Sleeping Car Porters

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Talent management

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The Cay

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ORGANIZING

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Advantages & Benefits

A Porter's shoe shiner

Sleeping car porters were often treated as less than humans. "[W]e were babysitters, not only for little kids but for adults." - Herb Carvery, sleeping car porter

The Order of Sleeping Car Porters (OSCP) was the first Black labour union in North America. It was formed because black workers wanted to improve their working conditions, but were not allowed to join white unions such as the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees (CBRE).

It was their home on the road. It was reliable connection to their community back at home, and a way to stay connected between communities and cities.

Sleeping Car Porters

Multiculturalism

West Indies Domestic Scheme

Porters wanted to get their families into Canada across the border

Music

Ragtime

Jazz

The Nightlife

"Wet city", Lack of Prohibition

Montreal (The Harlem of the North)

Little Burgundy

Community

Entrepreneurial Pursuits

Side Hustles

Smuggling goods on and off the train.

Barbershops

Smuggling onto and off of train

The Church

Black Neighbourhoods

Trainyards

Racism and Discrimination

Details of the Job

Poor working conditions

Living Conditions

Sleep in smoking room

72 hour average run with no sleep other than naps

Supplied with one uncomfortable seat

Responsibilities

Policing

Dealing with passengers who had had too much to drink

Looking after sick children and adults

Shining shoes & brushing off coats and hats

Greeting Passengers & stowing baggage

Wages

Unionization

Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees (CBRE)

Order of Sleeping Car Porters (OSCP)