. 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 .. . nd, and to dealout justice while demanding it. The convention atChicago modified the classification law, so that thechanges in this direction should be voted upon, and the
. 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 .. . nd, and to dealout justice while demanding it. The convention atChicago modified the classification law, so that thechanges in this direction should be voted upon, and thecommittee was to be governed by the voice of all themen they represented. The Brotherhood has beenaccused of being a one-man power, but a little lightupon their principles is convincing that each memberis a free moral agent outside of the well-defined rulesfor his moral conduct. It is true everywhere, thatwhen men have reached positions of responsibility andof influence, by their own individual merit, and haveconducted themselves consistentlv with their rank andstation, that they acquire a powerful personal was eminently true of George Washington andof Abraham Lincoln, and, in the measure of abilityand of opportunity, it is true in every variety of is the very essence of the Brotherhood organizationto guard with jealous care the members individualrights, and those of their associate workmen. No. HERBERT B. NEWELL. KILLED AT GALESBURG, ILL., APRIL 28, 188S. TKt LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY QF ILLINOIS CONSERVATISM. 105 Samson will ever be born within their walls, or without,who shall be able to carry away the gates of theirstrength, while these principles prevail. In October, 1886, at the New York convention,Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New YorkCentral railroad, among other things said: Your or-ganization arose when I first went into railroad work,twent}r-three years ago, and I have watched it care-fully ever since, and one thing that impresses meforci
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