South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-01
Real Estate
The big 4" of the Brotherhoods
An Intimate View of the Men Who Led the Fight for an
Eight Hour Day in Behalf of Railway Employees.

| and elected him first vice president.
I that he might become chief OF their
order. II Edgar +. Clark. now one
OF the interstate commerce commits
sioners. should die, resign or engage
in some other line Of business.
If Garretson was the spe~chmaker
and mouthpiece, the elJcutionist
and evangelist OF the four brother
hoods in their great contest with the
railroads, then William Granville
Lee was their rock of Chickamauga
and their Ethan Allen, whose de
mand that the British surrender in
the name OF the great Jehovah and
Of the continental congress would
not be incOnsruous If voiced by Lee
himself
man Of battle. candid and brave,
Lee holds that no struggle is ever
really ended until one side gives up
or is chased of the field BrakemeD
constitute his host-yOungish men.
from farms. mostly and excitable as
colts. rd-handed men, too, and
often needless whether they are aere
today and tomorrow somewhere
else
No character nourished on toast
and tea could execute Lees task He
has ridden through the sleet and
, rain on the roofs of box cars in the
past. In those days. when a brake
man met with a misfortune between
the bumpers or on the tracks, a col
lection was taken up for him all
along the line. Charity fed him
while he was in bed and buried him
when he died.
Lee, gladiatorial of jaw. square of
trunk as a block Of granite. came 10
his present post through the ranks.
/ That is testimony enough as to his
strength. Brakemen. once. like
himself, had no standing as citi-
zens, nor rights in their hard and
hazardous employ.
Now, in the little railway centeTs
of the country. brakemen own
property. They belong to churches
and societies. Some are village
councilmen and directors of the pub
lie schools Lee and Patrick Henry
Morrissey, who looked and dressed
like a banker and talked like a
lawyer with a fiourishing practice
outside the courts, and who died the
Others day, a railroad officer of a
great line, toiled side by side for
IA years and brought these happy
changes to pass.
The place Of Warren Sanford
Stone, among the big chiefs who
besieged congress. was less militant
than advisatory Stone went will
ingly, or was Unanswered into
strange company. 1t was the policy
of Peter NJ. Arthur. whom stone
succeeded in 1908, to keep the en-
gineers clear of labor unions. Ar
thur made the engineers famous and
successful This he accomplished
by minding his own business. The
boycOtts and strikes of others were
only of passing interest TO him and
his organization.
Your objec.. apparently" a rail-
road president said TO Arthur with
note of contempt in his words lis
TO establish an aristoCracy of labor"
a man who was present described
the scene and repeated the language
spoken 10 the writer of this article.
If persuading Americans TO pay
their debts" Arthur answered, I'M
disturbed and with dignity. Ito keep
away from saloons, 10 become tax
payers. 10 he good citizens and TO
understand their responsibilities as
heads of families means that we are
trying TO form an aristocracy of la
Dor. then the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers pleads guilty TO
the charge.
Arthur, a Scotsman by birth. was
an engineer on the New York Cen
trail railroad for many years. His
salary as chief of the engineers
brotherhood was $4,000 but was in
creased to $1,000 some time before
his death He lived economically.
bought unimproved real estate in
Cleveland with his savings and
amassed a comfortable fortune
The character that Arthur gave
TO the engineers was the same that
he had established through a long
life for himself He was wise.
shrewd. silent and grave. Stone fell
heir to Arthur's policies. And then
changed them, as was seen last
year, in one essential respect.
Two of the chiefs. Garretson and
Stone. are IOwans by birth Lee
comes from Illinois. The father of
Stone owned a large prairie farm.
Corn was low and interest high.
Even so. stone. meaning TO read
law, entered college. But several