Abstract
The author was exposed to his first organizing campaign in 1955 while working for Solomon & Durham Construction Company, a contractor out of Quincy, Florida performing a job in the Ft. Walton Beach area. In 1956 he was initiated as a member of the International Hod Carriers', Building and Common Laborers' Union of America, Construction and General Laborers Local 741, while working in Indiana for H. C. Price Construction Company, a contractor out of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In 1959 he became a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and, in the ensuing years, a salt, local union officer, organizer, International Representative, Director of Organizing and, finally, Executive Assistant to the International President. During this period he earned a BS in Labor Studies from Antioch University. He left the employ of the IBEW in September 1995 but remains active in its affairs.
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