The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-01-19

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te.s 0. ~ Brotherhood o. Locomo-
i've Enzi-ee-s are .oca,ed in 5I-
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All their grand officers are De-ma
uen, residents of O1- city. The
permanent headquarters Of his
Brotherhood are located upon site
a. = Clair stree. and Euclid Ave
nue. FOR which the engineers Dai
sl55.00O sDot cash, and upon which
stands q ,velYe-sto-y office build
ing which COS, $500. 900. and +
is second n none in construction
and equipment YES, o. The Alleghan-
mountains Gentlemen. this Is rha
pride OF the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers and its members,
and Is the greatest monument eve.
erected 20 organized labor We have
our own insurance and now have I
move on foot to have a brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers Savings
Bank with a paid up capital stock OF
sixty-fiye thousand dollars, represent.
ed BY one dollar from sixty-fiye thou
sand OF US. Now let us step over 10
our sister city Shawnee. Shawnee
az the present time is similarly sit.
uated a, many other towns, and ou'
state generally-dead, very much 50.
Too much boom. Bat Shawnee
has one thing it can depend upon,
gentlemen: The Rock Island Tin
Bucket Brigade. The pay roll ranges
from seventy.fiye thousand to one
hundred and twenty five thousand
dollars monthly. 1t all depends on
business conditions. These conditions
do not rest with the railroads They
haul the business for YOU. l. is mp
to YOU 10 provide it,
Twenty-one million idle acres OF
Oklahoma farm land does not pro
vide business for them to haul. But
that is not matter pertinent TO
the subject. so | will desst and give
YOU some statistics OF what employ
ment on the Rock Island railroad
has done for the boys working for
them. helped compile these rec
Ords while | was SECRETARY of the
neers in Shawnee, and while living
there, and know these to be cor
rect. They should be on file in
the Chamber of Commerce, emit
tied: "PayrolIs and Homes"
You can find on record in the
Chamber of Commerce al Shawnee a
set of figures that will astonish you
as to what railroad employees own
in the way of homes and other
property in their town. Just 10 show
YOU two specific cases thai We're
handled by the organizations and
Shawnee Chamber OF Commerce.
When some of our local officials
to move seven freight
crews 10 FL Reno and fifteen pas
senger conductors TO Oklahoma City. |
As secretary OF the brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers at shawnee |
at that time ! found that tive of /
these seven freight engineers owned /
their own homes in Shawnee, and the |
least value of any one of them was |
s. 800 one of these engineers had |
two daughters in high school and |
)ne teaching. OF the fifteen pas |
senger conductors We found thirteen |
owned their homes, or eighteen men |
out of the twcnty-one affected in |
This move owned homes. Our broth |
nrhood had siXty-three members liy- |