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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Salmons, C. H. (Charles H.) Frisbi, Charles H., 1822-
Subjects: Burlington Strike, 1888 Labor unions -- United States Railroads -- United States Employees
Publisher: Aurora, Ill., Bunnell and Ward
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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n and as locomotive engineers. Thegreat principle which glorifies your labor is the eleva-tion of yourselves and your associates in the scale oftrue manhood. Your aspirations give greater dignity tohonest toil and illustrate the identity in interest of em-ployer and employe who rise and fall upon the sametide. The mind of the world is broadening. Our mentalvision widens; the heart of the world throbs stronger;our lives are more closely interwoven. The ignoranceand prejudice of yesterday pale in the light of the ed-ucation and intelligence of to-day. Here and nowwork is honorable and idleness a disgrace. We allknow, as we know the alphabet or the multiplicationtable, that the value of all that there is on this great,round earth is the result of labor of brain and muscle.This building wherein we are assembled, this city ofmatchless enterprise, derive value only from human la-bor. The stone, brick, iron, wood and land, in theirvirgin states, were of no value whatever. And so, too, o o P3
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COMMITTEE AT CRESTON. ENGINEERS AT CHICAGO. 121 of the rights and liberties which we as citizens of thisgreat Republic enjoy. Human labor has carved themout. Human muscle and brains have achieved themfor us. Human hands made the weapons to fight, andthe pens to write, for human liberty. 9 CHAPTER XXIII. CONCENTRATION OF FORCES. Mr. Potter was gone. The official force of the Bur-lington was so changed as to leave none that felt inany way lenient towards the men of strength and dar-ing, whose toil brings the money to the treasury. Themen in office in 1888 were vain of their good standingwith the* company. The ambition of each one was tostand first in the esteem of the directors as making theleast outlay for repairs and for wages, and as bringingin the largest returns for work. Egotists in their line,self-applauding, lordly men they were; their heartswithout a window open towards labor, the generalmanager was—Stone. Superintendent Thompson, aswe have seen, tried to prevent the brakemen

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