Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Rally Posters
Flyer 1:
DO NOT SIGN PETITIONS or STATEMENTS of ANY KIND
Pullman Porters and Maids
ATTENTION!
INTIMIDATION, COERCION, THREATS and FORCE were used in order to get porters and maids to vote in this election just closed. And now they are being insulted by certian “Stool Pigeons”, who are submitting the “YELLOW DOG CONTRACT” to you to sign, under the guise of a LOYALTY PETITION
You Are Not Disloyal If You Do Not Sign This Statement Or Petition
Attend A Special Series of Meeting to be held by the CHICAGO DIVISION of BROTHERHOOD of SLEEPING CAR PORTERS at the Headquarters, 224 East 39th Street on the following dates: Monday, November 14; Tuesday, November 15; Wednesday, November 16; Thursday, November 17; Friday, November 18, and Saturday, November 19, at 8:30 P.M.
The origination of this so-called LOYALTY CONTRACT and the methods used to bring it out will be revealed in detail at these meeting$, as well as the subtle plans for holding another conference in a last desperate effort of the Company to defeat the Brotherhood.
Come out and get this information as well as the facts about the success of the Brotherhood’s Case which the “Stools” are desperately trying to discredit.
EVERY BONA FIDE PULLMAN PORTER AND MAID IS WELCOME AT THESE MEETINGS.
We will also reveal the desperate efforts made by the Company to stop the Brotherhood’s Mass Meeting two weeks ago.
This Progressive Organization is steadily marching forward and the ravings of a few derelict “Stool Pigeons” cannot stop the onward march of the Pullman Porters toward a living wage and decent working conditions.
Read this CIRCULAR and pass it on to another PORTER.
M. P. WEBSTER, Division Organizer CEO. W. Cl.ARK, Division Sec-Treas
DO NOT SIGN THE “YELLOW DOG CONTRACT”
Flyer 2:
LABOR RALLY
HEAR THE MESSAGE OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS, the Only Negro International Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, TO THE NEGRO WORKER.
Sunday, May 9th, 1937 at 3:15 P. M. (Daylight Saving Time) at DU SABLE HIGH SCHOOL, 49th and State Streets
SUBJECTS:
“The National Labor Relations Act” “C. I. O.” “American Federation of Labor” “Sitdown Strikes”
WHAT DO THESE QUESTIONS MEAN TO THE NEGRO WORKER?
SPEAKERS:
A. Philip Randolph, International President M. P. Webster, First International Vice President
MUSIC BY THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITY CHURCH CHOIR
Miss Edna Winters, Directress Ethel Carrison, Soloist. Wardell Douglas, Organist.
As an organization that has successfully completed a twelve-year fight for recognition and economic justice from one of the most powerful corporations in America, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters seeks to give an authoritative answer to the above question for the enlightenment and benefit of Negro workers, in particular, and Negroes, in general.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO THIS MEETING
ADMISSION IS FREE
For further information consult the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Chicago Division Headquarters: 4231 South Michigan Avenue Telephone: Oakland 6682