On June 12, 1912, Luther G. Smith, a locomotive engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, founded the Brotherhood's Relief and Compensation Fund, a non-profit corporation established in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to provide job income protection to railroaders throughout the United States and Canada who are held out of service as a result of suspension or dismissal. Smith accepted that railroads might need to discipline employees, but he opposed innocent family members suffering when the head of the household made an error in performing his duties that led to suspension or dismissal. Over the past 100 years, the fund has assisted tens of thousands of railroaders and their families in times of need and endured as the realization of Smith's courage, wisdom, and vision.