James E Worsham Post Office and James E Worsham Carrier Annex Building
JAMES E. WORSHAM POST OFFICE AND JAMES E. WORSHAM CARRIER ANNEX BUILDING -- (House of Representatives - July 06, 2004)
Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 3340) to redesignate the facilities of the United States Postal Service located at 7715 and 7748 S. Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the "James E. Worsham Post Office" and the "James E. Worsham Carrier Annex Building", respectively, and for other purposes.
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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the gentleman from Missouri for yielding me this time.
I am very pleased to join with my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rush), who introduced this legislation to rename a post office formerly known as the Grand Crossing Post Office for Mr. James Worsham.
James Worsham is synonymous with development of the letter carriers union in the city of Chicago and in the State of Illinois. He has provided tremendous leadership to the extent that the Illinois Letter Carriers are actually one of the most effective organizations of letter carriers in America. As a matter of fact, the Chicago local has a bevy of activities in which they are constantly involved, not only in terms of protecting the rights and privileges of union members but also being greatly involved in civic, community, and public interest activity.
Mr. Worsham has been honored by his local union. As a matter of fact, they have actually renamed the union hall the James Worsham Union Hall, and now with redesignating these postal facility buildings. He had actually retired from local leadership, became a national employee of the union, and then came back and was petitioned by his members to run again after having been away from the union for a number of years in terms of local leadership.
So I commend my colleague, the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rush), for having the foresight and understanding of how we recognize someone who has given practically all of their adult life to a movement. So I am pleased to join in support of this resolution. I urge its passage. I want to commend Mr. Worsham for an outstanding career as a postal worker, a union leader, and as a great American.