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34 The National Council on Industrial Relations is a conciliation medium composed of five representatives each of the brotherhood and of the National Association of Electrical Employers. Its services are used when local agreements can not be reached or carried out.

Benefits—Funeral; insurance; pension. Female members are entitled to a small funeral benefit.

Official organ.—The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators.

Headquarters.—1200 Fifteenth Street NW., Washington, D.C.

Organization.—Local organizations only, classified as linemen, inside men, trimmers, cranemen, cable splicers, fixture hangers, maintenance, shopmen, power-house men, telephone operators, railroad, bridge operators, studio men.

United States—Alabama, 8; Arkansas, 2; Arizona, 3; California, 57; Colorado, 5; Connecticut, 14; Delaware, 1; District of Columbia, 2; Florida, 12; Georgia, 3; Idaho, 4; Illinois, 41; Indiana, 28; Iowa, 19; Kansas, 10; Kentucky, 6; Louisiana, 9; Maine, 6; Maryland, 6; Massachusetts, 26; Michigan, 18; Minnesota, 10; Mississippi, 3; Missouri, 11; Montana, 13; Nebraska, 3; Nevada, 3; New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, 19; New Mexico, 1; New York, 53; North Carolina, 6; North Dakota, 1; Ohio, 40; Oklahoma, 12; Oregon, 7; Pennsylvania, 39; Rhode Island, 6; South Carolina, 2; South Dakota, 1; Tennessee, 10; Texas, 32; Utah, 3; Virginia, 11; Washington, 14; West Virginia, 9; Wisconsin, 18; Wyoming, 4; Canal Zone, 2. Canada—Alberta, 3; British Columbia, 4; Manitoba, 2; New Brunswick, 1; Nova Scotia, 2; Ontario, 18; Quebec, 6; Saskatchewan, 3. Total, 656.

Membership.—141,640.

Telephone Operators' Department The Telephone Operators' Department of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is an autonomous department within the brotherhood, having jurisdiction and complete control over telephone operators. It was organized as a department in November, 1918. Previous to the establishment of the department organization of telephone operators existed only as sublocals of local unions of electrical workers. The first of these to be chartered by the international brotherhood was that organized in Boston in April, 1912. The officers of the department are president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. "The department officers shall have the same jurisdiction over affairs relating exclusively to the department which international officers have over affairs relating to the brotherhood."

Any telephone operator actually engaged in the trade is eligible to membership. Chief operators are organized separately with the consent of the local union.

The department pays a funeral benefit. Conventions are held every other year, at which the general officers are elected. Amendments to constitution, by-laws, and local rules, by referendum.

There are at present 24 local unions of telephone operators, with a total membership of 6,000, as follows: California, 2; Illinois, 10; Indiana, 1; Massachusetts, 3; Montana, 2; Ohio, 2; Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 3.

The headquarters of the Telephone Operators' Department is Tremont Building, Boston, Mass.

Elevator Constructors, International Union of Affiliated to the American Federation of Labor.

Organized July 18, 1901, in New York City as the International Union of Elevator Constructors of the United States. Jurisdiction