Ryan v. New York Central Railroad

The purpose of the organization known as the “Brotherhood of Bailroad Trainmen,” is stated in the “preamble” to the constitution of its grand lodge, and reads as follows :

“To unite the railroad trainmen; to promote their general welfare and advance their interests, social, moral, and intellectual; to protect their families by the exercise of benevolence, very needful in a calling so hazardous as ours, this fraternity has been organized.

“Persuaded that it is for the interests both of our members and- their employers that a good understanding should at all times exist between the two, it will…