A total of 15 delegates showed up for the meeting, which launched a short-lived organization called the Switchmen's Brotherhood.
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Terry, who grew up in Cincinnati, had an earlier life as a professional boxer and a railroad switchman and union organizer in Chicago.
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"It bounced once behind me and I caught it, " said Earl Smith, a switchman for the Norfolk Southern Railroad.
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The leaders of the switchmen's union called on other railroad unions to engage in a general strike in support of their job action.
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Officials of the Switchman's Union declared that if salaries were reduced, the union would strike on the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad first.
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The first trade union of American railway switchmen was a local organization founded in the city of Chicago during the tumultuous labor struggles of 1877.
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He charged them with hiring African-Americans as porters and mailhandlers but refusing to give them jobs as conductors, engineers and yard switchmen.
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A switchman frantically alerted the nearest rail station that the Frontier Mail had just derailed and was sprawled across the tracks of an oncoming express train.
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When one switchman would be fired for insubordination, all the others in the shop would quit, in accord with a previously agreed upon plan.
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Meanwhile, the switchman from the signal box in St�blov?informed the station dispatcher that train 608 had just passed him, leaving the station area.
