Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Constitution and Statutes

Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen Constitution and Statutes

Train conductors and brakemen labor union constitution and by-laws

The 1962 constitution and by-laws for the labor union Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, of which Bud Hopson was a 35 year member.

Forty-Seventh Grand Division of the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen

Julia Bell

18-28 June 1962

Penni S. & William H. Hopson

Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen

Lapel service pins

JPEG
3 15/16 inches wide by 5 13/16 inches (top to bottom)
and 7/8 inches thick
10 cm wide by 17.76 cm (top to bottom)
and 2.22 cm thick

English

Artifact--booklet

A 208 page booklet of the labor union Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen regarding their laws governing the union.

2 November 2016

18-28 June 1962

18 October 2016

18 June 1962

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Dublin Core

208 pages

JPEG
263 KB and 240 KB

1962 meeting held in Colorado Springs, Colorado

20th century; 1962-1966

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The W. B. "Bud" Hopson, Jr. Collection is a private, closed collection. To date, there are no known new items to add to the collection.

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Bud Hopson died 7 January 1968. Upon his death, his wife, Marjorie Cato Hopson, boxed all Bud's railroad belongings and kept them in a closet in her home. In 1996, Marjorie suffered a stroke and entered a rehabilitative hospital in Bossier City, LA. In 1997, while absent from her home, three teenagers broke into and lived in her home for several months. Trying to hide evidence of their inhabitation, they attempted to burn the house using many of Bud's papers, including T&P railroad papers and his birth and death certificates, his conductor's uniform, and a bedspread. The teens closed all the doors, which depleted the fire's oxygen supply, and limited the fire to the one bedroom. Marjorie's grandson and his wife salvaged what documents, papers, and conductor's cap they could from the debris and have had them in their possession since 1997.

Penni S. & William H. Hopson