Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1913-12-16

HAVING spent seV'ra weeks al the Seattle con
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10 r''s's som. OF IN. man lnier,siins incidents
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Houston. Texas Dee. 1914.
Dear sunk
~, ana'' III "ous,oh oNeI IN. suns't MINT
Ed advertised as the sunset Express. The com
pahy however reserves the right 10 chance the
,'henoe "Ihout notice. so THEY DID was 10
h"ufs coming from Los Angeles To Houston tsaV-
ns Los Ans'.s u. met train No. >, going tn. OPP
Los's way "hieh was held up by a Ion. bandit
who Killed one man and tobb.d several passengers
',-Ap ia MHsN On THE TRAM
IN oaih 40 was company brakeman With
MS three hiidf"n' the VII. and mother being a
corps. In The baggage coach ahead Sad a. this
was II was MAD. SUI more 50 10y the father being
1shesea oi MS pufs" 'ontalnins s2Se collection
was taken np Tor his benefit was not surprised
to hear of the hold up. after observing som. of
the cattle which the company Is shipping from
place to place over the line to -osb ON tn. striking
shop men
Near a little town called - binel. two
steel COACHES i,ins on on. side Of the track. and
on the other side were two NOR. steel coaches.
This was the wrecked train No 10. the sunset
Espte.. which had intended taking the day be-
glad that did no, tax. tina, train
lh- members OF the ere" ON our train were
very mum and spp.sted TO b. real good loyal
and the train laid there for two hours and Is
minute. 'a The distance between san Antonio and
Houston is about zoe mile. ana about
II hours and sn minutes making the run. The
company blamed ih- to hish waller, of
but uIon my arrival at Houston th.r.
HIGH WATER The troubl. with the : z. Is th.
.hop mems strike and the fact that the sesbs
have put the equipment In an inoperat'. con-
In "a conversation with a brakeman he said that
he was perfectly satisfied with the eomrany'r
treatment Tie said thai they paid lin for what
lie d,d The strikr Il ,he transI ortat!on men. he
said Was farce The company took II JOKE
rA'.d Them on he ha'k and they sulped down
everything and that the result of the arbitration
would b" as the ,'npany and two or three of the
committee ga" fit to make It. Re said that the
lahoring men "et. being well paid for their
vices and II the labor leaders would only let them
alone ~. trouble would cease. | agreed with him
mat Ia, leaders ".fe very troublesome 'some of
the instruction. OF the rank and file. on. NO he
| rsrii.d they want to ss, the RAKE OFF and SO
off and then their hand is out for the coin. SEE:
Of the shop mem
oh. that is lost. too. That WAS another example
where the leaders asitated until they got what
they wanted and the men struck against a com
~aysD
do You mink ne leaders got the eoin''
Why they did
do you know who-'
No cant Just say who got Il. but the report
| iha, money was used was quite common taIk
But my friend" I replied common talk often
ruins people Common talk erucified Christ DO
you rely on common talk
No but where there 10 so much smoke there
must be some nre
We'll " some one got the coin. Why vas not
Il don't know
Say what caused ,ha, wreck that We jus,
pAssed!'
innt know
Anybody hurt
Don't know
Are there many wreck. on this roadF'
No
wasn't the engineer hurt In that wreck we just
passed.
Well. sness he got his leg broke