. 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 .. . , do not bear Mr. Brownout in this statement, but on the contrary, they placehis statement in a very bad light. We will describebriefly here, the men referred to as being
. 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 .. . , do not bear Mr. Brownout in this statement, but on the contrary, they placehis statement in a very bad light. We will describebriefly here, the men referred to as being unqualified: First comes A. K. Stone, who has been employed onthe West Iowa division for several years as has never had any experience whatever as a loco-motive engineer, and has acknowledged that he knewnothing of running an engine. L. H. Stroud, anotherconductor, has been pulling passenger trains, neverhaving had any experience as an engineer. GeorgeLoughridge, C. A. Drake, Dempsey Ethridge, DickAllen, John Erbert, Dan Hackett, and William Patten,all conductors of the Burlington, have been pullingpassenger trains, and all of them have admitted thatthey know nothing of running a locomotive, and theyare not reliable or efficient engineers. Mike Johnson,in charge of a passenger engine, was a bar tender atOttumwa, and his experience consisted of a few monthsbraking. Frank Mertz, a farmer, had been emploved. S*;
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