Happy Birthday IBEW 569! 100 years ago to date, we were granted our charter! #UnionStrong
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On February 11, 1920, Local Union 569 was granted an Official Charter that proudly states:
To Whom It May Concern:
Grant this Charter, issued by authority of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, does hereby grant to the following persons:
H.C. Norgaard B.C. Sprenger
Clark Myers A.B. Chess
G.N. Adams J.N. Graham
Louis C. DeSelm V.R. Knight
M.L. Ratcliff J.H. Fernald
and to their successors, power to establish and hold a Union of the Brotherhood, in the State of California, to be located at San Diego, to be known as Union No. B-569, with jurisdiction over the following territory: San Diego.
In witness thereof, we have hereunto set our hands and the seal of the International Union, this eleventh day of February, in the year one thousand, nine hundred and twenty.
Signed,
President J.P. Noonan
Secretary Charles Ford