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    General Organizer                                                                                   
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH
Assistant General Organizer                                               
W. H. DES VERNEY
Assistant General Organizer
A. L. TOTTEN                   

BROTHERHOOD OF
SLEEPING CAR PORTERS
Headquarters :
2311 SEVENTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, N. Y.
Official Publication: THE MESSENGER 

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Secretary-Treasurer
ROY LANCASTER
Special Organizer
FRANK R. CROSSWAITH
Field Representative 
S. E. GRAIN    

February 2, 1928.

Dear Miss Blackwell:

At the suggestion of Miss Carolyn E. Alling, Hotel Brunswick, 
Boston, I am writing to extend to you an invitation
to join a Citizens' Committee, composed of outstanding men
and women of both races to aid the Pullman porters in their
struggle to organize a Union of, for and by themselves thru
which they may secure a living wage, reasonable working
conditions and the abolition of the tipping evil as a
method of rewarding them for the excellent service they
render the travellers of the nation.

A similar committee is organized in New York as you will
note from the enclosed leaflet and others are being created
in all other districts where Pullman porters are located.
These committees will help to win standing and prestige
before the bar of public opinion for the porters' struggle.
We already have a large number of acceptances and will formally 
organize the Committee in a few days. Therefore,
won't you kindly reply at your very earliest convenience?
Thank you.
                                                 Very truly yours,
FRC:P                                         Frank R. Crosswaith
                                                  Special Organizer, B.S.C.P.
Miss Alice S. Blackwell               c/o Boston Urban League, Inc.
Monadnock Street                    119 Camden Street, Boston
Dorchester, Mass.

P. S. You may call the Urban League, Kenmore 5690 and leave
your acceptance there. 


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OUR GOAL: More wages; better hours; better working conditions; pay for overtime; pay for "preparation" 
                   time; abolition of "doubling out"; conductor's pay for conductor's work when in
                   charge and manhood rights.Pullman Car
       Porters
119 Candler St.
       BostonS
                          1944
Dear Miss Blackwell-

   I remember so
clearly our Worcester
fight for the vote, & how I
stood on a table on the
Commons, talking to
crowds! & how I was ch.
of the big suffrage rally
when we packed our
biggest hall (3000.) &
finally how I ran for the
Legislature & beat my 2
men opponents with more
votes than both of them put
together! All of it has you
as a background - your
ability & strength & purpose
I have left Worcester & am
now living in Cohasset, from
which I send love to you.
 Florence Slaver Slocomb                    Looking Back at Christmas
I would that I could tell you what Christmas means to me
It's the season of good fellowship and happy memory.
And tho' the Fates have planned for us so many different ways
There is something about Christmas that brings back other days.
A strain of old-time music, a trick of voice or smile
Reminds me of the run we had, for just a little while.
Tho' years have fled so rapidly and paths lie far apart
The thought of old-time days and friends keeps Christmas in the heart.
                                                                                                E.L.F.COHASSET MASS MAR 28 5 PM 1945
BOSTON MASS MAR 30 9-PM 1945
GIVE + RED CROSS WAR FUND 
THIS SIDE OF CARD FOR ADDRESS

Miss Alice Stone Blackwell
1010 Mass Ave.
Cambridge
Mass.Thanks for your Easter card.
Have you read "Anna and
the King of Siam"? If not - be
sure to. Anna is English &
is teaching that to the 67 children
of the King. One of his wives of the
Harem is the lovely Princess
Son Klin - She becomes such an
admirer of Harriet Beecher
Stowe, that she adds that name
to her own & ends her darling
little letters with "Yours - Son
Klin Harriet Beecher Stowe!"
Sometimes she leaves off the Son
Klin.  Finally - she is so impressed
by H.B.S.'s work to free the slaves,
that she frees all of hers - to be
worthy of H.R.S. It is a most
illuminating, true story book -
I remember the days you & I
met in Worcester, where I organ-
ized & conducted the 1st women's
political rally - for the vote. The
biggest hall was filled to overflowing
& 100.s turned away - my best to you!
Florence Slocomb 28 Pond St.-
Cohasset - Mass. 3-26-45