Union Voice/Readers Write: Johnstown's Union Connection

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)“I think Henry Clay Frick might be the answer to the Johnstown Flood quiz last week,” writes AFGE’s Peter Winch, “but I thought you might be interested to know that AFGE Local 3034 represents the National Park Service employees at the Johnstown Flood National Park as well as those at Allegheny Portage Railroad, Fort Necessity, and Friendship Hill parks.” Along with Frick, Andrew Mellon, Andrew Carnegie and Samuel Rey were all owners of the resort whose dam, holding back the lake on the property, sent water cascading into Johnstown in 1889, drowning more than 2,200 men, women and children. photo: A ranger talks with students about the flood and the community's support efforts. (NPS photo)