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Group AssumesTitle; BeginmebuRestorationmlt;aCoContinued From Page One.gi1thBeroad workers. He was a founder of the Brotherhood of RailroadTrainmen. He also organized most of the other railway unions: the switchmen, thetelegraphers, the carmen, and 1he locomotive firemen, and the engineers. He also formed the tirst industrial type union in this country, the American Railway Union. We railroadersprwlththtewlliehathrethink that no man ever did asmuch for the American labormovement. Through his inspiring leadership in the labor movement and by his four presidential campaigns in which he advocated social reforms whichwe now have, the saintly Debs made an incalculable contribution to the welfare of America.Mr. W. P. Kennedy, president nl the BRT, has requested me to compliment your Foundation's work. This week's issue!of the Trainmen News features an account of the Debs Foundation. You may expect contribution from numerous BRTlodges all over the UnitedStates and Canada.In accepting the contribution,Bush said:“The Debs Foundation isgrateful to the BRT for this generous contribution and for the sentiments accompanying it. We previously have received generous contributions from theBrotherhood of LocomotiveFiremen and Enginemen, fromthe Brotherhood of SleepingCar Porters, from the Eugene V. Debs Lodge of the BRT, andfrom* manv individual railroad I -1workers. We have a request lo] i make of you and your fellow ,railroaders. Very possibly some, jlodges and individuals have }mementos, correspondence, or . other writings of Eugene Debs. rWe would greatly appreciatereceiving such items for our archives. We want to have the||: largest Debs collection in the* | country here at 421 North :;|Eighth street.
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Terre Haute Tribune
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 19, 1962
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