[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 137 (Thursday, October 17, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1884]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            ED HARRY HONORED

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                         HON. PAUL E. KANJORSKI

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, October 16, 2002

  Mr. KANJORSKI. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call the attention of the 
House of Representatives to the honoring of Ed Harry at the Organized 
Labor 2002 Dinner to be held on October 24 by the Greater Wilkes-Barre 
Labor Council and the Northeast Alliance Pennsylvania Retirees District 
3. Ed will be honored for his many years of dedicated and outstanding 
service to the local labor movement and the community.
  Ed is the son of a United Mine Workers member and a member of the 
International Ladies Garment Workers Union. He is a veteran of the 
Vietnam War, where he worked in Air Force intelligence and spent 1968 
and 1969 in Vietnam and Thailand. He began working for the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania in 1971 at Retreat State Hospital. Working as a 
custodian, he became a shop steward in his department in 1972, and in 
1974, he became the chief steward for Local 537 of the American 
Federation of State County and Municipal Employees. In that capacity, 
he represented most of the employees at the hospital.
  In February 1977, Ed spent 22 months organizing public employees in 
Florida for AFSCME, traveling throughout the state. In September 1978, 
he returned to Pennsylvania and began working as a staff representative 
for District Council 88, based in the Reading office. Following the 
general election in 1980, Ed was able to come home, where he began 
working for District Council 87.
  He has been a member of the Wilkes-Barre Area Labor Council since 
1972 and has served as a trustee for approximately the past 12 years. 
He has been active in politics, including most statewide and federal 
campaigns in Pennsylvania, since the 1970s. Ed is an avid sports fan 
and during his well-deserved retirement, his friends and colleagues 
know they will be seeing him at many local and college games.
  Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to call to the attention of the House of 
Representatives the achievements and service to the community of Ed 
Harry, and I wish him all the best.

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