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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT DATE 1979 May DOC PAINT065 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal CORNEL CORNELL UNIVERSITY ITHACA ITHACA NY UNIVERSIUTNIVEYRSITY UNIVERSITY LEGAL LEGAL DEFENDANT'S DEFENDANT'S DEFENDANT'SDEFENDANT'SDEFENDANT'S DEFENDANT'SDEFENDANT'S DEFENDANT'S LEGAL EXHIBITEXHIBITEXHIBIT EXHIBIT EXHIBIT STATE Ucc case specific STATE STATE ALL ALL Trades Journal The stunning Hall of Flags Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel site of IBPAT's Con- NEWS AND FEATURES page Local 391 Revives Apprenticeship Program 246 Ruling Upholds Labor Dept. on Wage Authority 24th General Convention Procedures IBPAT's Job Corps Program Celebrates Anniversary May is PAT Month Get Involved DEPARTMENTS page Inside Front Cover 15 26 27 Inside Back Cover From the General President Local and District Council News Sports and Recreation Financial Statement ' The General Treasurer Reports DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF RESIDENTIAL ' COMMERCIAL INTERESTS INDUSTRIAL fiSIGN 'PICTORIAL . COACH 'AUTOMOBILE @ AIRCRAFT MACHINERY @ RAILWAY EQUIPMENT SHIP AND SCENIC PAINTING S. FRANK RAFTERY General President 1750 New York Avenue N.W. _ Washington D.C. 20006 GLAZING @ CARPET @ LINOLEUM S OFT TILE @ PAINT AND VARNISH MAKING BRUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL ROBERT J. PETERSDORF General Treasurer , 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 General Vice Presidents Any member or subordinate body publishing programs souvenirs or other documents of any description must not designate them as The Official Journal of the Brotherhood or as The Painters and Allied Trades Journal either upon the publication itself on their advertising contract forms or stationery Robert J. Petersdorf Publisher Parker Editor Editor 1750 New York Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI - 1st District 1443 Westchester Boulevard Westchester Ill 60153 A. L. MONROE 2nd District 7909 Bayberry Drive Alexandria Va 22306 JAMES WOLFORD 3rd District 100 Devon Lane Williamsville N.Y. 14221 JACK T. COX 4th District nternational Brotherhood of Painters and Allled Trades Second Class mail entry ; VOLUME 93 No. 5 s 2212 DuPont Drive Irvine Calif 92664 Nuthorized at Washington D.C. . MAY 1979 GUY LEBER 5th District Jemans POSTMASTERS ATTENTION Change of address cards on Form 3579 The official journal of the International Brotherhood of Painters and 1930 Bishop Lane Louisville Ky 40218 should be sent to THE PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES JOURNAL 1750 New ork Ave. N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Subscription Price 2.00 per year Single copy 20 cents ; PRINTED ON UNION MADE PAPER PRINTED WITH UNION MADE INK Allied Trades organized March 15 1887 and the only publication issued under its auspices Lo auemie. e 22 FAFL ) LABOR PRESS PRINTED IN U.S.A. * JAMES B. COX 6th District 8800 Blue Ridge Ext No. 10 Kansas City Mo. 64138 WILLIAM A. DUVAL 7th District 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006 Denver Local 419 Aids IBPAT Project Local 419 of Denver provided jobsites for photographs required to complete a unit of the IBPAT Health and Safety Education Pro- gram titled Floorcoverers Health Hazards The unit was videotaped in January and has since been pre- Har sented in several training seminars for floorcoverers Business Manager Paul Wishard handled location arrangements with backing local contractors and accompanied IBPAT Project Photographer Les Crandell as he filmed floorcov- erers at work The first stop was in Denver's historic Larimer Square district where Bill Staab Inc. was installing carpet for Decorator's Walk Brother John Paul posed while per- forming seaming kicking and Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains just west of Den- ver is Golden Colorado home not only to the boycotted Coors Brewery but also to the Colorado School of Mines where IBPAT member Al Fuhrer also of Bill Staab Inc. was installing carpet in the school's library Brother Fuhrer demonstrated proper control measures when using containing carpet adhesives In the growing city of Aurora a suburb east of Denver is the Smokey Hill development one of several construction sites for Wood Bros. Homes There IBPAT members employed by Earl Dixon Inc. install- posed for the camera while ing both carpet and tile Brother Joe also invited Photographer Crande to film his apprenticeship class evening at Local 419 : Instructor Ortiz's apprentices pertly improvised situations that not been encountered on the sites Apprentice Benny Har demonstrated proper procedures sanding asbestos tile moving asbestos felt ting sweeping and investigat ing the contents of an inadequate labeled product with an employe played convincingly by Busines Manager Wishard Most of the materials used these photographs were provide by Earl Dixon Inc. Mr. Dixon sonally located many substance needed for the program The stretching operations Proper use of respirators during clean up was demonstrated by Brother Leo Leonard Ortiz who is an apprenticeship training instructor showed his techniques for sanding sealing and spreading adhesive Instructor Ortiz tiful montage of carpet and tile wor that graces the hallway to the Dixo showroom was selected for use the title slide in the Floorcoverers Health Hazards unit " Fuhrer Below Al a Local 419 member employed by SScthaoaobl Ionfc.Misnperseads tile adhesive on this floor at Colorado Library in Golden Colo Despite appes ances the respirator he is wearing is not a dust mask would provide no protection against the harmful solver a vapors present in most adhesives The respirator is light weight disposable organic vapor and particulate removing respirator one of many available from major U.S. person person protective manufacturing companies Proper respiratory tection equipment is a necessity for floorcoverers as proseways it for all painters and allied trades workers Make sure equipment you chose is suited to the job and is MSHA MSHA NIOSH approved round dust Local 419's John Paul of Bill Staab Inc. demonstrates assembly of a stretcher A worker who is the stretcher can do a trained to use a room as fast faster a worker ewroerrkserusseTshtereI tchBerP s A asToftpernojaes ct prosesciobmlmeends that floorcov. 20 THE JOURNAL ene ent pite appeals chi"n Ortiz a journeyman floorcoverer with Local 419 who is a Colorado apprenticeship instructor is sanding a floor housing development at Smokey Hill in Aurora Colo wearing a single use dust mask to protect him from Asbestos particulates and dusts generated by the sander wood dust metal dusts and other fine particulates are cre- ated by the abrasive action of the sander Without a respira- for protection these particulates are inhaled and deep into the lungs where they remain remain imbedded many Some particulates can cause cancers asbestos for example Others cause bronchial and tracheal irritationirritation It is best to Local 419 apprentice Ben Harvey dumps dust into a trash receptacle to be hauled proper away Even though the bag aisndclosed he still wears the respirator because harmful dust particulates can still be released into the air When the job isn't done until the clean up is finishd it is a good idea to be sure you remain protected from the harmful dusts and particulates that can be generated by sanding and scraping Choose the proper respirator for each job and be sure wear it when you work The disposable respirators suchyoaus this one worn by Ben should be thrown away at the end of each day or when breathing becomes difficult Do not at- tempt to clean single use respirators .. And Its Picketing Program is Ruled Fair Four months ago the Journal car- installation work an extensive article about Denver being done for the Denver Dry Goods Co. of Denver The case reached the supreme court of the land Local 419 lost because floorcoverers Local 419's successful by a local union floorcovering Tesidential picketing program they had included the prime contrac- The contractor Paul indicated that the tor's name on the picket placards The program enables the Local to protest the picketing program would also be used court ruled that directing the picket- unfair labor conditions of bcontractors installing carpet at res- against J. C. Pennys and Joslins He said he expected that the two ing against the prime contractor ential homesites The key to nies would lodge an NLRB compa- amounted to a secondary boycott the pro- ram is to avoid using the prime against the union to complaint But just a little change in strategy- con- prevent the picket- directing the picketing against the sub- factor's name these cases major ing P Denver department stores who sell This the contractor without mention of the pri- rpet and subcontract with installers companies did and the mary contractor 419's method An good news is that the NLRB found of bringing to the public's attention the As long as our objections are di- the picketing as performed violated no unfair and substandard work of non- ected against the subcontractor's un- law union contractors both labor and wage conditions Consequently the picketing by Lo- and quite successful totally legal . gainst the store that sells the goods cal 419 against unfair labor standards Paul is justly pleased and proud of we can picket explains Local 419 can continue the success that Local 419 is having Business Manager Paul Wishard with this method and At the time the article This is a far cry from the days of encourages every local interested in appeared in he Journal the program had success- fullyfully called the Sears battle in Denver in which Local 419 attempting the very same making inroads into residential work to try it soon The details attention to substandard method of picketing was made to stop appear in the Journal January 1979 THE JOURNAL 21