In May, Jack Fennell, our International Vice President, passed away. He had been a Business Agent and Financial Secretary of Local 103 before replacing Jack Smith, another Local 103 member, as Second District Vice President at the 1927 Convention.

Smith obviously did not take the defeat well. He finisher a close third for two positions as Business Agent in the 1928 election, and would return to the Local 103 scene again at a later date.

President Broach replaced the deceased John Fennell with Charles D. Keaveney of Local 377, Lynn, Mass, as Second District Vice President, and this did not sit well with Local 103 old-timers either.

As the Depression set in, the offices of Local 103 were moved again in November of 1930 to 665 Atlantic Avenue, (over the sign of the red apple - Bickford's Cafeteria), on the fourth floor of the Essex Building overlooking the elevated railway, (which was pulled down for scrap metal in 1942). The site was across the street from the front door of South Station, and Local 103 rented these offices for the next 30 years.