the organization and changing its name—an idea that had been discussed for many years previously. Over time a steady stream of the organization's members had been promoted to the position of Engineer while remaining inside the organization. This presented a situation in which the organization's name did not reflect its actual membership composition. Despite great sympathy for the traditional organizational moniker, the convention voted to formally acknowledge the participation of engineers among its membership and changed its name to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (B of LF&E). This change went into effect on January 1, 1907. Disestablishment and legacy In 1969, the union merged with the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Switchmen's Union of North America to form the United Transportation Union. A massive collection of materials of the B of LF&E, including over 200 linear feet of minutes, bulletins, correspondence, internal documents and other ephemera is housed at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives at the library of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Conventions and membership size Sources: D.B. Robertson, "Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the B of LF&E", pp. 7–28; Published convention proceedings, various; American Labor Year Book, 1926, pp. 106–107; ALYB, 1929, p. 131; ALYB, 1932, pp. 63–65. The title of "Grand Master" was changed to "International President" at the convention of 1908. See also List of American railway unions Tunstall v. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Footnotes Further reading Eric Arnesen, "'Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down': The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920", American Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 5 (December 1994), pp. 1601–1633. In JSTOR. George R. Horton and H. Ellsworth Steele, "The Unity Issue among Railroad Engineers and Firemen", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 10, no. 1 (October 1956), pp. 48–69. In JSTOR. Jon R. Huibregtse, American Railroad Labor and the Genesis of the New Deal, 1919-1935. University Press of Florida, 2010. Walter Licht, Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century.. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. D.B. Robertson, Feeding the Iron Hog: The Life and Work of a Locomotive Fireman. Cleveland, OH: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 1927. Paul Michel Taillon, Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Paul Michel Taillon, "'What We Want Is Good, Sober Men:' Masculinity,