circulation have a fine contract with: thefr -as­gotten, (The -,boys around the round steak will be pdce0 cei1inged man. He cis .a wery . prominent citi- again, operatin.g a tractor for Is- so elation and Brother Harcrow c.l1d works will ·have ,to---.take ,·heed ··and .at "$1.16 (one dollar and · sixteen · zen -·in ·. Gabbs; '. Nevada; ,and a , good bell_ Construction Company at his . brothers are to be _ c0ngr2.tu­change their ,attitude ·_t_owar.d -Br.o._' cents) _per pound; and ··hamburger; ~foreman. _, He-was -a teamster for ,a Denio, Nevada. He has reformed, lated on their fine progi'ess. . ~ Lindley-a new dirt-J,1'.loVing .'.Paul usually made from·_scrap meat, will :good . many years, but we ·have no more drink. ·He ·has some store We have yet to negotiate our · Bunyan has been born!) be 75c - ·cseventy-five cents)·~. per gotten ·-m·ost of that "Teamster teeth he wears in his shirt pocket. contract with the -A.G.C.'s. It's still '

Bros. Ray $eg[lrini .an'd Magnu- pound. We are certain that · tlile stuff' '. v,mshedreff .cif ,him ·now, a.nd· They :fit better· in his -pocket. 'ahead of us! ·son -pinched• off ·100,000 •yards ,of wives of our members will weep' he ·has .a new .outlook . on ilife1 fill at the ' Corte M-a"dera , Ga-rdens,' with joy over such·wort'derful bai·-· :Brother-I1'.ven · "Shorty" Hudsol1'

, star ting ,the 14tµ. gains. With wages ·frozen by Jaw· at calls !llimself a .combination com~ ·Bro. J.ack ·· Bean, superintend·- 10 pe.r cent over January_ 1, 1950, pressorman .and:heavy duty·repair­

. ent of . equipment ·for ·the :State,· and food _pricE;s _going completely man for Basic Refractories, Inc. dropped in , to ' say hello · on ,his l.ast I berserk,· we can't _ help wondering He is a very peaceful man. Over

· visit to the area . . He reports that where this will- all end. Of course, at ' Luning, Nevada, at . the -Basic - ---t.--they have ·approximately $480,000 a roll-back to June, ·1950, would be Refractories, Inc. loa·ding plant,

in the · equipment pool at ,Placer : out of the question - the reason -there are .a couple of· fine fellows: County now. ! why - it would make common Brother Donald M-. Anderson, the

Bro. Charles Ouilette and wife ' sense! The o ·.P.:.A. likes to do things plant super-intendent, and Brother have opeRea the ''White Kitchen" the hard way . . · . -. at least J-iard on Otis Chamberlain, the clam shell on Highway · 101 out of Healds-_ your pocketbook. __ operator. Anders011 runs the town burg. His wife i§ now o"per<=!ting . .The unempioyment situation is of · Luning and Chamberlain per­it. Good .luck in your new ven- greatly improved, and we hope to formscin 'Mina, Nevada, after hours, ture. have all _ our members working in of cotJFse .

In Sonoma ·County we ran oi:to the very near ·future. There is -another big plant in some of Bro . .. Lee Cyphei,'s. rigs. .Visited plants and_ attended sev- Gabbs, Nevada, known as the He seems to be .doing :·o. K. eral branch meetipgs, which con- Standard Slag, where Brother Jack

Lots of activi ty on ,the new Val- stitutes my report for this period. Jakowatz is the mill suped·nten-lejo -Housing Project, · east of High- * * -* dent. , Brother Joe . Olson is the way -40. Many -contract@rs busy head welder. Brother Charles R.

;rgete~n ·~~~se~p, r:!~~re has a f:ew .,S .. t 1AB0R,:MO~EMENT Corlett is the main cat ·operator. (.\ g~g 11,,U('lft\DU• Brother William ·N. · Smith is on

Br o. Charles Hov~er, one of the- ·.W,'AS ~BuRN·"~n?u~·J~)f;n~~ · the ·shovel. Brother ' Ike N: 'Wil-. oldt1rners, drop_ped ,m ,from .Klam- ' · . - , · · . · · ath ·F,·alls' way where he ;-has been t5,_11D_.w_c __ .~_n ~V_K:,A,D,~ --- IA_ fl..,_fl __ ' '1-iams -is ·Smith's poss.

UUml,. "y .• ib~~;J M!!1;!lU Silver ·-State Construction Com-for tne last couple of years on· ·· . ·. - · (C t d f Om Pag Seven) · 1Jan.y has ·about · finished -the exca-reclamation :work. He has a .new on mu-e · -r ' e -

-~+---- 95 to replace the- one recently buy. They \'{Ork:d wit-h -and _shared vation on their 29-miles of -high-.sold. Charles has a Model 6 and the task of ,suc11 men -as ~ndrew way work, · near -Boonesprings, a 25 in the· yard for rent, call , ~u;t1seth, . emai:-cipator of An1er- Nevada. Brothers 'Al Montrose and Diamond 3-3967. pcas .seamen; .l\11ke,Caseyand John Leonard ' Miller are ·-real blade men

Fredrickson going strong 011 the ·Macba-ughlin '?[-the Teamsters, a;11d nciw. They -are up there right in .Highw ay 40 job at Vacaville; Bro. ~ussell I . W-isler of ·the Machm- the same·· class as Brothers Ross Art Burch, foreman. 1_sts. Bell and .·.MiltGn' Giles. I am not VACAVILLE JOB The , mantle -of -greatn~ss fell _on going , to ; mention· what Brother-

Harms ·doing a good ·job-at 'i~aca- _these · early San Francisco umon Chat'les ''Red'·' •.M-e.lendy , is doi,ng, . · · ' . ·merrrbers :and leaders, ,and ,we ·-because ,I ,ma'de . .a -sl-i-ght ,mistake

ville and ·should . be ,gone as .this 1 k b k 'th f d d· •h · "R d" · t' 1 t · comes off -. the ,.press. Bro. Dave :- 00 -· ae ,WI . on n.ess an a - o~e concernrng e· · 111 · ne as issue

Ot. · t h d th 1 .that such cahber might return m of the paper. - Brother Richard 1s seems o ave passe . roug 1 · · . , k the change , of lif~, from all _ re-- -strel'.lgt-h ~o -Amer.ica s labor mo~e- 'Kingston has ,an his points bac

t H .1 ment ,,;wh1eh ·has,.so ,_great a destmy . novv~and a new Buick, and he por s. e now wears ,a -sm1 e. . · ' - -•:what hoppened?" 'Bro. Dutcher m th.e -world_ of .tods1y and __ tomo~- has-a -new,outlook ·on life. '. Brother

' row 1f only ~t will awaken to tlus I. J. "Toby" Tablet is on ·Drumm's general grease monkey .fol' Harms · : F -- · ' · · for past _years . says, "It'.s• a -nice destmy.-( . A.) ·Nort1rnrest and 'doing . a fine job of outfit." He . also _has new teeth! · . .- -"*- ·* * -keepiJ1g 0the ·gravel pla·nt goihg in

_,_ Bro. J. Worlcover is .in .the Roto- 1DB:ti.U~§(lu_!5:A >Bn·a,s:,i~,U'\UE' _, hig-h --gear . . vating .and . Rote-hoeing . business ;- f ·:~RHri . .J ~R-; J~D - J!BV.V; Doct,ge Construetion, IncGrpor-

around Santa Rosa area; telephone (Continued from ,page 8) ·ated, - has finish ed the dirt ,and-' 4488,J. hannon Company of . Sa1'1 Mateo, gravel on their highway dob at ,

_ Bro. Ivor Jones . is going into Pertinsu.1a·: H0me;BuiJders of Sharps · Car-son' .City, Neva:d'a,·-and· they -- are the co.ntracting · business with ·Bob -·Park, :,Eugene-'Alves.:CGmpany ,and almost fiil_ishe'd · on the , B-at1!1e

· Pollard. Sa,ys 0he's gettii1g _ too old ma,ny, 0th er-:c0Il't!'acting -firms, have Mounbain;-h-ighwa:y job. I ·guess the ··for the shovel. -a ,great .m:any .-members. of this' un- Brothers will be··going south "in the _ Bro. H. ·M. Willabee is in · the ion- employed at the prese1;_1; time near ··{uture on -the _33-m~le · ro_ad · process· of taking out _a ,vithdrawal at an · points- in , this ·district, from job that ·Dodge was low ' bidder on · card. He's going into the Iron the : C:ounty Line ><at -Da,,e-np0rt to for - the ·Atomic· ERergy ·comriiis--·Workers Uni:on. Daly Gity, , sion. ·

M-acal arrd McGouran irnve put All th~ roc-k crushing plants, I Elarl ·cam·es is crushing some their talents together and are do- asphalt : plants, and bu!lding ·ma- gr_avel vvith 'Brother Ea:rl Games,

' ·ing the · dirt moving at the -Corte terial yards are operatmg at full Jr. feeding the plan:t with a North­. -Madera intersection. vVe under- production which is ·a healtl:iy con- west·' shovel~ an:d "the man '--that · stan·d ·H~e -jeep · men · were .. getting ·dit-ion •foi: the operating e1,gineer. does· ··everything,'' · Brother -Frank · plenty of exercise coming , off'·the - ' * · *·" * · E. Gillespie, -operating · the rock gra·de -t he.re!: ' · '·u'fucle 1 R'e mus ·says·:-·Happiness crusher. ~BrotJ-ierRobert G. Blanch­

·Bro. ·F . Ot Walker should be on sneaks '' in "' through- · a · door · you ard ' is ·on' the ' sk-ippie ·-a11d -Br other --= :_his -way up . to Alaska by ' the time - didn't c.know ,you ,:hatl _;left ·open, Lawreitce -Semenza ·· niust be the ·

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Daily ·re ort ·of wards for· construction (Compiled by P. E . Vandewark) services & site develop. a t Hum- 1 sewers, F r uitvale Ave. betw. El- mi. surf. exist. pav. & shldrs. w / 12 1ft. CIP, bases for CB, excav,t

APRIL 10, 1951 boldt State College. wood & E. 19th. pltmx. surf. on untr. rock base & etc. YOUNTVILLE, contract awarded SAN FRANCISCO, contract SAN .FRANCISCO, contract exist. pav., betw. Simmerly Slough

to J. Henry Harris, 2657 - 9th St., awarded to Healy-Tibbitts Const. awarded (General) to Carrico & & 0.4 mi. S. of Butte Co. Line, Berkeley, $64,070 for ground and Co., 411 Brannan St., S.F., $246,495 Gautier, 365 Ocean Ave., S. F., YUBA COUNTY. road improvements, landscape and for const. Sect. A-1, West Influent $1,517,000 for const. music & speech SACRAMENTO, contract award-spklr. sys'. at Vets Home. Interceptor Sewer. bldg., S. F. State College. ed to Duncanson-Harrelson Co. &

RENO, contracts awarded as SACRAMENTO, contract award- SACRAMENTO, contract award- Stolte, Inc., 530 W. Cutting Blvd., follows: ed to Brighton Sand & Gravel Co., ed to J. R. Reev~s, P . 0. Box 1072, Richmond, $1,631,057 for const. bas-

(1) Pave West 1st Street: To Is- P . O. Box 2604, Sacramento, $24,660 Sacramento, $119,343 for grade, cule bridge arc. San Leandro Bay, bell Const. Co., P. 0. Box 2351, for clear site, grade, etc., at Sacra- drain, surf., Fair Oaks Blvd., betw. betw. Bay F arm Isl. and Alameda, Reno, $3000. mento State College. S. P. R.R. & Monroe Street. ALAMEDA COUNTY.

MAY i, 1951 BELMONT, contract a,varded to

E. T. Haas, 'Box 95, Belmont, $7,900 for inst. wtr. mains & ap­purts. in the district.

MAY 3, 1951 ALAMEDA, contract awarded to

Paris Bros., 2415 Oregon St., Berkeley, ·$7,557 for canst. storm water sewers on Peru St. betw, (2) Const. Cmb, gtr. and walk, PATTON, contract awarded to MOUNT SHASTA, contract CHICO, contract awarded to

Island Ave.: Sierra Concrete Co., R. A. Erwin, P. O. Box 244, Colton, awarded to J . 1\/L Manley, 3oti Gold Baker Trucking Co., P . O. Box 124, Sa~~N~~r; ;tincoln Aves. 1047 Forest St., Reno, $3805. $39,400 for const. grounds impvt., St., Yreka, $108,000 for const. Natl. Hamilton City, $11,055 for grade, A {, contract award-

. ·d ed ·to Peter Sorensen, P. o. Box SACRAMENTO, contract award- Patton State Hospital. Guard Armory. pave & fence at Callf, Natl. Guar J 790

R d d C' $""~s 368

• ed to Russell Hinton Co., 361 Hayes MONTEREY, contract awarded YOUNTVILLE, contract awarded Armory, 3rd Dist. Agric. Assn. ' e woo ity, ' 00 ,. for St., S. F., $50,781 for clean. and to Granite Const. Co., Box 900, (General) to Barrett & Hilp, 918 SAN BRUNO contract awarded conSl. new sewage treatment plant'.,

. 1 b 'd S ti W 10 942 f ·t · H . St SF $176 000 for t E T H C' B 9"' B 1 t ALAMEDA, contract awarded- t &\ -·-pamt. four stee n ges arc. ou · 1 atsonville, $ , or s1 e 1mpvt. arnson ., . ., , o . . aas o., .ox ;:i, e mon , G 11 h & B k I 344

H' 1 ·Fork Eel River, 6 mi. south of Gar- 7th Dist. Agric. Assn. const. laundry & dry cleaning plarit $13,920 for inst. 12" & 8" cast iron a ag er ' ur ' ~c., ig 1

b ·11 ·11 E l F CIS O t t t V t , H t . bet c·t p . 1· St., Oakland, $41,86;:i for const. erv1 e; at Dyerv1 e; and arc. e / SAN RAN C , con r a c a · es ome. Pw

1a etr&mRams, N w.

3 1 Y umpmg culverts, walks, drives, etc. at vai:i-

River at Scotia; and 1.8 mi. north awarded to J. N. Pitcher Co., 7108 APRIL 23, 1951 an esvr. o. . , · t , t· S t . COUNTY 981 b BERKELEY t d d t

ous m er sec 1011s on an a Clar a of Scotia, HUMBOLDT . 1 Mission St., S.F., $ 6 for test or- REDWOOD CITY, contract , con ract a war e o A t

1 CHICO, contract awarded to ' ing for S. E. Collection sewers, awarded to Ben c. Gerwick, Inc., McGuire & Hester, 796 - 66th Ave., ~eA; a LEANDRO, c

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Norlie Const. Co., 215 W . 2nd St., Sects. E -1, F-2, H-3 and I-1. 112 Market St., s. F., $5083 for Oakland, $214,481 for co!1st. stori:n awarded to Oliver De Silva 2330 Chico, $151,700 for grade & const. APRIL 17, 1951 const. repairs to Wharf No. 1, inv. sewers, Sewer Separat1011 ProJ.\ Cl m t A Al

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f · . 1 d e en ve., an1ec a, . -, "Ol' nmig track for P. T. & recreat10nal MERCED contract awarded to 859 ft. guniting piles. Umt 2 -6, Ce ar St. System. asph. pav. at Woodrow WilsQn facils. at Chico State College. Roy Kruo-e~· Gustine $28 546 for BERKELEY, contract awarded to APRIL 27, 1951 School.

SALT LAKE CITY, contract I repair & 1~ed;ck Shaff~r Bri,dge acr. J. Henry Harris, 2657 - 9th St., Ber- SAN FRANCISCO, contract PORT CHICAGO, c O 11 tract awarded to LeGrand Johnson, 6391 Merced River 011 County Rt. 27 at keley, $21,623 fo1; canst. repairs to awarded to Eaton & Smith, 1215 awarded to L. Biasotti & Son, P.O. E. 1st So., Logan, Utah, $16,140 for Sta. 100 in Sect. 36, T. 5 S., R. 12 E, Wilson Road, betw. Hearst Ave. & Michigan Ave., S.F., $259,858 for Box 587, Stockton, $52,007 for road 30,000 T. er. rock or grav. surf. crs. M.D.B. & M., loc. 11 mi. N. & 5 mi Radiation Lab., Berkeley, involving track removal & repaving on Divi- resurf. (inland area) at u. s. Naval in stockpile, Price Canyon, on U.S. w. of Merced, MERCED COUNTY. 4000 ft. of 20-ft. wide asph. cone. sadero St., betw. Page & Geary Magazine, Port Chicago. 50 and 5, CARBON COUNTY. SALINAS contract awarded to pavement. r Sts., and betw. Sutter and Sacra-

TRAVIS A. F. BASE, contract I Granite Co~st. Co. , Box 900, Wat- BERKELEY, contract awarded to mento; and on Sacramento St., bet. :MAY 4, 1951

awarded to M~cDonald , Young & : sonville, $61,726 for const. sewer 0. C. Jones & Sons, 1520 - 4th St., Fillmore and Arguello Sts. MARYSVILLE, contract award-Nelson, 351 Calif. St., S.F., $289,500 lines on Alisal Rd., Sanborn Rd. So., Berkeley, $72,855 for canst. athletic SAN FRANCISCO, co n tract ed to H. F. Lauritzen, P . O. Box for const. cold st0rage bldg. at Schneider Ave. & Beverly Drive & field, Gayle Rd. & Berkeley Cam- awarded to Emsco of 'San Francis- 47o, Pittsburg, $5,819 for reconst, T · A' F B d k tbr. fender in brdg. across Sacra-ravis ir orce ase. a force line arc. Shippers Develop- pus, incl. gra e & pave par ing co, 1020 Harrison St., S.F., $1726

SAN JOSE, contract aw.arded to ment Lot. area & const. cone. facil. bldg. for canst. repairs (to Great Hwy. mento River, 1.3 mi. north of Isle-Leo F. Piazza Paving Co., Rt. 1, SALINAS contract awarded to SAN FRANCISCO, co .n tract reinf. cone. half bridge, near Cliff ton, DiSt, lll, Rt. 11, Sect . . ff:;'--J3ox 800, San Jose, $88,122 for drain Salinas Ele~tric Works, 236 Main awarded to Erbentraut & Summers, House, S. F. SASCRCARMENTO CO. & f Bl H ·11 Rd J t S · A AMENTO, contracts award-, sur . ossom 1 ., Je w. an St., Salinas, $5669 for canst. Main 696 Pennsylvania St., S. F., $488,810 STOCKTON, contract awarded Jose-Los Gatos Rd. & Los Gatos.- St. traf. sigs. and curb reloc. at for canst. laundry & storehouse at to Stockton Const. Co., 629 W. Clay ed as follows: (1) To McGillivray hl d Rd SANTA CLARA CO Const. Co., P. 0. Box 873, Sacto., ...,, ma en ., · ! Gabilan, Alisa! and San Luis Sts. ·u.c. Medical Center. St., Stockton, $4889 for const. sewer

$11,372 for improv. 15th Ave. betw. APRIL 11, 1951 I SAN MATEO, contract awarded APRIL 24, 1951 McKinley Ave. 5,8th & 60th Sts.; (Z) To A. Tei-

SAN FRANCISCO, contract to F. w. Smith, P. 0. Box 726, San YUBA CITY, contract awarded to - STOCKTON, contract awarded chert & Son, Inc., 1846 37th St., awarded to Bernal Const. Co., 79 Mateo, $13,022 for widen 4th Ave. R' B I p O B 1489 to Nomellini Const. Co., Box 1177, ice ros., nc., . ; ox , Sacto., .$2,663 for pav. alley, H & I, E lsie St., S. F., $9045 for grade, betw. Ellsworth Ave. and "B" St. Marysville, $59,225 for drain, surf., Stockton, $222,450 for gen. const. lSth _ 19th. drain, surf., Campbell ve, APRIL 18, 1951 etc., in Impvt. -Dist. 1951-A. of Branch Office Bldg. for Dept. of MAY 7, 1951

SAN FRANCISCO, co 11 tract SACRAMENTO, contract award- YUBA CITY, contract awarded to Employment. SACRAMENTO, contract award-awarded to S. J. Amoroso Const. ed to Lee J. Immel, P. 0 . Box 175, I Rice Bros., Inc., P. 0. Box 1489, OAKLAND, ,contract awarded to ed to S. A. E . Co., 929 Shasta St., Co., 2100 Oakdale Ave., ~.F., $253,- San Pablo, $105,423 for 2. 4 mi. Marysville, $17,508 for widen, surf. Stolte, Inc., 8451 San Leandro St., Redwood City, $364,903 for 3:4 mi.

-140 for_ general co.nst. Umts 2 and 3 plantmix surf. over exist. paving on & install. walks, on west ½ of Oakland, $187,769 for canst. reinf. grade & pltmx. surf. on import. -of ProJ. No . 6, Hillcrest School. Eastshore Hwy. (portions)' betw. Shasta St., from N. curb line of cone. box culvert, cone. lined ditch, base matl., betw. 0.2 mi.- north of

SACRAMENTO, contract award- · Ashby Ave. & E°I Cerrito Overhead, Teegarden St. to S. curb line of cone. flume in por. of San Leandro Lobitos & 0.3 mi. north ·of Canada ed to R. Flatland, 440 Fulton Rd., ALAMEDA COUNTY. Summer. St. and R/W N.W. of 58th Ave. Verde Creek, SAN MATEO CO. San Mateo, $57,644 for const. traf. APRIL 19, 1951 PALO ALTO contract awarded APRIL 30, 1951 YUBA CITY, contract awarded sig. sys . . & channeliz. at 2 intersects. LOS BANOS, contract awarded to Lew Jones Const. Co. 1535 S. SANTA ROSA, contract awarded to Thomas Const. Co., Rt. 4; -Bsx.,.--in Daly City, at Mission St. with t0 Munn & Perkins, P. 0. Box 1092, 10th St., San Jose, $26,368 for canst. to Arthur B. Siri, Inc., 1357 Cleve- 3400, Sacto., $19,876 for const, San Jose ·Ave. & Market St., SAN Modesto, $11,355 for pltmx. surf. at 2 ea. reinf. cone. bridges over Mata- land Ave., Santa Rosa, $79,949 for reinf. cone. deck, walk, timber MATEO COUNTY. Los Banos M.uni Airport. dero Creek on 3rd St. on Lambert conSt , cone. sanit. sewers in Spring rail, etc., on exist. foundatio.ns

APRIL 12, 1951 SAN JOSE, contracts awarded as Avenue. Creek County Sanit. DiSL SONO- across Pleasant Grove Creek on SAN BRUNO, contract awarded follows:. SAN JOSE, contract awarded to MA COUNTY. Elverta Road, south of Wheat-

to L. C. Smith, 1st & Railroad, San (A) Walnut St., asph. cone. pave, A. J. Raisch Paving Co., 900 W . San SANTA ROSA, contract awarded land, SUTTER CO. Mateo, $30,923 for grade, drain, etc., betw. McKendrie & Vermont : Carlos, San Jose, $86,410 for repav. to Robert M. Kyle, Sonoma, $14,939 OROVILLE, contract awarded! surf. Cedar Ave. betw. Jenevein St. To Leo F. Piazza Paving Co., Rt. 1, major streets in . San Jose. for conSL mains · extns., Goodman to Brown-e & Krull, 1057 Cotter & .100 ft. N. of Park Ave. Box 800, San Jose,· $5622. SAN JOSE, contract awarded to Ave. and De Turk and Milton. Way, Hayward, $66,392 for 2.9 mi.

SACRAMENTO, contract award- (B) Newhall St., asph. cone. Rebek & Brkich, 5025E. Slauson OAKLAND, contract awarded to grade & ·rdmx. surf. Larkin Hwy, ed to Ffedhckson & Watson Const. pave, etc., betw. Chestnut & Cole- Ave., Los Angeles, $373,665 for con- McGuire & Hester, 796 - 66th, Oa_k- in Dist. No. 4, Butte CQtmty Lirie, Co., 873 - 81st Ave., Oakland, $531,- man: To Leo F. Piazza Paviiig Co., struction cone. storm sewers and 1

1~nd, $11,61~ for const. energy dis- north of O'Brien Ave., BUTTE CO. 377 for 5,2 mi. grade & cement cone. $1734. appurts., Sewer Separation Proj. sipator 7 Ievetment, nr. Seneca CAMP BEALE, contract award-pave on imported subbase material· (C) lUcKenclrie St., asph. cone. No . 5-B. Rsvr., und. LS No. 539. ed to Luppen & Hawley, Inc., 3126 with upper portion cement treated, pave., etc., bet. Coleman & Spring: RENO, contract awarded to Is- MAY 1, 1951 "J" St., ' Sacramento, $50,615 foe

· betw. Chualar & Spence Underp_ass, To A. J. Raisch Paving Co., 900 w. bell Const. Co., P. O. Box 2351, REDWOOD CITY, c O 11 tract rehabil. sewer & water sys., Camp ;MONTEREY COUNTY. s ca 1 s Jose $9853 Reno, Nevada, $3993 for !:!:rade and awarded to Edward Keeble, Rt. 4, Beale, und. No. 1536.

an r os, an , ' · - Box 64, Tully Road, San Jose, $60,-APRIL 13, 1951 SANTA CLARA, contract award- bitum. pltmx. pav. Wells Ave., 639 for surf. portions of Sand Hill HALFMOON BAY, contr. award-

OAKLAND, contract awarded to ed to Foley & Krueger, 324 Dur- betw. Roberts & Tyoma. Road, betw. Whiskey Hill and Pol'-. ed to Foley & Krueger, 324 Dur-Oakland Sewer Const. Co., 9915 ham St., Palo Alto, $5869 for const. MARTINEZ, contract awarded to tola, SAN MATEO CO. ham, Palo Alto, $42,955 for sewer Walnut St., Oakland, $20,594 for cone. storm sewers in Saratoga Ave. I-I. H. Anderson, 15059 E. 14th St., REDWOOD CITY, c

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"'O. nst. sev"e1·s in port1·ons of Snake & Bellom' y St San Leaildro, $7246 for const. tim- MAY 8, 1951 "' ' - · awarded to L. C. Smith, 1st and Road, Shepherd Canyon Rd. & in FRESNO, contract awarded to ber & reinf. cone. bridge on timber Railroad, San Mateo, $7,020 for 0.4 OAKLAND, contract awarded R/V./ along Sacto - Northern R.R. Valley Trenching co., 214 Broad- pile bents across Sycamore Creek, mi. surf. Ringwood Ave., NE of to Clements & Co,, 775 Jackson betw. Mt. Blvd. and Park Blvd. y,,ay, Fresno, $9042 for instal. mains Freitas Road, near Danville , CON- Middlefield Rd., SAN MATEO CO. St., .Hayward, $276,012 for 4.49 mi.

BELMONT, contract awarded to in West California St. TRA COSTA COUNTY. REDWOOD CITY, c O 11

tr act grade, surf., etc. , Altamont Pass Parker Steffens & Pearce, 135 So. APRIL 20, 1951 APRIL 25, 1951 -. awarded to M. G. M. Const. Co., Rd., from State Tre. No. 5-A west-Park St., S.F., $1,378,300 for canst. CONCORD, contract awarded to SAN LORENZO, contract award- P . o. Box 1056, Concord, $4,587 for erly to Altamont, ALAMEDA San Carlos-Belmont High School, Kevry Const. Inc., 655 Peralta Ave., ed to John Pestana, 16411 E. 14th const. sewer outfall, Montara Sew- COUNTY. · on Alameda de las Pulgas, SAN I San Leandro, $76,528 for const. St., San Leandro, $115,771 for const. er Maint. Dist., SAN MATEO CO. MARTINEZ, contract awarded MATEO COUNTY. sanit. sewers in Meadow Homes force mains and appurts. · SACRAMENTO, contract award- to Lee J. Immel, P.O. Box 175, San

SAN FRANCISCO, contract Area. OAKLAND, contract awarded to ed to Rice Bros., Inc., P. o. Box Pablo, $9,833 for pltmx. s_urf. awarded to Barrett &.Hilp, 918 Har- SACRAMENTO, contract award- United Concrete Pipe Corp., Box 1489, Marysville, $79,604 for 7_1 mi. count~ rds. B-26 & B-37, Danv1.lle­rison St., S.F. for 1-story ware- ed to Lefever & Bing, 912 - 47th St., 425, Baldwin Pary, $1,129,744 for const. borders of untr. rock base· TassaJara hwy., CONTRA COSTA l1ouse (steel frame & cone., 570,- Sacramento, $73,878 for 0.5 mi, furn. & inst. water mains and ap- & pltmix surf. on portions, etc., COUNTY. 000 sq. ft.) on · San Mateo Ave. in grade approaches, place pltmx. surf. pu.rts. in Oakland. betw. Meridian & 3 mi. west of HAYWARD, contracts awarded So. San Francisco, work involves in on imp. base matl., & const. reinf. SACRAMENTO, contract award- Yuba City, SUTTER co. as follows: addition to the building, 1500 ft. cone. T-beam type bridge at Dry ed to Stolte Inc., 8451 San Leandro OAKLAND, contract awarded to (1) 'sm:f. City Hall Parking Lot J:ailroad siding, sprinkler system, Creek, 5 mi. north of Ione, AMA- St., Oakland, $11,527 for clean and Gallagher & Burk, Inc.,. 344 High (Phase l): To O. C. Jones & Sovs, __ 160,000 sq. ft. paving around bldg. DOR COUNTY. paint stl. pl. girder bridge arc. Sa- St., Oakland, $3,344 ' tor grade, ·1520-4 th St., Berkeley, $2,135_

APRIL 16, 1951 SAN FRANCISCO, contract linas River, Neponset, MONTEREY di·ain, pave, etc., 011 75th Ave. SW (2) Sealcoat, "A" St., Hesperian MARTINEZ, contract awarded to ,awarded to Fay Improvement Co., COUNTY, of Bancroft. to S. P. RR.: To J. Henry Harris,

Gallagher & Burk, Inc., 344 High 1

101 Carofina St., S. F., $116,481 for SALT LAKE CITY, contracts SAN FRANCISCO, c O 11 tract 2627 9th St., Berkeley, $2,906. St., Oakland, $39,159 for surf. and' grade, drain & asph. cone. surf. on awarded as follows: awarded to Diamond Drillers, Inc., FORT ORD, contract awarde d!. widen Moraga Co. Rd. 831 from 350 .Woodside Ave. (Sect. B) betw. La- (I) ' Ifane Co. (GASP S-172(2): 1160 Bryant St., s. F., $31,520 for to A. D. Schader, 164 Spear St., ft S.E. from Moraga Jctn., S.E. to guna Honda Blvd. & Idora St. 4.087 mi. canst. 2" rdmx. bit. surf. exploratory drilling, Cherry River I San Francisco, $42,899 for rehabil. 7630 ft. from junction to Glorietta SAN FRANCISCO, contract road on S.R. No. 136, betw. U. S, Proj., No. Hetch Hetchy 229. RR tracks under 04-351-74. Blvd., CONTRA COSTA COUNTY. awarded to Huettig, Schromm & 89 and Alton To: L.A. Young Con- DAVIS, contract awarded to ALAMEDA, contract awarded to .

MARTINEZ, contract awarded to Bennett, P. 0. Box 798, Palo Alto, struction Co., 203 Beason Bldg., Lentz Const. Co., 2416 Sutterville M. B. McGowan, Inc., 625 Market :fohn Delphia, P. 0. Box 313, Pat- $16,419 for landscaping and sprink- Salt Lake City, $55,919., Road, Sacto., $3,961 for inst. wtr. St., S.F .. , $16,975 for canst. two dol­terson, $8187 for 250 mi. clear and ler sys. at S. F. State College. (2) Garfield Co. (FASP S-254(2): mains, etc. phins at U.S. Naval Air Base, Ala-grade fire trails in various locations OAK.LAND, contract awarded to 2.523 mi. const. sel. matl. base crs. SAN MATEO, contracts awarded meda, throughout CONTRA COSTA CO. Paris Bros,, 2415 Oregon St., Ber- rd. on S.R. No. 54, betw. Escalante for street improvement, Wyoming BELMONT, contract awarded to

SAN JOSE, contract awarded to keley, $122,955 for const. storm & Henrieville, To: -Whiting & Hay- Way, Wilmore Crt. Subdiv., SAN Elmer J . Free thy, 1432 Kearny St., .A. Voss, Rt. 2, , Box 615, Cupertino,1 sewers, Unit 5, of 14th Ave. Sew- mond Contractors, Springville, Mt.A.TEO CO., as follows : Sched. A El Cerrito, $15,080 for resvr. site $5246 for grade, surf., Alcalde Rd., age Separation Project, under Cash Utah, $133,272. · -To L. C. Smith, 1st & Railroad, grading. SANTA CLARA° COUNTY. Contract. - APRIL 26, 1951 San Mateo, $13,509; Sched. B~To BELMONT, contract awarded to

ARCATA, contract awarded to OAKLAND; contract awarded to SACRAMENTO, contract award- Frank Smith, 40 South El Dorado Consolidated Western Steel Corp., Mercer-Fraser Co., 2nd& Commer- McGuire & Hester, 796 -66th Ave., ed to Rice Bros., Inc., P. 0. Box J St., San Mateo, $6,545 for L. S. 141 Battery st., S.F. $47,914 for .___ .. _ tCial Sts., Eureka, $_42,304 for mech. Oakland, $~04,440 for const. sanit. 1489, Marysville, $224,273 for 8.4 reinf., cone. box culv. drain, incl. . (Continued on page 11)

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By GLENN DOBYNS, Business Repr.esentative; 'Loca,I. 3 ·

We in this di:strict are very perturbed with Dame Nature herself, for the past 10 days she has-led us to believe that she has by mistake turned back the clock of time to winter .as we have had again- rain, wind and sn0w in the high moun­tains. C0nsequently engineers have had t0 go back to their r9cking chairs beside~ the fire. · As- this paper goes to press I · two brand-new cats, a 7 ai,d a 4, have paid two visits to the ground-1 alol'lg with the . other necessary ed Japanese freighter Kenkoku equipment. These b0ys have ju-st Maru. She . is aground 22 miles [ joined the Engineers and also have

I--------------, .en - -· By H_AR~Y METZ ancl RUSSELL SWANSON, Business Representatives

Eaton .. & Smith, working -two shifts at Lake Merced on dirt job. Dfnwiddie at Metropolitan: Housing, slowly coming to the end. (Incidentally two of the 11 apartment houses are completed and ·from all i·eports very few people have moved. in, for the fact that rents range from $115 to $177 per month.) . .. M. & K. Corp. making a little progress on Juni­pero Serra ·o verpass .... McDonald , --------~ j Young & N_elson. and Stoneson are Brothers Fred. Sell, Bill Martin's i in full speed as far as i:he suburb and Bill Lake are by this time

MORRISON a KNUDS-EN COMPANY. INC. ·

CONTRACTORS AND ENGINEER.S

411-W. Fift:h St. te,s Angeles, Cc~H

south ,of Pomt Arena. Due to the i signed an · agreement. If . anyone -- ~3:l-rip's sheltered position in a cove needing this type equipn1ent for

offering ·good. protection, there- is landleveling or otherwise, cail

business district of S. F . is con­cerned .. .. . E. J. Treacy worki.ng

-· on pipe -job ,through G. G. Park.

hard at wo·rk in French Morocco, working with Atlas . .' .. Skip Paul­son and Bill McGuire also have had itchy ~eet and are cin their way to French Morocco to work for M&K. · ... There have been a

little likelihood the _11,000-ton ves- Healdsburg 26F23.. Robert McKee guihg' right along sel would break up. Pug Hastings of Lakeport has on the Marine Hospital. ... Gran-

number of other Engineers who have signed with M&K to go to French Morocco but the ones we

It is amazing and hard to con- completed the stretch of road he ite Const still h·as quite a traffic ceive, unless -<me sees it oneself, was doing for the county at' the problem buf from all reports is how a· massive ship such as the lake. He has enough lahdleveling ahead of schedule on the Alemany Kenkoku Maru can be within a I work_ ahead-of him to keep his crew Ove.rpass.job .... Standard Build- have mei;itioned are· the only broth­rock'.s throw from ,land and esca1Je workmg all summer. ers are keeping a number of the ers who, have repor ted to us as with such minor damage. In fact The stork visited th~ Don Smiths brothers busy both in the shop .and g9ing out .of the country. she is aground at a point so shal- in the . wee hours. of. Monday ''mom- on outside work. ... Barrett & Brother Bert Sharp is on his low that the crew can step ashore ing, the -7th, wi}h a gid. Mq. Smith Hilp going right al<;mg on the new way to · Guam to wo~·k for the on the rocks at low tide. Even at and baby are doing nicely, . so we Sears store. . . . Duncanson & Navy. We wish all of you brothers,

HOt.~S F©R ANY P!JRPOS!: io in, to 6 f't. Dia.;11eter •

by 200 ft, Deep

1337 2nd St. Berkeley, Calif. I.At1dscape 6-8622

the time of highest water _she has hear, but it most likely will be Hafrelson 'ha~e (at this writing) a lot o-f luck. an exposed propel'ler and rudd·er. ·.a while before we _can m::tke a re- thefr rigs tied up at the foot of Only a .few brothers have .·· re- ......,.AAA.A ........ ...,, ............ AA .......... ..._A.~.o..

· Sunday night with a tide of fiye port on the father! 16th St. due to Pile-Buts strike. 1 turned ·from overseas. Brotl'ter ·oli- 1

feet six inches an attempt to .get The Clarerice .. Ashworths: were · · · C. Harney also has a few rigs 'ver: Knight is back from Afghan-1·J1·esented w1'th a· b·oy 8 lbs 1" oz tied up at Pier 35 for the same istan after two "ear·s .with M&k. her into the sea was, made. She , · , · ·. · 0 ·r J

,vas moved 16 feet when· the shore The n:ew addition will be known as reason. He, plans to remain in the St.ates P ' G · Piombo Cons . is · working on f · T H ' ·

cab](;! snapped. There is a barge a'!.ll- eorge. p d O I t I -1 . b rom now on. . . . om . mes . is_ j'·. solidly ancho1·ed · to the . w· est of t_·ne · * · · *-, * ,, age . an a< rac \ remova JO

· an_d -also 011 Twin Peaks .... Ca- Producers of ~~sel which haul~d at the st~rn C ~ . 0 • hi11 Bros. working hoisting engie ~t. & I(. CORP·~'-- Asphaltic-Concrete. -- Ready-MbI

w..!_th'- three cables, while·. a single . . -~ .. n .s· tl!t"._U.'IF!_g~ i·o·· n· ne·ers .o'n .vadous building ' projects 1· Concrete &Quarry P.roducts . cable from the shore . to · the _bow U ti • ~ Q.11 · Genel'al Contractors · · .. ~ .. · · pnlled the bow northward agai.nst A . d . around -town. . .. . Eaton·· & Smith . t he sand. Cable on the ship's an- , . ~:W _,A ,lil" ~ ' sh0p, -, C. Ha-rney, Piombo, SHT San Francisco Bank. Bldg.: I P. 0. Box :1002 . Richmond '

w ·w Ill ii1) shop is .keeping .mechanics busy, c)S EXbrook 2-7624 I · · · · · c;_·hors, cast to the west of the shi.p, Western Drive · BEacon 2-5i9S are C. · Harney, Piombo, Lowrie, San Francisco were al~o pulling towards the sea, (Continued from page 10) Bar rett -,& Hil-p, Clementina, By-as a strain was applied by the 9?, · 4o, · · M' h I d K R

1 aru sown steam w\nches. voir of 2,000;000 gal. ca]c)acity. Raymond ,Concrete Pile . has rigs ,.. C 10M!ect! & C:!flMS .-------""-·-----· M

. , . . . .. const. ~ dia., high steel-reser- man 1 1c ae s, an · en oyce. . . . ~ , , : , .,., , • ,; ; • 4 v , . • , . , . , , ..

CHA'.RLJ1E RICE ON DECI{ SAN RAFAE1<, conti-act a,var.ded shut dowri Cat this writing.) due to .. v.. • " P,r11;.;i; ' .;»'.tii.H\l ·

·. A ·change in t)1e method of mak- to John C9-rcano, 122 Ciorind§J. Av., Pile-Buts ,stFike. . . G1:NER-AL CONTRACTORS T 'i} 'Dl"IIWIL'fi~r~ ffo · ing steam aboard "the freigl1ter'was SanRafael, $4,9.35 for ~earing out Almost .. alJ the . concrete plants ·, Member A. q. C. . ~ ii'l~ Uil.!'10'£·.ID.§J": \p ;, ·a:fso made by emptying one com- . exist. bridge on "K'i. St., & .replac- in town are very busy . and it partment, thus adding 97 tons more ing witf1 culvert. . i seems that .. there )s only one trou­buoyancy. :, · · SAN FRANCiSCQ cont{ atvai'd, ble:-yep, you gu_essed i.t-there is

-Moveme-ntS: of the· ship · Sunday · ecf: (gener~])', fo M · _- _:& K.. corii~t~- ·a shortage of ,cem~nt. ... Fay Im~ nrght was de'emed favorable. Any tion; Fipand,a1 , :Ceµter .BI,dg:; · Sah prqvement. has · rigs prett:i; .. well siich moti'on aids the "scourin.g" Fral'1cisco> ' $2,837·;ootr for · const. scattered around town and the

· action of the __ sea . in freeing t he alts &. addn_s. to _Abraham Linc0In same applies to Deyencenzi & Has-~iii'p _by carrying more sand · away High Sc_hool. ~ kins, ' Lowrie Paving, Harfrey,

·from the ht1Il. SAN FRANCIS-CO, con tr. award- Eaton · & Smith. • . · · Lipsett & · Being a. spectator an;ong hun- ed to Vega Engineering & Grad_: Lerner are going to town in re­dreds_ of peop,le who have , be en · ing Co., 12~4:4th St.,. Berkeley, ga1,d toe their wrecking job at Sea viewing this cata,str_ophe it took $90,196 for ci:mst. pafrol road and Island· ·Sugar. · · · Most all the but a,. -few. minutes foi· ine to r.ecog- fence, Two Rb.ck ~ Ran.ch Station, contract<,n:s · ar,e busy now and' from nize the Master wh9 is-, in Cl'\arge- SONOMA COUNTY. all reports . should continue to bff I our own · goo·d friend of Local 3, STOCKTON, coritract awarded so for a long \ime yet to come. : Charlie Rice .. And would like to to .Pickard Const. Co., .2190 East PERSONAI:. TOUCH m ention at this time .to _all Engi- Will.ow St., Lor!g, - B·each, Calif., Brother 'Ed Malhiot, who has neers who have. work;ed for cha-rlie $379,136 for coil.st: 43 .ea. .family be·en .in the service for quite some Rice at one time or an0ther that he dwelling units ,at"'$tockt911 Annex, time and is now· fighting for Uncle ls just .the same n~vV ~~- he- was -20 .D.S. Naval Supply ,Centeu, Rough Sam in K9rea, receives the EngL, years ago_, One _of our well kn0wn and Rea,dy_ Island: _. . neers News and looks forward, to Qpera;tors, Slim Allen, - is -.at- the- OROVILLE, contra.ct awarded: to. every jssue. We want you to foritr:ois on_ the ·shqi·e; ~ngiµes ::And- Mency. C0;1St. Co.,. 126'~ - 9lit Ave:, · know,,. Ed, when you're reading Bro .. D. C. E;~e\Yfer ,is a very busy O~kland, $34;224 .for canst . . sanit. those· .. constructi:on awards and job ~an :ke.epii:ig fu~t an_d, f1'esh-wa:ter . sev~er trea,t. pla-nt . enlargement. . descriptions, that we'll . have a _job pumriea to; the vessel- from sto1:e, . SAN: FRANCISCO, contr. award- waiting when you get back! .Ins

This~ s al v a: g e · . . co~pany, the ed · to M .. & . K. Corp:, Financial GidentaHy, '. Ed'.s, dad, Brother Do,n. . ;;mith-RJce, is 'doingthe .rescue job Cente'r Bldg., S.F., $156,651 for ' Malhiot, · is on his way ·to F rench

--~ n a cost plus p~rce·n-tage basis -for const. cone. sewers in 17th Ave., Moro.cco-go\ng to ,work for M&K. the ,Inui Stea~ship C0mpany. If betw. Geary Blvd. &Lake St., Good luck to both! they .do. not succeed in sav.ing the · MAY 10, 1951 There has been a lot of activity freighted in several more tries,. the . TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, lately in regards to Engineers go- · c.or;npany will • pmba:bly. ask ·"no contra-ct awarded to Asta Const. ing out . of .the country.

Generaf. Contractors1

·~Builders ·of_ East Bay's Better "'Ho4'ries"

,c, ·.rs < y

315-13,th ·. Street -o Oaklancl, · Calif.

TEmplebar 6-0116

844· IDGH,STREET ! OAKLM."D, CALlF, Office: AN dover 1-04{i6 -- Qii.ar.ry:: TRinidad ,2,~100 ----~

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H 18th & Campbell Glencourt-1. 1767

p ~ I :S. General Contractors ...'..,. Highway and Public WGrks.

PHONE 330 P;O. BO~ 6 , BENICIA, CALIF •. cure, no pay;" which means that Co., 33 N.· Front St., . Rio Vista, Brother Howar.d. ·Dougherty re-if Smith-Rice. do _salvage the shfp $4;875 for, pa,ving: parkiRg area. - · cently left for Bolivia· to work ·, , . they will earn se e 1 t' th · SA,CRAMENTO contract awa,rd,- with- Macco on a hi'ghway job ... . 1

_ :. 6 • . . . . . v ra imes . . e1r 'd . . A. T .. : h , ... t, '&. S . I 1848 . .._ ,@l[g]ll;i[gJ[g][gJl!!Jigfil]!g]llJ![gJllJ![gJll;ill;i[gJ[gJllJ![gJ~[gJ[gJllJ![g]ffl[ID;l:liclJ~[g][gJ[g]l!!J[g][g][g]llJ!l;lJ[giiim;i~(g,[l¥1!t __ · p-rofi-ts for the c0·st pTus percentage e· to.\ . e1c er - ., . on; nc.; · :. · · · · , [gJ · · ·· · ~,

~t~h~:~n. but if they fail, they-get ~l~~l.\o~~::0

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R.-B: Cunningham Constru~tion-' bas:e. rriat t . and,.pltmx. , sur.f. ,betw. , · - · . . ;Z . ; ·,,; A Ji"" Ii :L.fils, ~ --,, . Ve . ;_. eompany .. froin. -Hea:ldsburg·, hav~· East St_., in Wo_· odland, and 'Ybto W R · ; _-:.: . if'e· - -ope--' J' ,,,. :1-2 miles ·of r~-gravelirig -and ;-oil: ~ pa~s.; YOLO €:Q., ... · Splicfog .:and .. So·cketing: -l;;L...... Representing -- l!l -

for the Union Lumber 8ompanY,"in . ~ _S~CR,AMJ;N.TO, Goµtract aw.ard- · i :.. ,, -Bay· City Shovels, ·Cr.apes and· Draglines· , Fort ·Bragg. Rtipert foe is . acthlg e_d , to~ Tyspn &: _Watt.ers,. Inc.,. P. _O. Agents for· [gJ , , . . as superintenci'ent. With Maurice B9x .. 191},, SacraJnent.o, -$155,67'.7,for Ro_ebH~gs ·BI,'1,1~ Center· -; :; .:,- Linia _.Shovels; Crapes and· Draglines

. W:oo·ciw'ara on'the blade; This co~n- ;1,2,:~. JrtL su~·f. witl;t gr(;lveL base .a11;d AU Work Made -to• Order · Ill .. -Industrial B~~w~hoist · Crari~s p~ny rec·e~tly ' set . up a cru_sher rOJ!-~J11iX: SJlJf., l:_J~tW,c ~ mi:, north ?f Gtiar~nteed and Insured .1 :,_.~_' . Plytnou_,th __ ,Loc·omotiv_e~ plant a:t the'-·Old: River out of . Fort Ui.ke .. City·, and"·· Fort · Bidy,_eu, ,m 600 Adc:!lsOJt:$treet. >, "" ., : · · B<ragg . .... ·... . . ... --- . . 1;1:0DQC CQ.,. . .. Berkeley.,t,Calif., i! ;:' . . H ... .Bl'd; . LS1qgerwood Hoists , 5i-.r 03· ' TJ:ie landscap· ing· at the Talmage SACR.6MENTO, contract aw.ard- . · .. ~ '.·.'1232. earst · 1, g. · __ anc,F-ranc1_·s.Go B , _ . otter_ .1-1 __ 6' ··

· · ·· ... · · · d t T E ·c · 11 I Sh ld Tetejihoue Ashher;,;y "3-32.36-~ [gJ · , , Hospital 11a:i ,be'en, awarded to Wit- , e > Y, :, < , ; , qii~o. Y, n_c.,. e 0 !1 .',.,.,. : !,~[!!i[gJ[gj[gJ[j;j[j;jlf!l~ii!llf!lll:!ll;l][gJ~[j;j[gJ~'Ji.tj[gJ[gJ[g][gJi1!J[gJigjffi[gJ[gJ[gJ[gJ[gJ[j;j[j;j[j;jllJ![j;j[j;j~~il!i

·· 1/ii." aiid Sib. b'oi'd. : .. ···f· ·s· ..... . A, · · 1 . Bldg., S. F.; $6:4.2,6!;)2 for con;st. d1- . " , , . , , · J.,. . . ' Q · an ' nse r;no version tunnel and access road to Cl I I I i f· f, f, ,, .. , ' ' I. •· •· 1 1 •-•· I •·• !· f I Q11111111>0.-oc-.o.-o-.n_o._o-@lllll>.o-o-.o-,.t>-,,.;::i. for $38 '.731. . . · · · · · · . - ,.. · . ' 1111, . ... - ' . . ' power plant, _Folsom Resvr. ProJ. B '. c· G" Ill •~ I ' ,. ., ! ., ' WlJ,LirTS JOB~.," . [· MARE ISLAND contract award~ I e,ff4 ~ erWICK:~ ,~ -,,..

C. ,M: Sy_ar :.~C0_n_stxµcti6n- Coin, . ed to J, Henry Harris, 2659 NiJ1th - :1!· "·o· " ,,. ~ .. . T··. E· . ·. . -1 .·" ,',. "~ Pc!'l1Y . has moved· into . Willits on St., · Berkeley, $i,884· for const. pav. . · -Inc .. , i ,' ~-1:. t._ j:, ·,, . >. n /P 0ne ''{5f_ their , @Id ,conJ1:~_ots th13-t · is repairs at Bldgs. 575 and 206. . [ ~ 1 "-2 · ' .... ·'.. • . '· 'J '. ~e ,-a -]:J.oldov~r. fron:_i · 1_a t,.t year-streets · * · * * .. · j . Engineering_ Constructiolf -, .. . : . . , · .. · ·· ~ . . ·_ and curbing. They ha:'ve 10 engi- . 1:ee1;s ?n th~ pa:'yfoll. Curley Wil- M•cNar-y-- fiam--Awards:· [ Wharves ~>Piers - Bi'idges Gen@r.cd Cofttre«ctors; \.-. \ -, lla:ms IS act1pg: :as ,supermtender.J.t- :, Contraf tS ·0ri cbiiilding 6f McNary _ Terminals ·- F6undations· • i , · . '. . : . and L. H. Portlock as .foreman. , Dam· on· the Columbia River near , .· Submarine Work · ; -~, ·o ,

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Two vel'y fir,ie young m_er:t Jr.9.m· ,Vri;iatil}a: ;at: a c.ost of $58,4l5(459" 112 Market,;Sfreet . J .. , TRinidad · ,2.1064-- . ' ... . . . , 84'5-l'Sal!'i Le,'in·dr--:o' St:;, , ,,, _ _JS!~rtJt~½ftEil~:71: if f ;ttitJJ,~~i:£~; . - p:.~tt~~:~U,\4.f. I ... -- ';' ' g~tlo~L3•, Celifo,nia ,: ' . I, 'I

. an.d .Engelke Company. Tfiey .. ]:J.av~ !-A. Jones ... -Constr,.uc;t10n .C<if, ;·: . :: +• ff 1 , f f·n't -f pf j f U, f· t· f· f ,O>~o.-.o~.(>_.o._o~o....-04iillilij."oca-o__.o...-.o.-~-

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Sacramento_;_ ENGINEERS''. NEWS

So It Was ONLY 43 Per Cent

Washington.- The Chamber of Commerce of the United States is in witJ:i a ,complaint.

MAY 15, 1951 ·

Fresno--

rfi - r I @ ·bl- p· k f t~ra rs Je-e 1nv1st~ 1e .1c~ e s; f res no Season in full S

I By E. P . iPARl!I and :H. S. CLARK, Busines Representatives, Local 3 Torn Co1molly WilS low on the diversion tunnel at the

Folsom Dam and by the time this i§, in print will undoubtedly have moved m1to the job. The project is roughly a 20x1000 foot tunnel with approximately 240 days for completion. The only other new development on the Folsom project -vvas the · elimination of the th1rd· shift-of operators on the Hasler and D & H job at Mormon Island. This resulted in a surplus of operators for this area which to date we h0,ve been unable to

The Federal Trade Commis­sion reriorted that nianufactur­ers' l)!'Ofits- increa§ed Gl per ~ent last year. The chamber ·finds fault: i

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By H. T. PETERSEN and LYNN MOORE, Business RepresentaUves, Local 3

"H stresses the fa per cent inci::ease in prnfits before taxes whereas the increase after taxes·

In order to bring to a head negotiations with the Associ­ated General Contractors it was necessary that we shut down some jobs in this area. Consequently Pine Flat Dam and Guy

43 per F. Atkinson Company's highway jobs were down for a spell, was only 43 pe1: ce'nt."

Any wage-earner get cent more last year? neither job was picketed and at this time we would like to

pay tribute to the other crafts Hall, Chas. Williams, H. S. Wright employed on these projects who maintain the building trades craft and A. E. Calhoon. all took the attitude in a sense work ori a union basis regardless overcome. However, with addi- 1 ·

tional work in prospect and favor- would result in an earlier comple­able indications that most oI the tion date and afford the letting of crafts will have completed th,eir additional contracts this year. negotiations shortly, we expect to be able to report that everyone is w orking in our next issue ..

A Sacramento delegation of city ~nd county officials have just re­turned from Was]1ington where they appeared before Congress re­questing that the appropriation for

· the folsom :Qam be increased for the fiscal y€ar to $9 million. This

At Auburn, the California Rock Products Co. is ab_out 'to reopen operation after repair shutdown during early spring. This company­expects to start about the 20th of May. They- will be using a new 5,:l·B this year with Bob Hall in the driver's seat. They also added a new TD-24 to their equipment. The brothers on the job · now are Bob

Joe Chevreaux is making great an invisible picket and consequent- of the wishes of some large con­progress with his Dead -Man Curve ly stayed away from work even tractors who would do anythfog -. job with Spike Voudouris bossing th0ugh some phases of t~e job ·possible to further an open shi5r and Chas. Allee, Paul Bfi1.dy and could . have pbrogressedc-- , Thisd · sfo~t non-union condition- where they \" (V , ) c t, · 11 •·t· th of spmt ·of ro therhoon an · e - alone ·would dictate the working ·vm. erne an 1a . ,.,_ e

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1 l B th L d ows 1P wi a ways- con ·mue O conditions and wages to be IJaid .. p ant we rnve ro ers . eonar Jenkins and Fred Campbell. · · The aforementioned jobs are again

Also at Auburn, O'Conner Rust- ' landscaping, etc. GI. 2-9549. . '1 ·in progress, we have received our DeVriend Trenching Co.: all raise in pay, and I would suggest proofing Co. has Louis Bouche and I

J . M tl k . . , nr E types of ditches. HI. 5-0357. that the brothers remember the ess a oc on compressors. ". . . 1 d. -11. h 1 t d d , t · ht

(Rd) s· . k . th W. L. K1rchgater: we.I n mg. e p ex en e .· · - o us m.1g some e

1bmpso~ is . eepmgd . e I HI. 6-4053. . day be appreciqted if extended to

brothe~s usy m thi~ area omg Remme Trenching: trenching, J oth-er crafts Vi ho -are still in nego·~ · small Jobs. · small· cat work. HI. 5-5195. · I tiations with ,. the Assgciated Gen-

G. ~· Herrington is also keepin_g Morley Wing: tract O r work, 2ral Contractors. busy 111 and ~round Au.burn. This plowing, leveling, etc. Folsom· -Department ·of Public . Works, company has Just about completed

I l39F33. . Highway Division, . is advertising ·

its s_tre_et_jo_b in_the city of A~b'.urn. A. B. McClain: .top soil, fill sand, for _bids on ;3.bout fiv~ miles ,in Then·. building m Woodland 1s also , tractor work, rotovator. HI. 6-0737. M!inposa County, to be- surfaced in . the finish stage ~ith Brother.,

1 F. w . . Bowman: tractor work, with plant.mix. _ _ • ; . . _ ..

Fra~k ~ampbell '.rnv1~~ done the ditching, grading, etc. IV. 9_5443, _ I11 Tulare, County,, Hice . Br~th-engmeenng on th~s prnJect. Scott & Sutton (Ben Ali Garage): ers,. H . . Ea_rl ~arker _1:1.n~_. Um\e1 HIGHWAY 5Q JOB h.d. mechanic, welding. HI. 9-07?8. ~oncrete :f'.1pe Co .. are _st1lJ work~

At .. Placerville, H. E. Parker L. R. John: trnctor work-all mg ?n t11,e1r road Jobs .. and all are ,,,, .. started his Highway No. 50 job type;. HI. 9...4244. makmg good progress. ,.. - .-· ., ~ with four 1;igs at this t ime. The Delmar ·Hopkins: top so·il, fill PIPE YARDS

The pipe yarcls-United Concrete rain of a couple weeks .' ago had sand, hole digger, etc .. IV. 9-1124. · , · · Pipe, Concfote Cond.uit . Pipe Co., them slowed down but they're get- Chas: R. Bush: tractor work, lev- · · · · · · - · ··

ting a good start now. In checking I eling, etc. HU. 4~4425. . a.nd , Ame~ican _ Pipe ·. ~, Construe~ this a'rea w found Joe Vic'ni on ' F k M'll ,. t t , d' . . t10n Co.-111 this san:i~ a1ea, are,. all

. , e . . . .· 1 ran I er· rac 01 , iscmg, working shift work and we have , seyeral Jobs. At M1ch1gan Bar they plowing etc. Auburn 739-R: b . f · b h · B · · · f · . . . . · . , ' · · I een m ormed y t e ureau., ·o

had three ngs · bmldmg . a flight R. John· tractor ditches level- R 1 ·t· · th t th· · · ·11 ~ ,· , · B, th , R 1 · s · h - . '. · ' .. , ' e.c ama 10.n ,a . _1s agency:. w1 ~tup mth ro ers o a~d m1t ' mg, ~tc. HI. 7-0209. :- . , let additional contracts for many. Oscar Turner and Max Pickard on Elmer Self: tractors, roto tillers, · -

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· . Gl dd' . "'[ , 1 _ · _ . . . . .. .. :more m1 es o pipe. m. e - ear t~e !o_b. At a mg-", cBean s c ay mower, levelmg,-·IV: 9-0585. future. · . . . : . pit 111 Ione, we found Emmett Al- Leslie , M. Goltz: portable track · May. we ask the -brothers ·en1:

. len,. Brother_ Bowman and . Tom work, all types. GI. 3-7361. ployed in the yards · to ,show a little ~ait e~cavatmg over burden m the C. P. McAuley: ~11 types of patience 011 theil' raise in pay- ·as pit. This ~omp~ny als? has sevei:al treriching. HI. 7-0553. . far as these . yards- are concerned •

. s1:1a11 proJects 111 the city of Placer~ CharlesL. Graves: fordson, plow'- We will open .negotiations as soon . ville. · Jing, discing, leveling,. etc. HI. as possible on this question.

Building a. sawmill at. Camino, 9-5181: In Kings County we .have se:v-the, Morton Construction Co. keeps Hunter Welding Works: all types eral road jobs under way, ,.anc;l-4,--Brother R. . G. ~oty _ busy all the of welding. Placerville 744-W. working toward completion. How~ · time. · Bob Hunt & Sons: grade work, ever, other secondary jobs will be

.Checking the jobs in the Wood- i fill dirt, etc. HI. 9-4703. coming up in the near futui.:e. · land area we find A. Teichert's A. L. Seymour: fordson, leveling, George France Co. has taken new grav~l plant OP.erating with sprayin_g, plo,wing, etc. IV. 9-2629-. I ?ve~ the s:1rfacing on ~ei~ze Co.'s Claude Johnson, Bill Hansley and Mernll Smith: fordson and ha1JJ- I Job on. Highway 180. This same Tim Hinds. ing. HI. 6-5700. . · I firm also has a su.bcontract .on

. W C R T 1 t Nelson Trenching Co.: all types / Pine Flat Dam for surf~cing of At the . · · .ai mg P. an ' of trenching. IV: 9-1159. access roads and observat10n area

Broth?s ~ill Holman, Bob Tnmm Jay Harris: motor- patrol, grad- at the damsite. and K. V>i. Swan keep the gravel ing, paving, .etc. Grass Valley 71R3. Pine Flat Confractors are again boiling. w. J. McEnespy:· fordson, grad- on a full . construction basis, hav~ ·

Over at the Leroy Kerr plaht, ing, backfi!Ung. IV. 9-3013. ing recently installed a new idling Shown above in the movement of extra heavy · equipment for the working· two shifts, we find Mel Donahue & Ice: trenching . . HI. drum and shaft in the new high-

Deimrtment of Water and Power are Engineers Local 12 · members and Wissl er, Jack Croll, Lloyd puncan, ·9-5282 or HI. 6-8629. speed cableway. The company also tl']eh- equipment. The j11e11 on the cr'anes for 'Walter Hesse are Broth- Frank Watts, Pedro Savala and Ed We wish to thank Brothers T-TU- is installing a supplemental crush­ers D. l\Ierritt, . operator; Gordon Clark, oiler ; Bob Grundon,, Anthony Martinez, Los Gatos Construction man Dykes and Art Thomas fo'i: in- ing plant at Avacado. Bertolone,. Wayne Le.wis, and Dewey Merritt. Gus Sudemire, field man Co. has a job at this plan t. They for ming us that they are working Due -to ·· unexpected snowfall in fo,, Hesse, is. m akin!!'. observations. Th·e Power D __ epartment crane was are stockpiling material with Bro. d the mountains, .all work the re has ' ~ elsewhere an requesting that t ·heir man_nec1 by Bro. Edwin ,Elliott and Frank Vogel, with Ei·o. George I . · B_ill Cash bossing, and Efoest Alex- names be removed from our out- .been delayed and pr obably will (lV1:uggj') Elliott supervising the operations. Bro. l\foggy is chief dis 0 ander, Kenny Todd, Fred Sturla of-work list. . not proceed for at least two weeks. _ pat.cher of ·he:avy equipment for the Power Department. I and W . R Tate doing the · operat- There are numerous smaller jobs":ir"--

Push Heavy Stuff Around A r,ioneer in.Jhe erection of steel transmission lin'e towers

with long boom mobile cranes, the Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles has successfully initiated another unorthodox operation, that of unloading and position­ing extra heavy equipment. This-was accomplished . through the careful and comprehensive planning of its pes.ign and Construction Division supervisors, 1 · . - . · , ·

coordinated whh the experienced eqmpment on :ts bed P~.l'\t~s-by the pei,sbnnel and modern facilities of use of heavy tm:rb~r cnbb1~g, rol~-its General Plant Division. ,. e1:s, and hydrauh_c·Jacks. Usmg this - _ · ·11

,method, two similar condensers The component units of the rQtor 'elsewhere on the System required.

and stator, each weighing between 30 days each for the assembling, 65_ .and :0 ~ons, together with end plus the addition~! preparatioILana_' bells we1ghmg 30 tons each, of the cleanup. -two , 40,000-kva SYD;Chronous con- This ·new method-½nveils possible dense~·s were unloaded and placed exte11sive savings ·which may be in position by this \ new met.hod ;at made by lifting and pladng heavy

· t he Department's - Receiving , Sta- equipment'with mobile cranes, not tions ' "A" and "D." Four truck- · only in time and ·cost of. the inst.al~· mounted cranes wit;1 capacities Iation of ' heavy parts ,but by the· ranging .from .20 to. 35 tons were elimination of a rather large capi­used with outi'iggers and lifting I fol investm~nt for overheaif ~ ntry bails. This · work was ~chedµled to _cranes. take 10 and 1_6 hours b1tt was com-. Clayton M. Allen is Engineer in pleted · most satisfactorily in 7 and charge qf ''Genera( Plant Division, 10. hours, respectively; ·and · al- ,Department of Water and Power. though it was done on Saturday at George T. EUiott, a member of

. premium time a,tremendous mone- Operating Engineers Local No. 12, tary saving wa.s realized. supervised the-· operation of all . The ol~ m:etl:)od , entail~_d unlpad- I eq_ttipmen~ during ·the assembly .of

· .1ng, ro]lrng, . ·and ,placmg sucl1 this machme. -- - · - · ! _ ; ; ~:.:._

ing. , V./ e extend OUl' wishes fo i: better in progress throughout the area,. health in the future to Brothers · · Down the river, we have Malfi- employing a substantial number Bill Hogg· and Pete Kavanaubah, f L I 3 · b tano on a levee J'ob .with Monte o oca mern ers. who have rer)orted t hat they · are · · ' ,Br9wn as sub-contractor. Sharkey At the present time we haye a

Graham is bossing and Brot hers ill. small out-of-work 'list, . but thi s. 'Howard Ralston, Wes Kenna, H. Brother J . G. (Boomer) Treden- should be cle~·ed during this Davi, Jack McDonald, D. Baciga- nick will enter the hospital for an month. ll\Pi, w. w: · Barnes, Tom Gunter operation sometime near the end _The . Kaiser Co. · has ,reopened and Arthur Sanders are on the job;• of .this month. -We wish Brother.. operations at the White · · Rock

· - - Tredennick -a quick recovery, arid Quan-y east of LeGi·ande and "is, . A. Teichert, J .. R. .Reeves; L. G. . . , .- · .· -Lentz,. I\'IcGillivray, Her at y & permanent. good health for· the- fu- 'expected to continue. for,; some

ture. " · -tfme, ·quarrying and crushing sili--Ganon, Jacinto, Terrell an<l other· contractors in the Sacramento v1- THEY J~lVE BLOOD _ . · . · • _ eon .rcJ;ck, which will be shipped to cinity · are ke_eping -many of the Since ,our ·Ia.st ·writing, ·: we-.J:,.aye- P~n~_anente. -. . . . _ .. brothers busy most . of the time had several donors -at :the -Blood ·_ WE; '_ have : been informed by : lVIi ~ with' sfreet work, subdivisions, ek B~nk which proves o~r stat~men( J. , Cii,ssidy, of Pacific CoaSt :,Aggre:-:

·; ' of last m. o,nth thatwe ·should ha\i,tl gates , that au cement has been l:IAVE OW,N EQU~PMENT put on an allocation .of 42. pe~·- ceµ.t~f=

Therci are several brothers. with rri.oi:e 'don~tions· now.that· the gQod of . the amount .formerly .usedC:d:,y -their~,_own equipme.nt :. · weather :1s · .here,: ,v e , ,extend1··,,.o.ur th fi . - . · - .

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R. D: (Bob) Soderlund: tractor, deepest and most smcere gratitude t· Th's ·· f c· o-ui· , w·r·1· h'a· v· e· .. . · . era 10ns. . 1 , o se, _ 1 . excavating, grading. HI. 5°8524.. to Mrs. Ann ~reSt, Gertmde F., a teridEiricy to curtail some of the . Robert. Inger.son~ D•7's, levelmg Couch, Mrs. Lois Roberts, . Joseph, gravel plant operations o.f such and gradrng. R10 Lmda 5332. . J J., Rogers, Howard Green, . and firms as- Stewart . &· Nuss, Pacific ·. Otto .Van Gorder: a~y. type of

I H~olcl ~· Clark, From the lo.oks of i Coast Aggr_ egates, PoUard Bro~:., .

tractoi· work, roto t1ll111g. . HI. thmgs, 1t seems that we are hav.- Anderson Rock ·co., -Central Roc.k ,, 6-9131. · irig as many, if not more, :women & Sa!!d Co., ·.and others. It is. hoped : Harry A. Briscoe: tractor work, donors than men. Ho!!estly, broth- that 'the allocations v1ill be' in~

leveling, mowing; etc; Route l2, Box ers, that needle isn't nearly .as creased within ·a ·short time. · -2815, Sacramento. - large;M jt seems! Incidentally, this - If you have moved,' mail in your

Roscoe Collins and Joe Low1y: was i he fourth trip to the Blood new address. new BG trencher. HI. 9-8089. Bank. by Brother,, Clark and Ho.:w- When cpaying your dues be- sure .

Ivan Anderson: . fordson, land- ard Green donated again as soon to send in youi;: dues card with the scaping, leveling, HI. 5-5551. as his ninety-day waiting period payment, and please try to_ avoid

Ha_rold Grigg$: two · fordsons, ended. These should be two good -sending cash thi;ough the mail . ditching; _leveling: HI. 9.5159. examples .for us to follow. , Our next': regular ,_meeting in

Ll()yd Frazier: fQrdson, ·fill dirt, Rememb.er'that the office is open this area ,Will ·be' held ,Thursday, . .-paving, .etc. GI. 3-2543. every Thursday evening fi:_om, '7 'to ·May ':24, 8 p:m:; at 631: Kearney; A

0 ; J. Brandon & Son: fordson, 9 p.m. for your convenience. Fresno, Calif. ·-' ·- ~ -