0913. September 21-December 1940. 133 pages., 1940

Major Topics: Revision of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters-Pullman contract; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; stake in World War II of organized labor and Negroes; increased benefits for unemployed railroad workers; illegal crediting of rest periods; brutality toward porter; National Railroad Adjustment Board decision on Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters-Pullman dispute; Pullman porters convention; relief assignments; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters-Pullman negotiations; pay rates for porters on the Southern Pacific; resolutions offered by the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; labor planks of the Republican and Democratic party platforms; efforts by organized labor to defeat the Patman Bill.