. The Burlington strike: its motives and methods, including the causes of the strike, remote and direct, and the relations to it, of the organizations of Locomotive engineers, Locomotive firemen, Switchmen's M. A. A., and action taken by order Brotherhood R. R. brakemen, order Railway conductors, and Knights of labor. The great dynamite conspiracy; ending with a sketch by C. H. Frisbie: forty-seven years on a locomotive .. . management of the C, B. & and its striking employes, would be a manifest in-justice to the people of our state. In the territorycontrolled by your road, traffic is
. The Burlington strike: its motives and methods, including the causes of the strike, remote and direct, and the relations to it, of the organizations of Locomotive engineers, Locomotive firemen, Switchmen's M. A. A., and action taken by order Brotherhood R. R. brakemen, order Railway conductors, and Knights of labor. The great dynamite conspiracy; ending with a sketch by C. H. Frisbie: forty-seven years on a locomotive .. . management of the C, B. & and its striking employes, would be a manifest in-justice to the people of our state. In the territorycontrolled by your road, traffic is deranged and travelinconvenienced to such an extent as to demand aspeedy solution of the difficulty. I therefore appeal toyou in behalf of the people of Iowa, to make everyeffort possible to come to an understanding with thestrikers. It appears to me that even self-interestshould dictate such a course to you, and especially asyour company can be held responsible for damagescaused by failure to furnish reasonable facilities tor thetransaction of business on your lines of road; allow meto suggest, that unless you soon succeed in some wayto secure a settlement, you submit the case to arbitra-tion. Yours Respectfully, * William Burlington officials were not inclined to arbi-tration. They were going to fight it out regardless ofdamage or inconvenience. 1 Creston Advertiser. z ►0 c 2 >x >—, -J P3. CHAPTER XLVII. DESTRUCTION AND DISCORD. At Aurora, 111., March 27, at 8:15 p. m., the whis-tle at the Burlington shops was blown as a tire alarm,and in a few seconds a lurid flame shot up into the sky,and it was easy to be seen that one of the largebuildings of the Burlington shops was on tire. Itproved to be the coach paint department structure,which was entirely destroyed inside of an hour. Thefiremen worked hard and did noble service in prevent-ing the blaze from spreading to the surroundingbuildings, many of which were afire a dozen times ormore. The demolished sh
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