Attention Pullman Car Cleaners Now Is Your Chance To Win Recognition, Confidence, Respect...Join The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Provisional Committee To Organize Pullman Car Cleaners, Now!

No Place of Publication: No Date [Circa 1930s]. Folding leaflet measuring 7.5 x 5.5" promoting to Pullman train car cleaners membership in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, founded in 1925 as the first African American led labor organization to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor. The text makes an urgent appeal to cleaners to joing the union before the end of World War II, and warns then against joining the company union instead: "Pullman car cleaners have many problems concerning wages, hours of work and working conditions...You must organize before the WAR IS OVER, otherwise, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ORGANIZE AT ALL..." A very good copy with minor creasing. Item #8184

Price: $300.00