Masonry Magazine July 1973 Page. 30
8 for 8
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WITI-TV, Channel 6-"This 12-week campaign between construction workers and their employers can pay big dividends for all involved. There'll be contests and other incentives. But, what is most important, increased productivity can have a permanent effect. TV-6 commends both the employers association and the unions. As U.S. Secretary of Labor Peter Brennan said in Milwaukee last week the country is at the entry to a new era in labor-management relations."
The use of these few quotations is not intended here to be self-serving but rather to point out that with the initial announcement, the two groups were meeting one of their goals to develop community support for the program and for the construction industry.
The campaign is now in full swing. It began with an "Increase Productivity Suggestion Contest." The contest, with $1,500 in cash prizes including a $350 grand prize, had building tradesmen writing in fifty words or less, "Productivity in my craft can be increased by" and submitting their entries to a local post office box, where they were held until the contest deadline. Entries were then sorted by craft, and the business manager from the union for the craft involved, and the chairman of the ACEA Basic Bargaining Committee for that craft, acted as judges for suggestions from that trade.
There was a $50 cash prize for each of 19 crafts involved (the operating engineers and ironworkers did not participate). Individual craft winners then were submitted to a five-man panel (two from labor, two from management and one architect) to select the major prize winners.
While the suggestion campaign was flashy and caught on well, it was just the beginning. Next came ten weeks that saw paychecks attached to "8 for 8" payroll stuffers.
Fruit & Flower Day Nursery
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of the buildings of that era, including the Tower of Babel, were constructed of sun-dried mud bricks-a fact substantiated by archeological exploration. It is for this reason that the Oregon Masonry Guild decided to name its award in honor of Hammurabia name synonymous with an ancient civilization that used masonry so extensively.
Another interesting fact concerning Hammurabi's reign is the strict set of rules he established to govern the ethics and behavior of ancient Babylonians. One quotation from the code pertaining to the construction trade is as follows: "If a builder build a house for a man and does not make its construction firm, and the house which he has built collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house, that builder shall be put to death." Amen!
Concrete Masonry
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personnel to handle liaison with Federal agencies concerned with construction, work with national building code and specification bodies, and promote concrete masonry to companies responsible for construction on a national basis.
While the outlook for the concrete masonry industry appears optimistic for the months immediately ahead, potential problem areas are being watched carefully and preliminary plans are being laid laid to develop solutions when necessary. Liaison with suppliers to the industry and related trade associations is being strengthened, and these efforts in improving communications are proving most gratifying as a means of developing industry-wide support for the future.
There is no truth to the popular misconception that all we have to do to find the money to deal with social problems is to tap corporate profits. Unfortunately for this "sure-fire" solution, the pot of gold is just not there. The amount the Federal Government alone is spending annually just in the categories of health, education and welfare is already about twice the total of corporate profits after taxes. Robert C. Gunness, president, Standard Oil Company of Indiana.