LABOR: Porters

Last week, the Pullman Porter, most famed servant in the U. S., started to go on strike. Then, at the last moment, he changed his mind, "for obvious reasons." But he said he would strike some other day, soon, if his grievances were not adjusted. He had been getting in a position to strike for at least three years.

"Too many Uncle Toms" was the rallying cry of the Negro who organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He, Asa Philip Randolph, a high-headed Florida man, mental product of Jacksonville's Cookman Institute and...

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