I wish to take this opportunity to give special recognition to the significant achievements of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes as they celebrate their 100th anniversary this year. This organization embodies the ideals of trade unionism by standing firmly behind its membership throughout great changes in the rail industry. In the spring of 1887. a small group of section foremen who envisioned a better way of life for people working on American railroads gathered on a riverbank in Demopolis. AL and conceived a fraternal society that would be chartered as the Order of Railway Trackmen. American workers of varied ethnic backgrounds. including immigrants from the British Isles. Italy. Ireland.
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