. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . pression upon hisassociate delegates. The following yearhe attended the Denver convention, andwas elected Vice-Grand Master. In 1885at Philadelphia he was elected as thechief executive of the Brotherhood, andthe fact that he has repeatedly succeededhimself, indicates with certainty that he has proved true to the trust reposed inbin. , The keynote of his success as a laborleader and of his selection as Commissioner-General of Immigration was thaihe studied both the demands of the work-ingman a
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . pression upon hisassociate delegates. The following yearhe attended the Denver convention, andwas elected Vice-Grand Master. In 1885at Philadelphia he was elected as thechief executive of the Brotherhood, andthe fact that he has repeatedly succeededhimself, indicates with certainty that he has proved true to the trust reposed inbin. , The keynote of his success as a laborleader and of his selection as Commissioner-General of Immigration was thaihe studied both the demands of the work-ingman and the counter contentions ofthe employers and decided definitely andclearly what in his judgment wouM be afair solution of the difficulty, and thenworked indefatigably to secure such asettlement. Sargent is daft on being fair. Whatwe want is to tic up this road and makethe Vanderhilts dance to our music, ex-claimed an agitator at a meeting of NewYork Central firemen during the greatrailroad strike in 1894, when the hot-heads would have paralyzed pretty nearlyevery railroad system in .^mcrica. but. FRANK, p. SARGENT. Mr. Sargent steadily resisted their desireto strike, and gained his point—and ulti-mately the gratitude of the men whom hesaved from a serious false move. Fairness of labor to capital may be setdown as Frank P. Sargents fundamentalrule of action, and so wedded is he to thisprinciple that it amounts to a hobby, andit is probably for this that PresidentRoosevelt has selected Mr. Sargent to beCommissioner-General of Immigration,and to better the conditions that prevailin that important department of the pub-lic service. !\Jr. Sargent has always been a strongconserving inHuence. He never spoke inthe language of the agitator, whose catchphrases he abhorred and condemned. Heled the way in teaching organized laborto regard contracts made with employers as sacred and binding. He has arguedthat the rights of employers were to berespected, and that thus workingmcnwould gai
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