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Arkansas State Press
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas
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A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, argues against closed shop for non-operating railway unions unless they remove racial barriers and fully include Negro workers in membership and decision-making.
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Commenting upon the movement which has been recently projected by the fourteen non-operating railway unions to secure a closed shop A. Philip Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, said that unless the railway unions eliminate the color bar from their constitutions and rituals, and admit Negro railway workers as full fledged members, with the right to voice and vote and election to offices and as delegates to the international conventions that formulate and adopt legislation to govern the order, and also the agreement and grievance committees to negotiate wage contracts and adjust grievances and claims, the closed shop ought to be denied these unions.
Until the color clause is taken out, the closed shop may be the means of eliminating Negroes from the Railway Industry as firemen, switchmen, brakemen and shop craft workers, concluded Mr. Randolph.
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closed shop ought to be denied to the unions unless the color bar is eliminated, potentially eliminating negroes from railway jobs as firemen, switchmen, brakemen, and shop craft workers.
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A. Philip Randolph, International President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, commented that the fourteen non-operating railway unions should not secure a closed shop unless they eliminate the color bar from their constitutions and rituals, admitting Negro railway workers as full members with rights to voice, vote, election to offices, delegates to conventions, and participation in agreement and grievance committees.