Well, I'm not Leo, but I think I know the answer to your question. The
paper used for the letter had one of two different water marks which indicated
"yes" or "no."
I have an old book titled "Railroad Avenue" by Freeman Hubbard. An
anthology of railroad short stories, it was published in 1945. It contains a
story
titled "The Crane with the Broken Neck." I haven't read the story in years,
but IIRC it involves union members who participated in a strike. They got
service letters with a water mark of a crane with a broken neck. If they were
not strikers, their letter had a water mark of a crane with a normal long neck.
The book doesn't give the author of that particular story.
Now I have to get the book out and read it again after all these years.
Ray Cottingham (who never worked for a railroad)
Troy, IL
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