. 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 .. . ainst Bur-lington business. This could not be done without tak-ing the chances of rinding some general manager whowould demand that the men choose between handlingany busi
. 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 .. . ainst Bur-lington business. This could not be done without tak-ing the chances of rinding some general manager whowould demand that the men choose between handlingany business offered them, and quitting. It was acritical test, yet it was the only means by which theycould expect to succeed in boycotting the left the general managers to decide whether theywould have a strike or not. If the men on all the lineshad shown a positive determination not to handle Bur-lington cars, and if there had been no weakness shownat any point, it is reasonable to suppose that none ofthe managers would have made the demand whichwould have closed their road by a strike. The grandofficers, and other leaders of the Brotherhoods, believedthis move would have a powerful influence on the Bur-lington, and they were willing to await developments,believing the men, without an exception, would proveloyal. From this move nearly every road in the whole X o re> C w H 7= PIH Z -3 P:Z c X o EC o >oo. RULE OR RUIN. 289 circle of the Burlingtons connecting lines was the leaders of the strike are waiting for develop-ments, let us look at the situation along the line of theBurlington. . The Burlington officials were giving the public tounderstand that they were getting all the men theywanted, and that the quality was equal to the old men,but from certain letters received at the strikers head-quarters it would appear that the Burlington companywas not having things all its own way securing engi-neers. The following letter sent by Master MechanicR. W. C
Size: 1072px × 2330px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectrailroa, bookyear1889
