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Railroad telegraphers often had multiple employment as station agents, express agents, and Western Union telegraphers, with each employer paying a portion of the operators' salary. In 1930, the Railway Express Agency , which employed some ORT members as express agents, began handling shipments of perishable items, which had previously been ...
Cover of the March 1902 issue of The Railroad Telegrapher, official organ of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers.. Railroad Yardmasters of America.; Grand International Union of Locomotive Firemen – The Grand International Union of Locomotive Firemen was a relatively short-lived rival of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen during the decade of the 1870s.
The Brotherhood of Telegraphers gradually faded away, ceasing to exist around 1890. [5] Telegraph operators who worked for the railroads began to see themselves as occupationally distinct from the commercial operators in the late nineteenth century. They organized their own union, the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, in 1886.
The Order of Railroad Telegraphers was founded in June 1886 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.In 1965, the ORT changed its name to the Transportation Communications Employees Union. It merged with BRAC in 19
The CTUA had been formed in 1902 to represent the interests of commercial telegraphers. In 1906, she also joined the Order of Railroad Telegraphers (ORT), which had been formed in 1886 to represent telegraphers who worked for the railroads. [2] In 1907, Ola and her husband moved to Atlanta, Georgia. The CTUA declared a nationwide strike in ...
He instead worked as a prospector until 1889, when he returned to railroad telegraphy, working for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He joined the Order of Railroad Telegraphers of North America , and in 1891 became chair of its Denver and Rio Grande local.
Leah Rosenfeld, Hiland, California, 1973. Leah Rosenfeld (October 25, 1908 – November 12, 2006) was a railroad telegraph operator and station agent whose 1968 lawsuit against the Southern Pacific Railroad and the state of California helped to end job and wage discrimination against women and ensure equal opportunities for women in the railroad industry.
Richard Ignatius Kilroy (July 31, 1927 – February 10, 2007) was an American labor union leader.. Kilroy served in the United States Army from 1945 to 1949, then became a block operator on the Pennsylvania Railroad.