#steamfitters

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"SEES LIVES MENACED IN HOSPITAL AND JAIL," Toronto Star. March 27, 1934. Page 1. ---- Improper Installations, Organizer for Steamfitters Declares ---- There was a sharp clash between W. A. Baird (High Park) and John Bruce, organizer for the Steamfitters' Union, before the labor committee of the legislature to-day when a bill sponsored by Hon. J. M. Robb, minister of health and labor, came before the committee. There was a sharp clash between W. A. Baird (High Park) and John Bruce, organizer for the Steamfitters' Union, before the labor committee of the legislature to-day when a bill sponsored by Hon. J. M. Robb, minister of health and labor, came before the committee.

The bill is aimed to license and regulate master and journeymen steamfitters and plumbers in the installation of heating systems.

Mr. Bruce stated that a man at the Home for Incurables, who is an electrician, was installing a system with the aid of a fireman. "The whole thing is criminal and anything is liable to happen in that place," he declared.

"That is a slanderous statement," said Mr. Baird. "The man is a first-class engineer besides being an electrician. I can prove it. I am vice-chairman on the board of the Home for Incurables. This is just a fight between the stationary engineers and steamfitters."

Mr. Bruce said he could prove his charge. Mr. Baird challenged him to do so.

Mr. Bruce also stated that at present at the Toronto jail a system of heating under a 50-pound pressure is being improperly installed. "Anything is liable to happen there. The situation has added danger with the prisoners cooped up in their cells at night," he said.

"Isn't it true that in each case you speak of, Mr. Bruce, there isn't a qualified stationary engineer in charge of the work?" the chairman asked. Mr. Bruce did not answer and the chairman stated the committee was only interested in the principle of the bill and not in a private feud.

It was decided to meet again tomorrow at 10 a.m. to discuss the bill.

[selwyngrimm]

Fuck yeah, I'm out of stupid Building A and its baseboard fin tube and into building B and its pipe-not-at-my-ankles.

[pttedu]

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[cursedauxiliary]

theres a tiktok of this person saying why dont straight ppl dance at raves and its the furry rave my friends went too...

[postoctobrist]

Id add a picture but cant in anon. I would love to hear what you think of the design of my union hall, Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 60 in New Orleans.

whoa!

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 6 February 1919, perhaps the most spectacular strike in US history took place: the Seattle general strike. Nearly 100,000 downed tools in support of striking shipyard workers but, more importantly, then elected a general strike committee and began running the city and essential services themselves. While the shipyard workers did not get their pay increase, the five-day general strike was a historic and successful experiment demonstrating that workers could run society ourselves. After the strike ended, the newspaper of the Central Labor Council, the Union Record, explained its importance: "We see but one way out. In place of two classes competing for the fruits of industry, there must be, eventually only one class sharing fairly the good things of the world. And this can only be done by the workers learning to manage. "When we saw in our General Strike: The Milk Wagon Drivers consulting late into the night over the task of supplying milk for the city’s babies; The Provision Trades working twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four on the question of feeding 30,000 workers; The Barbers planning a chain of co-operative barber shops; The steamfitters opening a profitless grocery store; The Labor Guards facing, under severe provocation, the task of maintaining order by a new and kinder method; When we saw union after union submitting its cherished desires to the will of the General Strike Committee: then we rejoiced. For we knew it was worth the four or five days pay apiece to get this education in the problems of management. Whatever strength we found in ourselves, and whatever weakness, we knew we were learning the thing which it is necessary for us to know. "Someday, when the workers have learned to manage, they will begin managing. And we, the workers of Seattle, have seen, in the midst of our General Strike, vaguely and across the storm, a glimpse of what the fellowship of that new day shall be." https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2203657846486020/?type=3

[gidianthe]

saw a sticker for local 420 steamfitters. thats gotta be the best combo of local # and trade ive ever seen

[barbariankingdom]

Vanderman No. 3 Steamfitters Vise

[soylent-robot]

the Miners & Steamfitters Union is probably the most “good guys” team in Malifaux, cos theyre a union and they stick it to the man. Theyre also a front for the Arcanists, a secret society of sorcerer types.

This part of the union works on the rails & steam engines that keep commerce flowing, theyre lead by Mei Feng who hits with the speed & power of a freight train

[selwyngrimm]

Context...

[pttedu]

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[ffrankenffucker]

Clothes say steamfitter, eyes say oh fuck oh shit kill me I'm so tired I just need rest please oh gd

[beardedmrbean]

A homeless suspect was arrested for the deadly New York City subway slashing of a commuter. 

Tommy Bailey, a 43-year-old steamfitter with the Local 638 union for over two decades, was fatally sliced in the neck while commuting home aboard the Canarsie-bound L train at around 8:50 p.m. on Friday, stumbling out onto the platform after the subway rolled into Brooklyn’s Atlantic Station. 

The NYPD said the victim had been involved in a dispute with an unidentified man on the train, and Bailey was rushed by medics to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. 

NYC PARAMEDIC FUNERAL: FDNY EMT ALISON RUSSO POSTHUMOUSLY PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN, ADAMS ‘COMMITTED’ TO STOP CRIME 

Several days would pass before an arrest was made on Wednesday. 

Alvin Charles, a 43-year-old homeless man, was escorted out of the 73rd Precinct Wednesday evening after being charged with the murder of Bailey, a father-of-two whose friends told the N.Y. Daily News was not confrontational and was not known to pick fights.

Charles has three prior arrests for menacing, assault as a hate crime and assault, according to police.

His arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court had not been immediately scheduled as of Wednesday night.

The suspect was photographed by news cameras pursing his lips and grinning while detectives escorted him from the precinct and into the back of a cop car while handcuffed behind his back and ankles. 

Bailey’s murder is the sixth killing in the New York City subway system so far this year, FOX 5 NY reported. New York City transit crime surged by 57% in July alone and is up by 42% so far this year. 

[scripta-elegans]

Old Ironsides

by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down!

   Long has it waved on high,

And many an eye has danced to see

   That banner in the sky;

Beneath it rung the battle shout,

   And burst the cannon’s roar;—

The meteor of the ocean air

   Shall sweep the clouds no more!

Her deck, once red with heroes’ blood

   Where knelt the vanquished foe,

When winds were hurrying o’er the flood

   And waves were white below,

No more shall feel the victor’s tread,

   Or know the conquered knee;—

The harpies of the shore shall pluck

   The eagle of the sea!

O, better that her shattered hulk

   Should sink beneath the wave;

Her thunders shook the mighty deep,

   And there should be her grave;

Nail to the mast her holy flag,

   Set every thread-bare sail,

And give her to the god of storms,—

   The lightning and the gale!

My Grandfather, Emil, when he was the young foreman of a steamfitters shop that built steam locomotives. He loved this poem and recited it at every opportunity when requested, even when he was elderly and near death with very advanced Alzheimer's disease.