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Europe, characterized the U. S. as one of the greatest influences toward international brotherhood and as "that great, great republic which has inspired free government of the earth to fight for freedom...
There have been occasions when we, who are met here today to be welcomed into the brotherhood of educated men, wondered why anyone should go to college. We know that college stood primarily for education, and we knew, in a rather vague way; what was meant by education. Some of us came here to carry on the traditions of the medieval clerk, to lay aside the vanities of the world, intent upon enriching the mind with the wisdom that is found in books. Some of us came here "to live", as our present-day novelists would...
...many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and of City College of New York, editor of The Messenger, a Socialist in politics, undertook the promotion of the Pullman Porter as a matter of racial pride. He told the Pullman Company's employes that they were guilty of slave psychology in continuing to make berths, shine shoes, lug luggage and be called "George," for the wages the Pullman Company paid. He said...
...Brotherhood, which was encouraged though not adopted by the American Federation of Labor. They said that the Pullman work-wage scale which they protested was: $72.50, plus $58 in tips, minus $33 expenses (shoeblacking, meals, uniforms), for a 400-hr. month. The scale the Brotherhood proposed was $150 for a 240-hour month. The porters also objected to "doubling out" assignments, where porters who have just finished a trip are ordered out on another trip before they have had time to refresh themselves with sleep, baths, visits home...
...emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired no jot or tittle by a general walkout. The company said that hundreds of white men had applied for the Brotherhood's jobs...