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...white strikers, although C. I. O. has embraced Negroes more willingly than A. F. of L., which frequently carries discrimination to the point of segregating them in "Jim Crow unions" affiliated with its regular craft unions. The only Negro-controlled international union in the U. S. is the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters...
Last week in Manhattan's Harlem, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters staged a "victory" mass meeting. The victory was a contract signed in Chicago with The Pullman Co., and the meeting was a triumphant welcome by the Harlem porters for the returning Brotherhood president, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph who brought back some $2,000,000 in pay increases. Minimum wage for train porters was hiked from $77.50 per month to $89.50. For maids from $75 to $97.50.* A basic 240-hour month was established, time-and-a-half for overtime provided after 260 hours, working rules & regulations...
Last week the Board took by no means its first but certainly its most spectacular dive into the muddied waters of dual unionism. The case involved National Electric Products Corp. Bidding for National Electric's 1,600 workers in Ambridge, Pa., near Pittsburgh, vere the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A. F. of L.) and the United Electrical & Radio Workers (C. I. O.). Last May the company suddenly signed an A. F. of L. contract providing not only for exclusive bargaining but also for a closed shop. That meant that every C. I. O. man in National Electric...
...dastardly decision," stormed President Dan Tracy of the A. F. of L.'s Electrical Brotherhood. "These internal matters are things in which the Board has no right to interfere," bumbled William Green. And Secretary Julius Emspak of C. I. O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers gloated: "The only decision possible...
...would give humanity, especially the Far Eastern Countries, not words, but proofs that the Western countries have, above their more immediate problems of material nature, a spiritual force emanating from the spirit of brotherhood...