[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 116 (Wednesday, August 1, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1373]
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 IN HONOR OF THE 102ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF 
        HEAT AND FROST INSULATORS AND ALLIED WORKERS LOCAL NO. 3

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                        HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, August 1, 2012

  Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of the International 
Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local No. 3 
of Cleveland, Ohio, which is celebrating its 102nd anniversary on 
September 8, 2012.
   Members of Local No. 3 can trace their beginnings back to the 
earliest days of the modern industrial era with the sudden expansions 
of steam power in the 1880s which created the need for the insulation 
industry. An attempt to form a national bond between insulators 
occurred in 1900 when the Salamander Association of New York sent out 
an appeal to related crafts in other cities to form a ``National 
Organization of Pipe and Boiler Covers.'' The appeal struck a chord of 
solidarity and two years later, the officers and members of the Pipe 
Covers Union affiliated with the National Building Trades Council of 
America and invited other pipe coverer unions and related trades to 
join them. Seven local unions from around the country, including 
Cleveland, responded, resulting in the birth of the foundation for an 
international union. The interested locals met for their first 
convention on July 7, 1902, where they drafted and approved a 
constitution and elected Thomas Kennedy as their first president. They 
chose ``the National Association of Heat, Frost and General Insulators 
and Asbestos Workers of America'' as the name of the international 
union. On September 22 1902, the American Federation of Labor issued an 
official charter designating the insulator workers as a national union.
   The union met again in October, 1904 in Pittsburgh to adopt a 
constitution and issue local numbers: St. Louis, No.1; Pittsburgh, No. 
2; Cleveland, No. 3; Buffalo, No. 4; Chicago, No. 5; Boston, No. 6; and 
Seattle, No. 7. The charter issued to Local No. 3 in 1910 contained 
these Clevelanders: Thomas Richards, James Wiley, Phil Frigge, M.O. 
Taitle, Harry Jacoby, Archie Budd, Harry Morris, Harry Graff and George 
Davis. James Dalton, Al Dalton and Thomas O'Neil of Local No. 3 became 
officers of the International Association.
   Over the years, Local No. 3 has fought for higher wages, safer 
working conditions on construction sites and better benefits. Local No. 
3 has established funds to help with medical expenses, retirement, 
apprenticeships and training. As Local No. 3 continues into its second 
century, its goals remain to make a member's life safer, more 
productive and prosperous, to continue to work to meet the needs of its 
current members and to teach new members that there is strength and 
prosperity in solidarity.
   Mr. Speaker and colleagues, please join me in honoring the 102nd 
anniversary of the International Association of Heat and Frost 
Insulators and Allied Workers Local No. 3 of Cleveland, Ohio.

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