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...Pullman Company's 11,000 maids and porters in the U. S., some 7,000 harkened to Organizer Randolph and left a union which had been organized for them by the Pullman Co., to join...
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...
Answering the porters' protest, the Pullman Co. stated that $72.50 was the wage paid newly employed men. Oldtimers' wages are as high as $104 a month. In the company's judgment, tips run from $75 per month up. The company believed $33 a high figure for "on the road" expenses. It pointed out that one-third of the porters receive two free uniforms per annum...
...from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is empowered to decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an 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...
Citizens could understand the wisdom of averting a Pullman-porter strike at a time when hosts of potent politicians were boarding overnight trains for Kansas City and Houston...