Reel 10

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Hardships encountered by Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters porters in Saint Louis District; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary activities; National Mediation Board union representation election for dining car employees of the Chicago and North Western Railway Company; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters efforts to organize dining car employees of the Chicago and North Western Railroad; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters regional labor conference in Toronto,...

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary activities; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters elections; fight against Jim Crow in the armed forces; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters convention; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters division officers; delinquent members; porter seniority list; monthly review of the Railroad Retirement Board; report of proceedings of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Southwestern Zone Conference Board; report of proceedings of the...

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Porter vacation schedule; dues collection; porter seniority rosters; Joint Council Dining Car Employees-Chicago and North Western Railway company dispute before the National Railroad Adjustment Board; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary activities; employee passes; negotiations with the Chicago and North Western Railroad; porter sleeping accommodations; pay increase for porters on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad; Department of the Army instructions...

Scope and Contents

Major Topics: Veteran's Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952; porters' seniority rosters; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters agreements with the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Chicago and North Western Railway Company; porter sleeping accommodations; employee passes; election for officers of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Chicago Division; operations of extra employees; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters constitution and general rules; porter pay rights.

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Porter seniority rosters; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters regional zone conferences; operation of extra employees; financial standing of Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters members in Denver, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Omaha and Saint Paul; porter vacation schedule; A. Philip Randolph elected American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations vice president; eligibility for railroad retirement annuities; porter grievances; Chicago and North Western Railway...

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Major Topics: American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations Civil Rights Conference; passenger train accommodations; business meetings of the Chicago Division of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; status of civil rights legislation; porter grievances; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters educational program; George Meany's address on civil rights in the United States; porter vacation schedule.