Category Archives: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1931 and 1934-1939, including articles of incorporation and by-laws, meetings, and convention proceedings, 1931-1939

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1940, including memberships drives, elections, convention proceedings, and factionalism and internal politics, 1940

Law Text: An Act To amend the Railway Labor Act, 1936

Law Text: An Act To amend the Railway Labor Act approved May 20, 1926 and to provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, 1934

Law Text: An Act To provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, and for other purposes, 1926

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, August 1926, 1926

National Archives Folder: Peonage casefile involving turpentine workers, including NAACP, Workers Defense League, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and American Federation of Labor interest in case, 1936-1939, 1936-1939

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, January-April 1926, including Assigned working numbers for porters, effort to eradicate Communist influence in trade unions, voting plan in Omaha District, applications and dues, embezzlement scandal and revision of schedule of rules and rates of pay for Canadian railroads, 1962

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, January-June 1943, including March on Washington Movement, 1942-1943

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, July-December 1943, including support for the war effort and the March on Washington Movement, 1943

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, July-September 1946, including national convention speeches and reports, 1946

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, including Porter grievances, Pullman employee representation plan, National Mediation Board proceedings in Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters case, New York Citizens Committee of One Hundred, funds advanced to discharged members, Randolph’s speech to the National Urban League Conference, resignation of Ella Jones, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Ladies Auxiliary, activities of Pullman Company spies and aims of the Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Workers, March-April 1927, 1927

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, May-July 1926, including meetings, dispensation for new members and NAACP endorsement of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1926

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, October-December 1942, including cooperation with the National Council of Negro Women and Women’s Trade Union League, 1942

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters correspondence, September-October 1926, including Pullman employee representation plan, dues collection, porter grievances, suggestions on wage scale and working conditions, reduction in membership, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen assistance to the Brotherhood of Sleeping car Porters and case before National Mediation Board, 1926

Congressional Hearings: Considers legislation to revise the railway labor legislation and to provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees., 1934

From the Harry S. Truman Library: Committee member Channing H. Tobias travel expenses and internal, administrative communications, including a letter from the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters urging the Committee to oppose segregated education., 1947

National Archives Folder: Wages, Pullman Porters, correspondence of Karl F. Phillips, records of Bureau of Employment Security, 1926-1933, 1926-1933