. 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 .. . ing fellows were heralded, far andwid . Air. Morton said: We first heard from the Read-ing men through committees appointed by them, andthat they were ready to take the pl
. 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 .. . ing fellows were heralded, far andwid . Air. Morton said: We first heard from the Read-ing men through committees appointed by them, andthat they were ready to take the places of our strik-ing engineers. The storv that they were misinformedand supposed they were to work on new lines, is un-true. Our agents were instructed to inform themjust what they were coming It will be seen bythe following that the number was greatly exaggerated. One hundred more of the Reading engineers andfiremen arrived last evening. Of these fifty-eightcame on from the East over the Pennsylvania linesand arrived at 6:45 oclock, and the remaining forty-two came in at 9:30. This body of men is by far thebest looking, from a respectable standpoint, that hasyet arrived. There were no guards with these men,as they insisted that they needed none, because theywere able to take care of themselves. The first batchlingered about the Union Depot for a half hour, and 1 Chicago Tribune. 2 Chicago News, March 2, FEINT, FOR EFFECT. 273 were then taken to the Briggs house. The othi -aalso came in later, and found no one to meet them ex-cept a delegation of brotherhood engineers who en-deavored to proselyte them. This work was in vain.™ We would not have come here to take these plaosaid one of the men, but we are forced to it. Thereis no place for us in Pennsylvania. We have beendriven out by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-neers. That is true, every word of it. Our men whowere working in blast-furnaces at $i a day, were driv-en away like vagabonds to wander over the ea
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