The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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Dallas Craftsman
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Forty-Third Year. No. 47
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gan an Apprentice Training pro-
gram started from scratch—but
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Red Cross Mobile Canteen Inspected
- quarters in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Fifty-Two Thousand AFL-CIO Members Is This County Depend On The Mbs Craftsman For Their labor News
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Red Cross on the Job
Dallas Labor Helps Out
Gold Card Presented
Jim Pitts by Bricklayers
Butchers No. 540
Moves Its Offices
AFL-CIO could make this kind of
a contribution ... As for the Red
Three years ago, Local No. 481
of the International Association
at Bridge, Structural and orna-
J. Lew Rhodes
Dir. of Organization
For Bro. Carpenters
The United Brotherhood of Car-
penters and Joiners of America
has appointed J. Lew Rhodes as
Director of Organization for its
Industrial Department with head-
Union members fro* AFL-CIO Labor Couneh
Red Oom Mobile Orate* tn front at Labor T
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st American
1727 Young
“On the job, when it counts,
where it counts”—is the slogan
of the American National Red
Cross.
Because of the generosity of
thousands of AFL-CIO trade un-
ion members and the foresight at
the National AFL-CIO Communi-
ty Services Committee this slogan
apprentice does not receive full
journeyman’s wages, but rather a
per cent based on his attendance
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tal iron.
An Apprentice Committee, con-
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Stcbralcro.s by EheAFL“ci™Commhtnnyscoftdoucomanted
Picture above are members of the Iron Workers Local No. 481
Joint Apprenticeship Committee with their instructors. Standing
(left to right) are: Gordon Adams, instructor; Jake Goodell, field
representative, Bureau of Apprenticeship, U. 8. Department of
Labor; J. W. Hardesty, General Organiser and Director of Ap-
prenticeship. Iron Workers International Union; C. E. Fritch,
general contractor and committeeman; David Keeler, business
agent. Local 481 and committeeman; W. R. Beacon, representative
of the Robert K. McKee Company, and committeeman; Her*
Collier, member Local 481 and committeeman; L C. Jones, mem-
ber Local 481 and committeeman; Malcolm Fuller, secretary Local
481 and secretary of the committee; J. L. Minter, instractor; and
Henry Galloway, president of Local 481. In the foreground is a
group of young apprentices in the class for 1956-57.
Iron Workers 481 Stresses
Value of Apprentice Training
marvelous job in bringing help
to the people who need it. Union
men here have been amazed at
the extent of their disaster opera-
tions. We hope this canteen sym-
bolised future relationships.”
Union men accompanying the
canteen on a special field trip on
Saturday following the Tuesday
disaster, were Mr. Simmons, Rob
Roy, Jr., Local 59, I. B. E. W.;
James Moore, member of Local
No. 198, Dallas; J. D. Phillips, Lo-
cal No. 198; and Howard O'Con-
neU, Local No. 8021, C. W. A. of
Fort Worth, who is a volunteer
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Houston and San Antonio. All lo-
cal lodges in these cities have rat-
ified the new pact except the
Kansas City Local, which did not
meet until Tuesday.
The new pact negotiations were
made with the assistance of the
office of Ted Morrow, District Di-
rector for the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service.
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Jimi Pitts, * gold cara member of Local No. 5, Bricklayers Union
of Dallas, was honored recently with a dinner by the Masonry Oon-
tractors, Lawrence Moore and Homer Tinnin.
Twenty-seven Ot his friends were present to help celebrate the
OCcd81O •ue to the fact tn-Rf Alvin Sneed deppasp huginpdg n frsniit
of Local No. 5, had just gone to the hospital, he was unable to atkend
but was supposed to have been present.
Standing left to right are: Loyd Hughes, Y. C. O'Glee, Otto
Herold (gold card member), Joe Brans, Harry Hopple, Bill Morri-
son, Larry Morrison, Albert Marbut, Burt Davidson, Ben Tressler,
Earl Morris (gold card member), Henry Hightower, Jim Forbes,
Homer Tinnin, Tommy Mills and Lawrence Moore.
Seated, left to right are: 8. P. Hulen (gold card mem her), Sam
Rayless, Jim Pitts, George Groves (gold card member), Pete
Wright, Charles Henson, Edwin Butel and C. O. Gardner (gold
card member).
Also attending but not in the picture were Charlie Hayden, Car
Whitney and Dan Burney.
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Mr. Rhodes was formerly Re-
gional Director of the American
Federation of Labor and Regional
Director for the AFL-CIO. More
recently he was in charge of the
Southern States Organizing Office
for the United Brotherhood in At-
lanta, Georgia. He is a thirty-
year member of the Carpenters.
His duties with' the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners will call for emphasis os
industrial organizing throughout
the United States and Canada.
George L Mitchell of Miami,
Florida, will succeed Rhodes in
the Atlanta office of the United
Brotherhood.
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hours. When he applies for a
wage per cent increase, he is
again interviewed by the com-
mittee as to his having met the
requirements for the applied for
per cent. There is no exact edu-
cational requirements but the age
limit is from 17 to 30.
The cost of the Apprentice Pro-
Continued On Page •
western division of the bus sys-
tem in Kan wui City, Tula*. Dallas, gram It might be said, this pro-
chinists union has members in the
maintenance crews of the South- mental Iron Workers in Dallas be-
with the will to survive, which it
has it is going forward. Rigid
class and work qualifications were
set up and to date the school has
graduated eight men.
The class meets at the Dallas
Vocational School and at the
present time, 17 fellows take in-
struction from two instructors.
The Apprentices attend classes 20
hours a month for two years—
with a three-months’ vacation
from classes, as well as working
their regular eight-hour work day.
They are taught 10 subjects per-
taining to their work, such as
blue-print reading, welding, rig-
ging and structural and ornamen-
The Dallas Craftsman Is Subscribed for By Many Dallas AFL-CIO Union, end the AFL-CIO CranrJ
in classes and required
was able to take on real meaning
recently in Dallas when g-jlsee Cross, well, they
of 700,000 was hit By tne worst1
•a
slating of four contractors and
i four Iron Workers meet once each
month. The applicants are ques-
tioned as to their true desire to
become Iron Workers. The com-
mittee feels that it is a waste of
effort and money for a man to
train for a trade which he has
no particular desire to do. A
train* is placed on a six-months
probationary period, if he then
proves himself worthy of the
work and belongs to the organi-
zation, he is given an Apprentice
Iron Workers' book and when, at
the end of two years, he has met
an requlrements, he receives his
Journeymen book and wag* An
mobile canteen and Red Cross dis-
aster operations:
“This is a wonderful piece of
equipment. It has made a real
contribution in helping to relieve
the suffering the hundreds of peo-
ple in Dallas who were hurt by
this tornado. Pam happy that
The offices of Local No. 540,
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North Amer-
ica, which have been in the Labor
Temple for the last two years,
have been changed to 8658 Garland
Road.
The District headquarters of the
International Union for the South-
west, which has been jointly
housed with the local union, will
be moved also.
This change has been made
necessary by the expansion of the
local’s operaton and the lack of
available space in the Labor
Temple.
“We move with hesitancy and
when the expanding program of
the Labor Temple is accomplished,
we want to move back,” said
President Tweden of Local 540.
disaster in its history.
On Tuesday, April 2 at 4:48
p.m. a tornado ripped through the
western part of the city for twen-
ty-one mites from Southeast Oak
. Cliff to several miles past the
Northern city limits of Northwest
Dallu. For nearly one half hour
the black towering whirlwind
smashed structures and sucked up
debris like a giant vacuum clean-
er. Explosions of electric lines
and transformers, causing fes-
toons of eerie white flashes,
marked its path * it lashed aero*
the city.
During that thirty-minute peri-
od, 10 people were killed, hundreds
injured, 125 homes destroyed and
over 500 damaged. A total of
800 families suffered loss.
One of four mobile disaster can-
teen units which have been donat-
ed to the American Red Cross by
the National AFL-CIO Communi-
ty Services Committee was sta-
tioned in Fort Worth, and by co-
incidence having only been trans-
ferred to that point on Wednes-
day, March 27. The following
Tuesday the storm struck Dallu
and it was placed into immediate
action at 5:15 p.m. le* than thirty
minutes after the storm struck.
By 6:30 the mobile canteen was
in the disaster area and day and
night for the next 51 consecutive
hours, volunteer workers dispen-
sed 75 gallons of coffee, 40 gallons
at milk, 1,500 sandwiches and
many gallons of soup.
G. H. Simmons, Jr., president of
the Daitas AFL-CIO Council and
Regional Director of the United
Brotherhood at Carpenters and
Joiners has this to say about the
DALLAS, TEXAS, AHIIL 1% 1H7 Subscription $2 Per Yem
D. R. Brown, Machinist
Rep. to Locate Here
Danny R. Brown, Grand Lodge
Representative, of the Interna-
tional Association of Machinists,
with headquarters in Dallu was
in Kansu City, Tuesday at this
week, awaiting the vote of the
Kansecity Local of the I. A. M.,
amg ratification of a new con-
tract with the Southwestern Di-
vision, Greyhound Lines Bus Sys-
tem.
Mr. Brown said that the ma-
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Reilly, Wallace. The Dallas Craftsman (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, April 19, 1957, newspaper, April 19, 1957; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1550345/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .