AtD/VL: The Traverse Clan

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I was a member of IBEW, Local #3, Construction division, for 18 years.  Lots that was good in the union, lots that was terrible.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 10, 2010 10:19 PM
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: AtD/VL: The Traverse Clan
>
>Once upon a midnight's weary journey into the Irish Catskills where we
>were to play golf and hunt deer and party with the mobsters who made
>fat money off "salvaged" metal and dry wall green we met a bunch of
>these card carrying crook called union carpenters. They seemed like
>regular guys, but they talked a little too much with their eyes rolled
>off to one side while their mumbling mouths marbled something
>sensitive about being brothers and working men. I never suspected none
>of what I discovered up there. I'll never put on a hard hat again.
>
>On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Ray Easton <kraimie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> :
>>>> I don't think there are *any* union members on this list.
>>
>> Once upon a time, I was a member of the United Steelworkers.
>>