Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
Brotherhood of Railroad Switchmen.
International Association of Machinists.
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Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders of America.
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths.
International Association of Car Workers.
Freight Handlers and Warehousemen's International Union of America.
Brotherhood of Railroad Telegraphers.
Each one of the above unions is an independent national organization, and cannot interfere or be interfered with in any matter by any of the other railroad brotherhoods.
This system of organization, in case of a strike, may cause unlooked-for complications. For example:
In 1902 President Horace G. Burt of Harriman's Union Pacific Railroad Company informed his employees of the mechanical department that on a certain date the PIECE-WORK SYSTEM would supplant the old order of things. So very obnoxious was the proposed innovation to the machinists, blacksmiths and boilermakers that they declared a strike on the Union Pacific Railroad.
President Burt insisted that the company had the right to manage their business in their own way, and that under no circumstances would he permit any union to interfere in the company's affairs.