December 30 - Railway Clerks Organize

30/12/2025 1 min Episodio 2735
December 30 - Railway Clerks Organize

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Episode Synopsis

On this day in labor history the year was 1899.  That was the day that a group of thirty-three railway clerks gathered in the back room of Behrens’ cigar shop in Sedalia, Missouri.  They called themselves the Order of Railway Clerks in America. They affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.