Leo
I have an old engineer's roster, marked up by the
local chairman. It has the letters "E", "F", "DH" or
"NB", beside each name. "E" was BLE, "F" was BLF&E,
"DH" was double header or membership in both unions
and "NB" was no bill or membership in no union! When
you think about how often you got set back it isn't
any wonder that they stayed in the trainmen's union
then go to the ORT. I knew some the yardmasters who
stayed in the BRT rather than go to the yardmaster's
union. By the way, did you know that the dining car
sewards were represented by the BRT.
John
--- qutlx1@a... wrote:
> John, you may have hit on the answer. Yes I do
> recall some engineers who
> stayed in the BLF&E rather than join the BLE after
> being promoted.
> Also J Simpkins, who I've mentioned in these posts
> was long time local
> chairman for the trainman at Aurora but worked as a
> Condr while serving as
> BRT local chrmn. (Interesting note is that both the
> current local chairman
> for the trainman at Aurora and BRHS member Bob
> Daurer and his
> predecessor(yours truly) were condrs.while serving
> as local chairman for
> trainman but that is under UTU 171 lodge combined.
> I guess I'll never know why grandpa joined the SUNA
> at some point. One of
> those many questions I wish I had been mature enough
> to want to have asked a
> long time ago.
> Leo
>
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