. 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 .. . to 1 Kansas City Journal, March .5, 1888. 270 THE BURLINGTON STRIKE. Chicago from the east, and he read dispatches fromseveral points, announcing that delegations were ont
. 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 .. . to 1 Kansas City Journal, March .5, 1888. 270 THE BURLINGTON STRIKE. Chicago from the east, and he read dispatches fromseveral points, announcing that delegations were onthe way to Chicago. He said that the discharge its new men to make room for the menwho had quit work in case the latter wanted to comeback. The position said he, on this question is ex-actly similar to that of Mr. Corbin in regard to the Reading strikers,which is fairly illus-trated by the follow-ing extract from theproceedings of theReading investiga-ting committee be-fore the House atWashington: said—If thereis no more coal minedfrom the Schuyl-kill until we arecompelled to mine itbv discharging menwho have come to usin our trouble, andstood by us, to makeway for the strikers,no more will ever be mined while I have influence toprevent it. Do you mean to say, and go on record as saying,that for that and that only, you will not take themback. Yes, emphaticallv, I want that to go on PAUL MORTON AND THE REPORTER. FEINT, FOR EFFECT. 271 They left me, and I gave them notice. It will be apretty cold day when I discharge men who stood byme when I needed help, for men who concerted andattempted to ruin me. 1 lere are three hundred and fifty more ex-Readingmen, all within twenty-four hours ! Great excitement was occasioned at the Union de-pot on the evening of March i, upon the departure ofthe 5:35 p. m. train, known as the Denver engine of this train was manned by a Readingengineer and fireman, who had an old brakeman, fora pilot, in th
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