. 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 .. . n, onehundred and twenty (120) miles, $ If Mr. Stonepaid the same rate as the New York and the NewEngland, this run would bring $ On the Nor-folk and Western rai
. 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 .. . n, onehundred and twenty (120) miles, $ If Mr. Stonepaid the same rate as the New York and the NewEngland, this run would bring $ On the Nor-folk and Western railroad, the pay of passenger engi-neers is based on three cents per mile, and at this rateMr. Stones Vallisca branch, quoted as paying $ month, would pay $ I find the pay forpassenger service from three cents per mile up to fourcents, the country over, with a very few roads withsuch rates as the Burlington, and there are no roadsin the west that could afford to pay better than itcould before the strike. The Burlington officials pick out the best month inthe year to show the public what the men are is their statement of earnings per month, of en-ginemen on the C, B. & Q., who worked during thewhole month, taken from the rolls of November, 1887 : H n 50 P> > 00 oo oo o> 7) PI D p! 21 ow >2 0 G r Xw f Ill H fe 4 HP 1 111 Hij 1PI$l»-» Is ■< i £*?«-* ! ji i. fflwM ■•HI liiiilli JJ THE CIRCULAR LETTER ANSWERED. 153 ENGINEERS. FIREMEN. NO. MEN. NO. MEN. AV. RATE. Chicago Division, 77 $ 94 $55-95 Galesburg 68 113-56 77 63-34 St. Louis 3i 37 East Iowa 26 33 Middle Iowa 36 23 West Iowa 5o 53 72-5i Now, if we analyze this statement, we find that thefiremen get in proportion to engineers pay: On Chicago Division, 65 per cent. Galesburg 67 St. Louis 63 E. Iowa 68 M. Iowa 38^ W. Iowa 59^ On the Middle Iowa Division the engineers musthave fired for themselves part of the time, as
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