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That no, uttered two weeks ago, resounded across the nation. By turning down the presidential proposal to have U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg act as arbitrator in the railroad labor dispute, Ed Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the four union leaders who joined him, brought the old struggle to its last mile. And in uttering his predictable no, Gilbert demonstrated the fact that no man better represents the issues in the great featherbedding fight...
...Wolfe, chief negotiator for all of the 195 companies involved, said at a press conference that the unions were still trying hard to "blackjack" the railroads into an agreement. H. E. ("Ed") Gilbert, president of the 80,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, declared in a speech that "management's attitude of 'no bargaining' has brought the collective bargaining process in our industry to the brink of destruction...
President Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen...
...been scrapping over the issue for months. Moderate Meany has steadily but quietly pressured unions to drop their color bars; in his 20 years of leadership the number of all white A.F.L. unions has dropped from 26 to only one - the 97,000-member Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Even so, there are Jim Crow locals aplenty, and Randolph publicly criticized Meany at the union's convention last fall for not purging them. Meany blew up, roared at Randolph, "Who the hell appointed you as guardian of all Negroes in America?" Since then, Randolph has been working round...
COLOR BAR was erased by 200,000-member Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Move leaves only one union in A.F.L.-C.I.O. with ban on Negroes: the 87,000-man Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen...