. 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 .. . from what he found inCanada, admitting that had he been in peaceful Can-ada that the objectional portion of the report wouldnever have been written. I beg the members to d
. 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 .. . from what he found inCanada, admitting that had he been in peaceful Can-ada that the objectional portion of the report wouldnever have been written. I beg the members to de-cide upon the subject matter of the report, and to con-sider the grand chief upon the same basis that hewould place any other member, when he had so con-siderately stepped down from the chair to defend him-self, thereby admitting that his course needs defense;do not permit the fact that it is the report of the grandofficer to deter you from condemning any languagecalculated to array this body against any other organ-ization whatever; and do not take any action calculatedto cause trouble where there is now peace and har-mony. The report was sustained, but the harm of it did notremain within the walls of the convention. Whenprinted it created immense feeling among labor organ-izations, and secured open condemnation from some ofthe divisions of the conductors order. It brought dis- 1 B. of L. E. June. ANOTHER CLOUD FUSING. 369 cord where before had been harmony; incisive remarksmade by those actuated by passion, as was ChiefWheaton, widened the breach. The seed sown wasreaped in the formation of a new order of conductorscalled the Conductors Brotherhood, and its growthhas been astonishing. The real cause of the feeling on the part of and Daniels, was their effort to have passeda license law. Circulars had been sent to all divisionsof the Brotherhood, asking their support, but the con-ditions contained in the bill were such that the} did notconside
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