The union offices were moved to below Scollay Square on Washington Street at the corner of Hanover Street.

Local 103 had just completed five years of steady summer employment (winters were purposely slower with unemployment as high as 25%). There was no heat on construction projects, temporary or otherwise. Most house foundations were excavated in the fall and granite blocks were set on one another and left to settle down over the winter. They were mortared in the spring and a rough coat of cement poured in the earth when the walls were starting to go up. Wiring could only be installed after the roof was tight so the spring, summer, and fall were demand periods for labor.

The John Hancock Insurance building was going up another five floors and the first local use of metal underfloor ducts was installed for electrical and telephone outlets in a somewhat open office area. In one week, 81 journeymen and 27 helpers, installed 30,000 feet of Walker Alsteel Duct prior to installation of rods and the pouring of concrete. The H.F. Schaefer Company did the installation. Bert F. Quinlan was the foreman.

Brother Fred Duncan was working on Holiday Street in the Dorchester section of Boston, converting homes to electricity. He says, "as soon as we finish #15, then #16 wants us to move right over." Wiring was installed in B.X. by removing wood moldings in doorways, base and ceilings. Brother Duncan carried a dozen four-foot lengths of 1/2" rod and couplings and claimed by lifting thresholds, he could drill through studs from one end of homes to the other by connecting the rods together with an auger bit on the tip. He could wire a three decker in six days, a forty-four hour week.

By now, each tenement had a separate meter and individual circuits had to be installed to each boiler and coal closet in the cellar. There were no three-way switch circuits in the front and back halls either. Just pull chain lights off your own meter. A person on the third floor would have to feel his way up the winding stairs if he came home after his neighbors on the first and second floors turned their lights off. Many a fight ensued when one tenant left his neighbors lights on.

Brother Francis Angino, who was employed by Livingstone Electric, along with his brothers, Michael, Anthony, and Ernest, opened a shop in 1928, Massachusetts Electric Company. Through many years of cooperation between Local 103 and the National Electrical Contractors Association, Massachusetts Electric Company would become the fourth largest electrical contractor in the country in the next sixty years.

Brother Walter Monahan was working for Donnelly Sign, working exclusively on neon signs. When temperatures dropped severely during the winter, Monahan would climb the signs, and with pieces of canvas, tent the neon bundles and heat the tubes with Clayton and Lambert Alcohol torches, until the gases were heated to a temperature where the transformer could ignite them.

Neon signs were everywhere in the city and in 1928, "The Jazz Singer", starring Al Jolson, (the first "talkie" movie), was introduced and Local 103, through Business Agents Capelle and William C. Horneman, were successful after negotiations with the stage hands union, in obtaining the work of installing the sound equipment for Vita-phone motion pictures and other "electrical" work in theaters, gardens and arenas. To this day, the only buildings in the country where electricians operate carbon arc and incandescent spot lights is in the Boston Garden, where the original hand written agreement between the electricians and stagehands is still in effect.