Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees records, 1910-1931.

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Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express, and Station Employees records, 1910-1931.

The records date from 1910 to 1931, and include the union's business files, documentation of its internal functions, publications and correspondence to its members, and information on government regulation of railroads and railroad employees.

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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...