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ONLINE VERSION VOLUME 106 - NUMBER 9 - OCTOBER 1997
 
Editor's Note
 
The Department of Communications recently received a criticism from a Burlington Northern System Federation Local Chairman for wasting a Journal page on labor history. He said members would like to see more about the 1990s; the realities of life on the railroad today including safety problems and rules being violated instead of labor history.

While we agree with him that the issues he notes are of the utmost importance and interest to our members, we believe there is also a place for labor history. The struggles of our brothers and sisters before us are lessons we can learn from in our struggles today in 1997. It may be a cliche, but history does tend to repeat itself. The corporate greed of more than a hundred years ago may be called by different names but it is the same as corporate greed today. And American workers today are still locked in a battle with the forces of that corporate greed as they were a hundred years ago.

We're interested in your opinion. Please contact--write, phone, fax, e-mail--us and tell us yes or no to labor history. And while you're at it, let us know what else you do and don't like in the Journal and what you would like to read about in the Journal.
 
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