RE: [CBQ] The Great Burlington Strike of 1888

["'Charlie Vlk' cvlk@comcast.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

Rupert-

That is interesting.  If one were doing an article on the Strike that would be a great sidebar!

Just copied the Illinois Railroad & Warehouse report on the 1912 Riverside collision and the 1911 Western Springs wreck.

Thanks,
Charlie

 

From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 4:44 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [CBQ] The Great Burlington Strike of 1888

 

 

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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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]
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

 

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