Charlie
Thanks for the pointer – book currently downloading.
Still on the subject of 1888 and the Strike, I’ve found a report that the
Burlington recruited about 250 engineers in England to “open a new road
about 1,200 miles long”. It offered extensive bonuses and inducements, paid
their fares across the Atlantic, took them to Mendota for testing and then on
to Aurora. There they met Henry Stone, the General Manager, who told them for
the first time that they were to take the place of strikers who, he stated,
were too independent. The new engineers refused as they were all union members in
the U.K., whereupon Stone dismissed them all. About 90 stayed in the U.S. while
the rest returned home.
Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ
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Sent: 28 February 2016 10:08
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] The Great
Burlington Strike of 1888
Rupert and All-
I believe the book
that Glen asked about was
THE GREAT BURLINGTON
STRIKE OF 1888 - A Case History in Labor Relations by
Donald L. McMurry Harvard University Press – Cambridge
– 1956
It is available at
Hathitrust and I have downloaded it using Hathi Download Helper. It is
304.809 GB
Charlie Vlk