Labor union negotiation and agreement files, 1920-1969.

Brotherhood of sleeping car porters

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The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) organized railway porters (traditionally an occupation for African-Americans) to bargain with the Pullman Company which held a virtual monopoly on the nation's sleeping car facilities. The BSCP was founded in 1925 in New York City to counteract the poor wages, long hours, and other injustices practiced by the Pullman Car Company. A. Philip Randolph became president of the Brotherhood in 1928. In the mid-1930's the American Federation of...

American Railway Supervisors Association

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The American Railway Supervisors Association, later renamed the American Railway and Airway Supervisors Association, was founded on November 14, 1934, by a group of supervisors on the Chicago and North Western Railway. ARASA merged with the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline, and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (BRAC) in 1980 and continues as a separate Supervisors' Division, operating under its own by-laws, within Transportation Communications International Union ...

Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (1899-)

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The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees was organized in 1899 in Sedalia, Missouri as the Order of Railway Clerks of America. It was initially affiliated with the American Federation of Labor but the tie was severed in 1901 and did not resume for many years. Union name variants were the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks (1904); Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees (1919); and the Brotherhood of Railwa...

Randolph, A. Philip, 1889-1979

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Asa Philip Randolph (born April 15, 1889, Cresent City, Florida-died May 16, 1979, New York City), African-American labor leader and early civil rights spokesman. Influenced by the socialism of Eugene Debs, Randolph began publishing his magazine The Messenger in 1917. He opposed U.S. entry into the first World War. In 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His associations with Bayard Rustin and James Farmer influenced his dedication to nonviolence. Randolph was a founder of ...

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

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United Transportation Union

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Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen

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The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (ORC & B) was founded in 1868 as an order of railway conductors and later expanded to include brakemen. From the description of Series 2. Files re general chairmen, 1903-1969. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64755504 The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen (0RC & B) was founded in 1868 as an order of railroad conductors and later expanded to include brakemen. From the description of Order...

United Transport Service Employees of America

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System Federation No. 122

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Pullman Company. Plan of Employee Representation

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Pullman Car Employees Association of the Repair Shops

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Pullman Company. Labor Relations Dept.

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In the 1920's, the Pullman Company formed company-wide occupation-based unions (Plan of Employee Representation) to thwart the outside union organization of its employees. This policy was abruptly terminated with the 1934 passage of the amended Railway Labor Act, which guaranteed workers free choice of union representation. From that date on, the company accepted outside unions and negotiated with those bodies to reach agreements governing working conditions, wages, hour...

Order of Sleeping Car Conductors

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Independent Pullman Workers Federation

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Pullman Clerks' Association

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Pullman Laundry Workers Federation

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Warfield, M. S.

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