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Author: SETilleman
Surnames: CARLOUGH
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Source: "The New York Times," July 12, 1985.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E5D91738F931A25754C0A9...
"Edward F. Carlough, 81, Dies; Headed Sheet Metal Workers
Edward F. Carlough, president emeritus of the Sheet Metal Workers International
Association who negotiated the first health, welfare and pension plans in the construction
industry, died Tuesday at his home in Alexandria, Va. He was 81 years old.
Mr. Carlough, who was born in the Bronx in 1903, served as the top officer of the
150,000-member union for more than a decade. He became active in union activities in the
1920's in New York City and was elected president and business manager of Sheet Metal
Workers Local 28 in 1941.
Mr. Carlough negotiated the first local health and welfare plan in the building and
construction trades industry in 1946, for Local 28. Four years later he negotiated the
first pension plan in the construction industry, again for Local 28.
He became general secretary-treasurer of the international union in 1951 and was elected
president in 1959. He was re-elected twice, then stepped down to become president
emeritus on reaching the retirement age in 1970."
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