(LABOR) Souvenir Journal Third Biennial Convention United Tr

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(LABOR.) Souvenir Journal, Third Biennial Convention, United Transport Service Employees of America. Numerous illustrations. 40 pages. 4to, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, heavy wrappers printed in blue and red, minor wear; minimal wear to contents. Cincinnati, OH, May 1942

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This labor union was founded in 1937 and served primarily Black railroad porters, ushers, dining car workers, and red caps. The journal includes a dedication to the "present day abolitionists" working for civil rights; a full-page portrait of President Willard Saxby Townsend (an important Black union leader) and his attack on unequal enforcement of the Railway Labor Act; and numerous photographs of union workers and their families. Numerous prominent Americans, black and white, offer their thoughts on the war and their greetings to the union, including Socialist leader Norman Thomas, publishers George S. Schuyler and Marshall Field III, poet Archibald MacLeish, and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.