Railroads - Unions - General

"The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen," unsigned typescript ("paid 10-7-53"), 5 pages; two page description by black employee of the Panama Canal / Panama Railroad Co. re efforts of "two white organizers" from the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railway Shop Laborers to organize black workers; includes description of resistance by white labor unions, response of AFL, and successful result, unsigned, May 22, 1919; much correspondence between AFL President Gompers and officials of various rail unions, 1918-21; "Remarks of Samuel Gompers Before Conference of the Executives of the Railroad Organizations Affiliated with the AFL and the Four Brotherhoods," February 10, 1920, 17 pages; notes