Reel 6

Scope and Contents Major Topics: instances of discrimination against Negroes; Illinois State Commission on the Condition of the Urban Colored Population; porters' working conditions and hours; agreement between the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company; dues collection; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; seniority rosters; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary organizations; contract with the...

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Major Topics: Overtime; National Action Conference for Civil Rights; dues collection; list of porters on the New York Central Railroad System; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; porter grievances; reports on porter operations; patterns of National Defense Mediation Board settlements.

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Major Topics: Reorganization of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary; porter grievances; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Illinois Central contract; salaries and expenses; memorandum of agreement between the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the Alton Railroad Company; Illinois civil rights legislation; list of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters division heads.

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Major Topics: Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company safety news; salaries and expenses; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters efforts to organize Negro locomotive firemen; porter work schedule for the Alton Railroad Company; deadhead service.

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Major Topics: Salaries and expenses; delinquent members; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; March on Washington movement; plans for a Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters youth program; porter work schedule for the Alton Railroad Company; porter grievances.

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Victory Jubilee; memorandum of agreement between the Alton Railroad Company and the Dining Car Employees Union; Union for Democratic Action program; salaries and expenses; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary activities; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters convention in Saint Louis; efforts to organize Negro locomotive firemen in the South; Midwest Workers Education Conference; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the...

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Major Topics: International race problems; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary activities; Labor League for Human Rights; race riots in the United States; business meetings of the Chicago division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Scope and Contents

Major Topics: Efforts to abolish poll tax; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary activities; group insurance benefits for Pullman employees; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters scholarship fund; Fair Employment Practices Commission directives ordering abolition of racial discrimination on southern railroads; membership lists.