[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 74 (Friday, June 7, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E991]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         TRIBUTE TO ED CORYELL

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                          HON. ROBERT A. BRADY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, June 6, 2002

  Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor a great 
American and a great labor leader, Ed Coryell.
  A veteran of the Viet Nam war, Ed joined the Carpenters Union in 
1967. He worked his way up from apprentice to the leadership of Local 
Union 8. After serving as Business Representative and Health and 
Welfare Board Trustee, he was elected President and Business Manager of 
the Metropolitan District Council of Carpenters of Philadelphia and 
Vicinity. He has also served as a Trustee of the Carpenters' 
International pension fund and serves as President of the Pennsylvania 
State Council of the union.
  Mr. Speaker, Mr. Coryell has not limited his activities to our union. 
He is also a member of the Boards of Philadelphia Independence Blue 
Cross and the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Our Governor appointed 
him to Team Pennsylvania, which is charged with bringing jobs to the 
Keystone state.
  Ed Coryell built his union into a strong and united body of skilled 
craftsmen who have changed the skyline and the infrastructure of our 
city. Over the many contracts he negotiated, he won great improvement 
in the wages and benefit packages his 10,000 members enjoy. He 
established the finest training program for Carpenter apprentices and 
journeymen in the country. Because of Ed and others like him, 
Philadelphia's unofficial slogan is ``if it's not built Union, it 
doesn't get built.''
  Mr. Speaker, the members and leadership of Unico will be honoring Ed 
Coryell for his years of service to his union, his city, his state and 
his nation. I join them in that honor. And I know that my colleagues 
stand with me as I salute my president, my mentor and my friend, Ed 
Coryell.

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