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When did the Pullman Company finally negotiate with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?

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Threatened by the union, the Pullman Company delayed negotiations until 1935, when the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation helped force employers into collective bargaining.

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