Steelworkers
campaign against
toxic imports
“Get the Lead Out” — a campaign
by the United Steelworkers against
toxic imports — held demonstrations
Jan. 16 at 100 congressional district
offices, including Portland.
The campaign comes in the wake
of a spate of product recalls, particu-
larly of imported toys made in China
that contained lead. USW is demand-
ing that Congress do something to
protect Americans from unsafe im-
ports.
Outside U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith’s
downtown Portland office, several
dozen union members — including
Ron Rodgers (pictured right) a mem-
ber of Albany Steelworkers Local
7150 — came out in 35 degree
weather for a 45-minute rally.
Demonstrators called on Smith to co-
sponsor the U.S. Food and Product
Responsibility Act, a bill introduced
last September by Ohio Sen. Sherrod
Brown that would require importers to
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IN MEMORIAM
Herman Jobelmann, a former pres-
ident of Portland-based American Fed-
eration of Musicians Local 99, died Jan.
13 of heart failure. He was 94.
Jobelmann was born in Portland on
May 20, 1913. He grew up in North-
west Portland and attended Lincoln
High School and Multnomah College.
He played his first professional job
at age 17 while still in high school.
Jobelmann played with the Portland
Symphony Orchestra for 25 years and
was principal bass for 12 years. He
served as principal bass and personnel
manager of the Oregon Symphony until
the early 1980s.
In 1983, he married India Zerbe,
who played principal cello in the Ore-
gon Symphony for 25 years.
Jobelmann taught music at Mult-
nomah College, the University of Port-
land, Portland State University and
Lewis and Clark College. He also
worked with the Portland Youth Phil-
harmonic as a teacher and mentor for
many years.
Jobelmann joined Musicians Local
99 in October 1934. He served in the
1960s as a vice president and Executive
Board member. He held the post of
president from 1988-1996, when he de-
cided to retire to make room for new
leadership. However, he returned as a
member of the Executive Board in 1999
and remained in that post until his
death.
He also held Musician union cards
in New York Local 802 and Los Ange-
les Local 47.
In 2007 he was inducted into the
Oregon Music Hall of Fame.
Jobelmann is survived by his wife;
two stepdaughters, Cynthia Van Vleck
and Lydia Weber; and four grandchil-
dren.
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Magdalena “Maggie” Jacobsen
died Jan. 6 of breast cancer. She was 67.
Jacobsen was appointed by Presi-
dent Clinton to the the National Media-
tion Board in 1993. Prior to that she
served as a mediator with the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service,
both in Portland and San Francisco.
She was born July 26, 1940, in New
York City, the daughter of a tugboat
captain. She started her career in 1962
as a flight attendant for Continental Air-
lines, became a representative of her
union — the Steward and Stewardess
Division of the Airline Pilots Associa-
tion, and was elected national secretary-
treasurer of the union that represented
over 20,000 flight attendants who flew
on 20 air carriers.
In the early 1970s Jacobsen com-
pleted studies at the AFL-CIO Labor
Studies Program and Harvard Univer-
sity’s Trade Union Program.
In 2002 Jacobsen started a private
practice as a mediator and arbitrator in
Washington State. She moved to Ca-
mas, Wash., in 2005.
Jacobsen is survived by her husband,
Bruce Henricus, a retired Teamster offi-
cial; two sisters, Jean Jacobsen and An-
nette Allen; and a brother, Waldemar Ja-
cobsen.
The family requests that offerings in
her memory be sent to the Susan G.
Komen for the Cure in Dallas, Texas,
and/or the Ray Hicky Hospice House in
Vancouver, Wash.
Marie Frances Strickler, a retired
director and treasurer of Food and Drug
Clerks Local 1092 Federal Credit
Union, died Nov. 10. She was 93.
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