The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-07-29
jim FARLEY. STRIKE SREAAEx'
Man Who Has q Wonderful osEAnisA'
tim for This Work.


Nor. or lees generally the idea has so'
around that Nj, keekeieliefs on s"n
many and Mr. Moreshs money company
.'as,s,sn, ahout the acme and the lasi
wari In the way of corporate ofsansa
,ions. saws the New York Mall, liu'
nrIor Ia going ON final record IN THIS
matter partiss should investigate TIC
a,g,niyation al Jim Farley, sIttkehfeahef
Win offices masked under the nom dc
suerre Of a diliident little deiec,ise asrnf,
al i4i0 Broadway, Two weeks afe y
became reasonably probable 10 the hssas
OF one Of the biggest railroad eeinhasles
that they we're going 10 have "ns a' us
huskiest strikes on their hands 'ha' r'e'
= railroad company iussled with.
They were prudent railroad MANAGERS
and they called in the general manager
and said TO hun;
We've got 20 be in a position 10 have
1000 strike,bneakens within three hour
eall Of the big cities on the, eastern
division within a week. II We don't go
'em il may mean the biggest union VIC
tory in the history Of the United s'a'"
You hustle over 20 New York and siait
Jim Farley working and tell him 70 ha"'
.But." protested the general manseer,
slim Farley hasn't been strlke-breanns
In three years. He's quit, he's retired 70
L. hre.a,nr farm in Plattsburg. lie
n,obahIy ecnldn't put his hand on a
hundred Of the old gang IN month,
well. we'll see about that, said the
railroad president pugnaciousiy, Ana Yen
minutes after a telegram wen, on, i,on'
his Office 10 the man who ha. ptoAeh
more strikes than any other IN amerns'
linn Farley may be in practical retire
uent hut his organization Is still beneath
his thumb. That same day there Was
nrinted in half a hundred evening news,
papers in all the great railroad towns OF
the country what appeared TO be shT
little want nd. II was repeated IN All
the morning papers OF those some to"h'
next day. - pl.,,
calling by code, for his old gang 10 oe
ready to quit work at moments no.ee
and rush by train TO whatever point wv
next silly nd should name.
Men Who had broken strikes with Far
lev from the Occur d'Alene TO the Massa,
cbusetts wooden mills read these ads and
sent hack code word by wire or by post
card that they were ready to meet the
call twenty railroads or trolley lines
converge at Toledo, Ohio. Three thou
sand men now working there or on these
lines gave word that they would be on
hand. So il was with Cleveiand,, though
the number of men was less, ana ,nica.
90 and st. Louis came forward with thiee
thousand more.
Il was the superb Farley organization
brought back into working shape az a
moments notce-after two years or hVe
yeaYs Of peace. At the end OF the week
Inc lieutenant who is Farley's real aide N
New York was able TO report that o;Vp
strike-breakers-mo than hall oil them
oh.timers who had seen service under tne
chief himself-could be sent to the scene
of the strike within two days notice
But the strike did not come on. Inc
call to the loyal Farleyites wasn't need
ed. Farley himself never lett ms breed;
inc farm at Plattsburg. 1t is doubtful u
he sent more than one telegram IN ihe
whole time that the men he had leu
were being marshaled on paper again 10
fight out another strike.
He is still in retirement. At ms onlcc
IL is strenuously denied that he Is gong
TO break the strike now on throughout
the great Grand Trunk system IN Ianada,
But he is in Plattsburg-Plattsburg y
only 60 miles from Montreal. And III
Montreal is an Irish. American, Charles
M HAYES. who is president of the Grand
Trunk railroad. and who has worked
and chummed-with Farley IN days past
And here in New York is the headqnar,
ters of the diffident detective agency una.
can send out silly newspaper want ads
and raise 5000 strike.breakers IN sihg'e
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