Re: Marketing Opportunity with D&RG 470

hank Wrote:
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> I thought the Knights refused to operate trains
> with cars operated by Pullman in them, not
> just ones built by Pullman? I could be wrong of
> course, but that's the way I seem to recall it
> from my teenage readings.

It was the new American Railway Union that Eugene Debs had organized that called for a strike in aid of the Pullman workers. The ARU was an industry wide organization unlike the craft-based fraternal organizations (brotherhoods).

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Debs and the ARU called a massive boycott against all trains that carried a Pullman car. It affected most rail lines west of Detroit and at its peak involved some 250,000 workers in 27 states.[3] The railroad brotherhoods and the American Federation of Labor (AFL) opposed the boycott, and the General Managers' Association of the railroads coordinated the opposition.

Not only sleeping cars were affected; but also any Pullman built cars including the railroad owned postal cars the company had built.

Brian Norden