Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08

lne blDle at MS nome, IN MS OHlCe,
during waiting moments, and often
on his travels.
THAT great Book, he says, covers
the whole range of human expert
ences and is the best of all guides for
warriors, orators, managers and dip
lomatists, regardless of circumstances
or centuries.
THE conductors themselves, think
ing men and debating men, as they
go up and down and back and forth
across the continent on slow freights.
fast freights, passenger trains and
specials, made no mistake in their
valuation of Garretson. They jump
ed him over the heads of other Of
ficers in their brotherhood and elect
ed him first president, that he
might the sooner become chief of
their order"
and evangelist of the four brother
hoods in their great contest with
the railroads, w. G. Lee, head of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
(brakemen), was their Ethan Allen,
we read, whose demand that the
British surrender lin the name of
the great Jehovah and of the Con-
been anonymously voiced by Lee
himself. incidentally, it is the pledge
of these four labor leaders that, in
of America will be with and behind
the government to MAN." Says the
biographer:
Lee Is Big Factor
"A man of battle. candid and brave,
Lee holds that no struggle is ever
really ended until one side gives UP
| or is chased off the field. Brakemen
! constitute his host youngish men
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colts. Hard-handed men. too, and
! often needless whether they are here
I to-day and tomorrow somewhere
! else
No character nourished on toast
| and tea could execute his task. He
! has ridden through the sleet and rain
| on the roofs of boXcars in the past.
] In those days, when a brakeman met
/ with misfortune between the bump
/ ers or on the tracks, a collection was
taken up for him all along the line.
/ Charity fed him while he was in bed
| and buried him when he died
! Lee, gladia tortal of jaw, square of
| trunks as block of granite, came
to his present post through the ranks.
That Is testimony enough as to his
strength. Brakemen once, like him
| self. had no standing as citizens, nor
! rights in their hard and hazardous
employ .,
of the country, brakemen own prop
! erty. They belong to churches and
societies. Some are village council
men and directors of the public
Warren $. Stone
/ We observe that the plan OF War
! rem ). stone, among the chieftains
who besieged Congress, was less mill
/ tant than advisatory. Stone went
/ willingly, or was maneuvered into
( strange company. Boycotts and
/ strikes of others have been of pass
ing interest to him and to the Broth
/ ernOO6 of l,npnmOfiVa Enefnaaro
Like Garretson, Stone is a native
OF Iowa, Lee being from Illinois. The
iathef OF stone owned large prairie
! farm at time when corn was low
and interest high. Even so, Stone
| meaning to read law, entered college
But several of his brothers, he con-
nded to the writer in The Nations
BUSINESS. Were railroad men. and the
life they led = eating at restaurants
instead of at home and son on = to-
Gether with the wages they earned
| lured me to a firemans place on the
Rock Island Railroad"
At the age of tweny-four he was
! given an engine, and for two de-
cades was a locomotive engineer on
a fireman. The brotherhood, of which
stone is president at a salary of $40
900 year, owns fourteen-story Of
flee building in Cleveland, Ohio, and
tenants.
Firemen's Chief
Such, briefly pictured, are the ora
tor the warrior and the counselor
drove the eight-hour law into the
sheepskin statutes of the United
states. The fourth, William S. Car
ter, chief of the firemen. is The
strategist who laid the ropes so thai
they could be most effectively pulled
1t was Carter. of Texas, Small
specialized, in motion constantlv
whether sitting down or standing up.'
who negotiated the treaty bat
the brotherhoods three years ago ir
the city of Washington. The recent
eight-hour victory is the fruit of thai
treaty.
Carter is middle-aged. like the rest
His father. Confederate soldier. diet
at Nicksburg. His mother married =
Iancher in Texas, at the close of the
civil War. Carter, with ability to tall,
all day and hold his audience intac t
was fireman. And yet he left schoo
and went to live with the cattle when
he was nine years old. At twenty
he gave up 500 job as ranch fore
man for $50 job on a locomotive.
Garretson ceased to be conductor
Lee brakeman, Stone an engineer
and Carter fireman many years ago
The evolutionary process of develop
ment has gone on with them, lust. as
with other leaders in industry. They
have not been dealing with materials
but with men = men wise and fool
ish, bold and timid; rash and prudent:
fair and fanatical; taciturn and gar
rulous. They have become experts
| the chiefs = and IL is observed by
the writer in The Nations Bushes SIS
.hat they are all American-born and
bred and stand four-squared in the
matter of patriotism