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Burlington Strike Its Motives and Methods by CH Salmons 1889 Hard Cover
The Burlington Strike Its motives and methods including the causes of the strike By C H Salmons Hard Cover 1889. 480 Pages ORIGINAL
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PREFACE
The relations between capital and labor, along the Burlington system in i888, attracted the attention of employers and employes in all parts of the world. The causes which led to dissatisfaction on the part of the laborers, and their ineffectual efforts to remedy notable evils, ought to be as widely known. The power which a great company has to coerce, or to punish, has hardly been known in this country until the great Burlington strike brought it out. The labor organizations have a right to know what kind of a foe a railroad company may become, what are its aggressions in time of peace, and what its tactics in time of strife.
It is not likely that any of the parties who are conspicuous in the contest had any thought that they were making history. None of the actors in the struggle between capital and labor had any thought that they were speaking into a phonograph, which some day would reproduce their words; or that a camera was beside them which would some day restore in unerring light the relationships and attitudes of moments of blinding passion.
Strangely enough, records were preserved, letters were copied, telegrams were stored away, and many persons have vivid recollections of the events just passed.
The world has seen a new instance of the selfishness and relentlessness of capital; and legislators have come to the new tasks of regulating internal commerce, and protecting labor. Laboring men have come to see how varied and how vital are their relations to the prosperity of the country. They understand now better than ever before that the condition, resources, and aims of the laborer have more to do with the progress of any nation than the achievements of its arms, or the successes of its diplomacy.
An increasing number of people desires that the history of the greatest labor contest of all time, should be put in permanent form, while the witnesses yet live. Accordingly, during the last few months, a few men located on the line of the Burlington system, have undertaken to print the record of the Burlington strike. This may guide other corporations into safer policy than that one madly chosen by the Burlington, and it may throw a light upon the relationships of the laborer that will make him a wiser and more potent factor in defining the destinies of our country.
The men who have undertaken this history were participants in this contest. The association is composed of J. C. Porter, Div. 32., President; J. W. White, Div. 32, Treasurer; C. II. Salmons, Div. 79, Sec. and Compiler; George Minot, Div. 32; Geo. Coding, Self- Help Lodge No. 8o; C. H. Frisbie, and others.
The labor Orders mentioned in /his book, are in no way responsible for its publication. Grateful acknowledgments are tendered to P. M. Arthur, G. C. E. B. of L. E.; to F. P. Sargent, Grand Master B. of L. F. James L. Monaghan, Grand Master S. M. A. A.; S. E. Wilkinson, Grand Master B. of R. B.; Ed. F. Oshea, Grand Sec. B. of R. B.; to A. R. Cavner, S. G. A. E.; Geo. W. Wheatley, B. of L. E.; and to other and valued correspondence for material assistance.
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