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The United Brotherhood of Railway Employees (UBRE) was an industrial labor union established in Canada in 1898, and a separate union established in Oregon in 1901. The two combined in 1902. The union signed up lesser-skilled railway clerks and laborers, but had the ambition of representing all railway workers regardless of trade. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was determined to break the UBRE and provoked a major strike in Vancouver in 1903. The CPR used strikebreakers, spies and secret police to break the strike. The crafts brotherhoods of engineers, conductors, firemen and brakemen would not support the UBRE. The strike failed, and the UBRE disintegrated over the next year. ==Canadian union== The last local of the American Railway Union (ARU) in Winnipeg dissolved in 1897. The UBRE was formed in Winnipeg in September 1898, presumably to fill the gap. At first membership was limited to a small number of fairly skilled Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) workers without a union, including yardmen, bridgemen and some classes of track repairer. It was not recognized by the CPR and had no contract with the railway. The UBRE was low profile in its early years, but in 1901 started to organize the low-paid CPR freight handlers and clerks in Winnipeg. The new activism may have been the result of the appointment of William Gault as the new Master of the union. The UBRE affiliated with the Winnipeg Trades Council at the end of 1901. The goal was to organize all railway employees into one union, regardless of their skill, so that as William Gault said they would be "not brothers in name only, but brothers indeed." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United Brotherhood of Railway Employees」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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