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Scope and Contents Major Topics: Discrimination against Negroes by the railroad industry and unions; seniority lists for dining car employees; Fair Employment Practices Commission hearings, findings, and directives on discrimination complaints against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the Southern Railway Company, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, New York Central Railroad, the Norfolk Southern Railway Company, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, the Jacksonville...

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Fair Employment Practices Commission hearings and findings in the Northwest Mining and Exchange Company case and the Philadelphia Transportation Company case; Malcolm Ross appointed Fair Employment Practices Commission Chairman; minutes of Fair Employment Practices Commission meetings; discrimination against Negroes by the railroad industry; report on the employment of aliens in war industries; sample of cases handled successfully by the Fair Employment Practices Commission;...

Scope and Contents Major Topics: Notes relating to Fair Employment Practices Commission cases; National Mediation Board agreement between the Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committee and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; mediation agreements between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen and the Illinois Central Railroad Company and the Gulf, Mobile, and Northern Railroad Company; summaries of discrimination complaints against railroad companies; executive order relating to...