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...Case. In 1926 Congress passed the Railway Labor Act setting up the U. S. Board of Mediation to settle disputes between carriers and brotherhoods, and providing that each side should be free to designate its agents by "collective action, without interference, influence or coercion by either party over the self-organization of the other." In 1927 a wage dispute arose between the Texas & New Orleans R. R. (a Southern Pacific subsidiary) and the Brotherhood of Railway & Steamship Clerks. When the Brotherhood began to choose its representatives to appear before the Board of Mediation, the railroad organized a company union, attempted...
...February 1928 Judge Hutcheson issued one of the very few injunctions on the side of Labor. He ordered the railroad to dissolve its company union and leave the Brotherhood alone. S. P. attorneys hastened to the Supreme Court with an appeal, claiming the Railway Labor Act was unconstitutional because it deprived their clients of "property rights" (i. e. selection of employes) without due process...
Words stirred Gene mystically. The "Labor Movement" caught him up. He helped organize the Terre Haute lodge of the new Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ("Benevolence, Sobriety, Industry"), rose to leadership in this moribund organization, revived it, resigned abruptly because of its opposition to strikes. In 1893 he developed his "one big union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor...
Thou, America, enshrined, In ev'ry patriot soul, To olden greeds and hatreds blind, In unity thy strength shall bind The nations that they find In brotherhood their goal...
Theosophists. On Point Loma is the International Headquarters of the vast Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, long led by the late Katherine Tingley. The late Lyman Judson Gage, San Diego banker, Secretary of the Treasury in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, was an ardent Point Loma Theosophist. The cult attempts to harmonize with all great faiths, but is deeply colored in its observances and specific modes of thought by Eastern philosophers and prophets. In glass-domed buildings on Point Loma children may attend a Theosophical school. Excellent is the musical...