Word: switchmen
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...resounding strike call read like a timetable. At 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 the five railway brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) would walk out on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, New York Central, Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
...unions, with one eye on the rising cost of living and the other on increased railroad revenues, whistled for a wage boost last spring. The five independent brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) demanded a 30% raise. Some 900,000 non-operating employes (shop workers, clerks, mechanics, laborers, etc.), members of 14 A. F. of L. unions, demanded a 30?-an-hour increase...
...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors of America, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Switchmen's Union of North America...