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Pullman Porters Benefit Association (1)

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International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Pullman Porters. (1)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61s3h5n (corporateBody)

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was founded in Harlem in 1925 by A. Philip Randolph, Ashley L. Totten, W.H. Des Verney, and Roy Lancaster. Those attending the meeting called for recognition of the BSCP and the end of Pullman's Employee Representation Plan, a company union. It was not until 1936 that the BSCP recieved an international charter from the AFL. A year later, the union took advantage of the apparatus of the new National Labor Relations Board and signed it...

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