. 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 .. . meeting could be arranged between the belligerentparties that some understanding might be meeting finally took place in President Perkinsroom in the Grand Paci
. 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 .. . meeting could be arranged between the belligerentparties that some understanding might be meeting finally took place in President Perkinsroom in the Grand Pacific hotel. There were two ofthe board of directors present, Mr. Detwiler andMessrs. Arthur and Sargent. A long discussion of thepoints at issue was had, and the grand officers ap-pealed to Mr. Perkins to grant the requests of themen, but to no purpose. The only proposition fromMr. Perkins was, If you will declare the strike off,I will take back seventy-five per cent of themen, and the balance I will re-employ as soon as pos-sible. To this Mr. Arthur replied: Mr. Perkins,before I will <jro to the men and ask them to declarethe strike off on such terms, I will sever my right arm 276 THE BURLINGTON STRIKE. from my body.* This left them as far apart as meeting, of such grave importance to the partici-pants, as illustrated by the press,8 was serious, malic-ious, and comical. The earnest effort to secure peace. TRIANGULAR POWWOW OF THE CHIEFS. between labor and capital was illustrated in the trian-gular powwow, the three interested leaders, , Powderly and Arthur, smoking the pipe of A participant. - Chicago News. FEINT, FOR EFFECT. 277 peace, while the Burlington scabs were smashing theproperty, and the traveling public were going on footrather than take the chances behind such men. Themeeting caused the circulation of stories of a settle-ment, which did not please the management, and sent the following to all superintendents andmaster mechanics: T
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