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IN MEMORIAM throughout his career. He L LOYD K NUDSEN , a former served as the Oregon Demo- political and education director cratic Party’s labor chairman for the Oregon AFL-CIO and a for many years. longtime member of IBEW L LOYD B ERNARD K NUDSEN Local 48, died Jan. 31. He was was born July 20, 1925 in 88. McIntosh, South Dakota. His Knudsen joined IBEW Lo- family moved to Southwest cal 48 at age 17 when he took a Portland when he was young, job at the Oregon Shipyard in KNUDSEN and he grew up in the Garden St. Johns after graduating from Tigard High School. At the time of his Home area. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and death, he was a 71-year member of the saw action in World War II. After boot union. He became a business agent for camp in northern Idaho, he was sent to IBEW Local 48 in 1964. He served as the University of Minnesota for electri- president of the Portland Building and cal engineering training and played Construction Trades Council, which football for the Golden Gophers in the later became the Columbia Pacific Big 10. Knudsen served six years on the BCTC. Knudsen was elected political and board of directors of the Oregon Mu- legislative director of the Oregon AFL- seum of Science and Industry (OMSI). CIO in 1969, and held that office until He was a founder of the Oregon Mar- itime Center and Museum, and he 1975. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he served on the boards of the Rose Festi- worked as executive secretary-treasurer val, Northwest Regional Educational of the Portland Metal Trades Council. Laboratory, the American Red Cross, He also served on the board of the Pa- and the Cascade Pacific Boy Scout cific Coast Shipyard Health and Wel- Council. Knudsen is survived by his son, fare Trust Fund. He later returned to the field as an Larry, who is a member of Painters Lo- electrician before retiring in 1984. In re- cal 10. He was preceded in death by his tirement he operated two used car lots. wife Ann, and longtime companion Knudsen was involved in politics Peg Dereli. T OM W ORLEY , a retired business manager of Portland Iron Workers Lo- cal 29, passed away at his home in Ridgefield, Washing- ton, Jan. 13, a few weeks shy of his 79th birthday. T HOMAS J. W OR - LEY was born Jan. 22, 1935, to Clarence and Mary Worley in Seat- tle. He was the fifth of WORLEY eight children. The family moved to Portland when Tom was in the first grade. He attended Central Catholic High School, then enlisted in the United States Navy in the Korean War. He served from February 1952 to Janu- ary 1956, and spent 18 months on a ship in wartime waters off the coast of Korea. Worley began his career in the Iron Workers Union when he entered its ap- prenticeship program on Sept. 1, 1958. He helped build the Interstate Bridge connecting Vancouver, Washington, and Portland across the Columbia River; and he was the general foreman on the construction of the Fremont Bridge over the Willamette River. Worley served on the union’s Exec- utive Board and Examining Board, was vice president, and was president of the Iron Workers Credit Union. He worked as an assistant business agent for nine years while his brother LeRoy was the business agent and fi- nancial secretary-treasurer. After LeRoy moved up to the post of inter- national representative, Tom later was elected as Local 29’s business manager. Tom Worley retired in 1993. He was named into the Northwest Oregon Labor Retirees Council’s La- bor Hall of Fame in July 2002. Worley is survived by his wife of 60 years, Unette; two daughters, Unette Marie and Mary Ann; two sons, Tom Jr. and Douglas; eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His sons are members of Iron Workers Local 29. G ARNER P OOL , a 60-plus year member of United Food and Commer- cial Workers Local 555, died Jan. 3 at age 90. A barber by trade, Pool served on the Ex- ecutive Board of Lo- cal 555, as well as on the executive boards of union locals prior to POOL a major merger in 1986 that created Local 555. He worked as a union barber in Albany, Oregon, until 2012. Pool was a charter member of the Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. It was founded in 1948. G ARNER P OOL was born in Brent- wood, Arkansas, on May 30, 1923. His family moved to Oregon in 1934, where he graduated from Shedd High School in 1941. Pool served in the U.S. Navy from 1942-48. He was active in the Ameri- can Legion and VFW. He helped cre- ate the Linn County Veterans Memo- rial. He was the VFW veteran of the year in 2001 and 2003, American Le- gion veteran of the year in 2007, and grand marshal of the Albany Veterans Day Parade in 2009. Pool was preceded in death by his first wife of 51 years, Myrtle. He is survived by his second wife, Arlene; four daughters; two sons; 13 grandchildren and 15 great grandchil- dren. In lieu of flowers, memorial contri- butions can be made to the Linn County Veterans Memorial or the American Legion Post 10 Building Fund in care of Fisher Funeral Home, 306 SW Washington St. Albany Or. 97321. J ERRY K RAHN , a longtime business agent for the former Oregon State Dis- trict Council of Carpenters, Pacific Northwest District Council of Carpen- ters, and Carpenters Local 247, passed away Jan. 13. He was 77. G ERALD ‘J ERRY ’ D ANIEL K RAHN was born April 27, 1936 in Rochester, Minn. After graduation from Lourdes High School in Rochester, he met and married Hildegard ‘Peggy’ Benson. They moved to Portland in 1956. Jerry worked as a carpenter and was a member of Carpenters Local 1020, which later merged into Carpenters 247. When the International Brother- hood of Carpenters and Joiners merged all Carpenter locals throughout the Pacific Northwest in 2011, Krahn was made an honorary member of Lo- cal 156. Krahn is survived by his wife; two sons, Jay and Jeff; two daughters, Mary and Becky; 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his daughter, Debbe; and son, David. J AMES ‘J IM ’ Z UFFREA , a longtime union representative of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 555 and Meatcutters Local 143A, died Jan. 14. He was 83. J AMES G REGORY Z UFFREA was born Jan. 2, 1931 in New York. Affectionately known as “Guido” to his friends, Zuffrea was a union meat- cutter in New York before moving to Oregon, where he worked as a meat cutter at Fred Meyer. A resident of Gladstone, Oregon, Zuffrea was an active member of the Rose City Corvette Club. Workers mourn labor troubadour Pete Seeger NEW YORK (PAI) — Iconic folk singer Pete Seeger, who initially rose to fame as an outspoken pro-worker trou- badour died Jan. 28. He was 94. Seeger never made a secret of his pro-worker stands, even when they got him into political trouble in the Mc- Carthy Era of the 1950s. He was black- listed by mainstream media, and even kept out of some union halls, after re- fusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. But he never lost his love for social justice, with workers and labor the first and prime among his causes, said Joe Uehlein, formerly of the AFL-CIO In- dustrial Unions Department, and a folksinger/activist friend of Seeger’s. With Woody Guthrie, Seeger was crusading for workers and inspiring them with his songs long before World War II. After that, he extended his zeal to the civil rights movement. After- wards came the peace movement, the environmental movement and women’s FEBRUARY 7, 2014 NORTHWEST LABOR PRESS rights, among other causes. Seeger introduced “We Shall Over- come” to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 at an observance in Tennessee. “That song sticks in your head, doesn’t it?” the civil rights leader told aides af- terwards. “He spoke about labor, the CIO and the AFL-CIO in glowing terms,” Uehlein said. “Which Side Are You On?” “Talk- ing Union” “There Once Was A Union Maid” “We’ve Got To Go Down And Join The Union” and “If I Had a Ham- mer” are just a few of the many pro- worker pro-union songs that Seeger ei- ther authored or popularized during his 70-plus year career. Seeger’s involvement with unions extended almost until the day he died. In Buffalo for an anti-war activists’ conference late last year, he dropped in at The Newspaper Guild’s joint district council meeting, where he sang council members a few songs. PAGE 11
