. 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 .. . down to four. So wild did therivalry of rates run, that the stockholders of the Mich-igan Central Railway Company, four hundred andfiftv-four of them, employed the best le
. 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 .. . down to four. So wild did therivalry of rates run, that the stockholders of the Mich-igan Central Railway Company, four hundred andfiftv-four of them, employed the best legal talent inthe land, Henry S. Bennett, 14 Wall street, NewYork, and served a notice on Hon. Samuel Sloan,president of that company, insisting upon it that theruinous, suicidal policy of cutting rates must be atonce abandoned. The shareholders directed theirattorneys to say to President Sloan, We ask you torestore and maintain the former rates for travel andfreight, and to withdraw from any combination whichhas for its object any undue reduction, with a view tocompete with other roads. If you refuse, or fail tocomply therewith, I, and my associates, are directedby them, to employ such remedies as the courts willafford to enforce their rights, and to protect the prop-erty and interests of the company. The mismanage-ment and madness of the Michigan Central seemed tobe epidemic among all the chief roads of the JAMES MONOGHAN. GRAND MASTER, S. M. A. A. THE LIBITOF THEUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BURLINGTON POLICY DEFINED. 41 The inevitable result was the exhaustion of greatsurpluses, and the depletion of treasuries. Therewas One untried source of income,—the managementcould cut down the wages of laborers on the did they do ? The New Jersey Central ordered a cut of ten per-cent to take effect August i, 1876. At a stockholders meeting on February 7, Mr. Knight, president-of the company said: The Central R. R., of NewJersey, had declared since 1866, dividends agg
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