[1] The Order of Sleeping Car Employees was established on 20 February 1918 in Kansas City, Missouri to undertake collective bargaining for wages and working conditions in the United States and Canada.
The contract confirmed that sleeping car conductors must be white males, and that they had the right to supervise and discipline porters and maids.
"[5] In response to OSCC propaganda several southern states passed laws requiring white Pullman conductors to be in charge of sleeping cars in their jurisdictions.
[7] In June 1934 Congress amended the Watson-Parker Railway Labor Act so it explicitly covered non-operating train personnel and sleeping car companies.
He said, "the Sleeping Car Conductors Union is saturated with race prejudice as shown by a clause in its constitution barring Negroes from membership."
The BSCP did not take part in the debate, but the Pullman Company "stirred up the porters in opposition to this Bill by a representation that it was an attack upon their race."