The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-15

ters, the QUESTIONABLE demands
whether the workers would like:
Recognition by the Pullman Com
pany Of the right of their porters and
maids to be represented in collective
bargaining by an Independent union
responsible to and supported by these
employees alone, with representatives
who are not dependent on the Pull
man Company for their LIVELIHOOD"
Vote Company or Union.
And in order that there be no mis-
take or bubble, the porter or maid
is invited, after voting on this Ques-
ton, to signify whether he or she
would rather be represented by the
plan of employee representation of
the Pullman Co." or by the Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters.
1t is already clear, said Secretary
Price, that the thousands who have
Joined the brotherhood will vote for
1t, and most of the others, who have
not formally united with 1t, will also
vote against the company union. The
Pullman Company will have some
thing hard to explain when it gets be-
fore the mediation board.
Pullman Co. Lies.
In fact, the company is sufficiently
uncertain OF its legal grounds, or
sufficiently afraid Of the economic
power of the Pullman porters. that it
has resorted in vain to every form
of SANDER, libel and subterfuge to
SOW dissension in the ranks of the
union. 1t has had the assistance of a
large section of the Negro press in
this campaign.
In Chicago there is not one of the
local Negro papers on which it can
rely for aid, except the Negro Cham
pion. Even the Chicago Bee, edited
by Chandler Owen, an official of the
union, cannot carry the defense of
the union officials against the canards
circulated by the Pullman agents be-
cause the owner of the Bee, Anthony
overton, is pure and simple CAPT.
talist.
Overton is president Of the Douglas
National Bank, owner of the Overton
building at seth and State street, and
has made fortune out Of the Overton
Hygienic Co., manufacturing what are
advertised. as High Brown Toilet
Preparations"
BY encouraging a slavish sort of
imitation Of white women among the
women of the Negro race, Overton has
accumulated the means to deny Negro
men who happen to work for the Pull
man Co. ability to publicly denounce
those who utter injurious falsehoods
against their union and strive to keep
them in the worst sort of wage slav-
cry.
Mass Meetings Soon.
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters expects to initiate a series of
mass meetings in Chicago similar to
those being held almost weekly in
New York. The arrival here next
month of General Organizer A. Philip
Randolph will start the ball rolling.
1t will not be long, either, said Sec
rotary Price, before the union will
invade Canada. The members and Of
ficials feel that it is better to get
more results in the states first, but
Canadian roads are being investi-
gated.
"Don't Need, But Want More"
The union takes in and desires to
have all who work as porters or as
maids on the railroads, said Price.
eve have reached the point now
where we do not need to have the men
who have not yet joined" the secre-
tary said. "but- we want them. We
want the maids as we'll as the por-
ters. Women in this trade suffer from
the same disabilities, spy system, low
pay, etc, as men, and the union takes
them in on exactly the same terms,
with the same rights and privileges"
The goal of the Brotherhood Of
Sleeping Car Porters as 1t appears on
the unions official stationery is:
More wages, better hours, better
working conditions, pay for overtime,
pay for preparation time, abolition Of
doubling OUT conductors pay for
conductors work when In charge, and
manhood rights"