Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Philip Randolph began organizing porters. Having been duped in the past, many of them were suspicious. Other Negroes fought the union for a price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped...
Hero of the most gigantic U. S. betting stories is the late John W. ("Bet a Million") Gates, who is reputed to have wagered that sum on the outcome of a race between two raindrops down a Pullman window. By last week it appeared that such stories may soon have a new hero in the person of Owner Art Rooney of the Pittsburgh (pro football) Pirates...
...trademark. First in partnership with his Uncle Mike in the M. & M. Pie Co. of Los Angeles, "Boston" carried on when Mike quit. A friendly restaurateur helped him design cylindrical aluminum carrying racks for his pies, mahogany-trimmed pie trucks. "They were simply beautiful," Pieman Strause remembers, "just like Pullman cars...
...interest on his daughter's bequest during her lifetime. To his son and two daughters by his first wife, Irish Beatrice Donough who divorced him in 1024, he left the minimum permitted by Italian law; to his first wife, associates and Fascist charities, nothing. Left-By Mrs. Florence Pullman Lowden, late wife of Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois, daughter of Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, an estate of approximately $500.000; to her husband...