Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 339

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(LABOR UNIONS.) Agreement between the Colored Firemen and the Management of the New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway Company, The Beaumont, Sour Lake and Western Railway Company and the New Iberia & Northern Railroad Company. 9 pages. Small 8vo, original stiff purple wrappers, faded; previous owner's name on front cover. [New Orleans?], 1925

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This agreement is something of a landmark. It established pay levels, seniority, deadheading and physical examinations for colored workers along its nearly 137,000 mile rail lines. We could find no reference to this agreement. OCLC locates two copies.