The Dream Is Born
The original logo adopted at the First Convention.
At the Second Convention of the National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (as the IBEW was then known), first Grand President Henry Miller said, “No brands of skilled labor ever presented a more organized or demoralized condition than that of the Electrical Workers of America in the year of 1889.”
IBEW Founders
But Henry Miller and the other nine men who met in 1891 at the Brotherhood’s First Convention had a vision, a dream of workers coming together in strength. From those demoralized and unorganized men has come one of the largest trade unions in North America. Today the IBEW represents almost a million people in all segments of the complex electrical industry. The dream of the 10 men who met in St. Louis is alive and well.
