Peter Collins This is Me

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   Secretary of the 1905 conventions constitutional committee, Peter Collins, an inside wireman led the group. The harmony committee was able to reach a suitable compromise between the two factions and a new constitution would be ratified. Peter Collins would also be elected as Grand Secretary of the IBEW replacing veteran lineman H.W. Sherman.
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   Grand Secretary - Peter Collins
   
   Grand Treasurer - F. Sullivan

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   It was through this membership that Collins met and befriended Frank McNulty, another native of Ireland, and an inside wireman from Local 52 in Newark, New Jersey.
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   At the 1905 convention, Peter Collins formed a harmony committee of inside and linemen who were divided over questions of initiation fees, technical examinations, and universal traveling cards. He also moved a deadlocked convention into changing conventions of the IBEW from 2 to 4 years, moving national headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Springfield, Illinois, and reorganized the two year old district councils by reducing the number of Grand Vice Presidents from seven to three, but electing a seven member executive board to represent the various geographical areas, and left strike sanctions up to the International President.
   
   An innovative speaker and compromiser, Peter Collins was elected Grand Secretary Treasurer.
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   Peter Collins, in support of President McNulty, fielded all the mud slinging and distortions of truth that Reid and the International Treasurer, Frank J. Sullivan, conceived, until Collins and Sullivan came close to a fistfight in the International office.
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   Peter Collins, in support of President McNulty, fielded all the mud slinging and distortions of truth that Reid and the International Treasurer, Frank J. Sullivan, conceived, until Collins and Sullivan came close to a fistfight in the International office.
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   Collins sought a legal opinion from Boston attorney, Louis Brandeis (who was later appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States).
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   Brandeis' opinion agreed with Collins and the opinion was printed in the Electrical Worker in August 1908.
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   Finally, in 1912, (five years after submitted), it was decreed that the executive board had no power to call a special convention and that Peter Collins had not been derelict in refusing to submit the referendum convention calls.
   
   Collins Emerges
   
   Many tributes were paid to Secretary Collins by members of his local union in later years. None greater than that of Scribe George Capelle who thanked Collins profusely for personal contributions to Local 103 during the bitter strike of 1921, "If every member of Local 103 were as generous as Peter Collins, we could carry on the fight for equality in the workplace indefinitely."
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   The convention was opened by Grand Secretary Peter Collins, who resigned and was replaced by Charles Ford at this convention at the Wells Memorial Hall.
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   Peter Collins took on a new chore. To provide life insurance to all members of the Knights of Columbus. During the 1920s he published a book on the art of public speaking. He was a vital cog to the IBEW during these early tribulations and always a faithful and loyal member of Local 103.
   
   Another Local 103 member addressed the convention on opening day. Brother Frank L. Kelley, President of Local 103. He was initiated into Local 103 in 1900. He also served on the Executive Council, a position he would hold for the next 40 years.

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   The convention was opened by Grand Secretary Peter Collins, who resigned and was replaced by Charles Ford at this convention at the Wells Memorial Hall.
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   Peter Collins took on a new chore.To provide life insurance to all members of the Knights of Columbus.During the 1920s he published a book on the art of public speaking.He was a vital cog to the IBEW during these early tribulations and always a faithful and loyal member of Local 103.
   
   Another Local 103 member addressed the convention on opening day.Brother Frank L. Kelley, President of Local 103.He was initiated into Local 103 in 1900.He also served on the Executive Council, a position he would hold for the next 40 years.