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EVENTS

May events

May 1 - Burlington Refrigerator Express (BREX) is formed as a joint venture between the Chicago, Burlington And Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) and the Fruit Growers Express (FGE).

May 8 - A. Philip Randolph organizes the Brotherhood Of Sleeping Car Porters . It’s considered a major labor as well as civil rights milestone.

May 20 - The United States Railway Labor Act becomes law.

July events

July 9 - The first use of a Radiotelephone on a train, occurs on a train of the New York Central Railroad .

Unknown date events

Atlantic Coast Line railroad gains control of the Atlanta, Birmingham And Coast Railroad .

American Car And Foundry acquires J. G. Brill Company .

BIRTHS

DEATHS

October deaths

October 20 - Eugene V. Debs , American labor leader, founding member of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen , founder of the American Railway Union , arrested during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, Illinois (b. 1855 ).