Switchmen's Union of North America. Memorabilia, 1884-1968.

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Switchmen's Union of North America. Memorabilia, 1884-1968.

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Cornell University Library

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Cornell University Library

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Switchmen's Union of North America

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In 1898, Congress passed the Erdman Act, which provided for the mediation and arbitration of disputes in the railroad industry which involved the operating brotherhoods, telegraphers and switchmen. Within a year after its adoption the switchmen, represented by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, invoked the law, which failed when its principles were repudiated by the leading railroad companies involved. The Act provided that when a controversy which could not be solved...