Greetings Wilma,
While the BRHS archives doesn't have anything that would assist your search,
I will post this to the BRHSlist to see if any of our list members may be
able to help you. I know some are in the Lincoln area, so we'll keep our
fingers crossed.
Your email interested me, because my maternal grandfather also hired out as
a scab during the 1922 strike, only he hired out in West Burlington.
Good luck in your search.
Dave Lotz
BRHS Archives
(BRHSlisters please remember to reply to all with your replies!)
----Original Message-----
From: Wilma Shull [mailto:wshull@c...]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:33 AM
To: brhs@n...
Subject: query
Can you tell me where I might find information on the Burlington Railroad
Shops in Havelock, a suburb of Lincoln, NE? My father, Samuel Sadler, went
to work as a scab during the National Railroad strike in 1922. He died
suddenly at the age of 21 in 1932 when I was 9 years old. I would like to
know his occupational title and perhaps his salary at that time. I remember
seeing him in the grease pit where the big locamotives were worked on when
Mother and I took him his lunch. I have a photo of him with many other men
on a huge steam engine. I also have a 1932 letter to his mother telling
about a layoff and working on some extra cars so I don't know what his work
really was. I'm writing a book about my childhood in Havelock called, "The
Burlington Brat Grows Up". I'm in my late 70's and can no longer travel to
do research. Wilma Sadler Shull
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