. 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 .. . he di-rectors and have a stop put to the wholesale discharge,and the gross misuse of the men. This would havesucceeded had it not been for a Benedict Arnold, inthe person
. 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 .. . he di-rectors and have a stop put to the wholesale discharge,and the gross misuse of the men. This would havesucceeded had it not been for a Benedict Arnold, inthe person of George Jennings, who, on the promise ofa place as division master mechanic, started a counterpetition, and, securing a few names, succeeded inbreaking up the harmony of the Order. Through thispetition, G. B. Simonds held his place for the time be-ing; and the consequence was that every Brotherhoodman, not already discharged, was sent away with rea-son, or without. This tyrant was allowed full old and tried men were exchanged for any mennot members of the Brotherhood. There were some-good men among the new, but the average was ex-tremely bad. The members of the division being dis-charged, their charter was surrendered and the organ-ization ceased to exist at that point. Wreck and disas-ter followed. The company, through its petted andprotected officer, had sown the wind and was about PIn pi -o G •z q o 2. Tift LIBRARY OF THfc UNIVERSITY Of ILLINOIS LOYALTY OF ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN. I 37 to reap the whirlwind, as the natural outcome of itsviolence against justice and fair treatment. The com-pany becoming convinced of the unprofitableness ofthis course, removed the master mechanic, and T. was appointed, who adopted a different pol-icy. The Simonds bum element was weeded out, andmany of the old men came back and took their and good order returned. Some who hadbeen members of Division 29, which had been brokenup by Simonds, organized what is now k
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