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FILE NAME Painters and Allied Trades PAINT
DATE 1977 Dec DOC PAINT054 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Article from Painters and Allied Trades Journal
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On the Cover
IBPAT craftsmen
renovate Milwaukee's venerable St. John Cathedral Story
page 4
Journal
NEWS AND FEATURES
page
Inside Front Cover From the General President
7 Jobs Humphrey a Vital Step 8 Safety Project Filming Completed 15 Employer Groups Distort Labor Law Reform 31 The General Treasurer Reports
DEPARTMENTS
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Labor Beat
18 Local and District Council News 22 Canadian Labour
24 Sports and Recreation 26 Financial Report
DEVOTED TO THE TRADE INTERESTS OF
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DECORATING @ PAPERHANGING WALL COVERING e DECORATIVE AND ARCHITECTURAL GLASS WORK
GLAZING fiCARPET LINOLEUM SOFT TILE # PAINT AND VARNISH MAKING BRUSH MAKERS AND TO THE TRADE
UNION MOVEMENT IN GENERAL
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 Allled Trades Journal either upon the publication itself on their advertising Contract forms or stationery
Robert J. Petersdorf Publisher
1750 New York Ave. N.W.
Washington D.C. 20006 Published monthly by the
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades Second Class mail entry authorized at Washington D.C.
POSTMASTERS ATTENTION Change of address cards on Form 3579
should be sent to THE PAINTERS AND
ALLIED TRADES JOURNAL 1750 New York 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
S. FRANK RAFTERY General President
1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006
ROBERT J. PETERSDORF
General Treasurer 1750 New York Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20006
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VOLUME 91 No. 11
DECEMBER 1977
The official journal of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Painters and
Allied Trades organized March 15
1887 and the only publication issued
under its auspices
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PRINTED IN U.S.A.
General Vice Presidents
BERNARD SNIEGOWSKI 1st District 1443 Westchester Boulevard Westchester III 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 2212 DuPont Drive Irvine Calif 92664
GUY LEBER 5th District
1930 Bishop Lane Louisville Ky 40218 . 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
Film Crew Shoots Nationwide
The health hazard posed by old linoleum and
asbestos tile is only one of several explained in detail in the Training Project's Floor-
coverers Module
KANSAS CITY PAINT MAKERS AND
FLOORCOVERERS
Existing engineering controls administrative safeguards and personal protective equipment were filmed and health and safety hazards to paint makers were staged by Assistant Project Director Rod Wolford Staff Writer Marilyn Larson and Staff Photographer Les Crandell in two paint manufacturing plants in Kansas City
All arrangements for filming at Conchemco's Colony Paints plant were made with Plant Manager Jack Tucker and Division Manager Jack Ludlow by
IBPAT General Vice President James Cox and
General Representative Charles Graham of District
6. Throughout two days of shooting at Colony IBPAT Training Project crew relied on the expert guidance of Supervisor Terry Seleman
General Representative Graham also charmed his way into the Cook Paint and Varnish Company where he began his union career over a decade
ago as a member of Cook's gandy gang Cooke
management representative Earl Baumhart
Project crew with access to all facets of the plants
paint making processes Cook's Safety Director
question during two days of filming IBPAT Brothers and Sisters at the Colony
jobs and who offered their advice and suggestions |
are Local 754 members Herb Barquist Bob
at a Cortney Company jobsite in Houston
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Safety Hazards Pinpointed
Becker Patricia Curtis Evelyn Ditsch Daryl Dobson John Edwards Gary G. Green Farrert M. Hamilton Bennie J. Hardima Terry L. James Jewelt K. Logan Harry Maguire Lee A. Majors W.
Ray Moore Victor P. Puhr John Ragle Jim Roberts
and Lewis L. Tolly
hart
Also in Kansas City Local 1179 Business Man-
Cook
and
ager Dick Meyers and Business Agent Jim Rodgers arranged filming of IBPAT carpet and floor tile
layers on two jobsites The best and worst methods
for laying floor including cutting torch hand-
coordinated a vital three tour for the Project crew in late September
Big Apple Business Representative Frank Giordano of Local 1974 met Project Photographer
Above IBPAT Journeyworkers Charles Beeman right and Caroline Cunningham pose for the Training Project camera in Houston Below Floorcovering Apprenticeship Instructor Jim Tyson right of Welker Brothers reviews shooting script with Training Project Photographer Les Crandell in San Jose Calif Except where indicated photos on these pages are by
Crandell
tour of drywall taping jobsites arranged by Local 1974 Business Manager John Alfarone Brothers
Alfarone and Thomas Furia of Local 1974 posed
the camera and offered advice about safe and
ance were also filmed during the session
Next the Project crew shuffled off to Buffalo
home of O. J. Simpson and IBPAT District Council
Shooting sites in Buffalo were arranged by
General Representative Vincent Ciffa Business
Manager Jimmy Griffo and JAC Coordinator
Michael Wolford Last summer Michael Wolford
helped the Project crew film an enactment on the
Grand Island Bridge of the real death of a
Young Pennsylvania bridge painter See the Aug.-
Sept. Journal for story This time the camera reBargmann
urned photograph to the scene to
the Amherst Bargmann Bargmann Bargmann
Painting supplied scaffolding that the Co. crew Bargmann Bargmann Bargmann
the earlier episode Brothers Kontantinos Bargmann Russ
Bahas Peter Armstrong Spiro Nicholos and Ray-
Russ Russ
Russ
mond McLoren were photographed demonstrating bbyy
safety above water and near traffic on the bridge
Photo Photo
Photo
Photo
IBPAT tank painters were also filmed in Buffalo Photo
and at the All Coat Paint Co. John Sabri posed in
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Safety Project Tests Slated
photographs illustrating proper ventilation systems Before returning to IBPAT headquarters in Wash-
ington D.C. Staff Photographer Crandell stopped for a day's shooting of drywall tapers on a condominium jobsite in Newark General Representative John Manhire and Business Representative Jerry Ford of Local 1976 made all arrangements for this
final location
With all location filming completed the Training
Project Staff continues to produce slide and film programs for future delivery to IBPAT members The first pilot of production materials de signed for floorcoverers is scheduled for Decem ber 3rd in San Francisco Subsequent pilot tests will be in Houston on December 10th and Kansas
City Mo. on December 17th
Below left Local 1179 Business Manager Dick Meyers arranges filming at floorcovering jobsites in Kansas City Below right
Conchemco's Colony Paints Plant Manager Jack Tucker displays the kind of cooperation given to the Training Project pro-
duction crew at his Kansas City paint manufacturing plant
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Coordinator Tra Oakland JAC
Pete Gobbo left and San Francisco JAC Coordinator Don Wilson plot filming strategies with
ing Project Staff Assistant Sue Breitstein at the San Francisco Floorcovering Apprenticeship Center
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THE DECEMBER