Masonry Magazine February 1970 Page. 19
Mason Contractor News...
# 3rd CMCA Conference
The 3rd annual CMCA Conference will be held Saturday, March 21, in the Merchandise Mart, Denver, Colo., featuring the "Colorado Business/Construction Outlook Forum, 1970."
This year's meeting will consist of four individual seminars covering: Mason Liability and the Law: How to Make Money-and Keep It!; New Methods of Construction, and Brick Cleaning-Problems & Solutions.
A luncheon and fashion show will be staged for the ladies at the Hilton Inn. More details may be secured from CMCA, 2680 Eighteenth St., Denver, Colo. 80211, phone 477-6308.
# Commission Adopts 9-Point Program
The new Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Commission has adopted a 9-point program aimed at improving the collective bargaining process in the construction industry, Labor Secretary George P. Shultz has announced.
# FOSCO NAMED
Peter Fosco, general president of the Laborers' International Union of North America, was elected a vice president of the AFL-CIO at the federation's eighth biennial convention in Atlantic City, N.J.
It marked the first time in the Laborers' Union's 66-year history that one of its top officers was elected a vice president to serve on the federation's executive council.
# National Apprentice Committee Reports
A program to increase the number of bricklayer apprentices from the current level of 9,000 to 16,000 has been adopted by the National Bricklaying Joint Apprenticeship Committee. The increase is part of a four-point program to improve and broaden apprentice training in order to meet demands for bricklaying craftsmen in the next few years. Adopted at a meeting in Washington, D. C., the other points are:
* Use of "pre-job" training as a part of apprentice programs operated by local apprenticeship committees. The apprentice would learn basic bricklaying skills before going on the job.
* Promotion of the bricklaying trade among high school students and other youth groups through such things as participation in "Career Day" programs.
* Encouraging "all-weather" construction. This would help overcome a big obstacle to apprentice recruiting -the seasonal nature of bricklaying with a resulting loss of annual income.
The committee also encouraged local joint apprenticeship committees to begin exploring the possibilities of reducing the term of apprenticeship in individual cases by granting credit for pre-job or pre-apprentice programs and relevant past experience.
The national committee is composed of representatives of the Mason Contractors Association of America, the Associated General Contractors of America, and the Bricklayers, Masons Plasterers International Union.
In adopting the goal of 16,000 apprentices, the committee said that (Continued on page 25)
# Pacific Western Sold
Acquisition by General Portland Cement Co. of Pacific Western Industries, Inc., a Los Angeles based cement producer, was announced by