Masonry Magazine April 1980 Page. 12
IN DALLAS,
THERE IS QUALITY
MASONRY WORK DONE
AND QUALITY
SCAFFOLDING USED.
RICHARDSON CIVIC CENTER
Contractor E-W-Falls Masonry
ANATOLE HOTEL
Contractor: Dee Brown Masonry
LOS COLINAS OFFICE BUILDING
Contractor: Unit Masonry
ADJUSTOMATIC
SCAFFOLDING
Adjustomatic scaffolding features
strong "instant lock" steel
reinforced tapered aluminum
couplers and color-coded braces
for fast handling. Distributed by
Strawn Rentals in Dallas.
AUTOMATIC DEVICES, INC.
2440 Adie Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63043
314/432-5710
Manufacturers of Adjustomatic and Ryd-Up
scaffold systems
James Boren's idea of the tangled federal bureaucracy.
12 MASONRY/APRIL, 1980
MCAA CONFERENCE REPORT
continued from page 11
Instead, yesterday's advances and today's refinements in technology, communications, marketing, computerization and financing must not only be promptly recognized but just as promptly adapted to the needs of the industry.
"In this regard, many of us will recall that, following World War II, North American masonry construction was a fragmented, low-profile, highly seasonal sub-trade apparently unable or unwilling to challenge the then rapid growth of alternative building concepts. Those concepts eventually offered us a very hard choice-move out or move over, but move! and finally compelled us to evaluate, to organize, to modernize, to compete; in short, to catch up to the 20th century. The rate and rapidity of our resulting progress over the last 30 years illustrates how far we have come and, more important, how much farther we can go."
With the increasing involvement of government in business affairs, President George aimed a barrage at the suffocating bureaucratic system which is increasingly impinging upon the construction industry: "The majority of mason contractors in North America are small businessmen whose years of struggle, back-breaking work and endless risk are seldom understood, seldom admired and never, never personally experienced by fat-cat mandarins who, concealed behind an unelected, faceless bureaucracy nevertheless consider themselves in possession of some kind of divine mandate to tell us where, how, why, with whom, and at what price we can operate.
"I propose no disloyalty to our history or heritage, counsel no civil disobedience to our established order, advocate no public rush to hypothetical barricades," President George said. "I suggest only that, as Proposition 13 in California surely demonstrated, a weary and disillusioned electorate CAN initiate or join some kind of positive, consistent, high-profile action to protect the future of North American private enterprise. Let us hope that action, however and wherever introduced, will include representatives from the masonry industry and from this association.
"After all, masonry construction has earned the right to survive in a tough, competitive business." President George continued. "Our survival, once won, is neither static nor forgiving in any undertaking. Complacency.